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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
If I was Domestic
46 comments:
- KatyK said...
Pinterest does have a way of motivating me....and then slapping me back down to reality. Maybe Ill start small with just a few recipes and see how I do.
- February 28, 2012 at 7:10 AM
- Sara Louise said...
I'm happy to report that I've cooked loads of dinners that I've pinned. Now if I can start working on the hair tutorials I'll be all set :)
- February 28, 2012 at 7:29 AM
- Monica's Notebook said...
Hahaha this post is so great. I think like this regularly, and know that it will unfortunately never happen. I am majorly lacking in the domesticated area :/ lol
- February 28, 2012 at 7:31 AM
- Jess - PrettyPhysicist said...
I love that you're so undomestic. ;) At least I have something that I can teach you, since you have to teach me style, etc.
- February 28, 2012 at 7:41 AM
- Brooke said...
This...I love. And so me. : )
- February 28, 2012 at 8:15 AM
- twiggy@thedirtlife said...
i'm sure there are so many domestic women dying to be YOU right now!!
but i'm with you, sometimes i wish i had little ones and could spend my day loving on them and the ol' house-a-roonie.
- February 28, 2012 at 8:36 AM
- Fit With Flash said...
you and me both, girl. you and me both.
- February 28, 2012 at 8:48 AM
- megan said...
Ha, you are hilarious. If only there were enough hours in the day!
- February 28, 2012 at 8:50 AM
- Whitney @ Everything Happens For a Reason said...
I used to be undomestic (prob still kind of am-haha). With the help of Pinterest, I have home decor ideas, crafts idea, not to mention hair and makeup. Plus, recipes to cook from. I usually skinny taste, since they are all healthy options. I'm actually cooking now!
- February 28, 2012 at 9:05 AM
- Kayla said...
I'm going to take full credit for your new found obsession with Pinterest! You're welcome!
- February 28, 2012 at 9:22 AM
- Sarah said...
hahaha I'm the same way! I keep thinking that one day if I ever get to stay home when I'm married I will totally be a domestic goddess....no thanks to Pinterest. hahaha but until then, us working girls will have to make do with health bars for breakfast and quick and easy dinners...or takeout. :)
- February 28, 2012 at 9:26 AM
- Ashley said...
haha. love this. love that you are on pinterest now! :)
- February 28, 2012 at 9:33 AM
- Shannon said...
I get a kick out of people who pin things like $1 million bathrooms and tag it "For the Home".
I'm not friends with anyone who can afford a million dollar bathroom. And if I'm wrong, why the heck aren't these friends hooking me up with dough!!??
- February 28, 2012 at 9:39 AM
- shay said...
i love this! just add on a "perfect" hottie husband in to the mix to clean up all the messes made from during the day! hahaha
- February 28, 2012 at 9:41 AM
- erin rae mac said...
Love this. I looked at my Style board the other thinking...I just need to buy clothes that are similar to this. Then I'd have a rockin closet!
- February 28, 2012 at 10:03 AM
- smk053078 said...
OMG! What a life, right? This made me smile...great story! I blame all our visions of bliss on Disney and their princesses!! ;) So glad I cam across your blog!
Because Shanna Said So
- February 28, 2012 at 10:11 AM
- Erin said...
Haha- too funny! As much as I love my job, I'm always thinking... wow, I'd love to just stay at home in our "perfect" home and make "perfect babies" and cook "perfect" meals all day long.
NOT.REAL.LIFE.... Pinterest is mean and deceiving ;)
- February 28, 2012 at 10:12 AM
- jayme said...
you said penetration. haha
- February 28, 2012 at 10:13 AM
- Alex said...
Ugh pinterest is a constant remind of how un-creative and un-fit I am....yet I love it.
- February 28, 2012 at 10:56 AM
- Courtney said...
You can totally be domestic! Someimes I even pretend to be domestic. Its kind of fun:)
- February 28, 2012 at 10:57 AM
- Sarah Elizabeth said...
haha love this post! I think the same thing sometimes when I pin things..like ya right, I'm never gonna make that ha.
- February 28, 2012 at 10:58 AM
- Ashley said...
You Can totally make stuff from Pinterest! I never thought myself to be crafty, creative, a cook or anything...but I've been chuggin' along with the pinterest projects...I'll just come and teach you how to cook, I've always wanted to visit ATL ;-) haha
- February 28, 2012 at 11:24 AM
- Married...with a Pup said...
Haha love this! I'm definitely addicted to pinterest as well! And definitely pins things that I'm not capable of making/doing too! No worries!
- February 28, 2012 at 12:04 PM
- Young and Fabulous said...
hahah we are SO alike in this sense
i find myself sometimes wishing i had babies and not a corporate america job so i could bake and craft and dress my kids in cute clothes thanks to pinterest
i still need to find you on pinterest i think!!!
- February 28, 2012 at 12:44 PM
- Nuha said...
you are so cute... you'll get there one day!! the grass always seems greener on the other side :-)
- February 28, 2012 at 1:49 PM
- Sami said...
HAHA. Love this! I am really good at trying and sometimes failing recipes from Pinterest but I have yet to do anything DIY or outfit inspired. Maybe one day hahaa.
Ps. That girl in the Pink Maxi. I pinned that too and she had posted that you could find the skirt at Old Navy for $25. So I ran around and searched 3 diff Old Navy's for it, found it, and it looked horrible on me. Fail hahah.
- February 28, 2012 at 2:33 PM
- Shayla Y.F.F. said...
I have pinned multiple projects, recipes, outfits, DIY's and other things...and never done a SINGLE one. Haha! Maybe I should try one. I did pin something about using an empty tic-tac container as a bobbi-pin holder...easy enough. I'll try it today!
- February 28, 2012 at 3:48 PM
- Shayla Y.F.F. said...
I have pinned multiple projects, recipes, outfits, DIY's and other things...and never done a SINGLE one. Haha! Maybe I should try one. I did pin something about using an empty tic-tac container as a bobbi-pin holder...easy enough. I'll try it today!
- February 28, 2012 at 3:48 PM
- Amy G. said...
HAHAHA this totally cracked me up. It's so true! If only we were all just as domesticated as Pinterest! It's so addicting and really let's a girl dream :)
- February 28, 2012 at 4:03 PM
- email@example.com said...
hahaha this is amazing.
- February 28, 2012 at 4:14 PM
- Katie said...
while i do seriously love pinterest, sometimes it can make you feel like you suck at being productive. : ) however, i have cooked more things because of it - they just never look like the pictures!
- February 28, 2012 at 7:06 PM
Love this!!
I have actually made a few of the dishes and desserts I've pinned. And I'm always using the style boards I have as inspiration when getting ready.
- February 28, 2012 at 7:45 PM
Love this!!
I have actually made a few of the dishes and desserts I've pinned. And I'm always using the style boards I have as inspiration when getting ready.
- February 28, 2012 at 7:45 PM
- Alyssa said...
Pinterest has so many inspiring and motivating things. If only I could get off my computer and go do them! :)
- February 28, 2012 at 7:48 PM
- Rachel Larson said...
hahaha, I love this!
- February 28, 2012 at 9:11 PM
- Miranda said...
Pinterest is so addicting! I wish I could make all of the recipes and especially have all of the amazing outfits i pin!
- February 28, 2012 at 10:29 PM
- meghan said...
Haha!! So cute. Doesn't it just make you feel like everyone except you has their lives perfectly tied up into little white bakery boxes with twine? I feel like a sad brown paper sack sometimes looking at all the pretty on there. Oh well...doesn't stop me from trying to pretend too!! I'm so much cooler on Pinterest.
- February 29, 2012 at 12:03 AM
- Jenna said...
I'm with you on this one, pinterest is so addicting, but also dangerous! It often makes throwing away my career woman lifestyle for a life of domesticity seem appetizing!
But, even if we do have time consuming jobs, we can still incorporate a little pinterest into our lives, can't we?? :)
- February 29, 2012 at 7:09 AM
- Corey @ Learning Patience said...
