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There were several key reports and important data presented to the State Board during its monthly meeting this week. I am particularly pleased to present ISBE's first report on Special Education. The report, the first of its kind from the agency, is a result of the Illinois Continuous Improvement Plan (ICIP) which calls for improved outcomes for students with disabilities.
Where we previously measured efforts of services, we are now measuring, and reporting, the rsults of those efforts. In future years we will be collecting and reporting data on parent satisfaction. A link to the press release on the "2003 Annual State Report on Special Education Performance" is at http://www.isbe.net/news/2004/aug20_04.htm. The report will soon be posted and available online through the release or via the Special Education section.
I presented the results of the ACT results for the 2004
graduating seniors. I was once again pleased that the average score
We also released the "2003 Educator Supply and Demand
Report in
The Board also took action to update the negotiations with a vendor for the FY06, and beyond, state assessments. See the attached link to view the resolution http://www.isbe.net/assessment/PDF/resolution.pdf
Finally, please note that this week and next week will
be the final messages sent using our old email listserve. Addresses for sending the message will
be gleaned from the CDS (
Robert Schiller
State Superintendent
of Education
Included in today's message:
Deadline August 21 for 2004 Assessment Data Corrections on SchoolHouse
1) approve enrollment data for each school in their district,
2) approve enrollment data for their district as a whole, and
3) approve student demographic data for all students in their district.
The Quick Reference Guides sent in the July mailing should help Superintendents achieve this task. These guides are online also at www.isbe.net/assessment/pdfQuickRef.htm.
The first window for verifying 2004 state assessment data
on Pearson's SchoolHouse system closed on
During the second correction window (July 27 -
When the second window closes on
There will be NO additional
opportunities after
Your Immediate Attention is Needed: School Report Card Data Collection
There are a number of schools that have not submitted their data for the school report card (86-43) via IWAS. This information was due on August 16th. Please check and make sure that all schools in your district have approved and submitted the required data to ISBE. Some of you may have entered data but not approved it for submission. The status must indicate "approved" before ISBE can receive the data. We will not be able to complete the school report cards until we have data from all the schools.
Criminal Background Check Information – Public Act 93-909
Effective immediately, school districts are required to perform a fingerprint-based criminal history records check for all certified and non-certified applicants for employment. The criminal history check must be initiated prior to employment. To view this notic, please go to: http://www.isbe.net/pdf/criminal_check.pdf
Select ISBE Programs Impact on Federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE), in cooperation
with the Governor's Office of Management and Budget and the Department
of Human Services, has determined that the following five state education
programs administered by ISBE can be part of the
Regional Safe Schools Grant program (Revenue Code 3696)
State Free Lunch and Breakfast (Revenue Code 3360)
Extended Learning Opportunities-Bridges (Revenue Code 3825)
Early Childhood Block Grant (Revenue Codes 3705-00 & 3705-50)
These programs are being used either to maintain state
effort or as federal match for the TANF program. Please be advised that if you are receiving
these funds, you may not claim the expenditures locally for any other federal
match or maintenance of effort claim. Moreover, if you expended Regional Safe Schools Program funds
Further, in addition to the normal quarterly expenditure report required for some of these programs, please ensure that you accurately report the following information for each of these TANF programs:
Finally, all fiscal and program information for these programs should be maintained for audit purposes for a period of at least five years. If you have questions regarding this information please contact the Division of Funding and Disbursement Services at 217-782-5256.
Technology Survey Deadline Extended
Near the close of the past school year, the eLearning Division of the Illinois State Board of Education conducted an online technology survey of teachers and students. The survey is being used to support professional development, technology funding through the No Child Left Behind formula grant, enable the Illinois Virtual High School to benchmark and track student readiness for virtual learning, and assist us in identifying adequate state and federal technology funding for school districts.
A large number of
districts contacted us requesting an extension to administer the survey at
the start of the new school year. Our
survey provider, The Center for Teaching and Learning, has agreed to keep
the on-line survey portal open through
The cumulative data for your district and individual schools will be available to you online and can be printed for use in your technology plan, school improvement plan, and competitive grant applications. The data will clearly identify areas where your local professional development efforts will be most beneficial. By targeting your professional development funds, your limited resources will have greater impact on teaching and learning. Your participating faculty will also be able to access their personal confidential data online in the form of a bar graph.
The student survey is also administered online. Each teacher who participates in the above teacher survey is asked to randomly select three students to take the survey with the teacher entering their responses. This process takes about five minutes to complete.
ISBE is looking forward to your active participation in the survey. If you have any questions, please contact the survey technical support representative, Robert Dumke via email, firstname.lastname@example.com or call 1-866-426-0700.
2003-2004 Driver Education Cost Claim Open
The 2003-2004 Driver Education Cost Claim is now open
in the Illinois State Board of Education's Web Application Security
(IWAS) system. School districts
who operate Driver Education programs must file a cost claim on or before
Homeless Program Grant
Prior to fiscal year 2005 the State Board of Education (ISBE) had used the homeless program grant to fund a combination of individual school district and limited regional proposals. As a result, not all school districts were receiving services under the program. In February 2003
a regional format was implemented, along with the local grants, to establish a lead local education agency liaison to provide training to all school district liaisons and assist them in meeting the
requirements of the homeless law. In FY 2005 ISBE combined the locally funded programs and lead liaison effort into a single regional system of program delivery.
Seven grants were funded to provide services and programs
to all of the school districts in their region of coverage to ensure that
homeless children and youth have an opportunity to meet the same challenging
state standards to which all students are held. Within ISBE, Rich Dehart coordinates the
efforts of the seven regions to insure a uniform and coordinated delivery
of services.
As a new school year starts, more will depend on the assistance of this program. Thank you for continuing to assist!
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Goliad's Mallory Bruns and Rachel Vaughn took second in girls doubles and Anthony Maldonado and Kyndal Gruetzmacher placed second in mixed doubles.
Goliad's Briana Naranjo was third in girls singles and Collin Gruetzmacher and Caleb Vaughn captured fourth in boys doubles.
In the junior varsity division, Goliad's Kendall Muehlestein and Caleigh Knipling teamed for third place in girls doubles.
Goliad will compete Thursday and Friday at the Goliad Winter Invitational.

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Would open the floodgatesMay 10,2013
Would open the floodgates
I just read that the water tax has been stripped from the fees bill. I am glad. This tax would have been a very dangerous precedent.
