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100. Could we turn to the United States now?
You are visiting the Vice-President next week and we have been
talking about dealing with other nations but most of us would
see the United States as the toughest nut to crack. What areas
do you expect to discuss with the Vice-President?
(Mr Prescott) Last time I met him we had to speak
by video because of the unfortunate circumstances at the time.
Now he is visiting London and we agreed to meet out of a phone
call he made to me on the day President Bush made his announcement
and his latest proposals on climate change. He rang me four hours
before the President made his statement. We discussed what they
were proposing to say and I mentioned certain other aspects we
would like to follow up with them. Clearly it is not as good a
deal as we had previously but it is a different administration.
We did welcome the fact that the President now accepts the science
which he had rejected four months before. He now accepts it so
I find that two trains on two tracks have produced that but one
is going at a different speed. At least a target is now set by
the Americans which even commits them to reducing it voluntarily
and they accept the science which is a step forward from the situation
four months ago. What we have to do is encourage them to go further.
We have discussed one or two ideas with him and I asked whether
one of my own staff could go over there and talk with them and
use that as the basis for further discussions when he is over
here in London. I am looking forward to the opportunity of discussions
with him.
101. I have some sympathy with you when you
talk about achievable targets and consensus, but in the memorandum
you have set yourself a very tough target when you talk about
the UK's wish to match the current global coalition against terrorism
with action in a range of areas. That may be so with our more
junior partners in the coalition. You are now speaking to a senior
partner in the coalition asking for a match of effort with what
we are putting into the action against terrorism. Do you think
there is any real hope of that?
(Mr Prescott) If I might just think aloud on this
one and say that four months ago the President made a very emphatic
statement that he did not accept the science and was not prepared
to see his industry ruined by these proposals as he saw it, which
was a judgement he had made as a newly elected President and he
was entitled to make this judgement. He was totally rejecting
what the previous administration agreed to and it was a deal which
was worse. We talked about the reduction in greenhouse gases,
and they are a major emitter of these so that is unfortunate,
but it was better than four months before when he said it was
not acceptable. I happen to think that change of mind is not only
about looking at facts and the arguments more clearly, it is also
due to the fact that their businesses have told them that there
is quite a lot of interest in this for them and he should not
cut them off from the possibility of environmental development
for industry. They were an influence. Whereas at Kyoto they were
highly hostile, they have changed over the period. The final one
was that greater emphasis came from global partnership and working
together. That was one of the factors involved and it would be
very nice if we could get the same energy and commitment involved
in dealing with these problems and it would certainly save money
but a step at a time.
102. Do you think there is any leeway for hoping
that they might be starting to think about exceeding targets in
the same way that the Germans have? This Committee went to Germany
last week to look at renewable energy and what we found was that
moving further across to renewable energy was not only a way of
achieving Kyoto targets but was actually creating quite a lot
of jobs. Do you think you will be able to get as far as that sort
of discussion?
(Mr Prescott) That is a very important factor. I work
closely with the German Green Minister who is very effectively
involved in that. Overall, comparing the programme in Germany
and in Britain, I have to tell you that we are ahead of them in
the overall achievement of targets but that is taking all the
factors into account. There is an economic argument about there
being a lot of gain not pain in environment investment and we
have had this discussion before and I think that has focused the
minds of the Americans. That is why business interests have not
been so hostile as they were at Kyoto. They have realised that
there is some benefit, there is a buck in the development, there
is gain and it is not all pain. That example in Germany is one
example and one which is beginning to register and hopefully will
decide the kind of contribution they can make. Little known was
that when the Americans made their proposal for reductions one
part of the formula said they wanted was to increase their help
to developing countries in technology, in transfer of technology,
in these things which were identified as the tool, the mechanism
for achieving the target under the Kyoto agreement. That is a
useful and welcome development and when it comes from the Americans
it comes with an awful lot of money involved.
103. If you see a change coming about in American
thinking and also with this objective to try to get as many world
leaders as possible, do you think you are going to be able to
persuade them or do you think there is a chance of seeing George
Bush going there and playing a full part?
(Mr Prescott) I notice that George Bush is going to
the Monterrey conference and people thought he was not going to
go. That is about getting together, financing trade and development
and that is a welcome sign. The Americans might just see what
is happening at Monterrey before they make the decision on going
to Johannesburg. We will obviously press them to go to Johannesburg
but there are several difficulties. One might be about policy
but another one is the time chosen because they did not want to
be in conflict with that date in September, with the 12-month
anniversary of that tragedy in New York. Clearly an American President
could not be out of the country at that time, so they made the
conference earlier. That brings it into August which is always
more difficult because it is usually the holiday time for most
of the leaders and in America there is Labour Day. It is not easy
but certainly he is going to Monterrey and that is welcome. The
President's father when President only made up his mind to go
to that conference a few days before so I am an eternal optimist.
104. I think you might need to be.
(Mr Prescott) I have been here 30 years and I have
learned that bit.
105. What about climate change? I know there
is a range of issues. You have talked about whether climate change
was the thing to discuss this time but for many people it is still
the key issue. There is a thought that it might be ducked at Johannesburg
for fear of upsetting the Americans. I hear what you say about
a change of thinking but do you think there is almost a mind set
now that we do not discuss climate change in front of the Americans
and we should duck the subject?
(Mr Prescott) Climate change is now taking care of
itself if you observe Kyoto, go through the ratification, live
up to the promises, the monitoring of the process and the sanctions
which may come from it. The only issue which would make environment
a matter for Johannesburg would be if you were deciding whether
you would want to pass a comment on whether America should come
on board or not. That of course would be a highly controversial
thing. Of course you could have it but you have to find where
there is agreement. What I found very interesting and significant
during those Kyoto negotiations and later during the discussions
in The Hague and Bonn was that the Group 77 and the European nations
did not want America to leave and did not take a kind of hostile
approach and hope that eventually the President would change his
mind after review. It is a matter of judgement now as to whether
he has changed his mind sufficiently. I would have thought in
the main they will think not but they will welcome the fact that
he has accepted the science. He may be on a different track going
at a different speed, but he is heading for a target. He is heading
for an assessment even though it is voluntary. The interesting
thing about his point about it being voluntary is that he is setting
up a register for these companies so why not do it internationally.
The curious thing is that China is now reducing greenhouse gases
faster than the Americans are and they are not party to it. Presumably
that will be a credit for them as for other countries which are
achieving it, even though they are not in Annex 1, even though
their cuts are not considered in the overall cuts. If you balance
that, why not have an international register which accounts for
those countries who are not part of Annex 1? That would include
America and it would include a number of developing countries.
These are some of the ideas to develop in a positive way rather
than going to the conference and just having a big row and treating
America as the leper of the world for not coming to an agreement.
