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I was very happy to be commissioned to design a few t-shirt prints for Brooks shoes over a year ago. But some art will never be lucky enough to be emblazoned across a runner's chest. The Run Happy brand ended it's lifespan while these shirts were looking to be produced. Thanks to the kind folks at Brooks I was given permission to post these shirts online. Oh what could have been.
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Officer Basin
The Officer Basin
Strategic Elements is backing a major mineral hunt targeting rocks in remote Western Deserts, long ignored for their mineral potential.
The Company believes that certain areas of "Permian" aged rocks in the Great Victoria and Gibson deserts of the Officer Basin have excellent potential for a style of base metal deposits more commonly known in Germany and Poland.
The Officer Project is the first project developed in collaboration with world leading geologist Dr Franco Pirajno, who has been involved with several copper discoveries.
Ilkurlka Project
The Ilkurlka Project is one of three separate projects in the Officer Basin with unexplained buried magnetic ring features.
Meteorite impact structure expert Andrew Glikson proposed that the magnetic rings and other characteristics are indicative of a potential meteorite impact structure.
Other scientists suggest that the magnetic rings represent an igneous ring complex.
Ilkurlka is therefore prospective for:
- Ilkurlka is situated within a large shear zone named the Lasseter Shear Zone and adjacent to the continent-wide Mundrabilla Fault which runs north- south through the project area.
These potentially provide a plumbing system for gold-bearing fluids.
- Hydrothermal zinc-copper-lead-(gold)- (uranium) mineralization related to a meteorite impact.
- Magmatic nickel-copper-PGE massive sulphide mineralization associated with a buried mafic – ultramafic intrusion.
Gold Anomaly
There is a significant gold in soil anomaly with peak value of 119ppb that has been identified from historical CRA diamond exploration at the Ilkurlka project in the Officer Basin.
Gold in soil values of 10.8 ppb, 14.2 ppb, 24.3 ppb, 24.5ppb, 28ppb, 32.4ppb, 51.7ppb and 119ppb were all recorded from within the area of the circular magnetic ring features of the Ilkurlka project.
The anomalous gold in soil is open in numerous directions and have been generated on wide spaced lines that are up to 1km apart, so there is much scope for better definition with extended infill and sampling.
In the mid 1990's, WMC conducted diamond exploration 280km to the SW in the Tropicana area and detected a 10ppb -30ppb gold anomaly in soil. They reported "a number of minor gold anomalies up to 32ppb but none were deemed worthy of follow up". These gold anomalies in soil were finally followed up by AngloAshanti in 2005 and led to the discovery of a new type of gold deposit, the +6,0000,000 ounce Tropicana gold deposit.
In light of the Tropicana Gold Deposit discovery via a 10ppb ‐ 30ppb Au soil anomaly, the 10ppb -119ppb Au in soil samples at Ilkurlka warrant prioritization of a gold-focused, surface geochemical program utilizing modern technologies and methodologies across the Ilkurlka Project area.
Ilkurlka Project Geology
Little is known about the geology of the area. Published geological map sheets of Wanna (SH52-02) and Vernon (SH52-01) contain annotations stating that geology in most of the areas covered are inferred, due to a lack of outcrop, together with a lack of field mapping work.
There has been no exploration drilling except for shallow mineral sands. No gold assays were taken. The stratigraphic BMR Wanna 1 hole was drilled in in the eastern section of the extended Ilkurlka Permit Application area to a total depth of 154m and ended in Paterson Formation.
Further Work
The 1999 CRA surface sampling was located around small magnetic anomalies identified for diamond potential and was not targeted for gold.
Follow up in-fill sampling will be specifically targeted for gold.
The Company has lodged a further 200 km2 of ground around the existing Ilkurlka project. Most of the project area remains totally unexplored with no historical soil sampling at all. The orientation, extent and significance of the gold mineralisation can only be determined with follow-up infill soil sampling of the historic regional soil anomalies and will be conducted as soon as possible.
Lennis Project
100% owned Maria Resources Pty Ltd has been awarded drill funding under the WA Government Exploration Incentive Scheme (EIS) for the Lennis Project in the western Officer Basin.
Magnetic geophysical data over the Lennis Project reveals a buried circular 7km diameter magnetic ring anomaly with a complex magnetic central core. This feature is potentially caused by a meteorite impact or igneous ring complex. Gravity geophysical data shows a distinctive, strong gravity high potentially related to a buried intrusive body located within the magnetic ring feature.
Maria Resources has been advised by the Department of Mines and Petroleum that the Lennis Project has successfully been awarded EIS funding after a competitive process with independent peer-review assessment.
Under the EIS, funds committed by Maria Resources towards the approved drill program will be matched with approx. $140,000 from the Western Australian Government.
Meteorite impact structure expert Andrew Glikson has posed the magnetic rings and other characteristics are indicative of a potential meteorite impact structure. Other scientists propose the magnetic rings represent an igneous ring complex. Lennis is therefore prospective for:
- Hydrothermal zinc-copper-lead-(gold)-(uranium) mineralization related to a meteorite impact.
- Magmatic nickel-copper-PGE massive sulphide mineralization associated with a buried mafic – ultramafic intrusion.
Existing gravity coverage at Lennis is wide spaced and an infill ground based gravity survey will be conducted to generate more detail on the gravity anomaly prior to drilling. It is intended that this survey will be conducted in the last quarter of 2017 with drilling to follow in early 2018 after all approvals have been received.
Maria Resources thanks the WA Government for its support and considers the grant of EIS funds to be indicative of the quality of the Lennis Project and the technical work conducted to date. The EIS co-funded drilling programme preferentially funds high quality, technical and economically based projects that promote new exploration concepts and are assessed by a panel on the basis of geoscientific and exploration targeting merit.


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Hello my lovelies,
I got a few books for Xmas and even bought some spur of the moment ones for myself. These are the ones I'm reading at the moment. So far I'm not planning to review any but if you want a review on one just leave a comment.
1. Bones Never Lie – Kathy Reichs
2. Falling into Place – Amy Zhang
3. Lets get lost – Adi Alsaid
4. Looking for Alaska – John Green
5. We Were Liars – E.Lockhart
I'm nearly done Falling into place and I think I'm going to start We were liars next.
Let me know if you've read any of these and what books you recommend.
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Adi is an outrider, rejected by both her British father's and Indian mother's cultures, so she is no stranger to trouble. But when a mysterious agitator called "Coal" kidnaps Adi's twin brothers, Adi has to rely on herself to find them. With strength and cunning as fierce as any boy's, she decides to cut her hair and put on a military uniform to slip unnoticed through the chaos of the early days of World War I. When Adi finds a pocket watch that could be the clue to her lost brothers, she must figure out a way to decode it—before time runs out.
David Mellon grew up in Denham Springs, a little town on a river in south east Louisiana. After attending San Francisco Art Institute and California Institute for the Arts he graduated from Art Center College of Design with a degree in Illustration. After years of painting pictures and drawing storyboards for film and tv commercials he discovered UCLA Extension Writers' Program where he was nominated for the 2016 Allegra Johnson Prize. Silent is his first novel. He's been a member of SCBWI since 2011. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Judith.
I honestly was not expecting to like thos book. But holy cow did I. Adi is the person I've always wanted to be. Steong, selfless, and brave. Great qualities in a person. Now I might have fallen in love with George. He was such a great character too.
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Look, here he is:
|Note the strategically placed arm over my pregnant belly.
Also, we are not pained to be that close together, we are pained by
the piercing AZ sun in our eyes.
This is Washington crossing the Deleware portrayed by Jeremy.
He's smart, good looking, fun, and super sweet. I seriously love this guy.
But he's still kind of crazy.
Tomorrow he's running in something called The Tough Mudder. Basically, it's a military style course that goes about 12 miles and includes various obsticals like walls to climb, ropes to cross, mud pits to jump into, tubes to crawl through, fire to run through, and live wires they have to run through and get mildly electrocted at the end. Fun, right?
Except, he keeps showing me these vidoes of the course and in the background, there're people being loaded onto stretchers or having medics attending them, or bleeding from various parts of their bodies. He thinks it's awesome. I think I'm going to start praying now.
You may or may not recall my 5K mud run (mis)adventure, so you can see why I don't get this. I had to sign a waiver just to be a spectator at the Tough Mudder!
I'm actually really proud of him and all of the hard work that's gone into him training for this race even if I am a little worried.
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The latest published statistics from a worldwide survey of education in 15 year olds shows that we are doing really, really well. Excellently, in fact.
