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Hartford Drama: Who Decides Whether the Show Goes On?
When a Maryland superintendent of schools moved this month to bar an eighth-grade class in his district from putting on a play he thought was "inappropriate," in part because a conservative parents' group might object to it, he did not anticipate that he would soon feel, as he later said, that he "had a tiger by the tail."
But students were upset, state and local teachers' unions and the American Civil Liberties Union (aclu) threatened to sue, and calls poured in from reporters across the country.
It later turned out that the parents' group the superintendent was worried about did not care whether the play was produced or not. And, after discussions with teachers, administrators, and aclu lawyers, the superintendent, Alfonso A. Roberty, reversed his decision to prohibit the student production.
But the incident has focused the attention of many teachers, administrators, and civil-liberties experts on the clash of educational and community values in school theatrics that frequently leads to an informal self-censorship by school officials--and sometimes to an overt act of censorship like that of the Harford County, Md., superintendent.
Mr. Roberty's decision involved Inherit the Wind, which is a dramatic recreation of the 1925 trial of John Scopes, the Tennessee science teacher who violated state law by teaching the theory of evolution. The aclu suit would have been launched on behalf of the two middle-school teachers, Thomas E. Berg and Virginia Huller, who had proposed to produce the play.
Most observers agree that while actions such as Mr. Roberty's are relatively rare, the question of what kinds of plays students should participate in at school is a recurring and problematic one for teachers and school officials.
Among the approximately 50,000 junior- and senior-high-school plays produced in this country every year, they say, cases of formal censorship seldom occur. Much more common, they note, are non-publicized types of censorship in which teachers either decide not to press the matter and thereby jeopardize their standing in the school or the community, or know their own community well enough to have a sense of what will and will not be allowed before they choose a play.
"You only hear about these things when the teacher is somewhat militant," said Donald A. Corathers, editor of Dramatics magazine, a publication for drama teachers and the some 35,000 American high-school drama students who are mem-bers of the International Thespian Society.
"But we feel there is not a great deal of overt censorship of plays," he said. "We also feel, though, that the community, and especially the conservative elements of a community, have a way of working their will simply by being there."
In a survey conducted for the thespian society two years ago, more than 60 percent of the drama teachers who responded said pressure from their communities and from school officials "places constraints" on the process of play selection.
Mr. Roberty's decision, for instance, was based not only on his anxiety about the reactions of parents, but also on his feeling, he said, that the play would place the eighth-grade students in the middle of the current creationism controversy.
In the end, Mr. Roberty, the teachers, and the aclu agreed to a compromise offered by an ad hoc panel of administrators, which provides for one or perhaps two performances of the play in the evening, eliminating the traditional daytime matinee for the student body.
That way, according to John C. Roemer, executive director of the Maryland aclu, "no parents will be angry because their child is forced to see it."
If the compromise had failed and the case had gone to court, there would have been little legal precedent to predict its outcome, he added. In the only other similar case to be heard in court, the banning of the play was upheld.
That case involved the play Pippin, a musical account of the life of Charlemagne's son. Last year, Jocelyn Coverdale, an English teacher in the Caesar-Rodney High School in the Camden-Wyoming area of Delaware, proposed to have students produce an "excised" version of the play, said John Williams, the Delaware lawyer who tried the case for the Delaware chapter of the aclu.
The superintendent of schools canceled the play in mid-rehearsal following a complaint by the school-board president's brother, who found the play sacrilegious and obscene.
The Delaware aclu filed suit against the district in the U.S. District Court in Wilmington last March, on the grounds that the students' and parents' federal civil rights had been violated, including their constitutionally guaranteed freedoms of speech, expression, and assembly.
The judge in the case ruled that there had been no violation, saying that the selection of a school play was similar to a curriculum decision, and that the decision was consistent with a certain "expertise" granted to educators in curriculum matters.
"The gist of this case is that play selection is part of the educational curriculum," Mr. Williams said, "and that the administration of the school has the right to set it. We took the position that plays are extra-curricular."
According to Mr. Williams, the judge used the "curriculum rationale'' to distinguish this case from the 1969 Tinker case, in which the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right of students in an Iowa school district to wear black armbands to protest the Vietnam War, on the grounds that it was a constitutionally protected expression of free speech.
The aclu appealed the Pippin case in the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia. That court upheld the original decision in an opinion issued Dec. 29.
The plaintiffs in the case subsequently decided not to petition for a hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court, thus ending the case.
Mr. Williams said there had been no clear precedent for the case. "There are cases dealing with removal of high-school library books, with the rights of students on newspapers and yearbooks, but high-school drama is still a hot potato."
"I would think that the Inherit the Wind case would probably [have been] a better case factually than ours," he said. "I remember that play being about as antiseptic a play as possible, no obscenity. It's more of a case of people not wanting certain views espoused."
Another case, which as yet has not gone to court but may end up there, involves another high-school drama teacher whose choice of a play was censored.
Two years ago this month, Arthur E. Smelkinson, then a drama teacher at Old Mill High School in Anne Arundel County, Md., decided to produce, at his students' suggestion, a "sanitized" version of the musical Hair.
The principal refused to approve the choice, and after what Mr. Smelkinson called a "mild appeal" to the district's curriculum review board, which also disapproved of the selection, he chose another play, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
The Old Mill Senior High School principal, Leroy G. Carter, refused to allow that play as well, partly because, as he said at the time, "There are plays available that portray an uplifting, cheerful, happy entertainment experience. All of us could use more of these. There is enough of the seamy, violent, frightening, lewd, unhappy side of life portrayed on tv, in the movie theaters, and in the newspapers and magazines and in real life."
"It was an edited version," Mr. Smelkinson said, "but he wanted me to take out the seduction scene where Billy Bibbitt loses his virginity. That was the final sticking point."
This time, Mr. Smelkinson followed a long process of formal appeals, and at each turn the principal's decision was supported--"until I appealed to the Maryland State Board of Education," Mr. Smelkinson said. "They assigned a hearing examiner who said this was basically a case of prior restraint, and that the type of evaluations Hair and Cuckoo's Nest got were purely subjective," he added.
The state-appointed examiner said Mr. Carter's criteria in banning the play were "constitutionally suspect [because they] revolve entirely around subjective taste, i.e., whether a play is 'uplifting' or 'seamy.' Such criteria give no guideposts for future behavior for students or teachers. Is King Lear depressing? Is Oedipus Rex, with its emphasis on guilt, incest, and murder, too seamy for production?"
"According to my lawyer," Mr. Smelkinson said, "nine times out of ten, school boards will adopt the findings of the hearing examiners without question. But this time they referred it to the assistant attorney general for further research." The case is now two years old.
Mr. Smelkinson, who is on leave from the school studying for a Master of Fine Arts in directing at George Washington University, made his case the subject of a 250-page thesis.
He and his lawyer are waiting for the state's assistant attorney general to reach a final decision on the case before deciding whether to take it to court. "If it does go to court, there is always the possibility of mootness because the students have graduated," he said.
Mr. Smelkinson agreed with Mr. Corathers's perception that a great number of high-school drama censorship cases go unreported.
"During the course of this, I've gotten letters from many drama teachers about censorship," said Mr. Smelkinson. "I got one letter from a teacher in Utah. They wouldn't let him do Godspell because they didn't like the idea of Jesus dressed as a clown.
"So often, principals underestimate the minds of the community," he said, commenting on the Harford case. "And even if it is something controversial, this is a public school we're dealing with here, and they're in the business of broadening choice, not narrowing it.
