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The lazy, hazy days are here and my mom is getting really s-l-o-w with this blogging gig. It might have to do with the amount of time we spend splashing around the wading pool with my new elephant floatie. Wheeee!!!!! Or maybe SYTYCD is getting in the way. We watch it together on Saturday afternoons so that I can try out all the moves. You should see my salsa lift. It's a wonder to behold. I've also perfected break dancing and hippity hop dancing. Mom tried to tell me they were the same thing but I don't believe her. And then there's Battlestar Gallactica on DVD that Mom sometimes mutters dreamily about in her sleep. Can anyone tell me what "pull Apollo's towel" means?
Just so you know, my Mom does all her writing and reading on a desktop computer, far from the
TV domestic hub, in the hottest room in the house. Summer takes its toll. What I think Mom really needs is a bloggy vacation for a week or two so that she can cool off. I thought I'd help by taking over today's post to give her that gentle push out the door. Don't be surprised if she isn't around much for the next little while.
As you all know, I'm going to be 3 and a half in just over a week. That means it's high time I told you just what I've been reading since my 3rd birthday. You should check these books out at your local library 'cause libraries are simply the best. Just so you know, I came to that conclusion by myself; I didn't need old smarty pants mommy-librarian telling me what to think. Oh and just in case your kids aren't 3 and 1/2 like me, Mom keeps all my lists up on the side-bar over there. Besides, who really reads to assigned age levels anyway? I love everything from baby books to classic Pooh, thank you very much. As long as you're under 6, there's bound to be something on this list you'll like.
Because I've read over a hundred books since January, I've put my absolute favourites in bold so you'll know what to look for first. Here you go. Have a happy summer. Make sure you don't take library books into the wading pool, ok? Mom says that's bad.
Alexander, Sue. World Famous Muriel and the Scary Dragon (thanks, Kittenpie!)
Bachelet, Gilles. My cat, the silliest cat in the world
Baxter, Nicola. The Rainbow Fairies
Bemelmans, Ludwig. Madeline and the Bad hat
Madeline in London
Bottner, Barbara. Bootsie Barker Bites
Bourgeois, Paulette. Franklin Wants a Pet
Franklin's secret club
Franklin has a sleepover
Franklin's school play
Bridwell, Norman. Clifford and the Big Storm
Clifford's Birthday Party
Clifford's Happy Days: a pop-up book
Clifford Takes a Trip
Clifford's Tricks
Briggs, Raymond. The Snowman(we had a shortened version of it for little kids like me)
Brown, Margaret Wise. The summer noisy book
de Brunhoff, Laurent. Babar the King
Babar's Travels
Child, Lauren. But Excuse Me That is My Book
I am not Sleepy and I will not go to Bed
I will never, not ever Eat a Tomato
Snow is My Favorite and My Best
Chodos-Irvine, Margaret. Best, Best Friends
Clark, Emma Chichester. I Love You, Blue Kangaroo
What Shall We Do, Blue Kangaroo?
Cooper, Helen. The Bear Under the Stairs
Cronin, Doreen. Dooby, Dooby Moo
Diouf, Sylviane. Bintou's Braids
Donaldson, Julia. Charlie Cook's Favourite Book
The Gruffalo
The Gruffalo's Child
Fitch, Sheree. Sleeping Dragons All Around
Freeman, Don. Dandelion
Fujikawa, Gyo. Jenny and Jupie
Gay, Marie-Louise. Caramba
Rabbit Blue
What Are You Doing Sam?
Gilman, Phoebe. The Gypsy Princess
Gonsalves, Rob. Imagine a Day
Guarini, Deborah. Is Your Mama a Llama?
Hoff, Syd. Danny and the Dinosaur
Danny and the Dinosaur Go to Camp
Hoberman. You Read to Me; I'll Read to you
Hutchins, Pat. Rosie's Walk
Jenkins, Steve and Robin Page. What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?
Johnson, Gillian. My Sister Gracie
Keats, Ezra Jack. The Snowy Day
Regards to the Man in the Moon
Kuskin, Karla. So, What's it Like to be a Cat?
LeBlanc Cate, Annette. The Magic Rabbit
Levert, Mireille. An Island in the Soup
Lobel, Arnold. Frog and Toad are Friends
Days with Frog and Toad
Frog and Toad All Year
Frog and Toad Together
Owl at Home
Lunn, Janet. Amos' Sweater
Marshall, Edward. Space Case
Milne. A. A. Christopher Robin Leads and Expotition
Eeyore has a Birthday
Kanga and Roo Come to the Forest
Pooh Goes Visiting
Pooh and Piglet Go Hunting (we have a set with these stories all as separate books but you can find them all and more together in Winnie the Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner)
Morris, Carla. The Boy Who Was Raised By Librarians
Munsch, Robert. Johnathan Cleaned Up (The Blackberry Subway Jam)
The Paper Bag Princess
Muth, Jon J. Zen Shorts
Novak, Matt. Mouse TV
Numeroff, Laura Joffe. If You Give a Moose a Muffin
If You Take a Mouse to School
Pfister, Marcus. Hopper Hunts for Spring
Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Benjamin Bunny
The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Mom tells me there's lots more of these books. I can hardly wait.)
Rathmann, Peggy. Officer Buckle and Gloria
Reid, Barbara. The Golden Goose
Scarry, Richard. Learn to Count
Please and thank you book
Richard Scarry's funniest storybook ever
Richard Scarry's what do people do all day
Rohmann, Eric. Time Flies
Simmons, Jane. Come Along, Daisy!
Sis, Peter. Going Up
Stewart, Sarah. The Library
Thayer, Ernest. Casey at the Bat. Illus. by Patricia Polacco (Mom says that the grown ups might really like this version illustrated by Christopher Bing or this more recent one illustrated by Joe Morse.)
Urbanovic, Jackie. Duck at the Door
Wadell, Martin. Let's Go Home, Little Bear
Wiesner, David. June 29, 1999
Sector 7
Wells, Rosemary. McDuff Comes Home (Do NOT read Shy Charles or Felix the Worrier. They made me feel bad.)
Willems, Mo. Edwina the Dinosaur Who Didn't Know She Was Extinct
Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity
Wynne-Jones, Tim. The Last Piece of Sky
Zoom Away
Zoom At Sea
Zoom Upstream
Yolen, Jane. How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?
Moon Ball
Zacks, Irene. Space Alphabet
I like non-fiction too! Here are some of my favourite call #'s:
567 Dinosours. I was sooooo into dinosaurs this spring. When I grow up I want to be a Tyrannosaurs... and a teacher and a dancer and an actor and a mommy. I liked this book a lot. It wasn't too grown up:
Petty, Kate. I didn't know Dinosaurs Laid Eggs
520s: Outer space
597: fish and frogs and turtle and sharks. Oh my!
599: Elephants. Ah, sweet, sweet elephants.
Mom just brought home a bunch of science books for kids my age. I will report back on my next list.
Chirp Magazine: I now have my own subscription and I LOVE IT!
I also watch bits and pieces of these cool DVDs with mom: Planet Earth (disc one has a fantastic elephant sequence but beware of all the food chain stuff that goes on just after it. Sometimes, it's hard being an impressionable, 3-yr-old vegetarian) and Blue Planet (hammerhead sharks are sooooo fun).
One last thing: if you find my lists useful, please tell other people about them or link to them because Mom spends a lot of time typing them out for me and she'd like to make sure that all the typing is worth her while. And now, I am going to make her back away from the keyboard so that she can rinse out our bathing suits for tomorrow.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Miss M's been reading again...
The lazy, hazy days are here and my mom is getting really s-l-o-w with this blogging gig. It might have to do with the amount of time we spend splashing around the wading pool with my new elephant floatie. Wheeee!!!!! Or maybe SYTYCD is getting in the way. We watch it together on Saturday afternoons so that I can try out all the moves. You should see my salsa lift. It's a wonder to behold. I've also perfected break dancing and hippity hop dancing. Mom tried to tell me they were the same thing but I don't believe her. And then there's Battlestar Gallactica on DVD that Mom sometimes mutters dreamily about in her sleep. Can anyone tell me what "pull Apollo's towel" means?
Posted by Mad at 12:33 AM
Labels: book lists, bookish
38 comments:
- Jenifer said...
Perfect timing we are off to the library tomorrow! Thanks Miss M.
- Karen said...
helpful and shared!
boys here also love to watch the dancing show and make attempts at Mia Michaels style lifts (run at mom's legs and cling on/slide down style)
Quite an impressive list, Miss M.
And by the way, the towel pull? You are too young.
- Christine said...
miss m--you are quit a reader! you should meet my girl. she loves to read to her brother who is your age. my kids are reading fiends and spend a large amount of their summer in the library with their cute little noses in a book. thanks for the recommendations!
