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Wow. This is a total time warp to the days of jelly shoes, name engraved metal bracelets, and Members Only jackets (the first time). When I first heard Splash I was sure this was some New Edition song from 1982. Then I was like, "No. Wait. Maybe this is Madonna's band from 1983 minus Madonna." But then I thought Madonna probably never even had a band except for whatever studio musician was hanging out that day. Anyway, Splash is a NEW band featuring Etienne Duguay. You might remember him as the former drummer for Real Estate. This doesn't sound like Real Estate. Just letting you know. This sounds like Tiffany minus Tiffany. (Oh My Rockness)
Psychobuildings is a psychedelic construction of danceable beats, lyrical splendor, and shimmering dance performance.
The average fan of twee English indie-pop from the '80s is the pasty sort who only goes outside when her mom makes her, which is hell in the summer when the sun beats down on all that black clothing. Then there's Andrés Pichardo. Born and raised in the Dominican Republic, Pichardo fell in love with jangling English pop as a teenager before heading to Massachusetts for college and, not incidentally, to play music under the name Grand Resort. He's since relocated to Brooklyn, where Grand Resort is readying its 8-song debut, "Vanguard Dreams," with a free tune, "Night is Dark."With chiming, airy guitars, understated, atmospheric keyboards and murmuring vocals swathed in reverb, the songs sounds like it could have been an outtake from the C-86 collection.
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It took some people in Fresno County a long time to accept Madera County as an equal. When our bold, pioneer ancestors decided to separate and form their own county, they didn't surprise anyone. The authorities in Fresno were not shocked at all, but at the same time, it was difficult to mask the feelings of superiority with which the upstarts were viewed.
The newspapers of Fresno never failed to take pot-shots at the incipient attempts at self-determination on the part of the founders of Madera County. Beginning in 1890, the county division movement was regularly assailed, and by 1893, the public tone in Fresno had turned blatantly sarcastic. How dare these ingrates even propose leaving the nurturing arms of Fresno!
When a public meeting, held on January 28, 1893, revealed the determination of the affected residents to do just that, the assembly was characterized as having a "howling time."
Undaunted, the proponents of separation pushed ahead, and on May 16, the voters ratified the movement. Madera was jubilant while Fresno could barely remain civil. The press, especially the Fresno Expositor, constantly impugned the new creation. Avuncular condescension reeked from almost every article which referred to the newest California county.
An excellent example of these journalistic sour grapes appeared in May of 1893. No sooner had the last vote been counted than a headline in the Fresno paper attempted to put Madera County residents in their place. In an article entitled, "Madera County's Little Slice of Schools," the writer pointed his condescending finger north and proclaimed that Fresno County would no longer pay for education north of the San Joaquin.
Continuing his pejorative broadside, the reporter pointed out that "the schools on the north side of the River, in the new county of Madera, will hence forth and forever have to stand or fall alone, and without any support from this side of the San Joaquin....
At the time, there were 27 school districts in Madera County. The largest was Madera, with its two elementary schools, a new high school, and 444 students. The smallest was San Joaquin with 9 pupils. In between, there were such one-school districts as Arcola (52) Berenda (62), Raymond (60), and La Vina (51).
Other school districts dotting the landscape of the new county, all with fewer than 50 students, were Alpha (22), Coarse Gold (46), Cleveland (28), Daulton (25), Dennis (22), Eastin (28), Flume (27), Fresno Flats (49), granite (40), Orange Grove (26), Sweet Flower (24), Spring Valley (40), Sesame (22), Webster (46), Willow Creek (25), Gertrude (31), Green (44), Gambetta (45), Hanover (40), Knowles (20), and Mary's Dale (28).
The Fresno reporter asserted that education north of the San Joaquin paled almost to insignificance when the student counts of both counties were compared. While Fresno County was busy educating 7,170 students, Madera County pupils numbered a paltry 1,356. The underlying inference was that the residents of Madera County had been precipitate in separating and would have quite a struggle reaching the intellectual heights that had been attained south of the River.
In the mind of the Expositor's reporter, not only did sheer numbers relegate Madera County to a second class status but so did its presumed dependence upon Fresno County to shoulder part of its educational expenses.
T.J. Kirk, Fresno County Superintendent of Schools, stated that since "no further connection in educational matters existed" between the two counties, the teachers of Madera County were put on notice that they would have to "look for their pay to their own side of the river."
The interesting thing about this public admonishment to self-reliance is that there is no record that it was ever necessary. No officer of Madera County ever indicated that Fresno County would be looked to for financial support. As far as the sources indicate, no teacher in Madera County ever expected to be paid by Fresno County. The matter of county division had been explored thoroughly, and the ability to achieve financial self-sufficiency was well established before this issue was submitted to the legislature.
Not even B.A. Hawkins, Madera County's first Superintendent of Schools, escaped contempt from Fresno County. Hawkins began his career in education as a teacher south of the river. Later he was elected to the position of Superintendent of Schools there. When it became obvious that a new county was to be created, Hawkins threw his hat into the ring at Madera. With the affirmative vote for county division came Hawkins' election as its schools chief.
The Fresnoites were quick to point out that Hawkins would endure a significant reduction in salary by taking the helm of Madera County's schools. He would earn only $500 dollars per year. The paper, however, caustically reminded its readers that Hawkins could hold a teaching position concurrently with his tenure as Superintendent, suggesting that he could perform his administrative duties on Saturday.
It is not known how accurate the $500 dollar figure was, but there is no record that Hawkins had to teach school to supplement his superintendent's salary.
In time, Madera County won its place of parity. It never did become as large as Fresno County, but the quality of life that it offered its citizens compared quite favorably with any county in California. One wonders how those leaders of a century ago--those who thought that surely nothing good could come from Madera--would view the situation today.

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SUGAR LAND, Texas, April 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- CVR Partners (NYSE: UAN) today announced that it will release its first quarter 2012 results on Wednesday, May 2, after the close of New York Stock Exchange trading. Chief Executive Officer Byron Kelley and other executives then will host a teleconference call for analysts and investors on Thursday, May 3, at 9:30 a.m. Eastern time. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080226/CVRLOGO)The Earnings Conference Call will be broadcast live over the Internet at http://www.videonewswire.com/event.asp?id=86172. For investors or analysts who want to participate during the call, the dial-in number is (877) 869-3847. For those unable to listen live, the Webcast will be archived and available for 28 days at http://www.videonewswire.com/event.asp?id=86172. Or, you can hear a repeat of the conference call by dialing (877) 660-6853, replay account 386, replay ID 391920. CVR Partners' first quarter 2012 earnings news release will be distributed via PR Newswire and posted at www.CVRPartners.com. About CVR Partners, LP Located in Coffeyville, Kansas, CVR Partners, LP is a Delaware limited partnership focused primarily on the manufacture of nitrogen fertilizers. The CVR Partners nitrogen fertilizer manufacturing facility is the only operation in North America that uses a petroleum coke gasification process to produce nitrogen fertilizer and includes a 1,225 ton-per-day ammonia unit, a 2,025 ton-per-day urea ammonium nitrate unit, and a dual-train gasifier complex having a capacity of 84 million standard cubic feet per day of hydrogen. SOURCE CVR Partners, LP
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Saturday, February 11, 2012
A combined Smithsonian and local exhibition on how Americans worked before modern conveniences opened Saturday in Fulton at the National Churchill Museum.
"I guess I must be getting old. A lot of the antiques I see on display are all too familiar to me," said Doris Handy, 82, of Fulton, who toured the display Saturday.
Handy said she was impressed by the Callaway County portion of The Way We Worked display.
One of the displays included a photograph of Ella Whyte with her students at Carver School in Fulton.
"My son attended her classes," Handy said.
Handy said she lived in Fulton while growing up for about 20 years and then worked in New York and Kansas before returning to Fulton about 25 years ago.
Handy said she saw items on display that were familiar to her. "As a youngster," Handy said, "I visited frequently my grandparents, Lewis and Gertrude Brooks, in Tebbetts."
Handy said life was not as rushed when she was growing up. "People run through the day and don't take time to enjoy their life. I wish more young people were interested in history," she said.
Andy Hough of Wildwood came to the National Churchill Memorial Saturday for a tour and decided to check out the Callaway County The Way We Worked display as well.
