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Adele Dilschneider's Terrain put in his final major move for next Saturday's $750,000 Toyota Blue Grass (G1) by working five furlongs in 1:01 at Keeneland Saturday morning with exercise rider Keith Harris up.
Working in company with Grade 2 stakes winner Sky Mom, who had jockey Jamie Theriot up, Terrain broke off about two lengths behind his workmate. Terrain drew even at the head of the stretch and finished on even terms with Sky Mom.
The Toyota Blue Grass will mark just the second start of 2009 for Terrain, who ran second in last fall's Lane's End Breeders' Futurity (G1) in his lone Keeneland racing appearance. Terrain followed that with a fourth-place finish in the Bessemer Trust Breeders' Cup Juvenile (G1) before closing 2008 with a fifth-place finish in the Grade 3 Delta Jackpot.
"I have no regrets about running in the Delta Jackpot after the Breeders' Cup," Stall said. "My only regret is we didn't win the thing. Shoot, we were 5-2 in a $750,000 race."
Terrain ran third in the Grade 2 Louisiana Derby in his 2009 debut on March 14.
"He got a little sick on me before the Risen Star and we had to miss that race," Stall said in explaining Terrain's late start as a 3-year-old. "It might turn out to be a blessing in disguise."
Mr. and Mrs. William K. Warren Jr.'s Charitable Man is scheduled to work a half-mile or five furlongs Sunday around 7:30 a.m. according to Neal McLaughlin, brother of and assistant to trainer Kiaran McLaughlin. Undefeated in two starts, Charitable Man visited the starting gate Saturday morning and galloped a mile and a quarter with exercise rider Pat Correa up.
Silverton Hill LLC's Cliffy's Future galloped a mile and a half Saturday morning under trainer Darrin Miller. Miller is looking to work Cliffy's Future on Monday or Tuesday "but it depends on the weather. If it is poor, I can do something Wednesday."
IEAH Stables, John Sikura, et al, Joseph Bulger and James Covello's Patena galloped a mile and a half early Saturday morning. Trainer Rick Dutrow had indicated the colt would work Sunday or Monday, but said Saturday, "I am leaning toward Monday. The weather is not a factor at all. With this track, it doesn't matter. If this was regular dirt, I'd be glued to the tube."
Trainer Bill Mott said WinStar Farm's Hold Me Back, winner of the Lane's End (G2) at Turfway on March 21 in his most recent race, would make his next start in the Toyota Blue Grass and would work at Keeneland on Sunday or Monday. Kent Desormeaux, who rode Hold Me Back in the Lane's End, will be back aboard in the Toyota Blue Grass. On Saturday, the Giant's Causeway colt walked through the paddock before galloping on the track.
Robin Smullen, assistant to trainer Barclay Tagg, said Hello Broadway would work on Monday in preparation for his next start, either an allowance race on April 10 or the Toyota Blue Grass the following day. A homebred racing for Elizabeth J. Valando, Hello Broadway is coming off a seventh-place finish in the Tampa Bay Derby (G3) on March 14.
Two Toyota Blue Grass possibles worked Saturday morning at Churchill Downs.
Thomas McCarthy's General Quarters, winner of the Grade 3 Sam F. Davis this winter at Tampa Bay Downs, breezed five furlongs over a fast track in :58.20, the fastest of 17 moves at the distance. General Quarters galloped out six furlongs in 1:13 with exercise rider Julie Sheets up.
Dogwood Stable's Ziegfeld, under consideration for the Toyota Blue Grass or Arkansas Derby (G2), worked the same distance in 1:01.40, seventh fastest of the morning. Ziegfeld ran second to Cliffy's Future in the Rushaway Stakes at Turfway Park on March 21 in his most recent start.
Also, Hamdan al Maktoum's Mafaaz (GB), winner of the Kentucky Derby Challenge Stakes on March 18 at Kempton Park in England, was scheduled to arrive at Keeneland's quarantine barn at 1:30 p.m. (EDT) Saturday. Once the John Gosden trainee clears quarantine, he will be stabled in Barn 1.
Halo Farms and Three Sisters Thoroughbreds' Evita Argentina, who defeated males in her most recent start in the Grade 2 San Vicente Stakes at Santa Anita, headlines a field of seven drawn Saturday for the 24th running of the $150,000 Beaumont (G2) for 3-year-old fillies to be run on Wednesday.
Trained by John Sadler, Evita Argentina will break from the rail in the Beard Course contest at seven furlongs, 184 feet. She will carry 121 pounds and spot 4 pounds to all of her rivals. Garrett Gomez, who won last year's Beaumont on Ariege, has the riding assignment.
In addition to her San Vicente score, Evita Argentina also won the Grade 3 Sorrento at Del Mar last August and the Moccasin at Hollywood Park in November.
The only other stakes winners in the field is Helen Alexander and Helen Groves' Selva. Trained by David Carroll, Selva has won stakes on three surfaces: the Sorority at Monmouth on dirt, the Glorious Song on Polytrack at Woodbine and the Mardi Gras on turf at Fair Grounds.
Robby Albarado, who rode Selva to victory in the Mardi Gras, has the mount Wednesday and will break from post position 3. Albarado has won the Beaumont twice, in 1999 with Swingin On Ice and in 1997 on Screamer, who dead-heated with Make Haste for the victory.
The field for the Beaumont, from the rail out, is as follows: Evita Argentina (G. Gomez, 121 pounds), Consequence (J. Velazquez, 117), Selva (R. Albarado, 117), No Speed Limit (R. Douglas, 117), War Kill (J. Leparoux, 117), Loveyou Everybody (M. Mena, 117) and Dave's Revenge (K. Desormeaux, 117).
Trainer Bill Mott reported that all was well with Darley Stable's Stormalory the morning after the 3-year-old Storm Cat colt won the Central Bank Transylvania (G3) on opening day of Keeneland's spring meeting. With the victory, Mott earned 30th stakes win at Keeneland. He is second behind D. Wayne Lukas on the list of Keeneland's all-time leading trainers by wins and by stakes wins.
With Julien Leparoux aboard, Stormalory rallied to win the Central Bank Transylvania by a neck from Smart Bid, with Darley's Florentino (JPN) a length behind in third. The victory marked the first stakes win for Stormalory, who won his turf debut at Gulfstream in February then ran second in the Palm Beach (G3) also on the Gulfstream turf in March.
After the race, Mott said the Storm Cat colt could make his next start in the Crown Royal American Turf (G3) on May 1 at Churchill Downs.
Stormalory, who was bred by Stonerside Stable, is out of the Mr. Prospector mare Miss Halory, a half-sister to 1998 Toyota Blue Grass (G2) winner Halory Hunter, to Group 2 winner Van Nistelrooy and to multiple Grade 3 winners Prory, Brushed Halory and Key Lory.
Trainer Wesley Ward was at it again at Keeneland on opening day.
In what seems like is becoming a spring tradition, Ward unveiled a blazing 2-year-old that ran off the screen in a dominating performance.
In the second race on Friday, it was Jealous Again, a filly who crushed nine males in winning by 11 ¼ lengths and covering the 4 ½ furlongs in :50.73.
"It didn't surprise me at all," Ward said of the dynamic style of victory by Jealous Again. Ward co-owns Jealous Again with Robert Abrams and Mitch Dutko.
A daughter of Trippi, Jealous Again "had the body type that I like," Ward said. "I break them myself and train them in sets of two and bring the fastest ones here."
Two years ago, Ward struck on opening day with another filly, Yogi'ssplashofgold, who defeated eventual Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf winner Nownownow in that debut effort. Six days later, he sent out One Hot Wish, who set a world record for 4 ½ furlongs in :48.87. Ward was part owner in both fillies.
Next up for Jealous Again may be the Grade 3 Kentucky Juvenile at five furlongs on April 30 at Churchill Downs.
"That's the same stake I ran second in with Yogi'ssplashofgold," Ward said of the now 4-year-old filly, who set a track record in her most recent start for five furlongs at Gulfstream Park. "Maybe I can change my luck in there this time."
On Friday, trainer Barclay Tagg and assistant Robin Smullen made their first trip to the Kentucky Horse Park to visit one of their former charges, champion Funny Cide, at the Hall of Champions. Smullen joked that the 9-year-old gelding might have been more interested in the treats she brought for him than in seeing her.
"He got cinnamon raisin Danish—loved it; apple Danish—he wasn't so keen on that," said Smullen before continuing, "powdered donuts, Dunkin' Sticks. Of course, mints. He got a little irritated when I ran out of candy."
For Sackatoga Stable, the popular New York-bred Funny Cide won 11 races from 38 starts and earned $3,529,412. His nine stakes victories include the 2003 Kentucky Derby (G1) and Preakness (G1), and the 2004 Jockey Club Gold Cup (G1). After he was retired from racing in 2007, the Distorted Humor gelding served as Tagg's stable pony. He arrived at the Horse Park last December.
Yesterday marked Tagg and Smullen's first trip to the Horse Park. Funny Cide apparently played hard to get at first.
"He had his head out the window, and I was calling him and he was like, 'The heck with you. Get away from me,' " Smullen said. "Then I opened the stall door, and he must have thought, 'Oh, somebody's in my stall.' He did recognize me then. He looks great."
Smullen will saddle Tagg's two runners at Keeneland today, while Tagg is at Aqueduct to send out Tale of Ekati in the Carter (G1). Smullen will return to New York on Monday, and Tagg will be back at Keeneland.
"One of the reasons I came here was to saddle these horses because Barclay has the Carter," Smullen said. "I wanted to come saddle them so I could see Funny."
Jockeys John Velazquez and Julien Leparoux, who accounted for half the wins on Friday's opening-day card, had out-of-town engagements Saturday. Velazquez was riding at Aqueduct and Leparoux at Oaklawn Park for the day, with both coming back to ride Sunday's card at Keeneland.
Velazquez rode three winners: Jealous Again ($5) in the second, Vacation ($8.20) in the fifth and Heart of a King ($28.40) in the eighth. Leparoux took the seventh on Tiz to Dream ($6.40) and the featured Central Bank Transylvania (G3) on Stormalory ($5.40) for his 12th career Keeneland stakes victory.
Marylou Whitney Stable's Tweeter ($12) won Friday's closing race to break her maiden in her third career outing. Stretching out to a mile and a sixteenth after two sprints at Oaklawn Park this winter, Tweeter gave trainer D. Wayne Lukas his 273rd career victory at Keeneland. Tweeter is a half-sister to 2003 Eclipse Award winner Bird Town and 2004 Belmont Stakes (G1) winner Birdstone.
Ventura, winner of the 2008 Vinery Madison (G1), tuned up for a repeat bid in the seven-furlong stake by working a half-mile in :47.60.
Sunday, April 5 - Keeneland will salute police and firefighters, who receive free general admission and access to reserved Grandstand section with their badges or ID.
Sunday, April 5 - Saturday, April 11- Best of the Bluegrass Festival - A festival of events saluting the Bluegrass region's unique culture,
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Light posting this week. I'm traveling to Dallas and returning to Chicago for two important conferences on gay men's health.
Catching a flight to Dallas this afternoon for a 2-day trip to the 2013 NASTAD National Stigma Summit on Black and Latino Gay Men's Health. The conference is sponsored by the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors and will bring together health departments, funders, policy makers, advocate and stakeholders "for a dynamic dialogue centered on stigma that impacts Black and Latino gay men's health." I've been asked to moderate a session stigma and bias against Black and Latino gay/bisexual men in the media.
There is also a Twitter Town Hall on Thursday evening at 630P/CT. Follow @NASTAD and use the hashtag #HIVstigma.
Returning to Chicago on Friday morning to join a panel at the second annual SHINE Conference sponsored by the The University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. "Building Bold Innovative Partnerships to Prevent and Reduce STIs/HIV Among Youth" is being developed by SSA's SHINE Network, Access Community Health Network and the Gary Comer Youth Center. The conference will begin at 9AM Nov. 8 in the Gary Comer Youth Center at 7200 S. Ingleside Ave.
The speakers will include Rep. Danny Davis, the University of Chicago's Dexter Voisin, Alida Bouris, Harold Pollack, Keith Green and many others. My panel will include FOX Chicago anchor—and my former colleague—Robin Robinson, the University of Chicago Center for Interdisciplinary Inquiry and Innovation in Sexual and Reproductive Health's Seed Lynn and Tim'm West, the Director of Youth Programs at Center On Halsted, celebrated poet/spoken word artist, HIV/AIDS activist and my fellow contributor to For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Still Not Enough. The conference is free and you can RSVP here.