I prefer to stick with the positive arguments which have had some
success so far, then getting an agreement. I remember when we
first went to Kyoto nearly every paperin fact I will say
every paperand radio and television said the Americans
would not change, they would not move from their zero position.
They did. They went to minus seven. That was a major change and
a major challenge for them. Unfortunately the new administration
did not accept that proposition but they do accept that they are
going to have to cut greenhouse gases. That is to be welcomed.
106. Surely if we could get America to make
clearer commitments to climate change it would be a key factor
in the peace process internationally. When we are looking at global
sustainability one aspect of that is peace.
(Mr Prescott) I agree with you and they are some of
the arguments we do plug.
107. One of the great achievements, arguably
the greatest achievement of Rio was to put climate change on the
(Mr Prescott) Yes.
108. You followed that up and the world has
followed that up except not a lot has been done. The fact is that
we have not ratified Kyoto; no nation has yet ratified Kyoto.
Europe has not ratified Kyoto, we have not ratified Kyoto and
America has backed off. I understand what you are saying about
the change of emphasis towards positive development as opposed
to climate change and the environmental matters. Does it not in
fact really need a kickstart? It is ten years since Rio and ten
years before the next Earth Summit or whatever you like to call
it. Do we not really need to seize this opportunity, not to downgrade
environmental things? The environmentalists and those concerned
about climate change who argue it is the most important topic,
it is the future of the planet and so forth, are getting very
worried about what is going to happen here. Are you?
(Mr Prescott) To put it in perspective, Rio was all
right, we called for voluntary agreements and after five years
found that was not working at all. Britain was the only one who
achieved it, largely because we closed down our coal mining industry.
Germany achieved it because she had a collapse of an awful lot
of the East German aspects which came into it. At least they achieved
it but the voluntary way was not going to work so there was a
major shift half way through to this more statutory framework,
a convention which we actually sign up to and face possible sanctions
if we do not agree it and various procedures put in for that.
I think that is a major step forward and I think to be welcomed.
Fifty-odd countries have signed and ratified but many of them
are not ones for the obligations of Kyoto. The ones in the Annex
countries are the ones you need to sign up. In Europe we all agreed
that we would sign together and the European nations in the Council
of Ministers this afternoon are discussing that aspect of now
ratifying it and certainly wanting to do it before the conference
in Johannesburg. We hope other countries in the umbrella group
will: Japan has said she will; we shall have to wait and see for
some of the others who are in the Annex groups. Hopefully America,
Canada, Australia, New Zealand will sign as well. I agree with
you that we have to keep the pressure on to achieve that but it
is still a remarkable change in international negotiations to
shift in that five years to getting a convention agreed and getting
on to implement it.
109. I have a group of very articulate sixth-formers
who spend a lot of time looking at these international problems
and they are particularly concerned with the rights of children
to an education. They are saying to me that every time we take
a long-term view that is another generation of children who are
not getting the literacy they need to start developing and contributing
to their own countries and internationally. How would you answer
them when they are saying the delays are too long?
(Mr Prescott) Sadly we live in a political system
where long-term decisions are not given a great deal of importance.
If you do take long-term decisions you get stick for it. You can
look at transport, all sorts of disinvestment problems in this
country and how easy it is to put off the decision because it
does not fit within the political cycle. I must say to those people
that they are right to demand and to push and to say more should
be done. I have perhaps left the impression that because we have
the agreement on Kyoto that is enough. No, we have to move to
the developing countries. They have to play their part in it.
Do not forget what we did to get agreement was to say that the
richer countries which had caused the pollution would go ahead
and make that decision and then hopefully bring on board the developing
countries who are going to go through and have a right to go through
their process of industrialisation if we are talking about prosperity.
What we want to emphasise is that this is a more sustainable kind
of development. At the end of the day if we do not achieve these
targets we shall have failed internationally and our children
will bear the main penalties of those failures.
110. You mentioned earlier the importance of
delivery and that is germane to this entire debate. One of the
criticisms is that you have this blaze of "summitry"
and people fly in and appear to consent to these things and there
is much backslapping and then people go away and some time further
down the road nothing happens. What do you accept of a critique
which says that following on from Rio there were many aspirations
which were agreed in principle, but the actual practical things
which have changed ten years on are relatively slight compared
with all the optimism you had a decade ago.
(Mr Prescott) First of all you have to get them to
agree. If anyone looks at international conventions, they take
a considerable period of time from when somebody states at the
conference what their aims are, to get the convention, to get
the protocols, to get the agreement and implement it. We did set
targets, 2008-12[1]
is one, for achievement of the obligations we entered into. It
required us to be on track for everybody to ratify by 2002. All
the signs are that quite a lot of them, a majority I would imagine,
will have done that and hopefully it might be all. That is to
be achieved in 12 months to two years from the agreement; it is
less than that because Marrakesh was where the legal framework
was set for the objectives set at Kyoto. Within 12 months the
majority of those nations will have ratified. They have a date
imposed on them to implement by 2010-12. Looking at international
conventions, that is pretty fast movement, I have to tell you.
111. I will just press you a little further.
I take the point and I accept the point you are making that it
takes quite a lot of effort just to get people to agree and that
is a fair point to make and I am cognizant of it. Nevertheless,
a lot of your story here today is yes, we are near to getting
some progress on these things, people are shortly to ratify and
to sign up, but the thing that runs through is that it is going
to happen. What I want to come back to and press you on is that
a lot of it has not actually happened yet. How certain can you
be that whatever is agreed at Johannesburg is going to be implemented
further down the line?
(Mr Prescott) Can I go back to the criteria for what
we were wanting to do, namely to get a reduction in greenhouse
gases? Some countries are increasing, America for example, others
have begun to make their cuts in their programmes and are having
an effect. That is beginning to happen now. Before the convention
coming in we had targets. You have to start early enough and we
started early enough and we have got ahead of the game, admittedly
building on the advantage which came from the coal industry being
closed down. Given those circumstances, we have already achieved
half of the target which was set for us at that time, so have
the Germans, by Rio 1992. We have gone further since then by implementing
programmes. Europe has already started to implement. We are not
waiting for the ratification; it is making sense to do something
about it now. If you go to China and wonder why they are doing
it because they are not obliged under any treaty to do so, they
do know that the smog in their cities has a political effect on
their people and they are having to do something about it. They
know the effects of climate change on some of their rivers and
they are having to do something about it. Political pressures
are developing there. The curious thing is that China has now
cut gases far more than America with a greater growth than America
has. That is largely because they are using higher technology,
environmentally friendly technology, not because they have any
obligation under this treaty, but it just makes sense for them
to do, yet it does contribute to an actual reduction in greenhouse
gases; not a net reduction because that has to be balanced against
the kind of growth, but they have done considerably better in
America and no doubt it gives them great satisfaction to say that.
