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DukeImmerse: Uprooted/ Rerouted
Four courses. Four weeks abroad. One theme. One semester.
Think of DukeImmerse: Uprooted/Rerouted as Focus on steroids: a semester-long, research-based, student-faculty collaboration on a single theme–forced migration–plus a weekly dinner meeting and a four-week mid-semester field trip to work with refugees abroad. The program is not being offered in Spring 2015.
Uprooted/Rerouted supported and understanding of the contemporary dynamics of displacement and the challenges it poses. It aimed to offer concrete research-based interventions to address both the causes and consequences of displacement. Duke students and faculty collaborated both with refugee communities and international, national and local NGOs working with these communities. Working from a variety of methodological, theoretical, disciplinary and political perspectives, participants addressed a single research question: how does displacement affect the well-being and the social identity of those displaced?
Uprooted/Rerouted in its first two years involved a systematic comparison of Bhutanese and Iraqi refugees, two of the three groups the U.S. State Department and Office of Homeland Security have specially targeted for resettlement, and the two fastest growing refugee populations in Durham and surrounding areas. In 2014, as part of the Bass Connections working group in Displacement, Resettlement and Global Mental Health, Syrian refugee populations were included as well.
The Bhutanese were expelled from Bhutan two decades ago, lived in poverty in refugee camps, are largely illiterate, mostly don't speak English, mostly come from agricultural backgrounds, and tend to convert from Hinduism to Christianity just before or after resettlement. The Iraqis left only recently, spent little or no time in refugee camps, are solidly middle-class, highly educated professionals, speak fluent English, and don't tend to convert. How do these factors affect the likelihood of successful resettlement?
DukeImmerse Students Spring 2014
Lily Doron is a freshman from Durham, NC, and is undeclared in her major. Lily is on the Duke club soccer team, volunteers with Church World Service, and assistant coaches a Special Olympics soccer team.
Nali Gillespie is a junior from San Diego, CA, and she is majoring in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (also premed). She also volunteers with Duke EMS and works in Dean Nowicki's animal behavior lab. In her spare time, she loves to dance, as ballet is one of her greatest passions outside of school.
Meron Hailu is a junior from Alexandria, VA, majoring in economics with a sociology minor. She is an active member of Duke's Nourish International chapter and is an intern for SymbologyClothing. She is interested in international development and nonprofit work.
Molly Howard is a freshman from Tucson, Arizona, interested in studying Public Policy. Molly hopes to pursue a Policy Journalism & Media Studies Certificate and attend law school after graduating from Duke.
Elizabeth Hoyler is a sophomore hoping to major in Global Health and Public Policy with an Economics minor. She is in the Swing Dance performance group at Duke, and hopes to travel to as many World Heritage sites as she can.
Olivia Johnson is a freshman from Washington, DC, hoping to major in ICS and Political Science. Olivia is involved in Duke Debate, MASTERY tutoring, Bassett House Council, InterVarsity, and America Reads America Counts.
Michelle Khalid is a freshman from Clermont, Florida, hoping to major in Cultural Anthropology. She is a member of USAS, Global Brigades, and To Write Love on Her Arms.
Christie Lawrence is a sophomore from Charleston, SC, hoping to major in Public Policy with a Turkish Language and Culture minor. Christie is a member of Think Before You Talk, a member of American Grand Strategy's Undergraduate Council, treasurer of Ubuntu, a DJ for WXDU, and intern for the "It's Your Move" campaign.
Josephine Ramseyer is a sophomore from Paris, France, hoping to double major in English and international comparative studies with a concentration in South American studies. She has plans to pursue a career in human rights law.
Krystelle Rocourt is a freshman from Haiti hoping to major in International Comparative Studies with a minor in English. Krystelle is a member of Cambridge Christian Fellowship and enjoys photography and contemporary dance.
Tra Tran is a junior from New Mexico double majoring in psychology and cultural anthropology. She plans on going to graduate school for clinical psychology with a concentration in cultural psychology. She is a member of MASTERY, SFER, and Mirecourt.
Sasha Zients is a freshman from Washington, DC, hoping to major in International Comparative Studies, focusing on sub-Saharan Africa, with a certificate in Ethics. Sasha is a staff writer for The Duke Chronicle and enjoys tutoring with MASTERY.
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By Gregson Davis
Aimé Césaire (1913 – 2008) has left behind an extraordinary dual legacy as eminent poet and political leader. Several critics have claimed to observe a contradiction between the vehement anti-colonial stance expressed in his writings and his political practice. Criticism has focused on his support for the law of "departmentalization" (which incorporated the French Antilles, along with other overseas territories, as administrative "departments" within the French Republic) and his reluctance to lead his country to political independence. However, this perception of contradiction is misleading. A close reading of his poetic corpus and his published essays, such as the famous Discourse on Colonialism, supports an integrated view of his social thought and political practice.
While Césaire respected the sentiment of "national pride," he was more deeply committed to the project of restoring "black pride" — an idea that transcends the institution of a modern nation-state. When I interviewed him in Fort-de-France, the city of which he was mayor from 1945 until 1993, the first question he put to me on learning that I was a native of the Caribbean island of Antigua was: "Are Antiguans proud to be black?"
The key to arriving at a holistic view of Césaire's ideological position is to be found, not only in his espousal of "negritude," but also in his quest to achieve genuine "decolonization." By his controversial support of departmental status, Césaire signaled early in his career that true decolonization should embrace not only the political and economic spheres (though he doubted Martinique's ability to successfully "go it alone," given the persistence of "neo-colonialist" control of global markets ), but also the domain of cultural values. The leaders of newly created independent African nation-states (such as the Senegalese, Leopold Senghor, his close friend from his student days in Paris; or Sekou Touré of Guinea, whom he celebrated in a lyric poem, "Guinée") chose to follow the path advocated by Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah in the slogan, "Seek ye first the political kingdom." Césaire, on the other hand, understood in a very prescient way that "neo-colonialism" meant that economic exploitation invariably persists even after the hoisting of a new national flag.
