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Muscular Body Image Lures Boys Into Gym, and Obsession
November 19, 2012, 04:37:11 PM »
It is not just girls these days who are consumed by an unattainable body image.
Mr. Abusheikh, 18, lifts weights for two hours a day.
Take David Abusheikh. At age 15, he started lifting weights for two hours a day, six days a week. Now that he is a senior at Fort Hamilton High School in Brooklyn, he has been adding protein bars and shakes to his diet to put on muscle without gaining fat.
I didnt used to be into supplements, said Mr. Abusheikh, 18, who plans on a career in engineering, but I wanted something that would help me get bigger a little faster.
Pediatricians are starting to sound alarm bells about boys who take unhealthy measures to try to achieve Charles Atlas bodies that only genetics can truly confer. Whether it is long hours in the gym, allowances blown on expensive supplements or even risky experiments with illegal steroids, the price American boys are willing to pay for the perfect body appears to be on the rise.
In a study to be published on Monday in the journal Pediatrics, more than 40 percent of boys in middle school and high school said they regularly exercised with the goal of increasing muscle mass. Thirty-eight percent said they used protein supplements, and nearly 6 percent said they had experimented with steroids.
Over all, 90 percent of the 1,307 boys in the survey who lived in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, but typify what doctors say is a national phenomenon said they exercised at least occasionally to add muscle.
There has been a striking change in attitudes toward male body image in the last 30 years, said Dr. Harrison Pope, a psychiatry professor at Harvard who studies bodybuilding culture and was not involved in the study. The portrayal of men as fat-free and chiseled is dramatically more prevalent in society than it was a generation ago, he said.
While college-age men have long been interested in bodybuilding, pediatricians say they have been surprised to find that now even middle school boys are so absorbed with building muscles. And their youth adds an element of risk.
Just as girls who count every calorie in an effort to be thin may do themselves more harm than good, boys who chase an illusory image of manhood may end up stunting their development, doctors say, particularly when they turn to supplements or, worse, steroids to supercharge their results.
The problem with supplements is theyre not regulated like drugs, so its very hard to know whats in them, said Dr. Shalender Bhasin, a professor of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine and chief of endocrinology, diabetes and nutrition at Boston Medical Center. Some contain anabolic steroids, and even high-quality protein supplements might be dangerous in large amounts, or if taken to replace meals, he said. These things just havent been studied very well, he said.
Anabolic steroids pose a special danger to developing bodies, Dr. Bhasin said. Steroids stop testosterone production in men, he said, leading to terrible withdrawal problems when still-growing boys try to stop taking them. Still, the constant association of steroids with elite athletes like Lance Armstrong and Barry Bonds perpetuates the notion that they can be managed successfully.
Online, in bodybuilding forums for teenagers, boys barely out of puberty share weight-lifting regimens and body fat percentages, and judge one anothers progress. On Tumblr and Facebook, teenagers post images of ripped athletes under the heading fitspo or fitspiraton, which are short for fitness inspiration. The tags are spinoffs of thinspo and thinspiration pictures and videos, which have been banned from many sites for promoting anorexia.
Lifted b4 school today felt good but was weak as hell, wrote one boy who said he was 15 and from Tallahassee, Fla., on a message board on Bodybuilding.com in September, saying he bench-pressed 245 pounds. Barely got it.
Many of these boys probably see themselves in Mike Sorrentino, The Situation from the Jersey Shore series on MTV, or the Adam Sackler character, on the HBO series Girls, who rarely wears a shirt or takes a break from his crunches.
Mr. Abusheikh, for instance, has a Facebook page full of photos of himself shirtless or showing off his six-pack abs. At his high school, participation in the annual bodybuilding competition hit an all-time high of 30 students this year.
They ask us about everything, said Peter Rivera, a physical education teacher at Fort Hamilton High School who helps oversee the competition. How do I lose weight? How do I gain muscle? How many times a week should I work out? Some boys want to be stronger for sports, Mr. Rivera said, but others want to change their body type.
Compared with a sedentary lifestyle of video games and TV, an obsession with working out may not quite qualify as a health hazard. And instructors like Mr. Rivera say most boys are eager for advice on the healthiest, drug-free ways to get in shape.
With so little known about supplements, it can be difficult, particularly for teenagers, to make wise decisions.
Alonso Huizar, 16, of Tucson, could not say for sure which creatine supplements he takes. I bounce around, he said. I get, like, some type of chocolate flavor, depending on the price.
Alonso started lifting weights at 15 because he wanted to get bigger for soccer, but I was also just trying to gain weight in general, he said. Cristiano Ronaldo, the Portuguese soccer player, is the man with the body he would like to have, he said.
His mother, Ana, said she would have preferred that Alonso hold off on weight training until he was older, but the pressure from coaches and peers made compromise impossible. Its pushed on them if youre going to play soccer, you have to lift weights, she said.
A majority of girls in the Minnesota study said they, too, had changed eating or exercise habits to build muscle, with 21 percent using protein supplements and nearly 5 percent using steroids.
The model of feminine beauty is now more toned and fit and sculpted than it was a generation ago, said Marla Eisenberg, assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Minnesota, the lead author of the Pediatrics study. Its not just being thin. Its being thin and toned. Indeed, visitors to the Fitspo Facebook page are greeted by a sinewy model wearing a tank top that reads Strong is the new skinny.
Paradoxically, the emphasis on weight lifting among adolescents may be depleting the number of contestants in teenage bodybuilding meets, because many children cannot pass a drug test. You used to get a lot of teenage bodybuilders, but you dont get them as much anymore, said Andrew Bostinto, president of the National Gym Association. A lot of these kids are juiced, so theyre not entering natural shows.
You get these kids now, theyre 5 feet 6 inches, 5 feet 7 inches, weighing 265 pounds with two percent body fat, he said. Give me a break. You cant put on 30 pounds in a month.
Mr. Abusheikh, who stands 5 feet tall and weighs 125 pounds, said he steered clear of steroids and would prefer not to use supplements. But because of his small stature, he needed the extra bulk to compete in his schools bodybuilding contest. Im mostly trying to get into engineering, he said, but if something gets in the way I figure I can always be a personal trainer.
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November 19, 2012, 04:54:08 PM »
probably a war in the human specie between people of different somatotypes, fact is endos always hated ecto and mesos, etc and ectos always been smarter , more focusing on their "intelligence"...now the new ideal is being ecto or meso fit, toned, and smart, the fat ass endomorphic part of the society is left behind and angy. How is it bad news that more and more youths get into fitness/physical conditionning... it's great as long as they stay natural doing so.
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November 19, 2012, 04:54:21 PM »
haha if his mum wants to bitch so much she can just blame her self for finding a crappy father to be a role model for the kid or for her being a slut.
It is ovbious why guys obsess about the gym, the poster above me made it clear in previous posts
Any way it is not like you cannot eat healthy food, lift weights 3 times a week and do cardio after and be in shape( not every one can be ripped but inshape you can), fact is if this kid wasnt obsessed with lifting, he would be obsessed with something else.
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Quote from: uberman on November 19, 2012, 04:54:08 PM
probably a war in the human specie between people of different somatotypes, fact is endos always hated ecto and mesos, etc and ectos always been smarter , more focusing on their "intelligence"...now the new ideal is being ecto or meso fit, toned, and smart, the fat ass endomorphic part of the society is left behind and angy. How is it bad news that more and more youths get into fitness/physical conditionning... it's great as long as they stay natural doing so.
interesting post Uber.im with you only except the natural part.
otherwise a pov that is interesting.
