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By Jake Crosby
He may not receive the same level of attention as Paul Offit, but what Columbia sociologist professor Peter Bearman lacks in publicity, he more than makes up for in autism research money. Millions of your tax dollars are being given to him through the NIH under the guidance of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, whose chair, Dr. Thomas Insel, is the brother of a vaccine developer, Dr. Richard Insel. (When Vaccine Development is a Family Business. The Conflicted Role On Vaccines and Autism)
Is Bearman's research worth the money being invested in it? This question was addressed on Age of Autism once before by Katie Wright, whose answer was pretty conclusive – "nonsense." Kevin Leitch of Leftbrain/Rightbrain - perhaps the only place I've seen Peter Bearman receive a large amount of attention outside his own academic circles - leapt into the fray addressing none of Wright's points while making a stink about how she simply won't accept Bearman's "science." Little did I know at the time that this very debate would jump off the Internet and onto the Brandeis campus.
On March 24th, I attended a lecture at Brandeis University's Heller School for Social Policy and Management held by the Lurie Institute for Disability Policy. The title of the event was "Understanding the Increased Prevalence of Autism." The honorary speaker was none other than NIH-funded Columbia sociologist, Professor Peter Bearman.
Having read Age of Autism's post about Bearman, Peter Bearman, Autism and the House of Nonsense, I knew what to expect, and none of what Bearman said really shocked me or was different from what I'd heard from him in the past. He went through his research - the increased risk of autism between same-sex twins and a corresponding decrease of autism between opposite-sex twins, his claims that autism is due at least in part to diagnostic substitution of the "mental retardation label," the "social clustering," the increased parental age, and the close spacing of births.
With the close spacing of births, Bearman did acknowledge that it was perhaps related to folate-depletion, suggesting a nutritional basis for autism spectrum disorders that might perhaps play a role. While nutrition may well be involved in the pathology of autism, historical epidemiology suggests these findings are hardly significant. Closely spaced births was a much bigger phenomenon 100 years ago when the average family size was considerably larger while autism prevalence was not even high enough to be detectable – if there was any autism back then at all – much less at epidemic levels like it is today.
After hearing Bearman talk for a good 45 minutes, the audience was allowed to ask questions. I brought up his paper in the International Journal of Epidemiology and its claims that diagnostic substitution could account for a 25% increase in the rate of autism. I told him it was based on a flawed extrapolation of a sub-group of about 9% of cases who switched from a diagnosis of mental retardation to a co-morbid or sole diagnosis of autism. I also mentioned that the conclusion was based on generalizing this group to the autism caseload as a whole.
He started to answer, then paused and said out loud, "How should I answer this?" He then gave a long-winded response about how difficult it was to quantify the increase and that he felt his methods were right, but never explained why. In his response, he made two amazing admissions:
1. The increased prevalence of autism is real. It was good to know that even Bearman admitted that the epidemic denial of anthropologist Roy Grinker – a frequent commenter on Bearman's work – was bunk.
2. Four out of five of the reviewers of his paper had the problem I had about its incorrect extrapolation. "And now," he said, referring to me, "five out of six," in a half-joking manner.
Bearman still concluded, "But I think it's a good paper."
That is just not an acceptable answer. He might as well have admitted that the NIH was giving him millions for his opinions, because that in essence is what he just said. NIH funding is supposed to produce scientific papers, not editorials. I could just as easily get someone's opinion by reading the comments on a HuffPo article.
Yet he still had the nerve to call studies of environmental factors "junk" in his response to another audience member's question, after admitting that four out of five peer-reviewers have essentially said just that about his own work. Then he said that another paper of his that is up for peer-review at different journal will "probably get rejected," which was followed by snickers from the audience – to which I thought "it's funny to them that his research is garbage?"
Bearman also delved into the increased risk of parental age, saying this caused "de-novo mutations" in genes that was driving the increase in autism and making it more heritable. He showed us a graph of autism concordance between same-sex twins going up and between opposite-sex twins going down. Historically, twin studies have been used to claim autism is a genetic condition while spuriously omitting the fact that concordance between twin births is instead due to related environmental exposures and susceptibility. Bearman's analysis was no exception here. He never mentioned that the older a parent is, the more exposure they've had to a particular substance, and the more exposure they've had to such a substance, the more likely it is to affect their unborn children.
With that in mind, I asked Professor Bearman if perhaps the trend in twin concordance by gender was due to the increase of something in the environment that puts a certain group of people at risk, noting that autism effects more boys than it does girls. He did not address my point about susceptibility factors – simply saying that the 4:1 ratio of boys to girls affected with autism has remained stable and offered no evidence for why "de novo" genetic mutations were more likely a culprit than environmental insults beyond the correlation to older parents.
What struck me as most incredible was his response to a student who brought up Wakefield's case series and The Lancet's retraction of the paper. The student, as repeated ad nauseum in the popular press, incorrectly called the paper a study linking vaccines to autism. I called out correcting her, stating that it never did.
Bearman responded that because autism exists in clusters as opposed to the "global usage of vaccines" that he does not think the vaccine-autism connection warrants further study. Of course, vaccination rates fluctuate just as autism rates do. It is absolutely bizarre that he would make such a statement, especially when his own research made almost no effort to see whether vaccination rates and autism rates were related.
Bearman also stated that vaccination exemptions were highest in places with high autism prevalence as a way of doubting the connection. Well, of course they would be; vaccination exemptions are a response to the soaring autism diagnoses. This should, if anything, intensify the urgency for vaccine-autism research.
"But what if that's caused by fear of vaccines-induced autism?" – I asked.
He never answered my question, but did acknowledge, "I know you disagree with me."
But Bearman's disagreement also contradicts what he told a different audience in a video featured in Katie Wright's article. To that audience, he said autism rates and vaccination exemptions are completely unrelated, and that autism organizations are scaring people away from vaccines – as if autism clusters form around autism organizations and not the other way around. I guess even Bearman figured that such an assertion was absurd and changed his story. Yet, the story he replaced it with was no less absurd. Evidently, he is also disagreeing with himself in the Columbia video lecture.
I wanted to discuss the spatial clustering – his own brainchild of autism study design. I noticed he said that he found significant clusters between households that share kindergarten and daycare centers, parks and malls – all places where, "people talk." He supposed that the shared public places resulted in parents talking to one another about autism, making their children more likely to get diagnosed. Of course, places that people tend to go to more often are probably more likely to correlate to where people live – which further raises the plausibility of environmental exposure in relation to locale. Coal burning plants come to mind.
Bearman also did not mention some of the other things parents might talk about, like getting their children vaccinated, like eating foods that may be high in certain substances of interest (such as the levels of mercury in fish), or dental care (such as dental amalgam) – all of these are things that, I would assume, people talk about that could influence exposure to the cause or causes of autism.
Bearman further asserted that pediatricians had a negative affect on autism diagnoses because they are always trying to delay them! That's quite strange – my pediatrician was the first to spot that I was delayed in my language development. Yet Bearman made his assertion without anything to back it up – no data, not even anecdotes.
He further claimed that pediatricians were not associated with autism clusters and that dentists were more strongly associated with autism clusters, since people don't talk about getting autism diagnoses "in dental chairs." What he left out was that in some dental clinics, amalgam fillings are often given which emit mercury! He also seemed to leave out fact that dentist's offices - like all doctor's offices – do have places where people talk. They're called "waiting rooms."
In a further attempt to try to back up his claim that spatial clustering directly relates to autism diagnoses, he noted that the clustering was more likely to happen among higher-functioning children than lower-functioning children. But that is probably for the same reason that there is a negative connection between proximity to an autism household and mental retardation, which can only be generalized to the small fraction of people who, depending on their circumstances, could qualify for an autism label, a mental retardation label, or both. Similarly, the small fraction of people who have a borderline autism diagnosis is likely to be higher functioning. But issues with generalizations aside, the associations of functioning levels and mental retardation diagnoses to autism clusters are still very weak.
A Bearman paper claimed close proximity to a person with autism was associated with a 10% decreased risk of a mental retardation diagnosis – just barely statistically significant (meaning, likely attributable to more than just chance). The upper limit of that finding's confidence interval was 1.00 – a 0% risk of acquiring a mental retardation diagnosis and living near a person with autism. Meanwhile, the positive association with developing autism and living near someone else with autism was much stronger and well within the range of statistical significance.
The high functioning autism claim was very strange; rather than simply divide up the groups into equal proportions – high-functioning, low-functioning and moderate – Bearman created a top 20%, bottom 20%, while putting the bulk of people with autism in the middle. The differences in both the high-functioning and low-functioning groups were not statistically significant when compared to the rest. And the 20% high-functioning group was barely statistically significant compared to the spacing risk in the 20%-lowfunctioning group, which was not statistically significant. Had these groups simply been equally divided into thirds as they should have been – rather than 20%, 60%, 20% - there would have been no statistically significant differences among the functional levels of autism.
