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Saturday, January 30, 2010
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
I have been feeling really ill for several days. Don't feel like writing much more than that. Hopefully the next post will be more positive. Have a good day all!
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Sunday, January 24, 2010
MY take on Milan
MY take on Milan & Shadow...
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
BOY AM I PISSED AT THESE PEOPLE! Dognapping in Johnson City TN a FRAUD.
Yep, I'm ready to kick some proverbial ass here! While a nationwide network of dog rescuers eagerly retweet and blog to help, these losers are just lying to cover up their own shortcomings. I DO NOT LIKE BEING TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF, especially when it comes to FRAUDULANT DO-GOODERS.
Here's the story copied and pasted with video, or you can click on the headline link above.
Update 01/20/2010
Police report that Ashli Thomas, 24, of Newbern Drive, Johnson City has been arrested for filing a false police report.
Thomas originally told police and news reporters that she was stabbed by someone who dog-napped 12 dogs being housed at the Cool School for Dogs on Market Street.
According to the Johnson City Police, Thomas admitted she "made the story up because she had left the dogs unattended and had not been caring for the dogs properly."
The owners of the business, Brad and Tamara Josselyn, along with Thomas, have been charged with eight counts of animal cruelty.
Thomas is currently being held in the Washington County Detention Center under a $5,000 bond. She will appear in court tomorrow.
Update: 9:27 a.m; Dana Wachter:
Cool School for Dogs' owner, Brad Josselyn, and his niece, Ashli Thomas, say that in five years, they have never been robbed. The two are rattled about losing 12 dogs overnight. Thomas works there, and stays in an apartment at the business. She said she heard the dogs barking about 3:30 Tuesday morning. She said this is normal, but when they didn't stop barking, she went to investigate. She found the downstairs light on, which is unusual, and when she got downstairs, she saw a man at the back door. He was holding a knife, and he swung at her, slashing her side. The man got into a white utility van with no back windows, and the driver took off down W. Market street toward Jonesborough.
Josselyn says the backyard gate lock is gone, and the back door's lock had been busted. Thomas and Josselyn say there were nine Doberman Pinschers taken, one hound mix, one Black Lab, and one Miniature Pinscher. One dog had three legs, and another was blind. The dogs were all rescued, waiting to be adopted.
Thomas says a man came to their business Monday afternoon, telling her that he heard they sold Doberman Pinschers. She told him that they do not sell the dogs, but they rescue them, and they are available for adoption. The man asked how much one in particular would be, and Thomas said it was not for sale, but gave adoption fee information about other dogs. Thomas and Josselyn say they believe the man is connected to the robbery, but he was not the man who cut Thomas with a knife. Josslyn fears the dogs were stolen to be sold for research.
Some of the dogs that were stolen have micro-chips with barcodes, so if they are found, they can be scanned and returned home.
Update at 6:29 a.m.:
11 Connects's Dana Wachter reports police now think 12 dogs were stolen from Cool School for Dogs.
Here's the first report:
Johnson City Police are investigating a report that two men broke into a canine training school and boarding facility, stole nine dogs, and injured a woman.
The alleged crime happened at Cool School For Dogs, 3548 West Market Street, at about 4 a.m. Tuesday, police said.
According to a police bulletin issued by Washington County 9-1-1, a woman at the business was assaulted by two men who loaded 9 dogs into a white service van and left on Highway 11-E headed toward Greeneville. An emergency dispatcher told 11 Connects the woman was "cut" by the two men but later refused medical treatment.
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Labels: BIG FAT LIARS, dogs, JUST DISPICABLE, RESCUE, utter chaos
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
ALERT! STOLEN RESCUE DOGS! Pictures follow information
Our rescue has experienced a great tragedy. Someone broke into the Cool School For Dogs Puppy Dog Day Care and stole many of the rescue dogs that were being cared for there. There were mostly Dobermans taken and 3 other smaller dogs, in total 13 dogs.
We have no idea how many of these missing dogs were actually stolen as there is a possibility that some may have escaped out of the door and gate since the dogs were kept out in the playroom together and only a few were kenneled at the time. They could have traveled a very long distance, especially if someone found one and took it home to help it by looking for an owner or new home thinking it was a stray. Some of these dogs have very important medical issues that need to be addressed, including two that must have special supplements before eating meals or they cannot keep weight on their bodies. Some have been with us for a long time due to medical needs and others were recently rescued.
If you find one of these dogs please, please return it to us. We are offering a substantial reward for any of our dogs that are returned - no questions asked, we just want them back. There are families that are in the process of adopting a few of them and we want to get them in these wonderful forever homes.
If you know ANY information about where these dogs might be, have been taken, etc. please share that information with the local police. Anyone who may have seen something in this area, or may have other information about the crime, is asked to call the Johnson City Police Department at 423-434-6168 or Crimestoppers at 434-6158. To send an anonymous text message to the Johnson City Police: text 423JCPD and your tip to 847411 (tip411). You may also log onto www.citizenobserver.com.
If the people who took the dogs read this - please take the dogs somewhere safe, leave them and then call and let us know where we can find them. Take them somewhere safe and let the police know where they are so we can get them. Please know that the information about these dogs has reached every corner of the United States . Rescue people are a close and tight group of people who save animals every day and this has outraged everyone that someone would take these dogs! Dog lovers are outraged and spreading the word. They are looking everywhere for them so just PLEASE get them back to us!
If you happen to find one of these dogs - we understand that some people may be frightened by a Doberman but all of these are very friendly. They may be frightened, unsure of where they are when they show up near you. You can nicely talk to them and each and every one of them will willingly work with you, or you can call me at 423-773-8113 and we will send a volunteer immediately to get the dog!
Some of these dogs need medication, some are ill or injured and recovering, please look at them - most have very distinct looks, markings, etc.
Here are the dogs that are missing:
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Labels: dogs, heartaches, HELP, RESCUE
Saturday, January 16, 2010
MEMPHIS TN handsome lab will die Monday--foster desperately needed
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Friday, January 15, 2010
Look at this poor little chihuahua...
I'll be helping this poor little urchin get to rescue next week. His name is PRINCE BABE, an approximately 5-year old Chihuahua that was found in a box near an apartment complex. Here is what the foster mom wrote about Babe:
As you can see he is quite pitiful. However, he looks tremendously better than when I got him on 1/4/10. When they first saw him at Whitfield Animal Hospital on 12/30/09, he weighed 4 lbs. He now is 5 lbs. and 11 ounces. He has also had several medicated baths which help with the peeling skin - a by-product of bad nutrition and a bacterial infection. He is taking antibiotics, prednisone, and soloxine. The first few days I had him, he just slept. I woke him up to eat after which he would go potty (he uses puppy pads.) I didn't think that was healthy so I took him to Dalton Animal Care where they put him on the medications and advised the medicated baths. They also clipped his nails, cleaned his ears, etc. It didn't take but a day on the meds before he actually became alive. He still doesn't play - don't think he knows how, but he does get up and roam around the house and eats like a horse. He also loves to be held and petted.
