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"is a discrete event simulator targeted at networking research. Ns-2 provides substantial support for simulation of TCP, routing, and multicast protocols over wired and wireless (local and satellite) networks."
a newer "discrete-event network simulator for Internet systems" distinct from ns-2.
"implements various network design heuristics such as MENTOR, MENTour, Delaunay triangulation and Two Trees for the purpose of building network topologies."
"creates a realistic virtual network, running real kernel, switch and application code, on a single machine (VM, cloud or native), in seconds, with a single command . . . . Mininet is also a great way to develop, share, and experiment with OpenFlow and Software-Defined Networking systems."
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
"is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers." First create a free account, then go to the AWS Management Console, and click on EC2. You can then create a new free tier instance.
"is a network testbed, giving researchers a wide range of environments in which to develop, debug, and evaluate their systems." Talk to me if you want to use Emulab.
"includes a geographically distributed set of heterogeneous computing systems, a data management system that holds both metadata and a growing library of software images, and a dedicated network allowing isolatable, secure experiments."
"is a suite of research infrastructure . . . with the goal of providing a laboratory environment for networking and distributed systems research and education. It is well suited for exploring networks at scale thereby promoting innovations in network science, security, services and applications." Talk to me if you want to use GENI.
"is an interactive visualization and exploration platform for all kinds of networks and complex systems, dynamic and hierarchical graphs."
"contains functions for generating regular and random graphs according to many algorithms and models from the network theory literature . . . . It includes implementations for classic graph theory problems like minimum spanning trees and network flow, and also implements algorithms for some recent network analysis methods, like community structure search."
Stanford Network Analysis Platform
"is a general purpose network analysis and graph mining library. It is written in C++ and easily scales to massive networks with hundreds of millions of nodes, and billions of edges. It efficiently manipulates large graphs, calculates structural properties, generates regular and random graphs, and supports attributes on nodes and edges."
"is a routing software suite, providing implementations of OSPFv2, OSPFv3, RIP v1 and v2, RIPng and BGP-4 for Unix platforms, particularly FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris and NetBSD."
Stanford Large Network Dataset Collection
is a "collection of about 50 large network datasets from tens of thousands of nodes and edges to tens of millions of nodes and edges. In includes social networks, web graphs, road networks, internet networks, citation networks, collaboration networks, and communication networks.
"collects several different types of data at geographically and topologically diverse locations, and makes this data available to the research community to the extent possible while preserving the privacy of individuals and organizations who donate data or network access."
The Internet Topology Zoo
"currently ha[s] over two hundred and fifty networks . . . from all over the world . . . ."
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text: Hi all, About a month ago I bought a G5 1.6. It runs great and I was looking at upgrades. But then a collegue of mine gave me a broken G5 2.0. He stated that the Logic Board was broken and it could not be fixed. It has 1,5 gb of ram (ddr3200) and a Nvidea FX6800 Ultra. I hooked it up and I got the apple logo and chime and then a gray screen with popup stating that I needed to restart the mac. So yesterday I switched the graphics card from the 2.0 to the 1.6, but then my 1.6 mac does not start anymore. I get the gray screen, stating that I have to restart my mac. Tried it a couple of times, but no luck. So now I am suspecting that the videocard is faulty. I therefore tried the FX5200 that I had put in the 2.0 to see if it would start and guess what.... it did! However the colors are pretty screwed up: the green and yellow both look yellowish and the blue is a bit faded to gray. So I tried changing the display settings, but no luck (it does get a bit better, but not as beautiful as with the fx5200 in the 1.6 G5). Could someone tell me if I am doing something wrong or that these issues are related to the logic board of the 2.0? Since the FX6800 is not working on the 1.6 or 2.0 one, I believe that that card is faulty, so I guess I cannot upgrade the videocard. Or could there be another reason? It does have a signal to the screen, but when I put it in either one G5's I get the gray screen...... Thanks in advance. Patrick

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You're probably thinking, "What the heck? A door bell that gives a shock?" Yes. But, this isn't just a doorbell that gives a shock. This is a doorbell that gives a powerful ZAP. Get back at those fags who keep ringing your door bell late at night and early in the morning. Just follow the instructions below and you'll be on your way to being known as jerk of your neighborhood.
I will not be held responsible for the misuse of this file. The contents below are very dangerous. You could give a serious shock to your mailman, little kids selling candy, your neighbor, the fags ringing your doorbell late at night, or your gay paper boy. This is for informational purposes only. If you use the contents below, you'll be king of the world.
1 Long extension wire (one that plugs into the outlet) Scissors or a knife Glue Stapler Tape Paint (the color of your house)
1) Take the end of the wire and cut off the place where the appliance plugs in. MAKE SURE THE EXTENSION WIRE IS NOT PLUGGED IN. If it is, you could get yourself killed. Now, cut the plastic off the wire so the wire itself is sticking out (the copper). Make the copper piece longer by cutting off the plastic.
2) Now, if you carefully look at the wire, you can see that the wire is not just all one piece. It is actually thin copper wires the size of hairs rapped together to form the wire itself. Cut off all the hairs of wire until there is only one piece of wire sticking out of the positive and negative sides of the extension wire. It should now look like this:
3) Now, put this outside of your window. DON'T PLUG IT IN YET. Just in case someone pushes in your doorbell too hard, knocking the wires off the doorbell, put some super glue around the button of the doorbell so it cannot be pushed in. Let it set.
4) Now, rap the two wires around your doorbell and glue them on both sides of the button so it can't come off. DON'T PUT ANY GLUE OR TAPE ON THE FRONT OF THE DOORBELL. If you do, the connection will not be made when the person puts his thumb on it because the glue will be in the way. Only put it on the sides so the two wires will be visible to the air. DON'T LET THE TWO WIRES TOUCH. If the two wires touch and you plug it in, you will start a massive electrical fire inside your walls and burn your house down.
5) Now, staple the wire going to the doorbell to your house so it doesn't come off. Just so it's not noticeable, paint over the wire. It's done.
If you are very eager to shock someone, put a sign on your door saying:
This doorbell shocker can either give someone a serious shock, knock them unconscious, or if it's raining out even death. (Don't kill anyone). ONLY PLUG IT IN WHEN IT IS IN USE. Don't leave it plugged in overnight, when your out, or when you're in the other room. Keep it in sight at all times when it's plugged in. Have fun.
This concludes HOW TO MAKE A DOORBELL SHOCKER.


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It's kind of strange living on the water, sometimes. Things move, they smell, they come and go, it's humid all the time, and there are a lot of critters around you never see anywhere else: crabs, seastars, jellies, tiny fish.
One animal who's around all the time is Bella, who had her own special "water feature" today and got a bath (sadly, no photos, since I have to keep both hands on her at all times and I was doing the bathing solo today.) She doesn't particularly like the bath part of the experience, but for some reason, she loves to go to the dog bath place. She strains at the leash and is very excited to get into the building, even though she then fusses, growls, barks, and whines at all the other dogs–if there are any. I try to take her to the dog wash only in the mornings when they are not very busy–usually. This reduces the chances that there will be a dog there to whom Bella will take exception. Usually this means a large dog or a barky dog. Today it was a rather adorable Maltese who was, sadly for us all, quite barky.
