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Beatrice L. " Bea" Harrington, 94, of Felton went home to be with her Savior and loved ones for Christmas, on December 25, 2012. Bea was born July 1, 1918 in Vernon, Delaware, to the late Charles and Doris Larimore. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband of 52 years, George (Butch) Harrington, and a son, Edgar Sapp. Also preceding her in death were sisters Evelyn Lare, Elizabeth Zeitler, Charotte Deptula, and Ruth Eye and brothers Harry Larimore, Stanley Larimore, Charles Westley Larimore, Everette Larimore, Louis Larimore, Russell Larimore, and William West.
Prior to her retirement, she worked at General Foods, DuPont Company and the Felton School. Bea was very active in her community. She was a life member of the Felton Fire Company Ladies Auxiliary where she would soon have celebrated 60 years of dedicated service. She was also a member of the Felton United Methodist Church, the Harrington Senior Center and the Democrat Club. In addition, she was a past member of the Avon Club and the Felton Historical Society. Until the past year, when her health began to fail, Bea could be found working at every firehouse activity and participating in church functions.
Bea is survived by her son, George "Butch" Harrington and his wife Terri of Felton, two grandchildren, six great grandchildren, nieces, nephews and many dedicated friends.
Butch and Terri would like to extend their heart-felt thanks to the dedicated staff of Silver Lake Center Health and Rehabilitation, where during her multiple visits over the past year, she became affectionately known as "Miss Bea".
Funeral services will be held on Sunday, December 30, 2012 at 1:00 PM in the Chapel of Berry Short Funeral Home, Main Street, Felton, Delaware where friends may call for a viewing from 11:00 to 1:00. Interment will be Hopkins Cemetery, Felton. In lieu of flowers contributions can be made to the Felton Ladies Auxiliary P.O. Box 946, Felton, Delaware 19943 or the Felton U.M. Church P.O. Box 247, Felton, DE 19943.
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Lufthansa highlights Kiev: Klitschko's Kiev
The last wave of sultry summer weather hangs heavy in the streets. This place is hot – and that's not just because the girls wear their skirts outrageously short. Kiev is wearing a smile and the big man is beaming. "I am Vladimir," says Vladimir, shaking your hand and, fortunately, releasing it in one piece. He is a friendly person. If you ever thought that boxers were bloodthirsty dimwits who would happily pummel you into a coma, today is the day you learn otherwise. Before you stands an intelligent giant of a man who knows his books, his art and all about good manners, and has a PhD in sports. He even asks politely how you are.
Only Kiev is a place that can sometimes knock you for six. The way the future clashes with the past here is almost like a punch on the nose. Take the military parade yesterday, for instance, when tanks lumbered down Khreshchatyk, Kiev's main shopping street, where Porsches had been gliding only hours before; and where more than one individual had slipped out of his bespoke suit and adopted the guise of a stalwart party soldier clicking his heels. Cell phone one minute, rifle the next. There was a reek of pride, mixed with defiance and old gasoline in the air as these noisy giants set the sidewalk quaking as they rumbled past Prada posters and spectators marking the day with good old-fashioned solyanka stew instead of lobster soup. Even old Lenin on top of his pedestal on Tarasa Shevchenka boulevard looked pleased.
It is more than two decades since the Ukraine gained independence from Moscow, and Vladimir Klitschko says that "Kiev is moving forward very, very fast now." He loves his city, the taste of home, but the pace of life here worries him. He notices it every time he returns from Florida or Hamburg, his other homes, to visit his parents in Kiev. Yet another new skyscraper, another new supermarket, yet again a case of build first, think later. "That's not good," says a solemn Vladimir.
We walk. Walk back toward the past without overtaking the present. He ambles along, his strides long and leisurely, as though determined to defy the city's bustle. Did I say leisurely? Just the idea of strolling through Kiev with Vladimir Klitschko without causing a stir is as ridiculous as Non-Ukrainians being able to pronounce street names like Mychajlo Kocjubyns'koho properly. Kliiiiiiiiiitschkoooo!, they shout wherever we turn! He is the World Heavyweight Champion, his brother Vitali ran for mayor here and Vladimir is a modest, gentle hero who rarely escapes a cell phone camera.
We stop outside St. Michael's Abbey; two monks in black habits would like to have their photo taken with him. They thank him courteously and bless him once his mighty back is turned.
"I used to be a communist and only found my faith later. Marx called religion the opium of the people and Uncle Lenin didn't want them praying either," says Vladimir, putting some bills into an old beggar woman's rusty pot. She crosses herself and retrieves a fat bundle with shaking hands. Thank Heavens! It seemed to come from somewhere above, out of the shadow of this friendly giant, God bless him. Or was it even him?
Vladimir drops his voice as we enter the church. There's the sweetish smell of incense, he takes a candle, lights it and places it in the stand in front of a brightly colored fresco. The place exudes a sense of security and longing. The light of the candles flickers up to the high vaulted ceiling. The abbey's silence is awe-inspiring, but also deceptive because history was trampled under foot right here. "You can take that literally," he says. For the Russians, all of this was just worthless litter back in the 1930s, during Stalin's persecution of the Church. Away with it all!
Stalin and his henchmen tried to eradicate all memory of Kiev as the mother of Russia's cities. They blasted the bell tower, tore out the mosaics, melted the gold and sold it abroad, and then blew up the whole building. After that, they turned this sacred ground into a soccer field. "Soccer!" says Vladimir and goes outside to swallow his anger. He points to the roof over the blue portal, where the Archangel Michael sits enthroned, his golden wings glinting in the sun. He is the city's patron saint. He lay buried in the dust of a filthy back yard for a long time before someone discovered him there. Now he looks pure, almost innocent, but the original is safely behind glass in the basement; the one up there is a replica, like everything else here. Reconstruction of the abbey was begun in 1996. With infinite patience, Kiev reclaimed its history, stone by stone, and the Klitschkos donated large sums from their charitable trust.
The brothers pressed mosaic pieces into the fresh new walls themselves, and when the abbey was dedicated they attended the service to join with the people in easing the city's wounded soul. They were celebrated as philanthropists who do a lot of good with their fists; who not only champion old churches, but also join the battle against AIDS and drugs. "I help wherever I can," says Vladimir, "because Kiev is in my heart." He lays the roots of his native country bare, and that sometimes means standing through long masses. Standing for a long, long time because Russian Orthodox churches have no pews.
A couple of years later he came back again to help. Not far from the abbey, he climbed onto a platform on Maidan Nesaleshnosti, Independence Square, where freedom means more than having a McDonald's around the corner.
No, on a stormy day in the fall of 2004 he looked down on the seething fury of a nation; on more than 200 000 demonstrators who continued to protest, frosty night after frosty night.
They had traveled to Kiev from all over the country. Nothing was the same anymore. They screamed their protest at the election fraud, they refused to stand for being duped. They beat their breasts and stood strong. Liars! they yelled, we have the power! According to the official announcements, Victor Yanukovitch had triumphed with 49.96 percent of the vote, while Victor Yushtchenko had won only 46.61 percent. People vented their anger for days on end, held out despite the damned cold. Yushtchenko, their political favorite, was finally declared president, and Vladimir Klitschko, too, was very happy about that.
