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Amazing Weird And/Or Retarded MMA Videos
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August 13, 2011 at 2:22 pm #26663
Ill kick it off with a retarded MMA video
[youtube y7ZnqCYKP-0]November 12, 2011 at 9:17 pm #387421
i was gonna post this under fav vids, but, that's more for non mma shit i guess. so aleks fought earlier… found this on middle easy
http://middleeasy.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6384%3Adont-act-like-you-didnt-know-aleksander-emelianenko-fought-this-morning-heres-the-video&catid=34%3AorganizationsNovember 13, 2011 at 4:13 pm #387463
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Now that guy has aids.November 13, 2011 at 10:34 pm #387500
Wow, Aleks hits hard (did you hear the loud powerful thump of his hep ass hitting the canvas?)November 14, 2011 at 1:09 am #387514
I've been Occupying the Internet all day today. Started immediately at dreammovies.com, made my way to Fightlinker and Facebook. Once changing the internet channel to youtube I needed to fill my hole that was left empty by the UFC on FOX show. Don't get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoyed the fight even though it didn't last as long as anyone wanted it too but any other day, on any other channel or PPV people would have been like, DUDE JDS NEW HW CHAMP OMG instead of THE UFC IS RUINED BY THE FOX SHOW. Anyway, after sifting through all the fake fights on youtube I found these real ones. And they're pretty much filling my hole.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IugRVQGnkLU&feature=relatedNovember 14, 2011 at 1:21 am #387517November 14, 2011 at 1:26 am #387519
what fucking show is that? GTL?November 14, 2011 at 1:44 am #387522
They have an entire episode dedicated to Volds. Or was that a Rogan podcast in the tenth planet changing room…November 14, 2011 at 1:45 am #387523
Phoenix Jones failed to kill anyone again.November 14, 2011 at 2:44 am #387534
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"You lool like you're wearin underwear nigga!"
HA!November 18, 2011 at 1:25 pm #387943
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I'm several days late, but this party is still awesome. Good job, y'all.November 27, 2011 at 6:37 pm #390281
zaromskis with an awesome fwuckin kick…via middle easy (the site i cheat with FL on with for buttsex)
http://middleeasy.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6498:marius-zaromskis-just-dropped-a-dude-with-a-summersault-kick-and-heres-the-video&catid=34:organizationsNovember 27, 2011 at 8:43 pm #390300
wicked!January 2, 2012 at 11:00 pm #394048January 3, 2012 at 9:04 pm #394102
Reminds me of the Indiana Jones movie where he just pulls a gun and shoots the guy.
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ANGELS CAMP _ The Whitney High School varsity cross-country team competed in the Bret Harte Invitational, Sept. 24. Boys – The boys placed third overall in the Large Schools division out of 28 teams. The Wildcats were led by Ryan Hodgens' first place finish with a time of 16:44. Jacob Zufelt was sixth with a time of 17:28 and Nate Wellington came in eighth overall with a time of 17:30. They both ran personal bests on the course. Girls – The girls varsity squad placed fourth out of 20 teams and were led by Megan Hall's seventh-place finish of 21:37. Jenica Dodge's was 10th with a time of 21:53. The varsity races were three miles. Volleyball Sept. 26 _ The Whitney varsity girls volleyball team finished the week strong by defeating Cordova at home 3-0. The Wildcats won 25-12, 25-10, 25-5. Senior Kaylin Squyres led Whitney with 15 attacks and 11 kills. Squyres also had six digs. Lainey Basquez had 22 assists in the win. Sept. 24 _ Whitney competed in the CIVT Small School Tournament and went 3-2 in five matches. Sept. 19 _ Whitney had a tough 3-2 loss at home against Rio Americano. The Wildcats started out hot by winning the first two games 25-17 and 25-23. Whitney head coach James Todd said his girls just fell apart mentally down the stretch. "This team needs to conquer the mental part in order to be great. (In) years past they have never been this close so this is all new to them," Todd said. "Playing at a competitive level is something they said they have never experienced at Whitney." The Wildcats lost three consecutive games 25-22, 25-7, 15-7 to lose the match. "Being this close is something they are getting used to," Todd said. "We're trying to build a new culture so we must beat the mental game." Whitney is now 2-2 in the Capital Conference and 12-8 overall. Capital Athletic League Volleyball Standings 1. Rio Americano 4-0-0 2. El Camino 3-0-0 3. Whitney 2-2-0 4. Antelope 2-2-0 5. Mira Loma 0-3-0 6. Cordova 0-4-0


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why dose my toddler always seem to be sick?