From here the state would claim that all water is owned by the state and we do not have the right as landowners and homeowners to get water from our wells and springs.
Next the state would claim that the rain falling on our land is owned by the state and we would not have the right to collect rainwater.
Both of these have been done in other states.
Please dont let the state of Vermont steal away our property without even eminent domain proceedings. The state has no right to our water, soil and air. As property owners, paying the mortgage and the taxes, we own our property and that includes the mineral and water rights which we bought when we purchased our land.
Walter Jeffries
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While the rest of Fisher's students were packing to go home for Thanksgiving Break, nine nursing students were packing for a trip to Peru, where they would complete the final clinical rotation of their undergraduate career.
Dr. Natalie Masco, Assistant Professor in the Wegmans School of Nursing, and Adjunct Professor Keri Baker accompanied Charnelle Lewis, Jeff Cowden, Stephanie Richards, Emily Werner, Michelle Sondericker, Katelynn Sheridan, Kelsey Pearl, Molly Emblidge, and Charlotte Fuller to Ollantatambo, Peru for the 18-day clinical capstone experience. Masco said the trip was full of cultural immersion as the students were placed with host families and had the opportunity to experience day-to-day life in Peru from the food and family roles to the cold showers. They also took part in a session on culture that addressed the challenges of working in a developing country.
For Charnelle Lewis, Buffalo native who graduates this December, it was the first time she has traveled abroad and said she would definitely recommend this trip to other students. She had wanted to do a global preceptorship because she wanted to experience a different culture and see how healthcare norms differed from the United States.
While the group was there, they conducted health screenings in four primary schools where they educated students on proper nutrition, handwashing, and toothbrushing, and also completed head-to-toe assessments to gauge the students' overall health. They also conducted health assessments and one-on-one's for students ages 18-25 in a college dormitory in Casa de Mosqoy. During the trip, they saw over 150 patients. In addition, the group toured a local healthcare facility to better appreciate the levels of healthcare in Peru, and the difference in resources based on what people can afford.
Lewis recalled the long hike to one of the schools they visited, a hike they had to make with their supplies in tow. She came down with a bad cold during the trip, so the hike was a little bit harder for her. But as she was starting to complain, she thought of the people who live in those high altitude communities who make the trek on a daily basis. It made her realize that the people in those communities don't have a lack of knowledge about their health, what they lack is proper access to facilities.
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Onto the mesh feeder... How do I clean it well? I spend a lot of time trying to get all the little food bits out of the mesh, but I feel like I am never fully successful. So far we have only put banana in it. Maybe that's not a good choice to use in there? He really loves it, but I don't want it to become unsanitary.


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Ohio Northern University to present 'Ailey II' dance performance
Ohio Northern University's Freed Center for the Performing Arts will present "Ailey II" on Sunday, Oct. 27, at 5 p.m. A master class will be offered in the Biggs Theatre on Monday, Oct 28, at 10 a.m. to anyone who purchased a ticket.
Ailey II is universally renowned for merging the spirit and energy of the country's best young dance talent with the passion and creative vision of today's most outstanding emerging choreographers. Founded in 1974, the company embodies Alvin Ailey's pioneering mission to establish an extended cultural community that provides dance performances, training and community programs for all people. After touring North America and abroad, Ailey II brings its critically acclaimed performances home each spring for an annual New York season at The Ailey Citigroup Theater. Past engagements have taken place at the world-famous Apollo Theater and The Joyce Theater.
The company's repertory has included works by dance masters Alvin Ailey, Talley Beatty, Donald Byrd, Ulysses Dove, George W. Faison, Lar Lubovitch, Judith Jamison and Ailey's Artistic Director Robert Battle as well as works by rising choreographers such as Sidra Bell, Thang Dao, Carlos dos Santos and Kyle Abraham.
Tickets are $10 for adults, $10 for seniors and $5 for children. Tickets are $5 for ONU faculty and staff and $5 for ONU students. The Freed Center box office is open Monday through Friday from noon to 5 p.m., and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Phone orders are accepted with American Express, MasterCard, VISA or Discover by calling 419-772-1900. Tickets also are available online at www.onu.edu/freed


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Approving Evil
Sub-biblical views of sin do not confess our deadness in our transgression. If we consider today's passage carefully, however, we see no better evidence of our deadness in sin than that we bless what the Lord condemns and condemn what ...Read More
Unlike the Jerusalem temple described in today's passage, we do not have any new-covenant specifications for church architecture. Still, whether we build a cathedral or a building resembling a theater, people will get a sense of what we think about ...Read More
When we gather to worship the Lord, it is essential to remember that we are coming into the presence of the most holy Creator who has nonetheless chosen to show great mercy to a particular people in the person of ...Read More
Are Miracles for Today?
Dr. Sproul notes that there is no word for "miracle" in the original languages of Scripture. Our English term miracle translates Hebrew and Greek terms that are more literally rendered as "signs" or "wonders." That shows that miracles are not ...Read More
Arius' teaching — Arianism — is alive today in cults such as the Jehovah's Witnesses. It may also be held unwittingly by Christians who have not received good teaching and believe, implicitly, that the Father is a "higher" God than ...Read More
The Ark and the City
The Lord is slow to anger, and He is gracious and merciful, but we can never take advantage of that fact. True, there is no condemnation if we are in Christ, but that does not mean we will not feel ...Read More
The Ark Came to Rest
The story of Utnapishtim is not the only one offering us a history that remakes God in our image, downplaying His holiness and our depravity. Radical groups like the Jesus Seminar continue to offer us images of a Jesus who ...Read More
An Ark of Gopher Wood
As we trust on the Messiah who has already come, the Old Testament saints trusted on God's promise of the One who would come. Noah was saved because of the work of Christ, the goal of the covenant God made ...Read More
The Ark of the Covenant
Blood and the mercy seat typified the final cleansing that would be achieved through the shed blood of Christ (Heb. 10:1–18). Because of this blood we can now meet with the Lord in worship just as the high priest used ...Read More
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'Nothing-burger' is something after allToby Talbot / AP Photo
Peter Sterling, right, a "navigator" for Vermont Health Connect, answers questions for Beverly Beach, of Morristown, on Tuesday in Montpelier. Gov. Peter Shumlin said Thursday that the state is making significant progress in ironing out hitches with the launch of the online portal to the state's new health insurance exhange.
MONTPELIER — State officials, including Gov. Peter Shumlin, say significant progress has been made by the state and its vendors to address technical issues with the state health care exchange launched this week.
