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Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1893 was a wildly popular world's fair that drew over 25 million visitors and ushered in an era of American optimism and economic growth. Dubbed the "White City" because of the gleaming color of its buildings, the exposition was a historic event for the nation, a turning point for the city of Chicago, and the genesis of one of today's most esteemed scientific institutions – The Field Museum.
Now, travel back to 1893 and experience the excitement of the White City in Opening the Vaults: Wonders of the 1893 World's Fair (October 25, 2013 through September 7, 2014) and discover artifacts and specimens from The Field Museum's collections that have rarely-or never been-exhibited in the past 120 years.
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After the Great Fire of 1871, much of Chicago lay in ruins. The opening of the Columbian Exposition just 22 years later signaled Chicago's resurrection and stood as a monument of civic pride for its industrial-era business leaders. The fair also built the reputation of its architectural supervisor, Daniel Burnham. The fair's classically-themed, Beaux Arts exhibition halls showcased objects, art, technology, and displays from around the world. The fair presented the ability of America—and in particular, Chicago—to participate in the global market.
The Columbian Exposition also introduced the public to people and cultures from the far corners of the world. Although non-European cultures were depicted as exotic (a viewpoint undeniably offensive by today's standards), many of the artifacts displayed in those exhibitions were outstanding.
Chicago's late-19th century civic leaders, impressed by the fair's exhibitions, decided to acquire many of the items for a new permanent museum commemorative of the fair. A major financial gift came when department store mogul Marshall Field, after touring the fair, donated the huge sum of one million dollars (the equivalent of over $30 million today). The museum established now bears his name.
Digital technology will bring the World's Fair to life. Mural-size video projections and soundscapes will immerse visitors in the scenery and energy of the fair. A digital interactive will allow visitors to play an Indonesian gamelan, a musical ensemble consisting of a variety of instruments, including percussions and strings. The gamelan instruments were used for musical performances in a 1,000-seat theater in the heart of the Java Village in the Midway section of the fair. Today, the gamelan is one of the Museum's most treasured artifacts.
Also on display will be gongs and xylophone-like pieces of the gamelan as well as theatrical masks worn during performances of Javanese music. Items such as a large Japanese vase, drums from the Museum's Pacific collections, and Native American artifacts from both past and present will highlight how the Museum's study of cultures began with the World's Fair and continues today.
Visitors walking through the galleries will see items that thrilled fairgoers 120 years ago including large taxidermied animals, fully articulated animal skeletons, and ancient fish from Wyoming's Green River fossil bed (recently discovered at the time of the fair and still being explored by Field Museum scientists today). The fair ushered in an age of exploration that led to important discoveries in paleontology and visitors will see dinosaur bones and skeletons that came from early Museum expeditions.
Exhibition visitors will also get an overview of the Museum's history (including the formation of the founding collections, the Museum's first home in Jackson Park, the construction of the current building and the moving of the Museum's collections out of the old building and into the new in 1921) and the personalities who helped shape this institution (such as taxidermist Carl Akeley, paleontologist Elmer Riggs, anthropologist Franz Boas, and botanist Charles Millspaugh).
Visitors will learn how The Field Museum solidified its position as a place to learn about the wonders of the natural and man-made worlds. They can discover more about the Museum's collections (now numbering 25 million specimens and artifacts) and see how, through cutting-edge research, objects from the collections – including those from the World's Fair of 1893 – continue to yield fascinating new information.
Field Museum Admission
Tickets to Opening the Vaults: Wonders of the 1893 World's Fair are included in both Discovery and All Access passes to the Museum. Discounts are available for Chicago residents. Tickets can be purchased at fieldmuseum.org. Special rates are available for tour operators and groups of 10 or more. Call our Group Sales office at (888) FIELD-85 for details.
The Field Museum is open 9am-5pm every day of the year except Christmas Day.
Location and Travel information
The Field Museum is located at 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive. Visitors can travel to the Museum via CTA bus lines #6 and #146, as well as #130 (Memorial Day though Labor Day) or by taking the Metra electric and South Shore Lines. Parking is available next to the Museum's east entrance or inside the Soldier Field underground lot, located across from the Museum's main entrance.


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Second albums can be notoriously fickle undertakings. Just because an artist manages to bottle lighting once doesn't guarantee that she'll know how to do it again. There's a reason, after all, that we have the phrases "one-hit wonder" and "sophomore slump" in our musical lexicon.
British neo-soul singer Adele, however, seems well on her way to evading those inglorious fates—not to mention cementing her status as one of the music world's rising stars. Her debut outing, 2008's 19, generated the Grammy-winning single "Chasing Pavements" and netted Adele a Best New Artist Grammy to boot. With her second effort, 21, the melancholy 22-year-old is proving yet again that heartrending ballads about devastated relationships never seem to go out of style.
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All 11 tracks on 21 deal with romance. Only three have happy endings. "He Won't Go" majors on commitment after the newness of a relationship wears off. "There will be times we'll try and give up," Adele sings. "We'll almost fall apart and burn the pieces/ … But nothing will ever taint us." Similarly, "One and Only" invites a man to commit ("I dare you to let me be your, your one and only") even as Adele acknowledges that love is risky business ("I know it ain't easy giving up your heart/Trust me, I've learned it/Nobody's perfect"). And her cover of The Cure's "Lovesong" revels in the freedom and security a loving relationship provides: "Whenever I'm alone with you/ … I feel like I am home again/ … I feel like I am whole again/ … I am free again/ … I am clean again."
"Rolling in the Deep" evokes the biblical metaphor of reaping what you sow as Adele rebukes a man who's left her ("Turn my sorrow into treasured gold/You'll pay me back in kind and reap just what you've sown"). On "Turning Tables," a woman who's grown tired of manipulation wisely decides to call it quits ("I can't keep up with your turning tables/ … It's time to say goodbye to turning tables"), and she vows to make better choices next time.
On "Don't You Remember," the singer tries to make sense of why giving her beau the space she thought he needed ended up backfiring: "Gave you the space so you could breathe/I kept my distance so you would be free/In the hope you'd find the missing piece/To bring you back to me."
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While songs about romantic failures are not inherently objectionable, I wonder about the effect of listening to so many songs about tainted love back to back. On eight tunes, Adele bares her wounded soul, lamenting relationships that have left her reeling. And at times it seems as if she's crossed from denied devotion and disappointment into something much more like unhealthy codependence.
