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Linwood Tall Bull looked across Washington Elementary's courtyard Monday afternoon at the several dozen children seated in front of him and told them that, from the right perspective, they're a lot like the plants around them.
"Every plant has a story," he said. "Every plant is unique. There are no two plants that are alike, just like you."
A retired Northern Cheyenne ethnobotanist, Tall Bull studies the connections between people and plants, specifically in relation to his tribe. He spoke to students about those connections with the Northern Cheyenne, including how they've been used for medical, spiritual, religious and nutritional purposes over thousands of years.
Everyday life
As classes came in and out of the open-air courtyard for the day, Tall Bull told them about how American Indians used plants in everyday life — specific plants were used as remedies for everything from cuts to coughs; how they've been used as spiritual protection; and how people have a deep connection with them.
"Hold your hand up against a tree and if you hold it there long enough, it'll start to tingle," he said. "That's the tree taking your pain away."
He asked the kids if they've ever been mad at their parents and ran into the back yard, climbed a tree, and said you're never coming down until dinner?
"You always run to the tree. Did you ever notice when you climb back down, you're never angry? Contact with trees takes the pain and hurt away," he said.
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The kids, for the most part, sat enthralled by Tall Bull's presentation, which included plenty of real samples of items such as dried roots, sage and patties made of dried and crushed berries.
Myrcle Ortiz, 7, said she'll remember most how water ties everything together.
"He gave the plants water, just like we need water to grow," she said.
But she also took home a chance encounter with a family member she'd never met. After hearing Tall Bull's last name, she asked if he knew her dad, who has the same last name, and it turned out the two are first cousins.
"I learned that he's been in my family, and I didn't know that," she said. "I'm going to tell my dad that I met his cousin!"
Draven Scray, 8, said he liked learning about how the Northern Cheyenne would use local plants for remedies and cures.
"I don't know a lot of stuff like that," he said. "Like how they can make tea with the berries for when you're sick. It was all pretty new to me."
Principal Karen Ziegler said the presentation was part of an overall effort to educate kids on American Indian cultures and traditions. It's especially helpful since many of her students at Washington have native ancestry, but might not know much about it.
"The kids have been just fascinated," she said. "A lot of them just aren't exposed to the culture as much, so it's good. And I think there's a nature deficit in kids, just not being outside enough."
During a short break between speaking with classes, Tall Bull talked about ethnobotany and its ability to share and shed light on the stories of different people, passed down over thousands of years.
Teaching the kids about his tribe's use of local plants, and its beliefs in how they work, is a way to pass on lessons to youngsters that have been handed down for generations.
"I want them to start seeing beauty," Tall Bull said. "I want them to use their five senses and discover what's around them. I'm trying to teach them to respect plants and each other and take some pride."


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By Erika W. Smith in General on Nov 15, 2012
Looks like the Senate bathrooms might need a makeover.
Newly reelected Minnesota Democrat Amy Klobuchar recently spoke about one consequence of having a record number of women senators: a line in the bathroom.
"For the first time, we had a traffic jam in the women's senator's bathroom," she said. "There were five women in there. There's only two stalls! And I'm not going to say who — that would be really bad for decorum. There were five of us in there, two newly elected. So, very exciting."
After last week's election, a record 20 women will serve in the Senate, so these ladies might need more than those two stalls. Let's hope that Congress is quicker to adjust this time around — the Senate first got a women's bathroom in 1993, and the House of Representatives didn't get one until 2011.
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A superb display from South Africa?s seamers sent Sri Lanka tumbling under the Ahmedabad lights and flung Group B of the ICC Champions Trophy wide open. On another slow wicket, the Proteas stuttered to 219, but that proved far too much for the highly-regarded Asians as they could only muster 141.
With the prospect of a dewy outfield come the evening, Mahela Jayawardene won the toss and chose to field, a decision that appeared justified when South Africa were teetering themselves at 30 for three. Chaminda Vaas swung the new ball both prodigiously and accurately to remove both openers within nine overs. Jayawardene?s coupling of Vaas? incision and a deft field placing was the key reason for Graeme Smith chipping to a short midwicket trap, while a brilliant catch from Kumar Sangkarra, standing up to the stumps, saw the back of Boeta Dippenaar. Sandwiched in between their dismissals was that of Herschelle Gibbs, who flapped unconvincingly at Lasith Malinga, and was caught behind.
South Africa rebuilt through the experience of Jacques Kallis and youngster AB de Villiers, who had been drafted in to replace all-rounder Andrew Hall. The pair dug in to add 80 together, mostly off the spin of Jayasuriya and Muralitharan, with de Villiers playing the latter with considerable maturity and tidy footwork.
Kallis failed to convert his start into a large score, and was stumped off Jayasuriya for 43, but de Villiers went on to make his second ODI fifty, eventually falling for an 88-ball 54. Mark Boucher?s 29 held the innings together after their departures, setting up a position from which Shaun Pollock (21 not out) and Robin Peterson (22) to club 32 from the final two overs of the innings and lift the score over 200. Vaas finished off with the exceptionally economical figures of 10-3-16-1, but the real damage was done by Malinga, who took four for 53.
The Sri Lankan top four ? also incidentally the four leading scorers in ODI cricket this calendar year ? had been largely responsible for their recent success, but they ran into a brick wall in the form of Pollock and Makhaya Ntini. Sanath Jayasuriya, unable to free his arms in his usual manner, received a poor LBW decision from Umpire Daryll Harper to give Ntini his first wicket, and he was quickly followed by Upul Tharanga and Kumar Sangakkara. When Marvan Atapattu isread Andre Nel?s inswinger, Sri Lanka were choking at 34 for four, and the soft underbelly of a top-heavy batting order was exposed. They rallied around Mahela Jayawardene, who carved out an unconvincing 35, but a mix-up with Tillakaratne Dilshan all but settled the match. Dilshan drove low and hard to backward point, where Gibbs produced a stunning dive and throw to Pollock at the bowler?s end, who launched himself even more spectacularly at the stumps to leave Jayawardene stranded.
Dilshan hung around to eventually compile 36, before he too fell victim to Gibbs? athleticism at backward point. Chaminda Vaas provided the only real resistance to the South African seamers in a free-flowing unbeaten 29, as Nel, Ntini and Justin Kemp polished off the tail to complete a 78-run victory. The match ended with a slippery, dew-drenched outfield, but South Africa did not even have to resort to the spin of Peterson. Their pace battery of Pollock, Ntini and Nel was the perfect countermeasure to Sri Lanka?s dangerous upper order, and an undercooked lower-order was left with an Alpine struggle for victory. Sri Lanka, possibly second-favourites after Australia before today?s clash, now look set to miss out on qualification to the semi-finals: they must hope Pakistan can beat both South Africa and New Zealand by convincing margins to diminish their currently superior net run rates. South Africa must win against Pakistan to be sure of qualifying, but could still progress to the next stage if New Zealand fail to beat Pakistan.
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Sanaria's corporate headquarters is on the second floor of a glassy office building in Rockville, Maryland. The reception area is astonishingly bare, the carpet dotted with forlorn stains; a sticker on the copier says MALARIA SUCKS. "As you can see," Hoffman jokes, "we didn't put much money into the decor."
Instead, the money -- the bulk of a $29.3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation via the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative -- has gone into a suite of twenty-two rooms behind a whitish keypad door just down the hall from the reception area. As you walk down the hospital-bright corridor and peer right and left into the rooms, you can see exactly what the money has bought: a ton of little blue booties for the Sanaria factory workers and white lab coats and lunch-lady hairnets and giant silver chemical hoods and boxy silver portals that connect each room and pass the factory's "product" -- the vaccine-in-progress -- from one room to the next.
