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Date: May 31, 2013
Time: 7:30-9 a.m. for registration; Show starts at 9 a.m.
Location: Eaton County Fairgrounds 1025 S Cochran Road, Charlotte, MI 48813
Contact: Christine Sisung, 517-543-2310, email@example.com
Eaton County 4-H dog project leaders and members extend a HEARTY WELCOME to Michigan 4-H Dog Project members and leaders and invite you to join us for a day of showing and fun being hosted by: Eaton County 4-H Dog Clubs.
Registration from 7:30-9 a.m. Intermediate Agility begins at 9 a.m. Class Fees For Youth and Adult Classes: Pre-registration: $4 per class by May 15. Day of Show: $6 per class.
Eaton County 4-H Dog Match Rules
- Exhibitor must be a resident of Michigan.
- 4-H rules and guidelines will be followed for all classes.
- Any misuse of the Eaton County Fairgrounds or buildings will result in the exhibitor and their exhibits being evicted from the grounds and all awards forfeited.
- Dogs showing signs of illness, unthriftiness, or disease will be barred from the match.
- Eaton County 4-H Youth Programs, MSU Extension, and Eaton County Fairboard are not responsible for losses due to theft, fire, accidents, etc..
- Appropriate behavior from all exhibitors, guests, and spectators towards each other as well as the dogs will be required at all times. If inappropriate behavior occurs, the individual or group will not be allowed to show and/or awards will be forfeited.
- Exhibitors must clean up after their dogs.
- Exhibitors must attach to the registration form a photocopy of the dogs current vaccination record of Bordetella (kennel cough), DHLPP and Rabies. No puppies under five (5) months of age allowed to show. Puppies must have started or completed the series of DHLPP shots in order to show. Dogs will not show without necessary papers.
- Females in season will be allowed to show but at the very end of their class(es). They must be crated and kept away from the show ring until they are called. Please let the registration person know you have a female in season so that she can be properly scheduled
- Only dogs entered in the match are allowed on the grounds.
- Exhibitors are asked to dress appropriately. No hats, mini-skirts, old T-shirts or jeans, shorts, bare mid-drifts or shoulders, open-toed shoes or flip flops, etc. are allowed. Tennis shoes are highly suggested.
- This is an awards-only match. No premiums given.
- Concessions will be available from L & M Concessions.
- Silent Auction (dog-related items) Auction will close by noon.
- Grounds available for screen tents/easy-ups, lawn chairs and crates.
- All three rings will be held under pavilions.


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Rashard Robinson's wait to join LSU is over.
The highly-touted cornerback out a Florida has been cleared by the NCAA Clearinghouse, which had been looking over the four-star recruits transcript before giving its all clear, the school confirmed.
Robinson, who is out of Pompano Beach, Fla., is expected to be in the mix for early playing time after coming out of Blanche Ely High School, which produced past LSU signees Patrick Peterson and Avery Peterson.
He committed a year ago, and is rated as the No. 24 cornerback prospect in the country by Rivals.com.
Meanwhile, the Tigers also got another indirectly related good piece of recruiting news Wednesday.
Bealoved Brown, a sprinter out of Ozen High School , was also cleared by the NCAA, which had been vetting a standardized test score ahead of admitting the Beaumont, Texas, native, a LSU spokesman confirmed.
She is expected to formalize her enrollment this afternoon. The deadline to enroll and register for classes is next Wednesday.
Brown is the older sister of cornerback Tony Brown, who is the No. 17 prospect nationally, according to Rivals.com. The 6-foot, 182-pound Brown has said his sister's choice of school would factor heavily into his decision about where to take his services when he signs a letter of intent in February.
"It will not necessarily go to the top, but it would be in the back of my mind that's where my sister is," Tony Brown told The Beaumont Enterprise in December. "I would greatly take them into consideration. It would be an advantage for us to beat the same school and possibly in the same dorm and have somebody to lean on."


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This week's crime report for Clay County Florida, provided by the Clay County Sheriff's Office.
Do not be fooled, fellow Floridians, by the high temperatures, heartless humidity, and merciless storms – autumn is actually here.
If you need convincing, simply walk into any retail store. There you will find Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas decorations galore. Many retailers are on alert for the 2017 holidays.
Clerk: (Out of breath) "Sir, we just sold our last Iron Man mask and it's still two weeks until Halloween!"
Manager: (Panicking) "Two weeks? Condition Cadbury! Roll out the Peeps ASAP!"
Only in America.
But marketing portents aside, there are celestial clues that autumn is here. The days have been getting shorter, the Sun's path in the sky is lower to the ground, and the familiar seasonal constellations revisit us, just like old friends.
September 22 was the Autumnal Equinox – the first day of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere. This day represents one of only two days in a year when the Sun is on the intersection of the Ecliptic and the Celestial Equator.
Fret not, dear readers, we will sort through this.
As Earth orbits the Sun, it carves out a plane called the Ecliptic. Of course, from our terrestrial point-of-view, it appears to be the Sun revolving around us and tracing out this plane. But in science, and astronomy in particular, we must step back and consider systems from a larger perspective.
The Celestial Equator is merely the projection of Earth's equator into space, creating another plane.
These two planes are not parallel; that is, they do not overlap each other. Earth's rotation axis is tilted about 23.5 degrees off our orbital plane. Therefore, the Celestial Equator is tilted 23.5 degrees with respect to the Ecliptic.
It follows, then, that as Earth orbits the Sun, there is a period when one hemisphere is tilted toward the Sun while the other hemisphere is tilted away. As the year goes on, this reverses.
It is this tilt, and not our proximity to the Sun, that gives us our seasons. In fact, during the summer months here in the Northern Hemisphere, Earth is actually farther from the Sun than during the winter months. But we are tilted toward the Sun, giving us longer days and more intense sunlight.
This tilt of Earth is evident not only in our seasons but on our globes as well. As Earth travels in its orbit, we see the position of the Sun change a little each day, moving either up or down in latitude. Two of these latitude circles represent the Sun's maximum and minimum positions.
To begin our examination, let's go back in time almost three months, to the first day of summer and the longest day of the year: The Summer Solstice.
On this day, which fell on June 21 this year, the Sun was highest in the sky in the Northern Hemisphere. Because of Earth's tilt, this meant that the Sun was at a northern latitude of 23.5 degrees. The Sun was directly overhead at noon on this great circle of our globe. This latitude is called the Tropic of Cancer.
Similarly, six months later, the Sun will be at its lowest point, 23.5 degrees south of the equator. This latitude circle is called the Tropic of Capricorn. Here in the Northern Hemisphere we experience the shortest day of the year and welcome the start of winter. It is the Winter Solstice and a time of many seasonal celebrations.