Such a sad little guy. I hope after our "transport train" gets him to his destination that he will be loved and cherished, instead of abandoned in a box suffering from disease and malnutrition. I don't understand this behavior.
Posted by teresa at 1/15/2010 10:24:00 AM 1 comments
Labels: dogs, heartaches, RESCUE, sighs
Thursday, January 14, 2010
KEN SILVERSTEIN—Haiti: Media provides sanitized history for American audiences
KEN SILVERSTEIN—Haiti: Media provides sanitized history for American audiencesAs I noted here yesterday, much of the media coverage (including the blogosphere) of the tragedy in Haiti lacks any sort of historical perspective and makes it impossible to understand events in the country. Why is Haiti so poor? Marginal Revolution asked in a post yesterday. Among the answers were that "Haiti cut its colonial ties too early, rebelling against the French in the early 19th century and achieving complete independence"; and that "Haiti has higher than average levels of polygamy." . . .
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KNOXVILLE -OPPORTUNITY to help Haiti
You can help: RAM taking medical supplies to Haiti http://bit.ly/8zf9CW
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
you must watch this precious video--GoD and DoG
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Labels: dogs, gratitude, power of pets, video
Monday, January 11, 2010
Fence grazers and Pepper the fearful and anxious dog
I don't approve of Pepper terrorizing fence grazers, no matter how much they dislike her, so I immediately went to retrieve her. Instead of being very stern with her, yelling "No! No!" I've started getting her interested in coming to me, saying "nah-ah," and then playfully "come on, come here" as if to say "hey, these hugs are more fun than barking at them." Usually it works and in general works much better, but it took me maybe half of a minute to get her back to me. In the meantime, my neighbor, with full awareness of me trying to retrieve my dog, is throwing tree limbs at the fence. Of course this makes her more fearful and protective. I have also seen them squirt her with a hose...again while I am trying to call her back. This morning I had to say something, simply stating "don't throw things at her" with my "what is WRONG with you" face. I was merely met with a grimace. I was almost to her when he did this and I got her by the collar and said "c'mon, let's go back inside..." I had her sit and calm down in the process and got her back in.
Pepper will get used to people who want to be her friend (it takes a few visits), but she sees our neighbors as unfriendly intruders (unfriendly for sure) and so she throws her hackles up and does her best to look vicious. She does a good job.
So, I'm mad at my neighbors for being so rude and dog-stupid, and mad at myself for not doing a better job of socializing Pepper. I guess that makes me dog-stupid, too. She needs much more socialization than a normal dog. She is the most fearful dog I have ever met, but also one of the sweetest and smartest. I think that's why my little scared shepherd transport on Saturday got to me so badly. I could see a sweet, smart dog in there, but he was petrified.
Inside with us or outside sans fence grazers, she's a real joy. Pepper's real nature is obedient, sweet, gentle, and extremely smart. But she is very fearful and very hypervigilant (which vigilance is already a shepherd trait) and has been since being abandoned in a parking lot with her littermates. She's a little food/toy protective, but only toward our beagle Petey, and only vocally. I can imagine she remembers being very hungry as the runt of that litter of shepherds. We got her when she was 5 months old. She was afraid of stairs, doorways, strangers, everything, but I knew her true nature when she (covered in mud) bounded into my arms as soon as she had room to run at the rescue the day we met her. The only time she has growled at us is when we accidently scratched a tender spot too hard on her chest and she said "hey, quit that!" She never growls at us over having food or toys taken away. In general she's a big chicken. I've just now gotten her to the point where she won't pee when I try to get her into the bathtub for a bath! Thankfully she is so active that I don't have to trim her nails too often, because she goes off the deep end when you try to do that. We are going to have to have them trimmed when she gets her teeth cleaned next month!
So, I could have done better. I am a homebody and when I get home I'm in my castle with my beloved pets. My New Year's resolution is socialization, socialization, socialization. I don't know many people who love their pets more, but I'm not a perfect pet owner by any stretch of the imagination. I share this because if you're a homebody like me you HAVE to get your dogs out more. I've done my sweet Pepper a serious disservice in this way and I hate that other people see only her frightened (and frightening) side when her "territory" is encroached upon. I don't know that I can train this out of her, but I at least want her to feel secure when I tell her to ignore the neighbors or other frightening fence-grazers such as meter people or delivery peeps.
And while I have been feverishly writing this post about my neighbor's transgressions as dog-haters, and my own transgressions as a lazy dog owner, the slurping sounds did not register in my brain...Pepper has just eaten a big piece of cat crap out of the litter box. Nice.
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Labels: dogs, fearful dogs, heartaches, pet ownership woes and wags, RESCUE, sighs, utter chaos
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Saturday's Shepherd
Posted by teresa at 1/10/2010 03:39:00 PM 0 comments
Labels: dogs, RESCUE, ridiculously cute, Smidget the MINI
Friday, January 08, 2010
Pretty sure my cats are also this thoughtful. Thanks.
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Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Yep, that's where they go!
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Saturday, January 02, 2010
Tissues please... A beautiful little clip on rescue
A heartwarming and inspiring video on how one person can make a
difference in the life of a shelter dog. http://digg.com/d11EFEL
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FYI, since not everyone realizes this,
No matter how you do it:
-By putting spaces, periods, or other characters between the letters
-By dropping the vowel or the middle letters of the word <<<<this happens a lot, pay attention
-Or by using any other tricks which I will not describe here ;-)
All of this is evading the filter, and is against the rules.
I'd like to mute fewer people, duct-tape is not cheap. So help me out, and yourself. Just don't curse in this game, it's that simple.


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Okay I had better explain quickly before you think I have a foul mouth 4 year old!!!! Look Closely and you will see only TWO asterisks after the "F" in this months Blog Title. NO NO NO she did not use the "F" word you think... or she might not still be alive,lol!!!! She has learned the word FAT!!!! And if you know me... YOU KNOW that's just as bad as the real "F" word. I can't stand the word fat, it's so hurtful to so many and leaves scares last last way longer than a true physical scar. Somebody, who I wont name (UNCLE ERIC!!!!) showed her the Fat Face App on his I-phone and then she got hooked on that commercial for the Wt loss center in Little Rock that shows all the belly pics and says "LOSE THE FAT, Get the Skinny on weight loss at our center!" She has used it NUMEROUS times in the last month and we had SEVERAL TALKS what a not nice word that is, and how it hurts peoples feelings and how there are MANY MANY other ways to talk about people's size. We are religious Biggest Loser Watchers!!! WE LOVE IT!!! She asks a hundred questions about why those people are there and why they look the way the do. I try to keep things very simple and just say they are there because they chose to eat unhealthy too much, and they just didn't get outside enough to play. We've talked about how these people are "unhealthy" and I've been telling her that even people who look healthy on the outside may not be on the healthy on the inside if they eat too much fast food, candy, and drink sodas all the time. She is slowly starting to get the picture... I think!!!!! Only 5 months till we are 5 years old!!!! Looking so grown up these days!Such a silly girl these days!LOVE you Claire Bear!!!! head to the left....thenhead to the right ;)Sunday we headed to Glenwood to Aunt Paige's baby shower!!!! We are sooo happy for her and Uncle Jody and we CAN'T WAIT to meet baby Greer (or Rear as MC says,lol)!!!!Last Saturday I ran another 5K and I placed 3rd for my age division. I came home and showed MC my medal and she said... "momma is that your medal?" I told her YES!! And she said... "Momma You're AWESOME!!!!!" I couldn't believe she was so proud of me, just made my heart BURST into a MILLION pieces!!!!!!
