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An informal group of competent players who play mainly 5-8 part music written for early instruments. Music is provided and occasionally ordered from publishers, with members paying for their own copies.
(Ability Level: Intermediate & Advanced)
Full term £50 (10 sessions)
Half term £25 (5 sessions)
Multibuy Discount: Book onto more than one class and receive a discount of 7% for each class booked. Does not apply to consecutive terms or half terms for the same class and peer led groups.
Peer led groups (Silver Chimes, Silver Beginner Recorder, Silver Improver Recorder, Silver Recorder Ensemble, Silver Recorder Consort, Silver Shantymen, Silver Plainsong)
Full term £25
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10 sessions per term including a half term break. 5 sessions per half term.
Autumn 2018
From Monday 17 September
(Half term Monday 22 – Friday 26 October)
Second half term from Monday 29 October
PLEASE NOTE: Silver Breves and Monday Silver Steel Pan groups start on Monday 10 September with no sessions on Monday 17 September. Silver Wind Band starts on Tuesday 11 September with no session on Tuesday 18 September.
Spring 2019
From Monday 14 January
(Half term Monday 18 – Friday 22 February)
Second half term from Monday 25 February
PLEASE NOTE: There will be no Silver Programme sessions during the week commencing Monday 4 March.
Summer 2019
From Monday 29 April
(Half term Monday 27 – Friday 31 May)
Early May Bank Holiday: Monday 6 May
Second half term from Monday 3 June
PLEASE NOTE: Silver Programme Monday sessions commence on Monday 15 April with no sessions on Monday 22 April (Easter Monday).


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This is just another case of the Sportos harshing on the Neo-maxi-zoom-dweebies. I'll bet nobody in the GOP has EVER participated in FANTASY footbal.
Wait, that's a total GOP-ethic pasttime: let the ones at the top (professinoal ball players) excel while those with no atheltic ability sit on their asses and somehow get ahead (with pretend points).
Now, it makes sense!
Perhaps someone should give Ms. Zacharias a copy of something by Jonathan Swift.
Like you said, it's a "body". Need I mention that it strips code down to its bare essentials? *snerk*


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Circe was a minor goddess of magic in Greek mythology, daughter of the Titans Helios, god of the sun, and Perse, an Oceanid. She had two brothers, Aeetes, who was the guardian of the Golden Fleece (which Jason and the Argonauts sought after), and Perses; and a sister, Pasiphae, who was the wife of Minos, king of Crete.
She is best known for her role in Homer's Odyssey. During their adventures towards Ithaca, Odysseus and his companions reached Colchys, where the residence of Circe was. She invited them all to a grand feast, which a lot of Odysseus' companions attended but not him. At the feast, one of the dishes was laced with a magical potion; when Odysseus' companions ate it, Circe made a quick move with her wand and turned them into pigs. Only one of the companions escaped unharmed and informed Odysseus. The hero, after taking advice from Hermes, protected himself from the spell by using a holy herb, and managed to befriend Circe and save his companions.
Another source mentions that Circe and Odysseus had three sons; Ardeas, Latinus, and Telegonus. In a lost epic called Telegony, Circe told Telegonus that his father was Odysseus (who had meanwhile returned to Ithaca and his wife, Penelope), and Telegonus went to find him. However, Circe gave him a poisoned spear, with which Telegonus mistakenly killed his father. Afterwards, he returned home along with Penelope and Telemachus, his half brother, and Circe granted them immortality.


