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A Perfect Pet
The introduction to this lesson is a brief online story about a little girl's visit to a pet store with her father. She considers several pets before choosing a "cute and cuddly" dog. Students are reminded that pet owners are responsible for keeping their pets safe, healthy and happy. A discussion of a pet owners desire to provide the best for their pets leads to an exploration of people's wants. The activities that follow challenge students to explore the wants of a pet owner and their desire to provide the best for their pet fish, and then the wants of a person. The students learn that the ability to discover their wants will help them establish priorities when they are faced with scarcity. During the evaluation process, students identify some of their personal wants. As a class, they discuss why some choices are the same and others are different. They take the discussion a step further exploring how their wants compare with those of siblings and adults in their lives. They discover that age, lifestyle, likes (tastes and preferences) and what one views as important (values) help to explain the differences.
Choice, Decision Making, Economic Wants, Scarcity
- Identify economic wants of pet owners.
- Experience scarcity when making choices.
- Explain why people have different economic wants.
Have students read the story, "The Perfect Pet ".
Then discuss, "Do you have a dog or know someone else who does?" If you do, you know that adopting a dog means more than just finding an animal that is cute and cuddly. You have to care for it. Pets depend on their owners to provide the goods and services that keep them healthy and happy. These things are called economic wants.
The Perfect Pet: Here is an online story about a little girl who goes to a pet store to find the perfect pet.
The Economic Wants of Pet Owner: Start off the lesson by reading this story with your students. You can project this activity and read the text to the students.
Interactive Activity
Costs of A Fish: Have students imagine the girl in the story, "A Perfect Pet" picked a fish instead of a dog as her new pet. Direct students to look at the items she wants for her fish as identified in this interactive drag and drop activity.
Interactive Activity
Activity 1
Read to or have students read the flash activity economic wants of pet owners. Use the text and questions in the THINK ABOUT IT section of the student version as the basis for a discussion on economic wants and scarcity. What things would you want for your pet? [Potential responses include: food, water, shelter, health care, exercise, treats, costumes, beds, a leash and collar, etc. ]
Few pet owners have enough money to buy everything they want for their pets. This is called a scarcity problem. Scarcity forces people to make choices.
- If you could buy just five of the many things at the pet store for your new dog, what would you buy? [Responses will vary.]
[Note: If time allows, you may want to have students write a list or draw pictures of the five items they would choose in response to this question. Have several students share their choices with classmates to help illustrate the point that students - and people, in general - have different economic wants.]
- Which of your choices are the same as those of your classmates? [Responses will vary.]
- Why do you think these choices were the same? [Responses will probably center on the fact that dogs must have certain things to be healthy and survive. Some students may also point out that they simply liked (valued) some of the same things.]
- Which of your choices are different? [Responses will vary.]
- Why do you think that these choices were different? [Students may point out that they already have some of the things they want for their pet. Others may explain that they simply liked (valued) some things more than others.]
Activity 2
Have students imagine the girl in the story, "A Perfect Pet" picked a fish instead of a dog as her new pet. Direct students to look at the items she wants for her fish as identified in the interactive activity. Announce that like most people, the little girl has a scarcity problem. She has only $5.00 to make her purchases. Direct students to choose the things they would purchase with the little girl's $5.00.
Have students give reasons for their choices in Activity 2. For younger students,this may be an oral report. Older students can write sentences or paragraphs citing their choices and reasons for their choices.
Ask students to summarize the reasons people's choices are not always the same. Three factors to be identified include:
- Our personal preferences - what we like
- Our values - what we think is important
- Our haves - what we already own or have access to
"I absolutely love this lesson. As a dog owner, I really enjoyed this lesson. A class would find this lesson a lot of fun because most students will be able to relate and there are lots of fun activities to go along with the lesson."
"This is a good lesson. I will use this for my second graders!"
"Great lesson! I really needed something to enhance my social studies lesson. Thanks!"
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"Awesome site! Very helpful."
"This lesson addressed the four key concepts on a very basic level. It exposes children to economics using a topic they can relate to. Our group felt this lesson could be expanded with the following activities: graphing student's pets for comparisons and contrasts; research costs and needs of different pets; elaboration on each key concept with specific points and tie-ins at a more concrete level; bringing a pet (or stuffed animal) to school that each child must take care of throughout the day with fake money to purchase food, medical, and other supplies while writing about the events of the day they experienced; and setting up a classroom pet shop filled with a variety of animals, supplies, and materials needed as a pet owner."
"Great lesson!"
"Thank you for uploading such important exercises in economic education for children. Countries such as mine will be enriched with these lessons."
"It was great! It makes me want to go get a pet!"
"I absolutely love this lesson. I am going to use some ideas for my project at the university for teaching social studies class."
"This lesson is going to be really fun to teach. I don't have a computer, so I have to do a lot of the activities on construction paper. But I know its going to be fun, especially the story "The Perfect Pet," plus that fun game with the fish bowl where you only have five dollars. I hope all goes well in my teaching!"
"We really like the activity and the ideas behind it. However, we would not use the story. It goes quite fast and doesn't really require much reading from the students. The money activity is very useful for this topic."
"I'm an Educational Technology Resource teacher and want to tell my elementary teachers about this site."
"The online story is just the idea for a motivation on my pets lesson. As a education student, I need all the help I can get! I'll be sure to archive this because it's obviously a great cross-curricular lesson. Thanks a ton!"
"I think the concept of the lesson is great and that it will capture the interest of students. However, the information on wants versus needs is inaccurately represented. The animals NEED food and water to survive. The animal owners WANT to provide item such as bedding and toys."
"I have a question regarding the use of "not enough money" as an example of scarcity. I have been told to avoid the use of money as an example of scarcity. In economics, scarcity refers the inability to meet unlimited wants due to limited resources...natural, human, or capital. Money is not a resource and this could create misconceptions. Have I been incorrectly informed?"

