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Heavy rain and strong winds invaded San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium on Saturday, February 19 creating a mud filled round seven Supercross event. Despite the conditions, American Honda Racing's Trey Canard put in a solid performance aboard his Honda CRF450R finishing second in his heat race before going on to finish one spot shy of the podium in fourth in the main event. Canard started quickly in the main and moved into the number two spot behind Reed on the opening lap. On lap three, Canard made a pass on Reed that stuck moving him into the lead. On lap six, however, Canard slipped in the wet, handing the lead back to Reed. Losing several spots in the fall, Canard retaliated working his way back up to second by lap 15 only to be tripped up in the mud the following lap. Relinquishing three spots this time, Canard kept chipping away right up to the checkers, regaining a spot to finish in fourth.
"I'm bummed yet happy all at the same time," said Canard. "I bummed because I really thought I was going to win the race tonight yet happy with my bike set-up and the way it handled tonight in the incredibly wet and slippery track conditions. It was definitely gnarly out there - big ruts and very slippery. I'm also pumped that I managed to get a great start and be among the top five rounding the first turn. I put myself in a good position from the start to be up front. My fourth place result doesn't really reflect how hard I worked tonight and how well I actually rode. But considering I fell twice, I'm happy with fourth."
After grabbing the holeshot, Reed rode a smart race out front, leading 17 of 20-laps aboard his CRF450R en route to capturing his first victory of the season for his TwoTwo Motorsports team. Reed's win was his sixth San Diego Supercross victory and he now takes over first on the all-time win list in San Diego, surpassing Supercross legend Jeremy McGrath's five win record.
"In the main I got the holeshot and put myself in the right position to take full advantage of my start," said Reed.
"I was riding a little tight, a little bit conservative, when Trey passed me. He showed me some decent lines to follow while out front and I took it from there once he went down. It was a shame that Trey crashed because it would have been great to see Honda go one-two on the podium tonight. Still, it's a great feeling to get this win; I'm proud to have pulled this victory off."
GEICO Honda's Kevin Windham had a tough night, colliding with another rider and suffering damage to his front brake caliper that knocked him out of the race.
In the Supercross Lites West competition, GEICO Honda's Eli Tomac took it to the top to score his first-ever Supercross Lites win after coming close on several occasions this season. Aboard his Honda CRF250R, Tomac nailed the holeshot and pulled away to a commanding lead early on. By lap five, the Supercross rookie had already begun to lap riders and by the race's end had established over a 10 second lead on the second place.
"I got a great start in the main," said Tomac. "I was able to pull a good gap over everyone during the first five laps and it wasn't long until I was lapping riders. The conditions were tough; it was slick out there and it was very much a one-line track. It feels amazing to get my first win and I hope to get many more wins in the future."
Teammate Jimmy DeCotis put in a solid performance aboard his GEICO Honda CRF250R scoring his best result of the season in fifth overall. Troy Lee Designs/Lucas Oils/Honda's Cole Seely was among the top contenders all night, and he finished just shy of the podium in fourth.
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Merry belated X-Mas and concerning giftsJournal Entry: Thu Dec 27, 2012, 9:11 AM
So first of all Merry Christmas everyone!!!! I'm sorry I'm late on saying it but I woke up really sick December 24th and honestly the 25th, Christmas, was the longest day of my life, even though I slept a lot, it seemed to go on forever! and then I had a fever that night which really sucked!!!
But I'm starting to feel better now =] and I'm sorry I didn't get to make all of my friends gifts but I wasn't able to and the ones I posted were already either completely done or the line art was ready to be colored. I'm gonna try to make gift sketches for all my friends!!
- Watching: Pewdiepie videos! He cheers me up!!
- Drinking: Water and tons of OJ!!!


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Dig out your flip flops, grass skirts, Hawaiian shirts and party hats and join us for an evening of great fun, light bites and music by Pam Valli Entertainment. The date to reserve is Saturday, Feb. 9 from 7 — 11 p.m. at Ocean Gaming in Hampton. Seats are limited and only $25 per person, so call now to reserve your spot — 642-3722. The in-house casino offering blackjack, poker, craps, roulette, etc. will be open as well as their cash bar. Head on down to 81 Ocean Blvd. There is free parking, and bring your friends.
Proceeds from the evening's fundraiser will support the students, horses and programs of Wings and Hooves Therapeutic Riding, Inc.; a 501 (c) 3 organization located in East Kingston, that provides therapeutic riding instruction and horsemanship activities to children and adults with disabilities. www.wingsandhooves.org.
Mike McDonald unleashes the funny at his 12th Annual Comedy Xxtravaganza Friday, Feb. 15, 8 p.m. at the Music Hall in Portsmouth.
Cuzin Richard Entertainment Associates will feature McDonald along with headline funny men Paul D'Angelo, Robbie Printz, and George Hamm.
Come watch McDonald and these comedy ninjas throw powerhouse punchlines right to your funnybone.
Tickets are $34-$37 and sell out every year. You can purchase your tickets either by visiting The Music Hall website (http://www.themusichall.org/calendar/event/mike_mcdonalds_comedy_xxtravaganza1/) or by calling the The Music Hall box office at 436-2400.
A portion of proceeds from McDonald's Comedy Xxtravaganza benefits The Green Alliance (http://www.greenalliance.biz/), and The Seacoast Food Pantry of New Hampshire (http://www.seacoastfamilyfoodpantry.org/).
Comedians at this year's Comedy Xxtravaganza include:
- Comedy Guru Mike McDonald has produced and starred in this annual event since it began in 2002. McDonald is two-time winner of television's Ace Award, and has appeared on HBO's Downtown Productions, Showtime, A&E's Comedy on the Road, Comic Strip Live, MTV's Half-hour Comedy Hour, and the Comedy Channel.
- Paul D'Angelo: The Los Angeles Times called comedian/writer/actor D'Angelo "quite likely the funniest entertainer you've never heard . .yet ." A former District Attorney in Suffolk County, D'Angelo gave up putting perps in jail and has been headlining A-List comedy clubs around the country for 20 years.
- Winner of the Boston Comedy Festival, Robbie Printz has been seen on Comedy Central, NBC, MTV, and A&E. The Improper Bostonian named Robbie Printz Boston's best Comedy Act.
- George Hamm the Wild Man has brought laughter from the Comedy Connection in Portland to the Improv in Los Angeles. Hamm has appeared on TV on The Dating Game and Bob Marley Comedy Festival.
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The Sixties are alive and well!
No, I don't mean that lovely musical era in the past where everyone was naked and everyone was partying. Well, the EDM craze is pretty much that, but that's beside the point. The Sixties I'm talking about is a rock band out of Lansdale, PA, and rest assured, they're not going back.
The Sixties, featuring CJ Morgan on vocals and guitar, Chris "Wags" Wagner on guitar and badass solos, and Chris Mehr on drums, don't sound like the sixties, but they do hail from a new era of rock that isn't afraid to dig down to their roots. For 2 years they labored to bring us their most recent album, "There It Isn't," and it was well worth the wait.
We had a chance to chat with the unproclaimed front-man of the band, CJ Morgan, to discuss The Sixties band, the sixties era, and another sixty or so things.
