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It was when Thomas S. Wootton High School's Urgy Eado handed the baton off to the best 800 meter runner in the state, Josh Trzeciak, that Montgomery County officially shut the door on every other area team in Maryland. There would be no schools, aside from the Class 3A girls, that would be able to challenge Montgomery County's distance running fleet on Friday during the state track and field meet at Morgan State University.
First it was the Bethesda-Chevy Chase's girls 3,200 relay in 4A, anchored by sophomore Caroline Beakes, that captured the first Maryland title, closing in 9 minutes, 31.99 seconds, and was followed by Wootton (9:42.03), Northwest (9:43.38) and Walt Whitman (9:43.56).
"I don't know, I think every team builds off each other and I think we always challenge each other in races," B-CC starting leg Laura Nakasaka said. "Just being around such talented runners — it helps our team grow and their teams grow."
The boys from Albert Einstein (3A) then took the proverbial baton from the B-CC girls, slugging through a harsh headwind on the backstretch of the track at Hughes Stadium to take a wire-to-wire victory in 8:12.95 over Mount Hebron (8:15.29) and Hereford (8:16.90). The quartet of Titans posed for pictures, hugged and high-fived, and then turned their heads to watch their county rivals, Wootton, pick up where they left off.
"I was a little bit nervous," Titans anchor Ryan Merrell said. "I got the baton in a closer position than most of the other handoffs, I held it for 400 [meters] alright and then about 650 to 700 meters in we're on the curve, I checked back, and No. 2 was too close for comfort and I was just thinking, '100 meters to the state title' so that kept me going."
And when Trzeciak so calmly cradled the baton from Eado's outstretched arms, accepting a healthy 10 to 15 meter lead, the state's most powerful distance county asserted itself to the fullest, winning in 8:07.37 to claim three of four state championships in the big school 3,200 relays.
"We're just really deep," Wootton second leg David Levine said. "Really good competition in all of our meets and I think it really carries over to the state meet."
Just like that, less than 45 minutes into the big school festivities, Montgomery County had picked up three state titles, one silver, one bronze, one fourth and several other scoring finishes, all in all adding up to 61 points as a county.
"Our girls killed it out there too," said Trzeciak, who has just about fully healed from taking a spike to the heel a few weeks ago during the county championships. "Our coach is going to be really happy when we get back."
And the passel of distance specialists wouldn't quit with the relays. Beakes was back at it as an individual in the 3,200, pushing the top seed Isabel Griffith of Delaney to the breaking point and then outkicking her for her second state championship of the day in 10:56.52, the first time all year she's broken 11 minutes, to edge Griffin by less than three seconds.
"I don't have a very good kick at all," Beakes admitted. "I was just trying to push her to see when she couldn't hang on anymore but it was rough. I've never raced against a runner with that good of a kick so ... I was hoping to create a gap to make it so I didn't have to outkick her."
Clarksburg's William Bertrand, who anchored the Coyotes' sixth place 3,200 relay, then assembled a fast final lap in the 3,200 to break away from a group of four contenders in 9:29.46 to avenge a second place finish at last year's meet.
Note: The results for the 800 relays will not be official until tomorrow morning. Story will be updated when results are official.
Aside from the 3,200, and the 3,200 and 800 relays, all other events on the track were preliminary heats serving as qualifiers for Saturday's final running.
Wootton's Sylvia Deppen, who just last week admitted that running the 100 was "for fun," became the first athlete in the state to break 12 seconds in the event, running a blistering 11.97 to become the No. 1 seed by a long shot. It will likely come down to her and Bowie's Lexus Ramsey (12.16) in Saturday's finals. Locals running alongside the two favorites will be Deborah Olawuni of Montgomery Blair (12.31) and Bethany White of Col. Zadok Magruder (12.55).
Not surprisingly, Deppen will be joined by the state's top hurdler, teammate Gwen Shaw, in the finals for Saturday's 100 hurdles. Shaw ran a meet best 14.80 while Deppen crossed in 14.92 to take the fourth seed. Freshmen hurdlers Alexus Pyles of Clarksburg (14.94) and Leondra Correia of Northwest (15.47) will round out the field.
Shaw will also get a shot against Ramsey in the 200 meters, picking up the second seed in 25.26 to Ramsey's 24.81. Joining the Wootton standout in the field are James H. Blake's Martha Sam (25.80) as well as Olawuni (25.88).
For the boys sprinters, Watkins Mill's Patrick Schlosser (11.12), Northwest's Jalen Walker (11.18) and Gaithersburg's Solomon Vault (11.20) will all be representing Montgomery County in the 100. Walker and Vault will also be back in the 200, qualifying in 22.52 seconds and 22.75 respectively, and will be joined by Vault's teammate, Vicco Bedell (22.83).
As Beakes, Bertrand and the distance runners were commanding the oval, Clarksburg's Claudia Ababio was pulling off one of the meet's bigger upsets, supplanting Bowie's Antonella Taylor in the discus with her toss of 125 feet, 5 inches, topping the Bulldog by four feet.
Per the Clarksburg twitter account, the toss was also a new school record.
Richard Montgomery had a golden day in the throws as well, with senior Artavius Simpson claiming the top spot in 49-04 to beat Catonsville's Brandon Dixon (48-10).
