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ATTENDING: Karen Baldacci, Patrick Phillips, Yvonne Davis, Diane Doiron, Cara Martin for Henry Kennedy, Joyce McPhetres, Lisa Plimpton, Phyllis Brazee, Carla Ritchie, Craig Haimes, Sharon Wilson-Barker, Mary Madden, Wendy Ault, Gary Crocker (guest), Buzz Gamble (guest), Susan Corrente (facilitator).
9:30 AM WELCOME: Susan welcomed everyone and conveyed Patrick's regrets that he would be attending two meetings at once, this morning, and so would be in and out, throughout the meeting.
9:30 AM APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF NOVEMBER 17, 2004 MEETING: The minutes were approved, by consensus.
9:40 AM LENDING LIBRARY TRANSACTIONS: None were conducted today.
9:45 AM UPDATE ON WORK OF THE RESEARCH TEAM and UPCOMING PRESENTATIONS: Susan noted the following: There has been no meeting of the Research Team since November 17, 2004 Task Force meeting; the next meeting is December 15, 2004. Also, the following presentations have been requested : Steve Wessler, Center for the Study and Prevention of Hate Violence (confirmed for the February 10, 2005 meeting); Karl Covert, counselor ("emotional vocabulary"), Kennebunk schools (SAD #71) ; Mark Tappan, Colby College (confirmed for March 10, 2005 meeting, presentation scheduled for 11- 12:30, meeting at Colby College, room TBA). Mary noted that she and Sharon had conducted another focus group on December 3, 2004; there were fifteen students in the group (11 girls and 4 boys) and she used many of the same questions used in the earlier focus group. The data from the focus group discussion will be reviewed by Mary as she compiles the report.
9:50 AM PRESENTATION: Wendy Ault, MELMAC: Wendy distributed a hard copy of a POWERPOINT presentation and noted that the needs assessment they had done relied heavily on the Mitchell Institutes "Barriers" study, with a great deal of help from Task Force member Lisa Plimpton. She stressed that the "college gap" is largely a failure to plan for college (with "college" defined broadly to include the military and two-year programs, as well as four-year programs). She noted too that a large part of MELMAC's work is to help colleges keep students there, by identifying the best practices for retaining students. The POWERPOINT presentation, page 3, indicates some gender differences in student attitudes toward college; e.g., 27% of male students said they didn't think they needed college to succeed. Joyce asked if Wendy had learned further from these students why they thought that way; Wendy noted that some thought they could follow their fathers into their line of work or that they could "buy a lobster boat and make much more money"; Lisa reminded us of previous data that indicated that many male students feel it "isn't cool" to be smart. Yvonne acknowledged that MELMAC had defined "college" broadly, but wondered if the students were operating under such a broad definition, or under the more traditional definition of college as a four-year program. Wendy noted that the PSAT is an essential tool for preparing students to consider and apply to college, and several members noted that it also helps inform a Personal Learning Plan. Wendy and Diane also emphasized the importance of following up with students on their performance on the PSAT, in order to ensure that they take the valuable information that is afforded by their performance summary and not be discouraged by the score. Cara asked Wendy if any work was done with MELMAC grantee high schools on the climate in high schools to encourage exploration of options; according to Wendy, work is done with grantees in this area. Craig recommended that this important work begin in middle schools, as the patterns of course-taking get set then; Wendy agreed but felt that they had to prioritize with high schools, to ensure that the necessary supports are there first, for those coming from middle school and rapidly approaching the decision about college.
10:30 AM PRESENTATION: Yvonne Davis and Buzz Gamble , Department of Education, Career and Technical Education (CTE): Yvonne distributed several handouts, including Accountability Reports for 2001 - 2004, and described the State's CTE program. The law requires that these programs be available to all students; more girls are entering programs now that are nontraditional for their gender. The programs are gender neutral; and the education centers work on not only expanding the opportunities for boys and girls to elect programs that are nontraditional for their gender but also on supporting them there so they will complete the programs and graduate with credit from the programs. Yvonne did note that it is better that a student not be the only one in a program that is nontraditional for their gender (e.g., automotive for girls, health care for boys), but that they have the support of at least one other student of their gender. She noted that the college graduation rate is "pretty high" for CTE students and that applied learning helps girls as much as it helps boys. Buzz Gamble then reviewed the review and technical assistance work he does for the Department to ensure compliance with federal anti-discrimination laws, and that programs have done to ensure exposure of students to nontraditional program options. He too provided several handouts. He noted that in the past five years he's seen evidence of much greater acceptance of girls, by program staff, in nontraditional programs. Yvonne noted that some women have become role models in these programs and there are five female directors now of CTE programs in the State. Carla asked if there were, as the handouts indicated, more female than male students in CTE now; Buzz noted that there were, particularly in areas like health care and business but not in the "hard trades" where there are still more male students. Buzz noted that the way in which guidance counselors communicate with students about the option is critical, as they are the "gatekeepers". Yvonne noted that while females are being readily placed in nontraditional jobs after completing CTE programs, much work remains to be done with employers to ensure a supportive workplace, but those workplace issues don't arise for males placed in nontraditional workplaces. Craig noted that while there may be no pressure in the workplace, there is still a societal stigma that can reach these males through different channels (e.g., family and peer reactions to the choice of work).
