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Melena Rounis, a Cirque dancer in "The Beatles LOVE," put on the third annual Step Up and Dance fundraiser on Nov.19, which raised more than $700 in a few short hours to help feed hungry families in Nevada.
Rounis' recipe for this event has proven true over the years. For participants, it's simple. Pay a $10 minimum donation and take your fill of half-hour-long master classes in a variety of styles. This year, teachers included Rounis herself, fellow Cirque dancers Katy Tate, Sheila Joy and Fred Odgaard, Tyrell Rolle of "The Lion King" and master locker Scoo B Doo. Around 50 people showed up to dance and donate.
Participants could pick and choose from the smorgasbord of styles, which spanned the genres from old-school hip-hop and locking to burlesque, jazz and funk. Dancers of all ages and with varying experience levels got down for a good cause and Rounis said she was thrilled with the turnout this year.
"I think this year was great because it had a perfect dynamic and a great number of people," Rounis said. "There was space for everyone to dance, so I think every year has been a success. I'm not humble at all," she continued, laughing.
Katy Tate, dance captain at "LOVE," taught what she called a "Lil Wayne" contemporary combination and concurred with Rounis about the importance of outreach. "How great is it to be able to do what you love and support those in need?," she asked.
Tate said that thinking of others is important for more than just charity. "If you're thinking about yourself the whole time, you only have a fraction of a class," Tate said, encouraging dancers to watch and learn from each other in dance classes.
Tyrell Rolle of "The Lion King" voiced a similar message during his funk class. "You shouldn't be a one-sided dancer," he said emphatically. "Whatever it is, commit to it."
And Rounis, despite dancing 10 shows a week for Cirque, is committed to Step Up and Dance. Another workshop is taking place on Dec. 18 at Drive Dance Center in Vancouver, a dance studio Rounis co-founded. "I think it's going to be huge," Rounis said. "I'm already out of posters and fliers and they've only been promoting for a week! But that's a good thing."
Despite challenges of working around professionals' schedules and organizing events remotely, Rounis said she has high hopes for the fundraiser in the future. "Honestly, since I've started this event, it just keeps getting better each year," she said.
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Teaching History with Art
February 22–26, 2016 | Vol. 126, Week 7
How can you give your students a sense of what it was like to live on the frontier when you're surrounded by suburbia? Tune in as host Mike Farris discusses using art to explore uncharted territory—that's today on Homeschool Heartbeat.
"By visually showing the story of history, the telling of it will be enhanced."—Mike Farris
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Mike Farris: History can be a challenging subject for some children. But you can make history come alive by incorporating artwork into your history lessons. By visually showing the story of history, the telling of it will be enhanced. A picture truly is worth a thousand words.
You can consider using the artwork of American artists, for example, to augment your study of U.S. history. Before photography, artists were hired to commemorate significant events and national figures. In many portraits, the items surrounding the subject are significant. A casual observer might assume that these symbols are simply decorative and help fill up the canvas. But that's not so! Each were strategically chosen to illustrate what was important to the person in the painting—his character, events in his life, or the fundamental principles that guided him.
Look for artwork that complements the historical themes you want to highlight. Combine your study of pioneers with the paintings of someone like Thomas Moran. His artwork underscores the vast wild expanse of the American West, highlighting the bravery of the men and women who helped build our young nation.
Search for paintings with significant political events depicted as well. Getting the perspective of an eyewitness will give your student a chance to travel back in time, making the event much more real and memorable.
Our national heritage is rich, and the artists who witnessed and recorded it so beautifully have given us an invaluable treasure from which to learn. I'm Mike Farris.
Mike: Before the advent of photography, portrait artists were employed to record for posterity the great men and women of the age. Portraits were a symbol of status, and itinerant painters, who often painted signs or houses for a living, traveled from town to town, painting both the prominent and the obscure. These artists left a tremendous legacy for today's history student.
The National Portrait Gallery maintains over 18,000 works of American portraiture. Many are available to view on their website and can serve to complement your study of American history. One resource the gallery website offers is an interactive lesson on the Lansdowne portrait of George Washington, painted by Gilbert Stuart. Students of varying ages can easily use the online lesson. For older students, three filters serve to illuminate this work of art. The biographic filter explores Washington and historical events surrounding his life. The artistic filter focuses on the artist—his biography and the techniques used to create the painting. The third filter examines the symbolic elements included in the portrait. For example, placed on the table near Washington's outstretched hand are copies of the Federalist Papers and the Journals of Congress. You'll find many similar elements in the portrait that will prompt discussion of important foundational concepts.
Let me encourage you to take advantage of this springboard for learning about our national heritage. I'm Mike Farris.
Mike: Here in Loudoun County, Virginia, where I live, it's still possible to drive down dirt roads and see picturesque landscapes with stone walls and livestock grazing in the fields. But for many a modern student, their daily landscape looks nothing like the land surveyed by George Washington or documented in the journals of Lewis and Clark. For some kids it's hard to envision the world before Walmart.
Try taking your student back in time by including the work of 19th-century American landscape painters in your study of history. Such painters captured the vast undeveloped beauty of the fertile frontier. These paintings make it easy to understand why adventurous men sought new opportunities in the west. One group in particular, known as the Hudson River School, made landscape painting their specialty. They painted large canvases with scenes from the Hudson River Valley and other areas of the northeast. Thomas Cole led this movement to document the beauty of the American scene.
You can examine Thomas Cole's 1826 painting called Pastoral Landscape with Fishermen, or Frederic Edwin Church's spectacular painting of Niagara Falls. When you study the westward expansion, look at Albert Bierstadt's Oregon Trail, painted in 1869. And consider the work of Frederic Remington, who captured the spirit of the West with his work celebrating the cowboy and the American Indian.
Open your student's eyes to historic America by adding the work of these great artists to your study of history. I'm Mike Farris.
