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Hunky Hero: A smart audience will figure out the picture of Jack is from World War II and that he hasn't aged a day. Standing there before Esther like a living embodiment of the immortality that has struck the world, he cuts quite an imposing figure. The biggest miracle is that Jack has hurt his arm – it appears that whilst everybody has gained his regenerative powers he is now mortal again. That's another strong idea because we had all become desensitised to Jack ever being in trouble no matter how much cement they pour on him and this makes him a character to genuinely care about again. Jack feels responsible in keeping Gwen safe as the last member of his team to survive.
Welsh Babe: Gwen is living out in the countryside now as far away from her old life as she can get without leaving Wales. She and Rhys have the most beautiful house on the beach where they are brining up their baby. Gwen is both haunted by and missing her old lifestyle and secretly tells her daughter stories about the aliens that she met. They live in a blanket of paranoia every time someone knocks on the door and treat the most innocuous events with suspicion (with good reason, it appears). Gwen feels completely impotent because this is exactly the sort of thing she used to deal with all the time in Torchwood but now she has left all that behind. Visiting her dad in his hospital bed is as useful for her character as Ianto visiting his sister in Children of Earth was for his. Rhys is furious that Gwen is interested in the Miracle and reminds her of her responsibilities to her daughter. There are few things on this Earth cuter than Gwen putting the earmuffs on her daughter before unleashing a volley of bullets.
CIA Survivor: I'm not sure that opening on this character smiling in the face of somebody being diagnosed with Leukaemia is the best idea Davies has ever had. I get that he is a hard nosed CIA operative but I still don't buy that any human being could be quite so cold as to laugh in the face of a terminal illness because it would mean promotion. He thinks the UK government is like kindergarten which means he can't be all bad. When Rex flicks through the news channels and has an outspoken nurse crying out that he should be a corpse, that is the first time I felt something for his character. Without the Miracle he would be dead which gives him a very personal interest in this spell that has been cast over the whole world. He asks the questions a lot of the survivors must be asking: 'What happens to me when it ends? Do I die?' When I first watched this I found Mehki Phifer's performance a little too hysterical to be convincing but how else could you play a man who has survived a pole to the chest who is in excruciating pain and pumped full of drugs? The last death on planet Earth co-incides with the Torchwood being splashed across the CIA computers which gives Rex a strong link to follow up.
New Girl: Whilst the performance is a tad too earnest at this point, I really like the approach of Esther being intrigued by the notion of Torchwood and beginning her own private investigation into the organisation. In a way you want to scream at her to run away and not bother because her life will be turned upside down but in another you really want her to succeed because she will be a cute new member of the team. Because she was talking to Rex when he crashed his car Esther feels as though she is responsible and she owes to herself to look into Torchwood.
Daring Doctor: Of the new actors brought into the show it is Arlene Tur who makes the greatest impression on me. She's world wise and hip and very humanistic and Vera looks like she is going to be a very welcome addition to the Torchwood team.
Sparkling Dialogue: 'You don't reprieve a man you failed to hang because the rope snapped.'
'Anyone who worked for Torchwood died in action. And they died young.'
'Warfare's even worse when bodies refuse to die.'
'Its like the British equivalent of New Jersey!' and 'I've got to pay for this Bridge? Damn Wales!' – which pretty much exactly what I said when I travelled on the Severn Bridge!
The Good Stuff: I much prefer the subtler title sequence – I know some people want Torchwood to be all bombast and style but this is a much quieter title sequence which drives home the Miracle Day premise. A huge round of applause for the Miracle Day premise which is so simple and yet opens out so many storytelling possibilities it is one of those 'why the hell hasn't anyone thought to do this before?' ideas that crops up every now and again. I have seen many shows deal with immortality for one character but by opening out this curse to the entire human race you have a premise that will see the entire Earth facing extinction in a very unusual way in four months and you know the populace will get more and more desperate as the show continues. Bravo Mr Davies for such a dazzling concept. Opening on the horrific murder of a paedophile which proves to be very discomforting to watch, Miracle Day looks like it is going to walk in Children of Earth's footsteps with some uncomfortable material. I really like the idea of Torchwood being this long forgotten organisation that nobody knows about but is treated in the higher echelons of the CIA as something to be whispered with reverence. The show has managed to mythologise itself successfully. Rex being speared with poles is a shocking and nasty moment. The majestic sweep across the Welsh countryside is beautifully achieved by the director, it's the sort of location work this series has been capable of since its inception but it has always gone for the harsher industrial look of Cardiff City. Bill Pullman plays Danes with such a odd accent that is both barely decipherable and very creepy at the same time. After a slow premise building first half it is nice to get some action and a sniper blowing himself up and our heroes leaping out the window to safety is just what the Dr ordered. The sniper whose body is burnt to a frazzle and still breathing (and having his head chopped off!) is exactly the sort of twisted horror that Torchwood excels in and I hope we see more this can of Tales of the Unexpected style black humour in later episodes. I was recoiling in shock and laughing at the same time, great stuff. You can really feel the budget during the exciting Welsh action sequences and the sight of that black helicopter appearing at the window is truly dynamic. I can just imagine Americans flocking to the beach in which this gorgeous dusk chase was filmed – they manage to make Wales a genuinely dynamic place that should satisfy even the American fans!
The Bad Stuff: A man accused of the rape and murder of a 12 year old girl is exactly the sort of concept that no other science fiction show would touch and Torchwood seems to revel in the dirtiness of. Even though it lack subtlety that isn't what I have a problem with it's the hyperbolic statement 'She should have run faster.' Its not only really distasteful but means the character is hard to believe before we even meet him. The guy who talks to Danes in prison bugged me because he had some great lines but the performance is dreadful. Rex's journey to the UK feels really quick.
The Shallow Bit: Jack looks unbelievably hot after he has jumped in the fountain.
Result: Whereas Children of Earth felt like a transition story cutting away all the usual Torchwood nonsense and homing in on the characters, Miracle Day feels like a brand new pilot for Torchwood and it begins with a great degree of confidence. Imagine for a second that the first three series never existed this actually feels as though it is the first ever episode of Torchwood dealing with an old British organisation. Because it is setting up the premise and characters it isn't so much a strong piece in its own right but as an opening piece it is one of the stronger pilots I have seen of late. There is tension, action and a fantastic premise at the heart of the show. In a way I wish they had left Wales behind and started the whole show afresh in America but some of the shows best scenes are those featuring Gwen's paranoid life. By the end of the episode I was intoxicated by the potential of the Miracle Day idea and cheering as Gwen was brandishing a rocket launcher during a stunning beach sequence. Rex and Esther have yet to grow on me (but by the next episode I'm sold) but Vera is a great new character who I hope they keep on. Its not the best episode of Torchwood because it has to do too much but it certainly kicks things off in exactly the right direction: 8/10


