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" Brand: Asda / Type: Sports bottle "
I often take a bottle to work to refill there rather than buy bottled water which is in my opinion ridiculously expensive. This water bottle was about £1.50 from Asda a few months ago, mum bought it for me as she had read that its not safe to re-use a coke bottle for water.
The bottle is blue plastic with a sports cap you can just pull up and suck from. It's looking in good condition still after 2 or 3 months. I usually wash it in just warm water every so often.
The bottle is one of the few I have used that doesn't leak!! I have tried bottles before and gone back to using a coke bottle, or had to wrap everything in a sandwich bag! It's a relief not to have to do that with this bottle, and its hopefully not infection me with something from the plastic in the coke bottles.
This bottle holds 500ml. As doctors say 2 liters is recommended to drink of water every day, this is a good way to try and get that fluid intake.
Recommended! It has probably paid for itself because I don't have to buy bottled water.
This bottle cost me £1.20 from Asda. It is available in pink and blue, I own the pink version. £1.20 isn't a high price at all but it is more expensive than Poundland bottles which I haven't actually tried so can't compare them.
I quite like the look of the bottle, it is quite a bright colour which stops it looking boring, the blue is one is a nice, bright colour too. These are 200ml which is very small for a water bottle. I definitely wouldn't call this a sports bottle, I don't think it holds enough water. A can of coke is 330mls which gives you an idea of how small this bottle actually is. I think it would be good if you just want to bring a small drink with you or for a kids lunch box. The small size does have its benefits though, it makes it easy to carry and convenient.
The quality of the bottle is just fine, it's better than others I have used which have seemed more like a disposable bottle because of the bad quality of the plastic. It is sturdy enough and the cap is secure. To open the cap you just lift it up with your fingers which gives you access to drink from it, then you press it back down afterwards and it does stay put.
I have had a lot of drinks bottles leak in my bag in the past due to bad quality caps which slip off or don't click properly when you press them down. I haven't had this problem with this one but you do need to make sure to press it down enough. It also seems to have a slow pouring feature so it doesn't all just spill out if you leave the cap off, this makes it great for kids. It isn't completely spill proof though, but the drink doesn't all rush out if it does get tipped upside down or the lid left off. Because of the wide shape of this bottle, it is easy to clean and not as fiddly as a lot of other bottles.
I would recommend this bottle, but not for sports as it doesn't hold much water at all. I think this bottle is good for kids because it's got built in features which make it harder to spill. I think this is good value for money and a very handy little bottle
=Asda Smartprice Plastic Sports Bottle=
No do not adjust your eyes, it may read Sports, but for me I did not buy this for the sports benefit!! I brought it for the dog.....(and one for me)
=The Bottles=
They are available in pink and blue colours, I brought mine last year, we were away popped into Asda and saw these. I ended up buying four, one for both the cars one for keeping with us when we take the dog out, and the 4th for my handbag, as I have to take regular medication, and always end up having to carry some with me.
The bottles are plastic, but this is a strong plastic, and has a strong stopper which you pop down, the only point you need to make sure it is fully pushed down as the first few uses the stopper is still.
The bottle holds 200ml, which for me is adequate for my needs,
-Dog - We always take water with us in the car, he has his own dish, bottles and a little cooler bag in each of the cars, and a fold up bowl which slips in one of our bags for when we are out and about, this 200ml size, he gets 2 drinks from it, and it is easy to top up when we go to a cafe.
-Myself- I put some squash in mine, as this may sound really odd but I can't take tablets with water, I had to have a juice based drink, (although my daughter is 10), but before I was pregnant with her I use to be able to tablets without anything, this is just a perfect size as I can take tablets and still have a small amount left, for a drink if I need one, and with the size they fit perfectly in my handbag.
She has used the bottle sometimes to take a drink into school on a normal day she finds this big enough, but in a hot day she says she has finished it by dinnertime, but has to ask for help in getting the bottle refilled.
I personally don't feel that this would be big enough for a sports drink, as two or three gulps, the contents would be gone.
=My thoughts=
For the uses I need it for, I think the bottle is perfectly adequate, but as a sports bottle I feel that this is not big enough and as such it loses 1 star for that.
=Star Rating=
This is a 4/5
After the bottle I used to take with me on long walks with my dogs became unusable after the seal broke, I decided that it was probably time I bought a new bottle. I didn't want to spend a great deal of money on something that would just be transporting water for me and the dogs, given that I could've just refilled a bottle I already had, but I decided that one which had some sort of cap on it to stop it being able to leak out (unlike those pop up ones that often leak everywhere anyway).
I went to Asda and, while I was there, I decided I might as well see how much their bottles were. If they were too much, I figured I'd just go to Poundland. I'm glad to say that wasn't necessary though as this bottle was available in Asda for a surprisingly good price of £0.70. I hadn't expected it to be so low in price, but because it was shortly after the children had gone back to school when I purchased this they were having a massive sale and everything seemed pretty cheap. I believe that it should have been about £2 for this, so £0.70 was a bargain in itself.
I half expected this to be poor quality for the price I paid, or I expected there to be some sort of fault with it. However, I've not found any real issue with this at all to be honest, aside from the fact that my dog has a habit of wandering off with anything pink - the colour that I ended up getting - so I frequently lose it and have to rummage through his bed to find it! I don't know what it is, but he loves pink things!
I've found that it's extremely easy to clean (and disinfect too of course after he's had it) but like many bottles it's hard to get inside it to dry it, so I have to leave it to drip dry on the drainer. I often give it another rinse before I use it again as well, to be honest, just to be sure it's completely clean. The fact that it's pink means that if it does get dirt on it, it shows up pretty well.
Getting the cap off this to drink from it is easy enough - you just have to flip it up using your fingers and you can drink from it. If the cap has been left off it, it doesn't leak everywhere either. Okay, so the odd dribble may come out of it, but as a whole it's pretty good.
It's served the purpose I wanted it for and I'm fairly sure it will continue to do so for some time!
I am constantly on the look out for water bottles that won't leak in my children's school bags, so when I came across this water bottle whilst doing my shopping in Asda, I thought I would give it a go.
The main feature of the bottle is that it has an ice cooler stick that keeps your drinks cool for hours. The idea is that you freeze the stick then attach it to a ring at the top of the bottle and drops down into your drink to keep it cold. It is about three inches long so won't take up much room in the freezer. It is really easy to fit and detach from the bottle. I found that it works brilliantly and keeps the drinks cold for at least four hours.
The bottle also has an easy pull up drinking spout, this is essential for my son who has some problems with his co ordination and so finds opening bottles a bit tricky. He can use this one with ease. You just pull up the spout to drink and push it back down to close. I do find he chews this kind of lid and also forgets to push it down but this is not a fault of the bottle at all, and my daughter uses her one with no problems.
The bottle has a great contoured shape which makes it comfortable and easy to hold even when it is wet and slippy.
I like that there is a large loop on the lid as you can hang it on to bags on days out to save the space inside the bag. My daughter however finds that the loop gets in the way whilst she is drinking.
The leak test - They are great, my son leaving the lid open aside, I have not had one soggy school bag since I bought them two months ago.
The bottles are really easy to clean, all the parts come apart and the neck is a lot wider than normal drinking bottles so I can fit my washing up brush in there are give them a good scrub. You can also put them in the dishwasher.
I have had the bottles for two months, they have been used daily and been out on many picnics and day trips, they bottles are still in great condition apart from a few bite marks on my sons drinking spout.
