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Check out these photos! On the left is me, at 3, with my pop, outside my childhood home in Miami, where my family still lives. My dad died when I was 16, so the bittersweetness of this image is something I cherish. On the right, it's Javier, my first-grader, and me outside our home earlier this year just before we built a porch on our house. The resemblance between the two images is pure coincidence, but it speaks volumes about history's penchant for repeating itself, don't ya think?
I found this photo while flipping through old albums at my mom's house recently. The pages were covered in plastic, and just about every photo was turning yellow with age. As it turns out, my brother and I have no pics of everyday life while growing up, only holidays and special occasions. Photos of us dressed as a bunny and a Star Wars stormtrooper roll into us noshing at the kids' table on Thanksgiving, then opening Christmas gifts, with a backyard birthday or roller-rink party thrown in for good measure. What a difference a generation makes! Scroll my phone and you'll find hundreds of everyday moments—my boy with his face covered in ice cream, cuddling the dog, dressed as Spider-Man at the grocery store.
Other than knowing that the next generation is going to need a lot more storage on their devices, all of this reminds me that experience is the ultimate teaching tool, and having endless records can prove quite useful. Whether it's a meltdown your kid had last week that guides you on how to handle a similar situation today, or a childhood photo that floods you with love, knowledge, and power (like this one does me!), there's plenty the past can teach us about parenting.
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Perched behind the wheel of his Dodge Ram pickup truck, Kelly Gregg was driving by himself, but he wasn't alone.
Riding shotgun next to him—seatbelt and all—on this July 2004 trip from his beloved Oklahoma home to his professional one in Baltimore was an urn containing the ashes of his father, Terry. The man whose unyielding work ethic inspired Gregg to never stop pushing his body or his will had just passed away from cancer of the liver, nose, and kidneys that took him with a chilling swiftness. Diagnosed in February, he was gone by June.
It was Terry who first assured Kelly that football could take him places in life, when most people were telling him he was too small to play big time ball. Now, as Gregg drove east toward yet another training camp with the Baltimore Ravens, for whom he was an established starter and would soon become a star, memories of his father raced through his head.
"There was not much conversation," he says of the ride. "But it was something I felt I had to do. He was the best dad. He always kept us loose, you always felt secure, even when he was sick. I always thought he was gonna lick it. If we were doing yard work or doing anything, he said, 'Work hard and get the job done.'"
It's a mantra that defensive tackle Gregg has lived by through thick and thin, one he's leaned on throughout an NFL odyssey that has seen him transform himself from a twice-released journeyman to a vital cornerstone of one of the league's consistently-best defenses.
The savvy fans in Baltimore have taken notice. Despite a lack of accolades and fanfare from the national media, Gregg has become a somewhat unlikely favorite with the Raven faithful.
Four years after his journey with his father's ashes, Gregg arrives at this year's training camp in Westminster as something of a star. Not a superstar, mind you. But a smattering of No. 97 Gregg jerseys can be spotted in the stands among the purple sea of Lewis 52s and Reed 20s.
"He has the best work ethic I've ever seen," says Jason Fischer, 23, who came from Ellicott City to watch Gregg practice. "He doesn't have the flash or the charisma, but he should be a Pro Bowler every year."
It's an astute observation, one that Ravens all-world linebacker Ray Lewis agrees with wholeheartedly.
"Kelly has played at a Pro Bowl level for the past three or four years, and should be viewed as one of the best defensive linemen in the league," Lewis says. "I know we view him that way. Without Kelly Gregg, there is no Ray Lewis, or Bart Scott, or Ed Reed. He means that much to this defense and this team."
Gregg, 31, never dreamed of NFL stardom. As a child in Edmond, OK, his sights were set on following in the footsteps of his father.
"I thought growing up as a kid I'd wrestle, go play football in college, and then become a police officer in Edmond," he says.
Just like Terry.
"That's all I wanted."
For a humble guy rooted in Midwestern modesty, Kelly Gregg has always had a big head. Literally.
Eight pounds, 10 ounces at birth, one particular part of baby Gregg's anatomy really dominated.
