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Sunday, September 4, 2011
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Every year, you say you're going to do it, but you never do.
Oh, sure, you have good intentions. You've made resolutions to that effect, you've made promises to yourself, vowed a follow-through, and failed. But this year, it's gonna happen: you're going to save some money.
But how? You've got to eat. Can't go naked. You have to get to work somehow. How does anybody save anything in this economy?
Believe it or not, some people save by getting their clothes, food, even gasoline for free. You can, too, if you've got the time and "How to Shop For Free," the new book by Kathy Spencer with Samantha Rose.
As a mother of four, Kathy Spencer knew her husband's income wasn't going to stretch far. While doing some research one night, she discovered a secret: by using coupons and other discounts, she could get groceries and incidentals for nothing. Sometimes, she could actually make money on the deal. She became "obsessed."
There's a little prep work to shopping for free, Spencer says. You need to know what kinds of coupons are available (and there are quite a few of them). You'll need to know where to get them (your newspaper isn't the only place). And you'll need to learn the lingo of couponing.
Once you've done your homework, Spencer says, make a plan. Don't get discouraged if you feel like it's going slowly; getting something for nothing takes time. The good news is that it won't take long to get hooked: saving money is addictive.
Find a spot to stockpile your freebies. Don't ignore any stores and never throw out coupons, even if you think you won't use them. Treat all coupons like cash, but learn the laws because "free" isn't worth jail time.
Know your store's coupon policy before you shop, be willing to argue -- nicely -- if your coupon is turned down, and learn how to stack coupons to get free groceries, baby items, clothing, prescriptions, gym memberships, pet food, beauty products, even utilities. Then, pay it forward by donating your excess to shelters, hospitals, or anyone who needs your bounty.
Tired of pinching pennies til Abe screams? You might not need pennies at all if you've got this book.
With an infectious enthusiasm, personal anecdotes, and weigh-ins from fans who've saved, Spencer and Rose explain how they regularly bring home food and other necessities without opening their wallets.
"How to Shop for Free" is an incredible book to have if your pockets are empty, but there are a few caveats.
In her zeal for the deal, Spencer advocates things that could make you uncomfortable and some that seem just wrong (pinching "peelies" without a purchase, for instance). The process obviously takes time, patience, and -- to get the best deals -- a big city nearby.
Also note: "free" doesn't always happen up front.
Still, how can you be without a book like this in times like these? You can't. That's why "How to Shop for Free" is a book you should resolve to get.
"How to Shop for Free: Shopping Secrets for Smart Women Who Love to Get Something for Nothing," by Kathy Spencer with Samantha Rose, copyright 2010 by DaCapo Lifelong, is 237 pages and sells for $14.95.
Contact book reviewer Terri Schlichenmeyer at www.bookwormsez.com.
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The young Dane has yet to win a Super Series title, but he has reached his third semi-final after defeating Boonsak Ponsana today in two games. The Dane commented that he wasn't trying to push the pace against Ponsana, instead he just followed his opponent's pace and waited for him to make errors. The final scoreline was 21-11, 21-19. Jorgensen will now play China's Chen Jin, and while the Dane has yet to defeat a Chinese player the last time these two faced off it was a close three game battle.
World Champion Lin Dan faced recent Denmark Open champion Simon Santoso in his quarter-final match. Lin Dan said that after seeing Simon's recent results that he was taking this match very seriously as Simon has been playing well recently, but it wasn't enough to truly worry Lin Dan as he sailed through to the semi-finals with a 21-12, 21-12 victory. Next up Lin Dan will be playing Korea's Park Sung Hwan.
Wong Mew Choo failed to prevent an all China semi-finals today when she lost to Wang Shixian in two games 21-10, 24-22. The only remaining Malaysian representatives in the semi-finals stage of the tournament are women's doubles pair Wong and Chin, and men's doubles pair Koo and Tan. For the most part the tournament has, not surprisingly, become a somewhat national competition with more than half of the remaining players coming from China.

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Washington, DC-- The new health plan passed by Congress contains some new laws that will surprise many people. One new law orders the detention of all gay men. Gays are to be quarantined in special 'health camps' until a cure for AIDS is discovered. All gay men are ordered to report to their local police stations for immediate processing.
"Oh, how did that law get in there!" laughed Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi. "I told everyone we had to pass the bill to see what what in it!" she laughed some more. "I wonder what other goodies we'll find inside!" she cackled.
The new law states that because AIDS is such a costly disease, drastic measures must be taken to save taxpayer money. Democrats hope gay men understand that some Americans need to give up their rights to make things better for everyone else. Any resistance to the new law will result in an immediate execution.
"It's going to be really nice for all the gays at the health camps!" shouted Congressman Barney Frank. "Gay men can sit around and relax all day in striped pajamas. There will be lots of arts and crafts. They can make lampshades and soap and candles. Think how much fun the showers will be! Too bad I won't be there, have a nice time." he chortled.
Members of Congress are exempt from anything in the health bill.
"Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it." said Nancy Pelosi. "Too bad it's too late to do anything now." she cackled. "Now let's see what we can do with Global Warming."


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President Barack Obama speaks to injured veterans and guests on the critical issues facing veterans during the Disabled American Veterans National Convention in Orlando, Fla., Saturday, Aug. 10. Obama will be visiting the Binghamton area next week, the White House confirmed. / AP
VESTAL — President Obama is taking a two-day bus tour that includes a stop at Binghamton University, along with colleges in Buffalo and Syracuse.
A White House official told Gannetts Albany Bureau the trip will be held next Thursday and Friday, Aug. 22-23. He will also visit northeastern Pennsylvania.
Binghamton University has not commented on the potential visit.
During an interview Wednesday, Broome County Sheriff David Harder said he knew the date of the stop and some of the details, but wouldnt release additional information.
The whole thing is controlled by the Secret Service, Harder, a Republican, said of the security associated with the visit. Theyre meeting with all of the agencies involved and theyll discuss what they want.
Hes not going to be on the main part of the campus, Harder added of Obamas visit.
The White House official said the Democratic president will discuss the importance of ensuring that every American has the opportunity to achieve a quality education by reducing cost and improving the value of higher education for middle-class students and their families.
Thats a message that resonates with Binghamton Mayor Matthew T. Ryan, a Democrat.
We are excited that President Obama has chosen Binghamton as one of his stops to promote his plan to grow and strengthen the middle-class, he said in an emailed statement.
Broome County Executive Debbie Preston, a Republican, said Obamas visit highlights the universitys successes.
Binghamton University is such an outstanding institution, that even the President is coming, Preston said in an emailed statement.
Obamas visit would be the third time in recent history that a sitting president has visited Broome County. President Ronald Reagan held a re-election rally here in 1984, and President Clinton visited in 2000 as Hillary Clinton ran for U.S. Senate in New York.


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We'll have to disagree once again over my use of the word: "Installed."
I have already showed you the source that says that Mr. Lincoln's objective was to ESTABLISH (My caps) "Loyal" governments in each of the border states.
I have already showed you the source that says that Mr. Lincoln always gave priority to PLACING (My caps) loyal men in control of each state government. In fact, in your posting #63 you even use the word: "Install" when you state that Mr. Lincoln's priority was to INSTALL (My caps) loyal Union men.
(EDITING: Mildman has edited his Post #63 to remove his own use of the word: "Install" ).
My source shows how General Banks bragged about making Maryland a : "Loyal" state by replacing those local and state officials considered to be disloyal and: "Assigning" loyal men to their duties. Those : "Replaced" (And in some cases imprisoned) included properly elected officials of the city of Baltimore, as well as members of the state legislature.
Wherever the Union Army held sway, military officers as well as: "Loyal" local and state officials could arrest anyone who uttered any word or made any gesture that they considered disloyal. Many thousands of individuals in many states were arrested throughout the war and held without the necessity of making or proving any charges.
Mr. Lincoln's minions in the border states could control who was placed in local and state government positions and intimidate those elements that might have a tendency to oppose them. Those who selected the: "Loyal" men and those who: "Installed" (My word) them were advancing the objectives of Mr. Lincoln.