The bottles cost £4 each and are available to buy from Asda stores or on asda.com. I have only seen them in blue but my friend said she got a green one so other colours may be available..
Final words- I think the bottles are such a good buy, not only do they not leak but they keep the drinks cool. This feature has meant my children are drinking more water at school than they used to as they say it tastes nicer colder.
I bought this bottle from asda as I needed a small and handy bottle for use when exercising in the and outdoors and since the price was perfectly suitable to what I was hoping for I did not find a reason that would stop me from buying this bottle.
These bottles come in light blue and pink at a price of £1.30, so price wise this bottle is probably around the cheapest you could get.
I really like the design behind this bottle as it is made to be convenient for everyday purposes as the bottle is easy to open and close, the liquid comes out easily and it is easy to clean thanks to the really wide diameter of the lid.
I have found the plastic of this bottle really good against wear however the piece of plastic connecting the lid with the bottle seems to be slightly fragile comparing to slightly more expensive bottles on sale in stores such as sports direct and JJB.
When it comes to using the bottle it is made with the usual "fruit shoot style" lid and a slightly soft body so squeezing the bottle will squirt out a generous amount of water. The strip of plastic that helps to keep the lid with the bottle is also very effective. 10/10 for ease of use.
I would recommend this bottle to anyone looking for a simple but effective bottle for everyday activities such as sports or exploring the out doors. A cheap bottle with generous features.
I tend to go through water bottles at quite a rate mainly because I have a habit of leaving them behind in the gym or when out camping so I'm always on the look out for cheap options and this particular water bottle only cost £1.20 so it was a real bargain, it was available in two colours, blue and pink so I opted for the pink colour. It does have a couple of drawbacks in the way that it is made but I can accept these given the low price, as you cannot expect something to be perfect when it is sold so cheap.
This bottle is a little on the bulky side which does not make it the easiest to grip, there are some grooves on the side to help you grip the bottle but I find that if I'm doing a heavy workout and sweating a lot then the smooth plastic is not the best for getting a good secure grip on.
It has a standard sportts cap from which a steady flow of water is dispensed without the need to suck really hard, just a tipping motion is all that is needed. It locks back into place securely enough and there is a nozzle protector as well to prevent and spillage of the water when not in use. The top of the bottle unscrews to allow the bottle to be filled. This is the other area where I noticed the cheapness of the bottle as there is not much thread and it is a bit of a pain to get the top back on, it could just be in the build quality of the one I have with the threads slightly out of line but again it is something that is not that big a problem given the low price of the bottle.
It is easy to clean as you just remove the top and wash thoroughly and it is reasonably robust given that it is made from plastic however it does not look like it would handle many knocks and the like.
Given the price this is a good purchase and a product that only has a couple of design niggles.
At the moment I am still on a quest for saving money on the little things, so I have more to spend on the big things. For example, just yesterday I took my daughter and niece to go see Dora the Explorer at the theatre (a really vibrant show I'd definitely recommend anyone with kids under 10 to take them!) and I just knew buying drinks and snacks there etc was going to cost me an arm and a leg. So recently when I was in Asda I bought this sports bottle as I figured I could bring drink from home (seeing as I usually have diluted which makes far more drinks in the long run!) and I could carry this to work and on days out such as yesterday.
The Asda smart price sports bottle is made from quite strong and durable blue plastic and has a removable lid that has a clip which still stays attached to the bottle so never gets lost. This is ideal for me as the amount of bottles I have purchased in the past and somehow I can either find the top and not the bottle or vice versa! So with this, there is little chance of it happening! It has a great capacity at 750ml which holds enough juice (I really wish I could drink more water!) which doesn't quite last me all day but holds me until I am back home as I drink like a fish!
The bottle is rigid to a degree in that it doesn't get squished easily as I had loads in my bag like crisps and sweets and also cartons of ribena for the little ones and this bottle held its own! However it is flexible enough that when I am drinking it can be gently squeezed and does slightly change shape to extract the juice when drinking.
Fortunately, this has a secure screw top lid which is removed to pour the drink/water in as long as its on properly (which I constantly made sure of by tipping the bottle upside down to check for any drops leaking!) there are absolutely no spillages and my bag and its contents stayed nice and dry! Hoorah! To drink from it is easy and simple like many other sports bottles it has a type of spout on top, similar to the one on a Robinson's fruit shoot bottle as the best way I can describe it lol. Pull upwards with your teeth to open it and tilt head back and sip, and then use your mouth to push it back down and close it again. The additional cap is for security and I like the added protection to get in and out of the bottle.
It is easy to clean, and whilst I do not have a dishwasher to say whether it is suitable I have had no problems in cleaning it with some hot water and fairy washing up liquid!
Overall, I think I grabbed the bottle for about £1.30 as it was the last I saw on the shelf and I thought it was pretty good for the price. I would definitely recommend it as it is easy to use, secure and I know it will save me lots of money in the long run on buying drinks when I am out and about or even at work when I am thirsty!
I am not one that loves exercise; in fact, I would go as far to say that I avoid it where possible. Just recently, I have taken up Zumba and surprisingly, I absolutely love it (probably because it doesn't actually feel like exercise!)
The bottle is from the Asda's Smart Price range so not available elsewhere and it cost me around £1. The bottle is quite simple in design, it is bright blue with a blue lid, at the time I purchased, there was no other colour choices available (having said that, there weren't many left on the shelf). Removing the lid is quite easy, my 4 year old daughter can remove. What I like about the lid is that it is attached to the bottle (we have a tendency to loose things in our house). Once the lid is removed, you get the fluid out by simply tipping the bottle up and giving it a gentle squeeze. It is easy to squeeze the bottle yet the plastic is not too flimsy it creases under you hand.
The bottle holds about 750ml of fluid and has a flat base which means it was easy to stand up. I have found the lid to be watertight and I have never experienced any leakages when it has fallen over in the fridge or my bag. The bottle in standard water bottle thickness, my other half sometimes uses it when he bikes to work and it fits nicely into his bottle holder/cage.
I cannot recall if the product stated was dishwasher safe however I wash mine at least once a week in our dishwasher and I have experienced no problems and it cleans quite well.
Overall, I would recommend this product, the price is excellent compared to other brands on the market therefore I would give 5 out of 5 stars.
Thanks for reading.
When you play sports a water bottle is a necessity to keep you hydrated and keep your muscles working properly. I play netball and also like to play tennis, go running, cycling from time to time so water is a big part of this but having to buy a bottle of water every time you need one is quite expensive. Yes, they are only £1 or less but if you are buying a couple every week then this does get pricey. Much better to invest in a water bottle that you can refill that is perfect for sports and this water bottle that I found in Asda is perfect for that.
This bottle itself was only a pound so already you are making a savings by not having to buy a new water bottle every time. I fill this water bottle up with filtered water from a water jug so the water is of the same quality and taste of bottled water. The bottle is made of quite a thinnish plastic so you can squeeze it a bit when you want to suck the water out. The bottle came in blue or pink and I got the pink for no other reason than I thought it was a cute colour.
The bottle is quite simple, it doesn't have a iced centre like some water bottles do, its just plain and simple but that is all you want really. It is slightly curved and comes in at the middle of the bottle so its quite ergonomically well made and you can hold it well. I think this would be quite a good feature if you were running with this bottle but as I just have it on the side of the court when I am playing netball I don't need it for that.
