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EBRO � The Ebro Town Council discussed expanding its Enterprise Zone Thursday night during a public hearing, while Vernon City Council is set to take up the topic again on Monday.
EBRO � The Ebro Town Council discussed expanding its Enterprise Zone Thursday night during a public hearing, while Vernon City Council is set to take up the topic again on Monday.
The Vernon City Council will decide whether or not to allow expansion of its existing Enterprise Zone down Moss Hill Road in an attempt to make the city more attractive to industry.
An Enterprise Zone is a state-created area for industrial or commercial development that offers incentives to businesses in order to create jobs. Those incentives include jobs creation tax credits, electrical energy tax credits, sales tax refunds for jobs creation and building materials, property tax credits for jobs creation and sales tax refunds for business equipment and machinery.
Last year the state Legislature passed a new law allowing counties to expand their Enterprise Zones, and Washington County will be allowed to expand its areas by three miles, which Washington County Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Ted Everett plans to divide evenly between Ebro and Vernon.
Everett visited the Vernon council�s workshop on Monday to discuss possible expansion plans for Vernon�s Enterprise Zone as well.
Currently the city has its Enterprise Zone located mainly along Highway 79. Everett suggested the city council consider extending the zone an additional 1 � mile, the amount by which he hopes to expand the zone, along Mossy Hill Road toward the high school.
Councilman Tray Hawkins explained that the school district owns property behind the school�s campus, which could potentially be purchased by the city and used as an industrial site.
�We are the only community along the north-south corridor that isn�t bridge limited,� Hawkins said. �We have great potential as an industrial site, and we already have water utilities in place, which gives us a great advantage.�
The Vernon City Council will meet at 7 p.m. Monday at City Hall.
Thursday, Everett was in Ebro, discussing possible Enterprise Zone expansion with members of the town council, who seemed less certain about the benefits of an expanded Enterprise Zone than their Vernon counterparts.
In Ebro, Everett suggested the expansion be made east along Highway 20, but council members voiced concerns about the many waterways in and around Ebro and the negative impact development could have on the environment.
�Because of the waterways and Karst formations, there are a lot of places here industry couldn�t build,� Everett said. �Besides, the state Department of Evironmental Protection wouldn�t let them build there.�
Everett told both councils that he had an engineering firm prepared to do the initial studies at no cost to the towns.
�So this will be no cost to the city?� asked Councilman Charles Scott.
�No sir, it won�t cost the city a dime,� Everett said. �Just because we designate an Enterprise Zone, doesn�t even mean there will be anything built on it. It�s just something we have to have if we expect to grow in the future.�
Everett said the Enterprise Zone does not change the current zoning of a property, but does allow for that commercial or industrial usage in the future.
�We�re not going to come out and change your zoning, and your taxes aren�t going to go up,� he said.
The town council decided to meet again at 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 7 to further discuss possible ways of expanding the Enterprise Zone with Everett and the engineers.
�It will probably take a couple of workshops to determine the boundary lines,� Everett said.


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Okay, that Kinzo theory didn't last long ^^;
Jan-poo's future Jessica looks pretty likely. The girl's clothes are a near perfect combination of Krauss's and Natsuhi's. Add in what is clearly the butterfly brooch and the portrait, and it's either her or a new character.
Then again, if Kanon is Kinzo's successor, the first theory wasn't so far off the mark...
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Well, I'm glad I don't seem to be the only one thinking they look like Jessica and Kanon. Maybe I'll reverse saying that they're Asumu and other Battler (although maybe Kanon is the other Battler).
Maybe this is something like Shannon is Beatrice, they both know it (or one of them knows it), and they don't have the heart to reveal her, so Bern sent these guys from another kakera where they miraculously survived to do the job instead.
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Remember all the bewilderment about this feel of "corruption" and the dead hand in Erikas portrait totally mismatching the smile on her face. That was some really clever foreshadowing for her role.
"And Knox himself decented from the heavens and told the author of the story: 'Stop messing around with MY rules or I will mess with it some more!' "
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The man is Wright.
Reason: The man's outfit is too modern to be like any character from 1986, plus having the same iris colour as Dlanor.
The girl's outfit is more traditional. Look old-fashioned. Plus she had normal iris colour, so she had to be real character.
Anyone noticing the girl holding a rose?
She could not be Jessica though, since Jessica's hair colour is probably not blonde.
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That's a fairly baseless assumption, ijiriims. It's never said that Jessica dyes her hair so why wouldn't it be blonde?
Unless you assume that because she's Japanese it can't be blonde, to which I say to you:
1. Battler's hair is red and
2. That very well may be a clue.
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Spoiler for requiem:
I'd guess EP7 will be much like the 7th Higurashi game containing big reveals about truth but not not the wanted happy(?) ending. Also very fitting considering Bern is spinning this tale.
If Erika/Berns idea to solve EP5 is any indication for her style this story could get very grim / disturbing / worst-case-theory-like.... Bern should is no person to leave any "love" in her games without some really wicked twists.
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Sorry about that.
She could be Jessica. Her clothing may be a reminder of her mother Natsuhi, and the colour is what Krauss wear. She may keep her survival a secret because afraid of being hunted down by Eva. (Consider she was probably "dead" legally, can she inherit the wealth?)
She turned to become more traditional since her parents and lover both deceased.
She may be the one giving the information to Hachijou.
Speculation though.
But more I think about it, the more it smells truth to me...
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Also, if they were 1986 characters, they'd be 1986 characters from the future (perhaps another 1998?), so it'd make sense for them to look "modern".
Of the two, the "Wright" seems a lot less likely to be any 1986 character, I'd agree, but with the brooch on the table and after EP6, it's hard for me to think that it isn't somehow Kanon (unless he also died)...
EDIT: Her being a cold, heartless informant for Bern would actually make a whole lot of sense if Kanon died (well, even if he didn't, but even more so).
Either that or Ryu is trolling all of us again .
I think I'll stop here - I always say that speculation is near pointless until there's actually something to read, so I might as well stick to that XD.
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My mother-in-law gave me a start of lily of the valley about ten years ago. I planted it in a bed that is in shade for part of the day. In late summer when the rains stop, the bed gets very dry. A large old maple tree grows nearby, and it sucks the ground dry with a million thirsty rootlets.
The lily of the valley is a tough plant. It stays green even when the weather is hot and dry. It has managed to endure, and even to multiply. It would love to creep out into the lawn, even closer to the maple tree, but I've been keeping it in its bed.
I heard a lady on a radio garden show this weekend. She was sick and tired of her lily of the valley getting out of bounds, and she wanted to know how she could keep it where it belonged. The gardening expert explained that all she had to do was put a barrier around it, because lily of the valley spreads by sending up new shoots from its roots.
She interrupted. "Can't I just use Roundup?" I was offended by that suggestion and I think the host was, also. "Well!" he said. "I guess you can, but you'll get a dieback into the bed for 6 inches or so." "Really?" she said. "Good!"
I don't resent the wandering ways of my lily of the valley. I have it held back by a pathway of concrete rectangles. It tries to escape through the cracks between the rectangles, but I just pull the shoots up as they occur. If it gets too persistant, I dig out the roots that are trying to spread.
In truth, I'm very fond of lily of the valley. I like its name. I like its vigor and reliability. I love its little bell blossoms, and I love their fragrance. When I was taking some photos of it today and enjoying its wonderful scent, I thought that if I were a cat, I'd just lie down in the lily of the valley bed.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - In its final tune-up before the postseason, MIT fell to Brandeis University (20-7), U.S. Air Force Academy (15-12), Johns Hopkins University (17-10), Duke University (15-12), and University of North Carolina (18-9) at the Duke Invitational. The Engineers concluded their dual competition slate with a 7-16 record.
