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Phillipa 'Snip' Freeman is an artist and a wanderer, proudly in control of her own world. That is until an envelope arrives, mailed by her grandmother before her death. It contains a check for $30,000 and one simple instruction - Hunt him down. With the note in hand, and with Dave, her handsome traveling companion by her side, Snip embarks on a journey into the Australian outback to find her father, Bud, and to unravel the terrifying silence of her childhood. Snip reaches Bud in the communal land of the Aborigines, and thinks that perhaps she has found home. But the shadow of past mistakes looms large over the territory, and Bud must flee. Desperate for her father's love, Snip follows. On the run together in the fierce desert, they speak of past hurts and betrayals. Finally, in a confession that will change Snip forever, Bud reveals the dreadful secret behind his self-imposed exile.
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Playing in the Wind
March 5, 2010 - Steve Anderson
With this winter being one of the coldest and windiest ever in SW Florida, a lot of students of mine have been asking for advise when playing on these blustery days. With just a few simple changes you can keep your ball staying straight and avoiid the gusts.
First, calculate that for each 10 mph of wind you will change clubs by one. If you were hitting a 7-iron on a calm day you'd need a 6-iron when going into a 10 mph wind. You'd then need a 5-iron into a 20 mph wind and so forth. If you're hitting with the wind then go to a higher lofted iron, the 8 instead of the 7 for a 10 mph trail wind.
Second, widen out your stance just a few inches. The wind may tend to blow you over somewhat so widening your stance out will give you a better base and foundation so you keep your balance.
Thrid. Play the ball about an inch farther back in your stance than you normally would. If you usually play a 7-iron in the middle of your stance, move it back an inch. This de-lofts the club somewhat so your ball will fly just a bit lower to stay under the wind. You also want to close your clubface just a fraction so you won't push the ball since you're plaing it that inch farther back.
Lastly, on a cross wind you want to ride the wind. If the wind is blowing from left to right start your ball a bit up the left side and let the wind blow it toward your target. Many amateurs try to turn the ball in to the wind and this is very difficult and usually knocks your ball dwon too much and you lose distance. Ride the wind and let it be your friend.
Remember too that everyone else on the couse that day is struggling with the same wind so don't feel like you're getting the worst of it.
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Theory of evolution
The theory of evolution is an explanation for the existence of life on Earth through random, natural processes. More formally known as the General Theory of Evolution, it was defined by the evolutionist Gerald A. Kerkut as the theory that all the living forms in the world have arisen from a single source which itself came from an inorganic form.[1] It is the idea that particles increased in complexity to form the building blocks of life, then the first cell formed, which ultimately gave rise to people, all without any need for an intelligent Designer. This is the concept that evolutionists really promote and creationists oppose.[2] It encompasses chemical evolution, the origin of life, biological evolution, and the common descent of all life on Earth.
The concept dates back to the ancient Greeks,[3] and was repopularized in modern times by naturalists such as Alfred Wallace and Charles Darwin who provided the biological aspect with a mechanism (natural selection). Much of its theoretic development was based on philosophical materialism (matter is the only reality),[4] and it either implicitly or explicitly denies the existence of God (atheism).[5] As a worldview, it serves as the antithesis of religious creationism, and is supported evangelically today by what is known as scientific naturalism.[6]
The general theory of evolution holds to the following historical claims:
- Abiogenesis: That life on Earth arose spontaneously from non-living chemicals into an as-yet-undescribed self-replicating protocell.
- Common descent: That all organisms on Earth are related to each other, and descended from a single spontaneously-formed protocell[7] which occurred billions of years ago.[8][9]
|Evolution is not merely a biological theory of little significance. It is a world view—the world view diametrically opposing the Christian world view. Therefore Christians ignore it or compromise with it at great peril![10]
The general theory of evolution should not be confused with biological evolution, which is simply the process whereby characteristics change within a population over time. That populations change through time is a demonstrable, repeatable, observable fact acknowledged by both creationists and evolutionists. However, the ability of mutations to generate new genetic information is unsubstantiated, and common descent is a historical claim based on unfalsifiable philosophical assumptions. Creationists dispute these aspects of the theory of evolution.
The theory of evolution is a violation of well established scientific and natural laws, such as the law of biogenesis and the second law of thermodynamics. Thus, evolution is neither scientific nor natural. On the other hand, special creation also falls outside the natural and scientific realms but suggests that there are no other adequate models for the origin of life.
Under the heading of the theory of evolution lie a number of distinct beliefs about its historical course and metaphysical nature.
The following are different views of the course of evolutionary history:
- Gradualism: Historically, life evolved gradually through innumerable small changes and mutations;
- Punctuated equilibrium: Historically, life evolved in brief spurts in response to environmental stress;
- Macromutation: Historically, life evolved through a tiny number of enormous one-time mutations that created "hopeful monsters," which were then refined by natural selection to suit their environment.
The following are different views of the metaphysical underpinnings of evolution:
- Theistic evolution: Evolution was guided by God;
- Deterministic evolution: The universe and life evolved as they did as a result of determined scientific laws; no other outcome was possible;
- Spontaneous evolution: The universe and life evolved as they did due to chance random events; the observed outcome is only one of many that were conceivably possible.
- Main Article: Abiogenesis
It is furthermore believed that life began as a result of spontaneous chemical reactions, which gave rise to a single ancestral cell known as the last universal ancestor. It is believed this hypothetical organism developed either here on Earth or elsewhere through a process commonly called abiogenesis, a strictly naturalistic process that states life can come from non-life. This is completely contradictory to what is already a very well established scientific law of biogenesis.
Common Descent
- Main Article: Common Descent
The theory of evolution purports that the process of biological evolution acting over hundreds of millions of years has given rise to the plethora of organisms on Earth, and therefore evolutionists believe that all lifeforms share a common ancestry.