The top of the bottle has a screw top lid so you can easily take it on and off when you are filling up the bottle with water. The top has quite a large opening so its easy to pour water into it. When you actually drink the water there is a spout on this water that you can pull up and down, I think they call it an actual sports bottle top so you can just pull it up quickly and do not have to keep on screwing and unscrewing a water bottle top on a regular bottle of water. This is meant to be quicker for when you are playing sport and I actually find it a bit more hygienic as you can just lift up the top with your mouth and do not have to use your hands which may be muddy or sweaty from playing sport.
All in all this was a great bottle, cheap and definitely well made and a great way of drinking water on the go.
~A sporty Asda drinks bottle~
Amongst the products I have purchased from Asda in the past is one of their budget priced (Asda Price) sports bottles which I saw in store. I thought that these simple sports bottles looked to be of a serviceable quality for a budget type product and I recall being happy enough with the price paid at the time of buying it. At the time I could have bought one of these in pink or blue. They were both bright and bold colour options in my opinion, which made the bottle stand out well enough. I opted for the pink shade as I thought it was the nicer of the two at the time.
~Cleaning the bottle between uses~
In use I found the bottle was very simple to clean and rinse through after use, although I did have to allow it to stand with some freshly boiled water mixed with a little lemon juice from time to time to give it a more thorough clean. I found that after having filled the bottle with any form of drink that had a strong colour and flavour, adding the water and lemon solution helped to get rid of any residue, so as not to leave any hints of what was in there before. Other than that the bottle was easy enough to clean by hand (rather than in a dishwasher) and prepare ready for re use in my opinion.
~Using the sports bottle~
Once the bottle was filled, I found that I could place the filled bottle in to the fridge for a short while, so as to ensure the drink was nice and cool when I used it. This was easy to do as the bottle always stood up nice and straight in the fridge and could be stored away without risk of it tipping over and spilling anything. The cap of the bottle screwed down well too and this ensured that the seal was good, so that any liquid inside the bottle stayed that way until it was ready to be drunk.
I found that the lid was easy to take off when wanting to drink from the bottle making this product something that a child or adult could make use of if wanted. The width of the bottle was such that a child or adult could safely hold on to with ease, although a younger child might have to do so with two hands rather than one in my opinion. I didn't have any problems holding the bottle when drinking from it and I found the bottle drinking cap and lid set up worked as well as could be expected. The bottle could be stored in a bag or back pack if wanted as it wasn't overly large or bulky in my opinion.
~Product rating~
My rating for this simple sports bottle is 4 stars as I feel the price was good, the quality and thickness of the materials used to make up the sports bottle gave it a durable and serviceable finish and the bottle was easy to fill, drink from and clean after use. I paid just under £1.50 for the bottle as I recall, which I feel is not expensive when compared with other similar sports bottles I have bought. Other similar products I have used have not really performed any better than this one did.
I must say from the start I bought this just to use as a water bottle and am the least sporty type of person you are ever likely to meet - it's not laziness, just old age!
I have recently moved to Nottingham to stay with my daughter and have been getting to grips finding my way around, enjoying the city enormously but my true love is walking around the canal bank. So, you never know, I might take up speed walking before too long.
I need to take medication every 4 hours and have found myself having to buy bottles of drink even if I'm not particularly thirsty which are heavy to carry around all day plus expensive when you do not have spare cash. So, I think that I have solved the problem now thanks to Asda who, on the day I went, were rapidly selling out of these Sports Bottles. I saw on display both blue and pink ones so grabbed the nearest which happened to be pink and they only cost £1.30 (22/5/12) which is the price I would have paid for a bottle of juice.
It is an ideal size for me and fits neatly into my handbag and I can partly/ fully fill it depending on how long I'm out for the day. The plasticky smell I initially noticed when I first opened it has now well gone and, as long as I remember to fully wash and rinse it well in fairly warm water, I have not noticed any smell at all. I then fill it with water which has been through the Britas water jug and reckon I have saved at least £8 so far in just a few weeks.
To be honest, when I first used it, I did find it leaked a little but this was MY fault for not making certain the top was securely pushed down! Every day now, when I use it, I shake it madly when full just to make sure - there is nothing worse than a wet handbag.
I like this bottle because it is made from a fairly good strong plastic, the container has a good stopper and it also has a bit of 'give'.
For a true sporty type though I am not certain this would be large or tough enough but it holds the maximum 200ml which is adequate for my needs.
Living in a seaside town means that quite often when I go out and get thirsty just having a drink somewhere can mean I am left feeling a tad ripped off. Don't get me wrong I don't mind spending my cash but I do mind paying over the odds for things which meant that instead of this keep happening I went out to get myself a water bottle and this one costing only £1.30 from Asda fitted the bill for me, my needs and my pocket!
So What Is It?:
Well it is what it says it is. A sports style liquid holder/bottle. It holds 200ml of cool, cold liquid so its a great size and this fits great into my fridge door too!
In appearance I have only seen this available in a royal blue, see through colour with a long armed stopper to the top of it and the drinking section is a pull up, down one for safety reasons (keeping the liquid in of course!) Its easy to use, slightly curved for ease of handling to the middle of it and it feels nice and sturdy.
I can pop mine in the fridge and so on and its been completely fine. I rinse mine out under the tap and have no issues with it at all and most of all although stored in an oversized bag when I do go out I haven't found this to drip or leak at all providing I put the lid on the top down properly of course lol.
This is great for anyone looking for this type of thing. Great for the gym, camping whatever and worth every penny of the £1.30 I spent out on it as it and it has actually ended up saving me a fortune too so thumbs up from me!
Only available from Asda stores and like I have mentioned I have so far only seen this in the blue colour which is a shame!
The family and I were away on holiday in the UK a while back and needed some reuseable water bottles for when we were out and about. At the time, we didn't want to spend too much because we had water bottles back home, and these were just to be holiday items for now. Hence, whilst shopping in Asda we came across these Asda Smartprice Plastic Sports Bottles for only £1.30 each, and at that price, we couldn't go wrong. Thus, we bought 5 bottles in total for the family.
The bottle itself is made from a sort of regal blue plastic (not sure if they do any other colours because these were the only ones on the shelf at the time). It is a nice shape to fit in your hand (not too wide or fat) and sturdy enough so as not to totally collapse if you put it in your rucksack with other items. However, it is 'squeezable' enough to allow you to squeeze it to get the water out when needed for a drink.
The top is a simple wide screw cap which can be removed to put the water (or whatever else) in to the bottle, and seals the top of the bottle nicely via the small rubber seal inside the lid when screwed back on. Also within the top of the cap you have the push/pull spout through which you drink, where you pull the spout up, tip the bottle up and squeeze to take a drink, and then push the spout back down again to reseal the bottle.
Now the spout bit was one area of concern that I had with this bottle, because in the past I have bought cheap own brand water bottles and they have leaked everywhere, and with this Asda bottle costing only £1.30, I was fearing the worse. But my concerns were proved wrong because this spout really does seal well on this bottle, and did so on each of the 5 bottles that we had bought. We've buried them in rucksacks etc at all angles, and each time, they have never leaked. So top marks to Asda for the design.
Negative points? Well nothing that I can really say, especially when you bear in mind the £1.30 cost and what you are getting in return. The only thing that may be a concern with long term use could be the durability of the plastic. It is quite rigid, but it does have a seam around it which is often there as part of the manufacturing process, but also indicates a weak spot in the design. So as you scrunch and squeeze the bottle each time you take a drink, it may slightly weaken the seam until it finally leaks. How long that would be will depend on usage, but for us, they lasted the duration of the holiday and still get used on the odd occasions at home with no problems.