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Here's the conventional wisdom: Oil was made from the slow crushing of ancient plants (and dinosaurs!) under the Earth over millions of years. That's why we call it "fossil fuel," and that's why it's not a renewable resource — the supply is finite, and we're reaching the peak of that supply.
That's the conventional wisdom. But it's wrong.
We can actually make gasoline (as well as diesel and jet fuel) from sustainable sources, including fast-growing grasses, wood waste and even algae (I know, it sounds gross). The research is far along, and it's actively being pursued not only in university labs, but in well-funded corporate projects.
Dr. George Huber, a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, showed me how he makes small amounts of gasoline from sawdust in his lab ... on a tabletop. No, it's not cold fusion: It's science-fiction science that actually works.
Huber takes pine sawdust — the cheapest "feedstock" at $40 to $80 a dry ton, but he could use many other things — and runs it through a sieve to refine it. He then loads it into a hopper on his lab-scaled fluidized bed reactor (FBR). Very large versions of these reactors have been in use since 1942 to break petroleum down into its component parts. The FBR heats the oxygen-deprived sawdust to 750 to 1,100 degrees Fahrenheit, so it decomposes without burning. "Within seconds you have liquids starting to form," says Dr. Huber.
The same process would work with paper mill waste, agricultural residue (from, for instance, sugarcane and corn production), and "energy crops" such as switchgrass and miscanthus.
Huber's liquid is not gasoline yet, but a gasoline precursor that will need further processing. But the final product is chemically identical to gas, diesel or jet fuel, and the fact that it can be made price-competitive with gasoline at $40 to $50 a barrel is what has financed considerable research. Unlike hydrogen, ethanol and other alternatives, plant-based gasoline can go straight into our current network of 160,000 gas stations.
If this was a crackpot idea, would the Obama-era Renewable Fuel Standard of 2007 require the making of a billion gallons of diesel from biomass by 2012?
Gasoline production from biomass may not stay on the lab scale for long. Huber and UMass are commercializing it under the name Anellotech, and that company says it can produce "price parity" gasoline by 2019. A plant is due to be completed by 2014. That $30 million plant could theoretically produce 2 million gallons annually.
Anellotech CEO David Sudolsky says, "At this early stage, we're concentrating on sawdust because we can get it right down the street and it's available all over the country," he said. "I'm very excited about it," Sudolsky said.
The "Next Generation Hydrocarbon Biorefineries" report says trees, grasses and agricultural residues (among other non-food sources) constitute more than 80 percent of the total biomass in the U.S. If the 1.3 billion dry tons of ligno-cellulosic biomass cited in a federal study were converted to biofuel, it would have the energy equivalent of 3.8 billion barrels of oil, which is half of the U.S. consumption in 2006.
One of the lead scientists working on fundamental research to make gasoline and diesel fuel from sugars is James Dumesic of the University of Wisconsin. Dumesic estimates that 50 percent of the transportation fleet could be powered with ligno-cellulosic fuels, and he helped make that a reality by co-founding Virent Energy Systems, with Dr. Randy Cortright in 2002.
In an interview, Cortright said the company has spent three years taking its process from a very limited lab scale to a current gasoline yield of a half-gallon a day. In 2008, Shell entered into a new five-year partnership with Virent to research and develop technologies to convert plant sugars directly into gasoline. The financial arrangements were not disclosed, but Virent had previously collected $10 million in government grants and $40 million in venture capital. According to Dr. Cortright, other significant investors include Cargill and Honda.
A year later, Shell (the world's largest buyer and blender of crop-based biofuels) said it would concentrate on biofuels and carbon sequestration at the expense of investment in other renewable technologies, including wind and solar, which it said did not offer attractive investment opportunities. According to Linda Cook, Shell's executive director of gas and power, "We are businessmen and women. If there were renewables [which make money] we would put money into it."
According to Dr. Lance Lobban, director of the University of Oklahoma School of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering, "green" fuel can be a big part of the world's energy future. "Most biomass-based fuels can't currently compete economically with $50 per barrel oil," Dr. Lobban says. "But as oil becomes more expensive, and as it becomes more important to limit greenhouse gas emissions, we will look at 'green gasoline' because it would be essentially carbon neutral — its source is plants which remove CO2 from the atmosphere as they grow."
There's a lot more exciting research underway than will fit on this page. In future installments, I'll look at the prospects for gasoline from algae and other unlikely sources.
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Holy moly, Coach O.
You've gone ahead and make a big ol' mess of things.
On an interim basis, you've made a permanent mark on the USC football program. And it's become Pat Haden's best-case scenario and worst nightmare possible rolled into one.
The Trojans' athletic director succeeded in short-term damage control. Now he's got a long-term decision to make based on a whole lotta Ed Orgeron going around Southern California this holiday season.
Haden calls Orgeron's 6-1 fun run over the past two months "absolutely remarkable." In the next breath, he said they're "going to go through this process" and will take the time to make a "rational decision."
If all this causes your blood to boil, take a test to see if you're the type to go O-positive or O-negative under this kind of scrutiny.
Orgeron no doubt will be the topic on the table at many Thanksgiving dinners Thursday. Alums can't be blamed for trying to grab the wishbone and giving it a yank.
Pass the yams and keep on yammering — who's going to get the short end of this stick?
Aside from all the sport-talk analysis, message-board postings and debates at the 7-Eleven counter while waiting for lottery tickets to be scanned, consider there are far more things than just X's and O's if you think Coach O is the best fit as USC's gridiron CEO.
What are we missing here? Hearsay today, gone tomorrow?
Read between the lines — that means you, too, Del Rio, Sumlin, Gruden and anyone else aiming for a Hollywood welcome anytime soon.
Or then again, consider these the real tipping points before Haden tips his hand in what he's about to do here:
Pro: Lake Kiffin has endorsed him. "It should be Ed Orgeron. The players love him. The assistant coaches love him. How could you possibly think about somebody else?"
Con: Lane Kiffin has endorsed him.
Pro: USC fans, students and alums love him.
Con: Former UCLA coach Rick Neuheisel wrote a tribute song about him. And he plays it on his acoustic guitar. Might as well be playing a violin.
Pro: Orgeron has been named a semifinalist for the Maxwell Football Club Collegiate Coach of the Year award. It's the first time an interim coach has been on this list of candidates in the award's history.
Con: The 2003 winner, Pete Carroll, used that to pad his resume in moving on to the NFL. Some recent winners have included Mark Mangino, Mike Leach, Greg Schiano, Tyrone Willingham and Phil Fulmer. Whatever happened to them, anyway?
Pro: Why not just hire Orgeron for one more season, get through this last bit of NCAA sanctions, give yourself more time to see how it works and see who else might be interested?
Con: Why not just take your time in this process and watch another school snatch him away because he's the hot name everyone wants? Kind of like when Haden took the leap with this guy from Florida Gulf Coast to run his under-the-radar basketball program.
Pro: Orgeron had some scene-stealing scenes in the Academy Award-winning movie "The Blind Side" and still has his SAG card.
Con: It means he works for scale. He could not even get a nomination for best supporting actor. The kid in the movie even upstaged him. Pull out the DVD and see for yourself.
Pro: A natural contestant to represent the university on a future episode of "The Voice."
Con: That voice.
Pro: It's Ed, as in "education."
Con: Last name is too similar to Oregon.
Pro: Many great head coaches have a one-syllable first name — Knute, Bear, Bo. Then there's John McKay, John Robinson and Pete Carroll.
Con: Lane.
Pro: The school could leverage hurricane preparedness techniques based on his Katrina experiences at Mississippi.
Con: This is earthquake country, pal. Unless you've seen one of them sharknado things.
Pro: USC winning again would inspire ESPN's "GameDay" to come to L.A. more often, leading to Lee Corso picking the Trojans to win every week. And that's a guaranteed thing. When Corso took USC to beat Stanford two weeks ago, it means he's 16-0 when predicting a Trojans victory on the "GameDay" set.
Con: Corso is 134 years old. He can't even remember to duck when he sees a sword coming near his face.
Pro: Would be a good guide for hot spots on Bourbon Street if USC plays in the Sugar Bowl. Could also be a natural in teaching everyone the proper way to eat crawfish.
Con: Audibles may be hard to understand for new recruits because they have that Cajun accent imparted to the quarterbacks. Oh, and eating crawfish correctly means sucking the heads.
Pro: May have some pull with Emeril Lagasse to "kick it up a notch" at future tailgates and team training tables. BAM!
Con: As if these student-athletes need their cholesterol shooting any higher off the charts following another trip to Roscoe's Chicken & Waffles or In-N-Out Burger.
Pro: The USC student store's latest hot seller: a T-shirt that says "Coach O — Fight On."
Con: We tried to order the $25 shirt online. It only comes in size small (maybe all the others have been bought?). Another shirt — the "USC Cardinal Happy Face T-Shirt." with what could be Kiffin as a yellow smiley face wearing a USC visor with the words "Have a Nice Day" — is marked down from $20 to $5.


