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September 18, 2019
By KEITH RYAN CARTWRIGHT
Rutherford County Schools
Erin Alvarado is in her 17th year as an educator and her eighth as a librarian and media specialist.
Alvarado, who began her career as a Spanish teacher, spent seven years in the library at Central Magnet School before taking a position as an instructional technology coach. After just two years, the allure and the passion for libraries and literature led her to the LaVergne High School library.
"I missed the students more than anything," Alvarado said.
Walking back into a library after a two-year absence felt right for the Chapel Hill native.
Alvarado recently spoke about the task of establishing a new culture in LaVergne's library, collaborating with students and teachers, and her own lifelong passion for literacy.
RCS:When it comes to making the library all that it can be – a destination for students and teachers – you have a task in front of you. How do you do that? What is step one?
ERIN:Well, the first step was making it look more like a space the students would want to be in. We were fortunate enough to be able to have some volunteers come in and repaint and move the circulation desk and have new furniture and build a media room. Really just open the space up to when the students and teachers walked in, they felt like it was something new even though it had always been here, and they kind of felt like they were rediscovering something. That is still a work in progress. It's not done, but, I mean, that generated a lot of excitement right off the bat. It's their place. It's their home. They get to come with friends and have their coffee in the morning or eat their breakfast or hang out in a place where previously they didn't come. They can talk. They can talk loud if they want to or find a quiet space if they need to. I feel like we made a big impact pretty quickly. And we've had a class every day in here since the beginning of school — every single day — which kind of blew my expectations out of the water.
RCS:What's the response been like?
ERIN: We're early in the year, but the response from the teachers has been wonderful so far. Part of that, I know is because having worked with the teachers before and collaborated with them, they knew me. They trusted me. They knew how excited I was to come over here and that we could collaborate together in a different way. I feel fortunate that I had that buy in from the faculty already. That they knew they would be welcome and we could create together.
RCS:Right. You are still collaborating with teachers, but in a way in which you get firsthand collaboration with students.
ERIN:Yes. Like this morning for example, I was working with one of our strategic reading teachers. ... We decided that twice a month we would have a touch with the freshmen. One of them is a mobile checkout where (Carissa Benton and I) both bring the carts down, book talk and get the kids really excited about that. Then they come in the library once a month.
RCS:Where and when did the passion for books and literacy come from?
ERIN:We read all the time in my house. Mom and dad read to us. My dad, in particular, was a voracious reader and my mom reads too, but dad just read anything that he could get his hands on. From my earliest memories, we were always read to or were reading and in the library. That was one of the best things. I can remember being young and once a week we would go to the library. We didn't have one in Chapel Hill, so we would go to Franklin. We'd go to the library with our library card and we could pick whatever we wanted. It was just magical. I always knew that this was a love, a big love of my life.
RCS:Did you ever think it would become a job, that you could cultivate a career?
ERIN:Not when I was young. Not at that age. ... I started out as a Spanish teacher because I knew I wanted to be a teacher. I was at a TEA Conference – Tennessee Education Association – and one of the presenters talked about how this was her first year as a media specialist – as a librarian at her school – and she talked about how wonderful it was. She said if you want to know how I did it, see me afterwards. … I didn't even really think of that as something I could do. I did know pretty clearly from where I was working at the time that, that there could be a lot of things going on in a media center that weren't happening there. The perception of the library was we're going to shush you and kind of a precious don't touch my books and just kind of an antiquated idea of what a library and a librarian would be. When I met this woman, she was young and she was vivacious and I thought, "I could be that kind of librarian." We talked and she said, "You just have to get your master's" and explained the process. I spent the summer researching how I would do it and I started as quickly as I could. I started in August. By the time I was able to get a job in the library was three years and then Central (Magnet School) was opening up and I managed to get one of the librarian positions there. Here we are now. I can't stay away.


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FONTANA, Calif. — A new teammate and rules package have given Ricky Stenhouse Jr. a clean slate — and he's capitalized on it.
In the first four races of 2019, the No. 17 Roush Fenway Racing driver has finished no worse than 18th, including a season-best, sixth-place effort at Las Vegas. In contrast, Stenhouse Jr.'s best finish in the first four events in 2018 was 14th, with a result as low as 29th.
Stenhouse Jr. hopes the uptick in performance continues during Sunday's Auto Club 400 at Auto Club Speedway where he'll start 12th (3:30 p.m. ET, FOX, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).
RELATED: Is Stenhouse Jr. a fantasy sleeper pick at Auto Club?
"We did expect it," Stenhouse said. "We knew these cars fit my driving style maybe a little bit better. But we also knew it was kind of an opportunity to kind of close the gap on the competition."
While Stenhouse Jr. has thrived with the new aero package, it's still been a seesaw for him and new Roush teammate Ryan Newman as each race has presented a different set of challenges for the entire Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series field – something he anticipates will continue.
"We've done a good job this offseason taking steps in the right direction, but I think every race this year, you see teams kind of go up and down — gain speed, lose a little bit of speed," Stenhouse Jr. said. "So, I think it's going to be kind of a cat-and-mouse game I feel like for the first half of the year. Everybody just trying to figure out what package and how much downforce they're going to bring to the race track on that given weekend. Definitely a good start for us and want to keep that going."
Like Matt Kenseth last season, Newman has brought valuable information and unique, veteran feedback to the table to help steer the Roush ship in the right direction. Stenhouse Jr. feels he and Newman have a strong relationship both on and off the race track — which has allowed the organization's gains to flourish even more.
"I like Ryan," Stenhouse Jr. said. "I think Matt and I said a lot of the same things in different ways, kind of like Ryan. He talks way different than Matt did and any teammates I've ever had. Some of that comes from a little bit more engineering-minded driver, which you don't have many of. So, I've never had a teammate like that. To listen to him talk about and kind of pick apart the car in different ways has been kind of cool."
While both drivers have enhanced speed in their Ford Mustang fleet, Stenhouse Jr. has also muscled his way to finishes – making headlines for rubbing multiple drivers the wrong way from time to time in the year's early races. But the 31-year-old says his driving style hasn't changed, nor will he alter it.
"I've got a car better to work with and (I'm) able to do different things with it," he said. "For me, I feel like I've always driven the same, it's just depending on what situation that I'm in, depending on what I want to do. So, I'll always race hard."
It's that type of driving style that gives Stenhouse Jr. and Newman something in common. But according to Stenhouse Jr., it's not so much Newman's aggression that makes him notoriously tough to pass.
"Everybody says that Ryan's hard to pass, but I've always told Ryan I feel like he's hard to pass because he doesn't make mistakes," Stenhouse Jr. said. "He's got the same mentality – if you're faster, pass me. Go around me, run (a) different line than I am. But the reason he's so hard is because he never messes up."