But that's enough talk now, enough rooting around in the past. It's time for something to eat now, on the Dnepr, the city's broad river. At some points the river is so wide it's called the Kiev Sea. On the way there, the phone rings, as it has so often today. Vladimir lowers his voice, sounds stern. "My Gold has gone," he says, "but I want it back." A few years ago, Klitschko lent the gold medal he had won at the 1996 Olympic Games to a sports museum in Kiev. The museum closed down and the trophy has disappeared. Yet another story in which he clashes with the past. We stop at the Khutorok, a place that specializes in Ukrainian food on a riverside street that rejoices in a name it would be hard to tell to a taxi driver: Naberezhno-Khreshatitskaya Vul.
From there, we cross the Dnepr on a small boat. The food is served in a corner where we sit on wooden chairs. Vladimir clearly enjoys his role as host. He orders everything Kiev has to offer – and it's enough to feed an entire wedding party: borsht, a vegetable soup with beetroot; sharkoe, a type of pot roast; salo, salted lard, and blinis, those rolled-up pancakes onto which you carelessly spread caviar. All of this we wash down with kwas, a bread beverage made of rye and malt; and a lecture from Vladimir on why vodka before a meal cleanses the palate. He nips at his glass and wishes us good health.
The boat rocks gently as it moves through the sun-sparkling water, and even if all this greasy food has a German like myself looking forward to a good beer and a green salad this evening, you would never tell him that. For one thing, he would be offended, and for another, you don't contradict a nice boxer. Don't ask, he cries, drink, eat! We drink and, well, we eat until the boat ties up at the wharf again. Then he gets another call. His gold medal has been found. At least for today, Vladimir Klitschko has made his peace with Kiev.


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Would you lend me a hand?
I could use one-literally.
I decided to make good use (OK, not one of my better choices as it turned out) of a summery winter day and power-walk up to the pharmacy to pick up a prescription. I like to use my walks to clear my head before getting into "the zone" to write an article.
There I was-listening to my iPod shuffle, thinking about how I wanted to write up a heavy-subject piece on mental illness in children and that's when it happened. I tripped.
It was just an uneven part of the sidewalk, but I tripped nonetheless. I heard myself saying "NO, DON'T FALL YOU IDIOT!" But, I didn't listen.
Nope-I flew forward. First I hit my left knee, then my left hand and I finished my swan's dive on my left shoulder.
This was also the first time I left home in years without my trusty cell phone in my pocket.
No one came to my rescue. No real surprise there. So I sat on my keister waiting for the initial shock to pass. Then I assessed my situation. My knee now looked like it used to when I was eight and made a practice of having scabs 24/7. Otherwise, it was OK. However, I knew I had broken something in my hand, and my shoulder was none too good.
Then I looked at where I was-closer to the pharmacy than home. I got up (I'm sure that was a sight) and limped to my destination. Now I must have looked pretty darn ashen because I was NOT greeted by the usual "Hi Carine"--instead it was bug-eyed gasps of, "Are you all right?"
I said, "No, I'm not. I'm pretty sure I've broken my hand--would you call my son?"
(Hubby was over a half-hour away)
They did, he came and took me too the ER. After going through my story about three times, I was sent for x-rays.
Too bad for me--the tech hit me in the head with an errant stabilizing bar.
After being tortured for 15 minutes I went back and was told exactly what I already knew: knee was just painful and ugly, shoulder kicked up the bursitis and was bruised and yes, I'd broken two little bones in my hand.
I was given a heavy shot of a painkiller, a splint wrap and an appointment to be casted (if the swelling went down) two days later. Went home, didn't sleep and woke up to 20 minutes of dry heaves and a couple of fainting spells. Spent the day going in and out of consciousness.
Oh, the fun.
Got the cast--bright pink. Felt only a tad better. And proceeded to write this story for all of you. One handed, of course. And it took me over an hour, too. Hope you all appreciate the effort.
Oh, and the broken hand? My dominant one.
I've been promised that I'll be out of the cast within a month. That works--my son's wedding isn't until Mother's Day weekend.
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Take a look at this Mauser bolt tutorial and tell me whether or not this would be considered butcher work. Aside from the plastic knob, do you think it will last?
Any and all comments and or other advice would be appreciated.
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Take a look at this Mauser bolt tutorial and tell me whether or not this would be considered butcher work. Aside from the plastic knob, do you think it will last?
Any and all comments and or other advice would be appreciated.
Yep, Bubba job at least. Note he says this is for the tinkerer without an oxy torch or welder, yet he is using a bolt heatsink and paste to protect the threads while heating. I would say 99.9% of the people with a welder lack that tool, how about the welderless? What would worry me about the longevity is the area where he soldered, if the heat got too high the grade 8 bolt would bend easily there.
Yep, looks Bubba
My first thought was its pretty dang ugly.
Brownells has a godd tutorial article on the traditional method:
I've tried this before on a Nagant, works, but a bit crude for my tastes if done as shown. I modified the tequnieque a bit before I did mine. I went to a 1/2" and cut a shoulder to go into the drilled bolt portion of the bolt and flattened it to a spoon type handle shape before installing and then welded it on with a mig and used a heat sink in the bolt as well as paste. I also case hardened it for the look of it. It worked well overall, I wanted to try it just for the experimentation value of it. I'd recomend it, if done the way I did, don't think I'd use the 1/4" though, to weak for those hard to chambering x54 rounds in my opinion. The basic idea is ok though, just needed to be stronger in my opinion, that's why I went the extra mile on mine and did it "my way". Worked fine for the 3 years I had it and is still going strong for the new owner 5 years down the road with tons of rounds through it. No issues if you do it correctly, and stronger. I'd be leary about doing it the way discribed in the original tutorial though. That's been my experiances with this method. My method was stronger and looked good too, so this method does have merrit if you don't have a bending jig. Next time I see my bud I'll try to remember to get a pic and post it.
Hello All,
I know Steve Wagner. He's an upstanding guy, and a decent hobby gunsmith. He like to tinker, and he has come up with some interesting things. Don't be too hard on him, he is not a bubba.
Read some of the other stuff he does on his site.
Just my $0.02
I like his website.
It seems the bolt mod would work if that was the only option to be had.
For some, it very well might be.
I would bet Fritz has the proper jig and could probably use the work though.
In fact his bolt jeweling jig is pure genius.
I agree with belson, I don't think it's a buba method at all, could just have been stronger. And the 1/4" hole is all your going to get on the bolt handle stub anyways. I just think by turning down the 1/2 to 1/4 and leaving a shoulder for the stub to rest on then weld the top where the hole comes through the stub, much stronger with minimal welding, one, 1/4" spot weld. Very little heat and simple. Win Win method to me and far from a last option!! Hell, I stold his method with my modifications to his idea, years ago, it really does work well. Try it out on an old Nagant some time like I did, it will surprise ya how easy it is and how well it realy works.


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Light, crispy pastry puffs, sopaipillas are a sweet way to round out a spicy meal. They make a nice winter dessert served warm and topped with honey or sugar. —Mary Anne McWhirter, Pearland, Texas
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon shortening
- 1/3 cup warm water
- Oil for deep-fat frying
- Honey, optional
- Confectioners' sugar, optional
- In a large bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt. Cut in shortening until mixture resembles fine crumbs. Gradually add water, tossing with a fork until a loose ball forms (dough will be crumbly).
