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Certiport's survey of high school teachers and college instructors in 382 of its testing centers showed that:
- 69 percent of teachers participating in the study indicated computer-savvy young people, or "power users" influence what they teach
- 66 percent said power users influence how they teach
- 84 percent of teachers said power users have positively influenced their learning and knowledge of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT).
As a result of the study, educators may look to use technology in the classroom to better suit the learning preferences and needs of these advanced students, according to Joyce Malyn-Smith, a director of strategic initiatives for EDC's Education, Employment, and Community Programs.
"This study advances our understanding of the unique needs and potential of students with advanced technology skills. Perhaps educators and governments should consider adjusting curriculum and teaching methods to maximize the contribution of these computer-savvy students as they prepare to integrate into the global economy," she said.
The Certiport study was conducted in conjunction with EDC's Power Users Initiative, a four-year project focused on understanding and raising awareness of young people's use of technology. The survey findings will be used to assist policy makers in planning effective education and workforce development initiatives geared toward leveraging the strengths of up-and-coming Power Users. A synopsis of the survey report may be viewed online (PDF).
EDC describes Power Users as individuals distinguished by their self-selected, long-term, intensive experiences with technology. They think, behave and solve problems differently from others who have not had a special relationship with technology and they break out of the confines of traditional learning, demographic or technological barriers by using, sharing, and changing information in creative, innovative or unintended ways.
"The economic health and prosperity of nations lie in their ability to build basic ICT skills that qualify citizens to participate as effective members of the global community," said David Saedi, president and CEO of Certiport. "In addition, a unique population of Power Users is growing globally. We must develop curriculum, training and credentials that help them fully develop and grow their contribution to local economies."
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Summary:Jane is an idealistic, romantic and completely selfless woman, a perennial bridal attendant whose own happy ending is nowhere in sight. Jane has always been good at taking care of others, but not so much in looking after herself. Her entire life has been about making people happy--and she has a closet full of 27 bridesmaid dresses to prove it. One memorable evening, Jane manages to shuttle between wedding receptions in Manhattan and Brooklyn, a feat witnessed by Kevin, a newspaper reporter who realizes that a story about this wedding junkie is his ticket off the newspaper's bridal beat. Jane finds Kevin's cynicism counter to everything she holds dear--namely weddings, and the two lock horns... Full Summary >>
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Warped Tour -- Mansfield, MA -- July 13th, 2010
Setlists now Full review coming later. Overall a good show.
The Dillinger Escape Plan(missed half the set will explain later why)
Black Bubblegum
Room Full Of Eyes
Chinese Whispers
Good Neighbor
Sunshine The Werewolf
Farewell Mona Lisa
Alkaline Trio
Dine,Dine My Darling
Stupid Kid
In Vein
Private Eye
This Addiction
Every Time I Die
No Son Of Mine
The Marvelous Slut
After One Quarter Of A Revolution
She's My Rushmore
The New Black
Apocalypse Now And Then
Bored Stiff
Of Legions
The Darkest Day Of Man
Vicer Exciser
Breeding Violence
Eternal Refuge
Prostastic Fluid Asphyxation
This Is Exile
Parkway Drive
Idols and Anchors
Romance Is Dead
Dead Man's Chest
Suicide Silence
Wake Up
No Time To Bleed
No Pity For A Coward
Andrew W.K
It's Time To Party
Girls Own Love
You Will Remember Tonight
She Is Beautiful
Tear It Up
Ready To Die
We Want Fun
I Love NYC
I Get Wet
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Andrew W.K had easily the best pits of the day. The only other act to even get good non brocore shit moshing going was Parkway Drive.
Worst choice I made the entire day was watching Suicide Silence over Sum 41.
Fuck whatever asshole told me the Main Stage was in a different place causing me to miss the first 3 songs of The Dillinger Escape Plan's set.
The gap in between Parkway Drive and Alkaline Trio's set was almost unberable because the worst bands on each stage were playing in that span.
I have Bring Me The Horizon's setlist because a couple of friends love them but I refuse to insult myself or anyone else on here with that shit.
Every Time I Die dropped their cover of Tourettes and Alkaline Trio dropped Sadie.
Review is coming later
6/18 Bane
7/5 letlive.
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sweet that Suicide Silence added No Time To Bleed into the set. i didn't get that at my date. and like i said before, Whitechapel needs to take out Eternal Refuge, that song blows. replace it Exalt or Father of Lies.
so Parkway Drive DID get a good pit? how were the pits for Suicide Silence and Whitechapel at your show?
1.19 Nightwish
2.4 August Burns Red
2.13 Bodom
2.17 Machine Head
2.18 Symphony X
6/18 Bane
7/5 letlive.
I would've gone to this if I didn't see Suicide Silence and Whitechapel last night.
For such a short set time, Alkaline Trio are doing some killer sets. '97? Fucking awesome.
Here is my review.
Overall it was a really fun day. That being said the day did not start that way. I got into the venue pretty fast surprisingly but after walking around for a few minutes I could find no signs of set times anywhere. When I finally did it was 11:20 I found out that the main band I was there to see The Dillinger Escape Plan had already been playing for 10 minutes. After being misguided by a Comcast Center employee I ran as fast as I could to what I thought was the Main Stage and af it turned out to be the Glamour Kills Stage. I finally found a map and got there they already had just about finished Black Bubblegum. Despite missing half their set watching Dillinger was amazing. Spot on live and off the walls energetic. The setlist was amazing as well a lot of the best new material was played.
After Dillinger I made a promise to my friends that I would give Bring Me The Horizon a chance live. As many of you know I am pretty open minded when it comes to music and I will give anything a fair chance. I give Bring Me The Horizon a chance but they were still fucking ungodly awful. Oli Sykes is one of the worst metal vocalists ever. Some of his high pitched screaming he just spoke the words instead of screaming and he had some of the gayest gestures when he was on stage. Another whale of a tale from these bitches was how Sykes kept complaining about the lack of circle pits. Dude you have to realize that you fans are gold medal ninja fighters they don't like circle pits. One things these ninjas do like though is putting together the worst wall of death I have ever witnessed. I couldn't stop laughing it was one of the saddest things I have ever seen at a show. The only compliment I can give them is that they have good energy. Besides that Bring Me The Horizon is a detriment to metal and should stop making music ASAP.
Every Time I Die was up next for me. After Bring Me The Horizon it was refreshing to see a band that knows how to work the crowd properly. Anyone that is going to Warped Tour for the remainder of the tour should watch these guys. They are a great live band and they were a lot of fun to watch. One of the best performances of the day for sure.
While walking over to the Altec Lansing Stage to watch Whitechapel I watched Four Year Strong's last two songs. They weren't particularlly good but they weren't bad.
Whitechapel was up next. They were a lot better than they were at the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival in April but they still had shit sound and they need to back some setlist changes. They play the same songs non-stop. Whitechapel played pretty well but they still aren't as good live as they used to be.
Parkway Drive came on right after them. I got to say Parkway Drive is a great live band. The vocalist Winston McCall is fantastic and he is hillarious. Great performance all around by them and I was surprised had circle pits going for almost the entire set.