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Instead, like Lucas's last outing (Prayer for my Enemy, which premiered last year at Playwrights Horizons), it suggests that Lucas is better suited to big ideas writ small. In plays like Prelude to a Kiss, Reckless, and Small Tragedy, he's shown his underhanded talent for making topical mountains into perfectly sized and tightly packed theatrical molehills. But the plethora of topics he's tackling in The Singing Forest, which runs nearly three hours (with two intermissions) and still feels hurried and harried, aren't defined or situated confidently enough to amount to a hill of beans.
In New York City, a struggling actor named Gray (Jonathan Groff) is in therapy with two different psychologists: Dr. Oliver Pfaff (Mark Blum) and Shar Unger (Rob Campbell), both of whom are attracted to him. They're also ex-boyfriends, united by Laszlo Fickes (Randy Harrison), who used to be with Shar but is now with Oliver. Gray, however, is straight, and living with his girlfriend, Beth (Susan Pourfar), who works at a Starbucks with Laszlo. Beth is pregnant with Gray's child, which could be great if Gray could commit to anyone - including himself.
But no: Lately, he's been running errands for Jules Ahmad (Louis Cancelmi), the billionaire heir to a Middle Eastern fortune and pivot point of a world-rocking scandal, that utilize perhaps too many of his role-playing talents. Jules, who's gay, doesn't know that Gay, whom he's in love with, isn't. Gray, in fact, is so addicted to sex yet deprived of emotional connection that he starts calling an enigmatic phone sex line operated by an older Jewish woman, Loė Rieman (Olympia Dukakis), who fled Austria during World War II but couldn't escape the tragic events she set in motion before she left.
That's when things get complicated. And no, I'm not kidding.
Despite Lucas's obvious labor at hammering the play into New York-able shape since its 2004 premiere at Seattle's Intiman Theatre, it still feels unfinished. Each slickly written scene feels too short or too long, as if it knows neither what to say nor how to say it. The play does a 180-degree style shift halfway through, morphing from a steel-belted contemporary slice-of-life into an all-out farce complete with slamming doors and mistaken identities; the change itself is never justified by anything that happens, and it's followed soon after by yet another thematic transformation. Then there are all those plot threads, which intertwine, tangle, and fray as they try to reconcile rapid vacillations of location from New York to Vienna to London from 1933 to 2000, but inhabit no identifiable locale or era.
Lucas has locked onto an interesting underlying concept in comparing the horrors of Holocaust Europe with current America's treatment of and approach toward homosexuality; given the ever-simmering issue of gay marriage, this sort of examination couldn't be more timely. But he deals with it so obliquely and randomly that it never has the chance to cohere. By the time Lucas introduces a full second cast of characters from Loė's youth to help develop the background of his plot, he's already juggling so much that he doesn't have the time to devote to them, either.
Considering that the play's climax involves the full company spending the better part of 10 minutes sorting through their jumbled relationships, it's fair to say there's just too much going on. Wing-Davey does not discourage this in his staging, which treats much of New York as a cacophonous, drunken fever dream punctured by only tiny pockets of lucidity. John McDermott's set, which lurches between post-modern minimalism, Moličre-ready, and full-out Viennese conservatory drama, doesn't help center the action.
In fairness, The Singing Forest probably can't be centered in the traditional sense. It wants to explore so many angles to so many questions that finding a single conceptual foundation is probably not possible. But without it, this feels like a collection of short, unrelated plays rushed through by actors who don't understand how any of what they do affects the show as a whole. Groff is charming as the young man on the brink of a personal abyss, Dukakis brings a brittle desperation to the wounded and wounding Loė, and just about everyone else has a sparkling moment or two. But they're like passersby on the New York City streets: there one minute, gone the next, and more ghostly images than tangible, corporeal figures.
It's the ability to keep sight of characters' latent humanity that energizes and unifies sweeping studies such as Kushner's two-part, six-hour magnum opus, or Tracy Letts's marathon-length hit, August: Osage County. Without it, those onstage can move about or say as much as they please, but they're always going to feel more like pieces on a board than people of burning needs and frustrations who are unable to find solace in others in the too-busy world in which they've been dropped.
"Before long, they seem to belong very much in the title place, a fixture in Loė's nightmare: "I dream about a forest," she says, lost in an agonizing reverie while on the phone with Gray. "Made from the voices of all the creatures who will ever be born, have ever lived. I walk through their voices, every bit of life vibrating with the music of, the moans of the tortured." Lucas may have captured that music, but he's barely scratched the surface of its song.
The Singing Forest
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30 of the world's best golfers will descend on the Gary Player Golf Course for this year's Nedbank Golf Challenge!
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Durban - German Caroline Masson held off a strong challenge from home-favourite Lee-Anne Pace to card a final round one-under-par 71 and clinch victory at the South African Women's Open in Pennington, KwaZulu-Natal, on Sunday.
The world No 74, the highest ranked player in the field, ended with an overall score of 215 over the three rounds, with Pace recording a final total of 216, level par for the championship.
Pace enjoyed the joint second-lowest score of the final day with a 70 in blustery conditions, which had delayed the start by an hour, although it was not enough to catch the eventual winner.
She shared second place with Briton Danielle Montgomery, who finished strongly with two successive birdies for a round three score of level-par 72.
Pace's finishing 70 was matched by defending champion Tandi Cuningham, but that effort was only good enough for a one-over 217.
The event was co-sanctioned by the Ladies European Tour (LET) and SA Women's Professional Golf Association for the first time.
Frenchwoman Joanna Klatten also ended on that score, while the other big local hope in the field, two-time former winner Ashleigh Simon, ended in joint-sixth place after a two-over 74 on the closing day.
It was a disappointing end for the 2004 and 2007 winner after she started the day in a share of the lead.
Another French player Julie Greciet (73) and Australian Lindsey Wright (71) ended alongside her with 218 totals.
The best scores on day three were rounds of four-under 68s from South African Melissa Eaton-Jackson and Titiya Plucksataporn of Thailand, although they ended tied-ninth and tied-25th respectively.
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Using Spatial Intelligence to Make Earth-Friendly Art
Preparation Step:
1. Have the class collect leaves from the school grounds or have students bring them in from home.
2. The teacher will have to collect the various ingredients ahead of time for Activity 4: Making Your Own Paint. The teacher should prepare the soap flakes by grating a bar of homemade soap (found in any health food store). It may be helpful to create workstations for each group of students. Each station will be set up with the ingredients needed to make one color of paint, that way the class as a whole can have a wide array of colors to choose from when painting with their paints later.
Warm-Up: Visual-Spatial Intelligence
1. Break students into groups to discuss the meaning of visual-spatial intelligence (this will be review if students already completed Earth Day Network's Multiple Intelligence lesson plan, found at www.earthday.net/lessonplans).
2. Pass out Reproducible #1 – "Understanding the Brain: the 8 Dimensions of Intelligence" and review with students. Explain that just as we all have different strengths and weaknesses, we also have different intelligences. People learn in many different ways, yet it is possible to stretch other areas of the brain through exercise, the same way you would strengthen any muscle.
3. Students should brainstorm which types of activities require them to use their visual-spatial intelligence (for example: drawing, painting, sculpting, doing a puzzle, reading a map, recognizing faces, packing a suitcase or box, building things).
4. Have students match which intelligences they feel that they most strongly relate to.
5. Explain to students that they will be using their visual-spatial intelligence in the next few activities to study the environment.
Activity One: What's in Your Paint?
1. Do your paints have harmful dyes in them? Do the markers have toxic fumes? Have students look at their art supplies, or at the ones available in the class room, and read the ingredients list. Look for ingredients such as ammonia, formaldehyde, acetone, methanal, and methylene oxide.
• For more information on harmful ingredients and products to avoid, please visit the Oregon Toxics Alliance. For a comprehensive list of toxic ingredients that humans are most likely to be exposed to, please visit the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry website to view the CERCLA Priority List of Hazardous Substances.
