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2019 Volkswagen Tiguan SE
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- Stock#: KM088170
- Trim: SE
- Body: SUV
- Exterior: Moss Green
- Interior: Storm Gray
- Doors: 4
- Model: Tiguan
- Model #: BW23VJ
- Type: New
- Engine: Intercooled Turbo Regular Unleaded I-4 2.0 L/121
- Transmission: 8-Speed Automatic w/OD
- Fuel: Gasoline Fuel
- Drive: AWD
- MPG*: 21 City / 29 Hwy
Moss Green 2019 Volkswagen Tiguan 2.0T SE 4Motion AWD 8-Speed Automatic with Tiptronic 2.0L TSI DOHC
21/29 City/Highway MPG
21/29 City/Highway MPG
- Steel Spare Wheel
- Compact Spare Tire Mounted Inside Under Cargo
- Clearcoat Paint
- Body-Colored Front Bumper
- Body-Colored Door Handles
- Body-Colored Power Heated Side Mirrors w/Manual Folding and Turn Signal Indicator
- Variable Intermittent Wipers w/Heated Jets
- Fully Galvanized Steel Panels
- Tailgate/Rear Door Lock Included w/Power Door Locks
- Fully Automatic Aero-Composite Halogen Daytime Running Headlamps w/Delay-Off
- Fixed Rear Window w/Fixed Interval Wiper and Defroster
- Chrome Grille
- Liftgate Rear Cargo Access
- Lip Spoiler
- LED Brakelights
- Chrome Side Windows Trim and Black Front Windshield Trim
- Deep Tinted Glass
- Roof Rack Rails Only
- Tires: 17" All-Season
- Chrome Bodyside Insert, Black Bodyside Cladding and Black Wheel Well Trim
- Body-Colored Rear Bumper w/Black Rub Strip/Fascia Accent and Chrome Bumper Insert
- Wheels: 17" Wide Multi-Spoke 2-Tone Alloy
- Radio w/Seek-Scan, MP3 Player, Clock, Speed Compensated Volume Control, Steering Wheel Controls, Voice Activation and Radio Data System
- Audio Theft Deterrent
- 1 LCD Monitor In The Front
- 8-Way Driver Seat
- Manual Tilt/Telescoping Steering Column
- Front Cupholder
- Rear Cupholder
- Compass
- Power Fuel Flap Locking Type
- Dual Zone Front Automatic Air Conditioning
- HVAC -inc: Underseat Ducts and Console Ducts
- Driver Foot Rest
- Full Cloth Headliner
- Leatherette Door Trim Insert
- Day-Night Rearview Mirror
- Full Floor Console w/Covered Storage, Mini Overhead Console w/Storage and 3 12V DC Power Outlets
- Fade-To-Off Interior Lighting
- Front And Rear Map Lights
- Carpet Floor Trim
- Cargo Space Lights
- FOB Controls -inc: Trunk/Hatch/Tailgate
- Power 1st Row Windows w/Front And Rear 1-Touch Up/Down
- Delayed Accessory Power
- Power Door Locks w/Autolock Feature
- Redundant Digital Speedometer
- Trip Computer
- Outside Temp Gauge
- Analog Display
- Manual Adjustable Front Head Restraints and Manual Adjustable Rear Head Restraints
- 2 Seatback Storage Pockets
- Seats w/Leatherette Back Material
- 3 12V DC Power Outlets
- Air Filtration
- Remote Keyless Entry w/Integrated Key Transmitter, Illuminated Entry and Panic Button
- Cruise Control w/Steering Wheel Controls
- Full Carpet Floor Covering -inc: Carpet Front And Rear Floor Mats
- Tracker System
- Systems Monitor
- Engine Immobilizer
- Cargo Area Concealed Storage
- Perimeter Alarm
- Proximity Key For Doors And Push Button Start
- Interior Trim -inc: Metal-Look Instrument Panel Insert, Metal-Look Door Panel Insert and Metal-Look Interior Accents
- Front Center Armrest and Rear Center Armrest
- Leather/Metal-Look Gear Shift Knob
- Driver And Passenger Visor Vanity Mirrors w/Driver And Passenger Illumination, Driver And Passenger Auxiliary Mirror
- Power Rear Windows and Fixed 3rd Row Windows
- Leather/Piano Black Steering Wheel
- Window Grid And Roof Mount Diversity Antenna
- 40-20-40 Folding Split-Bench Front Facing Manual Reclining Fold Forward Seatback Rear Seat w/Manual Fore/Aft
- Gauges -inc: Speedometer, Odometer, Engine Coolant Temp, Tachometer, Oil Temperature, Trip Odometer and Trip Computer
- Illuminated Glove Box
- Perforated V-Tex Leatherette Seating Surfaces
- Streaming Audio
- Instrument Panel Covered Bin, Dashboard Storage, Driver / Passenger And Rear Door Bins
- Passenger Seat
- Radio: Composition Media AM/FM/HD -inc: 8" touchscreen, WMA/MP3/FLAC/CD player, USB and aux-in, voice control, 6-speaker sound system, VW Car-Net App-Connect smartphone integration and interface (w/Apple CarPlay, Android Auto and MirrorLink), Bluetooth connectivity and SiriusXM satellite radio (w/limited-time trial subscription)
- Heated Front Comfort Seats -inc: 10-way power driver's seat w/power lumbar support and 6-way manual front passenger seat w/height adjustment
- Engine Oil Cooler
- Gas-Pressurized Shock Absorbers
- Front And Rear Anti-Roll Bars
- Electric Power-Assist Speed-Sensing Steering
- Strut Front Suspension w/Coil Springs
- Multi-Link Rear Suspension w/Coil Springs
- Full-Time All-Wheel Drive
- Permanent Locking Hubs
- Engine Auto Stop-Start Feature
- 4-Wheel Disc Brakes w/4-Wheel ABS, Front Vented Discs, Brake Assist, Hill Descent Control, Hill Hold Control and Electric Parking Brake
- Transmission: 8-Speed Automatic w/Tiptronic -inc: sport mode
- GVWR: 5,093 lbs (2,310 kgs)
- 15.9 Gal. Fuel Tank
- 3.33 Axle Ratio
- Quasi-Dual Stainless Steel Exhaust
- 69-Amp/Hr 360CCA Maintenance-Free Battery w/Run Down Protection
- Towing Equipment -inc: Trailer Sway Control
- 4-Wheel Independent Suspension
- Engine: 2.0L TSI DOHC Turbocharged 4-Cylinder -inc: 16-valve, direct fuel injection
- Regenerative Alternator
- 970lbs. Maximum Payload
- Low Tire Pressure Warning
- Dual Stage Driver And Passenger Front Airbags
- Airbag Occupancy Sensor
- Rear Child Safety Locks
- Outboard Front Lap And Shoulder Safety Belts -inc: Rear Center 3 Point, Height Adjusters and Pretensioners
- Back-Up Camera
- Blind Spot Monitor Blind Spot Sensor
- Side Curtain Protection Curtain 1st, 2nd And 3rd Row Airbags
- Fcw w/Autonomous Emergency Braking
- Electronic Stability Control (ESC)
- ABS And Driveline Traction Control
- Side Impact Beams
- Dual Stage Driver And Passenger Seat-Mounted Side Airbags
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Changes to Pet Food Pantry
Pardon our dust as we make changes to the Prince William SPCA's Pet Food Pantry Program. Since 2009 when the pantry opened, we have provided thousands of pounds of pet food to hundreds of needy families in the region. Over the last few months, we have carefully reviewed the program and decided to make changes to improve the service and best use the food donations we receive from generous businesses and residents. The Manassas City Animal Adoption Center, the original location of the pantry, has closed and our volunteers are focusing resources on the new program. During this transition, anyone needing food assistance should contact the Prince William SPCA directly so we can assess your needs and get your pets the right support during the transition period. We want no pets to go hungry now or ever.
In early March 2017, the new phase of the program began to include pet food donations to SERVE's food assistance program. Regular deliveries of pet food are now being made to their Dean Drive location. This pantry is not open to walk ins and pet food can only be given as part of the larger food donation program. To find out of you qualify for this program, call SERVE at 571.748.2680.
Later this year, we expect to expand to other pantries around the community. We hope to have additional locations open by the fall of 2017 and welcome new partnerships with interested organizations.
There is great need for drivers who can pick up pet food from local businesses and drop off at a central location. If you would like to volunteer for this program, visit the volunteer page here. We are also looking for additional pet food pantry locations. If you work or volunteer for a church that already has a "people food" pantry and you would like to expand it to include pet food, email us! firstname.lastname@example.com
About the Pantry
The Prince William SPCA offers the only pet food assistance program in the greater Prince William County region. The pantry is public funded and receives no subsidies from county, state or federal government agencies. Volunteers collect pet food and deliver it to the pantry as well as to homeless camps in our community.
How to Start a Pet Food Collection
Neighborhoods, churches, schools and workplaces are great resources for pet food collection drives. They can be held any time of year and coordinated by anyone. Parents, teachers or scout leaders should note that collecting donations for the pantry is a fantastic way to get children and teens involved with helping animals, especially during the summer months.
What to Donate
Donations of gift cards from Wal-Mart, Target, Wegmans, and other stores where pet food is sold may be mailed directly to the Prince William SPCA at PO Box 6631, Woodbridge, VA 22195. Make a cash donation to support the pantry here:
Helping Local Homeless Camps
In December 2014, the PWSPCA expanded its pet food pantry program to include deliveries to the homeless camps in our communities. Our volunteers work with the Woodbridge Homeless Outreach's operation distributing the pet food at the Bungalow Ale House in Woodbridge on Saturdays. A big thanks to the Gainesville Wegmans for supporting this program with their ongoing donations of pet food. If you would like to help, volunteers are needed to pick up donations and deliver them bi-monthly to the meet up location. This is a great project for youth groups! If you can help, please see our volunteer sign up page.
History of the Pantry
In June 2009, the Prince William SPCA opened its community pet food pantry. Since then local families have relied on the service to help feed their pets. The pantry receives no subsidy from state, city, federal or county agencies and relies entirely on the public to stock its shelves. The program is not meant to be a long-term solution for feeding any family's pet, but rather a helping hand when times are tough. We hope that everyone who uses this program will give back to it when their circumstances change. The original Pet Food Pantry was located in the front lobby of the Manassas City Animal Adoption Center. The PWSPCA volunteers thank the shelter and its staff for administrating and allowing space for this program from 2009-2016.