I keep threatening to bring a smaller tote bag to the library on our weekly excursions, but it's not likely, especially with two (make that three! I count.) book lovers on the prowl.
These are wonderful lists which I would happily recommend to others. We've read almost all of them, but again, a handy reference for my faulty memory.
Maybe you can help with a book my librarians couldn't locate for me? All I can remember is that it's a book of photographs about a boy's tricycle that goes to the dump, but it gets off the garbage truck and wheels itself all the way back to the boy. I think set in Maine, definitely by the sea.
There's another book about a wheel that falls off a bike and makes the sound "pad-a-rum, pad-a-rum" as it rolls.
- kgirl said...
The Gruffalo HAD A CHILD? How did I not know this? Thank you, Miss M, for being such a prolific reader and keeping me abreast of such important news.
(and you have a really cool mummy.)
- Jennifer (ponderosa) said...
Dear Miss M,
My mother told me that I had read every dinosaur book in the world, but then she read me this post and you've read a dinosaur book that I'd never heard of! She promised to take me to the library tomorrow to find them.
You should not be a T.Rex. I am going to be a Long Neck and T.Rexs eat Long Necks, so we could not be friends.
Regards, Sasha
PS I think it's "Sleeping Dragons All Around"
- mo-wo said...
Fitch, Sheree. Sleeping Dinosaurs All Around???
there is such a book.
I am still hunting and hunting and hunting for a copy of Sleeping Dragons All Around. It is our fave.
Also, I am on the hunt for some surprises for you. I encouraged schools to send me discards directly this summer. I have about 120 boxes of deletes. Today I closely reviewed Microwave fun for Kids by Madame Benoit but I don't think it fits your collection, exactly. I am keeping the vintage Pete Seeger The Foolish Frog for myself.
Chirp magazine...now there's a blast from my past.I used to thumb through copies at our doctors office.I think I might check that out again{for my boys of course!}
Have a great summer of dancing,wading,and reading!
- Mad said...
ACK!!!!! That was a typo on my part. Of, course it's Sleeping Dragons All Around.
- Mad said...
What's truly pathetic is that Fitch is from here. In fact, she was here last week launching her new adult novel. As a children's book specialist here in Sleepy Town, I know her books better than any others. The typo was a direct consequence of middle-of-the-night typing combined with WAAAAY too many dinosaur books these last 6 months. Skulking off in embarrassment now...
- Lynn said...
I have a 3 1/2 year old daughter myself and this list is an invaluable resource. I've bookmarked it, and we're off to the library now to start working our way through!
- Bon said...
dear Miss M...i like a girl who likes to read. i also think you have fine taste, except i'm not sure how it is that Richard Scarry's What People Do All Day did NOT get highlighted on your list. we may have to rectify this oversight on our next date. ;)
speaking of which, my wading pool is open to you at any time.
love Oscar
- Omaha Mama said...
What a great list! Our B will be five this month and has wandered into the world of chapter books. We are suddenly not readying 300 books a year, for one can take a few weeks. It's really fun!
Hey M, tell your mommy to enjoy her freedom from the desktop!
- Beck said...
I cackled all the way through this because our girls like the same books, right down to Chirp! (that is SUCH a terrific magazine - I really, really recommend that everyone with a preschooler subscribe RIGHT NOW.)
This is shocking, but I am NOT the read-alouder in our house. That's daddy's job!
- jen said...
That M, she's so smart. My M needs some new picks too, so this is great. Tell your mama go enjoy the sun.
- crazymumma said...
sniff. we used to get chirp. it was a gift from a friend for Bookangel.
Just so's you know's. the tweenie set is reading the Twilight series....
- nomotherearth said...
I love the lists - thank you! We recently took out Is Your Mama a Llama and Come Along Daisy from...the library! (I personally love the Yolen dinosaur books.)
BTW, I know you're trying to get AWAY from the computer, but there is a show you and the husband simply must see - if you haven't already - Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. I posted about it at Playdate. You'll love it.
Apollo, mmmmmm. Do you know he has a British accent IRL?
Miss M you have a truly generous and selfless mother who shares her knowledge and typing with her blogger friends. My children are grown, but I printed this list for the time (if and when) gulp...grandchildren may be in the picture.
Thank you!
(Your) Anonymous
- kittenpie said...
Glad you liked that recommendation...
Lots of good stuff on here, Miss M! Pumpkinpie likes a lot of the same ones, like Madeline, who is big in our storytimes right now.
I write every month or two about what Pumpkinpie's been reading on my Pick of the Litter column, too. Us librarian moms just can't help the list-making, can we?!
- Maddy said...
I know nearly all of those. You go girl. Love Syd Hoff.
Ooh. Lauren Childs. I love Lola and Charlie. They are my most favourite. And the kids dig them, too.
- ewe are here said...
Thank you, Miss M. Brilliant list!
- Janet said...
Dear Miss M,
Thank you for letting us know about your favorite books. Lots of them are our favorites too, like Paper Bag Princess, all the Pooh stories, and Beatrix Potter (you'll love the rest of them!). We go to the library every week, so we'll get Mom to print out your list and find some of your favorites to read.
We have a wading pool too and we love it. We're going to make Mommy get us elephant floaties now.
love, the Queen and DeBoy
- lorac007 said...
Great book list! I want to share a new website I created to honor the amazing legacy of one of the most prolific children's authors and my uncle, Syd Hoff - www.SydHoff.org. Enjoy!
- mek said...
Miss M - Because we both like Benjamin Bunny so much, I wanted to tell you about another favorite book I have. It's called I'd Really Like to Eat a Child, and it's about a little crocodile named Achilles. It's funny. There are bananas too, and a smart little girl. I'm glad my mom reads your mom's blog so I can have some new books to find!
- Cora
- Magpie said...
I love these lists of yours. I'm going to pull Officer Buckle and Gloria out of the secret book stash right now.
Dear Miss M,
Thank you for sharing your new list with us, and thanks to your mommy for typing it up. I always share it with friends. I have been anxiously waiting to see if you enjoyed Knuffle Bunny Too and now feel safe buying it for one of my young friends (I was a hero at Christmas because you had recommended the Ella books and that's a lot to live up to). Thanks for continuing to make me look good :)
I hope you and your mom enjoy your time in the wading pool!
- NotSoSage said...
Now, Miss M, here's the big question. Do you pronounce it "Nuffle Bunny" or "Kah-nuffle Bunny"?
- cinnamon gurl said...
Ok, I've finally printed out your lists so I have something in hand when I go to the library. I've gotten so many duds and so view gems from the vast selection that I just get overwhelmed... Thanks!
- cinnamon gurl said...
Ok, I've finally printed out your lists so I have something in hand when I go to the library. I've gotten so many duds and so view gems from the vast selection that I just get overwhelmed... Thanks!
- Aliki2006 said...
I'm so happy to see this list! We're in a bit of a book rut around here, so I'll print this out as c.g. has done.
- Emily said...
Just popping in, again, to say thank you for sharing your book obsession. My 2 year old and I are benefitting in the most magnificent ways!
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- Chaotic Joy said...
Oooh. Thank your mama for the list. I am sure it was hard for her to do in that hot room. And tell her I also enjoy Battlestar Galactica on DVD and DVR'd SYTYCD.
I don't believe you mentionned David Lucas in any of your lists. He is a favourite of my 3 year old daughter, as well as both parents. We've had Nutmeg out of the library 3 times and it just keeps growing on us, but Halibut Jackson is also a winner.
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Yes, one can see hints of "what was" in some of the signs that survive.
However, as a result of Amazon and other factors, I don't think retail will return. Instead we are likely to get a vibrant strip of franchises, and hospitality places.
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Houston Issues 'Cease-And-Desist' To Uber To Stop Houston Residents From Communicating With Their Government
from the your-government-at-work dept
However, the response from Houston may be the most bizarre of all. Uber had set up a petition for Houston residents, emailing city officials of their support for allowing Uber in that city. In response to this, the city of Houston issued a cease-and-desist, effectively telling Uber to stop asking Houston residents to contact their own elected government about this issues any more.
It's ridiculous for Feldman to argue that citizens contacting their own elected officials is a form of harassment and somehow illegal. And, of course, the end result of this is that it just drives that much more attention to the issue (and probably even more emails).
From: Feldman, David M. – LGL Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 8:46 AM
To: Miller, Robert
Subject: Uber Cease and Desist
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Creighton Leaving Wabash Football Postby Jim Amidon • December 22, 2007 Share:
Chris Creighton, head football coach at Wabash College since 2001, has accepted the head coaching position at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.
"This was a really hard decision to make," Creighton said. "These last seven years at Wabash have been the best years of my life, both on the field and off the field."
A national search for Creighton's successor is underway.