RELATED: Truex's late Atlanta push stalled by Stenhouse, others
If that mentality sounds familiar it might be because that's exactly what Stenhouse Jr. said following his battle with Martin Truex Jr. late at Atlanta. It's actually Stenhouse's goal to develop the trait that Newman currently possesses — being hard to pass because you don't mess up.
"I want to get in that position where I don't make mistakes because I feel like that's helped Ryan throughout his whole career," Stenhouse Jr. said. "He might not have a 10th-place car running 15th, but he never makes mistakes and so he kind of grinds out good finishes. I think that's a good trait to have."
Official Site Of NASCAR – Stenhouse on Newman: 'Never had a teammate like that'

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A Place to Stand
October 17, 2015 § Leave a comment
"Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy." Jesus, Matthew 5:7
I recently had the privilege of visiting with the Senior Vice President of World Relief's North American operation. World Relief is a global non-profit organization, based in Baltimore, and committed to caring for the weak and needy around the world, whether for orphans, for immigrants, for victims of natural disaster, or those lost in the horrors and brutality of human trafficking. Years ago, when our church in Miami planted a church in 'Little Havana,' the 'landing place' for many immigrants from Latin America, World Relief had an office where we started the work. That office remains today, and as you can imagine, has processed innumerable refugees through the years, offering legal advice, guidance for green cards, citizenship, etc.
At the heart of World Relief's mission is the gospel's call to the Church with the singular thrust that the strong have been made – by God – stewards of the weak. I am convinced that if the Church fails, all is lost. Every other system that attempts to care for the poor, the weak and the underprivileged has some underlining political agenda that eventually fails the very people they attempt to serve, and often lines the pockets and reputations of those who champion these causes.
World Relief's Vision Statement is Stand/For The Vulnerable.
Last night Katherine and I shared a meal with a young couple that is committed to mentoring young people from Baltimore's Inner City whose lives are racked with heartache, brokenness and poverty. They give what they can: safe harbor, school clothing and supplies – and love. They stand for the vulnerable.
This morning I ran into one of our Members (okay it was at Dunkin Donuts – what can I say?). He leads a team that regularly meets with folks at New Song Church in Sandtown, the neighborhood ravaged by fire and riots earlier this year. New Song drives the agenda, but together they are working through ideas to generate commerce in the neighborhood so that the dollar will remain there, and hopefully begin to break the pattern of violence, hopelessness and sorrow that most of us in the burbs can't fathom possible. They stand for the vulnerable.
We have a friend in Miami who, when she and her family attended a downtown church, for years, drove an hour away from her home, to the slums of Little Haiti, to bring children to church and later that week to Youth Group. In between she and her husband kept in touch, provided for needs and loved well. They stood for the vulnerable.
'Blessed are the Merciful,' was Jesus version of, 'Blessed are they who stand for the vulnerable.' Every word, action and encounter exemplified this during His ministry, all the way to the Cross, where He died for us – the vulnerable.
Who more than Christians, know the relief of being forgiven a debt one could never repay?
We have been given much – in order to be to the world what Christ has been to us. It really is that simple. And when those we serve feel our touch, it will be as though they have encountered Jesus Himself.
What good, hopeful news…
Broken Tiles
June 6, 2015 § Leave a comment
"…there is something beautiful and concrete and well-proportioned about tending that size of a garden." David Brooks, The Small, Happy Life
Yesterday a mural mosaic was dedicated in a barely-conspicuous outdoor neighborhood service. The mural is visible to all who walk by the New Song Academy. It was constructed by the children of the Academy, under the guidance of a group called, Art with a Heart, a group that works in the City of Baltimore and teaches vulnerable children and adults through creativity. What makes the mosaic special is that the Academy resides in Sandtown, the neighborhood that was the flashpoint for the Baltimore riots in April. I have written about it here.
In a NYT OP-ED piece, David Brooks reported surprise at how many people responded to a survey, with the desire for what he termed, 'the small, happy life,' as opposed to what might seem to be more ambitious pursuits.
When I was in sixth grade, our teacher, Mrs. Hill, became weary with a group of us troublemakers. We happened to live in an area that was booming in development, and so she decided to take us around the community collecting tile for the purpose of making a mosaic for our elementary school, which we did. Over a period of months we stayed after school as she brilliantly channeled our energy into creativity. Eventually the completed project was erected at Coral Reef Elementary, like the one at New Song Academy.
One day, in response to His disciples' request to increase their faith (because they were thinking big!), Jesus replied, "If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it will obey you" (Luke 17:6). Contrary to the claims of train wreck preachers who promise the moon and deliver disappointment, Jesus was simply saying, 'Start small, because that is where we are.' Put another way, 'Start where you are, and offer what you have rather than what you don't have.'
A cursory study of history will bear this out, whether with those who harbored Jews during the Holocaust, or others who have accomplished amazing feats of bravery, rescue, influence and impact. And there is always that 'small step' and 'giant leap' for mankind. Never do you hear braggadocio. Time and again we are introduced to humble people who merely did what they could in the moment. In the moment, the small was enormous.
Way back in 1960-something I learned that a mosaic is nothing more than a well-orchestrated outlay of broken tiles. It doesn't take much for those seemingly worthless, jagged and often-dirty shards to become something wildly beautiful – like a scene from the coral reef, or a vision of a healed city. Every piece matters, and no tile is too damaged, in the same way that one simple mosaic on one part of one wall on one building in one neighborhood in a broken community can be that tiny piece that offers hope for something lovelier.
And it is for this reason that in Jesus God became small. Because we are small. Yet because we are adored by the Father, we are not insignificant.
What good news…
Let's Stop and Remember
May 23, 2015 § Leave a comment
"At the heart of the cross is Christ's stance of not letting the other remain an enemy and of creating space in himself for the offender to come in."
Miroslav Volf, Exclusion & Embrace
It is Memorial Day weekend. As a Christ-follower it is not uncommon for me to find myself involved in a conversation over the merits and sadnesses of war. No one I know would argue that every war the US has been involved in was what the Church father Augustine would call 'just.' But this weekend is not about that. It is to remember that many made the 'ultimate sacrifice' for their country in giving their lives.
Through years and generations our Nation has found itself embroiled in warfare, whether in world wars, regional conflicts, or even a Civil War. Everyone knows the sick, heartbreaking feeling of watching flag-draped caskets unloaded from transport planes. A simple history lesson of Gettysburg is enough to elicit the deepest of emotions over lives lost. Sacrifice is nobel, but death is brutal.
Each time a friend's child or spouse goes overseas to fight, we hold our collective breath for fear that the worst news will one day find its way home to their families. I hate that. We all do.
But this weekend, let's put the debate aside. Let's thank God for those who gave 'their last full measure of devotion.' Let's honor their sacrifices and long together for the day when all wars will end.