"It is very common that there is arbitrary censorship of high-school drama," he continued. "Most teachers accept it. Perhaps they fear for their jobs. And until a precedent is set in this area, people will have no legal point on which to base their rulings."
Conversations with people involved in high-school drama suggest that the amount of freedom junior- and senior-high-school drama teachers have to choose plays varies widely.
Joan C. Hahn, a high-school drama teacher in what she calls the "very conservative," mostly Mormon Granite school district in Salt Lake City, Utah, has a very clear idea about what plays she can do in her school.
"I know what they're going to deny," she says. "We have to really moderate the swearing. I did Mame and had to cut 99 percent of the swearing in it. We can't smoke on stage, we can't do a play that deals with homosexuality, incest, or rape.
"Godspell has never been done by a high school in the state of Utah and never will be," she adds. "Mormons are just not going to stand for Matthew being a rock-and-roller."
Like all teachers in the district, Ms. Hahn must follow a formal application procedure with every play she wants to produce. A formal review board consisting of the district's music director and the head of the language-arts curriculum reviews the proposed play and returns it. It is either approved without modification, approved with modifications attached, or rejected.
"Agnes Gooch, an unmarried pregnant girl in Mame, had to become a married pregnant girl," she says. "Or in South Pacific, one character calls another a stingy bastard. In that case you get a note saying the 'bastard' has to be taken out."
The district established the procedure two years ago, following a controversy surrounding a high-school production of Come Blow Your Horn, which was eventually canceled because of protests by several parents.
"We always had unwritten censorship," Ms. Hahn says. "Now we have written."
Although Ms. Hahn says she strongly resents that she and her principal no longer have the right to decide which plays are right for her school, she would never consider taking legal action over a play.
"I just don't want that kind of hassle," she says. "There are a lot of good plays out there you don't have any trouble with, and those other plays can be done by community theater groups and colleges."
In recent years, Ms. Hahn has produced such plays as Mame, Blithe Spirit, The Mousetrap, See How They Run, Bye Bye Birdie, Peter Pan, and Rumpelstiltskin.
"I see a lot of things at the international [Thespian] conference that I could never do," she says. "For example, you could never modify Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? to where I could do it."
On the other hand, Ronald L. Kenney, a drama teacher in the Webster Groves school district outside St. Louis, can produce virtually any play he chooses, including Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, which he will present at the Thespian conference in June with a cast of high-school students.
Mr. Kenney says there are no rules governing play selection in his district. He says he simply does not think about the possibility of negative community reaction.
Among the plays he has produced in recent years are Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance and Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party.
Although he is free from any censorship, Mr. Kenney says the possibility still bothers him. "There are people like that," he says, "and I've seen them drive out a lot of [teachers] over the years."
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Rockets notes: Jeffries' name surfaces in trade rumors
Waiting his turn
With Jared Jeffries moving to the inactive list due to the return of Aaron Brooks, Jeffries believed he would be traded in the coming weeks. But he wasn't sure if that's what he wants.
Jeffries' ability to defend several positions along with his expiring contract worth $7.4 million have been part of trade talks, though at least one deal that was considered close fell through Wednesday. He assumes he will either return to the court or be traded.
"Something will happen," Jeffries said. "Whether it happens now or at the trade deadline, I'll just stay ready and in shape. I think if I don't play, at some point I'll get traded and move on.
"The grass isn't always greener. You might go somewhere else and have not as good a situation, not as good a team, not as good a group of guys."
Jeffries has played in only nine games this season. He said he understood being put on the inactive list with Jordan Hill, Chuck Hayes, Luis Scola and Shane Battier manning his positions.
"The team is playing well," Jeffries said. "I've always been a team player. You can ask for an opportunity, but you never know when that's going to happen. You just have to stay ready.
"You're still in the NBA, still with a great group of guys and a great organization."
Rivalry renewed
Courtney Lee's task of defending the Los Angeles Clippers' top scorer, Eric Gordon, offered a renewal of a rivalry. Lee was a senior at Indianapolis' Pike High when Gordon was a freshman at North Central.
"They were one of our rival schools," Lee said. "They were good meetings. They had a number of good players on their team. We won the state championship my junior year and got runner-up the next year.
"But he was good even then."
Santa style
Shane Battier arrived at Staples Center wearing a Christmas sweater suited only for him or the bakers of Christmas cookies. He wore a red vest trimmed in white with needlepoint Santa Clauses and mistletoe.
"For my money, it's the best Christmas sweater I've come across," Battier said of the gift from his wife, Heidi. "My wife, she had to battle on eBay. I would describe it as a little bit of Tiny Tim, little bit of A Christmas Story and a little bit of Rudolph's red nose all mixed into one.
"They don't make them like that anymore."

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Study abroad opportunities have become a staple across many university campuses with over 250,000 students choosing to study abroad every year (Schwebel & Carter, 2010). Although humanities students do make up the largest subset of study abroad students, the number of psychology programs offered abroad is relatively scarce (Shupe, 2013). According to Shupe, few study abroad psychology courses exist despite recommendations from the American Psychological Association (APA, 2011) that all psychology faculty and departments should offer more experiential learning opportunities such as study abroad. These APA recommendations come partly from literature indicating increased student outcomes (i.e., greater engagement, learning, personal and social development, and practical competence) associated with study abroad and other high-impact learning practices (Gonyea, Kinzie, Kuh, & Laird, 2008; Kuh, 200). However, student gains do vary based on variations in length of program, topics covered, and amount of cultural interaction.
Having been a faculty director for two psychology study abroad programs to Buenos Aires, Argentina, and currently planning a third to Rome and Florence, Italy, I have enjoyed the privilege of sharing unique experiential learning opportunities with my students. As an educator, and industrial and organizational psychologist, I have seen the benefits of these study abroad experiences. Although many benefits may exist, the benefits of participating in a study abroad trip can be broken down into two broad categories—professional and personal growth.
Professional Growth
As an educator with an interest in the workplace, I spend much of my class time trying to facilitate student professional growth. Professional growth involves the development of knowledge, skills, and mental frameworks that prepare an individual for their desired profession or future state. Although there are many aspects of professional growth that may be influenced through study abroad opportunities, this column will focus on the areas of cultural competence and knowledge application.
Cultural competence can be defined as the ability of an individual to interact with persons from other cultures. As technology brings us all closer together and the workplace expands to become more global, the likelihood that we will be required to interact with individuals from different cultures is almost certain. Being cognizant of the individual differences that exist has long been the foundation of psychology. As such, gaining exposure to different cultures, ways of thinking, and new perspectives is directly applicable to students seeking to work with clients and individuals from our culturally diverse society. During study abroad programs, students routinely interact with host country residents in social and workplace settings. Going out to dinner, visiting an organization, and riding public transportation while abroad can all be great ways that students can immerse themselves in a foreign culture, and study cultural similarities and differences.
Knowledge application involves applying learned content to real world situations. Psychology is the study of people, and therefore information learned in the classroom can and should be applied to individuals outside of the classroom environment. Whether enrolled in abnormal, developmental, or social psychology, content knowledge gained by students is easily applied to our everyday lives. However, in our everyday lives, most of us choose to associate with people who share common attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. When studying abroad, we enter into a world that is new and can be remarkably different than our own. While abroad, students are given the opportunity to use what they have learned in psychology courses on a global scale. Students may apply what they have learned from cross-cultural courses to identify accepted means of communication, clinical courses to understand their means of coping with new situations, social courses to find common ground with host country residents, and industrial courses to relate to stressful customer service encounters. Study abroad programs provide students with a means to apply their knowledge and skills in a larger and more complex sandbox than can typically be experienced domestically.