Bella takes this sort of thing as an insult and immediately starts straining, growling, and misbehaving. Lucky for me I'd already finished bathing Miss Troublemaker and was only trying to give the owner money for the use of her tub, water, shampoo, and ear cleaning supplies. No amount of telling Bella to "sit" and "calm" were entirely effective. If the Maltese has stopped barking, Bella would have gone back to ignoring or at least only staring at her, but, no. Once started, the fluffy little white dog was apparently incapable of stopping. It's a dog thing.
Unfortunately Bella is also a Dog-Thing and in this case, a Pain-in-the-Ass-Dog-Thing. But we managed to get out of the building and back into the car without any altercations, though I felt putting up with Princess Growlenstein deserved a large tip, even though I'd done the bathing, just so they'd let us come back some time in the future… when Bella has once again transformed herself into Stinkerella.
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Notes on Movies for Which a Learning Guide has Not
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Last updated on June 27, 2015.
Last updated on June 27, 2015.
This category includes movies we would like to evaluate. Usually, these are films suggested by TWM Users and unless we make a comment of our own with respect to the film, we haven't seen it.Insufficient Teaching Opportunities ("[ITO]")
The teaching opportunities afforded by these films don't seem to justify the substantial time and effort required to develop a Learning Guide. If you disagree, email us.Not Accessible for Children ("[NA]")
These films may be dated or preachy or be too "educational". Films with low production values or which will not inspire children will also be in this category. Again, if you disagree, email us.Parental Discretion — Films that Some Parents Might Want to Consider ("[PD]")
These are worthwhile movies that a substantial number of parents would not want their children to watch due to scenes of violence, explicitly shown sexual activity, extreme profanity, or adult themes. However, many parents would allow their children to watch these films. TWM will not devote the substantial time and effort needed to create Learning Guides for these films unless the movie presents exceptional educational value. See, for example, the Learning Guide to "Good Will Hunting".Not Recommended to be Shown by Adults to Children ("[NR]")
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A lot of people are not pretty confident with regard to the distinction between an everyday tarot Looking at in addition to a Psychic Tarot Card Studying. The difference is basically dependent on the talent and also the capacity in the person using the Tarot Playing cards to be a instrument for divination. A beginning tarot card reader may depend much more seriously on the person meanings of the tarot cards rather than depending on their intuition.
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NationalGeographic.com has learning resources for kids about Egypt. It is partially about modern Egypt, however, and educators seeking information about ancient Egypt may find the history website a better resource. HistoryForKids.net is a better resource for younger children, and it includes quizzes.
The National Geographic Kids website is a resource for educators and curious kids, and it has amassed a huge collection of information about Egypt, including pictures, videos and games all based on Egypt. Some of the information on the mainstream National Geographic website might be too frightening or complicated for children to understand. Children can browse the National Geographic Kids website for free, or their can parents sign up for the paid Adventure Pass version, which includes more in-depth activities as well as first access to new content on the website. A discount on the Adventure Pass is available in the National Graphic magazine, according to the website's FAQ.
HistoryForKids.net is just as kid-friendly, and it provides information about everything from the making of mummies to biographies of famous pharaohs. It also has art galleries, where children can see different examples of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics and statues. There are also ready-made quizzes for each section.
The ancient Egyptian section of History.com is less colorful and perhaps more suitable for older children due to the writing style and density of information. However, it includes free videos and interactive content that young children might find engaging.


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Star Wars The Dark Side Half Marathon Recap
Star Wars The Dark Side Half Marathon…
The name alone should tell you why I originally signed up for this race. I'm a geek girl at heart and almost every man I have ever dated was a Star Wars geek. This half marathon was sure to help me get my nerd on and really who could resist running in an event that allows you to dress up in a Star Wars running costume.
I'm not going to call myself a RunDisney veteran, but I have run quite a few RunDisney races in the last two years of my post weight loss journey. My first RunDisney event was the Tinker Bell Half Marathon in 2014, I ran the Wine and Dine Half Marathon in 2014 as well. In 2015 I repeated both of those events to achieve another Coast to Coast Medal. This year, I participated in the Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend and completed the Dopey Challenge running a total of 48.6 miles in four days.
I had very high expectations of the Star Wars The Dark Side Half Marathon. I expected it to be one of the best half marathons I have ever participated in. I expected it to be even more amazing than any RunDisney event I had done so far and regretfully I have to say that I was a little disappointed.
Things seemed really unorganized to me this time around which is not something I am used to feeling at a RunDisney event. With as much as we pay to participate in these events I just expect them to seem almost flawlessly organized. When I am dropping nearly $400 in registration fees for the privilege of running for two days in a challenge event I have a few set expectations.
I expect the characters that are available for photos to be there for photo ops both at the before and after gatherings. Many people were upset about how quickly the characters had gone inside the morning of the 10K and the morning of the Half. We were able to get quite a few photos after the half on Sunday morning. But I really felt like we got lucky. We got everything in RIGHT before the lines closed. There was a lot of pressure to try to get those photo ops and that's not a good feeling when you are at an event that is supposed to be fun.
I expect the opportunity to run by all the characters that are on the route and take a picture of them. I'm not saying I expect the lines to stay open and that I expect the ability to stop and pose with each character. If I am not a fast enough runner that I can afford to spend the time on stopping and standing in line to take a photo with a character without jeopardizing making the required pace time I understand that. Close the lines once it is too late to take photos. But I do expect that the characters are out there and I am able to take a photo as I run by. Pulling the characters off of the route early seemed awful unfair to me.
I was running with a friend that was an absolute Star Wars nerd. This wasn't his first RunDisney event, he ran the 10K part of the Dopey Challenge with me back in January. But it was his first RunDisney half marathon and he was very excited about the photos of characters. We were counting on the fact that even though he might be very close to pace time, I had the ability to run ahead, snap a photo and then fall back into the crowd with him. But by the time the latter corrals got there, lots of the characters had already been removed from the route.
I ran the 10k that was held on Saturday by myself. My very dear friend Carrie Zavitz was running it as well but she wanted to run solo. So we started together and then planned to meet at the finish line. For me this meant running at my pace rather than that of whoever I am running with. I had an overall time of 1:23:00 and managed to get a photo of every character that was there and stop in several places to snap a quick selfie with a few of the characters that were standing around.
I expect to be able to get a beer at the finish line. — Lot's of runners feel the same way. I promise, there was a lot of complaining at the finish line when there was no beer available. Apparently we were suddenly in county where we were not allowed alcohol before 11:30am on a Sunday. — I'm not sure when this rule suddenly changed because I know that when running the Walt Disney World Marathon Weekend just a few months ago there was plenty of beer available after the morning runs. The only thing I can guess is that somehow finishing the race at ESPN Wide World of Sports instead of at Epcot changed the rules somehow?
The Dark Side Half Marathon race route was different to say the least. There were some things that I really didn't love about it. The slanted road was hard for a lot of people to deal with. Luckily I had experienced this part of the road during other races and knew to stay to the left where it was a little more flat. The dirt road leading us back into EPSN wasn't great either.
I think the most disappointing thing to me though was the lack of energy that I felt at this event. RunDisney events are usually packed with people dressing up in cool costumes to run and have this amazing energy to them that just makes you want to keep coming back for more. I really didn't see THAT many people dressed up this year and the overall energy to the crowd was a bit dismal.