And yet, it was on the basis of both of these supposed findings that Bearman dismissed environmental factors, despite having previously shown the audience a real-life example of an autism cluster in a neighborhood next to a construction site, which he acknowledged was an environmental omissions source for "metals." The relationship between environmental exposures and autism clusters would also link to the correlations found with older parents who are more likely to have greater exposure to environmental insults, but not the "de novo" mutations Bearman asserted that older parents were causing – mutations that have yet to even be discovered.
Bearman sure did not follow Occam's Razor – the principle that the more simple explanation is the correct one - in his analyses. The idea that "de novo" mutations behind the increase do not parallel at all with "social clustering," unless he is making the less direct claim that parents are influencing each other to have children later. Environmental exposures, however, would link both of these directly.
Before I was able to ask Peter Bearman about any of these additional concerns, the question and answer session was ended - cut short by 10 minutes, even though there was no shortage of questions from the audience. Evidently, there was a little too much scientific skepticism about Bearman's work to allot the full Q/A time the audience was promised.
One of the most amazing remarks Peter Bearman made during his lecture was his prediction that autism rates will go down and that it will be result of economic difficulties that will in turn reduce autism diagnoses. Yet, Bearman's own research - the one graph he left out of his exhaustive presentation - showed an increasing rate of children getting diagnosed at earlier ages. If he knows something about the future of autism rates that the rest of the audience does not, this would surely seem to contradict his prediction of an autism decrease caused by economic crises, if a decrease were to happen. Certainly, the reduction of thimerosal from vaccines as a cause would not sit well with the man funding him - Tom Insel, or his brother Richard who co-developed a thimerosal-preserved vaccine.
Nonetheless, Bearman shares that special passion with the IOM and its members like NVAC Vaccine Safety Working Group co-chair Marie ""We are not ever going to come down that [autism] is a true side effect [of vaccines]" McCormick of explaining the unexplainable. Perhaps that's why the CDC took notice and is now giving him additional funds to study assisted birth technology and its possible relationship to autism. If history is any indicator, it's not science, but Peter Bearman's opinions that will bring him more of the taxpayers' millions.
Jake Crosby has Asperger Syndrome and is a contributing editor to Age of Autism. He is a 2011 graduate of Brandeis University with a BA in both History and Health: Science, Society and Policy. In August, he will attend The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services where he will study for an MPH in epidemiology.
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Jake, I am enjoying your articles investigating the "truth" behind the so called experts. It is unfortuate these days that so many people have an agenda or financial incentive to make their cases for such things as vaccines, add, adhd, autism, etc. I still can't believe that the NIMH study on brain development in ADHD did so little to change anything. That study showed that ADHD children develop as do normal children, but are 3 to five years delayed. Many of the brain centers do not develop until the teen years. Leading to immature behavior. Maybe that is what occurred with you, maybe your brain finally developed fully, into the brilliant brain that it is. Keep up the good work. I see others are trying to discredit you, that seems to be par for the couse these days when anyone speaks the truth.
For anyone interested - I have written an article about autism rates in relation to thimerosal exposure last year, which relates to the second-to-last paragraph of this article:
Here is the direct link to the Bearman study on the decreasing age of diagnosis:
Peter Bearman relies on the now-defunct archives of the California Department of Developmental Services.
Thanks Jake,and Katie Wright for these to very good articles. It allows us to see what double talk around the issue really is like: Bearman thinks he is so smart and thinks he speaks better, and reasons better than any other cluster in the world, all while he "hatch" new hair brain theories instead of what is obvious.
What in the heck was a hatch anyway? Ahhh never mind, who cares.
I am with Barbara J who said:
" I came into the vaccine issue outside of the realm of autism, I came in wondering what vaccines did to my daughters blood vessels (kawasaki), how they caused my oldest son's crohn's (both of mine Barbara) and what part they play in a younger son's tachycardia (my husband's and my son's) and now the next to youngest's asthma (my kids too). Autism came later for us. BUT vaccine reactions , including my own baby seizures from dtp (mine too), and my children's 105+ fevers (again mine too), were all ignored and continue to be ignored "
Agreed Jen, Peter Bearman gives sociologists a bad name.
Hey, I'm all for multiple-disciplinary approaches to research/problems but Bearman's research (silly "cluster" theories) is just bogus and worthy of no monies for such an important topic.
I used to think it was all about the science and now I think it is about the ruling elite's politics. These guys go to school to become a PHD and go grow up to be a prostitute. Jake, you are doing a great job of exposing these jokers!
Some classic Bearman babble... by Katie Wright
Bearman answers: "genes, old parents and possibly a virus." This is the best he has got? The NIH gave this guy millions to come up with that?
By Katie Wright
The best opinion money can buy!
So funny! "Apparently Bearman disagrees with himself."
We need biologists, toxicologists and all types of environmental scientists investigating the causes of autism- not sociologists with no understanding of autism.
"parents aren't afraid of autism!" - one of many crazy proclamations he has made
Is the science in ? Do we know all there is to know about the how, when and why 's of these mutations? It surely seems to be the explanation dejour for autism,yet I have to wonder if it's accepted because there isn't enough known science to dispute it? My question, if my son has this mutated dna, and I don't, why is it assumed he was born with this and not that his dna was damaged shortly after birth by his exposures to his environment starting with his birth eye meds, belly salve and early vaccines?
In search I read this...which doesn't in my thinking exclude dna damage to the growing infant AFTER his birth. "occur during a lifetime"
Mitochondrial DNA is also prone to noninherited (somatic) mutations. Somatic mutations occur in the DNA of certain cells during a person's lifetime, and typically are not passed to future generations. Because mitochondrial DNA has a limited ability to repair itself when it is damaged, these mutations tend to build up over time. A buildup of somatic mutations in mitochondrial DNA has been associated with some forms of cancer and an increased risk of certain age-related disorders such as heart disease, Alzheimer disease, and Parkinson disease. Additionally, research suggests that the progressive accumulation of these mutations over a person's lifetime may play a role in the normal process of aging." NIH
Again, why is the money going toward blaming the genes without knowing when ,why and what caused the mutations? I don't think it can be denied that mitochondrial dysfunction can be acquired after birth. Those organs requiring the most energy, the heart and brain, would be the targets for damage. I came into the vaccine issue outside of the realm of autism, I came in wondering what vaccines did to my daughters blood vessels (kawasaki), how they caused my oldest son's crohn's and what part they play in a younger son's tachycardia and now the next to youngest's asthma. Autism came later for us. BUT vaccine reactions , including my own baby seizures from dtp, and my children's 105+ fevers, were all ignored and continue to be ignored , my kids do NOT get a medical waiver. NO doc wants to admit there is a need for one. My baby is unvaccinated , should he have a waiver given that he has five damaged sibs? NOOO..the doctors are failing us and his being another drip in the collateral damage barrel wouldn't bother them at all.
"If he knows something about the future of autism rates that the rest of the audience does not, this would surely seem to contradict his prediction of an autism decrease caused by economic crises, if a decrease were to happen. Certainly, the reduction of thimerosal from vaccines as a cause would not sit well with the man funding him - Tom Insel, or his brother Richard who co-developed a thimerosal-preserved vaccine."
I don't think Bearman has gone out on a limb predicting that autism rates will decease in the near future .. after all .. everyone expected autism rates to fall in accordance with the removal of thimerosal from vaccines. There is simply no way that removing thimerosal did not have any noticeable impact on exploding autism rates .. and yet .. that is exactly what we have been led to believe.
In my opinion .. had the CDC not deliberately created a "three year lag" in reporting autism rates .. the falling rates would have been immediately clear for everyone to see.
In any event .. should autism rates begin to fall in the near future .. various scientific charlatans and career public health officials .. will NEVER admit it was the removal of thimerosal that caused the fall. Instead .. we can anticipate themselves proudly claiming credit for "better diagnosing and early intervention" as an explanation for the decrease. Or .. in Bearman's case .. "economic difficulties"....
Man, he should run for office with all that double speak and nonsense. I will say that I have to agree with one thing, from our experience and those of our friends... pediatricians. Mine ignored everything I told him. He ignored every red flag my son had. I told him he suddently stopped speaking and hasn't spoken since (when he was very verbal before). He ignored my son's running for hours on end, hitting his head into the TV and walls, running into walls and windows, loss of social skills, and so on. He blew them all off. When we got the guts to self-refer to a developmental doctor, he acted odd that they came up with Autism. Really? Red flags were screaming! Friends with other pediatricians had the same situation happen to them. So it's probably a mixed bag out there.
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Like a well-made espresso, this trip is a short, strong hit of all things Italian! Walk in the footsteps of Roman Emperors & throw your 3 coins in the Trevi fountain. Enjoy traditional Tuscan hospitality, art & architecture in Renaissance Florence. Then finish up by wandering the tiny streets of Venice.


