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Demand-led interactive learning software for poor livestock keepers in Bolivia and Kenya.
Interactive learning software has been created to give users in Kenya and Bolivia access to information. The Daktari and Promotor programs are suitable for use even by the illiterate, and can give poor households who aren't reached by the extension services access to vital information. Poor users'access the software through kiosks placed in their community. And, despite the fact that only a small number of these kiosks are available, these programs have already been used by more than 6000 households. The programs are also complemented by digital forums. These can be accessed by policy makers and planners who want to gain better insights into the needs of the poor by finding out what information they are requesting.
Project Ref: LPP30:
Research Programmes:
Livestock Production Programme
Relevant Research Projects:
Principle Investigator: Claire Heffernan, Livestock Development Group, School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, Reading, RG6 6AL
Collaborating Partners in Bolivia:
Pre-Dissemination Partners in Kenya:
The Problem: Poor households are often marginalised from traditional extension services. And for those households who can access services large biases exist. First, information is often provided in a blanket fashion, with little account for the differing needs of users. Second, research has demonstrated that even participatory communication pathways often favour the more educated and elite (LDG, 2003). Nevertheless, it is not only the poor, who are marginalised from information. Livestock development policy makers and planners rarely gain direct access to the needs and demands of their clients. Therefore, it became apparent to the research team that a neutral mechanism, which can deliver appropriate and relevant information and transfer demands for information between stakeholders was urgently required.
To address these issues, the research created and disseminated the El Promotor/Daktari software program, an interactive, multi-media, learning platform for poor livestock keepers in India and Bolivia. By creating a multi-lingual programme tailored to the individual user, many of the disadvantages that the illiterate face in traditional learning environments were addressed. Further, by developing a digital forum to detail user preferences and priorities, the programme enables policy makers and planners to obtain specific and timely information regarding the information and knowledge needs of the poor.
Figure 1: El Promotor in Quime, Bolivia
(courtesy of SEMTA)
At present, the programme is focused on livestock production, husbandry and animal health. The software can easily be adapted for content for other agricultural products and furthermore, human health. In this manner, the software can link with the outputs of other RNNRS projects from other sectors.
In Bolivia, the software has been developed for poor indigenous farmers of the Altiplano. In Kenya, the software addresses the needs of peri-urban and urban livestock keepers.
The software program has a number of unique aspects that enable the demands of the poor for knowledge to be measured and the findings subsequently transferred to decision-makers. In this regard, further value can be added via synergies with convergent technologies such as wireless networking, solar technologies (to increase dissemination in rural areas) and mobile phone technologies (such as diagnostic and surveillance technologies).
Equally, additional components can be added to the software for human health and agricultural production.
In relation to RNRRS, clusters of relevant outputs include those relating to participatory, decision-support tools, knowledge management and dissemination and marketing support and policy influence. Across the RNRRS portfolio of projects, potential synergies are as follows:
Crop Post-Harvest Programme: Pest Management Tools and Strategies (R6311, R6684, R7686, R8265); Market Information Tools (R7494, R8250, R8422); Farmer Access to Markets (R8275; R8274; R8498); Knowledge Management (ZB0308).
Natural Resources Systems Programme: Community-led Improved NRM (R8362), Strategies for Scaling up Processes (R6525), Scaling up through communication (R8363) and Participatory Technology Development (R7412).
Animal Health: TB/Brucellosis (R7229, R7357); Diagnostic and Decision-Support Tools (R7596, R7597), Influencing Animal Health Policy.
Livestock Production: Small Holder Dairying Toolbox (ZC0261), Talking Pictures (R7431, R7855), Draught Animal Power Toolbox (ZC0204), Practical Decision-Support Tool to Improve the Feed Management of Ruminant Work Animals (R7376, ZC0257), Smallstock Toolbox (ZC0243), Participatory Livestock Research (ZC0289), Wambui (R7425).
How the outputs were validated:
The validation strategy for the software was undertaken in three stages by the following partners:
In Kenya, validation stages I and II have been performed by the LDG in collaboration with in-country partners.
Core methods are as follows:
Stage I: User Demand
To ensure the content for the programme was based upon user demand, a baseline survey was carried out with 732 livestock keepers in the Altiplano and Valles of Bolivia. Within the context of a semi-structured interview, key livestock management/husbandry issues were described and ranked. Equally, perceptions regarding the animal health and priority livestock diseases were detailed. In total, 64% of the study set were women. Conversely, in Kenya, the demands of 432 poor livestock keepers informed the software.
Stage II: User Perceptions and Learning Assessment
a. Validating the Interface:
Prior to building the programme, a range of pictorial styles were initially tested among a sub-group of the overall sample group above. In total, 40 households participated in the visual testing. Tools from visual semiotics were utilised to explore the denotative and connotative meanings of specific illustrations. The visual testing also highlighted key aspects of the Andean 'cosmo-vision' which supported learning and could subsequently be incorporated into the final program. Characters were also tested for 'trustworthiness' and suitability. The figures below represent the final 'trusted' visuals for the main characters: El Promotor and the Daktari.
b. Learning Assessment:
A repeated measures study design was utilised to assess changes in knowledge that could be attributed to program use. As such, 210 individuals in 13 communities were tested both pre- and post exposure to the software. In total, 114 women and 96 men participated in this portion of the study. Responses were scored utilising an adaptation of Jonassen and Grabowski's (1993) framework to assess differences in the quality and quantity of knowledge uptake. The results of this portion of the analysis were also utilised to compare learning with two alternate methods of knowledge transfer for development: learning videos and written pamphlets. During this portion of validation, specific issues relating to the speed and duration of both instructive and interactive content were also assessed. Conversely, in Kenya, 95 households participated in validating the Daktari.
Stage III: Impact/Uptake
Partner organisations measured the impact/uptake of the software programme during three different assessment exercises over the course of a one year period from July 2005-July 2006. Key methods for assessment included workshops/stakeholder meetings and individual-level interviews.
Indeed, FEDELPAZ/PDLA performed over 100 workshops in 7 provinces across two departments. The software was utilised as part of their training program among the 3,500 smallholder dairy producers that are members in the federation. In total, 786 individuals directly utilised the program during the workshops. Alternatively, SEMTA enhanced awareness of the benefits of the software in the Municipality of Quime, via local radio announcements. User groups for this NGO ranged from guinea pig and sheep herders to small-scale dairy producers. Finally, the FDTA has cited a kiosk in a local milk collection unit in Oruro. In total, 1,062 individuals participated in the impact/uptake assessment at the community level. The assessment focused on user perceptions and the demand for particular topics.
Where the Outputs were Validated:
As noted above, the core target population was poor indigenous livestock keepers of the Bolivian Altiplano. The production system is formally classified as 'small holder high altitude mixed crop/livestock'. As the official government discourse on poverty in Bolivia disaggregates the poor by age, gender and ethnicity (see GoB, 2002) the research largely followed these divisions in the targeting of user groups.
Table 1. El Promoter Validation
Overall, 56% of the study group were women. The average age across study participants was 38 years with a range between 14-80 years. Education levels were low with the average education of women 4.8 years and men 5.1 years, whereas 13% of the study population had no exposure to formal education. Participants were from Aymara and Quechua ethnic groups.