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The way The Happiness Patrol starts is almost in complete, and deliberate, contradiction to how a "normal" Doctor Who story would begin. Usually The Doctor lands on a planet, sees that not everything is as it seems, gets captured, learns more as the story progresses, discovered who the oppressors/antagonists are, defeats them. In Happiness, The Doctor emerges from the TARDIS telling Ace that he's heard of Terra Alpha already and how he needs to take down the government there - tonight. And, to further turn things around, The Doctor and Ace have to go out of their way to get arrested, even when threatened by a trigger happy bunch of gun toting aging cheerleaders.
This approach lends itself so well to how the Andrew Cartmel era was starting to take shape at this time with it putting The Doctor front and center as the catalyst that makes everything happen. It also is a great example of how to properly exploit the new three-episode format. More stuff happens in the first few minutes of this episode than would in almost any other four-parter. It's been said quite often that a new series episode of Doctor Who is essentially a four-part classic story cut and edited into a tight, 45-minute episode. The three-part stories of the 1980s are like a transition into that way of storytelling. There's enough going on in stories like The Happiness Patrol, and enough characters to support the storyline or storylines, that it could easily be filled (or padded) out into four episodes (as the deleted scenes on their accompanying DVD releases would attest), but everything is so tightly written and edited that there is seldom room for a stray line or superfluous scene that doesn't advance the story.
The setting for this story is also very bizarre, and the abrupt ends to scenes that were brought on by judicious editing actually help in setting an overall tone of unease. Just when you think you're getting to grips with this weird place and its cheerleader security squad, the scene changes to a crazy robot made out of licorice all sorts, then to a grotesque parody of Margaret Thatcher, who appears to be running the whole place. It's all so unsettling so early on, and that's what always compels me to watch it even more.
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AUSTIN — Texas voters are going to the polls Tuesday to vote on a slew of constitutional and municipal issues, from funding water projects to granting tax breaks to aerospace companies.
But a deeper question is how voters adapt to the state's new controversial voter ID law, which was enacted earlier this year and is seeing its first statewide test Tuesday.
The law says voters must have a valid photo ID with a name that matches the name on the voting rolls. Those without ID could still vote using provisional ballots and have six days to return with correct identification.
Texas is one of 34 states that have passed voter ID laws, though not all of have been enacted due to future implementation dates or court challenges, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that parts of the Voting Rights Act, particularly the Justice Department's preclearance of state voting practices, were unconstitutional, paving the way for Texas and other states to implement stricter voting requirements.
Supporters of the Texas law say it's a way to ensure the integrity of elections. Opponents say it's a partisan strategy by Republicans to suppress Democratic votes, as it impacts mostly poor, black or Hispanic voters, who tend to vote Democratic. An estimated 5% to 10% of Texas' 13.6 million voters could be affected by the new law.
"It's very concerning," said U.S. Rep. Marc Veasey, a Democrat, who represents a district in the Fort Worth area and who filed a lawsuit this summer in federal court against the law. "All Americans regardless of race or economic background should have equal access to the polls."
The photo ID mandate was approved by Texas' Republican-controlled legislature two years ago but was shelved after a three-judge federal panel declared it discriminatory against minorities and the poor. After the Supreme Court decision, state officials, led by Texas State Attorney General Greg Abbott, said that mandate was negated and enacted the measure. A slew of lawsuits by Democratic lawmakers, civil rights groups and the Justice Department followed. The lawsuits have been consolidated into one complaint and will have its first hearing later this month.
Ensuring fair elections – not political strategy – is the real motivator behind the law, said Steve Munisteri, chairman of the Republican Party of Texas. "It's a simple matter of making sure the integrity of the ballot box remains intact," he said. "All the Republicans I've talked to have a legitimate belief that you should reduce voter fraud as much as possible."
Already the law has tripped up longstanding voters from both parties during early voting. State Sen. Wendy Davis, the front-running Democratic candidate for governor next year, had to initial an affidavit because the name on her driver's license didn't exactly match her voter registration card, Travis County Clerk Dana DeBeauvoir said. Same for Abbott, Davis' strongest Republican rival for governor, DeBeauvoir said.
In one of the most visible hiccups with the law, former U.S. speaker of the House Jim Wright, a Texas Democrat, wasn't initially able to get a new voter identification card because his driver's license had expired. "I earnestly hope these unduly stringent requirements on voters won't dramatically reduce the number of people who vote," Wright, 90, told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. "I think they will reduce the numbers to some extent."
But the numbers likely won't be significant in this election, which draws mostly ardent voters with correct ID, DeBeauvoir said. So far, about one-fifth of Travis County's early voters had to initial an affidavit because the name on their ID was slightly off and only about 30 needed to file provisional ballots, she said.
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The Midwest Conference has announced that Macalester will join the 11-member group as an affiliate football member beginning in July of 2014.
A traditional multi-sport conference over its 93-year history, the Midwest Conference recently adopted legislation to permit affiliate membership in single sports.
With the addition of Macalester, MWC football will now consist of 12 institutions that will compete in a divisional format. Beloit, Carroll, Lawrence, Macalester, Ripon, and St. Norbert will participate in the North Division while Cornell, Grinnell, Illinois College, Knox, Lake Forest, and Monmouth will play in the South Division.
The MWC has not played divisional football since 1998, following the departure of Coe and Cornell. The conference has been playing a modified round robin schedule with its 11 institutions since the return of Cornell for the 2012 season.
"With the addition of a 12th member for football we are able to develop scheduling models that are flexible while providing the excitement of a final league-wide championship week," noted MWC Commissioner Chris Graham. "The timing of our partnership with a like-minded institution such as Macalester is mutually beneficial."
Macalester athletic director Kim Chandler said the choice to get back into conference play was a deliberate one. "This was an institutional decision and one that was purposeful and measured," she said.
"While the conference hoped the Macalester football program would return to the MIAC, we understand the new direction they have identified," MIAC commissioner Dan McKane said. "Macalester is committed to remaining a conference member in all other sports that the conference sponsors."
Schedules will consist of two non-conference games, two cross-divisional games, followed by five divisional games. The North and South Division winners will meet in the final championship week of the season to decide who will earn the automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament while all other teams will play their divisional counterpart within the standings.
Macalester pulled its football program out of the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference in 2002, citing its difficulty remaining competitive in the conference. It has competed as an independent since that time, although it has had partial scheduling arrangements with the MWC and the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference in the intervening 11 seasons.
The Scots are coming off a 2012 season where they finished 6-4 overall, winning three of its last four contests under head coach Tony Jennison. Jennison enters his sixth season in 2013 and has compiled a 22-26 record. The Scots last faced a Midwest Conference foe in 2011, when it lost to Grinnell 31-6. Grinnell went 4-5 in the MWC that season. The Scots also played Cornell that season, in Cornell's last year in the Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.
Closing the door on returning to the MIAC means the conference may finally be able to address the scheduling concerns that a nine-team league presents. McKane said: "The MIAC has started to engage in preliminary discussions at the Presidential and Athletic Director levels to improve football scheduling, including an examination of the conference moratorium on adding new or affiliate members, but no action is anticipated in the immediate future."


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The Republicans who controlled not only the White House but also both houses of Congress have no excuse for the damage that they have done to the country. However, it would be extremely foolish for us to think that any meaningful change will occur just because the Democrats are now in greater control of the machinations of political power. Because, the truth of the matter is that ours is not a true representative democracy.
