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Early childhood educators have been using new teaching methods for the young children in their classrooms for several years. Early childhood educators now have access to better training that aids in learning to use a variety of teaching methods. Worksheets are a thing of the past. Hands-on activities should be the method of choice.
The project approach to teaching young children is one of the new methods of teaching that early childhood educators are now using. The project approach to teaching a concept to young children is an approach that can enable children in learning how one idea can be linked to others. All subjects can be incorporated into a project learning experience. A curriculum concept is taught in-depth when the project approach is used. Using the project approach in an early childhood classroom can enhance interest in the concept that is being taught. Young children are also able to develop a longer attention span if the project approach is used when introducing a new concept. The project approach is carried through several weeks during a learning period. Math, social skills such as working together and sharing ideas when taking turns, fine-motor skills, and language skills can all be incorporated into a project approach in an early childhood classroom.
Early childhood educators at the Circle of Friends Preschool in Sarasota use the project approach when teaching a concept. Teachers observe children to learn about their interests before choosing a topic to develop a project around. Discussions, favorite books, and hands-on learning activities are all part of the project approach at Circle of Friends. All activities are open-ended, and children may work on an activity for as long as they like. A science project may incorporate math when measuring tools are used, language skills when children use words to discuss the science concept, listening skills are used when listening to a favorite book about a science concept such as the moon, and early writing skills can also be promoted when the project approach is used. Children may use early writing skills to write a daily journal report about an activity.
Early childhood teachers at the Circle Of Friends Preschool invite parents to visit your child's classroom to experience the use of the project approach in early learning. The Circle of Friends Preschool is accredited by the NAEYC, a national accreditation agency that encourages the use of the project approach when teaching young children. Circle of Friends Preschool is located at 2120 Webber Street in Sarasota.
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I want to change the autosave feature so that it saves every 1 second, I was able to investigate further that I needed gconf-editor so I installed it but when I launched it and went to
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Starting in 2012-13, the School Safety Audit now includes a Secondary School Climate Survey for students and teachers. The survey is a component of the annual school safety audit which school divisions are required to submit to the Virginia Center for School Safety (VCSS), according to §22.1-279.8.B of the Code.
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The purpose of the survey is to provide schools with information on school climate and safety conditions in order to maintain a safe and orderly school environment conducive to learning. The survey measures student and teacher/staff perceptions of school rules and discipline, teacher-student relationships, student engagement in school, and the extent of bullying and teasing at school.
This survey is administered in alternating years; grades 7 and 8 were surveyed in spring 2013 and grades 9, 10, 11, and 12 were surveyed in spring 2014. Grades 7 and 8 will be surveyed in spring 2015 and grades 9, 10, 11, and 12 in spring 2016. There are two companion surveys, one for students and another for teachers and other professional staff. All teachers and professional staff are asked to complete the survey. Schools may choose from two options for surveying students: (1) Survey all students; or (2) Survey a random sample of 25 students in each grade.
The survey will be administered online in schools, supervised by school personnel. The survey will be anonymous, which means that students and teachers will not identify themselves.
Data from the School Safety Survey program is combined with the Department of Education's Discipline, Crime, and Violence database in order to identify patterns of structure and support that are associated with lower rates of discipline problems, suspensions, and expulsions, as well as more positive student and teacher perceptions of the school climate. All schools receive reports of survey results for their school so that they can identify their strengths as well as areas for improvement. There are also supplemental reports of statewide research findings showing how student discipline and support practices are associated with positive educational outcomes, including safer school conditions, fewer disciplinary consequences, greater student engagement, and higher academic achievement.
The survey is conducted by the Virginia Center for School Safety in collaboration with the Virginia Department of Education and the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education and Youth Nex, the Center to Promote Positive Youth Development. Survey data are analyzed and reported by the University of Virginia, funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
School climate surveys can provide schools with valuable information to assess student and teacher perceptions of school conditions. This information can be used to improve school discipline and student support practices in order to maintain a safe and orderly school environment conducive to learning. The University of Virginia has conducted a series of studies using school climate surveys in Virginia schools. A brief summary of this research is here.
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The Antarctica: the white unknown continent, the most similar thing to being in other planet....too many things have been said about it, but.....why not discover it for yourself...? The choice is in your hands.....do you want to take a virtual tour around the most fascinating place on earth.....? Up to you.
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COA, located in the Bayshore Town Center shopping complex, offers up Mexican "urban cuisine". Modeled after Mexican food cart vendors, COA boasts a mix of familiar and original drinks, appetizers, and tapas-style entrees.
Start with a margarita or the excellent COA - a mix of Azul Tequila, Prickly Pear puree, and cranberry juice.
Now choose your food. There are Hot Plates, with dishes such as Queso Fundido, Nachos, grilled "street corn" (Elote), tamales and empanadas. Cold Plates include Guacamole, Atun, and a wonderful Ceviche Tostada, easily one of the best things on the menu.
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Since the place is a sprawling 100 tables, with outdoor seating, it's perfect to have drinks and order a little food, then have more drinks and a little more food, and so on. Thanks to high ceilings and minimal buffering, however, it can get loud.
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Oak Creek girls cruise to Sheboygan tourney title
Waukesha West, Sheboygan South no match
Oak Creek - The 2012 portion of the season for the girls basketball team ended on a sound note, as the Knights crushed both Waukesha West and the host school to win the Sheboygan South Redwings Holiday Tournament last week.
"Since that first clunker against Pius (late in November), we've gotten better every week," Oak Creek coach Steve Hluchnik said. "We're reasonably healthy right now, and when we are healthy we have a chance against almost anybody out there."
The Knights began the week at 8-1 overall and 4-0 in Southeast play. They will resume league action on Friday at Kenosha Tremper.
That's where Hluchnik will hope to continue the hot play on both ends of the court that Oak Creek has established recently.
In the final of the Redwing Tournament on Friday, South was simply no match for the Knights, as Oak Creek bolted out to an 18-8 first quarter lead and then stretched it to 36-18 en route to a 57-22 victory. The Knights shutout the Redwings in the fourth quarter and held them to just four points overall in the second half.