11:15 AM PRESENTATION: Gary Crocker, Maine Community College System: Gary provided a handout on the Community College System, and occasionally wore his humorist's hat while presenting to the group, insisting for example that once he graduated from the University of Maine, he had been lobbying the University to "please, set some standards!" He himself graduated in a nontraditional field (early childhood education) and wanted to be a kindergarten teacher until he realized how low the wages were - he had expected they would be higher, given the importance of education at that stage of development. The System has six gender equity coordinators statewide to help ensure opportunities for students to pursue nontraditional programs; and the System itself, under John Fitzsimmons, has modeled the message of equity: in 1991, 22% of the System's management team (deans and above) was female and now 45% is female. Gary noted that the two key considerations for every student deciding on a course of study, regardless of gender, are: (1) what does it pay? and (2) do I want to do it for more than 10 minutes? Six of the seven colleges in the System do still have some programs that are 100% of one or the other gender; only one does not. Karen asked how we might encourage students to consider certain jobs, in response to what she's hearing from employers and others that they cannot find the workers to fill certain positions. Yvonne spoke to that from the CTE perspective, noting that the CTE programs have Program Advisory Committees which include members from the business community, and that the Committees influence curriculum and provide jobs. Yvonne see it as more of a problem of not having the numbers - not enough graduates in certain areas to fill the need - and this is often because the pay in those jobs is low or the benefits are poor (e.g., Certified Nursing Assistants or CNAs) and the industry itself isn't addressing those problems but needs to. Also, she and others noted that business often fails to appreciate the importance of students having a college degree before entering the workforce; they would prefer to rely on specialized training that meets the immediate need of the business but that isn't what's best for the student. Gary noted, for example, that machinists still need to study math, science, etc.; and that young women are sometimes shunted off early in a direction that avoid math, science. He strongly encourages that practice be evaluated, and the inclusion of higher math courses earlier in a student's educational experience, to keep options open to them. Craig noted that guidance counselors are critical here too in directing or "tracking" students early in their educational process, and in thereby virtually making career decisions for them. Patrick noted that the Commissioner feels strongly about the need to abandon tracking and takes every opportunity to send this message to the educational community. Patrick then shared Dr. Willard R. Daggett's model of "Quadrant D Learning", emphasizing that the learning of the future must be high in BOTH knowledge and application, not just one or the other. Cara noted that the Department of Labor's website lists the top ten careers in Maine. She also asked if anything was being done to align the schedules of CTE programs with academic high school schedules, to allow students a fuller range of options during their high school years. Yvonne reported that this has been a perennial problem and that the legislature finally addressed it last session, requiring regional calendars by school year 2005-2006, and more joint professional development, to address this very problem.
12:00 Noon GENERAL DISCUSSION: The discussion occurred throughout the presentations.
12:25 PM NEXT MEETING: February 10, 2005, 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM, Cross State Office Building # 107. REMINDER: THERE IS NO MEETING IN JANUARY, 2005. HAPPY HOLIDAYS!


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I saw a goose by the pond as I trekked to my 8 am French final this morning. Not unusual. There's often a duck or goose or two hanging out in front of the carillon bell tower. However, I happened to take a closer look and was rewarded with the sight of two small, surprisingly yellow chicks waddling around in the grass! I turned around and pointed them out to the girl who was walking behind me (whom I did not know but who, I am certain, appreciated the sight).
Right, okay, baby geese in the grass, cute but not quite enough for a story. Then. I was headed back to my apartment after the final when I saw the same adult goose by the pond. This time, however, he was right up on the edge of the sidewalk, and he'd brought his wife to sit in the grass directly against the concrete, and the two babies were nestled against her. Once again, adorable.
Except they might have chosen a less-frequented path for their powwow, since the male goose spent the whole time guarding his family, snapping and hissing at passers-by, many of who decided to cross the street entirely. The brave ones still stepped off the sidewalk. This goose meant business.
I tried to get a picture but I was too far away perhaps.
Once I saw a goose perched on top of ResCo. You don't often see geese perching. They're rather too heavy to sit in a tree, so I only ever see them in flight or on the ground/in the water. This one was lording over the quad like a great feathered gargoyle. Anyway. Enough about geese.


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Cloth Diaper Classes Want to hold a local class on cloth diapers? You're the expert, but we can help organize the meeting. Download the attached outline and get out into your community! Anywhere you can find new or expecting parents is a great place to teach!
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Advocacy Postcard Inserts. When printed on cardstock, these advocacy cards can be cut and used to mail short notes to friends or family, to post on local community bulletin boards, and insert into newsletters or packages for cloth diapering businesses. Because our advocacy cards are only printed on one side, they can also be made into magnets to both remind you about your cloth diapering facts and hold up much needed lists or notices on your refrigerator or file cabinet. Use them to remind yourself of quick facts when sharing cloth diapering within your community. Keep copies of the advocacy cards in your diaper bag to give to expectant mothers. Four cards are available, with more to follow. Print your RDA Advocacy Card today!
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Local Advocacy Tips
Advocacy Tip #1: Do you launder your clothing and/or baby's cloth diapers at a local coin-operated laundry facility? Even if you launder at home, you are most likely familiar with where these facilities are in your area. A simple way to advocate cloth diapers in your community is to print out the pamphlets made available through RDA's website and tack them up on the bulletin board in local coin-operated laundry facilities. As individuals wait for their laundry to dry, they often read these boards, and could be encouraged to consider cloth diapering by health issues, environmental concerns, cost, or any other number of reasons. If you desire, write (or print out) your contact information on the pamphlets you put up. In this way, you can serve as the local cloth diapering point of contact for your community.
Advocacy Tip #2: If you have not downloaded Advocacy Postcard Inserts, go here! Our Advocacy Cards are designed to print on one side only; when printed on cardstock, these advocacy cards are layed-out with 4 to a page and can be cut and used to mail or deliver short notes to friends or family. They make perfect, quick-and-easy advocacy pin-ups on local community bulletin boards, inserts into newsletters or packages for cloth diapering businesses. With some glue and a magnet, they can both remind you about your facts and hold up much needed lists or notices on your refrigerator or file cabinet. Remind yourself of quick facts when sharing cloth diapering within your community. Keep copies of the postcards in your diaper bag to give to expectant mothers. One card is now available, with more to follow. Print (link) RDA advocacy postcards today.
