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Yep, one asshol* represents all the guys, logic -b
Originally Posted by wargear
At the risk of being slightly crude let me illustrate my prior post by saying "When your both laying there panting and counting ceiling fan blades if all you have to say is "Baby you need a washcloth?" You got nothing at all......
At the risk of sounding like a man, that's sounds like the perfect relationship...
Originally Posted by Wang
At the risk of sounding like a man, that's sounds like the perfect relationship...
It may sound like it but as a man I want a woman who's smart and intellectually capable of holding her own on any topic honest and caring. In short,a true and equal partner. Companionship and communication are way more important than sex in fact, if you base your relationship on those things the comfort and trust level will be such that sex becomes the icing on the cake so to speak....
Why is it that people put all guys into one stereotype? Huh?
You should've just gave him some, then yall would still be together, and you wouldn't be so bitter complaining to us. That he dumped you.
Originally Posted by Jack Spicer
Why is it that people put all guys into one stereotype? Huh?
sorry I'm just sad...
Originally Posted by Slug Princess
I think that promoting a better sexual conduct on guys is really important and that is why I made this thread.
There are more important things in life that just "a hook up".
Guys, I'm really disappointed and disillusioned about this fact. I'm not being biased when I talk about this matter.
My last bf just left me like a month ago just because he wanted to sleep with me already and I told him that I wasn't ready for that jump.
He never told me he left me because of that but from my perspective:
-Everything was great, we used to have fun and I was (am) ridiculously in love with him even when he wasn't that "good looking" guy. But I liked him because he never pushed me to do anything and everything happened very naturally. He used to take me to places and we used to have lasting conversations. Suddenly he asked me when were we gonna sleep together. I explained him the fact that I wasn't (still not) ready for that. He insisted a couple of times more and after a week he just broke up with me saying that "he needed some time and space for himself".
Now he's seeing another girl who is known to be a big ***** and rumor has it that she has slept with half the school's guys and she's only 17 just like me.
Guys, no one is supposed to jump to a sexual relationship where there isn't love... there are things that take time in life like to feel that you are fully prepared for such an important decision as it is having your first sexual relationship.
Love someone and wait for the right moment when you both feel that the natural time for you has arrived. There's more time than life, says my Granny. Don't rush into something you might regret later on. For your safety and for the one you really love's safety. Let it flow... stop being retards like my bf.
If all guys are only after that "one" thing I rather be with girls ... so grow up ya'all!!! I'm serious!
well first of all, ill break this down for you. You are a women, so you wouldn't understand a males mind. You ever wonder why in the middle east the women dress the way they do? There is a reason for that, it is not to be mean, its to control the temptation. A womens legs, her butt, her cleavage, just the site of all of that, will make any man hormonal. Take a look at how 99% of the women in this country dresses, half of them are half naked, flirty, or just show too much skin. Then women want to wonder why all we want is to have sex. In all honesty its womens fault men are like this. I will tell you something about men, if we see a classy women, one who takes care and respects herself, we will give her that same respect, shoot most men wont even try to **** a girl like that because they can tell she isn't that type of women. If all women had respect for themselves and dressed a little less....naked, then men would not be the way they are now. You cannot show us how big your butt is then be surprised when we want to shove something in it. It is in our nature to be this way with a women. and the fact that we see it everywhere, sex is always on our mind. So do not be dissapointed in the men, talk to your fellow women about how they carry themselves and how they act. For a nation cannot be built on a worthless women, the more respectful the women, the more respectful society is around that women. You need to look at things from both sides ,instead of just assuming that men are pigs just because, no we have our reasons for the things we do, and it starts with women.
And you say we shouldn jump into sex without the love first? well women don't give us a chance to love them first, first thing we see is your body, so we fall in love with that first. You don't give us a chance to know you personally, to know your mind, no no no... all women do is take away the mystery of your temple, your sacred body. Dress differently, and maybe you will see a change in the type of guys you attract
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look i dont know whom you are reffering to in this thread, but if you knew me a little better than you would know i never think about sex i just want somone to hold...
so at least there is me ! and BTW contrary to popular belief i am a straight guy !
And of course it's the males who are always like this! Boys never get heartbroken or dumped for another guy. Women never want sex right? That's why there are no girls who are sluts right? Boys don't have feelings, they just want sex, is this true?! OF COURSE.
Wow. I'd much rather be in a long lasting relationship than just go after sex, companionship is probably one of the most important things to me. This thread is crap.
Originally Posted by SasukeTheViper EMS
Yes because acting cool on the internet actually makes you something, right?
when you don't crave for sex it doesn't mean that you are a "nerd" , it means that you have morals. love isn't just about having sex. and when you say that it's not cool to still be a virgin where you live, you are just proving that you are a phony..a mere follower of stupid trends.
Call it "old fashion beliefs", call it whatever you want..
I still believe that it's far better than what most of the people do nowadays.
Bro deserves some rep for this
Seriously, dudes these days it's like wringing a sponge dry
Originally Posted by rollin
you don't know what it's like to be a guy
once a guy gets a boner that's it and guys get boners by just looks and most of the girls these days dress provocative(easy way to put it)
while girls think about feelings and shit like that
Originally Posted by Slug Princess
feelings aren't "shit like that", you know?
Bro, what are you talking about? Some guys know how to have self control and how can you generalize all guys? There are some guys that get emotional as well, you really make men sound like dumb horny pigs
Originally Posted by LolaxXx
Sex isnt a bad thing. I wouldnt mind having a bf who wanted to have alot of sex, howevr, I wouldnt have sex without feeling strongly about them. Like, i have to be in love. But yea, Sex has been hardwired into men since the beginning. As long as thy can keep it under control, then whats there not to like? I mean, ppl talk as if you cant have sex, or have a bf or gf without it interfering with your studies or anything else. Learn how o manage your time correctly, and its ok.
Couldn't have said it better myself
I don't want to be crude here or anything, but I need to say the following:
First of all, you're 17 as you said yourself. Have you ever seen guys their hormone levels around that age? =_=
It's human nature that we think about fornication before we actually think of love. Love is a concept that has been made by humans. You can't blame anyone for that kind of behavior. Also, the part of our brain that lets us "love" is far "younger" (less developed) than the part that causes our lust. Simply because of the fact that lust and the need to fornicate and make sure our species continue to exist has been a priority for far longer than love.
Second of all: you're 17. Stop worrying about stuff like this! If he doesn't want you over something like that, let him go. He's not worth it. You're young! You'll be going to college soon I assume, you'll be having a whole other life. There's so much ahead of you, don't let something so trivial bother you as much as it does now. It's 1 bump on the long road of life.
Third: I don't know what else to say, I'm bad in these situations =_=
Originally Posted by Slug Princess
Guys, seriously...