Shumlin, addressing reporters Thursday at a Statehouse press conference on another matter, said he and other officials expected technical issues with Vermont Health Connect.
Vermont has fared better than other states this week as online health insurance markets required under federal health care reform kicked off across the country, he said.
"I told you from the beginning that there were going to be hiccups and there were going to be bumps in the road," Shumlin said. "I would argue that, perhaps, our bumps in the road are less severe than most states experienced. As you know, some other states literally had to take their website down on the first day."
Shumlin has steadfastly shrugged off concerns about the exchange's capabilities. He previously referred to a one-month delay in the exchange's ability to accept payments as a "nothing-burger."
Thursday, Shumlin acknowledged that issues with the exchange website, which has loaded slowly or not at all for many people, have made for a more substantial sandwich.
"The website is a something-burger," the governor said. "The challenges that we're having with the website obviously are something-burgers."
Both Shumlin and Mark Larson, commissioner of Vermont Health Access, said Thursday that continuing work by state employees and contractors has improved loading speeds on the front page of the website.
However, Larson acknowledged to a panel of lawmakers Thursday that slow speeds continue to frustrate users who attempt to create accounts and log in to the portion of the system that allows for the side-by-side comparison shopping that was to be the hallmark of the website.
"We have had challenges with the speed of the website and … this is frankly one of the challenges we continue to work on," he said.
Larson said the state has also taken down key information on deductibles and out-of-pocket costs over concerns about the accuracy of the data.
While accurate information on those line items is available elsewhere on the site, he said the absence of that information has impeded the kind of customer experience on which Vermont Health Connect is supposed to make its name.
Larson said the problems will be solved in "days, not weeks."
The nearly 250 "navigators" trained to help Vermonters use the system also were having trouble logging in to the site, he said, but that those problems, which he blamed in part on slow loading speeds, had begun to diminish.
"It's something we've had teams working around the clock on and we hope to make progress on that," Larson said.
As of 4 p.m. Wednesday, according to Larson, 20,000 people had visited the site, and more than 1,200 had created accounts.
In testimony before the Health Care Oversight Committee, Larson faced questions about criticism raised earlier this week by former Republican gubernatorial candidate Randy Brock, who authored an op-ed on missed deadlines by the contractor being paid more than $80 million to construct the exchange.
According to the state's contract with CGI Systems and Technologies, the Virginia tech firm is on the hook for more than $5 million in penalties for the missed deadlines. As Brock pointed out, however, Vermont has yet to enforce any financial sanctions.
Sen. Kevin Mullin, a Rutland County Republican, wanted to know why.
"If there are penalties they should be paying to help offset the costs of those delays, then we should be going after them," Mullin said.
Larson said the state retained the right to assess penalties on CGI, but he wanted to wait until the contractor's work was complete before determining how much to extract from the company.
"We want to make sure we see the full implementation of the product before we assess the specific question of what are appropriate penalties for missed deadlines along the way," he said.
Despite the ongoing challenges, Shumlin maintained that the Vermont exchange and federal health care reform are moving forward successfully.
"I know that there are many, many Republicans in Congress, and perhaps some in Vermont, who wish that this wasn't working," Shumlin said. "It is working. We can be proud of the progress that we're making. This is about ensuring that Vermonters have access and Americans have access to affordable, quality health care."
Meanwhile, as state officials get to work fixing glitches in the new online health insurance marketplace, they celebrated good news from Washington, D.C. The federal government said it will help pay for state subsidies being offered for plans sold in the exchange.
Legislators earlier this year approved the allocation of $4.5 million to help offset increases in the cost of health insurance faced by lower-income Vermonters who are required to purchase from the new exchange.
Larson said the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has approved a three-year Medicaid budget for Vermont that will include a federal match for the state premium assistance.MORE IN Vermont NewsMONTPELIER Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt. Full StoryVermont Attorney General Bill Sorrell plans to join the U.S. Full StoryAs Rutland prepares to welcome Syrian refugees to its community, some are continuing to voice... Full Story
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A suicide bomber blew himself up at an entrance to the U.S. Embassy compound in Ankara, Turkey, on Friday. NBC's Richard Engel reports.
A suicide bomber blew himself up at an entrance to the U.S. Embassy compound in Ankara, Turkey, on Friday, officials said.
U.S. State Department and Turkish interior ministry officials said the bomber and a Turkish guard were killed in the attack, which took place about 1:15 p.m. local time (6:15 a.m. ET).
"Clearly, it's a terrorist attack," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said in a media briefing, adding that the U.S. condemns the hit in strong terms.
The bomber, who was wearing a suicide vest, made it to the first X-ray machine in a screening area leading to the visa section, police sources said, and then detonated the device.
The Turkish security guard standing nearby was killed, but two guards on the other side of the checkpoint, behind bulletproof glass, survived. In the immediate aftermath of the attack, sources had said three people were thought to have been killed.
Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said the bomber was a member of the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front, or DHKPC, a far-left group designated a terrorist organization by the United States and the European Union.
That group, started in the late 1970s, "has periodically targeted both Turkish officials and been virulently anti-U.S. and anti-NATO during the Gulf War and continuing to today," Michael Leiter, former director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center, said in an interview with NBC News.
"During the past several months Turkish officials have targeted the DHKPC and it is possible that this was in retaliation for those police raids," he said, adding that the group's reach was believed to be limited to Turkey and the immediate region.
There was, however, no claim of responsibility.
Nuland said a Turkish citizen was hurt and is in "serious condition." Reuters reported this victim was Didem Tuncay, a journalist on her way in to the embassy to meet U.S. Ambassador Francis Ricciardone. Several U.S. and Turkish staff members were hit by flying debris and treated at the scene.
"We're very sad of course that we lost one of our Turkish guards at the gate," Ricciardone said, according to Reuters, thanking Turkish authorities for their response.
Turkish television footage taken shortly after the attack showed smoke rising from the area and a heavily damaged door that led to a side street.
A suicide bomber blew himself up at an entrance to the embassy compound in Ankara.
Turkish media reports identified the bomber as Ecevit Sanli. Reuters said Sanli was previously involved in attacks on a police station and a military staff college in Istanbul in 1997.
Nuland said the attack happened on an external perimeter access site whose level of security protection ensured that the strike wasn't worse.
The White House said Friday it was not yet clear who was responsible for the bombing.
"The attack itself was clearly an act of terror," Jay Carney, White House spokesman, said in a briefing with reporters.
