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Physical/Emotional Growth
Puberty Problems Tweens Face
Help your child through puberty by preparing for problems.
Building Self-Esteem in Tweens
Self-esteem often takes a nosedive during the tween years, but there are a number of strategies for building self-esteem. Here's what you can do to help.
Personality Development During the Tween Years
How does personality development occur during the tween years? Here's one take on personality development using psychologist Erik Erikson's developmental theory.
Moodiness in Tweens
Knowing when moodiness is normal and not-so normal.
Girls, Shave - When Should Girls Shave?
When should girls begin to shave? What's the best age? How do you know if your daughter is ready to shave?
Puberty Books - Helpful Puberty Books for Boys
Do you know of any helpful puberty books for boys? Share your recommendations on puberty books here.
What You Should Know About Puberty, Boys and Change
There's no getting around puberty. Boys have to be prepared for the experience, and know that whatever questions they might have, someone has the answers. If your child is bracing for the changes ahead, remember that puberty is something you and your child go through together. Prepare yourselves for the changes on the way, and know that resources are out there to help you guide your tween throug…
What are Wet Dreams?
Boys going through puberty should know wet dreams are a perfectly normal experience.
Help Your Tween Conquer Body Odor
When puberty hits, body odor can become a problem. Here's how to help your tween prevent body odor.
Menstrual Cramp Relief - Tweens and Menstrual Cramp Relief
Does your daughter suffer from menstrual pain? What menstrual cramp relief works best for her?
Easy Ways to Treat Menstrual Pain
Your daughter doesn't have to put up with menstrual pain, there are easy ways to treat her symptoms.
Menstrual Symptoms Your Tween Should Know
Prepare your tween daughter for menstruation and the symptoms she might encounter.
Girls, Bras and Puberty
Help your daughter choose the right bra.
Sleep Away Camp - How Did You Prepare Your Child for Sleep Away Camp?
Has your child been to sleep away camp? How did you prepare your tween for the experiences of sleep away camp?
When Will My Son's Voice Change?
Voice change is a normal stage of puberty for boys. Here's what to expect.
Helicopter Parent - When Did You Realize You Were a Helicopter Parent?
Most parents have engaged in over-parenting from time to time. When did you know that you had officially become a helicopter parent?
What are Helicopter Parents?
Over parenting seems to be the norm these days. Here's what you should know about helicopter parents.
Child Stress - How Do You Help Your Tween Deal with Child Stress?
Tweens can get stressed out, just like adults can. How do you help your preteen manage child stress?
Books and Other Resources Teach Girls About Puberty
If your tween daughter is headed towards puberty, and has questions about puberty, body changes, and everything else that goes with this physical and developmental milestone, consider these resources. A good resource will not only help your daughter understand puberty, but will help you know how to answer questions, and make sure you tween is comfortable with puberty and prepared for the changes …
Period Book - A Review of [i]Period, A Girl's Guide to Menstruation[/i]
When a girl needs to learn about menstruation and her period, book resources are a good way to go. Here's a review of the book, Period, A Girl's Guide to Menstruation.
Emotional Development and the Tween Years
How will emotional development impact your child? What parents should expect.
What is a Training Bra?
IWhat's the difference between a training bra and other bras? Here's how to introduce your daughter to the wonderful world of bras.
What to Know About Girls, Shaving and Puberty
Shaving is a big step for a young girl. Here's what you and your daughter should know about making shaving safe and easy.
Girls, Puberty and What You Should Know
Helping your daughter understand the changes of puberty.
What are Breast Buds?
What are breast buds and how do they relate to tween development?
Signs of Puberty - What Were the Most Difficult Signs of Pube…
Is your tween going through puberty? Puberty is tough, you know, you've been there. What was the most difficult part of going through puberty for you? Read what others have to say about the experiences of puberty.
What is Puberty?
If your tween keeps asking the age old question, What is Puberty, here's your helpful response.
What are the signs of bullying in tweens?
I think my tween is being bullied, what are the signs of bullying in tweens?
After School Care Options for Tweens
There are options if your tween still needs after school care.
Parenting Through Puberty
A parent's guide to helping their children tackle the obstacles of puberty.
My daughter is late to develop physically and she's upset. What can I do?
When a girl's physical development comes late, it's necessary to be supportive.
My daughter is self-conscious about her breast development, how can I help?
If your daughter is experiencing breast development before her friends, she may be anxious about the changes.
Prevent Summer Camp Homesickness
Prevent homesickness this summer with these easy tips.
Help Your Daughter Keep Track of Her Period
Girls benefit when they know their menstrual cycle.
My daughter is worried about getting her period at school or summer camp.
If your daughter is worried about getting her first period while she's away from home, here's what you need to do.
A Parent's Guide to Puberty
If your tween is on the cusp of puberty, here's what you need to know.
Puberty Isn't All Bad
Focus on all the positives about puberty and your tween will adjust just fine.
How do I know if my tween is ready for overnight camp?
How to tell if your tween is emotionally prepared for residential camp.
The Signs of Puberty in Tween Boys
Boys may reach puberty later than girls, here's what to look for when changes begin.
Definition of Menstruation
The monthly shedding of the uterus in women and post-pubescent girls.
The Signs of Puberty in Tween Girls
Here's how to know if your daughter is entering puberty.
Review of Changes Kit for Girls
You know what's going on with your daughter, but she probably doesn't. This kit will help.
The stages and signs of puberty for boys and girls.
Review of The Talk
An informative and detailed resource for parents raising children in a oversexualized word.
Review of What's Happening To My Body? Book for Girls
Does What's Happening to My Body? Book for Girls measure up?
Review of What's Happening To My Body: Book for Boys
What's Happening to My Body: Book for Boys helps guide parents and their sons through puberty.
The Period Book
Review of The Period Book by Karen Gravelle and Jennifer Gravelle.
Reduce Your Tween's Stress
Know the symptoms of tween stress.
Puberty Information for Parents
The many stages of puberty for both boys and girls.
Preparing Tweens for Adulthood
There's a lot parents can do to prepare their tweens for adulthood.
Cognitive Development
Tweens experience a great deal of cognitive development. Here's an overview of their major milestones in cognitive development.
Definition of Resilience
You want your child to be resilient, here's why.
Resilient Children - The Secret to Raising Resilient Children
How do you raise resilient children? Share your thoughts and ideas.
Definition of Self-Efficacy
The definition of self-efficacy. Self-efficacy is particularly important during the tween years.
Shaving Tips for Preteen Boys
If your son is asking about shaving, be sure to share these shaving shaving stips.
How Much Physical Activity is Needed to Decrease Depression a…
To gain maximum psychological benefit, tweens should engage in 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity every day. It's possible that even less physical activity may help with depression and anxiety.
How Logical Reasoning Changes With Age
Logical reasoning increases greatly from childhood into the tween years. Learn the specific ways that logical reasoning improves.
Definition of Secular Trend
The secular trend and what it means during puberty.
Psychological Factors That May Contribute to Precocious Puberty
Precocious puberty may have a number of psychological causes. Here are some psychological factors underlying precocious puberty.
The Consequences of Early Puberty
Early puberty has a number of consequences, including increased risks of depression, anxiety and substance abuse. Learn more about how early puberty could affect your child.
Identity Moratorium Definition
An identity moratorium is a time of active exploration of options. Learn more about what an identity moratorium is and how it relates to tweens and teens.
Definition of Myelination
Myelination is important for efficient and complex brain processes. Learn what myelination means.
The Negative Impact of Early Puberty in Girls?
Early puberty has a clear negative impact on tweens, but why? This article explores the negative impact of early puberty in girls.
Identity Foreclosure Definition
Identity foreclosure occurs when a person settles on a sense of self too soon. Learn what identity foreclosure means and how it relates to children, tweens and teens.
Sex Differences in Early Puberty
Boys and girls do not experience early puberty in the same way. Here are some of the sex differences related to precocious puberty that have been found.
How to Cope With Precocious Puberty
Given its potentially negative consequences, it is important to help your child cope with precocious puberty. Here are some ways to help your tween handle early puberty.
Finding a Sense of Self
Who are you? It's a question we're often asked, but finding the answer isn't an easy process. Here are the steps tweens and teens take while...
Autonomy is important for healthy human development. Learn the definition of autonomy.
How to Manage Early Puberty, Girls and Development
More and more girls are reaching puberty at an early age. And that can pose problems for both parent and child. Here's what you need to know...
Why Children Like Being Scared
Many children, tweens and teens seem to love being scared. There are many developmental reasons why kids like being scared.
Why Some Tweens Seem to Hate Halloween
It can be confusing when tweens act like they hate Halloween, especially when they used to love it. Here are the developmental reasons tweens sometimes seem to hate Halloween.
Sexualization is not a healthy form of sexuality. Learn what sexualization means, particularly in relation to children.