Patrick Emmel: The first thing that came to my mind about The Sixties was the decade, but you guys don't look like you've come close to being born in that era. You've probably got another twenty years before that. Why did you name the band The Sixties?
CJ Morgan: Obviously it was a huge decade for music, but we had a name that we all really liked, but we got served a "cease and desist" and we had to change the name. Changing the name of a band, and even just naming a band, had become my least favorite thing in the world, and we were literally on a conference call [going]: "How about this?" "No." How about that?" "No." I was trying to have my Grateful Dead moment where I was looking through a book for a word or phrase and I was looking through a "Best of Rolling Stone Magazine" interview book. Every other page was "the sixties this" and "the sixties that," so I said, "What about The Sixties?" And it was the first thing that everyone didn't go, "No, I hate it." So we latched onto it. The joke's become that, every time we play a show, I say we're a concept band and all of our songs are about people in the sixties.
Patrick: (Laughs) Well I guess it's better than playing up a joke about being a sixties cover band.
CJ: (Laughs) We'll play shows and no one the bill will be anything close to a cover band. It's all sorts of alternative rock bands from Philadelphia or wherever, and still someone will ask: "So you guys play sixties music?" And we're like: "Well, you're going to be disappointed…"
Patrick: (Laughs) Well, as far as musical stylings, I heard two songs I though may be leaning towards a sixties influence, but I heard a lot more seventies. But don't go changing the band's name again, you know, since you hate naming bands. I even heard a ghost of Stone Temple Pilots. How did you guys find yourself in this genre of music?
CJ: This band was about not paying attention or feeling pressured by any noise outside of our circle. Sometimes you feel pressure to write this way or that way, but we decided to just do what we want to do. If it turns some heads, cool! When we first started, we played that "Remote Control" song a lot and a local magazine wrote us up and compared us to "punk rock CCR [Creedence Clearwater Revival]." (Laughs) I guess that goes with what you were saying about the seventies but that stuck for a little longer than it probably had to. We ended up on flyers: "The punk rock CCR!" I don't even know what sort of image popped into people's heads when they saw that. It's really just about going for music that we would want to go home and listen to.
Patrick: You guys sound like you're having a lot of fun! The drums, there's hardly ever a time when they're not active. You've got guitar solos out the #ss… I don't know how you have the energy to get through a whole show, but I guess I'll have to see!
CJ: That may be another part of the equation, too. I feel like there's something to take away from so many different types of music, but some types of music have something that you can't quite sink your teeth into. We're in a world that's too cynical sometimes so maybe a band like Van Halen couldn't fly anymore with the theatrics and the over-the-top lead singer persona. But at the end of the day, the guitar solo is awesome! We don't have to be wearing spandex to do that!
As far as the album itself, this album just about figuring out who you are, looking at yourself in the mirror and not completely knowing how you got to where you are, taking ahold of your life and doing what you want to do. Probably very common themes to people in their mid to late twenties.
Patrick: You mentioned a music video earlier. What song?
CJ: We did a music video for "Jean Jacket."
Patrick: Will you be wearing a jean jacket?
CJ: (Laughs) Okay, I've had shouting matches with my dad. Maybe not so much shouting matches, rather my dad shouting at me because we'll write a song and end up naming it "Illuminati Biscotti" or "Jean Jacket" and he goes, "This is a pretty good song! And you go and name it some stupid thing!" I don't know why I do that.
The director for the video "Jean Jacket" used a jean jacket in the video to symbolize this thing and tie it all in, so the title "Jean Jacket" will have more of a meaning now than it did.
Patrick: Staying in line with the sixties being prevalent in The Sixties, the first song on your new album There It Isn't titled "Remote Control" has an interesting vibe to it. Almost like you're calling out the people of our generation that are trying to latch onto causes like the youth of the sixties did, but not really fully investing themselves into those causes. Is there any correlation between that idea and the song?
CJ: Yeah! When I had written the song, at least lyrically, I was wondering if anyone was going to catch on to that, and that's awesome that you were able to read into that. To be honest with you, if I'm talking to anybody, it might be myself more than anybody. When we had written the song, the Occupy movement was still going pretty strong. I know there was a ton [of people] that was really invested in that and were prepared to get hurt for it or die for it, but there was a bunch of kids who were kind of latching on to a trend. And you look back on people protesting Vietnam and things of that nature, you realize they were actually doing what we're trying to say we're doing now.
It's funny because, in college, probably like everybody, I had a really politically motivated edge. That was going to be my life: I was going to get into politics, I was going to go to law school, and you find out that too many people that go down that path just enjoy the sound of their own voice, and you end up being turned off by it when you see how things work. It's almost like the reality of House of Cards.
Patrick: Yeah! And they [Vietnam protesters] had to be in it because they couldn't just go on the internet and click "Like" on something…
CJ: Right. I'm not trying to separate myself from this at all. If anything, it's a conflict with myself. You rant and rave and you put up a Facebook post, but what are you actually doing?
Patrick: So how did you guys get the band together? Was it the normal story of childhood friends playing in garages and making a go of it, or was it something different?
CJ: Yeah, it's basically that story, only if you add some tenuous bulls#*t to it. With Chris Mehr, we've been doing this together since we were fifteen. Wags [Chris Wagner], Mehr, and I were all in a group [together] in college, and that kind of dissolved. To be honest with you, I was over it. I had my heart broken by this thing a couple times too many and I kind of put music in the rear view. Wags was the one that knew it wasn't done yet. He kept nudging me, "Come over and write." "Come over and write with me." "Come over and write." We finally got together and he showed me what he was working on. During the time that I had gotten a job and tried to play real life, he had just been playing guitar. The first time we sat down after hanging out together, we popped out "Warning Label," which is the last track of our record here [There It Isn't] and it became a, "Yeah, here we go again" kind of deal.
Patrick: So now the album is out. Are you guys jumping right into a tour, or what?
CJ: That's the next step. A lot of our energy went into getting this record out and building some excitement for the record. We're looking to tour in the next few months for sure.
Patrick: Will there be at least a record release party in Philly?
CJ: Yeah, absolutely. We have a really great local scene where we come from, a town called Landsdale outside of Philadelphia, so we're having a release show here. It's where we come from, it's where we love to play. Then, not even two weeks later, we're going to do a show in Center City, Philadelphia. Then the next step is touring.
Patrick Emmel was not born in the sixties, either. You can see more of his work at The Inept Owl or heckle him on Twitter @Patrick_AE.
Patrick previously strummed some conversational chords with Max Collins and said anything in New Strings Attached: Max Bemis.


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A fiery crash killed two people Sunday morning on the city's Southeast side.
Police said three cars collided on East 106th Street around 2 a.m. At least one care was completely engulfed in flames.
The two victims are believed to be males in their 20s, according to officials. Their identities have not been released.
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Reading the Wall Street Journal today, an article on the 3rd page caught my eye. Apparently, Bank of America has gotten into the business of home invasions and parrot-napping (NY Daily News).
Angela Iannelli, a 46 year old from the Pittsburgh area, came home to find her door padlocked, her house ransacked, and her 11-year old parrot – Luke – missing. A Bank of America employeed royally screwed up, believed her property to be vacant (it wasn't, nor was she behind on her payments), and sent a contractor over to install a new lock and "secure" the property. I guess in Pittsburgh, the method of securing a property is to cut the power and water, cut electrical lines inside the house, damage floors, damage furniture, pour anti-freeze into the toilets, and take animals. Maybe the contractor should be lucky it was caught after the fact, because there is a good chance that somebody might have gotten shot.
