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From the Beacon: Database offers lesson in languages
You may not know it, but there is a nifty online resource available through the Beaufort County Library System. The Before You Know It (or BYKI) Database, available free with your library card and your pin number, will help you learn a foreign language by using practical verbal and visual techniques.
So what is BYKI? It's online language learning software provided by Transparent Language. It's available to all Beaufort County Library System cardholders through a paid subscription (but free for you). It's easy to get started. Call or visit your local library branch reference desk, provide your library card number and a reference librarian will create an online account for you. You can then access the database from your personal computer or while you're using one of our public library computers. (You can even access it from your Apple or Android mobile device.) That's it -- easy as pie. The interface is user-friendly and really fun.
BYKI offers about 90 different languages, including Arabic, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Hebrew, Greek, English for Spanish and English for Japanese. You can switch languages at any time. We recommend you watch the quick tutorial to give you an overview of all of the options available to enhance your learning experience.
BYKI uses a "flashcard" format to help users retain the information. BYKI's software states that using the flashcard format is, "the fastest possible way to lock foreign words and phrases in your long-term memory." As soon as you begin, you get first set of flashcards. The software pronounces and displays the word in the foreign language, and then displays the English equivalent below. You can choose to have the software repeat the word as many times as you'd like. You can even click the "turtle" button, which slows down the pronunciation so you can really commit it to memory.
BYKI is available as a free application on certain mobile devices, such as the iPad, iPhone, iTouch and Android-powered devices. It's a very nice app, and I look forward to using it. The website supplies an activation code that you will need to get started on the mobile app. It's a great way to learn a language while you're on the go.
Another software feature is the "Multiple Choice Recognize It" function. BYKI displays a foreign word and you select the correct answer from the multiple choice answers below. BYKI also has a dictation feature -- you listen to the foreign word and type what you think it is in English. The software provides many other features such as grammar lessons, tests, language histories and a "Word of the Day" that will send a new foreign word to your email account daily.
Times are challenging these days, and we're all trying to do more with less. The Beaufort County Library System is here to bring resources, like BYKI, free to you.


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I've been planning to write this post for awhile and tonight while I write it we just happen to be under a tornado watch. Oklahoma isn't a stranger to tornadoes but this tornado season has had an early start. There have already been a lot of tornadoes and normally our season would just be starting.
Now first before going in to the extreme weather we must talk about the differences with weather and climate. A simple way of putting it is weather is the short term, while climate is long term. Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe does a good job of explaining this issue in her book, "A Climate for Chance."
"Weather is what our minds are designed to remember. It describes conditions from day to day, week to week, and even from year to year. Weather is that one sweltering week in July, or the coldest November on record, or the snowiest winter ever.
Climate, on the other hand, is nearly impossible for us to remember. It describes the average weather conditions over tens, hundreds, and even thousands of years. Climate is the average temperature or rainfall in a certain place, based on what it's been like for decades."
Okay now on to extreme weather and how that can be related to climate change. Oklahoma was a poster child for extreme weather last year, we had a record drought, broke the state record for most snow to fall in 24 hours, broke the record for coldest day, had the warmest July on record for the whole U.S., record windspeed, record wildfires, the largest earthquake reported in the state, and more. It was a crazy year to say the least.
This trend is not just something Oklahoma is feeling, all over the world extreme weather seems to be becoming more normal. But this is all weather right? So, how does that relate to the long term that is climate? Well, a new study shows the possibility for a bigger threat of extreme weather due to climate change.
"By measuring changes in salinity on the ocean's surface, the researchers inferred that the water cycle had accelerated by about 4 percent over the last half century. That does not sound particularly large, but it is twice the figure generated from computerized analyses of the climate.
If the estimate holds up, it implies that the water cycle could quicken by as much as 20 percent later in this century as the planet warms, potentially leading to more droughts and floods." –read more
This leads scientist to fear a large acceleration of the water cycle could mean more extreme weather and a greater risk of harm to our food supply, due to droughts in some areas and flooding in others.