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If, as some people claim, the American Century indeed is over and we're heading into the 100-year reign of China, at least we'll be living under the influence of people who understand the concept of "epic."
When movies from Hong Kong filmmakers first began making their way to America in the 1970s – led, of course, by the martial-arts classic, "Five Fingers of Death," which was quickly followed by a slew of Bruce Lee gems – they generally featured casts of about 20: the hero, a girl who needed rescuing and 18 bad guys, upon whom the star would unleash his fists and feet of fury.
That began changing about the time Britain's lease on Hong Kong ran out and the former colony more or less returned to Chinese control. The filmmakers no longer had to restrict their efforts to the confines of a densely packed city-state; the epic scenery of an entire nation now was theirs to use. Also, it opened up the chance to cast not just 20 people, but 200, 2,000 — even an epic 20,000.
"Curse of the Golden Flower" may have set the standard for Chinese Epic Cinema in 2006 with its $45 million budget (remember, money buys a lot more in Asia than it does in the U.S.), entire army of zip-line-riding ninjas and battle sequence that took weeks to film. Admittedly, "Legendary Amazons," set for BD and DVD release in the United States Oct. 16, isn't quite that epic, but it's pretty good nonetheless.
Where Hollywood has the American West to draw upon for inspiration, the Chinese movie industry has the country's dynasty era. Wikipedia notes that "Legendary Amazons" is taken from stories of the Yang Clan Generals, which deal with the adventures of several generations' worth of one family. "Amazons" takes place in the 11th century, during the reign of Emperor Renzong of the Song Dynasty.
The epic opens with one member of the family, Yang Zongbao (Richie Jen) apparently dying while leading troops into battle against the invading forces of the Western Xia Dynasty. In melodrama at its most epic, Zongbao ties a lock of his wife's hair that he'd vowed to keep as long as he was alive to a carrier pigeon, and sends the bird winging its way homeward as a messenger of his death.
With the exception of his rather inept son, Yang Wenguang (Xiao Mingyu), Zongbao's demise basically leaves the Yangs stripped of males to send to war. Does that prevent the emperor's minions from calling on the family yet again to provide another general to lead the latest wave of cannon fodder? Of course not. And being a good citizen, young Wenguang accepts the assignment.
Realizing that her son isn't qualified to go into battle, the boy's mother, Mu Guiying (Cecilia Cheung), herself a former warrior, decides that she, too, will go to war. She's quickly joined by her sisters, her own mother, the household servants and pretty much every other woman in the area. Voiola! An instant army of women is raised.
Just telling all this probably takes longer than it does to watch it in on the screen, because in Chinese Epic Cinema, such things as plot, character development or historical accuracy are afterthoughts to the fact that huge casts were hired, and they need to be put to work as quickly as possible.
Most of the picture is devoted to battle scenes featuring at least 101 ways to die in 11th-century combat — or at least a Chinese filmmaker's idea of what should have happened 1,000 years ago. Spears, swords, arrows, fireworks and martial arts all are used with the utmost melodrama but minimum amount of blood and gore. And, yes, the wire work that allows people to make utterly impossible leaps is shown in epic amounts.
Extras: Director's commentary? Who has time for that? Director Frankie Chan certainly didn't, although he does appear in the behind-the-scenes feature that's included. (Notice I called it a "feature" rather than a "featurette." The piece goes on and on and on.) (Usually, we refer to that as a documentary – Ed.)
The bottom line: In the 1970s, Chinese films usually wound up being shown at decrepit old downtown theaters on the weeks when there wasn't a new blaxploitation movie to screen. Such establishments have pretty much gone the way of drive-in theaters, so "Legendary Amazons" was never shown in the U.S. Hence, to get the full impact of what director Chan wanted you to see, it's probably worth shelling out the extra $5 and getting the BD version. And watch it on your biggest TV screen. This movie is, after all, an epic.

