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Welcome to Positive Connections ! We are an inclusive and member-driven group. Our primary purpose is to GIVE HOMESCHOOLING FAMILIES A WAY TO SHARE ACTIVITIES WITH OTHER HOMESCHOOLERS. Doing fun things together gives us all more opportunities to establish meaningful connections, support each other, and build community.
This group relies on the members to schedule real-life events and activities, and build our online community.All members of Positive Connections are encouraged to think of activities to share with other homeschoolers, and to use the group calendar to invite other members to attend. Meetups can be large or small, indoors, outdoors, active, quiet, artistic, athletic, academic, or whatever anyone thinks up ! We can attend public events together, meet in public or semi-private spaces, or schedule small events in our homes. All members are also encouraged to use our group's discussion forum to establish online connections with other members.
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We welcome families with children of all school ages and abilities who strive for individualized, child-centered learning at home.We embrace diversity and respect differences. We welcome homeschoolers of all levels of experience. We welcome all homeschoolers regardless of homeschooling style/approach/method. We each use what works best for our family and children.
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Kyle Hartzell plays for the San Francisco Dragons (MLL) and San Jose Stealth (NLL). He finished his rookie MLL season (2008) third on the team in groundballs. Kyle had a standout career at Salisbury State University where he was a third-team All-American and first-team All-League selection and was the team's Most Valuable Defenseman as a senior. Won two NCAA Division III National Championships at Salisbury.
We're excited to have Kyle blogging for e-Lacrosse. This is Kyle's first Blog Entry
Hey everyone how's it going? Everything is going well out here on the left coast in San Jose, CA. I just moved out here in the month of December and the weather is awesome compared to frigid Baltimore. I just started my head-coaching job out here and it's going pretty well. I coach a High school varsity team in Palo Alto. The name of the team is the Tomahawks and what a great group of kids I got. I have a couple of difficult decisions to make by making my final team of twenty-six by this Friday, but other than that everything is going smoothly. Besides coaching I'm just getting my workouts in and getting ready for Edmonton this weekend.
This is gut check time this weekend. After our loss to Calgary last week we need to get a win at home here this Saturday. We have more than enough talent on this team and we just need to put it together and start to win games. We seem to come out slow in the first quarter and dig ourselves to big of a hole to get out of. When we put a full game together I think fans are going to see a completely different team then the 1-3 team we are now. Besides are game on Saturday it's Super Bowl weekend!!!
What sports analyst or human being living here on this planet picked this game? If someone picked this to be the super bowl game, I'd say that's very impressive. Who is going to win this game? I think the Cardinals are going to win because I have a deep hatred for the Steelers because I am a diehard Ravens fan. Lets go Cardnials!! I will check back in next week, have a good weekend!


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Question: Can you tell me how to treat splits in the bark of my palo brea tree?
Answer: Palo brea, or Cercidium praecox, is one of the most beautiful desert trees. Native from southern Mexico to South America, the palo brea blooms in late spring with vivid yellow flowers.
Its bark is extremely thin and easily damaged by rough handling and equipment. Usually, the bark will heal itself; there is no set treatment. Watering in the winter also can cause bark splitting. Water only in the summer months -- every 10 days -- and soak deeply.
Q: I have heard desert critters will not eat oleander, but you recently pointed out other negatives about the plant. Will quail and rabbits eat Arizona rosewood? Could you recommend other shrubs that quail and rabbits will ignore?
A: Rabbits, our furry little desert friends, are sometimes a problem in the garden -- especially during extended periods of drought. They will eat just about anything during times of stress.
Most plants are tastier to them when the vegetation is young and accessible. New plantings are especially yummy and may need protection for the first six months until they harden off.
Some type of fencing may be required to protect your new investment. Chicken wire is a possibility, but it should be only temporary. Raised planters out of the stretched reach of our friends could also be a solution.
The only way to protect tender shoots from quail is with bird netting supported by some structure at a distance from the plant. If you are growing vegetables and herbs, this is a must. Check out our website, dbg.org, for more gardening information and a list of "rabbit-resistant" plants.