The equinoxes are the two points in between the solstices, when the Sun's trek has it transitioning from winter to summer or summer to winter. On an equinox, the Sun is directly over the equator and we have approximately the same hours of day and night. Indeed, the word "equinox" actually means "equal night."
We should note that these observations are biased toward an observer in the Northern Hemisphere. To our fellow Terrans in the Southern hemisphere the seasons are reversed.
For billions of years the Sun has followed this path in the sky, going from one Tropic Circle to the other and back again. And although we can observe and record this motion of the Sun, we must never forget that it is actually Earth that is moving, not the Sun.
So now we better understand the astronomy involved with the Autumnal Equinox and the changing of the seasons. But is there anything you should be doing?
Not really. These four dates on the calendar represent geometric alignments, not events to stay up and look for.
Until next time, remember to always question and always wonder.
Tom Webber teaches AP Physics at Oakleaf High School and worked in the planetarium field for nearly 20 years, including Jacksonville's MOSH. He has also taught physics and astronomy at both the secondary and collegiate levels.


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Bloodlands (Hardcover)
Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
Basic Books, 9780465002399, 524pp.
Publication Date: October 12, 2010
About the Author
Praise For Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin…
New York Times Book Review"Timothy Snyder…compels us to look squarely at the full range of destruction committed first by Stalin's regime and then by Hitler's Reich. Each fashioned a terrifying orgy of deliberate mass killing…. Snyder punctuates his comprehensive and eloquent account with brief glimpses of individual victims, perpetrators and witnesses." The New Republic, Editors' Picks: Best Books of 2010"Between 1933 and 1945, 14 million people were murdered in Eastern Europe. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin catalogues how, where, and why these millions died. The cumulative effect makes you reconsider every aspect of modern Europe and World War II. Along the way, Snyder achieves something more vital: he wrests back some human dignity for those who died, without treating them solely as victims." Washington Post"Snyder's research is careful and thorough, his narrative powerful…. By including Soviet with German mass atrocities in his purview, Timothy Snyder begins the necessary but as yet still taboo examination of the full depravity of total war as it was practiced in the 20th century, before the advent of nuclear weapons foreclosed it." The Economist, Books of the Year"How Stalin and Hitler enabled each other's crimes and killed 14m people between the Baltic and the Black Sea. A lifetime's work by a Yale University historian who deserves to be read and reread." The Financial Times"[A] superb and harrowing history…. Snyder presents material that is undeniably fresh – what's more, it comes from sources in languages with which very few western academics are familiar. The success of Bloodlands really lies in its effective presentation of cold, hard scholarship, which is in abundance." Ian Thomson, Telegraph (UK)"In this scrupulously researched history.... Snyder does not argue for a supposed moral equivalence between Hitler's extermination of the Jews and the earlier Stalinist extermination of the kulaks. On the contrary, the industrial exploitation of corpses and their ashes was a uniquely Hitlerian atrocity—a unique instance of human infamy. Nevertheless, this is the first book in English to explore both German and Soviet mass killings together. As a history of political mass murder, Bloodlands serves to illuminate the political sickness that reduced 14 million people to the status of non-persons." Samuel Moyn, The Nation"Snyder is perhaps the most talented younger historian of modern Europe working today. Astonishingly prolific, he grounds his work in authoritative mastery of the facts, mining tomes of information in multiple languages and brilliantly synthesizing his findings. At the very least, Bloodlands is valuable for its astounding narrative integration of a gruesome era of European history…. A preternaturally gifted prose stylist, [Snyder] strives for a moral urgency appropriate to his depressing topics, and he rarely succumbs to bathos…. [B]y any measure Bloodlands is a remarkable, even triumphant accomplishment." Istvan Deak, The New Republic"[A] genuinely shattering report on the ideology, the political strategy, and the daily horror of Soviet and Nazi rule in the region that Timothy Snyder calls the bloodlands…. Timothy Snyder did archival research in English, German, Yiddish, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Belorussian, Ukrainian, Russian, and French. His learning is extraordinary. His vivid imagination leads him to see combinations, similarities, and general trends where others would see only chaos and confusion…. This is an important book. I have never seen a book like it." The Economist"[G]ripping and comprehensive…. Mr. Snyder's book is revisionist history of the best kind: in spare, closely argued prose, with meticulous use of statistics, he makes the reader rethink some of the best-known episodes in Europe's modern history…. Even those who pride themselves on knowing their history will find themselves repeatedly brought up short by his insights, contrasts and comparisons…. Mr. Snyder's scrupulous and nuanced book steers clear of the sterile, sloganising exchanges about whether Stalin was as bad as Hitler, or whether Soviet mass murder in Ukraine or elsewhere is a moral equivalent of the Nazis' extermination of the Jews. What it does do, admirably, is to explain and record. Both totalitarian empires turned human beings into statistics, and their deaths into a necessary step towards a better future. Mr. Snyder's book explains, with sympathy, fairness and insight, how that happened, and to whom." Anne Applebaum, New York Review of Books"[A] brave and original history of mass killing in the twentieth century…. Snyder's original contribution is to treat all of these episodes—the Ukrainian famine, the Holocaust, Stalin's mass executions, the planned starvation of Soviet POWs, postwar ethnic cleansing—as different facets of the same phenomenon. Instead of studying Nazi atrocities or Soviet atrocities separately, as many others have done, he looks at them together. Yet Snyder does not exactly compare the two systems either. His intention, rather, is to show that the two systems committed the same kinds of crimes at the same times and in the same places, that they aided and abetted one another, and above all that their interaction with one another led to more mass killing than either might have carried out alone."