Creighton lifted the Wabash football program to national prominence, guiding the Little Giants to four North Coast Athletic Conference championships and three trips to the NCAA Division III football playoffs. Creighton posted a seven-year record of 63-15 and produced 75 All-Conference players, seven Conference Players of the Year, and 13 All-Americans, including 2007 AFCA All-American linebacker Adi Pynenberg.
"Chris Creighton is a great coach and a great teacher, a mentor who models personal integrity," said Wabash President Patrick E. White. "He has had a profound impact on the education of Wabash men; the football program and the College are better for his influence. We wish Chris and his family all the best in their new venture."
Creighton was named the North Coast Athletic Conference Coach of the Year in 2002, 2005, and 2007. He was the AFCA District II Coach of the Year in 2002.
"Chris Creighton's arrival at Wabash came at the time when the College was entering a new conference," said Dean of Students Tom Bambrey. "He ushered in a new and successful era for Wabash football. It's been a very special run."
At Drake, Creighton will replace interim head coach Steve Loney, who led the Bulldogs to a 6-5 record in 2007. Drake is an NCAA Division I-AA non-scholarship program and competes in the Pioneer Football League. Drake has an enrollment of 5,336 full-time undergraduate students and has six graduate degree programs. Drake Stadium, where the Bulldogs compete, seats 14,557 fans. Drake began intercollegiate football in 1893, has played in the post-season six times, and has an all-time win-loss record of 538-466-29.
"I was not looking to leave Wabash and didn't want to leave Wabash," Creighton said. "I have said a million of times that it is not about 'stepping up' or going to a 'higher level.' There is no higher level than Wabash.
"I want to be where God wants me to be and although leaving Wabash is going to be extremely painful for my family and me, we are convinced that we are supposed to go to Drake University. We believe that God has special things in store for Drake and we are excited about being a part of that," Creighton said.
Creighton leaves Wabash after one of his most successful seasons. His 2007 Little Giants were nationally ranked every week of the season and advanced to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Division III playoffs, losing to eventual national champion Wisconsin-Whitewater, and finished seventh in the final AFCA poll and 10th in the final d3football.com poll. Creighton guided Wabash to an 11-2 record in spite of losing All-American quarterback Dustin Huff in the first game of the season. Named NCAC Coach of the Year, Creighton led Wabash to an undefeated conference championship and playoff victories over the College of Mount St. Joseph and Case Western University.
Creighton will assume his responsibilities at Drake at the beginning of the new year.


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When Teddy Gentry is making albums with the music group Alabama, he likes the colors gold and platinum. When it comes to his other avocation, raising cattle, he likes green and red.
Green is for the grass in his pastures, the way he likes to finish beef cattle, and red is the color he likes in his cow herd on Bent Tree Farms at Fort Payne, Ala.
Gentry spoke recently to the South Carolina Cattlemen's Association annual meeting at Clemson University's Edisto Research and Education Center. He is high on grass-fed beef and on South Poll cattle, a breed his operation developed to meet the demands of hot and humid conditions in the Deep South.
South Poll is based on the combination of four breeds — Red Angus, Hereford, Barzona and Senepol. Barzonas were developed in Arizona to excel in high desert conditions and Senepol is a heat tolerant breed developed on St. Croix, Virgin Islands.
The result is a red, slick-haired cow, smaller than what is popular in the cattle industry today, weighing around 1,000 pounds.
"My goal is to produce the most pounds of beef per acre that I can produce, the most money that I can produce," said Gentry. "I'm not concerned about the most pounds per individual calf."
He said that in the quest for bigger and bigger cattle, many producers have forgotten that fertility and longevity are the No. 1 money makers in the industry. Cows 17 and 18 years old are common on his farm.
"Smaller cows are more fertile. We lose a small percentage of fertility each time we add 100 pounds to the cow," Gentry said. "There is a 10 percent fertility loss from the 1,000 pound cow to the 1,500 pound cow."
He said larger cows have more calving problems and the same acre of land will accommodate fewer large cows than smaller ones.
"On the same land that you can run a hundred 1,000-pound cows, you can run only 65 cows weighing 1,500 pounds each," he said. The smaller cows will yield an average crop of 87 weaned calves, each weighing around 1,050 pounds, bringing about $840 per animal at market for a total of $73,080. The 1,500 pound cows will produce a crop of 52 calves weighing 1,385 pounds each at weaning. If each is worth around $1,108, the 52 calves will be worth $57,616.
He expects his cows to be trouble-free. He said that cattle well-adapted to their environment will require less supplemental feed and use less medications. He does no worming and seldom has to use antibiotics.
Gentry markets grass-fed beef under the name Burt's Beef, named for his grandfather. He said that grass-finished beef is more nutritious than grain-finished beef. It's much higher in omega-3 fatty acids, which help reduce the risk of heart disease, and contains more of an anticarcinogen called Conjugated Linoleic Acid, more beta-carotene and more Vitamin A.
He complimented Clemson University for becoming involved in the Pasture Based Beef Systems for Appalachia project, a program which also involved the USDA/ARS, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, West Virginia University and Auburn University.
"I like what I see going on here at Clemson University," Gentry said. "They've opened their minds to a new way of doing things."
He pointed out that grass-fed beef was once the standard. Finishing cattle on grain did not become popular until after 1940. He said grain-finished beef, with a higher fat content, is one reason the United States is the fattest nation in the world.
"We're pumping the wrong kind of fat into our children, and one of the biggest sources is beef," Gentry said.
Susan Duckett, Clemson University expert in livestock nutrition and meat quality and holder of the Ernest L. Corley Jr. Trustees Chair, said that health professionals say the American diet is too high in omega 6 oils. Research has shown that if the ratio of omega 6 fats to omega 3s exceeds 4:1, people have more health problems. Grain-fed beef can have ratios that exceed 20:1. Grass-fed beef has a ratio of about 3:1, omega 6 to omega 3.
"Grass-fed beef is comparable to poultry in leanness, and taste panels can't tell the difference between grass-fed and grain-fed when it comes to tenderness," she said.
Duckett pointed out the irony of putting fat on cattle by feeding grain and then trimming it off before putting the beef in the meat case.
Bill Clapham of the USDAL-ARS Appalachian Farming Systems Research Center at Beaver, W. Va. said that grass-fed beef is not likely to supplant grain-fed beef.
"It appeals to a niche market, such as the aging portion of the population interested in health issues, those who prefer the fat profile of grass-fed cattle, those who do not like hormones used in their beef and who oppose the use of prophylactic antibiotics," he said.
Clemson University Forage Specialist John Andrae advised cattlemen to concentrate on producing forages for quantity and letting proper grazing management take care of a lot of quality issues.
Kevin Yon of Yon Family Farms at Ridge Spring told the crowd of more than 250 that high-return producers don't cut corners on nutrition, herd health, genetics, facilities or people. He advised matching equipment to the job. Instead of using a pickup truck for every chore, his farm often relies on a small 4-wheel all-terrain vehicle equipped with a spray rig and tool kit.


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DETROIT — A police officer who was second through the door in a Detroit raid testified Tuesday that he didn't see anyone struggle with another officer before a 7-year-old girl was fatally shot on a couch.
Shawn Stallard, just an arms-length behind, said he was surprised when Officer Joseph Weekley paused inside the front door after rushing a house to search for a murder suspect. He testified a day after the victim's grandmother accused police of purposely shooting Aiyana Stanley-Jones.
"We don't train that way. If you stop that's bad," Stallard told jurors. Officers "don't stop there unless something made you stop."
Weekley, a member of an elite police unit, is charged with involuntary manslaughter in Aiyana's death. He's accused of failing to control his gun during the raid.
Weekley claims he accidentally fired when the girl's grandmother grabbed his gun in the chaotic moments following the use of a stun grenade. Mertilla Jones, however, denied any confrontation during her emotional testimony Monday and said police "came to kill" that spring night in 2010.
Stallard repeatedly told jurors that he saw no one near Weekley, who had a shield in one hand and a submachine gun in the other as he burst through the door. Stallard heard a gunshot but figured it came from someone who was firing at police.
"Did you see anyone try to take the gun away from him?" assistant prosecutor Rob Moran asked.
"No," Stallard replied.
Stallard said Detroit police are trained to push a person away if they grab an officer's gun or move the weapon in the shape of a "J'' to keep control. He said officers aren't trained to pull the trigger under those circumstances.
On cross-examination, Stallard acknowledged that the house was very dark.
"This is a very dangerous job. No amount of training can make everything safe all the time," he said.
Another officer, John Collins, testified that Weekley was in a "state of panic" immediately after the shooting, repeatedly declaring, "she grabbed my gun, she grabbed my gun."
He said he advised Weekley to "tell the truth."
Another officer in charge of the Special Response Team, Inspector Don Johnson, said Weekley was vomiting, crying and shaking. He said team members never are advised to have a finger on the trigger during a raid.