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Two hundred and seventy-six thousand, one hundred and eleven.
That's how many self-pubbed books I've sold.
About 245k of these on Kindle.
20k on Smashwords,
5k on Createspace,
The rest divvied up among Nook, OverDrive, and my website.
The vast majority of this has been within the last six months. As of last October, I hadn't even hit 100,000.
So far, in April, I've sold over 30,000 books. I'll easily break 35,000 this month.
So, by Christmas, I'll have hit half a million books sold.
Of course, that's a conservative estimate. I'm releasing four more ebooks this month, have several more scheduled for the year, and I expect ereaders to keep selling as their prices keep going down. The market isn't close to being saturated.
I don't think I've really hit my stride yet.
In March, I earned over $68,000. But I know that number can go up. Other authors have earned more. A lot more.
It's been fascinating to watch how this has all developed over the last two years.
The media is picking up on it. Agents are changing their business models. I'm getting far more email than I'll ever be able to answer. Lots of folks thanking me. Lots of folks telling me they're convinced, and are going to self-publish. Lots of folks saying they already have, and sharing their successes.
This isn't just a few fringe outliers making a few bucks in a new, untested market. This is a paradigm shift. A full-fledged revolution.
If you're a writer, and haven't jumped on the bandwagon yet, don't worry too much about it.
Sure, you'll miss out on making some money. But it will still be here when you're ready.
Sunday, April 24, 2011
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We're back from Mendocino! The week was stunning: the kids did great on two long bus rides to and from the Woodlands and were fabulous in creating homes away from home, being away from familiar things, and learning about a new place. We had adventures in the woods and lighting fires in the fireplaces that were in every cabin, singing songs with guitar and ukulele accompaniment, and dancing together. This tradition of spending time together, away from the school, is part of what makes Brightworks work – building and maintaining a commitment to each other as well as the work.
Richard Louv, in his book Last Child Left in the Woods, explores the relationship between children and nature and how it has changed over the last few hundred years. He starts with a conversation between himself and his son:
One evening when my boys were younger, Matthew, then ten, looked at me from across a restaurant table and said quite seriously, "Dad, how come it was more fun when you were a kid?"
I asked what he meant.
"Well, you're always talking about your woods and tree houses, and how you used to ride that horse down near the swamp."
At first, I thought he was irritated with me. I had, in fact, been telling him what it was like to use string and pieces of liver to catch crawdads in a creek, something I'd be hard-pressed to find a child doing these days. Like many parents, I do tend to romanticize my own childhood—and, I fear, too readily discount my children's experiences of play and adventure. But my son was serious; he felt he had missed out on something important.
He was right. Americans around my age, baby boomers or older, enjoyed a kind of free, natural play that seems, in the era of kid pagers, instant messaging, and Nintendo, like a quaint artifact.
We take this as an important challenge to address in the evolution of the pedagogy: to create authentic and meaningful integration of the natural environment in the learning experience at Brightworks. (Thank you to Gever for this quote…)
Trips like these remind us what makes Brightworks a different learning environment. The Woodlands is a place that hundreds of students visit every year, and their science curriculum is designed for such students. There are learning objectives and plans and transitions for every moment of the day. It's a wonderful program that we are incredibly lucky to be a part of, and both years we have met amazing, talented naturalists on the staff whose job is to make the redwood forest an understandable place of magic for our kids and a place that isn't as scary as they thought.
But what makes Brightworks kids and staff different is that we want to take time. Lots and lots of it. And always with each other, as a group and a community. We want to play in the waterfall, explore every mushroom we find, question why some trees have grown in a ring, discover how to light a fire, learn about each other's toothbrushing habits, slow down a lot under great redwoods and look up. We encourage questions and curiosity and have become experts in changing plans and altering schedules to follow what the kids are most curious and interested in. We loved being able to sit down when the trip was over and put names and reasons on what and why we do in the Brightworks style of teaching and learning. The emergent philosophy is to take time. Slow down and enjoy the moment.
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Kate Galbraith has covered energy and environment for the Tribune since 2010. Previously she reported on clean energy for The New York Times from 2008 to 2009, serving as the lead writer for the Times' Green blog. She began her career at The Economist in 2000 and spent 2005 to 2007 in Austin as the magazine's Southwest correspondent. A Nieman fellow in journalism at Harvard University from 2007 to 2008, she has an undergraduate degree in English from Harvard and a master's degree from the London School of Economics. She is co-author of The Great Texas Wind Rush, a book about how the oil and gas state won the race to wind power.