Advocacy Tip #3: Danielle Whittaker wrote to us about her plan of action. She is writing letters to her state and county commissioners regarding the use of cloth diapers in day care facilities. She has discovered that the local day cares in her area prefer not to use cloth diapers based on a 'no hands policy' presented by DHS. Danielle says, "I am looking to make leeway in how cloth diapers can abide in this policy and present no additional hassle." She is sending letters to local hospitals to set up informational sessions in lamaze and Bradley child birth classes. In addition, she is sending letters to local environmental agencies and national child care organizations to garner support.
Cloth Diapering Advocacy Tip #4: Shannon Doan, a cloth diapering activist within her community, and owner of Wildflower Diapers printed out 50 of the RDA "Get Real" pamphlets to leave at her local breastfeeding boutique and natural food market. You can find the "Get Real" pamphlet as well as several other advocacy items on the RDA Media and Cloth Diapering Advocacy pages.
Cloth Diapering Advocacy Tip #5: Do you have any cloth diapers or diaper covers that your baby has outgrown? Do you know any parents in your area that cloth diaper, might consider cloth diapering, have a baby on the way, or one that could wear the cloth diaper and diaper cover sizes your baby has outgrown? Consider hosting a cloth diaper giveaway. If there are other cloth diapering families in your area, contact them and find out if they have any diapers they can give away. Make sure the diapers are not overly worn or stained, so as not to 'put off' any potential cloth diaper users. Print out pamphlets, post cards and other advocacy materials to hand out, or leave around at your cloth diaper giveaway party. Don't forget to wear your "Ask Me About Cloth Diapers" button on the days leading up to your party to generate conversation and possibly find someone new to invite.
Cloth Diapering Advocacy Tip #6: Brenda Wells of Sunshine Diapers sent this cloth diapering advocacy tip. "The more of our sites that add links to the RDA, the higher the RDA site will climb in Google and other search engine rankings when someone is searching for cloth diaper information." It is true that search engine rankings are directly affected by link popularity. What is link popularity? Link popularity is basically a score given by search engines based on how many related, external sites link to any particular website. By linking to RDA, you are telling the search engines that RDA is a high-quality site with relevant information. Linking to the RDA website is easy. Visit our media page for simple cut and paste text and image links and show the search engines that RDA has external approval from sites that matter.
Cloth Diapering Advocacy Tip #7: Speak with your local hospital's birth educator or request to give a cloth diapering presentation at your local midwifery school. These suggestions come from Individual Member, Cynthia Thompson, who is putting together a 'suitcase' resource kit with diaper samples and literature that can easily be used for cloth diapering presentations. Cynthia is also developing a curriculum for a diaper sewing workshop. Here's a tip from Lori Taylor for reproducing diaper patterns at local meetings. "To create a pattern for the diaper sewing meeting, cut one pattern from heavy card. If you bring butcher paper or even other sheets of cardboard, each person could quickly trace around the first pattern and cut out their own pattern to use and take home. It would probably only take about 5 minutes per person, and the labor is spread out among the group. Or everyone could take turns with the same cardboard pattern"
Cloth Diapering Advocacy Tip #8: Amanda Geaney from Eagle River, Alaska wrote, "We are in the military and the base hospital has a mandatory OB Orientation briefing for new mothers before they can make their first prenatal appointment. It would be nice to have writing pens, magnets, baby bottles, pacifier clips, or other trinkets with your slogan on them to add to the goody bags that the hospital hands out. Another idea would be window clings or bumper stickers for members to put on their vehicles." WE AGREE that a more extensive line of RDA approved cloth diapering advocacy tools would assist in spreading the word, and RDA needs some volunteer talent to make it happen! If you have experience as a Print Media Designer and would like to take up the cause of cloth diapering advocacy, please consider volunteering with Real Diaper Association! Check out our other RDA Advocacy Tips.
Cloth Diapering Advocacy Tip #9: In our Cloth Diaper Advocacy Tip #8, we discussed giving cloth diapering presentations at your local midwifery school. This type of advocacy can be taken into local hospitals, parenting groups, your local church or community ladies' groups, co-ops, and home school meetings, for some more examples. Taking it one step further, you can create a 'calling card' with contact information and hand it out to expectant parents or to families you know in your neighborhood. Don't have time or the ability to create a calling card? Use one of our Cloth Diapering Advocacy Postcards and write your name and contact information on the back. Be available for in-house cloth diapering lessons once a new baby is born. Be your community's Cloth Diapering 'Go-To' person - making yourself available for follow-up questions and answers once baby is home.
Cloth Diapering Advocacy Tip #10: Create a cloth diapering cake from prefolds, flats, or fitted cloth diapers. Cloth Diaper Cakes make an interesting and conversation-provoking center piece at baby showers or in hospital rooms! Make one for a new or expectant mother. Be ready to demonstrate how to use the cloth diapers - bring a few extra so you don't have to break down the cloth diaper cake for your demonstration. Create your own Cloth Diaper Cake with these simple FREE instructions. If you Google cloth diaper cakes you will find a variety of instructions and/or online cloth diaper stores that offer a variety of different cloth diaper cakes.
Cloth Diapering Advocacy Tip #11: Do you work with radio or know someone who does? Record a Public Service Announcement (PSA) about cloth diapers and cloth diapering. If possible, be available at the station to respond to local phone calls from listeners. Many radio stations now have live internet stream that extends beyond their local coverage area.
The FIRST Real Diaper Circle in Everett, Washington now has a weekly mid-day time slot on KSER 90.7FM for their Public Service Announcement. Read about it here.
