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The values (why) inform the mode of instruction (what), which lead to the details of execution (how).
The details of execution encompass what a lesson plan contains. This is predicated on the mode of instruction chosen, which is in turn based on the values that a team agrees are core beliefs. Each lesson plan should answer questions such as:
- What are we actually doing in class?
- What is that class time like?
- What kind of an experience is it?
- What are the expectations of the students?
The answer to each question has to reflect that next generation mode of instruction. It should reflect the values of the Next Generation Science Standards, and this is where a lot of conflict crops up. If you value test prep, you cannot have a next generation model of inquiry and instruction. That's not to say that a next generation model does not prep students for tests, because it does do that… every single day. It simply means not teaching to a standardized test. The next generation model of inquiry and instruction provides contextualized learning opportunities every day that extend students' knowledge and skills and take the old model of direct instruction to the next level.
That's where you can get a how and a why that are at odds with each other, and that's where the difficulty of curriculum development and the shift from traditional standards to next generation standards becomes a big issue. This challenges many instructors' mindsets because they believe the details of execution are beyond what somebody expects their children are able to do. Now the question becomes this: Why do you expect that that's all they're able to do? At what point are they going to be able to do that? If you've predetermined the answers to these questions, then your view of that student has become fixed.
Instead of predetermining outcomes and student readiness levels, we need to take a different approach. We need to believe that while our students can't do this yet, we can create a challenge-rich environment that will help students reach those goals. We're going to create an environment where we can place students in the role of scientists and engineers and encourage them by praising effort. We value students using their critical thinking skills and developing them authentically with their own ideas, not mirroring and parroting back what was demonstrated or told or shown to them.
That's where you get alignment and where you see teams make major progress. Some teams do better with this than others based on the mindset already in place, their expectations of their students, their expectations of themselves, and their ideas of what curriculum and instruction are.
The thing is, you can create accountability through checkpoints to help encourage and nurture this goal along, maintain accountability, and help students ramp up to an area of success if you structure your materials and your classroom that way. If you don't—that is, if you insist on having a traditional model of instruction with workbooks that have question prompts and play like an engineer and create things according to diagrams or copy a procedure off the board—you have removed that opportunity for learning.
From a mindset perspective, this is the perfect opportunity to teach children a growth mindset. As they go through these checkpoints through trial and error and as they create a plan that doesn't turn out the way they expected, it doesn't make sense to say, "You're good at this." Instead, we praise effort and teach students to think about their thinking. We teach metacognition, helping students take what they've done and consider how it can be done differently. We encourage them to analyze and evaluate their own work and their own outcome to create a new hypothesis or a new approach to the problem through a different prototype.
How We Go About Our Work K-12
Establishing background knowledge and holding Socratic dialogue are crucial parts of the next generation model, but shouldn't stop there.
Now it's time to address how, exactly, we go about this work in the classroom. To break things down a bit, you should be spending about 10 percent of your time establishing background knowledge through non-fiction reading. You should spend an additional 20 percent of your time activating that knowledge and learning through Socratic dialogue, asking higher order questions that cause students to create, evaluate and analyze in their responses. They must think about the context of the ideas; about what they read; and about the linkages from concept to concept, concept to will, and concept to self connections.
We do this by creating triads, pulling in different students, and getting them to challenge and counter-claim each other's ideas. It's important to note the teacher is merely the moderator; students are considering and responding to each other's contributions to the class dialogue.
This is where sharpening the irons really begins. We take those skills they've learned previously, as well as their newly attained knowledge, and we challenge students to plan investigations. We don't do this by asking them to mimic an activity; that's play. It is by and large not useful for learning, and you can approach it differently, by experimenting and prototyping.
Higher order thinking skills begin to emerge as students plan investigations, carry them out, gather data to evaluate and analyze, form judgments and claims, and support them with evidence.
The purpose of experimenting and prototyping in the classroom is to actually take something that you thought about and planned and carry it out. That's why planning is so important. That's where we create something new to solve a problem or answer a question. We create an idea and we establish how we're going to test it. We evaluate and analyze the results of those tests to form judgments and claims and to support those claims with evidence. These are all examples of higher order thinking skills in action. These processes nevertheless require remembering, understanding and applying—lower order thinking skills that aren't sufficient in themselves, but are still necessary.
Middle school students work to carry out their own ideas rather than carrying out a rote plan that they have been provided with.
The teacher is still serving as a source of support, redirection, and monitoring, but students are allowed to work relatively freely, exploring their ideas and carrying out their plans. Student teams create those plans, then check in independently at established check-in points, which gives teachers an opportunity to ask questions, evaluate, differentiate, and redirect each team or the entire class as they see fit.
Valuable in Any Culture
Students in refugee camps are more than capable of understanding and engaging with the inquiry model of science instruction, proving fancy equipment is totally unnecessary to teaching science and engineering skills.
Even in refugee camps, students can learn these skills, as shown in the photos above. These lessons were taught in Arabic, on a dirt floor, yet you can see students engaged in the exact same process as the middle school girls in the previous image. They are engaged in using their skills and knowledge and meeting challenges that extend a little past their skill level, truly learning in a next generation inquiry environment.
In any language, this kind of teaching requires students to plan, carry out those plans, form conclusions based on hypotheses or prototypes, engage claim evidence, and use technical writing. To do this, they have to have a sense of direction. They have to be determined. The upside is that with the appropriate challenge—even a challenge that somewhat exceeds their skill level—they can meet it with grit and determination.
That's why it's so important to get the right resources and to actually train people how to engage productively in risk-taking. This is crucial. An expectation without a way of meeting that expectation is just a path to frustration—and that's where leadership comes in. It's a higher order of leadership because it's creating, evaluating and analyzing the teaching and learning culture. By creating, evaluating and analyzing our teaching and learning environment, we can actually create a culture that develops those skills in our students. These new standards are the exact perfect context for that.
That's how we are going to be able to take the teaching and learning environment to the next level through things like 3D printing, adaptive apps, and so on. For most people, right now, that's too early. Your goal shouldn't be to hit that stretch goal, but instead to transform the way you teach so that it aligns with NGSS. Focus on why your school, your classroom and your instruction exists for science and engineering instruction. Build out from there, starting with the why, and then deciding on the what, the how, and the more granular details.


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We are celebrating the 100th day in school this week. In second grade, students and teachers came dressed as if they were 100 years old. They also brought 100 items from home to participate in some fun math and other educational activities. Each of our five second grade classes also had a goal to do 100 acts of service by the 100th day!