My son, who is 20 months old, seems to always to have a runny or stuffy nose. I'm a stay at home mom and always have been and i make sure everything he touches is clean and sanitized. I'm not sure as to why he would be sick constantly but now its getting to the point where its really starting to worry me. I really don't know what the cause of his illness could be, any ideas what it could be? and if i should be as worried as i am?
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probably allergies, but honestly I would stop sanitizing to much! Those chemicals are awful for you and especially if it's just in your house ... it's not like 20 kids from the neighborhood coming in licking things. It's your germs! Our body needs to be exposed to natural germs in order to build up an immunity. Honestly - I rarely sanitize much other than bath toys which can get mold ... things get cleaned but really just a wipe off of dirt with a wet towel. Haven't killed a kid yet and my kids are healthy as can be! (well, except for the 2 years of preschool when they were first being exposed to every cold virus out there ... kids and I were sick almost every month! But that's normal and to be expected)posted 02/07/2012 by Karen_Elyse
Do you vaccinate? Have you ever thought that all those vaccine and toxins in them could be the culprit? If you don't know what I'm talking about google health of vaccinated vs unvaccinated. You'll see what I mean. Do some research. Also, start giving him a liquid Vit D, like Carlson's, Vit C, probiotics (good quality) and a good multivitamin and mineral.posted 01/25/2012 by larissakissa
hmmm i would ask his doctor just to be sure there is no reason to worry but the only thing i can think of is maybe pets or something else around the house cause allergy like symptoms??posted 01/20/2012 by a BabyCenter Member
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Every year our town has a carnival downtown for the Fourth. It's a cheezy little affair as one might expect for a small rural town, and for many years now I've actively avoided it after being disappointed every time I've been coerced into going.
Along with the rides, expensive stale popcorn and fatty food booths is the "Arts and Crafts" fair. While there are some actual artists showing their own work, the majority are rubber tomahawk booths, selling third world garbage products to make a quick buck. Since I have more than my share of cheap crap already, I typically avoid the fair as well, but this year my wife insisted we go.
Yep, pretty much the same stuff all over again, very little new art to peruse, and since I've been underemployed anyway...it's not like I was in a buyer's mood. One booth had a "magnetic" effect on my wife...and sucked her right in. The booth sells "magnet therapy" items, advertising cures for an amazing list of ailments that their product has "proven" to address. Rolling my eyes at her even listening to their drivel, I waited as impatiently as I could in the hopes she'd walk away. She didn't.
Something rose up in me and I started telling my kids about the new age girlfriends my natural father had when I was growing up...and how utterly full of crap they were. I saw it all: reading auras, EST, extreme health foods, crystals, herbs, gurus...just a huge laundry list of all the stuff pawned off on an unsuspecting and gullible public, many of the products advertised on the back of comic books and women's magazines, with no actual science behind any of it.
Sure, I believe that if the individual believes something has "healing powers" that the mind has an incredible psychosomatic effect. If you feel you'll feel better, you'll feel better, but at some point this self-dishonesty has to dawn on you...or maybe not. Maybe it's just me and my cynical nature. I listened to more of their spiel and they said their products were "guaranteed". Guaranteed for what? Oh, for 30 days. Real valuable considering they'll be packing up in a few hours and rolling on to the next town.
I started thinking about their business model as it were, being set up in a carny atmosphere...and it started making more sense. Buy "magnetite" bracelets for a buck made in some third world country for pennies, mark them up to $35 (Yes, that's not a typo), and even if the vast majority of customers find out you're more full of it than an overdue septic tank and return them, you'll still turn a tidy profit at a 1500% margin on the remainder. Shrewd business, but still based upon a lie.
The more I stood there, the more incensed I got at being lied to. Had they just advertised them as pretty bracelets with no "mystical healing properties" I'd have been fine. In the end I backed off before shouting at them and just stood there, though it was apparent to me they saw right through me as a "doubter". They didn't try to pitch me at all. I satisfied myself in the end with being silent, not because they didn't deserve someone exposing them for the crude charlatans they no doubt were, but because my wife bought a pretty, albeit inert bracelet...and she deserves pretty things, not my cynical and pragmatic diatribes calling what is crap, crap. I'd rather her feel better for whatever reasons she chooses.
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Is the Bible Blogtastic?
Slate.com editor David Plotz on PETA-friendly sacrifice, why Judaism produces great lawyers, and whether God mellows with age. With audio.
