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Where Exotic Flair Meets American Practicality
Joseph Altuzarra seeks feedback from his stylish female friends. He worries about where these women prefer the pockets on their jackets to be placed. The 29-year-old fashion designer considers how to sneak in a side zipper so a woman can get in a dress without relying on someone else. He ponders how to make a coat very slim fitting yet very warm (the answer: Thinsulate lining).
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Yet it's not just this streak of American practicality that has made his runway show Saturday evening one of the most highly anticipated, young-designer shows of New York Fashion Week. Mr. Altuzarra is best known for sexy, body-conscious ensembles that weave disparate cultures and time periods into a single look in a way that sounds like a hot mess but is far from one. A dress from his spring 2013 season, he says, is part Indian Maharajah with a little Russian imperialism and a flourish of tribal draping.
Mr. Altuzarra won the Council of Fashion Designers of America's Swarovski award for womenswear, which recognizes promising young designer labels, in June. His show last February, which industry professionals heralded for its smart blending of edgy and wearable apparel, was one of only two American shows ranked in the Top 10 by Style.com/Print magazine. (The other was Proenza Schouler, where Mr. Altuzarra once worked.) The number of stores carrying his line, which include Barneys New York and Neiman Marcus, rose nearly 40% and sales increased 36% after that show, the company says.
At his studio last week, Mr. Altuzarra talked about the pressure and expectations that come with being labeled a rising star. "I don't want to be perceived as being a flash in the pan," he says. "It's more important for me to stick to my guns and build the company that I want to build."
The common move in fashion today is brand expansion. Young designers such as Jason Wu and Alexander Wang have added collections of bags and shoes—categories that have been outperforming apparel sales—much earlier in their careers than their predecessors did. Robert Burke, a luxury-goods consultant, thinks Mr. Altuzarra needs to grow sales volume in his clothing collection before branching out. Retailers are more likely to want to carry accessories from a brand with significant sales volume.
Mr. Altuzarra says the short-term goals for his company, which he owns, include expanding beyond the jackets and coats he is best known for to include more knitwear, which will be evident in his fall 2013 show Saturday. He aims to broaden the label's $1,000-to-$3,000 price range. Eventually, the plan is for Altuzarra LLC to make its own shoes and leather goods, he says. The over-the-knee gladiator sandals in his recent collection, a favorite with critics, were a collaboration with Gianvito Rossi.
The designer has gained fans for clever touches. For his spring 2013 show in September, he sliced arm vents onto the sides of overcoats so women could mimic the popular jacket-draped-over-the-shoulders look without fear of the coat sliding off.
Mr. Altuzarra has earned praise for his strict tailoring, a sharp sexy silhouette and a knack for juxtaposing masculine and feminine elements and multiple cultural references. Stylists Vanessa Traina, a fashion editor and daughter of Danielle Steel, and Melanie Huynh, a former assistant to past French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld, help shape the look of his collections. His fall 2012 show, based on Corto Maltese, a mixed-heritage comic-book hero, contained military and gypsy elements and is credited in part with sparking the gypsy-jetsetter trend.
Saks Fifth Avenue carries Altuzarra in its Boston and Boca Raton stores and on its website. The line "has performed nicely," says Colleen Sherin, the retailer's senior fashion director. Ms. Sherin says Saks is excited to see the label expand with dresses, skirts, knitwear and blouses for a more rounded collection. "He's a brand we believe in."
Mr. Altuzarra, whose mother is Chinese-American and father is French, was born and raised in Paris. He studied art and art history at Swarthmore College and started his label in 2008, after working as designer Riccardo Tisci's assistant at Givenchy. Before that, he apprenticed with Nicolas Caito, former head of the Rochas atelier, and worked in design at Proenza Schouler and Marc Jacobs. Ms. Roitfeld has been a champion from the start. He says her style serves as an inspiration for some looks, including his pencil skirts with thigh-high slits.
Some reviews of his early collections noted obvious influences of other designers including Tom Ford, Nicolas Ghesquieré while he was at Balenciaga, and Alexander Wang.
More recently, the label has made an effort to better articulate its vision. "We all had so many conversations about it," says Mr. Altuzarra. "How do you signify who our woman is and what the brand means?"
The conclusion: This woman drinks black coffee, no milk, no sugar. She burns candles that smell like tobacco. She wears jackets propped on her shoulders. "She is 30 to 60 years old, she wants to dress sexy but in a sort of sophisticated and grown-up way," Mr. Altuzarra says.
A new logo with a sans-serif font that the company plans to formally unveil this week is intended to help convey the label's aesthetic. "It's the idea of grace but also the idea of strength," says the designer.
The company generates less than $10 million in sales. "At this point we don't want to get ahead of ourselves" partly for cash-flow reasons, says Karis Durmer, who joined the label as chief executive in September 2011. To demonstrate the company's lean operation, Ms. Durmer points to the Ikea office chairs in the studio. The company has seven employees. Karen Altuzarra, the designer's mother, until last year was the company's chief executive and is now chairman. Explaining the shift, Ms. Altuzarra says they wanted "to reach a certain level in sales and client base" before bringing in another person.
Mr. Altuzarra says he wants the brand to be known for its quality and craftsmanship and fears that trying to expand in a hurry might mean sacrificing that. "We want to build a strong foundation," he says. "We don't want to explode."


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In 2001 and 2002, phase I-II trials from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, MA, and the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, AR, indicated responses in patients refractory to (failing on) prior therapies, sometimes including thalidomide. As summarized in Table 1, 22% of patients had at least a 50% reduction in myeloma protein levels (partial response [PR]), and 31% of patients reached PR when dexamethasone was combined with the Revlimid. The various side effects are noted.
These promising results led to two large phase III double-blind trials, one in North America and the other in Europe, to compare Revlimid plus dexamethasone versus dexamethasone alone (with placebo instead of Revlimid). Results of these trials were presented earlier this year at the International Myeloma Workshop in Australia, at the ASCO meeting in Florida, and at the EHA meeting in Sweden. The data from the North American trial are summarized in Table 2.
Both the response rate of 61.2% and the length of response of 15 months were significantly larger for Revlimid plus dexamethasone versus dexamethasone alone. Side effects with DVTs (deep vein thromboses) were higher with the combination (15% versus 5%). Daily baby aspirin use is now recommended along with Revlimid.