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Think about it, if America were a true democracy would a competent, qualified candidate have to worry about the amount of money in his political war chest? The harsh truth is that only the propertied class and those connected to them have any chance of advancing to the halls of higher political office. So, if the capable but poor individual will never be able to vie for the White House or Congress, because he isn't connected to big money, then, how can we really call this a shining example of democracy?
Here in America, lobbyists usually control the agenda in Washington. They do this by spreading their money around to both parties. So, just because we have kicked one set of bums out doesn't mean our work of cleaning up this country is over. In fact, it has only just begun.
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The Department of Homeland Security, formed in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, has struggled to meld the disparate IT infrastructures of the agencies it inherited into an integrated whole. And judging by its most recent spending projections, the wrestling continues.
On average, according to a recent report from International Data Corp. (IDC), government agencies spend around 75 percent of their IT budget on operating and maintaining legacy systems, with the rest going to modernizations or new IT. DHS puts just over 16 percent of its annual IT budget toward new systems and modernization.
Much of the focus at DHS has been on improving data sharing among agencies, said Shawn McCarthy, research director at IDC Government Insights, and DHS realizes it needs a certain number of systems to do that. But "getting that down to an absolute enterprise architecture standard" is a challenge for any agency, he said.
"Trying to tie together all of the various systems they need means having to spend more on legacy systems, because it's difficult to simply replace this big mainframe system or that sprawling network of servers," he said. "But at some point it will be easier to buy or build a new system than take another slice of an older one."
The department outlined its "One Network, One Infrastructure, One DHS" vision in 2005, establishing the Infrastructure Transformation Program (ITP) as the driver for a DHS-wide consolidated IT infrastructure. It included such things as data center consolidation and the creation of OneNet, a single wide-area network that would service all of DHS.
Progress has been made. Data centers are being consolidated toward the goal of just two secure and geographically separate centers. And OneNet, which received its original authority to operate in 2005, was mostly up and running by 2011.
Nevertheless, according to the department's Inspector General in a 2012 report, "creating a unified IT infrastructure for effective integration and agencywide management of technology assets and programs has been a challenge."
That's reflected in the breakout of the fiscal 2014 DHS budget. Of the $5.7 billion available for hardware, software and IT services, according to IDC, fully $4.1 billion of that is targeted for hiring outside integrators, for hosted services and for custom software development.
Drilling down further into the budget, IDC finds IT infrastructure maintenance will take up the largest slice of the pie at nearly $2.2 billion, though McCarthy said that category tends to be a "catch-all bucket" for agencies when they can't put their finger on how to precisely define where investments are going.
More specifically, the next biggest allocations are IT solutions for border and transportation security, which are slated to receive $783 million, and those for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance at $595 million. That shows that DHS probably has its ducks correctly lined up, McCarthy said, since no other department on the civilian side has these responsibilities.
"Seeing these slices of the IT pie grow tells me DHS is focusing its efforts on the systems and solutions that are proper for its mission," he said.
With a nod toward the increasing emphasis by the DHS on cybersecurity IT activities, spending on threat and vulnerability management takes up 6.7 percent of the fiscal 2014 total.
Another area at DHS that's behind the average of other government organizations is investment in cloud services, with just 1.2 percent of the total targeted for those against an average of nearly double that elsewhere in government.
DHS officials have previously described a "two-cloud" strategy for the department, with email going to a private DHS cloud, and services such as public facing Web sites going into public clouds.
One reason for the slower cloud spend at DHS might be a continuing reluctance to move highly classified data to the cloud, McCarthy said, though that will likely change in the future as trust in the cloud grows along with the evolution in security standards.
An area that should see a significant uptick will be investments in new and upgraded DHS IT systems at the state and local level, IDC said, since the current regional systems may not be robust enough to integrate new data collection efforts by police departments and other municipal departments.
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A land of leaning ice
Hugged by plaster-grey arches of sky,
Flings itself silently
Into eternity.
"Has no one come here to win you,
Or left you with the faintest blush
Upon your glittering breasts?
Have you no memories, O Darkly Bright?"
Cold-hushed, there is only the shifting of moments
That journey toward no Spring --
No birth, no death, no time nor sun
In answer.
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I have made an updated database for ICC2002 which seems to work fairly well. If you'd like to download a copy then go ahead and give it a try. Let me know what you think and what I need to change.
Thanks, Ashley.
I have made an updated database for ICC2002 which seems to work fairly well. If you'd like to download a copy then go ahead and give it a try. Let me know what you think and what I need to change.
Thanks, Ashley.
What changes u have made in the database ???????????????????????
What changes u have made in the database ???????????????????????
have u edit the fixtures ??
its an updated database of the english league
It all about Afridi ....
Fastest 100 - 102 runs off 37 balls vrs Sri Lanka 1996
Fastest 2nd Joint 100 - 102 runs off 45 balls vrs India 2005
Fastest 2nd Joint 50 - 55 runs of 18 balls vrs Netherlands 2002
Best 1 day international bowling - 5/11
Hey u have changed every country's database but why not Pakistani ?????
I have updated all of the English county sides, and adjusted ages of all players so that they are 3 years older (to replicate 2005 season). I don't think it's possible to alter fixtures or league divisions.
I have also added in some new players for all international sides, and corrected skills and abilities of players - so the England team for example should contain Strauss, Harmison and then like.
I don't know too much about Pakistani domestic cricket I'm afraid. If you provide me with some information and stats then I'll happily update the database.
I've given it a crack, and just some ideas.
Add Salman Butt
Add Yasir Hameed
Increase Akhtar bowling (around to 111 to 115)
Decrease Rana Naved's batting ability, make him speciallist bowler (no way he is worth 33, maybe an 11) Increase bowling
Decrease Wajahatullah Wasti's batting
Add Mohammad Khalil
Add Mohammad Asif
Decrease Shiv Das batting
Add Lakshmipathy Balaji
Increase Zaheer bowling
Increase Gilchrist batting
Increase Hayden batting
Increase Ponting batting
Increase Martyn batting, make his preference to spin
Increase Langer batting
-World Bowlers
As there is no doubt that Warne, McGrath and Muralitharan are the best bowlers, possibly put their skill into the 120s.
-New Zealand
Increase Oram batting, change bowling style to RFM
Change Kyle Mills bowling to RFM
James Marshall to opener, decrease bowling, increase batting
Craig Cumming as an opener
-Retired players
Gary Kirsten
Pommie Mbangwa
Aravinda de Silva
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mills and oram should definately be RMF....otherwise everything looks goodOriginally Posted by SirBloody Idiot
Do you have any further info on Salman Butt, Yasir Hammed, Balaji etc... eg skills for batting and bowling?
Also, one annoying thing I've found is that for some reason Travis Friend is rated the best batsmen in the world when you look at the ratings! Does anyone know why this is - or how to fix it?
Nah mate, that happens sometimes. No idea why.Originally Posted by KentLad
Salman Butt would probably be low on bowling and around 37 with batting, agressive.
Yasir Hameed, around 38, normal agression and medium bowling skill.
Balaji, batting at around 8, bowling RMF stock bowling at one, bowling skill at 103.
Good datatbase so far mate, also Daniel Vettori deserves to be WAAAAAAAAAY up.
I've not worked out which bits of the DB change ranking points... most of the time it just clears everyone, can't for the life of me work out why it's not affected Travis.Originally Posted by KentLad
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KentLad, in the county I select Sussex in which two overseas player are in ur database;Rana Naved & M.Goodwin but when the screen comes to select the team for the match rana Naved wasnt there only M.Goodwin was there and in Surrey also only 1 international player was in the list in the screen where we have to select the team for the match.