When Ms. Ianelli returned home, you can imagine what went through her mind. The biggest thing to her was that her parrot was missing. She claims to have stayed with friends until he was returned.
Bad enough that the bank goofed, even worse was the lack of response or helpfulness from the bank when she called. They denied knowing where he parrot was, then eventually was told she could drive the 80 miles to the contractor's office and retrieve Luke herself.
Needless to say, she is suing the bank for more than $50,000, and she rightfully should. If I had been her, I would've wanted to make sure that I received enough to repair all of the damage, pay my lawyer, give myself a little, and, most importantly, had them wipe away my mortgage. Why? Just as we are judged by trustworthiness by the bank (i.e. credit score), we need to have trust in the bank too. Just because they hold the lien doesn't give them to right to waltz in and out whenever they please, especially when it involves damaging the property.
The bank issued an apology this week after the lawsuit went public. Too little, too late. I'm rooting for you, Ms. Iannelli. Did I mention I have a Bank of America mortgage too?


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Welcome to the Birds of North America Online!
Welcome to BNA Online, the leading source of life history information for North American breeding birds. This free, courtesy preview is just the first of 14 articles that provide detailed life history information including Distribution, Migration, Habitat, Food Habits, Sounds, Behavior and Breeding. Written by acknowledged experts on each species, there is also a comprehensive bibliography of published research on the species.
A subscription is needed to access the remaining articles for this and any other species. Subscription rates start as low as $5 USD for 30 days of complete access to the resource. To subscribe, please visit the Cornell Lab of Ornithology E-Store.
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Often described as "tiny," "dainty," or "delicate," the Northern Parula (pronounced PAR-a-la or PAR-ya-la) is one of North America's smallest wood-warblers. Originally named Finch Creeper by Mark Catesby and Blue Yellow Back Warbler by J. J. Audubon and Alexander Wilson, this handsome blue-gray, yellow, and white bird can be found breeding throughout the eastern half of the United States and in southern Canada from Manitoba to the Maritime Provinces. It winters primarily in eastern Mexico and on islands of the West Indies.
An active bird of the mid- and upper tree canopy, where it gleans for insects and spiders, the Northern Parula ("little titmouse") seems to prefer riparian vegetation. In the northern part of its breeding range, it is found in moist deciduous, coniferous, or mixed woodlands where it builds its nest in beard moss (Usnea lichen). Southern populations nest in the pendulous Spanish moss (Tillandsia) which is abundant in hardwood bottomlands along rivers and swamps. Other nesting sites and materials are used where neither lichen nor moss are found.
Breeding males sing two types of primary songs: Type A is an ascending trill with a separated terminal note; Type B consists of a series of buzzy notes. Intriguing patterns of covariation in the Type A song and morphology suggest possible divergence into eastern and western populations of this species.
Key studies of this species have focused on habitat and song. Gaps in our knowledge of the Northern Parula lie in migration and wintering ecology, as well as in population dynamics.
Moldenhauer, Ralph R. and Daniel J. Regelski. 2012. Northern Parula (Setophaga americana), The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Retrieved from the Birds of North America Online: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/215


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Equal Protection
Equal Protection Introduction
In a Nutshell
The Fourteenth Amendment guarantees that "no state shall . . . deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." Added to the Constitution in 1868, this "equal protection clause" was aimed primarily at protecting the recently freed slaves against southern governments that had stripped the freedmen of their political and legal rights. The courts, however, have interpreted this clause, with its more inclusive reference to "any person," as providing a basic protection for all persons, not just African Americans.
In order to honor both the primary intent of the amendment, and its more inclusive language, the courts have developed a tiered approach to its application. Laws employing racial classifications (i.e. laws that treat white and black people differently) are considered inherently suspect and subject to "strict scrutiny" by the courts. Laws that incorporate other forms of classifications, such as age or income level, are subject to a lower standard; states must prove only that the use of these classifications is reasonable. In recent decades, the Court introduced an "intermediate" standard for assessing laws incorporating gender classifications. Laws that treat men and women differently must serve "important governmental objectives" and states must prove that the dissimilar treatment of men and women is "substantially related to achievement of those objectives."1
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Equality is one of America's most fundamental principles. But before 1868, nothing close to this word or concept was contained in the Constitution. We have come to rely on the courts to ensure that we are treated equally. But before 1868, there was nothing in the Constitution upon which the courts could draw to protect our claims.The ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868, with its guarantee that "no state shall . . . deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws," made "equality" a constitutional principle. And it provided the federal government, and the federal courts in particular, with the constitutional tool needed to ensure that Americans were treated equally.
But the framing of this amendment placed severe limitations on the federal government in pursuing and ensuring equality. First, it empowered the government to act only to protect persons against unequal treatment by the states; it provided no basis for intervention in acts of private discrimination. Second, while the amendment extended its protection to "any person," its primary purpose was to protect the recently freed slaves against abusive southern state governments.
The first limitation has proven a particularly tough obstacle for the courts; a great of deal of private discrimination remains beyond the authority of the courts to address. But the courts have developed a more effective strategy for addressing the second limitation imposed by the Fourteenth Amendment. Operating from the premise that, in addition to African Americans, others—the elderly, immigrants, women, gays and lesbians—are entitled to and need legal protection, the courts have developed a tiered approach to enforcement of the equal protection clause. Within this tiered approach, different standards are used to evaluate different types of discrimination.
This tiered approach is complex, and it has plenty of critics. Many argue that there is something fundamentally wrong about an "unequal" application of the equal protection clause. But others argue that American history and society are complex, and they require a complex approach to equality. Moreover, defenders of the court insist that this tiered approach is the only way to reconcile the Fourteenth Amendment's inclusive language with the amendment's primary purpose of protecting the recently freed slaves.
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Self-reliance and sustainability in the 21st century.
By Jennifer Kongs
food system, calories, obesity
This awesome infographic (below) displays the changes in the amount of available food produced by our food system on a per capita basis since 1970. As can be expected, there is an excess of available calories, one that has grown rapidly since the 1990s. These numbers come from data compiled by the Economic Research Service (ERS), a little-talked-of department within the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Charged with researching and compiling economic data that is used to direct agricultural policy, the ERS has a hand in nearly all aspects of our food system, from ensuring a competitive agricultural system to working to maintain a harmonious balance between agriculture and the environment.
Another area the ERS works in heavily is health and nutrition. One measure, the amount of crops and animals produced on a farm that is sent out to become food — known as the farm gate weights and quantities — is used to estimate the level of production and efficiency on farms. These numbers are later translated into loss-adjusted food availability data, which is the amount of food available after accounting for spoilage, waste and other "losses" through food processing, storage and preparation. As documented by Civil Eats, "By calculating such food losses, the USDA data closely approximates the amount of food that actually makes its way from the farm into the average American stomach."
