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The ranch on which I hang my hat, though short on most the frills,
Is thirteen sections, give or take, of rugged trails an' hills.
We call it 'home', our little world, our very own frontier,
Amongst the cattle, sheep an' goats; the varmints, hogs an' deer.
Today I watched the breakin' dawn an' whiffed the mornin' air,
A time I often set aside for things like thought an' prayer.
A Mockin'bird an' Mornin' Dove, an' other birds at play,
Were there to sing an' set the mood to start another day.
This mornin' saw the strangest thing, like time itself had merged,
An' all the souls who once were here, appeared an' then converged.
In swirlin' clouds of mist an' fog, right off the bluffs they rolled,
Till all had gathered in the glen, the modern an' the old.
The Indians, conquistadors, an' other ancient men,
The soldiers from this country's wars, an' cowboys from back when…
They all had come from yesterday to help me understand
Our link with those who came before, to heritage an' land.
A crazy notion, so I thought, that they could just appear,
But as the morning went along the reason got real clear.
They rode along with me that day to show me things I've missed,
The things I've seen a thousand times an' some I'd just dismissed.
Those wagon roads of long ago, still evident today,
Are carved in rock an' rutted earth, not apt to wash away.
They linked the missions, forts an' towns those many years gone by;
An' left their mark for all to see, as modern times grew nigh.
The artifacts an' weathered ruins attest to yesterdays,
When others came an' lived their lives in very different ways.
We've seen their skill in arrowheads they honed from fired stone,
An' craftsmanship in beads an' tools they fashioned out of bone.
At ever turn and trail we took was something to remind,
The Maker must have had a plan laid out for humankind.
The Earth He made's been feedin' us a half-a-million years,
An' used it's wonder, force an' change to challenge pioneers.
I do not know if they'll return or if they'll feel the need,
But I'm prepared to ride the trail, where ever it may lead.
We all are spirits ridin' time with bodies of the Earth,
Whose time has come to take the reins an' offer up our worth.
The land has been the legacy we cultivate an' reap,
The life has been the heritage our father's fought to keep,
An' we are bound throughout our time with those who came before,
To put our hearts and souls to it, and make it something more.
Copyright © Jim Fish | Year Posted 2009
Uncomplicated me
I thought I was coloured blind
free thinking and kind
with an evolved mind
Loving and accepting
of the ones I find
Yet my blindness
Is that of privilege
I'm just a visitor
in the Global village
From my narrow thin mind
there is too much spillage
Although so many
are forced from their homes
My life seems carefree
I am deaf to the groans
Brown women wearing veils
that can't protect them from stones
I live in a white washed place
No "Freedom Marches"
for men of a different race
Yet, if I look back and trace
there are darker stories to face
We all took part in shameful things
Yes, we share in the disgrace.
Highways of tears
Rivers of shame
There's always
someone else to blame
Residential schools
Each child got a new name
They were forced to forget
the place from where they came
Prisons filled
with black and red skinned men
They can't forget
this now or that then
Promises and promises
but who how and when
Or will their children
have to live it all over again
So yes
No longer colour blind
With the opening of my mind
I let colour seep in
Starting somewhere different
today I begin
Because I know
it shouldn't be
just the privileged who win!
For SKAT's premiere contest.
Copyright © Richard Lamoureux | Year Posted 2016
Mental stretching, the required sacrifice
Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
To all exercises, these four are the basics
Hell on paper but sweet in its understanding
Equations and formula, serving as raw products
Mastering the existence of numbers to gain its wisdom
Arithmetics also in a graphical representation
Then its technicalities in shapes and planes
Into life's activities, these applications silently integrate
Calculation of numbers and expressions
Sum up all problems via solutions to an answer.
Copyright © Funom Makama | Year Posted 2016
Authored by Chuck Keys
It had no color,
Lacking shape, size and dimension.
It wasn't moving or breathing.
There was neither aroma nor taste, not here or there.
Touching was useless because it wasn't physical.
It was indistinct and limitless.
Thinking multi-physically
Multi-sensually and multi-psychologically
It wasn't here or there and it was.
With no distinction,
It looked like everything else,
Or it could not have looked like everything else.
It never made me feel good nor bad,
Nor happy nor sad
Nor quite nor trite.
In our world of joy and destroy, we sort and distort,
Looking more on the surface and less on the inside,
Ready to judge and be judged from outside in.
The "oneness" of mankind stretches beyond definitions and limits,
From outside to inside and from inside to outside.
We are one distinct and alike world of "oneness."
Differences exist for differences,
Therefore, differences don't exist.
Only "oneness" exists.
This poem is dedicated to Dr. Clayborne Carson and The Gandhi-King Community,
For Global Peace with Social Justice in a Sustainable Environment.
Copyright © Chuck Keys | Year Posted 2010
dadgum doctors, heads up their butts
poking, prodding, pricking skin
neurologist a psychopath
gets pleasure as electric volts pass through my body
family doctor showed little concern
made me paranoid about irregular heartbeat
EKG failed to determine cause
left me more in doubt than at ease
dentist like a character from Dustin Hoffman's "Marathon Man"
the more pain inflicted
the more he rejoiced
deep root cleaning caused severe infection
bloodwork done by Vampira clones
labs filled with tubes and needles
results not shared with me
yet I footed the bill
optometrist an Oriental who moved so fast
didn't care if the prescribed glasses worked
boo on you, dang aristocrats
waving your credentials
nurses so slow to respond
MRI promised on CD, but couldn't be obtained
just like the blood tests, needed a "report"
doctors driving me insane
each should share my mental hospital bills
*Based on ongoing health tests and written for PD's contest. Assignment Free Verse, 25 lines, category slam, sad and educational, title: Mental Hospital Bills
Copyright © Carolyn Devonshire | Year Posted 2009
Rodents can be loquacious
That includes your average gerbil
They love to prattle, chat and blather
They really are quite verbal
Hamsters are talkative too
Just as garrulous as can be
With running mouth and wheel to match
They are a sight to see
But I am loath to squander words
Sparing usage is my way
I gather them like so many acorns
Against a rainy day
Yes, word collecting is the passion
Of this precocious squirrel
I garner adjectives, verbs and nouns
Be they singular or plural
The park is fecund land
There a plethora may be found
Vociferous, vehement and vex
I lately scooped up off the ground
The verb tree is prolific
Its discovery quite a boon
The other day it bestowed upon me
Flaunt, foster and festoon
All along the sidewalks
Concrete nouns lie strewn about
How blithely I did snatch up
A lummox, a laggard and a lout
To command a better view
I nimbly scampered up a pole
From this lofty perch I spotted
Wheedle, coax and cajole
Away in the distance
I spied a tempting pile
Heaped up for the taking were
Enticing, alluring and beguile
What do I with so much verbiage?
You would be fair to ask
Squirreling away so vast a lexicon
Must prove a mammoth task
The answer lies in my arboreal abode
Where these many words I stash
In alphabetical order they are arrayed
From zealous to abash
In a capricious mood one day
I grouped them by part of speech
Such a cacophony arose from clustering
Banter, badger and beseech
No matter how I sort them
The wasting of words I spurn
Reserved for rarest use I keep
Reticent, laconic and taciturn!
by Brian McClain - Feb 17, 2016
Originally posted Feb 17, 2016
Accidentally deleted Feb 22, 2016
Reposted Feb 22, 2016
Copyright © Brian McClain | Year Posted 2016
I Did It My Way
I did it my way, not for the applause but because,
failure was not an option and I became a rebel with a cause.