Decolonization and negritude were inseparable in Césaire's thinking. Both were ambitious projects for remaking ex-colonial Martinican society by reinstating pride among its people of color. As his signature poem, Cahier d'un retour au pays natal ("Journal of a Homecoming," in my English rendition) discloses, he saw negritude as an ongoing process of resurrecting a positive racial identity for peoples of African descent in the face of the degradation inflicted on them by European colonial powers. In this regard he shared the insight of the historian and political leader, the Trinidadian Eric Williams, that racism in its New World incarnation had been cooked up by the slave owners as a rationalization for enslavement of Africans. He therefore came to regard the Haitian Revolution, in which the slaves of the wealthy colony of Saint-Domingue (as Haiti was called under colonial French rule) successfully wrested power from their masters, as the historic crucible of negritude. As Césaire puts it in an arresting passage in the Journal, Haiti was the place "where for the first time negritude stood up tall and straight and declared that it believed in its humanity."
For Césaire, then, negritude, as incarnated in the Haitian revolution, involves adopting a rebellious stance against the dehumanization of blacks. This theme is present in several of his plays, such as A Tempest, which explores the psychological complexity of the relationship between colonizer and colonized. In his brilliant recasting of Shakespeare's play, the monstrous figure of Caliban is transformed into an articulate, subjugated native who plots a successful rebellion against his repressive master, the European Prospero.
Césaire's dual agenda was, at bottom, "moral" in conception. His consistent goal, as poet and politician, was to promote genuine equality for the blacks of his homeland in the sphere of public policy no less than in social relations.
During his long service as deputy from Martinique to the French parliament, he acted as moral gadfly by making uncompromising "interventions" in order to ensure that the Antilles, as an "overseas department," received treatment equal to that of the departments in continental France. He continued to play this role even after his official retirement, most famously in his brush with the former French president, Nicolas Sarkozy: Césaire publicly rebuked him after he made a notorious remark on the benefits of French colonialism. By an ironic twist of fate, Sarkozy eventually made up for his lapse on the occasion of Césaire's posthumous canonization in the French Panthéon by delivering a laudatory tribute to the great writer and statesman, in which he declared: "To tell the truth, he never ceased to goad France into examining its conscience." [My translation.]
When I once asked him in a conversation in the mayor's office what he thought of the radical independence movement (then centered in the sister island of Guadeloupe), he replied: "The French do not want independence." Since the blacks of the French Caribbean were citizens of France, he was content to re-affirm the preference of the majority to retain their departmental status. For those who deplore this preference, I offer the following challenge: visit a few of the independent mini-states of the Caribbean archipelago and compare their economic and social progress with that of the Martinique bequeathed by the Césairean gadfly.
Gregson Davis is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at New York University, where his research focuses on the interpretation of poetic texts in the Greco-Roman as well as Caribbean traditions. He has taught previously at Stanford University, Cornell University, and Duke University. His published work includes a biography of Aimé Césaire (Cambridge University Press, 1997), translations of Césaire's poetry (Stanford University Press, 1984), and the entry on Césaire in The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought, available online at the Oxford African American Studies Center.
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I don't keep my equipment under the screen or beside it, that is a visual distraction. My rack is behind my seating. During a movie, the PS3 would reach fan speed 2. This was audible in non action movies.
I actually power down my DVR when watching movies so I don't have to hear that damn HDD.
Ok.. well each to his own I guess. You must really have a nice setup with all those strict standards of yours
As mentioned unless this guy is completely and utterly oblivious to gaming, I'd go with the PS3 simply because you get a gaming console of the future for the same price. Then if you decide to go total gung-ho on hifi you can always buy a highend bluray player and use the PS3 as secondary. That's just in my opinion
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British violinist and conductor Garry Clarke has recently come to notice as one of the finest of the new generation of interpreters of baroque music. Time-Out Chicago magazine music critic called him "an outstanding violinist…[Clarke] plays with real style and panache," while the Washington Post praised his playing as "a riveting, cut-to-the-bone performance, every note crackling with purpose and electricity." and the Chicago Tribune hails him as "a young dynamo".
As director of Baroque Band, Chicago's period-instrument orchestra, Clarke has assembled a "stylish and exciting period-instrument group," which gave "a tremendous debut" in May 2007 with "an abundance of style, a crisp esprit de corps, and a palpable affection for its repertoire." (Chicago Tribune)
In the UK Clarke was praised by the Oxford Times as "one of the finest exponents of baroque music in the country." Clarke has performed, recorded, and broadcast with The Academy of Ancient Music, The Sixteen, The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, The King's Consort, The Hanover Band, and the Scholars, working with musicians including Christopher Hogwood, John Elliot Gardener, Harry Christophers, Andrew Manze, Sir Charles Mackaras, Rene Jacobs, Anthony Halstead, and Robert King. Clarke was also a member of the European Baroque Orchestra under the direction of Ton Koopman, and has performed, recorded, and toured with William Christie and the French ensemble Les Arts Florissants.
Since moving to the United States in 2004, Clarke has concentrated on conducting, chamber music, and solo engagements. Clarke is a member of the early music faculty of the Music Institute of Chicago where he directs the school's new baroque orchestra and coaches individuals and ensembles. In 2005 and 2006 he served as principal conductor of the Garth Newel Music Festival in Virginia. Other American ensembles with which Clarke has performed include the Washington Bach Consort, Opera Lafayette, The National Cathedral Baroque Orchestra, and The Orchestra of the 17th Century in Washington, D.C.; Ars Antigua and the Callipygian Players in Chicago, and New Trinty Baroque in Atlanta. Clarke moved to the U.S. as an international recipient of the prestigious Arts Management Fellowship Award from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.
Clarke graduated from the Royal College of Music in London, where he studied with Catherine Mackintosh, concertmaster and soloist of the Academy of Ancient Music and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and founding member of the Purcell Quartet. He also studied with Michela Comberti of the English Concert among others.
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n Mexico, all sauces are salsas, regardless of whether or not they are cooked. But in the U.S., a salsa usually refers to an uncooked sauce. This is one of the simplest--yet tastiest--uses of serrano chiles. Serve this as a dip for chips or as a marinade and basting sauce for grilled poultry and meat.