In the sand, Blake's Gaston Assoua and John F. Kennedy's Michael Scott went one-two in the long jump, with Assoua claiming gold with a bound of 22-01.75. Scott splashed in at 21-01.75 while Northwest's Joseph Williams (20-02.25), Quince Orchard's Elliott Davis (19-10.50) and Clarksburg's Jared Thompson (19-07.25) all scored, placing fifth, sixth, and seventh, respectively.
As expected, Clarksburg first-year high jumper and heavy favorite Kaos Williams won the 4A title, clearing 6-06, while Quince Orchard's Jack O'Keefe finished runner-up in 6-04.


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Sibley reported that four taxpayers are taking their appeals to Superior Court, and three more are considering going to court because they didn't agree with the Board of Equalization's decisions.
She said the Board of Equalization has made $4,303,254 in value changes after hearings concerning 319 parcels.
Board of Assessors Chairman Don Turner reported that Alma Pounds has resigned from the board. Pounds had been appointed earlier this year to replace Maurice Kitchens, who resigned because of changes in his work schedule. Turner said Pounds, who had served on the board previously, indicated she was stepping down due to difficulties in attending required state training sessions.
Turner said he has spoken with Jones County Commissioner Chap Nelson, who represents the district in question, and that Nelson said he would work quickly to nominate a replacement.
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^^^^^^The above place is a wonderful school!!!
If you want a daycare. LOL.
The following pictures should tell you exactly what to expect there:
^^^^^Bullshit kids.
^^^^^^Bullshit "blackbelt" kids.
^^^^^^^^A TKD school visiting China? Most of us always seem to forget that all Asians are the same.
^^^^^^^Do you want to fight like these guys? Because trainingat Lee Brothers will teach you to fight like an 11-year old.
^^^^^^Fabulous Tae Kwan Do! Shitty hair.
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My son and I stopped into a Lee Brothers class several months ago as it was right next door to a good Mexican restaurant.
We sat and watched a kids class where there were a bunch of 8 year old black belts running around (my son was 5 at the time).
My son said "dad...how can these kids be black belts?". I said "they can't, its crap". And he said something like "it is crap."
Later he got invited to a b-day party at Lee's and everybody was supposed to wear their uniform as most of the kids take classes there. Well my boy takes bjj and shows up in his bjj gi. Some of his friends start laughing b/c he is just a white belt (w/ two stripes thank you) and his "uniform" was so different then theirs...and they all started rough-housing. A few minutes later there is a black belt crying b/c he got thrown down and another one who is mounted and can't get up.
Good stuff. BJJ for the win!
I think there should be a ban on kids learning real Martial arts.
This is why TMA gets a bad rap. Why is it okay for the kids to laugh at your kid? I mean every person that comes here, downing so called sport arts, claims "TMA teaches honor and value." Hmmmm sounds like this school doesn't do that.
I have just looked at the school's website and I am utterly disgusted. It is a hodgepodge of feely-good do-nothingness. I would not send my child there as I expect he would wind up with a black belt within three years and walk out with the impression that he knows and can do more then he actually would.
Sometimes telling kids the truth his harder then making up a story or telling a falsehood, but it is better for them in the long run. The seeming indoctrination, by all appearances, going on at this dojang is frightening. Belts are not candy and every child is not equal. Sometimes a child needs to be left behind for thier own good.
Please. Lee Brothers. For the good of the children. Stop This Madness.
I feel like you eyeballin' me, dawg!
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i would say this is more of a daycare center than anything really
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I have to say, I always feel genuinely bad when I see a school where the good vibes have gotten out of hand.
The heartbreak of places like this is the instructors and parents usually have very good intentions, and the general warm fuzzy they have RE the place, because it is a pleasant place and a fixture in their kids' lives, forms a protective aura around the parts of the brain responsible for critically evaluating the crap being taught there.
Then, when some "outsider" points out the emperor has new clothes, he's the asshole for fucking with a portion of the kid/parent's life. That's why when someone asks me about a class for a newbie, particularly a kid, I never take the "eh, you might as well put them in whatever until you see if they stick with it/really want to do it/get a little bigger" approach.
Because then you get the heartbreak part II - all the people we get through here that say, "I love my TKD school, but I'm older now and realize it's not teaching me much. How do I keep the people and change the training?"There's no choice but to confront you, to engage you, to erase you. I've gone to great lengths to expand my threshold of pain. I will use my mistakes against you. There's no other choice.


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March is National Nutrition Month, so it seems like a good time to write about the major nutrients in our diets: carbohydrates, fats, and protein.
These nutrients provide nearly all of the calories we eat (alcohol contains calories, too) and have a large impact on our health.
Given the importance of these nutrients, there tends to be much confusion about the different forms they come in and how much of each we should eat. Let's start with carbohydrates.
Carbohydrates are an important energy source in your diet. All carbohydrates contain four calories per gram. Grains, fruits, and vegetables are good sources of carbohydrates. Carbohydrates include starches, naturally occurring and added sugars, and fiber.