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The 94 Girls Silver won 4 straight games at the Labor Day Shootout in Raleigh, finishing as champions of the U14 Girls group. They played even better on Sunday in their first tournament action this Fall, scoring 16 goals on the weekend and allowed just 4, finishing their weekend with a strong 3-0 win in the finals.
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Ah man that was cool! Island hunting in England! But, I do have a couple questions. 1st- What breed of dogs were they? They weren't yellow? 2nd- They did great on them ditch chickens but how do they do on ducks? 3rd- Why was everybody wearing their golf hats? All kidding aside that was a beautiful place, wonderful pups and you should feel blessed to be able to even just see it in person much less hunt it. God Bless and have a great day.
Neat to see how others hunt. Thought it odd they'd find woodcock on treeless ground, but it wasn't the bird I know, either. More like a giant version of our snipe.
If you think I'm wrong, you might be right.
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At first I thought it was a yellow lab, but saw the tail and realized it was a Vizsla. I really think I could have enjoyed the hunt.
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Oh thank you for posting that video. As a Vizsla owner some of the footage like the camera from the dog's point of view sent chills up my spine. Sometimes the terrain makes the hunt more than any other factor.
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|Bonefish, Tarpon, and other Obsessions Turquoise water, silver demons on the fly
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Thanks for the info. I look forward to the next installment.
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I'll continue when I get home but in the mean time...
WAY COOL Search / info page
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Hello Akangler -
Sounds like you are in for a little treat this March! Wish it I were there to show you the spots where I did well when I was in that situation several years back. I have a folder somewhere with lots of maps and notes I'd be happy to mail you after I savor the memory on this frosty mid-winter night...
The first time I had the privilege I had a business meeting in Ft.Lauderdale and was given part of the $900 savings on a Sat PM stay / advance notice flight for spending money. I drove down through Miami and as you're off the mainland and onto Key Largo you "feel" the Keys. Having no clue where I was going to stay, I took a detour to look around and found a convenient and accessible state park called John Pennecamp State Park. It was there that I got my first glimpse of the broken coral and turtle grass flats, sting rays, and what I thought were gently waving tails of fish foraging. They turned out to be cruising gar. The park was awesome in it's own right but old US #1 was calling and it's hard to linger at the first hole. I didn't stay long and headed onward down the highway with much of the day gone after a long flight from Seattle where I resided at the time.
Further down US#1 I found another public beach / park / access and watched as a flats boat pole up onto the flat near a public access adjacent to a baseball field (I'm sure it's circled on the maps when I locate them). It was as fitting of a sight as a lobster boat in Gloucester, a salmon troller in Puget Sound. I hopped back into the rental car knowing I wanted to get to Islamorada before calling it a day and needed a hotel. I hadn't booked ahead because I wanted total flexibility, luckily it was early February and it was relatively easy to find a room (until I got to Key West, more later). I wouldn't have fared as well on spring break... which you might consider.
It was hard not to get enamored with the whole notion of being on the keys... palms, adobe style buildings not looking stupid, and the realization that Key Lime pie would be for dessert although I had not yet found a place to eat, fish or sleep. Despite the unknowns, a feeling of comforting narcosis set in with each southward mile. Not a stupor per se, but a sense of quiet calyspo joy, contained and quiet yet ringing "margaritaville" in my ears. Flyshops started to appear starting with Worldwide Angler, and the whole thing became real... I was gonna wade flats and chase bones for almost three days. Yeeehah! I stopped in at the various shops picking up local expertise, flies, and licenses (yes, they are required but cheap). I ended up stopping at every single flyshop along the way, ticking away the day quickly. I wanted to wet a line before nightfall but was starving so I stopped in that fish shack place in Islamorada, the one that everyone knows about. Damn if I can't remember the name, but their yellowtail snapper, stone crab claws, conch chowder and key lime pie were beyond description. Day one spiralled into indulgence and I ended up staying at the Holiday Isle, a beautiful waterfront locale more suited to the spring break cause than a flyfishing refuge, but relaxed by the waterfront watching true swimming crabs and a profusion of semi-tropical tidbits for the likes of the silver rocket fish that lay ahead sipping a pina colada and hit the pillow like a rock for some ZzzZ's. First day started very early in the pacific northwest and ended up in Ilamorada with three hours gone. Tomorrow I would wet a line...
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I will be visiting the Miami/keywest area in early March. I will have a little time for some roadside fishing while driving around. Any suggestions? Thanks all.
PS. thanks for the previous suggestions.
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Man those otters are something! I used to stand on a table-sized flat rock to swing a fly right up at Headworks on the Green and one year an otter family raised a brood in that pool. The rock was completely littered with crayfish parts and fish bones, I mean covered! There was a trail of shells behind the rock too. As I recall I only got two or three steelhead that year at the headworks and those were hanging in the rapids several pools upstream.
Squawfish really do a number on the smolt. Sean tells me that the bounty has gone up to $8! The long pool downstream from the mouth of the Toutle on the Cowlitz is loaded with large squawfish and they love flies. They sure aren't steelhead but hey it might fill your tank and buy you a hearty dinner, maybe even a hotel room.
Predators: Bears vs. Eagles
The thread below on kayakers spooking fish reminded me of a situation I observed one April several years ago on a small SE Alaska stream.
It was a cold clear morning with temps in the high 20s and the water a chilly 37F. I was watching a group of 20-30 steelhead or so holding in a run. The fish were spread out evenly across the river and the ones closest to me where only about 20 feet or so away from me. The water was vodka clear and I could see the details of the fish quite well and just sat there watching them as the water slowly warmed up.
As I watched the fish and looked closer I wanted to see more, so I approached closer. I made no effort to conceal myself (impossible) but just tried to move slowly and avoid sudden movements. The fish allowed my to get within about ten feet before just moving slightly away. I'd take another step closer and they would move away about the same amount so as to preserve their "comfort zone" of about 10 feet. Those fish that were farther away never moved only the ones that within the range.
As I stood there watching a supercub (small slow flying bush plane) came flying over a couple hundred feet or so above the deck. The plane flew right over the fish and me. At its height, the plane probably appeared about the same size as a low flying eagle.
When those fish saw the plane they instantly darted! They all went to the rivers edge where there was overhanging brush in a flash. I was so surprised at the degree of their reaction particularly when they would let me approach within a rods length of them with just minor discomfort.
I hypothesized from my observation that steelhead aren't too concerned about a big fat slow bear (me) but Eagles are entirely different.
I observed steelhead many times close up and there reaction to me is generally the same -just move away far enough to maintain their comfort the distance depending on the conditions. I've never had another plane (or eagle) come over again while watching fish to see if they would react the same but I bet they would.
Just an observation from the stream I thought I'd share.
PS Bears and Eagles really aren't much of problem for steelhead at all around here. Bears are generally denning up when the fall fish arrive and their looking for much easier and more plentiful pickings when they generally start moving here around the 1st of May. Eagles may take a small fish here and there but still don't amount to too much of a threat. On the other hand, Otters are deadly fishing machines. Seeing them on the water you plan to fish is disheartening. You just have to find other water cause the fish will either be caught, are hiding, or have left!
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The increasingly vocal campaign to stop an Obama administration-backed set of national education standards known as "Common Core" from being forced on state governments and local schools just got a major boost on Friday. Meeting in Los Angeles last week, the Republican National Committee (RNC) unanimously adopted a resolution blasting the "one size fits all" educational scheme as "an inappropriate overreach to standardize and control the education of our children so they will conform to a preconceived 'normal.'"
Instead of the "Common Core State Standards" being pushed by the Obama administration using taxpayer-funded bribes, the RNC, echoing the 2012 Republican Party Platform, said it believed in providing "broad education choices" to parents and children at the state and local level. A free market-based approach to education is best, the resolution continues, adding that it would help students to achieve individual excellence.
Among the many complaints against Common Core outlined by the GOP is the fact that the organizations responsible for developing the deeply controversial standards did so through a secretive process that was not subject to Freedom of Information laws. Also on the list of grievances was the scheme's federally funded testing and data collection, as well as the sharing of "massive amounts of personal student and teacher data."
The centralization of education and the accompanying loss of choices is one of the most common themes found throughout the strongly worded RNC resolution. "The CCSS effectively removes educational choice and competition since all schools and all districts must use Common Core 'assessments' based on the Common Core standards to allow all students to advance in the school system and to advance to higher education pursuits," the document explains.
Federal law, the resolution goes on, prohibits federalizing school curricula. Despite that clear prohibition, however, the Obama administration accepted Common Core and even used so-called "stimulus" money to reward state governments that were most committed to advancing the president's controversial education agenda, Republican leaders said. According to the resolution and numerous experts, the executive branch also failed to give states, legislatures, and citizens enough time to review the national standards before having to commit to them.


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I'm translating 'Occidental Eschatology' (English translation done by David Ratmoko) into Chinese. Can't believe a 23-year-old wrote the book in 1947 in Zurich. I wonder how Jacob Taube had his 'irreparable' break with Gershom Scholem. What was that about? which reminds me to read Gershom Scholem's 'major trends in Jewish Mysticism' (1941).
If Western History is tragedy of Freedom as stated by young Jacob Taube, my impression is that civilization of the East is the tragedy of Family/Tribal conformism.
Taube stated 'The question is How does finite freedom, which is an element of time, relate to absolute freedom, an element of eternity? This relationship can be determined in theistic-transcendental, pantheistic-immanent, and atheistic-materialistic terms.' For my Gnostic inclination, how to determine/comprehend the essence of history through 'Latin, Greek, classic Chinese' terms or 'Arab, Hindi and Hebrew' terms?


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The Seafood Seven? Senators Act to Delay FDA Ruling on GE Salmon
Posted On January 12, 2013 by George Leonard
If you missed the Food and Drug Administration's controversial ruling during the holidays – to recommend approval of an engineered variant of farmed Atlantic salmon as the first-ever, genetically engineered animal allowed for human consumption – you aren't the only one.
It came as a surprise to conservationists, media and policymakers alike, and the ruling opened a surprisingly short public comment period that closes on February 25.
Thankfully, seven U.S. senators are standing up for the ocean and for healthy, sustainable seafood by sending a letter to FDA commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg today requesting a 60-day extension to the public comment period. The senators rightly believe that the public deserves more time to adequately review and comment on the FDA's lengthy, yet intentionally narrow, report that will have far-reaching implications for the future of fish and the health of the seafood on our plates and in our ocean.
Ocean Conservancy commends the strong stance taken by Senators Begich and Murkowski of Alaska, Senators Murray and Cantwell of Washington State, Senators Wyden and Merkley of Oregon, and Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland.