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Valentine's Day is just around the corner, and if you're looking for something extra-special, why not treat you partner with a romantic break this Valentine's weekend. We're here to help with our pick of Top 5 European Destinations for a romantic and exciting short break. Offering everything you need for a perfect Valentine's break, we guarantee it'll go down a treat…
Florence, Italy
Florence is rightly viewed as one of Italy's most atmospheric and beautiful cities and offers visitors a spectacular array of Renaissance art and architecture a vibrant centre and of course, local delicacies like olive oil, meat dishes and Chianti wine! And even better, the sun still shines in February!
Budapest, Hungary
Not your first choice I hear you say? Well it should definitely be up there in your list of options. Regarded as 'The Paris of Eastern Europe', Budapest offers everything you need to get lost in the warm Valentine's atmosphere. Lined with pretty cobbled streets, incredible Gothic architecture and countless thermal springs, there's plenty of opportunity to take all of those photos you're just dying to share on Facebook!
Reykjavik, Iceland
Valentine's Day aside, Reykjavik is at the top of my travel bucket list for 2014. From the Blue Lagoon Spa, the picturesque glacial landscape and of course, the Northern Lights, I can't think of anywhere I'd rather be hand-in-hand with my better half. There's also a great nightlife for you to enjoy in the evening and some of the freshest seafood in Europe, so grab your camera and a very good pair of gloves and head on out to Iceland.
Paris, France
You didn't think you could read a blog post about romantic Valentine's Day destinations and not see Paris in there, did you? Cliché? Maybe, but if you're looking for the idealistic location to getaway together on February 14th it really, truly doesn't get any better. Sure you can do the usual night time Eiffel Tower trip or sail the Seine by candlelight, but if you really want to impress them book a table at Le Bilboquet Restaurant and Jazz Club which recreates the jazz scene that flourished in Paris in the early 20th century. Iconic. Unique. Perfect.
Which European destination do you think is the most romantic? Tell us your thought in the comments below.


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After my previous post explaining how I got to my current job, I thought I would follow it up by talking about my new job at Primark, including my roles and what I like/dislike about it.
My official contracted job role in Primark is that I am a customer service representative. I was surprised that they put me there to be honest as I have never had any retail experience beforehand but after trying many different roles in the store during overtime, I definitely know that that's where "I belong."
My roles in customer service are quite vast actually. We have lots of small tasks to do, but we always have to do them simultaneously so when there's a queue forming and we're busy, it can end up being quite challenging. Our tasks are as follows:
Returning items
Exchanges with receipt
Exchanges without receipt
Hanging or folding all clothing we receive
Putting all other items in 25 different categories
Answering the phone and receiving instore and out-of-store calls
Making all the tannoy announcements
Going to the stock room and doing price enquiries
Arriving an hour early on Sunday's at clearing the rails on the shop floor
In charge of lost property
In charge of staff purchases
In charge of donating things to charity or deciding whether they need to be disposed of
*Just realised that looks like a Christmas tree shape*
As you can see, we really are kept on our toes. It can be stressful but there's always something to be done and there's never a dull moment. I also like it for the fact that I can talk to customers or more colleague as we go. Often in department work, you're given a whole section by yourself and you spend the whole shift sorting or folding clothes with little interaction whereas, in customer service, we can hang clothes up and sort items while having a good little gossip or chat!
Don't get me wrong though, there are some definite disadvantages. We can often get displeased customers, impatient customers, or some customers that aren't considerate of the queue forming behind us and kick up an unneeded fuss. Oh, and we the departments certainly don't hesitate when phoning us to do tannoys!
With that being said, I have done a lot of overtime this month, in all different areas of the store, but I'm sure that customer service is the place for me. I love interacting with customers and the challenge of multitasking combined with a good bit of socialising!
Do you enjoy your job? What does yours entail?
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The Wigs and Accessories Room was created in August of 2004 from a need in the Stratford community for providing cancer patients with head accessories during their treatments. With donations, the Wig Room has been able to provide wigs, hats and scarves all FREE of charge. Each year varies with the number of clients, but has averaged around 60 per year.
To set up a personal appointment, contact 519-271-0373 and leave a confidential message. One of the volunteers will return the call as soon as possible.
The volunteers of the Wig Room are very dedicated and committed to helping each client confidentially, with their specific needs. The volunteers of the month set up appointments to meet with the clients and their family or friends. We have a rotation of 8-10 volunteers. They are greeted at the side entrance to the church and brought up to the beautiful parlour where they are made to feel comfortable and at ease. A major commitment comes from our own volunteer hairdressers, Adelinde and Lianne, who are very particular in helping each individual pick an appropriate colour and style to make them look and feel better. Sometimes the client will want their hair shaved off in order to have the best fit for the wig and to alleviate the shock of losing it in clumps. Most clients leave with a little smile on their face and hope in their hearts.
Other aspects of the Cancer Care Mission based out of Knox Presbyterian Church include offering prayer shawls, meal certificates and breast prosthesis financial support. The Cancer Care Mission at Knox strives to work closely with the health care community to be able to provide wigs and accessories to any cancer patient in need. The demand for this service has grown into clients coming from surrounding counties and through hospitals in KW, London, Toronto, Wingham, Owen Sound, and Stratford where patients are undergoing treatments. Please pass on this information to anyone who is in need. Our hope in the future is to have a satellite in another location.


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The new Four Seasons Hotel and Private Residences Toronto is nearing completion and it is looking really sharp. Today's Photo Of The Day, taken by UrbanToronto Forum member urbandreamer, shows the tower from the intersection of Avenue Road and Yorkville Avenue.
The 52 storey condo and hotel is being developed by Menkes and Lifetime Developments, with design by architectsAlliance and Page + Steele Architects. This major addition to Yorkville will be opening in 2012.