Carbohydrates are produced as a result of photosynthesis in plants and are stored as complex carbohydrates or starches in grains and many vegetables and as simple sugars in other vegetables and fruits.
When you eat carbohydrates, your body breaks down the starches and converts the sugars to glucose, or blood sugar, which is used for energy.
The extent to which a food affects blood glucose is called the glycemic index. Refined carbohydrates, like white rice, pasta, and flour, and sugars typically have a high glycemic index, meaning they cause spikes in blood glucose level. This can pose a challenge for diabetics who need to regulate their blood glucose.
Whole grains, like whole wheat, whole oats and brown rice, have more of a "low and slow" effect on blood glucose.
This can help with blood glucose control and may affect appetite.
For these reasons, complex carbohydrates from whole grains are called "good carbs," in contrast to refined grains and sugars, known as "bad carbs."
Carbohydrates also include fiber, the nondigestible portion of fruits, vegetables, and grains. Whole grains, fruits, and vegetables are rich sources of fiber while refined grains and sugars contain little, if any, fiber.
Fiber comes in two forms, soluble and non-soluble. Non-soluble fiber, also called "roughage," promotes good digestive health. Soluble fiber, like that found in oats, can actually lower blood cholesterol. Studies show that diets higher in fiber tend to promote weight loss over time.
You should make an effort to reduce your intake of sugars, especially added sugars, in your diet. Even though all sugars have the same number of calories, foods and beverages containing added sugars should be avoided. Look for "corn syrup" and "high fructose corn syrup" on the label to identify added sugars. You may be surprised how much added sugar you consume! Fruits or 100 percent fruit juices are a healthy choice since they are rich in vitamins and minerals, even though they contain sugar.
Carbohydrates should be the major part of your diet. Current recommendations call for 45 to 65 percent of your daily calories to come from carbohydrates, so a person who eats 2,000 calories per day should consume 300 grams of carbohydrate. Sugars should be limited to less than 10 percent of calories, so the majority of your carbohydrates should be complex carbohydrates.
You can meet this goal by reducing your intake of sugars, especially added sugars, and refined grains while increasing your consumption of whole grains, fruits, and vegetables that are high in fiber. When comparing food labels, look for foods that contain whole grains (the first ingredient should be something like "whole wheat flour") and higher levels of fiber. But be aware that some foods, like many breakfast cereals, contain whole grains but are also high in added sugar.
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I had pre-e with my first pregnancy. I had some bad nausea at the end of the first trimester (right when you're supposed to be getting better) and protein early, but they both cleared up at about the same time a couple of months later (they even did a 24 hour to make sure the protein levels were okay, and they were). Then, when I was 8 months along, my blood pressure started creeping up. They put me on bed rest when the protein came back at around 35 weeks. Induced at 37 weeks with mag sulfate. Baby was 5 lb, 7.6 oz, so a little small but a strong, healthy boy. Throughout all the NSTs and ultrasounds, he was always great even when I was feeling lousy. He's now 2 years old and a very snuggly, healthy little guy.
I lost a lot of weight through some improvements in my diet and breastfeeding, so I felt pretty good about this pregnancy. I was healthy and my blood pressure was normal when I went to the ob for my annual in March. And it started out okay, but at 8 weeks I ended up in the hospital because my blood pressure spiked horribly. I had gone to an urgent care clinic with pain in my left arm and nausea and just felt awful. They confirmed my heart was okay, then shipped me off to my ob, who sent me to ER to get the blood pressure under control. After two trips to the ER that weekend (2nd due to nausea and headache, which they told me to come back if I had them), they admitted me to the hospital and gave me a kidney ultrasound to make sure my kidneys were okay since the blood pressure was terrible (200s over 120s!) and I had lots of proteinuria. I also got to see my baby way early and see the heartbeat since they wanted to double-check the gestational age (right on target). The kidneys were normal - no obvious signs of damage.
So, now I'm getting seen by both my regular OB and the local MFM. They trade off so I'm having appointments about every 2 weeks. I had an ultrasound at 11 weeks to check EVERYTHING with the MFM. They said everything looked normal except my uterine arteries were borderline, so I'm taking a baby aspirin daily.
As of last week, I'm up to 600 mg of Labetalol (200 mg 3/day), which has finally dragged my blood pressure down to 128/90 at my last checkup. Not great, but MUCH better. The proteinuria cleared up when the blood pressure went down. I'm at 13 weeks tomorrow (due 2/5/13) and feeling pretty hopeful, now. Lots of prayer and fingers crossed that it'll just be hypertension and no pre-e this time. My nausea went away at the "normal" time, this time, instead of getting worse, and my fatigue has improved along with the blood pressure. I've been trying to fit in a little walking or similar exercise every day I can, since that seems to help the blood pressure, and I've been cutting out salt as much as I can.
All my doctors have been really on the ball. Even my primary care (who I saw early on in the process) is eager to keep up on my status so that when the OB and MFM are done at around 6 weeks PP, she can take over and know right where I'm at.
I do have a question.. any of you ladies have issues with rolling veins when nurses try to draw blood? The worst part of being induced was that the L&D nurses were used to pregnant women with great big veins, while mine tend to be smaller and roll. I ended up getting stuck three different times for some of the blood draws that they do, and when you're on the mag sulfate, they draw often.