Hough said he was impressed by the miniature steamboat created by Larry Languell of Callaway County.
Jane Hafey, who volunteers frequently at the Kingdom of Callaway Historical Society, also volunteered Saturday to work at the display.
"People are really enjoying the exhibit," she said.
Mark Brooks of Auxvasse, a sheet metal worker, checked out the display prepared by Sheet Metal Workers Union Local 36.
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My Livebearer 20g
I'm from India & its quite tough to get good plants and fish out here
This is my 20g tall live bearer planted
The tank recently got Swords they were not too good at the store but it was a steal
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Hey! Welcome to the forum! I think it's doing good, especially if supplies are hard to come by there! What sorts of livebearers are you keeping? :-)
1 Lairtail Swordtail (Male)
2 Mollies (Females)
had a Guppy who spawned but then did not make it, so a few of her fry are still hiding around in the tank
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Rosa owns a store located in her house in a small town outside of Ayacucho where she sells food staples such as flour, rice, and sugar. She has owned this store for eight years. Five years ago she was able to buy a photocopy machine with a loan from the community bank that has made her business more profitable. On the weekends, Rosa travels to regional markets to buy grains that she then grinds in to flour and sells. Rosa is hoping to open a second store in the city of Ayacucho.
Rosa needs a loan of 1400 soles (3 soles = $1), which she will use together with her savings to open the second store.
Rosa dreams that her children will be successful, and hopes to eventually be able to buy them a piece of land.
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SANTA MONICA—Santa Monica City Council approved the issue to set a new parking rate at the lowest available price in downtown for those who are disabled and living in 100% affordable housing units when there is no available parking site.
According to the meeting, the lowest rate will be set at $65 per month. This policy change will benefit many community members with no doubt. City staff stated, those with disabled placards have more financial problems than those who did not and the policy is being implemented to better assist the community.
The city approved a residential building at Second Street without any onsite parking after the developer, Community Corporation of Santa Monica, paid fees to the Downtown Parking District.
Those people who live in a 100 percent affordable housing unit with disable placards, in the downtown core and cannot afford an onsite parking space will only pay $65 per month in the future instead $160 per month in the past.
For more information, you can go to Santa Monica City Council http://www.smgov.net/departments/council/, or call 310-458-8201.
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The 10th annual 24-Hour Comics Day will take place on Saturday, October 5, as announced at the ComicsPRO Annual Members Meeting. Starting this year, the event will be held annually on the first Saturday in October.
"The 24-Hour Comics Day committee has decided to make 24-Hour Comics Day the first Saturday of October every year, based on feedback from participants," said ComicsPRO director executive director Amanda Emmert.
24-Hour Comics Day is an annual challenge for cartoonists to produce a 24-page comic book written, drawn, and completed in 24 consecutive hours.ComicsPRO, the comic book specialty retailer trade group, organizes the day. ComicsPRO invites comic book artists, whether professional or amateur, young or old, to check out a local venue or try the challenge on their own.
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Why am I so nauseous?
My son is 8 months I had my tubes tied in Feb. Everyday for the last week I have been getting so nauseous in the early afternoon lasting all day. Does anyone know what might be causing this or has experienced this? I'm going to make a Dr appt next week if it continues.
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In 'Gladiator,' the Rev. Jerry Falwell finds many comparisons to modern-day politics.faith and politics. Pastor Falwell took time this week to discuss "Gladiator" with Jonathan V. Last.
"Gladiator" is the story of Maximus (Russell Crowe), a general in the Roman army at the dawn of the Christian era. When the dying emperor asks Maximus to succeed him, he earns the enmity of the emperor's son, Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix), who disregards his father's wishes, grabs the throne, and has Maximus' family killed. Maximus himself escapes, however, and vowing revenge on Commodus, rises as an anonymous gladiator to face his rival.
In "Gladiator," we have this emperor whose unbridled ambition and flexible morality places his country in danger. Maximus, on the other hand, is a religious man, persecuted for trying to bring down the emperor. Does that make him Ken Starr?
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FORT BENNING, Ga. - Benning Boulevard, the Stone Gate, will close at 6 p.m. Saturday and re open at 5 a.m. Monday.
The access control point on Benning Boulevard near Custer Road will be open Saturday so post residents can access the National Infantry Museum. However, the Benning Boulevard ACP will be closed from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday.
Custer Road ACPs to change hours
Because of recent budget cuts affecting 10 contracted security guard positions, the working hours at ACP 4 (Custer Road) and ACP 5B (North Custer and Old Cusseta roads) were reduced, effective Wednesday.
The new hours at ACP 4 are 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday.
It will be closed weekends and federal holidays.
ACP 5B will be open 4 a.m. to noon Monday through Friday, and closed on weekends and federal holidays.
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File-N-Forget Podcast Episode 18: Master Debaters
This week's File-N-Forget Podcast addresses the issues surrounding the recent events concerning Fox News and Mass Effect. Shawn and Ron discuss Gamers' Worst Enemy: Themselves. Are the recent explosions by gamers on Amazon warranted, or is there a better way to handle these things?
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also, do these big wheeled bikes suffer from the leg suck problem? it looks as though one's toe might drag a bit should a foot drop, but it doesn't look like there'd be a high risk of leg injury. am i wrong for thinking this?
also, do these big wheeled bikes suffer from the leg suck problem? it looks as though one's toe might drag a bit should a foot drop, but it doesn't look like there'd be a high risk of leg injury. am i wrong for thinking this?
I'm more familiar with leg suck on a trike where the frame is a few inches off the ground and it is easy to get your leg caught between the frame and the ground if your feet come off the pedals. I also ride a Linear LWB and an Haluzak Horizon SWB in addition to a trike and can't imagine even the possibility of getting my leg caught by anything, even the USS handlebars. Hitting my heel against the front wheel on a turn is a different matter but that soon becomes second nature to avoid with even a few miles under your belt.
Do you want complete bikes or just frames that you can build up?Originally Posted by goldfishin
If we are talking bikes I can suggest Volae or Bacchetta - they are both good, but not cheap.
Rans has some dual 26" models although I am not very familiar with them - Rans does have a good rep for quality though.
You can check out actionbent they have inexpensive bents - they may have a dual 26" model - not sure and I have no idea what the performance/quality would be like.
There is a propensity for heel strike on the front wheel in slow speed turns, ie within or slightly larger radius than half of 2 lane road. Leg suck with a 26" wheel is relatively unlikely as the distance to the
ground is large enough that most riders would arrest the leg before it hit the ground. Others have
different opinions, but I feel a dual 26" is intended for riders at least 68" tall. Shorter riders can ride
one but have to shift the body forward in the seat or tippy toe to reach the ground.
Not exactly cheap but www.carbent.com has interesting dual 26".
frames i can build up. i figure my mtb already holds all the needed parts.Originally Posted by vik
Volae will sell just frames, but new frames cost a large portion of what the whole bike is sold for. If you have existing parts maybe buy a used bent and use to parts to replace worn out parts. Also check out Cruzbike kits and make your own bent.Originally Posted by goldfishin
what's the point in front wheel drive? (i mean for real... not for advertising)
For the Cruzbike it makes for a relatively easy kit most people can put together. For other designs it allows you to simplify the bike making it a bit lighter, you can place the seat where you like without worrying about the chainline and often the bike comes apart for travel.Originally Posted by goldfishin
A FWD would not be my first choice, but then again I have never tried one.


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Never ridden any of the Katy Trail before, but we only live a few hours from mid Missouri. So we were thinking about going up to check it out some time soon(next few weeks). Might just go for one day, or we might go one day, camp(or stay in a motel) somwhere up there close to the trail, ride a little more on day two and then head home.
Anyone that has ridden the Katy got enough experience to tell me which "legs" of the trail are the most fun and scenic to ride? Some pictures I've seen show an area that has real tall, steep cliffs(near Rocheport I think)....that would probably be cool. Anyway, any advice or head's ups would be appreciated by this Katy newbie.
We did buy the guide book a while back but I never got around to reading the whole thing. Just thought somone with some KT experience might be able to helpus decide where to go.


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There's a new host in the late-night talk show circuit.
