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Labor Day usually signals that summer is coming to an end. You hear sayings like, vacation is over, time to get back to work; you can't wear white anyway and other colloquialisms. Temperatures start to drop and children are back in school getting homework assignments and writing reports. This summer however is a little different.
In some parts of the country this summer was not as hot as last summer which is good for homeowners who saved money on cooling costs. However, temperatures are still in the 80-90's in some areas across the country and which is not good news for homeowners and their electricity and cooling costs. Here are 8 quick tips to save money in the last few weeks of summer which can help offset some of the high energy bills we paid during this hot summer.
- Appliances. Limit the use of the microwave. Use or purchase a portable grill such as the George Foreman grill or similar devices which reduces the amount of time it takes to cook food. Try drying clothes using full loads or air drying clothes to save money. Buy energy efficient appliances and light bulbs to save on energy costs. Wash clothes in warm or cold water and rinse in cold water.
- Electronics. Turn off all electronics and appliances when not in use. If you have multiple televisions in your home this adds up in electricity costs when running them at the same time. If you are out of the room for more than 20 minutes turn off all electronics. Avoid going to sleep with the tv on, if you do set a timer so it is not on all night long.
- Computers. Turn off your computer when not in use or leave it in standby mode. Energy Star has free energy efficient programs for computers that will help reduce energy usage.
- Oven cooking. Using the oven when it's hot outside will make it harder to keep your home cool. Try cooking on top of the oven to save money on electricity.
- Thermostat. Set your air conditioner thermostat to 78 degrees F and keep it there. If you need additional cooling use a portable fan or ceiling fans. Don't place lamps, televisions or computers near your thermostat. The thermostat can sense the heating coming from the appliances and will run longer than necessary.
- Lights. Don't turn lights on if your home gets natural sunlight. Open the blinds or curtains to get natural sunlight light. Keeping lights off also keeps your home cool. Turn lights on only when necessary.
- Insulate. Seal any cracks or leaks around and inside your home and insulate your attic floor. Install storm windows to save on energy costs.
- Refrigerator. Keep your refrigerator at 38 - 40 degrees F. Keep your freezer at 5 degrees F.
- Open the windows at night to keep your home cool instead of turning on the a/c.


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I have some exciting news to share! As of January 21st, 2014 I will be spending your nights with you on Clear Channel's brand new station 93.7 The Beat! Monday thru Friday 6-10pm I'll have the biggest hip hop songs in rotation, great conversation and as always, exclusive interviews!
Rummors have been swirling about the new station coming to Houston for a couple months now. Many of you in the H got to know me in 2010 via The Box middays. I have so much love and respect for the talented personalities and amazing staff of people I worked with over there! But now i'm onto a new adventure, and I must say, as someone who has worked at 4 different radio stations in 3 major cities (L.A, NYC and Houston…oh my!) I am very excited about the opportunity to team up with Clear Channel and be on the ground floor of launching a new Hip Hop station! Over here at The Beat we have so many exciting things in store for you and I am so hype to be back on the airwaves in a city that I LOVE… Houston!
The Breakfast Club- my friends Charlamagne The God, Angela Yee and DJ Envy will be taking over your mornings, UB Rodriquez will be in Midday's, Rudy Rush has afternoon's, I'll be taking over nights (yay!) and Chris Michaels will host late nights with "The Beat between the sheets."
Now for all my supporters and listeners who are not in the Houston area, DL the iHeartRadio app on your smart phone and start streaming!
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San Diego Half Marathon Finishers
"Every participant battles the mind and body at some point"
Well, as predicted, this year's San Diego Half Marathon and 5K race was well managed and great to participate in. I want to thank Aaron Hains and Mark Chalifoux for representing Team Mental Rescue at this year's race and wearing our green compression socks with pride. Including myself, Mark, and Aaron, we made up 3 of the 30 Canadian racers of the 7000 total participants in this year's half marathon. Sadly, Aaron was injured but jumped into the race to help pace Mark through the last few miles. This was Mark's first half marathon and he made his goal of under 2 hrs, well done Mark!
As for myself, I was pleased that I completed my first half marathon since my knee surgery and back injury. This, like all races, is more of a mental battle than a physical battle and for myself this played true once again. Perhaps it's that mental battle that keeps myself and others signing up for more and more races and challenging yourself for longer or faster times. Challenging and pushing your limits in any capacity is tough business but the reward is well worth it. To see the winner cross the finish line at 1hr 6min and see the very last racer being carried by two other members finish at 3hr 30min really shows the vast level of determination. Every participant battles the mind and body at some point in the run for the same and many different reasons.
Many thanks to the San Diego volunteers who support and do so much for the race and runners. Run your heart out! Tire your body! Challenge your mind! Push your limits! But leave it all out there…let all the negative thoughts drip off you like beads of sweat and be proud!
We are so proud of these ambassadors that traveled down to San Diego to live out and accomplish such an incredible goal. Congratulations on attaining the elusive finishers medal and helping us build the awareness on Mental Health. Your green compression socks Im sure were a big hit and we thank you for joining our team. We look forward to hearing what you have planned this year in the race season and encourage you to continue wearing green. You will truly inspire others to build healthy minds through keeping active. Our hats go off to you!!!


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The draft programming schedule for World Fantasy Con is up and I've been selected to moderate the Online Fantasy Zine panel. I think it's very cool to have been invited. I would have loved to have done this, but unfortunately I'm not going to be able to attend WFC this year. It looks like I'll have to find a Bittercon replacement panel.
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pabba says:
Swing by the bar at Bittercon. I'll be there, nursing a drink.
pbray says:
🙁 Commiserations on not being able to attend. I'm also a member of Bittercon, due to conflicts with day job.
scbutler says:
I do not look forward to not seeing you.
mac_stone says:
Ah, yeah. I'll be missing World Fantasy, too. Hoping to make Montreal for Worldcon, but that remains to be seen. *sigh*
klingonguy says:
Oh, don't even get me started on this one, not again.
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An ideal Business for Women
A Business for Women
Being a women entrepreneur is often more challenging when compared to our male counterparts. Women generally have to not only juggle career demands, but also demands made by kids and family. Finding a balance between work and family life is not easy. When speaking to our customers and suppliers, I am often asked if being my own boss is easy and if 2nd Take is an ideal business for women or an ideal franchise for women?
I think so. From my own experience, I can say it is hard work to be your own boss, especially at the beginning; but it also gives you flexibility and an opportunity to live your passion.
Women Entrepreneurship is an opportunity to get our lives into balance. Even though starting any new business is challenging and requires lots of energy and focus, 2nd Take provided a change for me to be flexible and to structure my work schedule around my own needs.
I started this amazing small business from scratch and experienced what it meant to do it alone and to not have support in areas of IT, marketing, planning, merchandise, training and finance. This is why I truly can recommend purchasing a small business Franchise, it is the ideal small business franchise for women.
Franchising is an excellent alternative to starting your own independent business. A successful Franchise in South Africa, must be based on a working business concept and can be the solution to being your own boss and having time to spend with your family. A 2nd Take Fashion Franchise is definitely an ideal business for women.
Moms and homemakers
If you are a mom and homemaker, our Fashion store will give you the opportunity to connect with other women and customers from all walks of life, in an enjoyable environment, whilst you still have flexibility and time for your family, school runs and errands etc..
Exciting the corporate world
If you are looking for more individuality and a more relaxed environment and enjoy fashion, you will love our store. I, myself, have come from the corporate world and continue to use my skills at 2nd Take. A 2nd Take store is different and more demanding than an ordinary retail business and I have many opportunities to make use of my skills set.
Become a trendsetter in the Fashion world and experience how versatile and fun it is to be part of the 2nd Take group.
Bettina Berlep is the owner and founder of 2nd Take, one of South Africa's leading second-hand clothing and kids equipment retailers, providing used international designer brands, baby and kids equipment, in stores as well as online.
2nd Take is the largest consignment second-hand online clothing retailer in South Africa with boutique shops in Cape Town. 2nd Take stocks exclusive designer brands and high street labels, often not available for purchase anywhere else in South Africa.
2nd Take is available as a low cost Franchise in South Africa.


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Metal Earth 3D Model Kit - Ford 1908 Model T
Build your own 3D metal Ford 1908 Model T car model. Simply pop out the intricately laser-cut pieces from the steel sheets and connect them using the tabs and holes - no glue or solder needed!
The Model T was the first automobile to be mass produced on moving assembly lines with completely interchangeable parts, marketed to the middle class. This car had 2 forward gears, a 20 horsepower engine and no driver doors.
Fascinations Metal Earth model kits make it easy to create museum quality 3D models from steel sheets.
Contains 2 steel sheets and illustrated instructions.
