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This is a very easy, creamy, and yummily filling stew from the Peas and Thank You cookbook. I added spinach for extra nutrients.
BBQ Tofu and Pineapple Pizza
It's been a long time since I've posted and I have a million excuses why. I won't bore you with them, though. Instead, I'll post a pic of my latest delicious meal: BBQ tofu pizza with pineapple, caramelized onions and cilantro.
The recipe is from my new favorite cookbook, Chloe's Kitchen, by the vegan chef who won Cupcake Wars against other non-vegan cupcake competitors. Check it out!
Update… and Promise to Blog Again Soon!
Hello to my lovely handful of readers. I want to apologize for the hiatus I have taken from blogging. It has been a very busy fall season and blogging fell off my to-do list. I've also been pondering my vision for this blog and where I want to take it. To do that, sometimes you need to step away. If you have any ideas or suggestions for what you what to find in my blog, please let me know in the comments section! In the meantime, I'll start to ponder and blog at the same time. I promise I'll be back this weekend to post about vegetarian delights in Italy and delicious fall meals.
Spicy Kale, Sweet Potato and Cashew Stew
I based this stew on Happy Herbivore's African Kale and Yam Soup, but I wanted to add a nut butter, a hearty protein, use the ingredients I had on hand and make a larger batch so I made a few minor adaptations. Here's the modified version:
- 1 red onion, sliced into half moons
- 1 leek, top parts removed, cleaned and diced (or, just use another onion)
- 2 large sweet potatoes, cleaned and diced (I skin them as well)
- 4 cups water
- 1+ tsp vegetarian bullion paste
- 1 large bunch kale
- 4 tsp chili powder
- 2 tsp cumin
- 2 tsp garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
- 2 tsp curry powder
- 1.5 tbsp yellow miso paste*
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1 can chickpeas, drained and rinsed
- 2-4 tbsp nut butter (peanut or cashew) (optional)
- handful+ cashews (optional)
- bread to serve on the side
- salt and pepper to taste
Follow the original instructions at this link, but with the following two changes:
- I don't use prepared vegetable broth because it takes up a lot of space and goes bad within 7-10 days. Instead, I use this "better than bullion" broth base. To get it to dissolve, I warm water in a pyrex measuring class in the microwave, then once it is warm, stir in the vegetable bullion base.
After the kale has wilted down, add the chickpeas, nut butter and cashews.
Serve with toasted bread.
*Miso is the Japanese term for fermented soybean paste. It is a staple of Japanese and other Asian cuisines, so do not be scared of it! It is salty and so adds good flavor to dishes. It also adds a creaminess to dishes. I like to add miso paste to mashed potatoes. Here is a picture of white miso paste. There is also red miso paste, which is stronger in flavor and taste.
Food Prep Tip: Cleaning Kale (and other greens)
Bagged, chopped and pre-washed kale have been flooding the supermarket. My local organic market has it and so does Trader Joe's. While this kale is a lot easier to use, I really don't think it tastes as good. So I stick with buying kale in bunches and cleaning it myself.
With the kale that is especially dirty, a general rule of thumb (from where I'm not sure) is that you should wash it three times. Here is my technique for washing it, especially when I find little bugs, like this one, even after I take it out of the fridge.
Step 1. Fill a large bowl with water. Tear of kale pieces from the stem and drop them into the bowl of water. With clean hands, fully emerge and stir the kale to loosen up the dirt.
Step 2. Using a large colander, take big handfuls of kale out of the bowl of water and drop it into the colander until no kale is left in the bowl of water. You'll see bits of dirt in the remaining water. This is supposedly the best way to separate the dirt from the kale.
Step 3. Dump out the bowl of water. (Ideally, dump it into your garden and use it to water your plants so as to not waste the water). Then repeat the process until you don't see any (or at least not much) dirt in the leftover water, or about 3 times.
Step 4. Enjoy! in recipes such as…
- Kale and Tofu Quinoa Salad
- Sauteed Kale with Bell Pepper and Rice
- Simple Sauteed Kale
- Simple Steamed Kale
- Kale Chips
- Cashew Kale
Roasted Butternut Squash, Carrot and Ginger Soup
Butternut squash has hit the farmers' market and this is exciting news, folks. Matt celebrated by making this delicious, creamy (without any dairy cream) and perfect soup for the start of Fall.
Admittedly it is time-consuming, so make it on the weekend or for a holiday. Matt found the recipe by googling "butternut squash" and searching through what came up. This recipe is from the blog, With Style and Grace, which specializes in gluten-free recipes (but not vegetarian or vegan). You can get the full recipe at this link. We used vegetable bullion instead of chicken broth, and did not use the creme fraiche. It was delicious.
The main ingredients are: butternut squash, carrots, fresh ginger, and leeks. The reason it takes so long is that you have to roast the carrots and butternut squash for 45 minutes before making the soup. Here they are post-roasting:
Then you saute the leek and ginger, add the chopped roasted squash and carrots and simmer.
Then let it cool before you puree it in the food process or blender. (It is really important to let it cool, otherwise it might splurt out of your food process or blender creating a huge and frustrating mess.) Top with the roasted squash seeds or pine nuts, which is what we did.
Baked Zucchini Macaroni
sdfThis past weekend I went with my friend Kelly to the DC State Fair where she won first prize for the heaviest watermelon. Later that night, I somehow ended up with the fourth place heaviest vegetable. The details of that story are for another blog altogether, but for now, check out this very large zucchini-like squash vegetable. I'm not really sure what it is. Does anyone know?
I used less than half of it to make a baked zucchini (er, squash) macaroni dish. The original recipe is from Vegetarian Times, but I've modified it somewhat, so here is my version.
- 8 oz pasta like macaroni, penne or ziti
- 1/2 lb zucchini, chopped (about 2-3 zucchini… doesn't have to be perfect!)
- 2 cups black beans cooked (or just use one can, although that's only 1.5 cups)
- 1 15 oz can diced or crushed tomatoes (fire roasted are my favorite)
- 1 cup tomato sauce or marinara sauce
- 1 teaspoon crushed garlic, or more
- 1/4 cup chopped black olives
- 3 handfuls greens such as arugula or spinach
- a few leaves fresh basil, if you have it on hand
- nutritional yeast, to taste
- 2 tablespoons breadcrumbs
- Cook the pasta according to directions. Coat an 11 x 7 inch baking dish with cooking spray. Preheat the oven to 350.
- Heat about 1/4 cup water in a medium to large saucepan on medium-high heat and add the zucchini. Cook for a few minutes.
- Add the beans, tomatoes, tomato sauce, garlic, olives, greens and basil. Turn down heat to medium low, stir together and simmer for about 5 minutes.
- When the pasta has finished cooking, add it to the pot with the zucchini mixture and mix together.
- Add the nutritional yeast — I used several shakes, maybe 2 tablespoons to 1/4 cup. Mix together.
- Pour the entire mixture into the baking dish and top with the breadcrumbs
- Bake at 350. Then serve!
Before baking:
Simple Steamed Greens
There are several vegan advocates who also advocate for a low-fat, largely oil-free diet, such as Happy Herbivore, the folks at Forks Over Knives, and Engine2 Diet. While I have not tried to cut out oil completely, I have played around with eliminating it from some dishes and realized it is surprisingly easy. Matt complains that sauteing onions in water instead of oil smells bad, but he hasn't said that it affects the taste at all. And I haven't been able to tell the difference in either smell or taste.
My primary way of making greens used to be sauteed. Here is a way to saute the greens in water — which is basically like steaming them but with less dishes. Don't expect to enjoy these greens by themselves; they will be too bland. Serve them under a high flavor dish such as roasted delicata squash, roasted vegetables, chili or other stew, a curried dish, etc.
- 1/2-1 lbs mixed greens such as kale, chard, spinach and arugula (or, just one type of green — although arugula by itself may be too strong), torn/chopped and rinsed clean
- 1-2 teaspoons chopped or minced garlic (approximate – a few cloves would work fine)
- 2-3 teaspoons capers (optional – it adds a nice salty flavor)
- 1/4-1/3 cup water
- pinch of chili powder (optional)
- salt/pepper to taste
- Using a medium to large saucepan or saute pan that has a lid, heat the water at medium-high heat (A little higher heat than you heat olive oil or other saute oil)
- Add the garlic and capers, stir and cook for a couple minutes
- Add the greens, stir around (using tongs, ideally), then cover with the lid. Let sit for 3-5 minutes. This is important for getting rid of the bitterness in greens like kale.
- Uncover and season with salt, pepper and chili powder if using. Cook for about 3-5 minutes more, or longer, until only a little water is left in the pan.
- Serve by mixing with a high flavor dish such as roasted delicata squash, roasted vegetables, chili or other stew, a curried dish, etc.
Roasted Delicata Squash with Greens
Apologies for the long break in posting. I took a two week work trip to northern Iraq and got off track. Now I'm back home and eager to enjoy the last of summer's tomatoes and the new fall vegetables.
Here is one of our favorite squash varieties: Delicata Squash.
Delicata squash does not need to be peeled or steamed. Just scrub the outside of the fruit, then chop it into rounds. Using a paring knife or your fingers, scrape out the middle part with the seeds, so that you have donut-like rounds. After that, you can saute, grill, bake or roast it.
Roasted Delicata Squash with Heirloom Cherry Tomatoes and Shallots
The three vegetables in this dish all have rich, sweet flavors once roasted. You do not need much oil for this dish at all. As they cook, the tomatoes will break open and when the juices mix together that is when the taste becomes amazing. It is perfect to serve on top of simple steamed greens, because the strong flavors mask the blandness of the greens.
- 1 delicata squash, cleaned, sliced into rounds and de-seeded
- 1 large container of orange cherry tomatoes, cleaned
- 2-4 shallots, peeled and chopped in quarters
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- several sprigs fresh rosemary and thyme (or you can use dried if you don't have fresh)
- 1 teaspoon (approx) crushed garlic
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Pre-heat the oven to 425
- Spray a long baking dish with cooking spray. Add the vegetables, olive oil, herbs, garlic and salt and mix together
- Cook on the middle tray for about 25-30 minutes, stirring every 10 minutes
- Serve mixed with steamed or sauteed greens, like kale, arugula and chard
Before roasting:
After roasting:
Served with steamed greens (kale, arugula, and chard):
Grilled Vegetables: Shallots, Corn and Cherry Tomatoes
I love grilling fresh summer vegetables. One of my recent favorites is grilled shallots. Grilling brings out the sweetness in these normally mild, onion-like root vegetable. Grilled tomatoes and grilled corn are also two of my favorites vegetables on the barbie. Here, I tossed them all together.
Grilling tomatoes and shallots: First, peel the shallots and chop them in halves. Toss shallots and cherry tomatoes in olive oil and either dried herbs or sprigs of fresh herbs, such as oregano, thyme or rosemary. To grill them, we have a grill wok that is great for small vegetables. But if you don't have one of those, you can use tin foil. Grill for a few minutes, until browning and juicy.
Grilled corn: Pull back the leaves (without cutting them off), tears out the strings, then soaks them for an hour in water. Then grill them straight on the grill. Grill them for about 15 minutes, turning it every few minutes.
For more information on grilling vegetables, check out this article on grilling techniques and for recipes, check out 20 ways to grill fruits and vegetables, both from Vegetarian Times.