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Region 6 convenes regionalization task force; discusses ways to handle declining enrollment
LITCHFIELD >> Wamogo Regional High School administrators are hoping to find a seat before the regionalization music stops.
The Region 6 Board of Education convened its educational task force for a Monday night meeting to discuss the school's prospects, given the district's declining enrollment. Having last met on Jan. 22, the board was ready to hear from Jonathan Costa of Education Connection, who has danced the enrollment tango with other school districts in northwestern Connecticut. According to Costa, "most small districts are in the same kind of boat" as Region 6.
"If you sat down to design an ideal system, you wouldn't build three elementary schools by geographic area and think it's working optimally," Costa said.
Costa, who noted his Litchfield residency and involvement in politics, remarked that districts with a total enrollment over 1,000 would fall off of the regionalization radar of Governor Dannel Malloy. While Costa said that the governor could consider forcing districts to merge, superintendent of schools Edward Drapp said that "it might be a flashpoint someday" but "I wouldn't let it get in the way of your planning."
Until that time comes, though, the board floated a familiar idea -- possibly consolidating with the Litchfield school system. The topic is hardly a new one, but Wamogo Regional High School is sited in Litchfield and most of the other possible partners are off the table. As an example, Costa said that Thomaston Public Schools have "been approached by a dance partner interested in a long-term relationship," and accordingly, would not be looking to join a district to the north or to the west.
"The idea that they would take you over is a misnomer," Costa said, adding that "Region 6 would never do this if Litchfield came to you and said 'we'll keep all our buildings, you close three'."
Costa had previously discussed the topic of consolidating schools with the elementary districts in Colebrook and Norfolk, as well as with Regional School District 12. The latter district batted around multiple ideas, including moving their entire system to the Shepaug Valley High School campus, since, as Costa pointed out, "the prediction at Shepaug is that they'll have 180 kids in 10 years. Think about that. That's a real challenge."
Statewide enrollment figures would put Region 6 on the low end, even if the district consolidated all three elementary schools into one building. According to Costa, the average elementary school enrollment is 458 students, but Drapp said that the combined elementary school populations of Warren, Morris and Goshen add up to less than 400. Costa said that "you'll want to pull in people whose primary interest is the quality of education," but given this small student body, Region 6 may not have that much gravity.
"You don't have the mass to attract people," said Costa. "You're going to get pulled away."
Costa brought a list of priorities to the Region 6 board much like the ones he had discussed with the school administrators in Norfolk and Colebrook. These priorities, which include transportation logistics, equal educational opportunities and cultural and political mindsets, will help Region 6 decide which path to take. These measures include three possible changes, although only one involves formally reshaping the district. School systems could enter into tuition agreements or co-operative arrangements, both of which are less formal and could be severed with one year's notice, or the district could re-regionalize by adding or subtracting towns.
Such a move would require approval from Warren, Morris, Goshen and any other districts involved in the re-regionalization at two referendums. First, all of the towns involved would have to agree to study the effects of regionalization, then the districts would have to agree to regionalize. Costa said that although he was not sure if Norfolk or Colebrook would be willing to take the first step towards a combined regional elementary district, he was surprised by the overwhelming approval in both towns.
Both Colebrook and Norfolk face ballooning per-pupil educational costs due to shrinking enrollment. Colebrook Consolidated School and the Bottelle School are two of the smallest elementary schools in the state, and Costa said that if they combined student bodies, the resulting school would still be the eighth-smallest in the state. Statewide, per-pupil educational costs are approximately $12,000 per student, but smaller school systems -- Region 7 superintendent Judith Palmer presented a proposal which topped $15,000 per student -- bear heavier burdens, since "the real challenge is trying to run a comprehensive high school with a broad range of curriculum choices," according to Costa.
"It's a very expensive kind of proposition," said Costa.
Shrinking enrollments are having adverse effects on educational opportunites throughout the state, as are unfunded mandates and educational reforms. Common Core standards, Smarter Balance accountability measures and the System for Education Evaluation and Development are going to lead to new spending, as noted by school administrators in Winsted and Region 10, among others.
"There was a significant amount of concern about the weight of the three very significant educational reforms that the districts face in the next few years," Costa said, adding that due to Region 6's participation in the SEED pilot program, "you're a step ahead of everyone in that."
However, Costa warned that the same unfunded mandates that are causing a drain on finances are also grabbing the attention of administrators. As such, districts may not be ready to consider merging operations for several years.
"Everyone's so focused on Common Core, Smarter Balance and teacher evaluations," Costa said. "Once the dust settles on those, it'll come back around."
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Oprah ending show because of Palin interview?
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Oprah: "Palin left me with no hope for humanity."
CHICAGO IL. — Oprah Winfrey's legendary television talk show run will be coming to an end after 25 seasons on the air, her production company reported today. According to the Chicago-based Harpo Productions Inc., Winfrey is planning to announce the final date for The Oprah Winfrey Show on a live broadcast on Friday. The reason for her abrupt announcement – Sarah Palin.
It has been rumored that Winfrey has long thought Palin's popularity was unwarranted because of the former governor's questionable career decisions and insatiable thirst for the limelight. These feelings were evident to anyone who watched her recent interview of Palin. Those close to Oprah said she was visibly distraught after the interview and was overheard saying that America's blind adoration with Palin made her believe she failed at her life's work of empowering and educating women.
Winfrey has not tried to hide her political beliefs as she openly campaigned for President Obama during last year's election and was even seen weeping on election night during his victory speech in Chicago's Grant Park. However, many say her feelings on Palin go way beyond party politics, as one of the show's producer's claims that she believes Palin's success is a clear indication that America is doomed and is too forgone to help. The anonymous producer said the Palin interview just proved to Winfrey that while she may have succeeded in raising the self-esteem of women everywhere, she clearly failed in "empowering women to get educated enough not to fall for the smoke and mirrors of a two-bit, propaganda spewing demagogue like Palin."
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I wrote a post earlier this week telling you all about my trip to Ottawa last week, during my trip i delivered Learning Tree course 2105 SQL Server 2012 DBA Skill Upgrade. I also got to spend the weekend following the course in Ottawa. Taking in some of the sites and also checking out a few patios in Byward Market
I was staying in Lord Elgin Hotel on Elgin street which is pretty much slap bang in the middle of downtown Ottawa. I had suffered a little with jet lag and I never really got into a proper sleeping routine so at the end of class on Friday I simply had dinner and a couple of drinks and had another early night.
I was up bright and early on Saturday morning though and I had a chat with the guys on the bell counter at the Elgin about what to do and visit. I was advised that the bars didn't open until 11am so I couldn't get a beer yet!!! Not sure if they were trying to tell me something but there were some cool things to see. The Parliament of Canada was only a couple of blocks away and with the Queens Diamond Jubilee weekend fast approaching I was keen to go and see what the Canadians were going to do to celebrate.
I walked up the street towards parliament passing the war memorial on my way parliament
Just up the street as you turn a corner you are presented with the Canadian parliament building, which is a pretty spectacular building
I was struck just how similar it looks to the Houses Of Parliament in the UK. Maybe the Peace tower helps make this look similar but you can actually walk right up to the front door if you want. They actually put on free tours of the Parliament building and you can go inside for a look. So I did. I had to pass the Queen on horse back to go and collect my ticket
Inside it also looks very similar to the UK Parliament. The Canadian parliament has a House of Commons just like the UK parliament and a Senate which is similar to the House of Lords (in both colour styling and in the fact that neither senators in Canada or Lords in the UK are elected members) but with 308 MPs and 101 Senators they are fewer in number than the UK equivalent.
