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Wedding Vendor Contracts
Before you sign on the dotted line, you need to make sure you go over everything with your vendor. Many times there are hidden details within the fine print that a vendor will intentionally not mention. Here are some guidelines to follow to make sure you are getting the best quality service and price available:
*Shop Around- Don't settle on the first vendor you meet with, talking to other vendors can open your eyes and give you a better idea what you really want for your wedding. It will also allow you to check different price points based on services offered so you can find the best deal.
*Read the Contract- Even if your vendor gives you a "run down" of what is in there, make sure you read it over anyways. If there is anything you are unsure of, ask questions!
*No Verbal Contracts- Make sure to write down everything and include it in the contract, not just verbally agreeing. You will not be able to hold anything against them if it is not in writing
*The Deposit or Retainer- Most deposits are non-refundable and can be pretty expensive, so make sure you are 100% sure you are going to stick with that vendor
For more help looking for the perfect wedding vendors contact us at email@example.com or call 248-408-4602.
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High quality repair, refurbishment and sale of RF equipment.
RF Global Solutions was established in 2004 to supply low cost RF repairs for the semiconductor industry. We are now an active member of the National Micro Electronics Institute and have won the prestigious Top 10 NMI Supplier of the year award in 2011, 2012, 2014 & 2015.
The company has achieved this by providing low cost, high quality RF repairs and refurbished RF equipment into the Semiconductor and Medical industry. We are now an internationally renowned brand, with customers utilising our services from across the globe.
Each customer receives an excellent level of service from our friendly and personable customer service team, who design, repair, install, service and train to the highest possible standards. Quality service is a key component of our organisation, who are well regarded and an international leader in RF technology.
The company is highly focused on the following areas:
RF Global Solutions are the industry leaders in offering extended/ Flexible warranty options.
Equipment supplied by/ refurbished by RF Global Solutions generally speaking comes with a 12 month comprehensive parts and labour warranty as standard.
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How to Win Giveaways - Insider Secrets for Winning More Often
How to Win Blog Giveaways
As the owner of The Blog Giveaway Directory, I get asked all the time for tips on how to win giveaways. As a blogger who runs giveaways frequently, I have inside knowledge on how blog giveaways work. As a blog giveaway enthusiast, I have won hundreds and hundreds of prizes. In fact, the past 2 years, gift cards and prizes I won took care of Christmas for our family. Just think about that - a completely FREE Christmas! We easily saved $500 each Christmas due to my hobby.
Over the years, I have discovered some great tricks and tips on how to win more often. With thousands of blog giveaways currently running, I am happy to share my winning tips with you.
Winning Tip #1
Always read the blog giveaways entry information carefully and follow the rules.
This may seem like common sense, but you would be amazed at how many people don't read the entry information carefully.Bloggers DO throw out entries that don't follow the rules. You are kidding yourself if you think otherwise! Include your email address with each entry. If the blogger can't contact you, they will choose another entrant. Don't miss out!Each comment counts as 1 entry. If you receive multiple entries for an action, be sure to leave multiple comments. For example, if you receive 2 entries for tweeting about the giveaway, leave 2 comments.
Winning Tip #2
Take Advantage of ALL Entries
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Winning Tip #3
Schedule Your Daily Tweet Entries to Be Sent Automatically
I schedule my tweet entries to go out between 5 and 6 in the morning. Then when I get up at 6, I can easily open my list of sent tweets on twitter and go down the list. (It's the Your Tweets link at the top right of your Twitter homepage.)
Since your tweet about the giveaway should include a link to the giveaway, it makes it easy to enter each one directly from twitter. For each tweet I sent out, I open the giveaway link from the tweet and then leave a comment with the tweet link on the giveaway post. I takes me all of 5 minutes each morning and ensures that I get the maximum number of entries in each giveaway.
Several people have told me that they would never tweet for entries because they don't want more people entering. I am going to let you in on little secret though. Around 30% of all giveaways I win are from a daily tweet entry! That's one out of every 3 prizes I probably wouldn't have won had I not tweeted about the giveaway daily.
Winning Tip #4
Use Software to Speed Up Your Entry Time, So You Can Enter More Giveaways
Entering blog giveaways can be time-consuming. There are a couple of great pieces of software I use to help speed things up. The faster I enter, the more giveaways I can enter. The more giveaways I enter, the better my odds are of winning.
This software creates keyboard shortcuts. When I am entering blog giveaways, I use it for entry comments that I find myself using all the time. For example, whenever I type in "~2", Texter automatically replaces it with "I follow you on twitter as Greatgiveaways." It saves me so much time typing. I have about 30 keyboard shortcuts that I use frequently. The best part - it's free to download and use!
This software fills forms with a simple mouse click. It saves all your login and passwords. I use Roboform for many purposes, but it comes in handy for entering blog giveaways that use forms. It is also useful for daily entries. Click here to download a free trial of Roboform. (You are limited on the number of passcards you can save, but it is fully functional and quite useful for entering blog giveaways.) No more manually typing in your name, address, or email address on Wordpress Giveaways. Think of all the time it could save you!
Winning Tip #5
Improve Your Odds By Seeking Out Giveaways With Low Entries
Winning Tip #6
Use SayandWIn when sending one-time tweets or posting to Facebook for double the chances to win.
SayandWin is a free service you can use to post to both Facebook and Twitter. By using this service when sending tweets and posting to Facebook as part of your giveaway entries, you have the chance to instantly win Amazon gift certificates. The prize is usually a $1 or $5 gift certificate, but I have won many times. So not only do you get your entry in the blog giveaway, but you can also instantly win Amazon gift certificates. So you have twice the chances to win a prize with that one action.
Winning Tip #7
Focus on the Prizes You Really Want to Win
Be sure to search the Blog Giveaway Directory for those prizes you really would love to win!
Remember - You Can't Win if You Don't Enter.
Keep at it and the wins will start coming!
Brag a Little! - Share the best prize you have ever won in a blog giveaway.
thank you ma'am. but don't have a twitter account because i'm 17.
what should i do
I'm just starting entering giveaways! Thank you for the tips!! I was starting to get discouraged, but now I have a couple new tools to try. Yah!
@anonymous: Awesome! dealsalbum.com is going to have a giveaway and offer one of users who sign up to their website or invite his/her friends to sign up to their website, are you interested?
The best prize I won was a $100 gc to American Girl. I also won $75 cash and $25 cash to pay forward to a friend. I have won over 60 separate blog giveaways since September 2012.
I've never won one yet, but your lens has been an eye-opener! Blessed!
Great lens. The tips are interesting too.
Best prize....not sure. I've never won any of the big prizes like amazon or big appliances or anything.
I just won a giveaway yesterday for free ad space and scribble prints.
What is your blog? I want to make sure I am following you!
I don't do too many giveaways on my blog anymore. I couldn't keep up! I do have several reviews that need to be done at the moment.
I do have an ongoing giveaway linky page on my blog.
Recently won a $40. Amazon card! Spent w/in hours tho!
if i win a conteston twitter how do i contact that person?