Reviewers of the data noted that "New Zealand's education system has won major praise with it nearing the top in literacy, mathematics and science according to a highly recognised international assessment system. But the data points to some alarming gaps in New Zealand – especially socio-economic." [1] So we are doing well despite the shocking gaps between those with much and those with little. Go figure.
So just how well did we do?
Overall, in 2009 New Zealand was ranked 5th out of 34 OECD countries for mean PISA scores across reading, mathematics and science.
Fifth. Fifth out of thirty four. FIFTH!
Where was the USA? The UK? Aus? Below NZ, not above. So next time a politician stands up and talks about education here in the God Zone, just remember – 5th in the world.
Are the 2012 statistics a fluke?
No, they're not. NZ consistently performs well, as shown in the 2000, 2002 and 2003 information below: [2]
Educational attainment
Over three-quarters (76 percent) of New Zealanders aged 25–64 years have achieved secondary or tertiary educational qualifications.
This is at the upper end of the OECD scale, placing New Zealand twelfth among 30 nations, slightly behind Austria and ahead of Finland, and well above the OECD average of 65 percent.
There is considerable variation in the proportion of people holding qualifications, from 13 percent in Mexico to 88 percent in the Czech Republic.
|Educational Attainment(percentage of 25–64 year olds attaining at least upper secondary education), 2002
High rates of early childhood education
New Zealand also has higher rates of participation in early childhood education than most other OECD countries.
Ninety-three percent of New Zealand four year olds were involved in early childhood education in 2000, compared with an OECD average of just 73 percent. New Zealand ranked ninth in the proportion of four year olds in education.
|Education(proportion of 4 year olds in primary or pre-primary education), 2000
New Zealand children rank relatively highly on international literacy scales.
The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment measures performance levels of students near the end of compulsory education in reading, mathematical and scientific literacy.
The data shows that New Zealand children rank seventh among OECD countries, with comparable data in terms of the average score across the three scales, behind Finland, Korea, Japan, Canada, the Netherlands and Australia. New Zealand rates above the OECD average on each of the scales – fifth in reading, ninth in mathematics and seventh in science.
| Student Literacy(student performance on the combined reading, scientific and mathematical literacy scales), 2003
So just how well did we do in the latest statistics?
The science results for 15 year olds were topped by Shanghai (575), Finland (554), Singapore (542) and New Zealand (532). That means we are the 4th best in science out of 65 countries. The OECD average was 501.
The top reading literacy scores for 15-year-olds showed Korea (with a score of 539), Finland (536), Hong Kong-China (533), Singapore (526), Canada (524) and then New Zealand (521). New Zealand was well above the OECD average of 493. It's worth noting that all but one of the countries out-performing NZ there have education systems based on equitable education for all, rather than competition. Singapore is the only exception to that. None have charter schools.
We did very well in maths, too.
It's worth remembering all of this and celebrating how well we do as a country.
That's not to say we don't have areas in need of careful focus and improvement – of course we do. All teachers know that – we all want that. We want to be able to easily get access to professional development so we can enhance the skills we have. We want to lift achievement in immigrants, Pacific Islanders and Maori students so that they stand a better chance of achieving the same as other groups. We want to address the huge and worrying disparity in achievement between the haves and the have-nots.
It's a great system we have, and a wonderful one to build on and improve further – it isn't in need of a complete overhaul, just the trust and respect of those in charge, and a willingness to listen to our advice, suggestions and ideas.
Then we can all get on with more of what we do well – teaching.
[1] http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/6091397/NZ-near-top-in-OECD-education-figures
[2] http://www.stats.govt.nz/browse_for_stats/government_finance/central_government/nz-in-the-oecd/education.aspx


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Words by Damien Choy
Who They Are
Managed by Samantha Ferris, Galerie Pompom holds a roster of some of the swankiest contemporary artists found on our Culture Scouts Chipper-Red Tour. MOP is the room joined at the front that provides experimental project spaces for artists looking to test the waters.
An Established Stable
Galerie Pompom hosts an innovative range of contemporary art, perfect for intermediate-to-serious art collectors. Visitors are just as likely to find bright figurative paintings and sculptures, as to find more conceptually abstract pieces incorporating space, sound and technology that push more post-modern questions about our times.
And a Stable Experiment
Started around the turn of the millennium by co-directors Ron and George Adams, MOP is a projects-based room for forward-thinking emergent artists to establish themselves, and for established artists to express themselves that may not be commercial to their parent galleries. The designated space is perfect for sculptural installations that aren't singular features, although artists are just as free to hang canvases as they see fit.
A Sydney View
Director Ron Adams wants visitors to access the insights of contemporary art beyond the viewpoint of a casual observer. "I like them to be bamboozled by it all," Adams says, "there's a certain audience for contemporary art. It's open to everyone but I think it depends on the city's vibe too, Sydney is a little bit sportier."
"I like them to be questioned… to be a bit uncomfortable."
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(Reuters) - Estonian Ott Tanak won Rally Finland for Toyota on Sunday while Hyundai's Thierry Neuville finished ninth but retained the overall world championship lead.
The victory, over gravel roads in the fastest round of the calendar, was Tanak's second of the season after Argentina in April and he won by 32.7 seconds.
Tanak also won the final power stage for a bonus five points.
Norwegian Mads Ostberg was second for Citroen, denying Toyota a one-two finish by beating Finland's Jari-Matti Latvala by 2.8 seconds.
France's reigning champion Sebastien Ogier was fifth for M-Sport Ford.
After eight of 13 rounds, Neuville has a 21 point lead over Ogier with the Belgian on 153 — and picking up two power stage points — and his rival now on 132.
Hyundai lead M-Sport in the constructors' standings by 26 points.
"Road position has really dictated a lot this weekend," said Neuville. "Even without our mistake on Friday, when we misread a pace note, I don't think we would have been any higher up the classification.
"The main target was not losing too many points to Ogier, which we did to the best of our ability. We could only control what's in our hands. We gave it everything we could in the Power Stage and it was good to take a couple of extra points."
The next round is in Germany on Aug 16-19.
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I'm actually not coping as well as I thought as since last week I've done nothing but cry but I'm hoping that it could be just hormones.
After talking to people I decided to go to the Summer Show at Ely with just Tom and was lucky that someone saved me a really nice camping spot as I couldn't get there until the Friday night. Tom loves camping and was very excited when we got there and took a while to settle down to sleep but by Saturday morning he was back to as normal as he ever is :)
We were there for three days and I'd entered him in two runs a day and going from three dogs to one, Suzi stayed at home, was weird and quite relaxing. Tom worked his little socks off all weekend and although we had 4 Es and 1 5 faults he got a 2nd in his grade 3 agility. The Es were mainly problems with him powering away from obstacles and missing the next thing which to me is something we can work on as I don't want to stop him going on I just need to get my timing better in getting a call him.
Prestbury Park is a lovely venue with the only problem being that the people going to the polo didn't think speed limits were meant for them and huge horse lorries thundering through the camping was a bit of a shock but to be fair it was only for one day and only in the afternoon. It was so quiet in the evenings, you couldn't hear any traffic at all shame it wasn't a bit warmer so we could sit outside and take advantage of the peace.
Suzi stayed at home again as camping is not her thing so it was just me and Tom again, we had 3 runs a day with one agility and two jumping on Saturday and two agility and one jumping on Sunday. On both days Tom got a clear in his 1-4 jumping but not quick enough for a place, I think on Sunday he might have been if he hadn't gone for a quick sniff. His contacts and weaves were really good except for one class when the weaves were the 2nd thing and he just wouldn't go in to them but I think this may have been because I raced him to them rather than sending him ahead of me.
I've decided that while I will get another dog it wont be until late next year so Tom will be an only dog for a while and I'm hoping this is going to be a good thing for him as he wont be competing for my attention, although he always got as much if not more than Dudley but I think he thought he didn't.
We are back at training after the summer break and I have some plans on how to get Tom and Suzi's contacts more consistent and I'm planning on getting some video to put on here.


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November 7th, 2010 by Weber
No, not me. This guy.
A couple of months ago, I posted the various versions of the Tinwerks 2009 holiday card. Little did I know Joe and Dave had installed Tinny as their FaceBook icon.
Better check it quick, though. They ordered a complete redesign — the final for which I delivered at the end of October. sThere are some fun plans for Tinny and his new look. Friend Tinwerks on Facebook and you'll probably find out about the launch before I do.
After Tinny 2.0 goes live, I'll be free to do some show-n-tell with the prototypes.
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A muscle deeply embedded in your body, the psoas attaches your rib cage and torso to your legs. It's actually the only muscle that links the spine and the leg together, making it incredibly important in all sorts of movement, particularly anything that requires you to flex the hip.