Mike: Have you considered using art to help strengthen your study of American history? If so, you'll want to join us today as we look at one of America's most celebrated artists, Winslow Homer. He began his career as an illustrator for Harper's Weekly, crafting sketches of soldiers in the battles and camps of the Civil War. But once the war ended he focused more on painting the daily life of rural Americans, capturing images of people going about their work and play.
Well-documented American values of hard work and industry jump off the canvas in Homer's depiction of women carrying the nets in The Fisher Girl or preparing to milk in The Milkmaid. Young boys play with their model boats in the foreground of The Boat Builders, mimicking the industry of their elders, whose ingenuity is captured in the background as a sailing vessel skims across the waves.
Homer's paintings were a breath of fresh air after the ravages of war. His very famous painting, Breezing Up, transports you into a world of salt spray and exuberance. And in Snap the Whip, he catches schoolboys roughhousing in a rowdy game. Life is good again.
American ideals of robust work and energetic play come forth with vitality in Winslow Homer's paintings. Studying his work will help your student capture the spirit of renewal that epitomized this time of our nation's history. I'm Mike Farris.
Mike: Throughout history, artists have often been on the cutting edge of their culture, frequently using their talents and notoriety to spread their political ideology.
Would you believe this is true of Paul Revere? He used his famous engraving, The Boston Massacre, to make a clear political statement. He published it just three weeks after that fateful event in March of 1770, portraying the British as brutes who killed innocent bystanders in broad daylight.
In reality, it was a bloody fight at night. Four men died on the spot and another later died of his wounds. Though Revere's engraving shows the British soldiers lined up ready to fight, both sides were riotous and disorderly. Omitted from Revere's painting are the snowballs, oyster shells, rocks, and sticks that had been thrown by the colonists earlier in the evening. Revere sought to encourage the anti-British sentiment through his art. It was no mystery whose side he was on.
Paul Revere's engraving, though not a completely factual representation of the event, did present an accurate picture of the popular opinion and helped spread the sentiment that eventually led to the American Revolution.
Art is a window into history, but we need to remember that artists sometimes deliver opinions, not just facts. This is especially true today, and that's something you don't want your kids to miss. I'm Mike Farris.
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There were many more good sessions at the Wisdom 2.0 conference this weekend. The intention of the organizers is to post videos. I'll let you know when. Here are some of my notes from a second panel.
How do we use modern, social media technologies — such as this blog — to both further our own practice as well as share those experiences with others?
One panel discussion at Wisdom 2.0 on that topic included Tami Simon of Sounds True, Kaitlin Quistgaard of Yoga Journal, plus two technology insiders Gopi Kallayil of Google and the recent yoga convert Leah Pearlman at Facebook.
If a zen master were sitting next to the chief technical officer of Twitter, what would they talk about? That sounds like a hypothetical overheared at a bar in San Francisco. But this weekend I saw the very thing at Soren Gordhamer's Wisdom 2.0 conference — named after his book of the same name — when zen teacher and author Roshi Joan Halifax and Twitter's Greg Pass sat side by side on a panel discussion on mindfulness in modern life. Seated next to them was Bradley Horowitz, VP at Google managing online apps like gmail, and Twitter advisor and venture capitalist Chris Sacca.
This weekend a number of panel discussions and talks are planned, continually asking the question of how we can have presence and deep connection in our life and yet live in a hyper-connected modern world. Speakers include Silicon Valley technologists, neuroscientists, authors, journalists, and serious meditators. I'm really excited; it is a mashup of two worlds I love dearly: contemplative paths and technology. More after the break, and in followup posts this weekend.
I've had impermanence on my mind recently. I've talked about it here before but it's worth bringing up again. After all, it's one of the most important things the Buddha taught. Here's the thing: my life is totally excellent. Where I find myself getting into trouble is when I cling to its excellentness.


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The UC Santa Barbara women's tennis team swept the doubles point and cruised in singles play this afternoon over visiting Gonzaga, winning the match 6-1. The victory is the Gauchos sixth on the year and evens their record to 6-6 overall on the season.
The Gauchos got off to a fast start sweeping all three doubles matches from the Bulldogs. Seniors Marta Simic and Charlotte Scatliffe set the tone for UC Santa Barbara, dominating Emily Anderson and Aglaya Kokurina 8-1 at No. 1 doubles. At the No. 2 doubles slot, the Gaucho tandem of Jill Damion and Asagi Onaga beat Danielle Farmer and Clare Dodge 8-4, securing the doubles point for UC Santa Barbara. The sweep was official when Tova Hausem and Brittany Kausen posted a victory against the Bulldog duo of Rika Mehndiratta and Kristen MacWilliam 8-6.
UC Santa Barbara carried the momentum from doubles into singles action taking five out of six matches. Hausman, playing at No. 5, wasted no time against her opponent MacWilliam, cruising to a 6-1, 6-0 victory. Asagi Onaga had no trouble at No. 5, downing Dodge 6-3, 6-0. The Gauchos captured the victory at No. 6, as Kausen was victorious over Farmer 6-3, 6-0. The lone victory for Gonzaga was notched by Anderson at No. 2 singles, as she dropped Scatliffe 7-6, 7-6, (2).
The Gauchos will next entertain Big West foe Cal State Northridge this Saturday. First serve at the Rob Gym Tennis Courts is set for 11:00 a.m. (PT)
UC Santa Barbara 6, Gonzaga 1
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No. 1 Marta Simic (UCSB) def. Aglaya Kokurina (GU) 6-2, 6-1
No. 2 Jill Damion (UCSB) def. Emily Anderson (GU) 6-2, 7-6 (!)