text: Thepain August 07, 2013 10:40 AM Even if he kept his name, people knew who he was and rather than avoid it he embraced it. Putting much more pressure on himself. He should have got one last chance. I know, he had 2 and a half years and only 1 of those years he had a bad car and still could not deliver. BUT the conditions under which he was judged and had to work was difficult. Even Torro Rosso give bad drivers 2 years (apparently) to deliver. He got half a chance and still ended up good against "higher rated drivers". Jenson


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Mapping the Future of Research at UAB
By Charles Buchanan and Matt WindsorBiomedical research at UAB spans hundreds of disciplines and attracts more than $400 million in funding each year from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other sources. But with grant applications more competitive than ever, the UAB School of Medicine and UAB Health System are placing special emphasis on areas in which scientists can accelerate their discoveries from the laboratory to patient-ready therapies. The AMC 21 strategic plan, announced in November 2011, calls for investments in new research positions and equipment in six key areas. Here is a look at some of the major initiatives being pursued in the plan.
Learn more about the AMC 21 plan, including its focus on innovation in clinical care and medical education at UAB:


text: This is my travel and every day bike. I have taken it to New Zealand ( I live in Australia) and am taking it to the US and Europe later this year. Apert from jamming it into the hardcae it rides like a dream. i am interested in seeing others like it..cheers


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A Campaign to Change "Attorneys General" to "Attorney Generals"
Cover the legal beat long enough and certain things begin to irritate. Like why do some firms have commas between their names (Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy) while others don't (Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld)? And why does New York insist on calling its highest tribunal the Court of Appeals rather than the Supreme Court?
And then there's the phrase "attorneys general." When referring to the chief lawyers of our 50 states in the plural, they're called "attorneys general" rather than "attorney generals." It never rolls off the tongue and when reading the phrase we always stop in our tracks. Like this sentence from yesterday's Law Blog: "The head of the U.S. Chamber Institute for Legal Reform applauded Bush's order and said she hopes it serves as an example for state attorneys general."
Researching the term's history, our crack staff came across this article by Michael Herz, a professor at Cardozo Law School. Historically, "general" refers not to rank or command but to the breadth of their practice. The first known use of the term "attorney general" occurred in England in 1398 in a certificate from the Duke of Norfolk's four attorneys general. These lawyers were known at first as general attorneys, and later came to be known as attorneys general. Hence, the awkward phrasing.
We called Jim Tierney, the director of the National State Attorneys General program at Columbia Law School. Tierney (pictured), a former Maine attorney general who lives in Lisbon Falls, took delight in our call and encouraged us to start a movement to change "attorneys general" to "attorney generals."
"I am all for 'attorney generals,'" said Tierney. "'Attorneys general' is stupid, silly and not the way we talk in Lisbon Falls. If anyone here ever had to say the plural they would want to say 'attorney generals.'" He adds: "Start a movement to change it to 'attorney generals' and I will be first on line."
Law Blog Movement of the Day: With the director of the National State Attorneys General on board, we have some serious momentum. So while we're sure that the staunch grammarians among you will vehemently disagree with our cause, we're launching The Campaign to Change "Attorneys General" to "Attorney Generals." O Law Blog readers, let us know if you'll join our cause.