Here is one of the best methods for processing and preserving large quantities of small chile pods quickly. The way is so basic that it is sometimes overlooked among preservation methods. You should have a powerful blender or food processor for this. To use, defrost the cubes and estimate 2 to 3 pods per cube. Use in recipes calling for minced or chopped small chiles.
This recipe appeared in the article "Retro-Grilling" by Dr. BBQ, Ray Lampe. Learn more about Dr. BBQ on his website here. Many people don't realize that some salad dressings don't come from a jar. In the spirit of authenticity, I am calling for iceberg lettuce here, but if you substituted romaine or spinach, I won't tell anyone.
Called pikantny syr (spicy cheese) in Russian, this is a popular appetizer in Siberia and the Russian Far East. This recipe and others can be found in the article Siberian Hot Stuff By Sharon Hudgins
Charlie Butcher serves this sauce with fried alligator tail at Schooner's Seafood House.
Yeah, right. Okay, this is our spin on Mexican flavorings that would work on goat, as in cabrito, pit roasted goat. Can't find goat at Winn-Dixie? Use this rub for either grilling or smoking beef, pork, and lamb.
A Naga Jolokia Bloody Mary just sounds like manly fun and a great way to fire up a classic with hot new blood. This recipe features the Henry Family Farm Varietal Chile Extracts Ghost Pepper Extract made by David Rosengarten. This is a party-sized recipe suitable for a punchbowl. Read the entire article by Mark Masker here.
This Southwestern adaptation of the Italian specialty uses green chile and spinach in place of the traditional basil in the pesto. It has a very concentrated flavor—as do all pestos, so a little bit goes a long way. This pasta topper is also good on grilled meats or fish, burgers, and sandwiches.
These are very popular appetizers New Mexico and are served at just about every holiday party. A number of fillings can be used, but green chile cream cheese is by far the most favored. This is an all-purpose filling that goes well on crackers, as a dip with chips or vegetable crudities, as well as on tortillas. For those watching their fat intake, substitute light cream cheese or Neufchatel cheese. It is important to tightly roll and refrigerate the rolls or they won't stay together after they are sliced..
Of course we have our own New Mexican version of pesto! It's a topping for pasta but also can be added to soups, stews, and rice. Although we have specified cilantro in this recipes, you can use the traditional basil or even Italian parsley. Pecans, another New Mexican crop, can be substituted for the piñon nuts.


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When Is Real Housewives of Orange County on Tonight? 5/6/2013
Bravo loves to launch new shows and it often ends up playing a bit of air time tetris with many of its long-running series, especially the Real Housewives franchise.
Mondays are typically reserved for the ladies of the OC, but what time is The Real Housewives of Orange County on tonight?
Fans can tune in at 9 pm ET for a brand new episode of RHOC. The show previously aired at 8 pm ET, and there's no clear explanation for why Bravo moved the show to a later time slot. But tonight's episode will serve as a lead-in to the 90-minute premiere of Newlyweds: The First Year.
In Season 8, Episode 6, we'll get to see the aftermath of Tamra Barney's catastrophic gym opening party. After getting kicked out of Tamra's shindig, Alexis Bellino is unsure of how to make peace with her fellow Housewives. We'll also get to meet Lydia McLaughlin's mom, who is celebrating her recent sobriety from marijuana.
Vicki Gunvalson and Tamra may have made amends at the beginning of Real Housewives of Orange County Season 8, but their friendship is strained further when Vicki appears to be slacking in her duties with Wine by Wives, their co-owned business. If that wasn't enough for Vicki, she continues to fight with her family over her relationship with Brooks Ayers.
Gretchen Rossi has some relationship struggles of her own when she breaks down over complicated matters with Slade Smiley. Heather Dubrow also gets into a disagreement with husband Terry over how to juggle their busy schedule with Heather's new acting gig.


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Ashy Storm-Petrel
The Ashy Storm-Petrel weighs just over an ounce and is eight inches long with a forked tail. Its dark, smoky-gray plumage blends in perfectly with its foggy surroundings at sea.
This petrel lives and feeds in the California Current, a major cold water system that churns from north to south along the West Coast of the United States, forming the foundation of an astonishingly rich ecosystem that ranges from microscopic plankton to blue whales.
Over half of this species' population occurs on the South Farallon Islands off central California. Like other storm-petrels, Ashy Storm-Petrels fly to and from their nesting colonies at night; but unlike their cousins, they do not travel far from their colonies after breeding.
Major threats to the Ashy Storm-Petrel include predation by Burrowing Owls, the population of which has soared due to the introduction of non-native mice on the islands, and predation by gulls, whose population has risen due to the increase of garbage on the mainland. As a result, the storm-petrel population on the Farallons declined by 40% between 1972 and 1992. These birds are also very sensitive to disturbance; nesting colonies can easily be disrupted by recreational kayakers and fishermen. Petrels foraging at sea are further at risk from ingesting floating plastics, and from oil and pesticide pollution.
Recommended conservation measures include eradicating introduced predators from nesting islands and investigating effects of artificial lights on predation and breeding success.
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He might have had things all his own way in Melbourne, but F1 2011 World Championship leader Sebastian Vettel was made to dig deep to see off the McLaren-Mercedes threat and secure pole position at Sepang for this weekend's Malaysian Grand Prix
For a while during qualifying for this weekend's Malaysian Grand Prix, it looked as though McLaren-Mercedes might just pull off the unthinkable by crowning its spectacular early-season resurgence from a torrid winter's testing by pipping Red Bull Racing to pole position – but F1 2011 World Championship leader Sebastian Vettel had other ideas.
Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button's form during practice in Kuala Lumpur had hinted at an upset in the offing, and one was very nearly produced – but while it will be the same man at the front of the grid when the starting lights go out at Sepang, with barely three tenths of a second blanketing the Red Bull and McLaren quartet this time, F1 fans could just be set for a thriller tomorrow.
The opening salvo in Q3 saw Hamilton throw down the gauntlet with an extraordinary effort almost four tenths up on McLaren team-mate Button, with the Red Bulls of Vettel and Mark Webber splitting the pair and every other driver restricting themselves to just a single lap.