Q: I'm planning a raised-bed garden. We live north of Phoenix, south of Anthem, and have an acre of land. My concern is rabbits and ground squirrels. I hear they'll just devastate most any kind of crop. How can I keep them off my veggies?
I've heard they can squeeze through quarter-inch fencing; at least the mice can. I'm thinking of a "decoy" garden, an area where I plant grass seed every couple days and let it sprout for them to eat. Do you think that would help? Are there other reliable screening/fencing methods?
A: I would suggest planting in a raised bed with 28-inch-or-higher, tightly woven fencing. I would also cover your plants with bird netting. We live in the desert, and anything succulent is a salad bar to the natives.
Q: This year, as I harvested the oranges from our tree, I noticed that some were bigger, but they were pithy. How can I keep this from happening next year?
A: Your oranges were exceptionally pithy this last season because of the extremes in our weather. The conditions that limit growth -- such as extreme heat, especially right after the spring bloom -- can affect the amount and quality of the fruit. Fruit cells enlarge during favorable warmth, but during extremes, they are stunted, and the protective skin increases for protection.
Q: I have a Brazillian pepper tree or Californian (not sure which) that lost a lot of leaves and top branches last August. I am guessing the tree is 8-10 years old.
I have four of these trees; two are doing well, but the other two are not. We realized three weeks after we moved into the house this summer that the sprinkle drip system was not working properly. Now, I am getting the brown edges that morph into dry, brown leaves. New growth is coming, but last year, the trees seemed to struggle and lost at least half of the new growth within 4-6 weeks.
Also, my landscaper cut out dead limbs, which were mostly the top of tree. It has one drip that runs 20 minutes every other day. Can this tree be saved?
A: The Brazilian pepper tree, or Schinus terebinthefolius, is a native of Brazil that grows slowly in the lower desert to a height of about 30 feet. The wood of this plant is subject to breakage, and all elongated branches should be trimmed and the tree thinned periodically.
If your water was off during extreme heat and drought as we had last year, you probably suffered some limb dieback. A deep-root soaking could help it rebound. These trees shouldn't be planted near paved areas as they tend to send out extensive surface roots. They are also prone to verticillium wilt.
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An elderly Canadian couple has taken the concept of sharing to a new level, after giving away most of their lottery ticket winnings to others.
Allen and Violet Large played the lottery on a whim this summer and ended up winning more than $11 million.
But in a matter of months, they had given most of the money away to family members, charities, and community groups.
They also decided to give a large portion to the hospital and clinics where Violet has been getting cancer treatment. She said her battle against the disease keeps the couple grounded and their eyes on what's important.
"We're country hicks, and we're not travelers so why keep the money and give it to the government?" Violet said.
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Tree Viewing
Friday December 4th to December 31st
Open during Town of Canmore Civic Center hours and Museum Hours
Admission by donation – Suggested donation $2 per person
Sponsorship Luncheon
Noon to 1:30pm, Friday, December 4th
Canmore Civic Center Atrium (Town Hall) – 902 7th Ave, Canmore, Alberta
A Sneak a Peek buffet luncheon in appreciation of our many sponsors with Christmas Cocktails
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Sneak a Peek and Kids Story time
Friday Dec 4th 6-8pm | Admission by donation
Canmore Civic Center 902 7th Ave
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Murrieta's Bar and Grill – 737 8 St, Canmore,
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The Amber Fleury Band to follow at 9pm
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Sunday December 6th and Sunday December 13th
Seating 1 – 9:00am to 10:30am Seating 2 – 11:00am to 12:30pm
Location: Canmore Golf and Curling Club – 2000 8th Ave
This event sells out each year! A delicious breakfast with Santa will be followed by a professional photo with Santa. Live music for the kids by Stratus. Each child's admission will include a chance to win a playhouse!