I'm not saying that sex is "wrong" ... that's an important part of life. But please, you can't just be interested in that when you love someone. If you love someone it will come eventually and naturally. Trying to get sex from a girl and if she doesn't want to... are you just gonna leave her like that tard did to me??? shame on you if your are like that. Sex is a part of life... but so are FEELINGS!!
Im a hopeless romantic. does this get me any closer to you?
I don't believe in love, that is just how or what i believe in i have neither experienced nor do i believe in it. It is all about having good looks and good bodily features, take a guy with a well toned figure and good physique and an obese man equally around the same weight , who would get more girls?? Love is a fragment of one imagination and it is mostly misunderstood for lust and sex. People cause pain to others in this world just by their very little actions, as long as people opinion are entitled there would be rejection. You are 17 and you have your whole life ahead of you,face your studies and refrain from having sexual relationships till you are of the right age and till you are prepared. I have gone through some tough experiences in life and has been look down upon, but the road does not end in high school, a journey begins in a second day, i don't believe in relationship or sex in it, and most times me or my friends want to get laid, we usually go to a local hooker, human emotions and human feeling make people react in strange ways and take or make strange decisions. Most males in high school would be around an age of 13-18 in that age their hormones are high and testosterone is being secreted, and as such they feel really horny, if you feel you deserve more than that then leave the relationship,you know your worth.
Originally Posted by SasukeTheViper EMS
Yes because acting cool on the internet actually makes you something, right?
when you don't crave for sex it doesn't mean that you are a "nerd" , it means that you have morals. love isn't just about having sex. and when you say that it's not cool to still be a virgin where you live, you are just proving that you are a phony..a mere follower of stupid trends.
Call it "old fashion beliefs", call it whatever you want..
I still believe that it's far better than what most of the people do nowadays.
Yes, sure i'm a phony.. Just because you are a virgin, and a lowlife loser at school doesn't mean others are.. And this whole "acting" cool online who was acting cool? Please tell me this.. I was answers to the threads topic nothing more, and nothing less.. Don't take this to seriously.. We are "on the internet" after all.
Originally Posted by DrProof
Yes, sure i'm a phony.. Just because you are a virgin, and a lowlife loser at school doesn't mean others are.. And this whole "acting" cool online who was acting cool? Please tell me this.. I was answers to the threads topic nothing more, and nothing less.. Don't take this to seriously.. We are "on the internet" after all.
How can you decide that someone you've never met is a loser? By the few words you've read? -_-
From what I've seen, he's a much nicer person than you.
I'm not sure why. And I'm not really curious to find out why. I'm guessing...simply for the pleasure and relief?
- I will never have sexual intercourse without marrying the guy beforehand.
Originally Posted by Ldude
How can you decide that someone you've never met is a loser? By the few words you've read? -_-
From what I've seen, he's a much nicer person than you.
I guess being a virgin makes you a loser these days
This is the sad truth OP...
Guys nowadays especially teenagers in general want to lose there virginity before "the world ends."
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the similarities. Both the G10 and LX3 offer 3in LCD screens with an impressive 460k-dot resolution, albeit with the G10 also offering a small viewfinder as an accompaniment, and both of the aforementioned lenses are bolstered by optical image stabilisation.
As you'd hope from a camera that's competing for your attention amongst its DSLR rivals, both the G10 and the LX3 offer full manual control over shutter and aperture, alongside scene modes and auto capture, while offering Raw image capture for those looking to take on the task of post-production.
Despite these similarities, there are still further differences between the pair. For example, while both models offer motion picture output, only the LX3 does at 1080p Full HD quality, complete with a direct HD output. The pair also offer differing ISO sensitivity – The Canon G10 offers ISO sensitivity from 80-1600, while the Panasonic LX3 offers a greater range from ISO 80-3200, with the option of an increased ISO up to 6400 at a reduced resolution.
One nice feature of both models is the range of accessories you can add to the pair. For example, Canon's G10 is compatible with a range of the brand's Speedlite flashguns, while a conversion lens adapter can also be fitted to allows for a tele-convertor to be fitted to the lens, in turn increasing the focal range of the camera. Panasonic's LX3 offers a similar array of accessories – a conversion lens adaptor allows the attachment of a wideangle lens convertor, while an external optical viewfinder can be added via the camera's hotshoe, or alternatively use the hotshoe for the conventional external flashgun.
Panasonic Lumix LX3 vs Canon PowerShot G10 – Design
Panasonic Lumix LX3 vs Canon PowerShot G10 – Design
What's striking on first impressions of both the G10 and LX3 is their relatively 'retro' design. The Panasonic LX3 is available in both silver and black, though the black version we tested seems the more appealing thanks to its understated nature and an overall finish which suits the models features, and which is also the default colour of the robust G10. Another facet that adds to the pair's retro feel is a range of manual controls on the cameras bodies. For example, rather than a button or assortment of buttons, as is conventional on a compact, the G10 sports attractive manual dials for control of both ISO setting and exposure compensation.
While the LX3 offers controls over ISO and exposure compensation in the conventional manner, it too sports its own manual controls – the camera's houses switch for both focus, on the side, and aspect ratio, on the top. While these represent by no means a wholesale manual control set-up, it's a nice gesture that makes the pair refreshing to use and a nice break from the continuous wave of compact cameras difficult to distinguish one from another.
The size and weight of the Panasonic LX3 varies only slightly from a conventional compact, with the only real difference being a noticeably protruding lens. The Canon G10, on the other hand, is generally larger and heavier than most compacts on the market – in fact, the G10 weighs in at 350g, just 30g lighter than an Olympus E-420 DSLR.
This difference in size and weight characterises the difference between the two cameras – where the LX3 feels like a creative compact camera which would be a worthy companion for your DSLR, the G10 feels more like a model that's competing to be a viable alternative to a DSLR. While the LX3 could relatively comfortably fit in your pocket, at around 50% larger heavier, the G10 would probably be best suited to a dedicated camera bag or shoulder strap.
Panasonic Lumix LX3 vs Canon PowerShot G10 – Performance & Value
Panasonic Lumix LX3 vs Canon PowerShot G10 – Performance & Value
One thing that thee Panasonic LX3 and Canon G10 share is that they are both excellent performers. They are an absolute pleasure to use, and with the additional, albeit relatively minimal,
manual controls offer something different to the standard compact camera market.
However, if you're looking for a camera with a lightning-fast frame rate, then neither the G10 nor LX3 is likely to be the option for you – Canon's G10 offers capture at a fairly slow 1.3fps at full resolution, while the LX3 offers a differing range of frame rates at varying resolution, the fastest being 6fps which, although quick, only utilises 3MP of the camera's sensor.
While speed may not be overwhelming with regards to continuous shooting, the rest of the pair's functionality displays an impressive swiftness. Both models offer a prompt start-up time, and in general use are intuitive enough to offer no obstacles to quick navigate. Auto focus is also impressive for both, though the Lumix LX3 is a touch quicker in most circumstances.