It is these very encouraging results, combined with the almost exactly duplicated study results from Europe, which have led to the expectation of approval of Revlimid for myeloma by the FDA, in some fashion. However, there are two very important nuances concerning the antici-pated availability of Revlimid:
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2. Expanded Access Program (EAP) In the interim, the Celgene Corporation plans to activate an Expanded Access Program (EAP) for Revlimid in mul-tiple myeloma. It is proposed that this be a multi-center, single-arm, open label trial for Revlimid plus dexametha-sone (as used in the recent trials) for previously treated myeloma patients (at least 2 prior cycles of anti-myeloma therapy). Eligible patients will have relapsed or refractory myeloma. Prior use of thalidomide is allowed. Patients will continue on therapy unless myeloma progression occurs and/or Revlimid becomes commercially available. This, therefore, cycles back to item 1 above. Thus, one way or another, it seems that the long wait for Revlimid may be nearing an end. Hopefully, very soon this drug will be in the hands of patients requiring treatment. The IMF will be tracking developments concerning activa-tion of EAP and/or commercial availability of Revlimid. For further information, please call 800-452-CURE (2873).

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Food City workers make donation to charity fighting for heart health
ABINGDON, Va. - February is heart health month and employees at a local grocery store chain made a donation to a charity fighting to keep hearts healthy.
Food City workers donated more than $1,000 to the American Heart Association Thursday.
That money was raised by employees paying a dollar each time they wore blue jeans, along with buying candy bags.
We've learned this donation will help hearts in our region. "Eighty-two cents of every dollar that we receive is spent straight towards research and education. We fund several researchers here at ETSU, so tons of the money stays local," said Lauren Ladd with the American Heart Association.
We've learned this is the fourth year Food City employees have raised money for the American Heart Association.


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A central Florida man accused of stealing manhole covers is now in custody.
Polk County Sheriff's Office deputies said they arrested Christopher Fink in Haines City on Thursday evening.
Detectives said Fink, 40, stole 166 manhole covers earlier this month and then attempted to sell them for scrap.
Fink faces felony charges of grand theft, dealing in stolen property and giving false verification to a secondhand metal dealer.
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The haunted house in Reidsville, N.C., is a popular Halloween attraction, but what makes the experience even more frightful is that you may encounter an "actual" ghost!
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phrase meaning to beat or assault your companion for unseen or irrelevant reasons
My girl better not say nothin' or I swear to god I will Chris Brown a bitch!
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to smack a woman
Shawty kept talkin shit, so i had to chrisbrownabitch
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Beat someone up unexpectadly
Harm another person for doing something wrong too you
Harm another person for doing something wrong too you
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The very popular water park in California that has been open for about 20 years. Somehow it is open in the winter and it has some terribly expensive food (French Fries cost $7!)
Dude Sunsplash is so awesome, don't go buying anything there though, they rip you off man!
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Celebrating the Latin language can be taken far beyond the confines of a classroom. Last Saturday, at Albion High School, students representing 13 area middle and high schools participated in a Junior Classical League Latin certamen, or contest. The day included written tests, the certamen (which is similar to a quiz bowl), athletic events, a dance and an awards ceremony.
The written exams are given in five categories: vocabulary, derivatives (words that come from Latin), Roman civilization, Pentathlon (a combination of all of the exams) and mythology. The exams each have 50 questions, and students can choose how many exams they would like to take. Each student takes the same test, regardless of their level of Latin, which is the same as the level they are taking in school.
"I always take all of the exams, but my favorite is the mythology exam," said Olivia Binda, a sophomore at Williamsville South High School.
Stephanie Hahn, also a sophomore at Williamsville South, disagrees as to which test is best. "I really like the derivatives test because it connects words you would say in English to Latin, which aids in learning new words and thus improving vocabulary," she said.
The certamen is the main event of the day, and the biggest reason why Latin students come to these festivals. Three certamen teams, which can have between one and four students, compete against each other. There are four sessions of competition, each consisting of 10 questions. Like the written exams, the certamen questions are based on various topics including mythology, grammar, derivatives, culture and geography. These questions can be answered by any team, and are worth 10 points.
If the team that buzzes first has a correct answer, then they are asked two bonus questions, each worth five points. If the answer is incorrect, then the other teams are invited to take a stab at the answer. An interesting aspect of the contest is that participants do not have to wait for the reader to finish the question – if you know the answer, buzz!
In order to win the certamen, a team has to win each of their four sessions. If no teams win all four, then the victor is determined by the team that wins three or by the total number of points.
Besides the academic events, certamen also consists of several sporting events. These include pingpong, volleyball and a basketball shootout. Chess is also a noteworthy event. Remember the Exodus, an "all kinds of rock" band that originated in Albion, provided the music for the dance, which was a new addition to the event this year.
For Latin students, certamen serves several purposes.
"Certamen helps you to use the Latin that you have learned already, see what everyone else is doing at other schools, shows your improvement from last year, and who else is learning Latin," said Catherine Nicastro, a Latin teacher at East Aurora High School. "Healthy competition is good for everyone."
"Learning Latin will improve my SAT score," Stephanie said.
The certamen ends with an awards ceremony. The bleachers are full of energy and cheering as the winning names and teams are called. Awards are given for first, second and third place for each level in the written exams, sporting events and the certamen.
New this year is the "Optimus" Award. The Optimus was given to the school that won the most awards relative to their number of students, and the first recipient was Amherst.
With another JCL fall festival under her belt, the only thing that Gail Taylor, a Latin teacher at Williamsville South High School, had to say is, "I am extremely proud of all my Latin students."
Emily DelSignore is a sophomore at Williamsville South High School.


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We offer dolphin watching + snorkeling excursions from either Puerto Viejo or Cahuita. Choose the tour which works best for you.
Take a beautiful ride along the coast of the Cahuita National Park to spot Atlantic and Bottlenose dolphins. After seeing the dolphins, we cruise back to the reefs of the Cahuita National Park for snorkelling! After the snorkelling we head back to the Cahuita head where we will stop to enjoy a snack of fresh fruits and something to drink. From the head there is the option to walk back through the National Park (unguided) or take a ride back by boat.
Should you wish to combine this tour with a guided hike through the National Park or add a couple of hours fishing to it, please let us know and we will advise price.
A minimum of 2 passengers are required to operate this tour; if you are a solo passenger, please contact us and we will try to book you on a day with other passengers.
Take a beautiful ride along the coast past Manzanillo deep into the Gandoca National park. Near the Panamanian border, Atlantic and Bottlenose dolphins come in to feed in the brackish waters near the Sixaola river. After seeing the dolphins, we cruise back to Mona island for snorkelling and/or diving! Then we continue back up the coast to Punta Uva for our second dive and second snorkelling site. During the trip, lunch is served.
This trip can be done with either snorkeling or scuba diving (for registered divers).
A minimum of 3 passengers is requiered for the snorkel tour and a minimum of 4 persons for the scuba diving tour. If you are less than 4 then you must pay for 4 spots in order to book the tour. If other passengers are found to do the tour as well then a refund will be issued of the extra payment.