Current Situation
Who are the Users?
As detailed above, the software programme in Bolivia is being disseminated by project partners among indigenous communities on the Altiplano. Two language versions have been created with instructional content in Aymara and Quechua. Partners have utilised the programme in both stationary and mobile kiosks across the broad range of clients detailed above. The software has largely supported existing training programmes among FEDELPAZ and SEMTA with a stand-alone application for the FDTA. All of the project collaborators have requested increased involvement in the project in response to community demand. Indeed, FEDELPAZ and SEMTA have requested further kiosks for scaling-up activities to meet the present and emerging needs of their clients.
Conversely, in Kenya, partners have requested the Daktari to be initially implemented among 10 identified communities in peri-urban and urban Nairobi.
Where the Outputs have been Used:
At present, the software program is being utilised in two countries: Bolivia and India, with plans to scale-up activities in Kenya and China. More specifically, the Livestock Guru programme has been distributed in three states in India: Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu and Orissa Further requests for a software programme have been initiated by a number of nations and groups ranging from the State Government of Kwa Zulu Natal in South Africa to North-West Sci-Tech University in China to a development projects in Nigeria and Zanzibar.
Scale of current use:
To date, more than 6,000 households have utilised the program across the three countries: Bolivia, India and Kenya. However, the number of kiosks in use is comparatively small (8 kiosks in Bolivia and 9 kiosks in India). Thus, scaling-up activities are likely to have a large impact on the lives and livelihoods of the poor. The demand for kiosks and partnerships among a wide variety of organisations who have read or heard about the software is also high. Nevertheless, to date, the key constraint to scaling-up has been funding.
Policy and Institutional Structures, and Key Components for Success:
On a global level, over the past five years there has been an explosion of interest in ICTs in development. Organisations implementing projects range from donors to small NGOs and CBOs. These actors are involved in a wide range of projects from supplying marketing information to mobile phone dissemination projects to enhancing internet access for the poor. Thus, the infrastructure investment in ICT projects is currently high. Nevertheless, historically less interest has been shown by the development community in developing ICT applications for learning. While this is beginning to change, particularly for children, there are presently very few programmes targeting adult learners. The Livestock Guru project, however, has demonstrated an overwhelming demand of the poor for knowledge and information, among adults, particularly those marginalised from formal education. In this manner, ICTs may have their greatest role in forging new opportunities for the 'knowledge disabled' poor. Indeed, adult learning software is perhaps one of the most cost-effective ways of strengthening human capital and empowering the poor to challenge existing social strictures. Therefore, ultimately such tools can support the economic and social mobility of both the 'extreme vulnerable poor' and moderately poor.
On a national level, in Bolivia, the success of the El Promotor can be related to two factors. First, the significant levels of visual and oral validation and the inclusion of local referents and knowledge frames has created a programme with high levels of resonance for the user. Indeed, the research team has received high numbers of requests from communities themselves for kiosks and to return for follow-up activities with the programme. Second, the in-country partners have widely embraced the technology and have been keen to augment existing training programmes utilising the software.
Lessons Learned and Uptake Pathways
Promotion of Outputs:
El Promotor: The majority of machines in Bolivia are being moved into communities on a temporary basis in order to enhance coverage. All the partners have requested further machines to enable wider access by the communities involved. As detailed above, FEDELPAZ holds on average two workshops a week across their client population and have requested machines for static placement at milk co-operatives and collecting stations. Conversely, SEMTA has requested kiosks for their training centres and additional kiosks for use by fieldworkers. With 20 additional machines, it is estimated that the software can enhance knowledge among a potential user population of 10,000 households.
The Daktari: Planned promotional activities are as follows: 10 communities have been identified by in-country collaborators which range in exposure and access to formal veterinary and extension services. In this manner, in addition to disseminating the programme, action research will be undertaken which explores the impact and uptake of the software in differing knowledge and learning contexts. It is estimated in the first year, the Daktari may reach an estimated 5,000 households.
Potential Barriers Preventing Adoption of Outputs:
Amongst practitioners, perceptions frequently offered in relation to the uptake and adoption of ICTs may be synthesized as follows:
However, during the development stage, El Promotor was designed to accommodate these issues. First, as detailed above, to address social exclusion, the software has been developed on a multi-media platform that does not rely on literacy. Second, the software was designed to be demand responsive and to engage a variety of stakeholders from the poor to decision-makers. Third, by sourcing the machines locally, maintenance of the kiosks has not been a problem. Figure 1 illustrates the kiosks being created by a local manufacturer.
Figure 2: Building the Kiosks, La Paz, Bolivia (July, 2005)
Equally, the kiosks have been equipped with voltage stabilisers and the team is presently experimenting with solar power.
Therefore, at present, the primary barrier slowing the adoption of the outputs is funding.
How to Overcome Barriers to Adoption of Outputs:
As noted above, the arguments against ICTs as a key means of poverty alleviation relate to issues of access, acceptability and cost. Indeed, programs are often perceived to be high cost with little impact and a short-duration of sustainability. However, the experience in Bolivia with El Promotor has demonstrated when ICTs accommodate the demands of the poor in relation to both topic and learning style, the communities themselves will ensure project sustainability.
El Promotor has been distributed on a cost-sharing basis with project partners. Indeed, partners are responsible for all in-country transport, labour, training and awareness-raising and any maintenance costs. Indeed, FEDELPAZ has dedicated an employee for dissemination activities. Nevertheless, to scale up the outputs, further inputs are required to engage other in-country partners and institutions.
Lessons Learned:
The LDG has identified two issues fundamental to the adoption of ICTs in Southern countries:
Impacts On Poverty
Poverty Impact Studies:
The aim of the project was to explore the impact of ICTs on knowledge transfer. As such, the study was not explicitly designed to measure changes in poverty levels. Equally, given that project terminated in April 2006, an assessment of short-term poverty impacts would only be feasible during October, 2006 (at least six months ex-post). However, the collaborators have expressed interest in discerning the explicit poverty impacts in addition to exploring the influences of the learning program on farmer behaviour.
Nevertheless, this is not to say that changes in poverty levels have not taken place. Rather, collaborator reports suggest that the software is particularly useful in training the most vulnerable farmers with the least experience in livestock keeping. Thus, the software has been noted to directly support the livelihoods of the most marginalised groups of livestock keepers. Further, by geo-referencing report points, decision-makers are able to identify the knowledge needs and demands of particular user groups. In this manner, the software reduces risk and enhances the benefits of livestock keepers for the most vulnerable and finally, creates a new communication pathway between decision-makers and the poor.
Core publications on learning impacts are as follows:
How the Poor have Benefited (including gender and other poverty groups):
Rather than changes in livelihoods, the research explored changes in knowledge regarding livestock-based livelihoods. Indeed, the study was based upon the assumption that livelihood impacts require an initial change in the knowledge outlook of the individual involved.
Across the study set, three disease modules formed the core of the analysis: Mastitis, Liver fluke and Foot and Mouth Disease. Participants were asked to describe the symptoms, cause, treatment and prevention of the disease, in four open-ended questions. Responses were then scored utilising a system based on Jonassen and Grabowski's (1993) distinction between the amount and type of knowledge. Scores ranged from +2 to -2 in each category, where +2 was given to a correct answer, +1 was applied to a correct answer which lacked specificity to a particular disease. Conversely, on the other side of the scale, -1 was applied to incorrect answers, and -2 to incorrect answers which could lead to detrimental behaviour towards the animal. Finally, a neutral category of 0 was given to cases where there were no responses.