The process is balletic, a dance of precision movements choreographed by Kim Lee Sim, Sanaria's vice-president and Hoffman's wife, whom he met twenty-six years ago at a tropical-medicine conference in her native Malaysia. Sim's team breeds mosquitoes by the thousands, feeds them human blood infected with Plasmodium falciparum, then irradiates them. A technician pushes a button on a giant blue kiln, which fills the kiln's hearth with invisible gamma rays that singe something within the cells of the parasites. The parasites are now in limbo, alive but unable to divide. Then it's harvesting time. Workers kill the mosquitoes with an alcohol bath, quick and easy, and then, one by one, they separate the male mosquitoes from the females (males don't transmit malaria), arrange the females on microscope slides, and use needles and tweezers to pull their heads ever so delicately from their bodies. Then they isolate the salivary glands full of the zombie parasites and dissolve away the contaminating mosquito material (How? "I could tell you," says Hoffman, "but then I'd have to kill you"), leaving only the zombies, irradiated and perfect and pure. In a small plastic vial less than an inch high, they appear as a clear, odorless liquid. Like water. Then the vial's placed into vaporized nitrogen for storage.
It's all so low-tech that it's easy to miss the engineering breakthroughs; many of the steps had to be invented by Hoffman's team from scratch. (For instance, because the parasites are so big relative to bacteria, Hoffman had to hire one of the world's foremost supercooling experts to build a customized cooling system.) Yet Hoffman won't apologize if it seems kind of primitive. That's the point: speed. It doesn't have to be elegant; it just has to be safe. "Anything that was not on the main path, we put on blinders for," Hoffman says. He can refine it later. After. After the first key test. The one he's been dreaming about for six years.
"Is it going to work or not?" says Dr. Christian Loucq, head of the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative and Hoffman's partner. "That's the big question."
This is what it means to make a vaccine nobody has ever made before, using methods everybody assumed would be unworkable. It means acknowledging the risks and the probabilities of failure and the unanswered questions, even as you try to show people how you've already beaten the odds. It means standing up at scientific meetings and answering the pointed questions of the Glaxo guys. (" 'Well, what about the contaminating material?' Well, we've solved that. 'But what about the potency?' We've solved that. 'What about the quantity?' They kept trying to shoot us down.") It means trying not to squirm in your chair as a reporter from The New York Times presents you with a nasty quote from a competing vaccine maker in Paris: "Even calling it a vaccine is a compliment....It is like Captain Ahab in the movie trying to kill Moby Dick with his knife." It means that at any point, Hoffman "may encounter insurmountable hurdles," according to Dr. Myron Levine, director of the Center for Vaccine Development at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and an admirer of Hoffman's progress to date. "One by one, he has addressed those hurdles so far, and in fact has been able to overcome them," Levine says. It means that before Hoffman can sell the vaccine to First World tourists and Third World governments and global public-health agencies and replenish the grant money he has burned through -- before he can give the vaccine a chance to prove its worth in human tests scheduled for the United States and Africa -- he has to sit around and wait. The FDA has asked for additional safety tests, which should be completed by January. Safety studies are necessary but expensive. "You have to be so assiduous," says Hoffman. "And it's really good. We cannot do harm. The Hippocratic oath and all that. But it is mind-boggling."
Sanaria is almost broke. Hoffman is dipping into his own personal funds to keep the company afloat. He still has to make payroll every month for his forty-five employees, some of whom relocated to Rockville from foreign countries, seduced by the chance to work on the vaccine. In down moments it can get to Hoffman. There have been "extraordinary setbacks" in the past year; all six production runs have gone "perfectly," but before that there were major hitches, unforeseen expenses, dead parasites in the vials.
"It takes a toll," Hoffman says. "Personally."
"But it makes us better," Sim says.
Hoffman nods, seeming to draw strength from her. "But every time we do it, we get better and better."
This is what's so hard for Hoffman. His major creative leap as a scientist was to take this massive open-ended search for a malaria vaccine and redefine it as a basic engineering problem. And now he's in a position in which all his creativity has to be funneled into waking up every day and putting out a series of tiny fires before they have a chance to form a giant blaze.
And at the same time that he's struggling to veer away from worst-case scenarios, he has to plan for the best case -- for human tests. In August, with funding from the National Institutes of Health, Hoffman put one of his employees on a plane to Accra, Ghana. On a separate plane, Hoffman shipped a vial of "research material" -- Sanaria's irradiated parasites. The parasites were packed in a white box about the size of a minifridge, full of liquid nitrogen. When the employee landed, he retrieved the vials and checked to see if the parasites were still potent. They were. Then he took another plane and a 4x4 truck to a remote, heavily malarious region in the north of Ghana and checked the parasites a second time. Then he turned around and flew home. The vials arrived in Maryland, and Hoffman's employees tested the parasites again to make sure they were still okay, this vaccine that was never supposed to exist but exists, but exists.
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Help Promote Gonzalez FRESNO, Calif. - Fresno State's senior pitcher Greg Gonzalez was named one of 30 semifinalists for the 2011 USA Baseball Golden Spikes Award (GSA). Bulldog fans can help honor Gonzalez by voting for him at GoldenSpikesAward.com this week, sharing the link on Facebook and using the Twitter hashtag (#): #VoteGonzalez4GoldenSpikes" Gonzalez, who went 11-0 with a 1.43 earned run average and 121 strikeouts in 100.2 innings pitched this season, was honored as the WAC Pitcher of the Year last week, helped Fresno State win the 2011 regular season and tournament title, and earn a spot in this weekend's NCAA Los Angeles Regional. GoldenSpikesAward.com -- powered by MLB.com -- will once again be the online home for the award. The Web site features content devoted exclusively to the GSA, including news, voting history, past winner photo galleries, and photographs and video highlights for the 2011 semifinalists. Fans can also follow online at GoldenSpikesAward.com as the list of 30 players is narrowed to three finalists on Monday, June 6. For the first time ever, the GSA will be awarded live on MLB Network. The presentation will begin at 6:00 p.m. ET on MLB Tonight, Friday, July 15. The three finalists for the award will be at MLB Network's studios for the presentation, which will feature interviews, video highlights and the announcement of the winner. Online footage of the event also will be available via GoldenSpikesAward.com and MLB.com. This marks the 34th consecutive year that the award has been presented to the nation's top amateur baseball player.
In 2007, USA Baseball instituted a new selection and balloting procedure for the most prestigious award in amateur baseball, and it will follow the same model again in 2011. After working closely with sports information directors and amateur baseball media across the country to determine watch lists and the top-performing athletes, a committee voted to determine the 30 semifinalists. A ballot featuring the names and accomplishments of the 30 semifinalists will now be sent to a group of nearly 200 voters which will select the three finalists and eventual winner. Beginning today fans will also be able to vote on the 2011 GSA by visiting GoldenSpikesAward.com and selecting their favorite amateur player.
"USA Baseball congratulates each of the 30 student-athletes and their respective baseball programs," said Paul Seiler, USA Baseball Executive Director/CEO. "With the increased exposure we are bringing to the Golden Spikes Award through the MLB Network this year, there is added excitement surrounding the voting process and live presentation. We wish all of the semifinalists the best of luck." A list of the 30 semifinalists is as follows:
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The Pests bio: Hailing from one of the world's most fascinating cities, a unique melting pot of culture and music The Pests are one of New Orleans longest running and most popular post-punk bands. The band recently paid homage to their punk roots with the early 2014 released 7" single Disturbance in the Gulf featuring the songs "Pissed and Menacing" and "Kill Her Some More" from their upcoming self-produced new album A Damn Fine Mixture, currently being mastered by Scott Hull {Rage Against the Machine, Beastie Boys) at Masterdisk and due out this November on the bands own 60 Grit label.