"Take It All," for example, finds her continuing to offer her heart and soul to someone who apparently isn't interested in either: "If only you knew/Everything I do is for you," she sings to the man who's leaving her. "I'll Be Waiting" is even more achingly sad as a woman insists that she'll keep pining away for a man who no longer loves her—even to the point of promising she'll be whatever he wants her to be should he choose to return ("I'll be waiting for you when you're ready to love me again/ … I'll do everything different/ … I'll be somebody different/I'll be better to you"). And album closer "Someone Like You" revolves around a woman who can't come to grips with the fact that the man she still loves has married someone else. Not only does she track him down for one last conversation, she inappropriately hopes this now-married man will be moved by how much she still longs for him ("I had hoped you'd see my face/And that you'd be reminded that for me it isn't over").
A couple of tracks allude to sexual connections with exes (without getting explicit). "Set Fire to the Rain" reminisces, "When laying with you I could stay there/Close my eyes, feel you here forever." "I'll Be Waiting" craves one more evening of intimacy before a relationship ends.
On "Rolling in the Deep," disappointment yields vindictive venting when Adele tells an ex, "I'm gonna make your head burn" and "You're gonna wish you never met me." There's also quite a bit of discussion flying around the Internet about whether the line "I'll lay your ship bare" actually proffers the s-word instead of a boating metaphor.
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Listening to Adele's evocative ballads, it's not hard for me to understand why so many critics are raving about her vocal talent. BBC music reviewer Ian Wade, for instance, gushed, "21 is simply stunning. After only a handful of plays, it feels like you've always known it."
But many of these songs are so raw that I found myself thinking thoughts like, Oh you poor dear! You just need to find a nice boy to help you forget all the louts who've tormented you. I wanted to tell her it was all going to be OK.
A few moments of moxie and self-respect do turn up here and there. More often, though, I got the feeling that Adele had lost not only her heart in the relationships she sings about, but her very self as well. On "Don't You Remember," for example, she pleads with an ex, "Don't you remember/The reason you loved me before/Baby, please remember me once more."
The way she sings about her troubles is never explicit or even gratuitous. And I suspect anyone who's ever unwillingly endured the dissolution of a cherished relationship will relate to 21's many moments like these. But I also think Adele's music begs the question of when healthy, healing lyrical catharsis devolves into an emotionally damaging blend of denial and despair.
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Head First Algebra is one of many new titles in the exciting new "Head First" series of books from O'Reilly. While this title focuses on algebra, most all of the other Head First works focus on some aspect of computer technology.In Head First Algebra, the authors have collaborated with a super team of talented, creative designers to produce a very unusual book on algebra. In the case of this Head First book, the emphasis is on visual learning, and readers will find reading this book to be an interesting, enjoyable experience, all while they are learning, or reviewing algebra.The target audience includes folks comfortable with numbers and pre-algebra, those who may be interested in learning the concepts of algebra and not just looking for practice problems, and folks familiar with integers and fractions and who are ready to move into solving for unknowns. In addition, the authors explain that the book is NOT for those who may be uncomfortable with fractions and decimals, those looking for a higher end, algebra 2 book or a book on statistics, or someone who may be obsessed with keying data into a calculator.For those interested in learning or reviewing their algebra skills, the approach with this Head First arrangement is on visual stimulation, connecting the language with the graphics, using a conversational style, striving to get the reader to think more deeply, getting and keeping the reader's attention, and also striving to touch the emotions of the reader. In addition, the book takes the approach of multi-sensory learning, with the addition of tons of practical exercises that allow the reader to be sure they know how to carry out the presented examples by themselves.The book has a lot of redundancy and many, many activities that also help firmly entrench the concepts into practice for the reader. As the authors say, the book is designed as a learning experience, and not a reference book, and they do strongly advise readers to start at the beginning and work their way through the material. Their emphasis is on teaching you how to solve algebraic equations, and they soundly emphasize the use of pencil and paper, and NOT a calculator, to be sure that you do know how to solve the practice problems.The book also has a super pre-algebra section that focuses on working with fractions, decimals, integers, and exponents. These pre-algebra skills are essential in order to successfully master the algebraic concepts and skills in the book.The way the book is designed and presents information is very conversational and engaging, and it genuinely feels like you are having a conversation with the authors as you read through the book.This book would serve as an excellent algebra book for any lower level math class on algebra.
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When your boner is so hardcore that it stretches your underwear taut, delving right into your crack.
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The vengeful act of crapping on a lover's chest while they sleep.Buy the plush
whenever you are wearing underwear and you get an erection so big that it pulls it tight and sucks your underwear into your ass crack causing a wedgie of mass proportions that can only be pulled out by reaching in deep.
i had to stop wearing underwear to the strip club's because everyday i went i got a boner wedgie and i soon developed some form of anal rash.
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Tim Hazledine says extreme changes to our environmental planning laws miss the point.
Submissions on proposed changes to the Resource Management Act close next Tuesday. The RMA has since 1991 been the controlling legislation guiding the protection and development of our land, water and atmospheric resources. It works through a system of ad hoc tribunals or hearings, in particular before a specialist judicial body, the Environment Court.
Resource management issues are steadily pushing themselves to the forefront of the NZ policy arena. Is the system able to cope, and if not, what should be done to improve it? The Ministry for the Environment has issued a discussion document and invites our response.
A reasonable summary of the Government's proposals might be this: generally, the system comes up with the right decisions but it takes too long to reach them. I half agree. Truly, the process needs streamlining and speeding up. For example, we have hearings held at considerable length and expense by tribunals constituted by regional authorities, the outcome of which is almost invariably appealed by the losing party to the higher Environment Court, where the whole process is repeated de novo.
The discussion document proposes limiting the court to appeals on matters of law, so that the substance of the case would, hopefully, only get argued once.
I've been involved in half a dozen or so RMA cases, as an "independent economic expert" engaged by an interested party. I understand the frustration about the time and resources sucked up. Occasionally, during humdrum spells in the proceedings (there are plenty of these), I've amused myself by doing an informal tally of all the time meters ticking over - the barristers, QCs, experts and commissioners, plus staff from councils and other parties. I can easily find $50,000-100,000 in daily salaries and fees in the court room. And there may be several of these hearings going on at once, around the country, each lasting for some weeks. It is costly.