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Rootsireland must evolve
John Grenham
Like it or not, Rootsireland.ie is the single most important Irish records website. Almost everyone researching their ancestors in nineteenth-century Ireland will have to use the site's database of record transcripts –parish and local civil registration transcripts in particular. It can be expensive, certainly (I have personally paid at least two kings' ransoms), but there is no doubt that the site has opened up Irish research to many for whom it used to be a closed book.
But it is also cumbersome, customer-unfriendly to the point of brutality and embarrassingly old-fashioned.
All these problems stem from the peculiar nature of the organisation behind it, the Irish Family History Foundation. The IFHF was set up to provide an umbrella body for the centres carrying out the transcriptions. These centres are extremely diverse, their only common feature a fierce independence. So the IFHF has become a very, very loose federation.
As a result, the website design revolves around the centres' need for independence, in particular the need to pay each centre for every view of a transcript from that centre. The needs of researchers come a very, very distant second.
There are no fore-name variants – if you search for a "Patrick" and the record was transcribed as "Patt", tough luck. Details of the records transcribed, vital in understanding search results, are sometimes pure gibberish: the listing for Co. Down marriages includes " Belfast (hm) 1906-1900″. What?
Above all, though, the entire site still consists entirely of transcripts. Being content with a transcript alone really means accepting someone else's word on trust: "Honest Gov., this is what I saw in the register. Give us a fiver".
Rootsireland can survive the coming onslaught of competition from the likes of Ancestry, and I hope it does. But it has to modernise, to add record images – why not the National Library's ready-made microfilm images? –and above all it has to stop being a gatekeeper, and become an access-provider.


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Ole Raymond Field, loving husband, father, and grandfather, left this world in the arms of his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on Wednesday, February 19, 2014 of natural causes, with his wife Linda by his side at home in Missoula.
Born May 19, 1944 in Loring, MT to Raymond and Erminie Oberlander Field. They preceded him in death. They moved to Malta, MT where he, his sister Alice (Solberg) and brothers John and Fredlin attended school. He was very active in 4-H and FFA. He graduated with a BA in Ag Production from MSC (MSU Bozeman) in 1967.
While attending college in Bozeman he put himself through school doing different jobs, one of which was helping Burr and Alene Blackwood on their farm. It was during that time he met the love of his life, Linda Gee. They were married June 1967 and have two beautiful daughters with four wonderful grandchildren: Jill (Faron) Stevens (Joshua and Jessica Stevens) and Tonia Field (Noah and Ali Ward).
He always loved visiting with people and helping them any way he could. He was a very talented person. Many people have enjoyed his artistic talent of steel silhouettes and railing creations. He has also built several large machines using only blueprints in his mind.
He did not want us to mourn for him but to celebrate his life. We will be celebrating his life with a memorial on Saturday, March 1 at 2 p.m. at Clark Fork City Church/Steven Valentine Community Center, 2811 Latimer St. (behind Target on N. Reserve) Missoula.
In lieu of flowers, please make memorial contributions in his name to a 4-H or FFA Chapter of your choice. Condolences and memories may be shared with the family at www.whitesittfuneralhome.com.


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July 26, 1999
Members of the 1999 Woodinville Baseball Club/Sandy Koufax 14-year-olds Select Team include (left to right): Back Row--Coach Doug Hall, Brandon Markey, Coach Chris Priseman, Mike Wagner, Josh Kutz, Casey Priseman, Kyle Kendrick, D.T. Nance, Chris Albrecht, Manager Bob Aoki; front row--Richie Lentz, Jon Willard, Thomas Knowles, Batboy Mitch Johnson, Brad Johnson, Ian Warner.
by Marshall Haley, staff reporter
WOODINVILLE--The Woodinville Baseball Club's (WBC) Sandy Koufax team for 14-year-olds will be the second WBC team representing Washington State in a World Series next week.
Coached by Bob Aoki, the team qualified for both the AAU and CABA World Series tournaments by winning the Regional tournaments for both classifications. They chose the CABA tournament in Dublin, Ohio, which starts the last week of July.
"This team finished 10th last year in the AAU nationals in Riverside, Calif., so we think we have a pretty good chance at winning a title this year," said Aoki.