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The Power and the Glory
"For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeteers, musicians and strange animals from conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conquerors rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children robed in white stood with him in the chariot or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting."
- Gen. George C. Patton
In 2008, the world hailed Barack Obama. Even staunch conservatives voted for him. I know some. They deluded themselves, of course, but they voted for Barack Obama.
Today, his supporters politely heckled him in a back yard in Ohio.
The Tea Party has effectively seized the Republican Party. Glory is not yet ours. We need to find 38,000 new voters in the 3rd District alone.
And even then, glory is fleeting. Eyes will be on us. Not just the angry eyes of our enemies, but the hopeful eyes of the unemployed. The praying eyes of the disillusioned. The proud eyes of our believers.
Glory flees regardless of what we do, but we can move from triumph to triumph, seizing new glory and releasing the old.
We can also squeeze glory and feel it slide between our fingers and float away. That's what Obama did. And Clinton in his first term.
All glory is fleeting. Letting go leaves your hands free to grab the next triumph.
Learn to let go and keep your eyes open.
The next chance to shine is every day between now and November 2. Come to 4512 Hampton Avenue, Monday through Saturday after 10 am.


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Shopping Roundup
~Need some new shoes? Nine West is taking an extra 20% off of their sale items.
~For a limited time only Kenneth Cole is having a warehouse sale. This sale is online only.
~From now through Sunday save money while you shop at Express. Take $25 off of your $100 purchase, $50 off of your $200 purchase with the promo code: 1642.


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I frequently get emails from visitors asking advice how to begin slimming down. If you are someone who's truly thinking about losing that fat inside a natural, healthy manner, then among the first products of economic you have to concentrate on is the diet.
Now before you decide to roll your vision and scoff in the perception of maintaining a healthy diet, let us take a look at what healthy diet truly entails.
One method to think about diet is like the fuel you devote your vehicle. Each vehicle's gas tank only needs a specific amount to become filled to capacity. What is your opinion happens should you ongoing to place gas inside a tank that's already full? Yep you suspected it, the gasoline will begin overflowing spilling from the tank obtaining the side from the vehicle all wet until it begins splashing on the ground.
This really is how our daily food consumption ought to be seen. The body (vehicle) only needs some food (fuel) every day. Should you put not enough, it sputters and will not function at its peak performance, put an excessive amount of also it overflows. However in this situation the overflow is exactly what regrettably becomes excess fat by means of body fat on our bodies.
You need to avoid this whatsoever possible particularly if you are attempting to slim down. Everything comes lower to amounts, enjoy it does together with your vehicle's gas tank. As the tank holds for instance 13.4 gallons of gas, the body only requires a certain quantity of calories each day.
Since every one of us differs, we have a calorie amount which will offer an appropriate quantity of fuel for your system to operate inside a healthy manner. Knowing this daily calorie amount is essential since this is the quantity you will make an effort to hit every single day whenever you can.
However, you might be wondering the way you are really supposed to determine the number of calories have been in the items of food you intend on eating. In most honesty, trying to find this working for yourself could be a monumental undertaking likely taking way too much time and effort.
Who would like to be mired with this?
Fortunately you will find digital tools to create all of this simple to setup and employ regularly. There are had the chance to make use of one of the numerous counting calories websites or programs for mobile phones, you will find some excellent ones available many of which have the freedom! These useful tools go ahead and take mystery from counting calories making the whole process very simple.
When you concentrate on the quantity of food you're consuming regularly you'll be far less inclined to overfill your vehicle's gas tank and rather stick to a calorie amount which will promote weight reduction.
Naturally this can take a while becoming accustomed to when you are breaking a number of your present eating routine, however you will find the greater you purposely concentrate on making healthy options when it comes to your diet, new habits will gradually emerge with time.
When you are an excellent handle in your diet, and match a little of exercise (in case your physician provides you with to eco-friendly light) a couple of occasions each week may it be walking, jogging, biking, playing an activity, or taking a workout class, then you'll really begin to see the weight appear.
Have patience yet diligent using the process. Remember you will not lose everything weight overnight, but when you are prepared to stick to it and constantly monitor just how much nutrition you are putting to your vehicle's gas tank regularly, you'll eventually achieve your ultimate goal.


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The Elephant Shrew
Elephant shrews also called jumping shrews or sengis, are small insectivorous mammals native to Africa, belonging to the family Macroscelididae, in the order Macroscelidea. Their traditional common English name "elephant shrew" comes from a fancied resemblance between their long noses and the trunk of an elephant, and their superficial similarity with shrews (family Soricidae) in the order Eulipotyphla. In 1997 the biologist Jonathan Kingdon proposed that they instead are called "sengis" (singular sengi), a term derived from the Bantu languages of Africa, and in 1998 they were classified into the new clade Afrotheria. They are widely distributed across the southern part of Africa, and although common nowhere, can be found in almost any type of habitat, from the Namib Desert to boulder-strewn outcrops in South Africa to thick forest. They are small, quadrupedal, insectivorous mammals resembling rodents or opossums, with scaly tails, elongated snouts, and rather long legs for their size, which are used to move in a hopping fashion like rabbits. They vary in size from about 10 cm to almost 30 cm, from just under 50 g to over 500 g. Although the size of the trunk varies among species, all can twist it about in search of food. Their lifespans are about two and a half to four years in the wild. They have large canine teeth, and also high-crowned cheek teeth similar to those of ungulates. The creature is one of the fastest small mammals. Despite their weight of under half a kilogram, they have been recorded to reach speeds of 28.8 km/h. Credit: Wikipedia.


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The planning guide was developed to help readers better understand why and how to develop, implement, and evaluate a school facilities maintenance plan. The guide is designed for staff at the local school district level, where most facility maintenance is planned, managed, and carried out. This audience includes school business officials, school board members, superintendents, principals, facilities maintenance planners, maintenance staff, and custodial staff. The document is also relevant to the school facilities interests of state education agency staff, community groups, vendors, and regulatory agencies. The guide focuses on: (1) school facility maintenance as a vital task in the responsible management of an education organization; (2) the needs of an education audience; (3) strategies and procedures for planning, implementing, and evaluating effective maintenance programs; (4) a process to be followed, rather than a canned set of one size fits all solutions; and (5) recommendations based on best practices, rather than mandates. The document offers recommendations on the following issues, which serve as chapter headings: (1) Introduction to School Facilities Maintenance Planning; (2) Planning for School Facilities Maintenance; (3) Facilities Audits (Knowing What You Have); (4) Providing a Safe Environment for Learning; (5) Maintaining School Facilities and Grounds; (6) Effectively Managing Staff and Contractors; and (7) Evaluating Facilities Maintenance Efforts.
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Parents Get a Math Lesson
Thomasville City Schools Math Department and Thomas University's Project Excel held an evening informational session for parents about an often elusive mathematical concept: transformations. Transformations is a topic in geometry that was not taught in any great detail until the State of Georgia changed to the Georgia Performance Standards and Common Core Georgia Performance Standards curriculum. This means that many parents of school-aged children have never had any instruction in it. Without having that knowledge, it makes helping students with homework or studying for tests difficult. Parents had expressed an interest in learning something about transformations, so it was decided to do a "Math Night" in the Scholars Academy Bulldog Café. Board Member Dr. Hazel Jones was hostess with presenters Dr. Dale Graham, Deborah O'Neal, and Christa Graham. Assisting the presenters were Neil Ford, Amanda Wood, and Dee Renfroe. Approximately 40 participants, including students and parents, were involved in hands-on activities that taught them about translation, rotation, reflection, and dilation. There were three main activities beginning with plotting human points on a giant 20' by 20' coordinate plane, then interacting with each other in table top manipulations, and finally using peg boards to enlarge shapes. Parents were excited to close the gap of missing information. Click the button below to view a video of the lesson.
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Scott Rasmussen writes that Republican Washington leaders are trying to find ways to prevent primary challenges - and especially the kinds of primary challenges where the insurgent winner blows winnable Senate races. Several thoughts:
1. Sometimes insurgent primary challenger are a really good idea. The Republican establishment wanted that weasel Charlie Crist to be the Republican Senate nominee in 2010. We're a lot better off with Marco Rubio.
2. Republican primary voters are able to support establishment or even outright moderate candidates. Scott Brown was something of a Tea Party hero despite being on the moderate side of the Republican party. What Brown did was build his campaign around a small number of high salience issues on which he and most conservatives agreed. He was for lower tax rates, against Obamacare and against civilian trials for accused terrorists. Compare Brown's campaign with that of Michael Castle in Delaware. Castle's campaign took conservatives for granted when it didn't treat their concerns as a nuisance. I remember going on Castle's website a couple of days before the primary and it just didn't look like a the website of a guy trying to win over Republican primary voters. The result was that he was defeated by the ridiculous Christine O'Donnell. If he had shown as much respect for conservatives as Scott Brown, that probably wouldn't have happened.