The sabre team registered 5-4 decisions over Brandeis, Air Force, and Johns Hopkins en route to a 20-25 team total. Igor Kopylov led the way with a ledger of 10-5, followed by Maximilian Brand (6-9) and Rangarajan Nadadur (4-11).
A 6-3 performance against Air Force helped lift the foil team's final mark to 16-29. Benjamin Switala compiled a total of 6-9 while Spencer Sugimoto went 4-6. Richard LaGrandier and Sebastian Castro rounded out the contingent with scores of 4-11 and 2-4, respectively.
The epee team recorded a 6-3 outing versus the host Blue Devils as it finished the day with a total of 14-31. Gabriel Chan and Jeremy Hurwitz posted identical marks of 5-10 while Matt Gethers notched a ledger of 4-11.


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Three "strategic priorities" have now been identified: education and audiences (£17 million per year), filmmaking (£28.2 million) and Heritage (£3 million.)
The British Film Institute (BFI), the UK's lead body for film, today issued its eagerly awaited "Future Plan For Film 2012-2017." This is the blueprint for public film strategy and investment over the next five years.
'We have set out a bold, long term vision for film that will genuinely make a difference to education, audiences and filmmakers and support the UK's growth agenda by boosting jobs and the economy and stimulating inward investment and export," BFI Chairman Greg Dyke declared.
The "Future Plan" (drawn up in response to Lord Smith's recently published Film Policy Review document "A Future For British Film") lays out just how the BFI proposes to handle the £285m Lottery investment in film over the next five years.
Three "strategic priorities" have now been identified: education and audiences (£17 million per year), filmmaking (£28.2 million) and Heritage (£3 million.)
On the filmmaking side, the BFI is increasing Lottery investment to to £28.2m. This incorporates £16.5m for Production, £4m for Development, £2m for Talent, £4.5m on Skills and Business Development and £1.2m for international activity including the British Film Commission.
As part of the new education and audiences policy, the P&A Fund will be kept at its new ramped up level of £4 million.
There is also a new £1 million fund to support the UK's international festivals. "It's specifically to support those festivals of international importance which have a really important industry role as well as an audience development role. Typically, we'd be looking at Sheffield Doc/Fest, Edinburgh, possibly Encounters and obviously London," Amanda Nevill, Chief BFI, said.
One hugely ambitious aim is to make sure every child in the UK aged 5-19 in (8.5m in 23,000 schools) has film and filmmaking as part of their education.
A consultation period on the Future Plan starts today (Monday) and lasts for a month. There will be meeting around the country as well as meetings with all the leading trade bodies. Once the evidence from the consultation has been written up, this will be presented to the Board Of Governors in July. The aim is to launch the policies in September.
Amanda Nevill told Screen that delivering the hugely ambitious plans outlined in the Future Plan For Film would not require the BFI to create new layers of bureaucracy.
"There is absolutely no intention in the plan to try and build up an administrative layer. We have just spent the last 12 months taking out loads of administration so that we were able to protect as far as possible funding to the direct line," Nevill stated.
Goals identified for filmmaking include:
- Retaining the UK's competitive edge in the industry by equipping 25,000 of the UK's work force with new skills via a new film training scheme that includes next generation skills such as special effects and digital production.
- Rewarding successful producers so they can reinvest profits in further UK productions and explore a joint venture approach for producers and distributors to maximise audiences and revenues.
- Putting in place an international strategy in which the BFI brings together partners including BBC Worldwide, The British Council, The British Film Commission, Film Export UK and BAFTA to work collaboratively to ensure and strengthen our position in the global film market place.
Goals on the Education and Audience front are:
- to ensure every child in the UK aged 5-19 in (8.5million in 23,000 schools) has film and filmmaking as part of their education in a £35m new Lottery initiative to boost success of British film.
- to put in place new network of 10-15 BFI supported regional film hubs across the UK that combine exhibition, education and training activities to boost audience choice at a local level, working within a national framework.
- For digital equipment to be installed in up to 1,000 community centres, village halls and other non-theatrical locations across the UK over the next five years
- To provide financial support for cinemas across the UK to access a wider range of films to broaden audience choice out of London.
Meanwhile, on the Heritage front, the targets include digitising 15,000 of the most significant British film titles and making them available to the public across different platforms.
Speaking at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport this morning, culture minister Ed Vaizey said that the government had taken on almost all of Chris Smith's recommendations. He said he felt "very strongly that there should be a joined up offer in terms of film education" as well as highlighting the importance of "building sustainable film production companies."
Vaizey said that in terms of inward investment the UK should be looking beyond just the Hollywood studios. "While we welcome the significant investment from the Hollywood studios, we also recognise that there are more and more global film centres, particularly in China and India, which we hope we will be able to take advantage of in the future," said Vaizey.
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Recently I've been impressed by the rise to internet fame of Nassim Haramein. He's lauded as a multi-disciplinary thinker, as a scientist, as an inspirational speaker, and as director of research of The Resonance Project.
From the following that he's developed, it's fair to say that he's touched a lot of people's lives. There are a lot of people out there who really think the world of him, and it's not hard to see why. His talks and seminars delve into the heart of reality – the universe, ancient history, particle physics, sacred geometries, mathematics, consciousness – and through the clarity and geniality of his delivery he seems to actually light up his audiences with new ideas.
A brief internet search of his name seems to show only glowing reports. Inevitably, with a little more delving, there are also detractors. There are also a good deal who are curious but unsure, wondering if this guy is for real. He certainly polarises people: a lot of people seem to think he's a nutcase; and there are a lot of people who think he's a genius, and will hold to it in the face of any argument.
I'm not setting out to argue with those who have already made up their minds one way or the other (and who are possibly only looking here to see whether I'm a good guy or a bad guy, and not that interested in what I might say otherwise). We're each entitled to our opinions. But for those who are genuinely curious, I think it's worthwhile taking a look at what he does.
I'd better put my cards on the table now, though. My view is that Nassim Haramein has very little insight into reality from any sort of scientific perspective. I'd like to explain why I believe that any claims on his part of being a physicist, of using any scientific method, or of having any understanding of mathematical principles at all, are utterly bogus. I'd like to give you what I believe are very sound reasons and evidence as to why I say this, and why it is important.
The process of discovering and rigorously testing truths about the universe is something I rate very highly as part of my personal values. Because of this, my personal view is that if he is indeed deliberately selling himself to the public as being at the forefront of scientific knowledge despite having very little scientific insight at all, then he is misleading and even manipulating people for fame and for financial gain. That would be a serious matter of abuse of trust, and it would make him a fraud.
Of course, not everyone holds the scientific method so dear to their hearts. I'm telling you this only to let you know where I stand, not because I think you should agree with me.
I don't want to argue about his qualities as a new age inspirational speaker, or about whether or not he's a great character, or whether or not his ideas make some people happy, or whether or not the pyramids were in fact conceived by people from another planet or anything like that. I only want to look at his scientific claims, to see if he is who he says he is, or whether he's merely manufactured an image and is misusing the language of science to give an air of authority to whatever comes into his head.
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Five-time Grammy Award winner Jiménez, 78, will join headliners REO Speedwagon and Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo and several other acts in ringing in the new year at Hemisfair on Sunday, Dec. 31.
"I think it's a natural [choice]," said Juan Tejeda, curator and co-founder of the Tejano Conjunto Festival, which will celebrate its 37th year in 2018. "Flaco is one of our most celebrated, important, and iconic San Antonio musicians. He's a living legend."Affordable Hugo Navy Square Pocket Affordable Hugo qqROPpH
The Tricentennial operations have been marred by numerous struggles over the past six months. In May, Asia Ciaravino resigned as chief operating officer; in late October, the San Antonio Express-News reported a botched process regarding media contracts; and in mid-November the Tricentennial Commission's chief executive officer Edward Benavides stepped down.