Each participant was given a single summed score on each assessment category (symptoms, causes, treatment and prevention) before and after training, using the following formulae:
Assessment Score = Σ((AC*2)+(GE*1)-(ER*1)-(ED*2)
The data was normalised and scores in each category were divided by the total number of scores possible in the category deriving a score between 0 and 1.
By comparing knowledge scores prior to and after training, any learning which had occurred could be ascertained and compared. The learning score was therefore derived using the following formulae:
Learning Score = Post-assessment Score – Pre-assessment Score
Findings were as follows:
Table 2. Knowledge Assessment and Learning Scores by Module: El Promotor
Table 3. Learning Scores disaggregated by Topic: El Promotor
Table 4. Correlation Coefficients between Prior Knowledge Scores and Learning
Not surprisingly, the distribution of scores suggests that those participants with lower pre-assessment scores tended to achieve higher learning scores, and vice versa. However, when the responses were examined in more detail, a number of interesting findings were apparent. Study participants with a significant amount of prior knowledge or the 'high scorers', tended to offer less detailed responses. Nevertheless, rather than provide previously known information, after exposure to the programme, these individual's responses tended to focus on the new material. Therefore, those individuals with a high level of previous knowledge appeared to be prioritising information derived from the program. Interestingly, women tended to have larger learning scores than men, although the majority of women had lower education levels than their male counterparts. Hence, the software appears to be particularly effective among the most educationally marginalised groups.
Further, as detailed above, the research also compared the learning outcomes of the software across media types such as videos and written pamphlets.
Table 5. Learning Scores disaggregated by Media
The results suggest that all of the media groups had a positive impact on learning. Indeed, there was a significant effect of media on learning scores associated with liver fluke (P = 0.042). With regard to mastitis, however, a significant interaction (P = 0.004) was found between media and topic (cause, symptoms, treatment and prevention) over time (pre- and post-assessment), as shown in the Figures 3. Similar findings occurred in relation to Liver Fluke.
Figure 3: The Interaction Effect of Topic and Media (Mastitis)
Figure 4: The Interaction Effect of Topic and Media (Liver Fluke)
—- Symptons – – – Prevention
As the Figures illustrate, there was a clear advantage of training with El Promoter with regard to disease symptoms and prevention. For the other topics i.e. treatment and cause, the training videos were as effective as El Promoter. Thus, the study concluded that multi-media tools had greater impact and uptake levels for more 'instructional' content.
Environmental Impact
Direct and Indirect Environmental Benefits:
Enhancing the sustainability of livestock enterprises among the poor will obviously support benefits to the environment in relation to crop/livestock interactions. However, the software, at present, only explicitly tackles environmental issues in relation to animal health. For example, the component on taeniasis/cysticercosis explores faecal contamination of household environs.
However, project partners in Bolivia have requested a further environmental component to aid farmers in understanding the impacts of different crop/livestock production strategies. As such, positive impacts on local environments are likely to be accrued with the addition of an environmental component to the software.
Adverse Environmental Impacts:
The software has no negative environmental impacts. At present, the software is geared to solving animal health and production issues. Therefore, it principally deals with issues relating to livestock husbandry and management and the treatment, prevention and diagnosis of epidemic and endemic livestock diseases. A component on Highly Pathogenic Avian influenza is being added in each of the countries involved. In this manner, the software can help ameliorate the negative impacts of an emerging disaster for smallholder farmers in southern countries.
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In a professional college such as a medical or engineering college students are expected to be elitist. They belong to the scholarly class and should hence shun themselves from the ordinary activities of the civil class. Yes we the students of a medical college are to be looked upon downly whenever we discuss ordinary commonsport affair—be it currnet affairs, politics or sometimes even sports.
What the proponents of the above mentioned theory fail to realize or often deliberately forget is the fact that the students infuse new blood in the massively clogged society. When students leave home for higher education they are advised by all well-wishers
" Don't get into other people problems/ Steer clear from any controversy." But it is these same people who always talk about the French revolution, about Nelson Mandela about Bhagat Singh. What would the world be today if students always not thought about other people's problems?
Students have new ideas, new insights. Students routinely shake up the older folk who hold the reins of government and industry. Because they are young and inexperienced they are idealistic, they fight injustice and lend their voice to various social causes to which older people may have become cynical and given up. The Indian independence is a great example how students have shook up the mighty British empire who had for almost a century been commiting human rights atrocities to the inhabitants of the land they have forcibly acquired.The old had surrendered. They considered the practicalities of the situation. "How can I an ordinary citizen fight the British empire with all their sophisticated arms and armaments?"But they failed to see the simple logic which the caught the students mind , "Why should we allow a handful of bloody firangees torture a nation of millions?."
Students create trends in fashion, in music, in art. They keep a society alive and in a state of constant evolution. Trying to stop students from bringing about societal change is infact trying to break free from the laws of evolution.
Its high time now that we as students develop empathy for all that is in the society. As doctors of the future we definetly need to look on and understand the problems of all classes of the society be it a District magistrate or a beggar. If YOU stop knowing about all that is going in the society YOU disconnect yourself from the society.YOU need to be in touch with the reality know about economics,politics current affairs. Environment everything.YOU need to feel what is affecting the society the environment and even us.If YOU disconnect yourself from thw whole world YOU end up being a bookworm and YOU AS A DOCTOR start considering patients as pathological objects needing intervention.
Che Guevara- a "youth icon" even today in any part of the world ,whose face appears in all types of " products" imaginable(even though he himself despised commercialism), whose "Guerelaa hero" photograph was named the3 "most famous photograph of the world was a doctor.
As a boy he was suffered from bouts of acute severe asthma, a disease that afflicted him throughout his life. Yet with what is called sheer mind power he excelled as an athlete, enjoyed swimming, soccer, golf, and shooting. He was a swimmer,an avid rugby player. His rugby playing earned him the nickname "Fuser"—a contraction of El Furibundo (raging) and his mother's surname, de la Serna—for his aggressive style of play.
In 1948, Guevara entered the University of Buenos Aires to study medicine. However, his "hunger to explore the world" led him to intersperse his collegiate pursuits with two long introspective journeys that would fundamentally change the way he viewed himself and the present economic conditions in Latin America. ("A motorcycle journey the length of South America awakened him to the injustice of U.S. domination in the hemisphere, and to the suffering colonialism brought to its original inhabitants." Said geaorge Galloway, a British Poltician)
The first expedition in 1950 was a 4,500 kilometer (2,800 mi) solo trip through the rural provinces of North argentina in a bicycle on which he installed a small motor.This was followed in 1951 by a nine month 8,000 kilometer (5,000 mi) continental motorcycle trek through most of south america.Guevara found himself enraged by the working conditions of the miners in a copper mine; and moved by his overnight encounter in the Atacama Desert with a persecuted communist couple who didn't even own a blanket, describing them as "the shivering flesh-and-blood victims of capitalist exploitatation".