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Sunday, November 29, 2009
A more productive debate on the Garcetti report
Deep in comments to my last post (comment 45, to be exact), Bloix disagrees with me about the Garcetti report in a most interesting way. I had argued (in comment 43) that "the whole point of the Garcetti report is to decouple the definition of academic freedom from First Amendment case law," and Bloix replied,
Okay, I've read the AAUP Garcetti report again, and there's no doubt that it advocates a strategy of attempting to use the precautionary language in Garcetti as the basis of efforts to create first amendment rights for professors that are different from and more protective than such rights as afforded to non-academic public employees. So I don't see how the report can be said to be trying to decouple academic freedom from the first amendment. I do see that there is emphasis on protecting academic freedom in institutional ways as well, but the report does not accept Hong et al as the last word—to the contrary, it advocates using litigation to roll Hong back and to establish a first amendment basis of at least the right to participate in institutional governance without fear of retaliation. And I think this is a worthy goal and an intelligent strategy.
I think the AAUP's goal is worthy and its strategy intelligent, but I also think Bloix and I aren't reading the Garcetti report precisely the same way. On one hand, yes, everyone teaching in a public college or university should hope that the Pickering-Connick-Garcetti line of First Amendment caselaw is abandoned, and that courts begin to interpret the Constitution so as to provide protection for the free speech of public employees (all public employees) acting in the course of their professional duties. That would be great. On the other hand, the closer you tie the concept of academic freedom to First Amendment rights, the more vulnerable you are to changes in First Amendment case law. (And, of course, people at private colleges and universities aren't covered by the First Amendment anyway.) The relevant section of the Garcetti report reads as follows:
C. A Closing Note about Academic Freedom
We conclude this section by returning to a matter raised in Section I but worth reiterating more fully here. We have focused almost exclusively on faculty members at public institutions, because, as explained early in the report, it is only at public institutions that the Constitution affords protection to academic freedom (or potentially causes that protection to recede). At no time have faculty members at private colleges and universities been beneficiaries of the progressive development in First Amendment protection of academic freedom. It has always been the case at those institutions that faculty have had to turn to the persuasive merits of the 1915 Declaration and subsequent policies, rather than to the U.S. Constitution, when seeking means of securing conditions of academic freedom within their institutions.
Indeed, when professional notions of academic freedom began to be advanced in the beginning of the last century, not only were those notions not within the law, they were explicitly outside and even against the law. The 1915 Declaration was effectively a statement of reasons for philanthropists, trustees, alumni, legislators, and ordinary citizens and taxpayers to forego exercising their legal (and fiscal) power to control faculty speech and, instead, by enacting self-denying ordinances, to enable their schools to become genuine universities. There is thus a historical understanding that institutional distinction arises in part from a university's foreswearing the power that it might be legally permitted to exercise over its faculty. In light of Garcetti and its progeny, it is more urgent than ever that it be clear that the case for academic freedom is not now written, nor was it ever written, merely on legal litmus paper, but in the history of the profession that recognizes universities that deserve to bear the name.
As Robert Carr said half a century ago, "[W]hat the courts give, they may take away, and that having thus given and taken away, academic freedom may be left in a weaker position than it was before it became a concern of the law." Whether academic freedom is in a weaker position in the legal firmament, universities that are worthy of the name, and the faculties by which they are constituted, may—indeed, must—recognize that the unstinting protection of academic freedom is not a faculty perquisite but a pre-requisite for the university's continued status among the great institutions. (84; emphasis added)
I'm reading that as a defense of academic freedom as a concept all its own, dependent neither on the vicissitudes of Constitutional law nor on the institution of tenure. So where Bloix says the report "advocates a strategy of attempting to use the precautionary language in Garcetti as the basis of efforts to create first amendment rights for professors that are different from and more protective than such rights as afforded to non-academic public employees," I'm inclined to say the report "advocates a strategy of attempting to use the precautionary language in Garcetti as the basis of efforts to create academic freedom rights for professors that are different from and more protective than first amendment rights as afforded to non-academic public employees. But I'd like to hear what you all think.
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Dean Dad responds—and how!
Like so:
Berube's post is a couple of weeks old, since I stopped reading his stuff a few years ago. I mentally consigned him to the same category as Stanley Fish, David Horowitz, and Marc Bousquet—basically, predictable caricatures of their former selves who jumped the shark some time ago. When Berube did the Punch-and-Judy act with Horowitz, I stopped paying attention. I dimly remember him 'retiring' from blogging, which seemed about right. Apparently, though, he's back, and his ego has only inflated.
Berube, who is tenured, attempts to eviscerate my proposal for a contract-based system as a successor to tenure. I say 'attempts' because he never actually engages with it, or with the reasons behind it. His method seems to be to drip contempt from on high and hope that enough sophistry and attitude will make up for the lack of an actual argument. This, from someone whose job it is to teach textual interpretation.
Well, yes, that has been my method for some time now. But as DD admits, he hasn't been paying attention, because ... hey, didn't the phrase "jump the shark" jump the shark in 2005?
I'm not sure how seriously I can take a provocation from someone who thinks I made my "professional name" by "duking it out with Horowitz," so I decided to respond by simply referring Dean Dad to my lawyers (the ones with guns and money), by reminding him that the AAUP's Garcetti report does not support the conclusions he wants to draw from it, and by wishing him and his family a happy Thanksgiving. That's not snark, either! That's a real wish. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday of all times, and this year we're hosting twenty people for a couple of days. It should be a madhouse. I only hope that my old house's water system holds up.
Have a Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. When I'm not cleaning up, finding lost clothing, refilling drinks, and making remarks about stuff, I'll be working on that Story of the Broken Stick. See you soon!
When Black Friday Comes update: I was unaware that Dean Dad's reply was also posted at Inside Higher Ed. The IHE version of DD's post is 20 percent more delicious, because it mocks my photo in the upper right corner. Twice! In fact, DD takes that photo as evidence of my great big huge ego. Apparently I think I am saving the planet from David Horowitz.
I think this might just be the best interpretation of anything ever. I hereby apologize for nominating DD for the Richard Cohen Award.
But the really funny thing is that I do not look like Vladimir Putin in the least. Everyone knows that I bear an eerie resemblance to Charles Kinbote.
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Monday, November 23, 2009
They call it crooked Monday
I'm over there today, just because.
Update: I've decided that it is not neighborly of me to send people over to CT empty-handed. OK, here's that song that we talked about in that thread:
Now my work here is done.
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Friday, November 20, 2009
Arbitrary but Resentful Friday
For the very first ARF Friday on this humble but tenacious blog, I turn you over to a Mystery Guest. Take it away, MG!
Thank you Michael. All your blogs are belong to Sarah Palin. But what about me? And what happens now when I rear my giant looming head?
America has forgotten. Yes, you have forgotten when your Palin defends you from me and when your "major party" "Presidential candidate" says that Sarah Palin knows more about energy than anyone in America. And she does make many energy in your media and blogs! You say, these nuclear "starbursts" could ricochet around America! You have also forgotten when your Bush saw into my soul, and then later when your Condoleeza Rice told a funny joke about how "it is important that Russia make clear to the world that it is intent on strengthening the rule of law, strengthening the role of an independent judiciary, permitting a free and independent press to flourish." It is like Alanis Morissette, isn't it ironic? What a country!
So. Thanks to Michael Bérubé colleague Hannah Williams, who works in Gravitational Wave Astronomy Group keeping your homeland safe from undetectable cosmic Putinos, I am insisting to you that you have for yourself Arbitrary But Fun Friday all about me:
That is all.
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
Like a lot of people, as soon as I got my copy of Hans Robert Jauss's Toward an Aesthetic of Reception I immediately thought of Sarah Palin.
Immediately, I say.
I suppose this means I have to stop saying "dang" now.
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
I have only one question
about the people who oppose a civilian trial in federal court for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other four 9/11 conspirators.
Why do they hate America?
I have a sneaking feeling that they hate us for our freedoms.
Besides, over at America's slowest-loading website, Adam Serwer explains why this wingnut frenzy is even more farcical than their outrage at Obama's
overweening arrogance servile bowing and scraping.
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When buying books, I always judge it by its cover (naughty Mama J). The title has to draw me in but the most important aspect of the cover, for me, is the design.
Almost always (and I think the only exceptions are Adele Parks' novels and an old copy of Marian Keyes' Watermelon) I choose books with cartoon covers. Skinny women with pointy toes, some with faces, some without. Cartoon cakes etc. Bright and cheerful and very chick lit.
I don't stray away from this unless I already know I love the author. Chick lit is what I like and these sort of covers deliver (although, obviously, you have to check the blurb too).
But a few days ago I decided to Try Something New. Ok, ok, it isn't something totally out there. It's still girly and romancy (perhaps too much) but it is something I have never read before
a Mills & Boon book
Wow. I'm actually embarrassed to type that. Mills & Boon is what my mum used to read back in the 80s. But I am going to give one a go, which is mostly to do with the fact it was free
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I sent off for the book and it arrived yesterday. I have to say, the cover isn't quite as bad as mum's copies were. I am still skeptical though.One half shows a woman with bright pink lipstick eating a pink ice lolly while the other half shows a topless man surfing.
My plan is to read the book (once I have finished the book I am in the middle of) and then give my verdict. Who knows - I might actually like it...