Cloth Diapering Advocacy Tip #12: Would you like to encourage your local baby store or food coop to carry cloth diapers? Talk to the buyer and be prepared to address several issues. Consider whether there are local manufacturers who offer wholesale. Offer contact information for local as well as national wholesalers. Try one product at a time to start. Show the buyer why their customers will buy cloth diapers. You need to sell them on the idea before they can sell cloth diapers to their customers. If the plan works, approach other stores. And, be sure to encourage local parents to buy cloth diapers locally.
This tip is based on an Advocacy Sheet, "Cloth Diapers in Local Stores," available for download on the RDA website.
Cloth Diapering Advocacy Tip #13: Do you really like to talk about cloth diapers? Are people always asking your advice on how to start, how to wash diapers, or what to do in a diaper crisis? If so, then you may be a local expert. Share what you know. How about setting up a local cloth diaper hot line on your cell phone. You can publicize available hours or just return calls at your convenience.
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Softball: Warm weather a welcome relief for Clark, others
Clark softball coach D'Layne Kelly sat in the press box of a Northside ISD game Tuesday night in her regular winter apparel. That was more because of superstition than anything else, though, as the 70-plus-degree weather certainly didn't necessitate the long sleeves she wore.
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The Reagan girls are ranked 47th and the Clark boys 50th in the latest ESPN Rise magazine Fab 50 national rankings.
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Clark 42, Jay 0 (final)
Here at Farris Stadium for tonight's District 28-5A tilt between No. 2 Clark and Jay. Jay enters with a 3-1, 1-1 record, compared to Clark's 5-0, 3-0 mark. The Mustangs have been impressive in recent weeks, especially with Travaras Battle healthy. This has the potential to be a real interesting game.
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Final: Clark 33, Brandeis 14
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While settling into the press box here at Farris Stadium for the 29th installment of the Gucci Bowl between Churchill and Clark, and I can't help but think Clark drew the short end of the straw prior to tonight's game.
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For most of the nearly 30 years that the University Interscholastic League has sponsored high school girls soccer, the local scene has been dominated by the North East ISD schools.
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Final: Fort Bend Hightower 28, Clark 7
Clark made a habit this season of grinding opponents into submission and proving that no lead was safe. But against an imposing Fort Bend Hightower team in the Class 5A Division I state semifinals, neither held true.
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Pavagadh is a Hill Station, and a Municipality in Panchmahal district about 46 kilometres (29 mi) away from Vadodara in Gujarat state in western India. It is known for a famous Mahakali temple which draws thousands of pilgrims everyday.
Area of this locality Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park has been inscripted by UNESCO as World Heritage in 2004.
It is said that the Rajput king Vanraj Chavda established Champaner at the foot of Pavagadh in fond memory of his wise minister Champa. Later, the Patai Raval family ruled it and took care of the boundary. The folk tales say that Mahakali assumed the form of a woman and danced in a Garba during Navaratri. The last Patai, Jaisinh watched her with dirty looks. The deity became angry at Jaisinh and cursed him. As a result, the Muslim emperor of Gujarat, Mahmud Begada assaulted Pavagadh and won the hill on the boundary.
Patai was defeated and killed. Mahmud Begada shifted his capital from Ahmedabad to Champaner for some time for reasons of diplomacy. He developed the town by constructing buildings such as the fort of Champaner, Uohra mosque, Mandavi, Kirtistambh, the temple of Shalkh, Jama Masjid, Nagina Mosque and Kevda Mosque. The remains of the Palace of Begada are still found near Vad Talav (Banyan Pond) two kilometers (1.25 miles) away from Champaner.
Legends have it that, the right toe of Goddess Sati, fell here. The holy complex is divided into two parts, on the ground floor the idol of Goddess Kali is seen and the top part houses a Mazar of a Peer, sacred to Muslims.
Kali, or Mahakali, the Dark Mother, is a deity with whom devotees have a very loving and intimate bond, in spite of her fearful appearance. She is a fearful and ferocious form of the mother goddess Durga. She is believed to have born from the brow of Goddess Durga during one of her battles with the evil forces.
In the Goddess Kalika temples, Kali has four arms, and carries a sword in one hand and the head of a demon in another. Her other two hands are raised in blessing, as if to say, 'fear not'. In the place of earrings, she has two dead heads. She also has a string of skulls as necklace, and a girdle made of human hands as her clothing. Her tongue protrudes from her mouth, eyes are red, and face and breasts are drenched in blood. She stands with one foot on the thigh, and another on the chest of Shiva, her husband.
This pre-historic goddess is widely worshiped in India, especially inWest Bengal. Navratri, or Dussehra, in West Bengal is related to Kali-worship. Saints like Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and Swami Vivekananda were renowned Kali devotees. Champaner,where this temple is located, has a rich, rare and little known history. It goes back to early Stone Age on the basis of pre-historic stone tools recovered from the area. The rocks have the appearance of light yellow with tinge of red like Champaka flower or flame of the fire. Thus the name Champaner has been given to the town and Pavagadh to the hill fort. This town was set up in the 8th century A.D. by the Chauda dynasty, remained the political capital of Gujarat till 1536. The area is dotted with structures of archeological importance.Champaner/Pavagadh can boast of being the only world heritage site in Gujarat. The entire area is declared as protected area by the Archaeological Survey of India.
Pavagadh is the gateway to Panchmahal. It is a tribal area populated predominantly by the Bhils. The government has granted many concessions and offered subsidies to the new industries coming up in this area. As a result of it, Halol and Kalol towns near Pavagadh have turned into virtual industrial estates. The locations of hilly areas around Halol provide good scenery. A film studio at Halol has this added advantage. On the eastern side, the Rangpur Ashram run by Mr. Hari Parikh works towards the upliftment of the local tribals.