Suitable for ages 14+
Assembled size: 3.51" x 1.95" x 1.79" (9 x 5.0 x 4.6 cm)
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1. Aggravated burglary is defined, inter alia, as knowingly and without authority entering into or remaining within any building or other structure in which there is a human being, with the intent to commit a felony, theft, or sexual battery therein. K.S.A. 21-3716.
2. Where a charge of aggravated burglary is based on the defendant's unauthorized entry into a structure, the specific intent to commit the ulterior felony must exist at the time of the unauthorized entry. However, there is no requirement the structure be occupied by a human being at the time of the defendant's entry; it is sufficient if the structure becomes occupied at any point during the course of the burglary.
Appeal from Sedgwick District Court; CLARK V. OWENS II, judge. Opinion filed May 23, 2003. Affirmed.
Rick Kittel, assistant appellate defender, for appellant.
Charles L. Rutter, assistant district attorney, Nola Foulston, district attorney, and Phill Kline, attorney general, for appellee.
Before KNUDSON, P.J., MARQUARDT, J., and PADDOCK, S.J.
KNUDSON, J.: Juan C. Romero appeals after jury trial convictions for aggravated burglary and aggravated assault. Romero contends the evidence is insufficient to support his conviction for aggravated burglary. He does not appeal his conviction for aggravated assault.
The controlling facts are not in material dispute. The narrow issue is whether the residence had to be occupied by the victims at the time Romero entered without authority. The evidence is plain that the alleged victims did not arrive until after Romero had entered. Consequently, only in a secondary sense is sufficiency of the evidence the issue. The pivotal issue entails interpretation of K.S.A. 21-3716, and our standard of review is unlimited. See Babe Houser Motor Co. v. Tetreault, 270 Kan. 502, 506, 14 P.3d 1149 (2000).
K.S.A. 21-3716 defines aggravated burglary as "knowingly and without authority entering into or remaining within any building, . . . other structure, . . . or property in which there is a human being, with intent to commit a felony, theft or sexual battery therein."
Here, the State did not charge "remaining within," but instead alleged "entering into." Thus, the jury was properly instructed that the State must prove: (1) Romero knowingly entered a residence; (2) he did so without authority; (3) he did so with the intent to commit aggravated assault, a felony, therein; (4) at the time there was a human being in the residence; and (5) the act occurred on or about April 4, 2001, in Sedgwick County, Kansas. See PIK Crim. 3d 59.18.
In State v. Reed, 8 Kan. App. 2d 615, 663 P.2d 680, rev. denied 234 Kan. 1077 (1983), the defendants had aided and abetted a man who entered into an unoccupied residence. The owner returned home while the man was still inside. The charging document, alleging defendants aided and abetted aggravated burglary, omitted the "remaining within" language, as did the jury instruction in the present case.
On appeal, the defendants in Reed challenged their conviction, arguing the crime, as stated in the charging document, could not be proven because the house was unoccupied at the time of the unauthorized entry. This court examined the occupancy element of aggravated burglary and held the crime occurs whenever a human being is present in the structure during the course of the burglary. 8 Kan. App. 2d at 618. The charging document need not specify the point in time at which a person was present; it merely must allege that a person was present sometime during the course of the burglary. 8 Kan. App. 2d at 618-19.
In State v. Fondren, 11 Kan. App. 2d 309, 310, 721 P.2d 284, rev. denied 240 Kan. 805 (1986), this court again held the crime of aggravated burglary requires the place of the burglary to be occupied by a human being at some point during the course of the burglary. In doing so, this court quoted the following note from PIK Crim. 2d 59.18 (now PIK Crim. 3d 59.18): "When a person enters the premises after the burglary has commenced but before the defendant has left the premises, the offense constitutes aggravated burglary." 11 Kan. App. 2d at 311.
Romero acknowledges the holdings of Reed and Fondren. He argues, however, that because the specific intent to commit a felony must occur at the time of the unauthorized entry, the occupation element must also be satisfied at the time of the unauthorized entry. Romero's contention is only partially correct. Where, as here, a charge of aggravated burglary is based on the defendant's unauthorized entry into the structure, the specific intent to commit the ulterior felony must exist at the time of the unauthorized entry. See State v. Bowen, 262 Kan. 705, 709, 942 P.2d 7 (1997). This does not mean, however, that all of the elements of the crime must be present at the time of entry. As stated in Reed and Fondren, to constitute the crime of aggravated burglary, the structure must be occupied only at some point during the course of the burglary. Therefore, the victims' presence in the house after Romero had entered but while he was still there was sufficient to satisfy the occupancy element of aggravated burglary.
Romero questions the precedential value of Reed and Fondren, citing State v. Mogenson, 10 Kan. App. 2d 470, 701 P.2d 1339, rev. denied 238 Kan. 878 (1985), and State v. Lora, 213 Kan. 184, 515 P.2d 1086 (1973), which discuss aggravated burglary based on a defendant remaining within the structure without authority. At issue in Mogenson was when the requisite intent must be formed. In contrast, the issue in Reed was when a person must be present to satisfy the occupancy element. Mogenson simply held that in cases where aggravated burglary is based on remaining without authority after a lawful entry, the specific intent required can be present either at the time of the lawful entry or after authorization has been withdrawn. 10 Kan. App. 2d at 475. This holding has no bearing on the present case.
Romero likewise improperly relies on Lora. In Lora, the Supreme Court upheld the defendant's aggravated burglary convictions even though the house was unoccupied at the time of the defendant's entry. 213 Kan. at 195. The court explained the homeowners returned while the defendant was still inside, and they were present when the ulterior felonies--rape and attempted rape--were committed. 213 Kan. at 195.
As Romero correctly notes, the Lora court emphasized the statutory phrase "remaining within" when affirming the convictions. 213 Kan. at 195. Romero contends his conviction cannot be saved by the rationale in Lora because the jury instruction in his case omitted that language. Romero's narrow interpretation of Lora has been rejected by this court. In Reed, this court noted the Lora court's reliance on that phrase but concluded "the rationale of the opinion need not confine its holding." Reed, 8 Kan. App. 2d at 618.
Despite Romero's arguments to the contrary, it is clear there was sufficient evidence to support Romero's conviction of aggravated burglary.


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2018 Bank of America Youth Excellence Seminar
Get ready for a fun-packed event offering valuable leadership skills, inspiring speakers and tons of fun June 28-30, 2018, in College Station, Texas.
September 24, 2017
The American Quarter Horse Association
Save the date for the 2018 Bank of America Youth Excellence Seminar! YES is slated for June 28-30, 2018, in College Station, Texas, and will be hosted in conjunction with the 2018 American Quarter Horse Youth World Cup.
Registration for YES is coming soon. The downloadable forms will be available on www.aqha.com/yes in the fall of 2017.
YES Facts:
- All youth, ages 10 to 18, are welcome – current AQHYA members and non-members.
- Youth will attend interactive sessions designed to develop and teach leadership skills.
- Each day features new speakers, presenting topics related to leadership and the equine industry.
- Five AQHYA officers will be elected. (president, first-vice president, second-vice president and two members)
- Regional directors will also be elected. AQHYA has 11 regions, and each region has the opportunity to elect three AQHYA members to be directors. Learn about becoming a voting delegate by contacting your youth adviser.
Questions about YES? Contact the AQHA youth department at 806-378-4377 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Look for more information to be posted at www.aqha.com/yes later this fall.
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Children dislike disruption in their lives, though in the event of a divorce or parental separation, such disruptions can't be avoided. Such an event can leave them feeling uncertain and stressed because it means that they must adjust to life in two separate households.
If you are in this type of situation, there are steps you can take to make this transition easier for your kids.
1. Maintain the familiar
Change can be very upsetting to children. If you are the parent who is moving out and setting up house in a new place, make the atmosphere as welcoming and as familiar as possible for your children. Take stock of their favorite things and duplicate some of them. Even ordinary things matter: character-themed dishes, bubble bath, favorite movies, night lights, pillows, books, stuffed animals, toys, etc.
You should also try to reduce the number of items that your kids have to pack. Remember that this is their home too, so be sure to stock the bathroom with toothbrushes, hair brushes, toothpaste, soap and even their own towels. Make it a fun outing to shop for pajamas and other necessities that will be kept in your home.
2. Set rules
You and your child's other parent can help the adjustment to the new status quo by setting down a few rules that should be followed in both households. This lets them know what both of you are going to expect of them and should include the following:
- If you or the other parent says no to a request, that decision stands. Children should not run to the other parent in an attempt to get whatever they want.
- Homework should be started within a certain timeframe after school so that you can enjoy your evenings together.
- Children should follow the rules at each parent's house.