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LAS VEGAS, NV - The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) today installed David Leopold as the President-Elect of AILA for the 2009-2010 term. Mr. Leopold, an immigration lawyer and expert from Cleveland, OH was installed as the President-Elect of AILA during sessions of the association's 53rd Annual Conference being held in Las Vegas, NV.
David Leopold is principal of David Wolfe Leopold & Associates in Cleveland, Ohio. He also serves as an adjunct professor of immigration law at the Case Western Reserve and Cleveland State Universities' schools of law. He has received Martindale-Hubbell's highest AV rating, is listed in Best Lawyers in America, and has been named an Ohio Super Lawyer.
Mr. Leopold's past AILA positions include: director, AILA Board of Governors (2003–05); chair, ICE Liaison Committee, receiving a Presidential Commendation (2003–04); member, General Counsel Liaison Committee (2004–05); chair, Due Process Committee (2002–03); and Ohio Chapter chair (2001–03). He is a co-founder of the AILF/AILA Litigation Institute; serves as a senior editor of AILA's Immigration & Nationality Law Handbook; and has contributed to numerous other AILA publications.
Mr. Leopold has been at the forefront of groundbreaking litigation in the immigration and federal courts. Since September 11, 2001, he has passionately defended the rights of noncitizens subject to closed hearings, special registration, mandatory detention, and "voluntary" interrogation.
The American Immigration Lawyers Association is the national association of immigration lawyers established to promote justice, advocate for fair and reasonable immigration law and policy, advance the quality of immigration and nationality law and practice, and enhance the professional development of its members.
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Fiscal 2012 left plenty of detritus in its wake and its still with us in 2013
Fiscal 2012 left a ton of detritus in its wake, and guess what? It's still here.
Ever feel like Dorothy walking through the woods with Toto in The Wizard of OZ? LPTA, selective sourcing, firm-fixed price, oh my! And then add sequestration.
Low price, technically acceptable (LPTA): begs the line from the movie Armageddon when Rockhound (Steve Buscemi) tells Harry (Bruce Willis) as their rocket takes off: "You know we're sitting on four million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon and a thing that has 270,000 moving parts built by the lowest bidder. Makes you feel good, doesn't it?" Various forms of LPTA have been tried in the past (the Desktop contracts from the early 1990s come to mind) and abandoned.
Selective sourcing: Reducing the number of vendors by driving margins down to the point that only the largest contractors have a chance of bidding and surviving. In the current iteration, this was applied to Schedule 75 and the results for the 500+ business that did not win part of the FSSI BPA are catastrophic. And what happened to the "on ramp" for new contractors on the Schedule 75 BPA?
Firm, fixed price contracts: As Larry Allen of Allen Federal has stated several times, firm, fixed price contracts has a place in the market, as do the other types of contracts, but one size does not fit all situations. Bad idea.
Sequestration: Yet another manifestation of Congress's inability to do the one job mandated by the Constitution -- pass a budget every year.
Small business: Oh, and add to this mix of all the lip service that has been aimed at the small business community, the "backbone of the economy." Everyone is in favor of small business -- the Obama administration, Mr. Romney, everyone in Congress who bothers to mention it, especially in an election year. Several pieces of legislation are still pending, including raising the small- business set aside target from 23 percent to 25 percent. It's easier to raise a limit and not make it than to make it mandatory to actually reach the current 23 percent limit.
What does all this mean for government contractors in general, and small business in particular?
The government is trying to save money, and we should support the intent of this effort. But we need to find a way that makes sense for the government, the contracting community and the economy. Little if any industry input was sought prior to these initiatives. Few of the people who came up with these ideas have been on the contractor side of the fence. They need industry input.
Can small business play in this scenario? Possibly, but larger firms with more sophisticated bid shops will be focusing on smaller and smaller contracts as federal spending shrinks.
Federal spending represents 25 percent of domestic spending, and yes, the feds should be responsible in how that money is spent, but let's define responsible before we set the spending rules.
If government contracting was a highway, what sign would be in front of you right now? Lane ends, form single lane? Dead end?
The best scenario is "reduce speed, construction zone."
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"A few years back a large business would not waste B&P dollars on a 1 or 2 person opportunity - today everything is fair game." --- Good point to mention because that phenomenon is hurting the small businesses as well. They can't compete on price when these larger companies are gobbling up the opps they used to feed on.
Another issue that small businesses have today is the fact that many large businesses are looking at any opportunity no matter what the size. A few years back a large business would not waste B&P dollars on a 1 or 2 person opportunity - today everything is fair game.
Can you tell me one large corporation that has eliminated virtually all its suppliers and saved money? Please give me names
How in the world can you eliminate 18,000 vendors and replaced them with only a handful of suppliers?
Has any software company been allowed to gather all 18,000 vendor products & prices and compare prices & products of the 15 FSSI vendors per schedule?
Competition works - Federal Strategic Sourcing is a 1940's 20th Century Solution.
At the end of the day there needs to be a visible cost savings procurement plan that works in a competitive envirenment
These are my thoughts :
I believe on an annual basis each company that holds a GSA Schedule Contract should be allowed to bid on each item so the government can obtain the lowest cost / highest quality per bidder. The winning BPA GSA vendor can be rewarded with 5% of the total sales of a particular item. The other vendors would be required to match or provide a lower item price provided by the winning GSA vendor. Also, the non-winning BPA vendors cannot upload given item(s) to gsaadvantage.gov or offer given item to the government unless they can provide a lower price or match the winning vendor item price.
Wow! what a concept - Reward the winning bidder with 5% sales of a particular item (NOT THE ENTIRE SCHEDULE) but allow other competitors to offer a lower or same price. GSA never introduced an alternative to FSSI (Federal Strategic Sourcing Initiative).
How can this be funded? Simple : Put secondary software projects on hold or lay off GSA employees or maintain current schedule fees
This article is right on. Great Job, Mark
Mark; as a small business owner - I gotta say, you are preaching to the choir. The small biz contracting % requirements are a joke, put them in the column marked mythical farce with the OSDBU moat dragon trolls. Our road is shaped like a mobius strip - punctuated only with pit stops at the SAM help desk of infernal time suck. If your core competency is "contracting" it is wrong that you have an advantage over a company that actually executes a deliverable. I'm just sayin...
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Lipscomb Women's Tennis team will put its 2-0 record on the line this weekend with a pair of matches in Chattanooga.
After beating both Tennessee-Martin and Belmont in the opening weekend of the season the Lady Bisons will play Tennessee-Chattanooga Friday and Evansville Saturday. Both matches will be held at the indoor tennis facility at The McCallie School. Both matches begin at 4 p.m. CST.
The Atlantic Sun Conference announced Lipscomb junior Jenny Borck as "Player of the Week". Borck has recorded four consecutive victories, two singles and two doubles, in the past two matches.
"I am so thankful and happy to start the season off so strongly", Borck said.
Also making an impression quickly is freshman Laura Kent from Australia with a pair of singles victories. She arrived on campus in January for the spring semester.
"I have enjoyed the first few weeks, training has been pretty good and we won some good matches last weekend," Kent said.
Kent plays a very aggressive style of tennis.
"Laura has done really well," Lipscomb women's tennis coach Jamie Aid said. "She has made the transition very, very easy. We feel like she has been here for eight months, not two weeks."
Sophomore Lorena Djuknic is also on a singles winning streak, standing 2-0 in the season so far.
"I feel very confident as I am able to apply the things that I am working on at practice," Djuknic said.
Aid is working on developing a system to execute what is being practiced on the court into the matches.
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Gonzalez leads Dodgers past Cardinals
Los Angeles, CA – Adrian Gonzalez went 3-for-3 with a homer and three RBI as the Los Angeles Dodgers edged the St. Louis Cardinals, 5-3, in the middle test of a three-game set at Dodger Stadium.
Mark Ellis and Juan Uribe both added RBI doubles for the Dodgers, winners in three of their last five games. Nick Punto went 3-for-4 and scored a pair of runs in the triumph.
Paco Rodriguez (1-2) earned the win after tossing one perfect inning in relief. Brandon League hurled a scoreless ninth to pick up his 10th save of the season.
Starter Ted Lilly gave up two runs -- one earned -- on two hits over 5 1/3 innings, his first outing since returning from the disabled list on May 20. Lilly landed on the DL after suffering a right rib cage strain. The 37-year- old southpaw also missed the first 19 games of the season while recovering from surgery on the labrum in his left shoulder.
"I was hoping to go a little deeper. My timing was a little in and out and my command wasn't as sharp, but it was the best I've thrown the ball in a long time," said Lilly.
Yadier Molina went 3-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored, while David Freese and Pete Kozma chipped in with one RBI apiece for the Cardinals, who had won three-straight games entering the contest.
Seth Maness (3-1) was charged with the loss after giving up the go-ahead run in the sixth inning.
Starter John Gast was forced the leave the game in the second inning with an apparent shoulder injury. He allowed one run on one hit and two walks before exiting the contest.
"I didn't like the loss, and I didn't like losing our pitcher, but I liked our guys fight. We just couldn't capitalize on opportunities," said Cardinals manager Mike Matheny.
St. Louis jumped out to an early lead in the first inning. Matt Carpenter singled, moved to second on a fielding error by Punto then scored on Molina's double. Molina lifted a soft fly ball to left-center field that Scott Van Slyke laid out for, but the ball bounced off his glove allowing Carpenter to come around.
The Dodgers answered with a run of their own in the home half. Punto walked and Gonzalez followed two batter later with a double to center.
Gonzalez added an RBI single in the third to put Los Angeles on top 2-1. Punto opened the frame with a double and Ellis was hit by a pitch to put two on with no outs. Gonzalez followed with a base hit to center to score Punto.
Gonzalez continued to brutalize St. Louis' pitchers in the fifth, clubbing a solo homer to make it 3-1,
The Cards, though, tied it up with a pair of runs in the sixth inning.
With two on and two out, Freese cracked a double to center to score Allen Craig. After Ronald Belisario was internationally walked to load the bases, Pete Kozma ripped an infield single to the left side, plating Molina.
The Dodgers added one in the home half to take a 4-3 edge. Crawford reached on a Carpenter fielding error then scored on Ellis' double to left.
Uribe's RBI double in the eighth accounted for the final margin.
Game Notes
Gonzalez also walked twice ... The Dodgers were just 2-for-12 with runners in scoring position ... Los Angeles holds a slim 1,009-1,007-16 advantage over the Cardinals in the all-time series ... St. Louis lost on the road for just the ninth time this season.