In the high Andes, he was struck by the crushing poverty of the remote rural areas, where peasant farmers worked small plots of land owned by wealthy landlords, Later on his journey, Guevara was especially impressed by the camaraderie among those living in a Leper Colony, stating "The highest forms of human solidarity and loyalty arise among such lonely and desperate people."
Guevara later remarked that through his travels of Latin America, he came in "close contact with poverty, hunger and disease" along with the "inability to treat a child because of lack of money" and "stupefaction provoked by the continual hunger and punishment" that leads a father to "accept the loss of a son as an unimportant accident."
Guevara later as a doctor continued to be deeply troubled by the poverty around him. In one instance, Hilda(his wife) describes Guevara's obsession with an elderly washerwoman whom he was treating, remarking that he saw her as "representative of the most forgotten and exploited class." Hilda later found a poem that Che had dedicated to the old woman, containing "a promise to fight for a better world, for a better life for all the poor and exploited."
What was all this about I wondered and lay down in my bed intending to take a short nap. This was definetly not what I had expected . Should I read it again? Maybe the seniors would start ragging with a viva on these topics. Or may be we would have a debate or an extempore. I might face the wrath of the seniors if I did not meet upto the standards. This must be some sort of intelligent ragging. I was sure. So I got the papers and reread them all. Taking special care about special lines which might have hidden connocotions.(I must confess that I felt frustrated by my inability to find them ).I carefully learnt up all the dates and the places.(what if their was a viva ;)) What was all this idealistic crap about?
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Sitting here reflecting on the numbers 4, 35, and 60. 4 is painful and associated with grief. 35 is associated with the beginning of the greatest adventure, love and friendship of my life. 60 is just a number – associated with another trip around the sun.
And what have I learned?
4 – on April 26, we will relive a bitter, painful day when we received the news that Chris had been killed in Afghanistan along with Dick Lee and Brandon Eggleston.
- The love of that child does not change. I talk about him because, while I know I will keep his memory alive, I want other to know he lived, and loved, and sacrificed, and cared. I like to hear about him from others. Maybe selfish, but it helps me connect to the little bits I might have learned from him over a beer or sitting on a beach together. And sorry if I make you uncomfortable but it is important to me.
- Grief is an extension of love. As with the love of your child, the grief is forever – – no 'moving on' or 'pain will fade with time.' I am faced with daily visions of what he would be, what his family would look like, how they would be part of us in the future. How can I not grieve that? We are blest that we are close to Amanda and she shares her life with us and we love her all the more for that.
- You can never fill the hole – so do not try to help me do that. We are blessed with friends and family who still cry with us and laugh with us when we talk about Chris. I have Nate, my son-in-law, who 'gets it.' He is a strong man of faith, a core part of our family, and perfect for Meredith. Not sure I would have 'got it' at 32.
- I did not ask to be a member of this club but I have met some great people who do great things because they were inducted too. In the face of loss, it is amazing to see people who step up and find a way to change the world – one step at a time. Grief as an extension of love provides a powerful force doing good for others.
So, April 26 will still have that empty chair at the table and my birthday and our anniversary will be hard because Chris is gone.
60 – So three days later, on April 29, I will move into the next decade of life. I cannot count the number of people who have blessed my life – Gayle, Meredith, Chris, Nate, Amanda, Jeremy, Paul, Kim, Larry, Jennifer and her family, Lynne and her family, Michael and his family, teachers, friends, colleagues, coworkers, pastors, etc.
- Each person is unique and adds color and fullness to your life – – – and you are not guaranteed to ever see them again. Cherish each moment.
- My faith was nurtured as a child, strengthened as an adult, and occasionally tested. My God did not change, I did.
- It is just a number – key is what did you do with it. Do not live with regrets.
"So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it… Life is long if you know how to use it." Seneca
35 – fabulous, wonderful, challenging, love-filled years. May 2 will mark our 35th wedding anniversary. Would I do it all again with Gayle? You betcha (that is from our years in Eau Claire, WI).
- Perfect is for crazy people – and maybe we are crazy and I know we work like crazy to make it as perfect as possible
- I tend to be a loner but what a lonely journey this would have been without Gayle.
- Not sure of the number we will get to add but look forward to every one of them.
And that is the week we will have from 26 April to 2 May.
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VACAVILLE (CBS SF) — Three people were gunned down as they stood outside a Vacaville apartment complex late Thursday night, authorities said.
Vacaville police Lt. Mark Donaldson said that officers responded to the Camden Parc apartment complex at 159 Aegean Way after shots rang out just before midnight.
Arriving officer found a man, a woman and a teenage girl suffering from gunshot wounds. The three were taken to a hospital with critical injuries,
according to Donaldson.
"They were standing outside their apartment" when they were shot, Donaldson said.
Police have a description of one suspect and were following up on information regarding a second suspect.
"Our detectives are at the apartment complex now trying to contact any potential witnesses," Donaldson said. "This is where we need our community's help."
He described one of the suspects as a black man in his 20s wearing all black, with a black hooded sweatshirt. Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Aaron Potter at (707) 469-4827.
More blacks which should have been shipped back to Africa. When will our society learn that there really is a difference between blacks and whites and that they need to be treated differently?
You see that disgusting liberal anthropologist defending these scammers? They all want a free hand out. This is what they are pushing, a society that will take care of you. F That. I'm not giving away my hard earned money. They are so poor that they can actually afford a plane ticket from France to the USA?
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Philadelphia police are seeking the public's help in finding a 19-year-old "hired gun" wanted in two drug-related killings.
Chief of Detectives Joseph Fox said Malik Collins should be considered armed and "extremely dangerous" and should not be approached.
Without offering any specifics, Fox indicated that there was a certain urgency to getting Collins off the street now.
He said a manhunt also involving state and federal law enforcement officials was under way to find Collins, whose last known address was 3014 W. Thompson St. in Brewerytown.
Collins is wanted in two fatal shootings. The first, in October 2005, left one man dead on the 1200 block of 29th Street. The second, in June, left one man dead and two others wounded on the 1600 block of Wingohocking Street in Nicetown.
He also is a suspect in a number of other shootings, Fox said.
Police ask that anyone who sees Collins call 911, and that anyone with information about his whereabouts call the Homicide Squad at 215-686-3334.


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You may not be aware of this with your busy life but it's Halloween at the end of the week. When you look through the current Deals with Gold Microsoft is offering to Xbox Live Gold members you'll see a particular theme going on. In celebration of the spooky holiday Microsoft is offering some great deals on games featuring scary stuff.
Not all the games involve horror however with Titanfall Deluxe Edition going for $5.00. While not the most popular game right now and not the best shooter of it's own time, it's still a pretty decent game with an interesting mechanic. Its yet to be seen if you'll be able to find anyone to play it with right now but with it being so cheap I'd expect plenty of people to pick it up. This includes myself.
These deals will be available until November 1st when the new batch of discounts come out. Check out the list below and get your credit card ready!