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8.555772 - ANCHIETA, J. de: Missa Sine Nomine (Capilla Peñaflorida)
Juan de Anchieta (1462-1523)
Missa Sine Nomine • Salve regina
The second son of Martín García de Anchieta and Urtayzaga de Loyola, who was a great-aunt of the future saint, Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, members of a leading family in the Basque country, Juan de Anchieta was born in 1462 near Azpeitia in Guipúzcoa in the Iraurgui valley. Although there is no information about his formative years, it is possible that he served as a chorister in the chapel of Henry IV of Castile and perhaps studied at Salamanca University, where Diego de Fermoselle, an elder brother of Juan del Encina, taught. In 1489 he was appointed as a singer in the Court Chapel of Queen Isabella the Catholic, with a salary of 20,000 maravedís, increased in 1493 to 30,000 maravedís. In 1495 he was appointed maestro di capilla to the Prince Don Juan. After the death of the Prince in 1497 he returned to the service of the Queen, to be rewarded with benefices at the cathedral of Granada and of Villarino, travelling with the court, as required. In 1503 he was appointed rector of San Sebastián de Soreasu, a position he held in absentia. After the death of Queen Isabella in 1504 he served her heir, Joanna the Mad. His position at court continued to involve a number of journeys, notably to Brussels in the service of Joanna the Mad and her husband Philip the Fair of Burgundy. His travel to Brussels was together with Pierre de la Rue, Alexander Agricola and Marbriano de Orto, singers in the Court Chapel. He spent the early months of 1506, from January to March, in England, where the royal fleet was detained, on the voyage back to Spain. At the beginning of 1509 he accompanied Queen Joanna to her refuge at Tordesillas, and remained with her until her abdication. Anchieta's salary under Queen Joanna between 1507 and 1516 was 45,000 maravedís. In 1518 he was made Abbot of Arbás, succeeded at San Sebastián de Soreasu by his nephew, who was murdered shortly afterwards. Earlier years had brought family conflict when he was assaulted by two of the Loyola brothers. In 1519, at the wish of the Emperor Charles V, whom he had presumably served as tutor, Anchieta retired, retaining his salary. He was allowed by papal dispensation to transfer his income from the benefice of Villarino to a Franciscan convent that he established in Azpeitia, where he spent the rest of his life and where he hoped to be buried, although, at his death in 1523, this did not happen.
Of Anchieta's compositions some thirty works survive, among them two complete Masses, two Magnificats, a Salve Regina, four attributed Passion settings, with other sacred works and four composition with Spanish texts. Anchieta was among the leading Spanish composers of sacred music of his time. His writing is largely designed for the ample resources of the court chapel of the Reyes Catholicos.
The composer Francisco de Peñalosa, whose Sancta mater istud agas, once attributed to Josquin, is included between the Credo and the Offertorium, was held in even higher esteem than Anchieta, praised by his near contemporary, Cristobal de Villalón, as better than Apollo, the inventor of music. He joined the royal chapel in 1498 and served as maestro di capilla to a grandson of King Ferdinand. With the death of the King in 1516 and the accession of Charles V, with his own capilla flamenca, he left the Spanish court, serving briefly in Seville at the cathedral. In 1517 he became a member of the papal chapel of Pope Leo X. On the latter's death in 1521 he returned to Seville, where he had intermittently held a disputed benefice in absentia over a number of years. He died there in 1528.
The organist Francisco Fernández Palero, whose glosa (elaboration) of a Josquin Kyrie is included, served as organist at the royal chapel in Granada for some forty years. He died there in 1597. Juan de Urreda, perhaps of Flemish origin as Johannes Wreede of Bruges, served the first Duke of Alba and is recorded in 1477 as Maestro di capilla to King Ferdinand V. His compositions had wide currency, in particular his hymn Pange lingua, making use of the traditional Spanish Mozarabic melody. Antonio de Cabezón, the blind organist and composer whose glosa on the Pange lingua is included, belongs to a slightly later generation. He was born about 1510 near Burgos and served as organist to the wife of Charles V, Queen Isabella, and then of Philip II. He died in Madrid in 1566.
Anchieta's Missa Sine nomine, also called the Missa quarti toni, is here presented together with motets and pieces relevant to the liturgy, with the intention of evoking the sound of a liturgical ceremony of the period of the composer. All the pieces are dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, In honorem Beatae Mariae Virginis. The well-known melody of L'homme armé is used by Anchieta in the third voice of the Agnus Dei, and partly in the Kyrie, Sanctus and Benedictus of the Mass, while the principal theme of the Gloria is from Mass XV of the Graduale Romanum. His Salve Regina alternates Gregorian chant and polyphony in ten sections.
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Although I have written more about the autism epidemic, another epidemic is occurring among our children, an asthma epidemic. About ten percent of the millions of asthmatic children around the world have severe therapy resistant asthma. These children live a tragic childhood of sickness, breathlessness, hospitalizations and fear that would break your heart to see.
On September 15, 2011, Dr. Atul Gupta and six colleagues from the Royal Brompton Hospital in London published a remarkable, first of its kind, paper on childhood asthma and vitamin D.
Gupta A, Sjoukes A, Richards D, Banya W, Hawrylowicz C, Bush A, Saglani S. Relationship Between Serum Vitamin D, Disease Severity and Airway Remodeling in Children with Asthma. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2011 Sep 15. [Epub ahead of print]
First, unlike autism, a number of papers exist on the subject of vitamin D and asthma and the authors review them. Dr. Gupta reminds us that previous studies show associations between low vitamin D levels and asthma control, severity, exacerbation, lower lung function, and response to treatment. Scientists have published enough papers on childhood asthma and vitamin D that one would think that doctors are routinely treating asthmatic children for their vitamin D deficiency but if you thought that, you would be wrong.
Like other scientists before him, the authors found vitamin D deficient asthmatic children are more likely to have lower lung function, poor asthma control, increased medication use and more frequent asthma attacks. Then Dr. Gupta took the next step by taking a tiny piece of lung from children with severe asthma, finding the vitamin D deficient children had more structural airway abnormalities than vitamin D sufficient children.
His conclusion is worth quoting,
"These findings suggest that detecting and treating low serum vitamin D levels in children with asthma may aid in treatment of specific structural airway changes."
That is, it might be time to treat vitamin D deficiency in asthmatic children.
Why aren't doctors treating these children with vitamin D if they are deficient? First, the pulmonologists (lung doctors) are too overwhelmed with the epidemic to read the scientific literature. Second, only one very small randomized controlled trial exists on asthma, but it found a dramatic reduction in hospitalizations in the children given vitamin D. Therefore, scientists say we need more studies before we act.
The problem with this argument is that the scientists saying this do not treat patients, with rare exceptions. They are scientists practicing science, not physicians treating patients. Doctors treating patients have always had to act on new scientific information based on what science knows now by doing a risk benefit analysis. You make such an analysis every time you get into your car. The small risk of an auto accident is worth the benefit of going to the movie.
The same is true of vitamin D and childhood asthma. The huge potential benefit is worth the tiny risk of taking vitamin D. Actually, as far as I know, the risk of treating vitamin D deficiency is close to zero. The dose for children is simple.
- Under 25 pounds: 1,000 IU/day
- 25-50 pounds: 2,000 IU/day
- 50-75 pounds: 3,000 IU/day
- 75-100 pounds: 4,000 IU/day
- over 100 pounds: 5,000 IU/day.
If you have or know of asthmatic children, the parents can easily do this on their own without a blood test. With these doses, it is impossible for any child to be toxic although I understand the reasons patients and doctors want to test vitamin D levels.
Just think, millions of children around the world, living a childhood of desperation because the dermatologists won the argument about sun exposure.


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SYAFRIL, SOFYAN (2009) TINJAUAN YURIDIS TERHADAP PUTUSAN KASASI MAHKAMAH AGUNG NOMOR 31/SAL.KEP./2005 DALAM KASUS PELANGGARAN HAKCIPTA PROPOSAL DESKRIPSI TEKNIKAL PENGGANTIAN KATALIS DIKILANG PERTAMINA UPVIBALONGAN. Other thesis, University of Muhammadiyah Malang.