Just last week two Tricentennial chairs were replaced with Cynthia Teniente-Matson, president of Texas A&M University-San Antonio, and former Northside Independent School District Superintendent John Folks. The two were nominated by Mayor Ron Nirenberg and await approval from City Council.
Influenced by his father Santiago Sr., whom many consider a pioneer of Tex-Mex and Conjunto music, Jiménez first picked up an accordion when he was 5 years old. He has been a staple in the local music scene ever since, participating in signature events such as the Tejano Conjunto Festival since the beginning.
"We've made it a point to showcase him at the festival every year," Tejeda said. "I remember his first year in 1982, Flaco played a set with his father and his brother, Santiago Jr. That was the only time all the three played together."
Renowned local photographer Al Rendon said Jimenez's performance at the Tricentennial will be an important moment for the musician's career and San Antonio's history to document. Rendon has photographed Jimenez several times since the 1980s, both in studio and during concerts and plans to be there on Sunday, Dec. 31 to capture the concert and festivities.
"I'm really glad they got Flaco," Rendon said. "He's a big draw and has a huge fan base. He can get up there and play with any of those bands, because he's played so many different genres and with so many different artists. It's gonna be a good show."


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White House Petition Launched To 'Recast Copyright For The Digital Age'
from the way-past-due dept
The public disregards copyright law because it is out of sync with the digital age. We want the right to resell digital content (ebooks, etc.) that we've paid for. We need transparency in the marketplace to understand what rights we have.There can be plenty of debates over where to set copyright law's specific boundaries, but it seems clear that if it's ever to regain any kind of respect, it needs to move in the direction advocated above. I don't know the specifics, but apparently this petition was first put together by a "digital copyright" class at Dominican University, and a bunch of its students appear to be tweeting about it...
Additionally, as responsible creators we need to be able to freely remix existing music and other forms of creative expression to create new works without undue fear of prosecution. This upholds the original Constitutional purpose of copyright, which is to promote progress.
This will nurture the process of innovation and the sharing of our culture. The language of the existing copyright law must be changed to accommodate the way information is being created and consumed in our digital world.


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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00675610
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First Posted : May 9, 2008
Last Update Posted : April 1, 2015
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|Behavioral: communication training
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The goal of this research is to improve communication between the patients with HIV and their health care providers. The overall purpose of doing so is to reduce disparities in medication self-efficacy, adherence to therapy, and HIV viral load suppression. We will conduct a randomized controlled trial to test the effectiveness of a combined provider and patient communication intervention conducted at two separate visits compared to usual care in improving the quality of patient-provider communication, patients' medication self-efficacy, patient adherence to therapy, and HIV RNA suppression. The following primary and secondary hypotheses will be addressed.
Primary Hypothesis.
1) There will be more and higher quality patient-provider communication about antiretroviral medication adherence in the intervention compared to control arm at both visit 1 (V1) and visit 2 (V2).
Secondary Hypotheses
Higher quality patient-provider communication in the intervention arm will be associated with
- higher patient ratings of communication (overall, HIV-specific, adherence-specific, and interpersonal style of provider) at V1 and V2;
- increased patient preference for a shared decision-making role at V1 and V2;
- more positive health beliefs at V1 and V2;
- higher patient medication self-efficacy at V1 and V2;
- better adherence to antiretroviral medication (assessed by 3-day recall) at V2; and
- a greater percentage of patients with HIV-1 RNA suppression at V2.
- The intervention will reduce disparities in medication self-efficacy, adherence, and HIV-1 RNA suppression.
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|186 participants
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|May 2009
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|May 2010
No Intervention: usual care
providers are not trained and patients are not coached
Experimental: intervention arm
providers are trained to communicate with patients about adherence and patients are coached to discuss adherence with providers
Behavioral: communication training
providers are trained to communicate with patients about adherence and patients are coached to discuss adherence with providers
- patient-provider communication [ Time Frame: 1 day- 3 months ]
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Inclusion Criteria (Providers):
- Currently providing primary care to at least 10 HIV-infected patients in the clinic
- Physician, Nurse-Practitioner, or Physician-Assistant
- Agree to give written informed consent.
Inclusion Criteria (Patients):
- HIV-infected patient of one of the participating providers
- Has had at least one prior visit with that provider
- Currently taking antiretroviral therapy
- Capable of understanding and giving written informed consent
- Age > 20 years old
- English-speaking
- African-American (or people of African descent living in the United States), Hispanic, or non-Hispanic White race/ethnicity
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|Wayne State University
|Detroit, Michigan, United States, 48201
|United States, New York
|Saint Lukes-Roosevelt
|New York, New York, United States, 10023
|United States, Oregon
|Oregon Health Science University
|Portland, Oregon, United States, 97239
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|Johns Hopkins University
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|Last Update Posted:
|April 1, 2015
|Last Verified:
|March 2015
Keywords provided by Mary Catherine Beach, Johns Hopkins University:
Treatment Experienced
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HIV Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
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Friday, May 29, 2009
Last weekend we went to Hartford! Chris was in a bike race, but it was me who crashed my bike. On the way to the race, of course, during the 5-mile ride from Historic Weathersfield, where we stayed, into Hartford proper.
Quick question for those of you who may live in or near Hartford: There doesn't appear to be much to do in Hartford. Am I missing something? Seriously. Aside from the Mark Twain house. We did have beer outside at a tavern just down the street from where we stayed, which is crucial element of summer vacation for me. It's beer! Outside!
Work is fantastic, I'm knitting like a maniac, and am generally acclimating to my new lifestyle, which is going to make me really tough, not just tough for my circumstances. I knit at the pub during the UEFA championship, Manchester United v. Barcelona.
I don't follow league play all that closely, so I was hoping for a very close fight, but Barcelona was superb. It was a good week to have Wednesday off!
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- lazysaturday said...
Hi, I've lived in the area for a few years now and while there is a good variety of restaurants and cafes around, they're kind of spread out so that you've have to know where you were going and drive there.
I love your bread photos btw!
- May 29, 2009 at 4:49 PM
- meg_knits said...
It was even worse 15 years ago, I can assure you! A city fully dependent upon the insurance industry was hit really hard during the last market downturn. But very few people live in downtown Hartford, so most bars, restaurants, shops, etc. closed soon after 5 pm. I hope it is a little more lively now!
And OUCH with your road rash! OUCH!
- May 30, 2009 at 8:06 AM
- craftivore said...
Ouch! I've only driven through Hartford many times with no urge to stop.
- May 30, 2009 at 12:31 PM
- Salty Miss Jill said...
I'll say!
I wish I could meet you at the pub to watch the game, knit, and drink beer. That sounds like a perfect day.
I am putting something in the mail for you tomorrow, sweetness.
- May 31, 2009 at 8:30 AM
- Lucette said...
AlthoughI have never been to Hartford and can't offer any ideas, I always thought that it must be an interesting city being the hometown of Katharine Hepburn. And she is the best.
- May 31, 2009 at 9:43 AM
- Thea said...
You are not mistaken. There is nothing to do in Hartford but sit in traffic and hope 84 clears up soon.
Hope your hip heals soon - am still planning knitting and drinks on my deck in the soon to be summertime future! Thea
- June 3, 2009 at 12:20 PM
- the woolly monkey said...
damn, I didn't know it was that bad.
your punk rock quotient just went up 10 points.
hope it's healed by now, and that you don't have scars (unless you wanted them).
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Social Scout is a Facebook Places app for our Windows Phone that is designed to help you explore what is nearby, find places, check-in to places, and find where your Facebook friends are. The app is from JDB Pocketware, developers of HandyScan, and was recently updated to version 1.1.
The Version 1.1 update of Social Scout brings a handful of notifications options to the table that include notifications when friends check-in close to you and notifications for likes/comments to your check-ins.
