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Plus it amazes me that people will queue up for 15 minutes to get a bus which they then travel on for two stops. Happens every morning...
Plus it amazes me that people will queue up for 15 minutes to get a bus which they then travel on for two stops. Happens every morning...
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Lots of walking during the Olympics. I showed a colleague my route back to Liverpool Street tonight.
City's getting hot. Pavements getting full. Tubes getting fuller.
didn't plan it this way but will be in town soon. arrive heathrow on the 10th and immediately get a train to the midlands (hopefully the east midlands train strike will be over). wonder how long it will take a taxi to get from paddington to euston station? maybe i should walk.
back in london for a few days immediately after the olympics, hopefully the tube and sidewalks will better by then.
I'm really glad to be out of east London right now.
The city I'm in at the moment can't hold a candle to LDN of course but it is nice getting around by bike, and being able to afford to live by myself right in the centre where the nice bars and restaurants are.
its fine here you whinging softies. its only slightly busier than usual.
i got to heathrow yesterday with huge amounts of luggage and got it all back on the underground to stratford just after rush hour and it was easy. the tube is a bit hot and sweaty but thats true every summer. i know its fun to whinge but i think in this case its entirely unjustified.


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ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Teemu Selanne probably regretted returning to play another year for most of the first three miserable months of the Anaheim Ducks' season.
Selanne and his decision are looking better every day -- and so are his surging Ducks.
Selanne scored a power-play goal and had an assist to move into 20th place on the NHL's career scoring list, and Anaheim kept rolling in its return from an eight-game road trip, beating the slumping Chicago Blackhawks 3-1 Sunday night.
Jonas Hiller made 18 saves in his 21st consecutive start for the Ducks, who won for the ninth time in 12 games during their improbable playoff push. Andrew Cogliano scored his first goal of February for the Ducks, and Sheldon Brookbank also scored as Anaheim avoided a four-game season sweep by Chicago.
After falling 20 points out of eighth place in the West during an awful start, Anaheim has been the NHL's best team since Jan. 1, going 17-4-4 for a league-high 38 points.
"After 15 days on the road, it's never easy to come back," Selanne said. "The tank was pretty empty, but I was very happy with how we played, especially the last two periods. That's a good feeling. We just keep battling."
Anaheim got just two days off following the longest continuous road trip in franchise history before starting a key stretch of five games in seven days. The Ducks are just six points out of playoff position -- but still in 13th place in the Western Conference standings.
"We take every win we can get right now, [but] nobody seems to want to lose that is going for the playoffs in the West," said Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau, the architect of Anaheim's turnaround. "We're going to have to try to do it ourselves. ... We were pretty sluggish in the first period. That's common when you come off a long road trip. I thought we got our legs, and we were pretty good in the second and third."
Selanne inched up the NHL scoring list by setting up Brookbank's goal in the second period before scoring his 21st of the season from a sharp angle during a two-man advantage in the third. The 41-year-old Finnish Flash caught and passed Luc Robitaille with 1,395 points, and his 246th career power-play goal put him one behind Robitaille for fourth in league history.
Selanne is the second-oldest player in NHL history to score at least 21 goals in a season, trailing only Gordie Howe, who did it twice after his 41st birthday.
Patrick Kane ended the Blackhawks' monthlong 0-for-39 power-play drought with a first-period goal, and Ray Emery stopped 35 shots against his former Anaheim teammates in Chicago's third consecutive loss.
The Blackhawks have lost 12 of 16 overall, yet still sit comfortably in sixth place in the West, nine points ahead of Anaheim.
"It seems like sometimes when we get the lead, we're kind of satisfied with that," said Kane, who scored the Blackhawks' first power-play goal since Jan. 24. "But we definitely have to keep the pressure on and try to extend the lead. After the first, they pretty much dominated us in the second and third and got a lot more shots than we did."
The Blackhawks played their fourth straight game without captain Jonathan Toews, who is home in Chicago with an apparent concussion. Coach Joel Quenneville hopes Toews and defenseman Niklas Hjalmarsson will return Wednesday against Toronto, but the Blackhawks struggled through a two-game Southern California road trip, losing 4-0 up the I-5 freeway in Los Angeles one night earlier.
"Offensively, we're not doing much right now," Kane said. "We need some contributions from everyone. You can always say you need your best players to be your best players. That's something that we need to get better at, too, including myself."
Cogliano tied it with 20 seconds left in the period, but only after the referees immediately waved off his goal. Cogliano clearly kicked the puck toward the net with his right skate, but a lengthy video review at the league offices in Toronto revealed Cogliano poked the puck through Emery's legs with his stick after Emery stopped the kick with his pads.
"I thought he kicked it and then maybe got a piece of it, or just kicked it straight in," said Emery, who backstopped Anaheim into the playoffs late last season. "Either way, it shouldn't count. I know they took a tougher look at it, and they must have had some evidence to the contrary. But you've got to work past those things."
Anaheim thoroughly controlled the second period, but wasn't rewarded until Selanne passed from behind the Chicago net to Brookbank, who fired it off Duncan Keith and past Emery. The goal was Brookbank's second in five games after playing 167 straight games without a goal.
- The Blackhawks have never swept Anaheim in a season series.
- Longtime Montreal captain Saku Koivu played his 200th game with the Ducks.
- Cogliano's score snapped a 12-game drought.
- The biggest regular-season crowd in Honda Center history welcomed the Ducks back from the road, with 17,601 tickets sold in a standing-room-only crowd.


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PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 22 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers tracking Humboldt squid in the eastern Pacific say the animals are capable of diving to as deep as almost a mile in search of their prey.
Stanford University researchers fitted tags to the squid and tracked them as they dove through oxygen-poor waters off California during the day, returning to surface waters at night.
"We've seen them make really impressive dives up to a kilometer and a half (0.9 miles) deep, swimming straight through a zone where there's really low oxygen," researcher Julia Steward told the BBC.
"They're able to spend several hours at this kilometer-and-a-half-deep, and then they go back up and continue their normal daily swimming behavior. It's just a really impressive, really fast, deep dive through what is quite a harsh environment."
Humboldt squid, though predominantly found in waters off Mexico and further south, have recently been extending their range into California waters, where a band of low-oxygen water exists at a depth of more than 1,600 feet, the researchers said.
"It's amazing," Stewart said. "This is an animal you'd think would require a lot of oxygen and we see it swimming at pretty comparable rates to what we see it swimming in the highly oxygenated water.
"It seems they're somehow able to suppress their metabolism when they're in low oxygen, but they're by no means lethargic. They're swimming around quite well."