After Parkway it became a waiting game for me untill Alkaline Trio came on as they were 0 bands that I wanted to see during this so me and my friends sat at the Glamour Kills and AP stage for a little bit simply because there were seats. During that span I witnessed this band called Artist Vs Poet. Holy shit they were one of the worst bands I have ever heard in my entire life. Beyond whiney pop-punk that made All Time Low sound like Iron Fucking Maiden in comparison. After that shitshow Reverend Peyton Big Damn Band came on. I could not stop laughing at these guys. I understand they are trying to make fun,brainless music but they were just ridiculous. They had some talent but they sounded like music Borat would listen. After that Sparks To The Rescue played. They were still pretty weak but in comparison to the other bands that I just endured they weren't that bad.
Finally after the horrid array of sounds I watched Alkaline Trio. It has been a while since I had seen Alkaline Trio but they played pretty well. I will say the setlist was not the strongest mainly due to the lack of songs off of Crimson my favorite record by them. Despite the issue I still enjoyed there set a good amount and Armegeddon and 97 are two of my favorite songs by them.
I didn't watch any bands for another hour and a half after that because during the span In Fear and Faith,Alesana, The All-American Rejects,Hey Monday,Never Shout Never,Emarosa,Emmure,Mayday Parade and a few other awful bands were occupying their respective stages.
I made a very bad choice to watch Suicide Silence over Sum 41. Sum 41 i'm sure would been a lot of fun for the nostalgia and I highly regret not watching them. I am not even a big Suicide Silence fan at all. I am take it or leave it on them on disc but they do put on a pretty good show. They were still pretty decent but Mitch wasn't on the top of his game vocally. His voice kept cracking when he was doing his highs. That being said the crowd was really into it and besides the final act of the night(who I will be getting to in a moment) they got the best reception of the entire day. My friends that I went with all had their minds blown and just kept talking about they blew everyone else on the bill out of the water but they went back to the car prior to the last act who was.......
.....Andrew W.K!!!!! I knew Andrew W.K was going to good and fun live but I didn't think he was going to be that good. He was fucking unbelieveable. I have rarely seen a crowd so excited to see an artist in my entire life. He had circle pits going from the barrier all the way back to the Vans VIP Tent. Andrew W.K is such an amazing performer and he played the best show of the entire day. I was speechless after his performance and rarely had as much fun as I did during his show.
Overall a good show with a couple of letdowns and long waits with no bands I wanted to see but it was still worth it.
The Dillinger Escape Plan 9/10
Bring Me The Horizon 1.5/10
Every Time I Die 8.5/10
Whitechapel 7.5/10
Parkway Drive 8/10
Artist Vs Poet 1/10
Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band 2.5/10
Sparks To The Rescue 3/10
Alkaline Trio 7.5/10
Suicide Silence 6.5/10
Andrew W.K 9.5/10
6/18 Bane
7/5 letlive.
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I've lost track of just about everything.
6/18 Bane
7/5 letlive.
That being said I like fun, crazy music so I might have liked him also. Last I heard he bought a Manhattan club and was leading self-help seminars. Had no idea he was still even making music or that anyone cared...
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November 28th, 2011
It may not have been pretty, but it sure was delicious and four days after the fact, I'm still dreaming about this meal. We do an awful lot of asking people to finish the sentence, "It's not Thanksgiving without..." but I suppose I've never answered the question here myself.
That'd be the plate above, laden with turkey, my husband's squash casserole, and sweet potatoes, barbecue and collard greens made with skill, practice and a whole of love by my friend Eric. He's a talented cook to be sure, but I happen to believe he's got a certain amount of divine guidance on his side in the form of our friend Mama Diva, with whom we used to gather and eat this very meal each year.
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The miracle fruit, "miracle berry," or more formally Synsepalum dulcificum contains a glycoprotein – conveniently named miraculin - that temporarily fools taste buds into believing that sour and bitter things taste sweet.
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In 512 The Proof In the Pudding hodgens kinda spilled his guts to angela. What do you guys think about it? What do you think or hope will happen with that??
I so would have loved to seem them raise that baby.
I really want them to get back together! I've always been a big Hodgins/Angela fan, they're just too cute when around each other, not to get back together. I really do hope they get back together.
I agree they need to get back together.
id like to see them back together... i think the writers did an ok job with them breaking up last season but when hodgins said what he said to her when booth had his brain tumor you cant just leave something like that how it was... plus i dont like this think with wendell... the bones writers have been doing an amazing job this year and last but this is the one part of the show that has been kind of a let down... those two belong together on this show.
I really hope they get together. I mean, Hodgins wanted to raise a baby that he's not the father with a woman that is not his girlfriend. He's really in love.
I get the feeling that Wendel will fall hard for Angela, but, of course, Angela will choose Hodgins. Since last year's premier they've just been sorta failing to not act like they still have feelings, and I'm really hoping they get back together. They're just one of those couples that's destined. At the end of the last episode, I felt so bad for Hodgins, but I'm glad that it's out there.
I've been getting like a cam/hodgins feel these past few episodes. I kind of like them together
I like Hodgins, I like Angela, but omigod could I not care less. Those two have ZERO on-screen chemistry. Hodgins gets a little spark-ey sometimes, but nothing from Angela.
Now I think about it, the actress who plays Angela has no chemistry with anyone. Could be that.
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Dr. Patricia Arredondo
President, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Chicago Campus
Dr. Patricia Arredondo's career has been in the higher education and business sectors. Prior to joining The Chicago School of Professional Psychology's Chicago campus in February 2013 as president, she served within UW-Milwaukee as associate vice chancellor for Academic Affairs, interim dean for the School of Continuing Education and professor of Educational Psychology. She was also a professor and senior administrator for Arizona State University prior to joining UW-Milwaukee.
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Jeff Poulter is the Corporate Learning & Development talent development manager at UPS. He is responsible for UPS management development in all operations throughout 18 states in their central region, which includes six district business units and consists of approximately 13,196 UPS management employees.
Jeff began his career with UPS in 1977 as a part-time package handler in Burlington, Iowa. He moved into management in 1986 with responsibilities in the Mason City, Iowa, operation. Jeff was assigned to the Human Resources Department in 1989 where he held various positions in Iowa, Georgia and Nevada and then in Alabama.
In 2010, Jeff assumed his current position with UPS Learning & Development.
Community service is prominent for Jeff. He served on the United Way Board of Central Alabama, the Board of Directors for the Iowa Business Leaders Network, the Board of Directors for the Iowa Employers' Council (serving two years as chairperson) and two years on the Iowa Governor's Safety Council. In addition, Jeff was elected and served two years on the City Council and was subsequently elected to a four-year term as mayor of Lomax, Illinois.
Jeff received his bachelor's degree in management from California Coast University. He has four children, Tyler, Tanner, Trudie and Andrew.
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Through initial work with Northwestern Mutual Insurance, Sears, and Kohls Department Stores, Will has become knowledge leader on Employer Branding and its impact on Growing Human Capital. A number of Fortune 500 clients have engaged Versant to help them understand the impact of Generational Marketing and Branding to help recruit and retain high performing employees.
Will has presented at over 100 seminars and conferences nationally, and has guest-lectured at numerous major colleges and universities throughout his career.
Currently, he is sharing his learning on the newest generation to join the workplace: Gen-Y. Will serves on a number of boards and volunteers for many community projects. In its March 2001 issue, the Harvard Management Update recognized Versant's Web site as a valuable resource for business managers.