- Post the rules in each house. This lets the children know that even though you and the other parent no longer live with one another, you still employ your parenting skills as a team.
3. It's their home too
Allow your children to have reasonable say about the look and feel of their new environment. Let them help in decorating their own spaces in the new home to express their own personalities. Keep the lines of communication open and encourage their opinions and suggestions. The more input they have, the sooner they will become comfortable with this new chapter in their lives.
4. Handle the "other parent" situation responsibly
Resist pressing your children for information about your ex-spouse when they are with you. You may have to exercise forbearance if the children go on and on about the joys of life in the other house. Concentrate on life in your house, not in the sense of competing with your ex. Focus on helping your children become comfortable with the part of their dual life that you control.
If disputes do arise between you and your ex, it's important to keep the children out of it. Therefore, you should take your concerns to a knowledgeable attorney who can help you explore your options.


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Attack Drumheads: A Winning Formula For The Working Drummer
At Attack, we believe that the winning formula for professional-level drumheads can be expressed as a pretty simple equation: High-Quality Materials + Innovative Design + Manufacturing Craftsmanship = Great Sound And Performance.
All of the factors in this equation are equally important, and we'll expand on each of them in a moment. However, one factor that you don't see in the equation is price. And that's simply because retail price has virtually no relation to the true quality of a drumhead.
How do we know? We know because Attack drumheads are manufactured in strict accordance to the winning formula, resulting in a line of great-sounding, high-performance drumheads…and they retail for about half the price of other brands. In short, Attack heads are made expressly for working drummers who need—and deserve—affordable heads that are the equal of any on the market.
Let's go back to the formula for a moment, and examine how Attack heads relate to each factor within it. We'll start with…
High-Quality Materials
According to Bob Beals (drum head mfg. for more than 40 years)-All synthetic drumheads—regardless of brand—are made of a material known as polyester nylon film. Drumhead companies purchase different weights of this film from a number of manufacturers in the US and abroad. Every one of these films already exists for industrial purposes; the drumhead market is a drop in the bucket by comparison. As a result, no drumhead company can order "sonically better" film that's exclusive to their brand, despite any claims to the contrary.
The 1,000-gauge film used to make Attack's Terry Bozzio heads is DuPont Mylar, which is a standard of the drumhead industry. The Dynaflex film used for other Attack heads is made by a giant manufacturer in Japan. Mylar heads sound relatively dark, producing the drum sound and feel that all drummers have come to be familiar with. Heads made of Dynaflex film have a brighter, more explosive sound, and just feel good to play. That sound and feel is what gave Attack heads their name originally.
The Dura-Coat material that's used on all coated Attack models is manufactured in the USA. It's an industrial coating specially formulated to adhere to polyester surfaces. As such it doesn't transfer to other heads and cymbals in the way that many other coatings do.
Finally, the steel hoops that secure the film in Attack heads are, well…steel. Simply put, pressure-fitted steel hoops are stronger than any kind of glue. That's why Attack heads won't pull out under the heaviest use—period.
Innovative Design
The Attack brand didn't just happen. It took more than twenty years of trial and error to design a line of artist-quality drumheads that includes many unique choices unavailable from any other brand. And these unique choices are largely the result of innovative ideas that have come to us from our artist endorsers. Credit goes to great drummers like Hilary Jones, Bobby Rondinelli, and Charlie Adams for their input into the development of many specific models.
The late Tommy Wells, who was an important figure in the Nashville studio scene for decades, came to Attack with requests for different combinations of one- and two-ply heads. Experiments with assorted films and weights based on Tommy's requests led to the development of the Thin Skin, Thin Skin 2, and Thin Skin 3 drumhead lines.
Today Attack offers more choices of two-ply heads than any other brand. These include Attack 2, Thin Skin 2 and 3, a new super-thick snare drum batter, and the Blast Beat heavy two-ply. That last model was designed at the request of Cannibal Corpse drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz, who was burning through snare drum heads at a prodigious rate.
Perhaps the greatest artist-generated Attack innovations have come about from the input of drumming icon Terry Bozzio. Initially, Terry focused on a line of single-ply clear and coated heads, all of which feature 1,000-gauge American-made DuPont Mylar film. These heads come with Attack's steel locking hoop that is guaranteed not to pull out for life.
More recently Terry's input has led to wider hoops on tom and bass drum heads for better fit and a fuller sound. He also improved the design of his No Overtone bass drum heads, making the bottom ply thinner to give the bass drum a more open tone instead of a traditional flat punchy sound—but still without unwanted ring.
In 2013 a major American drumhead manufacturer introduced a high-collar head that they touted as a major step forward in drumhead design. It may interest drummers to know that Terry Bozzio and Attack president Tom Shelley developed a high-collar head of the same design back in 2003. (Attack's patent on that design is still in effect.)
Other recent Attack design innovations include the new Frost Bite series. These heads are made with an ultra-thin coating that allows them to resonate more than other Attack models. These heads produce a wide-open sound that's great for brushes as well as sticks.
The line also includes a No Overtone Frost Bite snare batter, whose coating is twice as thick for about 3" around the edge of the head. This coating ring eliminates unwanted overtones while still promoting sensitivity and projection. No other company has come up with this simple but practical idea.
Frost Bite heads are shipped with Attack's proprietary Tone Putty, allowing users to customize the sound of the heads by applying the easy-to-use Tone Putty in whatever amount they desire.
Manufacturing Craftsmanship
Attack has been producing drummer-designed drum heads for over thirty years. Over those years we've not only constantly improved our heads, we've also constantly improved our way of makingthose heads.
Today, all of the components that go into our heads—including polyester film, steel hoops, and Dura-Coat coating material—are shipped from their original sources to the Attack factory in Taiwan. There those components are combined under meticulous supervision to meet the highest professional standards for drumhead manufacturing.
Okay, Now Let's Talk About Price…
While price is not a factor in our winning formula for creating drumheads, it most certainly is a factor when it comes to purchasing those heads.
When we say that Attack heads are targeted at the working drummer, it's because we're all drummers at Attack, and we know how it feels to go through a couple of snare drum heads and a bass drum head every week to ten days. So we've recently changed our retail prices to a point where a 14" Attack single-ply coated batter head is less than half the price of a comparable major-brand model. The same holds true through our entire line, which offers just about every combination of one- or two-ply heads that the US-made brands offer...for less than half the price.
The Bottom Line
At Attack, we believe that—through a combination of artist input, ever-improving technology, and more than three decades of hard work—we've created a "better mousetrap" for the working drummer: A-level drumheads, at C-level pricing. We like to think that we're "a head of our time," offering an extensive selection of sound ideas for drummers to choose from.
We invite you to check out the Attack line and see how we're changing the drumming world, one head at a time.
Learn more about the signature heads of Eric Singer, Marina B and other ATTACK Drumheads
Making of a great head...
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Weld steel wire into shape
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Trump Tells Wisconsin Voters NATO May Dissolve if Europeans Don't Pay More for Defense, MSNBC's Chris Matthews Tries to Stump the Trump on Nukes/
Donald J. Trump continues to surprise me and the world with his bold shifting of 'the Overton window' on immigration, trade and now foreign policy -- all sacred cows to an increasingly out of touch and globalist Washington elite. The billionaire real estate mogul, whose former campaign adviser Roger Stone was a guest on the March 28 Guerrilla Radio program, has not only called on the United States to renegotiate the terms of its alliances with South Korea, Japan and Saudi Arabia, but also with the 28 member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) -- including an increasingly authoritarian and Islamist Turkey.
It's #NATO's birthday & SG @jensstoltenberg is in #Washington, where the North Atlantic Treaty was signed. pic.twitter.com/Tfvp80mAIZ
— Oana Lungescu (@NATOpress) April 4, 2016
#NATO is officially 67 years old today! Happy Birthday to our great alliance! pic.twitter.com/W8DuNTDyG9
— NATO JFC Naples (@JFC_Naples) April 4, 2016
With the Warsaw Pact gone, today #NATO "exists to manage the risks created by its existence," justifying military budgets, per Sakwa.
— Nina Byzantina (@NinaByzantina) April 4, 2016
Naturally, the trans-Atlantic political and mainstream media establishment is apoplectic about Trump challenging the core premises of NATO and why it still exists nearly 25 years after the end of the Soviet Union it was designed to contain.
OMG! A video about Trump's criticism of NATO using an electronic synthesized voice! Someone alert @ChristoGrozev or @RadioFreeTom, it must be the Russian Trump trolls! Quick, get Clifford Kincaid and his 'the Rooskies are coming, the Rooskies are coming' guests on!