Weekley kept saying, "Why did she hit my gun?" Johnson recalled.
Jones, Aiyana's grandmother, was at the opposite end of the same couch where the girl was shot. On Monday, she testified that she rolled onto the floor after the noise and bright flash from the grenade, and was on her stomach.
Johnson firmly rejected Jones' belief that police wanted to kill a little girl.
"You've got to be joking," he said near the end of his testimony Tuesday.
The raid three years ago was recorded by a crew from "The First 48," a police reality show on A&E Networks. Johnson said he was "absolutely" opposed to it but the crew was allowed to stay.
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Mamata 's Rally :23 political parties unite to end Modi's rule
Karnataka Congress Sends Notice To Missing MLAs
Modi government failed, Need separate township : Kashmiri Pandits
Zakir Naik case: Enforcement Directorate attaches assets worth Rs 16.40 crore
PM Modi inaugurates National Museum of Indian Cinema
Saudi Crown Prince hurdle in improving US-Saudi ties: Graham
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20 killed, 54 injured in Mexico pipeline explosion
Guterres calls for clear roadmap of denuclearization of Korean Peninsula
BJP's alliance is with CBI, ED; ours with common man: Akhilesh Yadav
BJP's claim bogus, UPA-1 growth rate best ever: P Chidambaram
Modi a publicity PM, nation needs a performing PM: Chandrababu Naidu
Sonia Gandhi terms Brigade rally important for galvanising opposition against Modi
If speaking the truth is rebellion, I am a rebel: Shatrughan Sinha
My wife tells me I need to calm down a bit: Shahid Kapoor
Moving away from centrestage is heartbreaking for any actor: Abhishek Bachchan
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Microsoft to officially kill Windows phones
Sensex, Nifty end flat; healthcare stocks fall 2%
Doing business in India now easier, cheaper, faster: PM Modi
Fiscal slippage remains a risk for rate cut: Report
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Modi-Yogi bonhomie on full display in politically-charged Kumbh Mela
Modi's policy transformed Jammu & Kashmir into a conflict zone
Cricket board caught in a cleft stick
Happy to bat at any number: MS Dhoni
3rd ODI: Dhoni stars as India beat Australia by 7 wickets, seal series 2-1
CBI raids Sports Authority of India office in Delhi over bribery charges
Ronaldo leads Juventus to Italian super cup title
Ganguly defends Pandya and Rahul, says 'People make mistakes'
Teasing your partner playfully can make lasting relationship
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Local lawmakers shouldn't have to pick up slack for state's inaction
Sometimes when you face the challenge of crossing a large body of water, all you can do is swim or row. Without a more practical and efficient solution, such as building a bridge, necessity requires that you use whatever resources are available to achieve your goal.
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The Gallery: Emily Payne Show
Last weekend a few of us trooped up to Earlville, New York, to see the new Emily Payne show. We went because she's an old friend from San Fran who we don't see very often, and we wanted to get away on quiet upstate roads, AND we were curious to see what she had cooked up. We weren't disappointed.
The show was a mixture of sculpted wire forms and then drawings made from the shadows they cast. The wire forms started at the size of a breadloaf and grew to the size of a beanbag chair. Her ink drawings were all large (@ 3'x3′) and captured the essence of her lovely wire forms. They seemed to pop into three dimensions and defy gravity, hanging off the wall. Take a look.
Prices ran $500 from $1500. The show is at the Earlville Opera House through January. To see more of Emily Payne's work, go to the Cecile Moochnek Gallery website, or contact the artist at email@example.com.


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It's no secret that skiing uses muscles you never knew you had, and now it's no secret how to get those muscles ready for the season. Various ski conditioning classes have specialized in toning bodies specifically in preparation for snow sports, and the trainers know that the key to success is in the mental work-out, too. How does one of the best programs in the nation accomplish both aspects? Ski Magazine and Aria Fitness at Vail Cascade give the inside scoop:
At Aria Fitness Club and Spa at the Vail Cascade, the killer combination for snow sport success combines the latest and greatest exercises replicated from the U.S. Ski Team, the NFL and NHL training professionals taught in circuit rotations. Mike Benedict CSCS, personal trainer at Aria Spa & Club along with John Cole, the Human Performance Director for Ski & Snowboard Club Vail designed the six week program to focus on preparing the participants' mind and body for snow sports. Aria will have personal trainers and physical therapists available during classes and at after parties to offer free advice and assessments.
New for this year: SKI Magazine, along with parent company Bonnier, whose additional operations include Skiing Magazine, Warren Miller Entertainment and Nastar, has teamed up with Aria at Vail Cascade to sanction the ski conditioning boot camp, the only program in the nation that the publication fully endorses. Representatives from SKI Magazine will attend classes and after parties and will offer free magazines and other giveaways. Additionally, SKI Magazine editors felt that the fitness club and spa met their highest criteria to become the official home club of the publication.
Kimberly Elpers with the Bonnier Mountain Group elaborates, "SKI Magazine is a huge advocate of pre season training and conditioning. We always feature tips and works outs to help our audience fully enjoy the sport. We are extremely thrilled to partner with Vail Cascade to kick off the season right, with their exciting ski boot camp. What a great way to have fun getting in shape, to prevent injury and ski as long as you can this season–you couldn't ask for a better location."
Included to keep the energy level high will be a large inflatable movie screen on the fitness centers pool deck, showing some of the earliest Warren Miller films from more than forty years ago and last year's hit Warren Miller Entertainment film, "Dynasty". Music will be provided by DJ's during some portions of training, and local film stars and skiing legends will be dropping in to chat with participants about other happenings in the ski and snowboard world over the course of the six week session. Prizes and giveaways throughout the class series add to the enthusiasm of attendees.
A large part of the motivation comes from the enthusiastic size of the program which can include up to 90 athletes on some nights, expertly spread out over the 78,000 square foot club so that participants feel the energy, but with room to spare. Participants hear the shouts from the next drill they are about to move to in the open gym while grunting their way across the upstairs fitness floor simulating world-cup racer stances. Moving from designated space-to-space with trainers alongside every step of the way keeps the mind and body challenged as attendees get in the best ski-shape of their lives.
New Aria Spa & Club General Manager Shaun Evans states, "The preparation and anticipation among our trainers and staff is amazing. I've never seen so many working parts come together with so much passion to make such a wonderful event come to life. Whoever participates in these classes will be more than ready to tackle the mountain."
Aria Spa & Club also offers "after parties" where the trainers are available for questions, professional skiers and snowboarders hand out multiple prize giveaways and food and drink is provided by award-winning Atwater on Gore Creek at the Vail Cascade. The excitement factor creates a training environment that is fun, not grueling, and the cardio/strength/flexibility results occur alongside the mental "buzz" from the program. This year, sponsors such as Bern Helmets, Surefoot, Muscle Milk, Sports Authority, Red Bull, Garfinkles, Westside Cafe and the U.S. Ski Team as well as many others will provide special giveaways and offers throughout the ski conditioning parties. In addition, all attendees receive free magazines from SKI, and chances to win subscriptions to the publication.
Director of Fitness Dan Timm offers this guarantee:
"We cannot control the weather or snow amounts this season, however, we can guarantee your body will be ready for what Mother Nature gives us come November 19th when the mountain opens. If you take our classes I promise you will be ready for the season and have a ton of fun along the way. What more could you ask for?"
The Vail Cascade offers ski conditioning boot camp beginning Monday, October 11, and continuing for six weeks on Mondays and Wednesdays at 5:30 p.m. for an hour and a half, with after parties on October 13th and November 17th. Participants can also enjoy 40 percent off treatments at Aria Spa. Ski conditioning boot camp also coincides with Aria Fitness and Spa's Fall Open House, free for all to enjoy group classes, sauna, steam room and Jacuzzis and the full spectrum of cardio and weightlifting equipment. During the week-long open house, specials include $0 start-up fees and a new rate structure for prospective members. For more information about Vail Cascade or Aria Spa, visit http://www.vailcascade.com/colorado-spas.php or call 970-479-7920 .


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Death Notice: Bonnie Pearl (Carter) Walker
Bonnie Pearl (Carter) Walker, 56, of Callao, MO, formerly of Ollie, IA, died on Tuesday, July 2, 2013, at her home following an illness with cancer. Bonnie will be cremated per her request and a private family memorial service and inurnment will be held at a later date. GREENING-EAGAN-HAYES Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.


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Great article Jason, congratulations.
@GREGOR: I have to disagree with you. I don't want to start a "semantic fight" but I think it's more meaningful with the div then with the dl since you're just describing the image, not defining it. (As I've said, it's a matter of personal choices).