Judging from the numbers presented below, the biggest growth has occurred in the number of available added fats and grains. The total number of daily available calories has jumped more than 500 calories over the last 40 years, resulting in a daily availability of 2,673 calories per person by 2008. Considering our lives have also become more sedentary over the years, and that most people are supposed to eat between 1,800 and 2,200 calories a day, is it possible that the sheer extra number of calories produced by our food system could be partly responsible for the extra number of inches being tacked on to our waistlines? Is it possible that, by directing subsidies to the production of commodity crops used to produce grains and oils, our current agricultural policy is contributing to the obesity epidemic?
This infographic, created by Andrea Jezovit, is part of an ongoing partnership between Civil Eats and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism News21 course on food reporting.
Jennifer Kongs is the Managing Editor at MOTHER EARTH NEWS magazine. When she's not working at the magazine, she's likely working in her garden, on the local running trails or in her kitchen instead. You can find Jennifer on Twitter or Google+.
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Employer's Agent / Contract Administrator
- Professional service used commonly on Design & Build contracts
- Can include contract administration and project management roles
- Dependent on specific employer's requirements
- Define requirements and extent of Employer's Agent's authority
- Numerous successful projects as Employer's Agent
Bruce Shaw provides an Employer's Agent/Contract Administrator professional service, most commonly used on Design & Build Contracts. The nature of the role is dependent upon the specific Employer's requirements and can be limited to the administration of the contract – issuing instructions and Payment Certificates, and adjudicating claims – or can also include a more comprehensive Project Management responsibility.
This would involve development of the employer's requirements, consultant appointments, procurement of the works, and management of the works on site through to practical completion.
Bruce Shaw has the depth of experience to ensure both Employer and the Employer's Agent fully understand the need to define the project requirements, and the extent of authority afforded to the Employers Agent. An omission could leave the Employer open to a claim by the Contractor.


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Winefix - improved desktop integration for Wine
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The Scarlet Ibis
by James Hurst
Guide Mentor
Character Role Analysis
When Doodle is alive, Brother is his guide. He teaches him to walk, and shows him the most beautiful spots around. He tries to teach him everything he knows to start school. Sadly, Brother stops guiding him at the moment he needs him most.


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the multi haunt
Is is better to have a haunt broken into smaller themed ones or one continuous one? Or is there no difference just preference?
Allen H
Both have merits. I like a park with several 10 to 15 min attractions several different themes that are well explored. One large attraction does well also but the pacing must be closely monitored to keep the energy up.
Allen H
Its best in my opinion to have multiple haunts. WHY, its the only way you can get alot of patrons through. If you have one house, the lines of people go on forever and some might wait an hour or two but other people will just leave. If your looking to get the most numbers possible through your attraction. It a must to go multiple...
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What's a good size limit then 5k sqft?
How do you claim having multiple haunts if their all stacked back to back to back? Largest haunt in my area claims 4 haunted houses and 2 wooded trails. One trail is a path with not much on it and I dunno where the other one is???
scary bill
We have a haunted train ride and I am looking for other things. Does anybody think something like a paintgun shooting gallery( shooting at Zombie picture targets) would go over ? Also, what is included in a pitch black haunt, are they any good. Thanks for the help.
scary bill
Its my opinion that multiple haunt could be concieved as better value. You get 4 smaller for X dollars, where a larger one would be same length, but cost more.
I prefer the large scale haunted house with multiple themes within; it's like 5 smaller haunted houses but the [mood] doesn't get broke. Going in and out of multiple attractions seems to diminish the overall anticipation by being able to catch your breath. There's nothing like that 'initial' adrenaline of waiting to enter the attraction for the first time. I don't think you really ever get that 'initial' feeling back again to the same level having to jump back in line 3-5 times. My customers enjoy a full 23-26 minute uninterrupted experience; never really getting the chance to re-group themselves and gain an awareness of reality. However, well-trained actors and casting directors are vital for good patron flow.
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We have a haunted train ride and I am looking for other things. Does anybody think something like a paintgun shooting gallery( shooting at Zombie picture targets) would go over ? Also, what is included in a pitch black haunt, are they any good. Thanks for the help.
There is a trick to the paintball game, where the people shoot from needs to be booths, the whole front of a room or stalls like a regular shooting range with carpet and sound deadening materials, other wise neighbors might not like the sound of war. I have seen pnuematic zombies and light effects, things that jiggle and move to shoot at that seemed to garner quite the attention of passers by. It becomes an opportunity to check out how paint ball guns work for those that don't have them or are curious and so it does sell well. The guns and C02 recharging station get a little pricy and you can easily get $2500 wrapped up in outfitting such a thing and up. They usually charge as much as $5 for a load of how ever many balls fit in the little hopper. So you are talking 500 shooters to break even. This might be only 10% to 15% of the actual event willing to spend a little more. Or it has to do with the type of customers, usually older teenagers that can then scratch shooting paint balls off of thier bucket list.
Pitch black haunts or mazes tend to be maybe 20 by 30 open rooms with actor employing night vision goggles. There might be furry textures on the wall, people in black half standing in the way and moving to do it again. Or it might be a walled maze that one has to feel their way through. Ususally it doesn't require adding yucky stuff to the walls as the patrons provide all of that. It is usually a $3 seperate attraction and can be a pole barn covered in tar paper to keep out the light from all the other attractions or more elaborate than that. Too big and it is frustration. Some patrons just get in the middle and scream for no reason for long periods of time calling for help. They lock up unwilling to move unlss assisted. I have had as much as maybe 20 linear feet inside a haunt intended to be dark and come to find someone put lights in there because people couldn't see where they were going. Duh. What ever.
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My personal preference is multiple, smaller haunts. This provides more variety and perceived value in my opinion. It also gets you out of a haunt that just doesn't cut it for you a little sooner and into another haunt theme that is more satisfying depending on individual tastes. When checking haunts for sale, one thing stood out with haunts redesigned by folks like Leonard Pickel. A 10,000 sq. ft. haunt might be broken down into two 5,000 sq. ft. haunts. This allows the haunter to change out the theme or reconfigure the smaller haunt with less drama than trying to overhaul a huge haunt. Don't get me wrong, huge haunts in the 20,000 or 50,000 sq. ft. range are great but theme changes take mega amounts of time and money if doing the whole place one season after another. The perceived value of multiple attractions comes off a little better in the minds of your customers. They feel that they're getting a better deal. Ultimately, the thing that makes your haunt truly stand out, regardless of size, is detail, your actors along with many other factors. It's really up to you and what works best in your demographic. My advice is to do multiple, smaller haunts and keep tabs on the reactions to each. This will help you plan future haunts that will best serve your customer base. But that's just my humble opinion....
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There are simply more guys than girls here. It is what it is. To be blunt, it's largely a tech school. There are a lot of relatively unkempt guys walking around in big hooded sweatshirts and baggy cargo pants or jeans, but this look also attests to the work ethic of Drexel students. However, that's more stereotypical of the University as a tech school. Guys that major in business and arts/sciences (even health, occasionally) will have a bit more style than average and generally a more "put-together" aesthetic. With the ratio of guys to girls, as well as the variety of majors at Drexel, the attractive girls are spread over curricula. This differs from guys, who are mostly split between "geeky" in computer science and engineering and "smooth" in arts/social science programs. "Bros" are kept to a minimum, as well. Drexel is a serious melting pot—students can find anything here.
