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Arnold Schwarzenegger is keeping a stiff upper lip.
"I want to take a moment and thank our many friends and family for the tremendous amount of support and love that you have given us in the last 24 hours," the actor and former governor of California said tonight, speaking at the 63rd Israel Independence Day Celebration at Los Angeles' Skirball Center.
He and his wife of 25 years, Maria Shriver, announced that they had separated just yesterday.
PHOTOS: Schwarzenegger & Shriver—From True Bliss to Terminated
"I just spoke to Maria an hour ago before I came here," Schwarzenegger continued. "We both were saying the same thing—we're extremely blessed to be surrounded by so many wonderful people, by so many wonderful friends."
"We both love each other very much," he said. "We're very fortunate to have four extraordinary children. And we're taking it one day at a time. The bottom line is we want to thank all the people for their great, great support."
Two of their children took to Twitter to address friends and fans. "Just wanted to thank everyone for the sweet comments and ur concern and love in this changing time! It means a lot! Xo," wrote eldest daughter Katherine.
The couple's oldest son, Patrick, also weighed in. "Appreciate all your messages," he tweeted, two days after his most serious concern appeared to be the Lakers being bounced from the playoffs. "Small speed bump I'n life, luckily we own hummers, we will cruise right over it. All will be okay. #peace."
Shriver took the college-bound 17-year-old and some of his friends on a tour of East Coast schools this spring.
E! News cameras spotted Schwarzenegger leaving Barneys New York in Beverly Hills earlier today. He didn't respond to questions about his current situation, but smiled and waved at the paparazzi as he drove away.


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Video Challenge
Short clips of various educational videos, relating to the current curriculum will be posted here. You may view the videos and challenge yourself to think critically in answering the questions. Have fun!
In Religion we will soon be learning about holy people in our church's history. Our Pope, Pope Francis, will be visiting the United States! Think about the following questions as you watch the video.
1. What is Pope Francis' real name?
2. Where did he grow up?
3. What serious thing happened to his lungs?
4. What does he believe in and how can you live like him?
In Chapter 3, We learned about saints. We can't wait until our Saint Parade and Museum on October 30th! Have fun watching the video explaining how to become a saint.
Catholic Schools
We will be celebrating Nation Catholic School's Week. St. Elizabeth Ann Seton was instrumental in forming Catholic education in our country. Watch and learn a little about her life.
1. When do we celebrate her feast day?
Holy Communion
Our summer author was Tomie DePaola. He is an author/illustrator. Watch the following story by Tomie DePaola and think about the questions as you watch.
1. Who are the main characters?
2. Where does the story take place (setting)?
3. What is the problem in the story? How is it solved?
We will be learning about writing complete sentences using subjects and predicates.
The subject tells who or what the sentence is about.
The predicate tells what the subject does.
We will be learning about homophones.
Homophones are words that sound alike, but have different spellings and meanings.
Watch the video as Larry sings about homophones.
Can you think of some other homophones you know?
Write down a pair of homophone. Use each one in a sentence.
Example: see - sea
I can see the white snowflakes falling from the sky.
There are many different creatures that live in the sea.
We learned that there are 2 sounds for the letter C. Hard C and Soft C. :)
We learned that there are 2 sounds for the letter g. Hard g and soft g. :)
Watch the video below and think about plural words.
1. What does the word plural mean?
3. How do you make a word plural? How do you know whether to add an s or an es? (Hint: Think of the word endings)
Unit 3 Lesson 12 Violet's Music by Angela Johnson
We will be reading Diary of Spider by Doreen Cronin. Have fun listening to this modern day version of the song "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" and answer the following questions:
We are learning subtraction strategies. Listen to the following song about subtraction.
In Chapter 3 we learned about place value. We also learned how to write numbers in many different ways. We even learned Roman Numerals! Have fun singing the song. Try to sing the Roman Numerals up to the number 18!! :)
In Chapter 9 We are learning about Graphing. Watch what Moby and Annie have to say about Bar Graphs, Pictographs, Surveys and Tally Charts.
(Social Studies)
1. At what time during the month of January do we celebrate MLK Day?
On October 21st, the local Fire Company will come to talk to us about Fire Safety.
Can you recall some important facts they spoke about?
What should you do if you smell or see smoke?
Is it a good idea to hide if you're scared?
Why is it important to practice a fire drill at school and at home?
Enjoy this Fire Safety video. :)
We are learning about the Presidents. Presidents day is celebrated on the second Monday in February. Have fun learning fun facts from Moby and Annie about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.

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Opportunities for graduate and field schools, jobs, internships, fellowships, campus events and more. Most of the programs listed here have contacted the SOAN Department at Carleton specifically seeking participation from Carleton Sociology & Anthropology students.
HRAF InternshipMarch 5, 2015
The Human Relations Area Files at Yale University is pleased to announce a one-year internship in memory of HRAF's former President, Melvin Ember. The intent of the internship is to learn about cross-cultural research and methods through practical experience. Some of the main goals will be:
1) helping Carol Ember, President of HRAF, prepare modules summarizing cross-cultural research;
2) read and analyze recent cross-cultural research with the goal of summarizing materials for researchers; and
3) learn about coding ethnographic materials by participating in a cross-cultural research project.
The application deadline is April 15, 2015. For details go to the "Available Internship Position" in the lower right corner of HRAF's home page at http://hraf.yale.edu.
Founded at Yale University, HRAF is an internationally recognized organization in the field of cultural anthropology. HRAF's mission is to encourage and facilitate the cross-cultural study of human culture, society, and behavior in the past and present.
Communications or Publicity Fellow in the Center for Community and Civic Engagement (CCCE)March 3, 2015
Want to develop your writing skills?
Need valuable experience with communications, marketing, or digital media?
Want a peer leader position that makes a difference?