The Pests are Steve Halprin -vocals/guitar, Chuck Diesel - bass/vocals, and Mazz-1 on drums. Using humor to tackle some real issues in their songs the band at times might be misunderstood, but listen closely because they have something to say.
With their first album Simplified their hardcore fans latched on to the rougher songs like "Life is Sweet," the title track, "Simplified" and over-the-top aggressive "G.A.G.", a testament to the seemingly self-destructive devotion necessary for life on the road. The album wasn't without controversy, however. The song "Nazi Trot" was often misconstrued, but if the lyrics were ever noted, the vehemently anti-Nazi stance would be obvious. Despite the hardcore lean on some tracks, the one that stood out was the infectious anthem "I Hate My Girlfriend." Oddly, the success it brought them with local radio play and television appearance would also lead to unexpected set-backs.
As the buzz on this DIY band grew in came the offers from record labels and industry insiders who made offers, demanded changes and ultimately made more than their fair share of broken promises. The band was re-named, a new album was rushed and industry executives tried to claim credits for songs that he had absolutely no part in writing. Chuck was so soured over the events that he temporary quit, thinking he was ready to give up music forever.
In keeping with the philosophies expounded in their song G.A.G., Steve and Mazz-1 had no choice. They decided to keep going, but without Chuck. They recorded only one album and called it Up For Anything. It was done completely DIY in Mazz-1's garage, and despite the raw and seemingly sub-standard quality, it spawned the contagious song "I've Got a Feeling" which began to get a lot of play on local radio and lead to sold-out club dates.
Having a new found motivation, Chuck re-joined and began work on "We Reserve the Right to be Impolite", a definite look back on the harder sound that crowds had become Accustomed to years earlier. "Rockabilly is Ruining my Life" was released in 2012 on 7" vinyl and once again the band saw heavy rotation on commercial and college radio.
Now back to their DIY roots and original line-up the band is back, road ready and revitalized. They have garnered a large and very devoted following in their hometown and now they are poised to make their mark on the rest of the world.
About The Video: "We've all done things in life that shouldn't be talked about, but at some point we have to come clean. We usually don't learn from our lessons and we will definitely do it again, and unfortunately we like doing it." says The Pests about the song and video. Director Name: Eric Lacour
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With a world renowned trumpet player as a dad, it was inevitable that LP would become an unstoppable musician. Starting at the tender age of two, LP quickly picked up the drums with the help of professionals drum instructors Max Roach and Art Blakey. Fast forward several years, LP would meet soo-to-be best friend and guitarist Ben Harper at Douglas Anderson School of The Arts. The two formed what would become the well known pop-punk band 'Yellowcard' and toured the world together for many years. Harper would later leave Yellowcard to continue his musical endeavors with his self-founded label, Takeover Records. One of his first signings would be 'HeyMike!', a punk band from Camarillo, CA. The band saw moderate success throughout the mid-2000's with the help of Harper's guidance. Harper and Neufeld, the band's singer/guitarist, became close friends during their time working together. Also spawning from the local scene, Castillo (having previously played in several San Gabriel Valley bands including 'Stanley and the Search') caught the attention of NOFX guitarist El Hefe and wife Jen Abeyta, as a significantly talented singer/songwriter.
After LP's departure from Yellowcard in March of 2014, he partnered with Harper to collaborate again. Unsure of what was to come musically, the duo wanted to lean on El Hefe for advice. El Hefe suggested they begin writing with Castillo, a musician he and Jen had taken under their wing for some time. After solidifying a singer, guitarist and drummer, a bassist and backing vocalist was needed. The group enlisted long time friend Neufeld to fill the slot. 2014 would prove to be the perfect year of break-ups and make-ups. In May of 2014, the band would sign to 'Cyber Tracks', an LA based record label owned by El Hefe (guitarist of NOFX) and Jen Abeyta. Upon selecting the band name 'This Legend', LP stated, "It's a positive statement to say, 'no matter who you are and no matter how many times you get put down in the world, you can look at yourself in the mirror and see a legend'."
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The Venomous Pinks is a quartet of girls, ready to break the rules. As one of the only all girl rock bands in the Phoenix area, they will break your heart and bust your balls. Influenced by Joan Jett and The Ramones, these four talented musicians channel a unique sound that is rock and roll with attitude. With Drea Doll on guitar/vocals, Gaby Kaos on guitar/bass/vocals, Corrie Zazzera on guitar and Jewlz on drums, this foursome of musicians will intoxicate you with their tantalizing talent, high energy, and no holds barred attitude. With their salacious sound, they've cultivated quite the following, causing crowds to line up at national shows. Putting on a presentation that showcases their gregarious girl power, this band leaves audiences wanting more. This foursome is well on the way to becoming one of the hottest bands around.
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The Obvious artfully combine late 70's punk and early 90's alternative with their own demented twist, making gritty ear candy of their catchy tunes.
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Left Alone returns in their true form, serving up their strongest and most aggressive record to date. With the catchy sing along punk rock, up beat ska, and a little country, Harbor Area is an 11 song collection that is packed full of what Left Alone is known for. The band recorded this album with long time friend and producer TJ Rivera (Rufio/Nitro Records/Poor Habit/ Fat Records) in August 2012. They tracked over 20 songs and released the Hate the Day EP in 2013 for a Japan tour from those sessions. After Cortez took a break in 2013 from recording to tour and play guitar with The Transplants and Tim Timebomb and Friends, the band returned to the studio in early 2014 to put together the songs that would eventually become Harbor Area. The inspiration behind this record comes from the personal experiences that lead singer Elvis Cortez (one of the hardest working punk rockers today) has accumulated growing up in the South Bay of Los Angeles, an area that spews over with gang violence, crime and overall sense of no future. The album kicks off with the explosive song 'Harbor Area' which speaks of the violence and death that plagues the streets that Cortez calls home, and ends with the song "Malcontent' which explores the inner struggles of growing up on the streets of Wilmington. Simply put, this album lyrically establishes a new level of personal insight that is rare to find in todays lackluster music. Speaking within the confinements of the 110 Fwy, The 405, the 710 and the Port of Wilmington. Harbor Area is a love letter by Cortez to his hometown and the place where it all began.
Vid info: Directed by Steve Guerrero, produced by Elvis Cortez.
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A rollover on the Lac Du Bois Forest Road on Tuesday morning has resulted in drunk driving charges against a 24-year-old Kamloops man, police said Wednesday.
Kamloops RCMP estimate the driver was going more than 120 km/h when he lost control of a GMC Jimmy at about 9:40 a.m.
Neither the driver nor his 21-year-old female passenger was injured.
A Kamloops man came upon the scene shortly after the crash and reported it to police.
The driver provided breath samples that registered more than twice the legal limit, police said.
He is scheduled to appear in court on March 25. In the meantime he has been issued a three-month driving prohibition.
"The driver has had previous contact with the courts on a similar matter involving liquor use and driving," police said.
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Who Are We?
We're a group of guys who fell in love with the summer and a little game called lacrosse. More specifically we're Lax With Class, and we're all about comfy, classy clothes for bros.
How Did It All Start?
It all started with our first design: the tuxedo lax pinnie. Choosing high quality pinnies and a simple, classy design we crafted a lax pinnie that bros would feel comfortable wearing out and about, but was also classy enough to wear to parties.
The pinnies debuted in Ocean City, Maryland during Senior Week 2011. They were a massive hit:
John M.