I wanted higher education and was told I couldn't have it all,
so I had to prove them wrong even if I had to creep or crawl.
I was accused of having a stubborn streak,
just because I wasn't mild and meek.
Challenging every obstacle placed in my way,
and all the negative things that people had to say.
In spite of all the "You can't do that," that I was told,
I stubbornly did it my way and confidently smashed the mold.
Marching to a different drummer and dancing to my own tunes,
I kept my eyes on the prize ignoring all the nay-saying buffoons.
To keep on track, I learned to juggle tasks knowing I wouldn't be derailed.
To keep my ducks in a row, I learned to haggle knowing I wouldn't fail.
With dedication and hard work, as sure as night follows day,
success was mine because I certainly did it my way!
Contest: I Did It My Way
Sponsor: Shadow Hamilton
Placement: 1st
Copyright © Pandita Sanchez | Year Posted 2014
Nowhere near a force of nature
Challenging a source of nature
Building with the will to survive
A small measurement for those who strive
Lessons when it comes to strength
Multiplying the time found in length
Stop and learn the sound of weakness
Hard to find when one is relentless
Improving in a mental task
The answers are found when we ask
Stamina mania, you and I
To perform bravely in all we do
pump for long
yet never strong
Learn when ideas seem to fail
The wrong action is to bail
Thinking, thinking what could it be
Will not solve the problem between you and me
Practice is the best energy
Memorize it-- stamina will come naturally
Copyright © SKAT A | Year Posted 2010
Like many precious diamonds,
Good teachers are hard to find
Yet sometimes one can discover
A rare and priceless kind,
It's not like all the others
For it out-shines the rest
You know as soon as you see it
That this stone is the best,
A good teacher is that special gem
They do far more than teach
They make you feel, through learning,
There's no star you cannot reach
In Art, they help you see differently
From new angles, not straight up and down
They make Geography an adventure
As the world you travel around
In History, they make you feel
You've lived and breathed the times
And Math is not sums, but puzzles
To stretch and tone your mind
In English they encourage you
To not just write, but feel
So that each one of your stories
Will read as if it were real,
If you ever have a question
You call and they are there
With patience and understanding
Your problems are theirs, they care
There's usually one in every school
Superior to the rest
For they're the 'Star of Education'
And as such are totally priceless!
Copyright © Janette Fisher | Year Posted 2009
line count and word number are equal in this selection....
"Make It Count"
by: Eric L. Boddie
Man may
Come to play
But if you say
Oh no baby, not today
Do you think he would stay
Or would he go so far away
In search of another lover he could lay
Doing everything associated with rolling in that infamous hay
And if push came to shove, maybe he would pay
To relieve all the stress stemming from your hips' distant sway
Because something must give, there are more than fifty shades of gray
That's common knowledge to the freaks and all those upon which they prey
And once you learn them all, I promise your lover will never ever stray
But if you miss just a single one, then you may experience that dreadful day
Where you lose it all so try to find True Love and remember to always Pray
Copyright © eric boddie | Year Posted 2015
This beautiful journey begins
From a courtship routine
The male perch themselves on leaves
And create a glorious scene
Waiting for a female
Just to fly on by
Now he has his chance
But, she'll be the one to decide
The male needs to find out
Whether she's been fertilised
If she's already pregnant
He's soon going to realise
She'll release a powerful chemical
Which is called 'pheromone '
That tells him she's unavailable
So he might have to fly and roam
Soon after they have mated
She looks for a place to lay
Laying her tiny eggs
Mostly oval in shape
She can lay two hundred or more
Just in a single day
But she needs to find a milkweed
On this beautiful sun spring day
The tiny little caterpillars
Start to grow inside
Eggs no bigger that a pin heads
And thats no word of a lie
They feed on the milkweed
And the enzymes in the egg
Until these little caterpillars
Start growing up really big
Now when they hatch
From their eggs
They will eat and eat and eat
Eating up everything
Of those milkweed leaves
They will start expanding
Getting bigger and bigger
Shedding their skin several times
Now that is really clever
Then they just stop eating
And know their time has come
For their stunning transformation
Four stages have begun
They're find a special twig or leaf
And hang them-selves upside down
Then spin a silky cocoon
Where they won't be found
It's called metamorphosis
Turned into a shiny chrysalis
Inside the caterpillars' changing
Into a beautiful butterfly
It dissolves itself into a soup
That's truly organised
Inside a process is taking place
It's forming disc's, a body, a face
This wonder of nature you can see
When they emerge victoriously
This transition takes some time
For the birth of an exquisite butterfly
One of nature's beautiful scenes
Celebrating new birth in spring
The reproduction of a butterfly
A remarkable cycle, that does not die
© Copyright KC.Leake
6th April 2015
All Rights Reserved
Copyright © kevin leake | Year Posted 2015
The Simple Pen
I am but a simple man with pen in hand
To cut open a slice of universe with verse
And with the ink
Let it bleed not red
It flows instead with mortal colors
Over a life well spent
What is left over
We drink this in a cup
Pour more to fill it up
But little at a time
Too much reality can cloud your mind
Said the simple man with bleeding pen
Entered in Tyshawn Knight's - "Advice for New Writers: Words of Wisdom in Verse" Poetry Contest on 6/02/15
Copyright © Earl Schumacker | Year Posted 2014
Feeling like a lodger
In my own home
Thankful for my music
And my new found roam
Families and communities
They are just so hard to find
But in April 2009
I found the most precious kind
I found the name amusing
So the button i clicked on to see
The layout was very inviting
Like an open door should be
For in a matter of minutes
On first uploading a poem
This Highlander was content
He had found a welcome home
So many lovely writers
Poets who share their bless
No longer this Scotsman is
The Man in the Wilderness
Copyright © James Fraser | Year Posted 2009
Take me beat me and mold me
I am yours to do with what you wish
No matter what you do with me
I am still considered quite a dish.
I can modify your hardness
I can let you know when to boil
I can conduct a heat in you
And I will never let you spoil.
I don't react harshly, if you get me moist and wet
You'll still love me in the morning, on that I think I'll bet
I will still be malleable, no matter what you do
You can beat me to transparency, and yes you see right through.
I am a bright yellow colour, with a lustre some would die for
Keeping me in good condition, would never become a chore
If you really wanted to, you can put me in your mouth
I can even adorn your body parts, North, West, East and South…
I don't react to an acid tongue, except those that are vitriolic
But you can dissolve me with the acid, called nitro hydrochloric.
You can pour me when I'm so very hot too hot for you to play
Then you can finger me when I am cool, and play with me all day
You can eat off me, or with me, the choice will be yours
They say I came from outer space, in fact in meteors
But one thing I will say I don't wear out or lose my lustre, it is told
So if you pick me up treat me well, I am you little nugget of gold.