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This miniature room is one of five in a doll house owned by Colleen MacLeod of Summerville. The doll house will be one of several MacLeod has that people will see when they to come Joe Beans on Dec. 8 to pick up their programs for the La Grande Rotary HolidayHome Tour. DICK MASON - The Observer
The annual La Grande Rotary Holiday Home Tour is back with new amenities and again a sense of mystery.
The home tour, set for Dec. 8 in La Grande, is returning for a 10th year after a hiatus in 2011. Four homes and four businesses will be featured on the tour. Specific tour locations, which will be decorated to celebrate the season, will not be released until the day of the event. All homes and businesses on the Holiday Home Tour will be in a 10-block area.
Ticket holders will pick up their programs, which will list locations, at Joe Beans coffee, 1009 Adams Ave. People coming to Joe Beans for the start of the tour will be able see a doll house collection of Colleen MacLeod of Summerville.
Features at the homes and businesses on the tour will include displays of works by local artists including Don Gray of Union. The artist will be at one of the homes to greet visitors and discuss his works.
Gray is one of the most respected and best known artists in this region. Such is his reputation that in the mid 1980s he was commissioned by the State of Oregon to paint the official portrait of Gov. Vic Atiyeh. The portrait is displayed in the Capitol.
Gray grew up in La Grande is a 1970 graduate of EOU. He lived in Union for about 25 years before moving to Arizona. He returned to Union in 2007.
The artist's many well known works also include ones for the coffee table illustrated books about western history produced by Jerry Gildemeister's local Bear Wallow publishing company.
The Holiday Home Tour, which will run from noon to 4 p.m. is a benefit for local youth programs. Proceeds from the tour will go to the Drug Free Youth program at La Grande Middle School, the La Grande Rotary Scholar Athlete program, the Rotary Student Exchange program and the Dictionary Project. Free dictionaries are given to all third graders throughout Union County by La Grande Rotarians via the Dictionary Project.
The Holiday Home Tour was brought after a one year absence by popular demand according to its chair Zee Koza. She said La Grande Rotary members received many calls from people requesting that the home tour be continued. It had become an important part of this area's holiday season tradition, Koza said.
Home tour tickets are $10 and can be bought from any La Grande Rotarian, or at Sunflower Books and the Union County Chamber of Commerce. There is no charge for children under 10 but they must be accompanied by an adult.
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Happy Opening Day 2012!
Posted by Neil on April 3, 2012
With baseball triumphantly returning for the 2012 season, here are some Opening Day features we have here at B-R:
- Franchise Opening-Day Starters (1918-2011)
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- Game Previews
- Our Mobile Site is perfect for looking up stats at the game, in a restaurant, or on your couch. We even have every box score since 1918 available in an easy to use mobile format.
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The Two-Faced Format: Documents and Experiments at NY's
Video Fest
by Anthony Kaufman
Proving once again that video isn't just a medium for obsessive dads to
document their kid's baseball errors, the New York Video Festival
returns this Friday with a collection of both the straightforward and
cutting-edge variations of the format. The headliners of this year's
fest include new works by PXLvision stalwart Sadie Benning, acclaimed
black filmmaker Charles Burnett, and Russian elegist Aleksandr Sokurov.
Also featured are Armond White's annual look at music video (this time
Hype Williams and Spike Jonze get theoried), never-aired censored
segments of Michael Moore's Fox show "TV Nation," a CD-ROM exhibition,
and a video/stage performance from Deke Weaver called "Girlfriend: The
Live Performance." Now in its 7th year, the Video fest has sufficiently
outgrown its early years piggy-backing on the New York Film Festival in
the Fall, now standing alone as a strong summertime foray (this year
from July 17 - 23) into the limits and profundities to be found in the
new medium.
Over 500 videos were submitted to this year's fest, but most of the
works, according to curator Graham Leggatt, came from festival outreach.
"Only a smattering of non-solicited works were accepted, which is
usually the case," he says. Unique to this year's program are more
feature-length programs as well as a highlighted group of unknown
international video makers mixed in with the local regulars. For leads
to important foreign work, programmer Gavin Smith found international
sources at the World Wide Video Festival in the Netherlands, Montreal's
Festival of New Cinema, the Impact Festival, Lucerne's Viper Festival,
and London's bi-annual Pandemonium fest.
"Almost every country has an organization that is dedicated to
distributing video," says Smith, one of the main curators of the
festival, along with Leggatt and the the Film Society's Marion
Masone. "It's a little hit and miss. There are parts of Europe that are
well-represented, and there are parts that aren't represented. There
is, of course, Eastern Europe and Russia where I know a lot of stuff
happens, but we just don't have any good contacts," says Smith. "No one
has figured out how to get that work out. But it's there." Although
Aleksandr Sukurov would appear to be an adequate Russian ambassador, in
the fest this year with a five-hour long experimental doc called
"Spiritual Voices: The Diaries of War" which tracks a Russian army unit,
Smith notes that the acclaimed video and filmmaker works out of Germany.
Aside from U.S. entries which dominate the program, Belgium appears to
be the next hotbed of new media work. Opening the festival is the
83-minute "The Way of the Weed," directed by An-Marie Lambrechts, Peter
Missotten, and Anne Quirynen. Shot with high production values on
digital video, the work follows a researcher through post-industrial
futuristic settings as he unravels the mystery of weeds.
Another strong entry from Belgium is Johan Grimonprez's 68-minute,
cultural history of hijacking and terrorism, "dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y." Using
old news footage, industrial airline videos, and Don DeLillo quotes,
Grimonprez creates a powerful (although overly long) investigative
mosaic about what he calls "the media politics of contemporary
catastrophe culture." Sprinkled with ironic riffs from Motown hit "The
Hustle" as airplanes explode into oblivion, the work is both wry and
ripping. At one point, the narrator says, "Everything seeks its own
heightened version," -- a mantra that shoots through the entire spine of
video's origins -- of ordinary people taking their everyday lives and
transforming them into media moments.
This is essentially what Dominique Cabrera does in one of the strongest
pieces in the festival, "Tomorrow and Tomorrow: Diary 1995," the French
director's 83-minute autobiographical hi-8 video diary, which captures
life's moments of bliss, pain and the sublime of the everyday. With
characters and situations just as dramatic and heartfelt as any
narrative feature, Cabrera documents her battles with depression, the
country's presidential election, strained attempts to connect with her
son, and a troubled affair with a man who loves another woman.
Other intimate studies can be found in Sadie Benning's new work, "Flat
is Beautiful" and Charles Burnett's "The Final Insult." Benning
combines Fisher-Price PXLvision footage with Super-8 dream sequences to
get into the head of an 11-year-old girl who is questioning her
sexuality. Through the course of the entire tape, all the characters
wear cartoonish masks covering their expressions. Although an
interesting attempt to distance the spectator and experience the same
kind of alienation as the characters, you can't help but miss the power
of the human face.
Burnett, on the other hand, who is best known for his brilliant "To
Sleep with Anger," hardly shies away from the human countenance in this
in-your-face docu-fiction about poverty and homelessness in Los
Angeles. Financed by ZDF German TV, "Insult" straddles the line between
narrative and experimental forms, cross-cutting between a profile of Box
Brown, an accountant who lives out of his car, and the real-life victims
of downsizing and ghettoisation. Burnett's journey into videowork seems
to confirm the notion that the cheaper video format allows for
filmmakers to undertake story structures and imagery that a commercial
feature might not afford.