Additional features to the Version 1.1 update include:
- Live tile & toast notifications
- Lockscreen notifications (Windows Phone 8 devices)
- Native version for Windows Phone 8 improves speed and brings 720P screens support
- Fixed distances to places not updating on the main list
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Two Days with Michael Ungar
Professional Learning Major Events - 2012 ArchivePage archived at: Mon, 10 December 2012 09:12:16 +1000
Playing at being bad: nurturing the hidden resilience of troubled children and youth across cultures and contexts
Thursday 1 & Friday 2 November 2012 | 9am–4pm | The Epping Club | Register online
When working with children and adolescents from poor, violent, and emotionally difficult backgrounds, we often focus on the individual's complex needs and problems – for example, delinquency, truancy or conflict with caregivers – and miss the broader sources of healing and resilience in their lives. This two-day workshop will present a strengths-focused, resistance-proof model that draws on the child's educators, friends, extended family, parents, and community and cultural mentors as potential sources of resilience and positive development. Participants will be taught how to identify and encourage children's sense of personal self-control, agency and power, social justice and fairness, belonging and purpose, spirituality, and cultural rootedness, and to use this 'social ecological map' to engage them. We will discuss how to contract to achieve useful therapeutic goals that are culturally meaningful, so that participants will learn how to help in real-world settings.
A social ecological approach (SEA) to intervention will be demonstrated using interactive exercises, clinical transcripts and video recordings. SEA builds on best-practice knowledge borrowed from both clinical work and studies of resilience among populations that face significant adversity. This model of intervention is ideally suited to the needs of professionals working in schools, community mental-health clinics, addictions-treatment centres, correctional settings, and home-based family support programs. This workshop explores practical techniques for intervention and case planning while providing participants an opportunity to discuss the most challenging situations in which they work.
Workshop goals
- Understand how individuals and families with complex needs use problem behaviours to enhance their resilience and wellbeing when more socially acceptable solutions are not available
- Become familiar with the principles of a social ecological approach to intervention
- Discuss the Child and Youth Resilience Measure, an assessment tool that can help professionals explore the hidden resilience of children and youth
- Learn about seven aspects of resilience necessary for positive development
- Develop strategies for working without resistance with hard-to-reach, culturally diverse children and adolescents
- Discuss ways services can be structured that make resilience more likely to occur.
Dr Michael Ungar is both a family therapist and a Killam Professor of Social Work at Dalhousie University where he directs the Resilience Research Centre that coordinates more than $5 million in funded research in a dozen countries. That research is focused on resilience among children, youth and families and how they together survive adversity in culturally diverse ways. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on this topic and is the author of 11 books including The Social Worker, his first novel.
Among his books for professionals are The Social Ecology of Resilience: A Handbook for Theory and Practice; and Counseling in Challenging Contexts: Working with Individuals and Families Across Clinical and Community Settings. Dr Ungar also writes for parents and educators. Among his most recent works are We Generation: Raising Socially Responsible Children and Teens; and Too Safe For Their Own Good: How Risk and Responsibility Help Teens Thrive.
In addition to his research and writing, Dr Ungar maintains a family-therapy practice in association with Phoenix Youth Programs, a prevention program for street youth, and was the recipient of the Canadian Association of Social Workers Distinguished Service Award for Nova Scotia in 2010.
Dr Ungar's work has been featured in magazines and newspapers around the world, and he regularly appears on radio and television. Currently, he is Co-Chair of the Nova Scotia Mental Health Strategy Advisory Committee. His blog, "Nurturing Resilience", can be read on Psychology Today's website.
NSWIT Course Code: 2012OPL-UNGAR. This course is endorsed as Institute Registered professional development for maintenance of accreditation at Professional Competence. Scope of endorsement: five years for all elements of the Professional Teaching Standards. Conference (2 days): 11 hours. Please provide your 6-digit Institute Number on your registration form if relevant.


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Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Lineup for Who Do You Think You Are is Disappointing
Hopefully, their ancestors will be more interesting than this group - although Steve Buscemi might provide the most interesting show (or maybe I have him confused with his character in Fargo). And, with any luck, Ashley Judd's sister and mother will not be on the show.
I'll still be tuning it - the star of the show, after all, is family history research.
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I would still like to see them throw in a non-celebrity as well, if only to show non-genealogists that everyone's ancestry can be interesting.ReplyDelete
Steve Buscemi is my pick for most interesting.
Tim McGraw has a history that will probably make good tv. I'm curious about Steve Buscemi. Others, I can take or leave, but I'll watch 'em all because they're going to talk genealogy.ReplyDelete
Amy - it just hit me who Tim's father is - DUH. Being a baseball fan, that should have registered me with sooner. I'll be tuning in every episode - because they do make you start itching to exploring other family lines and brick walls. I would laugh if Buscemi is descended from royalty or other hoitsy toitsy kin!ReplyDelete
You forgot Gwenyth Paltrow!ReplyDelete
I agree, Susan. I love Steve Buscemi as an actor, so hopefully his ancestry is as interesting as some of his characters. The others... well, like Amy said, I'll watch because they're talking genealogy. But there are a couple that I hope don't do much talking at all.ReplyDelete
You're right, Heather. The original list that was posted and was published several days ago did not include Gwenyth. She was included in the NBC announcement that came out yesterday. Now, she is what I would at least call an A-list celeb!ReplyDelete


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|Henrietta Loder Beale and Sina Bellinger Kelly
This page represents the only two people in this little picture book who I actually knew. Henrietta and Sina were first cousins. They shared the same grandparents, Daniel C. Landon and Anne Jane McVoy. Henrietta's parents were William Alexander Loder and Margaret Ann Landon. Sina's parents were John William Bellinger and Emma Harriet Landon. Margaret Landon and Emma Landon were sisters.
The cousins were close in age - something I specifically learned while doing my genealogy research. Why? Because the women had a reputation during their lifetimes of lying about their age! Whether it was to shave off a few years or to add a few, I'm not sure. Henrietta was born August 14, 1888 and Sina was born eight months later on April 3, 1889. The cousins grew up in close proximity to one another; Sina in Greenwood, Nebraska and Henrietta in Waverly, Nebraska.
|Etty Beale, Patricia Kelly Petersen (Mom), Sina Bellinger Kelly
circa late 1940s.
Aunt Etty married Ralph Beale of Waverly, Nebraska on August 1, 1907 in Lancaster county, Nebraska. The couple lived in Waverly during the early years of their marriage, then moved to Lincoln, Nebraska. Etty bought and sold real estate, as evidenced by dozens of real estate transactions I've discovered in online newspapers. Ralph was known as "Uncle Hub" - and I still don't know how he got that nickname. To me, they were always Hub and Etty. Hub was in the banking and insurance business. Etty and Hub had no children.
My memories of Aunt Etty
I remember going to visit Hub and Etty in their office in one of the tall business offices in Lincoln (tall by Nebraska standards, that is). I remember that Mom and I stopped by to see them on the day that I got my Hula Hoop, so that tells you about how long ago that was!
I always loved going to visit Aunt Etty and Uncle Hub at their home at 1822 F Street in Lincoln. The house has since been razed and replaced by an apartment building. It was in the heart of the capitol district in Lincoln, just a few blocks from the state capitol building.
Uncle Hub's Scrapbooks
From the time that he was a very young boy, Uncle Hub kept detailed scrapbooks of newspaper clippings of local, national and world events. Every time I would go visit, Hub would get out another of his oversized scrapbooks and we would look through them together, as he would relate stories of his memories. Oh! To have been able to have captured those many colorful stories on tape or video!. Mom told me that Aunt Etty once told her that Hub loved it when I came to visit because I was the only one of the younger generation who took any interest in his scrapbooks and his stories.
After Hub's death, Etty offered the scrapbooks (about 15 in all, as I recall) to the Nebraska State Historical Society, which turned down the donation. Why they didn't want them is beyond me. I thought they were a wonderful glimpse of history. I have no idea what ever became of them.