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Can you believe that we are about to conclude the first full year of Word of the Month Poetry Challenge? We are! Beginning in October, we start a new year and all the previous monthly winners will again be eligible to be named Monthly Hall of Fame Poet.
On October 2, I'll put up the ballot boxes for our twelve monthly winners and we'll select our two Hall of Fame Poets for 2010, one adult and one student.
I'm so pleased this month to see the return of student poets to the blog. Thanks to Jana Smith in Ohio and Marjie DeWilde in Missouri and their talented poets for bringing us four fresh poems to appreciate. I hope to see many more young poets join us in the weeks ahead.
I've updated the letter to principals, which you'll find in the tool box along the top of this page. Teachers, librarians, and parents, please pass along the information to the principals at your schools.
And now it's time to start finding out who will be our September Hall of Fame Poets. To refresh your memories on this month's poems, I've listed them below the ballot boxes.
Steven Withrow, © 2010
Between commutes, night workers have
Houdini'd a two-lane overpass,
Leaving steel-studded supports
Bookending the old post road,
Totems, tomes, magician's lore,
A sleight of civil engineering
Conjured wholly out of place,
Span of vanished expectation,
As though traveling a novel
And slamming, mid-sentence, into
Ellipsis … blank caesura
Of a chapter break … cliffhang-
Ing, bridge-defying business,
No job for the faint (the feint?)
Of heart—this morning, are those
Hard-hatted daysleepers dreaming
Of dawn's interpolation
In night's rhythm of wreck and rest,
Or are they too done in by toil
To presto forth illusions
On the disappearing scrim of sleep?
Lee Ann Russell, (c) 2007
Library bookshelves hold
volumes and volumes of tomes
reaching from floor to ceiling in pursuit
of life from new to old.
Crisp or musty pages roam
through centuries where authors substitute
the printed page for speech.
Storytelling is an art
Gutenberg perfected in pure pursuit
allowing one to reach
beyond oral counterpart
among gigantic shelves of author's fruit.
Gay Fawcett
Head out
Heavy load
Once a week
Two miles
One way
Musty smell
Dark quiet
Stuffed shelves
Do things
Her way
Icy glare
Return here
Face up
Neat piles
This way
20 more
I shall
By age ten
Read all
My way
30 more?
40 more?
50 more?
She bought more?
No way!
Ken Slesarik,(c) 2010
To my fellow bookworms, who dine on this book,
before you take a bite, be sure to look.
You'll find missing some vowels that I've devoured
and the c's and q's before they soured.
I've left you the e's and most of the u's
and they are yours to sample, should you choose.
Most of the consonants, for me lacked flavor,
but the b's and x's are ones to savor.
Some final advice, I'd almost forgotten,
don't eat the g's because they are rotten
and irregular blends, you'll wish you had waited,
because they will make you constipated.
Liz Korba
From tree to leaf – each side a page,
But now the leaves are leaving,
As did the scroll
(The noun, not verb)
So many years ago.
Do not lament these leaving leaves –
The paper that you know,
Where once was stone, papyrus, clay
And parchment long ago.
From tree to leaf – each side a page
A way to hold us – Words,
But we can't stay –
For it's our way
To move
From time
To time.
Euleta Usrey
I can recall
the exact moment
it happened.
It was better than
the proverbial light bulb
clicking on.
The teacher was reading
about Dick
about Jane
and Spot
while I held the book.
And I got it
the words on her lips
came from
the letters on my page.
So began
my lifelong love affair
with books.
Julie Krantz
I ran
deep green
and played
in fields
of corn
Words on paper till the wind…
I slept
the August
and didn't
till dawn
Words on paper till the wind…
And tho' I'm
a city kid
who's never
a farm
Words on paper till the wind…
I ran through
deep green
and played
in fields
of corn.
Oya H. Mwanza
First Bell
Jamal struts across the threshold with a song in his hair, a poem in his heart and a flair in the air…
He's ready!
Su Lin has her translator dictionary (audio version), 5 questions on last night's home work, and 5 new vocabulary words she's learned…
She's ready!
Pearl smacks her lips, brushes her hair, clicks the makeup case and puts away her copy of Seventeen Magazine…
She's ready!
Miguel made it today after working a late night shift. He has some of last week's work done and some questions about make up work….so much work…but he finished the novel…He is determined…and …
He's ready!
Jonathan enters…looks at the agenda…"Oh, Snap!!! I forgot my homework!!!….Can I get on the computers???"…He walks to the back of the room…
He's ready!
Actually, Anita was the first to arrive. She has special privileges (because of her wheel chair) … She's gifted, Ivy League bound and …
She's ready!
Second Bell
"Good Morning, Class!!!"
"Good Morning!!!"
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Wynee Wang
Bear, Bear, Bear
By Wynee Wang
"What is this word?" asked my mother,
"Um…um…" my face turned red.
Next comes a slap that makes me shiver
"Bear, bear, bear" she read.
"How many times I have to tell you
This word here is pronounced bear!
You're dumb, dense, and know so few,
It makes me pull out my hair!"
"Bear, bear, bear" I whispered
As tears streamed down my watery eyes.
"Xiong" should be the word that's heard,
But Chinese needs to say its good-byes.
"BEAR, BEAR, BEAR" she cried
And throws the book back at my face.
I don't know why but at least I tried,
I'd rather read at my own pace.
"Please, please, please" I breathed,
Praying this pain will seize.
Some day I will teach children to read
So they may learn in peace.
Jane Heitman Healy
Geese vee across the sky,
Wings spread as open books.
Every wing stroke turns a page
From northern marsh
To southern swamps.
Every flap of every feather
Relates chapters:
New horizons,
Changing seasons,
Fresh fields to feed
On tender grass and grains
Near nests of downy reeds,
Onto the same waters,
Over the same flyways,
Honking vees narrate migration.
Barbara J. Turner
"Welcome to my parlor,"
said the spider to the child.
"Come in, get comfy cozy.
Sit and stay awhile.
I will spin a web and wrap you
in the pages of a book.
Come inside," the spider said.
"Come. Please take a look."
The child came in and settled down.
The spider laughed with glee.
She spun a web so wondrous
the child could not break free.
And still today that child sits
enraptured in a book.
"Come inside," the spider says.
"It's your turn. Take a look."
Mary Nida Smith ©
I am
The Book Protector
Be kind to books
For I am watching
I am
The Book Protector
You can not hide
I see everywhere
If you are unkind
To books
I will jump out
Take the book away
For I am
The Book Protector
V. L. Gregory
Along a secluded river strand–
Squatting beside dying embers–
A cowboy stokes the fire he manned
To illumine the treasure in hand.
He sits down, relaxes–remembers.
A comely woman with raven hair
And delicate lavender scent;
Her eyes, doe-brown, her complexion fair.
She sheltered his youth, absolved his care.
Until Cholera–Blue Death–was spent.
He was left alone when Papa died;
An orphaned child of only ten.
Death bequeathed to him this gem, his pride;
A cherished book always at his side.
A book where wisdom changed boys to men.
It was penned in Mother's sweeping script.
Family tales–joyful and dire.
Lifetime scenes from crib to crypt.
Dog-eared, but not a single page ripped.
Revealing her hopes, plans, and desires.
He mutely mouths words as pages turned,
Each tale etched in his heart and mind.
For the old times, his heavy heart yearned;
Times at her knees when he might have learned
To read these words and name she signed.
Jackie Huppenthal
he looks
crawls over
scoots back
until he reaches my lap
his tiny warm body presses into mine
I load his legs with stories and rhyme
rub my chin over his soft golden hairs…
I read; he listens, he cares
he was so young
but already knew
for it was our favorite thing to do
read his picture books
Cory Corrado
Outside, autumn wind and rain are venting,
unleashing their blustery cold wetness,
sweeping the last of summer away…
Inside, window-side she perches
wrapped in a blanket; delicious warmth
ripples through her body and soul.
On her lap, another world rests.
She fingers the hard cover trying to remember every detail:
the textured jacket, the spine firm and thick;
the bold lettering; the soft rich illustrations.
The title she reads over and over;
recalling how she had been magnetized to it…
In the palm of her hands, a whole universe dwells.
Embedded in every page: the sun, the wind, the moon and the rain;
the birds, the bees, the flowers, and the trees;
the love and energy of every living thing.
Outside, cold windy and wet
Inside, warm delicious and dry
Excitedly, mindfully the reader flips to page one.
The opening lines grab her …
Time stands still.
Silindile Ntuli
It started as a joke,
A dare between young mates.
You knock on the door and run,
She'll have to step out of the shower.
Knock and run, we'll take pictures.
Willy was a skinny kid
A wimp (as his peers called him)
He will never do it,
Hicken Willy was his middle name.
"Today is the day" Willy thought,
Charging for the door, heart pounding.
He reached it, thump thump his heart pounded,
But Wimpy Willy was fed up.
He rang the brown door, turned to run south,
His left foot on his right lace,
Willy had no way of knowing,
He wanted to prove a point.
Now he's screaming in pain,
broken leg, bruised arm.
Banged head, bruised ego.
Book him in, says the nurse,
Look at Willy,
Banged but chicken no more.
Courtney Clawson, grade 6
I wonder what would happen
if you jumped into a book
You could meet your favorite characters
and maybe take a look
At the enchanting pixies flying
and the lands above the trees
Look at the dragons roaring
and the fish beneath the seas
Or maybe it goes deeper
right into your heart
And that is what makes a book
such a work of art –
Maria Ciminillo, grade: 6
A book,
a normal object you think.
you are wrong.
It is a door,
a portal.
To a magic world,
a different place to everyone who enters
It is blank.
No color.
No life.
No sound.
As you flip a page the world is colored in,
bit by bit,
page by page.
The rivers fill with words
The sky with imaginary birds.
Then it is there.
You made it!
Your own kingdom!
When you close the book the kingdom stops filling in,
the rivers stop flowing,
the colors stop rolling in.
It awaits your return.
The book sits there,
your kingdom inside.
Trying to find a way to make you open up and imagine more.
Then you flip again
and enter the kingdom.
And the life
and sparkle in the kingdom
is revived.
You begin to feel like,
you belong in this world
like what you live and breathe for
is finding better ways to develop it
to make it better
more interesting
a bigger and better kingdom.
It becomes impossible to leave,
impossible to shut the heavy wrought iron gate
and lock it away forever.
Leaving the kingdom that
rains words,
the kingdom that can hold every emotion at once,
the one where anything is possible,
where the sun shines at night
and the moon glows at dawn.
And you know that the gate will
remain open.
You will never close your book.
Kaartikeya Raj Gupta (KK), grade 6
I am irritated
I am locked away in a prison
I am trapped inside
I am pinned to homework
If I was free
If I was not inside
If I had no homework
I would be in my Redwood fort
I would take a book and dash to the top
where you can feel the cool breeze against your skin
I'd sit there and …
Clio, grade 5
Books are smart,
books are funny,
books are relaxing,
books are nice,
books are great,
books are cool,
books are super duper,
books are helpful,
you don't need a computer to read,
books will not be happy if you read the computer,
books are just like us because they are living things, too,
so don't be mean to books.