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Full of elliptical possibility and tasty versatility, Egg marks the collaboration of two friends. Starting in 2005, Lindsay Keegan and Rich Nguyen create conceptual clothes that are expressive and individual. Like the people they are, the friends they have and the conversations they make; Egg clothing is playful, imaginative and eclectic with a modern sensibility.
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Remote sensing, using Thermal Infrared Multispectral Scanner (TIMS) data, has lead to the discovery of previously unknown roads in the canyon area of New Mexico once occupied by the Anasazi culture. Students will use those images, along with maps... (View More) and photos, to observe the roads and surrounding area. Students will then compare the value of each media (image, map, photo) in uncovering and interpreting archeological information. Emphasis is placed on the map/image reading skills of direction and scale. The URL opens to the investigation directory, with links to teacher and student materials, lesson extensions, resources, teaching tips, and assessment strategies. This is Investigation 1 of three found in the Grades 5-8 Module 4 of Mission Geography. The Mission Geography curriculum integrates data and images from NASA missions with the National Geography Standards. Each of the three investigations in Module 4, while related, can be done independently. (View Less)
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Alabama's routing of Notre Dame for its second straight national championship has been overshadowed in part by a new breakout star — Katherine Webb, girlfriend of quarterback AJ McCarron and Miss Alabama USA 2012.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Alabama's routing of Notre Dame for its second straight national championship has been overshadowed in part by a new breakout star — Katherine Webb, girlfriend of quarterback AJ McCarron and Miss Alabama USA 2012.
Webb gained tens of thousands of Twitter followers during and after Monday night's game, when ESPN cameras visited and revisited her in the stands and announcer Brent Musburger piled on the compliments. As of 4 p.m. Tuesday, Webb had topped 163,000 followers, trumping McCarron's 110,000. Before the game, Webb — who graduated with a business degree from longtime Alabama rival Auburn University in 2011, according to her pageant biography — reportedly had about 2,000.
"Wow, I'm telling you quarterbacks: You get all the good-looking women," Musburger said as the camera focused on Webb, sitting with McCarron's mother. "What a beautiful woman. Wow!"
Some found the remarks from Musburger, 73, out of line. On Tuesday, ESPN released this statement: "We always try to capture interesting storylines and the relationship between an Auburn grad who is Miss Alabama and the current Alabama quarterback certainly met that test. However, we apologize that the commentary in this instance went too far and Brent understands that."
Webb, a 23-year-old model, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Musburger's comments didn't bother her.
"It was kind of nice," she said. "I didn't look at it as creepy at all. For a woman to be called beautiful, I don't see how that's an issue."
Webb said that during the game, her iPhone was dead, but several friends seated nearby showed her what was happening on Twitter and pointed out that pictures of her were being shown on TV.
"I just couldn't believe it," she said. "I was just in complete surprise."
Dee Dee Bonner, McCarron's mother, said the two laughed in the stands as Webb's Twitter count grew.
"We were like, 'Oh my God,'" Bonner said. "She said, 'All I want to do is date your son.' We've been laughing about it. It's quite shocking."
Webb earlier told the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer that she first encountered McCarron on Twitter, and they met in early December when he attended the Miss Alabama USA pageant in Montgomery. The two visited over the holidays and publicly confirmed their romance right before the New Year.
Webb's pageant biography says she was born in Montgomery and grew up in Phenix City. Webb worked for Chick-fil-A as a training director in Columbus, Ga., before moving to Los Angeles to pursue modeling. She finished in the top 10 in the national pageant.
Bonner said Webb is considering moving back to Alabama to be with the quarterback.
Before Monday's game, Webb tweeted a photo of herself wearing a jersey with McCarron's number, her arms wrapped around him.
Early Tuesday, Webb posted her first tweet to her new followers: "So extremely blessed... (at)10AJMcCarron. Congrats to Alabama and making history! (hash)BCSChamps."
Webb called the experience fun and said she doesn't think McCarron minds the attention on her.
But when Arizona Cardinals defensive end Darnell Dockett tweeted Webb his telephone number and suggested they meet after the game, McCarron responded, telling Dockett, "(hash)betterkeepdreaming like the rest of these dudes."


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3DMark 11 (DX11)
3DMark 11 is the latest in a long line of synthetic benchmarking programs from the Futuremark Corporation. This is their first foray into the DX11 rendering field and the result is a program that incorporates all of the latest techniques into a stunning display of imagery. Tessellation, depth of field, HDR, OpenCL physics and many others are on display here. In the benchmarks below we have included the results (at default settings) for both the Performance and Extreme presets.
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Keep It Simple: Subtle Holiday Decor Inspiration
Let's face it: there's nothing subtle about the holidays. In all arenas there seems to be a "more is more" attitude that has come to reign supreme. This is especially true when it comes to decorations. But with some restraint, simple seasonal additions can transform a home without going overboard.
I've always felt that a Christmas tree looks most beautiful before it's been ornamented. Why not keep the trinkets off the tree, or pick a few of the same color? The same is true for wreaths and outdoor decorations. A boxwood wreath without the cheesy red bow or fake fruit applications is a sophisticated take on exterior season's greetings.
Some twinkle lights here, some branches there, maybe a small topiary placed to the side that's shaped like a pine tree. The point is, going the simple route provides a livability and peacefulness to your space without compromising on celebrating this time of year.
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Review Group Week 234 - BALTIMORE: THE PLAGUE SHIPS #1
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by Garofani Spruzzo » Mon Aug 09, 2010 8:12 amI just gave up trying to read one of the worst-written reviews I've ever seen on CBR for the latest Doom Patrol issue. Sentences like these are what did it:
"There are scenes in Rita's story only Matthew Clark could have rendered should tussles."
"I was (and will continue) to see Beast Boy in action with the DP."
It's like it was translated online from Mandarin or something. I just gave up trying to figure any of it out.
by Mr_Batman » Mon Aug 09, 2010 11:30 amMy shop didn't have anymore of this for some strange reason
by SilverPhoenix » Mon Aug 09, 2010 11:50 amBaltimore The Plague Ships #1: Review
What happens when you take a liberally used concept, put it in a setting which is unusual, and add a character's who sole mission is to stop the infection from spreading and consuming the rest of Europe?
You get Baltimore: The Plague Ships #1, whose post-apocalyptic setting places itself in the Summer of 1916, just six months after the end of "The Great War." However, as everyone knows, the War didn't end until the Mid-Fall of 1918, which raises the question of what could have happened for the war to end so early?
That's where the concept of this book comes in. Apparently a virus has turned most of Europe (if not the world) into Vampire-like Zombies, with an insatiable need to feed on human flesh. To add to the bleakness of the situation, people can be infected with this virus, eventually becoming Zombies themselves. The result is a world that lives in fear of every passing moment, due to the fact that this sickness can either claim, or kill them.
Now, when I first heard about this concept, I was immediately interested in seeing how it played out. On the surface, we have a fresher take on something that has permeated pop-culture for nearly 60 years, and has been the subject of many pieces of literature, cinema and video games, just to name a few of the mediums that it has been featured in. On that same level, this new twist is a welcomed take on the genre, overall. Still, was the creative team able to take the promise, and weave it into an instant winner?
The answer, sad to say, has this book coming out slightly on the losing end.
On one hand, this book features an excellent art. Ben Stenbeck literally goes to town, and gives us an amazing image of a world in extremely dark times. Every image and color works extremely well in transporting us into a place that's had most of, if not all of its hope sucked out of it. Everything we see from the gray days, to the hallowing rainy night, to the people living in extreme paranoia is only enhanced due to the great care each panel is drawn with. It's a credit to the artist, and to the book itself. It sets the mood in the best way possible.
However, the art is not able to save the most disappointing thing about this book, and that's the main character, itself. From the beginning of this book, we see that's there's one character who is able to stand up to this menace, and that is the Titular character, himself. It's established that he can easily take care off most of the flunkey riffraff that we see in this book. We also learn that he's out to take out each one in hopes to contain the virus. However, that is all we learn. At no point, do we learn anything significant about the character's motivations for what he is doing, and as such, he comes off as a generic zombie hunter, that one can see in almost every story like this. In fact, since we don't learn anything about those motivations, it takes away from the interactions he has with the other characters. It just makes it harder to care about him, and the rest of his supporting cast.
Thanks to some more informed people, I learned that 'Baltimore', is actually 'Lord Baltimore', the main character of a series that Mike Mingnola co-writes. This knowledge puts things into perspective, as one can safely ascertain that we're dropped right into the story (if not the middle of an already on-going story), and that most of the readers would already be familiar with the concepts presented. Something that leaves new readers out in the cold.
Still, the book isn't a total loss. Even with the disappointment of the character work, the story still worked, and it still held my interest in the whole entire world that the creators were giving us to chew on. It even makes me want to find out more about the novel itself, and at least read the 2nd Issue to see if they can actually make us care about the characters. But, it still seems like an opportunity was missed , by not giving more attention to 'Lord Baltimore' himself.