Whether everyone else was dressed in a themed outfit or not, I was. I love dressing up for runs. I rocked a cut little Storm Trooper costume for the 10k and a cute little R2D2 outfit for the half marathon. I have to give a big shout out to my sole-sister, running buddy and dear friend Ronda Rhodes for making sure that our costumes were amazing. If it had not been for her and her amazing last-minute sewing and alteration skills I wouldn't have looked nearly as cute as I did out there.
My best friend, partner in crime and the first guy I have ever coached and taken to run a half marathon beside me, Jeff Newell, of DefyingObesity.org matched my R2D2 costume with a Storm Trooper outfit that required he stay on my right hand side the entire time we were running with "I've found the droid I've been looking for" written on the back with an arrow pointing to the left. We got lots of compliments on our outfits along the route that day.
I think Jeff will be telling a story for years to come about how I had gotten a little ahead of him and suddenly there was another girl running next to him. She was dressed as C3P0 and she had run up beside him so that her friend could take a picture of her running next to him and said "It looks like I am your new droid." Her and her friends that were dressed as BB8 and R2D2 took turns getting their photos with his shirt and then ran off.
This is my third time now taking someone through an online and long distance 20 week training program that leads them to a RunDisney Half Marathon – I learn something new as a coach every time I do this. This time I had the ability to make sure that the person I was training had some opportunities to run with me during the 20 week training leading up to the event. Jeff ran his first 10k with me back in October when he was visiting Raleigh NC for the Obesity Help Convention and then he was able to run with me in December, January, February and March during my trips to Boston and when he ran the 10k next to me during the Disney World Marathon Weekend.
As a coach this was a big advantage to me. I knew his patterns, I had run with him a couple of times so I knew the difference between him losing steam and him truly needing to slow down. It was easier for me to tell the difference between a mental struggle and a physical struggle and to know when I could push him and when I couldn't.
Jeff was dressed as a Storm Trooper when we crossed the finish line and I have to give this man a lot of credit because he had been quite a Trooper through his training. Our training schedule ran from the end of November through April and in January he had experienced a major set back when he had to have emergency surgery to fix an intestinal blockage. It is not easy to get benched in the middle of a training program, spend weeks recovering before you can exercise again and then rebuild your cardio stamina back in time to complete an endurance event like a half marathon. I give him a lot of credit for coming off the bench and running not one but two half marathons within three months.
I may have ran the Star Wars The Dark Side Half Marathon at his pace instead of mine, but I have no doubt that someday he'll be running a pace slower than his next to me. Of course that's only because those long legs of his are going to give him a much bigger stride than mine.
I'm looking forward to seeing what he can do come October when it's time to run the Jazz Half in New Orleans where I'm leading a group of my friends in the WLS community in to their first half marathon. But I have a few half marathons to run before then so I am sure I'll be seeing you for another race re-cap soon. Plus I have another blog to write to tell you all about the milestone I hit in my weight loss journey during the Star Wars The Dark Side Half Marathon. I'm going to save that for another day though. But until we talk again… get out there, get moving and find your happy pace slender seekers.
Pandora Williams author of Desperately Seeking Slender is a Cooper Approved Wellness Coach Trained in Weight Management Strategies and Motivational Speaker studying to become a Certified Personal Trainer.
The Me vs Her Perspective
I have a lot of photos of myself from days long past.
Photos of myself at an extremely unhealthy weight.
Photos of myself at a time that I was eating as a way of dealing with my emotions.
These pictures represent a time in my life where I was constantly sad, constantly depressed. They represent a time when I felt completely unworthy. They are pictures of a woman who put on a fake smile to hide all the pain inside.
They capture a woman who felt like she was drowning in the co-morbid conditions that the disease of obesity had brought her too.
I was full-blown diabetic, I had high blood pressure, high cholesterol, sleep apnea, severe edema and severe depression. There were days that I was simply non-functional.
I knew that my weight was causing these medical issues and truthfully, I didn't care. I had given up on life, love and the pursuit of happiness. I very consciously made the decision to not care about what my lifestyle behavior choices were doing to my health and to my body.
I had a lot of days that I really wished I wasn't even there. I was very aware that I was digging a grave with a fork and a spoon. In fact, if I am being completely honest, that was very much my intention.
These photos portray a woman who truthfully didn't love herself. A woman who didn't believe that she was worthy of being loved.
They portray a woman who was still very much caught in the survivor mentality of life. A woman who had grown up a survivor of physical, sexual and verbal abuse. A woman who was psychologically using her weight as a way to build walls and keep people out.
Sometimes I post photos of my transformation, a before-and-after photo of myself and I look at it and I think "Oh my god, who is that girl?" or "I don't recognize that woman anymore."
Almost instantly someone will see my photo and tell me that I was just as beautiful then as I am now or that I have always been the same person.
I very rarely respond to these comments because I really don't know how to explain. Really, that's your interpretation, not mine. I don't need you to qualify my beauty and I don't need you to diminish the celebration of my transformation.
Let me pause here and clarify something – if you have ever been one of those people who came on to my post and made a comment like this, I am not spanking you. I realize that you're trying to be a positive voice in a negative world. I realized that you are trying to be supportive and kind and I appreciate that. I try to do the same and there are far too many people out there that are willing to tear each other down rather than to build each other up.
What I am trying to do is maybe get you to see the situation through a different perspective. I'm trying bring light to the fact that sometimes what we think is positive and supportive, if contrary to how someone feels about themselves, really isn't.
Sometimes I think we are so busy trying to make sure that those that are dealing with obesity do not feel shamed or stigmatized that we forget that obesity is a very complex disease and that it can be caused by many different things.
If I was a recovering drug addict and I posted a before and after photo of myself with a tourniquet around my arm and a needle in my vein would you tell me that I was just as beautiful then as I am now?
I am one of the first people to stand up against weight bias, weight stigma and weight discrimination. Nobody should ever have to experience those things and I spend a lot of my free time trying to help educate and raise awareness to fight these societal intolerances.
I am also the first person to stand up and say that obesity is not healthy. Obesity isn't a pretty disease. It is as unkind and ugly as any other deadly disease. Just like you can't look at a photo of someone and decide that the reason they struggle with their weight is because they make poor lifestyle choices and over consume food; you also can't look at a photo and assume that it's not.
As a recovering food addict, someone who used food to feed my feelings and someone who was purposely and systematically killing herself with food, when I look at a photo of myself and say "I don't recognize that girl anymore." — I don't need someone to tell me that they do.
I'd much rather see my transformation acknowledged in a way that doesn't focus on looks but rather on the accomplishment. "Way to go! What an amazing transformation." "That's awesome, congratulations on your health accomplishments!" "What a great job. Look how far you have come." There are a ton of ways we can acknowledge before and after transformations without using beauty as our quantifier.
As someone who has very openly discussed body images issues after weight loss, I can honestly tell you that when someone tells me I am just as beautiful then as I am now I have to remind myself that they are talking about on the inside. Because just a couple of years ago a comment like that would have me standing in front of my mirror wondering what I needed to "fix" about my body to make it noticeably different.
When I look at those before photos and all they represent, I don't think I was beautiful then. I think I was suffering. I think I was in a very dark place and I think my obesity was a very physical symptom of that ugliness. I'm relieved everyday that I was able to bounce back from it.
I look back at those photos and I am thankful that I have managed to find a way to maintain my recovery from obesity and food addictions in a world that is food centric. I look back at those photos and I am grateful that I wasn't successful at trying to end my life via obesity.