Let's not get lost in political madness and philosophical diversions. Let's not argue the merits of war versus pacifism. Let's not be 'Hawks' or 'Doves,' Liberals or Conservatives. Let's just stop and acknowledge that many have died. To their parents, their siblings and their children, loss is loss.
If you have ever visited the Viet Nam wall, then you know that one can hardly do so without discovering elderly parents or aging spouses and children – in tears – revisiting their grief and loss over the sacrifice of their loved ones.
So let's reflect on the fact our daughters and sons have given themselves for others, and let's acknowledge that we are the beneficiaries of their sacrifices, and be thankful.
Together let's believe that it wasn't political posturing, or bloodlust that drew these precious individuals, but the sincere belief that even if they died, their sacrifice would have counted for something towards a more peaceful world.
And in remembering what has been given by men and women through the years in war and conflict, here in this broken, and often war-torn world, let's consider Jesus, who ensures that one day all wars will cease, and because in Him, our war with the Father has been settled.
In His Sacrifice…
This is our good news.
Happy Memorial Day.
Our Winding Stories
April 25, 2015 § 6 Comments
Last week I posted about my Armenian heritage. Though my parents were Protestants and raised us in Christ, we ate the food, gathered with other olive-skinned Armenian-Americans, played the 'Tavlou' (backgammon), and shared that same peculiar 'ian' identifying suffix to our names. As I mentioned on Facebook, you don't even want to know the names our grandparents, aunts and uncles had!
Our grandparents were born in what they referred to as 'the old country.' But in their teens they were ordered to leave home by the next day, or face death. It was part of the attempt by the Ottoman Turks to extinguish every Armenian from the region. To this day politicians and Turkish officials, in spite of the overwhelming body of evidence, avoid using the term 'genocide' – sad.
However as an Armenian-American, I have no bitterness towards our historical oppressors from that dark epoch. We are Christ-followers, we belong to a new community, a new race, and 'better country' (Hebrews 11:16). We too are a forgiven people.
I do find it sad however, that our government refuses to acknowledge the genocide, when in fact nearly 1.6 Million Armenians were killed in an attempt at this human 'cleansing.' It isn't that I want validation from a President (or Kim Kardashian!). My identity is found in Jesus, Lord and King of all that is. No, my sadness is that such a refusal reduces the value of human life to political advantage, rather than in the integrity of compassion for the 'least of these,' a foundational characteristic of true justice.
And yet, as a Christ-follower I can see that even this horrible moment in history was part of a larger narrative in which our Sovereign God loved, pursued and found my parents, and many other Armenians, through Jesus.
My grandparents on Dad's side emigrated through Egypt, where an uncle and two aunts were born, until they arrived years later in NYC, and settled in Brooklyn where Dad and his younger sister were born. Later Dad would meet Jesus in faith at a Billy Graham crusade in Madison Square Garden in 1957.
Mom's parents came to the US via Iran, where they were detained for a time in an Iranian refugee camp before immigrating to Atlanta, Georgia, where Mom and her siblings would be born. But it was in that camp that they met a missionary named J. Christy Wilson, a man who would later become an influential Professor at Gordon-Conwell Seminary outside of Boston (I was privileged to meet him many years later). Wilson told my grandparents about Jesus, and there, in that Iranian refugee camp they met Christ in faith.
So while this will always be a sad epoch in history, the Father knows who we are, and in the gospel everything sad will one day be eclipsed by what Jesus has accomplished for us, and in what He will one day do when He makes heaven and earth one. Because in Jesus our winding stories, with their sadnesses, tragedies, celebrations, twists, turns and unexpected diversions, are all part of God's hand in leading us Home, to 'a better country.'
Friends, what good news…
Khanaghutyun (peace).
Something Greater
April 18, 2015 § 2 Comments
"…every human being has been hardwired by God to live in daily awe of him. This means the deepest, most life-shaping, practical daily motivation of every human being was designed to be the awe of God. This is the calling of every person… the only alternative is to live for yourself."
Paul Tripp, Dangerous Calling
For someone looking from the outside-in to the Christian Faith, it could appear that God is some narcissistic deity that created a race of inferior beings in order to enjoy the pleasure of being worshiped and adored. Of course, if He is who we believe Him to be, then the last thing He would need is our worship. It is inferior and because we are a fallen race, it would never measure up to the excellency of the Almighty.
Yet the scriptures are drenched in expressions of worship, in prayer and song, in unison and responsively, both planned and extemporaneous. All David had to do was look to the sky in order to exclaim, "The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork" (Psalm 19:1).
In John's vision of the renewed world, all creation joins in songs of adoration before the throne of God. "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!" "Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created" (Revelation 5:8b, 11).
And Paul cannot contain himself, but breaks into worship, after laying out perhaps the clearest doctrinal explanation of Redemption, before diving into some practical implications of the Faith. "Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways… For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen" (Romans 11:33, 36).
By why? What is the purpose of insufficient expressions to a perfect and Almighty God who needs none of our offerings? The answer is not that God needs our worship but that we need Him! We need something greater than ourselves. A life of worship is the one expression that reminds and rehearses to our hearts that in spite of the whispers (and sometimes shouts!) of our egos to the contrary, that we are in fact very small and dependent beings. Worship informs our troubled spirits in the enormity of our problems, our struggles, our weakness and our limitations, that in God we have a Father who is not intimidated or overwhelmed by anything that threatens to swallow us whole. We are mere creatures…
but He is our Creator.
He is Greater.
He is Awesome.
He is Able.
He is God.
He is Worthy.
We will always be small, and He will always be great.
Yet amazingly, in Jesus He too became small, not to make us great, but to make us His.
What good news…
To God be the Glory!
April 11, 2015 § 1 Comment
Frail children of dust, and feeble as frail,
in you do we trust, nor find you to fail.
Your mercies, how tender, how firm to the end,
our Maker, Defender, Redeemer, and Friend!
Sir Robert Grant, 19th C.
Katherine and I sat in our family room, with tears in our eyes, and unable to talk through our tears, as we watched the news report of Lauren Hill's death yesterday. In case you don't know the story, last year this inspiring young woman contracted an inoperable tumor in her brain (DIPG). Early on it was known that it would eventually take her life, yet she was determined to live out her dream of playing and scoring a basket in a college basketball game for Mount St. Joseph University in Cincinnati, much to the delight of the home crowd and her opponents.
Through her efforts she raised nearly $1.5 Million towards Cancer Research. She was heroic in life and death, and on some level she became our Nation's daughter, sister and cousin. Somewhere in her journey, she accepted her lot before boldly committing herself to those she would never meet, but care for, past her life here.
The storyline for me is that life is fragile. The Psalmist rightly says that we are like dust (Psalm 103), and from here it isn't a leap to make the mistaken assumption that this makes our lives are meaningless and disposable.