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- Kate Parker is the photographer and mother behind "Strong is the New Pretty"
- The photo series shows her messy, wild daughters as they are, Parker said
(CNN)The night before her daughter's first triathlon, Kate Parker could tell the child was nervous.
Ella and her younger sister, Alice, are athletic, loud, curious, wild-haired kids. They grew up watching their mother compete in races and Ella had asked to sign up for her own. Still, as they laid out everything she'd need the next day, Parker, a photographer, could tell she was afraid.
"Why don't we get a picture?" Parker asked Ella, now 9. "Show me your strongest face, show me your bravest face, even if you don't feel that way right now."
As she pulled the image up on her screen, she got chills from her daughter's direct stare. She looked, Parker said, like "a little badass."
"You're going to be totally fine," Parker showed her. "Look at how tough you are."
The next day, Ella participated in her race, and loved it. Looking back, "I wanted her to remember that she was scared and she went through with it, sort of as a memento of her conquering a fear, " said Parker, who lives near Atlanta. "As a mom, I really wanted to get a good picture of it, too."
The photo is one of Parker's favorites from her series, "Strong is the New Pretty." It covers the last two years, but evolved from Parker's early days behind a camera, when she shot daily images of her girls to expand her knowledge of lighting and composition.
It seemed that most images of little girls showcased perfectly placed hair bows, forced smiles and Photoshop-smooth skin. Hers didn't.
"I didn't want to shoot pictures like that. I didn't want girls to think they had to look like that," said Parker, whose daughters are now 6 and 9. "Whoever they were, however they were, was worthy of an image. Whatever they were was good enough."
So, she shot her girls and their friends as they were -- freckled, muddy, screaming, laughing, jumping in the pool, collecting worms in the creek, barreling into the wilderness of early adolescence on skateboards and bicycles.
"I want to capture them before they lose that sense of 'I'm so awesome.' I wanted them to keep that as long as they could," Parker said. "I started to shoot with that in mind, but it was already there."
The girls pose for an occasional portrait, but most are kid-inspired moments, shaped by childish wonderment and energy. As parents, Parker and her husband encourage their girls to play outside, make new friends and try new things without worrying about grass-stained knees and knots in their hair, Parker said. Now, the girls have the confidence and curiosity to do it on their own.
"They're just being themselves, and I'm just recording it," Parker said.
Responses to the images are mostly positive, Parker said, but there's the occasional complaint that she's showing just one type of girl. It's true, Parker said: They're the ones she's raising, the only ones whose adventures she can document 24/7. She hopes the project inspires parents to find their own creative ways to capture their children's lives. More important, she wants kids to see they can be strong in whatever they are and whatever they hope to be.
Parker's own kids still surprise her.
"Alice is a beautiful singer. When I hear her sing, it makes me cry," Parker said. "Ella has this amazing, kind heart that cares more about the experience than the win. It's something that I did not teach her.
"Whatever it is, it's OK."


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In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy discuss the allegedly 'hard choices' in resolving America's problem providing healthcare. In the second half, Max talks to trends forecaster Gerald Celente of TrendsResearch.com about the Fed's interest rate hike and whether or not Trump's threatened trade wars will lead to hot wars.
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Jose Baez could soon be a published author.
Casey Anthony's defense lawyer is in talks with Richard Pine - agent for Arianna Huffington and James Patterson among others. (Inkwell Management, Pine's employeer, has an impressive list.)
His client is also set for a payday, reported in the neighborhood of $1 million, but television stations and publishing houses are shying away from the duo because of public outrage.
Page Six reports that "talent agency Paradigm signed Baez after the trial, but quickly dropped him over negative backlash."
Baez is also seeking a television deal, hence the aborted affiliation with Paradigm.
Eventually, he will get his TV gig. And his book will sell a huge number of copies, although not as many as Anthony's eventual tell-all. But it's going to require some patience. That's just how these things work.


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(makes 12 flatbreads)
This recipe is courtesy of baker, Dean Brettschneider. Specialty kitchen shops may sell pizza stones; round or square flat tiles used as baking trays for pizza. A pizza stone helps to give the bread a crispy base. In our kitchen we use large ceramic flooring tiles which we buy from a tiling shop.
4-6 cloves garlic
1/2 tsp flaky sea salt
1 cup Italian parsley leaves (firmly packed)
25ml (1 tbsp + 2 tsp) olive oil
50g (3/4 cup) freshly and finely grated Parmesan
flour for flouring bench
Basic Dough
- Preheat oven to 250°C. Place pizza stone into oven at least 1 hour before baking.
- To make pesto: Place garlic and salt into a mortar and, using a pestle, grind to a smooth paste. Add parsley leaves and grind while slowly adding olive oil. Continue to grind till mixture becomes a paste. Adjust thinness with olive oil. You could, of course, make this pesto in a food processor bowl fitted with a metal blade.
- On a lightly floured bench roll out 1 dough ball into a circle 15cm in diameter about 2mm-3mm in thickness. Spread 1 teaspoon pesto evenly on the base then sprinkle with 1 tablespoon Parmesan cheese. Continue with flatbreads.
- Slide a pizza peel, large spatula, or a rimless baking tray under flatbread and then slide flatbread onto heated pizza stone. Continue with flatbreads. Bake for 4-5 minutes till golden brown and crisp.
- Serve warm.


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Military manufacturing
Military manufacturing refers to the part of overall production that is used to manufacture ships of all classes at shipyards.
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Military manufacturing is allocated by assigning parts of your economy to manufacturing, and then setting the social/military manufacturing slider. Unlike social manufacturing, modifiers that affect only military manufacturing are extremely rare. This means that most important ways of enhancing military manufacturing are those that increase your overall manufacturing.
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One difference between Military and Social production is the fact that up to five planets are able to combine their military output at a single shipyard.
Only limit to this is the diminishing returns on long distances between the planets, or sponsors, and the shipyard. The link is at full capacity when the distance between the shipyard and sponsor is six tiles or less, and the percentage of the original military production that is available to the shipyards starts to drop as the distance increases after that.
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Web giant Google is reportedly laying off 1,200 employees from its Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc, which the company bought in 2012 for 12.4 billion dollars, according to a source.
The source claimed that the majority of the latest round of layoffs, which comes seven months after Google said that it was eliminating 4,000 jobs from the newly acquired Motorola, will occur outside the U.S, The Washington Post reports.
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Hundreds of thousands and some estimates put the number of participants at a half-million –converged on the nation's capital, Washington, DC on Thursday, to participate in the annual March for Life, held each year on the anniversary of the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that made procured abortion legal in all fifty states.
The only network that offered coverage was CBS, which dedicated 15 seconds to the March in the context of highlighting moderate Republican opposition to the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. Meanwhile, NBC , ABC, and Spanish-language networks Univision and Telemundo, completely ignored the March. The networks did, however, find time to cover "DeflateGate," sidecar dogs in America, and Prince Andrew's sex scandal.
John -Henry Weston, co-founder of LifeSiteNews.com said, "If 200,000 people showed up in Washington to protest in favor of almost any other cause, it would be considered national news by nearly every newspaper or network. The decision to ignore America's biggest march yet again shows that U.S. mainstream media, including the Big Three networks, has no interest in reporting on anything that might harm its agenda -- and nothing undercuts that agenda more than hundreds of thousands of mostly young people coming to D.C. to support life."