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Rowland Richards Jr., a civil engineering professor at SUNY Buffalo (UB) for 30 years and summer farmer in Waitsfield since 1959, died at his home in Buffalo. He was 77 years old. Dr. Richards (Toby) received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University in 1957, his masters from the California Institute of Technology in 1958 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1964. Toby taught at Princeton and the University of Delaware before his wife, Martha Marcy Richards (Patty), convinced him to take a professorship in her hometown of Buffalo in 1980. At UB, Toby taught courses ranging from Fluid Mechanics to Structural Aesthetics, wrote numerous journal articles and book chapters and conducted research on seismic soil mechanics. The highlight of his research career was his mathematical proof (using simple algebra and analysis of a soil sample from the moon) that soils behave like liquids under earthquake forces. He also authored his own book, Principles of Solid Mechanics (CRC Press 2001), which is unique for its elegantly hand-drawn diagrams and plentiful footnotes full of literary and observational asides.
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The Spanish Colonial Arts Society was founded in Santa Fe in 1925 by writer Mary Austin and artist/writer Frank G. Applegate. Its purpose was to preserve and perpetuate the Hispano art forms that have been produced in New Mexico and southern Colorado since the region was colonized by Spain in 1598, and to educate the public about these art forms and the art of all the Spanish colonies.
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Senate Bill 4 is wrong on many levels
Most everyone agrees North Carolina's Medicaid program is broken, but fixing Medicaid hasn't been a high priority for previous governors or legislators. Now might be the right time and Governor McCrory might be assembling the right team to make Medicaid operate more efficiently and effectively.
Medicaid is expensive, complicated and a large number of hands are involved in its administration and service delivery. Our Medicaid program costs about 13 billion dollars per year, about 3 billion of which comes from the state. There are approximately 1.5 million people in our state covered by Medicaid, which has 15 mandated and about the same number of optional services, most all involving federal regulations and oversight, state laws and regulations, state agency management, local and regional partnerships and private sector service providers. That does not excuse poor execution and administration but it helps us understand the complexity of Medicaid.
We understand that legislators are frustrated at years of reported mismanagement, cost overruns involving new computer processing systems and repeated waste and fraud. In comparison with other states our program offers more benefits and needs reform. We even understand that our Republican controlled legislature doesn't care for Barack Obama or for the Affordable Care Act Congress passed with added Medicaid mandates, but that doesn't justify the hasty and arbitrary passage of Senate Bill 4.
The Affordable Care Act mandates that all states set up health insurance exchanges and provides we choose between three options: state operated, a state-federal partnership or a federally controlled and operated exchange. When our legislature didn't act in a timely manner Governor Perdue opted for the state-federal partnership. In what seemed an arrogant power play Senate leaders stated these were not the governor's decisions to make, they were legislative decisions.
Senate Bill 4 overturns Perdue's decision. Curiously, Republicans who constantly complain about big government want to relinquish total control of our state's health insurance exchanges to that government. SB4 also declares North Carolina will not opt to expand Medicaid to some 500,000 new recipients because Senators are rightfully skeptical about potential unfunded mandates beyond the first few years, when the federal government promises to pay all or virtually all the costs.
Senate leaders attempted to justify their speedy action by citing a Feb. 15 th federal declaration deadline. That dog won't hunt. They weren't concerned enough to respond to federal deadlines last summer or in December, saying there was plenty of time to make decisions. But the exchanges are supposed to begin operation in October and Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin has already received five million dollars in federal planning money toward their implementation.
These are important decisions that demand our best and brightest minds to find solutions and need to include Governor McCrory, our Insurance Commissioner and we the public need to be heard, since Medicaid impacts every citizen directly or indirectly. We deserve full disclosure and sound reasoning behind decision-making.
Senate Bill 4 is wrong on many levels. It was arbitrary, didn't include all the needed stakeholders, was designed and passed without sufficient discussion and leaves far too many questions unanswered. North Carolinians gave legislative control to Republicans who promised honest, transparent and more accountable government. The Senate hasn't lived up to that promise with Senate Bill 4. We deserve better.
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A new distillery is opening in Warren at Cold Springs Farm. Mad River Distillers will produce corn whiskey, gin, bourbon and apple brandy in small casks. The liquor will be distributed through the state of Vermont's distribution system and will be sold locally as well as at the distillery. Visitors to the distillery will be able to sample the products and view portions of the distillery.
The business is the brainchild of Brett Little and John Egan, both of Boston. The two partners, as well as their general manager, Alex Hilton, hosted a well-attended Mad River Valley Chamber of Commerce mixer on May 30.
Egan, who referred to himself "the first John Egan" to differentiate himself from Sugarbush ski ambassador John Egan, and his wife Maura Connelly bought Cold Springs Farm about a decade ago and had given some thought to creating a vineyard on the property. Then they began to lean toward making apply brandy and in collaboration with Little came up with the idea for a distillery.
During the mixer, Little explained that the liquor will be fermented on premises using locally sourced grains. Mad River Distillers is producing small casks which have been routed on the inside to increase the liquid-to-cask surface area ratio and decrease aging time from 5 to 7 years to 18 months.