- On a lightly floured surface, knead the dough for 3 minutes or until smooth. Cover and let rest for 10 minutes. Roll out into a 12-in. x 10-in. rectangle. Cut into 12 squares with a knife or cut into 12 circles using a round biscuit cutter.
- In a deep-fat fryer, heat 2 in. of oil to 375°. Fry sopaipillas for 1-2 minutes on each side. Drain on paper towels; keep warm. Serve with honey and/or dust with confectioners' sugar if desired. Yield: 6-8 servings.
Originally published as Sopaipillas in Taste of Home December/January 1994, p35
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Reviewed Aug. 16, 2014
"flavorful, easy to make. prefer without the sweeteners, goes well with spicy foods such as mexican or indian."
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"Terrible. Just flavorless crackers. Nothing like what the photo portrays as the end result. Even the honey didn't help."
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"One of the best Sopaipillas recipes I have tried in years - will make again"
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Newcastle disease virus (NDV) and avian pneumovirus (APV) cause Newcastle disease and rhinotracheitis respectively, in turkeys. Both of these viruses infect the respiratory system. A one-tube, multiplex, reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay for the detection of both NDV and...
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A reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction assay was developed to detect of avian pneumovirus (Colorado strain) (APV-Col). The specific primers were designed from the published sequence of the matrix protein gene of APV-Col. The primers amplified a product of 631 nucleotides from APV-Col. The...
Stunting syndrome (SS) is a viral enteric disease of turkey poults. The aetiologic agent (stunting syndrome agent [SSA]) of this disease has been reported recently. In vitro propagation of SSA was examined in primary cells, various continuous cell lines, and embryonated eggs. Turkey embryos inoculat...
Stunting syndrome is an enteric disease of turkeys causing diarrhea, reduced weight gain, poor feed efficiency, and maldigestion. The etiologic agent is a newly identified, but unclassified, virus termed the stunting syndrome agent (SSA). The SSA is a pleomorphic, enveloped virus ranging from 60 to ...
An enteric disease of young turkeys, referred to as stunting syndrome (SS), causes reduced growth and impaired feed efficiency. A recently isolated virus, stunting syndrome agent, (SSA) has been found to be the etiologic agent of SS. The objective of the present study was to determine relatedness of...
A colorimetric assay employing MTT (3-[4,5-dimethylthiazole-2-yl], 2-5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide) was used to determine the mitogenic response of intestinal intraepithelial lymphocytes (i-IELs) of chickens to T- and B-cell mitogens. Comparisons between mitogenic responses of i-IELs and peripheral ...
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CmeABC, a multidrug efflux system in Campylobacter jejuni, plays an important role in the resistance to different antimicrobials and toxic compounds. Although this efflux system has been well characterized in C. jejuni and to a less extent in C. coli, it is unknown if CmeABC homologs are functional ...
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ELON, S.C. (Aug. 31, 2007) - Freshman Desiree Dyck (Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan) had her fifth consecutive game with 12-plus kills, leading the ETSU volleyball team to a win over Elon in four games, 30-24, 30-16, 22-30, 30-23.
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Over 800 toys were purchased with the help of Mayor Manny Marono, City of Sweetwater Commissioners, Miami Dade County Commissioner Jose "Pepe" Diaz and donations.
Santa Claus and will be landing in Sweetwater's Ronselli Park, 250 SW 114th Ave., in a Miami Dade County Police helicopter at 11 a.m. Saturday, December 15.
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Drivers can sometimes hear safety messages so often they lose their punch. Yet that doesn't make the warnings any less relevant. Don't drink and drive may have been in the vernacular for a long time now, but it rings just as true today. A newer admonition, don't text and drive, may be ignored by more drivers than drinking and driving. Yet a deadly accident in Davidson County this week shows how vital it is for drivers to put their phones down when operating a vehicle.
Highway Patrol troopers allege a Greensboro man was texting while driving on Interstate 85 Business Loop on Tuesday. He failed to see traffic stopping in front of him due to a construction-related rolling roadblock, and he plowed into the back of another car at more than 60 miles per hour. The driver of the stopped car died. With all the construction taking place in Davidson County, drivers need to be particularly careful. The temptation can be great to glance at a smartphone to retrieve information or a feature phone to read a text, but that those few seconds of inattention can produce tragic results.
Parents in northern Davidson County are putting their desire for a new high school into action by sending letters to the county commissioners seeking funding. The school would join Oak Grove Middle School, which opened this year, to relieve overcrowding at Ledford and North Davidson middle schools. The preliminary budget for the next fiscal year released by county manager Robert Hyatt this week does not include the money, although it does appear in the county's capital improvement plan for 2014-15. The school seems to be one of those items that everyone, including commissioners, want to see built, but finding the funding has proven challenging.
A partnership between health care providers and the faith community took another step forward this week with the naming of a health care liaison, the Rev. Coley Rimmer, and signing of covenant between some churches and Wake Forest Baptist Health. One of the exciting aspects of the partnership is that Lexington will serve as a pilot location for a project that could eventually expand to other areas. More details will come as the partnership officially begins in the fall, but any effort that improves the health of local residents should be celebrated.
Congratulations to the graduates of Davidson County Community College. The college held its commencement activities May 11, and 1,425 graduates received degrees or certificates. Many of these students will now go on to other educational institutions to continue their learning after receiving a solid foundation at DCCC. High school graduation season isn't far behind, and May and June are months of milestones for so many students in the county.
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As of right now, the models are looking good, but a long ways to go. Couple of weeks ago, the models were showing the same thing until the storm track shifted to the north.
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Most the models are coming to some general agreement on the path (Omaha to Waterloo line), I think its just a matter of amounts now. The NAM is showing greater amount then the GFS.
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Is this going to screw with my commute from Austin to Ames on Thursday?
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Does it look like most of this will hit wednesday maybe early Thursday?
Get your milk and bread now, before the rush.
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Get it out of the way now before I move back. Please. Thanks.
Hopefully this doesn't jack up our travels to Michigan on Friday night.
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Get it out of the way now before I move back. Please. Thanks.
But what a great way it would be to welcome you back
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. I want a white Christmas, then after that, it can all go away.
**** snow.
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But what a great way it would be to welcome you back
It can snow as much as it wants before or after I've driven to Iowa. As long as I don't have to travel in it.
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Full SubmissionSuggestions on Further Promoting ESD in International Society after UN-DESD
----Taking ESD Experience, Challenges and Future Commissions in Ten Countries in Asian-Pacific Region as Examples
In recent decade, in older to deal with severe challenges human beings? society is facing and to fulfill the commitments made by each government, the international society has paid great attentions on educational functions for sustainable development since the World Summit for Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002. Taking implementing the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014) (hereinafter for short DESD) as an opportunity, educators in the global society carry out theoretical researches and practice on ESD, and produce abundant and fruitful achievements.
Nowadays, there are still challenges, and commitments made in the World Summit in Johannesburg still are not completely fulfilled. To further fulfill the educational function for promoting sustainable development though ESD, it?s extremely necessary to summarize experience on ESD in all countries comprehensively before the World Summit on ESD in Rio de Janeiro in 2012, and to make clear deployments on further promoting ESD after UN-DESD.
Based on the experience obtained by ten countries in Asian-Pacific Region, the review report is made to exhibit the actual situations and to provide suggestions.
1 The Experiences on ESD from Ten Countries in the Asian-Pacific Region
1.1 The first effective driving force to promote ESD is to construct authoritative and professional national organizations.