It all came down to the second lap, with Webber, Hamilton and Vettel each setting personal bests. Webber crossed the line first, but the Australian had lost time in the final two sectors, whilst Hamilton went and chipped a further two hundredths of a second off his own benchmark – but that was not enough to stave off the charging Vettel, who went a tenth quicker again to steal pole away from right under the Briton's nose.
With Button staying fourth in the top teams' 'second tier' duel, Fernando Alonso wound up a distant fifth as Ferrari remains all-at-sea with its off-the-pace F150° Italia. He finished almost a second away from the pole time and just ahead of Nick Heidfeld, who banished his Melbourne qualifying nightmare on his Lotus Renault GP debut with an excellent sixth place second time out. Respective team-mates Felipe Mass and Vitaly Petrov will sit alongside each other on row four, with Nico Rosberg and Kamui Kobayashi rounding out the top ten.
Having flirted with missing the cut in Q1, Webber was straight out onto the track in Q2 and straight onto the soft tyres to-boot, but whilst both he and team-mate Vettel were fast, Button was a damn site faster, blitzing the two Red Bulls and lapping significantly quicker than he had done at any stage of the weekend to-date to signal that it was very much game on in Kuala Lumpur.
As Ferrari and Mercedes struggled, Renault and Force India F1 chanced it by leaving it late before taking to the track – with Adrian Sutil, indeed, not taking to the track at all. On the softer rubber, Vitaly Petrov and Nick Heidfeld went for just a single run – meaning the pressure was on – but both delivered, popping into fourth and fifth places respectively, albeit more than a second adrift of the leading pace.
With Hamilton surprisingly in the drop zone with only two minutes to go, the 2008 world champion dug deep to vault into P2 right behind his team-mate – but further down the order there were cheers and tears, as Kobayashi earned himself a Q3 shot with an impressive late effort and Rosberg knocked his own team-mate Michael Schumacher out of the top ten.
That means, that for the second time in as many races in F1 2011, the most successful driver in the sport's history will take the start from only eleventh place, followed on this occasion by Toro Rosso duo Sébastien Buemi and Jaime Alguersuari, Force India rookie Paul di Resta – who, with no great prior experience of the Sepang International Circuit, seems to be suffering from being curiously forced to sit out FP1 on Friday morning in favour of FIF1 reserve driver Nico Hülkenberg – Williams veteran Rubens Barrichello, Sauber new boy Sergio Pérez and Sutil.
Up at the front, meanwhile, it was Button, Hamilton, Vettel, Webber, Alonso, Rosberg, Massa, Petrov, Kobayashi and Heidfeld who would progress on to the Q3 shoot-out.
The major drama of Q1 came when the left-hand sidepod of Buemi's Scuderia Toro Rosso STR6 few off eight minute in, bringing out the red flags and scuppering a number of drivers' laps, with nine competitors yet to set a representative time – and consequently under pressure to perform when the session re-started shortly after.
As the clock ticked down and the tension mounted, it was the two Williams and Mercedes cars that lingered dangerously to the bubble, as well as – astonishingly – Webber, who languished some way shy of the leading pace on the harder rubber. As Schumacher and Rosberg hauled themselves comfortably to safety in the closing moments, Webber was pushed ever-nearer to the edge, proving unable even to replicate the kind of lap time he had produced during FP3.
Fortunately for the Australian, he just made it through by only just over three tenths of a second in 15th place, with team-mate Vettel similarly further down than anticipated in tenth. Up at the sharp end, Massa surprisingly led the way from Hamilton, Alonso, Schumacher, Kobayashi, Button, Renault pairing Petrov and Heidfeld and Rosberg, whilst Pastor Maldonado became the 'big name' to join the predictable fall guys in missing the cut.
The others to fail to make the grade were Heikki Kovalainen and Jarno Trulli – both of whom had threatened a Q2 appearance on a far more competitive weekend for Team Lotus thus far – Virgin duo Timo Glock and Jérôme d'Ambrosio and Hispania Racing's Vitantonio Liuzzi and Narain Karthikeyan, who will belatedly get their season underway on Sunday after both succeeding in sneaking beneath the 107 per cent barrier.
1. Sebastian Vettel Germany Red Bull-Renault 1m 34.870s
2. Lewis Hamilton Britain McLaren-Mercedes 1m 34.974s
3. Mark Webber Australia Red Bull-Renault 1m 35.179s
4. Jenson Button Britain McLaren-Mercedes 1m 35.200s
5. Fernando Alonso Spain Ferrari-Ferrari 1m 35.802s
6. Nick Heidfeld Germany Renault-Renault 1m 36.124s
7. Felipe Massa Brazil Ferrari-Ferrari 1m 36.251s
8. Vitaly Petrov Russia Renault-Renault 1m 36.324s
9. Nico Rosberg Germany Mercedes-Mercedes 1m 36.809s
10. Kamui Kobayashi Japan Sauber-Ferrari 1m 36.820s
11. Michael Schumacher Germany Mercedes-Mercedes 1m 37.035s
12. Sebastien Buemi Switzerland Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m 37.160s
13. Jaime Alguersuari Spain Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m 37.347s
14. Paul di Resta Britain Force India-Mercedes 1m 37.370s
15. Rubens Barrichello Brazil Williams-Cosworth 1m 37.496s
16. Sergio Perez Mexico Sauber-Ferrari 1m 37.528s
17. Adrian Sutil Germany Force India-Mercedes 1m 37.593s
18. Pastor Maldonado Venezuela Williams-Cosworth 1m 38.276s
19. Heikki Kovalainen Finland Lotus-Renault 1m 38.645s
20. Jarno Trulli Italy Lotus-Renault 1m 38.791s
21. Timo Glock Germany Virgin-Cosworth 1m 40.648s
22. Jerome d'Ambrosio Belgium Virgin-Cosworth 1m 41.001s
23. Vitantonio Liuzzi Italy HRT-Cosworth 1m 41.549s
24. Narain Karthikeyan India HRT-Cosworth 1m 42.574s


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Within the Tyler Municipal Rose Garden are several other designated areas such as The Idea Garden. Not only does this garden have pretty Spring flowers to make an early visit exciting, but other plantings, as well.
