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A Compilation of Environmental Education News from Across Louisiana
2012 Environmental Education Symposium – March 9-10, 2012
The Louisiana Environmental Education Commission and the Louisiana Environmental Education Association will host the 15th Annual Louisiana Environmental Education Symposium – "Our Environment…Our Future" at the Lafayette Crowne Plaza in Lafayette, Louisiana on March 9-10, 2012.
All Symposium exhibitor forms, registration forms, and related information can be found on our website: http://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/environmental-education-symposium
For more information: Venise Ortego, EE Coordinator, 337-948-0255, firstname.lastname@example.com
Community Outreach Dune Restoration Events in Texas
Our dunes need help recovering from the devastating effects of Ike in addition to constant erosion from man and natural causes! Opportunity for the community to engage as coastal stewards through planting a variety of native dune plants which include seaoats, bitter panicum, railroad vine, sea purslane, and marsh-hay cordgrass. Learn about the functions of our dunes which not only serve as physical barrier protection, but as essential habitat to a variety of species including nests for the endangered Kemp's Ridley sea turtle and the Wilson's plover.
Saturday February 3 @ Galveston Island State Park, 8 am-noon
Saturday February 18 @ Galveston Island West End, 8 am-noon
Saturday March 4 @ Galveston Island State Park, 8 am-noon
To register, call or email Artist Boat at (409) 770-0722 or email: email@example.com.
Volunteers Needed
The Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana and Jean Lafitte National Park invite you to participate in a cypress planting project along the Bayou Segnette Waterway in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. The objective of the project is to protect marsh ecosystems from erosion threats and from invasion by the exotic Chinese tallow tree. Volunteers will plant 100 cypress trees and wrap the trees in a protector to keep them safe from predation.
When: Monday, February 6th from 9:00 a.m. to no later than 4:30 p.m.
Where: Jean Lafitte Historic National Park & Preserve, Jones Point Boat Launch (9706 Barataria Blvd, Marrero, LA 70072)
If any interested volunteers would also like to provide their boat for this event, please email Hilary Collis at email@example.com. All planting equipment (gloves, shovels, etc.), lunch, and refreshments will be provided. All volunteers must register with the Coalition to attend the event! Volunteers must be at least 16 years of age. Register online at www.crcl.org or by calling (888) LACOAST.
2012 Coastal Stewardship Awards Nominations (Deadline: February 3)
The Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana will host the 17th annual Coastal Stewardship Awards Program on Friday, April 13, 2012 at the Hilton Baton Rouge Capitol Center. Coastal Stewardship Awards recognize the contributions of individuals and groups who demonstrate outstanding commitment to preserving and restoring Louisiana's coastal wetlands. CRCL is proud to honor these leaders in coastal restoration, who share our vision of a sustainable coast for future generations. Nominations are now being accepted for the Lifetime Achievement Award, Distinguished Achievement Award and the Coastal Stewardship Award. Please consider nominating an individual or group who has made an exceptional contribution to protecting and restoring Louisiana's wetlands. To nominate a person or organization for a Coastal Stewardship Award, visit www.CRCL.org. For more information, contact CRCL at 1-888-LACOAST (1-888-522-6278). All nominations must be received by February 3, 2012.
CWPPRA PPL 22 Project Nominee Factsheets and Presentations (Deadline: February 3)
CWPPRA PPL 22 Project Nominee Factsheets and Presentations proposed are available at the following link: http://www.mvn.usace.army.mil/pd/cwppra_mission.htm. RPTs will select PPL 22 nominees at the Coastwide Voting meeting on February 15, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. at the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (Louisiana Room), 2000 Quail Drive, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The RPTs will select three projects in the Terrebonne, Barataria, and Pontchartrain Basins; two projects in the Breton Sound, Teche/Vermilion, Mermentau, Calcasieu/Sabine, and Mississippi River Delta Basins; and one project will be selected in the Atchafalaya Basin. The RPTs will select one coastwide project nominee. In addition, the RPTs will select six demonstration projects for further evaluation. No additional projects will be nominated at the Coastwide Voting meeting, nor will any significant changes to projects proposed at the January meetings be allowed. No additional public comments will be accepted at the Coastwide Voting meeting. Public comments were heard during the RPT meetings and additional written comments may be provided no later than February 3, 2012 by mail, fax or email to: Colonel Edward R. Fleming, District Engineer, New Orleans c/o: Brad Inman, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, P.O. Box 60267, New Orleans, Louisiana; Fax: 504-862-2572; email@example.com
Call for Abstracts (Deadline: February 10)
State of the Coast encourages all individuals interested in Louisiana's coastal restoration and protection activities to submit an abstract for oral or poster presentation at our June 2012 conference in New Orleans. For more information on submitting your abstract, click here. State of the Coast 2012 will gather hundreds of scientists, business leaders, federal and state agency personnel, elected officials, land owners and interested citizens for the largest forum of its kind, focused entirely on Louisiana's coastal restoration challenges and solutions. Deadline for Abstract Submittal – February 10, 2012
Deadline Extension for The 2012 DuPont Challenge!
The deadline for submissions to The 2012 DuPont Challenge has been EXTENDED to: Tuesday, February 7. Submit your science essay before the end of that day through the Official Entry Form
2012 Federal Junior Duck Stamp Program Begins in Louisiana (Deadline: March 15)
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service sponsors the annual Federal Junior Duck Stamp Art Competition. The Federal Junior Duck Stamp Conservation and Design Program (JDS) is a dynamic arts curriculum that teaches wetlands and waterfowl conservation to students in kindergarten through high school. The program incorporates scientific and wildlife management principles into a visual arts curriculum with participants completing a JDS design as their visual "term paper". Entries are judged by a panel of five judges including both waterfowl biologists and artists. Monies raised by the sale of the Federal Junior Duck Stamp help support conservation of wetland habitats for waterfowl and many other species of wildlife. This contest is open to public, private, and home schooled students. Entries are due March 15, 2012. Contest information and forms are found on-line at www.fws.gov/juniorduck/States/Louisiana.htm or www.fws.gov/juniorduck. For more information, contact Jean Mikeal, Louisiana State Program Coordinator, at (318) 574-2664 ext. 103.
Coastal Lines of Defense Field Workshops
The UNO Coastal Education program is offering a series of field-based learning opportunities for both teachers and students at their field station (Coastal Education and Research Facility - CERF) located at Chef Menteur Pass in Orleans Parish. The topic is the Coastal Lines of Defense concept which is a way of approaching the important topic of coastal protection and restoration in Louisiana. The Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation (www.saveourlake.org) introduced this idea to the public shortly after Hurricane Katrina when everyone's thoughts were focused on the safety of life in coastal Louisiana and New Orleans. More can be learned by visiting http://coastallinesofdefense.org/ and http://www.mlods.org/
A second Educators' Workshop will be offered on Saturday February 25, 2012 from 9am-3pm at CERF, located at 21000 Chef Menteur Highway in the Lake Catherine community and on the "Orleans Land Bridge" which is itself one of the Lines of Defense discussed in their workshop.
Teachers of all grades are encouraged to consider scheduling a field trip for their students at CERF during this semester. More information about CERF and their education programs is at www.pies.uno.edu/education.
Contact: Dinah at (504) 280-1374 or (504) 669-1893, email@example.com r Heather at (504) 280-4042 or (504) 451-1582, firstname.lastname@example.com
Underrepresented Populations and Marine Science Opportunity
The University of Md Eastern Shore (http://www.umes.edu/) has begun enrollment for their annual Teacher Development Workshop (grades 6–12) to be held July 15–July 28, 2012. Funding for this program comes from a 5 year, $5m NSF CREST grant and aims to provide marine science research and educational opportunities to under-represented populations. The program is open to all. Free on campus housing, meals, course credit or a stipend and a travel expense allowance will be provided. UMES is located in Princess Anne, MD, Somerset County (http://www.townofprincessanne.com/) and instruction will take place both on campus and in Paul S. Sarbanes Coastal Ecology Center near Assateague Island in Berlin, Md (http://www.umes.edu/psscec/Default.aspx?id=32558). For more information regarding the workshop and the CREST grant, visit: http://www.umes.edu/CREST/Default.aspx?id=33372
PhET Simulations Provide Interactive Learning Tools
PhET provides fun, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena for free. To help students visually comprehend concepts, PhET simulations animate what is invisible to the eye through the use of graphics and intuitive controls such as click-and-drag manipulation, sliders and radio buttons. In order to further encourage quantitative exploration, the simulations also offer measurement instruments including rulers, stop-watches, voltmeters and thermometers. As the user manipulates these interactive tools, responses are immediately animated thus effectively illustrating cause-and-effect relationships as well as multiple linked representations (motion of the objects, graphs, number readouts, etc.). All PhET simulations are freely available from the PhET website and are easy to use and incorporate into the classroom.
