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2015 Melges 24 World Championship Reaches To 50 Entries
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17 October 2014 - Middelfart, Denmark. Already forty-seven teams from ten countries have registered to race at the Melges 24 World Championship 2015 while there are 255 days to go - 14 boats from the hosting country, 13 boats from Norway, 6 boats from Sweden, 5 boats from Germany, 2 boats from Estonia, Finland and Switzerland; US, Great Britain and the Netherlands are represented with one boat so far.
Melges 24 World Championship 2015 will take place from June 30 until July 5, hosted by Match Racing Denmark in co-operation with the Danish Melges 24 Class Association and International Melges 24 Class Association.
2015 title event has attracted top sailors!
To name only few:
Franco Rossini's Blu Moon SUI-825 with Flavio Favini in helm from Switzerland - 2014 World and European Champion; Tõnu Tõniste's team on Lenny EST-790 from Estonia - 2014 Corinthian European Champion; Peder Oyvind Jahre's team Storm Capital Sail Racing NOR-751 from Norway - 2012 Corinthian World Champion; and from far overseas Brucey Ayres' Monsoon USA-747, 2009 Corinthian World Champion.
View the current list of entries and make yours!
Melges 24 Danish fleet and Match Racing Denmark are happy to welcome everyone to this event to be held in the middle of Denmark on the island of Funen, in the Little Belt south of Middelfart Marina.
Besides superb racing area you can enjoy staying also in a wonderful castle, where the number of social events, including the opening ceremony will be held. Hindsgavl Castle is famous for its unique combination of being a classical castle and a modern hotel and will be converted to the clubhouse for the sailors during the World Championship. A special "Melges-24-Worlds-2015-Package" is available for the crews, their families, and officials while staying in Middelfart.
Surrounded by water and unique countryside, Middelfart is the perfect base for a holiday, a conference - and a Melges 24 event. To get the best accommodation deals for sailors, the organizers have been negotiating event prices with three hotels, which you'll find at Sailor's Lounge at the event website.
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Designer Rob Dobi just released Series 10 of his Fullbleed line and I have to admit that it doesn't disappoint. Dobi has a specific style, he does not rely on other artist for his brand, instead he relies on his own imagination and design skills to bring his concepts to life on T-Shirts. Fullbleed, which originally started as a side project of Dobi's, has now become his full-time job. It's easy to see why.
Series 10 consists of 10 new tees, a new hoodie and three silk-screened prints. It looks like nearly half of the T-Shirt line consists of prints on American Apparel Tri-Blend shirts. I'm a huge Tri-Blend fan so this is a welcome inclusion. The shirts are priced from $18-$20, with the hoodie priced at $40, and the prints $18.
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Arcade classic Dragon's Lair has its share of critics, but because it was so beautiful for the time, it's also got its share of fans. Enough for there to be a market for a very slick documentary.
Inside the Dragon's Lair is an upcoming documentary being put together by Sleepyeyed Films, who are looking to "give the audience an in-depth view of the extensive production process that created this revolutionary game".
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A Colombian breakfast How-2 guide
August 21, 2006 in breakfast, Colombian Food, cooking, deep fry, Food Porn, How-2, latino, pork, recipe
A Colombian breakfast is not just one thing, sort of like you might think a proper English fry up would be. I think that a Colombian breakfast can actually have many different possibilities limited only by the appetite, types of leftovers, and guided by the region of Colombia you are in/from.
This post discusses a breakfast that includes changua, arepas, pan de bono, and patacones. (I will talk about how to make each of those items below.) What you dont see is what you might have to drink with this meal. That could include aqua de panela, strong Colombian coffee, or even steaming hot chocolate. It could easily have been beans, rice, chicharrones, and fried eggs with a side of hogao. This breakfast is an amalgam of breakfasts I had as a kid at home and while on vacation in Bogota, Colombia.
This set of food may LOOK simple but it can take a while and lots of energy.
I would suggest starting with the Pan De Bono and I will cover that first.
Pan De Bono
Note: The translated ingredients and directions on the mix I show below are incorrect! I will give you the correct directions here in English.
- 1 box of Pan De Bono mix
- 3 cups grated fresh queso blanco (farmer's cheese – do not try to substitute this. Go to a latino market and get it fresh)
- 3 tablespoons melted butter
- 3 teaspoons sugar
- 1 cup milk
Grate the queso blanco with a fine grater. It is fragile and will crumble/grate easily. Do enough to equal 3 cups. Try to buy enough so that you can eat some slices of it later.
Pour the mix, grated cheese, milk, and butter and knead until it comes together into a smooth dough.
Pinch off small balls and then knead a bit more and then roll out into little snakes about 3.5 inches long and 1/2 inch thick. Gently pinch the snake into a little circle and bake at 450 F on parchment for about 15 minutes.
While baking these circles will puff up and then brown. Remove and cool. Enjoy!
Next you might want to fry up your patacones. I have covered that in a previous post called How-2 guide on how to make Platanos (fried plantains or tostones).
Next you might want to make you arepas.
Colombian Arepas
- 2 cups Masa Harina (very finely ground corn meal. Do NOT use regular corn meal. I talk more about what to use below)
- 3 cups BOILING water (MUST be boiling)
- 2 teaspoons salt
I suggest this brand of Masa Harina.
In a large bowl pour in 2 cups of harina, 2 teaspoons of salt and mix well. Add the 3 cups of boiling water and mix with a spoon. Before it cools much knead it with your hands. My grandmother starts kneading almost right away with her heat-tolerant asbestos hands! I cant do that so I let it cool a bit.Knead into a rubber not overly sticky ball. If its very sticky add more harina. I had to do that and feel that I need to work more on my technique!
Form the dough into little patties and then either grill or cook in a well seasoned cast iron pan. Its ok if the interior is a bit moist. These can burn easily and dry out easily. I like them toasty, adds nice flavor.
You can serve them with butter, slices of queso blanco, or even guava paste.
Here is a shot of a package of Guava Paste (super sweet).
Ok, now you have all the sides to the main part of the breakfast, Changua! This is a very rich concoction of milk and eggs that is quite filling and very welcome in the morning. My father ADORED changua and this dish reminds me so much of him that I actually feel sad when I think of it, make it, and eat it. I can still see him bending over a fresh bowl of changua, beaming with joy, inhaling the scent and blissing out on the flavor and the memories from Colombia. We lost my father in 1999 to brutal early onset Alzheimers Disease.
Colombian Changua
- 4 cups milk
- 4 or 6 eggs
- 1/4 cup diced onions (I used vidalias)
- 2 tablespoons butter
- Dash of cominos
- diced green onions, to taste
- diced cilantro, to taste
Melt butter in a large milk-boiling-friendly pot, add onions and cominos. Saute on low heat until golden brown.
Add 4 cups of milk and bring to a rolling simmer (do not boil so hard that it boils over, that only puts you in a bad mood).
Once up to the boiling simmer add eggs Allow to simmer for between 5 and 10 minutes (some people like the egg well cooked, others like it barely cooked at all).
Add diced green onions and cilantro to serving bowls and then ladle out servings that include eggs and plenty of broth.
Enjoy with all the sides you made all morning long and then collapse on the couch for a leisurely nap.
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- How-2 guide on how to make Platanos (fried plantains or tostones)
- Yucas Fritas (Fried Yucas or Cassava Root) Recipe and How 2 photos
- Empanadas – The Recipe
- Flash Flickr Movie of How to make Colombian Empanadas
- Chicharron – Deep fried pork belly – How To
- How to make Colombian Empanadas – directions
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Most of the time I buy raw banana/ vazhakkai, I make this raw banana dry curry, other than the simple vazhakkai poriyal. Vj loves it this way. Aj also eats silently, so I stick to this recipe. The curry is so flavourful, that I bet you would be wanting to eat it soon while you cook. The freshly ground masala is such a flavourful masala! It has the fine selected spices that even nullifies the gastric problem we usually get when we cook vazhakkai.I always wonder and appreciate how they incorporate the spices to balance all these in our cooking! Because the pepper,jeera,coriander seeds and mainly garlic does this job. This can be a perfect combo for more kuzhambu or even with any simple rasam. Again, this is a recipe I learnt from my MIL. We do even potato curry this way. I have already posted it.