Tweens' Understanding of Death
Understanding of death develops over the course of childhood. Learn how tweens' understanding of death develops with age.
What Are Tweens Thinking?
Tweens think categorically differently than they did earlier in childhood. They re beginning to think more like teenagers, but they still have a ways to go before they begin to see the world the way adults do. Here s some insight into the mind of the average American tween. Here's a look into your kid's mind and what he thinks and believes.
Fear of Halloween
Kids sometimes show a fear of Halloween. Here's what to consider when approaching your child's fear of Halloween.
Definition of Conscientiousness - What Does Conscientiousness Mean?
Definition of Conscientiousness - What Does Conscientiousness Mean?
Is Egocentrism in Children a Problem?
Is Egocentrism in Children a Problem? - Why Egocentrism in Children is Usually Healthy
Types of Bullying - The Types of Bullying Often Found in Schools
There are five primary types of bullying. Some of these types of bullying are easier to observe than others, but all can have lasting impacts on their victims. Here are the types of bullying that your child may encounter in school .
Definition of Trait - What Is a Trait?
Definition of Trait - What Is a Trait?
Anxiety in Children and Tweens
Anxiety in children is relatively common, with full-blown anxiety disorders affecting about 13 percent of tweens and teens. Even more children and tweens experience anxiety to a lesser degree. Here is some key information on anxiety in children.
Cyberbullying Facts - Cyberbullying Facts: How Common is Cyberbullying
The truth about cyberbullying.
Deal with Bullying - How Did You Help Your Child Deal with Bullying
Kids have to face bullying behavior every day. How did you help your child learn how to deal with bullying?
Externalizing Behaviors Definition
Externalizing behaviors are actions directed out toward others. This article discusses examples of externalizing behaviors and how they manifest in tweens.
How to Avoid Having Materialistic Children
Materialistic children may act less generous and more financially irresponsible than their peers. By increasing your support and serving as a good role model, you can make it less likely that you'll have materialistic children.
How Transitions Affect Egocentric Thought
Egocentric thought tends to increase during adolescence, especially when many changes are happening in an adolescent's life. Here's why transitions encourage egocentric thought.
Do Girls Display More Egocentric Behaviour than Boys?
Many parents wonder whether girls show more egocentric behaviour than boys do during the preteen and teen years. This article discusses whether there are gender differences in egocentric behavior and, if so, why they might occur.
Individuation is a key concept in developmental psychology. Learn what Jung and other psychologists mean when they discuss individuation.
Is Your Child at Risk of Intense Egocentric Thinking?
Although egocentric thinking is typically a healthy part of adolescence, it can be dangerous if taken to the extreme. Here are the characteristics that make intense egocentric thinking more likely.
Bizarre Behavior - What is Your Preteen's Most Bizarre Behavior?
When children become preteens, they may exhibit a new behavior or two. What was your child's most bizarre behavior during the preteen years?
Intentionality is key to success in school. Learn what intentionality is and when it develops.
Do "Sticks and Stones" Actually Hurt More Than Being Called Names?
Does the idiom about sticks and stones match experience? It depends on who you ask: whether sticks and stones or name calling feels more painful varies by sex.
Girl Behavior
Many aspects of development are the same for both sexes, but there are some ways that girl behavior is unique from boy behavior. Here's an overview of girl behavior during the tween years.
Definition of Identity
The search for identity is a major focus of the tween and adolescent years. Learn what identity means.
Social Aggression
Social aggression refers to intentionally harming someone using nonphysical means. Learn about the forms of social aggression that are used most during the tween years.
Embarrassed - Is Your Child Easily Embarrassed
Have you ever embarrassed your preteen? What embarrasses your child, and how do you help him manage embarrassing situations?
Downward Comparisons
Downward comparisons are one type of social comparison. Learn the definition of downward comparisons and how the term relates to parenting.
Why Kids Make Social Comparisons
During the preteen years, kids begin to make more social comparisons. Learn the changing factors that cause kids to be more likely to make social comparisons.
Self Esteem Effects
A child's low self esteem can cause a variety of problems. Here's what you should know.
Self Esteem in Children
The tween years are a critical time in the development of self esteem. Self esteem in children changes in four major ways during this period of life.
Help Your Daughter Avoid a Period Emergency
Does your daughter experience irregular menstrual cycles? Here's how to help her avoid a period emergency.
Child Self Esteem
Child self esteem may be especially vulnerable to fluctuations during the tween years. Here's what you need to know about child self esteem during preadolescence.
Self Concept
How a tween sees himself is important to development.
Social Rejection
Many tweens experience social rejection, which is one form of relational aggression. The longer the social rejection lasts and the more meaningful it is, the more damaging it tends to be.
Help for Managing Emotional Periods
A lot of girls experience emotional periods. Here's how you can help her manage her emotions.
Social Stress and Tweens
Social stress, such as being bullied or ostracized, can have long-term negative effects. The duration of these effects depends upon how the victim mentally processes the event(s).
How Emotional Stress Impacts Tweens
Emotional stress can result in long-lasting pain, but only for those kids who repeatedly mentally relive the painful event. Psychologists have theorized two emotionally stressful situations that may make rumination-and thus the experiencing of long-term emotional pain-more likely.
How to Help Your Child Handle Rejection
It's distressing to watch your child be socially rejected, especially when you feel like there's nothing you can do to help him handle rejection. Here are some steps you can take to help your child handle rejection.
What Happens When Kids Are Outcast
Being outcast from one's peers may be one of the most common traumatic events of childhood. Here's what you need to know to help your child handle social rejection.
Am I Raising a Lonely Child?
About 10 percent of kids report feeling lonely. Here are tips on determining whether your kid is becoming a lonely child.
How Ostracism Relates to School Shootings
What parents should know about school shooters.
Individual Differences
Individual differences are important to your child's development.
Period Questions Your Daughter Might Ask
Puberty can be confusing for girls, and you daughter may have a few period questions. Here's how to help her understand menstruation.
Effects of Loneliness
The effects of loneliness can vary greatly from person to person and may include feeling depressed and having poor-quality relationships. Here's a rundown of the effects of loneliness on tweens.
When Did Your Daughter Begin Menstruating?
Girls are beginning their periods at very young ages, when did your daughter first experience menstruation?
Teaching Independence to Your Tween - Skills They Should Know
In order for your tween to grow and mature, he must know certain skills of independence.
Ostracism is a particularly potent form of relational aggression. Learn why ostracism causes such severe consequences.
Limerence is a state of romantic attraction that tweens often experience. Learn what limerence means.
Causes of Low Self Esteem in Kids
During the tween years, low self esteem may begin to appear. Learn about the interrelated reasons why low self esteem begins to appear during pre-adolescence.
Tween Tips: Types of Deodorant for Tweens
There are a lot of deodorants to choose from. Here's what your tween needs to know about the different types of deodorants.
Egocentric - Is Your Tween Egocentric
Egocentric - Is Your Tween Egocentric
The Secret to Raising Responsible Children
Raising responsible children doesn't happen on its own, it requires patience and opportunity. Here's how to help your child develop an independent spirit.
Definition of Openness to Experience - What It Means to be High in Openness...
Definition of Openness to Experience - What It Means to be High in Openness to Experience
Definition of Being Agreeable - What It Means to be Agreeable According to...
Definition of Being Agreeable - What It Means to be Agreeable According to the Big Five
Personal Hygiene Tips for Girls
As your daughter begins to change and develop, hygiene takes a priority. Here's what she should know about personal hygiene, menstruation, and all the other changes of puberty.
The Upside of Being a Kid in Love
Although there are a number of problematic outcomes associated with adolescent relationships, being a kid in love may actually aid development in some ways. Here are some possible positive consequences of being a kid in love.
Upward Comparison
Upward comparisons are one type of social comparison. Learn the definition of upward comparisons and how they relate to parenting.
How to Make a Period Kit
Prepare your daughter for her period by making a personal period kit.
Child Personality
There are hints of child personality early in life, even during infancy. Child personality does not, however, fully emerge so soon.
How to Find Down Time for Your Tween
Be sure your tween has down time everyday. Here's how.
The Ups and Downs of Middle School Friendships
Friendships can help your child deal with middle school issues, and the challenges of growing up.
Help Your Tween Prioritize
Prioritizing is a skill every tween should know.
How to Avoid a Tween Meltdown
Toddlers aren't the only ones who can throw a major temper tantrum. Your tween is likely to have a meltdown at some point during the tween years. Here's what you can do about it.
5 Reasons Your Tween is Feeling Down
If your tween is feeling down, these reasons might be to blame.
Why Lazy Summer Days are Good for Your Tween
Summer days shouldn't be over scheduled. Here's why a few lazy summer days may benefit your tween.


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There's a new Kauai Magazine available now and its looking like a good one! Keri Cooper a Photographer on Kauai and writer Amanda Baker have teamed up creating this magazine titled Purple, Inc.