• Many manufacturers do not list their ingredients on their packages. For example, when a consumer wrote to the Crayola Crayons company website asking what ingredients were used in making their crayons, the company replied, "The exact ingredients of our products are proprietary..." and would not publish their recipe. They assured consumers that their crayons were free of common allergens such as latex, peanuts and shellfish.
2. Explain that toxic chemicals found in some art supply pigments and dyes, in large doses or sustained exposure can cause headaches, nausea, burns, breathing problems, lung and kidney damage, and even cancer.
3. Describe to students how some paints and other art supplies contain Volatile Organic Compounds, (VOCs) which, in addition to being harmful to human health, can also have negative impacts on the environment. VOCs are a group of chemical compounds that contain carbon. In chemistry, organic means something containing carbon. Volatile means 'easily evaporated' - like water boiling away in a kettle. It can also mean explosive. A compound is something that is made up of two or more elements. So a Volatile Organic Compound is a carbon substance that is made up of two or more elements, evaporates easily, and may be explosive. The VOCs in paints are emitted or evaporate into the atmosphere and have been found to contribute to the depletion of the ozone layer.
• According to the federal Labeling Hazardous Art Materials Act (LHAMA) passed by Congress in 1988, art supplies must carry labels to warn people if a product is hazardous. Also, the Art and Creative Materials Institute (ACMI) is a not-for-profit organization where member companies volunteer to have their products evaluated for safety. Products that have the Approved Product (AP) seal are not toxic to humans, and products with the Caution Label (CL) contain harmful ingredients and should be used with discretion. Follow the link above to see pictures of what the seals look like. You may want to project or pass out examples of the labels for the class to familiarize themselves with what they look like.
4. Do any of the products in the classroom have either an AP or CL label on them? Have students search around their classroom or art room for materials with a label from the ACMI and share their findings with the class. Note: Products with the CL label are prohibited for use in K-6 schools in California. To view a list of art products that are prohibited in schools, please visit California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment.
Activity Two: The Chemistry of Color
1. Pass out Reproducible #2 – "Chemists Probe Secret Dyes from China and Peru" (also found at http://www.physorg.com/news3563.html). Have them read the article, as an introduction to the following activity.
a. Summary: In 2005, a chemistry professor and chemistry graduate student from Boston University traveled to China in search of ancient mummy textiles and found ancient fabrics dyed with plant dyes. Using their knowledge of chemistry, they developed a new technique to identify the specific plants that were used to dye the textiles that does not damage the pigment molecules. This innovation led to the discovery of a new dye found in ancient Peruvian textiles and will continue to help archeologists and anthropologists learn more about ancient cultures.
b. Use the article to demonstrate to students the connection between art and chemistry.
i. Why did ancient people use plants to dye their clothing and textiles? Just like modern humans, they had an eye for the aesthetic and fashion trends existed. Plants were used because they naturally have strong coloring that can be used to dye fabric.
ii. Why might scientists be concerned with the fabrics and dyes used by ancient people? They tell us about the technology and scientific knowledge of these cultures. They can also give insight into trade routes and migrations based on where the textiles and plants originated. They also tell us about the person who was wearing the clothes, such as their origin, wealth, status, occupation, etc.
iii. Based on the article, can anyone guess what chromatography is? How is it used in this case? Chemists analyzed the fabric dyes through a combination of methods, including high-performance liquid chromatography. Derived from the words "color" and "to write", chromatography is a method for analyzing complex mixtures (such as dyes and inks) by separating them into the chemicals from which they are made. This will be further explored in the following activity.
Activity Three: Paper Chromatography with Leaves
1. Plants are great sources of pigment molecules. In this activity, students will experiment with different types and colors of leaves to separate the different pigments in each leaf into a wide spectrum of colors. Have students familiarize themselves with what chromatography is and the definitions listed on the student fact sheet below. Then have students complete the procedure as follows. Note: this activity will require about 90-120 minutes to complete.
• Leaves found in your local environment; they can be from trees, shrubs, bushes, and other plants (try to find a variety of different colors of leaves picked in different seasons if possible). The leaves should be fresh, not dried.
• Baby food jars with lids (or other recycled glass jars with lids)
• Rubbing alcohol
• Coffee filters
• Hot water
• Shallow pan
• Kitchen utensils
1. Take 2-3 large leaves (or the equivalent with smaller leaves), tear them into tiny pieces, and place them into small jars with lids.
2. Add enough rubbing alcohol to just cover the leaves.
3. Loosely cover the jars and set them into a shallow pan containing an inch or so of hot tap water.
4. Let the jars sit in the hot water for at least a half hour. Replace the hot water as it cools and swirl the jars from time to time.
5. The jars are "done" when the rubbing alcohol has picked up color from the leaves. The darker the color, the brighter the chromatogram will be.
6. Cut or tear a long strip of coffee filter paper for each jar.
7. Place one strip of paper into each jar, with one end in the alcohol and the other outside of the jar.
8. As the alcohol evaporates, it will pull the pigment up the paper, separating pigments according to size (largest will move the shortest distance).
9. After 30-90 minutes (or until the desired separation is obtained), remove the strips of paper and allow them to dry.
*Pass out Reproducible #3 – "Paper Chromatography" – Student Fact Sheet and Reproducible #4 "Paper Chromatography with Leaves" – Student Lab Sheet, Have them look over the reproducible and fill out the Student Lab Sheet or have students write a formal lab report according to your formatting standards.
1. Try using frozen chopped spinach leaves.
2. Experiment with other types of paper.
3. You can substitute other alcohols for the rubbing alcohol, such as ethyl alcohol or methyl alcohol.
4. If your chromatogram is pale, next time use more leaves and/or smaller pieces to yield more pigment.
Activity Four: Make Your Own Paint
1. Recall the ancient textiles and dyes discussed in the article in Activity Two. How did some of these ancient people make their dyes?
2. Recall the art supplies found in your classroom in Activity One. Review the ingredients and discussion of VOCs. Explain to students that there are ways to make homemade paints and art supplies using all natural ingredients that are safe for the environment and people.
3. Have students work in groups to follow the recipes for making all natural paint.
a. Make the Paint Base
• 1 cup cornstarch
• 1/2 cup water
• 1/3 cup soap flakes melted with ½ cup boiling water (Make sure students practice safe techniques for handling boiling water)
• Combine the cornstarch, water, and melted soap in a bowl and stir. Let the mixture stand until it thickens.
b. Make the Juice Dyes:
• Use 1/2 cup of plant/ food material for each batch of paint base
• Use the juice from thawed berries or squeezed berries, the juice from a drained can of beets, or the strained water after boiling the tree bark, leaves, walnut hulls, onion skins etc.
Blue: blueberries, red onion skins
Brown: walnut hulls, paprika
Green: oak bark, crab apple leaves, spinach leaves or other greens
Orange: yellow onion skins, oats
Purple: purple grapes, pomegranate
Red: cranberries, beets
Tan: coffee and tea
Yellow: apple tree bark, white onion skins, turmeric, chili powder
• Combine the juice dyes with the paint base and stir until blended. Add more or less dye to alter the color.
• Information obtained from: http://www.coopamerica.org/pubs/realmoney/articles/toxicart.cfm
Activity Five: Green Art
1. Now that students have an array of natural paints to use, students will create their own "green" works of art (preferably on recycled or homemade paper). Students can work individually and share the paint colors. (The teacher may want to pour the colors into smaller containers to pass around the class to share.)
2. Painting Ideas:
• Paint a landscape scene of your local natural environment
• Paint a poster advertising non-toxic art supplies or an environmental event
• Paint a picture of your "ideal" environment
• Paint a self-portrait
• Paint a still-life portraying the plants, fruits and vegetables from which the paint tints were derived.
Wrap Up: Discussion
1. Ask students what intelligences they used in the activities they completed. Have students explain their answers to demonstrate their understanding of the multiple intelligences.