"Late Night" with Seth Meyers kicks off this week, which airs in the 12:30 a.m. timeslot immediately following Jimmy Fallon's "Tonight Show" on NBC.
Meyers inherited the show from Fallon after Jay Leno retired from the "Tonight Show."
Both Meyers and Fallon skyrocketed to fame for the time on "Saturday Night Live" -- both having hosted "Weekend Updated."
As Fallon passed the "Late Night" baton, he gave Meyers some advice.
"Mostly just be patient. You know? Commit to your idea of what you want the show to be and don't over react, over course correct the first couple of night, but you know it's fun. You kind of have to figure out the job by doing it so we're excited to start doing it."
Meyers has come a long way. He's been on "SNL" as a cast member for 12 years and the head writer since 2006.
"Basically, I'm moving 30 feet," Meyers says of his move down the hall at the NBC studios at 30 Rockefeller Center in New York City.
It may be a short distance but it's a BIG step.
"I'm 51 percent excited and 49 percent terrified, which is good though," Meyers says. "That's the majority."
It's going to be a change of pace for Meyers going from one show a week to five.
"You have to generate a lot of material, you get to have a really fun writing staff, and you get to be fluid because of how often you have to do it."
The first "Late Night" guest will be his good friend and fellow "SNL" cast member Amy Poehler.
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The nude body of a man was found bludgeoned to death on top of the Peabody Auditorium in Daytona Beach on Saturday afternoon, police said.
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So I had the urge to try something out today, basically adding the wall faces as another element that can be used in some battle maps. Tried a test image in a square format to tryout. Let me know what you guys think.
Edit: The more I play around with the idea there more I realize it won't work for battle maps. Maybe a dungeon layout can profit from the styling. Basically the initial room where your positioned directly overhead it works fine. But once you leave the context of the that room the walls either conflict with each other or hide floor real estate. So I'm putting this to the side until I find a new concept or style layout that works.


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Let's review why the Heat can get LeBron
Cleveland pushes out its coach and general manager with LeBron in mind. The mayor of New York announces his love of LeBron. A Chicago racetrack promises to name a race after him. Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban gets fined for talking about wanting LeBron. President Obama says LeBron should go ot Chicago one day and then he should stay in Cleveland the next.
Larry King interviews LeBron. A LeBron recruiting tour that doubles as a shoe sales campaign is planned.
All that, and nothing's changed. I still say the Heat has the inside lane. It still can offer what no other team can: Three, maximum-salary contracts. Chicago has some good personnel in place. New Jersey has some under-rated features (party with Mikhail Prokhorov!)
But if LeBron is about winning as he says - and this isn't a sure thing given the horse and pony show he's starting to put on - the Heat has a better chance than anyone. By maneuvering pieces (trading Michael Beasley, for instance) it can sign James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh to maximum contracts.
No other team can offer that. It doesn't make the Heat an instant champion - man, the awful personnel decisions since 2006 are killing them now. But with these three players on board the Heat would be a magnet for anyone else out there.
It's going to be a long, LeBron month. Every day will bring some news, some more silliness. But the facts won't change. The Heat can assemble immediate pieces in a manner no other team can.


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Tricks to avoid calorie-heavy treats on Halloween
Each week a nutritionist from the University of Maryland Medical Center will provide a guest post on healthy eating. Have questions or ideas for future topics? Email email@example.com. This week, Amanda Tauber weighs in on avoiding Halloween pitfalls.
Halloween is one of those holidays where eating too many sweets is common. From the 200 Tootsie Pops to the 50 Snickers bars you and your children will collect, it's easy to see how the extra pounds and cavities can develop. Below are some tips to set you up for a healthier (but just as fun) Halloween season.
Eat ahead of time. Having a dinner or snack rich in complex carbohydrates, lean proteins and unsaturated fats can cut down on post holiday candy consumption. Some great options include peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with a glass of milk, whole grain pasta with vegetables and grilled/baked chicken, or tuna salad in whole wheat wraps.
Think small. Buy a little bucket for trick-or-treating. Lugging around a giant tub is not only impractical, but holds more candy that will likely get eaten. A smaller tub will save you the backache of having to carry it around and means less candy. Buy mini or "fun size" candy if possible. Buying smaller pieces can lead to eating less candy overall, plus most prepackaged bags of candy contain miniature or fun sizes.
Give it away. After a few days, bring in extra candy to work, parties, or other social gatherings. If this isn't an option, consider throwing some of the candy out. Many places also accept donations of unwrapped candy.
Hide the candy. By placing sweet treats in a high cabinet, kids can't reach it and you might be less likely to eat it, too. If you can't hide it, divide and conquer: portion the candy out. Keep a sandwich-size plastic bag as a designated "candy bag." Each day, put a few pieces of candy in the bag and have that be a daily sweet treat.
Buy healthier Halloween treats. Boxes of raisins, bags of pretzels, nuts, seeds, and popcorn are all healthier alternatives. If you must buy candy, some good choices are mini Tootsie Rolls (12 pieces/serving = 130 calories), 3 Musketeers fun size candy bars (1 piece = 63 calories), Tootsie Pop (1 pop = 60 calories); and if possible, choose dark over milk chocolate. Dove dark chocolate miniatures have 210 calories in 5 pieces and dark chocolate is a source of antioxidants. Also, look for 100 percent fruit snacks and 100 calorie packaged snacks.
Avoid it. Don't buy any candy at all. While not the most popular choices, baseball cards, gum, mini pumpkins, pencils, fun bracelets, etc. can be a fun break from the usual giveaway. Watch out for too many sugar-free candies. Eating a lot of these options can upset stomachs. Also, limit the sweet drinks. Since you know that you and your kids will most likely be eating candy, stick to water and milk and skip the juices and sodas that provide even more sugar.
Walk a lot. If you live in a small neighborhood, venture to another nearby locale. It's not only a great way to get some exercise, but you'll be able to meet more neighbors.
Learn more. Search the web for some healthy themed recipes. Websites like Kraft.com and Disney Family Fun have festive recipes that are sure to please everyone (try the Mummy-Face pizzas from Kraft.com).
It's important to know that Halloween can not only be a fun time, but a healthy time as well. With a little preparation and creativity, it's an easy goal to achieve.
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"Orange You Glad It's Summer?" Teacher Gift Idea + Free Printable
My son only has 2 more days of kindergarten & I am definitely excited to have him home for the summer! Here is what he will be giving his teachers as an end-of-the-year gift......
I went on the hunt for orange things & this is what I got together......
{Reusable bag, acrylic insulated cup, ice cube tray, box of fuzzy peach candies, bag of orange cream pop candies, orange chocolate, orange gum, small photo frame, pencil + notepad, chapstick, and kleenex packet.}
I made up a printable of the tags. I sized them so that 2 fit on a 4x6 sized print. Then you have 2- 2x3 prints.
You can download the file here.
You can download the file here.
I cut mine, rounded the corners, then attached them to the back of some Project Life journalling cards that coordinated well. On the back I wrote a little note to each of my son's teachers thanking them for teaching him throughout the year & my son also signed his name on the cards.
I used these cute orange ribbon paper clips that I got in this package for 50 cents from Michael's to attach the cards to the bags.
I had some cute orange & pink creamsicle ribbon that I used to tie the handles of the bags together since it matched the bags so well. And you can see how I added the tags on using the paper clips......
I am so grateful for my son's teachers who have taught him this year.
He has had a wonderful time in kindergarten and I really appreciate all they have done, so I hope they enjoy these little gifts!
Posted by Sarah at 4:25 PM
Labels: classroom gifts, free printables, gift ideas, teacher gifts
4 comments:
Hi Sarah! I love your ideas. Such a perfect way to let your son's teacher know how special they are!ReplyDelete
Hi Sarah, I was just looking at you sons pirate party. Too cute!! I am planning a pirate party for my son's 4th birthday. Could you please email the place you bought the swords from? They are PERFECT!! Thanks.ReplyDelete
Hi Sarah. I was just looking at your blogpost from your son's pirate party! Too cute!! I am planning a pirate party for my son's 4th birthday. Could you please email me the place you bought the swords? They are PERFECT!!ReplyDelete
I used this idea for my sons Kindergarten and preschool teachers. Thanks for the idea and the tags. You are very talented and thanks for sharing.ReplyDelete
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There's something in the wood shedPosted by Roo - 17/08/13 at 05:08:03 pm
While installing a new stove, we wanted somewhere to store and dry logs. Handily, our garden shed was half rotten. Chopping it up and leaving the good half (with re-designed sides to let the air circulate) was a fun afternoon. Almost as satisfying as stacking the shed ready for winter.