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The problem of copyright has significant relation with the business world. Therefore, it's not surprising if those business leaders would give out lots of fund to do research and development from results that already exist. The objectives of those research is to found out what is actually needed by the society, or done a technology-based research, with expectation that someday it could be sold into the market. Copyright Law Number 19 Year 2002 (UUHC) has given warranty using legal protection for creators and relevant copyright holder to use, to copy and to sell the creation product, but UUHC is not explicitly suggest a proposal as a protected subject, though writing a technical proposal need creativity and reasioning. Based on brief explanation above, the writer has taken interest in observing juridical review toward Supreme Court decision in copyright violation case of technical description of catalyst substitution proposal in Pertamina's Petroleum Mill UP-VI Balongan. In this kind of situation, creativity is highly demanded from those business those business actors, inventors and creators which give rise to creation product in which having value to be sold. Those creation products has both economical values and juridical implication. Legal relation meant is right embedded in the creation product for stakeholder, wheather it is moral right and economical right. Type of this experiment is normative legal research, a legal written form which contains testing, reviewing, analyzing, comparing or synchronizing laws/norms of legislation. It's data collection technique is using primary data in the form of derivatives data of supreme court (MA) decision and UUHC, secondary data use is literatures/supporting books and tertiary data in use is articles from mass media and internet.
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Largo Winch
|Largo Winch
The first book in the series, The Heir
|Created by
|Philippe Francq
Jean Van Hamme
|Publication information
|Dupuis (French)
Cinebook (English)
|Original material for the series has been published as a set of graphic novels.
|Original language
|Main character(s)
|Largo Winch
Nerio Winch
John D. Sullivan
Dwight E. Cochrane
Simon Ovronnaz
|The series has been reprinted, at least in part, in Danish, Dutch, English, German, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and Serbian.
Largo Winch is a Belgian comic book series by Philippe Francq and Jean Van Hamme, published by Dupuis. It started as a series of novels by Van Hamme in the late 1970s, but stopped due to a lack of success and the huge amount of work Van Hamme had in the meantime with his comic books (e.g. Thorgal). When artist Philippe Francq wanted to start a series with Van Hamme, he revived his old hero, and reworked the novels into the first albums of the comic book series. Later, more stories followed.
The main character is Largo Winch; birth name Largo Winczlav, who was born in Yugoslavia.[1] Other important characters include Nerio Winch (his adoptive father, though they share a great-grandparent), senior Group W executives John D. Sullivan and Dwight E. Cochrane, and his friend Simon Ovronnaz. In the first two volumes of the series, L'héritier and Le Groupe W, Largo, a young and handsome orphan, is propelled to the head of a business empire, Group W, after his adoptive father Nerio is murdered, and goes through a lot of troubles to preserve his inheritance and avenge Nerio. The following albums are more or less based on the same basic plot: someone is trying to harm Largo's company or to take control of it from him, and he has to fight that someone to ensure the survival of his holdings. Almost every story arc involves corrupt authority figures of a type which Nerio easily manipulated, but Largo confronts from the viewpoint of an "everyman".
All the stories of the series are published in two volumes, the first one being the one putting Largo in an impossible situation, and the second one letting him get out of it. In addition, both volumes share the same background color on the cover. The stories appear originally in French, and have been translated into various languages, including Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, German, Polish, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Italian and Tamil. The series is among the most popular comics series in French, with annual sales of nearly 500,000 copies.[2]
The birth of the character came in 1973, while Van Hamme was having lunch in New York City with Greg, chief editor of Tintin. The magazine sought to expand to the American market and Van Hamme was tasked with creating the comic character and genre interesting for an American audience. He thus opted for a business-thriller idea about a young mysterious billionaire, which would allow him to demonstrate his knowledge of economics. John Prentice, noted for his work on Rip Kirby, was chosen as the artist, and he drew a couple of boards before withdrawing from the project that was soon abandoned. Van Hamme first revived the character in form of an airport novel in 1978, encouraged by the huge popularity of Gérard de Villiers' SAS novels. The series lasted through 1985 when it came to a halt again. Finally, in 1990, being approached by Francq, Van Hamme used the character yet again in comic form, and it had instant success.[3]
- L'Héritier
- Le Groupe W
- Business Blues
- Dutch Connection
- La Forteresse De Makiling
- L'Heure du Tigre
- Voir Venise...
- ...Et mourir
- Golden Gate
- Shadow
- Le Prix de l'Argent
- La Loi du Dollar
- Les Trois Yeux des Gardiens du Tao
- La Voie et la Vertu
- Mer Noire
- Colère Rouge
- Chassé-Croisé
- 20 Secondes
- L'Étoile du Matin
In English[edit]
The volumes have been translated into English and published by Cinebook[4] in a censored form. The following volumes have been released to date:
- The Heir (includes The W Group)
- Takeover Bid (includes Business Blues)
- Dutch Connection (includes H)
- The Hour of the Tiger (includes Fort Makiling)
- See Venice...
- ...And Die
- Golden Gate
- Shadow
- The Price of Money
- The Law of the Dollar
- The Three Eyes Of The Tao Guardians
- The Way and the Virtue
- Cold Black Sea
- Red Hot Wrath
- Crossing Paths
- 20 Seconds
- Morning Star
In other media[edit]
An English-language TV series loosely based on the comics was launched in 2001 and lasted two seasons, starring Paolo Seganti as Largo Winch and Diego Walraff as Simon Ovronnaz. It aired in France on M6 and in Canada on Showcase Television as Largo. The complete series is available on DVD in France, with the episodes however only in dubbed French.
A film, written and directed by Jérôme Salle and starring Tomer Sisley as Largo Winch, was released in France on December 17, 2008, loosely adapting the first two issues with elements of the next two.
A sequel, also by Salle, was released in 2011. Not adapting a particular storyline, it drew inspiration from the events of the fifth and six issues to create a new story. A third film is in the works, based on issues 13 and 14, without the involvement of Salle and Sisley but with a screenplay by series creator Jean Van Hamme himself, who'd been critical of the past films, and of Salle in particular.
A documentary, "Largo", directed by Yves Legrain-Crist with Jean Van Hamme and Philippe Francq, was released in France in Autumn 2007. This film shows two authors are searching for the answer to the question: "How is a comic book created?" It is available, with English subtitles, directly from the producers through VOD [5][6]
Video game[edit]
|Largo Winch: Empire Under Threat
PC cover art
|Ubi Soft
|Jean Van Hamme
Philippe Francq
|Largo Winch
|Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Windows
|PlayStation 2 & Windows
|Single-player, multiplayer
Largo Winch: Empire Under Threat is an action-adventure video game released in 2002 by Dupuis only in Europe. It is a puzzle-based third-person adventure game with Largo himself as the playable character. The plot of the game follows the usual scenario of Largo Winch stories, with his business empire under threat as he fights to save it, with location in New York - Veracruz, Mexico - Russia, Siberia - Sardinia - and Nerio's Island Sarjevane, Adriatic Sea.
See also[edit]
- ^ First album in the series, "L'Héritier" (1990).
- ^ "Bilan 2008" (in French). ACBD. 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-02-16. Retrieved 2009-03-19.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
- ^ http://milady-le-blog.fantasyblog.fr/2008/10/10/jean-van-hamme-raconte-largo-winch/
- ^ Largo Winch at Cinebook
- ^ [1]
- ^ "Largowinch-ledoc". Largowinch-ledoc. Archived from the original on 2010-08-08. Retrieved 2010-10-02.