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This is about two thirds of a 1900 shot panorama of Mount St. Helens and Spirit Lake that I shot last summer. Unfortunately, even with the new Stitch 1.0 and my 32-bit Windows XP machine maxed out on RAM, I still managed to crash the program with an "Out of RAM" error when trying to stitch the full panorama. Since I don't forsee being able to stitch the whole thing anytime soon I've decided to break it up into two GigaPans - this one of Mt. St. Helens and another to follow of Spirit Lake.
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Nope. I haven't tried because I don't own any Autopano software. Do you think Photoshop could stitch the two halves together?
Have you tried stitching your capture in several pieces with a certian number of redundant columns? You could use the Autopano Gigatiler to slice up each section and then put the tiles together omitting the redundant tiles. The current version of the Gigatiler can only tile images and cannot put them back together. Kolor plans on releasing the newer version that they used for retouching the Paris 26 gigapixel pano to the public. The new version would allow you to assemble your entire panorama despite Gigapan stitches memory limit due to being a 32 bit application.
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Andrea J. Stein
MADISON- Andrea Jennifer Stein (née Zoll) was born in Chicago, Illinois on March 26, 1964. She died suddenly and unexpectedly on October 29, 2013, in Madison, Wisconsin, of a massive upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage from unsuspected medical disease.
Andrea grew up immersed in the love of family and friends from Congregation B'nai Yehuda in Homewood, Illinois, the Northern Federation of Temple Youth, and Camp Olin Sang Ruby Institute. Andrea graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology. She pursued and completed a dual Master's Degree program in Social Work, from Washington University in St. Louis, and in Jewish Communal Services, from Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles.
She met her husband Jim while working as a medical social worker at the University of Chicago Medical Center. After dating for 4 months, they became engaged and got married on May 3, 1992. She had Hannah in 1995, moved to Madison in 1996, and had Jacob in 1997.
Andrea immersed herself in the Jewish community of Madison. In 2001 she was awarded the Madison Jewish Community Council Miriam Singer Sulman Young Leadership Award and became Advertising Manager of the Madison Jewish News for the Jewish Federation of Madison. She became Managing Editor in 2012.
Andrea's greatest joy, however, was being a parent and wife. Her goal was to raise happy, sensitive and empathic children with a strong Jewish identity, ones who were accepting, liberal, and kind - as she was. Andrea brought joy everywhere she went. She was funny, clever, positive, and always knew the right thing to say. She was beautiful, but tasteful and modest. She devoted her life to helping people. She loved her little Havanese dogs, Shayna and Tyra, and regularly visited Hospice patients through Dogs on Call. She constantly made rhyming poems and songs that entertained her family. Andrea loved Israel and speaking Hebrew. She believed in G-d and heaven. Her acceptance of Jewish spirituality gave her great peace and comfort. Her joy and love hovered over her home and her loss is devastating.
She is survived by her devoted and loving husband, Jim Stein, her loving children, Hannah and Jacob Stein, her mother, Roberta Nussbaum, her mother's husband Henry Nussbaum, her father Harvey Zoll, brother Adam Zoll (all of Chicago), mother-in-law and father-in-law Dee and Ken Stein (Milwaukee), as well as her brother-in-law and sister-in-law, nieces, and nephews.
Funeral Services were held on Wednesday, October 30, 2013 at Beit Olamim Jewish Cemetery in Sunset Memory Gardens in Madison, Wis.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations in her memory to the Jewish Federation of Madison, Chabad of Madison, or Dogs on Call.
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C'mon, this is a line even SW Purists would love!!!
since the Manga follows the storylines of the films, it's not exactly EU stuff......
just release the characters in "Japanese Manga" Style sculpts....big eyes, small mouths.....the whole nine yards!!!
I'd definitely buy 'em......and I'm sure others would too!!!!
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The older one uses a sextant. The two new agers use a GPS.
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Alternate Handler: Westwind Buffalo Soldier
Apprentice Handler: Snake River Medicine Man, SH
Good humor...but I seriously wondered about this also. Particularly when the dog sees a mark from a good vantage point, then runs through heavy cover and somehow knows when to stop and hunt for the mark. An awesome thing to see....
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BUT... it's obviously learned or "honed" in training. We have heavy sage brush here. I think our dogs start to see the falls in relation to the cover (multiple big clumps.) BUT take them to a mowed field, and they lose perspective and get confused. It was a real revelation to me. Lesson is, lots of terrain and cover conditions to input more data into their brain-boxes.
They reference the terrain in the area of a fall - same as we do.
Jeff Jennings
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Silverton, Oregon
Then how do you explain the dog that trains in one environment, (all sage and cactus) then goes to a test held on grounds with deep grass cover, rolling and featureless, yet marks as well if not better than training at home?
Carol Howey
Owned and handled by Cruisin' with Indiana Jones, JH
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Apprentice Handler: Snake River Medicine Man, SH
Dogs learn in pictures somewhat. When I built my new kennel I used panels that were two foot shorter than the old panels, so my new kennel was shorter. When I told my older dog to kennel he would run over to the same spot on the concrete that used to be inside the front gate and sit. I would have to tell him kennel again and point inside the gate to get him to go into the kennel. He did that for a pretty good while.
They also appear to be situational learners. If you throw marks the same distance for too long the dog will run the same distance from you and look for the bird.
Which brings up the question, how many different locations do you train in before you consider the dog to have mastered a command?
For example a dog that heels correctly in the yard will not have the same level of performance in a new locations with new distractions.
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The name of Jacopo Tintoretto is closely linked to that of the Scuola Grande di San Rocco: it was he who carried out most of the pictorial decoration of the majestic Renaissance building, which was built between 1517 and 1549 to a project initially designed by Bartolomeo Bon. The relationship between the painter and the school started as early as 1564. It led to a painting cycle which was one of the most important in the Venetian Cinquecento in terms of quality and completeness: it has even been referred to as "Tintoretto's Sistine Chapel". That year a competition was launched to choose the artist to whom the decoration of the building was to be entrusted: as his contemporaries relate, Jacopo beat all his colleagues and managed to ensure the important commission for himself by donating a painting of St Rocco in Glory for the ceiling of the Sala dell'Albergo, even before the deadline for submission of the models was reached.
With some brief intervals, Tintoretto worked for the school from 1564 all the way through to May 1588, when he completed his last two works: the altar painting of the Apparition of St Rocco, which still hangs over the altar of the main hall on the first floor, and the canvas with The Visitation, now displayed on a stand in the same hall but, as documented by 17th-century sources, originally placed over the arch of the landing which leads to the flight of stairs up to the top hall.
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Alistair Overeem vs Todd Duffee 2010 NYE
- Written by Dave Walsh
Matchmaking for this Alistair Overeem, on this year's New Year's Eve DYNAMITE!! show, was far from certain going into the last few weeks before the event. There were reports of yea and nay on the possibility of Overeem facing Todd Duffee. It was a chaotic process, to say the least, with Duffee being finalized as the opponent on December 24th, a mere week before DYNAMITE!! Names like Bobby Lashley, Andrei Arlovski, and Semmy Schilt were thrown around beforehand as possible opponents.
Todd Duffee took the fight on short notice when it seemed uncertain whether Overeem would even fight. Most fans didn't give Duffee a chance going into the fight, seeing as Overeem was fresh off a huge tournament victory in the 2010 K-1 WGP and Duffee had just been cut from the UFC, but Duffee was a relatively sound opponent compared to names like Kazuyuki Fujita and James Thompson whom Overeem had just faced in MMA. More importantly, he was game during a shortage of opponents for The Reem.
Here is their bout from the New Year's Eve show in Saitama, Japan:
On paper, Todd Duffee is one of the few fighters with the sheer physicality to compete with The Reem. He holds the record for fasted recorded KO in UFC history, with a 7 second knockout of Tim Hague, as well as 4 other first round knockouts in professional MMA.
It is, however, one thing to deal punishment, and quite another to take it. Fans said that Duffee had the power to hurt Overeem, which is certainly true, but Overeem has progressed technically in his striking skills in recent years, enough so that when Duffee came out and tried to hurt him with punches after an attempted takedown, Overeem effectively neutralized his punches with a clinch. He threw a total of 4 knees in the clinch, the last straight to Duffee's liver. The left knee to the liver immobilized Duffee and Overeem was able to finish him against the ropes with a left hook in a total of 19 seconds. That's like 1/8 of the time you took to read this.
As you may have seen in The Reem documentaries, Overeem has been staying dedicated to his overall MMA repertoire while sharpening his striking. It showed in the smooth way he stuffed Duffee's initial takedown attempt and his easy transitions from striking to clinch range. Overeem utilized a great gameplan and displayed sharp fighting acumen in this bout. With his strength and technique allowing him to move the fights to his strong points, like the clinch, Overeem will be a very formidable opponent for anyone in the heavyweight division.