Darwinists most often point to examples of supposed "homology" as proof of common descent. Because organisms possess a similar cellular makeup and morphological structures, it is argued that there are the result of a shared evolutionary relationship. Creationists instead assert that these traits are merely analogous and derived from being formed by the same creative mind. In reality, common descent is neither observable nor proven, but is nonetheless often touted as being a scientific fact.
Fossil Evidence
Darwinian evolutionists assert that the fossil record provides evidence that organisms have evolved over millions of years. This evidence largely comes in the form of the differential positions of fossils. Many organisms are typically found within a limited span of layers, and frequently above or below other specific fossils. This sorting is interpreted as the history of life on Earth, recorded within layers of rock that are believed to represent vast geologic ages. However, fossil sequences that demonstrate the slow and gradual evolution of organisms are conspicuously absent from the fossil record, and few transitional forms between the different types of organisms have been found. Therefore evolutionists have presented alternative theories, such as punctuated equilibrium to explain the absence fossil evidence for gradual darwinian evolution.
|Similarly, supporters of 'jerky' evolution (saltationism and its relative, punctuated equilibria) point out that the fossil record does not show gradualism, and that the hypothetical transitional forms would be disadvantageous. But supporters of gradual evolution point out that sudden, large, information-increasing change is so improbable that one would need to invoke a secular 'miracle.' Creationists agree with both sides: punctuated evolution can't happen, and gradual evolution can't happen—in fact, particles-to-people evolution can't happen at all![2]
Darwin considered the evidence of advanced instinct in animals, even those newly born, and/or with young lifespans, a serious riddle for his theory of Evolution; one of its four major weaknesses.[11] Darwin devoted all of Chapter VII, "Instinct", in "On the Origin of Species," to addressing this problem.[12]
Meaning of evolution
Quote from: Refuting Evolution 2, By Jonathan Sarfati
|It is vitally important that words such as "evolution" be used accurately and consistently...However, many evolutionary propagandists are guilty of the deceitful practice of equivocation, that is, switching the meaning of a single word (evolution) part way through an argument. A common tactic, "bait-and-switch," is simply to produce examples of change over time, call this "evolution," then imply that the GTE is thereby proven or even essential, and creation disproved.[2]
Fact or Theory?
Although advocates of the "theory of evolution" acknowledge that there many unexplained problems, the view is still considered a "fact" and taught at such in public schools. Note the following statements to the effect from Scientific American and Talk.Origins.
|Evolutionary biologists passionately debate diverse topics: how speciation happens, the rates of evolutionary change, the ancestral relationships of birds and dinosaurs, whether Neandertals were a species apart from modern humans, and much more. These disputes are like those found in all other branches of science. Acceptance of evolution as a factual occurrence and a guiding principle is nonetheless universal in biology.[13]
|Biological evolution is a change in the genetic characteristics of a population over time. That this happens is a fact. Biological evolution also refers to the common descent of living organisms from shared ancestors. The evidence for historical evolution—genetic, fossil, anatomical, etc.—is so overwhelming that it is also considered a fact. The theory of evolution describes the mechanisms that cause evolution. So evolution is both a fact and a theory.[14]
- ↑ G.A. Kerkut, Implications of Evolution (Oxford, UK: Pergamon, 1960), p. 157.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Sarfati, Jonathan. Refuting Evolution 2. Greenforest AR: Master Books, 2002. (p, 55)
- ↑ Evolution by The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- ↑ Materialism by All About Philosophy
- ↑ Scientific Creationism by Henry M. Morris. 1974., Master Books, Arkansas, p. 215.
- ↑ Review: Evangelists for Science by Edward J. Larson. Isis, Vol. 90, No. 3 (Sep., 1999), pp. 558-559
- ↑ Theobald, D.L., Nature 465, 219-222, (2010)
- ↑ Doolittle, W. Ford (February, 2000). Uprooting the tree of life. Scientific American 282 (6): 90–95.
- ↑ Nicolas Glansdorff, Ying Xu & Bernard Labedan: The Last Universal Common Ancestor : emergence, constitution and genetic legacy of an elusive forerunner. Biology Direct 2008, 3:29.
- ↑ Dr. Henry Morris, The Long War Against God, Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, MI, 1989, p. 23
- ↑ Darwin, C.R. On the Origin of Species, 1st ed. London 1859, p. 6.
- ↑ Darwin, C.R. On the Origin of Species, 1st ed. London 1859, p. 208.
- ↑ 15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense Scientific American, June 18, 2002.
- ↑ Frequently Asked Questions and their answers by Talk.Origins Archive
External links
- Myths of Origin and the Theory of Evolution by Paul Gosselin
- Theory of evolution by Conservapedia
- Top Evidences Against the Theory of Evolution
- Evolution by Wikipedia
- Pontifical Gregorian University. International Conference on "Biological Evolution: Facts and Theories": A critical appraisal 150 years after "The Origin of Species." Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, 3-7 March 2009.
- Explaining the Use Evolutionist by Creationists


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More Than A Mantra: "We're All in This Together"
Several years ago, I heard a woman minister offer this wonderful question for assessing our work: "Is what I'm about to do strengthening the web of connections, or is it weakening it?" This question came back to me as I sit here in the hot summer of our discontent, observing the ruinous rubble of broken and discarded relationships, wondering where our nation is headed, increasingly despondent of weaving the web to be strong again.
In the midst of this fractured time, I still hear many people saying: "We're all in this together." From high-level leaders to local school board members to teenagers offering service, this seems to be one of the mantras of our time. This is a good thing. Perhaps we're finally seeing what has, up to now, been ignored: community, the web of our interconnections, the safety net of caring that we extend to one another when life is hard. Perhaps more people are discovering that humans only persevere through difficulties when we're together. I don't know if this is what people mean when they recite the mantra. But I do know that humans cannot get through difficult times alone.