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Prep Time: 10 mins | Cook time: 20 mins | Serves: 3
Onion - 1
Turmeric - 1/4 tsp
Salt - As needed
Coconut oil - 1 tsp
To temper
Mustard - 3/4 tsp
Urad dal - 1 tsp
Curry leaves - 1 sprig
To grind to a paste
Coriander seeds - 1 & 1/2 tblsp
pepper - 1& 1/2 tsp
Jeera - 1 tsp
Red chilli - 2
Garlic - 2
- Cut onion length wise, peel the skin of raw banana, slit length wise, slice them and keep immersed in water. Grind the ingredients under 'To grind to a paste' with little water to a little bit coarse paste.
- Season with mustard, urad dal and curry leaves and add onions to fry till transparent. Add the cur vazhakkai along with the ground masala, 1/4 cup water, salt and turmeric.
- Mix well and cook covered for 4 minutes in medium flame. When the water evaporates completely, then keep frying until the masala turns golden in colour. Say about 3-4 minutes in medium flame.Add 2 tsp oil while frying. Lastly add coconut oil and mix well.
- Use less water, otherwise curry may turn mushy.
- Use more oil towards the end as it helps to turn the curry golden without sticking to the pan.
- Coconut oil is a great flavorful addition to the curry.
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RESIDENTS are putting together a legal fighting fund to oppose plans that would increase the number of homes in Cumnor by 50 per cent.
They want to raise £2,500 for legal advice to fight council plans proposing 200 homes on Green Belt land south of the village, which has 400 homes.
Land off Appleton Road is in Vale of White Horse District Council's draft local plan on where future district estates should go, some 20,500 homes.
A public consultation on the plan – to remain in force until 2031 – closes tomorrow.
The Campaign to Save Cumnor's Green Belt has been launched with the Oxfordshire branch of the Campaign to Protect Rural England.
More than 100 residents packed the United Reformed Church Hall in Leys Road on Monday night to raise concerns.
Resident of 32 years Judy Sissons, 60, said: "It would completely change Cumnor from being a rural village.
"Cumnor is quite unusual because it has managed to stay a village so close to Oxford.
"Where they want to build is where people take their dogs for walks and go blackberry picking, it is a beautiful part of Oxfordshire."
The Appleton Road resident echoed concerns from others that Cumnor Primary School is full.
Matthew Hall, 55, of Appleton Road, said: "It is Green Belt land for a reason and they are proposing just to ignore it.
"If they can build there then nowhere is safe, and that is a major concern.
"Cumnor could then join onto Botley and onto Farmoor – it could develop a large urban sprawl which is just what the Green Belt is there to prevent."
The meeting was called by Cumnor Parish Council and chairman Brian Stops said: "We think it would be very damaging to Cumnor and the life and structure of the village. Most of it is Green Belt land – we have to take special care of it, not build on it and develop it.
"It protects the countryside and the agricultural activity that goes with it. People are very concerned."
The parish is to send its formal objection to the district council tomorrow.
All councils are obliged to draw up a local plan to meet demand and ensure estates are not built in a co-ordinated and not piecemeal fashion.
It includes 5,500 homes in Didcot and Harwell, 610 in Abingdon and 1,730 in villages near Abingdon and throughout the district.
Another 1,720 are planned for Oxford Green Belt in villages like Kennington, Cumnor and Radley.
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The Medical Department I at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf treats patients with diseases of the internal organs. The specialists of the Department have a special experience in the treatment of gastrointestinal diseases, liver and pancreatic diseases, infectious and tropical diseases and tumor therapy. Through a close cooperation with the Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery and Transplantation, the Department provides a high-class medical care before and after liver transplant.
The specialists of the Department of Gastroenterology under the direction of Prof. Dr. med. Ansgar W. Lohse study the appearance and development of the major liver and gastrointestinal diseases to understand these diseases better and to provide their optimal treatment. The main focuses include among others viral hepatitis, autoimmune liver diseases and liver tumors as well as thyroid diseases and tumors. Such infectious diseases as malaria and viral diseases are researched together with the Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine.
The Medical Department I at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf has the largest outpatient clinic for hepatitis in Germany and the only one specialized outpatient clinic for the treatment of liver autoimmune diseases. Thanks to the Center for Highly Infectious Diseases (BZHI), the Department provides a special medical care to the patients with the highly infectious life-threatening diseases. The experts of the Department have a unique experience in the use of their own mini-laparoscopic technique as well as in the intrahepatic portosystemic bypass surgery. Moreover, the Department was the first in Northern Germany to offer non-invasive liver elasticity assessment (FibroScan).
The range of medical services of the Medical Department I at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf under the direction of Prof. Dr. med. Ansgar W. Lohse includes among others:
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Yikes, this is an awkward story. A teaching assistant mailed her students personal, nude photos of herself instead of homework answers. If it was a genuine mistake, and I assume it was, I feel for her — she's going to get some unfortunate student feedback.
But to everyone giggling over it, I would say, grow up. Adults are sexual beings. They will have sex lives; they aren't going to sacrifice that so students can pretend they're all alabaster statues. This was an unfortunate error, but it doesn't mean she's something unusual: educated people, like your professors, tend to have rather adventurous and interesting sex experiences. They just don't usually expose them.
But most of my cringing is reserved for the commenters at the link who are making much of the fact that the woman was of Asian descent, and are throwing around jokes built on offensive stereotypes. There is no shame in a person having sex. There ought to be quite a bit of shame in being a bigot.


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Foursquare had a well discussed outage last week. This wasn't good news for Foursquare but it can be for the rest of us. By looking at what happened, we can all learn steps we can take to avoid a similar occurrence. I do want to state emphatically, I am not writing this to criticize Foursquare for anything. Scaling a platform is a tricky problem, often wrought with problems that are difficult to predict but completely obvious once they've occurred. Rather the point of this article is to discuss the lessons that I took from the incident to improve future development at Rearden.
Lesson 1 - Instrument Everything
If you do something or use something, log metrics about it. You have entities, components, services, and data stores. Your system is sent requests and events. Every request and event should be instrumented with timings, resources they use, and any metrics on any interesting volumes of work they do (render page, compute a graph, etc). The simplest rule that I follow is that if involves an interaction outside your process or the consumption of a precious resource (e.g. memory, files, sockets), there should be logs generated to track it. Of course as I discussed last week, Flume can make this more scalable and provide you with a frame work to...
Lesson 2 - Analyze Your Logs
Generating rich telemetry with all of your instrumentation is of limited use if you don't actually mine it. What exactly are you looking for though? Logs can be voluminous and a bit overwhelming. Again, a simple answer is any outliers. Most of us hope for systems that behave in a uniform manner, and in fact most do as the number of users and transactions grow into millions and beyond. Unfortunately outliers will exist but they are often leading indicators of problems and are therefore worth identifying and understanding.
Never under estimate the power of simple graphs either. Suppose the graph below that charts response time (could be application or database) per shard. The blue and green shards are reasonably close in response time while the red shard clearly is responding slowly at times which is a cause for concern. The gold shard though is struggling badly. There are clearly many ways that this fact can be determined with analysis, but simply plotting it allows it to be immediately visible. Graphing obvious metrics can be incredibly insightful, often giving clues as to what other data might be worth analyzing.
Lesson 3 - Partitioned Availability is Tricky
Partitioning clearly helps performance but also offers the opportunity to partition your availability. If a partition goes down, it takes those users down but other users can stay up. The theory is sound but actually implementing it is significantly harder. You have to build your components to correctly handle shards coming and going. You have to understand your dependencies completely because one wayward cross shard dependency can render your entire plan useless. Most importantly, you have to test your failed shard availability regularly, potentially before each deployment. The ease with which an unexpected dependency can slip in is surprising.