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Eh, not really thrilled with this at all. DVerse wanted a food poem, and I realized that almost all the good food stories I have are already worked into poems; not many options! The situation behind this poem would be better suited to another poem, and the food is not really the centerpiece. But I guess it will kind of suffice? It remains the first and only time that decorum demanded I try foie gras. It was delicious; never again.
You should be in my film, the empress says,
holding court around the dining room table. She is still
formidable in her eighties: she squeezes my hand
with her own, and her rings flash in the light.
Skeletons and mannequins occupy the parlor,
and night birds flap through the evening as it breathes.
And I start thinking too much about the future
at the same time that I think too much about the past.
We are all speaking in hushed tones, sitting in
highbacked chairs. Someone is passing a baguette
for the foie gras that sits like a severed cat's tongue,
grape jelly for its sorry blood. The empress smiles.
I am too polite for my own good; I make polite
decisions, feel the doors of what my life could be
opening and closing. You should be in my film;
but the night birds are singing, go home, go home.
Say nothing, and the empress' attention wanders.
The future grows narrow, thinning like a pink taste
in the mouth. Another day begins to ferment
underneath us. My bags have already been packed.
A Man is Screaming in Sheridan Square
This one creeps me out a bit. Not sure at all where it came from, except that Khara House (who is beginning a lovely series of prompts) issued a rhyme challenge, and my brain hopped to "villanelle". (Dammit, brain.) I wish I could say the subject matter was an uncommon occurrence round these parts.
I've been having a peculiar time. There's a Long Poem with capital letters unrolling in my mind lately, as well as the beginnings of another idea of one, and I hardly have any room for anything else, it feels like. I'm trying to set myself a chunk of writing on it every day until it's done, because all my ideas are getting funneled into it like a whirlpool. That's how it goes, I suppose.
A Man is Screaming in Sheridan Square
A man is screaming in Sheridan Square.
He sits on a rotted bench facing west;
he's tearing his shirt and pulling his hair.
After the dangling moon, this is where
the forgotten folk are denied their rest
by a man screaming in Sheridan Square.
The thin white statues stand fast, with a glare
for disturbers of peace: they can attest
he's tearing his shirt; he's pulling his hair.
Sea urchin shadows ply the humid air.
Queens of night stroll by in their summer best.
A man is screaming in Sheridan Square.
He's unstoried in his tuneless despair.
Words fracture to ash, burrow from his chest,
tearing up his shirt, pulling out the hair.
Later they'll tell it, pretending to care,
brows knit, mouths downturned. It will be confessed:
a man was screaming in Sheridan Square–
was tearing his shirt– had pulled all his hair–
Sparrow Chasing Butterfly
I saw this on 32nd Street the other day; it was several frenzied seconds of an unexpected hunt. (Damn. I should've used that line in here somewhere.) A few other passerby and I just watched while the whole drama unfolded like a special on Animal Planet. Sometimes we forget the birds are dinosaurs; sometimes we are viciously reminded.
I'm glad I got to use "plectra" and "pterosaur" in this one. I wish I could have come up with some play on words for "chirality" (pterality?), but that would've just been going too far. Woo hoo!
Sparrow Chasing Butterfly
took a hunger-born instinct with key teeth
and twisted it in the door of chaos:
what else can you call
the crazy-straw-swoop of this midair helix
they're coiling over the hoods of bakery
delivery trucks and flat-nosed buses,
between pin branches
and across the surfaces of puddles
brown in the earthbound afternoon:
you are watching
chemical reactions and the thrill
of stimulus– response–
the pterosaur coming at last to rest,
huddled on a scrap of tire, with two small
plectra of buttered silk caught in its beak
and a jealous, defiant eye
that is a black bead taking in the light,
rolling it into something wet and
daring it back at you
Two publication newses! First, the newest issue of Assaracus is available at the Sibling Rivalry Press bookstore for purchase… I have eleven poems in there (!), and I'm very happy to be part of such an excellent journal. Check it out; there are lots of fine poets in its pages. The other news is that the latest issue of Goblin Fruit is now live, and I have a piece in there (an oldie but a goodie), which you can hear me read. I'm at work now, so I must be brief, and can't listen to the audio file right now; you'll have to tell me how it is. Yipes.
This one is from the Poetic Asides prompt yesterday of a "spooky poem"… I was thinking of vaguely creepy folklore about banshees and empty places and the like. It's a secret sonnet, as I am wont to do, but really I'm feeling "meh" about it. I don't know, maybe the prompt didn't tickle me like I'd hoped. Anyway, here it is.
been here three years (or thereabouts).
i came to see the emerald isle in autumn, thinking rain,
rain, all along the valley floors
and guttered streets. and hiking, on the hillocks
where the sky and land were all the same, this endless
dun-dark green. someone was singing
airs along the scarps: ballades of wars, lost loves,
demises. full as silk, then shrill as steam,
her voice was dolmen-echo, barrow-lure.
i clambered up to find her, balanced on the rocks;
cried out, your songs are beautiful. she thanked me, said,
i can get carried away, with my laments. i asked,
what shall you sing to me?
she sighed, they're all for you.
Ramsey Black Rocks
Poetic Asides asked today for a poem involving a sea creature, and for no particular reason, the first thing I thought of were selkies. If you haven't seen The Secret of Roan Inish, I recommend you do so post haste, but if you can't, then reading up on selkies via Wikipedia or wherever will do if you're unfamiliar with them. When I was young, I went on a boat trip with my family off the coast of Wales, where we saw seals on the rocks in the midst of a rainy day. (I got to drive the boat for a little bit too, but the seals blinking at us with what I imagine was amusement left more of an impression, obviously.)
This is like… half a ballad. I was trying to visualize (audialize?) Loreena McKennitt singing it as I wrote.
Ramsey Black Rocks
When the boat set out from Little England,
there was commotion in the sea. White on white
was the summer water, over a bay as brown
as tea. Crystalline rain ringed the prow, the keel,
and the whole world a blind blue-grey,
as the captain called the seals.
We rose and fell with the unfriendly tides
battering our land-selves to sleep. And we dreamed
we walked on the ocean, whose heart was beating
so deep. Then the rocks rose up, the captain
turned the wheel: we slipped the blades of old
dark daggers, full of silent seals.
They'd had a morning haul-out on the heath,
until the sun rippled away. Now they peered at us,
and we peered back, to see the hummocks where
they lay. We envied a thousand inkbirds
sharing their fishy meal: we longed for wings,
long red beaks, the company of seals.
And soon, the captain brought us about,
his seabound trick completed. The whirlpools, then,
the Horse Rock tides: the white on white,
repeated. A prodigal sun reclaimed its day,
dyed the dun sky teal. And long black commas
arrowed the waves like vanishing seals.
I heard a tale once, a long time past,
of wives who cast off their skins. I could believe
in longing now, in a stormbound life
without sins. Beached again, we looked back for
mysteries to steal: when land wishes for drowning,
with closed eyes, it sees the seals.
small stone: july 29
Teal-and-scarlet ball of used
chewing gum, perfectly spherical and
sitting on the sidewalk, covered in
small black ants, who mottle its surface
into a chitinous globe, madly
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I'm into sourthern Chinese boxing like Jeet Kwan Do and Wing Chun for practical application and Drunken Fist as a show sport.