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LAS VEGAS — Aviation Search Group, a recruiting firm for the aviation industry, has formed a new recruiting department focused on business aviation clientele.
Grayson Barrows, Director of Sales, explained "Success with our business aviation customers and the recent hiring demand in this segment has grown significantly. Our extensive network within this industry, combined with the demand for talent, necessitated the new department."
"The best way to explain it is we have created a niche within our niche," he continued. "It became apparent the need for talent within business aviation warranted a department dedicated to providing solutions for this specific client base. In addition to helping them find top industry talent, business aviation companies are relying on our industry expertise to provide compensation studies, marketing strategies, and candidate vetting/screening services."
Dedicated resources for the business aviation department were put in place at the beginning of the fourth quarter and are already engaged in multiple search assignments, officials noted.


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Yes, our 10th Garden Show was August 2nd, it is now just a one day event, but is still loaded with fun, plants, contests and more.
We got to see many of our old friends, including a chance listen to a farewell performance by our friend Wayne Horsburgh of Austraila, as he makes his last summer-long tour of the USA.
Also we got to learn from cool demonstrations and enjoy old-time entertainment, just like an old fashioned fair. Make plans to come to our monthly events if you can!
The Giant Tomato Contest with Ezra and Homer Lee
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Australia's Country Performer of the year, Mr Wayne Horsburgh!


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The Texans didn't want Ed Reed, and neither did any other NFL team.
Reed, the veteran safety and former NFL Defensive Player of the Years, went unclaimed on waivers today, one day after the Texans released him, via Adam Schefter of ESPN. That makes him an unrestricted free agent.
What remains to be seen is whether any team will consider Reed down the stretch. The Ravens, for instance, apparently don't want him now, but if they suffered an injury or two at safety they might follow in the footsteps of the Packers, who initially decided not to claim Matt Flynn when he was placed on waivers by the Bills, but a week later signed Flynn after losing Seneca Wallace.
But while that scenario is possible, it doesn't seem probable: Reed didn't play well this year, and he's 35 years old. It may turn out that Houston was his last stop. If so, at least he took in $5 million on his way to retirement.


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Val Staples, "Pixel Dan" Eardley, Emiliano Santalucia and Eamon O'Donoghue are back to discuss He-Man and She-Ra.
First, we dive into fan voicemail and e-mail!
Then we discuss the reveal of Panthor!
After that, we discuss another MOTUC bios. This time, She-Ra, Keldor and Eternia.
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Marist College, which has honed its learning technology innovations for decades, unveiled its latest program, a student-driven online collaborative learning environment called The FOLD (Fashion Online Learning Domain) on the runway at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, February 12-14 in New York. Fashion icon Betsey Johnson (XOX), known for her support of student success in the fashion industry and Marist President Dennis Murray joined the festive event on stage, and a post-show reception was held at the famous Avery Fisher Hall.
Marist's Fashion Program — along with their Enterprise Computing Community — is one of the first academic centers to pilot the college's Academic Community Cloud (ACC), so The FOLD will serve as a model for the institution's strategic cloud initiative. The ACC is based on open source software from Apereo (http://www.apereo.org), the nonprofit foundation that was formed out of the merger of Sakai and Jasig. Sakai and the Open Academic Environment (OAE) are the two key technology components powering The FOLD. Among The FOLD's initial offerings will be an open online community, free online mini-courses for fashion students and professionals, and a student-developed MOOC.
Marist has high goals for The FOLD and other academic learning communities forming under its academic cloud: especially to extend the reach of its learning communities to industry and global partners. "The ability for users of OAE to control whether content and interactions are shared with just their group, the entire institution, across institutions, or even with the world is extremely powerful from a community building and collaboration perspective," said Josh Baron, Marist Senior Academic Technology Officer and member of the Apereo Foundation Board of Directors. "The FOLD is a great example of how this new ability to support academic collaboration at a global scale is allowing Marist students to gain real-world learning experiences through engagement with their peers, professionals, and scholars in the fashion industry."
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June 22nd, 2011
Last days in Copenhagen were greeted by a bit more street skating and then off to Norway where more pristine spots awaited the crew. Demo in Oslo was off the chain! Big thanks to our distributor Bernhard Sports. Click Here to watch the video courtesy of Tacky.no. After the demo we went to a signing and then trekked further into the black metal landscape of Norway to hopefully discover some new spots… Stay tuned for that photo update and more. ArtoFotos


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Southern California's only Asian Night Market – billed as an authentic Asian street-fair experience – will be hosted by the city Saturday to highlight ethnic restaurants and businesses often unknown outside the San Gabriel Valley's Asian community. The market will run from 5 to 11:30 p.m. on Oakland Avenue between Colorado Boulevard and Union Street. Admission is free. For more information visit 626nightmarket.com or call 626-765-5066.


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Forget about gigabit performance. Purdue University needs 40 gigabit/second interconnectivity for its newest computer cluster, the Conte. Put into full production in October, the supercomputer was recently ranked No. 33 on the list of the world's fastest supercomputers by Top 500. Conte was built with 580 HP ProLiant SL250 Generation 8 servers, each with two Intel Xeon processors and two Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors. Connecting the nodes of the cluster is Mellanox Technologies' FDR-10 40 Gbps InfiniBand.
FDR-10 InfiniBand is the newest generation of the InfiniBand switched fabric communications link. Primarily used in high-performance computing, the specification defines the connection between server and storage compute nodes. The Mellanox's solution includes Connect-IB adapters, SwitchX-2-based switches and cables,
"The increasing complexity of science and engineering research at Purdue is driving a need for increasingly faster and scalable computational resources," said Michael Shuey, Purdue's HPC system manager. "Mellanox's FDR InfiniBand solutions, and in particular their Connect-IB adapters, allow MPI codes to scale more readily than our previous systems. This enables more detailed simulations and helps empower Purdue scientists to push the envelope on their research in weather, bioscience, materials engineering, and more."
Among the projects that Purdue faculty are pursuing is research on making jets quieter by modeling the exhaust flow using as many as one billion data points; creating high-resolution images of the structure of viruses at the atomic level; and making batteries smaller, lighter and longer-lasting through atom-scale models.
In other InfiniBand news, Microsoft has joined the trade organization that defines the InfiniBand specification and related standards.
The Redmond company has become a Steering Committee member of the InfiniBand Trade Association, alongside IBM, Intel, Oracle, and 39 other companies. Currently, much of the committee's work focuses on building out InfiniBand-related specifications for input/output architectures such as Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) and RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE). The organization performs compliance and interoperability testing of commercial products and promotes RDMA technologies.
"Microsoft's membership comes at an ideal time as mainstream data centers continue to adopt advanced technologies previously only deployed in high-performance computing applications," said Mark Atkins, chairman of the committee. "Microsoft will bring a strong enterprise data center perspective to the organization as well as viewpoints on deployments of RDMA at scale for storage and cloud applications."
Added Microsoft Windows Azure Distinguished Engineer Yousef Khalidi, "Increasing numbers of server CPUs sharing a network link, coupled with ever-increasing workload virtualization, are making unprecedented demands on modern datacenter networks. RDMA networking is a key part of the solution." He said that he expects Microsoft's participation in the trade association to "help promote RDMA and further drive specifications and standards to enable performance gains and reduce networking overhead on the CPUs in large, mainstream data centers."
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Student or Learner
1) I have learned gerunds.
2) I have learned about gerunds.
3) I have learned how to use gerunds.
I thought I had known well about usage of "about" but all of a sudden, I was wondering if there is a meaning difference between them and which one is appropriate or natural to you? Merry Christmas and I am not in a hurry, so enjoy your holidays and when you are free and convenient, please, help me out Thank you so much as usual.
#3 works best for me.
Thank you so much as usual and I also thought that "I have learned / learned about gerunds." is somewhat weird, but it seems like people also say them. Don't you think so? Or usually native English speakers do not use the construction. especially with "terms like gerunds"?
You could learn about gerunds without learning how to use them.
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Full Volume Encryption, or FVE, is a method for encrypting a single partition, either physical or virtual, on a hard drive. It is different than Full Disk Encryption as parts of the disk are left unencrypted.
- FileVault Disk Encryption
- Included with certain versions of Apple Mac OS X as of 10.7 (Lion).
- FreeOTFE
- A free and open source FVE program for Microsoft Windows and Windows Mobile PDAs.