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USA — Bail Outs Must Be Questioned after AIG Losses
By Lee Jay Walker
Tokyo Correspondent – THE SEOUL TIMES
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The United States of America (USA) is going from one crisis to another and apparently the only answer is to throw more bad money at inefficient companies. After all, money keeps on being pumped into companies like AIG but nothing appears to change, apart from growing debt. Therefore, it is essential to question the economic policies of America because since the crisis began, it is apparent that the only policy is to bail out companies which appear to be in complete free fall.
So once more AIG is given taxpayers money and according to the mantra of President Obama, it is the same conclusion, spend tax-payers money and forget about any other alternative policy. Yet AIG could easily abuse tax-payers money in order to undercut their rivals and this is the problem. Once you intervene in the market, then the free market or capitalist system is undermined because of favouritism and unfair competition.
Therefore, if any respective bank abided by the fundamentals of banking, they should be rewarded for being efficient, conservative, and businesslike. Instead, inefficient banks or other financial institutions can just cry wolf and then go begging to Obama. After all, Obama appears to enjoy the publicity surrounding the injection of tax-payers money into many different sectors. Yet is big government the answer to the current economic crisis?
If we look at the Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan we see the same flaws. After all, what Obama is saying, is that people who looked after their finances properly must be penalized. This can be the only conclusion, because people who took high risks or were greedy, are now going to obtain support from the government of America via conservative tax-payers who behaved properly. Is this a policy based on justice?
Jeffrey A. Miron, a senior and highly respected lecturer in economics at Harvard University, sums it up correctly. He states that "… government payments to troubled borrowers come from people who did not stretch their finances to buy homes, or who bought small, less expensive homes, or who economized on other expenses. That is, the plan penalizes cautious taxpayers to bail out those who took bigger risks."
Therefore, just like the financial sector, it is inefficient companies which are being supported and instead of natural consolidation or the demise of inefficient companies, we are seeing a "basket case" scenario where Obama seeks to massively increase both the national debt and the power of government. However, like Jeffrey A. Miron points out, "Insisting that borrowers, not taxpayers, bear the consequences of these questionable decisions would provide the right incentives for appropriate risk-taking. This applies to homeowners and bankers alike."
Therefore, real accountability is not being applied properly and prudent borrowers and companies are paying for something they never created. The natural logic being that in the future the same problem may arise but why worry, after all, the "nanny-state" of Obama or a future leader will bail you out. So individual tax-payers and companies which are efficient and paid vast sums in corporate tax, are now being told that they have to fork out once more in order to protect the people who created the economic crisis in the first place.
Obama, however, comes up with a different conclusion. For Obama states that "I know how unpopular it is to be seen as helping banks right now, especially when everyone is suffering in part from their bad decisions. I promise you, I get it. But I also know that in a time of crisis, we can not afford to govern out of anger." In truth, Obama may indeed be very sincere and of course the central government must do something but this must come via real policy objectives. At the moment, I fail to see real policy objectives apart from keeping companies and home-owners afloat.
Shankar Vedantam, Washington Post Staff Writer, states that "What Obama did not mention, however, is that saving banks and financial institutions has the unintended consequence of saving many bankers, CEOs, and Wall Street tycoons from the consequences of their greed." Therefore, Vedantam supports a middle way between the rationalism of Obama and the every-day anger of many tax-payers. This middle way, explains Vedantam, is that you should "Pour taxpayer money into fixing broken institutions, but make sure those responsible for the catastrophe pay – and pay publicly."
Overall, I would argue that money spent on AIG and others, at the moment, is like one big "money black whole." It appears that companies like this just plead for more funds and at the moment, they get it. Yet no fundamental change is taking place, instead the Dow Jones is either in free fall or it is static, and corporate and national debt just keeps on rising. Sooner or later, if the situation does not change, you will see greater social tensions and government policy will come under real attack. Therefore, will Obama take real measures to reverse the crisis or will he just keep on throwing money in all directions?


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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Following the best varsity eight finishes in years at the Eastern Sprints and IRAs, the Yale heavyweights have elected Zachary Johnson to lead the team to even better results as next year's captain. The rising senior from Ross, Calif., is a history major in Davenport College. He will take over leadership duties for the heavyweights from outgoing captain Jon Morgan.
"I am honored to have been given this responsibility," said Johnson. "Over the past year, our team has taken great strides forward – both as individuals and as a whole – and I look forward to helping continue and accelerate this progression in any way that I can."
As a freshman Johnson stroked his freshman eight that defeated Dartmouth in dual racing and finished ninth at Eastern Sprints.
Sophomore year Johnson stepped right up into the varsity eight, rowing in the championship eight at the Head of the Charles in the fall. In the spring he rowed four-seat of the 1V that had dual season wins over Brown, against Dartmouth for the Olympic Axe, against Columbia and Penn for the Blackwell Cup and finished eighth at the Eastern Sprints. He then stroked the varsity eight in the Yale-Harvard Regatta and at IRAs.
This past year Johnson rowed in two-seat of the varsity eight that defeated Dartmouth for the Olympic Axe and Columbia and Penn for the Blackwell Cup. At the Eastern Sprints the 1V finished fifth, the best finish since 2008, and at the IRA the crew finished seventh with Johnson again in the bow pair for the best finish since 2006.
Before coming to Yale Johnson was the stroke of the U.S. Junior National 8+ that won a gold medal at the Junior World Championships in Racice, Czech Republic. In the summer of 2012 he was invited to the U.S. U23 Selection Camp.
Growing up in Marin County, Calif., Johnson learned to row with Marin Rowing Association. In his senior year of high school he stroked the varsity eight to a gold medal at the 2010 San Diego Crew Classic and a silver medal at USRowing Youth Nationals.
This summer Johnson will be training out west at California Rowing Club, and is optimistic about the team hitting the ground running in the fall.
"The determination and dedication that I have seen in each and every member of this crew gives me absolute confidence in our ability to perform at the highest levels in this coming season," Johnson said.
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CONWAY, S.C. (AP) Anthony Raffa scored 27 points and grabbed eight rebounds as Coastal Carolina beat Akron 74-70 in overtime Friday night in the season opener for both teams.
Kierre Greenwood added 19 points and Warren Gillis chipped in 10 points and eight rebounds for Coastal Carolina. Raffa notched game-highs in 3-pointers (4) and free throws made (7).
The game remained close throughout, as there were 12 lead changes and 11 ties over the first two periods.
Akron's Alex Abreu knocked down two free throws to send the game into overtime. Coastal Carolina, however, pulled away in the extra period, as Raffa converted two 3-pointers in a two-minute span to put the Chanticleers ahead 71-66.
Abreu sank two more free throws to narrow the gap to 73-70 with 25 seconds left to play in overtime but Raffa made a free throw of his own with two seconds left to seal the win.