The State Department said the U.S. will cooperate with the Turkish side on the investigation into the attack.
Erdogan, who was attending a ceremony in Istanbul when the blast happened, said the attack "shows that we need to fight together everywhere in the world against these terrorist elements."
In an emergency message Friday, the State Department said Americans were "advised to not visit the Consulates in Istanbul, Adana or the Embassy in Ankara until further notice."
"The Department of State advises U.S. citizens traveling or residing in Turkey to be alert to the potential for violence, to avoid those areas where disturbances have occurred, and to avoid demonstrations and large gatherings," the message said.
In Berlin on Friday, Vice President Joe Biden said that he appreciated an "expression of sympathy" over the attack from German Chancellor Angela Merkel, saying it reinforced the "very close counterterrorism cooperation that exists between Germany and the United States."
On Sept. 11 last year, U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed in an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, prompting concern about security for diplomats.
On Jan. 23, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that she took responsibility for not adequately protecting U.S. personnel in Benghazi. Her voice choked with emotion as she remembered the return of "flag-draped caskets" and putting her arms around relatives of those who died.
Nuland said on Friday that after Benghazi, every U.S. post in the world reviewed its security. She added that the embassy in Ankara is one of the posts due for a complete compound overhaul. The building housing the embassy was built in the 1950s and needs a full upgrade, Nuland said.
Homegrown Islamic militants tied to al-Qaida have carried out suicide bombings in Istanbul, killing 58, in 2003. The targets were the British consulate, a British bank and two synagogues.
In 2008, an attack blamed on al-Qaida-affiliated militants outside the U.S. Consulate in Istanbul left three assailants and three policemen dead.
In the November 2003 attack on the British consulate, a suspected Islamic militant rammed an explosive-laden pickup truck into the main gate, killing British Consul-General, Roger Short, and his assistant, Lisa Hallworth.
The State Department says on its website that 15 people who claimed they were associated with al-Qaida were arrested in July 2011 for gathering explosive materials in preparation for an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Ankara.
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Turkish police secure the area after an explosion at an entrance to the U.S. Embassy compound in Ankara Friday.
It added that the July plot and other incidents "show a willingness on the part of some terrorist groups to attack identifiably Western targets. The possibility of terrorist attacks, from both transnational and indigenous groups, remains high."
The State Department says the PKK Kurdish rebel group is the "most active terrorist organization in Turkey." It said the PKK had historically targeted Turkish government and military interests, but had recently "threatened increased violent activity in Turkey's urban areas, and there is credible information suggesting that it intends to continue targeting tourist areas as well."
Earlier this month, about 400 U.S. personnel arrived at Turkey's Incirlik Air Base to support the deployment of a NATO Patriot missile battery to help defend the country from possible incursions by Syria's forces during that country's ongoing civil war.
Reuters, The Associated Press and NBC News Staff Writers Kari Huus, Alastair Jamieson and Becky Bratu contributed to this report.
From April 2011: US ally Turkey flirts with Mideast's 'bad boys'
After decades of oppression, Kurds get taste of freedom as Assad's troops flee


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Man charged with sending obscene material to a minor
A 22-year-old Valley Bend man is being held on a $140,000 bond for allegedly sending sexually explicit letters and pictures to a female minor in 2010.
Shawn D. Shields, of HC 69 Box 9, was charged with 14 felony counts of distribution of obscene material to a minor Wednesday in Randolph County Magistrate Court.
According to the criminal complaint in the magistrate clerk's office, Shields violated a pretrial diversion agreement dating back to 2010 that resulted in his arrest.
Cpl. A.S. Loudin with the West Virginia State Police's Crimes Against Children Unit began investigating the case in April 2010, when the concerned mother of a then-15-year-old minor came into the WVSP headquarters with 45 letters Shields, then age 19, allegedly had written to her daughter.
Loudin's report states 13 of the 45 letters contained "several sexual comments from (Shields) wanting to have sexual intercourse and oral sex" with the female minor. Shields had also allegedly used the minor's camera to take pictures of his genitalia, the complaint states.
In an interview, the alleged victim told Loudin she and Shields had been corresponding since Dec. 14, 2009. Loudin arrested Shields and obtained a written confession from him, according to the report.
However, the case was dismissed in accordance with a pretrial diversion agreement in which Shields agreed to refrain from having unsupervised contact with minors.
However, Loudin alleges that Shields has since had unsupervised contact with two minors, based on his investigation.
Magistrate Rob Elbon set bond at $140,000 cash or surety. Shields remained in the Tygart Valley Regional Jail as of presstime.
The penalty for a conviction of distribution of obscene matter to a minor is a fine of up to $25,000, imprisonment in the state penitentiary for up to five years or both.


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Spring Training 2010: More Pictures
Congratulations to Andre Ethier who had his number (#14) retired by his alma mater, Saint Mary's High School, Wednesday at Phoenix. Tommy Lasorda was there in addition to Rick Monday who emceed the event.
My friend took this picture of me with my Andre shirt.
Too many people here, let's walk to the Dodgers Minor league area:
Here is Elisa and I walking where the minor leaguers practice.
And no Bailey! I am not willing to trade Ethier from my baseball fantasy team "Locos Azules"!
I love my Shape-up shoes!
Game underway and Kemp little fans waiting to see if they can get a baseball
Maybe this guy drove all night to get to Camelback Ranch. We nicknamed him Sleeping Beauty. People kept coming by taking pictures with him or thowing peanuts aming for his mouth.
But Sleeping Beauty was wide awake the following day with this sign, except he was blocking our view. I yelled "Hey! you are blocking home plate" "Go back to sleep instead" to which the fans around laughed and applauded. Everyone remember the guy from the day before.
Speaking of signs, here is the familiar sign Dodgers see at other ballparks
I like this sign better and I love the rainbow! Sign reads "is not about how you start. It is about how you finish." picture taken while we were driving.
Here is another picture of the rainbow taken over the window of the car. There was a double rainbow but is hard to see here.
Padilla has been named the starter for the Opener at Pittsburgh and Kershaw the Opener at Dodger Stadium! Congratulations guys! I can't wait to watch you pitch!
I laughed when I saw a poster posted this comment in mikesciosciatragicillness blog when Padilla was announced as the Opening Day starter.
jay_jaffe Why, did he shoot Kershaw and Billingsley?
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Emma, great pics! The whole facility looks so nice, with all the trees and grass along the walkways. Funny shot of the guy sleeping – man, I bet he had a sore neck when he woke up! Finally got the rest of my ST entry up – please check it out when you have a chance.