Apply to be a Communications or Publicity Fellow in the Center for Community and Civic Engagement (CCCE)! The CCCE Communications team manages all of the advocacy, publicity and outreach for the center. As a fellow, you will have real hands-on experience that can apply to most jobs and internships. The positions are flexible and can be shaped according to your skills and interests. Want to work in marketing or publishing? Help coordinate our newsletter, manage our organizational systems, and update our social media platforms! Or, if you are more interested in pursuing your artistic passions, help us design posters, create digital media, take pictures and earn valuable Adobe Creative Suite skills.
No prior experience with the CCCE necessary!
To apply for the position (or to check out others), visit go.carleton.edu/ccce.
Applications are due on Monday, April 6th by 5pm
Challenge Detroit FellowshipMarch 3, 2015
Challenge Detroit is now accepting applications for their fourth class of Fellows and host companies!
Challenge Detroit is a national initiative focused on revitalizing Detroit by retaining and attracting top talent to share their intellectual capital with the City. Challenge Detroit provides this talent the opportunity to live, work, play, give, and lead in Detroit. If interested in the program please visit the Application Page!
Challenge Detroit is accepting Phase One applications until Sunday, March 8, 2015 at 11:59PM EST. Once again, we will invite approximately 30 Fellows to participate in the program, and therefore space is limited to approximately 30 host companies.
College Health Corps Now Accepting ApplicationsFebruary 26, 2015
Exciting Health Equity Service Year Opportunity:
Do you know a graduating senior who is passionate about health equity, wants experience in community health, and is seeking a meaningful gap year opportunity? Send them our way! We're accepting applications through 4.3.15 for the 2015-16 College Health Corps AmeriCorps VISTA program. Our VISTA members earn a living stipend while giving a year of service focused on increasing access to healthcare for underserved communities. VISTAs serve at clinics, nonprofits, and campuses across the state and work on healthy lifestyle, chronic disease management, oral health, mental health initiatives, and more. Find out how to apply here. Please contact Sinda Nichols at email@example.com or 612-436-2080 for more information.
University of MN Anthropology Summer Field SchoolFebruary 25, 2015
University of Minnesota Archaeological Field School
Field Investigations of the Sheffield site: Oneota archaeology in the St. Croix Valley
- Where: Sheffield Oneota village and mounds 10 miles north of Stillwater, MN
- When: June15-July 9, 2015. Monday -Thursday, 8:30am-4:00pm
- Credits: 6
- Course fee: TBD (usually around $300-350)
To register contact Dr. Ed Fleming (Dept of Anthropology, Science Museum of Minnesota) email@example.com
Learn more about the project on Facebook: The Sheffield Site
AAA Undergraduate Poster Session 2015February 23, 2015
Students are encouraged to participate in this annual poster session at the American Anthropological Association meetings featuring undergraduate student research. This is the TENTH year and it keeps growing!
First Rites: Innovative Undergraduate Research in Anthropology
Undergraduate students are an increasingly important element in the production of anthropological knowledge. In its best form, undergraduate research can be seen as an apprenticeship, wherein the novitiate is granted a partnership and some degree of agency in pushing the boundaries of and crossing into new frontiers of shared knowledge. Collaboration with undergraduate students in research is one of the important ways we can facilitate innovation within our discipline. Their research breaks down classroom/research boundaries, focuses on the importance of experiential learning, and exploits the naiveté and vigor of students not yet indoctrinated into paradigmatic complacency. Undergraduate students can be agents and partners in reshaping the landscape of anthropology. The importance of undergraduate research and scholarly activity is underscored both in financial support by federal-level agencies, such as the National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Institutes of Health, and the growing number of faculty-student collaborations in anthropology departments across the globe. Through their engagement, undergraduate students challenge current boundaries and present their findings in the inter-disciplinary medium of visual posters to enrich anthropological inquiry into the human experience.
This session is generously sponsored by the Society for Visual Anthropology. Students are encouraged to highlight both their work and their visual acumen via research posters of their projects. The SVA will evaluate all entries in this session and recognize exemplary posters – that is, those that maximize the possibilities of the format – with a prize.
Interested students must
(1) Become a student member of the AAA, if they have not already.
(2) Register for the conference at www.aaanet.org.
(3) Upload their poster title and abstract by April 10. Our session is sponsored by the Society for Visual Anthropology, so please indicate them as the reviewer. Choose "First Rites: Innovative Undergraduate Research in Anthropology" as the poster session in which you would like to participate.
(4) Send Dr. Deb Rotman (email@example.com) a copy of the following information
Student name(s)
Email contact(s)
Poster title
Poster abstract
Last year 32 students from 27 different institutions participated. All questions may be sent to Dr. Deb Rotman at the email address above.
ASA Honors ProgramFebruary 6, 2015
American Sociological Association
Honors Program
The Honors Program provides undergraduate sociology students a rich introduction to the professional life of the discipline. Exceptional sociology students from throughout the country and the world come together for four days and experience all facets of the ASA Annual Meetings. By participating in the Honors Program, students develop long-lasting networks with other aspiring sociologists while their sponsoring departments have a chance to "showcase" their own quality programs and their most outstanding students.
At the 2015 ASA Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL, Honors Program students will:
- Attend a special Honors Program Reception and other events where they interact with other undergraduate sociology students;
- Participate in an Honors Roundtable paper session as well as ASA events including the Welcoming Party, Department Alumni Night, and regular paper sessions and roundtables;
- Learn all about the activities, sections, and governance of the ASA;
- Meet and talk with sociologists representing graduate programs around the country; and
- Attend "Conversations With ... " sessions with prominent sociologists that are reserved for Honors Program students only.
Participation in the Honors Program requires nomination by a sociology faculty member at your college or university. Your completed application, including the faculty recommendation letter, should be postmarked by February 15, 2015. After that date, applications will be accepted only if places are available and on a first come, first served basis.
More information and an application can be found at http://www.asanet.org/students/honors.cfm.
Spend Your Summer with AAA | 2015 Summer Intern ProgramFebruary 2, 2015
The American Anthropological Association is pleased to offer two internship opportunities funded by member donations!