MJ: He sure does love…they just kill so many people in the Old Testament, I'm kind of surprised there's anyone left. Every other chapter it seems they're killing 10,000 Moabites or…
DP: Someone should add all the numbers up. There are the 185,000 Assyrians who are stricken by plague, or the 24,000 Israelites who die from eating too much quail, and it's amazing. The level of death is…and sometimes the level of death is on a Stalin or Mao scale, so the big numbers don't actually mean that much. It's much more when they do the deaths in close-up. So there's this incredible scene where Joshua has just killed all the Amalekites except their five kings. He's killed tens and tens of thousands of people. But then the five kings, he steps on their throats…
MJ: Jesus.
DP: …and cuts their necks and kills them. And that sticks with you, like 'Ah, God, this is barbaric,' in a way the death of 10,000 doesn't.
MJ: And do you believe that the Bible actually does work as a history, that things depicted in it did actually happen?
DP: There are things depicted in it that did actually happen. They are not the things that people are that interested in. There was a king Hezekiah. The things that did actually happen take place much later in the book. Basically nothing before King David seem to have any foundation at all.
MJ: Some of the stories you'd want to hear about, like the Maccabees and the Hannukah story, they're not in the Bible, right?
DP: Right, that's the most surprising one that's absent, is the Hannukah story is not in there. But there's a lot of stuff that is in there that just doesn't get a lot of emphasis. There are these incredible stories that we don't know very well, which I'm always sad—that's the reason I think why everyone has to read the Bible. There's all this incredible stuff that we just miss because the selections that are popular—Noah, Jacob, Adam and Eve, the Exodus, King David—are just a tiny, tiny little bit of the whole book.
MJ: I found it interesting that people in the Bible are always sacrificing animals to God, and God seems to really like it. Do you think there's a modern version of this? Should we be sacrificing our iPods to win God's favor?
DP: Ooh, that's a really interesting question: What is the modern version of sacrifice?
MJ: The PETA version…
DP: How do you appease God? I guess one of the things, there's this transition even within the Bible. So God, at the beginning of the Bible, very much needs to be appeased. Your general position is that God is angry and you have to assuage him. As the Bible progresses that's less and less true. God becomes less a god of anger and more a god of love or a god of indifference. He doesn't take that kind of active interest in daily life whereby you have to be constantly checking in with him and buy him off with dead cows.
MJ: So you think God's mellowed with age?
DP: God mellows a little bit. Well, he obviously mellows a huge amount by the time you get to the New Testament, but even in the Old Testament he becomes…It's not necessarily that he mellows; he just becomes more distant. He's much less involved. So at the beginning of the Bible he's like a father, so he's in your face all the time. He is the father. There's this moment where Adam and Eve go wandering off and sort of hide in the Garden of Eden because they've done wrong, and God has to walk through the Garden of Eden looking for them, just like he's lost his kids at the mall or something; he's really irritated about that. And later on, he just absents himself for hundreds of years at a time. And he's more like a principal or something. He's not in your face at every moment the way he was at the beginning of it.
MJ: One thing that I noticed, maybe more early on rather than later, is that there is a lot of idol worshipping and God seems very insecure about it. And I couldn't really tell if God is so opposed to idol worshipping because there are other gods. And I didn't know if the Israelites thought their God was the only God, or if it was just the best god among many. And did you ever come to any conclusion about that?
DP: Yes, that is one of the great questions of the Bible. So Judaism allegedly invented monotheism; that was one of our great inventions to the world. But as you read the Bible you realize that they don't seem to be monotheists. Especially at the beginning. At the beginning it's pretty clear that there are other gods and that God is just the best among them. He's the top god, the top dog. But there's a subtle shift that occurs, and you see it explicitly in Deuteronomy and in Prophets, where it stops being that the Jews are polytheists who believe that Yahweh is the top god, and it becomes instead that they're monotheists who believe that these other gods are fake. So you see this progression.
MJ: I was just wondering if for this Passover, you and your family were going to celebrate any differently than you had before you wrote this book.
DP: No, I don't think we will. My own Judaism has been quite shaken by reading the Bible and so my faith in God and love of God is not what it was a few years ago. But my love of Jewish tradition hasn't changed at all, and I think one of the great powers of Judaism, especially in modern American society, is that it permits a kind of practice that isn't contingent on faith. So the power of a seder for me doesn't have much to do with my faith that God has brought us through it. It has a lot to do with my sense of historical continuity to the suffering of the Jewish people and suffering of people generally. And honestly, more importantly, the fact that I love the idea of these ritualized family gatherings. It's just meaningful to me. But the God part is not the meaningful part anymore; it's the family and historical continuity.