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Please reflect on your personal learning topics. Explain what your are investigating and something you have learnt.
23 thoughts on "Personal Learning Reflections"
My personal learning topic is about Orang-utans. I am investigating 4 different questions about Orang-utans. My 4 questions are: What country are the orang-utans from?, where is their habitat?, how are they endangered?, and what can we do to help these orang-utans. The orangutan's country are in Africa and Asia. In asia they also live in Borneo. Their habitat is in the forest, on trees and tree vines. They are endangered because of bounty hunters that kill them so they can grow palm oil plantations. They are also endangered because sometimes companies pay poachers to kill the orang-utans because they think they are pests because they want to grow palm oil trees, but the orang-utans are in the way.
Does any one else know more infomation about orang-utans?
From Camille
Mrs Boyhans blog:):):)
my personal learning topic is all about how Golden Coin Turtles are endangered. Golden Coin turtles are endangered in northern China or southern Vietnam. They live in the mountains, creeks and other aquatic areas. Golden coin turtles are critically endangered because the Chinese are trapping the turtles, this is because people are selling them at the food markets and eating them also I learnt that it was a tradition that people used golden coin turtles as a medicine to cure cancer.
Did you know that about golden coin turtles?
From Isabelle,
Mrs Boyhans Blog (;
My inquiry topic is on orang-utans. I have learnt that they come from the Borneo and Sumatran rain forests. They like to eat flowers, birds eggs, bark, flys, ants and other insects. I have also learnt that they are becoming endangered because some food companies are using a cheap oil called Palm Oil to produce food. Palm oil is made from palms and so the palm oil companies chop down all the orang-utans habitats and plant palms to make palm oil.This means the orang-utans are left with no homes and no food. The orang-utans go around looking for food but all they find is bounty hunters which kill them and then sell them for money. Orang-utan means 'man of the forest' in the malay language.
mrs boyhan blog
I have chosen Palm Oil & Orang-utans as my personal inquiry learning project. I chose it because I am really interested in orang-utans. I have chosen 4 main questions to research more into. The main reason why they're endangered is because people are clearing the orangutans habitat to make room for palm oil plantations. These orangutans were my favourite animal at the zoo besides the elephants.
Elisa :]
Mrs Boyhan's Blog
My personal learning topic is about Elephants. In the last decade the amount of Elephants living in the wild has decreased by 1 million and by 2025, Elephants could be dropped 1.5 million more. The reason for this is because Elephants are losing their land to farmers to plant their crops. When Elephants try to get there land back, they are killed by the farmers. It is also because the two tusks placed near the Elephant's trunk, get cut off to make things like jewellery and ornaments. Elephants are killed just to get there tusks. I can't wait to find out more on Elephants and start my project!
Mrs Boyhans Blog 🙂
Hi,for my personal learning project, I chose recycling. I chose recycling because I wanted to learn more about how you recycle and what you can recycle to make into different products. I found out that when companies like Visy take the rubbish to their factory,they re pulp the paper, they take out the ink and then it's made into recycled paper. I hope you learnt something about how to recycle. Do you Know any more information on recycling?
Mrs Boyhan's Blog
My personal learning topic is about the Yellow Anaconda.
The yellow Anaconda is found in Venezuela, 2 miles away from another species of Anaconda called the Domestic Anaconda. They are are endangered mainly loss of habitat but poachers and bounty hunters are another big reason why they are becoming extinct.
My personal learning topic is palm oil. I chose this topic because when we went to the zoo that's what I wanted to learn about. It has been quite interesting so far because I found a long list of numbers and words that disguises palm oil. Have you ever come across a strange word on your products packet? It's most likely palm oil!
I am excited to research more about this topic!
Mrs Boyans Blog 🙂
My personal learning topic is about the persian leopard. So far I have learnt that the leopard lives in the hilly forested areas of Iran. It is endangered because of: Poaching for various body parts, trophy hunting, poisoning and the fact that the millitary bases surround the Persian leopards habbitat. They also are endangered because of loss of habbitat so therfore there is no longer food for the Leopards to eat.
My personal learning topic is about snow leopard.snow leopards are good to learn about. They live along the coast of africa and were their pray lives. There are 5,000 left in the wild now. There use to be 10,000 in the wild.
For my personal learning project I'm doing Golden Coin Turtle. The Golden Coin Turtle (Cuora Triasciata) comes from China, Laos and Vietnam and it's habitat is Wetlands, Streams, Mountains and other aquatic areas. They live in temperatures that vary bettween 23oC and 26oC. The Golden Coin Turtle is critically endangered because of predators and because chinese people prefer their meat. Also chinese people also believe that their a cure for cancer so the sell them on the black market. So what are people doing around the globe to help these poor little creatures? Well, they are protected in Hong Kong and some nature reserves are being built. Nature Reserves make great habitats for the turtle. Also, China is setting up a captive breeding program. This might be our last resorce to keep the Golden Coin Turtle from going extinct.
I think this will be a great topic to do a project on and I can't wait to get started!
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My personal learning project is about Wind Farms and wind energy. I chose this topic because i wanted to learn more about wind farms and something i didn't know much about. I am researching about how wind farms were made, why they are being used and what they produce. Wind farms are clusters of wind turbines that create electricity sustainably.
By Greta
Mrs Boyhans Blog
I am learning about Fijian Crested Iguanas. The reason why i chose them is because when i saw and heard about them at the ZOO i thought that they were very interesting. So far I have found out alot about them, and I think it's terrible that animals come and eat them when they are in eggs because they dont get a chance to hatch and live.
Alex D
Mrs Boyhans Blog
For my personal learning project I am researching on Bilbies.Bilbies live in deserts in australia,they dig burows upto 2 meters deep and that is where they live.Bilbies are an endangered specise and are endangered because feral animals are eating them. Feral animals are animals that arnt meant to be in australia like cats and foxes.An interesting fact is that their useto be two specise of bilbies but sadly the other one became extinced in the 90's because of the feral animals.Something we can do to help is if you have a cat keep it in at night because they tend to eat animals like possums and bilbies.
By Ashley
Mrs Boyhans Blog
Hi Mrs Boyhan,
my personal learning project is about Orang-utans! I have discoverd that Orang-utans like to eat insects such as butterflys,aints and may other bugs. The Orang-utans are becoming endangerd because of clearing of habitation. The Orang-utans habitats are being cleared to plant palm-trees which provide Palm-Oil. I chose this animal because I believe thay Orananeg-utans are very cute and are becoming to close of being endangerd!
Thanks alot Marc Habib Amad 🙂 xoxo
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Sunday, 23 November 2008 11:26 AM
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney visited Atlanta Friday to support incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss on Friday. Chambliss is in a tight runoff with Democrat Jim Martin, and the GOP is anxious to keep his seat.
"The reason the whole nation is focused on this is because we have to decide if we want two parties in Washington or only one that gets everything it wants," Romney said at a rally for Chambliss in Buckhead.
Romney added that Chambliss is vital to the Senate -- to stave off cuts to the military, tax hikes on small businesses, and to keep liberal judges from being appointed the Supreme Court.
Democrats are jockeying for a 60-vote, filibuster-proof "super majority" in the upper chamber -- a prospect that was enhanced when GOP U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens lost his seat in Alaska to a Democrat. The Democrats now have 58 seats - only races in Minnesota and Georgia hanging fire.
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Gawker Hires 'Fox Mole,' Who Misses the Point of His or Her Own Tale
Here's the post, most of which is typical liberal snark about Fox, Hannity, Romney etc. The Mole is a liberal malcontent, we get it. But right at the top of the piece, the "Mole" explains why they have stuck around working for the Fox News Channel for several years:
I always intended to keep my mouth shut. The plan was simple: get hired, keep my head down and my views to myself, work for a few months, build my resume, then eventually hop to a new job that didn't make me cringe every morning when I looked in the mirror.
That was years ago. My cringe muscles have turned into crow's feet. The ten resumes a month I was sending out dwindled into five, then two, then one, then zero. No one wants me. I'm blacklisted.
I work at Fox News Channel.
Now, why would having the Fox News Channel on one's resume make it harder to find a job elsewhere in the mainstream media? It's clearly not a two-way blocked street: Ed Henry is but one of the latest Fox hires to come from another cable network. He worked at CNN for years. Brit Hume came from ABC. Juan Williams came from NPR. It can't be a case of competence, at least not if we're going by NBC's standards. Or ABC's -- they had to take a mulligan on their George Zimmerman surveillance video last week. It can't be ratings or success, since Fox dominates the ratings among news channels and has for a long time, probably the Mole's entire career.
The problem could be, of course, that the Mole has a crummy resume. Maybe they haven't done anything or don't have much to show for their efforts. Maybe they keep forgetting to spell check. Pencil and crayon tend to get a resume sent straight to the circular file. Maybe word has gotten out that they're a pain to work with or something. Gawker doesn't identify the Mole, of course, leaving us to assume little as factual, including whether they actually work for Fox.
But assuming that the Mole actually works for Fox -- is the Mole's lack of ability to get a job outside Fox evidence of liberal media bias? Doesn't the Mole admit as much in noting that they have been "blacklisted" by potential employers?