Logistical- conducting the chromatography experiment, mixing paints to create a new colors requires planning and experimenting
Spatial- painting posters and other creative works of art requires skill to determine how to space pictures out on the paper and how to draw a representation of something real found in nature
Naturalist- experimenting with the colors found in nature, identifying which season leaves were picked in, painting a picture of the local environment requires you to observe the environment and have some knowledge about what it includes
Kinesthetic- using a paint brush requires fine motor movement
Linguistic- following the procedure to conduct an experiment, understanding the teacher's directions requires language comprehension and interpretation, reading the ingredients list on art supplies requires literacy skills
Intrapersonal- creating a new color that is unique to the student and painting a picture of their ideal environment requires self knowledge about their tastes, painting a self portrait requires self knowledge about what they look like
Interpersonal- working as a group to make the all natural paints and dyes as well as sharing the colors requires interpersonal skills
2. What are VOCs? How can they be harmful to humans and the environment? A Volatile Organic Compound is a carbon substance that is made up of two or more elements, evaporates easily, and may be explosive. The VOCs in paints and other art supplies are emitted or evaporate into the atmosphere and have been found to contribute to the depletion of the ozone layer. These and other chemicals found in art supplies can cause headaches, nausea, burns, breathing problems, lung and kidney damage, and even cancer in large doses or sustained exposure.
3. What is chromatography? What is paper chromatography? Derived from the words "color" and "to write," chromatography is a method for analyzing complex mixtures (such as dyes and inks) by separating them into the chemicals from which they are made. The technique results in a chromatogram which is like the fingerprint of a color. It was invented in 1900 by the Russian botanist Mikhail Tsvet when he discovered a method of separating plant pigments in a tube filled with calcium carbonate. Paper chromatography is one method used to separate colored mixtures into their individual pigment components, using paper to separate and display pigments.
4. Name some organic materials that can be used to make paint? Which materials produce certain colors? The juice from thawed berries or squeezed berries, the juice from a drained can of beets, or the strained water after boiling the tree bark, leaves, walnut hulls, onion skins etc.
Blue: blueberries, red onion skins
Brown: walnut hulls, paprika
Green: oak bark, crab apple leaves, spinach leaves or other greens
Orange: yellow onion skins, oats
Purple: purple grapes, pomegranate
Red: cranberries, beets
Tan: coffee and tea
Yellow: apple tree bark, white onion skins, turmeric, chili powder
Extensions: Beyond the Classroom
• Using the green artwork the students have produced organize a "Green Art Exhibit" for the rest of your school community to see.
• Enter your class to participate in an art contest.
o The American Geological Institute's list of contests for students.
o The North American Association for Environmental Education's list of students awards and contests
• Teach students deeper concepts of plant chemistry, photosynthesis, etc. based on their observations of the physical and chemical properties of leaves and plant parts.
• Have students research the legislation regarding art supplies allowed in your particular school district. Have students devise a political campaign to lobby for non-toxic art supply use in schools for all grades
• Explain to your students that there are many professional visual artists who work with all natural media. Please visit the Green Art Studio website for examples of green artist Greg Patch's work using beeswax paint. The website also includes links to other environmentally friendly artists and organizations that support green art.


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Monday, 27 October 2008
Capitalism in Crisis
Capitalism in crisis by Adam Buik (Part 1)
We are living in interesting times, historic times even. We could be witnessing a once in a lifetime event, a major capitalist crisis and slump. What is now happening is an old-fashioned credit crisis such as used to occur at regular intervals in the 19Th century. But also in 1907 and 1929. It's all there in Marx's description and analysis of them in Volume III of Marx's Capital. There's the same panic, the same bank collapses, the same dash for cash, and the same government intervention to make cash available even by breaking its own rules.
What the existence of a credit crisis shows is that money has been unwisely lent by banks. The loans have turned out to have been unwise because the borrowers have found themselves unable to repay them. If these defaults are widespread and important enough then the whole financial system can be affected. Which is what has happened today?
But how does it come about in the first place that at the same time a large number of borrowers become unable to repay loans?
In the 19Th century the loans that turned bad were made, for instance, typically to cotton manufacturers to export to India or China and proved unsound when more cotton goods were produced than could be absorbed by these markets. Panic set in when the trade bills issued to finance these exports couldn't be honored. In other words, it was caused by some economic event : overproduction in some sector of the real economy in relation to the market (paying demand) for its products, an overproduction brought about by the anarchic pursuit of profits that is built-in to the capitalist system.
This time the loans that turned bad were made, in America, to individuals to buy a house. This stimulated, and then sustained, a boom in housing construction. In the end, paying demand was unable to keep up with the supply of new houses for sale, as demonstrated by the fall in house prices and the increasing number of defaults. In other words, there was overproduction in the US housing sector.
These defaults have had an impact on the whole global financial system because of the way in which the original loans had been financed - or rather re-financed. They had been pooled by batches into bonds by US investment banks, and then pooled again with other loans, into other bonds, and sold by them to other banks and other financial institutions throughout the world, but mainly in America and Europe. So that when the borrowers of the original loans defaulted in large numbers this had an effect on global credit markets.
The Banking System
I know that as Marxists we are more interested in the events in the real economy that have precipitated the current crisis but, as on the surface it is a banking crisis (which is real enough in its own right), I want to begin by describing the institutional framework within which this banking crisis is taking place.
Most people don't like banks, seeing them as institutions that in some mysterious way create money and then charge interest on it, so getting money for nothing. Actually, banks are financial intermediaries which can only lend money to people and businesses out of money that has been deposited with them or which they have themselves borrowed. As the US Federal Reserve put it in one of their educational documents:
"Banks borrow funds from their depositors (those with savings) and in turn lend those funds to the banks' borrowers (those in need of funds). Banks make money by charging borrowers more for a loan (a higher percentage interest rate) than is paid to depositors for use of their money." (http://www.federalreserveeducation.org/fed101/fedtoday/FedTodayAll.pdf. P. 57)
The IMF has even coined a new verb to describe what banks do: they "intermediate".
Banks are profit-seeking capitalist enterprises in which the owners have invested capital with a view to making a profit. A bank has to have its own capital to invest in the buildings and office equipment and in the wages and salaries of bank workers. The business of a bank is to borrow and re-lend money, basically to channel unused money to where it can be used, most of it going in the end to capitalist enterprises to use as capital to invest in trade and industry.
Posted by Bill Morris at Monday, October 27, 2008
Labels: Capitalism, Capitalism in Crisis, Credit Crunch, Money, Recession
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Holy cow did you hear that jet/bomber what ever the hell go by? I think I left a hickey on my chair, and Im on the other side of the world!!!
Things are really picking up. Had to take a break for a while and go out to dinner. Gunfire and explosions are a lot closer.
Originally posted by Allegory of Illumination
Did I just see the power go out on a very big scale just a second ago?
Then it cut to a different camera/location about a second or two after
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Is that constant sound the drones? what are they for, surveillance?
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Arizona State junior defensive end Will Sutton added to his already impressive list of accomplishments Tuesday when he was named the winner of the Morris Trophy, which is presented annually to the top offensive and defensive lineman in the Pac-12.
Sutton has earned consensus All-American status as well as being named the Pac-12 Pat Tillman Defensive Player of the Year this season.
The 6-foot-1, 267-pound Sutton is the sixth Arizona State player to win the Morris Trophy, joining Terrell Suggs, Levi Jones, Jeremy Staat, Randall McDaniel and Danny Villa.
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Spiritual student of Saint Sabas of Pskov. Hermit in the forests in the Tver region. He attracted so many would be students that he moved to a deserted island in Lake Seliguer.
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Puddle Of Judd
Way better than the original. (from Spacekitten.)
Cosby Stills and Nash
I always thought those guys could use a bit more Huxtable. (from Capitan)
House Of Caine
"Michael Caine has more rhymes than the bible's got psalms." (from Acorn King.)
(Elton) Lil' John
This one's actually just really disturbing. (from keithsoljacich.)
PJ Harvey Keitel
A classic '90s album taken to the next level with the addition of Mr. Keitel himself. I love this so much. (from Jeff.)