"He had a great big head," says his mother, Patrice. "Luckily he grew into it."
And everything else.
"He was a big boy," Patrice says. "He'd eat anything in sight. He always liked to have ranch dressing on everything. He would drink a gallon of milk a day."
The Gregg household was charged with testosterone, and Kelly's football career began the way so many in Oklahoma do, in the yard with his father and older brother.
"As a kid, we always played rough, and football was rough," he says. "I started playing in second grade, but I was so big I had to play with the third graders. I was always a heavy, chunky kid."
He was thick, yes. But not particularly tall. Questions about Gregg's size have dogged him throughout his career.
"Even my high school coaches were saying I might be too short to play college football," he says.
Football always was Gregg's primary sport. His goal was to earn a scholarship so his parents, working-class folks living "from paycheck to paycheck," as Patrice says, wouldn't have to scramble to try to pay for college. In the seventh grade, Gregg took up wrestling after an associate football coach recommended the sport to him.
"I just thought it would be something to keep me in shape during the offseason," he says. "When I first started, I took my bumps. In Oklahoma, wrestling's huge, guys start in second or third grade."
A quick study, it wasn't long before Gregg stopped taking the lumps and started delivering them. In ninth grade, he won the junior-high state championship, and he went on to win three state heavyweight championships and one national championship in high school.
"If you're going to be an interior lineman, the best thing you can do is wrestle," says Ravens defensive coordinator Rex Ryan, who also coached Gregg during his senior year at the University of Oklahoma. "You have to not only control your body, you've got to control somebody else's, too. His balance is amazing, he's never on the ground unless he's making a tackle. He just doesn't look like the typical defensive lineman, he's about as wide as he is tall. He doesn't quite look the part, but man, once you get over it, he's about as tough as there is. He's probably the strongest Raven. He benches over 550. He's one of the baddest men on the planet."
It wasn't until his third season as a collegiate player that Gregg first began realizing that.
"By my junior year, I played with some guys that were getting drafted, so I thought I had a real good shot at making it," he says.
In 1999, the Cincinnati Bengals took Gregg in the sixth round of the NFL draft, but they released him before he even played a single regular season down. The Philadelphia Eagles signed him, then released him, but Gregg never allowed self-doubt to creep into his mind.
"I always looked at it like when one door shuts, another door opens," he says.
Behind that next—and possibly final—door stood Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome, and Gregg's old college coach Rex Ryan.
"I always kept in the back of my mind that if I could just get on the field, I would be fine," he says. "I just needed a shot. Luckily, Ozzie and Rex believed in me. I got my chance."
When the Ravens signed Gregg in 2000, at least one person just knew he had found a home.
"Kelly called me and said, 'Mom, I have a chance to go to Baltimore. Rex Ryan called me, and should I go?'" Patrice recalls. "At that time, I was working for Southwest Airlines, and they didn't have direct flights from Oklahoma City to Cincinnati or Philadelphia, but they did have a direct flight to Baltimore."
She told her son that it was "meant to be."
Gregg spent the 2000 Super Bowl season on the practice squad learning from veteran tackles Tony Siragusa and Sam Adams. His non-stop motor and simple country-boy demeanor caught everyone's eye and led then-head coach Brian Billick to nickname him Buddy Lee, after the roundish Lee Jeans advertising icon.
It was 2002 before Gregg got his first shot at extensive playing time, and he immediately cashed in on the opportunity, recording a defensive-line leading 90 tackles. The next season, he registered a career-high 104 tackles, and the Kelly Gregg/Buddy Lee phenomenon burst into full bloom.
"If you look at Kelly Gregg, you see the Baltimore Ravens," says Donnie Stotelmyer, president of Ravens Roost No. 7 in Hagerstown, which honored Gregg with its "Ravens Extra Effort Award" in 2003. "If anybody on the Baltimore Ravens exemplifies extra effort, it's Kelly Gregg. Here's a guy that was just Mr. Energy, extra effort all the time."