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Have you been reading Animals in Midlife Crises by Lincoln Michel and John Dermot Woods? The second strip went up this week. It even caught the eye of Flavorwire. New strips every Sunday at The Rumpus.
In unrelated Rumpus news, Nancy Smith reviewed issue six of Canteen magazine and gave a very nice shout out to my essay on disappearing deep ends:
Lincoln Michel writes, rather remarkably, about the loss of the deep end of the pool....I simultaneously loved/was terrified by learning to swim and overcoming the deep end was a rite of summer passage. I'm somewhat depressed by the fact that kids nowadays just splash around in a couple feet of water. As Michel so rightly concludes, "A pool can only be conquered if you actually have to swim in it."
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COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. -- Jayson Stark accepted the J.G. Taylor Spink Award for meritorious contributions to baseball writing on Saturday afternoon at Cooperstown's Doubleday Field, and he was moved by the moment.
"I am literally living the dream. It feels like it is happening to somebody else," said Stark, a Phillies beat writer and national columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer from 1979-2000. "This would be the honor of a lifetime even if it wasn't voted on by the baseball writers, but that makes it more special because all I ever wanted, from the time I was a kid, was to be one of you (baseball writers)."
Stark, acclaimed for mixing humor with impeccable knowledge during more than four decades, also wrote for and appeared on ESPN and now writes for The Athletic and appears on MLB Network.
The late broadcaster Al Helfer was honored with the Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in broadcasting. Helfer, who died in 1975, broadcast his first game at age 16 in 1933 for Pittsburgh and also worked games for the Cincinnati Reds, New York Yankees, and Brooklyn Dodgers and later called games on radio for the Mutual Game of the Day in the 1950s.
Helfer called 14 no-hitters and such memorable moments as Gabby Hartnett's Homer in the Gloamin' in 1938 and Bobby Thomson's NL pennant-winning home run for the Giants in 1951.
The Hall of Fame inductions ceremony is Sunday. Relievers Mariano Rivera and Lee Smith, designated hitters Edgar Martinez and Harold Baines, and starters Mike Mussina and the late Roy Halladay will be honored.