Picture # 2 is a sunny yellow patch of Lantanas
Picture #3 are White Lilies--they had such a sweet lingering fragrance
Picture #4 Brazilian Petunias made a colorful statement
Picture #5 Spaces for Musing
Once inside this tidy fenced garden, you'll find benches for restful viewing or just for catching your breath. This recipe for compost was listed which I found interesting and perhaps someone can use it to improve their garden patches.
LAZY MAN'S COMPOST: Ingredients are green and brown yard waste. Water as needed. In a pile or bin, layer yard waste as it accumulates.
For faster composting, chop it up with a hoe or mower. Water until moist as a wrung out sponge.
In 12-18 months, the bottom and center of the pile will be dark crumbly compost. Sift and use the remaining material to start a new batch.
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Support Group Meeting Information
To provide a safe, caring and supportive environment for families and individuals who are in search of more information regarding Klinefelter Syndrome.
Due to unavoidable conflicts in scheduling, the Southeast XXY Support Group meeting scheduled for May 4, 2013 has been cancelled. We hope everyone will take the opportunity to attend the national conference to be held in Denver, Colorado on July 26th, 27th and 28th. We will work toward scheduling another support group meeting either in the fall or early spring of 2014.
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Luanda — The re-elected chairman of the Angolan Skating Federation (FAP), Carlos Alberto Jaime "Calabeto", guaranteed Thursday in Luanda the commitment of his department to the development of the sports in the country.
Speaking to press after the confirmation of the electoral results, which gave him another four-term, Carlos Alberto Jaime "Calabeto" stated that the spread of roller-skate hockey and the introduction of other activities continue to be the priorities of the next mandate.
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It's shaping up to be a nice bowl season for the Southeastern Conference.
The two Mississippi schools of the league got things off on a positive note to close 2013 with victories in its postseason bowls.
Of course Mississippi State defeated Rice 44-7 in the Liberty Bowl on Tuesday, while just down the road from Memphis, Tenn., in Nashville, Ole Miss won a 25-17 decision over Georgia Tech in the Music City Bowl on Monday.
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The upside to that, of course, is that the band just released a new single titled "If So," which follows up prior singles "Back Seat," "Trojans," and "Symptoms." With four songs, that basically means we have enough material on our hands to call it an EP -- so it's exciting to think another 10 tracks are coming our way.
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Although Liverpool beat Fulham in dramatic fashion at Craven Cottage on Wednesday, defender Kolo Toure still managed to endure a nightmare evening.
Moments after the 32-year-old scored one of the funniest own goals of the season so far, he then went and charged into Phil Dowd, leaving the referee flat on his back.
Dowd stumbled to the ground in remarkably similar fashion to former Premier League ref Paul Alcock, who was deliberately pushed by Paolo Di Canio during a match between Sheffield Wednesday and Arsenal in October 1998.
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Together with Berin Szoka of the Progress and Freedom Foundation, a think-tank also based in Washington DC, Dunstan has created the outlines of an economic model that would see private industry taking responsibility for removing space debris. An international body, such as the IADC, would put a price - rather like a bounty - on every defunct satellite. Private companies can lodge bids with satellite owners for the right to buy and de-orbit their spacecraft. Once de-orbiting is successfully completed, the company could pocket the bounty, which would be funded out of a new tax that satellite operators would have to pay.
But why bring these things down just to burn up in the atmosphere when they are potentially valuable? Dunstan estimates that of the 6000 tonnes of material in Earth orbit, one-sixth is high-grade aluminium in the form of discarded upper rocket stages. These empty fuel tanks have an internal volume 20 times that of the International Space Station. If they could only be corralled, they would make an inexpensive space station or, Dunstan suggests, they could be cut into shielding material to protect other satellites. "Why not set up Joe's Shingle Shack in orbit?" he asks, only half-joking.
While the orbital equivalent of a used-car salesman selling satellite parts is some way off, the need to do more about space junk is immediate. "Our future ability to use space is directly jeopardised by space debris," says Szoka. Encouragingly, the European Space Agency has signed a contract with Spanish company Indra Espacio to develop a radar system to track space debris. In the US, Ball Aerospace and Technologies has collaborated with Boeing on the Space Based Space Surveillance satellite, a dedicated space-junk telescope awaiting launch.
"It is very urgent that we begin to remove mass from orbit," says Klinkrad. Even as we talk, his team is beginning another tracking campaign. Something is stalking ESA's ERS-1 satellite, and they have to decide in the next day or two whether or not to use precious fuel to move the spacecraft. As Klinkrad says in a resigned voice, "This is becoming an everyday situation."
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Galaxy 15 is a name to strike terror into the hearts of satellite operators around the world. Once an ordinary and largely anonymous telecommunications satellite, it is now a zombie. It stopped talking to its masters on 5 April, just as a solar storm battered the Earth.
The satellite's owner Intelsat is still investigating whether this caused Galaxy 15 to lose its mind. But Galaxy 15 is not only a problem for its owner. Following its malfunction, it began an inexorable march across space, bound for a natural orbital graveyard created by Earth's gravity. In its blind stumble to get there, Galaxy 15 risks colliding with other satellites. It has already menaced three and has at least three others in its path. To avert destruction, satellite operators must wait for the zombie to draw close and then manoeuvre their own satellite to "leapfrog" it.
What makes Galaxy 15 particularly annoying is that its main transmitter and receiver are still working. As it drifts across the path of another working satellite, it could interfere with communications. To avoid this, satellite operators are signalling on tighter beams with larger antennae and less power. In effect they are whispering to their satellites in the hope they won't attract the zombie's attention.
All of this is costing money - big money. "These satellites are profit centres making millions of dollars a month," says James Dunstan of Mobius Legal Group in Washington DC. Every dodge to avoid a collision eats around $10 million into a satellite's profits. That's because collision avoidance manoeuvres waste precious fuel that would otherwise be used to combat the tendency for satellites to drift off into orbital graveyards. Although companies do not divulge how much fuel they use in collision avoidance manoeuvres, Dunstan estimates that each one must shorten a satellite's lifespan by between four and 12 months. He says dealing with Galaxy 15 could easily cost the telecomms industry $100 million.