Lesson 4 - Perfect Storms Will Happen
Instrument your code, analyze the metrics, design your dependencies carefully, and test your system thoroughly, but none of it will ensure constant success. Turning on your servers, pointing them at the Internet, and encouraging them to use your product is an unforgiving endeavor. It will throw unexpected traffic, non-uniform distributions, and freak artifacts at you regularly just to remind you who you serve. We have to continue to learn from our own and other's disasters, improve and refine our designs and implementations, and realize that like all "disasters" where no lives are lost, they make for great stories after enough time has passed to forget the stress and embarrassment of the moment.
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This giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to comment #8, Karin, picked by Random.org. Thanks for everyone that entered.
I'm back with a fun giveaway! It's been a month since my last blog post. Where does the time go? There have been some changes in my life the past several months that have limited my time and shifted my priorities. After being laid off from my part-time job in October (company closed), starting a full-time job in November, keeping on top of my 2 daughter's sports and activities, as well as keeping up with house and home, has left me with little time to focus on my blog.


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Silicon Valley School Continues to Grow With Innovative $54 Million Financing from Wells Fargo
Silicon Valley School Continues to Grow With Innovative $54 Million Financing from Wells Fargo
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Wells Fargo & Company (NYS: WFC) said it has refinanced $54 million for Valley Christian Schools - known for its Microlab experiments aboard the International Space Station - and providing capital funds enhancing the San Jose educational institution's continued growth.
The refinancing provided a non-tax exempt funding solution with more favorable terms for funding to allow increased enrollment. The school expanded Skyway Campus by almost 55,000 square feet, including a Conservatory of the Arts. The financing also provided capital to support Valley Christian High School to expand the scope of academic offerings to include cancer research in a Bio2 Safety Lab and an increase in the number of experiments involving nanotechnology and molecular research with recently acquired Atomic Force Microscopes.
"Wells Fargo's innovative capital investments strategy allowed Valley Christian to develop the Applied Math, Science and Engineering Institute which includes many innovations including experiments on the International Station," said Dr. Clifford Daugherty, Valley Christian Schools President.
"We are pleased to partner with Valley Christian Schools as they continue to grow and enhance their programs and offerings in the San Jose community," said Margot Golding, the San Francisco-based executive vice president for Wells Fargo's Education and Nonprofit Banking group, which offers a wide range of customized public finance solutions for capital improvement and a full line of banking products geared toward educational institutions. "The schools' strong foundation provides a nurturing environment for quality education, helping shape students who positively impact their communities."
An integral part of the California community, the Valley Christian High School marching band has partnered with a marching band from Beijing, China to perform as the East-West Fusion Band in the upcoming Rose Parade, a first in the parade's history. Wells Fargo's iconic Stagecoach will also be a part of the 124th Rose Parade, taking place on Tuesday, January 1, 2013 in Pasadena.
About Wells Fargo
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It turns out the nurse on the phone was at fault. I called again and spoke to my doctor on Friday and she had told the nurse to schedule me in, so I don't know why she was being awkward with me. I have an appointment on Thursday! Yay, I can't wait to bend my finger again. Isn't it sad what arthritic people get excited about? 2 years ago I was really scared at the prospect of a joint injection, now I'm looking forward to it. Hope it works!
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Why do we call the stimulus package passed by Congress in February "Porkulus"? The bill mostly contained progressive agenda items that had nothing to do with job creation, and political payoffs like this (via JWF):
Nearly $6 million in stimulus money was paid to two firms run by Mark Penn (photo above), Hillary Clinton's pollster in 2008.
Federal records show that $5.97 million from the $787 billion stimulus helped preserve three jobs at Burson-Marsteller, the global public-relations and communications firm headed by Penn.
Burson-Marsteller won the contract to work on a public-relations campaign to advertise the national switch from analog to digital television. Nearly $2.8 million of the contract was issued to Penn's polling firm, Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates, according to federal records.
When Democrats said that they were going to spend almost a trillion dollars to stimulate the economy, most Americans would have taken that to mean almost anything but giving money to Democratic Party pollsters. This, however, is entirely representative of how Porkulus was created. Except for some tax breaks that Republicans pressured Democrats into including — while loudly objecting to them — almost the entirety of the $787 billion package went to either these kind of politically-connected recipients, states looking to paper over bad budgeting, temp jobs, or economic interventions like Cash for Clunkers.
And what has been the result? Unemployment has soared well past the 8% cap that the Obama administration promised if Congress gave it the Porkulus funds. We're now in double digit unemployment, and most analysts expect that number to rise through the next three quarters. And why shouldn't it? We've pulled capital out of the hands of people who actually create jobs, and handed it to people like Mark Penn, who saved three jobs at a taxpayer cost of $2 million per job.
If we actually had a Congress, it would investigate the cronyism that has gone into the spending of Porkulus dollars. However, since it was this Congress that made cronyism an essential part of Porkulus from the beginning, don't hold your breath waiting for Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi to do their jobs.


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The Kansas Department of Commerce announced this week that Beloit, Concordia and Junction City will share a total of $662,193 in federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds for downtown commercial rehabilitation projects. The grant funds will be matched with $341,703 of private investment.
The purpose of the CDBG program is to develop viable communities by providing adequate and affordable housing, suitable living environments and expanding economic opportunities, particularly for persons of low and moderate income. The Business and Community Development Division of the Department administers the CDBG Program in the non-metropolitan areas of the state.
Downtown Commercial Rehabilitation is a new initiative of the CDBG program that helps communities to improve the quality of their downtown districts by assisting private property owners with the rehabilitation of blighted buildings and with the expansion of economic activity in the revitalized commercial structure. The intended outcome of the investment of grant funds in key buildings with historic or architectural significance is to reverse the cycle of blight and encourage adjacent property owners to improve their buildings.
The city of Beloit requested $162,693 to stabilize and repair a retail building constructed in the 1890s. The owners will invest $58,000 of private funds. Work elements will include foundation improvements, stabilization of exterior walls and upgrading electrical wiring to comply with local code standards. The building will house an appliance store and programming offices for a website developer.
The city of Concordia requested $249,500 to stabilize and repair a building constructed in 1888 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The funds will be matched with $83,703 of private funds. The work will include tuck pointing the walls, window restoration, exterior painting, restoring iron steps and replacing electrical wiring. The building will house an antique store and an art studio.
The city of Junction City requested $250,000 to repair a retail building constructed in the late 1880s located in the downtown historic district. The funds will be matched with $200,000 of private funds. Work elements will include walls, floors, asbestos and mold removal, plumbing and electrical work. An existing home furnishings store, which is located in an adjacent building, will expand into this space. Without this grant, the building would have to be demolished by the city.
For more information, contact Terry Marlin in the Business and Community Development Division of the Kansas Department of Commerce at (785) 296-4703, or e-mail email@example.com.


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A 26-year-old Durango man who spearheaded the construction of an elementary school and a medical clinic in Uganda is trying to drum up more support for the projects.
I think I put others above self, Riley King said over coffee recently. I think its my responsibility to make a difference.
The conviction led him to establish Unite Our World in 2008. The organization now has recognized nonprofit 501(c)3 status.
Our goal is use our talent to empower people and help them help others, King said. We want to harness their potential to achieve a positive impact.
King will show a 20-minute film about the development of the clinic in Uganda at the Back Space Theatre on March 16. A question-and-answer session will follow. A monetary donation of any size gets viewers in the door.
King, a 2005 graduate of Durango High School, is the son of Glen and Becky King, pastors of Durango Faith Fellowship.
He beat around for three years after graduation, forming a band (King plays piano and guitar and sings) with a friend and touring the country.
We made ends meet, King said.
On one of his trips through Durango, King met Solomon Muteb, a Ugandan, who had built Blessings of Joy Elementary School in Mweruka, a village four hours by vehicle south of Kampala along Lake Victoria.
