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A swimming pool or a trampoline are considered "attractive nuisances" by insurance carriers because children are immature and often act impulsively. This does not mean children should die by drowning if they get in the pool unattended. This means that the pool or trampoline owner is held to a higher level of responsibility by having an attractive nuisance known to contribute to injuries and deaths. Homeowners have been held criminally negligent when fencing was inadequate to prevent drowning in their pool. Fighting breed dogs appear to be just dogs to children. Considering that pit bulls are called nanny dogs in the presence of children, that children overhear adults saying their pit bulls would lick slobbery kisses all over them, that their pit bulls wouldn't hurt a fly, that their pit bull would save lives, that their chihuahua is much more dangerous than their pit bull, that their pit bull is as much a family member as their children....well, what is a child supposed to believe? - Californians for Regulation of Pit Bulls
If you have to train a dog not to do something that is not training that is breaking an animal. Breaking an animal is not the same as training which is the direction of instincts. If you House Break your dog it will eventually go in the house if you are not there. If you train your dog to do something it was bred to do or not it will always do it anyway just not as well as if it is trained how to do it. In other words if you don't train you beagle to hunt rabbits it will hound up other things but hound it will.- TONY SOLESKY
Michael Vick had 9 beagles that were used for baiting and blood transfusions for famous pit fighters. The beagles were immediately adopted into homes without rehab, insurance policies and fanfare, but I am repeatedly told that breed doesn't matter though! - Vintage
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Whether it's New Year's Eve, Valentine's Day or the prom, a special night often begins and ends with a limousine ride.
If something goes wrong with that ride, it can take some of the fun out of a fun night. A group of Northampton Area High School students and their parents still is trying to resolve a dispute over a limo ride to last spring's senior prom.
Bill Bradford of East Allen Township sued Elegant Arrivals and its president, Steve Miga, and won a $1,000 judgment a few weeks ago. That amount is about what his daughter, Maggie, and 25 of her friends had paid.
District Judge Daniel Corpora issued the judgment after Miga did not appear for a hearing Dec. 19.
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Miga told me he couldn't make the hearing because he had fallen off a ladder and was injured. He said Elegant Arrivals, of Bethlehem Township, will appeal the judgment because it did nothing wrong. He said he's tried to work with the prom group by offering a partial refund.
Several students and their parents told me Elegant Arrivals picked them up about an hour late and arrived with two smaller limo buses instead of one large one they had booked. They departed from the Bradford home and headed to the Allentown Rose Garden, where the group took pictures before going to the prom at the Palace Center.
Student Jordan Smith of Lehigh Township told me the bus he was on was speeding on Route 22.
"He just kept going faster and faster," said Smith, who graduated last year and now attends Penn State.
He said the bus ran over a sign that was in the middle of the road to mark a pedestrian crossing in Allentown as they neared the Rose Garden.
"One of the buses drove in a highly erratic manner by running stop signs and speeding," the lawsuit alleges. "Some of the students on this bus also reported that the driver drove over the pedestrian sign and that during the drive, the driver used the emergency brake to stop several times."
Sue Rogozinski of Northampton, whose son was in the prom party, was following the bus to the Rose Garden.
"He was going really fast," Rogozinski told me. "He was flying."
She said she and her husband lost the bus when it ran a red light on Schoenersville Road soon after it left the Bradford home.
"He ran through a red light that was clearly red," Rogozinski said. "We were kind of surprised."
Miga told me he does not believe the driver drove in an unsafe manner or ran a red light.
"Why would he jeopardize his license?" Miga said.
He requires his drivers to have commercial licenses and take a safety course, he added.
According to the lawsuit, the limo driver told a parent at the park "that he didn't have brakes but he got the students there."
Bradford and Rogozinski said parents decided not to let the students get back on that bus and instead drove 12 of them to the prom, while the Elegant Arrivals vehicle that was not having problems took the rest of the students.
Miga told me there was a minor problem with the brakes on one of the limo buses, but he said the brakes functioned.

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Do guys look like that gym fit or naturally hard working fit (real work) ?
very nice....and the character is actually named Prince Philip...if this will indeed be a live action version of Disney's Sleeping Beauty.
Love an Australian import. You guys are F-ing hot!
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Cargill: Based on what I've seen, the costuming department had it easy on this one.
Thwaites: Well, kind of, yeah. We're both wearing big jackets and beanies and whatever, and then we get thrown into this humid, tropical climate. As one would do if one was in love with a girl and on an island -- I mean, I'd wear nothing, personally. Unfortunately, Lifetime can't show my big. ...