The great music maestro of 16th century, and Tansen's contemporary rival, Baiju Bawra belonged to Champaner.
Maa Mahakalika temple, Pavagadh is one of the biggest tourist and pilgrimage centers in the dynamic state of Gujarat, which attracts millions of tourists and pilgrims every year and tops the list of educational institutions' excursion programs.
From the city of Vadodara, at a distance of 55 Kms. the old town of Pavagadh is located. The entire area is mainly forest land and very picturesque.
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Pavagadh has total height of 822 meters and you can find many scenic trails to climb including waterfalls during monsoon time.
The plateau at an altitude of 490 meters is known as Machi Haveli. The remains of the Raval Palace still exist at Machi. There are rest houses, holiday homes and small hotels at Machi. The bus service has been extended up to Machi.
Then comes Teliya Talav and Dudhia Talav.
The temple of Kali is at the height of 550 metres (1,523 feet). Nowadays the rope-way facility has been made available to the tourists to reach the temple. About 250 steps have to be climbed from there.
A little above the Kali Temple there is Sadanshah Pir Dargah. There are numerous tales, songs and dramas knitting the story of Patai Raval.
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Maa Mahakalika Temple, a famous Hindu and Muslim pilgrim centre, is located at Pavagadh in Panchmahals District. Situated amid dense forest cover on a cliff, the temple is believed to be one of the 51 Shakti Peeths.Goddess Mahakalika has been fulfilling wishes of millions of devotees for thousands of years. Maa Mahakalika Udan Khotala ( A Passenger Ropeway ) is operating since 1986 and takes you quickly and comfortably from Manchi to the hill top near the Maha Kalika Temple in about 6 minutes, whereas, the steep climb on foot takes over one hour.


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Up for bids and viewing consideration is this rare and not very frequent to find bird sculpture, made and signed by the italian glass-master licio zenetti in the early 60's.
it is rare to find firstly, due to its big size. it is 40" (1.20 mt.) high. wide 15" (38 cm.)
secondly, it is signed zanetti licio to the base, as pictured.
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it was made by joining the upper with the lower part through a bronze fastener that cannot be seen when the piece is joined. look at the pictures to see what i mean.
the fact that can be taken apart is very practical because we are reducing the danger of breakage when carrying it.
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licio zanetti, son of oscar zanetti had worked for venini, barbini cenedese and alfredo, and soon became an artist known for his creations and his collaboration with renowned artists such as raul goldoni, enzo scarpa, fulvio bianconi and libero vitali.
oscar zanetti both father and grandfather were glassmasters. oscar's grandfather, after he was named, was a glassmaster of venini and opened his own kiln in 1956, in fondamenta vetrai. licio his son, the father of oscar.
oscar zanetti - oscar zanetti was born in 1961 in one of the historic families of murano. his family was among the first to move to murano in venice, when the late thirteenth century, it was decided to move all the furnaces to this island for security reasons. the coat of arms of the family zanetti - depicting a fox and a snake - you can see in the frieze at the museum of glass, an institution that owes its foundation in 1861 to a family member zanetti. the abbot vincenzo zanetti, he devoted his efforts to sustain and promote the art of glass and glass-school founded in 1862.
started in entry level 'garzone', but also given an opportunity to act as "servente" and within two years he had acquired a remarkable level of expertise. it was then, in the eighties, his father, licio summoned him to work with him, and this represents a new beginning. this meant a change of solid glass blown glass - which remains the hallmark of production by vetreria zanetti - where the glass weighed met ten times in a different technique is needed and what is more, there was a relationship to be built next to his father.
even today, oscar remembers coming to meet her father in the oven, and as licio challenges him, without getting involved too: "at one point i was assigned as a glassmaster servente lacking talent, when he left, i was told that could try to replace it. "therefore, within six years, in 1989, oscar became a teacher, with its square, and his own assistants. but in this profession, often repeated, "never stop learning."
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Williams 2011 car made its first public appearance in testing at Valencia on Tuesday. The Cosworth-powered FW33 appeared in a blue, interim livery, with its final race colour scheme to be revealed at a later date.
Until you start testing youre never sure how youre going to stack up against the opposition, but were optimistic, said Williams technical director Sam Michael. We think this is a good car, but well have a better overall picture in a few weeks time.
New rules for 2011 have compelled Williams to take an innovative approach to the new car. The ban on double diffusers and the F-duct forced the aerodynamicists to seek new downforce solutions; KERS had to be incorporated into the layout and the team had to prepare for the arrival of a new tyre supplier, Pirelli, for the first time in five years.
The design of this years car has been pretty smooth, continued Michael. Weve improved our way of working by increasing the communication between the mechanical and aerodynamic departments, and that improved our decision making processes. It allowed us to increase the optimisation time spent on each part of the car.
The Williams seen at Tuesdays Valencia test is the first iteration of the FW33. This launch spec will be replaced by an aero upgrade at the first race in Bahrain next month and there will be many others during the course of the year. Michael and his technical team expect aerodynamic performance to reach the same levels as 2010, despite there being less aero freedom in the rules.
Our ambition is get back to the front of the grid, added team principal Frank Williams. We know that wont be easy, but we hope this car will take us closer to the leaders than we were in 2010. As a team, were as ambitious now as weve ever been.
Rubens Barrichello will commence Williams three-day Valencia test on Tuesday, with new team mate Pastor Maldonado taking over from Wednesday afternoon.
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Clips of Newsies Stage Musical Production
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Newsies Moves Closer to Live Stage Production
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If I could, I'd enlist today and
my country track down those responsible for killing thousands
innocent people in New York City and Washington
I'm over 50 now and the Armed Forces say I'm too old
track down terrorists.
can't be older than 35
join the military.
got the whole thing backwards. Instead of sending 18-year-olds off to fight,
they ought to take us old guys.