Both the LX3 and the G10 display small quirks with their metering. For example, Canon's G10 has the slight tendency to overexpose, and as such highlights can appear a touch washed out. The LX3, on the other hand, has a slight propensity to underexpose, but as such highlights are better maintained and images offer an overall better tone.
It's also worth noting that both cameras offer both Raw and JPEG capture. Now, this is somewhat of a bugbear for many in looking to get a creative compact camera. Most manufacturers have realised that the kind of photographer purchasing a creative camera is going to want full manual control over shutter speed and aperture, as they're also realising that Raw capture is a welcome addition. After all, if you're buying either the G10 or the LX3 to accompany your DSLR, chances are that you're going to want the same kind of capture options your DSLR presents. As such, it's welcome that both the G10 and the LX3 offer Raw capture.
One final point of note with the pair is fringing. While the Leica glass on the LX3 performs excellently in displaying little or no noticeable noise, the same cannot be said of the G10. Fringing is noticeable in any area of contrast or bold light, and although it's by no means the worse display of the image quality flaw ever seen, it's much more pronounced than the LX3.
Panasonic Lumix LX3 vs Canon PowerShot G10 – Value
Considering the range of similarities between both the G10 and LX3, analysing their respective values throws up some interesting results. The RRPs vary significantly – the Panasonic LX3 hit the market with a price tag of £399, while, with the recent rise in Canon prices, the RRP for the Canon G10 sits at £569. However, as is always the case with a camera being on the market for any substantial period of time, the pair sport street prices of £340 and £380 respectively – a fair amount less than the suggest retail prices…
Owing to the relative similarity of the pair, the £40 price difference is understandable, and while that places both cameras at a price point approaching and entry-level DSLR, the combination of advanced functionality in a compact package mean that both the G10 and LX3 are still a good value proposition.
Panasonic Lumix LX3 vs Canon PowerShot G10 – Image Quality
Panasonic Lumix LX3 vs Canon PowerShot G10 – Image Quality
LX3 vs G10 – Exposure and Tone
Both the Canon PowerShot G10 and Panasonic Lumix LX3 have mild quirks with regards to exposure, with those of the Canon slightly more to the detriment of the look and feel of the images. Panasonic's LX3 has a tendency to underexpose, but only to the slightest degree and, if anything, the underexposure helps general tone of the image. On the other hand, Canon's G10 more often than not errs on the side of overexposure – the images h ave a slightly washed-out feel, lacking real tone and contrast. While this is easy to correct with a slight curves adjustment in post-processing, it must be said that images from the LX3 are more usable straight from camera.
LX3 vs G10 – White Balance
One area that both the LX3 and G10 excel in is the accuracy and reliability of white balance. In most shooting conditions, both models offer accurate results with very little variation from shot to shot. If anything, images captured on the G10 appear a little warmer, though this is due more to the propensity of the G10 to display saturated colours.
LX3 vs G10 – Detail and Sharpness
Considering the fact that the G10 possesses over 4MP more than the LX3, the pair display a very similar amount of detail when closely examined, and certainly enough so as to be noticeable unless images are to be excessively enlarged.
LX3 vs G10 – JPEG and Raw
The most noticeable difference between Raw and JPEG files with the G10 and the LX3 is the way in which the pair handle noise at high ISO settings. When comparing Raw and JPEG files at high-ISO settings on the G10, the difference is stark – Raw files features more detail and more accurate colour, though noise is pronounced, whereas JPEG files lack the same detail and colour accuracy as a sacrifice for limited noise. Raw and JPEG files are similar on the LX3, and as such post-production noise control is the preferable option.
LX3 vs G10 – Noise
Both the G10 and the LX3 handle noise well, but display noticeable differences in the way in which they process it at high-ISO settings. At lower ISO settings, say up to ISO 400, both cameras handle noise well, though it's fair to say that the LX3 is the 'noisier' of the pair. At ISO 800 and 1600, again the LX3 is best described as the nosiest of the two, but what is noticeable is that the noise reduction of the G10 is pretty aggressive, especially at ISO 1600 where the drop off in both detail and colour accuracy is particularly noticeable.
Panasonic Lumix LX3 vs Canon PowerShot G10 – Verdict
Panasonic Lumix LX3 vs Canon PowerShot G10 – Verdict
There's no doubt that there is an awful lot similar about the Panasonic LX3 and the Canon G10. Both feature pleasing manual controls for camera settings, harking back cameras of yore, while full PASM control means that the pair are definitely worthy offerings in the 'creative compact' category. Add to that the good image quality – the LX3 more reliable with tone and exposure, while the G10 performs better with noise control – and it's hard to separate them.
But, it's in the differences that one must look to pick a preferred option – the Canon G10 offers a wider focal range, more megapixels and a viewfinder (albeit a limited use viewfinder). These extra features, however, come at the expense of the compactness a creative compact should offer. Not only is the G10 nearly 100g heavier than the LX3, but its dimensions make it appear almost 50% larger in the hand than the Panasonic LX3.
The sensible conclusion is that each camera has its merits. If you're looking for a creative compact and don't already own a DSLR, nor have the intention to own one in the near future and instead have a creative compact as your sole shooting device, then the Canon G10 is probably the camera for you. However, if you've already got a bag of DSLR gear and are instead looking for a creative compact to take out with you at all times, yet aren't prepared to make any sacrifices on either functionality nor image quality, then the more compact and lightweight Panasonic LX3 is the one to go for.
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A naked man doing push-ups in the middle of a North Portland street was struck and killed by a car early Sunday.
Police first responded to the report of a naked man running in traffic near North Columbia Boulevard and Portsmouth Avenue at 4:04 a.m.
While en route, they received a second report that the naked man was doing push-ups in the road.
Then, they received a third report: he had been struck by a car.
Officers and medical personnel arrived and found the man dead.
The driver who struck the man remained at the scene and was cooperative. The driver was not impaired by alcohol or drugs, according to police.
The roadway was closed for several hours during the investigation, but reopened later Sunday.
An autopsy will be conducted, including toxicology, to determine the pedestrian's cause of death.
The victim's name has not been released.


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This article was written by our friend Johnny Goodtimes, author of Philly Sports History.
With the trade deadline approaching, and as we all wait to see what Ruben is going to do, I thought we'd take a look back through the years at some trades that didn't work out so well for the Phillies. Incredibly, this team has such a knack for terrible trades that 5-for-1 (Von Hayes was much better than Phillie fans give him credit for) and the Scott Rolen debacle (they got a young Placido Polanco and a solid Mike Timlin in return) don't even crack the top 5.
#5. Freddy Garcia for Gio Gonzalez and Gavin Floyd. The Phils were looking for a front end of the rotation guy, and Pat Gillick apparently looked at Garcia's 17 wins in 2006 more closely than he did his 4.53 ERA. He also must not have looked too closely at his right shoulder…after a 1-5 start, Garcia was finished. He made $10 million to earn one more win than I did in 2007.