A program about displaced travelers rounds out the more personal works
in the festival. Included is the voyage of Tony Mendoza, a professor
returning to the home of his adolescence in "Cuba: Going Back." Using a
consumer video camera and shot completely from the professor's point of
view, the audience feels the same alienation and displacement he must
have felt as the locals label him an American and a tourist. Mendoza's
autobiographical journey is testament to what Leggatt calls "the
pleasure of the promiscuity of the medium" where anyone can pick up a
videocamera and become an artist, a sociologist or a storyteller.
The programmers have continued to categorize the videos under different
subject headings in an effort to package the selections, give them a
cohesive identity, and allow the works to resonate with each other. For
instance, a wide-ranging program of formal play and motion-pieces
garners the name, "Persistence of Vision" while a group of absurdist
tapes are listed under the rubric, "Stop Making Sense." But even the
features are given their own branding, (for example, "The Way of the
Weed," is headed by the more accessible sounding "Next Stop: Beyond the
X-Files"). Beyond a way to reel in those film diehards, the collective
programs also provide an "extraordinary sense of community" for the
video makers, "who come to see all the programs of their peers," says
Shifting to the digitally enhanced, multi-layered manipulations of the
fest, one discovers a few startling talents in the more experimental
programs, most of them NY Video Fest veterans. These short videos pump,
beat, jiggle, humor, and pulsate with originality and innovation. "Good
short videos are like a great pop single that you make in your garage,"
Leggatt admits, though "of course, it's more sophisticated than that."
Still, the garage metaphor is apt, especially for the continuously
comical and edgy work of a team of video makers known as HalfLifers
(Torsten Burns and Anthony DiScenza). Their white-noise, bad-color,
postmodern videos combine base humor, action tropes, and semiotic
wordplay, often in fastforward (complete with those static lines across
the TV screen.) In their latest "Action in Action," a suburban kitchen
becomes their frenzied, crisis zone and junk food like Cheetoes and
bologna their access to stability. Even more relentless (and sometimes
painful) are the works of another team, self-titled "Animal Charm", whose
four videos use repetition, juxtaposition and grating sounds to obscure
Far more understandable and effective in his use of repetition is the
work of Les LeVeque. A teacher at Ithaca College and Colgate
University, LeVeque has worked in video for the last ten years. His
"Dissing D.A.R.E.: Education as Spectacle," an indicting montage of the
Drug Abuse Resistance Program, is notable, as is the itching "Thorazine
Rebel" which had Bowie's "Rebel, Rebel" seared in my brains days after
Other strong shorts come from seminal downtown New Yorker Joe Gibbons,
who contributes his latest Barbi PXLvision short and an arresting
2-minute "Apocalypse Now" - homage, co-directed with Emily Breer, who adds
stunning colored animations to the images. ResFest discovery Eric Henry
appears with "Wood Technology in the Design of Structures" and "Bored
Project Movie." And two mesmerizing experiments in motion should not go
unnoticed, Seoungho Cho's "Rev" and Michael Intriere's "Fish."
All works made in a style and image only possible in new media, these
shorter videos testify to the uniqueness of the format. Although
"certain things we show possibly originate on film or Super-8 or 16 or
even 35," says Smith, "it's ultimate destination is video, and in the
process, it becomes distinctly video. There's nothing we're showing that
could equally be projected on film." For videomakers, it must be nice
to know there's at least someone out there who respects the medium.


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Radical Prostatectomy
Radical Prostatectomy
Alternate Names
- radical retropubic prostatectomy
- radical perineal prostatectomy
Who is a candidate for the procedure?
How is the procedure performed?
- The most common approach is radical retropubic prostatectomy. For this procedure, the incision made to remove the prostate starts below the navel and extends to just above the pubic bone.
- In the radical perineal prostatectomy, a smaller, curved incision is made between the anus and the base of the scrotum. The prostate is brought out from underneath the pubic bone.
There are advantages and disadvantages to each approach. The retropubic approach allows the surgeon to take a lymph node sample at the same time as prostate removal. The perineal approach has a slightly shorter recovery time. After removal of the prostate, the urethra is sewn to the bladder neck. This repair is done with sutures, or stitches, over a urinary catheter. The catheter is a narrow tube that is passed through the urethra into the bladder. Drains are placed around the site. Then the skin is closed.
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The Merck Manual of Medical Information, Home edition, 1997
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Hi there !
Hi, I'm Terry Laire, a french soon-Dvorak-player led here by Orteil ! I'm 19 years old (Please don't read this after my 20th birthday), and I'm very keen on Monty Python, a bit less on Douglas Adams and llamas, but not at all on any sponge !
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Travel the best spots in Santa Barbara/ Ventura. We will have tours of the local Sex Wax factory aswell as the Channel Islands Surfboard Factory. The SBSA Travel Camp is a one week surf camp designed for the advanced beginners and intermediate surfers that are wanting to advance their basic surfing skills. This camp is best suited for ages 9 and up with solid swimming skills. Participants are provided with soft surfboards and wetsuits, if needed. Lunch is not provided for the travel camp. This camp meets at The Beach House.


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"I don't like being summoned." Quinn leaned against the wide door frame and directed a withering look at the silver-haired man behind the desk.
"I don't like summoning you. And I certainly don't like needing your help." Edward Kerr's features grew pained, as if the admission caused him physical torture.
Intrigued, Quinn stepped into the spacious office, his black boots barely making a sound as he crossed the pristine parquet floor toward Kerr. A lone visitor's chair sat in front of the forbidding mahogany desk but he made no move to sit down. He didn't plan to stay long. In fact, he wasn't entirely sure why he showed up here to begin with. Two years ago he'd vowed never to lay eyes on this man--or his daughter--again. Why he'd broken that vow still eluded him.
He examined the older man's face, saw the worry flickering in Kerr's dark blue eyes, and his intrigue deepened. Revealing his weaknesses was not in Edward Kerr's character. His entire career could be credited to his ruthless nature, his ability to remain poised and controlled in any situation. Which raised the question--what was causing Kerr's obvious anxiety?
Or perhaps he should be asking whom.
"Morgan is in trouble," Kerr said, getting right to the point.
Something that resembled concern tugged at Quinn's gut.
He managed to paste on a mask of indifference and said, "So?"
"That's your response? So?" Disbelief washed across the older man's face. "This doesn't worry you?"
"Worry suggests I actually give a damn about Morgan's well-being." He offered a cool smile. "I don't."
"You're lying."
Quinn crossed his arms over his chest. "Is this the reason you called me, to inform me that your daughter is in trouble? If so, you've wasted both our time."
A pleading note entered Kerr's gravelly voice. "I need you to help her."
He shook his head in irritation before taking two steps back toward the door. "Good night, Edward."
"Goddamn it, Quinn! She's in danger!"
Another step to the door. Don't look back, a little voice warned. He's playing you. They're both playing you.
"She's missing, Quinn."
A flicker of alarm. Ignore it, keep walking.
Almost at the doorway. One more step and he'd be out of here. Free of Edward Kerr. Free of Morgan. Free of the tornado of memories that assaulted him the moment he'd heard her name.
"She tried to kill herself last week."