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As long as they look like him I'm down with that :P
He's pretty hot? What an understatement. LOL I watched that stupid Blue Lagoon just to stare at him shirtless the whole time and even when he had a shirt on, I stared at his cute face. There is almost nothing hotter than a cute Aussie.
Love his gorgeous face (and body) in the series SLICE. Check it out on Netflix.
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Mad Dogs and Englishmen
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The first record album (long player, that is) I ever bought was Joe Cocker: With A Little Help From My Friends. I purchased this lovely for $2.69 at Osco Drug in the University Mall in Little Rock, Arkansas. It was early 1970. I was 12 years old. I had been hanging out with my cousin that summer. He was five years older than me and had more money and greater access to music. With him I heard Green River , American Woman , Led Zeppelin II , Sticky Fingers, Stand! , and yes, With a Little Help from My Friends , when they were just out of the shrink-wrap. I recall this very fondly and with a lot of excitement. The first live recording I purchased was the two-LP set, Joe Cocker: Mad Dogs and Englishmen. I was stunned by the big sound of that big band. I think I know how Cameron Crowe felt first hearing the Allman Brothers Band.
Joe Cocker is the finest white rhythm and blues singer ever. Widely parodied and generally made fun of because of his spastic stage presence, Cocker introduced legions of white, middle-class teenagers to the music of Ray Charles, Solomon Burke, and Otis Redding. At the same time, he is a supreme interpreter of other composers' songs. Joe Cocker has transformed the music of Randy Newman, Dave Mason, Gary Wright, and those are just a few. On Mad Dogs and Englishmen, Joe Cocker starts off with no less that the Rolling Stones ("Honky Tonk Women"), Leonard Cohen ("Bird on a Wire"), Dave Mason ("Feelin' Alright), and Kris Kristofferson ("Superstar") and that is just on the first LP of the set. Cocker's boggy Sheffield voice was always well suited for the Muscle Shoals/AtlanticMemphis/Stax style of soul music. This is why "Let's go Get Stoned," "Drown in My Own Tears," and "I've Been Loving You Too Long" come off as supremely as they do.
The Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour was a hastily organized appendage to a longer tour Cocker was completing in 1970. April and November of 1969 saw the releases of With A Little Help From My Friends and Joe Cocker! respectively and Cocker had spent the time since in a grueling promotional tour. As legend would have it, Cocker arrived in Los Angeles in March of 1970 for some rest and relaxation and planning time to put together a new band. His management company had other plans for him. They let him in on a seven-week tour they have arranged for him, to commence in eight days. Leon Russell, seeing his old friend between a rock and a hard place, forms a band, becomes the musical director and directs this merry group toward the road. After four 10-plus hour rehearsals with his ten-person band, Cocker and Company record the single "The Letter/Space Captain" and hit the road, starting in Detroit.
The tour was also to be filmed and this present collection of performances was to serve as the soundtrack, recorded four shows into the tour at a packed Fillmore East on March 27th and 28th. The soundtrack includes songs from his first two recordings: "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window," "Delta Lady," "Bird on a Wire," and "Feelin' Alright." But several stock standards were added. Cocker proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that he can interpret any musicRock, R&B, Soul, Jazz, Folk, it is all here. There is an infectious air of joy and happiness in this music, substance-fueled and love maintained. This is BIG GOODTIME MUSIC. There are no highlights in this set. THEY ARE ALL HIGHLIGHTS.
This is loosely performed but never sloppy music. Because of the newness of the band and the short, concentrated rehearsal schedules, the Mad Dogs and Englishmen and a fresh and spontaneous character. Leon Russell looms as large as Cocker by playing his fat flinty brand of lead guitar and his Oklahoma dust bowl variety of gospel grand piano (the real thing, not one of those synthesized excuses. Bobby Keys (whose later tenor solo on the Rolling Stones' "Brown Sugar" would make him rock deity) and Jim Price sound like a full horn section. Drummers Jim Keltner and Jim Gordon set the standard for other dual trap set bands such as the Allman Brothers Band and the Doobie Brothers. But, for all of the greatness and talent of this band, it is THAT voice that stuns. In his mid twenties at the time, Cocker had a voice as big, deep, and soulful as Guinness Stout and as sweet as fine Port.