The Wall Street Journal"The story of World War II, like that of most wars, usually gets told by the victors. Diplomatic and military accounts are set largely in the West and star the morally upright Allies—the U.S., Britain and Soviet Union—in battles against fascism. The Holocaust gets its own separate history, as a case apart in its genocidal intent and human tragedy. Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin forces a dramatic shift in these perceptions…. Among his other goals in Bloodlands, Mr. Snyder attempts to put the Holocaust in context—to restore it, in a sense, to the history of the wider European conflict. This is a task that no historian can attempt without risking controversy. Yet far from minimizing Jewish suffering, Bloodlands gives a fuller picture of the Nazi killing machine."Guardian (London)"[Bloodlands] modifies our view of this appalling period. . . . Snyder insists that the colossal atrocities in his 'bloodlands' have to be set inside a single historical frame. To look at them separately – for instance, to see Hitler's crimes as 'so great as to stand outside history', or Stalin's as a monstrous device to achieve modernisation – is to let the two dictators 'define their own works for us'. . . .This book's unforgettable account of the Ukraine famine shows conclusively that Stalin knew what was happening in the countryside and chose to let it run its course. . . . The figures are so huge and so awful that grief could grow numb. But Snyder, who is a noble writer as well as a great researcher, knows that. He asks us not to think in those round numbers." The Sunday Times (London)"This is a superb work of scholarship, full of revealing detail, cleverly compiled from a number of previously little-known sources, and in places beautifully written…. He searched hidden archives in five countries and judiciously mined unknown memoirs and diaries. . . . Snyder does justice to the horror of his subject through the power of his storytelling." Foreign Affairs"[A] magisterial work…. Snyder's account is engaging, encyclopedic." David Denby, The New Yorker"[A] stunning book…. Certainly, we need to know everything, understand everything, feel everything. Snyder's book, by making an original account of the period in copious detail laid out in sombrely blunt declarative sentences, should expand these three faculties in anyone who engages its grim but lucid exposition." Washington Times"Statistics are an important part of Mr. Snyder's narrative, but he does not forget that every number was once a human being…. This book is a grim but important read." Seattle Times"To us in the West, the horrors of World War II are associated with the names of Auschwitz, Iwo Jima and Hiroshima. Without denying the significance of these places, Snyder, an immensely talented historian at Yale University, radically alters our understanding of the mass murder that went on during these years by showing in convincing fashion where and how most victims met their end. Bloodlands overflows with startling facts and revelations…. In a conclusion that should be required reading for all, Snyder addresses the moral questions raised by this murderous history with insight and recognition of the shades of culpability that make it difficult at times to neatly separate victims from perpetrators. He also shines much-needed light on the dangers of 'competitive martyrology' of the recent past, as the nations of the bloodlands have tried to claim greatest victim status." Stephen Howe, Independent (UK), Book of the Year"For deliberate mass murder, Hitler and Stalin still stand unsurpassed. Although we have long possessed vast stores of knowledge about their crimes, it may be that we still misunderstand their character and extent—not least because we fail to see how the two great dictatorships interacted. We miss the significance of where, between the mid-1930s and the mid-1940s, the worst horrors took place: Poland, western Russia, and what are now Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic republics. So argues Timothy Snyder in Bloodlands, which seeks persuasively and movingly to offer a new interpretive framework for the nightmare of Europe's mid-20th century." BBC History Magazine (UK)"A talented historian and an accomplished storyteller, [Snyder] expertly negotiates an extremely complex story, debunking myths, correcting misconceptions and providing context, analysis and human interest in equal measure, always with a sympathetic ear for the victims themselves.... Bloodlands is an excellent, authoritative and imaginative book, which tells the grim story of the greatest human demographic tragedy in European history with exemplary clarity. Snyder set out to give a human face to the many millions of victims of totalitarianism. He has succeeded admirably." The Wichita Eagle"Snyder has written a painstakingly researched book which manages to strike a balance between superb scholarship and gut-churning drama. To say that the horrors depicted in this book demand a strongly gifted storyteller is an understatement. By combing archives, depicting the victims as individuals and not numbers or statistics, and by exposing the interior motives of both Hitler and Stalin, Snyder has produced a unique work, something brand-new, riveting and monumental."
The Boston Globe"Part of the freshness of Bloodlands is that it flips around our traditional viewpoint on the Second World War and the years that led up to it: Instead of seeing the conflict from the top down, as a struggle between powers, it begins with the perspective of the victims and those who were closest to the murder."Slate"[A] groundbreaking new book about Hitler's and Stalin's near-simultaneous genocides…. Certainly one's understanding of both Stalinism and human nature will be woefully incomplete until one does read Snyder's pages." Adam Hochschild, Harper's Magazine"[M]eticulously researched…. [A]s a corrective to our usual picture of the period, Bloodlands is immensely valuable…. [A] forceful and important lesson in historical geography." Globe & Mail"A must-read for anyone interested in the history of Eastern Europe." Michael Savage, New York Times bestselling author and host of The Michael Savage Show"[T]he most definitive book ever written on the atrocities of Hitler and Stalin…It's one of the most shocking books I have ever read in my life…written by a genius, Timothy Snyder, professor of history at Yale. This is a really amazing book…I thought I'd seen it all, heard it all—I didn't." Adam Kirsch, Tablet"[An] important new history…. One of Snyder's major achievements in Bloodlands is to preserve this sense of the singularity of Jewish experience, even while showing its complex relationship to the terrible experiences of the peoples among whom Jews lived.... The relationship between Jews and Communism is probably the most explosive of all the subjects Snyder addresses, and here he benefits most from the strengths he shows throughout the book—deep learning, wide compassion, and clear, careful moral judgment.... [A]nyone who wants to fully comprehend the Holocaust—at least, as far as it can be comprehended—should read Bloodlands, which shows how much evil had to be done in order to make the ultimate evil possible." National Review Online "In page after grueling page, Snyder depicts the pogrom that erupted across the Bloodlands. After all these years, after all the histories, there are still details that appall…. In an interesting twist, Snyder reveals how the usual Western understanding of the Holocaust, centered on the almost clinical danse macabre of deportation and eventual extermination in a camp far from Paris, Amsterdam, or Rome, fails to reflect the more typical experience to the east." Maclean's (Toronto)"[A] masterful history…. Snyder forces many of us to change the way we understand the Second World War." Booklist"Solid and judicious scholarship." Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies, University of Oxford, and author of The File"Timothy Snyder has written a nuanced, original and penetrating analysis of Europe's twentieth century killing fields between Russia and Germany, drawing on many little-known sources. History of a high order, Bloodlands may also point us towards lessons for our own time."