They will label and bottle the liquor themselves on site. The still to make the liquor was imported from Germany and arrived in Montreal in a shipping container last week. The shipping container made its way on a flatbed truck from Montreal to Warren on Monday, June 3.
The distillery is located in a barn on the property that was renovated and expanded by Warren contractor Alex Hilton, and as the renovation progressed, his job expanded as well and he will be the general manager of the company.
The distillery has discussed using the corn mash that is left after the fermentation process as feed for the nearby DeFreest dairy cows and Hilton said there is a fair amount of interest locally from people who would like to feed the mash to their chickens and pigs.


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My last post was about "feeling overwhelmed" and that hasn't changed-- except that now I am overwhelmed with diapers, nursing and love.
Kasia was delivered on November 13 (week 37) by caesarean and weighed in at 6lbs, 4 oz and is a totally, perfectly healthy girl.
I spent this pregnancy in a state of panic having experienced severe PE (post partum) and HELLP in my first pregnancy 5 years ago (delivering a healthy daughter, Tigana, at 38 wks). I watched my BP edge upward and spent 3 weeks on bedrest. My proactive OB delivered me before symptoms worsened. My biggest concern was getting past the 36 hour post partum mark when things went bad the last time. Well... true to my experience, my BP did sore on the third day, but hasn't gone as high as it did the last time (I am pretty stable at 160/100). I didn't develop HELLP, never needed mag sulf, and missed out on the whole ICU experience (YEAH!!!!).
We are all keeping a close watch on things, knowing that rarely things can go wrong at this stage, but I believe in my heart that I have made it through the worse and only have high BP to contend with. After having HELLP, high BP just doesn't seem so awful.
For the women out there terrified of trying again (as was I), all I can say is that most of us make it through the experience fine, BUT we do suffer an almost unbearable emotional hardship in the process. This robs many of us, including me, of the ability to rejoice in the miracle of birth, as we wait and wait for the horror to descend. And, even if it never does, we cannot reclaim the innocence that we once had and long to recapture.
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Its interesting how Samsung fans insist this is all Apple's doing, even in light of Google themselves warning them not to be lazy and copy Apple.
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Alex, nice martini glass ptg it looks very translusent. I like the olives and splash of red. Glad to hear you have your computer back.
Jim, also nice martini glass ptg. Your glass is great, very smooth glass look and ready to go, it must be 4:00 o'clock.
Bonnie C & C most welcome / appreciated
Sam, Jen and Jim, thank you for your comments. I liked the colours as well but they are a little more intense in the photo than in the ptg. and I could do a little adjusting to the person. This pink colour is what our February mornings are like here.
Jim, hmmmm. What a lovely custom and a lovely painting to commemorate it. There is something wonderfully pristine about your painting of the martini glass (and great that it has gin and vermouth in it!). You've really captured the elegance of the shape and proportions of the glass. As always, a beautiful flower. Very stylish!
Bonnie, what a beautiful painting of the person on the snowy lane! So interesting that the paper was actually blue. I love the dominant color. On my screen it looks like a pinkish-brown and at the very top a hint of the blue comes through. The way the tall straight trees behind the dominant tree on the left are done provides a subtle and exquisite contrast to to the main tree. The painting also has the kind of softly diffused light with no hard shadows that you see sometimes on snowy days. Lovely!
Geri, I can't wait to see the rest of your self-portrait! The eye is very striking. Regarding your kingfisher, the stumps, foliage, and entire BG are beautiful. I'm not sure of the specifics but intuitively think you could (but 't have to!) deepen the jewel tones just slightly on the kingfisher himself. That may not be the right advice so don't go rushing off to do it!
Jim, talk about being caught in a compromising position! Froggie is in the soup now. Great expression on the fairy princess's face and - of course - lushly beautiful flowers ... Good grief! I knew that froggie was an operator but this takes it to a whole new level!
Comments and critiques are welcomed and appreciated.
Jen, your glass and rose are beautiful. The glass really sparkles! Wondering how you did that! The play of light on the back wall is a beautiful touch as well.
Bonnie, what a striking use of black and white in your swan painting. The touch of red is beautiful. Water looks white where light reflects of it, so you've captured it perfectly. Very dramatic.
Geri, your swans are beautiful. Although you mentioned you would have liked to do them on a smooth surface, the pebbly surface gives a very interesting effect.
Sam, your amorous avians are exquisite. I, too, prefer the black-and-white version, and the shading on them gives them a beauty that goes well beyond the beauty of the patterns. Wow.
Geri, I don't know what to say about "the eye." It looks kind of sinister and I feel sure that you don't look quite like that. However, it is an interesting study.
It appears that everybody else is into martinis. Alex, you have such a free, expressive style that is so pleasing. I love those olives. They are so well contoured with such delicious colors. The glass has the sparkle of glass. This is quite an accomplishment for two hours. Kudos to you!
Jim, your 4:00 pm cocktail looks wonderful. I like that you put liquid and an olive in the glass. The sparkling glass is very well done and so is the rose. You are a master of flowers and you applied your master's touch on that rose. The leaves look good, too. I like that you put a line across the back to indicate a table but you placed it so that it was broken by the leaves. Excellent painting.