Here is what they have to say about the magazine:
Purple Inc. looks at island life from a fresh perspective, especially for women. This new magazine will focus on culture, fun, fashion, fitness, island living, and local businesses alongside beautiful photography. Our goals are: to inspire readers to lead healthy and fulfilling lives, to encourage island sustainability and buying local, and to connect island women.
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pod2g posts more details on Corona untether
pod2g has updated his blog with more details on how the Corona untether actually works. If the deep inner workings of exploits such as this interest you, it's definitely something you'll want to check out.
Using a fuzzer, I found after some hours of work that there's a format string vulnerability in the racoon configuration parsing code! racoon is the IPsec IKE daemon (http://ipsec-tools.sourceforge.net/). It comes by default with iOS and is started when you setup an IPsec connection.
Now you got it, Corona is an anagram of racoon :-) .
Corona will untether all current A4 devices that were previously tethered under iOS 5.0.1. Still no more news on when a jailbreak will be available for A5 devices, namely the iPhone 4S and iPad 2.
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Some of my apps don't seem to work with this new jailbreak tool. Anyone else having issues?
You notice a long lag for apps to open as well?
I notice many tweaks from modmyi take a long time to download. But usually work.
All the tweaks I want to work on the status bar (i.e. changing the 3g symbol and changing the signal bars) don't work


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By Lauren Estes
The Cullman Times
Cullman city principals met with a Cullman City Police sergeant as he shared about the importance of alertness, lock-down tactics, staying informed, the ability to counter attack and school evacuation plans in a potential active shooter situations.
Public and private city schools were all represented at the Cullman City Board of Education at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday as Cullman city police Sergeant Jason Mickle led the educators through the A.L.I.C.E. Program, and opened the floor for questions and commentary.
"We all have the same goal in mind, the safety of the kids, teachers and anyone in the school," Mickle said. "Law enforcement has a different approach versus what the teachers might do, and we all have different responsibilities if something like this happens. So working together- our mission is to go in and stop the shooter. The biggest thing that the school can do is planning far ahead of time and having the training in place so that if something terrible does happen, we will have a response, everyone will be on the same page and everyone has options."
The A.L.I.C.E Program, (Alert-Lockdown-Inform-Counter-Evacuate), was created by Greg Cane in Texas in response to the 1999 Columbine School shooting and has spread to more than 300 school systems nationwide, Mickle said.
"He has a company called Response Options and this is one of the programs they offer," Mickle said. "Auburn University uses it, as well as many other well-known schools and campuses. We did some research when we found out about the program. Then I went to the class and brought it back to our folks locally. By being proactive with our response instead of being reactive, there's a better chance of survival. Thinking about things ahead of time, whether it be different scenarios and how you would respond to them, prepares you mentally and physically ahead of time."
Among the Cullman city schools represented was Cullman Primary school Principal Tricia Culpepper who said these types of programs are an asset for teachers and administrators.
"Anytime we can get more information on how we can keep our children and teachers safe while they are in school, that is wonderful," Culpepper said. "I appreciate the support that the police department and the city is providing by partnering with us to come up with a good plan."
During the class, Mickle mentioned the difference between high school students versus elementary school students when it comes to understanding the purpose of this program and others like it.
"There's going to be a different level of awareness for each age as we go through the process," Culpepper said. "I think practice and being aware of our surroundings and the things we can put into place prior is the key factor, but hopefully we never have such an event to occur."
Mickle said they have received a lot of positive responses about the overall idea and will plan to have an instructor in Cullman in early December to teach the A.L.I.C.E. Program to any educators who are interested in it.
"Any of the personnel in the schools who want to go through it, can," Mickle said. "We will have some local law enforcement going through the class as well. We will assist in any way we can by getting this implemented into the schools."
For more information on the program, contact the Cullman City Police Department at 256-734-1434.
Lauren Estes can be reached at email@example.com or 256-734-2131, ext. 137.


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Professor to address moral duty to aid the hungry
Baldwin City, Kan. — Thomas Peard, associate professor of philosophy at Baker University, will deliver the Milford White Lecture at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 9, at Mabee Hall 100 as part of Baker University's Artist and Lecture Series.
His lecture will focus aiding the hungry and is titled "World Hunger and the Moral Requirements of Self-Sacrifice."
In Peter Singer's "Famine, Affluence and Morality," the Princeton professor endorses a position concerning the moral requirements of self-sacrifice in famine relief cases. Singer believes there are circumstances in which morality requires affluent individuals to make extreme sacrifices to prevent the suffering or death of those who are starving or malnourished. Peard, in his lecture, will defend Singer's view.
Admission to the lecture for Baker faculty, staff and students is free. General admission tickets are available for $15 for adults and $10 for youths.
The lecture is named after Milford White, a professor of chemistry at Baker from 1962 to 1982. In 1978, White began Baker's science, technology and human values program.


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PV schools have ten National Merit Scholarship semifinalists and 18 Commended students
In September, students with the highest scores in each state were recognized as National Merit® Scholarship semifinalists. Congratulations to these ten PV 2012 National Merit Scholarship semifinalists:
Twenty-one students received Letters of Commendation in recognition of their outstanding academic promise. Although Commended students do not continue in the competition for National Merit Scholarships, some become candidates for Special Scholarships sponsored by corporations and businesses. Commended students are: Paradise Valley: Noah Way and Tyler Allen; Shadow Mountain: Conor Chard and John Marinick; Pinnacle: Nicklaus Arnold, Andrew Y. Cho, Emmaline G. Frey, Whitney T. Howson and Stephanie Zeped; North Canyon: Sarah Bracy, Lauren Coles,Thomas Hartwell, Tobin Kopp, Hara Kumar, Anjana Patel, Ross-Edward Raymond and Alexandra Scoville; Horizon: Sean T. Chappell, Sarah N. Davis, Kaiden M. Dion
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Early reader online library from TumbleBookLibrary for PV students
TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of animated, talking picture books that helps to teach kids in grades K-4 the joy of reading. Animation, sound, music and narration are added to existing picture books to produce electronic picture books which can be read by — or read to — children.
The TumbleBookLibrary provides enrichment to students who are reading independently with a variety of high interest material. It also provides support to students who require skill building with a variety of exercises that can be matched with other areas of the curriculum. It has been exceptionally well received by English as a Second Language (ESL) and special education teachers. TumbleBooks can be accessed online from home or school, 24/7.
Around the district
Sophie Welsh, a student at North Canyon High School, was selected as one of only
120 members nationwide for the National High School Honors Orchestra. The orchestra will be performing on March 21 for the 2012 American String Teachers Association's National Conference in Atlanta, Georgia.
Students at Sonoran Sky Elementary School unveiled a new mural at a back-to-school event. (See photo, click to enlarge.) Each one of the 735 students, representing all grades K-6, were responsible for creating a four-inch tile. The tiles were placed together to create a large mural entitled, "Celebrating Diversity." The pillars from Character Counts are hidden in the mural among the many faces drawn by the students to represent the school. Sonoran Sky art teacher Kathleen Arola designed and facilitated the creation of the project in the art classroom. Special thanks to Jeff Waddell and Shawn Sullivan from PV Facilities for putting the tiles together and creating the mural along with building a wooden frame that outlines this masterpiece.
Spooktacular! Saturday, Oct. 8 at Pinnacle High School
This 5th annual Halloween carnival, sponsored by Pinnacle High School's Key Club, is a fundraiser for UNICEF's Eliminate Project. An afternoon of Halloween fun with fortune telling, face painting, pumpkin toss and more. Costumes optional. The carnival hours are 3 to 6 p.m. at Pinnacle High School, 3535 E Mayo Blvd, Phoenix. Tickets are $6 pre-order, $8 at the door.
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Early release for teacher professional development
Tuesday, Oct. 11
Grading period ends
Friday, Oct. 14
MediaFest at Paradise Valley Mall
Saturday, Oct. 15
K-8 parent conferences
Oct. 24-27
K-8 early release for conferences
Oct. 26-27
K-8 recess (no school)
Friday, Oct. 28
Open Enrollment begins Monday, Oct. 3
Parents interested in open enrollment at a PV school are invited to pick up an Open Enrollment application for the 2012-13 school year at the District Administrative Center beginning Monday, October 3.. Applications can also be downloaded from the district website (PVschools.net.)
Students currently attending a PV school under the open enrollment process do not need to reapply, but those open-enrolled students moving on to middle- or high-school next year must apply. Applications for siblings of students currently participating in open enrollment must be submitted for consideration but will receive priority status.
At this time, Wildfire Elementary School is closed to open enrollment, but applications will be accepted for the new elementary school, Elementary No. 32, which will open in the fall of 2012 in the Fireside area, south of Deer Valley Rd. at 3725 E. Lone Cactus Dr.
Please share this information with neighbors, friends and family whose children do not currently attend a Paradise Valley School. We would love the opportunity to provide a quality education for those children, too.