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Just checked my cbs mobile fantasy app and bush was downgraded to questionable with knee sprain? I thought he was probable?
Just checked my cbs mobile fantasy app and bush was downgraded to questionable with knee sprain? I thought he was probable?
He will be fine its the same knee issue.
I think he'll play but likely won't be as effective again - very glad the bye week is after the Rams game.
Bring on lamar
If he was not fine, you would see a RB picked up. Really only one RB on the roster if Thomas and Bush cannot play.
Miller time
and its about time
Sometimes in sports you've got to gamble and take risk in order to ensure that you give yourself a chance for the long term, even if for the short term you may suffer from the consequences.
That said, sit Reggie this week! WE DO NOT NEED HIM TO BEAT THE ST.LOUIS RAMS! WE DON'T!
Go out on a limb and instill confidence in your rookie RB of the future, and watch him run wild on a terrible road team. Yes this is sort of like a must win game, but, we will defeat the Rams with or without him. Give the guy three weeks to heal himself and focus on his family and watch him come back with a vengeance after the bye. He will be refocused on the mission at hand, and that's is contributing when it counts, in must win games down the stretch.
We actually have a team who could surprise and make a playoff push, IF, we are smart about not over-using our best player. We all know Reggie is injury prone. So why continue to ignore the fact that we need to give the guy a break to make sure he's around when we need him most?
People really need to stop obsessing over Miller yes he played for the University of Miami thats very nice and all but he still isnt ready to be anything more then spare option in the NFL. Did he even play a single snap on Sunday? That says somthing.
No offense, but the "questionable" tag from fantasy football is not team released of official, it is based on the fact that he was limited today. He wasn't downgraded or anything like that, they see that he was limited and automatically slap the tag of "questionable". He is going to play on Sunday.


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¡Que la fuerza te acompañe!
I am looking forward to the free shirt, cigarette lighter and emergency kit that should be coming in the mail though.
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Did some (but not all, sadly) grading. Watched Ohio St./Michigan, plus parts of other football games. Saw the newest Harry Potter flick, then went to a local restaurant for din-din. Watched a bit more TV.
I predict that the upcoming Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi film will include the word "and." Multiple times.
Recouping from a minor surgery. Watched TPM and AOTC. Played SW with my 4 year old son. Ate breakfast, lunch, dinner. Checked my threads.
For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is.
saw HP 7 yesterday... awesome movie can't wait to see Part II. did some christmas shopping and worked on some spreadsheet stuff that I'm helping a friend on... then caught up to some TV later that night.
Looking for CW 2010 Sidious and TX-20...if anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated. thanks
Sat in the house watching movies until about 8 when I went to the store and grab 4 tall boys of adult beverage. Watched a few more movies then went to bed.
Up, up, and OKAAAAY!!!
Ran, ate, napped, watched about 10 minutes of the Badger game, worked, meet up with some friends on a bachelor party.
I did a short run for the first time in 2 and a half weeks. The first mile was fine, but then my right calf started acting up again.
Yesterday was quite productive, despite waking up to a bloody nose.
I got most of my "have to" grading done, with not too much of my "should get to" stuff left for today, lesson planned for this coming week (last one before final exams ).
Put up the outdoor Christmas lights (in about 2 hours, even).
Dropped off almost $5 in recycling (people who don't sort their items BEFORE they get there can be a tad annoying).
Went to a local history site that does an open house around the first weekend in December each year; a nice tradition.
Had Chinese take-out for dinner.
Watched a few football games throughout the day.
Did a couple loads of laundry.
I predict that the upcoming Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi film will include the word "and." Multiple times.


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Tonight, baseball players take the field for the 2012 MLB All-Star game. A tradition that began in 1929, the interleague game pits the best against the best, and determines which league reigns supreme. It also decides which league gets "home field" advantage during the World Series, which is pretty damn important to an athlete.


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I'm reading some posts on SOTU about executive compensation - other than some one liners folks have read in their Union rag does anyone have any idea of what's involved in arrivng at that compensation & the skills involved to be eligible for the position? The base rate for exec comp was in the not to distant past 35 times what the top hourly person made, which was for good exec's .
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I like them all, except Frodo.... Sting being attached to the arm ruins the whole thing for me.
I'm actually glad they re-packaged the two-pack Frodo, because that's the one I'll be getting now.
I like them all, except Frodo.... Sting being attached to the arm ruins the whole thing for me.
I'm actually glad they re-packaged the two-pack Frodo, because that's the one I'll be getting now.
Crunchynug, thats an awesome diorama. Those pictures from BlahBlahBlah's post are sweet too. I cant wait to see them around.
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I just recently decided to collect them and have a grand tottal of....................2! I accually am starting to perfer these to SW, 1 because it's only 1$ more for a more detailed and larger figure of a series I love, 2 our walmarts and targets stock them 10 times better!
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The Otters are attacking the Crab party!
I am in the same boat Teeska.
I just started buying them last month, and haven't bought a SW figure since.
"Roger Nasty Butler!"
Star Wars is my 1st loyalty. Lord of the Rings is 2nd.
"Maybe I can help you. I am Boba Fett. The ship you seek is nearby." -Boba Fett
I got Pippin and Ugluk today, and I like them a lot (As I do with all of the LOTR figures). I actually can't think of one LOTR figure that I have that I don't like. I plan on getting Ephant Mon, but I really can't think of many other SWAFs that I want for now...
"Ohnomyfriendthisisamistakeaterriblemistaketheyhav egonetoofarthisismadness!" -Count Dooku, AOTC
Same for me too. Lord Of The Rings figures just totally blow away Star Wars. I would pick a LOTR figure over Star Wars right now. Hell, I would pick Star Trek, Marvel, and TMNT over Star Wars right now.
Powdered Toast Man!
Yup, Toybiz is revolutionizing action figure standards w/LOTR & Marvel Legends. It's probably gonna get better from here, because other toy companies will start copying after they see toybiz' success.
The only LOTR figure dissapointments have been Aragorn (which has been discussed here plenty of times) and Eomer = Nice detail, armor, etc... But he's way too short & has a small body with that huge helmet. Plus he's stuck with that "eternal yell" face sculpt. I still bought them though
Out of curiosity...errr...well, greed, is Gandalf the White still shipping? I'd love to get him since I have Saruman.
"Ohnomyfriendthisisamistakeaterriblemistaketheyhav egonetoofarthisismadness!" -Count Dooku, AOTC
Yes, Gandalf the White is still shipping. There's TONS of him and Gondorian Ranger at all of my Target stores.
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If only it were a gravy boat.
If only it were a gravy boat.
Everything Is Possible: The Very Best of Living Colour, specifically "Middle Man" track #5.
I predict that the upcoming Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi film will include the word "and." Multiple times.
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The Queers
The Nobodys
Teenage Bottlerocket
The Lillingtons
The Ramones
Bad Religion
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Final Conflict
Great song from a great cd.....i do only cd's...none of that i-pod crap...i have 1100 punk, thrash, death metal, speed metal, and hardcore cd's and I will never give them up....i will be buried with them.
I've always been more of one to get a full CD and enjoy it from beginning to end. However, as I get older, it is harder to keep up with so much music. So, when I buy CD's, it is usually older stuff, or new music from my favorite groups. However, there is still a lot of good music out there, so when I hear it, I look into the artist a bit more. Sometimes I can tell right off that I'm not going to be interested in anything else on the album, and I'll go ahead and get the single song. However, I usually don't get a chance to really listen to the rest of the album, and don't feel like spending the money for a whole album. So after a time I'll just ending up getting the song. Sometimes there are rare occasions when I hear something really cool and the whole album sounds like it will be good, and I'll go ahead and get it.
As it is now, about once a month, I'll go through my wishlists I've created in iTunes and by a dozen or two songs. Most of what I have bought is stuff from the 70's, and a lot of stuff from the past five years that I listened to on the Music Choice Alternative channel on Comcast cable TV. I haven't been listening to that as much lately, so I've not had many new tracks to add to my wishlists from last year or two.
felt very chill and relaxed tonight and busted out some Rufus Wainwright. I love his music; it's fantastic.
"Woke up at 9.55am. Soon as I woke up, I looked at Suzanne and she looked at me. I said, 'Did I tell you about the immune system?' Suzanne starting laughing, I said, 'it's amazing.' She said, 'Not now.'"
MSP, I'm a little surprised there's not at least some Ramones in your collection.
That's my jacket!
I'd certainly like to have some. At one point I almost bought an anthology that had about everything they did, but didn't feel like spending whatever it was it cost at the time. I think that beyond the few songs I'm familiar with, I'd probably get bored with most of it.