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A fellow blogger said something which inspired this entry. I am not sure if she'll recognize the relationship!
I have done a lot of work with adults in the parishes where I have attended Mass over the years. I have met some interesting and challenging (sometimes in the same person) people.
I've noticed that the Holy Spirit's name is often invoked, but not given much legitimate credit. Or I've seen enough to make me a bit suspicious when I hear someone frequently speak of the Holy Spirit.
I worked with an adult choir that nearly brought me to a nervous breakdown. The musicians (guitarists) were not well trained in music, never mind liturgy. And I don't think most of the vocalists knew what liturgical ministry was about. Or for that matter, what being in a choir was about. And some made it abundantly clear that they didn't really wish to learn.
In this group, there were some lovely people I really enjoyed working with most of the time. And there were a few who I enjoyed working with very little of the time. It was sad and scary. But it was one of the most prayerful times of my life.
In this context, I often heard that we (and usually the speaker meant ME) needed to let the Holy Spirit be in charge.
This meant: 1) That we didn't really need to practice much, as the Holy Spirit would take us through.
2) That musical training (ie. reading music) wasn't really important because it made the music less spirit-led. This translated into "We don't like your insistance on following the timing, key, etc. in which the song was written. Sometimes this even sanctioned lyric changes! It was made clear that reading music was actually a handicap to Spirit-led music.
3) That planning was unnecessary. I was called to task by someone who I know tried hard to live by the Spirit, but who was, I think, hampered by pride (and I say this without malice as pride is also my greatest challenge). I was told that I should not be scheduling music 6 weeks ahead (as was my practice, but I was never intransigent on choices) but should allow the Holy Spirit to make the choices. To this I replied that I prayed a lot over my music choices, and was the Holy Spirit incapable of working 6 weeks ahead?
The criticism was not pursued.
It irritates me greatly when people use one of our manifestations of God as an excuse for laziness, sloppiness, and poor planning!
This is not to say that the Holy Spirit cannot step in and call a change at short notice. I also know that the Holy Spirit can work far ahead of our finite knowledge.
Again in the context of choir...
Occasionally, as I sat planning the music, I would be called on to choose a piece that did not seem to have any connection with the readings or Gospel of a particular Sunday. Or a selection for one of the hymns needed would simply not come to me. Invariably, the odd choice for a given week would end up being very appropriate in that it responded to an event that had just occurred and for which I had no prior knowledge, or that it responded to something Father said or quoted in his homily.
The missing hymn also frequently allowed for a choice needed for a particular occurrence. Or it would provide the choir members a chance to choose something they wanted.
During this prayerful and challenging time, I eventually heard loud and clear that I was no longer to lead this group. It was like someone lifted a window-blind and let the light in. I do believe that the 'someone' was the Holy Spirit.
I acted immediately. It was so strange. Lent had already begun. We were planning for a Chrism Mass. It was not like me to 'just stop' doing anything. People noticed. I was sent flowers. I friend from the choir (who was well aware of what I'd been dealing with) stopped by that evening to see if I was okay. People phoned. It was as if someone had died.
But it was the right decision. Many lessons were learned. I learned that the parish did not need me quite as much as I seemed to think they did (Did I say I had pride issues?), but others learned how much I did in the parish. Over all, life went on. I had a quiet and prayerful Lent. More ora and less labora. I needed that.
I rested for a year. Almost to the day, a year later, the same friend who knew what I'd been dealing with, and who was now in charge of liturgy preparation, called and asked if I'd form a children's choir. I did, in fact, pray about it. And I did it. It was wonderful.
When we speak of following the Holy Spirit, we must make sure it is, in fact, the Holy Spirit we're listening to, and not a baser or even evil source for our "inspiration"
Saturday, March 06, 2010
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>> Skin a Buck With Your Pickup Truck! :: By Marshall Stanton on 2001-01-30
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Now the hard part of this process (if there is a hard part) is over! Position your deer on the ground near a secure object such as a tree, stump, or similar solid anchoring point. Tie a stout rope/strap either around the antlers or neck of the animal (just below the head, and above the now peeled neck skin). Secure the other end of the rope or strap to your anchor point (tree stump, etc.).
Position your vehicle directly in line with the deer and the anchoring point it is secured to, then tie the other end of the rope connected to the ball/rock to the vehicle. At this point you are ready to skin the deer! Double check your knots, then slowly and carefully pull your vehicle ahead to take the slack out of the rope attached to the deer's hide. As you now apply tension to the rope, the hide will begin to peel off the deer, and will actually lift the deer free from the ground.
Notice how the hide is pulling off the deer free of meat or fat. Also note the tarp in the background. Now is the time to put a fresh, clean plastic tarp underneath your deer! As already mentioned, the deer is actually being held off the ground by the tension of the rope on your vehicle pulling on his hide, but once the hide is free from the deer, it will drop back down on the ground. The clean tarp keeps every bit of dirt, hair and contaminants off the skinned carcass once it pulls free from the hide.
As you pull with your vehicle, do it slowly and steadily. First the neck will finish peeling off, then the shoulders, the front legs, then the ribs and flank, without pulling off the flank meat!
Note in this photo that a brand-new poly-tarp (about $2.50 at discount stores) has been placed underneath the deer to keep it clean. Also you can see the rope tied to the antlers which is in turn tied to a tree. On the left side of the photo can be seen the red and white rope tied to the hide via the ball/rock.
As you continue to pull the hide will peel off evenly and cleanly. In the above photo the hide is pulled off of all but the hind legs, even the tail peels clean when you use this technique to skin a deer! (Nice when you want a hair-on tanning job!)
You can see in this photo how important the tarp is in keeping the carcass clean. Also it is easy to see here why there is so little hair on a carcass when skinning this way, as the hide gets turned totally inside out, and is being pulled away from the skinned meat at all times.
Now, the finished, skinned deer! The carcass is clean and without hair, and the hide is pulled free without holes or flesh left on the skin. All that remains is to cut off the legs, hang and bag, or, if done in the field, just bag and load into the vehicle!
This is absolutely the easiest and cleanest way I have found to skin a deer! It is also the very fastest (if you aren't taking photos of every step) that I know of. Give it a try, and you'll never go home with a deer that needs to be skinned! It's just too easy to do it in the field and take home a clean carcass! Also, as an added benefit, the deer cools out much faster when skinned in the field.
I've been doing my deer this way for years (yes, elk too; when you can get them out to a vehicle whole, it works great), and I can't even remember where I learned this technique. My grandfather and father both hung their deer to skin them, and I can't remember where along the line I picked this up, or I would give credit to its origin. Nevertheless, it's worth checking out the next time you have a game animal to skin!::Comment On This Article/View Replies
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102 Petty France
|102 Petty France
102 Petty France photographed from Broadway
location within the City of Westminster, London
|General information
|56 metres (184 ft)
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|51,000 square metres (550,000 sq ft)
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|Sir Basil Spence
102 Petty France is an office block on Petty France in Westminster, London, overlooking St. James's Park, which was designed by Fitzroy Robinson & Partners, with Sir Basil Spence and completed in 1976. It was well known as the main location for the UK Home Office between 1978 and 2004 when it was known as 50 Queen Anne's Gate and now houses the Ministry of Justice and Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service. The building is 56 metres (184 ft) high, with 14 floors providing 51,000 square metres (550,000 sq ft) of office space.
The site was previously occupied by the 14-storey mansion block Queen Anne's Mansions which were despised by some architectural commentators - Lord Reigate speaking in the House of Lords in 1972 against the plans for the new building used Pevsner's description "that irredeemable horror"[1] However, the new building's architecture was not favourably received, either,[1] due to its scale and massing with protruding elements at the upper and lower floors, often being described as a Brutalist design: it was sometimes known to those who worked there as "the Lubyanka".[2] Fodor's guide to London described it as "hulking", and Lord St John of Fawsley remarked that "Basil Spence's barracks in Hyde Park ruined that park; in fact, he has the distinction of having ruined two parks, because of his Home Office building, which towers above St James's Park."[3] The building was originally built as a speculative office development but the Home Office moved to it due to lack of space in its previous headquarters in Whitehall.
In spring 2005 the Home Office moved to a new purpose-built building at 2 Marsham Street designed by Terry Farrell. The Queen Anne's Gate building had major refurbishment work carried out on it, whilst being under the ownership of Land Securities. From 2008 has been the home of the Ministry of Justice and Tribunals Service, with the building renamed 102 Petty France.
Coordinates: 51°29′59″N 0°08′04″W / 51.4998°N 0.1345°W
- 1 2 "Queen Anne's Mansions Site: Development Plans". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). House of Lords. 4 July 1972. col. 1305.
- ↑ Michael Cockerell (reporter) (14 February 2010). The Great Offices of State: The Dark Department. BBC Four. Event occurs at 25:10. Retrieved 14 February 2010.
Jack Straw: it was awful in those days, we used to call it Lubyanka
- ↑ "Vauxhall Tower". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). House of Lords. 28 June 2005. col. 200.
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Producing Projectiles on Multi-spindle Automatics
Here's how one Illinois-based supplier is meeting the needs of an airbag manufacturer by turning stainless steel projectiles that are part of the inflation activation system. The production rates are high and the need to maintain quality is similarly demanding.
Har Technologies (Harwood Heights, IL), a precision machining company, started out in the aerospace industry. It produced components that were used by a company that made explosive devices that are used to eject pilots from their cockpits. For the most part, the machining that was performed was done on single-spindle (nowadays, of course, CNC) turning centers.
Har CEO Jeffrey Lampert surveyed the market opportunities that his company had. Given the experience with the aerospace components, he looked into another explosive safety device: automotive airbags. "We knew we could do a good job on air bag components because we understand that any mistake can cost a life," Lampert says.
However, getting this work would require a significant investment in new machinery. People would have to be trained. And the approach to the process would have to be completely rethought. All of this because they would need to make a switch from single-spindle machines to multi-spindle turning machines.
That is, among the air bag components is a projectile that breaks through an Inconel burst disk. Once the breakthrough is effected, gas begins inflating the airbag. The projectile continues into the gas chamber, and initiates another reaction to start the gas generator. The generator burns propellant that adds to the gas and completes the inflation.
The projectile is made of 17-4 stainless steel hardened to 40-45 Rc. Overall, the part is about 3/4-in. long and 1/2-in. diameter. It tapers to a sharp point. The critical OD tolerance is ±0.00075 in. Another critical dimension is on an O-ring groove; it is 0.030-in. deep and 0.062-in. wide; its tolerance is ±0.0025 in.
"The difficulty we have making the projectile on a single-spindle automatic," Lampert explains, "is the cut-off that needs to be removed. An alternative would be to turn it on a sub-spindle machine, but the machine utilization cost would be very high for such a simple function. So, from a price standpoint, to be competitive we had to consider going to a multi which makes the part complete, picks it up, and then finishes the cut-off. No secondary operations are necessary. It's ready for shipping."
However, there was one non-trivial problem before all of this happened: No one in the company had a clue about how to run a multi-spindle machine. They do conduct a comprehensive apprenticeship program at Har, but there was never a need to learn about multi-spindles. So when they went out looking for equipment, Lampert advised his people that it was necessary to find machinery that had sufficient capability to virtually run on its own without a great deal of operator assistance or interference.
Four multi-spindle automatics were purchased from a vendor. The machines didn't meet the conditions of the purchase agreement. They were returned to the vendor.
Next, they got in touch with Tornos Technologies U.S. Corp. (Brookfield, CT). Two years ago Har purchased a model SAS 16.6 multi-spindle automatic that features six spindles, six cross slides, and six end slides. "Now we have eight," Lampert says.
"Tornos has more capability than we need for any job we have—or will have," Lampert comments. "That is important to us because our mode of operation here is that parts are not made by machines, but they are made by a process. Once we have a viable process, our people only need to follow it exactly, and we are going to make good parts. The machines hold size very well, so our operators never have to worry about the parts being out of tolerance—aside from tool breakage and other such occurrences."
But what about the issue of the lack of experience with multi-spindle machines? Lampert answers, "Tornos technicians taught us how to run them; they supported them; they serviced them; they had parts when we needed them."
Before the first multi-spindle machine was installed at Har they ran the projectile on two-axis CNC lathes with sub spindles. A secondary operation on a manual lathe was needed to remove the cut-off. The output: 60 parts per hour.
Now each of the multi-spindle machines produces a part, complete, at a rate of 360 per hour. An additional benefit: one six-spindle machine with a bar loader takes up much less floor space on the plant floor than six single-spindle machines.
Each of the machines is equipped with an IEMCA PRA 40 bar loader stocked with 25 12-ft. bars. This constitutes one day's work (i.e., two 12-hour shifts). In operation, the process goes like this:
•Position 1. A cross slide carrying a facing tool faces the workpiece and an end slide works on the end of the piece.
•Position 2. The carrier indexes the part to this position for OD grooving by a cross slide and partial hole drilling from an end slide.
•Position 3. The hole is drilled to final depth.
•Position 4. The pointed end of the workpiece is formed. The hole is reamed to its final diameter and then flat bottomed.
•Position 5. The point is finish turned from a cross slide.
•Position 6. The point is cut off, supported by the pick-off spindle. As the piece is cut off, the pick-off spindle retracts and a back-finishing tool comes into place. With the pick-off spindle and finishing tool, the point is finalized and sent down the part chute.
The cycle time is 12 seconds.
Once each hour, SPC data is reviewed at a nearby gage station. A minimum Cpk of 1.67 must be maintained.
Observes Lampert, "It's an interesting tradeoff between single-spindle and multi-spindle machines. With a single, you create the part geometry with the cutting point. That means you can create anything you want and change the specs easily with a couple of entries in the computer. But it also means you will run the job more slowly than with a machine that is doing five or six operations at once each time it indexes. For high-volume production of relatively simple parts, multis must be considered."