The club presented Gregg his award at a dinner banquet during which it also honored its All-Washington County high school football team.
"He stayed to the end, spending time with the kids," Stotelmyer says. "He couldn't believe that we wanted to honor him. After spending the evening with him, if you weren't a Kelly Gregg fan before you walked into that banquet, you were definitely a Kelly Gregg fan at the end of the night."
Gregg's humility is genuine, and definitely contributes to his popularity among the fans. His mother, for one, wouldn't stand for it any other way.
"He better be friendly and not stuck-up; I can't stand that," Patrice says. "We were raised to be friendly, that's the way Oklahoma is."
Just once did a dash of cockiness seem to be in order. As a sophomore in college, Gregg spotted his now-wife Krissy outside a Norman nightclub.
"I told her on our first date that I was going to marry her," he says. "She thought I was a stalker. I sort of scared her off for a couple of days, but she came back."
For good. Eleven years later, the couple has three sons, Wyatt, 5, Ryder, 3, and 6-month-old Maddox.
"I knew when I met him he was the one by the way he treats his mother," Krissy says. "The way he plays football is the way he lives. He doesn't do anything halfway, it's either all or nothing. He's got tunnel vision."
Fatherhood and family are what Gregg calls "the most gratifying part of my life."
"As soon as daddy walks in the door, it's what we call smashing time," Krissy says. "He can be aching, hurting, but every day he makes a point to wrestle with the boys. He's all about making sure every day is special."
Practical jokes often are Gregg's metier, and they seem to take a morbid tone that delights him. Like the time when he was dating Krissy and he enlisted his mom to play dead on the kitchen floor while he sprinkled fake blood everywhere. She laughs about it—now.
"He's a real prankster," Patrice says. One time he called her at work, on the Southwest Airlines toll free number. He put on a fake voice. "He said, 'Ma'am, I need to fly from Buffalo to Phoenix because I just killed my brother,'" Patrice recalls. "I was going crazy but I booked the flight. Finally, he said, 'Mom, it's me! I just wanted to hear your voice.'"
Gregg's sense of humor reflects his philosophy of life.
"There's a time to be serious, but when you're with your family, you always gotta joke around," he says. "Life's too short."
It's the first play of live offense-versus-defense drills at training camp, and as Gregg bursts off the line headed toward the quarterback, his jersey gets ripped near the shoulder pads. He waits on the sideline while an equipment manager tries a makeshift repair job with string, but appears antsy to get back onto the field.
"I still can't believe how much fun playing football is," he says. "I consider myself lucky to be able to play football for a living. There's nothing better than waking up every morning and putting on shorts, not a suit."
That joy, the passion that is so evident in the way he approaches his craft, is not lost on Ravens management. Last year the team came to him with a contract extension offer, and in April 2007 he signed a four-year deal worth a reported $20 million.
Gregg's plans for the money are about as flashy as he is.
"I save everything," he says. "I've got three kids now. When I'm dead, they'll spend it."
It's not an act; life's really that simple for Gregg. As he prepared for the doldrums of another training camp, his thoughts turned, as they have since 2004, to the man who, in large part, made this dream possible.
"I was thinking about him today," Gregg said after the first day of camp. "He was always a big part of my football and my life. He's always with me."
That tear in his practice jersey is too wide, so team personnel have to bring him another No. 97. After he sheds the damaged one and slides—as quickly and smoothly as a 315-pound man in full football pads can slide—into another white one, Gregg throws on his helmet and runs with a giddyup in his step back onto the field.
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DZone.com: SOLID for packag...err, namespaces
, 3 March 2011
On DZone.com there's a recent article from Giorgio Sironi about the SOLID set of principles for software development (more on those here) and how some related principles can be applied to namespaced code in PHP.While studying for the advanced software engineering exam at PoliMi, I discovered there is also a set of principles akin to SOLID for the design of packages, and not only of classes and interfaces. Uncle Bob published them after the SOLID series. Note that package here can be intended as a zip or...
