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When was the last time you said "Thank You" to someone?
I guess this written post is an overdue tribute in saying Thank You to a special someone in my life.
I have always expressed my Thank You's and gratitude to my beloved Mama in private. And as far back as I can remember, I say it through love letters or small Post It notes then I would sneak it inside her bag, under her plate or even her blouse pocket. Once she finds out, she would always respond and give her feedback by writing me back or throwing me a big, tight Mom hug!
I guess I am more of a Thank You daughter than a saying I Love You person. Well, from time to time I do. But the impact of saying "salamat" is vast and wide and to be specific, I am extending an eternal Thank You to my everdearest Mama when it comes to travel. Because of her, I am able to go, see and enjoy places domestically and internationally. It is true that everytime you travel, appreciating the culture of a new place and territory and it's people makes it even more exciting!
Mom is the most energetic travel bug and outdoorsy person I have known. Travel is her way of communing and being one with nature. And everytime she goes out of town it's when she releases tension and stress from work and sometimes from stubborn daughters like me and my sister. Ouch!
A dedicated and passionate teacher even before I was born, Mom has gone to many out of town provinces thanks to the travel subsidy of their school which they call "Lakbay Aral". So every summer, she and her co-teachers pick a really good destination and get there. My sister Michelle at times was able to tag along and join her in many wonderful trips to Palawan, Cagayan de Oro, Leyte, Bukidnon, Cebu, Bacolod and even Thailand which was her first ever international trip. And what a memorable trip to Bangkok they had from staying at a great hotel, haggled shopping, riding the "tuk tuk", food trip galore and being impressed with a 747 boeing plane.
And speaking of airplanes, I came across this "Thank You" video campaign from Air Asia Philippines during my research online for a blog I was doing. The ad was a brief reminder especially this Yuletide season that we must indeed spread gratitude. That we should be grateful to whoever and whatever. Very touching isn't it? I believe that appreciation be not limited to Christmas, but should be expressed for all time.
So thank you to my travel mate Mom, I was able to enjoy our unforgettable mother-daughter bonding when we went to Beijing, China! Too bad my sister was unable to come along because of work. Climbing the historic Great Wall of China was extra memorable with her and so were our street food tripping, thrift shopping and cold evening walks outside of our hotel. The best international travels we had with my sister were our trips to Hongkong and Singapore where we teased Mom to be the girlfriend of The Merlion because she literally did not want to leave the famous iconic symbol for some weird and strange reason after seeing it upclose. Well, that's my Mama! ♥
She would always remind me to travel when budget allows and to travel while we were still young with family to better appreciate the many wonderful and awesome spots out there waiting to be seen. Speaking of budget during our family travels, she would collect our monthly share of a thousand pesos for like a year or six months depending where our itchy feet would take us. Our ever favorite destinations are Baguio and Boracay and for the latter, we would patiently ride the RoRo bus getting there which takes like 16 hours to do so. But once we have arrived, we kick back and relax and enjoy the best sunsets along the beach in between Stations 1 and 2. Su-weeeeet!!!
But Mama's ultimate dream travel destination is the Holy Land and visit all the places Our Saviour went to. She dreams of even taking a relaxing cruise with my Dad. Everytime she see Bethlehem on TV or in cable, I would always here her say, "One day I am going to get there by the grace of God." She never ceased praying.
In the past couple of years, Mama travelled less due to health reasons. She got herself into various medications. Good thing she took a lot of travel videos and would play them from time to time and it made her feel really good. There were so many accumulated clips my sister and I transferred them on CDs coming off the video cam. There are still a lot of short videos left in our cellfones waiting to be relocated.
October of last year I received an exclusive invite to travel down Coron, Palawan aboard a vessel that specializes in going to Tubbataha Reef. I have never been to Palawan before so I excitedly told Mama I am going there with a limited number of media people and the rest would be experienced divers. Mom had been there before but she was opposed to the idea of me joining. Maybe it was the mother instinct in her that she felt something was not good. But after convincing her not once but a few more times, she gave the green light. On the day of my departure for Batangas, I hugged her really tight and informed I shall share all my great Palawan experiences after five days.
Mom reminds me to always pray especially when travelling. Along the way en route to Batangas Pier she sent me several text reminders and to pray the rosary for safety and guidance to our destination. She's really a loving and caring mother. And when our group finally arrived in Palawan after two days I was ecstatic and thankful for experiencing this side of paradise. Coron is such a beautiful piece of nature! Makes you want to stay there longer. I took lots of pictures and videos for me to show Mom afterwards.
But for some reason, fate did not allow me to share all my selfies, videos and wonderful and unforgettable adventures of Palawan to her. Mama went to heaven on the day our group arrived back to Batangas en route to Manila. I was crushed…so devastated and emotional to the point of breaking down in big sobs when my sister broke the sad news on the phone. I was in denial she was gone. Moreso, I was away but on my way back to her when she left. I was really looking forward to hugging her and sharing all the stories comparing notes of beautiful Palawan. If only she waited for me much longer…
That was more than a year now. It still hurts everytime I would recall that very bittersweet moment. The pain of losing someone you love dearly will never go away. Her personal travel videos are more meaningful and seeing her so happy in them makes more sense now. As family we miss her so much! I still cry a bucket everytime I watch the vids.
My Mom…My Travel Angel has gone to the Holy Land. And tomorrow or later, she's at Vatican City or on top of the Eiffel Tower or sipping a juice or two by the shoreline of her favorite beach spot in Boracay…
Thank You Mama…for everything… and for the lovely gift of travel which I will continue to do because by visiting and exploring more places, you are very much alive! Love youuuuuu!!! ♥♥
So please say and express THANK YOU not later…but now…


text: Observant downtowners have probably already noticed the annual refresh of Art on the Streets sculptures, with eight new works now placed in many of the same spots as last year's selections. Six of this year's batch come from Colorado artists, including local favorites LeRad and Chris Weed. Weed's "Spores" from the recent FAC Conflict | Resolution exhibit are blowing south to the Pioneers Museum grounds and LeRad's Cloud Dreamer "Nubes Allucinator" can be found in Acacia Park. Check downtown80903.com soon to download a walking tour map of all sites, and attend a free lecture with art juror Jan Schall at 7 p.m., Thursday at the FAC (30 W. Dale St., 634-5583); reservations requested. — Matthew Schniper

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Kompac introduces Kompac Kwik Finish
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Press release from the issuing companyFairfield, NJ – April 2007 - Kompac, an ISO 9001 Certified company, is introducing the Kompac Kwik Finish System. The Kompac Kwik Finish is a unique offline UV and aqueous coating and curing system. The new system provides printers with a kwik and easy method to apply and cure UV/Aqueous coatings and primers to a wide variety of substrates. "The Kompac Kwik Finish is specially designed to meet the market demands of digital and offset printers who require UV/Aqueous coating and curing. We constantly strive to provide quality products that meet industry demands and exceed customer expectations!" comments Tom Hayes, President of Kompac Technologies, LLC. With the Kompac Kwik Finish printers will be able to spot or flood coat, easily control coating thickness, and feed a variety of stock substrates from onion skin to board stock. The end results are brighter more vivid colors, a rub resistant finish for repeated handling and mailing of the printed product, and faster turnaround of jobs (no outsourcing). The Kompac Kwik Finish can also be purchased with the following options: Kompac Kwik IR dryer, automated level sensing, Kompac Kwik Stack receding stacker, Kompac Heat Shield, and the Kompac Vac cleaning system. Kompac provides everything you need to succeed in coating …the Kwik Finish system, UV/Aqueous coating, coating blankets, film, and outstanding technical support, worldwide!
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ECC approves reduction in gas price for industries
ISLAMABAD: Economic Coordination Committee has on Friday approved the reduction of gas prices for industries by Rs 200 per MMBTU (British Thermal Unit).
Finance Minister Ishaq Dar chaired the committee meeting which approved to reduce the gas price for industries from Rs. 600 to 400 per MMBTU.
In accordance with Fertilizer Policy 2001, the industrial sector gas sale price will also be applicable to fertilizer sector only for fuel stock.
Tax Exemption for ERRA
The ECC also approved the summary presented by Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (ERRA) seeking exemption of taxes on procurement of furniture and supplies of 15 District Health Units (DHU) and three colleges located in the 2005 earthquake affected areas in the Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The exemption is limited to the grant by Saudi Fund for Development (SDF) who provided funds and mandated UNICEF to procure furniture and supplies for the reconstruction of these educational institutions.
The exemption was obtained from the ECC as the powers to grant exemption through self-regulatory organization (SRO) have been taken away from FBR Revenue Division through Finance Act 2015.
Extension in Export period
ECC also approved the proposal of the Ministry of National Food Security and Research to extend the export period of thirty days to balance the quantity already approved for export for Sindh and Punjab.
The ministry apprised the ECC that the food departments of the governments of Sindh and Punjab and All Pakistan Flour Mills Associations and exporters have pleaded for extension as the specified quantity of wheat/wheat flour could not be exported within the specified period due to Eid holidays and transportation problems.
Electricity dues by government of Sindh
ECC also approved the settlement reached between the Ministry of Water and Power and the Government of Sindh to resolve the issue of outstanding bills of government departments and HESCO, SEPCO for the period of July 2010 to July 2016.
The Government of Sindh will clear the outstanding amount of Rs. 27.398 billion in six equal monthly installments starting from September 2016.
The Ministry of Water and Power was directed to install AMR meters (smart meters) in the area within four months, and fifty percent of the cost of installation to be borne by the government of Sindh.