Pilates relies on the psoas for proper execution of many exercises. Sometimes, though, your body mechanics are such that you just don't know how to activate it. So, use Pilates to wake up your psoas and then strengthen and loosen it.
About the Psoas
The Psoas is a major multi-joint muscle with 22 attachments, that includes one on each thigh and 20 points on the spine. It also passes over two joints: your sacroiliac joint of the back and the ball and socket joint of the hip. Although it's deeply set and not often named when you're doing a gym workout, it plays a huge stabilizing role in core and pelvic stability.
Many people have a chronically tight psoas, caused by sitting too much. This prevents you from fully extending the muscle, which affects walking and running gait and can lead to pain in the low back and hips.
Relaxing the Psoas
Use Pilates constructive rest position to awaken and rejuvenate the psoas. It helps relieve fatigue and tension in the muscle, and in corresponding muscles of the leg, back and pelvis.
To do constructive rest: Lie on your back, bend your knees and plant your feet hip distance apart and about 1 foot away from your butt. Keep your back in a natural position and allow your body to stay relaxed and even with the floor. Rest your hands on your belly. Spend 10 to 15 minutes here per day to relax .
Awakening the Psoas
Pilates includes mat work, but also equipment-based work such as on the reformer or the cadillac. Pilates teaches you how to use muscles, including the psoas, in a full range of motion — this includes fully lengthening and activating them. You'll also open up your joints so that the muscles can move as they were designed.
Mat exercises are particularly effective in helping you feel and stretch your psoas.
Knee Floats
Knee floats help you find your psoas so you can better activate it. The exercise seems simple enough, but it's easy to put all the energy into your thigh and hip crease and leave the psoas out entirely, contributing to its dysfunction. You'll need a rolled-up towel for the exercise.
To do a knee float: Lie on your back with your knees bent, feet planted hip distance and about 1 foot away from your buttocks. Take the rolled-up hand towel and place it behind your knee, so you're hugging it with your calf and thigh. Keep the towel tucked in tightly as you engage your deep core muscles. Gently lift your leg holding the towel so it floats above the ground. Be mindful and prevent your hips from tilting or shifting. Pause momentarily and with control, place your foot back down. Work up to eight reps on each leg.
Psoas Stretch
A tight psoas has trouble engaging and supporting activity in your core and pelvis. This simple stretch loosens it up and can help alleviate back pain.
To do the psoas stretch: Lie on your back with both knees bent. Hug your right knee into your chest, keeping your head, shoulders and back in the mat. Zip up your abdominals to support your torso and prevent rocking. Slowly extend your left leg along the mat until it's straight. Pause for a moment, and then slide it back to the beginning position. Repeat and then switch sides.
Strengthening the Psoas
Although the mat is great for bringing awareness to the psoas, turn to the reformer for more strength work. The reformer is a contraption that looks like a bed frame equipped with a sliding carriage, pulleys and springs.
Footwork, leg circles, the frog, arabesques and long spine stretch are some exercises on the reformer to use for psoas strength and improved function. Work on a reformer should be done under the guidance of a certified Pilates instructor.
- IDEA Health and Fitness Association: The Mighty Psoas
- Core Awareness: The One Muscle That Does Not Need Strengthening
- Centerworks: The Benefits of the Illipsoas to Pilates
- Centerworks: The Benefits of the Illipsoas to Pilates Part 2
- Pilates Tonic: How to Finally Find Your Psoas and Relax Painful Hip Flexors
- Easy Vigor: Psoas Stretch


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Antioxidants during chemotherapy
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
My wife is set to begin chemotherapy treatment. We are working with a nutritional advisor. We will be following his 10-step program, which advocates exercise, low fat high fiber diet, meditation, and vitamin and mineral supplements. He is advocating continuing to use the vitamins during chemo because there is no study that shows an anti- affect on the treatment. While there are many studies supporting the use of antioxidants. What are you thoughts on this difficult decision we have to make? Should my wife continue on the vitamin regimen during chemo or not?
Thank you for your thoughts in advance.
Katrina Claghorn, MS, RD, registered dietitian at the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania, responds:
Actually there are studies showing that some antioxidants can interfere with chemotherapy. There have also been some studies showing benefit from combining antioxidants and chemotherapy. However, the problem is that we are still trying to figure which antioxidants and which chemotherapies can be combined. So far there isn't enough information to substantiate either claim. Your wife's medical team will develop a treatment regimen based on sound science and they will always lean towards the side of caution. The regimens they use have been tested and the potential problems identified. The effect of using antioxidants with these treatments have not received the same scientific scrutiny, which is why there is hesitancy to combine them outside of clinical trials. If she is receiving radiation therapy, she should hold off on using antioxidants. Radiation therapy kills cancer cells by generating oxidants. If high doses of antioxidants are present, this could theoretically decrease the effectiveness of radiation treatments.
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Children, Youth and Families Programs
Partners in Parenting
Partners in Parenting promotes positive parenting and child health and development, thereby preventing child abuse and other poor childhood outcomes.
The first five years of life have a significant effect on children's development and learning and parents play the most important role during this time. Parenting education and support are key to raising successful children, creating confident parents and building strong families and communities. Further, parenting education can be delivered in a variety of ways (Radey & Randolph, 2009). Recent research shows that parents of young children who received a parent training program or attended parenting workshops improved their parenting skills (Golan, Spiker & Sumi, 2005; Hodnett et al., 2009). Evaluations of Cooperative Extension's age-paced parent newsletters indicate that more confidence in their parenting, age-appropriate expectations for their children's development and fewer abusive beliefs or behaviors (Ostergren & Riley, 2012).
What Has Been Done
University of Nevada Cooperative Extension's Partners in Parenting offers numerous parenting educational programs and resources, primarily for those with children 0-5 years of age.
Little Books & Little Cooks program is a national award winning program (from the National Extension Association of Family and Consumer Sciences) to address parenting and nutrition information. The program teaches both parents and their young children (ages 3-5) important milestones of early learning and literacy, school readiness and good nutrition through a seven-week program. Reading children's books about nutrition and healthy eating as well as cooking and eating together allow both children and parents to learn about healthy eating and nutrition and gain positive parent-child interaction skills.
National award-winning Family Storyteller is a literacy program aimed at encouraging and training parents to play a vital role in the literacy development of their children. The statewide program creates an opportunity for parents and young children to interact around literacy and language activities.
Fun To Play for Preschoolers encourages positive-parent child interaction and learning though creative play. It also promotes children's school readiness skills and introduces the Nevada Pre-Kindergarten standards.
Child Safety and Welfare is designed for parents to increase their awareness and knowledge of several child safety/welfare issues. The 4-week program topics include Shaken Baby Syndrome, Child Abuse and Awareness, Anger Management and Positive Guidance. The program is designed to improve awareness of important child safety issues and increase parenting knowledge.
Partners in Parenting also offers a resource guide "Raising Your Relatives Kids" and numerous fact sheets on early childhood development.
Little Books & Litte Cooks
87% of parents reported that their children help them prepare food more often and parents reported cooking more often for their families.
Family Storyteller
93% of parents showed improvement in their knowledge of reading with their children (e.g., connecting things in story to real life, fun language activities, asking questions about the book, etc.)
Fun To Play for Preschoolers
79% of parents showed understanding of several school readiness skills (e.g., math, science, social emotional development, etc.), after attending the program.
Child Safety and Welfare
75% of the parents showed understanding of important child safety and welfare issues such as child abuse and shaken baby syndrome, after attending the program.
CCSD Title I Family and Community Engagement Services, Libraries (Henderson, Las Vegas, and North Las Vegas), Clark County and City of Las Vegas Community and Recreation Centers, Acelero Head Start, UMC Family Resource Center and indoor play centers for children.
See Also
- http://www.unce.unr.edu/resources/
- Raising Your Relative's Kids
For additional information, visit the Partners in Parenting Web site.
Contacts: YaeBin Kim, Assistant Professor of Parenting Education and Child Developmen, 702-257-5521,
Heidi Petermeier, Program Officer, 702-257-5588
Olga Soto, Instructor, 702-257-5567
Maria Ambriz, 702-257-5564
Children, Youth and Families Programs
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4-H Afterschool
All children face risks as they grow and develop, but children who live in low-income housing or are homeless may be at higher risk for participating in risky behaviors. University of Nevada Cooperative Extension (UNCE) developed the 4-H After School Club (ASC) to teach children basic life skills including math, reading, science, positive communication, goal setting, self-responsibility, decision-making and good nutrition. Youth who have these life skills are less likely to participate in risky behaviors.