112. May I ask what the Government are doing
to tell the public about the preparations for this summit and
to educate the public about sustainability? Does it not seem that
a conflicting message is coming out, even perhaps this afternoon,
that some countries might want to sign up to a treaty, they might
want to bind themselves to doing something, but other countries,
if they are of sufficient power, can simply say it is all voluntary
and they will do what they like? The record of the current administration
when George W Bush was Governor of Texas was that the voluntary
approach simply did not work.
(Mr Prescott) We have an education programme within
our schools which achieves that. We have the bilateral agreements
with industry, co-operating together on how they may adjust to
achieve that. The whole climate change levy has been about that.
Frankly we have a press who are not interested in a positive story.
If you want to put what is going to happen in Kyoto they do not
want to know. They only want to know about rows. With one or two
honourable exceptions I can think of who do report seriously on
these matters, in the main most of them are not interested. They
only want to know if there is a row, if you are not going to make
it, about the problems of sustainability. A classic example was
when I went to visit coral reefs. Coral reefs are very important.
Now everybody thinks they are important whereas three or four
years ago it was "Prescott on holiday". Coral reefs
are very important. They are like the canary in pits which warned
the miners of gas. Dying coral reefs are a good indication of
what is going to happen to our oceans and seas and that is why
one of our objectives is to do a lot more about the oceans and
seas because a lot of people depend on them for their living,
whether fishing, access to water all sorts of things. Quite frankly
the positive aspects do not make a story. We keep plugging it
and trying to get it over but if we ring a journalist up and ask
to talk to them about sustainability they will say "Call
me next week".
113. The President of the United States says
our approach is voluntary then we have to work twice as hard to
get people on board. We could perhaps look at the period of the
petrol crisis to see that people do not accept we are doing enough
environmentally or indeed towards sustainability.
(Mr Prescott) Curiously enough I think it is the other
way about. If you are making it a requirement, you make changes.
The change creates a great deal of argument about the change itself
and then you have to argue the case for it. Increasing petrol
prices was a good example. You could argument an environment case
as to why fuel was far too cheap. The argument was as to what
the government tax level was on fuel. I hear that when I go abroad
from some of the Arab countries who make it clear that it is our
taxation programme. In reality we have discussed time and time
again here that if you want to use energy more effectively the
price mechanism is one way. You talk about the price of petrol
and whatever you say about it will be extremely controversial
and not very positive.
114. You said in your memorandum that you regarded
a successful outcome as being of high political importance. You
have talked this afternoon in broad general terms about some of
the key priorities for the UK, eradication of poverty, fresh water
and so on. I would assume that most people would view a successful
outcome from Johannesburg in terms of there being some new agreements
rather than just agreements on targets which already exist. What
would you see as the key things which would constitute a successful
outcome? What are the key agreements you would like to see?
(Mr Prescott) The first one is that people feel it
has been successful and there is no obvious breakdown. I do not
seek to make an obvious point but the conference they had in South
Africa on race was generally felt not to be the best example nor
the one in Seattle which I do not think was thought to be a good
conference. The first requirement is that people have felt it
was a good step forward and in trying to get that good step forward
is the agreement on all those things which will be defined as
making it successful. The climate change one was more difficult
because it meant major changes, as the Americans have pointed
out, to their economy but we had the same questions with our economy.
When you come to the issues we are dealing with, which we have
identified as UK priorities, namely the poverty eradication, application
and development of scientific and technical knowledge so these
countries can develop, transfer of technologies, help with investment
which is more environmentally sustainable, the fresh water and
oceans, sustainable development issues particularly for Africa
because we have identified there countries largely being left
behind in this process, access to modern energy, controversial
again, capacity building and education, whilst there will be an
element of controversy, you do find a common consent that it is
terrible that in this world one billion people live on less than
one dollar a day, that one billion people cannot get access to
clean water, that so many of the kids have no chance of education.
If you want countries to develop and prosper, they certainly have
to have the education. The fact is that they spend more on interest
rate debts than they spend on health and education and we have
been at the forefront of trying to reduce the debt responsibilities.
They are all important issues which have a real consensus of support
in the Group 77 and the developed countries. The concern which
arises is how to deliver more effectively than we do at the moment
because there is a great belief that finding resources is not
enough. You need a degree of governance in those countries which
in some cases is not there and you need to bring that alongside
these programmes. You help them in the governance, you help them
with targets, but they help deliver those targets themselves.
115. You said earlier that there was a possibility
that some of the targets, some of the proposals which were being
mentioned in the preparatory conferences were over ambitious.
Do you think it is going to be possible to achieve an agenda which
really is action oriented? On some of the issues we are discussing
such as poverty eradication it is very easy to find lots of people
who will say, yes, of course we want to eradicate poverty, and
rather more difficult to get down to specifics and to something
which really is action oriented. Do you think there is a danger
that we will end up with something which rather than being over-ambitious
is actually too vague and not very clear in terms of specifics?
(Mr Prescott) Yes, it is a very real problem and the
crucial moment will come in the conference in May when the final
preparatory conference takes place and the Ministers endorse the
agenda to go to South Africa. That is the kind of route map in
a way. It is important therefore that in these targets we are
setting for ourselves we may have to do something else. For example,
recognition of poverty in this country is far different from Africa.
You begin to identify that the definition of poverty is a dollar
a day. Clare, our International Development Minister has been
very much involved in investigating whether we direct our aid
to those countries where the GDP is below a certain level or above
it though they are still called developing countries. These are
questions where we have to draw a line and develop a kind of progressive
universalism. They all need to be helped in the process of their
development but in a progressive way because some of the countries
have just been left behind and they need to have more help in
the process because they need more help. That means you have to
define it. Will the rest of the world accept, for example, that
the trust fund which was to be set up to meet all the millennium
aimswhich were defined, reducing by half those who do not
have access to water, sanitation, education, we set figures on
themfor 2015 would cost something like £50 billion.
Half of that would go to Africa, which shows just how far Africa
has got behind in this process and that is why the Prime Minister
has given such importance to it. If you want to say it used to
be between the rich and the developing countries or the developed
and the developing, you now have some countries which are well
ahead of others in the developing-country stage and I believe
we have to set a progressive approach to that and give more help
to those countries. If you can do that, plus set the targets,
then it becomes practical. I am bound to tell you that in my experience
of talking to some of the developing countries they recognise
that needs to be done as long as they are not totally cut out
of the picture.
116. May I talk a bit about the co-ordination
of policy in the run-up to the summit? I think it is fair to say
that the UKand this is recognised by a number of NGOsis
one of the better prepared countries in the run-up to Johannesburg.
Even so, the UK itself got off to a pretty slow start. The UNED
were advocating preparations as early as back in 1998-99 and it
was really only in 2000 that things began to get cracking. Was
that a matter of resources? Could you have done more to prepare
it even more thoroughly if you had had greater resources to enable
you to do that?