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Bonnie, Jim, and Sam, thank you for your comments on the martini glass with olives. After being without my laptop for 18 days, I am so behind in my consulting work. But I just couldn't go through the day without doing art. Carving out two hours was an extravagance and I can see how the painting would have benefited from more time (better proportions, etc.). The need to produce something artistic, however, was overwhelming! I know you all understand. Now to finish the work in progress from Geri's January photos!
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This is what I did alcohol free this afternoon. Dreary rainy day and on Saturday I am distracted a lot by people needing help in our group. So this is at the Ugly stage. It may never get passed that but I'm hoping! I put it in the challenge because it is about chocolate and the boy sure loves chocolate! This is my eldest grandson known by his Mum as the Small one but he actually the oldest of the boys now, but he is the small one in his house. It is a tricky angle and for some reasin this child is always hard for me. I don't think I have the tiltof his head quite right and his eyes need work as they are ofline. I will get him but it may not look like him. I probaly could have done with more paper or made him smaller! Oh well it's a challenge!
11x14 Uart pastel paper Various pastels and pencils
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Jen, this is looking good for the initial blocking in stage. He sure does have a long tongue and sharp shark-like teeth. I know that you'll be working on that. I like the way he is looking at us out of the corners of his eyes. You already have the contours of the neck looking good. I'll be looking to see the completion.
O M G I got my olives with my martini,,,, hic.. hic.. I'm doin' just great nowwww! hic... I'lll have another.... how about an onion... this time hic....
oh you guys, this was so much fun to see the martini's with olives.l Alex and Jim you are both so much fun.... and both of your pieces are excellent..... with the gin and vermouth still in the glass and with it already drank..l. hic.
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Jen, your grandson the small one. is I'm sure a work in progress... flatten his tongue a bit and lets look at the next addition. I love the "I'm caught licking the beater" look great idea for a portrait...
It would be nice if we messed up we could simply press 'Ctrl Alt Delete' and start all over
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Okay here you are. just for fun. A lot of drawing issues!
The punting guy got lost in the crease of the page but you get the idea!
Jen, good job on two very ambitious pictures. You're not afraid to tackle subjects that are complex or have difficult angles! Although that looks like it could be a younger version of you in the gondola, it can't possibly be Howard - I just don't see him with a sixties-type beard! But I won't say a word!
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I for one believe that their is a lot of discrimination towards atheist. I, coming from a very "christian" school, face the discrimination in silence. I'm curious though. How do you feel about this? Do you think that their is discrimination? Even in schools? Thank you for your answers and have a happy logical day guys. :)
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Two things, I guess it depends which college you attend, I mean University of Co at Boulder or UC Berkley those schools are known for their bohemian attitudes and known to be objective open minded schools, but University of Nebraska or something, maybe not so much.
Secondly we have to remind ourselves that as adults we have grown (hopefully) into tolerance; but for children it is more accepted to be gay now a days then it is to be non-Christian. In my day at least, being gay was considered worse.
I'm thankful I didn't convert during middle school. . .Simply wouldn't have been a good time. I must say that girl was very brave. Braver than I for sure lol I'm glad to hear it gets better in college haha Thank you for your comment :)
I checked your profile before I responded, I needed to know about how old you are. I have a daughter that just turned 14. She is not an atheist...yet...she is however a logical thinker, but at the same time a very creative thinker. At this point if I had to characterize her or label her, (which I really should not do sense she can not defend what I say with a response) I would (going ahead anyway) say that she is what I would call an agnostic, episcopagan. (lol)
To address your question, yes there absolutely is a lot of discrimination in school about religion, or lack thereof. Having said that it is up to you to decide what you tell others and to whom you tell these things. If you truly feel you can be honest with people about your values then by all means be honest, but I would really be careful who you choose to say certain things too, ANY certain things because children in Jr high and High school are not known for their trustworthiness.
When I was in your age group I told a few people who I thought I could trust about something very private that I did, and less then a day later the entire school knew about it and this happened when I was 14 and followed me all the way through graduation.
If there really is no reason to reveal anything that may harm you emotionally, especially in this age of Facebook, maybe it is better left unsaid. I know it's hard to keep inside what you really think. but isn't it harder to be chastised and ridiculed. You'll find your place as an adult, I can almost guarantee it.
I am not telling you to lie, just be careful, and maybe just keep quiet.
I tend to keep to myself unless I hear others saying that they believe as I do. Thank you very much so for your comment :) Best wishes to you and your daughter.
I have some friends that go to church...their kids enjoy youth group and we both have our own ideas. But we are still friends.To me religion is like a penis..its all very well and good to have one but don't wave it around in public and don't force it down my children's throats.That sort of says it all for me. One of the best ways to get me pissed off at you is to tell me I am a godless heathen .Sorry boys and girls gave up on the idea of god a long time ago when i started thinking for myself.If i am not going to be hired into your company or accepted into your social group because I don't want to worship a cosmic Jewish zombie...I will try and accept that. If you want to have a god..go for it..Just don't expect me to follow too.
One of the best ways to get me pissed off at you is to tell me I am a godless heathen
"You call me "Godless Heathen" like it's a bad thing." Sounds like a good T-shirt, and I did see one like it once (it said "freak" instead of "godless heathen" though).