The cool thing with this building is you can actually take an elevator to the top of the Peace tower, this is Canada's first inclined elevator, with a 9% incline. The lift has a window and you can see the wall getting closer and closer to you as you go up. From the top you can see both Quebec and Ontario
I finished my Saturday with walk up Sussex Street I had a meal in a pub called the Heart and Crown in Byward Market. There is a lot of bars pubs and restaurants in Byward Market so many it would have been impossible for me to visit them all on the same day
I was up early again on Sunday morning, I flew home Sunday but my flight wasn't until late in the evening. The weekend was also Ottawa's famous marathon race weekend. Saturday night saw the 5K and 10K events take place and Sunday was the start of the Marathon. This is the runners the start. These guys still have 26+ miles to go it was nice and earlier 6.55am local time so the heat and humidity had not yet kicked in.
All in all I really enjoyed my visit to Canada's capital city.


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During the first 25 years of its existence, it was affiliated to the Madras and S V Universities and produced distinguished alumni, who are holding high positions, in India and abroad.
n the year 1972 Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University was formed and the college became a constituent college of the University.
With this a new era was ushered in Technical Education. Consequently there was an impetus to the academic activity of this college. Though the College was initially established to provide basic technical education, with the passage of time, it emerged out, as one of the colleges to fulfill the technological need of our fast developing India with highly professional and well-trained graduates.
The college has vast campus sprawling over an area of 200 acres, in a peaceful atmosphere, away from the dust and din of the town.. The Library is well equipped with Journals, Magazines, Textbooks, and Reference manuals.


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Colorado basketball fans will remain on edge at least until Thursday.
Sophomore guard Alec Burks tweeted this morning that he plans to wait until Thursday to announce whether or not he'll enter the NBA draft.
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Monday, May 16, 2011
Gallery Wall for Cheaters
39 comments:
- Michelle Paige said...
Simple and beautiful! I love it!
- May 16, 2011 at 1:01 PM
- Lindsay said...
LOVE it! :) Will you share what size frames you used? Thanks Angie.
- May 16, 2011 at 2:16 PM
- LrSchwtz said...
I love this idea! Great way to display frames! Please stop by www.laughloveandcraft.com and link up to my Share the Wealth Wednesday Link Party! I'm your newest follower!
- May 16, 2011 at 2:25 PM
- Jen-CraftOManiac said...
That looks so designer and so great. LOVE IT! winks-jen
- May 16, 2011 at 2:40 PM
- Emily and Jaime at Everyday Art said...
Love how that turned out! I've been looking for a new idea for our new dining room, and THAT might be my answer. Thanks for sharing. :)
- May 16, 2011 at 3:33 PM
- Lori@KitchenFunk said...
This is beautiful, it came out great!
- May 16, 2011 at 9:07 PM
- Becca said...
This looks wonderful !! I love IKEA ... the shelves are perfect and, yes, what a simple way to be able to change out frames when you want to !!
- May 17, 2011 at 7:40 AM
- Nicole said...
Those shelves are incredible! I love how they look like two insanely long, custom made shelves. Great job!
- May 17, 2011 at 2:26 PM
- Kelli @ RTSM said...
That looks awesome! I wish there was an Ikea closer to us! I would be there all the time:)
- May 17, 2011 at 6:17 PM
- JamieS said...
Looks so pretty! Great Idea for a large wall space!
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- May 18, 2011 at 9:12 AM
- meijo's JOY said...
Awesome beautiful! Good idea!
- May 18, 2011 at 9:20 AM
- Oxford Impressions said...
So glad I found you today! I've been wanting to do this in my living room for years but could never find the shelves I wanted. Thanks for listing where you bought them and the name of the shelving!
- May 18, 2011 at 9:24 AM
- Kelly said...
I just love this.
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- May 18, 2011 at 9:28 AM
- Kari said...
They turned out great! I love how they really fill the entire big wall.
- May 18, 2011 at 9:57 AM
Looks fabulous. I have to ask you what the color of the shelves and frame are? I have everything set up in black frames, my wall is the same color as yours. I'm unsure how it will look. Did you use black or brown? Thanks.
- May 18, 2011 at 10:10 AM
- Nicole@Thrifty Decorating said...
Angie that looks so pretty! I saw your project linked at another party and thought how pretty it was and didn't realize at the time that it was you!
I'm not sure what a real gallery wall looks like, but yours is awesome!
- May 18, 2011 at 7:38 PM
- Erin said...
I love it's simplicity! The pictures take center stage. :)
- May 18, 2011 at 8:44 PM
- Mimi said...
Love your gallery! My living and dining rooms are painted a similar color so this give me new ideas and inspiration! Thanks for sharing this. And love some IKEA!
- May 18, 2011 at 8:51 PM
- Kelsey said...
GREAT idea! I will definitely be using this as inspiration when decorating our house in the future :) Just stopping by from Hoo's got talent!
- May 18, 2011 at 10:10 PM
- Kelsey@inspirationthief said...
These look cleaner and more modern than traditional gallery wall. Nice job.
- May 19, 2011 at 12:31 AM
- Lisa said...
I think this looks great! Plus, you don't have to worry about lining up all the frames perfectly!
- May 19, 2011 at 8:37 AM
- Angela said...
I'm an 'Angie' too & your newest follower. I love home decor!
I'm somewhat of a newbie blogger at http://www.callherblessed-angela.blogspot.com.
Stop by anytime =)
- May 19, 2011 at 10:49 AM
- Jenn @ Frugal Upstate said...
We have those same shelves from Ikea-except mine sat in the basement for 3 years because I was "going" to paint them brown to go with our woodwork. . . until hubs finally gave up and did it for me :) Not a bad plan actually. Love how you have frames that are all black to draw things together.
- May 19, 2011 at 2:46 PM
- Let'sMakeADifference said...
Great idea!!! Am now following! Would love for you to check out my blog and follow back!
- May 19, 2011 at 8:53 PM
- Heidi@TheCraftMonkey said...
Looks great! What a great idea for a gallery wall, I can never get pictures all lined up, straight and looking right! This would be perfect!
- May 19, 2011 at 10:44 PM
- Love the Decor! said...
Just in from Holly's party to say hi!!
Love the wall color and the shelving looks great!!
- May 19, 2011 at 11:10 PM
- andie jaye said...
the look of this is crisp and clean. i love how you arranged the frames. visiting from shabby chic's parting. am following you now. stop over and check mine out sometime.
also, was wondering if you would give me permission to use one of these photos to add to my post as an example of a gallery wall. i'd give you 3 linkbacks on it. just let me know. blessings, andijaye @
- May 20, 2011 at 3:17 AM
- laxsupermom said...
I love the simplicity and versatility of the picture ledges, and actually replaced our Gallery Wall with DIY picture ledges last month. Yours look terrific! Thanks for sharing.
- May 20, 2011 at 8:50 AM
- Trisha @ The Sweet Survival said...
Love the clean and simple gallery wall. That is definitely my style. Great job. Stopping by from TT&J.
- May 20, 2011 at 8:06 PM
- Laura @ Laura's Crafty Life said...
This looks great and I like how you can change the frames however you want!
- May 20, 2011 at 10:32 PM
- Ty and Whitty said...
I love this idea. seriously I love the look. Thank you for the inspiration. I pinned this :) I am visiting from TT&J linky party. come and say hi. I also have a really fun giveaway next week so check back.
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- May 20, 2011 at 11:06 PM
- Michelle said...
Simply. Gorgeous. I like it so much I am a new follower!! I am visiting from Tatertots and Jello and I would LOVE if you could link up your awesome post to my very first crafty linky party! This is the first week of Delicately Constructed Fridays and I would really appreciate the link!