4-H Youth Development
4-H is a community of young people across America learning leadership, citizenship and life skills.
All 4 Kids
University of Nevada Cooperative Extension's All 4 Kids: Healthy, Happy, Active, Fit program is an interdisciplinary approach to addressing child obesity. Developed by Cooperative Extension faculty from maternal/child nutrition, exercise physiology and child development, the All 4 Kids program helps children meet the Nevada Pre-Kindergarten (Pre-K) Standards while encouraging preschool children and families to practice healthy eating habits and be active every day.
University of Nevada Cooperative Extension (UNCE) developed Bootstraps, a high-risk youth program that helps teens return to school and/or gain meaningful work.
Calming the Waters: Learning to Manage Western Water Conflict
Conflict has surrounded the Truckee, Carson and Walker River Basins for decades. Key issues include historical use on tribal lands, historical and current water rights, threats to water quality, and wildlife habitat protection. This program teaches youth about Nevada's water issues and helps them develop the skills needed to address future water conflicts.
Career Edge: Teens Taking Charge of Their Future! A Workforce Readiness Program
The Career Edge: Teens Taking Charge of Their Future! A workforce readiness program for high school students focused on skill development for workplace and job success. Career Edge helps high school students prepare to get their first "paying" job while working toward their dream job or career. Career Edge provides information and training on interview skills, résumé development, filling out applications, finding job leads and selecting appropriate clothing for the workplace. In addition, many "soft skills" needed in the workplace such as decision-making, teamwork, problem-solving and leadership are integrated throughout the program.
Churchill County Community Readiness Network
Nevada communities need rapid access to information during an emergency. In an effort to enhance community preparedness, safety and available resources and by using GPS and GIS mapping, University of Nevada Cooperative Extension's 4-H youth and adult leaders in Churchill County are working with community emergency managers to address evacuation and shelter mapping.
Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP)
Exploring Your True Colors: Building an Effective Team & Team Development Course
Team Development Course
Family Storyteller Literacy Program
National award-winning Family Storyteller is a literacy program aimed at encouraging and training parents to play a vital role in the literacy development of their children. Developed by University of Nevada Cooperative Extension (UNCE), KNPB-TV, the Washoe County libraries and Washoe County School District, the statewide program creates an opportunity for parents and young children to interact around literacy and language activities. Family Storyteller is designed especially for families that may have limited language skills and few children's books at home.
Fun To Play
University of Nevada Cooperative Extension's Fun To Play program targets families where, due to the young age, inexperience or limited resources of the parents, young children are placed at-risk for developmental delays and later school difficulties. Fun To Play is a series of weekly infant/child sessions aimed at improving the parenting skills of young parents by increasing the amount of learning activities and interaction they provide their children.
Heart & Shield: Rural Domestic Violence Prevention Program
Keeping Kids Safe: Recognizing, Reporting and Responding to Child Maltreatment
Little Books and Little Cooks
Nevada State GEAR UP
Partners in Parenting
Partners in Parenting promotes positive parenting and child health and development, thereby preventing child abuse and other poor childhood outcomes.
Project MAGIC
Project MAGIC is an innovative, collaborative program designed to help juvenile offenders leave the criminal justice system and become productive members of society. While participating in the program, young people ages 12 to 18 learn: positive communication skills, team building, problem solving and decision making, self-responsibility, conflict resolution, aspiration building and goal setting. Youth also select and conduct a service project designed to benefit their community. Parent sessions include the same life skills.
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The Voice of a Generation
Aged fifteen and at the dawn of the 1980s, my favourite band was Stiff Little Fingers. The Irish quartet, fronted by Jake Burns, released their second album in 1980, and SLF would eventually become the first band I saw play live—at Newcastle City Hall at the back end of 1982 as I recall. I also saw their "farewell" gig early the following year. On an undeniably emotional evening, the band made their final exit stage left to the strains of No Regrets by Midge Ure.
However, on the basis that the current line up—fronted by Jake Burns and with original bassist Ali McMordie back in the fold—is still touring three decades later, Midge's version of The Walker Brothers' classic was clearly not the most appropriate song choice all those years ago. I reckon they should have opted for the tune that was played at the end of each episode of the kids' television series Here Come the Double Deckers when the characters gathered together, waved at the camera and sang "See you next week!"
The generic term "new wave" was applied to a lot of bands that were spawned by the short-lived, but undeniably hugely influential punk movement. Quite a few of these bands achieved mainstream chart success (of sorts) and I wasn't averse to sitting next to my radio cassette, fingers hovering over the record and play buttons in the hope that the next song was by The Ruts, The Undertones, or the like and Kid Jensen wouldn't go and spoil everything by talking over the end of the song. Actually, being able to hit the pause button before the DJ interrupted was an art—and one that I never mastered.
Away from the top forty, simmering away in the background, there was a vibrant indie scene and much as post-punk music pointed me in a new direction, it was some of the bands associated with the small independent labels that really resonated with me. To be considered for inclusion, a record basically had to be distributed outside the framework of the major companies. The first chart was compiled in January 1980, with the inaugural number one being Where's Captain Kirk? by a punk band called Spizzenergi—well they were for a while: the group had a habit of changing their name on an annual basis.
Meanwhile, back in York, my father was a schoolmaster and I actually grew up living at the school I attended. It was an almost unique situation that is hard to try and explain, but in many ways, never being away from the school environment meant that my formative and teenage years were, at times, both difficult and lonely. I wasn't without friends, but being the son of a teacher was never likely to make me universally popular—and what I desperately needed was something to spark my individuality.
I can't pinpoint the specific moment, but there was a defining record, a four track EP by the New Mills-based outfit Blitz, entitled All Out Attack. I had never such a raw sound, brutal, distorted guitar and rasping, intimidating vocals and right from the opening chords of Someone's Gonna Die, I knew I was listening to something new, something real. I was carried along on a wave of adrenaline the like of which I'd rarely experienced. I no longer felt like the outsider so many people had tried to make me. I didn't need to conform to the pathetic stereotype that knew all the words to Wheels of Steel by Saxon. I might have been lonely at times, but now I had an identity.
The EP spent ages in the indie charts, peaking at number three. As usual, the press found a need to label the band, which comprised two skinheads and two punks. The record was the first to be released on the No Future label as Oi1—I don't know whether this was the origin of the Oi! genre, but to be honest I don't really care. All the mattered was the sheer power of the songs (Someone's Gonna Die, Attack, Fight to Live and 45 Revolutions), and the profound effect they had on one particular teenager.
I acquired my copy (the blank labelled second pressing) from Red Rhino Records, an independent shop situated on Gillygate in York whose takings were boosted on a regular basis by my pocket money. Red Rhino is now long gone—I believe the premises is now a craft shop. Very rock 'n' roll.
The four-track debut EP was relatively common amongst the punk bands of the time. For starters there was Anti Pasti [now that it classic comedy] who released their Fore Sore Points EP including the original heavier and slower version of No Government and another memorable offering was Realities of War by Discharge, which was even more hardcore, or extreme—with a relentless drum-beat and lyrics that were often still indecipherable even if you had them written down in front of you!
I do recall a slightly awkward moment when I was sitting in my room with the song Always Restrictions playing merrily away in the back-ground. Dad opened the door just as singer Cal Morris launched into a tirade of expletives.
Dad beat a fairly swift retreat and no words were exchanged. Some-times a disapproving look is all that is needed!
As an interesting aside, after the original Blitz line-up had gone their separate ways, guitarist Alan "Nidge" Miller (who would tragically lose his life in a car accident in 2007) recruited new members and, using the name Blitz, released the 1989 album The Killing Dream. I did find an interview with Miller from that time, where he highlighted the following words, which were spoken during the song All You Want: "How many men of less worth than yourself have obtained so many of life's rewards, whilst you who can imagine so much, have so very little." I'm sure the quote was intended to make a strong statement, but whatever the sentiment, it lost a lot of its potential impact for me, when I had heard the words spoken by the character Sardo Numspa, the baddie from the Eddie Murphy film, The Golden Child!
Anyway, in November 2013, I managed to get in touch with Neil "Mackie" McLennan, Blitz's original bassist, who was only too happy to (in his words) "ramble on about the good old days"—and I was only too happy to let him!
It might be helpful if I give you a bit of an insight to the background of the record. We [Blitz] had been trying to get interest to get a record released. We had a little bit of press through Sounds Magazine, who were the only music paper interested in "Streetpunk" or "Oi"— oh how we disliked that label, it was all just punk rock to us.