The other day I took a pic (right) of the pickup truck in front of me at the county dump.
In it was a huge, old school big screen TV that was literally coming apart at the seams. I could imagine it as the grand technological trophy in some basement 'man cave' before giving way to its sleeker, larger, lighter successor.
The gospel asserts that we are not throwaways! No life is irredeemable, and all are created in God's Image, with value. The Psalmist refers to our days being like grass and our lives as flowers that fly away with the wind. However the centerpiece of the passage isn't our frailty, but God's love.
Here is how the Psalmist closes this particular thread: "…the steadfast love of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him…" (vs. 17). For the Christ-folllower, unfinished as we are, it isn't our frailty but the Father's love that is the true storyline.
Jesus loves me! This I know,
For the Bible tells me so;
Little ones to Him belong;
They are weak, but He is strong.
Anna B. Warner
Amazingly, Jesus became like us in securing our redemption by offering His very human body to be sacrificed in death. God made Himself fragile for the fragile, and breakable for the broken.
what good news, friends…
RIP Precious Lauren
A Prayer for Kenya
April 4, 2015 § Leave a comment
"In every extremity, every horror and pain, Jesus is accessible as the one who continued to make God's loving presence wholly present in the depth of his own anguish and abandonment."
Rowan Williams, A Ray of Hope
Earlier this morning, as I watched with delight as hundreds of precious children made their way to the not-so-hidden Easter Eggs, I could not help but also think with sadness of Kenya, where 147 equally precious Christian university students were mercilessly and savagely executed because of their Faith.
For all the times I have hoped that I would be able to die for my Faith, they did. And I will feel privileged to one day meet them in God's new world.
Today we remember, even celebrate that Jesus not only died but was also buried. The grave has as much a role in the redemptive drama of God and His people as every other aspect of the narrative. To the grave Jesus took our sin. In the grave He experienced the isolating silence and darkness of death.
Separation and finality accompany a grave. Each time I conduct a funeral, the most painful moment comes when the casket is lowered into the ground. Within days families in Kenya will bury their dead. It is at the grave that we say our farewells.
Today we reflect on the solemnity, sorrow and indignity of death's sting. Most can't relate to the Crucifixion, but all understand that the grave awaits us.
Were you there when they laid him in the tomb
Were you there when they laid him in the tomb
O, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble
Were you there when they laid him in the tomb
John Wesley Work, Jr. Frederick J. Work
Whenever unspeakably horrible things happen, like what occurred in Kenya, the worst in me comes out, because the very sin that drove such acts of violence finds residence in my heart in the form of hatred and revenge – I too bear the markings of the curse.
And it is for this reason, that the gospel teaches that our only comfort can only ever be found in Jesus. In Jesus, in spite of the violence and sorrow of the fall, in and outside of us, because He 'died and was buried,' even the grave is not a place the Father is unwilling to go to care for us, His beloved children.
Friends, this is our good news…
"O Father, Giver and Sustainer of Life,
We praise you for the promise of a renewed world,
when Heaven and Earth will one day become one,
and suffering and sorrow, tears and illness are gone,
and justice and peace embrace in your Kingdom.
Our hearts are broken for brothers and sisters we will not see,
until we are Home at the Feast.
Be with their families and friends.
Bring comfort that only Jesus, who suffered for us, can give.
Redeem their tears and meet them in their terror and sorrow.
Bless them, for they have been persecuted for your sake.
And cause the Easter hope to somehow find residence
in their broken hearts and devastated communities.
Through Jesus. Amen."


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I have never seen a more convoluted recipe for papier mache paste than in that book (Sugar? Alum?!?), but she cooked up the entire thing herself, so whatever.
I woke up the kids at 3:30 on Thursday morning to hike over to the drive-in and watch the peak of the Perseids--beautiful! The kids claimed that they saw some meteors, as well, although every time I looked over at them they were rolled up in their blankets in a fetal position, dozing. They must have spent some time awake, however, because this one fell asleep in the aerial silks rig:
Will also liked the manipulative that I made her for multiplying and dividing by powers of ten ("Hey, it makes sense now!"), but HATED the manipulative that I made her for multiplying by decimals ("Do I have to do this? Why can't I just multiply it?!?"). For that one, I finally just let her model the answer, instead of using the model to work out the problem. Sigh...
Another project that didn't work out last week was the Bee Citizen Scientist Project. I didn't get many flowers into our summer garden this year, and so the children didn't find any bees to photograph. We'll be spending a day at a state park this week, however, and another afternoon at our local hands-on science museum, which has a beehive, so I'm hoping it'll happen this week. Regardless, Will LOVED the bees of the world book that she read as part of this assignment:
|There are so many great species of bees in the world!
For memory work this week, I am going to have to require that Will finish memorizing her World War 1-era poem, "Anthem for Doomed Youth," as she has dragged it out long enough. The children will also have more daily practice on Mango Languages (where I also need to spend some time, to catch them up in Hawaiian!), a spelling list of "wh" and "w" words to memorize and define, and the list of World War 2 leaders and their countries.
The Book of the Day assignments for this week consist of living histories and books on bees, butterflies, cartooning, and Hawaii. We're eclectic readers!
And here is the rest of our week!
MONDAY: For Math Mammoth this week, Syd is working entirely with place value--she's mastered this concept, so I'm hoping for a week free from (math-related) tantrums! Will has a review on decimals, and is then moving on to graphing, which I think she'll also enjoy.
Will completed the requirements for her Girl Scout Cadette Comic Artist badge, but since both kids have written comics before, I didn't think that the badge requirements asked enough of her. I'll fix that! For today, I printed out tons of different comic panel formats, and I'll be asking the children to create comic strips from a variety of them. I think they'll discover for themselves in the process that bigger panels ask for bigger moments, and that the different formats ask for different pacing and storylines.
We've got our weekly volunteer gig at the local food pantry today, as well--if nothing else, I have to return the electric tiller that I borrowed from them last Monday. Mental note to go outside in an hour or so and clean the dirt off the tines!
TUESDAY: If Will is going to be freezing and mounting a selection of butterflies, the least that we can do is also feed them, so I'm going to show the children how to make butterfly nectar on this day. I'm hoping to impress upon them that science always goes with stewardship.
Our World War 2 study this week focuses on the leaders of the major countries involved in the war. For this assignment, the children will merely need to match each leader with his/her country, then research a photo of each leader to add to their page in their World War 2 notebook. Later in the week, however, likely on the weekend, Matt will give us a lecture on each leader, including the most important moves and decisions that each one made. In these ways, we're approaching the same main events of the war over and over through different lenses, which I hope will allow the children to see these events through a larger context, not just as straight facts to memorize (which I also ask them to do).