Oh Pinterest...thank you for stealing all my time from Facebook and Blogging and other real life activities so I can dream about clothes I don't own, places I haven't visited and crafts I can't make...
LOL I am addicted too...damn pinterest! lol
xoxo from Trinidad
- February 29, 2012 at 7:19 AM
- Tabitha Mahoney said...
I love all of it, I'm a little iffy on the baby, but hey beggars can't be choosers now can they.
Pinterest is trouble isn't it.
PS got my dress, posted two pics today.
- February 29, 2012 at 6:49 PM
- Seashells and Southern Belles said...
ha, this is hilarious. oh what that website does to us girls... and to think there are some women out there who are just. like. this. ugh.
- February 29, 2012 at 7:52 PM
- Dorothy Explor'r said...
you've got some stunning pins - including the foooood! ;P ahah.
btw, i'm currently hosting a gift exchange on my blog if you're interested :) the theme is "handmade."
also, there's a giveaway going on too... ending march 7th!
- February 29, 2012 at 11:49 PM
- Angel said...
i just laugh at the recipes.. because they look delicious but i would probably never make them even though i love to cook.
and you left off watching project runway for fashion advice!! ;)
- March 1, 2012 at 11:07 PM
- CMae said...
Ash- I went to click where your pictures on pinterest came from and they weren't linked I don't think I follow you on there--can I ask where the nails picture came from? love that would love to know if it has a "linked" trail to see where it came from! :)
- March 5, 2012 at 8:03 AM
- CMae said...
Never mind lol a few PInterest searches and I found the site where the nails came from! Sorry to bug ya!
- March 5, 2012 at 8:14 AM
- Casey said...
Hi Ashley,
I loved this post so much that I included it in my link up, Lots of Link Love! Lots of Link Love is a biweekly link up inspired to share the love between bloggers and work towards a positive community of fabulous bloggers such as ourselves! ;)
I would love if you shared Lots of Link Love with your readers (there's a button you can share at the end of an unrelated post if you'd like!) and would be overjoyed if you considered linking up with me for the next Lots of Link Love on Thursday, March 22!
- March 8, 2012 at 11:40 AM


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by Ryan P. Carey, D.D.S.
The latest sketch comedy video from Rob Baniewicz features performaces by Alli Soowal and Maggy Keegan. Enjoy!
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by Aaron Hertzog
New improv production company Figment Theater kicks off their season this Thursday with the first edition of the Vagabond Sessions, a show that'll be put on every two weeks, but never in the same place twice. Here's Figment Artistic Director Maggy Keegan with more about this show as well as other plans for the theater.
WitOut: What do you think are some of the advantages of doing a series of pop-up shows like this, as opposed to a regular show at a set location?
Maggy Keegan: One of the reasons we chose to do pop-up shows is that we liked the idea of improv being ephemeral; something that we create for a moment and then it's gone. So we wanted that concept to echo throughout everything we did from our venues down to the name of the theater itself. It's the idea that what we do—from our longer-running season to our one-night shows—all have this sense of being in the moment.
WO: Will the format for the Vagabond Sessions always be the same—AD Showcase, then a special guest, and then the Table?
MK: We wanted the Vagabond Sessions to be a place for improvisers and ensembles to take risks so the structure of the line-up hopefully pairs risk-taking and exploration along with really fun, strong work. For the Table, I wanted to bring together a group of improvisers who I really admire and who I thought might work well together in a particular form to anchor the night. And the AD Showcase is the Artistic Director's Showcase, which essentially is just me playing with different people each time. There are tons of improvisers in Philadelphia that I really would love to play with so the AD Showcase is my selfish wish to do that in action. I don't know that this will always be the same structure. Mostly I am in for whatever makes sense for the night and whatever is feeding that sense of pushing the boundaries of what we think we can do and how it can make us better at what we do.
WO: The group you're playing in for this session's AD Showcase is Rowbit. Was that a group formed just for this show, or do you guys plan to perform regularly?
MK: Luke Field, Alex Newman, Emily Davis and I formed Rowbit because we all love game-based improv and we wanted to put together a group that could study it together. We have our first performance Thursday and then we are going to get to perform again in May at PHIT. I am incredibly excited. I have admired the three of them for a long time in terms of their intelligence and moves they make on stage and so I can't wait to play with them.
WO: This is the first official show for Figment Theater. Can you describe the mission of the theater, and some of your long-term plans?
MK: The official mission statement of the theater is: "...to cultivate and nurture quality improvisational theater with artists and audiences through shared experiences rooted in fearless performance and nimble innovation." We see comedic improv as an art form so for us this means that we want to provide a place for improvisers to explore whatever this art form means to them through different improv forms (such as the Deconstruction or Close Quarters), with people they're interested and excited about working with, and within constructs that we find interesting to us, such as an Improvised Slasher Movie or by pairing improvisers we would love to see together with our Courtship Series in the Summer. I would also have to add that for me the audience is an integral part of why we do what we do. So, with all the risk-taking and boundary-pushing we're interested in doing, we're equally interested in creating work that is accessible to the audience. I am proud to be an improviser and I would like to introduce more people into that. It's one of the major reasons I moved back to Philadelphia from Los Angeles.
WO: What are some other things coming up for Figment that you're excited about?
MK: I'm really excited about some of the projects improvisers have sent me for the Vagabond series. There is some really cool innovative stuff that is happening. I also am excited for our season; Matt has some wonderful things planned for that in terms of the summer and fall. I can't wait to see and be scared by the improvised Slasher movie.
But mostly, I have to say that I am incredibly excited to be working with some wonderful people. Matt Nelson, who is the Managing Director for Figment, is an incredibly talented producer and he's wonderful to work with. We have a wonderful Board who has been helping us shape who we are more fully—Mary Carpenter, Jen Curcio, and Brian Rumble and their thoughts and insights into how we do what we do have been really important. We also have Hilary Kissinger and Kate Banford helping us with Marketing and Kate Banford and Cait O'Driscoll have been finding us really fun spaces to play. The fact that they take time out from what they're doing to be a part of this is incredible and what they bring has been integral to the launch and the vision of what we're doing. Theater is a collaborative art and being able to work with talented, committed people is what energizes and excites me about the theater.
Figment Theatre's first 'Vagabond Sessions' is this Thursday, March 28th at Fleisher Art Memorial (719 Catherine Street). Show starts at 8PM. Admission is $5.
by Alison Zeidman

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The eastern diamondback rattlesnake, one of the world's least popular forms of wildlife, was proposed Monday for protection under the Endangered Species Act.
A group of conservation organizations filed a petition Monday with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to declare the snake a threatened species, which would make it a felony to harm one.
Backers of the petition know they have a public relations challenge not faced by defenders of blue whales, Florida panthers or bottlenose dolphins.
"Negative human attitudes toward the species are one of the primary reasons for its demise," said Collette Adkins Giese, staff attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity, one of the groups filing the petition. "I believe, and the Center for Biological Diversity believes, that biodiversity itself has value, all parts of the ecosystem should be protected and the rattlesnake is part of the natural heritage of the eastern United States."
The snake, found from the Everglades through North Carolina, has sustained a sharp decline due to the destruction of longleaf pine forests, the skin trade and rattlesnake roundups in which the snakes are captured and killed in front of an audience, according to the petition. The current population represents only about 3 percent of the snake's historic numbers, according to the petition.
Rattlesnake roundups are a particularly "gruesome" activity, according to the petition. "Objectionable roundup activities include the slaughter of live snakes in front of crowds, harassment of captive snakes to promote hissing and strikes, holding of snakes in overcrowded pens that crush many individuals, and transport of snakes in tightly-packed crates where many die of overheating and dehydration," the petition states.
Filing the petition were the Center for Biological Diversity, Protect All Living Species and One More Generation, as well as Bruce Means, a biologist and adjunct professor at Florida State University.