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There's conflict in the backyard: On one side of the picket fence, charcoal purists enjoy the most flavorful barbecue. On the other, gas-grilling diehards bask in the glow of an ever-ready flame. But there's a better way: wood pellets. Basically combustible BBs made of compressed sawdust, they impart that smoky wood flavor but fire up as quickly as gas. The Memphis Pro grill is the best way to burn them. A computer brain feeds pellets to your flame from an 18-pound hopper—enough for 12 hours of grilling and even longer at lower temps. Searing a steak? The Pro will blast up to 650 degrees Fahrenheit of Maillard-inducing heat. Smoking a brisket? The grill will maintain a constant 250 while you sleep.
The Memphis Pro Wood Fire Pellet Grill is one of the best pellet grills on the market. It combines high quality construction and engineering with versatile cooking capabilities that will let you "grill" almost anything. Able to reach temperatures out to 650 degrees F. this pellet grill can sear a steak while also being able to hold temperatures down to 180 degrees F. so it can smoke, low and slow, any kind of BBQ. Add to this the convection fans and temperature control precision this wood pellet grill can rival the best indoor ovens. This truly is a grill that can do it all and give you authentic wood flavor.
It is extremely well built and designed. We are very impressed with the way this baby is put together. Most impressive, the cooking chamber has two layers of metal with an air gap between and an oven gasket on the lid to provide better heat retention. Just like your indoor oven. It is designed and built like a high end indoor appliance. This allows it to cook hotter and retain more heat and maintain steady lower temperatures.
Stylish design, sophisticated electronics, and great thermodynamics. This is one of the few pellet grills that lets you remove the top of the burn chamber so you can direct grill over a wood pellet fire.


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The ongoing saga between Northrop Grumman/EADS, Boeing, the Air Force, Congress, and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) continues to languish on in the face of an aging tanker fleet. Northrop Grumman/EADS formally won the contract earlier this year -- the $35B contract would have given the Air Force 179 Airbus A330-based KC-45 aircraft to replace 531 KC-135 tankers.
Boeing filed an official protest of the deal with the GAO in early March and received redemption in mid-June when the GAO agreed that errors were made during the selection process. "We recommended that the Air Force reopen discussions ... obtain revised proposals, re-evaluate the revised proposals, and make a new source selection decision, consistent with our decision," said the GAO at the time.
It now appears that Boeing isn't quite satisfied with just having the competition reopened -- according to the Wall Street Journal, it now wants more time to design a suitable aircraft to meet the Air Force's needs or it is threatening to walk away from the competition altogether. Boeing now wants an additional six months to submit a proper bid that the Air Force would be willing to accept.
"I think the option we would have if we were not given the six months, there is a really high likelihood that we would no-bid the program," said Boeing defense unit head Jim Albaugh.
The Defense Department is already considering giving both Northrop Grumman/EADS and Boeing two additional months to submit new bids for the competition according to close sources, but Boeing's Albaugh said that is not enough. "This is an airplane that's going to be in the inventory 40 years. What we're asking for is an additional four months to have a meaningful competition."
For Boeing, the request for more time and the threat of a "no-bid" is somewhat of a payback to Northrop Grumman/EADS which performed a similar feat back in 2007. The maneuvering by Northrop Grumman/EADS forced the Air Force to make some changes to the requirements for the competition that put Boeing's entry at a disadvantage.
Boeing's current proposal is based around a 767-200 airframe -- it is simply too small and doesn't meet the fuel capacity requirements of the Air Force. Albaugh acknowledges that without the extra time to bid a larger version of the 767-200, it will lose the contract.
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Swimming and Windsurfing
Windsurfing has grown in popularity over the past 20 years and is a great holiday sport. But if you can't swim you'll be left on the beach or lakeside.
Windsurfing is a cross between surfing and sailing. A board has a lightweight sail on it, that is able to swing round, allowing the person on the board (called a sailor) to catch a wind and propel them.
You can perform jumps, loops, spins and other moves that sailboats cannot do and kids as young as five can take part.
If you or your children can't swim you are missing out on a lot of fun.
Swimming level needed
Windsurfing is an Olympic sport, and there are plenty of competitions around for those with a keen interest.
But because windsurfing is predominantly done in the sea and lakes, sailors need to know how to swim. And you will need a good level of swimming.
- Track down your nearest swimming lessons at your local pool with our Pool Finder to make sure you don't miss out.
- Check out our Open Water section for tips on swimmng in lakes and seas
When your level is right give windsurfing a try. Visit the UK Windsurfing Association website for information on where to find your local club.


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In a profile that ran a week ago in the New York Times Magazine, Syracuse-based author George Saunders devised a little thought exercise to describe his ideal audience.
Saunders conjured 10 imaginary readers, and assumed for the sake of argument that three or four of them were already hooked on his work. Two of them, he reasoned, were lost causes that would never come around to it.
But, he continued, "If there's something in my work that's making numbers five, six and seven turn off to it, I'd like to figure out what that is. I can't change who I am and what I do, but maybe there's a way to reach those good and dedicated readers that the first few books might not have appealed to. I'd like to make a basket big enough that it included them."
Saunders, a thoughtful and gifted fiction writer, has yet to be disabused of his populist notions about literature. Thankfully for literature.
His idea – that an artist is never finished building an audience, never through striving to extend his reach to include a slightly bigger swath of humanity with each new effort – ought to be a lesson for every curator, artistic director or film festival programmer. For those struggling to strike a balance between publicly supplied revenue and artistic quality, Saunders' words are a reminder to send out more invitations.
Saunders' thought experiment isn't good blanket advice for artists, who should be free to create work without even thinking about an audience if they so desire. But it's great advice for those of us charged with building pathways to that art or uncovering its meaning.
Saunders' idea – to try harder – sounds remarkably simple, and it is. But its repetition is necessary in a cultural landscape densely populated by those who hold the opposing view. Take, for instance, a blurb in a recent issue of the New Yorker by dance critic Joan Acocella of a Philadelphia Art Museum exhibition about Marcel Duchamp and his American followers.
"Duchamp's nude descended a staircase a hundred years ago. [John] Cage sat down and didn't play '4'33' sixty years ago. [Merce] Cunningham stuck his foot into [Jasper] John's 'Numbers' fifty years ago," she wrote, ticking off some of the landmark moments in modernist art, music and dance of the 20th century. "Most of the public is never going to like such things. Most of the public doesn't like modernism. Let it be."