While a single event can't be tied to climate change, the increase in frequency is consistent with the new study's findings. A climatologist in Australia talks about this when talking about the heat wave in Australia in 2009.
"Climate change is not only increasing average temperatures, but also the frequency and severity of extreme temperature events. While any one event cannot be attributed to climate change, this heat wave is certainly consistent with that expectation. In a warming world we can expect similar extreme events more often."- Perry Wiles, Climatologist
This all hits home with me as I listen to the thunderstorm outside that has rocked the state and even dropped some damaging tornadoes. And I also think back to last year and all of the extreme weather, including the horrible drought that hurt the state so very much and caused me some sleepless nights worrying about the wildfires my dad, a volunteer firefighter, was out fighting.
With this information I encourage everyone to be extra prepared for disasters. I know I have been thinking more about being prepared for tornadoes, fires, droughts and the many other disaster Oklahoma may face. Heck, last year we had a quakenado, a tornado and earthquake at the same time! So are you and your family thinking a bit more about being prepared for disasters lately? If so, how prepared? Like a few weeks worth like the American Red Cross often recommends or hardcore prepared like the people on Doomsday Preppers?
This post is part of the Connect the Dots, Green Mom's Carnival, hosted by Diane MacEachern of Big Green Purse. The carnival goes live Friday, May 5, 2012. Be sure to check out Big Green Purse on Friday to see the rest of the posts about connecting the dots on climate change.
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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
According to a report in Time magazine Israel has managed to convince Washington to put the option of a military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities back on the table.
Israel has long argued that all of the international sanctions against Iran are pointless unless Western powers are prepared to back them up with the threat of force.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been pressing that point since US President Barack Obama pushed through a new package of sanctions at the UN Security Council last month.
In the past few weeks, Time reported that US Central Command has been devising a thorough plan of targeted air strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities. The article claimed that Israel has been brought into that planning process.
Israel is also reportedly still revising its own independent plan of attack, should a solo mission against Iran become necessary.
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AS/NZS 4766 Impact Test of Molded Polyethylene Tanks
If being installed in certain locations molded polyethylene tanks used to store liquids must pass AS/NZS 4766 to ensure that they have been properly designed and manufactured. Appendix D of this standard defines a Low Temperature Impact Test that specimens cut from areas on the tank must pass to be certified to the standard. The Appendix calls for the testing of a 125mm specimen, that has been cooled to -40° C for 24 hours - with an uninstrumented 25 mm diameter hemispherical striker from a drop height that will reach a specified minimum impact energy as defined by the wall thickness of the specimen. To fully meet the standard the impact must take place within 10 seconds of removal from the conditioned environment.
We were recently asked to demonstrate how adding instrumentation to the defined test would benefit the process. As outlined in the standard impact energies ranging from 122 J to 271 J (89.98 ft-lb – 199.89 ft-lb) are to be used to test the specimens – the minimum energy to be used is based upon the wall thickness of the specimen. This energy range makes the CEAST 9350 with the optional High Energy package and standard weight crosshead the ideal system to use. Adding a custom Clamping Set (standard calls for a 90mm unsupported test diameter vs. the standard 76mm of the standard fixture) and the optional Environmental Chamber will allow the entire test to take place in a temperature controlled environment thereby eliminating any worries about meeting the 10 second rule.
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In less than two months, mail ballots will start to arrive for the 2010 primary elections, which means it wonít be long at all before the airwaves start to fill with wall-to-wall political advertising. And more than ever, those advertisements will come from groups with vaguely appealing names (ìColoradans for Mom, Home & Apple Pieî) that leave you with absolutely no idea who is behind them.
Do you screen your calls before answering the phone? Do you ignore calls if you don't know the caller? You should make an exception and answer a call from area code 540 if you get one in the next couple of weeks.
Christie Greene didn't have to marry Dan to get green. As a young child growing up in Florida, she felt a visceral connection to the environment, one that led her to Evergreen more than 20 years ago and honed her passion for sustainability.