Hope you have a great weekend!
- May 20, 2011 at 11:32 PM
- Kim @ Cheap Chic Home said...
I want to do the same treatment for my mom--your cheater wall looks great!
- May 21, 2011 at 1:25 PM
- radn@HouseonAshwelllane said...
very pretty! I want to do this near my eat in nook.
I am having a giveaway on my blog. $30 store credit to get a cape from Pip and Bean.Check it out!
- May 21, 2011 at 11:14 PM
- Kate@TwentySixToLife said...
Very nice - I love gallery walls!
- May 23, 2011 at 10:19 AM
- Annie said...
I love this, and I don't think it's cheating at all. It's got such a nice, clean look. I've been wanting to do this for so long, and now that I see how awesome it looks in your house, I REALLY want to do it now. We're going to be moving in a couple of years, though, and I don't want to put anymore holes in my walls (or put anymore effort into this house), so I'm going to file this link away in my "ideas for the new house" folder. ;) Thanks!!!
- May 24, 2011 at 8:14 PM
- Annie said...
You're awesome, btw! New follower right here. ;)
- May 24, 2011 at 8:22 PM
- Pam said...
I love this and have been wanting to try it. Yours looks wonderful! I am a new follower too! Enjoying your blog.
- September 27, 2011 at 2:39 PM
- suzyhomemaker said...
I know this is a really old post, but I love the idea. So cute. I am trying to think if it would work in any place in my house.
I need to pin this!
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Slip-and-fall accidents are among the most common kind of personal injury lawsuits. If you were injured in a Illinois slip-and-fall accident on someone else's property, you may be entitled to compensation for your injuries.
Just as it sounds, a slip-and-fall accident occurs when you trip over or slip on something on the floor, then fall down and injure yourself. A slip-and-fall accident may also be known as a:
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If your injury claim is for $10,000 or less, you would file your personal injury lawsuit in the Illinois Small-Claims Court that has jurisdiction. For injury claims worth more than $10,000, you would file your lawsuit in the appropriate Illinois Circuit Court.
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Nancy Foner, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, received her B.A. from Brandeis University and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Her main area of interest is immigration. She has studied Jamaicans in their home society as well as in New York and London and written extensively on immigration to New York City, past and present. She is particularly interested in the comparative study of immigration – comparing immigration today with earlier periods in the United States and immigrants in the United States and Europe.
Nancy Foner is the author or editor of eighteen books --- including From Ellis Island to JFK: New York's Two Great Waves of Immigration (Yale UP, 2000, Theodore Saloutos Award of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society); In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration (NYU Press, 2005, Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2006); Not Just Black and White: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity in the United States (edited with George Fredrickson, Russell Sage Foundation, 2004, Honorable Mention, Thomas and Znaniecki Distinguished Book Award of the ASA International Migration Section); One Out of Three: Immigrant New York in the Twenty-First Century (Columbia UP, 2013); and New York and Amsterdam: Immigration and the New Urban Landscape (edited with Jan Rath, Jan Willem Duyvendak, and Rogier van Reekum, NYU Press, 2014).
Her latest book is Strangers No More: Immigration and the Challenges of Integration in North America and Western Europe (written with Richard Alba, Princeton UP, 2015, Honorable Mention, Distinguished Book Award of the Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Section of the International Studies Association and Honorable Mention, Thomas and Znaniecki Distinguished Book Award of the ASA International Migration Section). Foner is also the author of more than 110 articles and book chapters.
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Boneyard Man
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A comedic parody of 1930s and 40s radio dramas. The Boneyard Man series is written by Canadian playwright, actor and director, Jayson McDonald. The Boneyard Man's four actors create hundreds of characters and sound effects, with musical accompaniment. The Natural Broadcasting Company style blends the light screwball humour of the 30s and 40s with a modern edge for a retro, relevant, comedy experience that is unique to London.


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Hey everyone! I'm not dead, I'm quite the opposite! All this hiatus from blogger and lack of art can be explained. Besides Disney TVA keeping me busy, I'm also in the works of publishing an art book. So I've been drawing, its just most of it was a secret. ;3
And now that Comic Con is this week I can finally announce some future events and goodies!
First off, I'll be at Comic Con this year for the whole week, though I won't have a booth. I'll be walking around and selling THESE.
Introducing my brand spankin' new Official Purple Peep Bits Plush!
(Here are photos of the prototype versions of the plush. The officials have more embroidery and include hang and tush tags. They will get to me the day before the con but I wanted to show you pictures before then.)
Each plush will be $20 and are very limited. I might run out during the event but they'll be officially released in the Fall. So if you miss out or can't find me, you can buy them later this year!
I'll also do a couple giveaways later down the line as well.
Hope to see you there! And more info and details very soon!
Much love.


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tech-ranting.blogspot.com has an ediff tutorial. ediff is something I use extensively as it is so nice. It integrates with your source control system so you can ask it what changes you have made since last check-in (
One thing that isn't well highlighted (so to speak) is how well ediff drills down on the exact change. It doesn't just say "this line is different to this line", it focuses on the exact change within the line. You can easily see here the tags that have been added to an old revision of one of my earlier posts.
The merging facility is also great. It has saved me on a number of occasions when clear^H^H^H^H^Ha well known source control system has dismally failed to merge branches.
What did I like about this tutorial? I learned something new (and Vedang, the tutorial author, had only looked at it for a day – I guess familiarity does breed contempt). So far I haven't used ediff-directories as I didn't know what it did. I imagined it would be similar to a recursive diff from the shell but it sounds like it does a lot more.


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PICTURES: Muhlenberg vs. North Central football NCAA semifinalPHOTO GALLERY: Muhlenberg vs. North Central (Ill.) in the semifinals of the NCAA Division III football playoffs at Scotty Wood Stadium in Allentown on Saturday, Dec. 14, 2019. This was Muhlenberg's first appearance in the NCAA semifinals.
PICTURES: Catasauqua vs. Palmerton BoysCatasauqua vs. Palmerton boys basketball at Catasauqua High School Friday night.
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- PICTURES: Exhibit and festival venue at SteelStacksBethlehem Steel's massive former Turn and Grind Shop at the South Bethlehem SteelStacks campus, will be revitalized into a programming, exhibit and festival venue Thursday, December 12, 2019.
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- PICTURES: Shake and Boogie in NazarethThe Memorial Library of Nazareth and Vicinity had children stop by Tuesday for a shake and boogie event at the library. More than 20 children ranging in ages from 15 months to four-years-old, danced, sang and played instruments with Christmas Music. The next shake and boogie will be Tuesday, January 7th, 2020
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Topic Page: cuckoo
common name for members of the extensive avian family Cuculidae, including the ani and the roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus), widely distributed in temperate and tropical regions. Cuckoos are slender-bodied, long-tailed birds with medium to stout down-curved bills, pointed wings, short legs (except in the terrestrial species), and dull (usually grayish brown or rufous) plumage. They are generally insectivorous and arboreal.
Of the parasitic Old World cuckoos, the common European cuckoo, Cuculus canorus, is typical. The female visits the nests of smaller birds, selecting those whose eggs match hers in color, and replaces an egg of the host with one of her own; she usually lays four or five eggs, each at 48-hr intervals and each in a different nest. Because the female can retain an egg inside inside its body longer, leading to internal incubation, the embryo is more developed when the egg is laid. The young cuckoo, hatching earlier and being larger than its nest mates, displaces them from the nest and becomes the sole recipient of its foster parents' care.