The idea of giving up, of allowing the audience for Duchamp or any other living or dead artist to remain a tiny, circumscribed elite is antithetical not only to the goal of public museums and of criticism, but to the work of many of those artists. And yet it persists, born of a notion of artistic elitism rooted in a distant era. And though Buffalo is a place whose cultural institutions are attuned to a wider section of the public than those of other larger cities, we are not strangers to Acocella's notion that audience-building for "difficult" art is a dead-end pursuit.
Our more-visionary organizations, such as the Albright-Knox Art Gallery under Louis Grachos, the Burchfield Penney Art Center under Ted Pietrzak and Anthony Bannon, and the Road Less Traveled Theatre under artistic director Scott Behrend, have begun to head in the right direction. Ditto with CEPA Gallery and Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center.
Elsewhere, the mention of concerted audience-building is met with cynicism or viewed wrongly as a de facto assault on artistic quality.
But we can never merely "let it be." We must, as Saunders' so wisely suggested, cast an ever-wider net.
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Comments about Levenger International Phone Pocket Briefcase with Pocketini Pen:
This is a great product. I put my HTC phone, 3x5 Levenger notes paper, multifunction pen...as well as some small bills (and it still has space for receipts and more paper). This goes everywhere I go!
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This is a great product of high quality. The case looks great and feels good, makes a great gift too!
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This is the greatest iPhone case I have ever owned. It fits my iPhone 5 with an Otterbox case on it. I love the pen holder and the card holder. I paired the pocket briefcase with the custom cards with my business name (Heaven's Best Carpet Cleaning of Linn County) and the envelopes. This makes a dynamite way to write a short professional note.
Always with me
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I must admit that I need to take notes to keep track of what needs to be done, reminders, important dates, etc. This is always handy and available for a quick note.I find it extremely useful.
Very useful in many ways!
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Purchased because it allows use of both 3x5 cards, has great and handy pen and the bonus is that you can tuck your business cards behind your iPhone!
Best phone case
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The leather has a great feel, substantial and smooth. This was a much appreciated step up from a very old Levenger pocket briefcase which is still in my desk as I cannot bear to throw it away.
Great Product!
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I ordered this because I disliked my iphone case. It protects my phone and holds the cards and my pen as well. Others complained that the pen flies out, but I have never had that problem. It performed exactly as the catalogue described it. I order from Levenger because the products are great. Thanks again for a useful product.
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Already owning both of the bomber jacket items, I decided to try this one. Now, my intent was not to use it to hold a phone but rather a flight computer and use the index cards for flight planning. The fact that the pocket is not large enough for this does not reflect on the item. I put in a small calculator instead and I use a Staples collapsing pen, which sits nicely in the pocket. The mesh pocket is clearly designed for the Apple phone's dimensions and other phones need to be compared for a proper fit. All in all, it looks pretty nice and makes a handy addition.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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For thousands of years, mankind has battled one another in wars and skirmishes over everything from religious freedom to oil-rich land. One war even was incited by the killing of a pig....
Until the politicians today who have the 'minds' of little children, are voted out of office and we, the people, put in place only those adults with 'common sense' and morals and values....this current mess is what we can expect more of; political correctness gone amuck. Ignorance is astounding in this current administration; national and state.
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Dockendorf Dairy Open Barn to feature Lely's Astronaut Robotic Milking System
Dockendorf Dairy Open Barn to feature Lely's Astronaut Robotic Milking System
Dockendorf Dairy will host an Open Barn Saturday, June 9, 2012, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., featuring the Lely Astronaut robotic milking system, Juno automatic feed pusher and Discovery mobile barn cleaner. Guests will have the opportunity to see the Lely Astronaut in action, tour the state-of-the-art facility and ask questions about the technology.
"Dockendorf Dairy is a wonderful example of how Lely innovation offers more flexibility, more control and more labor-efficiencies," says Lely North America president, Peter Langebeeke. "We invite the community to ask questions of the Dockendorf family and see firsthand how taking advantage of automatic milking technologies provides freedom to spend more time with family or focus on other activities on the farm, with the knowledge your cows are in good hands."
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What: Dockendorf Dairy Open Barn
When: Saturday, June 9, 2012, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Where: 14623 County Road 2 Watkins, Minnesota 55389
More info: Dockendorf Dairy is located on the West Side of County Road 2, one (1) mile North of Watkins, Minnesota. Contact Stearns Vet Outlet for more information (877-608-3877).
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Lely North America is part of the Lely Group based in Maassluis, The Netherlands. Lely strives for improvement in the financial and social well-being of customers by being the company in the dairy/cattle market that offers pioneering, state-of-the-art farming solutions. For more than 60 years, Lely has been well known for providing products, services and solutions that are relevant and meaningful to cattle producers, because they have been specifically designed to meet their needs. As a result, Lely is the acknowledged market leader in automated milking systems and holds a strong position in the grassland machinery sector.
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Interview with John Adams, Brand Manager at Red Hat
Who owns an open source brand—the company or the community?
Being a brand manager for an open source company—like Red Hat—is completely different than for traditional brands—like Kraft, Planters, Sara Lee, and Lowe's Home Improvement.
John Adams says he is constantly being challenged with questions of ownership. But, he wouldn't have it any other way.
Since joining Red Hat as Brand Manager, he's been living and breathing the open source way. In this interview he discusses his approach to branding for "the world's open source leader."
As a branding guy, how did you get into open source?
I began my career in management consulting but, after earning my MBA, I made a career change into marketing and, more specifically, brand management. I worked on large, well-known consumer brands including Kraft, Planters, Sara Lee, and Lowe's Home Improvement before learning of an opening on the brand team at Red Hat. Joining Red Hat was my first exposure to the high tech industry and to open source. However, from day one I began living and breathing the Red Hat brand and, by default, the open source way. It truly represents my preferred way of working with others and now I can't see myself operating any other way.
In 2011 you wrote an article for Opensource.com about a Harvard Business Review article written by Scott Goodson who said: "If you really want to show the world what you believe in and stand for, how about telling us what you stand against?"
How did this influence your approach as Brand Manager at Red Hat? And, what is your new sticky idea?
Writing that article, and the research I put in beforehand, really helped me to better articulate our brand strategy here at Red Hat.
At Red Hat, we've always positioned our software—and open source software in general—as a smart alternative for enterprising CIOs to the proprietary options at their disposal. We work hard to articulate the added value that choosing an open source approach can add to your enterprise. Internally, we've been using a new phrase to encapsulate that value: community-powered innovation.
Our belief is that the open source principles of openness, transparency, connectedness, and collaboration are mirroring many of the macro trends that are happening on a global scale. When today's IT professionals begin to relate what they're experiencing themselves and the value of their connective networks on a daily basis to their businesses and industries, the power of an open source approach will become evident.