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Huelskamp staff to have office hours in Hillsboro
Rep. Tim Huelskamp will have local office hours from 2 to 3 p.m. March 6 at the Hillsboro Community Room.
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Milkshake brings all the boys to the yard. Except in this case it's not milkshake, it's bargains, and it's not boys, it's girls. The yard in question was that of uber-blogger, and our gracious host for the day, Susie Bubble, who was joined by a dozen of your other favourite bloggers to host the hopefully now annual Bloggers' Yard Sale. I was stall-sharing with the lovely Kristabel and was pleased to see lots of happy shoppers go home with my wares, although I'm still crying (sob) for some of the things I decided to sell on a whim...Oh Rockabilly Checked Dress, wherefor art thou? In all the excitement I forgot to take a snap of Susie - duh - or the Balenciaga (wtf!) and Christopher Kane (double wtf!) delights she was selling, but I hope you enjoy these other stylish lovelies, including - oh yeah - the in-house ukelele lady. That's how we roll, yard style.
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Looks fun! I hate that feeling when you sell something then suddenly think "shit! I liked that!" xReplyDelete
nice yardsale girls are always going to get a thumbs up from me. double wtf indeed!ReplyDelete
Super, love yard sales xReplyDelete
Wish I went! Next time!! xxReplyDelete
Super love this yard styles! :) I want to have it too!ReplyDelete
Love all the shots you got from the yard sale! Can't wait to see you in a couple of weeks for LFW fun! xxReplyDelete
Wish that yard sale wasn't that far away, because already the people looked visit-worthy. The first outfit is especially me, but you got all awesome onesReplyDelete
That yard sale looked amazing,not happy I missed it!!ReplyDelete
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Thirty-six Hope College juniors have been inducted into Mortar Board, a national honor society that recognizes students for scholarship, leadership and service.
The students were recognized during the college's annual Honors Convocation on Thursday, April 29.
The new members are:
Rebecca Bethard, Mattawan
Bradley Boelkins, Ada
Kelsey Bos, Holland
Nathan Bult, Jenison
Phoebe Burtless-Creps, Adrian
Madelyn Clark, Ann Arbor
James Colten, Wheaton, Ill.
Kaitlin Cooper, LakeOrion
Jeanine DeJong, Plainfield, Ill.
John Donkersloot, Zeeland
Katherine Garcia, Battle Creek
Laura Grimm, Hudsonville
Megan Haserodt, North Olmsted, Ohio
Leah Hottel, Westlake, Ohio
Andrew Klinkman, Ann Arbor
Thao Le, Vietnam
Jeana Longoria, Howard City
Anna Mulder, Kalamazoo
Andrew Nichols, Traverse City
Bethany Noffke, Naperville, Ill.
Ayanfeouluwa Olonade, Jos, Nigeria
Katherine Oosting, Alma
Lindsey Rhodes, Palatine, Ill.
Jacob Rollenhagen, Ada
Katelyn Rumsey, Zeeland
Kathryn Sawyer, Batavia, Ill.
Kendra Short, Wapakoneta, Ohio
Rachel Sikkema, Midland
Aftan Snyder, Bigfork, Mt.
Kevin Soubly, Plymouth
Rachel Syens, Holland
Benjamin Thomas, Spring Grove, Ill.
Kylie Topliff, Williamston
Danielle Tyner, Grand Rapids
Nicole Tyner, Grand Rapids
Valerie Winton, Hudsonville


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STOUGHTON – Just after 7 p.m. Wednesday night, Stoughton police officers rolled up to a home, searching for a possible intruder after a 911 call. The responding officers already knew who belonged in the home and even had a picture of the family dog because of a 911 profile that the homeowner created.
Just one day earlier, on Tuesday, the Stoughton Police Department rolled out the new program that gives 911 responders more information than they ever had before.
Smart911 is a safety profile that automatically pops up on the 911 responder's screen when they receive an emergency call.
Residents can include information about medical conditions, their vehicles, addresses, their pets and even photos of themselves, their kids or elderly relatives.
"When someone is calling 911, they are dealing with the worst day of their life," said Stoughton Deputy Police Chief Robert Devine. "It's hard to understand someone when they are hysterical and get the information you need."
The voluntary program is free for people to join. Smart911 has been in use since 2010 and is now being used in 33 states, said Jessica Rose, a community marketing manager for Raven Mobile Safety, which created the program.
In addition to Stoughton, the technology is already being used in Milford, Framingham, Medford and Blackstone. People include only the information that they want police to have.
"There is all types of different information that you can put in there that will help us help you," Devine said.
Stoughton school Superintendent Marguerite Rizzi said the School Department paid an estimated $18,000 for the initial start-up cost of buying the Smart911 program and the software.
The Police Department will pay for maintaining it.
"We are strongly encouraging that families register their kids and their cell phones through this program," Rizzi said.
She said she signed up for it and it only took a few minutes to put in the basic information required. She encourages teachers to sign up, even if they don't live in Stoughton.
"It will show first responders which classroom a teacher called from, on which floor and in which building," she said.
The biggest challenge for 911 calls is finding that caller on a map, said Stoughton police Lt. John Bonney. "If it's from a land line, we have an address, but if it's from a cell phone we don't and that's where this system will help."
In a town the size of Middleboro, which is 72 square miles, first responders have a large area to cover.
"We've recently started using a Code Red System, which is a reverse 911 system for mobile cell phone users," said Middleboro Selectman Allin Frawley.
That system is free for people to use and lets them receive texts or emails from police, fire, gas, electric and more, Frawley said.
He hadn't heard of Smart911, but was going to take a look at it.
With a population of 94,000 residents, Brockton's 911 responders are always busy.
Brockton Police Chief Robert Hayden is also interested in the Smart911 system.
"I am going to talk with the police chiefs in these other towns and see how it's working for them," Hayden said.
Medford was the first city in the state to use Smart911. According to Medford Police Capt. Barry Clemente, the system has been used for about a month and already has close to 1,000 people signed up for it.
"The more places that get the Smart911 system, the better off we all are," he said. "Because anyone who is registered for it and is riding through an area that has it, their profiles will pop up in that jurisdiction if they make an emergency call."
Karen Hall, director of Stoughton's Council on Aging, said police will be training Hall's staff on Smart911, so they can help sign up seniors.
"I think it's a really good program," Hall said. "It's very important for people who are confused or caring for a spouse with Alzheimer's."
Hall said the council works with police often and put in safeguards to catch seniors before they go missing.
"It's another way police are using technology to make public safety more usable and more accessible."
For more on Smart911, check out https://www.smart911.com
Jennifer Bray may be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or follow her on Twitter @JenniferB_ENT.