Being wary of Trump being misquoted, or having his remarks ripped out of context by his typically truth-challenged political adversaries -- for example, these lying headlines from the UK Independent or the Huffington Post in the context of Trump addressing a possible re-deployment of U.S. nuclear weapons currently in Europe with MSNBC's Chris Matthews? At no point in that discussion of perhaps using nukes against the Islamic State does Trump even remotely hint at 'dropping a nuclear bomb on Great Britain' or any other European country. The headlines illustrate just how crazed and desperate the mainstream media is getting in attacking The Donald and why his support continues to grow when people see such flagrant lying against him. For the Wisconsin NATO flap over the weekend, the Russia Analyst checked the actual Trump quotes online. Sure enough the video below from Euronews does a decent job of capturing what Trump actually said without distorting it into an argument of 'let's just get rid of NATO tomorrow', which is NOT what The Donald said:
#Trump on #NATO. He misses central fact--our alliances magnify US power. Not real estate deals. https://t.co/gKEnS5Pm0z
— Nicholas Burns (@RNicholasBurns) April 3, 2016
According to campaign allies like Rep. Duncan Hunter of California, what Trump wants is for NATO member states led by the richest states like Germany and the Netherlands to pay a greater share of the Alliance's military spending, of which the USA currently funds over 70%. Of course, what Trump doesn't mention in this context is that the U.S. still spends more on 'defense' than Russia, China, India, France, Germany and Japan the next closest competitiors combined if you include the U.S. intelligence community budgets (NSA, CIA, DIA) in that figure. Thus in response to Establishmentarian 'Trump is a useful idiot for the Russians if not their agent!' fanatics like Accuracy in Media's Cliff Kincaid, it isn't as if there is no room where there could possibly be fat for a Trump Administration to trim, particularly via the cancellation of the flying turkey known as the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter which the Japanese and NATO allies are expected to buy at over a $100 million a copy.
The Defence budget goes up to £35Bn today; we will keep meeting NATO's 2% target: https://t.co/lgcgJkJURa pic.twitter.com/b3vKmIeEEM
— Ministry of Defence (@DefenceHQ) April 1, 2016
The United Kingdom, Turkey and tiny Estonia are among the few non-American NATO members who actually meet the Alliance's target for national defense spending....
Donald Trump versus Chris Matthews in MSNBC's Town Hall Nuclear Theater --
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Furthermore, Trump's greater emphasis on nuclear weapons as part of American deterrence strategy including in Europe could be seen in some respects as a return to the big bombs not necessarily bombers strategy of President Dwight Eisenhower's first term (1952-1956). That is, before the former Supreme Commander of Allied Forces during WWII reluctantly gave in to a surge of new defense spending by the late 1950s. That build up included the so-called 'century series' of fighter jets (F-100/101/104), America's first Redstone, Atlas, Titan liquid fueled missiles, and the B-47/52 bombers, and occurred in the years prior to Ike's farewell address warning Americans about the dangers to liberty from a 'military industrial complex'.
Lest we forget how hackish and misleading Chris Matthews attempts to trip Trump up on nukes during their recent interview were, Trump has frequently referred to an uncle who was an MIT academic with expertise on nuclear weapons during his conversations with the editors of The New York Times and The Washington Post, and said he dreads the prospects of nuclear proliferation if not atomic war. In this, Trump is very similar to the late President Ronald Reagan who after viewing the depiction of a U.S.-Soviet nuclear holocaust in 1983's television event The Day After came away writing in his diary about 'feeling profoundly depressed'.
The Day After Trump gets elected President? We don't think so...Trump's critics are not being honest with themselves, Americans or Europeans about what's making nuclear war with Russia more likely, including the looming death of the dollar creating a 'use it or lose it' urgency for America's bloated military empire before it goes away, Soros funded 'colored revolutions' that serve globalist rather than American interests, neocon revanchists and Russophobic ethno-lobbies desire to avenge the 'losses' of Crimea, Donbass and Syria, armchair strategists underestimating Russian combat and technological prowess, as well as an out of control military industrial complex...
MSNBC's Chris Matthews tries to 'stump the Trump' and constantly interrupts The Donald in the context of discussing under what circumstances the U.S. could theoretically use nukes. Matthews mocking question 'you might use them in Europe' is answered by Trump with a quick 'no'. Yet the UK Independent and Huffington Post's headlines explicitly say otherwise. Sad!
The notion that Trump is some sort of cowboy just itching to 'push the button', when he repeatedly vowed to deescalate the situation in Ukraine and 'get along' with the leader of the leading nuclear power on Earth is absurd. Yes that's right RogueMoney readers, Russia has quietly surpassed the U.S. both in the number of deployed warheads AND in the quality of delivery systems both tactical and strategic. Yet MSNBC, the UK Independent and the HuffPost all pushed this bogus storyline about how Trump just can't wait to nuke somebody, including American allies. They're not only lying, they know full well they are lying.
While Bill Gertz sources may be wrong about Russia violating the START Treaty already, the Washington Times reporter is not wrong that the Russians are engaged in a nuclear forces buildup not seen since the 1980s, and the new Sarmat heavy ICBMs are superior in terms of evading anti-ballistic missile systems and delivering multiple warheads (including via suborbital and Southern Hemisphere trajectories!) than anything overtly fielded by the U.S.
Red Storm Rising Myth vs. Reality: In an Early 80s Warsaw Pact/NATO War the U.S. Probably Would've Used Tactical Nukes First to Stop the Soviet Onslaught
As a former aide to Democratic House Speaker Tip O'Neill, Matthews knows damn well that unlike the Soviets, NATO never even bothered with a formal 'no first use' policy in Europe, and for very sound military reasons. Matthews also ought to know that since 1992, the U.S. has kept hundreds of nuclear gravity bombs in Europe years after the breakup of the Soviet Union, despite Chancellor Angela Merkel's promise a few years ago to remove the aging B-83 nuclear bombs from NATO bases in Germany.
Looking to a current hot spot, Turkey, where U.S. personnel were partially evacuated from this week, U.S. nukes are stored at bases in that country as well. That's right folks, despite the increasingly erratic and Islamist direction of the ISIS/Al-Nusra sponsoring Turkish state, and regardless of how many Al-Nusra terrorists were within a 120 miles of the base before the Russians and Syrians blasted them out of Syria's northern Latakia province, we know of no reports that U.S. nukes were moved out of Incirlik to a safer point in Europe. Perhaps it was done super quietly and we'll learn about it someday years from now, but I for one would sleep better at night knowing U.S. nukes were not at a base the Turkish military could theoretically lock down or take over one day if they really wanted to do so.
Over at his Sic Semper Tyrannis/Turcopolier blog, retired Army Col. and DIA analyst Patrick Lang also pointed out at his that Matthews had been briefed in the 1980s on nuclear weapons being an integral part of any U.S./NATO strategy to defend West Germany from overwhelming Soviet numerical superiority in tanks and artillery. All Matthews was trying to do was 'stump the Trump', which he only partially managed to do through constantly interrupting Trump, plus the magic of the MSM's selective quotation and video editing.
Able Archer 1983...the exercise that almost led to Armageddon, in part because NATO simulated nuclear strikes on advancing Warsaw Pact forces in West Germany...funny how when U.S./EU media outlets claim Russia simulated nuclear strikes on Warsaw or parts of Sweden they never mention how many thousands of times the U.S has simulated nuking Russia or other parts of Europe since the 1950s...
Peace is Popular -- There's a Reason Most of the Polled Troops Prefer Trump or Bernie
Although most voters don't pay attention to foreign policy issues which largely remain driven by ethno-lobbies and are dominated by the definition of special interests (read: think tanks and retired generals funded by the military industrial complex including NBC/MSNBC owner General Electric that needs Russia and China as 'the best enemies money can buy'), there's no doubt Trump's recent stumbles in response to questions about abortion have hurt his candidacy with the few remaining undecided Republicans, independents and crossover 'Trump Democrats' voting in the GOP contests. Nonetheless, Trump's message about 'getting along with Putin' has received polite applause on the campaign trail and has distinguished him from a bipartisan Establishment that seems hellbent on provoking Russia with more NATO forces including possibly nuclear arms on Russia's borders.
@KatiePavlich I think you heard him incorrectly...wasn't he saying that no one in NATO is talking about Ukraine...only the United States?
— Carol Rollings (@peachy297) March 30, 2016
In addition to questioning the value of NATO in recent days, Trump has also called out the countries of Europe that supposedly are terrified of 'Russian aggression' in Ukraine yet have refused to send troops to the country, except on training missions. Trump's critics again mislead by sidestepping the troops and money for Kiev point, and instead fixating on the Poles and Balts rhetoric rather than actual contributions both financial and military from countries supposedly threatened by the Ukraine conflict.
