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Dir. Bärbel Jacks (67 min, Germany/Austria, 2015)
Polish, German and English with English subtitles
US Premiere
Austrian artist Manfred Bockelmann was born at the height of Hitler's power, the son of privileged parents who ended up joining the Nazi party. Deeply troubled by this history, he sets out to rescue the memory of Jewish children who perished in the death camps.
Finding an archive of faded photos of these unfortunate youths, he transforms the photo miniatures into large-scale charcoal drawings. This film powerfully visualizes the Holocaust's horrors without employing archival footage, while compelling us to be vigilant against modern-day racism and xenophobia.
Co-presented with: The Goethe Institut
Sunday, February 28, 7:00 pm
West End Cinema
2301 M Street NW
Washington D.C
Wednesday, March 2, 6:45 pm
West End Cinema
2301 M Street NW
Washington D.C
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Barcelona star Ronaldinho scores easiest goal ever and everyone claps like mad
BRAZILIAN football legend Ronaldinho is known for winning all kinds of glittering gold awards.
He's won the FIFA World Player of the Year award twice – in 2004 and 2005.
He's won La Liga twice with Barcelona as well as the UEFA Champions League.
And last – but not least – he's scored 33 goals in 97 international matches for Brazil, winning the World Cup in 2002.
So the last thing you'd think he'd get an applause for is toe-poking a tiny ball into a toddler-sized play net.
But that's what happened in a bonkers opening ceremony for Barcelona's new offices in New York.
In the clip he faces a tiddly one-foot high goal and – surrounded by smiling suited onlookers – taps the ball into the net receiving rapturous applause for his efforts.
Despite the light-hearted fun of it all he looks baffled by the extent of the clapping.
The 36-year-old star was helping Barcelona grow into one of the biggest clubs in the world by setting up a new camp on the Big Apple's famous Park Avenue.
He attended a swanky bash with former Barcelona star David Villa, 34 and ex-Real Madrid rival Even Raul, 39 – as well as the head honchos at Barca.
The Spanish La Liga side also plan to light up the Empire State Building in the club's famous red and blue colours this evening (Wednesday 7).
Barcelona are looking to expand internationally with plans to unveil similar offices in China and Brazil after already opening one in Hong Kong two years ago.


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Last year some University of Georgia scientists took a close look at the earthworm, or rather its castings, to see if, indeed, this material was anything like the soil-fertilizing wonder that some folks claimed it to be.
Not that they doubted the value of the castings, they simply wanted to do some comparative tests with standard fertilizer-enriched potting soils. The result; An A-plus for the castings.
After getting excellent growth with tomatoes and coleus grown in pure worm castings (and chemical analysis of the plants revealed no nutrient deficiency), several plants species were grown in castings in head-to-head competition with plants grown in potting soil. All but spinach grew more vigorously in the castings than in the potting soil.
These were the dry weights of crops grown in earthworm castings compared with potting soil: spinach 2.6 grams in castings, 3.7 in potting soil; tomato 4.7 to 4.1; petunia 3.0 to 2.6; lettuce 0.7 to 0.1; marigold 3.1 to 1.8; and eggplant 0 .3 to 0.1
The importance of these tests to the home gardener is not so much that castings are superior to potting soil, but that they prove that worm castings are extremely valuable. The need then is to encourage the worm population within our soils and perhaps make use of the waste-consuming little creatures to produce our own high-quality potting soils indoors all year long, using the food and other waste generated in the kitchen.
Out in the garden, the simplest method of feeding these worms is to spread a mulch of shredded organic materials (I use leaves principally but also some straw and weeds). The worms feed on it all year round except during the winter months when the cold penetrates the mulch to freeze the soil.
Indoors, however, your little fertilizer factory will operate unceasingly, whatever the weather outdoors. Put another way, the worms will take the place of a garbage-disposal unit on the sink and return you a dividend at the same time.
Any cellar or garage where the temperatures do not plunge much below 50 degrees F. is suitable.
While the worms will survive any temperature above freezing, they become increasingly sluggish when soil temperatures fall into the low 40s. Simply, chilly worms won't process your garbage fast enough. Worms also slow down when it gets too hot -- 80 degrees F. and up. Extremely hot temperatures are not likely to be your problem unless your worm pit is a nicely camouflaged box alongside the kitchen stove.
Some apartment dwellers have kept a worm pit in a spare cupboard. I've also heard of another who kept one under an upturned box that substituted for a seat at the kitchen table.
Start small, even if it means not all your waste is processed at first. With experience you will become expert at running a worm pit and learning how much waste they will process in a week. Remember, however, that the processing will increase dramatically as the worm population builds up. Theoretically, one worm can turn into 193 worms in a year, given good living conditions and ample food.
Good living conditions are provided by the moist bedding in which the worms live as well as the good food which you give them -- vegetable peelings, food scraps, etc.
You can easily build a worm pit out of lumber, or even concrete blocks if you wish. Any size box will do as long as it has sides about 16 inches deep. Bushel baskets are good, but so are the boxes which are used to bring fruit and vegetables to market. Galvanized wash tubs make excellent worm pits.So do oil drums which have been cut in half. Bang a few holes in the bottom to allow for drainage.
Some people recommend placing an inch or so of sandy garden soil in the bottom of the box and then filling it to the top with bedding which can be made from a 50-50 mix of manure and peat moss. In place of peat you can substitute shredded leaves and straw and then add some shredded or ground paper. You can also add compost when it is partly decomposed and in the crumbly stage.
The bedding itself is food for the worms. Additional high-quality food comes from the kitchen waste.
It is important to keep the bedding comfortably moist (peat moss should be soaked overnight before being included in the bedding) and it should be placed in the bins or pits several days before the worms are introduced. This is to allow any heating up (rapid composting) of the bedding to run its course before the worms are added.
In feeding the worms, add the kitchen scraps to a trench in the bedding and cover it up. This way the worms will be drawn to the garbage and feed on it at will. Food wastes tend to be acidic. And while earthworms can consume acidic materials, they cannot live in them for long periods. Thus, they must be able to escape from the acidic environment whenever they wish. For this reason, then , never mix the food wastes deeply in the bedding.
By the time the waste begins to look black and soil-like it will be ready to use on the garden. Then you will have to start all over again.
To get the right worms for your pit, go to your existing compost heap in the yard or to a pile of manure which will attract the right type of worm which is slightly pink in color. Or look for ads in a local newspaper or in the gardening magazines which offer worms for sale.
Avoid the larger earthworm (he tends to be plain gray all over) and the big night crawler. These are soil eaters rather than concentrated garbage eaters and will not do well in a worm pit.


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A group of kids from one of our local elementary schools has formed a "mini-laptop club." They don't use electronic machines. Instead, these first-, second- and third-graders draw their own laptops on construction paper and pretend to e-mail each other. They dedicate a surprising amount of time to this activity. I once had a chance to examine one of their "keyboards." I was fascinated to learn which Internet functions had sunk into the minds of these kids, who are just getting their first exposure to computers from watching their parents work, and from using kid-friendly sites. Follow the page jump to see one of their designs.
You can see that shopping and entertainment functions have made a big impression on this 8-year-old girl. Movies, Harry Potter (the "HP Trivia" key), and most of all, electronic pets have dedicated functions.
The keychain-size Littlest Pet Shop "digital pet" games are popular with girls in our town, sort of a compromise toy allowed by parents who aren't quite ready to take the plunge into the online world of Webkinz. I would say Webkinz are an even larger phenomenon but the girl who made this mini-laptop does not have one yet.
Companies that sell products to kids are racing to embrace online marketing strategies. Television shows can only have so much advertising in them, but companies can air a TV ad that says, "Hey kids, have even more fun when you visit this toy's Web site." Then companies can market to those kids as much as they like.
This is an inevitable development in pop culture, but one parents should be aware of. "Free" online activities often come with strings attached: more immersion in a commercialized culture.