Urkel Rain
I never meant to cause you sorrow. I only wanted to see you laughing in the Urkel Rain. (from oOo.)
Cage Against The Machine
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Tough guys for sure, but no match for Nicolas Cage Against The Machine if it came down to a fight. (from passos42.)
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This one's pretty intense. (from sarge
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Hi everybody! (from keithsoljacich.)
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Essential. (from Acorn King.)
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This needs to be his next documentary. (from Paul Greer.)
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Amen, sister. (from Jennifer Mrazek.) You can find the rest of these here. There are tons more good ones.
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There are several support units which assist the Supreme Court
with its work as the state's highest court. These units are located
in Springfield, Bloomington, and Chicago.
Clerk of the Supreme Court.
The Clerk of the Supreme Court is appointed
by the Court, reports to the Court and serves at the
Court's pleasure. The Clerk is the Court's principal
case processing and records manager who operates
the office through a staff of specialized deputies,
and by planning, developing, and implementing
policies and procedures necessary to execute the
responsibilities of the office. The office has existed
since circa 1818 and supports the Court in the
exercise of its statewide jurisdiction, authority
to regulate the practice of law in Illinois, and
supervisory authority over the courts in the state.
In its case management capacity, the Clerk's
Office maintains four distinct automated dockets,
executing all associated processes, to ensure
compliance with Supreme Court Rules and
to ensure that cases are effectively monitored
and scheduled, from initiation to issuance of
mandates and final orders as appropriate. The
general docket unit of the office supports the
Court's primary docket. On January 12, 2012, the
Supreme Court authorized the electronic filing of
documents on a pilot basis, limited to cases on
the Court's general docket when filed by the Office
of Attorney General, Office of the State's Attorney
Appellate Prosecutor or Office of State Appellate
Defender, representing the beginning of e-filing
in the Supreme Court. On February 13, 2013,
the Supreme Court by order amended the
pilot project to expand the electronic filing of
documents to include all cases on the Court's
general docket and attorney disciplinary matters
on the miscellaneous record docket, which
consists primarily of attorney matters. This
change was effective March 1, 2013. The
miscellaneous docket consists of conviction-related
cases filed by pro se incarcerated litigants
and provides a forum without compromising
standard filing requirements. The proposed rule
docket was developed and functions consistent
with the mandate of Supreme Court Rule 3.
In its record management capacity, the Clerk's
Office maintains the Court's active and closed
files and permanent records, dating to 1818,
including historically significant documents which
are housed and preserved in the State Archives
by agreement, and operates a micrographics unit
which oversees the conversion of paper documents
to a more stable medium.
The Clerk's Office registers and renews
professional service corporations and associations,
and limited liability companies and partnerships
engaged in the practice of law. On October 31,
2012, the Supreme Court announced an e-renewal
process beginning with the 2013 renewal year, that
gave law firm entities the option to electronically
renew their annual registration and pay the $40
renewal fee electronically. The Clerk's Office
is also responsible for maintaining the roll of
attorneys, which includes the licensing process,
and issuance of law licenses; files judicial financial
disclosure statements required of state court
judges. The office compiles, analyzes, and reports
statistics on the Supreme Court's caseload and
other activity, as reflected in the accompanying
statistical summary and narrative for 2013.
The Clerk's Office provides information to
the public at large and the practicing bar and
has working relationships with other courts and
judicial branch offices, Supreme Court agencies,
and state and county departments.
Marshal of the Supreme Court. The marshal attends all sessions of the Supreme Court and performs such other duties as are performed by sheriffs of courts. The marshal directs a staff to provide for courthouse security, provides technical assistance to the appellate court on security issues, receives and disseminates threat information concerning members of the Supreme Court and the court system, and serves as liaison to the law enforcement community.
Reporter of Decisions. The Reporter of Decisions directs a staff which
publishes opinions of the supreme and appellate
courts in the Official Reports. Employees also
verify case citations, compose head notes, attorney
lines, tables of cases, topical summaries, and other
materials appearing in the Official Reports; and
edit opinions for style and grammar.
Supreme Court Librarian. The Supreme Court Librarian directs a
staff who provide legal reference services to the
courts, state agencies, and citizens of the state.
The Supreme Court libraries include a 100,000
volume public law library in Springfield, a 40,000
volume private branch library in Chicago, and
four private judicial libraries across the state.
The Librarian oversees all aspects of library
administration including budget and program
planning, materials and equipment acquisition,
cataloging and collection development, and library
reference and research services.
Supreme Court Research Director. The Supreme Court Research Director
supervises a staff of attorneys who provide legal
research and writing assistance to the Court.
Supreme Court Chief Internal Auditor. The Supreme Court Chief Internal Auditor and
staff perform audits of the state-funded activities
of the judicial branch. In addition, the Internal
Auditor annually assesses the adequacy of internal
controls for state-funded activities.
Clerk's Office - Springfield
Supreme Court Building
200 E. Capitol
Springfield, IL 62701
(217) 782-2035
Office Hours: 8:30 - 4:30
Clerk's Office - Chicago
Michael A. Bilandic Building
160 North LaSalle Street
Chicago, IL 60601
(312) 793-1332
Office Hours: 8:30 - 4:30
Reporter of Decisions
P.O. Box 3456
Bloomington, IL 61702
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Research Director
Supreme Court Building
200 E. Capitol
Springfield, IL 62701
Supreme Court Press Secretary
222 N. LaSalle, 13th floor
Chicago, IL 60601
(312) 793-2323
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Global Day to Support the Egyptian Revolution!
New York City Details:
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Rally in Times Square: 12 pm – 2:30 pm
March to the Egyptian Mission: 2:30 – 3:30 pm
Closing Rally at the Mission: 3:30 – 4:00 pm
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To all Egyptians abroad and all supporters of Egypt…please come out on Saturday 21st of January and show your solidarity and support to the Egyptian revolution. Please help us make it a global day to support our brothers and sisters in Tahrir Square!
As we have seen in the last few days the SCAF has committed disgusting crimes against the peaceful protesters in Cairo. Those crimes are not just an insult to Egyptians but against humanity. Whoever stays silent and doesn't stand for justice and humanity is not any better than those who commit the crimes.
It does not matter what your political views or beliefs are. Whether you are an Islamist, or a liberal, whether you belong to April 6th movement or Elbaradei Supporters or even if you are not Egyptian its a shame not to do something and say NO to tyranny and dictatorship.
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DOVER - Make-A-Wish Mid-Atlantic invites individuals to participate in Walk For Wishes at the Dover International Speedway in Dover.
The Delaware community is encouraged to join three local wish kids to walk the Monster Mile to help grant the wishes of other Delaware children facing life-threatening medical conditions.
Wish kid team captains are Savannah from Kent county, Billy from New Castle county and Phillip from Sussex county.
The walk will take place from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19. The day will include the walk itself and family-fun festivities including great music, face painting, balloon art and other surprises.
Suicide Awareness Walk raises $35K
OCEAN CITY - The second annual Out of the Darkness Community Walk in Ocean City has raised more than $35,000 doubling the amount raised at last year's walk.
About 300 people participated in the event, which was held on Sept. 28, to raise awareness about suicide prevention and mental illness.
The outreach and fundraising effort supports the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, the leading national nonprofit dedicated to understanding and preventing suicide through research, education and advocacy.
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KwaZulu-Natal - KwaZulu-Natal police arrested a total of 413 suspects for sex-related crimes during Women's Month.
Provincial police spokesman Colonel Jay Naicker said teams had worked on the cases throughout last month in a quest to see that justice was done for victims of rape and sexual offences.
Naicker said 91 cases were finalised, with five life sentences in five cases and a total of 835 years' imprisonment for all the cases handed down.