That last revelation made him freeze. Before he could stop it, the image of Morgan's gorgeous face swept into the forefront of his brain. Her wavy blond hair, always haphazardly falling onto her regal forehead. Those perceptive blue eyes that tilted upward just enough to make her look exotic. The stubborn slant of her chin, the delicate earlobes she refused to pierce. Then he heard her voice in his head, her sassy no-nonsense tone, spoken in a throaty pitch that made her sound as if she walked around with a perpetual cold.
And he remembered her fire, her determination, her will.
Slowly, he turned to face the father of the woman he'd once desperately loved.
"Bull," he said flatly. "She would never try to take her own life."
"I'm telling the truth." Kerr's eyes became shuttered, but there was genuine conviction in his voice.
Then again, Kerr had always been a convincing liar. He'd manipulated the press for years, making them fall hook, line and sinker for his my-poor-mentally-ill-daughter...
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Republicans don't have a candidate to challenge Congressman Ted Deutch
U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Boca Raton, may get a pass from the Republicans in this year's election.
The only Republican who'd expressed an interest in challenging him said Tuesday she was dropping out, and Palm Beach County Republican Chairman Sid Dinerstein said he doesn't know of another candidate who will attempt to topple Deutch.
"We don't have one at this point," he said. Potential candidates looked at the 37 percent of the vote Republican Joe Budd won in 2010 "and said he did a lot of work and a lot of fundraising and that's all he got."
Robert Watson, a political scientist at Lynn University in Boca Raton, said the political makeup of the district and Deutch's style would make it difficult to unseat him. "Ted Deutch has been successful, effective, and he's very popular," he said. "It's hard to find anybody who doesn't like Ted Deutch."
The new 21st Congressional District includes most of the territory between Southern Boulevard in Palm Beach County in the north to Atlantic Boulevard in Broward County on the South and mostly between Military Trail on the east and the Everglades on the west.
The territory – with 61 percent of the voters living in Palm Beach County – is overwhelmingly Democratic. Voters there went 64 percent for Barack Obama and 63 percent for John Kerry in the last two presidential elections and 62 percent for Alex Sink in the 2010 governor's race.
Dinerstein said those voters are exceedingly difficult to pry away from the Democratic Party. "Those are Delray Democrats, and not Florida Democrats. That means they're not interested in listening," he said.
Anna Trujillo, a Coral Springs resident who's never run for office before, had been running as a "local unemployed mom." She dropped out after failing to attract attention or raise money.
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Pick of the Week: Vienna Nocturne by Vivien Shotwell
The title Vienna Nocturne is very apt for this book, because a nocturne is a night song, defined as a "composition of a dreamy or pensive character." And in many ways, this lush period novel unfolds like a dream. This is the story of Anna Storace, an opera prodigy who leaves her native London and achieves fame and fortune in continental Europe in the late 18th century. She sings with some of the leading operatic stars of the time and works with Salieri and Mozart, with whom she eventually develops a love affair. The book is Anna's coming-of-age tale, as she grows from a naïve ingénue to a woman who comes to know rejection and heartbreak. Anna's life is one of great contrasts: the sweet, charming persona she displays on stage camouflages her painful and difficult personal life. Mozart and his music save her from her eventual breakdown, and their sweet, poignant love affair is delicately and beautifully written.
There's no actual evidence that Mozart and Storace had an affair, although he did write some of his most beautiful arias for her, including the role of Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro. The author of this book is a trained opera singer herself, and she demonstrates a strong understanding of operatic technique, as well as repertoire from the period. Her characters, including Mozart, are richly imagined, as is her vision of 18th century Vienna.
This is a beautiful, atmospheric book that will appeal to lovers of historical fiction and classical music fans. (Note: this book will be released on February 25, but it is available now for patrons to place holds in our catalog.)
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Title : Pitman gan te Parliament
Format : song
Composer : Elliot, Robert
Production details : publisher : Richardson and FentonBedlington ; Northumberland
Date : 1877
Collection name : Poems and recitations
Election song was written in support of the M.P. for Morpeth, Thomas Burt. Burt was the son of Peter Burt, a coal miner of Earsdon. He commenced work in the pits at an early age and in 1865 was made Secretary to the Northumberland Miner's Mutual Association, a trade union consisting of 18,000 members. Thomas Burt was understandably popular in a county dominated by the coal industry and was returned to Parliament in 1874, 1880, 1885 and 1886. This is one of a number of songs by Elliot and others in support of Burt. This version however, is rather more fulsome in its political views, referring to the inequalities of the time.
This collection consists of a selection of poems and songs from 'Poems and recitations' by Robert Elliot of Choppington. The book was published in Bedlington by Richardson and Fenton in 1877. The publication consists largely of sentimental poems, relating the passing of loved ones as in 'The drunkard', or in 'On visiting', reflecting fondly on the past. There are however a small selection of poems commenting on issues of the day which touch on the political activity in the county at the time. Little is known of the author other than he was from Choppington and was writing in the late nineteenth century.
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I was wondering what places online do people use for ordering plants? Looking for pieces that offer good prices and a decent selection. In the past I had used set aquatics, but it looks like after all the problems that they had they closed down. Thanks.
Surprisingly: Ebay.
I just ordered quite a few plants from there from various vendors. No problems.
I also just used Bobs Tropical Plants. No complaints, received exactly what I ordered.
AquariumPlants.com great selection good value for wonderful plants. i had great looking plants from there till my fish ate everything but the jungle val. haha
ive heard good things about liveaquaria.com though ive never used it myself
We got ours from Liveaquaria. They have done wonderful. We bought the low light mediium plant pack it was like $ 45 and has lots of plants and in the 5 weeks or so we have had them they have tripled in size.
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Parties split on budget
Thursday, April 7, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) — Partisan divisions hardened Wednesday as Republicans began pushing a $3.5 trillion federal budget for 2012 through a House committee, with backers calling it a sobering correction for the nation's spending binge and critics labeling it an assault on health programs for retirees and the poor.
The sweeping fiscal plan by House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., lays the groundwork for a decade of cuts in spending, taxes and deficits. It would be tempered by a cost shift to future retirees and features a reshaping of the government's two chief health care programs for the elderly and poor, Medicare and Medicaid.
Though the blueprint covers the entire reach of government, much of Wednesday's House Budget Committee debate focused on health and other social programs, from which Republicans were proposing to wring hundreds of billions in savings over the next 10 years. Ryan said that with sky-high deficits, the government needs to limit its mission to programs that are truly needed.
"We don't want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls people to lives of complacencies and dependencies, into a permanent condition where they never get on their feet," he said.
Rep. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, the panel's top Democrat, said Republicans are protecting tax breaks for corporations and the wealthy at the expense of the middle class and the poor. The Republican budget proposes whittling the current 35 percent top tax rate on individuals and businesses to 25 percent.
"It doesn't reform Medicare, it deforms and dismantles it," Van Hollen said of the GOP's budget. As for Medicaid, the budget "rips apart the safety net" for poor and older people, he added.
The budget is a non-binding road map whose taxing and spending changes are supposed to be enacted later in the year in future legislation. But Ryan's plan has no chance of being approved by the Democratic-run Senate, making it more of a statement of priorities that candidates are likely to embrace or attack during the 2012 campaigns.
Republicans castigated Democrats for trying to curb the blueprint's tax cuts, saying today's level of taxes and regulation make it harder for businesses to create jobs.