Changing roomsPosted by Roo - 17/08/13 at 04:08:31 pm
Earlier this year, we bought six 5'7″ x 10″ x 1″ planks from Romsey Reclamation. After seasoning them for two months stacked up in the garage, plus a further month in the house, they were ready to sand and wax.
A bit of work, but a whole lot cheaper (and more fun) than buying finished oak shelves.
The shelves form part of a some work we've been doing in our living room including a log burning stove.
All cosy and ready for winter.
JargonePosted by Roo - 02/02/13 at 01:02:24 pm
I made a thing.
Jargone is a bookmarklet for highlighting jargon words on any web page.
The list comes from the Government Digital Service GOV.UK style guide, specifically the plain English and words to avoid sections of the guide, which has this to say about avoiding jargon
We lose trust from our users if we write government 'buzzwords' and jargon. Often, these words are too general and vague and can lead to misinterpretation or empty, meaningless text. We need to be specific, use plain English and be very clear about what we are doing.
While the guide is very helpful, and includes alternative suggestions for many of the words to avoid, I wanted to be able to spot jargon more easily on the web.
The bookmarklet is very simple. It just adds a bit of CSS styling and javascript to the page and then checks all the words on the page against a list of known jargon words and phrases. Once you run it on a page, offending words are highlighted and, borrowing heavily from the design of Gmail's handy spellcheck feature, any entries which also have notes associated (suggestions for alternatives, for example) also let you click on them to see the suggestion. It doesn't (yet) let you replace with a suggestion, mainly because it doesn't even pretend to be clever enough to get it right. In fact, the implementation is so simple that it's quite likely to think there's jargon on a page even if there's not. For 'impact' it gives the advice "Don't use it as a verb" even when you've used it as a verb. It could probably be made a bit cleverer, but as a quick automatic highlighting of things to watch out for, it's hopefully already quite useful.
Although I based the list on the GDS style guide, I've already accepted several contributions from elsewhere. Thanks to everyone who has already contributed.
You can find out more about Jargone or just install it here if you want to try it in your own browser. Enjoy.
Boring 2012Posted by Roo - 25/11/12 at 09:11:44 pm
I spent today at Boring 2012. Now in its third year, in the words of conference organiser James Ward, Boring is "a day dedicated to the mundane, the ordinary, the obvious and the overlooked." During the introduction he also told us that this was to be "the most boring one yet" and "I can only apologise".
Here's what happened.
- James Ward himself was first up, talking about self service checkouts and unexpected item in the bagging area. Did you know that the first self service tills were introduced by Marks & Spencer in 2002? James presented a guide to self service checkouts that was useful as it was amusing, followed by a small collection of till receipts (or, 'purchase certificates' as he encouraged us to think of them) for things he didn't buy.
- Peter Fletcher presented a clever invention, an ode to letterboxes including "inner portcullises of sharp bristles that repel anything but the most rigid of paper items." A beautiful look at letterboxes from a poetic ex-postman.
- Ben Target performed an untitled performance art piece on rollerblades, to the accompaniment of a reading of 'tables of weights', which was evocative of Johann Johannsson's IBM 1401, A User's Manual, but with more rollerblading. Rachel was in tears of laughter. James calmly moved us on with "well, it's not every day that you see that."
- Leila Johnston presented her collection of IBM tills, of which she has collected over 40 photographs and wants you to share your own. Notable moments included the "white IBM ePOS 300; my Moby Dick" and revelations about Leila's heavily IBM influenced childhood growing up in Greenock.
- Ed Ross shared "how I like my toast" including a comparison of various toasters and a proposed standard rating system from "warmed bread" up to "German rye bread" which is apparently very heat resistant.
- Rose George informed us that the least boring object in our houses is our toilet, and the rather sobering fact that 2.6 billion people in the world do not have access to a toilet.
- Neily Denny shared memories, maps and photographs of five breakfasts, which ranged from delicious to disgusting.
- Helen Arney started the afternoon by telling us about the features and specifications of the Yamaha PSR-175 portable keyboard (discontinued) in a provocative and entertaining live demonstration.
- Roo Reynolds (that's me!) shared some of my collections in roughly chronological order, which you can actually read all about here.
- Greg Stekelman talked about being short and one of his favourite websites, celebheights.com, including some hilarious and carefully selected quotes which I wish I'd written down.
- Charlotte Young had prepared a short study of the contemporary celebrity culinary expert on television including surprisingly detailed dissections of both Jamie Oliver and Heston Blumenthal.
- Andrew Male talked about yellow lines and their relation to the Festival of Britain and post-war zoning regulations.
- James Brown enthused about one of his favourite TV programmes; Antiques Road Trip.
- Rhodri Marsden shared a confession about, and several examples of, the soothing and soporific world of ASMR (Auto Sensory Meridian Response) videos; a whole subculture about which I'd previously been blissfully unaware.
- Elise Bramich informed us about tube carriage numbering. Did you know that London Underground trains going North or West have even numbers, while those headed South and East are odd, with the exception of the Bakerloo line and anywhere with loops? She also talked about Vampire Numbers.
- Emily Webber shared some of her carefully curated set of over 1000 photographs of London shop fronts, which she has been collecting for a while.
- Alice Bell talked about the Science Museum (where she used to work) and why museums are boring, except that she was so enthusiastic and eloquent about them that I don't think she convinced us, or even herself, of this theory. "The technologies of the past which we chose chose not to have show us other possible futures we might have had."
- Kathy Clugston revealed the arcane world of The Shipping Forecast, a subject about which she knows a great deal having read the forecasts on Radio 4 for some time. As well as being a great example of ASMR, Kathy impressed us all by reciting all 31 sea areas in order. More facts I can't allow to pass un-noted: The shipping forecast is broadcast four times per day (5:20, 12:01, 17:54 and 00:48), For each area, you get the following four pieces of information: 1. wind direction / 2. wind strength / 3. precipitation / 4. visibility. Veering = clockwise, Backing = anticlockwise. Imminent = 6 hours hence, Soon = 6-12 hours, Later = 12-14 hours. "You can't get excited when there's a hurricane!".
- James W. Smith finished off the day by talking about the benefits of walking to work which is "the only sort of exercise that doesn't feel like exercise, and therefore the only sort that I'm willing to do". In the evenings, "I don't drink much any more because of the cat…" James has calculated that a 3.3 mile walk = 7152 steps = 1 hour = 19ml of saliva, or 376.42 steps per ml. James ended with a rather thoughtful and touching encouragement to try walking to work.
Enormous thanks to James Ward for inviting me but most of all for putting on a brilliant – and not at all boring – day.
Ad blockingPosted by Roo - 18/11/12 at 10:11:40 pm
Having worked in both TV and advertising, I'm intrigued by how easy it is these days for people to block ads online and what it might mean for the near future of online advertising.
I recently learned an interesting fact about the popular Adblock plugin for Chrome; it doesn't just block banner ads as I assumed, it also blocks pre- and mid-roll video advertising on sites like 4oD, ITV Player and YouTube. Similar plugins, including Adblock Plus, work in the same way. While this is possibly old news to you, I had not used any ad blocking browser plugins for a while and it came as quite a shock to me just how easy (and how pleasant) they have become to install and use.
Ad blocking was previously only done by those with the patience to install and maintain fiddly add-on software, but it's no longer the preserve of the tech elite; the latest breed of browser plugins is more than easy enough for even the most casual web user to set up.
Such users are currently a (growing) minority. Adblock describes itself as "the most popular extension for Chrome" and there might, very roughly, be around 10-15% of browsers running some sort of ad blocking software these days. It's about to get even easier, too. The AdTrap project on Kickstarter is a hardware ad blocker that blocks all adverts for all the wifi connected devices in your home. "Zero software to install, zero configuration".
What will happen when ad blocking goes properly mainstream? We've already seen a gradual arms race with ads becoming increasingly clever about avoiding being blocked, with some content creators preventing their content being seen by people who block ads, sometimes even blocking entire browsers just to be on the safe side. Will this ultimately doomed attempt at control continue to escalate?