External links[edit]
- Official website (in French)
- English publisher of Largo Winch - Cinebook Ltd
- (in French), (in English) Largo Winch 2 official fansite
- Dupuis titles
- Action-adventure comics
- Fictional characters introduced in 1978
- Belgian comic strips
- 1990 comics debuts
- Comics characters introduced in 1990
- Fictional businesspeople
- Belgian comics characters
- Fictional Yugoslav people
- Male characters in comics
- 2002 video games
- Action comics
- Adventure comics
- Adult comics
- Crime comics
- Drama comics
- Action-adventure games
- Franco-Belgian comics
- Comics based on novels
- Belgian comics adapted into films
- Comics adapted into television series
- Comics adapted into video games
- Europe-exclusive video games
- GameCube games
- Novels adapted into comics
- PlayStation 2 games
- Ubisoft games
- Video games based on comics
- Video games featuring female antagonists
- Windows games
- Xbox games
- Comics by Jean Van Hamme


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McClary has Mallard Creek girls track and field buying into team concept.
Including track and field, football, and baseball, Londell McClary has coached middle school and high school sports for more than 30 years. When it comes to track and field, he understands that it is primarily a sport of individual efforts.
Still, McClary coaches his athletes to buy into a team concept, even when concentrating on personal results. In his first season back as Mallard Creek High's girls coach, McClary has stressed the importance of being a good teammate more than anything else.
On May 10, the Mavericks finished third at the 4A West Regional at Providence High.
Mallard Creek's girls' team entered 4A state championship meet May 16-17 hoping to improve on last year's eighth place finish.
"There are some kinks to work out," said McClary. "But most of it is getting the girls to understand what kind of coach I am and what my expectations are. I'm a team-first guy. I try to get them to understand that it's an individual sport, but if everyone works hard it means success for the whole team."
McClary coached the Vance girls' track team to much success in the late 1990s and early 2000s before he transferred to Mallard Creek when it opened in 2007. The Cougars' Tracy Prohoniak won a state championship in the pole vault under McClary's guidance and so did his 400-meter relay team in 2004.
"The thing I had at Vance, the program was so secure, it kind of ran itself," said McClary. "They really enjoyed each other and they enjoyed track. That's what I'm trying to get the kids at Mallard Creek to feel."
McClary served as the Mavericks' girls head coach in 2008 and 2009. He retired from teaching but continued to serve as an assistant coach for both track and field, and football.
When girls' track and field coach Nick Leeson left Mallard Creek for a job in Fayetteville, McClary told athletic director Karen McKaig that he would take over if she couldn't find another coach.
McKaig told McClary in the fall of 2013 that he would coach the girls outdoor team. McClary also helped assistant coach Antoine Sanders with the boys' and girls' indoor teams this year once the Mallard Creek's state football championship season ended in December.
Despite having just nine athletes, the girls' team finished seventh at the indoor state meet. Sophomore Alycia Springs was the shot put state champion.
More than 70 athletes signed up for the outdoor track season. McClary says he doesn't cut athletes from the team because he feels that everyone has potential if they find the right event.
The outdoor team returned many of the same athletes that helped Mallard Creek win a conference championship and finish second at regionals last year. Gabriele Cunningham, now a junior, was named the regional MVP in 2013.
"As far as a team, we all work together," said Mictasha Mickle, a senior sprinter. "If we get dehydrated, (a teammate) is bringing us water. People pat us on the back and help us off the ground. When we're at big meets you can hear our team cheering for us."
At last week's regional meet, Cunningham won the 100-meter hurdles and the 200-meter dash. Springs won the shot put and finished second in the discus.
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DPP To Move Sex Case Involving Pastor Rupert Clarke To Be Tried In Kingston
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Director of Public Prosecution Paula Llewellyn says steps are being taken to request the transfer of the case involving a pastor from St Elizabeth to Kingston, in the interest of fairness.
64-year-old Pastor Rupert Clarke of the Nazareth Moravian Church is charged with having sex with a female under the age of consent.
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We combine high aspirations with a care for individual students. Our students are happy and confident individuals, who enjoy good relationships with their fellow students and the staff. We are a friendly, orderly school with a well-earned reputation for academic, sporting and personal achievement. In this environment students are given every chance to grow and achieve success.
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"Once those 10 pounds are off my body, THEN I'll love myself."
"I need to get that promotion to prove how valuable I really am."
"I really need a lazy afternoon, but I have so much to do I can't justify a few hours off."
Have you ever caught yourself saying anything similar to the above statements? I definitely have. Far too often.
We live in a world that constantly tells us we aren't enough.
We aren't pretty enough.
We aren't skinny enough.
We aren't smart enough.
We aren't productive enough.
Sometimes these messages are subliminal, causing us to think these things without directly telling us we suck.
But other times, the message is clear: who you currently are is not good enough, but if you buy product ABC or adopt tactic XYZ, THEN you might have a chance at reaching that elusive level of "good enough".
Growing up, I had the same body image issues most young girls have. "Fat" was a word we threw around towards girls we didn't like. And from spending much of my childhood in dance and figure skating costumes, I was always very aware of how my body looked compared to other girls'.
Up until a few years ago, I found myself choosing foods and workouts based solely on how I thought they would make me look. This was easy with the abundance of "Top Flat Belly Foods!" and "6 Moves for Slimmer Thighs" articles.
Thankfully, my relationship with my body has dramatically improved. But I still find myself falling into the trap of not enough-ness.
Not productive enough. Not creative enough. Not #BossBabe enough.
Again, adopting these beliefs is not challenging. In the business world, the Hustle Harder movement is stronger than ever, and it seems like every time I open my computer I'm getting an email about how I can accomplish EVEN MOAR.
So how in the actual fuck do we learn to accept ourselves in a world that's constantly telling us to feel otherwise, let alone love ourselves?
As corny as this sounds, it starts with learning who you really are.
Not the labels you hold, like "wife", "mom", "teacher", "student", etc. The real You. The crazy, fun, loud-but-sometimes-quiet, thoughtful you.
The You beneath the layers you've accumulated over the years.
The You that was put here on this planet for no other reason than to simply be.
Because when you start to learn who you really are at your core, you discover what makes you unique. Awesome, even.
And you begin to learn that your worthiness isn't based on how you look or how much output you produce.
It's based on the fact that you made it out of millions of tiny sperm, and that you're living here on a giant rock floating through space, and that those two things alone make you deserving of love, happiness, and acceptance.
When you begin to learn who you really are, you develop a sureness about yourself. An understanding that you aren't perfect and you've got some messy spots, but overall you're doing the best you can with what you've got.
And it's that sureness that allows you to look at those Flat Tummy Tricks and Get More Meaningless Shit Done articles and think "nope, not for me."
So the question is – how do you begin the daunting task of learning who you really are? It can be overwhelming, exciting, and scary, all at once.
One of my absolute favourite starting points is journaling. It doesn't have to be a "Dear Diary…" situation. Simply writing down 5 things you're grateful for each morning can begin to give you insight into what you truly find meaningful.
Writing "Where am I currently at?" at the top of a page opens the opportunity for you to share your mood, your frustrations, things you're excited about, and things you're feeling apprehensive about in a safe and non-judgmental space.