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Alex qualifies for U.S. Amateur
July 13, 2010
Rising junior and first team All-American Marina Alex qualified for the U.S. Amateur on Monday after registering co-medalist honors at U.S. Amateur qualifying at the Haworth Country Club in Haworth, N.J. Alex, from Wayne, N.J., shot an even-under par 71, and tied Kelly Shon of Port Washington, N.Y., for first place in the qualifier.
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Health care reform task force passes interim plan
A task force charged with overseeing sweeping federal health care reform in Maryland approved Monday an interim plan that outlines steps to prepare for the changes it will bring.
The plan sets goals such as containing costs while improving quality, expanding the health care work force to meet demands of new patients and making sure reform actually leads to the better health of Maryland residents.
The 12-member Maryland Health Care Reform Coordinating Council voted unanimously to approve the plan. Three members were absent.
Most facets of reform will not take place until 2004, although some other parts will take place a little earlier.
For instance, the state was awarded $85 million in federal funds earlier this month to help immediately insure people with pre-existing conditions. The state is using the money to increase its high-risk pool, which now insures about 20,000 people. The state will start accepting applications for the high-risk pool in August, and people will be able to enroll in September.
Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown said the interim plan helps to set the frame work of what the state will need to do to implement more sweeping elements of reform.
"Because of the enormity of this, we think it is important to spend time on the up-front work to set up a foundation," Brown said.
Brown co-chairs the coordinating council with John M. Colmers, secretary of state of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. The committee also announced chairs of working groups that will come up with concrete ways to implement reform.
For example, one group will look at how to create health care exchanges where people can shop for coverage with subsidies. The state is also looking at creating pilot programs to test out new ways of caring for patients.
The council's interim report will be officially released Monday. The report will include a cost analysis outlining how much money Maryland taxpayers will save under health care reform. The report will also include an overview of the federal legislation, key points the state needs to address and potential grants and funding opportunities. Some of the suggestions in the report were taken from more than 160 ideas from the public submitted on a state website and during past hearings.
A final report is due to Gov. Martin O'Malley Jan. 1.
State officials have said that they are in better shape than other steps because they already have initiatives for the uninsured, such as its high-risk pool.
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Words: They make up an entire being and at the same time they can destroy you. They bring two persons together before they mercilessly drive a wedge into what was once a perfect life. Words can shine only as bright as the one who is speaking, or it can leave a bitter taste on your tongue as you spew out a venomous poison that can destroy a person's spirit; Ripping and tearing away at your insides until there is nothing left except for a newfound hatred towards he who spoke so carelessly. Words hurt people. Break people. Kill people. If it weren't for words, I wouldn't be here, hands and knees pressed firmly to the cold ground beneath me as the two most powerful beings in the universe use me as a stand. If it weren't for words, I wouldn't have this unbearable weight crushing in my chest as it slowly drives me insane. If words can hurt this much, I don't want to speak. I don't want to hear..
If words hurt this much... Maybe... I should just forget how to talk.
"Zim~!" A antenna splitting voice boomed throughout the small workroom just beyond the main lab used by Irken scientists on the Massive. Black stalks flattened against a green scalp as it's master prepared himself for impending doom that was soon to follow the squealing female's voice. The Irken knew that facing the female would be inevitable, no matter how hard he tried to cover up his presence. He mentally cursed for having not putting more effort into is caution.
Zim took in a small breath before turning around towards the clanking sound of boots as they ran across the metal floor. "Genn~" he said with false emotion as said Irken threw her arms around the other's slender frame. "H-how did you know I was down here?" He questioned as he wriggled away from her grasp.
Giving off a small chuckle, Genn released the ex-Invader and blew him a raspberry. "Psh- Everyone on the Massive knows that you're here! The Control Brain's broadcasted your Reassignment!" She said excitedly. She looked up at Zim, antenna twitching ever so often. "When did you grow so tall...?" She nearly whispered.
Zim rolled his eyes as he turned his back to the glowing scientist before him. "Yes, yes... Zim is so amazing that his amazingness had to be broadcast." He shrugged his shoulders at her question. "Earth is a very strange planet with very strange chemicals. Zim simply combined those chemicals with those from Irk and I grew." To avoid further questioning, Zim began to walk towards a large computer screen towards the back of the room.
Genn followed behind him curiously. "You don't need to be down here until tomorrow." She said cautiously. "What are you doing?" Genn leaned towards the left to look around Zim's body.
Letting out a frustrated growl as he tried to access the computer, Zim kicked the wall. "I know that!" He tried to access it again. "My PAK is malfunctioning and I need to access Tallest Myuki's PAK files in order to fix it." The room was suddenly illuminated red as the Irken insignia blinked erratically on the screen.
"Irk be damned!" Zim shrieked as he slammed his fists into the console.
Genn flinched as Zim began to swear at the machinery. "Uh.. Zim-"
"What!?" He barked as he spun around on his heel to face the shocked Irken.
Green eyes widened briefly before they narrowed into dangerous slits. "I was going to tell you that I have access to every single file on the Massive."
Zim blinked his eyes as realization dawned on him. Slowly, lips twisted into a jagged smile as the taller stared down at the annoyed female, stepping off to the side to offer the computer to Genn. "Then bring them up." He said cooly.
Genn's cheeks flushed a bit before stepping up to the machinery. "Idiot." She mumbled as she began to type ferociously.
Zim tapped his foot impatiently as he waited for the clacking of the key's to cease and for Genn to turn around announcing that she was done. Ten minutes went by and Zim's impatience began to take it's toll making the Irken pace around the room. A glittering object caught fuschia eyes, pulling in their master in to take a better look.
Zim picked up a vial of red liquid, turning it this way and that as he inspected the foreign substance. A small, rectangular device protruded from the ex-Invader' PAK. Zim grabbed it with his free hand and held it above the vial, a green light beaming outwards as it began to scan the chemical properties. Reading over the data, the Irken let out a soft 'hmmm' before placing the liquid back onto the table that it previously resided on.
As he reached behind his back to replace the scanner his left arm bumped the side of the table causing the vial to roll forwards and towards the ledge. Zim's eyes widened and his hand shot out in an attempt to grasp onto the thing before it collided with the floor, and as if some magical force seemed to manipulate his being, Zim's hand completely missed the vial and slammed into the sharp edge of the table. The Irken hissed in pain the moment before a loud crack was heard. Antenna wilted back as he stared down at the broken glass on the floor. "Oops." He mumbled softly as his eyes scanned over the mess he'd made.
The black stalks pressed themselves harder against his head as the clacking of keys stopped and Genn asked in an irritated voice, "What did you do?"
Zim straightened himself and smiled innocently as he answered, "Nothing~"
Letting out a sigh, Genn turned around and peered at the smiling Irken before her. She noted the broken glass and shook her head. "Did you break it?"
Zim bowed his head as if he were actually ashamed. "Yes..."
Genn turned around and entered a few more words before the flashing light ceased. "There." She turned around and gestured towards the computer. "I brought up Tallest Myuki's memory database." She shook her head again. "Get over here before you break anything else..." She said in a tired voice.
The taller grinned as the female didn't enforce any punishment for his carelessness. Once he got up to the database, coils extended from his PAK and plugged themselves into the computer. Zim winced as an electrical shock erupted throughout his body. Ignoring the pain, Zim smirked as he stared into the screen. "Tell Zim your secret's, Tallest Myuki."
Processing memory database: Subject - Former Tallest Myuki.