The snake is a very important prey item, particularly younger snakes, which are eaten by bobcats, hawks and other snakes, Means said in an email.Females typically produce 14 young at a time, producing three or four clutches in her lifetime, although the vast majority never reach adulthood.
"In a stable population, she only leaves behind one baby to replace her, so 41-55 young are eaten by predators, die of disease, or are run over, chopped by garden hoes, stomped, or otherwise killed by Homo sapiens," he wrote.
In South Florida they can be found in such natural areas as Everglades National Park, Big Cypress National Preserve and Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge.
Although the snakes can be dangerous, they don't deserve their fearsome reputation, the groups say.
"Despite the robust appearance of this venomous snake, the eastern diamondback poses little threat to public safety," the petition states. "More people are killed each year by bee stings and lightning strikes."


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The Crosbyton Review (Crosbyton, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 2, 1975
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Date: January 2, 1975
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Some Guy in History wrote:I wonder what evidence you would actually consider and accept as 'actual', if you won't accept what is able to be presented. You haven't been able to disprove it
When nothing is what is presented, nothing is what I accept. Nothing is provable to those who have no concept of evidence other than their personal, passionate belief (hence faith based religions). People have only two options; logic or faith. Without logic, faith is their only avenue.
I can only prove things to people who can actually analytically and rationally think. My "evidence" involves logic and rationality. If I wanted merely faith based followers, I would be giving an extremely different presentation.
Jakob wrote:Are Jews half alien?
Why are you obsessed with Jews?


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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – The Georgia College & State University Department of Athletics announced Monday that head women's soccer coach Juan Pablo Favero will not return for the 2010 season. Favero, at the helm for the past two seasons, will resign to return to his native Argentina.
The university will seek a full-time replacement, according to Athletic Director Wendell Staton, opening a national search to begin immediately.
Described as a desire that has "always been in his heart" to return to his country of birth, Favero explains the move as a family decision.
"I want to go back so my kids can experience the benefit of having lived in both countries, as well as to give something back to my country," said the Bobcat soccer coach. "I am grateful for my time in the United States, including my education and the professional experience as a soccer coach and college professor that God has given me in this country. This time has made me a better coach, professional and person. I now want to use that skill set to do good things in Argentina."
Favero has been at the helm for the two of the best seasons in school history, putting together a 23-9-9 overall record. The team cracked the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) Division II Top-25 in 2008, reaching as high as No. 19. Even more impressive was the Bobcats' first appearance in the NCAA Tournament in that same season.
"Coach Favero has laid the groundwork for and had tremendous success in his two seasons at Georgia College, setting up the program for sustained excellence in the future," said Staton. "While we are sad as a department to see him go, he leaves for the best possible reasons, caused by a sense of national pride and a commitment to his family."
Favero has coached 16 all-conference players in two years at Georgia College, four all-region nominees and the first All-American in school history in 2009, goalkeeper Mary Rob Plunkett (Augusta, Ga.).
Favero spent 19 years on American soil first as a student-athlete at Marist College, and Palm Beach Atlantic, then a coach for his Alma Mater for five seasons, including two as head coach. He then spent four seasons at the helm of Missouri Baptist before coaching five seasons of women's soccer at Newberry College.
Favero was American Midwest Conference Coach of the Year for men's soccer at Missouri Baptist in 2001, adding women's coach honors a year later. He was also named South Atlantic Conference Coach of the Year while at Newberry.
"I am extremely thankful for my time at Georgia College," said Favero. "I thank the coaches, administrators and most importantly the players that have supported my family and me both professionally and personally. In this change I have a mixture of sadness in leaving a great program and group of young ladies, and a great sense of expectation for what's in store for me and my family as well as the team."
"The Bobcat soccer program is in great shape," Favero added. "This group is ready to continue to build successful seasons. They are poised to achieve all of their goals."
The GCSU Department of Athletics, winners of the 2008-09 PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Georgia College prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at Twitter.com username GCSUSID for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCSUBobcats.com to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GCSU Athletics Hall of Fame.


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Where would you like to see Tesla set up Super Chargers?
Where would you like to see Tesla set up Super Chargers?
Garden State Parkway in New Jersey.
Dunno if already suggested.
I live in NC.
I would love to see superchargers along highway 40, running east/west. Raleigh to Asheville.
Also, would love to see them running along highway 70, to the coast: Raleigh to Atlantic Beach.
@MrB +1
Somewhere on 101 in California between Gilroy and Santa Barbara, say Paso Robles, King City or San Louis Obispo.
San Luis Obisbo and Camarillo will get you to Hawthorne.
Get us from LA/Barstow to Phoenix please - Telsa to pick the spot. And could use something between LA & San Diego.
Vail Co or Glenwood Springs CO, Grand Junction Co, Green River Ut, Ritchfield Ut, St. George UT. (Then we can make it from Denver to Las Vegas)
jjaeger | January 26, 2013 new
...Telsa to pick the spot.
Who dat? :D
How about Tesla places one in every town where a Model S resides? Consider it customer appreciation!
San Diego
Reading the thread, i like:
1. San Diego (Carlsbad?)
2. The triangle in Texas
3. A site west of Denver so people can ski/charge/and return home (Dillon?)
4. DC (I- 95) for points North and South
5. Coastal Cal--Paso Robles/SLO
Instead of someplace useful to long-distance travellers? City A & City B, 300 miles apart. 2 SCs, no travel between A & B. OR 1 SC halfway between, easy travel. You choose.
Truckee, CA.
Lots of Teslas on the roads here in Northern CA. Lots of Tesla owners also fit the demographic that likes to head up to the mountains at Lake Tahoe. Drop a Supercharger in Truckee and one in Tahoe City so that we can leave our ICE beasts in the garage and head to the mountains in style.
At all Indian reservations w/24x7 casinos
In particular, Warm Springs Oregon, good spot between Portland and Bend and Klamath Falls.
The marketing plan should include a multi-outlet Supercharger in the parking lot of every mall where they've opend a Tesla retail store. The parking lot should have a big TESLA sign and a smaller sign informing people that the charging station is solar powered and free for Tesla owners. Tesla owners should feel confident that if they know where a Tesla store is, they'll find a charger there.
I personally would also like to see Tesla license their proprietery plugs so that every gas station or strip mall can install an outlet. Why do we have to wait for Tesla to install a charger? Let's go open architecture.
Charges should be in every rest station on Rte 95 (and whatever is the equivalent on the west coast).
They need to think of the chargers as part of the marketing plan. Put them where your customers (or potential customers) are and where they're likely to travel to, i.e., major matropolitan areas, their tony suburbs and major vacation destinations, like Cape Cod, Hamptons, Outer Banks, Orlando, etc.
I'd like to see at least a 240v outlet in every McDonalds, too. I realize that lots of Tesla owners would rather walk than be seen pulling into Mickie Dee's but the point is to make charging a Tesla as easy as charing an iPhone. No more range anxiety = tipping point for EVs
Madison, WI - this would allow driving between Minneapolis/St Paul/Rochester and Chicago (nearest Tesla service center)
The SC network is indeed a marketing push. It is intended to remove a major barrier to acceptance/purchase. Once the basic n/w is in place, the kinds of "side arrangements" described here make sense.
I-81 and also at my restaurant in Ashburn, VA
On the TransCanada highway, particularly from Vancouver to Calgary.
Along I90 or I80 from coast to coast. This would give the best access for those who would like to be able to travel across country. Commercial charge stations would give access to either of these corridors until more SuperChargers come on line.
Ontario Canada
Half way between Toronto and Montreal on Hwy 401
Half way between Toronto and Detroit on Hwy 401
Hwy 401 east of Windsor
Hwy 11 at the South End of Gravenhurst
United States
Interstate Hwy 75 every 150 miles from Detroit to Sourthern Florida
Amarillo and Shreveport MUST for lower east west travel
@ Brian H...people say that you have a sense of humor...we are just on different wavelengths, I guess. My comment was meant facetiously!