Spending time alone can be equally powerful. And while I know that can be a scary thought for extroverts, it doesn't mean you have to spend an entire weekend alone in a secluded cabin 😉
Take yourself on a date! Go out for lunch. Go to the spa. Go on a solo hike (just make sure you're safe and people know where you are!). Even sitting in silence for 10 minutes, free of distractions and drinking in your surroundings, can help you become more connected with the real you.
In a world that promotes changing every single little thing about you, your appearance, and your behaviours, please know that you are allowed to accept yourself. Love yourself, even.
But it's up to you to make the first move.
This is AWESOME! I totally agree, I catch myself thinking more about how I look than how I feel and what I can do way too much. I just finished writing a V-day post with a part about how self love is the most important kind of love!
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March 5th, 2010
Taylor Swift is not so 'Fearless'
Country and pop music juggernaut Taylor Swift opens up to Elle magazine for the latest issue, and it turns out the "Fearless" songbird still has her fair share of anxiety.
Just three days from her 20th birthday when she sat down for the interview, Swift told the fashion magazine that while she's "had countless opportunities to do some really bad things" by hanging out with the wrong crowd, she's avoided those pitfalls.
Thus far, her biggest mistake has been forgetting to write diary entries while rehearsing for "Saturday Night Live," a clean record likely fueled by her biggest fear: "me making a bunch of bad decisions and embarking on a painful, slow, devastating tailspin."
For all of her reason and maturity – Swift has no manager, as she and her team are confident she can steer her own career – the singer/songwriter still retains the innocence that comes with being just out of one's teens.
Swift's upcoming greeting card line will feature lots of glitter and kittens, she promises, and her top three hotties are right out of J-14: John Mayer, Carter Jenkins and Taylor Lautner - and you probably knew the last one already.
Pick up the April issue of Elle to read the full interview.
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through the lens of david agbodji, paolo roldan of boss models appears for canadian publication, the block. shot for the pages of the publications fall/winter issue, styling for the spread was done by james worthington demolet. raw edge & analyzed angles of style are seen through the work of agbodji, whom you know as one of fashion's biggest male models of the current time. as a greatly developed photographer, im happy to see more of his work being published in fashion mags & am eagerly anticipating the relaunch of his photography site, heart of bull studio. while the images seen here showcase roldan as gritty & ruggedly masculine, this is but a mere glimpse into the artistic capabilities of agbodji. im telling you now, don't just track him on your model radar, set him on you creative clock. it's only a matter of time, david agbodji is that dude- don't sleep.


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The Obama administration's recent move opening up a vast area of the Atlantic Ocean to our south to oil and gas drilling comes at a curious time.
Right now there's so much of the stuff being produced in the U.S. that the industry can't find places to store it. Add to that the fact that gasoline is at the lowest price in years, and the initiative comes despite the impacts along the Gulf of Mexico, still being felt from the massive 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (more…)


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The Futaleufú watershed faces a number of serious threats and challenges to its ecological and environmental health. As infrastructure in the region continues to improve and largescale operations become more economically viable, corporate interests are targeting the watershed as a place where they can reap enormous profits without having to account for environmental externalities or engage in fair dealings with the community. The Futaleufú Riverkeeper was created to put a stop to harmful projects and reassert the rights of communities to protect their watershed and preserve it for use by future generations.
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Nintendo Entertainment System Games Starting with Aa to Ba
The year is 1942. You pilot a fighter launched from an aircraft carrier and then fly your plane into battle against the enemy over both sea and land. Numerous planes come at you in formation in much the same was as Galaxian.After destroying certain plane formations you can collect several different power ups to increase your fire power and chances of survival.
The is the sequel to the arcade smash 1942. Once again, you must fight through the clouds during the second world war. The battle takes place just off the coast of the Midway islands.New features include an energy bar that can be run down by being hit from incoming fire or using a special weapon. The energy bar can be replenished by picking up power-ups. Special weapons include lightning, cyclones and waves.
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Escape from Freddy Krueger, find his house, Save your friends and battle him all in a top down view and game play style that is reminiscent of Gauntlet. Pick up and use various Items and weapons in your journey to defeat the Maniac that is haunting everyone's dreams.By the way, don't fall asleep while playing the game.
Adventure Island
In the South Pacific, Master Higgins lives peacefully wearing only a grass skirt and a cap. Peacefully that is until the Evil Witch Doctor decides to capture the Princess Leilani. Rescue Master Higgins in this fast game of throwing axes, fireball. Also make use of the skateboard for getting around.
Adventures of Lolo
Princess Lala was kidnapped by the Evil Demons of the Empire. As Lolo, your mission is to sneak into the empire castle and to liberate the princess.Each level is a castle room and in each room there are hearts you must collect. However, there are plenty of enemies to get in your way and make life difficult. Once you collect all the hearts, a treasure chest will open and activate all the creatures in the room, even those who were not hostile until now.
Adventures of Lolo 3
Unlike the two previous Lolo games, here you can wander around a world map and enter different locations in a non-linear fashion. Not all locations are available though. You must reach a certain point in the game to open all locations.The game play is very similar to the one of the two previous games. Collect the hearts in each room. Watch out for enemies as they will slow your progress and add more of a challenge to your quest.
Adventures of Lolo II
A sequel to The Adventures of Lolo. Once again, you have to rescue the princess from the evil demons, who kidnapped her and imprisoned her in a high tower. Solve puzzles to proceed from room to room. Push tiles, eat hearts, turn green dragons into white balls, and protect yourself from enemies firing at you and chasing you all over the room.
After Burner
Afterburner was a very popular Arcade game that was quickly release to multiple game consoles and home computers of the late 1980s.
After Burner II
Get on the F-14 Tomcat and fly mission after mission of shooting planes out of the sky. At your disposal is a vulcan fire and a limited number of missiles.Faithful arcade to genesis conversion.
Alfred Chicken
As Alfred the chicken, you must rescue your friends and his bird Floella from the Meka Chickens. The result is a platform game across differently-themed levels that are finished by either climbing to the top of the level or killing a boss. Alfred cannot fly, but he can use ramps to jump up and hit enemies with his bionic beak, which kills them, but any other contact will hurt Alfred. Watch out for spiked snails and other enemies include whales armed with guns and stray bombs.
Alien Syndrome
You must rescue all the captives and make it to the escape hatch before the time bomb explodes. Then face the mother alien at the end of the level.You can play single player or two people at the same time.
Altered Beast
You have been raised from the dead by the god Zeus to rescue his daughter Athena. You have to fight hordes of demons, with a boss at the end of each level until you meet the god Neff who holds the girl captive.Use your shapeshifting abilities to defeat your foes. In order to shapshift, collect spirit balls by defeating two-headed wolves, allowing you to mutate into different beasts such as a werewolf, a dragon, a tiger, a bear and others depending on the version.
Archon: The Light and the Dark
This is a strategic board game with some similarities to chess. Two sides, a light one and a dark one, consisting of 18 pieces each compete on a board divided into 9 by 9 squares. The game is won by having one of your units on each of the five powerpoint squares or by removing all your opponents pieces.When two pieces clash, the outcome is decided in the battle arena during one-on-one real-time combat.
Arkanoid is based off the original breakout that is based off of Pong. Arkanoid became a huge hit during the 1980s. The game's plot really does not fit very well, but that does not matter. The game stands on its own.Along with the ball bouncing around the screen, hitting the bricks would also cause options to fall that included, but not limited to, longer paddle, laser ball, three balls, catch, free ball, etc.