Some people look at those photos and think that I hated myself because I suffered from obesity. The truth is I suffered from obesity because I hated myself. The moment I learned to start loving myself and finding myself worthy, I started making healthier lifestyle decisions.
I am not the same person in those photos. Not on the outside. Not on the inside. I have successfully navigated a lifestyle transformation. If I was the girl you see in my before pictures, you likely wouldn't have the pleasure of knowing me today, my friends would have been shopping for a casket by now.


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Sunday, 24 November 2013
Another possible cloud on the horizon for home educating parents opposed to registration
I dare say that most readers will have seen about the case of the three women who were apparently held at the house in south London:
One of these women was thirty years of age and had never been to school. In other words, she had been born and then vanished entirely from sight, with nobody asking about her education or indeed anything else. She spent her entire life in this situation, from birth onwards. This is thought by some to be something of a knockdown argument in favour of at least registering children and then looking at what provision has been made for their education. It will be interesting to see what comes of this. Coming so quickly after Ofsted's report on children missing from education, it is seemingly already causing some people to rub their hands together.
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You know when I saw this case I knew that home ed would be dragged into it somewhere!ReplyDelete
As it is still news and we obviously don't know a lot of facts, it may be wise to wait until we do, but however terrible this case is, and the one of the Pakistani deaf child previously discussed, I don't know how any sort of registration scheme would help.
Families, even ones with no suspicious intent, move house and I don't think that anyone really knows where anyone is. Some of my children went to independent schools and I am not sure that anyone at the LA knew where they were. Somebody close to me was left aged 3 months with a babysitter and then never collected, so the baby sitter kept her. It was 4 years before social services intervened although they were already dealing with the rest of the family no one noticed one child wasn't actually there. There are lots of peculiar events which happen, but I cannot imagine that a compulsory register for educational status is going to do anything to make things better.Replies
' There are lots of peculiar events which happen, but I cannot imagine that a compulsory register for educational status is going to do anything to make things better.'Delete
In some ways, I am inclined to agree with you. You can never prevent wicked or mad people from doing utterly unexpected things. However, by making things a little tougher and well regulated, you might very possibly be able tor educe the scope for such things. It would be chasing a chimera to imagine for a moment that you could ever prevent all harm to every child by any human system.
- Anonymous25 November 2013 at 03:46
"You can never prevent wicked or mad people from doing utterly unexpected things. However, by making things a little tougher and well regulated, you might very possibly be able tor educe the scope for such things. It would be chasing a chimera to imagine for a moment that you could ever prevent all harm to every child by any human system."Delete
But we're already well down the path of diminishing returns; throwing money at HE registration (even with the fictitious financial benefits claimed by DCSF) will do nothing. A better use of any money would be to ensure access to decent examination systems for all.
If you want to catch child abusers, chase the people doing it such as non-biological carers/step parents and certain ethnic-religious combinations.
- Anonymous24 November 2013 at 09:03
Just wondering why, if people are prepared to do such terrible things, they will trot along and register themselves because that's the law?ReplyDelete
And what do you lose if you 'reduce the scope for such things?" I could end deaths in car crashes tomorrow if I banned all cars, but I don't think you'd find many people willing to go back to horses and carts.
And before you say that's hyperbole, for me what is at stake is the question of who, fundamentally, is responsible for a child. Is it a state whose record when it comes to children in care is the stuff of nightmares? Or is it parents who, overwhelmingly, do the best job they possibly can? I get the same feeling around Labour's plans for permanent child care. Who decides what's best for someone who's too young to decide for themselves? The state whose plans and goals can change every five years, or the parents who may make mistakes but overwhelmingly, know and love the child?
I believe the state has to be a safety net, not a straitjacket.
- Anonymous24 November 2013 at 10:25
"Yesterday evening, I was talking to somebody who works for an inner London local authority. This person felt that her department had been handed a veritable gift from the gods, as far as trying to campaign for the registration of home educated children was concerned."ReplyDelete
Thankyou, Simon, for this valuable insight into the mindset of some LA officers. The attitude of this person is worth highlighting and raising with the HE APPG.
Given that it was the work of a small charity - rather than a state bureaucracy - which brought about the freedom of the three women, perhaps there is a case for removing support from and firing many people such as your LA acquaintance or NSPCC stooges, and leaving this important work to smaller, highly focussed bodies such as the Freedom Charity.
- Anonymous24 November 2013 at 13:23
"This person felt that her department had been handed a veritable gift from the gods, as far as trying to campaign for the registration of home educated children was concerned."ReplyDelete
This very thought crossed my mind when I heard that one of these poor women had, apparently, been living in that situation since birth.
We're home educators who have recently moved to the UK from Scandinavia, and the amount of freedom parents enjoy here is almost unfathomable to us. We think it's wonderful that home educators have so little state interference here, but my concern is that it will only take one child-abusing lunatic to whip up enough public hysteria to drive a change in the law, and a tightening of home educators' freedoms.
Of course this tragic and shocking case has nothing to do with home education but it will definitely strengthen the "invisible and possibly vulnerable children" argument.
- Anonymous25 November 2013 at 01:44
bad or mad parents would not register Webb and tend to move around a lot making it almost impossible to track them and if some did register then what? some box ticking fool from the LA attempts to visit the house? it would not work and would cost a lot of tax payers money to put in place, you can have all the registers in the world but their just a bit of paper which means nothing in the real world.ReplyDelete
what you need is to get the good will of people who home educate but you wont get it when we have to deal with box ticking fools from various LA's who have nothing to offer usReplies
- Anonymous25 November 2013 at 03:38
Love him or loathe him, Mr Williams has hit the nail on the head.Delete
Of course, none of what he's said matters to the LA people; they want a convenient make-work scheme that isn't too onerous, guarantees they tick boxes and hit targets, and doesn't require involvement with difficult - particularly violent - "clients".
- Anonymous25 November 2013 at 05:09
Love him or loathe him, Mr Williams has hit the nail on the head.Delete
thx I have summed it up in plain English. Box ticking LA;s want a register as it will give them more work funding from the tax payer increasing the amount of staff needed its got nothing to do with taking on the difficult cases as LA.s know full well that these parents/children will not take a blind bit of notice of a piece of paper that say register here.
The only way forward is for LA/s to have something to offer to parents who home educate.I remember saying to that half wit LA officer at HCC whats in it for me/child if i let you come round he had to admit nothing so i said no thx to a home visit and don't contact us again!
- Anonymous25 November 2013 at 05:44
Given the latest news - that the alleged captors may have been a part of a Maoist/Marxist collective in the past - Simon's contact in an inner London authority might be well advised to keep its mouth shut and its head low.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Anonymous25 November 2013 at 07:12
Suspects in slavery case former leaders of a Maoist commune in south London.Both involved in the anarchist scene and members of the former Anti Nazi League - Unconfirmed reports that they had connections with the Labour Party and a prominent Trade Union. -Delete
- Anonymous25 November 2013 at 07:35
All sounds like a gift from the gods for anyone who'd like to register and monitor the inner London leftie scene - from socialists to social workers, and any other dodgy beard and sandals types.Delete
No doubt GCHQ are already on to it.
- Anonymous25 November 2013 at 07:38
"inner London leftie scene - from socialists to social workers, and any other dodgy beard and sandals types"Delete
Wasn't Simon embroiled in that lot somehow?