I do have sympathy with the idea of simplifying matters. But the Government wants to take it to the extreme. Why go through all this legal, democratic stuff at all? We can really streamline the process by eliminating it, by allowing central government to intervene, to "direct" the decisions of councils, for "matters that are nationally important".
There is a precedent for this, and it is quite scary. In New Zealand, proposals for roading projects have to go through careful social cost-benefit analyses, within the template of the NZ Transport Agency's 400-page Economic Evaluation Manual. Projects with low ratios of benefit to costs are (correctly) deemed to be relatively inefficient uses for scarce investment funds. But, over the past five years or so, the Government has brought in the concepts of "Roads of National Significance" (RoNS), which in turn is related to "Strategic Fit", and used these to simply trump the efficiency score. And what do "National Significance" and "Strategic Fit" mean? They mean, in effect, whatever the Minister of Transport wants them to mean, and we have hundreds of millions of dollars of economically dodgy new motorway projects as a result.
I suggest we should be going in the opposite direction with the RMA reforms - less Nanny State central government intervention, not more. We have a good existing model for this: competition policy, which is built around the NZ Commerce Commission, a permanent professional secretariat that is statutorily independent from ministerial control. When state-owned Air New Zealand was trying to form a cartel with its competitor Qantas, in 2003, it was known that Treasury and the Minister wanted this to go ahead. But they, properly, did not interfere, and the Commerce Commission denied authorisation to the cartel - thank goodness.
We have the skeleton of a similar authority to replace tribunals and boards in handling RMA matters (subject, to appeal to the higher courts): the Environmental Protection Authority. An independent EPA should be fleshed out with technical competence and institutional memory so it can deal, crucially, with the economics of resource management issues.
You cannot expect to get a good decision about, say, the appropriate amount of irrigation water going in and effluent going out of a dairy farming development on the basis just of the science of the matter. You need the science but you also need a cogent procedure for weighing up all the costs and benefits of the development, on and off the farm and even at the national level, in the case of exported commodities such as dairy products.
This is why I disagree that the present long-winded RMA processes do in general deliver good decisions in the end. They cannot be expected to. None of the judges and commissioners are economists. They have to rely on the invariably opposing views of economic consultants of varying competence, trundled out before them for adversarial cross-examination by counsel. There is no core competency, no institutional memory available to the process, such as is provided by the Commerce Commission in competition matters.
Environmentalists may flinch at the idea of more economics in the RMA. They shouldn't. Good economics is not about money, it is about well-being. It is not about unbridled economic growth, it is about long-run sustainability. Dear Minister, I respectfully submit that economics and economists can be our resource management friends.
Tim Hazledine is a professor of economics at the University of Auckland Business School.


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We have personal computing — why not personal biotech? That's the question biologist Ellen Jorgensen and her colleagues asked themselves before opening Genspace, a nonprofit DIY bio lab in Brooklyn devoted to citizen science, where amateurs can go and tinker with biotechnology. Far from being a sinister Frankenstein's lab (as some imagined it), Genspace offers a long list of fun, creative and practical uses for DIY bio.
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Hi, I want to preface this post by saying that I am relatively new to the beekeeping world.
I am located in southern Ontario, and I am slowly getting prepped for opening my hives in the spring.
I have 3 hives. I need input on what I should do with them.
2 of the hives are made up of 3 medium supers.
1 of the hives is made up of a 1 deep super and 2 medium supers on top.
This is the way they were wintered. I inherited these hives and I am wondering if it is ok to leave a hive arranged with 3 medium supers.
I planned on converting the hive with the deep super, by putting another deep super on top (and getting rid of the two medium supers that were previously on it).
Should I switch all 3 hives to 2 deep supers, and then just use medium supers on top for the honey I am going to harvest?
Any input on hive setups would be greatly appreciated! Also, does anyone have a ballpark date when beekeeps traditionally 'open' their hives around here (I know it is greatly dependent on weather, but still.. just a ballpark range)


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Download As Chinese manufacturing boomed during the last decade, Chinese exporters had so many orders from Western multinational corporations that many of them didn't see the need to invest heavily in IT systems like electronic data interchange (EDI). As a result, inefficient, paper-based manual processes were the norm. In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, the orders from MNCs dropped off significantly, at the same time that manufacturing costs were rising due to refined labor regulations and the appreciation of the renminbi against the US dollar. Chinese manufacturers now had to do something about their rising costs in order to stem the tide of decreasing export volumes and increasing competition from other developing countries. Chinese manufacturers are now more willing to work with MNCs to help establish better supply chains. They have come to look at EDI as one of the best and easiest ways of driving costs savings, and ensuring the continued competitiveness of the Chinese manufacturing sector. MNCs that are looking to help their Chinese trading partners implement EDI need a solution provider that knows the Chinese market, and is capable of bridging the gap between Western and Chinese trading partners. IBM solutions for EDI have helped companies across the globe securely connect and build partner communities. In China, IBM partners with IT Associates Corporation, a reliable Chinese government-approved vendor, to help meet the needs of MNCs and their Chinese trading partners. As a result, MNCs can work with a single vendor, while knowing that their Chinese trading partners will receive full EDI implementation.


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The cost of study abroad programs varies widely, depending on the length and kind of program you choose. For example, some programs include meals and tickets to activities while others don't. Read all the program literature carefully, and ask questions if you're unsure about the program fees. You should plan your budget and estimate expenses that aren't included. You'll want to have adequate funds available for the duration of your program. You should also include a contingency fund for emergencies, or at least have a plan in case you find yourself short of cash.
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The New York Times Archive - Hotel Astor - 1945
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If you listen carefully, you can still hear Frank Sinatra singing in the grand Hotel Astor as he did from 1940–1942. Taken from the sidewalk, this photograph only hints at the hotel's grand proportions. This unusual scene portends the hotel's relatively short life on Times Square. Built in 1905 in the Beaux Arts style complete with 1,000 guest rooms and a green-copper mansard roof, it was destroyed in 1967, and eventually replaced by a modern high-rise. In partnership with The New York Times Archive, we're proud to offer this historical photograph of one of the city's former architectural jewels.
- Backed with an attached braided wire for mounting.
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PRINCEVILLE AT HANALEI, KAUAI, HAWAII: Hawaii's top-ranked golf course, the Prince Course at Kauai's Princeville Resort, will close on January 29 to undergo approximately five months of renovation. A complete renovation of the bunkers began in September 2010, and the Prince will close to allow completion of the project along with other planned upgrades to the world-renowned course. The last day of play will be January 28, with a reopening planned for summer 2011. "We are very excited about this refurbishment," notes Steve Murphy, Director of Golf for the Prince Course. "We are proud of the Prince's top ranking over the years, and these improvements will help us maintain the overall quality of the course and the first class guest experience."