Costa Concordia Capsizing
Be sure to check out the new IcEarth image and information on the Costa Concordia Cruise Ship Capsizing. It includes a Worldview-1 satellite image courtesy of DigitalGlobe, information on the ship, the Island of Giglio, two student activities, and a linkage to other explorations. IcEarth is developed by the WETMAAP program to provide imagery and maps for education.
IcEarth: http://icearth.cnlworld.org/index.php?eventID=25
WETMAAP: http://wetmaap.org
Data Collection App for Tarpon
Download the Tarpon Master App for your iPhone today so you can help assist the Southeastern Wildlife Conservation Group with data collection in support of Tarpon Research along the Alabama and Mississippi Gulf Coasts. Tarpon Master includes Bonefish & Tarpon Trust Tarpon weight calculator and allows you to capture the following information on your Tarpon catches so you always have them with you: length, girth, weight, location, detailed location notes, DNA sample, fly/lure/bait, miscellaneous notes, and photos. You can directly e-mail your Tarpon catch information with or without photos to the Southeastern Wildlife Conservation Group (firstname.lastname@example.com) so we can use such data to help support the conservation and research efforts of the Bonefish & Tarpon Trust. Tarpon Master is available in two levels, full and lite. The lite version will allow you to calculate 5 fish so that you can experience what the
National Ocean Policy Draft Implementation Plan (Deadline: February 27)
Input is currently being sought on the National Ocean Policy Implementation Plan, recently released for public comment. As part of President Obama's National Policy for the Stewardship of the Ocean, Our Coasts, and the Great Lakes, the National Ocean Council has released a draft National Ocean Policy Implementation Plan to address some of the most pressing challenges facing the ocean, our coasts, and the Great Lakes. The draft Implementation Plan describes more than 50 actions the Federal Government will take to improve the health of the ocean, coasts, and Great Lakes, which support tens of millions of jobs, contribute trillions of dollars a year to the national economy, and are essential to public health and national security. The draft Implementation Plan will ensure the Federal Government targets limited resources more effectively to deliver demonstrable results for the American people, including predictability for users, more efficient and coordinated decision-making, and improved sharing of data and technology. For each action, the Plan outlines key milestones, identifies responsible agencies, and indicates the expected timeframe for completion.
Click on this link to read the draft Implementation Plan: http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ceq/national_ocean_policy_draft_implementation_plan_01-12-12.pdf
Click here to provide comments on the draft Implementation Plan. The public comment period is open until midnight EST, February 27, 2012: http://www.whitehouse.gov/webform/submit-comments-draft-implementation-plan
National Climate Adaptation Strategy out for Public Comment (Deadline: March 5)
In partnership with state, tribal, and federal agency partners, the Obama Administration has released the first draft national strategy to help decision makers and resource managers prepare for and help reduce the impacts of climate change on species, ecosystems, and the people and economies that depend on them. The strategy represents a draft framework for unified action to safeguard fish, wildlife and plants, as well as the important benefits and services the natural world provides the nation every day, including jobs, food, clean water and air, storm protection, and recreation. The draft National Fish, Wildlife and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy is available for public review and comment through March 5, 2012, at the web site www.wildlifeadaptationstrategy.gov. The site provides information on submitting comments, and the dates/locations of five public information sessions and two webinars designed to provide details and encourage dialogue on the strategy and its development. To register for these meetings and for more information on the public comment process, visit http://www.wildlifeadaptationstrategy.gov/public-comments.php
Find out about wetland outreach activities including symposiums, conferences, meetings, educational opportunities, volunteer opportunities, and related support material at the Louisiana Unified Coastal Community Calendar at http://lacoast.gov/calendar/
Venise Ortego, Environmental Education Coordinator, 337-948-0255, firstname.lastname@example.com
Juliet Raffray, Environmental Education Assistant Coordinator, 225-765-0124, firstname.lastname@example.com
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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Making Meaning in Literature:
A Video Library, Grades 6-8
Individual Clip Descriptions
1. Introducing the Envisionment-Building Classroom
2. Building a Literary Community
3. Asking Questions
4. Facilitating Discussion
5. Seminar Discussion
6. Dramatic Tableaux
7. Readers as Individuals
8. The Teachers Role in a Literary Community
9. Whole Group Discussions
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am excited. The kids are excited. I see what they've done
and what they can do. I think it's important that we expect
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am excited. The kids are excited. I see what they've done
and what they can do. I think it's important that we expect
the best from these kids
and that [our] expectations
are high because they can do it."
Flora Tyler
Picacho Middle School
Las Cruces, New Mexico
Tyler says her classroom design is strongly influenced by
the reading and writing workshop model described by Nanci
Atwell in her first edition of In the Middle: Writing,
Reading, and Learning With Adolescents (1987). The theory
underpinning this model centers on the importance of students
learning to make informed choices about what they read and
what they write, and taking charge for both the planning and
execution of their work in both areas. The role of the teacher
is to suggest, guide, offer individual instruction through
targeted mini-lessons, and keep track of student performances
and progress. In addition, the teacher ensures that students
have adequate time for silent, independent reading; reading
is the central activity of the literature program.
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a reading workshop may seem disorderly to outsiders, clear
rules govern its operation. Typically the period begins with
a mini-lesson. After that, students must read (a book
no magazines or comics are allowed) for the entire period
(they cannot do homework or work for other classes). They
must have a book and be ready to read when the bell rings,
and they may not disturb others. In addition, they are expected
to offer written responses to their reading, either to the
teacher or to other students.
Ms. Tyler's class, we see a teacher working with 20 students
who come to class with a wide range of educational experiences
as well as diverse abilities. Students are taught how to locate,
choose and read texts appropriate to their reading levels
and areas of interest independetly. They then learn ways to
share share those readings with others. Clearly, the organizational
structures and their skillful implementation
in such workshops provide the glue that holds the classroom
together. Students have to be clear about their short- and
long-term obligations and be willing to accept individual
responsibility for meeting them. Teachers have to come to
such workshops with a wide range of knowledge about both young
adult literature and adolescent psychology. In addition, such
workshop settings demand that both teachers and students are
tolerant and accepting of occasional deadends as well as an
atmosphere of creative commotion.
the online and print materials connected with this video will
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by viewers that within the classroom, reading and writing
are integrated, and that the instruction in each workshop
is grounded in the same theory.
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Greenpeace activists cross an canal in PT. Graha Inti Jaya Manusup palm oil plantation during the tiger tour in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Greenpeace is calling on Indonesian citizens to be part of the 'Tigers Eye Community.'ù To protect the Indonesian forest from destruction. Greenpeace is urging the government to take immediate action to protect the habitat by expanding moratorium areas, evaluate existing permits and implement full peatland forest protection.
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We offer information about public transportation to the public and to policy makers; we help coordinate resource and information sharing for our members; and we contract with government agencies to administer and develop transportation services throughout the state.
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Read 'The Bachelorette' Andi Dorfman's Letter From Nick Viallby Maggie Malach | PopCrush
Last night (July 28), fans of 'The Bachelorette' watched as Andi Dorfman broke up with Nick Viall and became engaged to Josh Murray. After an intense season of dating Andi, Nick was understandably taken aback when she abruptly ended their relationship.
During 'The Bachelorette' finale, host Chris Harrison revealed Nick made numerous attempts to contact Andi, including writing her a letter. Although the contents of the letter were not broadcast during the show, 'The Bachelorette' Facebook page posted the message this morning. We've posted some highlights from the letter below.
The emotional letter begins:
You lit me up. You made me feel those things that people go a lifetime to find, and I feel like I made you feel the same. I truly hoped we would have made it into the real world, where there would be no arbitrary dead-line, where those stresses that came with that environment would have melted away, where we could have had the goofy, fun, exciting relationship that I know we could have. What we had was real to me, and it was amazing.
He describes their relationship as a "road less traveled" and recounts the moment she ended things with him. However, he believes that although their connection was filled with "passion" and "intensity," it was a risk worth taking.
A lot of things about us scared me. I really didn't know if we would make it, but I was willing to put it all on the line for us because I truly believed the connection we had was incredibly unique and special. To me, if there is no risk of being totally crushed and heartbroken then there is no way it can be great.
Nick concludes the letter by signaling that he is ready to find closure. He wishes Andi happiness, while reminding her that, to him, their relationship was worth risking heartbreak.
If I have to move on, I will look to find amazing with someone else know that some day I will. I just know I would much rather turn my life upside down and risk it all to have amazing with you.
The letter definitely brings a new perspective to Andi and Nick's relationship. During last night's tension-filled finale, Nick was clearly overcome with emotion, and this letter clarifies the message he wanted to give to Andi.
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Rapper Soulja Boy's friends and family could soon be kissing him through the phone -- while he sits in prison.
The chart-topping MC was cuffed in Atlanta Wednesday at an abandoned house where he and friends were shooting a music video, authorities said Friday.
Cops arrived at the house to check on numerous complaints, causing about half of the 40 people inside the house to flee. A man identified as DeAndre Cortez Way -- Soulja Boy's real name -- returned to the house soon after and told officers he and the group were shooting a video, cops said.