The last has been an extremely hard one for me. Three weeks ago I had to watch one of my dearest friends bury her baby boy at very young age. Her two boys were close in age like MC and Kinley Beth. My heart just broke for her, I couldn't sleep and couldn't make it through the day without crying for her. I can't even begin to imagine how hard this is for her. She would call me just in tears....to the point where I couldn't even understand her. All I could do was cry with her. I have no idea why God takes children from their mommas. And I know we are to trust in him 100% and not question his action, but as humans we can't help but wonder and question things like this. I know heaven is a wonderful, perfect place. And I know her son is at rest, has peace, and is happy! But as a mother it's hard to imagine life on this earth without your babies!!!! I say all this to say.... love your babies, hug and kiss them daily because we aren't guaranteed anything except an ETERNAL life with God our Father in Heaven!!!!


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New Legal Assistance Program for Low-Income Households Facing Foreclosure
Oregon Housing and Community Services and Legal Aid Services of Oregon launch new program providing no-cost legal assistance to eligible households facing foreclosure.
Salem, OR – November 21, 2012 – (RealEstateRama) — Low-income homeowners and renters affected by foreclosure now have access to new a statewide service that provides free legal assistance from an attorney to help address urgent foreclosure issues.
Oregon Housing and Community Services (OHCS) has contracted with Legal Aid Services of Oregon (LASO) to develop and deliver the new program. The statewide service will be offered both over the phone and in person from offices in Portland, Medford, Hillsboro, Eugene and Bend.
Interested households can call 1-855-412-8828 toll-free or 503-227-0198 in Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas counties to learn more about the program. Intake specialists will screen callers for income eligibility and will refer qualified households to an available attorney. Program phone lines are staffed between 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., and 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. Assistancecan be provided in English and Spanish, with additional translation services available if necessary.
Program phone lines are not staffed by attorneys and intake specialists cannot give legal advice.
The program is funded by a May 2012 legislative appropriation, utilizing proceeds from the National Mortgage Settlement, settled in part by the State of Oregon's Department of Justice.
In addition, OHCS and LASO are developing a referral program to provide legal assistance to moderate income households, utilizing sliding-scale and pro-bono assistance from private attorneys. This component of the program will provide moderate income households the opportunity to have a free one hour consultation with an attorney, with additional representation offered at a discounted rate.
Information about the program will be posted as it develops at OregonHomeownerSupport.gov.
Interested households can learn more about accessing legal assistance and other foreclosure prevention programs by visiting OregonHomeownerSupport.gov. For additional foreclosure prevention assistance interested person can also visit the above website or dial 211 toll-free from any phone in Oregon.
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SEMINOLE, Fla. (AP) _ President Barack Obama on Saturday pronounced Republicans "dead wrong'' for calling America a country in decline, offering a rebuttal to the "naysayers'' who drew attention to the nation's staggering debt and anemic job growth. Republican rival Mitt Romney said there's nothing wrong that a new president can't fix.
Both clawed for advantage in a post-convention push through some of the most closely contested states, Obama on a Florida bus tour, Romney rallying in Virginia, opening the homestretch to the election in less than two months.
Obama told a spirited rally that America's "basic bargain'' is at stake in the election, the promise that "if you work hard it will pay off.'' He pledged to make education more affordable, reduce dependence on foreign oil and slash deficits "without sticking it to the middle class'' if he gets another term.
He reached for some Ronald Reagan-like optimism in hard times, telling his audience that much about America is essentially right.
"When our opponents say this nation is in decline they are dead wrong,'' he said. "This is America. We still have the best workers in the world and the best entrepreneurs in the world. We've got the best scientists and the best researchers. We've got the best colleges and the best universities.''
He went on: "We are a young nation with the greatest diversity of talent and ingenuity from every corner of the globe so no matter what the naysayers may say for political reasons, no matter how dark they try to make everything look, there's not a country on Earth that wouldn't gladly trade places with the United States of America.''
Days earlier, GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan noted that the national debt was reported to have passed $16 trillion on the first day of the Democratic convention. "That's a country in decline,'' Ryan said. Unemployment remains stubbornly high, clocking in at 8.1 percent on Friday and keeping joblessness and economic weakness on the boil as top campaign issues.
Romney drew cheers in a Navy town when he pledged to strengthen the armed forces and roll back future defense cuts that he blamed on Obama but were negotiated between the president and congressional Republican leaders.
"We must have a military second to none,'' he told the Virginia Beach rally. "I will maintain our military commitment.'' He also plans to expand the naval fleet.
Reciting the Pledge of Allegiance, Romney went through it phrase by phrase to suggest Obama has fallen short of its promise in a nation with painfully high unemployment, millions more on food stamps, and one in six people in poverty. "How can a nation so prosperous stand by with such a national tragedy?'' he asked. "That is not `justice for all.'''
His answer: "We're going to have to get a new president.''
Obama opened a two-day bus tour in Florida, campaigning in a state with the highest elderly population and an unemployment rate of 8.8 percent, higher than the national average.
As both candidates enter the sprint to the election, Romney is casting Obama as an inept steward of the nation's post-recession recovery. It's a portrayal Obama has been fighting for months as the unemployment rate sticks stubbornly above 8 percent.
On Friday, the government reported that employers added just 96,000 jobs in August and that, aided by frustrated job hunters giving up, the jobless rate dropped only marginally from 8.3 percent the month before.
Obama is countering by presenting himself as a champion of the middle class and by repeatedly decrying Romney's economic remedies as failed throwbacks that would further endanger the economy.
But Obama is also eager to turn the debate away from the economy and on to issues that favor Democrats. Obama repeatedly reminds audiences that Romney's running mate has proposed to overhaul Medicare, the government health program for older Americans, with a voucher-like system that could cost beneficiaries more out of their pocket.
Obama's team says the Medicare argument could help attract undecided voters approaching retirement age, more so than elderly voters whose political views are already set.
Obama's visit to Florida is his first since Romney and the GOP held their convention in Tampa last month. With 29 electoral votes, the state is a lynchpin in both candidates' strategies for winning the election.
Romney and Obama are deadlocked in Virginia, where the Democrat is strong in the northern suburbs of Washington, D.C., and Romney does better in the south and rural areas.
Romney sees working-class white voters, who have at times voted for moderate Democrats such as Sen. Mark Warner, as ripe for picking. Polls suggest those voters prefer Romney over Obama. Romney was visiting a NASCAR race in Richmond later Saturday, a nod to this potentially pivotal voting bloc in Virginia.