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The Snowden Prism
That's fair. It goes with the job. But it's led me to try to think through what those different assumptions and values are that makes people react to this so differently. I think the key issue is how different people understand their relationship with the state (in this case the US government) and the national political community as a whole and the relationship between the two.
For me the story starts with the Bradley Manning case. This story has been going on for years and though I generally haven't written much about it, when I have, I've made clear that I don't see Manning as a hero or a whistleblower or really anything positive at all. At best I see him as a young and naive kid who got way in over his head.
When I first heard about the Manning case - or first understood that Manning was the likely source of the Wilileaks trove - I was frankly surprised that anybody saw him as a whistleblower. Perhaps due to the novelty of the Internet we don't really have a lot of past analogues for the Manning type. We're used to spies who give secrets to foreign governments, either because of ideology or money. But mass and fairly indiscriminate public disclosure is sort of a new phenomenon. In any case, back to the issue at hand. Pretty early I realized that to his supporters Manning was a whistleblower who was being persecuted by the government, almost like a political prisoner or prisoner of conscience.
Again, to me that's a total nonsequitur.
I'm a journalist. And back when I did national security reporting I tried to get leaks. So I don't think leaks are always wrong. I think the government and journalists both have legitimate interests that point in very different directions. In fact, leaks are an absolutely critical safety valve against government wrongdoing and/or excessive secrecy. But when someone in government leaks classified information they're breaking an oath and committing a crime. That's a big deal. Sometimes though the importance of what's leaked justifies the act morally if not legally. That is often the case. And that's one reason that while I think the laws against disclosure should be in place I also think it's imprudent for the government to try too hard to enforce them. I do not see how you can't prosecute Snowden since he's revealed himself publicly. And leaks should sometimes be investigated. But in most cases it's not worth snooping on journalists to try to find the culprit. The costs outweigh the gains. Because of that, it's really impossible to say leaks are good or bad in general. It's also true that people can leak information for petty or even evil reasons but the leak still serves a positive public purpose. Leaks are complicated. I think we know that. And being morally right doesn't necessarily get you off the hook for committing a crime.
Coming from this perspective, it's hard to see any justification for what Manning did, which is basically downloading everything he could find and giving it to a foreign national (Assange) with the expectation that he'd just dump it into the public. There were a couple clear cases of wrongdoing revealed in his documents. But the vast majority were fairly mundane diplomatic cables, military records and so forth. What on Earth do you think is going to happen to a soldier who almost literally breaks every rule in the book and dumps the country's email files for the world to see?
Soldiers get in huge trouble for going AWOL, even though one individual soldier abandoning his post seldom does much damage to a country or an army. This is a far graver insubordination with incalculably more widespread consequences. And yet, again, some people see him as a hero who should be celebrated rather than tried and punished.
My purpose here isn't to say, what the fuck are these people thinking. I'm trying to think through what is the difference between the prisms we're looking through that makes us see it so differently.
Here is I think the essential difference and where it comes back to what I referred to before - a basic difference in one's idea about the state and the larger political community. If you see the state as essentially malevolent or a bad actor then really anything you can do to put a stick in its spokes is a good thing. Same if you think the conduct of US foreign policy is fundamentally a bad thing. Then opening up its books for the world to see is a good thing simply because it exposes it or damages it. It forces change on any number of levels.
From that perspective, there's no really no balancing to be done. All disclosure is good. Either from the perspective of transparency in principle or upending something you believe must be radically changed.
On the other hand, if you basically identify with the country and the state, then indiscriminate leaks like this are purely destructive. They're attacks on something you fundamentally believe in, identify with, think is working on your behalf.
Now, in practice, there are a million shades of grey. You can support your government but see its various shortcomings and even evil things it does. And as I said at the outset, this is where leaks play a critical, though ambiguous role, as a safety valve. But it comes down to this essential thing: is the aim and/or effect of the leak to correct an abuse or simply to blow the whole thing up?
In Manning's case, it's always seemed pretty clear to me that the latter was the case.
Let me put my cards on the table. At the end of the day, for all its faults, the US military is the armed force of a political community I identify with and a government I support. I'm not a bystander to it. I'm implicated in what it does and I feel I have a responsibility and a right to a say, albeit just a minuscule one, in what it does. I think a military force requires a substantial amount of secrecy to operate in any reasonable way. So when someone on the inside breaks those rules, I need to see a really, really good reason. And even then I'm not sure that means you get off scott free. It may just mean you did the right thing.
So do I see someone who takes an oath and puts on the uniform and then betrays that oath for no really good reason as a hero? No.
The Snowden case is less clear to me. At least to date, the revelations seem more surgical. And the public definitely has an interest in knowing just how we're using surveillance technology and how we're balancing risks versus privacy. The best critique of my whole position that I can think of is that I think debating the way we balance privacy and security is a good thing and I'm saying I'm against what is arguably the best way to trigger one of those debates.
But it's more than that. Snowden is doing more than triggering a debate. I think it's clear he's trying to upend, damage - choose your verb - the US intelligence apparatus and policieis he opposes. The fact that what he's doing is against the law speaks for itself. I don't think anyone doubts that narrow point. But he's not just opening the thing up for debate. He's taking it upon himself to make certain things no longer possible, or much harder to do. To me that's a betrayal. I think it's easy to exaggerate how much damage these disclosures cause. But I don't buy that there are no consequences. And it goes to the point I was making in an earlier post. Who gets to decide? The totality of the officeholders who've been elected democratically - for better or worse - to make these decisions? Or Edward Snowden, some young guy I've never heard of before who espouses a political philosophy I don't agree with and is now seeking refuge abroad for breaking the law?
I don't have a lot of problem answering that question.
Individual conscience is always critical. But when it comes to taking a stand on conscience it's not just the thought that counts. You put yourself to the judgment or the present and the future about whether you made the right judgment.
Now does this mean I don't think any of his leaks should have been published? No, I'm not saying that. I think it's quite possible some of them should have been. But I'm talking about how I see the guy himself.
Speaking for myself, the kind of balancing I'm describing is critical. But for a lot of people, again, there's really nothing to balance since transparency is always better or because change is so necessary that spilling the beans has to be a good thing. That just doesn't fit with my way of looking at these things. That's why I'm taking this story as it unfolds. And I'm very skeptical of the notion that what Snowden did is awesome just because leaking state secrets is always a heroic act.
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From the Archive: Dimebag Darrell Discusses Pantera's New Album, 'Reinventing the Steel'
Here's an interview with Pantera's Dimebag Darrell from the May 2000 issue of Guitar World. To see the complete cover, and all the GW covers from 2000, click here.
"Come on, dude!" shouts Dimebag Darrell. "We've got steaks to eat, booze to drink and tits to see."
For the last hour, Dime bag has been hanging out in a Hilton suite, answering a continuous barrage of questions about Pantera's new album, Reinventing the Steel (Elektra). It's been four long years since Pantera's last studio effort and there has been a lot of catching up to do. But it's a Saturday night, Guitar World is in town and new adventures are waiting to be had.
What seems like only seconds later, we're in a swank SUV speeding down a freeway on the outskirts of Dallas, heading toward Dimebag's pad. Dime pulls out a freshly mastered CD of songs from the new album, pops it in the player and cranks up the volume. Although he did a pretty good job of describing the intensity of the tunes earlier in the evening, his commentary can't compare with the sensation of listening to the album at 120dB while cruising at 100 mph.
A four-year hiatus can be dangerous for many bands, but Pantera fans can rest assured that the band has not mellowed with age — they haven't done anything foolish like cut off their hair or discover the "genius" of Andrew Lloyd Weber. Although the definition of metal has changed in Pantera's absence, the band is back to show everyone how a heavy rock record is supposed to sound. "We're the full-meal deal," says Dimebag. "This album is fresh and updated, but it's still us. It's full of fuckin' lead guitar playing, lead singing, drumming up the ass, bass lines that walk and move you, and songs, man, songs. We're reinventing the steel."
By the time we pull into the Bat Cave like secret entrance to Dime's digs, our brains and bodies have been numbed by songs like "Hellhound," "Goddamn Electric" and "Yesterday Don't Mean Shit." Inside the house, Dimebag gives the CD a second spin, and it sounds even more ominous on his home system. The low end of Rex's bass and Vinnie Paul's machine-gun drums rumble like a sonic boom, Phil Anselmo's screaming vocals sound menacing and energized, and Dimebag's guitar wails, chunks and roars. Reinventing the Steel is the first studio album that the Pantera boys have produced on their own, but even without their longtime producer Terry Date behind the desk, they've managed to outdo themselves.
The beer is poured, the steaks are served, and now it's time for more entertainment. Anyone familiar with Pantera's long-form videos knows that Dime is pretty handy with a camcorder. It is, in fact, rumored that his rowdy backstage footage of the band had a profound influence on Steven Speilberg's bloody battle scenes in Saving Private Ryan. But little prepared us for the guitarist's self-produced and -directed opus, Y2Gaines.
As Dime bag pops the video into his VCR he explains that "Y2Gaines is a moving story about a father who searches for milk for his baby boy, Clim." The father is played by a striking fellow with unusually green teeth, and Clim is a plastic doll that sports a crude hand-painted goatee. As you might guess, the boy and his pappy have no trouble finding any number of ladies who are more than ready, willing and able to deliver the milk.
After the movie reaches its climax (several, actually), we're back on the road and headed toward the Clubhouse, a classy and comfortable gentlemen's club owned by Dimebag and his brother, Vinnie Paul. Having "invested" a substantial amount of their hard-earned income at various Dallas strip bars in-between tours and while making albums, they realized it would probably be cheaper if they bought one of their own before taking their extended vacation. The Clubhouse is a classy, comfortable lounge filled to the brim with Dallas debutantes gone wrong. In addition to the requisite catwalk, there's a "secret" shower room where patrons can hose the girls down with fluorescent paint.
Settling into a plush, overstuffed chair, your intrepid and intoxicated reporter commissions a three-girl lap dance, only to realize that he has just two bucks in his wallet. But before the lap dance turns into a slap dance, Dimebag comes to the rescue with a wad of $20 bills, and once again life is good.
Considering all of Dimebag's extra-curricular activities, one would assume that the band just kicked back and took it easy during their downtime, but anyone familiar with Pantera knows that the word "easy" doesn't apply to them. Over the last four years they have gone out on several tours, played opening gigs for Black Sabbath and Kiss and released a live album. They've recorded songs for the Detroit Rock City and Heavy Metal 2000 soundtracks, composed a theme song for the Dallas Stars hockey team and collaborated on an album with David Allan Coe, the country outlaw legend who penned "Take This Job and Shove It."