I hope not, and there are some glimmers of hope. A few companies have instead tried to gently encourage their users to support their advertising model, or offer alternative models. Reddit offers a page, showing Adblock Plus users how to how to create an exception for Reddit, and thanking their users for not blocking their ads. OK Cupid straight out asked their ad blocking users to donate money directly: "you donate $5 to us once, & we remove all ads from the site forever'.
I think that useful tools need to be sufficiently fine-grained to allow people to chose to opt in to (or out of) specific adverts and specific sites. Since most people will probably never change the default settings then getting the balance right is obviously important. It may have been controversial with some of its users, but Adblock Plus's move to allow "acceptable" ads was an interesting step towards supporting less intrusive advertising, giving users more control, and finding sensible defaults. "Some users are even asking for a way to enable Adblock Plus on some websites only." Both Adblock and Adblock Plus now allow users to turn on ads for a specific site, or to blacklist only certain ads.
It's understandable for site owners to become a bit anxious about this stuff. Ars Technica says it's "devastating to the sites you love" while James Cridland equates it to theft, and says "I do find it difficult to understand why running AdBlock or the like is not frowned upon by otherwise honest people."
Personally, I'm not convinced that ad blocking is theft, or that it's in any way immoral. But it doesn't really matter what I think. Site owners can put ads around their content to make money, just as – whatever you think of the choices they make – users can decide whether to see the ads or block them.
My grandfather used to mute the TV whenever adverts came on. Was that morally wrong? What if everyone did the same thing? Whether you're a content producer or an advertiser you should think about what your users want, and how much easier today's technology is making it for them to avoid your advertising. Simply describing them as immoral might not be the best way to change their behaviour.
Turbo Drone RC Quadrocopter – hands on reviewPosted by Roo - 11/11/12 at 02:11:15 pm
The nice people at Paramountzone sent me a Turbo Drone four channel remote controlled quadrocopter to review.
It's 36cm across (including the rotors, which are 13.5cm each), making it just about small enough to fly indoors.
The 500mAh 3.7v li-po rechargeable battery makes it conveniently easy to get spares; I had the exact same battery laying around in another remote controlled chopper.
It takes 45 minutes to charge using the supplied charger, and gives about 10 minutes of flying time.
The red bit at the top of the remote control makes it look as though it's going to be an infra-red job, but it's actually 2.4 Ghz with (apparently) a 100m range. That's pretty impressive,
It claims to be suitable for both indoor and outdoor flight (in 'fairly calm conditions') which, while I have yet to try it outdoors, I can definitely believe. Since my back garden is a terrifying tangle of trees I'll probably be taking it to the local park to try out longer distance flight.
The remote has an excellent feature in which the level of responsiveness can be adjusted between four modes:
- 20% – good for getting started, but soon feels a bit sluggish
- 40% – responds a bit more quickly and feels more nimble
- 60% – twitchy fun. Probably about as high as you'll go most of the time indoors
- 100% – insanity mode in which the remote beeps constantly, perhaps to remind you that any move of the right stick is going to make it instantly flip 360°
The Turbo Drone RC Quadrocopter is a seriously nice little toy, and you should seriously consider it as a Christmas present to yourself. It's stable and responsive (with the adjustable sensitivity on the remote allowing you to choose exactly how brave you want to be) and I'm finding it more fun to fly than similarly sized co-ax helicopters. It's also available from Amazon.
Weeknotes 38: publishing stuffPosted by Roo - 09/11/12 at 04:11:53 pm
I've been quite busy in the past couple of weeks looking after a small team putting the Government Digital Strategy online.
In the words of the policy professionals who actually wrote the words, it was published "as a website rather than published on a website". This may sound like a small distinction, but it makes it easier for people to link to specific bits, and also means we get the benefit of analytics. I'm hoping that more government publications will start to be published in this way.
Jack, our front end developer, has already written up the geek-eye view of the project on the GDS blog , but the short version is that we had a properly multi-disciplinary team (policy, design, dev..) all working together using GitHub with some compile scripts which use Kramdown to turn the Markdown source files into HTML and PDF.
The best bit is that we're not finished. As with any good online product, 'launch' shouldn't mean it starts to die. We've continued to make small improvements (you can see them for yourself in the GitHub commit history).
We're also refactoring to extract useful functionality into other projects. The best example so far is the code that Tim and Jack developed to create accessible jQuery bar charts from HTML tables. We've refactored that out to be its own open source project called Magna Charta and there are some early working examples of it in action here.
Meanwhile, I've been continuing to look after ERTP (demo-ing to the House of Lords recently, a task which required the rather unusual step of wearing of a suit to work).
I've also been picking up the product management for a management information dashboard tool, which I can't really talk about yet but is moving into a second phase of prototype development. (No, it's not that one.)
I've missed doing these weeknotes. I might try to make it a habit.
My LEGO studioPosted by Roo - 03/11/12 at 07:11:18 pm
Here's my LEGO studio.
The main desk at the front is two metres wide and has two levels; plenty of space to store things I need to have close at hand. On the left of the room are a bunch of fishing tackle boxes, drawers, trays and little boxes which I lift out and place on or under the desk as needed.
On the right of the main desk is an IKEA Vika Veine hinge desk, which allows me to store projects in progress and keep things tidy.
Inside the desk you can see a couple of cutlery trays (which I also picked up at IKEA; Rationell Variera are nice and cheap). I've found it's handy to have at least two of these; one for temporarily storing handfuls of parts ready to build and another to sort dismantled parts ready to put back into their respective drawers.
This right hand desk sits on top of a three IKEA Antonius drawer frames, each of which is filled with large plastic drawers.
Each drawer is quite big, so in order to store lots of different types of LEGO part, I have filled some of the drawers with small removable storage boxes. I had some Stanley organisers, which each have 10 removable compartments. Plus, if you ever need to travel with a selection of parts they can pop back into their carry cases for easy transportation.
Different people have different techniques for storing large collections. Some even stack their bricks and plates for efficient storage, which I'm fascinated by but have never really got on with. Personally, I'm a massive fan of the lots-of-little-drawers-and-trays approach.
There's still a bit more sorting to do and (believe it or not) still a bit of room for more storage. I'm really tempted to add some by some Draper 12015 30 drawer organiser cabinets or even LEGO's own cabinet.
Inky-LinkyPosted by Roo - 09/10/12 at 04:10:30 pm
Inky-Linky makes web pages 100% more useful and irritating when printed. It's a bookmarklet that adds a QR code to the margins for each external link in the page.
It came about because I wanted to make it easy to visit a link from a printed page, and also wanted to see if I could find an actual useful use for the much (rightly) maligned QR code.
Although it just about works there are, or course, quite a few things wrong with it.
- It really doesn't work very well on very busy pages with lots of links.
- The layout algorithm could be a bit smarter when deciding which margin to use (e.g. links on the right of the page should ideally prefer to be shown in the right margin, rather than blindly alternating).
If that doesn't put you off, and you want to try it for yourself, here's the Inky Linky repository and installation page. Enjoy.
(Oh, hello Boingboing!)
Some of my collectionsPosted by Roo - 13/09/12 at 11:09:39 am
I spoke at the Shoreditch Ideas Club last night, an event that Hugh Garry organises for Shoreditch House.
I wanted to explore whether the act of collecting might have some additional extrinsic value beyond the collection itself. It's also a bit of a confession (spoiler: it turns out that I collect collections) so if you end up skimming through this list, do re-join it when you see the wooden toadstools near the end. There's a point. Honestly.
This collection of spoons is probably my first collection. I collected tea spoons at every opportunity for a few years but now they're in this box frame in my kitchen and I have not added to it for a long time. I'm not proud of the fact that quite a few of them are stolen from cafes and restaurants.
I've always loved LEGO, but I started collecting it seriously at university, when this Star Wars stuff was new. A few years ago I sold a few sets on eBay (including this one), and as anyone who has sold something on eBay knows, Paypal money is easier to spend than money in the bank…
I became a Lego trader for a while; buying in bulk and selling on eBay to the highest bidder. I ended up buying quite a lot of Lego.