I wore my tuxedo lax pinnie for 7 days straight. It said 'I'm here to party, but I like being classy.' I was still getting compliments on it by the end of the week. A girl actually stopped her car, rolled down the window, and asked me about it. Best purchase I ever made.
Ian H.
I got my lax pinnie right before I graduated. My first thoughts when I got it were: "That gentlemen, is called class."
After I graduated, I threw on my pinnie, jumped in my car and cruised on down to Senior Week. While walking on the boardwalk and hanging on the beach or at parties, it would turn the heads of the chillest lax bros, the classiest of women, and everyone in between.
After Senior Week, I took a trip to Aruba, where I continued to rock the tux pinnie. Even the islanders were impressed. Doesn't matter if you are a D1 lacrosse star or just someone trying to have a good time, the pinnie works for anyone.
The Lax With Class Lifestyle
Here at Lax With Class, we embrace the senior week mentality: that mentality of having fun, kicking back and enjoying life. We realize that sometimes you just have to throw away your schoolbooks for a bit, let the lettuce rage, and embrace the finer things in life.
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A 62-year-old man is in hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after he was hit by a car Tuesday at about 6:30 p.m. at the intersection of Chestnut and Fortune, Kamloops RCMP said Wednesday.
The driver of a 2002 Toyota Corolla, a 31-year-old Kamloops man, was stopped on Chestnut and getting ready to turn right onto Fortune.
He told police later that the crosswalk was clear when he looked ahead, but he then looked to the left for traffic before turning.
Meanwhile, two pedestrians - and man, 62, and his son, 24 - had decided there was too much traffic for the car to turn, and ventured into the crosswalk.
The younger man was able to jump clear, but the older man could not.
The driver remained at the scene and assisted until emergency personnel arrived. Police have ruled out speed and alcohol as factors.
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Consortium on Health and Mobility
Consortium on Health and Mobility
The Consortium on Health and Mobility is a Minnesota-based collaborative of educators and health care providers thinking about medical education that reduces disparities in the 21st century.
The globalization of disease is the inexorable consequence of vastly increased and accelerated human mobility. Nearly 1 billion people cross international boundaries each year; a number projected to increase to 1.5 billion in a decade.
This enormous cohort—which includes immigrants, refugees, migrant workers, international adoptees, trafficking victims, internal migrants and displaced people, tourists and business travelers—represent a daunting new challenge to the practice of medicine and to the training of medical providers.
US medical education programs are only beginning to address the complex issues that must be considered in preparing doctors to treat a globally mobile patient population. These issues include variations in infectious disease exposures and prevalence; disparities in susceptibility and health status among patient groups; discordances in culture and language between patient and provider; systemic barriers to care, and more.
Medical education needs to be structured around a new paradigm, with a focus on human mobility and its impact on health, and a renewed commitment to truly patient-centered care. The Consortium on Health and Mobility is a Minnesota-based collaborative of educators and health care providers who are developing training recommendations to address this new paradigm.
The Consortium is a collaborative process sponsored by the Medtronic Foundation, in partnership with the University of Minnesota and HealthPartners. Website design and management by Health Advocates.
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Altoona Community Theatre will hold a beer sampling benefit featuring new and favorite autumn brews from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday, September 28, at the Railroaders Memorial Museum railyard. This is the second year the local theatre troupe has partnered with Sheetz as a Corporate Sponsor to raise funds for its production season at The Historic Mishler Theatre.
Among the upstart and well-known brewers participating are Marzoni's, Magic Hat, Atwater, Troegs, Southern Tier, Great Lakes, Old Forge, Batch 19, Angry Orchard, Third Shift, Blue Moon, Sam Adams, Kona, Duquesne and more. Entertainment will be provided by Tyne Palazzi and Jack & Lilly and food will be available. All attendees, 21 and older, must show proper photo ID at gate.
Tickets are $25 in advance or $30 day-of-event and are available at Brew Zoo in the Pleasant Valley Shoping Center, or online through EventBrite at https:actbeerfest.eventbrite.
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The USC Men's Board structure will be undergoing some major changes this year, as we work towards recognition of our Board as an official USC organization and eventually as a chartered alumni group.
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A Closer Look at the Chingai Airstrike in Bajaur, Pakistan
Questions over target of strike in Bajaur, who conducted it, and why. Zawahiri may have been a target.
Tribesmen gather near the bodies of those killed during a Pakistan army air strike in Chenagai in the Bajaur tribal region bordering Afghanistan, October 30, 2006. (Handout/Reuters). Click image to view. |
As we reported just this morning, there were going to be questions about the air strikes in Chingai that targeted a local madrassa serving as an al Qaeda and Taliban training camp. Just hours after the strike, questions are arising about who actually conducted the strike, who was the target of the strike, how it was carried out, and why it occurred. Reports are emerging that the U.S. conducted the strike (as we predicted) and Ayman al-Zawahiri was the target.
Who was the target?
Alexis Debat reports Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda's second in command, was indeed the target of the nighttime raid. He was not killed, but 2-5 senior al Qaeda were killed, "including the mastermind of the airliners plot in the U.K." We presume this is Matiur Rehman.
Faqir Mohammed was present at the madrassa just 30 minutes prior to the strike. He survived, and addressed the crowd of mourners in Chingai as well as gave an interview with an NBC reporter on the scene. "We were peaceful, but the government attacked and killed our innocent people on orders from America," Mohammed told the rally as dozens of militants surrounded him, brandishing semiautomatic weapons," reports the Associated Press. We suspect Faqir Mohammed was a target of the raid, for reasons mentioned below.
How was the attack carried out?
Also Alexis Debat reports U.S. 'drones' - actually this would be Predator UAVs, conducted the strike, and not Pakistani helicopters. An American intelligence source informs us that the Pakistani Army does not possess the capabilities to conduct precision night strikes such as this attack. There are several possibilities here: it could have indeed been a Predator strike, or, more risky would be a strike by U.S. C-130 gunships or helicopters. Conducting manned strikes over Pakistani airspace has its risks, including that of a shoot down and follow on rescue mission. The Asia Time's Syed Saleem Shahzad reports this was a 'NATO airstrike" by "helicopter gunships," however it is highly unlikely this strike occurred under the aegis of NATO. Look for signs of Task Force 145 having carried out this raid, with unmanned Predators firing Hellfire missiles, and possibily C-130 and helicopters following up.
Why did the strike occur?
The target selection and who carried out the strike certainly plays a big role in the motivations for the strike. There are 4 main reasons for hitting the Chingai madrassa.
1. Zawahiri or another High Value Target was present at the time, or a mix of senior al Qaeda leaders were believed to be there.2. This was an attempt to abort the coming "Bajaur Accord." A local political leader in Chingai said "This attack is very strange as we were told Sunday that the peace agreement would be signed today," indicating the purposed was to disrupt the signing of the accord.
3. A combination of high value target and an attempt to disrupt the Bajaur accords.
4. Pakistan is attempting to show it is still relevant in the war against al Qaeda and the Taliban. NATO commander General James Jones just left Pakistan, and Prince Charles is currently in country.
We're going to rule reason 4 out, as Pakistan is more than willing to sign peace agreements with the Taliban and al Qaeda, and the last few times it allowed raids of this nature (Damadola, Danda Saidgai) the Musharraf regime suffered serious political consequences and political unrest. The Pakistani and international press are already claiming this was a strike on a school and that dozens of children were killed.
Reason 1 - Zawahiri's presence, could lead to either a Pakistani or U.S. strike. Pakistan might take that risk to ingratiate itself with the West. Reasons 2 and 3 all point to the U.S. led attack. Pakistan has no interest in disrupting these peace processes. All three of these options are plausible, and for the reasons mentioned above, we suspect this was a raid carried out by the U.S. hunter-killers of Task Force 145.