I created a map for Europe, where everybody can pin their spots. Mybe you can create a similear map for the US
Along the Denver-KC-St. Louis I-70 corridor. It would be especially helpful between KC and St. Louis (KC, Columbia and STL?) to get to the service center from KC.
I'd like to see one out in Stanislaus county so that San Jose<->Yosemite would be a breeze.
I have previously suggested that one in Mariposa would really help travelers in and out of Yosemite Valley.
LA to Phoenix would be fantastic, somewhere half way between Barstow and Phoenix.
New york state thruway between NYC and Albany, and between Albany and Buffalo would be great. Cracker Bar. or other resteraunts just of the thruway would be great. Let us drive from NYC to Toronto please!
entire length of the PA turnpike and along I70 to columbus OH, every 100 miles or so would be nice.
I-5 from Vancouver ca to LA--esp from Seattle to Portland!
Scottsdale, AZ
Blythe, CA
Palm Springs, CA
Yuma, CA
San Diego , CA
Tuscon, AZ'
Flagstaff, AZ
Las Vegas, NV
Centralia, WA (I-5)
Ellensburg, WA (I-90)
Pleasant Hill,Ca
Berkeley, Ca
I'd love to see one at Lake Tahoe, not just Folsom. Similar for Yosemite, maybe near Senora Pass (highway 108) and along highway 395 in the Eastern Sierras, possibly around Bridgeport or Lee Vining (or both and maybe near Mammoth). Along highway 101 and highway 5 up through Northern California, Oregon and Washington. Highway 99 would also be handy. I wonder if there would have to be an attendant in Oregon like for gas stations?
I would also love to see them in tourist spots where people would tend to stay and travel from. I'd love to see one in Monterey or Carmel and maybe San Simeon or SLO.
The problem for me is that I like to travel to some of these out of the way places where the only way to charge would be to stay at an RV park. I found one J1772 charging station at Lake Tahoe and the place I stay there only has 115v and is at 7200 feet and will require an extension cord at that.
I would love to be able to sell my Prius, but until the charging network fills out into these out of the way places it just won't be possible. Sadly many of these routes don't see a high amount of traffic.
This will be even more important as the model X becomes available. People will want to take their Tesla cars on vacation around the country, and that will mean having to put superchargers in some out of the way places to make driving there convenient. An RV park charging at 32 miles/hour just won't cut it.
Every year I go on at least one camping trip in the Eastern Sierras near Bridgeport where there's some great fishing. There's no way I can bring my model S unless I spent many hours waiting at RV parks for my car to charge. Lake Tahoe is doable, but will be awkward because I'll be driving between 7200 feet and lake level at least several times with only 115v at night at a 4-5 miles/hour charging rate. I'm also thinking of a trip up to Oregon on the way to Bend in August. Again this just isn't feasible until more superchargers are available or at least more high amperage level 2 chargers. Hopefully CHAdeMO or some other level 3 charging standard will become popular and Tesla will offer an adapter.
aaron, you need the MI-EVSE: http://electricroadtrips.com/day-3-from-charger-woes-to-charger-boon/
Half as many RV-park-hours.
Ottawa, ON
Montreal, QC
Mont-Tremblant, QC
Trois-Riviere, QC
Quebec City, QC
Mario Laureti (CANADA)
Cross post from a similar thread, but I would like to see a SC in Primm, Nevada, as the Barstow-Las Vegas run is long at 160 miles or so. Coupled with potential cold, that is a tough haul for a 60 kWh battery, especially without a range charge. Primm is about 40 miles SW from LV and comes complete with an outlet mall.
i would like one in charlotte n.c.
Walnut Creek/Pleasant Hill CA I 680
The 60kWh is not a long-distance car, and the SC network is not and cannot be designed to accommodate it.
Okay, Barstow-LV may be a tough haul after a few years when the 85 kWh batteries don't have all of their original range, especially if it is cold. Putting a charger in Primm will make the distance to Barstow similar to (though still longer than) the distances from Hawthorne to Tejon Ranch, Tejon Ranch to Harris Ranch and Harris Ranch to Gilroy. If those distances are what TM is shooting for, then they will need something before LV on I-15 North, and Primm makes the most sense, at least to me.
I-75 corridor, Miami, Estero (at Miromar Outlet Mall), Tampa, Ocala, Valdosta, Macon, etc...all the way to Chicago.
also primm is just a few miles from a solar electric generating plant and Tesla does need any journalist driving with the flow of traffic like the wsj reporter. There are not any public charging stations in between Barstow and Vegas (afik)
@mbcaffe, if there are any chargers I haven't been able to find them online. There may be a couple of RV parks in Baker, but I think they're more for permanent residents. Primm used to have an RV park, but there are no services now. Jean goes by in the amount of time it takes to look at the speedometer. It's pretty barren from Lenwood Rd. to the Mandalay Bay as far as EV infrastructure goes.
Good point on the solar station. That thing could probably run every proposed supercharger along with a town or two thrown in for good measure.
I-580 /I-680 Interchange in Northern California
Spaced along I-278, I-78, I-81 and I-17. With these we can get around
New York and Washington traveling between Florida and New England
Between Chicago and Detroit and Chicago to Mackinaw.
All Interstates - but in NC area, my first desires would be I-40 Wilmington to Asheville and beyond, I-85 Richmond to Atlanta
+1 Agree 100%. I'd add Albuquerque to Phoenix, too!
At "The Thing" along I-10 east of Tucson ..... OR Wilcox AZ. Travel Center.
OR 150 miles in "any" direction from my house!! then I'd be able to reach civilization MwaHahaha!!
Drove this weekend from Raleigh to Columbia. Had to charge each way at a public (J1772) station. Slow at 19 mi/hr and 30 A. Inconvenient but not a real problem.
Had I had access to one of the Tesla network stations the trip would have been identical to an ICE trip.
The 'SuperCharger' network should solve most of these problems.
200 mile intervals along all of I-95 would be ideal for north/south on the east coast.
Also 200 mile intervals along all of I-40 for east/west.
And the Outer Banks of NC!


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Selenium: Create New frame work First Phase
In Selenium we have to first assign keyword for that scripts(create common functions which we can use in any classes).
package Test;
import org.openqa.selenium.Alert;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.interactions.Actions;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.Select;
import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;
public class keyword
private static final String String = null;
public static WebDriver driver;
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Checklist before deliver to client
- Check broken links.
- Check missing content, e.g. images.
- Check missing page titles.
- Check spelling and grammar of content.
- Check missing metadata.
- Check the file sizes of pages to ensure they are not too large.
- Check browser compatibility.
- Check that applications are functioning correctly, e.g. online forms.
- Check that any Server Side Scripting or other languages function correctly.
- Check that legal and regulatory guidelines are being adhered to, e.g. data protection and privacy.
- Check that pages conform to your organisation's Web-Accessibility standard (if any), e.g. missing 'alt-tags'.
- Check that the Website Design standard is maintained.
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Compatibility Testing
Compatibility Testing
What is compatibility testing?
In computer world, compatibility is to check whether your software is capable of running on different hardware, operating systems, applications , network environments or mobile devices.
Compatibility Testing is a type of the Non-functional testing
Types of compatibility tests
Let's look into compatibility testing types
Levels of Software Testing
Levels of Software Testing
1 Unit Testing is a level of the software testing process where individual units/components of a software/system are tested. The purpose is to validate that each unit of the software performs as designed.
2 Integration Testing is a level of the software testing process where individual units are combined and tested as a group. The purpose of this level of testing is to expose faults in the interaction between integrated units.
3 System Testing is a level of the software testing process where a complete, integrated system/software is tested. The purpose of this test is to evaluate the system's compliance with the specified requirements.
4 Acceptance Testing is a level of the software testing process where a system is tested for acceptability. The purpose of this test is to evaluate the system's compliance with the business requirements and assess whether it is acceptable for delivery.
Note: Some tend to include Regression Testing as a separate level of software testing but that is a misconception. Regression Testing is, in fact, just a type of testing that can be performed at any of the four main levels.