Cocker is at his best on the Parkinson's nod inducing "Feelin' Alright" and "The Letter." These songs have an insistent drive that causes the listener to bob his/her head to the beat, often inducing whiplash. The Blues and slower tunes, such as "Let's Go Get Stoned," "Bird on a Wire" and "The Blue Medley" find Cocker at his most agonizingly sincere. "She Came In Through The Bathroom Window" rocks as does "Delta Lady." Where Cocker is the voice, Leon Russell is the vision. His piano style is so unique that like Neil Young's guitar playing or Cocker's voice; the listener could identify it a mile away. If there is a high point (and I have already said all of the songs are) it would have to be the Cocker/Russell duet on Bob Dylan's "Girl From The North Country." Cocker's mossy brogue meshes provocatively with Russell's Midwestern twang perfectly framing Dylan's love ode.
It is fortunate that the Mad Dogs and Englishmen did not survive for other recordings and tours, their music would have become old. This way, one may listen to this music 30 years later and still hear it fresh as if it had just been extracted from the LP shrink-wrap.
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Did God Have Any Choice When He Made the World?
Theological ideas about divine freedom and human reason were important reasons for adopting an intellectually modest, empirical approach to nature during the Scientific Revolution. The common picture of ongoing, inevitable conflict between science and religion is not only false, but perverse, for it prevents us from seeing the kinds of deep connections [between the two].
Evolution, Chance, and God
The affirmation of genuine chance and randomness in the universe does not rob the universe of meaning and purpose.
From the Dust: From Chaos to Order
With From the Dust, it was our goal to help Christians see the complexity of the issues raised by modern science, as well as help them to courageously engage with the theological conversations happening within the sphere of Christian culture today.
Evolution: What We Know and What We Don't
This entry was originally posted on February 17, 2010. In this video conversation, Jeff Schloss makes the observation that when we use the term "evolution", it is not always exactly clear what we are actually discussing unless we denote the intended usage.
God's Extravagant Love in Creation
Critics of Christianity look to evolution to show how the emergence of human life on earth demanded enormous ruin and ravage, billions of years of apparent waste and futility, species extermination and organism road kill. Not only was the massive dying off rampant, it's mandatory too.
Conversing With Our Children about Creation and Evolution
We are often offended that God should have to accomplish anything in steps, as though that made him less divine and all-powerful. But engaging a child can be a fruitful remedy for the biases that have been woven into the fabric of our thinking over time.
Series: Searching for Motivated Belief (12 entries)
Over the next few months, with permission from Yale University Press, BioLogos will offer edited versions of chapters from John Polkinghorne's best books, Belief in God in an Age of Science and Theology in the Context of Science, in order to help readers delve more deeply into some of his most important ideas.
Miracles are Impossible, Part 1
People who believe in miracles usually don't think of them as God's "breaking" the laws of nature but as God's being constantly attentive to his cosmos.
Series: Evolution Basics (40 entries)
Written by BioLogos Fellow of Biology Dennis Venema, this series of posts is intended as a basic introduction to the science of evolution for non-specialists.
Series: Understanding Randomness (5 entries)
In this series, Kathryn Applegate addresses the concern that randomness implies the absence of God's activity and involvement in the natural world. She begins by clearing up some common misconceptions about the concept of "randomness", and later focuses on the mechanisms of the immune system to demonstrate that God works through random processes to preserve life. Far from being an indication of a "godless" universe, one might conclude that randomness is one of God's favorite mechanisms for creating and sustaining life!
Series: God and Creation (5 entries)
In this four part series, David Opderbeck explores the interesting relationship between God and his creation. He first looks at his transcendence over the material world. In one respect, God is completely distinct from all creation, yet he is also immanent, or present within all creation. Another aspect of God reflected in creation is his Triune nature. Just as love, fellowship, and delight exist within the Trinity, so these characteristics are present in the world, and experienced by humans. He completes his thoughts with a discussion about God's interaction with humans.
Where are the Transitional Fossils?
A common argument leveled against the theory of evolution is that scientists have not been able to produce transitional fossils that show the change of one species into another. In this podcast, we address a common misconception about what transitional fossils actually are.
Series: The Human Fossil Record (16 entries)
In this series, James Kidder provides an intriguing study on transitional fossils and the evolutionary history of modern humans. He begins by discussing the fossil record, explaining how new forms are classified. He then explains the physically distinguishing trait of humankind—bipedalism. From the discovery of Ardipithecus, the earliest known hominin, to the australopithecines, the most prolific hominin, Kidder focuses on the discovery, the anatomy, and the interpretation of these ancestral remains.
Surveying George Murphy's Theology of the Cross
If God himself is willing to die, particularly in such a gruesome way, then perhaps we should at least consider the possibility of God allowing the death of other creatures, too. But would this really be compatible with what we know of God through Scripture?