Holiday dinners
Etty and Hub frequently came to our home for Thanksgiving dinner. My grandfather, Bill Kelly (Sina's husband) was there, too, and I'm sure they talked a lot about the good old days. That was a time when everyone dressed up for such an occasion, the ladies in dresses, stockings and high heels.
|Helen "Jerry" Dulin (Mom's sister), Aunt Etty, Mom, Me
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You might have heard the cheerful, familiar strains of Brahms Lullaby piping through the halls of Providence Hood River Memorial Hospital on Monday, Jan. 3 at 12:33 p.m.
Curious? The answer is an easy one. The music, now played whenever a new baby is born at PHRMH, welcomed Sawyer Matheson Stillwell into the world.
And Sawyer, along with his parents Elizabeth and Richard Stillwell, is receiving an extra dose of welcome from the community, since Sawyer is the first official baby of 2011 for Hood River County.
A hearty blonde with a gusty cry, Sawyer weighed in at 7 pounds and 8 ounces, measuring 21 inches in length.
Sawyer and his parents will be taking home a host of donated baby-friendly items from local businesses, courtesy of the Hood River News and their advertisers.
In addition, PHRMH will be waiving the insurance deductible normally accompanying the joyous arrival of a new baby.
Robin Henson, M.D., and Pam Howard, R.N., assisted the Stillwells in guiding the new brother into the family.
And, late in the evening on Jan. 3, following some rest for both the new mom and baby Sawyer, older brother Richard Brenton, aged 2½, will have been in to make his acquaintance with his younger sibling.
According to Barbara Ayers, marketing director for PHRMH, the competition was looking tough for Sawyer's first-baby-of-the-year win, with "a rush of deliveries right up until midnight on Dec. 31.
"And then, we had no one until the Stillwells arrived in the early morning of Jan. 3," Ayers said.
"We are just so happy to have Sawyer arrive healthy," said Elizabeth Stillwell.
"We have been waiting a long time for this little guy," added Richard Stillwell. "We had a miscarriage before him and it has been a long nine months, just hoping he would be okay."
Richard Stillwell is employed at Google, in The Dalles, and Elizabeth works as a volunteer for the Hood River County Commission on Children and Families. She has been active in the child car seat safety program and childbirth classes.
The Stillwells have lived in the Odell area since March 2006 and were high school sweethearts.
Their first son, Richard, was delivered at PHRMH during the new construction period with jackhammers wailing through their special day.
"We just had to come back and try out the new delivery area. It's a lot quieter this time!" laughed both Stillwells.
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POWAY -- Students have wrapped ribbons around 8,000 sunflowers to hand out at a memorial service for Chelsea King, the 17-year-old girl whose murder has shaken her community and spurred calls for legal changes in how child sex offenders are treated.
"A lot of people are getting ready to bring closure to it," said Evan Shirley, 17, a friend of Chelsea's. "I hope to see everyone come out to support the family and honor their friend in whatever way they see fit."
The service Saturday comes 11 days after Chelsea's body was discovered in a shallow, lakeside grave near Lake Hodges, ending a massive five-day search. Organizers were issuing passes to limit seating at Poway High School stadium, which holds about 6,000 people.
Chelsea was a straight-A student ran on the cross-country team, played French horn in the San Diego Youth Symphony and was active in her school's peer counseling program. She was a tireless volunteer in school and community activities, whether working at a prom for special education students or packaging food for needy families in Africa.
She had applied to 11 colleges and aspired to a career that would combine her interests in writing and the environment.
Chelsea was last seen Feb. 25 wearing running clothes in Rancho Bernardo Park in San Diego, where her car was found locked with her belongings inside.
John Gardner, 30, was arrested three days later and pleaded not guilty to the murder and to the attempted rape of another woman in December. He also is a suspect but has not been charged in the killing of 14-year-old Amber Dubois, who disappeared as she walked to school in nearby Escondido in early 2009.
Gardner served five years of a six-year sentence for molesting a 13-year-old neighbor in 2000 to molesting a 13-year-old neighbor. He was on parole for three years, until September 2008.
On Friday, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered a review of the way the state handled the 2000 case.
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[ You can buy a board and pieces to play this game for 2 (see address below). Instructions are also given for making your own game set. ]
Note: in what follows, when terms used in the game are first defined, they are in bold . Rather than set out the rules of Shoo baldly, in what follows we set out gameplay in the form of a narrative illustrated by photographs of actual game positions. So here is the 'Story of Shoo'.
Shoo is a travelling game for 2 players. If you look at the first Photograph, which shows the game's starting position, you see 9 White pieces at the top of the board and 9 Blue pieces at the bottom. These pieces are the travellers .
(For the rest of these instructions we will suppose you are Blue; all the photographs are taken looking at the board from Blue's side. Note: in most of the photographs, marker beads are used to help explain positions and moves - for example the 5 small beads around Blue's travellers in this first photograph.)
You travel across the board in the area of 9 by 9 squares marked out in alternating white and grey like a chess board. This area is called the field. Within the field, the area of 9 squares, on the far side of the board, occupied at the start of the game by White's travellers, is your (Blue's) home area; it is marked out on the board by a thicker line. As Blue, you will win if all your travellers cross the field and fill up your home area on the far side before White fills up their home area on your side.
The other pieces in the Photograph are red: these are the horses. Horses are used by both players. If you look at Photograph 1, you can see that there are 4 horses on each player's side. These are in a special area off the field called the stable; 'stable' is printed on the board. Since each player has complete control of their own stable, they can choose when to move their horses out of their stable onto the field but, once on the field, control of a horse can be lost to the other player. Since a traveller mounted on a horse can do a lot more than a traveller on foot, control of horses is a key part of Shoo.
You will also see that, when the game begins, there is one horse in the middle of the field. What happens to this horse gets us to how the game starts.
The players agree who will be Blue; being Blue gives no advantage. You now have to discover who chooses either to take the odd horse, making their number up to 5, or make the first move. To do this, Blue puts a coin under the last horse - unseen: White guesses 'heads' or 'tails'. If correct, White gets to choose between the extra horse and making the first move, otherwise Blue does. Note: having this choice has another purpose. If a player wins by only one move this is not to be seen as a draw. The choice at the beginning gives benefits to both players.
Travellers on foot , ie not mounted on a horse, can move one square at a time in any direction to an empty adjoining square - like a king in chess; in Photograph 1 the blue traveller, marked out with a green house, can move to any of the 5 squares marked with green beads.
A traveller mounted on a horse can move horizontally, vertically or diagonally along a line of squares as long as the squares are empty - like a queen in chess. Note: in Shoo, there is no jumping over other pieces.
To travel mounted you do this. In one move you call up a horse into an empty square next to your traveller. This is illustrated in Photograph 2 - the horse and the traveller have beads on them as markers. This called-up horse is held by you for one move - imagine you have hold of its reins. This means your opponent cannot move it in their next move. You may want to emphasise that the horse is held by saying so, but you are not obliged to.
You call up a horse in one of two ways: i) from your own stable to any empty square on the field; or ii) by moving a free , ie unmounted, horse horizontally etc - as above. Note: in Photograph 2, the marked horse has been called up from Blue's stable - which has 1 horse left in it.
Then, you mount the horse in a second move by placing your traveller on top of the horse and, in the same move, riding it off as far as you want to go - legally. It may help to think of this move as mount & ride . In Photograph 2 you can see 4 horses are already mounted. Once you are mounted, you can stay on a horse for several moves, if you wish. Note: at the point when you first mount a horse you do not have to move it from the square on which you mounted it, if you do not wish to.
Finally, when you are ready, in a separate move, you dismount . You do this by leaving the horse where it is while placing your traveller in any empty adjoining square. Note: a dismounted horse is free and so can be moved by either player; so you need to plan how you dismount to avoid losing that horse. It's at this point that you are most likely to lose control of your horse to the other player.