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The Chesapeake Bayhawks added nine rookies in the Major League Lacrosse college draft Friday night in Philadelphia, including long-stick midfielder CJ Costabile with the fifth selection overall and former McDonogh goalie Tyler Fiorito five picks later.
Costabile, a Duke senior from New Fairfield, Conn., is a two-time USILA All-America third-team selection and a two-time All-Atlantic Coast Conference choice.
During the 2011 season, he led the team with 95 ground balls and ranked second in caused turnovers with 23. The defensive standout has 232 ground balls and 31 points during his three-year college career.
"CJ is a great athlete," Bayhawks general manager Brian Reese said. "He will play long-stick middie and help in transition and facing off. He can make plays all over the field."
Fiorito, a native of Phoenix in Baltimore County, was a 2011 third-team All-America nominee at Princeton and a two-time first-team All-Ivy League selection. In 2011, he ranked second in Division I save percentage (.615) and eighth in Division I goals-against average (7.53).
The Bayhawks also drafted North Carolina midfielder Jimmy Dunster, Penn State attackman Matt Mackrides, Delaware attackman Grant Kaleikau, Yale attackman Matt Gibson, Maryland midfielder Drew Snider, Fairfield midfielder Brent Adams and Delaware midfielder John Austin.
Virginia's Steele Stanwick (Loyola) was taken second overall by the Ohio Machine, behind Cornell midfielder Rob Pannell (Long Island Lizards).
Two other Terps were drafted: Jake Bernhardt, 12th overall by the Hamilton Nationals, and Joe Cummings (Loyola), 17th overall by the Rochester Rattlers.
Pick Team Player School
1 Long Island (from Charlotte) Rob Pannell Cornell
2 Ohio Steele Stanwick Virginia
3 Rochester Mike Manley Duke
4 Denver (from Long Island) Mark Matthews Denver
5 Chesapeake CJ Costabile Duke
6 Denver Colin Briggs Virginia
7 Hamilton Chad Wiedmaier Princeton
8 Ohio (from Boston) Robert Rotanz Duke
9 Charlotte Justin Turri Duke
10 Chesapeake (from Rochester from Ohio) Tyler Fiorito Princeton
11 Rochester Roy Lang Cornell
12 Hamilton (from Long Island) Jake Bernhardt Maryland
13 Rochester (from Chesapeake) Kevin Drew Syracuse
14 Denver Kevin Vaughan Harvard
15 Boston (from Ohio from Rochester from Hamilton) Chris Boland Johns Hopkins
16 Ohio (from Boston) Anthony Biscardi Massachusetts
17 Rochester (from Charlotte) Joe Cummings Maryland
18 Long Island (from Rochester from Ohio) Sam Bradman Salisbury
19 Boston (from Rochester) Kevin Cunningham Villanova
20 Charlotte (from Long Island) Mark Manos Drexel
21 Ohio (from Chesapeake) Billy Eisenreich Bucknell
22 Chesapeake (from Rochester from Denver) Jimmy Dunster North Carolina
23 Hamilton Jack McBride North Carolina
24 Ohio (from Boston) Alex Demopoulos Denver
25 Rochester (from Charlotte) Bobby Dattilo Hobart
26 Chesapeake (from Ohio) Matt Mackrides Penn State
27 Chesapeake (from Rochester) Grant Kaleikau Delaware
28 Long Island Tommy Palasek Syracuse
29 Charlotte (from Rochester from Chesapeake) Chris Bocklet Virginia
30 Denver Tom Celentani Massachusetts
31 Hamilton Matt Lovejoy Virginia
32 Boston Mark Staines North Carolina
33 Denver (from Charlotte) Steve Serling Hofstra
34 Ohio Bobby Eilers Syracuse
35 Rochester Tim Henderson Army
36 Long Island Kyle Moeller Stony Brook
37 Boston (from Chesapeake) Will Koshansky Penn
38 Chesapeake (from Rochester from Denver) Matt Gibson Yale
39 Hamilton Joe Resetarits Albany
40 Boston Chris Clements Virginia
41 Charlotte Dan DiMaria Harvard
42 Ohio Chris Langton Cornell
43 Rochester Carter Bender Hartford
44 Denver (from Long Island) Steven Robarge VMI
45 Chesapeake Drew Snider Maryland
46 Denver John Cunningham Princeton
47 Hamilton Brock Sorenson Ohio State
48 Boston J.J. Gilbane Cornell
49 Charlotte Kevin Randall Notre Dame
50 Ohio Marshall Burkhart Johns Hopkins
51 Rochester Charlie McComas North Carolina
52 Long Island Charlie Streep Bucknell
53 Chesapeake Brent Adams Fairfield
54 Denver Charlie Cipriano Fairfield
55 Hamilton Kiel Matisz Robert Morris
56 Boston Greg Mahony Yale
57 Charlotte Joe Vitale Adelphi
58 Ohio Austin Bright Bellarmine
59 Rochester Tommy Wood North Carolina
60 Long Island Robert Campbell Stony Brook
61 Chesapeake John Austin Delaware
62 Denver Shane Jackson Limestone
63 Hamilton Gerry Reilly Georgetown
64 Boston Martin Bowes Hartford
Bayhawks strengthen transition game with Costabile as first pick
The Chesapeake Bayhawks added nine rookies in the Major League Lacrosse college draft Friday night in Philadelphia, including long-stick midfielder CJ Costabile with the fifth selection overall and former McDonogh goalie Tyler Fiorito five picks later.


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Telugu version of Puli Murugan song.
Telugu version of Puli Murugan song.
நட்டது பூச்செடிதான்
நட்சத்திரம் பூத்ததய்யா!
Malayalam film industrys most popular Vanitha-Cera film awards were announced on Tuesday. The winners were selected through a polling procedure in which readers of Manorama publications had cast their votes for their favourite nomination in different categories. The prize distribution ceremony will be held on Bristo Ground of Wellington Island, Kochi, on February 12.
Vani Jairam - Best Playback Singer (Female): Puli Murugan Song: Manathae Marikurumbae.
Another accolade for VJ. This time for Pookkal Panineer Pookkal!
"Meanwhile, Nivin's realistic entertainer Action Hero Biju, which has been selected as the Popular Movie of the year also bagged two more awards -- Best Singer (Vani Jayaram) and Character Actor (Joju George)."
VJ live performance this month. She is 72 this year, but her pitch, clarity and rendition are still flawless. Enjoy!
A recent live program by VJ singing her cherished solos. Posting two links here, but you can hear the rest by clicking on the sidebar on Youtube. Enjoy!
Neel D -
A new soothing duet by VJ-PJC in Malayalam!
That is a beautiful melody song. Reminds me of the old days. Thanks for the link.
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நட்சத்திரம் பூத்ததய்யா!
Neel D -
Thought you'd like to read this:
And the video version here:
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Vani Jairam with Malaysia Vasudevan... not a usual combination!
VJ receives Lifetime achievement award from JFW (23 September '17)
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நட்சத்திரம் பூத்ததய்யா!


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Butterfly wings feel the heat
Lepidoptric imaging Scientists are using a five million year old design to make a better infrared detector.
Dr Radislav Potyrailo and colleagues at General Electric in the United States are copying the microscopic structures found on the scales of butterfly wings to develop new technology with medical, industrial and military applications.
Reporting in the journal Nature Photonics, Potyrailo and colleagues examined the iridescent colours produced by the wings of the tropical Morpho sulkowskyi butterfly, found in Columbia, Ecuador and Peru.
The morpho genus of butterflies first appeared five million years ago. Their iridescent colours are produced by wing scales made up of nano-sized ridges, folds and micro-ribs.
"The complex geometry of these 125 nanometre sized tree-shaped structures causes light to bounce around resulting in multi-layer interference patterns," Potyrailo says.
"The infrared radiation causes the nanostructures to heat up and expand and to a lesser degree change its refractive index," says Potyrailo.
"This causes the light's wavelength to change four-fold from infrared to visible light."
A better detector
By doping the scales with carbon nanotubes, the researchers found that the amount of radiation the wings can absorb increases, improving sensitivity.
Potyrailo says the research could help guide future designs of thermal imaging sensors, used to visualise the heat emitted from an object.
"This bio-inspired sensor is faster, smaller and more sensitive to temperature changes, resulting in higher resolution in different parts of the infrared spectrum," he says.
"Existing infrared chips are expensive, rely on complex micro fabrication techniques and often require bulky thermal cooling systems."
Cost effective
According to Potyrailo, the new infrared detectors would use dynamic response fluorinated silicone polymers, wouldn't require a heat sink and will be cheaper to manufacture, driving costs down.
"They could be used in many thermal imaging applications including security systems, fire fighting and night vision goggles," he says.
"There's also early diagnostics in medical applications, and non-destructive inspection and testing of electrical components and mechanical rotating parts. We could even see them in mobile phones and on cars."
And Potyrailo believes we won't have to wait for long.
"These new detectors could be on the market in 5 years or so."


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Dubai set the world record for the largest fireworks show in history on January 1, 2014. We saw a sample—taken at the Burj Khalifa—but that was nothing compared to this HD video, which shows the full scope of this titanic explosion chain from the air and different locations. The fireworks took over the entire country.
Our friend Gerald Donovan filmed them in 4K resolution, so make sure to crank up your YouTube settings. The extension and duration of the fireworks is simply amazing.
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Are you, like me, a parent of a craft-loving child? I have a 4-year-old who would "make art" all day long if I had the motivation, ideas, and supplies!
All of the chicks and bunnies floating around in Springtime are cute, but they don't teach about the true Easter and the Resurrection. Here are some craft ideas I dug up that do help teach that to your child!
Mosaic Cross at That Artist Woman
Remembrance canvas at OhAmanda
Hand and Footprint Donkeys at Catholic Icing
Easter Light Ray Cross at Philzendia
How do you keep Easter about Christ?