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By MARC KOVAC
Dix Communications
COLUMBUS -- The Ohio House has signed off on the creation of a new lawmaker panel to addresses Ohio's declining automobile industry.
The chamber unanimously adopted House Concurrent Resolution 24, sponsored by Rep. Matt Lundy, a Democrat from Elyria, to create a Joint Select Committee on the Impact of the Changing Automobile Industry in Ohio. It heads to the Ohio Senate for further consideration.
The economic downturn has hammered the automobile industry.
General Motors and Chrysler have filed for bankruptcy; manufacturing plants and suppliers have cut back on production and laid off workers; and dealerships are closing.
State lawmakers have been in discussions about how to respond to the situation, Lundy said. The result is the joint committee, which will meet during the summer and include three members from each chamber.
"The auto industry plays a critical role in the state and we want to make sure that we are looking for any options available to be of assistance," said House Speaker Armond Budish, a Democrat from the Cleveland area.
"I certainly don't have the answers. I don't know if anybody does," he said. "But I anticipate that the members of the committee will be calling witnesses from manufacturers, from dealers, from suppliers, from everybody who's being affected so that we can understand more fully the problems and then try to address them."
n Marc Kovac is the Dix capital bureau chief. Follow him on Twitter at OhioCapitalBlog or e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Concert Band to perform Irish selections in celebration of St. Patrick's Day
The Bates Concert Band will perform a St. Patrick's Day concert at the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall March 17 at 8 p.m. The public is invited to attend free of charge. Under the direction of Mark Manduca, a member of the Bates applied music faculty, the group will perform a program of Irish music including "Danny Boy," "Rakes at Mallow," "The Irish Washerwoman" and "The Irish Rhapsody." The band also will perform Variations on a Korean Folksong. In honor of the holiday, "the audience is invited to wear green," Manduca said.
For additional information, call the Olin Arts Center at 207-786-6135.


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Hello fans of great music,
I'm writing to you to ask for your help in helping out my mentor, teacher and good friend Johnny Vidacovich. Johnny and his wife Deborah's house is in need of major repairs and they are in need of financial help. To compound matters, Johnny is developing arthritis in his right thumb. I want to keep him from having to play every single gig that comes his way so that the arthritis doesn't get worse. This is the house that I learned my most important musical lessons in. This is also the house that Kevin O'day, Brian Blade and many other great drummers learned in. Johnny is one of the most unique drummers in the world and is a New Orleans treasure.
So I want to help them in as many was as I can by letting as many people as I know that:
- Johnny will be teaching lessons at the house for the next few weeks at a discounted rate of $75 an hour
- You can book the lessons with Deborah via email at firstname.lastname@example.com
- You can make a donations to the Vidacovich cause by mailing a check made out to Johnny Vidacovich to 4816 Bienville St. New Orleans, LA 70119
- You can make a donation online here!
Let's do what we can to help save Johnny Vidacovich's house. He is, by far, the greatest living drummer in the city of New Orleans today.