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The IFB Eagle Award for Excellence recognizes an individual or organization for excellence on issues or programs important to the Farm Bureau and agriculture on a statewide and/or national basis.
Hutjens has served as a U of I Dairy Extension specialist since 1979, helping countless dairy farmers advance productivity and profitability in their operations. He has presented seminars and programs in 46 states, 15 countries and nine Canadian provinces.
In addition, he has received numerous awards and honors, including the Illinois Commodity Conference Friend of Agriculture Award, American Dairy Science Association Award of Honor, World Dairy Exposition Service Person of the Year, American Dairy Science Association Fellow Award, U of I College of ACES Paul A. Funk Award, College of ACES Junior and Senior Extension Award of Excellence, and the DeLaval Extension Award and Applied Dairy Nutrition Award.
He received his undergraduate, master's and doctorate degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He and his wife, Carol, reside in Savoy and have five children and five grandchildren.
Dave Seibert began his career as an Extension educator in 1968, serving as the assistant and associate Extension advisor for McDonough County. He has served the U of I on several levels, including working as the Area Livestock Advisor and Animal Systems Educator. He also pioneered numerous programs for the U of I Extension, including 4-H and FFA quality assurance and ethics clinics, Livestock E-Quiz, area cow/calf field days, Superior Young Producer Awards, regional meats judging workshops, Illinois swine environmental assurance series and many more.
Throughout his career, Seibert has received many honors, including the U of I CAPE Award, College of ACES Professional Staff Award for Sustained Excellence, Extension's Outstanding or Innovative Team Program Award and Sustained Award, Illinois Commodity Conference Friend of Agriculture Award, Illinois FFA Honorary State FFA Degree, G.R. Carlisle Award for Excellence in Extension Teaching, Illinois Pork Producers Education Award, and an honorary membership from the U of I Hoof-N-Horn chapter.
Seibert earned his undergraduate and master's degrees in animal sciences from Southern Illinois University. He and his wife, Julie, reside in Washington and have three daughters.
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Country-crooning prodigy Danielle Bradbery was crowned the winner of season four of "The Voice" Tuesday night, beating out a crowded field of competitors decades her senior to clinch the title.
The 16-year-old from Team Blake — the youngest contestant this season, and one who had never performed on a stage before hitting "The Voice's" — eked out her victory over Team Usher's indie-pop dark horse Michelle Chamuel, who took second place, and Team Blake's country duo the Swon Brothers.
She was crowned at the end of a two-hour finale Tuesday night that saw pop stars rubbing elbows with the show's aspiring pop stars — not just the top three, but also a slew of the singers who had headed home earlier in the season.
And when she was, she grinned, wept and covered her mouth in disbelief of a sort that would make fellow country prodigy Taylor Swift proud. Somehow, she managed to sing a few bars of a song through that disbelief, though not without embraces from her rivals and from Shakira.
Danielle's win meant not only that she's the youngest winner of "The Voice" yet in its four seasons but also that Team Blake has now won his third season in a row on the show. (It also meant that Papa Shelton got quite a birthday present; Tuesday was his 37th.)
Leading up to her crowning moment, of course, were plenty of performances from "Voice" family members and high-wattage guests alike.
Erstwhile "Voice" coach Christina Aguilera, who returns in September to the red chair Shakira occupied this season, opened the show with a frenetic performance alongside Pitbull of their single "Feel This Moment." Descending from a giant pedestal, Aguilera looked glad to be back on "The Voice," even if she were on the stage instead of in a chair.
And in case Xtina and a room full of "Voice" hopefuls weren't divas enough, there was also Cher — a decade after her last live TV performance. The pop legend performed her upcoming relentless, club-ready single "Woman's World," clad in black leather and a headpiece that looked like a bird had flown into her coiffure.
Bruno Mars took the stage to perform "Treasure," and country band Florida Georgia Line paired with rapper Nelly performed "Cruise," to. But some of the most memorable performances by established stars came with their duets with the top three "Voice" contestants.
Michelle Chamuel joined one of her favorite bands, OneRepublic, onstage to exchange rapid-fire lyrics with lead singer Ryan Tedder on their electro-tinted folk-pop anthem "Counting Stars."
Later, Danielle Bradbery joined young country singer-songwriter Hunter Hayes for a duet on his song "I Want Crazy." And and most memorably, the Swon Brothers, both rabid Bob Seger fans, joined with the rocker himself to croon his signature song "Night Moves," the trio seated in a row strumming acoustic guitars.
The top three also brought back some of their former teammates, and some rival team members, to join them on-stage and give viewers a glimpse of what "Voice" supergroups might look like.
The Swon boys reunited with former team members Justin Rivers and Holly Tucker, as well as with former Team Adam member Amber Carrington for a take on Lady Antebellum's "Stars Tonight."
Danielle brought back Amber to sing with her, too, as well as her former teammate Caroline Glaser (who wound up on Team Adam before she was eliminated) and Team Adam's Sarah Simmons, on a cover of Carrie Underwood's "All-American Girl."
And finally, Michelle invited back three of her former Team Usher teammates — R&B singer Vedo, Latin powerhouse Cathia and pop-rock crooner Josiah Hawley — for a joyful, funk-inflected take on Stevie Wonder's "We Can Work It Out" that had both Adam and Usher singing along.
Those former teammates got another chance to perform Tuesday night, too. Vedo and Josiah joined with Team Shakira's Garrett Gardner and Kris Thomas — as well as with Holly Tucker, wielding a saxophone — for a "Jersey Boys"-inspired take on the Temptations' "Ain't Too Proud to Beg."
And four former and undoubtedly funky divas of season four — Cathia, Team Shakira's Sasha Allen and Karina Iglesias and Team Adam's Judith Hill — joined for En Vogue's "My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)."