"South is down a little, so we didn't want to get caught playing at their level," Hluchnik said. "It was good. We took control of the game from the outset, kept stretching the lead and got everyone some playing time."
Forward Tamya Sims led the way with 17 while Katie Finn had 10 and Hannah Settingsgaard and Steph Kostowicz had eight apiece.
In the West game, Hluchnik was very pleased with the defensive effort against the previously unbeaten Wolverines. It was point guard Morgan Kokta's night as she had 17 points, seven rebounds, six steals and five assists in leading Oak Creek to a 51-31 win.
"She's the straw that stirs the drink, no doubt about that," Hluchnik said.
Overall, Hluchnik was very pleased with the two-day effort, as both Sims and Kokta earned berths on the all-tournament team.
"We stayed fresh, played good basketball, and got the kids a couple of nights in a hotel, where I think they behaved themselves," he said.
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Are banks open on Memorial Day, May 26, 2014? Due to the federal holiday, most banks will be closed while a day of remembrance is observed for those who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces.
If you bank at Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Citibank, Chase or Citizens bank, you will have to use an ATM or online banking to do any transactions on Monday. According to The Holiday Schedule, most major banks and credit unions will be closed, but it's always best to call ahead to be sure.
TD Bank states that they are open on four federal holidays in 2014, but Memorial Day is not one of them. Last year, all 1,300 locations along the east coast were open on the holiday, but they have revised their schedule and will only be open on the following federal holidays in 2014: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, President's Day, Columbus Day and Veterans Day.
Banks aren't the only businesses closed on Memorial Day. According to The Opinionated Nation, all government offices, schools and U.S. post office locations will be closed on May 26. To see a complete list of 2014 Federal Holidays, click here.
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Organic Creamery® introduces American cheese slices
DCI Cheese Company expands popular organic cheese brand to meet demand
RICHFIELD, Wis., February 18, 2010 – DCI Cheese Company (DCI) is pleased to introduce an extension to its Organic Creamery line: Organic American cheese slices available in eight-slice straight stack and 16-slice twin stack packs. The new pasteurized process slices are available in the specialty cheese section of select retailers across the country.
Organic Creamery cheeses are produced in a manner that is beneficial to the health and welfare of people, animals and the environ¬ment. All products are hand-crafted by award winning Wisconsin cheesemakers with 100% certified organic milk. The fresh milk used in production is sourced from family farms that practice humane animal management and pasture grazing and is free of pesticides, antibiotics and hormones. Additionally, no animal rennet or artificial colorings are used during production. Organic Creamery cheeses proudly display the USDA organic seal.
DCI has been at the forefront of the organic cheesemaking trend. Recognizing the demand for organic milk nationwide, DCI was quick to source its own organic milk supply to ensure volume to meet customer demand for high quality organic cheese.
Through the Organic Creamery brand, DCI offers the most extensive line of certified organic cheese varieties in the United States. In addition to the new Organic American slices, Organic Creamery's full product line includes White Colby, White Mild Cheddar, Sharp Cheddar, Muenster, Monterey Jack and Monterey Jack Pepper sticks; Gorgonzola, Blue and Feta crumbled cups; Asiago and Parmesan shredded cups; Parmesan grated cups; Colby, Sharp Cheddar, White Cheddar, Muenster, Parmesan, Monterey Jack and Monterey Jack Pepper wedges; Mild Cheddar shingle packs; String Cheese; and Goat Cheese logs.
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mentioned before. But we used it again last night, and it just works so well!
I've started coring apples this way too, when I am just slicing them up for a snack. It seems to leave more of the apple to enjoy!
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Fans of Bridget Jones are in for a treat - a third novel is on the way next year, with maybe even a third film to follow.
20:57, UK, Friday 09 November 2012
Writer Helen Fielding will publish her third novel about scatty singleton Bridget Jones next year.
The character, who started life as a weekly column in The Independent in 1995, filled the pages of her diary with her failed efforts to find love.
Bridget measured her life in the amount of cigarettes she smoked, units of alcohol she drank and number of calories she lost or gained.
Fielding, 54, said: "The new novel is set in present-day London, with an entirely new scenario for Bridget.
"If people laugh as much reading it as I am while writing it, then we'll all be very happy."
The new book is almost certain to be a bestseller after the first two sold more than 15 million copies and inspired the films starring Renee Zellweger.
Dan Franklin, from publisher Jonathan Cape, said: "Great comic writers are as rare as hen's teeth.
"Helen is one of a very select band who have created a character, Bridget, of whom the very thought makes you smile. Like millions of others, I can't wait to see what's happened to her."
Fielding told Radio 4's Woman's Hour that she had been surprised by the success of the books.
She said: "When I first wrote it, I didn't think anyone would read it. It was just a column in The Independent so it was very easy to write and be very honest.
"And then I got all self-conscious because I knew so many people would read it."
But Fielding stayed tight-lipped about the plot, saying she had "new stuff" she wanted to say.
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Anybody use this, for a 1 litter or less per year kennel, would it be worth having, if for nothing else than to print nice pedigree's for the pups?
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It depends on how heavily you get into record keeping. I helped them with the breeding module and sent them all the forms I used for tracking my bitches during gestation and the puppies after whelping. So there's some neat stuff in there.
I think it's a great program because you can manage all your entries (even if you're only running a dog or two), manage all the clubs, closing dates, etc.
I just started using it -- I'd had the software for a year, but I get stuck in the "status quo" and hate to completely change midstream. It was a pain to input a lot of the stuff that I already had set up elsewhere. But, overal, I really like it. I just generated 60 entries the other day at the touch of a button. I had to setup each dog and add the clubs to my database, but it was really easy. Then you just select who's running what and generate the entries. It was great.
You can also track vaccine due dates, etc.
I think you might find you'd use it for more than just breeding. But you can do invoicing, etc. with it. And that may be very helpful, either way.
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Dieter Decision Support System
The Area being Modelled is :-
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Question: I'm in the middle of designing what I call a Diet Decision Support System,
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I'm using MS Access to create a database that will store the nutrition values of various foods.