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I forgot to ask the guy if he had a stiff neck the following day. I'll check your wonderful pictures Sue!
Love the rainbow – and the message on the sign. Has to be a good omen for the season, right? Congrats to Ethier too.
Thanks for sharing, Emma! I really like the silhouette pic of you and the clouds…. very artsy, very cool. And I have to admit, seein' y'all in shorts and t-shirts really makes me yearn for summer. This winter renaissance here in the Chi is going beyond annoying.
Hey Emma,
I loved all the pics! Looks like you had a great time. I love Ethier, is he your fav Dodger too?
I'm excited for the opening day match up! You'll get to see the Pirates come to LA end of April.
Sucks I only ge tto see the Dodgers at the begining of the season. Hopefully i make a trip out to LA in the summer to catch a few!
Isn't that a great sign and a good omen too!
My friend "Juana Soo Hoo" takes great pictures! she learned from the best Jon Soo Hoo. I gave her that name.
I loved my time in Arizona. Wish I could go this weekend. Ethier is one of my favorites! I too are excited about the matchp. I'll be looking for your report on the Opener.
The facillity looks great! Looks like you had a great time. Did the kids get a ball or even an autograph? http://clevelandbaseball.mlblogs.com/
Oh yeah the kids were thrown a ball in between innings! don't know about an autograph though.
I love the name of your fantasy team!! Locos Azules!!
awesome pics! kinda sad the fun of ST is nearly over but more exciting that the season is almost here!
funny that the giants are that intense about "Beating LA" even in ST
Come please! I really want Andre!!!! He is like me uncle twice removed or something (seriously, I talked to him at spring training and our families are from the same spot in Canada). I will give anything and at this point toss in a reliever and a bench guy and I might trade Ryan Howard.
Awesome pics again Emma, we had snow falling again yesterday over night, after a couple of weeks in the 60's, summer is so close…. rainbow pics are cool… comment on Padilla starting is too funny….
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Emma – Camelback looks fantastic! Love the energy of the facility by the photos you took. As for that one photo from Snotsdale – I mean, really Giants?
I love the name too! Locos Azules! Sound wild! lol.
They just love to chant that in San Francisco and also in San Diego. Next Thursday is the first game at Dodger Stadium. Exhibition game with the Tribe!
Bob, Bob, Bob,
How could I trade one of favorite players?
I can't believe you still have snow! Wow! I cracked when I read that comment about Padilla starting. Hey! he is very happy and hopefully he will have a great year with the Blue!
When I saw how they flashed that at Snotsdale (I like that!), I rolled my eyes and took the pic.
Enjoy the blog, wished the RANGERS had a really good blog. Good luck with Padilla, just don't turn your back on him, he bites!
hahha at the last comment!
I too was surprised that Padilla was named opening day starter! How about Kershaw? He certainly deserves it!😦
great pictures as usual (and commentary). What a beautiful rainbow you captured!
Thanks Wetfeet!
Oh, so far I've seen good things from Padilla. I saw an interview with him in Spanish and he seemed a little shy instead. We will see what happens.
Long time no see Mimi! I too was surprised but I love that Kershaw will be the Opening Day pitcher AT HOME! What could be better than listening to Vin Scully broadcast the game pitched by Kershaw. See, Vin does not travel no further than Colorado.
Hey Emma!
Well, we just came back from our vacation and our first trip to Camelback! We were there weekend before last (Friday 3/19 – Monday 3/22). Yes, the four games where the Dodgers lost all four games. 😦 Oh well, we still had a great time and would trade it for the world! I loved being so close to our Boys in Blue!!! I got my autographs (not as many as I would've liked) but I did. I got Andre's and was able to talk to him for a little bit! My mom got his autograph too and was able to talk to him too! I also got autographs from Blake DeWitt, Russ Martin, Rick Honeycutt, and Charlie Steiner. I was looking for Josh Rawitch all weekend, but never did run into him. Too bad; I wanted my mom to meet him. Maybe next time.
You are back! Well, my record for the games i went to was One win, 2 losses and a cancelled game. Glad you had a great time! I am glad that you got your authographs and one of Andre AND you talked to him! Maybe your mom and you can run into Josh at the stadium. When is your next game at Dodger Stadium? I can't wait to be there this Thursday! Woohoo!!
Some great pics there. Cool stuff. Hilarious that there was a guy so sound asleep. Not very "beast" of him. Hope you had a good time–and how could that not happen? Only a few days to go…
I havent gone to any spring training games this year but i did go to Atlanta Brave workouts. Got a few autographs etc…
Emma – Yes, being at Camelback was great! We were pleasantly surprised when we found out that Camelback doesn't charge for parking! So we got to go back and forth between workouts and games several times a day and not have to pay for parking all the time! That was great! We did enjoy ourselves. Yes, would've been nice if the Dodgers could have won a game we were at, but hey, it's ST. I forgot to say something else. Not only did I get a chance to talk to Andre, but on our last day there, I said a few words to Josh Lindblom. I saw him pitch on Saturday night (I think it was Saturday night) and he did a TERRIFIC job! I think he was kinda surprised that someone actually recognized him and called out his name! I thought that was cool! And as far as our next game? Well, my mom and I will be there for the home opener! Yes, I REALLY wished we ran into Josh.
Thanks! Yeah, you should have seen that guy. Everyone kept coming around with their camera putting their head close to his to take a picture. It was hilarious that whatever they were throwing to him, it would not wake him. The usher was concern but his buddies just told her that he was asleep. Thursday night I will be at Dodger Stadium!
The best time I had at Vero Beach were at workouts!
That is great that you got to talk to Lindblom and that he appreciated that! I got a nice rooklie card from him. Hey! let's keep in touch for Opening Day!
Sure thing Emma! I'll pick up my mom early and stop on by. I don't know if you noticed, but on ITD, I left a note for Josh to see if he can stop by so my mom can meet him! I know he's busy, especially on the home opener, but hey, if I never ask, I'll never get! 🙂
I plan to get there early and go around greeting friends around that I have not seen since the end of the season. I'll email you my number in case you need to get a hold of me.
I think your best bet with Josh is to get there early for BP and catch him as he is coming back from the dugout area or at the club level but like you said Opening Day, he will be extremely busy. I'll help you see him. When is your next game with your mom?