In the Asia and Pacific region, some countries have already established the national organizations and agents. For example, the Korean National Commission for UNESCO established the Korean National Committee for ESD in 2009; the Ministry of Education in Laos established the National Working Group on ESD; the national working committee on ESD under UNESCO is the main steering organization for ESD in Japan; the Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Education are two main steering organizations for ESD in Indonesia; China National Commission for UNESCO established the China National Working Committee for UNESCO Project on Education for Sustainable Development (hereinafter for short CNWCESD) which has taken charge for implementing ESD nationwide since 2002. According to the experience in Korea, Laos, Bangladesh, Japan, Indonesia and China, such institutions shall be formed by officials from ministries of education and UNESCO national commissions so as to guarantee the high authority of ESD. Meanwhile, experts on education, environment, culture and other fields should be invited into these organizations in order to make professional and strong plans and guidance.
1.2 The dominant factors to direct and inspire principles and teachers actively to participate in the innovational practice on ESD are to put forward the overall theory and connotations of ESD in light of each country?s actual conditions.
In East Asia, ROK, Japan and China are taking the lead in carrying out theoretical researches on ESD. ROK established several research institutes to promote the development of ESD. In 2005, Tongyoung, Incheon and Ulju three cities established three Regional Institutes on ESD, and organized several seminars with the themes of Green and Creative Human Resources, Curriculum Innovation and Teaching-Learning Process, Educational Competitiveness, the Human being and the Biosphere, etc. Japanese government valued highly theoretical research on ESD, and the Ministry of Environment, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, Science and Technology developed on the Guidelines for the Development of National ESD Indicators in Asian-Pacific. The theoretical researches by CNWCESD in China were represented mainly by the Basic Course in Education for Sustainable Development and several papers nearly 800 million words from 2003 to 2010, and these researches centered on two-level connotations of ESD, teaching model of ESD, cultivation of sustainable learning capacity, the significance of writing ESD in the National Outline, creation of high quality education in ESD, quality education creation though ESD and the indicators for sustainable schools.
1.3 To organize educational experts to implement research and practice of ESD persistently can promote the shift from the research to public policy and incorporate ESD into the national and local outlines.
To incorporate ESD into national development outlines has been a common agreement among countries in Asian-Pacific region. ROK government released its National Vision for Sustainable Development and the National Strategy for Sustainable Development. Besides, ROK legislative body approved the Basic Law on Sustainable Development, the Environmental Education Promotion Act and the Framework Act on Green Growth. The National Socio-Economic Development Plan 2006-2010 (NSEDP) and National Growth and Poverty Eradication Strategy (NGPES) Lao government issued were two dominant policies for promoting ESD. Based on the Agenda 21, Malaysia released the National Policy on Biodiversity and the National Integrity Plan with focus on building the awareness and capacity for the educatees to respect nature, and preserve environment. In the recent, the 9th Malaysia Plan issued by the government also emphasized the important role of non-governmental organizations (NGO) in ESD and called for further spread ESD to promote environmental awareness and knowledge. The Nepal government launched the Nat-Com Participation Program to promote ESD. The program aims to provide fund for selected schools to implement micro programs on ESD. The Japanese enacted a series of acts to provide legitimate protection for the promotion of ESD. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and UN Climate Change Conference these international conventions are the main legitimate guidance in Indonesia. In early 2010, the State Council of China issued the ?National Outline for Medium and Long-term Education Reform and Development (2010-2020)? (for short ?National Outline for Education?). The ?National Outline for Education? lays considerable attention on ?focusing on ESD? in its strategic subject and requires education institutes at all levels to implement ESD, and incorporates ESD contents into all courses. It marks that ESD has been shifted from a single research topic and education program to a national public educational policy.
1.4 The main tool to strengthen the capacity of construction of ESD is to organize the training for principles and teachers at national, local and school levels regularly or irregularly.
Most country in Asian-Pacific region has already strengthened the training for principles and teachers. Korea National Commission for UNESCO and Seoul Office of Education established ESD teachers training program for primary and secondary educators, with the aim to train teachers and researchers to implement ESD research. Laos Ministry of Education organized trainings for principals, teachers, researchers and officials. In China, under the leadership of the Chinese National Commission for UNESCO, CNWCESD and Beijing Academy of Educational Sciences have organized 10 national seminars. More than 10,000 principals and teachers from member schools, experimental schools and model schools attended these seminars. At the same time, 100 thematic trainings were organized, and tens of thousands of principals and teachers received the trainings.
1.5 The critical part of implementing ESD in primary and secondary schools is to incorporate the knowledge, capacity and lifestyle on social, economic, environmental, cultural sustainable development into the curricula.
Under the guidance of the idea of ESD, most countries in Asian-Pacific region started to reform their curricula, and incorporated the ESD scientific knowledge, learning capacity and value into the curricula. In regard of curricula development, Laos Ministry of Educational attaches great importance to the use of ESD ideas in curricula reform. In the process of curricula evaluation, ESD is also an important aspect. In Malaysia, in terms of curricula development, ESD is mainly embodied in environmental education, Education for All. Curricula development is an important aspect in Bangladesh?s ESD, which absorbed various elements of ESD into basic education curricula including Human Rights, Gender Equality, Health, HIV/AIDS Prevention, Good Governance, Population Education, Cultural Diversity, Natural Resources, Climate Change, Rural Development, Sustainable Urbanization, Disaster Crisis Management, Poverty Reduction, Corporate Social Responsibility, society, culture, environment and economy. ESD curricula development in Nepal has its own characteristics. Teachers, policy makers, students, parents, business, communities are all participants in the process of curricula development. In terms of content, core concepts like environmental protection, pollution control, and sustainability of society, economy and culture are all integrated into the curricula. ESD curricula reform in Tango centered on the value education, and incorporated the cultural diversity, learning capacity and self-identity into curricula. The idea of ESD has already been put into pre-school education, primary education, secondary education, higher education and informal education all educational sectors. Under the leadership of the Chinese National Commission for UNESCO and Ministry of Education, CNWCESD directed schools at all level to form the national curricula, local curricula and school-based curricula 3-level curricula system. The curricula system reflects the basic idea of ESD. At the same time of curricula construction, China also attaches great importance to reform the teaching methods in primary and secondary schools, and achieve good results.
1.6 The effective methods to implement the ESD practice and spread successful experience are to construct ESD experimental schools and districts and to organize workshops on exchanging ESD experience.
Japan, China and Indonesia are the three leading countries in constructing ESD experimental schools and districts. The Ministry of Environment in Japan selected 14 regions nationwide to construct ESD communities. Indonesia paid attention on the construction of Environmental Awareness Schools. Meanwhile, China has already constructed member schools, experimental schools and model schools in 3-level school system. The Chinese National Commission for UNESCO had selected 15 regions in 3 provinces, municipal cities and autonomous regions to create ESD experimental districts.
1.7 To carry out evaluation and assessment on educational quality for ESD
Some countries in Asian-Pacific region have already carried out researches and assessments on educational quality for ESD. China has started to work on evaluating and assessing educational quality for ESD since 2004. CNWCESD had developed and made the educational quality evaluation and assessment criteria for ESD which include five first-level basic indicators on school management, curricula and teaching, teachers? training, energy-saving and emission-reducing campuses construction, students? quality, ten second-level criteria and twenty third-level items. CNWCESD had organized and implemented the national evaluations and assessments on ESD experimental schools for three times since 2008 in accordance with the criteria.