In summary, this is a cheap water bottle that is considerably cheaper than many of the branded makes, and yet, just as good (if not better) than those branded items. For £1.30 this is a value for money item, and the spout bit seems to have been well designed to avoid any possible leakage. So overall, easily a 5 star recommendation for this Asda Smartprice Plastic Sports Bottle.
Over the past six months I've really been making an effort with going to the gym and playing netball to try and get myself fit again. I'm not sure the results are quite showing yet, but I'm certainly feeling a lot better (well the majority of the time... not when I get off the treadmill usually)! When I first started I seemed to be spending about three pounds a week buying bottles of water or squash to take to the gym with me so I decided to purchase a sports bottle the other week while in Asda. Despite my boyfriend telling me I should spend a little more and get a "proper" sports bottle (by that I think he merely meant a branded sports bottle) I settled for one from the Asda Smart Price range as I didn't want to spend much!
The bottle I selected was a light blue in colour, similar to that shown in the picture above. At the time of purchasing there weren't any other colours available in my local store although I have since seen a pink version of this as well. To open the bottle the lid simply screws on and off which makes it extremely easy to fill. The actual drink is dispensed by pulling up a small circular piece of plastic which opens the flute and allows the drink to flow through. I've never had a problem with the bottle leaking or opening while being in my bag or car at all; it always seems secure and very sturdy too. The bottle holds up to 200ml of liquid which is certainly sufficient for my needs and seems to be quite a common gym sized bottle!
The only downside I've found with it is that you do need to wash it thoroughly when you first buy it as it has quite a strong, synthetic smell to it which does also affect the taste of the liquid inside. I soaked it in hot and soapy water for an evening and this problem soon disappeared. The bottle is extremely easy to wash in hot, soapy water and make sure that you ensure the lid is thoroughly cleaned too. I paid £1.50 for this bottle in my local Asda which seems a very reasonable price, I've not doubt that it'll last me for months to come as long as I don't go and loose it (this is a common problem of mine in the gym it seems)! I am giving this bottle the full five stars as I really can't find a single fault with it at all!
Thanks for reading.


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Santa Barbara Co., Calif., EHV-1 Quarantine Released
- Apr 10, 2013
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A gelding in Southern California that previously tested positive for equine herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1) has been released from quarantine, the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) reported April 10.
"The Santa Barbara County positive Welsh cross gelding has been released from quarantine," the statement on the CDFA's website read.
The CDFA reported March 25 that the gelding had tested positive for the non-neuropathogenic strain of the virus and had been quarantined.
The gelding was the second horse to test positive for the non-neuropathogenic EHV-1 strain last month; on March 19, the CDFA reported that a Warmblood stallion had tested positive for the virus. That horse was released from quarantine April 4 following two negative EHV-1 tests.
An investigation revealed that both horses had attended the same Southern California horse show shortly before they were diagnosed with the virus.
"CDFA's epidemiologic investigation indicates the Welsh cross gelding and the Warmblood stallion both participated in the HITS (Horse Shows in the Sun) event in Thermal, Calif.," a March 25 statement from the CDFA read. "The Welsh cross gelding departed Permanent Barn 2 on March 10, and the Warmblood stallion departed Tent 29 on March 15. … Potentially exposed horses to EHV-1 are recommended to be isolated and temperatures monitored twice daily for 14 days post potential exposure date."
Equine herpesvirus-1 is highly contagious among horses and camelids and is generally spread via aerosol transmission (when infected animals sneeze and cough) and through contact with nasal secretions from infected animals. The disease can cause a variety of problems in horses, including rhinopneumonitis (a respiratory disease usually found in young horses), abortion in broodmares, and equine herpes myeloencephalopathy (EHM).
Fever, ataxia (incoordination), weakness or paralysis of the hind limbs, and incontinence are signs of EHM. If a horse that has possibly been exposed to EHV-1 begins to display any of the aforementioned signs, call your veterinarian immediately.
About the Author
Erica Larson, News Editor
Erica Larson, news editor, holds a degree in journalism with an external specialty in equine science from Michigan State University in East Lansing. A Massachusetts native, she grew up in the saddle and has dabbled in a variety of disciplines including foxhunting, saddle seat, and mounted games. Currently, Erica competes in eventing with her OTTB, Dorado.
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EHV-1 Outbreak: Case Total Holding Steady
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The Relationship of AI to Other Disciplines
About this Page
We have constructed this page in order to sketch how AI is linked to various other disciplines, in both the sciences and humanities. We have done this not only in the hope of helping students and others who are just starting to study AI but also of facilitating further interactions between the AI community and other communities.
The set of links is not exhaustive, nor is the explanation given for each individual link.
In particular, we do not include all disciplines that do or could use AI tools and/or contribute tools to AI. We concentrate rather on disciplines where there is profound interaction in terms of research ideas. In most cases the interaction is two-way.
We also omit discussion of the somewhat contentious topic of the relationship of AI to Computer Science, which may be treated in future in a separate document. (Most people would agree that the boundary between AI and CS is fuzzy and subjective. But some people think AI is part of CS, some people think the reverse is true, and some people think they merely overlap. Some people think AI is often too vague to be counted as computer "science", other people think that CS is scientifically deficient if it doesn't overlap or include AI.)
AI is intrinsically one source of creative suggestions for Psychology. Much AI research is directed ultimately at proposing detailed models for explaining the cognitive, perceptual and emotional qualities of people and animals. AI is not just about creating useful artefacts that have abilities grossly comparable to those of people and animals, though this is itself of immense importance.
Conversely, Psychological research can help AI:
Psychology can suggest cognitive, perceptual, emotional, ... mechanisms for use in AI systems even when there is no intention for those systems to act as models for biological creatures.
AI systems interacting with people, especially via humanoid avatars (screen images) or robotic bodies, need often to at least look as though they have appropriate emotions, even if they don't actually have them. The psychology of how emotion is linked to thought, perception and body movements therefore comes into play for this practical reason.
More subtly:- Imagine an AI system that is meant to be able to communicate with ordinary people about everyday matters. The system needs to be able to know how people commonsensically reason about things (or needs to be able simulate such reasoning). This in order to be able to understand people's linguistic and other communications about those things and in order, conversely, to be able to communicate things that will be understandable to people. Thus, results from Psychology about how people think about everyday matters are useful. This is so even if the AI agent is not itself meant to be a model of a person.
(Neuro)Physiology and Biology more generally
These disciplines can help AI:
Results from the study of the nature and working of biological bodies and especially of brains are helpful in the development of computational infrastructures for AI (e.g.: artificial neural networks; algorithmic systems analogous to the immune system) and robotic hardware and body control systems.
The study of biological and cultural evolution has led to artefactual evolutionary computing, with applications within AI ranging from those at a fine scale (e.g., self-developing algorithms for doing some specific cognitive task) to those at a gross scale, as in evolution of populations of whole AI agents.
The complex computation effected by large swarms of relatively simple organisms (e.g., ants) has led to analogous forms of computation within AI, again both within an individual agent and in terms of large groups of whole agents.
AI can help those disciplines: Development of thinking agents and robots within AI, even if it has no specific intention to illuminate biology, can in fact do so, in terms of physiology, evolution, swarm activity, etc.
AI has much overlap with Philosophy, at both a grand scale and a more detailed technical scale.
AI is intrinsically concerned with grand Philosophical issues such as the fundamental nature of thought, consciousness, mind/body relationship, morality, free will, aesthetic qualities, value, time, etc., and more specialized philosophical issues such as the fundamental nature of language, representation, information, logic, computation, rule-following, symbols and causation.