Uganda is a landlocked country encompassing 91,000 square miles smaller than Oregon (97,000 square miles), but bigger than Utah (84,000 square miles). It has a population of 35 million.
I went to Uganda in 2009 to document the school four classrooms of mud and straw, King said. When I came back I built a website, founded Unite Our World and began to raise funds to help.
A silent auction at The Lost Dog Bar & Grill provided the first money to pay teachers and build additional classrooms, he said.
In summer 2010, King returned to Uganda to work on the school.
He was accompanied by his girlfriend, Brittany Lang, who teaches fifth-grade at Kemper Elementary School in Cortez; her sister, Jordan; Matt Peters, his former band co-founder; and Matts parents, Dan and Jill Peters, who own Peters Construction.
The team built two 40-foot by 40-foot brick classrooms and upon returning sent money to complete the roof, King said.
In October 2010, a photo display of the project was hung at the Open Shutter Gallery.
The next year, King made his third trip to Uganda with two Fort Lewis College students to build a new classroom and put cement floors in all of them.
The added space allows instruction up to seventh-grade, which is required to go on to middle school, said Brittany Lang, who taught for three months in Mweruka during the construction.
I had 40 students in every class, Lang said. About 50 percent of them had desks and benches and the rest stood or sat on the floor.
I had to improvise because theyre short of resources, Lang said. My classroom had a blackboard and I had a piece of chalk about the size of my pinkie.
She also brought an innovative approach to teaching.
Ugandan teachers write on the blackboard, and the students simply have to recall and regurgitate, Lang said. A higher level of thinking isnt required.
But, in geometry, for example, I taught shapes, and then we went outside and they had to find similar geometric shapes in nature. They couldnt believe it.
She also incorporated art and music in her instruction.
Between trips to Uganda, King supports himself with landscaping and construction jobs.
In 2012, Solomon Mutebs brother, Benon Kizito, called him for help in establishing a medical clinic in Bukunda, King said.
King went to Uganda in November to help Kizito acquire a building and medical supplies and to hire staff members. When he left Uganda a month later, the clinic was staffed with two doctors and three nurses.
Trent Taylor, who is majoring in art at Fort Lewis College, accompanied King twice to Uganda, and on his last visit displayed his artistic talent on the walls of the clinic.
Health is the most important thing in life for a person, and they had nothing there, Taylor said. There were chronic and acute medical problems, but no care. The nearest hospital was incredibly distant.
One of the young guys working with us had a bad case of asthma, Taylor said. He didnt even know what it was.
King said Taylors contributions to Unite Our World wasnt limited to his work in Uganda. He raised almost $5,000 for the cause from family members and friends in Chicago.
Our two projects in Uganda have been funded through the generosity of many people, King said. Im amazed at how caring people are.


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Amidst the rows of homes in a local housing development, a small golf putting green sits in the backyard like many homes, but unlike some, therein lives a World War II veteran who worked hard at the few opportunities afforded to him at the time, and who eventually found the game of golf.
While living in Yuma, Perry Johnson has garnered the attention and respect of his neighbors and fellow retirees. One such person is Jim Mercer of Albuquerque, New Mexico, who visits during the winter months with his wife. Mercer, impressed by Johnson's accomplishments, gathered his life story.
"A few years back we met, what Reader's Digest used to call, 'My Most Unforgettable Character,'" Mercer wrote. "In this case, it was Perry Johnson, a WWII veteran with a story to tell, about growing up dirt poor in the South, enlisting in the Army and seeing action in Europe, about becoming a U.S. postal worker in California, a nationally recognized golf champion ... and finally settling down in Yuma to buy his own house in the suburbs and live out the American dream."
Johnson was born in August 1921 just outside of Brazoria, Texas. At 6 years old, Johnson's mother passed away and his family moved to Houston. To support the family, Johnson's father worked at the Houston Compress, which was a cotton processing facility.
Johnson paid a visit to his local Army recruiting office after he graduated high school in 1940 while he was searching for work. He was called to active duty in January of 1942 following the attack on Pearl Harbor.
"I was unable to find work, so I just told my father I was going to enlist in the Army," Johnson said in an interview with the Yuma Sun. "At 17 years old I went in and that was it."
To begin the processing for military life, Johnson was sent to Fort Sam Houston in Texas. Following that, he was transferred to Fort Leonard Wood, in Missouri, for basic training. Johnson then went to Pensacola, Florida, for advanced training in motor vehicle maintenance and various combat skills.
In late 1942 Johnson was shipped off to England. He ended up on the country's east coast, north of London, becoming a member of the 829th Engineering Aviation Battalion, which was tasked with building airfields for the 8th Army Air Corps.
Johnson was relocated many times during his tour in England, and was sent to many different airfields. Johnson also worked with his unit on the repairs needed for the Orly Airport near Paris.
According to the Paris Orly Airport website, the facility opened in 1932 as a secondary airport to Le Bourget Airport, but it was controlled during the Second World War by the German Army when France was occupied by Germany. During the occupation, the airport had sustained damage.
While in France, Johnson did make an attempt to join the Red Ball Express, a truck convoy system made up predominantly of African-American drivers who drove supplies to Gen. George S. Patton'sThird Army.
The convoy lasted for only about five months in 1944, so Johnson was unable to join it before it ended. After the European Theatre of World War II ended on May 8, 1945, Johnson was shipped back home along with his mates.
Following his arrival at Bayonne, New Jersey, Johnson was later shipped to Fort Sam Houston. He told of traveling on a separate train from white passengers and recalled being instructed to pull down the blinds as they rolled through Mississippi.
At Fort Sam Houston, Johnson spent 52 weeks getting $20 a week in pay as part of a program to help GI's to transition to civilian life. After he returned home, Johnson landed a job caddying, a position he had gained experience in as a young child.
"My brother was older than me at the time," Johnson recalled. "He took me to this golf course and I think I was about 10 years old when I first started. From then on I liked it so well that I used to observe players that I caddied for."
One such player, he added, was none other than Mildred Ella "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias, considered by many to be the greatest female golfer of all time.
While in Houston, Johnson had one son from his first marriage which ended in divorce. He moved to California in 1950, landing a job with the U.S. Postal Service. In November 1956, he married his current wife, Bettye.
After retirement, Johnson pursued the game of golf, winning several tournaments and being featured on the front cover of Golfer's World Magazine. In a contemplative tone, he noted that as a black man, limitations were placed on him in the game.
"Well, I am sort of disappointed with golf because at the time that I started playing golf, we weren't allowed to play with the pros and things," he said. "I was 35 years old before I played on my first real golf course. It turned out to be such a good thing to do because it was so easy to make a living if you had a sort of a decent game, but I never did get to play professional. But through it all we managed."
Bettye took up the game herself as well.
"When we got ready to get married, he said, 'If you don't want to be a golf widow, you better get you some clubs,'" she chuckled. "I fell in love with it."
After she began playing tournaments in Yuma regularly, the two moved to the area. With a putting green in their backyard, the pair still dabble in the sport and spend their retirement years in the quiet of their neighborhood.
"The man we know is a gentle man who inspires all around him with a calmness rarely found today," Mercer said. "He visits our campground weekly to engage in quiet conversations about the people we know and the life we all live in our retirement years.
"Perry Johnson has known hard times," he added. "But through it all he has lived a hard life with integrity, with pride in his accomplishments, but most of all, with dignity and honor. We salute him as among the finest of the greatest generation."
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Watched episode 7. HELL YEAH HIRANO, you are a badass. Takashi? Also a badass. Saeko? THE BIGGEST BADASS, and has a fine ass as well.
Seriously, I loved this episode. The rescue mission was fucking great, the songs were all hopefull and stuff. And then the pee scene was funny as hell. MORE HOTD PLEASE!
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Well, it wasn't the exact line as I was hoping Hirano said, as in my signature but close enough.
However at the pace it's going, they will already arrive at "there" according to the preview, that leaves (I can't remember how many in total was this, 12?) 4 more episodes. Which is way too long to stay there. Unless it's true that the last 2 episodes are recap. x_x
And i'm guessing we aren't ever getting a sub forum because of how much of each page is dedicated to fan service. XD
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Episode 6 was pretty damn faithful to the manga, very enjoyable episode.