No. 3 Rika Mehndiratta (GU) def. Charlotte Scatliffe (UCSB) 7-6, 7-6,(2)
No. 4 Asagi Onaga (UCSB) def. Clare Dodge (GU) 6-3, 6-0
No. 5 Tova Hausman (UCSB) def. Kristen MacWilliam (GU) 6-1, 6-0
No. 6 Brittany Kausen (UCSB) def. Danielle Farmer (GU) 6-3, 6-0
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First duck season split was much better than expected
I don't know if it's possible to have a better duck season than what we have experienced so far. The first split came to a close on Nov. 27, and based on what I've seen and heard, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was dead on when they advised duck hunters to get set for a better than average season. The second half will run from Dec. 10 through Jan. 29 in both the north and south zones.
Beaumont hunter Jerry Allen said his flooded field near China has produced good numbers of ducks, along with the occasional specklebelly goose.
"We didn't slam them every day, but we managed to get full or near limits on most hunts," said Allen. "We had a mix of birds with lots of pintails, gadwall, teal, wigeon and spoonies."
I made a couple of hunts with Allen and can say for sure that the fresh water he's hunting on is a magnet for ducks. That's pretty much the case for all duck hunters in Southeast Texas. If you've got fresh water, the ducks will eventually find it.
Hunts on the wildlife management areas have been good. Beaumont's Steve Stanley reports that he and a couple of buddies had a great hunt on the J.D. Murphree WMA in Port Arthur. A lot of the birds being shot there are gadwall, pintails and teal.
Beaumont's Kirby Richard says he made a hunt on the McFaddin National Wildlife Refuge on the last day of the split and got limits that included mallards, gadwall, teal, pintails and one drake canvasback that was eaten by a keen-eyed hawk before they could make the retrieve.
Jimmy Trahan, who's guiding out of Gene Campbell's Oyster Bayou Hunting Club near Anahuac, says the first split was just about as good as it gets.
"We shot a big variety of ducks, but the bread-and-butter birds were teal, gadwall and pintails," said Trahan. "We hunted one to eight blinds every day and had good shoots straight through."
Trahan says the Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge is holding lots of geese.
Rocky Chase reports that he and a couple of friends put down easy limits at the Elm Bayou Hunting Club near the Anahuac NWR. They hunted the last Friday of the split on about a 40-acre lake and shot pintails, gadwall, mallards and teal.
A couple of weeks into the first split, I made a run up to Central Texas and hunted on some of the public lakes and rivers. Three days going we had excellent hunts with easy limits of gadwall, mallards, pintails and teal.
On the last weekend of the first split, I hunted at Port O'Connor with Stanley and Lewis Hiltpold, and we collected easy limits of pintails, wigeon and redheads.
When the second half of the season opens we will probably be in for some excellent hunts through January. But we'll also be dealing with some educated ducks, as well.In most situations, you can't have too many decoys. But there are exceptions to the rule. While hunting with Allen near China, I noticed his decoy spread was small, as in about three-dozen decoys. But the kicker was his Mojo Mallard that has brought in more ducks than you can shake a stick at over the past few seasons. Quite often you don't need that many decoys if you are hunting where the birds want to land. That's been the case with flooded fields west of Beaumont. But as we move into the second half, that might change as ducks become a little more wary.
On my recent Central Texas hunts we didn't put out any more than three-dozen decoys and had no problem getting the attention of ducks. Conversely, while hunting on the flats of Port O'Connor, we set out nine-dozen decoys, which is typical for that type of duck hunting. Most of the birds we shot were right over the decoys.
Heading into this season, the USFWS found that numbers of pintails were up. The northern pintail estimate of 4.4 million was 26 percent above the 2010 estimate of 3.5 million, and similar to the long-term average. So far this season, I've seen big time numbers of pintails from Central Texas to the coastal bays.
The feds also determined that wigeon numbers were down. They found that the estimated abundance of American wigeon was 14 percent below the 2010 estimate and 20 percent below the long-term average. They were right on the money with that study. During 12 hunts in the first split, I saw very few wigeon.
Something else I noticed during the first split is that most of the ducks were not call shy. In fact they worked real well to our calling. That usually changes during the second half when ducks have heard enough calling to know what's real and what's fake.
It'll be interesting to see how the second half plays out. If it's anything like the first split, we're in for some excellent hunts with lots of pintails filling out limits.


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I recently threw a luau-themed party that I can't wait to share with you! In the meantime, I wanted to give you a peek at these cute little snack cups that I used for the dessert table. These were perfect for the kids to grab and they are super easy to make, so I wanted to share the tutorial with my lovely readers!
Supplies Needed:
- 3 oz. Plastic Cups
- Cardstock Paper
- Small Gems (found in craft stores with flat backs)
- Hot Glue Gun
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Here are the easy steps:
1. Use the hydrangea paper punch and heavy cardstock to punch out as many flowers as you'll need (you will need 2 flowers per cup).
2. Take 2 hydrangeas and bend each petal upward to create dimension.
3. Use the hot glue gun to glue one hydrangea on top of the other, placing the petals so they are not directly on top of each other. Be very careful not to burn your fingers!!
4. Use the hot glue gun to glue a small gem onto the center of your your flower. Once again, be very careful not to burn yourself! You need just the smallest dot of glue so that the glue doesn't overflow over the gem.
5. Glue the finished flower onto a plastic cup and you will have a simple, yet beautiful embellished snack cup.
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I shouldn't post while intoxicated but I'll look at this tomorrow and shake my head:
QB Top 8 He makes to many bad decisions to be top 3 or 4 Keep Ben and Dixon bye Batch
RB Top 5 Keep Mendy and Moore Bye Parker
Wr Top 5 Keep them all but I think Holmes takes the money and runs
Te Top 5 Keep Miller & Johnson cut Spaeth its a shame Spaeth is a good receiver but we use him to block
O'Line somewhere between 20th and 32nd. On the line the only player I keep are Colon and Starks and they're only slightly above avarage the rest are incompetent
D'Line Middle of the pack. We miss Smith but you have to ask how many more games does he have. Hampton is great but same as above. Kiesel in good and a keeper. Hood is a long way from helping this team and eason is good as a role player.