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Ancestry-related assortative mating in Latino populations
1 Institute for Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, 513 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
2 Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente, 2000 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
3 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, 185 Berry Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA
4 Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 1550 4th St, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
5 Biomedical Genomics Center, University of Minnesota, 426 Church St, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
6 Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias, Calzada de Tlalpan 4502, Col. Seccion XVI, CP 14080, Tlalpan, Distrito Federal, Mexico
7 Centro de Neumologia Pediatrica, CSP, 735 Ave Ponce de Leon, San Juan, 00917 Puerto Rico
8 Veterans Caribbean Health Care System, 10 Casia St, San Juan, 00921 Puerto Rico
9 Division of Allergy-Immunology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 676 N St Clair St, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
Genome Biology 2009, 10:R132 doi:10.1186/gb-2009-10-11-r132Published: 20 November 2009
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Table S1: within spouse correlations in ancestry. Table S2: t-tests of ancestry differences between spouses and between recruitment sites. Table S3: mean (standard deviation) ancestry by socioeconomic status. Table S4: regression of wife's IA on husband's IA and socioeconomic status. Table S5: allele frequency difference chi-square tests between sites and spouses. Table S6: regression of chi-square for Mexico versus US allele frequency difference on δ2N*/p*q*. Table S7: regression of LD chi-square tests on (δ1δ2)2/pqrs. Table S8: outlier marker pairs from regressions on D. Table S9: list of ancestry informative markers used in the current study.
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Figure S1: Q-Q plot of residuals from regressions of allelic correlations F1 and F2 for (a) Mexicans and (b) Puerto Ricans. Figure S2: Q-Q plot of residuals from regression analysis of the linkage disequilibrium parameter D.
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Jamal Peters top Mississippian in updated ESPN rankingsApril 16th, 2014 | John Talty |
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Jamal Peters, No. 1 in The Clarion-Ledger's initial Targeted 22, was in Starkville last weekend for a Mississippi State football scrimmage. The 6-foot-3, 200-pound safety from Bassfield is very i ...Read more
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J'Mar Smith has some tough decisions to make in the next year. The obvious is the Meridian star will have to pick a college. Less obvious, is that Smith will have to decide what sport he wants to p ...Read more
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Odds are you don't know much about Alonzo Brown. The Magee junior athlete doesn't have any scholarship offers and isn't ranked by any of the major recruiting services. But he's got a Hudl a ...Read more
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Malik Newman held onto the top spot in the latest Rivals.com recruiting rankings. The 6-foot-3 combo guard from Callaway High School was ranked the top junior in the country by Rivals.com Wednesday ...Read more
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Mindy McCready's funeral held in southwest Florida
Michael Inge, stepfather of country music star Mindy McCready, plays a song during the funeral ceremony at the Crossroads Baptist Church in Fort Myers, Fla., Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. McCready committed suicide Feb. 17 at her home in Arkansas, days after leaving a court-ordered substance abuse program. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — As her music played in the background, country music star Mindy McCready was remembered Tuesday by friends and family as a fun and talented singer who also "wanted to be healed" from her past.
About 200 friends and family gathered in the 37-year-old singer's Florida hometown of Fort Myers. A large screen behind the altar of Crossroads Baptist Church was filled with her images and her portrait stood nearby.
"Our Mindy was so tired. She felt helpless," said McCready's mother, Gayle Inge. "She was in her darkest moment and she was hurt by so many allegations. She was too emotional to understand."
McCready, whose real name was Malinda Gayle McCready, committed suicide Feb. 17 at her home in Arkansas, days after leaving a court-ordered substance abuse treatment program. The mother of two died from a single gunshot to the head about a month after her longtime boyfriend David Wilson's death, also thought to be suicide, in the same place.
Inge acknowledged that her daughter had faced many battles but now: "Her spirit found healing on the other side."
McCready's personal problems started in 2004 and included a custody battle with her mother over one of her sons. She was briefly hospitalized in 2010 after police responded to an overdose call to a home her mother owned in North Fort Myers, Fla., and she later appeared on "Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew," where she declared herself clean from drugs.
FILE - This Nov. 14, 2008 file photo shows country singer Mindy McCready performsingin Nashville, Tenn. Authorities in Arkansas say preliminary autopsy results confirm country music singer Mindy McCready's death was a suicide. The Cleburne County sheriff said in a statement Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013 that preliminary autopsy results from Arkansas' state crime lab show McCready's death was a suicide from a single gunshot wound to the head. McCready, who hit the top of the country charts before personal problems sidetracked her career, died Sunday, Feb. 17. She was 37. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)
McCready's family declined to address any custody issue at the funeral.
"She wanted them to know that nothing, not even death, could separate her from them," Gayle Inge said of McCready's two sons, Zander Ryan and Zayne Christopher. "She's healed. She's no longer sick," she added, referring to what she told McCready's sons.
A separate funeral organized by her friends and the music community is tentatively scheduled for March 6 in Nashville, Tenn.
McCready's stepfather, brothers and cousin also shared their fondest — and often funny — memories of McCready.
"You all know I grew up coming from a broken home," said brother Timothy McCready, wiping away tears. "It makes your brothers and sisters really important to you. We used to joke about how she raised us...we raised each other, all of us. And she probably got us all in a lot more trouble than she got us out of," he later joked about his sister.


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Irma C. Braun Gentrup, 89, formerly of Bellevue, died Feb. 3, 2013, at Carmel Manor Nursing Home in Fort Thomas.
She was a graduate of Colerain High School and Deaconess Nursing School in Cincinnati. She was a registered nurse during World War II. She also worked as a clerical employee at the Internal Revenue Service in Covington, and was a member of Divine Mercy Parish, Sacred Heart Church Mother's Club, the Bellevue Vets' Ladies Auxiliary, and Newport Central Catholic Boosters, and served as a poll worker during elections.
Her husband, William L. Gentrup, died previously.
Survivors include her sons, Michael Gentrup of Southlake, Texas, William F. Gentrup of Tempe, Ariz., and Gary Gentrup of Bellevue; daughter, Cathy Cline of Hebron; brother, Donald Braun of Warren, Mich.; and sister, Carol Kist of College Corner, Ohio; seven grandchildren; and 24 great-grandchildren.
Memorial Mass will be 5:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 8, at the Divine Mercy Parish in Bellevue. A reception will immediately follow at Charity Hall in Bellevue.
Memorials: Carmel Manor Nursing Home, 100 Carmel Manor Road, Fort Thomas, KY 41075 or Divine Mercy Parish, 318 Division St., Bellevue, KY 41073.


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Planting my feet firmly into the ground lifts the crown of my head just a little closer to the sky. For just a moment, I feel tall... regal... powerful!
I firm my calves, then my thighs. My femur bones spiral in just slightly, but at the same time press away from each other. I feel my bones stack.
I lengthen my tailbone toward the floor and firm my belly.
My chest lifts toward the sky as my shoulder blades descend.
I feel that same energy that I draw from the ground shine out through the top of my head and extend through my fingertips, pointing toward the floor.
But after a few moments of pulling and pushing, firming and gripping, aligning and realigning something almost magical happens: A softening--not of the muscles, but of the mind.


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Hello faithful readers–I haven't written in since right before BWE3 so I figured I would let you know I'm still alive! I was away on vacation in Norway for the last two weeks and had a great time, but now I'm getting right back on the GW2 launch hype train. I was able to jump on Twitter briefly and share some Asura and Sylvari screenshots which I found very captivating. Looking forward to playing both of those races at launch.
As some of you may know my primary method of interacting with the Guild Wars 2 community is in fact via Twitter. There's a huge number and variety of community members on there–everyone from fans and small time bloggers like me to longtime ArenaNet veterans. The hype machine has been going on for long enough that I've learned quite a bit about many of the community members–not just what their favorite race or profession is, but about who they are as real people.
We've chatted about a wide variety of subjects–everything from feminism to work frustrations to Microsoft's godawful E3 2012 press conference–and watched as community superstars like Rubi and Elixabeth landed awesome jobs as an ArenaNet community manager and Massively columnist/GuildCaster, respectively. People have shared about their weddings, major anniversaries, and other life events and we were happy to hear about them. I think it's safe to say that we're not just a bunch of people on a social network who like the same video game, we're a real community. How cool is that?