MJ: But you did say that you kind of gained more understanding of where these traditions come from from reading the Bible.
DP: Right. Now I know, for example, that the words we speak, how we're to speak about the Passover events, comes from the book of Deuteronomy, so I'm a more sophisticated consumer of what's happening. But I don't want to have a four-hour seder instead of a one-hour seder. It hasn't made me think, like, I've really been missing out on something. It's just made me a little more sophisticated about what I know.
MJ: Well, David, thanks so much for speaking with us about your book.
DP: It's my pleasure, Jen.
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Long distance company stole my business
CBC Here & Now aired an item on October 22 about the Yak long distance scam, but they are still nibbling around the edges of the story. Here's a compressed version from the CBC web site.
In a nutshell, they are cutting Yak too much slack.
There are accusations from well known individuals including Dee Murphy and the mayor of Corner Brook that Yak switched their long distance service without permission (a process called "slamming"). The company acknowledges that there may be some isolated cases which they are investigating, and it almost sounds credible and reassuring.
"We had a situation where we thought we had a confirmed order and the customer was happy, and it turns out it wasn't a customer at all," Anthony Lacavera, CEO of Yak's parent company, told CBC news.
But Lacavera is either lying or hopelessly uninformed. In either case, he should resign.
A CBC story from earlier this week was even further off the mark. It reported that some people had also had their long distance switched to Yak without their consent. But the Better Business Bureau missed the point completely when they said, "Just because something looks good on the surface, don't take it at face value."
What they should have said is, Beware - Yak will steal your long distance service without permission.'
How do I know this? Because I also received a call from Yak. They slammed' my long distance without even making a pitch. Here's what happened when the phone rang.
On the other end of the line was a thickly accented voice, possibly East Indian, with a lot of other people talking in the background. The quality of the line was not good, leading me to assume that it was an overseas call centre sweatshop'.
Without so much as a hello, the caller said, "Would you please hold sir, the manager is returning your call."
(This technique is clearly the telephone equivalent of an Internet spam message titled "Requested file attached".)
Recognizing immediately that something was amiss, I said "What manager? I didn't call anybody."
"Yes sir, you did sir," came the reply.
I became impatient. "About what" I asked.
"About Yak," he said.
His accent was thick, but I clearly heard the word yak'. I had no idea what this was, outside of a bovine-type beast, so I said rather forcefully, "No I did not call your manager" and hung up the phone.
There was no sales pitch and absolutely no mention of long distance.
A few weeks later, I received a call from Aliant, my current long distance service provider. They had received a request from another company to take my long distance service, and were calling to confirm that the switch had my approval. It didn't, of course, and this was definitely news to me. When I asked who the new company was, she said she didn't know but suggested that "maybe" it was Yak, which indicates this was not an isolated event.
She gave me a 1-700 number which, when dialed, automatically identifies your long distance provider. I rang the number and heard one word:
Man, was I pissed.
So the lesson here is not to be wary of smooth talking telemarketers who promise more than they deliver.
The lesson is to watch out for scam artists like Yak.
Yes, that's strong language. But I'm willing to testify about my experience in court, if Yak would like to test my resolve.
In the meantime, everyone out there especially those who have received strange phone calls from telemarketers should dial 1-700-555-4141. It's a toll-free service. I am willing to bet that more than a few will hear the word Yak'.
There's already some chatter about this on the Internet. I found this comment particularly telling:
"OMG a guy from India called me about telephone service and talked gibberish and hung up."
That person had better dial the 1-700 number


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Talbot to start and maybe a change on D, too; Rangers sign free agent F Haggerty
The trade deadline came and went a week ago but the Rangers, coming off one of their most disappointing losses of the season as they failed to show for Tuesday night's 3-1 loss at Carolina, are still tinkering with their lineup and roster.
Cam Talbot will make his first start in net for the Rangers since Feb. 27, when he made 31 saves in a 2-1 win over the Blackhawks in the first game after the Olympics. Lundqvist, who stopped 32 shots against the Hurricanes, had started six straight. Meanwhile, coach Alain Vigneault may alter his defensive pairs with Raphael Diaz, acquired from the Canucks at the trade deadline, skating with John Moore as the Rangers practiced today at PNC Arena in Raleigh, N.C. Diaz, who has a hard shot from the left point and is an offensive-minded defenseman, also practiced with Moore on the second power play unit as Kevin Klein, who scored the team's lone goal against the Hurricanes and his first as Ranger, was paired with Justin Falk, who has been a healthy scratch since Dec. 29.