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|Its just , you know, some stuff.
|This is frozen yogurts that my friends and I oftenly buy when we went to a mall that near school.
|My school's library! The librarians were a lil bit grumpy, but I know that just means they care hihihi
|This was taken at the swimming pool where the teacher took our swimming's score
|This was taken on a footpath in front of the school. Deffff gonna miss this footpath!
|This was a tailor shop in the traditional market near school!
Bulan Horo


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The days of traditional software installations are rapidly coming to an end. Instead of paying for a piece of software, installing it on the office computer and configuring it locally, a growing number of businesses are switching to the Software as a Service (SaaS) model. They will "rent" software on a monthly or yearly basis – think Netflix or Spotify, except on the enterprise level.
SaaS brings some distinct advantages over traditional, locally installed software. Since SaaS programs run in the cloud, on powerful remote machines, they're not limited by the storage and processing limits of the old office computer. This can also help simplify IT budgets, since the department can budget for a set of consistent monthly SaaS subscriptions instead of trying to budget for all sorts of unpredictable hardware and software costs.
Still, switching over to subscription-based cloud software can take some consideration and planning. Here are the key points to ponder as you weigh up the benefits of SaaS.
What's the time-to-value for SaaS?
Purchasing an initial subscription to SaaS certainly carries an up-front cost, but the cost is often lower than that of a traditional software license. And while the costs of SaaS will continue to accrue each month, they are predictable and reasonable; plus – unlike a purchase of traditional on-premises software – your monthly subscription will also allow you to benefit from the software server's upgrades in speed, power and other new features you would otherwise have to pay for locally.
SaaS also delivers value by shortening the implementation time for many types of projects. It effectively eliminates IT lead time, since your staff won't have to spend valuable hours provisioning the local environment and deploying software. This means your team can get to work immediately, as soon as you purchase the subscription and log on. Most SaaS companies also provide dedicated teams of support experts, highly-trained to assist you with every aspect of the software and to help your team troubleshoot any challenges they encounter.
But perhaps the greatest value of SaaS lies in its ability to vastly upgrade your business's capabilities. One of the most hotly-discussed aspects of SaaS is that it provides small and medium businesses with the kinds of tools, technologies and processing power once reserved exclusively for enterprise-level organisations. In other words, SaaS levels the playing field between you and your largest national (and international) competitors.
Will SaaS integrate and scale smoothly and securely?
Integration, scaling and security have always posed some of the greatest challenges in working with traditional on-premises software. Once you have purchased and installed a local piece of software, there is no guarantee that older or newer computers will be able to read that software's data, or that everyone in your organisation will store that data securely and back it up consistently. And when the time comes to scale up, the complexity of all those problems will only multiply.
While the initial transition to SaaS can pose some integration challenges, that extra up-front work is well worth the long-term benefits. Once your data is ported over from legacy systems to cloud-based services, you will know that your data is backed up and securely stored in a format that will continue to be compatible with many other SaaS offerings. In fact, many SaaS vendors use SSAE 16 (SAS 70) audit controls to make sure your data is always stored and transmitted with government-level security. Can your office IT department make that same guarantee?
Most cloud-based software platforms come pre-loaded to work seamlessly with the most common digital tools in your industry. And since it is in the vendor's best interest to stay relevant, they will make sure your data remains compatible with the latest versions of popular programs. Once all your data is on the cloud you can say goodbye to the days of hiring a temp worker to re-enter old data from legacy systems onto new computers.
SaaS vendors also plan ahead when it comes to integration and scaling. Many continue to expand their integration capabilities over time, adding even more tools to their list of seamless integration options. When they start to max out their storage and processing capabilities, they upgrade their machines to meet the demand, while you just pay the same steady monthly subscription fee.
How difficult will SaaS be to use, configure and upgrade?
Since SaaS vendors face heavy competition, they make a point of providing software that is as easy as possible to use and configure. Many even offer the option to try out the software for a limited time before you make a purchase, so you can see for yourself what you will be subscribing to. While not all SaaS programs offer as much ability to poke around "under the hood" as traditional on-premises software does, they make up for that core simplicity with a wide variety of integration options and add-ons.
SaaS tools typically come pre-loaded with examples, best practices and even detailed walkthroughs. Once your team learns the basic interface of a SaaS program, they will always have expert support just a click away. That means you won't lose costly hours of project time while a team member waits for help from a local IT worker. Even new features and updates typically come with built-in guides and step-by-step assistance – all rolled out at the same time, across every computer on your subscription.
When considering a switch from traditional on-premises software to SaaS, be sure to factor the full range of costs into your calculations. Local software may initially appear to cost less, until you include the salaries of in-house IT staff, the costs of servers and hardware upgrades, storage media for backups and hours spent trying to get the data to integrate across old and new systems. Once you weigh up all these factors, SaaS typically works out to be far more cost-effective – especially over the long term – than on-premises software and hardware would be.
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From 'Red Riding Hood' Amanda Seyfried Talks Crimson Cloaks by Katie Hintz-Zambrano:
Like the name of the film suggests, the key sartorial piece was the storied red cloak that the lead character Valerie, played by Amanda Seyfried, dons when hiking through the snow to her grandmother's house and coming face-to-face with the werewolf that's been terrorizing the town.So how many of you have wanted a red cape or hood to wear at some time in your life? How many of you have worn one? I have a black velvet one similar to these designs purchased for my January winter wedding years ago. But when the temp hit the 70s the week of my wedding, the cloak was never worn and I haven't had a reason to wear it since.
To achieve the perfect rendition of the garment, Hardwicke worked with illustrator Kit Stolen on a series of illustrations before adding Evans (with whom Hardwicke worked on "The Lords of Dogtown" and "Thirteen") into the mix.
"Cindy began working on the cloak design, researching styles and fabrics from around the world," says Hardwicke. "We did a broad fabric search and even contemplated weaving our own cloth until I happened upon a heavy-woven, two-tone silk matka -- better known as raw silk -- which was perfect. I had a whimsical swirling pattern silk-screened about ten inches around the border and then had the pattern hand-embroidered over it using six different tones of red. It all turned out quite lovely."
In the end, the team decided on two cloaks: a shorter version worn in several scenes, and a longer and much more dramatic 20-foot cloak made entirely of velvet, which is beautifully displayed in a dream-like overhead shot showing Seyfried's character walking across the snow-covered mountains with the billowing cloak trailing behind her and whipping around in the wind.
Personally, Seyfried couldn't get enough of the crimson garment.
"It was beautiful," she says. "Wearing it did make me feel like a fair maiden in a storybook."