If Kiev's claims about Ukraine being THE frontline against Moscow's aggression and the imminent threat Russia poses to say, Poland or the Baltic states were taken seriously, shouldn't the Poles and Balts not only be sending troops to fight alongside the Ukrainians in Donbass, but bragging about it?
.@3rd_Infantry Soldiers & Ukrainian Land Forces soldiers conduct a live-fire exercise, Ukraine, March 30, 2016 pic.twitter.com/IVXVIaH8lp
— U.S. Army (@USArmy) April 2, 2016
Training at Yavoriv yes, being willing to bleed and die for Donetsk alongside the Ukrainian Army, no...instead of sending troops to Donbass, NATO has covertly sent 'volunteers' from various countries including Croatia, Poland, and Georgia while accusing Russia of waging covert war on behalf of its proxies in the fought over region...
NATO's Cognitive Dissonance and Lies About How Seriously Most Europeans Take the 'Threat of Russian Aggression' -- Why Won't Poland or Lithuania Officially Send Troops to Donbass?
As of today, NATO and Polish media continue to deny, deny, deny that they have done any such thing, despite evidence of a few NATO 'vacationers' or 'foreign legionnaires' who clearly aren't Ukrainians caught on video in the Donbass. Basically the NATO lobby including groups like the Atlantic Council realize deep down if it weren't for billions in U.S. funding for propaganda and military exercises every year, the vast majority of NATO including the Germans, Czechs, Hungarians, Italians, French and Greeks would not be interested in provoking Russia with maneuvers 60 miles from downtown St. Petersburg in Narva, Estonia. Nor would there be any push outside of the Baltics for getting further involved in Kiev's Donbass quagmire, much less insane attacks on Transnistria or armed to the teeth Crimea (yes, when you get right down to it, even the Poles disavow having any 'vacationers' of their own fighting Moscow's alleged 'little green men' in Donbass).
If NATO doesn't have a 'foreign legion' fighting in Ukraine, who are these guys? And if Poland is so terrified that it's 'next' after Ukraine to face 'Russian aggression', why does Warsaw together with the rest of NATO disavow the Western 'volunteers' already fighting for Kiev?
The notion that Trump is the radical in national security shows only how out of touch with everyday Americans' largely economic concerns and warmongering so much of Washington has become, and furthermore how much D.C. equates maintaining an empire of bases overseas with actual defense of American and allied nation citizens' lives. The possibility that Trump is trying to send a message to Moscow (and Beijing), that the United States isn't interested in building up NATO in Ukraine and the Baltics or military confrontation in the South China Sea -- but will continue to keep nuclear weapons as an option for deterrence -- hasn't occurred to Trump's critics. Or if it has, they are so determined to destroy the threat the Trump (and to a lesser extent, the Bernie Sanders campaign) represents to their Beltway 'rice bowls' that they are going to continue lying about Trump's statements anyway.
NATO Isn't Defending Europe from the Real Rather than Imaginary Russian Invasion
Individual Member States Have to Act on Their Own to Defend their Borders
Despite the uselessness of NATO thus far in actually stopping the real invasion of Europe underway, by young military age Muslim males who could already be radicalized, vested interests are going to keep maintaining the centrality of NATO to U.S. and EU defense planning at any costs. The alternative, the abandonment of the American Empire overseas in much the same way a generation ago Moscow had to give up its Warsaw Treaty/Soviet Empire, is too terrible for the Establishment to contemplate. Yet Trump's remarks about a severe recession if not depression looming just over the horizon, and his bold proclamation that the U.S can eliminate its $19 trillion national debt in just a decade, show that The Donald is aware of the global economic reset that's coming.
Trump is the Only Candidate Talking About Peacefully Winding Up the American Empire
In fact, Trump has been warning about the unsustainability of America's overseas commitments to defend numerous countries and its lopsided trade arrangements as part of maintaining an empire since the late 1980s. At any interest rate, the only way the U.S. can eliminate 19 trillion in IOUs owed to China, Japan, Saudi Arabia and 'to ourselves' i.e. Wall Street and City of London banks is the simplest: default. And it is a cold hard fact that neither the U.S. dollar in its current form nor a bloated military industrial complex in its present incarnation can survive such an earth shattering economic event.


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A New Culture of Learning: An Interview with John Seely Brown and Douglas Thomas (Part One)/
It is my privilege and pleasure from time to time to showcase through this blog new books by important thinkers who are exploring the relations between digital media and learning, concerns which have become more and more central through the years to my own interests in participatory culture. Today, I want to call attention to a significant new book, A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change, written by two of my new colleagues at the University of Southern California -- Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown. Asked to write a blurb for this book, here's what I had to say:
A New Culture of Learning may be for the Digital Media and Learning movement what Thomas Paine's Common Sense provided for the American Revolution -- a straight forward, direct explanation of what we are fighting for and what we are fighting against. John Seely Brown and Douglas Thomas lay out a step by step argument for why learning is changing in the 21st century and what schools need to do to accommodate these new practices. Using vivid narratives of people, institutions, and practices at the heart of the changes and drawing from a growing body of literature outlining new pedagogical paradigms, they place the terms of the argument in language which should be accessible to lay readers, offering a book you can give to the educator in your life who wants to become an agent of change. My hope is that our schools will soon embrace the book's emphasis on knowing, making, and playing.
This book really is a gift, one which arrived too late for the Christmas season, but just in time for the start of the new semester. I know that I will be drawing on its insights to shape my own New Media Literacies grad seminar this term and to inform the new afterschool program we are launching at the RFK Schools here in Los Angeles. I admire it for both its clarity of vision and clarity of prose, not a common combination. In the interview which follows, I play devil's advocate, challenging some of the core premises of the book, with the goal of addressing critics and skeptics who may not yet be ready to sign on for the substantive reforms in pedagogical practices and institutions they are advocating.
Doug, you shared a story of how your students gradually took over control of your class. On one level, this sounds like teachers' worst nightmares of where all of this may be leading, but it sounds like you discovered this process has its own rewards. Can you share some of what you learned about student-directed learning? How might you speak to the concerns of educators who are worried about their jobs and about satisfying various standards currently shaping the educational process?
This was a fascinating experience for me and it speaks directly to the distinction we are making throughout the book between teaching and learning. Even after having thought long and hard about what it means to be an educator and being open to ideas such as student-directed learning, I still found that I was carrying a whole lot of baggage about what it meant to be a responsible educator. Primarily, what that meant was transmitting valuable information and testing how well that information was received, absorbed, and processed. What I had not really thought about was the ways in which that limits and cuts off opportunities for exploration, play, and following one's passions.
The fear is easy to understand. What we are essentially doing when we move to student-directed learning is undermining our own relatively stable (though I would argue obsolete) notions of expertise and replacing them something new and different.
That doesn't mean there is no role for teachers and educators. Quite the opposite. One of the key arguments we are making is that the role of educators needs to shift away from being expert in a particular area of knowledge, to becoming expert in the ability to create and shape new learning environments. In a way, that is a much more challenging, but also much more rewarding, role. You get to see students learn, discover, explore, play, and develop, which is the primary reason I think that most of us got into the job of teaching.
"Lifelong learning" has become a cliché. What is it about the world of networked computing you describe which transforms this abstract concept into a reality? Are the kinds of learning experiences you discuss here scalable and sustainable?
We take it as a truism that kids learn about the world through play. In fact we encourage that kind of exploration. It is how children explore and gain information about the world around them. Since the time of Piaget we have known that at that age, play and learning are indistinguishable. The premise of A New Culture of Learning is grounded in the idea that we are now living in a world of constant change and flux, which means that more often than not, we are faced with the same problem that vexes children. How do I make sense of this strange, changing, amazing world? By returning to play as a modality of learning, we can see how a world in constant flux is no longer a challenge or hurdle to overcome; it becomes a limitless resource to engage, stimulate, and cultivate the imagination. Our argument brings to the fore the old aphorism "imagination is more important than knowledge." In a networked world, information is always available and getting easier and easier to access. Imagination, what you actually do with that information, is the new challenge.
Essentially what this means is that as the world grows more complicated, more complex, and more fluid, opportunities for innovation, imagination, and play increase. Information and knowledge begin to function like currency: the more of it you have, the more opportunities you will have to do things. To us, asking if this kind of learning is scalable or sustainable is like asking if wealth is scalable and sustainable. But instead of finances, we are talking about knowledge. Education seems to us to be one of the few places we should not be afraid of having too many resources or too much opportunity.
You argue that many of the failures of current teaching practice start from "the belief that most of what we know will remain relatively unchanged for a long enough period of time to be worth the effort of transferring it." Granted the world is changing rapidly, how do we identify the narrowing range of content which probably does fall into this category and which provides a common baseline for other kinds of learning?