Red Hat has grown a lot in the last few years: reaching 1 billion in annual revenue and moving its global headquarters, Red Hat Tower, to downtown Raleigh, NC.
How has your strategy for branding changed along with that rapid growth?
As complicated as our rapid growth has made things in many areas across the company, I can say with confidence that we have not wavered from the core beliefs that represent our brand: that is, that open source represents a better way to both develop technologies and operate at a business level. Our unwavering commitment to this philosophy has helped us remain focused, engaged, and motivated as a global community of Red Hat associates despite the inertia of a rapidly changing company.
By embracing an open source approach and all that it entails (e.g. meritocratic decision-making), we have been able to remain a relatively flat organization free from the trappings of hierarchy and autocratic decision-making. We continue to embrace collaboration as the 'secret sauce' for delivering innovation at a faster pace and with superior products than otherwise possible.
What matters most to enterprise businesses right now?
At a surface level, we continue to hear many of the same common concerns across our customer base: IT professionals are being asked to do more with less and, consequently, they are looking for high quality solutions at a high value that can be delivered quickly.
Cost, stability, and security are high priorities. However, when you dig a bit deeper, you learn that enterprises are looking for technology partners that can not only help them solve today's problems, but can help them anticipate what are tomorrow's opportunities. As a pure open source company, we know that we can help our customers tap into community-powered innovation to not only have visibility and access to upstream development, but to leverage the power of the Red Hat network—encompassing our diverse customer base, our partners, and our involvement in open source communities of development—to more quickly solve their problems with new and novel approaches.
What will you talk about at the All Things Open conference coming up in Raleigh in October (without giving too much away)?
Being a brand leader at an open source company is much different than at more traditional companies, because you're constantly being challenged with questions of ownership. Who owns an open source brand—the company or the community? And, these questions bleed into the legal field when the conversation turns to one of trademarks.
I am fortunate to have worked alongside a leading thinker in the field of trademarks for open source companies, Pam Chestek (read her interview here), and am excited to be co-presenting with her at the conference. We'll be talking about the unique situations, challenges, and approaches for both branding and trademark strategies for anyone interested in the field, whether currently working at an open source company or not.
Read more from the All Things Open speaker interview series.
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So the answer to the article's title question is: the corporation owns the Red Hat brand. They obviously do a good job working with their community, but make no mistake, Red Hat, Inc. owns the Red Hat (R) brand. Which is fine, as long as you understand just who they are.
Fundamentally, this is one of the biggest questions for the long term health of an open source project: who controls your brand? If it's the community, is it clear and understood within the community where the legal and organizational ownership is? If it's the company, do you understand their business model, and know enough of the leadership to trust their direction?
This is not to say that corporate ownership of a brand like Red Hat is bad; not at all, many of the major open source companies do an amazing job of balancing their profitability with healthy communities. But it's an all-too-often made mistake to assume a community owns a brand, to find out later (perhaps under VC or investor pressure for a smaller company) that the company really owns it - and has decided for internal business reasons they want to take the brand in another direction.
This is one of the values of The Apache Software Foundation and several other independent foundations, in that they own their brands directly for the benefit of their communities. That's a much bigger subject: how can the communities that directly own their brands (especially non-profit or loosely organized ones) effectively control their own brand and perception?
Wish I could make it to RTP for the conference!
You raise an excellent question. Trademark law doesn't really cope well with informal non-hierarchical business models, so there are potential risks no matter how the trademark ownership is managed. There should be an article in then next IFOSSLR that gives my views on how to do it.
Sorry you can't make it to Raleigh for the conference, it will be interesting!
Great interview, I like the phrase 'community powered innovation'. This is exactly what eZ Systems has been doing for over 10 years, which I wrote about in my first article posted on this site (Building a scalable open source business model in the 90s).
Keeping a balance between company and community, what Jen is mentioning, is a continues challenge between eZ Systems and it's community.


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It was just a small ding Raymond Truitt heard at his window as he started to fall asleep in his bed.
Truitt's bedroom, which sat next to the housing development's basketball court, echoed with the small, but now very noticeable sound coming from his window sill.
The repetition of the knocking signaled one thing - Truitt was needed for a date on the court. But it wasn't the type of late night date most high school students sneak out for.
It was a date with his best friend, Joe Bacon. And it meant both would be on the court shortly, battling it out for that night's bragging rights.
Truitt and Bacon's efforts eventually earned them spots on Williamsport's state power basketball team. It also helped build a friendship that would hold until Bacon's untimely death this past January 20.
Truitt will embark on hosting his second alumni series of basketball games this upcoming Saturday at Williamsport High School. This year's edition will be title the Joe Bacon Alumni Game. It will benefit Bacon's family, along with helping multiple other charities throughout the city. Doors open at 5:30, with the girls alumni game at 6 and the boys alumni game at 7:30.
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Girls game 6 p.m.
Lycoming County team:?Sally Dusza, Alicia Engler, Jill (McElhinny)?Catonzaro, Stephanie DiMichele, Laura McMahon, Kelly Mazzante, Molly Kirby, Shannon Kirby, Erica Logan, Ellen Hemwall Stover.
Williamsport team:?Erin Moore, Tanisha Lyles, Amy Bullock, Sonya Whaley, Helena Yancey, Shahara Walker, Michelle Rorie, Madina Ali, Maggie Benshaw, Brenna (Eck) Hill, Alex Benshaw, LouShar Robinson, Bridgette Miles.
Boys game: 7:30 p.m.
Loyalsock team:?Randy Glunk, Sheldon Payne, Ryan Cioffi, Johnny Gordon, Desmond Parr, Maurice McNeil, Darryl Sawyer, Neil Casale, Matt Mamolen, Hakeem Rainer.
Williamsport team:?Rasheed Campbell, Ray Truitt, Darrell Blackman, Dewayne Blackman, Grady Walker, Bryheem Justice, Ayuub Ali, Nate Hill, Omar Little, Darrick (Dixon)?Rizzo, Cliff Sweeting, Geoff Clyke, Leroy Joiner, Victory Brace-Harvey, Ivan Valentine.
Rosters provided by organizer Ray Truitt. Last names in ()?were players' last name in high school.
Truitt's young group of future Williamsport players also included Rasheed Campbell and Bryheem Justice.
"We lived in the same complex together, and (Joe) was a dear friend of mine," Truitt said.
Both were part of Williamsport's 1995 PIAA Class AAAA runner-up basketball team. Bacon was and Truitt is a Millionaire through and through, bleeding the school's cherry and white colors.
Last year, Truitt, who now lives in Indiana and works with a sports agency that helps potential athletes get recruited after high school, returned to his roots to host a Williamsport-Loyalsock alumni game.