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This is the view from my desk towards the door that connects my classroom to another classroom. When this school was built, this was intended to be a math classroom. The adjoining classroom is a computer lab that was built to be a "math lab." Since my school has combined the high school and middle school into a single building, space is at a premium. Therefore, the "math lab" has been transitioned to a middle school English classroom.
This picture shows the entire wall that contains the door to the math lab.
Next, we have a view of the front of the classroom from the door.
Here's another view from the door that shows my desk and the huge window behind it.
This window lets in SO much light that I couldn't read my computer screen. I was able to find some blackout curtains at Tuesday Morning that help control the light coming into my room.
Now, I want to show you some close-up details so you have a bit more of an idea how things function in my room.
I bought this pink cart (link to same cart in different colors) at a yard sale a few years ago for $5. Yes, the shelves are a bit crooked. It's welded together at an angle. I didn't notice that before I bought it, but I think I would have still bought it for $5. The top shelf holds notebook paper. The second shelf holds graph paper. The third shelf holds origami paper (link to my favorite origami paper to use with students). The next shelf has some old interactive notebook table of contents templates that I haven't used for a few years now. The shelf below that has blank frayer models inside. The rest of the drawers have random stuff in them at the moment. I haven't figured out a use for the rest of them. Now that my classroom has more built-in storage, I'm starting to wonder if I still need this cart.
This Witzzle bulletin board was the only bulletin board in my classroom when I was given the keys to it. The other bulletin boards were moved over from my old classroom. When I got my first ever classroom, my parents helped make me bulletin boards to cover the old chalkboards in my classroom. I was so excited that they offered to help move them to my new classroom.
Witzzle is a card game. Each card features the numbers 1-9 arranged in such a way that you can use the numbers in any row, column, or diagonal to make every number between -12 and 36 by adding, subtracting, multiplying, or dividing. You can change the order of the numbers in the row, column, or diagonal. For example, you could arrive at 20 by doing (9-5)*4 or 8 + 9 + 3. The game is out of print as far as I can tell, but that has never stopped me from playing. I only recently was able to find a used copy of the game on ebay. In the past, I have projected a set of numbers on my SMARTBoard. This year, I decided to make it into a bulletin board. This game is the perfect way to use up those last 3 or 4 minutes of class when students get done with things earlier than you expected. I just call out a number. The first student to figure out how to make that number yells "Witzzle!" and share the correct solution gets a piece of candy.
The numbers are hole punched and hung on thumb tacks so that the numbers can be easily rearranged to form a new set of numbers. I've blogged more about Witzzle here.
Around the Witzzle bulletin board, I have letters hung that spell "VERTICAL" and "HORIZONTAL." Many of my students confuse these two terms, so I put this as a visual reminder to them. These letters get used a lot! I blogged more about these letters (and shared the file to make them) here.
Above the horizontal lettering, I have my left/right reminder signs. I've uploaded the files for them here. And, above those signs, I've hung my "Keep Calm and Combine Like Terms" poster. You can find the file for that poster here. Pointing to approximately 3.14 on my clock is my pi poster. I blogged about this idea that I stole from Annie Forest here.
Above the door, I have a "YET" poster. This poster was inspired by Ilana Horn's Strength In Numbers book. It ties into my desire to help my students develop a growth mindset. When students say they can't do something, I want them to change that to "I can't do that YET." If you're looking for more information on growth mindset, I can't recommend Carol Dweck's Mindset book enough!
You can find the file for the "Always Show All Of Your Thinking" poster here. I try to ask students to show all of their thinking instead of asking them to show their work. It's just a slight change in wording, but I find it can make all the difference. And, the "What Zone Are You In?" poster file is uploaded here.
I LOVE that my new classroom has an entire wall of cabinets. I have two full length cabinets that have come in handy for storing all sorts of odd-shaped things on my classroom.
We got a new bell schedule this year that actually has the bells ringing on multiples of five! For the past two years, our bells have rang at random times like 10:57, and it's been impossible to remember what times classes start and end. The file for this poster is uploaded here. The font is Wellfleet.
The next cabinet door has my posters that remind students what to do when 0 appears in their fraction. 0 in the denominator is a big NO NO. That results in an undefined answer. 0 in the numerator is OK. It just means the answer is zero. You can find the files for these posters here.
I didn't hang the command hooks at the exact same level, but I'm hoping it's not TOO noticeable...
The next few pictures are taken from the back counter in my classroom. I have a set of mismatched magazine holders that hold the numeracy ninja books for each of my math classes. You can find out more about this free numeracy building resource here. My big focus for this year is to build my students' numeracy/mental math skills. I am taking two big steps toward this. On Mondays-Thursdays, we are doing either a number talk or a problem string that requires students to do mental math problem(s). I learned about number talks by reading Making Number Talks Matter. I'm currently reading about problem strings in Building Powerful Numeracy for Middle and High School Students. Reading these two books has really been a life-changing experience for me. In school, I relied primarily on the traditional algorithm for solving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems. My mental math skills are okay, but they have a lot of room to grow. These two books opened my eyes to many new methods of solving these problems that I had never considered before. On Fridays, my students take a five minute numeracy ninja test. This helps my students measure how their mental math skills are growing. It also provides a review of key concepts needed in upper level math.
I put the supplies that students use the most in these drawers. To help my students (and me!) remember what is in each drawer, I created a small label to tape to each drawer. These drawers hold colored markers, highlighters, colored pencils, glue sticks, rulers, scissors, dry erase boards, dry erase markers, dry erase erasers, and dry erase pockets. For dry erase pockets, I recommend purchasing "shop ticket holders" from Amazon. They are super cheap, and they allow you to change any activity into a reusable dry erase activity. My favorite dry erase markers to use with students are these pen style dry erase markers that are made by Universal. If you shop around and price check with other sites (I've often found them the cheapest at Shoplet or Zerbee), you can get them for around $2.00/dozen!
On the counter top, I also have a section for student supplies. This is the tape dispenser, stapler, hole punch, and pencil sharpener I expect my students to use. I don't want them coming to my desk to looking for these supplies.
This is also where I keep my Kleenex box, hand sanitizer, lotion, and Glade air freshener. My students are always complaining that the classroom smells. Having this air freshener go off every 36 or so minutes keeps my room smelling much fresher than it has in the past! I turn off the air freshener when we're not there to make it last longer. Right now, I'm using the "Cashmere Woods" scent.
My classroom set of TI-30XS scientific calculators also finds its home on the counter. I LOVE these calculators because they have an awesome fraction button that makes life so much easier!
You can also see my scentsy pot in the corner, but it's not currently in use because my extra wax is currently MIA.
From this picture, you can see my messy supply shelves. These still aren't as organized as I would like. You can also see my math symbol posters that live right underneath the cabinets. These are especially referenced by students when trying to remember whether < stands for greater than or less than. I've blogged about these posters here.
These posters explain the meaning of various SBG scores. My husband wrote the skill level descriptors. I just made them into a pretty set of posters. You can find the files for these posters here.
I made these posters to remind my physical science students about the difference between accuracy and precision. Files for these posters are uploaded here.
The next few sets of posters review the rules for significant figures. I also made these for my physical science students. This is my first time teaching physical science (or any science for that matter), and I am not trained in teaching science. So, I'm learning right along with my students. I need these poster reminders as much as they do! You can find the files for these posters here.
Here are all my science posters thus far:
Beneath the counter, I have a milk crate for each of my class periods. This crate allows students to keep their notebooks and folders in my classroom. The file for the crate labels can be found here. My only complaint about these crates is that students keep picking up the crates, setting them on the counter, and leaving them. At the end of today, three different period crates were sitting on the counter instead of the floor.
In the corner, I have a stack of dividers that allow students privacy while taking a quiz or playing a game that requires hiding your pieces. These were in the math lab next door, and I asked the teacher who took over that classroom to borrow them. These came in very handy when we did the Rainbow Logic activity from Designing Groupwork by Elizabeth G Cohen during the first week of school.
These bowls (multi-packs from Dollar Tree) hold algebra tiles. I put two sets of algebra tiles in each bowl so that each pair can grab a bowl and get started.
These bowls (also from Dollar Tree - 5 for a dollar!) hold bingo chips. I have six bowls of bingo chips to match the six groups of tables I have in my classroom. When we do an activity with bingo chips (something that happens quite frequently in my classroom), each table can grab a bowl. I used to spend so much time passing chips out to each group. Not any more!
Yet another set of bowls (thank you Dollar Tree!) hold pegs and rubber bands for my coordinate plane geoboards. I wrote a blog post about how awesome these geoboards are here.
These two shelves hold my games. Students who finish early can grab a game. These also come in handy for those days when 80% of the class is gone to a softball game.
- Battleship
- Taboo
- Catch Phrase
- Equate: The Equation Thinking Game
- Tri-Ominos
- Scattergories
- Coodju
- Tribond
- In A Pickle
- Outburst Junior
- Left Center Right
- Sumoku
- Katamino
- Witzzle
- Who Wants To Be a Millionaire
- Prime Climb
- Sudoku
- Mathable
- Monopoly Deal
- Ratuki
- Uno
- Math Dice
Did you see my stellated icosahedrons hanging from the ceiling?
I made them this summer from straws and ribbon using this tutorial from Janelle Graham.
I made them in blue and green, and I LOVED how they came out!
My students keep asking when they'll get to make them. I haven't decided if I want to take on that task yet or not.
See my giant dry erase board? My old classroom didn't have a dry erase board, so my parents bought this 15 foot dry erase board off of craigslist and moved it to my classroom in Drumright.
One section of my dry erase board has been turned into a place to write announcements for each of my classes. Right now, I have the instructions for signing up for each class' Remind messaging system. I need to do a better job of actually writing upcoming dates under each header.
I also have a laminated poster that says "Today is." Each day, I try and remember to write the date as a math problem. This is a trick I picked up from my cooperating teacher while I was student teaching. Students HATE it because it makes them do a bit of extra math to figure out the date. You can find the "Today is" mini-poster here.
I also made a poster to designate a space to write what students are celebrating a birthday. This was inspired by Hannah's My Favorite at #TMC16.
Also above my dry erase board are my group work norms posters. I wrote a blog post about these here. They were inspired by Ilana Horn's Strength in Numbers and Elizabeth G. Cohen's Designing Groupwork.
Below these posters, I have two map rails that I use to easily post student work without having to poke holes in the wall with staples or thumb tacks.
In the next photo, you can catch a glimpse of one of my cardinal direction posters. Our admin often makes announcements that talk about the "south doors" or something like that. This helps me and my students quickly figure out what they are talking about. I've posted the file for these mini-posters here.
I apologize if some of these pictures seem like they are in a random order. They are. If someone had been watching me wander around my classroom taking pictures of everything, they would probably have considered me crazy.
On top of the cabinets, I have my boxes that represent the real number set. You can read my blog post about them here. I also have a plastic scale. Now that I'm teaching physical science, I'm going to have to get a few more scientific scales.
I also thought my collection of Flatland books were notable enough to take a photo of. I picked up 14 copies of this book at a thrift store before my first year of teaching for $2.40 total. The books were 90% off, and I just couldn't resist such a great offer. I haven't taught geometry since I bought them, so they've just been sitting their waiting to be read.
Remember my crates for each class to store their notebooks? Next to them are a clear plastic box and a green crate that hold all of the re-usable activities I have created over the past 5 years. Each activity is in a file jacket. Last year, I misplaced my pile of file jackets, and I ended up taking file folders and stapling the sides. This worked, too! I like how I'm storing each activity in its own file. What I don't like is how I have them stored. I want to find a new home for them, but I don't know what to do about them YET.
Here's the door in my classroom that leads to the math lab/middle school English class next door. Above the door, I have my WWSDS? posters. These stand for "What Would Slope Dude Say?" I wrote a blog post about these posters here.
My Area/Perimeter display is an attempt to cover up the window that looks into the adjoining classroom. I posted the files for this display here.
One of my two vertical number lines is posted next to this window. I want to give students the choice between using a horizontal number line or a vertical number line. You can find the file for this vertical number line here.
On the door, I have created an Order of Operations display. This year, I'm using GEMDAS instead of PEMDAS because I really want to emphasize the different grouping symbols that exist. You can find my order of operations posters here.
My filing cabinet has the first twenty-or-so digits of pi painted on it. Kids find this really amusing. We end up talking a lot about how pi goes on forever.
On top of my filing cabinet, I have a tornado print made by my sister when she was completing her art education degree. Our school mascot is the tornado, so it's perfect for my classroom.
Behind the picture frame, you'll find my globe. This has come in handy seeing as I married a guy from Australia. When I visited Australia during the summer of 2015, one of my students asked if I drove or flew.
My black storage cabinet is the perfect place to hang more posters!
You can find my sentence starter posters here and my Pythagorean triple posters here.
Inside my cabinet, you'll find boxes. Lots and lots of boxes.
The side of my storage cabinet holds my group work roles posters.
If you look closely, you can see my "Fraternity of Petals Around the Rose" poster in the background here. I would post a close-up of the poster, but my students signed it with their first and last names. I need to protect their privacy. Students get to sign this poster when they crack the secret of Petals Around the Rose. Not sure what that is? Check out this post about my favorite brain teasers!
These are color coded to match with my group role badges.
These two posters at the bottom were inspired by an #EduRead conversation. I posted the files for them here.
Above my dry erase board at the front of the classroom, I have another acknowledgement of Slope Dude. I made a set of posters that recreate his journey. This gives students a visual to remember the difference between zero slope and undefined slope. I blogged about these posters and uploaded the file for them here.
You should also be able to see my horizontal number line above my dry erase board in the previous picture. I made this number line using a file I found online. I blogged about more details here.
What's new this year is my addition of a positive infinity and negative infinity at the ends of the number line. This always throws my students for a loop when we start talking about domain and range. I posted the files for these infinity symbols here.
Too keep my room more organized, I have a clippy magnet that holds my microfiber cleaning cloth that I picked up at Dollar Tree this summer.
When my students need a spritz of cleaner to remove stubborn dry erase marker from their boards or laminated activities, I use this cleaner I got from Wal-Mart. It's concentrated. For around $3, I got enough concentrate to make 3 bottles. I use half as much concentrate as it calls for, so I end up getting 6 bottles worth of cleaner for only $3.
This magnetic caddy is a lifesaver this year. I use it to hold my remote control for my projector/SMARTBoard. This is one of those things that I misplace over and over and over and over. Having a place to put it each time I use it hasn't cured all of my remote control losing problems, but I find myself searching for it much less than I have in previous years.
Underneath my SMARTBoard, I have a polka dot pennant that I picked up in the party decor section of Wal-mart a couple of years ago.
Above my SMARTBoard and horizontal number line, I have posters of the perfect squares between 1 and 100 and the perfect cubes between 1 and 1000. I stole this idea from the amazing blog of Clarissa Grandi. I posted the files I made for these posters here.
Here's a close-up of the perfect square and perfect cube posters.
This past week, I added x = 1, x = 2, ..., x = 10 to the posters to make it easier to tell what number was being squared or cubed.
Since we've been using the Pythagorean Theorem some in trig, I've been wishing my perfect square posters went up even higher. Hmmm...
Next to my SMARTBoard, I have a bulletin board that was moved over from my old classroom. This holds my TI-30XS poster that I use ALL the time to show students where various buttons on the calculator. Above the calculator poster, I have an "Estimate Before You Calculate!" poster. You can download the file for that poster here. The font is ChunkFive Roman. I printed this poster on 11 x 17 card stock. This is the perfect size of cardstock to make my own posters at school using our regular copy machine.
A long time ago, I added these starbursts (bought a package at Dollar Tree) with notes about commonly used/confused calculator buttons. They're bent up after a few years, but I just haven't found the time/energy to replace them.
Next to the calculator poster is my set of Team Cups posters. I posted about my use of red/yellow/green cups for group work here. You'll also find the downloads for these posters there. :) Thanks to a kind tweep for the idea of hanging up the cups next to the posters!
You'll also see my "2 Nice Things" poster on the wall above that bulletin board. This is an idea I stole a long time ago from Elissa Miller. When a students says something mean toward another student/themselves/anything, they have to say two nice things about that same thing. You can find the file for this poster here. It's also designed to print on 11 x 17 cardstock.
Next to my desk, you'll find my podium. My mom found this at a thrift store a couple of years ago. I don't really teach from it, but it's a great place to keep a clipboard with important information I need to access frequently through a lesson. It's also got cabinets underneath that double as storage!
My podium holds my "What should your answer look like?" posters. These summarize to my students how they should write up a solution. This is something I don't think a lot of my students have ever thought about before. You can find the post with the files for these posters here.
On my desk, I have three vases that I picked up two summers ago at Dollar Tree. They are filled with fake flowers that I also picked up from Dollar Tree. I've received several compliments on them, and I even had a colleague think they were real. They're pretty, colorful, and they bring a smile to my face.
My desk backs up to this window. The blackout curtains keep the most of the light out, but the sun shining on these curtains make the curtains VERY hot which makes my little desk corner uncomfortably warm at certain times of day. My desk has to go in front of the window, though, because this is the only place where all the plugs and such for my computer are.
Behind my desk, I have these four inspirational canvases that I picked up at Family Dollar a couple of years ago.
I have a small filing cabinet behind my desk. On top of that, I have my stuffed kangaroo (holding a boomerang, of course!), hand sanitizer, and my math-y marker holder.
When I spent the summer of 2015 in Australia, I was pretty obsessed with seeing as many kangaroos as possible. Upon my return to the states, my mom and sister gave me this stuffed kangaroo that they had picked up from a thrift store. Someone else had gone to Australia and brought this back as a souvenir. When Shaun and I were still continents apart, it was nice to have this little reminder of the time I was able to spend with him in my classroom.
The marker holder was a gift from my sister. She made it as one of her projects in college. Each side of the marker holder features a different mathematical symbol. It turned out ADORABLE, and I love it!
Last year, I was able to write a grant to receive six Asus tablets for my classroom. I'm using a wire desk organizer to organize my tablets. It's working pretty well, but the cords for all the tablets are still a mess.
Beside my desk, I have my Includes vs. Excludes posters. My student aide is currently taking pre-calculus, and he's already found them very useful! You can find the file for these posters here.
I also have my Tulsa flag hanging on the wall to show my pride for my alma mater, the University of Tulsa. Given the fact that I just earned my master's through the University of Texas at Arlington, I should probably get some sort of UTA decoration to hang in my room, too.
On my desk, you'll find my computer and my new Ipevo document camera. I received this document camera for free from Ipevo for submitting a request on their Wishpool website.
I have a new desk this year which means I actually have room for a desk calendar. I've never had one before, and I'm not sure it it's a must-have or not yet. It is nice to be able to quickly glance at a date while entering grades in my gradebook.
Sitting on my desk, you'll find my newly created bullet journal. Since my to do list is kind of a private matter, I'm posting a picture of a blank page. I created it using the Arc notebook system from Staples. I use this small book (each page is half of a letter sized sheet of paper) to keep track of my never-ending to do list. I like to keep my to do list separate from my planner.
I also have my planner laying on my desk. This planner also uses the Arc notebook system. I've blogged about my planner pages here.
This year, I invested in a cup to keep on my desk at all times. I fill it up each morning when I put my lunchbox in the refrigerator in the teacher's lounge. I picked it up for $1 at Wal-mart on clearance at the end of summer.
I recently started keeping a notepad on my desk. This means I don't have to scramble for paper when students need me to write down their locker combination for the fifth time or when I need to write a note about why a student is running late to the next class. Some kids have been quite confused about why my notepad is S-shaped. I guess they don't realize we teachers have first names, too. ;)
On the table beside my desk, I have a plastic magazine holder to keep track of all the stuff I need to reference frequently but don't want laying on my desk.
These 6-pocket organizers hold all of my graded papers that need to be passed back to my students. When I typed the covers for these, I didn't realize that the border would hide some of my text. Eventually, I'll retype the covers, but that might not happen until next year.
Each pocket inside holds the work for a different class period. Since I only teach 6 periods a day, I guess I could get away with keeping all of my graded papers in a single folder. Hmm...
I also keep my copy of our interactive notebooks in this holder. I have an interactive notebook for Algebra 1, Trig, and Physical Science this year. My Math Concepts students are not creating a notebook this year.
My desk isn't perfect this year, but I feel like it's the most organized it's ever been before.
Here's the bulletin board beside my desk:
It has various posters. Here's the link for my trig function posters.
I've already posted before about my Special Right Triangle posters.
My "Parts of a Radical" poster can be found here. My "Parts of a Right Triangle" poster can be found here. And, my Pythagorean Theorem poster can be found here.
Next to my bulletin board, I have a 4 foot by 4 foot magnetic coordinate plane dry erase board. This summer, I made a set of magnets with the parts of the coordinate plane on them. I blogged about these magnets here.
Next to the coordinate plane, I have my second vertical number line.
Beneath these posters, I have a set of Greek Alphabet posters that I made a few years ago when I was teaching trig for the first time. Since I'm teaching trig again this year, I've hung up my posters again. They've also come in handy in physical science this year when we talked about the different metric prefixes and look at the greek letter mu. You can find the files for these Greek Alphabet Posters here.
Another new addition to my classroom this year are these signs that hang over each group of tables. I printed the team numbers out on regular copy paper and glued them on scrapbook paper.
I wrote about my name poster here. (File uploaded, too!)
Below that, I hung my "We learn math. What's your super power?" poster.
To cover up the back of my donut poster, I hunt up this Never, Never, Never Give Up poster from Scholastic.
I'm especially proud of my math-y WELCOME posters. I posted the files for these posters here.