The problem is not with facts remaining constant. There are some things we know that we have known for a very long time and are not likely to change. The force that seems to be pushing the knowledge curve forward at an exponential rate is two fold. First, it is the generation of new content and knowledge that is the result of simply participating in any knowledge economy. This leads to a second related dimension: while content may remain stable at some abstract level, the context in which it has meaning (and therefore its meaning) is open to near constant change. The kind of work you have been examining from the point of view of convergence culture is a prime example: users are not so much creating content as they are constantly reshaping context. The very idea of remix is about the productions of new meanings by reframing or shifting the context in which something means. The 21st century has really marked the time in our history where the tools to manipulate context have become as commonplace as the ones for content creation and we now have a low cost or free network of distribution that can allow for worldwide dissemination of new contexts in amazingly brief periods of time.
If you look at something as simple as Google News, the simple act of viewing a news story provides data which is fed back into the system to determine the value and placement of that story for future users. Millions of micro-transactions, each of which are trivial as "content" powerfully and constantly reshape the context in which news and current events have meaning.
You challenge here what James Paul Gee has called the "content fetish," stressing that how we learn is more important than what we learn. How far are you willing to push this? Doesn't it matter whether children are learning the periodic table or the forms of alchemy practiced in the Harry Potter books? Or that they know Obama is Christian rather than Muslim?
Ah, this question throws us into one of the key traps of 20th century thinking about learning. Learning is not a binary construction which pits how against what. In fact, throughout the book, we stress that knowledge, now more than ever, is becoming a where rather than a what or how.
Where something means or its context raises questions about institutions and agency, about reliability and credibility and it always invites us to interrogate the relationship between meaning and context.
In our framework, we stress that every piece of knowledge has both an explicit and a tacit dimension. The explicit is only one kind of content, which tells you what something means. The tacit has its own layer of meaning. It tells why something is important to you, how it relates to your life and social practices. It is the dimension where the context and content interact. Our teaching institutions have paid almost no attention to the tacit and we believe that it is the tacit dimension that allows us to navigate meaning in a changing world.
Knowledge may maintain consistency in the explicit, while undergoing radical changes in the tacit and we believe that understanding how knowledge is both created and how it flows in the tacit is the key to understanding and transforming learning in the 21st century.
Douglas Thomas is an associate professor at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. His research focuses on the intersections of technology and culture. It has been funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Richard Lounsbery Foundation, and the Annenberg Center for Communication. Doug is also the author of the book Hacker Culture and a coauthor or coeditor of several other books, including Technological Visions: The Hopes and Fears that Shape New Technologies and Cybercrime: Law Enforcement, Security and Surveillance in the Information Age. He is the founding editor of Games and Culture: A Journal of Interactive Media, an international, interdisciplinary journal focused on games research.
John Seely Brown is a visiting scholar and an adviser to the provost at the University of Southern California and an independent co-chairman of the Deloitte Center for the Edge. He is an author or a coauthor of several books, including The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion; The Only Sustainable Edge; and The Social Life of Information, which has been translated into nine languages. He has also authored or coauthored more than 100 papers in scientific journals.
Prior to his current position, John was the chief scientist of Xerox and, for nearly two decades, the director of the company's Palo Alto Research Center. He was also a cofounder of the Institute for Research on Learning. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Education.


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The other night, a couple of us were reflecting on our last long run. 20 miles! We started out in a large group like we always do and within a mile or two, we ease into our comfortable pace and end up with our sub-groups. This is where you end up once you find your comfort zone and ease into your run.
So, in my sub group there were 5, including me. We have now been friends for a couple of years and are super comfortable with one another. We talk about everything from books to running stuff to personal issues and so on. There's rarely a lull in our conversation.
We were doing great, taking the run pretty easy and just enjoying each other's company. Around mile 14, i think our conversation was still going strong but we were also starting to feel a little bit of fatigue….AND we had just turned in the opposite direction of our "finish" so that was tough. By mile 16 or so, we were on Linden which is just a boring, wide open, mentally exhausting, and physically demanding road. Our conversation started to die down a good bit. Every now and then someone would strike up the conversation again but for the most part, we were starting to run in some silence. By mile 18 or so, there was little talking and more often the occasional curse word! S#@T!!! F#@K!!
To be perfectly honest, that was about all we could muster at one point or another. Occasionally someone would just yell out a word (or even worse, just mutter it under his / her breath 🙂 ) and we would just kind of giggle. Well, not that we were thinking about the research i discovered a few years ago, BUT we were definitely putting it to the test.
"Research," you ask. Yes, according to NeuroReport (journal), research shows that swearing can be good for you when enduring pain. A subject group submerged in icy water withstood the deep freeze for 30 % longer and felt roughly 50% less pain when cursing than those who said neutral words! What!? I happen to think this is awesome.
There's more to it than "it just reduces pain." Tiffany Sharples writes the following in her article, Bleep! My Finger! Why Swearing Helps Ease Pain : "…humans are hardwired to swear cathartically, says Steven Pinker, a Harvard psychologist and author of The Stuff of Thought, an exploration of the psychology of language. Pinker distinguishes cathartic cursing from using profanity descriptively, idiomatically, abusively or for emphasis, and points to similar behavior in animals that suggests its evolutionary roots. If you step on a dog or cat's tail, it will let out a sharp yelp of pain, for example. "Swearing probably comes from a very primitive reflex that evolved in animals," Pinker says. "In humans, our vocal tract has been hijacked by our language skills," so instead of barking out a random sound, "we articulate our yelp with a word colored with negative emotion." The part of the brain that accounts for the urge to swear — or yelp, in the case of animals — is deep within, suggesting its primitiveness. Studies of non-human primates show that vocalization is nearly always attributed to subcortical processes in the brain, in those regions that control primal, raw emotions, says Diana Van Lancker Sidtis, a professor of speech language pathology and audiology at New York University. In humans too, the urge to swear likely stems from primitive parts, but it is usually overridden by commands from the brain's more complex cortex — the abundant gray matter on which humans rely for language and reason, among other sophisticated abilities. "We have intact frontal lobes, which inhibit these responses," Sidtis explains. But in certain circumstances — either because we don't bother to inhibit them or because the shock of pain or discomfort momentarily surpasses the safeguards — our impulse for obscenity takes over. "In that way, it's like the dog when you step on his tail," Sidtis says."
Believe it works or not? I think it makes pretty good sense and, personally, i welcome any help i might get on these long runs 🙂


text: Share: Comments Print March 19, 2014 at 5:00 AM Report: Typical student spends hour or less on homework Posted by Linda Shaw Donna Grethen / Op Art Many think students these days suffer under a heavy — and growing — load of homework. But a new report by the Brown Center on Education Policy concludes that's just not true. While some face hours of homework each night, as reported in stories like this one in The Atlantic late last year, the Brown researchers say the average homework load hasn't changed much for the past 30 years. And the percent of students who report no homework, they say, still is much greater than those who say they do two or more hours a night. The Center focused on a questionnaire that students fill out when they take a national test called the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). A sample of students from across the country take NAEP tests every few years. The questionnaire asks how much time students spend on homework the day before the test. In 2012, a majority reported an hour or less — the same as in 1984, 1992 and 2008. The only increase showed up for 9-year-olds. In that age group, there was a jump in the percent who said they had an hour or more, and a drop in those reporting they had none. The researchers acknowledge it's possible that teachers don't assign much homework the night before NAEP tests, so the survey results may understate reality. But they also looked at other data, which backed their conclusion that homework horror stories, while true in some places, are far from the rule. One of the most interesting indicators: the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA surveys college freshmen each year on how they spend their time during their senior year of high school. The percent who reported spending six or more hours a week studying or doing homework was 38 percent in 2012, down from about half in 1986. To put that in perspective: 66 percent reported spending six or more hours a week with their friends, 53 percent said they spent that much time exercising or playing sports, and 41 percent worked that many hours. — Are you a parent? How much homework do your kids typically have? Share your thoughts: [do action="custom_iframe" url="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/11OYQqKvDLqbK_mjwo7MAzfWKUFWQsJl10oPB2qfijyk/viewform?embedded=true" width="630″ height="1200″ scrolling=""/] Comments | More in News | Topics: Brown Center on Education Policy, homework, NAEP


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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6630829430019968762.post3952632943461201733..comments2019-07-21T05:18:08.418-05:00Comments on Comin' Home: How to Find the Time, Space, and Money to firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6630829430019968762.post-78619234037889176122015-05-30T14:32:00.800-05:002015-05-30T14:32:00.800-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.kopiluwak nyahttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6630829430019968762.post-44797407161246913512015-05-27T18:52:00.434-05:002015-05-27T18:52:00.434-05:00Lol. I didn't know the first thing about sewin...Lol. I didn't know the first thing about sewing then.Trudy Callanhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6630829430019968762.post-22876837816667633192015-05-27T09:44:46.246-05:002015-05-27T09:44:46.246-05:00Great tips Trudy! Isn't it sweet that the firs...Great tips Trudy! Isn't it sweet that the first time we met in real life and chatted was when you were learning to sew aprons with your daughter. You've taught me so much about blogging over the years and I love your sewing blog!