Deep spending cuts, including to the armed forces, are to begin automatically next year unless Congress negotiates a debt-reduction package. Obama has opposed the depth of the cuts but has said Republicans need to adopt a plan that includes increases in revenue.


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Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com A Swedish expedition team has found an unidentified object at the bottom of the Baltic Sea, leaving some to believe it's the remnants of an extra-terrestrial ship. Scientists went off on a deep-water dive to debunk some theories about the underwater object, but were left…
have yet to confirm that Obama is being ordered by the military to an underground bunker for DEFCON 1 and "Cocked Pistol" exercise – slash – fear porn as stated at the bottom of the page. The reason for my suspicion is recently learning the European Times story where this information comes from is actually a Sorcha Faal article, Faal is well known for being a disinformation operation.
Now, Obama will be in Colorado with his family – which probably is more troublesome, why are they leaving home in DC to meet him there, while skipping out on other campaign stops? Also the U.N, U.K. and U.S. Congress are all on vacation at that time. Germany's President has an empty schedule. And not only is Obama in Colorado on Sept 27 so is NASA, and there will be a whole plethora of interesting conferences taking place that weekend in Denver – including the Homeland Security Symposium. Now that sounds like fun! Interesting to note that comet Elenin alignment date is Sept 27 which is the Tuesday Obama is in Denver, in addition most of the conferences below start on Monday 26th. Instead of going Thur-Sun which is the normal schedule for most conferences.
At one point it was said that when world leaders, top CEO's and the ruling elite all start to go in hiding at once that it was time to get concerned….hmmmm.
by Gregg Prescott, M.S.
World Leaders Will Be In Recess During Elenin Alignment on September 26-27, 2011 | in5d Alternative News | in5d.com |In a strange coincidence of anomalies, many world leaders and politicians will be in recess during the next alignment with 'Comet' Elenin.
The United Nations has an empty schedule from September 23rd through October 10th, 2011.
The UK Parliament is in recess from September 15th through October 10th, 2011.
The United States Congress is on vacation from September 25th through October 2nd, 2011.
Germany's President's schedule is empty after September 25, 2011.
In a related story, there are many scheduled conferences in Colorado, where one of the world's largest Deep Underground Military Bunkers (D.U.M.B.s) is located:
2011 ACEEE National Conference on Energy Efficiency as a Resource
September 25, 2011 – September 27, 2011
Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center
Denver, CO
The Coca-Cola Company, NatureWorks and Cereplast headline the Biopolymers Symposium
September 26-28, 2011
ControlLogix and RSLogix 5000 Training Seminar
September 27-29, 2011
September 26-27, 2011
2011 Homeland Security Symposium
September 26-27, 2011
6th Annual Biopolymers Symposium
September 26-28, 2011
Strategies for Justice Conference
September 26-30, 2011
2011 Kentico Connection – Denver
September 26-30, 2011
EcoSys EPC (Enterprise Planning & Controls)
September 25-26, 2011
Annual Educational Networking Conference
September 25-27, 2011
NASA Lands in Colorado With International Space Station Events
September 21-27, 2011
Additionally, a report from the European Union Times states the following:
A disturbing report prepared by General Alexey Maslov, the Senior Military Representative of the Permanent Mission of Russia to NATO, states that he has been notified by the Americans of their plan to hold a DEFCON 1 "Cocked Pistol" maximum readiness alert drill on 27 September which will be overseen by President Obama at one the United States most secure bunkers located beneath the Denver International Airport.
(As noted above I have yet to confirm that the DEFCON 1 and Cocked Pistol information is true, not Sorcha Faal fear porn)
This video really makes you realise what strange things have happened over the past few months and what may be ahead.
Check out Dutchsinse youtube channel, he has been looking at weather modification and has some of the most up-to-date earthquake information on the web at the moment. There IS a pattern which he is backing up with excellent research although there seems to be some backlash to him personally, however, at the moment he seems alarmingly accurate.


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I'm one of the ever increasing breed of part-time workers and freelancers. In the past twelve months I have worked for five different organisations including the British Museum, Geffrye Museum, Sir John Soane Museum, National Army Museum and at Hackney Museum for the Building Exploratory. The most difficult part of my job is remembering where to head to each morning!
For this Day of Archaeology post I'd like to present to you the 'Create a Canopic Jar' children's workshop that I'm running at the Sir John Soane Museum. Truly a fabulously quirky and endlessly fascinating museum, if you haven't been I highly recommend it (although be careful of the queues for their candle-lit openings).
The workshop description is thus:
"Explore the Ancient Egyptian secrets of mummification and look at the magnificent sarcophogus of Seti I. Then make your own Canopic Jar fit for a Pharaoh."
It caters for 10 children who will spend the day with me in the Soane Museum and their education space. The workshop itself will take place in early August but the preparations began far in advance. It was over a year ago that I came up with this concept and was booked in to run the workshop. In the last few months I have been planning the workshop logistics, creating material lists & resource, and, most importantly, doing a test run. Always important to do a test run! As well as seeking out potential problems it also helps to refine the process, you can work out where breaks should be (lunch time is a sacred time that no workshop must impinge on!), write process lists and make sure you know what's what and when to do what.
And, with a workshop like this, you get to get your hands dirty (I used to be a fieldwork archaeologist, I miss the mud), so doing a test run is even more appealing!
So, test run day came and, with much excitement and a little trepidation (I've never worked with modrock before and my modelling skills aren't exactly world renowned) I began to create my own canopic jar.
Advisory notice: No organs were harmed in the making of this post.
Materials I had to hand: modrock (like the stuff they use to bandage broken limbs), newspaper, masking tape (vital!), empty plastic squash bottle (although my Mother, when looking at my pictures of the test run, thought that it was a glass bottle and asked me if I should use glass with children… I am a professional you know…), bowl, tepid water, yeowling cat (I threatened him with mummification but he didn't seem worried).
Step 1: Make a newspaper tube that will enable the head to be slotted into the top of the squash bottle.
Step 2: On the top of the aforementioned newspaper tube create the head of the canopic jar as a ball of newspaper. Make ears and any other features for the head. Liberal use of masking tape is advised.
Can you guess which head I'm making yet?
Step 3: Masking tape ears and other features to head ball.
Step 4: Check the head fits snuggly into the squash bottle. At this point you may need to tape the squash bottle down with duct tape, I didn't do this. Cue 'hilarious' moments during the next few steps of balancing squash bottles whilst modrocking, gently pushing cat from under feet and needing at least four arms.
Step 5: Quick cup of tea – necessary preparation as tepid water is needed so you might as well have tea as well. Put a layer of newspaper on the counter and put tepid water in a bowl (I suggest one that isn't precious to you). Now wrap the head carefully in modrock.
Step 6: Stand back and admire your work so far.
Step 7: Modrock the squash bottle, one layer is enough. Give the cat a treat so that he stops trying to interfere with the artistic proces.