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Does this really count as news? It's not like we're surprised at all to learn that there's a new Dynasty Warriors game coming out (we're up to about 40 or 50 at this point), but given its undying popularity, chances are you'll be overjoyed to learn Vol. 2's new features.
Most importantly, this army-against-one battle will let four people play together, razing waves of troops to the ground with their super-powered attacks and customized animal rides. You'll be able to care for a stable of eighthorses and elephants - which you can ride into battle, though they won't fight without you or anything -each with its own attributes and experience points to track.
If you dove into the last PSP Warriors, there were 100 unlockable officers to obtain throughout the game. Now you'll have 300 to find and trade with your fellow conquerors as you slay your way through Vol. 2's 50 stages and 31 maps.
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In the first week of the 114th Congress, the new Republican overlords acted to undermine the Affordable Care Act; set up a Social Security funding crisis; require President Obama to accept the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline; enact new roadblocks to immigration reform; and undermine the Dodd-Frank financial reforms.
Republicans want to bull ahead with the Keystone pipeline regardless of the threat of potentially toxic leaks over the environmentally sensitive Ogallala Aquifer in the Midwest, in pursuit of 42,000 short-term jobs in building the pipeline and less than 50 long-term jobs to maintain it — all to carry Canadian oil to Texas to be refined for export overseas. Of course, the GOP also passed a bill to make it much more difficult to pass and enforce regulations to be enforced by federal and independent agencies.
The House got a quicker start at mischief than the Senate since House leaders don't pretend to seek consensus. They adopted a rule to create a funding crisis for Social Security Disability Insurance by banning transfer of funds within the Social Security Trust. That wouldn't be so bad if Congressional Republicans had any intention of fixing the shortfall that is expected in the Social Security Disability program next year, but they have no apparent intention to do so. If Congress does not fix the disability trust fund, it will result in a 20% benefit reduction for 11 million disabled Americans.
"Reallocation has never been controversial, but detractors working to privatize Social Security will do anything to manufacture a crisis out of a routine administrative function," Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) said. "Rather than solve the short-term problems facing the Social Security Disability program as we have in the past, Republicans want to set the stage to cut benefits for seniors and disabled Americans."
Republicans adopted another House rule to require that the supposedly nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office use "dynamic scoring" on tax bills, so that tax cuts will result in forecasts of higher tax revenue, in accordance with Republican "supply-side" voodoo economics, regardless of what experience shows.
Wall Street lobbyists have been working overtime to repeal the Dodd-Frank reforms that were adopted in 2010 to regulate Wall Street speculators and prevent a repeat of the Bush Recession. If Republicans can't do it in one big bill, they'll try to repeal Dodd-Frank piecemeal in amendments to other bills..
The House also passed the Regulatory Accountability Act, which is ostensibly aimed at cutting costly regulations, but considers the costs to businesses of regulations, not the costs to the public of allowing businesses to pollute the air and water.
New Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has suggested that he might be open to resurrecting talks with the White House over a "Grand Bargain" that would include Social Security and Medicare "reforms" and steps to achieve a balanced budget — presumably, by cutting Social Security and Medicare benefits.
Until now, McConnell and Obama have spoken mainly about fast-track trade legislation, some elements of corporate tax reform and a surge in spending for highways, bridges, and other infrastructure. McConnell appeared much more expansive in what he thought could be accomplished, but progressives should be concerned about any "Grand Bargain" that McConnell and House Speaker John Boehner could sign onto. President Obama had better make sure that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the new ranking member of the Budget Committee, are involved in any such negotiations.
Pelosi has endorsed a "Robin Hood" tax plan that would place a 0.1% fee on financial transactions that would be rolled in with reductions in tax breaks for the top 1% of earners. The new taxes would fund a "paycheck bonus credit" of $2,000 a year for couples earning less than $200,000. Sanders' vision of a "progressive" budget includes ending tax breaks for the wealthy and large corporations, reducing defense spending and boosting entitlement programs, such as Social Security, the Veterans Administration and Medicare. He has introduced legislation that would raise the payroll tax cap on people making over $250,000 a year in order to keep Social Security solvent for another 75 years. If Republicans aren't going to move in that direction, Obama and the Democrats should feel no need to knuckle under.
Make College Affordable AgainPresident Obama announced a commendable plan to make community college free for students who maintain their grades. The program would be available for students who maintain a 2.5 grade point average and apply to schools that offer occupational training or credit toward a four-year degree.
If President Obama truly wants to transform the cost of higher education, Bryce Covert noted at ThinkProgress.org (Jan. 9), Obama could make college free for all students without having to lay out more money to pay for it. That's because the federal government could take the $69 billion it currently spends to subsidize the cost of college through grants, tax breaks, and work-study funds and instead cover tuition at all public colleges, which came to $62.6 billion in 2012, the most recent data. (The government spends another $197.4 billion on student loans.) That would give all students who want to get a college degree a free option to do so. It could also put pressure on private universities to compete with the free option by reducing their costs, which have risen 13% over the last five years.
But states also should take more responsibility for lowing the costs to attend their universities. When Rick Perry attended Texas A&M in 1970, tuition and fees cost $208 a year as the state paid 85% of the cost of running the university. Forty years ago, Texas kept college costs low enough that a student from a working-class family could reasonably cover the costs of tuition and fees by working during the summer at minimum wage.
What happened since then? Ronald Reagan led a Republican effort to increase costs for college students. When he was governor of California, Reagan complained that college students had it too easy, since the state's universities didn't charge tuition. He ended that populist feature and, after he became president in 1981, Reagan targeted federal assistance for higher education. He cut Pell grants and excluded middle-class students from the program. He limited the grants to lower-income families, which made it easier for Congress to cut the program further. Reagan also cut low-interest student loans and restricted eligibility for them. He phased out Social Security survivors' education benefits, which provided one-fifth of student aid in 1981.
Republicans at the state level also reduced their commitment to keeping higher education affordable for the working class. The Texas Legislature deregulated tuition in 2003 under Gov. Rick Perry. Now the state pays less than 15% of college costs. Texas universities now cost more than $25,000 a year for tuition, fees, room and board. In California, the state pays only 11% of the university budget and it costs undergraduates more than $31,000 annually for tuition, fees, room and board.
States also could reverse the prison-building program that was needed to house the hundreds of thousands of people who were caught possessing and distributing controlled substances, such as marijuana and cocaine, during the War on Drugs.
The number of drug offenders in state prisons nationwide has increased from 19,000 in 1980 to 225,200 today, the Sentencing Project reported. Another 181,700 drug offenders are held in local jails. Most of these people are not high-level actors in the drug trade and no record of violence, the Sentencing Project noted.
Of the roughly 170,000 inmates in Texas prisons, about 90,000 are classified as non-violent, the American Civil Liberties Union noted. But it costs about $20,000 a year to keep an inmate in a Texas prison. Every $20,000 spent to keep a pothead in prison is $20,000 that could be spent sending a budding scholar to college. And if lawmakers don't want to make that shift in public spending priorities, they should at least increase the minimum wage so that college students can pay for their tuition with summer jobs. — JMC
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Camp News and Events Index
Sept. 27, 2014 TX SCV and TSOCR meeting at Lorena , TX.
Oct. 14, 2014 SCV Meeting at the Woodbine Hotel 7 pm.
Oct. 18, 2014 Mushroom Festival Madisonville, TX.
Oct. 25, 2014 Marker Dedication Pankey Cemetery 10 am.
Madison Rose for Marion McCann of the 24th Texas Cavalry at the Burrows sometimes called the McGary Cemetery. Located off FM1428, turn right on Boyd Rd. go 1/2 mile take left go 1/2 mile in Marker dedication by the Thomas Jewett Goree Camp and the pasture Cemetery on right. Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013, 10 A.M. Assistance needed Uniforms and Black Rose.
Texas Mushroom Festival
Oct. 12, 2013
Marker Dedication for William Elijah Collard at the Gourd Creek Cemetery outside of New Waverly TX Oct. 5, 2013.
Passing of Compatriot James Day Burke Sept. 24, 2013
Texas Division Convention June 7th. through June 9th.
Booth at the Battle of El Camino Real Feb. 9, 2013
Marker dedication by the Thomas Jewett Goree Camp and the Madison Rose for Burton Smith Malone of the 7th Texas Cavalry at the Madisonville City Cemetery at 2:00 P.M. Saturday April 27th.
April - Flagging of Confederate Soldiers Graves
Dec. 15th.- Bedias Christmas Parade; TJ Goree & Madison Rose will have a float.
Dec. 11th. - Christmas Party & SCV Meeting 6:30 PM, St.Elizabeth Catholic Church,100 S. Tammye Ln. Madisonville
Dec. 8th. - D.E.C. meeting in Fredericksburg, TX.
Texas Mushroom Festival Booth Oct. 27, 2012 Madisonville TX
Thomas Jewett Goree Camp and Madison Rose Assist Marker Dedication at Willis Cemetery, Willis, TX Oct. 20,2012.
Cammack Cemetery Marker Dedication Saturday, Oct. 13th. 10 A.M. 7171 FM 1372 behind Grace Baptist Church Honoring Pvt. John Lewis Cammack Co. E, 26th. Regiment Texas Calvary
Marker Dedication in the Ebanizer Cemetery Walker Co. 4-5-12.
Marker Dedications in the Madisonville City Cemetery and the
Alphine Cemetery March 24, 2012.
Instated new Camp Officers Feb. 2012 monthly meeting.
Flagging of Confederate Soldiers graves March and April 2012.
Bedias TX Christmas Parade Color Gurad Dec. 17, 2011
Texas Mushroom Festival Oct. 22,2011
Texas Division Convention June fourth through June Sixth 2011.
Camp Awards Four Star Camp Award News Letter Third Place
The Madison County Court House voluntarily displays the First National Flag for the month of April 2011.
Madison and North Grimes Co. Flags for Confederate Soldiers Graves April 9,2011
Battle of El Camino Real Booth Mar. 5, 2011
Bedias Christmas Parade Color Guard Dec. 18, 2010
Christmas Party Dec. 14, 2010
Madisonville Mushroom Festival Oct. 23, 2010
Bedias Homecoming Color Guard and Float June 12, 2010.
Thomas Jewett Goree Camp Awards June 8, 2010
Texas Division Convention June 4 through June 6 2010.
1. Scrap Book fourth place 2. Best Website third place 3. Gold Cross- Larry Sanders 4. Silver Cross- Steve Walters 5. Silver Cross- Larry Figley 6. Silver Cross- Bob Goldstein 7. Bronze Cross- Billy Surface 8. Bronze Cross- Danis Surface OCR 9. Bronze Cross- Jennifier Figley OCR 10. Bronze Cross- Debbie Goldstein OCR 11. Bronze Cross- Lew Plotts 12. ROSE OF THE YEAR TOMMY MAYHOOD
Annual Confederate Memorial Service at Meador Cemetery Jacksonville, TX April 18, 2010.
Placing flags on Confederate graves in Grimes and Madison Counties April 23, 2010.
Proclamation approved by Madison County Judge and Commissioners making April Confederate History and Heritage month for Madsion County April 12, 2010. The First National Flag hoisted on the flag pole.
Battle of El Camino Real Madisonville, TX Recruiting Booth Feb. 6, 2010
Bedias Christmas Parade Color Guard Dec. 12, 2009
Texas Mushroom Festival Merchandise and Recruiting Booth Oct. 17, 2009
BIG AWARDS FOR OUR CAMP AT THE STATE CONVENTION June 12 thru. 14 2009
1. Best Website Award 2. Gold Cross- Billy Surface 3. Silver Cross- Larry Sanders 4. Bronze Cross- Bob Goldstein 5. Bronze Cross- Larry Figley 6. Bronze Cross- Steve Walters 7. OCR Rose of the year- Danis Surface
Congratulations to Billy Surface on being elected Commander of the 9th. Brigade.
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The Most Honorable Madison County Judge Art Henson approves a Proclamation making April Confederate History and Heritage month. All of the Madison County Commissioners signed, and the motion carried. The event took place at the last Commissioners Court meeting March 23, 2009. Look for media coverage to follow. Please see the Photo Gallery for updated photos.
Cemetery Committee Announces Rogers Prairie Cemetery Clean Up
The Clean up took place March 21,2009 and was a great success.
Thanks to everyone that took part in this program. Photos are available
in the PHOTO GALLERY on our web page.
From Normangee go east on OSR about two miles to CR 486. Turn left on CR 486 and go north 200 to 300 yards to first curve in the road. The Cemetery is to the right at this curve.