(Mr Prescott) It is a very interesting question. We
were caught very much in trying to get Kyoto to be successful
and we were playing the same role of thinking this was the major
change we had to make. The public had a feeling that something
was going wrong in climate change so a lot of political energy
went into that, there is no doubt. UN conferences were taking
place on sustainability, on fishing, on oceans, all those things
as well, so we were not cut off from that. In the main it is probably
right to say that we did not begin to give more attention until
later in 2000 and certainly in discussions I had with the Prime
Minister I thought it was very important for us to focus on that.
September 11 came as an opportunity to say that if all this energy,
this commitment, could be brought together to deal with global
terrorism, which is quite correct, why can the world not get to
deal with poverty in the same way. Why can we not give the same
effort and energy to doing it? That gave us the focus. To be fair,
I think we moved a lot faster than any other country in that sense.
We began to focus on what our priorities are. We talked to all
these different countries, the Prime Minister, myself, the Foreign
Secretary. I used to find when I asked people if they were going
to be attending the conference on sustainability that a glaze
would come over their eyes as I tried to explain what it was.
It is not that they are not aware of many things which are going
on, it is just one of those small parts. They saw it as a conference
which would create a massive number of demands and they say it
is going to be another talking shop. Our job was to shake that
down to see whether there were practical possibilities and to
make sure that objectives are achieved from which you can say
it is a successful conference. Let me be clear about that. The
timetable is limiting. There is not a great deal of time for preparation.
When you prepare from the bottom up as the Secretary General said
to me, everybody throws everything onto the camel until all of
a sudden you have to fight through that and try to get to a common
agreement. We did that by focusing on those categories I have
talked about, but it does mean that we cannot be too ambitious.
I cannot believe for a second that you will get such a detailed
action problem that will lead to something being achieved within
a month and then you all start on it. I do not think it will work
that way and it does not normally. If you can see this within
the context of a new global architecture, that basically the Doha
agreement on trade, the Monterrey agreement on finance and sustainability
now being brought together under one umbrella to achieve that
real sustainability which reflects the same principles and targets
all agreed, we are bringing them down to one focus, not like separate
operations, trade, finance, sustainability, to make it a practical
thing. The goal is well worth it even if it takes you a little
time to achieve these objectives. Let us get one small step we
can call success, not a large one which fails and nothing is done
for the next ten years.
117. You made a comparison with the effort in
fighting terrorism. Just to take a very simple example, the MOD
has over 300,000 who are concentrating on that quite hard, plus
the police and everybody else. How many officials in your Central
Policy Group are actually working directly on the preparation
for the summit?
(Mr Prescott) While he thinks about the answer may
I give one response which comes to mind immediately when you ask
that question and it is important? America's intervention in Afghanistan
is apparently costing £50 billion. That is the same amount
as the trust fund for the world.
118. How many people?
(Mr Wood) Three of us are working more or less full
time on this but I would point out that we are only a small part
of the whole Whitehall machine. There are many teams of officials
across Whitehall in a range of departments, particularly DEFRA,
DFID, Foreign Office, Treasury. We are a small part of a much
bigger picture.
119. Three of you specifically with the Deputy
Prime Minister's staff.
(Mr Wood) Yes.


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I'm looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow morning at the opening day of the Four Mile Run Farmers and Artisans Market from 9am to 1pm! I'm also happy to announce on Earth Day that we have started a jar buy-back program! Bring your Switch Doctor pint or quart jars back to any Switch Doctor farmers market location and you will receive a quarter!
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Though the two women had never met, they soon were trading names, each taking stock of whom the other knew in Chicago's Jewish community.
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Whether for a birthday, anniversary, graduation, Father's Day, bar mitzvah, parole hearing, promotion, or just because we choose gifts for special people in our lives to represent our feelings about them on their special occasion.
Brides are given gifts that are useful in setting up a new home. College graduates might receive a professional-looking black leather briefcase or maybe a fancy pen.
And don't forget the oohs and aahs associated with baby shower gifts of onesies and cuddly blankets.
What about someone going off to college for the very first time, learning to take care of themselves for the very first time with no parental involvement? No reminders of when-to-d0-what?
What would the perfect gift be for them?
Maybe an alarm clock, a bottle of multi-vitamins, laundry soap, an umbrella, an endless supply of clean underwear, or maybe a bottle of aspirin and a box of band-aids?
Amphibious frogs that live in a tiny tank and spend their whole lives imitating fish with legs.
Apparently when you are just learning to be responsible for yourself, remembering to eat on a regular basis and do your own laundry, the next logical step is to give you two more lives to be responsible for.
My son came home from a good friend's house with two frogs, given to him by the friend's mother as a going away gift.
He thought they were pretty cool, but it was a total surprise to him.
And me.
I'm pretty sure this breaks section 5, article 23 of The Mom Code, which stipulates "under no circumstances are you to gift anything that breathes or poops to the child of another mother."
But off to college the frogs went, sloshing around in their plastic
prison tank and most likely getting carsick on the way.
I'm so skeptical they'll survive life in the dorms that I've actually wagered money on them.
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This July, two of the UK's biggest broadband providers are going head-to-head to offer you the best broadband and sports TV deal. For a limited time you can take home a winning package from Sky, with free superfast internet and discounted sports TV.
Sky's move follows BT's announcement in May that more than five million BT Broadband customers will get free access to three new BT Sport channels from August 1, with 38 exclusively live Barclays Premier League matches, 69 live Aviva Premiership Rugby matches, action from the FA Cup final, Scottish Premier league, tennis and motor-racing.
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William Hunt has played with the RPO since 1975. Since 1988, he has also been concertmaster of the Penfield Symphony Orchestra. Other orchestral posts include the Music in the Mountains Festival Orchestra, Filarmonica de las Americas, Canary Islands Opera Festival Orchestra, Lake Placid Sinfonietta, Fredonia Chamber Players, Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra and concertmaster of the Ann Arbor Symphony. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Cincinnati, master's degree from the University of Michigan and an MBA from the University of Rochester's William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration.


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Artist: Vernian Process
Album: Behold the Machine
Reviewer: Jim Zombie
Date: 12-20-09
Vernian Process, originally a self-proclaimed Steampunk project, coined the term Steamwave, a sort of joke, which actually describes the band's sound quite accurately. Behold the Machine is an album of diverse styles and a grand multitude of influences. Many of the influences listed on the bands website can be noticed throughout the album. Everything from New Wave, Synthpop, Death Metal, Triphop, Cabaret and more are all here and distilled into a fine musical elixir that will grab the attention of the jaded music critic or enthusiast alike.