The Evil Within + Season Pass (bundle) – $26.40
Resident Evil HD Remaster – $14.99
State of Decay: Year-One Survival Edition – $17.99
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The Evil Within – $19.79
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State of Decay – $9.99
Dead Island – $2.99
Dead Island: Riptide – $2.99
Dead Space – $3.74
Dead Space 3: Awakened – $4.99
Titanfall Deluxe Edition – $4.99
Slender: The Arrival – $4.99
Alice: Madness Returns – $4.99
Costume Quest 2 – $4.94
Blood of the Werewolf – $2.09
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The draft Executive Order mandating that federal contractors declare donations as part of the competitive process is being reviled as unfair, unnecessary, unconstitutional, likely to create a corrupt culture in procurement, etc. Others celebrate it as a necessary level of transparency, a step in the right direction, a necessary move to combat corruption. Both are true and false, but neither really addresses the real issue; as long as politicians can be bought through the donor process, there will be corruption in procurement. By "bought" I don't mean payoffs; I mean the contribution of funds to ensure that a preferred candidate will be elected. For federal contractors, it is insane from a taxpayer's perspective that one can influence the decision makers; businesses don't get to choose a Board Member at WalMart before competing to be a supplier, nor should this be the case here.
A body politic free from outside influence and corruption, making decisions on behalf of the people, by the people, and for the people, was a wonderful aspiration, and for the Founding Fathers, one that they believed achievable. If only they could see Washington, DC today. That the system is what it is and can't be changed is not an argument I subscribe to. Every four years, we hear about reducing the influence of special interests, but when it comes to procurement, there is certainly a way to begin. Companies that wish to do business with the Federal Government must not participate in influencing the composition of the Executive or Legislature to whom they wish to contract to in any way.
Those who believe this is misguided – who state it as unachievable – are those with vested interests. Those vested interests are those both dependent upon these donations for election campaigns and those who rely on being a participant in elevating people to power as a means of facilitating a particular direction by government.
Security Debrief's readers are those interested in Homeland Security: risk managers and operators responsible for thinking the unthinkable to be able to anticipate and mitigate the effects of nature, terrorists, unusual demands on the organs of State, and those challenges we cannot even imagine but whose effects we can indeed predict. Thinking the unthinkable is what we do, and being able to identify a better path, one where political considerations come second to the national and operational need, is important. Procurement free from politics is a worthy goal but should only be a first step in a much wider agenda that addresses removing special interest play as much as possible, possibly by limiting donations to a centrally funded level for all who can reach a certain level of support demonstrated by signatures.
In some manners politics are no different than Homeland Security – one has to be prepared to examine the situation and accept it for what it is rather than what one hopes it to be, and then make decisive decisions about how to achieve the desired result.


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In what I can only assume is the Blades front office continuing to mess with me (because I'm just that delusional), they announced the signing of Brandon MacLean.
You may remember MacLean for that whole "ending 14 year Kelly Cup drought with a heart stopping overtime goal and making us all so happy we didn't have voices the next day" thing.
This is definitely good news. He was always fun to watch and obviously instantly became a fan favorite with that goal.
Personally, I'm hoping he can find a spot in the AHL (I pretty much want that for all the players), but I guess if he does have to play at the ECHL level it's good for us it will be in a Blades jersey.
Oh! This is the perfect time for a contest, isn't it?
Here we go: Leave your best nickname for Brandon MacLean in the blog's comments. I'll decide which is my favorite (though other fan votes may sway me in one direction or another) and award a MacLean autographed photo taken by yours truly to the best nickname. You'll also get the satisfaction of seeing it used constantly (by me at least) and bragging rights.
Three rules:
1. Please keep it clean. I don't need to be seen as any crazier than I already am. I'll be using this nickname while tweeting and blogging, be nice.
2. If you've won something before, you can't win this. Just giving everyone a chance to win something.
3. At least three people have to enter for the prize to be awarded, so maybe, I don't know... share the joy of Swamp Hockey with those you love?
You have until next Wednesday to think one up. Good luck.
Also, I believe the Everblades will be announcing their 15th anniversary logo today. Personally, I'm terrified, because the logo is so awesome you really can't improve on it.


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At KRB everyone is encouraged to take part in sport, no matter how much ability or knowledge they have for the game. Every term a student is to select a sport to participate in for that term, the sports selection is dependent on the term and seasons. Sport is a positive learning experience outside of the classroom as you improve and learn new sports while make and grow friendships.


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African Americans who convert to Islam are told to wear the long flowing Arabic style of dress natural to living in a desert climate rather than one of the African styles of dress developed for living in the tropics or the savanna.
Women are told they must wear the Arabic "hijab." It seems that being a Muslim means being Arabic, not African!
Share your knowledge of the Original faiths practice by Africans before Rastafarian beliefs, before Islam and before Christianity Share your thoughts at people claim the Black Man's roots are in Islam and that being Muslim is as natural for him as breathing.
They also say Christianity is the White man's religion, which took away the African's true Muslim identity through the forced imposition of the slave master's name and religion.
Millions of years after the first mutations for more complex brains made it possible, the latest branch on the family tree of primates, the humans, have taken one more step in codifying them through language. We just try to institutionalize them and carry out the punishments we think are appropriate for the offense in an organized manner, one of which was religion.
The first is as the second or third, the second as first or third, the third as first or second; in fact, they are each other, one and the same individual being.
"Further, it is observed that, in some mystical way, the triad of three persons is one.
Atheists point out the fact that there are still laws and societal discipline keeps our behaviors in check even if we choose to opt out of having a religion. Probably the most unfair thing to do to someone who's innocent but justifiable in some cases.
Could morality exist without a religion and is there something that could point us to an answer? When it comes to matters of how we perceive something as right or wrong, we usually turn to a basic concept we call fairness. We'll say that murder is wrong but leave ourselves legal and ethical room to kill enemy soldiers in a war or execute criminals who did very unfair and heinous things. They usually keep themselves in check through a social order that evolved because even the smallest society can't function with a complete lack of subordination and ground rules.The idea that things can be fair or unfair and that unfairness is a punishable offense isn't uniquely human. The very same ideas can be found in groups of primates who make business deals of sorts, build social hierarchies, have a sense of what's fair and what's unfair, refusing to cooperate when they feel mistreated or slighted, wage territorial wars, and seek revenge on those who anger them. If primates didn't know the difference between fair and unfair to their fellow primates, they would be loners who faced harsh conditions and steep survival odds.


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Mystery Thriller Week will begin in exactly two months, from February 12th through the 22nd. I'm an author, a blogger, and a reviewer. For the next few weeks, I'll be discussing some of the authors participating in this exciting event. If you'd like to be a part, you're not too late. To sign up, please go to: https://mysterythrillerweek.com
It's no secret to anyone following my blog that I have a bit of a fascination with serial killers. My upcoming book, The Seaside Slayer, is included in Mystery Thriller Week. The person doing the murders in my writing uses a calling card, which happens to be a shark's tooth. Genny Moretti, my heroine and MC, writes about the same calling card in her recently completely murder mystery that she finishes for her late husband, Brad. How would anyone else know what is contained within the pages, except maybe her current husband, Hank. I don't reveal the character who is committing the horrific deeds until chapter ten.