Personal Growth
Part of my role as a professor is to aid students in their personal growth. Personal growth can be described as the development of skills and abilities that are integrated into a person's identity. Similar to professional growth, study abroad opportunities may aid in the development of many areas of personal growth. I have chosen to highlight two areas in which I have witnessed development, independence and adaptability.
Independence is a term that is thrown around often as we advance from childhood into adulthood. In its simplest form, independence refers to our ability to be self-reliant. For many of us, the college experience is a rite of passage that provides us the opportunity to gain independence and become our own person. Similarly, studying abroad can be seen as a means to build self-confidence through immersion in a foreign country and culture, a new and sometimes anxiety-provoking situation. In a new place or country, even going to get coffee without your friends or classmates can be an adventure in learning about your comfort with new situations and challenges. By exposing oneself to new cultures, people, and situations, you may learn things about your limitations, strengths, and independence that might have otherwise remained hidden.
Adaptability is a word with many meanings. In terms of studying abroad, I would use adaptability to describe a person's capacity to adapt to new and changing situations. When in our everyday routines, life can be predictable, and we may rarely face challenges or obstacles. While abroad, challenges and obstacles are often everyday occurrences. Exposure to new and potentially stressful situations and challenges is required to understand one's adaptability. When faced with adversity or a new situation, our ability to adapt may be tested and result in personal growth.
Are there barriers to studying abroad? Absolutely. Studying abroad can be expensive, time consuming, and scary. Although scholarships and financial aid do exist, study abroad programs can be cost prohibitive. Is studying abroad for everyone? Absolutely not. Not everyone has a desire to travel across the world and be immersed in new cultures while away from family and friends. Is studying abroad the only way to experience professional and personal growth? Again, a firm no. Becoming involved in culturally oriented clubs or groups, taking culturally focused classes, and challenging oneself to meet new people and partake in activities outside of your comfort zone can all impact the professional and personal skills and abilities mentioned in this article. However, studying abroad is a unique opportunity that provides experiences that prove hard to mimic in classroom settings. Study abroad programs involve exotic locations, adventure, and expenses while also providing psychology students with the benefits of professional and personal growth. Should you study abroad? My response . . . Why not?
American Psychological Association. (2011). The APA principles for quality undergraduate education in psychology. Retrieved from http://www.apa.org/education/undergrad/principles.aspx
Gonyea, R. M., Kinzie, J., Kuh, G. D., & Laird, T. N. (2008). High-impact activities: What they are, why they work, and who benefits. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, Washington, DC.
Kuh, G. D. (2008). High impact educational practices: What they are, who has access to them, and why they matter. Washington, DC: Association of American Colleges and Universities.
Schwebel, D. C., & Carter, J. (2010). Why more psychology majors should study abroad. Psychology and Education: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 47, 17–21.
Shupe, E. I. (2013). The development of an undergraduate study abroad program: Nicaragua and the psychology of social inequity. Teaching of Psychology, 40, 124–129. doi:10.1177/0098628312475032
David Earnest, PhD, is an assistant professor of psychology at Towson University (MD) where he teaches courses in industrial and organizational psychology, behavioral statistics, introduction to psychology, and study abroad in psychology. He earned his PhD in psychology from the University of Memphis (TN; 2010). Dr. Earnest's research interests include realistic job previews, recruitment, and teaching psychology through experiential learning. As an industrial and organizational psychologist, he has experience in recruitment and selection procedures, program evaluation, and experimental methodology across business, health care, education, civil service, and military organizations.
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Thursday morning: Ariel, Disney World form
Thursday evening: Babydoll
Friday morning: Yuki Kashiwagi the 6th
Friday evening: Super Idol Nico Yazawa
Friday late night: Serena van der Woodsen inspired
Saturday: Anna
I had to split up my cosplays this way because I have two panels and the dance gathering on Saturday! Is anyone cosplaying from any of the same series?!


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Will Adamsdale (born 1974) is an English actor.
Adamsdale was educated at Eton College and the Oxford School of Drama. In 2004, he starred in a self-penned one man show called Jackson's Way at the Edinburgh Fringe. The intended run for the production was ten days, before the intervention of comedian Stewart Lee. Lee was so impressed by Adamsdale's work that he reportedly threw his full support behind Jackson's Way, lobbying for an extension of the run and using his clout within the industry to garner notice from critics and award committees. Adamsdale secured the Perrier Comedy Award for comedy.
Adamsdale has since created several new shows: The Receipt, The Human Computer, and The Summer House. The Receipt, a collaboration with sonic artist Chris Branch, used innovative sound effects to punctuate a story about the little man in the big city. It ran at the Edinburgh Fringe 2006, winning a Fringe First and a Total Theatre Award. It subsequently toured nationally, and internationally to the Melbourne Comedy Festival and 59E59 Theatres in New York.


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Markham Fair's Elaine Rennie passes the gavel to the new incoming 2017 OAAS President. We are very proud of Elaine having represented Markham Fair during a time of great change within the Provincial Association. The following text is quoted from the OAAS website.
Russell Agricultural Society representative and past Board Member from District 1, Judy McFaul, was installed as the Ontario Association of Agricultural Societies (OAAS) President for a one-year term at the annual Convention in Toronto February 16 to 18, 2017. Over 150 voting Agricultural Societies confirmed McFaul's position and also accepted a newly revised Constitution.
"We are pleased that our membership supports the recommended changes presented to them," said McFaul. "Board Members and Districts have been working towards a new structure, and we appreciate their vision and hard work."
Member Societies approved additional changes to the Constitution which follows up on last year's constitutional changes that resulted in a move to 15-member Board of Directors. This change will take effect February 2017 and is the result of a working governance committee supported by staff of the Rural Ontario Institute.
Brian Slaughter of Forest Agricultural Society, Doug Yeo of Bayfield Agricultural Society and Elaine Rennie of Markham Fair will join McFaul's Executive as First and Second Vice President and Past President respectively. They will be joined on the Board of Directors by the elected Provincial Directors from the 15 Districts from across Ontario. The Provincial Directors are Liz O'Gorman-Smit, Blair Machan, Janet Torrance, Zach Prescott, Linda Murray, Heather Dillon, Beth Howell-Vervaecke, Ron McKay, Colin Pool, Wayne Pfeffer, Pat Munroe, Jane Armstrong, Melissa Johnson, Leonard Riopel, and Randy Creighton.
The convention attracted over 1000 delegates including over 90 fair Ambassadors. The event featured seminars on topics including premises identification, promotion and marketing, insurance, and an E-coli Workshop.
Keynote speaker was Ag blogger Andrew Campbell on "Standing on the Front Lines of Ag Awareness." His message on agvocacy (agricultural advocacy) resonated with the delegates. He stressed that consumers deserve to have accurate information presented and available to them. Top prizes were awarded in provincial quilt, photography, poster, cookie, and bread competitions.


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It is a well known fact, when it comes to luxury and family in Las Vegas, those words are rarely seen together. There are a few hotels on the Las Vegas Strip that meet those expectations. Trump International Hotel Las Vegas exceeds them. After our stay at the Trump International New York, our family became instant fans of the Trump Hotel Collections. What puts Trump International Hotel Las Vegas at the top of my list for best luxury family resorts? Families come first here.