We had a full set of songs and decided to record the best four. Hologram studios in Stockport had an offer going on, where if a band block-booked a week's session, the dead time—ie when the band or engineer had had enough, usually about seven, eight o'clock at night—you could use time through the night for a reduced rate, so we went in for a couple of nights, and recorded and mixed in just two sessions I think it was.
It was quite surreal to be stood on Stockport market, where the studio was based, at something like four in the morning, having a break from the studio with the waft of Robinson's brewery in the air. So romantic!
We bashed out the four songs "live" as we would play them normally, and overdubbed vocals and backing vocals the next night, followed by mixing.
It was a great time for us, What I always loved—and still do—is going in a room with an idea, knocking it into shape and coming out with a new song, and to get to hear them recorded was the icing on the cake for me. It didn't matter if no one liked our stuff, we had written and recorded it and were happy just to have done that.
As far as the inspiration behind the EP, it's been pretty well documented that the early eighties were dark times for working class kids in the UK—the miners' strike, three-day week, Tories fighting the unions, mass unemployment, you get the picture— and I suppose the songs were echoing the times, Listening back, there is a lot of violent imagery in the songs. There was a lot of violence around the punk scene back then, and this probably explains our mindset at the time.
Musically the bands we were into were the Clash, the Ramones SLF [Stiff Little Fingers], so I suppose it's those bands we would be trying to emulate, but we were much more "raw" and it sound corny to say it now but more "street"—we certainly hadn't been to art school or university.
We replied to an advert we had seen in Sounds for punk band demos, and sent the demo tape cassette. The advert was for No Future records and they wanted to put the four tracks out as an EP, just as we had recorded it, warts and all. We agreed and it became the first release on the new label. Sounds got behind it and we got great reviews. It enabled us to get decent gigs and got our name to places we never thought we would reach. It had no real impact financially, or to us as people at the time, but it did change people's view of us, and we didn't realise at the time just how far reaching it would prove to be.
Back then the band meant everything to us, Cliché time again, but it was our way out, there were no jobs, we loved music and punk rock, so if we could use that to achieve something then great stuff. Listening back now it sounds raw, a blast of sound, a warts and all recording of a moment in time, we did it quickly on shitty gear, and pretty lo fi, but that's what makes it.
Great stuff, and a truly great record.
Here are all four tracks - feel free to listen, but please be
aware the songs contain occasional strong language/lyrics.
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That is fab Kirbs. What a great reply. I used to record music on my cassette player too. I think a lot of us did back then as it was the affordable and easy way to collect music.
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There is no truer phrase these days than "it's a small world." Cultures globally are bumping into one another, trying to either resist change or to influence one another either of which often has led to all out conflict. In the wake of all of these encounters, our institutions are changing. Like it or not, informal "globalization" has necessarily occurred because of exposure to a variety of lifestyles and belief systems.
China began its take over and assimilation of Tibet in 1951. By 1959, the Dalai Lama had gone into exile in India. Regardless, he followed the old ways, searched for and found what he thought was the reincarnation of the leadership. But Chinese officials did not recognize his successor and the state searched for an appointed its own idea of a reincarnated leader.
Two years ago, Der Spiegel, the German news magazine, asked him whether it was possible to resign as Dalai Lama, given that Tibetans believe him to be the latest reincarnation in a long line of religious leaders. He told them he would "no longer play a political role or a pronounced spiritual role".Some would like to see the Karmapa Lama, 26, succeed him as the figurehead of Tibetan exiles. Others believe it is time for a more fundamental change. Earlier this year, the prime minister of the government-in-exile told the Guardian: "The age of the old monks is passing and we are looking forward to a young, energetic, lay leadership." [Guardian]
The Dalai Lama has blurred the issues of succession and reincarnation. Asked if he would be the last, he told Der Spiegel: "The key factor should be the will of the Tibetan people.
The road from monastic orders to the will of the people was not a long one once the Dalai Lama went into exile. Religion and politics have always been intertwined no matter how societies try to order them. But politics seems to have brought this religious leader to his endgame.
The Pope is also hinting that these are not times in which a terribly ill spiritual leader with such tremendous responsibilities internationally could reasonably remain Pope. This came in a week in which he relaxed some rules for the use of condoms.
What is going on here? Next we will see Queen Elizabeth, head of the Anglican Communion, retire and give her authority to her lack luster adulterous son, Charles. Charles as head of the Church of England? What would that do to the institution. Revision to the law of succession in England is underway to allow the succession to disregard the sex of the next in line.
In all three instances, the political landscape has had a great deal of influence on revised thinking as well as a tip of the hat being made to public opinion. The least concerned about the institution he heads appears to be the Dalai Lama. He seems more motivated by personal concerns. But even in his situation, there is a desire to remain relevant in times that are changing. And the agent for all of this change that has accelerated in recent years? Closer contact with and exchange of ideas with divergent cultures.
Regardless of the outcome, change is a constant. Only the size of the change varies. This time around, it looks as if major institutions in the East as well as in the West are making seismic shifts to accommodate current conditions and future prospects.
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A program and fund that helps young trans, queer, and/or allied people create by-and-for sexual health projects and events in Quebec. Includes an application for funding and community support.
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Creating Gender Inclusive Schools
What happens when you bring gender training to a public elementary school? In Creating Gender Inclusive Schools the Peralta Elementary School in Oakland, CA demonstrates the power of an open and honest conversation about gender. The school brought in the staff of Gender Spectrum to provide training for teachers and administrators as well as an… read more »
Positive Space Network
**Please see their website's events' calendar for updated information on their programs or events (www.positivespacenetwork.ca) PSN provides programs, education, outreach and support services for LGBTQ+ identified invdividuals, children, youth, and their families and allies. If you need help with transportation, want locations of our programs, and/or have questions please text/call/email Beckham (289-208-0886 or… read more »
Queer Straight Alliance (QSA), Prince George Public Library
The Library QSA is a safe space for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Two-Spirit, Queer, Questioning and Straight teens and teens with LGBTQ families. Teen friends and allies are welcome. The Library QSA is a city-wide group open to all youths in grades 8-12 in Prince George and area. Every-other Tuesday, 7-8:30pm.
Observatoire des TransidentitésA resource for Educators, Parents/Caregivers, Service Providers, Trans Youth
L'Observatoire des transidentités (ODT) est un site indépendant d'information, de productions de savoirs et d'analyses sur les questions trans, inter et les questions de genre. Le site et la revue "Cahiers de la transidentité" ont été fondés par M.-Y. Thomas, A. Alessandrin et K. Espineira. L'ODT s'appuie sur un réseau d'acteurs-actrices de terrain, d'associations-partenaires et… read more »
Gender Creative Families Night, Calgary Sexual Health Centre
Calgary Sexual Health Centre, in partnership with Families Matter, would like to welcome, parents, families and caregivers of gender creative (Trans*, non-binary, gender independent, gender fluid, gender-queer, gender non-conforming) children, aged 4-14, to a monthly gathering This will be an opportunity for you to have some adult time, to share stories and experiences, to create… read more »
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PFLAG Durham Region provides support, education and resources on issues of sexual orientation and gender identity/expressions for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, two-spirit, intersex, queer, and questioning persons and their families and friends. Our peer-to-peer support teams are available by phone or email to talk with you about anything you want to discuss about your… read more »
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United Church of Canada: Ruth's StoryA resource for Children, Educators, Parents/Caregivers, Service Providers, Trans Youth
The inspirational story of Ruth Wood, a Minister in the United Church and a transgender person.
Qmunity: Queer Resource Centre in British ColumbiaA resource for Children, Educators, Parents/Caregivers, Service Providers, Trans Youth
Qmunity is a queer resource centre based in British Columbia and acts as a resource hub for B.C. based resources for the LGBTQ community. The Youth section of their website offers drop-ins, weekly events and leadership training for any and all members of the community including transgender and two-spirit individuals. If you live in B.C.… read more »
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Moving the Margins: Training Curriculum for Child Welfare Services with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Youth in Out-of-Home CareA resource for Children, Educators, Parents/Caregivers, Service Providers, Trans Youth
The National Association of Social Workers and the Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund joined in partnership to improve out-of-home care for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning/queer (LGBTQ) youth. Moving the Margins: Training Curriculum for Child Welfare Services with LGBTQ Youth in Out-of-Home Care is intended to provide training on building the capacity, awareness and skills… read more »


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That's right, part 3 of The Case of a Cup of Joe is now available for pre-order at your local LCS! Things are heating up (see what I did there) as Dex finds herself at odds with some of Portland's greatest commodities.
Writer: Greg Rucka (ruckawriter)
Artist: Justin Greenwood (justingreenwood)
Colorist: Ryan Hill
Letterer: Crank!