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Remember reading about the deep freeze that set in between 1793-1830? Well, it looks like we might be in for another one! Time to break out the wool batting! Story here
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Remember reading about the deep freeze that set in between 1793-1830? Well, it looks like we might be in for another one! Time to break out the wool batting! Story here
Feel the fear and do it anyway!
I may have to rethink my Warm & White!
By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.
~Richard Dawkins
To think of even colder winters surviving in this ancient cottage does not make me happy!
I've been blessed to have made adaptations each winter to improve the chill I felt my first year here, but the place IS over 200 years old, after all, and is not known to have been built for 'tightness' or warmth to begin with. It was the kitchen, and that alone was supposed to have made it bearable, LOL!
Who in those days in the south cared much about the poor cook who apparently lived in the loft upstairs right under the un-insulated roof. I can only imagine how many "quilts" she must have slept on and under. And how many times she had to trek down the narrow, steep stairs at night to stoke the cook fires.
The wing I have as my bedroom was added much later, late 1980s, and is a DIY job at its most "minimal" skill level. The floor tilts at a noticeable level to the outside corner where I have my armoire against the wall. The closet backs to the front porch wall and is cold in the winter. No door, only a drape covers it. My feet freeze all winter so I am never without with socks AND shoes until the minute I put my feet under the covers in bed that I now first warm up with the electric blanket, gift from my sweet daughter. Getting up to tinkle is a real treat, LOL!
Nope, do not want to even think about the 'great minimum'.
Jan in VA -- wishing about moving to south Florida!!
Jan in VA
Living in the foothills
peacefully colors my world.
Jan: you need to get busy and make large scrap utility quilts and cover all those outside walls!
Beauty and quilted insulation will really help!
I'll stay in Florida! You should hear us whine when we get two cold days together! I don't leave the house if it's less than 50 degrees!
"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!"
Here in SC Texas what few cold days we get are a welcome break from the to hot long summers we get here. We know they will not last long. I make most of my quilts with a very thin batting or they are to hot to use.
That sounds like good news to me because the glacier ice could sure use colder temperatures to recover. Some countries depend on the ice for their water and it does not look good with Global Warming.
Jan, I bet you have awesome views where you are!! I live in Central FL and it used to be when we first moved down we wouldn't golf with temps under 55 - 55 was sweatshirt weather in MI. Well now I need a sweatshirt at 75 degrees! NOT looking forward to any freezing temps!! AND we do get a few freezing temps some winters.
My husband read in the Farmers Almanac this morning that we are expected to a "bad" winter. No idea to the truth or validity of it.
As for the coming years ... I am FINALLY going to start making quilts for ME as soon as this baby quilt is done. People need to stop A) getting cancer (chemo quilts), B) getting married, C) buying homes, and D) having babies - because I've done nothing but GIFT quilts to others since I began quilting about 6 years ago.
note: the getting cancer needs to stop for all the other reasons as well!!
May your stitches always be straight, your seams always lie flat, and your grain never be biased against you.
All mine are made to be extra toasty. If I am not totally cozy under a quilt I can't sleep.
For a little more insurance that I sleep well I have an electric blanket under my quilt.
Also, it doesn't take much to warm this house. It has 6" of insulation all the way around. The walls, ceiling and floors and storm windows.
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Everyone is born right handed, only the gifted overcome it.
I have already committed my felonies, so people don't have to worry. (Russell Means)
I swear to you, I am guilty of only being Indian. That's why I am here. (Leonard Peltier)
Interesting note on the people whose website the OP linked to.
I think I will wait and see what happens!