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Jim Lincoln wrote:Have I pointed out that I have little use for so-called Church Fathers, including Augustine?......and conversely Augustine was not a Calvinist.
So it is no surprise that you cannot appreciate the precise theological relation between Biblical Calvinism and Augustine.
As for this article.Many in historic ecclesiastical writings have not made the connection between Augustine and Calvin because of their exegetical meanderings and convictions as much as anything.
The recent confusions of the SBC highlight this very point.
Lurker wrote:But I've known that for years discussing with Presby so it comes as no surprise
May the Lord bring you into His whole counsel.
John UK wrote:I refer you to the answer I gave several years ago.
If you do not want to debate then stop attacking other people from different denominations. Stop the hate. Grow up!
Matt 7:19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. 20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
John UK wrote:Let me see now. In time past we discovered that Mr Presby believed in covenant children, that is, children of believers, and that all these were certain to be regenerated and saved, continuing on from the Abrahamic Covenant of circumcision, where water baptism replaced circumcision.
And please notice that you are completely off topic here. This thread is about Israel and the stupid accusation that they are apartheid.
We don't want to get back into teaching baptists how to interpret the Bible properly again, since as you know, Biblical Presbyterian Covenant theology won that one hands down in previous threads.
Michael Hranek wrote:1. only by His own sovereign election and the supernatural work of His word and Spirit .... repentance and saving faith in Jesus Christ2. Still for those who fail (rebellously?) to see His love for the lost and pervert His word
Matt 5:11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
Halleluiah! Amen!
Unbiblical Presbyterianism wrote:nothing biblical
Rotten Pillars of Arminianismhttp://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=9111119212910
Arminianism. Another gospel.http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=106071354170
Arminianism. Another gospel.http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?sid=111908124030
Election, Reprobation and Predestination In the Reformed Creeds.http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=127081239569
Jesus' Death Blow to Arminianismhttp://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=12713133736
Galatians 1:9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed."
Unprofitable Servant wrote:1. No one but you is putting forth an Arminian view of the atonement2. You have no answer to the fact that those whom you say cannot be saved
John UK wrote:1) sheep "come to Christ"2) They embrace him by faith3) Every transgression is paid for in full at Calvary
Michael Hranek wrote:7 Let the WICKED forsake his way,
btw I was reading that the Arminian style religious person - (who believes that the atonement made salvation possible for all BUT not necessary actual for any) - thus who include the "wicked" reprobated to hell. And thus abandon the concept that the atonement is substitutionary" Is that where you guys are today??
Unprofitable Servant wrote:Ezekiel 18:21 But if the wicked
Lurker wrote:Eze 33:11 .... I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked
btw Have you noticed the lack of "sinners" in Ezekiel??? Wonder why that is???
Now remember my original post IS CORRECT::-""The Arminian doctrine teaches universalism thus the blood of Christ is declared by them to be ineffectual for some.This is idolatrous and blasphemous teaching.To suggest that God would spill the blood of His Son for the wicked is sheer folly and fallacy. Thus it is false religion.""
I hope for the sake of the "sinner" that your witness will know the difference between the two and be effectual.
CAB wrote:T - "Total Depravity"
For example"I. TOTAL DEPRAVITY
A. Arminian Position: Man is spiritually sick. Fallen man was seriously affected by the fall but he still has the ability to choose spiritual good. He determines his eternal destiny by either accepting or rejecting God's mercies.
B. Reformed Position: Man is spiritually dead. Because of the fall, man has become spiritually dead, blind and deaf to the things of God and is therefore unable of himself to choose spiritual good and determine his own destiny.
C. Scriptural Support for the Reformed Position
1. The fall has resulted in spiritual death to all men.
Gen.2:16 - Gen.2:17 ..... "
And many many more.
Michael Hranek wrote:I didn't want to pass up the opportunity
But you and your Baptist brothers needn't worry I will stick around for your edification and bring more accurate exegesis to the threads for y'all.
May the Lord bring you into all of His counsel.
Unprofitable Servant wrote:elect
CV wrote:No they're NOT. If they are "just", then they are justified, not sinners any longer
HE was the Son of God.
Oh for better teaching in the churches!!!!
Mike wrote:Something new in the wind. Now the wicked aren't sinners. Who knew?
Matt 13:49 So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just"= Now both the "wicked" and the "just" are sinners.
Also the word sinner is a different GREEK word to that used and translated wicked.
Boy oh boy its going to take me ages to teach you Baptists the Bible.
John UK wrote:I did say there was no need to respond. Why do you insist on making it difficult for yourself? ObserveRomans 5:8 KJV8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet **sinners**, Christ died for us.Christ died for sinners, to save sinners. This is simple theology.
The Arminian reasoning behind this fiction is to bring God and Christ down - whilst they raise man up to divine level that they might boast of saving themselves. This of course is blatant idolatry and follows the path of Roman Catholicism and their salvation by works.
Arminianism is the seed of Liberalism. Liberalism is the church who ditched the Bible. Arminianism is the church who led the way to misinterpreted, misconstrued and mistranslated Bible religious hypothesis.
Arminianism is the opposite of Calvinism.Calvinism obeys and serves the whole counsel of God - The complete Bible.As CHS stated Calvinism IS the Gospel.
Arminianism is free will for man.Arminianism is free sin to dominate man.Arminianism is the Religion of Doubt. Doubt of the Lord and doubt of salvation.Arminian human concept of free will can be seen in Roman Catholicism and Jehovah's Witness theology - This of itself demonstrates its heretical origins.
Get Calvinism - or Get Lost!
All 5 points wrote:I believe that Mr. Rutherford taught differently then this comment above ...No man knows the heart of another man. God alone knows the heart
God can read the heart of man and man cannot read the heart, which tells us that God knows more about us than any mortal can ever know. This also teaches that God knows His elect - And we can never know who is elect.
This brings us to the invisible church on earth, invisible to mankind but visible to God.John 10: 26 But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you. 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: 28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.Christ's "sheep" believe.Christ's "sheep" hear the voice of the Lord.Christ's "sheep" follow Jesus.The rest go to hell.
Christ's "sheep" which HE refers to are the Elect of God.
Michael Hranek wrote:And another thought is that when God Himself speaks of His people being holy to Him it is in the context of them being His own special treasure
Jesus states::-John 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.30 I and my Father are one.
Regarding this article and "Christians reject idea of waiting for marriage" (adultery) - These are nominal Christian and probably come from Arminian style churches.
Remember Get Calvinism or Get Lost!!!
DJC49 wrote:Question:The Roman Catholic church baptizes babies also. Are their peado-baptisms as efficacious as Presby peado-baptisms when it comes to those babies' salvation? Why or why not?
Baptist discrimination of the child of Covenanted parents, on the basis of Arminian statement, is a rejection of God's command and will.
John UK wrote:I put it down to baptising unregenerates and making them members before there is any sign of spiritual life.
When will you Baptists learn to read the Bible properly, learn to translate Greek properly and stop following the Anabaptist heresy invented in 1521?