The user will be required to create parameters, such as total calories, target fat %, target protein %,
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As the user logs their food consumption, a query will then recommend food for them to eat based on the
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Adrian P. Hunt
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Spencer G. Lucas
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Two different vertebrate faunas are present in the Petrified Forest Formation (Upper Triassic) at Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona. The older fauna is Adamanian (late Tuvalian) in age, occurs in the Blue Mesa Member and is characterized by the presence of Rutiodon, Desmatosuchus and Stagonolepis. The younger fauna is Revueltian (Norian) in age, occurs in the Painted Desert Member and is characterized by the presence of Pseudopalatus and Typothorax. These faunas indicate that there was no major extinction at the Carnian\Norian boundary.
Petrified Forest National Park (PEFO) has yielded a very large number of Late Triassic vertebrate fossils dating back to the excavations of Charles Camp in 1921 (Long et al., 1989). Since then, large collections have been amassed which are housed principally at the University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley. Friedrich von Huene recognized in the 1920's the presence of two different faunas in the Upper Triassic of northeastern Arizona (note that Huene considered one fauna to be Middle Triassic in age), but Camp's (1930) influential revision of the phytosaurs only recognized one. Colbert and Gregory, (1957) similarly only recognized one fauna within the Triassic strata which are exposed at PEFO. However, Gregory (1957) resurrected Huene's concept of two faunas within the Chinle of the Colorado Plateau region (Table 1), which has been followed by all later workers. The aforementioned studies were hindered by the poor taxonomic state of the majority of the common families of Late Triassic vertebrates. Notably, the Carnian aetosaur Longosuchus and phytosaur Rutiodon were not distinguished from the Norian taxa Typothorax and Pseudopalatus respectively. However, in the last decade there have been complete or partial revisions of these groups, notably the metoposaurs (Hunt, 1993a, 1994; Hunt and Lucas, 1993b), phytosaurs (Ballew, 1989; Hunt, 1993b, 1994) and aetosaurs (Long and Ballew, 1985; Hunt and Lucas, 1991, 1992b). Utilizing these advances in taxonomy various authors have discussed the twofold division of PEFO vertebrate faunas but none have provided updated faunal lists at the species level (e.g., Long and Ballew, 1985; Long and Padian, 1986, Murry and Long, 1989; Parrish, 1989, 1993; Murry 1990; Hunt and Lucas, 1993b; Lucas, 1993). Lucas (1993) has recently published a revised stratigraphy of PEFO which allows the stratigraphic distribution of these faunas to be reevaluated. The purposes of this paper are threefold: (1) to provide updated faunal lists for both Late Triassic faunas at PEFO; (2) to evaluate their stratigraphic distribution and age; and (3) to comment briefly on the differences between the faunas. UCMP is the University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley.
The older of the two vertebrate faunas from PEFO comes from the Blue Mesa Member of the Petrified Forest Formation, Chinle Group (Table 3). Most fossils from this unit come from the southern end of PEFO (south of Interstate 25) where the Blue Mesa Member has its main exposures within the park. This is the type fauna for the Adamanian land-vertebrate faunachron and is late Tuvalian (late Carnian) in age (Lucas and Hunt, 1993b). This fauna, like most late Carnian vertebrate faunas of Laurasia and northern Gondwanaland, is dominated by parasuchid reptiles (phytosaurs). Second most common in abundance are metoposaurid amphibians followed by aetosaurs. Other taxa together form a small minority of the fauna. The vast majority of specimens of this fauna come from a thin stratigraphic interval in the upper portion of the Blue Mesa Member (Lucas, 1993; Fig. 1).
The upper of the two vertebrate faunas at PEFO is from the Painted Desert Member of the Petrified Forest Formation. This unit is mainly exposed in the northern half of the park (north of Interstate 25), and this area has produced the majority of the Painted Desert local fauna. Some specimens come from the southern portion of the park in the Flattops area.
The Painted Desert fauna is Revueltian (Norian) in age on the basis of the presence of the phytosaur Pseudopalatus and the aetosaur Typothorax (Lucas and Hunt, 1993b). This fauna is also dominated by parasuchid specimens, but metoposaurs are rare and mainly restricted to localities dominated by terrestrial reptiles (Hunt and Lucas, 1993b; Hunt et al., 1993). Specimens of the aetosaur Typothorax are the second most abundant vertebrate fossils. Note that previous reports of a traversodontid from the Painted Desert Member (e.g., Murry and Long, 1989) are in error (Hunt and Lucas, 1993c). We identify the partial skeleton of a sphenosuchian (UCMP 129740), previously assigned to cf. Sphenosuchus sp. (Parrish, 1991), as cf. Hesperosuchus sp. and consider Padian's (1986) specimen of Coelophysis (UCMP 129618) to represent a new genus (Hunt and Santucci, 1993). Like the Adamanian fauna, the Revueltian fauna at PEFO is stratigraphically restricted and the majority of specimens occur in the lower part of the Painted Desert Member (Lucas, 1993; Fig. 1).
The Adamanian and Revueltian faunas at PEFO straddle the Carnian/Norian boundary, which has been postulated as a time of a major tetrapod extinction (e.g., Benton, 1994), but this has been disputed recently (Hunt and Lucas, 1992a; Lucas, 1994). Comparison between the two faunas at PEFO should provide a test of extinction theories. Even a cursory examination of Table 3 reveals that there is no major extinction at the Carnian/Norian boundary in the America Southwest, which is typified by the faunas at PEFO. The major groups of tetrapods (phytosaurs, aetosaurs, metoposaurs) exhibit generic level turnover at most. Terrestrial tetrapods appear more common in the Painted Desert fauna (Parrish, 1993), but this is biased by the fact that the older portion of the Revueltian is an acme zone for terrestrial tetrapods across the southwestern United States (Hunt and Lucas, 1993a). Aquatic/semiaquatic elements of the fauna (fish, metoposaurs), with the notable exception of phytosaurs, are less numerous in the Revueltian fauna (Hunt and Lucas, 1993a; Parrish, 1993). The only extinction at the Carnian/Norian boundary which has any global significance is the demise of the last dicynodont Placerias which disappears globally at this time though its disappearance precedes the end of the Carnian (Lucas and Hunt, 1993a). The replacement of xenacanth sharks by hybodonts at the Carnian/Norian boundary is consistent with a pattern throughout the Chinle Group (Huber et al., 1993). Some other rarer taxa may have become extinct at this time for example the enigmatic reptile Trilophosaurus. The apparent extinction of the prosauropods between the two faunas is an example of the Lazarus effect because these dinosaurs are known from Norian and Rhaetian (by footprints) portions of the Chinle Group elsewhere.