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I was a green belt but I joined another program and now I'm a no belt...
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Basically everything in Avatar the Last Airbender. Can't remember what type the earthbenders did though.
But anyhow, there ya go!
"Those who find themselves in hell will be chastised by the scourge of love. How cruel and bitter this torment of love will be! ... the sorrow which takes hold of the heart, which has sinned against love, is more piercing than any other pain." (St. Isaac the Syrian)
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I'm really interested in BaGua Zhang, I really want to learn that style. But, there's not anyone in my area...or state that gives classes for it. I've been trying to study from books but that can only do so much, y'know?
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I'd like to get back into it. Unfortunately I started smoking and eating unhealthily after I broke my arm, so I'll have to get my fitness back before I can do anything.
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I did Wing Chun between 2003 - 2008. From 2008 - 2009 I did boxing, Judo, and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. I had to stop after my arm was broken in an arm-bar which I didn't tap out of.
I'd like to get back into it. Unfortunately I started smoking and eating unhealthily after I broke my arm, so I'll have to get my fitness back before I can do anything.
After I watched Ip Man (movie) and learned about Chi Sao, I've been really interested in Wing Chun. How was it? Did it seem effective? Give any opinions on it, please. And what about Brazilian Ju Jitsu- I've heard that it's an extremely effective martial art.
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I'm really interested in learning wing chun tho, mostly because I really need to work on my hands, plus Ip Man was super cool ahaha. Might I recommend reading a manga called "Kenji"? It covers a lot of different martial arts, mostly focusing on Chinese ones but still talks about Japanese ones too, you can actually learn the basics of lots of styles from it!
Good luck on your grading! Ossu!
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> I live in Canada and thus very interested in the weather. I like to have
> the weather icon on the panel. I'm not interested in having it in imperial
> units. Unfortunately, either I have this in Fahrenheit or I have my page
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> I fixed this. I made a small change to kweather so it always reports in
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I thought that default in Canada was metric units when using LC_ALL=en_CA.
One problem I have with metric units in kweather is the wind speed, KM/H don't
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M/S which is the way we have wind speeds here in Scandinavia.
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USA, 2009, 90 Minute Running Time
Additional Countries: Japan
Genre/Subjects: Colorado, Documentary, Experimental, Social IssuesLanguage: Japanese, English English Sub-Titles
MUST END Thursday, June 10!
Digital presentation - Imagine cramming 128 million people onto an island the size of Montana – you would be pretty close to replicating the density of Japan. Not surprisingly, space is at a premium and ergonomic design is right up there next to godliness.
Yet even in Tokyo, the pinnacle of this figurative "can of sardines," people of all ages still make room for a tiny bit of wilderness. It is only fitting that they have become captivated by nature's most efficient invention in space, design and function – insects.
Sold live in vending machines and department stores, plastic replicas included as prizes in the equivalent of a McDonald's Happy Meal and the subject of the No. 1 videogame, MushiKing, from the smallest backyard to the top of Mt. Fuji, insects inspire an enthusiasm in Japan seen nowhere else in this world. Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo discovers why Japan developed this rich and enriching social relationship with insects.
Like a detective story, the film untangles the web of influences behind Japan's captivation with insects. It opens in modern-day Tokyo where a single beetle recently sold for $90,000 then slips back to the early 1800s, to the first cricket-selling business and the development of haiku and other forms of insect literature and art. Through history and adventure, Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo travels all the way back in time to stories of the fabled first emperor who named Japan the "Isle of the Dragonflies."
Along the way the film takes side trips to Zen temples and Buddhist Shrines, nature preserves and art museums in its quest for the inspirations that moved Japan into this fascination while other cultures hurtled off towards an almost universal and profound fear of insects.
Interspersed with the philosophies of one of Japan's best-selling authors and anatomists, Dr. Takeshi Yoro, and laced with poetry and art from Japan's history, this film becomes about much more than insects. Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo is set to the rhythm of traditional Japanese values in its attention to detail, harmony, and the appreciation of the seemingly mundane. It quietly challenges the viewer to observe the world from an uncommon perspective that will shift the familiar to the fantastic and just might change not only the way we think about bugs, but the way we think about life.
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We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with. Letter to Olivia Shakespeare, 1936
William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
Source: The Letters of W. B. Yeats Letter to Olivia Shakespeare, 1936
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If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.
Source: The Letters of W. B. Yeats
Irish poets, learn your trade, Sing whatever is well made.
Source: Last Poems, 1936–1939, under ben bulben, V
No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.
W.H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.
Source: Collected Poems
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
I cannot accept the doctrine that in poetry there is a "suspension of belief." A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.
The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.
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The men's team has the player of the year, senior Keith Bowman, while the Oaks' first-place women's team claimed player of the year (Jolise Limcaco), two first-team all-conference picks (sophomore guard Vanessa D'Amico and junior forward Laurel Donnenwirth), defender of the year (Donnwirth), coach of the year (Shannon Osborne) and a second-team all-league choice (freshman guard Aaliyah Sowards).
Bowman, a 6-7 forward, was second in the conference in scoring (18.5 poitns per game) and second in rebounding (9.2). The Santa Maria native was a first-team all-conference pick a year ago.
Limcaco repeated as the women's player of the year after the 14th-ranked Oaks to a 12-0 run through the conference schedule. She averaged 15.5 points, 1.93 steals and a conference-best 5.93 assists per game. Her 166 total assists ranks the junior guard sixth nationally. She averages 2.4 assists per turnover, 11th-best in the country.
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I hope everyone had a very merry Christmas! My Christmas
season is lasting longer than anticipated with 3 celebrations under my belt,
another one for today, and two more this upcoming week. I guess that's what
happens when you haven't seen ANYONE in four months. I'm not complaining!
Just about everyone I've seen has asked me how it feels to
be back. I answer the same way every time… "It's good to be home. I miss Perugia.
And strangely, it all feels like a dream." And it's all true. I love being
home and seeing everyone and enjoying the little comforts of America. I miss my
roommates, my Italian friends, and the city of Perugia. And strangely, it feels
like it never really happened. Part of me feels like I never left here. It's
like I have all these memories floating around in my mind that might have well
been what I've been dreaming about for the past four months.
However, when I look at a picture, or retell a story in full
detail, my mind is reminded that I did in fact do these things, I did in fact grow
bonds with these people, and I did in fact live in Italy for four months. I
want my memories and experiences to stay dear to me forever and I don't want
them to become a blur of "did I really do that?"
While I won't always be able to tell these stories around
friends and family here, I will always be able to talk about them with my
roommates. The bond I have with my Italian roommates is something I'm not ever
going to give up And even though they are scattered about the United States, I know that with a little bit of effort from all of us, we can stay close for many years down the road.
First off, I would like to apologize for not writing sooner,
but things have been crazy lately!
Last Thursday was my last day in Perugia. I wasn't more
specific earlier because I was trying to surprise my fiancé by coming home earlier
than he expected. For my last day, I ate a panino, walked around Perugia with a
gelato, attended the Umbra farewell appertivo, and then went to Pizza E Musica
for a later dinner. The entire day I was in denial, and continue to be so. It
hasn't hit me that I'm not going back there. It feels like I'm on one of my
weekend trips.