Any hints on winning on the robocopter widget?
Thanks so much for the info! Great article!
Thx!! this information helped me to win on www.freetowin.info
great lens , loved the Lens organization and layout.
@anonymous: Shannon,
Miss Organic is my other account that I use for my other blog. I logged into the wrong account to respond to your comment. I think I was half asleep :)
@Miss_Organic: Ok, I will be on the lookout for that. Thanks so much for answering my question Miss Organic. Have a great night.
@anonymous: Shannon, I am glad Texter is working for you. And you can't beat free!
SayandWin will switch pages to a winning notification if you win. I usually wait for the "thanks for sharing" text to disappear. It will show up before that if you are a winner. Then you have to fill out a form to claim your gift certificate.
Just wanted to pop back in and say that I LOVE texter. It is already saving me a ton of time. :) One quick question about sayandwin. How do you know if you win. Does something pop up or are you emailed? Thanks again for all of your tips.
@anonymous: yes he did! LOL total addict! I have never heard of sayandwin actually. Will check out your post about it. I rarely to never do the daily tweets. That is one of the things you mentioned that I am going to check out though. You were right on target about the being too lazy to do it. LOL
@anonymous: I can't wait to see what other great features you have up your sleeve. Hope 2011 is a year full of wins for you too!
@BarbRad: Thank you so much for the blessing! It was nice to see that first thing in the morning :) Also thank you for the Plexo. I added my link.
@anonymous: You are quite welcome Shannon. I hope the tips are helpful to you. Wishing you lots of wins in the future :)
I just changed the blog couple of months ago to make it more user-friendly,with searches by expiration date, country eligibility, etc. I still have a few tweaks I want to make, but overall I am happy with how it turned out.
This blog give-away thing is all new to me. Thanks for the hints. Blessed. Be sure to post your link to the Plexo on http://www.squidoo.com/blogging-tips-lenses-barbra... After it is approved, you can come back and vote for it.
Thanks for sharing your tips. I have not heard of social oomph, texter or sayandwin. I am very excited to try these. I have won quite a few blog giveaways but would always love to win more. :) Your blog is fantastic. I love how you can search for canadian contests. Great feature!
@TofuFairy: Oohhh that is a yummy prize! I bet your stepdad totally enjoyed them. 600 prizes is awesome. You are as addicted as me LOL.
By the way, I updated this lens with a tip about using sayandwin that I forgot to mention when I first posted it. Do you use SayandWin to send out the tweets for your blog giveaway entries? I just won another Amazon gift certificate from them this afternoon. It was only $1 but they add up :)
@anonymous: that is so cool! yeah I totally agree...like this past Christmas I gave my stepdad fresh chocolate covered cherries, his fav, via a GC I won...would have cost me $65 and I never would have paid that...LOL...and he loved them! I've been doing giveaways since 2008 and post pictures of my winnings on my FB account...so far I have three albums of pictures...nearly 600 pictures...not sure exactly of all the wins because some wins are either multiple items or multiple pictures...but you get the picture...I am so addicted! haahaha
@TofuFairy: Wow! Congrats to you! I find that I can give much nicer gifts this way than I could have ever afforded to otherwise. I recently won a Tassimo Brewer which my husband is getting for his birthday. We don't usually have a lot to spend on birthdays so I am so excited to be able to surprise him with it. He loves his coffee!
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Some of these I already do but some were new to me and that is awesome. Thanks so much for sharing!!!! The best prize I have ever won is a full-sized upright freezer! I have also won thousands of dollars in Visa GCs over the past two years. Like you, I have not bought a gift for anyone for anything for a very long time. Its awesome!


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Funk band Lettuce is celebrating its 20th anniversary. The band is comprised of bassist Erick "Jesus" Coomes, keyboardist Neal Evans, saxophonists Sam Kininger and Ryan Zoidis, guitarists Eric Krasno and Adam "Shmeeans" Smirnoff, and drummer Adam Deitch. Lettuce began in the summer of 1992, when several of its members attended Berklee's Five-Week Summer Performance Program as teenagers. Brought together by the influence of various funk bands, the band jammed throughout that summer before going their separate ways.
Two years later, in the fall of 1994, the Lettuce members, who had remained in contact with each other, returned to Berklee as full-fledged undergrads and picked up right where they left off. They were fond of showing up with their instruments at underground jazz clubs like Wally's (usually at other musicians' gigs) and asking, "Will you let us play?"— hence the birth of the name Lettuce. "We never thought that name would stick," says Krasno, "but we just never got around to changing it."
The group is part of the Royal Family Collective, and while all the players in the band have other main gigs (Krasno and Evans are members of the band Soulive, Deitch plays with guitarist John Scofield and Smirnoff has played on the road with Lady Gaga) Lettuce remains a welcome outlet for each. As Krasno says "It's all about good friends getting together to play the kind of music that made us all want to become musicians in the first place." Working with a palette of funk, jazz and soul, the picture Lettuce paints with each song they perform is vibrant, joyous, full of soul and spirit.
In addition to the public concert, Lettuce will present a private clinic in the afternoon for participants in the 2012 Five-Week Summer Performance Program, the band's way of giving back to the program that brought them together 20 years ago.
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APCRDA Comes One Step Closer Towards Achieving Amaravati Dream
In a move that has taken the building of the capital region one step ahead, the Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority (APCRDA), has invited applications from international firms to bid for the development of the region, through the 'Swiss Challenge' approach. This was approved by the AP cabinet and an order was issued to APCRDA on July 4.
As per the Swiss Challenge approach (to build the greenfield capital city), the proposal submitted by the Singapore consortium can be challenged by other potential, suitable developers. If the proposal put forth by a competing firm beats the Singapore proposal, then the mandate to build the capital goes to the other party.
The bidders must submit their proposals through the website before 3 pm on September 1 this year.
The Singapore-based consortium has already designed three masterplans for Amaravati, covering three areas: seed capital (16.9 sq. km), capital city (217 sq. km) and capital region (7,420 sq. km); designed by Jurong International Holdings Pte. Ltd and Surbana International Consultants Pte. Ltd.
The revenue-deficit Andhra Pradesh has time to build a world class capital till 2024 and by the looks of it, the state government is striving hard to achieve that goal.


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Visiting a 40-Year-Old Secret Garden in the Hills of Los Angeles
When my friend Ziv suggested Amir's Garden as a quiet place for a picnic or as a place to meditate, I was confused. I spent most of my teen years hiking in the Santa Monica Mountains and was surprised to find out that there was a secret garden in the middle of Los Angeles, that I didn't know about.
Today with twitter and yelp, it seemed impossible to just find out about a place that had existed for more than forty years. After visiting the garden, I was more surprised to learn that this 5-acre lush garden created in the middle of the concrete jungle that is LA, was built on a mountaintop by hand, by just one man, Amir Dialameh.
How did it begin?