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Conversation in the Cathedral by Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa is set in Peru during the dictatorship of Manuel A. Odria. The primary character is a man named Santiago, who runs into a man from his past named Ambrosia and they re-connect. I didn't get very far in this book, sadly. I read to page 63 before quitting in frustration. There were several reasons I did not finish this book:
- The writing is almost stream of consciousness and there are no quotation marks delineating when dialogue begins and ends. I found this very confusing as the characters move back and forth from speaking to "thinking" and I was never sure when actual speech was happening, not to mention who was actually speaking.
- There are many references to the political problems in Peru. Most are subtle, yet the plot seems to rely on the reader having some knowledge about the government and history of the country. I don't have any knowledge of the time, place or historical references…and so I felt lost early on.
- There are numerous characters who seem to go by more than one name. Within 30 pages, I had no idea who was who and how they were related. I kept paging back, trying to see if I had missed something which could give me direction, but I was still a bit confused.
- Within 10 pages a dog is beaten to death at the animal pound. I am aware that this probably does go on in some countries…but the detailed description just made me ill and I was afraid there was going to be more of this kind of thing throughout the book.
I really wanted to read this book because I have heard great things about Llosa. But, I am afraid this one was well over my head and thus felt like work rather than enjoyment. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind a book that makes me think…but this one just left me feeling like I didn't have a clue what was going on.