The Tavern Restaurant by Roy Yamaguchi and the Prince Golf Shop, both located in the 60,000-square-foot Prince Clubhouse, will continue to operate during the renovation. The Tavern will be open for lunch starting at 11 a.m. and dinner from 5 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. daily. The Golf Shop's operating hours will be 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday and closed Sunday.
Designed by Robert Trent Jones, Jr., the 18-hole Prince Course opened in 1990 on Kauai's north shore. The spectacular course is considered to be one of the top resort courses in the nation by the major golf publications. The Prince is ranked by Golf Digest as the number one course in the State of Hawaii and is the only course in the state to be recognized on the magazine's prestigious list of America's "Top 100 Greatest Courses" for 2009/2010. The Prince is known equally for its challenging play and magnificent layout, following the natural contours of the land and encompassing 390 acres of rolling terrain, tropical jungles, gullies, streams, and waterfalls.
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School merges, closures proposed for District 11
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The idea of shutting down some schools in Colorado Springs' largest district is back on the table. A committee tasked with figuring out the best way to use District 11's resources said big changes are needed.
A nearly 60-page packet details a dozen options for restructuring District 11. It includes changing boundaries, merging middle and high school programs and even closing down schools.
"The changes that are happening are kind of necessary, because this is really an aging neighborhood," said James Vetack, the parent of an eighth-grader at Galileo School.
Declining enrollment in some schools and overcrowding in others is part of the reason for the changes.
The School Optimization Project proposes closing or merging several elementary schools, along with Mann Middle School and Wasson High School.
Another option is to move Galileo students to Wasson to create a sixth - 12th grade school. Vetack doesn't like the idea.
"I think the sixth, seventh, and eighth graders are too young to be mixed with high school kids," he said. "it would be a bad experience for the younger kids. It would make them grow up too fast, seeing all the other kids."
The proposed changes are only in its initial stages. To view the complete list of the 12 proposed changes, click here.
District officials will host meetings to gather input and ideas from parents, business owners and neighbors.
These are the scheduled input meeting dates and times:
Wednesday, Dec. 5, 6-8pm Doherty High School Auditorium
Monday, Dec. 10, 6-8pm Palmer High School Auditorium
Thursday, Dec. 13, 6-8pm Tesla Educational Opportunity Center
Monday, Dec. 17, 6-8pm Mitchell High School Auditorium
Tuesday, Dec. 18, 6-8pm Coronado High School Auditorium
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December 14, 2012
Commissioner Stephen Bowen
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23 State House Station
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Dear Commissioner Bowen:
During the week of September 10-14,2012, a team from the U. S. Department of Education's (ED) Student Achievement and School Accountability Programs (SASA) office reviewed the Maine Department of Education' s (Maine DOE) administration of the Title III program authorized by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) as amended. Enclosed is a report based upon the review of the Title III program.
The report includes a brief description of the scope of the monitoring review, recommendations and findings, and required corrective actions resulting from the review. The Maine DOE has 30 business days from receipt of this report to respond to all findings cited in the report. We will review the State's response to determine if all findings have been addressed sufficiently and request additional information, if necessary. We will allow 30 business days for the State to submit additional information or work with the State to identify a reasonable time line that allows the State to address and correct all findings. A State that has significant unresolved noncompliance findings or findings that are repeated from one monitoring review to the next may have a condition placed on the grant award.
Please note that the findings cited in the report reflect the status of compliance in Maine DOE at the lime of the onsite review.
The ED team would like to thank Nancy Mullins for her hard work and assistance before and during the review. We look forward to continuing to work with you and your staff to address the needs of English language learners.
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Play-By-Playmate: Inside the College Football Pictorial
Playboy's resident sports fan Jaime Edmondson takes you behind the scenes of her latest pictorial.
When I found out we'd be doing the top ten NCAA programs and teams shoot I got excited. Really excited. Showing off your team spirit has always been high on my list of things every fan should do.
As most of you know, I was a Miami Dolphins cheerleader for six years, capped off by a trip to the Pro Bowl in 2007. You could say it's the ultimate way to show your spirit and I wouldn't disagree but for tens of thousands of students and alumni filling up the college stadiums of America, dawning your school colors and supporting a program all your own is the crowning achievement of fandom.
I never really had the chance to do that in college. My Owls (Go FAU!) were just getting off the ground as a program so Saturdays were never that sacred for me. My day was Sunday when the Dolphins took to the field.
That's not to say I didn't have a choice. I could have gone to FSU on a scholarship (because pretty girls are smart too!) and become a rabid Seminoles fan but when the Dolphins called and told me I'd made the cut I decided to go for it and stay closer to home and Miami at FAU. I don't regret doing it for a minute but it meant I never really got to experience the whole college game day the way so many others have.
So doing this shoot was a chance to live out one of the great American pastimes and pay tribute to some of the best teams and programs in the country not to mention the great fans they have. We got so much positive feedback from all of you after the first set of NFL pictures were released we had to do the whole set and from there this just seemed like a natural progression.
Now I've never been one to brag (totally not true) but I'd like to point out that the ten best teams list has a little southern flavor to it. Three of the ten teams hail from Florida and as a southern gal myself I'm pretty proud of home-grown programs putting up such a strong showing. Miami even made the cut of the best programs in the Playboy era coming in at number nine so we must be doing something right down here in the Sunshine State.
What I really love about college football is how it goes beyond the gridiron in places like Miami and USC and Notre Dame. While NFL fans are not only fans of a team but most likely the game itself, the same is not necessarily true of the college crowd. They are fans of their school, of the sense of community it creates and it shows every Saturday in the stands whether they love football or not. It really is the ultimate expression of fandom; they are not just fans for three hours a week, they are fans of something bigger, something they've helped build. They will always be a part of the storied histories and traditions that run deep across college campuses nationwide.
So these pictures are for you guys. I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed taking them. Thanks to Gary Cole for the accompanying words and Jared Ryder for taking all the shots.