LB's Second tier in the league. Harrison is an animal that get held most every play and never has it called. Woodley is good but this year has been a disappointment. Timmons can't tackle to save his life and his big plays ( 6 sacks) 4 have been on plays were he was untouched and the only reason he is starting is he was Tomlins first pick and Foote asked to be traded. Farrior has lost a step or two and needs replaced.
DB's Ike above average ( when the safety plays the run instead of his assignment you don't put it all on the cornor) Gay shouldn't even be allowed in the stadium Clark fall a little more each week the rest don't even make it as backups Troy I keep even though he's no help on the bench.
Head Coach: I can't make a decision until the off season, in this organization no body get fired in midseason. if heads don't roll after the season them Tomlins' should.
OC : Too much talent not enough points Fired
DC : This is a tough call as I love D.L. working with a lack of talent,but his play calling leaves me scratching my head. undecided
S.T : Look at the mans record fire him now.Everyone got thier wish and Madison is back ,result no improvement we're his fourth team the season for a reason. We fire average players and replaces them with castoffs.
Logan has to go 1 good kick return in how many attempts ? As a punt returner he's a total failure.


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For the first time in more than a decade, Palo Alto is preparing to hire a new company to manage its ranks of school crossing guards -- and not everyone is thrilled about the change.
Dozens of parents attended the Monday night City Council meeting to urge the council not to make a switch from the present company, All City Management Services, which has been managing the city's crossing-guard program since the Police Department privatized the service in 1999. This year, the city went out to bid on the contract, as it has in the past, and received responses from eight companies, four of which had lower costs than the incumbent.
The council voted unanimously to support a staff recommendation and award a contract to American Guard Services, the company with the lowest bid. It reached this decision despite oral and written arguments from dozens of parents who claimed the transition would threaten the safety of their children.
Many speakers who opposed the change pointed to Michael Saterfield, a crossing guard who mans the intersection near Terman Middle School. One parent after another praised Saterfield for his ability to command the attention of students and drivers and for keeping the busy stretch of Arastradero Road safe. Stacey Ashlund, whose daughter goes to fourth grade at Juana Briones Elementary School, was among them.
"I let her cross Arastradero by herself for only one reason -- Michael is his name," Ashland told the council. "I see no rebellion at that intersection. I see happy compliance. What I wouldn't give for that in my household?"
American Guard Services offered jobs to current crossing guards, but only under lower wages. Saterfield said the proposed rate was far below the existing one. While the current management company offered in its bid to pay crossing guards $14.39 per hour in the first year and $14.75 in each of the following two years, American Guard proposed a rate of $13.25 an hour in the first two years and $13.51 in the third year.
Saterfield also addressed the council during the public comment period and urged council members to renew All City's contract.
"I think that safety is the issue here and we provided that safety and we will continue to provide that safety," Saterfield told the council. "I don't think it's a matter of dollars and cents when it comes to safety of children."
Despite this chorus of opposition, the council opted to accept staff recommendation and award the contract to the lower bidder. Police Lt. Ron Watson told the council that American Guard Service appears well qualified to handle the assignment, which includes commandeering 29 school-area crosswalks. Staff members also reached out to other cities that have worked with this company and were assured that American Guard's operations were smooth.
Under the contract the council approved Monday night, American Guard will receive about $290,000 per year, 8.6 percent less than All City Management would have received under its bid.
Councilmen Larry Klein and Greg Scharff both argued that the city should honor its commitment to an open bidding process for government contracts.
"Having a process that says we'll go to the lowest responsible bidder has served us well," Klein said.
"There's been a lot of talk tonight about Michael's great services and I'm delighted to hear about that," he added. "But that can't possibly be a way for a government agency to make policy."
Others agreed that the city should follow its usual procedures and award the contract to the lowest responsible bidder. City Manager James Keene said the city owes it to its citizens to get the best value. Scharff said no company in their right mind would be willing to bid against an incumbent company knowing that the council could reject its bid "on a whim."
"If we go with a non-lowest responsible bidder, we design a process that forces the current company to win the bid," Scharff said.
Some council members, including Vice Mayor Yiaway Yeh, voiced concerns about the staff proposal to make the switch on Dec. 1, a timeline that Yeh said doesn't provide adequate time for a smooth transition. The council agreed to give staff leeway about extending the timeline as needed, provided the process doesn't stretch beyond Feb. 1.
Council members also urged some of the crossing guards in attendance, including Saterfield, to stick around, even if it means lower wages.
"We want to retain the workers and especially the superstar workers," Mayor Sid Espinosa said. "I heard tonight and previously that current workers, most if not all, will be offered roles with the new company and we hope they take it because we appreciate your service and we know you work hard for the citizens and for our youth -- ensuring our safety."


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Sheffield music fans get to see rising indie superstar Adam French on Monday (Jan 25) - before he jets off to New York and LA.
AUDIO: Listen to Adam French's exclusive chat with Graham Walker on Audioboom - CLICK HERE.
The young Bowie look-a-like went down a storm playing the BBC Introducing stage at Leeds and Reading festivals.
Now he's promoting a new double A-side single, Hunter and Punchbag Love - see links below - with a UK tour before he flies off to win over the US.
Ahead of his date at The Harley, Sheffield, on Monday, January 25, he talks to The Star's digital editor Graham Walker about the new single, his first headline tour, how he started out in the business, with advice to other bands, and his hopes of returning to Sheffield - to play the Arena.
TWITTER: Follow Adam French on Twitter @AdamFrenchUK
VIDEO: Press the YouTube play button to watch the music video for Adam's new single, Hunter.