Note that option 2 - disrupting the Bajaur Accords, is a strictly U.S. option. Faqir Mohammed, a Taliban leader in the region, would have been instrumental in signing such an agreement, and he was very likely a target. If disrupting the Bajaur Accord was the motivation for the strike (and we can't help thinking it was), then the U.S. leadership has deemed the peace accords to be a major threat to both the security situation in both Afghanistan and nuclear Pakistan.
READER COMMENTS: "A Closer Look at the Chingai Airstrike in Bajaur, Pakistan"
Posted by Dom at October 30, 2006 3:36 PM ET:
Whoever conducted the strike, the momentum of the accommodations between Musharraf and the rogue territories has been disrupted. If Musharraf is so anxious to seek accommodations, how could he possibly have the stomach to order such a raid, the conduct of which probably required technology beyond the capabilities of the Pakistani forces anyway?
Posted by Jimbo at October 30, 2006 3:39 PM ET:
My money is on TF 145 or whatever number they are using now.
Posted by C-Low at October 30, 2006 4:14 PM ET:
I wonder if this was a first combat use of the new Preadator-B (Reaper).
To flatten a Madrassa compound and KIA 80+ would mean either one or two of the new "Reaper"'s or like earlier in the year a whole wing of multiple preadators.
Posted by Cruiser at October 30, 2006 5:14 PM ET:
Perhaps it is. I must say that I doubted the idea of it being a Predator attack because I thought that they could only carry two Hellfires. That would have required three Predators (4-5 missiles) for this attack - all of them loitering near the target at the same time and all coordinating with each other over which drone will strike what. I just thought that was unlikely. But, if one drone can carry that much....
Perhaps what is happening here is that we are striking with Predator(s) and the Pakistanis are following up with helicopter exploitation (getting DNA and gathering other information). That would explain the fact that witnesses report hearing or seeing helicopters at each one of these strikes. It also may explain why the most important targets seem to narrowly escape (ISI giving them a heads up that Pakistani exploitation team has gotten word to conduct an operation at ___ (place) at ____ (time)).
Posted by Quasi at October 30, 2006 5:59 PM ET:
So if it was a night raid, why were so many there? Do madrassas typically hold night-classes? Do students live at the madrassas?
Anyways, how can you complain that your building was just an "innocent school" when al-Zawahiri, the #2 most wanted terrorist in the world, was just at your place (presumably by invitation)?
Posted by remoteman at October 30, 2006 6:54 PM ET:
Think of madrassas as wahabist boarding schools where terror indoctrination is a central facet of the curriculum. That's right, at Bajuaur Acadamy your son will not only get to memorize the koran, but he will also learn to hate infidels and kill them with automatic weapons or blow them up with explosives. Chemical weapons are an elective reserved for our brightest students.
I agree that this looks like a Reaper raid followed by Paki clean up teams. No sense putting TF 145 personnel anywhere close to that unless they were going to do a grab operation.
Posted by blert at October 30, 2006 8:57 PM ET:
For such a high value target even F-22 or B-2 could be involved.
At the low post: a UAV.
Working the high post: a single B-2 with JDAMs.
The UAV eyeballs the play -- the JDAMs are dialed in.
There is no way that Pakistan can track a B-2. Just one would be more than enough to snuff eighty bad guys.
The total 'time on target' effect makes one think of one heavy delivery platform.
Posted by Jake at October 30, 2006 9:39 PM ET:
You guys are the experts on this stuff, but for the those of us uninitiated who have recently read The Looming Tower and learned that "Taliban" MEANS "student", it doesn't seem surprising that a madrassa on the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan would be in anyone's guns sites.
Posted by Nicholas at October 30, 2006 10:49 PM ET:
I suspect in the future, as Pakistan loses control over Taliban-infested areas of its territory, we're going to see more and more strikes like this. It's the only effective way to cause attrition amongst the terrorists training there before they head to Afghanistan or some other country to cause trouble.
Posted by Tommy at October 31, 2006 1:21 AM ET:
Damn, Zawahiri is like Houdini! This is the 6th or 7th known time in the last 5 years that he has escaped an attempt to kill or capture him. I hope US and Pakistan special forces comb the area in the next few days. My guess is we spooked in Bajur, Pakistan so he'll probably head to Kunar, Afghanistan for a bit. I heard that he goes back and forth frequently. Let's hope we bring his ass to justice very soon.
Posted by Tommy at October 31, 2006 1:24 AM ET:
That should say "spooked HIM".
Posted by bubba at October 31, 2006 8:24 AM ET:
I'm no expert on ordanance, but I have to agree with remoteman on his suspicion that JDAMS might be involved here. I have no idea how physically large the madrassa is, but I assume it is rather large as it is headed by a prominent figure in jihadi community.
Hellfires carry a shaped-charge warhead of less than twenty lbs. While it's shaped charge is of extraordinary effectiveness in defeating armor, concrete and the like, the casualty count of 100% there and the description of the building as being flattened suggests that a larger warhead has been utilized creating a massive shock front rather than the high-velocity jet, or jets, of metal of the sort produced by shaped charges.
It would take a lot of Hellfires to produce anything more than a swiss cheese effect on the interior walls of a substantial building complete with an interior courtyard of the type that I understand are typical of madrassas in the Frontier Provinces.
A B-2 or F-117 would make an excellent delivery platform in this South Asian scenario.
Of course, as I am not an explosives expert so this is all conjecture on my part.
Posted by Veritas at October 31, 2006 3:21 PM ET:
Quasi asked:
So if it was a night raid, why were so many there? Do madrassas typically hold night-classes? Do students live at the madrassas?
It was an early morning (5 am) raid; shortly before Muslim morning prayers.
Madrassas (the local word for "schools") do not hold night classes, but students (typically 10-15 years old) live on-premises and education is free (funded by private charity). Although Pakistan army denied any collateral damage in the strike, locals allege that some 80 children were killed.
Posted by Brad at October 31, 2006 4:08 PM ET:
I really hate to say it, but on the subject of children getting killed in the strike, nits do make lice.
Posted by Fellow Peacekeeper at November 1, 2006 10:03 AM ET:
How about a Hellfire with MAC (thermobaric) warhead? That'd square the catastrophic building damage and cas rate with predator as a launch platform.
Posted by bubba at November 1, 2006 1:07 PM ET:
Fellow Peacekeeper,
Although I've never read or heard about such a warhead being funded or developed for the Hellfire, it would certainly be technically possible.
The Marine Corp has just such a warhead for it's SHAW launcher. And the Soviets/Russians even developed a thermobaric RPG munition. So warhead size wouldn't seem to be a constraining engineering problem.
It is conceiveable that such a weapon might well be a black program.
But once again this is all conjecture.
Posted by Fellow Peacekeeper at November 1, 2006 11:06 PM ET:
Global Security website page : AGM-114N Metal Augmented Charge (MAC) Thermobaric Hellfire
Posted by bubba at November 2, 2006 2:27 PM ET:
Eureka, Fellow Peacekeeper! I think you have found it. My lack of access to access to Jane's for the last few years seems to be catching up to me.
This does beg the question as to whether we are entrusting the 114N to the Pakis so early in its procurement cycle though.
The Predator looks increasingly like the launch platform for this strike.
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I've put some new answers up after the Grayskull win!
Too bad that Grayskull going through doesn't influence 2014 any.
Except that the reaction of the 4H would be somewhat irrelevant. For starters, the 4H a) don't have the clout or authority to block such a move easily (besides one hell of a "we walk if.." bluff which could backfire if they need Mattel more than Mattel needs them and Mattel knows it) b) would be gagged by a NDA if they were pulled so they could hardly be vocal about it.