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yep the government wants to park the carrier battle groups cause they cost too much $$$ to operate----
BUT they want to fly around on government jets eating caviar --and the administration has sent Kerry to the ME to hand over another $60 million to the fighters in syria just this week- ??
i figure if obamma had not been giving away the store for the last term there would be plenty of $$ for the fleet to operate.
propping up afgan, egypt, syria, lebanon , pakistink-a-stan, iraq, libya, yemmen, and a couple more to the tune of $1.6 to $3 billion plus EACH , every year hell they administration is even funding the brotherhood to the tune of $500M a year and no telling how many mosques Obamma is paying for--
and the white house can't figure out WHY their BROKE as a getto hustler in harlem?


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text: Julia is eligible for junior international events starting from 2011/2012 season, and for senior events starting from 2013/2014 (including Olympics), her birthday is on 5th of June 1998. Starting from May 2009 she's coached by Eteri Tutberidze, who's also coaching Polina Shelepen. Julia is extremely flexible by nature and liked to stretch by herself since she was a child, she never took rythmic gymnastics or anything for that. And best of all she actually found all those crazy spin positions by herself, because it appeared more comfortable(!) to her, than classical ones! Recently she started to jump 3T3T. Can be seen doing that with her coach on the video already mentionned above (second 3T is one quarter underrotated though) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DI8Sc-wrYE Daria Medvedeva is coached by Mishin, she's also one year older than Lipnitskaya. Lipnitskaya beat her in elements and SP, but then Daria skated the best LP of the whole season and won. Daria Grinkov is not skating anymore. Liza Kulik is skating and coached in CSKA school in Moscow, last year she started to jump doubles, however she's not noticed to take part in competitions yet. She will be 9 years old on 15 june 2010.


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__________________Ford -- Drive One.
This was expected this morning was Dutch exchange suspended shares in Spyker, a typical move in advance of a big announcement. Now the announcement confirms it's real. $74 Million deal preserves new 9-5 and expands capacity to produce Spyker's own super cars.
__________________Ford -- Drive One.
Oh thank goodness. The new 9-5 has turned me into a minor Saab fan. It would have been a shame for the brand to die right when I started to like them.On a side note, I haven't visited Autoweek.com in quite a while.
Autoblog.com has some details. GM retains an interest in the form of $326 million in preferred shares and Sweden guarantees a big $400 million loan.http://www.autoblog.com/2010/01/26/breaking-gm-reaches-agreement-to-saab-to-spyker/
__________________Ford -- Drive One.
Its about god damn time!
Lets go SAAB! Im so happy that finally this issue has been resolved. Lets hope no one pulls another Koenigsegg(sp?). I can't wait until the full production of the new 9-5 starts up. What a great car.
$74 million, that seems like a steal.
Notice the Russian chairman of Spyker had to be removed. I detected that GM really didn't trust the Russians on Intellectual Property (IP). I think that's why the Opel deal didn't go through.
__________________Ford -- Drive One.
Would be cool if Spyker turns Saab into some sort-of Swedish Audi.
----------------------Chevy runs derp.
Let all the people that were getting on GM through this process come out and say sorry for all the dumb things they said before any final decisions were made.
Glad to see that someone else will get one more shot at making Saab profitable, rather than GM just tossing them in the trash.
Good. I like saabs and am glad they get to be around a bit longer. Hope spyker can make them a more viable euro competitor.
The Verdict: A 638-hp flip-off to those in the mainstream media who think GM doesn?t build any good cars.
HELLLLLLLLLLSSS YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHVictor(y) Muller FTW!!!
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Tra Campo de' Fiori e Piazza Navona
Size70 m²
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We welcome you in a lovely apartment on the first floor of a period building , with concierge service, in the heart of Rome, between Campo de 'Fiori with its colors and perfumes, and Piazza Navona with its gurgling fountains.
The apartment is fully furnished and equipped with all mod cons, two bedrooms , a bathroom and a living room with kitchenette.
The strategic location will make you appreciate the one hand, the rich nightlife district , animated by pizzerias and restaurants, and on the other the quiet of ancient Rome.
Easily reachable by several buses, which connect directly to Termini station , with both tram lines . You will find yourself walking around the narrow streets of the center , meeting the characteristics of figures that populate Rome and its neighborhoods .
A few hundred meters , crossing the bridge Garibaldi, will be catapulted into the life reknowned , with pizzerias and restaurants of typical Roman cuisine.
A unique opportunity to truly experience Rome to the end
I would like to inform you that is expected to pay a deposit of 75 €, which will be returned upon departure, unless any damage to the apartment.
House rulesextra cost final cleaning 50 euros
city tax 3.50 euro per day per adult
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We enjoyed our 5 days stay directly in "the heart of Rome".
The appartment was well sized, with all comfort we needed.
We felt like Romans!
Katrin and Frank
It's a very nice flat, located in the heart of Rome, close to Campo di Fiori, Pantheon and Piazza Novona. Only some meters away you have restaurants, a supermarket and a very fine bakery. Great is the portable WiFi, so you can find a lot of interesting details on you sightseeing tour. Tiziana was very kind and welcomed us with some snacks and bevarage.
A very nice host for a good apartment. Very well located and equipped, with a supermarket and plenty of buses yards away. The portable Wifi was very useful, as we had Internet all over Rome. Central heating very efficient. The only con the sofa bed, not very confortable for two people. If they get a real double bed it will be unbeatable.
The apartement was just perfect!! It was very clean and with the two bedrooms there's enough space for 4 people. It's located in the historical old town, we were easily able to walk to all major sightseeing spots. There was a Wifi-box which we could take with us, that means we had internet access all over Rome. Also Tiziana was very kind, she prepared some snacks for us and organized a pick-up service back to the airport. Highly recommended!!
The appartment is nice and clean, that for me at least is very important.
The best thing is its location very close to some places like Pantheon, Piazza Venecia, Trastevere, Piazza Navona,... and you can go on walk also to others not so far like The Vatican or The Colosseum.
Tiziana is very kind and she also gives you the first day some elemental food, what makes it easier your arrival.
The flat is nicely furnished and so perfectly situated in the historic quarter that you can reach all important sights by foot. We managed to cook wonderful meals with fresh vegetables from Campo de Fiori. Our host Tiziana gave us a very warm welcome and provided us with basic ingredients. Her English is very good and we were able to contact her at any moment, which was great and very helpful for us and we would like to thank her for that. We would like to come back another time.