Tobias Nassif of Intelsat sees it differently. He says that constant vigilance means that most collision manoeuvres can be built into ones made fortnightly to stop satellites drifting. "Space debris is not a grave concern," he says, "but it is always on our mind."
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Criticality of low-enriched-uranium (LEU) and mixed-oxide (MOX) assemblies at the VVER-1000-type Balakovo nuclear power plant is investigated. Effective multiplication factors for fresh fuel assemblies on the railroad platform, fresh fuel assemblies in the within-plant fuel transportation vehicle, and fresh fuel assemblies in the spent fuel storage pool are calculated. If there is no absorber between the units, the configurations with all MOX assemblies result in higher effective multiplication factors than the configurations with all LEU assemblies when the system is dry. When the systems are flooded, the configurations with all LEU assemblies result in higher effective multiplication factors. For normal operating conditions, effective multiplication factors for all configurations are below the presumed upper subcritical limit of 0.95. For an accident condition of a fully loaded within-plant fuel transportation vehicle that is "flooded" with low-density water (possibly from a fire suppression system), the presumed upper subcritical limit is exceeded by configurations containing either LEU or a combination of LEU and MOX assemblies.
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As a class-based, multiplayer-focused take on Tolkien's classic tomes, Pandemic Studios' The Lord of the Rings: Conquest relies heavily on a thriving community of regular players. To foster just that, the developer is looking to keep the Conquest experience fresh with the release today of new downloadable content in the form of the Heroes & Maps Pack.
As the name implies, the pack is headlined by the inclusion of three new hero characters: the cranially cauliflowered Gothmog, the doomed Boromir, and the rarely combative Elven Maiden Arwen. The heroes can then be pitted against one another on two new maps for the game's one-on-one Hero Arena mode (previously added by way of a free downloadable content pack). The characters can also be used in the game's standard multiplayer modes, which will be bolstered by the addition of two new maps, one set during the Battle of the Last Alliance and another in the forests of Amon Hen.
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Trace Duryea has led the East Hampton Town Republican Committee through two elections that secured a Republican majority on the town board as well as in the town trustees. But this week Duryea announced she would step down from the helm of the committee and hand the reins over to Kurt Kappel.
A Springs resident, who is married to East Hampton Town Justice and Sag Harbor Village Acting Village Justice Lisa Rana, Kappel has served on the Republican Committee for eight years.
While the announcement was made this week, the vote was taken on January 11 and was unanimous. In addition to Kappel taking the chairman's seat, Tom Knobel was also elected to the vice-chair position after Emil Everett stepped down to reportedly focus on his family and career.
Knobel, a former member of the town board and a former trustee, has previously served as the Republican Committee chairman in a seven-and-a-half year stretch. He currently works at the Suffolk County Board of Elections.
On Monday, Duryea said her decision to retire came after enduring two successful, but time consuming elections in 2009 and 2011.
"We got 11 people elected this past year, so I am very happy with the results," said Duryea.
Duryea, whose late husband Perry Duryea was a New York State Assemblyman, said it was time to bring new energy and ideas to the party leadership.
"There are a lot of challenges and I look forward to meeting new people and looking for new ideas, while energizing our important local base who have made East Hampton the great place that it is," said Kappel in a statement released by the committee late last week. "I want to remind people how East Hampton Republicans have restored our town's finances, defended traditional rights like beach driving, and kept property taxes from rising. Each one of these important issues help protect our residents and future generations. However more work needs to be done. For instance, East Hampton still needs to provide an environment to create local year round jobs, and work on maintaining and preserving our beaches and fishing industries."


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What a day! Just super! Obama's hell bent on wrecking the lives of us all. Reparations on the whole human race (ok, maybe just the white people) is in full Marxist mode.
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LONGVIEW — Authorities responded to another bank robbery in East Texas Wednesday afternoon, the fourth in the area this week. According to KETK, the Longview Police Department says shortly before 3:45, the East Texas Professional Credit Union on Gilmer Road was robbed. Three people held up an Austin Bank near Longview on Monday. A Tyler Austin Bank was also robbed by three men on Tuesday. A Capital One Bank was robbed in Tyler on Monday by a man dressed in a suit. At this time, it's not known if any of the bank robberies are connected. We'll update this story as more information becomes available.
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January 13th, 2012 #1
Just another sketchbook
Brief intro (for those of you who are interested):
Like many others here, I finally decided to create my own SB after almost 6 or 7 months of visiting and quietly observing all these marvelous SBs. I waited a lot cause I felt I wasn't good enough, but what the hell right (and that "fear" of new stuff in art almost always prevents me from experimenting...)? We're here to learn.
I'll start with these drawings (first one is kinda old) Ok, so here we go (from oldest to newest):
Yari Samurai (Shogun 2! Great game btw)
And finally a hybrid (referenced)
Sorry about the quality :/
Crits and comments are much appreciated.
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Hey man, I would say study a lot of anatomy from books like Andrew Loomis, you can find pdfs online by just googling Andrew Loomis pdf or something like that.
Also draw from life. Usually the best way to learn is to draw something as accurate as you can from life/photo/book and then try to redo it from imagination.
Also don't be afraid of doing stuff that you're not comfortable with. You learn from failure, not success.
But just keep going and draw a lot . cheers.
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January 16th, 2012 #3
@ErikR: Thanks for the advice! I'll post some studies from him. And, yeah, for the moment I'm just trying to observe and draw from pictures (google images). I'm already taking some summer drawing classes, and it's good to be able to draw from life . Thanks for stopping by.
Some more studies, mostly women since I can't really draw them as good:
January 31st, 2012 #4
Hmm...I shouldn't draw too lightly. I've uploaded some crappy digital stuff as well, although I'm going to stay away from them a while; need to improve my pencils.
As always, comments are appreciated.
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February 10th, 2012 #6
Thanks for taking a look at my sb - I like all the studies you are doing, I need to do the same I think.
February 10th, 2012 #7
Hi !
You got a nice start keep working ! =)
I like your digital stuff, I'd just advise you to look a bit at anatomy, it could help you in your studies =) (Personally I use the Sarah Simbley "Anatomy for the Artist" book which is very precise I think...)