Series: "And God Saw That It Was Good": Death and Pain in the Created Order (6 entries)
The tension generated by our understanding of God's character, as revealed in the Bible, and by the reality of the natural world around us has been the focus of much debate within the Christian church since the first century. This series examines critically several of the proposed solutions to this problem, viewing them from the perspective of a geologist, paleontologist, and orthodox evangelical Christian.
Series: Behe, Lenski and the "Edge" of Evolution (5 entries)
In this series, we reexamine the claim made by Intelligent Design proponent Michael Behe to have found a limit to "Darwinian" evolution in light of recent results from the laboratory of Richard Lenski.
Biblical and Scientific Shortcomings of Flood Geology, Part 3
We find no compelling evidence that the earth's geological features can be explained by a global Flood. Here we consider three lines of evidence: global salt deposits, the order of deposition of sediment layers in the Grand Canyon, and the sequence of fossils in geological strata.
Did David Hume "Banish" Miracles?
"I flatter myself," Hume triumphantly proclaimed, "that I have discovered an argument . . . which, if just, will, with the wise and learned, be an everlasting check to all kinds of superstitious delusion, and consequently, will be useful as long as the world endures."
Series: Divine Action in the World (5 entries)
In this talk, Professor Plantinga addresses the fact that many contemporary thinkers—including many theologians—believe that God cannot perform miracles, providentially guide history, or interact in the lives of people, as these activities would be contrary to science. Plantinga, on the other hand, makes the case that this popular view is mistaken; excluding divine action in the world is not a central feature of natural science itself, but a philosophical or theological preference that has been added on to science (and can just as readily be removed). Plantinga concludes that it is completely logical to accept the miracles of the Bible and support contemporary science.


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From January to June 2012, Denmark will hold the Presidency of the Council of the EU. During that time, it wants to bring Europe together and make it more resilient for the tough challenges ahead.
The number of votes in AB Volvo has changed due to the conversion of a total of 390 Series A shares to a total of 390 Series B shares. The conversions were implemented with the support of the opportunity for Series A shareholders to request conversion of Series A shares to Series B shares, which was entered in the Articles of Association at the 2011 Annual General Meeting.
Björn Ingemanson, 53, has been appointed new President of Volvo Penta. Björn Ingemanson is currently President of Volvo Trucks' International Division and will assume his new position on April 1, 2012, when he will succeed the current President Göran Gummeson, who will retire next year.
Total deliveries from the Volvo Group's truck operations in November amounted to 22,440 vehicles. This was an increase of 22% compared with the year-earlier period.
Volvo Buses has received an order for a total of 230 city buses from Kingston, Jamaica. The first 65 buses will be delivered at the end of 2011. The transaction is worth just over 16 million euros.
"WirelessCar is redefining the telematics service provider as a global supplier of cloud services" distinguishing itself by a global reach and an open platform. An analysis that could be summed-up as: "wherever you turn, WirelessCar is there!"
The main agreements reached during the Council included the recast of the first railway package, progress towards an agreement on tachographs, the minimum level of training for seafarers and the Guidelines for the development of the Trans-European Transport Network.
The Election Committee of AB Volvo proposes the election of Carl-Henric Svanberg as new Chairman of the Board at the Annual General Meeting on April 4, 2012. AB Volvo's current Chairman Louis Schweitzer has declined reelection.
Volvo IT's web and mobile service for environmentally friendly commuting, Commute Greener, has been named the 2011 most environmentally friendly project by the CIO Magazine in Sweden.
Volvo Bus Latin America has recently sold 688 bus chassis to the capitol of Colômbia, Bogotá. It's the company's largest deal ever in Colômbia. The deal encompasses chassis for conventional buses as well as articulated and biarticulated buses.


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For the past year, I have had the pleasure of serving as chair of the Montrose Public Art eXperience (PAX) steering committee. During this time I have worked with the most dedicated and talented group of volunteers imaginable—despite the economic challenges we have faced, it has been a wonderful year!
Many thanks to everyone who turned out for the Fourth Annual Public Art eXperience (PAX) Gala at Centennial Plaza on Sept. 11, and who helped us raise money for our public sculpture program by participating in our first ever Quickdraw event.
Kudos to our volunteers, to event chairs Marge Keehfuss and Caroline Lescroart, and to the rest of the hard working PAX Committee—current members include Nancy Ballantyne, Carolyn Bellavance (incoming chair for 2009/2010), Pat and Bob Brown, Dennis Erickson, Marge Keehfuss, Caroline Lescroart, Jill Myers, Rich Parr, Lu Anne Tyrrell and Michelle Young.