According to the LA Times, Dialameh was inspired to build the garden after a brush fire in the early 70s burned a solid portion of the hills in Griffith Park. Dialameh often hiked in the hills along the Mineral Wells trail by the Los Angeles Zoo. After the fire, he thought the hills looked bare and that someone should build a garden on them. Then he realized, as most self-motivated people do, that if you think someone should do something, that someone often ends up being you. So Dialameh built the garden plant by plant with a pick and a shovel that he carried uphill for a mile.
For many years he worked alone. He cleared tree stumps and built a retaining wall with discarded fencing. He worked seven days a week, often for 8 hours a day. He terraced slopes, built stairs to a created a picnic area with benches. After working in the garden all day, he worked nights as a wine salesman.
What did Dialameh do?
When Dialameh discussed his vision for the garden with city officials, at first they didn't take him seriously. At first, they only granted him a permit, no water, tools, plants or assistance. After a few years, the city did provide a pipeline to bring some irrigation water from the bottom of the hill to the garden.
Over thirty years Dialameh planted drought tolerant plants that provided shade, such as pine and jacaranda trees. He also planted plants that provided vibrant color such as roses, geraniums, and yucca. Many of these were non-natives, which lent to the contrast between the colorful foliage in the garden and the chaparral that one normally sees in Griffith Park. Through determination and hard work, Dialameh transformed a dry dusty mountaintop trail into a lush shady oasis. Today some of the trees that Dialameh hauled over his shoulder thirty years ago are now sixty feet tall.
Dialameh's personal history and love for America
Dialameh was born in Tehran in 1932 and was one of seven kids. The outdoors were as essential to him as food and water are to most people. Dialameh had brothers and nieces but never married himself, the garden was his family. He visited a brother in Pittsburg in 1952 and then decided to move to the U.S. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1963 and settled in Hollywood.
The U.S. inspired him. He thought of America as a country built by volunteers and wanted to give back to his new home and community. It was his patriotism combined with his love of nature, that inspired him to build a public garden in his free time. He was known to say, "In the land of the free, plant a tree." Before he passed away in 2003, you could tell which days Dialameh was working in the garden, by the sight of an American flag that he raised whenever he was working.
Dialameh's dedication
What still surprises me about this story, is that Amir's Garden lies within one of North America's largest urban, municipally-owned parks. I would never have had the gumption to create my own garden in the middle of Griffith Park, nor the perseverance to maintain the garden as public space for thirty years. Dialameh was only away from the garden for a two-week vacation he took every year and one year he hiked for three-months from California to Pennsylvania.
Dedication like this wasn't easy. One Sunday in the early 90s, Dialameh was robbed and beaten. But he didn't let this experience deter him from tending the garden, he only modified his schedule to not work on Sundays. When the garden was damaged by later brush fires, he was quick to rebuild. The garden was truly a labor of love.
It takes a village
Since the late 70s, other hikers have helped him maintain the garden. Several nurseries donated saplings and park services and private benefactors contributed a sprinkler system. Dialameh never accepted monetary donations. On two occasions when people sent him money, he returned the money with a thank you note. Amir's garden remains an all-volunteer garden and rest stop for Griffith Park hikers and equestrians
If you are in the LA area, Amir's Garden is a lovely garden that feels very secluded, even when you are in the middle of LA and overlooking freeways in the distance and even after you realize you are not the only one who has discovered this secret garden.


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Obama is looking to keep the focus and the dollars an special ops and drones.
Look for more, moms, grandma's grandpa's and kids to die...
OH and cyber warfare...... I guess we better be watching for more 'ernie' types.
Pentagon focuses on Special Ops, cyber warfare
Special Ops funding would grow by nearly 6 percent to $6.3 billion, enough to add up to 2,800 more elite troops and increase the military's "irregular warfare" capabilities, budget documents show.
The 2011 spending plan, subject to congressional approval, would also increase the number of advanced unmanned aerial aircraft, including single-engine Predator and Reaper drones, in war zones from 37 to 67 over the next two years.


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Metroid Art Contest, 1988Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

This may be one of those situations where Jeremy looks back at his old art and groans, but I have always loved this picture. So did the guys at Nintendo Power (back when it was still called Nintendo Fun Club Magazine).
Jeremy won a Metroid themed art contest, which got him 2 free NES games (of his choice!) and a NES Advantage controller. Not too shabby!
This image was really hard to track down online for some reason, so I wanted to repost it where it would be easy for me to find again. Enjoy!


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Dancing With the Stars Elimination: Ty MurrayMatt Richenthal at .
It happened a week later than many Dancing with the Stars viewers were hoping, but Ty Murray was sent home this week.
And the rodeo standout seemed quite happy with that result.
"I can't tell you how happy I am," Murray, alongside partner Chelsie Hightower, told People after the show. "I don't have to learn any more dances."
That being said, the husband of Jewel is certainly glad he took a break from riding horses to grooving to the Samba for a few weeks.
"The whole reason I did this show is because it was nice for cowboys to be represented in something so pop culture, and this show did in spades," Murray said. "For me to be able to do this is a fantastic opportunity. You don't realize how big something like this is until you're on a show that 25 million people watch."
Relive Ty Murray's time on Dancing with the Stars above. Click on each photo to enlarge.
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The Skeleton Flower magically transforms into glassy, crystal-clear blossoms when it rains
The Diphylleia grayi or Skeleton Flower, grows in the moist, wooded areas of Japan and China and in the eastern United States. It's large, fuzzy green, umbrella-shaped leaves are topped with small clusters of beautiful pearly white flowers that bloom from mid-spring to early summer. In late summer, the stalks of flowers are replaced with eye-catching cobalt blue fruit. Oddly, as the petals of the flowers are soaked with water, they lose their white pigmentation and turn into magnificent crystal-clear flowers. Once they dry out, the pale coloring slowly returns and the flowers turn powdery white again.
Check out pictures of the Skeleton Flower in the pictorial below (click picture for expanded view).
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- 06:45:55: 8:30 am is NOT social. Morning, Shwen. RT @shwen: At the #DDW10 "Tech Update for GI's - Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, mobile, and more..."
- 06:55:53: http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/publications/news/news-now/resident-student-focus/20100120profess-conduct.html
- 06:59:40: Interesting study about the issues raised by use of social media by medical students: http://bit.ly/97CHWz #ddw10
- 12:25:19: CDC launches new "Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings" website - http://is.gd/bVK0V
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History 306: The American Civil War Era
- Course type: Self-paced
- Available Lessons: 153
- Average Lesson Length: 8 min
Eligible for Credit: Yes
Earn transferable credit by taking this course for credit.
Watch a preview:chapter 1 / lesson 1Understanding the Subjective Nature of History
Course SummaryHistory 306: The American Civil War Era has been evaluated and recommended for 3 semester hours and may be transferred to over 2,000 colleges and universities. This self-paced and mobile-friendly course allows students to quickly review this historical era and get ahead in their degree programs.
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19 chapters in History 306: The American Civil War Era
Course Practice TestCheck your knowledge of this course with a 50-question practice test.