There are different levels during the process of Testing. In this chapter a brief description is provided about these levels.
Basic reasons to automation testing.
Why to we required Automation testing?
Reusing the test scripts:
- When you want to execute the regression test scripts after every build it makes more sense to automate them. In case of testing web based application there is a more need to automate as the test suite has to be run on various browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox and other browsers.
Saves time:
- Running unattended automated test scripts saves human time as well as machine time than executing scripts manually.
Better use of resource:
- While automated scripts are running unattended on machines, testers can do more useful tasks.
Cost Saving:
- On test engagements requiring a lot of regression testing, usage of automated testing reduces the people count and time requirement to complete the engagement and helps reduce the costs.
To Automate or Not to Automate?
- It is not always advantageous to automate test cases. There are times when manual testing may be more appropriate.
- For instance, if the application's user interface will change considerably in the near future, then any automation would need to be rewritten. Also, sometimes there simply is not enough time to build test automation. For the short term, manual testing may be more effective. If an application has a very tight deadline, there is currently no test automation available, and it's imperative that the testing get done within that time frame, then manual testing is the best solution.
Decide What Test Cases to Automate
- Repetitive tests that run for multiple builds.
- Tests that tend to cause human error.
- Tests that require multiple data sets.
- Frequently used functionality that introduces high risk conditions.
- Tests those are impossible to perform manually.
- Tests that run on several different hardware or software platforms and configurations.
- Tests that take a lot of effort and time when manual testing.
Create Automated Tests that are Resistant to Changes in the UI
- Automated tests created with scripts or keyword tests are dependent on the application under test.
- The user interface of the application may change between builds, especially in the early stages. These changes may affect the test results, or your automated tests may no longer work with future versions of the application.
- The problem is automated testing tools use a series of properties to identify and locate an object.
- Sometimes a testing tool relies on location coordinates to find the object. For instance, if the location has changed, the automated test will no longer be able to find the object when it runs and will fail.
- To run the automated test successfully, you may need to replace old names with new ones in the entire project, before running the test against the new version of the application.
- However, if you provide unique names for your controls, it makes your automated tests resistant to these UI changes and ensures that your automated tests work without having to make changes to the test itself.
- This also eliminates the automated testing tool from relying on location coordinates to find the control, which is less stable and breaks easily.
- However, automation has specific advantages for improving the long-term efficiency of a software team's testing processes.
Test automation supports:
- Frequent regression testing
- Rapid feedback to developers during the development process
- Virtually unlimited iterations of test case execution
- Customized reporting of application defects
- Disciplined documentation of test cases
- Finding defects missed by manual testing
Automated tests should be
Concise: Test should be as simple as possible and no simpler.
Self Checking: Test should report its results such that no human interpretation is necessary.
Repeatable: Test can be run repeatedly without human intervention.
Robust: Test produces same result now and forever. Tests are not affected by changes in the external environment.
Sufficient: Tests verify all the requirements of the software being tested.
Necessary: Everything in each test contributes to the specification of desired behavior.
Clear: Every statement is easy to understand.
Efficient: Tests run in a reasonable amount of time.
Specific: Each test failure points to a specific piece of broken functionality (e.g. each test case tests one possible point of failure).
Independent: Each test can be run by itself or in a suite with an arbitrary set of other tests in any order.
Maintainable: Tests should be easy to modify and extend.
Traceable: Tests should be traceable to the requirements; requirements should be traceable to the tests.


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Imaginative Science Communication
A very clever way of conveying the day-to-day process of scientific collecting...
From Glenn Ferguson, Exhibitions Manager:
One of our colleagues in science, Dr Buz Wilson, sent me this underground 2007 video circulating on YouTube called "Cruise, Cruise Baby" an adaptation of Vanilla Ice's original song by a team of US Scientists trawling for plankton; Coastal Ocean Observing Center at the University of New Hampshire. It's fabulous and I think it it's an example of the viral pickup you can get out potentially dry subject if you inject the right quota of humour.
It's at: http://www.protectplanetocean.org/collections/notes/notes.html


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Created in close collaboration with Apple, Blackmagic Design's Blackmagic eGPU and Blackmagic eGPU Pro bring accelerated pro app workflows, smoother gameplay, and true-to-life VR content creation to your Mac.
Technical specifications
Blackmagic eGPU includes a Radeon Pro 580 graphics processor with 8GB DDR5 memory, giving your connected Mac graphics performance that's similar to a high-end 27-inch iMac.
Blackmagic eGPU Pro includes a Radeon RX Vega 56 graphics processor with 8GB HBM2 memory. This gives your connected Mac graphics performance that's similar to iMac Pro.
In addition to boosting graphics performance, both Blackmagic eGPUs provide 85 watts of charging power to MacBook Air and MacBook Pro.
Blackmagic eGPU has these ports to connect displays and VR accessories:
- Two Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C)
- Four USB 3.0
- One HDMI 2.0
Blackmagic eGPU Pro has these ports:
- Two Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C)
- Four USB 3.0
- One HDMI 2.0
- One DisplayPort 1.4
System requirements
Blackmagic eGPU is compatible with any Thunderbolt 3-equipped Mac running macOS High Sierra 10.13.5 or later. Blackmagic eGPU Pro requires a Thunderbolt 3-equipped Mac and macOS Mojave 10.14.1 or later. Learn how to update the software on your Mac.
If you have a Mac mini (2018) with FileVault turned on, make sure to connect your primary display directly to Mac mini during startup. After you log in and see the macOS Desktop, you can unplug the display from Mac mini and connect it to Blackmagic eGPU.
Connect and use Blackmagic eGPU
When you connect Blackmagic eGPU or Blackmagic eGPU Pro to your Mac with a Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) cable, the eGPU menu bar item appears, indicating that the eGPU is ready for use.
Blackmagic eGPU automatically accelerates the graphics from Metal-based apps on external displays and devices that are connected to the eGPU. You can use Activity Monitor to confirm that your eGPU is in use:
- Open Activity Monitor, which is in the Utilities folder inside Applications.
- Choose Window > GPU History. A graph appears, charting the activity of your computer's internal GPU and Blackmagic eGPU.
To disconnect Blackmagic eGPU, use the menu bar item to safely disconnect the eGPU from your Mac before unplugging the cable.
Use the "Prefer external GPU" option
Starting with macOS Mojave 10.14, you can turn on "Prefer external GPU" in a specific app's Get Info panel in the Finder. This option lets Blackmagic eGPU and Blackmagic eGPU Pro accelerate apps on any display connected to the Mac — including displays built in to the Mac:
- Quit the app if it's open.
- Select the app in the Finder. Most apps are in your Applications folder. If you open the app from an alias or launcher, Control-click the app's icon and choose Show Original from the pop-up menu. Then select the original app.
- Press Command-I to show the app's info window.
- Select the checkbox next to Prefer external GPU.
- Open the app to use it with the eGPU.
Learn more about using eGPUs with your Mac.
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I'm Brujo Negro a practitioner of Mexican Brujeria and related folk magic traditions This website is dedicated to the practice of folk magic from various traditions in addition to above mentioned traditions. There will be an emphasis on the practice of Mexican Brujeria with its folk magic aspects, its shamanic healing and magical practice. And if you dont see something that you need feel free to ask and I will see if I can help you out. I do have many resources to draw from.
On this website of Brujeria Magia Negra and Magia Blanca will be discussed as they are practiced in Brujeria. In addition various spirits related to these practices will be discussed in up and coming essays.
I am a fourth generation Brujeria practitioner in what has been confirmed from my Paternal and Maternal Family Tree both sides have practiced Brujeria for four generations in Mexico, in addition I am the third generation to venerate Santa Muerte. Although there are Four Generations of Brujeria in the family, Santa Muerte's veneration in our family goes back three generations on the Maternal side. Please note Santa Muerte is much older than some believe. I have learned from my family as much as I have learned within my own studies. If you want to know more about me click here About Me
MY REVISED VOODOO GRIMOIRE Is still available and the price has changed
Due to the fact that my first work the Voodoo Sorcery Grimoire has a strong emphasis on Necromantic magik I will be adding essays to this website about the other aspects of my Necromantic Path and the related aspects of this path such as certain aspects of vampirism. These practices are related to the shamanic path as well and I intend to define this matter in one of these essays.