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Keratosis pilaris is a common genetic skin condition which appears as rough, bumpy, sometimes red skin most often found on upper arms, thighs, and cheeks. These bumps are due to a buildup of keratin, a hard protective protein found in skin, hair, and nails. This built up keratin forms a plug which blocks the opening of hair follicles. When these plugs, or bumps, become irritated it causes redness.
Keratosis pilaris usually presents in childhood, often at its worst during puberty, but can continue into adulthood. The condition usually improves in warmer weather, while dry weather seems to exacerbate symptoms.
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On The Police Logs 04.12.12
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On the morning of April 9, a security company employee in Hampton Bays observing a camera feed from Tiffany & Company on Main Street called police to report that she thought she saw a small fire in the store. Police went to investigate and found that all was well.
Michael Bouker found a plastic bag with marijuana along with a glass pipe near the tennis courts in Herrick Park. Police put the bag and the pipe in an evidence locker.
At some point between the morning of April 11 and Friday morning, 10 boxes of cedar shingles were removed from a property on Georgica Road where a garage is under construction. The shingles were valued at $1,398.
Police were called Friday morning about a box of nails in the middle of the intersection of Buell and Toilsome Lanes. An officer was sent to the scene but was unable to find the box. The Department of Public Works was asked to send a street sweeper as a precaution.
A resident of Lily Pond Lane complained about a red pickup with fire department plates racing up the road toward Ocean Avenue and Main Beach on Friday morning. An officer was dispatched but the truck was not found.
A caller on Friday at about 9 p.m. told police there was a small brown dog running loose in the Schenck parking lot. The woman said she would care for the dog that night and take it to the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons in the morning.
On Sunday morning, an employee of Golden Pear on Newtown Lane told police that an East Hampton man had repeatedly caused a disturbance at the restaurant. A trespass affidavit was signed, and the man was advised that his presence there was no longer welcome and that he would be arrested if he returned.
Jeffrey Usher of Setauket reported that he had checked into the Royal Atlantic Hotel on Saturday at about 7 p.m. and had then gone for a long walk after parking his pickup truck, which had two mountain bikes tied down but not locked up in its bed. The next morning at about 11 he saw that the bikes were gone.
George Holzman, the supervisor at Riverhead Building Supply on Industrial Road, called police early Friday morning to report that the building had been vandalized during the night by someone who had fired five paintballs at it. Police discovered that the neighboring building, housing Peter Joyce Construction, had also been hit by numerous paintballs.
Lonnie Akkala reported that his brother had backed a vehicle into his driveway on South Edison Drive and gunned the engine, spinning the wheels and gouging deep ruts into the drive.
Beth A. Martens told police that at some point between the morning of April 6 and the evening of April 8 someone may have removed a jar containing approximately 60 prescription tablets from her 2001 Dodge Durango, which was parked on King's Point Road, where she lives. Ms. Martens also said the pills could have been taken when she visited her sister in Copiague.
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MedShare has been selected to receive Acterra's 2012 Business Environmental Award For Environmental Innovation.
Acterra's Business Environmental Awards is one of the San Francisco Bay Area's oldest and most prestigious environmental recognition programs. Initiated in 1990, it is considered a heavyweight among award programs due to its rigorous application and judging process. "Our awardees must demonstrate their environmental commitment and achievements through a careful vetting process," states Committee Chair Laura Teksler. "In addition to a thorough written application, the top contenders must demonstrate their programs' merits firsthand to the judges during a visit to the applicants' facilities. By the time they are selected to receive our award, they have truly proven that their programs are "setting the bar" in corporate environmental leadership."
This award recognizes the successful implementation of a new or significantly improved environmental product, solution or technology, such as a new business service or a new way of solving an environmental problem. As California's first high-volume medical supply recycler, MedShare's reuse program is changing the landscape of medical waste disposal in the State. We were able to demonstrate how we deliver measurable environmental and societal impacts through our quality processes.
MedShare's work improves the quality of life in California by cutting back on environmental and public health hazards that can result from the disposal of medical surplus. MedShare recycles plastic medical items like thoracic catheters, syringes, and drainage supplies that could have been incinerated, possibly causing poisonous dioxins. MedShare also recycles medical supplies like bandages, gauze, and thousands of other items, which reduces volumes headed to landfills.
Past winners of awards include: HP, Genentech, Apple, Adobe, Solar City, Lockheed Martin Space Systems and Stanford University – great company to be in!
MedShare will be honored at the 2012 Business Environmental Awards Reception on Thursday, May 31st in Palo Alto.


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T-35 - five turrets Soviet tank at the beginning of World War IIAssembled and painted model of a tank in 1/72 scale. T-35 into service on Aug. 11, 1933 and from 1934 began to enter the army. By 1941, T-35 is completely obsolete, but with the weapons were not withdrawn. On June 22, 1941 the Red Army of 48 T-35 tanks, consisting on arms 67 th and 68 Panzer Regiment 34 Panzer Division - the Kiev Special Military District. Others were in the custody of military schools and test sites. All T-35 available to the 34-th PD, at the beginning of the war were in the area Rava-Russkaya and were lost in the first days of fighting. While only 7 tanks were lost directly in battle, 6 at the start of the war were under repair, and other 35 dropped out of service due to malfunctions, broken on the march and were abandoned or destroyed crews. Recently the use of T-35 tanks (2 pieces) noted during the Battle of Moscow. Combat weight - 50 tons. Crew - 11 people. Speed on the highway - 29 km/h, on rough terrain - 14 km/h.


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In this talk we will contrast and compare developing WebForm applications using Visual Studio 2008 with different types of datasources. We will be looking at design issues relating to concurrency control and updateability when using key Visual Studio controls such as the FormView and ListView controls. So if you don't know where to start in choosing between SQL, LINQ and Entity datasources then you will by the end of this talk. We will also take a look at techniques for the seamless integration of ASP.net security with SQL Server Login security for web applications using LINQ.
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It's not okay when a child has to die. It's not okay for innocents to be murdered.
And, now, for very crystal clear, solid reasons, it's not okay to bash teachers.
I've often defended the teaching profession as the noblest of all, but so many people think teachers are selfish, lazy, apathetic union thugs.
It takes a certain level of cowardice to put down a teacher and their chosen profession.
The best teachers are pillars of society. They raise kids up and push them where they never thought they'd go. They devote their time and resources to impacting young peoples' lives in ways they'll never know. They encourage, inspire, console, love, and praise.
For most, teaching isn't just a job. There are teachers so invested in their students that they have dreams about them. They think about them on the weekends. They buy them clothes and meals. They make sure the family has a Christmas tree when they can't afford one.
And there are teachers so absolutely devoted to their children that they actually place themselves between an assassin and their students, unflinchingly accepting their own untimely and horrible fate so that little babies – with so much life, innocence, and potential – don't have to.
Why must it take such a heinous, inconceivable event to make people rethink a teacher's motivations? We don't teach for summers off. We don't teach for guaranteed sick days. We don't teach for being home by 3:30 every day.
Teachers, above everything else, are human beings. We teach because we are good people who just want to leave an impact on the world.
None of us ever dreams of having to confront the same fate our colleagues at Sandy Hook did on Friday. We want our children to come to school with smiles, eager to learn. We want to lift them up when they're down. We want to encourage them to take chances and to be proud of themselves.
We never want to see them become victim to lunacy. We want them to have all the best in life.
We are not the villains.
We are the heroes.
Victoria Soto was younger than me. She was a teacher. She died because the gunman must have been frustrated that her kids were "in gym" (though they were actually in the classroom hidden from his sight). He turned his weapon on her, and killed her. Victoria Soto died to save her students' lives. Rather than let children be killed, she let herself be killed. Because of her, the mommies and daddies of those children got to see, hold, and speak to their children again.
Victoria Soto was a teacher, a hero, and an angel.
So, I defy you now to haphazardly lump all teachers together and call us, "selfish." I defy you to say we don't have kids' best interests at heart. And I encourage you to step back and realize that we teachers – who want so much for our students, who advocate for them, who push them, who care for them – are not the problem.
If you want to find a silver lining to this very grey cloud, look no further than the heroism displayed by the teachers at Sandy Hook. And the next time you make a generalization about teachers, instead of saying, "Anyone can be a teacher," say, "It takes a remarkable human being to be a teacher."