Kirkus, Starred Review"A chillingly systematic study of the mass murder mutually perpetrated by the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany…. A significant work of staggering figures and scholarship."Professor Norman Davies, F.B.A., author of Europe: A History:"Nearly seventy years after VE-Day, World War Two continues to be perceived through a narrow Western perspective, and many basic problems about the war of 1939-45 remain unresolved. In Bloodlands – which refers to the huge belt of territory between Germany and Russia – Timothy Snyder examines the little known tract of the European continent that was scourged by Stalin as well as Hitler, and reaches some disturbing conclusions. Combining formidable linguistic and detective skills with a fine sense of impartiality, he tackles vital questions which have deterred less courageous historians: Where and when were the largest casualties inflicted? Who were the perpetrators, and which ethnic and national groups were victimized? How can one calculate and verify the numbers? This is a book which will force its readers to rethink history." Christopher R. Browning, Frank Porter Graham Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill:"Historians of Nazi Germany have analyzed Hitler's war of destruction in the East, Final Solution, and vast racial revolution and colonization project outlined in the Generalplan Ost. Historians of the Soviet Union have analyzed Stalin's collectivization, Great Terror, Gulag archipelago, deportation and exile of mistrusted minorities, and rapid sovietization of newly-annexed territories on the western border. In both cases the focus has been more often on the politics and decision-making of the dictatorships than on the fate of their victims. The stunning contribution of Tim Snyder's book is to present a synthetic account by an East European historian in which the focus is on the geographic zone where the lethal policies of Hitler and Stalin interacted, overlapped, and mutually escalated one another. As Snyder vividly demonstrates, their combined impact on the people living in the 'bloodlands' was quite simply the greatest man-made demographic catastrophe and human tragedy in European history." Tony Judt, author of Postwar and Ill Fares the Land"For over a decade in the middle of twentieth century, the lands between Russia and Germany were the killing fields of Europe. Tens of millions of civilians from Poland to Ukraine, Lithuania to Belarus were starved, beaten, shot and gassed to death by the authorities and armies of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. We think we know this story and we assign it shorthand labels: Auschwitz, the Gulag. But neither the concentration camps (which were mostly not death camps) nor the Soviet network of labor camps in Siberia (from which many survived) were representative of the worst crimes committed in these years. Jews were without question the supreme victim (and in the Nazi case, the dominant target); but there were many other victims with whom western readers are far less familiar. Without a better grasp of the scale and breadth of the suffering experienced in these lands, we cannot hope to appreciate the true impact of the twentieth century."In his path-breaking and often courageous study of Europe's 'bloodlands,' Tim Snyder shows how very much more complicated the story was. His account of the methods and motives of murderous regimes, both at home and in foreign war, will radically revise our appreciation of the implications of mass extermination in the recent past. Bloodlands – impeccably researched and appropriately sensitive to its volatile material – is the most important book to appear on this subject for decades and will surely become the reference in its field." Jewish Book World"Snyder's book forces us to framethe Holocaust within a wider landscape ofgenocidal policies by both the Nazis and theSoviets without diminishing the uniquenessof Hitler's war against the Jews."
Policy Review "Surveying a time and subject that has been studied, dramatized, and argued about perhaps more thoroughly than any other in history, Bloodlands is an incredibly original work. It seeks to redirect our understanding of the Holocaust as primarily an eastern phenomenon, and one which took place among a spate of mass killing policies…. With this magisterial book, [Snyder] has rendered the Holocaust, and the horrors that preceded and accompanied it, their rightful place." Michigan War Studies Review "Bloodlands, is in a class of its own, a real blockbuster that profoundly reconfigures our understanding of World War II and the 1930s…. [A] triumph of measured writing and sound judgment…. The story is brilliantly accessible—clear, compelling, lively, and sparkling with insights…. Bloodlands is the perfect companion for the scholar and student of mid-twentieth-century Europe. Accessible and extraordinarily comprehensive, it will be widely read and cited as the standard work." Concord Monitor"[A]n important, carefully researched and compelling story, well told…. The numbers and the narrative are gripping. But Snyder's great strength is bringing home the humanity that was being destroyed." Deseret Morning News "[Bloodlands] brilliantly examines how government policies in Berlin and Moscow led to unimaginable suffering and death for millions in Eastern Europe…. Throughout Bloodlands, Snyder brings a considerable intelligence to bear as he deftly illustrates the horror and misery of the Nazi and Soviet systems in their quest for social perfection." The Jewish Daily Forward"Bloodlands…reassure[s] us that the pursuit of authentic Holocaust consciousness is still flourishing in the scholarly community, with no end in sight." The Polish Review "Many books are useful; a handful can be called important; Bloodlands does no less than change the way we think of 20th century history, and of the deadly human cost of the totalitarian utopianism that was among its most distinctive characteristics…. Bloodlands is a wrenching, enlightening, moving, and intellectually challenging examination of the most compelling and painful topic of 20th century history. Few who study it carefully will be able to forget Timothy Snyder's masterly autopsy of the fourteen million times one human being's destroyed in the name of the totalitarian dystopia." Slavic Review "[A]mbitious…. Bloodlands seeks to fit the Holocaust into an appropriate historical context by examining the struggle between the Third Reich and the USSR from the perspective of the civilian populations caught in between."
Choice"[A] popular history of the highest order. Not only does Snyder effectively relate the motivations behind Stalin's and Hitler's crimes, but he also exhibits a capable eye for the telling detail. The numerous stories of individuals who suffered in the 'bloodlands' humanize the carnage perpetrated in the name of the Stalinist and National Socialist ideologies. This is, perhaps, Snyder's most noteworthy accomplishment."American Diplomacy"[A] brilliant, profoundly unsettling volume…. [Bloodlands is] so tempting to put down because of the tragedies it describes, [but] so impossible to dismiss because of its revelations."


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The story "Bliss" was first published in The English Review in 1920. Later that year, it became the title story for Mansfield's second collection, Bliss, and Other Stories. The story (and the volume) helped solidify Mansfield's reputation as an important contemporary writer.
Many early reviewers lauded the collection and Mansfield's unique narrative voice. Conrad Aiken, in a review for Freeman, called Mansfield "brilliant" and remarked upon her "infinitely inquisitive sensibility." Several reviewers drew a parallel between Mansfield's work and that of the Russian writer Anton Chekhov. Aiken noted this similarity but also countered any claims that Mansfield "borrowed" from Chekhov: "One has not read a page of Miss Mansfield's book before one has said 'Chekhov'; but one has not read two pages before Chekhov is forgotten."
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One down-side to knitting multiple projects at once is that sometimes, even though you've been knitting and making progress, there's very little in the way of interesting pictures. I finished both hoodie sleeves and they're blocking along with the front ("only" the hood and finishing to go!), I got over my splicing fear and have knit a few more rows on the leaf lace shawl… but that doesn't really make for anything visually exciting.
This, however…
This is my birthday present. Now, my birthday isn't until Sunday, but since Mr. Stash is going to be out of town until next Monday, we celebrated this weekend. That's *two* hanks of Cherry Tree Hill Cascade Silk, fingering weight, Java colorway. It's going to become Seraphim, probably after Leaf Lace is done. Because the Misti Alpaca is wonderful and light and airy and all that, but the Pure Silk is definitely giving me a taste for silk's smooth feel.
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You remember these guys, always wanting to be your buddy, insisting that you refer to them by their first name because they're "not into labels", and taking any opportunity to let you know that they still…you know, (*puff puff, wink wink*).
The Tenured Veteran Type
Basically the polar opposite of the Ultra-Laid-Back Type, Tenured Vets have been there for years and are not looking to be your pal. They've seen it all, they've heard it all and they tend to have coffee-breath.
The "I'm a Published Author" Type
Every college has one. Most of their lessons begin with "I talk about this in my book but…" - as though everyone's already read their collection of critical essays on surrealist literature that's been out of print since 1989.