Thanks Mary for your kind comment. Your quilting work is exquisite. Sewing is an art we don't want to lose!Donna Rodgershttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6630829430019968762.post-19244139339744333262015-05-27T08:42:31.423-05:002015-05-27T08:42:31.423-05:00Sewing has provided me with some of the greatest j...Sewing has provided me with some of the greatest joys in life. I'm glad to read that you are encouraging everyone to give it a go. Needled Momhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6630829430019968762.post-14892033625003627922015-05-26T19:31:20.667-05:002015-05-26T19:31:20.667-05:00Great post, Donna. If one will clean out the lint ...Great post, Donna. If one will clean out the lint from the bobbin case after each project, that will go a long way toward preventing the thread from bunching and locking up. Also pay attention to the type of bobbin being used. I was using the metal kind, and it damaged my bobbin case. The reason being is because many machines have a magnet under there, and it was throwing it off. It took quite awhile before causing a problem. It makes the tiniest little nick which you can hardly see. That may be what the problem was with one of your student's machines. You can sew like for what seems like forever, and one day it will just lock up on you. Kenmores and Brothers must use a plastic Class 15 bobbin. Singer machines must only use Singer bobbins and Singer machine needles, or it can eventually cause a problem. The Big 4 pattern companies have great sales on patterns quite often for $1 to $3 each. I keep an eye out for those. I also clothing for fabric and find fabric at thrift stores and garage sales as well as repurpose clothing. Sewing can be quite affordable. And you're right, we can use the time we spend surfing the web and on FB to sew.Trudy Callanhttps://email@example.com


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When we last left our heroine she was up to her eyeballs in boxes. She was more than overwhelmed to find herself moving....again.....in less then a year. As fate would have it, Hubby brought home the plague and all the guys were wiped out. She pressed on and helped the Hubby who was barely functioning to load up the storage unit to save them time. They applauded the brilliance of the idea and it really did save their bacon.
She called the church to line up some helpers for the move. Helpers were promised but none showed up which did not surprise anyone. So the clan of 5 faced moving all by themselves as everyone else had plans plus no one was at a 100%. They were able to get the keys to the place Friday and Saturday arrived with our heroine feverish and shaking with chills. She also lost her voice and everyone was coughing their heads off.
I think I can now say this was the worst move ever. I hope life doesn't take that as a challenge.
We were supposed to be out by the 9th. Yeah, that didn't happen. We ended up spending the night at the old place Saturday and Sunday as we were worried the locks would be changed. We had so many crazy weird things happen, it was beyond discouraging. Everything from a tire blowing out on the dolly as we were trying to unload the frig, raining so the ramp was slick and a few of us slid off, to the truck not starting so we had to get it towed. Found out breathing hard triggers coughing fits. Which guess what you do when you move stuff? You breathe hard. All of us felt like we had gargled with broken glass.
Monday rolled in with Fred having to take the day off and my folks came down to help. We thought we were all set only to find out there was a mix-up regarding utilities and the water and heat was shut off by Monday at the new place. Tuesday I made a ton of calls and by 10 p.m. we still had no heat or water. I did mention we were all sick during this time right? God bless the gas guys because the dispatcher had an emotionally charged woman to deal with and they sent someone out to get our heat on at 11 p.m. Which was good because it was snowing by this time.
The next day, more calls were made and promises of water being turned on but no one ever came out. They basically wanted to do a meter read before we could turn the knob to have water in the house. We figured after I called 4 times, had confirmation numbers etc, they were flipping sol on their meter read and we turned the knob on by 8 p.m.
We thought things were good.....until we found out the water heater wasn't working. Did you ever see the scene in Groundhog Day where the guy takes a shower but it was cold water? Yeah, that's pretty much what Fred went through. The rest of us decided to just stink then go through that kind of torture. Plumber guys came out - a few days later - and fixed it all up. We had hot water and much rejoicing was in the land.
As the next day arrived laundry was beyond piling up, so I went to do a load, only to have lake Erie appear in the basement. A lot of boxes sat in the water while it took me forever to get the stupid shop vac figured out and suck up all the water.
Why yes, I did have a meltdown. How did you figure that out?
Next day, different guys came out to see what was wrong with the drain. Everything drained as it was supposed to and I was mocked for wasting dude's time. They left. More laundry was tried and more water showed up. I called back, and they came back. Everything was draining fine and I was getting teased by plumber until water started to bubble up through drain and the guy outside came running in as he said it was backing up.
Told ya!
I guess there are roots in the pipe and was causing some draining issues. We now know if the downstairs toilet starts to gurgling to shut off the washing machine which has only happened twice since.
In the middle of all this my mom insisted on making us curtains. I can't remember if I ever shared that she made us curtains a looooong time ago and Fred hated those things - with a passion. Declared them the ugliest things he ever saw. Dude isn't a huge pattern type person. Wait, that's not true. How about we just say that our taste and hers are totally different, m'kay?
She showed up with a solid brown color and I sighed a sigh of relief. Until she wanted Fred to put grommets in them. He talked her out of it and came up with an idea that worked a lot better. He found curtain rings with little clips on them that clip to the material which was a good plan because it took her all day just to sew the panels together. This did throw off her measurements and the curtains are a hair too long but she said she'll come back later to hem it better. It's all good.
And if all that wasn't enough, we found out that if you move more than once a year, you will get charged for it. Dish charged us $50 and AT&T charged us $50 but they ended up having to send someone to install a new line etc. so it turned out to be $150. At least they gave us a new modem.
Not gonna lie, I think Fred had to talk me off the ledge. Dude has been working overtime like crazy to help cover all these extra expenses and then come home and try to get everything organized. We got the storage unit emptied yesterday. Oi! Yesterday was a story all it's own! Had my cousin here last couple of days. Her and her now ex-boyfriend had a huge blowup and there have been threats, nasty emails, and wild accusations that would make any trashy high school proud.
So there have been all kinds of tears but for different reasons flying around here. But we are finally all feeling better and the place is coming together. Although today I discovered the kitchen sink is leaking and the monitor on our computer died. Seems like this crazy junk doesn't want to go away just yet. At least we're out of the ghetto so that's the positive note in all of this.
Friday, March 29, 2013
The Move.....Again
When we last left our heroine she was up to her eyeballs in boxes. She was more than overwhelmed to find herself moving....again.....in less then a year. As fate would have it, Hubby brought home the plague and all the guys were wiped out. She pressed on and helped the Hubby who was barely functioning to load up the storage unit to save them time. They applauded the brilliance of the idea and it really did save their bacon.
Posted by Joanna at 5:47 PM 3 comments
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Friday, March 8, 2013
As The Train Chugs On
Why I haven't fallen into bed in total exhaustion is a bit of mystery to me right now. The guys all woke up feeling even more miserable, if that was even possible. All 3 couldn't do much more than just sit. It was really bothering the older 2 that they couldn't help but their pink cheeks, glazed over eyes, and hacking cough pretty much made them out of commission. One kid said he coughed so hard, he's pretty sure he tasted lung.
Added bonus, we couldn't get Clifford to start. The battery was dead and it's been giving us fits so Fred and I have made about 20 trips back and forth to the storage unit in the van.
Doesn't feel like we've made a dent in anything. Tomorrow, hopefully, we'll get keys to the place or at least the garage, oh and hunt down a moving truck, and 500 hundred other things like take down the beds and pack clothes all before Fred goes to work at 2 and we won't see him until 11p.m. All while I try to load up the truck with no help as the guys are all wiped out.
All that sobbing and whimpering is from me. I've been battling the crud myself. I think on trip number 5 I felt like I was walking in slow motion. I am so very thankful for ibuprofen! But it feels like someone is standing on my chest.
At this point, I don't think we're going to get to move into the house until Monday. We haven't heard back from them yet. They said we can use the garage but last I heard that was it. I don't think we're going to get everything done Saturday either. Especially not with everyone feeling under the weather. I remember moving all this crap the first time and it felt like it would never end and that was with help! I told Fred I bet money no one will come check to see if we left right on the 9th. I suggested we save the air mattresses and sleeping bags and stay the night as we know it has water, heat, and electricity. That and I don't feel like driving down to my cousin's especially if we still have stuff still here. He agreed with me, so my mother should be proud we're not following the rules. But seriously, they want all our crap out of here and we have no where to go. Not like they're going to come in here Sunday and get to work. Believe me, I'm betting they won't even touch this place until a couple months from now because that's how bad they suck.