So, to recap, you travel around the board in one of two ways. Firstly, as a foot traveller, one square at a time. Secondly, you can move mounted on a horse. Moving mounted has three elements: calling up and holding a horse next to you; mounting and riding - or just riding on, if already mounted; lastly, dismounting. Note: it is part of playing Shoo well to decide how quickly to bring you horses out from the stable at the beginning of the game. We suggest there is no hurry.
Because of the importance of horses you are likely to move them so that you retain control of them. However, you can, as a separate move, move a free horse - legally, of course - to any empty square on the board. For instance, to get the horse out of your home area. This brings us to?
Now that we have covered mounting & riding, we can describe how the game is really won. You do have to get your 9 travellers across the board into your home area first but also, to win, none of your travellers can be mounted. (Photograph 3 shows a board on which Blue has just won.) Setting out this rule also allows us to introduce the other area off the field, and next to the stable, the pasture .
In the Photographs you can see an area to the right of each player's stable, this is the pasture - 'pasture' is also printed on that area of the board; Blue's is at the bottom right. At the beginning of the game the pastures are empty.
You use the pasture as a place to which you can retire your horses. What you do is this. Before a horse is retired, it must be next to one of your travellers. If it is, as a separate move, you take the horse off the board and retire it to your pasture; in Photograph 3 there are 3 horses in Blue's pasture. Be aware, however, that, once a horse has been retired, as the name suggests, you cannot bring it back into play: equally, your opponent cannot gain control of it. Notes: i) since you cannot move a horse held by your opponent in their last move, you cannot - by the same token - retire that horse; ii) you can retire a horse from next to any of your travellers, it doesn't matter whether the traveller is mounted or on foot.
The game, as described so far, is playable: but it does have drawbacks. The rest of this description says what those drawbacks are, and sets out the moves designed to overcome them. The first of these is the most critical.
I am Blue. You can ensure the game cannot be won by leaving your (White) traveller, for example, in the back corner of my home area - this is the traveller in the top left hand corner of the field, marked with a black bead in Photograph 4. As the game stands, there is no way of getting White's traveller out of this corner. But, while the traveller remains there, I cannot win the game. So we invented the move called shooing, from which - of course - the game gets its name. Once we invented it, we saw it was a powerful move in all parts of the game.
Photograph 4 illustrates shooing. In the middle column of the board - towards the top - are two Blue travellers, one mounted and one on foot - marked with green beads. To the left of them is White's traveller, marked with a green house. The rule of shooing goes like this. If I make a move so that two of my pieces are touching any of your unmounted travellers, I can say, in the same move, that traveller - pointing to it - is shooed. You must then, in your next move, move that traveller; and you must move your traveller to a square where it isn't shooed. In Photograph 4, these are the squares marked with the small, purple beads.
Note: we say that two of my travellers may touch any of yours because, it may be that, after moving one of my travellers, I could shoo more than one of yours - this actually happens quite often. This is why I have to point to the exact traveller that I wish to shoo. Further, just as it is a rule (see above) that only an unmounted traveller can be shooed, equally you cannot get out of a shoo by 'capturing' a horse from a mounted opponent; capturing is described a little later on.
To recap: only foot travellers can be shooed; when shooed, you have to move to get out of the shoo; and, you can't do that by capturing a horse from your opponent. Shooing is needed to clear out the home area to which you are travelling but it can also be used to force a move at any point in the game.
It may be the case that, when you have been shooed, there is no square to which you can move. This will happen when, in any empty square to which you could normally move, you are still shooed. When this happens you must take your traveller and put it in your stable. In effect, you have been sent back to the beginning again, and are said to be shooed off . In Photograph 5 the White traveller in the top left-hand corner of the field, and marked with the green house, is about to be shooed off by the two Blue travellers, one mounted and one on foot, on the row below, and marked with green beads. A piece that has been shooed off, and is waiting to return to the field, is said to be stabled. In Photograph 5, one White and one Blue traveller are still stabled - you can see them in the stables, each with one unused horse.
After you have been shooed off by your opponent, you need to have a way of getting your traveller back into play. The way you return to the field is, as a separate move, to take your piece from the stable and put it in any vacant square in your first row, ie the one next to the stable. In Photograph 5 the Blue traveller, in the first row at bottom of the board, returned to the field in the previous move. Note: a stabled traveller has been stripped of all its powers: i) it cannot hold a horse that has been moved into the first row; and ii) it cannot, similarly, mount a horse already in that row. (This is why shooing off is to be avoided.)
There is one last aspect of shooing with which we, now, need to deal. It may be that, by accident or design, you move your (foot) traveller into a position where it could be shooed. If you do this, and your opponent spots it, your opponent can say in their next move: that piece is hushed - 'Hush, you can't do that!?' When you have been hushed, you must move the piece back to where it was, and pick an alternate move. Note: you can only be hushed in the next move for purely practical reasons. It may well be that, later on, you have forgotten which square your traveller came from - or, it could be, that square is by then occupied.
We have, also, chosen to describe hushing after stabling - and returning to the field - for a particular reason. Supposing a Blue traveller is 'stabled', like the one in Photograph 5. White's travellers can then be positioned so that there is no way that Blue can return to the field without being 'hushed'. So Blue is blocked; 'though, at the cost, of course, of tying up a number of White's travellers.
We said, above, that you could not get out of a shoo by capturing your opponent's horse. This section describes capturing - and also brings us towards the end of our story.
Capturing has been in the game from its very early stages. It offers the chance to capture, or threaten to capture, a horse on which your opponent is mounted - so altering the balance of the game to your advantage. A capture takes, in effect, two moves. In the first move you place one of your travellers next to one of your opponent's mounted travellers. This move threatens a capture. You then can make the capture, in a separate move, like this. As Blue, you take White's piece and put it into any empty square next to White's horse. You will then mount the now freed-up horse, riding away on it - as usual - if you wish to . Photograph 6 illustrates a threatened capture. In the photograph, the Blue traveller, marked with a bead, as before, is threatening to capture the horse mounted by the White traveller, also marked with a bead. Note: you may capture a horse from White even if you are mounted. The result will be, of course, that the horse you are riding will be left behind you, free. But this is a potential exchange you may want to make. And lastly...
The final drawback, in the basic game, we had to overcome is that, even when the game is apparently over, ie all the travellers are in or near their home area, it is possible for your opponent to counterattack. As Blue, you would turn back and mount a shooing attack on White's home area, clearing it out again. To avoid this endless to and fro, the last rule is the rule of safety . No piece in its home area can be shooed, or shooed off. But it is also part of the safety rule that, once in its home area, a traveller cannot leave its home area again. All this helps to ensure that games don't take too long, which leads to...
The general rule here is: If it's not forbidden, it's permitted . Here is an example of a valid 'multiple' move: you capture an opponent's horse, then ride away to a square from which, in the same move, you shoo your opponent. This said, there is the general restriction that: You can't get something for nothing . To illustrate: there is the rule (see dismounting above) that says you cannot hold onto a horse from which you have just dismounted. However you may still want to keep control of the now 'free' horse, ie by 'holding' it. To hold onto the horse in a later move, you must use up a move in the game - even if you do not physically move the horse itself. Note: in this case, you would show that you had made the move by specifically saying: 'This horse (pointing to it) is held'.
We think that Shoo is less demanding than chess but more eventful than draughts (checkers). We, therefore, suggest that time limits are placed on gameplay. If you have a chess clock that could be used. The alternative is to use the rule (which we believe is part of Go) that no move may take more than a minute. If it does, the game is immediately forfeited.
The authors would be gratified to field questions and get comments and suggestions for improvement. Please contact David Andrew - 'firstname.lastname@example.com'. If you really get into Shoo and are not too far from Leeds or London, a visit to work through the game may be possible.