The Verdict
Art: ****1/4 (8.5 on a scale of 10) - The Art establishes the mood and the setting. It works almost perfectly.
Story: **1/4 (4.5 on a Scale of 10) - The story itself works, it's the main character that doesn't stand out, which in turn helps everyone stand out less.
Accessibility: *** (6 on a Scale of 10) – This book is definitely readable by itself, but once you learn where it's from, odds are, you're going to be a bit confused, and you might not want to find out more
Final Breakdown (Cumulative Score of the Three Scales, plus personal intangibles): *** (6 on a Scale of 10): This book scores extra points on its potential, and fresher outtake, but the inadequate character work bars if from scoring any higher.
by SilverPhoenix » Mon Aug 09, 2010 11:52 amScoring Breakdown: I score things on a 5 Star Scale (The Wrestling Fan in me), in Quarter Star Intervals. For something to score 4.75 - 5 Stars, the book must transcendent, and it's flaws take away only the slightest, or even not at all from the package. Anything that's below 2.5 stars...well, lets just say that the review might be extremely entertaining, if you're lucky.
***** - Transcendent
****3/4 - Exemplary
****1/2 - Above and Beyond
****1/4 - Excellent
**** - Extremely Great
***3/4 - Great
*** - ***1/2 - Good to Very Good
**1/2 - **3/4 - Average to Above Average
** - **1/4 - Below Average to Barely Adequate
*1/2 - *3/4 - Bad to Skippable
*1/4 – Terrible to Very Bad
3/4* - Miserable
1/2* - Don't even Read it
1/4* - Don't even look at the cover
DUD – Avoid, unless you want to find other ways to read it.
And yes, there are negative star ratings, however for a book to get that dubious honor, it must transcend being a bad book, it has to send a message, or have such implications that make the medium seem worse, after it has been published. Books that destroy characters, books that are FU's to a fanbase who doesn't deserve it, books that really should be totally ignored, and even retconned at first opportunity.
Those are the negative star winners.
by Eli Katz » Tue Aug 10, 2010 3:42 pmBump.
by BlueStreak » Tue Aug 10, 2010 3:53 pmBlueStreak's Short Reviews for Comics that Don't Matter
This was mediocrity at it's finest. I barely remember this comic despite reading it only two days ago.
by Garofani Spruzzo » Tue Aug 10, 2010 4:51 pmWelcome to the Review Group, SilverPhoenix.
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It seemed pretty dullsville this thread, how many reviews were there?
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (April 11, 2009) - The ETSU men's golf team got off to a strong start in the first and second rounds of the Robert Kepler Intercollegiate Saturday at Ohio State University's Scarlet Course, as junior Seamus Power (Waterford, Ireland) led the way with a 3-over score of 145 to power the Buccaneers to a second place standing heading into Sunday's third and final round.
Power finished second on the individual leaderboard himself, just three strokes back of leader Brad Wright of Ohio State. While Power posted rounds of 72 and 73, the Bucs find themselves in the midst of a three-team race for the top spot, as Big Ten Conference representative Northwestern finished one stroke better than ETSU at 597, and Kent State is just two strokes back in third place.
The Bucs are in contention for the team championship for the third time in their last four events, as ETSU has captured one team title and finished second in two of those three outings.
Along with Power's individual efforts, the Bucs got strong efforts from sophomores Rhys Enoch (Cornwall, England) and Paul O'Kane (Castledawson, Northern Ireland), as the duo both finished tied for 14th at 150. Meanwhile, true freshman Michael Stewart (Troon, Scotland) ended the day tied for 39th.
Sunday's third round will be the Bucs final tune up before heading to the Atlantic Sun Conference Championships April 20 at Keith Hills Country Club in Buies Creek, N.C. For live scoring and results, visit Golfstat.com or get a complete wrap up of the day's action by visiting ETSUBucs.com.


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From the preview: CHINGAY!!Lots of CHINGAY info and videos here:http://www.squidoo.com/chingayIn Chinese dialect Hokkien "Chin Yi" or "Chin Gay" which means real art or true art.This real art or true art is skillfully displayed by using the flag pole (Bamboo pole) and the flag pole ranges from 25 ft to 32 ft, the length of the flag is around 25ft, made from silk and the total weight of these materials is around 60 pounds.The "Chingay" is a spectacular procession. The Bamboo pole carried perpendicularly by a steward bearer or performers with half-a-dozen others taking turn. The steward bearer/performers will normally balance huge poles with enormous triangular flags, on their forehands,chin,lower jaws and shoulders.
This looks like the roadblock since there are 6 different flags ready.
Quote from: jerseydude on March 28, 2010, 08:59:17 PMThis looks like the roadblock since there are 6 different flags ready. Nice! I was wondering if this was the speedbump.
What do we think the clue is in his hand?Since it has Black text running down vertically it does not match any of these types of yellow clues. Is it the Speed bump? I did not see what those clues look like. Anyone?
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City of North Tonawanda Mayor Robert G. Ortt announced earlier today the city was awarded a grant in the amount of $343,000 from the New York State Office of Community Renewal to make improvements at the Carnegie Art Center. The 2012 CFA round included funding in the form of the community renewal fund. The improvements will include having handicap-accessible access to the city building, and handicap bathroom facilities.
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This didn't look like the barbecue that most of us are used to. The trinity of Texas barbecue — brisket, pork ribs and sausage — wasn't on the menu. They had been replaced by the barbecue meats of an earlier era: mutton, beef clod and pork shoulder. The pit didn't have any metal doors or chimneys; it was part of that older style of cooking known as open-pit barbecue.
The long, low open trench was recessed several feet into the ground and lined on either side with a single course of bricks and an iron rail. There were no coverings to retain the smoke or heat. The void in the middle had been filled the night before with oak and pecan wood, which had burned down until nothing remained but glowing wood coals. The biggest cuts of meat went on the pit the night before. The crew tended the pit throughout the night, extinguishing flare-ups with a squirt of water or a shovel full of sand.
I was amazed by what I was seeing. It was as if I had entered a barbecue time machine. This is almost exactly what barbecue pits across the Old South looked like in the 1800s, according to the black-and-white archival photos I have come across. But while I was marveling at how much of the tradition had been preserved, the guy next to me was grousing about how much of it had been lost.
"Times have changed," said Bolten glumly. "We never put the cooked meat in an ice chest in the old days." I'm not sure where the practice of putting barbecued briskets and pork butts in coolers so they could finish cooking came from — I suspect it's an innovation introduced by barbecue cookoff competitors. But it's a great way to keep the meat warm and give it a little extra-slow cooking time without burning it. I didn't even notice the coolers until Bolten mentioned them.
"And those baskets, we didn't have those, either," he said, pointing to the portable grates of welded metal rods and expanded metal that stretched from one side of the pit to the other, holding the meat above the coals. When the men wanted to turn the meat, they would place an empty metal-rod basket over the top of the one on the pit, turn them both over and take the top one off. "We always used these," Bolten said, pointing to a thick and rusty seven-foot-long metal rod.
Barbecue is one of the oldest artisan food traditions of the Americas. For the past few years, I have been crisscrossing the Old South documenting Southern barbecue culture. When I set out, I expected to trace American barbecue back to its roots in rural Southern restaurants. But in my research, I found the ancient artisanal culinary culture I was searching for has been much better preserved in community barbecues, though those are endangered, too.
In Lexington, North Carolina, the nation's self-proclaimed barbecue capital, there are more than 20 barbecue restaurants, but you can count the traditional wood-fired pits on the fingers of one hand. The barbecue restaurant category is booming in Atlanta, but few if any of the new franchise outlets have old-fashioned pits. And I was surprised to discover that even iconic barbecue restaurants like Big Bob Gibson's in Decatur, Alabama, and City Market in Luling, Texas, now use stainless-steel Southern Pride barbecue ovens to increase their capacity.
The most important thing I realized in my travels is that I was looking for the wellsprings of American barbecue in the wrong places. The purpose of a barbecue restaurant is to make a profit, not to preserve culinary traditions. Restaurants aren't where American barbecue came from.
The oldest barbecue tradition in America is the community barbecue. Colonists borrowed the barbecue techniques from Native Americans, but the Europeans introduced the hogs, sheep and cattle that became the favored meats. In colonial times, barbecues were common in Massachusetts and Maine as well as Virginia and North Carolina.
George Washington's diary entry for May 27, 1769, notes that he "went in to Alexandria to a Barbecue and stayed all Night." The barbecue George Washington ate was almost certainly cooked on a long, low pit full of hardwood coals, much like the one in Millheim. He certainly ate barbecued pig, and he may have eaten mutton as well.