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Nov. 8 Capital Budget Override and Bond Facts
On Nov. 8, voters in the Paradise Valley Unified School District will decide two issues, a capital bond and a capital outlay budget override. Read the fact sheet to learn more.
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text: Wedding Recon by Mrs. Clover Posted 12 hours ago by Mrs. Clover messagefacebooktwitterpinterestgoogle Since Shamrock and I were engaged for 14 months (this teacher wanted to get married in the summer!), we were lucky enough to attend three weddings as an engaged couple—and all of them were in May! It was great to get to celebrate with our friends, and even more fun that each wedding was very different. Two of the three weddings were for friends we hang out with regularly, so there were five or so couples at all three weddings. We opted for a pretty traditional plated meal, but we were actually the only ones—at the weddings we attended there was a buffet, family style, and stations (like Mrs. Camera had). One was on a boat, one was in a barn, and one was at a historic mansion on the lake (OK, that part was pretty similar to ours). Not our friends wedding but same location / At County Line Orchard by Heather DeCamp Photography … read more Tags:chicagopicturesrecapLeave a comment!


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Illinois, with the passage of HB 537, was one step closer to the payday loan reform law this week.
Currently, Illinois law, payday lenders, the bay has been used to avoid consumer protection, has a toxic loophole as big as the bottom of the fissure eruption. Attempts to reform the payday lending in 2005 to limit the number of loans previously could take a year to twice the upper limit imposed on the borrower and the loan interest rate less than 120 days. Check out also installment only payday loans . Payday lenders, by simply increasing the duration of their loan to escape these restrictions.
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May 26 (Wednesday), to close this loophole in the law,HB 537
, The only one 1 "no" was passed by both houses of the Illinois General Assembly to vote. This part of the compromise, the two state laws that provide stronger consumer protection for high-cost loans, the payday loan reform law and consumer installment loan law will be overhauled.
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All over the news this morning, you have heard the words "Ron Paul aide says that he said that he doesn't want Israel to exist!" I highly doubt that those were the exact words he said.
However, Paul has substantial rationale for his distaste for members of the Israeli government and especially the pro-Israel lobbyists here in the US. Those were the subjects of his comments, NOT the Israeli people. As it stands right now, the Israel lobby has control over the majority of Republican legislators and even some Democrats. The Republicans are consistently pushing for spending cuts to every area possible, and rightly so. However, they have been convinced to push for increases in spending to defend Israel. Democrats want to reserve existing funds for projects domestically, but still push for more money to be invested in the area of Israel defense and development.
If I have you wanting to throw a ball at my head, I'd like you to print out my pretty mug, throw a ball at it, then continue reading this because this is the kicker. The US cannot support it's own operations! Read that again and again. If we cannot even help ourselves, then how can we be expected to help everyone else. Also, every society that has focused on expanding its influence through war, regardless of whether or not the motives for doing so are good, has fallen due to high debt and an overreach of the government. Does this sound familiar?
If you are still convinced that we need to support Israel implicitly and allow them to have a red, white and blue debit card that activates the job killing Federal Reserve's printing press upon every swipe then you need to look up the word "blowback." Blowback is a CIA term for when the public sees effects (ie. terror) as a result of military occupation, and more specifically secret military operations. This represents a good part of the reason why we have terror to start with.
The decision of whether or not we need to go to war is one that should be left to trustworthy, intelligent officials. The truth is we do not know the full story about ANY war and therefore need people that are willing to live up to the label of conservative not just with the domestic spending but with the gun trigger too. However, if we do go to war, we must make it our business to go hard or go home. No more pussyfooting around on our hard earned money! Not going in 110% makes me even more suspicious because it shows doubt in the operation's necessity. And by the way, my definition of trustworthy and intelligent does not include politicians hung over from their night out with the lobbyists.
P.S.: Ron Paul has more donations from soldiers than all the other candidates combined. Why would the military choose a bad commander in chief by such an overwhelming margin? Just saying.


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Under Matteo Bologna's direction the Mucca Design team has solved numerous design challenges and created uniquely successful identities for widely varied brands, among them Adobe, Balthazar, Country, Harper Collins, André Balazs' Hotels AB, Random House, Rizzoli, Sant Ambroeus, Schiller's, the Standard Hotel Restaurants in Los Angeles, and Target. Mucca Design is also responsible for the highly successful re-branding of Rizzoli in Italy and its paperback division, BUR.
The designs and typography produced by the Mucca Design team have been widely recognized by industry publications, competitions and exhibitions, including: AIGA, Communication Arts, Eye, Graphis, HOW, PRINT, STEP, The Art Directors Club, The James Beard Foundation, and The Type Directors Club.
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LCSD to represent HKSARG in 6th China Flower Expo
The Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) will represent the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in the 6th China Flower Expo.
Known as the "Flower Olympics" on the Mainland, this year's Flower Expo will be held in Chengdu, Sichuan Province for 10 days starting tomorrow (September 28).
The theme of LCSD's display in the Expo is named "the Fragrant Harbour", a literal translation of Hong Kong. Covering an area of around 1,300 square metres, it provides a fragrant, tranquil and pleasant environment for visitors' admiration and enjoyment.
The display comprises 35,000 plants in 60 species. They include 100 trees in 15 species, including Incense Tree, Camphor Tree, Fragrant Litsea, White Jade Orchid Tree and Magnolia, which either have tree bark containing aromatic substance, scented leaves or fragrant flowers. Around 13,000 shrubs and climbing plants in 40 species, with scented leaves or fragrant flowers, are also planted in the garden and are adorned with 22,000 seasonal flowers.
The Incense Tree, one of the fragrant plants in the garden, is an evergreen tree native to Hong Kong and has a close connection in the naming of Hong Kong. According to history, people in Hong Kong and Dongguan, Guangdong Province planted the Incense Trees in the Ming Dynasty to produce incense with the tree's resin. The incense became very popular and the industry was a great success. Incense produced in Dongguan was transported to Hong Kong where they were shipped to other provinces. That was how the name of Hong Kong, the fragrant harbour, originated.
When touring the Hong Kong display garden, visitors can hear the rustling of gentle breeze and the sound of rippling water. They can enjoy the nature with different senses, smelling the fragrance of the plants and listening to the music of nature. This is in line with the theme of the outdoor exhibition area of the Flower Expo - "Taking People As the Foundation and Man Close to Nature".
In addition, tactile paving and braille plant labels were installed inside the Hong Kong garden to help visually impaired visitors appreciate and learn about the scented plants there.
The garden will be handed over to the Flower Expo for maintenance after the exhibition.
This year's Flower Expo attracted more than 600 organisations from 30 countries and 32 provinces and cities from the Mainland.
Held once every four years, the Flower Expo is a mega floral event on the Mainland. Hong Kong has participated in the last four Flower Expos, which were held in Beijing (twice), Shanghai and Shunde.
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MYRTLE BEACH — Ripley's Believe It or Not Odditorium on Ocean Boulevard in Myrtle Beach is stepping up the weirdness with its first major interior renovation and addition of new exhibits since the mid-1980s.
The museum, a staple on Ocean Boulevard since the 1970s, was closed last week as crews painted, put down new carpet and installed new galleries and artifacts.
The overhauled attraction, which is keeping its outside look, is expected to reopen early next week. The arcade next door has remained open.
Some brand new exhibits that haven't been displayed at any of the Ripley's properties around the country will be part of the new mix in the odditorium, officials said but were keeping the details under wraps.
This is the first major overhaul of the attraction since the mid-1980s, Ripley's spokeswoman Jessica Mula said.
"It's really exciting," she said. "[Visitors] will be very thrilled. They are going to love all the new stuff."
Ripley's has several other attractions in Myrtle Beach, including the Moving Theater, Haunted Adventure and Mirror Maze, all along the Boulevard, and Ripley's Aquarium at Broadway at the Beach.
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A little more than a year ago, Ian Mann was toiling in the defensive secondary for the Giles Spartans, while a couple of running backs had their turns as thousand-yard rushers in the Spartans' single-wing offense.
That was then. On Tuesday night, Mann stepped forward to accept the Bluefield Daily Telegraph-Pocahontas Coal Association Football Player of the Year Award after setting seven school records for running the ball this fall.
Head coach Jeff Williams said after Tuesday's banquet that one of last year's runners had graduated and the other had transferred. The coaches had seen Mann's athletic talent and work habits, and knew that he'd made the state track meet last year in two hurdle races.
"The first thing we thought of was, there was no question, we knew exactly who we were going to put in that spot," Williams said.
"We just told Ian, 'You're going to be the man. You're going to be — your last name.' And it just turned out great. It's a tribute to just how hard he works in the off-season, and his background running track, and just a super overall great athlete."