The construction of a decoder wheel is actually an activity for the Girl Scout Junior Detective badge, and so both kids have already done it last year, when Will was a Junior working on this badge. We lost those wheels in the move, however (or I tossed them... whichever), and they were really fun to have around, so I'm asking them to make new ones as part of Syd's badge work.
WEDNESDAY: I'll be asking each child to ask at least one question to our tour guide during our field trip to the police station on Thursday, so we'll take the time on this day for the children to research the law enforcement field, look through their Girl Scout handbooks to see what badges might ask for an interview with a police officer (off-hand, I know that at least Detective and First Aid do, and perhaps Animal Helper, as well?), and then write down their questions in the notebooks that they'll take on our field trip. I can't emphasize enough the benefits of having kids conduct interviews, and letting them ask their very own questions during these interviews--their interview of their great-grandfather about his experiences in World War 2 were WONDERFUL.
This fruit observation is yet another activity from a Girl Scout badge--Detective, again--but, as with many Girl Scout badge activities, it's wonderfully academic. Basically, we'll be putting a selection of fruit into jars (the badge book suggested peanut butter jars, but I don't have enough empties to spare, so we'll be using glass canisters), then the children will be observing them over the course of their decomposition, sketching them and taking notes. How cool is that?!? Now I just need to find a place in the house to display several glass jars of rotten fruit...
One of our family goals this summer is to "eat at every ice cream place in town." To that end, I'll be giving the children a giant map of our hometown and the phone book. They'll need to look up the ice cream shops, find those addresses on the map, and then mark each one. Finally, they'll of COURSE choose one for us to visit that evening. Yay for map skills!
THURSDAY: With our homeschool group's playgroup and our field trip to the police station on this day, the only other work that the children have is their math and an assignment to find and watch some examples of hula dancing on YouTube. There are hula competitions, so there are some really fine examples to find. There are also many instructional videos, so we're going to give it a whirl for ourselves, as well.
FRIDAY: Neither kid has ever actually worked ahead to have Friday free, but I still keep independent assignments on this day, just in case they do, and to give myself a bit of a break--the big messy projects that we do each day are rewarding, for sure, but they take a lot of mental and emotional energy out of this introvert! On this day, then, the kids have three more pages to do in their grammar books (we use library copies Exploring Grammar and Mastering Grammar, worked with a plastic sleeve over each page and a dry-erase marker), their Friday Math Mammoth assignment, more fossil prep (Will is also studying a college-level intro to paleontology text--it's dense, but she knows enough of the material already to make her way through, if we go slowly and discuss it often), and an educational ipad app--the children NEVER choose to play these apps in their free time, so at the least I'm asking them to play and review each one, then tell me if we should keep it for further use or delete it.
While the kids are doing all of this, I'll be spending my week researching hands-on activities for graphing, completing my writing assignments, and working on several projects in-progress--a dollhouse remodel with Syd, a building blocks remodel for a writing assignment, how to turn a static comic into an animated comic, our fall garden, and much, much more.
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With all the huge hype about Pokemon Go, The GIP decided to express some of its feelings towards being the very best, like no one ever was.
I was wondering what is Go different from the its normal games, you basically catch pokemons, train them, can show them to your friends and even battle them (which you cannot in Go) and become a Pokemon master in the metagames. Then I thought that maybe the fact that the map became the real world literally, and the fact that you have to search for Pokemon as if you were the trainer from the games makes the Pokemon you catch a lot more personal and gratifying to own.
But as it is said in Portuguese, "there's no princess without an if"; as all the people who play Go know, the game's servers keep crashing, making things a lot impractical and difficult to play: you find a Pokemon on a certain spot and then realize the game crashed, reboot the game, and the Pokemon is no longer there. The GIP doesn't live in a busy city, it likes to keep a certain distance from the commoners, so there are a lot fewer Pokemons, and on top of this, the already few Pokemons disappearing is so nerve-wrecking and unfuriating sometimes. In addition, this makes the counting of distance for the eggs to hatch wrong. In the afternoon after walking 5 km, the game only counted 3,5 km, and this makes a lot of difference. Also, for people who like running, running could be a good way to make the steps count, but this gets frustrated if one has to stop every one hundred meters to check if the game has not crashed and is counting. Finally, the footprints for the distance to the Pokemons haven't work yet. So far, only 3 footprints have appeared, even if the Pokemon is one meter away.
Apart from this issue, The GIP thinks the game could be improved in other ways. It would be fairer if the Pokestops were spread all around the areas randomly, instead of specific points of interest somestimes all concentraded in the same area. Although it may be interesting to check places and get in touch with your local culture (which The GIP praises a lot), it would also be fun if Pokestops were found in the mountains, or in a forest path.
Another thing that could be done is make the availability of Pokemon related to the location they are found, for example, water Pokemon near the ocean, rivers or lakes, rock Pokemon in the mountains or bug Pokemon in the forest. Lea lives at almost 500 hundred meters of altitude with no river or lake nearby and finding a Magikarp in her living room doesn't make a lot of sense, taking into account the novelty of Pokemon Go is about bringing the Pokemon to the real world.
Despite all of this, Pokemon Go sure is a lot of fun, but the servers problem needs to be taken care of quickly. For the game to be perfect, maybe battling with wild Pokemon or other trainers in the street as a means of training instead of having to multiply catch the same Pokemon would be cooler, but the game is already great and with the servers crashing, it is enough for now. Who knows, maybe in a near future? =)
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Walt Disney Studios' "Captain America: The Winter Soldier," the action sequel that grossed nearly $260 million in U.S. theaters, was an easy winner, debuting at No. 1. Twentieth Century Fox's "Brick Mansions," a crime drama with a domestic box office gross of just $20.4 million, bowed at No. 2, although it only sold about 8.2% as many units as the "Captain America" followup.
Sony Pictures' "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" slipped another notch to No. 3, while the previous week's top seller, the Lionsgate sports drama "Draft Day," fell to No. 4. Rounding out the top five was another newcomer, "Supernatural: The Complete Ninth Season," from Warner Bros.


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Contractor's Bid
Three contractors are bidding to fix the White House fence.
One from New York, another from Tennessee, and the third, Florida. They go with a White House official to examine the fence.
The Florida contractor takes out a tape measure and does some measuring, then works some figures with a pencil.
"Well," he says. "I figure the job will run about $900: $400 for materials, $400 for my crew, and $100 profit for me."
The Tennessee contractor also does some measuring and figuring, then says, "I can do this job for $700: $300 for materials, $300 for my crew, and $100 profit for me."
The New York contractor doesn't measure or figure,
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A Simple Question
"Would you mind telling me, Doctor," Bob asked, "how you detect a mental deficiency in somebody who appears
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"Nothing is easier," he replied. "You ask him a simple question which everyone should answer with no trouble. If he hesitates, that puts you on the track."