First I must say i love the song that was playing while Takashi was going on his rescue mission with Hirano covering him. Takashi showed once again what it means to be human even against Saekos advice. Even though Saeko thought they should lay low Takashi made a decision as a man and Saeko respects that if people cant tell by now Saeko is all about the manliness.
We finally have our 2 new members of the team and trust me they wont be a drag they are both very useful. What i found most interesting about the episode is the contrast to Saeko stated to Takashi and what happened to Alice's father. The people in the house scared and desperate stabbed him to death instead of helping. Now debating the morals of this situation would go on forever so im omitting it for now. The people in the house were so scared they stabbed him and keep saying "im sorry" they wouldn't help, Alice's dad was clearly more concerned about his daughter than himself he really was a good father. Then we have Takashi and Hirano who fight through waves of "them" to save Alice when they could have let her die and stayed in the house longer. This is what it means to be human to put your life on the line for a total stranger. Takashi even did a makeshift burial for Alice's dad thats the kind of person he his. He was even nice enough to let her pee on him LMAO.
Like i discussed in my previous post in episode 5 the break down of society would allow us to see the very nasty side of humanity. However, in the absences of order sometimes you find that rare light of people that cling to their humanity they help people even at the expense of their lives. Thats what it means to be human even as Takashi and the rest realize that this is just the beginning of of the end.
Saya quick thinking allowed the rest of the crew to get out of the house and into the Humvee quickly and get to the Takashi and Alice to pick them up (Saya in those booty shorts was a wonderful sight) with Saeko becoming the Tank and holding the front line with Hirano backing her up with artillery that riot shot gun is no joke Hirano really is the shyt. There is no way i could fire properly with the goodness of assets bouncing and jiggling around. But he got his just deserts with the double breast pillow attack from Saya and Rei . On top of that he had the lovely Saeko in an apron and a thong standing above him. I could die a happy man after seeing a sight like that. Is there any other girl that could kick zombie ass in an apron and look that good? Well maybe Tsukiumi
Shizuka shows she has other talents other than being a medic and giant boobs. Shes unofficially become the wheel women she actually handled the Humvee pretty wheel even though all she had to do was drive through "them".
Fanservice was not to over the top for me it was just mainly jiggling and stuff and thats what HOTD is all about crazy zombies and hot chicks with lots of violence. Just take it for what it is and enjoy the show.
As im too tired to go into the moral implications of what happen to Alice's dad i will have to save that for my next post.
We have some very nice material coming up soon that i think everyone is going enjoy.
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Saeko is all about the GAR - she probably has her own GAR points rating system in place for Takashi and Hirano.
Wooden Bokken = $45
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Military Grade Hummer = $37,000
The sight of Saeko Busujima wielding said bokken wearing just the apron and thong while atop the Hummer = PRICELESS
And in actuality, what Saeko's wearing is a tie thong and NOT a G-string thong. ... I...looked it up... >_>;
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Displays in the Kitchen
Most rooms of the house have a designated place for a little display: fireplace mantles, shelves, nooks, or tables. In the kitchen, however, displays are frequently overlooked in favor of function. Here, however, are some kitchens that still make a little space for display:
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- a single framed piece of art and mementos from Melissa and Matt's Design Lab
- artwork lined up along shelves
- a vase collection over the kitchen sink
- Display-worthy dishware mixes function and decoration.
- a sculptural pottery collection over two ovens
- The shelf itself makes a beautiful display in this kitchen.
- cubby shelves showing off a colorful collection
- Take the doors off of the cabinets to add display space (even for elephant figurines!)..
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In a bedroom with a small footprint, there's often not enough space for a nightstand — but the thought of not having a nightstand? That's a hard piece of furniture to give up. Where else are you going to put the glass of water, the book, the eyeglasses, the pen, the journal, the…ummm…etc.? A good compromise is a wall-mounted nightstand.
- For the show Enough Already, the sleek grey wall-mounted nightstand is The Slice, from CB2
- IKEA's Malm is an inexpensive option. It is made to work with their Malm Headboard. Ehow offers instructions for attaching it directly to the wall.
- We like the rustic quality of The Structured Green Wall Mounted Nightstand. Made from Bamboo ply, it is available at Velocity Art & Design.
- The Wall Mounted Table comes in black as well as light wood and a dark wood and is available from Amazon. No drawer means extra attention to nighttime neatness.
- This IkeaHacker used a toothbrush holder and a basket to keep nighttime necessities nearby.
Trying to solve your small space nightstand issues? Check out the post Small Space Solution: No Space Night Stands for other options.
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Explosion at Louisiana chemical plant kills 1, injures 73
June 13, 2013
GEISMAR, Louisiana (Reuters) - An explosion and fire killed one person and injured 73 at the Williams Olefins chemical plant in Geismar, Louisiana, on Thursday, unsettling an industrial town where authorities ordered people to remain indoors for hours to avoid the billowing smoke.
The blast at 8:37 a.m. (0937 ET) sent a huge fireball and column of smoke into the air. The plant along the Mississippi River, about 60 miles from New Orleans, is one of 12 chemical plants along a 10-mile (16-km) stretch of the river.
The fire, fueled by the petrochemical propylene, burned for more than three hours, though government monitors had yet to detect dangerous levels of emissions, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal told a news conference near the scene.
"Once the investigations are done, once there's a responsible party, they will absolutely be held responsible," Jindal said.
Louisiana State Police said the victim was Zachary C. Green, 29, of Hammond, but gave no further information on him.
Some 300 workers from the plant were evacuated and all the employees were accounted for, among them 10 who stayed behind in a safe room inside the plant, Jindal said.
Emergency responders took 73 people to hospital, Jindal said, including at least five who were being treated at Baton Rouge General Hospital's burn center, said Dr. Floyd Roberts, a physician there.
Plant operations were shut, and the company's own emergency response crews were assisting at the scene, parent group Williams Cos said in a statement.
Authorities ordered people within a 2-mile (3-km) radius to remain in their homes, in part because of the smoke, said Lester Kenyon, a spokesman for Ascension Parish.
That "shelter in place" order was later lifted for residents but remained in effect for four other plants in the area that scaled down their operations, Jindal said.
"It's a sad day in Geismar, and particularly for the Williams Olefins work family, and frankly for the petrochem community in this area," Ascension Parish Sheriff Jeffrey Wiley said. "It's an industry that practices safety every second of every day, but regrettably, things do happen."
The same plant had an accident in 2009 when about 60 pounds (27 kg) of a flammable mixture was released, resulting in a fire that caused property damage but no injuries, according to the Right-to-Know Network, citing data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's risk management database.
The plant produces approximately 1.3 billion pounds (590 million kg) of ethylene and 90 million pounds (40 million kg) of polymer grade propylene per year, which are used to make plastics, according to the Williams website.
Only propylene was burning, officials said.
Williams operates the plant and holds an 83 percent stake in it, the company said.
Shares of Williams Cos fell as much as 4.3 percent on Thursday and ended the trading day down 1 percent.
With massive equipment operating under intense pressure and high heat, the petrochemical industry is particularly prone to occasional fires and explosions, most of which are quickly brought under control with limited injury or damage.
Southern Louisiana is home to a large share of the country's petrochemical facilities and has seen at least two other blasts in the past two years.
An explosion at Geismar's Westlake Chemicals vinyl plant sent a cloud of toxic vinyl chloride and hydrochloric acid over the town in March of 2012, and in June 2011 there was an explosion at a Multi-Chem Group plant in New Iberia, about 50 miles from Geismar. Neither blast caused injuries.
Pressure on the industry to improve safety has increased since a 2005 blast at a BP refinery in Texas City, Texas, killed 15 people and injured 170 in one of the worst such industrial accidents in decades.
An explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, that killed 14 people in April has also sharpened attention on handling of volatile chemicals.
