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I decided to see what my little 1st graders had learned from the year. In 1st grade we begin to apply the "basics" to projects that reflect around the Elements and Principles. We concentrate on drawing with pencils, coloring like an artist, painting, and collages. So I decided to test them to see how much they had retained. Will they remember to draw lightly? Swish, wipe, and blot? Let's find out...
Students were told that this was a test. I wanted to see if they remembered elements, principles, procedures and processes we had worked on all year in class.Create a flower: Any kind. Real or imaginary.
You have 3 choices of how to make it: Drawing and coloring with crayon, Collage with scissors and glue, or draw and paint.
All students were given 9"x12" white paper. All materials they needed were out and ready. The rest was up to them.
Tracing the drawing with a black crayon to make it "POP" when it is painted.
Some students made two types and wanted to turn in the best one. Here you can see paints and crayons out.
Correct paint procedure setup!
When I asked this student where his sky would stop he said, "All the way to the ground SILLY!"
Me: "Why is this flower so much bigger?"
Student: "It's in the foreground!"
This student went on to paint the rest of the sky blue and leave the clouds white. It made the cloud shapes more organic.
One student creating a collage and another one coloring. Notice how her petals are in a stack. She stacked the papers together and cut them all at the same time. "Why did you do that?" I asked. "Because I wanted them all the same." she said.
Many imaginary color choices!
This little girl pointed out to me that she let one color dry, painted something somewhere else, and then came back to paint beside the first color. She remembered that the colors may bleed together.
Paint setup for two. You can tell that they did some good blotting on their paper towel.
I was very pleased with all the results. Only 2 students forgot a couple of things. I believe I will now give a test at the end of the year similar to this for all grades. It was a HUGE SUCCESS and the students loved showing me what they learned. One even told me that this should be on the TCAP!


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This was it! I was headed to Rome! I could hardly contain my excitement. Rome was somewhat of a dream destination for me, much like London. The history, the food, the art; all of them were of great interest to me. Plus I got a ticket to be in the papal audience.
The flight was smoother than I expected even though I flew coach. The flight was just a little under 10 hours from JFK. I arrived in Rome's Fiumicino Airport early in the morning and was fortunate to be the first ones out of the plane so I didn't have to queue very long to pass immigration. Once cleared, I got my bag and headed out to the get my transport.
Italy 2012: Day 1
Fiumicino Airport is a ways out of the historic city center but it does have a train connection that will bring you straight to Termini Station, Rome's main train station, in about 30 minutes.
My commute took around an hour however. Mostly because my hostel, Dreaming Rome, was outside the Aurelian Walls and required two more transfers from Termini Station. When I finally reached my destination, I checked-in, set my luggage aside and proceeded back out again. I was ready to start sightseeing.
My first stop was Piazza Barberini. Here, I received my first dose of Bernini courtesy of the Triton Fountain. I continued my walk downhill until I reached the Spanish Steps. It was still early in the day so it wasn't quite as crowded, but even then, the view from the bottom was somewhat surreal. The image of the white Baroque church glistened prominently against the bright blue sky. It was going to be a great day.
After snapping some quick photos and drinking my first gulp of water from the fountains, I headed towards the Bishops' Office for the United States to retrieve my ticket to see the pope. Their office is a peach colored old building located on a small side street just a few blocks away from Via Condotti where upon entry, you're welcomed into a small courtyard with the statue of the Virgin Mary. Once I got my ticket, I took a turn around the grounds just to see what else was around and also to find the loo. In Europe, toilets aren't usually free so if given the opportunity to find one that is, take advantage.
Anyway, I headed out and got a Roman pizza (square slice with think crust) to nibble on. It was late in the afternoon and I was starving. I ate my slice while I sitting on a stone stair step. It was fascinating to hear the roar of Vespas and the staccato sounds of footsteps while watching people pass by. When I reached inside my purse to capture the moment however that was when I realized that my camera, my newly bought pink Canon Powershot camera was gone. Pickpockets are common in major cities like Rome but I didn't want to jump to that conclusion so I tried not to panic and carefully retraced my steps, hoping that I just left it at the bishop's office. Unfortunately, when I returned, the nun I spoke to said no one turned in a camera. I left my information anyway, just in case a miracle happened. As you can probably imagine, I was bummed.
I drowned my sorrows by slurping on my first cup of gelato that evening and convinced myself that it was better to have lost it now when there were hardly any pictures in it rather than towards the end of my holidays. It did little to comfort me but I decided to continue sightseeing. I wasn't about to waste a perfectly nice spring day in Rome despite the circumstances. My phone still had a full battery life so I used that to take pictures instead. I stopped by the Pantheon, Piazza Navona, and waited for the lights to turn on at the Trevi Fountain before heading back to get some much needed rest.

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Selena Gomez's Blue Beauty Look At Perez Party!
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Selena Gomez came out to celebrate Perez Hilton's birthday at his Blue Ball Birthday Bash on Mar. 26 in LA, and she took the event's theme color seriously! Selena sported an entirely blue getup and beauty look! Her makeup included blue eye shadow, false lashes, crystal stickers, and shimmery lipstick, and she topped it all off with a mini feathered top hat on her head. (We wonder what boyfriend Justin Bieber thinks of this look?)It sounds like Selena had a great time– at the end of the night, she tweeted her gratitude: "Happy Birthday @PerezHilton what a great party"! We love that she really went for it with this look, and wasn't afraid to look outrageous!What do YOU think of Selena's blue beauty look? Cute or over-the-top? Tell us in the poll, then check out the products below to get this look yourself!
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I'm left in jail with no bail. It's funny how those two words rhyme. The chime sounds as I do time. There are so many rhymes I can come up with.
I feel like jail is taking forever for me to overcome. One day I'm bending over to pick up the soap which slips out of my hands during a shower with the other cell mates. This is what some people stereotype jail being like. Sometimes it is true; you can get graped in the shower. I've been in here for two weeks now and I've seen it once already.
The first day I was in county jail; someone threatened me if I didn't get rid of the so called pony staring at them. I wanted to get into a fight with him because I became so pissed this guy had been ranting on about something that never existed in reality. Try thinking of that, while in jail someone is seeing magical creatures torturing them before their own eyes that is real logical and rational right?
If you guessed yes to the trivia above, then you guessed right. As I sat there on the jail bench with my head tilted back on the wall-; I spurred a thought.
The thought was the guy must have been on drugs- because when I was on drugs I tripped big time on things that other people could not see. Before I got drug help at a rehab-, I used MaryJuana, hash, crack cocaine and even speed.
I did it all. In fact, there was something that I didn't do. That was I never smoked cigarettes.
You might ask why I'm in a jail cell-rotting my brains. Well, it's simple as getting caught while trying to rob a family of four and get caught by neighborhood control. For all of you out there, learn the lesson I learned and save yourself some time by not doing the crime. Jail goes by like a snail on Sunday.
This leads me to my last topic for this entry. Someone tried to practice a tattoo on me the other day, while I jumped into bed. I kindly dropped his offer, but the muscle ripped dude kept persisting. He tried to force it on me but I laid him to the ground with my fist above his face.
That leads me to the last lesson for this blog space entry. You have to be tough when in jail. There are people who will not take no for an answer. This will lead to someone prevailing and the other person bending over for the prevailed to do whatever to the victim.
First of all, though, if you just stick to the first lesson and keep yourself out of jail, you will not have to deal with the jerks and their perks in a jail cell.
Stay cool and never drool because you are to become someone's fool and it will lead off to a duel.
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Washington, DC, July 2010 – K4 Solutions, Inc. (K4), as a subcontractor to NCI Information Systems, Inc.(NCI), was awarded the Department of Defense (DoD) Rapid Response-Third Generation (R2-3G) Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ). K4 will provide support for anti-terrorism and Federal defense arenas by developing solutions for "technology insertion, system integration/installation, fabrication/prototyping, testing/certification, studies/analyses, logistic support, and training and engineering support" (Solicitation No. W15P7T-08-R-E001, p3). Providing these technological solutions affords K4 the ability to be a part of the engineering and sustainment team that provide technology support for the Army worldwide.
This multiple award IDIQ vehicle, with a ceiling of $16.4 billion, is meant to provide critical equipment and engineering services to government system, platform, and item managers worldwide. All Federal agencies will have the ability to take advantage of this innovative IDIQ.
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I've been an artisan chocolatier for six years,' says Saffire Chocolates' Angela Ruthven. 'An artisan is someone who makes things with their heart, head and hands. The thing that makes handmade chocolate so special is that no chemicals or machines are used. You can use very high quality Fairtrade chocolate and it just tastes different to mass-produced products. Making Easter eggs isn't rocket science. The chocolate won't necessarily get a good temper [sheen], but I think people would much rather a hand-made Easter egg. There is something very satisfying about hand-made chocolate.'
First, you need around 400 to 500g of quality Fairtrade chocolate. Marks & Spencer, the Co-op and Sainsbury's all have a good Fairtrade selection including Divine, Grenada and Rococo Chocolate. Using a mixture of dark, milk and white chocolate will give a nice marbled effect. Break the chocolate into small even pieces and place it in a bowl over a pan of hot water – this eliminates the chance of it burning in the pan. Make sure you properly temper the chocolate: warm it to 47º and then allow it to cool to body temperature by taking it off the heat and continuing to stir it thoroughly. Next, you need to buy an Easter egg mould. Some home stores will sell them otherwise you can purchase them online at De Cuisine, £4.95, or the Cake Craft Shop, £1.79.
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Each ice skating session lasts an hour, and it's best to arrive an hour early so you can deposit your bag at the cloakroom to the right of the Somerset house main entrance. It costs £1 for two items so make sure you grab your friend going in. No dangling items are allowed so make sure your phone or camera would fit into your coat pocket!
|Let's get ready to skate :D
As a student, you get 50% off ticket price (which is £14.55) with a £2 booking fees; however this only applies to day-light session. It's worth the extra money to go when it's dark to make the most out of the festiveness. Having booked a 17:30 time slot, I was pleasantly surprised that it wasn't overly crowded, which was a big plus!
|The initial round of skating (My sister is the girl in beige coat, too scared to go out)
The ice ring is smaller than expected – but offer an excellent view of the Christmas tree and Somerset house. As everyone makes the initial grip-the-fence round, classical music played softly mingling with the delicious scent of mulled wine from the adjacent restaurant.
|Photo credit to my sister for capturing me in this beautiful lighting
The lightings change periodically from magenta to snowflake to my favourite criss-cross ice-fracture. Personally I find the music choice perculia, a mix of classical with an odd pop song thrown in. The surface was rather wet and slippery as well, not ideal for novice skaters.
Whilst it isn't the best place to skate, the great atmosphere and setting was definitely worth a visit. It is afterall free to wonder in and take some photos, even if you don't want to go to the ice ring.