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Cast On using Long Tail Method
Casting on with a Long Tail requires you to not start your slip knot close to the end of the strand. It will require you to use two strands that intertwine with each other.
This technique takes a bit of getting used to and isn't very difficult.
With your non-dominant hand, you will position the yarn like the yarn is doing a sling-shot. It appears like the needle is going to shoot off into the distance. To get the yarn to wrap around your thumb and pointer finger isn't very hard.
Form a slip knot and slide onto the needle. With the two yarn strands hanging down. Clamp the yarn into your fingers and use your thumb and pointer finger and put them between the two hanging down strings. Open your finger and thumb apart. Tilt your hand backwards so the yarn wraps around the thumb and pointer finger as seen in the photo.
Using the needle, travel up the thumb and collect the loop from the thumb but don't let the loop go. Swivel the hook to the pointer finger and collect the yarn from the pointer finger. With your thumb, place the thumb yarn over the tip of the needle. Pull strands tot and restart again.
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Utilising Kickboxing as a fitness routine
Know more about Kickboxing
Do you know you can burn about 700+ calories* in a 60min kickboxing workout? Hence, if you are looking into a stress buster cum effective exercise, now is the time to pick up those gloves and kickbox your way to a healthier you!
So whats kickboxing about? Theres many styles of kickboxing such as Muay Thai kickboxing, American kickboxing and Japanese kickboxing etc. Such variants differ in the emphasis of strikes and defensive techniques but have 1 main thing in common. The utilization of the legs and incorporate such kicks into the upper body punches/hooks/uppercuts.
Is it for the average person? The answer is yes and no. If you are looking to enter a competitive mode, you would need to train up real hard. Not only do you have to beef up your cardio, speed and strength, you have to be physically and mentally prepared for the full contact(impact) of strikes to the head/body.
Fortunately, for most of us, kickboxing is available as a health and fitness program if suitably tailored.
Use kickboxing as a fitness program
With the advent of fusion gyms and martial, kickboxing has also found its way into the life of many fitness professionals and enthusiasts. There are 2 main forms of kickboxing as a fitness program: (A) Aerobic Kickboxing and (B) Resistance-based Kickboxing.
Aerobic Kickboxing refers to a typical setting where music is played in the background and participants perform a series of choreographed moves according to the instructors/program syllabus. Such exercises are entertaining and to a certain extent help the participant to gain a fair understanding to the basic moves/combos that one can expect.
However, aerobic kickboxing heighten injury risk factors to participants joints as such strikes are thrown into thin air. At high speed and repetitions, such movements could hyper-extend the joints and might result in long-term cartilage problems.
Conversely, Resistance-based kickboxing, where training is done via punching mitts and kickpads, allows the resultant force of the strikes to be absorbed and minimise the possibility of joints injuries. In addition, in more advanced forms, the instructors could add in contact/light sparring to further improve the coordination and acumen of the participants. This would then allow a comprehensive workout by engaging the whole body (arms, core & legs) and the mind.
It would also sharpen the eye-body coordination as participants would need to react according to the direction of the mitts/pads as opposed to pre-choreographed moves when the student is already tuned to the movements.
*Source: Nieman, David, C. Exercise Testing and Prescription, McGraw Hill, 2003, calories burned is dependent on your weight, fitness level and routine employed.
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News of the week: VMware's ESX 3.5 bug causes VM failure
This week, the biggest news item on SearchServerVirtualization.comwas the havoc caused by VMware Inc.'s ESX 3.5 update 2 bug, which kept virtual machines (VMs) from booting up and live migrating (VMotion) on Aug. 12.
Users posted their fury on IT forums like ARS Technica's the Server Room. One user on the forum summed up the situation perfectly. "This was a very big deal, make no excuses for VMware. It certainly had potential to completely disrupt a lot of customers. … At most it should have disabled VMotion and other extras but not starting a VM."
In the afternoon on Aug. 12, VMware issued an Express Patch on its Knowledgebase site and warned users not to install ESX 3.5 Update2 or ESXi 3.5 Update 2 if it has been downloaded from VMware's website or elsewhere prior to Aug. 12, 2008.
VMware's new CEO, Paul Martiz, issued an apology letter the day of the bug explaining the issue.
When the time clock in a server running ESX 3.5 or ESXi 3.5 Update 2 hits 12:00AM on August 12th, 2008, the released code causes the product license to expire. The problem has also occurred with a recent patch to ESX 3.5 or ESXi 3.5 Update 2. When an ESX or ESXi 3.5 server thinks its license has expired, the following can happen:
- Virtual machines that are powered off cannot be turned on;
- Virtual machines that have been suspended fail to leave suspend mode; and,
- Virtual machines cannot be migrated using VMotion.
The issue was caused by a piece of code that was mistakenly left enabled for the final release of Update 2. This piece of code was left over from the pre-release versions of Update 2 and was designed to ensure that customers are running on the supported generally available version of Update 2.
… I am sure you're wondering how this could happen. We failed in two areas:
- Not disabling the code in the final release of Update 2; and
- Not catching it in our quality assurance process.
We are doing everything in our power to make sure this doesn't happen again. VMware prides itself on the quality and reliability of our products, and this incident has prompted a thorough self-examination of how we create and deliver products to our customers. We have kicked off a comprehensive, in-depth review of our QA and release processes, and will quickly make the needed changes.
I want to apologize for the disruption and difficulty this issue may have caused to our customers and our partners. Your confidence in VMware is extremely important to us, and we are committed to restoring that confidence fully and quickly.
It remains to be seen whether Maritz' apology is enough to satisfy frustrated users. A major issue like this may prompt users to try other virtualization products. For instance, the day of the incident, some users were singing praises of Microsoft Hyper-V on technical forums.
Either way, having to deal with this issue after only a month in charge is really initiation by fire for Maritz.
And I imagine that VMware co-founder and ex-CEO Diane Greene, who was ousted by VMware's board of directors July 8, might feel at least somewhat vindicated.


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Happy Little Coons. "Dance Characteristic" With Words Ad. Lib.
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The Coal Black Rose.
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Fly Shoe. Song and Dance.
(George Willig & Co. Publishers, 1870)
I'm Off For Charleston.
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Nancy Fat [with dance interlude].
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Farewell My Lilly Dear. A Plantation Melody.
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Christy's Melodies. My Lovely Virginia Gal.
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If there's one thing Cherry Mobile wants to project nowadays is that "they level up". The latest models in the Flare series show exquisite design and built.
We have secured one of the three new Flares, the Cherry Mobile Flare 4, and let's see what this new phone can offer!
Premium Design
Visually, the Cherry Mobile Flare 4 looks like an evolved, slightly sharper looking version of its predecessor, the Flare 3. With an evolution of the Flare 4 design making an affordable phone feel more premium like, the comfortable curve and the metallic frame simply look stunning, it's hard not to like the looks.
Cherry Mobile's attention to detail now is very much in effect, the metallic frame with shiny edges delivers a very premium look though it is still clear that the phone's back panel is made of plastic and not a more exclusive material such as metal or glass.
The Power button is on the right side that actually makes it a little easier to hit, while the other side houses the volume rocker.
On the top edge you'll see the audio and the microUSB ports.
The speaker grill beside the 13MP camera is a normal thing even the sound it produces, as well as the included earphones.
5-Inch HD Display
Aside from the Dragon Trail glass technology used in the screen, I should give a shout out to the display as I find it exceptionally impressive throughout my time with the handset. Viewing angles are remarkable, as well as color reproduction.
I am fairly impressed how well it performs. Text and icons on the Flare 4 look suitably crisp and color and brightness levels are great. Packing an HD display stretched across 5 inches with pixel density of 320 pixels per inch, the Cherry Mobile Flare 4 is onto a frontrunner here.
Processor: Octa-Core with 2GB RAM
Flare 4 is as fast as you would possibly need a phone to be. It runs on the latest Android 5.0 Lollipop and is powered by MediaTek 8-core CPU (MT6753). The 1.3GHz Octa Core 64-bit Cortex-A53 processor is complemented with 2GB RAM and is backed with Mali-T720 GPU, which runs videos and HD games into a higher level of multimedia experience. In real-world use, navigating through its drawer and running apps and browser pages is a breeze. There's no sign of any stutter or lag anywhere in the operation and the 2 gigs of RAM ensures multitasking which is managed competently.
And if you enjoy casual gaming on the go, the Flare 4 won't disappoint you, and popular titles such as Clash of Clans and Subway Surfers run incredibly smoothly. More graphically intensive games, such as Real Racing 3, are handled adequately.
Connectivity: 4G/LTE
Flare 4 supports dual-SIM functionality with connectivity features of 4G/LTE, 3G and 2G networks. You also get WiFi, Bluetooth v4.0, GPS and GLONASS. The phone comes with plenty of sensors such as Accelerometer, Proximity, and Ambient Light Sensor. Flare 4 also supports USB OTG.
The Call Function
Sound during calls is rich through the earpiece, as well an ensuring comment from the other line that they can hear me clearly, even in the loudest of environments.
Battery and Storage
Flare 4 comes with 2100 mAh battery. Despite not being particularly large for a 5-inch device, it's a welcome upgrade from the paltry 1980mAh cell found in the previous Flare 3. I didn't put the phone through extensive battery tests, but I can say that the 2100mAh battery manages to deliver a daylong battery life. Software enhancements and the inclusion of the power-efficient processor help to conserve juice, resulting in acceptable, if not remarkable, battery life.
And as for the storage, CM has chosen to load the Flare 4 with an above standard 16GB internal storage apart from the microSD card expansion slot provided for up to 64GB.
13MegaPixel Camera
As for the camera, it features a 13 MP snapper, which can auto focus and can take full HD videos. And just like any other android phones, the camera does a good job in favorable lighting. The shots I took in low light condition could speak for it and I am fairly satisfied, I got them with real and good detail of color and sharpness.
So, should you buy one?
The Cherry Mobile Flare 4 may struggle to compete against other local brands that carry the same specs category and price point, but it certainly punches well above its weight, there is no doubt that this new Flare 4 is a stunningly beautiful phone. For the price of Php 4,999 the specs and design are mightily impressive – nothing more, nothing less.
And what's the difference between Flare 4 and Flare S4?
In terms of specs, the Flare 4 and Flare S4 are very similar, but a new attractive back plate design and a change in battery are on offer in the S4. If you'd been struggling to justify which one you'll get, it could be just what suit your taste or ironically – what's available in the store. #taragis.