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Serb wins third straight Australian Open crown
MELBOURNE, Australia — No shirt ripping or bare-chested flexing this time.
Novak Djokovic completed his work before midnight, defeating Andy Murray in four sets for his third consecutive Australian Open title and fourth overall.
It was also the second time in three years Djokovic had beaten his longtime friend in this final. So the celebration was muted: a small victory shuffle, raised arms, a kiss for the trophy. No grand histrionics, although that's not to say the moment was lost on him.
"Winning it three in a row, it's incredible," Djokovic said after his 6-7 (2), 7-6 (3), 6-3, 6-2 victory Sunday night. "It's very thrilling. I'm full of joy right now. It's going to give me a lot of confidence for the rest of the season, that's for sure."
Nine other men had won consecutive Australian titles in the Open era, but none three straight years. One of them was Andre Agassi, who presented Djokovic with the trophy.
A year ago, Djokovic began his season with an epic 5-hour, 53-minute five-set win over Rafael Nadal at the Australian Open, the longest Grand Slam final. He tore off his shirt to celebrate, the TV replays repeated constantly at this tournament.
He mimicked that celebration after coming back to beat Stanislas Wawrinka in five hours in a surprisingly tough fourth-round victory this time.
Since then, he's looked every bit the No. 1 player. He said he played "perfectly" in his 89-minute win over fourth-seeded David Ferrer in the semifinals Thursday night. Murray struggled to beat 17-time major winner Roger Federer in five sets in the semifinals Friday night, and still had the bad blisters on his feet to show for it in the final.
In a final that had the makings of a classic when two of the best returners in tennis were unable to get a break of serve in the first two sets that lasted 2:13, the difference may have hinged on something as light as a feather.
Preparing for a second serve at 2-2 in the second set tiebreaker, Murray was rocking back about to toss the ball when he stopped, paused and then walked onto the court and tried to grab a small white feather that was floating in his view. He went back to the baseline, bounced the ball another eight times and served too long.
After being called for a double-fault, Murray knocked the ball away in anger and flung his arm down. He didn't get close for the rest of the tiebreaker and was the first to drop serve in the match.


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Opinion: Obama's Drone Memo
Editorial board member Matt Kaminski on a Justice Department memo's legal justification for drone strikes against targets that pose an imminent threat.
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... I ... photo of a draw don't ... whine because the Obama administration's legal memo that justifies strikes on Americans ... has sparked a very interesting debate about the limits of executive power ... let's put up on the screen here what the memo said ... and I quote the threat posed by al Qaeda and associated forces demands a broader concept of endings ... in judging when a person continually planning terror attacks presents an imminent threat ... editorial board member Matt Kaminski is here ... to talk about what this all means ... aam Mac in its threat is that very well defined and what is the debate over that frames ... with the with the phrase a mean it's again a bit fuzzy in the who decides what's in them and how do we know that ... many other um some of the hot word here is the sushi forces that ... aam people who have criticized the expanded use of drones and remember this is something that start under George Bush ... this really under present Obama did between ramp up the use of unmanned vehicles to to to strike the terrorists in the ... Pakistani trial areas but more recently in Yemen ... where's become controversial since ... two thousand eleven we killed them ... all our Qihoo's AI American born ... American citizen ... who just talking that Clara has re prominent ... aam ... and I can do this debasing has its own had since nine eleven it seems like Greece are condemned to have in ... the longest and this ... conflict or to be one color warned her to ... me but not outlooks and in York Times are are saying you know we need to pick the strong strikes through what they call Congress and courts what I do your ability to fight terror ... if that's the direction this missed ration one ... what new its winter looks missed ration is that the number present ... Senator Obama was as one of the critics of the Bush approach to counterterrorism and ... when he came into office he said and I would be very different to close down Guantanamo ... and on that he's clue some see a black sites ... but in general has been more continuity than break ... especially with the weights of Bush administration policy and counterterrorism ... you are beyond after nine eleven ... we got tons of military rule in ... Afghanistan captured lotta guys ... to war against terror group since ... from about two thousandsix on until today ... is against um ... you know more or associated forces people would've been ... cool are you know tied Takeda more loosely who are very hard to reach in ... Pakistan in this in the mountainous regions across the put can stand ... in Yemen ... where we don't really have the ability to go in there and send you know ... um you know the Delta forces are so seal team six to get these guys ... so um because then has used his executive authority but Obama Bush to claim this ... under the Constitution to defend America ... from its antiques and these you know people have declared themselves to be America's enemies ... and ... as low as we consider this a war as opposed to launch what's the matter ... this seems to be a we see no reasonable way to do it and there is you know some bipartisan consensus ... here in America in a terrorist Indian American doesn't protect you put up with the here and it was arguing North American are not pushing up the relevant in the real thing is if you are a key leader ... in the new dock in or out to Marina were to collapse and when to get you I wanna turn very briefly to tomorrow because John Brennan present Obama nominee to head the CIA a right when the chief architects of the of the strong strikes is going to come up in his confirmation hearing ... and that the hat you expect that the Senators ... but to treat and ... a given his role in the drone strikes is a good to be an impediment to his nomination ... well I don't think so I think is to sail through this with no problem with that with John Brennan becoming head of TIAA Amigo it received a question to ask of you know I'll be over reliant on corn growers are not capture enough terrorists ... to interrogate them ... on because that's the only way we we we did get great intelligence ... that the great you know one of the ironies or copper sees here is that as interim Senator Obama ... and why Democrats make such a big deal about the waterboarding nice use of waterboarding as torture ... the famous memos that came out that ... you are justified waterboarding in people's eyes is is a travesty ... well it turns out that as present Obama ... I mean he considers to be no death by groaning ... as less of an orchard and then banned waterboarding or he's come to realize that to some of these tools are necessary to ... um you know ... that the US the great irony indeed ... President Obama stepping into the Oval


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Elected Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors in 1998, he is the winner of the 2003 Millfield School Sculpture Competition and was short listed for the Jerwood Sculpture Prize in 2004. He frequently exhibits in solo and group exhibitions as well as undertaking large scale public commissions. His minimal sculptures belie the technical difficulty and drama of their making, work that has a serenity and beauty about it not often seen in the contemporary art world, and which explores contrasts of all kinds with an economy of means that has become his trademark. "I aim to make work that operates on the edge of perception, somewhere between the physical and the metaphysical, a kind of exploration of the peripheral. Work that is both about presence and absence."
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Sophia is all about the ART- she's always spent a lot of time drawing, but lately she draws for stories, she is able to draw "what I see in my head" and has been able to paint and absolutely LOVES all the extra credit art projects she can do each week at school.
So the theme of her 7th birthday party was a no-brainer: ART PARTY!
We printed out letter envelope sized invitations that the girls and I painted a few weeks before the party.
Then we got started on the décor. I bought two packs of rainbow bold colored cardstock at Michael's, and cut it into 1 inch by 8 inch strips- which I used to make the loop banner seen below hanging
I just kept stapling and stapling, and ended up with a few long strips- enough to go around my living room and kitchen and the above entryway.
I also used those strips to make hanging strip mobiles ala Oh Happy Day's instructions.
I also bought some popsicle sticks at the dollar store, and made 2 dozen popsicle stick easels. So cute. I found pictures of famous paintings I love to put on the easels, to display on the table. I came up with the black and white frame idea while looking for scrolly frame clipart. Having found nothing that made me happy, I saw a simple frame and thought- I could do that easy. I drew it with lines on MS publisher and carried that theme of white and black frame/colored art to the rest of the party.
I used some packing newsprint to draw up this entryway sign. I freehanded the font based on a font from the computer, but my printer doesn't print over 11 inches, so I did my best. I colored it in with colored pencils. (Love me a new pack of colored pencils all lined up like the rainbow!)
We hung balloons from string over the table, and I found a valentine heart tablecloth in my dish cupboard, I bought it last year on Target clearance after valentine's day, it worked great for the table cloth- so colorful, and looks like something Sophia would draw.