Internships are six weeks in length during the summer of 2015. While the internships are unpaid, interns will be provided with housing and a meal/travel stipend. Interns will spend approximately 40 percent of their time working onsite at the AAA offices in Arlington, VA with the other 60 percent of their time working onsite at one of two locations described below.
- Undergraduate students in their junior or senior year
- First Year Graduate students (completing the first year of graduate work by June 2014)
Applications can be found on the AAA website under the heading AAA Summer Internship Program.
- Call for Applications Opens: February 6, 2015
- Application Deadline: March 15, 2015
Naval History & Heritage Command (NHHC) Internship
The Underwater Archaeology Branch (UAB) of the Naval History & Heritage Command (NHHC), the official history program of the Department of the Navy, is located at Washington's historical Navy Yard. The office serves four main functions:
- Cultural Resource Management, Historic Preservation & Policy Development - Resource management involves implementing an overall cultural heritage policy, ensuring Navy remains in compliance with federal laws and regulations, forming a sunken military craft inventory, crafting individual site management plans, coordinating violation enforcement, coordinating human remains issues, and extensive collaboration with federal, state, local agencies, international counterparts, the non-profit sector, the private sector and the public to best manage sunken military craft.
- Archaeological & Historical Research - Intrinsically tied to the management of sunken military craft are the inventory, survey, assessment, documentation, research and monitoring of these ship and aircraft wrecks. NHHC undertakes archaeological research as a lead agency, as a collaborator, as a guide, and as a monitor and permit-issuer in the case of external archaeological surveys and/or actions that disturb sunken military craft.
- Artifact Conservation & Curation - All historic artifacts recovered from an underwater environment require some form of conservation and a proper curation environment to remain in a stable condition. NHHC, via its Archaeology & Conservation Laboratory, is directly responsible for nearly 14,000 artifacts originating from sunken military craft.
- Education, Public Relations & Information Dissemination - Public education and outreach is a fundamental mission component of NHHC as it helps promote the Navy's heritage and preserve its sunken military craft from disturbance. Information dissemination occurs through channels such as publications, presentations, lectures, a web and social media presence, and press coverage is pursued on a regular basis.
Interns can expect to work on a variety of tasks depending on their research interests and office priorities, such as: preparing, undertaking, or following up on field investigations; conducting archaeological and historical research; reviewing, editing or preparing reports; synthesizing information and preparing policy or case study briefings; conserving artifacts; assisting with the UAB artifact inventory, management, and loan programs; coordinating partner and inter-agency correspondence; and participating in public outreach and education initiatives such as tours, lectures, presentations, and web presence.
National Museum of African Art Internship
The National Museum of African Art has the largest publicly held collection of traditional and contemporary African art in the United States. This collection includes more than 9,000 objects representing nearly every country in Africa dating from ancient to contemporary times, and includes sculpture, textiles, pottery, jewelry, photography, paintings, works on paper, and video art.
The museum's mission is to foster the discovery and appreciation of the visual arts of Africa, the cradle of humanity.
- The selected intern would be placed in the museum's curatorial department and their assignment would include object-based work related to a future exhibition.
- An interest in African culture and art is required for this internship, as well as a background in curatorial practice and procedures.
AAA On-Site Activities
AAA activities are to include:
- Assisting in the planning for the RACE: Are We So Different? press viewing for its opening at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
- Researching membership trends in the AAA
- Developing and drafting materials for the AAA bi-weekly podcasts
- Drafting text for Anthropology News (AN) newsletter articles
- Other activities as assigned
Graduate Programs in The Anthropology and Social Change Department at The California Institute of Integral StudiesJanuary 28, 2015
The Anthropology and Social Change Department (ANTH) at The California Institute of Integral Studies (San Francisco, CA) currently seeks qualified candidates for our 2015 fall MA and PhD cohorts. We are a graduate department focusing on radical activist scholarship. ANTH is unique among academic departments in the United States for its specific activist approach to the field of anthropology. We believe that anthropologists should analyze, discuss, and explore the possible; that they should research alternatives; that they need to collectively reflect and debate the dilemmas of other possible worlds. This collective effort of understanding "real utopias" takes the form of analytic and ethnographic study of existing alternatives in the present.
Together with the activists of the World Social Forum, we believe that "another world is possible." The role of the new social movements, we are reminded, is not to conquer the world, but to make it anew. What, then, is the role and responsibility of anthropology and other social sciences? In a world riddled with so many crises, few things appear to be more relevant than the systematic research of counter-hegemonic knowledge and practices. Anthropology, in particular, is well equipped to participate in the 'nowtopian' task of constructing social scientific knowledge that looks beyond inequality, hierarchy, and ecological disaster. We offer both MA and PhD programs.
You can learn more about our programs through our website at http://www.ciis.edu > Graduate Programs. For admission and registration inquires please email firstname.lastname@example.com or email ANTH Program Coordinator Tim Moynihan at: email@example.com.
To apply: http://www.ciis.edu/Admissions_and_Financial_Aid/Applying_to_CIIS.html
Anthropology and Social Change Online Info Sessions
(all dates Thursdays 3pm).
To sign up www.ciis.edu > Click the "Admissions" tab > Then click on "Info Sessions"
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Over its 20-year history, our AmeriCorps program has trained and placed over 700 Members in HIV-focused community-based organizations, such as clinics, youth centers, residential-care facilities, and social service agencies. Our Members have reached over 380,000 people through HIV prevention education and helped over 75,000 people know their HIV status.
Members serve on the front line of the HIV epidemic. During their eleven month service, they provide HIV tests, health education, care navigation, and other social services.
Our Members make a difference, earn experience, and gain perspective through direct service.