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BRIDGEWATER, Mass.—In the first matchup between two former Bridgewater State University players turned coaches, UMass Boston (5-7) and Bridgewater State (4-6) split a pair in a doubleheader at Alumni Park.
In the Beacons home opener away from home, the Bears and interim head coach Alli LeBlanc got the better of UMB in Game One with a 7-2 victory. It was LeBlanc's first career victory as a head coach, after being named to the position on March 19.
Natalia Ardagna's squad got their revenge in the nightcap, as UMB stormed out to a 5-0 lead and never looked back in an 11-3, five-inning mercy-rule win.
GAME ONE: Bridgewater State 7, UMass Boston 2
Bridgewater State used a pair of extra-base hits and a Beacons error to score two runs each in the first three innings and cruised to a 7-2 win to help interim head coach Allie LeBlanc earn her first career victory.
While both teams would tally 10 hits in the contest, the Bears would have the better end of things, behind three extra-base hits and a strong performance from junior pitcher Amber White.
White struck out five over seven innings and allowed just two earned runs and one walk. Despite putting runners on base in six of her seven innings, she stranded eight Beacons on base and only gave up multiple base hits in the Beacons two-run fifth inning.
Jennifer Shaw and Emily Whitney provided all the offense White would need, as Shaw blasted a 2-run home in the first inning and Whitney made it 4-0 with a 2-run double in the second. Both players finished with two hits and two RBI in the contest.
Sophomore Samantha Hemstock (Northford, Conn.) and Kelsey Souza (Braintree, Mass.) led UMB with two hits apiece, while Hemstock and Erika Vecchiet (Pequannock, Mass.) accounted for the Beacons' two RBI.
On the mound, Michelle Zullo (Everett, Mass.) couldn't get over a slow start, allowing seven runs, four earned in seven innings of work. The sophomore struck out four to move over 100 strikeouts for her career.
After falling behind 6-0 through three innings, UMB finally got on the board in the bottom of the fifth inning. Kristina Bove (Medford, Mass.) sparked the rally with a one-out double and advanced to third on a double from Souza. With two runners on and two outs, Hemstock singled to left field to score Souza. Vecchiet made it 6-2 with a single to center field that scored Taryn Asta (Marshfield, Mass.), who had reached on a fielders choice, but that would be all UMB could muster.
White allowed a lone single in both the sixth and the seventh and the Bears tacked on another unearned run in the seventh to earn the win.
Game Two: UMass Boston 11, Bridgewater State 3 (5 Innings)
Game Two would be a completely different story, as freshman Emily Gray (New Bedford, Mass.) shut the Bears down early, and UMB made the most of four extra-base hits and a pair of costly Bridgewater State errors to earn an 11 to 3 five-run, mercy-rule win.
UMass Boston jumped out to a 4-0 lead after one and tacked on four more runs in the fourth, to move back within two games of .500.
Gray earned the first two-game winning streak of her collegiate career, by allowing three runs, one earned in five innings of work. The freshman right-hander gave up seven hits and one walk to the Bears, while striking out a single Bridgewater batter.
Lyndsey Capra (Lowell, Mass.) led the Beacons charge in Game Two, finishing 2-for-2 with a career-high three runs and her first career home run. She also added a double, a walk and a steal, to go along with two RBI.
Fellow junior Natalia Bouyea (East Longmeadow, Mass.) added two hits and three RBI in game two, as UMB picked up their second mercy-rule victory of the year.
First baseman Kelsey Svenson (Oxford, Conn.) was the final Beacon to finish with multiple hits, as the sophomore registered a pair of singles and two RBI.
UMass Boston took their first lead of the day with a four-run burst in the bottom of the first and never looked back.
Souza reach first on an error to start the inning and moved over to second on a sacrifice bunt by Asta. After a double from Hemstock and a walk to Vecchiet that loaded the bases, Bouyea picked up her first hit of the day with a two-run double to left field. Bouyea and Vecchiet came home to score two batters later, when Svenson lifted a single into left field.
The Beacons made it 5-0 in the bottom of the second, when Capra came across to score on an Asta sacrifice fly.
Capra was back at it again in the bottom of the fourth, as she blasted her first career home run down the left-field line to make it 6-1 UMB. Bove followed up Capra's home run with her team-leading third triple of the season and scampered home on an RBI groundout from Souza. The Beacons capped off the four-run inning with a pair of RBI singles from Vecchiet and Bouyea to earn their largest lead of the night at 9-1.
Bridgewater State extended the game with a two-run, two-out double in the top of the fifth to cut the deficit to 9-3, but their renewed life would be short-lived.
The Beacons closed out the mercy-rule win thanks to more theatrics from Capra. Svenson led off the inning with a single and came all the way around from first on Capra's double to left-center field. Two batters later, Capra put an exclamation point on her day-as she scurried home on a failed pickoff attempt, to give the Beacons an 11-3 victory.
UMass Boston will play their official on-campus home opener Friday afternoon, when they host Simmons College for a doubleheader beginning at 3:00 p.m.


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SAN FRANCISCO -- The Electronic Privacy Information Center and the Center for Digital Democracy are urging the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Facebook's $19 billion acquisition of mobile messaging service WhatsApp.
The privacy groups are asking government regulators to block the proposed acquisition until any privacy issues are resolved.
At issue: Whether Facebook will exploit reams of personal information of WhatsApp's more than 450 million users to target advertising.
WhatsApp, a 55-person Mountain View, Calif., company has pledged to never run advertising on its service.
"WhatsApp built a user base based on its commitment not to collect user data for advertising revenue," reads the complaint filed Thursday. "Acting in reliance on WhatsApp representations, Internet users provided detailed personal information to the company including private text to close friends. Facebook routinely makes use of user information for advertising purposes and has made clear that it intends to incorporate the data of WhatsApp users into the user profiling business model. The proposed acquisition will therefore violate WhatsApp users' understanding of their exposure to online advertising and constitutes an unfair and deceptive trade practice, subject to investigation by the Federal Trade Commission."
The proposed deal has led to plenty of handwringing. It could also trigger privacy probes in Europe.
Jacob Kohnstamm, who leads a group of EU privacy officials known as the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party as well as the Dutch agency that was already investigating WhatsApp, told Bloomberg the main concern is the collection of data from users' address books on their phones when they download the application. "It is tempting to use this data" for other purposes, he said.
The company's "collection of data of people that aren't using WhatsApp is extreme and is not compliant with Dutch and European law."
Facebook, a frequent target of European privacy regulators, says WhatsApp will operate independently. WhatsApp has promised users "nothing" will change.
"We are absolutely not going to change plans around WhatsApp and the way it uses user data," Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said last month. "They might use people and infrastructure to grow, but the vision is to keep the service exactly the same."
A Facebook spokeswoman reiterated that point in an emailed statement.
"Facebook's goal is to bring more connectivity and utility to the world by delivering core internet services efficiently and affordably – this partnership will help make that happen. As we have said repeatedly, WhatsApp will operate as a separate company and will honor its commitments to privacy and security," she said.
Facebook is under a 20-year privacy settlement with the FTC that requires the giant social network to get permission from users before changing the way their personal information is released.


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On Sunday, September 29, more than 90 local private and boarding schools from across the country will participate in the Dallas Private School Preview event sponsored by the Independent School Admission Association of Dallas (IASAAD). The event will run from 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. on the Merrell Road Campus of the Episcopal School of Dallas.
The 18th annual Dallas Private School Preview rotates between the ISAAD schools every two years. The Episcopal School of Dallas will host the event this year and next.
"Choosing the right school for your child is a very personal process; the Dallas Private School Preview offers families a fantastic opportunity to interact directly with members of each school's community, and find the perfect fit for children, ages Pre-K through high school," says Cindy Newsom, ESD's Director of Admission.
At the event, parents and children will have the opportunity to meet with representatives from each participating school, and learn more about each school's mission, vision, and culture, as well as tuition assistance opportunities.
This event is free and open to everyone. For a complete list of participating schools, directions to the Episcopal School of Dallas, and general information about the event, please visit www.dallasprivateschoolpreview.com or visit the event's Facebook Page.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A runway at New York City's LaGuardia Airport, shut after a landing gear on a Southwest Airlines jet collapsed on touchdown Monday evening, was reopened Tuesday morning, an airport spokesman said.
Eight people, including three crew members, suffered minor injuries after the incident, Southwest said.
Flight delays of up to an hour were expected for the rest of the morning, said Steve Coleman, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the area's airports.
The airport, one of the busiest in the region, was closed for more than an hour Monday evening after the Southwest Airlines Co plane, which took off from Nashville, Tennessee, suffered the bumpy landing.
The hobbled plane, a Boeing Co 737 with 150 passengers and crew, was towed to a hangar, Coleman said. The National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration were investigating the incident.
The landing gear is made by a unit of United Technologies Corp. Boeing and United Tech officials said they were looking into the incident.
(Reporting by Jonathan Allen; Editing by Scott Malone and Jeffrey Benkoe)


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Two male swans have ruffled feathers at the world's only swannery in Dorset after they set up a love nest together.
The happy couple at Abbotsbury Swannery are the only homosexual swans among more than 1,000 birds at the reserve.They are believed to be only the second male pair ever to hook up at the reserve. The pair show no interest in their female companions and only have eyes for each other.
Dave Wheeler, from the swannery, said: "The two birds both hatched in 2002 and are sort of together."They have been together for several nesting seasons and basically keep territory as if they are a nesting pair."The twosome flock together at the start of the nesting season in March and perform rituals associated with a breeding couple.Manager of Abbotsbury Swannery, John Houston, said: "The swans have been nesting together like this for several years and they get together every nesting season and form a nest together.
"They sit on the nest and act in every way as if they were a pair expecting to lay eggs."It is quite sweet."Like most couples, the swans are known for the occasional lover's tiff, but are quick to sort out their differences."They just always stay together and I hear that they have some spectacular fights with each other, but they always make up and get back together," said Mr Houston."We have more than a thousand swans here in the reserve and they are the only two doing this. We don't know of any others acting in this way in the area.
"We realised they were together because the swan herds can obviously tell the difference between the males and females as the cobs have a much larger bump on their nose."They are sexed and tagged at birth so we know from their rings that they are both male."Records for the swannery date back to 1393 and it is believed that they are the only pair of homosexual swans currently nesting at the reserve.Homosexual behaviour is universal across the animal kingdom, from whales to snails and even nematode worms.