#4. Grover Cleveland Alexander and Bill Killifer for Pickles Dillhoefer and Mike Prendegrast. Phillies ownership was, as usual, experiencing cash flow problems after the 1917 season. And so they let arguably the greatest pitcher in team history go for a catcher who batted .091 for his new squad and a pitcher who would be done in a year. Grover Cleveland would win another 183 games after leaving the Phillies.
#3. Curt Schilling for Travis Lee, Vicente Padilla, Omar Daal, and Nelson Figueroa. Listen, we all agree with Ed Wade that Schilling was a horse's ass. Nonetheless, you would have thought a pitcher of his caliber would have brought more in return than the four mediocre journeymen they got. Not Ed Wade's finest moment.
#2. Ferguson Jenkins for Larry Jackson and Bob Buhl. The Phillies were trying to recapture the magic that took them to the brink of the Series in 1964, and decided to trade a young reliever named Ferguson Jenkins for two wily old veterans. The key word was old. Jackson was actually serviceable as a starter, while Buhl was out of the league in a year. Jenkins went on to a Hall of Fame career, winning 284 career games. Sadly, only two of those wins came for the Phillies before they gave him away.
#1. Larry Bowa and Ryne Sandberg for Ivan DeJesus and Bill Caudill. It's worth noting that Sandberg was the throw-in on this deal. The Phils tried to give the Cubs Bowa and Luis Aguayo. The Cubs said no, but they'd take Bowa and Sandberg. The Phils caved. The Cubs got a superstar Hall of Famer. The Phils were stuck with Aguayo, who turned out to be serviceable at best, and DeJesus, who was a good glove, played shortstop for the team for 3 years.
Those are the worst 5 trades the Phillies have ever made, but what about the worst trade the Phillies DIDN'T make? Hard to say, and there are probably plenty of them that never saw the light of day. But we do know about one, thanks to Krukker. He told Sam Donnellon a couple of years ago that the Phils were talking to the Mariners in '93 about trading for Randy Johnson. But the Phils didn't want to part with Mike Lieberthal, so the trade never happened.Sorry, there are no polls available at the moment.
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Aside on the Sandberg card — was this format used in any year other than Topps 1974 (4 years before he was drafted, and was 14-15 years old)?
Hey Ryan, like I said above, that was not as bad of a trade as many Phillies fans seem to make it out to be. In fact, you would have a hard time saying that the Indians made out better than the Phillies on the deal. Von Hayes was actually pretty good, and Three of the Five in that trade were career journeymen who did essentially nothing for the Indians. Manny Trillo was still pretty good, but only played one year in Cleveland. Obviously, Julio Franco was the star of the bunch, but if you look at the numbers of his 6 years in Cleveland, they are very similar to Hayes's next 6 years in Philly. Franco was a better hitter for average, both were good base stealers, and Hayes had a higher OPS. The Indians may gotten had a slight advantage in this trade, but nothing anywhere near what the Cubs got when we gift wrapped them Ryne Sandberg.
Von "five-for-one" Hayes?
Looking back, PN actually analyzed the "five-for-one" trade, and found that the Phillies actually did ok:
"On its surface, the Phillies won the 5-for-1 trade by an entire 2009 Ryan Howard, and then some."
To Cleveland: 2B Manny Trillo, INF Julio Franco, RHP Jay Baller, RF George Vukovich, C Jerry Willard
To Philadelphia: OF Von Hayes
– See more at: http://philliesnation.com/archives/2010/07/big-trades-and-von-hayes/#sthash.G8E6R2Rp.dpuf
Yep, those are the names. 😉 As that article shows, the Phillies made out pretty well.
Another trade worth revisiting in a few years: Hunter Pence for Cosart and Singleton. Cosart has been lights out thus far (small sample size, of course, but wow), and Singleton is considered a "Can't Miss". This deal could very well turn out to be one of the worst in Phillies history.
Actually, the second Von Hayes trade that brought RAJ to the Phils was worse than the first, for obvious reasons.
When a player asks strongly to be trade, as Schiiling did, it limits what you can get for him.
I think there were worse trades made than that one. I'm with Mr. Goodtimes in thinking that the Pence deal will wind up one of the worst, and the Lee to the Mariners so far has been a complete mess and may wind up at least as number 6.
the worse trade was the one they didn't make-getting rid of howard when he was worth something!!!!!!!
to the howard bashers. who else have you ever seen hit 58 homers not juiced ? the guy is still an rbi machine. his injuries ,and the fact the they taught him to pull the ball (dumb move ) have hurt him greatly. it was a lot of money, and it looks bad now, but i still think he's the best long ball hitter i've ever seen. he should have had 60 instead of 58 the one year. the umps blew a call in houston ,59, and jones went over the fence and took 1 away in atlanta. the guy has his flaws, but even a bad year for him is better than most players. really, we've been lucky to see this guy play on a regular basis !
I voted for the Fergi Jenkins trade. He won 20+ games 6 straight years for the Cubs. And the Phils thought he wouldn't be any good since all he threw were fastballs! It seems that back then they couldn't evaluate talent either.
As far as the Sandberg trade. Most people point to that, but if you look at his minor league state. and his first 2 years in the show he wasn't that outstanding. That plus the Phils did make it to the world series with Dejesus. Though I didn't think he was that good. It's one of those trades that you never know. Sandberg turned out to be a hall of famer. I can't fault them for that. I just wish we'd be on the other end of that you never know thing. We always get the "you know" this guy stinks. But Jenkins for two old pitchers nah. I do understand the fact that the Phillies were trying to be contenders that year and were looking for an established pitcher or two for the rotation. They weren't willing to let Jenkins just pitch. If they did they might have realized they had a good one. Jenkins suffered from the same thing Buddy ryan did with that wide receiver. I can't recall his name offhand, but Buddy said all he can do is catch touchdowns. All Jenkins did was throw fastballs. Go figure!
No doubt in my mind its Curt, Travis Lee was a disaster at first, and besides one good half none of the pictures ever amounted to much. worst of all After the trade Curt won Three World Series, Two of which came after the Phillies were starting to be competitive. Which means he really could have helped if they kept him.
Has to be the Sandberg trade! Mainly because he was a throw in and that the Phils weren't able to recognize that, aside from his offensive abilities, Sandberg, who came up as a 3rd baseman, had the ability to be a Gold Glove 2nd baseman as well!!
lee thomas knew, why didn't they. he was playing third at the time, and blocked by schmidt !
At least in the Sandberg trade the Phils got a serviceable starting shortstop for a few years. The Garcia trade may end up being worse, depending on how the careers of Floyd and Gonzalez (and BioGenesis) shake out. Floyd was a decent 3-4 until he blew out his elbow but Gonzalez may be a 1-2 for a lot of years (unless the juice put him there).