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text: With apologies to the Oakland Raiders ... "Just Win Baby." That's the team mantra being picked up by the Del Oro Golden Eagles these days as the Sierra Foothill League football season heads for a stretch run that will probably require SFL fans to put on seat belts. Keeping with their recent penchant of taking their faithful on a wild roller-coaster ride, Friday night the Golden Eagles did it again as they parlayed a gritty second half of big plays on both sides of the ball to pull out a thrilling 24-21 win over host Granite Bay. And, the win couldn't have come at a more opportune time for the Golden Eagles who putting it simply are playing for their playoff lives every time they step on the field. ~ Staff report ------------------------ Sierra Foothill League Football Standings W L Roseville (6-2) 3 0 Del Oro (4-4) 2 1 Rocklin (6-2) 2 1 G. Bay (5-3) 2 1 N.Union (4-4) 0 3 Woodcreek (4-4) 0 3 Friday's Games Del Oro at Roseville, 7:30 p.m. Granite Bay at Rocklin Woodcreek at Nevada Union


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VALE — Firefighters battling a pair of fires in Eastern Oregon showed significant progress, according to the Bureau of Land Management's Vale District.
The Stockade Fire has now burned 6,613 acres and is 60-percent contained, while the Crowley Creek Fire has burned 12,935 acres and is 60-percent contained.
Taking advantage of lighter winds Wednesday morning, and the arrival of additional fire-fighting resources, fire personnel moved closer to containing both fires. The fires are located five miles due east of Stockade Mountain in Malheur County Oregon.
Three single engine air tankers working out of the Ontario Airport provided support to ground forces during fire operations.
Three of the ranches in the Crowley Creek area were threatened, along with numerous outbuildings but crews were able to keep the flames away and no damage was sustained.
The South Fork Fires continues to hold at 250 acres. One small flare-up occurred Wednesday but crews were able to keep the flames from spreading and containment lines were quickly secured in the area of the flare-up.
The Birch Fire, located near Huntington, started along Interstate 84 on Wednesday evening at about 6:50 p.m. BLM responded with six initial attack engines and three SEATs. Assisting the BLM were the Huntington, Nyssa, Ontario, Baker, Haines, Burnt River and Weiser, Idaho, rural fire departments. I-84 was temporarily closed due to thick smoke blowing across the highway. Fire personnel were able to stop the fire at approximately 100 acres.


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Upcoming Events
May 7The Magic of Ice: Photographs by Marilyn Maddison
May 7Webby's Art Studio: Woven Butterflies
May 12Gatherings in the Galleries: Collections Conversations with Curators and Conservators
May 12Webby's Art Studio: Frozen Masterpieces
May 14Webby's Art Studio: Frozen Masterpieces
May 19Gatherings in the Galleries: Collections Conversations with Curators and Conservators
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A Passion for Quilts: Joan Lintault Collects
May 15 - Oct 30View Gallery
Quilts collected and made by one of the pioneering art quilt makers of the 20th century.
Joan Lintault is an internationally renowned quilter who has been exhibiting her work since 1965 and is represented in the collections of the Museum of Art and Design in New York City, the International Quilt Study Center at the University of Nebraska and numerous public and private collections.
Joan uses a variety of techniques to achieve her visual effect but never relies on commercially patterned fabric, preferring to dye/screen print/paint her own canvas and then add quilting, appliqué and embroidery to create movement and depth. The Other Messengers, dating from 1995, is a tribute to fall—her favorite season. The leaves are joined with insects to create positive and negative spaces. The subconscious inspiration for this innovative design was born over thirty years earlier, when Joan made a sketch for an art class featuring the same elements.
The Other Messengers has been exhibited over a dozen times in the United States, France, Austria and Tokyo.
The Museum recently acquired The Other Messengers along with a group of quilts from the 19th and 20th centuries from America and India that represent a lifetime of collecting and influenced her work.


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Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon Cheats
Get a leg up on the invading horde of insects with this compendium of Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon Cheats. In addition to our full walkthrough, we're presenting lists of achievements, trophies, and more, all in order to improve your experience defending New Detroit as a member of the Earth Defense Force.
Regular Trophies
EDF! EDF! (Platinum)
Earn all Trophies in the game
Get a life
Amateur Ant Killer (Bronze)
Kill 100 Ants
100? That's nothing!
Welcome to the EDF (Bronze)
Kill 1000 Ants
1000? There must be a jillion of those things! Get busy!
Ant Farmer (Silver)
Kill 10000 Ants
Good start!
Newb (Bronze)
Kill 100 Spiders
You want a medal for that?
Good Start (Silver)
Make it through 5 Survival Mode Waves in one session
Five Alive
Spider Fighter (Silver)
Kill 10000 Spiders
Arachnocidal maniac!
Tick Picker (Bronze)
Kill 100 Ticks
Tick Tock Ya Don't Stop (Silver)
Kill 5000 Ticks
Hector? What? (Bronze)
Kill 10 Small Hectors