Considering where I suspect the call to switch design teams came from; I have my doubts as to how much power Toy Guru might have in this case. He may be the brand manager, but even he takes his marching orders from others.
No, I'm voicing suspicions based not only what happened, but on the lack of any solid response from Toyguru that the same thing wont happen here. Furthermore I never said it would happen, just that it being an impossibility has to be ruled out in light of the evidence and that there is a worrying possibility that it could happen.
Based on what besides wishful thinking exactly (considering we're told how Mattycollector customers are essentially "a drop in the bucket" as we've been repeatedly told)?.
I've put some new answers up after the Grayskull win!
Too bad that Grayskull going through doesn't influence 2014 any.
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"Now that the fans have voted on CG and it's been greenlit, will this help 2014 get more (or at least not lose any) SKUs?
2014 is actually too far down the pipe to be affected now. It isn't approved, but it is too far along. The Grayskull sale if anything would affect 2015."
So I wonder if CG counts as 2012 or 2013? In other words, how soon could we see Snake Mountain?
The power of Grayskull compels you!
My daughter's Hebrew name is Shira.
Mattel can aways throw stuff in which are outside the sub. If they make a preorder for the Battle Ram, it wouldn't affect 2014, because it's outside the sub...
Screw Snake Mountain, lets worry about figures now.
Another interesting thing to consider, is that it takes 1 to 1 1/2 years to get figures from concept to production. That means behind the scenes 2014 should be happening now. If the bulk of the 4H efforts are going into CG, what is going to happen to new sculpts for figures? Will that mean reduced number of slots because the 4H will have too much work? Or more repaints?
I hope the answer TG gave to the Point Dread--talon fighter question is an indicator that they are looking at vehicles again. I just hope that if they do offer a preorder that it be Battleram first--we have waited long enough for him Besides, he's already sculpted and I think he's the most wanted vehicle by the fans from what I can tell.....
That's true. Which makes me now question both the importance of the sub (since that just guarantees what's included), and what the next step will be in testing new grounds. (Online-only? Check. Sub for guaranteed sales? Check. Pre-sale for product sight unseen? Check.)
I mean, in theory, 2013 could have even MORE items than 2012, they would just all be outside the sub.
The power of Grayskull compels you!
My daughter's Hebrew name is Shira.
My big question here: where, in any of the official literature on the Castle, does it say the Fab Four are going to be working on it? I know there has been a lot of talk from all sources that indicated they would be, but there is nothing on the Grayskull order page that says "sculpted by the Horsemen." Has TG stated in writing the Horsemen would be working on it? CG is a huge undertaking, and, even though the Horsmen's workload for Mattel is likley lighter than it has been (MOTUC cutting back, DCUC/Infinite Earths cut to 13 figures, and a nearly non-existent retail 6" line), I don't know if the Horsemen's schedule can accomodate it. I know they've been chomping at the bit to do this, and I believe that if there is any way in heaven or heck, they will be a part of it. But a lot of things could get in the way, including Mattel deciding their talents are needed more elswhere. I don't think that will happen, as I'm pretty sure Mattel knows how much of the line's success thus far is due to the Horsemen's contributions, but Mattel doesn't always make logical choices or even the choices that are in their actual interests. We've seen ego override common sense many times over the years from Mattel, and some problems in this very line seem to fall into that category, so until I see in writing that the Fab Four are involved, there is a possibility they are not.
I think it would be good for TG to confirm that the Horsemen are involved to allay fears and hopefully prop up sales even more. For something this expensive, you want to take away as many excuses for not taking the plunge as you can.
"I will use this power for all the good that can be done, to work for peace, to encourage virtue, and above all, to preserve life in all its forms..." Superman
I have just submitted the question on the 4HM website asking if they are involved. I'll let you know.
So letting us know in the summer doesn't seem adequate to tool the figures. Their timeframe of planning seems to be constantly altered to fit the current scenario. It's not a big deal that they want to keep secrets but they should let us know sooner rather than later if we will get a 2014 sub like he initially promised. If we aren't, telling us sooner won't hurt sales of subs or anything. But I feel like it is most likely a marketing tactic to build demand.
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200X is getting a character this year! I hope it's The 'Seed!
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@ the last question.
Great news about the 200x figure (hopefully figures) I really want Dactys, Calix and Evil Seed so bad, they're three of my most wanted figures, easily in my top ten.
MOTUC NA Most Wanted: Darius, Kayo, Vizar, Hoove, Lizorr
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Calix is my bet for the 200X figure.
I think Catra's Wrath loves to answer questions that we intend for Toyguru to answer, even when TG himself has said that the mods aren't informed about the operations of the brand.
My seller/trader/buyer feedback:
MOTUC Most Wanted: 1) Stridor 2) Night Stalker 3) Roton 4) Dragstor 5) Saurod 6) Karg 7) Lodar 8) Mask of Power Demons 9) TC Skeletor 10) FF He-Man 11) Talon Fighter/Point Dread 12) Road Ripper 13) Lord Masque 14) Filmation Teela
So Mattel keeps changing their stories as usual. The sub page still is coming very soon and there will be no extras with castle Grayskull like they said possibly would be. This is why I wish they wouldn't even bother communicating with us so often.
Yeah I was curious about the answer regarding extras with CG as they said what was shown was the minimum. Being that the sales still have over a month for the pre-orders, how can they comment on what extras will/will not be included with it. They should be able to add more if the pre-orders reach the 200% minimum for example. So, I would like to have them just say that. Say we will not know exactly what will be included until the pre-order period is over and we see how many are ordered. That would be the proper response to these type questions.
I expect it to be Calix as well. I'd rather see Prahvus or Evilseed though.
Most-wanted MOTUC: Granita - Hunga the Harpy - The Melog - Melaktha - Vultak - Dylamug - Crita - Sprag, Sprocker and Spritina - the Twiggets King Ahgo
TG answer on Matty Forums:
But no matter how many slots we are getting in 2014, we're going to use 2014 and potentially 2015 to try and "wrap up the line". More fan demanded variants like this might need to be on the back burner for some more demanded vintage updates first.
Interesting . . .
My seller/trader/buyer feedback:
MOTUC Most Wanted: 1) Stridor 2) Night Stalker 3) Roton 4) Dragstor 5) Saurod 6) Karg 7) Lodar 8) Mask of Power Demons 9) TC Skeletor 10) FF He-Man 11) Talon Fighter/Point Dread 12) Road Ripper 13) Lord Masque 14) Filmation Teela
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Well, if you look at the other answers that are up, he's still giving hope for things like Koduk Ungol (sp?) and the Wind Raider pilot... sooo... I feel a lot of folks' "dark horse favorites" are probably still going to slip in one way or the other (SDCC exclusives, Traveling Con figures, etc).
A lot of my "dark horse favorites" are from the vintage line, so this news makes me happy and rather hopeful that Rokkon, Double Trouble, Entrapta, Extendar, Quakke, and Eldor will appear in 2014/15. I'd rather them in my collection than The Scientists, 2002 Evil-Lyn, Callix, etc. For me, the recent turn of events might mean figures that may have originally been on the roadmap for 2016 and beyond could come sooner. I'm one of the folks that felt like the line was starting to get a bit too padded out by the likes of Filmation Randor, Vykron, Sir Laser-Lot, Spector, BG Evil-Lyn, Snake Man-At-Arms, Dekker... I welcome 2014 with it's promise of "all vintage and A-list Filmation characters"- it'll be a welcome change of pace, even if it's just for that year. Chances are the line will still be going beyond '14, so there's no saying that the random stuff like Goat Man, Lodar, Josh, etc won't make some sort of appearance in the future.