The Premature Ejaculator Type
We all remember this type. You'll be fucking him in the closed-off wing of the Humanities building before his 3:45 class, not even close to getting off, and sure enough, he's already finished.
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Another fixture of college life. These guys are tough graders at first but they'll always grant you an extension if you ask while you're stomping your 9-inch heels into their ballsack and making them your dog-slave.
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These guys are as big a part of the college experience as keg parties or Frisbee on the quad. You remember the type, always waiting for the last few students to leave the lecture hall before getting all stern like "Stephanie, we can't keep doing this. You're very beautiful but I'm not about to throw my life away over what was ultimately a selfish mistake." They would always be saying that.
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Assessing business intelligence tools means first answering the question, "What is business intelligence?" Business Intelligence, usually referred to as "BI" for short, refers to software designed to analyze data with the goal of discovering useful business insights. For example, a multi-site retailer might use BI tools to reveal a previously unknown pattern of revenue changes correlated to time of day.
BI is related to data analytics and business analytics, though the connotation of BI is that it's accessible to a bigger group of end users. As some reviewers on IT Central Station note, everyone, not just IT people or data specialists, should be able to use business intelligence software in their daily jobs. As a result, ease of use figures prominently into many user reviews on the site.
IT Central Station reviewers want to know how little training is required for a BI tool to get non-IT end users going. They want BI to be easy to implement. Users want tools to enable easy report building and administration as well.
The desire for BI tools to be easy to use flows from a trend in the technology over the least few years. BI has gone from being complex discipline reserved for highly-skilled people to being something the general knowledge worker can use every day. It's not an either/or scenario. An organization might have some BI workloads that are reserved for data scientists, with others available to everyone. Regardless of where BI is deployed, however, continued support of end users and technical training for the support team are critical for success.
In addition to security, performance, scalability and stability, users emphasize the importance of BI's ability to integrate with other systems. BI is not a standalone technology. It works in concert with database management and business applications. For example, BI must integrate with OLTP databases with minimal footprint. BI also needs to integrate easily with graphical tools and reporting software. A business intelligence toolset ought to integrate with visualization tools - with ability to produce visually appealing, value added dashboards, charts, and standard reports. Mobility also counts, with workers wanting to be able to do analytics on mobile form factors such as tablets.
Given that the "B" in BI stands for business, the business use case is considered highly relevant in choosing the right business intelligence toolset. BI should meet business needs. The total cost of ownership (TCO) should be well thought-out. And, any initiative to undertake BI should have clear executive management approval and a business plan for success. A thorough business needs analysis is essential.
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n. - A game at cards, played with forty-eight cards, being all the cards above the eight spots in two packs. 2
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The Folk Art Center, located in Asheville, North Carolina, showcases outstanding examples of traditional and contemporary Southern Appalachian craft and is the most visited attraction on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
The Folk Art Center houses three exhibit galleries, a craft library, an auditorium, and the Allanstand Craft Shop, the oldest continuously operating craft store in the nation.
Heritage and Contemporary Crafts and Exhibits
Exhibits feature crafts from current members of the Southern Highland Craft Guild as well as samples from the Guild's 3,500-piece collection of craft objects dating to the turn of the 20th century. The Folk Art Center also offers daily demonstrations by master crafters and a series of educational events seasonally.
Opened as a cooperative effort by the Guild, the National Park Service, and the Appalachian Regional Commission, the Folk Art Center also houses the Eastern National Bookstore and Information Center. The Southern Highland Craft Guild represents over 900 craftspeople in nine southeastern states.
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Many people take Social Security benefits as soon as they are eligible to begin receiving them, which for many Americans is age 62. But just because you can begin receiving Social Security benefits doesn't mean you should take them right away. For example, you can often increase your Social Security payments by delaying when you receive them. Here are a few things to think about concerning when to begin receiving Social Security Benefits.
When Should You Take Social Security Benefits?
Delaying when you take Social Security Benefits can result in higher payments. In general, you can begin receiving Social Security Benefits at age 62, but in many cases, it's worth delaying your start date for receiving Social Security payments if possible. This is because the Social Security Administration uses a sliding scale based on the year of your birth to determine your "normal" retirement age and the amount of money you will receive. Taking Social Security Benefits at age 62 may cause you to only be eligible to receive a partial payment.
Social Security normal age of retirement
Until 2002, the "normal retirement age" for everyone was at the age of 65. According to the Social Security Administration, the "normal retirement age" is the age a which beneficiaries receive full Social Security Benefits. The list below shows the "normal retirement age" based on the year you were born.
- 1937 or earlier – 65 years of age
- 1938 – 65 and 2 months
- 1939 – 65 and 4 months
- 1940 – 65 and 6 months
- 1941 – 65 and 8 months
- 1942- 65 and 10 months
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- 1955 – 66 and 2 months
- 1956 – 66 and 4 months
- 1957 – 66 and 6 months
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You will receive reduced benefits if you decide to take Social Security benefits before the time of your normal retirement age. The total amount is reduced by five-ninths of 1% for each month you are under your normal retirement age, up to 36 months. If you are to receive benefits and you start more than 36 months before retirement age, your benefits will be further reduced by an amount of five-twelfths of 1% a month. Here is more information about age reduction of Social Security Benefits.
Good things come to those who wait
In general terms, you can increase Social Security benefits by waiting a few years to begin receiving them. If you accept your benefits after reaching your normal retirement age, you'll get the full amount due to you with no reduction. You can even get additional Social Security credits be delaying your benefits start date after your normal retirement age. You will receive an additional percentage on your monthly Social Security check with each month you delay until you reach age 70.
Note: Military members who served between the years of 1940 and 2001 may receive additional Social Security credits for military service. You can read more about this benefit in this article: How Military Service Affects Your Social Security Benefits.
Considerations before you take Social Security Benefits
If you are unsure of where you stand with benefit amounts, you can contact the Social Security Administration to request a copy of a current statement of benefits. Your individualized statement will include pay outs for benefits taken at age 62, at your normal age of retirement, and at the age of 70. Statements are mailed annually but additional copies can be requested.
You'll need to assess your own financial situation to determine your need and time frame for benefits. If you have the means to support yourself, wait as long as you can to request benefits. If you are still working, understand that your benefits may be reduced if you take them before your retirement age. For every $2 you earn in above the annual allowance, you will lose $1 in benefits. At the normal retirement age, you will lose $1 for each $3 you earn above a higher limit for income earned before the month you reach your retirement age.
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#CMPremiere – Finale by Mike RochaTuesday, February 7th, 2017
Acclaimed Toronto producer and composer Mike Rocha is releasing his debut album, Finale, on Feb. 10th via Pirates Blend Records, but Canadian Musician is bringing you the collection a few days early in this exclusive #CMPremiere.