To learn more about the program and how to apply, visit AIDSUnited.org/AmeriCorps
2015 Summer Internships in Warsaw, PolandDecember 15, 2014
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The summer internship program supervised by Collegium Civitas includes 25-30 hours of internship per week. Students can apply for a 4, 6 and 8-week summer internships, beginning on June 1, 2015. The summer internships end on July 31, 2015. Earlier and later start of the program is also possible. Interested students can register for academic credits and take a Polish language course.
The program offers a unique opportunity for a limited number of students to undertake full-time summer professional internships in various public and non-profit organizations in Warsaw, Poland that focus, among others, on:
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Graduate and undergraduate students can apply. Civitas summer internship program has a rolling admission and interested applicants are invited to submit their applications to the program anytime until April 15, 2015. About the application process.
Inquiries about the program can be directed to the GEL team at email@example.com or tel. 646 670 6089. For more information about the program, application form and! costs click here.
Karel Fellowship In Public Interest CommunicationsDecember 12, 2014
The Karel Fellowship In Public Interest Communications is a unique, hands-on, experiential summer program that inspires undergraduate students to consider professional opportunities and possibilities in the field of Public Interest Communications. This Fellowship is especially focused on translating personal passion for a more just world into communication skills that elicit social change. Fellows—either first-generation or minority college students—gain hands-on experience through working on social justice issues, under the guidance of a communications mentor at leading local, national and international nonprofits in the Greater Washington, DC area.
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Blood tests have been extremely important tools aiding doctors in making medical diagnoses and in guiding the treatment of many diseases. However, psychiatry is one area of medicine where there are few diagnostic blood tests.
New scientific fields may someday generate blood tests that can be used for these purposes. Some of the areas under increasingly intensive study are genetics, the study of variations in the genes (DNA) that can be extracted from blood cells, and genomics like proteomics, the measurement of the levels of specific proteins in the blood, and gene expression profiling, which measures the levels of RNA produced from DNA as an indication of the level of the "activity" of particular genes.
Using the latter approach, Dutch researchers evaluated blood gene expression profiles in healthy individuals and patients diagnosed with major depressive disorder, or MDD. They identified a set of seven genes in whole blood that was able to distinguish un-medicated MDD patients from healthy controls.
"This is a first, but major step in providing a molecular diagnostic tool for depression," explained Dr. Sabine Spijker, corresponding author of this study. Although psychiatry already has specific criteria for diagnosing mental health disorders, this type of diagnosis would be unbiased and particularly valuable for those with whom it is more difficult to have a conversation. It may also eventually assist in reducing the stigma associated with mental health problems.
"It is far too early to be confident that gene expression profiling will lead us to diagnostic or prognostic tests for depression. However, the objective of this line of research is extremely important," cautions Dr. John Krystal, Editor of Biological Psychiatry. "In the past, many types of tests have been explored as potential diagnostic markers, but they all have failed to have sufficient sensitivity and specificity to guide doctors in making psychiatric diagnoses or choosing between treatments. I look forward to seeing whether the patterns of gene expression profiling are replicable and diagnostically specific as multiple groups report their findings."
Most importantly, the authors hope that this study is a stepping stone for finding markers that might predict treatment outcome and recurrence.
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no, I don't believe I'm being told the truth; the government looks down at all people it deems to be beneath it. It works to serve its own agenda.
Politicians Telling truth now that would be a novel thing.
No, that would take all the fun out of it.
they lie
I do but only when they say their going to make cuts to education or health care - other then that I don't believe a word that comes out of their mouths. Cheers!
I'm not that dumb
No I don't.
That is a big NO!!!
Now that is something i'd certainly like to see; I thought it was imperative that whilst in the position of a politician that you lie cheat and steal, and ultimately get away with it.
I believe in God. I don't believe my government will grant me salvation, however it is an earthly order that is in place, and I have the choice to adhere to it, or overthrow it... so what is left is to decide what is better, what came before, or what will follow?
Always never stop believing. Which should send you warm emotion of hope. However. In the tough economic hardships people are under, I am feeling insecure that the 200 year old system is working like it did. Then the population was a 1/3 of twenty years ago. So no wonder things are out of control, we have grown out of the old system, now we must bring in the smart guy and fix it to work overtime.
Oops the system not working like it did.
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Yesterday's tip was everything you ever wanted to know about outlining in the editor. Today, we'll explore an outlining customization.
Go to Tools – Options – Text Editor – General, and uncheck Selection Margin. Although the left-margin that indicates a code block is gone, outlining will still work.
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Beginning a new series of high quality statues based on Valve's highly popular Team Fortress 2, today sees the release of two replicas of the popular Medic class. Available in either BLU or RED editions, the Medic is ready for action from today.
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Jump and run over obstacles, don't fall down and watch out for those sharp spears.
Use bonuses like a parachute and jetpack to avoid those wholes in the ground.
Animal Sprint is a funny addictive game that wants you to keep coming back for more.
- 4 different levels : Desert, Jungle, Savanah and the Artic (more to come)
- 8 different animals to play with like Lion, Crocodile, Zebra, Cat, Panda, Rat,Tiger and a real Rhino (more to come).
- Openfeint and GameCenter integration.
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No one cares, when a positive news comes out of India & or about Indians.
For the sake of their existing customers, we'll hope that what they're saying is true. But given how little information we have on their operating model, one can't help but wonder what level of peak demand they have built out for, and whether tomorrow's SuperBowl might generate busy signals for customers.
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Attorney Dan Boyce confirmed that 32-year-old Joshua Gene Macaroni surrendered to police Thursday. Boyce said Macaroni is scheduled to appear in court Friday.
Macaroni is charged with two felony counts of assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury, and a third felony charge of assaulting a juvenile. In a statement, Boyce said his client was puzzled by his arrest, but plans to cooperate with law enforcement.
Days after passengers on the Vortex ride were injured, police charged 46-year-old ride operator Timothy Dwayne Tutterrow, of Quitman, Ga., with three criminal counts of assault with a deadly weapon.