Behold the Machine throws us into a dark world of machines, upheaval, apocalypse, vengeance, misanthropy and melancholy. We are also treated to unexpected experiences such as tragic love in the track, "Her Clockwork Heart". There is also a track reminiscent of a silent film score "The Maple Leaf Rag" and a stunning instrumental piece that attempts, quite successfully, to recreate the "Maiden Voyage", presumably, of a grand steampunk Victorianesque flying machine.
This album has an amazing combination of synthetic and sampled sounds alongside live instruments. Clanking cogs accompany bells and chimes chassed by wonderful piano melodies, brooding strings and guitar riffs that range from hypnotic to lingering distorted chords. "The Alchemists Vision", with a New Wave and Gothic-Victorian blend and a hint of electro, is a wonderful track that will be making its way into my play lists for a long time to come. Queen of the Delta, with its Massive Attack VS The Tea Party sound, though quite different from the rest of the album is another track high on my list of favourites from this release.
Why not check the album out now, though not fully mastered yet, it is available from the bands website for a limited time. We can expect to here the complete album anytime now.
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Gasoline prices at the pump have passed the inflation-adjusted record set 30 years ago this month.
Gasoline prices at the pump are running above the inflation-adjusted record for the month of March set 30 years ago — and the summer driving season, when prices traditionally are higher, is still months away.
According to the American Petroleum Institute, the $1.417 a gallon average that motorists were paying at the pumps in March 1981 would be equivalent to $3.464 a gallon today once adjusted for inflation.
AAA's ongoing price survey showed prices were averaging $3.578 a gallon nationwide and $3.579 across Florida by Monday morning.
The highest gasoline prices traditionally occur during the summer, when demand increases. The March record set this month, while high, still would pale next to the summer record from 2008, when the national average price for regular/unleaded gasoline topped $4 a gallon.
Analysts point to several factors driving prices beyond the 30-year-old March record.
The institute determined that taxes collected on a gallon of gasoline average 48.1 cents per gallon. The calculations were based on 18.4 cents per gallon in federal taxes and 29.7 cents per gallon in volume-weighted average state taxes. That would make gas taxes 36.3 percent higher than they were in March 1981. Back then, the institute said, the inflation-adjusted federal and state taxes were 35.3 cents per gallon.
Another factor driving prices higher is the price of crude oil, which has been bumped higher recently by political unrest in Libya and the Mideast.
In her weekly news release, AAA spokesman Jessica Brady said, "Libya's production and exports of light, sweet crude will remain on hiatus for quite some time after the unrest forced refineries to shut down and remain closed. Although Libya produces about 5 percent of the world's oil supply, the country refines light, sweet crude that is universally used and is the purest and easiest oil to refine."
Meanwhile, recent statistics released by the federal government show the U.S. economy grew more than expected during the last quarter of 2010. The 3.1 annual percentage rate achieved in the fourth quarter of 2010 was credited with pushing oil prices higher as well.
In addition, Americans are earning and spending more this year, but a lot of the extra money is going in their gas tanks. Gas prices have drained more than half the extra cash Americans are getting from a cut in Social Security taxes.
Unlike some other kinds of spending, paying more for gas doesn't help the economy much. Most of the money goes overseas, and higher prices leave people with less money to buy appliances, computers, plane tickets and other things that can be postponed.
"When food and gasoline prices are rising, it causes people to hunker down," said Chris G. Christopher Jr., senior economist at IHS Global Insight.
Consumer spending jumped 0.7 percent last month, and personal incomes rose 0.3 percent, the Commerce Department said Monday. Both gains reflected the cut of two percentage points in the Social Security tax.
They also illustrated how higher gas prices are stressing household budgets. After adjusting for inflation, spending rose just 0.3 percent. After-tax incomes actually fell 0.1 percent.
The Social Security tax cut will give most households an additional $1,000 to $2,000 this year. In December, when President Barack Obama signed it into law, economists predicted higher take-home pay would lead to more spending and stronger economic growth.
But gas prices have jumped more than 50 cents a gallon this year.
There's also a psychological factor when gas prices, a consumer necessity, keep rising. Those higher prices tend to rattle consumer confidence. People feel poorer, and they're less likely to spend freely.
Ultimately, less spending can hurt job growth because businesses will feel less confident.
Christopher said a rise of just 25 cents a gallon in gasoline prices, if it persisted for an entire year, could cost the economy 270,000 jobs.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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Backpack (coyote)
The Coyote Backpack is a 24 slot backpack with the ability to carry 4 secondary weapons or two primary weapons or any combination thereof, and is tied with the Czech Backpack as the largest backpack currently available. Due to the similar name, new players often confuse it with the Patrol Pack (coyote). It is shorter and wider than the Czech Backpack and is less thick, thus making it less bulky than the Czech Backpack. However it features a beige desert camouflage, which contrasts the woodland environment of Chernarus, thus making the wearer a glaring target for bandits or otherwise unfriendly survivors. The player must thus be extremely careful when moving in high traffic areas, such as cities or the NWAF. They are typically found in military buildings such as fire stations, airfields and deer stands.
People will shoot you no matter what backpack you are wearing.
Running around with this thing on makes people wanna kill you. Nuff said.
its not a target on you back when you have a ghilie ;) enough said! go GHILIE
This thing is a target on your back but it is worth the risk
Honestly if someone is going to shoot you they are going to shoot you weather you have a coyote or not. So if I find one I take it. It gives you so much room for a weapon, ammo, food, and whatever. I play solo so I have to carry cooked meet and this lets me do that and carry everything else you need in days. The point is it is a step up from an alice pack so id just take it because if I see someone with any backpack, besides the starter one, i'm going to shoot them because there is a good chance they have something good...
All guns other than pistols/pdw take up 10 slots in a backpack. Pistols take up 6.
"DZ_Backpack_EP1" in code.
I was surprised to find this backpack on a dead begginer near the shore. Almost didn't noticed as I thought it was a Patrol Pack (coyote) but after examining the image I figured it is diffrent. But I wonder how he managed to get it?
just found one of these in a deer stand, nice backpack. Its very big so you can easily be seen, best thing is you wear it with a ghilly suit :D
Yea but if you have a Czech vest pack and your buddy has a large coyote he would be the first one to be shot
I like using this backpack but.... Sniping with my DMR without a ghilly suit is a pain some advice to snipers IT IS VERY OBVIOUS
I thought they were commonly found in Barracks. I was wrong. You have a better chance finding them in Medium yield (ATC Towers and Firestations) and Stary Sobor. Only by 0,08 % though. So you have as much chance to find a DMR as a Coyote Backpack when you are scanning the coast.
Why does it say 6 weapon slots, i thought you could only fit 2 in it?
Where are these commonly found?
hey how many slots do weapons take?? im to noob to ever get anything other than pistol and shotty. and are assault rifles less than snipers? shotty's less then assault rifles? ect. How does it work? please help me!!!