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VICTR is Vanderbilt's virtual home for clinical and translational research. Supported by the Vanderbilt Office of Research and the NIH sponsored Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA), the mission of the institute is to transform the way ideas and research discoveries make their way from origin to patient care. This is accomplished using a multi-faceted approach: through collaboration with a wide variety of research partners; by training, nurturing and rewarding participating researchers; by funding research; by developing new and innovative ways to involve the community in research; by developing new informatics and biostatistical systems; and by making available the latest technologies and sound research results affecting patient care.
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Robert and Shirley Speelman of Somerset are celebrating 50 years of marriage. They were married Oct. 31 at the parsonage by the Rev. E.B. Smith in Winchester, Va.
The former Shirley Ann Baker was born in Somerset, the daughter of the late Arthur and Pearl Baker. Robert, born in Rockwood, is the son of the late Lloyd and Leola Speelman.
As newlyweds they lived in Cleveland, Ohio, but have lived for 35 years at their home in Somerset. They attend the Faith Assembly of God Church.
Robert is a diesel and truck mechanic at Cober Cummins and Shirley was a cafeteria worker at Somerset Area School District. She is now retired.
The couple has five children, Robert Speelman Jr., Dwayne Speelman Sr. and wife Theresa, Debbie Pyle and husband Jeff, Rick Speelman, Brenda Speelman, all of Somerset. There are 11 grandchildren.


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Everyone knows that nothing says relaxation like a drink in hand and an evening of spectacular cuisine. The Turbine Boutique Hotel and Spa offers two Knysna restaurants for you to enjoy, each with a different feeling and flavour.
Our passion for fresh, quality local produce combined with an inventive menu has made the Turbine Boutique Hotel and Spa an excellent dining destination popular with hotel guests, locals and holidaymakers.
The 90-seater Island Café boasts an spacious terrace for al fresco dining, an airy, vibrant interior, and a delectable menu for breakfasts, light lunches and gourmet dinners. Tables overlook the canal or are nestled between the original refurbished turbines.
The Gastro Pub is the ideal spot for a magical sundowner complemented by a mouth-watering bite to eat from an imaginitive pub-style menu. Offering something a little different to the the Knysna restaurants on show, at the Gastro Pub you can relax on the deck for cocktails and craft beer overlooking the canal, or enjoy the unique interior of the hotel's fifth turbine. A massive lifting hook and chains dating from the power plant days certainly makes for an interesting talking point.


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|A really special necktie bedspread
After her father passed away a young lady received a very unique gift from her aunt. It was a few years after his passing due to a heart attack that his sister made this bedspread from shirts and ties that the departed had actually worn.
Made with great love and a heavy heart this quilt was sure to be cherished by a father's daughter.


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CASTRO VALLEY, Calif. --Alameda County Sheriff's Deputies have identified the man who was fatally shot by a deputy during a robbery at a Castro Valley burger restaurant last week.
Oakland resident Quincy Williams, 32, was a parolee-at-large when deputies confronted him during a robbery at Boulevard Burger.Authorities said Williams had three felony convictions on his record for robbery, drugs and theft. The sheriff's office says he's been arrested for other crimes too.