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Just because the holidays — and the accompanying travel — are on the horizon doesn't mean you can't sneak away for some low-key exploring. (And that "me time" doesn't need to cost a fortune, either.) To prove it, we've pulled together to-do lists for three day-trip-worthy cities: Richmond, Charlottesville, and Morgantown. Each one is pleasantly packed with things to enjoy, from dining and shopping to good old-fashioned sightseeing. Sip craft cider, browse stellar boutiques, and let your mind wander in a planetarium. Why wait? It's not quite the most wonderful time of the year just yet, so hit the road and discover these gems.
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The whistle surface is the texture of a paraffin block. The aluminum is a single cast piece that lacks welds or bolts. I don't know how I know that it is aluminum. It has the heft of plastic. I know that if I took a piece of steel I could cut the whistle. I imagine the surface peeling into two halves. I remember mangling a can of TAB as a child. I could saw a TAB can into pieces with a stray ignition key. Tics and abrasions cover the surface of the whistle. It's been rolling around in the box filled with old keys, buttons, quarters, and pennies. My grandfather carried change in his pockets and was ready to use them to buy things. In the seventies, he could buy actual food with change. I empty my pockets of change when I acquire coins. I am given coins very rarely now. I pay for just about everything — a soda at the convenience store, a scooter, a car, with numbers and secret keys. I might walk around for weeks without folding money. When I pay with a bill, the cashier dampens his finger in a sponge moistened with antibacterial fluid, and I receive a handful of change that I don't want to put in my pocket where it might scratch the surface of my phone. The change ends up in a box on my desk; eventually, I convert it to a slip of paper at a machine at the grocery store. This is a step to the dissolution of the change into digital numbers, into air. But, the aluminum whistle carries the marks and scars of the zinc and nickel used to make quarters and pennies. I am still intimate enough with manufactured goods to not only know somehow the whistle is made out of aluminum. I am intimate with aluminum. I know how to mangle and reshape aluminum. I place the whistle next to my ipod. The ipod is powered off. It is a smooth slip of glass. The metal whistle has a single function. I know the taste of the pucker where I place the metal shaft and blow. At first, it doesn't make a sound and then I adjust the air and the air makes a tone. The entire shape of the whistle is designed to deliver this single toot. The ipod can also produce a whistle. The ipod is also a window into the virtual. There is a button that opens the window. The device wants a swipe of my fingers across the face to confirm my entry, and then I have a field of options. I have so many options I have to rummage around for the virtual whistle. With my metal whistle I can communicate to someone with in earshot. I can make a piercing sound. I could maybe whistle out a Morris code signal or maybe there is some ancient communication scheme of whistle sounds. And if the person within ear shot has a whistle they cloud communicate to me as well. They could whistle a response. I open Facebook on my ipod. I can read status updates fed to FaceBook from people using phones, tablets, computers, whatever. In the realm of the material, a whistle is more substantial than an ipod in terms of material function. The whistle warms my breath into a sound. The ipod touch requires power. While it allows me access to the unseen, the digital tone of the whistle is only a simulation of the actual, material sound of a whistle. But it is handy. I don't have to carry an actual whistle to whistle. I wonder if I will lose the memory of a pocket full of change, or mangling an old TAB can with a stray ignition key?
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Full Metal 4 Bay 2.5" SATA HDD / SSD & Slim ODD Backplane Cage for 5.25" Device Bay
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Hi, How to mount this in a computer chassis?
Hello @sajanIt fits in the front 5.25" bay of your computer case, for example where you put your DVD/CD-Rom. You will be able to access drives from the front without the hassle of opening up your computer case for your drives.
I want to buy 1(one); if it works for what I am trying to do I will buy a second one of them where can I purchase it from?
Is there a way to control the fan curve? Drivers? OS compatibility if there are?
As of now, this is a concept product and is currently not for sale. This product is open to suggestions and feedback. Is there any features you would like to suggest for this model?
Regarding this model, it would not require drivers as it would be a pass-through. OS compatibility would be based on the hardware used. Since this connects via SATA, it should be supported by most major OS. As for fan curve, do you mean fan speed? If you are referring to fan speed, there is a switch to control the speed of the fan. Please let us know if you have any suggestions for this concept product.
I already have the awesome ToughArmor MB998SP-B in my rack mount server and would like to compliment it with this product in the second 5.25" bay. I particularly like this option because of the uniformity of drive bay design as compared to the only other market option of ToughArmor MB994IPO-3SB.
Can you please let me know when this will be available as I'd really like one asap
PS, could you make available the plastic drive numbers above 8 so I could label the drives in this chassis 9-12?
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Was this product released? Can't seem to find it.
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I really like this. It seems like an update to the MB994IPO-3SB. I don't have molex connectors now. So this seems much easier to implement in my rack chassis. I feel like you get more here for the same amount of space and better ports. I can see myself buying two of these. .
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How to set up a Dial-up Internet Connection
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This walkthrough outlines the process that is needed to get your computer, using Windows 2000, connected to the Internet using a regular dial-up modem. In this walkthrough we will be using the Microsoft Internet Connection Wizard.
Step 1: Create a Dial-up Networking Connection
a) Click Start.
b) Choose Settings.
c) Choose Control Panel.
d) Double-click Network and Dial up Connections.
e) Double-click Make New Connection.
f) Click Next.
g) Click on the second option that says "Dial-up to the Internet Connect to the Internet using my phone line (modem or ISDN)".
Figure 1 - Make New Connection Step 3
h) Click Next.
i) Choose the last option "I want to set up my Internet connection manually, or I want to connect through a local area network (LAN)".
Figure 2 - Make New Connection Step 4
j) Click Next.
k) Choose the option that says "I connect through a phone line and a modem".
Figure 3 - Make New Connection Step 5
l) Click Next.
m) You will then be prompted to "Type the phone number for the computer you want to call", type your local access number in the field provided, as shown in Figure 6.
NOTE: If you subscribe to Call Waiting on your phone line, ensure that it is disabled. If this service is not disabled while you're connected to the Internet, an incoming call will disconnect the modem.
Figure 4 - Make New Connection Step 6
n) Click on the Advanced button. In the new window, click on the Addresses tab. Ensure that Server Assigned IP Address has a dot beside it as well as My ISP Automatically provides a Domain Name Server (DNS) address.
Figure 5 - Make New Connection Step 7
o) Click OK, then click Next.
p) You will then be prompted for your username and password, please enter them in the appropriate fields..
Figure 6 - Make New Connection Step 8
q) Click Next.
r) You will then be prompted for a Connection name, type TeraByte .
Figure 7 - Make New Connection Step 9
s) Click Next.
t) You will then be prompted to set up an Internet mail account, click No.
Figure 8 - Make New Connection Step 10
u) Click Next.
v) Remove the check mark from To connect to the Internet immediately, select this box and then click Finish.
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McDonald's Corp. (MCD - Get Report) is already sizzling in 2018.
Nomura chose the burger chain as its top 2018 restaurant stock in a Jan. 2 note, rating shares as "buy" and increasing their target price to $190 from $180. If Nomura's trajectory for McDonald's is on point, that would mean a 10.4% rally for shares this year.
McDonald's momentum is driven by several key factors, analysts said. First, the chain is benefiting from an ongoing rollout of fresh patties in its restaurants. It's testing freshly made "Archburgers" in seven markets, increasing the size of fresh patties available.
McDonald's new Dollar Menu is set to go national Jan. 4. With options at the $1, $2 and $3 price points, the company is expanding its affordable menu with smart promotions in a return to value pricing. The Dollar Menu was wildly popular following its introduction in the 1990s, but the company increased prices in 2013 during a sales slump. Now that profits are back up, the Dollar Menu is returning to its roots.
Plus, Mickey D's is rapidly snatching market share from struggling Subway, which is the third-largest restaurant chain in the U.S. The quick-service market is increasingly becoming McDonald's game, Nomura said. McDonald's is far and away the largest U.S. quick serve chain by sales, tallying $36.4 billion in 2016, according to Nation's Restaurant News. Subway had $11.3 billion in sales.
Lastly, McDonald's could follow through on its first stock split in nearly two decades, Nomura wrote, which would draw in retail investors.
The positive factors drove Nomura analysts to raise their 2017 earnings target by two cents to $6.55. In 2018, earnings are expected to reach $7.05, up 12 cents from Nomura's earlier prediction. And for 2019, Nomura raised its target by 12 cents to $7.65.
McDonald's stock gained 0.49% to $172.96 premarket Tuesday. Over the last year, shares rallied 41%.
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Finding time to get back in the studio seems to be eluding me lately....but for good reasons.....my recent girlfriend art camp for one.....and over the weekend, for the 10th year in a row, we attended Bluegrass First Class.
It's an annual indoor bluegrass festival that features nearly non-stop music for over 12+ hours each day. My butt is sore!!
The best known, most professional acts have been on this stage for 21 years. The 'Queen of Bluegrass" Rhonda Vincent is one such example. Now this is the way I'd like to travel....that is if a private plane is out of the question!
Most artists in this field of music are not glitzy like the country music stars often are. She's the exception....high energy, glamour, and great music are a given at all her appearances.The quality of musicians is outstanding.....just when you think a group can not achieve any higher standards....they do. This young man on the left is....wait....drum roll......16 years old!!! He's not considered excellent because of his age.....he is truly an excellent fiddle player. Incredible in fact! He's still in high school getting mostly A's with 2 B's.....while still traveling with a group called Sideline.
Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver is a group we've seen and enjoyed enormously many times. He's the only male bluegrass star I can think of who dresses more 'country' than bluegrass.I wasn't expecting too much from this group......students at Eastern Tennessee State in Johnson City, TN. It's the first university in the country to offer a bachelor degree in Bluegrass music. Graduates are now finding their way into some of the top touring groups in the country. The fiddler on the left is only 20, hails from Canada and is winning fiddle contests all over the country.
One really special aspect of this festival is the organizer's dedication to offer opportunities to young players. Generally the first 2 acts each day are just that. It provides them with experience and the chance to rise or fall as their talent warrants. Kinda like the instructors that enter the quilt circuit.
The Bluegrass World is VERY family oriented. Audiences are super respectful, no talking during performances, no drunks, no disruptive shouting or other craziness, no smoking, no cell phones....I NEVER ever heard one ring in all the years we've been going. Can't say that for quilt lectures or workshops!! Oh....there is cheering, clapping, and well deserved standing ovations.....but all very civil.
Here's Lou Reid's 2 year old grandson who charmed the whole room as he stood on the stage for the opening song performed by one of my all time favorite groups, The Seldom Scene.
The Seldom Scene's last founding member, Ben Eldridge retired in January. You can see his photo on the screen which almost looks like an obituary. Many people feel a sense of mourning, he was that loved. His banjo style has often been copied but never duplicated. We were delighted to be the first to hear his replacement....who plays every string instrument in the bluegrass arsenal....plus he has a great voice. All in the family....he's the brother of the upright base player.
So....if you are a bluegrass fan....I hope you enjoyed this brief look at a wonderful annual festival held every February in Asheville, NC. If you aren't.....hey......listen to one of the best songs they ever recorded....click here.