Many detailed technical problems studied in Philosophy are also technical challenges for AI. One example is the thorny representational and cognitive issues raised by propositional attitude reports (roughly: sentences reporting mental states of agents) and more generally by the need for AI systems to represent and reason about mental states of agents. Other examples include vague language and information, counterfactual hypotheses, obligations, and the nature of information about past and future.
AI raises new problems for Philosophy or intensifies the urgency of old problems. E.g., the fluidity of intelligent software agents on the web, where we can imagine agents merging, splitting or cloning themselves, or not having clear boundaries in the first place, raises/intensifies Philosophical issues about personhood and the notion of a self.
AI can provide working models embodying Philosophical theories and thus serve as a testbed for them (testing for their consistency, completeness, economy of structure, etc.)
On the other hand, Philosophical research on issues important to AI can have a level of refined subtlety and sophistication, and can have a breadth or degree of ambitiousness, that most AI researchers do not have the resources or opportunity to achieve.
Note: Logic could be deemed covered by Philosophy above, and is not so often counted as a separate discipline; but it has an especially salient role for AI. Also of interest for AI is the Psychological issue of what sorts of logical processing people do or don't do, get right or mess up, but this is covered more by the interaction of AI with Psychology.
AI has much overlap and interaction with Logic. Developments in Logic fundamentally affect not only research into explicitly logic-based processing in AI but also much other work on forms of representation, depending on the ways in which those forms translate (or fail to translate) into logic. But also the needs of AI to deal with taxonomies (and "ontologies"), uncertainty, inconsistent information, vagueness, time, mental states, obligations, etc. lead to new or revised logics being invented and explored that are of interest in the field of Logic itself. One type of case is variations on modal logic for mental states where the usual provisions are augmented with considerations of mental resource limitations; another is the development of description logic (to couch taxonomies, ontologies, etc.).
Results such as Goedel's about the limitations of formal logic have a general importance for computational theory, and of course bear in particular upon the theoretical capabilities of intelligent agents based on logic. However, a more special point that affects AI is the use of those limitations in arguments that human beings are fundamentally superior to any conceivable (machine-like) artefact. Such arguments attack the very idea of "strong" AI (that genuine thought, consciousness, etc. can be artefactually realized). There is of course much contention over the validity of the arguments.
Linguistics (incl. study of sign language and gesture)
Note: The fields of Pragmatics and Rhetoric are considered to be covered in this section.
One of the main needs of an AI agent interacting with people is to be able to communicate with people in natural language (i.e., human language ... and the more "natural" in the ordinary sense the better!) and/or to be able to understand natural language communications between people. Linguistics is therefore an important source of knowledge and ideas in the development of such agents.
Conversely, AI can contribute ideas to Linguistics:
Practical approaches taken in the engineering of AI artefacts that have some capability in natural language processing may stimulate ideas and fruitful controversies about the nature of human language itself. E.g., statistical approaches to machine translation of languages can act as a foil to traditional theorizing about the nature of the human language faculty.
The practical imperative in AI to deal with some of the most abstruse problems in language such as discourse structure, point of view expression, metaphor and emotional expression, even when only mundane conversation or text is at issue, leads to theoretical models that can be of use to Linguistics in its own studies of these matters.
Study of the automatic development of language within populations of AI agents contributes to fundamental understanding of language itself.
Communication in sign language and through gesture (especially as linked to spoken language) has in recent years exploded in importance both within Linguistics and within AI and Computer Science.
Studies of gesture have suggested the nature of some of the cognitive processes underlying spoken language itself. This is useful for AI.
Art, Music, Literature ... and Creativity
("Art" below includes cinema, music, dance, literature, etc. as well visual art in the usual sense. Also the field of Aesthetics is intended to be covered by this section.)
Insofar as AI is intended to emulate people and illuminate their nature it must attend not just to "dry" forms of cognition such as everyday reasoning and expert problem solving but also to the human artistic capabilities. Indeed, insofar as artistic endeavour appears central to the nature of people it would be dangerous within AI (and Psychology, Philosophy, etc.) to neglect it. Also, aesthetic sensibility is important even in science, given the tendency to prefer "elegant" theories and models.
More generally, the study of what creativity is and how to achieve it artefactually is important for AI, and goes beyond art into scientific theorizing, expert problem solving and commonsense reasoning. One technical topic shared between artistic creativity and non-artistic forms of it, and that has seen much detailed attention in AI, Psychology and elsewhere is the use of analogy.
Art is centrally concerned with human emotion, a topic that is of increasing importance within AI (and Computer Science). See also the comments on Psychology above.
Issues of representation and point of view that arise in artistic forms of expression present cognitively revealing problems beyond the more classical issues arising in language, logic, etc.
These problems also link to non-art issues in AI. For instance, the way point of view and mode of consciousness are expressed in language is much studied in literary theory and is important also for ordinary language processing. The way paintings (whether photographically realistic or abstract) express and represent things is linked to the way diagrams do; and the study of diagrammatic representation/reasoning is an important topic for AI.
AI intensifies and refines biological, evolutionary and philosophical questions of whether the arts and creativity are uniquely human qualities or, going in one direction, are shared with sub-human creatures or by constrast, in the other direction, require something mystical beyond physical processes.
Economics, Politics, Sociology, Business Management, etc.
AI is much concerned with the study of communities of agents, not just with single agents. Thus, many issues of cooperation, conflict, trust, social norms, governance, resource usage, organizational dynamics, etc. are shared with disciplines such as economics, politics, sociology and business management.
AI agents operating within real markets (e.g., doing automated stock trading) are becoming a crucial part of economic reality and may have fundamental effects on economic theory insofar as this theory needs to be concerned with timescales of and motivations for decisions.
The ability of AI agents to help in Medicine, Law, Policing, etc. raises important issues of ethics, responsibility, accountability and statutory regulation.
Virtual worlds not only have their own internal economics, politics, etc. but also interact with or overlap with the real world. This is a trend that is set to rise rapidly. The use of AI within virtual worlds will increasingly intensify the problems for humankind that this trend raises.
Medicine / Psychiatry / Healthcare / ...
The development of AI agents capable of performing or helping with medical diagnosis, treatment design, psychiatric therapy, more informal lifestyle advising, elder care, nursing, clinical trial analysis etc. has been an interest since the early days of AI and in some respects is currently burgeoning. Aside from possible practical AI contributions are the ethical, regulatory, etc. issues raised for theoreticians and practitioners in Medicine, etc., as mentioned above.
There is no real converse in the direction from Medicine etc. to AI (aside from the point that any application area of AI can of course stimulate the development of important new ideas in AI). One day, though, AI agents will need some analogue of human healthcare!
AI and Law have a strong shared interest in the nature of commonsense reasoning, expert reasoning, evidence, persuasion, deception, exploration (investigation), intention, etc. Law is also an important application area for AI expert systems.
The use of examples within case-based reasoning in AI (a form of analogy-based reasoning, and similar also to "example-based reasoning" is Psychology) is highly analogous to the use of prior legal cases in Law. The relationship of case-based reasoning to "rule-based" reasoning in AI is analogous to the relationship between reasoning via cases and reasoning via statutes in Law.
The increase over time of the level of intelligence and degree of embeddedness in society of AI agents will lead to new challenges for Law, on matters such as responsibility, intention, evidence, ownership (notably of intellectual property, of web-crawling software agents, especially if they can collaborate to create other such agents), punishment, and the fundamental nature of legal processes themselves.