I don't get any of this. I'm starting to give up trying to figure it out anyways, so I guess that's progress.
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Labels: aw cwud, the move, this sucks
Thursday, March 7, 2013
My Life Is Trying To Kill Me
It's terrible! But I have had so much anxiety and stress that I was ready to punch myself in the face just to get some sleep!
Peeps - it has been day of hell 1 AND 2 all over again. The plus side is not having to drive 4 hours. Finding houses to rent is a bit tricky. The guys have all loved having their own rooms. I have loved them having their own rooms so when someone is on my nerves, they have a place to scram to and not cause more angst. Goodness knows that when one is banished from mom's presence that the only cure-all is to annoy the crap out of the siblings. Brings out the evil momma that I keep locked up with a bag of cookies up front and center real quick.
Toss in the fact that it takes a small fortune to feed these guys and we're left with a limping budget. So that scaled down the search, but this time we dragged the guys along with us just so they could understand how hard this really is to do.
But we've had some laughable moments not to mention tears, mostly on my end, and a perseverance to pull together that hasn't always been there. Either that or I grew more backbones and command a tight ship - not entirely sure which one it is.
We just found out today that we did get approved for a house so hooray! we won't be homeless. Now comes reality thundering in on the party. It is only a 3 bedroom and is a lot smaller than this place. However, the downstairs is sort of a family room that will be our bedroom slash computer room, slash whatever else we can cram down there. That chilled everyone out because the rooms are too small to fit more than 1 person in it. I'm not thrilled with it, but it has a dishwasher, so I told myself to shut the hell up and roll with it.
Told ya I was commanding a tight ship.
On top of that, it has central air conditioning. I was just thinking about summer and had this total dread hit me at how horrible it was to only have air every other night. I whined all over Facebook about how miserable we were in the 100+ degree heat and we only had window units that we could only use 2 at a time. So I'm seeing some perks here.
But a pipe burst and the downstairs ceiling has fallen off. O-f-f - off. There are a few other things that need to be done and long story short we're not sure if we'll be able to move in by Saturday, which is the court order date for us to vacate the property.
Oh happy day! Said no one ever.
You could almost hear the panic induce ulcer going full speed ahead. Sadly, this is not the first time I've had this where I've been under so much stress that my stomach clenches up and I'm in physical pain. However, I seem to develop a tremendous amount of nervous energy that I'm suddenly able to accomplish a lot of things in a short amount of time. Which is good because, as luck would have it, all 4 guys came down with fever, chills, and congestion Sunday.
I have been slightly amazed at us because when we went to court last week, Fred came home and had the place almost completely packed before the weekend. Then I've sort of taken over and done 20 loads of laundry in 2 days, primed the bathroom to try and cover up when the plumbers made a huge mess, and got several other things all done.
My mom actually had a good idea to get a storage unit for just a month to put stuff in we don't need right away and so that we aren't trying to move everything in one day. Guys all had to acknowledge that was rather smart. Plus we can get things squared away and then bring in stuff at our leisure rather than everything having to get done by Saturday.
I think we might be able to load stuff into the garage as well. But the problem I'm worried about is where to park our butts and how to feed us in the mean time. I contacted my adopted sister/cousin and we might end up at her place for a couple days if need be. Dear Lord, the blog fodder from that should be epic. Last time she spent the night we all were on our own devices and ended up having an epic Facebook movie quote. Because we are so cool like that.
We still haven't made Clifford the big red work truck legal yet. Sort of need an address to have plates mailed to and not being here makes that a problem. After trying to sell it and failing, I've noticed it keeps saving our butts I'm starting to have second thoughts. That is until we couldn't get it started tonight, which is making me rethink those second thoughts.
I feel bad for the guys because I can tell they are all feeling miserable. The worst is Fred because dude has never been sick beyond 3 days and he has come home from work and only able to sit and close his eyes. So not like him! Once the ibuprofen kicks in, he's good to go.
Something I've noticed about me is I seem to take a lot of comfort in the familiar and while I've said that before it still surprises me. I was just sort of getting used to things and now faced with new change and a different area to shop, I'm all in the throws of I don't want to leave. Wasn't I just whining about getting out of the hood and prayers for deliverance?!? I'm pretty sure that I did and now we are getting out of the hood (yay!) I'm freaking out about different and whining about why couldn't we stay? I new I had issues and all, but good grief!
My dad insisted that we call the church we've been going to. They aren't able to come down and help us move as they are tied up with my grandma. When I asked why he said it would give them a chance to be our brothers and sisters in Christ, which I did get a strong rebuke after the loud snort I let out. He also said it's not their fault that the churches we've been at have only had fake, phony people who weren't there for us.
Point taken.
So I called and long story short, nothing they can do to help us and now our sad tale of woe has been spread all over the church. Now I'm considering going back to the cold, stand-offish church because I don't know how to handle that. Part of me knows I'm not being fair or rational, but my experience has been when people know you are struggling, they sharpen their pitchforks and light the torches. But I will say that the lady I've talked to has been very sweet, very concern for us, and I've appreciated her sympathy. They might have some people come help us move but how weird is that? Hi, I'm Joanna. I know we just met and all but could you pick up that couch because it's too heavy for me to lift?
Me thinks not.
The issues are not happy with this. But with Fred being so sick I think is part of the reason I called. Dude manhandled the love seat all by himself! The frig gave him the biggest fits as it's a hog and if he's not at a 100% we're toast.
I'm sad that I've written this super long post to just now get around to saying that through all of this God is faithful! Did He fix things? No. Did He make them go away? No. Did He open up doors? No - they've been barely pried open. But through all this stress and anxiety, pain and confusion, there has been snippets of God telling me it's going to be okay. I've railed and whined at Him and not once did I feel Him pull away from me. I don't understand this! And my brain can't figure out how any of this is for our good or will bring Him glory in any way, shape, or form. But if I've learned nothing else of all the junk we've gone through is He hasn't left me, He's not mad at me or against me and He really does quiet all my fears. Doesn't make them go away but does quiet me down, even to the point where my stomach can unclench.
And after a whole day of not being able to calm myself down to finally be able to breathe is just wonderful!
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The City of Whiteville Public Works Department strives to provide a clean, safe community for residents and visitors.
The many services the Public Works Department provides include the design, construction, operation and maintenance of water, wastewater, stormwater and solid waste systems along with city street and sidewalk repair.
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Travis Faulk was appointed by the City Manager on April 20,2009. He has worked in the public and private sector serving citizens of Whiteville and other nearby locations since 1997.
Mr. Faulk has vast experience in the area of Public Works. The breadth of his experience ranges from the installation, operation, and maintenance of distribution, collection, roadway, waste, and mechanical systems to the management of storm water management utility construction systems. Mr. Faulk incorporates quality customer service as an integral part of his job and his department.
Mr. Faulk is a member of the NC Rural Water Association and the American Water Works Association. He holds a certification in Grade 2 Water Pollution Control Systems Operator as well as several other areas which require certifications related to safety measures. Mr. Faulk is a certified Muller Valve technician. He attained certification for Utility Management Leadership Training from Utah State University Business Institute.
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Theresa May, UK Prime Minister, is set to meet Donald Trump for the first time today in Philadelphia as she sets out to forge the future of the special relationship.
The Prime Minister is set to use her visit to the United States to tell Trump that Britain and America can lead the world together with a "renewed" bond after Brexit.
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Downing Street also hopes it will allow May to get to know Trump and establish a "strong and productive working relationship" with the new president.
May told reporters on the flight to the United States that she and Donald Trump will form a close bond because "opposites attract".
She rejected any claims that there could be a "potential character clash" between her and Trump and made clear she is looking forward to speaking to him "face-to-face" about the issues facing Britain and America.
It follows a backlash from MPs who have accused her of "cosying" up to Trump despite his controversial comments.
In Washington. a raft of foreign service officials resigned from the US State Department indicating they did not want to serve in a Trump administration.


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Published: Friday, April 24, 2009
This tutorial shows you how to set up Microsoft Outlook® 2007 to work with your POP3 email account. You can set up previous versions of Microsoft Outlook using the settings in this tutorial.
NOTE: If the Startup Wizard doesn't automatically display, from the Tools menu, select Account Settings, and then click New. In the Add New E-mail Account dialog box, select Microsoft Exchange, POP3, IMAP, or HTTP, then click Next.
On the Internet E-mail Settings page, enter your email account information as follows:
Note: Select the Remember Password checkbox, and then click More Settings.
Click on the Advanced tab. Enter the Server Port Numbers information as follows:
Then click the OK button