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The rainy season has arrived, the weather changes from dry to wet demanding car owners prepare the car to the maximum. Things must be done the first time in the face of climate change is to rotate tires.
National racer well as the brand ambassador of Mitsubishi Rifat Sungkar explained, tire rotations conducted preferably opposite between the front and rear.
"After a long dry season, many people like to forget when a car before passing the heated driveway long enough. If you can be cross, front right to back left and front left to back right," explained Rifat after giving a briefing on the occasion of New Outlander Sport and Delica Driving Experience.
Rifat explained that the reason for this is because the rotation of the tire front wheels need better traction when turning. Meanwhile, hot weather long enough to make the front tires quickly eroded.
Not only the rotation of the tire, the husband of Sissy Priscillia it was also suggested that car owners in accordance with the wind filling the manufacturer's recommendations. He also cautioned that the car owner is not affected what people are saying about the tire pressure is not necessarily true.
"If the tire, do not have to listen to what people are saying. You just have to look at the door on the right sticker and follow the advice of the factory. The big car wind pressure ratio can be larger or smaller," due diligence.


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Apprenticeship with Hull Training
What is an Apprenticeship?
As an apprentice you will work for an employer, earn a wage and work alongside experienced staff to gain real skills. We will work with you and your employer to help you achieve valuable qualifications including:
- A work based Diploma
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To help you gain these qualifications, your employer will allow you time off to attend one of our dedicated training facilities, so that you can spend time with our qualified tutors. Our staff will also visit you in the workplace to produce a portfolio (folder) of evidence that shows you can meet the required standards.
How much will I earn?
The current minimum wage rate for an apprentice is £3.90 per hour. This rate applies to apprentices under 19 and those aged 19 or over who are in their first year. You must be paid at least the minimum wage rate for your age if you're an apprentice aged 19 or over and have completed your first year. Apprentice Pay and Conditions
Is an Apprenticeship right for me?
The best way to decide whether or not an apprenticeship is right for you is to do your research. Think about your career ambitions and look at potential paths into that career. Think about what employers are looking for. You should also try and talk to people who have done an apprenticeship and get their perspectives, or try and secure a work experience placement to gain insight into your chosen field. At the end of the day, only you can make the decision. But if you even think an apprenticeship might be right for you, take the time to find out more. It's worth it.
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The seminar will engage with a series of controversial questions arising out of research concerning the imprisonment of children and there will be ample opportunity to consider, discuss and debate the implications for policy and practice.
This Making Research Count conference brings together some of the leading researchers in the youth justice field.
Carolyne Willow, author of Children Behind Bars (Policy Press, 2015), started her career as a child protection social worker, and then took up specialist roles promoting and protecting the rights of looked after children and care leavers. She ran the Children's Rights Alliance for England (CRAE) between 2000 and 2012, after which she spent two years researching and writing her latest book. Other publications include 'People Should Be Helped To Feel Safe'. Child Protection and Safeguarding in Young Offender Institutions, Secure Training Centres and Secure Children's Homes (Association of Independent Chairs of Local Safeguarding Children Boards, 2015), Doing Right by Children. Making a Reality of Children's Rights in the Family and the Juvenile Justice System (CRAE, 2011) and Children's Right to be Heard and Effective Child Protection (Save the Children Sweden, 2010). Earlier this year, Carolyne co-founded Article 39, an organisation fighting for the rights of children within institutional environments: http://www.article39.org.uk/.
Using the social work concept of 'rule of optimism', Carolyne will catalogue the abuse and neglect suffered by children in prison, and advocate the closure of these damaging institutions.
Professor Barry Goldson currently holds the Charles Booth Chair of Social Science at the University of Liverpool. He is also Visiting Professorial Research Fellow at the Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (since 2010) and Adjunct Professor at the School of Justice, QUT, Brisbane, Australia (since 2014). His most recent authored and/or edited books include: Comparative Youth Justice (Sage, 2006, with Muncie), Dictionary of Youth Justice (Willan, 2008), Youth Crime and Juvenile Justice (an edited three-volume set of international 'major works', Sage 2009, with Muncie), Youth in Crisis? 'Gangs', Territoriality and Violence (Routledge, 2011), Youth Crime and Justice, 2nd edition (Sage, 2015, with Muncie) and Re-imagining Juvenile Justice (forthcoming, Routledge, 2016).
Building upon Foucault's observation that the 'prison is dangerous when it is not useless', and drawing upon, a wealth of international research and practice experience, Professor Goldson will outline the 'dangerous' impositions of child imprisonment alongside its 'useless' outcomes in respect of crime prevention and community safety. He will further address two key questions. First, in the face of such evidence why do children continue to be imprisoned? Second, how do we account for the ebbs and flows of child prisoner populations over time (within the same jurisdictions) and over space (between different jurisdictions).
Ian Cummins is Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Salford. With recent high profile cases highlighting the need to rethink the approaches taken to young people in police custody, Ian will discuss his research looking at vulnerability in police custody, with a particular focus on the needs of 16 and 17 years olds.
Professor Neal Hazel will join the panel discussion. Neal is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Salford. He recently completed a period as HM Deputy Chief Inspector at Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Probation for England and Wales (HMIP), introducing changes including the strategic purpose of the wellbeing of children at risk of reoffending, and designing a new impact-focused inspection method (Q&I). He was also involved in HMIP's recent thematic inspection of youth resettlement (2014).
Neal's youth justice research is focused on providing useful policy and practice messages for both government and the third sector. He has led more than 25 funded research projects, including the national evaluation of the Detention and Training Order (2002) and the YJB resettlement consortia (2012). He also directed a study of young offenders' experiences in youth justice (ESRC), a comparison of YOI regimes (YJB), and has published two cross-national comparisons of youth justice systems (1998 & 2008). He was consultant to the National Audit Office review of youth justice, and regularly advises organisations campaigning for juvenile justice reform overseas. He is currently producing a series of research reports and practitioner guidance documents on custody and resettlement as part of a five-year project with Nacro, "Beyond Youth Custody" (www.beyondyouthcustody.net). Twitter: @NealHazel
The seminar will be of particular relevance to: academic researchers; those with an interest in youth justice policy and children's rights; and practitioners working with young people in youth justice, social work, probation, community development and youth work settings.
UPDATE: The presentations from the event are available to view and download on SlideShare.
UPDATE: The full film of the event is also available to view through our YouTube channel.


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Talk about a slow process! Front porch re-tiling was done last week, and they were back today to do the grout. In the rain. So now the porch is sheeted in plastic and we can't walk on it for 2 days. Hmmm. Still waiting though for the "silicone guy" to come back and fix up our ensuite shower niche – I've been told a few times now by the tiling company that this would be happening – so far he hasn't turned up.
We had to get the plumbers back out too. I've been phoning Sydney Water pretty much ever since we moved in, asking for them to please come out and connect our recycled water meter. And nothing ever happens. I finally got sick of waiting for them last week and lodged a formal complaint. Suddenly they were interested, called me, did some investigating, and it turns out that the pipes were installed too close together, and too low into the ground, so despite a number of attempts by Sydney Water, they couldn't connect the meter. Would have been nice for them to tell me that in the first place! Anyway, plumbers came back yesterday, pipes are now sitting up significantly higher than they were, and hopefully Sydney Water will come back and finally fit the water meter!
The painters were back on the weekend and did all the final touch ups. So once the silicone guy comes back, I think we'll finally be finished inside!
Now if only the rain would stop, we might even be able to get the pool finished off!
I guess Rome wasn't built in a day…….


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Open edition print by Corinne Danzl
Image size: 36" X 23"
"Gyotaku" is a traditional Japanese ink-printing method used by Japanese fishermen to document their catch.
Each Ink Goes Wild Alaska Gyotaku fish rub is an ink rubbing of an actual fish which was caught by Corinne or her husband Keith in Resurrection Bay. They call Seward, which is nestled between majestic mountain peaks on one side and Resurrection Bay on the other, on south-central Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, their home.


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Time temperature indicator
A time temperature indicator (TTI) is a device or smart label that shows the accumulated time-temperature history of a product.[1] Time temperature indicators are commonly used on food, pharmaceutical, and medical products to indicate exposure to excessive temperature (and time at temperature).
In contrast, a Temperature data logger measures and records the temperatures for a specified time period. The digital data can be downloaded and analyzed.
There are a large number of different time temperature indicators available in the market, based on different technologies. Some devices are based migration of dye through a filter paper, while others contain pouches with bacterial fluids that change color when certain time-temperature combinations have been reached. To the degree that these physical changes in the indicator match the degradation rate of the food, the indicator can help indicate probable food degradation.[2]
Digital Temperature data loggers are available to indicate the full temperature history of a shipment to help identify the time period that out-of-tolerance temperatures were encountered. This temperature history can be used to calculate the loss of shelf life or the likelihood of spoilage. These small recorders are also used to identify the time (and thus location) of a shipment when the problem occurred, which allows for corrective action.
TTI's food industry[edit]
Time-temperature indicators can be used on food products that are dependent on a controlled temperature environment. Certain technologies can also be used for frozen food and the cold chain.
Surveys within the EU projects "Freshlabel" and "Chill-on" have shown a positive feedback by consumers to the use of TTIs on food products. As TTIs help assure the cool chain of food products, they are expected to reduce the amount of food waste,[3] as well as reducing the number of foodborne illnesses.[4]
The World Health Organization regulates the use of TTIs for certain medical products. There is extensive regulation by the FDA on the use of TTIs on US seafood products.[5]
See also[edit]
- ^ Robertson, Gordon L (1993). Food Packaging: Principles and Practice. New York: Marcel Dekker. p. 375.
- ^ Riva, Marco; Piergiovanni, Schiraldi (January 2001), "Performances of time-temperature indicators in the study of temperature exposure of packaged fresh foods", Packaging Technology and Science, 14 (1): 1–39, doi:10.1002/pts.521
- ^ BBC News (PDF) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/foodwewaste_fullreport08_05_08.pdf. Missing or empty
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General References[edit]
- ASTM F1416 Standard Guide for Selection of Time-Temperature Indicators
- Yam, K. L., "Encyclopedia of Packaging Technology", John Wiley & Sons, 2009, ISBN 978-0-470-08704-6
- Taoukis, P. and T.P. Labuza. 2003. Time temperature indicators. In: Novel Food Packaging Techniques. R. Ahvenainen (ed.). Woodhead Publ., Cambridge, UK.