It was a great place to stay, the location is just perfect. You can walk from there basically to every place in central rome and you don`t need to worry about buses or the metro. Also the supermarket is less than 50 meters away. When we arrived at the appartment their was already something on the table to snack. Everything is well equipped and clean as well and you can use the portable wifi everywhere. So we highly recommend this place.
Tiziana is so nice that she even prepared snacks for us : ) and the flat is just perfect, not to mention the mobile Wifi-gear which leads us through the whole city!! Highly recommended.
Very nice appartment, perfect located. Tiziana was very kind and helpful. You can reach many sights on foot. For all others there is
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text: It's time for our annual discussion of our favorite music of the year. Someone almost always turns me on to some new music. What are some of your favorite songs or albums of 2012? BTW, as usual, Amazon is having amazing Black Friday deals on mp3s and CDs. (If there's a Pink, Kelly Clarkson, or Carrie Underwood fan on your Xmas shopping list, check out their CDs on sale for five bucks right now).


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Brown saying it was his fault is a nice sound bite from a guy trying to stay on the team and a stand up move ... but it wasn't his fault.
Rolle is an excellent linebacker. Unfortunately that's not his position.
I could very well be wrong ... as I said earlier, many times the safeties talk and understand who is going to be covering the gray area of the field on a given play. I just have a hard time seeing the last guy being the 4th string rookie, when we have a "star" veteran there.
Sorry man, but even Brown has said it was his fault. Let it go. Brown is not Polamalu, and Rolle is not at fault on this play.
And you know I am no Rolle homer.
As you can see by this video, the pass is clearly on Browns side of the field. You can also see Brown way up on the short route when he should be been playing deep..


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In Spring Lake, History on the Shore
Chateau Inn & Suites • Spring Lake, NJ
Escape Kit
- A One-Night Stay for Two in a Superior King ($109) or a Luxury Parlor King or Classic Suite King ($139), Sundays through Thursdays between April 14 and May 23, 2013, or between September 9 and October 24, 2013
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The Destination
When wealthy New Yorkers and Philadelphians discovered the vast tracks of virgin land surrounding Spring Lake in 1876, the Jersey Shore town's rise to stardom was swift. Within a few years, the once-sleepy enclave of farmers and fishermen was known as the "Irish Riviera" for its fine hotels, unspoiled beaches, and sparkling summertime social scene (not to mention a large Irish-American population). Spring Lake's sycamore-lined streets still house plenty of turn-of-the-century charm inside historic mansions, antique stores, and ocean pavilions.
The Digs
Built in 1888 from the discarded lumber of the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, the 37-room Chateau Inn & Suites echoes with the memories of high-society teas and late-night stogies on the porch. Each guest room offers an updated take on Old World décor with mocha, gold, and cream-colored furnishings, a marble bathroom stocked with Aveda toiletries, Casablanca paddle fans, and a flat-screen plasma TV. Luxury Parlor King rooms also feature a private terrace and a fireplace, while Classic Suite King rooms boast a Jacuzzi tub.
Awake to a continental breakfast of gourmet coffee and European-style pastries served in the antique-filled Brighton room, where the oversize leather chairs provide a cozy place to curl up with a post-meal newspaper.
The Diversions
• Sea Girt Lighthouse
• Island Beach State Park
• Spring Lake Theater
• The Stone Pony
"My husband and I found this gem a few years ago, and we always look for an excuse to come back! ... This time we had the Luxury Parlor, and we loved it. Nice large room with a fireplace that we used each night."-- TripAdvisor
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Completely undisguised photos of the next generation 2014 W205 Mercedes-Benz C-Class have made their way onto the internet on a Czech website.These photos actually look more like screen caps from some kind of promotional video instead of low res versions of studio photos, and they are very detailed – two versions of the W205 C-Class is shown – one with a traditional hood ornament grille and another with a sports grille.Photos at link: http://paultan.org/2013/12/14/w205-mercedes-benz-c-class-official-shots-leaked/
It looks terrible. The CLA looks upright and proud. Its sculpting is great. This C-Class just looks melted.
I agree that it looks horrible. But I think it looks bad because it looks so much like the CLA, which looks bad.
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1984 Dodge Daytona Turbo:I agree that it looks horrible. But I think it looks bad because it looks so much like the CLA, which looks bad.I'm on the fence, the CLA looks like a bar of soap but this has better proportions but something is off about it, it's a bit too rounded for me.
I think it looks better than the CLA, pretty good overall, but I don't like the rear/tail lights.
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I think it looks great! I am not a huge fan of the interior though, those tiny buttons don't really cut it for me.
I like it, specially the "Sport" model. The taillights do lol goofy, but like the CLA I'm thinking they will look better in person as long as it has the lighting package for LED's.
It looks good. I'm not sure about the Sport grille however, and the tail end is too short.
Call me crazy, but I think it looks more expensive than any other car in this class...
I LOVE it. I think it looks great. I hate the CLA and its bar-o-soap(I am using Bell's description) profile. But this looks more astute, handsome and classy. I agree with AO10 that it looks more expensive than any other car in its class.
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Having said all that, I don't like the interior at all.
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Pretty bland, except for the slightly ugly head lights. Interior looks good though.
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Really CTS? Aside from the iPad looking navigation this is undoubtedly my favorite interior design out of all of the cars in its class.
The exterior is better than the 3 for sure, but it's not as exciting to look at as the ATS and IS. The C-class never really had an all out approach to styling anyways though. The interior is quite impressive on the other hand.
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Imo MB is on a roll. New S-Class is pretty much a benchmark for luxury cars. New E-Class is best in class at being a luxury car (not sport sedan). The SL pretty much doesn't have competition (luxury roadster ). CLA appears to be a major hit and I expect the GLA to be a major hit as well. Plus it appears the CLA is full of conquest sales from loaded up Toyota Camry's and Honda Accords. The new C-Class looks to be best in class as well at being a luxury car. I personally like the "Sport package" one, but the standard looks like a nice throw back to the design of the MB's when I was a kid.


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SEABEAR | Reykjavík's Sindri Már Sigfússon also goes under the name Sin Fang Bous, and if you heard his 2008 debut, Clangour, you're already acquainted with his oddball charm. Seabear are a folksier, more collaborative seven-piece realization of his softer side. Their debut, We Built a Fire, is fresh out on Morr Music.