The event was a smash hit with the area. It also helped out a good cause with all of the money raised going to various charities, including the Lycoming County United Way, the AIDS Resoure Alliance, the American Cancer Society and Bethune Douglas (The Center).
The game even featured an all-alumni cheerleading squad.
This year, in the event's second time around, Truitt will return with an even bigger goal. The alumni showcase will feature both a girls and boys game. It will also be broadcast on local television and the radio.
The money raised will go to similar charities like the American Cancer Society, but it will also be used to help the family of Truitt's longtime friend, who is survived by his wife and two kids.
"We are still Millionaires for life, and it means something to bring alumni together," Truitt said. "We are a unique bunch."
In an area surrounded by Class A and AA teams, all of which have built quality rivalries throughout the years, Williamsport's uniqueness stems from being that lone AAAA school sitting on top of the hill.
"Williamsport is a special high school," Truitt said. "There is no other high school like it in the world."
And not very many schools are called the Millionaires. In fact, Williamsport is the only school in the country to sport the nickname.
Pride is something Truitt has in spades for his former high school. And, because of that deeply rooted level of caring for his former school, Truitt almost guaranteed a high turnout in this year's contests.
Two games were played last year, featuring players from the 80s, 90s and 2000s. Loyalsock won, 83-73 and 63-60, respectively.
The results were a little surprising considering the level of tradition at Williamsport. But, Loyalsock is also a proud school with plenty of history on the hardwood, as well.
If anything, the two losses should give the Williamsport players something to work toward.
"Williamsport players are always ready. They always want to come back and play," Truitt said.
Of course, the most important aspect of the event will be all the money raised for charity, along with the rekindling of high school relationships.
"I keep hearing things about the shootings and killings and want to bring something positive to the area," Truitt said. "I want to do something to bring back the happiness. I want to bring people together for some good clean fun."
With the second incarnation of the event scheduled for Saturday, April 13, it seems the good clean fun will continue. And this year, it will help a former student's family, as well as, continuing to help the same meaningful causes.


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5 Dumb Writing Gimmicks That Became Classic Books
#2. Pale Fire -- Vladimir Nabokov
Nabokov might be better known for Lolita, his novel about the seduction of a 12-year-old girl that I'm not going to make too many jokes about.
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Pale Fire might be his better novel, though, constructed around, would you believe it, yet another insane structure. The book is laid out as a 999-line poem called Pale Fire, written by a fictional author, and presented alongside annotations written by a fictional editor and friend of the author. The plot of the novel is laid out in these annotations, which discuss both men's slightly nutty lives. Like the fact that they're haunted by a variety of ghosts, or that one of them might have been mistakenly killed by an assassin who was trying to kill the deposed king of a country called Zembla.
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That old saw.
What makes the plot so complicated is how non-linear it is, the details spelled out in the interplay between the poem and the annotations. With all those annotations pointing back and forth, it's often cited as being one of the first books written in hypertext.
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Which the world has since used for nothing but the highest-browed work, as evidenced by all the sites we have with [REDACTED BY CRACKED LEGAL] that are really just begging for it.
#1. Finnegans Wake -- James Joyce
Finnegans Wake took James Joyce 17 years to write, and he was going to be damned if anyone would be able to read it in less time. Widely regarded to be among the most difficult books in the English language, Finnegans Wake tells the story of... something. That's about all anyone can say, really.
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"A word, a word, a word. Another one. Yes, there's definitely something going on here, word-wise."
To make any sense of the work involves unpacking it sentence by sentence, subjecting every word to a brutally intensive analysis, collecting all the various meanings that fall out of this process, and reassembling them into something that actually resembles a coherent thought; reading it is a serious fucking operation.
No shit.
The whole book is written in stream-of-consciousness, dream-logic gibberish, in languages that don't actually exist. Joyce invented his own completely bonkers language that was kind of English but also not, sort of as if he'd taken English and lightly pulsed it in a food processor before he started writing with it. The book has no plot that deserves the name, although trying to analyze it for a plot may be missing the point entirely. There are main characters of a sort, but they're a little hard to pin down, given the fact that they are given hundreds, even thousands of names within the text.
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"Heh heh heh heh hehhhhhhehhehehe."
In short, it's basically unlike anything that's ever been written. If we're being generous, we can call this the work of a man trying to reinvent the very concepts of a novel, language, and possibly even concepts themselves.
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Ahh, well there you go. OK, I take everything back. Fuck books.
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About the First Amendment Law Clinic
The MSU First Amendment Law Clinic is the new name for the Great Lakes Student Press Law Clinic (GLSPLC) created in 2004 as a unique partnership of the Michigan State University College of Law, the School of Journalism at Michigan State University, and the Michigan Interscholastic Press association, (a [501c)(3) nonprofit housed in the School of Journalism.
In 2011, the Clinic expanded its role to become the MSU First Amendment Law Clinic dedicated to providing pro bono legal representation on First Amendment issues to news media companies in the state of Michigan, while continuing its education work and legal advice and representation to Michigan high school and college journalists. Law and journalism faculty supervise second- and third-year law students in their work with the Clinic. Law students also visit high school journalism staffs to review current legal precedents and laws and their impact on the student press and provide legal advice and assistance when required.
The Clinic continues to offer First Amendment Workshops to high school journalism programs and pro bono legal services to student journalists struggling with a variety of legal issues including censorship, copyright infringement, access to government records, freedom of information, libel and invasion of privacy challenges. In the student press arena, the Clinic is the only one in the nation devoted to providing legal representation in defense of student press rights.


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It's taken the big browser makers a while, but they're here now. Firefox 4 for Android exited beta in March, Opera Mobile has been available for several months already - plus there are odd, boutique options from upstarts like Dolphin, Skyfire and more.
Here we'll run through the most popular alternative Android web browsers, giving you a few pointers as to whether it's actually worth the hassle of switching everything over to a new system.
We're using an HTC Desire running Android 2.2 as our benchmark phone for all speed observations and performance tests - so results at your end will obviously vary depending on what hardware you're using.
But hopefully these results will give a good outline of the pros, cons and features on offer from the alternate Android browsers out there. Sadly, Internet Explorer fans are out of luck.
Opera Mobile
Version 11 of Opera's Android browser launched earlier this year, bringing an incredibly fast web experience with it. The browser now supports Adobe's Flash Player add on as well, with the option to only load Flash content when you tap the waiting icon to keep things flowing extra-fast.
There's also an option to engage the same server-side compression system found in the company's Opera Mini browser, if you're running a slower phone or suffering from a restricted data allowance.
Browser windows are handled by a very user-friendly pop-up tab list, and it's by far the fastest browser on test when it comes to zooming, loading and scrolling pages.