Arkanoid 2: Revenge of Doh
Arkanoid is based off the original breakout that is based off of Pong. Arkanoid became a huge hit during the 1980s. The game's plot really does not fit very well, but that does not matter. The game stands on its own.Along with the ball bouncing around the screen, hitting the bricks would also cause options to fall that included, but not limited to, longer paddle, laser ball, three balls, catch, free ball, etc.
Bad Dudes
Game play involves beating the living daylights out of many enemies to complete the level. Once the level is complete, you move on to the level's boss.
Bad Street Brawler
Bad Street Brawler is another fighting game. You play the role of an unproportionally large man with huge arms and legs, who goes about wiping the streets with scumbags.Survive ten levels of super-ridiculous moves and punches, kicking the crap out of everyone and everything you see and you win.
Ballblazer is a one-on-one soccer match set in the distant future. You are a robot trying to snare a floating ball called a plasmorb. Once snared, fired the plasmorb into your opponent's goal. You play on a simple 3d playfield which is split in half. You can play against the computer or against another robot controlled by a human player.
Bandit Kings of Ancient China
In the 12th century, the Emperor Hui Zhong is faced with an internal rebellion led by Imperial Minister Gao Qiu. The Song Dynasty came to an end and Gao Qiu became the new ruler. You play the role of the exiled ruler. Your mission is to build your stats up to be able to challenge and of course, destroy Gao Qiu in order to restore Hui Zhong to the throne.


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Earlier this year, we shared the good news that the California Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics chapter removed McDonald's as a gold sponsor this year (while a great development, several other state-level AND chapters still have the fast food giant as a sponsor).
Earlier this week, Bettina Elias Siegel of The Lunch Tray uncovered McDonald's latest groan-worthy tactic: a McDonald's infomercial — disguised as a documentary — titled "540 Meals," targeted to middle and high school students (update: since Elias Siegel's post was published, the "540 Meals" trailer has been taken down).
- "540 Meals: Choices Make the Difference documents an experiment conducted in 2013-14 by John Cisna, an Iowa high school science teacher, who sought to discredit Super Size Me by eating nothing but McDonald's for 90 days and losing weight in the process. He says in the film that "this was all generated by the kids [his students]," but he admits in his self-published book, My McDonald's Diet: How I Lost 37 Pounds in 90 Days and Became a Viral Media Sensation, that he actually hatched the plan himself after eating dinner with a friend (who happens to be a McDonald's franchisee)."
- "Whatever the pedagogical purpose of the experiment, Cisna seems to have understood from the outset that his story would be catnip to both news outlets and McDonald's. His franchisee friend supplied all of his McDonald's food for free, and Cisna filmed his own amateur documentary about the experience which he posted on YouTube as: "Manages To Lose Weight And Lower Cholesterol With 90-DAY MC DONALD'S DIET."
- "McDonald's has since officially retained Cisna as its paid brand ambassador and he now travels around the country to promote the fast food chain to middle and high schoolers, as well as dietetic students."
- "McDonald's has created an official Teachers Discussion Guide for use with the film, at least half of which is devoted to discrediting Super Size Me. The corporation also prepared a form letter to be sent out to schools by registered dietitians acting as paid McDonald's "Nutrition Consultants."
- "During the 90-day experiment, Cisna refers to McDonald's as his "grocery store," implying that it offers a wide array of healthful foods, and he tells viewers frequently that his students were consistently tracking 15 nutrients. But 540 Meals never informs students that Cisna's regimen was a far cry from the generally accepted definition of a healthful diet, i.e., one rich in whole grains and containing five to nine daily servings of fruits and vegetables. (French fries don't count.)"
- "Finally, of course, there's the troubling prospect of aggressive McDonald's brand promotion infiltrating middle and high schools under the guise of "health education." Branding expert Abe Sauer, the only other person to have written about 540 Meals to date, summed it up well: "[It sounds] suspiciously like McDonald's is looking for an edu-washed marketing campaign to get its brand in front of impressionable young minds with a tacit endorsement from authority figures."
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News roundup, "Zodiac" and short Americans are in Aug. 13's News from the Web
The big local story from yesterday on local Web sites is the fire that temporarily shut down part of Highway 55.
Click here to watch video from KIVI Channel 6.
Then click here to browse the Idaho Statesman's in-depth fire coverage.
Also, the death of entertainment mogul Merv Griffin on Sunday is making headlines this morning. Click here for the full story.
Oh, yeah, and Karl Rove is leaving the White House.
Any thoughts about this latest political development?
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In much older news, I watched "Zodiac" on DVD over the weekend, which tells one heckuva story about good reporting.
The movie is based on Robert Graysmith's book about the unsolved Zodiac killings in California in the late '60s and early '70s.
Graysmith, a cartoonist for the San Francisco Chronicle, got obsessed with the story and then exhibited the kind of dogged reporting skills we journalists all admire.
It's a great movie and a good example of persistence.
(And it's one of the best reviewed movies of the year to date).
Finally, here's a story from the Washington Post reporting on a study showing that Europeans both literally and figuratively look down on Americans.
Okay, so the study doesn't prove Europeans are snobs.
It does, however, show that Americans, who were long the tallest population in the world, are now behind the Dutch and folks in other European countries.
Researches don't have a concrete reason for American's fall in stature, but speculate that the lack of universal healthcare and a steady diet of Cheetos and soda fed to our young might be contributing.
Although since the Dutch are among the tallest in the world, perhaps height has something to do with tulips and a thriving red light district.
There appears to be as much hard evidence supporting that theory as there is for anything else.


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we don't know how old angie is exactly. when we adopted her some people thought she was a little under a year, some thought a little over, so we decided the day we took her home would serve as her birthday. this year on august 2nd we celebrated her 2nd birthday and 1st anniversary of her adoption!
normally she doesn't get treats like this, but we figured that this was an occasion. i whipped up this mild, light cupcake that is dog-friendly because it is free of salt, sugar and oil. it is a whole wheat peanut butter and carrot cake with just a touch of honey for sweetness and applesauce rather than oil. there is nothing dog-foody about it, just a little more dense and less sweet than a regular cupcake, like a muffin. i even tried one myself and it wasn't all that bad.
to decorate, i topped it with some plain greek yogurt (which angie gets sometimes at night to help settle her stomach) plus carrot shreds and one of her favorite little chicken-flavored treats. she just went just crazy for it, trying to eat it all at once. i got so worried she might choke on it that i helped her take little bites. the other pupcakes were shared with her doggy friends who all eagerly gobbled them up as well. make these for the dogs you love!
1/2 c whole wheat flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
2 tbsp peanut butter
2 tbsp applesauce
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
2 tbsp honey
1 egg
1 tbsp water
1/2 c shredded carrot
plain greek yogurt
carrot shreds
dog treats
preheat the oven to 350F
shred your carrot first. one medium-sized carrot should give you a bit more than the 1/2 cup you need for the recipe so you have some left over for decorating.
mix together the flour and baking powder, then add in the peanut butter, apple sauce, vanilla, honey, egg and water, and mix in evenly. add the carrot shreds last and loosely fold in, the texture should be slightly liquidy but still fairly thick.
fill 5-6 cupcake liners about 2/3rds full of batter and bake for 15-20 minutes (or until a toothpick comes out of the middle clean.) let cool thoroughly before serving to any pups, you can even make them ahead of time since, let's face it, dogs don't really care if food is stale. and make sure to remove the paper liner before they really dig in.