On another note: In ancient to contemporary Mexico the word shaman or chaman is not used by traditional brujos and curanderos, the word shaman or shamanic is used in this website because of my anthropological education. It is also used as a generic term of what the western world knows about old healing and witchcraft practices, which stem from the works of Mircea Eliade one of the original exponents of the socio cultural study of traditional healing practices.
His works influenced the (neo-shamanism subculture one that is sorely mislead). It is only this context that the word shaman/chaman is used, I do not completely share in his ideas, experience has taught me that shamanism is more than techniques of ecstacy or spiritual-energetic healing, that the line between being a healer or witch (curandero or brujo) is very blurred. Those that try to separate the two i.e. curandero and brujo do this to justify their personal bias, ideals, wants and personal gain.
BREAKING NEWS: It has recently been brought to my attention by a dear friend of mine that certain individuals have been spreading unfounded untrue rumors about me on internet forums, if you want to read more about this nonsense click on this link LOVE LETTERS .. I conclude with my personal refute regarding these unfounded allegations.
Notice: I am not in association with anyone else whatever rumors are being spread by certain individuals. Nor do I have any "colleages" whatever they are implying by this term and usually such individuals are riding on the one time shared former publisher which frankly was a terrible mistake that no longer will be. And has not been for some years now, nor did I ever perform spiritual work in association with anyone claiming otherwise. If you are coming to me for consultation please keep this in mind as I will not base my assistance on someone else's readings or other advice. Nor would any sincere spiritual practitioner ever base his or her judgment in helping you solely on the words of another person.
;Note: Although this website looks complete, it is not as I have many more articles to come and I have yet to include all of my other spiritual products, so enjoy the website and make sure to hit refresh button on your browser often as the site is constantly growing. So if you dont see something that you need feel free to ask as I have vast resources to draw from. Take care and many blessings to you and your people
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What happens in The Pit and the Pendulum?
In "The Pit and the Pendulum," the narrator relates how he was tortured and imprisoned. He was first placed in a cell with a giant pit in the center. He was then strapped to a table as a pendulum swung back and forth above him, threatening to slice him in two. He narrowly escaped with his life.
The Spanish Inquisition sentenced the narrator to death. He was imprisoned in a dark cell, where he nearly fell into a deep pit from which there would be no escape.
He was then strapped to a table, over which a blade swung like a pendulum. He watched as the pendulum swung lower and lower. He managed to escape by smearing meat on the ropes, enticing rats to chew through them.
- His captors attempt to force him into the pit by closing the walls around him. He's saved at the last minute by General Lasalle and the French army.
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The first-person narrator informs the reader that he is trying to recall and write down everything that happened to him earlier. He describes the Spanish Inquisition's sentencing him to death, a sentence that he could not understand because of his extremely nervous state. When he regained consciousness temporarily, he felt himself being carried down and down into an apparent abyss. Later, when he was fully conscious, he knew that he was lying on his back in an oppressive, damp environment. Finally daring to open his eyes and finding himself in absolute darkness, he imagined that he was buried alive. Food and drink were provided to him only when he swooned or slept. Later, while investigating his surroundings, he narrowly escaped falling into a deep pit to a certain death. Shaken, but relieved, he fell asleep. When he awoke, some light entering the dungeon made it possible for him to compare the room to his calculations made in the dark.
Soon he discovered that one form of torture and execution had only been replaced with another, for he was strapped to a table so that only his head and left arm could be moved slightly. A large razor-sharp pendulum suspended overhead drew nearer with each pass. The ponderous rate at which it descended increased his agony, for he had to await death for what seemed to be many days. At last he developed a plan: He smeared some scraps of meat on his ropes so that the rats in the cell came to gnaw on them. Just as the pendulum brushed his skin, the ropes were loosened enough to allow him to escape. His relief was again short-lived, for the walls of his cell became hotter and hotter, forcing him toward the pit in the center of the room. When he resisted, his invisible tormentors moved the walls so that he was squeezed toward death by heat or by falling into the pit. At the moment when he was losing his foothold, the machines were suddenly turned off, and the walls receded. Just before he fell into the pit, he was rescued by General Lasalle, the leader of the French army, which had just invaded Toledo.
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Sorry if this has been answered somewhere else, I couldn´t find a clear answer, only a mention on this thread. Are there plans to provide a driver for the Gigabit ethernet port on the Pegasos II?
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Viewers Who Sample The Second Season Premiere Of EPISODES
Will Unlock The Premiere Of The Final Season of WEEDS
NEW YORK – June 25, 2012 – Viewers nationwide can now sample the series premieres of the SHOWTIME original comedy series WEEDS and EPISODES, one week before their debut on the network on Sunday, July 1st. Users who watch the season two premiere of EPISODES on the series' Facebook page (http://s.sho.com/LvRWmo
) or across participating distributors' Facebook brand pages, will "unlock" the first episode of the eighth and final season of WEEDS.
In addition, the EPISODES second season premiere can be accessed online now on the SHOWTIME website (http://s.sho.com/Ljw6Tb), on YouTube (http://youtu.be/3CQbuc7UCIY), via select television providers' free On Demand channels and websites, as well as Showtime apps on iPhone®, iPod Touch®, NOOK® Tabletand Android™ smartphones and tablets, for download as a free video podcast on iTunes® (http://s.sho.com/episodespodcast), and on the Showtime Social app for iPad®. In addition, episode two of EPISODES will be available on SHOWTIME ON DEMAND® and on SHOWTIME ANYTIME® on July 1st after the series debut.
The show that introduced America to a pot-dealing soccer mom and changed the face of the network is sparking up its final toke: after eight unforgettable, jaw-dropping seasons, WEEDS is coming to an end with 13 episodes beginning Sunday, July 1st at 10 p.m. ET/PT. For the final season, it's back to the 'burbs for the Botwins. The fallout from the shot heard round the Tri-State area will transform everyone for the better, at least initially. The tragedy has caused Nancy to turn over a new (pot) leaf and return to her pre-dealing soccer mom ways. Meanwhile, Andy finds some semblance of love with someone uncomfortably close to Nancy, and Doug uses his hedge-fund money in a surprisingly good way. But just as it was in Agrestic, nothing is as serene as it seems in Old Sandwich, Connecticut. Just how long before the Botwins return to their old ways and blow up this new neighborhood, literally and/or figuratively, will remain to be seen.
The second season of EPISODES, premiering on Sunday, July 1st at 10:30 p.m. ET/PT, picks up four months after the finale with Sean (Stephen Mangan) and Beverly (Tamsin Greig) no longer living together, but forced into an awkward working relationship with Matt, as Pucks! goes from a pilot to full-blown series. As Beverly struggles to save her marriage, Matt is determined to save his "bromance" with Sean, and all of them are forced to try to save Pucks! as its ratings start to plummet and the pressure mounts. EPISODES centers around Sean and Beverly, a husband–and-wife producing team who are forced to navigate the many pitfalls of the Hollywood television business when their successful British show is brought to America and the U.S. network insists on making the show more audience-friendly by replacing their venerable thespian lead with…Matt LeBlanc. Season one left off with Beverly and Sean's comedy, Lyman's Boys, mangled beyond recognition by the Hollywood powers-that-be into Pucks!, a sitcom about a high-school hockey coach starring Matt LeBlanc. When Beverly sleeps with Matt in a moment of drunken madness, her marriage is left as battered as the state of their TV show.


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LEWISBURG, Pa.--The UMBC men's and women's track and field teams opened 2011 with eight wins at the Gulden Relays Saturday afternoon.