You shouldn't be able to join
you're at least 35.
say 18-year- olds think about sex every 10 seconds.
guys only think about sex
couple of times a day,
us more than 28,000
seconds per day to
on the enemy.
guys haven't lived long enough to be cranky, and a cranky soldier is a dangerous
soldier. If we can't kill the enemy we'll complain them into submission.
back hurts!" "I'm hungry!"
the remote control?"
18-year-old hasn't had a legal beer yet and you shouldn't go to war until you're
at least old enough to legally drink. An average old guy, on the other hand, has
consumed 126,000 gallons of beer by the time he's 35 and a jaunt through the
desert heat with a backpack and M-60
do wonders for the old beer belly.
18-year-old doesn't like to get up before 10
guys get up early every morning to pee.
old guys are captured we couldn't spill the beans because
probably forget where we put them. In fact, name, rank, and serial number would
be a real brainteaser.
camp would actually be easier for old guys.
used to getting screamed
yelled at
we actually like soft food.
also developed a deep appreciation for guns and
like them almost better than naps.
could lighten up on the
course however.
been in combat and
didn't see a single 20-foot wall
rope hanging over the side,
did I ever do any pushups
completing basic training.
can hear the Drill Sergeant now,
down and give me...er...one."
the running part
kind of a waste of energy.
never seen anyone outrun a bullet.
18-year-old has the whole world ahead of him.
still learning to shave,
actually carry on a conversation, and to wear pants without the top of his butt
crack showing and his boxer shorts sticking out.
still hasn't figured out that
pierced tongue catches food particles, and that a 400-watt speaker in the back
seat of a Honda Accord can rupture an eardrum.
great reasons to keep our sons at home to learn a little more about life before
sending them off to possible death.
us old guys track down those
rotten cowards who attacked our hearts on September 11. The last thing the enemy
would want to see right now is a couple of million old farts with attitudes.
this with your senior friends
purposely in big type for us old guys)
As a new generation faces the prospect of serving overseas, Clarence Jordan's tongue-in-cheek essay on the military draft has gained a currency that is hard to ignore.
There's a lot of talk going on today about how we don't need peacetime conscription in a nation like this. But we might as well just face up to the fact that we've got to have the draft. In the first place, we've gotten too civilized to go to war voluntarily. We've just got to be made to fight. And then, automation has taken all the sport out of killing. Time was when an honest man could go to battle against an honest man, and there was a lot of sport in that; there was a lot of fun, a lot of challenge. You don't have to be drafted for that kind of sport. But who wants to operate a computer to kill scads of women and children? We're just not going to war and do that kind of thing unless we're drafted.
Look at it this waya very peace-loving nation like ours has the responsibility to keep the peace, all over the world, even if we have to do it by ourselves. And even if we have to kill off everybody else in the world to keep the peace in the world. We got to do it. It's our responsibility. Peace is that importantwe've got to have it. The trouble is, some people think you can have it without plenty of guns and planes and napalm and bombs and men. Well, you can't. You've got to have these things. And when too many folks get to arguing about this, the only thing you can do with folks who are arguing is just draft them.
Without the draft, there'd be entirely too much talk about peace and too little real fighting for peace. So until people quit thinking and talking, we're gonna have to have the draft, that's it. Now, I admit we might have to occasionally make a few changes in the draft law. For instance, at the present, we're drafting kids from eighteen to twenty-six. We shouldn't be drafting those kids. They're too young; they're too flighty; they're too sexy; they're too immature. They're not even represented in Congress. They don't have any say-so about this decision. Besides, those kids need to stay at home and get married and get into their vocation and start raising a family and all those kinds of things. Then too when you send these kids off, you got to have such a long veterans' program. They come back veterans eighteen, nineteen years old, you know. You gotta keep 'em on the rolls for another forty to sixty years.
Now, it could be that we could draft middle-aged folks, but, you know, they're too productive. We got to have them to make the bombs and the planes and the napalm, without which there can be no peace. We need them to run our big banks and our big corporations, to keep the economy booming. We gotta keep em in Congress, to pass draft laws and tax laws and laws against draft-card burning and all like that. We got to keep these middle-aged folks at home, to make committees in Congress, to investigate people who ain't peace loving. And then we got to keep em at home to teach their sons the glory and the beauty of killing off men, women, and children that they've never seen before. We can't have peace in the world without our middle-aged folks staying at home.
Well, that only leaves our senior citizens, but they're
toowell, now wait a minute, what about our senior citizens? Yea, what about our
senior citizens? How about starting the draft at sixty-five? Looky here, at that
age they're getting ready to retire and they could go at their own expense. We
wouldn't have to pay emthey're on Social Security, and old-age security, and
all like that. They're on their pensions
And then another thing, and I
noticed this, that the older a man gets, the more belligerent he gets. You
listen to these guys talk in Congress. There isn't anybody who's more anxious to
give the Communists hell than a man who's too old to deliver it. Now anybody
that's as anxious to deliver some loads to the nether regions as our senior
citizens ought not to be denied the privilege of delivering them in person. They
wouldn't even have to be drafted to do it. If given the opportunity,
they'd volunteer in droves.
And too, by the time a man reaches sixty-five and had to be drafted, he usually wouldn't leave at home a sweetheart or somebody like that weeping for him. This would definitely cut down on hasty marriages. And when he was given his two-week leave before being shipped abroad, his wife probably wouldn't get pregnant, and that would cut down on the war boom of babies and help the population explosion.
But I think his wife ought to be drafted too. We ought to draft them allmen and women that are sixty-five years oldso she could go along with him to do his cooking and cleaning and see that he comes home at night like a good soldier should. With their wives along, these elderly GI's would not be liable to turn these foreign cities into brothels and burden its citizenry with illegitimacy.