- Anonymous26 November 2013 at 04:18
My children are registered, one visit a year, no advise, no support, no assistance. NOTHING.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous27 November 2013 at 10:15
"So why did the media, politicians, feminists and campaigners lap up this half-cooked, shrill, mostly baseless fantasy about slaves stuck in suburban jails in London? Because it spoke to their already existing prejudices"
He means you Simon.
- Anonymous27 November 2013 at 10:55
Oh yeh, and your social worker friends too.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous27 November 2013 at 10:57
oh no, everyone from social services to the education department knew about the child 30 odd years ago....back in the age where EVERYONE had visits. Silly Simon.ReplyDeleteReplies
'oh no, everyone from social services to the education department knew about the child 30 odd years ago....back in the age where EVERYONE had visits. Silly Simon.'Delete
Of course, I am aware of this myth; that in the 1970s and 1980s, all home educating families had visits. It is of course, complete nonsense! I have written extensively here about the situation at that time and in fact hardly any local authorities required visits. They usually asked the parents to drop by the the LEA office and it was not expected that the child would be present. I imagine this comment was written by somebody who, unlike me, was not actually involved in home education in those days!
- Anonymous27 November 2013 at 11:11
Tsk sloppy thinking Simon.ReplyDelete


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A couple of days ago, it was suggested that Microsoft may have hinted at the next-gen Xbox gaming console. The words they used seem to suggest it, but this was denied by Microsoft. However thanks to job listings on Microsoft's website, it seems that some details of the console and a possible launch time have been revealed. For starters according to a UI Designer/Prototyper listing, Skype appears to be part of the new Xbox.
"The team you'll join is responsible for Skype in the living room (broadly the home), across various devices but with a focus on the large screen and the next generation of Xbox,"
Next up is the call for someone in the marketing role and basically outlined some of Microsoft's upcoming products, stating that "Over the next eighteen months Microsoft will release new versions of all of our most significant products including Windows (Client, Server, Phone and Azure), Office and Xbox, along with completely new offerings like Microsoft Surface."
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I've found guys with glasses very attractive before. It really depends on the girl, but there's plenty of girls who find the look attractive.
If you're not into wearing the glasses, then just try contacts. I know a lot of people who have to wear contacts. But you could always do both. Girls would love that. If you mixed it up and wore your glasses some days and then other days you wore your contacts.
It gives you a very versatile look. :) Very attractive.
Of course. I actually like glasses on guys a lot. I might be biased because I wear them myself, but my boyfriend wears glasses as well, and I like them. Just try out a bunch of different frames and figure out what works best on your face. =]
Well if you want both contacts and glasses then I think you should go for it...
Cause with glasses you can choose a frame you like and that suits you...
And yes a guy can still be attractive with glasses well I think so anyway =) , some girls will love the geeky look but some want ...
F*** yes. F*** YES.
If you pick the right glasses (even the round HP ones can look good) you can have that sexy intellectual look that I just dig.
Actually, guys with glasses don't ever get girls, they just never reproduce. Doomed to a life of singleness.
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They can be just as attractive as guys without glasses.
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glasses can make a guy look really adorable. you just have to get the right pair. so I suggest taking a girl with you to help you pick out the right ones
Yup :) a guy can still b very attractive with glasses. Sometimes even more with the glasses. I know a lot of girls prefer the geeky look on guys
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Sure! Some can really pull it off. It's even easier nowadays with all the cool frames and variations. I wouldn't worry about it!
Some guys are really attractive with glasses! As long as you have frames that compliment the shape of your face. And if you are worried about how they will look, just get contacts :)
I love guys with glasses. My boyfriend wears his glasses when he doesn't feel like putting on his contacts. I think glasses make guys look adorable =)
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I think it's really cute actually :)
Guy with glasses can look Sooooo good.
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My girlfriend loves them but I suggest taking them off when getting intimate because you can bend or break them and avoid the clash when kissing other glasses chicks
If you can look the way Eminem looks like with glasses in the music video Stan then I'm sure you shouldn't have problems getting women.
I wear glasses and my girl don't care but these frames make me look nerdy sometimes so I take em off
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Among patients with type 2 diabetes, treatment with both fenofibrate and a thiazolidinedione (TZD) -- usually rosiglitazone (Avandia) -- was paradoxically associated with an increased likelihood of having an extremely low HDL cholesterol level, a post hoc analysis of the ACCORD trial showed.
Although fenofibrate, TZDs, and the combination of the two drug classes were associated with increases in average HDL cholesterol levels during the lipid part of the trial, they were also associated with higher rates of levels below 25 mg/dL, Robert Byington, PhD, of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., and colleagues reported online in Diabetes Care.
The percentage of patients who had an extremely low HDL cholesterol level at one of the annual study visits was 10.1% in the fenofibrate group and 4.9% in the placebo group (P<0.001), with the difference attributed to the use of fenofibrate combined with a TZD, either rosiglitazone or pioglitazone.
At 1 year, the rate of extremely low HDL cholesterol was 7.2% for patients receiving a combination of the drugs and 2.2% for those receiving fenofibrate alone (who did not have a TZD as part of their diabetes regimen).
"Practitioners should recognize this important potential idiosyncratic reaction and take appropriate corrective action," Byington and colleagues wrote.
"Although the mechanism ... is unknown and there is as yet no definitive proof of lack of harm," they wrote, "if the magnitude of the reduction in HDL cholesterol is significant it may be appropriate to discontinue either fenofibrate or the TZD, and monitor HDL cholesterol levels to confirm return to baseline levels."
The ACCORD trial evaluated intensive glycemic control among patients with type 2 diabetes, and embedded within the larger trial were a blood pressure trial and a lipid trial.
In the lipid trial -- which failed to show a cardiovascular benefit from adding fenofibrate to background statin therapy, prompting an FDA review -- some of the patients developed large reductions in HDL cholesterol.
Byington and colleagues conducted a post hoc analysis to see how often that phenomenon occurred and how it related to treatment.
The lipid part of the ACCORD trial included 5,518 patients who all had a baseline HDL cholesterol level of less than 55 mg/dL (for women and blacks) or less than 50 mg/dL (for everyone else). All patients received simvastatin at 20 to 40 mg/day and were then randomized to either fenofibrate or placebo. Follow-up lasted an average of 4.7 years.
The difference in the rate of extremely low HDL cholesterol that occurred between the randomized groups in the lipid part of the trial was not seen between the randomized groups in the glycemia or blood pressure parts of the trial.
"Given the vigilance of ACCORD investigators, the observed fall in HDL cholesterol in select patients was noted early on in the study and then carefully analyzed by the data and safety monitoring board at each of their meetings," the authors wrote. "In addition, investigators were notified of participants with extremely low HDL cholesterol values and advised to discontinue either TZD or fenofibrate/placebo."
Extremely low HDL cholesterol levels in the trial were associated with higher all-cause mortality rates during the trial (10% versus 7.4%), an increase seen both in the fenofibrate group (9.6% versus 7%) and the placebo group (10.7% versus 7.8%).
"It is important to note that the study was not designed or powered to evaluate the impact of this unexpected response to treatment on mortality," the authors wrote. "Nevertheless, these observations should alert practitioners to the potential for paradoxical reduction in HDL cholesterol with fenofibrate treatment, especially when used concomitantly with a TZD."
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The ACCORD trial was supported by grants from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute; by other components of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), including the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, the National Institute on Aging, and the National Eye Institute; by the CDC; and by General Clinical Research Centers.