© 14/12/2012
Copyright © Mandy Tams The Golden Girl | Year Posted 2012
There once was Castle just over the hill
That belonged to a King with an iron will
Nestled safely behind his Castle wall
With an army to insure they wouldn't fall
It was clear for the entire world to see
Destiny would record him in history
The richest King in all of the land
A beautiful Queen at his right hand
He ruled the land from shore to shore
Tell me, "Could any man ask for more"?
Turns out this King had just one vice
He was so great he forgot to be nice
Against any force he was bound to win
So the devil attacked him from with-in
Such a great King skilled with the sword
Much too great a King to turn to the Lord
Watched his entire Kingdom crumble away
Because he was to great to kneel and pray
Copyright © Michael Jordan | Year Posted 2008
I never wanted it to be this way, I never wanted to feel the pain. Bruises all over me.
Invisible but I can see them.
You hurt me everywhere. My heart is shattered and the blood has frozen. But I won't be
your victim.
Stare at me like this all you want. Try and hurt me with your words just as long as you
don't use fists.
I don't ever want to be your victim. I refuse to be one of those few girls who end up
losing their whole world.
Love isn't supposed to hurt, but maybe I was just naive because the moment I loved you my
heart never stopped bleeding.
I won't be your victim, I won't run away. If you have something to say I won't avoid it.
I'm not scared I can take whatever you try to throw.
Don't hold back I promise you I will not cry. The moon is shining just like all the
diamonds that you called pretend love I can't even imagine why I fell so hard.
It's never clear until the glass of water is gone. But now that you've gulped me to the
last I want you to know I won't be your victim.
I kissed vulnerability goodbye the very last time I cried over you and I won't be your
victim your not even worth it.
If you feel like you must shove a door in my butt but don't make me afraid because I
don't want to be I don't want to be your victim.
Let go of my hand so I can peacefully drive away if you want me to I can drive over you
as well. But don't make it seem like i'm causing you pain because it's obvious to see
that I've been a victim and it's a shame.
But I don't want to be it anymore then you so just let me go and I won't have to run. I
promised you forever I laugh at this now you were never eternity love in my mind.
I kept counting until the madness in ourselves would corrupt. Tears flash down my eyes
as I speed down the lanes. Two bottles of Gin and I think i'm going insane.
It wasn't until I crashed into a tree that I realized I was never your victim I was
merely your suicide mission.
Copyright © Shahana Jackson | Year Posted 2005
I was a bright, outgoing boy, who sat at the front of the class.
Then, one day that all changed, i feared to even raise my hand for a pass.
I had many close friends, loved sports and school plays.
Then on that day fear beset me, and long gone were those days.
I remember my school, i knew it inside and out.
But now i have blank spots, certain things i've shut out.
Thanks to God and His mercy, i don't recall that foul act.
But i know that it happened, no doubt, that's a fact.
Now, to the person who did this, i have nothing to say.
But, my God will remember, and He'll get you someday!
Copyright © stanley copley | Year Posted 2006
Some people are voices
On the edge of rocks
With steep slopes and cliffs.
Some people are echoes
At the bottom of walls
Carved by rushing waters.
Copyright © Leon Stacey | Year Posted 2007
brief encounter
a man invisible
but for his wit
landed on my world
lightly it seemed
until he left
Copyright © PATRICIA CRESSWELL | Year Posted 2017
Foolish feelings always seem to be
Once set free are never what they seemed
I need to return to times of being carefree
Back to when things were as we dreamed
What are truly just silly emotions
Can't allow to rule my life in this way
Why I ever even act on such notions
When the inevitable I always just delay
Wish it was a fight, blow for blow
So much easier in life to handle or deal
Then again stating nothing I don't know
I guess the illusion of wanting to feel
Feelings are as always so very overrated
Leaving me once again to be a fool educated
Copyright © Brenda Chiri | Year Posted 2018
don't know if human's will ever see
every soul born, is right where it's meant to be
For the rich to become the richest
there has to be a place for the poorest
The entire world is built up from the same level of dirt
each soul is born without knowledge to cause hurt
Humanity teaches us what a human's life is worth, by money and glory
I am to believe all lives are priceless, every soul fit's to tell Earth's story
The luckiest to be born, is that of a poor man
he learn's the treasures, of everything he can
Those born into all riches, have no true understanding of richness
seeing us not as human's, but those living in poverty as an illness
Love start's from the soul, and from there it is taught to grow
the rich find another kind of love, one only brought with dough
Love, trust, compassion and grace defining the difference in richest and wealth
t'is the beggar off the street, who climbs the toughest road to earn his wealth
He is the most blessed man, he is rewarded with the most valuable key
for his wealth is humanly uncountable, for only God know's the value of he...
Copyright © Denise Hopkins | Year Posted 2013
I didn't do my math homework!
I watched T.V instead!
I better come up with an excuse... and quick!
Or else I'm surely dead!
My brother tore it!
It's in the garbage!
Mom says it causes brain damage!
My power was out!
I had the flu!
I was having trouble excreting my poo!
You know, why even bother?
My excuses are so lame!
I know! My dog ate my homework!
Now to find a dog I can blame...
Copyright © Jacob Cra | Year Posted 2012
Fear is what they clothe them in.
Fear of losing their life because of one mistake.
Fear of losing their life because an officer is having
a bad day.
Some say it's not racism;
"It's police brutality."
Whatever you call it, I can't
help but ask "where is humanity?"
Mothers weeping because they're losing their sons.
Teaching them to fight back with silence
but that is no weapon compared to a gun.
Six feet under, leaving families to fight for justice
over their lives.
Societies getting tired of it all-
starting riots and constructing strikes.
How many more time will history repeat itself?
Or are we still writing [his]tory , using coverups
as help?
All lives matter despite of their race.
All lives matter despite their mistakes.
In times such as these justice will demand to be served.
No matter how chaotic, crazy, or obscured.
Life is a gift, one that we should all treasure.
Because all lives matter and we need to protect them;
no matter the measure.
Copyright © Amber Binford | Year Posted 2014
"The boy's got a broken brain!
- Fix him for me now,
I can't do a thing with him."
- So I hear you say,
Though he seems intelligent enough.
After all, he's smart enough
To know the whys and wherefores
Of every deal that goes down on his street -
Every $ passing hands in the dark,
Summed and totalled in his head.
But Math - Forget it.
And you'll never see him crack a book for study's sake.
Perhap's that's because you broke his heart,
Long ago, though his face will never show it.
Because he bleeds inside,
Though to hear him talk you'd never know it.
You tore his shadoworld apart
Just by never being there -
You broke his proud red eggshell heart
Because he knows you never cared.
Perhaps this is why Rage is his religion,
And he only values Gain,
Why Payback is his Creed,
His only currency Pain.
This then is why he wears the shirt
That reads, "Never Forget, Never Forgive";
This why he's unafraid to kill or die,
Yet terrified to live.
So go get an education -
Start with a hard look at yourself -
You that schooled a nation
In the politics of Greed,
Builders of the conflagration
Of burning, unmet Need
Now threatening to consume us
As it climbs into the skies,
As it whispers warnings to us
From his vacant, coldstare eyes.
You broke his heart,
A wound more deep
Than I alone can mend,
I, just one beleaguered horseman.
Cannot set it right again.
You must help put things back together,
If you want our nightmares to end.