What's a Hector?
Hector Wrecker (Silver)
Kill 100 Small Hectors
Hector Who?
The Sting's the Thing (Bronze)
Kill 10 Wasps
Empty nest
War Against Soaring Pests Award (Silver)
Kill 100 Wasps
Get out of my yard!
It's a Start (Bronze)
Destroy 100 Gunships
Gunship Down (Bronze)
Destroy 1000 Gunships
1000 down
Fleet Depleter (Silver)
Destroy 10000 Gunships
Bet you died a lot doing this…
It's a Bomber (Bronze)
Kill 10 Bomber Spiders
Drop the Bombers!
Look What the Rookie Did! (Bronze)
Kill 5000 enemies
Bug juicer
Hangin' Tough (Bronze)
Survive 100 (total) waves in Survival mode
Big Wave Rider
Who Ravages the Ravagers? (Silver)
Kill 25000 Enemies
Master killer
Eyes Up! (Bronze)
Destroy 10 Carriers
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Carrier Dropper (Silver)
Destroy 100 Carriers
Mayday! Mayday!
Nesting Instinct (Bronze)
Destroy 10 Anthills/Spider Nests
Total Nest-ruction!
Homewrecker (Silver)
Destroy 100 Anthills/Spider Nests
Hit'em where they live!
Scavenger (Bronze)
Collect All Dropped Weapons
Look what the Hector Dropped!
Smells Like Team Spirit! (Bronze)
Incapcitate a teammate
Way to be!
Campaigner (Bronze)
Unlock all Armors
Sharp dressed man
All Dressed Up… (Bronze)
Level up an armor completely
Isn't that special…
Lifer (Bronze)
Level up all armors completely
Well, Hello, Mr. Fancypants!
High Roller (Bronze)
Purchase all available weapons for a single armor
You are a consumer
Daddy WarBugs (Bronze)
Purchase all weapons for all armors
All gunned up!
Helping Hand Award (Bronze)
Revive a teammate
Good job! Now do it some more
Bedside Manner (Bronze)
Revive 250 teammates
You're so nice
Survive-O-Rama (Bronze)
Survive 500 (total) waves in Survival mode
I will survive!
Surviving… (Bronze)
Get 1000 kills in Survival mode
Still on the island
Social Dead Butterfly (Bronze)
Get 10000 kills in Survival mode
They got…FRAGGED!
Lander Commander (Bronze)
Get 250 kills with the Lander Turret
Hot LZ? What hot LZ?
Mechs Master (Bronze)
Get 500 kills with the Mech
It's a Mech-a-delic freakout!
I Heard Them Scream… (Bronze)
Get 500 kills with the Tank
Tanks a lot
Nothing Turret (Bronze)
Get 500 kills with Base Turrets
Like a Turret in a punchbowl…
The Architect (Bronze)
Destroy 500 buildings
Urban renewal, EDF style
Demolition Derby (Bronze)
Destroy 500 cars/vehicles
Traffic un-jammer
Collateral (Bronze)
Destroy 500 world objects
You litterbug
Lemon Squeezy (Bronze)
Beat the game on Normal
Easy Peasy
Secret Trophies
Hectorcide (Bronze)
Kill a Large Hector
The bigger they are…
Regicide (Bronze)
Kill a Queen Ant
The Queen is dead!
Patricide (Bronze)
Kill a Daddy Long Legs
Well he's a long gone daddy…
Manticide (Bronze)
Kill a Mantis
We mean it Man…
Manticore (Silver)
Kill 10 Mantises
Preying ON Mantis
Chopper's Choice (Silver)
Beat the game on Hard
Rule #3
Infernal Master Destroyer Deluxe (Gold)
Beat the game on Inferno Dante?
Is that you?
Regular Achievements
Amateur AntKiller (5 points)
Kill 100 Ants
Welcome to the EDF (10 points)
Kill 1000 Ants
Ant Farmer (25 points)
Kill 10000 Ants
Newb (5 points)
Kill 100 Spiders
Good Start (10 points)
Make it through 5 Survival Mode Waves in One Session
Tick Picker (5 points)
Kill 100 Ticks
Spider Fighter (25 points)
Kill 10000 Spiders
Tick Tock Ya Don't Stop (10 points)
Kill 5000 Ticks
Hector? What? (5 points)
Kill 10 Small Hectors
Hector Wrecker (15 points)
Kill 100 Small Hectors
The Sting's the Thing (5 points)
Kill 10 Wasps
War Against Soaring Pests Award (10 points)
Kill 100 Wasps
It's a Start (5 points)
Destroy 100 Gunships
Gunship Down (10 points)
Destroy 1000 Gunships
Fleet Depleter (25 points)
Destroy 10000 Gunships
It's Bomber (15 points)
Kill 10 Bomber Spiders
Look What the Rookie Did! (10 points)
Kill 5000 enemies
Hangin' Tough (25 points)
Survive 100 (total) waves in Survival mode.
Who Ravages the Ravagers? (40 points)
Kill 25000 Enemies
Eyes Up! (15 points)
Destroy 10 Carriers
Carrier Dropper (25 points)
Destroy 100 Carriers
Nesting Instinct (25 points)
Destroy 10 Anthills/Spider Nests
Homewrecker (40 points)
Destroy 100 Anthills/Spider Nests
Scavenger (30 points)
Collect All Dropped Weapons
Smells Like Team Spirit (20 points)
Incapacitate a teammate
Campaigner (20 points)
Unlock all armors
All Dressed Up… (25 points)
Level up an armor completely
Lifer (40 points)
Level up all armors completely
High Roller (30 points)
Purchase all available weapons for a single armor
Daddy WarBugs (50 points)
Purchase all weapons for all armors
Helping Hand Award (5 points)
Revive a teammate
Bedside Manner (10 points)
Revive 250 teammates
Survive-o-Rama (30 points)
Survive 500 (total) waves in Survival mode
Surviving… (20 points)
Get 1000 kills in Survival mode
Social Dead Butterfly (20 points)
Get 10000 kills in Survival mode
Lander Commander (10 points)
Get 250 kills with the Lander Turret
Mechs Master (10 points)
Get 500 kills with the Mech
I Heard Them Scream (10 points)
Get 500 kills with the Tank
Nothing Turret (10 points)
Get 500 kills with Base Turrets
The Architect (20 points)
Destroy 500 buildings
Demolition Derby (20 points)
Destroy 500 cars/vehicles
Collateral (20 points)
Destroy 500 world objects
Lemon Squeezy (20 points)
Beat the game on Normal
Secret Achievements
Manticide (10 points)
We mean it Man…..
Manticore (10 points)
Preying ON Mantis
Patricide (10 points)
Well he's a long gone daddy….
Hectorcide (10 points)
The bigger they are….
Regicide (25 points)
The Queen is dead!
Chopper's Choice (50 points)
Rule # 3
Infernal Master Destroyer Deluxe (100 points)
Dante? Is that you?