You may wish to try out the following variants: i) playing with 7 rather than 9 horses; ii) when a piece has been hushed, either that you lose the move altogether or (worse) that the piece that is hushed is shooed off - to the player's stable; and iii) you keep the rule of safety, that prevents travellers in their home area being shooed (off), but allow travellers to leave the home area again, taking the risk that they will subsequently be shooed off, of course. Or, there may be other variants that occur to you.
A game set like that used in the photographs can be sent to you - for the cost of materials and postage. Please send £2 to: David Andrew, 54 Vesper Road, LEEDS, LS5 3NX. (If writing from outside the UK, email ahead to agree costs and method of payment.) You will be sent: i) the game layout printed on A3 paper; ii) an A3 laminating pouch - to protect the 'board'; iii) 10 pieces of each colour; and iv) a printout of this game description, including the photographs, in colour.
If you wish to actually laminate the game but haven't got access to an A3 laminator, you can use an iron. Although we have a laminator, the trick we used here is to iron hot, on steam, with a tea towel to prevent sticking. If you only iron the two ends you can hold the printout of the game firm inside the pouch but can still fold the pouch up. That's exactly what we did to the board used in the photographs.
In this section we give the specification of the game set we would supply so that you make your own version of it: we used a standard word processor. The board is printed on A3 paper. The field itself is 9 by 9 squares alternatively shaded and plain like a chess board. We use 31mm squares, which give sufficient margin to play with draughts pieces - 23mm in diameter. Next to both ends of the field you will need four squares for the stable and four for the pasture. Also mark off the home area of 3 by 3 squares in each corner. If you make the pieces out of card, it may help to distinguish the travellers from the horses if the travellers are round and the horses square.
Shoo was developed from a game idea originally called Holler - because, when you call up a horse, you 'Holler'. We think that Shoo is a great improvement on the original game but we also know, from practical experience, that Shoo is too demanding for primary school children. Over the summer, you may want to think about how Shoo could be simplified for primary school children. (Or you may want to try Shoo with younger children - and prove us wrong!) We plan, in September, to say something more about what you might want to have in mind when devising Holler; at the same time reacting to comment, queries, and criticisms, of Shoo.
The board and pieces you see in the photographs are the same as those we will supply at cost - see above. We are quite sure, however, that these could be improved. As a change from the kind of abstract thinking needed to play and, more so, comment on Shoo, you may want to think about how the design of both the board and the pieces could be improved. There are two general factors here. On the one hand the pieces, for example, could be made more interesting - perhaps easier to get hold of, like chess pieces; and different colours might liven up the game. On the other hand, there are the commercial considerations. The more complex the board design is, and the more tailored and detailed the pieces are, the more it will cost to make them. So a balance has to be struck. Within these broad constraints, if you do have design ideas, we would be very glad to learn of them.
This game design and description is copyright the authors; and Shoo and Holler are trademarks. The game was developed by Chris Kidd, Justin Kalef and David Andrew. For educational and personal use, game sets may be made up and these instructions copied freely; but please retain this copyright notice. Any commercial use of: the names Shoo, and Holler - for other games; and of the game concept and documentation is expressly forbidden without prior permission from the authors.


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The Davidson County Sheriff's Office was investigating a homicide Friday at the Atlanta Car Co. on Old U.S. Highway 52 just outside of the Lexington city limits.
The Davidson County Sheriff's Office was investigating a homicide Friday at the Atlanta Car Co. on Old U.S. Highway 52 just outside of the Lexington city limits.
Davidson County Sheriff David Grice, who was the first officer on the scene, said he responded to a larceny in progress at the Atlanta Car Co. at 1834 Old U.S. Highway 52.
Deputies were dispatched to the business at 9:01 a.m., a spokeswoman with the Davidson County 911 Center said.
Grice said he couldn't comment on who made the initial call.
He said he couldn't specify how the deceased person died. He also said he was not identifying the dead person or whether the person was an employee of Atlanta Car. Co.
Grice said late Friday afternoon that he wanted to get positive identification of the deceased before he releases the person's identity.
Grice said he wasn't commenting on whether the sheriff's office has a suspect.
With wintry precipitation falling and temperatures in the 20s, sheriff's deputies were interviewing a number of witnesses at the scene Friday morning. Crime scene tape surrounded a number of vehicles in the used car sales lot, as well as the leasing office where it appeared sheriff's deputies located the body.
Deputies also were at Tom's Tire, also on Old U.S. Highway 52 at the U.S. Highway 52 interchange. That's where crime scene tape surrounded a single vehicle.
"One of the vehicles was located up there from this business," Grice said.
Grice said he wasn't commenting on why the vehicle was at Tom's Tire.
Grice encourages anyone with information to contact the Davidson County Sheriff's Office at 242-2105.
"If anybody has any information about anything unusual occurring up here (Atlanta Car Co.) early (Thursday) afternoon or (Friday) morning, please give us a call," Grice said.
Grice and his deputies had yet to clear the crime scene as of about 4:30 p.m., the sheriff said.
Davidson County District Attorney Garry Frank visited the crime scene along with two of his assistant district attorneys. He said making the visit will give the district attorney's office a "firsthand view for down the road."
Frank declined to comment on specifics regarding the crime scene.
Gary Chisholm is the co-owner of Northside Produce, located adjacent to Atlanta Car Co. He said several customers were coming into his store and trying to find out more details concerning the sheriff's office investigation Friday. Chisholm said he and his family have owned the produce business for 35 years, and he wasn't aware of anything like a homicide in the area.
"There have been times we have been broken into, but nothing like that (a homicide)," Chisholm said. "Times are different than they were 35 years ago."
Darrick Ignasiak can be reached at 249-3981, ext. 217, or at email@example.com.


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Wordless (nearly) Wednesday - July 1964 at Bolger's Farm
Two photos to share today that were taken in Iowa in July 1964 as we were in transit between St. George, Utah, and Louisville, Kentucky.
First is a family photo in the front yard of the Bolger farm:
Second is a photo I know Allison likes as Grandpa Glenn holds her and sister Annette looks on.
There were lots and lots more photos, but these are a couple of representative ones.
Families are Forever! ;-)


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Pens didn't let Anderson's dominance get them downby Arpon Basu
The Penguins had two full days to think about how Anderson stole Game 3 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals on Sunday by making 49 saves in the Ottawa Senators' 2-1 double overtime win. They kept telling themselves that if they continued to produce a high number of quality scoring chances, they would eventually convert.
That's exactly what happened in Game 4, as the Penguins scored six times on Anderson in a 7-3 win that gave Pittsburgh a 3-1 series lead. Game 5 is scheduled for Friday in Pittsburgh (7:30 p.m. ET; NBCSN, CBC, RDS).
"From their side, I think it's tough to expect [Anderson] to play that well every single night," Penguins defenseman Brooks Orpik said. "He's a great goalie, but that's tough to do against shooters this good in a seven-game series."
It looked like Anderson was about to do it again in the first period; he stopped a number of high-percentage chances against elite shooters like Jarome Iginla and Sidney Crosby. The Penguins had 16 shots in the first but came away with just one goal, by James Neal, and trailed 2-1.
"It was the first time in regulation that we've been behind [in the series]," Penguins coach Dan Bylsma said. "There was some good emotion going in the building for their team. We were able to get some good chances and shoot the puck quite a bit and [Anderson] was big and tall and strong. It looked like it was going to be tough to get it by him.
"There was a sense this might take as many shots as we can muster to break this guy. Fortunately we kept on that mindset."
That mindset of continuing to besiege the Senators' net with shots led to the Penguins scoring the game's next six goals, including five on 22 shots against Anderson before he was pulled in the third. Anderson allowed eight goals on 101 shots in the first three games of the series; he surrendered six on 38 shots Wednesday night.