1.8 To create active circumstance for youngsters to receive ESD, it?s necessary to cooperate with stakeholders to explore social resources and establish school-society cooperation networks in the process of implementing ESD.
In ROK, government, local administrator, research groups, and schools formed the social ESD network. The Korea Research Institute of Vocational Educational Training (KRIVET), the Korea Foundation for the Advancement of Science & Creativity (KOFAC), the Korea Institute of Curricula and Evaluation (KICE), the Korea Arts & Culture Education Service (KACES), and the Korea National Park (KNP), and National Museum of Korea (NMK) actively participated in ESD. In Laos, Enterprises, communities, non-governmental organizations (NGO) and regional organizations have become active forces in advancing ESD. In China, ESD member schools, experimental schools and model schools carry out thematic activities by exploring social resources, and establish ESD activity bases. At the same time, some ESD experimental schools established friendly relationship with schools abroad.
2. The challenges for Ten Countries in the Asian-Pacific Region in implementing ESD
With the difference on political systems, economic development patterns, cultural traditions and teaching models, countries in Asia Pacific region start to implement ESD at different time. Therefore, there are differences among countries. Meanwhile, different countries are facing different challenges and problems.
2.1 Although some countries have already organized the national ESD organizations, they hardly issued the national policies on ESD. Thus, some countries are implementing ESD by experts and professional organizations, and hardly spreading ESD nationally.
China, Japan and the South Korea have enacted the national policies on ESD. However, other countries just carry out ESD practice by few experts and professional organizations. Therefore, it shows an unbalanced situation in implementing ESD among countries in Asian-Pacific region.
2.2 Some countries in Asia Pacific regions established organizations with certain authorities, but these organizations are under the leadership of few experts, and can not create influential effects. Besides, the ministry of environment, resources management departments, and communities also participate in ESD, but they seldom put ESD into formal educational system.
Some ESD implemented by communities, vocational educational institutes, and NGOs are for the adults. Without inviting educational experts, this kind of ESD can not provide the educational suggestions for routine teachings, and hardly be incorporated into the formal educational system. Thus, the correct ESD should center on students in primary, secondary and higher education, and should cultivate them with knowledge, capacity, value and lifestyle the sustainable development needs.
2.3 Few countries do not carry out ESD theoretical research, especially do not incorporate universal ideas in DESD into each country?s practice. Thus, it?s necessary to promote all countries to carry out local researches, and to give operational guidance to schools at all levels.
There?s a misunderstanding on ESD. Many experts and officials even professional experts think that ESD equals to environment education and has no connect with routine teaching. Therefore, those experts and officials would not like to spend time on carrying out theoretical researches on ESD, and they do not want to direct young researchers and scholars to implement ESD.
Without systematic theoretical researches, some countries replace ESD with Education for International Understanding or Education for all simply and indiscriminately. Even on some international conferences, these countries make the national reports on Education for International Understanding or Education for All, rather then on ESD, which would not urge teachers and students to accept the idea of ESD, and can not incorporate ESD into formal educational systems in these countries. In order to achieve the high quality educational results, it?s necessary to carry professional researches on ESD in the process of implementing DESD.
2.4 A lot of countries in Asian-Pacific region enacted regulations and acts mainly on curricula reform and ignored to create integral and systematic ESD school-running mechanisms which include curricula constructions, teaching reforms, teachers? trainings and constructions of ESD schools.
Some countries in Asia ?Pacific region issued the policies on ESD, but most of contents are about guiding principles, working deployments and requirements, and seldom about curricula construction, teaching reforms, trainings for teachers and school-constructions these integral and systematic guidance. These policies documents cannot direct teachers and principles to study, research and obtain the scientific connotations on ESD seriously, and cannot encourage them to promote practice on ESD consciously and persistently.
To achieve the expected results of DESD in 2014, it?s urgent to change this situation. To create quality education though ESD can be fully achieved by reforming teaching, curricula and training in accordance with DESD.
2.5 Some countries fail to implement training for principles and teachers with plan and arrangement.
It?s difficult for some countries to implement ESD training for principles and teachers when they fail to publish ESD theoretical teaching materials and fail to invite professional ESD experts as instructors.
2.6 It?s usual to replace ESD with environment education in informal educational system.
In some countries, some organizations and agents implement environment education with this single theme, and fail to obey the recommendations by DESD to implement integral and systematic ESD with Four-Respect core ideas. Obviously, ESD can not equal to environment education merely.
2.7 Indicators and quality evaluation on ESD fall behind the practice.
A lot of countries in Asia and Pacific region do not make the quality criteria for evaluating ESD in formal and informal education, and they are waiting UNESCO to publish the evaluation criteria and assessment requirements. Without the criteria and requirements, the development of ESD in Asian-Pacific region would be effected. It?s quite pity that some countries have been waiting for criteria and assessment requirements for one or two years.
2.8 Most countries failed to launch international exchanging and cooperative activities on ESD.
In recent decade, the Asia-Pacific Offices for UNESCO and the Beijing Office for UNESCO had organized ESD training workshops, seminars, and experience exchanging conferences for many times, which effectively promoted the international co-operations and exchanging activities among countries in this region. Under the guidance of the two offices, and under the leadership of the Chinese National Commission for UNESCO, CNWCESD had successfully upheld the biennial Beijing International Forum on ESD for four times since the year of 2003, which promoted the international cooperative and exchanging activities in Asian-Pacific region. However, the international co-operations and exchanges among countries in the region are not widely organized, which will restrict the further promotion of ESD in these countries.
3. Eight Suggestions on Further Promoting ESD in Global Society in Post UN-DESD
The DESD will be completed in the year of 2014. At that time, every country will make its own final national report on ESD. It?s proved by the theories and practice in 10 countries in Asian-Pacific region that ESD is and will be an integral and systematic theory and teaching model with time sprit. The ending of DESD will not mean that the value and influence of ESD also will disappear. After 2014, a number of countries, experts, government officials, principles and teachers will continue to implement ESD. Besides, social, economic, environmental and cultural sustainable development in each country needs ESD much more persistently and deeply, because ESD can provide intellectual and human resources support for each country.
Facing these challenges and problems, it?s extremely necessary for UN to organize ESD experts and educators to deploy the commissions and to make the researches after UN-DESD in the future four years. Also, it?s the indispensible obligation for UN to further promote all government to take actions to implement ESD. In a conclusion, the suggestions are:
3.1 To carry out overall theoretical research on ESD
The correct theoretical knowledge is the precondition to further and persistently implement ESD. ESD is an advanced educational theory with time sprit. Among the Education for all, Inclusive Education, ESD and Education for International Understanding advocated by UN, ESD is the only education concept relating to educational function, policies, educational goals, values, educational contents, teaching methods, educational resources? exploration and development, and stakeholders. Thus, ESD is an integral theoretical system and connotation system to educational reform and development in new century with the aims of promoting the economic, social, environmental and cultural sustainable development.