Thanks to Kurt Isgreen for the donation of his beautiful watercolor "Black Canyon" for this year's promotional poster and raffle, and to our 2009 Peoples' Choice Award winner Pokey Park for donating her wonderful three inch bronze, "Curled Mountain Lion," for our Quickdraw Auction.
Thanks also to the brilliant and generous Western Slope sculptors who are loaning their works to the City of Montrose this year—Richard Arnold, Jerry Dunbar, Larry Davidson, Caleb Kullman, Ella Marolf, Michael McCullough, Bill Noland, Pat Olson, Pokey Park, Damian Radice, Daphna Russell, Nick Russotto, Michael Short, William Sowell, Margaret Tange and Mary Zimmerman.
Thank you to our Quickdraw artists—your talent is truly breathtaking—Mary Hill, Linda Nadel, Daphna Russell, Lu Anne Tyrrell, Lori Berry and Toni Woodrum. You astonished everyone with your speed, skill and talent!
Thanks to our amazing and very eloquent auctioneer, Ralph Walchle—you made the evening exciting and memorable, and to Yvonne Meek and her band, for providing the perfect musical backdrop for an evening of the arts.
To our creative caterer Ginger Magnolia, as well as Mountain View Winery and Smuggler's Brewpub, your efforts are greatly appreciated.
Thank you to the awesome Beverly Corbell and Watch Newspaper as well, for all the great PAX stories!
Thank you also to the local businesses and organizations who hosted our raffle watercolor this summer—Around the Corner Art Gallery, Coffee Trader, SheShe Boutique & Gallery, and the Uncompahgre Valley Water Users Association (UVWUA).
Finally, we salute our loyal 2009/2010 sponsors, including the City of Montrose, Montrose Chamber of Commerce, Four Seasons Investment Advisors, Montrose Area Merchants Association, Montrose Arts Council, the Stupid Band and the Montrose Daily Press.
To everyone who could not make it to Centennial Plaza on Sept. 11 for this season's sculpture unveiling, there are plenty of brochure/maps available at the Montrose Chamber and at City Hall—stop by anytime they are open, and pick one up.
Take a walk downtown, enjoy the exciting and beautiful works of art on display, and celebrate the vitality of this amazing and artistic community.
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In Alabama, two schools received gold medals and 16 received silver or about 5 percent of the evaluated high schools. Alabama's neighbor to the east, Georgia, had 10 gold medal schools and 37 silver medal schools, about 10 percent of its evaluated schools. To the west, in Mississippi, there were no gold medal schools and four silver medal schools, about 1.5 percent of its evaluated schools. In the northeast, Massachusetts had 24 gold medal schools and 30 silver medal schools in the ranking, about 15 percent of its evaluated high schools.
While Dryden notes that it's hard to compare schools in different states because the states measure success in different ways, states do create an environment that allows schools to be more successful.
Money is a big issue, she said. The education budget in Alabama has been slashed over the last several years, Dryden said. That means the state spends less per pupil than many other states, she said.
"Massachusetts has a whole lot more money than we do," said Board of Education member Jerry Cash.
But money isn't the only issue, said Malissa Valdes-Hubert, public information manager for the Alabama State Department of Education.
"There's a million ways to create that environment," Valdes-Hubert said.
Each state has to decide how it is going to get there, she added.
Money does allow the schools to pay more teachers and keep the teacher-student ration down and that is one ratio Alabama should improve on, Valdes-Hubert said.
But she notes creativity in the classroom and the flexibility to exercise innovative teaching are also important as is rigor in the classroom, she said.
"We've been improving on that," Valdes-Hubert said.
The state is making a concerted effort to increase the availability of Advanced Placement classes to its students. It has added ACCESS to provide web-based access to AP classes for students in any high school. For instance if a particular high school doesn't offer an AP class, the student can sign up to take it online through another school or via video class, she said. There is no cost to the student and it allows students who otherwise don't have access to AP classes the opportunity to take them, Valdes-Hubert said.
"There are currently 720 students taking AP-web-based and video classes," Valdes-Hubert said. "That's 720 students who wouldn't have had that opportunity without distance learning offerings."
Mary Boehm, president of A+ College Ready, agreed that the AP classes do a lot to improve student performance.
A+ College Ready is a non profit, non partisan organization that works to improve the participation and pass rates in AP classes. It was created in 2008 with a $13.2 million grant from National Math and Science.
"It's not the only thing, but in Alabama our expectations have been so low for so long," Boehm said.
AP classes provide a national and even international standard for schools to teach, and when the students earn a qualifying score they know they would have passed the college course, Boehm said.