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Friday, October 26, 2012
Not here, or there, or anywhere...
I am really happy with the way it turned out... but in normal fashion, I am freaking out over tiny details-- like yesterday I spent a couple hours handpainting a sign (and a perfect stick to hold the sign...) it was complete and it was perfect and it was handed over to the child and within seconds it was broken.
Sigh. But fixable!
More good things coming...
Are you ready for halloween???
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Tour de Turtles
A Sea Turtle Migration Marathon
Sea Turtle Conservancy (STC) is excited to announce the 7th annual Tour de Turtles Migration Marathon. Tour de Turtles will follow more than a dozen individual sea turtles, using satellite-tracking technology, as they leave their respective nesting sites and compete in a mock race to complete a 'turtle' marathon. The Tour de Turtles will be won by the turtle that swims the furthest distance in three months!
Visit www.tourdeturtles.org to be part of the action! You can meet the turtles competing in the marathon, track each turtle's progress, and learn about obstacles facing the turtles during their long migratory journeys. There are also lots of fun educational resources for kids and teachers.
Follow the Turtle Hospital's very own loggerhead sea turtle that is participating in this migration. Pine Tyme is an 80-pound loggerhead sea turtle who was found near Big Pine Key and was nursed back to health by the Turtle Hospital. Check out his marathon migration map, where you can follow along as I swim to raise awareness about the threat of Boat Strikes to sea turtles.
Thank You to all of our Volunteers!!!
Baby sea turtle tracks on Sombrero Beach July 10, 2014
The following is some additional information about sea turtles.
- The hatchlings emerging from the nest are loggerhead turtles, which are a threatened species.
- Nesting season in the Keys is May 1 – October 31.
- Hatchlings typically do not emerge during daylight hours, instead taking advantage of the protection from predators that nighttime provides.
- Hatchlings emerging from the nest are capable of climbing out of the sand on their own and do not require assistance. Please do not dig into sea turtle nests – this could be considered a violation of state and federal laws!
- Hatchlings that are making their way to the ocean on their own are best left to do so on their own. Please do not interrupt their crawl unless they are crawling away from the ocean.
- How they can help – leave only footprints on the beach (pick up after yourself & others), manage light on their property (including docks) to make sure hatchlings & nesting females aren't led astray, recycle their fishing line, fill in holes, bring in beach furniture at night, support local turtle conservation groups, etc.
- Provide contact info – who should they contact if they see a sea turtle crawl? A sick/injured sea turtle (FWC @ 888-404-FWCC (3922) or *FWC on a mobile phone)? What if they want to volunteer/get involved?
- Explain the weed – folks from other areas won't know what this is or why it is there and may think that this is out in the ocean rather than on the beach. Great opportunity to explain the importance of weed to the beach ecosystem.
- Include the language "All marine turtle footage taken in Florida was obtained with the approval of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) under conditions not harmful to this or other turtles while conducting activities authorized under FWC MTP-14-079."
Sea turtle nesting season lasts from April 15 to October 31. Although nearly 90 percent of sea turtle nesting in the U.S. occurs in Florida, over the last decade nesting rates in the state have dropped more than 40 percent for the loggerhead turtle. From April through October these creatures will return to their home beaches to lay eggs. Marathon's coastal residents and beach visitors can help sea turtles during the nesting season by keeping beaches clean, being aware of nesting sites and reducing artificial lighting near beaches that can distract and confuse mothers and hatchlings and lead to their death.
Here are ways you can help save the turtles:
Turn Out or Replace Lights Visible From the Beach with Turtle Friendly Lights!
Sea turtle hatchlings use light and reflections from the moon to find their way to the water at night. Artificial lighting confuses the hatchlings and causes them to head inland instead of out to sea – putting them in dangerous situations which can lead to death. Artificial lights also discourage adult females from nesting on the beach. Short of turning off your lights, you can also take measures to shield, redirect and lower the intensity of the lights on your property.
FWC approved wildlife-friendly lighting information is available online at http://myfwc.com/conservation/you-conserve/lighting/certified/bulbs
Clean Up Trash You See On the Beach!
Sea turtles can become tangled in plastic and trash both on the shore and in the water. Discarded items such as fishing lines, balloons and plastic bags may also be confused for food and eaten by sea turtles, often resulting in injury or death.
Be Aware of Sea Turtle Nesting Areas and Avoid Nesting and Hatching Turtles!
Sea turtles are cute, and therefore tempting to touch and observe – but flashlights and people disturb turtles when they are nesting, or trying to nest, on the beach. Make sure to give nesting areas plenty of space, and do not disturb females as they emerge from the ocean looking for a place to nest. Also be conscious of where nesting areas are so that you can avoid trampling the hatchlings as they head to the water.
There are countless ways in which you can make a positive difference in the lives of sea turtles. Organize a clean-up day with your friends and clear the beach of litter, give a presentation to your neighborhood or local school on things they can do to save sea turtles, and most importantly, talk to others about what they can do to make sure they are not putting these important creatures in danger.


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The second I walked out of the bedroom this morning, he noticed. "Are you…are you dressed like Johnny Knoxville?" My husband's a smart one.
My cover was blown. I secretly wanted to look like the Jackass crew today. Success, I guess? Oh yeah. Don't tell me you don't love the converse sneakers and cropped dress pants. I mean, it's totally 90s and that's what's up right now. And my denim jacket? I've buttoned it up all the way and made it a shirt. It's awesome because a) it keeps me warm and b) no flashing today and c) why not. Despite the slightly masculine look this outfit has, it's surprisingly feminine at the same time. I'd totally wear this to dinner, or whilst trashing my parents' house (no wait, that's not me, that's Bam Margera).
I dare you to rock it, too!
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Homecoming was founded in 1984 by David and Susan Schorman. Prior to Homecoming's inception David was employed as a funeral director for 18 years at several mortuaries and cemeteries (from Illinois and Arizona).
This work experience introduced David to the columbarium industry and afforded him the opportunity to become intimately familiar with the different columbarium systems of the day. He studied how those systems functioned and the materials from which those systems were made, some of which are still manufactured today.
After determining the inherent flaws associated with the designs of those systems and with the materials used, David and Susan began working with design engineers. Their goal was to develop a columbarium system that would exceed the accepted standards for systems within the industry.
Homecoming's Garden Niche™ is the result of their commitment to provide the industry's best columbarium system available. Please see Our Niche page.
Today, Homecoming is proud to be the nation's leading columbarium provider, serving over 1,300 clients nationwide. Contact the nation's leading columbarium niche provider today.


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Larry Lamb is a frequent guest on 'Loose Women', even occasionally sitting on the panel for their mixed sex specials, but that doesn't mean he is about to pick his favourite lady
The former 'Gavin & Stacey' star had a hilarious response when he was asked to name which panellist he liked best during an appearance on 'BUILD' with his son George Lamb.
Speaking to HuffPost UK's Rachel McGrath, Larry said: "That's always a very interesting question. Whenever anyone asks you about leading ladies that you've worked with or whatever, it's absolutely a no-go area. It's like one of those questions you never answer, 'cos one of them might be watching. And if they are, I love you all equally.
Interrupting, George said: "And we're going on it tomorrow, so..."
Larry continued: "One way not to be popular on 'Loose Women' is to start talking about what one you'd like to do anything with."
"That's a different show, mate," George said, as the audience burst into laughter.
"They start to tighten up," Larry went on, perhaps not realising quite what he'd just inferred.
Clearly embarrassed by what his dad had just said, George threw his head in his hands, adding: "Really bad choice of words."
What would Ruth, Coleen and co say?!
During the interview, the Larry and George also discussed their new Channel 5 series, 'Britain By Bike', which - as the title suggests - sees the pair tour the country on their bikes.
Watch the full 'BUILD' interview with Larry and George in the video below...


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Many of those 588 deaths were preventable. Some of them were caused by speeding while others were a result of drunk driving, drugged driving, distracted driving, or not wearing a seat belt. Tragically, these deaths affect many lives and cause great pain to thousands of people throughout Wisconsin. Fortunately, you can help change that number, and Zero in Wisconsin means just that.
The Wisconsin DOT and our traffic safety partners are working to help save lives and reduce the number of traffic deaths annually in Wisconsin through programs and messaging including Drive Sober or get Pulled Over, Texting while Driving/Distracted Driving, Child Safety Seat Installation, Motorcycle Safety, and Click it or Ticket Seat Belt Safety.
In Wisconsin, any preventable traffic death is one too many. By staying within the speed limit, remembering to drive sober, and remembering to buckle up every ride in every seat, you can do simple things that can turn nearly 500 annual deaths into none. Together, we can work to achieve zero deaths on Wisconsin roadways.
If you have a smartphone, you can now download the free DRIVE SOBER app on the Apple App Store or Google Play. You can use the Blood Alcohol Estimator to find out if you're sober enough to drive, select a sober driver with the Designated Driver Selector, choose your ride and get home safely with the Find a Ride feature, report a drunk driver, and more.


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Gilmore Girls. It was witty, sarcastic, and filled with pop culture references that you had to have an ear to catch. It explored all sorts of issues while making the audience smirk. Gilmore Girls ended in '07, but let's take a look at where the gorgeous stars of the hit show are now!
Lauren Graham and Stuart Weitzman
The gorgeous Lauren Graham, known for her role as Lorelai Gilmore, stars in a new show called Parenthood, as Sarah Braverman. Graham was born in Hawaii and rode horses competitively at a young age before switching to acting. Here's Lauren showing off her smile and gorgeous legs. Sprawl us and show us your with these Stuart Weitzman Evening Bowright from the always fabulous Stuart Weitzman Evening.
Alexis Bledel and Pelle Moda
Alexis Bledel, Rory Gilmore - Lorelai's daughter, is all grown up! Alexis was born Kimberly Alexis Bledel in Texas. Bledel dated her on-screen romance, off screen as well (Milo Ventimiglia) for a few years. Alexis has been announced to play a role in A Nightmare On Elm Street 2, coming out in 2012. Here's Alexis showin' off her classy side posing on a stool under a chandelier. Get yourself a pair of classy sandals from Pelle Moda: the Pelle Moda Fact Sandal Platinum Gold.
Melissa McCarthy and Diane Von Furstenberg
Melissa McCarthy, Sookie – Lorelai's best friend and co-chef on Gilmore Girls, struts her stuff on the set of Bridesmaids. McCarthy also stars on Mike & Molly on CBS, which she just won an Emmy for. Melissa is cousin of actress Jenny McCarthy! Here she is in a casual, cute pair of open-toe black pumps. Strut your stuff through NYC with your own pair from Diane Von Furstenberg, with the Diane Von Furstenberg Shine.