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District Man Pleads Guilty To Shooting High-Powered Rifle In Broad Daylight Attack In Southeast Washington-Early Cooperation From Community Helped Close Case-
WASHINGTON –Nathaniel Carter, 34, of Washington, D.C., has pled guilty to charges stemming from a shooting that took place in broad daylight in Southeast Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced today.
Carter pled guilty on Jan. 4, 2013, in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, to charges of assault with a dangerous weapon and possession of a firearm during a crime of violence. The Honorable Lynn Leibovitz scheduled sentencing for March 8, 2013. Carter faces up to 15 years in prison for the offenses.
According to the government's evidence, the shooting took place at 9:30 a.m. on Dec. 14, 2011, in an apartment community in the 3400 block of 13th Place SE. Carter fired six shots from a high-powered rifle at another man who tried to flee from the gunfire. The dispute stemmed from an alleged altercation that occurred between the two men in 2009. The men had largely avoided each other until a verbal altercation on the morning of the shooting. No one was injured by the gunfire, including numerous innocent bystanders who were in the area at the time of the shooting. At least one round pierced an apartment door, striking the steps inside.
Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), acting on information from the community, quickly located the firearm and other hidden evidence from the crime scene.
In announcing the guilty plea, U.S. Attorney Machen commended the detectives of MPD's Seventh District who were involved in the arrest and investigation of this case, as well as the members of the community whose cooperation led to the successful prosecution of this case. Finally, U.S. Attorney Machen expressed his appreciation to paralegals D'Yvonne Key, Richard Cheatham, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Mervin A. Bourne, Jr., who investigated and prosecuted the case.


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Only two days left until Super Bowl Sunday. Then most Americans can get back to our regular winter sports pastimes – ignoring the regular seasons for the NBA and NHL, and counting the days until March Madness and MLB Opening Day.
The NY Post is reporting that Hall of Fame QB Dan Marino had a "love child" with a CBS employee in 2005. Just goes to show what can happen when you let heterosexual men play football.
January 31 was Jackie Robinson's birthday. And before Robinson joined the Dodgers, many thought a black man's presence in the clubhouse would be as disruptive for his fellow teammates as some still think a openly gay man's presence would be today.
And wow, Randy Moss actually said something intelligent Thursday morning. On having a gay teammate: "It's not 1979 anymore, it's 2013. We should accept everyone." (Quote from my friend Art Spander.)
Meanwhile the 49ers' Chris Culliver now says his anti-gay remarks were "in a joking manner." Culliver went to University of South Carolina. Guess you can take the man out of the SEC….
Baltimore Ravens safety Ed Reed said today that the NFL is fining players for the wrong things. Wonder how long it will take the league to fine him for saying that.
CNN.com reports Dutch airline Transavia is investigating a copilot who fell asleep in the cockpit when the pilot took a bathroom break. The article says "Laws regarding pilot breaks during flights vary from country to country. For U.S. carriers, sleeping while at the controls is a violation of FAA regulations." Uh, could we get a list of countries where it's NOT a violation?
New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez's office said unsubstantiated allegations that the senator engaged in sex with prostitutes in the Dominican Republic are false. Wonder what that means about prostitutes outside of the Dominican Republic.
Sources say Alex Rodriguez is unlikely to play again in a New York Yankees uniform. "What a shame" said absolutely no Yankees fans.
While her crew and band will be paid, Beyonce herself apparently will not receive payment for her Super Bowl performance. But the NFL and Pepsi will pick up production costs. Wonder if that includes the costs of pre-recording a tape?
From T.C. "Beyonce is rehearsing the Super Bowl half time show by practising lip syncing both her own and Madonna's songs. Just in case a malfunction plays last year's soundtrack."
Phil Mickelson shot a 60 today, in a golf tournament called "Waste Management Phoenix Open." "The Waste Management Open?" That's almost as good as the late-lamented Poulan Weed Eater Bowl.
On a serious note, for this statement today alone I'd like to see Chuck Hagel confirmed as Secretary of Defense: "Our war in Iraq I think was the most fundamentally bad, dangerous decision since Vietnam.".
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February 1, 2013 at 2:03 pm
"Meanwhile the 49ers' Chris Culliver now says his anti-gay remarks were "in a joking manner." Culliver went to University of South Carolina…"
He may have gone to USC, but (I surmise), not often.


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Hello everyone,
I am new to this forum. While searching for samples of motivation letters, I came across many threads on this forum regrading this issue.
I am a Syrian student, and this scholarship is so important for me because I can no longer complete my studies in Damascus.
In the ranking criteria of this scholarships, the motivation letter has 20% of the application grading scheme. For this reason I need to make it as good as possible. Unfortunately I am new to writing this kind of letters, so I hope for some help.
To make my letter clear, I just want to tell that the host university I chose is Technische Universität Berlin. I am allowed to write up to 4000 characters.
Here is my letter,
Where theres a will, theres a way, Personally, one of my favorite proverbs and one which I have always followed to achieve my goals and ambitions.
Ever since, I was a student in the secondary school, the major of study I wanted to pursue after completing high school was clear to me. I have faced many obstacles, but fortunately I overcame all of them to achieve my dream in studying the major I want, Computer Science.
I lived in Lebanon during my childhood and teenage until the war in 2006 obliged us to flee to Syria, my homeland. I was struggling in high school because of the vast differences between the Syrian and Lebanese curricula. Yet, I managed to succeed and graduated from high school with an average of 99.16 percent.
In Syria, it is trend that the higher the students average is, the higher probability the he/she chooses a major which requires high averages in high school, regardless of what the students dream is. According to this tradition and my average, I was supposed to pick the major that requires the highest average, medicine. Yet, I chose the faculty of Information Technology Engineering, as the closest major to Computer Science (because this major is not found in Damascus University), ignoring all the criticisms and oppositions I received.
During the last three years of my study in this major, I gave very hard efforts. But unfortunately as the revolution started, its consequences affected negatively my studying and thus my average.
Because of the absence of safety and stability, this academic year seems to be impossible to complete. I can hardly and sometimes never able to reach my faculty and attend the lectures; in addition to witnessing and hearing the sounds of explosions during all the studying hours in the faculty. For this reason, I had to look for a solution for this huge problem.
The first step to take was improving my skills to raise my opportunities. I started to take intensive lessons in German, since most universities in German-speaking countries require a certain level of German proficiency for undergraduate programs. Still the bad conditions obliged me for about two months to stop the lessons.
The second step was searching for convenient universities that offer the best opportunities and fit best to my needs. Through the search, I came across the announcement of Erasmus Mundus Program, which seemed to be the outlet I was looking for.
Reading about all partner universities, the options were few because I was seeking a university that offers scholarships for degree seeking students, not just exchange students. Technische Universität Berlin was the best choice for me because of the scholarships it offers and my knowledge of German language. Through further search, I found that TU Berlin has a very good rank in world ranking of universities in the major of information technology. All these reasons together made TU Berlin my number one priority among all universities.
I want to study at TU Berlin because of its outstanding educational system, focus on gathering relevant work experience, and its excellent facilities. So I am confident of my decision. With many distinguished scientists as professors, I know that I will gain expert knowledge at the forefront of discovery. Further supporting professors' lectures are the university's use of advanced. All these strong positives allow me to pursue my dreams and ambitions.
Given my past history of commitment to achieve my dream, I am confident that I will exceed the expectations, because of both my academic and interpersonal skills. I will enrich the program by enabling fellow students and professors to benefit from my ambitious and open nature. Furthermore, my international background will add more diversity to your program.
Thank you for considering my application, and I look forward to your positive reply.
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Chris7337 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 76 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
Maid it Cleaner
We have already a lawn care business that works really good and we are developing our business to another level : inside homes. Maid it cleaner will be a "sister" company of our actual business.
We built a solid business in less than 5 years with Stephanie my wife (from France). It is a small company with less than 7 people. We now have over 350 clients.
We make an effort to give our customers the best service we can, we listen to their needs and offer a large variety of services from lawn maintenance to landscaping, stone work etc...
Today, we are working hard on developing our new business - Maid it Cleaner-. It is our next step to give our customer full home services for the inside and the outside. Our staff will be mostly ladies.
We are targeting home owners and business owners. Men and women.
Home owners: people that do not have the time to take care of the cleaning of their home and would like a personalized service. Also, older people that cannot take care of their home anymore due to age or else...
Business : Offices, hotels, Motels, landlords, etc... that are looking for a janitorial service, clean up etc...
We are open to any suggestions but we would like to stay in the white, blue and green pallet (light colors preferred).
We offer Green Products so our logo can reflect our desire to be green and earth friendly.
I would stay in a more feminine look. I think water, blues and greens, clean lines, soft lines, fluids, round... I have been working on a document and I have been using PANTONES green 375C and blues DS220-3 C and DS202-8C.
We would like to have a clean, "higher class" look to match our services.
To give you an idea of what we like, please click on the link below. We like the cleaness, classy look this logo has.
Good luck!
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With the decision to focus its resources on core banking services, Coast Capital Savings Credit Union said it has reached an agreement to sell its insurance subsidiary to Western Financial Group.
The $14.6 billion British Columbia credit union said it will sell its Coast Capital Insurance Services Ltd to Western, which has more than 120 offices and approximately 1,600 employees and is a subsidiary of Desjardins Group, Canada's largest cooperative.
The deal is expected to close in July.
CCIS is a subsidiary of Coast Capital and currently offers property, casualty, commercial, life and disability insurance products through 32 retail insurance offices and a call center. The life and disability insurance business of CCIS will remain with Coast Capital, according to the credit union.
Under the terms of the agreement between Western and Coast Capital, CCIS branches will continue to operate under the CCIS name and branding for at least two years, according to both entities.
Western said it will continue to employ all of CCIS's 242 staff members while working with Coast Capital to enhance banking and insurance offerings to both Western and CCIS customers.
Coast Capital said Western is the largest and fastest growing insurance brokerage in Western Canada. The purchase of CCIS locations across the Lower Mainland and southern Vancouver Island will complement the 29 branches in 22 communities they currently operate throughout British Columbia, the credit union said.
"At Coast Capital we're proud of all that our insurance subsidiary and its employees have accomplished. When we decided to concentrate our resources on our core banking business, our goal was to find a partner who could help CCIS grow further and reach its full potential," said Tracy Redies, CEO of Coast Capital.
Redies said the credit union valued Western's strong entrepreneurial spirit and customer service focus, which will help build CCIS' business.
"Most importantly though, this allows more banking and insurance services to be offered to our collective customers as we look for more opportunities to expand our businesses and serve customers in our markets," Redies said.
Scott Tannas, president/CEO of Western, said the sale of CCIS is the company's largest deal to date and will help solidify its presence throughout the British Columbia market.
"We look forward to building on the traditions of great service and community support that Coast Capital has established," Tannas said.