Finale is a unique and expansive work – an all-analog, orchestral-style synth record that Rocha composed and recorded himself. The artist calls it "a linear exploration of self" – one that examines human thoughts, emotions, and conditions through minimalist tones, menacing tensions, and lush, elegant soundscapes.
"I started with the concept of a 'synth orchestra' following the simple guideline of 'lots of synth textures, each only playing one or two notes tops'– like most elements of a conventional orchestra," begins Rocha, delving further into his concept and approach. "Keeping with that idea, I avoided using MIDI and played all of the parts by hand except for where I was going for a specifically sequenced metronomic rhythm."
Best known for his production resume which includes indie/punk band Greys (Buzz Records/Carpark), synth pop duo Electric Youth (Secretly Canadian), and Toronto bassist, Eon Sinclair (Bedouin Soundclash), Rocha has been able to utilize his eclectic background to articulate a range of dynamic ideas into his debut release.
Commencing with "Careful", Finale introduces itself with a pensive and excited curiosity. Its sonic undertones of fear and anxiety foreshadow the dominating and pulsing tensions found on "Generator," "Glitter," and "Escape". Conversely, moments of tranquility, innocence, and love weave around the darker themes on tracks "Maternal," "Kid," and "Thought", and act as subtle reminders of hope as the soundtrack unveils and resolves its captivating storyline.
Rocha relied heavily on his Dave Smith Instruments Prophet 08, calling it his "weapon of choice" for much of the effort because of its dexterity with assigning multiple sound-shaping functions to foot pedals, aftertouch, and wheels.
"The result was that I could get the same level of expression with the synth as with instruments that I frequently play on other people's records like piano, double bass, and electric guitar," he continues. "I would play parts over and over until the intended expression was captured, similar to any other live instrument. Even in regards to drums and percussion, it was never my goal to actively avoid using them; I just never reached the point where I felt it was needed because all of the rhythm and intensity I desired was fulfilled by the synths. Maybe I'll give a kick drum a try on the next album…"
The result is a compelling and refreshingly ambitious collection that you can enjoy exclusively in this #CMPremiere.
Those in the Toronto area can also check out the Finale Album Release Party, happening Friday, Feb. 17th at 8 pm at DAIS/Tkaronto Gallery at 1196 Queen St. West. Mike will give a special performance at 10 pm and also be showcasing a print photography series that marries each of the album's track with a corresponding abstract photograph taken during the creation of the record. The photography series will also be shown on Saturday, Feb. 18th from 12-5 pm.
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Year of the Artist, Day 25: Jim Aparo, Part 5 – Batman #534
Every day this year, I will be examining the artwork on a single comic book story. Today's artist is Jim Aparo, and the issue is Batman #534, which was published by DC and is cover dated September 1996. Enjoy!
In the middle of the odd (but great) Moench/Jones/Beatty run, DC threw in a few crossovers, one of which was "Legacy," which included this issue. Kelley Jones got two months off and Aparo stepped in, this time inked by Bill Sienkiewicz. The combination worked very well, as Sienkiewicz is a much rougher inker than Aparo had been teamed with for much of his latter career, and so we get some interesting artwork. Let's check it out!
One thing we notice in these two issues (Aparo and Sienkiewicz also drew issue #533) is Batman's cape. In earlier Aparo-drawn Batman books, the crisp lines on Batman's cape almost made it look like it was ribbed. Sienkiewicz forgoes all of that and uses plenty of hatching and spot blacks on the cape to make it much more fluid and "clothing-like." There's obviously going to be a lot of black when Sienkiewicz inks your work, but he uses it to good effect, especially on the cape.
As I mentioned yesterday, one thing that always bugged me about Aparo's Batman (and this is no fault of his own) is that whoever inked him made the cowl black from the eyes down, which always looked odd to me. Sienkiewicz is having none of that! In Panel 1, we get blacks up past Batman's eyes, which helps make the black look more natural and less like a part of the cowl. Meanwhile, notice how Sienkiewicz adds a few lines to Shiva's nose, which makes her look more like a person and less like a mannequin. Sienkiewicz isn't all about more hatching, though – in Panel 2, the haphazard lines on Batman's cape once again make it looks like it's draped more than held in place by rods, as some of Aparo's past work suggests. Just these subtle differences are enough to make the art look much more interesting.
Aparo is credited with "pencils" in this book and not "breakdowns," but I wonder how sketchy the original pencils were. These panels have a classic Aparo look, but the inks seem to heavily influence the way the figures work. Sienkiewicz leaves things loose, which is fine in a fight, and the effect makes Aparo's pencils a bit more fluid. It's a good idea, as Aparo can certainly break down a fight but his figure work isn't always the most dynamic. So we get a nice two-panel move as Batman spins around and chops the guy in the neck, and then Shiva's one-two shot to the dude in Panels 3 and 4. That's all Aparo, but the scratchy inks help make the fight more powerful. Notice, too, the way Batman's chest insignia is inked – Sienkiewicz inks it fairly haphazardly, which again helps make Batman a bit more human. This is just a nice sequence by both artists.
Here's another interesting point about Sienkiewicz the inker. This is a fairly standard Aparo drawing of Batman – nice solid chin, totally focused on his work – but Sienkiewicz, while not giving him stubble (which is the trend these days), simply makes the shadows on his face a bit less total, so his face looks rougher. In Aparo's 1980s/early 1990s work, inkers tended to leave Batman's face alone, so he was always the perfectly chiseled hero. Simply by adding some shadow, Sienkiewicz makes him a much more hardened, gruff, and tense hero. He's a man who gets things done, but it's not always easy.
Here's another scene where I can almost believe Aparo is doing breakdowns and Sienkiewicz is finishing, but it works. Both the idol and Batman going down into the water work very well, as Sienkiewicz understands that it needs to be sketchy, so it is. The final panel is excellent, too, as Batman is silhouetted well as he desperately tries to find the statue that contains a virus, and Sienkiewicz's wonky line work makes the water look more roiled than if a smoother inker was tackling this panel. As with the rest of this issue (and the preceding one), Aparo's structure works very well with Sienkiewicz's chaos, and that's why the issues look so good.
I know I wrote a lot about Sienkiewicz and not Aparo here, but that's because it's quite neat how different the two styles are but how well they work together. Sienkiewicz has inked some odd pencilers in the past 20 years or so, and sometimes his inking overwhelms a weaker artist. The work in this issue, however, remains distinctly Aparo, but with enough looseness to make it more interesting than a lot of his latter-day work. I don't think Aparo's late 1980s/early 1990s work is as bad as I remember it – it was probably just the foolishness of youth on my part. But I still think it's not as good as his other work. I hope I've proved it!