Boehm said a grant provided by A+ College Ready to Cleburne County High School allowed intensive training for the students and the teachers to succeed in the AP classes. This is the final year of the three-year-grant and she said the culture at the high school has changed. More students are taking the classes and earning the college credit on the test offered at the end of the course.
In 2009-2010 the system had 37 students enrolled in AP classes and six made a qualifying score on the test. In 2011-2012, the number of students taking the AP classes had jumped to 112 and 19 made qualifying scores on the tests.
Even as the grant ends, Boehm is confident the students will continue to take AP classes and score well.
Boehm also noted that 10 of the 18 schools that received gold or silver medals in Alabama had been a part of the A+ College Ready progam. The others were stronger schools that would be expected to have strong AP programs on their own, Boehm said.
Creativity in the classroom is also important in helping students succeed, Valdes-Hubert pointed out.
Alabama has a diverse student population and teachers need to find ways to reach out to all of the students, she said. That can be accomplished if a state offers flexibility to teachers and to schools.
The Department of Education has been able to do that under the Innovative School System program, Valdes-Hubert said.
"It's one way we are trying to make a very flexible learning environment," Valdes-Hubert said.
It recently awarded Florence City Schools and Lawrence County Schools flexibility for programs they designed to meet the needs of their students and to improve issues at their schools.
Lawrence County Schools requested the opportunity to create an agriculture-based diploma.
Among the stated goals were increasing the system's graduation rate by 3 percent and increasing two and four-year college enrollment by 3 percent.
Other ways of offering flexibility may be allowing schools to offer Saturday classes or night classes, Valdes-Hubert said. It's important to offer something other than the 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. model for students who need it, she said.
Another way to allow teachers to be creative in the classroom is through the teacher education, she said. The department works with colleges to try to give the new teachers a taste of what the classroom will be like. It has worked to increase the number of student teaching hours. The department also works closely with the colleges to let them know what skills the teachers will need in their classroom.
"That's been a goal," she said. "To get to those new teachers and say 'This is what's happening in today's classroom.'"
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Westcomb Focus LT hoody - initial impressions
Thought I'd post a few initial impressions with some pics of the Westcomb Focus LT hoody. It's made with eVent DVL fabric. I haven't had a chance to get it out and test how comfortable/breathable it is, so these are just initial impressions on build, fit and such.I bought a large, which I usually buy in such jackets so I can layer under if I need to. It fits well, loose enough to layer a light puffy (like a WM Flash jacket) under, but not 'billowing' in any way at all. I'm 5'8", and back of the jacket completely covers my butt, the sleeves, if I let them hang down freely, pretty much go to the tip of my middle finger (so it covers my hands). Compared to the RAB Demand (large), it's a touch longer, and the sleeves are a tad longer as well. Perhaps a smidgen, even.It's a full zip jacket instead of an anorak style. It has one napoleon pocket. Construction seems very high quality, as you'd expect from Westcomb. It's got the best hood I've had on a jacket yet - besting even the RAB Demand hood, which I like a lot, and the Haglofs Ozo hood. It has a stiffened brim, but no wire in it like the RAB. Just using the single adjustment pull in the back closes it down wonderfully for wearing without a helmet or hat. It's the first hood that doesn't take lots of adjustment to get it to not hang over my eyes. Love this hood.Okay, some pics..
Edited by idester on 12/15/2012 20:27:20 MST.
Thanks Douglas for your write-up. This jacket has been on my "radar" since reading about it earlier this year. I've been a fan of eVent since purchasing an Integral Designs Thru-Hiker jacket many years ago.What are your thoughts on the the elasticized waist with no draw-cord? Does it seal well enough?I'm also very curious as to what your Large jacket weighs.Please keep us posted on the performance.
Very nice Doug. This jackets been on my radar but I've decided to eek another year out of my delaming Marmot for fiscal reasons. Hopefully everyone gives eVent DVL nothing but glowing reviews and I can swing one at some point. Maybe I just need to accidentally dry my Marmot Essence to close to the fire.
Nice review Doug,Like Dan this is my radar also, but I really like the features on my 11oz Montane Quickfire event jacket (pockets, vents and wired hood)
Thank you for the write up Doug. I have been waiting to pull the trigger on this until I read some in the field use reviews. I have pretty much the same questions that have been asked above. The color appears to be a much brighter than how the picture on Westcombs website shows it. The website shows the jacket being much darker than the zippers, but your pics show the jacket being very close to the same brightness as the zippers. I wonder if this is due to the lighting in the room? Nice to see they went away from the squiggly black line inside the jacket. I very much look forward to reading about your field use observations.