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Eyes can feel the unseen
Before it is verbalized and organised in pain
They seize innocent criminals that abuse letters
Eyes of creativity don't feel no pity
They endlessly seek traumatized emotions in numerous seasons
These eyes live in the back of every tongue rotation
These eyes pee tears like polluted rain drops
Urinating deceases polluting the already sick tears
They lecture life with pride
Eyelashes that endlessly spray hope in words with no doubt
Eyes on words prefer no sun glasses but stanzas
They speak darkness in all artistic graphics
They visualize visions in brain map fantasies
A place with more sins and judgments they visit
They speak non-rated missions
When the world is rude to you don't be picky on dreams
Dreams are never on vacation
These eyes can sense
These eyes are like pens
They are fans of disappointments while contribution stepladders
It's like a clan
They reproduce stomach cramps using fertile words
The family of giving and receiving
Eyes on words speak in mute expressions
They build towers of tomorrow's errors
Buildings that look down on problems
Eyes on words are like cold visions with no ice
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Why is the Federal Reserve forking over $220 million in bailout money to the wives of two Morgan Stanley bigwigs?
The Fed sent billions in bailout aid to banks in places like Mexico, Bahrain and Bavaria, billions more to a spate of Japanese car companies, more than $2 trillion in loans each to Citigroup and Morgan Stanley, and billions more to a string of lesser millionaires and billionaires with Cayman Islands addresses. "Our jaws are literally dropping as we're reading this," says Warren Gunnels, an aide to Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. "Every one of these transactions is outrageous."
But if you want to get a true sense of what the "shadow budget" is all about, all you have to do is look closely at the taxpayer money handed over to a single company that goes by a seemingly innocuous name: Waterfall TALF Opportunity. At first glance, Waterfall's haul doesn't seem all that huge — just nine loans totaling some $220 million, made through a Fed bailout program. But upon closer inspection, Waterfall TALF Opportunity boasts a couple of interesting names among its chief investors: Christy Mack and Susan Karches.
Christy is the wife of John Mack, the chairman of Morgan Stanley. Susan is the widow of Peter Karches, a close friend of the Macks who served as president of Morgan Stanley's investment-banking division. Neither woman appears to have any serious history in business, apart from a few philanthropic experiences. Yet the Federal Reserve handed them both low-interest loans of nearly a quarter of a billion dollars through a complicated bailout program that virtually guaranteed them millions in risk-free income.
In August 2009, John Mack, at the time still the CEO of Morgan Stanley, made an interesting life decision. Despite the fact that he was earning the comparatively low salary of just $800,000, and had refused to give himself a bonus in the midst of the financial crisis, Mack decided to buy himself a gorgeous piece of property — a 107-year-old limestone carriage house on the Upper East Side of New York, complete with an indoor 12-car garage, that had just been sold by the prestigious Mellon family for $13.5 million. Either Mack had plenty of cash on hand to close the deal, or he got some help from his wife, Christy, who apparently bought the house with him.
Just two months before the Macks bought their fancy carriage house in Manhattan, Christy and her pal Susan launched their investment initiative called Waterfall TALF. Neither seems to have any experience whatsoever in finance, beyond Susan's penchant for dabbling in thoroughbred racehorses. But with an upfront investment of $15 million, they quickly received $220 million in cash from the Fed, most of which they used to purchase student loans and commercial mortgages. The loans were set up so that Christy and Susan would keep 100 percent of any gains on the deals, while the Fed and the Treasury (read: the taxpayer) would eat 90 percent of the losses.


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2016 BMW M2 MotoGP Safety Cars - Security can be so sexy! The BMW M2 safety car for the MotoGP 2016 is the compact sports car with motor sport technique of M performance perfectly. Even before its market launch of the new BMW will go 2016 M2 as in MotoGP safety car at the start. How use in recent years BMW M GmbH now a compact class representatives present in the MotoGP - again its commitment in the premier class of motorcycle racing again to promote a current model, the BMW Coupé q87 may M2 and also in this respect in the footsteps of the BMW 1 series M occur Coupé, which was five years in the service of the security.
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The Google Nexus 7 Reviewby Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on July 26, 2012 11:35 AM EST
The SoC & Performance
While Amazon chose TI's OMAP 4 for the Kindle Fire, Google and ASUS picked arguably the second best SoC on the market today: NVIDIA's Tegra 3. Keep in mind that high-end ARM SoCs generally sell in the $14 - $25 range per chip, which a fabless semiconductor manufacturer has to split with a foundry. The result is a far cry from the margins NVIDIA is used to making on high-end discrete GPUs. I suspect a desire to make good use of all functional Tegra 3 parts that come back from the fab is the reason why we have so many variants of the Tegra 3.
To date we've seen three Tegra 3 SKUs used in tablets: T30L, T30 and T33. Factor in the smartphone SKUs (AP30, AP33) and it's already a pretty healthy collection for a single chip. The main differences between the 30L, 30 and 33 parts are voltages and clock speeds. I've shown this table in previous articles but I present it here again since T30L is what's in the Nexus 7:
|NVIDIA Tegra 3
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|NVIDIA Tegra 3 (T33)
|NVIDIA Tegra 3 (T30)
|NVIDIA Tegra 3 (T30L)
The loss in performance compared to T30/T33 is marginal at best, at least for most consumer use cases. Four Cortex A9s running at up to 1.3GHz is definitely quick enough for the types of applications you'll run on the Nexus 7. Things can always be faster, but like the Kindle Fire's OMAP 4, the Nexus 7's T30L is good enough for now. Give it another year and we'll see something even faster at this price point. That's the downside of buying anything in the tablet/smartphone space these days unfortunately.
|ASUS Android Tablet Memory Choices
|TF Prime
|TF Pad 300
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|TF Pad Infinity
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ASUS selected 1GB of DDR3L-1333 memory for the Nexus 7. This gives it more memory bandwidth than any of the Transformer series of tablets, with the exception of the Transformer Pad Infinity. Since the Tegra 3 SoC only has a single channel memory interface, ASUS had to rely on higher frequency memory to deliver sufficient bandwidth.
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Sined - Thursday, July 26, 2012 - linkHey Anand, great review as usual.
I want to point out something about the lack of an SDcard slot.
Dan Morrill from Google Android team explained on Reddit why Google is moving away from SDCard storage on Nexus Devices.
It's a really interesting read on the reasons why.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/11/18/impromptu-... Reply
Lucian Armasu - Thursday, July 26, 2012 - linkYou keep putting Windows RT together with Windows 8, as if they are the same thing and will be just as successful (or will fail just as much). But in what way is a Windows RT tablet, especially one that is twice as expensive, or at least as expensive as an iPad, better than an Android tablet? Is there an advantage at all that they hold over Android tablets? Because I see none, and I'm not sure why you keep up-playing Windows RT while downplaying Android tablet throughout your article. Reply
antef - Thursday, July 26, 2012 - linkAgreed....a hybrid x86 Win8 device might appeal to some people, but a WinRT ARM tablet is not inherently better than Android. I would actually argue Android is better because its app ecosystem is more mature and all the Google services apps are a given. Metro is completely unproven.
WinRT will have the limited desktop with a simplified set of Office apps, that's it. I don't care about that at all, along with many other people I'm sure. Reply
Impulses - Friday, July 27, 2012 - linkOffice RT is the only clear advantage out of the gate, if they actually provide a featured desktop conversion that just happens to run on ARM... If all they put out is a Metro stepchild then that goes out the window. (no pun intended) It's a big selling point tho, but only if Win RT tablets are price competitive with iPads and Android tablets.