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Drew resumes baseball activities; return uncertain
By Ian Browne and Evan Drellich / MLB.com
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- The fact that Red Sox shortstop Stephen Drew was back on the field Thursday doing drills and in the cage taking swings was a sign that his consultation with a concussion specialist at the University of Pittsburgh went well.
"The recommendation for him was to initiate baseball activities, so he'll go through stretch," said manager John Farrell. "He'll go through the throwing program. We expect him to swing in the cage today. I think more than anything, Stephen comes away with some renewed confidence based on the findings from Dr. Collins."
However, Drew is still experiencing mild symptoms, so there is no timeframe for when he could return to action.
Even if things progressed perfectly from this point forward, there probably still wouldn't be enough time for Drew to get ready for Opening Day. The concussion occurred on March 7, meaning Drew hasn't played in a game in two weeks.
"We'll probably have a better sense of that by the end of the weekend, but we're starting to fight the calendar a little bit," said general manager Ben Cherington. "We don't want him to be in a position where he's having to rush getting at-bats just to make it to a certain day. It's generally good news. He seems to be headed in the right direction."
Concussions remain one of the hardest injuries to project in terms of recovery.
"There's certainly an element of unknown with this type of thing," Cherington said. "From the day it happened, we've felt like it was something that he was going to get past. But there's less blueprint on this type of thing. We have to take it a day at a time, and as long as he's still feeling anything, we're going to be cautious, and we'll continue to be cautious."
Papi making progress; Farrell contemplating DH
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz might be taking small steps, but they appear to be positive ones.
On Thursday, Ortiz swung in the batting cage for the third straight day and also participated in some other activities.
"We're going to continue to work off of him each and every day," said manager John Farrell. "They'll be some more strength training and that type of thing that's part inside today. So far, so good."
It was nearly two weeks ago that Ortiz had an MRI that revealed inflammation in both heels, and he hasn't been cleared to run since then.
Until Ortiz starts running, it will be hard to gauge when he can return to action.
In the meantime, Farrell continues to contemplate designated hitter options for the start of the season. The loss of Ortiz also plays a role in how the Red sox construct their bench to start the season.
"[We need to decide] what the best combination is," Farrell said, "and then looking at other alignments with the guys who are already projected [to make the team]. Does that free up some at-bats for [Jarrod Saltalamacchia] to be the DH? Does that put Jonny [Gomes] into that DH slot a little more regularly? Those are things that we're still all working through, contemplating and seeing where the best fits exist."
Victorino catches up with former teammates
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- The real homecoming for Shane Victorino comes May 29-30 when the Red Sox visit Citizens Bank Park for a two-game series. The Phils' trip to Boston's spring home on Thursday -- and Boston's subsequent trip to Clearwater on Sunday -- are just warm-ups.
Victorino, who on Thursday faced the Phillies for the first time since he was traded last year, said he's looking forward to both the spring and regular-season trip to his old stomping grounds.
"Yeah, absolutely," Victorino said. "Of course I am. Of course I'm excited to go back, but you know, again, I think ultimately it'll happen in May, when we come back [to Citizens Bank]. It's going to be nice for me. Will it be tough? Yeah, you know, all the memories. But again, it was good times. And that's how I look at it. ... It didn't end bad. It was just one of those things the opportunity presented itself for a trade to happen."
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"Obviously that was a choice," Victorino said of re-signing in Philly. "I feel like I kept that choice open, and it never worked. Obviously they went in a different direction. Hey, it's a part of the game. I understand it's a business. So again, I'm a Red Sox and I'm happy to be one.
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NAG Quant Seminar, New York
"Fast Greeks through Adjoint Algorithmic Differentiation"
July 26th 2012
The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) and finance publication Wilmott held an evening seminar on July 26th 2012.
Keynote Speaker:
Professor Uwe Naumann - RWTH Aachen University
"Fast Greeks through Adjoint Algorithmic Differentiation - and Further Speed-up through Mathematical and Structural Insight"
Derivatives of various objectives with respect to potentially large numbers of free parameters are crucial ingredients of many modern numerical algorithms.
Parameter calibration methods based on implementations of highly sophisticated mathematical models as computer programs are of fundamental interest in Computational Finance. Algorithmic Differentiation (AD) transforms the given computer programs into code for the computation of first (gradients, Jacobians) as well as second (Hessians) and higher derivatives.
Adjoint AD allows for gradients to be computed with a computational cost that is independent of their sizes. For example, let the evaluation of a given function of one hundred parameters take one minute on your favorite computer. A sequential first-order finite difference approximation of the one hundred gradient entries takes about one hundred minutes. Adjoint AD delivers the same gradient with machine accuracy within less than ten minutes. Similar complexity results hold for second and higher derivatives.
In this talk we review the fundamental ideas behind (adjoint) AD and we present software tools that support the semi-automatic generation of derivative code with special focus on C/C++. Further gains in robustness and computational complexity result from the exploitation of additional mathematical and structural insight. In particular, we discuss AD of numerical methods that are likely to be embedded into the given simulation code and concurrency in the context of adjoint AD.
Uwe Naumann has been a professor for Computer Science at RWTH Aachen University, Germany, since 2004 and a member of NAG since 2009. After obtaining a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the Technical University Dresden, Germany, in 1999 and prior to joining RWTH he held post-doctoral positions at INRIA, France, the University of Hertfordshire, UK, and Argonne National Laboratory, USA.
Uwe's research and development activities are motivated by derivative-based numerical simulation and optimization in Computational Science and Engineering. His main focus lies on first- and higher-order discrete adjoint methods with major applications in the physical and engineering sciences and in computational finance. He is the author of "The Art of Differentiating Computer Programs. An Introduction to Algorithmic Differentiation." published by SIAM in 2012.
Uwe has worked as a NAG consultant delivering training and software solutions to customers for a variety problems. He has contributed to the development of the NAG Libraries and NAG Fortran Compiler.
Uwe has given many public talks over his career, most recently he headlined at the 2012 Global Derivatives Trading & Risk Management conference in Barcelona.
John Holden - The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG)
"Latest releases and news from NAG"
Key new mathematical functionality and technology developments will be shared. Highlights include the launch of the latest release of the NAG C Library and NAG Toolbox for MATLAB®.
A senior quant from Tier 1 Investment Bank commenting on Mark 23 releases of the NAG Toolbox for MATLAB and NAG C Library :
"We deploy production code in C++ embedding NAG C Library functions wherever we can, but often proto-type new models in MATLAB before writing our C++ code, having the same NAG algorithms in MATLAB via the NAG Toolbox for MATLAB is a real win for us. Thank you".
"Obvious finance highlights from my point of view: i) matrix functions (especially exponential) ii) additional nearest correlation matrix functions iii) skip ahead for Mersenne Twister as well as new local and global optimisation functions".
John Holden is NAG's Global Lead for the Financial Services Industry
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Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, June 14, 2013, 8:26 AM
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Discriminatory harassment and bullying: a definitional sticky wicket?
Original post made on Jun 14, 2013
Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, June 14, 2013, 8:26 AM
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a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Jun 14, 2013 at 1:43 pm
This is a well-done summary of the law. However it presents the material in a way that makes it appear somewhat more complex than it is. The key points is:
State and federal law regarding discriminatory harassment do not differ. The only real difference difference is that state law bars harassment based on religion while federal law does not. Both state and federal law prohibits sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination though state law does so directly while federal law does so through the rubric of sex discrimination under Title IX. The other state categories of ethnicity and nationality are captured by federal categories of race, color, and national origin. State and federal law are (with the exception of religion, not at issue in Palo Alto thus far) entirely consistent on the substantive law of discriminatory harassment. Indeed, state court cases interpreting Ed. Code section 220, which is the state bar on discrimination, follow federal anti-discrimination law and this makes even the caselaw consistent.