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Hopwood Lectures
Each April a prominent author delivers the Hopwood Lecture at the Graduate and Undergraduate Hopwood Awards Ceremony.
Former Hopwood Awards Program Director and Robert Frost Distinguished University Professor Nicholas Delbanco delivered the lecture at the Graduate and Undergraduate Hopwood Awards Ceremony on April 20, 2017. The lecture will be published in a future issue of Michigan Quarterly Review. He has published 29 books of fiction and nonfiction. His most recent books are The Art of Youth: Crane, Carrington, Gershwin and the Nature of First Acts; The Years; and Dear Wizard: The Letters of Nicholas Delbanco and Jon Manchip White. His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship and two National Endowment for the Arts Writing Fellowships. Formerly the Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing (now the Helen Zell Writers' Program), he directed the Hopwood Awards Program for almost 30 years.
The Hopwood Lecturers List
2017, Nicholas Delbanco
2016, Susan Choi — Stirring the Pond
2015, Eavan Boland — The Light By Which We May See
2014, Paul Theroux — How to Be a Writer (Lecture not published)
2013, Gary Snyder — Remaining Unprepared
2012, Francine Prose — Complimentary Toilet Paper: Some Thoughts on Character and Language (PDF)
2011, Elizabeth Alexander — New Ideas About Black Experimental Poetry (PDF)
2010, John Patrick Shanley — Discomfort (PDF)
2009, Ellen Bryant Voigt — Double Talk and Double Visions (PDF)
2008, Charles Johnson — On Literary Culture and Civilization: Autopsy for a Creative Writing Workshop (PDF)
2007, Susan Stamberg — Writing to be Heard (PDF)
2006, Charles Baxter — Losers (PDF)
2005, Susan Orlean — Roads Taken (and Not) (PDF)
2004, Mary Gordon — Flannery's Kiss (PDF)
2003, Richard Howard — The Fatality of Reading (PDF)
2002, Edmund White — Writing Gay (PDF)
2001, Andrea Barrett — Four Voyages (PDF)
2000, Donald Hall — Starting and Keeping On (PDF)
1999, Lawrence Kasdan — POV (PDF)
1998,John Barth — Further Questions? (PDF)
1997, Philip Levine — Two Journeys (PDF)
1996, Louise Glück — The Fear of Happiness (PDF)
1995, Diane Johnson — The Writer as a Character (PDF)
1994, Geoffrey Wolff — Writers and Their Characters (PDF)
1993, Roger Rosenblatt — Nine Anti-Rules of Journalism (PDF)
1992, Richard Ford — What We Write About, and Why, and Who Cares (PDF)
1991, Robert Hass — Prisons and Families: Some Thoughts on Contemporary Poetry (PDF)
1990, William Kennedy — Writers and Their Songs (PDF)
1989, Francine du Plessix — Gray Women and Russian Literature (PDF)
1988, Donald Justice — The Prose Sublime (PDF)
1987, Joyce Carol Oates — Beginnings (PDF)
1986, Carolyn Kizer — Poetry of Social Concern Since World War II (PDF)
1985, E. L. Doctorow — The Beliefs of Writers (PDF)
1984, Norman Mailer — The Hazards and Sources of Writing (PDF)
1983, Maxine Hong Kingston — Imagined Life (PDF)
1982, Stephen Spender — The Obsession of Writers with the Act of Writing (PDF)
1981, Arthur Miller — The American Writer: The American Theatre (PDF)
1980, Al Alvarez — The Myth of the Artist (PDF)
1979, Joan Didion — Making Up Stories (PDF)
1978, Tom Wolfe — Literary Technique in the Last Quarter of the Twentieth Century (PDF)
1977, Walker Percy — The State of the Novel: Dying Art or New Science (PDF)
1976, John Simon — The Word on Film (PDF)
1975, Pauline Kael — On Movies (PDF)
1974, W. D. Snodgrass — Moonshine and Sunny Beams: A Rumination on A Midsummer Night's Dream (PDF)
1973, Robert W. Corrigan — The Changing of the Avant-Garde (PDF)
1972, Caroline Gordon — The Shape of the River (PDF)
1971, Theodore Solotaroff — The Practical Critic: A Personal View (PDF)
1970, Nadine Gordimer — Modern African Writing (PDF)
1969, Peter De Vries — Exploring Inner Space (PDF)
1968, Denise Levertov — Origins of a Poem (PDF)
1967, Robert Brustein — No More Masterpieces (PDF)
1966, Peter Taylor — That Cloistered Jazz (PDF)
1965, Donald Davie — Sincerity and Poetry (PDF)
1964, Alfred Kazin — Autobiography as Narrative (PDF)
1963, Arthur Miller — On Recognition (PDF)
1962, Mark Schorer — The Burdens of Biography (PDF)
1961, Saul Bellow — Where Do We Go From Here? The Future of Fiction (PDF)
1960, Theodore Roethke — The Poetry of Louise Bogan (PDF)
1959, Howard Nemerov — The Swaying Form: A Problem in Poetry (PDF)
1958, John Ciardi — The Silences of the Poem (PDF)
1957, Malcolm Cowley — The Beginning Writer in the University (PDF)
1956, Philip Rahv — Literary Criticism and the Imagination of Alternatives (PDF)
1955, Archibald MacLeish — Why Can't They Say What They Mean? (PDF)
1954, John Gassner — Modern Playwriting at the Crossroads (PDF)
1953, Stephen Spender — The Young Writer, Present, Past, and Future (PDF)
1952, Horace Gregory — Dramatic Art in Poetry (PDF)
1951, Mark Van Doren — The Possible Importance of Poetry (PDF)
1950, Norman Cousins — In Defense of a Writing Career (PDF)
1949, F. O. Matthiessen — Responsibilities of the Critic (PDF)
1948, J. Donald Adams — The Writer's Responsibility (PDF)
1947, Robert Penn Warren — The Themes of Robert Frost (PDF)
1946, Harlan Hatcher — Towards American Cultural Maturity (PDF)
1945, Struthers Burt — The Unreality of Realism (PDF)
1944, Louise Bogan — Popular and Unpopular Poetry (PDF)
1943, Mary Colum — Modern Mode in Literature (PDF)
1942, John Crowe — Ransom The Primitive Language of Poetry (PDF)
1941, Edward Weeks — On Counting Your Chickens Before They Hatch (PDF)
1940, Henry Seidel Canby — The American Tradition in Contemporary Literature (PDF)
1939, Carl Van Doren — The First American Man of Letters (PDF)
1938, Walter Prichard Eaton — American Drama Versus Literature (PDF)
1937, Christopher Morley — A Successor to Mark Twain (PDF)
1935, Henry Hazlitt — Literature Versus Opinion (PDF)
1934, Zona Gale — Writing as Design (PDF)
1933, Max Eastman — Literature in the Age of Science (PDF)
1932, Robert Morss Lovett — Literature and Animal Faith (PDF)
Hopwood Readers
Each January, a prominent poet or fiction writer reads at the Hopwood Underclassmen Awards Ceremony. A complete list of readers follows is in the list below.
The 2017 Hopwood Underclassmen Awards Ceremony was held on January 27, 2017. Tracy K. Smith gave a reading following the announcement of the awards. She is the author of three collections of poetry, The Body's Question, Duende, and Life on Mars (winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2012), and a memoir, Ordinary Light (a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in Nonfiction). She teaches creative writing at Princeton University.
The Hopwood Readers List
|Chang-rae Lee
|Fiction Reading
|Kimiko Hahn
|Poetry Reading
|David Grann
|Nonfiction Reading
|C. D. Wright
|Poetry Reading
|Denis Johnson
|Fiction Reading
|James Wood
|Nonfiction reading
|Tobias Wolff
|Fiction Reading
|George Saunders
|Fiction Reading
|Linda Pastan
|Poetry Reading
|Alice Fulton
|Poetry Reading
|Carolyn Forché
|Poetry Reading
|Nancy Willard
|Poetry Reading
|Rick Moody
|Fiction Reading
|Heather McHugh
|Poetry Reading
|C.K. Williams
|Poetry Reading
|Sue Miller
|Fiction Reading
|Yusef Komunyakaa
|Poetry Reading
|Grace Paley
|Fiction Reading
|Elmore Leonard
|Fiction Reading
|Max Apple
|Nonfiction Reading
|Barry Lopez
|Nonfiction Reading
|John Ashbery
|Poetry Reading
|Jamaica Kincaid
|Fiction Reading
|Charles Simic
|Poetry Reading
|Bharati Mukherjee
|Fiction Reading
|Maxine Kumin
|Poetry Reading
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Today I came across this interesting list of the College student Mindset. It intrigued me for almost an hour as I went through different years and saw the differences between when my brother entered college and when I did. It's a crazy crazy world we live in..... enjoy!
*If interested in other years, here is the website*
The Beloit College Mindset List for the Class of 2013
Most students entering college for the first time this fall were born in 1991.
- For these students, Martha Graham, Pan American Airways, Michael Landon, Dr. Seuss, Miles Davis, The Dallas Times Herald, Gene Roddenberry, and Freddie Mercury have always been dead.
- Dan Rostenkowski, Jack Kevorkian, and Mike Tyson have always been felons.
- The Green Giant has always been Shrek, not the big guy picking vegetables.
- They have never used a card catalog to find a book.
- Margaret Thatcher has always been a former prime minister.
- Salsa has always outsold ketchup.
- Earvin "Magic" Johnson has always been HIV-positive.
- Tattoos have always been very chic and highly visible.
- They have been preparing for the arrival of HDTV all their lives.
- Rap music has always been main stream.
- Chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream has always been a flavor choice.
- Someone has always been building something taller than the Willis (née Sears) Tower in Chicago.
- The KGB has never officially existed.
- Text has always been hyper.
- They never saw the "Scud Stud" (but there have always been electromagnetic stud finders.)
- Babies have always had a Social Security Number.
- They have never had to "shake down" an oral thermometer.
- Bungee jumping has always been socially acceptable.
- They have never understood the meaning of R.S.V.P.
- American students have always lived anxiously with high-stakes educational testing.
- Except for the present incumbent, the President has never inhaled.
- State abbreviations in addresses have never had periods.
- The European Union has always existed.
- McDonald's has always been serving Happy Meals in China.
- Condoms have always been advertised on television.
- Cable television systems have always offered telephone service and vice versa.
- Christopher Columbus has always been getting a bad rap.
- The American health care system has always been in critical condition.
- Bobby Cox has always managed the Atlanta Braves.
- Desperate smokers have always been able to turn to Nicoderm skin patches.
- There has always been a Cartoon Network.
- The nation's key economic indicator has always been the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
- Their folks could always reach for a Zoloft.
- They have always been able to read books on an electronic screen.
- Women have always outnumbered men in college.
- We have always watched wars, coups, and police arrests unfold on television in real time.
- Amateur radio operators have never needed to know Morse code.
- Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Latvia, Georgia, Lithuania, and Estonia have always been independent nations.
- It's always been official: President Zachary Taylor did not die of arsenic poisoning.
- Madonna's perspective on Sex has always been well documented.
- Phil Jackson has always been coaching championship basketball.
- Ozzy Osbourne has always been coming back.
- Kevin Costner has always been Dancing with Wolves, especially on cable.
- There have always been flat screen televisions.
- They have always eaten Berry Berry Kix.
- Disney's Fantasia has always been available on video, and It's a Wonderful Life has always been on Moscow television.
- Smokers have never been promoted as an economic force that deserves respect.
- Elite American colleges have never been able to fix the price of tuition.
- Nobody has been able to make a deposit in the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI).
- Everyone has always known what the evening news was before the Evening News came on.
- Britney Spears has always been heard on classic rock stations.
- They have never been Saved by the Bell
- Someone has always been asking: "Was Iraq worth a war?"
- Most communities have always had a mega-church.
- Natalie Cole has always been singing with her father.
- The status of gays in the military has always been a topic of political debate.
- Elizabeth Taylor has always reeked of White Diamonds.
- There has always been a Planet Hollywood.
- For one reason or another, California's future has always been in doubt.
- Agent Starling has always feared the Silence of the Lambs.
- "Womyn" and "waitperson" have always been in the dictionary.
- Members of Congress have always had to keep their checkbooks balanced since the closing of the House Bank.
- There has always been a computer in the Oval Office.
- CDs have never been sold in cardboard packaging.
- Avon has always been "calling" in a catalog.
- NATO has always been looking for a role.
- Two Koreas have always been members of the UN.
- Official racial classifications in South Africa have always been outlawed.
- The NBC Today Show has always been seen on weekends.
- Vice presidents of the United States have always had real power.
- Conflict in Northern Ireland has always been slowly winding down.
- Migration of once independent media like radio, TV, videos and compact discs to the computer has never amazed them.
- Nobody has ever responded to "Help, I've fallen and I can't get up."
- Congress could never give itself a mid-term raise.
- There has always been blue Jell-O.
For these students, Benny Hill, Sam Kinison, Sam Walton, Bert Parks and Tony Perkins have always been dead.
1. Few in the class know how to write in cursive.
2. Email is just too slow, and they seldom if ever use snail mail.
3. "Go West, Young College Grad" has always implied "and don't stop until you get to Asia…and learn Chinese along the way."
4. Al Gore has always been animated.
5. Los Angelenos have always been trying to get along.
6. Buffy has always been meeting her obligations to hunt down Lothos and the other blood-suckers at Hemery High.
7. "Caramel macchiato" and "venti half-caf vanilla latte" have always been street corner lingo.
8. With increasing numbers of ramps, Braille signs, and handicapped parking spaces, the world has always been trying harder to accommodate people with disabilities.
9. Had it remained operational, the villainous computer HAL could be their college classmate this fall, but they have a better chance of running into Miley Cyrus's folks on Parents' Weekend.
10. A quarter of the class has at least one immigrant parent, and the immigration debate is not a big priority…unless it involves "real" aliens from another planet.
11. John McEnroe has never played professional tennis.
12. Clint Eastwood is better known as a sensitive director than as Dirty Harry.
13. Parents and teachers feared that Beavis and Butt-head might be the voice of a lost generation.
14. Doctor Kevorkian has never been licensed to practice medicine.
15. Colorful lapel ribbons have always been worn to indicate support for a cause.
16. Korean cars have always been a staple on American highways.
17. Trading Chocolate the Moose for Patti the Platypus helped build their Beanie Baby collection.
18. Fergie is a pop singer, not a princess.
19. They never twisted the coiled handset wire aimlessly around their wrists while chatting on the phone.
20. DNA fingerprinting and maps of the human genome have always existed.
21. Woody Allen, whose heart has wanted what it wanted, has always been with Soon-Yi Previn.
22. Cross-burning has always been deemed protected speech.
23. Leasing has always allowed the folks to upgrade their tastes in cars.
24. "Cop Killer" by rapper Ice-T has never been available on a recording.
25. Leno and Letterman have always been trading insults on opposing networks.
26. Unless they found one in their grandparents' closet, they have never seen a carousel of Kodachrome slides.
27. Computers have never lacked a CD-ROM disk drive.
28. They've never recognized that pointing to their wrists was a request for the time of day.
29. Reggie Jackson has always been enshrined in Cooperstown.
30. "Viewer Discretion" has always been an available warning on TV shows.
31. The first computer they probably touched was an Apple II; it is now in a museum.
32. Czechoslovakia has never existed.
33. Second-hand smoke has always been an official carcinogen.
34. "Assisted Living" has always been replacing nursing homes, while Hospice has always been an alternative to hospitals.
35. Once they got through security, going to the airport has always resembled going to the mall.
36. Adhesive strips have always been available in varying skin tones.
37. Whatever their parents may have thought about the year they were born, Queen Elizabeth declared it an "Annus Horribilis."
38. Bud Selig has always been the Commissioner of Major League Baseball.
39. Pizza jockeys from Domino's have never killed themselves to get your pizza there in under 30 minutes.
40. There have always been HIV positive athletes in the Olympics.
41. American companies have always done business in Vietnam.
42. Potato has always ended in an "e" in New Jersey per vice presidential edict.
43. Russians and Americans have always been living together in space.
44. The dominance of television news by the three networks passed while they were still in their cribs.
45. They have always had a chance to do community service with local and federal programs to earn money for college.
46. Nirvana is on the classic oldies station.
47. Children have always been trying to divorce their parents.
48. Someone has always gotten married in space.
49. While they were babbling in strollers, there was already a female Poet Laureate of the United States.
50. Toothpaste tubes have always stood up on their caps.
51. Food has always been irradiated.
52. There have always been women priests in the Anglican Church.
53. J.R. Ewing has always been dead and gone. Hasn't he?
54. The historic bridge at Mostar in Bosnia has always been a copy.
55. Rock bands have always played at presidential inaugural parties.
56. They may have assumed that parents' complaints about Black Monday had to do with punk rockers from L.A., not Wall Street.
57. A purple dinosaur has always supplanted Barney Google and Barney Fife.
58. Beethoven has always been a dog.
59. By the time their folks might have noticed Coca Cola's new Tab Clear, it was gone.
60. Walmart has never sold handguns over the counter in the lower 48.
61. Presidential appointees have always been required to be more precise about paying their nannies' withholding tax, or else.
62. Having hundreds of cable channels but nothing to watch has always been routine.
63. Their parents' favorite TV sitcoms have always been showing up as movies.
64. The U.S, Canada, and Mexico have always agreed to trade freely.
65. They first met Michelangelo when he was just a computer virus.
66. Galileo is forgiven and welcome back into the Roman Catholic Church.
67. Ruth Bader Ginsburg has always sat on the Supreme Court.
68. They have never worried about a Russian missile strike on the U.S.
69. The Post Office has always been going broke.
70. The artist formerly known as Snoop Doggy Dogg has always been rapping.
71. The nation has never approved of the job Congress is doing.
72. One way or another, "It's the economy, stupid" and always has been.
73. Silicone-gel breast implants have always been regulated.
74. They've always been able to blast off with the Sci-Fi Channel.
75. Honda has always been a major competitor on Memorial Day at Indianapolis.