Mann accounted for 2,328 yards, with 1,887 rushing yards, and 37 touchdowns in Giles' 10-2 season. He scored 224 points and averaged 194 yards per game, though he often sat out most of the second half due to the Spartans' large early leads.
Ian Mann said, "I didn't know, actually, I'd broken that many. I thought it was one or two. But I was really lucky to have the team that I was on, and the coaching staff and the support that I needed."
He said he knew right away this season that something special was in the air.
"Yeah, it was pretty obvious, the first game, and then after that it just kept getting better and better," Mann said. "Then we realized what kind of a team we could actually have if we just kept improving like we were."
The opposition defense couldn't gang up to stop him because, Mann said, "we had a few more good playmakers behind us. If they keyed on one running back, then we've got three other ones who can carry it just as good."
Then there were the fellows who opened up the holes. "The offensive line is everything in the single wing. You're only as good as your offensive line is," Mann said.
Williams said, "When you've got a kid on your team like that It makes it easy to coach, and it makes it a joy on a Friday night to watch a kid run the ball the way he does.
"I don't think we've ever had a kid in school history that has been as elusive as he was, once he got into that linebacker area and that secondary area.
"We've had some tremendous great superstar backs that have come out of Giles High School. For him, for what he's done this year, it's just incredible."
"Ian only carried it 150 times, 160 times. He could have carried it a lot more. And there were a lot of games where he didn't play in the second half, because we had such good leads ... We always pulled him out."
The coach called the honoree "a superstar" with humility.
"Just like he says, it's a total team effort, and he's humble about that, and he'll let you know about that, and that's the type of kid he is," Williams said. "Just a spectacular kid. We're really going to hate to see him leave."
The quiet young man said after Tuesday's dinner, "I feel honored just to be involved in this. It's kind of a hard feeling to explain, but it's a great feeling to have."
He was chosen, along with Bluefield's Montel Leggett and Graham's Cody Hatfield, as a finalist for the player of the year award.
Mann said, "I thought that I had a shot, but I really wasn't that sure. There were a lot of really good players here tonight."
Dinner host Rick Taylor, president of the coal association, read out the names of the previous 11 players of the year.
Mann said afterward, "It's pretty crazy to have your name on the same list as some of those players. They did really great things, and they're still doing great things. I just feel honored to be on the list."
The honoree's father Todd Mann said, "It started in the third grade. We watched him, and we could kind of see glimpses along the way of his ability."
Ian's mother Angie said, "I was responsible for getting him to his practices. We actually live in West Virginia; he goes to school in Virginia, so I would drive him to his practices, and hang out with him there, three or four hours a day, every single day, sometimes twice a day.
"But, when you're watching your kid play ball, and you've got such a large amount of pride, you enjoy going to the practices and doing whatever it takes to get him to this point."
Todd Mann said the family lives in Ballard, but "just for academic opportunity, we transferred him to Giles. ... He's had a wonderful experience in Giles. Great coaches, great teammates."
"Giles has a system, and Ian, his personality allowed him to go to Giles and just plug in ... Whatever they need him to do, he'll do. ... The coaching staff did a great job of preparing him.
"It was a pretty steep learning curve, coming in. He didn't have a lot of experience running the ball."
Angie Mann said that as the finalists were being announced, "What I was thinking while I was sitting there was how I would love to see all of these kids play on a team together, because there's a lot of talent, there are a lot of good kids here."
She said about Ian's selection, "It definitely makes a momma proud when it's your son that's done that. And he's worthy of it. He's a very good kid, and he's put in a lot of time and he's pretty humble, too, and that's something else that makes me proud to call him my son."
In last spring's state track meet, Mann was state runner-up in the 110 hurdles and came in fifth in the 300 hurdles.
"I went out for track to try to get faster," Mann said. "It seemed to work a little bit."
Mann said about his future plans, "I'd like to go to college, and study to be an anesthesiologist or a CRNA (certified registered nurse anesthetist), or an anesthesiologist assistant.
"I'm hoping I can get a scholarship to play somewhere, but it hasn't happened yet. I'm just really interested in medical fields."
Williams said he has been waiting for the opportunity to talk with Mann about the significance of his football records.
"But he's not the type of kid that thinks that way," the coach said. "He's a kid who's going out there who (says), 'Hey, I'm going out to play something I love doing, and that's playing football.' "
Williams said, "It's a great award for him, and we really appreciate the Bluefield Daily Telegraph and the Pocahontas Coal Association for what they did for him, and to highlight him."
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With visual purity and simplicity, the film centers on the routine of the night watchman, or el velador, of a fast-growing cemetery favored by Mexico's drug millionaires. It is the most fashionable address for the dead. During the day, the cemetery is a busy construction site, its laborers racing to keep up with the demand. At night, it becomes a ghostly necropolis.
We follow a taciturn middle-aged man, whose name is never given. He arrives at dusk every day in a beat-up old truck and settles into the watchman's shack. Thrown together out of discarded building materials, the shack is surrounded by crypts two or three stories tall, which are topped by domes, floored with polished marble, decorated by statuary and invariably displaying photographs of their occupants — some holding automatic weapons.
Two faithful dogs materialize when the old truck arrives. They have appointed themselves as his companions, but the watchman never talks to them, feeds them or pets them. They are content with his company. At night, the watchman notes, gun battles can erupt between loyalists of various cartels, and sometimes there are bands and parties on the graves.
There is no narration and next to no spoken dialogue in the documentary, although from the watchman's old TV set, we hear items on the news about the daily body count between drug dealers and police, drug dealers and the army, and drug dealers with one another. There is some excitement when the "boss of bosses" is shot down, but we understand there will immediately be a new boss of bosses.
In the daytime, marching bands accompany coffins to their resting places. Mourners are joined by spectators, maybe even tourists. Vendors sell chilled mangoes and soft drinks. We see a widow who comes every day to wash and clean her husband's two-story crypt, while her children play hopscotch on the flat gravemarkers on the less prosperous side of the street.
What else is to be said? The watchman has a single naked light bulb, which he hangs above his door in the evening and moves inside at night. He sleeps under a couple of blankets on a plank supported by oil drums. The feet of the construction workers are bursting from splits in their shoes. The only prosperous ones here are the dead.
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A court date for a man suspected in the gang-related death of a Lynwood shopkeeper during a robbery was postponed Wednesday until later this month, a clerk told Patch.
Donald Simpson, 36, was being held on no bail at the Men's Central Jail, pending a preliminary hearing date-setting Feb. 21.
The reason for the delay -- he was slated to get a preliminary hearing date Wednesday -- was because the Los Angeles County Public Defender's office stepped down from the case, declaring a conflict.
The clerk could not tell Patch why this was so but did say that another defense attorney -- Halvor Miller from the county's Attorney Bar Panel -- was assigned to the case.
He is accused of murder and robbery, as well as sentence-enhancing allegations of murder during the commission of a robbery, murder with a handgun and murder to further the interests of a gang, all special circumstance allegations.
The crime occurred Nov. 20, according to court papers.
The day of the murder, Simpson also allegedly robbed someone named Jose Garcia, and shot at him as well, according to the complaint filed by the Los Angeles District Attorney's office.
The complaint indicates that if convicted of committing the felonies for the benefit of a street gang, the defendant faces more than 10 years in state prison, over the 25 years to life for the murder charge.
To see the complaint, please click here.
However, the special circumstance allegation of murder during a robbery could net him life without the possibility of parole or the death penalty; the District Attorney's office usually makes the decision whether to seek the death penalty following a preliminary hearing.
Simpson also allegedly committed a lewd and lascivious act upon a 14-year-old girl Nov. 1, according to the complaint; Patch does not name victims of sex crimes, though the child's first name and last name initial were included in the complaint.
His co-defendant, Davion Woodspage, 20, is being held in Sacramento according and an arrest warrant has been issued for his arrest locally.
He is not listed in the Los Angeles County jail as in custody.
A pair of teenage girls were also arrested in the case and they will be housed at Juvenile Hall.
According to Los Angeles County sheriff's jail records, Simpson has been in custody since December. He and Woodspage both were arrested in the past months on other allegations.
Simpson was already in custody when he was charged with the murder and robbery.
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25 million people worldwide rooted for Diana Nyad last September as she approached the Florida shore, at long last achieving her 35-year-old dream of becoming the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida. Nyad is not one to quit. On her fifth attempt, speaking the words "Never, ever give up" to the wildly cheering crowd on September 2, 2013, she showed the world what persistence and belief can manifest. Nyad stroked the amazing 110.86 miles in 52 hours, 54 minutes, 18 seconds. Daring to reach for the stars, this swim beginning to seem impossible (after her four attempts and other strong swimmers trying and failing since 1950), Nyad has motivated the world at large to be bold, to live fearlessly, to chase one's dreams with unwavering commitment. The second statement the victorious 64-year-old made on that Key West beach? "You're never too old to chase your dreams." And her third statement on that historic day: "It looks a solitary sport, but it's a TEAM."