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The ORIGINAL gathering place for a merry band of Three Percenters. (As denounced by Bill Clinton on CNN!)
Saturday, February 14, 2015
Preaching to the Choir
6 comments:
- JAQUE BAUER said...
- February 14, 2015 at 7:35 AM
- Joel said...
Is it just me, or is Codrea becoming more and more shrill about gun owners who don't support the right as zealously or in the ways he thinks they should?
Are we to soon see "Fudd" denunciations and show trials?
- February 14, 2015 at 9:55 AM
Exactly, and it's amazing what a handful of "doers" can get done. The movement for Constitutional Carry in Texas is only a small fraction of the gun owners in the state, but they've really, really made waves. Just think what could be done if we quadrupled the number of people willing to take off of work, or go to an event.
- February 14, 2015 at 10:04 AM
Folks grab a robe and do come on up- but then some complain about information sharing unless there a internet link attached. It's quite interesting to witness someone call others to come on up after just recently chastising some who do - newsflash - just because someone doesn't post their name address and social security number HERE doesn't mean they aren't in this fight and haven't "earned" their keep, especially locally!
Some seem incapable of understanding this point- folks are sick and tired of "putting money in the plate" only to see it wasted on unwanted mailers that ask for more donations while at the same witness groups seeking donations do things contrary to the goals "we" seek. Folks do step up, and the very authorized journalist point enters the fray - they aren't "earning" it the "right" way as self appointed gate keepers of "the message" decide.
It is true that more people have to step up and do their part - but it's not for anyone else to decide what that part is - that's a individual decision. Rather than chastise those who do it THEIR way, Gatekeepers ought to welcome all comers and thank their participation. If there's a dispute about SUBSTANCE, then by all means, debate that SUBSTANCE but leave the politics of personal destruction to the "authorized journalists". The activists in the gun rights community have to face the facts... There IS NO single message beyond the text of the Amendment itself. There is NO single way or mean of delivery and it matters not WHO says what beyond campaigners for office - it matters what is said. If it's truth, especially uncomfortable truth, then it must be accepted - no matter WHO says it.
The most guilty of pushing folks away ought to look in the mirror and see that pushing people out because they don't conform or because they have differing views or differing methods stand right in front of them.
- February 14, 2015 at 12:05 PM
Well spoken Mike. Wished others followed your lead more and talked less.
- February 14, 2015 at 10:15 PM
- David Codrea said...
I've got decades of material you're free to pull specific in-context quotes out of to prove your thesis, Joel. Absent that, I'd say it's just you.
Anon@12:05: No, here's what I really said, and I stand by it. Any reason you didn't address it there?
- February 16, 2015 at 8:18 AM


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Waves in Flows
Summer School 2018, August 27 - August 31
Main SpeakersThe list of speakers is as of now incomplete.
- Adrian Constantin - Universität Wien, Austria
- Walter Craig - McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
- Giovanni P. Galdi - University of Pittsburgh, USA
- Manfred Kaltenbacher - Technischen Universität Wien, Austria
- Vincent Rey - Université de Toulon, France
- Denis Serre - Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
- Vladimir Zeitlin - Université P. et M. Curie/Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France
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- Elisabetta Chiodaroli - Università di Pisa, Italy
- Camilla Nobili - Universität Hamburg, Germany
- Paolo Maremonti - Università degli Studi della Campania ''Luigi Vanvitelli'', Italy
- Alfredo Marzocchi - Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia, Italy
- Boris Muha - University of Zagreb, Croatia
- Konstantinas Pileckas - Vilnius University, Lithuania
- Emil Wiedemann - Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
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High Windows was first published by Faber and Faber in 1974 (hardback) and 1979 (paperback). The collection is Larkin's final one, second perhaps only to Whitsun Weddings (1964) as far as critical attention goes. Many of the poems in the collection were written in the 1960s, however; certainly the subjects Larkin references (the sexual revolution, disconnection from world war, declining religiosity, generational conflict, and so forth) are recognizably of the "60s." Larkin's poetry is considered as part of "The Movement," which reacted to (modernist) poetic obscurities with a characteristic clarity of language and form while also eschewing the direct social and political commitments/stances of poets like Auden (other writers of "The Movement" include Kingsley Amis, Donald Davie, D.J. Enright, John Wain, Elizabeth Jennings, Thom Gunn, Robert Conquest, and Ted Hughes).
Sterile environments:
Several of Larkin's poems in this collection vividly describe sterile, indoor environments which seem to stand for the emptiness and imaginative sterility of modern, urban landscapes (often in contrast with imaginatively fertile--but disappearing--pastoral landscapes). "The Building" describes a hospital, though the poem never names "the building" a hospital, in order to clear his descriptions of the building of prior associations. The result is a starkly defamiliarized image of a hospital as not a place of hope or scientific triumph over disease and death, but a "clean-sliced cliff; a struggle to transcend / The thought of dying, for unless its powers / Outbuild cathedrals nothing contravenes / The coming dark, though crowds each evening try / With wasteful, weak, propitiatory flowers." In the sterile corridors, where people wait, not knowing if they "will be out by lunch, or four" or if they "have come to join / The unseen congregations whose white rows / Lie set apart above," nature (in the form of the flowers) seems weak and not to mention dead. "Friday Night in the Royal Station Hotel" presents a Hopper-esque loneliness inside of a deserted station hotel, where "Clusters of lights over empty chairs / That face each other, coloured differently" stand, and where "the dining-room declares / A larger loneliness of knives and glass / And silence laid like a carpet." Things typically used for sociability unused and lights wasted on nobody emphasize the sterility of these objects apart from human life. The final lines, italicized ("Now / Night comes on. Waves fold behind villages") contrasts the sterility of these objects with nature, which continues to have an existence beyond everyday human commerce.
Religious substitutions:
"The Building's" religious diction (see above, "congregation," "cathedral," "transcend") links modern hospital buildings to churches of the past. The church or the cathedral are no longer places of worship in a world no longer devout or even spiritual at all; yet, the poem suggests that the impulse for worship remains and can be seen in gestures like the "weak, propitiatory flowers." "Vers de Societe" comments on the relationship between a completely secularized world and the rejection of solitude. Nowadays, "how sternly it's instilled / All solitude is selfish. No one now / Believes the hermit with his gown and dish / Talking to God (who's gone too); the big wish / Is to have people nice to you, which means / Doing it back somehow." These lines suggest that the justification for hermitage was religious, and without religion, there is no longer a justification for solitude. "Virtue is social," the new creed proclaims. The poet asks, in the end, "Are, then, these routines / Playing at goodness, like going to church?" expressing the same sense as in "The Building" that despite the disappearance of God, there remains in a secular society an impulse towards worship and ritual. The "new" rituals replacing going to church in "Vers de Societe" are dinner parties and small talk.
The first stanza of "To the Sea" introduces images of people enjoying the seaside, "Steep beach, blue water, towels, red bathing caps" and the second stanza explains their significance by referencing how these enjoyments continue into the present: "Still going on, all of it, still going on!" The poet's outburst on these things "still going on" sounds like surprise, though it is a pleasant one--in the final stanza, the poet lingers on the value of continuing such rituals: "It may be that through habit these do best, / Coming to water clumsily undressed / Yearly; teaching their children by a sort / Of clowning; helping the old, too, as they ought." "Show Saturday" perhaps contains one of the strongest expressions that new, secular activities actually do maintain some kind of important value, though it might not be a religious one. After the people leave the colorfully described Bellingham Show, the fair which the poet describes, he gently adds a kind of blessing: "Let it stay hidden there like strength, below / Sale-bills and swindling; something people do, / Not noticing how time's rolling smithy-smoke / Shadows much greater gestures; something they share / That breaks ancestrally each year into / Regenerate union. Let it always be there."Generational conflict, legacies:
As mentioned briefly above in the publication history, High Windows is laced with references to the 60s, and so one of the collection's recurring themes is the conflict between generations and relating to this, anxieties about legacies. In "High Windows" the problem of how the older generation always thinks the later one has it better is explored. The poet, watching kids sexually "free" and using birth control, thinks "I know this is paradise." But then he imagines others of the previous generation thinking about the "freedom" of his own increasingly atheistic and secular age: "No God any more, or sweating in the dark / About hell and that..." This reflection prompts a turn in the poem, and the final stanza rejects these limited and adolescent senses of freedom with a sublime thought (beyond words) of a more radical and truer freedom beyond human understanding: "Rather than words comes the thought of high windows: / the sun comprehending glass, / And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows / Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless." Larkin's famed "This Be the Verse" alludes to Old Testament language of the sins of the fathers revisited on the sons to reject "mum and dad." Most of the poem is colloquial like its opening ("They fuck you up, your mum and dad") but reaches for a much more serious and graver notion of the human condition in the lines "Man hands on misery to man. / It deepens like a coastal shelf." These lines asks us to take seriously the condition of generational trauma; despite the ways in which people joke, in a post-Freudian era, of the ways in which parents "fuck up" their children, there is real pain in the misery which parents pass on to their children. "Posterity" is Larkin's poem in the imagined persona of his own biographer, Jake Balokowsky, who is an academic who doesn't much care for his subject matter: "'I'm stuck with this old fart at least a year; / I wanted to teach school in Tel Aviv, / But Myra's folks'--he makes the money sign--'Insisted I got tenure. When there's kids...'" While the poem ironically comments on the distance between how the biographer views his work (something to make a living) versus how others might idealize his work (a genuine intellectual pursuit), it isn't a poem which simply critiques the biographer's cynical attitudes. The lines clearly suggest that he does have something else he would have liked to do, but that the institutions which control modern academia and modern "living" more broadly don't allow him to pursue these alternatives. Thus, Larkin's legacy is not so much debased by Balokowsky but the institutional conditions under which "biographies" are manufactured. "Sympathy in White Major" is another poem with a clear persona whose ironical position in toasting himself emphasizes the emptiness of common ways in which people remember each other. The speaker offers a laundry-list of his accomplishments which are all bromides: "A decent chap, a real good sort, / Straight as a die, one of the best, / A brick, a trump, a proper sport, / Head and shoulders above the rest; / How many lives would have been fuller / Had he not been here below? / Here's to the whitest man I know--" Though such praises are definitively rejected in the letdown of the speaker's final line, "Though white is not my favourite colour," the poem leaves us wondering what other legacies are possible in remembering those who have gone. "Dublinesque" offers a different kind of memorial through the image of an Irish Catholic funeral hearse being followed down the street by "a troop of streetwalkers / In wide flowered hats, / Leg-of-mutton sleeves, / And ankle-length dresses." These images are suggestive of a kind of rustic mourning which Larkin seems to find much more genuine in its remembrance: "There is an air of great friendliness, / As if they were honouring / One they were fond of...And of great sadness also. / As they wend away / A voice is heard singing / Of Kitty, or Katy, / As if the name meant once / All love, all beauty." The name doesn't even really matter, genuine affect is in the rituals of their procession, their dress, their clapping and their singing.
Death, dying, aging:
Larkin explores death, the process of dying, and the changes in consciousness in old age in poems like "The Old Fools" and "Sad Steps." The persona of the speaker in "The Old Fools" goes through various stages of wrestling with what happens in old age: In the first stanza, he adopts a tone of superiority, asking crude questions such as "Do they somehow suppose / It's more grown-up when your mouth hangs open and drools...?" The second stanza attempts to describe, from a distanced, materialist point of view, what happens in death: "At death, you break up: the bits that were you / Start speeding away from each other for ever / With no one to see." The "oblivion" which comes with this breaking up, the speaker muses, was also there before life. The third stanza is more speculative and imaginative, and tries to think of being old in terms of a vivid metaphor, in which being old is "having lighted rooms / inside your head, and people in them, acting," but that the people and these rooms seem more and more distant and unrecognizable. The fourth stanza ends with the futility of speculating, since, as the speaker says in a matter-of-fact way, "We shall find out." "Sad Steps" also pictures the gap in consciousness between the young and the old. The speaker, an old man "Groping back to bed after a piss," sees the moon behind the curtains, and thinks that it is a reminder of youth: "The hardness and the brightness and the plain / Far-reaching singleness of that wide stare / Is a reminder of the strength and pain / Of being young; that it can't come again, / Bur is for others undiminished somewhere." The "strength and pain" is interesting, because it prevents us from reading the poem as simply an old man wishing to be young again. What is the "pain" of youth which the old don't feel? Is it of desire, ambition, in contrast to the humbled existence of the old man's "[g]roping back to bed after a piss?"
Nature's healing/pastoral traditions:
Much of Larkin's poetry contains Hardy-esque pastoral elements, in which nature offers a kind of continuing, healing force in face of man's destructive tendencies, his suffering, and his death. In "Forget What Did," the poet wants to give up writing painful diary entries, and desires that the blank pages fill with "celestial recurrences," a phrase which vaguely suggests renewable cycles in nature ("celestial" even suggests a divine quality, rare in Larkin's poetry). "The Trees," made up of three simple stanzas of abba, explores how trees also die eventually ("Is it that they are born again / And we grown old? No they die too.") but that each year, the blossoms still insist, "Begin afresh, afresh, afresh." Nature then, is not apart from humanity in that it also "dies," and so we might tale a lesson from its blossoms to begin afresh time and time again in our own lives. "The Trees" imparts renewal and continuity which humans ignore in face of a greater preoccupation with mortality. Other aspects of nature seem timeless and eternal, like the sun in "Solar"; the poet imagines the continuous giving and bounty of the sun in these lines: "Our needs hourly / Climb and return like angels. / Unclosing like a hand, / You give for ever." Larkin's appreciation for nature and the pastoral tradition manifests itself also in less optimistic poems; "Going, going" laments the certainty of the disappearing natural landscape in England. Finally, in other poems where humans encroach on or pollute the landscape, there remains a solace expressed in nature overwhelming resilience. The grotesque habits of the "Card Players" (one of the only sonnets in the collection) in a Dutch tavern seems to go through a partial purification process at the end, by "Rain, wind and fire! The secret, bestial peace!" More dramatically, in "The Explosion," when a mine explodes, nature stops for a second, in an aestheticized pause: "At noon, there came a tremor; cows / Stopped chewing for a second; sun, / Scarfed as in a heat-haze, dimmer." This might seem like a portrayal of an indifferent nature, but the brief, aestheticized pastoral moment ushers in a heavenly vision of the dead beheld by the miners' wives in the next stanza: "The dead go on before us, they / Are sitting in God's house in comfort / We shall see them face to face."