@Dougcan you post some action photos of the hood....it looks similar to deadbird design...M
Michael,Unfortunately, I have no one here to take pics of me wearing the jacket. I won't be able to field test it any time soon as well. Hopefully early in the new year.
Does your camera have timer function?Maybe you're just shy?
I picked up a Focus LT Hoody at The Down Works. My size "M" weights 9oz. I am 5'10"@160lb. and I find the fit perfect for me... not too much extra space when just wearing a base, is just right amount for a 100wt fleece or a light puffy. Like a number of ultralight jackets there is not a draw cord at the bottom, but rather elastic gather on the back size of the jacket. It seems to be adequate, though I prefer a cord. The on thing I will miss from my other eVENT jacket is the liner (e.g. 3 layer -vs- 2.5) because the 3-layer is much more comfortable against bare skin. The hood is excellent, though I am not sure I favor it over the last Rab jacket I had. I can't do a direct comparison because I sold the rain this summer when it I decided it wasn't fitting anymore.We are forecast to have rain for the next several days and I will be able to get out some this weekend, so hopefully I will be able to give some sense of performance in the field shortly.--Mark
Interesting to see that the production version of the jacket is coming in at 9 ounces. Kind of dissappointed to hear that. Their website has been updated to reflect this as well. Really not much lighter than my 3 layer active shell jacket which has more features and is undoubtedly more durable. Hoping to hear some great news about eVent DVL breathability.
@Nathan - indeed - it was pegged as 7oz IIRC....9oz is in the ball park of many other UL jackets
Earlier I saw the weight listed at 7.66oz. I just went back to the westcomb web site and It appears they have updated the weight since I last looked. its now 8.93oz. The weight of the various components of the jacket as not always the same weight. manufacturing tolerances will cause some parts to be lighter and others to be heavier. Also the origninal prototype may have had some design flaws. Correcting those flaws may have added weight. Hopefully westcomb can improve it over time to get it back to 7oz.
Edited by Surf on 12/21/2012 01:02:53 MST.
That's too bad it's up to 9oz. That puts in the same range as a lot of other nice coats.
Since getting my new Westcomb Focus LT Hoody the weather has been very cooperative, meaning plenty of rain and wind at fairly mild temps 45-55F. So far, this is my favorite rain shell. So long as the temperature is below 50-55F I can be happy even though it doesn't have pit zips. If it's not raining or just light sprinkles still prefer a wind shirt thanks to better breathability and nicer fabric hand, but the DVL eVENT performance was impressive.I was able to wear the Focus LT in 50-55F temps with a 20lb pack walking 3-3.5mph on level ground without accumulating sweat except under the shoulder straps which happens even when I am just wearing a base layer. There was a slightly perceivable raise of humidity inside the jacket, but it wasn't significantly more noticeable then when I am wearing my Houdini wind shirt. I could walk any amount of time on relatively flat terrain and stay dry. I couldn't do this with jackets I have previously owned which used various forms of Gore-Tex or Marmot's Strata membrane.On a long uphill push or when trail running I can generate more moisture that the jacket could move. This isn't surprising because nothing but base layers or very air permeable stretch woven soft shells actually move enough moisture when I am moving fast or working hard, not even an unlined wind shirt. On the other hand, I am pretty sure that the Focus has performed better than any other WP/B shell I have even used. An example of overwhelming the jacket was a section of trail which gains 1k ft in less than 1 mile. I did this section at around 3.3mph with light rain, modest wind. I was wearing supplex hiking pants, Montbell PacLite rain pants, Patagonia Featherweight Crew Shirt, and the Focus LT. For the first 10 minutes up the uphill push I didn't notice significant moisture accumulation inside the jacket. At around the 10 minute mark (a bit more than 1/2 way up this push) I could feel my chest and forearms start to get damp. At the ridge I felt a bit damp all over. Since I was not around home I wasn't able to actually measure how much moisture accumulated in my base. My take away is for short pushes the Focus / eVENT DVL can vent / buffer whatever I generate, but that for modest too long slogs I need to drop my pace or be prepared to get damp from my own moisture.The next section of that hike was relatively flat. I noticed that after 10-15 minutes walking at 3mph pace that the sense of dampness was gone. This really pleased me, because it suggests that even when I push beyond the jackets ability to vent moisture, when I slow my activity level I can dry out while wearing the shell, even if it is raining. In the future I see myself wearing a rain jacket more than I have in recent years. As mentioned above, while the workmanship, design, and fit is excellent, it is minimalist. It's a great rain shell, but the lack of draw cord, no inside pockets, etc makes it less than ideal as an four season shell. Specially I wouldn't use it for snow sports, but then again, I haven't used a membrane shell in the winter for years, favoring shells which have no membrane to impede venting moisture when I don't need to keep liquid water out.So while I was disappointed that the jacket was not the expected 7oz, 9oz with good performance makes it a keeper. More than a keeper, I have just added it to my perfect for me gear list.