We thank the Petrified Forest Museum Association for supporting various projects at PEFO and Vincent Santucci for diverse help.
Ballew, K.L., 1989. A phylogenetic analysis of Phytosauria from the Late Triassic of the western United States; in Lucas, S.G. and Hunt, A.P., eds., Dawn of the age of dinosaurs in the American Southwest: Albuquerque, New Mexico Museum of Natural History, p. 340-348.
Benton, M.J., 1984. Late Triassic to Middle Jurassic extinctions among tetrapods: testing the pattern; in Fraser, N.C. and Sues, H.-D. (eds.), In the Shadow of Dinosaurs: Early Mesozoic Tetrapods: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, in press.
Camp, C.L., 1930. A study of the phytosaurs with description of new material from western North America: University of California Monographs, v. 10, p. 1-175.
Colbert, E.H. and Gregory, J.T., 1957. Correlation of continental Triassic sediments by vertebrate fossils: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 68, p. 1456-1467.
Gregory, J.T., 1957. Significance of fossil vertebrates for correlation of Late Triassic continental deposits of North America: Report of the 20th Session of the International Geological Congress 1956, Section II, p. 7-25.
Huber, P., Lucas, S.G. and Hunt, A.P., 1993. Late Triassic fish assemblages of the North American Western Interior: Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin, v. 59, p.51-66.
Hunt, A.P., 1993a. A revision of the Metoposauridae (Amphibia: Temnospondyli) of the Late Triassic with description of a new genus from the western North America: Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin, v. 59, p. 67-97.
Hunt, A.P., 1993b. Taxonomy of phytosaurs (Reptilia: Archosauria) from the Blue Mesa Member of the Petrified Forest Formation, Petrified Forest National Park, northeastern Arizona: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, v. 3, p. G44-45.
Hunt, A. P., 1994. Vertebrate paleontology and biostratigraphy of the Bull Canyon Formation (Chinle Group, Upper Triassic), east-central New Mexico with revisions of the families Metoposauridae (Amphibia: Temnospondyli) and Parasuchidae (Reptilia: Archosauria)[Ph. D. dissertation]: Albuquerque, University of New Mexico, 403 p.
Hunt, A.P. and Lucas, S.G., 1991. Re-evaluation of "Typothorax" meadei, a Late Triassic aetosaur from the United States: Palaontologische Zeitschrift, v. 64, p. 317-328.
Hunt, A.P. and Lucas, S.G., 1992a. No tetrapod-extinction at the Carnian-Norian boundary (Late Triassic): evidence from the western United States and India: 29th International Geological Congress Abstracts, v. 1, p. 66.
Hunt, A.P. and Lucas, S.G., 1992b. The first occurrence of the aetosaur Paratypothorax andressi (Reptilia: Archosauria) in the western United States and its biochronological significance: Palaontologische Zeitschrift, v. 66, p. 147-157.
Hunt, A.P. and, Lucas, S.G., 1993a. Sequence stratigraphy and a tetrapod acme zone during the early Revueltian (Late Triassic\: early Norian) of western North America: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, v. 3, p. G46.
Hunt, A.P. and Lucas, S.G., 1993b. Taxonomy and stratigraphic distribution of Late Triassic metoposaurid amphibians from Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona: Journal of the Arizona-Nevada Academy of Sciences, v. 27, p. 89-96.
Hunt, A.P. and Lucas, S.G., 1993c. The search for advanced therapsids and mammals in Upper Triassic strata of Petrified Forest National Park: Petrified Forest National Park Research Abstracts, v. 2, p. 13.
Hunt, A.P. and Santucci, V.L. 1993. The record of Late Triassic dinosaurs at Petrified Forest National Park: Petrified Forest National Park Research Abstracts, v. 2, p. 14.
Hunt, A.P., Santucci, V.L. and Wall, W.P., 1993. Paleoecology of Late Triassic metoposaurid amphibians: evidence from Petrified Forest National Park: Park Science, v. 13, p.12.
Long, R.A., Lucas, S.G., Hunt, A.P. and McCrea, R., 1989. Charles Camp: collecting Late Triassic vertebrates in the American Southwest during the 1920's and 1930's; in Lucas, S.G. and Hunt, A.P., eds., Dawn of the age of dinosaurs in the American Southwest: Albuquerque, New Mexico Museum of Natural History, p. 65-71.
Long, R.A. and Ballew, K., 1985. Aetosaur dermal armor from the Late Triassic of southwestern North America, with special reference to material from the Chinle Formation of Petrified Forest National Park: Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin, v. 54, p. 45-68.
Long, R.A. and Padian, K., 1986. Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Late Triassic Chinle Formation, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona: preliminary results; in Padian, K., ed., The beginning of the age of dinosaurs: faunal change across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary: Cambridge, University of Cambridge Press, p. 161-169.
Lucas, S.G., 1993. The Chinle Group: revised stratigraphy and chronology of Upper Triassic nonmarine strata in the western United States: Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin, v. 59, p. 27-50.
Lucas, S.G., 1994. Triassic tetrapod extinctions and the compiled correlation effect; in Embry, A. F., ed., Pangaea: Canadian Association of Geologists Memoir, in press.
Lucas, S.G. and Hunt, A.P., 1993a. A dicynodont from the Upper Triassic of New Mexico and its biochronological significance: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, v. 3, p. 321-325.
Lucas, S.G. and Hunt, A.P., 1993b. Tetrapod biochronology of the Chinle Group (Upper Triassic), western United States: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, v. 3, p. 327-329.
Murry, P.A., 1989. Microvertebrate fossils from the Petrified Forest and Owl Rock members (Chinle Formation) in Petrified Forest National Park and vicinity, Arizona; in Lucas, S. G. and Hunt, A. P., eds., Dawn of the age of dinosaurs in the American Southwest: Albuquerque, New Mexico Museum of Natural History, p. 249-277.