Elections seem to bring out the best and the worst in people. On the positive side, the interest in public service and scrutiny of government services re-energizes us and provides the impetus to update and improve services. On the negative side, the emotions of campaigns inevitably lead to conflicts and vilification of candidates and causes that don't deserve it. Such was the case with our recently completed Evergreen Park and Recreation District election.
In 1983, the Baltimore Colts selected John Elway with the first pick in that year's NFL draft. Elway had no interest in playing for the Colts, and said he would play professional baseball if they took him. So the Colts traded Elway to the Broncos for two players and a first-round pick in the 1984 draft. The rest is history.
Since then, Broncos drafts have been pretty ordinary. No big headlines, no huge stories.
Until this year.
Sometimes the story isn't as big a deal as the story about the story. How much different would United States history look if, the day after the Watergate break-in, President Nixon had said, "Campaigns make people do crazy things," instead of getting involved in the cover-up that led to his resignation?
While there is little doubt there is nothing in Scott McInnis' tax returns or John Hickenlooper's charitable contributions that rise to the level of Watergate, the principle is the same. The longer questions persist, the bigger the story gets.
On May 3, 1972, Sylvia Brockner wrote her first column for the Canyon Courier, about pine siskins, and readers flocked to her words about nature's rhythms and the beauty of Evergreen and its surroundings.
An important election May 4 will determine the direction the Evergreen Park and Recreation District takes in future years, and may affect property taxes. Property taxes provide 41 percent of the current EPRD operating budget. The other 59 percent comes from user fees, grants, etc. EPRD costs will likely remain stable or increase. Tax revenue is projected to decline for the next two years. We consider key issues to be dealing with finances, determining the broad needs of the district (not special interests), and Buchanan Park development.
Two weeks ago, my kids returned home from school with new backpacks. The green bags — which more resembled re-usable grocery totes — touted the U.S. census, proclaiming "Be counted" in several languages, with a backdrop of multi-colored hands.
Before Coloradans went to their precinct caucuses last month, it looked like U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and former lieutenant governor Jane Norton were on their way to meeting in a combative and expensive race for Colorado's U.S. Senate seat. What a difference a month makes!
As the Constitutional Convention wrapped up in September 1786, a woman approached Benjamin Franklin and asked him, "Well, doctor, what have we got — a republic or a monarchy?"
"A republic," Franklin replied, "if you can keep it."
"Life is a song we must sing with our days
"A poem with meaning more than words can say."
— Michael Card from "The Poem of Your Life"
In many ways, the closest thing we have to a city council in Evergreen is the board of the Evergreen Park and Recreation District. While there are other special districts with elected boards here, the combination of EPRD's mission and the facilities it manages gives it a much more overreaching presence than other districts.
In many ways, the Canyon Courier is the lifeblood of our community. The Courier is the only comprehensive source of timely information about what is happening in Evergreen and what is happening to Evergreen. Without the Courier, there would be no way for most of us to know of the many important local issues that affect our health, safety, property taxes, property values and much more. The Courier is our only timely source of information about the behavior (and misbehavior) of our elected and unelected officials at the local and county level.
With precinct caucuses now in the books, the 2010 election season is officially under way. Caucuses are an important first step in the nominating process, through which each major party selects its nominees for the general election this fall.
With the exception of presidential nominations, there isn't much public attention given to the way parties pick their candidates. It's as though each November we're presented with a ballot listing a Democrat, a Republican and perhaps one or more third-party candidates, with the winner assuming public office.
With so much misinformation swirling about town, it is time to set the record straight with the facts about the Center for the Arts Evergreen and our collaboration with the Evergreen Park and Recreation District.
Dominick Paoloni will be giving President Obama a bit more time to actualize his campaign promises. He's disappointed about what hasn't been delivered yet — the public option, a return of civil liberties repressed during the Bush regime, and troops out of Iraq. With his expertise in finances, this Lookout Mountain resident is thinking (and that's refreshing) about why Obama has moved so far to the right of moderate.