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So tell me guys what OS do you use and why? i use both ubuntu (linux) and windows 7. But i use ubuntu more often. i only use windows to watch netflix and to use some hardware to it that ubuntu does not recognize. i like ubntu because is free, opensource and not as vulnerable to mallware as windows
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I was a freelance Mac repair guy from the mid '90s until about '04. I used to buy/sell them as well and parts, especially in the early days of eBay. I even managed to find a guy in Detroit to make me proprietary RAM @ cheap, back when sticks of 128 mb RAM were going for $250 a pop, …made a killing selling it at half the going price.
Here's my old office/man-geek room circa 2001:
That is so cool!
I've got an iMac and a MacBook Pro both running OSX Snow Leopard..
That's awesome! Nice to meet another Mac user.
I'm running Windows 7 x64 on one machine and the Windows 8 Developer Preview on another, both of them are running cygwin, and I have various linux utilities compiled on top of that. I program alot, and most of the time I'm aiming at it being most compatible with Windows. I did use Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, Yellowdog, even an LFS), but I found I only used Linux for some things (mostly bash and compiling things), and used Windows for everything else, so my current builds try to reflect that mash up of a little bit of bash with a whole lot of windows.
I'm jealous of you all. I used to buy a new computer every 3 years, but my limited income means my iMac is 4.6 years old and can't run any newer OSX than Tiger (10.4.11). I'm not likely to get a new computer for several years more.
Windows 7 x 64, because I'm not computer geeky.
That's cool what is your major?
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by Jason Kurylo
Photo credit: canucks.nhl.com
By now, the Vancouver Canucks are probably circling home games against the Carolina Hurricanes as soon as the NHL publishes the season schedule. For the second time in as many visits, the Hurricanes provided just what the Canuck doctors ordered to get off the schneid.
On February 3, 2009, Vancouver had lost eight straight games, and some guy named Mats Sundin was being blamed for pretty much every sorry period of the skid. The Canes had lost three straight games in Vancouver, but given the Canucks' recent penchant for dropping games they should win, pundits were not confident going in.
Well, the top points-getter in Maple Leafs history responded with a goal and an assist, and Alexandre Burrows scored a short-handed goal with 82 seconds left on the clock to give the Canucks a 4-3 victory. Roberto Luongo recorded his first win in six games after returning from a groin injury. Ryan Kesler scored his third goal in two games after suffering an embarrassing 11-game slump. The Canucks would subsequently go on a wicked tear, and enter the playoffs as one of the league's hottest teams.
So fans of this year's Cup favourites shouldn't be surprised by this snake bitten Canucks team beating the tar out of the Southeast Division cellar dwellers, 5-1.
Cory Schneider got his first start of the season tonight, which came as a surprise, as Luongo almost never sits on the bench for a home game when he's not injured. It turned out not to matter – Schneider was never truly pressured by the woeful "offense" of Carolina. Sure, he stopped 32 of 33 shots – the only one to get by him came as Patrick O'Sullivan slapped one home on a two-on-one break. Schneider was solid, however, keeping rebounds to a minimum and letting his D-men do the heavy lifting most of the night.
Mason Raymond scored his first two goals of the year, one skating on the top line when Daniel Sedin found him streaking through the slot in typical Sedinian fashion. The other came on the man advantage: Mikael Samuelsson's shot was bobbled by Cam Ward, and Jeff Tambellini put a no-look pass through a series of skates to give Raymond a wrister for his first of the year.
That same Samuelsson also scored his first goal of the year after Kevin Bieksa made a great read to keep the puck alive in the offensive zone. Sammy added two assists for good measure. Perhaps the Swedish Olympic team sent him another Dear Johan letter after the California road trip? Whatever, the man came through tonight with a solid effort despite being demoted to the third line.
Ryan Kesler again had several great chances early, and again he booted the puck. With an open net in the first period, he rang the puck squarely off the post. On a two-on-one in the second, he failed to even get a shot. Late in the third, however, Kesler took a soft power play pass from Christian Ehrhoff about fifteen metres out and rifled a one-timer into the top corner past Cam Ward.
Henrik Sedin had two assists tonight, tying him with Brad Richards and John-Michael Liles for the league lead with seven.
As mentioned, none of this comes as a shock against the AHL-quality roster of the Carolina Hurricanes. What was a surprise? How about the guy who opened the scoring. Andrew Alberts put home his own rebound from three metres out, finishing after some hard work by Manny Malhotra. Yes, true believers, Andrew freakin' Alberts, for a few minutes in game five, had more goals on the season than Mason Raymond, Mikael Samuelsson and Ryan Kelser combined.
A truer test of this Canucks team comes soon – they play three games in four nights, including one against the dirty rotten stinkin' Chicago Blackhawks, starting Tuesday. Look for Schneider to get at least one of those starts. And remember to break out the Sharpie when next year's schedule comes out. You know, to circle the home date against the Canes.
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Am I the only girl who loves nail polish? I have TONS of polishes. I mean, I have over 200 bottles sitting in huge bags on my bedroom floor that I need to figure out where to put. You might say that I have an obsession. But I kinda don't care, and I refuse to call it that. I like to think of it more as my way to relax after those trying work days. I pull my nail mat out, I neatly place my napkins around, spread out my nails tools that I got from Duane Reade and I take my time and neatly polish my nails. I've really gotten good at it too (but don't ask me to do your nails, I am a writer not a nail tech)!
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I put the system to test during NYFW. I even wash dishes and scrubbed everything in my bathroom down. I wanted to see what happened to the polish in extreme water conditions.
A week later and guess what…no chipping, no reapplying! Not only did it last the entire seven days, but I swear my nails grew an inch! No lie. I adore this system, it's probably one of the best that I've ever tried, and I've tried a lot of freaking polishes that claimed to do a lot of freaking stuff.
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There have been several storylines to the season, most notably the run of injuries that claimed Carlos Delgado, Carlos Beltran, Jose Reyes, John Maine and JJ Putz for long stretches. Also hurt have been Alex Cora, Gary Sheffield, Oliver Perez and Brian Schneider.
Frankly, the Mets are lucky to be as close as they are, and that's because the Phillies haven't caught fire.
Still, even with the injuries, the Mets have not played well overall. Their starting pitching has been erratic, often leaving early and causing the bullpen to be overused. And, the hitting with runners in scoring position has been poor and there's little power.
Maybe Beltran and Reyes are back by the end of the month, but the longer they and Maine are out, the more pressure there is on GM Omar Minaya to make a trade, but there are little chips to deal.
This is a team that is slowly seeing its season fade away.
Here's the line-up behind Mike Pelfrey today:
Angel Pagan, CF
Luis Castillo, 2B
David Wright, 3B
Gary Sheffield, LF
Jeff Francoeur, RF
Daniel Murphy, 1B
Brian Schneider, C
Alex Cora, SS
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Actor Doug Hutchison and his teen wife Courtney Stodden have confirmed reports of their separation.
The Hutchison wed the blonde model and aspiring singer in May, 2011, when she was just 16 and he was 51, but claims surfaced on Friday suggesting they had parted ways.
Now the estranged couple has released a joint statement to the DailyMail.co.uk, insisting the split is amicable and the stars will continue to work as professional partners.
The statement reads: "After two and a half years of marriage, Courtney and Doug have decided to become legally separated.
"Courtney was married at a young age. Now, at 19, she's interested in exploring life as an unmarried single young adult – with the freedom to explore her independence.
"Doug supports Courtney 100 percent. The two will share custody of their precious pup, Dourtney, remain living in the same house (for now) in separate bedrooms, and Doug will be co-managing Courtney's career."
"We love each other very much, want for each other's happiness, and will continue being the best of friends for life."