TechRadar home page load time: 17 secs
SunSpider test total time: 3827ms
Dolphin Browser HD
Tab handling is very nice in Dolphin Browser, using the standard desktop browser system of having a visible collection of tabs across the top of the screen. This was the only browser that crashed during our test process, although it did at least offer to reopen the tabs it last had open upon reboot.
You're prompted to decide if you want Flash content always on or loaded on demand when first installing the app, plus custom settings let you change the function of the volume key - using it to scroll pages or even switch tabs.
Dolphin is one for the tinkerers, especially as the default colour is a rather unfortunate green which requires the immediate installation of a new theme. It also prompts you to clear the cache and history upon exit, if you wish. Which may please certain special interest users.
TechRadar home page load time: 23 secs
SunSpider test total time: 5517ms
Skyfire 3.0
Skyfire is a very busy browser with tabs and buttons all over the place and numerous added features. Quite the opposite of the standard Android Webkit option - but its pop-up Flash content window is a life-saver for those on phones that don't officially support Flash content. It converts Flash video content on the Skyfire server, and then beams it to non-Flash phones.
You also get custom tabs that pull in popular pages and can link to your Facebook and Twitter profiles, plus its own custom 'Keep Screen On' setting that overrides Android's defaults.
If you have a phone with a big screen so there's room for web pages between its many icons, Skyfire's advanced functionality is a winner for social network users.
TechRadar home page load time: 23 secs
SunSpider test total time: 6902ms
Firefox 4 for Android
Mozilla has finally released the official version of Firefox 4 for Android, after many months of beta testing. The end result is a feature-packed browser that takes many features from the desktop tool.
Compatibility with Mozilla's cross-platform bookmark, history and password syncing tools makes this the ideal choice for people who haven't embraced the app world and demand an advanced browser on their mobiles.
Sadly there's no Flash Player support in Firefox 4 for Android at the moment, but if you only crave speed and desktop-like features rather than video clips of fat people dancing, it's a good alternative.
TechRadar home page load time: 25 secs
SunSpider test total time: 3071ms
Webkit 2.2
Otherwise known as The Standard One Google Puts On The Phone. The default Android browser's strength is its compatibility with Adobe's Flash Player - as long as you're on Android 2.2 or above and have a phone deemed powerful enough to run it.
It really is a superbly simple tool - plus it was the second fastest at loading the TechRadar home page, a single second slower than the blistering Opera.
TechRadar home page load time: 18 secs
SunSpider test total time: 5303ms
Miren Browser 1.2
The Chinese-made Miren Browser is an odd little wildcard, offering a clean, Apple-inspired design that's focused around a desktop-like tab system. It has some crazy options to play with, like its own in-built brightness setting slider, volume button page scrolling and a simple gesture navigation system.
Miren was the slowest in the SunSpider test scores and not the best at manipulating pages via multi-touch zooming, but it has a nice floating icon system that puts back and stop/reload over the corners of the pages, freeing up extra screen space. It's a quirky one for the outsiders who don't play by the rules.
TechRadar home page load time: 25 secs
SunSpider test total time: 5416ms
The best Android browser is...
For high-powered phones, the Opera Mobile browser is by far the fastest at manipulating pages. It's so comically fast at scrolling and zooming that you start doing it for fun.
If you're running a tablet, it's best sticking with the Android standard Webkit option for now. None of these browsers feature specific tablet optimisations, so don't bother yourself with the hassle of switching sides just yet.
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A sticky purple or red substance found on a child's hand as a result of being a little kid. Often found on the back of DVD's, CD's, or any other valuables.
Get your jelly fingers off of my stuff!
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The sexual act of surprising your partner by making your finger limp and wiggly, like that of the jelly inside of a donut, and forcefully inserting it into his or her rectum.
I suprised that skank when i gave her the ole jelly finger.
โดย Jelly Wiener 11 พฤศจิกายน 2009
To wobble one's finger savagely in close proximity to another's 'butthamper'
'I jellyfingered your butthamper'
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to get completely destroyed in a sport or competition by twin brothers.
Jeff: Man those guys caught every ball that we hit their way.
Steven: Yeah, I guess you can say we just got bogled.
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A person was assigned a set of tasks. The person deemed those tasks tedious and re-assigned them to other people. The person stated all tasks as being completed.
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Penélope Cruz is a perfectionist in all areas of her profession, something the Spanish-born star admits she carries over into her personal life.
"Every time I make a film, I feel like it's my first time ... I always think they could fire me," the Oscar winner, 35, tells the August issue of Psychologies magazine in the U.K. "I've ruined my own happiness and created problems with my friends because of this tendency. It takes discipline for me to stop worrying."
She adds, "I have a tendency to become a mother to everyone around me. My brother and sister are always complaining that I'm too protective."
Someday that might just come in handy. Currently linked to fellow Spaniard Javier Bardem – about whom Cruz would only say, "He's a wonderful man, a great actor" – she does admit that she definitely desires kids.
"I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life," says Cruz. "I don't know if I believe in marriage. I believe in family, love and children."
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A strong beer coming in 40 oz bottles. Cheap and tasty, perfect for getting the job done.
I went camping the other weekend and just brought up a cooler of big bears, they kept me going all weekend.
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A strong, powerful male figure. Regarded as a stable, balanced person.
You: Hey Big bear! How's it going?
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You: Great!!
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You: Great!!
מאת JoLyyy 23 בנובמבר, 2008
An Abnormally Large Human Being. Found In The Common Highschool. This Species Has Been Learking Around Our Local Communites For Ages. Theres Really No Way Of Stopping the Horrifing Beast. The Best Thing Is So Avoid This Creature, The Best You Can..... He's Not Very Sneeky Due To The Size Of Him. They May Have A Terrible Smell To Them, Depending On Age. Some Nicknames That May Be Used To Lure The Beast In Are, SLS, (sticks like shit), Big Bear, And If You Yell "Fatty" In A Very Deep Voice He May Respond Within 30mins, Depending on Location. Overall, It Is A Death Defying Creature, And Best To Keep A Great Distance.
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מאת E~Vergz 11 בדצמבר, 2010
Short term over a very serious Aussy. One that doesn't see the funny side of life.
Aaron:<joke about santa>
BigBear:i dont believe in santa
BigBear:as a kid i never believed in him
Aaron:it was a joke..
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מאת martinElunacy 8 בינואר, 2009
a boy with dark cirlcles under his eyes who resembles a bear. lumbers around his school with his gray backpack and is often engaging in gay PDA. has a cocky attitude and a signature walk.
BigBear has swine flu, everybody run!!!
מאת sexychubchub 29 באוקטובר, 2009
A tall boy, usually with a fair bit of hair on the head and body. One would be on the gay side abit but is caring and is a understanding , called Understanding Bear.