It's also obvious from the traffic on our toll roads that senior citizens love to travel. You get on Interstate 75, and you see one camper trailer after another going up and down, going to Florida. Most of our senior citizens, by the time they're sixty-five, have seen practically every tourist place in the United States. Let's give 'em a chance to see the rest of the world. All we'd have to do with this new army would be to equip 'em with a camper trailer and let 'em get on the road. Now you would have to have in these foreign countries adequate tourist places with adequate rest stops and so forth. This might be a real nasty problem in backward countries with outdoor privies. But we might be able to even get around that. This army would be highly mobile with their camper trailers. Perhaps they could be even more mobile than in helicopters, and we could do away with the expensive helicopters.
Now I think the uniforms for this new army should be usual tourist shortsboth the men and the women should be equipped with the usual shorts that these senior citizens wear when they are touring the country. Now the reason I prescribe shorts is that if you were to get all of our senior citizens with their knobby knees and their varicose veins descending on a country, the psychological effect on that country would be such that they would capitulate immediately.
This army would have other psychological advantages also. Practically all of the elderly GI's would be grandparents, with the standard ailments and aches and pains. It's doubtful that any enemy, no matter how fierce or determined he might be, could long resist a vast invasion of grandparents talking about their grandchildren and their aches and pains. No tonnage of bombs could produce a greater stampede to the conference table.
Now the morale of this army would just be superb. It would be boundless, because when a man's sixty-five years old he's had forty, fifty years to reflect on the bliss of private enterprise and the gross evil of Communism, and without hesitation, he would be so committed to his superlative ideals that he would gladly and eagerly spill his iron-poor blood. Who would want to fade away in boredom at a retirement center, when he can go down in a burst of glory for his superlative ideals on a foreign shuffleboard court?
Another boost to morale would be that some of the troops would be the directors and chairmen of the boards of huge corporations with war contracts. Given the opportunity to execute the wars that they helped plan, and that have made them rich, their zeal would just be boundless. Well may it be said of these rich men who plan the wars, His strength is as the strength of ten, because his heart's corrupt.
But to provide the greatest morale stimulus, the law to draft at sixty-five would have to allow for some exceptions. For instance, the president as commander-in-chief of the Army and Navy, even though he may not yet be sixty-five, should not be denied the privilege of volunteering, donning his shorts, and leading his shorted army in this great expeditionary force. We should give the commander-in-chief the privilege of accompanying this senior army.
In the next place, I think we should make exceptions for the Armed Services Committee, and also for the House Appropriations Committee. If you're going to make laws for appropriations and all like that, certainly you need some field experience. And these men, even though not sixty-five, should be given the privilege of joining the army.
Now, let's consider some more of the economic aspects of the draft at
sixty-five. The first big thing I see would be in the cost of recruitment. You
wouldn't need but two recruitment centers for these elderly GI's one in Florida
and one on California. And you wouldn't have to have any pre-induction
physicals, in view of the fact of universal disability. Now there might be one
or two physically fit men, but the number of fit would be so small that you
could just go ahead and dispense entirely with the examinations and conscript
them all. It could be too that there would be a tremendous savings to Medicare,
provided we could have rather high casualties, because most of these guys are
just beginning Medicare and if we could arrange to have a casualty rate pretty
high, think of the savings it would be to that program.
Another thing is that by drafting only those over sixty-five, we could almost eliminate the enormously expensive Veterans Administration. A maimed man of this age would hardly consider it worth the effort to learn how to use artificial arms and legs. Nor would he likely want to go to college, or to buy a twenty-year house on a forty-year mortgage. Even his meager needs wouldn't last too long, and because the crop of veterans would disappear so rapidly, we could afford to have twice as many of 'em. And by raising the draft age to sixty-five, we could completely bypass the astronomically extravagant training centers and camps. When a man's that old, he's just about as trained as he's gonna get. The government not only would be spared the considerable expense of training him, but would profit immensely from his long years of experience. Overnight, we would have, not a band of immature amateurs, but an army of decrepit professionals.
Besides the savings in money, though, there would be the greater savings in manpower. For instance, when you kill a man off at eighteen, nineteen, twenty years old, you're killing off a guy that's got twenty, thirty, forty, fifty years of productive life left in him. Now these folks that make automobiles up here in Detroit, they wouldn't catch an automobile right off the assembly line and junk it. They would expect to get some mileage out of it. You wouldn't take a kid right out of college and junk him on the battlefield. You want to get some mileage out of him.
Now, another thing is that when you kill off a boy that's maybe eighteen, nineteen years old, you don't know but that maybe you're killing a future Einstein, or a future Abraham Lincoln, or a future George Washington. You don't know, you might be killing some great genius of some kind. But when you kill off a guy sixty-five years old, you know what you're killing.
There's one final thing that might be said. This army would really have no equal in the art of pacification. Its ranks would be filled up with retired bankers and insurance company executives. They could completely rebuild the crude economic structure of a foreign country. The elderly newspaper and radio editors and managers could supply a whole lot of American intellectual trash for the foreign people. The enlisted personnel who in private life were captains of American industry could have a whole foreign country on cigarettes and wheels in no time at all. And these are the foundation of any civilization. The conscripted politicians could teach the foreign hopefuls all the ins and outs of, well, you know, under-the-table deals and how to conduct a successful candidacy and all like that. In a matter of weeks, after storming the beaches, all these mighty architects of the American dream, these wrinkled but wise GI's, would transform alien lands into prosperous territories begging for statehood. With prospects of such affluent bliss, most countries would actually invite us to invade them. And we've never needed any pretext other than an invitation from a corrupt regime.