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Programming The Psychodrill
Short for Programming The Psychodrill, a phrase from a J.G. Ballard collage, P.T.P. was originally simply Al Jourgensen. When asked to do a song for the film Robocop, he started work on a track entitled "Show Me Your Spine", when Ogre of Skinny Puppy walked into Chicago Trax. He asked Ogre to sing on the track, and they performed it live in the studio. Afterwards, the project continued onward as simply another Al/Paul/Connelly collaboration. They released only one single.
$corpio (Chris Connelly, big bass drum/vocals)
Alien Dog Star (Al Jourgensen, pan flute/finger cymbals aka guitar/keyboards)
Frenchie L'Amour (Paul Barker, spanish guitars aka bass)
Nivek Ogre (vocals, 1987)
Rubber Glove Seduction (Single)
1989 Wax Trax Records
1. Rubber Glove Seduction
2. My Favorite Things
Lyrics are available here.
For more release information, go to the Sideprojects Discography.
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Donovan James Dillon
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Over and over I find myself thinking. What the hell am i doing? the answer is never clear. I put one foot in front of the other and keep throwing myself at life but frankly - the gerbil on the treadmill is now limping.
what you need to do in life and what you want to do don't seem to live in the same place in this head or in the flavor of my day to day life. i know exactly what it is. not enough time for the creative. should have gotten on a different path a long time ago.
i figured out the other day that i think the problem lies in my perspective. I think life should be easy and "flowery" and simply- it is not.
Bear in mind that while I was having this monumental epiphany - my garage door opener wouldn't work so i couldn't get my car out. I misplaced my car keys whilst trying to fix the said door, was late for a bank appointment, and gotten a parking ticket the day before when i was viewing a townhouse for sale. (I believe the ticket was a sign from above. truly) I won't be moving there.
|See how much better they can see from above than we can.
i like messages from above.... alot.
anyways - its all very humbling and exhausting.
my less than wise head (voice on the left shoulder) told the voice of reason (voice on the right shoulder) that if I changed my thinking to the perspective that life is full of road blocks and speed bumps and bad weather and cuts and bruises - then, I am pleasantly surprised to be having less trouble than expected.
The whole philosophy of it is very dr. seuss. apparently he was having the same moment as i when he wrote this.....
then i come upon things that amuse me.
In my solitude. It's a good place. It gives my head a break from itself.
So fast forward to today, Sunday July 8, 2012.
Beautiful sunny weather. Went to the beach.
|Crescent Beach....
Finished reading a book, and started studying for another exam on the 12th of August. Had a nice day to relax and painted my nails, had some lunch, and people watched. You hear the funniest things around you..
So I am sleeping face down and I hear these guys on the bank above me talking about thier sandals. One guy says, " Good thing I cut my toenails - they were pretty long". Seriously. Gross. And why is one guy telling another. Girls don't even do that right?
Then I heard a funny. 2 little girls were coming back to thier towels and this beach is a bit rocky beyond the shoreline. They are complaining to the mom and she says.... "it's just that you still have your winter feet on". I thought about it - and I thought that was such a clever answer.
Another little girl later called the rocks "Angry". I so wish I don't forget to see life in its funny-ness. Kids are great for reminding us.
I also saw something that made me go... Why?..... Sorry to my Asian friends, but...... this Asian guy has a convertible and its a beautiful sunny day and he has the top up and all the windows up in his car. I figured he must be using his air conditioning but why on earth would you buy a convertible then? Makes absolutely no sense to Julie. Thier hair doesn't even move when the wind blows. Just saying. ( I work with a couple of asian guys and I know they would agree with me).
So. That was today.
In the meantime, over the past few weeks, I have bought a townhouse of my very own ( well, mine and mostly the banks really) - but anyways I did it. Huge thing for Julie. Single girl buys her own place on a meager income. There will definitely be a lot of pancakes for dinner coming up. Just the same, I am very happy to have somewhere to put my bed and feel planted I guess. And of course my twisted head thinks that if I die, my kids will have something.
So that's taken care of.
I have some pics for you.... please let me share.
|This is the outside.
|I am not 25 ..... at least not my house number anyways. Mine is still being finished.
|This is the inside of mine. Main floor.
1330 Square feet total.
|My bathroom. 2 sinks. Might need those one day. You never know.
|New stainless Fridge, stove and dishwasher. Fab.
|Show suite living room. But pretty big space with the balcony off.
Good light.
|Show suite dining area off the kitchen. The little alcove could be a pantry but I am going to leave the doors off and use it some other way....... Keep the room more open.
|New washer/dryer. FAB! On the upper floor where the bedroooms are.
|Sink so Parker can do the dishes. Ha!
Door is open. So come on in. Spend the nite. We will make our own fun.
|I can mix you a pretty drink or....
|We will have tea misto's with caramel drizzle on the foam for breakfast.
There is a back yard that is fenced for Charlie too. So now I don't have to worry about not being able to keep him.
He's so sweet and really so easy. I think I might shave off all his hair though. Can you imagine? He would have to wear sweaters.
So after I get all packed, and store my stuff in a container for almost 2 months - we will move in. Charlie will stay in White Rock with the boys while I go on a holiday with the girls from school.
So that's the next big news. Incredible vacation - really once in a lifetime probably to go on a cruise ship for 12 days through the mediterranean. Here's where we stop......
Fly to Rome and stay there in a hotel for 5 days, then board the ship and stop at - Sorrento - Capri- Amalfi Coast- Positano - Florence - Pisa - Tuscany - Portofino - then Monte Carlo, Monaco - Saint Tropez, France - Provence (Marseille), France - Ibiza, Spain - and then Barceloon, Spain where we rented an apartment for 6 days. AMAZING!
So that is why I simply cannot come out to Ontario this summer. IMPOSSIBLE!
Really I am so excited about the trip but of course worry about all this outlay of money. But I am dealing with each thing at a time and trying to keep my head straight. I have sold some of my stuff for extra mad money and so I don't have to store as much. Where there's a will there's a way it seems.
|So I am going to one of my favorite places to take pictures and feel leather purses.
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IVhorseman wrote:Imma tell you right now that CC guys are awesome, and if you can get em up to the front lines (SPRINT!!! SPRINT!!!!) they can kick ass. Melee guys don't have to worry about getting lines of sight or height advantages, so it's pretty much always possible to end their turn in complete cover unless they're fighting (or you're fighting on the dreaded empty field: enemy to all minifigs). If ranged guys you lock into combat with try to get away, you get a free attack. They can counter-attack with their rifles, but since they're not proper weapons there's not much else they can do. Some of Natalya's guys have shields to protect em in combat, but they still can't make melee counter-attacks.
I would love to see an all melee combat team totally decimate a bunch of riflemen, or vice-versa. Just remember: there's no A in sword.
Yeah, Briktoid was pretty much designed for this, an almost entirely long-range army who will get horribly slaughtered IF a melee unit made it into their ranks.
I figured it fit with the whole "One Jedi owning an entire battalion of Droids" theme from Star Wars.