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Ain't Them Bodies Saints (David Lowery | USA | 90 min.)
There is a hypnotic power in David Lowery's films, as with his debut feature, St. Nick (Rooftop 2009, leading to his receiving the Rooftop Filmmakers' Fund and Edgeworx Studios Post Production Grant). His films exude a tension and danger that is larger than any element in them -- his characters are quiet and simply drawn, but you sense depth and passion in them; his filmmaking is subtle and understated, but there's an energy in every shot; his stories are focused and direct, but they contain grandeur.
Ain't Them Bodies Saints begins with a trancelike fugue, as two lovers fight in a sunset field, coo to each other in a parked pickup, and are suddenly thrust into a farmhouse gunfight. A jail term for him, a baby for her, years of aching separation, an escape . . . and then the stately story begins. Bob Muldoon (Casey Affleck) is on a quest to reunite with Ruth Guthrie (Rooney Mara). In early scenes with a friend who offers a hiding place, Muldoon is vague about whether he's going to fetch Ruth. But a confrontation with his criminal mentor (Keith Carradine) lights the fuse. There's something in Muldoon's eyes, a look into the distance and future, something in his movements that reveal a controlled flame of desire. Seeing that, his journey feels inevitable, fated, yet desperate and fraught.
Another man, the local sheriff once shot by Ruth, is moving steadily in, played with stunning naïve charm by a thickly-mustachioed Ben Foster. The weight of domesticity and threat of danger is perhaps more than the romantic desperado adventures Muldoon once thought he wanted. Ain't Them Bodies Saints represents a form of near-magical realism, so vivid and intense as to seem dreamlike. The romance is whispered in the past; the violence happens so fast you're bleeding before you know someone fired. And so what Muldoon wants remains perhaps unclear -- as unclear as real life -- until his dying day.
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Can Michigan stop ANYONE?
Posted on 10 Nov 2010 by Curt Bell.
I've written about the Michigan defense before- from their inability to slow down opposing offenses on third down to being incapable of stopping opposing offenses from piling up hundreds of yards. After watching this past weekend's game, in which they pulled out a victory with a score of 67-65, yes, SIXTY SEVEN TO SIXTY FIVE, I'm at a loss for words. Now, the Illini had been no offensive slou...


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"i guess the old saying 'those of us that think we know everything annoy those of you that does' " --bobbyb 9/13/06
"A Good Dog is a Good Dog"
I think many of us teach the dog to heel from the left side so that may be the side most favor. But not to say you could not teach you and your dog both sides. As you do either one side, both sides or the right side just by doing it over and over through repitition and consistency you begin to get more comfortable with your choice. IMHO
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I read with interest the responses of some on this board about their rational in choosing the one sided approach over a two sided one. I was hoping to get them to extrapolate on this giving some insight to the rest of us as to the considerations they addressed in picking the side..........
"i guess the old saying 'those of us that think we know everything annoy those of you that does' " --bobbyb 9/13/06
"A Good Dog is a Good Dog"
My friend has her first 2 sided dog. She LOVES it so much she is teaching her youngest to be 2 sided also.
I am dyslexic and never considered it. I kept a pup from my litter that is now 3 months old. One of the pros I train with favors a 2 sided dog as well and said just try it. Well she can go to heal already on either side. I just use heal and move one hand or the other.
I may never use it at test , who knows, but I do have to say a few times running her mother I wished she could have run from my right side so I didnt have to get soaking wet running water marks.
They say with each dog you learn something new. Well maybe with Pesto I will learn how to use a 2 sided dog.
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Family: Parulidae, Wood Warblers view all from this family
Description ADULT MALE Has mostly blackish gray upperparts with two bold white wing bars on blackish wings. Tail is white from below, but mostly dark from above, with white outer feathers. Face is bright yellow, framed by black nape, throat, and chest. Underparts are mostly white, with only faint streaking. ADULT FEMALE Similar, but black elements on upperparts are grayer and has grayish ear coverts and crown. IMMATURE Similar to adult female, but gray elements on upperparts are dull olive-brown. HYBRIDS Usually recall Hermit, but with yellow on underparts, streaked sides, and olive-yellow on back and rump.
Dimensions Length: 4 1/2 in (11 cm)
Habitat Locally common summer visitor (May-Aug) to mature coniferous forests. Winters in Central America.
Observation Tips A challenge to see.
Range Northwest, California, Southwest, Texas
Voice Song is a wheezy rattle; call is a thin tsip.
Discussion Pacific specialty. Breeding range overlaps with Townsend's in Oregon and Washington; hybrids are often noted. Secretive and often feeds high in treetops. Sexes are separable.