Murry, P.A., 1990. Stratigraphy of the Upper Triassic Petrified Forest Member (Chinle Formation) in Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, USA: Journal of Geology, v. 98, p. 780-789.
Murry, P.A. and Long, R.L., 1989. Geology and paleontology of the Chinle Formation, Petrified Forest National Park and vicinity, Arizona and a discussion of vertebrate fossils of the southwestern Upper Triassic; in Lucas, S. G. and Hunt, A.P., eds., Dawn of the age of dinosaurs in the American Southwest: Albuquerque, New Mexico Museum of Natural History, p. 29-64.
Padian, K., 1986. On the type material of Coelophysis Cope (saurischia: Theropoda) and a new specimen from the Petrified Forest of Arizona (Late Triassic: Chinle Formation); in Padian, K., ed., The beginning of the age of dinosaurs: faunal change across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. p. 45-60.
Parrish, J.M., 1991. A new specimen of an early crocodylomorph (cf.Sphenosuchus sp.) from the Upper Triassic Chinle Formation of Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 11, p. 198-212.
Santucci, V.L. and Hunt, A.P., 1993. Late Triassic vertebrate tracks discovered at Petrified Forest National Park: Park Science, v. 13, p. 14.
Lower portion of formation Upper portion of formation
Eupelor Rarer Eupelor
Primitive species of Phytosaurus Primitive species of Phytosaurus
Advanced species of Phytosaurus
Typothorax Rarer Typothorax
Mammal-like reptiles:
Table 1. Gregory's (1957) twofold division of the Chinle vertebrate faunas in the Petrified Forest Formation (sensu Lucas, 1993) in the region of what is now Petrified Forest National Park. Note that Hesperosuchus was found outside the park.
Blue Mesa Member local fauna Painted Desert Member local fauna
Xenacanthus moorei
Lissodus humblei
undescribed shark hybodont
Arganodus dorotheae Arganodus dorotheae
indeterminate coelacanthid indeterminate coelacanthid
Other fish:
cf. Turseodus sp. cf. Turseodus sp.
indeterminate redfieldiid indeterminate redfieldiid
indeterminate colobodontid indeterminate colobodontid
Metoposaurid amphibians:
Buettneria perfecta Buettneria sp.
Apachesaurus sp. Apachesaurus gregorii
Primitive reptiles:
Trilophosaurus buettneria
undescribed ?proterochampsid
indeterminate sphenodontid
Phytosaurian reptiles:
Rutiodon carolinensis
Rutiodon crosbiensis
"Rutiodon" gregorii
Pseudopalatus pristinus
Pseudopalatus andersoni
Aetosaurian reptiles:
"Acaenasuchus geoffreyi"*
Stagonolepis wellesi
Desmatosuchus haplocerus
Paratypothorax andressi
Typothorax coccinarum
"Rauisuchian" reptiles:
Postosuchus kirkpatricki Postosuchus kirkpatricki
"Chatterjeea elegans"*
Sphenosuchian reptiles:
cf. Hesperosuchus sp.
Theropod dinosaurs:
"Chindesaurus bryansmalli"*
undescribed ceratosaurian
indeterminate theropod
Prosauropod dinosaurs:
indeterminate prosauropod?
Ornithischian dinosaurs:
Revueltosaurus callenderi
Mammal-like reptiles:
Placerias sp.
Vertebrate trace fossils:
coprolites coprolites
Rhynchosauroides sp.
Table 2. Vertebrate faunas of Petrified Forest National Park (Long and Ballew, 1985; Murry, 1989, 1990; Murry and Long, 1989; Huber et al., 1993; Hunt, 1993a, b, 1994; Hunt and Lucas, 1993b; Lucas and Hunt, 1993b; Parrish, 1993; Santucci and Hunt, 1993; PEFO archives; original identifications). * indicates nomina nuda in Murry and Long (1989).
Figure 1. Stratigraphic distribution of the Blue Mesa and Painted Desert local faunas at Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona. FS is Flattops sandstone and PDS is Painted Desert sandstone.


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Going from the emulator to an actual mobile device, keep in mind that the mobile device's performance characteristics will not match.
In your particular case, keep in mind that texture-fetch on a mobile GPU is relatively slow. Therefore you want to minimise the amount of texture data that you are accessing for each pixel. Ideally you want the texture to be drawn at 1:1 scale on screen.
For example, if you have a large texture that you scale down, then a small rendering region is going to have to load up a large amount of texture data. (Even if texturing only uses a few pixels from the texture, if they're far apart, unused pixels in between will get loaded into cache.)
So, basically, try and store textures in GPU memory as close to their on-screen size as possible. Or use mipmapping, which will automatically select smaller versions of your textures when needed (and also gives you higher quality when scaling down). Trilinear filtering (interpolating between two mip levels) requires more texture fetch - but is still better than substantial downscaling.
As for the maximum supported texture size, WP7 has a maximum texture size of 2048 (XNA Reach profile), as does iOS (from iPhone 3GS onwards, before it was 1024). The actual size you make your textures is more of a artistic consideration - and a consideration of how much memory you can afford.
Max texture size for WP7 is 1k x 1k and from what I remember there is only 1 physical resolution available for WP7 480x800 so really if you are looking at different texture sizes it would only be for the other platforms. Windows Phone 8 introduced larger resolutions and the capability of utilizing much larger textures. If you want the maximum detail for each platform then you will likely wind up providing different rez variants for each distinct screen resolution in order to minimize the amount of scaling that is done.


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Marriage of Convenience: IzPack Initial Install + pkg(5)
By ckamps on Dec 08, 2008
What do you get when you marry an easy-to-use, but powerful initial
install application framework with the add-on and update management
capabilities of the Image Packaging System?
Julien Ponge, one of the main developers of IzPack,
a cross-platform open source installation framework, has successfully
integrated a pre-release distribution of GlassFish V3 Prelude with
IzPack. This would be news in and of itself, but what is really cool
is that since V3 is now packaged using the Image Packaging System
technology (aka pkg(5) in techie terms), Julien has demonstrated an
end-to-end install management solution for layered applications. The
IzPack-based installer handles initial installation and overall removal
of the application while the use of pkg(5) enables ongoing update and
add-on management of the installation.