The following companies provided study medications, equipment, or supplies: Abbott Laboratories, Amylin, AstraZeneca, Bayer HealthCare, CloserHealthcare, GlaxoSmithKline, King Pharmaceuticals, Merck, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Omron Healthcare, sanofi-aventis U.S., Schering-Plough, and Takeda Pharmaceuticals.
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He's created The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary—a non-fiction version of the Wimpy Kid books. How great is that?
We know how much kids love the Wimpy Kid books. And then there was the movie, which was a real extension of the books. This "making of" book goes one step further, and may encourage kids to not only read the other books and see the movie, but to take a look at a career in filmmaking.
The Movie Diary is written and illustrated just like the Wimpy Kid books. And it has colour stills (like the movie). It uses that same hand-writing font featured in the books and the movie.
The Movie Diary takes the reader through the making of the Wimpy Kid movie—from the time the book idea and the lead actor are born, until the movie is made.
Along the way it explains how a movie gets made including:
*choosing the actors;
*writing the screenplay;
*blocking the shots;
and tons of other stuff that will be fascinating to any kid who loves movies.
The book tells some wonderful secrets, like the fact that Mr. Winsky's (the Safety Patrol officer) office has newspaper clippings of him as a young safety patrol member—and that the set designer used actual pictures of the actor when he was younger.
It also shows you all of the "Zoo-Wee Mama" comic strips, which go by too fast in the movie to allow you to enjoy them.
And the fact that the school in the movie is actually three schools in Vancouver, spliced together.
The Movie Diary also explains some things in the books, like the fact that all of the girls in the Wimpy Kid books are drawn to look exactly alike, except for hair colour. That's because, explains the author, they're meant to be from Greg's perspective, and to him all girls look alike.
This book is full of gems, and tells the story about the making of the movie in a way that lets the reader understand the process without overwhelming him with technical details.
Intelligent and not condescending—just like the Wimpy Kid books.
It contains everything boys, in particular, like in books: facts, brief snippits of text and lots of pictures. I can't imagine there's a Wimpy Kid fan out there who wouldn't love this book.
And for pete's sake, if your kid's read the Wimpy Kid books and you haven't taken him to the movie yet? Well, what the heck are you waiting for!?
I'd like to thank Veronica Wasserman, who rushed a review copy of this book to me so that I had it in, like, two days. Some people just do their job really well, and she's one of those. So thanks.
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LOS ANGELES, CA --Oprah Winfrey is the latest celebrity to join Jimmy Kimmel's seventh post-Oscar special.
ABC had previously announced that Oscar host Billy Crystal will help kick off "Jimmy Kimmel Live: After the Academy Awards." The show will also include Meryl Streep, George Clooney and Martin Scorsese.
A performance by Coldplay will wrap up the show.
The 84th annual Academy Awards will be presented Feb. 26. in Los Angeles and broadcast on ABC.


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Monday, November 29, 2010
Garrett Adderly!
Opened my mailbox recently and found this fantastic pinup of Ravvin the Ratboy, one of the signature characters of our silly saga, Rat's Tooth, brilliantly executed by my friend Garrett Adderly!
Thanks, Garrett!!!!!!!
See lots more of Garrett's fantastic art at bromkah.blogspot.com
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Cumbernauld Rugby Club have said that Cumbernauld's first all-girls rugby team "enjoyed the experience" as they competed in a rugby competition in Ayr last week.
The troupe of seven girls were the first ever all-female rugby team to represent Cumbernauld in any form of rugby competition.
The team was comprised of girls taken from schools across the Cumbernauld and Kilsyth area, meaning that the team represented Cumbernauld and Kilsyth, as well as the wider North Lanarkshire area, as the team entered the Ayr tournament.
The team went on to lose their first match in Ayr, but a spokesperson for Cumbernauld Rugby Club said that even through the team's results "…might not have gone their way," adding: "…they all enjoyed the experience and are looking forward to the game next week."
The spokesperson added: "Whilst they have trained for several weeks, for all the girls this was their first taste of competitive rugby."


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This was supposed to be Day 16 but a lot has been going on in my head. I still find myself sitting and staring at the screen. I've changed the day 3 times already. Yes, this has been sitting up on my computer screen for 3 days now. There is so much to say but I am so confused. Being extremely tired doesn't help. I still can't fall asleep right away, it usually takes hours before I nod off. The only time I fall asleep faster is when I hit the wall with the exhaustion. That happened the other day. Tuesday. I was knocked out on the couch all day. That sleep wasn't even restful because I woke up just as exhausted.
Right now we are waiting for the inspectors to come. It is time for the yearly inspection for the apartment complex. The notice said from 9am to 12pm. lol I set my alarm for 8:30am but finally dragged my ass out of bed at 9:30am or so. It's 11:30 now so they should be here at any time. All I am thinking is, fuck, I could still be asleep. I didn't fall asleep until sometime after 5 or 6am. This sleep issue I have really takes a toll on this body. Add to that what I am going through… being new here and all. Things can get overwhelming fast.
Sadness and depression are running rampant today. I'm so confused it's not funny. It's strangely quiet inside right now. I don't hear anyone else. Maybe they are sleeping. I know they aren't gone because I can feel them in the darkness. lol Idk, maybe they are looking for a way out of it?
Last evening at 6pm we had a therapy appointment. It went well. I told her I did indeed start a journal. I have it in Outlook and it is password protected. We have to keep the communication going. I wasn't too happy not finding any information. But the information I did find was very beneficial.
The inspectors finally came at about 12:20pm, so I am glad that is over and done with. Now I can just relax. I found out that I get a little annoyed having to wait on people. Especially when they show up after the given timeframe lol.
Well, I ended up walking into the bedroom for something and the next thing I know is it is 3 hours later lol. I must have laid on the bed for a minute and crashed out. Hell, I will take sleep where I can get it!
I guess I will just stop here. I feel like I am rambling. I'm just really confused today. I also guess I've been confused a lot lately.


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City of BarstowHome Sitemap Contact
PC 211- Armed Robbery
(760) 256-2211
(760) 256-2215 (fax)
DATE: August 4, 2017
OFFENSES: Penal Code Section 211- Armed Robbery
Penal Code Section 245(a)(2)- Assault with a Firearm
DATE OF INCIDENT: July 28, 2017
SUSPECTS: Travon Lee Attison, 29-Year-Old, Victorville Resident
Jeffrey Shawnie McCutcheon, 25-Year-Old, Apple Valley Resident
Isis Womble, 26-Year-Old, Victorville Resident
VICTIM: Weikai Sha
CASE AGENT: Detective Thomas Lewis
Travon Attison Jeffrey McCutcheon
On Friday, July 29, 2017, at approximately 8:35 PM, Barstow Police Officers responded to the Tanger Mall located on the 2700 block of Tanger Way regarding a report of an armed robbery.
Officers arrived on scene and spoke with the victim, Weikai Sha. The victim reported that two male subjects pointed a firearm, possibly a shotgun, at him and struck him in the face with the firearm, as they demanded his personal property. The victim reported that the two subjects robbed him of several thousand dollars in U.S. currency as well as numerous items of property that he had purchased from the Coach Outlet store. The victim stated a female subject accompanied the two males and alerted them when the outlet security guard was approaching. The three suspects were able to flee from the scene in a vehicle.