Personally I'm still not sold on this holy grail of device convergence either way. 12" or smaller laptops are too cramped for serious work, and tablets just aren't as comfortable for use around the house at that size either. 7" or 8.9" is ideal IMO, specially as an addition to a 13"-14" laptop which is probably the most common scenario.
I say that despite having enjoyed using a 10" ASUS Transformer for over a year now. Currently I have that and a 3 year old netbook and I'm really yearning for a larger laptop replacement for the latter and a smaller tablet in the long run (the TF + dock has been a nice replacement for the netbook when traveling without work duties tho). Reply
EnzoFX - Thursday, July 26, 2012 - linkWhy will Win8 Tablets cannibalize Android tablets?
I'm all for more competition, and MS is definitely bringing it, but are you implying it'll overtake Android right away? MS has a long way to go before that. Even their specs seems underpar, except for the intel powered one, which comes in at ultrabook pricing... Reply
Impulses - Friday, July 27, 2012 - linkIf that... I seriously don't see how Intel powered tablet hybrids will come in at ultrabook pricing all the while sporting better displays and near identical hardware all around (with a more complex builds). Something's gotta give, or the build quality of ultrabooks has inflated prices a ton... Reply
TareX - Friday, August 03, 2012 - linkWindows 8 RT is DOA. No apps, no way to compete, and it's too late in the game to start a new third party base. Windows 8 pro tablets are GREAT, except that they won't be price anywhere close to being competitive, so those are kind of DOA too in a different way. Very few people would pay $800-1000 for a tablet. Reply
Death666Angel - Thursday, July 26, 2012 - linkThanks for the video review, I started missing them already! :D
If the Nexus had an SD slot and more storage out of the box without a 50USD increase in cost, I'd probably already have one. As it stands now, I'm content with my Chinese tablet (Cube U30GT). It has issues, but for the price (260€) it is pretty great. And I'm 100% with you, paying too much for tablets right now is not a smart move, considering the rapidity of the hardware development. Reply
TareX - Friday, August 03, 2012 - linkYou do realize this pricing is actually super generous on Google's behalf (they're selling it at a loss), yet you want them to include a MicroSD, and have more storage without the $50 bump. I'm all for a MicroSD but you're getting a wee bit too greedy here. There's a reason it's out of stock almost everywhere. Reply
Mr. Context - Thursday, July 26, 2012 - linkHey, I think the biggest differences between the devices is in their aspect ratio and he HDMI output. Please check this link to hear my 50 cents on it... http://bit.ly/OezNK7 Reply


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AURORA, Ont. — An Ontario police force has arrested 104 men who were allegedly looking to buy sex from underage girls.
York regional police say undercover officers advertised sex services online and then posed as girls between the ages of 13 and 16.
Det. Sgt. Thai Truong says most men stopped communicating when they heard the ages, but 104 men didn't stop.
He says child sex trafficking is a growing problem in Canada.
Truong says the average age of entry into the human trafficking sex trade is about 15 years old.
He says police carried out their investigation over four years and focused on men who sought to buy sex from children in an effort to curb demand.
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WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has decided that football games and other sports will go on at the military service academies this weekend, and continue through the end of the month, despite the government shutdown.
Col. Steve Warren, Pentagon spokesman, says that Hagel will reassess the issue later this month if Congress has still not passed a budget to fund the federal government.
Warren says that Hagel consulted with Pentagon lawyers and military leaders. He says the academies could have faced fines if the games were canceled.
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BIOS: Mobile Platforms and Desktop Computers
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BIOS is a software built into the PC and it is the first code run by the PC when powered on ( "boot firmware"). When the PC starts up, the first job for the BIOS is the power on self test that is initializes and identifies the system devices such as the CPU, RAM, video display card, keyboard and mouse, hard disk drive, optical disc drive and other hardware. The BIOS locates the boot loader software held on a peripheral device such as hard disk drive or CD/DVD, and loads and executes that software, giving it control of the PC in a process known as booting or booting up which is short for bootstrapping.
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Bitter Pills and Poisons
Discussions of the Iranian presidential elections, due to be held on June 17th, are finally starting to appear on a wide scale online. The Gooya Newsletter has opened a whole new section dedicated to everything elections, and bloggers have already started weighing in on the candidates as well on for whom or whether they will vote.
I think I'll start increasingly including some election news/links/opinions about the elections, in case readers are interested in details (and inevitable dramas) of the presidential elections.
Ex-VP Abtahi's latest post includes a few lines on some of the candidates. I'm translating his comments on Rafsanjani below:
Mr. Rafsanjani has announced that pretty soon he will be forced to drink the bitter medicine of presidential candidacy and to run for president despite his inner desires to the contrary. I don't know why Mr. Rafsanjani has used this metaphor has so many PR and media consultants who work with his staff, why didn't they advise him that this metaphor is a big insult to the people of Iran and that if someone wants to be the president of the great people of Iran he wont think of the post of the presidency as a bitter medicine
The first thing I thought of when I read Rafsanjani's ill-chosen metaphor was Ayatollah Khomeini's comments about the 1988 cease-fire agreement that ended the tragic 8 year war with iraq; in referring to his having signed the treaty, he announced that he had "drank the cup of poison".
But anyway, Abtahi has a good point there, don't you think?
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May 10, 2012
BENEFITING: No Barriers
EVENT: What's Your Everest 2012
EVENT DATE: Jun 03, 2012
Hi everyone! I am planning on joining the No Barriers climb on Mt. Elbert before I head to Peru for the Summer. The climb is on June 3. This climb raises funds for the Soldiers To The Summit Project that is partnered with my company Global Explorers. The climb is being led by the renown blind climber Erik Weihenmayer and the proceeds will go towards a film dedicated to telling the stories of our injured soldiers and the challenges they face. We will be joined by many famous climbers along with soldiers who have been wounded in war and are looking to show the world they can still overcome obstacles and demonstrate that there truly are "No Barriers." I am inspired by each and everyone of them and am really looking forward to climbing in support of such a noble cause. Any donation you are willing to give will be greatly appreciated! Thank you everyone! If you want to find more information please follow this link:
There was also a documentary done earlier this year called High Ground which includes many of the soldiers we work with. Here is the link for the trailer, it is really inspiring. Get out the tissues.