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Finding A Job Without A Recruiter
Planet PHP
, 3 March 2011
Last week I wrote about all the reasons that recruiters are bad for your career. For a variety of reasons I highlighted the reasons job seekers should avoid enlisting the services of recruiters that solicit them, and the traps that recruiters employ to disadvantage job seekers while improving their odds of collecting a commission. On [...]
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Kevin Schroeder's Blog: New Zend Server Job Queue Library
, 3 March 2011
In his newly updated blog today (changed to WordPress) Kevin Schroeder has a new post looking at a new queuing library available for Zend Server's Job Queue including an example of its use.This will probably be one of the last posts I do on the Zend Server Job Queue functionality. From this point on they will probably be less frequent, though I'm sure several posts will allude to it. The reason I'm going to put it on the back burner is because I have written a library which is now available on GitHub....
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CodeIgniter Podcast: Episode #5: CodeIgniter Reactor, and Our Devious Plans
, 3 March 2011
The CodeIgniter Podcast has (finally) released the next episode of their series - episode #5 where two Reactor Engineers (John Crepezzi and Kenny Katzgaru) talk about the project and some interesting recent additions.Reposted from oconf.org, Reactor Engineers John Crepezzi and Kenny Katzgrau talk about their plans for CodeIgniter Reactor and talk about the idea of "sparks".The sparks are self-contained, easy to install packages that bring additional functionality to the CodeIgniter core set of tools. You...
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Aura for PHP 5.3+, aka Solar 2.0
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, 3 March 2011
Measuring from the first Subversion commit, Solar was 6 years old on 14 Feb 2011. The project has come a long way since then, and has evolved from a collection of library classes with some content domain models, to a general purpose framework. Moore's Law tells us computer power doubles about every 18 months; it's how [...]
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PECL/mysqlnd_ms: let web requests be your M/S load balancer
Planet PHP
, 2 March 2011
Introducing the best load balancing policy for PECL/mysqlnd_ms: "random_once". A (PHP) web request is short-lived. A web server can handle multiple requests per second. There are many web servers running an application. For each web request choose a random slave to use for the rest of the ...
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Community News: Latest Releases from PHPClasses.org
, 2 March 2011
Hooks XParser Object Oriented GD Library PHP MySQL databaser Select Options Easy Thumbnail and Watermark class DBackup Paginate simple PDO Multicnxn Class Email Address Validator PHP MySQL Wrapper Hello Captcha Netflix API Wrapper PDO Multi Connection Class Simple class for logs
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static considered harmful
Planet PHP
, 2 March 2011
This is a provoking title, but, in my honest opinion, a very valid rule of thumb. During the last years of teaching other developers, developing PHP libraries and applications and doing quality assurance on other peoples software I came to this rather abrasive conclusion - let me tell you whya
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Zend Developer Zone: See and be seen, hear and be heard. Conference season is upon us...
, 2 March 2011
On the Zend Developer Zone Cal has posted a list of some of the upcoming PHP-related conferences that'll be happening in the next few months all over the world.If you have been to a PHP conference, you know how much fun and learning goes on at these things. Anytime you get that many PHP developers together, great ideas are bound to be hatched. If you have never had the opportunity to attend one, this year is the year to change that.He mentions several including Day Camp for Developers (happening this...
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Ibuildings techPortal: DPCRadio: Database Version Control without Pain
, 2 March 2011
The Ibuildings techPortal has posted their latest episode in their DPCRadio podcast series as recorded at the Dutch PHP Conference 2010. This latest episode is Harrie Verveer's talk about database version control.We've all read the textbooks and are using version control systems for our code, but our databases are left out in the cold. Every team has their own workaround, ranging from patch files to SQL snippets in the bugtracker, but none is really robust. Unfortunately there is no silver bullet, but...
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ZendCon Sessions Episode 040: Memcached: the better Memcache interface
Zend Developer Zone
, 2 March 2011
This session will introduce the audience to the memcached PHP extension that provides a more flexible and performance friendly interface to the de facto caching solution for PHP applications. The talk will be comprised of code examples for a variety of use cases and comparison points between it the older memcache interface.