The "Kiss Me Thru the Phone" star was charged with obstruction of justice and released from the Henry County, Ga., jail on bond early Thursday, police said.
Way is also the artist behind hits like "Crank That (Soulja Boy)," the rap blockbuster that started the Soulja Boy "superman" dance craze.
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Maine schools say proposed budget will cost property taxpayers $27 M
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) � Maine school districts say Gov. Paul LePage's proposed budget for the next two years will result in a $27 million tax shift to local property owners.
The Maine School Management Association says the budget cuts nearly $13 million through LePage's curtailment order, and also seeks to require school districts to contribute $14 million in teacher retirement costs.
The nonprofit group says the shift is compounded by proposed cuts in municipal revenue sharing of close to $200 million by suspending revenue sharing for two years.
LePage says these are challenging times and he must make sure the budget is balanced. LePage said state government must tighten its belt and local government must do the same.


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Council agrees on $350,000 for Maungatautari
Environment Waikato's council today agreed to commit $350,000 to the Maungatautari Ecological Island Trust this year.
Environment Waikato's council today agreed to commit $350,000 to the Maungatautari Ecological Island Trust this year.
Environment Waikato's council has today accepted the recommendation of a hearings committee to publicly notify the proposed Variation 6 policy change covering the way water is used in the region.
Environment Waikato today presented a $27,000 cheque to Waitomo District Council so Te Kuiti people on low incomes can benefit from government funding aimed at helping people insulate their homes and convert to cleaner forms of heating.
Environment Waikato's council is due to decide next week whether to accept the recommendation of a hearings committee that has been looking at the proposed Variation 6 policy change covering the way water is taken and used in the region.
Environment Waikato's finance and audit committee has recommended the council commits $400,000 to the Maungatautari Ecological Island Trust this year to help keep the visionary project alive.
The environmental impacts of an acid spill that occurred in Morrinsville yesterday appear to be minor, Environment Waikato says.
New Sunday bus services in Hamilton are continuing to prove their popularity in the weeks following their launch on 28 September.
Environment Waikato's regional pest management strategy appeals hearing committee has confirmed that feral pigs and deer will not be called "pests", but that they will still be controlled if found to be damaging important ecological areas.
Environment Waikato says there has been minimal environmental impact from a glue spill that occurred after a truck crashed on SH39 near Ngahinapouri, south west of Hamilton, today.
Joint media release
Boosting farm profits, improving nutrient efficiency and creating a sustainable dairying operation are the focuses of upcoming effluent management field days for Waikato farmers.
Up to 60,000 possums are estimated to have been killed in a highly successful pest control operation carried out on behalf of Environment Waikato in the Waimai Valley area, north of Raglan.
About 40,000 older people in the Waikato are eligible for free travel on off-peak public transport services in the region from today, including on buses in places such as Hamilton and Taupo.


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If not for a podcast of four lesser-known comedians, the world probably would have never heard about the absurd Keystone Coppery that went down during a recent football Sunday at the Sports Guy's manse. Follow along with the audio, courtesy Megaboom.
Now, according to Simmons, some of this tale was embellished by these yarn-spinners, but, yes, the cops did arrive because his neighbor saw Dicky Barrett of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones entering through the back portion of the Simmons household. The neighbor, who thought Sport Guy, Gal, and Brood were all away, called the police because the menacing-looking gentlemen seemed up to no good. The cops showed up, armed and ready to take out the would-be intruder in a tony residential area of LA.
Simmons begrudgingly responded via email:
The cops arrived and found four people watching football and eating bagels. Two were in socks.
The Sports Guy's World is slowly morphing into Larry David's.
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Franco Gozzi, a protagonist in Ferrari's history
Franco Gozzi, who was part of the history of the Prancing Horse, passed away today in Modena, aged 81.
"We have lost a key figure in the history of Ferrari," said President Luca di Montezemolo. "My most abiding memory is of all the hours we spent together, talking about drivers and cars and I am grateful for the fact he was close to me when I was a young sporting director at the Scuderia."
It is hard to sum up in a single word what Franco was to the company: sporting director, press officer, head of communications and above all, one of the closest advisers and confidants to Enzo Ferrari. He was not just a witness to events and quite how much of an active part he played in the life of the Maranello marque can be understood from looking at photo albums from the past in which, over a period of around thirty years, he appears alongside the Founder: he was his spokesman and sometimes the purveyor of his silences.
Those who knew him well and shared outstanding moments with him as well as daily life in the company, recall his humanity, and his sense of irony, while those who met him during the final chapter of his life at Maranello recall his great ability to put across through apparently innocuous anecdotes, the values that have made Ferrari a legend around the world.


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I diverge briefly from my normal posts about marketing with this post because I caught wind of a new book by Dani Shapiro called Devotion that seems to touch an important topic for many people. The book outlines a woman's search for spiritual clarity (author's note – I have not read the book – but it's going on the list :)). In an interview on The Today Show the author comments that she was brought up in the Orthodox tradition which she "abandoned" when she reached adulthood and replaced with "nothing". She explained how in her mind, Jewish religious practice was an all or nothing proposition. Most sensitively she described that her search was motivated by a desire to answer her children's questions about spirituality with answers that demonstrated depth of thought. This book emerged out of her recognition that she wanted to fill the spiritual gap for herself and for her family.
I feel a kinship with her, similarity in name aside, but because I too was brought up Orthodox. Not just Orthodox mind you, but I was raised in a Hasidic Rabbinic family – the ultra right wing of the Jewish spectrum. Yet, unlike Dani, I did not abandon my upbringing even as I pursued a wonderful career in technology marketing. I was fortunate that my family, the Hasidic Rabbis from Europe, were trained to be spiritual masters so that under their tutelage I was trained to understand the fundamental principles of being spiritual.
They taught me their legacy of "spiritual expectations" (note I don't say beliefs) that transcended any religion or religious practice so that I could construct a functional model for the spiritual seeking soul. These expectations frame the spiritual seeker's quest to an actionable set of principles which apply no matter what religion (or lack thereof) you were raised in. While these ideas represent my interpretation of these spiritual concepts – it is inspired by the lessons I was fortunate enough to have been taught by them. I pay homage to their wisdom as I share this list with you.
1) There has to be a conscious choice to be a spiritually sensitive being. It can not be assumed that this is a goal everyone strives for. It is not. Do not assume that because you are seeking spiritual vigor – everyone shares your enthusiasm.
2) Rituals are the physical training ground for the spirit. There's a wonderful Hebrew phrase: "Mi-toch lo' lishma ya'voh lishmah" – translated to mean roughly, "From non devotion comes devotion." In other words, the rituals won't always evoke an "ohh" spiritual glow, but over time they do. When I first started to light candles on Friday night nearly 30 years ago to mark the beginning of the Shabbath, (you start lighting candles when you get married), it didn't seem to make much of a difference. Now, though when I light my Sabbath candles, the atmosphere of the room is noticeably changed. Once the ritual becomes part of your being; that frees energy to fully exploit the value of the ritual. There's no more wasted energy worrying about "when" or "how" to spiritually train – that was all taken care of once you accepted the sanctity of the ritual. Without the impetus of religious sanctity – sticking with any ritual practice that is substantive enough to deliver the spiritual goods is really really really hard.
3) Accept that to be a spiritual being requires an investment of time. There's no shortcut. The rituals of the ultra religious of all traditions are designed for success because they eliminated the hassle of figuring out the nitty gritty details of how to be spiritual, letting the focus be on the spiritual work. By contrast, how successful would anyone be creating their own rituals and then sticking to it? There are more bad jokes about the futility of keeping New Year's resolution than I need to make my point.
4) There is no such thing as "sin" with the moral sting we all associate with that word. The Hebrew word "Het" means more like, "Oops, missed that time – try again". In my world, when you committed a "sin", you were "reproached" for it much in the same way one might speak to a young child who, when they are first learning to catch a ball, misses. "Oops – not quite – try again." No guilt. No shame. Just an expectation that you could do better.
5) Spirituality is not something you are but something you do. Spirituality can not be thought of as a cloak we don at certain times and then discard when it is inconvenient. It is reflective in how we act – all the time. For instance, I must light my candles every Friday at precisely the proper time no matter what. If I miss it – I can not light later in the evening because there's no "do-over". Being spiritual means that if I feel that my ability to light the candles on time is in jeopardy, I will re-organize my entire day to ensure I can fulfill this ritual on time.
6) Often, people confuse being a "good or moral person" with being spiritual. They are not the same thing. Morality is often culturally based and evolving – slavery being a good example, whereas spirituality transcends cultural influences. The work of spiritual masters from 3,000 years is as relevant today as they were in their day.
7) I do not "expect" that there is a God (breathe everyone). Here's what I know for sure. There is the world of the "known"; the world we can measure, touch and analyze. Then there is the world of "kaddosh"; usually translated to mean sacred or holy, but actually meaning "other" or separate – the world of the "unknown". This "unknown" state is often referred to as God.