Suffice it to say that if I ever call you a godless heathen I am glad about it.
@Sarah Jane Hall@ Delaney - now that is a Mum talking. If saying you are an Atheist is going to cause trouble at school, just don't say anything. You know who you are, that is all that matters. Then come to this site, and have a purge about the knucklegrazing morons at school :) Facing discrimination in silence, I think, is better than active, vicious theists who can make your life unpleasant. It won't be too long before you are out of there, so study hard :)
I came from a pretty rural area, and it goes without saying that Christianity was the Religion of choice for most people in my area. It came in different flavors. There were maybe three or four Catholics, a handful of Methodists, some Pentecostals, and a SHIT ton of Baptists. The baptists were easily the worst, and I don't know exactly why. Maybe it's just the sect itself, I dunno. Yes, there IS definitely discrimination against Atheists...in High School. EVERYONE in High School gets discriminated against in one form or another. In the work place, it's almost non-existent north of the Mason-Dixie Line. Employers know that if they reject a potential employee, or fire one, based purely on their religious beliefs (or lack there-of), they can become the source of a very expensive and very serious legal battle, one that can ruin their reputation and cost them customers. It doesn't stop them from looking for legitimate reasons to fire you, but it does keep them from making your life hell simply because of your atheism.
High School is a social cesspool, and everyone knows it. Unless you're living in the deep south, your lack of a religion isn't going to cause you much trouble outside of school. Personal experience may vary, but I've found this to be largely true.
Grady, you know I don't live in the south, and I have never really even been to the south except for very short bits of time...one time we drove through the Texas Oklahoma pan handle... but according to all I have heard and seen in the media, and on various TV shows and having a bf who is from TX they are still a lot of backwards thinking, bible toating, gun rack owning, pick up truck driving, skin head NATZI types. Seriously I still can not believe this one, but he told me his cousins accused him all the time of being gay for things like liking to clean and cook, and for liking to watch wrestling....WRESTLING REALLY! How is that a stereotype of someone being gay????? The point is I am agreeing with you about the southern half of the US still being so far off base from what we mostly think here in the northern states. I'm sure we have our share of gay bashing racist idiots here as well, but I really truly and honestly don't think anywhere near as much.
Maybe we as atheists should just all make a pact to stay living outside the red states, or maybe we should all move into the red states and take over, and teach those people true tolerance and values that make sense.
Here's my recent adventure in the Texas panhandle....


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It is impossible for ANYONE to build any type of device without infringing on someone elses patent today. The guys at iMore are always saying that competition is good, and other companies should be building innovative devices and giving Apple a run for its money, but in reality they can't, because everything is patented, even far fetched ideas that will never see the light of day.
This is one of the reasons we don't see much innovation anymore, and all companies, including Apple, behave like they are on rails, just going strait.
This has become a big mess, and Steve Jobs with the infamous "spend my last dying breath...spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank...destroy Android...willing to go thermonuclear war" did not help at all. This is not "one giant company litigating another giant company". It is petty bickering, and everybody stands to lose. How much has Apple spent on lawyers this past few years? How about Samsung or Motorola?
When Samsung products or Apple services are banned everybody loses. So what if patents were infringed, what was the damage, really? Is it cheaper to sue or to license? How about this FRAND thing, why is that no Apple patent is subjected to it, just other companies patents? So using 3G is FRAND but multitouch is not? Pleeease...
Motorola lawsuit forces Apple to disable iCloud and MobileMe push email in Germany
Unfortunate and possibly infuriating news for German iCloud and MobileMe users today, as Apple has apparently been forced to turn off push email as a result of a lawsuit by Motorola Mobility. Apple told Engadget:
This ruling only impacts customers in Germany who use a Push setting to get their MobileMe and iCloud email. These customers will still receive email to their devices. Apple believes [Motorola's] patent is invalid and is appealing the decision.
Motorola and Apple have been suing and counter suing each other for years, though generally court decisions along the way haven't had direct impact on either's customers. For their part, Apple believes Motorola (and Samsung) are misusing FRAND (Fair, Reasonable, and Non-Discriminatory) patents pledged to standards pools in an effort to force Apple to cross-license non-FRAND patents in return. In other words, Motorola (and Samsung) are trying to gain access to Apple's proprietary multi-touch patents by unfairly and potentially illegally using standards-based 3G and other networking patents as leverage. The European Union is investigating the situation, and Microsoft has recently made similar complaints against Motorola. (Google simply bought Motorola to avoid similar lawsuits against Android, but seems content to let Motorola continue potential FRAND-abusing litigation against other companies for now.)
So, to sum up, it's yet another case of one giant company litigating another giant company which will inevitably result in one incredibly rich group of people swapping money and/or licenses with another incredibly rich group of people, harming only non-giant, non-rich customers along the way.
Apple for their part, has posted a support document for German users detailing how to switch MobileMe and iCloud email off of push and onto fetch mail protocols.
For iCloud Mail:
- From the Home screen, tap Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars
- Tap Fetch New Data
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- Push can remain turned on to continue push service for Contacts and Calendars.