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Task Force Announcement
Published on: November 26, 2012
AASHTO and Bentley Systems have agreed to extend AASHTOWare Bridge Management Software with Bentley's InspectTech modules. Click here to read the official press release concerning this.
Software Branding
AASHTO recently introduced their new software branding plan. The implementation will roll out into the software products over the next year. The most visible aspects of this effort will be a renaming for the Pontis product to AASHTO Bridge Management or BrM for short, new web site and a splashy new logo. Just remember BrM = Pontis.
Bentley Strategic Memorandum of Understanding In November Chief executives from AASHTO and Bentley Systems (our developer) signed a MOU to partner together to offer services and AASHTO BrM content not currently available to users. Under the terms of the MOU, AASHTO and Bentley Systems will work together to improve the AASHTO core inspection module and to provide optional "ala carte" inspection module content developed by Bentley that will "plug into" AASHTO BrM. Additionally, Bentley Systems and AASHTO will work together to offer a web hosting for agencies interested in this optional service. Agencies will be able to acquire these modules and services via AASHTO. More details will be forthcoming in the spring of 2013.
Pontis User Group Meeting
The AASHTO Bridge Management (formally Pontis) annual user group meeting was held on September 11th and 12th in New Orleans. The annual training was attended by 96 users from all over the United States. The meeting was a huge success thanks to Scott Choate and the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development.
AASHTO Bridge Management Technical Review Team (TRT)
The kick off meeting for the AASHTO BrM (Pontis) 5.2 Project Technical Review Team was held the day after the Annual User Training. The TRT members will participate in the BrM 5.2 design and development process to ensure that the 5.2 product meets the needs of the states participating in the solicitation. TRT members were provided background information on the project and the team members were divided into working groups to tackle specific implementation tasks. Since the kick off meeting, the TRT has conducted two web conferences in addition to lots of work and communications between TRT task group members.
AASHTO Bridge Management (BrM) 5.1.2
AASHTO Bridge Management Version 5.1.2 was released in May of 2012. The software features support for the new AASHTO elements and support for XML file import and export. This is the most recent production release of BrM.
AASHTO Bridge Management (BrM) 5.1.3
AASHTO Bridge Management Version 5.1.3 is currently being tested by the testing Technical Advisory Group (TAG). Version 5.1.3 will extend the implementation of the new AASHTO elements by providing support for the AASHTO Migrator. The AASHTO Migrator and BrM 5.1.3 work together to facilitate "converting" legacy elements into the new AASHTO elements and satisfying the element collection requirements of MAP-21.
Version 5.1.3 will also feature the risk assessment framework. This new risk framework will allow agencies to begin to define various bridge risks such as scour and seismic vulnerabilities. The risk framework was planned for the first phase of version 5.2 but the delivery has been accelerated into version 5.1.3 to better meet the risk based performance management requirements of MAP-21.
Verison 5.1.3 will also address a number of priority items identified by our Users Group at the Annual Training in September. The following is a listing of the improvements that will be included in version 5.1.3:
- Dramatically increased speed improvements when generating Crystal reports
- Enhanced Crystal reports security
- The ability to turn off tool tips (pop up help when you hover with a mouse) or set a delay time for them to pop up.
- The apply button has been eliminated from the desktop. Just check the box now,
- Improvements to the database upgrade scripts to address feedback from users.
- Storage of load rating factors or load ratings in tons in separate fields with associated logic to use them in NBI file generation.
The release date of BrM 5.1.3 is contingent on the ongoing testing, however is expected in January or February of 2013.
AASHTO Migrator
The AASHTO Bridge Management testing TAG has been working with the Migrator rules set and has recommended several changes that will improve the migration process. When this new rule set is available, the new version will be posted on the product web site for download. We will make an announcement when the new version is available on the web site.
Web Training
The next web training will focus on the use of the AASHTO Element Migrator. This training will be recorded and posted on the training page.
AASHTO Element Inspection Manual
Task Force members are working diligently with AASHTO T-18 and FHWA staff to produce an update to the current AASHTO Guide Manual for Bridge Element Level Inspection version 1. The updated manual will address a number of comments received to date and to accommodate changes necessary to incorporate results into the National Bridge Inventory. This is an important implementation step for the element inspection requirements contained in MAP-21. The proposed changes are planned to go for vote at the AASHTO Sub-Committee on Bridges and Structures meeting in June of 2013.


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Emerald Bowl Week Day 1: Bears Tour Alcatraz
Dec. 23, 2008
Cal had a full day of activities on Tuesday as the Golden Bears prepared to face Miami in the Emerald Bowl at AT&T Park.
With the team staying at a hotel in San Francisco, the Bears boarded buses in the morning to travel back across the Bay Bridge for practice in Memorial Stadium. Cal worked on various drills, such as 11-on-11s and offensive and defensive tutorial.
Wide receivers Jeremy Ross and LaReylle Cunningham both made fingertip catches on the sidelines, while Marvin Jones made an over-the-shoulder reception from Nate Longshore in 1-on-1s. Beau Sweeny was simulating Miami quarterback Jacory Harris for the scout team with a good compliment of runs and passes.
After a two-hour workout, head coach Jeff Tedford, along with seniors Alex Mack, Zack Follett and Worrell Williams returned to The City for the Emerald Bowl kickoff press conference at AT&T Park.
Before heading back to San Francisco, several members of the team stopped by Peoples Park in Berkeley to donate boxed lunches to the less fortunate. The lunches were well received as many of the players were praised with shouts of 'Go Bears!' Other players delivered clothing to needy families in San Francisco's Tenderloin District.
By 4 p.m., everyone gathered at Pier 33 to join the Miami Hurricanes for a tour of Alcatraz. The fare on the short boat ride to the island included pizza and, of course, plenty of Emerald Nuts. The teams took part in the Alcatraz audio tour and stayed on the Rock for about 90 minutes before returning to their hotels for more game prep work and a little free time. The weather cooperated and the clear night offered a stunning view of San Francisco across the water.
Cal practices again Wednesday before going to a Christmas Eve dinner at Bistro Boudin at Fisherman's Wharf. The Bears and Hurricanes meet in the seventh Emerald Bowl Saturday at 5 p.m.
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Google acquired robotics firm Boston Dynamics in 2013 as part of a larger push into robotics, but the search giant is reportedly looking to refocus in the wake of the Alphabet reorganization. Sources report that Alphabet is looking to unload Boston Dynamics as it backs off on robotics. You almost can't blame Google for getting cold feet. It seems like Boston Dynamics' main output right now is creepy YouTube videos.
Boston Dynamics is known for its walking robots, which are regularly shown off in YouTube videos resisting the cruel attacks by humans as they walk around and pick up boxes. Google's push into robotics was headed by Android founder Andy Rubin, who famously has an obsession with robotics. I mean, he named his company Android. Just a few years after leaving the Android group in the hands of Sundar Pichai (now CEO), Rubin left Google. Without that driving force, Google is reevaluating.
Alphabet's management has been evaluating all the companies under it umbrella to make sure they have some plan to generate revenue. After the military canned its Boston Dynamics project for being too noisy, there was apparently little hope for a marketable product in the next few years. It's not like Google/Alphabet is a stranger to investing on big ideas, but robotics was always a stretch for a Silicon Valley tech firm.
None of this has been confirmed, but Amazon and Toyota Research have both been floated as possible buyers of Boston Dynamics. Maybe Andy Rubin will just buy it for himself. The walking robots the company is working on are very cool, but it's hard to see how those could become viable products in the near future — someone with deep pockets and a futuristic mindset will have to step up. I think the average internet user really just hopes Boston Dynamics keeps showing off its robots on YouTube.


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Hemlock #1 is now available to buy online!
the first issue is priced at £6 plus postage and packing. it can be bought through lulu.com at my storefront here: http://stores.lulu.com/mildtarantula
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This Lumi seems so different from the Lumi in the first chapter. In comparison to Tristan, she was the one who knows everything. And now, she's almost to little for this great castle where everyone despises her! Poor Lumi!
August 8th, 2013, 1:59 am
Those helmets
Are absolutely PERFECT for headbutting


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Blossoming Batiks
A quick note. This post contains some affiliate linking and I might receive a small commission when links are clicked. This helps me keep the website running and events like the Mystery Quilt Along free.
Oh, hi there! It has been a while since I've posted. Much longer than I had hoped. So let's talk about that for a second. For a little over a year I've been struggling with back issues. I took a tumble down the stairs and that highlighted an injury in my back from my time in the Marine Corps. Healing has been slow because of my natural affinity to find, and trip over, just about anything.