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Cockcroft: Don't be afraid to buy high
Updated: April 9, 2008, 8:21 PM ETBy Tristan H. Cockcroft | ESPN.com
Patience is the buzzword of the week, apparently.
Look all around, and advice to stick with your struggling studs is rampant. I'm sure you might have heard these incredibly helpful tips somewhere: "Don't drop David Ortiz." "Stay the course with Alfonso Soriano." "Keep waiting on C.C. Sabathia."
To borrow a Seinfeldism, who are these people?
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The Wests Tigers league team has confirmed a day and start time for their game against the Warriors at Jade Stadium in Christchurch.
The Tigers host the Warriors on Sunday June 13, with kick off at 4.30pm.
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Electric-Fire Manipulation
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Natsu Dragneel (Fairy Tail) combines fire and electricity by using Lightning Flame Dragon Mode.
Power/Ability to:
Manipulate fire with electrical properties
The power to manipulate fire with electrical properties. Combination of Fire and Electricity Manipulation. Variation of Elemental Mixture.
Also Called
- Electric-Flame Manipulation
- Pyro-Electrokinesis
- Thermoelectricity
The user can either manipulate electrified fire or both fire and electricity simultaneously.
- High energy output could lead to user being exhausted very quickly.
- Water-based attacks can easily neutralize the user.
|Double Mixture
|Normal Fire
|Hell Fire
|Holy Fire
|Cosmic Fire
|Normal Electric
|Electric Flame
|Electric Hell Flame
|Electric Holy Flame
|Electric Cosmic Flame
|Electric Cold Flame
|Dark Electric Flame
|Dark Electric Hell Flame
|Dark Electric Holy Flame
|Dark Electric Cosmic Flame
|Dark Electric Cold Flame
|Divine Lightning
|Divine Electric Flame
|Divine Electric Hell Flame
|Divine Electric Holy Flame
|Divine Electric Cosmic Flame
|Divine Electric Cold Flame
Cosmic Electric
|Cosmic Electric Flame
|Cosmic Electric Hell Flame
|Cosmic Electric Holy Flame
|Cosmic Electric Cosmic Flame
|Cosmic Electric Cold Flame
|Atmospheric Electric
|Atmospheric Electric Flame
|Atmospheric Electric Hell Flame
|Atmospheric Electric Holy Flame
|Atmospheric Electric Cosmic Flame
|Atmospheric Electric Cold Flame
Known Users
- Sophie Sawallisch (Shakugan No Shana)
- Natsu Dragneel (Fairy Tail); after eating dragon lightning from Laxus
- Franmalth (Fairy Tail); via Absorption
- Ferrous Iron Dragons (Dungeon & Dragons); via breath
- Megaman (Megaman Star Force); via Zerker & Saurus double tribe
- Blitz Dragonoid (Bakugan)
- Ghost (Katekyō Hitman Reborn)
- Kirby (Kirby series); by eating a fire an electric type opponent
- Cole MacGrath (inFAMOUS; via power transfer device on Nix)
- Yrael (Old Kingdom)
- Kirikou Rung (Soul Eater); Via the Pot of Fire and Thunder
- Hikaru Shidou (Magic Knight Rayearth)
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The largest earthquake to strike the eastern Gulf of Mexico in the last 30 years sent shock waves from Louisiana to southwest Florida Sunday, but did little more than rattle residents. The magnitude 6.0 earthquake, centered about 260 miles southwest of Tampa, was too small to trigger a tsunami or dangerous waves. The USGS received more than 2,800 reports from people who felt the 10:56 a.m. quake. Scientists said it was the largest and most widely felt of more than a dozen earthquakes recorded in the region in three decades. The most prevalent vibration, which lasted for about 20 seconds, was felt on the gulf coast of Florida and in southern Georgia. But residents in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana also called in reports. The epicenter is an unusual location for earthquake activity, but scientists recorded a magnitude 5.2 temblor in the same location on Feb. 10. The temblor was unusual because it was not centered on a known fault line.
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If I'm not mistaken, the New Madrid Fault connects to the Gulf of Mexico, near the BP oil spill.
Draining all that oil is likely to create some massive sink holes.
One of Edgar Cayce's predictions shows the U.S. splitting from the great lakes to the gulf of Mexico.
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One of Edgar Cayce's predictions shows the U.S. splitting from the great lakes to the gulf of Mexico.


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Ultra Music Festival 2015
Starting this afternoon, thousands of fans crowded into Bayfront Park to see more than 100 acts at the Ultra Music Festival from March 27 to 29.
Starting this afternoon, thousands of fans crowded into Bayfront Park to see more than 100 acts at the Ultra Music Festival from March 27 to 29.
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5 Week Old sounds Congested ?
Hope this helps and good luck!!!
Saline drops or breast milk will loosen everything up. You can buy them at any drug store, they have them in the baby setion, but they are also in the nasal section (for a lot less money usually) just make sure it is just saline. A drop in each nose, wait a few seconds then bulb suction out.
When my LO was stuffed up we sat in the bathroom with the shower running, the steam worked great
And if she has any issue eating because of it or shows any sign of a cough take her into the doctors (and if there is a cough make sure you tell the doctors that she has been stuffy and for how long).
Typically it is nothing and will clear up fast
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This is a beautiful image. I love the tone of black and white as well as her pose. very nice.
Why do girls look sexy in suspenders to me?
I like so much your expression...
Interesting choise...
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Warning About Downtime/Weird-Time
I am thrilled to announce that Maastricht Minutiae is finally moving to its own servers space with a brand new look, some fresh features, and I hope a big future as I continue to write about Maastricht, the surround area, and expat living in this little corner of the Netherlands. We've got at least two more years in Maastricht and I invite you all to stick around to experience it with us.
Now the Bad News: Downtime.
The move will take place on Monday. Because of a fancy script on my new site and the fact that my domain name is currently pointing here (wordpress.com), there will be a some downtime while I transfer the domain and get the script activated with my host. This will probably take place in the early/mid-afternoon for those of you in the Netherlands since that's when my host becomes available to help me. Please bear with me as the new site gets rolling.