In just a couple of hours, Julien was able to modify an earlier GlassFish V2-based installer to take in a pre-release zip archive of the V3 Prelude distribution that is packaged using pkg(5). The resulting experimental distribution demonstrates the ease by which initial installation frameworks can incorporate pkg(5)-based, pre-installed images.
real kicker is that Julien didn't have to become an expert in pkg(5) to
marry IzPack with the V3 pkg(5)-based archive. Apart from including
the archive in his IzPack-wrapped distribution, Julien made use of a
simple pkg(5) Java bootstrap interface to complete some optional
initialization of the pkg(5)-based installation image.
You can try out the results of this experiment:
What's in the distribution?
The core of this distribution is a zip archive of a GlassFish v3 Prelude release build. Beginning with V3, the GlassFish project is producing pkg(5) enabled zip archives by default. What this means is that all of the GlassFish components that are included in the zip archive are pre-installed in the form of pkg(5) packages. The resulting archive represents a pkg(5) user image. Once the archive is expanded on a user's system, pkg(5)-enabled tooling can be used to manage updates and add-ons for all of the content included in the image.
The GF V3 archive is portable in the sense that all of the GlassFish components are cross-platform and none of the platform-specific pkg(5) tooling (e.g. Python) is included in the archive. Upon initial installation of the archive, the pkg(5) Java Bootstrap facility can be used to dynamically carryout the installation of the basic pkg(1) and Update Tool GUI clients.
IzPack plays a complementary role to pkg(5) in that IzPack hands the initial installation and the eventual uninstallation of the pkg(5) user image. The pkg(5)-enabled tooling handles all of the package updates and add-ons that occur after initial installation and before the complete removal of the user image.
took a GlassFish V2 IzPack-based installer, replaced the non-pkg(5) V2
archive with the pkg(5)-based V3 archive and modified the installer to
trigger execution of the pkg(5) Java Bootstrap facility near the end of
Browse Julien's GlassFish V3 Installer Source
What does the initial install experience look like?
a series of screen shots showing what the initial install experience
looks like. Keep in mind that this is just an experimental
distribution: Julien knows that there are limitations that can be
easily addressed with some modest investment.
installation location represents where the GlassFish V3 archive will be
expanded. This location will be the root path of the pkg(5) image.
that's happening in the next step is the unpacking of the GlassFish V3
zip archive. Since the V3 components were pre-installed as pkg(5)
packages at the factory, there's no individual package installations
required at this stage. i.e. All the IzPack installer is doing is
expanding the archive of the user image.
There are two functions being carried out in the following step:
1) The pkg(5) Java Bootstrap facility is invoked via the install application. This action uses a Java API for pkg(5) to download and install the following components:
- Python-based pkg(1) CLI client API
- native minimized Python runtime
- Python-based Update Tool GUI
- native wxPython/wxWidgets dependency
2) The GlassFish domain is started.
you're creating a platform-specific download, then your installation
program doesn't need to perform the first step because you would have
pre-installed the pkg(5) package and, optionally, the Update Tool GUI
and its companion desktop notifier in the platform-specific image at
the factory.
following step doesn't seem to work yet on non-Windows platforms, but
the intent is to populate your desktop with shortcuts to GlassFish
As installation finishes, the installer launches a web browser to display the web administrative interface of GlassFish.
the GlassFish V3 Prelude administrative console has been enhanced to
use the pkg(5) Java API, users have the option to manage their
installation image via this tool. Installed packages, available
updates and add-ons are all visible via this interface.
a result of installing GlassFish and installing the Update Tool GUI and
its companion desktop notifier through the pkg(5) Java Bootstrap
facility, the notifier senses that newer versions of the V3 packages
are available and displays a notification window on my desktop:
Clicking on this window launches the Update Tool GUI and enables me to review and apply those updates.
A couple of notes worth highlighting:
1) No More Download from Scratch: Each time the GlassFish project delivers a new build and publishes it to their development repository, the desktop notifier will make me aware of the updates. I don't have to go back to the download site and install an entirely new copy of the initial distribution. Additionally, as the development team adds new packages, I'll see those via both the Update Tool GUI and the built-in Update Tool feature of the V3 web administrative interface.
2) Notification Applies to Multiple Applications:
When I install other copies of GlassFish or other applications packaged
using pkg(5), the desktop notifier will automatically detect the
presence of updates for all of these application installation images
and display a desktop notification window whenever updates are
available. For example, once the WebSynergy enterprise portal offering
is released in pkg(5)-enabled form and I install it, I will also be
notified of any updates that are available to my installations of that
Here's a view of the filesystem directory structure of the installed application image. Remember, this layout is in the form of a pkg(5) User Image. All this means is that there is a control directory named .org.opensolaris,pkg/ at the root of the installation image and that much of the other content within the image was pre-installed at the factory in the form of pkg(5) packages. (The OpenSolaris reference only represents the community in which the core pkg(5) technology is developed; there's nothing OpenSolaris-specific about this installation of GlassFish). The V3 archive Julien integrated had the pkg(5) control directory and much of the other content already in place when he downloaded it from the GlassFish development project.
The pkg(5) Java Bootstrap facility was used by Julien's install application to dynamically install the content under the pkg/ and updatetool/ directories in the installation.
The Uninstaller/ directory contains the IzPack-based code to enable a user to completely remove the installation image.


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Students do work jobs in the classroom to increase their time on task.
Students also learn to follow 1-2 step directions while on the job site up to following and understanding 2-3 step tasks while on the job site and perform tasks independently. The classrooms work with students who must start and finish a staff given task through starting and finishing a task independently and initiating the next step after completion. Students must be able to train in the community ½ day (tolerate peers, supervisors, and patrons in the public setting) 2-3 days per week to being able to train in the community ½ day in the morning and ½ day in the afternoon (tolerate peers, supervisors, and patrons in the public setting) or 5 days per week with 1 full day training site.
Students work in the Dining Room at Kingsly Place.
Community Building Skills Classrooms also help students learn/demonstrate appropriate grooming and dress for the work place through demonstrating appropriate hygiene skills and dress for the job independently. Students also learn work in a 1:4 or 1:5 staff/student ratio while in class or the community up to working in a minimum of 1:6 staff/student ratio while in class or in the community.