I am concerned that by repeating the district perspective that the law is complicated and contradictory that this story might run the risk of obfuscating rather than shedding light on this single important point.
In addition Phil Winston makes an excellent point that should not be overlooked, which is that all or nearly all bullying has discriminatory elements once the investigation is completed. Therefore, the district's misguided effort to treat nondiscriminatory bullying to a site level process and discriminatory bullying to the legally mandated UCP is destined to result in procedural and substantive errors and denial of student civil rights. That will lead to future complaints and more litigation. The advice that the district is receiving from its counsel that it need not apply the UCP in all cases is asking for problems down the road -- problems that perhaps not coincidentally will be resolved with billings from the same district counsel.
Well done story in which many difficult regulations, policies, and statutes are parsed.
a resident of Charleston Gardens
on Jun 14, 2013 at 3:21 pm
Bullying is teasing, excluding, etc over a prolonged period by the same person. It's not refusing someone to eat lunch with you on a Tuesday. That's just a personal choice by the person to not have lunch with you.
Harassment is based in discrimination. Completely different. More severe in standing, but perhaps not to the "victim"
a resident of Crescent Park
on Jun 14, 2013 at 4:30 pm
"Discriminatory harassment and bullying: a definitional sticky wicket?"
However well-written, it hurts to read that #:^)
a resident of Palo Alto High School
on Jun 14, 2013 at 9:44 pm
PAUSD is no different than most other districts and from my experience, better than most. Bullying and harassment is terrible and there is no excuse for what happened to the Terman student. But if the adults involved are not clear on what constitutes bullying (from a legal standpoint) how on earth can we expect a middle school student to know what is federally illegal bullying and what is simply being a little "s***" like a lot of middle school kids.
If you are tall, attractive and athletic in middle school you are golden. If you are short, under-developed, quiet, quirky, have braces, stutter etc. you are a target. If you are a kid that is annoying, hard to work with as part of a group, or even the slightest bit different, middle school is hard. And how are fellow students able to know whether their classmate is being a pain because that is their age appropriate behavior or if they act as they do because of a disability if they don't know a kid is disabled.
More adults in a classroom help, but if you have an aide, you are labeled special ed and most middle school kids want no part of that. Its a tough problem.
a resident of Palo Alto High School
on Jun 15, 2013 at 10:52 pm
Agree with "paly parent" that middle school kids can be little sh**s. And when I grew up, we accepted that others are mean at times and let it roll off our shoulders instead of whining to our parents. Is it right for parents to overreact and sensitize their children to be hurt by every mean/sarcastic comment? Isn't it better that they can brush it off and move on?
It seems us laymen view bullying and harassment as synonymous, defined as: continually negatively bothering the same student. If a student hits another student for whatever reason, is it bullying when it's a one-time altercation with one student? I don't define it as bullying while others do. There was a boy in kindergarten who went around hitting various students and it took 6 months for him to finally be kicked out and sent to an LD school. This boy was sent to the office 3-4 times per week and it took 6 months. Was it bullying when it was different children he hit?
I do disagree with "If you are short, under-developed, quiet, quirky, have braces, stutter etc. you are a target. If you are a kid that is annoying, hard to work with as part of a group, or even the slightest bit different, middle school is hard." My children know plenty of students as such and they are not bullied. In fact, some of them are "popular." PAUSD isn't so harsh; this is the place to be if one is a nerd and has been a safe haven for nerds for decades. Not sure why some students are bullied and others are not. One common trait seems to be that students who are bullied have gentle personalities, ie, no one is going to mess with anyone with a strong personality or athletic stature.
Shouldn't our children learn how to behave properly and be guided by parents? In life, oftentimes it's the well-liked people who are promoted, not necessarily the most intelligent or hardest worker.
a resident of Mountain View
on Jun 17, 2013 at 3:20 pm
I'm curious if any of the above posters have kids who are mean, or who are bullies. It's easy to say that we should brush it off and move on, but if instead we stand up to these kids, teach them to be nice, maybe we would not have such awful people in our government, banks, corporations. It may be that I just read BofA is being sued for foreclosing on people's houses illegally, rewarding employees who "lost" paperwork - wonder if those employees and those top management were bullies in school? Sure parents have a responsibility here, but so do fellow students who, if not bullies themselves, are letting things go.
a resident of another community
on Jun 19, 2013 at 6:26 pm
I would like to say something about the fact that kids get bullied for the gender that they like....i mean come on if a girl wants to like another girl then let them be..if a voy wabts to like another boy let them be..i mean love is love and they day if you love someone ageweight distance is just a number well they should also say that gender shouldn't matter either...i have been bullied for being bisexual and i will take a stand for anyone that is being bullied for likeing the same gender
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Effects of Determinant Sentencing on Institutional Climate and Prison Administration: Connecticut, Minnesota, Illinois, 1981-1983 (ICPSR 8278)
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This data collection examines the effects of determinant sentencing on prison climate and administration. Three data collection periods are covered in the dataset. Parts 1-3 contain data taken from a total random sample of offenders housed at five prisons over all three data collection periods. Part 4 is an additional sample from the state of Connecticut of inmates serving determinate sentences, collected during the third period of data collection. Parts 5 and 6 comprise indeterminate sample data from all three data collection periods, while Parts 7-9 contain determinate panel sample data from all three collection periods. There were six questionnaires used in collecting these data, covering inmates' feelings about their arrest, court case, and conviction, their feelings about the law, physical problems developed during their prison term, how their time was spent in prison, family contacts outside prison, relationships with other prisoners and guards, involvement in prison programs, and criminal history.
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Goodstein, Lynne, John H. Kramer, John R. Hepburn, and Doris L. MacKenzie. EFFECTS OF DETERMINANT SENTENCING ON INSTITUTIONAL CLIMATE AND PRISON ADMINISTRATION: CONNECTICUT, MINNESOTA, ILLINOIS, 1981-1983. State College, PA: Pennsylvania State University [producer], 1983. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1985. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08278.v1
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Where are the negative descriptions of Nirvana though? I don't see this apparent dichotomy of the negative a positive... again, it's only 'negative' if we are trying to establish inherency somewhere. There is no inherency, if there were, there would be no movement, no fluctuation, no growth, no dynamism, nothing at all.jeeprs wrote:I'm almost on board with you. No individual thing is truly existent - it doesn't exist in and of itself. But it doesn't therefore follow that nothing is real. But 'what is real' is also beyond designation as this or that thing.asunthatneversets wrote:A truly existent thing is unintelligible. Doesn't even make sense, and so non-existence doesn't make sense either. This is freedom from eternalism and nihilism.
Nirvana, in the positive sense, I understand as waking up to reality, seeing the way things truly are. But in addition to the negative descriptions of Nirvana, there are also positive descriptions. That is why I am interested in studying 'In Praise of Dharmadhatu'. You might say that is not 'the same Nagarjuna', but according to the chapter I have been reading it is ascribed to Nagarjuna. In that, the Dharmadhatu is described in positive terms . Brunnholzl notes in his commentary, that there are quite a few expressions in such texts which are at variance with what the strictly Madhyamika interpretation is supposed to be.