"What sort of question?"
"Well, you might ask him, 'Captain Cook made three trips around the world and died during one of them. Which one?'"
Bob thought for a moment, and then said with a nervous laugh, "You wouldn't happen to have another example would you? I must confess I don't know much
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The Counterfeiter
A counterfeiter decided that the easiest way to pass off his phony $18 bills would be to unload them in some small rural town, so he drove until hefound a tiny town with a single general merchandise store.
He entered the store, went up to the counter, and handed one of the bogus bills to the man behind the counter. "Could you change this for me, please?"
The store clerk looked at the bill for a few seconds then smiled at the man. "Of course I can. Would you prefer two $9 bills or three $6 bills?"
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Repeat Customer
A guest of a resort hotel in a tourist area walked in the dining room where breakfast was being served. The guest sat down at atable and called a waiter to take his order. "I would like two eggs, over easy, one with the yolk overcooked and rubbery and the other undercooked with the yolk broken and running out on the plate. I would also like some hash browns that has been fried and set out on the plate to get cold, burnt toast that has also grown so cold that it crunches and crumbles into nothing at the first bite, and butter that has been in the freezer so that it is impossible to spread, and a pot of coffee that is lukewarm and very weak."
The waiter busily scratched down the guest's order and said, "This is a very complicated order, sir. It might be difficult to deliver it exactly as you have requested."
The guest replied, "But I had that exact breakfast here yesterday!"
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New Recruit
As the family gathered for a big dinner together the youngest son announced that he had just signed up at an army recruiter's office.
There were audible gasps around the table, and then some laughter, as his older brothers shared their disbelief that he could handle this new situation. "Oh, come on, quit joking," snickered one. "You didn't really do that, did you?"
"You would never get through basic training," scoffed another.
The new recruit looked to his mother for help, but she was just gazing at him. When she finally spoke, she simply asked, "Do you really plan to make your own bed every morning?"
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Once there was a golfer whose drive landed on an anthill. Rather than move the ball he decided to hit it where it lay. He gave a mighty swing. Clouds of dirt and sand and ants exploded from the spot. Everything, but the golf ball. It sat in the same spot.
So he lined up and tried another shot. Clouds of dirt and sand and ants went flying again. The golf ball didn't even wiggle.
Two ants survived. One dazed ant said to the other, "Whoa! What are we going to do?"
Said the other ant, "I don't know about you, but I'm going toget on the ball."
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Food Funnies
Q:What do you call a fake noodle?
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Q: What do you get from a pampered cow?
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Bedtime Ritual
Little Shloimie Rothbart had just been put to bed for the umpteenth time and his mother's patience was wearing thin. "If I hear you call 'Mommy' one more time, you will be punished," she warned him sternly.
For a while it was quiet, and then she heard a small voice call from the top of the stairs, "Mrs. Rothbart? Can I have a drink of water?"
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Tough Customer
Mrs. Rosenbaum was known for being a difficult customer at
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"Give me two pounds of oranges," she asked the saleswoman, "But I need you to wrap every orange up in separate pieces
of paper."
"And three pounds of cherries, and wrap up every one in a separate piece of paper, too." The saleswoman obliged.
"And what is that over there?" Mrs. Rosenbaum asked pointing to a bushel in the corner. "Those are raisins," said the saleswoman, "but they are not for sale!"
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I am NOT the Maid
Like many mothers, Shirley Millman always struggled to get her sons to do their chores and keep the house clean.
"I am NOT the maid!" Shirley often said.
When the oldest Millman boy Danny went off to sleep away camp, he called his mother a week after camp started to report a strange conversation he overheard.
"Ma," said Danny, "There's a dormitory maid and she was in the men's restroom cleaning up and then she saw a camper who hadn't picked up after himself and then you know what she
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The Euroleague Commercial Assets (ECA) Shareholders Executive Board, meeting on 27 June 2019 to review business and sports progress, agreed on proposals to be submitted to the upcoming ECA Shareholders Meeting, to be held on 11 July 2019 in Munich, Germany.
Euroleague Basketball executives opened the meeting with an overview of the results of the 2018-19 season with regards to fan base, audience, in-arena attendance, and generated revenues, which again shows remarkable growth, continuing the trend that the competitions have experienced over recent seasons.
The clubs present also heard about the latest developments in the EuroLeague Business Operations and Club Services (EL BOCS) unit, which finished its second year in operation. EL BOCS has become a key tool for adopting a greater club business culture, boosting collective and individual off-the-court performance, and becoming a central forum for clubs to voice their opinions and experiences through transparent sharing of information between all clubs and the league. Attendees heard about the new initiatives being deployed, including plans to improve the customer experience in every EuroLeague arena, and a brand new league fund made available to clubs to help adapt their structures to better face today's challenges and grow future opportunities.
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''Beauty will save the world.''
Who inspires us?
Anyone who has tried to write a short story for school, or sketch or paint a picture of something that moves them, will know that you can't go out shopping for design inspiration. Instead, jolts of ideas usually come to all of us from all sorts of unlikely places. As a prime example, VOCIER's designer found his inspiration for the design of the F38 while watching a documentary on F1 racing. Your inventiveness can come from anywhere; just about anything can touch off that flash of imagination, that epiphany, that magical understanding of how something should really be designed, written, painted or even presented.
On the other hand, there are few 21st-century designers who would not point to such giants of design and architecture as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, and Le Corbusier as high on their list of heroes and influencers. We at VOCIER are no different.
Finding beautiful solutions to practical problems
VOCIER's lead designer and founder, Michael Kogelnik, certainly espouses the beliefs developed within the Bauhaus school of thought, where they taught that even designs on an industrial scale can and should be beautiful as well as functional. Whether we are considering an office chair, an apartment complex, or a piece of carry-on luggage, we share in the belief that a solution that provides the user with a functional and attractive product will add to the overall enjoyment. It may sound a touch pretentious to claim VOCIER designs are descendants of the types of things that Mies van der Rohe created. But we do have a deep appreciation for his belief that paying attention to the finest details is where the difference in design is made.
The importance of competition
Among the happy coincidences of history where you have a cluster of greats creating around the same time in primarily the same area, the fact that Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, not to mention Frank Lloyd Wright were all studying and working in the same decades must have fed the creative output of each. Would Bernini have been as driven to create St. Peter's Colonnade on such a grand scale if he didn't have Borromini's church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane to match and try to surpass? Similarly, students of the Bauhaus, Ulm and the International Style were a creative clique who pushed boundaries of design just as they pushed each other in sometimes friendly, sometimes tense competition. Whether we are discussing the pioneers of modern design or current creative forces, competition in industrial design proves the importance of research and finding solutions to needs people have.