February 11th, 2012 #8
@Octic: Hey, thanks, and I hope seeing you around here.
@alizak: Studies are definitely a must. And, thank you for stopping by!
@Izzual: Yep, you're right, I'll look at anatomy (and I'll check that book). Thanks for the advice!
Ok, so nothing much here; some studies and two "finished" pieces. I did notice how different each drawing looks when I held them in front of the mirror. I then realized that the warrior's right leg seemed a bit off.
The girl's mouth still doesn't really convince me...Maybe if someone could tell me what's wrong with it?
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February 12th, 2012 #9
The girls mouth appears to be front on while the girls face is on a slight angle - I think that is the problem.
February 13th, 2012 #10
Thanks for commenting on my sketchbook!
Your latest portrait studies are quite good. Also, I like the tones at several of your works (the samurai, for example).
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February 29th, 2012 #11
@Guardian G.I: Thanks for visiting my SB as well and I'm glad you like my works
@alizak: Yep, I think you're right. Thanks!
Wow, I've been too lazy...must get back to drawing.
The usual stuff, some rather quick studies and another drawing, which I may refine it further (kinda stuck at the moment).
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March 2nd, 2012 #12
Hey - thanks for stopping by my sketchbook a while back.
You have some nice pencil drawings in here. It's good that you're hitting those preference ose sites for practice as well. One thing I'd say is to do some 30 and 60 second gestures for warm up - get all loosened up, and then take on some longer poses. One thing I'll do when using this (http://www.pixelovely.com/gesture/figuredrawing.php) site is do the "1 hour class". It starts off with 30 second poses, moves into 60, goes to 1 minute 45 seconds and so on all the way up to a half hour pose (may be 20 minutes). But it's a great way to warm up and then hit a few more serious sketches.
Keep pushing and good luck!
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March 3rd, 2012 #13
Hi Adrianor! Good start on your sb.
I see you're working on that body sketches. You should try the Loomis, it will teach you the basics about the body. I have just started sketching myself and find his books very helpful.
Just recently I looked on this tutorial and it has made me think in a totally new way. It gives a new flow to your sketching. You should try it, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmiwG...el_video_title
Thanks for visiting my sb. Hope to get more input from you!
Keep up the good work!
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SOMETHING is amiss with the otherwise well-behaved planets in the solar system. They all line up with each other obediently enough, but their orbital plane is slightly offset from the sun's equator.
Now there is a clue to what caused this rebellious streak: it's possible the baby planets strayed while trying to keep up with their jet-setting parent.
Computer simulations show that asymmetrical jets on the young sun may have pushed it around in such a way that its family of planets became tilted.
Stars are thought to form out of collapsing clouds of gas and dust. The leftover material from star formation flattens out as it spins and clumps together to make planets. We would expect this disc to settle around the star's middle, so planets in our solar system ought to orbit in line with the sun's equator.
Planets around other stars have been found with wildly tilted orbits, or "obliquities". A favourite explanation is planet-on-planet violence, with bigger worlds tossing the smaller ones away and altering their own orbits.
In our backyard, though, the planets are tilted by just 6 degrees. This suggests that a gentler process must have been at work, says Fathi Namouni of the University of Nice in France. The answer may lie not in scattering planets, but in moving the sun.
Hubble observations in the past 10 years have revealed that young stars with planet-forming discs can shoot jets of material from their poles. Often one jet can carry up to twice as much material as the other. Whichever jet is stronger pushes on the star.
"It's like you're mounting a huge rocket on the star and accelerating it away from the disc," Namouni says. In trying to keep up with the moving star, the disc and any young planets can end up tilted, he says.
That can't be the whole story, though, says exoplanet expert Daniel Fabrycky of the University of California in Santa Cruz. The acceleration caused by the jets is so small - about a millionth of a metre per second squared - that the star would have to move in the same direction for a million years to create obliquity.
To complicate matters, stars' magnetic poles switch direction regularly, which means the more powerful jet would sometimes point in the opposite direction.
However, Namouni suggests that his model can still work if the young sun flipped its poles at the same rate as the bulk of the mass in the disc orbited.
He ran 2000 supercomputer simulations of the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn, which hold most of the solar system's planetary mass, over the lifetime of the sun. In most cases, the simulations that included the asymmetric jets produced planets with a 6-degree tilt (arxiv.org/abs/1208.1432).
No one knows why star jets are asymmetrical, and several factors, such as the sun's polar flips, would have to be timed just right for Namouni's model to work. But Fabrycky says the idea has merit.
"I think it's a cool mechanism to generate obliquities," he says.
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Officials question staffing cuts, shifting responsibility to local agencies
Sacramento Gov. Jerry Brown has laid out a new mission for Cal Fire that could lead to fewer firefighters on each engine and a dramatic shrinking of responsibility, leaving local agencies to defend vast swaths of rural San Diego County.
Brown's proposal, included in his state budget plan, renews debate over the state fire agency's role, originally designed to protect forests and watersheds but subsequently expanded greatly as housing pushed deeper into the state's backcountry.
More is at stake than dousing flames. Cal Fire crews are often the first to respond to other types of emergencies, such as accidents or home heart attacks.
Cal Fire by the numbers in San Diego County
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Most immediately, Brown proposes to rescind a 2003 policy of assigning four firefighters to every engine, scaling back to three.
Longer-term, he has directed the California Board of Forestry and Fire Protection to develop recommendations to limit coverage and give counties and cities the responsibility and money to step in.
Many San Diego County residents count on state crews to defend their homes and lives. County supervisors are wary that the state may not write a full check.
"We spend $15 million annually with Cal Fire to keep those stations open ... That's not a responsibility we could step in and pick up," said board chairman Bill Horn.
Said Supervisor Dianne Jacob: "The protection of life and property must be the top priority of state government. That should not be cut."
The San Diego City Council decided in November to keep four firefighters assigned to its engine rather than make cuts.
"With three you lose efficiency and a margin of safety for both firefighters and the community members they're trying to protect," city Fire-Rescue Chief Javier Mainar has said.
The city continues the policy of "brown outs" that idle fire engines on a rotating basis to deal with budget shortfalls.