Logging into PAK memory core: . . .
Information regarding 'emotions' has been granted.
File downloading activated~
Day seven thousand, five hundred, forty eight of leadership of the Irken Empire. Yesterday the construction of the Massive was completed. This may be the single most greatest accomplishment I could have ever achieved as Tallest. With this destructive tool of war, the Irken Empire can easily set off for galactic conquest with little to no resistance. Even the Control Brains will have to admit that I have surpassed them in power. There is nothing that I, Tallest Myuki, cannot do.
. . .
Day eleven thousand, nine hundred, seventy six of leadership of the Irken Empire. The Control Brains have not only denied my rights in power, but my emotions as well. Irk be damned if I allow such disgrace to befall my people, my empire.
They have ordered that all emotions to be suppressed within our PAK's, so that we may only feel what is necessary to destroy and conquer. All other emotions are to be terminated. The Control Brains feel that we are years behind what could have been achieved due to petty feelings. As Tallest, I will not allow this to happen. I can only pray to Irk that in the future I can somehow convince the Brains to reconsider their choices.
. . .
Day eleven thousand, nine hundred, eighty four of leadership of the Irken Empire. I have desperately tried to convince the Brains to reconsider the termination of all emotions they deem worthless. They have denied me, therefore I must do something distract.
I must break Irken Law.
Somehow, I must hide from their all seeing eyes and re-encode PAK's that will be manufactured in the future. I cannot save the emotions of those in the present, but I can save those in the future. I will secretly hide a small switch underneath the bottom left PAK limb. If pressed, the switch will send out a harmless virus to the PAK that cancels the effects of the Control Brain's anti-emotion code. Unfortunately, I cannot publicly announce the existence of this switch.
I will also encode a second harmless virus that will automatically send different amounts of emotions to the Irken people. The taller they get, the more they feel. The Brains will just suspect that the increase in emotions will have to do with their superior genetics that allow their taller height, and leave it be.
PAK cables disconnected from the computer, sending another wave of electricity through the slender frame of their master. Zim fell to the floor as pain enveloped his entire body. "Gah!" He gripped his head tightly, eyes squeezing shut as he desperately tried to maintain his composure. His vision began to blur as his mind tried to process the information that it just recieved. Shaking his head, the Irken rose up on shaky legs and glared forward at the black screen before him. This, was far worse than anything he had suspected.
"Irk you Control Brains..."
The Aftermath (ZaDr) ~ Chapter 8 - Part 1 by WhiteIris16Watch
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Lol, so I didn't go to school today because I woke up late.
Happy Becca is happy.
Well, it seems that I'm finally starting to find joy in writing again!
Thank you all for your wonderful support and please enjoy
Chapter Seven Part 2 - [link]
Chapter Eight Part 1- You're here
Chapter Eight Part 2 - [link]
Happy Becca is happy.
Well, it seems that I'm finally starting to find joy in writing again!
Thank you all for your wonderful support and please enjoy
Chapter Seven Part 2 - [link]
Chapter Eight Part 1- You're here
Chapter Eight Part 2 - [link]


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Saturday, March 1, 2014
The chili cookoff to benefit the National Guard soldiers and their families, scheduled for Sunday, March 2, at the Fulton Armory, has been canceled because of the weather.
The cookoff had already been rescheduled once because of snow.
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Awsome swordtail activity.
I had my two swordtails in my 10G tank; I had a small problem and had to rapidly move them to my 55G "Shark" tank. I figured it would be ok as my swordtails where eating flaks from the top of the tank, and I feed all my sharks algae disc from on the bottom of the tank. If any think I figured my 5 bala sharks would keep them away from their end of the tank.
I started to notice that not only will my two swordtails eat their floating flakes they will also swim down and punk the bala's and eat their algae disc also. Right now the balas are only maybe 2 1/2 to 3 inches same size as the swordtails, maybe when the balas are 6 inches they will change their behavior.
This is like my friends little 25lb mutt picking on my 65lb pitbull, well almost :-).
thats really cool. my swoardtails don't even seem to be interested in alge discs. thats really neat though
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For the past 75 years, MDC has been developing an extensive network of conservation areas. These are the places we go to hunt, fish, hike, birdwatch and enjoy nature.
The Department's aim has been to balance conserving and managing the state's forest, fish and wildlife resources while providing ample opportunities for all citizens to use, enjoy and learn about them.
"Conservation areas belong to the people of Missouri and are for their benefit. These areas have always provided room for people to enjoy the outdoors," says MDC Director Robert L. Ziehmer. "They also do much more. We manage these areas to re-establish habitats for native species and to protect unique natural communities, which results in a wider range of ways that the public can benefit from these areas."
Design for Conservation
Missourians have long supported conserving lands for public use and to support wildlife. Beginning in the 1970s, the Department made a pledge to embrace a broader conservation approach called the Design for Conservation. It was a plan to preserve the best examples of forests, prairies, marshes and glades; to obtain land for recreation, forestry and protection of critical habitat; to increase services to the public in the areas of wildlife and forest conservation; and to create a system of conservation nature centers throughout Missouri. Voters approved the Design for Conservation plan in 1976 with a one-eighth of 1 percent sales tax, providing reliable funding for fish, forests and wildlife conservation.
"This citizen-led initiative created an interconnected and accessible network of public lands that conserve natural resources while providing the public with quality recreational and educational opportunities," says MDC Deputy Director Tim Ripperger.
Prior to Design for Conservation, the Department managed 294,000 acres of public land. During the initial 20 years of implementing the Design, the Department purchased an additional 440,000 acres to serve as conservation areas. These early efforts were based on broad guidelines and willing sellers. While the combined acreage of Missouri's conservation areas is remarkable, it totals less than 3 percent of the state.
Incredibly, a full 20 percent of MDC's public land holdings were donations. "Donations of land are the ultimate expression of the commitment to conservation and to the future that a landowner can make," Ripperger says.
Today the Department holds approximately 789,000 acres in public trust and manages another 197,000 acres owned by conservation partners, such as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, The Nature


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I am so SUPER excited to post a tutorial for our "Hanging Daybed Swing" thing-a-ma-gig. This little number is a cross between a hammock and a porch swing that has all the benefits of BOTH and the drawbacks of neither. I'll be honest, it's kinda killing me to leave this baby at the DIY Blogger House- I want it for MY pergola!
Imagine spending an afternoon reading to your kids on the hanging bed or an evening lazily watching the stars as you sway gently in the cool breeze and relax. Are you feeling it yet? Wouldn't that experience SO be worth all the pain of building your own hanging daybed swing? I'll be honest. This is a rather large project and takes some time BUT it requires minimal tools (mostly just a drill and miter saw which most homeowners have access to).
To make the swing, you'll need the following materials in a suitable outdoor wood. Redwood and Cedar will both work and can be purchased at home improvement stores. I will confess to using a little bit of standard lumber on the interior parts of the swing that are not exposed to the elements to save money. If you want to make it fancy, you could try using Teak or Ipe but that will increase the cost significantly.
Materials List:
- 3″ Outdoor screws
- 2 1/2″ Outdoor screws- a BIG box!
- Counter-sinking drill bit
- 4- 1/2 inch diameter by 6 inch long eye bolts
- 8- 1/2 washers
- 8 1/2 nuts
- 4- 1/2 inch by 4 inch lag eye bolts
- 8- carabiners which can be screwed closed
- chain- total length depends upon where it will be installed.