Tomorrow: I might change my mind, but I think I'm going to check out an artist whose work really hasn't changed very much in 30 years. Why would I feature him, then? Well, because he's pretty darned awesome, that's why! Look back to those heady days of early January in the archives!
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EDMONTON - The Edmonton Eskimos have lost all-star linebacker JC Sherritt to injury.
The CFL club announced Tuesday that Sherritt, the CFL's outstanding defensive player last season, recently underwent successful thumb surgery and will be out indefinitely.
The Eskimos said Sherritt sustained the injury in their 30-29 home loss to Hamilton on Aug. 2.
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Experts on the standards and practices of running international businesses. International Business experts serve as expert witnesses and forensic consultants in Utah legal matters, and provide expert reports and testimony for judges, attorneys, lawyers, law firms, insurance companies and government agencies in Federal and state court trials and arbitrations in Utah.
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Rosemary Coates, MBA
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Rosemary Coates is a Global Supply Chain Expert focusing on Chinese sourcing and manufacturing, Import/Export and logistics with 30 years of experience in industry and consulting. She is the author of five business books including amazon.com Best Seller,"42 Rules for Sourcing and Manufacturing in China", and "42 Rules for Superior Field Service" and "Negotiation Blueprinting for Buyers" and "Reshoring Guidebook" and "Legal Blacksmith- How To Avoid and Defend Supply Chain Disputes."


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Aug. 22, 1917-Feb. 11, 2013
Elnora B. "Big Sis" Burney, 95, died Monday at Willow Creek Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.
Funeral will be Friday at 11 a.m. at St. Luke Church of Christ Disciples of Christ Church, with elder David Williams officiating. Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery.
She was born Aug. 22, 1917, in Wayne County to the late Emmitt and Irene Flanagan Broadhurst.
She is survived by a son and a stepson.
Visitation will be today from 2 to 6 p.m. in the J.B. Rhodes Jr. Memorial Chapel of J.B. Rhodes Funeral Home and Cremations.
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Important safety regulations for the Oktoberfest 2017
At the Oktoberfest we want to celebrate together. But a few rules should be considered:
Backpacks, Bags and Walking Aids
- Backpacks and large bags are generally not allowed. Please leave everything you don't necessarily need at home. The less you carry with you, the easier you will find it to move around the busy parts of Oktoberfest.
- Bags and backpacks with a volume of more than 3 litres and/or larger than 20cm x 15cm x 10cm are not allowed to be taken into the showgrounds ('Wiesn').
- Items which are strictly forbidden: Aerosol cans with dangerous content, acidly or staining substances. Also, objects considered a weapon are not permitted, including glass of any kind. Any items security deem a threat will be confiscated upon entry.
- All bags and rucksacks will be checked by the security staff and will be tagged with a security check band. Personal medical devices or medication are allowed once cleared by security personnel.
- If your luggage exceeds the maximum size you can secure them at one of the several locking stations around the Wiesn (fees apply).
- Walking aids are generally allowed at the Oktoberfest, after being cleared by security.
Toddlers, Children and Pets
- Due to the large amount of traffic, it is advised to make sure babies and toddlers are restrained in their pram for their own safety. Large prams are allowed, but will need to be assessed by security before being allowed through.
- On all Saturdays and on October 3rd (German Reunion public holiday) prams are not allowed on the showgrounds at any time. On any other day, prams are allowed until 6pm every day.
- Pets are not allowed at the Oktoberfest.
Arrival and Opening hours
- It is best to plan your route to the Oktoberfest: We recommend using alternatives to the metro lines 4 and 5 and the metro station 'Theresienwiese' (Wiesn). For example: From the main train station (Haupt-Bahnhof) you can walk to the showgrounds. If you come from a westerly direction it is best to exit at the station 'Schwanthaler Höhe'.
- Make use of all entries/exits around the Wiesn. There are plenty alternatives to the main entrance, which can get very busy.
- The Oktoberfest experience is most pleasant during off-peak times. Here you can check what times are best to beat the crowds: Wiesnbaromenter (green = quiet, yellow = medium, red = busy)


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Original photographs by Hans Silvester, engravings by Luis Piza and old photos of Zanzibar are displayed on the walls.
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Together with its World Wide Wide Network Partners, Dun & Bradstreet keeps a close eye on global payments performance trends. The CRIBIS D&B 2016 Payment Study (download full report here) was created by CRIBIS D&B with the support and collaboration of 34 WWN countries across the globe. It highlights significant differences in payments performance across regions and also between sectors.
Generally speaking, payments performance of companies in the US is better than in Canada, China, and most countries in Europe. However, the differences in Europe are immense and should be monitored frequently, especially as a resurgence of the eurozone crisis is in the cards over the next weeks. Payments performance in Mexico is slightly better than the US but is deteriorating.
In the US, the proprietary data shows that the share of prompt payments (as a percentage of all payments) has increased from 43.5% in 2007 to 53.8% in 2015 (but is down from 54.2% in 2014). In the same period, the share of payments made 90 or more days late dropped from 4.9% to 3.5%, thereby positively impacting the risk of late payment or even nonpayment. In a sectoral comparison, the financial sector and agriculture settled a high amount of their bills by due date (62.3% and 61.8%, respectively). At the other end of the spectrum, 5.4% of all bills in the construction sector were not paid 90 or more days after due date.
In Canada, things have moved in the wrong direction: Since 2007 the share of prompt payments has dropped from 38.5% to only 35.3%. However, the number of bills not settled 90 or more days after due date dropped to 1.2% in the same period (down from 3.3% in 2007), thereby somewhat counterbalancing the drop in prompt payments. Similar to the US, agricultural companies are, on average, quick payers (54% of all bills are paid on time), followed by the service sector (41.2%).
South of the Rio Grande, payments performance has also deteriorated, with the share of prompt payments dropping from a high 70% in 2010 to only 55.6% in 2015. Encouragingly, despite the deterioration, only 0.6% of all bills remain unsettled after 90 or more days. Unlike in the US, Mexican construction companies' payments performance is outstanding, while manufacturers have settled more than 97% of their bills within 30 days after due date.
Across the Pacific, China has seen an increase (albeit a small one) in the share of prompt payments (from 33.1% in 2011 to 33.2% in 2015) and a simultaneous drop in the number of bills still not paid 90+ days after due date (7.9% in 2011 to only 6.1% now). Manufacturing is ranked in the middle (5.2% of all payments are 90+ days late), with construction being risky in particular. Looking ahead, the gradual macroeconomic slowdown in China has the potential to adversely impact payments performance.