Perhaps telling is that the subject presented at this time where one easily wonders whatever happened to the "epic" second half is the worst trades in Phillies history. Would the first of what may or may not be 2 parts be the best trades in Phillies history if this were a contending trade deadline? Is there any market at all so supportive that they'd rather read that then the memories of bad deals that went even more awry? Maybe sports fans universally are so cynically labeled that this IS the way to travel. All I know is the Phillies need a half dozen Don Demeter for Senator Bunning deals in about 49 hours, and somewhere between the freeze and the particular GM aren't likely to produce that. Plus, I wonder whatever happened to Adolfo Phillips, but that may be another story for another time.
The double Lee trade. Never should have been traded in the first place, think of the possibilities. We certainly wouldn't be in the mess were in now.
Ok, these were some pretty bad trades. But how about Ruben "what am I doing here, how in the world did I get this job??" Amaro giving Cliff Lee away for a bucket of baseballs in the 2009 offseason? And if you're talking trades, you should include signings too. Another three RAJ gems are Ibanez in 2008 (3/36) when market said one year, $5 million like Bobby Abreu, Ryan Howard extension when he was already in decline and his free agent year had a glut of all star 1B, and paying Mariano Rivera money to Papelbon for half the performance and none of the class.
No argument on the extension, but Ryan Howard was already in decline in April 2010? And to be fair, Lee was traded for a bucket of balls in each one of his trades, including the one to the Phillies.
I find it amazing that the three Lee trades (Cle-Phi, Phi-Sea, Sea-Tex) have netted nothing as far as Major Leaguers thus far. The Jury is obviously still out on some, especially the four guys Seattle got from Texas (Smoak still might be good) , but so far- meh.
Sounds like a good reason not to trade him to me.
The only good reason TO trade him is if they get a serious haul in return. I'm all for moving him as he's their best trade chip…but only if it makes sense.
@billkirk, why focus on the 2009 WS, and ignore the .375 avg (.951 OPS) in the NLDS, or the .375 avg (1.457 OPS) in the NLCS that year? Overall in the 2009 postseason he hit .278 with a .968 OPS. Tough to see evidence of decline there.
And Howard was known as a slow starter even then, and a .757 OPS wouldn't (or shouldn't have) raised any red flags:
April 2007: .786 OPS
April 2008: .640 OPS
Agreed, and I wouldn't try to justify the timing. Was only questioning the "already in decline" portion.
Howard was coming off a good 2009 season, but batted .174 in the WS against the Yankees. At the time he signed the extension, he was hitting .265 with 3 HR and a .757 OPS+. Yes, not the biggest sample size but I remember thinking at the time it was nuts. And the whole point was, he was almost two years away from free agency, why pay over market value and rush when there's absolutely no need? When the Indians and Mariners traded Lee away, they traded him for prospects that didn't end up panning out. Acquiring Lee in 2009 from the Indians looked like a good trade for Philly at the time, and I should give RAJ deserved credit there. When Seattle traded him to Texas in 2010, they got Smoak, who at the time was a top prospect and still has some hope of being a good player. The difference is the Phillies trading Lee to the Mariners was rushed with no good prospects in return. RAJ was in such a hurry to get rid of Lee after acquiring Doc that he didn't properly shop him. Again, rushed for no apparent reason. Does anyone see a trend?
Ok, I concede the numerical decline was just getting started and RAJ can be forgiven for assuming it was just a typical slow start. But how do you justify a deal so far in advance of free agency that is not team friendly, when the player's walk year contained (at the time) a virtual HOF wing of talent in Pujols, Fielder, Gonzalez, et all. Pujols and Fielder did both hit the market, Howard's clearly behind those two and would have commanded far less than what the Phillies are paying him. When Howard signed, he was already over 30 and did not profile as the type of player who would age well. He can only play first base in a non-DH league. It made no sense then. It makes less sense now.
The Phillies should trade Rollins to the Tigers for a prospect. They should offer Utley for Kemp so that way Dodger could control wether to keep Utley or persue Robinson Cano. Shop out Papelbon and eat some cash. Work on rehabing Howard and work on hitting the outside pitches to opposite field and curve balls. Trade Young and Lee to the Rangers for Profar. Look for free agent relievers next year.
I would have to say when we traded Shane victorino and hunter pence because they were two really good outfielders and could actually hit a ball. Instead of just having Dominic brown do all the work
It's a down season, so I can understand everyone griping about the Phils' bad trades.
But what about other teams' bad trades? It seems to me that there are lots of examples there, too, and it seems like rating the bad trades by the Phils is just more negativity.
They've also made many good trades, even under Amaro, and rather than whining so much, maybe some of THOSE should be rated. Ken pointed out one, the Demeter for Bunning deal, but the initial Lee trade and the Halladay deal have been pretty much glossed over. Personally, I think it would be more relaxing to hear about the best trades, particularly when this season that may be the one positive thing to talk about.
I loved the old days when a team would trade a guy for spite even though they had to pay the other guy the same amount. Carlton for Wise, a slightly unwise deal for the Cards.
QUESTION: Has anyone ever investigated some of the contracts that Ruben Amaro, Jr. has doled out over the years? He just signed a highly questionable one for the services of an unproven Cuban pitcher. The Howard deal was signed with two whole years left on his old contract. I wonder if Ruben gets a some kickback for signing such generous and questionable deals? Or, is he just a really inept general manager struggling with himself and this team's future. After all, he is a Stanford graduate.
How about giving Raul Ibanez 3 years and ~$11M per year right after the financial crisis when the comparable corner OF's were lucky to get 2 years and $10M per year? Compare the value the Phils got with Ibanez to what the Nationals got with Adam Dunn and it will make you cringe, especially when you throw in that the Nats got a #1 pick when Dunn left.
How about giving Jamie Moyer a 2 year deal for his age 46 and age 47 seasons? Was someone else really going to give Jamie an extra year? One could argue – especially if you believe payroll was behind the Cliff Lee trade to Seattle – that the extra year (2010) for Moyer at $8M cost the Phils one year of Cliff Lee at $9M. Would the 2010 team have won the World Series with Halladay and Lee?
How about his spending on relievers? He has overpaid in $ and/or years and/or lost 1st round picks for the likes of Danys Baez (2 years), Chad Qualls, Chad Durbin, Mike Adams and Jon Papelbon.
Don't forget Ty Wigginton, a 2 year deal for Laynce Nix and passing on paying ~$1.5M to Nate Schierholtz this year so he could keep Nix and sign Delmon Young. And before anyone suggests that Schierholtz would not have helped this team much, they should wait to see what Theo Epstein gets for him in a trade today or tomorrow.
Trading Dick Allen and Jim Bunning rank worse than Freddy Garcia. I am sure others could dig up some other examples of trades that should make the list ahead of that nonsense.
One of my favorites: trading Jack Sanford to the Giants for Ruben Gomez (who stunk) and Valmy Thomas (who disappeared in a year after hitting .200).