- Comprehensive test covering all topics
- Detailed video explanations for wrong answers
Course Objective
The course objective is to understand and critically analyze the history of the American Civil War, including its key players, battles, strategies, causes, and consequences.
Grading Policy
Your grade for this course will be calculated out of 300 points. The minimum score required to pass and earn real college credit for this course is 210 points, or an overall course grade of 70%. The table below shows the assignments you must complete and how they'll be incorporated into the overall grade.
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Quizzes are meant to test your comprehension of each lesson as you progress through the course. Here's a breakdown of how you will be graded on quizzes and how they'll factor into your final score:
- You will have 3 attempts to take each quiz for a score.
- The highest score of your first 3 attempts will be recorded as your score for each quiz.
- When you've completed the course, the highest scores from your first 3 attempts at each quiz will be averaged together and weighed against the total possible points for quizzes. For instance, if your average quiz score is 85%, you'll receive 85 out of 100 possible points for quizzes.
- After your initial 3 attempts, you can take a quiz for practice as many times as you'd like.
- You will need to pass each quiz with a score of at least 80% to earn course progress for the lesson. However, it is not necessary to earn 80% within the first three quiz attempts.
Assignments are intended to assess your application, analysis, and critical thinking skills in relation to the concepts you learn in the course. Two assignments are required for this course. You can access them here.
- All assignment scores will total up to 100 points.
- Your assignment(s) will be graded by a Study.com instructor.
- The instructor will provide a graded rubric for you along with feedback on what you did well and what could be improved.
- If you are unsatisfied with your score, you will be able to revise and resubmit your assignment(s) twice. You are free to resubmit an assignment within two weeks of your most recent exam attempt or at any point if you have an active college accelerator membership.
Proctored Final Exam
The proctored final exam is a cumulative test designed to ensure that you've mastered the material in the course.
- You'll earn points equivalent to the percentage grade you receive on your proctored final. (So if you earn 90% on the final, that's 90 points toward your final grade.)
- If you're unsatisfied with your score on the exam, you'll be eligible to retake the exam after a 3-day waiting period.
- You can only retake the exam twice, so be sure to use your study guide and fully prepare yourself before you take the exam again.
Items Allowed on Study.com Proctored Exam for History 306:
- Blank scratch paper
- Pen or pencil
Items NOT Allowed on Study.com Proctored Exam for History 306:
- Office programs, web browsers, or any programs other than Software Secure (including Study.com lessons)
- Textbooks (digital or physical)
- Mobile phones, headphones, speakers, TVs, or radios
- Notebooks or notes
- Any calculators
Course Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Dissect the early history of slavery in the United States in the contexts of economics, politics, trade, and the Constitution
- Understand the impact of the Abolitionist movement on the culture of pre-Civil War America
- Summarize the territorial and demographic issues that impacted the U.S. before the Civil War
- Compare and contrast the works of influential authors during the Civil War
- Diagram the secession of the Southern states and the formation of the Confederacy
- Express how politics, economics, African Americans, and women affected Civil War America
- Analyze and report on the major battles from 1861-1865
- Consider the roles of important generals and presidents and their impact on the Civil War
- Evaluate foreign affairs and military strategies during the Civil War
- Measure the lasting impact of the Civil War on Americans during and after the Reconstruction
There are no prerequisites for this course, but many students choose to complete History 103: U.S. History I prior to taking History 306.
Course Format
History 306 consists of short video lessons that are organized into topical chapters. Each video is approximately 5-10 minutes in length and comes with a quick quiz to help you measure your learning. The course is completely self-paced. Watch lessons on your schedule whenever and wherever you want.
At the end of each chapter, you can complete a chapter test to see if you're ready to move on or have some material to review. Once you've completed the entire course, take the practice test and use the study tools in the course to prepare for the proctored final exam. You may take the proctored final exam whenever you are ready.
How Credit Recommendations Work
This course has been evaluated and recommended by both ACE and NCCRS for 3 semester hours in the upper division baccalaureate degree category. To apply for transfer credit, follow these steps:
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Ah, parenting! It's such a wonderful source of joy. At the same time, it can be very stressful and even in the best of times, exhausting. Continuing our recent series through the Book of Ephesians, we come to Paul's admonitions to children and parents. While nothing can take all the stress out of parents in this sin-cursed world, God's word provides the roadmap for the optimal framework for healthy children and a greater peace in the home.
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Part 1
By Adnan Syed
This two part series revisits one of the pivotal events of the early Pakistani history; the riots by the religious right wing parties to get Ahmadis declared as non-Muslims, and the subsequent Munir-Kiyani inquiry commission report into the causes behind the riots. The report went on to interview the religious leaders of the newly formed state of Pakistan regarding their motives and their ideas of Pakistan as a pure Islamic state. As the interviews revealed the incongruous replies of various leaders, they also showed vague but chilling ideas that the right wing parties harboured to turn the newly formed Muslim nation into a political- Islam-dominated theocratic nation. The interviews reveal the role of democracy, non Muslims, Jihad and punishments like apostasy that would be practiced in an ideal Islamic state.
The interviews are as relevant today as they were 56 years ago. If anything, they foreshadowed the violence that would engulf Pakistan as the state gradually ceded to the demands of the Islamic right wing parties. Religious parties kept incessant pressure on the newly formed state to take a turn towards Islamism. At the same time the pressure was on to the governments to kick the Ahmadis out of the fold of Islam by a state decree. It was not until 1974, that another bout of religious agitation got Prime Minister Bhutto to accede to their demands and get Ahmadis declared non-Muslims. If anything, Pakistan has paid dearly for ignoring its founding father who spoke unequivocally that the newly formed state would not be theocratic, and that everyone is free to practice their religion as an equal Pakistani first and foremost.
One of the most pivotal events in the Pakistani history occurred in March 1953, as the right wing parties went on mass agitation on the streets of Punjab to get Qadianis declared as non Muslims.
Mass disturbances broke out in the province of Punjab. They continued until the middle of April 1953. Martial law was declared in Lahore, which remained in force until the middle of May 1953. Almost 23 people were killed by the firing of police and army on the rioters, before the unrest was finally quelled. The violent protests and the events leading up to the martial law in Lahore were the first signs that the religious right had far more extreme aspirations for Pakistan. Jinnah had explicitly negated Pakistan as a theocratic state before his death. On more than one occasion he had said that "Pakistan is not going to be a theocratic State to be ruled by priests with a divine mission".
Still, the right wing parties persisted. Their umbrella group, Majlis-e-Amal, evolved around a fundamental demand to the new state of Pakistan: Declare Qadianis (or Ahmadis) as non-Muslims. In January 1953, a deputation of the ulama delivered an ultimatum to the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Khwaja Nazimuddin. It called for the state to declare Ahmadis as non-Muslims, and remove Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan (the then foreign minister of Pakistan) and other Ahmadis from key posts in the government.
To his credit, Khwaja Nazimuddin, rejected the ultimatum on February 27, 1953 and arrested the prominent members of Majlis-e-Amal. The disturbances started soon afterwards.