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It's timely, given that conference season has one again led to cries of sexism and discrimination. So although I really hate banging on about the subject (you'd never believe it from my blog) it's still necessary to cover.
I feel, and have felt for a long time, that the way we're approaching the "problem" of the lack of women techies is just wrong. Obviously painting stuff pink is just not going to cut it (I hope that's obvious). I think the fundamental problem is that we keep thinking about women. While that should be great for someone like me, it actually triggers a whole bunch of gender stereotyping in our poor human brains which prevents us seeing the big picture - the fact that we're not attractive as an industry for women suggests we're losing a whole heap of talent because of some sort of image problem. We just don't see the other missing minorities, or we're not comfortable talking about them. I mean, can you image running a session about attracting more black people into programming? I suspect there would be uproar in singling out a minority based on something as arbitrary as skin colour.
To be fair, even before the session there was a tiny bit of controversy:
It is nice though to see guys (because indeed this was someone of the male persuasion) getting upset at the thought of someone taking a shot at the girls again. I think it probably would have been a little more helpful to the session if they'd put my name on it...
Maybe the publicity helped, because there was a really decent turnout for the talk. I'm terrible at estimating numbers, and of course I completely forgot to take a photo of my lovely audience. But I'd say there were... 60? 80? people there? Between 50 and 100 anyway, and seemed like a roughly even split of men and women, and there were people of different backgrounds. Which is great, it's more women than you normally see at a conference, and more men than you usually see at an event talking about "women's issues". I really love running sessions about this subject with guys there, I'm of the opinion that talking about this with just women is almost completely useless, and isolates us from the rest of our community.
I took the novel approach of actually trying to treat the problem the same way coders treat any problem: break it down logically. So I had the problem, the requirements, a retrospective, and the aim was to come up with a list of tasks going forward.
Georges Saab from Oracle was great as our "Business Analyst" - not only did he outline the business value in increasing diversity in the workplace:
- Greater pool of talent to hire from
- Happier and more productive employees
- Greater retention rates
Devoxx this year), so the logical thing to do is to have a retrospective. The question was somewhat fluffy - tell me about working as a techie, specific points about being female not essential. So as with all our retrospectives, we covered good points, bad points, questions and ideas.
<aside>Incidentally, loads of people there knew about Agile methods and many were using them at work. Does this mean that agile is now more-or-less the norm? Does it mean that companies that encourage people to go to conferences are agile or agile-friendly companies? Or does it mean that people who care about people (i.e. those that go to a session like this) are more drawn to Agile methods? </aside>
(Yes, I'm wearing trainers to present, for the very first time! Thanks to Cecilia Borg for taking the photo)
((Also, special super-thanks to Stephen Chin who saved my presentation by sneaking in with a flipchart, stand and pens literally seconds before I needed it))
Everyone in the audience came up with really great points about working as a techie. The thing I found most interesting was that very little of it was gender-specific.
- "Pink it and Shrink it" marketing campaigns, allegedly for women.
- How do you get into the job? Entry and career paths unclear
- Micromanagement
- The hours
- Lack of mentoring/role models
- Booth Babes (they are bad for women, but they are bad for men too - very demeaning to assume that guys as bright and successful as techies are drawn only to boobs)
- Salary discrepancies
- Brogrammers stereotype
- Education pipeline – women doing "computery" subjects decreasing from about 13 years old and onwards (UK numbers)
- Pressure to be visible when you're a woman/minority
- You're seen as a woman first and a techie second
- Time drain to keep current, 90% of what you do is learning new stuff not using skills you already had
- Being different makes you stand out
- The hours
- The salary
- Woman's perspective is a positive for the team (Later agreed that diverse teams generally were more interesting to work in)
- We've seen an increase in the number of senior women
- Balanced teams are more productive
- There are lots of jobs in IT, always hiring
- Flexibility and meritocracy
- Women Are Exceptional (rare to get in as a girl so you're either really interested, or really good, or both)
- I don't understand this, my CIO is a woman?
- Is there a correlation between gamers and professional programmers?
- Does the wider availability of technology (e.g. Facebook) lead to a wider appeal (of working in the industry) to people?
- As parents should we be doing more to encourage our kids into technology?
- Is the image of techies changing?
- Look elsewhere for technical talent (e.g. people with craft skills are creative and practical)
- We should be more actively networking (join your local JUG!)
- Get them young - go to schools and show kids what we do
- Challenge stereotypes - we're not geeks who live at home and code in our bedrooms, we're collaborative and creative individuals
- We need more role models of all flavours
- Flexible education - it should be cheaper to make "mistakes" - e.g. to switch degrees or to cross-train from other qualifications, we can't be limited by choices we made so young
- Work experience to give kids/young people a taste of different jobs
- Encourage / expect children to ask questions, more than just learning the school curriculum
- Buy kids technology e.g. raspberry pi, arduino
- Show our faces, we are all role models
- Be vocal about our passions. We love this job, let's tell people.
The three things I think we should do as individuals are:
1. Take The Plunge
Women in particularly, but all of you who don't think you can be That Person - start talking at conferences, start writing blogs, start a new user group if you haven't got one, go into schools. Be that role model.
2. Don't Point Out Her Gender
I know the guys mean well, and women are guilty of this too, but don't highlight to a women at a conference/interview/meetup when you meet her for the first time that she's female. She knows this. It's almost always said in a positive way ("Wow, it's great that you're here, we don't see many women in these parts"), and I know you mean it to be encouraging. But it just highlights how different she is, not how awesome it is she's doing the same thing you're doing.
3. What We Do Is Awesome
We're here because we like what we do, we get paid for doing our hobbies. Not many people can boast of that. We need to get out there and tell people how much fun it is to be a techie. Don't let the Hollywood geek stereotype be the only image people have of us.
I had a really good time, and I came out feeling very positive about my job, my industry, and the people who do this. I'd love to run this session again if I get the opportunity.
EDIT: The slides and audio are available. The content catalog is a little counter-intuitive to use, hopefully that link will take you to a page with this session title on - click on it and there's "media" on the pop up window. This session doesn't lend itself well to audio because of the audience participation aspect but I do repeat most of the points and you get a feel for the session.