I also found coloring pages for famous paintings online. I thought about printing one for each kid, then remembered my friend who has a large scale printer for her carpet business. A phone call and a few emails later, and we had huge paintings to color.
For the food I made Jello Popcorn in every color but red, then did Red Hot Cinnamon Popcorn for the red kernels. The popcorn cups are from the Boxes, Bags, Tags, and More cartridge for Cricut.
Each color of popcorn makes 8 cups. So I spent a few hours making this popcorn in the separate colors, then mixed in a freshly washed and dried rubbermaid bin.
We ate only about 1/3 of the popcorn, so I'm using the rest for a Young Women's event at my church next week.
Chocolate covered pretzels, posing as paintbrushes…
M&M cookies (I made these for me more than anyone else!). And tie dye cupcakes- I'd recommend the gel colors or thinned out icing in piping bags to create the stripes and circles. I was using a spoon and it was not working so well. Luckily the kids could care less.
We made blending punch- the kids could pick two of the primary colors of kool-aid to drop in their lemon lime soda to see what colors it made. It ended up really really sour. If I do this again I'll make up 3 pitchers of kool-aid and have them mix in their glass with normal amounts, rather than little sprinkles of kool-aid.
Last but not least, the favors:
Oil Pastels- I bought 2 packs of oil pastels at Michaels (love the 40 percent off coupons!). They're usually only 5 dollars for 48 to begin with, so not expensive. I divided up the pastels into sets of 5, mixing up the colors to get one blue, one green, one citrus, one black or brown, etc. I cut out crayon boxes from the Boxes, Bags, Tags and More cartridge (had to play around with it to find the perfect size to fit them in). I assembled with scotch tape and glued on the labels I'd made in Publisher.
Sketch Books: One day the week before I spent an afternoon making boy and girl themed doodles on a white piece of paper. I then scanned it in and printed multiple copies on cardstock. I put a good amount of white paper in the book and bound it with my bind-it-all.
Last but not least, I made Art Portfolio labels to go on simple file folders. I put a 5 inch or so strip of tape on each side to make it into a pocket folder. The kids took home their artwork, sketchbook, pastels and halloween sized playdoh for their favors.
Now onto the party itself…
The guests arrived and we colored some paintings on the walls. At the beginning they were asking which color was "right" so I suggested they pick a color they think was right, and maybe do something silly…which is how Mona Lisa ended up green with a rainbow behind her.
Next they colored the front of their "Art Portfolio"- aka goody bag to take home artwork and supplies in.
Our only real game was Pictionary. I had a few ideas on paper, or they could come up with their own secret to draw. Because most of the kids are in the same class at school, it was hilarious to hear them speak in first grade terms- one girl drew a "Landscape" for everyone to guess. At another point in the party everyone was discussing "statements" vs. "questions" and "exclamations." First graders are so sophisticated these days!
Next we drew with crayons and then painted over with watercolors. This was a backup activity after Sophia vetoed a game the morning of the party- but it ended up being the quietest and most popular. Guess there's no substitute for painting!
I gave the kids straws too to blow on the watercolors for a cool effect- but nobody really caught on.
Next we sang to the birthday girl and had some food.
And had some balloon fights to get off some energy:
Then we went back to the table for sculpting.
We opened presents and had some more balloon fights- and then it was time to go!
Overall the party went swimmingly well, considering there were over a dozen kids and just me and John. The main things I learned from the party is to have some activities kids can do if they don't like the one we're focusing on. In this case, they were always welcome to go play with balloons, draw on the easel or color more on the walls. I'm thankful for all the fun kids that made Sophia's day so great and most of all, thankful for my little Sophia sunshine and the love she has for creating.
HOORAY for ART!


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With Name Change and Deposit Insurance, Bank Survives Dust Bowl
History | Hugh McCulloch | Abraham Lincoln | Notable Comptrollers | Bank Examiners | National Bank Vignettes
On April 18, 1935, a dust storm gathered near the town of Stratford about 25 miles northeast of Dalhart. During the Great Depression, winds swept away parched topsoil, dooming farms, businesses and the national bank in Dalhart.
In 1881, fire ravaged the Texas state capitol building in Austin. To finance its replacement, legislators bartered away three million acres of prime grazing land to big-city investors, who in return built an impressive new state capitol. The investors surveyed and fenced the land, which became the XIT Ranch—then the biggest cattle ranch in the world, sprawling over ten Texas counties. At the confluence of two of them—Dallam and Hartley—the town of Dalhart was established and with it, in 1903, its first national bank.
For years, all was well. The ranch was carved into parcels and marketed to individual farmers, who turned to the bank for the capital they needed to buy seed and implements. Soaring grain prices during World War I kept prosperity going. But times turned hard, and stayed hard through the 1920s and early '30s. Relentless heat and drought parched the plains, and winds swept away the plowed-up topsoil, ruining crops. Hucksters promising to make the rain fall preyed on the desperate populace. One farm after another was lost, threatening to take lenders down with them.
In early March 1933, to the shock and dismay of the townspeople, the First National Bank of Dalhart closed its doors—and never reopened. The bank entered the year with $348,725 in deposits—life savings, checking accounts and rainy day funds—and now it was gone.
A 1937 report by the Comptroller of the Currency blamed the failure on "[m]ismanagement, overextension of credit, shrinkage of deposits and general depressed conditions due to unfavorable business and crop circumstances locally." The grim report cited 7 ½ acres of farmland that—due to the six-year drought—realized only a "sum of $3.48." One hundred and sixty acres of range land, with a book value of $2,408.73, was appraised at a mere $125.
Yet many borrowers, the report noted, remained steadfast despite their dire straits. "Debtor represents no financial responsibility but is very honest and settlement … appears possible."Also owing the bank—a "local farmer with only limited financial means, but good moral responsibility" and a "laboring man with good moral responsibility… collection appears possible." Or, less hopeful, "[d]ebtor has left this community, his present whereabouts being unknown."
On June 20, 1934, the gloom lifted a bit. "Dalhart and this territory smiled from ear to ear this morning," a local newspaper exulted. A new national bank opened with the same address as the old—302 Denrock Avenue. The charter number was fresh, along with a subtle name change, from "First National Bank of Dalhart" to the "First National Bank in Dalhart." The "in Dalhart" bank purchased some assets of the "of Dalhart" bank—enabling long-suffering depositors to get 40 percent of their money back.
Going forward, under legislation passed by Congress in 1933, deposits up to $5,000 would be protected by federal deposit insurance. In a letter to customers of the old bank, the new bank promised "the best possible service consistent with sound banking policy."
With many familiar faces, a slightly different title, and insured deposits, the newcomer won over the town. The First National Bank in Dalhart is still in business today. Droughts occasionally strike the Texas Panhandle, but nothing like the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. The bank finances not just seed and tractor purchases but also soil-preserving investments in crop rotation and irrigation. Dalhart's economy is still based on agrobusiness, and the First National Bank continues to play an important role in the community's economic life.


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|System: Xbox 360, PS3
|Dev: Sumo Digital
|Release: Q4 2012
|Players: 1-4
|Screen Resolution: 480p-1080p
by Angelo M. D'Argenio
The first Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing was pretty much a direct rip-off of Mario Kart using SEGA characters. Apparently SEGA's figured this out, because the first thing that the booth rep said to me as I sat down to play its sequel at E3 was, "we are trying to make this game have its own identity as much as possible." In a way, they succeeded. Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed is certainly a kart racing game of a different color. Mid-race gameplay changes, unique power-ups, and a truly bizarre cast make this a kart racing game unlike any other.
The big gimmick of Transformed is right in the title. Every so often, your car will transform into some other type of vehicle—either a boat or a plane—in the middle of the race. Obviously, you turn into a boat whenever you drive into deep waters and a plane whenever the floor drops out from under you. Now, you might think that this merely puts a fresh coat of paint on the existing kart racing formula, but you'd be seriously underestimating the impact of this twist. The gameplay changes rather drastically whenever your vehicle transforms, and without re-writing your brain a bit you'll find yourself hitting walls and falling behind.