Everything I've learned about the power of community comes from working through the Berkana Institute in the Global South. Communities in many different cultures have taught us that, in spite of the worst external circumstances—war, famine, abuse, societal collapse, ecological devastation—human beings can get through anything as long as we're together. People with little or no material resources get through desperate and difficult circumstances by uncovering the resources they really need—each other's companionship, each other's knowledge and wisdom.
Sometimes people in these communities forget their collective strength, sometimes they get seduced by the lures of modern materialism. But time after time, when they reconnect with each other they find again their capacity to persevere. I've seen this in many places, but perhaps most powerfully in Zimbabwe, as all systems collapsed and people suffered from brutality, terror, hunger and despair. Berkana has worked closely with friends and colleagues at Kufunda Learning Village near Harare for many years; there, we've witnessed the power of bringing people together to develop skills, create possibilities, strengthen relationships and reclaim imagination and vision for themselves.
People at Kufunda are skilled practitioners of circle. They know how to sit and reflect deeply together, they know how to hold one another's grief and anxiety. And always, their conversations suddenly erupt into singing and dancing. (We at Berkana have longed to be able to bring this transformation of grief into joy, sorrow into dance into our own meetings, but we're not Africans, and it doesn't quite work for us.)
David Korten: We Are Hard-Wired
to Care and Connect
As the situation in Zimbabwe deteriorated, as individuals faced intimidation and threats, as their families suffered from hunger and all-consuming fear, the Kufundees spiraled away from each other. They descended into their own troubles and sorrows, feeling overwhelmed and powerless. They were occupied elsewhere and stopped sitting together in circle. And then they remembered the power of being together. As they again came together, they were able to reclaim their sense of self, they became less anxious, more capable of getting through continuing hardships. This cycle continued for years: they would drift away and feel lost, then reconnect and rediscover their strength and resolve.
As our pressure-cooked lives drive us apart, as our political rhetoric condemns and blames, as we're distracted by stress, anxiety, and exhausted by overwhelm, could we still be the ones to reweave the web?
Let's just keep asking ourselves this question: "Is what I'm about to do strengthening the web of connections, or is it weakening it?"
from Margaret Wheatley's blog.
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I woke up early this morning (thanks in part to the time change) to check the surf at my local beach. I was hoping that is swell would be showing:
Sadly, when I got down to the overlook, I was reminded that Laguna just experienced a massive 480,000 gallon sewage spill and the beaches were still closed.
That got me to thinking about all the surfers in town who wouldn't be surfing in Laguna this weekend. These surfers would either skip their surf session (like me) or would have to travel out of town to other surfing areas. In economic speak - they would either have lost the value of a surf session or would incur a higher travel cost to go somewhere else, which will reduce their consumer surplus (stoke) assuming all other things being equal (surf quality, etc.).
In February of 1990, the American Trader, dumped over 400,000 gallons of oil in the waters off of Huntington Beach. The spill closed 14 miles of beach for 34 days. Eight years and a ten week trial later a jury awarded the State of California $18 million. To arrive at that figure economists on both sides of the issue used the Travel Cost Method to estimate the non-market value of lost beach and surf recreation. (Click here for an surf-centric explanation).
Here are some numbers from the calculations:
Surfing Trips Lost: 28,290
Value of those trips: $18.75
Total consumer surplus lost: $530,438
Surf trips diverted to substitute site: 28,148
Extra cost associated with going to other site: $12.00
Total consumer surplus lost: $337,776
Back to the sewer spill, I wonder how much lost value did surfers in Laguna suffer from due to the beach closure?
Detailed information on the American Trader spill can be found in the following paper:
Chapman, D. J. and W. M. Hanneman (2001). Environmental Damages In Court: The American Trader Case. The Law and Economics of the Environment. A. Heyes: 319-367.
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Beach Closed
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The Cray-2 was a supercomputer with four vector processors built with emitter-coupled logic and made by Cray Research starting in 1985. At 1.9 GFLOPS peak performance, it was the fastest machine in the world when it was released, replacing the Cray X-MP in that spot. The Cray-2 was replaced as the world's fastest computer by the ETA-10G in 1990.
With the successful launch of his famed Cray-1, Seymour Cray turned to the design of its successor. By 1979 he had become fed up with management interruptions in what was now a large company, and as he had done in the past, decided to resign his management post and move to form a new lab. As with his original move to Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin from Control Data HQ in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Cray management understood his needs and supported his move to a new lab in Boulder, Colorado. Working as an independent consultant at these new Cray Labs, he put together a team and started on a completely new design. This Lab would later close, and a decade later a new facility in Colorado Springs would open.
Cray had previously attacked the problem of increased speed with three simultaneous advances: more functional units to give the system higher parallelism, tighter packaging to decrease signal delays, and faster components to allow for a higher clock speed. The classic example of this design is the CDC 8600, which packed four CDC 7600-like machines based on ECL logic into a 1 x 1 meter cylinder and ran them at an 8 ns cycle speed (125 MHz). Unfortunately the density needed to achieve this cycle time led to the machine's downfall. The circuit boards inside were densely packed, and since even a single malfunctioning transistor would cause an entire module to fail, packing more of them onto the cards greatly increased the chance of failure.
One solution to this problem, one that most computer vendors had already moved to, was to use integrated circuits (ICs) instead of individual components. Each IC included a selection of components from a module pre-wired into a circuit by the automated construction process. If an IC did not work, another one would be tried. At the time the 8600 was being designed the simple MOSFET-based technology did not offer the speed Cray needed. Relentless improvements changed things by the mid-1970s, however, and the Cray-1 had been able to use newer ICs and still run at a respectable 12.5 ns (80 MHz). In fact, the Cray-1 was actually somewhat faster than the 8600 because it packed considerably more logic into the system due to the IC's small size.