After years of consideration and practice, CNWCESD made the definition for ESD as follow: ESD is created in the process of sustainable development with the aim of cultivating the educatees with scientific knowledge, values, learning capacity and lifestyle in order to promote the social, economic, environmental and cultural sustainable development. To certain level, ESD is a refreshing element for the traditional educational theoretical system. The research on ESD theory would meet the needs of implementing DESD, and promoting the development and innovation of ESD in each country in the future. Therefore, Asian-Pacific countries should organize educational experts and officials to carry out ESD theoretical research much more comprehensively and deeply.
Given the real condition of Asian-Pacific countries, it?s necessary to make the researches on the following aspects: the basic connotation of ESD, value education of ESD, ESD promotes the sustainable development of human hen society, sustainable teaching and learning, ESD and EFA, ESD and Inclusive Education, ESA and EIU.
3.2 To setup the clear direction of promoting quality education though ESD
It?s obvious that ESD is an important method to refresh and innovate the traditional educational theories. To carry out theoretical researches on ESD is to meet the need of further implementing DESD, and to promote all countries to create ESD theories and practice deeply and comprehensively in the future years. In some countries, to promote Quality Education though ESD is gradually regarded as an important content in the field of educational reforms and innovations. Based on this, it?s necessary for all governments to organize ESD experts to set the clear direction for ESD, which will shift the core contents of ESD from thematic education, like environment protection, climate change education, to comprehensively Quality Education.
3.3 To speed up the pace of establishing the national ESD organizations.
In Asian-Pacific region, three are three types of organizations established in countries. The first type is national commissions for UNESCO to implement ESD. The second is organizations established by diplomatic ministries. The third type is organizations which are established by the national commissions for UNESCO and ministries of education together. It?s proved that the third type organizations are the best ones to carry out ESD practice in formal and informal education systems comprehensively.
Therefore, the suggestion is that it?s urgent to promote countries to establish the third type national ESD organizations.
3.4 To continue to carry out systematic and thematic trainings for principles and teachers.
ESD is a new education idea and teaching model, thus there?re no existed theories and operational models in traditional training materials. In order to help teachers and principles to implement ESD, it?s necessary to carry out systematic and thematic training for them.
According to the experience obtained by some countries, each country needs to organize the national training on ESD theory. The local educational ministries and research institutes are necessary to implement thematic training and share successful experience. The models of training include national seminars, exhibiting teaching classes, local seminars and experience-sharing meetings.
Besides, owing to the unbalanced ESD situation, UNESCO offices in each country should organize trainings and exchanging among countries, especially cross-country training among different educators, like officials, researchers, ministers, principles, teachers and stakeholders.
3.5 To promote the reform on teaching models and to construct ESD model schools and districts.
The construction of ESD model schools and districts is beneficial for experts to spread the core connotations of ESD, implement the teaching models and achieve the successful experience. Nowadays, Japan, China and Indonesia have already established ESD model schools and districts. Thus, it?s advisable for other countries to start to construct their own model schools and districts, which will speed up the development of ESD and spread ESD successful experience to boarder areas.
3.6 To enact the ESD criteria urgently and implement educational assessments regularly
The criteria are the necessary preconditions for monitoring and evaluating ESD situations in each country. It?s urgent for countries in Asian-Pacific region to make ESD criteria. At the same time, each country should make national and local criteria for directing schools? work.
Therefore, the UNESCO offices in each country are necessary to organize ESD experts to cooperate with each other to make the monitoring and evaluation criteria.
3.7 To spread and public the ESD successful experience.
In recent year, there?re more than 20 media to spread ESD successful experience in provinces, cities and countries. These media make millions of word reports to public the ESD experience, which effectively encourage the educators on ESD. The Chinese experience proved that it?s important to spread ESD experience in time.
Therefore, each country should spread its own acquired successful experience in time, which will promote the development of ESD practice and extend its influence.
3.8 To carry out international co-operations and exchanges.
In recent 10 years, UNESCO offices in Bangkok, Beijing and Jakarta made great contributions to promote the international cooperation and exchanges among countries in Asian-Pacific region. What the UNESCO offices in Bangkok, Beijing and Jakarta have done receives highly complement. Countries in Asian-Pacific region can overcome their disadvantages and further perfect ESD though these international exchanges.
Therefore, UNESCO offices in Bangkok, Beijing and Jakarta are supposed to carry out much more international exchanges, and uplift the overall quality of ESD in whole Asian-Pacific region.
The Johannesburg Declaration on Education for Sustainable Development was just published in the year of 2002, and some impassioned, sonorous and powerful words in the declaration are still clear for the public. In the opening ceremony, children from all over the world with their simple and clear words informed us that the future belonged to them. These words inspired each of us to create a beautiful and harmonious world for them through our actions, and poverty, environmental degradation and unsustainable development would not occur in this world, and the dignity of human beings would be respected. ?Children represent our common future. So we must have a strong sense of responsibility to create a new bright and promising world, which is the answer to our children".
All governments are supposed to shoulder important responsibilities, all politicians should take the historical missions and educators all around the world should taking actual actions to construct platform for ESD in order to help children acquire scientific knowledge, learning capacity, value and lifestyle the sustainable development needs.
Recalling the past decade, it?s necessary to summarize and expand the effective and actual ESD actions by all regions and countries. Facing the actual situation and future challenges, it?s urgent to reflect the ESD shortcomings and problems in order to setup the clear direction for ESD to fulfill the new missions and achieve the goals of DESD.
The children around the world, responsible educators for children?s growth and future, parents, politicians and other stakeholders are all looking forward to the new international summit on sustainable development held in 2012 sincerely and ardently.


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Les Nubians are back with a new album, featuring "Veuillez Veiller Sur Vos Rêves" (Don't Let Your Dreams Fall Asleep) and "Afrodance" (streaming below). The new album, Nü Revolution may be the most impressive representation of Les Nubians' Afropean Soul to date. Featuring special guests ranging from African music legend Manu Dibango, whose "Soul Makossa" crossover classic gets a politically charged make-over, to indie soul icon Eric Roberson, with South African pop stars Freshly Ground, Ghanian-American MC Blitz The Ambassador and Polish MC John Banzaï along for the ride. Somehow, Les Nubians manage to make the blend of so many diverse elements seem logical and organic; it flows quite naturally from their multicultural lives.
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Do you think Tiger Woods should be disqualified from the Masters for taking an illegal drop on Friday?
centerish, I'm surprised. Your contempt for these "golf followers" is a result of repeating a story? By hearsay? Through a friend's gossip?
I despise watching golf, in or out of pubs. I don't think imagining I was there will add to your "story" somehow.
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Sorry for the delay in replying, loco, but I had to first check to see whether I was addressing you or not? Well, anyway, since I was relating a story, and since I was not there, it would be evident to all but the slowest of readers that I could not have corrected them. But, I would not have corrected them anyway because you cannot fix stupid. I might have asked them if one of them was on the MDN blog under the name of locomotive
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centerish, perhaps you should've talked to the pub manager about how you were offended. Allowing clientele to express their own opinions like that! In the open air! Really!
Or you should have confronted the "esteemed golf followers" with their error. You have a record of stating your opinions quite clearly.
Since I don't play golf, I wouldn't know if a rule was broken. The post leftwing made sounded good, but really, I wouldn't know. And if that offends someone, I'm already sorry.
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Now, getting back to the topic at hand, I would like to relate a Saturday afternoon conversation that was overheard in a Minneapolis pub while watching the Masters. About fours esteemed golf followers were discussing Tiger's penalty and non-disqualification. The topic rose and fell until one of the group commented on Tiger playing golf with Obama. And then, and then-- total agreement from the group that Obama stepped in and got the Master's officials to not DQ Tiger. Real intellect at work there. You know, we should really check the phone logs. It could have happened????