BEAR HANDS | This Brooklyn four-piece had a great go at the music festival I promised never to mention again, and now they're bounding around the country with our own Passion Pit. The pairing and their popularity are easy to understand — a little Modest Mouse, a little Shins, a smidge of the Pit. Their BBQ-ready "What a Drag" single is about to drop on Cantora records.
IWRESTLEDABEARONCE | If you're in the market for sprawling, Busey-inspired, attention-deficit avant-metal with jarring loungy interludes, this Shreveport wrecking crew may be for you. If you hate little shits with asymmetrical bobs and checkered jeans, you should probably skip their appearance on the Warped Tour and just get their It's All Happening LP (Century) for the decidedly non–Hot Topical confines of your home.
BEARFORCE 1 | In case you were waiting around for a joke about the other kind of bear band, with guts and beards and man-on-man nookie and what not, you're too late — they broke up last June.
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It turns out all the talk of Microsoft not being at this year's CES was all for naught. Microsoft is all over the place, and it was punctuated on the opening day with the unannounced appearance of Microsoft's top dog Steve Ballmer in the midst of Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs' keynote. Jacobs had started with the announcements that covered Qualcomm's achievements in the mobile market, providing chips in devices in smartphones and tablets – 11 billion parts in the lifetime of the company. He mentions Microsoft, and that's when Ballmer emerges with his famous vigor and proudly throwing about the advantages of Windows tablets, while reminding everyone that they are currently the only such devices that can run Microsoft Office.
"You can have some fun but also be productive"
Ballmer showed off a few of the new devices built with Qualcomm's components and Windows 8, including the Lumia 920 Windows 8 smartphone, HTC's Windows 8 smartphone, the Samsung Ativ, and Dell's XPS notebook.
Microsoft has also placed focus on a showcase of 9 new Windows 8 systems that are being announced at the CES show and highlighted on their Windows blog.
This new world of computing is on display this week at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, from chipsets, to materials, hinges, touch panels, rotating displays, beautiful new designs and new capabilities in Windows 8.
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The PCs and devices we're seeing come to market are increasingly mobile and much more powerful. When Windows 8 launched in October, we talked about 1,000 PCs and devices that had been certified for Windows 8. There are now more than 1,500 with more expected in the weeks and months to come. The breadth of innovation continues as our hardware partners deliver new Windows 8 devices and experiences that are tuned for play and work.
They run down the list: Asus has a lightweight ultraportable, low-cost offering. Sony has a feature-packed VAIO product that features gesture control and high quality video. TV manufacturer Vizio has entered the computer market with a thin line of portable touchscreen notebooks and all-in-one systems. Samsung is releasing two new cutting edge models that are strong on features such as thin profiles, and high performance. Lenovo's IdeaCentre Horizon table PC, which I briefly discussed on yesterday's SiliconANGLE NewsDesk segment, offers a new gaming experience and high performance platform. Lenovo's ThinkPad Helix, also discussed in the same news segment, is a convertible that features 4G and NFC technology that is configurable in a number of ways from touchpad to fully docked. Dell is also offering a series of Windows 8 systems that are inspired to thin design while making jumps in performance. HP is offering a Windows 8 lineup that features AMD processor-based systems rich on features and integration. Toshiba has announced their Qosmio X875 high performance focused machines.
Indeed, despite Microsoft's prior statements that they would no longer have a significant presence at the annual event, we have evidence to the contrary this year. It also adds credence to the notion that Microsoft is incredibly collaborative with their partner environment to deliver exciting new computing products to the consumer and business alike. The importance of that relationship couldn't be any clearer with the wealth of announcements and the appearance of Mr. Ballmer himself, especially at this critical time in Microsoft's history.


text: I know no one cares but me, but I'm posting it anyway... UH Pro Day I don't have all the exact details on every player but I spoke with some of the people who attended the event and work for NFL teams and they said that almost everyone had a good workout with just a couple of exceptions. * Kevin Kolb threw the ball well and showed his NFL arm strength as he was able to cut it loose in his passing drills. Jerry Rhome took him through the paces and Kolb did what he needed to do for the NFL teams in attendance. * Jackie Battle was the star of the show. The Cougars ran on an artificial turf and the times I received on Battle from an NFL source who timed him was 4.46 and 4.40. The source said that his team averages the time and adds .10 for the surface so he is posting it as a 4.53 which was "very, very surprising". Nobody expected Battle to run that fast and I don't think anyone expected his 41" vertical leap either. * Vincent Marshall ran in the 4.3s and that was AFTER THE SURFACE ADJUSTMENT! The only problem for Marshall is his size. His lack of size will probably keep him from being drafted. * WR Biron Ealy ran in the 4.5s which became a 4.6 with time adjustment. Still, that was not at all disappointing to the teams in attendance and two scouts who I know are already trying to position themselves as the front runner to add Ealy as a free agent if he isn't drafted. Teams like Ealy's potential and they are fine with his speed after today. * Will Gulley didn't run well (4.7) but there are some teams who are considering moving him to OLB in the 3-4 defense. It is clear that track coach Leroy Burrell and strength coach Larry Jackson have done a terrific job of getting the Cougars ready not only for this pro day, but also for the upcoming season. The hiring of Larry Jackson before last offseason was one of the best moves UH could have made for the football program. Posted by Lance Zierlein at March 23, 2007 08:26 AM


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Tongues would have been wagging at league headquarters when the Australian NBL schedule produced a clash between Perth and the Breakers on the final weekend of the season.
The defending champions against the team they conquered to take the title. Two teams who genuinely dislike each other. The competition's best rivalry for the last couple of seasons, cresting with an epic encounter to establish the top dog before the playoffs.
The reality, though, will see tomorrow night's game at Perth Arena (tipoff midnight NZT) produce a watered-down version of the rivalry.
Both teams sealed their playoff fate long ago, while the Breakers clinched a third straight minor premiership and home advantage in the playoffs with a couple of weeks to spare.
As the only sides in the competition with winning records, the game could be deemed the definition of a dead rubber. It is a mere curtain-raiser before, if the predictions hold true, the teams meet for the main event in next month's grand final series.
But therein lies the intrigue. Neither side will be willing to take a backward step and potentially provide the other any kind of edge heading into the playoffs. At the same time, though, there will be wariness about revealing one's hand too early and wasting the perfect plan on a glorified warm-up game.
The balance both sides try to find between those duelling objectives will be what makes tomorrow night's meeting worth watching. It will be much more tactically acute than the blood-and-thunder battles the Breakers and Wildcats usually produce.