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My latest PaperArtsy challenge is inspired by this blog post by Alison Hall. The theme is Mono Printing and I used my (very neglected) Gelli Plate.
I used stamps from two sets - Ellen Vargo's EEV02 and Emma Godfrey's EEG17 - to stamp the paint away from the gelli plate. (sorry for the miserable lighting on the photo)
The stamped images remain white on the print. I liked the background so much, I didn't even want do do anything with it...
Next, stamped the background with the numbers stamp from the Gentleman Plate 4 set and also the Mini 18 alphabet stamp.
Finally, I took the leafy branch stamp from Lin Brown's ELB04 set and a quote from the EEG17 set.
I really love the contrast of the bright colours with the black and also the white in the background. Thanks, Alison, for this wonderful technique!


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So, here are the facts:
- I believe in food equality. For example, if I'm eating a salad, I need an entire miniature salad in each bite. Fuck if I'll eat a fork full of pure lettuce! If I'm eating cake, every bite needs some frosting. Unfrosted cake is preposterous! If I have Skittles, M&Ms, or any other colored candy, I divvy them up into colors. I eat the outliers so that there is the same amount of each color. Then, I proceed to eat one at a time, in rainbow order; one red, one orange, one yellow, one green, one blue, one purple/brown, and then I repeat until they are all gone. If I'm in a movie theater, I do my best with the light from the screen, but usually I just buy Twizzlers and bite each end off evenly. "Miti-mota" as they say in Chile, or "even-steven" in the states.
- My voice and hands shake comically when I am forced to talk to almost anyone on the phone, when I am faced with an authoritative figure in a uniform, or when I need to ask for or give important information. The customs officials in airports scare the crap out of me, and I just know that the cop car behind me wants to pull me over, despite never having been pulled over because I am obsessive about speed limits. When I sent important documents to the U.S. recently, the lady behind the desk couldn't tell which direction I was pointing at on the paper because my hand was shaking uncontrollably. My husband had to step in. No joke.
- When I'm nervous or anxious, I instinctively peel away at the skin near my thumbnails, that is, if I'm not shakily pointing at something at the time. I can't remember if I've always done this or not, but the other day I noticed that my thumbnails are a bit wonky. Apparently, this is called, "excoriation", and the formality of that word makes me feel weirder about it than I'd like to.
- Who puts artwork on the wall and just lets it exist crookedly?!?
- I still feel guilty about stupid things I did when I was a child, such as convincing a classmate that I was colorblind. Even now I feel terrible about not-so-terrible offenses, such as not putting things back where they belong in the grocery store. This does not stem from a religious upbringing because I was devoid of one, so who knows? Every once in awhile I like to defy myself and leave pasta in the cereal aisle.
- Being locked in a room with a loud chewer after having just woken up, without coffee!, would be by far the most inhumane punishment I can think of. Apparently, this is "misophonia", but I'd argue that it's just my disapproval of human interaction before I've had coffee.
- Any given day can be thrown into a destructive spiral of internet health investigation. I have been sure of having cancer more times than I can count, and I have been pregnant at least 40 times in the last four years according to my paranoia. I may actually be pregnant right now, as a matter of fact.
So, clearly, I have a few disorders, or at the very least I'm a wee bit neurotic. My mental health lies somewhere between the face my cat makes when he gets his claw stuck on something and his instinct to eat tape and dust bunnies. Although, it's probably worse because I just related my mental health to my cat.
Somehow, I'm really not all that worried.
C'Est La Vie!


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Meditation music is music performed to aid in the practice of meditation. It can have a specific religious content, but also more recently has been associated with modern composers who use meditation techniques in their process of composition, or who compose such music with no particular religious group as a focus. The concept also includes music performed as an act of meditation.
Modern meditation music in the 20th century began when composers such as John Cage, Stuart Dempster, Pauline Oliveros, Terry Riley, La Monte Young and Lawrence Ball began to combine meditation techniques and concepts, and music. Specific works include Tony Scott's Music for Zen Meditation (1964), Karlheinz Stockhausen's Inori (1974), Mantra (1970), Hymnen (1966–67), Stimmung (1968), and Aus den sieben Tagen (1968), Olivier Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time (1941), and Ben Johnston, whose Visions and Spells (a realization of Vigil (1976)), requires a meditation period prior to performance. R. Murray Schafer's concepts of clairaudience (clean hearing) as well as the ones found in his The Tuning of the World (1977) are meditative (Von Gunden 1983, 103–104).
An MP3 blog is a type of blog in which the creator makes music files, normally in the MP3 format, available for download. They are also known as musicblogs, audioblogs or soundblogs (the latter two can also mean podcasts). MP3 blogs have become increasingly popular since 2003. The music posted ranges from hard-to-find rarities that have not been issued in many years to more contemporary offerings, and selections are often restricted to a particular musical genre or theme. Some musicblogs offer music in Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) or Ogg formats.
Among the few first MP3 blogs were Tonspion, Buzzgrinder, Fluxblog, and Stereogum. Tonspion is the first MP3 blog in Germany and started in 1998 with reviews and downloads that international artists and labels gave out for free on the web. Buzzgrinder began in 2001 as a way for musician SethW to fill time on the road. Stereogum began as a music-related LiveJournal in 2002, though its format was focused on indie/pop gossip rather than MP3s. Fluxblog (also founded in 2002) trumpeted LCD Soundsystem's "Yeah (Stupid Version)" in early 2004 brought increased attention to MP3 blogs. A July, 2004 story by Reuters and an August, 2004 story on National Public Radio further galvanized the trend, and today there are thousands of MP3 blogs covering a cornucopia of musical styles.


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Q: Am I a MUBS member?
A: As soon as you are enrolled in a Monash Berwick course, you are a MUBS member
Q: Do I need to pay?
A: Being a MUBS member is free
Q: Where is MUBS on campus?
A: We're located in Building 902 on the Ground Floor. Our Office Manager's office is at the bottom of the stairs, and our office is directly opposite. Otherwise, the student lounge is where we're based
Q: What does MUBS stand for?
A: Monash Union of Berwick Students
Q: What services are on campus?
A: Check out our Contacts Page to see what we've got on campus
Q: Who runs MUBS?
A: A democratically elected committee of Berwick students runs MUBS, with the help of 2 employees and some contractors.
Q: How are you funded?
A: Students pay a Student Services and Amenities Fee and a percentage of that goes towards each campus-based Student Association
Q: Who are the other Monash Student Organisations?
- Clayton: Monash Student Association (MSA)
- Caulfield: MONSU Caulfield
- Parkville: Monash Parkville Student Union (MPSU)
- Peninsula: MONSU Peninsula
- Gippsland: MUGSU / Fusion


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A/N: Contains explicit sexual content and nudity in the artwork. NSFW and inappropriate for children.
Kaawen and Betath were silent as they made their way through Vulkhel Guard to his house. She was sure all sorts of ideas and questions were playing through his mind, just as they were through hers. Her words, "Do you want to get out of here?" had a pretty clear meaning, at least for her. But only last night, she had said she wasn't ready to take their relationship to the next step. Indeed, their first kiss had been just yesterday as well. Betath must be all manner of confused. Then again, so was she.
When they arrived at his house, he got himself a glass of wine and a cup of Samardan's breakfast brew for her. "I need to get you some rotmeth, or at least some mead," he said as he handed her the cup and sat next to her on the divan.