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25 Feb How To Make Cheap & Simple Mobile Gobos From Mic Stands & Moving Blankets
Trying to achieve high quality recordings as a home recording enthusiast can be a challenge at times. But we still want to be able to get the best sounding recordings that we can and since we don't have rooms built for recording we need to resort to other methods to control and tame room ambiance and reverberation. One of the methods we use to do this are to use Gobos. Gobos are basically movable acoustic isolation panels. However, Gobos can be rather expensive for what they are and like most of us, we can be a little strapped for cash. Some recording enthusiasts take it upon their selves to build their own custom built DIY Gobos. This can still add up quickly and many of us don't have the time to build Gobos. Here's an easy and cheap alternative to buying expensive Gobos or dealing with the hassle of building your own. They're mobile and easy to transport too 🙂
What You'll Need
- Moving Blankets. These can be bought from Harbor Freight for $9 for a 72″ x 80″ blanket
- A Mic Stand. No particular mic stand needed, any will do. No need to spend a lot of money on a heavy duty mic stand for this purpose. These would work fine…Musician's Gear Tripod Mic Stand w/Fixed Boom Black 2-Pack
And…that's it. You have everything you need to create a Mobile Gobo to control room ambiance and sound reflections. To set it up, create a t-shape from the mic stand and throw a moving blanket over it and there's your Mobile Gobo. You may consider adding on some clips or clamps to hold the blankets on to the stand.
Being so simple and cost effective you may be skeptical of the performance but I can assure you that these work great. I have used these to great effect to control ambiance and room sound when recording drums and vocals. Hear some finished recordings that I have used these on.
I have used these Mobile Gobos to create a make shift vocal booth for recording vocals and I have used them to surround drums in a very open room to get a drier sounding recording. The moving blankets are perfect for deadening the room and I have used them to create a drum room in my house too.
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Finance and Personnel Committee
Welcome to the Finance and Personnel page.
The members of this committe monitor and evaluate the school finances and expenditure. They receive reports from the Head Teacher and work closely with the Bursar Service at LCC who help to monitor the finance health of the school. This committee also receives reports on the staffing structure of the school and ensure that we make the best use of this most valuable resource. The members of the Finance and Personnel Committee are:
Mrs Heidi Farrell
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Mrs Fiona Science
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NO way it will even get Version 5. My Premium lic that I had for few years expires in October of 14 and I hardly use it since it either slows down my chrome or it doesn't block my IE11. If I could get a refund for the remainder of the next 6 months I would ask for it.
I MIGHT resub back if V5 EVER EVER EVER come online. So far, this software is abandon ware in my book.


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wow what i just remembered it was so epic!,
it was in Heroes Of Newerth i joined a match 5vs5.. we were okey until one one of my teammates were getting killed and 3 of them disconnected, after that i with my friend stayed in the server it was 2vs5 we were sure we are gonna loose that but we said "we will fight until the end" cos 3 of the other guys left we had a lot of money i had the player Pebbles[my fav hero] , i got the best items this hero it could had with the money i had he had so many health the enemies could not kill me i had so much fun too my friend did the same with his character and we starting owning the enemies until we got in their base and won
it was epic battle
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Oh, here's mine. It's actually in Company Of Heroes where me and a friend play against 4 expert AI.
Any seasoned COH players will tell you expert AI in COH is a real b***h.
Anyway my pal and I were having our really hard time surviving Montargnis Region. We couldn't advance as well. Our units keep getting slaughtered by the 4 AI players.
Now, in Montargnis, it is just one huge industrial park with little choke points.
We keep losing the control points till we were just pretty much pushed back to just above our bases. My pal was playing airborne and he had only an airborne squad and an AT gun. I was playing armour and thankfully I managed to squeeze a Pershing and Sherman tank out.
Despite that we thought we were going to lose because we had no control points left. We only had 2 tanks, 4 engi, 1 airborne squad, 1 AT gun between us against hordes of Germans. We thought we were going to lose.
So we decided that GOOD teamwork and coordination can win the day and we decided to punch straight through the left of the map so we won't get flanked on both sides. My 4 engi will keep my tanks healthy and the airborne squad will deal with the infantry. We did pretty good through constant communication until my pal's airborne squad and AT gun got wiped out. HE HAD NO UNITS LEFT!!!! What was worse was HIS base was getting pounded. I had little choice but to divert my limited forces to his base to save it. Amazingly, I managed to save enough of his bases from the Germans for him to actually churn out some more units. Yeah, I saved my pal's base from destruction with just 2 tanks and 4 engi against 4 expert AIs tons of German units!!!!!! Patton should give me a medal for it. *PHEW*
But his resource was limited so he only managed to produce 2 rifle squads. With that we decided to try again. This time, we punched through the right and managed to capture more control points and after 2 more hours of battling the Germans, we won.
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Starcraft I
I don't play war games a lot but I used to play starcraft 1 with my friend.
He was really good and he tried to teach me how to play. We played both as protoss and faced 6 zerg hard bots together. I just spammed units (probably zealots) and my friend just held off the bots on his own. By the time I maxed out units, he had already taken out 5 bots already. I just sent all my guys at the last bot with my friend and we won.
|30th July 2011, 12:44
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My heroic virtual war story, was last year when i was home with a broken ankle.
Me and my friend were playing Halo Custom Edition with the whole clan, we were holding a clan war 8vs8.
This game was really hard and funny at the same time. Me and my friend were in the blue team leading with 50 points against 40 points of the other team. So we decided to use a cover attack and then kill the other players. At least my team failed at the cover attack due the invisible enemy player. So when the other team killed all my teammates i was all alone on the sniper hill :S.
I was mad due the failure so i started to do what nearly is impossible to do. I just jumped off the cliff and ran to the enemy base meanwhile running i killed 3 enemies with my sniper and then i only had my pistol left for the other 3 enemies, lucky me that i am like god in aiming so i killed the other 3 enemies.
This was my most heroic war story since i was all alone since my teammates died so last man stand is what you could describe it .
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Last week, I had BBQ from Buc-ee's for the first time. Pressed for time, I stopped in (I-35, Exit 191) & picked up a pulled-pork sandwich to go. I couldn't decide between pulled pork & chopped beef. Asked if they would do half & half. Nope. So, I asked which the server preferred. Pulled pork. Ordered it but asked if I could get it without sauce already mixed in. Nope. So, I left with a pulled-pork sandwich (sauce already mixed in), with pickles & onions.
Monday, June 24, 2013
Pulled-pork sandwich from Buc-ee's (New Braunfels, TX)
Posted by Drew Thornley at 9:25 AM
Labels: New Braunfels
4 comments:
- Stephan Dueboay said...
I sure am glad that Buc-ees knows exactly what everyone that walks through their door likes on a sandwich. One less thing to worry about now. I don't have to figure out if Muellers, Blacks, Snows or Franklin's BBQ is any better than Buc-ees. I can go to Buc-ees now and never have to worry about visiting another place, since they know what I like before I walk through the door!
That's akin to telling Daniel Vaughn that ALL BBQ is good...
Bad business if you ask me...
The Impulsive Texan
- June 24, 2013 at 9:57 AM
- Joe & Jane Engagement said...
I believe some of their many fuel pumps actually dispense 87 octane bbq sauce.
- June 24, 2013 at 1:17 PM
- Doug Zedler said...
Looks nasty.
- June 25, 2013 at 8:36 AM
- Don O. said...
Am I correct in suspecting they will not honor the Q card?? :)
- June 27, 2013 at 4:17 PM
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In a tough economy and competitive job market it is not unusual for an employee to become discouraged at work, especially if there have been a redundancies and there is pressure on staff to work harder and longer hours.
There are some things that a manager can do to create a positive atmosphere at work!
One of the most important things that a manager can do at work is to build trust with their employees. If they say they are going to do something they must follow through with it. This show the staff that the person is charge is reliable and dependable, and above all consistent. A manager has to be honest with employees even in tough situations. Once the employees know they can trust their management to be honest the work environment will become more positive.
Communication is very important. An employee needs to feel valued and feel like their ideas are important. In order to create a positive atmosphere when an employee has a suggestion, question, or problem concerning their work, the manager needs to take the time to listen to them. The manager should also openly communicate the goals of the company with the employees and take suggestions on how to meet these goals. Feedback an also be given about these ideas and suggestions on how to improve them as well.
When a person is held to high expectations they will strive to meet these expectations. Adults do not like to let the people around them down. If a manager holds an employee to these expectations they will rise to meet them.
Team Spirit
People need to feel like they need to belong to something that is bigger than them. Employees will do better in an office where there is team spirit. If the staff feels unified they will work harder, call out less, and fell important in their job duties. They are also less likely to leave their job or look for other employment opportunities.
Everybody likes to feel like they are appreciated. Compliments go a long way with employees. When an employee does something right the manager can give them a compliment. Also basic manner make the atmosphere in the office a lot more positive. Saying things like "please" and "thank you" make a big difference in the workplace. To make things more positive everyone should get into the habit of using good manners!
These are just some ways to create a positive office environment. When the employees feel appreciated and have good manners the workplace will be a better place.