"Nonsense"? You seriously don't think that the Garcia for Floyd/Gio was absolutely terrible? Are you arguing that it was a good trade? I can't possibly understand how anyone could think that, but I'd love to hear your reasoning.
The Braves just won in extra innings. I watched the game.
I guess I am the only one still monitoring them.
The phils still play them 13 times so if they went 12-1
highly unlikely.
Some of the signings are worse than any of the trades.
Google Dummy Amaro Jr. and see.
hahahahahahahahaha! Funny ending there Andrew.
I see "them" going 12-1.
I just don't have a good feeling about who is "they".
Everyone forgets Jack Sanford for Valmy Thomas and Ruban Gomez !
Cliff Lee to Mariners in Dec. 2009
Easily the worst trade in Phillies History: Jack Sanford for Ruben Gomez and Valmi Thomas.


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Questions about Budget
Role of the Agenda Committee
( From Budget Information Packet handed out at the Faculty Retreat 2002)
Thank you for sending us questions about the budget and the budget process. Amy Cook and I sorted through the questions and placed them into general question areas as a way of identifying the type of information we need to gather. In general, faculty seemed to be interested in seven types of questions:
- What are the costs of educating students in different parts of academic division?
- Clarification of other college costs
- Where do the dollars come from and where do they go?
- What criteria determine the amount of money we get? Who decides where the money goes?
- What does the faculty do with the resources available? How has that changed over time?
- Clarification of recent history (i.e. what happened last year with the budget process?)
- Conceptual questions
In going through the questions we discovered that we would need more time to answer them than we had before the information packet went to the printer. Our current plan is to set up this website as a forum for addressing these questions. Each week I will work on finding and adding information for these questions, guided by the more specific questions you posed, as a way to begin painting a picture about what the budget is and how the budgetary decisions are made at the college. The website can be a place where we continue to pose and address questions.
To see the more specific questions people asked, read on…
What are the costs of educating students in different parts of academic division?
- We know that it costs more money to educate students in the arts and in the sciences than in the humanities and social sciences. How much more? (This question is not designed to criticize the arts and science programs as "expensive," merely to let us know the relative costs.)
- What are the comparative costs of educating students in the full-time undergraduate program, Evening and Weekend Studies program, the Tacoma program, the tribal based program, and the graduate programs?
- I have heard that the evening and weekend studies program costs evergreen more money than it brings in to the college. Is this true? To this degree, how do expenditures versus income/fte compare between the Olympia day program, Olympia E/W program and Tacoma?
- I'd like to know the costs of the intercollegiate athletics program and how they've changed over the last ten years.
Clarification of other college costs
- What is the trend of spending in the president's office over the last 10 years (i.e., president's budget on the y-axis versus time on the x-axis)?
Where do the dollars come from and where do they go?
- We keep hearing from the administration that we need to access other sources of money. How much money is brought into the college in the form of indirect costs on grants? Which units of the college bring in this money? What is the college doing to increase this source of money? I note that the college recently re-negotiated their indirect cost rate downward from 60% to 55% of salaries.
- In each of the programs (i.e. arts and in the sciences than in the humanities and social sciences) what proportion of the expenses are covered by tuition? What proportion do we expect to be covered by tuition?
- I'd like some rough estimate of the percentage changes (if any) over the last ten years or so in the way the academic budget is divided between faculty salaries and direct support and third floor administrative costs.
- How does the College as a whole manage the subsidy from the State, when it is clear that the subsidy is supposed to recognize that different types of programs historically drew differential subsidies, e.g. more subsidy for upper division compared to lower division, more subsidy for graduate students compared to undergraduates, etc. I.e. how does the College "track" the subsidy in the allocation from the General Fund so that the disproportionate amounts get to their intended places?
What criteria determine the amount of money we get? Who decides where the money goes?
- Is the expectation of what tuition is supposed to pay for set internally at the College or does the College work on a target set by the State?
- What proportion of the expenses for educating a student are expected to be covered by tuition?
- I'd like to know the current constraints on redistributing funds from areas like facilities and maintenance and athletics to other areas like library and direct academic support.
- What diversity of student clientele is needed to ensure that the College makes the target enrollment agreed with the State? (i.e. what mix of undergraduate-graduate, on campus-off campus programs do we need for enrollment security?)
- Who prioritizes discretionary spending?
- What options does the College have in terms of managing the student/faculty ratio? If $ from State stay same or go down, what do we do if target enrollment stays same or goes up?
What does the faculty do with the resources available? How has that changed over time?
- It would be useful to have some inter-institutional comparisons. For example, the Salary DTF a few years ago published a comparison of our faculty's salary level(s) to other state-selected peer institutions (and to state-set goals for comparative salary levels). That's never been updated in a public way. It would be useful to have that done.
- Complementing this, it would be useful to compare our faculty's "productivity" (however that is measured in its standard forms) to other faculties' productivity. (And I would be intrigued to know how we continue to claim that our student/faculty ratio is 20/1 when our experience says it has been bumped up.)
- Also, it might be useful to have a comparison of our staff's salary level(s) and, perhaps, a comparison of our relative level of staff support for faculty and students to other institutions' level of staff support for faculty and students.
And if there's any way to put this into a historical picture, all to the better.
- Beyond that, it would be helpful to know what other institutions are doing. We all, I suspect, hear about the remarkable raises that go to some faculty at the larger schools (and I don't hear about compensating reductions to other faculty) despite the fact that they are constrained by the same sort of budgetary policies. How do they do it?
- How many faculty lines have been lost in the last 5 years? A graph showing the total number of students versus the total number of faculty over the last 5 or ten years would be interesting. Have we really inflated the expected fte student load faculty carry?
Clarification of recent history
- How was discretionary spending prioritized last year? How much was actually spent? Where did the money come from? Were there "internal reallocations" made for that spending that impacted other divisions? What kind of internal reallocations in favor of academics could be made with that kind of money in the future?
- If the College budget really goes in the dump (i.e. down more than about 2%), can we avoid RIFing faculty and staff? If we RIF faculty, can the College still make its enrollment target with the faculty who remain?
- Who is the President's Budget Council (PBC)? Who will decide if the PBC gets to do the things the document says it "should" do? Would there be any oversight of PBC? I ask because it seems to me that any body that is"…empowered to deliberate over … budget cuts within and across divisions, including the possibility of disproportionate cuts within and across divisions … [as well as any necessary] ... college reorganization for fiscal efficiency…" will have complete political control of the college.
- What is the low-down on the food services contract? Can this be re-negotiated? Or, have we locked ourselves into the current prioritization of organic salads over academics?
- What was our total budget decrease last year. Note: decrease means negative change in total money from the state and tuition, before the internal reallocation to food services and web page.
Generating ideas
- What options does the College have in terms of managing the student/faculty ratio? If $ from State stay same or go down, what do we do if target enrollment stays same or goes up?