8) Everything in the universe changes including the world of the "Kaddosh", the "unknown" and the world of the known. In fact, the world of the unknown is quickly flowing towards the world of the known so that soon these two worlds will emerge into one. That is the spiritual singularity – when there is no more "unknown" a.k.a. God. When might this singularity happen? Who knows, but often people think the time of the Messiah is that singularity moment. I'm not so sure but here's an interesting little tidbit. According to mystical Jewish philosophy, the world will "evolve" into another form of existence by the year 6000. We are currently in the year 5770 of the Jewish calendar, so that gives us about 200 years until the next cycle. That plunks us right into the time of Star Trek. I like the synchronicity of that because that fictional show gives us a glimpse of how different our understanding of life will be in 200 years. Perhaps in 200 years our spirit, mind and body will be better aligned and free to evolve …
These Hasidic masters understood spiritual power and mastery. It is my legacy from them which I share with you so you can create the spiritual house that best suits you.
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Cartesian equation:
(x2 + 2+12ax + 9a2)2 = 4a(2x + 3a)3
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x = a(2cos(t) + cos(2t)), y = a(2sin(t) - sin(2t))
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The length of the tangent to the tricuspoid, measured between the two points P, Q in which it cuts the curve again is constant and equal to 4a. If you draw tangents at P and Q they are at right angles.
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"The Voice" got its top 12 at the end of a special one-hour live show Thursday, and as the results showed, boy, is it a man's world.
But before whittling the show's final 20 contestants down to just 12, all of them had to sing for their chance to stick around.
Team Blake kicked off the night with an energetic take on the classic rock standard "Free Ride." The show's two bearded, gravelly-voiced men, Austin Jenckes and Cole Vosbury, jammed on guitar. Nic Hawk and Ray Vosbury, flanking Shelbie Z., traded funky and bluesy vocals, while Shelbie added her own twang.
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But afterward, things got serious. Austin and Cole both were announced, to their relief, to have garnered enough votes to stay in the competition. That left Blake, fresh off the CMA Awards Wednesday night, with the tall task of deciding which one would join them, and which two would go home.
"I hate this part of the show," he admitted, but he said he had to go with his gut and chose Ray to remain on his team.
That meant it was the end of the road for Shelbie, Team Blake's lone lady, and Nic, who said he was just grateful Blake had given him a chance at all when he stole him from Team Adam.
Next came Team CeeLo, performing a '70s rock tune of their own, a languorous rendition of the Supertramp hit "Give a Little Bit" — with Jonny Gray warbling, Kat Robichaud hamming it up in red hot pants, Tamara Chauniece going gospel and Caroline Pennell and Amber Nicole dancing happily.
But the eliminations were another story, as the team's youngest two members — Amber Nicole and Caroline — mouthed "I love you" to each other nervously.
Caroline, with her pixie-like voice and ingenue charm, was first to breathe a sigh of relief when Carson called her name. Next came Jonny, the team's lone male member.
"I love you all equally," CeeLo told the unlucky remaining three. But after dispensing some sage CeeLo advice, he picked glam-rocker Kat to stick around, which meant Tamara and Amber Nicole were leaving.
Next, Team Christina took to the stage, covering not a classic rock song but a Maroon 5 song, "Love Somebody." The five unique singers pranced around the stage as they belted and crooned their lines, and the song's dad Adam seemed to enjoy it.
Then, with Jacquie Lee seeming to be laughing and crying at the same time and with Stephanie Anne Johnson giggling nervously, it was time for eliminations.
Jacquie, the competition's youngest singer, was the first to be saved, followed by Matthew Schuler — both of whom had turned in perhaps the team's strongest performances Tuesday night.
That left Christina with a tough decision and what turned out to be a very long, very rambling speech to make.
"I've really gotten to know each one of you, what makes you tick, what you guys like, what makes you fired up," she said. "I care very much about each one of you."
Finally, however, she chose Josh to stay. That meant Stephanie Anne and Olivia Henken were heading home.
Team Adam closed out the night with a performance of the Capital Cities hit "Safe & Sound," its members — especially Preston Pohl and Tessanne Chin — hitting upon vocal chemistry in their call-and-response lines.
The first member of Team Adam to be deemed safe was one of its most unassuming — but also the member who got perhaps the most over-the-top praise from the coaches Monday night: College dropout and self-professed geek James Wolpert, who looked shell-shocked as he got the news.
Jamaican diva-without-the-ego Tessanne Chin's name was called next, and when it was, she covered her face in her hands and wept.
Adam seemed to waver as he considered whom to pick to keep on his team, but when he finally settled on his pick — warning it might be "surprising" — it was Will Champlin, the singer he'd cut from his team only to steal back from a rival. Preston and Grey, then, were heading home.
And with that, season five of "The Voice" got its final 12 contestants — and eight of them were men, in a sharp reversal from last season.
"The Voice" live shows continue next week with more performances, and more eliminations.
"The Voice" aires Mondays at 8/7c and Tuesdays at 9/8c on NBC.


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UA teen hospitalized for alcohol poisoning
A 19-year-old student at the University of Arkansas was taken to the hospital after drinking at a fraternity function
Police say a 19-year-old student at the University of Arkansas was hospitalized for alcohol poisoning on Saturday. Campus police say it was members of Sigma Phi Epsilon who drove the student to Washington Regional Medical Center.
Now, Greek activities have been put on hold, and campus police say they're just waiting for the go ahead to launch an investigation.
Lt. Gary Crain, of the UAPD, said no charges have been filed because the students' health is the main concern. He says the only reason university police know about the incident is because they were tipped off by one of the emergency room workers.
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"No one has filed a complaint with us. We've just gathered some information preliminarily. We don't have a case investigation yet, but we think that might be perhaps forthcoming sometime this week," Crain said on Sunday
He said they deal with alcohol-related crimes on a weekly basis, but Crain hopes this incident will remind students that alcohol can be very dangerous.
"Too much alcohol can be deadly, and short of death it can cause other major problems and really disrupt a persons' health," Crain said.
40/29 News also spoke with UA Media Relations Manager Steve Voories, who says he believes an investigation will be launched, and it could happen as early as Monday.
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We are always impressed with the creativity of Chicago business owners. This one does not disappoint.
Kuma's Corner, 2900 W. Belmont, is jumping on the Blagojevich train, as if you needed another reason to head to the eatery this month.
Their January special is the "#@(*&%^ Blagojevich."
The gubernatorial-inspired monstrosity is made with a 10-ounce hamburger patty, thick sliced bologna and yellow mustard between two grilled cheese sandwiches (made with American cheese and wonder bread).
When the burger comes out, one of the sandwiches has a large dollar sign written in mustard.
The cost of this beast: $10, but the price is reportedly "negotiable."


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Actor William Campbell died on April 29, 2011 at the Motion Picture Home in Woodland Hills, California. He was 84. Campbell was born October 30, 1926 in Newark, New Jersey. He attended Fagin's School for Drama and debuted in the 1950 film "The Breaking Point". He would go on to appear in over 80 films and TV appearances and several genre roles, including the roles of Koloth in the 'Star Trek' and 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine' episodes TheTrouble withTribbles and Blood Oath. He also appeared in the original series as Treane in The Squire of Gothos". Campbell also appeared in such films as "The High and the Mighty" (1954), "Battle Cry" and "Man Without a Star" both 1955. He sang with Elvis Presley in "Love Me Tender" (1956). On TV he appeared in the movie The Return of the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman and in an episode of the television series Shazam! and The Wild, Wild West.
CAMPBELL, William (William J. Campbell)
Born: 10/30/1926, Newark, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Died: 4/29/2011, Woodland Hills, California, U.S.A.
William Campbell's westerns - actor.
Escape from Fort Bravo - 1953 (Cabot Young)
Man without a Star - 1955 (Jeff Jimson)
Backlash - 1956 (Johnny Cool)
Love Me Tender - 1956 (Brett Reno)The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw - 1958 (Keeno)
Money, Women, and Guns - 1958 (Clinton 'Clint' Gunston)
Tales of Wells Fargo (TV) - 1960 (Crail)
Natchez Trace - 1960 (Virgil Stewart)Stagecoach West (TV) - 1961 (Cole Eldridge)
Gunsmoke (TV) - 1962, 1965, 1975 (Luke, Striker)Wild Wild West (TV) - 1966 (Sgt. Bender)
Dundee and the Culhane (TV) - 1967 (Hobbs)
Bonanza (TV) - 1968 (Wilburn White)Heck Ramsey (TV) - 1974 (Vince Alexander)


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UPDATE: 4:04 a.m. November 3, 2011
Nearly 70 Harvard student protesters walked out of Economics 10 on Wednesday afternoon, expressing dissatisfaction with what they perceive to be an overly conservative bias in the course.