"Everybody loves playing against Perth, especially over there,'' said power forward Mika Vukona, who has overcome his ankle injury and will take the court. "Perth are not going to go easy on us, and we aren't either.
"Any kind of psychological advantage that you can gain going into the playoffs is good. Nobody likes losing to Perth, they don't like losing to us. It's going to get pretty emotional over there.''
Andrej Lemanis, not one to be ruled by emotions, has already said he intends to play his strongest side, though that is more about maintaining a winning rhythm than getting one-up on counterpart Rob Beveridge, his chief opponent for the vacant Australian job.
And that winning rhythm, which has produced 16 straight victories, may itself provide the Breakers motivation. The players and coaching staff are at pains to tell you only one number matters - a certain three-peat of championships - but an unbeaten streak
stretching more than 100 days does lend itself to preservation.
If the Breakers beat Perth tomorrow and run the table in the playoffs, the second of those series sweeps would be the Breakers' 21st consecutive win, tying the all-time league record. That would be some exclamation mark on their sustained stretch of success.
"Everyone wants to keep that streak alive,'' Vukona said. "We want to go into the playoffs with a winning streak. There's no point going through this whole run then losing the last game.''
Vukona, who was this week nominated for best defensive player in the annual awards, found another reason for fans to tune into the final regular season game. It will be the latest stop on the retiring Dillon Boucher's farewell tour and, although the veteran could get one last taste of the wild west in the grand final, Vukona wanted to send his teammate away a winner.
"It would be nice to send Dillon off on a nice note with a final win in the regular season. To win that in Perth, there's nothing sweeter than that, especially for a guy that's played for many years.''


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Let's go to Sports Authority, spend $200 on shorts and get head in the changing room. Then take them home and fuck em some more.
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For many of us, our home is the center of our life. It is the place where our families meet and mingle, where we share our meals and share our dreams. So much more than just a space to live, our homes offer us a place of comfort, nourishment, and love for us and for our children.
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Filled with thirty-three projects made by reusing and repurposing materials, all of the items here offer a practical use in the home. From picnic blankets made out of repurposed bed sheets to curtains made out of vintage handkerchiefs, these projects express the sense of making something new out of something old as a way to live a more financially pared-down and simple life; lessen our impact on the earth; connect to the past and preserve a more traditional way of life; and place value on the work of the hands. Also included are projects that children can help with, allowing them to make their own special contribution to the family home.
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Papier-Mâché is one of the most frequently requested craft projects by my little ones. Calvin most of all loves to make these bowls for storing all the special treasures that his seven-year-old self collects. He makes a bowl for each collection. By using an existing bowl as a mold, this project is satisfying and successful for even the youngest among us.


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Grab your walking shoes—Chattanooga's leafy pathways and miles of waterfront trails secure the Tennessee city's reputation as one of the country's most pedestrian-friendly towns. There's more than enough Southern charm to go around in this picturesque locale, where you'll find a plethora of activities from family-friendly arts and culture to adult-oriented nightlife to round out your view. Framed by various mountains and ridges and anchored in the heart of downtown, colorful Chattanooga has earned its nickname as "The Scenic City."
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Newly renovated and just minutes from historic downtown Chattanooga, the Best Western Plus Arbour Inn & Suites offers rooms with brand-new furnishings, plush bedding, in-room coffee service, a microwave, a refrigerator, and two 40-inch flat-screen TV—one in the bedroom and one in your suite's parlor. The hot breakfast buffet includes a make-your-own pancake station, scrambled eggs, sausage, fresh fruits and pastries, juices, coffee, and a variety of teas. Other amenities include a 24-hour fitness center, a 24-hour business center, an outdoor pool, and free parking.
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Damien Oliver will still ride one of the favourites in the Melbourne Cup, despite reports he's admitted to betting on a rival horse in a race in 2010.
Oliver will ride joint favourite and 2010 champion Americain in the race that stops two nations at Flemington this evening.
But reports across the Tasman claim Oliver has admitted to putting $10,000 on a horse called Miss Octopussy while on the mount of another.
Miss Octopussy won the race.
It's overshadowed the buildup to the Melbourne Cup but champion trainer Bart Cummings is unfazed as he goes for 13 wins in the famous race.
"Can't do much about it, I'm not running the show, I'm only here to try and win it."
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Bend charter school showcases curriculum
REALMS takes part in National School Choice Week
BEND, Ore. - It's National School Choice Week, and one Bend charter school is using it as an opportunity to showcase its curriculum.
Rimrock Expeditionary Alternative Learning Middle School -- commonly known as "REALMS" -- was established in 2001, and there are 144 students combined in grades 6-8.
The school places an emphasis on active learning through a project-based curriculum. A curriculum that's applicable to students lives.
"Teachers really build curriculum around relevant real-world issues," said REALMS Director Roger White. "That helps kids understand, 'Oh, I get why I need to study this, because it makes a difference in my community.'"
With an average of 23 to 26 kids per class, students are able to really get to know each other. That's how seventh-grader Parker Palubeski transitioned so quickly.
"Well it's really easy to make friends here because we're such a compact community," Palubeski said. "Everybody knows each other, and we're all friends here."
REALMS shares most of the common core standards as traditional public schools, though it encourages students to learn outside the classroom as well.
"They do academic work in the classroom, and then they extend that work through community-based field work," White said.
For example, some of the seventh-graders have been working on a soil moisture project at Ryan Ranch Meadow along the Deschutes River.
"Instead of reading in a book this sort of thing and making stuff based on the made-up data, we actually get real data we can analyze and talk about," said Luka Perle, a seventh-grader at REALMS.
White and the students agree that the teachers help make the school what it is.
"I just really like the learning environment," said Lulu Mastrangelo, an eighth-grader at REALMS. "It feels like the teachers are really trying to make sure you learn it, understand it and are supporting you on it and not just lecturing you on it."
REALMS' students also participate in elective programs every Friday with local nonprofit organizations like the Humane Society of Central Oregon.
White said, "REALMS is just a little unique in that we have this different focus on trying to get at that challenging academic curriculum, but get at it through this project-based, interdisciplinary way."
There's also open enrollment for the Bend-La Pine Schools on March 1 for the high schools, and April 10 for elementary and middle schools. On those days, students and parents can can choose any school in the district to attend.
To learn more about National School Choice Week, visit http://schoolchoiceweek.com/