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Voices of the ElePHPant: Interview with Matthew Turland
, 2 March 2011
The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has posted their latest episode - an interview with Matthew Turland. Cal asks his three questions: What was your first PHP project? What's the most difficult thing about running an open source project? What is the one mistake you see other open source projects make? You can either listen to this latest episode via the in-page player or by downloading the mp3.
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Tibo Beijen's Blog: Fixing mysqldump on Zend Server CE on OS X
, 2 March 2011
Tibo Beijen has a new post today showing his method for fixing mysqldump on Zend Server CE running on an OS X platform. The default install throws a socket error when you try to dump a database using the command.Inspecting the mysql configuration contained in /usr/local/zend/mysql/data/my.cnf confirmed that the section [client] showed the socket as returned by executing SHOW VARIABLES; from the mysql client: /usr/local/zend/mysql/tmp/mysql.sock Although it is possible to specify the socket by using...
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Spot on Voices of the Elephpant
Planet PHP
, 2 March 2011
I recently did a brief interview that's been published as an episode of the Voices of the Elephpant PHP podcast. The first question deals with my experience with PHP, but the other two deal more with my experience with open source projects in general. Thanks to Cal Evans for inviting me to participate. I highly recommend you check out other episodes of the podcast if you haven't already; I've really enjoyed listening to them.
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Ten years of Nemein
Planet PHP
, 2 March 2011
Today it is ten years since my company, Nemein, started operating. Our team had been doing the internal Midgard-based information systems at Stonesoft, but as parts of that company were being sold, our team would've been split up. So instead we started our own business with Henri Hovi and Johannes Hentunen, with the idea that our Midgard expertise would be useful to a wider market. The best laid plans The initial plans were made at a Starbucks on New York's JFK airport while waiting for a flight to...
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Lorna Mitchell's Blog: Dealing with MySQL Gone Away in Zend Framework
, 2 March 2011
Zend Framework
Lorna Mitchell has a (very) quick tip for those using the Zend Framework with a MySQL database. Sometimes the inevitable "MySQL server has gone away" error will pop up - her tip shows you how to deal with it correctly in a long-running application.The [Gearman] worker is a Zend Framework application, run from the CLI, and it seemed like the Zend_Db_Adapter had no way of knowing when MySQL had let go of its end of the connection. I tried a few different things, including Zend_Db_Adapter::getConnection(),...
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Derick Rethans' Blog: Using OpenStreetMap tiles with Flickr
, 2 March 2011
Derick Rethans has a new post today with a bit of code showing how to combine Flickr and OpenStreetMap and make a mapping tool that plots out the location information for the Flickr images.I like taking pictures, and I usually take a GPS so that I can place them on a map on my Flickr page. On my last excursion however, the battery of my GPS had died, so I did not have location information available to store in my pictures' EXIF headers. Flickr can use the EXIF headers to then show the images on the map....
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Gonzalo Ayuso's Blog: Watermarks in our images with PHP and mod_rewrite
, 2 March 2011
Gonzalo Ayuso has a new tutorial posted to his site today showing how to use mod_rewrite and a little bit of PHP magic to watermark images without having to apply it to each one manually.he idea is simple. Instead of opening directly the image, we are going to open a PHP script. This PHP script will open the original image file with imagecreatefromjpeg, add the footer and flush the new image to the browser with the properly headers.Since it would be a lot of trouble (especially on a larger site) to have...
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Community News: Latest PECL Releases for 03.01.2011
, 1 March 2011
Latest PECL Releases: tokyo_tyrant 0.6.0 CUBRID 8.3.1.0005
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Using OpenStreetMap tiles with Flickr
Planet PHP
, 1 March 2011
Using OpenStreetMap tiles with Flickr London, UK Tuesday, March 1st 2011, 09:20 GMT I like taking pictures, and I usually take a GPS so that I can place them on a map on my Flickr page. On my last excursion however, the battery of my GPS had died, so I did not have location information available to store in my pictures' EXIF headers. Flickr can use the EXIF headers to then show the images on the map. Because I did not have the location information to automatically place my pictures on the map, I...