The walkout was meant to be a show of support for the "Occupy" movement's principal criticism that conservative economic policies have increased income inequality in the United States.
"Today, we are walking out of your class, Economics 10, in order to express our discontent with the bias inherent in this introductory economics course. We are deeply concerned about the way that this bias affects students, the University, and our greater society," read a statement issued by the organizers.
Economics 10—more commonly referred to as "Ec 10"—is taught by professor N. Gregory Mankiw, and has the highest enrollment of any course at the College, boasting over 700 enrollees.
Mankiw, who was aware that student would be staging the walkout, began lecture by announcing his office hours.
"I was going to announce this at the end, but I have a feeling people might leave a little early," he said.
At 12:15 p.m. students stood up en masse and walked out of Sanders Theatre, where Ec 10 lectures are held. Some students carried signs, but most left carrying just their backpacks. As the demonstrators marched out of Sanders Theatre, a small crowd booed them in support of Mankiw. Most students remained in their seats
After walking out, the group gathered in the hallway outside of the theater, standing in a circle and speaking out about the event.
"Harvard graduates have been complicit [and] have aided many of the worst injustices of recent years. Today we fight that history," said Rachel J. Sandalow-Ash '15, one of the students who organized the walkout. "Harvard students will not do that anymore. We will use our education for good, and not for personal gain at the expense of millions."
Gabriel H. Bayard '15, another organizer of the walk out, said that he believes the course is emblematic of the economic policies that have led the financial crisis.
"Ec 10 is a symbol of the larger economic ideology that created the 2008 collapse. Professor Mankiw worked in the Bush administration, and he clearly has a conservative ideology," Bayard said. "His conservative views are the kind that created the collapse of 2008. This easy money focus on enriching the wealthiest Americans—he really operates with that ideology."
Mankiw served as the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers during the second Bush Administration and is currently an adviser to former Mass. Governor Mitt Romney's presidential campaign. Mankiw declined to comment for this article.
Sandalow-Ash '15 said that the course too heavily asserts conservative economic claims as fact.
"It's a class that's very indoctrinating, and does not encourage diversity of views. Economic questions are not always clear-cut. Multiple views should be presented in this course," Sandalow-Ash said.
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Engineering Better Meat (Feb, 1949)
Yum! Nothing makes food sound more appealing than auto industry terminology. I can't wait to get my hands on some of that new-model 1950 beef. My mouth is watering just thinknig about it's square streamlining and shorter wheel base!
Engineering Better Meat
Nature needs help as a hungry world calls for food. "Blueprints" drawn up by animal engineers promise to give us more meals from each animal
PLANS for the 1950-model beef critter already are on the drawing boards of the nation's animal engineers—and never did you see such a streamlined creation!
Built with square lines, low to the ground and with shorter "wheelbase," this advanced model will carry more T-bones and tenderloins for its weight than any animal yet to appear on American ranges.
The animal engineers have other new designs on the drafting board for release soon — specifications for ultra-efficient pigs, sheep, chickens and turkeys. Here are some of the new models:
An air-conditioned cow for hot climates.
Beautified sheep, without ugly neck wrinkles and dental defects.
Streamlined hogs with more pork chops, fewer spareribs.
Hens that lay firmer, better, poaching eggs— and more plentifully.
"Early bird" turkeys that beat the season to be ready for the roaster before Thanksgiving.
Home-grown sheep clothed in valuable Karakul coats.
And if 1950's steaks are juicier and more tender, you can thank such inventive geniuses as those who invented a mechanical chewing device to set new standards for meat quality. Don't laugh—a scientist has to be exact—and two government research men, testing meat in a project aimed at improving beef quality, needed an accurate way of rating the tenderness of steaks and roasts.
Their first effort was a set of jaws with teeth to imitate actual chewing. This didn't work too well, so they evolved a mechanical "biter" which cuts out a circular core sample much as a cook cores an apple. This tidbit of meat is put into a triangular hole in a large steel blade. A motor, pulling against a strong spring, draws the blade through the sample, just as a carpenter pulls a saw through a piece of wood in a miter box. As the meat is sheared in two, its tenderness is read on a scale.
Tender steaks are only one of the things the animal engineers are demanding of the improved beef critter. They also expect top performance—sturdy animals that are healthy, fast-growing and don't eat their heads off. By sea and air, animals from many parts of the world are being brought to U. S. laboratories so their good qualities can be drafted for American agriculture. For instance, there's the air-conditioned cow. Two years ago a ship docked at an eastern port, bringing two young bulls and two heifers on the last lap of a 12,000-mile sea-and-air journey from India. Government scientists, combing the earth's dairy population, had selected these animals for their ability to withstand hot weather.
Cows have no sweat glands—they keep cool by breathing hard and evaporating moisture from their lungs. In humid summers of the southern states, ordinary cows such as Guernseys and Jerseys pant listlessly and milk production falls off as much as 40 percent. But the Indian cows have loose skins with more cooling surface and their thick, hairy hides are good insulators. Their weakness is stingy milk production— only about 2000 pounds of milk yearly compared with a U. S. average of 4500 pounds.
Now the animal designers are well along toward combining the good qualities of the two types to get an air-conditioned cow that faces southern summers without a murmur, yet yields milk plentifully. It can mean new prosperity to southern farmers.
Another "model" is being air-conditioned by crossing the Aberdeen Angus cow with the Afrikander, which is similar to the humpbacked zebu and whose tropical ancestry promises to assure hot-weather efficiency.
Face lifting for sheep is a typical job by which the animal designers want to correct nature's mistakes, paving the way for production-line efficiency. Not that they are worried particularly about Mrs. Sheep's glamour—they want to do away with skin wrinkles that make shearing difficult and lower the value of the fleece. Too much wool about the eyes nearly blinds some sheep, so they can't even follow the leader—thus a relatively barefaced sheep is worth more. Occasionally, too, sheep have overshot jaws so that the front teeth don't meet, making chewing so difficult that the animal actually is underfed. These defects are avoided by not using such animals in breeding flocks. Research men at the Western Sheep Breeding Laboratory in Idaho already have cut down skin wrinkling of Ram-bouillet sheep and many lambs raised there are born free of the troublesome skin folds.
The animal engineer uses three main tools: (1) "selection," or picking out superior animals to be the parents of the next generation; (2) "inbreeding," or mating members of the same animal family together, so as to reveal hereditary weaknesses and to concentrate strong points; and (3) "crossbreeding," or combining the desirable qualities of different breeds.
When the model animal begins to measure up to specifications, it is ready for "mass production." The new model is put on loan for breeding purposes. Universities and state farms cooperate in introducing it.
Step into the Department of Agriculture's 12,000-acre experimental farm at Beltsville, Md., and you can preview some of these remarkable creations, soon to be readied for the production line. Animal experts will point out husky young steers in the laboratory's Shorthorn herd that have grown 14 percent fatter than average and have reached market weight six weeks sooner. The latest-model milch goat produces milk for a period 145 percent longer than did her ancestors. The streamlined Holstein cow, which in 1918 was yielding 678 pounds of butterfat a year, has been improved so that today's model averages 814 pounds, a 20-percent improvement.
The animal designers will show you how they made hens lay nearly 50 more eggs each year. They'll explain their plans for building up the flocks of the Karakul sheep in this country to make possible the production of Persian lambskin.
This year enough of such blueprinted knowledge will move out of the laboratory to the nation's farms to save thousands of dollars' worth of grain. For instance, a hog ready for market means an investment of 1/2 ton of feed—and with corn prices at a high level, every pound counts. The highly efficient, 1949-model pig is lower to the ground, heavier in the loin and eats far less for its weight than older models. Here are the latest specifications:
Legs short, body not too long, bones small; weight medium, preferably about 200 to 225 pounds; an even layer of fat along the back, 1-1/2 to 1-3/4 inches thick; and at least half the weight to be made up of ham, loin, bacon, butt and picnic shoulder.
Right now, only about one in fifty U. S. hogs reaches these ideal proportions—but the scientists are beginning to get uniformity among the experimental-farm animals now undergoing the streamlining process. These ultra-efficient porkers give fewer spareribs and pigs' knuckles, but more bacon and ham for the amount of feed consumed. Recently, "performance tests" showed the new-model pigs at the age of six months weigh 100 pounds more per litter than their common cousins, yet ate no more feed.
By juggling the laws of heredity, the animal engineers can speed up nature's slow processes a little, but many of the new designs are the result of experiments started long ago. For instance, while Germany was just beginning to cave in under Allied attacks, U. S. experts foresaw that Europe faced postwar famine unless her farm-animal population could be quickly rebuilt.
One of the quickest sources of meat is poultry. In the breeding pens at the government's Beltsville research center, experimenters were working to design a small, efficient turkey that would grow fast on an economical diet and would lay more eggs, with few that failed to hatch. They had already culled out inefficient, stingy layers in a new breed of turkeys. Just before V-J Day, they put a trial shipment of eggs from the "Beltsville Small White" flock on a plane bound for Europe.