Although IC design continued to improve, the physical size of the ICs was constrained largely by mechanical limits; the resulting component had to be large enough to solder into a system. Dramatic improvements in density were possible, as the rapid improvement in microprocessor design was showing, but for the type of ICs used by Cray, ones representing a very small part of a complete circuit, the design had plateaued. In order to gain another 10-fold increase in performance over the Cray-1, the goal Cray aimed for, the machine would have to grow more complex. So once again he turned to an 8600-like solution, doubling the clock speed through increased density, adding more of these smaller processors into the basic system, and then attempting to deal with the problem of getting heat out of the machine.
Another design problem was the increasing performance gap between the processor and main memory. In the era of the CDC 6600 memory ran at the same speed as the processor, and the main problem was feeding data into it. Cray solved this by adding ten smaller computers to the system, allowing them to deal with the slower external storage (disks and tapes) and "squirt" data into memory when the main processor was busy. This solution no longer offered any advantages; memory was large enough that entire data sets could be read into it, but the processors ran so much faster than memory that they would often spend long times waiting for data to arrive. Adding four processors simply made this problem worse.
To avoid this problem the new design banked memory and two sets of registers (the B- and T-registers) were replaced with a 16 KWord block of the very fastest memory possible called a Local Memory, not a cache, attaching the four background processors to it with separate high-speed pipes. This Local Memory was fed data by a dedicated foreground processor which was in turn attached to the main memory through a Gbit/s channel per CPU; X-MPs by contrast had 3, for 2 simultaneous loads and a store and Y-MP/C-90s had 5 channels to avoid the von Neumann bottleneck. It was the foreground processor's task to "run" the computer, handling storage and making efficient use of the multiple channels into main memory. It drove the background processors by passing in the instructions they should run via eight 16 word buffers, instead of tying up the existing cache pipes to the background processors. Modern CPUs use a variety of this design as well, although the foreground processor is now referred to as the load/store unit and is not a complete machine unto its own.
Main memory banks were arranged in quadrants to be accessed at the same time, allowing programmers to scatter their data across memory to gain higher parallelism. The downside to this approach is that the cost of setting up the scatter/gather unit in the foreground processor was fairly high. Stride conflicts corresponding to the number of memory banks suffered a performance penalty (latency) as occasionally happened in power-of-2 FFT-based algorithms. As the Cray 2 had a much larger memory than Cray 1's or X-MPs, this problem was easily rectified by adding an extra unused element to an array to spread the work out.
Cray-2 models soon settled on a design using large circuit boards packed with ICs. This made them extremely difficult to solder together, and the density was still not enough to reach their performance goals. Teams worked on the design for about two years before even Cray himself "gave up" and decided it would be best if they simply canceled the project and fired everyone working on it. Les Davis, Cray's former design collaborator who had remained at Cray headquarters, decided it should be continued at low priority. After some minor personnel movements the team continued on much as before.
Six months later Cray had his "eureka" moment. He called the main engineers together for a meeting and presented a new solution to the problem. Instead of making one larger circuit board, each "card" would instead consist of a 3-D stack of eight, connected together in the middle of the boards using pins sticking up from the surface (known as "pogos" or "z-pins"). The cards were packed right on top of each other, so the resulting stack was only about 3 inches high. With this sort of density there was no way any conventional air-cooled system would work; there was too little room for air to flow between the ICs. Instead the system would be immersed in a tank of a new inert liquid from 3M, Fluorinert. The cooling liquid was forced sideways through the modules under pressure, and the flow rate was roughly one inch per second. The heated liquid was cooled using chilled water heat exchangers and returned to the main tank. Work on the new design started in earnest in 1982, several years after the original start date.
While this was going on the Cray X-MP was being developed under the direction of Steve Chen at Cray headquarters, and looked like it would give the Cray-2 a serious run for its money. In order to address this internal threat, as well as a series of newer Japanese Cray-1-like machines, the Cray-2 memory system was dramatically improved, both in size as well as the number of "pipes" into the processors. When the machine was eventually delivered in 1985 the delays had been so long that much of its performance benefits were due to the faster memory. Purchasing the machine really made sense only for users with huge data sets to process.
The first Cray-2 delivered possessed more physical memory (256 MWord) than all previously delivered Cray machines combined. Simulation moved from a 2-D realm or coarse 3-D to a finer 3-D realm because computation did not have to rely on slow virtual memory.
The Cray-2 was predominantly developed for the United States Departments of Defense and Energy. Uses tended to be for nuclear weapons research or oceanographic (sonar) development. However, the first Cray-2 (serial number 1) was used at the National Magnetic Fusion Energy Computer Center at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for unclassified energy research. It also found its way into civil agencies (such as NASA Ames Research Center), universities, and corporations worldwide. For example, Ford and General Motors both used the Cray-2 for processing complex Finite Element Analysis models of car bodyshells, and for performing virtual crash testing of bodyshell components prior to production.
The Cray-2 would have been superseded by the Cray-3, but due to development problems only a single Cray-3 was built and it was never paid for. The spiritual descendant of the Cray-2 is the Cray X1, offered by Cray.
In 2012, Piotr Luszczek (a former doctoral student of Jack Dongarra), presented results showing that an iPad 2 matched the historical performance of the Cray-2 on an embedded LINPACK benchmark.[1]
Due to the use of liquid cooling, the Cray-2 was given the nickname "Bubbles", and common jokes around the computer made reference to this unique system. Gags included "No Fishing" signs, cardboard depictions of the Loch Ness Monster rising out of the heat exchanger tank, plastic fish inside the exchanger, etc. The power consumption of the Cray-2 was 150 - 200 kW. Each vertical stack of logic modules sat above a stack of power modules which powered 5 volt busbars, each of which delivered about 2200 amps. The Cray-2 was powered by two motor-generators, which took in 480 V three-phase.