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Sessions hails Supreme Court ruling in favor of baker who refused to bake cake for gay couple
(WASHINGTON) -- Attorney General Jeff Sessions Wednesday hailed the Supreme Court's ruling in favor of a baker who refused to bake a cake for a same-sex couple because it violated his religious beliefs.
"There are plenty of other people who will bake that cake. Give me a break!" Sessions said in a speech at the Orthodox Union Advocacy Center's Annual Leadership Mission in Washington, D.C. — a group that co-authored an amicus brief with other religious organizations in support of the baker.
"There is no need for the power of the government, no need for the state's power, to be arrayed against an individual who is honestly attempting to live out, to freely exercise his sincere religious beliefs," Sessions said, congratulating the group for the "victory."
In a 7-2 ruling last week, the court disagreed with a Colorado court's previous ruling that the gay couple, Charlie Craig and Dave Mullins, had been discriminated against based on sexual orientation and ruled in favor of the appeal by the baker, Jack Phillips. The opinion, authored by Justice Anthony Kennedy, said that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission was hostile to Phillips' First Amendment rights and that his "religious objection was not considered with the neutrality that the Free Exercise Clause requires."
Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor dissented.
The attorney general's comments came ahead of his announcement of a new Department of Justice initiative aimed at protecting religious liberty.
Last year, the Trump administration sided with Phillips, who owns the Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, Colo., and issued an amicus brief arguing that forcing Phillips to bake the cakes "invades his First Amendment rights."
"Phillips views the creation of custom wedding cakes as a form of art, to which he devotes his creativity and artistic talents," the brief reads. "... When Phillips designs and creates a custom wedding cake for a specific couple and a specific wedding, he plays an active role in enabling that ritual, and he associates himself with the celebratory message conveyed."
Phillips maintained in an interview with ABC News last week that he said no to the baking of the cake itself and not to serving the couple.
"We serve everybody who comes in the shop. We just can't create every cake they ask us to," he said and added that he would also refuse to bake cakes with a Halloween theme or ones with "anti-American" messages.
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It started off innocently enough.
We moved Little Dude into his own room a couple of weeks ago and finally began using the baby monitor that I had set up well in advance of his arrival. What a rad little piece of technology – this thing allows us not only to observe our guy but also to communicate back with him. I can sing him lullabies (ie: Chet Baker) from anywhere in the house, and Mommy can comfort him in soothing (albeit slightly metallic) tones. (For those wondering, yes – the signal does reach the dive bar on the corner.)
Not that it's really necessary in our tiny bungalow, but we turn on the monitor when we put the baby down at night and for naps, telling ourselves that we just want to make sure we'll be able to hear him if he cries. At first, we tried to justify also using the video function:
"Let's just make sure he's really sleeping…" (Or, in moments of paranoia: "Do you think he's still alive??")
But we quickly stopped making excuses. Now we just sit there in the evening with a glass of wine in hand, watching him sleep.
Prime time viewing is undisputedly the early morning, however, when he wakes up and plays with his security bunny before I bring him into our bed for family cuddles. Of course we're up every day with the first sounds that he makes, but he seems to enjoy the alone time with the bunny and it's to our benefit that he learn to keep himself occupied. So we allow them their space, and quietly observe from the other room. After all, I can relate; I was so attached to my own bunnies that it was only my sisters' ridicule that forestalled me bringing them to college. They now sit in all of their ratty splendor in shadowboxes on my son's wall; his bunny is the one that my mom used to give me when mine were in the wash. It's fun to watch him coo and smile and kick his legs as he snuggles up against my old childhood friend.
I suppose you could call us stalkers (or addicts…). We know we have a problem, and we feel increasingly helpless to do anything about it. We keep telling ourselves that we'll use the monitor in smaller doses. But it's tough to break the habit.
Luckily, we're not alone. The folks over at dropcam are even running a contest right now, asking bloggers like myself to submit a "tale from the crib" (and of course I've sent this link in). Their device actually streams the monitor right to a cell phone, thereby allowing for virtual, international stalking. How cool is that??
It's no wonder that so many parents are hooked on their baby monitors. There really is nothing better than baby TV.