First impression? Luxury without pretention. Exquisite floral arrangements, beautiful decor, no casino, no smoking. Staff is welcoming, friendly, informative and helpful.
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Trump Attache Program allows guests to complete a profile before arriving so your room has all the comforts of home. "Personalized attention without intrusion." Everything you need for a relaxing, enjoyable stay is handled and you won't notice a thing. Services such as transportation, grocery stocking, baby sitting services and dining suggestions and reservations can all be made through the Trump Attache Program.
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The Spa at Trump is ranked Top 20 in the world. Need I say more?
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The 3-bedroom, 3000 square foot penthouse sounds perfect for a Girl's Weekend Away. Or, big enough for my entire family of 6!
Frequent Stayers Program for those who are loyal fans.
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Toyota has handed down new details for its upcoming 11th-generation Corolla sedan, bound for an Australian launch early next year.
Revealed in June, the new sedan will join the Corolla hatch already available in Australia. And, while local specs are still to be confirmed, a number of key details for the European model have been revealed.
Depending on the market, the Corolla sedan will be offered with four petrol engines and one diesel, along with six-speed manual, six-speed auto, and CVT auto transmissions.
The entry petrol option is a 1.33 litre Dual VVT-i engine, offering 73kW and 128Nm of torque. Mated to a six-speed manual, the engine lists fuel consumption at 5.6 l/100km on the combined cycle.
There's also a more powerful 1.6 Dual VVT-i unit, producing 89kW and 154Nm from 5200rpm. With the six-speed manual, fuel use is listed at 6.6 l/100km, while the Multidrive S CVT auto cuts consumption to 6.3 l/100km.
Another 1.6 litre petrol engine will also be offered, in the form of the Dual VVT-i based Valvematic engine. The unit offers a marginal power boost to 97kW and 160Nm, with torque coming on sooner at 4400rpm. Available only with the CVT auto, fuel use drops to 6.0 l/100km.
Topping the petrol range is the familiar 1.8 litre Dual VVT-i unit, again available only with the CVT auto in the sedan. Power is rated at 103kW and 173Nm - the latter from 4000rpm - and fuel use is listed at 6.4 l/100km.
Representing the diesel side of the equation is a 1.4 D-4D turbodiesel, offering 66kW and 205Nm, with max torque available between 1800 and 2800rpm.
Transmission options for the diesel are a six-speed manual (fuel use: 3.8 l/100km) and a six-speed MultiMode auto with stop&start technology.
While Australian engine options are still to be confirmed, we can likely expect Toyota to stick with the 1.8 litre petrol engine as its powertrain of choice.
Three trim levels will be offered in Europe, including Live, Active and Lounge grades. Features will include Smart Entry & Start, dual-zone air conditioning, Toyota Touch 2 infotainment system and Simple Intelligent Park Assist (SIPA).
Toyota says the new sedan is more spacious than its predecessor, riding on a 2700mm wheelbase (100mm longer than the hatch).
Overall, the new sedan is 80mm longer than before, and boot space has grown to 452 litres - around 20 litres more than the new Kia Cerato sedan and Ford's Focus sedan.
The new Corolla Sedan is due to go on sale in Australia in the first half of 2014, with specific timing and specifications to be confirmed closer to the launch date.
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So I have a question for you Internet Nerd Herd (or INH, as I feel we are close enough that I can call you by your nickname). Is commenting on the blogs of people you don't know a strange thing to do? I love when people comment on my blog! But when I post a comment on a stranger's blog, I feel kind of stalker-y. I don't know why. It's not like the person doesn't have a blog where they publish stories for the whole world to read! But I worry that the blogger will wonder, Who the heck is this person, and why the heck is she commenting on my blog?! Which, if that is what the blogger is thinking, I don't know why that matters. But tell me, INH, is there proper etiquette for commenting? And what is the rule for linking to other sites?
*To H, this really isn't an insult. He has nicknames for everyone and for my little sub-groups of friends. There are several reasons why I think I have to embrace the nerd label:
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Liberalism Embraces the Soul of the Soviet Union
American liberalism, like all such political philosophies that ultimately rely on coercion for policy implementation, has completed its historical journey from altruism to totalitarianism.
Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY), like the Obama Administration, recommends that the Internal Revenue Service be used to suppress the activities of the Tea Party because its members engage in political speech with which he disagrees.
Schumer proves that it is not unintentional bureaucratic malpractice, but brute governmental force perpetrated by one political party against those holding alternative political beliefs in order to restrict free speech and impose its own ideology on the country.
Liberals, deeming themselves morally superior, have developed the capacity to ignore a record of consistent failure because they mistakenly equate intentions with results. For liberals, public policy becomes an extension of their own self-deception and intellectual dishonesty.
Like the Soviet politburo i.e. "just one more five-year plan and we will be there, comrade," liberals are driven to retain power in order to prove that if extensive government intervention is tried often enough the results will eventually match their intentions.
It is a form of fanaticism which leads liberals to adopt an ends justify the means mentality and to apply an increasing amount of force to elicit outcomes that are not possible using the strategies they employ.
Liberals cannot win arguments on the basis of empirical evidence or logic. In a debate, they must resort to lying about their own policies, personally discrediting their opponents or suppressing the truth.
To explain their policies liberals speak in euphemisms, vague expressions or outright lies used to disguise their intent and obscure the harsh reality that will result through the implementation of those policies. It is the expropriation of language as a prelude to the expropriation of property and individual liberty. It is the fictional "Newspeak" of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four come to life, a political construction to make lies sound truthful and tyranny appear acceptable.
Liberal morality is based on the selective exploitation of, but not a belief in words like "justice" and "rights." Whether it is social, economic, racial, immigrant, reproductive or whatever faux-noble camouflage is required, it is little more than a means to leverage the politics of tribalism.
Liberal policies can only succeed in an atmosphere of totalitarian uniformity of thought and behavior, where we celebrate our collective indoctrination and genuflect at the altar of leftist orthodoxy.
Common Core, for example, is being marketed as a national standard for educational excellence, not the lowest common denominator for socialist brainwashing and homogeneity.
Abortion becomes reproductive rights, racial quotas become diversity, illegal aliens become undocumented workers, socialized medicine becomes healthcare reform, taxes become investment, propaganda becomes news, lies become spin and free speech becomes hate speech.
In Mountain of Crumbs, a memoir of childhood in the 1960s and 1970s Soviet Union, Elena Gorokhova explains the meaning of "vranyo", the Russian word for a lie or half-truth:
"In Russia we played the 'vranyo' game on a daily basis. The government lied to us, we knew they were lying, they knew we knew they were lying, but they kept lying anyway and we pretended to believe them. "
During the Soviet era, "vranyo" became the de facto way of life, an instrument of governmental coercion as well as a coping mechanism to endure both unbearable calamities and trivial annoyances of life in a totalitarian state.
A society cannot be built on a foundation of lies. In America today we are asked to accept Liberalism's promises of a bright future, which bear no resemblance to its disastrous present.
It is time to puncture that delusion.
Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D. is a retired colonel with 29 years of service in the US Army Reserve and a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq. Colonel Sellin is the author of "Restoring the Republic: Arguments for a Second American Revolution." He receives email at firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/liberalism-embraces-the-soul-of-the-soviet-union?f=must_reads.


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On-One designer Brant Richards is leaving to set up a new bike brand through his company Shedfire. He says he is working on a range of frames, parts, "hats and dried meat products" for release early in the summer.