Right before the last beta weekend, somebody asked, "Why don't we make a GW2 twitter guild?" A bunch of people agreed that this would be a great idea and made it happen. The guild has since been christened I Can Outtweet A Centaur [TWIT] and amassed 40 members during BWE3! Given the success we had we decided to get more organized for launch. I was thinking about founding my own guild in association with this blog, but I'm going to throw my weight behind [TWIT] instead.
You can find [TWIT]'s guild website at http://twitguild.enjin.com/home and everything you need to know is on there. You can also follow the account @TWITGuild and the hashtag #twitguild to chat with us. You don't need to post on twitter to be a member, but it's a big part of the fun! I want to thank Lana (@LadyVerene) for setting up the Enjin site and pushing forward with organization, and Jeshe (@moosefaces) for setting up the Google Doc that we used to get started in the first place. Thanks for taking initiative! For my part, I'm happy to take credit for coming up with the guild name and I took the liberty of setting up a Steam group too.
Headstart and launch are less than a month away–looking forward to seeing you all in game!


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"Firefly" - when does it get good?
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Re: "Firefly" - when does it get good?
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You're really not patient enough to sit through 9 more episodes?
It's not a question of patience. It's a question of having universes of riches lined up in my viewing queue, and not wanting to slog through nine more episodes of a kind with the last three in order to get back to a movie I didn't even love upon first viewing.
BigFoot wrote:
Well, I think you should watch all the eps. But if you won't, you definitely need to watch Out of Gas, Ariel, War Stories, and Message in Space. Jaynestown and The Message are also awesome eps.
Thanks for the recs. Without spoiling anything, what makes these four eps necessary? New characters, significant character milestones, backstory that sets up the movie? Thanks in advance!
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One thing I've noticed from Firefly naysayers is that they tend to be looking for something else. They go in with certain expectations...
Very possible. The fact that the story doesn't seem to be going anywhere troubles me. For all its faults,
had a clear, fundamental purpose, and so did
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a try because we were promised a journey to Supermanhood, and
set up a confrontation in its first episode that it built steadily towards with each passing ep.
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; heck, dreams on the crew's part of making enough dough to retire in comfort would be an improvement over just treading water, if that's indeed the case.
I dimly remember the evolutionary-plague Macguffin of
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Georgia Southern University will honor its largest-ever graduating class at Spring Commencement on May 8 at 9 a.m. at Paulson Stadium. Approximately 2,900 graduates are receiving their degrees this spring, including more than 2,400 who will participate in the formal ceremony.
The Effingham YMCA recently awarded 12 Effingham County High School sophomores and juniors with awards of excellence for completing the 2009-10 year of the Christian Leadership Academy.
Lowe's Charitable and Educational Foundation has awarded $5,000 for a winning pin in a national pin design contest and $5,000 for a winning T-shirt design in a national T-shirt design contest to South Effingham High School.
Students from eight Effingham County elementary schools participated in a county-wide, elementary chess tournament at Guyton Elementary on April 20.
The public is invited to attend an informational meeting on May 7 to discuss and have the opportunity to provide input and jointly develop the programs under the No Child Left Behind Act. These programs include Title I, Title II Part A, Title II Part D, Title V and the Even Start Family Literacy Program.
In Yvonne Arnsdorff's Effingham County High School 10th grade biology class, the students crowded around front as a young man in a clean white lab coat coached them through the chemical reaction taking place before them.
The week before prom, Effingham County High School junior class officers began promoting safe prom by taking cards to local florists and tuxedo rental shops with a poem, "The decisions you make on prom night can change your life. So party responsibly and take care of yourself and your friends." Flyers with the same message were printed and distributed on students' cars the night of prom.
The cafeteria at South Effingham Elementary School was transformed into an art gallery Tuesday night as parents, students and staff came out to see and buy student artwork.
With the current special purpose local option sales tax coming to an end, Dr. Slade Helmly presented the school board a draft of plans for the renewed SPLOST IV and recommended a referendum for its approval be placed on the November ballot.
There were nine contestants in this year's Miss SEHS pageant, but freshman Natalie Starling took the tiara.
Forget Paris and New York, fashion has hit Effingham.
Hundreds of Effingham County Middle School students stayed after school not for detention, but in the name of science on April 8.
Because of their exceptional academic abilities, 38 seventh graders from Effingham County qualified for participation in the Duke Talent Identification Program (TIP) 7th Grade Talent Search, sponsored by Duke University.
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Former NBA player Joe Odhiambo, who holds more than a dozen Guinness World records, showed off his dribbling and basketball-spinning repertoire to children at Sand ...
The Effingham County High School competition cheerleading team won the grand champions title at the Raider Rumble, held Sept. 19 at West Laurens High School ...
Guest readers visited Effingham County pre-kindergarten classes to read to the kids as part of Pre-K Week.
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Here are some stories that caught our eye on and around the social web this week.
Women trust Pinterest more than Twitter
Created in conjunction with BlogHer, this infographic explores 'Women, blogs and social media'. According to the study, blogs and Pinterest are the most trusted sources of content for women. It's also interesting to see how different platforms are being used. Blogs come out highest in stimulating purchase intent, while Facebook rules the roost for having fun, building community and entertainment.
A Facebook 'Want' button in the works
While not publicly listed on the Facebook developer site, the plug-in was discovered that may well allow you to add products to a virtual wish list. The plugin will only work for open graph objects marked as "products" and should be ideal for e-commerce businesses to allow customers to create their online shopping list. It will be interesting to see how this unfolds, but it could be a great tool for creating birthday and Christmas wish lists.
Read more on Inside Facebook.
Flickr gets map upgrade
Flickr have partnered with Nokia (one of our clients), to upgrade their mapping and geotagging capabilities. According to Markus Spiering, Head of Product at Flickr;
"Whether you're geotagging one of your photos, discovering places, or simply want to see where other people's amazing images were taken – you'll see up-to-date maps from one of the largest and best mapping providers in the world. Our new maps will provide you a much greater level of detail and let you zoom in much further than before."
Read more on TNW.
YouTube Marketplace launches
At VidCon this week, Shishir Mehrotra, YouTube VP of product management, announced the launch of their Video Creation Marketplace, a portal connecting content creators with brand marketers and agencies.
Read more on AdAge
Oreo creates a Gay Pride cookie
This week, Oreo generated controversy by uploading a picture to their Facebook page of a rainbow stacked Oreo cookie. 49,000 comments, 263,000 Likes and 83,000 shares later, it's become the talk of the social web and has added to Oreo's already mega stats in social.
Read more on AdWeek.
Nara launches
Nara describes itself as a personal discovery engine based on the human brain. It's built to provide restaurant recommendations based on your locality. You give Nara a small amount of information about you and it builds and elaborate recommendation map across over 50,000 restaurants it has in its database. All it needs is three of your restaurant choices as its cue.
Google gives you 8 trillion lego blocks to play with
Google and Lego Australia have created Build, a chrome game that asks you to plonk your virtual lego creation on a section of the Australian map. You can then share it via Google+. Although it is planned to start with Oz, New Zealand is next and then the world.
Read more on TNW.
Facebook email blast
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Despite launching in 2010, Facebook email has never become the Gmail slayer it was predicted to be. Facebook's answer is to change everyone's default email address anyhow. According to Facebook, it's a move that "gives people the choice to decide which addresses they want to show on their timeline". Others haven't been so welcoming, and it has, as expected, caused more than a few negative reactions.
Read more on Forbes.
How teens view their digital life
This study from Common Sense Media examines teens in context with their social media habits and their wider social life. Well over a third say they sometimes wish they could go back to a social life before Facebook. 50% say they prefer f2f communication compared to 7% who prefer virtual exchanges. There are some interesting stats on social media usage with most respondents believing social media has an overall positive influence on their social behaviour.
June 28th marked the anniversary of the famous ear biting incident. The two heavyweights have been in touch over Twitter to reminisce and engage in a little bit of polite self promo. In true social media style, fans have also entered ring.