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NCLB Update
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Dropout Rates
English Language Instruction
Summer Service
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NCLB Update
On July 3, Secretary Spellings announced the approval of two additional high-quality, growth-based accountability models. Alaska and Arizona are immediately approved to use their models for the 2006-07 school year. Such models allow states to receive credit for improving individual students' performance over time but retain the No Child Left Behind principles of annual assessment, disaggregation of data, and grade-level proficiency for all students by 2014. To date, eight states have been approved to implement their models. In May 2006, North Carolina and Tennessee received approval to use their models during the 2005-06 school year. Then, in November 2006, Arkansas, Delaware, and Florida (conditionally) obtained approval to use their models during the 2006-07 school year. Finally, in May of this year, Iowa and Ohio (conditionally) received approval to use their models during the 2006-07 school year. (Florida has since received full approval. Ohio is looking at the condition that it adopt a uniform minimum group size for all subgroups in Adequate Yearly Progress [AYP] determinations.) For this pilot program, the Department planned to approve no more than 10 growth models. Beyond Ohio, no other states will be considered under the pilot. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/admins/lead/account/growthmodel/.
Implicit in any system of growth measurement is the ability to track individual students over time. To help states in this area, the Department's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) recently awarded $62.2 million in grants to 13 state education agencies for the design and implementation of statewide longitudinal data systems. These systems are intended to enhance the ability of states to accurately and effectively manage, analyze, and use education data. Grants range from $3.2 million to $6 million and extend for three years. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2007/07/07022007a.html.
Regarding accountability for the performance of special education students, the National Center for Learning Disabilities has released a new report calling on Congress to maintain No Child Left Behind's current AYP requirements, which have resulted in "higher awareness of and focus on the achievement of students with disabilities." Indeed, rather than advocating for more flexibility, the group would strengthen some rules (requiring states use a minimum group size of no greater than 20 for all categories of students, requiring states use a confidence interval of 99%, etc.) that it deems lower expectations. At the same time, the group supports growth models. For more information, please go to http://www.ncld.org/images/stories/downloads/advocacy/
The Big Picture
It has been a busy week-and-a-half for Secretary Spellings. Late last week, she was in Aspen, Colorado, for the star-studded Aspen Ideas Festival (http://www.aifestival.org/). She participated in two sessions: on education and on women in politics. This week, on July 9, she kicked-off a panel on "Investing in Education" at the White House Conference on the Americas (http://www.whitehouse.gov/ConferenceAmericas/). Over the past three years, the U.S. has delivered more than $200 million in educational programming to the Western Hemisphere (including Centers of Excellence for Teacher Training [http://www.readingforallchildren.org/], which have trained 15,000 teachers serving half a million poor and disadvantaged students). Moreover, in March, President Bush announced a new, $75 million initiative to help more young people learn English and study in the U.S. Next month, the Secretary will visit Brazil and Chile with a diverse delegation of U.S. college and university presidents.
Dropout Rates
Building on a series of reports from the Department's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), "Dropout Rates in the United States: 2005" details high school completion and dropout rates. It presents estimates of rates for 2005 and provides data about trends in rates spanning the last three decades (1972-2005), with characteristics of graduates and dropouts for these years. One finding: students living in low-income families were approximately six times more likely to drop out of high school between 2004 and 2005 than peers from high-income families. For more information, please go to http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2007/dropout05/.
Also: With this type of data in mind, nine national civil rights groups have launched the Campaign for High School Equity. The Campaign's mission is to ensure that high schools prepare every student for graduation, college, work, and life, and an inaugural publication, "A Plan for Success: Communities of Color Define Policy Priorities for High School Reform," lays out a blueprint for meaningful reform. For more information, please go to http://www.highschoolequity.org/. (For an overview of the high school components of the Department's No Child Left Behind reauthorization proposal, see http://www.ed.gov/policy/elsec/leg/nclb/
English Language Instruction
Staying within the research arena, the Department's National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance (NCEERA) has unveiled the first of many planned expert-developed practice guides. These guides are intended to bring the best available evidence and expertise to bear on the types of systemic challenges that cannot be addressed by single interventions or programs. This first guide covers literacy instruction for English learners in elementary grades. The target audience is a broad spectrum of school practitioners, such as teachers, principals, coaches, and staff specialists, but a specific objective is district-level administrators who develop policy and practice options for their schools. The guide offers five recommendations for administrators and indicates the quality of the evidence that supports these recommendations. For more information, please go to http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/pubs/20074011.asp.
Summer Service
USA Freedom Corps' "Call to Summer Service" reminds citizens that the summer months are a great time to answer President Bush's call to give back to your community. At http://www.usafreedomcorps.gov/about_usafc/special/summer.asp, you can use the Volunteer Network to search hundreds of thousands of volunteer opportunities by location and area of interest. Also, once you have a good idea for how you want to volunteer, you can use the Corps' resources to get started and keep track of your volunteer hours to earn the President's Volunteer Service Award.
What's In a Name?
For your summer reflection: according to a new study by the Manhattan Institute, it is increasingly rare for public schools to be named after presidents and increasingly common to name them after natural features (animals, bodies of water, trees, etc.). Researchers analyzed public school names in seven states, representing 20% of all public school students. The number of schools that are named after presidents has declined to fewer than 5%, and, currently, the overwhelming majority of school districts do not have a single school named after a president. The reasons why remain unknown, but the researchers lament the broken link between public education's civic mission and school naming. For more information, please go to http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/cr_51.htm.
Quote to Note
"I wanted to leave you with a piece of advice, and the best advice I heard came from one of the parent's here todayAmelia Seel, whose daughter Amirah is graduating. She said, 'It's important to know where you are and know where you want to be... then chart a course to get there.' No matter what you want to be when you grow up, staying in school, working hard, and getting a good education is the course that will get you there. Like I said at the beginning, I've heard great things about each of you, but that doesn't compare to the great things I expect from all of you in the years ahead. Congratulations [on graduating], and best of luck in middle school!"
|Deputy Secretary of Education Ray Simon (7/11/07),
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Upcoming Events
On August 9, the White House and several Cabinet agencies (including Education) will host a conference in Minneapolis to help faith-based and other community organizations learn more about the President's Faith-Based and Community Initiative. As in the past, the conference will impart key information about the federal grant process and funding opportunities, as well as basic legal responsibilities that come with federal aid. Special emphasis will be placed on opportunities for partnership at the state and local level. The conference is free, but pre-registration is required. Please register online by August 2. For more information, please go to http://www.fbci.gov/.