No, no... there is no manifest realm of 'existent things' and then some other realm (you clarified that this isn't what you meant though so nevermind). That isn't what this is saying at all. Svabhāva, means something which exists inherently on its own, completely free from causes and conditions. Nāgārjuna is saying such a thing is impossible. There are no conditioned things, and therefore there's nothing which is unconditioned.jeeprs wrote:The way I interpret this is that, 'existence' is phenomenal realm, the manifest realm, the realm of existing things, you and I, self and other. Svabhāva, as it says, is not in this realm, being unconditioned. There is not also some other realm 'over there', because ultimately there is only one reality, but from the point of view of 'the wayfarer', they are different realms.asunthatneversets wrote:But a svabhāva is by definition unconditioned, not dependent on other entities, and not caused. Thus the existence of a svabhāva is impossible.
But I don't think I have any issue with any of those texts you have quoted.


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Teaching your dog to shake hands will take a bit more time and patience than other dog tricks. Dogs don't naturally shake hands. They prefer to greet each other with a good ol' bottom sniff rather than a handshake.
First you need to make sure you and your dog have mastered "SIT". Sit is the starter position for most dog tricks. It helps get your dog's attention. Show the dog that you have a treat but keep your fist closed.
Have your closed palm/fist facing up. Hold your hand in front of his paw, a few inches off the ground. He may try to sniff at it, or nose at it but just leave it there and wait. Eventually he will try to paw at your hand to get the treat. As soon as he lifts his paw even SLIGHTLY off the ground, say "GOOOOOOOD!!", open your fist and give him the treat.
You will need to teach this trick bit by bit, building it gradually. First he lifts his paw just a little bit, then you raise your had a little bit higher for him to make him lift his paw higher. Then he puts his paw on your fist, then eventually you will hold your hand flat for him to put his paw on it.
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When 17-year-old Katherine McCall awakened one morning to find her beloved sister, Sara, brutally murdered, her whole life changed in the blink of an eye. Kat was named the prime suspect and, on a string of circumstantial evidence, charged and tried. While the jury found her innocent, not everyone else agreed, and her only choice was to go into hiding. But she carried a dark secret with her, one that made her worry she might actually have had something to do with Sara's death....
Now, years later, Kat is still haunted by her sister's unsolved murder and continues to receive chilling anonymous letters, but she has tried to move on with her life. Until, on the 10th anniversary of Sara's death, she receives a letter that makes the past impossible to ignore: "What about justice for Sara?" What about justice for Sara? And for herself? Kat realizes that going back to Liberty, Louisiana, might be the only way to move forward and find some peace. And there's a killer out there who was never caught.
But the town she's come back to is hardly different from the one she left. The secrets and suspicions still run deep. Kat has an ally in Detective Luke Tanner, son of the former Liberty police chief, but he may be her only one. With plenty of enemies, no one to trust and a killer determined to keep a dark secret buried, Kat must decide if justice is worth fighting - and dying - for.
Best-selling author Erica Spindler returns with a chilling new suspense novel about a woman who goes home 10 years after her sister's murder to find the true killer.
©2013 Erica Spindler (P)2013 Macmillan Audio
"Buyer Beware !!"
Good Book......... But...........
This is the same book as 'don't look back', it has just been re released under a different title.
Don't make the mistake of buying both they are not linked (blurbs are different also)
"Great book!!"
Erica Spindler is one of my favorite authors and this books just solidified my opinion of her writings!
"Love this author! Great story as usual."
Better as I can enjoy it in the car.
Love the twists. I think I have it figured out and then I get a twist.
Love the inflections.
"Too much sappiness."
Probably if they like romances. If they prefer straight good story and mystery, without the sappy trembling female, no.
The story was compelling in that there were so many suspects, I wanted to find out which one did it. I really like Erica Spindler's mysteries and was excited that she had a new one out. Therefore, the disappointment was that she seemed to be back to her romance days, with the female victim/strong woman/always walking into the dark alley/talented/misunderstood/etc. There was a full cast of characters, all seeming to have as many motives as the crews in a Christie novel. That part was fun and I changed my mind frequently about who I expected to be the real perps.
I liked her portrayals of all the characters except the heroine. She "trembled" every time she talked or "fell into the arms" of her beau, who is, of course, the policeman. The trembles and creaky voices made Kat seem whiny and the opposite of a strong heroine. Her portrayal of the other characters gave them more substance.
Probably would not go see the movie, since I now know the story.
"Not too mysterious"
The book was okay and the narration was good although she had problems with some words like Ponchartrain.
I have read everything Erica Spindler has written. While I enjoyed the book I was able to determine the "who done it" early on so there wasn't much of a mystery.
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I'm back in the starting rotation, where I want to be. It was fun getting the experience in the bullpen, but I believe I'm cut out to be a starting pitcher in the long term.
I didn't look at my time in the bullpen as a demotion. There was a time I wanted to be in the bullpen because I thought it would be more fun down there. I always wanted to see what it was like to be a reliever and I got to see a different part of the game. So it was nice. I learned a lot about baseball after being down there for half of the year.
You pay attention to the game more, especially the strategy of the late innings. I realized how important it is for starters to go late in the game, because everyone in the bullpen has their own role. If one pitcher doesn't do his job, every other spot suffers because of it.
In the early part of a game, I would research the opposing hitters a little. Some people might watch the game itself more carefully early on, but usually I checked the scorecard to see who was swinging the bat well. I know most of the hitters by now, so for me, it's more about seeing who's hot and who's not.
It's too early to say if being in the bullpen has changed my approach as a starter. But I hope I'm a better pitcher because of it.
One thing I learned from the veteran relievers is that when you only have one inning, or even one batter, you have to let it all hang out. That helped me focus on using my best stuff from the start instead of "pitching" so much. I trust my stuff more, I guess.
Overall, I've had a lot more fun this year. I enjoy playing baseball again. In fact, I'm probably one of the few people who don't want the season to end. Usually by this time, guys are getting ready for the offseason. But I'm enjoying coming to the park every day. I'll miss it when the season is over.
This last month is important for me too. I want to demonstrate my ability to start, so each chance counts. Every outing could be my last one and I just have to take advantage of the opportunity.
Zack Greinke, the Royals' first round pick in the 2002 First-Year Player Draft, debuted with the club in 2004, but only made three appearances for them in 2006. This season, splitting time between the rotation and the bullpen, Greinke is 6-5 with a 3.99 ERA and 87 strikeouts in 103 2/3 innings pitched.
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ORLANDO, Fla. - Construction workers have finished repaving a dangerous stretch of Interstate 4 known as the Fairbanks curve.
Over the weekend, two westbound lanes were closed between Lee Road and Fairbanks, which caused delays for some drivers.
The work was the second part of a two-phase project. The latest phase involved laying down an asphalt surface, called an overlay, which went directly on top of the concrete surface.
Florida Department of Transportation officials said the new asphalt should make the road less slippery during wet weather.
The project cost an estimated $377,000 and runs between Lee Road and Fairbanks Avenue.
The Fairbanks curve is known for being extremely dangerous, especially when it rains.
"It had just started raining (and) cars put on their brakes in front of me. I stopped in time, the guy behind me didn't," said motorist Brad Long, who was recently involved in a crash in the area. "But he bumped me into the car in front of me, too."
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"Well, it's just horrible. I mean, I'm glad I'm not in the accident for one thing and it's just terrible," said motorist Marilee Arrow.
"They got to do what they got to do. It's just a terrible spot of road that, like I said, I'll avoid driving every chance I get," said Long.
"Any way they can make roads safer, I think they should. I would gladly give them extra tax dollars if that's what it took," said Yanesh.
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