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Eiffel scissors, $14.99. Akin to a gigantic pair of scissors? You'll never look at the Eiffel Tower quite the same again. cottonon.com/AU/shop-by-brand/typo-1/
Teardrop with conical vase, $55. A creative way of displaying a small spring posey. casettaliving.com
Martine sterling boutique cushion, $69.95. A bit of bling made from beading and sequins, in an artful fishscale pattern. privatecollectionaustralia.com.au
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Caldera basin, $1495. Once you've invested in this piece, don't be surprised if your guests take a little longer in the bathroom. rogerseller.com.au
Joseph Joseph garlic rocker, $34.95. As simple as it is stylish, kitchen gadgets don't normally come with design cred. opusdesign.com.au
Balinero Sneaker $189.95. Embroidered squiggles give this classic shoe design an artistic twist. wittner.com.au
Crompton Lunix pendant, $120. Lighting design has been pushing design boundaries for a long time, but it's not always this affordable. bunnings.com.au
Ceramic dog bowl, from $24.95. Part of a range of pet accessories featuring indigenous artwork by Pauline Napangradii Gallagher. Will launch next Sunday on October 1. art.outbacktails.com
101 chair, $4500. Designed by Helen Kontouris, the chair was recently inducted into the permanent collection of contemporary furniture at Melbourne's NGV. schiavello.com
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Science Competition Snubbed. No Assemblies for Winners.
Last week-end while most of us were paying attention to the Boy's High School Basketball Tournaments, another very important competition was snubbed.
It didn't get the media coverage of the sporting events. In fact most media outlets didn't give it a mention. The winners of the competition weren't welcomed home with parades or special school assemblies. Yet the competition was focused on an area very important to the future of our state and nation. Science.
The competition was the 2014 South Dakota Science Olympiad State Tournament. It was held in Vermillion on the campus of USD. Hundreds of South Dakota middle and high school students participated.
Yankton High School students and Yankton Middle School students finished first in their respective divisions.on Saturday, March 22. These schools will compete at the National Science Olympiad Tournament at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, May 16-17.
All events for the Science Olympiad are determined at the national level. For the state tournament, faculty, staff and students from USD organized and served as judges for the events.
Division B: first place – Yankton Middle, second – Sacred Heart Middle, third – Vermillion Middle, fourth – Dakota Valley Middle, fifth – Spearfish Middle, sixth – Mickelson Middle, seventh – Elk Point-Jefferson Middle, eighth – Madison Academy, ninth – Gayville-Volin Middle.
Division C: first – Yankton High, second – Brookings High, third – Dakota Valley High, fourth – Spearfish High, fifth – Todd County High, sixth – Mitchell High, seventh – Madison High.
Notice the lack of local area schools in the winner's circles.
Complete results of this year's competition, as well as results from previous years, are available at http://sites.usd.edu/sdscienceolympiad/home/sdscienceolympiad-state-tournament-results.
For more information about South Dakota Science Olympiad, please visithttp://sites.usd.edu/sdscienceolympiad/home
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The Science Olympiad is an international non-profit organization devoted to improving the quality of science education, increasing student interest in science, and providing recognition for outstanding achievement in science education by both students and teachers. Science Olympiad tournaments are rigorous academic interscholastic competitions that consist of a series of individual and team events, which students prepare for during the year. The competitions follow the format of popular board games, TV shows and athletic games. These challenging and motivational events are well balanced between the various science disciplines of biology, earth science, chemistry, physics, mathematics, computers, and technology. There is also a balance between events requiring knowledge of science facts, concepts, processes, skills, and science applications.