The former Mountain Biking UK journalist set up On-One with Planet X owner Dave Loughran nine years ago. Together, they have produced a range of iconic singlespeeds and mountain bikes including the Inbred, Scandal and 456.
As revealed by BikeRadar last week, Richards is now moving on to pastures new, and Planet X are looking for a new bike designer for On-One. Today Richards revealed details of his new brand, which he said would be based on a design brief of "making bikes that can go up and down hills, around and over things, without the rider falling off too much".
He said the bikes and components would be available through shops, unlike On-One products, which are only available online. They will be designed at his "palatial headquarters" in Calderdale, West Yorkshire.
Richards said: "I'm spending the next couple of months either in my shed or in Taiwan, working hard to get a lovely range of frames and components for launch under a new brand name in early May. All being well, that brand will be available through one of the UK's key distributors and available to all bike shops in the country, and extending worldwide as we roll out.
"What I'm trying to achieve is that fast route to market, volume purchasing, great margins, all in key areas that the big brands aren't hitting. And if that fails, I've got a backup plan of going to sell odd hats and beef jerky."
Of his departure from On-One, he said: "It's just over nine years since I ended up in the Planet X warehouse in Doncaster and offered to fix some mudguards in return for a singlespeed frame with a funky five-piece welded wishbone that Dave had designed. I hope On-One will continue to be known for product that fills a niche that big manufacturers can't see, or creating niches that people didn't know they needed. Long live On-One!"
Loughran said: "This is an exciting time for On-One. We're looking for a new designer and the opportunities are out there to continue to fill a niche that big manufacturers can't see. We always said our most successful projects were finding the 'niche of a niche' and that's a tradition we're going to continue. I believe a new designer, with different ideas and a fresh look, will help take On-One further along its unusual path."
He added: "I'm sorry that Brant is leaving and wish him every success. He has been an influential part of the team that has built a brand with strong foundations and a cult following."
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A recession is a terrible thing to waste. Beyond the pains, the economic downturn offers this nation and its people an opportunity to take hard but necessary decisions that were impossible in times of plenty.
This period is especially unique because the political leadership at the centre has exhibited the will to confront the vampires who have sucked the nation dry for ages. They may not be doing a perfect job, but they are having a go at it.
Now, necessity is forcing everyone to focus on how to get out of our bind.
Everywhere you look, families and companies are cutting back to cope. Luxuries and extravagancies are being slashed from budgets. Many middle class homes are suddenly discovering that it is impossible to keep up with the Joneses when the naira is exchanging at almost N500 to the dollar.
Banks and telecommunications companies, for long the picture of ruddy financial health, have been ruthlessly shedding staff as they struggle to stay afloat.
In government, Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, at his presentation of the 'Change Begins With Me' initiative to the corporate world in Lagos during the week unveiled a long list of perks and privileges that have been cut by the Executive Branch because of the recession.
You may dismiss their inability of ministers to buy new cars – following the example of President Muhammed Buhari – as tokenism, but every kobo counts at a time like this.
Across the road at the National Assembly we've heard the leadership making all the sympathetic and politically-correct noises about how 'things are tough' and Nigerians are suffering. For our own good, the lawmakers have even shipped a slew of bills to the Executive which, ostensibly, contain the silver bullet that would terminate the recession.
But not for our caring lawmakers any nod at even the smallest of tokens to show that they, too, are willing to sacrifice at a time like this.
One of the priority projects for the senators in the last one year was the purchase of SUVs befitting their status as federal lawmakers. Never mind that some of them had just received loans to buy brand new cars. They justified the request for additional cars saying the fresh ones would be for official assignments.
In the face of public outrage the senators struggled unconvincingly to justify the timing of such huge financial outlay. But exhibiting the typical disdain of the average Nigerian office holder for public opinion, they went ahead after a fashion.
Not all senators ended up getting the new SUVs – only the presiding officers. Additionally, one senator from each of the 36 states also benefitted using the yardstick of rating.
But that is small beer compared to what Nigerians have always moaned about, that our federal lawmakers – unjustifiably – are among the highest paid on planet earth. Even with the economy on all fours they retain that dubious ranking!
The influential British magazine The Economist in a report two years ago estimated that Nigerian legislators ranked only below their Australian counterparts in their global survey – taking in annual salaries of between $150,000 and $190,000 per annum depending on exchange rates for 180 days of sitting.
By comparison their counterparts in Britain receive $105,400 yearly, United States ($174,000), France ($85,900), South Africa ($104,000), Kenya ($74,500), Saudi Arabia ($64,000) and Brazil ($157,600).
The report then makes the damning assessment that the average legislators' pay is more than 50 times Nigeria's GDP per capita – and that, in a country where millions live on less than two dollars daily and the value of the minimum wage is now roughly $40 a month.
The foregoing is not to demonise the lawmakers but to point out that a bicameral legislature is a luxury for a country in Nigeria's shape – and the recession is a wonderful opportunity to do something about it.
In April this year, Senegal scrapped the Senate to save money. Egypt did the same thing in 2013. In the last 20 years several other countries have done so.
But that is not likely to happen in a hurry here because our commitment to cutting waste and make savings in Abuja begins and ends with our lips.
Sometimes when I come across some Facebook campaign trying to interest Nigerians in a drive to 'Scrap the Senate,' I picture people banging their heads fruitlessly against the wall.
For the Senate to disappear, there would need to be a constitutional amendment. This bunch of politicians who have secured a lucrative and prestigious retirement in the upper chamber are not in a hurry to commit political suicide.
But imagine how much this country would shed with a unicameral system. According to BudgIT, between 2011 and 2014, the National Assembly received N150 billion yearly. This fell to N120 billion in the 2015 budget. The study shows that between 1999 and last year, allocations to the National Assembly amounted to N1.26 trillion.
As I said earlier, our lawmakers are so concerned about the recession that they have sent a bunch of bills to Buhari which they believe would turn things around. You don't have to be clairvoyant to know that none of the bills prescribes downsizing the legislature. At least, the Executive made an effort by pruning the number of ministries.
In fact, the constitutional amendment process currently on in the National Assembly rather than looking for ways to divert funds to proper development projects, is focused on vanity items like creating new states, reshaping executive tenure and removal of immunity clauses.
Late in the week news broke of the decision of the House and Senate to invite Buhari to address them on what he's doing about the recession. While they are at it, they should equally brief the president on what they are shaving off their bloated financial package to help the country out.
Anything short of that would amount to hypocritical posturing on the part of our 'caring' lawmakers.
In defence of Mama Peace
Nigerians are an interesting lot – but never more so than in this season of recession and rocky change. Now, depending on which side of the political divide we find ourselves, we defend the indefensible and rationalise that which is beyond the pale.
Take for instance the current bid by former First Lady, Patience Jonathan, to unlock about $22.5 million dollars which she claims belongs to her. She was not in the picture when the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) secured a court order freezing the suspicious funds traced to some companies.
The firms in question have since pleaded guilty to money laundering charges. Out of the blues, Mrs. Jonathan shows up laying claim to the huge sums.
Confronted with searching questions as to how she earned the foreign exchange, we were suddenly informed the monies belonged to her mother. Don't ask whether the old woman owned an oil bloc.
In her defence, a rent-a-crowd protest took place in Yenagoa on Thursday led by the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) during which the 'protesters' argued for release of the frozen funds.