Good heredity proved out, for 87.5 percent of the eggs hatched. The new design laid the foundation for a "high speed" turkey to help restock Europe's farms.
A small turkey recently designed by animal engineers is slanted for the U. S. market. Juggling the seasons, they have persuaded Madame Turkey to lay more eggs and to start laying them sooner. This is a long step toward better turkeys for Thanksgiving dinners, more fresh turkey meat throughout the year.
The animal engineers now are copying the revolutionary process that transformed yesterday's tall, top-heavy automobile into a long, low car with built-in running boards and smoothly streamlined body. Tall, long-legged steers mean more soupbones, when Americans want more T-bones. Farmers can profit by turning out a beef critter with shorter legs and a heavier build. Standardized animals mean fewer scrawny, cull cattle that are expensive boarders for the farmer, yet bring third-rate prices and yield tough, stringy steaks.
"No use feeding scrub animals!" the modern farmer says, for at today's feed prices, it doesn't pay to feed runts. By gradually breeding out the inefficient animals and replacing them with tomorrow's standard, up-to-date models, the nation's biggest industry is boosting its output to create more food for all. That's why tomorrow's farmer would no more want to turn out a runty, rawboned pig or a scrawny, thin-wooled sheep than a Detroit motor manufacturer would let an automobile leave his production line minus radiator grille or steering wheel.


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Quote from: RamJam on Apr 25, 2013, 05:53 pm(...)Think of it like an open source software project except here the software will be gerber files, CNC milling files, dimension measurements and legible building instructions,(...)FYI, that is called OSH = OpenSource Hardware.
(...)Think of it like an open source software project except here the software will be gerber files, CNC milling files, dimension measurements and legible building instructions,(...)
I think this is a neat project and actually fits with something I've been working on. I look forward to reading more about it.
Each LED is independantly controled to do pretty much anything you wish them to do. Such as flicker like a candle, flicker like a guttering lamp, flash, fade in and out, be of a particular colour, and have variation in brightness. Or have it set as colour temperature adjustable, so that it only puts out light where the spectrum is weakest.So, depending on your requirements you need to choose what sketch is to be downloaded to the candle.Now, I can think of dozens of permutations, applications and uses that this candle could be put to. However, I don't want to have to keep redesigning brand new enclosures every time a new upgrade comes along. And I want it to be backward compatible with the battery box, and other modules.
Something like this lets you connect 2 x pieces of 20mm pipe: http://www.masters.com.au/product/900004879/coupling-pvc-20mmMake those pieces of PVC pipe small enough and it's just going to extend.There's an end cap for one end and then you just need the final piece for output.Extendable, modular and more importantly for prototypes: darn cheap.


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Cruz off to another hot start
ARLINGTON -- Nelson Cruz entered Sunday night's game leading the Rangers with a .500 batting average, 10 hits and four RBIs in the first five games. He briefly moved down in the lineup, hitting seventh Saturday, but homered in the ninth inning and found himself hitting sixth again Sunday.
"It's always nice to see Cruz swing the bat because he's such a big part of my lineup," manager Ron Washington said. "He's one of the guys that we're going to depend on to drive in the runs. It's nice that he's feeling pretty good about himself and he's going there and showing it."
Cruz spent much of Spring Training playing in the World Baseball Classic for the gold-medal winning Dominican Republic team. He hit .324 (10-for-33) in eight WBC games and said upon his return to the Rangers that he expected the experience to help him at the plate early in the season, as it did when he played for his home country in 2009. That year, he hit three home runs in the Rangers' first five games.
Cruz also started the season on a hot streak in 2010 and 2011, homering four times in the first five games each season.


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If you liked A Tale for the Time Being, check out these books also set in Japan:
- If You Follow Me
Hoping to outpace her grief in the wake of her father's suicide, Marina has come to the small, rural Japanese town of Shika to teach English for a year. But in Japan, as she soon discovers, you can never really throw away your past...or anything else, for that matter.
- The Teahouse Fire
The story of two women whose lives intersect in late-nineteenth-century Japan, The Teahouse Fire is also a portrait of one of the most fascinating places and times in all of history-Japan as it opens its doors to the West.
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II.


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The Australian Foreign Editor Greg Sheridan offers the most believable background on this development. Greg has contacts in the militaries of both AUS and US. You have to read the whole thing to get the picture.
(…) This week, The Australian spoke to several senior officials and former officials of different nationalities who have served in Pakistan. All regard it as inconceivable that bin Laden could have been there, unknown to the Pakistanis. As one senior former Indian official said: "It is impossible to live for one day in any cantonment area of a Pakistani military city without the knowledge of the military itself, much less for years at a time."
In the analytical community, everyone now privately accepts that bin Laden must have had the support of senior figures in Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence and among other Pakistani intelligence agencies.
The Pakistani military chief, General Ashfaq Kayani, was head of the ISI for three years. It is inconceivable that, in such a sensitive matter, anything was done without his knowledge.
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The herb Artemisia annua, or sweet wormwood, has been used in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and has treated fevers for over 2000 years. In the 1960s the Chinese government began trying to isolate active ingredients in traditional remedies which might be useful for treating malaria. In 1972 artemisinin, or qinghaosu in Chinese, was isolated from Artemisia annua by Chinese scientists. It was effective against strains of malaria which were resistant to other drugs.
Suspicion and political conflicts meant scientists outside China only began systematically investigating artemisinin in the 1980s. By the late 1990s the World Health Organization was systematically using artemisinin in its malaria programme.
Artemisinin is now combined with other antimalarial drugs to stop new resistant strains of malaria developing. It is expensive to extract from Artemisia annua, so researchers are focusing on synthetically producing the compound. Charities are also giving the plant to communities affected by malaria so they can produce their own remedies.
DL Klayman, 'Qinghaosu (artemisinin): an antimalarial drug from China', Science, 228/4703 (1985), pp 1049-1055
C Wright (ed.) Artemisia (New York: Taylor & Francis, 2002)
Parasitic disease transmitted by certain kinds of mosquito. Malaria is characterized by fever and enlargement of the spleen. Each year, there are approximately 515 million cases of malaria, killing between one and three million people.
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The other day I was at the grocery purchasing ingredients for soon-to-be frozen meals, in full nesting mode, when I smelled the most heavenly aroma. I turned around and there they were: peaches. Beautiful orange, yellow, and rose-colored orbs of juicy deliciousness. How I love summer! After smelling the seemingly sinful pile of peaches, I could not resist a bagful. Chad and I ate several of the peaches, but we resisted devouring the whole bag so that we could put away a peach crumble for a post-partum treat. Where did this will power come from? One side note: I usually make my crumble topping with oatmeal, but I must have tossed the can of oatmeal I had in the pantry during my insane nesting/cleaning out the pantry fit, so I used nilla wafers instead. I know, I know, you're thinking: you had nilla wafers in your pantry but you tossed the oatmeal? Well, I'm sure no one ever said a 40-weeks pregnant women was a rational being.
Peach Crumble
serves four
5 ripe peaches
2 T sugar
1/4 c brown sugar
2 T flour
for the crumble:
3/4 c flour
1/2 c sugar
1/4 c brown sugar
1/4 t salt
1/2 c nilla wafers, smashed to smithereens
1 stick butter, cold and diced
Boil a pot of water and immerse the peaches in the water for about 30 seconds. Pull the peaches from the water, rinse with cold water until cool enough to handle, and peel the peaches. Slice the peaches into thick chunks and combine in a bowl with the sugar, brown sugar, and flour. Set aside for five minutes.
While the peaches are releasing their juices, make the crumble. Combine the flour, sugar, brown sugar, salt, nilla wafers, and butter with an electric mixer on low speed until the mixture looks crumbly and fairly well-combined.
Pour the peaches into a buttered square pan. Top with all of the crumble and smooth the top so that the crumble cooks evenly. Bake at 350 for one hour. Eat immediately with vanilla ice cream, or exercise your will power by freezing this for another time. If you are re-heating this either from the fridge or the freezer, bake at 350 until bubbly- about 20 minutes from the fridge and about 35-40 minutes from the freezer.


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Michelle Earl 276-696-3283
March 11, 2016
March 14 - 20: Bristol's Weekly Traffic Alert
BRISTOL – In an effort to keep motorists informed, the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) provides weekly information about highway construction and maintenance projects in southwestern Virginia. When traveling through highway work zones, use caution and be alert to changes in traffic patterns and slow-moving or stopped traffic.
To help motorists take the guesswork out of travel plans, call VDOT's 511 or visit www.511Virginia.org for real-time traffic information.
Underlined entries with asterisks (***) indicate the listing is new or the status of the project has changed since last week's traffic alert.