The Government of Punjab constituted a Court for holding a public enquiry into the disturbances. The members of the enquiry commission were Justice M. Munir, Chief Justice of the Federal Court, and Justice Muhammad Rustum (M.R) Kiyani of the Punjab High Court. Both gentlemen at that time had quite distinguished careers. While widely respected for his experience, Justice Munir, later that year in 1954, went on the wrong side of history when he validated the doctrine of necessity in the Moulvi Tamizuddin case. In that case the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly by Governor General was declared lawful.
Justice Kiyani is to this day remembered as one of the most upstanding judges who graced the judicial benches of Pakistan. He spoke out against the Ayub Khan regime, risked his enviable career for taking his stance, and was widely admired across Pakistan for not bowing to the dictator. Grateful citizens of Lahore called him the "voice of Pakistan" at his retirement.
The Enquiry Commission produced a 380 page report that remains a treasure trove of information about the early Pakistani history, the interaction of faith in matters of the state, and the administrative lapses that the state had began showing as its self serving rulers started using religion to undermine each others' influence. The commission interviewed all the major parties involved in the disturbances: the Punjab Government of Mumtaz Daultana, the Provincial Muslim League, the Majlis-e-Ahrar, the Majlis-e-Amal, the Jamaat-e-Islami and the Ahmadiya organizations. After talking to all parties, and sifting through 3,600 pages of written statements and 2,700 pages of evidence, the two member commission produced this important document called "Report of the Court of Inquiry constituted under Punjab Act II of 1954 to enquire into the Punjab Disturbances of 1953".
The commission was firm in laying the blame on the religious organizations for inciting violence and holding the government hostage by agitating on the streets. The commission called the Ahrar and their allies insidious. However, the very last paragraph of this report is a scathing indictment of the then Punjab Government and most of the provincial and federal governments that followed since. In the Justices' famous words, the 1953 disturbances should never ever have morphed into something that serious. It was the subordination of the law and order to the political ends that started the rot and allowed the religious right to play havoc on the streets of Lahore, Sialkot and Rawalpindi. Democracy requires the rule of law, and the rule of law should never be a hostage to political leaders' considerations and machinations.
Justice Munir Kiyani Report ends with those prophetic words that need to be listened to by each and every government of the state of Pakistan: "And it is our deep conviction that if the Ahrar had been treated as a pure question of law and order, without any political considerations, one District Magistrate and one Superintendent of Police could have dealt with them…… But if democracy means the subordination of law and order to political ends—then Allah knoweth best and we end the report".
The commission interviewed leading Islamic ulama of that time to ascertain their ideas of the Islamic state, sovereignty and democracy in an Islamic State, legislature and law making in an Islamic state, position of non-Muslims, definition of a Muslim, punishment for apostasy, propagation of other religions, concept of Jihad, and role of Muslims within a non-Muslim state.
The interviews appear in pages 203 to 230. They provide a fascinating glimpse into the confused ideas espoused by the religious right towards the new state of Pakistan. To our eternal shame, Pakistan gradually went on to embrace this confusion rather than discard it in favour of a democratic Muslim state. The Munir-Kiyani Report remains one of the first and one of the very few reports that was able to disern the vague notion of an Islamic state ideal. This concept wrought extensive destruction on Pakistan and on the region in decades to come.
The vague ideal still resides with the religious right, a full 56 years later after the report was written. In 1960s, a concept of the "Ideology of Pakistan" gradually found its way into the grand vocabulary. This ideology sought to replace the Muslim nationalism that the Muslim League espoused in its struggle for Pakistan. The Munir-Kiyani report went on to quote Jinnah's August 11 speech, and the various quotes where Jinnah unequivocally negated the concept of theocracy for Pakistan, and called for Pakistan to become a modern democratic Muslim majority republic.
Interestingly, the religious right clearly recognized the Muslim nationalism embedded in the demand for Pakistan. However, almost all of them called this concept unacceptable to them. These denouncers included the Majlis-e-Ahrar, the erstwhile Congress allies before the partition for whom "before partition this (nationalism) conception was almost a part of their faith". Maulana Ahsan Islahi called this Muslim nation state the creature of the devil. "None of the ulama can tolerate a state which is based on nationalism and all that it implies".
In March 1949, Jinnah's concept of a modern nation state received its first blow when the government of Liaquat Ali Khan passed the Objectives Resolution. The ulama freely admitted that Objectives Resolution was nothing more than a hoax. Even though the resolution gave sovereignty to Allah, in the ulama minds, the provisions of the OR, especially those relating to fundamental rights, were directly opposed to the principles of an Islamic State.
The committee posed a question as to "what is then the Islamic State of which everybody talks but nobody thinks". What is the conception and function of the state?
The ulama were divided in their opinions when they were asked to give examples of an Islamic state in Muslim history. Shia Alim Hafiz Kifayat Hussein held out as his ideal the government of the Holy Prophet. Another alim included the days of Omar bin Abdul Aziz (an Ummayid dynastic but just ruler, who ruled between 717 and 720 AD), Salahuddin Ayyubi of Damascus (who conquered Jerusalem a thousand years ago), Sultan Mahmood Ghaznavi (who looted and ransacked India many times), Muhammad Shah Tughlaq, Aurangzeb Alamgir (the Mughal emperor), and the modern day Saud dynasty of the Saudi Arabia.
Another alim Maulana Haamid Badayuni opined that the details of the state would be worked out in the future by the ulama. Master Taj-uddin Ansari's confused notion of an Islamic state can be gleaned from the following interview excerpt:
Q.—If you are told that the Khilafat movement continued long after the Turks had abolished Khilafat, will that be correct?
A.—As far as I remember, the Khilafat movement finished with the abolition of the Khilafat by the Turks.
Q.—You are reported to have been a member of the Khilafat movement and having made speeches. Is it correct?
A.—It could not be correct.
Q.—Was the Congress interested in Khilafat?
A.— Yes.
Q.—Was Khilafat with you a matter of religious conviction or just a political movement ?
A.— It was purely a religious movement.
Q.— Did the Khilafat movement have the support of Mr. Gandhi ?
Q.— What was the object of the Khilafat movement ?
A.— The Britisher was injuring the Khilafat institution in Turkey and the Musalman was aggrieved by this attitude of the Britisher.
Q.— Was not the object of the movement to resuscitate the Khilafat among the Musalmans ?
Q.— Is Khilafat with you a necessary part of Muslim form of Government ?
Q.— Are you, therefore, in favour of having a Khilafat in Pakistan ?
Q.— Can there be more than one Khalifa of the Muslims ?
A.— No.
Q.— Will the Khalifa of Pakistan be the Khalifa of all the Muslims of the world ?
A.— He should be but cannot be.
As the justices pondered upon the role of Quran and Sunnah in the new state of Pakistan, it quickly became clear that in an Islamic state that the ulama wanted for Pakistan would have to follow, the constitution can only be framed by the agreement of ulama and mujtahids (modern interpreters of Quran and Sunnah). Any modern law not conforming to Quran and Sunnah were void and not to be followed by a Pakistani Muslim. Any provision of rule of international law to which Pakistan is a party, which contravenes the Quran or Sunnah shall be void and not binding on any Muslim in Pakistan.