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The Grateful Deadheader
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This year got off to an inauspicious start for my roses. All in all, though, it wasn't a bad year. I am a relative newcomer to roses, and there is only a modest selection in my garden. Even so, I'm very fond of… Read More
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The Flowers of Mid-June
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Directing an Experience
I'm interested in architectural forms because of the weight they carry in our lives. on the most basic level they provide us with a safe place to rest and think but they also determine the way we interact with each other and create a frame for the outside world. Arranging the pieces of a structure is infinite and those arrangements make us who we are.
While working through projects I have come to consider the different pieces of a structure, how these parts are arranged and what they represent. A window is a way of directing a persons gaze towards a view or an idea I want to share. I use Furniture to influence interaction with a space an art work or another person. The roof and walls encourage privacy, intimacy and inwardness. lighting draws the gaze.
In a museum a bench is placed in front of a painting. It is a visual cue telling the person to stop and sit this distance from the artwork. The bench may be just as important as the painting in evoking an experience. This gesture was the starting point for my current work. Typically a painter makes a painting for a structure but why not make a structure for a painting.
The objective in my work is using structures to direct an experience . Sometimes I'm directing an experience for my self like with my mobile structures and dwellings and other times Im directing an experience for an audience.
My work is project based, for an exhibit I come up with a vision for the the whole show and then build the elements as one piece, which means as a painter the paintings and then the structure that holds the paintings. If I'm building a mobile structure or dwelling its designed around an experience I plan to have, a trip I will take or time I will spend in a structure.
MFA, Bard College, 2008
BFA, California College of the Arts, 2004
Pairing 2, Chandran Gallery, San Francisco, ca
In Concert, Johansson Projects, San Francisco, CA
West Portal, Mollusk Surf Shop gallery, San francisco CA
With Edits, Triple Base Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Autonomous Zone, Triple Base Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Double Blind, Triple Base Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Switchback, Triple Base Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Point of Origin, Lauryn Taylor Gallery, Carmel, CA
In the Wake of a Comet, Kayo Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
Dreamhome, Needles and Pens, San Francisco, CA
When everything is clear This Ram will Be Me, Mama Buzz Caf, Oakland, CA
On Paper, Liminal Gallery, Oakland, CA
Recent Work by J Nelson, CCA North Gallery, Oakland, CA
Makeshift architecture, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas California
Architecture of Life, Berkeley Art Museum
Mollusk 10 year Anniversary Show, Mollusk Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Possible, Berkeley Art Museum
Inanimate Object, The Sacred Door Gallery, Venice, CA
The last wave, La Friche, Marseille, France
At the Edge, BerkeleyArt Museum
Group show, Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Voyagers, RVCA, San Francisco, CA
Sunset Circles, P.O.P Gallery, Los Angeles
WOTO, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM
Zero01 San Jose Biennial, San Jose, CA
Southern Exposure, San Francisco, ca
Hot and Cold Zine Final Release, Baer Ridgeway, San Francisco, CA
Mollusk, Space 15twenty, Los Angeles, CA
Drawn Together, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
White Noise, Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA
New Work from Recent California College of the Arts Arts Graduates, Curated by Larry Rinder, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
Biome, Link Art, San Francisco, CA
Happening, Milk Gallery, New York City, NY
On The Road Again, Beat Culture Bush Era, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
West Coast Windows, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
Mostly SF, New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA
Habitrail, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Bay Area Bazaar, Pulliam Defenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
Paper Awesome, Pigman Gallery. San Francisco, CA
Comfort, Mission17 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Art Show, Playspace Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Labyrinth, Lobot Gallery, Oakland, CA
Very Crucial Creations, Dalva, San Francisco, CA
Mimi Bar Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Anti Depressants, SF Gallery, CCA, San Francisco, CA
The Bend, Magnolia Gallery, Oakland, CA
Networks, CCA South Gallery, Oakland, CA
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La Friche 2013
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CCA News, Jay Nelson Carves Inner Space in Outer Sunset, Simon Hodgson, May 3 2011
Readymade Magazine, Cover, February/March 2011
Artcards, Jay Nelson at Triple Base, Joel Dean, February 5, 2011
San Francisco Chronicle, The Full Nelson at Triple Base, Kenneth Baker, January 2011
KQED Arts, Jay Nelson: With Edits, Sandra Silvoy, January 16, 2011
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Glance, JB Blunk Residency, Lindsey Westbrook, November 2010
Revolver, Artist Profile: Jay Nelson, August 17, 2010
Blue Magazine, Jay Nelson, 2009
San Francisco Chronicle, Kenneth Baker, September 2009
The New York Times Style Magazine, Bump on a Log, Carly Berwick, December 2008
The San Francisco Bay Guardian, Local Artist Feature, October 22-28, 2008
Flavorpill, Art: Pick of the Week, Isaac Amala, October 2008
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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - Drought conditions have posed a challenge but have not stopped Wyoming's ambitious cloud-seeding research project.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - Lawmakers are asking the U.S. Department of Interior to review whether companies are shortchanging federal and state governments out of millions of dollars in royalties on coal exported to foreign markets.
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The first baby of the new year was born on Thursday at Sheridan Memorial Hospital. Kellan William Erickson was born to Rita and Nick Erickson of Sheridan at 2:55 pm.
Little Kellan weighed 6 lbs., 12 oz. and is 18 inches long.
Operation Smile kicked off Friday at the RENEW Service Center in Sheridan with RENEW participants providing Sheridan Police Officers with stuffed toys that will be distributed to traumatized children. Sheridan Police Chief Richard Adriaens explains.
At their last meeting the Johnson County Healthcare Center's Board of Trustees discussed the management's response to the fiscal year 2012 audit that was completed earlier in the fall.
Buffalo's City Council discussed the proposed sewer rate increase at the first regular meeting of 2013 Wednesday night, but did not implement a rate increase just yet. The rate increase, the council decided, will move forward but will need to be presented as an Ordinance and have three readings before it can be implemented.
The Holiday Season has ended at Sheridan College in Johnson County, and the staff is now back in the office, taking registrations and preparing for Spring Semester.
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Churches all over the United States do great work: volunteering in underprivileged communities, donating to the poor or cleaning up neighborhoods. But some churches are just up to no good.
In a scathing profile of televangelists, John Oliver excoriated some of the most undeniably unethical church leaders from all over the country — Pastors who ask for money from people that don't have it, and then do their best to convince them their donation will reap financial gains when that never happens.
First, Oliver starts by discussing the scope of the problem.
There are 350,000 congregations in the U.S., all of them tax exempt. Among those congregations are some very, very rich pastors and church leaders. Kenneth Copeland, for instance, has a $17.5 million jet and a $6 million church owned lakefront mansion. Creflo Dollar found himself in the news again after pushing his congregation to donate money so he could get his own $65 million private luxury jet.
Even Robert Tilton, who was exposed decades ago, is still making money off of his television sermons and donations from congregants.
Mike Murdock got his plane, then bragged about it.
"I had enough money to buy a beautiful Cessna Citation jet, cash," Murdock told his congregation. "And since there is so much jealousy in this room tonight that I can feel over this... a few weeks later I bought another one worth three times what that one was, cash. Act happy over my blessing folks."
Kenneth Copeland and his wife were caught lying about how they use the plane.