How design can improve people's lives
Whether we are looking at the simplicity of design found in much of the Bauhaus and the Ulm School of Design creations, or the modernity of the clean lines and open spaces used by Le Corbusier, providing customers with products that make their lives run more smoothly represents the higher goal of all modern design. Moving on from unnecessary ornamentation, we want to develop products that are beautiful in their utility, similarly to Bauhaus creations. As Dostoevsky wrote, "Beauty will save the world," we at VOCIER believe that by creating a clever piece of luggage that is also attractive to use, we can help the traveler find an extra bit of peace and confidence during long and stressful trips.


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Ridiculous Things I wore in Iceland
All of Iceland was pretty much not a good look for me. For such a short trip, I found myself wearing a large number of ridiculous things. Even more strange was the fact that I let Holly photograph me wearing each of these outfits. (Let/Posed and begged her to snap a photo…whats the difference?) Against my better judgement, I thought I would share some of my favorites (I use that term very loosely). Warning, this post is borderline narcasstic. It started out pretty tame with a few viking dress up sessions. I think we can all agree that that helmet was … Read More
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The preacher in Church this last Sunday shared a testimony about how his wife had 4 miscarriages and a still born. He went further to say he was slightly angry with God and wondered why such would happen. At times, you wonder why bad things happen to good people especially those that serve God diligently, but the thing is this, God is God and He does what pleases Him. He indeed works in mysterious ways.
Later on, the Pastor's wife had a beautiful girl, which had been the request, having had 2 boys. He questioned God at the time of the problem and God answered in His own way. What am I driving at? These problems we face are "Storms" and they come in any form. The case in the Bible was a physical one, in Matthew 8:23-27 and Mark 4:35-41, Jesus and his disciples were in the ship and there was a storm beyond control. Jesus was asleep (he was in the human form and so this was natural). Matthew 8:23-27 says:
23 Then he got into the boat and his disciples followed him. 24 Suddenly a furious storm came up on the lake, so that the waves swept over the boat. But Jesus was sleeping. 25 The disciples went and woke him, saying, "Lord, save us! We're going to drown!" 26 He replied, "You of little faith, why are you so afraid?" Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the waves, and it was completely calm. 27 The men were amazed and asked, "What kind of man is this? Even the winds and the waves obey him!" – New International Version.
We're probably conversant with the story, it's an interesting one that was often shared when I was younger. There are 4 important lessons in the incident that should be taken note of.
1. The fact that Jesus is in your "boat" doesn't mean there won't be storm.
In other words, Jesus being in your life doesn't depict there won't be problems and challenges. The amazing fact is Jesus won't let such storm consume you. I'll always believe it's God's way of proving himself to us everyday. This lesson is just the exact case in the story I shared earlier, the man clearly has Jesus in his life and yet his wife went through such. Remember the case of Job in the Bible?
2. The storm comes unexpectedly.
Everything seems almost perfect and then you wake up one day and in the course of that day, something just happens and then happiness is cut short and you wonder why such is happening to you. There's this question that comes right up when bad things happen, "Why me?". The disciples weren't expecting the storm, it couldn't have been their first time on the ship. It happened unexpectedly and that's just one characteristic that comes with problems (Storms).
3. When the storm comes, call on Jesus.
The disciples called on Jesus when the storm started. Most times, we go on seeking for solutions and after we must have exhausted all means, we remember God and then pray as a last resort. Do you think Jesus couldn't have felt the storm? In verse 24 of Matthew 8, it was stated that the ship was almost covered with waves and yet he was asleep until the disciples called on Him. Of course, God sees all that's happening but He wants us to recognize the fact that He is capable of handling the situation and that's why he wants us to call on Him first.
4. Have faith.
Jesus referred to the disciples as having "little faith". To me, they expressed faith by calling on Him to save them, rather than seeking for other ways to calm the storm. They could have just allowed their master enjoy his sleep while they sought for help or they had no other choice? Our faith goes a long way in our supplications to God, he works with our faith.
It's okay to feel scared, disturbed and even cry, but we shouldn't let these negative things dominate our lives. Whatever storm, no matter how "big", Jesus is ever capable, He just needs our confidence in Him!
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Red Sox, Yankees to play regular-season games in London in 2019
The Yankees and Red Sox will play a pair of regular-season games next June at London's Olympic Stadium, MLB announced Tuesday.
The @RedSox & @Yankees will play an historic two-game series in London in 2019, marking the sport's first games ever played in Europe, in the MLB London Series, MLB, the MLBPA & the Mayor of London jointly announced today.— MLB Communications (@MLB_PR) May 8, 2018
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The 2019 games are set for June 29-30 with the Red Sox designated as the home team, the first regular-season MLB games in Europe.
London mayor Sadiq Khan had scheduled a Tuesday news conference with MLB commissioner Rob Manfred, but the subject of the event was not revealed.
MLB also announced Tuesday it will open its 2019 regular season with two games between the A's and Mariners at the Tokyo Dome.


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TUESDAY, 11:19am: The deal is official, the team announced.
MONDAY, 5:34pm: The Suns will sign Phil Pressey to a second 10-day contract, reports Paul Coro of the Arizona Republic. The point guard's first 10-day deal will expire after tonight. Another deal for Pressey would still leave an open roster spot, with the team linked to Anthony Bennett, who's headed for a buyout with the Raptors. Coro indicates Pressey's signing will take place Tuesday, which would put him in line to play six games, against the Hornets, Heat, Magic, Grizzlies, Knicks and Nuggets, before the deal expires. He'll make $55,722.
The 25-year-old Pressey has seen no shortage of playing time for the injury-depleted Suns, averaging 5.0 points, 6.0 assists and 3.3 turnovers in 22.0 minutes per game across four appearances. That's nearly twice as much time on the court than the 12.1 minutes per game he saw during his month-long stint with the Sixers earlier this season. Phoenix is the fifth NBA team Pressey's been on in the past 12 months, as he's also gone through the hands of the Celtics, Trail Blazers and Jazz.
The third-year veteran impressed in his two seasons with the Celtics, and Boston president of basketball operations Danny Ainge made it clear that cutting him was a difficult move. Suns GM Ryan McDonough worked under Ainge for several years with the C's, so it's no surprise to see Pressey in Phoenix, at least for the time being. The Suns and the Aaron Mintz client will face a reckoning point at the conclusion of his latest 10-day deal, since Phoenix would either have to ink him for at least the rest of the season or let him walk.


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We can ease pain without opioids. I'm living proof. [Opinion]
Opioid abuse is a public health crisis, affecting millions of Americans each day. Recent media coverage has brought attention to pain management among professional athletes. To continue excelling at their sport, many athletes will turn to any solution possible to decrease pain caused by sports-related injuries or concussions. In some cases, this means turning to addictive opioids.