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Thu, Nov 27, 08 at 19:32
I've found a notion that I wonder what I did before I found it. Sorry, I don't know the brand name, but it's a felt tipped pen that is filled with water and a few drops of some kind of solution and when it's used to mark fold lines on fabric, the fabric just folds over -- no tedious measuring, pressing, pinning, etc.
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I do alot of demim repair and hemming of jeans and just love my Jean a ma jig! I can hem a pair of jeans in 10 minutes start to finish! Another favorite is Purple Thang. It helps to turn color points etc. |
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Rotary cutter--it's a quilting tool that's largely ignored by other sewers, but makes cutting out patterns a breeze. Annie |
Years ago, I used a safety pin to pull elastic or ribbon through casings. A friend introduced me to a notion called a Bodkin and I could hear angels singing the first time I used it. What a pleasure! Dianne |
These days, my right hand tool is a seam ripper....you know, as ye shall sew, so shall ye rip. But my other most used tools: long-handled tweezers, point thingy, and my iron! DonnaR/CA |
- Posted by damascusannie (My Page) on Thu, Dec 4, 08 at 23:03
I also recently discovered the value of a forceps when I was trying to turn the handles on a tote bag. I was able to grip with the forceps and turn them much better than I was doing by hand. Annie |
Some days it is my seam ripper... Years ago I bought a cheap elastic threader and I would hate to be without it... My most valuable notion is probably my needle threader. I can't thread a needle without it.. Susie |
I use a chopstick to turn things right side out. Of course the seam ripper is indispensible!! I also have a magnetic wand to pick up pins and other metalic things that I seem to always be dropping. Even though it isn't an actual tool it really helps me keep things together. I have posted before about using a computer keyboard tray drawer to put my portable machines on. Inside the drawer I store tons of threads and the bobbins and other acessories that go with that machine. |
this is an old thread! My favorite sewing notion is my tailors clapper. Not sold in most fabric stores any more, but what a difference it makes. I use it most every time I sew. |
My mini iron! It is great for points, tiny seams on baby garments, applying bias tape and trims. Don't know how I got along without it all those years. |
Here is a link that might be useful: clover mini iron
My seam gauge!! And since I make so many mistakes, I guess I have to add my seam ripper also, not that I enjoy picking out stitches LOL. |
- Posted by AnnieDeighnaugh (My Page) on Fri, Jun 28, 13 at 9:54
I agree about the clapper...I had my husband make me one out of a 2x4 which he sanded smooth...it makes terrific creases. |
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Awesome Solitaire: Card Hero
Solitaire on a diet of sugar and acid. That's the best way to describe Awesome Solitaire, the iPhone & iPod Touch timewaster. It's biggest draw? Slick visuals – it has a "gyroscope-powered parallax starfield background" – and Guitar Hero-like encouragements whenever you make a good move.
Here's the game in action, complete with appropriately weird and enthusiastic Japanese music. According to Switched, there's no accompanying music while you're playing the game, which is practical but kinda disappointing. Something to look forward to in Awesome Solitaire 2 I guess.
Mercifully, the game also has a 'Mundane' mode, in case you want your Solitaire served calmly. As with all apps, you can download it at the iTunes Store (link opens iTunes) for just $1 (USD).
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MONTGOMERY COUNTY -- An Amsterdam man is in jail on charges that he raped a woman earlier this month.
The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office arrested Justin Milonovich, 46, for rape. They say he had sex with a woman without her consent in a wooded area at the Schohaire Boat Launch in Glen.
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Kids with autism may be able to learn to speak later than previously thought and researchers say that iPads could be key.
Preliminary findings from a new study indicate that iPads can help children with autism as old as 8 acquire new language.
That's significant because many on the spectrum lack significant speech even into their school years. It has long been thought that kids are unlikely to develop speech if they do not do so by ages 5 or 6.
For the study, researchers at Vanderbilt University worked with 61 children with autism ages 5 to 8 who were minimally verbal using speech-generating apps on the iPad to communicate. In addition to touching symbols on the tablet in order to generate audible speech, the kids were encouraged to mimic the words themselves.
With the training, all of the kids in the study learned to speak new words and some started using short sentences, researchers said.
"For some parents, it was the first time they'd been able to converse with their children," said Ann Kaiser of Vanderbilt who led the study.
Using iPads for the training is helpful for a number of reasons, Kaiser said. They are cost-effective and commonplace, meaning that there isn't a stigma for those with autism who carry the devices.
Moreover, however, the consistent voice that speech-generating apps on the iPad deliver is a major plus.
"Every time the iPad says a word, it sounds exactly the same, which is important for children with autism, who generally need things to be as consistent as possible," said Kaiser.
Further results from the research are expected next year. In addition, Kaiser said she is embarking on a separate five-year study along with researchers at three other universities to further assess the best method to encourage speech in kids with autism using iPad technology.
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Do you have the reference for this study? I'd like to read about their methodology – for example, if the iPads were used as dedicated speech-generating devices, how much training the children and the adults around them received, how often the children used the devices, etc.
I wonder if Kaiser is accepting any volunteer subjects in this research
Wonder if the study only tried this with children up to 8 years old? I'll bet that this would be successful with children who are even older than 8. People with autism don't stop learning at 8 years old. Just like anyone of us, they are life-long learners.
I have a student that uses his IPad to communicate. It is a great tool for students with other disabilities. I am hoping to utilize the IPad for a nonverbal Down Syndrome student.
What specific speech apps were used? Thanks for sharing!
Be careful not to alloow too much time as the child gets older because they tend to stay in the 5 to 8 year old learning bracket. They will repetitively look at the same thing over and over.
Would like to know what apps were used, please.


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1.1 What is this notice about?
1.2 Are all sales of assets from historic houses within the scope of VAT?
1.3 What happens if I charge admission to the house?
1.4 What happens if I freely lend assets to someone else and they charge for admission to the house?
1.5 If I am VAT registered do I need to charge VAT on all sales of business assets?
1.6 When will I need to register for VAT?
2.Business assets and reallocation as private assets
2.1 Can I choose to treat an asset, used in my business, as a private asset?
2.2 How do I show that I have decided to keep an asset as a private asset?
2.3 How do I reallocate a business asset as a private asset?
2.4 What are the implications of reallocating a business asset as a private asset?
2.5 What if I reallocate business assets that have been incorporated with other goods?
3.Exemption for disposing of business assets
3.1 What disposals are exempt from VAT?
3.2 What is a 'private treaty sale'?
3.3 What is 'acceptance in lieu'?
3.4 What kinds of assets qualify for the exemption?
3.5 How do I support a claim for exemption?
3.6 What is the value of my supply?
4.Input tax on business and private assets
4.1 Can I deduct VAT incurred on the purchase of a business asset?
4.2 Can I recover VAT incurred on the purchase of a private asset?
4.3 Can I deduct VAT incurred on the repair or maintenance of a private asset?
4.4 Can I deduct VAT incurred on selling a business asset?
4.5 Can I deduct VAT incurred in selling a private asset?
Do you have any comments or suggestions?
This notice cancels and replaces Notice 701/12 (January 2002). There are no substantive changes other than to improve the readability of the Notice.
This notice explains which disposals (sales, gifts, reallocations etc.) of assets from historic houses are within the scope of VAT.
No. The assets that you sell from a house used as a private residence are not normally business assets and therefore sales of these are outside the scope of VAT. This also applies to house clearance sales.
If you do this you will be using the house for business purposes. Where you are VAT registered (see paragraph 1.6 of this notice) there is a presumption that any assets (furniture, antiques, works of art etc.) on public display are, for the purposes of VAT, business assets. As such, they will be within the scope of VAT when you dispose of them.