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Don't worry, Dani and Jorge will try hard come race day. and you too have to try hard to find something to write here after Vale showed them the door. at 34 and two horrible years(look at Dovi) he is only one tenth from Jorge speaks volumes. I bet Jorge understands what I am saying. We will see for how many years Jorge and Dani and others can compete. Only immortal gods can compete for two decades.


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|Episode Information
|Season №:
|Episode №:
|July 21, 2012 (USA)
November 12, 2012 (Canada)
|Sister episode(s):
|"Extreme Spots"
|Luke Brookshier
Marc Ceccarelli
Derek Iversen
|Supervising Producer:
|Paul Tibbitt
|Luke Brookshier
Marc Ceccarelli
|Alan Smart
|Vincent Waller
|See all credits for this episode.
|"Extreme Spots"
|List of episodes
Simplified list of episodes
"Squirrel Record" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from season nine. In this episode, Sandy tries to break a number of world records.
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Sandy Cheeks
- Patrick Star (cameo)
- Squidward Tentacles (cameo)
- Sheldon J. Plankton (minor role)
- Gary the Snail (cameo)
- Earl Cheeks (debut)
- Sandy's Robots
- Author of Records Book (debut)
- Sandals (cameo)
The episode starts with Squidward's clock ringing. He pokes his head in the kitchen and yells at SpongeBob to go home. SpongeBob was obliviously not paying attention. A minute later SpongeBob's watch beeps and says it's quitting time. He asks Squidward why is he still here and Squidward, frustrated, runs out yelling angrily. He stuffed the Krabby Patty in his wallet. Then SpongeBob takes out the trash. SpongeBob is then confronted by Sandy, who he thinks is a garbage monster. Sandy then pulls out a book that holds all of the records in Bikini Bottom. Sandy claims she wants to beat every record in Bikini Bottom. After beating two records, SpongeBob realizes he forgot his camera, angering Sandy. When he returns, Sandy had constructed many robots to help keep track of her records. After SpongeBob leaves Sandy to clean Gary's litter box, he finds out Sandy has become obsessed with the record book. He then attempts to grab the book, only to be crushed in a robot machine for another record. Sandy then finds out and says she is done with the book anyone. The author for the book then enters the treedome and verifies the book is over 30 years old and that the records have already been broken. Yet, he claims SpongeBob had broken a record for having so many injuries from helping a friend. At the end, SpongeBob crumbles to pieces and the author takes a picture.
|( ‣ ) Associated production music
|( • ) Original music
|( ◦ ) SpongeBob music
• ? - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [title card]
• ? - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr ["It's quitting time, SpongeBob."]
‣ Harp Ding - Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob snaps fingers]
• ? - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob puts the patty in his wallet]
‣ Tympup B - Sammy Burdson, John Charles Fiddy ["But I do have to throw away the trash."]
• Hawaiian Sting - Nicolas Carr ["But I do have to throw away the trash."]
‣ Moon Walk - John Fox [SpongeBob taking out the trash]
‣ ? [something emerges from dumpster]
• ? - Jeremy Wakefield ["Sandy? You're a trash monster?"]
‣ Fancytale - Gregor F. Narholz [book of records]
‣ ? [SpongeBob stretching Sandy's tongue]
• ? - Jeremy Wakefield [end of scene]
‣ ? ["Yipes! Sweet mother of pearl!"]
• Steel Sting - Jeremy Wakefield [Sandy gulps]
‣ ? [SpongeBob and Sandy at the Chum Bucket]
‣ ? [giant barrel of raw chum]
• ? - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob feeds Sandy chum]
‣ Horror Crash - Harry Lubin [Sandy yelling]
‣ Ta-Ra C - Sammy Burdson, John Charles Fiddy ["Sandy, you did it! You survived!"]
• ? - Jeremy Wakefield [Sandy passes out]
‣ Pell-Mell - Sam Spence ["I know just what you need."]
‣ Sailor's Sting 4 - Michael Bolger, Nicolas Carr [SpongeBob feeds Sandy a Krabby Patty]
‣ Star Premiere - Sammy Burdson, John Charles Fiddy ["I did it! I'm alive!"]
‣ Sneaking About - Phillip Green [SpongeBob goes to get a camera]
• ? - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [woodchuck chucking]
‣ ? ["Wow, Sandy, what is all this?"]
• Slide Whistle Song - Nicolas Carr, Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [Sandy's front teeth grow]
‣ Steve's March - Sam Spence [spiciest chili gargle]
• ? - Jeremy Wakefield [SpongeBob cut up]
‣ Climb to Altitude - Trevor Duncan [largest house of cards]
‣ Clumsy A - Bernd Gesell [Patrick appears]
‣ Charge - ? ["I kick a touchdown!"]
‣ Six Powerful Cues (d) - Wilfred William Burns [Patrick knocks down the house of cards]
‣ ? ["What's next?"]
• ? - Jeremy Wakefield ["I think I smell Gary's sandbox."]
‣ ? ["I think you broke a record today, Gary."]
‣ ? [SpongeBob disguises himself as a robot]
‣ Danger HQ - Norman Dane ["Hey, where do you think you're going?"]
‣ Disturbances - Gerhard Trede [most robots built and destroyed in a day]
• ? - Jeremy Wakefield ["SpongeBob?"]
‣ Dream Date - Emil Cadkin, Phillip Green, William Loose ["I don't want to lose you, Sandy!"]
‣ Sneaking About - Phillip Green ["I've invited the author to verify my eminence."]
‣ Tympup B - Sammy Burdson, John Charles Fiddy ["Huh?!"]
• Hawaiian Sting - Nicolas Carr ["Huh?!"]
‣ SpongeBob History Song - Sage Guyton, Jeremy Wakefield [ending]
- This episode is available on the Extreme Kah-Rah-Tay DVD.
- It is revealed that Sandy has 100 woodchuck cousins, with one named Earl.
- Ironically woodchucks are a type of ground squirrel, which is also known as groundhogs.
- This is the first time Plankton has a customer by selling chum without any assistance.
- The way SpongeBob is sliced by the chainsaws slightly resembles his sliced body shown in the intro of the cartoon.
- This is the second time Sandy's robots are seen. The first being House Sittin' for Sandy.
- However, in this episode, the robots roll on wheels, instead of walking.
- This is the second time someone plays Solitaire. The first was in Bucket Sweet Bucket in which was played by SpongeBob on the computer of Karen, but in this episode, we see how Patrick plays Solitaire.
- This episode and Extreme Spots are both part season 9, but aired while season 8 was still airing.
- It is unknown how Sandy got the cobras in her treedome. It's also strange why the cobras are smaller than Sandy, but it's possible she shrunk them.
- Running Gag: Sandy trying to break records and SpongeBob getting hurt.
- This episode is similar to Prehibernation Week. In both episodes, SpongeBob assists Sandy but gets injured many times in the process.
- There is a game based on this episode, located at: nick.com.
- There was originally a scene where Sandy finds a record saying World's Fattest Body. This was cut because it was rather similar to the inflation Sandy had in "Bubble Troubles".
Cultural References
- This episode's title is a pun of "World Record".
- Sandy's record book is an obvious parody of the Guiness Book of World Records & Ripley's Believe It Or Not.
- In an ad for this episode it said Sandy and SpongeBob perform the "110 yard tongue pull". But on Sandy's tongue it shows inches, not yards.
- SpongeBob tells Sandy that he smells Gary's sandbox, but when SpongeBob is talking to Gary he calls it his litter box.
- When SpongeBob puts a patty in his wallet there is his milkshake dispenser card, but in the next scene, when SpongeBob took out the patty after Sandy had raw chum, it had a picture of a cowboy saying "Yee Haw!".
- When SpongeBob measured Sandy's tongue, he fell and his sleeves, arms, and his camera were shown outside his helmet after, but in the next scene, they were inside his helmet.
- After SpongeBob was crushed on the machine, He did not wear a helmet and he could breathe.


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Running for lifeMonday, June 30th, 2014
Cancer-surviving K9 flies through 5K run at Copper Mountain
Charlie plops into the cool clear water of a kiddie pool. A moment later he rattles his diminutive body like a tambourine, spritzing water in all directions as he squints his brown eyes.
After running 5 kilometers on a mountain trail Saturday morning at Copper Mountain Resort, any dog would relish such a dip. But Charlie isn't any dog. He's a cancer survivor.
"We found out about a year ago that he had cancer," said Karen Seitz of Breckenridge.
Charlie was diagnosed with K9 lymphoma at only 5 years old. At the stage the cancer was discovered, the vet predicted Charlie would live only a few more weeks at most without immediately starting chemotherapy.
But Seitz didn't have the money on hand needed to start chemo treatments. That's when the League for Animals and People of the Summit came to the rescue.
Even after the treatments Charlie continued to defy the odds. Charlie looks a little different now. His eyebrows fell out from the chemo, but he remains a fighter.
"After the chemo, they said his life expectancy was only 330 days," Seitz said.
There's no cure for the type of cancer Charlie has. He's currently in remission.
But it's been a full year now, and Charlie doesn't appear to be dying. Instead, he's thriving. He and Seitz were one of about 80 pairs of dogs and humans who took part Saturday morning in either the 5K or 10K race at Copper Mountain's inaugural "Copper's Gone to the Dogs" event. It was created as a fundraiser for LAPS.
And Charlie showed up for the race, finishing third place overall in the 5K.
"He finds his strength by remaining active and spending time in nature and the mountains," Seitz said. "He's a mountain dog."
Copper plans to make Gone to the Dogs an annual event.
"I think the turnout is pretty good," said Erin Woods, marketing manager for Copper Mountain Resort Association. "This is the first time we've held this so we didn't know what to expect. But this is a dog-loving community, and it's a great chance to spend a sunny day outside with our dogs."
But nobody probably appreciated the sunshine and mountain air that day as much Charlie and Seitz.
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Whenever I bleed my Shimano Deore brakes, I can never get the brake levers to be really tight. They respond okay, but not tight with a fast response as I would like.
Btw, I'm following the Park Tool bleed process for Shimano.
Does anyone have any tips on how to make those levers really tight, as in very little travel?