On the men's side, sophomore Trae Proctor (Brandywine, Md./Thomas Stone) won the 60-meter hurdles in an IC4A-qualifying time of 8.21 and freshman Mo Drammeh (Frederick, Md./Thomas Johnson) won his second consecutive high jump, hitting a mark of 1.99m, while senior Martin Nevarez (Casa Grande, Ariz./Central Arizona College) won the pole vault at 4.65m.
Two men's relays, the distance medley relay of juniors Roy Jones (New Market, Md./Linganore) and Patrick Hairfield(Abington, Md./Archbishop Curley) and freshmen Andrew Smith (Chadds Ford, Pa./Garnet Valley) and Jake Albino (Hampton, N.Y./Minisink Valley) and the shuttle hurdles relay of seniors Keith Brown (Columbia, Md./McDonough) and Keith Onto (Point Pleasant, N.J./Point Pleasant Boro/St. Francis (PA)), freshman John Rybak (Baltimore, Md./Archbishop Curley) and Proctor each earned gold in 10:37.37 and 32.73, respectively.
Three Retriever men finished second, including junior Arjun Pradeep (Ellicott City, Md./Mount Hebron) in the 500-meter dash (1:08.23), junior Tim Jones (New Market, Md./Linganore) in the 1-mile run (4:31.28) and sophomore TJ Cowing (Severna Park, Md./Severna Park) in the 3,000-meter run in 8:49.89.
On the women's side, sophomore Amanda Deller (Aberdeen, Md./Aberdeen) won the shot put with a throw of 14.06m, while junior Chrissy Robinson (Lusby, Md./Patuxent) finished second with a heave of 12.64m. Deller also earned silver in the weight throw, hitting a mark of 15.98m.
Sophomore Chowan Brightful (New Market, Md./Linganore) won the high jump with a mark of 1.60m, while freshman Tina DiPaola (Pasadena, Md./Chesapeake) placed second with a mark of 1.55m.
UMBC finished 1-2-3-4 in the 500-meter dash, with freshman Kirsten Jones (Brentwood, Tenn./M.L.K. Magnet) winning in 1:18.39, while fellow freshmen Deborah Adelola (Lanham, Md./Bladensburg) and Cody Mezebish (Westminster, Md/South Carroll) and junior Lauren Leclercq (Jessup, Md./Meade) finishing right behind.
The Retrievers return to action next Saturday when they compete at the New York Armory in New York City.


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Don't drop that Bulb!
At the end of last year, I wrote about a federal law that outlaws the sale of 100-watt incandescent light bulbs after 2012 and 40-watt incandescent bulbs after 2014. In another post, I speculated (only half jokingly) about where such stupid nanny-state legislation might lead.
Texas Congressman Ted Poe (see above) recently made a speech on the floor of the House of Representatives highlighting the lunacy of the use of those stupid squiggly "energy saving" bulbs. It's a good speech, even though it appears that he spoke to a largely empty chamber, which doesn't surprise me. Politicians care about two things and only two things — getting elected and, once elected, staying in office.
As I've said before, this crap is just the beginning, and you can damned well laminate that for your wallet.


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I recently added a little reading corner to my son's room. As you may know, my son's room is Dr. Seuss themed. So everything that I added has a hint of Dr. Seuss.
The room already had a couple of book shelves.
Underneath the shelves I added a magnet wall.
I just used Rustoleum magnet paint. This stuff is amazing! You can even paint over the magnet paint so that the magnet wall can just blend right in with the rest of the wall. I decided to leave it for the time being so that my son can see the contrast between where to put the magnets and where not to. I think eventually I'll paint over it and then just frame the part of the wall that is magnetized.
Here is the wall before right we painted it.
I love the magnets on the wall. I happened to come across some Dr. Seuss foam stickers at Hobby Lobby one day. They came in a pack of 200. I thought that they would be perfect for this project. I just converted them to magnets by adding some adhesive magnet tape to the back of each sticker.
There are some cool magnets. All of the ABC's, plus pictures of Dr. Seuss books and characters. They even have a magnet for every page of Green Eggs and Ham so you can even read the book right there on the magnet wall.
In addition to the magnet wall, I also sewed my son a bean bag chair using various Dr. Seuss fabrics. I used the Michael Miller child bean bag chair pattern.
It sits right next to his book shelf.
Contrary to the story this picture tells, my son actually loves his chair. He spends a lot of his day sitting and reading in his bean bag chair. He just wasn't interested in sitting in it when I wanted to take a picture.
Here is a view of the entire reading corner, complete with a pennant banner made from Dr. Seuss book pages.
Here are a couple of links to other Dr. Seuss projects in his room.
P.S. Happy Halloween! We spent our evening reading Halloween books in our Halloween PJ's. We've had 3 rounds of trick or treating over the last week so we took the night off from candy collecting to pass out candy to others. It was just as fun but without the sugar high. My son would get so excited every time the door bell rang!


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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has signed a resolution declaring Jan. 11 Clarence Clemons Day. That's the day Clemons was born.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (Aug. 13, 2006) – The U.S. Men's National Team did serious damage to its hopes for advancing from pool play in the 2006 FIVB World League when it lost a second-straight match to Poland, 3-0 (25-22, 25-19, 25-23) on Sunday in Katowice, Poland at Spodek Hall.
The loss drops the U.S. Men's record to 5-5. It had already lost two matches to Poland when the two teams played July 14-15 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Serbia & Montenegro leads Pool A at 7-3. Poland also has a 7-3 record, but sits in second due to the points differential. Japan, which has lost all its matches since an opening victory, is last at 1-9.
U.S. Head Coach Hugh McCutcheon tried to improve his team's chances for a win after Saturday's 3-2 (25-17, 25-21, 19-25, 23-25, 15-17) loss by starting Clay Stanley (Honolulu, Hawaii) at opposite. Poland started Grzegorz Szymanski at opposite in place of Mariusz Wlazly, who suffered from leg cramps on Saturday.
Nevertheless, the U.S. defense struggled to stop Poland's attack. Team USA finally made a run in the third set and took a 12-10 lead, but Poland turned to Sebastian Swiderski to help it regain the edge and take the victory.
"Congratulations to the Polish team. They played two good matches. Today they were much better," McCutcheon said. "I must say, I am a little bit disappointed that we did not play better. Now we are going to Serbia and hopefully we will win some matches there."
Poland Head Coach Raul Lozano complimented his team's maturity.
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"What is also important, we played with the fifth team in the world."
The U.S. Men's Team must now travel to Serbia to play its final two World League pool-play matches on Aug. 18-19. The United States split two matches with Serbia & Montenegro when they played on Aug. 4-5 in Spokane, Wash.
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Poland 7-3
Japan 1-9
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Argentina 6-4
Finland 3-7
Portugal 1-9
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France 7-3
Italy 5-5
China 0-10
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Bulgaria 8-2
Korea 4-6
Egypt 0-10
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2 Pieter Olree (OH, Reading, Pa.)
3 Jim Polster (OH, Laguna Niguel, Calif.)
5 Rich Lambourne (L, Tustin, Calif.)
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7 Donald Suxho (S, Korce, Albania)
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9 Ryan Millar (MB, Palmdale, Calif.)
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Date: July 14-15
Opponent: Poland
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah - The "E" Center
Match 1: Poland defeats USA 3-1 (22-25, 25-23, 25-23, 25-23)
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Date: July 22-23
Opponent: Japan
Location: Hiroshima Green Arena
Match 1: USA defeats Japan 3-0 (25-15, 25-22, 25-17)
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Date: July 29-30
Opponent: Japan
Location: Minneapolis, Minn. - Target Center
Match 1: USA defeats Japan 3-0 (25-18, 25-20, 25-18)
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Date: Aug. 4-5
Opponent: Serbia & Montenegro
Location: Spokane, Wash. - Spokane Memorial Arena
Match 1: Serbia & Montenegro defeats USA (13-25, 36-34, 25-22, 25-17)
Match 2: USA defeats Serbia & Montenegro (27-25, 25-22, 25-27, 25-21)
Date: Aug. 12-13
Opponent: Poland
Location: Katowice - Spodek
Match 1: Poland def. USA (17-25, 21-25, 25-19, 25-23, 17-15)
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Date: Aug. 18-19
Opponent: Serbia & Montenegro
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This began as a comment on Latoya's post about Liz Phair over at Feministe, in which she references my Broadsheet post on the re-release of Exile in Guyville. As so often happens, the comment got so damned long I decided to make it a post.