Step 8: Voila! Canopic jar is complete! Well, except for adding painted decoration, but my workshop is only one day and so the children won't have time to do this. They will design on paper the head decoration and can complete this at home once the modrock is totally dry.
At this stage it is also advisable to ignore certain family members who liken your creation to Bugs Bunny.
I am also devising other activities that will complement this workshop and help to fill the whole day. These include creating card collars for the jars (dual purpose – will be decorated like Egyptian necklaces but also serve to hide the join between head and bottle), the design of the decorated head, a tour round the museum and a discussion of the practice of mummification (to highlight not just the process but the reasoning behind it).
Workshops like this are designed to enthuse, occupy, interest, create learning opportunities and engage.


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It's slow driving into Beit Ula, west of Hebron. The road is filled with cars, trailing behind a transport ambulance. They continue to round the narrow street corners, before coming to a roadblock. The men of village have filled the street outside the family home of Amin Mahmoud Aqell. The women of the village are gathered around Amin's mother, Aida Mahmmoud Aqell as she views her son for the last time.
The moment seems brief, as the men lift up the Red Crescent stretcher Amin lays on, wrapped in the Palestinian and Fatah flag with his head framed by a white Keffiyeh. They march back through the narrow streets, past cars displaying posters commemorating 19-year-old Amin Mahmoud Aqell, towards the village mosque for Friday prayer, chanting Al Quds is Palestinian. It's a political funeral. Amin is a political martyr.
As the second Friday of Rage (Dec 15) after Trump's Jerusalem announcement came and passed, so too did another four Palestinian lives, two in Gaza and two near Ramallah in the West Bank. The media attention and outrage across the world regarding the death of wheelchair- bound Ibrahim Abu Thurayeh in Gaza who was shot by a sniper in the head seems to have clouded the scenario surrounding Amin's death.
The neighbour of Amin's family, Nora Al Adm explained Amin had been protesting at Beit El checkpoint, north of Ramallah everyday, "the same as other boys." "This happened when Trump announced Jerusalem was Israel's. It's crazy. It's a shock for his mother and sister. Trump is a bad person, he's not thinking," Adm said sadly. Amin's mother, Aida Mahmmoud Aqell said she told him not to go out [and protest] because the situation is so bad. "He replied, 'don't worry, the thing that God writes, will happen.' My heart felt something when he said that and he left," Aida remembered. "He was killed because of Al Aqsa and Al Quds," Aida said.
Amin had been standing by a group of press photographers for some time before running towards an IDF soldier and stabbing him with a small knife. A local photographer told Palestine Monitor Amin had not spoken to the journalists the whole time he stood with them.
Videos circulating online show IDF soldiers shooting Amin several times, even after he was already wounded. Once Amin was on the ground, his jacket flew open, revealing what looked like an explosive belt, shocking the soldiers and forcing them to retreat back. As Red Crescent workers tried to get close to Amin to transfer him to an ambulance, the soldiers continued to shoot around him, blocking their way. Once he was finally in the ambulance, the IDF prevented them from leaving, forcing paramedics to transfer him to a civilian car to get him to the hospital.
Israel Police National Spokesman to the foreign media, Superintendent Micky Rosenfeld told Palestine Monitor there was an ongoing investigation, but at this point, "it is a fake explosive device." "The Red Crescent whipped him away very quickly, so we couldn't see the device," Superintendent Rosenfeld said. Their investigation is based on photos circulating from AP and Reuters. "From what we understand from the photos and materials and footage, there was a fake explosive device wrapped around him, but wires could be seen making it highly suspicious that it was an explosive device, so the investigations will continue," Superintendent Rosenfeld stated.
Aida and Amin's sister, Mais Mahmmoud Aqell, said they didn't know anything about the belt he was wearing or the knife. "He's a silent person, he doesn't speak about anything, he's secret," Aida said. Adm also said the belt wasn't real. "It's fake. He got an idea like the others, to go to Beit El to free Palestine, he would do anything," Adm said, when questioned as to why he would wear a fake belt.
Amin's father died eight months ago from an illness. "Since his father died, his heart turned off," Aida expressed. Amin, in his first year of a law degree at the time of death, wanted to study design in Germany. "His father was planning to send him there but he died. Amin felt frustration after his father's death," Aida continued. "When he died, the hope disappeared," Amin's sister, Mais confirmed.
It's a consuming story, with questions that may never be answered. Why would someone wear a fake explosive belt in the middle of a clash where live ammunition was being used? Had Amin drawn attention to himself by stabbing a soldier, knowing he would be shot, because of the hope he had lost after losing his father? Some of the photographers at the scene were convinced the explosive belt was real though. With one journalist mentioning Amin continued to push on the belt once he was on the ground, as if trying to set something off.
Amin's mother, Aida, continued to say she was proud of him. It seems difficult to get a non-political statement from family members around the time of a martyr's funeral. "I don't feel anything, I can only pray in the mosque," Aida said, when asked how she felt. Walking outside the family home, Amin's sister, Mais, rips a poster of him off one of the cars and stares at it while she walks, seemingly angry. "I feel very sad, but half sad and half proud, because he was fighting for Palestine," Mais expressed.
With many news wires and local TV stations in attendance at the funeral, it is interesting to think how this sort of coverage can affect the true emotional narrative told by the family. They surely do find comfort that their children and brothers are home with Allah, but their state of being proud almost has to overcome the healthy feeling of grief.
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Better still, Headley said, he's pain-free, already knee-deep in baseball activities and plans on making a Minor League rehabilitation appearance next week.
"It feels good, really good," Headley said before the Padres opened a three-game series against the D-backs at Petco Park.
Headley, who suffered an injury to the same calf in an infield drill in Spring Training, said the extent of this injury wasn't nearly as bad.
Headley left a game on April 24 against the Nationals after straining the calf running to first base. He knew right away this wouldn't be like the injury he suffered during February when he needed crutches to get around the day after suffering the strain.
There was some confusion last week if the strain Headley suffered in spring was to his left calf, but it was indeed his right calf again.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Budget negotiators in the U.S. Congress on Tuesday were wrapping up a tentative deal on a budget plan to avoid a January 15 government shutdown, amid warnings from conservative groups that they would oppose it.
The plan does not purport to be any "grand bargain" that would slash the federal deficit.
It remains uncertain whether it will pass both houses of Congress. But if it does, it could put an end for the time being to dramatic budget standoffs that have rattled markets in the past, allowing lawmakers to write annual spending bills in a more orderly fashion. Congress has not enacted a budget bill since 2009.
Democratic Senator Patty Murray and Republican Representative Paul Ryan were planning to meet in the Capitol to sign off on the accord, although their respective staffers were still ironing out some important details, according to one Senate aide.
Another Senate aide said that Murray, who chairs the Senate Budget Committee, will brief fellow Democrats on the outline of the plan at a closed-door lunch that is scheduled to begin at around 12:30 p.m. (1730 GMT).
Over the past several weeks, Murray and Ryan have been hammering out a two-year budget deal that attempts to put an end to the budget chaos that has kept Democrats and Republicans in constant warfare since 2011. That warfare led to last October's 16-day government shutdown when agencies ran out of money.