A prominent sports broadcaster, reporting for National Public Radio, Fox Sports, ABC's Wide World of Sports, and The New York Times for thirty years, Nyad has carved her place as one of our compelling story-tellers. She has written three books and is currently writing her memoir for Knopf, due out in 2015. Nyad is a talented linguist, speaking three foreign languages fluently. She has also earned the reputation of a uniquely entertaining and inspiring public speaker.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A nanny accused in the stabbing deaths of two children in her care at their upscale home near Central Park pleaded not guilty Wednesday inside a hospital room where she's been treated for self-inflicted stab wounds.
Yoselyn Ortega, lying handcuffed in her hospital bed in silence, her right hand trembling, entered the plea through her defense attorney.
"I ask you to enter a not guilty plea on behalf of my client," attorney Valerie Van Leer-Greenberg said.
Van Leer-Greenberg also told Judge Lewis Bart Stone that her client needed constant medical care.
"My client ... sustained serious medical injuries and mental trauma," she said. "She's lying in a hospital bed. She has a neck brace, and her hand that you can see is shaking. She is in a very debilitated condition."
The judge, like two prosecutors and everyone else crowded into the room, wore a hospital gown and a blue hair net. He ordered Ortega held without bail while she undergoes a psychiatric exam.
Ortega, 50, appeared alert but didn't speak during the 10-minute hearing. The judge placed her on suicide watch.
Ortega, who's from the Dominican Republic, had a neck brace and a tube leading to her throat but breathed on her own. No wounds were visible; a white hospital blanket was pulled up to her chest.
The hospital room was sparse: There were no flowers, photos or other personal items on display.
The unusual bedside arraignment came as District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. announced an indictment charging Ortega with multiple counts of murder.
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Ahoy there. You're anxious about the transfer of television to all digital, aren't you? I know I am, and it's causing me not so excellent ulcers, not so excellent at all.
So it seems that airwaves will cease their relentless humming and be transferred into ground waves through cables of digital nature. It makes me sad a little, to think that you can longer get a shitty tv and a shitty antenna and then watch some shitty Spanish language soap opera through mild static. Such nostalgia for bad reception and honest to goodness programming. They just don't make it like they used to. Now everyone's all hopped up on reality and clarity and definition, as if what we see everyday through our eyes isn't real and clear and defined enough. Maybe I WANT to squint every once and a while! COME ON!
Anyway, the abandonment of analogue for digital got me thinking, what exactly are they going to do with all of that airspace? Well they're going to use it for emergency services and public stuff, but I like to think that's not really going to happen and what they're really going to do with the waves is just kind of forget about them. Which means, dear reader (me), that we will have open to us a veritable cornucopia of uncharted air-waters to pillage and plunder with our unique and artistic expressions.
Ah the pirating of airwaves is a dirty, dangerous (not to mention difficult) undertaking. Since stations are making the switch, it's safe to assume that they'll be turning off their analogue systems, which means that for this to work we'll have to build our own transmitter. I don't know how to do this, but I bet somewhere, somehow there are instructions. Instructions that one day will be followed.
To get motivated for our eventual take-over of the abandoned airwaves let's take a trip down airwave-piracy-memory-lane….
On April 26, 1986, a man calling himself Captain Midnight, interrupted HBO's transmission with the following:
It stayed on air for about five minutes and the words on the color bars are as follows:
Way to make a statement Captain Midnight.
Chicago, November 22, 1987. There you are in your living room watching Dr. Who: Horror of Fang Rock (apparently I really need to start watching Dr. Who) then this:
I don't really know what one can say about that. Flyswatter's my favorite part…
Throughout the remainder of the 80s and 90s there were a couple more broadcast interruption incidents one where some hoo-ha from the Christian Broadcasting Network interrupted Playboy TV's transmission. I'm not quite sure what he did with that transmission, but it sounds dumb so that's all we'll say on that matter.
In other countries, like the Old Soviet Union, transmission interruption was a pretty regular occurrence due to people's desire to see non-government TV. In Poland in 1985 four astronomers hijacked a TV signal and broadcast a plea for the people to boycott the upcoming election. And in 2006, Isreal hijakced Hezbollah's Al Manar TV and showed propaganda, including the bombing of targets in Lebanon with words like "your day is coming." Egad.
While our foreign neighbors use the piracy of airwaves for political purposes, good ole Americans keep it real with disembodied heads and complaints about pricing plans. And of course lets not forget our most recent foray into the fires of Television piracy…..
Space Flush
Hey there. So how about that Super Bowl, huh? Some pretty great footballin, it was excellent really pretty excellent (if you're into that sort of thing and if you are, that's great there's absolutely nothing wrong with liking or even loving football, and I don't mean to talk down to you either, not that I think I'm talking down to you, but I just think it's important that YOU know I fully support your passions be they football foozball or murderball)
Ahem —
I don't really have anything to write about so I'm going to write about nothing, empty space, the void, the vacuum. What amazes me and starts me on a weird and unusual line of thinking is this: the expanding virtual space into (onto?) which things can be saved, and how said space seems to be shrinking in real space but growing in virtual space. Take, for instance, this computer on which I type. Back in the day I would have been delighted to have, say, 1 gigabyte of hard disk space and now I have a whopping 200 gigs. And this, dear friends, is just the beginning. I now know words like terabyte (1000 gigabytes) and soon my lexicon will employ words like petabyte (1000 terabytes) and whatever will come after petabytes. I'm so baffled by where all this space originates and it's ever-growing nature.
I sometimes wake in the middle of the night, sit upright, and imagine myself being pulled down into the dark bottomless void that is cyberspace. Will the space ever reach it's limit? Will it begin contracting instead of expanding like the universe? (Is the universe still expanding? Have we hit the shrinking stage yet? We'll tackle that another day)
Thinking about the end of space, cyberspace to be more specific, makes me feel like I'm living in weird reality that doesn't exist. Step away from the hard drive. Get your photos developed. Buy CDs? Or even better yet, records? Stuff?! STUFF?!? What's happening to all of our stuff? It's being turned into ones and zeros. Maybe that's best, maybe when the space gets flushed we'll all be without stuff, just like John Lennon wanted.
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Who Me?
GA – ROSS! Jesus Christ, put a lid on that thing. Do you have no sense of smell, of humanity, of MERCY?! Please! Seal it up! This is not excellent not excellent at ALL.
Ok, I know, I know, you can't really smell anything, nor can I, but I can smell my imagination percolating away, perck perck percking! Smell is an incredibly strong sense. It can trigger memories, nausea, happiness, sadness, or homicidal compulsions. In fact, after some research on the old internet I found out very interesting things, very interesting things indeed.
Firstly, preferences of smell are learned and different for each individual. It's not like taste where when you're born you already have a preference for taste due to buds and chemical reactions and, you know, science and babies. But that's neither here nor there. So yes, when you smell something while experiencing pleasure, pain, stomach upsetedness, or murder, your brain forges a link between that smell and that circumstance, making the two linked forever. For all eternity. Until the end of time and future space.
How has scents' ability to bring back painful or happy memories or even induce strong feelings of fear or disgust been used? It turns out that governments caught wind (right? WIND? CAUGHT WIND??!) of this and decided to employ it in warfare. The first known instance of this experimentation was in World War II when the Office of Strategic Services developed a scent to be carried by the French Resistance. The scent was packaged in a pocket atomizer and distributed to French Resistance living in German occupied France. The idea was that with one squirt of the scent, called Who Me?, the French could embarrass the German officers so horribly that they would abandon their posts and go screaming back to Germany. Sounds highly unlikely right? Yes absolutely, it was highly unlikely, mainly because it turns out that Who Me? is quite hard to control and contain. The squirter could easily become the squirtee and then everyone just ended up smelling like the most horrible shit ever unleashed in Europe. Needless to say (but I'll say it anyway), Project Who Me? was deemed an utter failure and the French went back to smelling of croissants and cigarettes, while the Germans remained reeking of borscht and sauerkraut.
Well that was over sixty years ago, what's being used now? I want to know and I want to know bad! Turns out smell has kind of reached a dead end for being used in warfare. In the 70s the government did some tests: hollowed out chicken eggs and filled them with chemical compounds that stank of shit. These eggs were then lobbed at enlisted men to see how they would react. God bless the US Military! It was discovered that people usually adapt to a smell within fifteen minutes of exposure, so for all practical purposes using the ole'factory in warfare became kind of moot. Bummer. Still, the idea of the army bankrolling scientists to create the most horrible odors the world has ever smelt is hilarious and fascinating. To me… yes me… who me?
Secrets of the Southwest
Why hello! My, it's been a long time since we last conversed, hasn't it? It's good to see your face, no I take that back – it's excellent, REALLY excellent to see your face.