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May 1, 2016
Joran Van Der Sloot will go on trial today in Lima for the 2010 murder of a Peruvian woman.
The Dutch citizen, who was arrested after the 2005 disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway in Aruba but never convicted, has been in a Peruvian jail since June of 2010.
Prosecutors in Peru have pushed for a tough sentence, but Van Der Sloot said his rights were violated during his detention and arrest. Van Der Sloot has filed motions to have his signed and taped confession thrown out.
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Fashion News
Gas' new denim on Italian actress Laura Chiatti
07 Mar. 2013
Gas launches Pop-Up jeansThe Italian jeans specialist Gas is launching its new Pop-Up jeans, a new jegging model aimed at enhancing a women's body shape and adding definition. The effect is obtained thanks to high-performance stretch fabrics that reshape the figure while defining hips and buttocks and thanks to a special invisible trick. The "Pop-Up" effect is guaranteed thanks to two small "anatomical" cups in non-allergic material to slip into two inside pockets situated above the buttocks to make them fuller. The cups, which come in different sizes, dependent on the size of the jeans, are what give the edge to unique, totally innovative pants that really can give a "C" curve to the "B" side.
Internationally patented, Pop Up Jeans are the result of a year of testing in the Artisanal Room, Gas's own internal research and development laboratory where new fabrics, techniques and aesthetic solutions are studied and tested.
The "before and after" when wearing Gas' Pop-Up denim
The new model will sold internationally from 8 March (Women's Day) and will debut in Milan at Coin Department Store in Piazza V Giornate. Testimonial of the event will be Italian actress Laura Chiatti.
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Golden Eagles feature many star seniors
Editor's Note: This is the first of three columns chronicling the student-athletes of Colfax High, Del Oro, and Placer. The athletes of these three schools helped their respective schools to achieve success on the field while at the same time, they were stars in the classroom.
Competing in the rugged Sierra Foothill League, Del Oro, once again, proved it can compete with the best in the area. This year Del Oro won league titles in girls' cross country, girls' basketball, wrestling, boys' and girls' golf, and girls' track.
Savannah Pingree: Pingree will be attending Willamette University in Salem, Ore. on an athletic scholarship. She was the SFL MVP for two years, and was all-league for three years.
Jesse Stafford: Stafford will be attending the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. on a wrestling scholarship. In addition to finishing second in the state in wrestling, he also will receive a special award from Del Oro High for competing in three sports — cross-country, wrestling, and track for four years.
Josh McCormick: Traveling across the country, McCormick will attend the Merchant Marine Academy in Long Island, New York on a swimming scholarship. He was a two-time all America swimmer, a two-time all section in water polo, and first-team All-Metro in water polo.
Jessica Mixon: Mixon has left her mark on the Del Oro track program. She is a four year letterman in track. She holds the school record in the triple jump and is the league champ in the high jump. Mixon will be attending Cal State Northridge in the fall.
Spencer Butterfield: No athlete graced the front page of the Auburn Journal sports section more than Butterfield. He was also an all-Sierra Foothill League basketball and football players for two years. In addition, he was honored as one of the region's top scholar-athletes. Butterfield will attend Yuba College in the fall and play basketball.
Emily Mattevi: Mattevi was a first-team all-league selection in volleyball her senior year. She also ran on the track team her final year at Del Oro. She will be attending Cal Poly SLO after graduation.
Kelsey Seaman: According to Del Oro's athletic director Monte White, Seaman, "epitomizes what a Del Oro athlete would look like. It's about the team and the experience." Seaman ran cross country, track, and played basketball. She will attend Azusa-Pacific University next year.
Travis Doupnik: Earning a 3.6 GPA, Doupnik was a standout lineman for the football team. He was an all-league selection his junior and senior year. In addition, Doupnik was acknowledged as one of the top scholar-athletes in football for the Sacramento region. Colorado University in Boulder will be his destination in the fall.
Jason Armes: Despite breaking his neck playing water polo his junior year, Armes focused on swimming his senior year to qualify for the sections in the 500 meters. Like so many students in the area, the siren call of the ocean beckons. Armes will be attending Cal Poly SLO next year.
Bethany Milton: A three-sport workhorse for the Golden Eagles, Milton played golf, basketball and soccer for three years. While not competing, she earned a 3.7 GPA in the classroom. Milton will attend Sierra College in August.


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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Authorities investigating the apparent suicide of a college student discovered weapons and explosive devices in a dorm on the University of Central Florida campus in Orlando early Monday, and hundreds of students were evacuated, though the school said there was no immediate threat.
University police were called to the dorm around 12:20 a.m. after a fire alarm went off, UCF spokesman Grant Heston said. While they were on their way to the scene, a 911 call came in about a man with a gun.
Arriving officers found a man dead from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside a residence at the Tower 1 dorm. Heston said the man was a student at the university.
Heston said the dorm has suites, with a main kitchen and living area, along with four bedrooms. The dead man was inside one of the rooms. Inside the room, police also found what they described as an assault weapon, a handgun and improvised explosive devices.
Heston said the Orange County Sheriff's Office and the FBI are helping with the investigation. The sheriff's bomb squad was examining the explosive devices Monday morning.
About 500 students were evacuated from the dorm and an adjacent parking garage was closed initially.
"We don't believe there is any imminent threat to the campus," Heston said.
The university canceled classes through noon Monday as a precaution. Flashing signs around the campus alerted students and staff about the cancelled classes. Campus shuttle buses were lined up about a half-mile from campus, with drivers standing by once the campus opens.
Antonio Whitehead, 21, a junior from Hollywood, Fla., said he heard the fire alarm go off after midnight and thought it was a routine alarm. He headed outside where he saw a crowd already heading across the street from the dorm.


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Besides that, it's a completely useless app for adults, since it's just a cat and a dog doing silly things and repeating the same actions over and over again. The repetition of sentences can be funny for a while or on specific moments but not for a long time.
Kaufcom Games Apps Widgets is the developer of this app, along with plenty of other ones that are available for you to download. This is only recommended for kids and babies, otherwise it gets boring and unfunny.
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I'm a Giants fan. I also work in the media industry. But up until Saturday, it pains me to admit that I was part of the 30% of homes that still don't have a HDTV. Now it was a moral imperative to experience the game in the best way possible, at least from my own
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They say that all you need to do is to put sports on TV and men will find it. Well, it's not always quite that easy. In fact, lately it's been the case that they find it quite a bit better on when it's on broadcast television than when it airs on cable. During Major