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The Motorola Droid legacy is about to receive its latest iteration, the Droid 4. This 4G LTE, slide-out keyboard device is undoubtedly one of the most awaited in Verizon's network, especially for all the keyboard lovers out there. We were expecting this bad boy to hit the streets last December, but rumors indicate that the release was pushed back. But this time around all stars are lining up, and it looks as though the device will be released next week.
The first, and most important sign is the fact that the Motorola Droid 4 has recently showed up at the Droid Does website. Such instance is usually followed by a release, very soon. In this site, we can see all the main features and specs, as well as sign-up for more information.
If you have not heard of the specs, they include a dual-core 1.2 GHz processor, 1 GB of RAM, 4-inch qHD display, Android 2.3.5, 8 MP rear-facing camera (1080p recording), front-facing camera (720p recording), 4G LTE connectivity and a 5-row slide-out physical keyboard. Also, remember that this phone will be getting GSM global roaming capabilities. All the travelers out there might be interested in this.
Its appearance at the Droid Does website definitely makes the Droid 4 a bit more exciting. But it tells us nothing we don't already know. The specs and features have been known for months now. What we want to know is when and for how much we will be able to get this piece of technology in our hands. For such details, we have to turn our heads to the rumor wagon.
Just yesterday, our buds from Droid-Life received a tip that confirmed a February 9 release date. Rumors also state that this bad boy will go for $199 on a 2-year contract, which is not a bad price compared to the other new 4G LTE devices.
That was all good and dandy, until this morning, when Droid-Life got another tip. This time it is a screenshot from Verizon's equipment guide, and it states that the Droid 4 will be launching on February 10 instead (image below).
But whether it is the 10th or the 9th, odds are that it will be coming very soon. Get ready to let your flying fingers type away at 4G LTE speeds, texting demons! This bad boy is finally getting here. Is anyone signing up for this one?