Have a Great Weekend and I'll see you all on the other side of the move.
Tuesday: Closing Out Carnival
The final day of Carnival featured a handful of activities. Namely a concert, a children's costume contest, and the closing ceremony. We decide that we just had to attend the closing ceremony (we were erroneously told that they burned 't Mooswief at the end of each Carnival and weren't going to miss that) at midnight. To spice things up we also opted to check out the "Zate Hermeniekes-concours" (All-Band Concert) on the Vrijthof at 2:11 pm.
The concert on the Vrijthof had drawn a moderately sized crowd by the time we arrived but fewer people were costumed. Unsure about temperature we had only worn light versions of our costumes; which turned out to be fairly sensible. The bands had lined up in front a a stage with the Prince and his attendants. Between announcements and speeches they took turns walking in front of the stage and playing various traditional tunes.
We watched and listened for a little while and then wandered down towards the Markt square. On the way we found that all the bands not on the Vrijthof were instead all over the shopping area of Maastricht, marching and playing music. We even found some battling trumpets and drums on the steps of the VVV.
Later we suited back up for one more night of Carnival and had the good fortune of running into a few people from our Dutch class. At first it seemed almost quiet on the Vrijthof; one of the cafes we'd visited on Sunday was nearly empty. But soon we discovered that the party had just moved to the Markt square. As before several bands were out in force, marching, battling with drums, and otherwise just making music all over the place. We ended up in a cafe on the corner of the Markt square where the "orc" band had its home base and enjoyed a drink before moving on.
After a mediocre stop in a bar with a younger crowd who didn't seem to really be into the spirit of the holiday (lame costumes and electronic music), we wandered back towards Grote Straat with the intention of finding another cafe in which to while away the last 20 minutes or so before midnight. That's when the sea of people caught us all up and swept us up to the packed Vrijthof. Clearly many people had gone out specifically for the final event of Carnival.
With speeches and song the Carnival of 2010 came to a close at midnight. After three days of hearing the tunes, I'd finally discovered a few that I could sing along to (la, la, la) and we joined the people around us following the tune if not the words. Even though I couldn't understand the speeches or follow precisely what was going on, I was swept up in the emotion and felt as comfortable in Maastricht as I have in a long time.
And no, there was no fire involved.
See more of my Carnival Photos here.
This is the fourth and final article in my Alaaf! Carnival 2010 Recap Series.
Monday: Calm with a Side of Drum Band
Monday we woke up late and opted to stay home for the most part since the only event happening was a children's parade and I had no idea what time it was. The decision was a good one as I learned later that it started very late and it was quite cold.
Of course with our proximity to the Prince of Carnival's home meant that we didn't have an entirely quiet day. Several times throughout the day we popped open the windows to listen to the bands moving in and out of the cafes across the street.
On a bit of an aside, my cats have both been really interested in Carnival as well. They each jump up and stare out the windows every time a band strikes up. Einstein has insisted on sitting on my desk to have a better view of the pubs.
See more of my Carnival Photos here.
This is the third article in my Alaaf! Carnival 2010 Recap Series.
Pecha Kucha 5: Twitter Style
I've written about Pecha Kucha before but the most recent event had some great speakers and interesting subjects. Here are my thoughts on each presentation in 140-characters each (not including speaker's name & presentation name).
If you are not already, you can also follow me on Twitter and I've made a couple free to use Dutch-themed Twitter-backgrounds as well.
- Susan Schaefer- The Poetry of Change: Blending original and classic poetry together, Susan created a spiritual call to bring about altruistic self-change.
- Christianne Rousseau- Bedroom Batteries: Christianne wants bedrooms to be rich, private, & public. In my little apartment my bedroom only doubles as storage space.
- Catalina Goanta- Why Scholarships Help: Two inspiring stories about students who attending Maastricht University against serious odds. Scholarships=good. Obviously.
- Mark Post- Meat Out of Stem Cells: Creating meat out of muscle stem cells for land use efficiency. Gut reaction = Ew. Can science save the planet? Do we trust our leaders?
- Nelleke Barning- Web 2.0 = Personal: We're all minstrels now. Bloggers & twits already know that, but it was a good talk.
- Lemke Kraan- DJ Anti-Panda: Pandas are an evolutionary dead end? Interesting perspective, but unfair to declare evil even if they would have died out without our help.
- Fons de Jong- Stones and Water in 2018: Bring fountains & Mediterranean feeling to Maastricht. I don't think I understood this one. Mtricht is too cold for the Mediterranean.
- Adina Raducanu- Legal Anthropology: Disappointing. I hoped she'd discuss modern architecture and if it still is culturally 'legal' feeling. Got a lame movie comparison.
- Mirek Hazer- Cyber Warfare: Stop using the Internet! Its dangerous and you don't get it anyway!
- J-M Crapanzano- Art Exhibitionist: I like interactive art exhibitions too. Inspired me to revisit an old college art project.
- Danielle Bakkes- Canals in Maastricht: Plan to add canals to accommodate increase in water due to Climate Change. Huge 40 year project, but interesting and valuable.
- Eric Joris- Shared Bodies: Performance VR puts the audience (performers?) literally in each others heads with 360-mirrors, cameras, and sensory deprivation. Bizarre.
All performances are in English. If you are an expat in Mtricht, why weren't you there.
See you at Pecha Kucha 6 in May!
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Sunday: A Strong Beginning
Carnival officially kicked off at 12:11 on the Vrijthof with the raising of the Mooswief doll, but Dan and I were antsy so we got dressed up and left early with the intention of prowling the streets. I dressed as a blue punk rocker cat-girl (kat-meisje) complete with tail. Dan wore a foppish, multicolored Victorian-esque jacket and hat along with his old Renaissance Faire shirt. Both of us had lots of layers on in a rather desperate attempt to keep the chill off. My toes froze anyways.