Some of the 'protesters' reasoned this way: "Patience Jonathan is not the only First Lady in this country. A wife to former Deputy Governor, Governor, Vice President and President … are you expecting her to be a poor woman?"
The fact is there's no constitutional recognition for the office of the First Lady so there can be no official earnings accruing to a non-existing position. Secondly, her husband, no matter how generous his earnings in the office he occupied were, was never paid so lavishly in dollars to enable his spouse accumulate so much.
It is only in Nigeria that the richest people are those in government. President Barack Obama is not among the richest persons in the US. The wealthiest people in America, Britain and across the West are entrepreneurs, entertainers, sportsmen and professionals among others.
With these 'youthful' defenders of the indefensible reasoning this way, we should be greatly troubled about the future of the country.


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You've just been given a new writing assignment - the crucible essay. We guess a character analysis would be a nice solution for the crucible essay introduction.
«The Crucible», a play created by Arthur Miller in 1953 is a prominent piece of literature mainly due to the topic analyzed in it. From the first paragraphs, you're getting plunged into a mysterious atmosphere of American life in the 1950s with all its witches and their enormous impact on society of that time. Witches and their victims can't be a boring thing, anyway.
He's the Minister of Salem, who thinks evil witches are eager to make leave Salem. This belief made him an active participant of the witch trial.
She's Revered Parris' daughter. One day her father found her in the woods. Later she accused different people of witchcraft.
Another citizen of Salem, a farmer. He's one of the most crucial characters in the play, mainly due to an affair with Abigail Williams.
The Minister in Beverly. He tried to figure out whether Betty's disease had a witchcraft origin or not. He refused to support the witch trials when he learnt that Abigail Williams was a liar.
John Proctor's wife. After her disease, she found out that her husband had committed marital infidelity with Abigail Williams. Elizabeth dismissed Abigail as she could no longer see her face after that incident.
She was responsible for starting the witch trials. The woman had a love affair with John Proctor. She threatened other girls and accused innocent people of being witches. Abigail had a strong influence on girls around her.
A farmer from Salem, a really rational man. He's used to deciding who's right or wrong in different disputes.
She's a wife of Francis Nurse, a very honest woman. She withstood the witch trial. Because of this, she was accused of being a witch.
As you see, the theocratic society, depicted in the play gave the birth to all the characters of the play. All these characters consider the church the highest authority. The law of the state and laws of humanism don't have such a powerful impact on them as the church does. Most of these characters have easily-transformed and weak personalities. They're used to changing their point of view in compliance with the situation. For them the witch trial is just a game. Understanding this will help you to write the crucible persuasive essay.
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One of the most crucial themes in «The Crucible» is the whole importance of a good name. In this topic you should analyze what a good name means to some of the play's characters. Make use of specific example's in order to support your conclusions.
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A perfect name as reputation and pride
We mean goodness, when talking about a good name.
A good name gives its owner moral integrity and individuality.
We can't imagine «The Crucible» without a presentation of truth. In this topic you require showing how truth is depicted in the play and how different characters unveil their true natures.
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After weeks of working on sketches and paintings, I've finally launched my new line of cards! I had so much fun with these. There are 2 Valentine's Day cards, but they could be used for other lovely special occasions. I also made a get well soon, happy birthday, and just a cute card for any occasion.
I am now offering a listing for Buy 3 Get 1 Free, where you get to pick the 4 cards you want. I also have 3 different colors of envelopes: white, pink, and kraft.
There are also shrinky dink brooches based off the same designs. I love how these turned out! My favorite is the Make Out Bandit!
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You may recall that I've been commissioned by the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City to write a biography of Servant of God Father Stanley Rother, the Oklahoma missionary whose cause for canonization is in progress.
It all began here, growing up as a member of the Rother clan in the town of Okarche, Oklahoma:
|remembering Stan, at the home of her brother Tom and sister in law Marti
Okarche, OK
|Memorial to their hometown saint, Holy Trinity Catholic School and parish
|a young Stanley, with his nephew at a Christmas gathering in Okarche
As a missionary priest serving in the Oklahoma mission in Santiago Atitlán, Padre Francisco, called Apla's by the Guatemala Tz'utujil indians, had a special place in his heart for the children.
It's not difficult to see how this love and concern manifested itself in his earnest commitment and ministry for the widows and the orphans during Guatemala's bloody civil war.
Please join me and the Church in Oklahoma and Guatemala in praying for the canonization of this faithful priest and martyr:
Heavenly Father,
source of all holiness,
in every generation you raise up
men and women heroic in love and service.
You have blessed your Church
with the life of Stanley Rother,
priest, missionary, and martyr.
Through his prayer, his preaching,
his presence, and his pastoral love,
you revealed Your love and Your presence
with us as Shepherd.
If it be your will,
may he be proclaimed
by the universal church
as martyr and saint,
living now in your presence
and interceding for us all.
We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen
And would you join me also in praying for a publisher for my Rother biography? I am confident and waiting for the right home for this important manuscript.
To join the cause, visit the Father Stanley Rother Guild -- or contact me!


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I never thought that a few days working in a museum would inspire me. The quiet, ordered presentation of the natural world in a setting locked away from the elements has always lacked what I love most about research and wildlife: being outside, in wild places; the excitement of searching for and eventually seeing live animals; observing and documenting those experiences. Fieldwork is, for me, the most meaningful part of biological research because it is a process of discovery – of the natural behaviour of animals, of the ways in which the fate of animals, habitats and human communities are linked, and of my own strengths and limitations.
|A handful of rostra (saws) from young Largetooth Sawfish collected from the Gambia River in 1974. (c) Ruth H. Leeney.
|Nigel Downing putting a sawfish into a holding tank, 1975. (c) N. Downing.
Before me were four wooden drawers holding carefully-wrapped layers of tissue paper, which I folded back to reveal bundles of rostra from very young sawfishes. I have never seen so many sawfish rostra all together in one place. On some, the skin still had a golden iridescence, while others were still encrusted with river mud or bore a solitary glittering fish scale, impaled on a needle-sharp tooth; they seemed like a collection of careworn Christmas decorations. In these museum drawers lie the relics of a time when sawfish saws could be collected by the handful and were worn on the headdresses of the Bijago people of Guinea-Bissau, or placed on the roofs of houses in The Gambia and Senegal to protect families from evil spirits. One of nature's most decadently-decorated animals, and the traditions it inspired, now only a fading memory in most West African societies.
In the stillness of the museum's basement, where all is clean, carefully stored and climate-controlled, I felt a million miles from the dust, mud, burning sun, clamour and stench of fish markets and the general sensory overload that comes hand-in-hand with my usual fieldwork in Africa. But as I eyed the museum treasures, I was transported back in time to a different West Africa: one where rivers teemed with baby sawfish. Fishermen in Guinea-Bissau had described to me how, years ago, they went to the beach at night and speared small sawfish in the shallows by the light of their torch flames. Holding the miniature saws of young sawfish in my hands, I imagined and wondered at such a scene of abundance – a scene that exists no more.
|Juvenile Largetooth Sawfish caught in The Gambia in the 1970s. (c) Nigel Downing.
Many thanks to Matt Lowe, Collections Manager at UMZC for facilitating access to the collection and to Save Our Seas Foundation for funding my visit to the museum.
This blog post was originally published on the Save Our Seas Foundation website: http://saveourseas.com/update/the-ghosts-of-sawfish-past/


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Our league uses PublicationSports for stats, game schedules and many tournaments. It's the French-language version of PoweringSports. Our league is responsible for updating the details of the games our team has played, based on the game sheet. That information details which players scored the goals and at what time, who was credited with the assist, penalties, total penalty time, wins and losses on both the team and player basis.