The team has won four of the six tournaments they entered this year and finished second in the other two. They finished second in the prestigious Big League Dreams Spring Tournament in Palm Desert, Calif., in April.
"That tournament included three California teams that had won national titles," said Aoki. "Our season was just starting, but those southern teams had already played about 40 games before that tournament. Most of the coaches in California now pressure kids to focus on one sport. We have a lot of multi-sport athletes; some play soccer or football in the fall, and basketball in winter."
The team never discusses individual batting averages or accomplishments during the season, instead emphasizing the team concept. But Aoki did give special mention to team captain Ian Warner, who clearly demonstrates the highest qualities of peer leadership.
"Ian has played many positions for the team, wherever we needed him, and he's often the best athlete at whatever position we ask him to play, according to team need," said Aoki. "Still, this team does not feature any one player, but consists of many well-balanced players who clearly understand the concept of 'team play.' Regardless of wins and losses, the bottom line is that this year's team consists of kids who truly represent a disposition of what it means to be a 'good citizen.' They are great kids in their community, in school, and on the field."
The team maintains an overall school GPA of 3.55, with all members over 3.0, Aoki said.
The team batting average is .403, led by Richie Lentz, Nick Hall, Jon Willard, and Mike Wagner. Pitching is spread among 10 players, led by D.T. Nance, Mike Wagner, Richie Lentz, Casey Priseman, and Nick Hall.
The core of the team consists of six players who have played together since T-ball, and played together on Woodinville West Little League all-star teams for over five years, said Aoki. Those players are Richie Lentz, Thomas Knowles, Casey Priseman, Ian Warner, Nick Hall, and Brad Johnson.


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The 2013 Marilla Car Show is scheduled to go on as planned this summer, despite what appears to be a split in the committee that has organized the event over the past 10 years.
According to town resident and committee member Carl Drechsel, one faction has agreed to resolve its issues with both the Marilla Town Board and the Fireman's Benevolent Association in order to ensure the event is held July 27 in the town, while the other is planning to establish a new auto show at a venue that is entirely outside of the town.
"It was not a clean or pretty split," Drechsel said Friday.
Recently, Marilla Supervisor George Gertz informed the committee that the town would require liability insurance under the terms of the new events permit now required for large gatherings that are not run by the town. Some members of the committee had complained that new fees were making the car show too costly to run in Marilla.
Members were also upset by a donation sought by the local fire association for the use of its property on Two Rod Road.
"A portion of the committee decided it couldn't work with the Town Board and the firefighters, but another portion believes the town has valid concerns regarding their request for insurance and permits," said Drechsel.
"We're also working with the firemen," he added.
At a recent Town Board meeting, Gertz told organizers that, although they will be expected to pay for liability insurance, the town – as in the past – would hire Erie County sheriff's deputies to direct traffic and town sanitation workers would clean up after the show.
The Town Board budgeted money to cover these expenses in the 2013 spending plan.
Drechsel, who is now the new committee chairman of the faction that has decided to keep the show in the town, did not say who is heading the splintered group or where its members planned to base the new show.
The two-day Marilla Car Show, which was first held in 2003, has attracted about 20,000 visitors annually.
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1999 Jacques-Louis Lions
Jacques-Louis Lions is one of the most distinguished and influential scientists in the domain of applied and industrial mathematics in this century. He has made outstanding contributions in many areas and has opened large classes of new problems and methods. To give only a few examples one should mention first the systematic use of functional analysis and weak solutions for solving elliptic and parabolic differential equations, both theoretically and numerically, further the various methods he developed for solving nonlinear problems and his profound studies on control problems for systems governed by partial differential equations, optimal control first and controllability later with the introduction of the now standard Hilbert Uniqueness Method. He made essential contributions to singular perturbations and, jointly with Alain Bensoussan and Georges Papanicolaou, developed the theory and methods of homogenization. In collaboration with Roger Temam and S H Wang he recently wrote major articles on mathematical models of climatology and meteorology about which he presented an invited lecture at ICIAM 95 in Hamburg. Those examples are taken from more than 500 articles and 20 books. His famous book on "Quelques methodes de resolution des problemes aux limites nonlineaires" is still a basic reference and a source of problems thirty years after it was published. A similar statement holds for the celebrated "Lions-Magenes" books. The more recently published "Dautry-Lions" book series on "Mathematical analysis and numerical methods for science and technology" which covers the development of modern mathematical methods, seen from the angle of applications, up to the designing of computer programmes, has become a fundamental reference for mathematicians, physicists and engineers.