Leaving early turned out to be a great idea when we were lured by music down a side street and into a ceremony being performed in front of the Prince of Carnival's 'Palace' (his home). How lucky that we just happened to live nearby. Even though we didn't understand much from the speeches (a word here and there) it was fun to see this small, side event and the people who were (we suspect) from the neighborhood.
Towards the end of the ceremony, a Tempeleer member attempted to unfurl a banner hanging on the palace to commemorate the day. The plastic covering got stuck and they eventually were forced to bring in a ladder and handyman. This caused a lot of merriment among the onlookers and speakers.
About that time we took our leave and headed down to the Vrijthof, sure that there would already be a crowd waiting to watch the opening ceremonies. Boy, were we wrong. Maybe it was because of the cold, but very few people were there when we arrive. It wasn't until about 20-30 minutes before noon that groups began to trickle in with their elaborate costumes and carts. We discovered later that many of them were in the parade.
The opening ceremony itself seemed long and involved a lot of noise. After a speech or two a small cannon was brought out and fired first by an organizer and then by the Prince. At this point I figured they were done, but no. It turns out that after raising the Mooswief doll, the cannon needed to be fired an additional 9 times. 11 blasts in total of course. We didn't wait for all the bangs. It got too cold so we met up with a classmate and wandered for a while in search of a place to watch the parade until we discovered that it didn't start until 3 pm. We lunched at John Mullins while waiting.
The Parade
While there was a great deal of variation in themes and complexity, the most impressive costumes were the coordinated groups. One of my favorites was a group of people with flower blooms perched on top of their heads and spring green coats and dresses to simulate stems.
The Maastricht Carnival parade was both an impressive and, like much of the Carnival activities here, rather casual with people drinking and chatting as they strolled with their push/pull floats down the narrow street from the train station, over the St. Servaas Bridge and beyond.
The "Belgian" crossing guards complete with crossing bar would have been more amusing had they not blocked off the parade route in front of the St. Servaas bridge and slowed things down even more.
Most of the bands we would encounter in the evening and over the next couple of days were also in the parade. Some wore elaborate, thematically-colored costumes and painted their faces to match. What was really impressive was the variation within the group color scheme. Within the same band, individuals had customized their costumes to different lengths, motifs, stitch, etc. while still maintaining the overall look.
Other bands, the so-called, Drunk Bands were not coordinated at all; their varied but still frequently elaborate costumes lending to their chaotic air.
The parade slowly wound along for about an hour until our fingers and toes were too cold. We slipped back inside John Mullins to meet up with a couple more expats and then found our way back towards the Vrijthof and the party already well under way there.
Crazy Times
Stepping away from the regular events of Carnival, we discovered the even more casual and potentially crazier aspect of celebrations in Maastricht. The cafes. And the costumes.
All of the cafes in the old part of Maastricht around the squares had prepared for the large influx of people by moving all of their tables and chairs out and setting up outdoors glass collectors and bars. Carnival folk music was the order of the day at most of the places we went, with the occasional modern (or at least English-language) song making its way into the mix.
We wandered down a side street to the slightly less packed Café Cliniq first where they were serving beer and some fried food options and met up with some more classmates. Like many of the cafes we visited, the walls had extra panels covering all the walls for decoration. It was there we were surprised to discovered small children running around the crowd and playing Frisbee with beer coasters. Clearly family was an important part of the celebrations; resulting in an odd scene for Americans.
We then moved on to the Vrijthof to the Perron again and then down to the Onze Lieve Vrouw Plein. This third location teamed with people and seemed to have attracted many of the parade participants.
A somewhat unique aspect of the Maastricht carnival is that nearly all the participants dress up and paint their faces. Some only chose to wear a colorful scarf or boa, while others got a Halloween-esque route (like us), and still others have developed intricate costumes made of various types of fabrics and themes.
As befits this particularly cold Dutch winter, many costumes we saw were warm looking. A number, like the awesome squid costume, were actually made out of quilted coats. Definitely a smart move. Like the bands, families and couples usually had coordinated costumes.
Many of the participants (particularly the older ones) dressed in complex and interesting "garb"; their faces painted or covered with intricate masks and lots of lace. The costumes were often reminiscent of renaissance fairs or Holland's "Golden Age". Dan's costume fell more or less into this range and the costumes were so amazing I'd like to go this direction next year for both of us. Dan on the other hand wants to do Isle of Dr. Monroe costumes.
Other popular themes were cross-dressing (more female-impersonators than male ones), fuzzy animal costumes (particularly holstein cows), and, rather uncomfortably for me, cultural stereotypes (Dutch, Irish, African, and American Indian). Cowboys too, which made me wonder if this was the Dutch stereotype of Americans in general.
Although the chicken-man was a close second.
We wrapped up our Sunday late, but before midnight after bouncing between several cafes and groups of people we knew or had met on the town. I was seriously ready for a sleep-in.
See more of my Carnival Photos here.
This is the second article in my Alaaf! Carnival 2010 Recap Series.
Episode 20 of Maastricht Minutiae
Topics this week are:
- Carnival 2010 in Maastricht
- Costumes
- Drunk Bands
- A mention of my new business: ParapluInfo (website coming) and Fallen Kitten Productions
Friday & Saturday: Pre-Carnival
Although Carnival this year was officially February 14 – 16th, the cafes and pubs had already set themselves up to accommodate weekend visitors who wanted a drink on Friday and Saturday. Since Friday is the first day of the vacation weekend many people consider it the best night to go out and enjoy a little of the Carnival spirit before too many people get drunk.
With that in mind, Dan & I went out Friday night for a few drinks with some people from the University. The cafe had all the tables removed to accommodate the crowds and while it wasn't bad when we first arrived when I left an hour later people were packed in like sardines. The Perron was offering a drinks deal (5 for 10 euros) and I was hard pressed to keep up with the fast pace our Dutch colleagues set. There were a handful of costumed revelers, but it was too early for most people. Colorful scarves and hats did make an appearance and maybe next year my own Carnival colors scarf is in order.