More chillingly, as the interviews revealed, the ulamas conceded the form of Government in Pakistan, if that form is to comply with the principles of Islam, will not be democratic at all.
(Friday, Legislation in an Islamic state, who is a Muslim, and the position of non-Muslims vs. the Muslims)


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I'm very excited to read Fate of the Tearling.
The fate of the tearling! :D
AFTER THE CROWN! THE STARS ARE LEGION! (ahem) Sorry, I didn't mean to yell. ;-) Behind the Throne by Wagers was very good; I'm looking forward to the sequel. And Hurley's new book sounds good as well! I know zero about the rest.
Is this the same text of "Gloriana" as the second edition, or has Moorcock revised it yet again? (He tends to do that.)
Did anyone else read "Fate of the Tearling" as "Fate of the Yearling" or do I just need more coffee? … and now that my ADHD brain has that in its slurry…
The Emmi Intaranta novel is on my TBR list.
Oo! Kameron Hurley & Emmi Intäranta! Can't wait to read both of those.
The Stars are Legion. I love Hurley. Everything she writes makes me think and it is a great story too.
I recall a significant moment of "Gloriana" as being rape-positive. Given the many terrible things occurring previously in the narrative, and its being nearly six hundred years back from and at least 10 Laumers sideways to here, that may be tolerable for some, maybe not for others. Having been the victim of only minor sexual assault, it didn't destroy my high opinion of the book, but it did ablot it a bit.
Dis Baen Books ever send you books?
OWM504: John pretty regularly posts a whole stack of *just* Bean books. The last one might have been a month or so back.
wish I could see the covers, I love cover art.
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Loving these:
1. "Hand Made" Stamps by Etsy Seller talktothesun. I love a hand carved stamp and this one is positively adorable! I can totally see it on the back of my next handmade card. Check out my other favorites here and here. Too cute!
2. The Extended Preview of Les Miserables on YouTube. I saw my first stage production of Les Mis sometime in the late 1990s. The Broadway tour made its way to Phoenix and my mom & I were able to score tickets. I remember sitting there in the dark and getting swept up in the story. By the end, I was openly bawling and raced out to buy the soundtrack that night. I wasn't sure if I wanted to see a movie version, as it may destroy my wonderful memory of the musical. Wolverine and the girl from The Princess Diaries? Really? Then I saw this preview. I started to cry all over again. Now I'm counting down the days until its theatrical release (Christmas Day). Anybody want to come babysit the day after Christmas?
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Several law firms are creating recruiting videos and Web sites to attract law students to their firms.
Law firms have discovered YouTube.
Well, actually, they have discovered that the law students they are trying to recruit as summer associates watch YouTube, the popular video Web site.
Several firms are trying to parlay that discovery into a hiring tool, creating recruiting videos and Web sites with the look and feel of YouTube. The firms hope to persuade students that their lawyers, and by extension the firms, are young-thinking and hip.
The need to attract top-notch summer associates is crucial; they are the pool from which most new hires are made. More than 19,000 graduates join law firms each year.
So far, the firms' efforts have run the gamut from simple conversations with summer associates to videos promoting the firm's expertise or its diversity.
"The videos are still kind of in the early days," said Brian Dalton, the senior law editor at Vault Reports, which ranks law firms. "A lot of them come off seeming like hostage videos."
There are exceptions. Choate Hall & Stewart, a Boston firm with about 200 lawyers and more than 100 years of history, has developed a series inspired by the "Mac vs. PC" advertisements from Apple. Rather than associates, actors are used in the Choate ads.
In four spots called "Choate vs. Megafirm," a hapless male associate at Megafirm is seen variously trying to find his briefcase in one of his employer's many offices; tied up in boat rope, explaining that the firm placed him in "leveraged lease and ship financing" when he really wanted litigation; and clad in a business suit, pants rolled up, with an inner tube around his waist, on his "working" vacation.
His counterpart, a young female associate at Choate, is rather smug as she explains how life there is different. Just as on YouTube, there are ratings — albeit fake — like the one from a Web poster with the handle, "Jdhound," who writes, "This are like so professional. Our site not."
The Choate videos were created by Greenfield Belser, a Washington marketing firm that specializes in law firms. Its president, Burkey Belser, decided to parody the Apple ads in part because of a limited budget. The firm charged Choate $75,000 for the 4 ads and 20 testimonials from 9 summer associates and other lawyers.
Mr. Belser said that he coached the Choate associates to whittle their testimonials to 30 seconds, told from a red-leather armchair meant to tie in with the firm's choice of red as a branding color. In one testimonial, the law student talks about his participation in a Swedish folk trio; another student talks about her college thesis, on horror films.
In contrast, the recruiting site at Morrison & Foerster of San Francisco challenges law students, asking if they have the "mojo" needed to join the firm.
The site was revamped last year by a finance partner, Anna T. Pinedo, who said the previous version "was boring."
One link under "achievements" draws the firm's definition of a phenomenon it calls "rankophilia." It offers law students the chance to make their own ranks, from ugliest vegetables to most addictive snack foods. The most popular with students? Ugly vegetables.
At Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, a Los Angeles firm where flip-flops are acceptable footwear, attempts to be hip backfired just a bit.
The firm started a Web site, which, among other things, was to feature "A Day in the Life of an Associate."
The video told the story of Ivey, a young brunette, who is first seen as she develops photos in her darkroom and plays Ultimate Frisbee. Ivey (really an actress) says she has a B.A. from Yale and a J.D. from Stanford, and is seen wearing a form-fitting jersey shirt, blue jeans and chunky necklaces as she consults with the partners.
But when the Web site went live last week, the video did not appear.
"Some of the associates, some of the partners, thought it was too contrived; maybe corny was probably a better word," said A. William Urquhart, the firm's hiring partner.
In contrast, associate testimonials at Ropes & Gray, a Boston-based firm, are strictly about the job. The five segments, each a montage of voices lasting about three minutes, begins with one associate intoning, "People with small problems don't come to Ropes & Gray." (The firm has about 850 lawyers in five cities in the United States.)
A tool that students have often used in deciding where to apply is Vault.com, which ranks the most prestigious firms, based on Web responses of associates.
At one firm on the list, Sullivan & Cromwell, 16 videos featuring conversations from lawyers appear on the site. Each is a three-minute montage, filmed by Muffie Meyer, a documentary maker whose work has appeared on PBS.
"Law students sometimes have this idea that large prestigious Wall Street firms are filled with the same sort of person," said Frederic C. Rich, the partner who oversaw the making of the videos.
The videos are meant to telegraph the variety of people who work there. Mr. Rich appears in one video talking about the oratorio he conducted in a conference room at the firm.
In another video, Joseph C. Shenker, the firm's vice chairman, an observant Jew and a Brooklyn native who graduated from City University of New York, says he does not have the pedigree one would associate with an old-line firm. "The only thing people care about here is the pursuit of excellence," he says, in conversation with Lisa A. Lofdahl, a lawyer who talks about being openly gay.