When I'm not writing, my favorite hobby is reading. Ronnie Allen volunteered for today's blog to give readers some insight into the first two books of her The Sign Behind the Crime series. I was afraid that perhaps Ronnie had given a little too much away when boldly stating the serial killer's name in Gemini, but Barbara Montgomery's intentions are made clear to readers in the first eight pages. I was immediately draw into the story. The main character is a stripper by night and a school psychologist by day. Ronnie actually had her day job, so she's writing from experience. Barbara is revenge killing for the abuse in her life and caught by a forensic psychiatrist just two days from reaching her main target.
I've had the privilege of reading the first two chapters of the book and have already been introduced to Dr. John Trenton. I'll use Ronnie's actual words to describe him. "Before the doc got married, the camera jockeys labeled him as one of New York City's most desirable and handsome bachelors." I'm reviewing this book for Mystery Thriller Week and wish I had more time to continue the tale this weekend. I'm sure I'll be kept awake many nights in the future with visions of death dancing in my head.
Ronnie described her 2nd book for me. In Aries, AriellaRose Larcon has three beholden who kill for her. She orchestrates five murders in seven days, the last four while being hooked up to an IV in a hospital. She adds black magick rituals to 'convince' her beholden to kill and collect trophies.
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While on a trip to Disney World, I read Screamfree Parenting on my Kindle. I wasn't expecting a lot, but I really got a lot out of it. Although it is not a Christian book, it is clearly written in accordance with Christian principles. The author suggests that at the heart of many of our parenting frustrations is fear. He confronts us with our own poor self-control and asks why we should expect our children to control themselves if we can't. One of his most convicting points is that every failure to discipline is a broken promise to a child. His book supports two talks I've been doing: one on fearless parenting and the other on fearless homeschooling. It's a quick read and I highly recommend it.
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December 26, 2007
i survived the holidays!
First off: RIP Mr. Oscar Peterson. and Ms. Benazir Bhutto.
Sure, tigers can do some damage, but so can microscopic creepy-crawly prokaryotes/viruses.
For a couple of days, I couldn't get the taste of bile out of my mouth, and for a particularly bad 8-hour period, I had difficulty keeping water down. I consoled myself by shopping online and rewatching episodes of 30 Rock and Pushing Daisies.
This sucker (or this sucker's gastrointestinal cousin) did me in.
You can thank Giant Microbes for plushifying all sorts of microbes, cells, pests and viruses (including mosquitoes, Ebola, toxic mold and herpes).
Tangent: The heartworm has a heart stitched on, chickenpox has a comb, the bacteria responsible for acne has a pimple, and streptococcus pyogenes (flesh eating disease) is holding flatware. And I kind of want the T4 plushie.
… I really shouldn't be let out in public.
Tangent II: By now, the Brazilian soccer star name generator has made the rounds on the Internet. Bored squishy would be SQUALDO, but more importantly, thanks to the irreplaceable Joe Posnanski, I've learned that Barry Bonds would be BILDO.
"Close. So close" – Posnanski.
Back to the topic at hand: this fucking stomach flu. Damn me for not getting that damn flu shot. I can almost hear my boss sing-songing "I told you soooooooo!"
I will be making up my lost caloric intake this coming weekend. FO SHO.
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I'll Take the Minefield for $200, Alex
I'm looking after Daybreak today while Eva is working and I thought I'd share a little conversation we had before she laid down for a nap. The munchkin was tuckered out after watching X-Men (she has said Hugh Jackman will be her husband one day) and us working on building a LEGO castle.
Daybreak: So you and Mommy are going dancing?
Me: Yes Sweetie.
Daybreak: You and Mommy have been together six months right?
Me: Almost. Monday will make six months.
Daybreak: So when am I going to get a baby sister?
Me: I think you're child enough for both of us Daybreak.
Daybreak: What's taking so long? I've been waiting practically forever.
Me: Daybreak, you're four. It's not like you're an old maid.
Daybreak: But…but…fine. Can you two at least get married? You love Mommy and Mommy loves you, what's the hold up?
At this point, I can't keep a straight face any longer and am nearly crying from laughter. Daybreak got very put out and decided I deserved to be tickled for laughing at her serious concerns.
I swear that I act my age sometimes.
Now I'm going to get some homework done before my ball of energy and questions wakes back up.
Hope y'all have a fabulous weekend.
November 21, 2008 at 8:27 PM
"From the mouths of babes"… at least I think that's how the saying goes.
Anyway, Daybreak is my hero 🙂
November 21, 2008 at 9:16 PM
How simple the mind of a child. If we were like children the world would be a better place. What she says makes sense and you know it. 😉
November 22, 2008 at 12:49 AM
You can be a little less amused at my expense Darlin'. Gosh.
November 25, 2008 at 4:03 AM
haha gotta love kids. they speak the truth when no one else will! :]
November 25, 2008 at 6:12 AM
That is soooo cute! You gotta love kids for stuff like that. They are the most hilarious people in the world!


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I am the mother of a screenager. That's right. I said screenager, not teenager. A screenager is someone who has grown up in a digital landscape and spends most of their time in a digital world. When my second son was born in 1999, the Internet was just taking on life as a new way of doing things. But for Spencer and people born after him, the Internet wasn't a new thing, it was just a thing that was always there. Having a screenager is a new experience for us. When our first son was at home, we didn't even get a computer until he was in third grade. That computer wasn't hooked up to the Internet for a long time and when it was, it wasn't the experience kids today have on it. There were precious few sites for social networking at that time and connection and processor speeds were slow enough to make it a pretty frustrating and time-consuming experience trying to use the Internet in any useful way. But, fast forward a few years and the changes were huge! Not only is the internet accessible, but it's now the way most people shop, communicate, research, interact, send and receive mail, look up phone numbers and addresses, make phone calls, and even do their banking. This is the landscape that Spencer has grown up in and boy does it move!
When I was a child, my life was predictable and routine. Unlike a lot of kids today, I grew up in the same house with both of my actual parents. I used my imagination to entertain myself when I was on my own, rode my bike, went swimming, had dinner with the family at 5.30p every night during the week when Dad got home from work. My social networking included: spending time with friends, playing with my siblings, having sleepovers, going to school, going to church and going out to dinner afterwards, and going to camp in the summers. Computers were basically unheard of in those years. Actually, I remember my Dad making me do math problems longhand instead of using a calculator saying, "You might not always have a calculator handy!"
My son's life, however, is drastically different. The routine in his life is constant change. The technology he's got in the palm of his hand is more than I ever could have imagined. On one device, he can tell you the weather in any location in the world, how long it would take you to get there, the customs of that area, the population, what kind of clothes to take, the best and least expensive way to get there, and plot a trip for you complete with car and hotel rentals setup, plane tickets bought, reservations made for dinner and a show, and tickets sent to that device all in about 7 minutes. This is not my world.
In my world, we played games growing up. We had games we played on our own like LEMON TWIST or ROMPER STOMPERS and we had board games we played with other people like MONOPOLY or CLUE. Some wonderful times were had when Dad would hit us fly balls to catch in the backyard or Mom would sit down for a game of Aggravation.
In Spencer's world though, board games or even word games we used to play like I Spy or Hangman are archaic. I really have to struggle to get these in his realm. It was easier when he was little and I had a lot of control over what he did. I would sit down and play games with him like Ants in the Pants or Don't Spill the Beans. But, though I fight its encroachment on our family life at every opportunity, the Internet has beaten me it seems. Now, they carry all their games around on their devices and there's another way to play games now playing online with "friends." I'm sorry. I have a problem with thinking of a person you've never met, never spoken to, and have no idea of their life situation as a 'friend.' But you see, that's because I'm a Digital Immigrant and not a Digital Native like Spencer. A Digital Immigrant, I'm told, is someone who didn't grow up in this digital landscape.