18th Jan – Leeds, Gaslight Club
20th Jan – London, The Social (Communion)
22nd Jan – Manchester, Deaf Institute
23rd Jan – Birmingham, Café Ort
25th Jan – Sheffield, The Harley - FOR TICKETS CLICK HERE
26th Jan – York, The Basement
2nd Feb – New York, Rockwood Music hall
4th Feb – LA, The Hotel Café
Hunter / Punchbag Love is available now as a double A side
SoundCloud Links
Hunter: http://po.st/AFHunterSc
Punchbag Love: http://po.st/AFPunchSc
iTunes http://po.st/HunteriT
Apple Music http://po.st/HunterAm
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The Federation of Family History Societies (FFHS) is celebrating its 40th Anniversary this year. The FFHS now serves 180 national, regional, local genealogical and family history and one-name study societies around the world, including the BC Genealogical Society, a long time member.
The FFHS has recently published the 2014 version of its free "Really Useful Information Leaflet" which, as this year is the Centennial of the start of World War I, features an article on "Researching Your [British] World War One Ancestors" by Simon Fowler and a list of useful websites for WW I research.
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In our times lighting designs are made by organized industrial efforts. But when our company came into existence, the founders chose the name Fine Art Lamps to highlight a dedication to lighting design as an art form, an ancient tradition that would again be practiced by creative designers, artisans, and craftsmen.
Max Blumberg began his glass-making factory in the late 19th century, and by 1941 his son Jack founded Fine Art Lamps. He endeavored to gather the finest designers, sculptors, artisans, and decorative artists, many of whose talents had roots in the ancient crafts of Italy where they were born. From the beginning, Fine Art Lamps has been a design leader, creating true works of art – innovative designs, beautifully crafted forms of metal, glass and unique materials with exquisite finishes. In the process, the company developed an artistic standard that has come to symbolize the Fine Art Lamps name today.
Since 1965 Jack's son Max has carried on the commitment of grandfather and father to design excellence and superb workmanship. In 1976, the company moved to Miami and expanded to a state-of-the-art 400,000 square foot facility. Fine Art Lamps is proud of its pledge to manufacture in the United States of America, based on the belief that this insures design integrity, quality control, reliable delivery, and personal service. Today there are Fine Art Lamps galleries in over sixty countries around the globe.
Fine Art Lamps has been honored with numerous design awards, including the prestigious ARTS® Manufacturer of the Year Award an unprecedented eight of the last sixteen years, and the company was recently inducted into the ARTS® Hall of Fame. Our unique designs are copyrighted and protected by several patents. Today our devoted team of in-house design and development specialists continues to explore new concepts. But the past is always present: Fine Art Lamps' collections from the 1940s and 50s have been shown around the country in museum retrospectives of the best decorative products of the era, and all our new designs continue to uphold the company's original mission.
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Opening-up of rail international passenger transport market to competition on 1 January 2010: towards additional services offered to consumers
As of 1 January 2009 all European rail undertakings will be granted the right of access to the rail infrastructure in other Member States for the purpose of operating an international passenger service. This will offer new business opportunities to rail undertakings and infrastructures managers allowing them to provide new, innovative and customers-oriented services to passengers.
Antonio Tajani, the European Commission Vice-President with special responsibility for transport said that "This is a new stage in the process of strengthening the European rail sector in which the European Union has been engaged for several years. International passenger market opening will benefit both the industry and the passengers. It is expected to increase choice for passengers and lead to a quality leap in the service provided and/or lower prices. This is another important step contributing to the achievement of an integrated European rail area".
Under Directive 2007/58/EC 1 , all railway undertakings which have a licence and the required safety certificates will be able to operate international services. To create realistic economic conditions to develop the services, it will include the right for international trains to perform cabotage, that is, picking up and setting down passengers at stations located in other Member States.
This market opening has been organised in such a way as to safeguard the economic equilibrium of public services which could have been affected. Member States will be allowed to limit the right of access on routes covered by public service contracts if certain conditions are met and to charge a levy on international rail passenger services to compensate the cost incurred through public service contracts.
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Young Runners Prove Key in Bulldogs' Toughest Test of Season
TERRE HAUTE, Ind.—Facing its greatest challenge of the season, the Yale men's cross country team continued its string of impressive performances with a 23rd-place finish at the Pre-National Invitational in Terre Haute, Ind., on Saturday.
The meet—named as such because it is held at the course where the NCAA Division I National Championships will be run later this year—brought together a wide range of talented teams from across the nation, including three of the top five teams in the country (Colorado, Oklahoma State and Oregon), as well as five of the top ten (Tulsa and Princeton), in the most recent USTFCCCA poll. Running in the most competitive race of the meet, Yale ended the day with 668 points, finishing just behind Indiana (632 points) and Texas Tech (662). Indiana is currently ranked 12th in the country. The Elis also finished not far behind Florida State (618 points) and Virginia Tech (622), both of which received top-30 votes in the latest USTFCCCA poll. The Bulldogs finished ahead of Ivy rivals Cornell (34th place) and Penn (38th).
"The guys ran really tough today," said Head Men's Cross Country Coach Paul Harkins. "I was impressed with their aggression and fearlessness."
Competing without any seniors, the Bulldogs owe much of their success in Saturday's 8K race to their younger runners. Leading the way was sophomore Kevin Dooney (24:32.4), who finished first on the team and set a personal record for his second consecutive race. Dooney's time was nearly a six-second improvement on the personal-record time he set at Paul Short just two weekends ago. Dooney secured his record time by closing strong, running the final 3,000 meters of the race in just 9:08.4.
Sophomore Alex Conner (24:35.3) and freshman James Randon (24:53.6) also set personal records on Saturday, finishing second and fourth on the team, respectively. Saturday's race was the first time Randon had finished under the 25:00 mark in his collegiate career. Last season, only two freshmen (Conner and Dooney) accomplished that feat.