Thursday night at 1am, Umbra shipped us down to Rome on
buses. We arrived at the airport by 3:30 am and my flight wasn't until 9:45. At
this point I had been awake since the following morning, but I wasn't tired and
could not sleep at the airport. I spent time talking with friends and staying
in denial.
Around 8 I said goodbye to everyone and went through
security to my gate. When I said goodbye it didn't really feel like I was. I
know I'm going to see my roommates again, I'm just going to have to realize
that it isn't going to be for a while.
The flight was fine, long but fine. I slept for about 3
hours, but of course it wasn't anything solid. I sat next to a woman who had
studied in Peruiga many years back and now lives between Italy and New York
City. Sounds like a nice deal. During the flight I was served a horrible,
microwaved cheese and chicken sandwich. At that moment, I knew that I would
never have my amazing Italian panino, made by my favorite panino man, again. I
think that was the first moment that I realized that I was leaving.
Clearing customs was easy, but dragging my 70 and 60 pound
suitcases wasn't. Help wasn't far beyond
the gates though. My mom and stepdad was there and it was so great to see them!
Especially since they had Reeses peanut butter cups for me.
With every step I took outside that plane, I felt more and
more like I was in America. Everything was written English, people were
speaking a language that I fully understood, and when I got to the streets,
people were stopping at stop signs!
I somewhat successfully surprised my fiancé back at the
house. He has an inkling that I was coming home since he hadn't heard from me
in about 2 days and someone somewhat slipped at the bar the night before about
my returning.
Since I've been in America, I've seen most of my friends and
family of course, but have also done many other home-in-America things. I've
driven a car…quite slowly and cautiously. I've taken a hot shower and dried
with a clean fluffy towel. I've washed and dried my clothes in machines. I
slept in a big, supportive bed at the same time as the heat being on. I've
eaten Subway, two times. I've watched basketball and football with English
commentary on an obnoxiously big screen TV. I've been to a supermarket and
Walmart. And the list can go on and on…
As I've already said, it really hasn't hit me that I've left
Perugia and am back in the "real world." I'm very happy though to have returned
for the holiday season. I feel sorry for those who are still stuck in Europe
because of the snowstorm and airline holiday strikes. I'm really sorry I put in
that order for snow so soon.
I wish everyone very happy holidays! I'll continue to blog
about my "re-entry" experiences. I'm sure there are still good stories to come!
First things first, there was just a small earthquake in Perugia! But I'm fine and everything's normal.
Although the city may have just escaped crumbling to its very core, I have not. My entire body knows that something is coming and I've felt sick to my stomach for days now. My roommates are experiencing the same things. We're trying to keep our minds preoccupied with cooking meals and studying for finals, but we can't help but think about how we have to leave each other in only a few days.The tears have already started flowing.
It's hard to explain this all to people back home who take it as us not missing them. That isn't the case. I miss my fiance, family, friends, and home more than people understand, but I know that I'm leaving behind more here. Four months ago when I left home, I knew I would be returning to the US. But now I'm leaving Perugia and not knowing when I'll be back or if I'll ever see these people again.
It's all so bittersweet.
It's been a long few days. I just finished up my last class, have finished all my papers and projects, and have already started the emotional rollercoaster of ending the semester abroad. At this point, I have 4 finals left. It's almost over and I don't know what to do.
Two nights ago, my roommate found out that her grandfather passed away. Being very close with her grandparents, Nicole was devastated. After a very emotional night for her, and little sleep for us all, she decided to fly home early to be with her family. While no one is ready to leave Perugia, Nicole has the even more difficult task of leaving early and returning to a distraught family. My heart goes out to the Prunetti family and all their friends.
Nicole leaves tonight and it's going to be the beginning of one of the most difficult transitions I've faced in my life. When I left home I knew I would be returning to everyone in 4 months time, but now I'm leaving all of these people without knowing when I may see them again, if ever. I've become a stronger person, but I don't know if anyone can be prepared for leaving what they have come to love.
Katie Cunningham '11, English Secondary Education Major, is spending the semester in Perugia, Italy. She will be studying Italian language and culture as well as observing classes and writing English lesson plans at the city's high school.
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Nothing in life is guaranteed except death and taxes, right?
Well, a principal-protected fund can be added to that list—sort of.
This fund guarantees that you will at least get back your initial investment. So if you invest $10,000 and the investment goes to crap, you'll still get back $10G. You won't lose money.
Sounds great, but be sure to read the fine print. To qualify, you have to hold onto the fund for some time. There might be other loopholes, too. Since these funds make big promises, they tend to net smaller returns. You might not lose much but you won't gain much, either, and, uh, isn't that kind of the reason for investing in the first place?


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Skyview Wraps Up The 2013 Points Season!
races on Sunday to be held.The morning started with the June 1st make up race. Round 1 of all classes were completed, but the race was cancelled during buy backs. This allowed racers to enter that lost 1st round, or new entries, to get back into 2nd round after making it through buy backs. Super Pro: Carl Drake Sr of Binghamton NY earned an overdue Skyview Super Pro win in the make up race after defeating Steve Morton of Cortland NY in an all door car final. Drake dialed 6.75, went .535 on the tree running 6.779 ET on his dial. Morton, dialed 6.06, went .495 red on the tree, turning the win light on for Drake (Morton: 6.094 ET). Semi final honors of the make up race went to Gene Stankivitz.
Pro: Mike Scribani of Oneonta NY, on a mission for the 2013 Pro Championship, took home the win in the makeup race with a win against Joe Rodriguez in the final round. Rodriguez, left first going .497 red on the tree (running 7.888 ET on a 6.67 dial), settling for the runnerup spot. Scribani dialed 6.59, went .564 on the tree, running 6.579. Larry Carasea of Vestal NY and Paul Scribani of Delhi NY were the Pro Semi Finalists.
Bike/Sled: Repeat winner, Lynn Major of Tioga Center NY came out on top against Boyd McGarry of Horseheads NY in a true Bike/Sled final. Major dialed 5.06, had the better .551 reaction time, running 5.104 at 123.38 MPH. McGarry, dialed 5.84, went .571 on the tree running 5.892 at 118.97 MPH. Semi Finals went to Ken Dolatowski of Camillus NY.
Street Money: Kenneth Bacon of Elmira NY added to his 2013 wins after defeating Gary French of Waterloo NY in the final round. Bacon with the advantage from the beginning of the race, went .511 on the tree running dead on with a 8.563 ET on a 8.56 dial. French finished in the runnerup spot after going .573 on the tree and running 8.366 on his 8.35 dial. John Hummel of Livonia NY was the Semi Finalist.
Street Trophy: Kenneth Bacon of Elmira NY earned his way to the final round of Street Trophy, but this time took runnerup to John Hummel of Livonia NY. Bacon broke out running 8.639 on his 8.65, .595 reaction time. Hummel went .578 on the tree, running 10.052 on his 7.99 dial. Tim Wright of Apalachin NY and Mike Dunkle of Millerton Pa were the Street Trophy Semi Finalists.