Leave it to voters to prove that they have something to say about elections!
The great New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell has an unfailing ability to find interesting things to write about. In his recent collection of essays titled "What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures," he explains what makes some topics so interesting. "Curiosity about the interior life of other people's day-to-day work is one of the most fundamental of human impulses," he writes.
We are relational beings, and we're interested in how others live their lives.
This week marks the halfway point of the Colorado General Assembly's 120-day 2010 session. The state's fiscal woes have dominated the session to this point. The legislature has adopted a package of bills that raised revenues by eliminating a variety of tax exemptions as well as approving a 32-bill package that reduced spending by state agencies for the current fiscal year that ends June 30.
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• Apple – A letter from Tim Cook on Maps – Apple's CEO apologizes for issues with the new iOS 6 Maps app, and suggests using third-party apps – and even Google Maps on the Web – as workarounds until the company fixes the problems.
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• ACLU forces government to reveal skyrocketing surveillance stats – The use of warrantless surveillance has increased 600 percent in the past 10 years.
• Pew study: News consumption increasing via mobile, social media – Traditional sources for finding news – such as TV and newspapers – continue to decline, while social media is growing quickly.
• Google's "iLost" Motorola ad faked an address to "lose" iOS 6 Maps – A Web ad shows iOS 6 maps unable to find a Manhattan address, but it turns out that's because the address doesn't really exist. The ad went viral on Twitter.
• Global iPhone 5 Rollout Continues, Tight Supplies Be Damned – You'll still wait 3-4 weeks for one to arrive when you buy from Apple's website, but the company is rolling out iPhone 5 in other countries. And Apple iPhone 5 to launch on regional U.S. carriers on Friday, some offering discounts
• Netflix gets iPhone 5 and iOS 6 support, takes advantage of the new 16:9 screen – Netflix updates it iOS app to take advantage of the bigger iPhone 5 display. No more letterboxing!
• A New Google App Gives You Local Information — Before You Ask for It – It's called Field Trip, and it provides details about what around your current location. For now it's Android-only, but an iOS version is in the works.
• Say Hello to Gifts, Facebook's New Mobile Revenue Stream – You can now pay for and send gifts – real ones – to your Facebook friends. Facebook, as you'd expect, gets a cut.
• RIM won't show off BlackBerry 10 phones this year – You can expect to see them next year, though. And Grim times for RIM: BlackBerry maker records $235M Q2 loss
• Microsoft calls for $5B investment in U.S. education – The company says there's a dearth of qualified technology and engineering workers in the U.S.
• Nokia Lumia 920 and 820 officially priced in Europe, available in November – Similar details for the U.S. are not yet available.
• Running short of legal options, YouTube blocks contentious Brazilian political video – Google appealed but lost, so it is blocking the video.


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Bates earns USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Week
OKLAHOMA CITY — Eight home runs and 19 RBI propelled UCLA senior B.B. Bates (Victorville, Calif.) to this week's USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Week the Amateur Softball Association (ASA) of America and USA Softball announced today. The outfielder led her team to a 5-0 record including four run-rules in this weekend's Easton Desert Classic. The undefeated weekend shot UCLA up five spots to No. 13 in this week's ESPN.com/USA Softball Collegiate Top 25 poll. This is the first USA Softball Player of the Week award for Bates and the first for a Bruin since Stephany LaRosa garnered the award in Week 10 of last season.
"I'm very honored to receive this prestigious award. It feels great," said Bates. "It's going to motivate me to keep doing great things, keep my head strong and stay positive and humble. What worked for me this weekend was that I was having fun. I was very relaxed and having fun with the girls and it just helped me see the ball better and relax in the box."
Bates, who entered the week with just one homer on the season, went yard in all five of UCLA's weekend contests including three-consecutive two-home run games. She finished with an astonishing eight homers, 19 RBI and 10 runs scored. Bates went 12-of-17 from the plate for a .706 batting average. The senior also recorded a 2.176 slugging percentage and a .722 on-base percentage.