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Why, Grandma?
Because of all the shooting?
Did I say quadding?
Or was it the dirt biking?
I think it's all good. Really, I don't mind the redneck label.
What the neighbours couldn't hear was the golfing,
(This guy goes down as the most photographed cousin of the weekend.)
And sidewalk chalking.
And temple attending! Can't leave that out! Grandma keeps us supplied with family names - this was a sealing weekend.
In heaven and on earth, actually.


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FAIRFIELD, Conn. – Sacred Heart University baseball freshman Justin Jordan was named NEC Baseball Rookie of the Week, as announced by the league Tuesday afternoon. It is the fourth time this season that Jordan has earned the weekly award.
Jordan has recorded multiple hits during eight of his last 10 games. He accounted for an RBI and scored at least one run in each of the Pioneers' three conference contests last week. After finishing 0-for-3 with a walk in a mid-week tie against Hofstra, Jordan went 7-for-14 the rest of the way. He totaled seven singles, three RBI and four runs during the three-game road trip to the Mount.
Jordan singled in the third and fifth innings of the NEC series opener with the latter base knock breaking a 1-1 tie in the Pioneers' eventual 7-4 victory. He notched an RBI single as part of another two-hit performance in the middle game at Mount. Jordan went 3-for-5 with a RBI hit and two runs scored in the rubber game, a 9-4 win for SHU.
The Pioneers will be back in action on Thursday, May 16, when SHU plays host to Bryant at 3 p.m.


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The Sacred Heart, The Order of the Four Sons, Book IV is finally here! Every time our cover artist, Erin Kelso, undertakes a new design, I think it can't possibly be more gorgeous than the last one. But then...
I. Can't. Even.
When my husband, Patrick, saw it, he was all, "You finally put a male character on the cover and it's pretty-boy Leo?" Me: "Well, yeah." (No disrespect meant to JD, Murphy, et al.)
If you were fans of the O4S series before, you know that we took what was originally Book III and divided into two parts, Where Flap the Tatters of the King, and now, The Sacred Heart.
Book IV is now available as an ebook:
Purchase on Amazon and Smashwords (Smashwords makes ebooks available in a variety of formats, including Nook and Apple.) Eventually, it will be available for download directly from retail sites such as Barnes & Noble and iBooks. We are also working on making it available in paperback for those of you who prefer a more tactile reading experience.
You can read an excerpt of Book IV here.
Coyote and I took a break from working on Books V and VI, but we're back to it now. We'll keep you posted on our progress.
We hope Book IV is enjoyed by new and returning readers alike. As always, we welcome your reviews, comments and feedback.


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Bibliographic information: Oakland Museum of California: Reparation for Mexican and Filipino Farm Workers. http://www.museumca.org/picturethis/timeline/depression-era-1930s/migrant-farm-workers/info
Brief description: This collection, as the title suggests, is about the reparation for Mexican and Filipino farm workers to their native lands. Mexican and even Mexican American farm workers were rounded up by officials and sent in busloads over the boarder. These resources are from the Oakland Museum of California. This website has a collection of photographs showing living and working conditions of Mexican and Mexican American agriculture laborers in the 1930's. Each photograph has a short description, as well as quotes from people who experienced or witnessed the conditions. There is also a brief history of Mexican immigration from 1900-1930s, which discusses working and living conditions, exploitation, discrimination and government regulations on immigration. A museum of California seems to be a reliable source for information on what happens in California.
Qualitative Analysis: There are references and allusions to cultural and historical elements. The economical climate is briefly explained and basic background information is given to aid in the reader's comprehension. Language closely follows reader's linguistic base and when academic vocabulary is used it is explained. Several themes are explored. The text is about the early 1900's so there is distance between the readers and the experiences depicted on the website. However, some students may have family who are or were migrant farm workers. This is more likely in communities with large minority populations. Most students will have heard about workers rights and that agriculture works are often not treated well, but most will not have first (or even second) hand knowledge. Sentence structure contains many complex sentences with several subordinate phrases or clauses and transition words. Photographs are the focal point of the online exhibit and the text offers a bit of historical background to help readers interpret the primary source images.
Subject area: History, Social Studies
Personal thoughts: This website has primary sources of photographs which show living and working conditions of farm workers in the early 1900's. I think seeing actual photographs of the time will help students visualize what the workers experienced. There is also background information about these workers and how they were treated during that time period.
Subjects/themes: immigration, history, great depression, dust bowl, migrant farm workers, reparations, Mexicans, Filipinos
Awards: Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services
Series information: Picture This: California Perspectives on American History
Character names/descriptions: Migrant workers featured in the photographs of this exhibit are unidentified.
High interest annotation: Find out about the lives of farm workers in the early 1900's through historical information and a collection of photographs documenting the time period.