I love how this is easier to find at ATC, firestation, hangers, and deer stands than at barracks
"It's a target on your back" I see what you did there!!!!
I was just in a barrack in NWAF and found it. For some reason I thought that Alice is the biggest but then I checked it here and read that:
"Running around with this thing on makes people wanna kill you. Nuff said."
I opened the game again took the backpack and like 5 secs later a sniper tried to kill my through the window (there were just around 5 people on the whole server, coincedence?) Hehe was pretty ironic. At least I survived...
These are found in airfield hangers and military buildings
These are the best pack you can find, from what I have seen. Alice packs have 20, these have 24.
guys, when it says 6 weapon slots, it means it can hold 6 secondaries ( they take up 5 slots) and 2 primaries ( 10 slots). this still means its wrong, because if anyone knows their maths 5 goes into 24 4 and 4/5 times.
so... can u carry weapons and stuff??
like 6 m16a2 and 24 extra slots?
Love this backpack i got it at the NW Airfield i was running around with a hord of zombie's after me when i see a player crouch running i killed him with my M14 AIM i ran over to him and i realized he had a Coyote Backpack and a AS50, FN FAL NV, M9 SD, and some other usefull supplies :D
Why do people say that you need to be in a military building? I just found One of these in the Balota medical camp... In a deer stand... I also found a AK Kobra and a M1014... So The its technical military structures.
I barely find this....I've found it like only 3-5 times legitly throughout all my gameplay....no matter what map I play on.


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Man accused of selling pot appears in court
March 30, 2004
One of three men arrested on suspicion of possessing almost 3 pounds of marijuana appeared in Routt County Court on Tuesday.
Lucas Merle English, Jason Saint Onge Odea and Adam Daniel Gelbart were scheduled to make their first appearance in court Tuesday.
All three were in a vehicle in which a Colorado State Patrol trooper found drugs and $12,500 in cash during a routine traffic stop Dec. 22, according to police reports.
They were arrested on suspicion of possessing 8 ounces or more of marijuana and possessing marijuana with intent to distribute.
Only English, 24, of Boulder, appeared in court Tuesday. English was charged with possession with intent to distribute. Routt County Judge James Garrecht continued his case for a status hearing April 14.
Odea, 23, of Steamboat Springs, who was charged with driving under the influence, possession of drug paraphernalia and weaving, had his first appearance in court continued to April 28.
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The case against Gelbart, 24, of Steamboat Springs, was dismissed after investigations did not find fingerprints on any of the evidence, court files indicate. The District Attorney's Office dismissed the case March 22.
Odea was driving a 1998 Toyota Tacoma on Dec. 22 when he allegedly cut off Trooper Ryan Parker. When pulled over, Odea showed signs of being intoxicated, Parker noted in his report, and failed voluntary roadside maneuvers.
After Odea consented to have his truck searched, Parker said he found three large bags of marijuana weighing 2.87 pounds and $12,500 in $5 to $100 bills in a backpack.
When Parker interviewed the men, all said they did not own the marijuana or the money or know where it came from, the trooper's report states.
English, who was the front-seat passenger, also had a pill bottle containing marijuana, the report stated. A pipe with burned marijuana residue also was found.
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d. Dec. 23, 1971, Prescott, Az.
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d/o Irwin Elsworth & Mertice Theora (Lawrence) Rice
Nearest relative, daughter, Kay Morgan, Florence, Az.
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Memory Chapel Mortuary, Prescott, Az.
Buried Dec. 27, 1971
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NCIS: Los Angeles Review: Touché?Carla Day at . Comments
After pulling off an elaborate scam against the Iranians, the NCIS:Los Angeles team members all took a well deserved vacation in "Recruit," returning to face one of the toughest and oddest cases so far: an international terrorist group hostage scheme.
This case started out fairly routine with them looking into a former Marine David Adams, who was found killed in a U.S. drone strike against a terrorist refuge in Afghanistan. What possible reason could he have been there?
Did the former Marine turn against his country and go back to Afghanistan to fight with the terrorists? His family, co-workers and even ex-military comrades insisted he wouldn't do that. They thought he had taken a job out-of-state to earn extra money to support his new baby on the way.
NCIS tracked Adams' employment to a company called ATAMA, which Sam and Callen went to investigate. The empty office they found was eerie and appeared to be a front for something nefarious, especially when the lone employee started shooting at them.
It turned out that Adams didn't turn against his country; rather he thought he was going back to Afghanistan on a private ops mission to help. Instead, the company paid a large upfront bonus to recruit former military personnel and then held them hostage. ATAMA dealt in former military human trafficking.
The team immediately set out to save these recruits and bring down this terrorist network with a quickly put together plan. The ease at which they moved through the airport, saved the recruit and knocked out the ATAMA rep was swift and amazing to watch.
It was only slightly better than the attack on the compound. Kensi was a brilliant diversion in her black burqa. They took down the terrorists in a storm of gunfire. They saved the recruits and the mission was a success. In and out with no problems.
The gang even got to fly first class on the way home, where Sam showed interest in Deeks' vacation photos saving Kensi from hours of torture. And Hetty could watch them slumber on the plane via remote cameras. Hetty the Spy!
One of the best parts of the episode was the hilarious banter between the teammates. I'm not sure which is my favorite: Touché? The geeks' favorite elements? Blaming a mistake on Mossad? Trained seal? Which was your favorite? The witty writing on NCIS: Los Angeles separates it from the other procedural shows on television. Well, and the car chases and gun fights!
NCIS: Los Angeles has started off its fourth season with a pair of incredible episodes.
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Nicole Kidman talks about surrogacy decision
Nicole Kidman opened up to the Australian 60 Minutes about her painful struggle with infertility and how she desperately wanted another child.
Nicole Kidman and her husband Keith Urban are happy parents after just welcoming a baby December 28 via a surrogate or gestational carrier. Kidman, 43, revealed that her struggle to conceive a second child has been difficult and that she "had a roller coaster ride with fertility."
Besides their newest addition, baby Faith, they are also the parents of Sunday, whom Kidman gave birth to two years ago. She also has two adopted children with ex-husband Tom Cruise. She had a miscarriage shortly before the couple divorced.
"Anyone that's been in the place of wanting another child or wanting a child knows the disappointment, the pain and the loss that you go through trying and struggling with fertility," Kidman told Australia's 60 Minutes. "Fertility is such a big thing, and it's not something I've ever run away from talking about."
After giving birth to Sunday, Kidman said she struggled with getting pregnant again so she and Urban decided to use a surrogate. "We were in a place of desperately wanting another child. This opportunity arose for us, and I couldn't get pregnant."
After announcing the birth of baby Faith, the couple expressed their gratitude to their surrogate. "No words can adequately convey the incredible gratitude that we feel for everyone who was so supportive throughout this process, in particular our gestational carrier."