After the home opener, not sure. We were both hoping that she'd have tickets for May 18 (AE's bobblehead), but she doesn't and her season ticket partner likes Andre too and wants his bobblehead too. So I'll see if I can get tickets for the two of us for that game. If I'm able to get them, then that will probably be my next game, but not sure. I'll let you know one way or the other…
Buy your tickets at the stadium for May 18 and as soon as you can. You know it will be a sellout.
Yes, I know it'll be a sellout…
I like your Ethier shirt. My father bought me a shirt with my last name on it but Ethier's number for my birthday. He said watching Ethier a few years ago reminded him of when I played because we had a similar batting stance. Indeed Ethier's my age, height, and left handed like me so I too saw a resemblance. Of course after I stopped playing baseball I just got fat so that's where the comparison fades. It's better that people like me quit and get fat and let the really talented players like Ethier carry the torch instead.😉
I am going to buy a ticket for another friend that loves Andre.
I am glad that they make it in a women size. I get tired of wearing guys shirts. So the same batting stance and a lefty too! Hey so are you going to catch the Dodgers this year at a game on the road?
Last season was the first year I didn't make it to a game since 2005 so that was a little disappointing. I'm unsure about this year but it's not looking good.
I've got a chance to see the Nationals (1 hour) or the Phillies (45 minutes) close by but the timing of those series aren't that great. I thought I might make it to Boston (6 hours) but that's seeming more and more unlikely though not completely out of the picture yet.
I'll be moving back to Arkansas before the season ends. That will limit me every year to pretty much only Cardinals games though I think I'll miss that series this time around. That will be a nightmare considering how hard the Cardinals are against LA there every year. I hate going to 1 game a year only to see the Dodgers lose. It's not a total wash but it sure is a lot more fun when they win. But who knows? Maybe after the NLDS last year the Dodgers reversed that STL curse? I hope so.
I say that I'm limited to STL but of course I can always drive 8 or 9 hours to Chicago to see the Dodgers against the Cubs or White Sox. Chicago is a great place to visit and I'd like to do it several more times in the next few years.
but you might get to see a good game. You might see Kershaw! You might see a no hitter. Ok, don't listen to me. Hey! I hope we found the solution to beat those Cardinals! I think I mention to you that I was in St Louis for a four-game series and my Bums lost all four! Still, my friends in St Louis are just great great people, very down to earth. I can't say enough of them. I have a picture with them when we met again during Spring Training in 2008.
I saw Kershaw pitch in Philly in 2008. He looked great for a while but didn't have his best stuff and the Dodgers lost. That was the least of my trouble that day.
The Philly Phanatic kicked my wife in the head on the way down the seats while I was away getting some veggie hot dogs. I did see Russell Martin hit a 2 run homer that day but when I cheered I was threatened by Phillies fans who said one more cheer and I would get beer on me. Then a Phillies fan cussed out a Dodger fan near me and got red in the face from being too drunk. So yeah, that was the last live game I've seen. I've seen tons of great Phillies fans in this region. I'm just not sure where they were at that day when they left me with all the rotten fans…
Plus to top it off it ended my streak of 9 games in a row I'd seen with a Dodger win (including that playoff clinching game in SF in 2006 that you and I were both at). I need to get to a game this year so I can start a new streak.
Wow Aducker! that was a bad experience with the Phillie phans and Philly Phanatic. I know Sue, Jen and Peter who have mlb blogs are good Phillie phans. Like you said, the bad ones came out when you went to the game.
Still can't believe you were at the playoff clinching game in SF in 2006 when I was there! That was so much fun! YEs! Start a new winning streak! You deserved one!
Emma: Omg what beautiful pictures! Love the rainbow, love the pic of you looking into the sky with the Andre shirt, and….
I LOVE the Andre pic ♥


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A man claims he was fired from the English learning center where he worked because his boss thought a blog post about homophones would associate the school with homosexuality.
To be clear: Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings and often different spellings, like through and threw or which and witch.
Foreign students learning English can find this concept confusing if homophones do not exist in their native language.
Which is why Tim Torkildson thought it would be a good topic of a blog post at the Nomen Global Language Center in Provo, Utah. As the social media specialist, he often posts about educational topics relevant to the students who attend the school, reports The Salt Lake Tribune.
But Torkildson claims that after he posted about homophones, he was let go for creating the perception that the school promoted a homosexual agenda.
His boss and Nomen owner Clarke Woodger called him into his office after the post was published and told him he was fired.
Torkildson said Woodger complained, "Now our school is going to be associated with homosexuality."
Woodger claims Torkildson's firing had nothing to do with homophone post, but that Torkildson had caused him concern because he would "go off on tangents" at times in his posts.


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Homebuilders look for new growth
PARKERSBURG – A sector hit hard by the recession has been construction, but several local officials believe there may be signs of positive growth in 2013.
John Farnsworth, executive officer with the Home Builders Association of the Mid-Ohio Valley, said his members are hearing that nationally, home construction is expected to increase this year. Locally, it's too early to tell, Farnsworth said. However, the association will hold its annual Great American Home Show from Feb. 8-10 in the Park Shopping Center in Parkersburg.
"We expect to get a better feel when the home show rolls around," he said.
Bill Hutchinson, business manager of the Parkersburg-Marietta Building and Construction Trades Council, said 2012 saw slight improvement over 2011, which itself had seen some positive growth after a couple of down years with high unemployment for the council and its members.
During 2011, the council saw employment rise to about 75 percent in most crafts, with those related to pipelines and other oil and gas related crafts seeing the most growth. Some additional small improvements were seen during 2012, with more maintenance being done in local plants, an important segment for the council, and a slight upswing in general construction.
"We hope to see more," he said.
Looking ahead at 2013, Hutchinson hopes continued job growth in the oil and gas industry, the Willow Island hydroelectric project and construction at Kraton Polymers in Belpre will have a positive impact on the jobs picture in the local area.
"It's looking up, it looks like there might be some improvements this year," he said.
The trades council represents eight counties in West Virginia and six counties in Ohio with 50 local unions covering the 15 building and construction crafts.
The council works to help local unions in whatever ways it can, from advocacy and political representation to helping with work and negotiations. The council mainly represents two groups. One is the civil crafts, which include laborers, carpenters, bricklayers and others. The other is the mechanical crafts, which include pipefitters, electrical workers, ironworkers, boilermakers, sheet metal workers and others.
Clinton Suggs is executive director of the Parkersburg-Marietta Contractors Assocation, which represents about 50 general and specialty contractors in the commercial and industrial areas and businesses that provide services and supplies to them.