In his book Barbecue: The History of an American Institution, Robert F. Moss writes: "From its earliest days, barbecue was not just a type of food or a cooking technique but also a social event." In the early 1800s, sermons were heard at camp-meeting barbecues and patriotic speeches were delivered by politicians at Fourth of July barbecues.
Community barbecues in Texas were held to bring communities together, to celebrate opening a new railroad or drilling a successful oil well. These grew into enormous affairs where a dozen or more cattle might be cooked to feed huge crowds. But those giant barbecues for hundreds and even thousands of people that were captured in old black-and-white photos aren't just part of history, they are still around, even if, as Bolten laments, a few changes have been made.
At the XIT Rodeo in Dalhart, Texas, "The World's Largest Free Barbecue" has been going on for 75 years and feeds thousands. The meat is cooked in pits buried in the ground and served from a plastic-lined dump truck. North Carolina boasts several church barbecues that draw tens of thousands. The Big Apple Barbecue Party, held annually in Madison Square Park in Manhattan, may be the biggest community barbecue in the country. The event is held one weekend in early June and draws more than a hundred thousand people to sample barbecue from the greatest pitmasters of the South.
But the community barbecues I really want to attend are held in Veterans of Foreign Wars halls, volunteer fire department stations, lodges and church halls. It pains me to realize that for the last two decades, I have been combing the countryside looking for old-fashioned barbecue joints, while ignoring events such as these. The cooks are volunteers. The pits are fired with wood, the cooking methods are artisanal and the barbecue is excellent.
Once I started paying attention, I found community barbecues all over the place. I attended a Juneteenth barbecue with an African-Texan trail-riding group in Fresno and a Fourth of July barbecue at another German dance hall in Kenney. I started pulling around to the back of VFW and Knights of Columbus halls as I drove through small towns to check out the barbecue pits that are inevitably found back there. Most of the ones I saw were steel cylinders, but I also happened upon some amazing cinder block pits and brick pits around Bryan and College Station. The old Southern-style pits are concentrated in the Brazos Valley.
In October of 2011, I attended a community barbecue at the Sons of Hermann Lodge in Washington County near the original capital city of Texas, Washington-on-the-Brazos. I got there at seven in the morning to check out the pit. The Sons of Hermann barbecue crew had been there all night. A big guy in a camouflage hunting cap introduced himself as Lance Jahnke and passed me a Mason jar full of sweet homemade wine. "Communion wine," he said solemnly. While I would have preferred coffee at that hour, I took a chug to prove that I was one of the faithful.
There were a dozen men milling around the barbecue shed. There were a whole lot of empty beer bottles in the trash bucket. Sitting up all night making sure the barbecue doesn't catch fire isn't a very difficult job. One person could handle it. But it has become a tradition for a crew to gather around the fire and spend the night telling tales and drinking while tending the barbecue.
The barbecue pit was covered with cardboard. It was three courses of cinder block above ground level and ten cinder blocks long, which would make it two feet high and 15 feet long. The opening looked to be around four feet across. On top of the cinder-block chamber, a grate made of metal rods with stout wire mesh attached spanned the opening. The mesh area was only three feet across, so that there was a gap between the edge of the cinderblock and the cooking area. This allowed the fire underneath to be refueled. When the cardboard was pulled back to reveal the meat, I counted 14 briskets and around 30 Boston butts.
At the far end of the pit, I saw a couple of rabbits and a few coils of sausage. I confessed that I had never seen barbecued rabbit before. "That's not for the barbecue lunch, that's just our breakfast," one guy said while the rest of the gang laughed. While the cardboard was pulled back, three men brushed the meats with small cotton dish mops dunked in a big pot of mop sauce. Lumps of B&B Hardwood Charcoal were added to the fire.
An elderly gentleman with a long white beard and wearing overalls and a MoorMan Feed cap sat in a lawn chair nearby drinking beer. His name was Bubba Roese, and he was the guy who told me about the Sons of Hermann barbecue to begin with. I first met Bubba a few years earlier at the 105 Grocery & Deli, a country store with an awesome homemade hamburger. I sat down with Roese and his companions at a table in the rear of the store where they were drinking beer. His friends introduced Bubba as the "mayor of Graball." Evidently, the Roese family once had a country store a few miles down Highway 105 in the town of Graball. Bubba said the burger at the Graball store was even better. But the store, along with the town itself, was long gone.
When I told him I was a food writer, Roese started talking about the sad state of Texas barbecue. In his opinion, the German meat markets in Central Texas weren't cooking barbecue, they were smoking meat and sausage, just like they did in the old country. "Barbecue isn't supposed to taste like smoke," Bubba said. "Real barbecue is cooked in a traditional open pit, not in a smoker." When I asked him where I could find this kind of old-fashioned barbecue, he had told me to come to the Sons of Hermann Lodge in Washington on the third Sunday in October. It took me several years, but I finally made it.
The Washington Sons of Hermann Lodge was founded in 1898. The wooden hall at the Washington Lodge was built in 1955, after the original hall burned down. The barbecue shed, with its distinctive natural cedar posts and tin-roof construction, was built in 1948 along with the cinderblock pit.
The barbecues here go back a long way, Bubba Roese told me. "But the tradition lapsed for a few years because the old guys didn't want any kids around." When they were all gone, there was nobody to carry it on. After the war, young people started moving to the city to get jobs, and the Lodge started to decline. When the barbecue was revived, the new crew made sure to recruit some 20- and 30-year-olds to keep things going.
"We started cooking Boston butts and briskets in the 1960s. It's a lot easier than whole pigs and sheep. We don't burn the wood down and shovel the coals anymore, either. We use B&B charcoal. It's a charcoal company in Weimar that makes oak lump charcoal. The flavor is just like oak coals. Charcoal doesn't put out a lot of smoke, so this is real barbecue, not smoked meat like over there in Central Texas. In the old days, the barbecue pit was open on top, but now we cover it with cardboard. That retains the heat, so the meat cooks faster with less fuel."
At around 10:30 the meat began to be transferred, a few briskets and Boston butts at a time, to a long wooden table in an open shed formed by cedar poles and a tin roof. The beams that held up the roof were so low I smacked the top of my head every time I attempted to move, much to the amusement of the men. The carvers wore rubber gloves on their hands that held the meat and gripped plastic-handled slicing knives in their other hands.
As the steaming meat was sliced for serving, I stole a few chunks to sample. The pork had been cooked to around 190 degrees Fahrenheit, so it fell in very tender slices. The meat was very juicy, with a big pork flavor and just a hint of smoky charcoal. There was a nice bark on the edges. The big chunks of the fatty end of the brisket glistened in the morning sunlight. It was hard to get used to the idea that brisket didn't have to be smoky to taste good, but it was true. The flavor of the beef dominated, with just a little accent from the oak charcoal. It reminded me of the taste of steak cooked on a charcoal grill.
The men began carrying steel trays of sliced meat from the barbecue shed over to the lodge building. The women of the lodge were already there assembling the feast. It was a wooden-floored dance hall built in the mid-1950s, with a stage at one end and a kitchen at the other. Tables were set up in long rows nearer the stage end of the building. There was seating for more than a hundred.
The beans came out of a can, doctored up with spices and heated in the kitchen. Someone brought German potatoes cooked with onions. The homemade barbecue sauce was from a local recipe. The hot items were held in the big white enameled electric ovens most Texans call turkey roasters. There were lots of pickles and white bread, and a huge bowl full of onion slices. When the doors opened promptly at 11 a.m., there were already 20 people waiting outside.
When the slicing was done and things calmed down, I talked to Bubba about the barbecue tradition in this part of East Texas. "Back in the 1950s, there was a big black guy named Abe Johnson who cooked the barbecue for us. He burned down wood coals in a firepit and shoveled them under the hogs and lambs. This was mostly an African-American farming area. Lots of black folks barbecue around here. They used to hire Abe to do the hard work and everybody else just hung around drinking beer. Abe made the mop sauce, too."
Photos of Southern community barbecues usually show black men turning the meat, shoveling the coals and doing the work. Their white supervisors are mentioned by name, but in the photo captions the pitmen are listed simply as "Negroes." When you're enjoying modern community barbecues, it's easy to forget blacks are part of this tradition, too. It was barbecue men like Big Abe Johnson who did the cooking for the white barbecues as well as the African-American church picnics, family reunions and Juneteenth celebrations.
"When we revived the barbecue, we took over the cooking instead of hiring someone," Bubba said. "But we learned how to do it from watching Abe Johnson."
On the wall in the kitchen at Millheim Hall, there's a collection of fading snapshots taken at the barbecues of the 1960s and 1970s. It was the same pit, but the pieces of meat in the photos were a lot bigger. They were skewered with the giant metal rods and rotated over the coals as they cooked.