Jacques-Louis Lions has founded and developed an important school of applied mathematics in France with a strong influence in many other countries. He has participated in many industrial programmes, for example as President of the Institut de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, INRIA, and later of the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, CNES. He has been President of the International Mathematical Union, IMU, and President de l'Academie des Sciences de Paris.
2003 Enrico Magenes
In a remarkable series of papers, followed and made complete in a three-volume book in cooperation with J L Lions (Nonhomogeneous Boundary Value Problems and Applications), he set the foundations for the modern treatment of partial differential equations, and in particular the ones mostly used in applications. This includes the systematic treatment of variational formulations, as well as the paradigm "regularity-results-transposition-interpolation," and allows a fully detailed use of the properties of trace spaces. The book has been the reference book for more than thirty years, for the completeness of the results reported there, but even more for the strategy of approach to problems. After that, the scientific activity of Magenes moved even further in the direction of application. In the early seventies he founded the Institute of Numerical Analysis in Pavia, which he directed for more than twenty years, keeping it in close contact with the top level scientific institutions all over the world, and making it the source of a number of highly successful scientists and of several pioneering results.
Apart from his continuous inspirational influence, he contributed personally to the development of a totally new technique for treating free boundary problems by means of variational inequalities, with remarkable applications to several important problems such as the flow of fluids through porous media or the phase-change phenomena. But even if his own results have been of paramount importance, his major merit is surely in the impulse he gave, and the influence he had in starting, encouraging and sustaining a way of doing mathematics that joined the rigour, the elegance and the deepness of so-called pure mathematics with the real-life problems that have to be faced in applications. If the combination of pure mathematics and applications is what Applied Mathematics is nowadays, Magenes is surely among the ones that deserve most credit.
2007 Joseph Keller
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Always amused me that the Russian version of this proverb says "Idiots think alike". Now, what does it say about the difference betwen Russian and American cultures?Originally Posted by purplecat
Always amused me that the Russian version of this proverb says "Idiots think alike". Now, what does it say about the difference betwen Russian and American cultures?Originally Posted by purplecat
Horray for Golden Skate. Where else can you learn things like that every day?
Absolutely, Joe! I am a charter subscriber to "Blades on Ice", and I greatly enjoyed the wonderful, extensive article on pairs skating. I'm old enough to remember quite a few of the pairs, starting from the legandary Protopopovs. I had the privilege of seeing Ludmilla and Oleg compete at the World Pro Championships, and, WOW, were they ever fantastic. They won the event by a huge margin, and the fans were on their feet cheering their lungs out. Truly, they were the royal pair of pairs skating - at least for their era, if not for all time.Originally Posted by Joesitz
Other wonderful pairs included Wagner/Paul, the Kauffmann brother/sister pair,
Kitty and Peter Carruthers, the brilliant Gordeeva/Grinkov, and so on. The list goes on and on!
I can't wait to see the pairs competing at the Olympics next year! Hopefully, there won't be a controversy (of any kind) to diminish the beauty of this aspect of figure skating.
All the best to all the pairs! Go for it.
How interesting! And unfortunately very often true (that idiots think alike)!Originally Posted by Ptichka
Last edited by purplecat; 07-30-2005 at 11:21 PM.
Originally Posted by purplecat
What are you trying to say, P.C.? :sheesh: jk...lol!
Idiots may think alike, but we're obviously on the other end of that spectrum!