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I know it's a little greedy, but I'm getting tired of what I have and I'm in the mood for some new stuff to scrap with. What's the last thing you bought from the boutique? Right now I'm looking at Fee's Yeah Baby kit.
I know it's a little greedy, but I'm getting tired of what I have and I'm in the mood for some new stuff to scrap with. What's the last thing you bought from the boutique? Right now I'm looking at Fee's Yeah Baby kit.
that's my favorite too! actually I have my eye on several fee kits. BUT I told myself no more buying stuff until I actually need it to scrap with, I have lots to use first. so no retiring anything until I tell you it's okay, miss jardine!
i can't think what the last thing I bought was....maybe Amy Jo's overlays?
It looks like all of AmyJo's stuff is on sale right now? Is she clearing out of the boutique? Head over there, girls, and click on the 'specials'... there's a TON of stuff. A lot of paper packs that were only $1
I love lauras stamps!!
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Um....Hannah Banana ROCKS!!!!!!!!!
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Ok, here's what I ended up getting... the Oct. zine (i'll look at that once I get these monkeys in bed), Fee's Good Times stamps (I'm such a sucker for alpha stamps) and Amber's Date Stamp brushes. I'm ready to work!!!
I've also decided that I'm going to make an album about our pets for my kids, so they'll have it when they're older and remember all about our cat and dog. So when I'm ready to do that I'll need Heather's 2 pet kits. They are SOOOO cute! Has anyone used them? If so I'd really like to see your pages
ok- i dont know if this happened to anyone else, but after i made my last post I got to thinking about that kit and ended up cruising over to the boutique to get it.... lol. Good thing my hubby doesn't really see the paypal bill. Yikes.
I just got Heather's pretend kit and the halloween add on. I'm looking at the new dezine and Fee's Yay Baby
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LOL!! Well, it's a really nice kit. It has such a homespun feeling to it, dontcha think? And don't worry, we'll keep your little secret If my dh ever got into my paypal acct. I'd have some splainin' to do.Originally Posted by jennamelia
Hmmm...well...I've just purchased and am downloading this really cute kit called Hannah Banana...wonder who that could be by? heehee Your latest kit is ADORABLE, Val!!!!! I look forward to playing with it
My blogaroo...my personal site - ajoyfulheart.com...my newsletter
I just bought Winelands by Sarah and Mari, absolutely love that kit...Also picked me up Denim Gal, another must have, especially for anyone who has a girl... (Denim Gal is also by Mari!)
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Ohhh I have all of the kits mentioned here......awesome choices everyone....but have you guys seen Vera's Live Your Life ......dang...her preview doesn't do it justice so I will "temporarily" borrow her image to show you the elements.....the papers are just as gorgeous!
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ooh!! vera's IS gorgeous!!
fee's paint box, blooms, and good times brushes
val's foam stamp alpha and hippie halloween
christine's black ribbon pack and 'a brush with tea' pack
kim's just the basics 'paper alpha'
so uh..yeah...a lot LOL
I love that blossom accent in Veras kit!
Psstt....have you guys seen Yvette's awesome felt and that she created an action to make your own???? It's in the store now.....dang they look REAL!!! Now if she can just create the real kind that automatically glue on to your kid's projects - I will hug her!!!
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I see seaweed flats for sale, and they say they are also good for freshwater fish. Anyone use them? What color does your fish prefer? I am getting some Hikari sinking wafers and thought I'd try the seaweed with a veggie clip. I like to feed my fish a wide variety of foods. I just don't know what color to get, as I keep reading it comes in green, red, brown, purple, and whatever else. Would it be worth it? And what color do most freshwater fish prefer?
Here's a link of some of the green variety.
They also sell it on ebay in different colors.
Sounds like fun for the fish! Just how bad of a mess does it make? It clear up again though, I presume. Thanks for replying, I think I'll try it.
Thank you, and yes, I was planning on getting a clip. I'll try a small piece first, lol. Thank you again!
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A letter from Eric Hinderliter on home assignment from Lithuania
Summer 2013
We are now deep into our "interpretation assignment" (IA) here in the U.S.A. We are beginning to recognize that the "interpretation" part of this assignment is not just relating what we have done as mission co-workers in Lithuania for these past 12 years. The deeper question is, what have you become? Being versus doing. We think about how we have changed over the 12 years in Lithuania. We are less worried about the doing part and more concerned with a lifestyle of service that is an authentic witness. What has become important to us is what students often report they are seeking—an authentic relationship with a caring and trustworthy adult. Our investment of time and energy, made possible by your gifts, is devoted to relationships with students, relationships that transcend the classroom and that last well beyond their graduation.
It has been said that missionaries have great credibility; their message receives much attention in the church. Like Paul and Barnabas at the end of their first missionary journey, we want to report "all that God had done through them and how he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles" (Acts 14: 27). So what exactly have we been saying?
We relate the stories of faith—God at work—among the students we encounter. Here is one of the many stories we share. A graduate of LCC International University from our early days as teachers wrote to us about God's call to her, about how she found that all things work for good for those who love God. After many false starts, Vaida has found her true vocation as a logistics officer for the Tearfund, an evangelical relief and development agency in the United Kingdom. Finally, she reports, she is working in a field that is "exciting and utterly fulfilling. … I had to wait 7 years to get this job, just like Jacob working for 7 years to get Rachel." Her work has taken her to South Sudan. "Sudan was an amazing experience. While I was there, God showed me once more how everything that I went through in life comes together and makes the next experience easier to handle. Even memories from living in the Soviet Union, growing up in Lithuania, living in Birmingham (in the United Kingdom) (which looks and feels like the Middle East or Central Asia) [editors' note: one of the most diverse cities in the UK] – everything started to make sense and I could see why they were necessary." God is at work among the students we know. And we know this is not our doing. Our watchword, one that has taken on deeper meaning since we first read it on the great stone at the entrance to a Christian institute in India, remains "This is the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes" (Psalm 118:23).
A question we often ask people who visit us on short-term mission trips to Lithuania is "Who do you think they think you are?" We ask ourselves the same question. Robert Burns expressed this question a different way: "God give us the gift to see ourselves as others see us. " How are we recognized? Peter and John were recognized because of their testimony about Jesus, and the boldness of their witness (Acts 4:13). So what is required for us today to be recognized as "companions of Jesus"? Students tell us that we don't realize how "vivid" we are. They watch us carefully for what we hold as first importance in our lives. We aspire to be recognized for our witness to the gospel and not because of wealth, status, or power.
Our goal during IA has been to visit as many of the 20 Presbyterian churches that support us directly as we can to say thank you. We hope our visits have had some effect on the congregations we visit. Paul was clear in his objective for his interpretation: to strengthen and mutually encourage one another in the faith (Romans 1:11-12). One of our students, Aina, a recent graduate from Albania, knows that we too need to be encouraged. She wrote recently: "I hope and pray that you are at the moment deeply encouraged and excited for what the Lord has done through you and what He plans to do through you in the coming academic year. Please, don't ever forget: He uses you in mighty ways, many of them you probably don't know or notice."
In August we'll be at the Big Tent celebration in Louisville, Kentucky. It's been called "a giant Presbyterian family reunion." The theme is "Placing God's First Things First" (Matt. 6:33–34). We will be part of the World Mission Conference, "The Power of We: Collective Impact in God's Mission," exploring how can Presbyterians engage in global mission for collective impact. We hope to greet many of you there. For more information go to the PC(USA) website www.pcusa.org/impact.
We return to Lithuania on August 23, in time for the September start of classes at LCC International University. We wonder now what will be required for us to be faithful servants and witnesses over the next four years of teaching at LCC. As we have been changed—even we dare say transformed—we have come to terms with many things: how to deal with the unexpected surprises of opened situations and unpredictable people. Our plans are no longer set before we arrive. We need to adapt to the changing scene to remain relevant and respectful in Lithuania and the post-Soviet spaces to the east. We also increasingly recognize the realities of personal powerlessness and what Anthony Gittins calls "institutional obtuseness," the cares and frustration of working in large organizations like universities and denominations. Faithful service is all we can hope to offer in the face of what has been described as the seismic shifts in the institutions we are part of.
Thank you for being part of this journey with us. Your prayers, emails, and cards uplift our spirits and, together with your financial gifts, make our ministry possible, and we're certainly in need of more of each! The Presbyterian Mission Agency in Louisville speaks of a seismic shift in how mission is done these days—and how co-workers like Becky and I are supported: "As churchwide funding changes, direct financial support from individuals (over and above their congregational giving), combined with Basic Mission Support from congregations, is vital to enable dedicated Presbyterian mission personnel share the love of Jesus Christ." Please continue to support us so that we can continue walking with young people in this part of the world.
Grace & peace,
Eric & Becky Hinderliter
The 2013 Presbyterian Mission Yearbook for Prayer & Study, p. 284
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