But Crosby knows that Wednesday's scoring barrage doesn't necessarily mean the Penguins have solved the Senators goaltender.
"I think we knew if we kept getting those chances the puck's going to go in," Pittsburgh's captain said. "It's good to see it go in. We know he's a competitive guy, he's going to bounce back and he'll be good next game."


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McMINNVILLE, Ore. – Linfield rolled up a big margin in total yards and took advantage of four Pacific Lutheran turnovers in running past the Lutes, 45-7, in a Northwest Conference football game played Saturday afternoon at Maxwell Field.
In beating PLU for the 10th straight time, the longest winning streak in the series, the fifth-ranked Wildcats improved their overall record to 6-0 and their conference mark to 4-0. They also took another major step toward their third consecutive NWC title. Pacific Lutheran, meanwhile, suffered its second loss of the season against four wins, and it is now 2-1 in the conference.
Linfield wasted little time getting on the scoreboard, intercepting a pass on PLU's first play of the game and driving 43 yards in five plays, capping the short-field drive on a 20-yard pass from Mickey Inns to Lucas Jepson. Just 1:43 into the game, Linfield held a 7-0 lead.
Pacific Lutheran's second possession ended like the first when Zack Halverson was intercepted for the second time, though the PLU defense forced Linfield to punt.
After PLU gave the ball back following a three-and-out, Linfield drove 50 yards to score on Josh Hill's 5-yard run, making the score 14-0. The 'Cats added Josh Kay's 32-yard field goal and Taylor Skore's 23-yard touchdown run to take a 24-0 lead into the halftime break.
Any hope of the PLU comeback pretty much ended on Linfield's opening possession of the third quarter when it drove 68 yards on seven plays, scoring on Hill's 11-yard run. The hosts added two more touchdowns on 6- and 5-yard passes from Mickey Inns to Buddy Saxon, to take a 45-0 lead just 14 seconds into the final period.
The Lutes got a bit of redemption late in the fourth period, driving 80 yards on 12 plays and scoring on Daniel Herr's 1-yard sweep around end.
Linfield dominated the game in every offensive category with 25 first downs and 460 total yards on 81 plays to 12 first downs and 183 yards on 59 plays for the Lutes. Hill carried 18 times for 100 yards to lead Linfield's ground game, and quarterbacks Mickey Inns and Josh Yoder combined to complete 26-of-37 passes for 326 yards with three touchdowns and one interception. Jepson had six catches for 85 yards and 11 different players caught at least one pass each.
Brandon James led the PLU ground game with 45 yards on 12 carries, and Halverson ended up 16-for-30 passing for 137 yards with no touchdowns and three interceptions. Herr had four catches for 33 yards to lead the Lutes in that category.
Steven McDonald was in on 12 tackles and recovered a fumble to lead the PLU defense, which also got 11 tackles, including two for loss, from TJ Suek. Erik Magnussen had two quarterback sacks among his 10 tackles, and the Lutes finished the game with six quarterback sacks for a total of 52 yards in losses.
PLU returns to action next Saturday when it hosts the unbeaten Lewis & Clark Pioneers at 12:30 p.m. in Puyallup's Sparks Stadium. The upstart Pioneers, led by talented quarterback Keith Welch, come into the game 6-0 overall and 3-0 in the NWC.


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Haute 100 member and Silicon Valley tech-genius Mark Zuckerberg put out a Facebook status and broke an almost three-year silence on Twitter to declare his stance against SOPA and PIPA bills and encourage his fellow techies to do the same.
"The Internet is the most powerful tool we have for creating a more open and connected world," Zuckerberg said on his Facebook post. "We can't let poorly thought out laws get in the way of the Internet's development. Facebook opposes SOPA and PIPA, and we will continue to oppose any laws that will hurt the Internet."


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Thomas Sangster: Children's BAFTA Awards 2012
Thomas Sangster steps out at the 2012 Children's BAFTA Awards held at the Hilton on Sunday night (November 25) in London.
The 22-year-old British actor is currently filming season three on HBO's Game of Thrones, which will premiere in March of next year.
Thomas plays Jojen Reed, son of Lord Howland Reed of Greywater Watch and brother to Meera Reed (Ellie Kendrick).
Game of Thrones follows seven noble families who fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros.
DO YOU WATCH Game of Thrones?
Posted to: Thomas Sangster


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I don't consider myself a realist, not truly. I believe that there are instances where motives other than power and gain thereof should promote policy-making. I believe that it's part of the national good to work through multilateral organizations whereever possible and to share the burden of keeping the peace with friends and allies. I believe it's possible to make moral decisions and good decisions and sometimes, just sometimes, have them wind up being the same thing. Which is why I've had such a problem with attempting to square myself with the ongoing problems in Syria. I've devoted more digital ink to the situation there than any other subject, barring the United Nations itself.
For observers of Syria in the Western world, the sense has been growing that the situation, if ever within the realm of possibility to control, is no longer within our ability to influence in a positive manner. To be frank, it hurts. It is frustrating beyond measure that the best we can hope for in this situation rapidly seems to be becoming "a short civil war". It feels somehow wrong to even admit that possibility that there won't be a solution that can be imposed from outside, as we sit here in front of our computer screens and watch atrocity after atrocity be committed. Today's publication from Mother Jones on a "target list" circulated by the Syrian government, while well known to Syrian activists for months, is yet another look into the lengths the Assad regime is willing to go to cement its rule that is jarring to tuned-in liberals and conservatives alike.
A large part of this feeling comes from what has been a core part of our national identity for several generations now. The belief that the United States, due to its unique placement in the international system, is omnipotent and therefore can and should be able to fix all the world's ills is a meme that has been proliferate and gaining strength since we charged to the rescue in 1917 and only grew with the end of the Cold War. However, that sort of belief, in ourselves and other states in us, is a falsehood that we should be quietly working to correct. The Syrian opposition may well have learned the lesson from Kosovo and Libya that eventually, the United States is coming. That we have to be coming, because that's what the United States does. That belief can't continue; as Robert Caruso made clear earlier today, the footprint for even a "limited" intervention would be far greater than many in the United States would be willing to consider. And no matter how gung-ho she may be in private, Secretary Clinton's public concerns over arming the Syrian opposition are most certainly valid.
I don't believe that this sort of thinking marks a belief in American Decline, or worry that we're going to lose our status of preeminence in the international order. Rather, the exact opposite is true, that this viewpoint is one of a country that is finally comfortable with its role in international affairs. A large part of being a mature, responsible Great Power, or superpower even, is knowing that you can't be everywhere at once. Even the world's greatest power has limits and must reach a point where it determines whether its core interests are at stake. I truly want to have faith that the international community can unite to end the killing in Syria, and wish Kofi Annan the best of luck in his role as the joint United Nations-League of Arab States envoy in trying to strike a cease-fire. But the United States can't do everything alone. Indeed, there are some lifts that are too heavy even for a coalition to achieve, as lack of consensus at the Friends of Syria meeting showed last week.
I haven't given up hope that Syria surprises me in a positive way, clearing a path towards a solution. This became less likely than ever this morning with the announcement that the Syrian National Council, which the United Kingdom has indicated it will support as the legitimate government of Syria, has splintered with the formation of the Syrian Patriotic Group. The lack of a united opposition is just one of the reasons that United States is looking less and less likely to become directly involved, though indirectly providing material through our sales to allies. And it may be time for those of us who advocate for changes in norms, as represented by the Responsibility to Protect and other liberal international causes, to recognize that not every problem has a solution that can be pushed down by the United States. Or if there is one, there are associated costs and off-sets that we must be willing to accept. There are many responsibilities that Great Powers face, including one to their own people, and to the system at large, to maintain that status. To paraphrase a recent post by Jay Ulfelder, the moral response here may well be to act in the interest of the greater international community by forgoing intervention in Syria and be able to take on the world's problems that we can solve.