Sergei took to the stage yesterday and announced that the demo "could go wrong in 500 ways". Lucky for him they pulled it off. Google glass allows people to see the world throughout the eyes of others – in the case of the below video, skydivers. A technology with some huge social potential.
Amar'e Stoudemire's tweet gets slammed
The New York Knicks forward Amar'e Stoudemire is the newest sports star to be caught foul of the ill-thought-out public tweet. Although meant as a DM, clearly the huge plates for hands affected the dexterity and DM turned public status update. And voila, another fine social media mess and a $50,000 fine.
Read more on The Root.
Title IX mosaic unveiled at Newseum
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Title IX, the landmark legislation that banned sex discrimination in schools, ESPN pulled together the largest-ever collection of women and girls' sports images – all submitted by the athletes themselves. They were turned them into an interactive video, broadcast onto the 74-foot high First Amendment marble tablet on the front wall of the museum of news in Washington DC. The result looks pretty stunning.
We love Real
We're also really pleased our Welcome to Real site made Pocket Lint's site of the day this week. Real is the world's physical network letting members keep their updates in the world they inhabit.
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A peak flow meter for asthma is like a thermometer for a fever - it helps you monitor what's going on inside your lungs by measuring airflow out of the lungs. The meter can tell you if your airways are narrowing well before asthma symptoms begin. Learn how to use a peak flow meter, how to find your "personal best," and how to set your peak flow zones.


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With success comes losses. It's just a part of college football. Florida's Sugar Bowl season put the spotlight on a bunch of juniors and many of them are almost certain to depart early for the NFL.
The top junior prospects include defensive linemen Dominique Easley and Sharrif Floyd, linebacker Jelani Jenkins, safety Matt Elam and tight end Jordan Reed.
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We're looking for the few, the proud, the folks who can roar like the coolest Wookiee around.
May 4, aka Star Wars Day, is coming up for Star Wars fans everywhere on Saturday, and in honor of that most loyal and furry of Millennium Falcon co-pilots, USA TODAY is looking for the best Chewbacca impressions readers can muster.
Use the Vine app on your smartphone to capture six seconds of a Chewbacca roar in the funniest - or at least most fun - place you can find (drive-through, school, bank, coffee shop, etc.), tweet them out using the hashtag #ChewieVine and we'll feature the best videos on the website Saturday for May the 4th - the holiday inspired by "May the Force be with you."
Need inspiration? Watch - or rewatch - the original trilogy of Star Wars films, featuring Peter Mayhew as Han Solo's large, hairy sidekick from the planet Kashyyyk.
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Thanks for the great responses! I didn't realize that ilfochrome supplies are unobtanium which seriously bums me out. I was really looking forward to learning this film and making cibachromes. How are the serious landscape guys doing this? I really don't want to be tied to the computer and I have even less of a desire to get a digital camera. I saw online that these supplies are still available in England, I wonder if I it would be possible to get it somehow? Hazmat might be the limiting factor.
What if everyone on this site wrote an email to Freestyle asking for it? Even though I have zero experience with it I think it would be a shame to lose such an amazing process.
Meanwhile, I'm going to buy the home kits for e6 processing and start figuring it out. At least I can still.do that. Does anyone know how many rolls I can process with each kit?
Thank you for your valuable insights,
You could get Ilfochrome stuff from Freestyle (via special order) and B&H last I checked. Has that changed?
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Impact opens with Bobby Roode and the Bromans walking to the ring. Team Dixie is prepared for Lockdown and all the spoils it will bring them. But before Roode can speak too deeply about all his hopes for Sunday's pay-per-view, he's interrupted by the fourth member of his quartet - Austin Aries.
Right from the start, A Double isn't playing nice with his new friends. He refuses to answer to Bobby and demands 5% stake in TNA if the team wins. Hearing this, Robbie and Jesse demand some bromantic equity too. It leads to uncleanness until MVP and the Wolves suddenly show up with an announcement of their own - their final member.
Before MVP can reveal the last partner of his team, Dixie Carter appears and tries to silence her unsilent partner. It doesn't work, though. When the investor names the returning Jeff Hardy as his teammate to a chorus of cheers, Carter balks at the idea and she doesn't mince words.
"Over my dead body."
Video: MVP reveals the final member of his Lethal Lockdown team
All of this drama gets under Bobby Roode's skin and he immediately confronts MVP. Some words are exchanged. Those words lead to punches. Those punches lead to our main event...first.
If this match was any indication, the addition of a cage on Sunday will result in some extreme brutality. Each team showed contempt for the other and nothing was left on the mat. Bobby Roode scored an early psychological advantage by taking out MVP and it played out from there. Despite a spectacular performance by Davey Richards against Roode and Aries as the final three, their devious nature overcame. Austin took an intentional disqualification by attacking Richards with a chair. Although he was gone, the damage appeared to be done. The Wolf was wounded and the match was stopped - for the moment . In the interest of fairness, Davey was given one hour to recover...or forfeit the bout.
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Apple hires former Ceracor CTO Marcelo Lamego for sensor work
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Company continues building iWatch technology team
Apple has hired on former Ceracor CTO Marcelo Malini Lamego as part of a research and development team, according to a LinkedIn profile update discovered by NetworkWorld. Ceracor specializes in non-invasive medical monitoring technologies. Lamego himself is credited with over 70 patents and patent applications, including ones related to sensors and patient monitoring; he has also published over 30 peer-reviewed papers on topics like neural networks and adaptive systems. Apple may, however, be more interested in his work as the lead scientist on Masimo's "Rainbow," a non-invasive monitoring tool that can track several different blood and physiological parameters at once.
Lamego began work at Apple in January. He's in fact the company's second major hire related to Masimo, the other being Michael O'Reilly, who joined in July 2013.
Apple has been hiring a number of health technology experts during the past year. The people are all believed to be tied to the company's upcoming iWatch, which will reportedly track a number of fitness factors on top of performing other smartwatch duties. When the device might launch is still unknown, but since it's rumored to be closely associated with an iOS 8 app nicknamed "Healthbook," that may imply a launch on or after iOS 8's predicted debut in September or October.


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Video: Barron Shaw of Shaw Orchards talks about the cherry crop and good things for peaches and apples.
A homemade cherry pie or a warm cherry pudding made with locally grown, fresh picked York County cherries might not be happening this year.
"Almost non-existent," is the answer from local growers questioned about this year's crop.
The bad news is there are almost no local sweet or sour cherries to be found.
Blame it on those two nights in April when the temperature dipped to 24 degrees.
"The trees weren't in blossom yet, the buds were just swelling, the temperatures dropped to the low 20s, and local cherries were pretty much wiped out," said Stanley Brown of Brown's Orchards and Farm Market in Loganville.
Brown's may have a "little sample" of cherries next week but very few, he said.
The sweet cherry crop is bad and the sour cherry crop is even worse, said Jane Raab Lehman, of Raab Fruit Farms, near Dallastown.
"This is the first time in a long time that I can remember not having a sour cherry crop. They are almost non-existent," she said.
You will be able to find a few cherries at Blevins Fruit Farm in Hopewell Township, owner Nancy Blevins said.
"We'll have more sweet than sour cherries, but not too many of either, certainly not a complete crop," she said.
What they do have should be ready next week but Blevins' advice to anyone who wants local cherries is "don't dilly-dally because we'll have very, very few cherries available."
Just down the road at Shaw Orchards things are looking a little bit rosier, or maybe cherrier, as Mary Sue Shaw said they will have a "few sweet and sour cherries."
Over at Flinchbaugh's Orchard in Hellam Township, Julie Flinchbaugh said: "We barely have any cherries, no sour cherries and a very, very few sweet cherries. We should have some the middle of next week or the weekend and that will be about it."
Cherries shipped from other parts of the country will be available but unless you don't "dilly-dally" and are lucky enough to get there at the right time, you can forget locally grown cherries this year.
The cold temperatures caused some damage to local apricots, plums and pears, but not nearly as great as the damage to the cherry crop. However, the blackberry, red and black raspberry, and apple crops are looking good and while the strawberries don't like all the recent rains, overall that crop looks good too, growers said.