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|Isn't it just crazy what you can do with a computer?
I'm shutting down from Monday (today) until Friday (January 21). I'll see you all on Saturday!
|Isn't it just crazy what you can do with a computer?
OH! makeovers are fun. Looking forward to seeing what you do. :)
There's going to be a giveaway on my blog this week--I know you're busy, but make sure you stop in and enter!
Angela @ The Bookshelf Muse
How exciting! Although, I am going to miss looking at your blog - I always check in. Goodluck and I hope the blog looks fabulous.ReplyDelete
That animal really freaked me out! :)
Looking good! Still not heard from you regarding whether you got that email regarding the button link? Oh and I have joined your reading challenge - You're in my sidebar. Did so last week but forgot to tell you - doh! Shah XReplyDelete
I'm sure it will be even better!ReplyDelete
I'm loving the changes already...
See you when you get back. BTW, I mentioned you in a post and linked back here...
I'm also away from my blog while my brother fixes everything for me - he said "don't touch anything until I'm done!" Ah, he knows me too well. LOL! :)
HAHAHAHA...that is too cute...a puguin...haha
Following from Making Friends Monday and GFC follow *heavensent1*...ifn you have a moment...could you please stop by my place and have a look around... Mad Moose Mama - http://www.madmoosemama.blogspot.com Have a groovy day...peaces...xoxo
Angela...So far it HAS been pretty fun. I just can't make up my mind!
dtwilight...I think I will miss it too, but hopefully I can make something that i will like just as much.
Matt...Yeah, it felt bright, especially compared to the old look. Grrr! I just can't make up my mind. There is always something little that I don't like.
Selena...That's what I thought! So, I had to share it! I couldn't be the only one that was freaked out. lol.
Shah...Thanks. I just stopped by your blog so i could make sure you knew that I did get your email. Thanks a bunch! Also, I added you to the competitors list! Gald to have you!
JJ...Oh, I hope so!
Sophia...Thank you. You're so luvky you have a brother that will do that and that does understand you. :)
Heavensent1...Thanks for stopping by!
EVERYONE...Is this too RED!? I'm thinking I am going to change all the read to black tomorrow. SOund like a bit of a good plan?
It's too late and I can't type!!!! GRRRRR! I meant "I'm thinking I am going to change all the RED to black. SOUND like a bit of a good plan?"
I'm going to bed!
Sounds good to me.ReplyDelete
Border looks nice, but the yellow is bright and distracting (to me). Maybe a blue or some darker shade in its place?ReplyDelete
Hey Aubrie,
I agree with Matt. The yellow hurts my eyes and also my mind just a little bit. That is an interesting border though. A royal blue might be a good background, and be accented very nicely by the border... something like this: http://www.ikeafans.com/galleries/images/25052/2_GlobusCork-RoyalBlue100.jpg only maybe a little brighter/less contrast.
The red isn't bad with the current theme. Maybe make the red just a little darker, like a wine red, or closer to your title text.
Anyways, looking forward to seeing how it turns out. Buona fortuna!
Matt and Patrick...yes. I'm not liking yellow in any form on this blog. I kept trying to use it because I really like the color but I agree that it is too bright. I wanted to change it his morning but I ran out of time. I'm thinking grey so that I still have that book format of dark writing on a lighter background. I will look at the link you sent though first patrick. I can't view it on my phone at the moment. Well, off to class "see" you all later.ReplyDelete
I don't know if grey would work. I saw a bit of it before and it seemed distracting. Grey tends to stand out over white and black font and even appears to overtake and consume the letters. Depending upon the shade, it could look dark and muddy, making it hard to read the font, or have a brightness that outshines the text and makes it hard to focus.ReplyDelete
Wow, you changed it as I was literally writing that post. It's not too bad, but with the spectral raindrops blending in, it's stressful on the eyes. Perhaps change the background image, but keep the color scheme?ReplyDelete
Matt...Thanks for the input, but I think I'm done with the background. I finally like it the way it is. It's strange because it's almost the complete opposite of what it was before.ReplyDelete
I was viewing this from a library pc and it seemed worse, but on my laptop it is not so bad.
That's not so strange, really. On your monitor, does the floral border touch the edges of the screen?
Matt...Good to know. And, yes, the border does touch the edge of the screen.ReplyDelete
This is how it looks for me:
It's no issue, but I wonder if there's a way to make it adjust to any viewers' aspect ratio?
Matt...As far as I know. There is no magic button to make it look the same on everyone's computer. Your screenshot looks like your zoom is too far out on your screen.
In the bottom right hand corner of your screen, there should be a percentage. Make sure that is at 100% or closer (whatever fits). Mine is at 100%, and I have a widescreen laptop.
That is the only thing I can think could be off.
Here's what mine looks like...
I don't have permission to see the image. I don't see a percentage, either (I'm using Firefox), but I'm not too concerned with it.
I feel like I'm nitpicking, so I must apologize.
Great. Can't wait to see what you have planned. :)ReplyDelete
Looking good AubrieAnne! Can't wait to see your new buttonsReplyDelete
Matt...Opps. It's because I added it to private images on flickr instead of the public. sorry about that. It could be Firefox doing it. I'm on internet explorer and google crome and they look fine. It even looks good on my iphone :)
Helloagainvintage...It's getting there. I should be good to go right on time on Friday.
dtwilight...Thanks a bunch. Some of the new buttons are one the left sidebar already, but they are just to send you to other pages on my blog. Although, I am hoping to make a few new regular buttons that match the new look just as nicely. I'll add those when I finish up the pages and after I actually make them. lol.
The sidebar images look really nice.ReplyDelete
And I have not forgotten my questionnaire. My father-in-law died yesterday and we have been preoccupied with family.ReplyDelete
I was reading through your "About Me" page and the segment about collecting things reminded me of something from my childhood.
In the shrubs around our duplex on post (base), I found a detached lawnmower pull cord. I pretended it was a snake and it became an imaginary friend. On a few occasions, I would go between the brick wall and the bushes and play with it. Then my father threw it away.
What's really odd to me is the fact that at the edge of our yard, near the road, was a pair of giant bushes, taller than people. It would have made a perfect place in which to play, but I never went in but once. Maybe my mother restricted me.
AAAAAHH i love your new makeover :D:D:D:D Your blog looks soo great! So bright and such a great color and everything :D:D Congratualtions!!
Hey Sweetie! I love what you are doing with the place!ReplyDelete
Matt...Thanks. It's my favorite part right now.
Debbie...I am so sorry to hear that. Take your time. :)
Matt (again)...I did not know that. We, as kids, have very active and strange imaginations.
The Creative Muslimah...Thank you. I am happy that you like it so far!
Sophiea...Hello! Thank you!
Well, I'm thankful that some of us have retained ours.ReplyDelete
Matt...Yes, hopefully. Imgaination is pretty essential to a bit of escape, innocence, and writing. :)ReplyDelete
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There have been more and more orders and purchases of women shoes' in large sizes such as 9, 10 or 11 have been increasing too. For instance, the popular department store Debenhams reported that there is a steady rise in the sales of ladies' size nine footwear, while the sales of gentlemen's footwear in the size 12 and size 14 range have also increased. It seems then that finding the right footwear is the least of their problems now. The only problems they have to watch out for are yellow toe or yellow toe fungus or any other foot disease. Like you body, take care of your feet always.
Follow-up X-rays may be required to ensure the foot is healing properly. These are usually done 3-6 weeks after surgery. Additionally, patients are typically required to wear a post-operative shoe. If a pin is in the foot, then it is important not to bear weight on the forefoot, or the pin can bend or break. Plantar flexion deformity of the proximal interphalangeal joint (PIPJ) with varying degrees of hyperextension of the metatarsophalangeal (MTP) and distal interphalangeal (DIP) joints (1). Occurs primarily in sagittal plane. Any condition that compromises intra-articular and periarticular tissues, such as 2nd ray longer than 1st, inflammatory joint disease, improper fitting shoes, and trauma (1)
Flexor Stabilization- occurs about >70%. The muscles in the back of the foot an d leg fire earlier and longer to stabilize the hypermobile fore foot. This results in overpowering the little muscles in the foot causing the hammertoe. It is possible to see rotation of the 4th and 5th digits with this type of deformity. Women are affected by this painful foot condition far more than men. The reason for this is that the major cause of bunions is with inappropriate footwear. Whilst cramped toes are a problem, if the toe box does not give enough support, too much free movement can also be a problem
In more severe cases, these toe problems may affect your balance and make it hard to walk. You may get calluses or corns where a bent toe presses against your shoe. Bunions are a bony bumps that causes the big toe to jut outward. Hammertoes are toes that curl down as when the middle toe joint is pushed in. However, according to the Mayo Clinic, mallet toes are similar. Like a hammertoe, a mallet toe causes the joints to push downward, except it happens to the upper joint of the toe instead.
Scotty Cameron has pretty much held the same weight/length characteristics with his various Newport lines over the years with few exceptions. For the most part, the 33″ length was matched with a 350-gram head, the 34″ with a 340-gram head, and the 35″ getting a 330-gram head. Other than swapping shafts with a heavier head (or vise versa), you were pretty much stuck with whatever weight head came with the correct shaft length for your physical makeup and putting stroke. Circular heel-toe weights provide greater stability by reducing head rotation on off-center impacts. Weights can be factory customized to make the head feel heavier to suit specific putting green conditions.