Originally Posted by Joesitz
Yes, the history of pairs is well worth the read. The Pairs discipline has certainly gone through a lot of changes. Another book that discusses some great pair champions from Canada is : The Golden Age of Canadian Figure Skating by David Young. I read this book some time ago and thoroughly enjoyed it.
The pair teams of today would learn a great deal if they studied some of the great pairs like the Protopovovs and Wagner and Paul. Their programs were simpler, but elegent and graceful. They looked like pair teams, instead of indvidual skaters disjointingly skating together.
Aaaaw.....now whenever I watch MK start into a gorgeous spiral, all that will come to mind is "she's counting potatoes in her head!" Kinda spoils the drama and emotion of the moment, ne?Originally Posted by Mathman
Unfortunately, from what I've seen in Moscow Worlds, the Pairs of today are trying desperately to become Cirque du Soleil. It will be fight to see who has the most acrobatic lifts. But, there is one ray of hope in the German Pair. They actually have a rapport with each other. JMO.Originally Posted by SkateFan4Life
And that was one of the great things about Gordeeva and Grinkov. They were truly a meshed pair team, skated as a team, and looked beautiful together. Their love shone through in all of their performances.Originally Posted by Ladskater
But it's the next paragraph that is really funny. Tamara Moskvina says, about O & S,Originally Posted by Ptichka
"When they asked me if I would teach them, I saw a very attractive, cute girl and a very mediocre village boy. So I told myself, I have to do something so that the difference between them isn't so big. What? Posture, moves -- some original, attractive elements that shift the attention away from him..."
Katherine Hepburn on Astair and Rogers:
She makes him look sexy and he gives her some class.
I can't argue with that.
Of course, that goes without saying!Originally Posted by CzarinaAnya
Anyway, regarding the Blades on Ice article on pairs: I too enjoyed reading it, especially all the early pair information.
Now that I've read the article carefully, some random points:
- Interesting that at 1908 Worlds 80% of judges were Russian. Despite this, Brits won wilver over Russians in a close decision.
- Interesting mention of early N. America vs. Europe difference in Owen's 1940 book: "Canadians [...] used specific dances as the theme and motif of their routines with jumps, lifts, and other moves subordinate to the rhythm.
- In 1935, Canadians Dafoe & Bowden did a reverse throw - has anyone else done it, if not then why, and why is it not used now?
- Interesting judging blocks: in 1964 Olympics Canada, Switzwerland, Czechoslovakia, and US put the Protopopovs first , while Germany, France, Italy, and Austria went for German Kilius & Baumler.
- Aren't the Protopopovs absolutely fantasitc for skating like that at 70 and 73?!!!
- I didn't like it that the article made it sound as if Rodnina and Zaitsev doing their short for the exhibitions was somehow cheating.
- "A fresh breeze came into pair skating when [...] Rodnina & Zaitsev [... took] the year off to have a baby". Hmmm... I can fully understand dislike of R&Z, but it seems absurd to blame sport stagnation on a strong skating team.
- In 1981, there were only 11 entries at Worlds in pairs. Nice to see the sport has been in this crisis before and clilmbed out of it.
- I don't like the suggestion that the stinginess of ISU caused the SLC scandal. Yes, it's true that with Abitbol & Bernadis out of the Games, LaGougne should not have been on this panel. However, the problems occured not because a judge was on the panel even though that country's skaters were not competing.
The reverse throw that Dafoe & Bowden did sounds very interesting.
Does the offical rules say anything about doing a reverse throw? Maybe that is why pairs today don't do it.
The throw also sounds difficult, so it is probably easier for pairs to practice & improve upon the traditional methods of throwing, rather than a new type of throw that the some of the judges may or may not like.
All the same, I'm all for stretching the creative boundries of the sport-and it would be nice to see a pair do that move.
Towards the end of the magazine, there is a lovely personal recollection of Irina Rodnina. I love the image of Rodnina rocking it out to an Elton John concert. It also gave me an appreciation for the obstacles that she overcame in her life.
In addition to an historical overview-I think it would have been an interesting idea to interview as many living pairs skaters as possible, to get their opinion of the sport, their own careers and how they see pairs skating evolving over the years.