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Who We Are & What We Do
SermonView is an evangelism marketing ministry serving churches throughout the United States and around the world. At SermonView, we're marketing professionals focused on revitalizing evangelism in North America. We believe that God has called us to use state-of-the-art direct marketing practices to get more people through your doors on opening night.
SermonView has grown to handle over a thousand evangelism marketing campaigns every year. This experience has allowed us to see what works—and what doesn't—so we can create a more effective marketing campaign to reach your community for Jesus. As we work with you, our prayer is that God will use our joint efforts to bring a great harvest for His Kingdom.
Better marketing means more people at your next evangelistic event! And SermonView's evangelism marketing gets you results: higher response rates, lower cost per opening night attendee, and a deeper, more diverse audience. Let us help you bring more people to your next series!
Our Passion
We want to see more people in heaven.
God wants everyone to be saved, and we strive to use our gifts to share His message of hope with as many as possible.
(1 Timothy 2:4; Acts 2:21; 1 Corinthians 12:7; Romans 10:9-14; 1 Corinthians 10:33)
We believe ministry happens in the local church.
God has called every local church into being for His purposes, and as each church pursues their unique calling more people will be reached. We are honored to partner with local churches in ministry.
(1 Corinthians 3:7, 8; 1 Peter 4:10; 1 Corinthians 12:12, 13)
We Love Pastors
Today, more than ever before, pastors are pulled in a multitude of directions, facing high expectations at every turn. We want to hold up the hands of these leaders, coming along side them to help equip God's people to do His work.
(Exodus 17:12; 1 Thessalonians 5: 12, 13; Ephesians 4:12)
We Serve God
SermonView is God's ministry, not ours. The problems we face are His problems, not ours. As slaves of God, we simply follow His guidance, and watch in awe at the work He is doing. Through it all, God is glorified.
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Some of our designers have worked for Fortune 500 companies and top design studios, but now choose to dedicate their talents to serving churches. As you can see by looking through our illustrations and designs, their body of work for SermonView customers speaks for itself.
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We are at our core a technology company. We constantly look for ways to harness technology to help churches be more effective, and to help us be more effective in serving you.
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We are committed to fully understanding your needs and crafting a solution that meets your ministry objectives, on-time and under budget. And in those rare times when we get it wrong, we make it right.
Getting things done.
In our organization, we foster a high-energy, performance-oriented culture that focuses on achieving measurable objectives. Ideas are cheap; execution is everything. When you work with SermonView, you're working with people who know how to get things done.
Our Founders
Larry Witzel
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Larry is a respected innovator with a passion for harnessing technology for ministry. Larry has spent over 25 years in marketing and public relations, both in and out of the denomination. His resume includes stints at organizations as varied as Intel, Wellsource, La Sierra University, North Pacific Union Communication Dept., and a variety of technology startups. In 2001 he joined It Is Written as director of its Digital Media Group, leading a team of 15 young creatives in creating cutting-edge resources for evangelism, before founding SermonView in 2005.
Larry has a BA in theology and mass media from Walla Walla University, and earned his MBA from the University of Washington's Foster School of Business. He is an elder and musician at his local church and serves on the Oregon Conference Executive Committee. He lives with his wife and two children in Vancouver, Wash.
Vince Williams
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Vince has spent over a decade dedicated to helping churches communicate better and market themselves more effectively. He started his career in radio and became fascinated with the ins-and-outs of effective marketing. Eventually he took that expertise into the world of business and was heavily involved on helping start-ups and small companies thrive using effective marketing practices.
Vince grew up in an unchurched family and enjoys combining those experiences with his marketing background to reach unchurched people for Christ. As a youth, Vince was ranked as one of the top 50 chess players nationwide, and still loves to apply that level of strategy to his job today. Vince is heavily involved in his local church community where he runs a men's group, leads worship, and is dedicated to their homeless ministry. He lives with his wife in Vancouver, Wash.
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Don Gray
"Grandfather of SermonView"
Don Gray, a retired evangelist and the "Grandfather of SermonView," started Advent Digital Media in 1995 to create computer graphics for Mark Finley's Net 95 satellite evangelism series. The organization quickly grew to 15 young creative professionals, merging with It Is Written Television in 1999 and becoming It Is Written Digital Media Group ("DMG"). Larry Witzel joined the team in 2001, managing the development of evangelism graphics products such as New Beginnings DVD Evangelism and the Evangelism Media Library, and Vince Williams joined two years later to direct the global launch of Oxygen preaching graphics.
In 2005, with the closure of DMG, Larry and Vince founded the ministry now known as SermonView, offering a place for the entire DMG team to continue developing cutting-edge visual resources. When development of Oxygen was completed in 2009, SermonView used that graphics collection to focus on printed resources for churches, with a strong emphasis on evangelism marketing.
SermonView is an ASI-member ministry, and today our evangelism marketing ministry is widely used throughout the North American Division. Through the years, we have worked closely with some of the most gifted evangelists and preachers in the country, like Mark Finley, Shawn Boonstra, Jac Colón, Mike Tucker, John Bradshaw, and Derek Morris. More than that, we've been honored to serve some of our current SermonView customers for nearly two decades, and look forward to continuing to have a vital role in many churches' marketing programs in the future.
Don Gray passed away in 2014, leaving a lasting legacy of creative evangelism and lives touched around the world. SermonView is privileged to be part of that legacy.


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Like the Bush administration, the Obama administration has claimed the authority to hold terrorism suspects in indefinite military detention – even suspects captured far away from any battlefield who have never taken up arms against the United States. Relying on a dangerously overbroad interpretation of the laws of war, the administration asserts that it can hold non-combatant suspects – possibly for their entire lives – until the end of the so-called "war on terror," without ever charging them with a crime or putting them on trial.
But the fight against terrorism is not a traditional war. It has no geographic or temporal limitations. How will it end? How would we know if it did? And where is it taking place?
So far, individuals have been captured in over fifty countries, and the list is sure to grow. The system is illegal and un-American. We must uphold the Constitution and the rule of law, and that means treating suspected terrorists as suspected criminals, not warriors, and charging them and prosecuting them in ordinary federal courts. We can't let our government use the threat of terrorism to justify a system in which individuals picked up anywhere in the world – including, perhaps, here in the United States – can be held indefinitely by the military without charge or trial.


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Between jobs: A redundancy survival guide
By Andrew May
Between jobs is a redundancy survival guide for workers who have been made redundant. Between jobs is a useful handbook that can help you realise that you are not alone, understand the roller coaster of emotions that accompanies sudden unemployment and access support to help you through tough times.
Between jobs can also:
- Guide you through a financial battle plan to better understand your redundancy payout and manage your cash flow.
- Help you manage stress levels and improve your relaxation skills.
- Help you understand what really is important to you and what comprises your 'Whole Person Identity'.
- Provide you with the tools to help you find a new full-time job as well as help you start your new full-time job.
- Help you manage your thoughts, health and relationships through one of the hardest periods of your life.
- Illustrate that redundancy could actually be a blessing in disguise.
Real Money Advice For Your Kids
By Analaura and Wilson Luna
Most parents are committed to providing their children with the best start in life. This also includes providing them with education on money. Unfortunately most schools don't cover this topic in any real detail, so it's really the responsibility of the parents to make sure their children have the best start.
Real Money Advice For Your Kids provides parents with a staged approach to teaching their children about money from ages 5 to 20. This book covers a wide range of topics, such as learning about the value of a dollar, learning to save and learning to be responsible with money. The book also goes a step further to deal with the more challenging money topics such as managing the mobile phone debt trap and tackling financial peer pressure.
Real Money Advice For Your Kids can help parents teach their children the skills they will need to become financially confident and make better money decisions.


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NBA Champions Overall Win Records
Here are complete list of NBA Champions' and regular season winners overall win/lost records. (Yellow lines indicate when both same team.)
1996 Chicago Bulls hold best degree with 0.870 win percentage (72-10 regular season plus 15-3 playoff record). 2016 Golden State Warriors can beat it with current 0.879 record (73-9 regular season plus current 7-2 playoff record).
There is no case in NBA Playoff history that a team won the championship unbeaten. 2001 Los Angeles Lakers and 1983 Philadelphia 76ers lost only 1 game each.
2008 Boston Celtics lost 10 games in playoffs which is the most for a champion.
Below graph shows the comparison of NBA champions overall winning percentages year by year.


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Established by the Conference of Academic Vice Presidents of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU) in 1971, FACHEX is an acronym for Faculty and Staff Children Exchange. FACHEX is an undergraduate tuition remission program for children of current full-time faculty, administrators, and staff. Through the FACHEX program, employees who have a tuition remission benefit for their children at their home institution can apply to receive the same benefit at participating Jesuit colleges and universities, should there be space available, and the student meets that school's requirements for FACHEX applicants.
For a list of participating schools in the FACHEX Program, please go to https://www.ajcunet.edu/
It is important to realize that FACHEX awards tend to be extremely limited in number, and highly competitive. As a result, there are no guarantees to employees that they will be able to utilize the FACHEX benefit at the institution of their choice.
Eligibility requirements are determined by each institution. At Creighton University, an employee must meet the 100% tuition remission level in order for his/her child to be eligible to apply for FACHEX.
It is also important to realize that each institution sets their own rules about how students are selected to receive a FACHEX award and it is the parent's responsibility to research what is required and follow any applicable deadlines/policies. Many schools use academic achievement as a determining factor, and will only consider incoming first-year applicants.
When awarded, FACHEX covers tuition only for eight full-time semesters (fall and spring) or until the bachelor's degree is completed, whichever comes first. Any additional expenses incurred by the student (fees, room, board, travel related expenses, or books), are the sole responsibility of the student and/or the student's family.