Norm Rubenstein of the Zeughauser Group and former marketing officer at three law firms, said the videos were interesting because they aim at "a generation that takes the Web for granted, that values Internet-based social networking."
"That's what makes the video 'conversations' on the Sullivan site or the mock commercials on Choate's site so compelling," Mr. Rubenstein said. "Compared to the traditional iteration of marquee clients, major deals and disputes, these express true personality in ways that are memorable."


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First Phoenix's update. The Vet sent us some more pics of Phoenix, she says "This is how he greets everyone."
"It is amazing to see his bright eyes considering the state that he is in."
"Everyone here loves him and takes him out to the grass on their breaks for short periods of sun time." The vet says that he will most likely lose all of his hair except his mane and tail, no doubt he will be a very beautiful boy once his hair comes in.
The May auction rescue fund is currently at $1235. Almost half way there! 49% of the goal has been raised, together we can make it 100%!
After the morning chores were done Jason and Tawnee loaded up 4 horses into the trailer to go to the Gridley pasture.
Of course there had to be a flat tire involved. It's actually the first one in awhile, surprising enough. No we haven't just been hiding them from the blog, it has just been awhile.
Passion was adopted today! Her adoptive mommy came out to meet her, they fell in love with each other, and transportation arrangements are being made. Passion's adoptive mommy has adopted from us before, and the time was right to add a new family member.
When Jason got back he started working on a chore that needed to be done for a long time. The lattice has been sitting around waiting for someone to take the 30 minutes to get it up, and Jaosn finally had 30 minutes that he took to get it done. The tack room and the office now have pretty white lattice around their foundations.
About this time Tawnee headed off to the vet. Some horses needed to get checked out. Their appointments are for tomorrow, but it worked better in our schedule to take them out today.
Tawnee arrived safely at the vet, got the horses unloaded and into their pens, and headed back to the rescue.
The horses all settled in and are enjoying a nice supper at the vets.
Tawnee was just dying to see a face she hadn't seen in awhile: Prince!
He's getting to be a big boy now! He's big enough to be born and is ready to come back to the rescue.
He loves running and playing. It is so wonderful to see him so healthy, full of life, and enjoying every minute of it.
He finally grew into his head. When he was born his head seemed to be bigger than his body, but now he has a nice proportion.
He has a voracious appetite and is growing like a weed.
Back at the rescue, the fencing is coming along great. It is almost ready for the wire to be stretched tight.
The tack room looks so much better with the lattice underneath.
Tawnee cleaned stalls late into the evening, making sure everyone was happy.
There is quite the interesting picture posted on our new forum with a "Caption this" contest. Go check it out! There are 34 members, if you haven't signed up yet, you should consider it! Click here to visit our new forum.


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The dorsal striatum is the main input structure of the basal ganglia and the major target area of dopaminergic projections originating in the substantia nigra pars compacta. Heavily involved in the regulation of voluntary movement and habit formation, this structure is of strong importance in Parkinson's disease, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Tourette's syndrome and addiction. The C57/Bl6J mouse strain, the most commonly used strain in preclinical research today, is frequently used as a model organism for analysis of dopaminergic parameters implicated in human pathophysiology. Several components of the dopamine system have been shown to vary with age and sex, however knowledge of the contribution of these factors for dopamine release kinetics in the C57/Bl6J mouse strain is lacking. In the present study, we used an intracranial KCl-stimulation challenge paradigm to provoke release from dopaminergic terminals in the dorsal striatum of anaesthetized C57/Bl6J mice. By high-speed in vivo chronoamperometric recordings, we analyzed DA release parameters in male and female mice of two different ages. Our experiments demonstrate elevated DA amplitudes in adult compared to young mice of both sexes and higher DA amplitudes in females compared to males at both ages. Adult mice exhibited higher recovery capabilities after repeated stimulation than did young mice and also showed a lower variability in the kinetic parameters trise and t80 between stimulations. These results identified age- and sex- dimorphisms in DA release parameters and point to the importance of taking these dimorphisms into account when utilizing the C57/Bl6J mouse strain as model for neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders.
A major challenge in the field of neuroscience is to link behavior with specific neuronal circuitries and cellular events. One way of facing this challenge is to identify unique cellular markers and thus have the ability to, through various mouse genetics tools, mimic, manipulate and control various aspects of neuronal activity to decipher their correlation to behavior. The Vesicular Glutamate Transporter 2 (VGLUT2) packages glutamate into presynaptic vesicles for axonal terminal release. In this thesis, VGLUT2 was used to specifically target cell populations within the basal ganglia of mice with the purpose of investigating its connectivity, function and involvement in behavior. The motor and limbic loops of the basal ganglia are important for processing of voluntary movement and emotions. During such physiological events, dopamine plays a central role in modulating the activity of these systems.
The brain reward system is mainly formed by dopamine projections from the ventral tegmental area (VTA) to the ventral striatum. Certain dopamine neurons within the VTA exhibit the ability to co-release dopamine and glutamate. In paper I, glutamate and dopamine co-release was targeted and our results demonstrate that the absence of VGLUT2 in dopamine neurons leads to perturbations of reward consumption and reward-associated memory, probably due to reduced DA release observed in the striatum as detected by in vivo chronoamperometry.
In papers II and IV, VGLUT2 in a specific subpopulation within the subthalamic nucleus (STN) was identified and targeted. Based on the described role of the STN in movement control, we hypothesized that the mice would be hyperlocomotive. As shown in paper II, this was indeed the case. In paper IV, a putative reward-related phenotype was approached and we could show reduced operant-self administration of sugar and altered dopamine release levels suggesting a role for the STN in reward processes.
In paper III, we investigated and identified age- and sex-dimorphisms in dopamine kinetics in the dorsal striatum of one of the most commonly used mouse lines worldwide, the C57/Bl6J. Our results point to the importance of taking these dimorphisms into account when utilizing the C57/Bl6J strain as model for neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders.


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HAMPDEN, Maine — There's nothing like a hard-fought match between rivals to prepare teams for postseason play in any sport, as the Hampden Academy and Bangor boys soccer teams experienced Tuesday evening.
That the Broncos and Rams battled to a 1-1 tie through two overtimes in their mutual regular-season finale on the artificial turf at the Weatherbee complex should have come as no surprise.
They played to a 2-2 stalemate in their earlier meeting at Bangor on Sept. 13, and the teams have now combined for nine ties this fall, with Hampden finishing its schedule with an 8-1-5 record while Bangor is 8-2-4.
Hampden will finish either second or third in the final Eastern Maine Class A Heal point rankings, while Bangor is expected to finish fifth in the division.
"This is one of the better games we've played all year," said Hampden midfielder Cooper Antone, one of seven Broncos' seniors honored during pre-game ceremonies. "We really stepped up to the occasion, especially because this is Senior Night and everybody got motivated and Bangor's always a tough match."