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Transparency Market Research Report Add "Home Security Solutions Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends And Forecast 2012 - 2018" to its database.
Albany, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 06/20/2013 -- Home security is a growing global market due to the need for safety and increasing crime rates in different parts of the world. The electronic security equipments market foresees tremendous growth potential in the upcoming years due to the growing demand for home security solutions. Security solutions in the residential sector is experiencing significant growth since the past few years due to the adoption of electronic security solutions and the increasing rates of burglary, and attractive insurance policies to residents for installing the security systems.
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Despite the numerous advantages offered by home security systems, lack of awareness about technological encroachments and a higher cost of security solutions are some important factors that are posing a challenge to the growth of the home security system solutions market. Governments and major players are taking initiatives to enhance awareness levels among consumers and achieve better co-operation among solution providers. Rise in the awareness levels among consumers and increased adoption of new technology for home security will gradually result in cost reduction of the solution, thus driving the market for home security solutions.
The global home security solutions market is categorized based on technology segments such as communication technologies, wired technology, wireless technology, and sensing technology. The product segments of this market include electronic locks, panic buttons, security cameras, sensors, and alarms among others. Amongst the product segments, electronic locks and security sensors are the most popular and widely used segments
Some of the major players in this market include Bosch Security Systems Inc., Tyco International Ltd., and Honeywell International Inc. Other important players in the home security systems market are Control4 Corp., GE Security Inc., Alarm.com Inc., Icontrol Networks Inc., Home Automation Inc., AMX Corp., and Siemens Building Technologies AG.
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You know those curmudgeony guys who have been married for years, who like to joke around about not needing their wives or being better off without their wives or envying the bachelor life? They think they're sooo funny. They're the kinds of guys who will say something like, "You have two choices -- be married and bored or single and lonely."
Agh. Now, I know that being 27 and unmarried -- albeit in a long-term relationship for 4.5 years -- may render me a bit naïve, but I strongly believe that you do not have to choose between these two dreary fates. And to think that that's all there is is nothing but a pessimistic, crotchety perspective.
Yes, being with the same person for years has the tendency to get humdrum no matter how much you love each other. Even if you're blissfully happy, boredom can creep in when you're least expecting it.
In fact, a new study even found that 65 percent of marriages end in divorce because couples found married life "mediocre." It's like a whole generation of "semi-happy" spouses said "I do," and then without much ado, decided that being Mr. & Mrs. just felt ... meh.
And I get it, but at the same time, it feels like we're all being a little lazy, no? Or we have the attention spans of fleas? I mean ... what did these semi-happy couples think marriage was going to be? A trip to the amusement park 24/7/365? It's not. I know our Boomer parents screwed up, so they're kind of useless as role models, but did we learn nothing from our grandparents' generation? Marriage is not easy. It's hard work, it's good some days and great others and crappy at times, and it's certainly not a constant adrenaline rush. In fact, that adrenaline rush wears off pretty quickly.
But so what? You're bored? Okay -- fix it! That's what commitment is about. Making it work -- as a team. Setting up and putting off those fireworks again and again. Because they're not going to do it themselves like they did in the beginning, but that's okay, because you have someone to love and who loves you back, who you can trust, come home to, have children with, share memories and milestones with. If having a lifetime of love and partnership constitutes boredom, fine, but when you're with the right person, I would think you'd find same old-same old to be pretty amazing.
It seems to me those wife-loathing Al Bundys of the world are actually more content acting miserable about marriage. Otherwise, I think they'd make their own happiness and decide whether or not to be bored in long-term love.
What's your take -- do people have control over boredom in marriage or is it inevitable?
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Advisors And Partners Within The San Antonio Schools
Advisors And Partners Within The San Antonio Schools
Public education is having a difficult time. The San Antonio Schools and districts nationwide are struggling to fulfill No Child Left Behind (NCLB) mandates and tighter state requirements. One result it has is the fact that areas such as the San Antonio Schools are being forced to improve their expectations. Another effect is that time and funds are increasingly being sent to acquiring additional staff, test planning, and consistent tests to meet up newer demands. None of those results is totally good or bad. Each of them have positive and negative effects on the San Antonio Schools. That is why NCLB has stirred up such controversy.
How the San Antonio Schools Should Answer
One of the problems is the way the San Antonio Schools can meet higher standards and the need for more teachers over a public school districts often limited budget. Frankly, its easy to explain the problems with a national program like NCLB. If you choose to dig up more about jose antonio loret de mola, we know about heaps of resources people might consider investigating. But even for someone like myself who thinks that standardized tests should be only 1 of many checks used to gauge a students progress, I've to acknowledge that the pres-sure forces schools to boost in certain places. Just the sudden appearance of school ratings for k-12 general interest on websites and in local and national magazines puts pressure on the San Antonio Schools to execute at their peak level. However the truth is the schools cant do it alone.
One method that the San Antonio Schools is using to help increase student achievement is by tapping into community resources. Business partners and community mentors are among the most readily useful resources that the San Antonio Schools have. In case you want to identify further on research jose loret de mola gomory, there are many databases people should investigate. Business partners can help the San Antonio Schools with financial benefits, expertise and technology donations, career advice for students, and the implementation of practical student internships. I learned about gomory loret de mola jose antonio by browsing webpages. Teachers can offer students in San Antonio Schools with good role models, personal tutoring, individual support, and classroom guidance.
The other essential element of using local companies and people to improve students success is that it ties town with a common goal. Senior citizens on a fixed income are less likely to want to whine about their fees if they know the San Antonio Schools students that money is helping. And the retired community across the San Antonio Schools has a wealth of information and knowledge that many are ready to discuss.
Scholarships within the San Antonio Schools
Community groups, local businesses and the University of Texas have all get together to provide the San Antonio: Making Mentoring a Partnership Scholarship pro-gram. This project provides a minimum of 2 yrs of mentoring to San Antonio Schools students who meet specific requirements which include a minimum 2.5 grade-point average, and economic need.
This is exactly the sort of pro-gram that people must see more of. I learned about loret by browsing books in the library. Community involvement and relationships with corporate America would be the only ways that the public school system can achieve its objectives and provide students with a quality education..


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Marketwire via StimulatingBroadband.com 09/17/09 WASHINGTON, DC- Speaking today to Members of Congress attending a Mississippi Delta Grassroots Caucus Conference at Dirksen Senate Office Building, Robert Dansby, CEO of Edgenics, announced their "Computers for Rural America" Program.
Edgenics, a provider of broadband infrastructure and Value Added Services such as e-learning and telemedicine offerings, announced its plan to bring comprehensive low-cost broadband services to rural communities. Under its plan, Edgenics will provide subscribers in rural areas with a complete solution that includes Internet connectivity, a NetBook computer and related services at industry leading pricing.
Having already deployed the first phase of a national broadband network that will power innovative, video-centric services, interactive distance-learning and other Web 2.0 applications, Edgenics has built a reliable virtual broadband core network and co-located data-center facilities with funding originally approved by USDA RUS in 2002. To support its Computers for Rural America program, Edgenics will provide broadband connectivity services as well as cost-leading digital access devices that will provide the tools necessary for customers to access broadband "pipes."
Robert Dansby, Ph.D., CEO of Edgenics, commented, "Our emerging deployment of broadband in rural markets will create an amazing array of education, job training and business development opportunities. In order for new rural broadband subscribers to fully benefit from these broadband 'pipes,' they will need both the connectivity AND low cost computers with which to connect to the Internet. By deploying a quality broadband infrastructure, we are positioned to offer services directly to rural consumers that they have not had the opportunity to realize before. For example, envision a person requiring specialized physician care who lives miles away from the nearest physician, clinic or hospital. With the assistance of a local nurse or physician's assistant, we can deliver critical healthcare support to rural patients using our broadband network and specialized digital diagnostic devices.
"Industry studies show that school participation increases dramatically when students have the tools needed for self-discovery of their own learning styles. Edgenics is a proven implementer of innovative educational programs such as its Advanced Learning Skills Program, which has been provided to students at the DuBois Scholars Institute at Princeton University and the Promise Academy. Our missions are complementary with those of schools and other community anchor institutions that are working to improve educational outcomes. Together, we will make a significant impact on the well-being of broadband users in Rural America."
Broadband for rural areas is highlighted in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) signed by President Obama earlier this year. The Recovery Act provided a total of $7.2 billion to the Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service (RUS) to accelerate broadband deployment in areas of the country that have been without this high-speed infrastructure.
Dansby says that, "Broadband initiatives that are focused on deploying broadband infrastructure and services in rural markets are an important step forward. Our 'Computers for Rural America' Program will provide rural residents and students with much needed digital access devices and other resources."
About Edgenics
Edgenics is an e-learning company that focuses on providing innovative technology-based learning solutions and services. Edgenics works closely with its university partners and education professionals to provide high-quality educational content and instructional resources. Edgenics provides leading-edge interactive multimedia online distance-learning services using integrated software, Internet and networking technologies.