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I collect notable ledes and organize them into categories on Evernote for future reference. They add variety to my lede repertoire and help inspire new ideas when I feel stuck. Hopefully, these notes will be useful to you, too...
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Article by Jeff Goodell in Rolling Stone magazine
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London: Saina Nehwal`s quarterfinal jinx in the World Badminton Championship continued as the ace Indian shuttler suffered a straight-game defeat to world number three Wang Xin to crash out of the women`s singles of the prestigious event on Friday.
World number six Saina, who reached the quarterfinals in the last two editions too, had to be contend with yet another last-eight finish as she lost 15-21, 10-21 in a one-sided 30-minute match here.
The 21-year-old Indian was not in her elements today as she struggled with her strokes and also committed too many unforced errors to hand over the match to the former world number one Chinese at the Wembley arena here.
Playing with the breeze in the first game, Saina kept her shuttle up during her serves and took a 4-2 lead, but Xin caught the Indian at the cross court to draw parity before breaking off at 9-9.
Saina faltered with her baseline strokes and also failed to negotiate the sharp shots of the Chinese as Xin registered five straight points to move to 14-9, before holding her fort to grab the first game.
The second game started off with long rallies but Xin soon started attacking as Saina panicked and ended up giving a 4-10 lead to the Chinese.
Even though coach Pullela Gopichand tried to motivate Saina, the gulf could not be bridged as Xin controlled the game while anticipating the shots from the Indian.
Two unforced errors from Xin helped Saina to gain a couple of odd points but with the Indian struggling with her strokes and succumbing to error in judgement, she allowed Xin to seal the issue rather comfortably in the end.
Saina had lost to Xin thrice before but defeated the Chinese in the Sudirman Cup in May.


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MAHWAH, N.J. – The Mahwah Public Library will offer more "Introduction to Complex Robotics" classes for teens and "tweens" in fifth through eighth grades starting Tuesday, April 12.
Participants will learn to build, program, test and refactor Lego robots to complete a multitude of challenging tasks. The six-week session is Tuesdays from April 12 through May 17 with two sessions, from 3:45-5 p.m. or 5-6:15 p.m.
Registration starts Monday and can be done at the teen services desk by phone at 201-529-7323 Ext. 224 or online .
Participants will be signed up for all six classes per time slot, and only can be in one time slot as space will be limited. This program is for Mahwah residents only.
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When the Dow Chemical Company - the largest foreign investor in South Korea - described its Korean investment as ''an absolute disaster,'' there was considerable sympathy among the foreign business community here.
Foreign investors came here to make the most of this country's highly educated, hardworking labor force.
But the bright glow of profits has given way to considerable frustration and tension in the past two years. Government officials blame the current severe recession for the discontent among foreign investors.
But many foreign investors say more endemic problems are also to blame, including frequent bureaucratic changes, confused economic policy, and failure to resolve a number of longstanding problems.
Export-oriented companies, able to take advantage of Korea's labor force, have few problems. Most complaints come from domestic-market, joint-venture companies with the 50-50 or nearly equal control arrangements the Korean government has preferred in the past.
Dow Chemical estimates it has lost $60 million in the country in the past two years. And Robert W. Lundeen, Dow's chairman, says, ''we're not interested in investing five more cents in Korea until the present problems are straightened out.''
The difficulties of such joint ventures as the Korea Pacific Chemical Corporation fall roughly into two areas - purely bureaucratic problems and the working relationships between foreign and Korean partners.
Many foreigners say that the clearly defined economic superstructure built up by former President Park has gone and that nothing concrete has replaced it. ''We are wallowing in a quagmire,'' a foreign businessman complains. ''During Park's time we didn't always like the answer, but at least we could get one.''
''Many of the problems and frustrations existed in the '60s and '70s, but foreigners were then making a reasonable amount of money,'' says John Hagaman, vice-president of Dow's Pacific Chemical, a 50-50 joint venture. ''Now many are losing a lot of money, and that brings a whole different set of tensions into play.''
Among the most common criticisms: Regulations are open to differing interpretations and change too frequently, the government doesn't always abide by its own guidelines, and approval from one ministry can be blocked by another.
A multiplicity of approvals makes even simple procedures complicated. One example cited was the requirement of 64 separate seals of approval before a joint-venture company could buy a house. Businessmen say 30 to 40 percent of staff work is spent solely on procedures required by the government.
Lack of trust is also a major problem. Foreign businessmen say detailed technological specifications submitted for license approval find their way into the hands of rival companies. Korea allows only processes to be patented - not products - making it easy to copy and market similar products. The result, according to a foreign businessman, is that ''no one wants to bring their most up-to-date technology into Korea.''
Government officials deny that technology, process patents, and trademarks are insufficiently protected. Korea is not developed enough for product patents, they say. They point out that even Japan waited until 1976 before allowing them, and that the situation is the same in most Far Eastern countries.
A spokesman says the government is moving to simplify documentation, remove unnecessary regulations, and increase the number of industries open to foreign investment from 427 to 500. ''But foreigners must realize that changes are inevitable in a still-developing economy,'' he says.
Foreigners say their Korean partners do not have a long-term view, but look only for quick profits - that they want foreign money and technology but resent foreigners running the business, that many Koreans go into joint ventures primarily to gain access to foreign technology and often abuse technology agreements.
Another problem: Top positions are often not filled according to relevant experience and qualifications. A foreign businessman says, ''A job requiring an experienced biochemist may be given to a retired general.''
Koreans counter that few foreign businessmen make a serious effort to understand and adapt to Korean thought. ''They expect business here to be just like business in New York,'' says a Korean businessman. A common mistake is the appointment of a young man who, though technically competent, will not command respect from Korean colleagues because of his youth.
In 1981 new foreign investments approved by the government and those investments actually in place increased slightly - reaching $146 million and $ 105 million, respectively (compared with $141 million and $96 million in 1980). The first six months of 1982 have also shown gains, reaching $93 million in approvals and $51 million in arrivals.
But these totals fall well below the 1981 goal of $200 million. A March 1982 report issued by the US embassy says that the ''government must make some major changes soon, both in entry conditions and in the way it treats investors already established in Korea, if it is to meet its ambitious targets for foreign-equity investments during the current five-year-plan period.''


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The Albany City School Board
should be dissolved.
No more school budget votes.
The November 3 2015 defeat
of the 200 million dollar high
school should stand. The voters
have spoken.
The February 9 revote annulled.
Albany should return to a K-8
neighborhood school system.
The roof of the current High School
should be repaired.
This campus should be set aside
for students who value learning
and intend to go on to higher
education as well as become
good citizens.
Hackett Middle school should
become a GED charter school
for students who would be best
served by learning practical
life skills, how to read, write
listen and speak coherently
and become good citizens.
The City schools should be
consolidated with city government.
One tax roll to finance both as
part of the City budget submitted
by the Mayor to the Common
Council for approval.
Common Council Members
shall represent the people of
the wards who elect them, not
be a rubber stamp for the Mayor.
Administrative staff trimmed and
teachers assuming a greater role
in creating disciplined learning
environments tailored to the needs
and goals of students.
The Mayor and Common Council
shall be responsible and accountable
for the operation and performance
of City schools.
The Common Council shall pass
and send to the State Legislature
a Home Rule Request that the
above amendments be made to
state education law.
The Members of the State Senate
Assembly who represent Albany
shall sponsor and obtain passage
of the necessary amendments to
NYS Education Law -this session.
Joe Sullivan


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Busy, well-established, 2 doctor hospital looking for full-time veterinarian. New grads welcome. Competitive base salary plus bonuses for production, 401k, family health insurance plans, Paid CE, vacation, licensing fees and schedule flexibility are all part of a generous benefits package. We are a 15 minute commute from Salisbury, a 2-3 hour drive from Washington D.C., Baltimore, and Annapolis, and 20 minutes from Ocean City. The town of Princess Anne features a major university (UMES), and is an outdoor enthusiast's paradise of hunting, fishing, camping, and hiking.
We are a dynamic, hard-working team that fosters a professional atmosphere while also having a little bit of fun (just a little bit though). We are focused on providing compassionate care using the most current technology. We have a young, energetic staff with 2 licensed RVTs. Hospital features include full Idexx laboratory Suite with Sedivue Urinalysis machine, CO2 surgical laser, Digital Radiography, Ultrasound, and Tonopen.
Specialization in Exotic/pocket pets a plus that would be fully supported through purchasing equipment and proper staff training, however it is not required. Take a look at our facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/somersetregionalanimalhospital/) or our website (http://www.somersetrah.com/). Please direct all inquires to Kelly Rothenhoefer, RVT or Dr. Jeffrey Reed at the provided contact information in job posting.
Must have graduated from accredited Veterinary school with a doctorate in Veterinary Medicine