"This is a preaching machine," Copeland said of his jet. That was until a local news group broke open the story that Copeland had been using the jet for ski trips and hunting trips all over the country.
But it gets crazier...
Take the story of Bonnie Parker...
She was a woman who listened to Kenneth Copeland's wife when encouraged to "sow the seed" of money by donating to the church and neglecting treatment for her cancer.
"Bonnie Parker gave thousands of dollars to the Copeland's church because she believed it was her best shot at curing cancer," Oliver summed up succinctly. While it sounds crazy to interpret "donate money and get God's good will" as "spend money on us you could spend on chemotherapy," Oliver explained why it actually isn't too far off from a fair interpretation; all you have to do is listen to one of Gloria Copeland's sermons.
"We know whats wrong with you, you've got cancer," Copeland says. "The bad news is we don't know what to do about it except give you some poison that will make you sicker... now which do you want to do? Do you want to do that or do you want to sit here on Saturday morning, hear the word of God and let faith come into your heart and be healed? Hallelujah!"
And the worst part is how easy this all is...
Because churches operate on a tax exempt basis, the money they take in from donations isn't even taxed. On top of that, the requirements to be designated as a church are incredibly loose. As a result, families like the Copelands end up living in homes like this:
But Oliver doesn't stop there.
In order to show just how easy this all was to execute, Oliver created his own church: Our Lady Of Perpetual Exemption. Though we're not sure what the money is for, we do know Oliver is already accepting donations. Check out the full expose in the video below:
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EEO-AGI Scotland Seminar Review : Dr. Joanne Nightingale : 16th Oct
Earth Observation and Spatial Analysis
What is National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and what sort of work do they undertake? We were fortunate enough to have Joanne Nightingale, Head of Earth Observation, give a fascinating seminar about what NPL does and projects she is involved with.
NPL is a world leading National Measurement Institute that aims to work towards the growing demand for high quality, robust measurements in all aspects in our lives. The uncertainty in measurement is important to consider because they want the most accurate measurement and as the saying goes "measure thrice, cut once." As a centre for carbon measurement, they support climate change research and a low carbon emission future.
Joanne explains about the department she works in (EO, Climate and Optical Group) and how they strive to provide traceability for all EU earth observation data products for calibration and algorithms applications. This group is working on projects such as Fidelity and Uncertainty in…
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Margo Lanagan. The Mulberry Boys. (The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2012)
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I've a fondness for Lanagan's stories, as they tend to a darkness and an exploration of the underbelly of fantasy/sf that other's tend to leave alone. And she doesn't disappoint here.
Margo Lanagan. The Miracle Aquilina. (The Years Best Science Fiction and Fantasy #5)
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Another strong fantasy from Lanagan with strong female characters.
Margo Lanagan. Ferryman. (The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Four)
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An achingly affecting story..
Rich Horton. The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009.
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A late arrival on my doorstep, and it's taken much longer to finish the review than I had hoped. Note to self : faster dude, faster!
Jonathan Strahan. The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year. Volume 3.
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A collection of excellent stories.
Margo Lanagan. The Fifth Star in the Southern Cross. (The Years Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2009).
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A dark, disturbing glimpse of a near future, which starts with an almost Eraserhead-ish grotesquery.
Extraordinary Engines : the definitive Steampunk Anthology, ed Nick Gevers pub Solaris 2008
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An excellent collection, with only a couple of weaker contributions. A couple are more fantasy than steampunk, but there is high quality writing throughout and a couple of stories that linger (Youmans, Lanagan and Lake) for some time.


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In addition to writing fics for the Foolish Words sequence, I've started one other Soulmark sequence of my own, the place I exploit lines from motion pictures in the Marvel Cinematic Universe for inspiration. A great article, albeit I tend to favor the original Historic Greek idea of soulmate. It's doable to stay detached and loving whereas exploring a relationship and knowing in your heart that you will be united along with your Soulmate even when this is not him.
You used to go out all night time with your pals however you haven't performed that since finding your soulmate. I have been with my life partner for 13 years and I feel that this text is revealing that my coronary heart may be seeking my soulmate.
These two signs understand one another on deep stage and work quite well collectively. There was one thing familiar, and each thought you had about learn how to discover your soulmate melted away if you noticed the comfort and safety of dwelling in their eyes.
Setiap jiwa kembar dapat terus kembali menjelma ke dalam dunia fisik berulang untuk mengumpulkan pengalaman manusia dan untuk menyeimbangkan karma dengan Soulmate atau pasangan jiwa sebelum menjadi kembali bersatu dengan kembaran jiwa mereka dalam masa hidup.
In fact, SoulMate has a meta dimension that elevates the movie nicely past commonplace tearjerkers. So, if I am 65% female and 35% masculine, then my soulmate or good companion needs to be 65% masculine and 35% female, which, he's! The solar signs of you and your match in query might provide insight into your compatibility!
Your soulmate will awaken that which has been submerged and carry your soul to the floor in love, compassion and harmony. Launch your feelings of being at a love deficit" perpetually, and faucet into the limitless supply of love within your self and the universe as a way to grow to be magnetic to romantic love together with your soulmate life-companion.
Feeling deeply worthy of receiving the love you want so you'll be able to type lasting bonds with your soulmate. Jenna unexpectedly ended the relationship with her boyfriend, and satirically, she met her soulmate only two months later. Among the many different indicators you have discovered your soulmate is that they challenge you to constantly enhance your self and the world round you.


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They really ought to just call this book Adventures of Superman or Superman: The Man of Steel or something because Superman/Wonder Woman is a complete misnomer. Since its inception it's been a Superman-centric book, run by the Superman editorial offices, and it's spent a significant portion of its tenure tied up in Superman events. Just like Action Comics is the book Lana Lang shows up in and Superman is the book with Lois Lane, Superman/Wonder Woman should be renamed and just be the Super-book that Wonder Woman is a frequent guest star in, because that's about all she does.
This opening rant is brought to you by the fact that we have a five page preview of Superman/Wonder Woman #20 in which Wonder Woman does not appear nor is she even mentioned. I'm sure she'll be somewhere in the full issue, but her complete lack of presence here underscores the second fiddle position she's had in this series since day one. It irks me.
Anyway, here's some Superman stuff in Superman/Wonder Woman #20, courtesy of The AV Club:
I feel like a crotchety old man saying this, but this isn't my Superman. He hasn't been my Superman since the New 52 relaunch four years ago. DC has somehow lost all of the qualities that make Superman super, and that's very disappointing. I think the only storyline that has captured the essence of Superman for me since the relaunch was the first arc of Greg Pak and Aaron Kuder's Action Comics. That arc was amazing. Everything else just doesn't feel like him, and this angry, t-shirt wearing, buzz cutted Superman is the incarnation furthest away from how I see the character.
Anyway, he's arguing with Steve Trevor in the Oval Office or whatever. All of his friends have been captured. I liked the Lois Lane panel, at least. That was fun. The rest was just tough dude posturing. It all could have used a little bit of Wonder Woman, really.
Superman/Wonder Woman #20 is available in stores and online this Wednesday! Here's my suggestion: Action Comics Volume 5: What Lies Beneath is the first volume of Greg Pak and Aaron Kuder's run, and the paperback is only $14.99. It's KILLER. Take a few months off of Superman/Wonder Woman while this dumb "Truth" storyline plods along and use the money you're saving to pick up that trade and just have yourself a fantastic time.