So first, for the record, I actually didn't (and wouldn't) call Guyville "The album that made me a feminist." That was a case of the editor writing the headline and overstating things. But still, Latoya's post gave me a lot to think about in terms of how I wrote about the album a few months ago and how I responded to it as a teenager.
If I had that post to do over, I'd definitely take out the bit about Phair's themes being "universal." It was really a post about my personal response to the album up to that point — and even if trying to extrapolate that to something "universal" weren't problematic for all the reasons Latoya lays out, it was both a huge stretch and lazy writing. I was trying to figure out as I wrote why Phair's very personal songs struck me on a very personal level, even though I hadn't had most of the experiences she was talking about. And it's because she tapped into a recognizable male-female dynamic that was indeed larger than individual experience — but that's still a far cry from a "universal" experience. At 18, affluent, white Chicago suburbs just like the one that produced Liz Phair were just about my entire universe — but there's no excuse for still thinking about it that way at 33.
It's really interesting for me to consider what people are saying about the brand of anti-consumerism and feminism that grows out of white middle-class suburbs, 'cause… dude, yeah. Another reason Liz Phair went over so big among my friends is that she seemed solidly "alternative" at first — at the time, we automatically eschewed anything popular, because liking it would have threatened our identities as outcasts and misfits. (We'll set aside the fact that by the time new music got to us, it was usually doing well all over the country, even if it wasn't mainstream, per se. This was pre-internet [for us], and we were young, so we liked to think we were discovering all this shit.) And of course, in the scheme of things, as white, middle-class people, we were far from outcasts or misfits — but we felt like that within our own communities and thus felt the need to actively reject everything a majority of our peers thought was cool.
Which brings me to TLC, whom Latoya has mentioned in this post and another Feministe guest post as part of her "awakening as a hip-hop feminist." I also loved them at the time, but I mostly kept that hidden around my friends, because the band was too commercial to be acceptable in my crowd. I slipped "Depend on Myself" onto a few baby feminist mix tapes I made for friends, but if I'd ever tried to play Ooooooohhh… on the TLC Tip at a party, it would have met with a whole lot of "Why the hell are we listening to this Top 40 crap?"
And the funny thing is, I responded to that album immediately the first time I heard it, but Guyville took several listens before it grew on me. And I only gave it those several listens because I would have felt like an outcast among my merry band of outcasts who weren't really outcasts if I hadn't learned to love it. The older I've gotten, the more I've realized I really do love a lot of commercial music (and books and movies) — and although popular shit often is just a bunch of non-threatening mediocrity, it's also sometimes good stuff (on some level) that represents the wisdom of crowds. But back then, in that white suburban misfit framework, I had to apologize for listening to TLC or lining up for a summer blockbuster. It just wasn't done. (To give you an idea of how deep this went: Although loving Guyville was de rigueur among my friends, it was not acceptable to love the track "Never Said," because that one actually got a bit of airplay.)
And in terms of all the frank sexuality shit Phair was constantly lauded for, even then, I would have taken "Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg" over "Flower," any day. I never liked "Flower," still don't, and am not a big fan of "Glory," either. (I don't even want to know about "Hot White Cum." That one came out way after I stopped listening.) The songs I ended up loving were the faster ones, the less "I'm a girl singing folk songs about blow jobs — isn't that a scream?" ones. Realistically, the more commercial ones. "6'1″", "Help Me Mary," "Divorce Song," "Mesmerizing" — and yes, "Never Said." I fucking love "Never Said." There, I said it.
In retrospect, I can't believe how ridiculous it was to conceal my love for certain bands and songs just because my friends would have raised their eyebrows, but then, part of the reason I came to love Guyville, and came to see it as an album that influenced my feminism, is because loving it was a community activity, within the angry middle-class white girl community. Ditto Ani Difranco. We didn't have words for a lot of stuff we were just starting to figure out, but they did, and when we went to a show or sat in a dorm room together and sang along, it felt like we were making a collective statement, even if it was only to each other and the four walls around us. I cracked up when I saw Feministe commenter Crys T's description of Ani as "what's-her-name, that musician who set up her own record label in the 90s and all the US-based white feminists worshipped her," because… yeah again. But when my friend Spillah told me she dedicated "If He Tries Anything" to me on her college radio show, despite the fact that it was an industrial show and I was about 900 miles, ahem, out of range, both the song and the act made me think hard about the power of female friendship — something I'd always taken for granted and, quite honestly, seen as inferior to the male attention I desperately wanted (but was also terrified of). And among other things, listening to Ani made me confront my own homophobia. From the time I was able to understand the concept of fairness, I was theoretically pro-gay rights, but down not-so-deep, I still didn't want to risk being mistaken for a lesbian, still would have seen that as an insult — which I came face to face with when I hesitated to blast "If It Isn't Her" or "In or Out" down the hall just as loudly as other songs. There were a lot of little awakenings there for someone who was raised in what was then the most solidly Republican congressional district in Illinois.
Basically, Ani Difranco and Liz Phair helped me take baby steps out of the white, straight, Christian, middle-class, good-girl cocoon I grew up in. They were all about shocking and rejecting the kind of authority figures I'd grown up with, which I didn't yet realize were a pretty fucking easily scandalized group. They were only baby steps, but I was only a baby — mature for my age in many ways, yes, but still so young and so sheltered. They spoke to me both because I was white and suburban and because I wanted the fuck out of that world.
I've been a city girl for over a decade now, and I can't even imagine going back to the 'burbs, much less the one I grew up in. But making that transition involved (and still involves) a shitload of unlearning. When I first moved to Toronto (Toronto!!!) I walked around clutching my purse to my chest and waiting to be violently attacked at any moment, because all my life I'd been taught to fear the whole concept of an urban environment — all those people you don't know everywhere! "All those people who don't look like us" and "All those poor people" went unspoken, but of course that was at least 75% of the point. When I got to Toronto, I had no idea what cities were really like, I just knew they were the opposite of the suburbs — and I knew the homogeneity, materialism, elitism, entitlement, and female submissiveness that had defined the culture I grew up in were not what I wanted to define my adulthood. Basically, Liz Phair and Ani Difranco were singing "fuck you" to all that at a time when I wasn't yet ready to do anything but sing along. They were like big sisters who had already moved out, calling home to confirm that yes, Mom and Dad are fucking crazy, and it is way better out here. Even if they'd hardly seen any of the world by then, they'd already seen a lot more than me.
Would I love Guyville or Imperfectly (the first Ani album I heard) so much if I heard them for the first time now? Almost certainly not. For starters, one of the shitty things about getting older is that new music can almost never set me on fire the way it did in my teens and early twenties. On the plus side, that's largely because I have seen a lot more now, and found my own words, my own friends and lovers, my own wisdom. I don't need song lyrics to make me feel like somebody gets me anymore — and I'm already older than a whole lot of current musicians, so the insights they offer are a lot less striking to me, to say the least. I haven't bought a new album by Liz Phair or Ani Difranco in years, and I'm not particularly sad about having outgrown them. But man, those were the perfect albums at the perfect time in the perfect environment for me back then, and I do miss getting that geeked about new music.
On the other hand, I just downloaded Ooooooohhh… on the TLC Tip, since my CD of it is long gone, and it's still pretty damned fun to go back to old music.
Shapelings, what do you think of all this? What was the music that OMG CHANGED YOUR LIFE when you were young? Do you still like it, or do you cringe looking back? Somewhere in between? Tell me stuff.


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