- How can we best connect the two issues: management of $ and management of target enrollments?


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Country View Elementary School-Verona, WI
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Phone Number: 608-845-4832
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Slightly used children's books from your home library that we can use in our classrooms.
This will really help our reading program!
Thank you!
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Hi Ms. Truesdell,
I'd be happy to help out with giving you some of our old books for your classroom.
Now that my kids are in high school (and older), we have no need for a lot of them.
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I would like to thank the Principle, Superintendent, and Administrators at the GWHS for all you have done to my daughter. A sweet lovely girl that once could have been the poster child for the "all American teenage girl". Through your tyranny, deceit, and willful lies to cover your own butts, you have turned a promising student with a bright future into a distressed lost kid, struggling to keep her head above water. Your school fails miserably at education for those sentenced to DAEP, and it is no wonder your drop out rate increases yearly. To sit in a room with 4 walls with a coach as the baby sitter, with no class room instruction available day after day will rot any mind. Yet you collect the full dollar amount for such students from the state without them having classroom instruction. You leave them to self study. She has stopped asking questions and assistance from the teachers, because at each turn she was told they would get around to her on their break if they had time. I believe that if you are going to put these kids in an alternative school...than it should be a school, and you should have a TEACHER that can actually assist the kids with their studies. Without providing a Teacher these kids mine as well be given school books and sent home and told do it on their own, but then if you did that you would not get the money from the state. Shame Shame. I also want to thank the school for having some of the most asinine rules, I really never believed you could make yourselves appear more idiotic than you already did, but I was wrong! She is not allowed within 300 feet of the campus, yet DAEP is on school campus and they walk across campus and eat in the school cafeteria, so technically each day she attends DAEP she is in violation. Wait Wait it gets more ridiculous. She cannot attend any school function or assemblies, yet they were made to attend a school assembly recently where they were mixed and sat among regular students. (the same kids you say you can not return to regular classes because they may endanger other students..you turn them loose among regular students.) It gets better, the village idiots are showing their colors now, anyone who has been in GW knows there is one main road that goes in front of the school, a side road to one parking lot, a side road in the back and a side road on the other side by a parking lot. My daughter was told she could not drive past the front of the school during school hours on the main road. Instead they want her to take all 3 side roads, meaning she will drive down the main road past the junior high campus, and right at the high school campus, she will turn left to go up the side of the school, to turn right to go behind the school and than right again to complete the other side of the school. Each of these side roads being longer and closer to the school itself than the 2 second distance it would take to travel the main road where the school sits further away from. It makes no sense at all, and you have to wonder if the person who came up with this, is in their right frame of mind. Perhaps they were dropped one too many times on their head as a baby.
The final straw is the blue nasty stained jumpsuits you provide to these children. Are they truly incarcerated to the point they need prison jumpsuits? I think it is just a power trip you have reducing the kids to dirty rags trying to show them who is in control. There is no point to them having to put these sloppy looking overalls on wearing their clothes underneath. I truly urge parents to take the step up and tell the schools NO MORE!
I would like to remind the school that they once more dropped the ball on following school procedures. See when my daughter was given DAEP, she was told to sign some papers, she refused, but they sent her home with a packet for me to sign as well, which I am sure included some kind of liability legal waiver about her health and well being while it there. yada yada...I told her not to give me the packet I did not want to see it and I would not sign anything to toss it in the trash! No paperwork was ever returned to the school, therefore they probably should have kicked her out of DAEP, and in all honestly that is one reason I did not sign it. By not doing so they assume responsibility for her, which includes her health, which I have on good knowledge that the building she attends DAEP in contains asbestos particles, and it believed to hold mold as well. Who is that lawyer fellow again on TV you know the one with the big billboards the pro at filing class action lawsuits? Just remember GWISD, I never signed ANYTHING!!!!!


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A Close Encounter with Mars
A Close Encounter with Mars Today Earth and Mars will be closer together than
at any time during the last 12 years. Stargazers won't want to
miss the Red Planet blazing bright in the midnight sky.
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June 21, 2001 -- Check most any astronomer's 2001 calendar and you'll find June 21st circled. It's a big day for astronomy! For starters, June 21st marks the beginning of northern summer and the longest day of the year north of the equator. The Sun will climb to its highest point in the sky at 7:38 UT (3:38 EDT), a moment known as the summer solstice.
Then, just a few hours later, something extraordinary will happen to that solstice Sun. With hundreds of astronomers watching intently, the New Moon will slide across our star's fiery disk for a rare total solar eclipse. The Sun's ghostly corona will dance across the sky for nearly four minutes -- but, alas, only over southern Africa where the narrow path of totality makes landfall.
Above: The brilliant planet Mars (overexposed) near the Trifid nebula on May 20, 2001. Image credit & copyright: Michael Cole. [more]
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Earth and Mars have been growing steadily closer for months, and today around 0615 UT the two worlds will lie only 0.45 AU (67 million km) apart -- the nearest they've been in a dozen years. Mars is simply dazzling when it's so close to Earth, and finding it is easy, says astronomy professor George Lebo, a NASA Summer Faculty Fellow at the Marshall Space Flight Center. "Simply go outside between 10 pm and 2 am local time," he says, "and look toward the south. Mars is brighter than any other star in the sky and it has a distinctive reddish-orange color -- you can't miss it."
Mars rises in the east around sunset and can be seen for most of the night. But as Lebo suggests, the hours around midnight offer the best view, because that's when the Red Planet is highest in the sky. Midnight sky watchers at mid-northern latitudes will spot Mars hovering about 30 degrees above the southern horizon. For southern hemisphere stargazers, Mars will lie almost directly overhead.
Above: The southern sky shortly around midnight on June 21, 2001. Copper-hued Mars shines at visual magnitude -2.3 between the constellations Sagittarius and Scorpius. Don't confuse Mars with Antares (Ares is another name for Mars, Antares means "anti-Mars"), the red first magnitude star in Scorpius.
Even city dwellers with troublesome light pollution can spot the planet. Blazing at visual magnitude -2.3, Mars will outshine everything in the sky except Venus and the Sun itself. The Moon will be New on June 21st (and busy blocking out the Sun in southern Africa), so Mars will be even brighter than Earth's satellite.
If you happen to be watching Mars with dark-adapted eyes from an extremely dark site, be sure to look at the ground around you. Can you see a faint shadow? The light outlining your silhouette could be from Mars! It's not every day you can see your "Mars shadow," but this week is a good time to try.