"To put on a hitting display the way she did speaks volume of what this year could look like for her," said UCLA Head Coach Kelly Inouye-Perez. "I'm very proud of her for what she did this weekend. But her focus has really been on the team and I think it has allowed her to play relaxed and play some great softball. She makes people around her better and that is what she is focusing on this year, which will allow her to do some great things on the field."
Bates established a pair of UCLA records as she became the first Bruin to hit two home runs in three-consecutive games and her six homers over a three games stretch beat out the previous school record of four. With home runs in five straight games, Bates is currently tied for the UCLA mark for consecutive games with a homer.
"Being able to put my name alongside my idol Natasha Watley, who was the first Bruin to earn this award, is amazing," said Bates. "I've looked up to her since I was 11 and I continue to try and follow in her footsteps that she cemented here at UCLA."
The Bruins will next compete in the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic in Cathedral City, Calif. February 22-24. UCLA is slated to face No. 4 Tennessee, Maryland, Oklahoma State, No. 10 LSU and Nevada over the course of the weekend.
The Amateur Softball Association, founded in 1933, is the National Governing Body of softball in the United States and a member of the United States Olympic Committee. The ASA has become one of the nation's largest sports organizations and now sanctions competition in every state through a network of 76 local associations. The ASA has grown from a few hundred teams in the early days to over 210,000 teams today, representing a membership of more than three million. For more information on the ASA, visit http://www.asasoftball.com/.
About USA Softball
USA Softball is the brand created, operated and owned by the ASA that links the USA Men's, Women's, Junior Boys' and Junior Girls' National Team programs together. USA Softball is responsible for training, equipping and promoting these four National Teams to compete in international and domestic competitions. The USA Softball Women's National Team is one of only two women's sports involved in the Olympic movement to capture three consecutive gold medals at the Olympic Games since 1996. The U.S. women have also won nine World Championship titles as well as claimed six World Cup of Softball titles. For more information about USA Softball, please visit http://www.usasoftball.com/.
About the NCAA Women's College World Series
The ASA Hall of Fame Stadium serves as the home to the NCAA Women's College World Series (WCWS). For the 23rd year, the top eight college teams in the nation will head to Oklahoma City and complete for a National Championship title. Last year, over 75,000 fans attended the WCWS. Experience It Live May 30 to June 5 in Oklahoma City. Tickets for the 2013 NCAA WCWS are on sale now, click here to purchase your tickets and make a date with champions!


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Home Theater: 'Kevin,' 'Rampart' disturbing yet compelling
Looking to catch a film on Video on Demand or DVD or Blu-ray? Following are some of the newest options available to home theater aficionados.
'We Need to Talk About Kevin'
Available on VOD beginning May 15
Writer-director Lynne Ramsay's first movie since 2002's magnificent "Morvern Callar" is an adaptation of Lionel Shriver's novel "We Need to Talk About Kevin" and stars Tilda Swinton as the ostracized mother of a sociopath. In keeping with Ramsay's usual style, "Kevin" is impressionistic, jumping around in time from the heroine's perspective as she tries to figure out whether her son is a creep because she's always been cold to him or if she's cold because he's so awful. The approach works magnificently for the film's first hour, until Ramsay has to deal more directly with the plot, at which point the movie becomes less about common parental anxieties and more about living with a monster. Still, Ramsay is worth paying attention to even when her material lets her down. The film comes to DVD and Blu-ray from Oscilloscope on May 29.
Millennium, $28.98; Blu-ray, $29.99/$34.99
Woody Harrelson gives one of his best performances in "Rampart," an ambitious character sketch set against the backdrop of the scandal-ridden late '90s LAPD. Director Oren Moverman and writer James Ellroy skip from incident to incident, as Harrelson's self-described fascist police officer Dave Brown beats up suspects, conspires with criminals and directly interferes with the case being built against him. "Rampart" contains enough characters and plot to fuel an entire season of an edgy cable drama. Harrelson is compelling as a character unyielding in his worldview. The DVD and Blu-ray include a featurette and a Moverman commentary track. Available on VOD beginning May 15.