Each species of Old World cuckoo has its own unique pattern of parasitism, and different species choose different host species for their eggs. The cuckoo is referred to in the Bible, by Aristotle and Pliny, in mythology, and in English poetry. Its nesting habits have given us the word cuckold, and its simple but musical song, which gives it its name, was used by Beethoven in his Pastoral Symphony and is also imitated in the cuckoo clock.
The American cuckoos look like attenuated pigeons; they are not parasitic and build flimsy nests of twigs. Typical are the black-billed and yellow-billed (Coccyzus americanus) cuckoos, known for their low, chuckling call notes. They frequent and breed at the edges of deciduous woodlands, either species tending the young of the other. These birds are valued as destroyers of harmful insects—particularly the tent caterpillar, which few other birds will eat. There are also western and southern species.
Most gregarious of the cuckoos are the anis of the American tropics. The groove-billed ani, from 12 to 14 in. (30–35 cm) long, has black plumage with a faint purple gloss. Anis nest colonially, several females together laying as many as 25 eggs in the same nest, and they may breed at any time of the year.
Of the ground cuckoos, the roadrunner, or chaparral cock, of the southwest deserts is best known. It feeds mostly on small snakes and lizards, which it pounds to death with its heavy bill and swallows headfirst. The roadrunner speeds over the ground at up to 15 mi (24.14 km) per hr with its long tail extended horizontally, its head down, and its ragged crest erect. Roadrunners are weak fliers and nonmigratory. They build coarse nests in thorny bushes; because they lay at intervals, both eggs and young may appear together in the nest.
Also included in the cuckoo family are the coucals, medium to large in size, slow-flying, mostly terrestrial birds of the tropics from Africa to Australia, e.g., the black coucal, Centropus grillii. Cuckoos are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Aves, order Cuculiformes, family Cuculidae.
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Photojournalism is all about being in the right place at the right time. It gets interesting when the right place is the cockpit of an airplane and the right time is when you're upside down.
Over the years, I've had many opportunities to fly in small airplanes for work. Sometimes I need to photograph a building or highway and show its surroundings. The best way to see a large area is from the air. The world looks different as you circle over it with the window open on a small airplane.
The real fun, however, is when the story is not a building on the ground but the pilot or the aircraft itself. One memorable experience was photographing an aerobatics pilot practicing for an upcoming air show.
Sitting in the front seat, I could shoot over my shoulder and see the pilot, Steve Pennypacker, flying from the rear seat. As he went through a series of rolls, dives, and loops, G-forces caused the camera to alternate between being weightless in my hands and feeling like a cinder block against my face.
Through a 14mm lens, the pilot's face was calm and relaxed as the horizon spun behind him. I've got a strong stomach, but that flight-tested me. By the time we landed I was nauseous and my entire body was tense and stiff. I felt like I had been beaten up. But, I had an experience to remember and a fun photograph for the front page of the newspaper.
For a story on the Greater Boston Soaring Club, I sat in the front seat of a glider as the pilot soared over Sterling Airport. The cockpit was so small I could not turn my body to see behind me. Without looking through the viewfinder, I put the camera on my shoulder, pointing backward, shooting blind toward the pilot.
Another awesome flight was in a PT-17 Stearman biplane during the Race of the Century event at the Collings Foundation in Stow. The Stearman has an open cockpit. Flying in the front seat with pilot Rob Collings behind me was more fun than any convertible hot rod I've been in. It's loud, windy, and fast.
Airplanes are expensive to operate. These flights are over in minutes. I know I have to shoot fast. In the moment, when I'm in the air, I am all business. There are many technical and visual problems to quickly solve, like where the light is coming from as the plane is spinning. Having enough depth-of-field to get the pilot and the ground sharp is a challenge because I also I need a fast shutter speed. Airplanes vibrate and shake, and as tight as I pull my seat belt, I bounce around quite a bit. Simply holding the camera steady is a challenge.
As we descend and approach the runway, my time to make pictures is over. Either I got it or I didn't. Only then can I take a deep breath and enjoy the moment. The pilots I've met love to fly and they love to share their passion. I love when I can share that passion with our readers by making a great picture.


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Carousel Animals Coloring Book
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Colorists and carousel lovers of all ages will delight in Christy Shaffer's 30 finely drawn, ready-to-color illustrations, all based on authentic antique carvings. Each is accompanied by a caption detailing fascinating facts about the animals - proud stallions in armor, prancing ponies with floral garlands, camels, zebras, giraffes, and many more. Of special note are illustrations of a woodcrafter carving pony heads, an unadorned horse for which would-be artists can provide colorful trappings, and a double-page spread of a gloriously equipped old carousel. Paperback, 32 pages.
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Iconic houses from movie history
Forget about keeping tabs on what your starlets are wearing on the red carpet — today's moviegoers are far more engaged in an online discourse regarding the interior designs and architectural landscapes that serve as the homes in some of their favorite films. Here are three well-known homes that are indelibly etched in the minds of many moviegoers:
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Location: Tremont neighborhood, Cleveland
Real-life role: Museum
Like its elder holiday companion, It's a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Story wasn't a commercial box office hit upon its initial release in November 1983. A decade later, the Turner Broadcasting System began running it multiple times between Thanksgiving and Christmas and eventually a holiday classic was born.
However, a Hollywood screenwriter couldn't have imagined what would transpire next. The current owner of the home, retired naval officer Brian Jones, stumbled into a career as owner and curator of A Christmas Story House & Museum.
In 2003, Jones' parents bought him a replica of the garish leg lamp that Ralphie's father receives in the movie. Jones so enjoyed the novelty gift that he began manufacturing and selling replicas with great success.
And in 2005, Jones' wife told him the Cleveland home, featured in the film, was up for sale on eBay. Jones immediately saw the opportunity to create a business that would serve to honor a film that he, his family and thousands of other movie fans have come to love.
In the movie, Ralphie's childhood adventures and antics are played out against the backdrop theme of family in this semi-fictional comedy based on the writings of the late raconteur Jean Shepherd.
The movie was filmed in Cleveland, which served to mirror Shepherd's upbringing in Indiana. Set decorator Mark S. Freeborn says very little was actually shot in the home because its interior was quite small. So the interior scenes were shot on a soundstage in Toronto.
"Bob [Clarke] and I were more or less the same age," says Freeborn, recalling his conversations with the director on how the family's home should look and feel. "So we had more or less the same memories. For us it was post-war, rather than pre-war. And conversely the universe didn't change all that much because of the war, so we had a pretty good idea of what it should feel like."
Furnishings were sourced through Cleveland antique dealers, as Freeborn imagined that some of the furniture in the home, which "Mother" kept so well for her family, might have come from her and the "Old Man's" parents or grandparents, providing "a little touch of heritage," he says.
Location: Natchitoches, La.
Real-life role: Bed-and-breakfast
This historic northern Louisiana home, built in the late 1830s by two Italian architects, is believed to have been a safe haven for slaves traveling the Underground Railroad and later used as a hospital for Northern troops during the Civil War, according to oral historians.
But today, most visitors recognize it as the eponymous home where the fictional Eatenton family lived in the movie, Steel Magnolias, written by Natchitoches native Robert Harling. The movie, based on Harling's stage play, recalls the death of his sister and the relationships among six women who regularly gather at the local beauty parlor where they discuss the trials and tribulations of their lives. Much of the movie was filmed in the home and the gardens.
The home, more than 170 years old, has seen many upgrades and remodeling to its interior and exterior foundation. Interestingly, however, the private residence has only changed ownership five times since it was built.