The Team: $1,075 TOTAL RAISED SO FAR
Donor Comments
This is a direct contribution to the climb and Erik. Thanks for the opportunity to participate. Greg DePinto 6 years ago


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|Jakki J. Mohr
(Ph.D 1989 University of Wisconsin), is Regents Professor of Marketing and the Hamilton Distinguished Faculty Fellow at the School of Business Administration, University of Montana-Missoula. She has won numerous teaching awards, including the 2008 Outstanding Marketing Teacher Award (given by the Academy of Marketing Science) and the 2005 CASE/Carnegie Foundation Montana Professor of the Year, among others. In addition to teaching at the University of Montana, Jakki has been invited to teach at many other universities around the world. She also has served as a keynote speaker at industry association meetings, delivers executive education programs, and has consulted with a variety of high-tech companies such as Fujitsu, Level 3 Communications, and a range of small-and mid-size companies on their marketing strategies. Her award-winning academic research has appeared in the top journals in her discipline, including the Journal of Marketing and the Strategic Management Journal. She serves on the editorial board for the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. Mohr was an assistant professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder (1989-1997), and she worked in Silicon Valley for Hewlett Packard prior to beginning her academic career. In addition to pursuing her teaching, writing, and research with a passion, she enjoys many outdoor activities with her active family: Michael, Willy (age 16), and Claire (age 13).
|Sanjit Sengupta
(Ph.D. 1990, University of California, Berkeley) is Professor in the Marketing Department at San Francisco State University. He teaches courses in Strategic Marketing, Business-to-Business Marketing and Marketing of High-Technology Products and Services.
Prior to joining San Francisco State in Fall 1996, Dr. Sengupta was an assistant professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he received two teaching awards. He has taught in many executive and MBA programs in Finland, India, New Zealand, USA and South Korea. His research interests include new product development and technological innovation, strategic alliances, sales management, and international marketing. His research has won a few awards and been published in many journals including Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Marketing, and Journal of Product Innovation Management. Prior to his academic career, Dr. Sengupta worked in sales and marketing for Hindustan Computers Limited and CMC Limited in Bombay, India.
|Stanley Slater
(Ph.D. 1988, University of Washington) is a Professor of Marketing at Colorado State University. From 1996-2002 he was a Professor and the Director of the Business Administration Program at the University of Washington's Bothell Campus where he was instrumental in launching an MBA Program designed specifically for professionals in technology-oriented businesses.
Dr. Slater's major research interests are in the areas of the role of a market orientation in organizational success and marketing's role in business strategy implementation. He has published more than 40 articles on these and other topics in the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, the Journal of Product Innovation Management, the Strategic Management Journal, and the Academy of Management Journal, among others. He has won 'Best Paper' awards from the International Marketing Review and the Marketing Science Institute.
Dr. Slater serves on the editorial review boards of the Journal of Marketing, Industrial Marketing Management, and Business Horizons.


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New Zealand category driver, Montana, has announced that it has now been certified with the ISO 14000 international environmental standard, for all sites, three months ahead of schedule.
This key certification is a platform for sustainable management and a benchmark for growers and suppliers worldwide. The news is part of a second phase in award-winning Montana's environmental commitments and includes further recycling initiatives, a reduction in the use of resources and the promotion of biodiversity in its vineyards. These initiatives follow news earlier this year on the increased use of natural fertilizers, a large scale planting project and a significant commitment to a reduction in landfill.
All sites now meet international environmental management standard
Sauvignon Blanc expert Montana was a founding member of New Zealand's original sustainable winegrowing initiative in 1995, two years before it was officially launched. Today, it announces that it has met the ISO 14001 international environmental standard three months before it was anticipated, giving the pioneering winery an environmental stamp of approval.
"We work to ensure that all aspects and impacts of our winery and storage systems minimise environmental impact," says winery manager Ken Rogers. "We have specific targets to reduce waste, reduce water and energy usage, protect against environmental spills and keep tight control of chemicals on site."
One of the innovative systems used to minimise energy usage is to use the latent heat from compressors as the first stage to heat water, so that it does not have to be heated from zero in the boilers. Low-energy light bulbs have been fitted, with movement sensors that ensure the lights are off when there is nobody around.
Water usage is also minimised by reusing rinse water for other purposes where purity is not essential.
Further recycling initiatives
Recycling on Montana's vineyards and wineries has made great strides in recent years, with minimal waste going to landfill. 100% of the plastic used on Montana's vineyards is recycled. Plastic is used on vineyards for chemical containers, sheeting, grow guards for young plants, bird netting, irrigation equipment and packaging material.
A reduction in scarce resources
In recent years, Montana has made huge strides in the reduction of resources used on vineyards.
In the past, viticulturists tended to apply resources such as water and chemical sprays on a predetermined schedule. Now these are only applied when there are clear indicators that it is needed. Fertilizer is also used only in accordance with soil fertility and plant nutrient tests to keep vines in balance, rather than as a necessity.
As far as possible, natural biological means are also used to combat pests and diseases. Ongoing trials on Montana vineyards have seen improvements in the use of biocontrols to combat botrytis. When spraying is needed, Montana saves energy by using multirow sprayers, so that the tractors do not have to travel up and down every single row.
Promotion of biodiversity
Having developed more vineyards in New Zealand than anyone else, Montana takes its responsibility to protect them very seriously.
Montana has planted tens of thousands of native plants around its vineyards and can therefore rightly claim that many parts of the land are now in an environmentally healthier state than before the vineyards were first developed.
In Hawke's Bay, wetlands have also been reclaimed at Montana's Tuki-Tuki and Korokipo vineyards, while native plantings at Twin Rivers helped to resettle native birds.
"We're continually trialing ways to use natural biological means to protect our vines and grapes, rather than having to rely on chemical intervention," says Ken.


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The third grade study is designed to expand the students' concept of "leaders" in relationship to their communities. Students study people of diverse groups, their cultures, religions, traditions, and contributions to the community. Students compare aspects of familiar communities with those of other cultures and other times. They are introduced to problems that "leaders" and communities confront and how conflicts are resolved.
Third graders discover how literature is integrated in the social studies discipline by reading about local, state, national, and global leaders (fictional and non-fictional). They investigate the contributions that these individuals have made to society. Students make connections between deeds leaders perform and the character traits each hero possesses such as courage, self-discipline, perseverance, integrity, respect, responsibility, kindness, and good judgment.
Strands: Individual Development and Identity, Cultures and Diversity, Historical Perspectives, Geographic Relationships, Economics and Development, Global Connections, Technological Influences, Government and Active Citizenship
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|The learner will characterize qualities of good citizenship by identifying people who made a difference in the community and other social environments.
1.01 Identify and demonstrate characteristics of responsible citizenship and explain how citizen participation can impact changes within a community.
1.02 Recognize diverse local, state, and national leaders, past and present, who demonstrate responsible citizenship.
1.03 Identify and explain the importance of civic responsibility, including but not limited to, obeying laws and voting.
1.04 Explain the need for leaders in communities and describe their roles and responsibilities.
1.05 Suggest responsible courses of action in given situations and assess the consequences of irresponsible behavior.
1.06 Identify selected personalities associated with major holidays and cultural celebrations.
|Competency Goal 2
|The learner will analyze the multiple roles that individuals perform in families, workplaces, and communities.
2.01 Distinguish and compare economic and social roles of children and adults in the local community to selected communities around the world.
2.02 Analyze similarities and differences among families in different times and in different places.
2.03 Describe similarities and differences among communities in different times and in different places.
|Competency Goal 3
|The learner will examine how individuals can initiate change in families, neighborhoods, and communities.
3.01 Analyze changes, which have occurred in communities past and present.
3.02 Describe how individuals, events, and ideas change over time.
3.03 Compare and contrast the family structure and the roles of its members over time.
|Competency Goal 4
|The learner will explain geographic concepts and the relationship between people and geography in real life situations.