'The Grey'
Universal, $29.98; Blu-ray, $34.98
Director Joe Carnahan and his co-screenwriter, Ian Mackenzie Jeffers, bring Jeffers' short story "Ghost Walker" to the screen as "The Grey," starring Liam Neeson as a depressed oilman who helps his coworkers survive after their plane crashes in Alaska. "The Grey" is tough and elemental, focusing on the brutal cold and an encroaching pack of wolves that threatens to tear these men apart. When they're not fighting for their lives, the wanderers sit around the fire and talk about fate, God, families and the mistakes they've made. The DVD and Blu-ray add deleted scenes and a fascinating Carnahan commentary. Available on VOD beginning May 15.
'Norwegian Wood'
New Video, $29.95
Haruki Murakami's cult novel "Norwegian Wood" is an aching nostalgia piece, about a man looking back at his college years in Tokyo in the late '60s, when he lost a friend to suicide and had love affairs with two women -- one morose, one vivacious. Writer-director Tran Anh Hung's film version captures a lot of what's special about the book: the sense of a magical time and place and how much the protagonist (played by Kenichi Matsuyama) sleepwalked through it while mired in his own melodrama. Jonny Greenwood's dreamy score and cinematographer Ping Bin Lee's luminous images cast a spell. The DVD includes an hour-long making-of featurette and a 10-minute look at the film's reception at the Venice Film Festival.
'Gangster Squad' highlights L.A. landmarks
'Casablanca' to screen on Facebook Wednesday
William Friedkin to serve as L.A. Film Fest's guest director
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Early voting in advance of the July 16 special elections on forming suburban school districts opens Wednesday, June 26, at the Shelby County Election Commission offices Downtown at 157 Poplar Ave.
Early voting begins Downtown Wednesday, June 26, on the referendums to create suburban school districts. Voting locations in three of the six towns open Saturday.
(Daily News/Bill Dries)
Each of the six suburban towns and cities in Shelby County have ballot questions seeking to create municipal school districts separate from the consolidated school system that begins operation formally July 1. Voters from any of the suburban towns and cities can vote Downtown.
Meanwhile, early voting locations in Arlington, Lakeland and Millington open Saturday at 10 a.m. and close for the day at 4 p.m. And early voting locations in Bartlett, Collierville and Germantown open July 6.
As is the case with the Downtown location, voters from any of the six towns can vote at any of the locations even though the referendums are separate.
A Bartlett schools rally at the Bartlett early voting site, Bethel Church, last week drew 150 people including countywide school board members Kenneth Whalum Jr. and David Reaves.
"I am consistent. I've been consistent from day one in saying I believe you should have the right to your own educational self determination," Whalum said. "You ought to be so angry that you did not get a voice in all of this mess from the beginning. … You can do this. But while you are doing it, please remember that all of the children all over the county belong to all of us."
Reaves, who lives in Bartlett and represents the area and several other suburban towns, has grown increasingly frustrated over the course of the schools merger as the Aug. 5 start of the school year nears.
"We've cut quality assistant principals. We've cut quality teachers. We've cut guidance counselors," Reaves said "The central office in the Shelby County Schools is ginormous. Even though we got 26 percent of it, it's still top loaded."
He called for the creation of a Bartlett school system that is "forward thinking, technology based, student focused, parent led and servant minded."
"Our community is not the same as it was 20 years ago. It's made up of all kinds, all colors, all nationalities," Reaves said. "And that's something we need to get a grip on."
Bartlett Mayor Keith McDonald said he is most concerned that voters in Bartlett won't return to the polls and repeat what they did last August when the same question was on the ballot.
"I said early on this is a sword worth dying on. I'm still alive, I haven't died yet," McDonald said. "But I feel pierced a little bit. But we still have a long way to go. ... We've got to do it again."
Early voting across Shelby County in the 2012 municipal schools referendums topped 62,000. But turnout comparisons will be difficult at best because the Aug. 2 ballot featured a slate of Democratic and Republican primary elections in the city of Memphis as well as the county outside the city.