Bangor also was content that its performance against Hampden should put the Rams in a positive mind-set as it readies for its regional quarterfinal next week.
"I thought we played well," said Rams' sophomore striker Nate Bach. "We had been going downhill for a while but I think we're getting back on track now."
Each team's leading scorer, Bach and Hampden sophomore Tristan Gardner, accounted for the lone goals in a match that featured plenty of 50-50 balls and solid defensive play on both ends.
Bach gave Bangor a 1-0 lead with 6:36 left in the first half, less than a moment after Hampden mounted its best scoring bid of the game's first 40 minutes — a header by Gardner that sailed over the crossbar.
Bangor then worked the ball down to the other end of the field along the right wing, where Ben Loiselle slipped the ball between two defenders to Bach. Bach popped the ball over Hampden goalie Zach Gilpin, who was sprawled on the ground about 8 yards out from the goal line after a collision left him clutching his ribs, and a Broncos' defender couldn't get to the ball before it crossed the goal line.
"I couldn't even see the goal really," said Bach. "I just had to touch it and it just went over the goalie."
Hampden nearly tied the game with 12:45 left in the second half, only to have Bangor goalie Colton Markevich dive across the crease to stop a header by Gardner that looked destined for the back of the net.
"I just saw it coming in and I went for it and hit it out," said Markevich.
Gardner scored the equalizer with 8:06 left in regulation time, redirecting the rebound of a shot by Antone into an open net.
Hampden's Erik Hanson established control of the ball in the left corner, then passed to Antone who was angling toward the near goalpost. Antone took several dribbles toward the goal before grounding a hard shot that Markevich blocked but did not control.
The ball caromed toward the center of the crease, where Gardner was waiting to finish the play with a left-footed redirection.
"I saw Coop with wide open space in the middle and I knew he was going to shoot," said Gardner. "All I was thinking about was getting that rebound off the goalie because I knew Coop was going to put it on frame because he has a great shot."
Gardner had one more threatening bid in the final minute of the second half, only to have his close-range blast go just off target.
Hampden also had the best chance of the two 5-minute overtimes, a knuckle-balling kick from outside the 18 toward the right goalpost by Ben Foster that Markevich blocked away.
The Broncos finished the match with a 19-12 shots advantage. Markevich made eight saves for Bangor while Gilpin made five stops for Hampden.


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Andrei Stan was born in Romania on the 2nd of march 1988. He has always had an ear for music, sound literally excited him. Although he had started taking piano lessons while he was young, it wasn't until he really felt the clubbing atmosphere that he discovered in the music, the energy and the expression within it. Soon he started playing at private parties, then, while experimenting with house music as a DJ, he realised that he wanted to entertain and share his love for music with others.
Being only 18 and having played already in some of the best clubs in Romania, he soon moved to Belgium where he continued his dream of becoming a DJ.
He combines glamour, elegance and sophistication on the decks with his house-progressive-tribal sound - YOU CAN NOT FAIL TO BE SEDUCED BY HIS SOUNDS !
Andrei Stan is known as a talented, committed, music-loving DJ. His sets are characterized by his immense personality shining through, stunning all the way and moving on stage. He's the people's DJ and he delivers a shining grinding groove, for long loud nights on packed dance-floors.
It's all about fantastic, happy clubs, screaming, chanting clubbers and never wanting to go home. It's a soundtrack to the coolest party of your life and everyone's invited.
IN SHORT, it rocks and above all it's in Andrei Stan's style!
Resident in Brussels in one of the biggest circuit party in Europe, La Demence (a long story which has been around for over 23years, hitting the capital of Europe once a month and gathering 2000+ fantastic people to party), in LE YOU (the best weekly club in Brussels) Gaga Party in Gent (Adonis Club), The Gym (Gent), Splash (a party that grew up with Andrei from the beginning, that is now rocking Rome every time) , Greenkomm (probably the best after-hours in Europe, in Cologne) and Barcode (London)
Guest DJ in Belgium for clubs and parties like: Pulse Factory, La Rocca, Louise Gallery, Le You, B-Club, Mezzo Giorno, D-Club, The Gym, Sugarland Circuit Weekend and many others !
He played together with international artist like: Boy George , Oliver M, David Penn, Danny Verde, Pagano, Ben Manson, Dikky Vendetta, Mister Mola, Steven Redant, Micky Friedmann, Enrico Arghentini, and many, many more.
Music style is house-progressive-tribal. Can be more or less vocal, depending on the event/club.
International GIGS:
Greenkomm , Rudeboy, Naughtycontrol, Sexy (Cologne) ; NY (Munich) ; Salvation , Revolver (Berlin) ;
T-Light (Toulouse) ; Energy Bears (Paris) ; Stretch (Lille) ;
Splash, Gay Village (Rome) ; Overjoy (Milan)
Cocon Club (Krakov)
Stuk X (Eindhoven)
Hustlaball, Beyond, A:M, Barcode, Revolver, Salvation, Matinee, Rupert Street, Area, Fire (London)
Nation (Leon), Gaydate , Living (Mexico DF), Circus (Guadalajara) , Con la rojas (Morelia)
Plus many other gigs in Spain, Swiss, Romania, Austria and Hungary.


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Wedding Creepers – A Whole New Meaning to Shark Week
This weekend I attended a beautiful wedding solo. A girlfriend was getting married and a bunch of us gals decided to leave the men at home. (Sidebar: Men were extremely grateful.)
This was my first dateless wedding. And I was excited to celebrate with my besties. As we counted down to our friend's big day, she gave us a warning: watch out for The Creepers. Well, she didn't call them creepers, but that's what I've named them.
Fast-forward to the wedding. It was beautiful, but I couldn't help but notice a row of men scouting out the ceremony. It was almost humorous. Almost pathetic. But hey, they're young. And single.
So off to the reception we go. Beer was flowing like wine. The band was rocking. The gals and I took to the dance floor in a seizure-like fashion. We were having a blast.
Cue the first slow song of the night. None of us wanted to leave the dance floor. So, in our inebriated state, two of us partnered up and started slow dancing away.
The next series of events happened in slow motion. Looking back on it, I felt like a baby seal on the surface. I could see them circle us quickly and quietly, before moving in for the kill. It was the most dreaded things on the dance floor: The Creepers. Not long after my hands locked with my pal's, we were being torn away from each other. The two men swooped in, each ripping us to opposite sides of the dance floor.
Struggling only made it worse.
We powered through it, each of us mentioning our significant others, looking for an out.
They didn't care.
They spun us, dipped us and tried to dance prom-style. (Both hands around our waists. No thank you.) My pals partner was even making kissy faces. He thought they were sexy. She thought he had eaten a lemon. When questioned on the faces, he replied, "I'm spicing things up."
You had to give them props for being so bold. These were two guys who probably studied the movie, The Wedding Crashers, in depth. They tuned in every night to Shark Week.
But unlike the movie or the Great Whites, these guys when home alone and hungry. (Well technically they had each other.)
Better luck next time, Creepers.