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Cross country meet, napped/ate. Had a headache after I got home so productivity was rather low.
Cross country meet, napped/ate. Had a headache after I got home so productivity was rather low.
Made numerous attempts to log on to SSG throughout the day but was met with an error message that the "server is too busy. Try again later" until I met with success later in the evening.
Installed under cabinet task lighting in the kitchen, watched OU beat Tulsa, laundry, watered areas in the back yard where I haven't repaired automatic sprinklers yet, watched "Rocky" and "Rocky II" with our niece who came over for dinner (she is a total fan of the series), hung around the bat-phone as I'm on call until Monday morning.
¡Que la fuerza te acompañe!
Ran into the same ISE-type messages (ah, nostalgia...) on SSG.
Same beginning-of-Saturday stuff (lawn work, recycling, banking) to begin. Graded, graded, graded. While watching various sports games. Stayed indoors to avoid the 100+ temps.
I predict that the upcoming Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi film will include the word "and." Multiple times.
Cross country meet, qudoba, laundry, more food in my cake crusher. bed.
The first eight hours of Saturday were spent working a homicide, then home for four hours of sleep (after a 17-hour day). Then up to go to our annual picnic for the Kern Chapter of the National Weather Association (I'm an unapologetic weather geek) up in our WONDERFUL southern Sierra Mountains. Back home where I got a second wind and couldn't go to sleep until 2AM, so a bunch of mindless TV was in order for a few hours.
¡Que la fuerza te acompañe!
TeeEye, I wrote about a lot of fictional homicides (for my novel). In this part of the book, they were all accomplished with gunplay. You could call it combat actually (drug related gang fighting) but I guess that's homicide even if both "cides" know the bullets are coming and they're shooting their own back.
As I've been watching National Geographic channel to learn about the mentality of the participants in these battles, they don't consider it homicide but death in the line of duty to "da hood."
Anyway, when I wasn't killing fictitious people I attended two baseball games. On Saturday night, I saw my team killed by the LA Dodgers (but we won first on Friday night).
And that was my weekend.
Oh, I did read Star Wars forums on many a fan site and was depressed with the loss of enthusiasm for the hobby, notably because the black series rehashes characters we already have.
Darth Plageuis is going to be the first offering I actually buy.
BAD Pts Need: R5-C7 lf leg (x2), , R4-P44 right leg BAD Pts Offered For Trade: PM me - I have lots of parts now including BG-J38!. New Kyle Katarn is also available.
I was in Tycho's neck of the (lack of) woods, drove down to meet up with some family who were visiting San Diego. Went to Cabrillo Nat'l Monument, around Old Town, to Mission Bay. Very nice Italian dinner.
I predict that the upcoming Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi film will include the word "and." Multiple times.
Cross country meet, did the 'open' 5k race over an Olde English style course (jumped hale bales, logs and had water crossings), ate a few times, laundry, interwebs. Bed.
Decompressed for the most part Saturday doing almost nothing after an intense two weeks of activity at work. During that time I've worked and officer involved shooting, a protracted shooting case that ended up in two parts of town, and then to top it off, I've worked three of four homicides (one a double) we've had in the county that transpired over the course of only six days. I guess we're trying to emulate our county to the south, Los Angeles. Way too many 10 to 18 hour days as a rule during that time. Uncle Sam is going to LOVE me! I even got bit by a pit bull this week...good thing it was a puppy!
I watched OU (4-0) beat Notre Dame; then saw the end of the LSU-Georgia game. Went to dinner with Mrs. TI7 as her weeks wasn't much better than mine. Came home, threw in a couple loads of laundry and watched TV. Now time for a little surfing.
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Parade-goers savor the tradition and great weather
Published: Friday, November 9, 2012 at 3:52 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, November 9, 2012 at 5:59 p.m.
Kim and Mike Cooper hoisted cameras as they stood tall on a brick bench at the corner of Gale Lemerand Drive and University Avenue as the sirens blared and motorcycle engines revved.
Gator Growl
Country star Josh Turner and comedian Tracy Morgan, star of the hit NBC series "30 Rock," perform in the annual University of Florida Homecoming event at 7-10 p.m. Friday in Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. Cost: $25 general admission. (www.gatorgrowl.org)
NCAA Soccer Championships
Florida vs. Florida Gulf Coast is at 3 p.m. Friday.
Women's basketball
Florida vs. Fairfield, UF's opener, is at 4 p.m. in the O'Connell Center.
Men's basketball
Florida vs. Georgetown, UF's opener, is at 9 p.m. in Jacksonville on an aircraft carrier. The game airs on NBC Sports Network.
Alumni Barbecue
The barbecue is at the O'Connell Center two-and-a-half hours before the Homecoming football game.
The game
Florida vs. Louisiana kicks off at 12:21 p.m. at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. The game is being broadcast on FOX.
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The University of Florida graduates, who met as students in the '80s, travel every year from Port St. Lucie to come "home."
"It's like a big family gathering of Gators," Cooper said.
A few minutes after noon, the UF homecoming parade began to roll down University Avenue, and the Coopers were all smiles as cheers and gator chomps surrounded them.
"I love the cooler weather," Mike said. "I love the orange and blue."
About an hour before the parade, Scarlett Vichot looked like she was about to give a tour of UF.
The 19-year-old food science and human nutrition sophomore is a Florida Cicerone, or an official student ambassador for the university. She was about to ride on the first float the Cicerones have had in the parade.
"It's pretty overwhelming, in a good way," she said.
The float featured portraits of campus landmarks, like Century Tower and Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, in tribute to the Cicerones' ambassador roles.
Near the front of the line of floats, retired U.S. Navy veteran Douglas Smith watched his former Junior ROTC unit prepare to march.
The 66-year-old Vietnam veteran spent 30 years in the Navy and about 20 years leading Gainesville High School's JROTC unit.
He said he was happy to see the amount of respect given to military veterans as several floats prepared to honor vets.
"It means everything to me," he said.
Later on, as the parade drew cheers from the thousands of spectators lining University Avenue, a boy about knee-high dashed by Betty Mosier.
"That's what I like," she said. "The little babies running around."
Mosier used to watch the parade pass by while she worked as a waitress at the old Waffle Shop. After it closed in the early '80s, Mosier, 81, said she has been coming to the parade every year for about 30 years.
"I just like watching it," she said. "It gives me something to do."
Latrell Davis, a fourth-grade Sweetwater Branch Academy Elementary student who moved from Rochester, N.Y., in July, learned the chomp during the parade.
"I think I did the chomp like a hundred times today," the 9-year-old said.
One notable UF alumnus could be spotted at the parade wearing a bright orange suit adorned with UF and Florida Gator logos.
"Every year I have a homecoming suit," said Jamal Sowell, 30, who works as the assistant to UF President Bernie Machen.
Last year his suit was blue, he said, and his friend and tailor, the Rev. Kevin Thorpe, makes them for both Sowell and Machen.
There were several students who tried to get a study session in at Library West but were turned away. The library, which overlooks University Avenue, was closed for a private alumni party.
Finance junior Michael Weissing, 20, needed to catch up on reading and lectures for his business law class, but he couldn't take a stab at those hundreds of pages and hours of lectures at his usual spot.
The only reason he needed to study Friday, he said, was so he could enjoy Gator Growl, the football game and the rest of weekend in peace.
Downtown, folding chairs, food and families swallowed the sidewalks, halting all unrelated business Friday.
Parade watchers said they were propelled by tradition and beautiful weather, and, for once, parents encouraged their kids to play in the street, allowing them to burn off some energy before the parade would force them to stay put.
Rob Sealey stood behind the table he brought covered in Five Star pizza and wings, surrounded by nieces, nephews, "grandbabies" and his own children. Sealey explained he is an old pro at this. When asked how long he's been attending, he said, "Well, I'm 43 years old, so I guess that long."
Others were at the parade to support people performing or participating.
Sitting near the end of the route with three of her children, Mindy Halbrook had her camera ready for her daughter's debut tumbling with Tumble Mania. She was a little nervous about her 13-year-old tumbling on asphalt but was comfortable with it because they had practiced a lot.
Eleven-year-old Ontaria Jasper, who prefers to go by "Cupcake," walked with the spaceship-themed Girl's Place float in the parade with her best friend, Francesca Palmeter. The two walked and danced through the parade, and their favorite part was dancing to "Long Heels Red Bottom" by Trina, their favorite song ever.
The two agreed the coolest things they saw were the horses, but, Jasper added, the weirdest thing she saw was what they left behind.
"I literally screamed while we were dancing," Jasper said of the manure in the street that she luckily did not step in. She said others did.
Joey Flechas, Jessica Kegu, Alli Langley and Matt Steecker contributed to this report.
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Architect Michael Graves to speak, April 22
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Architect Michael Graves will present a lecture titled "Telling Stories" at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 22, in McCosh 10.
Graves, the Robert Schirmer Professor of Architecture Emeritus, joined the Princeton faculty in 1962. Over the next four decades, he built an international reputation as an architect and designer. His designs , from office buildings to single-family homes, have been credited with introducing historical and contextual themes into modern architecture. His designs for furniture and household items, now sold in national retail stores, have helped bring a higher level of design to everyday objects.
Graves is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects, which awarded him its highest honor, the AIA Gold Medal, in 2001. His talk is designated as a Stafford Little Lecture and is part of the University's Public Lectures Series. It will be Webcast live on this site.
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New legislation in Ct. Article on CNN.com. Interesting paragraph:
No gun owner will lose their gun, no gun owner will lose their magazine, they will not lose the use of said gun or magazine, so long as they follow our rules and register," he said. "Are there tighter restrictions on their use, etc.?


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I recently learned that my vet offers stem cell therapy for dogs and by all accounts, it has been quite successful in performance dogs he has treated (herding, agility, flyball mostly) and for about the same costs as surgery (used extensively for knee problems). I know it's been used pretty extensively in horses as well. And for those that may not know about it, it seems like something worthy of checking into before going the surgery route. Although my dog isn't injured (knock on wood), I found it very interesting and wondered if anyone here has any experience with stem cell therapy?
Here's an article from Nature about it:


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Interesting article on low tax rates in different countries.
As has recently been witnessed in France, raise taxes to an unreasonable rate, and people leave for less hostile environments. Actually, it's not much different from anything else. Persecute people for religious beliefs, and they will leave for a more hospitable place. If there is famine or social instability, those who can will find a place with better chances of survival. Taxes are just one more factor that can make an environment hospitable or hostile.
One brief paragraph from the article:
So I try to educate them about the link between taxes and growth in hopes that they will understand that a vibrant economy also means a large tax base.
And I specifically tell them that so-called tax havens play a very valuable role since they are an alternative source of investment capital for nations that have undermined domestic investment with bad tax policy.
And I also explain to them that low-tax jurisdictions give companies some much-needed flexibility to maintain operations in an otherwise hostile fiscal environment. Lets look at that specific issue by reviewing some of the findings from a study by two Canadian economists about tax havens and business activity.
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Charleston got a taste of the sweet life at The 20th Chocolate Affair. The decadent fete was held at the Charleston Marriot and helped raise money for Communities In Schools of the Charleston Area Inc. Guests of all ages and from all walks of life gathered outside the main dining hall, where they enjoyed chocolate martinis, cocktails, and savory bites while surveying the silent auction.
Many among the crowd had attended in years past and were some of the first to rush through the doors as the dining hall was opened. While some partygoers were distracted by the pasta bar or the awesome live music, the diehard chocoholics (myself included) made a mad dash for the extensive dessert spread. One look at the towering platters of intricately decorated, tantalizing desserts, and one felt they had died and gone to heaven.
This year's judges awarded the esteemed title of Most Creative Chocolate Dessert to Circa 1886 while Ansons took home the title of Best Tasting, but the competition was steep. Guests lingered around the dessert tables throughout the event, carrying off towering plates of white chocolate mousse, red velvet cake, chocolate tortes, and a vast variety of truffles.
The band kept the party going as everyone's food coma began to set in, and many couples took to the dance floor to bust a move before the start of the live auction. Overall, the night was a fabulous success.
The Chocolate Affair benefits Communities In Schools of the Charleston Area Inc., a nonprofit organization that surrounds students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.