***Interstate 81 – Exit 14: Work is underway to reconstruct Interstate 81 exit 14 to better accommodate traffic volumes and to replace the north and southbound interstate 81 bridges at exit 14. The week of March 14, be alert to nighttime lane closures on Old Jonesboro Road due to utility relocation work. (Completion: fall 2018)
Interstate 81 – Exit 80: Bridge work at I-81 exit 80 in Wythe County will cause daytime and nighttime periodic lane closures. Also be alert to lane closures along Route 52, which is the route located off exit 80 that crosses over I-81. (Completion: April 2016)
Interstate 381 – overhead sign replacement project: Weather permitting, be alert to the possibility of day and nighttime lane closures along I-381 in Bristol due to the installation of new overhead signs.
***Interstate 77 – maintenance activities: The following maintenance activities will require lane closures along I-77 this week:
- Pavement repairs north and southbound at various locations between Wytheville and the West Virginia state line
- Road sweeping north and southbound between exit 24 and mile marker 33 in Wythe County.
***Interstate 81 – maintenance activities: Be alert to the following maintenance activities requiring lane closures this week on I-81:
- Pavement repairs north and southbound from Bristol to the Wythe/Pulaski County line
- Road sweeping north and southbound in Wythe County.
- Nighttime bridge deck repairs southbound near exit 60 in Wythe County; northbound near mile marker 36, mile marker 52 and exit 54 in Smyth County; and southbound near mile marker 16 in the Abingdon area of Washington County.
Bland County
***Route 608 (Price Ridge Road Bridge): Due to replacement of the Route 608 (Price Ridge Road) bridge in Bland County, the bridge will be closed from Thursday (March 17) until approximately May 4. The detour routes are Route 606 (Wilderness Road) and Route 607 (Burton Pond Road). (Completion: May 4, 2016)
Route 52 Bridge over Wolf Creek in Bland County: Traffic signals are controlling one 10-foot-wide lane across the Route 52 bridge over Wolf Creek in Bastian area due to bridge reconstruction. The speed limit has been reduced to 45 mph. (Completion: July 2016)
Buchanan County
Route 460 bridge replacement: Route 460 at the "Coke Oven Bridges" is reduced to one, 12-foot-wide-lane in each direction due to replacement of the westbound bridge. The speed limit in the work zone is 35mph. Use caution in this area and slow down for the safety of motorists and workers. (Completion: mid-August 2016)
Dickenson County
Route 604 (Aily Road): Be alert to work along Route 604 (Aily Road) in Dickenson County to replace a pipe with a box culvert. Motorists should use caution and watch for workers. (Completion: June 2016)
Route 637 (Rose Ridge): Due to a road widening project and installation of a roundabout near the entrance of Ridgeview School in Dickenson County, motorists should be alert to flaggers directing traffic along Route 637 (Rose Ridge) weekdays from 8:30 a.m. until 3 p.m. Additionally, motorists should be alert to the possibility of evening/nighttime work and weekend work. The road is open with no flagging operations weekdays from 7 a.m. until 8:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. until 4:30 p.m. to not impede school traffic. (Completion: Spring 2016)
Lee County
Water line installations: Lane closures are possible during daylight hours at the following locations due to water line installation work:
- Routes 665, 616, 679 and 874 in the Thompson Settlement area. (Completion: spring 2016)
- Routes 684, 685, 686, 687 and 736 in the Frog Level area. (Completion: summer 2016)
***Route 58 bridge repairs: Traffic signals are controlling one-way traffic along the Route 58 bridge over the Powell River between Stickleyville and Jonesville in Lee County due to bridge repairs. (Completion: March 2016)
Russell County
Business Route 19/Route 82 – signal replacement: Weather permitting, expect periodic delays Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. at the intersection of Business Route 19 and Route 82 in Lebanon due to replacement of the traffic signals. (Completion: March 2016)
Scott County
Route 614 (Yuma Road): Due to road widening and improvements along a section of Route 614 (Yuma Road) in Scott County, motorists should be alert to workers and heavy equipment along the roadway. (Completion: November 2016)
Water line installation: Motorists should be alert to the possibility of delays due to water line installation work along Routes 58 (Bristol Highway) and 615 (Federal Road), beginning at the intersection of Routes 58 and 803 (Stage Lane) and extending eastward to the intersection of Routes 58 and 617 (Shelleys Road). (Completion: Spring 2017)
Tazewell County
***Route 16 bridge over Maiden Spring Creek: Work to replace the bridge deck and repair portions of the Route 16 bridge over Maiden Spring Creek near the Thompson Valley area of Tazewell County is beginning. Motorists should be alert to workers in the area during daylight hours. Traffic signals will be installed soon to control one-lane traffic across the bridge during construction. (Completion: November 1, 2016)
Route 696 (Big Branch Road) in Tazewell County: Be alert to the possibility of delays on Route 696 (Big Branch Road) in Tazewell County due to reconstruction of a one-mile section of the route, from the intersection with Route 102 to approximately one-mile west of Route 102. Tractor-trailers should avoid Route 696 and use Route 102 through downtown Pocahontas. (Completion: July 2016)
Washington County
Route 91 bridge replacement: One-way traffic is being controlled by signals across the Route 91 bridge over Norfolk and Southern Railroad in the Glade Spring area of Washington County due to replacement of the bridge. The travel lane is restricted to 11-feet-wide. Use caution in this area. (Completion: summer 2016)
Wise County
Route 613 (East Stone Gap Road): Motorists traveling on Route 613 (East Stone Gap Road) in Wise County should be alert to flaggers directing traffic during daylight hours due to a curve widening project. Be alert to blasting operations associated with the widening. (Completion: August 2016)
Water line projects: Be alert to lane closures during daylight hours due to water line installation work at various secondary routes in the Upper Exeter community in Wise County. (Completion: fall 2016)
Wythe County
Route 625 (Crawfish Road): Be alert to flaggers directing periodic lane closures on Route 625 (Crawfish Road) in Wythe County due to a bridge replacement project. (Completion: June 2016)
Route 619 (Saint Peters Road): Be alert to the possibility of lane closures and delays on Route 619 (Saint Peters Road) due to reconstruction and overlay of a 2.7 mile section of the route, from near the intersection with Route 21 in Speedwell to the intersection with Route 707. (Completion: November 2016)
Information in VDOT news releases was accurate at the time the release was published. For the most current information about projects or programs, please visit the project or program Web pages. You may find those by searching by keyword in the search Virginia DOT box above.


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Your Guide to Oats! What to Eat, What to Skip
We all know a bowl of oatmeal can be a nutritious breakfast, but picking out which oatmeal to eat...
To help sort through the confusion, I thought I would give you the skinny on four different types of oats. So read below to find out how you can make your bowl just right for you.
- Old-Fashioned Oats: These oats are the ones that probably pop into your mind when you hear the word "oatmeal" and are most often the least expensive variety. They are made by flattening the grain into a flake. The thickness of the flake determines the texture of your oatmeal-the thinner the flake, the softer the oatmeal. This is why a bowl of quick-cooking oats may seem even softer and creamier than regular old-fashion oats. For quick-cooking oats, old-fashion oats are rolled even thinner and cut into small pieces so that the oats will indeed cook more quickly.
- Steel-Cut Oats: In this case, the oats have been chopped into tiny pieces and not rolled out. They have a harder texture, so they take longer to cook. They do tend to be more expensive than old-fashion oats, but some people may prefer the chewier texture of steel-cut oats. Steel cut oats are also known as Irish Oatmeal.
- Instant Oatmeal: This is an even thinner, more finely chopped version of the old-fashion oats that is individually packaged for convenience and quick-cooking. They can easily be microwaved.
Cup for cup, all of these oatmeal choices have nearly identical nutrition facts. However, some would argue that because steel-cut oats have a lower glycemic index, that they are the healthier choice since potentially they would have less effect on your blood sugar than other types of oatmeal. Also, since instant oatmeal often has salt, sugar, and other flavorings added to it, many people may view this as a less healthy choice.
While I definitely agree that sticking to less processed food is always a good thing, one thing that I have noticed with my clients is that often times they add more sugar to plain oatmeal than they would've consumed had they just eaten a flavored instant oatmeal. So if you feel like you can benefit from the portion control, instant may be a good choice for you.
There's really no type of oatmeal that I would consider off-limits. Whichever oatmeal you choose, you can feel good that you are getting vitamins, minerals, heart-healthy soluble fiber and whole grains, which can help you fill fuller longer and keep your weight in check.
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Vierstra, a Mennonite family found at IJlst in Friesland, Netherlands, where some of its members served as deacons. Sieger Meintes Vierstra (1838-1915) was treasurer of the church for 25 years. Meinte Jans Vierstra (1862-1936), a member of the same family, served the Hindeloopen congregation for many years as a treasurer.
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Zijpp, Nanne van der. "Vierstra family." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1959. Web. 16 Dec 2019. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Vierstra_family&oldid=133686.
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Zijpp, Nanne van der. (1959). Vierstra family. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 16 December 2019, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Vierstra_family&oldid=133686.