Barbara Mikulski, who heads the Senate Appropriations Committee that would have to carry out any budget deal, told reporters: "I am cautiously optimistic that we have a deal."
Nevertheless, Murray and Ryan were still working on one of the thorniest parts of the accord: reductions in federal workers' retirement benefits that would help pay for slightly higher government spending on programs, including military ones.
Democrats "are working to minimize … the size of the cut that Ryan has sought," said one Senate aide.
Ryan "is still working with Senator Murray to cut spending in a smarter way. They haven't reached an agreement yet," said William Allison, a Ryan spokesman.
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Americans for Prosperity, which supports cutting taxes and government spending, called on congressional Republicans to "stand firm" in upholding a second round of across-the-board automatic spending cuts, which are scheduled to start in January.
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Club for Growth is waiting for the content of any deal before it passes judgment, said Barney Keller, a spokesman for the influential conservative group. Club for Growth has opposed past efforts to replace sequester that involved delaying the cuts.
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Democrats also have been pushing for an extension of federal benefits for the long-term unemployed, which are set to expire at the end of this month. Republicans have voiced opposition to the extension, citing a falling jobless rate.
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In addition we will be installing the Birmingham sensors in the same area in the week commencing 22nd August 2011. I have just booked the machine which will excavate and backfill the trench.
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Here's why: The FCC has allowed the American television Industry, which I like to call "a content provider," because the Internet has changed everything. They don't know what to call themselves either. The federal government, through its oversight of the FCC, has allowed the content providers to do three things with us and our image. These will have a devastating impact on American Indians economically, and we don't yet know the negative social and psychological impact to generations of American Indian children.
First, the FCC allows the content providers to call us a minority, which really chaps me because the government knows we are not. We are social and political entities—separate and distinct from America.
So, now we have to compete with all the real minorities—blacks, Latinos, Asians and gays—for the scraps. We don't even get a bone.
The second screwy thing the FCC allows the content providers to do with us is to determine that we don't matter, since in the world of television, it's all about numbers. When television moguls look at us, they see only a tiny percentage of the United States. They think in terms of much larger groups: such as age groups, women and large minority groups such as blacks and Latinos. Marketing and advertising makes the TV world go round, so the more numbers you have the louder your squeak and the more grease you get. We don't have the numbers that advertisers desire.
My partner Sonny Skyhawk and I have been running our heads into those slamming doors for years. It wouldn't bother me so much if it weren't for two things: being on television is important for us as a people—and their demographics are a damn lie!
The third thing that the FCC allows the content providers to do with us is the sickest of all. They allow them to determine who is an Indian. This is why you're children don't see people like us on TV. Here's what I think we need to do about it:
The FCC has dumped us into the minority diversity pile within the media industry and the content providers don't have the experience or knowledge of the complicated U.S.-Indian relationship to know that we are not a minority. This is very important. We share a government-to-government relationship with the United States, a classification far more detailed and complicated than with any minority. American Indians are the only racial, ethnic or religious group in America to be addressed in the American Constitution. Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 reads: "The Congress shall have Power to … regulate commerce … with the Indian tribes." This clause forms the basis for Congressional lawmaking authority regarding the tribes, and the unique tribal-federal government relationship. The concept of the Indian desk has been established throughout the U.S. government, and the private sector has long been mandated by Congress to the needs of American Indians when it comes to economic development in the form of set-asides. This logic should apply to the content providers.
Television can open new doors to "Commerce" between American Indians and main-stream America; a relationship that would greatly help tribes to help themselves. So where is Congress, the Supremes and the FCC when it comes to helping Indians with Commerce and the respect we deserve by the TV Providers when it comes to television?
The Bureau of Indian Affairs' mishandling of our mineral management was a hellish fiasco (Cobell), but it's just the tip of the iceberg if you consider how much revenue we're losing because we're not part of mainstream America and its commerce. This is where the FCC's role to serve the underserved falls apart. Natives are the bottom of the group and we get nothing—no channels, no programming, no advertizing, no jobs. Indigenous people in America are left out of the picture with too few numbers for the content providers to be bothered, and the FCC is not correcting the situation. The correction will cost the content providers greatly, but not as much as it has cost us.
What's at stake? We are being denied a powerful tool that would allow us to confront and correct misconceptions about us. We also lack a national platform to share with one another critical information and solutions to problems. Television is a powerful tool in addressing these problems! Another critical issue is one of our images itself. Who has controlled our image(s), who controls our image now and who will? We have watched others lay out and define issues about us, and it's about time we take control of our own image. Television would be a good start.
We need American Indian media visionaries on an FCC committee. The FCC has no Indian experience, and hey, why would they? One or two tribes are making plans to spend millions on their reservation to get a small percentage of their membership hooked up to television in rural and remote places; in reality this is a pork project. After spending millions they will find they have the cart before the horse, because they have no Native-oriented content to broadcast. So even after these tribes get their televisions, they still won't see Indians on them. But they will see plenty of what white people think Indians are.
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The Cardinals have three consecutive shutouts for the first time since April 2013. St. Louis, with 13 shutouts this season, was coming off 5-0 victories over Toronto on Saturday and Sunday.
Tampa Bay has been blanked an AL-leading 10 times. The Rays, who have lost 14 of 15, have not scored in 28 innings.
Wainwright (9-3) scattered seven hits over seven innings. Trevor Rosenthal got four outs, including a bases-loaded pop fly by Matt Joyce in the eighth, for his 17th save.
Matt Holliday put the Cardinals ahead with his fourth homer, a long drive to left-center in the sixth off tough-luck loser Jake Odorizzi (2-7).
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Collin Cowgill hit a two-out homer in the 14th inning and Los Angeles outlasted Oakland for its fifth consecutive victory.
Josh Hamilton drove in Mike Trout in the sixth for the Angels, who bounced back after Yoenis Cespedes kept it tied in the eighth by cutting down Howie Kendrick at the plate with a 300-foot throw on the fly from deep down the left-field line.
Cowgill connected against Jeff Francis (0-1), driving a two-strike pitch just over Cespedes' head into the bullpens beyond left field.
Nick Punto doubled and scored the tying run on Jed Lowrie's sacrifice fly in the eighth for the A's, who have lost four of six. Los Angeles trimmed Oakland's lead in the AL West to 2 1/2 games.
Cory Rasmus (2-0) pitched two hitless innings for Los Angeles' maligned bullpen, which yielded one run in eight innings.
SEATTLE (AP) — Jacoby Ellsbury lined an RBI single on an 0-2 pitch to score Derek Jeter with the go-ahead run in the eighth inning, sending New York past Seattle.
Ellsbury extended his hitting streak to 14 games "" the longest for a Yankees player since Jeter's 19-game streak in 2012 "" and gave New York its fourth victory in 11 games. Ellsbury's hit came after Jeter's ground-rule double ended the night for Mariners starter Hisashi Iwakuma (4-3), who had not been threatened since the first inning.