These I-Generation kids are used to information that comes flying at them from all directions from the moment they get up in the morning until the minute they fall asleep at night. They're used to a lot more stimulation than we were. They're a lot more expecting and a lot more demanding of their world. This could actually be a good thing. Generations that expect and demand generally create much change in their lifetimes. For all that we hear people bemoan the perils of the I-Generation, these kids are smart…probably smarter than us. Indeed, their brains are actually wiring themselves differently than ours adapting to the new world they inhabit. They can multi-task at a very young age. They can process information and make decisions in a snap. They aren't scared to experiment with technology or anything else and they go out and find what they want to know faster than any of us ever could have using our encyclopedias or making a trip to the library. They deal with and understand a far-larger and more complex social network than we ever did and they learn (if they're lucky) to consider possible long-term consequences of that far-reaching network out there much younger than us. If they have questions, they ferret out answers quite quickly. Finally, almost intuitively, they adapt to new things that come into their cyber world and under their power. I think that's better than most of us do at this point with our fumbling thumbs and fingers trying desperately to make the small keys on our cell phones work or trying urgently to type e-mails and remembering what to click or how to attach or forward. For those of us raised on handwriting and licking stamps, the slickness of e-mail doesn't seem real. It makes it hard for us to remember what we've already sent and who's seen what.
But still, even using my digital cameras, my desktop computer, my touch-screen laptop, my mobile, and my GPS in the truck, in the end, I am still that immigrant to this digital world. I try and share with my son some games from the good old days when we go on ski trips to the resort where we sit around after a home-cooked dinner in our condo playing a family game of cards or 20 Questions or when we're driving and I can regale him with a good game of Slug Bug or License Plates. But in the end, he is a Digital Native. His default is the world he was born into and he's developing the skills to carry him forward into the world he's going out into someday soon. I won't be left behind so much as I'll just not as progress as quickly as he does. But when the grandchildren come, I hope my boys know I'll be sitting here waiting with some FaceTime just for them. My version of FaceTime…one-on-one, getting to know them and telling them stories about a world they can't even imagine by then. Maybe we'll even play a few card games just for the heck of it, huh?


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Twilight has given way to the darkness and tonight the full moon graces the sky surrounded by the shimmer of the stars. It is a peaceful time one where time is left to think on all those things lost to the busy demands of the day. The full moon has come and gone and now is back again, this time demanding my attention and spinning me in her web of light.
There is a magic in the air tonight, the air with the true feel of Autumn and the trees whispering softly as they begin their journey to winter's sleep. Perhaps the fairies have come dusting the world with the bright colors of Autumn and filling the night air with enchantment. Tonight I will let myself drift and dream a bit while the cares of this day fall away. All is well for tonight.


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Yonkers: Saturday 10/11 Analysis
Best Bet: BIGTOWN HERO (6th)
Spot Play: LUCK BE WITHYOU (5th)
Race 1
(5) DR CS Z TAM drops down the condition ladder. Gelding could actually win on Saturday and get another free ride at this level next week. (3) DULL ROAR was a solid second in this class last time. The inside post should perk him back up. (4) GRAB YOUR KEYS is clearly sharp and should be able to handle this tougher group.
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Race 2
(1) GOOD DAY MATE ships in for a top barn in fine form and draws best. (4) MICKEY HANOVER has won six of eight starts here over the last three years; very playable. (2) GLASS PRINCE should get away close. He has won more than 30% of his starts at Yonkers. (3) DOCTOR CARTER has won three of four starts.
Race 3
(3) VILLAGE BEAT has put in some of his best efforts with Jason Bartlett in the bike. Class relief and an inside post can only help him tonight. (1) ONLY THE LONELY has speed and the best post in his corner; good combination. (6) NOB HILL HIGH looks like a toss based on his last effort, but the pace was sizzling and he was used hard to keep up.
Race 4
(5) DUEL IN THE SUN has been known to gun off the gate when in the right spot and head down the road. This looks like that kind of spot. (1) CONKERS CONQUEST was a killer fresh off the fair circuit in Maine. There is no reason to believe he can't score for the new barn. (4) STATION THREEOHSIX finally gets a good post to work with; worth using. (2) HI HO STEVERINO has some speed; maybe.
Race 5
(7) LUCK BE WITHYOU was on a roll in August before a tough mile in the Cane Pace. This is a quality 3-year-old with high speed. (4) STAY UP LATE gets tested for class but has outdrawn his main rivals. (8) LYONSSOMEWHERE can sprint off the gate. He may even be fast enough to avoid a four-wide trip into the first turn. (3) FORTY FIVE RED has been facing some tough company over the last few months.
Race 6
(8) BIGTOWN HERO took down some of the best pacers in the country by circling most of the field in the Ewart at Scioto. If he is put into play from post eight, he will win. (5) TAKE IT BACK TERRY draws inside his main rivals. Can he get away close enough to take advantage? (7) P H SUPERCAM goes for his third straight Open win.
Race 7
(7) THIRTY TWO RED wired the field the last time he was at this level in an added distance race. He should provide a sweet price in a field without a standout. (1) AMERICAN VENTURE rates as the one to beat for a high percentage barn. (3) EXIT CAM can leave for position and hit the exotics.
Race 8
(1) DOCTOR BUTCH doesn't sport much in the way of form, but he draws inside and should be sitting a sweet trip. (3) MUSSELSFRMBRUSSELS is the opposite of the top choice, great form with no speed. (6) HILLBILLY HANOVER was racing well when last seen here.
Race 9
(5) OFF LIKA PROMDRESS is pretty much taking a lateral move coming in from Saratoga. Four-year-old has a super record at this oval. (3) MC RUSTY has finished second the last two times at this level. (1) MY TEMUDJIN N has post one and some early speed in his corner.
Race 10
(2) VERDAD & (1) SHORTSTACKED both draw inside this week and either is more than capable of taking advantage. (8) VALENTINO has high speed and could get good position despite the bad draw.
Race 11
(4) RONNY BUGATTI was in deeper waters the last time he ventured south to Yonkers. This guy is capable with a decent trip. (2) ARACACHE HANOVER was awesome last week and will win with a similar effort. (6) RUSSLEY RASCAL N drops down in class and should be involved at some point. (7) SMOOTH CRIMINAL was a good second in this company last week.
Race 12
(3) SOUTHWIND AMAZON had no shot while up in company from post eight in his most recent start. This level might be one step higher on the ladder than he would like, but he seems sharp enough to make some noise. (1) JUSTIFIED should perk up from post one. (2) MACHS BEACH BOY drops and draws better; capable.


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Jessica smiled at James, "James, did you ever wonder why nobody ever asked why your father's flight crashed into the Ohio?"
"What do you mean, there was the whole government investigation, the wind sheer research, of course somebody asked why!" James yelled through a blur of anger.
Jessica continued, "Yeah that-- James, do you really believe that a 100 million dollar airplane piloted by three experienced pilots crashed because a sparrow flapped its wings in Burma?"