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A recent report, "Risky Business: The Economic Risks of Climate Change in the United States," co-chaired by Michael R. Bloomberg, Henry Paulson and Tom Steyer, suggests that "by 2050 between $66 billion and $106 billion worth of existing coastal property will likely be below sea level nationwide, with $238 billion to $507 billion worth of property below sea level by 2100."
Additionally, the U.S. National Research Council recently suggested the necessity of a "national vision" that will take precautionary, rather than reactionary, approaches to flooding, particularly in the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, where water has reached flood levels an average of 20 days per year since 2001.
These reports, however, don't address what businesses should do to protect themselves from the increase of extreme weather changes or how to take on that task. For quite some time, solutions that incorporate a method known as Monte Carlo simulation (MCS) have been used to examine probability of weather risk and the financial impact those risks may produce.
So what is Monte Carlo simulation? MCS performs risk analysis by building models of possible results by substituting a range of values — a probability distribution — for any factor that has inherent uncertainty. It then calculates results over and over using a different set of random values from the probability functions.
Depending upon the number of uncertainties and the ranges specified for them, a Monte Carlo simulation could involve thousands or tens of thousands of recalculations before it is complete.
By using probability distributions, variables can have different probabilities of different outcomes occurring. Probability distributions are a much more realistic way of describing uncertainty in variables of a risk analysis. In this presentation, Randy Heffernan, vice president, Palisade, addresses common problems organizations may face when developing a model for weather risk, utilizing MCS.
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Michelle Heaton has been crowned Mum Of The Year – after her daughter was sick over her on the way to collect her award.
The former Liberty X singer – who became a mother for the second time just two and a half weeks ago to son AJ – came a cropper when two-year-old Faith became ill during the car journey.
Michelle, 34, was unveiled as the Disney Celebrity Mum Of The Year at a special event in London.
The singer said of her daughter: "She put on her Minnie Mouse dress and she looked beautiful and then in the car on the way here she was sick everywhere. I was holding my hands (to catch it) because I was worried the car was going to smell and it was coming out … this is disgusting, but this is what happens, being a mum.
"AJ was sick during the night and Faith was sick this morning, so I have sick on my shoulder and sick through my hands."
The singer and presenter had a preventative double mastectomy in 2012 after discovering she carried the BRCA2 gene, which put her at a higher risk of developing breast cancer, and went on to take part in ITV2's The Big Reunion where she performed again with her former group Liberty X.
As the gene also puts her at a greater risk of developing ovarian cancer, she has said she will eventually have her ovaries removed, too.
Michelle said it had been a pleasant surprise to win, having been up against other famous parents including Abbey Clancy, Davina McCall and stars from The Saturdays – Una Foden, Rochelle Humes and Frankie Sandford.
She said: "When I found out that I was nominated and then I saw the other people who were in the nominations, I was like I've got no chance, because you could see why everybody would vote for other people and you don't really think of that about yourself, like, 'Maybe they'll vote for me because of this'.
"It's just really nice that I've got that connection with people out there because I am a mum of two now, I'm completely normal, just because I'm in the business makes me no different to other people out there who are juggling being a mum, so it's nice that those people have voted for me."
Michelle, who has recently made a fitness DVD for pregnant women, said: "It's to promote being healthy, not being stick-thin. I yo-yo with my weight and I put on three stone while I was pregnant, like everybody else does. I'm wearing two pairs of Spanx and I can't breathe, so that is reality."


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About Parking Non-Stop
PARKING NON-STOP is a psychogeographical experiment in combining
soundscape and field recordings with songs, spoken word and
instrumentation. Parking Non-Stop is always on the move, but
simultaneously always at a standstill, listening to rush-hour traffic,
the chink of a beer glass or the fall of broken slate into a mountain lake.
Dewi Evans, Alan Holmes and Zoë Skoulding explore the sonic geography of a wider Europe within the context of their north Wales home by means of musical pieces that integrate field recordings they have made in various European locations with recordings made in their own home studios.
These pieces generally combine an experimental soundscape approach with an aesthetic that veers unpredictably between Europop and industrial minimalism.
They aim to achieve a distinctive north Wales sound that is based in
discovering new spatial and temporal resonances: this is not a musical
identity built from a mythical past, but an engagement with the sonic
possibilities of the mines, quarries and rusting machinery in the
landscape as it is today - a decaying rural-industrial environment rich
with unexpected noise.
Although primarily a recording project, Parking Non-Stop also perform
live, often in collaboration with like-minded musicians, poets and
artists. Recent performances have taken place in Wales, England,
Ireland, Slovakia, Bosnia, Norway, France and Germany.
Species Corridor - The Album
This album is created from recordings lovingly gathered over nearly a
decade of travels around Europe and more local journeys around north
Wales. Locations that have featured in recordings on this album range
from the Buda Labyrinth in Budapest to prehistoric burial chambers on
the island of Anglesey. The last few years have seen the shape of Europe change beyond recognition; Parking Non-Stop are fascinated by the edges and borders of Europe, and movement across them. The title track of Species Corridor features a rhythm track made from recording of a European bison in Eastern Poland kicking itself in the head to get rid of flies. The rare primeval forest where it lives, Bialowieza, became
the new border of the EU in 2004 amid heated debates about how to stop people migrating illegally while allowing the bison and other protected species to wander freely. Parking Non-Stops music inhabits these tensions by exploring every locality as a border area where languages, sounds and cultures mingle and cross.
Underpinning Parking Non-Stops sound is a painstaking process of
digital collage. Parking Non-Stop's music always incorporates field
recordings (to a lesser or greater extent), whether as background
ambience, basic rhythm tracks or upfront vocal focus. There are no drum sounds on the album: all rhythms are created through the positioning of field recordings, most of which are made from slate dropped, thrown and smashed in the quarries of Snowdonia. These are combined with vocals and more conventional instrumentation to create an aesthetic that hovers on the border between avant-garde and pop, challenging the certainties of both.


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Lewis from St. LouisThursday, April 8th, 2010
Our cat Lewis has been hit with FLUTD — that is, feline lower urinary tract disease — and I'm totally bummed.
Even though the diagnosis could be much, much worse, I became a wreck this evening over the thought of it indeed being much, much worse — as in a fatal condition that the doctor threw out as a possibility.
So we have to monitor Lewis' litter-box visits as best we can now, which I'm sure perplexes and annoys the heck out of him. But since returning from the vet this evening, I observed that he tried to empty his bladder 11 times within one hour, and only the first visit to a box was successful. He's also keeping his distance from us and choosing to camp out under the dining table despite our coaxing.
Just the other day I was telling Ben that we have the best cats in the world and that I hope they stay healthy and live long enough for our son to love and play with them too. So I found it incredibly unfair to find that so soon after that conversation we are faced with thoughts of those same sweet cats' mortality.
Get well soon, Lewis.


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Famed director Steven Spielberg has announced that his next project will be a film adaptation of the award-winning epic hit War Horse, now playing at the New London Theatre.
In December, Spielberg's Dreamworks Studios announced that it had acquired the rights to the novel. Spielberg said at that time, "Its heart and its message provide a story that can be felt in every country."
War Horse is a thrilling and spectacular production based on the celebrated novel by Michael Morpurgo. The First World War serves as the backdrop for this tale of bravery, loyalty, and the unbreakable bond between a young recruit and his horse. Actors, working with astonishing life-sized puppets by the internationally renowned Handspring Puppet Company, take audiences on an unforgettable journey through history. The stage play is set to debut in New York in 2011.
The film will be written by Lee Hall ("Billy Elliot") and Richard Curtis ("Four Weddings and a Funeral"), and will be released by DreamWorks and Disney on Aug. 10, 2011. Spielberg is producing with Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Revel Guest.
Spielberg will have two films in theaters next year. His 3D family pic "The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn," unspools Dec. 23, 2011.