Ptichka, the North American version of that phrase actually has a second part, which is seldom used. The entire phrase is: Great minds think alike, but fools seldom differ.
I liked the fact that Blades did such an in depth article. However, that being said, you can tell it is a North American magazine. This is shown not only in the critiques of skaters from the east, but also in which skaters got the small "highlight" parts. For example, when trying to highlight great pairs over the years, Urbanski and Marvel do not come to my mind. They were nice skaters, but never accomplished much at the world level.
I have often thought that all of the skating magazines either need to hire copy editors, or to fire the ones they have. This article actually had fewer spelling and grammatical errors that most other articles I've read.


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Gibson leads Schreibman in poll; medicare is a big issue
Gibson did not respond to a request for a comment, but a statement on his website says, "Chris will not vote for any legislation that cuts benefits to current recipients of Medicare or Social Security, and will only vote for a bill that makes certain these programs are stronger in the future.
With Medicare projected to be bankrupt within a decade, keeping the status quo ends Medicare."
According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, only part of Medicare will face bankruptcy if lawmakers do not alter the funding formulas, and that will happen in 2024 to Medicare's Health Insurance Trust Fund. After 2024, the trust fund will be able to pay 87% of the costs that will likely be incurred.
The Center says "The 2024 date does not apply to Medicare coverage for physician and outpatient costs or to the Medicare prescription drug benefit; these parts of Medicare do not face insolvency and cannot run short of funds … because revenue contributions are specifically set at levels to assure this is the case"


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Everything was going good with this Swedish Meatballs cooking video, UNTIL the part when ANCHOVIES are introduced. WTF? Nobody puts stinky salty anchovies in Swedish meatballs! Come on now! Just because the video is filmed at a fancy, hoity-toity restaurant by someone alleged to be a chef doesn't mean they're doing the recipe the right way. I don't care how many chef awards he has (if any). You DON'T put anchovies in Swedish Meatballs. Foodies are always trying to rewrite tradition. Don't fuck with tradition! You don't know what you're doing. [He also uses hamburger. You are supposed to use 1/2 ground chuck and 1/2 ground pork ALWAYS.]
Practically every recipe I found online for Swedish Meatballs has at least one WRONG, fucked-up thing in it that would ruin the food and waste my money cooking it their way. It's like they're intentionally trying to sabotage.
SOLUTION: Turn off the Internet and access a real cook book. I checked several cookbooks from my shelf and Found the correct, TRADITIONAL way to make them — and NONE called for adding anchovies.


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Learning Objectives: Describe current prevalence and trends of smoking among women and girls. Identify three ways the tobacco industry targets women. Explain five community interventions to reduce tobacco use among girls and women.
Abstract: Audience: Public health professionals, health educators, advocates, community organizers, organizations interested in women's health.
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C) Turning research into action
3. A demonstration of the new companion toolkit to the Surgeon General's Report will include a sample presentation, education and outreach activities, cessation tips, media advocacy, internal industry documents targeting women, and a video.
Educational Experience: Participants will learn about the latest research on women and smoking, how women are targeted by tobacco companies, and specific ways to pro-actively work to decrease smoking through prevention, cessation, and environmental issues. Participants will break into groups to develop a strategic plan to reduce tobacco use among women and girls in their respective communities based on area of interest (e.g. schools, colleges, health care providers, policy).
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I'm using mod_perl 2.0.3 with Apache 2.2.9 and mod_proxy for reverse
proxying. Is there a way, from my mod_perl application, that I can
tell when the connection to the backend server in mod_proxy timed out?
I.e., mod_proxy made a connection to the backend, but the backend
didn't respond in the configured number of timeout seconds?
I know that there's the Apache2::RequestRec::request_time variable,
and I can do the simple math to figure out how long ago the request
started, but since mod_proxy does actually know when a timeout
happens, does mod_proxy bubble that info up into something that is
exposed by the mod_perl API anywhere? It would be nice to just have
simple access to an error code, to know whether it was a timeout or
just an aborted connection.