As you can see, it all got a bit out of hand. I now have a rather ridiculous collection. These days it's actually sorted into little trays and my spare room is now an actual Lego studio. Oh yes. A lot of people want to know if I ever actually play with it.
Not as much as I'd like, but I do sometimes make things. You'll hopefully recognise the WOPR from War Games, the Usual Suspects and Chris Tarrant saying 'we don't want to give you that' on Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
But really, other people make all the best stuff.
That's The Beatles, Abbey Road by Dunechaser, American Beauty by Matijagrguric, and Break's Over by appius95, based on the level in Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 called 'Cliffhanger'.
This sort of scene on a small base is known as a vignette. I liked the form so much that I set up a Flickr group to collect them.
This is bliss for the serious collector; a public group like this is very passive way to build a public collection. Over the past few years I mostly go in a couple of times each month to do some gardening. The group now holds 8,000 photos from 1,700 users.
Let's see. What else?
A few years ago, I saw this photo from kaptainkobold (another adult fan of Lego), which he took inside the fridge with the door closed, using a self-timer and a flash.
I thought "That looks fun" and quickly took my own, adding notes to annotate what each thing is. You can tell quite a lot about a person by the inside of their fridge.
At dinner parties I would ask friends if I could take a photo of the inside of their fridge. They would open the door for me, at which point I'd have to explain that I was going to need them to shut it again and would they bear with me while the flash warmed up.
Of course I created another Flickr group called In the fridge to collect them. The rules are quite specific.
Constraints are important.
A few years ago I became mildly obsessed with finding examples of things being described as being the new something else.
Grey is the new black, 30 is the new 40, and so on. So I started finding and collecting examples of them.
Some people collect butterflies. I collected examples of the phrase 'x is the new y' and I was regularly going hunting, collecting them quite intentionally, in order to make directed graphs like this one.
I'd look at the graph and spot interesting leads; gaps that needed filling. Tea is the new coffee and coffee is the new tea, Glorious. Friendster is the new Livejournal? What's Livejournal the new one of? As I continued to collect them over a few weeks it grew into quite a big collection. I was quite surprised when The Boston Globe asked me if I'd extend it into something they could publish in their 'Ideas' supplement.
They took my SVG files and employed actual graphic artists to make it prettier. My first front page. Of a supplement, but still.
[Update: I've just noticed this lovely new tool Built by Bloom using Twitter's streaming API to show what people on Twitter are saying is the new something else.]
I've always loved this joke and for a while collected variations on it, writing them down in a list. I went on holiday recently to Poole. In Dorset? Yes, I'd recommend it to anyone. You get the idea.
So my friend Nick O'Leary and I built a website to collect these jokes and let other people contribute their own.
And because each one is on a map, you can find jokes for a specific place. It continues to attract new additions, and has expanded my pencil-and-paper list of a dozen 'Jamaica' jokes up to about 800 jokes over the past four years.
The Internet fridge has long been the default example of what we can expect in the near future. Imagine a fridge which knows when you need more milk… I can surf the net, cook and keep an eye on my children at the same time… Urgh.
So, I started collecting Internet Fridges. Or more accurately, pictures and mentions of Internet Fridges. Every time there's a new Consumer Electronics show, people send me lots of links.
Pretty much every tech company makes one, but very few people seem interested in buying them.
More recently, I've started another ridiculous collection: photos and videos of things riding on the back of other things.
YouTube appears to be literally full of videos of things riding on the back of other things. I go digging for them, but people suggest a couple of new ones every week.
I also maintain this grid of things riding on the back of other things. Want a photo of a monkey riding on a pig? Just find the right row and column. The more examples there are in that category, the bigger the dot.
I collect interesting links and send them out in a weekly email newsletter. As a side effect, it gives me something else (beyond the links and the subscribers) to collect; the number of Out Of Office emails I receive for each email sent.
Unsurprisingly, it spiked a couple of times during the summer. What will happen in at Christmas? I can't wait to see.
I didn't mention this one during the presentation, but I've since remembered that I used to take photographs of all the books I read every month, and write a quick review/summary of each month's reading.
I'd forgotten that one.
There are some amazing collections on the web and, unsurprisingly, many of the best ones are not maintained by me…
- kimjongillookingatthings.tumblr.com (a collection which continues to grow despite the death of our dear leader) is maintained by an Art Director at Y&R Lison.
- kempfolds.blogspot.co.uk is a blog which collects photos of Ross Kemp's face, folded. Running since 2008, and recently it's been updated nearly every day. Why Ross Kemp? Who knows. Perhaps he's just got a very foldable face.
- sneezecount.joyfeed.com is perhaps my favourite. Peter Fletcher has been counting his sneezes since the 12th of July, 2007. Each sneeze gets its own entry, including the time and date, location, a comment, and a subjective measure of strength. Peter says…
"Think of each sneeze as a single frame in the time-lapse animation of your life. The film might depict a disproportionate amount of time spent suffering from colds, or scrambling about at the back of dusty cupboards, but the pseudo-random unpredictability of the sneeze makes it a curiously representative filter on a life."
"Once I had been counting sneezes for a short time, I became disturbed when I saw someone sneeze, and then not look closely at their watch or mobile phone and take out and write something … in a notebook"
(I once interviewed Peter about this sneeze count blog, and more. I suppose the guests on the Shift Run Stop podcast, and the episodes themselves, are another sort of collection.)
So. Is there a point to all of this?
I hope so.
Putting this presentation together gave me ample opportunity for self-reflection, and I sort of want to justify myself. But:
- I'm not going to tell you that constraints foster creativity.
- I'm not going to tell you that curation of a public collection is an especially interesting form of co-creation in which issues of shared ownership are explored.
- I'm not even going to tell you that by sharing a collection publicly it holds you accountable (to others and ultimately to yourself) which encourages you to keep at it.
All of those things are true, but I think it's actually simpler than that. It's a hobby.
My dad has a stressful job, and he sometimes makes wooden toadstools to unwind. It gives his hands something interesting but unimportant to do, and helps him relax.
Now, I know what you might be thinking; this is classic procrastination.
But my collections (and my Dad's wooden toadstools) are not about intentional procrastination. 'Sharpening pencils' when you should be writing or drawing is risky because it's too easy to confuse it with what you should be doing. If someone walks in on you sharpening your pencil you can claim to be just getting ready to start. If you're collecting pictures of Colonel Gaddafi shaking hands with world leaders though (oh yes, that's another one), then it's pretty hard to convince anyone – let alone yourself – that you're doing anything useful with your time.
And that's the point. It isn't about making something useful. Making or collecting something is not always about getting your day job done directly. Yes, it might help develop your taste, and it might even be beautiful in its own right, but the real benefit is letting your subconscious mind unwind. Not with something too taxing (or the stress returns), and not something too easy (otherwise your mind will wander). The perfect hobby is something that requires just enough attention for your conscious mind to become occupied with something interesting but unimportant, freeing your subconscious to wander around solving problems.
Think of Lester Freamon in 'The Wire', quietly making his dollhouse miniature furniture. It's a perfectly absorbing activity. Other people prefer to knit (someone at W+K used to knit in meetings, which might stop working when you get too good at it). Some people write Haiku. We shouldn't be surprised that people who spend a lot of time online have online hobbies too.
For me, my preferred way to relax is collecting things and putting them on the internet.
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It's cool technology that's pretty useless for phones as it stands, delivered by someone who has the presentation style of a robot with flat batteries. Taking phones out of your pocket and having to bend, or tug at the screen to see them? How is that a step forward?
I genuinely felt sorry for him, as he paused; looking for applause that was late or didn't arrive at all. Not surprising really, as not having a cover on front is the ultimate in seeing what is appearing on the screen. And it's free.
The Ad is cringe-worthy too. Interesting that the "uncool" nerd-pest had a tablet with the edge-type display of the new phone that Samsung had just shown at the presentation - ironic. The ad also lacks the production values and script writing skills of Sesame Street, against which it was clearly modeled.
Just give us better battery life and keep the flexible screen - that will break quickly if it follows earth physics and material science - for something that really needs it.


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--2B Jemile Weeks (groin tightness) did not play May 2. He is expected to be back in the lineup May 4.
--LF Coco Crisp (sinus infection, inner-ear ailment) was held out of the lineup May 1. He started May 2 but had to leave the game. Crisp might end up on the disabled list.