The Rangers open a back-to-back set against the Wild here in St. Paul, Minn. on Thursday night before heading to Friday night's game at Winnipeg. It's likely Lundqvist will play against the Jets.
When the Rangers return to New York, they will be met by the newest member of the organization, 21-year-old free agent forward Ryan Haggerty, who had 28 goals, 15 assists and 42 penalty minutes this season for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, finishing third in the NCAA in goals and tied for eighth in points. Overall, he scored 47 goals with 37 assists in 106 career NCAA games.
Prior to attending RPI, the 6-foot, 200-pound Haggerty, from Stamford, Conn., had 21 goals and 27 assists in 108 games over two seasons for the U.S. Development Program and was a member of Team USA's gold medal winning squad at the 2011 Under-18 World Junior Championships.
The Rangers are not scheduled to practice on Saturday and host the Sharks Sunday at 4, he will probably skate with his new teammates for the first time on Monday prior to the team departing for Tuesday's game at Ottawa.
Though this season will count as Year 1 on Haggerty's entry-level contract, he will not be eligible for the NHL postseason because he was not on the team's reserve list at the trade deadline.
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When NFL training camps opened this year, Keith Brooking wasn't in one. He hoped to be in camp, and believed he should be, but that didn't make the phone ring.
"I didn't really have specific playing time in mind, what my specific role would be, with any team," Brooking said. "But I felt like before I signed (with the Broncos) that I could still contribute, that I could still find a role on a contending team and make an impact in some capacity. I felt like I had some good playing still in me."
Brooking has become a starter on a Super Bowl contender that has the league's No. 3-ranked defense. He came into the league in the same draft, 1998, as quarterback Peyton Manning. Brooking missed most of Denver's training camp after he signed Aug. 6, but the Broncos were looking for him to contribute right away when linebacker D.J. Williams was suspended for nine games.
"When I came here, as far as what my role was going to be, I had no idea," Brooking said. "But I knew I never would have signed here if I didn't think I could contribute. I thought I could contribute with something and I think they saw something too, and that's what it takes. Somebody has to look at you and see a contribution. The Broncos saw a contribution."
Brooking's contribution initially was spot duty, but he quickly became a starter at middle linebacker. He has made 13 starts, appearing mostly in the team's base defense, and has 52 tackles.
Brooking can offer the Broncos more than his down-to-business approach to football as they enter the postseason. The coming weeks will be the time for Brooking, Manning, Champ Bailey, Brandon Stokley, Elvis Dumervil and Mike Adams to help the Broncos maintain their composure as the playoff intensity increases.
Brooking played in the Super Bowl as a rookie with the Falcons, whose opponent was the John Elway-led Broncos. Brooking hasn't been back to the Super Bowl since.
Bailey is in his 14th season and has never played in the Super Bowl. He has played in only one conference championship game — the Broncos' loss to the Steelers in the AFC title game of the 2005 season.
Adams, a safety, is in his ninth season. "I've never even been to playoffs," he said.
"This is where the fun begins," Brooking said. "The young guys, it's nothing against them — I was there in their shoes. I've been hit in the head a lot, but my memory is not that bad that I've forgotten what they're going through right now. You just have a different perspective on things as the years go by.
"I never took it for granted as a young player, but when you play 15 years and it's been a roller-coaster ride, some good years and some really bad years, you realize how special it is and how difficult it is to put yourself in this position. It's not more special now than it was back in the day, but I do have a different perspective on things, definitely appreciate it. The way you cherish it in this league is you grind, remember how precious it is and get the most out of every day. Back in the summer, this was all the opportunity I could have hoped for."
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As it is rightly said, employees are an asset for the company. The employees occupy a central position in any organization; therefore, we cannot ignore this extremely indispensable talent.
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If managers were ask to list all the ways they could motivate subordinates in their care to do better work, friendly sincere praise should be near or at the top of the list. That sounds good in theory but do they actually give praise and spend as much time looking for things their employees do well as they do in criticizing their mistakes or imperfections?