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IRS Paid $20 Million to Collect $6.7 Million in Tax Debts
Congress passed a law in 2015 requiring the IRS to use private debt collection agencies to pursue "inactive tax receivables," but the financial results are not encouraging so far, according to a new taxpayer advocate report out Wednesday.
In fiscal year 2017, the IRS received $6.7 million from taxpayers whose debts were assigned to private collection agencies, but the agencies were paid $20 million – "three times the amount collected," the report helpfully points out.
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Number of the Day: $3.3 Billion
The GOP tax cuts have provided a significant earnings boost for the big U.S. banks so far this year. Changes in the tax code "saved the nation's six biggest banks $3.3 billion in the third quarter alone," according to a Bloomberg report Thursday. The data is drawn from earnings reports from Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo.
Clarifying the Drop in Obamacare Premiums
We told you Thursday about the Trump administration's announcement that average premiums for benchmark Obamacare plans will fall 1.5 percent next year, but analyst Charles Gaba says the story is a bit more complicated. According to Gaba's calculations, average premiums for all individual health plans will rise next year by 3.1 percent.
The difference between the two figures is produced by two very different datasets. The Trump administration included only the second-lowest-cost Silver plans in 39 states in its analysis, while Gaba examined all individual plans sold in all 50 states.
Number of the Day: $132,900
The cap on Social Security payroll taxes will rise to $132,900 next year, an increase of 3.5 percent. (Earnings up to that level are subject to the Social Security tax.) The increase will affect about 11.6 million workers, Politico reports. Beneficiaries are also getting a boost, with a 2.8 percent cost-of-living increase coming in 2019.
Photo of the Day: Kanye West at the White House
This is 2018: Kanye West visited President Trump at the White House Thursday and made a rambling 10-minute statement that aired on TV news networks. West's lunch with the president was supposed to focus on clemency, crime in his hometown of Chicago and economic investment in urban areas, but his Oval Office rant veered into the bizarre. And since this is the world we live in, we'll also point out that West apparently became "the first person to ever publicly say 'mother-f***er' in the Oval Office."
Trump called Kanye's monologue "pretty impressive."
"That was bonkers," MSNBC's Ali Velshi said afterward.
Again, this is 2018.


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I do Supernatural imagines on Tumblr and I thought I'd post them here as well, in case anyone wanted to read them!
You can request one if you want! I do any characters
You can either comment a request or send me an ask on www.http://spnimagines-and-oneshots.tumblr.com/
I hope you enjoy them!
- castiel
- etsy
- supernatural
- winchester
- xreader
Lucinda2015 Mar 03, 2017
Wow...CAS noticed I have got to be really obvious...😂😂😂
mtthwtrbl May 27, 2016
Ayyy thanks for putting Mr! I can hardly find any fanfiction that's aimed at gay male readers x
Miss_Paupou Nov 20, 2016
Um may I pls make a request sorry I'm super awkward um... Heheh
swlotakulady34 Oct 28, 2015
Y-yeah... Sorry a fat, ugly, stupid, waste of space has to love you.
planetarum Oct 20, 2015
OOOOHHHHH. I thought Cas said he loved her or something, oh God, I almost just died holy mother of sin. Don't worry, I got it. XD
SuperAnimepanda95 Dec 05, 2014
Oh I Have a Biggest Crush On Castiel,And Blush as he kissed me! :3


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必修一 Unit 3 Traveljournal The Third Period
●从容说课 This is the third period of this unit.To test if Ss have understood the phrases and patterns they learned during the second period,the teacher can first give them some revision exercises."It is ...that" is a very difficult structure,so the teacher can design some exercises for Ss. Ss have got some idea about the present continuous tense for future use in the first period,to make them more familiar with its function, teacher can give them more practice, the both oral and written.Meanwhile,the teacher will help them go over another two ways of expressing future actions.These tasks are designed to improve their ability of using language. To make Ss well prepared for the reading of the fourth period,the teacher can deal with the rest few new words in this class. As to the homework,the teacher will ask Ss to preview Part 3 on Page 19 after class.Because this work is a bit difficult,tell Ss any group work is welcome. Since the five-day National holidays are coming.Suppose that one student and his friends will go for a trip.Ask them to go to a nearby travel agency and find a schedule for their trip.Later they are required to talk about what they will do on their travel , using present continuous tense.Through this activity,Ss can get to know what a travel plan is like,and consolidate what they have learned,which is correspondent to the teaching method "Learn through doing". ●三维目标 1.Knowledge: (1)Learn the present continuous tense for future use. (2)Go over the other two ways of expressing future actions. 2.Ability: Learn to make sentences,using the above three ways. 3.Emotion: Develop Ss' sense of group cooperation. ●教学重点 The present continuous tense for future use. ●教学难点 (1)It is ...that... (2)The present continuous tense for future use. ●教具准备 Multi-media classroom and other normal teaching tools. ●教学过程 Step 1 Greeting Step 2 Revision T:First I will test how well you understand what you learned yesterday.Please judge whether the following sentences are right.If they are not right,please correct them. (1)It is with the help of the teacher that I passed the exam. (2)It is I who is wrong. (3)It was she that he helped with her homework yesterday.
(4)It was at the post-office where we met each other. (5)It was yesterday afternoon when they played a close basketball game. (6)Who was it that discovered the secret? S:I think it's right. T:Do you agree with him? S2:No,I think it is not right.But I don't know why. T:Does any one know the reason? S3:In that cause,the past tense is used,so I think we should change "is" to "was". T:Quite Good.That is to say:当原句的时态为表示现在的各种时态时,用 It is...;当原 句的时态为表示过去的各种时态时,则用 It was...。Now,what about the second sentence? S:I think it is right. S:I don't agree with her.Here "who" refers to "I" ,so after I we should use "am". T:Great.当被强调部分为原句的主语时,that 句中谓语动词应在人称与数上与它保持一 致。Let's look at Sentence 3,is it right or wrong? S: wrong.The phrase is "help sb. with sth." I think we should change "she" to "her" It's . T: Good.当被强调部分为代词时, 如是主语就用代词的主格, 如是宾语则用宾格。 you So see in Sentence 2,we use I instead of me,because the emphasized part is subject. S:I see. T:Is Sentence 4 a good sentence? S:Yes,I think so. T:What is your opinion,Han Mei? Han Mei:I am not quite sure. T:Write down this sentence in your notebook: 当被强调的对象指人时, 可用 who/whom 代替 that; 但当被强调的是地点、 时间、 原因、 方式等状语时,决不能用 where,when,why,how 等来替换。 S:Sentence 4 and Sentence 5 are wrong.We should use "that" in place of "where" and "when". T:You are clever.And the last sentence is right.Always remember: Wh+was it that...?当对被强调的地点、时间、原因、方式等状语提问时,我们要用到这 个句型。 Please translate these sentences,using this structure. (1)他是在哪里度过他的童年时代的? (2)他们怎样取得这么大的成就的呢? (3)他和她为什么吵架? S1:Where was it that he spent his childhood? S2:How was it that they made such great achievements? S3:Why was it that he quarreled with her? Step 3 Relaxation T:You did a quite good job.I will play an English song for you as a reward.But while enjoying the song,you should underline the verb in the sentences of part on Page 21. Step 4 Grammar T:Do you like the song? S:Yes. T: you learn English well, If you can find more wonderful things about English culture.Let's
work hard. S:OK. T:Have you underlined the verbs? S:Yes,are working,are having,are giving,am singing. T:What do we call this tense? S:The present continuous tense. T:But here does this tense express the present action or state? S:No. T:We all can see it expresses the future action.Can you express these sentences in other ways? S:Are you going to work this evening? We are going to have an English party. We are going to give performances at the party. I am going to sing songs with my classmates. T:So you use "be going to" to express the future action.Will someone say them in a different way? S:Will you work this evening? We will have an English party. We will give performances at the party. I will sing songs with my classmates. T:You are perfect right.And you use "will do" to express future action.Now how many ways do we have to express future actions?List them. S:Three,be doing,be going to do,will do. T: Good. Write the three ways on the blackboard.) ( Now, let's look at Part 3 on Page 21.Tell your partner what you want to do. (Give Ss several minutes to talk to each other.) T:Now,it's time to demonstrate your sentences to the whole class. Possible answers: (1)Tomorrow morning,I am walking my dog./I am going to walk my dog./I will walk my dog. (2)The day after tomorrow,I am taking part in an English speech contest./I am going to take part in an English speech contest./I will take part in an English speech contest. (3)Next Saturday evening,I am enjoying a solo concert by Zhang Xueyou./I am going to enjoy a solo concert by Zhang Xueyou./I will enjoy a solo concert by Zhang Xueyou. (4) Next month, am moving to a new flat./I am going to move to a new flat./I will move to I a new flat. Step 5 Consolidation T:Then let's check Part 2 on Page 21.Will two of you read the dialogue? S1:Miss Wang,I hear that you are traveling along the Mekong River.That's really exciting.Have you got everything ready? S2:Almost. S1:When are you leaving? S2:Next Monday. S1:How far are you riding every day?
S2:It's hard to say.If the weather is fine,I think we'll be able to ride 75 km a day. S1:Where are you staying at night? S2:Usually in our tent,but sometimes in a small hotel in the town. S1:Do you think you are coming back here soon? S2:Oh,we are not coming back to this place.We are going home.That'll be a month later. S1:Thank you for your time,Miss Wang.Good luck on your journey. S2:Thank you. Step 6 New words T:To make preparations for tomorrow's reading,we'll learn the rest new word in this unit.Look at the screen and try to pronounce the words by yourselves. attitude,shorts,camp,record,afterthought,topic,familiar,brave T:Jimmy,would you please read these new words. Jimmy:... T:Wei Hua,do you think Jimmy pronounce the words correctly? Wei Hua:Not exactly.(Read the word/words that Jimmy doesn't pronounce properly.) T:Here are eight sentences for you to complete,please use the correct forms of the above words. (1)Milu often says "____________ is everything." to encourage the players to devote more. (2)When traveling,it is more convenient for you to wear____________ than shirts. (3)Since the hotels in the town are all engaged,we have to make ____________ in the tents. (4)After staying together for two weeks,they got ____________ with each other and became friends. (5)He likes to ____________ his daughter's lovely laughter and enjoy it when free. (6)Whenever we see a film,the Chinese teacher will ask us to write about our ____________. (7)They discussed his position in the company and other ____________. (8)____________ firefighters rescued the people from the burning building. Give Ss a couple of minutes to finish the work. Answers: (1)Attitude (2)shorts (3)camp (4)familiar (5)record (6)afterthoughts (7)topics (8)brave Step 7 Homework 1.Finish Part 1 and Part 2 on Page 57 and Page 58. ●板书设计 Unit 3 Travel journal The Third Period grammar be doing be going to do will do examples I am going out tomorrow morning.
I am going to see a film tonight. I will visit my grandmother this Sunday. ●活动与探究 National holidays are coming.Suppose you and your friends will go for a trip.Please go to a nearby travel agency and find a schedule for your trip.Talk about what you will do on your travel, using present continuous tense. Date Oct.1 Oct.2 Oct.3 Oct.4 Oct.5 ●备课资料 现在进行时的基本用法 a.表示现在(指说话人说话时)正在发生的事情。 We are waiting for you. b.习惯进行:表示长期的或重复性的动作,说话时动作未必正在进行。 Mr Green is writing another novel. (说话时并未在写,只处于写作的状态。 ) She is learning piano under Mr Smith. c.表示渐变的动词有:get,grow,become,turn,run,go,begin 等。 The leaves are turning red. It's getting warmer and warmer. d.与 always,constantly,forever 等词连用,表示反复发生的动作或持续存在的状态, 往往带有说话人的主观色彩,表示强烈的赞扬或批评。 You are always changing your mind. You are always doing your work well. morning afternoon evening