Armed with even those stats, a coach can see a lot at a glance. To see what I mean, take a look at the following link.
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But when it comes to knowing more about how your team is truly performing, those stats alone are not good enough. You really need to measure Shots On Goal (SOG) – both by your players against the other team, and the other team, against your goalie.
A shot on goal is a shot that is either stopped or is declared a goal. It doesn't include attempted shots that go wide of the net, or shots that ricochet off the crossbar. The shot on goal needs to be within the area of the net.
In the post I wrote on motivating the players, Coach Guy asked his forwards if they would be able to make five shots on goal each in the game. They said yes and were up for the challenge, although as we will find out through the numbers, that goal of 5 shots was a bit optimistic. In Game 1 of that 5-shot challenge, our team had 24 shots on goal, converting 3 into goals. In Game 2, the SOGs were the same, but they netted 5 goals.
In order to gather these stats, you need to have some help. The best-case is having someone who is unbiased, like a non-parent or sibling who has player knowledge (has an ability to recognize who's who from a distance), who has access to the press box, giving him or her a bird's eye view of the game. Since that's probably not going to happen and few teams have those resources or capabilities, you need to make due. For our team, Coach Guy counted the shots, but also asked our goalie coach to shadow him. Coach Steeve was in the stands, recording all the shots made against our goal, by our team against their goal, and the kind of shot was made – slap shot, screen, one-timer, etc. At the end of the game, the two put their stats together. So far, their numbers have matched.
Refining these statistics down to the player level gives the coach the real data he or she needs to reflect on the performance of the lines, or as a motivation tool. What Coach Guy found, after two outings and two successive wins using the 5-shots-on-goal challenge, was that only one player was able to reach the challenge in both games.
Great stuff…but not so fast. If we look deeper, we see that those 10 shots only netted 1 goal by that player.
And looking further, we see that's just a part of the story.
Because what happens when you shoot on goal?
I'm glad you asked! One of three things happens. The shot goes in, it's stopped by the goaltender, or it's deflected but NOT stopped. When it's deflected, it can give your players another opportunity to shoot on goal again.
That's exactly what happened. The player with 10 SOG may only have 1 goal, but he's also earned 5 assists over two games. So, no, he's not the scoring leader, but he's extremely implicated in the game. And being implicated when it comes to shots on goal and goals scored, is a very positive thing.
Are your players implicated?
Find out. Get someone on your team to help you get the stats you need to get a clear picture of what's happening with your players. And don't look just at those stats, combine them with other data you may have like goals and assists scored and penalties taken.


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I recently finished dyeing about 30 pounds of yarn I had spun from a local flock of Border Leceisters in Hinesburg and was reminded how incredibly lustrous this fiber is....as lustrous as mohair! Since it's a common breed around here, but not one most knitters hear about since it's not typically used for knitting yarn, I thought I'd share some specs on it with you this week, since if you stop by the store you'll see it available on the shelf.
The breed is know for its long wool which can be 6-10" after about a year's growth. It is not particularly soft, having a micron count generally in the 30 - 38 micron range, but what it lacks in next-to-the-skin softness it makes up for in sheen.
Because the fleece is wavy, rather than crimpy, it reflects light and so exhibits lots of luster (on a crimpy wool, the light gets caught in the little nooks and crannies and doesn't reflect back). Border Leicester has a lovely hand and, particularly when combed and spun worsted, is very durable. I have a hat knit out of it in the store and am working on some mittens right now. I did actually put enough of one color away for a sweater for myself...maybe I'll get to it in retirement?!
The Leiceister sheep, from which the Border Leicesters evolved, were first established in England (Leceistershire, of course) in the early 1700's and they played an important role in the improvement of the other long wool breeds in England. When Leicesiter rams were bred to Teeswater ewes, the Border Leceister breed was founded, its thought around 1767.
English Leceisters (also lovely, tho' more crimpy and not as long a wool as Border Leicesters) were first bought to the US by George Washington who kept a flock at Mt. Vernon, but it is unclear when the first Border Leceisters arrived here, although by 1920, there were 767 purebred Border Leicesters in the census.
In addition to the recently dyed yarn, I also have the fiber (blended with mohair) available in a natural grey for spinners. Hope you get a chance to either try spinning or knitting with this breed sometime. Jen


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Appearances: New York String Orchestra; Garden State Philharmonic; Mid-Atlantic Opera Orchestra; Light Opera of New Jersey; Edison Symphony Orchestra; Adelphi Symphony Orchestra; Brevard Music Center Orchestra; Brevard Sinfonia; Rome Music Festival Orchestra, Italy; Rekkenze Brass Festival; National Orchestral Institute, alternate
Musical origins: I began playing trombone at 11 years old. In Junior High, we "tried out" different mouthpieces to see which one we would be best on. My band director told me that I did better on the trombone mouthpiece than the trumpet, which I originally wanted to play, so I chose the trombone.
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Favorite fact about your instrument: It can be played by robots.
Favorite non-classical musician or band: Rush
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Proudest accomplishment: Finishing my doctorate at Rutgers University
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You have a freezer full of wild game, so what do you do now? Check out What's Cookin with Mrs. Bunny to demystify cooking with wild game meat. Get helpful hints on how to process your animal, and how to prepare it so that the whole family can enjoy the fruits of your labor. Also, look for recipes, tips and on the go snack ideas for the outdoorsman or woman in your life.
Tender, juicy, fall apart venison roast with soft and delicious egg noodles all bathed in a warm and creamy sauce. Did I just hear a choir of stomachs growl?
While most people are familiar with the traditional "beef and noodles", my freezer happens to be stocked with fresh venison that I prefer to use that instead. The issue that comes up with cooking venison roasts is that they tend to dry out rather quickly leaving you with a tough and leathery roast that needs a whole lot of your favorite condiment to grease it up enough to slide down.
Whether you are using wild hog pork chops or a domesticated variety you picked up at the store, this recipe is tasty either way. I like casseroles for hunting season. You can keep them warm since you never know when your hunter will be coming or going, they are a crowd pleaser if you're feeding a whole crew and they stick to the ribs and satisfy stomachs for long periods. If you are feeding quite a few people, double up and make 2 pans while you have all the ingredients out. That's what I do!
Hooray for one-pot meals! They are no fuss, make a limited mess and can fill a lot of bellies. Cowboy Beans are a crowd pleaser, and they are incredibly versatile. You can serve them as a side dish or a main course. You can add just about anything to a pot of Cowboy Beans and you can't go wrong. For this version, we use ground venison and bacon, the flavors are delicious, plus it makes the beans incredibly hearty and filling. You can use any beans you like, just substitute your favorite varieties for those you see here. Happy eating friends!
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"I love a good tofu burger," said no one ever!
A burger is all about celebrating meat, no matter the kind. Ask someone what the perfect burger tastes like and you'll never get the same answer, it's truly in the eye of the beholder. Only one thing is certain, it should be delicious. So when making your own venison burgers here are a few things to think about to get the best possible result:
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I like to think of the Patty Melt as a glorified cheese burger. There are so many different variations of this crowd pleaser that with a few tweaks you can please even the pickiest of eaters. Here's how we like to do it at the studio:
What's Cookin' with Mrs. Bunny this week will feature her award winning Venison Shepherd's Pie. She's laid out the ground work with detailed instructions on ingredients, prep, cook times and everything you'll need to know to combat a table of hungry hunters.