Over the next two weeks, the Department will be exhibiting at the National School Public Relations Association's national seminar in Phoenix (July 15-18); the Association on Higher Education and Disability's annual conference in Charlotte (July 17-21); the National Council of La Raza's annual conference in Miami (July 21-24); the Alliance for Community Media's international conference in Minneapolis (July 25-28); the National Urban League's annual conference in St. Louis (July 25-28); and the American Legislative Exchange Council's annual meeting in Philadelphia (July 25-29). If you are attending any of these events, please stop by the Department's booth.
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DANBURY, Conn. -- The Brandeis University volleyball team finished its opening tournament of the season, the Western Connecticut State University Invitational, with a 2-1 record. The Judges dropped a heartbreaker in their first match of the day against the hosts, falling 3-2 after a nice rally to force the fifth set. They bounced back immediately after with a 3-1 win over Worcester State, their second of the weekend. Brandeis senior setter Yael Einhorn (Cherry Hill, N.J./Cherry Hill East) and junior outside hitter Liz Hood (Albuquerque, N.M./Albuquerque Acad.) both earned All-Tournament honors for their efforts.
In the first match against the host Colonials, the squads split the first two sets. WCSU won the opener, 25-20, while Brandeis took the second, 25-17. After the hosts took a 2-1 lead with 25-16 win in Set Three, the Judges rallied nicely for a 27-25 win to force a decisive fifth set. Western Conn. was able to fend off the visitors as a second-straight set went to extra points, eventually claiming a 16-14 win for the match.
Brandeis had a balanced attack, with four players registering at least seven kills. Hood led the way with 12 kills, but WCSU was also able to force her into an uncharacteristic 10 errors. Junior middle blocker Carly Gutner-Davis (Del Mar, Calf. / Canyon Crest Acad.) had 10 kills and added three service aces, while senior outside hitter Si-Si Hensley (Fullerton, Calif./Troy) added nine kills. Sophomore MB/RS Summer Koop (Long Valley, N.J. / West Morris Central) had a new career-high in kills with eight. Einhorn had her second-straight double-double with 36 assists and 17 digs, second on the team behind junior libero Elsie Bernaiche (Plantsville, Conn./Southington).
In the final match of the weekend, Brandeis overcame some fatigue following the five-setter and going against a team that hadn't yet played on the day, but coach Michelle Kim's squad prevailed, 25-20, 25-21, 19-25, 25-15. Hood bounced back with 17kills and just eight errors in 44 chances for a .205 hitting percentage. Gutner-Davis added nine kills, while rookie Jessica Kaufman (Tucson, Ariz./Cienaga) and junior Shemira Pennyman (Meridan, Conn./Francis T. Maloney) contributing six each. Bernaiche had 28 digs, while Hood was credited with a career-high 23 digs. Einhorn finished with 35 assists.
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In case you missed it, Miley Cyrus had a twerk session on stage with Juicy J over the weekend. She sauntered on the stage and hit her best White girl twerk moves for the world to see. And as you can imagine, she birthed a legion of White girls trying to copy her style.
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I talked about earlier. I paired my ornaments with lux velvet ribbon for a nice contrast. You can see one of the word tags here on a vase. All of the Craft It Forward 2011 peeps received some of these; friends and family as well.
posted on the Ikea blog the other day! Great minds think alike, huh? =)
I also made a lot of non-Christmas elements that will be fun to use in the coming year. Check out the tutorial here (auf Deutsch), and read about the project here (in English).
Did you make a lot of any one thing for this holiday season (aside from Christmas cookies!!)?
Friday, December 30, 2011
It Was Very Merry + Air Dry White Clay
Written by Juliette
4 comments :
- FeeMail said...
I made white clay tags too. Snow-Stars to be exact. It was fun... I never used the material before. And you get a lot out of one package. Greetings from Dortmund, Fee
- December 30, 2011 at 8:17 PM
- Wibke said...
very merry!
happy new year!
- January 1, 2012 at 6:57 PM
- likeschocolate said...
I love your place! You have made it so cozy. Usually, houses in Germany seem so cold to me. So glad you had a fantstic Weinachten. Hope you had a Happy New Year!
- January 1, 2012 at 11:39 PM
- Juliette said...
Thanks Kelleyn! I know what you mean and cozy is king in our home!
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Issue 9: August 2008
This issue features three papers from the Annual Egyptological Colloquium held at the British Museum in summer 2007: The 'Head of the South': current research in Upper Egypt, south of Thebes (July 12–13). It is intended that further papers from the colloquium will appear in a future issue of BMSAES.
Visitors to the British Museum website may have noticed that the collection of the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan is now available through the Museum's Collection database online, through which visitors can order images for academic publication, free of charge.
Neal Spencer
Who was who in Elephantine of the third millennium BC?
Dietrich Raue
Elkab, 1937-2007: seventy years of Belgian archaeological research
Luc Limme
The rock inscriptions at el-Hôsh
Ilona Regulski


text: Alan's getting deployed overseas and his sister's friend Whitney Westgate stopped by to give her goodbyes to him, and to pour her heart out to him by admitting she's had a mad crush on him for so many years! Alan's flattered, but he's upset that she didn't tell him before he was on his way to another country for several months. She was too shy to ever tell him, but now that she's there and won't see him in some time, she's ready to confront her fears… and desires. She's ready to give Alan his goodbye present — her wet pussy mounted on his face, and her nice natural tits bouncing as he bangs her until cumming on her lips! Alan may be shipping off, but he'll have a lasting memory of banging his sister's hot friend!