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Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh says he is working on a plan for a peaceful transition of power, even as opponents announce they will unilaterally create what looks like an alternative government.
The main opposition coalition will meet next week to form what it's calling a "national council" to step up the pressure against Saleh, who is currently in Saudi Arabia for medical treatment. The opposition Joint Meeting Parties want to unite the demands of street protesters and other anti-government forces seeking an end to Saleh's decades-long rule.
Government officials are warning against any such council, saying it would be a declaration of war against the state. Moreover, they say, it is unnecessary. Yemen's state media report that the president is again considering a plan by the Gulf Cooperation Council that outlines the steps toward a post-Saleh Yemen. The president is quoted as saying late Wednesday that his government is committed to finding solutions to the "disagreement" with the opposition.
Saleh was shown in a video from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where he has been recovering from a bomb blast at his presidential compound in June. He appeared more vigorous than in previous images. However, his comments about the GCC plan came under question. He has agreed to the GCC proposal three times in recent months, each time backing out at the last minute.
The ongoing stalemate, now in its seventh month, is raising further alarms abroad. The U.N. Security Council this week expressed its concerns, which range from a deteriorating humanitarian situation in Yemen, to the instability being exploited by the Yemen-based terrorist group, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.
U.N. Security Council President Hardeep Singh Puri urged all parties to reject violence as a solution to the political crisis.
"The members of the Security Council also called on all parties to move forward urgently, and an inclusive, orderly and Yemeni-led process of political transition that meets the needs and aspirations of the Yemeni people for change," said Puri.
Yemen's government stresses that change will not be brought about by any external pressure.
Officials this week rejected a report that the United States and Saudi Arabia are urging Saleh not to return to Sana'a. A U.S. State Department spokesman also denied the report, saying it was up to the president to return or not. Washington has long supportedSaleh as a bulwark against al-Qaida.
Yemeni political commentator Nasser Arrabyee says Saleh's whereabouts are likely not as important as his actual involvement in the process.
"Saleh still has a lot of support," he said. "His supporters are millions here and that's why the international community is focusing on a constitutional transition, which means that it is only President Saleh who will do this constitutional transition."
Arrabyee says the alternative, more violence between government forces and its opponents, is in no one's interest. But he adds that the longer the situation drags on, the greater the chance that militant forces can coopt the original pro-reform movement.
"The protesters are still there in the streets," said Arrabyee. "But their leaders are doing something else. They are now involved in military confrontations, under the leadership of al Ahmar, and they have also the defected general Ali Mohsen, who also supported the protests but he is involved in many military confrontations."
Tribal leader Sadiq al-Ahmar, whose members have already fought fierce battles against government troops, joined forces late last month with other tribal groups to form the Alliance of Yemeni Tribes. The well-armed tribes say any aggression against the protesters will be considered an attack against them.
As Yemen Crisis Drags On, Risks Grow
Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh says he is working on a plan for a peaceful transition of power, even as opponents announce they will unilaterally create what looks like an alternative government.


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Grundfos is a member of World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) – the world's leading business voice on sustainable development. "The world in transition to sustainability" is the headline of this biannual meeting taking place from 12 to 16 October 2009 with participation from some 200 of the worlds most influential businesses, gathered to work together towards sustainability.
There is only a few weeks left until COP15. The transformation undergone by the United States is critical in shifting the world to a sustainable path. The message from USA is crucial for what can be expected from China. The USA's main message from the WBCSD meeting is to see COP15 as a milestone more than a result in itself. We should not expect the outcome to be too detailed.
Grundfos is truly committed to the climate agenda, proven by our historical concern for the environment in the way we do business, our energy saving products, our voice in the public debate, Future Now campaign, innumerous energy saving initiatives in our companies, etc. The recent launch of our ambitious global climate strategy is a milestone for how Grundfos can contribute to the saving of our planet.
However, we need to be aware that the world is facing a complex set of interlinked global challenges. Water constraints or water stress is clearly an increasingly important subject on the global agenda. The point is that water has crucial links to energy, climate, urbanisation, food and development issues.
Grundfos and water are inseparable. Maybe Grundfos should be even more outspoken and aware of our water footprint in order to meet future market demands and ensure our license to operate in locations where water scarcity is already a severe constraint.
The WBCSD has developed the widely recognised Global Water Tool for measuring our water footprint. The tool is a significant step in addressing world water issues. Grundfos has always been a front runner when it comes to sustainability. Let us continue to prove our leading position!
More information at www.wbcsd.org/web/watertool.htm


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As you have read here, here, and here, The Concord Coalition firmly believes that having an independent Medicare commission is one of the most important elements being considered in current health care reform legislation. Without the commission -- which would be empowered to continuously evaluate Medicare costs and propose changes to the delivery of care that might be able to help reduce system-wide health care costs -- it is doubtful that current legislation will succeed in reducing long-term health care inflation.
Unfortunately, the bill currently being debated in the Senate has effectively neutered the commission's powers (and the House didn't even have a commission in their bill). As pointed out by David Leonhardt in the New York Times, the Senate directs that the commission leave doctors and hospitals untouched by its recommendations for the first four years of its existence (2015-2018). Then, in an even more insidious direction, the permanent commission will likely be prohibited from submitting a proposal beyond 2019. These restrictions are layered on top of the initial restrictions Congress placed on the White House's commission proposal (benefits can't be "restricted," cost sharing can't be increased, eligibility can't be modified, and health care can't be "rationed").
The legislative language with the post-2019 limitation popped up some time after the bill left the Senate Finance Committee. In that bill, the 2015-1018 restriction was there, but the assumption was after the first five years of fully phased-in health care reform and its delivery system experiments, trials and pilot projects, the commission would be able to take that information and begin to enact system-wide reforms that could transform American health care from a "pay-for-quantity" wasteful, fee-for-service system, to a more cost-effective "pay-for-quality" system.
However, in the bill released for debate after the Finance and Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee legislation were merged, the new restriction was added. The legislative language is obtuse (page 1,009-1,010):
''(ii) EXCEPTION.—The Board shall not submit a proposal...(III) for proposal year 2019 and subsequent proposal years, a year in which the Chief Actuary of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services makes a determination in the determination year that the growth rate described in paragraph (8) exceeds the growth rate described in paragraph (6)(A)(i).
But, what it basically says is that no proposal can be submitted in any year after 2019 if the five-year average of national health care expenditures grows more rapidly than five-year average Medicare expenditures. This makes it unlikely the commission will get many opportunities to submit a proposal. As our Series on Health Care and Medicare points out, expenditures in Medicare tend to rise at slightly lower rates than overall health care expenditures (from 1970-2007 annual per- capita Medicare inflation averaged 9.2% while the private health care average was 10.4%).
An irony of this provision is that almost the entire cost control structure of current health care legislation is predicated on the idea that reforms in Medicare will have to lead the way towards a broader reform of the private health care system because the government can easily experiment and alter Medicare -- as opposed to trying to dictate systemic transformation in the private sector. Yet, with this restriction, the government's ability to change Medicare will instead be stuck waiting for the private sector to magically restrain costs first.
That these limitations on the commission are in the bill suggests that despite some member's rhetoric, they are not placing concerns about health care costs at the top of their priority list. Luckily, there is still time to alter the bill in ways that could make cost control more of a priority. While Concord will have more suggestions in the near future, a good place for Senators to start would be to read the letter sent by Concord's leaders to Senate Majority Leader Reid. The stellar sleuth David Leonhardt also has some good suggestions.
December 3rd Late Update: A group of budget experts from diverse perspectives, called the "Fiscal Seminar," today release a Statement on Health Care Reform (PDF) that outlines some more options for cost control. Concord executive director, Robert Bixby, was a signatory.