--LHP Dallas Braden (left shoulder surgery in May 2011) went on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to March 24. He was moved to the 60-day DL on April 22. Braden was shut down from throwing for three weeks at the start of April. He is unlikely to return before late May.
--RHP Joey Devine (Tommy John surgery in April 2012) went on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to March 24. He will miss the entire season.
--LHP Brett Anderson (Tommy John surgery in July 2011) went on the 60-day disabled list March 13. He threw 30 pitches to hitters at extended spring training on April 27. He is out until at least midseason.
--3B Scott Sizemore (left knee surgery in March 2012) went on the 60-day disabled list March 3. He will miss the entire season. He said April 30 he is doing lunges and squats and he will be allowed to remove the brace from his left knee in a few days.
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Ambassador Richard Benedick has played a major role in global environmental affairs as chief U.S. negotiator and a principal architect of the historic Montreal Protocol on protection of the ozone layer, and as Special Advisor to Secretaries-General of both the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Rio de Janeiro, 1992) and the International Conference on Population and Development (Cairo, 1994). After serving several years on Battelle's International Advisory Board, he became in 1998 Deputy Director in the Environmental and Health Sciences Division at their Washington D.C. office of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), and since 2001 is Senior Advisor to the PNNL-University of Maryland Joint Global Change Research Institute.
Since 1994 Dr. Benedick has been President of the National Council for Science and the Environment, an organization of over 500 universities, scientific societies, industry and civic groups dedicated to improving the scientific basis for environmental decision making. He is concurrently Visiting Fellow since 1995 at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (Social Science Research Center). His acclaimed book, Ozone Diplomacy: New Directions in Safeguarding the Planet (Harvard University Press, 1991, enlarged ed. 1998; Japanese ed. 1999), was selected by McGraw-Hill for an anthology of twentieth-century environmental classics, and is used in universities throughout the world. He has lectured at more than 70 professional bodies and universities, serves on several boards, and is consulted by international agencies, governments, foundations and industry. He has organized and/or presided over numerous international conferences and negotiations on environment, development, population, and science policy. In 2005, he served on the National Academy of Science Committee on Analysis of Global Change Assessments. He is regularly interviewed and cited by U.S. and international media.
Benedick was elected in 1991 to the World Academy of Art and Science, and in 2002 to the American Academy of Diplomacy, an association of 100 former cabinet secretaries, ambassadors, and statesmen "who have made notable contributions to American foreign policy." He received the two highest Presidential career public service honors (the Distinguished and Meritorious Service Awards), as well as the State Department's John Jacob Rogers medal and the United Nations Ozone Award. Other distinctions include two State Department Superior Honor medals; visiting fellow, National Center for Atmospheric Research; senior fellow, World Wildlife Fund; Stimson Fellow in International Relations at Yale University; Phi Beta Kappa; Tönisssteiner Kreis; and awards from the Holy See, the Climate Institute, and Population Reference Bureau. He is cited in Who's Who in America since 1980.
A career diplomat, Dr. Benedick served in Iran, Pakistan, Paris, Bonn, and Athens. As Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Environment, Health, and Natural Resources, he supervised policy formation and international negotiations on climate change, stratospheric ozone, biotechnology, tropical forests, oceans, wildlife conservation, and AIDS. Previously, he headed policy divisions at State Department responsible for global population policies and biomedical research, and for economic assistance and multilateral finance; he was also selected for the Senior Seminar, the U.S. government's highest study program. He has led many international delegations and testified before the U.S. Congress and foreign parliaments, most recently in 2005 before the Senate on science and environmental policy.
Benedick is author of over 120 publications in the U.S. and abroad, including Industrial Finance in Iran, The High Dam and the Transformation of the Nile, and a chapter on climate policy in a recent book of the Max Planck Society. He holds an A.B. summa cum laude, Columbia; M.A. (honors) in economics, Yale; doctorate in international finance, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration; and was Evans Fellow at Oxford in metaphysical poetry. He received a D.Sc. honoris causa from North Carolina State University in 2004.
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In the GTA SA loading screen the girl with a seemingly Hispanic skin tone and a red scarf in place of a bra or shirt. Who is she and does she have a page on this wiki?


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Beith Juniors FC: My Site News: Evening Times Article: Iain Ashcroft on the Pollok game on 27/03/10
Evening Times Article: Iain Ashcroft on the Pollok game on 27/03/10
Beith coach Iain Ashcroft could never look upon Pollok as a spent force.
Bookmakers strongly fancy the table-topping Ayrshire side to send Lok home empty-handed after tomorrow's Super Premier showdown at Bellsdale Park.
However, former Newlands-field hero Ashy insists the outcome is anything but a sure thing. Indeed, he has rubbished claims the Glasgow giants are on the wane because they are without a league win since the 3-1 defeat of Largs Thistle in late November.
The 47-year-old said: "Pollok are too big a club and have far too many quality players to be down in the doldrums for long and I would never under-estimate them.
"Yes, their results have been disappointing of late, but guys like Bryan Dingwall, Joe Carruth and Stevie Miller will be determined to get a revival up and running especially with a new manager in Willie Irvine to try and impress."
Ashy won league titles as a player with Arthurlie, Pollok and Irvine Meadow, however he believes it would represent a "top everything" achievement if he could help Johnny Miller steer Beith to championship success this season.
"Even when we made a great start to our league campaign, nobody tipped Beith to last the course. But you have to credit the players for showing a
phenomenal consistency to stay on top of what is a hugely competitive division and, at long last, people in the game are sitting up and taking notice.
"I still believe most pundits expect Auchinleck to overhaul us in the run-in – and it is a possibility – but they will need to play some to do it because our guys are determined not to settle for second best."


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Friday, February 7, 2014
The Fulton Soup Kitchen provides meals for those in need four nights a week at the John C. Harris Community Center.
Recently, the small organization suffered a big blow: its commercial freezer broke, and in addition to losing all of the food it contained — mostly cases of meat from the Food Bank of Central and Northeast Missouri — the soup kitchen now is faced with the estimated $2,000 cost to either repair or replace it.
"We can cover that, but it would wipe us out," said volunteer Connie Cashion, noting the group is funded entirely by private donations.
Cashion said she and Anne Erbschloe, the organization's founder and president, looked into the possibility of getting a grant, but the deadline for those that would have been applicable was Feb. 1 — several days before the freezer broke.
Waiting until next year and another shot and grant money is not an option if the soup kitchen hopes to continue to meet the need for its services.
"If we don't get it fixed, we're going to lose out on food because we won't have a place to put it," Cashion said. "This really limits the quality of food we can offer."
Cashion and Erbschloe are looking for support from the community to help replace the freezer.
Donations for the Fulton Soup Kitchen can be sent to P.O. Box 951, Fulton. For more information, contact Erbschloe at (573) 220-2450.
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Well, this is embarrassing. Normally I like to beat a game a couple times or so before writing an article on it. Sometimes that doesn't happen. I have thousands of excuses. I wasn't in the zone. I didn't have the time to bash my head against it until I saw credits. The game cheated. The controller wasn't listening. Ghosts. Yeah, let's blame ghosts this time. Anyway, I attempted to beat, but failed miserably, one fantastic shooter from 1988: Thunder Force II for the Sharp X68000.
In my defense the X68000 version of Thunder Force II is significantly harder than the Genesis version that I can beat in my sleep. Enemies seem to take more hits, they send out more shots, and there just seems to be more stuff going on. I guess the ORN Empire got lazy in the following year. Budget cuts, maybe? Who knows. All I know is, this game curses for you when you lose.
Thunder Force II was the first Genesis game I owned, mostly because I had found it cheap before I had a Genesis and figured I may as well grab it. This was back when Genesis games were about $60-$70 a pop, so it wasn't something that I wanted to pass up. I knew I'd get a Genesis eventually. Altered Beast was fun and all, but you need other games to play from time to time. For me, there's a lot of nostalgia tied to Thunder Force II. When I found out there was another version of it, of course I had to check it out.
If you've never played Thunder Force II before, it's a bit different from the rest of the series. There's two types of stages; overhead and side scrolling. The game alternates between the two types, starting with the top down stages. The side scrolling stages are similar to what you see with the rest of the series. You navigate your ship through a corridor with anything and everything trying to kill you. You grab some weapons along the way, fight a boss, and you're done.