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Developing. . .
A verdict has been reached in the fraud and corruption trial of former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen.
After a five week trial, jurors in Richmond have concluded deliberations as we await the complete reading of the verdict. The couple was proven guilty of one, two , three and five public corruption charges. Both the former governor and former first lady Mrs. McDonnell are guilty of count four. There are 11 counts of guilty for Mr. McDonnell and nine for Mrs. McDonnell.
The McDonnells were charged in a 14-count indictment (including conspiracy, bribery, and extortion) surrounding the alleged quid pro qou relationship with Jonnie Williams (owner of a Virginia based diet supplement company, Star Scientific). The couple was accused as accepting loans and gifts totaling approximately $117,000, in exchange for favors.
Five women and seven men deliberated for almost 18 hours since Tuesday, returning a verdict in a relatively short time after considering the testimonies of 67 witnesses and copious pages of written documentation.
This post will be updated as more counts are read.
Updated 6:55 EST. Sept. 4, 2014
Bob McDonnel became the first governor of Virginia to be charged and convicted of a crime today. The entire McDonnell family all had a deeply emotional reaction to the decision. Jeff Goldberg of WJLA News Channel 7 said the former governor was sobbing with his head in his hands when the verdict was read. The family cried almost uncontrollably while Maureen remained stoic, but also shed tears.
The verdict was unanimous.
As he left the court room, McDonnell had only this to say" "My Trust remains in the Lord." Telling reporters, "Thank you all for the way you've handled this. I really appreciate it."
The case revealed the dysfunction in the McDonnell household and details that tarnished the ex-governor's legacy.
Sentencing is scheduled to take place on Jan. 6, 2015. The McDonnell's attorney said, "We are very disappointed, but we are not deterred. This fight is are from over."


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Well, after reading the how-to and seeing what other people have done I took the leap. Bought Kydex and chicago screws from Knifekits.com and they showed up 3 days later. 1 sheet 12x24inches gave me, 3 .22LR mag carriers, S&W 22a holster, 3 USPc mag carriers and for fun flared mag well for S&W 22a plus mag base extensions.
All the mag carriers were cut to angle the mags about 18* backward.
I am aware that I used the shiny side of the kydex for the outside on the mag carriers. That was not a mistake, I chose that side to show. :smile:
The holster was also not pressed for the vacuum look. Just folded over and edged with a solid metal tool. Sanding is a pain in the butt, I did it all by hand. Only power tool used for the whole operation was a drill. Even cut the kydex with metal snips.
I have a new appreciation for what Comp-Tac delivers when you order a holster or mag carrier from them.
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A sexual act in which the male partner ejaculates over the face, chin, neck, shoulders and / or breasts of the female partner at climax. Frequently the result of a blow job or a titty-fuck. Named for the piece of jewelry and the similarity between it and the position / appearance of semen following ejaculation on these areas.
I gave Jen a pearl necklace last night.
Ucrylic가 작성 2010년 05월 20일 (목)
The art of blowing your load around someone's neck to simulate a pearl necklace.
Sanjaya loves his new fabulous pearl necklace.
Ryan_Seacrest가 작성 2007년 04월 25일 (수)
Descriptive of the glistening deposit on a female's upper chest immediately following the climax of a successful titwank.
See that slapper over there? I gave her a pearl necklace last night.
titwanker가 작성 2003년 04월 10일 (목)
A Pearl Neclace is when a guy squirts his jizz all over a girls neck and boobs. simulating the look of a pearl neclace.
Jon- "How did your date go with Amy last night, Mike?"
Mike- "It was awesome! I pulled out just in time to give her a nice pearl necklace!"
Mike- "It was awesome! I pulled out just in time to give her a nice pearl necklace!"
akisswheels가 작성 2009년 06월 07일 (일)
The act of cumming on a womans neck, after pulling out of her pussy, right at the moment of orgasm, or; a fitting finish to tit-fucking.
I fucked her tits until I was ready to cum really hard, then I gave her a pearl necklace, all over her neck.
shomesomethin가 작성 2010년 07월 13일 (화)
while recieving head the male withdraws his penis from the girls mouth and cum's across her neck, appearing like a pearl necklace.
he gave her a pearl necklace
dirtybird45가 작성 2009년 09월 11일 (금)
When a girl complains about you not gifting her with jewelry and the next time you have intercourse you pull out ole jimmy and bust a load right on her neck.when it runs it resembles a pearl necklace*
"Why thank you honey I can't wait to show my mom this pearl necklace."
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I just love your style sweetie <33 So bad ass :3
This is a lovely piece of work that shows the growth of your skills and how you can turn your hand towards different themes that you can approach with tones of energy and personality as you do with all your concepts. The idea is quite effective and the idea works well with the personality of the girl that you've created for the concept fits in beautifully to give the idea charisma while showing a strong sense of attitude. Your style of drawing is very well designed and you can certainly bring across a real sense of animation in the gesture that you've drawn for this character. Along with the graceful use of gradients and warm palette of tones to give that pop to the concept and personality of your girl.
Keep it up.
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Wow! That is unreal, thank goodness for a mother's intuition. Glad to hear he is on the mend, will keep you guys in my thoughts and prayers.
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Since Congress reached the new student loan deal last week, negative effects for graduate and professional students have emerged--and the worst consequences may affect the medical field.
According to the Washington Post, the federal government "will no longer pay the interest on new graduate loans while students are in school and for six months after they finish." In short, graduate and professional students are no longer eligible for subsidized loans. The Post reports that this will increase the amount such students must pay by $18 billion.
To make matters worse, the cost of graduate and professional education has risen dramatically in the past few years. Increased cost combined with a longer compound interest period will make graduate and professional school exponentially more expensive and discourage otherwise excellent candidates from attending.
This presents a particular problem for the medical field. The US has been facing a primary care physician shortage since at least 2003, when individual states and professional organizations began to express concerns about meeting increasing medical need in a variety of specialties. "Approximately 44,000 governmental public health jobs at the state and local levels, or 19% of the 2008 workforce, were lost between 2008 and 2010 due to the economic downturn," causing even greater need. After the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the consequent increase in insured patients, sources projected a physician shortage of 150,000 by the year 2025. With ACA's constitutionality newly affirmed, projections are sure to be revised, but will almost certainly remain large.