Edited by verber on 12/28/2012 07:30:43 MST.
Mark,Thanks for the thorough review. Looks like I'll be passing this one over. Oh well. It'll be interesting to see what Haglofs brings us this spring - hopefully they'll do a little better than westcomb in going from prototype to production.
Edited by richard295 on 12/24/2012 15:52:02 MST.
Curious if anyone else who bought this has any reviews or thoughts about it? The XL version I have came in at 10.4 ounces.
Edited by jpovs on 12/31/2012 05:40:39 MST.
Mark thanks for the great review. Our recent heavy rains have indeed been excellent for testing. Excited about the material. Have you considered adding modest length pit zips with lightweight zippers to help vent during high exertion?
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Since we launched Google Handwrite last summer for smartphones and tablets, we've been improving recognition quality and also working on a number of features to make it easier and faster to handwrite your searches on Google. You can now distinguish between ambiguous characters, overlap your characters, and write multiple characters at a time in Chinese.
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Delphine Chaneac wore a simple leather-strapped timepiece at the premiere of 'Diamonds Are Girls Best Friend.'
Sterling Quartz Watch
Caroline Beil
Caroline Beil accessorized her evening gown with a masculine silver watch.
Gold Bracelet Watch
Carolina Herrera
Carolina Herrera's gold bracelet watch was a luxurious addition to her ensemble during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week.
Leather Band Quartz Watch
Maria Fowler
Maria Fowler accessorized with a stylish white leather band quart watch while out in London.
Diamond Watch
Eva la Rue
Eva la Rue broke out the diamonds at the Rock the Kasbah gala, wearing this watch, tennis bracelet, and ring combo.
Sterling Bracelet Watch
Nicollette Sheridan
Nicolette Sheridan shopped in style at Ralph Lauren in a Marilyn Monroe style dress that she accessorized with a classic silver link watch.
Diamond Watch
Grace Hightower
Grace selected a diamond watch set in 18-karat white gold at the premeire of 'Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.'
Diamond Watch
Kim Kardashian
Kim Kardashian promoted her new signature watch collection, wearing a black oversize watch embellished with diamonds.
Sterling Bracelet Watch
Megan Gale
Megan Gale keeps the time with this elegant dial watch.


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The 1994 Mexican Economic Crisis: The Role of Government Expenditure and Relative Pricesby Eliot Kalter Armando Ribas
The Role of Government Expenditure and Relative Prices
Chile Institutions and Policies Underpinning Stability and Growthby Eliot Kalter Steven Phillips Manmohan Singh
A report from the International Monetary Fund.
International Capital Marketsby Maxwell Watson Donald Mathieson Russell Kincaid Eliot Kalter
This report reviews and assesses recent developments in the mature and emerging markets and continues the analysis of key structural changes in global financial markets that has been presented in previous reports. The survey generally covers the 12-month period ending in June 2000. Over this period global financial conditions in the main improved in tandem with the strong rebound of the global economy. Credit concerns have eased following the most severe market turbulence in the post war period and global investors became more willing to engage in risk taking. The continued rapid growth of US productivity - largely related to the 'new economy' - helped sustain the low inflation expansion in the United States, and spurred US and worldwide investment. Chapters in the report focus on emerging market financing; private sector involvement in crisis prevention and resolution; the role of foreign banks in emerging markets.
International Capital Markets: Developments and Prospectsby Maxwell Watson Russell Kincaid Caroline Atkinson Eliot Kalter David Folkerts-Landau
This study assesses recent trends in international capital markets. It reviews, in particular, the forces currently reshaping the markets of industrial countries and confronting financial institutions with major challenges.
Mexico: The Strategy to Achieve Sustained Economic Growthby Claudio Loser Eliot Kalter Sharmini Coorey Mohamed El-Erian Saul Lizondo Liliana Rojas-Suarez Philippe Szymczak
This paper explores the reasons behind the recent transformation and upturn of the Mexican economy. the changes are the result of the authorities' determination to stick with a difficult reform program since the early 1980s, supported by multilateral financial institutions, creditor countries, and commercial banks.
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