While it slowed me down a little, it was more of an uncomfortable inconvenience until Memorial Day, when I somehow (changing a diaper) ended up with a bulging disk that was pushing on the sciatic nerve. Healing has crawled by, therapy time consuming, so my normal pace has slowed down quite significantly (but not entirely). Thankfully, because of planning ahead, I had June's Island Batik top done.
June's Modern Batik Challenge
This challenge had me excited. One of my personal goals is to work on my design skills in areas outside my comfort zone. While the bright colors and high contrast of modern quilting really appeals to me, one place I struggle is with minimalism and alternate grid work, so that was my focus in this quilt. Also, I didn't want to wait for all my bee blocks to come back from the Phoenix MQG, to see the idea in my head.
For the fabric I chose to use a Desert Rose strip pack and Sprinkles for my background. The colors in Desert Rose are very bright and also have wonderful depth. I LOVE this line, and if I could afford to buy bolts of every fabric from it I would.
Strips were the perfect cut for this project. I needed a good variety, and not only did the strip pack give me that, but some batiks offer a lot of variety even in in one design. In one strip you may be able to get purple, orange, and blue units by fussy cutting (which I did quite a bit of for this).
The fabrics were arranged to transition from dark to light as you move into the pinwheel. I'm including pictures of some of the units in both color, and black and white for comparison.
When cutting out the pieces I used the Creative Grids 45/90 Multi-Size Triangle Ruler. It is the same one I used to do the Chevron Baby Quilt. It was nice because I had no waste and there were no lines to draw (because lines are evil!). Also, cutting was very quick, and I was able to chain sew. This made the project go very fast.
The entire top went together in about 2 days, and it has been sitting there waiting for June. I was finally able to get out and photograph it yesterday (when it was about 105 an humid). It just happens that it was windy in both the morning and afternoon. My attempts regularly ended up like the picture below.
I was able to get a good picture to share despite the lack of cooperation from the weather.
Playful Paper Piecing
Now let's go back to May, because I would like to share the progress on May's project that was not completed because of my back.
May's Island Batik project was playful paper piecing, and I went with the Take Wing Pattern by lillyella stitchery. I will save a lot of the details of this project for a later post, but there are a couple of pictures of my progress. The fabric was my leftovers from the Desert Rose strip pack, and a couple of additions from my stash.
Secret Sewing
One of the other reasons there has been radio silence, is a quilt that I am putting together to go in the Island Batik catalog, which has a deadline. I can't tell you much about it yet, but I'm sure it won't disappoint. As a consolation prize I have included a work in progress picture.


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Alfreton Town are back in Vanarama National League North action on Saturday when Gloucester City are the visitors to the Impact Arena.
Tthe Reds will be looking to bounce back from a run of four league games without a win, a direct contrast to their recent long unbeaten run.
The Reds will want to regain some of that earlier form to try and push themselves further up the league as the end of the season closes in.
In their last outing, Alfreton were narrowly beaten 1-0 at home to FC United of Manchester last weekend, as George Thomson's goal 26 minutes was enough to separate the two sides.
Reds manager Nicky Law will have to make changes to the side with leading scorer Sam Jones starting a three-game suspension and both Cliff Moyo and Brad McGowan out through injury. Law does have latest signing striker Jamie McDonagh available though and he is likely to figure at some stage of the game.
Gloucester have struggled for form recently, collecting only three points from their last five league games and only managing to score on three occasions in that period.
In their most recent game, they suffered a 2-0 defeat at home to table toppers Solihull Moors, a result of which leaves the Gloucestershire side sat in thirteenth place in the table, four points behind Alfreton having played the same number of games.
On the road, Gloucester have won five times, drawn five and lost seven times so far this season.
In the first game of the season between the sides, way, way back on Tuesday, August 18th a 42nd minute Tom Allan goal for the Reds was cancelled out by Marc Richards on 83 minutes to ensure the spoils were shared.
Kick-off for this Saturday's game at the Impact Arena is 3pm.
Prior to Saturday's game, a minute's silence will held as a mark of respect to those who lost their lives in Brussels earlier this week.


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The Apps Alliance welcomed 100 developers, entrepreneurs, and tech experts to a panel discussion and networking reception to kick off the Casual Connect conference in San Francisco. Panelists from AdColony, Flurry, OpenX, and Cie Games convened for an insightful discussion about how video can be used effectively to help developers make money and acquire new users.
Mobile video advertising continues to skyrocket as a powerful method of engaging users and monetizing mobile apps. In this discussion, experts from leading mobile video advertising companies will discuss how mobile video ads can help app developers, and why this medium is here to stay.
Mike Schwartz - (Moderator) Apps Alliance; David Kurtz - AdColony; Sean Galligan - Flurry; Martin Price - OpenX; Austin Yuen - Cie Games


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Real Strawberry Ice Cream
Kick this recipe up a notch by adding a banana, or sneak in courgette for added nutrition.
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla bean paste
- ½ cup (120 ml) milk
- ½ cup (120 ml) heavy cream
- ⅓ cup (65 g) granulated sugar
- 2¼ cup (400 g) frozen strawberries
- Place all ingredients into the Vitamix container in the order listed and secure lid.
- Select Variable 1.
- Turn machine on and slowly increase speed to Variable 10, then to High.
- Blend for 30 seconds, using the tamper to press the ingredients into the blades. After about 30 seconds, the sound of the motor should change and four mounds will form.
- Stop machine. Serve immediately.
Freeze unused ice cream in an airtight container. When ready to use, allow to soften at room temperature for 8-10 minutes before serving.
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Real Strawberry Ice Cream is rated out of 5 by 8.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Auld Reekie from Vegan substitutes 1/2 coconut milk 1/2 coconut cream 3 Tbs maple syrup 1tsp vanilla extract This is a great recipe. It is delicious and really simple to make. It is a keeper!
Date published: 2018-06-23
Rated 5 out of 5 by Jesique from Delicious! Scrumptious! Perfect! I followed this recipe but I don't eat dairy and avoid refined sugar so I subbed coconut cream (the thick cream from the can) and almond milk equa ratios to the recipe. I used 1tsp of vanilla extract and 3.5 TBS of dark grade A maple syrup. I also used 1/2 of a frozen banana. This came out absolutely delicious! Tastes better than what you would get at an ice cream shop and the consistency is so smooth and delicious. I am going to take this recipe and try making new recipes based off of this! Delicious!
Date published: 2018-11-30
Rated 5 out of 5 by sn78 from YUM! First ice cream i made and it's great. I used 1/4 tsp of real vanilla extract instead of paste.
Date published: 2018-03-10
Rated 5 out of 5 by Maggiejoey from Bloody delicious This is better than what you buy at the shops. It's delicious
Date published: 2018-02-02
Rated 5 out of 5 by JoeShmoTheEskimo from Incredible I just got my new Vitamix today...this was the first recipe we tried. I have NEVER had such good strawberry ice cream in my life. We followed the recipe exactly, except we used liquid vanilla extract in place of the paste. Yumyumyum.
Date published: 2019-04-11
Rated 5 out of 5 by mmnana from Best Ever Simply luscious and very quick and easy! My husband raves about it.
Date published: 2019-03-26
Rated 5 out of 5 by Eniad from Simply delicious Who needs the artificial stuff? 5 natural ingredients and in 10 minutes, you get the perfect dessert for this time of year.
Date published: 2019-07-29
Rated 1 out of 5 by Staceyjsaysthissucks from How do you make ice cream without ice? Serve immediately as a warm slurry of dairy that resembles a tepid yogurt and ENJOY!
Date published: 2019-06-27


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4 Top tips from our Finance Directors
TES has worked alongside Charities and the Public Sector for over a decade. We know the demanding work that goes into running a successful organisation.
We constantly strive to assist our customers in increasing efficiency and streamlining their processes. During our research with finance directors we currently work with, we have established these top tips:
1. It's easy to focus on money that is coming in, but focus on what you have.
Make the money you have work for you. It's great to see the money coming in through fundraising or grants. But nothing is guaranteed, focus on what you have and make it work for your organisation. Track exactly when your grants are due. With our Budget Management Portal, all committed amounts have a due date, this allows you to easily see those commitments falling into the committed month or year.
2. Compare spend. Comparing spend from a previous project gives you an idea of what you're potentially getting into.
Multiyear accounting enables you to budget as accurately as possible reducing the likelihood of coming in under, or over the projected cost. Our BMP allows you to view multiple years of accounts, be it calendar year or financial year. Open, view, compare, or close off as required.