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The Senate Lemming Caucus
Hugh Hewitt gets a good laugh at the expense of Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid. On Thursday, both Ted Kennedy and John Kerry announced their support of a filibuster of Judge Alito's Supreme Court nomination. But as Hewitt says, while Harry considered the possibility of joining the filibuster call, he "stopped long enough to count votes before he came charging out of the tunnel with no team behind him."
Reid's admission that the Lemming Caucus is a few votes shy of 40 is, of course, a tremendous disappointment to those of us who had hoped to watch Democrats finally kill off their few remaining Red-state senators, the way they destroyed Max Cleland's re-election bid in 2002 by insisting that every employee of the Department of Homeland Security must belong to the AFL-CIO. I mean, the GOP is going after Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Bill Nelson of Florida, no matter what. But a filibuster over Alito would be the answer to Karl Rove's prayers.
Q. Senator Nelson, can you explain why your Democratic colleagues won't permit an up-or-down vote on Judge Alito's nomination?
A. Well, to be honest with you, there's this weird-looking freak named Ralph Neas. When Ralph Neas says "jump," Ted Kennedy says, "How high?" So while Sandra Day O'Connor would dearly love to be retired and relaxing someplace warm and sunny, instead she's going to die in Washington, D.C., because Ralph Neas thinks Judge Alito is "out of the mainstream."
Q. So what you're saying is, whoever's name is on the ballot in November, if we vote for a Democrat ....
A. You're voting for the dictatorship of Ralph Neas.
Beltway Republicans, heaven knows, live in something of an echo-chamber. But given the pronouncments of their leaders, the Democrats seem much more insulated from political reality in the Red states. Zell Miller tried to talk sense to them, but DC Democrats live in an insular fantasy world of "penumbras and emanations," where ordinary Americans are up in arms about the NSA spying on terrorists, where everyone is upset that the Geneva Conventions aren't observed at Club Gitmo -- the United States of Canada, in other words.
And, of course, everyone's entitled to their fantasies (we've all got a few of our own) but as a political strategy, liberal wet dreams spell disaster for Democrats as a national party. The GOP puts up with Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe and Chris Shays in order to stay reasonably competitive in some of the Blue states, but the Democratic leadership always seems to be coming up with new ways to bungle away a few more seats in Jesusland.
I've often thought that people in Washington (in both parties) just need to get out more. Somebody needs to organize a conference on "Red State America" -- maybe Labor Day Weekend at Berry College in Rome, Ga. In between the usual lectures, panels and seminars, attendees would go spend half a day at the Armuchee Bluegrass Festival, ride up to Summerville some other day and hang out with Ryan Jarrett, and maybe ... I don't know ... go to Wal-Mart. Whatever, just so that they could be exposed to ordinary Americans who don't give a crap what Ralph Neas or the New York Times thinks about anything. Republican or Democrat, it would be good for anybody in Washington, D.C., to get down to Jesusland and meet some of the finest people in the world.
UPDATE (about an hour later): It's impossible to satirize Democrats, because whatever parody or lampoon you come up with, they'll manage to do things that are funnier than anything you could ever make up. So imagine my chagrin when I popped over to Michelle Malkin's and learned that Ted Kennedy is blogging on DailyKos. It's like the set-up for a bad joke: "A fat Irish drunk stumbles into the Internet and ...."


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Sad to see the boys from Fire Joe Morgan decide to take off their protective goggles and put away the battery acid forever. Yeah, it's a little unfair to dissect someone's article line by line — and maybe I'd feel different if they ever trampled on one of my stories — but they were sports journalism's best watchdogs. Even if they got a little too foamy at the mouth from time to time.
In the hopes of whipping them into one last blaze of glory, though, I dangle this fine piece of USDA prime.
Sick'em, Ken Tremendous.
On an unrelated note, Adam Dunn is a .157 hitter with four home runs in 89 career at-bats at AT&T Park. (Over the past three seasons, it's .103 — 4-for-39 — with nary an RBI or extra-base hit.)
Perhaps that explains why I haven't heard his name floated in any Giants-related rumors.