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Johan Inger's CarmenJosé Carlos Martínez, Artistic Director (2017/2018 Performing Arts)
"Spain's leading dance company [is a superb force.]… Dancers possess exquisite musical reflexes, their bodies display that mix of extravagant talent and hardworking modesty." The Guardian (U.K.)"Among the top contemporary ballet companies in the world." Santa Barbara IndependentFounded in 1979, Madrid's Compañía Nacional de Danza returns to Santa Barbara with a work that is a statement of its compelling artistic direction. Johan Inger's Carmen is a visionary retelling of mythic and universal elements of passion and violence. Debuting in 2015, and winning the coveted Benois de la Danse prize for choreography in 2016, this contemporary Carmen tells the tale through the eyes of a child, with its heroine a courageous and modern woman, the mountains of Ronda reimagined as poor suburbs, the military now senior executives and the bullfighter recast as a movie star.Community Dance Class with Compañía Nacional de DanzaMon, March 5 / 5:30-7:30 PM / Gustafson Dance
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Storm Light
Alternate Title(s):
Shad Fishermen
Shad Fishermen
Oil on canvas
34 x 50 in. (86.4 x 127 cm)
Signed lower right: John Folinsbee; exhibition label on verso: James A. Michener Art Museum, March - June 1995; exhibition label on verso: The Corcoran Gallery, Seventeenth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings, 1941; fragment of exhibition label on verso: National Academy of Design
Folinsbee 1920s40s stockbook: p. [67]
Courtesy of the Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania. Gift in memory of Miriam Murray Boynton by the Friends of the Reading Public Museum
Ruth Baldwin Folinsbee
Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania, 1977
Exhibition History
1936 Carnegie: 34th International Exhibition of Paintings
1937 NAD: 112th Annual Exhibition, no. 20
1938 Society of 4 Arts FL: Exhibition
1940 PAFA II: Oil Painting and Sculpture by Artists of Philadelphia and its Environs
1941 Corcoran: 17th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings, no. 107
1973 Century: A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by John Folinsbee, no. 12, lent by Mrs. John Folinsbee
1976 Gunnery School: Paintings, Drawings, and Lithographs by John Folinsbee, no. 6
1977 Newman: John F. Folinsbee, no. 4
1982 NJSM: The Paintings of John Folinsbee, no. 30, ill., [18], b/w ill.
1986 St Botolph Boston: John F. Folinsbee, no. 6
1995 Michener: A Retrospective, no. 25
2004 Reading: Enduring Beauty: Treasures of the Reading Public Museum
2011-2012 Reading: American Impressionism: The Lure of the Artist Colony
Published References
Jewell 1937a: "Academy of Design Opens 112th Show: Liveliest Exhibition in Years," "Paintings Worthy of Mention"
Haas 1968: "Artist, Friend Reminisce: Story of New Hope Art Colony Told," as Shad Fishermen
NJSM 1982: The Paintings of John Folinsbee, p. [18], b/w ill.
Cook 1994: John Folinsbee, p. 92, color ill.
Reed 1994: "John Folinsbee: A Traditional Painter Amidst Modernist Trends," fig. 27
Peterson 2002: Pennsylvania Impressionism, p. 27, color ill.; p 49, fig. 13, color ill.; p. 124, plate 35, color ill.
Reading Museum 2004: Enduring Beauty, p. 10, color ill.
Jensen 2013: Folinsbee Considered, p. 201, color plate 43; p. 263, cat entry


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Below is The Contamination Series 2017 schedule – Line-up for 2018 will be released soon...
Theatre Hall 12
Wednesday 27th September
Thursday 28th September
11.00 - 11.30
Simon Brightwell
Geophysical investigation of brownfield sites – what can you reasonably expect?
The appropriate use of geophysical methods can significantly reduce the risks associated with development of brownfield sites. The presentation will include a brief overview of techniques, with an assessment of strengths and weaknesses. Case studies will demonstrate how the approach can deliver value in finding buried obstructions, voids, utilities and other features that have a detrimental effect on safety, programme and budget.
11.45 - 12.15
Abigail Johnson
Operator Challenges & Opportunities with the Brownfield Development Market
At Mick George Ltd we have experience and capabilities to turn Brownfield and Contaminated Sites into build-ready plots quickly and efficiently. We deliver across all areas of ground improvement, from environmental consultancy through to strategy and implementation. Our feasibility and design process provide Remediation solutions that are safe, robust, deliverable, compliant and cost-effective.
12.30 - 13.00
Dr Chris Stopford
Real-time detection of airborne asbestos..
Inadvertent inhalation of asbestos fibres and the subsequent development of incurable cancers is a leading cause of work-related deaths worldwide. Currently, there is no real-time in situ method for detecting airborne asbestos. This seminar describes an optical method that addresses this deficiency based on the use of laser light scattering patterns to determine the change in angular alignment of individual airborne fibres under the influence of an applied magnetic field with details of recent commercial field trials.
14.00 - 14.30
Darren Evans
Risk assessment for the development of asbestos-contaminated land.
This presentation will discuss the requirements for assessing the risk to human 'receptors' and preventing the spread of asbestos during the development and remediation of asbestos-contaminated land. This shall give an overview of the procedures needed for the risk assessment, and how to comply with The Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012, ensuring that the material is identified and risks assessed, methods documented and the spread of asbestos prevented.
14.45 - 15.15
Chris Bishop
What is asbestos?
The session will consider asbestos in soil as a contaminant from an analytical perspective and what the implications are for the client and removal teams.
15.30 - 16.00
Nicholas Willenbrock, Nicola Harries & Rob Sweeney
What do we do, what have we done and what's next?
CL:AIRE''''s role and remit has expanded over the last 18 years. CL:AIRE will present its recent work and future plans for its major initiatives and projects including the Definition of Waste Code of Practice and Asbestos in Soils. The session will also showcase CL:AIRE's plans for collaborating more with industry to strengthen its role as the leading education provider for sustainable land management.


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A 37-year-old man has been charged with indecent exposure following incidents in parks in Warwick and Leamington.
Two incidents of exposure were reported on Monday February 13 and 16 in St. Nicholas Park and Jephson Gardens respectively.
The man has been bailed to appear at magistrates court on Thursday March 2.