As the suspects fled, the victim was able to obtain a vehicle description and a partial license plate of the suspect's vehicle. Officers broadcasted the suspect's vehicle description to the California Highway Patrol as well as the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department in an attempt to locate the vehicle.
Detective Tom Lewis responded to the scene and assumed the investigation.
Approximately forty minutes after the robbery, CHP officers located the vehicle driving south on Interstate 15 midway between Barstow and Victorville. As CHP officers attempted to conduct a traffic stop on the vehicle, the driver of the vehicle failed to stop and led officers on a pursuit.
The vehicle exited the freeway at the Stoddard Wells off-ramp and entered a residential area. The vehicle was involved in a single vehicle traffic collision in the area of Dante Street and Juniper Avenue in the City of Victorville. CHP Officers, with the assistance of SBCSD Deputies were able to take the sole occupant of the vehicle into custody without incident. Officers identified the driver as Isis Womble.
Detective Lewis conducted an infield show-up at the scene and the victim positively identified the vehicle as the one the suspects fled in and Womble as the female suspect at the scene when he was robbed.
Officers placed Womble under arrest and transported her to the Barstow Police Department. Womble was subsequently booked at the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department Jail for PC 211-Armed Robbery.
The suspect's vehicle was towed to the Barstow Police Department for processing.
On August 1, 2017, Barstow Police Department Evidence Technicians processed the suspect's vehicle. Detectives located several items of the stolen property taken from the victim during the robbery. Evidence Technicians collected forty-six (46) Coach Purses, thirty-seven (37) Coach Wallets and eight (8) Coach Belts from the vehicle. Detectives did not recover the firearm used during the robbery.
During the course of the investigation, Barstow Police Detectives identified the two male suspects in the robbery as Travon Attison and Jeffrey McCutcheon.
On August 2, 2017, arrest warrants were obtained for Attison and McCutcheon for the crime of PC 211-Robbery.
The Barstow Police Department is urging citizens who may encounter Attison or McCutcheon to not approach or contact them. Both suspects are considered armed and dangerous and anyone who encounters them should immediately call the Barstow Police Department Dispatch Center at 760-256-2211 or their local law enforcement agency.
Anyone with additional information regarding this investigation may contact Detective Lewis at 760-255-5132 or the Barstow Police Department (760) 256-2211. Those wishing to remain anonymous may also report criminal activity by calling the WE-Tip hotline at 1-800-78-CRIME (27463) or may leave information on the We-Tip website at www.wetip.com.
Albert Ramirez
Chief of Police
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All trees convert sunlight into chemical energy, but now there are trees that convert sunlight into power to charge devices, cool water, offer free Wi-Fi and more for the benefit of their surrounding communities. Thanks to an imaginative idea from an Israeli company called Sologic, solar-powered trees are taking root to raise environmental awareness while providing green energy.
The eTree comprises a metal trunk that branches out to support solar panels instead of leaves. The structure, which looks like a pixelated tree in an 8-bit video game, uses the energy captured by the solar panels to provide USB charging outlets for smartphones and tablets, free Wi-Fi, a water trough for pets, a drinking-water fountain for humans, nighttime lighting and informational LCD screens.
"We're used to seeing big companies working on large-scale systems," says Michael Lasry, founder of Sologic. "Now we see solar energy becoming accessible to each one of us on the street."
The first eTrees were unveiled Thursday at the HaNadiv Gardens near Zikhron Ya'akov in Israel. Sologic has plans to sell more of these solar-powered trees in China and France.
One Acacia model eTree (the kind planted in Israel) costs about $100,000. A seven-panel version can generate up to 1.4 kilowatts, which is enough to run 35 laptops.
The big price tag means the eTree probably won't replace traditional rooftop solar panels, but it has a chance at becoming a popular eye-pleasing fixture in parks across the globe, according to Eli Barnea, an investor in Israel's largest private power company.
Sologic foresees future eTrees utilizing cameras along with touchscreen displays to enable someone standing beneath one solar-powered tree to say hello to someone else standing beneath another eTree planted anywhere in the world.


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No Bake Date Bars
Stir in oats, nuts and vanilla.
Spoon mixture into a 9-inch square pan that has been lined with waxed paper. Place in refrigerator and chill 1 1/2 to 2 hours.
Cut into 18 bars; lift waxed paper from pan and separate bars. Store bars in refrigerator in an airtight container.
Yields 1 1/2 dozen.
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HACCP Course (1 Day) (HACCP / The implementation of the HACCP Food Safety Management System):
The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health's (CIEH) Level 2 Award in Principles of HACCP is designed for those working, or preparing to work, in food businesses where a food safety management system based on Codex HACCP principles is implemented.
This course will help anyone working in a catering, manufacturing or retail setting where food is prepared, cooked and handled to understand the principles and purpose of HACCP and to be able to apply it correctly in their own workplace. Candidates are assessed by an examination paper consisting of 30 multiple-choice questions to be completed in a one hour examination. Candidates who achieve 20 or more correct answers will pass the examination and receive a CIEH Level 2 Award in Principles of HACCP certificate.
The course covers:
Introduction to food safety management systems
Developing HACCP based systems
The principles of Codex HACCP
Applying HACCP-based systems
Times: 9.30am - 4.30pm
Cost: €150 (includes CIEH exam for certification and workbook)
Address: Castleblayney Enterprise Centre, Dublin Road, Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan.
Alternative Course:
We also run a 1-day course in Food Safety/Hygiene which also covers an introduction to HACCP, cost €150, see EHOA Basic Food Safety and HACCP Awareness Course - Castleblayney Training Centre
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Breaking News Emails
The female jewel thief targeting stores across the South has stolen millions of dollars worth of bling and is probably part of a sophisticated ring, investigators said Wednesday.
The brazen young woman, working with a male accomplice who was also caught on video during the stickups, has already robbed six stores since April, prompting the FBI to launch a manhunt.
"This is a very unusual case," Special Agent Lawrence Borghini of the FBI's Jacksonville, Florida, office told NBC News.
Mysterious female jewel thief strikes againJan. 6, 201601:13
A jewelry trade group has declared her "Public Enemy No. 1" and put out a $10,000 reward.
"She's a very, very bold criminal," said John Kennedy, president of the Jeweler Security Alliance.
All the heists follow the same, carefully orchestrated pattern.
The woman cases a store, then comes back the next day and casually chats with workers about an item. Suddenly, she whips a gun out of her purse and forces the employees to a back room — where she steals their keys and uses zip-ties to secure them.
"At that point, she'll go back to the merchandise area of the store to lock the front door," Borghini said.
"Then she'll retrieve some shopping bags from her purse...and start loading various high-dollar value items, typically diamonds and watches, from the jewelry store."
Outside, her getaway driver is waiting, in a car with dark-tinted windows and temporary or dealer tags. Kennedy said she uses an earpiece to communicate with him.
"He is definitely involved in all the robberies because she is not doing these alone," Borghini said.
The duo is clearly going after certain, very expensive items, and investigators believe they are part of a larger organization that may be supplying a wish-list and then fencing the hot goods in a big city or even overseas.
"They definitely have some connection with the ability to get these items to a place which can sell them or get them on the market and turn them into cash," Borghini said.
The fact that the suspects don't wear masks — the woman does wear gloves — might make them easier to catch. But it could also make them more dangerous.
"People are now going to start to recognize who she is," Borghini said. "They're going to realize why she's there, she is armed, and she at that point becomes very unpredictable."