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Stony Brook, N.Y.- The UMBC men's lacrosse team dropped a 16-5 decision to host Stony Brook in the America East Conference opener for both teams.
The Retrievers fell to 2-5 overall, while the 15th-ranked Seawolves improved to 5-3.
Freshman Zach Linkous (Jarrettsville, Md./St. Paul's) led UMBC with a goal and two assists, while freshman attackmanRyan Johnston (Huntingtown, Md./Huntingtown) scored his first two collegiate goals. Sophomore midfielder Neill Lewnes (Arnold, Md./St. Mary's) contributed a goal and a halper.
But Stony Brook's triumvirate of senior standouts dominated the action. Attackman Jordan McBride, the nation's leading active goal scorer, scored seven goals and the 2010 Emmers Award Winner, midfielder Kevin Crowley, had a pair of goals and four assists. Face-off specialist Adam Rand, fifth on the all-time NCAA charts for draws won, captured 15 of 18 and corralled 11 ground balls.
UMBC junior netminder Brian McCullough (Garden City, N.Y./Garden City) recorded 13 saves as Stony Brook outshot the visitors, 44-18.
The Seawolves led, 6-0 after one quarter, 11-0 at halftime and 14-0 after 45 minutes. UMBC scored three times in the first 3:42 of the fourth quarter and added a pair of goals 1:31 apart midway through the final stanza.
UMBC has a pair of home games next week, entertaining local foe Towson on Wednesday evening (7:30 p.m.) and welcoming America East rival Binghamton at noon on Saturday.


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The University of Mary Washington women's lacrosse team roared back from an 8-5 second half deficit to defeat St. Mary's College, 15-11, in Capital Athletic Conference action on Wednesday in St. Mary's City. The Eagles improve to 9-4 overall and 3-2 in CAC play, while the Seahawks fall to 7-6 and 3-1.
Trailining 8-5 minutes into the second half, UMW would score 14 of the next 15 goals in the game, and held on for the fopur-point win. Junior Corinne Wiederkehr started the rush with three goals in a 1:36 span, with senior Katie Williams also scoring in the spurt.
After a SMC score, the Eagles took the lead for good with a goal from Emily Mott with 16:29 left. Megan Gersbeck, Jenna Petrucelli, Kelsey Vincent, and Wiederkehr followed suit, building the Eagle lead to 15-9. The Seahawks added a pair of late goals to push the final to 15-11.
Wiederkehr led all scorers with six goals and an assist, while Petrucelli scored three times for UMW, and Williams added three assists to her goal. Junior Taylor Paige made 15 saves in goal for the Eagles, and Emily Atkinson led with four draw controls. Mo Sunderland added a team-high four ground balls.
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To begin with, it helps to have a grasp of the four main things it takes to restore and maintain hard surface floors.
For the care of natural stone floors, you need to understand:
- Machinery
- Diamond abrasives
- Chemicals
- Knowledge.
Many times, a floor service contractor will attempt to take a typical slow-speed rotary floor machine (rpm below 200) and add weights to "convert" the floor machine into a marble machine. This conversion has limited success.
Although adding weight to these types of slow-speed floor machines will indeed assist the machinery in grinding marble floors, one must keep in mind that the motor on these floor machines was not designed to handle the added weight.
This may prematurely wear the motor out.
An additional drawback to these types of machines is that the contractor must remove the weights in the maintenance process of natural stone.
Keeping track of the weights is enough of a problem in itself, not to mention ensuring that no one is using a machine in a way that it was not intended to be used.
By researching the industry and shopping around, you can find machinery that will not require the addition and removal of weights.
In other words, a distributor should provide a true marble machine in their product line.
The floor service contractor or in-house technician will be far better served if provided with this type of machine, which is made from the ground up to handle the rigorous daily routine of stone restoration.
In the long run, this will save the customer or your facility owner time and money.
Diamond abrasives
Diamond abrasives are an extremely important part of the restoration process of natural stone.
There are many products in the market such as powders and creams that claim to be restoration products for stone.
However, if the floor is worn to the point that the reflection is dull, these powders and creams are limited, at best, in their results.
To date, the best way to restore most natural stone floors, including terrazzo, is through the honing process using different grits of diamond abrasives.
This process can take anywhere from four to 10 steps depending on the level of wear on the floor.
Until technology produces an improved stone restoration process, there is no substitute for the result you get from diamond abrasives.
When dealing with stone maintenance, chemicals play an important role.
The maintenance program should always include a good stone cleaner and conditioner.
The application is very simple. If the floor is large, add a small amount of product to the solution tank of a walk-behind or ride-on scrubber.
If the floor is small, simply add the product to mop water.
Using a product like this can do wonders for marble, granite and terrazzo floors. The benefits far outweigh that of a neutral soap.
Products made specifically to clean and condition stone floors generally keep the surface looking very clean while enhancing the natural polish of the floor.
This in turn reduces the amount of powder polishing or crystallization that will be needed, which reduces chemical and labor costs.
The two best ways to polish marble and terrazzo floors are by using powder/paste products or crystallization products.
The powder and paste compounds typically contain oxalic acid among other ingredients. These types of products are generally used with a marble machine and a natural hogs-hair pad.
Oxalic acid-based products are an excellent way to maintain the polish on marble floors; however, there are some drawbacks.
Many times, the customer does not like to use them because they can be messy. If this is the case, you must overcome this by working with the customer, through training, so that the customer can develop confidence in the process.
There are some marbles that these types of products will not work on, and you always want to keep this in mind.
Good examples would be many of the green and maroon colored stones. Attempting to polish these marbles with an oxalic acid compound often produces less than desirable results.
Crystallization is another excellent way to maintain the polish in a stone care program.
These types of products are generally used with a marble machine and steel wool. It is a simple process once training is complete, and unlike oxalic acid compounds, crystallization is a clean process.
A quality crystallizer usually produces expected results; however, like oxalic acid compounds, although it works on most marbles, there are times that it may not be the best choice for a maintenance program.
If you have the daunting task of maintaining the polish on a large stone or terrazzo floor, and the floor is one that accepts crystallization, then there is really no better way to maintain the polish.
That is why you will see many large casinos and prominent downtown office buildings using this process.
The most important weapon you can have in your arsenal is knowledge. You will need to get involved and be informed.
Make sure that your supplier of stone-care products can handle your needs, including training, if needed, on the process and the knowledge of the stone care industry.
It is also important that your supplier has the ability to provide you with a complete line of stone care products. This will enable you to be a well-rounded problem solver.
Once you are armed with the knowledge and a quality stone care line, there is nothing stopping you.


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In preparation for Wrath of the Lich King, we will be performing an 8 hour Armory maintenance beginning on November 6, at 6AM PST. The extensive changes and feature additions in Wrath of the Lich King mean that we also have to update the Armory to reflect those changes. As part of the maintenance, all character data will be reset, and character profiles will be repopulated as players log into World of Warcraft. We thank you for your patience during the maintenance.
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George Roberts
Dinamo Western
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A follower of the schools of Machiavelli, Bentham, Locke, Hobbes, Sutcliffe, Bradman, Lindwall, Miller, Hassett, Benaud and Thunberg
I had a glimpse of Eureka
Chewing me up, chewing me up and spitting me out
-jected, I was rejected
I wasn't good enough to be elected
Lava, it was like lava
Moving through my body like fire
Dylan Jellett
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Dylan Hooper-Jellett
CWCA Chairman
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Im happy to do it the way things are done in CW Cricket, however im going to have to get someone else to do the checks as i will not have time to do them myself, considering im doing all the rest on my own..
If someone is willing to volunteer to go through and do that then im happy to let them...
Blake Donald
Northern Power
Member of CW Black
Goalkeeper for the Northside Power
NZI Manager in WCC
What is the time frame you are looking at before someone is considered inactivity?
The man, the mountain, the Mathews. The greatest all rounder since Keith Miller. (Y)
Jaffna Jets CC (Battrick & FTP)
RIP WCC and CW Cricket
Member of the MSC, JMAS and CVAAS
Darren Dubb-Lynch
Central United
David Kearsley
East Coast Fury
Just did an activity check and these are the guys that haven't posted in 2 months:
Langevldt 17/10/2006
Stats4ever 09/11/2006
The following are the guys/girls who are borderline:
Lord of Darkness 10/12/2006
The Wizard 1o1 2/12/2006
Resha 27/11/2006
I might have missed someone but i think thats about right. A bit disappointed to see Pete name there, but not much i can do if his lost interest. Also i think we should get a committee for this thing, with one member from each team. Rather then leave it all up to Blewy to do.
what are peoples thoughts?? 2 months??
Also what should be classified as active?? Is posting once every 2 months active??
Liam/Hak, how do you guys do it for CW Cricket??
I'll be in on that, the work should be spread around a little more
i'd say 2 months is a fair length of time seeing this is effectively our intial activity check, especially given that there has been a few interruptions/delays due to christmas-ny break etc. However, from here on in i'd suggest a monthly period.
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