"I think we are cautiously optimistic" looking ahead at 2013, Suggs said.
The association and its members have seen some industrial work coming back, although commercial work remains slow. He said the work in the oil and gas industry is helping some segments of the contstruction business, while others have not seen any benefit or impact.
Suggs said there are a lot of things to keep an eye on which could help or hurt, such as the possibility of a cracker plant in the Parkersburg area.
"It looks like it will be a decent year," Suggs said, adding things are coming around slowly.
Brian Stanley is president of the Parkersburg Area Labor Council, which works with many different types of crafts and trades in the local area.
Many local unions have members who serve on the council and meet monthly. The council's primary function is to share information, ideas and support among its members. The council also is involved in the political process from the local to the national level through endorsements and support for various candidates during elections.
The council and many of its members are also involved in the community through service projects and similar activities.
Looking back at the past year, Stanley said 2012 was still a slow year for members, but started to pick up at the end of the year.
"2013 is projected to be a good year for the building and construction trades," he said.
The regional situation appears like it might be positive, with a lot of upgrades planned in the commercial and industrial areas, especially in terms of energy-efficiency upgrade projects and related programs. Jobs related to the Marcellus shale natural gas drilling also seem to be trending upward.
"The projections I've seen, it's supposed to be a decent year," Stanley said.
One of the main challenges locally remains advocating for local skilled workers for the jobs in the area where employers bring in non-local labor. For the past couple of years, Stanley said the council has focused on a "local jobs for local workers" campaign, working to convince employers to hire from the local area's trained and experienced employees for their projects.
A major area of interest is the Marcellus and Utica shales and the council with others have been trying to convince the drilling companies to hire qualified local workers instead of using workers from outside the area, as they have been mostly doing, he said.
"With the influx of the work on the Marcellus shale, that will be the last big boom I think we will see," Stanley said.


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I have a 20 month old daughter who still nurses. Right now it isn't annoying me, but there have definitely been those times. My daughter was big, too, in her first year, and for quite a lot of that first year, it felt like there were days when all we did was nurse. It can make you feel pretty crazy.
Things that helped for me: one issue is that it can be boring and frustrating to nurse for long times in the day. I felt better when I had a lot of books to read while nursing, or got the computer and did email while she did her thing. Also, you don't need to stay in the house all day just because you're nursing. Take her out in a sling or babybjorn, you can even nurse her in the sling. Or push her round in a stroller, I found my daughter chilled out with motion even when she wasn't nursing, and it helped me get exercise.
The sleeping thing is the worst. I think you should experiment with alternative ways of helping her to sleep, OTHER than crying it out. Right now I stroke my daughter's back in her crib until she falls asleep. No nursing to sleep, but also no abandonment. We had a hard time figuring out a way to get her to sleep without always the breast, but it's worth working on, I think. It's also worth knowing that you can sleep-wean or night-wean, but NOT wean entirely.


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Band director, Kenneth Harvill and assistant director, Meagan Stephens will continue to encourage students to do their best as they now prepare for their Spring Concert. Fourth and Fifth grades will perform on May 8 at 6:30 p.m.
Then on May 10, sixth through twelve grades will perform at 6:30 p.m. Both concert performances will be held at the SAC, due to construction we express extreme caution with traffic and students. On May 10, there will also be a Silent Auction with proceeds going towards scholarships. Band Booster parents are now excepting donations from our local businesses, companies, even personal donations of items to be auctioned off.


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La Crosse's city council president will face a recall election.
City Clerk Teri Lehrke ruled Friday afternoon, there are enough sufficient signatures to trigger a recall against District 11 council member Audrey Kader.
The Restore La Crosse Committee originally filed the recall petition on November 16th. They needed 158 valid signatures. However, Kader filed a challenge to the petition saying some of the signatures came from invalid addresses and from outside of the district.
After reviewing the petition and Kader's challenge, Lehrke ruled only 104 signatures were valid.
Members of the Restore La Crosse Committee then corrected the addresses and dates associated with some of the signatures in question. Lehrke ruled Friday the group had provided 169 qualifying signatures.
Nomination papers can be circulated once a date has been set for the recall election. Kader will be considered a candidate without nomination unless she resigns from office before January 2nd, 2013.
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- Cafe space, communication, creativity, and materialism
- Author(s)
- McCosker, Anthony; Wilken, Rowan
- Abstract
- Coffee, as a stimulant, and the spaces in which it is has been consumed, have long played a vital role in fostering communication, creativity, and sociality. This article explores the interrelationship of café space, communication, creativity, and materialism. In developing these themes, this article is structured in two parts. The first looks back to the coffee houses of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to give a historical context to the contemporary role of the café as a key site of creativity through its facilitation of social interaction, communication and information exchange. The second explores the continuation of the link between cafés, communication and creativity, through an instance from the mid-twentieth century where this process becomes individualised and is tied more intrinsically to the material surroundings of the café itself. From this, we argue that in order to understand the connection between café space and creativity, it is valuable to consider the rich polymorphic material and aesthetic composition of cafés.
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- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences. The Swinburne Institute for Social Research
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- M/C Journal, Vol. 15, no. 2 (May 2012)
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- 2012
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- Keyword(s)
- Cafe spaces; Cafes; Coffee houses; Communication; Creativity; Materialism; Social interaction
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- Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology
- 1441-2616
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The Lewis County Hospital Foundation's first "Cookies and Milk" Family Fun Event was held at the Maple Ridge Center, Lowville, Tuesday, May 26.
Roy Hammecker, Event Chair, and Foundation Board member reported that well over 100 kids, grand kids and interested cookie eaters sampled over 30 different varieties of cookies from throughout the area from Utica to Watertown.
Jim Randall, who coordinated the volunteer judging, announced that in the ever-so-close "celebrity cookie judging," Sue Doyle Makuch's "Raspberry Bar Filled Cookie" was the First Choice of the panel of judges. The light pastry surrounded a special berry filling, known only to Sue. Placing Second was a "Rich Pecan Square" - that has been compared to a pecan pie - prepared by Anne Merrill. Our third place, was a "Maple Pecan Cookie" with a maple-cream cheese frosting. Rebekah Zehr said "she couldn't let her cookies out of the house without including cream cheese!"
Lewis County Dairy Princess, Kelsey Lyndaker, and Dairy Ambassador, Hunter Zehr were on hand to pour milk to go with the excellent cookies.