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We made the most of a dark and rainy weekend. Although our activities were inside, Z still had some quality running around time at a park near MoBob's office before a flaming Japanese lunch and a visit from his nursery teachers, and then we hosted MoFem FHE. Continuing on the religious note, the missionaries came over for the "official" family home evening. I was surprised, nay, shocked, that Z is displaying his knowledge of church stuff - apparently he prays with the right stance (arms folded, eyes closed), shouts out the right answers during nursery, and correctly identifying Christ on the pass along cards that the missionaries had left. All this to say that I don't actively teach any or all of this at home, but somehow he remembers from watching me and from attending church.
We started the weekend at the weekly jazz night at Westminster Church. Although this is a long established neighborhood tradition, this was the first time I'd gone. MB and Z were unable to find parking so I enjoyed the concert alone. I made an effort this time because it was the last evening of Washington Women in Jazz Festival, and I'd always wanted to see Shannon Gunn and the Bullettes, an all-female (with one gentleman) small-scale big band jazz ensemble. I was especially impressed with the two guest musicians, one young lady in high school, the other from Towson State.
We visited the Kreeger Museum for the first time on Saturday, for a kids' activity. I didn't think the event was as interesting as similar activities we'd gone to, but I am definitely motivated to return for a real visit - on my own!
Learning about Alexander Calder.
Art appreciation?
Since it began to rain, we ventured on to the new aquarium at Glen Echo Park. It was small and friendly, and we definitely want to return when the weather is nicer for the pirate ship and the outdoor play area.
The yellow submarine.
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I have been slacking on my photo challenge posts- last week was something that I made .
So here is a picture of some homemade cupcakes I made- mmmm.
This week's challenge is someone that you love. I love all of my nieces and nephews but this is a fun picture that I got of my little niece Marley! She is such a joy in my life!
Linking Up with A Step in The Journey for the 20 Week Photography Challenge.
Thanks for stopping by!


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In June of 2007, King County Metro signed a contract with INIT Innovations in Transportation, Inc. to install "smart" bus technology (OBS) on the entire fleet of Metro fixed-route vehicles and replace the existing CAD/AVL system with a new Communications Center System (CCS) for use by Transit Coordinators. The OBS/CCS Project expects to build on the information gleaned from the Smart Bus Demonstration Project (Regional Smart Bus Demonstration Project Evaluation Report).
The OBS/CCS Project includes all of the technology, except the new radio system, for vehicle tracking, revenue service management and near real-time customer information. Both the OBS and CCS parts of the Project will be implemented in concert with the new 700MHz radios and this combined implementation will migrate the KCM's revenue fleet to the new, integrated systems.
The OBS will provide Metro's fixed-route vehicles with the next generation of on-board vehicle electronics and data systems. Using a new, integrated, multi-function computer and communications system, KCM's buses have will have on-board capabilities that monitor and report on the operational and maintenance status of the bus, as well as its current location and schedule. The OBS will also be installed with and provide an Operator interface to the new mobile radios provided by the Transit Radio System Project.
The CCS will provide Metro Coordinators with a replacement for the current Communications Center CAD/AVL system. The new system uses modern technology for fleet management and improves system safety. The new CCS will provide improved coordinator tools and vehicle location tracking information, reporting both on-route and off-route vehicle locations.
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Key equipment on Metro-operated buses needs to be replaced. This equipment includes mobile data terminals, two-way radio and automated vehicle location systems, and public address systems. In some cases, the equipment is reaching the end of its expected life cycle and compatible equipment is no longer available on the market. In other instances, the equipment doesn't meet current Federal standards.
These systems are expected to enable Metro and Sound Transit to improve vehicle safety, and mechanical and schedule reliability for the fixed-route service. Additionally, KCM anticipates providing enhanced service and service information to riders as has been the case in other U.S. cities.
What do "smart" buses do?
What does that mean for you?
Improve information provided to riders:
The regional smart bus demonstration project was a joint King County Metro/Sound Transit effort to evaluate the next generation of bus information systems. The project was in operation from October 2001 through January 2002. A 40' Gillig was used on ST Express Route 570 and a new Flyer articulated bus, was in service on selected Metro routes 5, 7, 54, 55, 167 and a downtown circulator bus. The demonstration included regular weekday service and it did not work on weekends, holidays or non-demonstration routes.
In October 2001 through January 2002, King County Metro Transit and Sound Transit conducted the Regional Smart Bus Demonstration Project - Phase 1, a short term, limited demonstration of off-the-shelf smart bus technology on two transit coaches. This report evaluates the results of the demonstration project, with an emphasis on technical approach, transit business impacts, and lessons learned from the demonstration.
Data obtained from the Demonstration Project and subsequent Evaluation was used to develop requirements for the OBS/CCS contract that will lead to improved transit service and transit information for riders, and allow KCM to deliver the best possible transportation value for the taxpayers of our region.
You can read the report either as a .PDF file [465 kb, 79 pgs], or as HTML on the web.
If your web browser does not have a viewer defined for PDF formatted files, please download the appropriate reader [external link], courtesy of Adobe.
If you have comments about this project, please contact King County Metro at 206-553-3000, TTY users call 206-684-2029, or send an email to email@example.com


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Invalid XML characters in a TMX
You can use Okabi Olifant for removing invalid XML characters from a TMX translation memory. Click here to download Okapi Olifant.
Some TMX files may come with control characters that are invalid in XML document (often found in RTF-generated style sheet section). When one or more characters is in the TMX file, an error "hexadecimal value 0xHH is an invalid character" occurs when opening or importing the TMX file.
To open such TMX file in Olifant:
- Select the Import command from the File menu.
- Select the path of the TMX file to import.
- Click Open.
- An TMX Import Options dialog box opens.
- Make sure the option Check for invalid characters is set.
- Click OK.
A temporary copy of the file is created, where each invalid XML character will be replaced by
_#xHHHH_ where
HHHH is the Unicode hexadecimal value of the character. Then the temporary file is open. Note that these characters are left like this after: Olifant does not convert them back automatically when saving the file. You have to decide yourselves what you want to do with them.
You should use this option only when needed, as it increases the time it takes to open the file.
Source: http://okapi.sourceforge.net/Release/Olifant/Help/howtos.htm