3. Make it easy for your business users.
Structure your budget so it reflects the business units and activities that are meaningful to the user.
Filtered reports and system workflows ensures users aren't cluttered by irrelevant information. This maximises the use of technology such as reporting portals, e-mails/SMS notifications, and mobile platforms, to make it as easy as possible for users to self-service budget data, and interact with approval activities.
4. Apply your budgetary controls pre-commitment.
This allows you to manage scope meticulously. Ensuring any extra hours, materials or spend is tracked so you stay as on, or close to budget as possible. When inputting data the decision maker is armed with the information to ensure they are making a wise decision. If you decide to set approvals you can also approve spend on the go using your mobile device.
All of these features can be found on our Budget Management Portal. Manufactured by Total Enterprise Solutions following a decade of working with Charities and Public Sector Organisations. Tailored with you in mind to ensure your data is, accurate, up to date, and secure.
If you would like any further information, or a Webinar to establish if this Microsoft Dynamic NAV add on would help your business, please do not hesitate to contact us.


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It's Election Day in Alabama and we're getting out the vote for Democrats statewide. Our phone bank trainers will be available to coach you, as always.
We'll be calling and texting voters in Alabama to elect Doug Jones as the state's next US Senator.
Doug Jones is a U.S. Attorney who successfully prosecuted KKK terrorists who murdered 4 young girls decades earlier. He put his career and reputation on the line because it was just the right thing to do and he'll be an excellent advocate for all the citizens of Alabama.


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The Bridge prize draw
The Bridge prize draw after the 27th Annual International HUPE Conference! HUPE congratulates to the lucky winner and thanks the Bridge for this amazing prize.
The Bridge prize draw after the 27th Annual International HUPE Conference! HUPE congratulates to the lucky winner and thanks the Bridge for this amazing prize.
Dear HUPE members,
The deadline is 15th of May 2019.
Dajana Vukadin
HUPE Publications editor
Čestitamo novim odborima i želimo im puno sreće u radu Udruženja!
The 60-minute discussion with the aim to present the news and to answer the questions about ELT within the curricular reform in Croatia, the "School for life" experimental programme in Croatian schools, the online professional development for teachers, Loomen, the role of British Council in support to the Ministry of Science and Education. The panellists are Helena Valečić (MZO), Aida Salamanca (British Council Croatia), Jakob Patekar, Izabela Vujičić Capar, Livija Pribanić, Irena Pavlović, Sanja Božinović (members of the Professional Working Group for Curriculum Development of the English language Curriculum), Anita Žepina(member of the Group and a teacher in a School for Life school).
The discussion will be in Croatian, with the translation into English if necessary.
Discussion moderator: Sanja Božinović
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Do You Hear the People Sing-
|Do You Hear the People Sing? - Enjolras and company
The first time we hear this song, we fairly melt with awe. Enjolras sings with such passion and intensity as he speaks of freedom and unity. "Do you hear the people sing, singing the song of angry men. It is the music of a people who will not be slaves again!"
|Yes. We agree.
In My Life-
|In My Life - Cosette, Eponine and Marius. Sob.
A Heart Full of Love-
|A Heart Full of Love - Marius and Cosette (10th)
Okay, okay, maybe not hate exactly, but it's hard not to when he's being such a shallow coxcomb at this part. "A Heart Full of Love" is actually a sweet song, but Marius and Cosette both are so enraptured with each other after just one incidental meeting that it's almost cheesy. But those kinds of thoughts immediately dissipate as soon as Eponine steps into the picture. Her hopelessness and despair instantly makes the song absolutely gorgeous, heartrending and tear-worthy. Marius and Cosette are proclaiming their undying love for each other with Eponine watching from the background. It's awful. And then in the 25th, Marius and Cosette kiss at the end. Right. In. Front. Of. Eponine. We truly most sincerely despise Marius at that point.
We really like both versions of this song. Of course, the 10th stars Michael Ball, and Michael Ball is Michael Ball, no matter what sort of lovestruck imbecile he's playing. Judy Kuhn as Cosette is pretty annoying, although she sure can sing. Lea Salonga as Eponine, well, there's no need to continue those ravings, right? From the 25th, we love Katie Hall's performance as Cosette. She almost makes Cosette likable (emphasis on almost). And Samantha Barks as Eponine just kills us. Her pained facial expressions are perfect; she almost looks like someone stabbed her in the gut, which is exactly what Marius is doing to her. Samantha nails the emotion. That's probably our only complaint with Lea Salonga in the 10th; she makes Eponine look pouty.
Then, of course, there's Sir Twerp-a-lot. We really should stop making fun of him, as it's evident the poor boy has no lungs and therefore it's not his fault. But c'mon. SERIOUSLY. This is how Michael Ball sings it: "A heaarrttt fullllll of lovvvvvveeee" in a swoon-worthy voice that makes us want to, well, swoon. Now Nick Jonas: "A heart. Full. Of love," with a look of utter agony on his face. No, people. Just no. Um, did he forget he's supposed to be in love?
|A Heart Full of Love - Cosette, Marius and Eponine (25th)
|Attack on the Rue Plumet - Eponine
Alun Armstrong also does a better job of this scene in 10th than Matt Lucas does in 25th. While Matt Lucas comes across as gross and annoying, Alun Armstrong really seems quite menacing when he threatens Eponine. "You heard, my girl! You'll rue this night! I'll make you scream—you'll scream all right!"
|Attack on the Rue Plumet - Marius
|One Day More
|The 25th
But we can't forget two major things from the 25th version of "One Day More."
1) Ramin Karimloo is Enjolras. DUHHHHH.
2) Gavroche is up on Combeferre's shoulders! How cute is that?
|*fangirly giggles* Have we mentioned how much we love Enjolras/Ramin?
There he is with his trusty rifle and of course the Red Vest of Power
and Awesomeness!
Okay, first of all let's give a huge round of applause to Samantha Barks for doing such a lovely job with this song in 25th. *applause*
|Lea Salonga, on her own. *spontaneous applause*
|Javert's Arrival/Little People - Gavroche
We love Robert Madge from the 25th. His expressions are so endearing, and he's so proud of himself. And at the end of the song, he gives this awww-worthy, cheeky smile. Bravo! We only wish 25th had included the full lyrics of "Little People" the way 10th did. Sigh.
|Drink With Me - Grantaire and company
|Bring Him Home - Valjean
|The Sewers - Valjean and Marius
|Javert's Suicide
*Petie and Amy collapse into hiccuping sobs* We need more tissues. Pronto.
This song is so difficult to choose a favorite. Philip Quast puts more emotion into it, we think, and he is definitely the better singer. BUT Norm Lewis tears up, and that's a HUGE plus for us. But if you demanded we choose and threatened to come after us with Enjolras' rifle, we'll have to say Philip Quast. But it's a painfully close call.
We've been raving so much about Philip Quast, how about we give some applause to Mr. Norm Lewis? *cascading round of applause*
Every Day-
Cosette finally gets her teeny-weeny moment to shine when she comes to comfort Marius after his pathetic solo (and we mean pathetic in the best possible way). Jean Valjean is close on her heels, come to make his ultimate sacrifice and give away his little girl.
|Every Day - Cosette and Marius
Though Alfie Boe sings beautifully in the 25th version, we're for 10th all the way—Marius and Cosette's kiss in 25th was anticlimactic, and did we mention that Colm and Michael are the best of the best?
Valjean's Confession (25th only) -
|Valjean's Confession - Valjean
Of course, we like the 25th version of this song because, well, it's only in the 25th version. :) Funny how that works... Alfie Boe does a beautiful job, and Nick Jonas is, well, Nick Jonas, standing there in all his five-foot-tall glory with his ever-present pout. (Okay, so maybe he's not that short, but sometimes he sure looks like it.)
Wedding Chorale/Beggars at the Feast-
Ring out the bells upon this day of days! No matter what our feelings for Marius and Cosette as a couple may be, nobody can keep from wanting to scream and shout and jump up and down when they finally wed. Sadly, the 10th concert doesn't include the wedding (except for the chorale at the beginning) and leaves out the Thenardiers' party-crashing, which is a real shame because that's an important element of the story. Plus, we would have paid good money to see Michael Ball punch out Alun Armstrong. (Disclaimer: we have nothing personal against Alun Armstrong.)
|Wedding Dance - Marius and Cosette (apologies for the poor quality!
They were moving so fast it was hard to get a good screencap)
|Beggars at the Feast - Mme. and M. Thenardier
Is Les Miz week almost done already? How tragic…
We'll see you tomorrow!
~ Petie and Amy