But if this calls for more senior citizens than we could supply, it might be necessary to have a war waiting list. Some countries that are fairly well off might just have to be told plainly that we wouldn't invade 'em under any circumstances. So the only thing then that stands between us and world peace and plenty is one little minor change in the draft law.


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Karluk Beg
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There must be a ping check system in the game. There are a lot of LoL players in our university campus. We wre playing without any problem till 2 weeks ago. However we began to have high ping problems since last 2 weeks. But some times we are not having that problem. Connection problem is just occuring when we are playing LoL. In last 2 weeks we had to make some quits because it was impossible for us to play the game in over hundreds of pings. (sometimes it reache to 999). If we were able to see the ping before the game starts, it would be nice for other players too that because we dont have to make quits at the begining of the game. Is it possible to bring a Ping Check system or something else like that?
Go into tutorial mode, you can check ping there + quit whenever you want.
thats a nice advice =) thanks! (but a ping check system can still be good, if it is possible)
Senior Wrenchman
http://www.pingtest.net/ You can check it easily over here... just google: "Ping Test" or "Internet Speed Test". The number you'll get from these checks are pretty much the same as in game.. as i get 30-40 Ping in test and in game.
i get "4" ping in for region and for east europe. Where is the eu LoL server? i should check with that region.
They are in GB
By the way it is not possible to see the ping during tutorial.
Senior Member
No, servers are in Germany. And if you don't wanna get bored by playing tutorials, test your ping in practice games instead. ^^
STFU ragenoob
Check the NA forums, there's a solution there using the CMD prompt (Google it!). NA fixed the issue.


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While I'm a writer, not a programmer, there are things I've taken from the open source philosophy. And the main one is: be open to good ideas coming from the people around you. And give them a try.
I study improv comedy - performing on stage, with a group, without a script. It's also responsible for my employment at SilverStripe.
In early April, I had a job in Tauranga that was, for various reasons, a poor fit. So, I accepted that I would have to move back to the U.S., something I didn't want to do, and decided to spend a couple of weeks in the more urban Wellington.
I had headed down to Wellington partially because Wellington had the largest improv community in New Zealand. My friend Andy from my hometown of Austin, sent an e-mail to his contacts in Wellington, and the Wellington improvisers invited me down to rehearse with them - a goodwill gesture of hospitality for a fellow performer.
It was at that rehearsal, though, that I met someone who worked in the tech industry in Wellington, and was also an immigrant from the United States. He suggested that before giving up, I try going to an event known as "Thursday Night Curry" here in Wellington, a sort of networking group for the tech-savvy in Wellington.
I went ahead and printed up a copy of my C.V. for Thursday Night Curry, and showed it around. One attendee, Johnathan Brewer, noted that I might be a good fit for a number of companies - SilverStripe being on the top of the list. That night, I sent off my C.V. to those companies.
I was surprised to hear back the next day from SilverStripe - and they asked me to come in for an interview on Tuesday. A second interview on Wednesday led to a job offer on Wednesday afternoon, and I accepted on Thursday, after following advice my parents gave me to sleep on any job offer.
As fortune had it, I turned out to be a good fit for SilverStripe. They were looking for a writer for a while, plus my previous experience at NetQoS writing about enterprise IT network monitoring translated very well to their new initiative in web environment monitoring - which would become known as Dawn.
This all happened over the course of about a week.
Now, there's no doubt that getting the job that quickly was a matter of serendipity and luck. Especially in this job market. But the thing about it was that I remained open to the possibilities and didn't shut down good ideas when I heard them.
Printing up resumes and attending networking events less than two weeks before my flight out of the country smacked of a last-ditch, desperate effort. But I very well could have just not made that effort and I'd be writing this to you from Austin. Or, actually, I wouldn't be writing this to you because I wouldn't be working for SilverStripe... I think you know what I mean though.
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Sorry if I didn't make this clear; I'm in Wellington, New Zealand now, which means I didn't have to return to the U.S., because I found the job at SilverStripe. As for why SilverStripe needs a writer, SilverStripe is a growing company, with a growing need for various writing projects. Unfortunately, writing documents takes time, time which most people at SilverStripe would rather spend doing the things they're best at. They brought me on board to write because that's what I'm best at, freeing up everyone else to work on other things.
Posted on 3 Jun 2010 by Brian Boyko
Dear Brian, Your story is very inspiring and certainly give me a personal lesson that one should not just look for job prospects in his/her own country but in international job search is a good idea too. I do not have a lot of experience with Silverstripe but since many hosting Companies like GoDaddy offer SilverStripe as a pre-approved Content Management System option, I know it is bound to be a very good and powerful software. What I did not understand is what would they need a writer? ( You mentioned: They were looking for a writer for a while). Good for you .. it looks you will be working remotely from Austin, Texas. I wonder how do you adjust your work schedule with the US-NZ time difference. Anyway .. Good Luck
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French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said he was a guest of the Egyptian government during the New Year's holiday, making the disclosure as Foreign Minister Michele Alliot-Marie fends off calls to resign for accepting a flight from a Tunisian businessman.
French Prime Minister Francois Fillon said European governments should agree to use leverage to make the region's financial support fund "massive."
France will maintain efforts to reduce the deficit and overhaul its tax system, Prime Minister Francois Fillon told parliament.
French Prime Minister Francois Fillon marked the fourth anniversary of Nicolas Sarkozy 's election as president with an attack on the opposition Socialists a year before elections that polls show the incumbent would lose.
French Prime Minister Francois Fillon began meetings with Jewish and Muslim leaders today to diffuse a dispute about religious dietary codes that has threatened to dominate France's presidential elections.
French Prime Minister Francois Fillon called on the European Union to apply tougher trade rules to "big" emerging countries and differentiate between new economic powers and poor nations.
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