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To willgrr nee billgrr (what happened?)
On Apr. 15th at 10:29 a.m., I was referring to namexxx's little comment about women here on this poll.
Then the Boston Marathon bombing incident happened in the afternoon, and at 6:44 p.m., your new persona starts repeating DustOff's posts from world gone crazy. Didn't take long, did it?
Today, Apr. 16th, I already said that DustOff was the first to politick in a post about the bombing. Yeah, I call that cleanup. But your c/p's of his posts do nothing but make you look just as politicking. I saw all the "right wing" references at world gone crazy too. Real classy. Now I have to do cleanup on both of you? I don't think I have the time.
I c/p'd from my own post at world gone crazy, just for you once more...
"Give the politics a rest, let the investigators do their jobs, wait for the truth to come out, and pray for the victims."
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billgrr! Cleanup on aisle 2!
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He didn't win and couldn't win. That's punishment enough.
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He's taking your women. Put him in his place.
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MO = method of operation
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No BillGarr but when we mention Clinton and Tiger sex is their MO they are known for.
People don't know where Tiger is playing but they do know he went to sex rehab..
I know its convenient for you to try to get us to overlook the liberal playmates out there..but they are there..they made headlines and if it bothers you Bill then I suggest you unplug your computer and go read the funny papers.
And the centerfield injected race and hate.. but then you ARE centerfield and you like responding to yourself..
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It's not always black or white. (not a racial reference) The rules of golf are always changing and are open to interpretation. That doesn't suit b/w thinkers, but that's the way it is.
And for those who count these things, Tiger is something like half Chinese, 1/8 black 1/8 Am. Indian 1/8 white and 1/8 bar waitress. :) Personal pet peeve; I dislike describing people by the continent from which they or their forebears my or may not have originated. But, that's just me.
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Hes also the biggest sex addict golfer around.. lets not forget that..
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centerfield and racism are not one and the same.. Only to fools like you.
People like you love to drag in race when ever Obamas name comes up. Remember the DORK is half white.. Fool!!
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Nice comments from the right. You even involved Obama. Great!! Hatred and racism knows no bounds. The true colors of the right roll forth. Actually, the rules people of the Masters told him on the last hole that the shot was ok, went back after he had signed his scorecard, and told him of the penalty. He was not DQ'ed because of the rules they quoted and what they had told him. Ah, but those are facts that are checked at the entrance door of hatred and racism.
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From Tiger to Cheetah again!!..lol!!
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Yes! He is a low life,after what he has done he should be in jail not on T.V. being made out to be some kind super star. But then most of the (super stars) should be in jail.
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He should be disqualified from life for being a huge D bag.
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Nora Grenager, VMD, Dipl. ACVIM, is a practitioner at Harrison Equine Clinic in Berryville, Va., and Woodside Equine Clinic in Ashland, Va. She also runs Grenager Equine Consulting and is an active board member of the International Conference on Laminitis and Diseases of the Foot and has a special interest in working toward the eradication of laminitis.
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Mass m is connected to the end of a cord at length R above its rotational axis (the axis is parallel to the horizon, the position of the mass is perpendicular to the horizon). It is given an initial velocity, V0, at a direction parallel to the horizon. The initial state is depicted at position A in the image.
The forces working on the mass are MG from the earth and T the tension of the cord.
How can I calculate the tension of the cord when the mass is at some angle $\theta$ from its initial position (position B in the image)?
Here's what I thought:
Since the mass is moving in a circle then the total force in the radial direction is T - MG*$\cos\theta$ = M*(V^2)/R
and so T = MG*$\cos\theta$+M*(V^2)/R
but since MG applies acceleration in the tangential direction then V should also be a function of $\theta$ and that is where I kind of got lost. I tried to express V as the integration of MG*$\sin\theta$, but I wasn't sure if that's the right approach.


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Things to see and do - Nesebar
Leaving for Bulgaria
Nesebar :
Unmissable tourist sites
Where to sleep?
Nesebar Hotel tips
Krasi Hotel from16 €Book
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Nesebar : Michelin's recommendations
A fortified island linked to the mainland by a narrow dyke: this is how Nesebar appears to visitors. Its cobbled streets, lined with wooden houses, as well as chapels and churches, testify to the prestigious past of the city which had its heyday during the reign of Tsar Ivan Alexander (1331-71), when it acquired as many as 41 new churches! After a period of decline, the city recovered its prestige at the time of the National Awakening (18C and 19C). Today, Nesebar is a summer resort on Unesco's World Heritage list.
Tourist attractions Nesebar : Things to see and do
Town walls
BG - 8230 Nesebar
One gets a glimpse of the walls of the old town from the access dyke flanked by a fine wooden windmill. Built of brick and stone and restored many times by the city's successive occupants (Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Bulgarians, Ottomans), the walls ..
Church of Christ-Pantocrator, Nesebăr
BG - 8230 Nesebar
The beauty of the church of Christ-Pantocrator lies in its harmonious proportions. Built of brick and stone in the 13C, it is decorated with a fine green ceramic frieze underlining the blind arcading. The unadorned interior surmounted by a central do..
Church of St John Aliturgetos
BG - 8230 Nesebar
Overlooking the sea, this church always makes an impression on visitors. It owes its charm primarily to its location, but also to its very romantic ruined condition. After taking time to study the decorative geometric incrustations in the brickwork, ..
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Lazur Hotel
12 Briz str. BG - 8238 Ravda
Just 200 metres from the beach and the centre of Ravda, Lazur Hotel offers air-conditioned rooms with a private balcony. It features a 24-hour reception and free Wi-Fi. The rooms at Lazur Hotel are bright and spacious. All rooms have cable TV, a sea..
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52 Morski Zvutsi St. BG - 8221 Ravda
Hotel Bijou is situated directly on the beach in the village of Ravda, overlooking the picturesque bay with the ancient town of Nessebar, which is just 10 minutes away. Sunny Beach is a 5-minute drive from the property, which is in a peaceful and qu..
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40 Kraybrezhna str. BG - 8238 Ravda
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Federal government's priorities have us confused
April 26, 2013
Remember years ago when North Dakota lawmakers approved legislation allowing farmers in the state to grow industrial hemp, a distant cousin of marijuana that contains only tiny traces of THC, the......
I am of the age that has seen pot smoked most of my life and I would rather talk to a pothead than a drunk any day. I think it should be prescribed by Dr's as medicine for those who can be helped by it. As a lesser of two evils, one evil being pain, disease and simple mental issues as opposed to the lesser evil of reduced pain, disease and mental issues should be the law of the land. It could be regulated just like all the prescribed medicines are. I don't know if the government will find benefit in making a medicine out of it but the people who find relief and a better life surely will.
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DustOff3, "Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah..."
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Back in my day, those that smoked pot used to say, "Reality is for those who don't do drugs."
Confusion? Par for course. Today, pot's medical use will always be the excuse for pot smoking by those who don't have a medical condition.
Say we make it legal. Is there a way to effectively enforce a DUS (driving while stoned) provision? Breathalyzer? Walking a straight line? What would be the legal age to possess? 18? 21? Perhaps we'd better talk to insurance companies, legislators, and law enforcement agencies for their take on making it legal.