Jackson L. Bryan, a banker, brought electricity into the home, but retained four original oil lamp chandeliers that had been installed in the 1840s. Other architectural chestnuts include the front door, which was once part of a Spanish cathedral and is more than 175 years old. The walls of the home are five to seven bricks deep, and it is believed that they were constructed on the property by slaves; the five columns on the front porch, which hoist the second floor, are made of solid, pre-shaped bricks, says current owner Christina Landry, who has conducted a considerable amount of research–reading through local archives–on the property, far beyond the oral history that has been handed down from owner to owner.
In 2003, Landry says the home was purchased and turned it into a bed and breakfast. Three years later, Landry bought the property with the intention of returning it to a private residence. But nostalgia and visitors' love of the property quickly changed her mind. So she read The Idiot's Guide to Running a Bed and Breakfast, and decided to keep the property as a B&B.
"People that come to the house are really, really nice. It's just been a wonderful experience," says Landry. But her experience is coming to an end as she and her husband recently put the B&B—where they also reside—up for sale. The couple plans to move to southern Louisiana to be closer to their children and grandchildren.
Location: Buckhead neighborhood, Atlanta
Real-life role: Residential home
In an Atlanta neighborhood, a Southern home headed by a tough-as-nails matriarch is the setting for The Blind Side, a semi-biographical film about a young man estranged from his drug- addicted mother who's circulated through a revolving door of foster homes and suddenly finds himself embraced by an unlikely family.
Michael Oher, the movie's protagonist, is a 300-plus-pound 17-year-old who grew up impoverished and alone. The young man lacked a sense of connection to family and friends, and set decorator Susan Benjamin says that she thought it was important to show extreme visual contrasts, on screen, between his life and world and that of the Tuohy family who took him in.
"I wanted to create a feeling so that when Michael walks in (to the Tuohy home) for the first time, to him it looked like a palace. So it's amplified," says Benjamin. "The fabrics that we chose were bright and warm and welcoming, but also (intended to feel) used to be intimidating to Michael, as well.''
Benjamin spent two days with the real Leigh Anne Tuohy at her home in Memphis, noting that her home decorating style mixes "a lot of white, beige and cream."
The movie audience is introduced to the family's home early in the movie. However, the long driveway leading up to it, with its French influences, reflective of a châteaux, is actually the exterior of a different residence located in the same Atlanta neighborhood, which the movie's production designer felt "harmonized better" with the planned interior décor that Benjamin designed.
Lorri and Forrest McClain are the homeowners who allowed the Hollywood studio to take over their home for six weeks to shoot the interior scenes of the replicated Tuohy home.
When a location scout knocked on her door with the offer to have her home serve as the set of a movie, McClain was "adamant" that she didn't want to do it. "I was flattered, but I said I don't think so." She called her husband and told him about the offer, to which he responded: "That's the book I just finished reading." And that pretty much sealed the deal.
As part of the agreement, they allowed the production and design team to repaint the interior, as well as remove all furniture and draperies, but make no structural changes to the home—along with the standard contractual stipulation that "everything be put back the same or better than it was found."
The studio rented a home for the McClains and their two children while shooting took place.
"None of us had any desire to be in the movie," says McClain, but her husband was generally curious about how a movie is shot and spent just about every day on set watching the process.
This article was excerpted from USA TODAY's Home magazine, available now on newsstands or through USA TODAY's online store. The special magazine features articles on home improvement, décor and entertaining.


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As part of its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, Oracle also acquired the Java technology. Oracle has the enterprise sector in its grip now (Java and Oracle database). However, we cannot forget how erratic it has been in handling delicate issues like the OpenSolaris project or the ongoing infringement case against Android. It has repeatedly failed to earn the trust of the Open Source community, something that Sun Microsystems had in abundant.
Java is a wonderful technology. This video from 2006 will tell you why.
The Java development kit comes in two flavors. While Oracle JDK (earlier Sun JDK) is under the Binary Code License (earlier Sun License), OpenJDK is under GPL with a linking exception. From JDK version 7, Oracle has planned to support OpenJDK and withdraw the Operating System Distributor License for Java. This has resulted in a withdrawal of OracleJDK from the repositories of Linux distributions. Putting further restrictions, you cannot even download Oracle Java for any Linux distributions anymore.
OpenJDK has always suffered because of the unfair nature of the competition and it is said to have some serious bugs. These pitfalls never allowed it a rise to fame but now, things are looking better for OpenJDK. Oracle itself has taken interests in OpenJDK development. Perhaps for uniformity, it has declared OpenJDK as the official Java SE reference from JDK 7 onwards.
This is the second game changing event in the world of Java since May 2007, when it went completely open-source and the Java code was released under GPL. With IBM, Oracle, Apple, SAP, RedHat and other big names working on the OpenJDK project, we will surely see the best of Java in future.
Do you want to know how OpenJDK fares against Oracle JDK? Read this Stack Overflow question.


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Thinking About Pond Management
Pond management is more than building a pond, waiting for it to fill with water then introducing and filling it with fish. For you to gain the most from your pond, you must be prepared to invest some time and money. Here are some tips for good pond management.
Good pond management depends on the pond site, therefore it is advisable that farmers put into consideration where they construct there pounds. Getting experts to help you with these is suitable as they will help you in identifying a site that has the right suitability and also help you in designing the pond. The Natural Resource Conservative Service should be able to help.
Plant grass on the edges of the pond to prevent soil erosion. Make sure that the pond is constructed where there is adequate water. If surface runoff is the source of water then make sure that the contributing drainage area is large enough. This will make sure that during dry seasons enough water is maintained. A silt trap or sediment retention basin is important to keep soil from going into the pond. Also be sure you install the best quality pond aerator from Living Water Aeration that you can find.
For a pond to be well maintained it is important to stock it with the correct fish population. Make sure that your pond is not stocked with stock and fish from other rivers or lakes. Find out the correct number of fish you can stock on your pond depending on the size of your pond.
Vegetation Control
Vegetation control is very important in maintaining a good pond. Getting rid of unwanted weed population can be done through various means such as grass carp. Grass carp is suitable since you are not adding chemicals to your pond; the grass carp disadvantages are, you cannot control them in the pond and may decrease underwater population. Others things used for vegetation control include chemicals such as copper sulphate. Fountains can also be a good way to control vegetation, especially a high volume kasco fountain.


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The Art of Spiritual Peacemaking (book by James Twyman)
December 10 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
This group studies one each week of the Thirty-Three lessons about becoming a spiritual peacemaker found in the book The Art of Spiritual Peacemaking. It makes no difference when you begin this group because we begin the lessons again and again. Like all sacred texts, you will hear what you need to hear and then you will hear something new the next time.
Short guided meditations and sharing are included as we focus on inner and world peace. Practice peace here.


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What would happen if ABC rounded up some of the best - or worst - runners up from both "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette" and put them together in a house with a chance to win $250,000?
Reality TV fans are about to find out as the network launches its latest reality creation, "The Bachelor Pad,"reports the New York Daily News.
Hosted by "Bachelorette" host Chris Harrison and former "Bachelor" winner Melissa Rycroft, the show will drop 19 people - 11 women and 8 men - into a contest that presents a bit of a twist on the regular dating show format. In the spinoff, the girls vote off the guys and the boys kick off the girls, creating a strategic imperative for the players to work themselves into the good graces of the majority of the members of the opposite sex.
Former fan favorites like Wes Hayden, Nikki Kappke and Jesse Kovacs are among the cast members who will start their race for the prize on Monday night's premiere episode.