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Id invite you to search youtube with full time truck camper keywords. Watched a few interviews (cheaprRVliving channel) about truck campers. One guy had a tacoma with airbags for his truck. another was an F250 with 7.3 for 2 people. so it can be done. Depends on your neeeds. If you dont need a bathroom in it, youll save space and weight.But to the nay sayers...its very possible.
Good suggestion, these videos are worth looking at and I agree it is possible. As a matter of fact when my wife mentioned our plans to go fulltime in a truck camper to her sister, her reply was "you have got be kidding", well yesterday her sister was in town to visit and we showed her our truck camper and she was like "wow, now I get it and see the possibility".
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WOW those fins look scary especially if you crash on it...
I'm also riding foils one of my friends makes them here in Hungary (Kitech, I would be surprised if anyone heard about the brand). We have some big lakes with super gusty winds and many 8-10 knts days when only foils are useable.
I have a 9m2 and a 15m2 foil and can ride about 9-30knts with a 144cm door and a normal 132cm board.
I tried a 19m2 (the biggest my mate makes) a few times but its just too slow for my taste but the hangtime is out of this planet
Its funny how the other kiters here look at these foils (many times I'm the only one with a foil on the beach), some of them won't even help to land it even if I say how to do it. I suppose it lacks the cool factor of a shiny tube kite and often I feel like a weirdo And when the wind drops to 10knts and I'm the only one cruising I can feel the hatred from the shore.
But every season there are a few kiters who dare to approach me, and asks about my kite which is obviously made by the devil. If someone manages to overcome the prejudgements and tries it, usually he ends up buying one and then a creepy laughter is heard on the beach: "Welcome to the dark side brother, from here its no return!"


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Good morning, TexMessagers! What do you think of Gohmert's apology?
Rep. Louie Gohmert, who's well known for his frequently cheeky comments, apologized on Wednesday for calling Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., a "numbnuts" last July. Well, he sort of apologized.
On Wednesday, the Republican from Tyler was appearing on the conservative radio show "Washington Watch with Tony Perkins," when McCain, along with former Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry, was mentioned. Gohmert admitted he apologized for calling McCain a "numbnuts" following criticism the Arizona lawmaker made of a letter Gohmert and several others wrote. Gohmert said he should have left out the word "numb."
"I did express my regret in saying that he was a numbnuts because I didn't — I probably shouldn't have used the word 'numb', " Gohmert said. "That was probably unfair."
The two lawmakers sparred last year after Gohmert, among several other Tea Party-backed lawmakers, sent letters to five government agencies alleging that Hillary Clinton aide, Huma Abedin, was connected to a radical Islamist group.
At the time, Gohmert said McCain was among "these numbnuts" who don't read letters written by fellow lawmakers before criticizing the contents.
A McCain spokesman declined to comment when contacted by the Houston Chronicle.
Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., Rep. Tom Rooney, R-Fa., and Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, R-Ga., also signed the letters.
McCain recently has tangled with Texas' junior senator, Ted Cruz, calling the Houston Republican and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul "wacko birds."
Perry weighed in to the McCain name-calling game last week, criticizing the 2012 GOP presidential nominee during an appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
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Ethereal Escapes: Echappées Etheriqués II
By Merrill Collins
Label: Spiraling Music
Released 7/21/2017
Ethereal Escapes: Echappées Etheriqués II tracks
1. The Fountain of Jewels Activated
2. Our Ears Tingled
3. With Every Heartbeat
4. Listening with Our Ancestors
5. Our Peaceful Uprising Continues
6. Flowing Directly to Love
7. We Heard Earth Weeping
8. Remembering the Emerald
9. In the Bigger Picture
10. With Our Timeless Elders
11. We Are Whole Together
12. Living in Harmonious Worlds
13. Particles in Space
14. Returning Home
15. Riding on Waves of Gold
16. Triumphant Upon Arrival
Particularly suited to spa therapies!
Merrill Collins
is a composer, keyboardist, producer and publisher who holds both bachelor's and master's degrees in music. On her latest album,
Ethereal Escapes: Echappées Ethériques II
(a sequel to
Echappées Ethériques
plays grand piano throughout where she is once again joined by
Laura Halladay
on flute and
Maksim Velichkin
on cello. Combining classical music with contemporary improvisation, the trio musically interact with each other as if having a dialogue among sixteen compositions of which span an exact total of sixty minutes.
"The Fountain of Jewels Activated" beautifully introduces the album with an improvised ensemble of cello, flute and piano, accentuated in parts by glistening chimes that recall a stream of running water. Laced with elements of the Far East, the piece sets the mood for the rest of the album, effectively conveying the aromatic and tranquil atmosphere of an oriental spa. One of my favorite pieces is "Listing with Our Ancestors", which begins on a more solemn note with distinctive, billowing cello and piano in the lower registers. Airy flute hovers above like leaves dancing in the wind, as piano eases into the midrange where it ebbs and flows like a river, as if providing an elemental link to the comparatively earthier cello in what could be likened to the Celtic triplicity of land, sea and sky. Another highlight is "We Heard Earth Weeping", which opens with the reverberating sound of a gong swirling amidst somber cello notes. Piano and flute join along in a gentle melody for a while, finally concluding with the return of the gong, its deeply echoing resonance perhaps signifying a grounding connection to the earth. I'm also particularly fond of "Living in Harmonious Worlds", which boasts one of the most elegant and classically refined melodies herein as it imparts gently fluttering bursts of piano throughout its course. Concluding the album is "Triumphant Upon Arrival", which initially begins with amelodic and minimal textures. Colorfully unfolding into a gently melodic ensemble, the piece effectively evokes images of a paradisal garden located somewhere in the Far East.