4.01 Distinguish between various types of maps and globes.
4.02 Use appropriate source maps to locate communities.
4.03 Use geographic terminology to describe and explain variations in the physical environment as communities.
4.04 Compare how people in different communities adapt to or modify the physical environment to meet their needs.
|Competency Goal 5
|The learner will apply basic economic principles to the study of communities.
5.01 Define and identify examples of scarcity.
5.02 Explain the impact of scarcity on the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
5.03 Apply concepts of specialization and division of labor to the local community.
5.04 Compare and contrast the division of labor in local and global communities.
5.05 Distinguish and analyze the economic resources within communities.
5.06 Recognize and explain reasons for economic interdependence of communities.
5.07 Identify historic figures and leaders who have influenced the economies of communities and evaluate the effectiveness of their contributions.
|Competency Goal 6
|The learner will recognize how technology is used at home, school, and in the community.
6.01 Describe and assess ways in which technology is used in a community's economy.
6.02 Identify and describe contributions made by community leaders in technology.
6.03 Identify the impact of technological change on communities around the world.
|Competency Goal 7
|The learner will analyze the role of real and fictional heroes in shaping the culture of communities.
7.01 Identify the deeds of local and global leaders.
7.02 Assess the heroic deeds of characters from folktales and legends.
7.03 Explore the role of selected fictional characters in creating new communities.
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CIOs must be "champions of change" for organizations to fully benefit from the cloud, mobility and collaboration, and data, according to a report from communications services provider BT.
Clearly, the CIO's strategic role in enterprises is on the rise. Based on a survey of 1,030 senior IT decision makers in 11 countries, conducted by Vanson Bourne for BT in March 2016, 72% of the executives say the CIO has become more central in the boardroom over the last two years.
The flip side of this trend, according to the study, is that CIOs are increasingly challenged to find the time to develop creative solutions for the business. Nearly two-thirds (61%) of senior IT decision makers feel that they are spending more time maintaining current IT systems than searching for new solutions.
The BT report also shows that CIOs are clear on the most disruptive technology trends: cloud, mobility and collaboration, and data. One fifth of the organizations surveyed are already completely cloud-centric, and a further 46% have more than half their applications and infrastructure in the cloud.
With the CIO acting as a catalyst, 76% of large organizations worldwide have, or plan to adopt, a "multi-speed" approach to technology-led initiatives. This involves more creativity, more flexibility and a more dynamic operating model, the company says.
"The pace of digital change is creating new opportunities for our customers and those opportunities require quick responses," said Luis Alvarez, CEO of BT's Global Services. "The role of the digital CIO is one of the most demanding in business. They need to be strategic, creative, growth-minded and cost conscious."
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text: AMSTERDAM – The Dutch-based Sijthoff Group plans to build its third Holland Imax theater, this one an Imax 3-D 450-seater in Amsterdam.The group built Omniversion, the first Imax theater in Europe in the Hague 11 years ago, and Holland's second Imax Waterstad (Watercity) Theater in Rotterdam five years ago. The $20 million Amsterdam Imax, which has yet to get a greenlight from city elders, is targeted for groundbreaking in late 1998 or early 1999. Sijthoff also is planning to build a new theme park at its Rotterdam site called the Magic of Life. The park will host rides and exhibitions with the human body as its main theme. For instance, one ride will duplicate what it would be like to sit inside the human brain.


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The Managed Extensibility Framework (also known as MEF) allows for extensible application design by providing services necessary to decouple application modules and packages.
MEFedMVVM is a framework available on CodePlex that extends the MEF concept to include the MVVM pattern for both WPF and Silverlight.
I used MEFedMVVM to create a lightweight code sample browser application to demonstrate a simple use of the MVVM pattern in Silverlight that employs MEF to couple such common services as a singleton model and view model messenger (mediator).
See it in Action
The code sample browser application is used to host the public code sample repository here:
The download archive is available here:
Code Structure
The code sample browser is divided into five projects and uses MEF to import and export implementations between the different modules. MEFedMVVM is used to connect the views with their respective view-models. The five projects and their purposes are as follows:
The main Silverlight application. This contains the xaml files that implement the views, styles, and converters necessary to present the application.
This project contains the view-models that provide the functional interface to the application. The two main view models provide interfaces for the code sample list (navigation) and code sample detail layouts.
The model and core system code. The runtime implementation of ICodeBrowserModel is declared and exported as a singleton.
POCOs (Plain Old CLR Objects) are declared here. They form the currency used to communicate domain values between modules.
A simple ASP.NET project used to host the Silverlight application during development.
Disclaimer: This code is provided as is, without warranty, and without guarantee of fitness for any purpose. Use at your own risk.


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"The Taming of the Shrew" is one of Shakespeare's problem plays because it seems to endorse Kate signing on to a male domination fantasy. Modern productions such as the Synetic Theater's non-verbal version have to make adjustments to satisfy modern audiences.
- Literature is as vital to our lives as food and shelter. Stories and poems help us work through the challenges we face, from everyday irritations to loneliness, heartache, and death. Literature is meant to mix it up with life. This website explores how it does so.
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The Little Boy's Smile on YouTube!
Tom Krause, author of "The Little Boy's Smile," recently sent me this link to a reading of our story up on YouTube… enjoy!
Tom Krause, author of "The Little Boy's Smile," recently sent me this link to a reading of our story up on YouTube… enjoy!
Eeeeee! I just received a box full of copies of my latest book, "The Little Boy's Smile," written by Tom Krause. I just love how it turned out, Trafford did a great job with the publishing & printing, the colours especially coming very close to the original artwork. Even Hera's thrilled, cutely sporting her baby balloon dress :)
Woooo, Tom's & my book, "The Little Boy's Smile," is now available online for US$10.99! I haven't seen a hardcopy of the book yet myself, can't wait!
I'm pretty stoked as my most recent children's book, "The Lottle Boy's Smile" by Tom Krause, has gone to print at Trafford! I'm not too embarrassed to say I'm proud of this book and am happy with how the illustrations turned out! I was given quite a bit of creative freedom in the project, thanks to the generous author, and I think my enjoyment in the project reflects throughout. Will post once it's printed & available online.
Here's a palette I created using myPANTONE, inspired by one of my children's books, "The Little Boy's Smile" by Tom Krause.
I just finished painting the last of the illustrations for Tom Krause's "The Little Boy's Smile" Not a day too soon as I'm taking some time off for maternity leave tomorrow! I will to leave you in suspense as to how the rest of the illustrations turned out until they are all approved & sent to the printer… but in the mean time, here are a couple of my favourites from the book� :)
Ok, just one more peak, but that's the last one as I need to knuckle down and finish the last five illustrations this week! The main things I've been working on are the greenery, sidewalks, tents, and backgrounds… putting off the hard parts for last, typical me :)
I tried a new trick too… I've seen quite a few digital illustrations which which use silhouettes of people, rather than illustrating every detail of the person, clothing, etc. So I thought I'd give it a go, and added in some silhouettes of people in the far background to add more depth & a sense that there are a lot of people in the illustration. Am pleased with the effect, as it was a simple way of adding some interest behind the action in the foreground, without taking the time it would had I gone in with my 0-Paintbrush and tried to illustrate those tiny faces & bodies! I think I'll use this silhouette technique more often.