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Many people don't realise that the ethanol contained in alcohol is, in fact, a drug. Produced as a result of the fermentation process, it affects almost all of the body's cells and systems.
Alcohol is absorbed directly into the bloodstream through the walls of the stomach and small intestine, where it is rapidly distributed to all parts of the body including the brain.
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It would be Kylie, a 10th grader, who decided to step up to the plate and ask Daniel to go to homecoming! Turns out Kylie is different than other students in that she doesn't believe that kids with challenges or disabilities are different from anyone else.
Daniel's mother was shocked at the gesture by Kylie. She loved how Kylie refused to see that a "disability" should define Daniel. The local news were also moved by this wonderful girl and decided to surprise them!
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Since 1985 Dr. Cotterill has had a private practice in Toronto, Canada, as well as consulting in New York City, limited exclusively to hair restoration. He has written extensively on hair transplantation and has been published in numerous textbooks, as well as lecturing internationally. He was the 1998 Annual Meeting Chairman for the ISHRS in Washington D.C. In addition to his surgical practice and being an honorary lecturer for the University of Toronto, Department of Dermatology, Dr. Cotterill has been an investigator for the Upjohn and Merck pharmaceutical company's on drugs aimed at slowing down or reversing male pattern baldness. Dr. Cotterill is an active member of numerous medical societies including the Canadian Society of Hair Restoration Surgery and The International Society of Hair Resoration Surgery, for which he has served on the Board of Governors and is a past President of the ISHRS. Dr. Cotterill is board certified with the American Board of Hair Restoration Surgery (ABHRS) and has been on the Board of Directors for the ABHRS as well as being an examiner. Dr Cotterill is a proud member of Operation Restore, the ISHRS Pro Bono Committee. He is also the current Chair of the Continuing Medical Education Comittee for the ISHRS. For the province of Ontario , Canada , Dr Cotterill is an out of hospital premise inspector of hair transplant clinics for the College of Physician and Surgeons of Ontario.
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What kind of mum do you think you are?
When they were very little I was doing television at night so I was a full time mother with them. I was always very much around. I'd always have fun with them meeting up with other mums and their kids. Or we'd be at the beach or having picnics. I'm a very accessible, loving and warm parent. You have to guide them but you can't be domineering. Parenting doesn't stay on one plane, you have to mold and adapt.
How do you maintain the mother/daughter bond?
We'll walk the dogs together and we'll do laps in the pool. We've got an oval where we go and take the dogs or kick the footy or run around. Georgia keeps active by doing the gym and I do too, so we'll sometimes do a Pilates class together or a Body Attack together. Mostly we both like to exercise outside. We both have that common interest in nutrition and exercise.
How did you instill such a good approach to health in your daughter?
I had a career in modelling and television and I was very careful not to drag her to castings when she was younger because I was very aware of body image issues. She's very sporty and she was always just into her exercise and worked hard through team sports. As you watch your daughter grow up you let out a sigh of relief when they make it through pubescence that they make it through without any food issues or eating disorders or things like that. She's found out the best way to get fit and healthy.
What do you enjoy about walking together?
When Georgia and I walk there may be things that she hasn't brought up but when we're on a walk she will. I walk everyday with my husband and the dogs and it's like therapy you talk about what's on your mind. I think it's great for mothers and daughters. I'd love my sons (Jock, 20 and Charlie, 18) to come with me!
What's the biggest parenting lesson you've learned?
I've been very hands on and now the kids are older I have to tell myself not to ask too many questions and to be there and to be interested but not as hands on as I was. Yes, you want to create a bond but you don't want to smother them.
What's something you hope you've instilled in your children?
To be optimistic and if they're passionate about something to go for that passion but to also have a fall back plan. You just want the best for your kids.
What do you enjoy doing together as a family?
Everybody loves surfing and holidays at the beach in summer. We like going up to the oval sometimes and chucking a footy together or watching a movie together. Just having nice family time.
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Hi!! I'd like to pick people's brains for an idea, I'm going to post here and on the general nursing, hopefully someone can help. I'm a nursing assistant instructor and I'm graduating my first class on Friday. I got them all travel mugs that I'm filling with little things....pens, little Purel hand gels, Motrin packets (lol!), chocolate, etc....what I'm having a little problem with is the travel mugs. I got the kind that I can put my own art (or whatever) into. I was thinking of putting some clip art, or funny quotes that pertain to CNAs. I've been searching and got some ideas, but does anyone out there have any funny quotes or comics that pertain to CNAs? I'd like to keep it funny, I'm big in trying to keep up a good attitude in such a difficult and frustrating field, and I was hoping that if I put something funny on the mug the students could read it on a bad day and hopefully get a little smile. Any ideas? Thanks so much for any help!!
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Specialty: 10 year(s) of experienceDec 19, '06wow! You must have a plethora of extra cashflow! I didn't make NEARLY enough $$ when teaching certified nursing assistants to do all that for their xmas, nor graudation gifts!
LOL...anyway....let's see....how about little stick figure cartoon characteristics of cnas? Or mockups of scrub tops? the cartoon characters of those? animals? don't know how well you can draw or whatever, that IS a hard one to answer! LOL
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There are three things I do not plan to trade in my bid to become an incredibly successful attorney. One is my sanity, two is my faith in God and three is a relatively balanced life. That being said – I still have to do (and PASS) my darn exams.
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April 16, 2014 08:15 ET
IRVINE, CA--(Marketwired - Apr 16, 2014) - Lantronix, Inc. (NASDAQ: LTRX), a leading global provider of smart IoT (Internet of Things) solutions, today announced that the Company will report its financial results for its fiscal 2014 third quarter ended March 31, 2014 on Wednesday, April 30, 2014 after market close.
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I'm feeling awful today because, I had to have a Vitamin D injection! I have to finish 'Fire's hand-written draft by tomorrow! I'm just three chapters away but, feel really awful. I still haven't decided who to go for but, I have narrowed it down to two in my mind that I would love to share this amazing story with. Bronwyn's Editions or Samhain Publishing!
The writers, women in the Cafe at Samhain Publishing are just wonderful. I have enjoyed sharing the Pictures, Video's, Book insights and more that they are all up too. My email box is always buzzing now. Thanks to them I really want to publish a book with Samhain some day because, I think they will get my writing better then any other of the people who I have shared my writing so far with.
I have just realised that as soon as I finish 'Fire' then am going to have to start work on making 'A Different Life; Three Lane Highway' alot better because, I feel that its the book that might be able to get signed at Samhain if I really polish it up. That will be hard I know but, I know I can do it. That series deserves to be read and to be cherished! I have a feeling that the wonderful women in the Cafe will be those people. From there I know that I can go out and make the book something that the 'Hardy's, TNA and the WWE' will want to be involved with. I will though need you all to help me with that by buying it when it comes out again.