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Ligue 1 Preview: PSG hit by Silva injury blow
Paris Saint-Germain will need to overcome the absence of Thiago Silva in order to kick-start their Ligue 1 title defence by beating Bastia.
The defending champions host the Corsicans at the Parc des Princes on Saturday and will be have a point to prove after being held 2-2 at Reims in the season opener last Friday.
However, Laurent Blanc's men will have to do so without skipper Silva, who is set to be out for several weeks after suffering a hamstring injury in a friendly with Napoli on Monday.
That should serve as welcome news to a Bastia side that began life under Claude Makelele with a 3-3 draw against Marseille, showing impressive potency in attack.
However, former PSG player and assistant coach Makelele, who left the capital club to take over at the Stade Armand Cesari in May, will be wary of the threat posed to his fallible defence by Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
The 32-year-old striker netted both goals in the draw with Reims and should be confident of adding to his tally after scoring three against Bastia in 2013-14.
Last season's runners-up Monaco travel to Bordeaux with new coach Leonardo Jardim still searching for his first competitive win since taking over from Claudio Ranieri.
Monaco were dealt a surprising 2-1 home loss to Lorient last weekend, Valentin Lavigne scoring the winner for the Brittany club three minutes from time.
It may be early in the season, but Jardim will know that he cannot afford the poor results to mount up and will be keen to ease the pressure on him with victory at the Stade Chaban Delmas, where Monaco won 2-0 last term.
Lorient will look to build on that stunning victory in their opening home game against Nice, while newly-promoted Caen host Lille following a blistering start to life back in the French top flight.
Caen began their quest for survival with a fine 3-0 success at Evian, but will face a difficult challenge against a Lille side that has not missed out on the top six since 2008 and will be determined to bounce back after a disappointing goalless draw with Metz.
Marcelo Bielsa takes charge of his first home league game as Marseille coach against Montpellier in a clash that is to be held at the Stade Velodrome after a disagreement over rental fees was settled, although the fixture has been pushed back from 14.00 (local time) to 17.00 due to the extreme heat in the Provencal city.
The two other promoted teams will each be aiming to seal their first victories of the campaign as Lens play host to Guingamp, whose Brittany rivals Nantes visit new-boys Metz.
Elsewhere, Rennes meet Evian, Lyon look to continue their good start at Toulouse and Reims face an intimidating task to claim all three points at the cauldron that is Saint-Etienne's Stade Geoffroy Guichard.


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Nostra Terra, in a newly-formed joint venture with Independent Resources plc, has completed the acquisition of the 50 per cent. interest in the East Ghazalat concession in Egypt from TransGlobe Petroleum International Inc, a wholly owned subsidiary of TransGlobe Energy Corporation for US$3.5 million, as first announced on 6 October 2015.
•Current gross production from East Ghazalat is approximately 880 barrels of oil per day (bopd), based on average June 2015 production levels (440 bopd net to JVCO).
•Gross Company 2P reserves attributable to the 50 per cent. interest acquired at the effective date of 30 June 2015 were estimated at 1,008,922 barrels of oil (DeGolyer and MacNaughton Canada Limited estimate).
•Implied acquisition cost of US$3.47 per barrel of 2P oil reserves and US$7,955 per barrel of daily oil production attributable to the Acquired Interest.
•The concession also includes two gas discoveries mentioned by TransGlobe on 28 August 2013 and 3 September 2014 in North Dabaa 1X and North Dabaa 2X respectively. North Dabaa 1X tested at an average rate of 16 million cubic feet per day (MMCFD) and 1,620 barrels per day of condensate. North Dabaa 2X tested at 18.7 MMCFD and 542 barrels per day of condensate. No reserves have been attributed for these discoveries.
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12TiP - A randomized, phase III study of fotemustine versus the combination of fotemustine and ipilimumab or the combination of ipilimumab and nivolumab in...
|20 November 2015
|ESMO Symposium on Immuno-Oncology 2015
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|Annals of Oncology (2015) 26 (suppl_8): 5-14. 10.1093/annonc/mdv514
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The anti-CTLA-4 monoclonal antibody (mAb) ipilimumab (Ipi) significantly improves the survival of metastatic melanoma (MM) patients. Initial studies have evaluated the therapeutic potential of Ipi also in MM patients with brain metastasis (BM), providing preliminary evidences of efficacy in this subset of subjects with a highly dismal prognosis and limited efficacy of available therapeutic options. The multicentric, phase 2, Italian Network for Tumor Biotherapy (NIBIT)-M1 trial, combining Ipi with fotemustine, showed promising signs of activity in a subset of 20 MM subjects with active BM, regardless of prior radiotherapy (Di Giacomo et al., Lancet Oncol, 2012). Noteworthy, disease control in the brain was long lasting achieving a 3-year survival rate of 28%, similar to that of patients without BM (Di Giacomo et al., Annals Oncol, 2014). Based these preliminary results and on the therapeutic efficacy of Ipi in combination with nivolumab (Nivo) in MM patients without BM, the NIBIT-M2 study has been designed to further explore the efficacy of check-point blocking mAb in MM patients with BM.
Trial design
The NIBIT-M2 is a randomized, phase 3, open-label, study that will enroll 168 MM patients with untreated, asymptomatic BM, ECOG performance status of 0 or 1, BRAF W/T or mutant disease. Patients will be randomized to receive fotemustine i.v. at 100 mg/m2 weekly for 3 weeks (wk), and q3 wk from week 9 (ARM A) or Ipi i.v. at 10 mg/kg q3 wk for 4 doses and once q12 wk from week 24 in combination with fotemustine (ARM B) or Ipi i.v. at 3 mg/kg q3 wk for 4 doses in combination with Nivo at 1 mg/kg q3 wk for 4 doses and then Nivo at 3 mg/kg q2 wk (ARM C). Primary objective is OS; secondary are safety, DCR in and outside the brain, ORR and DOR evaluated using both the modified-WHO response criteria and the immune-related response criteria; PFS, 3- and 6-months Brain-PFS rate, and Quality of Life. Phenotypic and functional cellular and humoral translational studies will correlate the immunomodulatory activity of treatment with clinical outcomes. Thirty-two patients have been enrolled to date.
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A.M. Di Giacomo: Compensated educational activities Bristol Myers Squibb, Roche, MSD. M. Maio: Consultant, Advisor or both to Bristol Myers Squibb, Roche, Medimmune-AstraZeneca, MSD.


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Discussion in 'Design and Graphics' started by tony3d, Mar 14, 2013.
I think I've done all I know how to do with this. Any final input would be great.
smacks of HDRI setup. No GI, no area shadows. Im a tough critic. Anything less than 100% in vray and i dont like it. all the modeling and composition are good. not sure i like the angle.
If you're creating an icon, I don't think the angle is bad. I do agree, however, agree with the comment about the lighting. A subtle second (and third) light source would help, or you could use an environment map.
I think that you've got everything but the lighting here going for you. The model and the textures look good. At small sizes, it'll look perfectly fine, but when being viewed larger....
It doesn't look bad at all, it just could look better.
Were you the guy that posted the rendering of a stereo the other day that used Lightwave? If so, I linked to a Global Illumination tutorial for Lightwave that might kick this up a notch.
Does this look better? I'm using GI.
the camera is set too wide, choose a higher focal length to make it look more professional. I dont know how focal length translates to 3d cameras but on a normal SLR a lens set to around 100mm would be closer to what the human eye sees. That looks more like 35mm. A higher focal length will zoom it in a lot which means you have to place the camera further away, you may think that defeats the purpose but it affects the perspective dramatically, it will make it protrude less and look like it was taken with a high quality camera and not a crappy point and shoot.
see this for how focal length affects the perspective http://www.expertphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/focal-length-comparison.jpeg, the wider the more exaggerated the distance from near to far is, the longer the more flat. Anything around 100mm is best for portrait stuff like this, going up to 200mm isnt uncommon either, the good thing about 3d is you can have any focal length and aperture combination you want instead of spending thousands on different lenses.
One thing I noticed is that the glass looks to perfect. OP what program are you using? I would say for the bulbs sculpt a few imperfections in them to make them look like a real glass bulb.
I also think the GI scene looks much better.
Yeah, I think that looks a fair bit better. Try turning on ambient occlusion too. It's meant to be a faster alternative to simulate the crevice darkening/ shadowing effects that you get with GI, but I like to use both most of the time, render time permitting.
Really just nitpicky stuff to make it look photorealistic past that, though. The paint might be chipped in certain parts, there might be scratches on the glass, etc.
I think it's looking good.
Improved transformer texture.
I like the new texture.
Thanks for the comments. Actually vacuum tubes really do look that perfect. This being a very high end amp, scratches wouldn't be appropriate.