Dellin Betances (4-0) got the win in relief of starter Vidal Nuno despite giving up the lead in the seventh on Dustin Ackley's RBI single.
TORONTO (AP) — Brian Dozier hit a two-run home run, Kevin Correia won for the first time in four starts and Minnesota beat Toronto.
Newly signed slugger Kendrys Morales had two hits and scored a run as the Twins avoided falling a season-worst five games below .500.
The Blue Jays were shut out for the third time in four games.
Correia (3-7) allowed six hits, walked one and struck out one in six innings. It was his first scoreless outing since Aug. 27, 2013, with seven innings against Kansas City.
J.A. Happ (5-3) lost for the second time in three starts for Toronto, allowing four runs, three earned, and six hits in 3 2-3 innings. He walked three and struck out three.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Jason Vargas cooled down hot-hitting Cleveland, Eric Hosmer hit a two-run homer and Kansas City held on to beat the Indians.
Hosmer also drove in a run during a four-run fourth inning. Alex Gordon homered in the eighth and Mike Moustakas hit a two-run shot later that inning as the Royals (32-32) moved back to .500 by matching their second-best run total of the season.
Vargas (6-2) gave up six hits and hit three batters with pitches, but didn't allow a run until Jason Kipnis drove in a pair with a two-out double in the eighth. Aaron Crow got four outs for his first save of the season.
Corey Kluber (6-4), who dominated the Royals earlier this season, allowed six runs "" three earned "" and six hits over five innings.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Doug Fister flipped the script from his previous start in San Francisco during the 2012 World Series, tossing seven scoreless innings to help Washington beat Madison Bumgarner.
Bumgarner and the Giants foiled Fister and the Detroit Tigers 2-0 in Game 2 of their Series sweep. The rematch at AT&T Park played out in Fister's favor.
Jayson Werth and Denard Span each drove home a run in the fifth to snap Bumgarner's career-best, six-game winning streak. Werth also threw out a runner at the plate from right field in the sixth.
Fister (5-1) allowed eight hits and walked one in his fifth straight win.
Tyler Clippard escaped a jam in the eighth and Rafael Soriano gave up a run in the ninth before earning his 13th save. Washington has won three in a row and nine of 11.
Bumgarner (8-4) yielded eight hits in seven innings. He hadn't lost since April 28 against San Diego.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Anthony Rizzo homered, doubled twice and drove in three runs to lead Chicago over Pittsburgh, spoiling Gregory Polanco's much-anticipated debut.
Rizzo hit a two-run homer in the first inning off Francisco Liriano, who left in the fourth with discomfort on his right side. Rizzo also doubled and scored in the fourth and hit an RBI double in the seventh, a drive to deep right-center that struck Polanco's left wrist as the touted rookie tried to make the catch.
Polanco went 1 for 5 after getting called up from Triple-A Indianapolis, where the right fielder was leading the International League with a .347 batting average and 49 RBIs in 62 games.
Pinch-hitter Luis Valbuena's two-run double off Casey Sadler (0-1) broke a 3-all tie in the sixth.
Travis Wood (6-5) allowed three runs and nine hits in 6 2-3 innings.
Andrew McCutchen hit a two-run homer for the Pirates.
CINCINNATI (AP) — Josh Beckett allowed two hits in six shutout innings, Hanley Ramirez hit a two-run single and Los Angeles defeated Cincinnati in a game delayed more than 2 hours by rain.
Beckett (4-3) also singled in a three-run fifth for the Dodgers, who have won three straight and four of five. The right-hander, who had endured two consecutive 2-1 losses since his no-hitter May 25 in Philadelphia, finished with seven strikeouts and one walk.
Mike Leake (3-6) allowed five runs and a season-high nine hits in 5 1-3 innings. Leake, who lost seven games last season, had seven strikeouts and one walk.
Reds first baseman Joey Votto went 1 for 3 in his return from the disabled list after missing 23 games.
DENVER (AP) — Andrelton Simmons hit his first career grand slam as part of a seven-run first inning, and Atlanta outslugged Colorado at Coors Field.
Evan Gattis had a home run among his three hits and Freddie Freeman also homered for the Braves, who set season highs for runs and hits (16).
Atlanta slugger Justin Upton left early with a strained left hamstring. He is day to day.
The teams combined for 29 hits and neither starter made it out of the fifth. David Hale (2-0) pitched 2 1-3 innings of relief for the win. Craig Kimbrel struck out the side in the ninth for his 18th save in 21 chances.
Wilin Rosario homered for Colorado, which has lost 10 of 11 and 15 of 18 to fall six games under .500. Juan Nicasio (5-5) allowed 10 runs and 11 hits in 3 2-3 innings.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A.J. Burnett threw 7 1-3 sharp innings and Marlon Byrd hit a three-run homer in Philadelphia's victory over San Diego.
Back from a 1-5 trip that left them tied with the Cubs for the worst record in the NL, the Phillies opened a six-game homestand with their 13th win at Citizens Bank Park.
Burnett (4-5) allowed two runs and three hits to earn his first win since May 20. Jonathan Papelbon left the bases loaded in a scoreless ninth to record his 300th career save, becoming the 26th pitcher to reach that mark. He has 14 consecutive saves after blowing his first try.
Will Venable hit a solo homer for the Padres. Ian Kennedy (5-7) gave up five runs and seven hits in seven innings.
NEW YORK (AP) — Taylor Teagarden hit a grand slam in his Mets debut, Daniel Murphy had a two-run shot and New York beat Milwaukee to snap a six-game skid.
Called up from Triple-A Las Vegas on Sunday to replace demoted catcher Travis d'Arnaud, Teagarden connected for his second career slam after Marco Estrada walked the bases loaded in the sixth.
Daisuke Matsuzaka (3-0) pitched six effective innings and Murphy homered off Estrada (5-3) in the third.
Before the game, Mets general manager Sandy Alderson said manager Terry Collins' job is secure after the team returned from a 4-7 road trip a season-worst seven games under .500.
PHOENIX (AP) — Bronson Arroyo pitched seven strong innings and Aaron Hill had two late RBIs for Arizona.
Arroyo (6-4) matched Houston starter Brad Peacock through seven innings before the Diamondbacks scored two runs off Josh Fields (1-4) in the seventh.
Hill hit a sacrifice fly in the inning and Cody Ross knocked him in with a double to right-center after an error by Astros shortstop Jonathan Villar. Hill added a run-scoring double in the eighth inning to put Arizona up 4-1.
Paul Goldschmidt also homered and Addison Reed worked a perfect ninth for his 16th save. Arizona has won six of eight.
Jon Singleton had three hits for the Astros.
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Christian Yelich set career highs with four hits and four RBIs as Miami beat Texas for its record-tying 13th consecutive interleague victory.
Yelich's single in the seventh inning sent home two unearned runs and put the Marlins ahead to stay.
The 13-game interleague winning streak matched the major league record shared by the New York Yankees and Tampa Bay Rays, who both reached that mark in 2004. The Marlins wrap up their two-game set in Texas on Wednesday.
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I took the CELTA.