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Scandisk Corporation debuts a video card line available in SDHC (high-capacity) and Memory Stick PRO Duo formats
Consumers who own camcorders that use flash memory cards instead of tape will now be able to select the right storage media for their cameras with the debut of a video card line from SanDisk Corporation. As the first of a new category of storage media, SanDisk Video HD cards will be available in SDHC (high-capacity) and Memory Stick PRO Duo formats, and will be identified by minutes of recording time as well as by capacity.
SanDisk unveiled the high performance video card product family during a press conference at the Consumer Electronics Show, where the company is exhibiting at Booth 30768 in South Hall 3 of the Las Vegas Convention Center.
"The SanDisk Video HD line takes the mystery out of selecting the proper memory for these new camcorders," said Susan Park, senior product marketing manager for SanDisk's Cards and Accessories Division. "The bright red packaging and the bold labeling of recording times give consumers an easy way to select memory cards for video." The cards are designed to be high performance and optimized for high-definition camcorders, but they can also be used in recording standard video. Further, the cards work well in point-and-shoot digital still cameras that have video capabilities, she added.
"Until now, it has been difficult for consumers to select the memory card that is the most suitable for their camcorders, and equally difficult to calculate the amount of recording time they have available from the various resolution settings," said Park. Echoing the familiar messaging of analog video tape, the SanDisk Video HD card packaging offers a chart that shows the approximate number of minutes for HD High, HD Standard and HD Extended settings.
Scandisk launches high-definition video flash card
Scandisk Corporation debuts a video card line available in SDHC (high-capacity) and Memory Stick PRO Duo formats


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I started blogging over four years ago, right after Aidan was born. I was a young mom of 2 under 2, trying to find my own way as I followed my heart and my instincts in mothering and homemaking. My natural inclinations led me down the path of attachment parenting and natural living, so I blogged a lot about these sorts of things. I was also finding freedom in creativity, allowing myself to make lots of mistakes as I learned to knit and sew and try various DIY projects. And then I found myself a … [Read more...]
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Permission to Dream
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So it's been a while since I've last blogged. An almost 10-month loooong while. I never intended to stop blogging altogether. Life just got a little, shall we say, busy. And my poor little blog was shoved to the bottom of the list and never again resurfaced for air. Oh, I wrote many posts in my head, and wanted to share pictures and such with you, but the amount of time that had passed made it feel awkward to just pop-in randomly without first saying hello and sorry I haven't written in a while, … [Read more...]


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With both Wolfsburg and Mainz harbouring realistic European ambitions for this season, having finished eighth and sixth last season respectively, the match between these two teams at the Volkswagen Arena was a great opportunity for one of them to set down a real marker after very mixed – and in the case of the home side, disappointing – starts to their Bundesliga campaigns.
Dieter Hecking and Martin Schmidt each opted to utilise a 4-2-3-1 system, and in both cases their side's best players were operating in the number 10 position. For Wolfsburg that was Julian Draxler, who was sitting just off their recent summer signing, Mario Gómez, while Mainz's Yunus Malli, on a streak of scoring in three consecutive league games going into this one, was tasked with running things from behind Jhon Córdoba.
When things became congested in the midfield Wolfsburg's full-backs provided a nice outlet for them to get the ball forward, with Ricardo Rodríguez on the left and Christian Träsch on the right both happy to make use of any space that appeared.
It was the home team who started the game the brightest, Ricardo Rodríguez forcing Jonas Lössl into a decent save early on with a direct free-kick before Draxler found the back of the net with a smart left-footed finish in the 16th minute only for it to rightly be ruled out for offside. Aside from that, Wolfsburg didn't really create too much with the dominance which they held, although they had pretty secure control over both the ball and the space.
One of the main weapons for providing that came in the form of their full-backs, Rodríguez on the left and Christian Träsch on the opposite flank. The pair offered constant width near the touchlines, particularly on the right where Jakub Błaszczykowski made nice movements inside to create more space for Träsch to bomb forward into. With those two pushed forward, Mainz were often forced into having their own wide players, Karim Onisiwo and Levin Öztunali, drop deep to support the rest of the defensive unit in the 4-4-2 set-up they adopted out of possession. And, in turn, that meant getting them involved in counter-attacks proved to be a struggle.
Another important factor for Wolfsburg's solid start was their good initial defensive shape. Their 4-2-3-1 became more of a 4-2-2-2 without the ball during Mainz's build-up phases, a hexagon-type structure which Roger Schmidt has used effectively at Red Bull Salzburg and now Bayer Leverkusen, preventing smooth ball progression from occurring due to good spatial coverage and adaptive ball-orientation. Mainz struggled to play through this, either resorting to ambitious long passes or being dependent on Malli dropping back enough to provide the necessary but generally detrimental (as a result of him now not being high enough up the pitch to influence things properly) support.
A combination of poor spacing by Mainz's midfield and a strong 4-2-2-2 type system from Wolfsburg meant that the away side's progression of the ball left a lot to be desired. As a result, Wolfsburg were able to control proceedings relatively easily.
Working out what portion of the game's flow came from the home team's good work and how much was a result of Mainz's own extremely lacklustre start, though, is hard to decipher. Mainz were on the back of a midweek trip to Azerbaijan to play in the Europa League, and given that six of their starters – as well as the two substitutes which they used on the night – began the game against Qabala just a couple of days earlier, it was no real surprise to see them struggle to play at their usual tempo.
Hecking's side being unable to take true advantage of that and the control they established by not creating many chances then was quite poor on their part. Their struggles in that department were familiar, the problems the same as those that have led to them only scoring four goals in the five games prior to this one. A failure to get Draxler into dangerous positions between the defence and midfield often enough was the biggest issue, while Gomez not being well supported by attacking runs around him in the centre also contributed heavily. So while they did well overall in the first-half, things were pretty uninspiring once they got into the final third.
A failure to get Draxler into dangerous positions between the defence and midfield often enough was the biggest issue, while Gómez not being well supported by attacking runs around him in the centre also contributed heavily. So while they did well overall in the first half, things were pretty uninspiring once they got into the final third.
There were a couple of occasions where Wolfsburg managed to get Draxler on the ball between the lines, but for the most part it was something which they didn't do anywhere near as often as they would've hoped.
That meant that it was a relatively dull opening 45 minutes both tactically and as spectacle. And while Mainz started the second-half in a better way, getting Öztunali on the ball more initially and making use of the slightly lower intensity that Wolfsburg played at when pressing high up the field, things were mostly the same for the rest of the match.
The home side once again had more possession and worked a couple of decent chances in the box for Gómez, though there was little change of note from Hecking's team; odd, considering that his side wasn't generating much in the way of attacking opportunities.
Wolfsburg eventually had what proved to be the best chance of the game in the 68th minute courtesy of Draxler, when the German made a nice run into the space that Gómez vacated (a combination that didn't happen anywhere near frequently enough) when dropping deep to play a one-two. Draxler then rounded the goalkeeper and looked to tuck the ball home, but Giulio Donati came to the rescue for Mainz with a sliding goal-line clearance to ensure that the 0-0 scoreline remained intact.
The caption on the left (courtesy of @MC_of_A) shows that Wolfsburg were somewhat unfortunate not to win based on the quality of shooting opportunities that the two sides had, although their attacking play was pretty poor in general beyond the few notable chances that were created.
Mainz's two late substitutions were quite indicative of Schmidt being willing to settle for a point at this time, with Öztunali and then Malli – their two most technically-gifted midfielders – going off. Pablo De Blasis and Suat Serdar respectively were the ones to replace them, the former being a relatively like-for-like change while the latter was made to add more defensive security to their midfield. That third change for the away side came in the 83rd minute, and while Wolfsburg continued to push they didn't have enough to break the deadlock.
And with that Wolfsburg's uninspiring start to the season continued, their winless streak now extended to five; this being their third 0-0 draw in just six games. They were a little unlucky not to score here to be fair, but getting the likes of Draxler and Gómez to produce more certainly has to be something that Hecking must do if things are to improve.
A clean sheet and an away point for Mainz should be considered a rather decent result for them, particularly given their fatigue-inducing European game just a few days earlier.
By Daniel Butler. Follow @TheTacticsRoom


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2017 marked a decade since the release of the Scouting For Girls' unstoppable million-selling eponymous self-titled debut album, and the release of the band's new album consisting of ten brand new unmistakable pop anthems set to have fans all over the world singing along in unison.
To celebrate all things Scouting, Sony Music released 'Ten Add Ten: The Very Best Of' in October and in addition to ten brand new hits in the making such as 'Dancing In The Daylight', 'Butterflies' and a Christmas song, the bumper package also boasts ten famous much loved Scouting For Girls hits of course including 'She's So Lovely', Elvis Aint Dead', 'Heartbeat', 'I Wish I Was James Bond' and UK #1 'This Ain't A Love Song'. The album is accompanied by a hugely successful winter tour.
Scouting For Girls burst onto the scene and signed to Epic on 14th February 2007. A decision which saw them enjoy a triple platinum Number 1 debut album, multiple Top Ten singles and earned them a dedicated set of fans that still follow them avidly a decade later.
Throughout Scouting For Girls' immensely successful career they've sold over 1.5 million albums, two million singles, had four Brit Award nominations, an Ivor Novello nomination, had four top ten singles, sold-out Wembley Arena and sold-out The Royal Albert Hall and had a series of hit singles all of which were inescapable radio smashes. Ten years later, Scouting For Girls prove they are unstoppable.
The band are Roy Stride, Greg Churchouse and Pete Ellard.
Sunday night: Main Stage