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After Bashing Americans, Gruber Sets Sights on Insulting ISIS
by E. Williams on 18/11/14 at 5:30 am
WASHINGTON D.C. – (satireworld.com)
Fresh off video evidence he called Americans "too stupid to understand Obamacare," Jonathan Gruber is turning his attention to embarrassing and insulting Middle East terrorist group ISIS. "The President thought I did such a bang-up job belittling the American voter that he wants me to take cheap shots at ISIS too," Gruber said.
"Unfortunately, those fellows in ISIS don't recognize how critically important climate change is. So we will have to push legislation through the United Nations that will affect territories they currently hold in the Middle East. We know better than they do when it comes to the weather so we will dupe them just like we did with Americans on healthcare."
A near-mummified Nancy Pelosi has already chimed in on the situation saying, "The UN will have to push climate change regulations through, uh, to find out what climate change is."
Gruber hinted at some of the false information he will use to get passage of the climate change legislation:
– A 3% increase in CO2 in the Middle East will cause ISIS fighters to feel more sluggish from the heat and result in a 10% drop off in honor killings.
– Camel emissions must be curtailed by 20% over the next ten years or all Muslim women will have to trade their burqas for bikinis.
– If warming is not stopped immediately, polar ice caps will melt and force their goats to flee to higher ground.
"I'm still coming up with bullshit, like I did with healthcare," Gruber said, "And I'm just getting started! Fortunately, I'm the smartest asshole in the world so this should be a walk in the park."


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In conjunction with BPM 2014
8 September 2014, Haifa, Israel relocated to Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Selmin Nurcan – University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France
Rainer Schmidt – Aalen University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Based on the successful BPMS2 workshops organised in conjunction with BPM'08, BPM'09, BPM'10, BPM'11 and BPM'12, the goal of the BMS2'2013 workshop is to promote the integration of business process management with social software and to enlarge the community pursuing the theme.
Social software (1) is a new paradigm that is spreading quickly in society, organizations and economics. It enables social business (2) that has created a multitude of success stories. More and more enterprises use social software to improve their business processes and create new business models. Social software is used both in internal and external business processes. Using social software, the communication with the customer is increasingly bi-directional. E.g. companies integrate customers into product development to capture ideas for new products and features. Social software also creates new possibilities to enhance internal business processes by improving the exchange of knowledge and information, to speed up decisions, etc.
Social software is based on four principles: weak ties, social production, egalitarianism and mutual service provisioning.
Up to now, the interaction of social software and its underlying paradigms with business processes have not been investigated in depth. Therefore, the objective of the workshop is to explore how social software interacts with business process management, how business process management has to change to comply with weak ties, social production, egalitarianism and mutual service, and how business processes may profit from these principles.
The common effort of workshop participants created two papers:
S. Erol, M. Granitzer, S. Happ, S. Jantunen, B. Jennings, P. Johannesson, A. Koschmider, S. Nurcan, D. Rossi, and R. Schmidt, Combining BPM and social software: contradiction or chance?, Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice, vol. 22, no. 6-7, pp. 449-476, Oct. 2010.
G. Bruno, F. Dengler, B. Jennings, R. Khalaf, S. Nurcan, M. Prilla, M. Sarini, R. Schmidt, and R. Silva, Key challenges for enabling agile BPM with social software, Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 297-326, Jun. 2011.
(1) Rainer Schmidt and Selmin Nurcan, "BPM and Social Software" in BPM2008 Workshop Proceedings (Milano, 2008).
(2) D. Kiron, D. Palmer, A. N. Phillips, and N. Kruschwitz, "Social Business: What are Companies Really Doing??, Massachusetts Institute of Technolog.y
(3) M.S. Granovetter, "The Strength of Weak Ties," American Journal of Sociology, vol. 78, 1973, S. 1360.
(4) Y. Benkler, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom, Yale University Press, 2006
(5) J. Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds, Anchor, 2005.
(6) S. Vargo, P. Maglio, und M. Akaka, "On value and value co-creation: A service systems and service logic perspective," European Management Journal, vol. 26, June. 2008, S. 145-152.


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The popular FOX animated series, BOB's BURGERS is taking their show on the road with live shows. On May 10, some of the voice performers which include comics like Jon Bednjamin, Eugene Mirman, Kristen Schaal, Dan Mintz and John Roberts appear live in a show at Portland, Oregon's Crystal Ballroom. Apparently missing from this tour is Sarah Silverman who sometimes voices some characters as well. Sarah Silverman and her elder sister, Laura, voice Ollie and Jimmy Pesto from the Italian restaurant.
With this season already in the can, the cast of BOB'S BURGERS have found a unique way to do a live version of their show for the road.
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The Fitzwilliam Museum has recently been allocated the David Glynn collection of English parian ware statuary, totalling 360 pieces. Parian, a type of bisque porcelain imitating pure white marble from Paros in Greece, was invented in around 1845, and had the advantage over marble in being cheaper and easier to mass reproduce. The Glynn collection is mainly made up of busts or full-length portraits of famous men from ancient Greece and Rome, or well-known English 'celebrities', e.g. William Shakespeare, Lord Byron and members of the Royal Family.
In collaboration with the Department of Art History at Birmingham University, the Fitzwilliam will be applying to the Arts and Humanities Research Council for funding in order to fully document and research this collection of national significance. This project will result in a conference and a publication examining the manufacturing processes and social context of 19th-century parian ware, illustrated with pieces from the Glynn Collection.
The entire collection will also be put on display in the museum in the early part of 2018 as part of an installation by ceramic artist and curator, Matt Smith.


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|Oh my goodness!!
We all scream for Ice Cream! It's been hot, dang hot! When it's hot I want ice cream, not just any old ice cream but rich, creamy home made ice cream and this fills the bill.
This is my ice cream maker. I love kitchen gadgets but that being said my gadgets have to be cost effective. This maker was pretty inexpensive, makes a quart at a time and I've had it about five years. (I don't have any affiliation with this product, I just use it.)
Easy As Can Be Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream
serves 12
- 4 cups half-and-half or whole milk or whatever milk you have
- 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk ( THIS IS THE KEY INGREDIENT)
- 2 tablespoons vanilla extract
- In your blender or a large bowl combine ingredients; mix well. Pour into ice cream freezer container. Freeze according to manufacturer's instructions. This will make 2 quarts for me so I have to make two batches. Freeze leftovers, as if!
Linking to Farm Girl Friday at Deborah Jean's Dandelion House.
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GLOW's LABS group has been exploring the possibilities of AR and VR ad we want to position our clients and contacts to succeed in this emerging space. Our "happy hour" seminar will give you the background knowledge and hands-on experience to point you in the right (augmented) direction—to understand the opportunities this space provides for your business.
Bring your digital, social, interactive, and executive teams. You will come out of it with a new vocabulary, actual ideas, and legit action items.
- "Happy hour" intros - drinks and food to make introductions and get acquainted.
- Q&A - we ask a few questions to learn about your experiences specific to using actual demos of AR and VR, as well as overall knowledge of the space, and the your team's initial thoughts of how you've been applying it to your brand.
- GLOW LABS - a brief introduction to GLOW LABS, an internal group at GLOW that focuses on innovation and emerging tech, e.g. AR and VR!
- Thought starters and demo presentation - we lead a discussion through various categories of AR, with live demos, and how they can be applied to things that actually matter to you: an upcoming launch or campaign—your work!
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Bill Sampson: Testing Rorschach - Art Collector
|Issue 53, July - September 2010
|Like Rorschach blots, Bill Sampson's large-scale works feel out the very boundaries of our imagination writes Edward Colless.
|Rorschach blots – those symmetrical butterfly silhouettes of black ink on white card – are used in psychotherapy as prompts for a patient to talk unwittingly about their anxieties, secret wishes or guilt. And what do we see? Usually something we don't care to admit to. Leonardo da Vinci provided a similar trigger, not for neurotic confession but to jump-start a stalled artistic imagination, when he advised staring at a stain on a wall for inspiration. In both cases it's crucial that the mark you're looking at is manufactured randomly, so that while it might mean anything – it can also appear, perhaps miraculously or malevolently – to have a hidden meaning revealed exclusively to yourself.
To some extent, Bill Sampson's swirling blobs, eddies, whorls, bubbles and gaseous blooms of ink and paint have the same semantic ambiguity as the splodges of Rorschach or da Vinci, although judging from his latest paintings Sampson's creativity hardly needs therapeutic nudging. This work is lush, manic, urgent, febrile and in equal parts comic and sinister. And compared to the discrete insinuations or promptings of a crack in a wall that only gradually begins to resemble a mouth or an eye, Sampson's abstractions are so maniacally suggestive and unforced they seem unstoppably garrulous and joyfully arrogant with the hallucinatory charge of optical aberration and even psychedelic auras. But like clouds resembling animals, Sampson's imagery also seems to come out of thin air; at least, it manifests as emanations and waves of some indecipherable energy field, simultaneously spectral and tidal.
In fact, Sampson pulls these images out of a marbling bath, although it's a bath on the scale of a pool and his technique requires breakneck pace and muscularity rather than the delicate dipping associated with marbling as a craft of decoration. Magnifying the dimensions and devices of traditional marbling, he turns the decorative into an indecorous clamour. But there's skilled invention as well as distortion to his technique: concentric radiating bands, for instance, that can flutter nervously or vibrate with sensuous expectation, and that can solidify like geological deposits or a cross-section of tree rings. Yet even when they settle into sediments these striations seem still to be on the move: dribbling and trickling through hairline cleavages, wrinkling and undulating with seismic tremors or migrating and subsiding like the contour lines of sand dunes in a dust storm so that they resemble embryonic cell walls fluctuating and subdividing.
Because these globules and currents are formed on or just below the surface of the marbling bath, their horizon line is laid out flat across the entire skin of the image. It's the perspective of viewing a wafer-thin slice of something liquid, squeezed out or smeared transparently across a microscope slide but at a macroscopic magnitude. Keep in mind too that these images are a sort of monoprint – momentary and indexical transcriptions at a one-to-one scale of something we cannot actually see: the pool's point of view of the corpuscles dancing in its blood stream, or more accurately and technically the flotsam that churns around on its surface. It's the pond's-eye view of its own rippling reflective waves, and of the pond scum occluding its view. Directly stained by these flurries and currents, these images then are like thumbprints of a primordial soup, swampy and gelatinous and brimming with the stuff that can make life crawl out of it.
And what does emerge from the goop? These elusive and sexually allusive biomorphic shapes jiggle, pout, slide, ripple and shimmy with an animal or insect agility in loony, extravagant gesticulations – feelers prodding, waggling mandibles, phallic stingers and puckering orifices receptively opening, cyclopean eyes blinking on the end of penile stalks or on frenetic spermatozoa. It's as if Sampson has turned the oversized marbling bath into a lens or mystically charged photographed plate on which we are seeing an otherwise invisible storm of mischievous sprites and spooks leaving their impressions. Just when you thought it was safe to go in the water.