I would say, be prepared to listen, and get a separate binder for all the handouts they give you. Pay attention to how they want the reports, etc. filed. There's papers for you, and papers for them. Figure out which is which.
It will be very intensive. Period. It makes people crazy. If you are taking it at an ESL institution, try to get access to their magazine clippings, etc. Get on the internet and print other resources as needed. (You'll know what you need when they tell you.) Manage your time obsessively, get enough sleep, eat right, and get as much help as is reasonable from your instructors. It's not like a school test where you study and sit the exam. They want to teach you and assess how you respond and apply their teaching.
*Watch your language grading closely- speak clearly and don't use complicated vocabulary and grammar structures with lower level students.
*Find ways to reduce the time that you, the teacher, are talking, and give the students activities to work on together instead. "Student-centered" is the magic word. TTT= teacher talking time = bad news.
They will probably start out by telling you what to teach, and giving possible materials.
You can do it. They don't want to fail you. Best wishes. It's a highly appreciated certification.
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For more than a century, the Russian River has been a true gateway to the grandeur of California's wild nature and dramatic coast. Today, it is still a destination for all naturalists as well as an increasingly high-profile wine region – and rightly so. Russian River wines are quickly becoming some of the finest, most sought-after wines in the world and artisan winemakers are finally getting their due. Come for the fresh air, fine wines, incomparable cuisines and relax!
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Another week, another nuclear setback at Fukushima. This time, TEPCO's noticed what appears to be contaminated water gushing out of a containment tank, Reuters reports – a development that'll make cleaning up the facility even trickier.
The tank in question, a holding area inside a waste disposal building, needs to be decontaminated as part of Fukushima's permanent shutdown. But with a leak, that operation is now in danger, along with local groundwater and the Pacific. [Reuters]


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Apple has filed motions to stay two of its Android patent lawsuits against Motorola, arguing that Motorola has lost its patent rights because of its pending acquisition by Google.
Apple sued Motorola because of similarities between its Droid smartphones and Apple's iPhone, but that was before Google decided to spend $12.5 billion to acquire Motorola, a pending merger that would make Google owner of one of the largest smartphone manufacturers and 17,000 mobile patents.
According to patent watcher Florian Mueller, Apple filed stay motions on Friday, claiming that Motorola Mobility has already ceded control over its patents to Google.
"Motorola has ceded control of the most basic rights regarding the patents-in-suit," Apple's lawyers wrote in a court filing, according to Mueller. "Absent Google's consent, Motorola cannot: (1) sue for infringement of its patents in any new action; (2) settle pending litigation (including this case) that would require a license to any of its patents; (3) license or sublicense its patents except in limited circumstances relating to the sale of Motorola's products; (4) assign its rights in its patents; and/or (5) grant a covenant not to sue for infringement of its patents."
Apple further argues that Google also lacks standing to enforce the patents, Mueller writes. Instead, "Google only has the right to veto actions taken by Motorola with respect to the patents," Apple argued. Apple's stay motions concern one lawsuit filed by Motorola and another filed by Apple, Mueller writes.
Google says its acquisition of Motorola is expected to close by the end of 2011 or early in 2012, pending regulatory review. For Apple, Motorola is just one of its targets in an ongoing effort to stifle Android-based competitors based on intellectual property lawsuits. Most recently, Apple was able to block sales of the Samsung Galaxy Tab in Germany because it allegedly infringes upon iPad patents.


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Spiced Candied Pecans
A salty-sweet cocktail snack with a hint of thyme and cayenne pepper.
With just the right amount of spice and salt to keep you snacking, these nuts by NOLA chef Donald Link (Cochon, Herbsaint) are an ideal companion for a Vieux Carré, or toss some atop a green salad. Game plan: If you prefer other nuts over pecans, feel free to substitute them in this recipe.... Read More
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The county animal control officer positions were eliminated several years ago because the county was lacking an animal control ordinance. Residents would call the animal control officers and complain about a nuisance animal but no one had the authority to deal with these animals, Holland said.
"We were acting under good faith that when people called in and had a problem, we had no legal right to pick them up," he said.
But county officials are now addressing this problem. County commissioners are reviewing a proposed ordinance drafted by Holland and members of the county's animal control committee.
"Its just a bare bones ordinance," County Commissioner Bob Simpson said.
Under the proposal, all animals must wear a collar containing identification information or have a microchip and be up to date on all required vaccinations. The ordinance gives the county permission to pick up animals that do not have tags or a microchip and take them to the county's animal shelter. The ordinance will also be enforced on a complaint basis, Simpson added.
But even though county leaders are taking a proactive approach to animal control, there is still one major problem — the county has no place to take the animals.
Macon County is not only lacking an animal control ordinance but also an animal shelter. County officials are currently working on securing a piece of land by the county's landfill to build a shelter. It will cost about $350,000 and, if plans go accordingly, the shelter will be open by July 2008, Simpson said.
The animal ordinance will not take effect until the building is constructed, Simpson said.
The county's laid-back approach to solving its stray animal problem has people like Jan Meinders, president of Macon County's Humane Society, concerned.
"When it's not in effect, what's going to happen to the animals of Macon County?" he said.
But Meinders does support the county's effort to mange the stray animal population.
"What ever they do is good for the animals," he said.
The spay & neuter program
Macon County's animal control ordinance features a few additions that nearby counties did not include in their regulations. Macon's animal control ordinance sets up a five-member board to oversee shelter operations. It also mandates that the county fund and operate a spay and neuter program. The program will have a budget of $25,000, and commissioners are hoping it will decrease the number of stray animals.
"We have a lot of strays, and the problem is that people are not taking care of their animals," Simpson said.
Two years ago the county funded the spay and neuter program but it was only implemented for one year. The animal control ordinance will make the program official and it will be funded each year, Simpson explained.


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This undulating band saw box is simple to make, and it makes a great gift.
By David Thiel, Jim Stack & Lois Keener Ventura
Pages: 58-61
From the April 2009 issue #175
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Yes, you could say building this box is like dancing. Your partner is that beautiful wood you've just found or have been secretly saving for the past decade, and the music is the sound your tools make.
This band-sawn box design is an intermediate project due to the number of drawers and amount and type of carving involved. The carving and shaping can be done quickly with coarse-through-fine sandpaper on a belt sander, oscillating spindle sander and with sanding drums on a portable drill, then refined with a finishing sander and hand sanding. Some of the carving – mainly at the saw kerfs – must be done with straight chisels and lots of coarse-through-fine sandpaper wrapped around dowels, flexible rubber sanding accessories if you have them, and, of course fingers. (You definitely need these, so take special care around a running band saw blade!)
When selecting wood, look for grain patterns that are exceptional. Burls, curls, spalting, unusual colors and yes, even cracks, splits, worm or bug holes and checks can be used to create a box that will truly be one of a kind.
When you cut a board into shorter lengths, inspect the end grain and match them to each other when gluing up a blank for your box, such as bookmatching. This can make your box sing a tune that no one has ever heard.
From the April 2009 issue #175
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