The medical school establishment has taken steps to address this looming shortage. However, federal funding for medical education, infrastructure, research, and residency positions continues to have a large effect on their success.
While ACA does provide additional funding for health care training, these resources were allocated when health care reform was initially passed in March 2010--well before the current student loan deal came under consideration. With the dramatic increase in the cost of medical education, it seems very likely that the provisions of the ACA will not be enough to stave off health care shortages, particularly in rural and underserved areas.
The American Medical Student Association (AMSA) recently called on Congress to protect Stafford loans for graduate and professional students, stating that "more than 86 percent of physicians-in-training rely on student loans to pay for medical school" and graduate with "an average debt of more than $160,000." However, since the final student loan deal does not protect subsidized Stafford loans for graduate and professional students, medical student debt seems certain to increase--and numbers of students willing and able to attend medical school seem certain to decrease.


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Homeschooling in Chicagos black neighborhoods should definitely be considered as a replacement for modern schooling.
Modern schooling in Chicago is mediocre, too expensive, violent, divisive, selfish and overall has been a failure to our youth.
Private schools don't cut it and neither do charter schools. Plus there are much deeper reasons why a black family should raise and educate their children in the home. Instead of outsourcing the childs education to someone else.
Home schooling is more affordable
1. Homeschooling is cheaper : You don't have pay taxes, pay thousands of dollars for a private school, can purchase more accurate books for a lower price. The reading material may also be more up to date and may fall more inline with what your child wants to learn.
Black children need their parents
2. Black children in Chicago spend way too much time away from invested adults : Many of our black children already spend too much time around peers and not enough time around adult family members, neighbors or adults in the community.
Violence decreases with homeschoolers
3. There's less violence : Your child is under your watchful eye nearly all day. So they don't have to worry about police, security guards, bullies, teasing, fights etc.You also don't have to worry about them picking up that behavior from others around them.
Chicago school closings
4. Too many Chicago school closings : Chicago has apparently set the record for the amount of school closures in the country. People in Chicago politics seem to be more worried about saving money than the actual education of children.
Private schooling?
5. Private schools are overrated and overpriced : Despite the incredible prices for private education. Private school graduates don't seem to be doing that much better than their public school counterparts once they either try college or the work force.
"I think it ultimately comes down to the individual," she said. "I think about what's gotten me to where I am now, and it has nothing to do with having gone to private school." from Ms. Jessica Assaf.
Less peer pressure
6. Children have a chance to discover themselves : No peer pressure and a flexible curriculum created by their parents gives them way more time and space to figure out what type of person they are.
From Familyeducation.com : Social Skills and Homeschooling: Myths and Facts
Better cooperation
7. People who are home schooled get along better : They got to know their parents better, have a better understanding of self, are more self assured and these more well rounded individuals have a better capacity to get along with other human beings.
Education not indoctrination
8. Children actually learn : Because there A. May not be a grading scale and B. The parent and child can agree on a curriculum for the child. The child may actually WANT to gain knowledge and use that knowledge to do something good for themselves and others. Where as centralized education(indoctrination) gets children trapped in a behavior of follow instructions and make the grade which encourages cheating and minimalism.
Learning is delight
9. Those same children actually learn : Children actually value true learning because they actually figure out what true learning is.
Also parents and children take different approach to homeshooling.
Homeschoolers have healthier socialization
10. Because they have a greater connection to their direct family members : They are more likely to form meaningful friendships and less likely to be in cliques or gangs.
Ward map of Chicago
11. Chicagos physical lay out may actually make homeschooling easier : Because of the different wards in Chicago. It might actually be easier for parents to educate their children as a community or neighborhood.
Black neighborhood
12. Logistics of Chicagos black population : Because so many of the black neighborhoods of Chicago are more spread out than the Northside or Downtown areas. It would be easier on black children to be home schooled instead of traveling halfway across the city through rough neighborhoods to get a completely mediocre education.


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I have two essays to write in the next two weeks for this degree I've managed to get myself jammed into sideways, and the computers at the university today are refusing to open any file that might help me research them. Fine. Just another one of the cute little frustrations of electronically-dominated twenty-first century academic life. (I don't have a computer at home, you see, so I can't go there and do the work instead.)
But who gives a crap. I have a few days yet. And I have so much reading to do, that should keep me busy (ie: away from anything important) until whatever's wrong with these computers is made right.
I was watching Paris, Texas last night. It's one of my favourite films. I first saw it in '84 or '85, the first time it was shown on tv; and as I watched it - does anybody remember the beautiful haunted loneliness of Harry Dean Stanton's Travis? - I thought how nice it would be, if only for a while, to go back to the way things were then. No internet. No mobile phones. If you wanted to talk to somebody you drove a hundred miles to the next phone booth or you waited until you saw them. In those days it was possible to be alone with yourself. The only way you can do that now is by expressing a dissenting opinion, which will lose you more friends than foot odour; but you'll still have to engage with the electronic public brain at some point.
The wags among you will no doubt say that I am fantasising on a computer about a life without computers. You're right. People don't publish much writing or poetry on paper anymore - particularly not mine - so what choice do I have? I'm a writer. But I do think we've lost something by plugging everybody into everybody else as we have in this cyber age (if we still call it that). The revolutionary potential of technological developments is huge, but the spirit needs the anonymity of the desert or the mountain sometimes. It's where all the best people have their visions.
Monday, November 28, 2011
Paris, Midlands
Posted by Bruce Hodder at Monday, November 28, 2011
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- peter marra said...
I have recently become nostalgic for the pre-internet age. I was reminiscing about he time i moved to the east village in 1980. I wnet to pick up my phone from the bell telephone store on 2nd ave. It was a shiny black rotary dial phone (I couldn't afford touch-tone). Best of all I had no answering machine. If I didn't pick up the phone I had no idea who was trying to reach me. Pure heaven.
- Bruce Hodder said...
It makes me laugh to see stuff that was new when I already felt old being sold in the shops as "retro".
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