Brown's representatives insist the public will not be in more danger. H.D. Palmer, a spokesman for Brown's Department of Finance, said state research shows that during the initial attack three-team crews are just as effective as an engine carrying four firefighters.
He said the studies show that since 2003 state crews have corralled 92.2 percent of wildfires before they consume more than 10 acres. That's similar to the success rate before 2003, he said.
The plan "in no way jeopardizes Cal Fire's ability to respond rapidly and immediately to wildland fires," he said.
But a San Diego State University study released last summer disputes that.
Matt Rahn director of research and education at the SDSU College of Sciences' Field Stations Programs, said having an extra set of boots on the ground can minimize losses and save millions of dollars.
"Adding a single firefighter to an engine will save money by saving time, property and, most importantly, lives," he said at the time.


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Save the Date
School of Nursing Reunion
October 22—24, 2015
If your class year ends in 0 or 5, it's time for your VUSN Reunion. We're also inviting back all DNPs to celebrate the program's first graduating class.
Add your name to the planning to attend list, and if you're interested in helping out, be sure to check the box asking for volunteers.
Weekend Highlights
Thursday, October 22
Quinq Luncheon with the dean
Friday, October 23
Continuing education
Wine and cheese reception
Undergraduate educational programs and All-Class Party


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Welcome to Let's See Germany – Small Group Tours to Germany!
Welcome to Let's See Germany!, the only independent tour company that offers small group tours to Germany, groups of only 10-12 people that see a side of Germany not most tourists miss!
We are a small-group tour company that creates, arranges, and guides our guests through the backroads of Germany to overlooked, off-the-beaten-path locations that other large, corporate tour management companies simply can't logistically maneuver through.
Because we are a small, independent tour company, our small group tours to Germany can be tailored to fit many different interests. We plan a number of tours each year that cover a wide variety of interests, from seeing flowers bloom in spring to sipping glühwein (spiced, sweet wine) at Christmas markets throughout Bavaria. We like to offer each themed tour only once a year to provide the widest variety of experiences throughout Germany.
Because we are a small, independent business, we likewise patronize small, independent businesses while in Germany. Don't expect to stay in large chain hotels and eat in Americanized restaurants. In a Let's See Germany! tour, you will taste authentic, regional cuisine while staying in hotels that are often passed down from one generation to the next spanning hundreds of years.
We believe there is no better way to experience Germany than by riding with a small group, away from busy highways, taking a slow pace to enjoy the scenery, talk to the warm-hearted locals in the small towns we visit, and taste the flavor of these wonderful places. small group tours to Germany
Let's See Germany! small group tours to Germany will awe you in the true beauty that Germany holds. We look forward to traveling with you!


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July 7, 2015
A late night fire has left a restaurant in downtown Panama City completely destroyed.
The massive fire began inside the Old Shay's Oyster House on lower Grace Avenue late Sunday night.
Panama City firefighters fought the large blaze for hours, and as of sunrise Monday they were busy putting out a few spot flare ups.
The restaurant is completely destroyed. Firefighters were able to contain the blaze within the restaurant, so the businesses surrounding it on lower Grace Avenue were not affected.
It's recently operated as Old Shay's Oyster House. Prior to that, it served temporarily as Hunts Oyster Bar after it burned down in St Andrew, and prior to that it was the original Cheese Barn.
As of now, the cause of the blaze is unknown. One wall has caved in and investigators are letting the ruins cool off before they go in.
They hope to continue tomorrow to find out how this blaze started.
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Age: Toddlers,Preschool,Early School Years. Award Year: 2007.
Age: Toddlers,Preschool. Award Year: 2007.
Age: Preschool,Early School Years. Award Year: 2007.
We really liked the concept of this playhouse that combines active play with a setting for pretend. One side has a slide just right for steady on their feet toddlers and preschoolers. Another side has an activity wall- complete with a ring toss, crawl through door and hoop/loop ball target (comes with balls for tossing). The third side has a place for real or pretend snacks (there's a small table and two attached seats). The fourth side has a door and pass through window. If you don't have room for both a playhouse and a slide--this certainly will fill the bill.
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Age: Toddlers, Preschool. Award Year: 2009. Click here to purchase the product on Amazon.com.
Use the stout putting "iron" to get the golf ball into the gator's mouth and surprise! it will pop out and right back to you. Four points and you win! A fun active toy for indoors or out! Unlike the original game, this one has a spring action so no batteries are required to make the gator send the ball back. Marked 3 & up but bound to be used by anyone who wants the fun of making the gator pop! The company has not signed a verification form complying with our safety requirements. We did not independently test this toy in a lab.
Age: Preschool. Award Year: 2008.
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One of our preschool testers thought this was absolutely perfect-- they had thought of everything but a porta potty! (His dad's an architect). What's really innovative about this playcenter is that it literally opens all the way up to reveal many different pretend settings. There is a cafe (with a chalkboard for specials, a bistro table, two chairs, and a sink), a gas station (here you can make the price as low as you want!), a town center with a retail store, and a sports center (complete with a basketball hoop, soccer net, and a place for toss games. Center is wheelchair accessible. Note: The only negative we heard back on this product is that it took over two hours to put together. If you're not particularly handy- this may be a problem. As with all of these plastic playsets, we pass on the recommendation we received years ago from Little Tikes to use liquid soap. It sometimes makes the pieces go together faster!
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Age: Toddlers, Preschool, Early School Years. Award Year: 2008. Click here to purchase the product on Amazon.com.
Age: Preschool,Early School Years. Award Year: 2009.
This all rubberwood push toy has a cute little duck that walks along with flip flop orange webbed feet. It makes an amusing quacking sound as it goes along. For a less noisy variation there's a blue Push-Along Elephant ($35) that is slightly less noisy and a little harder to push. Though this is a pricey toy, it's a classic toy that will appeal to toddlers. Once they are up on their feet and walking they enjoy anything that moves along with them and their active independent life style. 19 months & up. The lower score reflects that there was some difficulty for many of testers to push these two with ease. The company has signed a verification form complying with our safety requirements. We did not independently test this toy in a lab.
Age: Toddlers, Preschool. Award Year: 2009.
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