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Creating 1 Line Poems using StoryBirdposted Jun 27, 2017, 4:49 AM by Patrick Johnson
Welcome to our class blog. My name is Mr. Johnson. To learn more about me, visit my All About Me page.You can e-mail me at:firstname.lastname@example.com You can also call me at Maple Grove PS (however please do not use my voicemail as it is not working correctly).
Mr. Johnson- Language, Math, Gym, Visual Arts, Science
Mrs. McDonough- Music, Drama, Dance
Mr. Byrd- Social Studies
Ms. Jowett (VP)- Health
Important Reminders
May 13th- Walking trip to Grove Park Home (where PASS IT ON shirt)- Dress for the weather (we go rain or shine)
May 21st, 22nd, 23rd- EQAO
** Pizza is served at 2nd nutrition break
Curriculum Focus
Updated: Feb 21st/2019
-Reader's Theatre
-Determining important information and summarizing non-fiction articles
-Non-fiction text features
-The Power to Visualise what we are reading
-The Power to Connect (making deep thinking connections)
-Making predictions (Cover, Author, Title, Picture Flick)
-Check for Understanding (summarizing what we have read)
-The Power to Connect (making connections from the text to our own lives)
-Writing in paragraphs
-Writing and researching reports (non-fiction)
-Writing paragraphs that includes a main idea
-Creating graphic organizers to help narrow down our topic and plan our writing (idea cakes and word webs)
-Writing procedures and instructions
-Writing recounts
-Daily/creative writing- Narrowing down writing ideas
-building vocabulary
-changing ends on words
-Finding mode for a data set.
-counting up strategy for subtraction
-Creating surveys and representing data on pictographs and bar graphs
-Venn Diagrams, sorting data sets
-3 digit addition and subtraction (including money)
-Location and movement on a grid
-Adding and subtracting with carrying and borrowing
-Counting money amounts to $10
-Finding perimeter
-measuring in cm, m and km. Picking the appropriate unit of measure
-Solving problems involving 1 and 2 digit numbers
-Counting by 2s, 5s, 10s, 25s
-Strategies for answering multiple choice questions
-Mental math (addition and subtraction)
-representing numbers to 100 and beyond (for examples using base ten, tally marks, arrays, place value, expanded form etc)
-fitness, cooperative games
-Animal structures versus human structures, impact on enviroment
-strong and stable structures
-exploring and identifying forces
-S.T.E.A.M. activities
iPad Apps
iPad Apps
Raz-Kids (also in Google Play Store)
Try practising the spelling lists on our class Spelling City page!
You can also download Spelling Task Cards to try with our weekly words!
You can also download the Spelling city iPad app (free) and just search for our class under Patrick Johnson
Literacy at home
Explore Non-Fiction
Britannica School (login: simcodsb password: simc7729)Tumblebooks (login: SCDSB password books)
Red Fish (K-1)
The Magic Key- Interactive stories that reinforce punctuation and other skills
Variety of Language Games
Bitstrips (class code: goo011)
Practice Your Sight Words!
Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3
Practice your sight words with these audio power point books!
Making Words
Make words with the Word Wizard
The Arts
Math at home
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jewish_scientist wrote:KnightExemplar wrote:Everything else fits together like legos. Expensive legos.
It is surprising how many things this is true for.
True for any industry that learned the lessons of Captain Murphy, USAF [of "Murphy's Law"]. Everything that *can* connect together, somebody *will* connect it together, so you had better make sure that only the right ones can connect together (pretty much the real source of Murphy's Law).


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Question: Here at San Francisco PL, we have computers that are specifically loaded with children's software programs for kids to use while in the library. We are looking to update them, and as CD-ROMs continue to decline, we are not sure if we should still use this as our source for the computer programs we offer. We are looking into the Games on Demand service offered by Exent and are wondering what other libraries are using Games on Demand, or some other provider for appropriate, often educational, programs for children? What are you using, and are you happy with it?
denise schmidt, Children's Librarian, SFPL. email@example.com
Response: The Johnson County (KS) Library discontinued our CD-ROM computers several years ago and are phasing out our CD-ROM collection altogether. Currently we are not using any subscription provider for games but are providing links to Internet-based games from sites like http://www.funschool.com and http://www.prongo.com. Back in January, OverDrive, Inc. launched downloadable games similar to their downloadable audiobooks. The sales representative I spoke with said they were planning to add educational games in the near future. Sadly, I don't see anything on their product website (http://www.dlrinc.com) that tells what's happening with their game collection. - Bradley Debrick, Johnson County Library Youth Services
Response:I note that Overdrive will have a demo of their product at ALA....great partnership with Riverdeep which owns rights to some of the old Broderbund classics like Carmen Sandiego and more...I am very excited to see it! I think they're at booth 614 or something like that... - Celia Huffman, YOuth Services Manager, Cuyahoga County Public Library
Question:Scholastic Inc. has a new product - Bookflix that seems fairly child friendly. It doesn't go live until June and we do not subscribe at this time, but those of you who did buy the advance subscription - what was your rationale? www.scholastic.com/bookflix. Lisa Hamrick Manager, Children's Learning Center Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
Response:Cuyahoga County Public Library is currently in the process of acquiring a subscription to BookFlix. There are many, what I consider, rationales for justifying this subscription...first of all, I consider it a means of building our online collection for children. We often have no trouble justifying the building of our print or audio/visual collections (in the traditional sense)...and our online collections should fit within that model as well...some might say, but I already have TumbleBooks or One More Story or others...but we don't limit our print collections to just a title or two...neither should we limit our online/electronic collections. Each of the above mentioned products all approach electronic story in a different and unique way...BookFlix, which also provides remote access to all of our patrons...cool!... presents both fiction and nonfiction electronic story in pairs using Weston Woods product and Scholastic nonfiction titles for early readers along with other added-value product such as comprehension questions, web info, author info and more. We were able to get a preview of this earlier this year. Subscription cost was recently reduced per a personal email from our local Scholastic rep. On a full-disclosure note..: )...I am currently working on a PhD in the area of children's response to electronic story, so I feel very strongly...wouldn't guess that one, would you? : )...about making sure that children have access to story in multiple formats...I believe that stories such as these can bridge children who learn differently to traditional texts... Celia Huffman, Youth Servies Manager, Cuyahoga County Public Library