Following the makeup race, the Halloween Classic got under way. CJ Drake of Binghamton NY took his Diamond dragster to the final of Super Pro and scored his first ever Points Championship at Skyview Drags. Drake lined up against the 2012 Super Pro Champion Don Keikel of Binghamton NY in a drag to the finish. Kiekel broke out to Drake running a slight too quick 5.164 on his 5.17 dial at 132.75 MPH, .538 reaction. Drake gave chase going .522 on the tree running 5.026 on his 5.01 dial at 140.07 MPH, earning the Super Pro win.
Joey LaRose of Baldwinsville NY and Steve Doss ended with a Semi Final finish. Pro: John Tracy of Athens Pa earned a Pro win this season in his 55 Ford after defeating tough competitor Matt Himes of Ontario NY in a double red light elimination. Himes dialed the slower 6.77 left first, going .482 red on the tree (6.768 ET), turning the win light on for Tracy. Tracy dialed 5.89, went .495 red, 5.890, dead on the dial. Paul Scribani of Delhi NY was the Pro Semi Finalist.
Bike/Sled: Matt Luke brought his bike down to the Ridge from Cicero NY to take home the win against Zack Simmons of Blodgett Mills. Simmons, currently active military and home on leave, lined up against Luke, in the final elimination. Simmons, dialed 8.20, went .554 on the tree, running a 8.270 on his dial. Luke took the stripe running a 5.834 on his 5.80 dial, .590 reaction time. Rob Withers of Blodgett Mills NY was the Bike/Sled Semi Finalists.
Street Trophy: Tim Wright of Apalachin NY brought home the 2013 Street Trophy Championship with a win in Sunday's competition. Wright defeated, Matt Dunkle of Gillett Pa, who finished up the day with a runnerup finish. Both drivers left with close reaction times, Dunkle's slight .555 to Wright's .559. But Wright who ran a 8.041 on a 7.98, took the win after a break out by Dunkle,10.996 on an 11.04. Howie Conklin was the Semi Finalists.
Street Money: Tim Wright of Apalachin NY cleaned house in Street competition earning a second win in the Street Money Class. Wright, dialed 8.03, .517 reaction time, turned the win light on after a .436 red light start by French, who ran 8.347 on his 8.29 dial. John Hummel of Livonia NY was the days Semi Finalists.
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Remembering our beloved dead in prayer.
The months following the death of a loved one are an especially difficult time. Thirty-Day Devotions for the Holy Souls offers comfort to those who are grieving and gives them a personal and powerful method of praying for their departed family member or friend.
Day by day, here are:
Prayers and meditations that console the one who mourns and assist the one who has died
Scriptural passages
Reflections from Church Fathers, saints, and theologians
Answers to the most commonly-asked questions about purgatory.
Book measures 4" wide x 5.5" tall.
|Doone (Farwell,MI, February 18, 2011)
|Nice booklet that offers insightful information about purgatory and those who pray for the holy souls. I do think that the booklet should have offered more prayers. Quotes from some of the saints are also included. I was expecting a little more but I do use this booklet everyday. Cons: Needs more Prayers; Describe Yourself: Everyday Reader; Pros: Easy To Read, Great for Daily Use
|*** (***, October 3, 2010)
|Nice to have another something to refer to when remembering loved ones. Best Uses: Gift; Describe Yourself: Bookworm; Pros: Deserves Multiple Readings, Easy To Read, Engaging characters, Informative, Page-Turner, Well Written
|Cathy (Wyoming, June 28, 2009)
|Prayer for the souls in Purgatory is neglected. This prayer book helps you understand how important it is. They need our prayers. Describe Yourself: Bookworm; Pros: Deserves Multiple Readings, Easy To Read


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The Farmer Opportunity in India
By Sandeep Singhal
In the last three years, Nexus has invested in two agriculture-focused companies. Suminter India Organics contracts with small and medium-sized farmers to grow organic produce that it then processes and exports. Sohanlal Commodity Management provides warehousing and logistics services to farmers, commodity exchanges and agriculture processors.
Based on my experience while sitting on these boards, there are a number of opportunities for entrepreneurs and companies that want to build business models aimed at farmers.
Here are some of the encouraging trends I see:
–Corporations want to deal directly farmers.
Companies like PepsiCo, ITC and Godrej have been creating integrated supply chains for the last decade but have typically focused on specific products (e.g. Pepsi with potatoes and tomatoes, ITC with wheat.) In recent times, organized retail chains like Reliance Fresh and Food Bazaar have set up integrated procurement systems that directly reach the farmer instead of working through intermediaries. They also have increased the range of products they procure. Global trading companies like Cargill and Glencore have increased their procurement in the Indian market and have set up some presence in mandis, or local markets.
–Farmers are getting more information.
This information ranges from the most current procurement prices at regional mandis to marketing committee locations (provided by the National Spot Exchange and others) to weather reports and forecasts from mobile operators and specialist providers like Weather Risk Management Services. ITC has been providing this information at its eChoupals (kiosks that provide price information) for some time. Others have similar offerings.
–Recent policies aim to increase efficiency. For example, the "Warehouse and Distribution Act" calls for accreditation of warehouses, which will improve post-harvest management and reduce spoilage. It will also reduce the cost of intermediaries in the procurement process by facilitating warehouse receipt financing and by providing subsidies to build warehouses.
The new nutrient-based subsidy policy also helps optimize the use of fertilizers and improve soil quality. The earlier subsidy policy only covered a few products but the new policy gives a subsidy based on the nutrients in the fertilizer. This lowers the price of complex fertilizers and allows the farmer to choose the right fertilizer for their crop and soil type.
Agriculture is a large and disorganized market. So, there are many inefficiencies which require smart solutions. Farmers are increasingly more open to cooperating with private players as long as they are convinced of increased revenue, lower costs, and/or sustainability. The farming community is driven by word-of-mouth marketing and that can help an entrepreneur scale a business over time.
–Sandeep Singhal is co-founder Nexus Venture Partners, a venture firm with $320 million under management. Nexus has an active portfolio of over 20 companies across several Indian industries including technology, consumer services, media, outsourced services, the Internet and mobile, alternate energy and agribusiness.


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Second Derivatives and Beyond
Second Derivatives and Beyond Introduction
Dr. Shmeuss and his trusty companion, Bella, have decided to start a new hobby, spelunking. Not only are they looking for adventure, they're looking for treasure. Dr. Shmeuss is a huge fan of The Hobbit, and he has hopes of becoming as lucky as Bilbo. They gather their ropes, don their headlamps, and head into the cave. They don't go far when they run into a drove of convicts who are, of course, also spelunking for treasure. They've walked into a con-cave. The cave starts spinning. Which way is (concave) up or (concave) down? They hightail it out of there, changing their velocity with respect to time until they reach safety.
What does a con-cave have to do with second derivatives? Nothing. However, the term concave actually does. Not to mention acceleration is the second derivative of distance with respect to time.
This unit deals with derivatives beyond the first one. For some functions we can take second derivatives, third derivatives, fourth derivatives, etc.
The second derivative is tied to the shape of a function. The first derivative tells whether the slope of the original function is increasing or decreasing. The second derivative describes how the original function curves.
We can also use the first and second derivatives to the find maximum and minimum points of a function.
For the grand finale, we'll draw graphs of wild functions without calculators. Once we know where a function turns around and where it changes shape, we can draw a good picture of what it looks like overall. Keep the calculator close, but mostly for finding approximate values and for checking answers.