The Hospital Foundation will present certificates to all of this year's cookie masters. Some of the competitors commented that they are already planning for next year.
Event pictures and a complete list of this year's entries will appear shortly on the foundation's website: www.lchfoundation.org.
The Foundation would like to thank the Adirondack Mennonite Camping Association, Climax Manufacturing Co., Countryside Veterinary Clinic, Kraft-Lowville, Lowville Producers, Stewart's Shoppes, Byrne Dairy, Otis Technology, Upstate Milk, WWNY NEWS 7, WLLG Radio, and the LCGH Staff for their assistance.


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#208033 - 11/15/12 05:01 AM Umbraphile
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Umbraphile.....thats me, well if doing it once classifieds me as such. I like to think so.
Its a great word. Umbraphile is a shadow lover, especially in terms of eclipse chasing. One who searches the world for best place to see this natural phenomenon.
Waiting For The Shadow
I travelled 1700k to see the Total Eclipse. And thousands of people from around the world descended into Cairns for the same reason. It is very rare to see a total solar eclipse, especially from the land and in ones own country.
As dawn broke and the sun began to rise over Queensland, totality ....when the moon completely covers the sun began. It was Wednesday the 14th of November. A day that will be in my memory for ever. An extraordinary natural phenomenon.
The eclipse happens because at this time, in space, the sun which is 400 times bigger than the moon, is also 400 times farther away, so for those near Cairns it will appear that the moon matches the size of the sun.
What creates the shadow
It really makes you think....what the world would be like with out the sun, how dark it would be, and cold. I noticed a sudden drop in the temperature and that the birds went quiet, everything was quiet. I thought about what it must have been like for the dinosaurs back during the Ice Age.
I'm hooked. I am planning where I have to go next to see the next eclipse
#208039 - 11/15/12 12:35 PM Re: Umbraphile [Re: Candy]
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Posts: 8541
Loc: Land of the Flat Water
As you know it is definitely on my 'bucket list'.
I am very envious, and your email sites were marvelous,
especially the one of the folks on the beach and the
brief cloud cover._________________________
----please, draw me a sheep----
#208041 - 11/15/12 06:12 PM Re: Umbraphile [Re: Candy]
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Registered: 05/10/10
Posts: 954
Loc: Alaska
We had a dog named Umbra: the collie part of her gave her a tiny white stripe on her muzzle, the Lab part put a matching black stripe next to it. The husky part of her made her love to pull, and for years we took her to a carnival at the local elementary school, put on her harness, and hitched her to a little red wagon. She happily hauled children on the track around the playground all day long.
#208045 - 11/16/12 12:27 PM Re: Umbraphile [Re: Tromboniator]
Carpal Tunnel
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Posts: 8541
Loc: Land of the Flat Water
That is really neat. I had a red wagon as a kid, and have
a miniature Radio Flyer on my desk to hold junk._________________________
----please, draw me a sheep----
#208049 - 11/17/12 12:44 AM Re: Umbraphile [Re: Candy]
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 03/15/00
Posts: 11613
Loc: Louisville, Kentucky
Candy! WOW! I am SO impressed! And jealous . What kind of eye protection did you have? Or did you do that pinhole-in-a-box thing?
#208051 - 11/17/12 09:02 AM Re: Umbraphile [Re: Jackie]
Registered: 09/21/10
Posts: 1706
Loc: down under
I had a welders helmet, Jackie. It gave the best protection. The glasses (cardboard with some sort of protective lens)they were selling for $10 were issued with warning 'not for continual use'!
Umbra...was a great name for that dog, with those markings, Peter.
#208057 - 11/17/12 10:21 PM Re: Umbraphile [Re: Candy]
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Posts: 954
Loc: Alaska
She was a sweetheart.
#208058 - 11/17/12 11:00 PM Re: Umbraphile [Re: Tromboniator]
Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 04/03/00
Posts: 10538
Loc: this too shall pass
some might take umbrage at this whole thread!
#208059 - 11/18/12 02:58 AM Re: Umbraphile [Re: tsuwm]
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Registered: 05/10/10
Posts: 954
Loc: Alaska
It's only a shadow of what it might have been.
#208060 - 11/18/12 06:22 AM Re: Umbraphile [Re: tsuwm]
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Loc: down under
Originally Posted By: tsuwmsome might take umbrage at this whole thread!
Then...they do well to hide in the shadows then, tsuwm
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Two other residents were not able to escape the fire and were pronounced dead by the Adams County Medical Examiner's Office.
"Once the fire was put out, we found that there were two people, as we would say at this time, as a result of the fire but that's still under investigation as the cause of the deaths," said Sam Wollif with the Adam's County Sheriff's Office.
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Ace Hardware, the largest retailer-owned hardware cooperative in the industry, has announced that Craftsman products are now available at more than 2,000 Ace stores.
More than 2,000 neighborhood Ace stores now offer a full line assortment of more than 650 Craftsman products, including hand tools, portable and bench top power tools, compressors, pneumatic tools, wet/dry vacs, tool storage, lawn and garden, outdoor power equipment items and garage door openers. Since the inception of its agreement with Sears Holdings to sell Craftsman products in 2010, Ace has remained the exclusive retailer of Craftsman products in the convenience hardware industry.
"The sheer number of stores that carry Craftsman products is a real testament to the brand's strength and our retailers' commitment to offering homeowners the best brands paired with the personal, knowledgeable and helpful service that they have come to expect when shopping at their neighborhood Ace Hardware store," said John Surane, senior vice president, Marketing, Merchandising and Sales for Ace Hardware Corp. "As is true of all our retailer programs, our independent retailers are able to select different sets to meet the needs of their communities and markets."
"When we started the Craftsman brand relationship with Ace in 2010, we believed that Ace strongly complemented our existing offerings available in the market place," said Michael Castleman, head of the Kenmore, Craftsman and DieHard business unit of Sears Holdings. "Expanding Craftsman to more Ace retail stores confirms that belief, shows the continued strength of the brand, and better serves the passion of the DIY community which is shared by Ace and the Craftsman brand."
In conjunction with Craftsman products now being available at more than 2,000 Ace stores, Ace is launching a national marketing campaign to let consumers know that Ace is the neighborhood destination for Craftsman tools, garage, and lawn and garden items. The campaign will include national TV and radio advertising as part of the recently launched "Meet the Aces" campaign; a Father's Day gift guide featuring Craftsman products; social media; digital advertising; emails to members of the Ace Rewards customer loyalty program and public relations initiatives.
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