Junior John McGowan (24:49.0), meanwhile, finished third on the team, a few seconds ahead of Randon. Together, Conner and McGowan have provided the Elis with remarkable consistency this season, as both runners have now placed in the team's top three in all four races in which they have competed this season.
The Elis' top runners excelled toward the finish of Saturday's race, with Conner, Dooney and McGowan moving up four, 11 and 10 spots, respectively, in the final 3,000-meters.
Sophomore Duncan Tomlin (25:13.9), junior Isa Qasim (25:17.3) and freshman Andre Ivankovic (26:12.7) finished fifth, sixth and seventh on the team, respectively, and the trio seems to have secured their places among the Bulldogs' regular top seven.
After returning home from a strong performance in Indiana, the Bulldogs will seek to continue to build on their momentum in the coming weeks. The members of the team that rested this weekend are scheduled to make the short trip to New Britain, Conn., to compete at the CCSU Mini-Meet on Oct. 25, while those that competed on Saturday will not run again until the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships in Princeton, N.J., on Nov. 2.
Harkins believes his team is prepared for the season's home stretch.
"We have a few things to work on before Heps, but we are excited to get out there in two weeks," he said.
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Information AversionFebruary 02, 2005
Matt Haughey raises a valid issue about weblog content. I've been thinking along this line for a while: combined feeds annoy me.
A recent trend some folks have taken to is the splicing and pasting of various pieces of content into one main RSS feed for their entire site. Services like FeedBurner (or just plain old coding skill) seem to make it easy and practical, but there's a side effect that isn't being discussed: the impace on the reader.
Content from all over the place can show up in one feed: daily del.icio.us links, Flickr photos, sideblog items, and now and then, even the occasional post from the site owner. A few feeds pulled from my reader showcasing this convergence in action are those of Tom Coates, Leonard Lin, or even Matt himself. (Leonard has a few additional choices without the extra content, too.)
The problem I have is quite similar to what Matt describes: when new items show up in my newsreader from people I enjoy reading, I'm often mildly disappointed when it's simply a new camera phone image, or a couple of sparsely-described links to stuff I've already seen.
I'll go one further though, and say this about the practice: it's really damaging the signal-to-noise ratio of content I otherwise love. I have enough feeds in my list (120 at the moment) that anything on there has to work pretty hard to stay that way, from a useful-content perspective. When 7 new items pop up, that's 7 to manually flag as read, whether I end up reading it or not. Although NNW's Cmd + K lets me do it in chunks, make me do that extra work of unflagging items I'm not interested in enough times over the course of a week, and it might be easier for me to simply unsubscribe.
The flip side of the coin is that throwing all these items into a single feed makes for a nice appearance of continual updating. From the site owner's perspective, days may pass between new posts, but during that time an active log of interesting links is being maintained. It's one way to continually keep readers engaged in your content over time, but a case might be made that it's not necessary to do that anymore. This is RSS after all, I have a number of feeds that go silent for weeks at a time, but new content always gets read and I wouldn't even think of deleting them from my list. I'd much prefer low volume and high signal, to frequent updates with content I don't really care about. RSS is all about making it easy to follow high- and low-volume sites alike.
There's always room for experimentation, but I think in this case it's a good idea to think about the reader implications a little bit more. Give me a Flickr feed, give me a del.icio.us feed, give me a main post feed. Heck, give me a combined feed of all of it too; in some cases I and others will even prefer that, just don't make that the only option if at all possible.
I went as far as offering a full RSS feed that includes all new content and then an RSS feed for each individual category. I also plan to increase that to include comment feeds. I also plan to offer e-mail subscription at each point, as well.
What I'd really like to do is offer a way to customize your feed such that you could select what categories you want to monitor (by e-mail or RSS). When I have time, anyways…
Put the power into the hands of the user!
I jump in line and agree with everyone here. Separate feeds are a good thing. I maintain a separate feeds for my main blog and my links, but perhaps I should even break out my main blog a bit in order to give those that wish to avoid my more personal stuff a way to do so. A couple semi-related comments:
* Doug, I think you're right that Kottke started this. As you said, he maintains separate feeds. however, on his site, the two are combined. This works because of visual design. On Jason's site, you can clearly delineate when he has something to say and when he just wants to drop a few links. Unfortunately, our RSS readers don't give us this level of information design. Thus, it makes sense to separate the feeds.
* Please *do* provide feeds for links, though! A few of my favorite linkers don't provide feeds for their links — only for their blogs. I'll single out Cameron Moll as someone who did this, but has since added a feed. I like the link feeds, myself. Keep 'em coming, but just keep 'em separate so those who are uninterested can opt-out (or opt-in, rather).
* Not totally related, but kinda: does anyone else find it really annoying when feeds update with every comment added to a post? Again, some of my favorite feeds do this. I'm not sure if it's a function of a CMS, or just related to the comment count appearing in the feed (sometimes in the entry title), but I find this a bit obnoxious, myself.
I just went through this with the SecurityFocus feeds. It includes stuff from the BugTraq and Vulnerability db into one feed. On a hunch I tried and sure enough Thunderbird allows me to filter the feeds into seperate folders. With the SecurityFocus feed it's simple since the origin is placed in the subject "BugTraq:" vs "Vulns:" however many other feeds don't do anything similar. Scribbling.net now includes a little tag at the end of the subject on what type of post it is, but since she rolled her own blog I doubt we'll see it in the major blog sw soon.
I kept wondering how much time would pass before someone would talk about this. I still find those link pile feeds from del.icio.us disrupting and rather annoying, specially when coming from an otherwise prose-rich author.
While I can understand the desire of keeping a feed as current and active as possible, I'd rather have a good, readable feed updated every few weeks than a daily mishmash of link dumps, photos and God knows what else.