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Welcome to Chicago, the city that feels like home. Here we have a little something for everyone. You can visit world-class museums, dine at one of our many Michelin-star restaurants or catch a show in one of over 200 theaters. No matter what you love to do, you'll feel right at home doing it here.
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Greenway Park
Beaverton, Oregon 1 course · 9 holes Driving directions
Course reviews
Most votes | Newest first | Oldest first
+6 votes Dru "Stylez" › April 18, 2011
VERY DISAPPOINTED! What a LAKE in Winter.... Dumb. Who's DUMB Idea was it to not make the Course Flow? When you Finish, you get to walk a least a Quarter to a Half a Mile Back to the Begining... Stupid. There's enough room here to do it right, I feel as if this Park was just tossed together. Not sure that I even want to come back in Summer to give it a Shot.
+5 votes The Ronin › January 21, 2011
+4 votes Bo Hicks › March 14, 2011
I have been there twice now first time this summer and once this winter wasnt to pleased with it during the summer there were way to many people there running around made it hard to throw off the tee's and in winter is was pretty much underwater but i guess thats normal for where it is located basically in a flood plain..good thing is there isnt many parks in the southwest so i guess that is a plus.
+3 votes Mark Lawrence › September 21, 2010
You know how most courses begin and end in the same place? Not this one, have fun walking back through the entire park when you are done.
+3 votes TOE "Tee Off Even Under Pressure" UP › October 9, 2010
man there are people always walking around i wonder what this place is like in the winter when the weather is bad
+3 votes Alvin Natarte › September 7, 2011
Has the most pedestrians of any course I play.
+2 votes jordan paasch › March 22, 2011
good park but to long in between the holes
+2 votes Corey Dempsey › August 20, 2012
+2 votes Page Jenkins › July 9, 2012
+1 votes Tim "Timmbo" Wenrich › August 29, 2011
+1 votes Aimee Sines › March 6, 2011
+1 votes Sean Chapman › April 9, 2011
I played there for the first time yesterday. Kind of like Orchard Park just with more trees It was fun to play but is very muddy and a lot is under water. I was confused with #3 tee. The tee sign was in one spot and the pad was in another. I could'nt figure out the logic behind it? Finally, the walk from #8 basket to #9 tee is way to long. When I finally got to where #9 is suppose to be, There wasnt a hole even there. They must have removed it or something. I never did find it. Over all, it was fun to play. I still enjoyed it.
+1 votes JayDee Dargis › June 10, 2011
finally dry and tress and bushes are full so extra challenging!
+1 votes Jeremy Running › July 8, 2011
+1 votes Jason Pitzer › August 23, 2011
Beats shooting at trees!
+1 votes Josh Marcella › September 27, 2011
This course is what it is. Nothing real technical, but if you do poorly here, something is wrong with your game.
+1 votes Chris Lundquist › May 17, 2012
+1 votes Matt Bressler › December 13, 2013
Lots of walkers. Only played this course once and it was when I just had started to play DG.
+0 votes Andy Verhoeven › September 17, 2010
to many walkers
+0 votes David Zimmerman › September 19, 2010
+0 votes Chase Estep › October 17, 2011
+0 votes matthew schroeder › August 26, 2012
+0 votes Dan Brown › November 4, 2010
+0 votes YounG GuN OG Johnson › October 1, 2010
+0 votes Derek Beaudoin › June 24, 2013
+0 votes Kyle Rakoz › February 2, 2013
Pretty terrible even with mild non-discers present. So much room to grow if they would commit to more. Better on rainy days (busy wise) but pretty mushy.
+0 votes Jayare Parker › July 1, 2012
+0 votes Dirk D-MON Allison › January 27, 2011
Its a flood plain what do you expect.
+0 votes Kevin Rivera › March 30, 2011
All the rain has put alot of standing water on alot of the holes and the ground is ver very sloppy! Its still fun! Get some boots and have fun, its not that bad.
+0 votes Xavier Hernandez inc. › October 15, 2010
...I noticed some large lizards headed people by 7th fairway and the trees were a translucent-orange kaleidescope of vibrant jelly. So this was Gonzo Discgolf.
+0 votes Mikey "Sluggo" Brackenbrough › October 20, 2010
+0 votes Kris Jones › September 20, 2011
+0 votes Jeff Torrence › May 10, 2011
+0 votes Rob MacLean › September 29, 2011
+0 votes Chris Allen › September 25, 2014
+0 votes Benjamin Christensen › March 4, 2013
+0 votes marc b › July 7, 2012
+0 votes Evan Job › August 8, 2012
+0 votes Ryan Linquist › July 31, 2012
Nice course for practicing your midrange/short game with a couple driving holes. Hole layout pretty simple really good beginners course.
+0 votes Josh Cody › July 27, 2012
+0 votes Terry Kenney › September 19, 2012
+0 votes Ian Clark-Williams › October 2, 2012
Great course for beginners. It's in a very busy park. Fun quick nine, but nothing too challenging.
+0 votes Julio Diegz › October 15, 2012
+0 votes Isaac O › April 19, 2013
Nothing too special about this course really. Worth a play during the late spring/summer when it's not a swamp.
+0 votes Nick Orr › December 25, 2013
Walkers everywhere. Bad layout design. Very playable though. If this my local course I would be happy with it. Shots ranging from 150-380. Good tee pads and signage.
+0 votes Clint Dehner › April 27, 2013
+0 votes Mickey Shau Quaddix › August 21, 2013
+0 votes Elliott N › November 8, 2013
+0 votes brent kress › January 31, 2014
+0 votes Alex Olguin › February 19, 2014
Narrow fairways are the name of the game at this 9-hole would-be par-3 course. It has less obstacles and more length than orchard, but going OB may mean your disc is lost to a marsh.
+0 votes Preston Neumann › September 4, 2014
Nice looking course with excellent signage. The holes are quite short but perfect for a quick round if you are in the area. Very busy park with lots of paths so watch out for people. A big downside was the walk back to the start from hole 9. At least a quarter mile back due to the fact the course does not loop around. The tee-pads were solid, but the chains were a bit outdated. Overall a nice course for a quick round, and beginners.
+0 votes Branden Garland › August 5, 2014
Pros: Good Baskets, 2nd Half has a nice layout, location, some pretty holes with willow trees, some wooded shots.
Cons: Walk back to parking lot or hole 1 for replay. 2nd hole was an after thought, walking/running/biking path in play on most holes - watch for people! Bad Course flow.
Ok course for practice. Great for a quick solo round. The walk back really kills the mojo. If you want to play more than 9, I say play the last 3 holes again, walk back and play the first 4 right by the parking lot...
Cons: Walk back to parking lot or hole 1 for replay. 2nd hole was an after thought, walking/running/biking path in play on most holes - watch for people! Bad Course flow.
Ok course for practice. Great for a quick solo round. The walk back really kills the mojo. If you want to play more than 9, I say play the last 3 holes again, walk back and play the first 4 right by the parking lot...
+0 votes Jarod Gogal › September 24, 2014
+0 votes Brett-"Terb" Baese › July 20, 2015
+0 votes Jake Allen › June 25, 2015
I thought this park is perfect for beginners, practice, and family. The course is actually groomed and open. Even in the rough it is pretty cleaned up. I think the city was trying to think of the entire park use instead of just disc golf for the layout. I had no problem with walking from scholls ferry down to the first hole and back. Nice exercise. I think I may park at the street off hole 9 and walk to 1 when I play again if I'm in a rush. Great disc golf course for the whole family right in th ...
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I thought this park is perfect for beginners, practice, and family. The course is actually groomed and open. Even in the rough it is pretty cleaned up. I think the city was trying to think of the entire park use instead of just disc golf for the layout. I had no problem with walking from scholls ferry down to the first hole and back. Nice exercise. I think I may park at the street off hole 9 and walk to 1 when I play again if I'm in a rush. Great disc golf course for the whole family right in the intestine of Beaverton. Once the park gets finished cleaning up at hole 5 - 6 it will get a better score. Nothing to hate on a family friendly course.
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+0 votes Ben Davis › May 3, 2019
The course is pretty vanilla. Even when an area has trees, they don't seem to be utilized. Most holes are simple straight 2-300 ft baskets. There is a long walk between 4 and 5, and the normal path is flooded, even more in late spring with no rain this week, and you have to take a detour around the woods. This course is a decent play, and very well marked with signs at each tee and directional signage along the main paths when the holes aren't close.
-1 votes Jeff Martin › February 2, 2011
-1 votes Sara R › May 18, 2011
Not my favorite course, but I go there because it's close... I wouldn't go out of my way to play there.
-1 votes Brandon Williams › July 25, 2012
lots of wind and ive heard its like that regularly. nice course with lots of ace opportunities. prepare for a round with wind at all times
-2 votes Andy Haskell › September 26, 2010
I give it a B+ because it is a family fun course,, nothing you have to have a cannon of an arm for,, I would give it a higher grade but there's a lot of walkers throughout the course, but since nothing is 400+ it's not a real big deal. great place to bring kids and new players open and short par 3s


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The Houston Museum of Natural Science was founded in 1909 – meaning that the curators of the Houston Museum of Natural Science have been collecting and preserving natural and cultural treasures for a hundred years now. For this yearlong series, our current curators have chosen one hundred exceptional objects from the Museum's immense storehouse of specimens and artifacts—one for each year of our history. Check back here frequently to learn more about this diverse selection of behind-the-scenes curiosities—we will post the image and description of a new object every few days.
This description is from David Temple, the museum's curator of paleontology. He's chosen a selection of objects that represent the most fascinating fossils in the Museum's collections, that we'll be sharing here – and at 100.hmns.org/ – throughout the year.
Seed fern, Alethopteris grandini
(Pennsylvanian, Stranger Formation, Franklin County, Kansas)
Vast swamps covered many parts of the world during the Pennsylvanian Period. The plants that grew in them included ferns, seed ferns, rushes, and tree-like lycopods with scaly trunks. When these plants died, they settled into stagnant, oxygen-poor water, in which their carbon was eventually preserved as coal. Among these coal swamps lived many kinds of amphibians, the first small reptiles, many types of insects and other arthropods such as large cockroaches, giant dragonflies, millipedes and scorpions.
Wander among prehistoric beasts in the Paleontology Hall, a permanent exhibition at the Houston Museum of Natural Science.
You can see more images of this fascinating artifact – as well as the others we've posted so far this year – in the 100 Objects section at 100.hmns.org.