"It was wind sheer- people spotted some odd vertical cloud formations at the time of the crash… the report… what does it matter?"
Peter looked at Jessica and shook his head, "I think we could have just let this one go, he's so dense."
"James, you're a pilot aren't you? Does the official story even begin to make sense to you?"
"Well, so what caused the crash and what the hell does it have to do with me?" He wiggled back and forth to emphasize the fact that he was still tied to the chair.
Jessica stood and walked to the back of the chair so she was standing behind James. "You have to understand, James, sometimes things just break."
"Sometimes things break? That's what this whole thing is about? Hey, my lips are sealed, can you untie me now!"
Jessica whispered into his ear, "What did I tell you about being civil?" With that, she reached around the chair, grabbed his pinky finger and sharply pulled it away from his hand until it was bent in the opposite direction, pointing toward his elbow.
The pain exploded through his hand and across his wrist. He vomited into his mouth and nose. As the pain subsided, he looked at Jessica who had sat down in front of him again. "Please!!! Why are you doing this?" He spit a mouthful of bile onto his lap.
Peter looked at her admiringly, "Nice segue, Jess!" The two exchanged a mock high five.
"The boring truth is the elevator control system malfunctioned and pitched the airplane full nose up until it stalled in an almost vertical attitude. The engine compressors stalled, and the airplane did a tail slide before nosing over into the river." Peter explained in a bored detached monotone voice, as if he'd had the same conversation a dozen times.
James was struggling to understand what any of that had to do with him. Jessica sensed his continued confusion and explained further.
"James, within hours after the crash, it was known what really happened. Of course, the public wouldn't accept the truth. People would be afraid to fly, the aircraft manufacturer would face costly redesigns and re-engineering-- we're talking about billions of dollars here James. Global consequences. So a better, more civil explanation was agreed upon by everybody."
"And the government just went along with it?
Peter and Jessica exchanged a glance and Peter spoke in a voice adults usually reserve for young children, "James, 'the government' for lack of an easier to understand term, suggested it."
James searched his memory for all the faces he'd seen in the days and weeks following the crash. "All part of the cover-up." He moaned.
"Actually James, you're part of the cover-up also-- though I use that term under protest." Peter said lazily.
"I didn't know anything about this!" James shouted. Jessica moved to stand up, but Peter put a hand on her shoulder.
James's mind was swimming in a bromide of memory, lies, and revelation.


text: Twenty-first January 21, 2012 by Karla Petersen Photography A and A are a brother and sister that are inseperable. Literally! 7 year old A had complete care of 4 year old A and they both panic if they can't see each other. They came into care 2 months ago and their foster mom is homeschooling both while they work on getting the kids to feel safe in seperate rooms in the house, then short seperations outside the house, etc. When they aren't seperated, A and A are like a barrel of monkeys rolled into 2 little kids....funny, active, giggly, smart, chattering, And they had more fun at Great Wolf Lodge than they've probably had in their whole lives. What a treat to meet these two kids! Advertisements Share this:TwitterFacebookPrintEmailLike this:Like Loading... Related


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My name is Michael Soldati, I'm one of the two new AmeriCorps Vista Members at the Keene Public Library. The other Vista member is Dan Petit, the new Homework assistant. I on the other hand will be working as your local gaming coordinator, though as you can see that isn't all that I do. I've taken over this blog, so that I might bring YOU, the youth of the Monadnock region, YOU our leaders of tomorrow, YOU our Ben Kinobi- our only hope, a little more excitement at your local library. I find myself in the very slow process of getting to know you all. However, I've met a few:
-Kyle- Editor of The Teen Zine, Web Designer, Photographer
–Cheyenne- Co-editor of The Teen Zine, Pink Hair
-Mitch- Comic Master and Film Actor
-Katelyn- Fellow Runaway, Adventurer, Music Lover
-Sam- Video Game & Film Enthusiast, Lover of Life
-Alex- Favorite Super Smash Bros. Brawl Character: Kirby, kicks butt daily
-Shawn- Plays Hide and Seek
-Kate- Expert Duct Tape Craftsmen, Likes Dinosaurs, Fav. SSB Brawl Character: Pikachu
-Molly- Loves Mario Kart Wii, Favorite Map: Star Road, can do reverse mode with Wii Wheel easily
-Galen- Rockin' the space ship chair, loving life, cool cat
Also The Green Keene Teens- proactive independent teenage community focused group
Anyways ,Dan and I have just set up shop here and we are totally here for you guys.
If you've got any and I mean ANY comments, questions, ideas, critiques, observations, anecdotes, jokes, dreams or suggestions just let us know and we'll do whatever we can to make the most out of it.
I'll also be using this blog to post everything that we've been up to here, from the most exciting and important things you could ever imagine in your wildest of dreams to the most trivial and boring. Not to worry however, for I can assure you that I will never, ever post anything that does not elicit anything but the deepest of celebrations in your heart and soul. This is my sworn duty.
And so without further ado:
Today Dan and I
-read our YA Manuals in our Library binders
-ate lunch
-fixed the VCR
-took stock of all of the video games (VIDEO GAMES!!!!)
-moved cool old cardboard arts & crafts from the hey days of Jason and a fooseball table into Heberton Hall in a room where Snoopy lay decapitated… I kid you not.
-Talked to Cheyenne and Katelyn and someone else
-Talked to Gail about volunteering, setting up FREE!!!! concerts in Heberton Hall, Dungeons and Dragons, Anime and gave her a list of things I know you all need for your Keene Public Library Wii!!!
-Stole this web blog.
-Wrote this blog.
-Wrote that sentence.
-Wrote this sentence….
-That's it.
Anyways I'm going to sign off for now but I'll see you all (actually I probably won't see you because this is the internet and we're not actually talking face to face or talking at all or… I digress) tomorrow!
Your Vista,
Michael M. Soldati


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Celebrating 10 Years of Life Change
It is important to have markers in life. God commanded Joshua to set a standing stone to mark what miraculous deeds God had done. This year, as Real Life Church observes its tenth anniversary, we want to do the same!
Our church began with a simple statement: let's be real about who we are and who God is. If we can remove the barriers that keep people from God, most people desire to know Him. That wish to connect people with God has been our drive for a decade now. Our goal has always been to help people find their real self through a relationship with Christ, and you know what? That is exactly what God has done. It's only fitting that we mark this with celebration.
On Sunday, August 23rd, we will celebrate all the good things God has done at Real Life Church over the past 10 years. We will have a special day of worship in both services as we look back with joy and thanksgiving and look forward with outrageous faith and confidence of what God will continue to do.
Following the services, we will gather at Captain William Clark Park on the Columbia for a church picnic and baptism celebration! We'll eat together around 2pm and then hang out for a while, playing games and enjoying fellowship. At 4pm, we'll start baptisms! We have two picnic sites reserved from 11am until 7pm, so you are welcome to come early and stay late. Bring food for your family, picnic blankets, chairs and outdoor games.
We also want to take the opportunity to thank YOU for helping make Real Life the loving, giving, generous, God-honoring community it is today! This community is something special and we look forward to seeing how God continues to work in, for, and through us in the coming years!


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