The woman -- whose looks have drawn comparisons to actress Anna Kendrick -- has already been recognized once.
A week ago, a manager at a store in Georgia realized who she was and "upon realizing that was not a good situation, [the thief] departed," Borghini said.
Kennedy said he's never seen a robbery pattern like this one in his decades-long career.
"Usually you have a gang of males will go in — occasionally they'll be accompanied by a female — but to have a lone female go in is extraordinarily rare," he said.


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I was recently contacted by Cordskinz with an opportunity to try out their ingenious little product. Cordskinz are easy to apply tubes that slide on right over the cords of ear buds – any make or model – to keep them from being a tangled mess at the bottom of the your bag.
It's quite a simple concept but it really has been nice having the skinz on my ear buds. It's easier to find them and who doesn't like to personalize their items when it's easy and convenient? The process was easy. Along with your Cordskinz, the application device comes in an envelope with the instructions. After you line up the pieces, you just gently slide the skinz and the wire of the ear buds along and the tool takes care of the rest. Just a little snip at the end adjusted the skinz length to exactly what I needed.
Best of all, they are only $9.99 each and come in a variety of colors (right now you can get 3 for the price of 2). Stop by Cordskinz on their website and check out their social media channels.
The folks at Cordskinz were generous enough to let me giveaway 2 sets of Cordskinz – 1 for you and 1 for a friend! This giveaway is open to US and ends April 20, 2015, 11:50pm. Winner will be selected and notified by email and have 24 hours to claim their prize. Prize valued at $19.98. Domesticating Michelle is not responsible for prize fulfillment. Enter here: a Rafflecopter giveaway; then check out the rest of the Hippity Hoppity Easter Giveaway Hop below. For more chances to win prizes, join us for the Twitter party on April 14, 2015. Good luck!
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Sonia Nieto Presentation
The First Annual Watson College of Education Public Speaker Series kicked off on Wednesday, March 13, with a reception in honor of the invited speaker, Dr. Sonia Nieto.
Dr. Sonia Nieto is currently Professor Emerita of Language, Literacy, and Culture in the School of Education at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her publications include Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education (now in its 6th ed.); The Light in Their Eyes: Creating Multicultural Learning Communities (2nd ed.); and Language, Culture and Teaching: Critical Perspectives (2nd ed.). She has received many awards for her scholarship, teaching and advocacy, including four honorary doctorates, and was selected as a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association, as a Laureate for Kappa Delta Pi, and as Wits-Claude Distinguished Scholar at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
After the reception, she presented on "Finding Joy in Teaching Students of Diverse Backgrounds." During the next morning, she provided a keynote presentation for our Professional Learning Day with area teachers and site coordinators and then met informally in separate sessions with faculty and students.


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We take a glimpse outside our little piece of anime heaven over here in the States to hear about the industry in Canada from the host of the Zannen Canada podcast: Jesse Betteridge. Before that, it's business as usual as we bring you the latest Toonami news and recaps for Akame ga Kill and Parasyte. Paul and Jim were both ... Read More »
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Toonami Faithful Podcast #169 – Several Bad Hand Puns Later…
In our first Parasyte recap we are introduced to Shinichi, an average teenager whose right hand is doing some rather unusual things. Nartually, we make far too many hand jokes. Before that we lament the loss of a great character on Akame ga Kill and talk about some of the latest anime streaming right now. In case you were wondering, ... Read More »
Toonami Faithful Podcast #168 – So Long Sword Art or… Three Hours Thirty Four Minutes and Some Change
In our longest episode yet we discuss Akame ga Kill and the usual news before diving into our SAO send-off. We share our thoughts on the emotional finale of Sword Art Online II with ADR director/script writer Alex von David and read your comments and questions. Alex explains that some the BS in SAOII is actually factual and discusses his ... Read More »
Toonami Faithful Podcast #167 – Death is Cheap
Jim's back in the hosting chair this week as we discuss a Toonami block that was all about death including the latest episode of Akame ga Kill and the penultimate episode of Sword Art Online II. Also, Ryan is back because we enjoy his company. With six people on the show we actually manage not to talk over each other ... Read More »
Toonami Faithful Podcast #166 – I'm Not Entirely Sure How This Works Legally
We delay the inevitable conversation about this week's Sword Art Online II for as long as possible by recapping Akame ga Kill and then discussing Adult Swim's decision to encore the entire Toonami block on the 24/7 Toonami stream. We also give props to the viewers for what is probably Toonami's best trending night ever. Then we delve into that ... Read More »


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The Lion in WinterDVD - 2001
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It was a classic film, but the dialogue is almost impossible to keep up with, and it is not historically accurate.
Hello commenters. This was a film that was a very new experience to me. I needed to watch it a second time, to really understand it.
With my first viewing, I found the themes disturbing ( the myth of Henry II's affair with Alyss.) I also was unable to grasp the message behind the film, and was overall unsure of what to make of it. I knew though that it was not historically accurate; so overall in this viewing, I was not enjoying it.
After it was explained to me that this was a genre called a dark comedy ( a kind of film I have never viewed before ). I watched the film again and found myself laughing very much at what the characters said; especially Eleanor. I began to understand how all of the characters were hiding under veils, to hide their true intentions from the other people. I still needed to have some explanation throughout the film about what was going on, but for the most part, I had a much clearer understanding of it.
Ah, yes. My favourite dark comedy film. Why wouldn't it be comedy? It makes me laugh most of the way through the movie. Yes, there is drama and good acting too but it definitely is a comedy, albeit dark, very dark.
At first it was hard for me to push past the historical realities to enjoy this film. After watching the movie more than once, you start to forget the historical inaccuracies and enjoy it more; seeing all the subtle touches in acting and symbolism.
Simply watch it as a dark comedy, laughing most of the way through and you won't be confused as the boat men in the last scene of the movie.
Are you surprised that Katherine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole could make a masterpiece of a film? Well, I am not, and the proof is in "The Lion in Winter". I didn't know myself that royalty was so educated in the middle ages. Thus the dialogue of the script is eloquent and well mannered. The two will renew your faith that movies can take you out of yourself and transpose you to another era. I hope you enjoy the journey as much as my family.
This 1968 historical drama features two of the biggest names in the film industry at that time, and the acting did not disappoint. However, I personally feel the story is probably more suited to be acted out on a stage.
Some of the best acting I have ever seen. Wow! Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn are jaw dropping. Great film.
Another brilliant performance by Peter O'Toole at his lustiest (and sexiest), matched by a spirited Katharine Hepburn and a stellar supporting cast. One of the best films of the 1960s, fully deserving "classic" status.
Screen legends Katherine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole light up this film as warring monarchs who still adore one another. This stellar casts includes interestingly young Anthony Hopkins and Tim Dalton. A Hollywood classic.
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Seeking a platform to talk about school cafeteria food, nine year old Martha Payne writes NeverSeconds: a rated account of what comes her way on the cafeteria tray.
Martha, who goes to school in Argyll, Scotland, runs the blog with the help of her father. Taking photos of what's for lunch on a daily basis, and uploading reviews complete with a 'hair' count, it's clear that this pupil is looking to shake up the way that schools provide for students. Already having received endorsement from cafeteria crusader and celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, Martha's blog is receiving an unbelievable amount of views.
The brilliance of this blog lies in the exposure of school lunches. Exposing the poor quality or even the high quality of cafeteria lunches brings much-needed awareness to the issue.
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