And if we don't legalize it, get the tobacco people on this. In no time flat, we'll see the ills of smoking pot all over the place. Then nobody will smoke it anymore, just like tobacco, right?
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Ahhh, Man what was the question again?
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Veritas"s attempt to post continuous, rapid fire retorts is a dud -- it's just a desperate, frantic fizzle
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Early Bird I don't find either a drunk or a pothead very pleasing to talk to. I like to talk to people who have all their marbles in place.. at the same time.. People with butterflies in the brain are not to brilliant..
What I will never understand is why people hate themselves or have such low self esteem that they need to drink or do drugs to get their "groove on". Obvious they don't like themselves unless they have one of these to boost their moral.. Shame people don't like themselves so much they wish to destroy their brains cells. Do they think with less brain cells they will like themselves better or is it the case with less braincells they won't think about it as much.
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Here you go Dust off.. Your right in your perception of the spelling..and when to capitalize...Veteran's Hospital would be caps but a veteran going to the Veteran's Hospital would not.
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DustOff, here's the real deal.
willgrr and his cronies like to go fishing. They like smelly bait and think trolling is best, 'cuz they think it'll bring them all the big ones.
Veterans (capitalized correctly, by the way) are to be thanked for their service. It's a disgrace to be disrespectful to any vet (this usage is also correct).
Pushback is great. Stick with your issues and don't let 'em get you down.
I'd tell willgrr et al to keep it classy, but deaf ears comes to mind.
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All one has to do is misspell the word veteran..hit spellcheck and it will come up with the small V
So simple yet so hard for BG to understand..
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Dustoff, you nut-job, do you get paid by the word, letter, or post? Your are nothing but a paid spammer. Nothing you ever post is even accurate, knowledgeable, or even close to the truth. You should just shut-up and spare all of us with half a brain.
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Back on topic boys..If our state allows the growing of hemp and the rest of the country sees us as good farmers with good farm land and hemp is potentially a larger cash crop than marijuana and this is way better environmentally than oil and gas....Whats stopping us from taking the lead on this ? It's time we take a stand and be recognized for something progressive and intelligent.Let's put our state back on the map for something good.
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Are you kidding me? ND taking the lead in something other than passing laws that are unconstitutional? Nooooooo, we are controlled by Republicans and they won't do anything that would be good for the State.
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In 2013, Bill Vlasic was part of the team awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting "for its penetrating look into business practices by Apple and other technology companies that illustrates the darker side of a changing global economy for workers and consumers."
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In Pursuit of Nissan, a Jobs Lesson for the Tech Industry?
Executives have long said America can't compete in building electronic devices. But the migration of carmaking from Japan is a case study in the most unlikely of transformations.August 5, 2012 businessNews
A Fatality Forces Tesla to Confront Its Limits
Elon Musk's confidence in Tesla's technology has seemed boundless, but trying to stay ahead of the competition has posed risks.
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Self-Driving Tesla Was Involved in Fatal Crash, U.S. Says
The federal highway safety agency said that the driver of a Tesla on "autopilot" died in a crash in May, thought to be the first death in a self-driving car.
July 1, 2016, Friday
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The death of Anton Yelchin, which might be linked to a faulty gearshift in the Jeep Grand Cherokee, might have accelerated the repair schedule.
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The partnership will equip 100 vehicles with technology to advance and expand Google's development effort.
May 4, 2016, Wednesday
The Chrysler 200, Symbol of a Comeback, Slowly Fades Away
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Ford and Google Team Up to Support Driverless Cars
The automaker and the tech giant formed the Self-Driving Coalition for Safer Streets, a group aimed at urging federal approval of autonomous vehicles.
April 28, 2016, Thursday
Fiat Chrysler Announces Recall of 1.1 Million Autos
The vehicles can roll away unexpectedly and cause injuries when the transmission is not used properly.
April 23, 2016, Saturday
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Much of the credit for G.M.'s earnings has gone to a strong car market in the United States, not the company's improving balance sheet and new models.
April 22, 2016, Friday
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Transfer of Power: School-by-school look at the 33 Volusia academies
Published: Sunday, November 18, 2012 at 5:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, November 16, 2012 at 6:57 p.m.
Volusia County Academies
How Things Work In Georgia
Counties and states handle transfers differently. In Volusia County, student athletes can play for schools they are not zoned for by applying for an academy or receiving a variance. Florida's neighbor, Georgia, doesn't offer academies, said Steve Figueroa of the Georgia High School Athletic Association. Following is a look at Georgia's guidelines:
■ Figueroa said student athletes can start the ninth grade at any school they like — even if it is outside their attendance zone.
■ However, if they want to transfer back into their zoned school, they must sit out a year. There are rarely exceptions to that rule, Figueroa said.
■ Figueroa said transferring "just because" is not allowed, although student athletes can apply for a hardship and appeal.
■ Student athletes can also transfer freely as long as they make a physical move, and there is proof of that move.
Each of Volusia County's 10 public high schools has career academies, which, according to the school district, have existed "since the 1990s" and are "nationally recognized" programs that "get students ready for post-high school." Following is a school-by-school look at the 33 academies:
■ Atlantic
— Communication & Arts in Performance
— Horticulture, Environmental and Marine Science
— Law and Government
■ DeLand
— Engineering
— Building Construction
■ Deltona
— Entrepreneurship, Marketing and Management
— Graphic Design
— Health Services
■ Mainland
— Communications and Multimedia Technology
— Design and Manufacturing Technology
— Hospitality and Culinary Arts
— Science and Medicine
— Simulation and Robotics
— Sports Science
■ New Smyrna Beach
— Agriscience Academy
— Engineering
— Entertainment and Sports Marketing
— Culinary Arts
— Medical
■ Pine Ridge
— Agriscience, Education and Communications
— Sports Science and Emergency Services
■ Spruce Creek
— Information Technology and Robotics
— Finance
■ Seabreeze
— Drafting and Design
— Web Design and Digital Media
— Culinary Design
■ Taylor
— Environmental Science and Services
■ University
— Finance
— Biomedical Sciences
— Engineering
— Stimulation and Robotics
— Academy Introduction
— Planet Biotechnology
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Salt Lake welcomes back the second annual Rose Exposed Arts Festival August 30-31st at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center. Join six performing art organizations for performances, workshops and classes.
The performing groups include; Gina Bachauer International Piano Foundation, Plan-B Theatre Company, Pygmalion Theatre Company, Repertory Dance, Theatre, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, SB Dance.
"Last year's festival was such an astounding success that we've decided to make it an annual celebration every Labor Day Weekend," says Stephen Brown, director of SB Dance and president of the Performing Arts Coalition, the organization that organizes The Rose Exposed. "This event is bound to be amazing when you have Gina Bachauer International Piano Foundation, Plan-B Theatre Company, Pygmalion Theatre Company, Repertory Dance Theatre, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company, and SB Dance working together!"
New this year, The Rose Exposed Block Party present by EVE. Enjoy $5 libation, food trucks, live bands and more Friday, August 30 from 6-10 p.m. Bill Allred of X96's Radio from Hell as the host of Variety Show, $15 at 7 p.m Saturday events include a Sporty Yoga session, forums, performances and dance and theatre makeup workshops.
For tickets and more information visit roseXposed.org or read our story on last years festival here.