The suburban school district ballot questions are the only items on the ballot in just the six towns and cities this time around. A total of 40 precincts are involved.
Just more than 12,000 people voted in the 2012 referendum in Bartlett and the ballot question passed easily there and in the other five towns and cities.
The results were voided by U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee Judge Samuel "Hardy" Mays. He ruled the state law permitting the votes violated the Tennessee Constitution because they were based on a general law that applied only to Shelby County.
The Tennessee legislature passed a new law earlier this year that lifts the statewide ban on creating municipal school districts.
If the ballot questions are approved by voters, school board elections would follow in November in another special election with no other contests on the ballot.
McDonald and the other five suburban mayors have said their goal is to open their school districts in August 2014 and be a part of the consolidated school district for the school year that begins Aug. 5.
During that time, there is still the issue of under what terms the suburban school systems would use or own Shelby County Schools buildings within their borders.
"I am not afraid of the discussion about the buildings. I am not afraid of the discussion about the 14th Amendment," McDonald said referring to a remaining claim in the federal court case alleging the suburban schools would racially resegregate public schools. "What I am afraid of is we give up. So, we stay the course. We are going to do what is right. The law says the school buildings are there in trust for the purpose of educating children and that is what I intend to do."
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Nirav Tolia necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 26 diseños de 12 diseñadores freelance.
Hedgehog Labs
We are a team of entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley who aspire to create a world-changing technology company.
Our company mascot is a hedgehog, inspired by the "Hedgehog Principle" – that parable comparing a fox, which is very clever and knows many creative ways to get a meal, and the hedgehog, a somewhat dull animal that knows one, and only one, thing: to roll into a spiked ball for protection. Yet even though the hedgehog may be a simpleton, he always wins, because despite the fox's many clever tricks and high intelligence, there's no getting around a spiky ball.
Hedgehog Labs is only a temporary or "code" name, but we still seek a great illustration of a cartoon hedgehog to bring our (temporary) mascot to life.
Our consumer products have mass appeal, so our hedgehog should appeal to that same broad audience – think less about targeting a specific market and more about designing for the masses.
Above all, our hedgehog should be friendly and cute – seeing him should elicit smiles and general good feelings. However, he needs to have some personality – specifically that hint of charisma and intelligence that sets him apart from other animals.
We need a vector-based full-color illustration of a Hedgehog mascot. There is no requirement around text, but if you wish to incorporate "Hedgehog Labs" that is fine.
Besides Photoshop and Illustrator formats, we'll want GIF, JPG, and PNG versions. We need the illustration to have broad applicability, so please stick with a white background.
Here are some examples from around the Web of illustrations we like (ranked in order of who we like the best):
Brizzly bear
Firefox fox
Another Firefox fox
Bugzilla bug
And here are some nice Hedgehog illustrations from around the web (we're sure yours will be better):
Sonic, one of the most famous hedgehogs
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Escape enthusiasts will adore Runaway Bay and not just for the name. Bracketed by South Stradbroke Island to the east and a colourful canal system to the west, it's simple to see why this northern Gold Coast suburb was originally better known as Angler's Paradise. For it's a fishing feast galore here where you can opt for deep sea reef and game fishing, or select the more sedate option of dropping your line in a calm water estuary.
The waterways around here are known for their local snapper, kingfish, pearl perch, tuna, wahoo or mackerel or if you venture out deeper, you might just bag yourself a marlin or sailfish. In the early 1970s, this parcel of land was transformed into the more upmarket Runaway Bay, but the laid-back vibe remains.
These days, there's a local marina packed with luxury yachts and cruises and also plenty of options through which to explore the local waterways though houseboat hire. You don't need the big bucks either as there's plenty of budget options. Landlubbers will enjoy the Runaway Bay Shopping Centre, while sports enthusiasts will be drawn to the aquatic and sports centres nearby. All up, it sounds like the perfect escape.
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