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[Game] Beyond 14
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In a wireless network, interference between transmitters is usually viewed as highly undesirable and clever algorithms and protocols have been devised to avoid it. Collectively, these strategies transform the physical layer into a set of reliable bit pipes which can then be used seamlessly by higher layers in the protocol stack. Unfortunately, interference avoidance results in sharply decreasing rates as the number of users increases.
This talk proposes a new strategy, compute-and-forward, that exploits the interference property of the wireless channel to achieve higher end-to-end rates in a network. The key idea is that users should decode linear combinations of the transmitted messages according to their observed channel coefficients. This is a departure from classical information-theoretic frameworks which tend to either to decode interfering messages in their entirety or treat them as noise. Structured codes (such linear or lattice codes) ensure that these linear combinations can be decoded reliably, often at far higher rates than the messages individually. Historically, codes with linear/lattice structure have been studied as a stepping stone to practical constructions. Our recent work has employed compute-and-forward as a building block for coding theorems which lead to new achievability results in network information theory. In particular, we have developed a linear receiver architecture for MIMO channels that approaches the performance of joint decoding, determined the approximate sum capacity of a class of symmetric interference channels, and proposed a novel framework for interference alignment that permits decoding (rather than nulling) of aligned data streams.
Bobak Nazer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University. He received his Ph.D in 2009 and M.S. in 2005 from the University of California, Berkeley in electrical engineering and computer sciences and his B.S. in 2003 from Rice University in electrical and computer engineering. He is the recipient of the NSF CAREER award in 2013 and the Eli Jury award in 2009 from the Berkeley EECS Department.


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The 'Adobe Hearts Apple' ads are full-page ads in newspapers across North America to garner attention for both companies. Adobe is rallying support for Apple, as the company recently slammed Adobe and Flash and their refusal to use the software on Apple products. Adobe is taking the high road against Apple, supporting them.
Not too shabby an idea, seeing as Steve Jobs and the Apple team only get stronger with each passing day, upgrading and creating devices the public salivates over. The 'Adobe Hearts Apple' ads are sort of cute, if you don't know the tenuous background of the situation...
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Phonological and Syntactic Processing, and the Role of Working Memory in Reading Comprehension Among High School Students
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The performance of 60 year8 students was examined on tasks measuring phonological processing, syntactic processing, and reading comprehension. The students were also administered several measures of working memory relating to the phonological loop and the central executive. A series of hierarchical regression analyses indicated that phonological processing and syntactic processing were both predictors of reading comprehension, and that the presence or absence of the latter distinguished good and poor comprehenders respectively. The phonological loop was found to play a small but significant role in the processes involved in reading comprehension, but not the central executive. Gender differences suggested that boys use relatively more phonological processing and girls relatively more syntactical processing to achieve similar levels of reading competency. Good reading comprehension appears to rely on basal levels of both phonological and syntactic processing. The results support the argument that these two processes complement one another, function concurrently, and act to reduce the demand on working memory.
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Richat Structure in Mauritania
I stumbled across this on Universe Today's "Where in The Universe Challenge" and thought it made a very interesting geologic phenomenon to write about. (Apologies to Ron and the gang for potentially stealing an idea from the Where on Google Earth challenge.)
Source: Google Earth
What does the above photograph look like on your first impression? I immediately said an impact crater and was amazed at how well defined this was. Especially when you find out this feature has a diameter of 30 kilometers!
This interesting feature is known as the Richat Structure and is located in the African country of Mauritania. Below is an embedded Google Maps frame showing the location.
This structure is so big, that while zooming in to Mauritania on Google Maps, I was immediately able to see it on a rather zoomed out view.
Anyway, what exactly is this structure? It was originally thought to have been an impact crater when it was first seen on a large scale by scientists. More research eventually revealed that it was not actually an impact crater, but instead a a circular anticline whose crest has been eroded away.
Kim from All of My Faults Are Stress Related adds this comment after reading a paper linked in the Wikipedia article on the structure:
It's not just a circular anticline – it's a dome above a Cretaceous pluton. (The article describes the intrusion as a plug, but I wonder if we're not looking at the top of a laccolith – like the Henry Mountains in Utah, but not eroded through to the pluton itself.)
The paper is titled "Resolving the Richat enigma: Doming and hydrothermal karstification above an alkaline complex," by Matton G, Jébrak M, Lee JK:
The Richat structure (Sahara, Mauritania) appears as a large dome at least 40 km in diameter within a Late Proterozoic to Ordovician sequence. Erosion has created circular cuestas represented by three nested rings dipping outward from the structure. The center of the structure consists of a limestone-dolomite shelf that encloses a kilometer-scale siliceous breccia and is intruded by basaltic ring dikes, kimberlitic intrusions, and alkaline volcanic rocks. Several hypotheses have been presented to explain the spectacular Richat structure and breccia, but their origin remains enigmatic. The breccia body is lenticular in shape and irregularly thins at its extremities to only a few meters. The breccia was created during karst dissolution and collapse. Internal sediments fill the centimeter- to meter-scale cavities. Alkaline enrichment and the presence of Cretaceous automorphous neoformed K-feldspar demonstrate the hydrothermal origin of these internal sediments and their contemporaneity with magmatism. A model is proposed in which doming and the production of hydrothermal fluids were instrumental in creating a favorable setting for dissolution. The circular Richat structure and its breccia core thus represent the superficial expression of a Cretaceous alkaline complex with an exceptionally well preserved hydrothermal karst infilling at its summit.
For readers not familiar with anticlines, below is a cross section of an anticline to help visualize what might be going on.
Source: Wikipedia – Anticline
According to the website Google Sightseeing, there are a few other similar looking features that can be found in Africa: The Jebel Uwaynat that borders Sudan, Egypt and Libya and the Brandberg Intrusion in Namibia.
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- Universe Today – Where in The Universe Challenge #22
- Wikipedia – Richat Structure
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Introduced at the 2005 National Cattlemen's Association Annual Convention and Tradeshow, the official NCBA "Beef USA" Tag program is built around high-performance ISO half-duplex Electronic ID technology from Allflex along with the more traditional visual tags already familiar in the industry. Both EID and Visual program tags bear the "Beef USA" logo.
"We're pleased to partner with NCBA to help producers who want to take the important first steps towards adding value to their herd through the use of electronic identification of beef," says Glenn Fischer, senior vice-president of Allflex.
"Producers have told us again and again that they want simple, cost-effective identification solutions that work in real-world settings. That's exactly what we've put together in this NCBA Beef USA tag progra."
Producers should understand that using these tags can help them enhance the marketability of their cattle. A growing number of beef retailers in domestic and foreign markets are requesting information about the health and genetic histories behind the beef they sell.
Capturing basic information such as birth date can be a critical part of marketing cattle months and years down the road. Identifying individual animals can also help a producer be prepared for the evolving, national animal identification program being encouraged by USDA.
Many producers already derive value from animal records as they participate in value-added programs, or make management decisions based on accurate data about animal performance gathered over time.
Specially labeled NCBA Beef USA tag sets will be available through traditional animal supply retail locations throughout the U.S. Each bag includes complete instructions for tag application and how to place these ID numbers and some simple animal information in a private and confidential electronic storage file, if the producer so chooses.
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For additional information, contact Allflex USA, Inc., P.O. Box 612266, DFW Airport, Texas 75261.