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P.E. Central Lesson Plan: Superstar Bowling
Purpose of Activity:To reinforce the proper cues of rolling or bowling a ball and at the same time reinforcing cooperation and spelling skills. Activity cues: See PE Central Underhand Throwing Cues
Suggested Grade Level:3-5
Materials Needed:Carpet squares (I use the 24" x 24"); numbered cones (I use the 12" size); 8 1/2" Gatorskin balls; Alphalids (plastic caps with letters inside) OR use magic markers to make the letters in the lids of juice jars; buckets or large containers; Sports Illustrated for Kids Sports Personality Cards (or other sports personality cards); Physical activity: Underhand throwing
Lesson Plan:Description of Idea
After a short warm up period to practice the correct bowling/rolling technique, stop the action and give each set of partners a Sports Illustrated for Kids Sports Card. The task is to spell out the name of the athlete on the card by acquiring letters (alphalids). The number of letters they are allowed to pick up is determined by how well they perform their physical task/challenge-bowling/rolling a ball onto a carpet square.
Scoring Rules (How many letters can I bring back?)
1 letter - If ball is bowled properly from behind the bowling line (even if kids completely miss the carpet square)
2 letters - if ball touches carpet square
3 letters - if ball rolls to a complete stop on top of the carpet square
When a group is finished spelling the name on their card they raise their hands and I check the words for spelling and then give them a new card to work on. The group leaves their completed cards and letters on the floor in front of their "wait line".
At the end of the activity, I collect and count all of the cards in their possession so we can compare the total to the next time we play (or to the last time we played).
Encourage your kids to communicate so they make smooth and quick trips to the buckets without bringing back unneeded letters. If someone brings back an incorrect letter I will return it for them or try to match their next new card with the name that allows them to use that letter.
The kids can go to any bucket they want to select their letters although I encourage them to use the bucket that is closest to their carpet square. They are allowed to dig through the buckets when searching for letters. They can bring back the letters in any order they desire but I have noticed that groups are more successful when they spell the names in order.
Alphalids: I made my lids by buying sets of 1" (25mm) Helvetica stick on letters (available at Office Max) and used tweezers to place the letters into 10K and Gatorade lids. Buying these sets provided me with the proper ratio of letters.
SI for Kids Cards: Try to select cards from the past couple of years. Earlier cards featured some odd fonts and they were tough to read.
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It is best to use the black lid with the white foam insert and they can be ordered from the Smith Container Corporation in Charlotte, NC. Please contact Mandy Woodard at 704-588-6770, ext. 226.
Use the spelling words the class is responsible for each week.
Add a fitness component to the task by having them roll the ball, search for card, and the partner retrieves the ball and sets up the cone.
Assessment Ideas:
Give a spelling test using the words used in class.
Have the students use a checksheet so they can check their own spelling and simply check off each word as they spell it Compare sheets from day to day as they challenge themselves to beat their previous score.
Author:Tim Elrod who teaches at Shuford Elementary in Conover , NC . Posted on PEC: 4/2/2001.
This lesson plan was provided courtesy of P.E. Central (www.pecentral.org).
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"Nany, Jemmye…Knight…are pathetic," Frank tells Jonna while in earshot of his targets. "Who the f**k is a Jemmye, except for the ugliest bitch to ever be cast on one of these shows? Go back to the f**king ghetto you crawled out of, Jemmye." When the cast returns to the house, Knight takes flak from his ex-girlfriend for laying low while Frank bashed her. "Frank says all that s**t and you just sit there and shake your f**king head," Jemmye lectures. "You're a bitch." It's not long before a revved-up Camila chimes in, and she looks ready to explode (what else is new?) should her partner keep the argument going.
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As cabin fever begins to reach its height, area residents have a unique tool in their arsenal to ward off those mid-winter blahs.
For a mere $25, people can break out of their homes and spend Sunday afternoons in February learning about Celtic Spirituality, A History of Angels, The Modern Civil Rights Movement, Increasing Your Intuition, Conversational Italian, Spanish and French, Tai Chi, Georgia O'Keefe, Egyptology, Psychology of Film or one of 31 other topics at this year's CommUniversity.
CommUniversity is a non-profit project, presented by a volunteer committee of representatives from various local educational and community groups. The public event has been held every February for 31 years with more than 600 people attending last year. Classes last four weeks, held from 2 – 4 p.m. every Sunday in February.
Classes are held at St. Ambrose University and will be kicked off February 6 with a keynote presentation at 1 p.m. in the university's Galvin Fine Arts Center.
This year's keynote speaker is Stephen Bloom, professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Iowa and author of Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America and The Oxford Project which won the prestigious 2009 Alex Award from the American Library Association.
Bloom's presentation will be on storytelling and why it is still important to us today, even though the platforms used to bring news to people may be changing.