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- A Flexible, Interoperable Digital Learning Platform: Are We There Yet? -e-Literate – Defining learning platforms.
> I believe incentives in the industry have changed enough that we could have a win-win scenario for all implementing parties.
Hmmm. Break into small groups. Discuss. – (lms elearning D2L wiki )
- Education Technology as 'The New Normal' – Go Audrey. > Education needs to change, we have long been told. It is outmoded. Inefficient. And this "new normal" – in an economic sense much more than a pedagogical one – has meant schools have been tasked to "do more with less" and specifically to do more with new technologies which promise greater efficiency, carrying with them the values of business and markets rather than the values of democracy or democratic education. – (education )
- Tools Index | Voyant Tools Documentation – Tools for corpus analysis – (tools linguistics )
Tag Archives: LMS
What I'm reading 19 Aug 2016 through 24 Aug 2016
- A Domain of One's Own in a Post-Ownership Society – resisting the subscriptio. – (oer foss education )
- 'If you fight fire with fire, everyone burns': how to catch a troll like Trump | US news | The Guardian – – (erhetoric rhetoric )
- Making and Breaking Domain of One's Own: Rethinking the Web in Higher Ed – D2l course in a box? There are better options.
> So the LMS underscores and further codifies a set of beliefs and values: courses should be used as a unit of measure to more efficiently track and administer the business of higher education, and within those courses we should build standard interfaces, provide standardized features and tools, and promote, among our students, the expectation that their experiences from one course to the next will be, well, standard.
Why else did we end up with courses in boxes instead of domains of one's own? – (d2l lms )
What I'm reading 1 Jul 2016 through 2 Jul 2016
- Ed-Tech and the Commercialization of School – > Humans are not widgets. The cultivation of a mind cannot be mechanized. It should not be mechanized. Nevertheless, that's been the impetus – an automation of education – behind much of education technology throughout the twentieth century. The commercialization of education is just one part of this larger ideology. – (d2l edtech learning_analytics LMS )
- [toread] [priv] In the Library with the Lead Pipe » Inclusivity, Gestalt Principles, and Plain Language in Document Design – – (none)
- [toread] [priv] Remarks at the SASE Panel On The Moral Economy of Tech – – (none)
What I'm reading 26 Jul 2015 through 5 Aug 2015
- A User's Guide to Forking Education – Hybrid Pedagogy – critique of the domesticated technologies of Ed. Los, discussion forums.
Most of these systems recreate the bureaucracies of education without capturing the joy and rigor. At their worst, learning management systems turn students into columns in a spreadsheet, taking all that's ineffable about learning and making it grossly manifest. Learning management systems aren't all bad (some even revolutionize in important ways), but the idea is bad, the impulse is bad, at its core. They make homogenous what is fundamentally heterogeneous, standardizing what shouldn't be standardized. Fetishizing the learning management system is to confuse educational administration with learning. Perhaps, the administration of education does need managing, but learning needs to be given a frame and then set loose. Very few online learning tools encourage the sorts of risk-taking that make for the best pedagogies. Quality should not be assured; it should be discovered. – (de lms discussions )
- The Quiet Page & Linking the Web | Heart | Soul | Machine – Tim Klapdor introduces the Quiet Page: linked, annotatable, contextualized, and shared.
To annotate it myself. To highlight underline and note. To visualise and add my experience with the text. (Personal)
To view others experiences of the text. To see their notes and discussions. To see their highlights and to experience the text in a social and shared way. (Social)
To create trails. To connect the text to other content, ideas and resources myself. To place the text in my context, my experience and my knowledge. (Synthesis)
And then to share those trails. To let others see how I've contextualised the text. To see my experience but to then be able to add to it and expand it. (Connected) – (fedwiki annotation sharing )
- Webs Of Thinkers And Thoughts – WebSeitz/wiki – Jul'2015: triggered by Mike Caulfield recent posts (emphasis on curating, connecting, annotations) plus others' responding/riffing, want to start over without even assuming wiki. Context/goals… – (annotation fedwiki )
What I'm reading 19 Jun 2015 through 20 Jun 2015
- The tools don't get you the job – An argument that goes behind open source. Teach theory and the tools will find their own way. "Education is not meant to structure itself to the expectations of people seeking education." And "And maybe even sadder is that instead of teaching the students to be independent, to think about things in a different way, we educators are teaching people to fail. We are teaching up-and-comers that if something stands in your way, the correct response is to either throw money at it, and if you haven't got the money, then either get out or surrender, but do not under any circumstance deviate from the established course that the ads have proscribed" – (pedagogy ed_reform fedwiki opened opensource )
- The Un-education of a Technologist: From EDUPUNK to ds106 | bavatuesdays – By happenstance maybe? provides a gloss and commentary on the April 2015 EDUCAUSE Next-Generation LMS report for more of the same by re-awakening more of the different. – (DE edtech edcationaldesign lms PLE federation edupunk )
- The EDUCAUSE NGDLE and an API of One's Own -e-Literate – A well-considered response to the EDUCAUSE paper on painting the LMS a new color. A federated and personal PLE would address the EDUCAUSE criteria for LEGO, while also opening the doors to alternative models of teaching and learning – like letting the student control her content. – (DE LMS PLE federation fedwiki edcationaldesign )
What I'm reading 20 May 2015 through 22 May 2015
- RiTa Gallery – A set of generative prose and imagetexts written using RiTa, an open source procedural language generator. Two reasons to include here: to show how even good poetry can be hijacked in to formula (Exra bot), to suggest that YoU ToO can lEarn to pROGram, and because the collection includes a generative piss-take of Harry Potter at http://robclouth.com/harrypotter/ – (DH procedural_rhetoric generative_prose generative_poetry RITA Processing )
- Why Technology Will Never Fix Education – Commentary – The Chronicle of Higher Education – Please, let this realign admins and IT departments pushing online ed to a reality. Please please please. – (de mooc lms online )
- In Defense of Links, Part One: Nick Carr, hypertext and delinkification — Wordyard – Critique of Carr's assertion about links as distraction. "Links, like words, need to be used judiciously." First part of three posts on significance of links. Followed in 2015 by his Failed Promise of Deep Links. – (hypertext reading web links fedwiki linking )
Morgan's pinboard for 27 Apr 2015 through 28 Apr 2015
- Learning is Not a Mechanism – "One of the problems with learning management system gradebooks, often mapped to rubrics and outcomes (which have run equally rampant of late), is that they assume students (and their experiences) are interchangeable. And they assume the same of teachers" – (de pedagogy mooc lms )
- Stereotropes – tropes – The penchant for cleverness limits its value, but it's a start. – (rhetoric dh )
- The Remix Hypothesis – We won't see the real digital change until we embrace the affordance of remix. – (remix DH sfw )
Morgan's pinboard for 14 Apr 2015 through 18 Apr 2015
- Open Book Publishers – Editions to Buy and Download: (more info) Table of Contents Embed this document – (none)
- [toread] Dammit, the LMS -e-Literate – – (lms de )
- SCIpher – A Scholarly Message Encoder – – (dh )
on pinboard for September 4th, 2014 through September 7th, 2014
on pinboard for August 4th, 2014 through August 8th, 2014
- Networked Study | bavatuesdays – Groom, Downes, Feldstien debate OER, discovered by way of Mike Caulfield here: http://hapgood.us/2014/08/07/blue-hampshires-death-spiral/ saving in many places. – (edupunk cmooc lms diy connectivism. )
- Bogost – The Rhetoric of Video Games – Central reading for an erhet project of procedural rhetoric – (dh procedural_rhetoric e-rhet rhetoric )


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The Maungaharuru-Tangitū Trust (MTT) was established to receive, hold, manage and administer the assets of the Trust for purposes that are beneficial to members of our Hapū. Maungaharuru-Tangitū Trust is a post-settlement governance entity and is the voice and representative body for our Hapū. Part of the Trust's role is to foster and promote amongst members of the Hapū:
- spiritual values, unity, support and cooperation;
- recognition of traditional customs and values; and
- physical, social, and economic wellbeing and advancement.
TE HAWAKITANGA – VISION: Puāwaitanga o te Puawānanga – Living Our Dreams
TE TAIKURA – CORE PURPOSE: Kia Tipu te Mauri Ora – Growing our Inner Strength
The Trustees of MTT are also the Trustees of the Maungaharuru-Tangitū Charitable Trust. They appoint the Trustees and Directors of the other entities in the group. Click here to view their profiles.
The Maungaharuru-Tangitū Trust employs four kaimahi – operations staff.
- Kaiwhakahaere Matua – General Manager
- Kaiwhakawhanake-a-Hapū – Hapū Development Manager
- Kaiwhakahaere Tari – Office Manager
- Kaiwhakahaere Taiao – Environmental Manager
Te Waiū Trust
Te Waiū Trust governs the lake beds and stratum held by it, including Lake Opouahi, part of Lake Tūtira, Lakes Waikōpiro and Orakai.
Maungaharuru-Tangitū Charitable Trust
The Trustees of the Charitable Trust are also the Trustees of Maungaharuru-Tangitū Trust (see above).
Investment Company
Our Investment Company is called Maungaharuru-Tangitū Limited. There are three Directors whose role is to grow our investments and manage our assets, under the Investment Framework. Members can view the Statement of Investment Policy and Objectives (SIPO).
Audit and Risk Komiti
The role of the Audit and Risk Komiti is to oversee managing risk, audit functions and complying with legislation, policies and procedures across the group. Komiti members are:
Jon Nichols (Chair, Independant), Kerri Nuku (Trustee) and Tony Gray (Independant).
The membership of Maungaharuru-Tangitū Trust (MTT) is open to all those who whakapapa to our Hapū.
You can register online.
The benefits of being a member of MTT include:
- participating in the decisions of the Trust at its Annual or other General Meetings;
- electing members to MTT; and
- staying in touch with what is happening, through pānui from MTT.
- Maungaharuru-Tangitū Trust Deed
- Code of Conduct for Maungaharuru-Tangitū Trustees
- Strategic Plan 2015 – 2019
- Investment Framework
- Statement of Investment Policy and Objectives (SIPO)
- AGM Documents (including reports, financial statements and plans)


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North East giant are looking for an additional mid level construction solicitor of around 2-4PQE due to ambitious expansion plans. The role will be to work on a range of both contentious and non contentious construction matters from different sector clients including employers, contractors and lenders. Applications welcome from part timers also! Salary given as a guide only will be dependant on experience to date.
Lipson Lloyd Jones Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. Please note our advertisements use PQE levels purely as a guide to the minimum level of experience required. However we are happy to consider applications from all candidates who are able to demonstrate the skills necessary to fulfill this kind of work.