You may, however, choose to treat an asset as a private asset when it is acquired or to take a business asset outside the scope of VAT by reallocating it as a private asset. Further information on this can be found in Section 2 of this notice.
The assets are not treated as business assets because you have not used them for business purposes. You do not need to account for VAT on their disposal.
Yes, if you sell a business asset it is normally liable to VAT at the standard-rate. However, your supply is exempt from VAT when the business asset is:
You can find further information on exemption in Section 3 of this notice.
You will need to register only if the turnover from all your taxable business activities reaches the VAT registration threshold. You can find further information on this in Notice 700/1 Should I be registered for VAT? Exempt income does not count towards the threshold. You are not required to register if you go over the threshold only because of the occasional disposal of a business asset.
Yes. If you acquire assets for both business and private purposes, such as the furnishings of a historic house in which you live, you can choose to keep them as private assets. If you do this you will not be able to deduct any VAT on their acquisition. Where you have treated assets as private assets you need not account for VAT on their disposal.
You should contact the VAT Helpline and provide the relevant information.
You should show us that you no longer use the asset for any business purpose. This can involve moving it to another part of the house used for private purposes only. You should inform the VAT Helpline when you decide to withdraw a business asset from the business and advise them of the details.
If you were entitled to some deduction of input tax on acquisition of the asset then you will need to pay VAT when you reallocate it as a private asset. The taxable amount will be the amount:
Where the asset was not chargeable with VAT when acquired (such as an inherited asset) no VAT is due on the reallocation. When a reallocated asset is subsequently sold the sale is of a private asset and, as such, is not liable to VAT.
This might arise, for example, where you buy a frame for a painting that you have inherited and recover input tax on it. At any time that the painting is reallocated as a private asset VAT will be payable on the frame, based on the value as calculated in paragraph 2.4. VAT is not due on the inherited painting as no VAT had been incurred at the time of its acquisition.
If you dispose of a business asset it is exempt from VAT if the disposal is either:
This is a privately arranged sale to bodies, such as the UK National Museums and Galleries and the National Art Collections Fund. These bodies are allowed to buy objects by private treaty in accordance with the relevant legislative provisions.
This allows a person who is liable to pay inheritance tax, capital transfer tax or estate duty to settle part, or all of the debt, by disposing of a work of art or other object to HM Revenue & Customs.
To qualify for exemption, an object must be of national, scientific, historic or architectural interest. These are often antiques, works of art etc. You can find further information about the capital tax provisions in the guidance on Capital Taxation and the National Heritage.
You should get a letter from the Capital Taxes Office confirming that the private treaty sale, disposal otherwise than by sale, or acceptance in lieu, is exempt from capital taxes.
If you make a private treaty sale, the value of your exempt supply is the amount you actually receive for the object.
If you make a disposal otherwise than by sale, the value of your exempt supply will be the amount:
If an object is accepted in lieu, the value of your exempt supply is the amount of estate duty, capital transfer tax or inheritance tax actually satisfied.
No. If you are a VAT registered person who chooses to treat an asset, used for both business and non-business or private purposes, as a private asset you will not be able to deduct VAT as input tax when you complete your VAT return.
If you use a private asset for both business and other purposes then you may claim back VAT as input tax on repair or maintenance services. Any claim must be in proportion to the extent the asset is used for business purposes (subject to the normal provisions concerning evidence and partial exemption). You can find further information in Notice 700 The VAT Guide and Notice 706 Partial Exemption. The recovery of input tax on such services does not make the future disposal of the asset itself liable to VAT.
You can deduct, as input tax, VAT charged on costs that you use or intend to use in making taxable supplies. You cannot normally deduct input tax charged on costs that relate to your exempt supplies. If your input tax relates to both taxable and exempt supplies, you can normally deduct only the amount of input tax that relates to your taxable supplies. You can find further information in Notice 706 Partial Exemption.
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Oct 10th 2009 11:43AM word. the over use of lave bugs me too. couldn't they have used...i don't know, floods? i guess fire is just more ROCK, but i don't think so.
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Update on the Ghostcrawler situation {WoW}
Sep 28th 2009 9:03PM what i think is pretty depressing is that the game itself has become almost the same cesspool. questions asked in general or trade are uniformly met with various catcalls that then devolve into heated argumkents about how the person who asked the question is a noob and a tard and should diaf. it's sort of disheartening to log in to play only to have to shut off gen and trade chat about ten minutes in.
for what it's worth, one of the more well-known players on my server got a farewell party in org the day she quit the game (no, you can't have her stuff). i didn't know her very well, but i did send her a farewell whisp, saying that she was one of the first leet level 80's that i'd ever met who treated everyone with the same amount of friendliness and respect, and how much i valued her presence in the game for that. i was very surprised when she responded that the lack of kindness and consideration on the part of other players was exactly why she had chosen to leave. she was in a huge raiding guild. she was well-liked by pretty much everyone i can think of. and the atmosphere in the game had gotten so bad that she just didn't want to deal with it any longer.
it's something to think about. the trollishness, QQing and just downright bitchy behavior has gotten out of hand to the point where good people--good players--are actually leaving.
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Sep 24th 2009 4:54PM awesome. i loved it. teach those bastards to raid xroads every damned day!
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Sep 16th 2009 2:36PM it's also kind of a rip-off of motel hell. so yeah.
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Sep 4th 2009 12:55PM this doesn't apply since i've had and used the authenticator since they became available, but:
if blizz does find something on a machine that the user himself isn't able to find, wouldn't it be, you know, helpful to pass said information back to the user?
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Hollywood Star David Arquette Celebrates Bar Mitzvah at the Wall
Monday, June 11th, 2012American actor, film director, producer, screenwriter, fashion designer, and occasional professional wrestler David Arquette is in Israel as a guest of the Tourism Ministry and the Ministry of Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs.
Third generation of the Arquette acting dynasty (grandfather Cliff Arquette, father Lewis Arquette, siblings Rosanna, Richmond, Patricia and Alexis Arquette), David has starred in the "Scream" series, "Wild Bill," "Buffy The Vampire Slayer," "Never Been Kissed" and "Dream with the Fishes." He was also a one-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion.
David Arquette's mother is Jewish, the daughter of a Holocaust refugee from Nazi-occupied Poland, and his father is a convert to Islam.
Arquette, 41, is currently in Israel to film a segment in the popular Travel Channel series "Mile High." The show, which will be broadcast on cable and satellite channels in the U.S., will showcase Israeli tourism.
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Jack Greves, 6, will be walking from Cromer to Cley to raise money for Children in Need. PHOTO: ANTONY KELLY
Donna-Louise Bishop, Reporter
Sunday, November 11, 2012
An intrepid six year old refused to be put off by relentless rain as he completed a 12-mile coastal walk yesterday.
Foul weather made it a miserable day in north Norfolk, but Jack Greves would not be discouraged, and set off from Cromer at 9.15am as planned.
Despite the rain continuing almost incessantly throughout the journey, he arrived at Cley at 3.45pm.
His mum Emily Greves, 32, said he had already raised more than £500, and the figure was set to climb in the coming days.
Last year, Jack climbed Stickle Tarn in the Lake District for Children in Need 2011 and raised £75.
Jack, who attends Astley Primary School at Briston, trained for the big day by going on walks with his family. He is also a keen footballer and added that the only thing he was not looking forward to was walking on the rocks and sand.
He said: "I will be happy with whatever I raise for Children in Need and I am pleased that I have already raised enough money to pay for a bed for a disadvantaged child."
● To sponsor Jack visit the fundraising page www.justgiving.com/Emily-Greves.
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