Following the keynote, students will move to their chosen classes.
Classes are informal, taught by experts in their field and, best of all, there are no tests. Other classes this year include: Exploring the Book of Genesis, Irish Poetry, Beginning Photography, Yoga, Tennessee Williams and Songwriting.
Participants can sign up as an individual and use the opportunity to meet others who share an interest or, in many cases, groups of friends or entire families enroll together. Either way, anyone wanting to fight off the winter chill has 42 different classes from which to choose.
People are invited to attend Bloom's keynote address free of charge. Class registration is accepted at the door on February 6, however everyone is encouraged to register in advance. This helps to insure that there is room in the class for them, as well as makes sure the class isn't cancelled due to low enrollment.
A full listing of all the available classes and registration information is available online at www.communiversity.org
CommUniversity is made possible in part through grants from Humanities Iowa, (state-based affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities) and the Scott County Regional Authority.
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Until our new parking garage opens, Veterans and visitors are encouraged to use Valet Parking services. If you prefer to park your own car, you may continue to park in lots #1 ,#2 # 3 and #4, see map.
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The College met its goal to increase enrollment of new degree students by 100 this fall, according to preliminary reports.
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Typical Doc Rivers
Typical Doc Rivers
posted at 3/14/2011 9:58 PM EDTThe squad thats on the floor that gives the team the lead, playing well on both sides of the court and maintaining the game, floating on a lead, HE TAKES THEM OUT and puts in the ones that are usually struggling, having notorious bad games or has been getting beat. In the case tonight, the Bench had the biggest lead the Celtics had tonight and he takes them out, one by one and replaces them, especially with his little butt buddy of late, Rajon Rondo. Just pathetic excuse of a coach sometimes, really.
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posted at 3/15/2011 12:14 AM EDTYea, you're right. No coach in the NBA would take his unproven bench out and put in his proven all stars and the team that got them to the second best record and let them try to take it home. My gosh, how STUPID of Doc to even THINK of putting 4 all stars back in the game. After all, they lost so many games this year by putting them back in.If he had left the subs in and they lost the game, you'd be the first person posting: "Stupid coach, leaves his high paid talent on the bench and leaves these new guys/subs in the game to lose it. What a pathetic excuse for a coach, sometimes, really."The starters failed, but you don't leave them out of the game.You need to think a little more before you let your frustrations allow you to write something this far off from reality.
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May 5, 2016
It seems the old idea of taxing sugary soft drinks is once again back in the headlines as a way to pay for health reform, while fighting obesity at the same time.
A group of doctors, nutritionists and economists says a penny an ounce tax on sugary drinks could raise almost 15 billion dollars a year for health programs.
Harvard School of Public Health Dr. Walter Willett says, "It's only fair that people consuming these beverages help share the cost of the diseases that they're putting upon themselves."
The impact these drinks may or may not have when it comes to our health is up for debate. The questions I have...do you think a so called "Sugar Tax" should be implemented on soft drinks to help pay for health care?
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Eric Fromm, 21, published an article last week in his school's news website as his way of denouncing his former Christian beliefs. He says he was an atheist before enrolling as a student but decided to attend the 600-student university because of his interest in its communication program.
"I was baptized Lutheran, and raised Methodist, but as time went on I slowly came to the conclusion that God wasn't real," Fromm wrote in his article. "I knew that the school catered to Christian thinking, so before I enrolled, I visited the campus to make sure that the chapel services were comfortable enough that I ...
Lady_Virtue wrote:College is an especially dangerous environment for females, as they are susceptible to feminist indoctrination. It all boils down to serving Mammon as one's master and the love of money. I wish I'd never gone, myself.
He never did believe in God.
He can't "respect the Christian faith" his dominant master sin will not allow him. Anyway the reprobate wouldn't know Christian faith from a plastic duck.
Mortals in the natural estate cannot discern spiritual matters ...."But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." 1Cor 2:14.
His deceit in going to a specifically Christian university and hiding behind the pretext of a faith illustrates who he belongs to - the father of lies.
"Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it." John 8:44.
Jesus declares;"He that is not with me is against me" Matt 12:30.
SF, no thanks needed! Happy to pray for another Mom sticking to her guns and raising those babies for God's glory! It's the toughest job!
shane wrote:Truthfully I don't want my kids to go to college. It's a breeding ground for worldly pride. Yes.. Even the Christian ones now a days.
'Nuff said!