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As a player, I personally faced the challenge of overcoming a double knee replacement and a rotator cuff repair.
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After years of exploring remote places, we have never been to a place like this. Where your eye gets tricked by the distances. The next hill, the next valley seems so reachable, so near. And yet, everything is miles away.
While working for the B2B Project, under the Freedom to Roam series we want to inspire our viewers about migrations and the importance of connectivity. Massive movements of uncountable creatures that move over the landscape or under the water to reach a point in the northern hemisphere.
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The most commonly employed survey techniques utilised by BRG are Resistivity, Magnetics, Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) and Conductivity.


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|Lynn 5 Bashley 0
THE five-star Linnets went top of the table on Tuesday by two points - and could win the title at Gloucester on Saturday if they win and Team Bath fail to beat Bromsgrove.
It looked to be Lynns night when the visitors top scorer Richard Gillespie went on a run before pulling up with a hamstring injury and he went off on the half-hour mark.
Lynn: Howie, West, Chapman Bains, Crane, Fisk, Frew, Sedgemore, J. Defty (Bloomfield 66), Nolan (Deane 82), Francis (Melton 66). Subs not used: Murray, C, Defty.
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If you're one of the many of us who love bagging a great bargain, you'll be delighted to hear all about Lidl's brand new hair-care line.
The budget retailer is well-known for it's popular, cut-price products – take the fitness tracker that's just like a Fibit, but available for just £24.99.
There was also the much-loved £3.49 anti-ageing face cream that rivals a far more expensive version.
And now, Lidl have launched an exciting-looking hair care range, for all colours and types of hair. But we couldn't help noticing a similarity to some other, popular hair products.
The retailer have unveiled three different types of shampoo and conditioner – one that promises to boost your blonde highlights, another that will reduce frizz and give you a sleek, chic-looking barnet, and a colour protect product, for brunette hair.
All three are available for just £1.49, meaning they'd make for a super affordable addition to your bathroom cupboard.
However, we picked up on the fact that Lidl's latest hair-care offerings look remarkably similar to those of another hair brand – John Frieda.
The products bear an uncanny resemblance to the luxury brand's own shampoo and conditioner products, which are also broken up into categories including one specifically for blonde hair, one one targeted at combating frizz.
However, Lidl's offerings are significantly cheaper. For example, John Frieda's Frizz Ease Recovery shampoo and conditioner are on sale in Boots for £6.99 – meaning Lidl's shampoos and conditioners are 78% cheaper than the more luxury brand!
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There will also be a sound to let you know when each curl is done, in order to prevent heat damage – a super-handy addition.
Both the hair-care products and the curling tool launched in stores yesterday (13th September). However, we predict that this line is set to be a sell-out success, so if you want them for yourself, you may need to be quick.
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An Open Hardware project in Dixon, IL by Edward Ford
Ayo! If you're looking at this project, you probably think a low cost simple desktop CNC machine is as cool as we do. Sweet. It's always nice to meet like minded people!
Have a look around the DIY CNC scene and you will notice the lack of simple, low cost, straight forward build options. We want to fix that. For the last four years we have been designing, redesigning, and building what we hope to be a CNC machine that anyone can build for about $300. Did I mention that cost even includes the electronics to run the machine? Unlike other projects where you're shelling out $1,000 for just the frame and maybe motors, ShapeOko includes everything you will need to turn your ideas from just a crazy thought into a tangible item.
If nothing else, this project is open. Nobody wants to get locked into some proprietary platform, and nobody wants to spend their money on a machine just to learn they will need to spend another $500 on software to run it. With that in mind, we built the entire process around open source components. From CAD and CAM software to the CNC controller; every step has an open source solution. Did we mention the entire project itself is open source? Every nut, every bolt, every belt, fully documented with part numbers and vendor list. Do with it as you please!
What makes this different? One of the frustrations we had with other designs was the fact that you had to visit a lot of different vendors in order to get all the pieces. We didn't like that. Plus, some projects didn't have a central "released" build, which made it difficult to determine if what you were building was actually what you were expecting to build.
All of that resulted in the following design goals:
- 1 standard design
- $300 total cost
- Maximum of 3 vendors
So, how are we doing on the goals?
- 1 standard design - So far, so good. There are documented upgrades, but still a single design.
- $300 total cost - Pretty close. Plan to spend around $350 to get your ShapeOko running.
- Maximum of 3 vendors - Well, as Meat Loaf said, two out of three ain't bad. See the Purchasing page for more info.


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Le Petit Fred CharmCM
- Le Petit Fred, designed by guest artist Colette Bautier with Catherine Michiels.
Catherine grew up watching her mother Colette draw and paint her signature bird on wood panels or canvas as gifts for her friends' children. It was only a matter of time for "Le Petit Fred", named after Catherine's brother, to enter the jewelry world as an amulet for children and adults.
- The back of the amulet reads "Happiness". The charm is worn on a small silk tie tied around the wrist for boys and girls. Le Petit Fred's message is : 'Smile, you are the truth'.
- Available in Bronze or Sterling Silver.
Also available in Yellow Gold, White Gold or Rose Gold (price upon request). Please email requests to email@example.com with the item name, material, stones (if any) and quantity desired.
- Your charm will be shipped on a silk tie in one of the colors from the current season's palette. If you have a specific color preference, please write us a note at checkout.


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Happy New Year everyone! I'm back and been packing Bento for #2 and #3 (occasionally) since school re-opened on 5th of January 2009! I didn't take any photos because I had wanted to 'crank up' on the mood and get my supplies in order.
I also prepared a lengthy and word-y post on some reading material which I managed to read the week before school re-opened but decided against posting it.
Finally, this morning, after sending another Bento off to school for #2 and forgetting to take a picture of it, I decided to make myself a Bento for lunch. #1 has a lunch appointment, #2 is staying back in school for extra curricular activities - she has in her Bento some Macaroni and a tomato based sauce, a kiwi and some Onigiri. #3, when she gets back will have some 'wantan noodles'.
I just ate this and it's delicious! In the left box is some dried cranberries in the yellow silicon cup, two pieces of bread, some 'beef serunding' in the blue silicon cup and slices of fruit cake stuffed in between the gaps.
In the right box, there is some freshly cut guava fruits in the orange silicon cup, some pea sprouts fried with dried cuttle fish, two pieces of Onigiri and some cracked almonds.
I ate bits of Onigiri with the pea sprouts and serunding and it was delicious! The fruit cake was a gift and that too was awesome! The different fruits and mixture of tastes just adds on to the deliciousness of this Bento! No wonder #2 looks forward to her Bento every day! There's no question of whether she needs a Bento or not, it's expected!
Sometimes I forget how delicious a Bento can get. I'm glad I made one for myself today and it's got me more enthusiastic about preparing them for this year!
Monday, January 12, 2009
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