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Dec. 5, 2001
COLUMBUS, Ohio-Two Ohio State women's soccer players earned spots on the 2001 NSCAA All-Great Lakes Regional Team, the National Soccer Coaches Association of America announced. Jen Miller (Jr., Centerville, Ohio/Centerville) and Lisa Grubb (Fr., Portage, Mich./Portage Central), both second team selections, became the first Buckeyes named to the all-region team since 1998, when Becky Borchers was so honored.
Miller led an impressive Buckeye backfield in 2001, playing in all 18 matches and recording a goal and two assists. She was the Big Ten's first defensive player of the week honoree (Sept. 10) for her performance in Ohio State's 2-1 upset of then-No. 9 Connecticut Sept. 7. The junior defender became the first OSU women's soccer player named to the all-tournament team in program history after helping the Buckeyes to their first win in the Big Ten tournament since 1998. Ohio State defeated Purdue, 2-1, in overtime Nov. 8 and advanced to the semifinal round.
Grubb, the 2001 Big Ten Freshman of the Year, led Ohio State in every offensive category this season, including goals (10), assists (5), points (25), shots (61) and game-winning goals (3). The rookie forward was a two-time Big Ten Player of the Week honoree (Sept. 3 and Oct. 29), earning her first conference award for scoring three goals in the Buckeyes' first two regular season matches, against Wright State and Kent State. Her outstanding performance in Ohio State's 2-1 upset of then-No. 4 Penn State Oct. 26-she scored the first goal and assisted in the gamewinner-earned her offensive player of the week honors for the second time. Most recently, Grubb capped off a phenomenal regular season when she scored the game-tying goal and assisted in the overtime gamewinner against Purdue in the Big Ten tournament.
The Buckeyes' season came to an abrupt end when the field of 64 for the 2001 NCAA Championship was announced. OSU, after posting a 10-9-1 overall record and finishing fourth in the conference with a 5-4-1 record, did not earn an at-large berth into the national tournament. The Buckeyes' final match this year was a 2-0 decision to Penn State Nov. 9 in the Big Ten tournament semifinal.


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A look back at Fires of 1918
The Moose Lake Area Historical Society's 94th Commemoration of the 1918 Fires was held October 13 at the Depot and Fires of 1918 Museum Annex. Ross Anderson read the memorials while Natalie Frohrip lit candles celebrating each life lost in the fire.
A feature of the event was the showing of a film created by two Moose Lake High School students who belong to the school's History Club. The very successful History Club was started by history teacher Becky Jackson three years ago. Frohrip, president of the Historical Society, has been a resource for the History Club.
The film, "A Burning Rebirth," was created by Lauren Ross and Leah Westmoreland. The film won an honorable mention at the State competition. As Ross was unable to attend the commemoration, Nicole Tekippe attended in her place. The film was narrated by Ross and gave a succinct description of the fire and the devastating impact on the local area of Moose Lake.
After the film, Joe Mogen read an account of the fire from documents from Helen Peterson. The documents were found after the death of Peterson. It was a moving account of the survival of her family during the fire. The day was described as very hot and dry. The entire Peterson family was home that day. As the first signs of the approaching fire were visible, the parents had everyone fill as many buckets with water as they could carry into the recently plowed potato field. The family huddled in the middle of the field and the farm animals clustered around them. A cousin who had been visiting the family said he was going to go into Barnum. The family tried to persuade him to stay, but he persisted. His body was found the next day.
History is an important part of the area. The Depot and Fires of 1918 Museum in Moose Lake has much of that community history on display.
At the end of the program, Frohrip shared that the Lund family had just donated a pump organ that survived the fire.


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|Mystic, Conn.
|High School:
|Robert E. Fitch
|Middle Distance
Yale PRs
800m 1:51.14
1000m 2:23.85
1500m 3:51.36
Mile 4:14.26
High School PRs
800m 1:56.98
1000m 2:32.87
1600m 4:20.79
2011-2012: Returned from surgery to have a standout season…Ran a PR in the 1500-meter run to win the Yale Springtime Invitational…Won the 800-meter run at the Yale Season Opener; second at the Harvard-Yale dual…Set a PR in the 800-meter run at outdoor Heps (13th place)…Qualified for IC4As in the 800-meter run and as a member of the 4x800-meter relay.
2010-2011: At outdoor IC4As, ended with season best in 800m run and competed in 4x800m … Competed in 800m run and anchored 4x800m relay to sixth-place finish at outdoor Heps … Ran on DMR team that won college division at Penn Relays, setting No. 6 all-time Yale outdoor record … Placed fourth in 800m at Harvard-Yale … Set Yale indoor freshman records in 800m and 1000m…Earned All-East Honors on distance medley relay at indoor IC4As … Also earned All-Ivy Honors for runner-up in 1000m at indoor Heps and distance medley relay … Won 800m at Dartmouth-Columbia and mile at season opener.
High School: All-New England and All-State … All-Eastern Connecticut Conference for track and field … Helped team to ECC Indoor Track Championship in 2010 … Captain and MVP of outdoor and indoor track, soccer teams.
Personal: Morse College … Interested in premed and research.
Why I chose Yale: "Once I got accepted, there was no other choice. I wanted to compete at the highest level and I wanted to receive the best possible education. I knew that I had to come here, because only at Yale would I become a better athlete, student, and individual."


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Paul Smith took us on quite the versatile style journey for Spring 2013. He showed pieces ranging from preppy to sporty to androgynous to ultrafeminine. In the preppy department, the designer tucked button-down blouses — buttoned up all the way to the neck — into high-waist trousers. Colorblock suits with cropped pants screamed sporty, while flowy dresses with V-necks or sheer pleats exuded feminine glamour. Sheer-sleeve blazers stood out, as did a gray-and-white colorblock blazer, printed blouses, and a few quirky striped jackets and leggings toward the the end of the show.


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Oct. 20, 2005
Don't let the final score fool you.
Such would be the case for the Lipscomb Bisons soccer team in their 3-1 loss at Florida Atlantic Thursday night in Atlantic Sun action in Boca Raton.
All four goals in the game were scored in the second period. Despite giving up three goals, Lipscomb Coach Charles Morrow thought his team put in a solid effort in the second period.
"We didn't have a great first half, but we played pretty well in the second half," said Morrow. "We had them on the ropes."
The Bisons dealt with a couple of setbacks in the second period, including having a goal called back for offsides.
"We were creating chances, especially from the 45-minute-to-65-minute mark," Morrow said.
All four goals were scored in a little more than 15 minutes.
Samuel Dzegede scored the first goal for FAU on a breakaway at the 63-minute mark. Leonardo De Mata made it 2-0 FAU at 72:39 scoring on a cross from Aaron McDonald.
Michael Spencer scored the lone goal for the Bisons at 75:01, tapping in a cross in front of the net from Kevin Terry cutting the FAU advantage to 2-1.
Ran Poliker scored the final goal of the game, giving FAU a 3-1 lead at 78:10.
Florida Atlantic outshot the Bisons 14-12. They also held a 9-6 advantage in shots on goal.
Florida Atlantic made seven shots in each period. The Bisons had four shots in the first period and eight in the second.
Bisons goalkeeper J.D. Murphy made six saves. Florida Atlantic goalkeeper Anders Granstad made five saves.
FAU is 6-7, 3-1 in the A-Sun. The Bisons are 3-8-1, 1-5-0 in the conference.