I hope though through sharing my mind with you all that their will be a fan connection that you will never forget. I am aiming to not be like those people who have caused me to have a bad fan experiences in the past. I hope that this will be a good thing for me to do in the future because, I am going to use Twitter alot more, set up a fan space section of Facebook. That way if someone leaves me a message then I will answer. The same with Myspace. I wouldn't be like some of the people I idealise that go on the sites tell people their thoughts but, then ignore them because they are famous and we aren't.
*Rant over promise*
I want to remind my readers on here to please check out two shows that am able to chill out too. They have a different set of humour but, you are guaranteed a laugh though The Hardy Show might just also shock you too. Both of these shows I can see on our TV screens at some point in the future because, the people who are in them are just have the energy that makes both of the shows click.
The Hardy Show is a mixed entertainment show that reaches out to all audiences and type of people out there. They make you laugh with some of their comedy and they can scare you with the Y-Light-Zone along with the documentaries that are about there lives as wrestlers is something else. Jeff's story of how his house burns down in that accident brings me to tears. Its a story that can't help but, warm your heart.
The Neighbros that is on the Internet and has been recently getting alot of attention is great to watch. I feel inspiration from there shows and it gives me a really good laugh. The characters in it are well developed as well as the concept. Scott M Foster has made the show something to watch out for with his already building success from his lead role in 'Greek' while his co-actor Jaimie Jon has made the show have the perfect balance that something like that would need. You will see some great camera angles that make it look very professional and good enough to be aired on a Network TV. You also get to see a side of humour that makes it really worth watching.
So here are the links to these great shows and I hope that you will enjoy them just as much as I do. I will say to those of you have seen my comments as well as my thoughts on the recent conversation with Scott M Foster who never replied. He is a great actor, even if he only picks and chooses who to reply to then that is his deal. I might not agree with his online fan attitude but, I wouldn't stop supporting him because, his work and talent deserve the attention and the endless success that I feel like he deserves.
Neighbros are a free show while the Hardy show is a couple of Dollars that when you watch there shows you will realise are worth every cent (penny if your UK). I wish both shows the ultimate respect and I will always be a Hardy Show Mark and hope to make a contribution to there shows.
That will be my blog for now I hope to do an interview soon and will keep you as updated as possible but, with not being well at the moment am limited to what I can do. Big hugs to you all,
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The 2005 Windows release of GTA:SA included a mod that allowed players to enter the main character's bedroom and control his actions while he had sex with his various girlfriends. Initially, there was no nudity involved, but crafty programmers soon figured out how to disrobe the women.
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Structural and chemical ordering of Heusler Co xMn yGe z epitaxial films on Ge (111). Quantitative study using traditional and anomalous x-ray diffraction techniques
We found that epitaxial films of Co xMn yGe z grown on Ge (111) substrates by molecular-beam-epitaxy techniques have been investigated as a continuous function of composition using combinatorial synchrotron x-ray diffraction (XRD) and x-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectroscopy techniques. A high-resolution ternary epitaxial phase diagram is obtained, revealing a small number of structural phases stabilized over large compositional regions. Ordering of the constituent elements in the compositional region near the full Heusler alloy Co 2MnGe has been examined in detail using both traditional XRD and a new multiple-edge anomalous diffraction (MEAD) technique. Multiple-edge anomalous diffraction involves analyzing the energy dependence of multiple reflections across each constituent absorption edge in order to detect and quantify the elemental distribution of occupation in specific lattice sites. Results of this paper show that structural and chemical ordering are very sensitive to the Co : Mn atomic ratio, such that the ordering is the highest at an atomic ratio of 2 but significantly reduced even a few percent off this ratio. The in-plane lattice is nearly coherent with that of the Ge substrate, while the approximately 2% lattice mismatch is accommodated by the out-of-plane tetragonal strain. Furthermore, the quantitative MEAD analysis reveals no detectable amountmore »
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- Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (United States)
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
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- Physical Review. B, Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
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- Journal Volume: 92; Journal Issue: 22; Journal ID: ISSN 1098-0121
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- American Physical Society (APS)
- Research Org:
- Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
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Interchange: Engaging Students Through the Arts in St. Louis
What is Arts Integration?
Arts integration incorporates the arts throughout the learning process by infusing some form of art, such as theater, music, dance, drawing, poetry, or other expression of creativity, into the core curriculum. It is experiential in nature and encourages learning by "doing." Using arts and cultural resources to expand the ways teachers teach and students learn has been proved to achieve measurable results. Arts integration also helps develop the whole child, ensuring a well-rounded education.
Integrating arts and cultural programs throughout the learning process is an addition to — not a substitution for — fine arts classes. Interchange strongly supports classes devoted exclusively to instruction in art and music, in addition to having a full range of the arts as part of the learning experience in all subject areas.
Click here to read about some examples of arts integration at work in the St. Louis Public Schools in the 2007-2008 school year.
How does arts integration work?
The arts engage students in learning and ensure that all students grasp key concepts by reaching beyond textbooks and lectures.
What can we expect from Interchange's partnership with the St. Louis Public Schools?
Arts integration is a model that is working to improve student outcomes in urban public schools across the country.
In St. Louis, we can expect:
Improved student performance. read more
In a national study of 25,000 middle and high school students, those who participated in arts learning performed significantly better than their counterparts on standardized tests, across all socio-economic backgrounds.
In Dallas, fourth grade students benefiting from a curriculum involving programming with area arts and cultural partners demonstrated improved performance on literacy measures of vocabulary, organization, personal voice and overall writing compared to their peers.
Fourth graders in Cleveland with three to six semesters of arts-integrated curriculum performed significantly higher on the 2004 Ohio Proficiency Test in reading, writing, math, science and citizenship when compared to Cleveland students with only one or two semesters of arts-integrated learning.
Improved critical thinking skills. read more
Success in today's world requires innovative thinkers people with imagination and creative problem solving skills beyond the "basics" of reading and math. Arts integration enables students to comprehend the basics while building their capacity for creativity and innovation.
A 2007 national poll of likely voters found that almost nine in ten agree that imagination is important to innovation and student success. Fifty-six percent of voters believe that compared to other nations America devotes less time to developing the imagination and innovation. Seventy-three percent believe that building capacities of the imagination are just as important as "the basics" for students in public education.
Expanded teaching skills that engage the whole child. read more
Weaving the arts with the standard subjects is important because not all children learn in the same way. Using the arts to bring the curriculum to life encourages active learning and embraces the learning styles, abilities and needs of all students.
Improved outcomes related to overall school culture and attendance. read more
Students excited about learning are excited about coming to school. At Jefferson Elementary in St. Louis, not a single student missed a single day during a four-month arts-integrated unit on the Civil Rights era.
Want to learn more about arts integration? Click here for some recommended sites to visit.Examples
Click here to see some examples of Arts Integration.