Keeping separate feeds sounds like the best option - after all, not everyone is going to be equally interested in your writing, your pictures and your link piles. Sounds logic.
Dave, I just wanted to mention that I was kind of surprised to see my name in the pull quote with the word "annoying". I know you're saying that about combined feeds in reference to my post, but I don't think I worded my post that strongly.
I get surprised and kind of let down when I read friends sites with links instead of posts but I wouldn't go as far as saying they are annoying. It's still good to read something from them, just not as good as a full text post.
I might be splitting hairs here though.
Separate feeds are definitely a good thing. I like them so much that I've been thinking about adding category-based feeds to my linklog (and eventually to my weblog). With a little PHP and some caching, it wouldn't be technically difficult. The main thing holding me back is that I wonder how many people would actually want to restrict their subscription to only certain categories. Personally, I love the inbox feature of del.icio.us where I can decide which tags to include links from, but how many other people like that much customization?
How soon until personalized RSS feeds become de rigueur? And how far do we take the separation of content?
Sorry Matt, I didn't mean to misquote you. I've re-worded the lead-in, hopefully that separates my words from yours a little better.
"When 7 new items pop up, that's 7 to manually flag as read"
That's why I've never found an RSS reader I like better than NetNewsWire: when I scan through the new items in each feed, the "mark all as read" button is right there next to the "next unread" button, which makes this easy.
Personally I don't mind del.icio.us links in a feed, I actually rather like the once-daily link roundup some people do. If something similar could be done with Flickr photos (one entry in the feed per day containing all of that day's photos), that'd be pretty slick, I think.
I don't know why this is such a big deal. Why not provide a full site feed for those who want it, along with the individual sections. That's what I do on my site, and I haven't had any complaints.
Excellent article, and some good comments, too. I've been wrestling with similar problems and your article inspired me to write on requirements for tag awareness in RSS readers:
Indeed. I contemplated joining up some of my feeds myself, to make subscribing convenient.
I quickly changed my mind when I discovered that I actually only subscribed to two of my own feeds, and would hate to have my inbox littered with stuff I didn't need.
Lucky for me that the upcoming revision of meyerweb will in fact provide a collection of separate feeds, instead of munging them all together. Right now I have two: Thoughts From Eric and Distractions. Within a week or so, I'll have eight. (Admittedly, six of them are various ways of slicing up Thoughts From Eric.)
Eric — I'd love to see your Redesign Watch combined with your Distractions feed. Platelets, maybe not so much. And I'd most likely be inclined to subscribe to your main articles feed separately.
Having the option to select what I want out of your four main home page items definitely appeals.
Amen to that, sir. While it's slightly unrelated, I've been backing off my newsreader quite a bit lately in favor of good ol' blo.gs. I've found myself removing favorite sites from my blogroll simply because they tend to ping each time they've a new link—-while it's not a huge deal to click through and scan for updates, I like to at least *pretend* I'm a busy man.
Ok Dave, especially for you my site now has a feed that contains only my main posts ;-) Maybe others will be interested in that as well.
I used to use SharpReader for my RSS feeds, but decided I wanted something not MS based (less likely to crash on me or muck up my memory). I went to using Sage (plugin for FireFox). Now, one of my initial complaints was that it didn't auto-refresh to check for updates. I have to manually push a button.
"NO!" my mind cried out, "I want my content dynamic and up-to-date."
"Just a second, mind,", said my conscience, "you get distracted so many times a day that the other RSS feeder was actually reducing your work to shambles."
"True, but I wants it…. I wants it"
"No, you don't, only want it when you have time… All you have to do is press the little refresh button in Sage when you're on a break from your real work and you'll get served up-to-date info without having to deal with constant distractions."
"Yes… yes… oh, lookie, a post from Dave Shea…. must responds to it."
"Yes, you must."
I'm feeling better now. :)
A second amen from me. I really don't like the combined feeds. I got all over PhotoMatt's case when he started doing it — though it seems his site has changed more into a link blog with tiny bits of commentary, than the full blog it used to be.
I think it's one thing to combine full posts and links on the site, it's another to do them in a single RSS feed. Combine them on the site, fine. But take advantage of MT or WordPress, or whatever CMS you're using, and publish one feed for each major type of content you provide.
If memory serves me correctly, it was Kottke who first started combining posts and links inline on his site — but thoughout, he's maintained separate feeds, and it works well this way.
I guess, more to the point than my previous post, was that having multiple feeds allows for me to be selective with my break time.. for example, I may have time to quickly glance through a list of links in one of the "mezzoblue dailies", but not enough time to read a page long post. Thus, I can group up my feeds into "quick-reads" and "better be on lunch". A single mass feed doesn't give me a choice.
I wrote about this too a few months back (http://funkaoshi.com/blog/stupid-ass-feedburner); I find the inclusion of flickr photos particularly annoying. Most of the time your photos are only going to be interesting to people you're friends with. The photos Tom Coates puts up in particular are thoroughly boring to me, but I'm sure his friends enjoy them. Since Flikr has RSS feeds, why not let people subscribe to your site's feed and your flickr feed. I blame feedburner. God damn feedburner.
"I may have time to quickly glance through a list of links in one of the "mezzoblue dailies", but not enough time to read a page long post"
Right, I like this idea too. I'd be more inclined to subscribe to multiple feeds for each source of a site (sideblog, main articles, etc.) than a combined feed that effectively has the same content I want. I'm pretty strong on grouping stuff, and certain groups are more valuable to me than others.
Interesting points.
I'm a little confused though.
At present I provide a single feed for my content… that's links *and* main logs.
When I make a "longer" log posting I go to Pingomatic and let folk who read my feed know that I've made a new "longer" post. Isn't this the only time someone is alerted to my posting activity via their feed-readers?
I don't read feeds at all, which may explain my confusion.