The illustrations for Tom Krause's "The Little Boy's Smile" are ticking along well, so thought I'd share a sneak snapshot of the collection of illustrations for the book… only the top left 4 are completed, and the remaining six are well underway!� I've been working on completing these acrylic illustrations one at a time, up until yesterday when I was feeling "yellow" so painted all the soft yelow skies at once… and this morning when I was feeling "blue" and painted all the blue skies! I think this afternoon is starting to feel a little "green." This book is a lot of fun to illustrate, I'm thoroughly enjoying myself painting, eating popsicles, listening to Just One More Book, and taking an afternoon nap! I'll post again once I've scanned some of the finished illustrations…
I just finished the first illustration for Tom Krause's story, "The Little Boy's Smile." I thought I'd share my work-in-progress for the acrylic painting and took scans every hour or two as I was painting… check them out below going backwards to the original sketch!
One super time-saving method I've developed is painting right on top of my sketches. I don't paint over my original pencil sketches, as I like to keep those, and also the graphite would likely lift off and taint the paint. So what I do is :
So, I save a day or two of transfering the sketches by hand to the illustration board, and also maintian the integrity of my original sketches. It also makes painting text a dream (such as on the sign), as you just paint over top of the text placed on your illustration. It gives the text a warmer feel than just placing it on top in the InDesign file later.
Well, I've been a bit negligent blogging the last few weeks as I've been working hard on the sketches for Tom Krause's children's book, "The Little Boy's Smile." It's a fantastic story, about a little boy who moves to Frown Town where all everyone does is frown… and you guessed it, he just doesn't fit in because he smiles all the time! Now that the sketches are approved, I'm setting up the final illustrations and working on the first colour proof. The finals will be in acrylic on illustration board, so bright, vibrant colours. So check back, I'll be posting my work-in-progress as I'm building up the layers of my acrylic paintings.


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It is true. The only constant in life is change. Here's another truth: Change isn't easy. So when you try to change 32 million* children's school lunches all at once, well, you get the idea...it isn't easy. What is easy though, is celebrating the hundreds of thousands of small, sustainable, healthy ways that schools, parents and kids have already found to adapt to the school lunch changes...and yes, make them a bit easier to swallow!
For starters, how about actually experiencing the guidelines at lunch with your child? Yes, I'm really suggesting you go to school, purchase a school lunch and sit down and eat it with your child. There's actually a national day called Take Your Parents to Lunch Day, and it's Wednesday, October 17th. It's a day to "celebrate what's great about school lunch - and learn how we can all work together to make it even better."
And to entice you even more, it's also National School Lunch Week from October 15th- 19th, 2012. "School Lunch – What's Cooking?" is about celebrating the positive changes that have been made in school lunch programs across the country. Schools nationwide have been cooking up all sorts of exciting programs and plans.
Okay, I realize you may not be able to make it to school for lunch, and you may just like to know where to get more ideas. Here are 3 to start with:
- Creative and Healthy Cafeteria Ideas- Healthy Kids Challeng
- The School Day Just Got Healthier - USD
- Healthier School Lunches - Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)
Please come back next week and we'll delve into more real-school examples of how to make the school lunch changes easier. And certainly, if you have a success story of your own, I'd love to share it with our readers.
*Each school day an average of 32 million children eat a USDA school lunch, and 13 million eat a school breakfast.


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Francis, a new rice variety (often dubbed "super rice") from the University of Arkansas, will be available to producers as registered seed this year.
"Last year, about 2,500 acres of seed were grown. That means there should be enough available to plant about 200,000 acres," says Karen Moldenhauer, a rice breeder stationed at the Rice Research and Extension Center in Stuttgart, Ark.
A high-yielding long-grain variety, Francis is shorter than both LaGrue and Wells. Among Francis' parents are Lebonnet, LaGrue, Dawn and Starbonnet.
Moldenhauer says Francis has higher yield potential than LaGrue and Wells with similar susceptibility to the major rice diseases. Grain yields have averaged 4 bushels per acre better than Wells and 12 bushels per acre better than LaGrue in studies over a three-year period.
The head rice yield potential of Francis has also been slightly better than LaGrue and Wells in most tests and appears to be more stable across environments. A fact sheet on Francis will soon be posted on the Arkansas Extension Website (www.uaex.edu).
Chuck Wilson, Arkansas Extension rice specialist and author of the fact sheet, says everything a farmer needs to know about managing Francis is on the sheet.
Wilson believes that Francis could be a "high-impact variety" in the rice industry, adding that varieties with high impact don't come along often. In some cases, farmers can exceed 200 bushels with Francis.
"We've gotten as much as 235 bushels in test plots. By comparison, the statewide average yield was 143 bushels an acre last year," says Wilson.
Included in the fact sheet is a summary of how Francis stacks up against other varieties, as well as data about yield, milling, agronomic characteristics, suggested seeding rates and planting dates, fertilizer, disease and fungicide needs and DD-50 information.
Among Francis traits:
- Seeding date studies suggest that Francis' yield potential is stable across a wide range of seeding dates, but, as with most other currently grown varieties, yields tend to be higher when planted earlier. Francis performs well when planted late compared to other conventional varieties (after June 1). Growers should be aware, however, that the conditions favoring rice blast are more likely in late-planted rice. For that reason, Francis shouldn't be planted in fields favorable to blast, regardless of planting date.
- Besides blast, Francis is rated "very susceptible" to kernel smut, "susceptible" to false smut, and "moderately susceptible" to straighthead and sheath blight.
- The grain weight and seed dimensions of Francis are slightly less than those of Wells and LaGrue. Straw strength is similar to that of Wells and LaGrue, but Francis is approximately 2 inches shorter than Wells and 5 inches shorter than LaGrue.
- Seedling vigor tests have not been performed. However, visual observations in variety studies suggest that Francis has good seedling vigor and is comparable to LaGrue. Moldenhauer says the use of fungicide and/or gibberellic acid seed treatments is advised when seeding at reduced rates, early seed dates, poor seedbed conditions, no-till seedbeds, and on clay soils.
- Francis was named in honor of Francis J. Williams (1923-2001), director of the Stuttgart's Rice Research and Extension Center from 1953 to 1988.
"My sense is there is tremendous interest in this variety — more so than any variety I've encountered in my career," says Rick Cartwright, Arkansas Extension plant pathologist. "I've had a million questions from farmers about Francis.
"The thing about Francis," says Cartwright, "is that it has some disease risks, but no more than some of the other high-yielding varieties. Most of the disease risks can be managed with good cultural practices.
"We manage it for blast just like Wells. You put it in good fields and you manage it to minimize risks. It's susceptible to kernel smut like LaGrue, but it can be treated with an inexpensive fungicide in the boot stage.
"It has relatively good tolerance to straighthead, unlike Cocodrie. It's an improvement in that arena."
The cross for Francis was made in 1993, says Moldenhauer.
"It's taken nine years to get Francis to a place where it could be released. Normally, it takes eight to 10 years to get a variety out after the initial cross, so Francis is right in that timeframe. It used to take us 12 to 14 years to get a new variety out. So the window has shrunk considerably."
And Moldenhauer says there are other varieties in the pipeline.
"That's always the case. Right now, we're working with a LaGrue-type variety with blast resistance. We'll possibly have a foundation seed field for it this year."
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