So as you may know, since you are me and I am you (thank you Beatles), I was in New Mexico working on the Obama campaign for the past oh, well not so recent past now (thank you unemployment) five weeks. While I was there I found out about a number of things. Some of those things being that while people may be living in abject poverty, in their single wide trailers in the middle of nowhere — poverty, healthcare, jobs no no no none of these items are on their lists of most important issues. NAY! Never! You know what matters? You know what really matters more than any of those other things that have a DIRECT effect on my life? DO YOU KNOW WHAT MATTERS!?!?!?! Yeah… here you go….
That's right, there it is in all of its majesty. Yes, that's why I'll cast my vote. God I hate fetuses. Feti? Fettuccine? I'm hungry.
Ok, obviously I've struck out on a tangent. Abortion was never my intended subject. But it always ends on abortion, doesn't it? Sigh. Ok, so one other thing I noticed was that when I would make my snide, sarcastic comments about how there are SOOO many Jews in New Mexico, someone would inevitably say "actually, there are a lot of Jews here in New Mexico. But it's very strange and very secret. They're SECRET Jews."
Secret Jews! WOW! So it turns out after some more of my hard-hitting research (typing "secret Jew Southwest" into Google) I found this:
In the spring of 1492, Jews in Spain were given two choices: convert to Catholicism or leave the country. Many left. Many others simply abandoned their religion for Catholicism.
But a few of those who converted did so only publicly, continuing to practice Judaism in secret.
Modern scholars have found a few communities of so-called "crypto-Jews" that survived in both Iberia and the New World for centuries, hiding their true religious identity from their neighbors and the Catholic church.
So, the Secret Jews of the Southwest are called Crypto-Jews and they're an odd hybrid of Catholicism and repressed Judaism. Sounds like a lovely slice of guilt-pie, doesn't it?
How interesting to be a secret Jew in the Southwest. I wonder if there were any Jew gunslingers like Hebrew Haas, Wyatt Earpenstein or Doc Hudsongold. They would while away their days on the desert chasing fair shiksas and fighting off unjust goyish Sheriffs…
This is the Southwest Mel Brooks must of had in mind….
The Future Is Now
Ah! Dammit, this computer is freaking out. Stupid computer, if only you could learn from your mistakes, if only you were somehow adaptive and intelligent, that would be excellent, really excellent.
Fear not, dear computer, your brain may be just around the corner! Yesterday scientists at the University of Reading in the UK developed the first robot controlled by biological brain. His name is Gordon, and he avoids walls. How does Mr. Robo-Gordon work? Well these smart scientists removed brain cells from rat fetuses and put them in an enzyme bath. Then they hooked the the enzyme bath up to this "multi-electrode array" which acts as the conduit between living tissue and the machine. The "brain" sends "impulses to drive the wheels of the robot, and receives impulses delivered by sensors reacting to the environment. Because the brain is living tissue, it must be in a special temperature-controlled unit and communicates with its "body" via a Bluetooth radio link."
The people behind the development of Gordon say that being able observe how brain matter reacts to learning and storing data will give them valuable insight into human brain development and help them better understand and treat diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
Sure, that's exactly what they WANT us to believe, but really, these British "scientists" are being secretly bankrolled by the US Military to develop weapons for 21st century warfare. Who do they think we are? We know that this lovable, smart robot will not become the real life version of Pixar's Wall-E.
Nay! Gordon will most likely evolve into James Cameron's killing machine, which will eventually lead to the destruction of life as we know it!
Or perhaps, after spending some time with humans and learning how to love Gordon 2.0 will turn from a killing machine to a Automaton with attitude!
Whichever road Gordon may take (Damn you beef stew! Damn you! Why are you here I smell you, why why why?!?!) robots have become smart, which means that soon computers will be controlling us, and then we'll wake up in a tube on embryonic fluid and realize that the world is just green flowing characters and now, we have to rely on some dipshit to save us, but really he'll turn our salvation into a three part suckfest. Oh, how I miss the 20th century.
Info and quotes found here: http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,24181170-5014108,00.html
A Patient Waiter is No Loser.
Blurgh. Hi. How are you feeling? Good? Any new news? How do you get your news? The internet. Yeah I guess that's pretty excellent, really pretty excellent.
I prefer to get my news through telegram. That's right the OLD internet. Let's take a trip back in time to the beginning of telecommunications!
Interestingly, the telegraph was simultaneously invented in both the UK and the US in 1837. In the UK, the first commercial telegraph was constructed by Sir William Fothergill Cooke and used in the Great Western Railway in Britain. It was patented in 1837. AND, Mr. Samuel Morse and his buddy Alfred Vail constructed the the electrical telegraph and developed Morse Code in 1837 in the States. They sent their first message across two miles of wire.. and the message was "A patient waiter is no loser." Here, here I think we can all agree to that. Right? Absolutely.
**You may hear that the first telegraphed message was "What has God wrought" however, my sources (WIKIPEDIA) disagree**
(Damnit, someone is eating beef stew again! Such a rich disgusting smell and just when I was getting all excited about my telegrams. Pish aaaah. Ok, focus, ignore… tangible… reeking… warm smelling… air)
So telegrams! After being developed and implemented in both the US and Europe in the late 1830s the telegram went international. And even better, the first transoceanic telegram took place 150 years ago (two days ago) – August 16, 1858. The first telegram sent from Queen Victoria to President James Buchanan read as follows:
"The Queen desires to congratulate the President upon the successful completion of this great international work, in which the Queen has taken the deepest interest. The Queen is convinced that the President will join with her in fervently hoping that the electric cable, which now connects Great Britain with the United States, will prove an additional link between the two places whose friendship is founded upon their common interests and reciprocal esteem. The Queen has much pleasure in thus directly communicating with the President, and in renewing to him her best wishes for the prosperity of the United States."
I wonder how often the Queen did indeed drop the old Prez a line and express her excitement for the US's renewed prosperity. Or do you think she's one of those people who says they'll call and never does?
Here's a map of the electronic telegraph lines as of 1891.
I found out that you can still send a telegram not via Western Union though. It turns out that Western Union sent its last telegram on January 27, 2006. (Check it out) Sigh. However, you can still send telegrams through International Telegram, which uses Western Union's original cabled network. So if you feel like you've got something to say, but don't want to say it with an email, phone call, fax, text, IM, or overnight package, then head to International Telegram and spread the news.
Time to get Sweded
Hello. What's new? Uh huh…. Really? Wow, that's wonderful! I'm so glad to hear that you're making such positive life changes and really embracing your art! I always thought you had excellent, really excellent talent.
And speaking of talent, what better way to find talent then by heading over to YouTube.com and checking out what humanity is up to? Ah, here's something interesting…. let's talk about it.
I don't know if you've seen the Michel Gondry movie Be Kind Rewind, if you haven't, it's not really worth watching as it sucks, but if you have then at least you'll know what I'm talking about. Anyway, in the movie these two mo-mos through a series of odd and badly explained events are forced to recreate some of Hollywood's most well-known movies using only their imaginations, local resources and a cheap camcorder. Once a movie has been remade they dub it as being Sweded. So for instance, there's Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters Sweded! For whatever reason, most likely boredom, I was cruisin' the youtube and came across a treasure trove of Sweded movies! It turns out that Be Kind Rewind actually hosted a "How to Swede" contest, hence all of these wonderful videos.
I encourage you to watch these videos, as they are a testament to the wonders of imagination and creativity (and they're only two minutes long)!
Jurassic Park SWEDED!
Silence of the Lambs (Trailer) SWEDED!
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory SWEDED!
Star Wars SWEDED!
The Shining SWEDED!
Lord of the Rings Trilogy SWEDED!
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Walking Home
Oh! I didn't see you there! Why hello! How are you? It sure is a lovely day outside. I'm really looking forward to walking home. Stretching the old legs will feel excellent, really excellent.
Yes, I will be making the trek from work to home, and I will encounter wonderful things along the way. I plan on taking the sunniest route possible. I also find myself tempted to take off my shirt and just cruise the streets; unfortunately my modesty requires I leave on my undershirt. I have a feeling that by the time I leave here, however, the fog will have rolled in and I will need my shirt, anyway. Sigh. What kind of summer is this?! One where you have to wear shirts?! Gah. GAH! I defy you foggy summer! I DEFY YOU!
Ok, enough smiting…moving on… yes Walking! Glorious walking! How lucky I am to live in place where I can walk from work to home. Sure it will take me about an hour, but just think of all the encounters I'll have along the way. I'll probably smell plenty of urine,
Mexican food,
and jasmine
and see countless kinds of people,
and situations.
Maybe I'll stop and get a drink? What kind of drink?
A bubble tea with tapioca?
A Veitnamese ice coffee?
Mexican Coke in a bottle?
A tall boy of Bud Light?
Then I'll be off, up the hills I'll charge, through the brightly flagged streets of the Castro
and down the slopes of the lower Haight.
Oh look, an open air produce market!