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"The Europeans killed six million Jews out of 12 million, but today the Jews rule the world by proxy," the prime minister said. "They get others to fight and die for them." Muslims are "up against a people who think," he said, adding that the Jews "invented socialism, communism, human rights and democracy so that persecuting them would appear to be wrong, so that they can enjoy equal rights with others."
The false and evil words of Mahathir Mohamad and their enthusiastic acceptance by Moslem leaders the world over will, without doubt, be responsible for the persecution if not the deaths of innocent Jews living in Muslim nations and elsewhere. Just as troubling is the muted response from Europe and the U.S.
According to The Times editorial, "The European Union was asked to include a condemnation of Mr. Mahathir's speech in its statement yesterday ending its own summit. It chose not to, adding a worry that displays of anti-Semitism are being met with inexcusable nonchalance." At the European Union, the Italian Foreign Minister, Franco Frattini, sought to have the E.U. deplore the Malaysian Prime Minister's call to arms against Jews everywhere. Frattini's effort was rejected by French President Jacques Chirac. According to the New York Post, Chirac "convinced members [of the E.U.] to leave any criticizing of Mahathir to Italy." Why? "It would not have been appropriate for the European Union, a French official said." Subsequently, Chirac issued his own letter, which is worthless, given that he conveyed his true feelings with his earlier action.
President Bush rebuked Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad directly, stating that his comments were "wrong and divisive," and that they stand "squarely against what I believe in." Our president's response, while appreciated, is not what is required. A clarion call equivalent to Emile Zola's J'Accuse directed to the world community is what is needed.
Is it any wonder that 60 years after World War II, Jews and righteous gentiles are thinking here we go again. Most occupied European nations collaborated with Nazi Germany during World War II, delivering their own Jewish citizens to the Nazis for transport to the death camps. This was especially true of France, which offered up its Jews even before being asked to do so.
I will not forget that Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was one of our greatest presidents and who saved the world from being conquered by the Nazis, nevertheless failed to grant U.S. visas to European Jews before World War II began, a humanitarian act that could have saved many Jews who were later murdered in Nazi extermination camps.
Besides focusing on "Islamic Anti-Semitism" in its editorial, The Times should have included a ringing denunciation of the virulent anti-Semitism that can now be found in nearly every country at levels not reached since shortly before the outbreak of World War II. So-called "Islamic Anti-Semitism" is no different than the Jew-hatred that now pervades Britain and France, much of it disguised as "anti-Israeli" or "anti-Zionist" statements. Even France's ambassador to Great Britain, Daniel Bernard, referred to Israel as "that shitty little country."
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Today I found out that there will be a guitar that I will be able to use at my school in Sweden. The guy who has been keeping corresponding with me and helping me with stuff said I would be able to use his guitar there. I'm very excited. Guitar is something I can NOT live without. Alongside with the computer. And girls. What? Girls? What girls? I hear everyone asking.
Yeah. Here's the second piece of news for me today. I was told that there's not gonna be anyone ELSE at school except Swedish students. Of course, it made me kinda sad. I began feeling lonely already here. But today I found out that there will indeed be someone OTHER than Swedes at school – a certain girl from Latvia who is staying there for another semester. In Dane Cook's words, How bad-a** is that? That is cool, man. Seriously though, the news brightened my dull day and set a ray of light into my otherwise bleak existence. I think being away from home for so long will not be as boring and as depressing as it could be after all. Oh, the only condition is that we should speak Swedish with each other. But come on! How hard is that?
P.S. Everything written above is meant literally with NO double or triple or quadruple thoughts and/or between-the-lines meanings whatsoever. Honest!


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Monday, December 31, 2007
Snow Falling on Uptown
Even though Snow is wicked, it's still pretty. Picture taken with a 15 second aperture. It was actually late at night, not daylight.
Saturday, December 22, 2007
The counterintuitive finding contradicts a prominent global climate model that predicts the Amazon forest would begin to "brown down" after just a month of drought and eventually collapse as the drought progressed.
"Instead of 'hunkering down' during a drought as you might expect, the forest responded positively to drought, at least in the short term," said study author Scott R. Saleska of The University of Arizona. "It's a very interesting and surprising response."
UA co-author Kamel Didan added, "The forest showed signs of being more productive. That's the big news."
The 2005 drought reached its peak at the start of the Amazon's annual dry season, from July through September. Although the double whammy of the parched conditions might be expected to slow growth of the forest's leafy canopy, for many of the areas hit by drought, the canopy of the undisturbed forest became significantly greener -- indicating increased photosynthetic activity.
Saleska, a UA assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, and his colleagues at the UA and at the University of São Paulo in Brazil used data from two NASA satellites to figure out that undisturbed Amazon forest flourished as rainfall levels plummeted.
Observation 1: More fodder for skeptics. Observation 2: Adds to my own growing healthy skepticism about claims made by a certain UN Panel over the last year about the coming end of human civilization.
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Tonight I'm going to bake cookies and read a book. Over the weekend I'll finish up whatever shopping is left and make some more gifts.
For next year: I would like people to just tell me what they want (within reason). I don't like the whole shopping thing.
Oh, and I don't want anything (although a big screen TV would be nice but I know it's not happening.). So don't buy me anything. Seriously. I mean it.
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
What has happened to me?
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Winter's here!
Otherwise, no, I hate snow.
A grrrr
I mean seriously...sheesh.
I am officially no longer looking (even though it's only been 5 months.)
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Is It Real? Pennsylvania Bigfoot
It sparked something that was on the front page of the Harrisburg Patriot News four Saturdays ago. Does Bigfoot exist in Pennsylvania?
The deer hunt is big in Pennsylvania. Actually, most hunting is, as PA is likely the most conservative of all the "Blue States."
It is so big that pretty much all the school districts in the middle of the state close on the Monday after Thanksgiving as the opening of Buck Season is more or less a de-facto holiday. As a result of all these hunters stampeding on the woods at the end of November, every year, there are lots of stories about the Pennsylvania Game Commission lying about the number of deer and the size of the state's herd. Personally I think the deer have figured out where hunters are not allowed to go, as they're not exactly stupid creatures (except in headlights) and there's not a suburban area in the state that doesn't complain about being overrun with deer.
A guy, an average every day hunting Pennsylvanian decided he was going to get the upper hand this year. He scoped out a trail with a 24/7 trail camera in the deepest of Pennsylvania's forest: the Allegheny National Forest in Northwestern PA, which is also the location of one of the very few stands of old growth forest in the state (the logging industry stripped the state literally bare during the 19th and early 20th centuries). He wanted to find a good spot to put his tree stand to shoot some deer. He was not looking for unknown legendary humanoid creatures.
This is what his camera captured. (Note: the site linked asserts that cryptids such as Bigfoot are real. As the photos are copyrighted by the original hunter, you'll have to click the link to see them. FWIW, PA apparently has a lot of sightings, which is not surprising considering how much of the state is actually covered in forest, which is most of it.)
Bear? or no...
I think it's a bear. The pictures were taken in September, at the end of a dry and warm summer. It's possible that the bear has lots of mange, which is the image the Patriot News put up on its front page on November 2.
As to the overall question: I don't know. I seriously doubt that in a world of 6.5 billion humans, a creature like the Yeti, or Bigfoot could exist without being seriously detected. There are 12 million people in PA, and while most of the state is covered in mountains and forests and most of those people live near Philadelphia or near Pittsburgh, very little of it is actually remote. Indeed, the Allegheny National Forest is undergoing some serious and extensive gas and oil exploration these days thanks to the Bush Administration. Is it possible, perhaps, but not very likely. However I do wonder, as another creature alleged to not exist in Pennsylvania may exist indeed: the Mountain Lion, sightings of which have been reported for years, even in the Philadelphia inner ring suburbs in 1995 (an event I remember well, because the woods where this animal allegedly prowled for a week were directly across from where I lived), and by a sitting State Senator who I happen to do a lot of work with in my job.
Anything's possible, but I'm a skeptic.