Right: Earth and Mars are on the same side of the Sun this month. They were aligned most directly on June 13th --a date astronomers call opposition -- but the pair won't make their closest approach until 8 days later, on June 21st, because of the substantial eccentricity of Mars' orbit. [learn more]
Mars will remain blazing bright for weeks to come, fading slowly as northern summer wanes and fall approaches. Throughout the coming months the Red Planet will linger in a region of the sky that's home to the very center of our galaxy. This will be a treat for dark sky observers who can see the faint Milky Way, a hazy band of stars that bisects the sky along the galactic plane. The Milky Way cuts through the teapot-shaped constellation Sagittarius and brightens near its spout -- right by Mars. There lies the galactic center, the lair of a supermassive black hole around which our entire pinwheel galaxy spins. (Don't bother looking for the black hole, you can't see that!)
Of course, Mars and the galactic center are very far apart despite their seeming proximity. A spacecraft from Earth traveling at light speed would arrive at the Red Planet in only a few minutes. Reaching the inner regions of our galaxy would take an extra 30,000 years!
Above: This annotated map of the constellation Sagittarius shows the galactic center and the approximate location of Mars this month. The galactic center lies behind a think veil of absorbing dust in the galactic plane. Nearby "Baade's Window" is a relatively dust-poor region that allows some of the light from the innermost galaxy to shine through. Click to enlarge.
We don't yet have spacecraft that can travel so fast, but you can still visit Mars at the speed of light -- through a telescope. The nearby Red Planet will be a whopping 21 arcseconds across this week and next. "One arcsecond is a tiny angle, about the size of a dime viewed from a distance of 1.5 miles," explains Lebo. "Even twenty-one arcseconds is small to the unaided eye, but it's plenty big for telescopes." This week a modest six-inch reflecting telescope could reveal normally invisible details including martian clouds and icy polar caps. See Sky and Telescope's "A Grand Return of Mars" for more information.
If you don't own a telescope, looking at Mars with your unaided eye is still a wonderful way to enjoy this planetary close encounter. So don't wait. Mars is out there now, fiery red and beckoning from your own back yard!
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- Discussion Questions: Ignite a discussion about the Red Planet! [lesson plan] [activity sheet]
- Martian Math: Counting to ten with just three fingers can be a real drag, but these Martian Math problems are fun! Students use logic and simple math to answer some unusual questions. [lesson plan] [ activity sheet for older kids or for younger kids]
- Companions for a Mars Journey: It's a long way to Mars and the spaceship will be crowded. Students plan their expedition to the Red Planet by selecting a crew from candidates such as Stephanie Survival and Ursula Unpredictable. [lesson plan] [activity sheet]
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Brighter, Redder Mars to Illuminate Summer Nights -- Hold on to your hats and keep a pair of binoculars handy: After a 26-month sprint around the track of the solar system, we are about to lap Mars again.
Mars at Opposition on June 13, 2001 -- images and explanations from the external site ExploringMars.com.
Why 2003? -- This site from the European Space Agency explains why we launch spacecraft to Mars during opposition, and why some oppositions are better than others.
Oppositions of Mars, 1901-2035 -- from The Planet Mars: A History of Observation and Discovery (University of Arizona press)
Perihelic Oppositions of Mars -- a table of our closest encounters with the Red Planet.
Mars -- the book by Percival Lowell, 1895
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A Children's Summer Art Program at the Cedar Key Arts Center for 1st through 12th grade students is planned.
Youth can learn from the experts about ceramics, drawing, sculpture, photography etc.
Classes are from 9-11:30 am daily and there will be an exhibit of students' work on Friday, July 27.
Registration forms are available at the Cedar Keyhole, Chamber of Commerce or from Kathy Hudson at Cedar Key School.
Enrollment is limited and deadline is June 112. There is a $20 materials cost, but scholarships are available, just ask.
Pancake, sausage breakfast benefit
The Levy County Tax Collector's Office is having a benefit pancake breakfast for the Heddins Family from 7:45 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. at the Levy County Courthouse.
Proceeds will be used to help defray the medical bills for James & Michelle Heddins' daughter Ashley. She is undergoing her fourth round of chemotherapy. The latest treatment is working, according to the family, and in coming months she will begin the stem cell transplant.
Summer Visual Arts Education
July 16-27
9-11:30 a.m.
• Learn from the professionals: ceramics, drawing, sculpture, jewelry, alternative photography…
• First grade to high school students eligible
• Small materials fee may apply (scholarships available)
• Register prior to June 11th at the KeyHole in Cedar Key
• Limited enrollment
Art Therapy/Art Education Study
July 2-31
1-4 p.m.
Go Wild, go birding
The Cedar Keys National Wildlife Refuge will be holding a free "Birds in Culture" at the Cedar Key Library on Thursday, May 10 at 10:30 a.m. in recognition of International Migratory Bird Day. May 12 is the day we celebrate our winged relatives on this earth. Enjoy the gifts they bring us through their beauty, their lilting songs, and the magnificence of their flight.
Eagles to host
lasagna dinner
Story Submitted by Island Arts
If you've visited Island Arts across from the Post Office on Second Street in the past two weeks you've probably asked "Where's Bo?" If you don't know who Bo is, then let me tell you, you missed meeting the coolest shop cat in Cedar Key.
Young Authors' Conference
The 23rd Island City Young Authors' Conference will take place at Cedar Key School on May 4, beginning at 8:30 a.m.. Michigan writer Lisa Wheeler will be visiting. Wheeler has written many children's books, including "Ugly Pie", "One Dark Night" and "Sailor Moo". During her workshop, she will share her love of writing and the process of publishing a book.
Artist of the Month for May 2012 at the Cedar Keyhole Gallery is Virginia Stevenson.
Using a variety of fabrics and dyeing methods, Virginia Stevenson has steeply advanced the sophistication of her creations. Her works have appeared in a number of shows as well as collections. Stevenson has also been commissioned to devise fabric solutions for decorator challenges. Never idle, Stevenson uses many of her original fabric designs in producing ready-to-wear fashions. All of her latest creations will be on display at the Cedar Keyhole during the entire month of May.
At 79, Henry Gernhardt's hands have twisted, turned, pressed, pounded, painted and baked globs of earth into works of art for more than 73 years.
The artist, who now lives and works just outside of Cedar Key with his wife, Amy, grew up in rural Connecticut in a family he describes as being mostly engineers and mechanics.
"I just couldn't get into that," he says. "I always did things different."
So, Gernhardt started a formal education in the arts at Norwich Art School in the early 1950s.
Rally round Cedar Key
Cedar Key is one of the nominees for the Ultimate Fishing Town through World Fishing Network.com (WFN). Now is the time for all you fishermen, guides, restaurants and accommodation owners to share your pictures and videos, so the rest of the world can see why Cedar Key should be the Ultimate Fishing Town. Follow this link: www.worldfishingnetwork.com/uft/town/cedarkey-fl.
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Early and consistent training is necessary as Giant Schnauzers tend to be very willful and highly intelligent dogs. Their ability to understand a command does not always translate into obedience.
Giant Schnauzers are fiercely loyal, often becoming so attached to their owner that they follow them around the house. They are extremely kind natured (similar to that of a retriever or Labrador) and a good choice for those with children.