It's the top down stages that make this one different. These stages are free roaming, meaning you can go off in whatever direction you need to. You have to destroy a set number of bases in order to beat the stage. In the X68000 version, you get a map that helps show where they are, which I always thought would have helped in the Genesis version. Enemies come at you in all directions, and there's obstacles as well. It sounds simple but things get dicey when you find yourself caught in small spaces because you can't slow down or stop moving. Of course, you get power-ups as well, none of which will carry over to the side scrolling stages.
The control is pretty tight, despite the fact that there's no way to speed up or slow down in either the top down or side scrolling stages. Some of the weapons, particularly the ones exclusive to the X68000 version are a bit strange to control. The hit boxes seem a bit unfair at times. You need to be very direct with your shots. You may have to configure the X68000 version before hand, as auto fire is off by default.
The music, much like all of the Thunder Force games aside from the very first, is amazing. There's not much more to say than that. This is the game where the legacy of Thunder Force's soundtracks started. I don't think the X68000 version has any better music than the Genesis version. From what I understand, the X68000 and Genesis used similar FM sound chips. In the X68000 version, there are more sound effects and clearer audio samples. Some of them are still hard to make out, but at least they sound more like voices instead of inaudible banter. Although, it's clear as day when the game yells "shit" when you lose your last ship.
The Genesis touted itself as being an arcade machine at home when it came out. The games on Genesis never looked arcade perfect, but they were great renditions for the time. With that said, the X68000 was known for it's nearly arcade perfect ports and was used as a development kit for CPS games. While the X68000 version isn't a whole lot better looking than the Genesis version, I'd like to think it looks like what Thunder Force II would have looked like if it were an arcade game. There's a bit more detail than the Genesis version, more layers of parallax, and more going on at one time. Some of the sprites look different, like your ship, but there's not a whole lot of difference.
Thunder Force II is a great game, regardless of which system you play it on. Unfortunately, the X68000 version hadn't appeared on anything else. The Genesis/Mega Drive version showed up on Thunder Force Gold Pack Vol 1 on the Saturn, along with Thunder Force III, but hasn't shown up on anything else. The series hasn't been entirely forgotten, as Thunder Force VI was released in 2008 for PlayStation 2. There's an unfortunate lack of the series as a whole on virtual consoles. Fortunately you can buy the Genesis version for pocket change.
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Karl Lagerfeld to open stores in GermanyKarl Lagerfeld brand has announced the launch of three concept stores in Germany located in Berlin and Munich. Offering men's and women's ready-to wear collections, footwear, accessories, watches, eyewear, gifts and books, the new stores are part of the international market launch of Karl Lagerfeld stores.
The Berlin concept store, located at Neue Schönhauser Str.8 cver a total sales space of 100sqm, will be the first to open on July 1st 2013. In Munich the new Karl Lagerfeld store will open in September 2013 at Maffeistraße 6, spread over two levels with a sales area of 180sqm. A third Karl Lagerfeld store is planned to open in early 2014 at Leipziger Platz, Berlin.
Pier Paolo Righi, CEO of Karl Lagerfeld, comments: "We are thrilled to announce the opening of three Karl Lagerfeld stores in Berlin and Munich, plus a Lagerfeld store in Munich. As Germany is Karl Lagerfeld's home country, we have a special affinity with the country. It's a key market for our brand and we are devoted to expanding our presence and availability here. We look forward to opening our new stores and the opportunity to deliver our accessible luxury collections to German customers."
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While pitching has not been reliable for the Yankees, their offense has proven to be a big asset. Ronnier Mustelier continues to make a case for a shot in the majors, consistently landing towards the top of the leader boards for the International League. Russell Branyan has also added some big relief for the Yankees' offense since joining the team in June.
Trenton Thunder:
Much like Empire State, Trenton continues to perform in 2012. They went 16-13 in June and find themselves just half a game behind Reading in the standings. Trenton's offense has been a big reason for their success. They lead the league in slugging percentage (.420) and OPS (.755) and second in stolen bases. Their power has been a big boon, as they have 91 homers – 28 more than the next team.
While the Thunder offense has shown their ability to hit the long ball, their pitching has allowed just 47 homers. They have the second lowest ERA in the league, at 3.36. Kelvin Perez has been solid out of the bullpen and while some of the Trenton starters stumbled a bit in June, Vidal Nuno has been stellar.
Tampa Yankees:
Tampa had a particularly tough time with the weather in June. Rain repeatedly postponed games and they managed to go just 11-12 for the month. Despite this, Tampa is tied with Lakeland for second in their division, just a game behind Brevard County.
Tampa pitching has allowed the least homers in the league, with just 32. They are second in strikeouts, but consistency is a problem as they have also allowed the second most walks. May's Prospect of the Month, Mark Montgomery continues to hold down the bullpen in Tampa.
While the pitching has been strong for the Yankees, their batting has sat squarely in the middle of the pack. Ramon Flores and Tyson Blaser provided a lot of the offense for the Yankees in June. JR Murphy looks like he has shaken off the rust from earlier in the season and Slade Heathcott has returned from his latest shoulder injury. July will be a telling month for this team.
Charleston RiverDogs:
The RiverDogs boast one of the most exciting lineups in the minors, yet June was a tough month for the Yankees' Low-A club. They went 11-14, suffering some of the same weather issues that disrupted Tampa's month. They are third, just two games behind Rome. Perhaps most telling about the RiverDogs' June was their run differential. They allowed 142 runs in the month, scoring just 117 of their own.
Despite a tough June, Charleston is still second in batting average, slugging percentage and stolen bases. Tyler Austin, Mason Williams and Gary Sanchez have all stepped up. Each had a nice June and it is good to see these prospects taking over. Cito Culver has a knack of getting on base, but he is still a long way from where you want to see him.
As shown by their opposition's 142 runs, pitching was the problem for the RiverDogs in June. Philip Wetherell was terrible out of the pen. He went 0-1 with a 13.06 ERA over seven appearances. Bryan Mitchell went 1-4 for the month with a 10.38 ERA.
Staten Island Yankees:
Staten Island had a rocky start to the season, as they faced off against a tough Brooklyn Cyclones team. The Yankees are 4-10 so far, six games behind Brooklyn. As a team, Staten Island's hitting line is a rather abysmal .211/.305/.294. It is early, but Staten Island has had a few impressive early performances.
Taylor Dugas is hitting .424/.558/.515 over ten games. Saxon Butler has almost single-handedly run the Staten Island offense at times. He is hitting .391/.431/.717 with three homers and eleven RBIs. One of the most intriguing names on the Staten Island roster is Ravel Santana, who is coming off a nasty injury in 2011. He has started slow, hitting .162/.311/.162.
The Yankees have had some good pitching performances, though they are second in the NY-Penn League in walks. Taylor Morton has a 2.81 ERA over the first three starts, while Evan Rutckyj has a 2.08 ERA and sixteen strikeouts.
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While Staten Island's start has been slow, the GCL Yankees are looking at repeating their 2011 success. They are 11-1 so far, three games ahead of the Tigers. They are hitting .268/.341/.379. Unfortunately, they have struck out far more than any other team (113 Ks). They have drawn 43 walks and hit a league leading 29 doubles. Jerison Lopez has an impressive line of .442/.520/.628 with five RBIs. Mikeson Oliberto is hitting .343/.400/.629 with a pair of homers.
The Yankees are doing well on the mound also. They have the second lowest ERA at 2.80 and 92 strikeouts, allowing just 34 walks. Jordan Cote, last year's third round pick, has started his first professional season by going 2-0 with a 1.93 ERA over three starts. He has shown great control, striking out thirteen and walking just two batters.


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Lake Bell joined Heather Graham for the Women's Filmmaker Brunch held at Company 3 on Monday (April 21) in New York City.
Unlike Heather, Lake appeared to be feeling the chill on the roof-top, as she decided to cover her Chloé Resort 2014 look with a bright red wool coat.
The most interesting part of the look was her navy Chloé skirt with white floral appliqués which she paired with a white sleeveless top.
An oversized croc clutch and black pumps completed her look.
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