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Bridging neuropsychology with the great contemplative traditions, Meditations for Happiness brings you a series of practices that allow you to literally rewire the neural pathways in your brain to experience deeper and more lasting contentment.
On part one, Dr. Hanson discusses the nature of happiness, its role in our evolution, how our brains both make us happy and create suffering, and how we can use and shape our brains over time to experience more joy and ease in everyday life. He then guides you step-by-step through more than a dozen meditations and exercises including: A Happiness Trip—explore the many shades of positive emotions that relate to your happiness; Gratitude—an antidote to threatening thoughts and feelings; Taking Refuge in What's Reliable—root your happiness in the safe harbors of things you can truly count on; Coming Home to Happiness—a relaxing session to ease your body-mind back to its natural state of calm and contentment; Emotions come and go, but true happiness endures," teaches Dr. Hanson. With Meditations for Happiness, he helps you build a foundation of skills for realizing the happiness you desire.
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The Moon Gem 2.0 LED Rear Light is a great little rechargeable light that is ideal as a back up light for winter or for use in summer after those night rides.
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3 high performance LED's
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Morningside students present program on commerce in Puerto Rico
Several Morningside College students and faculty who completed a study trip to Puerto Rico during the 2004 May Term will hold a multimedia presentation and discussion on Wednesday, Jan. 19, at 11:45 a.m. in the UPS Auditorium of the Lincoln Center. The free event is sponsored by the Academic and Cultural Arts Series (ACAS) and the Center for Entrepreneurship at Morningside College and The Coleman Foundation and is open to the public.
Funded by a two-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Title VI-B program, the Morningside trip was the second of its kind to the Caribbean island. It offered a unique learning opportunity that stressed education by engagement and immersion into a new culture. Activities focused on exposing students to Puerto Rico's geography and commerce system, including international trade, entrepreneurship, small business, and politics. The group also visited various points of interest, including the Camuy Caverns, El Yunque Rain Forest, and the Ponce Museum of Art.
For more information contact Dr. Pam Mickelson, professor of business and economics, at (712) 274-5473, or Dr. Lillian Lopez, associate professor of history and political science, at (712) 274-5225.
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- NAME: Thomas Bowdler
- OCCUPATION: Medical Professional, Editor
- BIRTH DATE: July 11, 1754
- DEATH DATE: February 24, 1825
- EDUCATION: University of St. Andrews, University of Edinburgh
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Ashley, near Bath, Somerset, England
- PLACE OF DEATH: Rhydding, near Swansea Glamorganshire, Wales
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Thomas Bowdler was a physician and self-appointed editor of great literature. He published The Family Shakespeare, a family friendly version of Shakespearean works, in 1807, and gave rise to the term "Bowdlerized."
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This program is designed primarily for P–12 educators, trainers from business and industry, and other professionals, who wish to develop and expand their skills in the educational application of technology in the classroom and other teaching and learning environments. Emphasis is on the design, development, and use of technology in the instructional process.
Graduates of the educational technology program learn to:
1. A bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 (4.0 scale). Students with less than a 3.0 GPA may be admitted as premajors.
2. Elementary/Secondary teaching certification is recommended (but not required).
3. Three recent letters of recommendation (within one year of application date)
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4. A written Statement of Purpose that details the applicant's previous teaching and technology experience and sets forth the applicant's career goals (including the use of educational technology).
5. Previous experience with the Internet and common software tools (e.g., word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation software) is a prerequisite for full admission to the program. Students deficient in this prerequisite may be admitted as pre-majors.
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EDC 601 Instructional Technologies (Normally, this is the first course taken in the program.)
EDC 604 Authoring for Educators (Prerequisite: EDC 601)
EDC 672 Creating and Integrating Technology in the Classroom (Prerequisite: EDC 601)
EDC 603 Instructional Design and Problem Solving with Technology
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EDC 500 Microcomputer Systems
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EDC 611 Television for Education and Training
EDC 612 Educational Models, Simulations, and Games
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210gr Spaghetti
2 yellow pepper
2 red pepper
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Put the water to boil.