Saturday the official "transfer of power" took place at the Town Hall on Markt Square after the Great Prince's arrival in Maastricht. Control of Maastricht is ceremonially given to the Prince during Carnival as a symbolic role reversal between the ruler and the peasant. Dan and I went down to the Markt square to watch, but after some music and hanging a vegetable wreath around a Mooswief statue the officials all went inside to perform the actual ceremonies. A small group of other revelers had watched the parade and wreath ceremony with us and when they all left we knew it was time to go as well. After standing in the cold for an hour I was disappointed.
As a bit of an aside, it struck me then that the "official" activities of Carnival are something of a boy's club; none of the Tempeleer members present were women. The Tempeleers are Maastricht's local "secret society" which organizes Carnival every year. You can generally recognize a member from his red, yellow, and green jester-like hat during the appropriate season.
We also noticed that a lot of stores had not only shut down for the long weekend (Monday and Tuesday were days off for most workers), they also had boarded themselves up as if a hurricane was coming through. Clearly some years people can get out of hand. We saw a couple of police wagons and some security here and there later in the weekend but nothing else while we were out.
This is the first article in my Alaaf! Carnival 2010 Recap Series.


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Series of fake weddings that aim to get inside the myths of modern matrimony
Across the last 5000 years or more it seems that each new jolt of history has prompted a familiar cry: "Would not this be the total ruin of marriage?"
Whether it's the enfranchisement of women, liberalised divorce laws, Puritanism, socialism, Teetotalism, the unlicensed production of Gin, the building of the second temple, modern contraception, Pompey the Great, multiculturalism, slavery, the movement for the abolition of slavery, Byronism or any of a thousand other events or movements, it seems there's always someone who sees the imminent debasement of matrimony.
For the two co-founding members of No Show, a fledgling hybrid-theatre company, it's time for a reality check.
"See, we've romanticised this idea of marriage––"
"Imagined that it's always been perfect, that it's always worked, and that as an institution it's a continuous legacy––"
"When actually marriage has always been in flux––"
"And has always been evolving and changing."
These bright-eyed enthusiasts are Bridget Balodis and Mark Pritchard, and the project is Shotgun Wedding, presented as part of the Next Wave Festival.
It's an ambitious performance event exploring what marriage is, what it does, and why it is so important to some and unimportant to others.
At the project's core is the debate over same-sex marriage.
"We're both of an age where our friends are starting to get married," explains Bridget. "And we're also both gay. We started this project after we'd been to a protest for gay marriage. We were in this weird position where we were fighting for this right to marry, but then we were also having this really cynical conversation afterwards about what marriage is."
They realised that they didn't really understand the right they were fighting for. They soon discovered that they weren't alone.
"What the gay marriage debate has done," says Mark, "is to make people start to argue about just what is a marriage. And there's actually a lot of disagreement there. It's not so much to do with gay marriage, that's just a catalyst."
Shotgun Wedding, then, is an immersive theatre event where the audience is invited to attend and participate in a fake wedding. But is it just a bit fake, or outrageously fake?
"That's one of the questions we've got," says Mark. "What is real about a real wedding, and what is fake about a fake wedding?"
The problem is how to observe a wedding analytically, without getting caught up in the high emotion associated with a friend or relative's special day. How do you find that distance? Just turn up at the wedding of a complete stranger?
"Well, we did crash a wedding," admits Bridget, "for research purposes. We didn't crash the reception, but we crashed the ceremony. Which was nerve wracking."
"We sort of huddled up the back with four guys who looked like work friends," says Mark, grinning. "We sat quietly up the back and tried to look like we were a couple."
"At least we thought it was the back, but people kept filing in after us."
"So we were surrounded. Trapped in the middle of the whole thing."
"Then this little girl who was standing in front of us and obviously quite bored with the whole thing and she had been taking photos, she turned around and decided to take a photo of us. And we're like, argh, we're not here."
Apart from being immortalised in the wedding snaps of a complete stranger, the pair did learn a lot from being able to witness the event purely as performance. It meant that they didn't have to leave their politics at the door as they might with the wedding of a close friend.
"And what we're asking the audience to do in Shotgun," explains Bridget, "is to come in with people they don't know and sit there and put yourself in this position where you don't know the couple, so you're not personally invested. Suddenly you have to look at everything else."
Not that they expect their audience to be completely removed from the event. The pair are clearly interested in challenging the idea that the audience is just a spectator.
Early on in developing the project, they discovered that, as tolerant as many religious communities were of the questions put to them by earnest young artists, it was unlikely that they would provide said artists with access to a church in order to conduct a fake wedding. So instead they conducted their trial ceremonies outside. It established an interesting dynamic. Not only did the garden setting give their events a sense of ceremony and gravitas, it also drew a crowd.
"So we had our audience who knew it was fake," says Bridget, "but then it drew this extra audience from the general public who thought, hey, that looks like a wedding. And that did something to the original audience, because they then became aware of being watched, of being complicit in the fakery."
It's all part of their desire to take conventional theatre craft into the unpredictable world of the performance event.
They point to director Daniel Schlusser's work at the VCA as a starting point, inspiring them to explore various stripped-back, non-performative performance modes. Internationally, they then took cues from groups like Rotozaza, Coney and Punch Drunk, whose works emphasise the autonomy of the individual audient within an immersive spectacle.
"So there's a fair bit of audience agency in our work," says Mark.
"This is not a passive work," agrees Bridget
"It's pretty freewheeling. We really just want to create a perspective on this event. There's no moral to this piece."
"And we want there to be lots of contradictory points of view coming up all over the place."
"Linking the political with the personal, bringing people together so that they are encouraged to share their stories. Whenever we talk about the project with anyone, they've always got a wedding story, or a divorce story."