Some feedback could be useful.
One way to combat this is to provide a simple filtering mechanism that enables clients to display different slices of a feed dynamically.
The RSS Traits module is one approach:
This has been getting to me lately as well. I have plenty of feeds to read daily, so it's tough to sift through the junk to get to the interesting stuff.
Personally, I have separate feeds for my main weblog posts, links, photos, and other random stuff. Subscribe to what you want and ignore what you want. I love when popular sites like this one do the same thing.
In Bloglines I have a folder specifically for other people's links. I want to know what you and Airbag and Cameron and Shaun and Dan etc are reading, but I want it separate from everything else.
I used to have feeds for each of my subject categories but dropped them last year as they were not being used - maybe it was just my content. Very easy to set up if you are using Moveable Type as your back end BTW.
Likewise I never published any interesting links in the past because I didn't want them appearing as main content on my home page. So I set up a second Blog just for quick links. I pull this information into my main blog as a side panel and, more interestingly when you go to an article the sideblog data shown is relative to the category you are in - hopefully useful. Using this method I don't publish irrelevant links in my RSS feed.
Now that I have read all these views I may well go back to publishing feeds for each category - after I have tidied them up a bit!
The most compelling reason to use WordPress right now, in my opinion, is that it solves this problem pretty much right out of the box. If a publisher has 6 categories and you are only interested in two of them, you can subscribe to a URL like this:
… and WordPress automatically spits out a feed containing only entries from those two categories. So as a publisher, all I need to do is have a standard "subscribe" link which leads to the general purpose feed and then a widget listing my categories with checkboxes next to them accompanied by a "generate custom feed" button and I'm golden.
Anybody want to write an MT plug-in to do this? Anybody already written one?
Drupal does individual feeds for categories or any combination of categories that you want.
For example, if all you care about is Kitsilano and Food on Urban Vancouver then subscribe to:
More info on the syndication page at:
Yeah, even though I haven't really got familiar with the RSS reader yet, I can imagine how you feel.
Personally, if I was to settle down and find out how I should make RSS feeds, or rather, what RSS feeds I wanted to make, I think I would make one for every single thing. Nothing mixed up. Because I think that if you mix it up, somebody is going to think like you and Matt, and someone will maybe unsubscribe. But if you had one RSS feed for every thing that would need one, the reader could pick precisely the thing that he wanted, and if he was tired of seeing, let's say the newest Flickr photos all the time, he could just unsubscribe the Flickr feed, and still get the other news.
I know it would take some time to add all the feeds if he/she wanted all of them, but it would never take that long time I guess, and when it's done, it's done.


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YORK, PA – The York College women's basketball team got outscored 37-24 in the second half as they fell to Salisbury University 66-53 in Capital Athletic Conference action on Wednesday night in York.
The setback was the third straight for the Spartans to fall to 11-3 after their school-record 11-0 start. The loss is also the first conference setback for the Green and White as they fall to 2-1 in the league. The win pushes the Sea Gulls over the .500 mark as they stand at 7-6 overall while they are now 2-0 in the league.
The script for the Spartan loss was much the same as the previous two setbacks. York led just before the half only to give up a late bucket and head to the halftime break tied. The second half then featured a Sea Gull squad that took the play to the Green and White. In their last three games, York has been outscored by a combined 31 points in the second half.
In Wednesday night's second stanza, the Spartans led 33-32 two and a half minutes into the half. The Sea Gulls proceeded to fashion a sustained 14-2 run as they took a 47-35 lead. It was a run that covered almost exactly six minutes and it was also a run that York would never recover from. The Green and White trimmed the Salisbury lead to 11 on four different occasions but they never really threatened their guests over the final 12 minutes of the game.
Salisbury took the play to the Green and White early as the Sea Gulls scored the first six points of the game. York never clicked offensively as they didn't get their first points until Aja Wallpher (Ellicott City, Md./Seton Keough) hit a triple 4:24 into the game.
York battled back to take their first lead of the game on a Kristen Haley (Silver Spring, Md./Georgetown Visitation) jumper at the 9:02 mark. The Spartans would eventually extend their lead to three twice in the first half, the second time coming on a nice Kelsey Murphy (Olney, Md./Good Counsel) lay up with 3:46 left before the half. The next 3:35 featured four ties and three lead changes including Becca Himes lay up at the horn that tied the game at 29 heading to the intermission.
Courtney McManus torched the Spartans off the bench for the Gulls. She tossed in a game-high 19 points as she went 7-for-11 from the floor and a red-hot 5-for-7 from beyond the arc. McManus scored 14 of her 19 points in the second half. Anna Hackett and Katie McGahagan each added 13 points to the Sea Gull attack. Hackett also recorded six rebounds, four assists and two steals while McGahagan pulled in a team-high tying eight rebounds with three assists and a pair of steals. Julia McLaughlin was the fourth Gull in double figures with 10 points.
Junior Brittany Hicks (Dover, Pa./York Catholic) led York with her ninth double-double of the year with 15 points and 13 rebounds. She also had five assists, three steals and a blocked shot in her 36 minutes of work. Sophomore Kailee Knight (Crofton, Md./South River) was the other Spartan in double figures with 11 points. Haley tied Hicks for the game-high honors on the glass with 13 caroms while she also had eight points, two assists, three steals, and a pair of blocked shots.
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Do astronauts cry?
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Now it's not such a problem for an astronaut living inside the station, where it's easy enough to wipe one's eye. But imagine if you couldn't wipe your eye.
In 2011 spacewalking astronaut Drew Feustel teared up after some soapy residue was left on the inside of his helmet. Eventually he managed to wriggle down to make use of a spongy device that is typically used to block the nose during a pressure readjustment.
So you can cry in space, but if you can't wipe them away, it's a hazard.
(Found via The Atlantic)