How convenient! I need to buy some tomatoes for eating
and some fruit for snacking.
Oh grapes!
I wanted grapes earlier and now here they are!
Thank you kind shop owner, here's your money and off I go! Walking!
Oh! The bike shop just called. Looks like I'll be riding home after all….
Slow news day….
Hello friend. Slow news day? Yeah, right! There's a new war on, the Olympics are happening as I type, and both Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes died over the weekend! SO not excellent, not really excellent at all (well except for the Olympics, which are excellent, really excellent)
In order to deal with all of this drama, sadness, and athleticism, I've decided to post something I wrote a while ago. You may have read it before, and if that is the case, then I urge you to read it again and enjoy!
Sometimes I see old people and I think to myself "what's that? What's that flap right under your chin? Why does it sway in the breeze? Will I be lucky enough to have a flap like that someday?"
My mom once told me that the chin flap was God's way of telling you that you will fly to heaven. When your judgment day comes, you will look to the sky and let your flap carry you.
When you reach the pearly gates St. Peter will pull out his sickle and slice your chin flap away. Then your chin flap will be tossed into a bin with other chin flaps. This bin will be collected by one of the angels, Gabriel I think, and then Gabriel will fly the chin flap bin to the Heaven Knows Factory.
No human knows what happens in this factory (at least that's what my mom told me), but some believe the chin flaps are deep fried, lightly salted and fed to God via Jesus. Others say the chin flaps are melted down in a creamy broth and molded into babies, which are then delivered by mechanical stork to India. That's where babies come from: India.
All I know is that when I am old enough to have a chin flap I will raise my head to the sky and let the wind take me to the wonderful afterlife. Should my sacred piece of flesh come back either as a beautiful Indian baby or a salty treat for our Lord and Savior, I will know that I lived a just righteous life.
Hallowed be our chin flaps and Jesus.
Pho Sure
OH YES! Man, that lunch was aces! Pure aces! Mmmmmm… hot, spicy, salty and tinge of sweetness makes the perfect broth; then throw in fried tofu, fresh vegetables, rice noodles, fried garlic, fresh basil and a squeeze of lime juice. Ah! It's so excellent, really excellent!
Soup! GLORIOUS SOUP! Pho, really, but not really because traditional Pho has sliced rare beef in it, and that's not what I eat, although I'm sure authentic pho is delicious. Pho has a nice history though, well not really nice since it was born out of the occupation of Vietnam by the French and the Chinese, but it is a fun hodge-podge of cultures similar to ingredients in a bowl – a bowl of HISTORY, which makes soup that tastes like happiness. Soup that tastes like happiness?! Pho's history can't be all bad, right?! RIGHT!?!?! So here's your fun little pho history lesson: (I'll use quotes so it's not like I'm plagiarizing)
"Some theorize it was the French who triggered pho, popularizing the use of bones and lesser cuts of beef to make broth. After all, in a society that wasted nothing, what was one to do with all the bones carved from biftecks? In fact, they believe perhaps it was first created when Vietnamese cooks learned to make pot au feu for their French masters. The name pho, they suspect, might have even come from feu. But others argue that while the French can take credit for popularizing beef, it was actually the Chinese who inspired the dish with ingredients like noodles, ginger and anise. Then there are still others who claim it was the Chinese, and the Chinese alone, who instigated this culinary wonder."
Fascinating, no? Yes. The "pho" I had for lunch is the veggie. It makes a nice filling, but not too heavy lunch, and of course, it tastes like happiness. I want to live in it, just have my life happen in that noodely, amazing soup. SOUP! I wish I had taken a picture of it so I could have shown it to you, but sadly, I did not. You know what this means though, don't you? Yes, it means that I will scour the internet in search of the perfect pho – tographs! HEYO! (Give me a break; it's Friday)
Traditional Pho:
Chicken Pho:
And Veggie Pho – The one I had for lunch looks way better.
Quote taken from this place: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1997/11/05/FD48543.DTL


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The Daily Star
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Kyle Jaquay and Isiah Montgomery combined for 40 points Saturday, leading Cherry Valley-Springfield to a 47-42 boys basketball victory over host Milford in the championship game of the Anton Remy Tournament.
"The two biggest things are giving credit to the two kids who scored 40 of their 47 points," Milford coach Frank Spurchise said. "Montgomery gave us some trouble underneath. He's 6-foot-1 or so, but he can jump out of the doggone gym and he's good around the basket. Jaquay went 8-for-10 from the free throw line in the fourth quarter and that was huge. The end of the game came down to pretty much him hitting the free throws."
Jaquay, who scored 12 points in the final period, shared tournament MVP honors with Montgomery as the two helped the Patriots to a 2-0 start this season.
Peyton Griffiths scored 17 points and fellow all-tournament selection Paul VanWarner had four for the Wildcats (1-1), who rallied from a 16-4 deficit after one quarter to pull to 20-18 by halftime.
"We couldn't stop Montgomery inside and we were cold," Spurchise said. "We woke up in the second quarter and we came back and took the lead at one point. It was a good game. That's the way it's going to be in the Tri-Valley League this year."
Milford is off until Dec. 12, when it hosts Unadilla Valley in a non-league game.
Franklin 35, Roxbury 25
All-tournament selection Alex Brownell, a senior guard, hit a varsity-best six three-pointers en route to a game-high 20 points as Franklin won the consolation game of the Anton Remy Tournament in Milford.
Brownell scored all of his points before the fourth quarter for the Purple Devils (1-1), who received nine points from Derek Beers.
Dakota Caronia's eight points paced the Rockets (0-2), who received five from all-tournament pick Spencer Hinkley.
Franklin hosts Schenevus on Dec. 11.
Schwan Tournament
Bill Kozak scored 18 points to lead Sidney to a 41-34 consolation victory in the Tom Schwan Tournament in Norwich.
Patrick Gosney and Michael Korchak scored 12 points each for Seton Catholic Central.
On Friday, Sidney lost to Utica Notre Dame, 66-49, in the opening round.
Simon Pitman scored 34 points for Notre Dame and Kevin Warmack had 18.
Kozak and Mike Ward scored 13 points apiece for Sidney (1-1), which hosts Owego on Dec. 10.
B-G 55, Delhi 47
Brooks Harmon and Corbin Palmer combined for 19 of Bainbridge-Guilford's 32 second-half points as the Bobcats rallied from a 12-point halftime deficit to beat the host school in the final of the Shalkey/Mokay Tournament.
"Their defense stiffened up on us," Delhi coach Warren Kelly said. "We started shooting quite poor in the second half. We also had a hard time rebounding against them. They got more offensive rebounds than we could afford to give up. As a team, we didn't have five guys crashing like we needed on defense."
All-tournament picks Ben Denison and Brandon Simonds had 16 and 14 points, respectively, to lead the Bulldogs. In the first half, Simonds had 12 points and Denison had 10 as the Bulldogs took a 35-23 lead into halftime.
But B-G outscored Delhi, 32-12, in the second half.
Harmon finished with 16 points and all-tournament selection Palmer had 13 for the Bobcats, who received respective 10- and nine-point nights from Lucas Butcher and Nick Gronowski.
Tournament MVP Austin Bauerle had seven points for B-G.
H-T 55, Downsville 31
All-tournament pick Zach Mudge scored his varsity-high of 28 points to lead Hunter-Tannersville to a consolation victory in the Shalkey/Mokay Tournament at Delhi.
Mudge and sharp-shooting counterpart Justin Baxter scored 14 and 12 points, respectively, in the first quarter as H-T took a 20-16 lead. Mudge hit two of his four three-pointers and Baxter had four of his five threes in the opening eight minutes.
"Both boys put on a shooting clinic," H-T coach Chris Glennon said.
Glennon said he switched from zone to man-to-man in the second quarter. Dylan Legg guarded Baxter – an all-tournament selection – and held him to one three-pointer over the final three quarters.
"Dylan locked him down," Glennon said.
Sophomore Mike Tancredi contributed 10 points and seven rebound for the Wildcats (1-1), who travel to Davenport on Thursday.
Justin Hofer scored nine points to lead Unadilla Valley in the Sherburne-Earlville Tournament consolation game.
Austin Jasper scored 18 points, Juliene Alsheimer had 13 and Mick Khoury contributed 12 for the Marauders.
UV (0-2) plays a non-league game at Milford on Dec. 12.


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High Country News August 24, 1992
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Leave it to beaver
Beavers on a ranch in Idaho have turned a previously gouged creek bottom into a wetland brimming with wildlife and produced a new pasture for the ranch's livestock.
Happy ending to Utah grazing conflict
After nearly two years of negotiations, a large portion of the Escalante River drainage in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area has been permanently closed to grazing.
Let's stop dirt-bike noise and 'the-end-is-here' noise
"Wise-users" may not have much influence, but they should give environmentalists pause to reconsider their long-run strategies.


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