- Protective plastic for chains
- 3- 2 x 6 x 8 boards (we used redwood)
- 2- 2 x 4 x 8 boards
- 2- 2 x 4 x 8 studs (or use redwood- this is for the interior)
- 4- 3 x 1 x 8 boards (we used regular fir- this is for the interior)
- 7- 2 x 2 x 8 boards
- EITHER an old twin-size mattress OR
- 3 foam camping pads
- 5 yards of outdoor fabric for the mattress cover
- 2 yards of outdoor fabric for the bolster pillow
- 12 yards of pre-made piping (we used rope style piping from the Walmart sewing section)
- 6- packages of sew-on velcro because we didn't want to mess with giant zippers!
- Matching thread
- miscellaneous outdoor pillows
Overwhelmed by the list yet? No? Good! Let's get busy! The first thing you'll need to do is measure your twin mattress. There can be slight size variations. The mattress I intended to use (spare twin size the kids don't need) measures 75 inches long by 36 inches wide, which is the most common standard size. All measurements used in this tutorial are based off this size so if yours is different, you'll need to adjust your measurements accordingly.
Building the Base:
We didn't really have a pattern for this swing- we (Dad and I) made it up as we went. However, I used the tutorial created by the ever-awesome Ana White as a place to start. Ana's version is easier to construct but does not have sides or a back. We wanted the added safety of sides and a back. I also think our alternate hanging hardware will be stronger- and since our hanging bed is a lot heavier, it needs it. You can see Ana's tutorial and excellent drawings HERE.
Side note– I got to meet Ana at the SNAP! Creativity Conference and I can confirm she is a one-woman dynamo! If you're an aspiring Do-it-yourselfer, you NEED to get to know Ana!
Let's begin! Make the following cuts:
- Cut 2 of the 2 x 6 x 8 boards to a length of 76 1/2 inches.
- Cut the remaining 2 x 6 x 8 board into two boards which are each 34 1/2 inches in length.
Pre-drill screw holes for the 3″ long screws using a "counter-sinking drill bit" available at Home Depot, Lowes and other hardware stores. This will save A LOT of time! You'll want 3 holes located 3/4″ from each end of the 76 1/2″ boards. Screw together the base, use wood glue on the joints. Use a carpenter's square to make sure that your base is perfectly square. When screwed together, the base should be no more than 1/2″ bigger than the mattress on each side.
Next, cut the 2 regular 2 x 4s to a length of inches. Mount these on the INSIDE of the frame, 1/2″ below the top of the base, you want to leave just enough room so that when the slats that hold the mattress are installed (one of the last steps) the will be totally flush with the top of the frame. You don't want the mattress to fit inside the frame or it will hurt the backs of your knees when you sit on it.
Adding the Back and Sides
Now we'll prepare the parts for the back and sides. We chose to use 18″ long slats for the arms and back of the swing because we'd be able to get exactly 6 slats from each 2 x 2 x 8 piece of lumber. Adjust this for yourself as desired. Based on the spacing we used, it required 7 slats for a side x 2 plus 11 slats across the back. Make the following cuts:
- 25- 18″ long pieces of 2 x 2 lumber, miter the bottom ends of each to a 45 degree angle
- cut 1- 2 x 4 to 79 1/4″ then miter the corners opposite directions and toward the inside so that the long side remains at 79 1/4″
- cut 2- 2 x 4 pieces to a length of 45 1/2″ then miter ONE end of each so it will join with the piece along the back.
- cut 1- 2 x 2 board to a length of 75 3/4 inches. This will support the back rail. Do not miter.
- cut 2- 2 x 2 pieces to a length of 37 1/2 inches. These will support the upper rail. Do not miter.
The pieces are ready, now it's time to pre-drill the screw holes with the countersinking miter bit.
Start assembling by adding the 2×2 supports to the top rails. We will not miter both pieces as having one joint mitered (top) and one a "butt" joint (tee hee) makes for stronger construction and helps support the top rail.
Now we'll add the slats to the back:
To complete the side slats, screw the first to the back of the arm assembly. Screw the second to the very corner end then evenly distribute the slats between the spaces. We used a spacing of 6″ on the back of the hanging bed and 5″ on the sides. It doesn't matter if the back and sides are slightly different from EACH OTHER so long as all the slats on one side are equally spaced.
And with that, you're done with the construction phase! The next step will be to stain or paint your swing- which is going to take awhile! So long it was too dark to get a photo of it!
Tomorrow I will post "Part 2" of this tutorial which shows how the great folks at Bangerter Homes hung the swing (this baby is HEAVY) and how to make the cushions and pillows that make it so deluxe! All of the work will be worth it when you're relaxing like my youngest is here!
As you can see, this project is best for someone with moderate skills. It's detailed and time consuming but it isn't that HARD. As the daughter of a Master Craftsman, I had some idea of how to build this going in but Dad taught me all sorts of little tricks the pros use- which I tried to share here. If you are local to the "Wasatch Front" and you REALLY want one of these but REALLY don't want to make one, you can contact Terry of Terry Nielson Design and see if he'll build you one as well. Below is the link to "Part 2".


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Feb 21, 2011
To a fair amount of attention, a well-conceived bill to require photo IDs for voting was introduced in the Minnesota Legislature this session. This would be an important and long-overdue election reform, but one that has been stymied by DFL leadership, more so than by rank-and-file DFL lawmakers; 10 DFL House members voted for it in the last legislative session.
Dec 30, 2010
There's one thing that the 2010 election and the recent recount in the governor's race made clear: It's time to stop arguing about whether we should institute photo ID for voting and time to start discussing how best to implement it.
Nov 26, 2010
There is no question that the new DNR commissioner should not be learning about mining on the job. He or she needs to understand that the economic impact domestically, and the environmental impact globally, of mining critical nonferrous metals in Minnesota would be very positive.
Nov 1, 2010
The beginning of a new administration presents an opportunity for re-evaluation and change in many policy areas. Because natural resources are such an important topic to so many Minnesotans, we believe this is a good time to review the state's natural resource management objectives and practices and to make recommendations for reform and improvement.
Apr 22, 2010
Last fall, Center of the American Experiment issued a report recommending 15 reforms of our state's election system, informed largely by experiences from the 2008 U.S. Senate election recount.
Mar 29, 2010
When the topic of election integrity arises, people often think about voter fraud and ways to prevent it, and rightly so. Yet election integrity is about more than just abuse of the election system; it is also about being able to prove the accuracy of the system.
Jan 26, 2010
In a recent commentary, Betsy Daub of Friends of the Boundary Waters suggested that the movie "Avatar" was being played out in the narrative of new mining operations proposed for northeastern Minnesota. But Daub had in mind the wrong part of the narrative from that movie.
Nov 3, 2009
President Obama recently signed a law mandating that states give military voters a window of at least 45 days before an election in which to submit absentee ballots. It looks as if this measure will force the Minnesota Legislature finally to move the state primary to an earlier date.
Oct 19, 2009
The recount that followed the 2008 U.S. Senate election in Minnesota brought to light several weaknesses in the state's election systems. Many observers have suggested that improvements are needed, but few have proposed anything more than small refinements. Based on observations and experiences of many experts from not only Minnesota but also from across the nation, we believe that some significant changes are needed.