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John and Marsey Jancic Went A Long Way For This Custom SRT8 Superbee
Truth be told, there's not much in the modern world that's like the old Dodge Superbee and its Plymouth sibling, the Road Runner. The craziness of the '60s first gave us fast super stockers, then muscle cars, and finally budget supercars. Unfortunately, there's very little possible about 'budget' in current-era supercar production.
That said, the marketing of the 'bee was simple, taking after what had been an unexpectedly wild success with the 'Runner by Plymouth for 1968. Mix up a batch of heavy-duty parts, put them on a fairly pedestrian body, and offer it as a performance model that didn't have all the upscale features of an R/T. What's cool is that the biggest selling point for both Road Runner and Superbee (which had a mid-'68 intro) was not just that they worked, but they featured graphics and posture for street savvy. Now that is something that can still be attained to, and, when budget is not the driving force (we've seen some pretty high-optioned 'bees over the years), you can get the creature comforts of the upscale model as well.
John Jancic of North Carolina did just that. John is one of the most diehard Mopar guys we know. He has a fairly extensive collection of both early and late-model cars. While he does have restored classics, including 'bees from 1969, 1970, and 1971, plus a few late-model cars that were not ever dealer-prepped, a majority of his late-models have been breathed on.
Dave Weber at Modern Muscle Performance has usually been the guy doing the mechanical retrofitting, while John and his family take care of a lot of their own body and trim work in their garage. Or maybe that's garages; John's business is colored metal roofing and garage buildings, and he has several examples full of cars that show various construction options.
This car started out as a Texas-based '07 Charger that John and his wife Marsey flew to the Lone Star State to purchase from the Allen Samuels dealership in Dallas/Ft. Worth. The final 300 SRT8s built that year were painted in Plum Crazy, making them fairly low-production models in the modern era (sort of akin to the notorious '69 440 Six Pack package). That same year, 2007, the factory had also reintroduced the Superbee name, offering a limited run of 1,000 examples in Detonator Yellow. John already had one of those and decided that the new Plum Crazy SRT8 also deserved to become a real Super Bee.
"It was a last-minute decision by a top executive to paint those remaining '07 SRT8 Chargers Plum Crazy, to encourage the public to purchase them, with me being one of the buyers," recounts John. "The reason why I put the yellow Superbee stripes on the car was to make it look more like my other cars. I have three other new Superbees in my new-car collection from 2007, 2008, and 2009, plus my three muscle cars."
However, beauty would be more than skin deep when Weber was asked to give that 6.1 Hemi a boost, courtesy of a ProCharger blower and assorted goodies. Once the engine was together and the car back in North Carolina, John began putting his own touches on it—custom-made stripes for a Superbee heritage, printed in yellow to complement the purple color, special paint detailing on the wheels and brakes, and tinted windows for the stealth appeal.
The Superbees of yesterday and today were considered hardcore models. You bought one because you had the need for speed, not just to look pretty. With an underhood supercharger forcing air into the engine, and a customized appearance that makes you look twice, the Jancics built a 'bee to be loved.
'07 Dodge Superbee SRT8
John and Marsey Jancic, Cleveland, NC
|Engine: Modern Muscle Performance in Martinsville, Virginia, handled the engine work, bolting up a ProCharger centrifugal blower and peripherals to the SRT8's 6.1 Hemi. Dave Weber called the shots on the combination at John's request, which included Kook's headers and high-flow cats, Mopar cat-back exhaust, and a Modern Muscle custom tune thanks to DiabloSport.
|Transmission: Five-speed AutoStick
|Differential: 3.06 Limited Slip
|Horsepower and Performance: More than enough…
|Suspension: OEM '07 Charger SRT8
|Brakes: Factory four-wheel discs with custom-painted calipers.
|Wheels: The SRT8 came with factory 20-inch chrome alloy rims, which in turn support the factory Goodyear Supercar rubber. In keeping with the theme, the wheels now have custom purple spoke paint (check out the action shots for the final appearance).
|Body: The dynamic of the SRT8 package needs little improvement, so no metal or spoiler changes.
|Paint: The OEM Plum Crazy was wild enough; to this, John had Performance Graphix create a set of custom yellow Superbee graphics for the car. It is one of a kind.
|Interior: Dude! This is an SRT8! It came stock with a custom interior.
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Hanson sinks Coventry late on
James Hanson scored a last-minute goal to earn Bradford a dramatic 3-2 victory over Coventry in a thrilling finale at Valley Parade.
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James Hanson scored a last-minute goal to earn Bradford a dramatic 3-2 victory over Coventry in a thrilling finale at Valley Parade.
Coventry skipper Reda Johnson, a summer signing from Sheffield Wednesday, looked set to have earned his side a point when he equalised with two minutes of normal time left, hammering home the rebound after goalkeeper Jordan Pickford had blocked his initial shot.
But a minute later and with only seconds left of normal time, Hanson bent low to head home the winner - his second goal of the match - from Jason Kennedy's right-wing cross to secure Bradford all three points.
The home side went in front after 27 minutes through Hanson, who made amends for a miss four minutes earlier.
Billy Knott, a summer signing from Sunderland, dispossessed Danny Swanson before feeding another new boy, Billy Clarke, and Hanson headed his cross into the far corner beyond the reach of Coventry goalkeeper Ryan Allsop.
Coventry equalised after 41 minutes when skipper Johnson headed Danny Pugh's in-swinging corner into the net for his first goal of the game after beating Pickford to the ball.
Alan Sheenan restored Bradford's lead four minutes after the interval when Johnson was booked for impeding Hanson as the big forward tried to reach a corner.


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Pyromaniac Cat Is Infatuated With Open Flame [VIDEO]
In a creepy 'Are You Afraid of the Dark?'-type scene, a pyro-minded kitty keeps putting her paw in a candle's flame and gnaws on her barbecued fur. If the house ends up burning down, we know who the number one suspect should be.
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