- With these settings, your iCloud Mail account will fetch new messages at your set interval while you are inside Germany. Push email service will continue to be available outside of Germany.
For MobileMe Mail:
- From the Home screen, tap Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars
- Tap Fetch New Data
- Select a time interval for Fetch
- Tap Advanced
- Tap a MobileMe account in your account list
- Change Select Schedule to Fetch
- Tap Advanced to return to the prior screen
- Repeat steps 5-7 for each MobileMe account on your device.
IMPORTANT NOTES: Disabling Push for a MobileMe account will also apply to the Contacts and Calendars service associated with that account. To maintain push service for Contacts and Calendars, leave Select Schedule set to Push and continue to check email manually.
Once a MobileMe user has accessed their MobileMe Mail account from Germany, push email will be disabled indefinitely. Unlike iCloud Mail accounts, push will not be automatically re-enabled upon leaving the country. Users can move their MobileMe accounts to iCloud to re-enable push services outside of Germany.
Update: Turns out it's not a FRAND patent, but rather a patent related to pager syncing. Apo
Source: Engadget, Apple Support
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Motorola lawsuit forces Apple to disable iCloud and MobileMe push email in Germany
It is impossible for ANYONE to build any type of device without infringing on someone elses patent today. The guys at iMore are always saying that competition is good, and other companies should be building innovative devices and giving Apple a run for its money, but in reality they can't, because everything is patented, even far fetched ideas that will never see the light of day.
I am not a huge fan of this whole mess either, but there is a difference in the eyes of the law. 3G and/or CDMA are ABSOLUTELY required to build a phone. There aren't any exceptions there. Companies can't go build their own cell networks just to make a new phone. The companies that get to those standards first get paid, so even though Nokia and Qualcomm aren't the coolest and most cutting edge companies anymore, they are still in business because they were smart early on. I have no problem with that.
As for Apple, you could argue today that Mult-touch is essential, but is it really? You can build a good, solid, working phone without multi-touch. Companies did it for years, and still do today. Blackberry may not be what it once was, but it has survived making keyboard phones for many years now. Should Apple, in the long run, make their multi-touch patents available as FRAND. Probably so. However, they are using their current advantage to try and get leverage themselves. Nokia's and Qualcomm's patents probably weren't FRAND right from the start, and I'm sure they got things in return for making them so.
In the long run, when all this shakes out, Apple will probably have to, as well. But, they should be able to get paid for the revolution that they started, just like Nokia and Qualcomm did. I think Apple is playing hardball because they and MS are trying to drive the price to make Android devices up. They, along with Blackberry, are developing OSs, while everyone else is using an open-source product, so they both want to level the playing field as much as they can on price.
We may all whine and gripe and mone about this, but it's business. This is how business works in just about ANY industry. It's cutthroat and competitive. Does it sometimes suck for consumers? Sure. But, how the hell do you think we are getting these cool devices in mass quantities? It is the very definition of a double-edged sword.
Wasn't there something about these particular patents not being FRAND patents in this case?
1) You are conflating two issues, seemingly deliberately to muddy the waters. The patent in question here is not FRAND. Apple believes it is invalid, but it is not FRAND.
2) Good. Yes, this patent is likely absurd, but no more absurd than a patent for receiving email wirelessly (NTP) or the Gesture of Swiping to Unlock (Apple). Spread the pain around, so that customers of the most popular phone on the planet feel it to. Things are going to have to get worse for customers of all stripes before enough people press governments to change the entire system.
I agree with Dev.
It seems Rene Ritchie is maintaining a double standard when it comes to apple infringing on another companies patents. The patent in question is not a FRAND related one. iMore in its previous blogs has supported Apple defending its intellectual property rights. It seems strange to protest the same when Apple is the one who is infringing.
1) I'm not deliberately doing anything. I may be mistakenly conflating two different issues, and if so I'll happily correct that. It was my understanding it was one of the essential FRAND patents; if that's not the case, I'll update according.
2) The amount of absurd patents being issued in the last decade could stun a planet of mules.
"But the patent that now affects Apple's push email service in Germany does not appear to be essential to any industry standard."
Why would Motorola consider push mail a standard? The idea is absurd.
Did you ever correct this, because reading the article would still lead one to believe this is a FRAND issue, which it is not.
Quite possibly the best part of "The Official Steve Jobs Biography" is the part dealing with Bill Gates. Jobs is furious that Microsoft would have the nerve & gall to create an opposing operating system based on the work of Xerox Parc. Gates says something along the lines of "Actually we saw the same tech at Parc you guys did. When were coming thru the window to steal it we found out you stole it thru the front door."
I think that about sums up the river I cry for Apple loading in court lately. Boo hoo hoo.
as per usual factually inaccurate, must be nice not having to deal with facts when you spew your nonsense on this site. just poor
No matter who is right, or wrong, there is another issue to look at. Have we created a system for no real settlement due to the amount of money attorneys make going back, and forth on this. Look at Fannie, and Freddie According to an article in Newsy, 110 million has been paid out in legal fees, and that is just one story of high money pay offs to keep the legal machine going. I wonder if there will ever be a settlement that can really benefit the buyer. That is the real reason these companies are in business.


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