"The sheep and the shoats (small pigs) were killed and butchered here and cooked whole," Mark Bolten said. "The cattle were cut into four quarters and each one was turned on a pair of metal rods."
The German singing society called the Millheim Harmonie Verein was established in 1872. It was one of many secular societies, or "vereins," established by the German immigrants who began arriving in this area in the 1830s. The Germans founded Millheim, Cat Springs, Industry and New Ulm and began growing cotton and tobacco, following the example of their neighbors in Stephen F. Austin's Mexican land grant nearby.
The settlers of Austin's colony were mainly Southerners, and many brought their slaves along. By 1825, the 300 families who settled there owned 443 slaves. By 1834, one third of the population was African-American. German settlers in Northwestern Austin County didn't believe in slavery, but they no doubt learned how to barbecue from their Southern neighbors and their slaves.
The morning I visited, I joined the group that was cooking the beans and barbecue sauce in cast-iron wash pots over propane burners. When I asked about the barbecue sauce recipe, I was quickly corrected. "We don't call it 'barbecue sauce,' we call it 'gravy,'" said James Grawunder, the head of the barbecue crew, who kept the recipe in his head.
Watching the process, I would guess that a 20-pound sack of onions was chopped and cooked in something like 20 pounds of butter, to which five pounds of ancho peppers and a lot of tomato sauce were added. The men took turns stirring the pots with wooden boat oars. Propane was another newfangled innovation that was grudgingly accepted by Bolten and the traditionalists. "We used to build wood fires under the pots," said Grawunder. "But your pants got so hot standing next to the fire that nobody wanted to do the stirring." Grawunder wasn't sure how long the barbecue had been going on, but he had been part of the crew since 1958. "My father did it before me, and he died in 1955," he said. Bolten and Grawunder told me to talk to Allan "Cap" Hilboldt, the oldest active member of the society and its unofficial historian.
I found Cap Hilboldt at the long wooden table with the crew that was carving the barbecue. Some of the meat was hand-sliced, and some was cut on a Hobart electric slicer. The veteran barbecue man sharpened an old butcher's knife on a whetstone he carried in his pocket before he started slicing mutton. In the booklet published for the Millheim society's centennial celebration, I noticed that the schedule of events included "dinner consisting of Veal and Mutton Barbecue with all the trimmings." I asked Cap why pork, mutton and "veal" were the Texas barbecue meats back then.
Up until the 1950s, when refrigeration became common, whole sheep and small pigs were brought to the barbecue pit and slaughtered on the spot, Cap said. It was difficult to kill and butcher an 800-pound steer, so beef barbecue was rare — calves were easier to handle. The barbecue committee would drive around to neighboring farms looking at calves before buying a few and sending them to the butcher shop. "The calves were around 300 pounds live weight; they dressed out to somewhere around 175 pounds," Cap recalled. The meat market delivered the veal quarters, which weighed a little over 40 pounds each.
Beef shoulder clods, which weigh around 25 pounds apiece, have replaced the veal quarters. Whole sheep are still butchered, though they are cut into parts these days. Mutton hindquarters and mutton prime rib sections are among the largest cuts on the pit. Mutton ribs are the last items to be added. The whole shoats have been replaced by pork shoulders, which are also known as Boston butts.
The original Millheim hall was built in 1874. It was demolished and the lumber was used to build the new hall, which was erected in 1938. In its current form, Cap said, the Millheim Father's Day barbecue had been going on for more than 70 years.
My wife and our two toddlers met me at the Millheim dance hall shortly after eleven, when the serving line opened. There were three huge hotel pans full of sliced meat. "Beef" was printed on the paper tablecloth beside the first pan, beside it was "Pork" and next to that, "Mutton." The beef shoulder was pretty good, if you found a pinkish slice. The pork butt was a little dry for my tastes, but I'm picky since I've been eating a lot of whole hog lately. But the mutton was spectacular. Having watched the meat being carved, I knew to skip the hindquarters and look for the juicy slices from the lamb's prime rib. The buttery barbecue sauce was terrific, as were the pinto beans. Beer and soda were sold from two concession stands.
The all-you-eat barbecue was nine dollars for adults and half that for children. We carried our plates to a table inside the air-conditioned dance hall and sat down to eat while a guitar-and-accordion duo serenaded us. A band called The Lazy Farmers played polkas and waltzes in a pavilion outside while we waited in line for our food. Later on, a German singing society called the Houston Sängerbund was scheduled to perform.
Dessert was a selection of homemade cakes, pies, cobblers, brownies and the like for 50 cents a slice. My five-year-old put a dollar on the cake wheel and won a strawberry cake with cream cheese icing on her first try. Of course, she immediately wanted to do it again. (Try explaining the evils of gambling to a five-year-old with a strawberry cake in her hands.) The kids wanted to hang around for the auction so we could bid on the exotic chickens that were up for sale, but we went home shortly after lunch.
The Millheim Father's Day Barbecue is a fund-raiser for the preservation of the dance hall. There are similar community barbecue fund-raisers in the other old German dance halls in Austin County as well as a few volunteer fire departments and churches. But the barbecue crews are so short on volunteers, they have combined forces. The crew that cooked the barbecue at Millheim includes volunteers from the Peters, Cat Springs, and Industry barbecues. The same crew will rotate to all six community barbecues this year.
While community barbecues are plentiful, the old Southern barbecue tradition in the Brazos Valley may not last much longer. If you want to see and taste barbecue as it once was, you'd better do it soon. Check the "Community Barbecue Calendar" on the Web site ZenBBQ.com, where I've gathered information on upcoming community barbecues and information on how to volunteer.
Out by the cooking kettles where the barbecue sauce and beans were being transferred to serving pans, I asked head honcho James Grawunder if I could come and peel onions next year. "Sure you can — but you better not show up in those 'city pants,'" he said loudly while pointing at my shorts. The crew members, attired in blue jeans and boots to protect themselves from the hot coals, got a laugh out of that. They were mostly country boys from the local fire departments and county highway department, but there were black and Hispanic volunteers and a couple of younger guys in the group, and I didn't get the impression new blood wouldn't be welcome.
"We are always looking for new volunteers," Joseph Jez told me. The bearded Jez does his part to keep the tradition of community barbecue alive – he's the head of the volunteer crew at the Annual Mother's Day Barbecue in Peters, and he also helps out at the Annual Fridek Grotto celebration at St. Mary's, the Czech Catholic Church in Sealy.
There used to be a lot more community barbecues in Austin County, he said, but many of the old halls and lodges and fraternal organizations are closed now. "If we don't get more young people involved," Jez said, "the tradition is going to die out."


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Lately I've been obsessed with pleats! So I made this skirt with box pleats all around and a side zip.
It has two layers, the polka dotted one which was also used to make this top: http://www.burdastyle.com/projects/blouse-with-a-bow-and-handmade-buttonholes and the bottom layer is cream coloured fabric, like the waistband.
*The waistband doesn't fit that well, I made it from a rectangle and that isn't really the shape of me. If you have any tips or know a tutorial for drafting a fitted waistband, please let me know :)
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I love pleats too! For the fitted waistbands some times I make them by tracing fitted waistband from a rtw garment.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The Northeast Fencing Conference (NFC) recently announced its All-Conference Team as MIT received a trio of awards, including a pair of First-Team selections. Senior Spencer Sugimoto closed his career with an Institute-record fourth honor as he was chosen to the All-Conference Foil Second Team.
Igor Kopylov received his third league honor and second straight First-Team pick in sabre. Matt Gethers rounded out the Engineers with his second epee award and first First-Team selection.
Teams in the Northeast Fencing Conference include Boston College, Boston University, Brandeis University, Brown University, Dartmouth College, the University of Massachusetts, the University of New Hampshire, and Tufts University.


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Texas A&M International University's (TAMIU) spirit will come alive at the Laredo Entertainment Center as the University family celebrates TAMIU Day during a game between the Laredo Bucks and the Corpus Christi Rayz Sunday, March 8 at 4 p.m.
Tickets are $5 for TAMIU alumni, students, faculty and staff with presentation of TAMIU ID at the LEC Box Office. Regular ticket prices apply for the general public.
Mika Akikuni, TAMIU associate director of marketing, said the University and TAMIU Alumni Association are proud to co-host TAMIU Night with the Laredo Bucks as it celebrates community partnership and unites the University's growing alumni family during a fun event open to people of all ages.
"This is an annual opportunity for TAMIU to connect with our University alumni family as well as children, teens and adults of our community who are considering attending Laredo's only four-year University," Akikuni said, " It's a celebration of the shared values of higher education and the possibilities that a four-year University makes real. In these economically troubled times, the best news is TAMIU is right here at home."
The event will be fun with games and prizes and is also a chance for the University to encourage everyone to start thinking about Summer and Fall classes at TAMIU.
Summer I classes at TAMIU begin June 1.
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