Meanwhile, in Europe the situation is less clear as significant country-level differences persist. Overall, the share of prompt payments dropped slightly in the last year (from 37.6% in 2014 to 37.5% in 2015). Unsurprisingly, the troubled nations in the south of the continent lag the economically stable ones in the north by a big margin. While in economically challenged Greece only 22.7% of all bills were paid on time in 2015 (Portugal is at the bottom of the table with only 20.1%). German and Danish companies again top the table with 72.3% and 87% prompt payments, respectively.
In terms of late payments (defined as 90+ days after due date), the European average has dropped to 3.5% in 2015 (from 3.8% in 2014), but similar differences are also clearly visible. Greek companies are the worst payers (19.9% of all bills have not been settled), followed by Poland (14.8%) and Portugal (11.7%). The smallest share of late payments can be found in Denmark (with virtually no bills unsettled after 90 days), Germany (0.5%), Hungary (0.6%), and the Czech Republic (0.7%).
Having previously worked for the European Parliament in Brussels, Markus Kuger joined D&B's office in Marlow/United Kingdom in June 2010. In his role as Senior Economist in D&B Macro Market/Country Insight Products, he is writing about his home country Germany as well as the UK, France, the Netherlands, and Poland.


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STEM is about learning, investigation and career readiness…but, in Northeast Iowa, it is also about FUN!
The Northeast Regional Hub partners with local community leaders and educators to host four Family STEM Festivals. Exhibitors from throughout Iowa spark student and parent interest with hands-on learning ranging from driving robots and trying virtual welding to testing chemical reactions and flying flight simulators. Each festival is quickly becoming a community-wide, must attend event!
Organized like a street festival or county fair, visitors stroll from activity to activity at their leisure. This awe-inspiring day will feature compelling, educational and entertaining activities, performances and exhibits to boost children's interest in STEM.
2018-2019 Family STEM Festivals:
October 18, 2018 - Northeast Iowa Family STEM Festival (Fayette)
November 8, 2018 - Cedar Valley Family STEM Festival (Waterloo)
April 6, 2019 - Dubuque Area Family STEM Festival
April 11, 2019 - Northeast Iowa Family STEM Festival (Cresco)


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DANVILLE –– For the first time since 2004, Surry Community College's baseball team is the Region X champion. In the process, the Knights swept the region's postseason awards and advanced to this past weekend's district tournament against Prince George's (Md.) Community College with a berth in the NJCAA College World Series on the line.
HILLSVILLE –– First-year Carroll County baseball coach Kevin DeHaven rubbed his red-rimmed eyes, plainly showing the emotion of possibly having played the final home game with his inaugural group of eight seniors. DeHaven didn't brag on any key plays, any one player or any certain pitch sequence after the Cavaliers' 5-2 River Ridge District win over Blacksburg.
Shannon Adkins led the way with a time of 43 minutes and 14 seconds to win the male division and Rebecca Johnson was fourth overall in 47:12 to win the female division at the 19th running of the New River Trail State Park/Dr. Ed Dannelly 10K run and 5K walk Saturday near the Dannelly Fitness Park on the trail.
The Virginia Blaze FCA travel team won the May Madness tournament in Roanoke on May 6, going 3-0 in the event, including a 44-28 win in the finals. The Blaze also finished 4th in The Warrior Invitational in Roanoke and was the runner-up at The Bond Classic in Winston-Salem. The Blaze is a Fellowship of Christian Athletes team, equipping and preparing athletes for the next level of competition while sharing the good news of Christ throughout the season.
Galax's nine-game winning streak came to a grinding halt Monday as Rural Retreat outplayed the Maroon Tide 6-1 in a nondistrict Conference 46 game at Mountain View Park.
Galax hadn't lost since a 2-1 setback to James River on April 1, and the Maroon Tide ran its hot streak to nine games with a five-run win over the same Rural Retreat just three days prior to Monday's loss.
Daniel Crawford smacked three doubles and drove in seven runs to lead Grayson County to a 17-0 rout of Graham.
Dante Ravenell had a pair of home runs as Galax rolled over Narrows 17-0. Travis Garvey had two doubles in a 12-run seventh inning for the Maroon Tide.
The Galax girls' soccer team lists but one senior on its roster. But the Maroon Tide can now list three wins on its résumé.
Unperturbed by a series of near-misses in the early going that a more seasoned club may have been able to convert, Galax took a 1-0 lead into the half and pulled away in the final 40 minutes to shut out Bland County 3-0 in a Mountain Empire District match Monday afternoon.
HILLSVILLE –– Senior night is normally observed on the final home date of the season. Though Carroll County's girls' soccer team still has two home matches remaining, the Cavaliers' 10 seniors – and some key underclassmen – made sure Tuesday that their time on friendly soil would extend at least one more game.
Carroll County held off Pulaski County 3-2 in a River Ridge District match at Tommy Thompson Field, all but solidifying a home game in the first round of the Conference 24 tournament.
Leading 4-3, Grayson County scored six runs on two hits, four walks and two errors in the decisive fourth inning of a 10-6 win over Galax.
Autumn Halsey pitched a shutout and had two hits, including a two-run home run, as Grayson County rolled to a 10-0 softball win over Narrows.
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HILLSVILLE – Carroll County's Sidney Nester has already built herself a reputation of being one of the best softball pitchers in the state.
Friday, the junior fireballer turned in a brilliant performance in a doubleheader against Patrick Henry-Roanoke in leading her team to a two-game sweep, 7-0 in the first game and 9-0 in the second game.
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Drug paraphernalia can be difficult to detect. Nowadays, technology has successfully developed several ways to disguise these tools as just like everyday things. You must educate yourself about drug paraphernalia and how drugs look like to be sure that you don't confuse drugs with harmless things and end up hurting your child because of wrong accusations.
As a parent, we cannot help but be on alert when there are indications that our child might be using abusive substances such as drugs and alcohol. It is the role of the parent to ensure our children's safety and sometimes asking them up front just isn't enough. That's when we have to "get our hands dirty".
You walk into your teen's room and want do a search for substances. Where do you look first? You can start by checking his bags, his clothes, on his table, on and under his bed and on the floor. However, remember this: things aren't always the way they seem. Be wary of everyday tools that seem out of place. Check his table, top of his cabinet, anywhere that things can be placed inconspicuously. You should expect that your teen will make it very hard for you to locate his secret stash. Go through the simplest things and check. There are known pipes for marijuana that is cleverly disguised as lipsticks and markers, so also be creative in your search.
Marijuana, crack and other drugs are usually hidden in places where our child would expect us never to be able to find. Look through shoes and their clothes cabinet. Marijuana is usually kept in small plastic bags which can be easily hidden away inside a shoe or in a suspicious hole in the house.