When it boils add a tablespoon of salt, and then the spaghetti.
Cook the spaghetti only half-way throught.
Meanwhile cut the peppers in tiny pieces.
Put the basil and garlic in a food processor and add a tablespoon of lemon juice.
Squeeze the rest of the lemons. Put the lemon juice in a bowl, add the peppers, basil, garlic, add the half-way cooked spaghetti.
Add the black olives, salt and 2 table spoon of oil.
Mix nicely and let it rest in the fridge for 3 hours.
The spaghetti will get soft in the lemon juice.
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I still have quite a bit of the tractor restoration paint from valspar for finish coating but have no primer. Can anyone recommend a compatable primer that will work well with the aformentioned
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Primer I still have quite a bit of the tractor restoration paint from valspar for finish coating but have no primer. Can anyone recommend a compatable primer that will work well with the aformentioned
Re: PrimerI've used Rustoleum Rusty Metal Primer underneath the Valspar Restoration Series paint.
Although, it was 3 weeks or so between the primer and color coats. That was a few years ago. Still looks pretty good if I do say so myself. Only problem was I couldn't get the paint to flow out smooth no matter how much I put on. I think that's a gun/operator issue. Using a cheap $12.99 Harbor Freight spray gun probably wasn't helping things much.
Re: PrimerI've used rattle can Wal-Mart self etching primer under rattle can valspar IH paint that still looks good after about 8 years! Dusty B
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Re: PrimerThe local restoration guy here (does body work on autos/trucks/tractors) advised me to a) get all rust/paint off that comes off with a wire brush/sandpaper, b) paint Rustoleum Heavy Rust Primer on with brush x 2, c) put on finish coats (I used IH red).
Re: PrimerI guess it depends what sort of finish you're looking for. If you're just wanting to protect the metal then brush on a good coat of rustoleum before the finish coat, but if you're looking for a smooth factory finish on all of the sheet metal then apply a coat of epoxy primer. (You can find it at an automotive paint store) After it dries...water sand it with 400 grit wet/dry paper till all of the sand scratches are gone. Wipe it clean with prep-clean and a dust cloth and it's ready for the finish color coat. Hope this at least adds to your options. Good luck, Papa.
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Rosie's Garage
By Jennifer Haupt
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Almost 16 years ago, when Rose Espinoza and her husband, Eliasar, moved with their 8-year-old son to La Habra, California, a small town east of Los Angeles, the neighborhood was in trouble. "Boys with baseball bats hung out on the corners—and they weren't looking for a pickup game," says 54-year-old Rosie, a recently retired designer at a biomedical firm. "After threats of a drive-by shooting on our street, I thought,
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In mathematics, a degenerate case is a limiting case in which an element of a class of objects is qualitatively different from the rest of the class and hence belongs to another, usually simpler, class. Degeneracy is the condition of being a degenerate case.
A degenerate case thus has special features, which depart from the properties that are generic in the wider class, and which would be lost under an appropriate small perturbation.
In geometry[edit]
Conic sections[edit]
A degenerate conic is a conic section (a second-degree plane curve, the points of which satisfy an equation that is quadratic in one or the other or both variables) that fails to be an irreducible curve.
- A point is a degenerate circle, namely one with radius 0.
- The line is a degenerate case of a parabola if the parabola resides on a tangent plane.
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- A sphere is a degenerate standard torus where the axis of revolution passes through the center of the generating circle, rather than outside it.
- A segment is a degenerate case of a rectangle, if this has a side of length 0.
- For any non-empty subset , there is a bounded, axis-aligned degenerate rectangle
where and are constant (with for all ). The number of degenerate sides of is the number of elements of the subset . Thus, there may be as few as one degenerate "side" or as many as (in which case reduces to a singleton point).
- See general position for other examples.
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- In quantum mechanics any such multiplicity in the eigenvalues of the Hamiltonian operator gives rise to degenerate energy levels. Usually any such degeneracy indicates some underlying symmetry in the system.
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