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My friend and frequent foil Russell Arben Fox is throwing in the towel. After years of struggling manfully (if I may be permitted so patriarchal a term in this enlightened age) in the cruel netherworld of adjuct academia he is walking away from the academy. It makes me very sad. First and foremost, it makes me sad because I know that it saddens Russell immensely. His is a soul cut out for the life of the mind: intelligent, curious, intensely introspective, iconoclasitic without the idiot-French-college-student-protester persona that label can sometimes invoke, and gentlemanly. He is the sort of person that you enjoy sitting down for an evening of conversation and erudition with. Furthermore, as a Mormon communitarian he has made a wonderful antagonist for my meandering Mormon liberalism. With his exit from academia comes his exit from blogging. I'll miss him greatly.
His exit calls forth two observations from me. The first is the cruelty and abitrariness of the academic meat market. Another friend of mine recently made the very wise observation that academia is basically designed for the gentleman scholar of independent means or the monk. So true! The crap shoot of the academic market -- particularlly in the humanities -- drives out those like Russell who have obligations to family and a hankering after place that keeps them from happily bouncing from one adjuct position to another for a decade or so before landing a tenure-track home. It also saddens me because I know of people who have found such homes, yet lack Russell's wit, intelligence, or commitment to the life of the mind. There are many things that are deeply wrong with our universities, and their inability to find Russell Arben Fox a place is one of them.
The second observation is the connections of blogging. I try to resist the blogs-as-community meme. It is a short journey from community, to pointless navel gazing, to vacuous gossip. I prefer to think of blogging as a very informal kind of publishing, or perhaps a slightly more formal version of conversation. Still, I consider Russell my good friend, even though our meetings and conversations outside of the context of blogging or email have been fairly limited. On the other hand, over the last several years we have sparred weekly -- sometimes daily -- and cooperated on shared enterprises. We'll stay in touch, but he will no longer be the fixture in my online conversations that he has become. I'll be a poorer person because of it.
Godspeed, my friend...


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Saturday Night Visits: May 30
I fell quite behind on my blog reading while I was on vacation last week. I spent some time catching up this weekend (though I was by no means able to actually read all of the posts that I missed), and I do have a few Kidlitosphere highlights for you today. I'll be back Monday with some more literacy-focused news, both here and at Booklights.
People have started receiving ARCs of the Hunger Games sequel, Catching Fire (talk about an accurate title - this book is catching fire in the market already). PW has an article about it here. The first review that I saw (a positive one!) was from Tasha Saecker at Kids Lit. Sadly, I have not been among the lucky ARC recipients. But I am glad to hear that the book is being well-received. Really. And perhaps my copy is just slow making it out to California, don't you think? Or, I should have gone to BEA.
Great news! Kelly Herold, of Big A little a and Cybils fame (and one of my very first blog friends), is back after a bit of a blogging hiatus. She's started a new blog called Crossover. She explains: "This blog, Crossover, focuses on a rare breed of book—the adult book teens love, the teen book adults appreciate, and (very, very occasionally) that Middle Grade book adults read. I'm interested in reviewing books that transcend these age boundaries and understanding why these books are different." I love Crossover books, and I'm certain to enjoy this new blot.
The Kidlitosphere's own Greg Pincus from GottaBook has a new blog, too. It's called The Happy Accident, and it's about using social media to help create happy accidents. [If you need proof that Greg understands how to use blogs and other social media tools well, The Happy Accident already shows up as the #3 entry when I Google search.] Although this new blog is not about children's literature, I'm introducing it here because I think that it will have value to anyone who has goals that in some way include using social media (Twitter, Facebook, blogs, etc.). I'll certainly be following Greg's progress.
And speaking of people from the Kidlitosphere doing great things, Betsy Bird and Liz Burns were both featured in a panel at BEA last week (with Libba Bray, Cheryl Klein, and Laura Lutz). School Library Journal has a mini recap of the session, written by Debra Lau Whelan. Debra begins: "When Betsy Bird and Liz Burns speak, people listen." Certainly I always do. BEA also featured a blogger signing booth this year. Pam Coughlan and Sheila Ruth are scheduled to be there tomorrow, and Lenore was there earlier in the weekend. (And perhaps others - I'm too demoralized from not having been at BEA to read any more coverage.)
Betsy also recently received her first author copies of her upcoming book: Children's Literature Gems, Choosing and Using Them in Your Library Career. She has pictures here. And she was recently interviewed by James Preller.
And still speaking of Kidlitosphere members doing great things, the Cybils were included in a recent list of the Top 100 Poetry Blogs (along with several of our other friends). Sarah Stevenson has the full scoop, with links, at the Cybils blog.
Esme Raji Codell recently reviewed Donalyn Miller's The Book Whisperer last week at PlanetEsme. She begins with: "I don't usually stray from reviews and recommendations of books for kids, but in the interest of children's literacy I need to shout out about a title that might do for independent reading what Jim Trelease's READ-ALOUD HANDBOOK did for read-aloud." She moves on from there to compare and contrast Donalyn's results with her own teaching experience, concluding on a positive note with "Oh, Donalyn Miller. You go, girl."
At Jenny's Wonderland of Books, Jenny Schwartzberg traces a history of ghosts in children's literature, from the 1600s through the 1960s (I remember Ghosts Who Went to School, too) right up to 2008 Newbery winner The Graveyard Book. She concludes: "Over the last two hundred years children's books have shifted from showing ghosts as frightening images used to teach morals to ghosts as a common theme in all kinds of books for children, whether they be scary or friendly." Like many of Jenny's posts, this one is well-researched, and well worth checking out.
I recently discovered the blog YAnnabe. Kelly has a fun post called 5 Ways You Can Convert YA Scoffers, about methods for getting other adults to start reading young adult books. She begins: "We all know adults who read YA have nothing to be ashamed of. But I'm not content to read YA just for my happy little self. You see, I'm a pusher." In addition to Kelly's five tips, there are other reader-suggested ideas in the comments.
At the Reading Rockets Sound It Out blog, Joanne Meier shares several "relatively painless ways for teachers to stay in touch with teaching and learning this summer, besides of course browsing Reading Rockets!" I was honored to be included (along with Anastasia Suen) on Joanne's recommended resource list.
Speaking on honors, Mrs. V awarded me a One Lovely Blog award at Mrs. V's Reviews, for new blogs and blogging friends. She agrees with my mission statement, about how "helping establish life long readers has the power to change the world." It's always a joy to find a new kindred spirit.
And that's it! After resorting eventually to "mark all as read" in my reader, I'm declaring myself caught up. Happy weekend to all!
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Sometimes I hit a vein when inserting the medtronic sof-sensor. Should I just leave it in and wipe off all the blood or should I remove it and insert another one that does not result in bleeding?
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