The hair colour is a dirty blonde or brown.
The hair colour is a dirty blonde or brown.
מאת applish Taste 7 במאי, 2009
the sweetest, cutest, funniest, bestest boy in the world. The only one for lil bear. The only one lil bear will love forever.
big bear is mean't to be with lil bear.<3
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On Sunday news programs, lawmakers and others discussed the Trayvon Martin case, the national response and President Barack Obama's Friday comments about race. Washington Wire's top five comments on the topic from the morning shows:
"I think that the president said what he believed. He tried to make people understand that this is not just about some kid with a hoodie. But I think also we have to look at the fact that there is a broader discussion that we need to have. Yes, we need to have a discussion on race, but we also need to have a discussion on how we are treating poor and minority people in this country."
–Rep. Marcia Fudge (D., Ohio), chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, citing other recent news including the Supreme Court case on the Voting Rights Act, challenges to affirmative action and the removal of food stamps from the House's farm bill.
"There are events like this that highlight and emphasize the fact that we still have a long way to go. We cannot be complacent in our society when we still have a dramatic disparity between black youth unemployment and non-black youth unemployment when we have these still contradictions in our society."
–Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.). He said the Martin case also cast a spotlight on the "stand your ground" laws on the books in more than half the states. Laws that give armed citizens extra protection to shoot a perceived aggressor, he said, should be reviewed by state legislatures across the country, including in his own state of Arizona.
"The president said that was him 35 years ago. That's me on a daily basis, and especially when I'm home in New Orleans and I'm dressed down. It's something that black men still go through to this day, which is women clutching their purses, hitting the lock button on their doors, or just basic attitudes. And even as a U.S. congressman, as a black man, it is very, very frustrating, and you build up an internal anger about it that you can't act on."
–Rep. Cedric Richmond (D., La.)
"It's not the wrong moment to inject race. I think race is a part of it. … It is an underlying theme or feeling that particularly the African-American community takes away from that, and it has to be addressed. You just can't leave it on the table because you don't believe it's there."
–former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, addressing the argument from some conservatives that it's wrong to inject race into the Martin case.
"I appreciate and applaud the fact that the president did finally show up. But this town has been spinning a story that's not altogether true. He did not walk to the podium for an impromptu address to the nation. He was pushed to that podium — a week of protest outside the White House, pressure building on him inside the White House pushed him to that podium. So I'm glad he finally arrived. But when he left the podium he still had not answered the most important question: where do we go from here? That question, this morning, remains unanswered, at least from the perspective of the president. And the bottom line is this is not Libya, this is America. On this issue, you cannot lead from behind. What's lacking in this moment is moral leadership. The country is begging for it. … And I disagree with the president respectfully that politicians, elected officials, can't occupy this space on race. Lincoln did, Truman did, Johnson did, President Obama did. He's the right person in the right place at the right time, but he has to step into his moment. I don't want him to be like Bill Clinton — when he's out of office regretting that he didn't move on Rwanda."
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Frigidaire 16.7 cu. ft. Upright Freezer Convertible to All Refrigerator
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32 ounces Edensoy Chocolateor Edensoy Carob
1 Tbsp organic maple syrup, or to taste
5 Tbsp Eden Kuzu Root Starch, dissolved in 1/4 cup cold water or Edensoy
4 medium bananas, sliced into 1/4" rounds
1/3 cup fresh blueberries
1/3 cup fresh red raspberries
1/3 cup fresh black raspberries
2 cup fresh strawberries, sliced
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Have you seen colored markings on a few trees in your area? Personnel from American Electric Power are looking for hazardous situations where trees are affecting power lines and causing a safety hazard.
There are 15 circuits in Tiffin, some entirely in city limits and some reaching into rural areas, and they all need thorough checking to ensure the safety of people and property. The last trimming in our area was somewhere between 10 and 12 years ago, so there will be quite a bit of work needed to catch up. It then will be AEP's goal to inspect and trim every four years.
Certified arborists perform the necessary tasks for AEP, with the goal of providing safe and reliable utilities for residents.
Richard Bosse, who is a utility forester, addressed the Tiffin Shade Tree and Beautification Commission at its last meeting, together with Keith Chapman, to explain procedures. Working on energized lines requires skill and knowledge, and all workers are properly certified for line clearance.
They emphasized this process does not include phone lines.
Current markings will include a green dot for trees to be trimmed this year, and a yellow dot for next year's work. A pink or red X would indicate a more serious situation and, if the tree is on private property, the homeowner will be contacted to discuss removal.
If no one is at home, a yellow door card will be left at the residence to explain procedures to be followed.
Ash trees present a special situation in this time of the invasion of the emerald ash borer, and all ash trees will be among the first marked for removal.
No one likes to see a tree cut down, but in this case, it is better to remove the tree safely even though it may still be in the early stages of infection, rather than to risk the dying tree falling and injuring someone. A large ash fallen behind a property also be difficult and expensive for the owner to remove at a later date.
It is strongly recommended anyone planning to plant a tree seek advice and plans before planting. Conifers or other tree with strong central leaders should never be planted under power lines.
If there is trouble, the entire tree probably will need to be removed.
The right tree in the right place is everyone's goal.
Tiffin is graced with many beautiful trees in parks and yards as well as along many streets, thanks to those who planted them over the years, and the Tree Commission is working to keep the city safe as well as attractive.
Success so far can be measured by the comparatively few trees that have fallen in recent storms in comparison with neighboring communities.
Homeowners should never attempt to prune branches near electric lines. This is a job for a well-trained expert.
In the past, trees were sometimes topped (removal of upper and upright branches with many intermodal cuts) or tipped (removal of the tips of side branches), but this no longer is done. The person doing the pruning will weigh many
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Great for kids.
By Ms. Muffet
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I bought this set for my grandson. He LOVES them!!
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Camouflage Pencils...A spin on it
By Gumma Debbie
from Patterson, CA
The only complaint I have is that the name is printed in black as shown and it is difficult to see. So, we've decided to put a "spin" on that in telling the grandson that is what camouflage is all about...making things difficult to see.
Will repeat order
By Granny
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My grandsons love these.
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By Big Guy
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My grandson is always losing his pencils in schoolHe'll be able to find them easier now.
A popular choice for my boys.
By Art teacher
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I give pencils to my elementary school artists to celebrate birthdays. They love choosing from a variety.
Camo pencil for a well armed soldier
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This was a school gift for my 3-year-old grandson. The camo helps to keep him interested.
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this is the 2nd year I,ve ordered the pencils for my grandson. He seems to like them.
camo pencils
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grandson was excited when he opened them.