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Just to let you know I have been away for a few days couldn't get online because I didn't have a tower. I am now back up and running so back with you.
Deb - If you read this can you let me know where that only me thread is about the jabs I can't find it?
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Joey Korn's Space Clearing Workshop Now on DVD
For the first time ever, we now have an all-day workshop with Joey Korn available on a four-DVD set. Spiritual Space Clearing from the Inside-Out was recorded live at ORI's Dowsing and Alternative Healing Conference in Fayetteville, Arkansas in April 2016. It's the focus of all of my work. This is jam-packed with info and experiential exercises. … Read more here...
New Videos about Joey Korn's Work
In this two-part video, John L. Petersen of the Arlington Institute interviews me about my work with Spiritual Dowsing & the Blessing Process. I begin with the basics of dowsing, how I think it works, and evolve into my work with others through my Remote Spiritual Housecleaning services. I even explain how some energies can cause paranormal experiences. Click Here to watch the new videos.… Read more here...
Things that Go Bump in the Night
This is the most I've ever written about the two primary causes of intense energy problems, including paranormal activity, that I find in homes: Interference Energy and Earthbound Spirits. It's all about energy! I also explain how I clear the energies and stop the paranormal activity. This has become my specialty in recent years.
Click here to read "Things that Go Bump in the Night."
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For me, dowsing, or "divining", is not just about finding a place to drill or dig a well or about finding anything in the physical world. It's about detecting energy. It's about tapping into our own God-given ability to explore the world of subtle energies that are everywhere within and around us. It's about drawing ever closer to the Divine in our lives. Dowsing for me has become a way to demonstrate that the blessing process works. Not only does it work, but I consider it the most powerful Force in the universe. And everyone has this Force at their disposal. At their beckoned call. But we must call. We must initiate the process to use this Force. It's not enough just to recognize the blessings we have in life and to express gratitude for them, though that is important. We must call on whatever we consider the Divine to bless us if we want, purposefully, to use this Force that is ever-present in our lives.
I help people understand what is going on energetically, behind the scenes in life. With negative thoughts, actions and emotions, we fill and surround ourselves with detrimental, weakening energies. With positive thoughts, actions and emotions, we fill and surround ourselves with beneficial, healing energies. And you can find and experience all these energies with dowsing! By understanding that this is taking place, day in and day out, we can take charge of the process with blessing, especially with what I call "the Simple Blessing Process." Learn the five components of the Simple Blessing Process, see an example of a Simple Blessing, and learn to adapt it to help with any aspect of your life. To learn even more, you can also download an extended article on "Spiritual Dowsing and the Simple Blessing Process.":
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In response to a letter from several senators, Jim Jones, acting assistant administrator for EPA's Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, said that although the agency is concerned about potential pesticides' impacts on bees, it does not intend to further accelerate its review of neonicotinoid pesticides which some beekeepers and environmental groups are blaming for bee kills.
In a July 26 letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, Sens. Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Leahy (D-Va.), and Whitehouse (D-R.I.) asked EPA to expedite its review of the neonicotinoid insecticides.
"I want to assure you that the EPA is focused on addressing the potential effects of pesticides on pollinators and is engaged in national and international efforts to address those concerns," Jones wrote in the Aug. 21 response.
Jones stated that these reviews will take time. "As part of advancing our understanding in the context of reevaluation, the EPA has already required six specific studies to address uncertainties related to potential honey bee exposure, and effects from imidacloprid alone," Jones wrote. "Additional, similar studies will be required of other neonicotinoid insecticides in the near future. These studies, while underway or anticipated, will require time to complete. For example, based on current workplan schedules for the neonicotinoids, the registrants are generating exposure and effects data to be submitted to EPA by the end of 2015."
EPA has admitted that it does not have the appropriate data or methodologies to accurately assess pesticides effects on honey bee populations. On Aug. 16, the agency released its Draft Pollinator Risk Assessment Framework, developed in conjunction with Canada's Pest Management Regulatory Agency and the California Dept. of Pesticide Regulation, for public comment.
The framework also was the point of discussion for a recently held Federal Insecticide, Fungicide & Rodenticide Act Scientific Advisory Committee meeting.


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Four Students Enter 2nd Tech YouTube Contest, Oct. 20, 2008
By Thomas Guengerich
SOCORRO, N.M., Oct. 20, 2008 – The second New Mexico Tech YouTube contest is under way, with four student entries posted on the Web on Tuesday, October 14.
To view all four videos, log on to www.youtube.com/user/nmtadmin.
The student whose video receives the most hits on YouTube by December 5 will win $500! Second and third place will receive prizes, too!
As of 5 p.m. Thursday, the entry by Bryce Hinderer was spreading virally and already had 1,000 page views.
The other entries include "On The Frontiers: A New Mexico Tech Adventure," by Timothy Barnes; "Mechanical Engineering Air Cannon," by Rick Holets; and "Storm Chase and Meteorology Club" by Seth Price.
Barnes' submission includes an explanation of the senior mechanical design clinic project to design a new liquid-based heliostat mount, complete with elaborate CGI, footage of Socorro and Tech and a brief history of New Mexico. In his voice over, Barnes explains the operation of a heliostat array and the importance of alternative energy.
He ends his video by saying, "The heliostat project is but one of dozens of undergraduate research projects ongoing at Tech. If you're looking for a school truly on the frontiers, New Mexico Tech is the place to be."
Holet's air cannon video includes footage of flying cantaloupes with a rock 'n roll soundtrack. The video includes several shots and the search for the impact crater made by flying cantaloupe.
The Tech student chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers built the cannon last year as a project. The cannon handles up to 110 psi and shoots cantaloupes, bags of flour, full 2 liter bottles hundreds of meters.
Appearing in the video are Lucas Chavez, Brendan Geels, Matthew O'Keefe, Ben Fuller, Roushan Ghanbari and Zahra Ghanbari.
Holets closes the video with a thanks to Tech, campus police, the ASME Club "for building a sweet gun" and the mechanical engineering department "for being awesome."
The Storm Chase video is a two-minute film of a tornado cloud that Price filmed while driving near Red Hill, Kan. Price, the president of the meteorology club at Tech, filmed a tornado touching down May 22, 2007, in field as he drove passed dozens of people standing roadside with cameras.
Hinderer's entry is a tribute to Thomas Dolby's "She Blinded Me With Science." With nearly a dozen students in the video, New Mexico Tech stands in for Dolby's "Home for Deranged Engineering Scientists." Mason Risley portrays "Thomas Techie" in a music video very closely modeled on Dolby's original video for the 1982 pop hit.
The song is the story of a mad scientist and includes Tech-appropriate lines like, "I can smell the chemicals."


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Emma Stone may be the obvious choice for summer's best dressed gal, but our hearts lie with an even more adventurous spirit in the red carpet department: Elizabeth Banks, who we've been crushing on ever since The 40-Year Old Virgin. Check out a few of her recent looks and see why she deserves a place in the style spotlight...
Banks works with the stylist team Wendi & Nicole, who ranked at number 19 on The Hollywood Reporter's list of the most powerful stylists. Their client roster is as diverse as Octavia Spencer and Channing Tatum, but it's the blonde bombshell who is by far the most experimental--and catches our attention with a wide range of up-and-coming designers:
She took a serious plunge in this sexy number by J. Mendel at the premiere of her latest film, People Like Us, in L.A. last week. And she didn't stop at a futuristic frock--she took the look to full-on territory with a sleek updo and Giuseppe Zanotti metallic sandals.
Later in the week, she showed off her softer side in a tropical print that was perfect for the setting--the Maui Film Festival. The Erdem pre-fall 2012 dress got the perfect finishing touch with a real floral lei.
Her thing for prints extends beyond casual--remember this wow-worthy dress from the Met Gala by London It girl Mary Katrantzou? It takes serious style balls to pull a look like this off, and she's got 'em in spades.
Lots of women wore black jumpsuits to the recent MTV Movie Awards, but Elizabeth's was the clear winner in our poll. The Elie Saab look was edgy-meets-glam in the sexiest way possible.
Leave it to Elizabeth to be a step ahead of the trend machine: Oxblood is by far the hottest color for fall 2012, but she's already rocking it in spring. She went head-to-toe in this Alexander McQueen look, and we were smitten.
We saved our fave for last--remember this stunning Peter Pilotto piece from an "Obsessed with this Dress" post a few weeks ago? We think commenter MissNew put it best: "All of her looks say she has been looking forward to being a red carpet star since she was a little girl."
Safe to say she's arrived in the style spotlight, don't you think? Do you dolls love Elizabeth's style as much as we do? Which look is your favorite? Discuss!