What claim is more bold than that of being God? If Jesus was mistaken here, then how could He be a great teacher about lesser matters? And I'd like to know what the punishment is, by atheist stds., for being intolerant of atheists. A sin is pointless w/o a punishment for it.
From NCU's site: âWe welcome students who have no faith commitment or are from other faith commitments.â
SF, hope you're feeling better and the rest of your house has been able to dodge the stomach bug! Never fun when the whole lot's sick!
His background statement explains why.
When the cost of discipleship is taught as being zero, it is easy to enter a Christian profession and easy to exit.
Jesus said: Pick up your cross and follow me. Seek first the Kingdom of God.
The doctrine of separation has been sorely neglected to the point where no one even knows what it means anymore " come out from among them" means just that.


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World Refugee Day is a day to pay tribute to the more than 42 million people forcibly displaced as a result of violent conflict or persecution. UNHCR's theme and campaign for this year, "Refugees have no choice. You do," emphasized the powerlessness and vulnerability of refugee populations. Recently, HAF Director Samir Kalra highlighted the plight of Hindu refugees from Bangladesh, internally displaced Kashmiri Hindus, and stateless Hindus of Indian origin in Malaysia in an essay entitled "All Refugees are Created Equal."
Kalra is the Foundation's Senior Human Rights Fellow, and helps create the annual Foundation's Hindu Human Rights Report. The idea for the report was conceived of when organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch might have had a paragraph in their reports dedicated to issues in Kashmir, and things going on in other places such as Malaysia were virtually non-existent. Now, this annually-released report documents violations against Hindus in South Asia and the Diaspora. HAF sought to provide voice to those Hindus who were not being heard. The latest report covers violations against Hindus in seven countries—Bangladesh, Bhutan, Fiji, Malaysia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Trinidad and Tobago—and the Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir, with coverage of both Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia as Hotspots of Trouble. The idea came from a sense of responsibility and social justice that the founders of HAF had, grounded in the Hindu principle of dharma—one translation of this Sanskrit word is justice.
As Hindus, we at the Foundation believe in our collective responsibility to provide protection to individuals who have limited personal power and resources to argue their case, and whose basic human rights are trampled upon daily. Much like the Jewish concept of tikkun olam, the call to "repair the world," or the biblical proverb "Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute," Hindus are called to fulfill their dharma through the yoga of action—and advocacy.
Padma Kuppa is a writer, IT professional, community activist, wife, and mother working to build a more pluralistic society within a Hindu and interfaith framework. You can also read her blog A Balancing Act, at padmakuppa.blogspot.com. The views represented in this column are not a reflection of the views of any organization of which she is a part.
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Suspect died by carbon monoxideMarch 09,2013WEST HAVEN, Conn. Vermont records say a Connecticut man found dead after being charged in an alleged child sex slave case committed suicide by carbon monoxide.
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Meyer and 42-year-old Brett Bartolotta of Cavendish, Vt., pleaded not guilty to aggravated sexual assault and slave trafficking.
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Through a combination of interviews, live action footage and animated segments, Travel Queeries reveals and compares how individuals, groups, and communities define and use "queer" as a political identity. From queer squats in northern England, to a historic queer housing project in East Berlin, to queer festivals in Copenhagen and Belgrade, to interviews with organizers of the London-based collective "Queers without Borders", the filmmakers reveal the layers of meaning of "queer" within vastly different European backdrops.
The audience will feel invited into the lives of those living outside societal confines as they build local and international community through the creation of art infused with tongue-in-cheek humor, resistance to repression, and bonds of friendship that extend beyond common cultures or homeland. Taping took place in nine different European cities, spanning 2005-2007. Through the relationships built between the filmmakers and interviewees, this film bridges international borders to bring the stories of queer people and communities across Europe to other parts of the world. The making of this film is a good example of production on shoe string budget - most of the services were sources through the net. Websites like http://www.nomadicmatt.com/travel-guides/europe-travel-tips/ for travel, http://www.hostels.com/europe for accommodation and http://www.raileurope.com/en/index.html are recommended for all seeking a similar film project.
The final film was shot on digital video with sequences shot on Super 8. High-resolution still images are used through out the film, along with animated segments. Digital video creates a homemade atmosphere, enabling the viewer to relate organically to the experience. The Super 8 and animation segments add an artistic element and complement the visual art displayed throughout the film. Only natural and/or existing light is used to maintain authenticity. Environmental portraiture complements each person's story and places them within the imagery of their culture context. To the same end, events are captured on handheld cameras, allowing the viewer to feel as though they are watching the story unfold live and in person.