For example, turning into a boat turns the game into a lot less Mario Kart and a lot more Wave Race. The water is choppy and waves are common, making steering difficult. Drifting is much harder, as taking a tight curve over a wave can cause you to wipe out. On the other hand, the multitude of waves in the game give you many more surfaces to jump off of, which means you get more opportunities to do tricks, granting you more opportunities to get speed boosts.
Turning into a plane also changes the game, adding height into the equation. Several obstacles will be placed at many different altitudes around the track, requiring you to weave in and out of them just to survive. Item usage is also more complicated, as it becomes much easier for your opponent to evade your shots. At one point the booth rep actually told me to "do a barrel roll" to avoid a homing attack that was on my tail. You can still "drift" in airplane mode, but all drifting does is lock your movement in place, making it hard to maneuver. It has no actual steering purpose and is used only for getting spark boosts.
Different characters in the game have different stats that affect each type of vehicle in many different ways. Handling, for example, becomes especially important in airplane segments, while speed is far more useful on simple kart racing segments on the ground. Characters are also rated on their skill with items and combat, as well as the power of their brand new all-star ability.


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Acute traumatic stress symptoms in child occupants and their parent drivers after crash involvement." Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2005;159(11):1074-9."
Determining subgroups of teens for targeted driving injury prevention strategies: a latent class analysis approach." Traffic Inj Prev. 2012;13(3):258-64."
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As many of you are aware (including, by now, Judge Joe Dale Walker of District 13), the homeschooling community is very political. We know what's up. When the legislative session starts in Mississippi, I can think of several families off the top of my head who check the Bill Status web site for bills that would infringe upon our freedom to homeschool and then share that information far and wide. Many activist-moms also check for bills referencing vaccination, midwifery, animal cruelty, health care, disability, etc. So, knowing and protecting our rights is not just "a homeschool thing." It's a freedom thing.
HSLDA claims to help homeschoolers maintain their freedom to educate their children at home. I disagree. However, I didn't always. When I first began homeschooling, I almost joined HSLDA. Hey, it sounded like a great idea: protect my freedom for one low cost so that I can concentrate on educating my kids. But shortly after I started blogging in 2005, I began to see a different picture of HSLDA. One that:
- Narrowly defined what homeschooling is and who should homeschool.
- Authored restrictive homeschool legislation in many states to reflect these views.
- Refused to work with and, in many cases, even worked against local non-HSLDA homeschool associations.
My first exposure to the "other side" of HSLDA was in June of 2005. It wasn't even a high-profile legislative battle with far-reaching implications. It was a local matter in Prince William County, VA that was being handled by a small coalition of local homeschoolers. Despite their efforts and the promise of a successful outcome, HSLDA interfered and--in a matter of days--nearly destroyed the progress that took these families over 18 months to achieve. Although the effort was salvaged, the local homeschoolers ended up having to compromise with HSLDA. You can read about it here:
June 20, 2005: With friends like these...
June 20, 2005: HSLDA on Prince William County, VA
June 22, 2005: Congratulations, PW County!
June 25, 2005: Whaddaya mean "WE"??
This is not an isolated incident. HSLDA has a history of running roughshod over local non-HSLDA homeschool associations. And, to add insult to injury, the organization also has a habit of claiming full credit for or exaggerating its roles in successful outcomes, further marginalizing (and demoralizing) local homeschool community. Here is an article documenting the organization's pattern of disregard. Please read it.
I believe that local homeschoolers know better than anyone else just what we need to successfully homeschool in our home states. When HSLDA over-reaches and insists that it knows what we need better than we do, the consequences are long term. And we have to live with them long after their attorneys have flown back home.
This is not an organization that embodies my view of homeschool freedom. And this is why I and others like me (including many Christian families who are former HSLDA members) see this organization as part of the problem, not part of the solution.
[Coming soon: HSLDA's involvement in Mississippi and the potential consequences.]


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PASADENA – Brett Hundley passed for 305 yards and four touchdowns in an outstanding Rose Bowl debut, Datone Jones sacked Taylor Martinez for a tiebreaking safety with 8:44 to play, and UCLA surprised No. 17 Nebraska 36-30 Saturday night.
Johnathan Franklin rushed for 217 yards and caught an 8-yard TD pass with 2:13 to play for the Bruins, who improved to 2-0 under new coach Jim Mora with an impressive offensive performance against the Cornhuskers (1-1).
Joseph Fauria (Crespi) caught two TD passes and Steven Manfro (Valencia) grabbed another from Hundley, the redshirt freshman who went 21 for 31 and coolly led the Bruins to 653 total yards.
After Jones' ferocious sack put the Bruins ahead in a defense-dominated second half, Andrew Abbott intercepted a long pass by Martinez and returned it to the Nebraska 16, setting up Franklin's TD catch.
Martinez passed for 179 yards and made a 92-yard TD run in his return to his native Southern California.
Ameer Abdullah rushed for 119 yards and two touchdowns for the Huskers, who struggled on both sides of the ball in the second half.
Martinez went 17 for 31, but just 4 for 14 after halftime on the field where the Corona, native always imagined playing for the Bruins, who only recruited him as a safety and never offered him a scholarship.
After a tentative third quarter for both teams, UCLA got a break when Jones somehow was left unblocked on Nebraska's first snap after a punt from its own 5, emphatically sacking Martinez. Franklin broke a 54-yard run moments later for the Bruins, but they missed a field goal with 6:49 left.
After Abbott's interception on a poorly thrown ball and Franklin's TD, Brett Maher's third field goal pulled the Huskers within 36-30 with 1:38 left. But UCLA recovered the onside kick and ran out the clock on just its second win over Nebraska in eight meetings since 1973.
The Bruins were undeniably impressive in the home debut of Mora, the veteran NFL coach who took over for Rick Neuheisel last winter after four mostly dismal seasons. Mora arrived with no significant college experience, but the former Atlanta Falcons and Seattle Seahawks coach immediately energized UCLA by hiring a strong staff and landing an impressive recruiting class.
With this effort against a perennial national power, the excitement in Westwood will only grow.
UCLA has topped 640 yards of offense in each of its first two games under new offensive coordinator Noel Mazzone, the former Arizona State coordinator. Hundley, who rushed for a 72-yard TD on his first collegiate snap last week, repeatedly targeted Fauria, his 6-foot-7 tight end, and hit freshman Devin Lucien three times for 70 yards.
Blue-clad Bruins fans might have barely outnumbered an enormous contingent of red-wearing Huskers supporters who filled the Rose Bowl parking lots hours before kickoff and raised chants of "Go Big Red!" in the stadium. Eight Nebraska players are from Southern California.
Nebraska made its first visit to the Rose Bowl since losing the 2002 BCS title game to Miami, and the Huskers came into Pasadena hoping to return on New Year's Day as the Big Ten's representative.
Both offenses moved easily in the 24-24 first half, combining for 705 yards. Manfro's 49-yard TD catch-and-run put the Bruins ahead late, but Maher's 54-yard field goal at the gun evened the halftime score at 24.
Both teams made significant mistakes in the third quarter, with Nebraska fumbling on its first play and UCLA later failing on a fake field goal from 37 yards. When Hundley left the game for a few plays to get his right ankle re-taped, the Bruins had to settle for a field goal inside the Nebraska 5.
The Huskers didn't convert a third down until the first play of the fourth quarter, but Maher barely missed a go-ahead, 37-yard field goal with 12:12 to play.


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Benjamin Jewell is a Ph.D. student in anthropology at Arizona State University. in 2011 he received a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant to conduct research on 'Filling the Vacuum with Gardens: The Political Economy of Food Access in Detroit, Michigan,' supervised by Dr. Amber Elisabeth Wutich. In late 2011 we contacted him to ask him to shed some light on the moral economy at work underneath Detroit's urban agriculture movement and how it's affecting the city's social and political landscape.
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