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Domino's said no to the demands of HSUS. So, this weekend, farmers are going to support their local Domino's by ordering pizzas and delivering thank you cards.
by Hoard's Dairyman staff
The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) seems to have its hands in everything lately. When we turn on the news, HSUS is often cited as a credible source. During commercials, they ask for $19 a month to support their lawyers and pension fund. Even on the Internet, we often find HSUS staff trolling websites to make the first comment when anything agriculturally interesting happens.
Of course, HSUS is not a friend to those of us in animal agriculture. They mislead consumers to fatten their wallets and put leading questions on ballots that are hard to say no to. In recent weeks, they've convinced McDonald's and Burger King to shift their product supply to the demands of HSUS' staff.
But in all this mayhem, Domino's Pizza stood up to the animal rights bully and said no. At an April Domino's shareholders meeting, shareholders voted 80 percent against and 4 percent for (with 16 percent abstaining) a resolution to not use gestation crates for sows, according to AnnArbor.com.
To celebrate the decision, agriculturalists have launched a nationwide campaign to thank Domino's for saying no to HSUS. While the gestation crate issue remains contentious, farmers look to band together against an organization that wants to put them out of business. Of course, this specific initiative did not involve dairy farmers, but maybe the next one will. Plus, more pizza means more cheese sales. What have we got to lose?
If you're planning to participate, organizers encourage you to give this printout to your local Domino's: http://ocj.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/agpizzaparty-1.pdf
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Oct. 12, 2002
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.
With senior Sharon Dickie running out front once again, the University of Tennessee women's cross country team splashed its way through the mud and muck to a sixth-place team finish Saturday morning at the 34th-annual PSU National Invitational.
The Lady Volunteers, competing on the rain-soaked Penn State University Blue and White Golf Courses in their first 6000-meter race of the season, accumulated 115 points to finish behind four-ranked schools and another noted distance program. UT did, however, triumph over 13 other squads and improved its 2002 record to 26-5.
"Overall, we had a good race, considering the conditions," Lady Vol Head Coach J.J. Clark said. "I'm pleased with our progress and glad that we had this opportunity to help sharpen us for our championship season. We need to keep working hard and get our number four and five runners to close the gap in order to have a shot at going to nationals."
Eighth-ranked Providence claimed victory with 51 points, followed by No. 21 Villanova (74), No. 25 Penn State (87) and No. 22 William & Mary (96). West Virginia (109), just six ahead of the Big Orange in fifth place, boasted the meet's individual champion in Megan Metcalfe. The sophomore crossed the line first in 20:49.72.
As for Tennessee, it was paced by Dickie for the 15th time in her past 15 starts. The Grand Blanc, Mich., native was seventh
in 21:11.31. Also scoring for the Lady Vols were freshman Felicia Guliford (Gallup, N.M.) in 17th at 22:04.57, sophomore
Brooke Novak (Kaukauna, Wis.) in 25th at 22:19.48, freshman Megan Cauble (Knoxville, Tenn.) in 31st in 22:30.55, and junior
Jessica Southers (Ashland, Ky) in 35th at 22:34.22.
"Sharon ran very competitively against a good field," Clark said. "I also thought Felicia and Megan ran well and Brooke was solid for us. Felicia really stepped it up today."
Those running but not contributing to the scoring cause were sophomore Elizabeth McCalley (Knoxville, Tenn.) in 45th in 22:51.14, junior Erin Anderson (Kent, Ohio) in 49th at 23:04.53, freshman Mindy Sullivan (Lubbock, Texas) in 68th at 23:32.07 and sophomore Nicole Cook (Petersburg, Va.) in 74th at 23:39.86.
Clark's squad will return to competition next Saturday (Oct. 19) as it heads down I-75 to run in the UTC Invitational in Chattanooga, Tenn. at 2:30 p.m. The short, 3000-meter distance will be the final tuneup for the Big Orange women before they move into the championship portion of their schedule with the Southeastern Conference meet in Gainesville, Fla., on Nov. 4.


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I think that these type of players may lead to a rise in another aspect of the game that goes unnoticed.
Looking back at the Chargers in the 2011-2012 season, their o-line was constantly injured. That could be a result of poor coaching/conditioning.
Highly talented players with injuries may lead to a rise in teams amping up their physical therapy staff and injury recovery staff.
This is just a crazy thought I had when thinking about what could incentivize highly talented but injured UFAs going to specific teams.
Am I wrong or is jaqaun williams the only pick after the 4th to produce since after 2007? In the 4th id be with gambling on lattimore, hes a 1st round talent all day...
Yeah Williams is the only talent I can think of, obviously there is AB in 2006. but yeah 3rd-4th. I think the third in itself is a reach.
Cincy is thinking of taking him in the 1st.
A couple years back before he tore his ACL, I was all aboard the Lattimore train as a potential future Giant. I was glad to see him comeback last season, but felt terrible for the kid when he dislocated his knee. I am no draft expert, but I dont think I would take a chance on him in the 3rd rd, maybe 4th or 5th rd.


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Open from 6 am to 1 pm and located at the corner of Highway 203 and Old Mammoth Road, the Breakfast Club is where locals go to fuel up for a big day of backcountry skiing and where tourists go to grease over their hangovers. You can get a blueberry muffin or an egg-and-cheese breakfast sandwich to go or sit down and enjoy huevos rancheros, chocolate chip pancakes, or biscuits and gravy. They don't take credit cards, so bring cash. This place is almost as good as the 1985 John Hughes movie starring Emilio Estevez and Molly Ringwald.
Where to Eat in Mammoth: The Breakfast Club
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text: Here is the write ups on Full time DRL's for the GM full size trucks.. These write up's are for Avalanche's but Should work for other GM full size trucks.. 02's 1. To play it safe, disconnect the Black Ground cable from the battery. 2. Standing on the driver's side of the truck, Remove the black curved bracket that connects the fender to the body. 3. Remove the Electrical Center Plastic housing. First the top, then look at the sides of the housing and find the tabs which hold it down. Angle the housing and unhook it from the tabs, and lift it off. This should reveal the naked fuse box which is the contents of the Electrical Center. 4. On the fender side of the fuse box is a locking latch. Push this tab towards the fender and this should unlock the fuse box. Then unhook the tabs at either ends of the side facing the engine. The fuse box is now loose and ready to be turned over. 5. There are different colored sections on the underside of the fuse box; we'll be operating in the green area. It is bolted into the box and it must be unscrewed. Loosen and remove the green connection block. Remove the two blue locking clips on both sides of the green block. 6. On the far right row, there are several wires, locate the double royal blue wire. Remove this wire from its current position and drop it down one (1) hole. Now the right side should have a double green wire at the top, followed by a single red, a single blue, a double purple, then the space just vacated and the newly relocated double blue wires. 7. Relock the green block using the blue locks. Screw in the green block back into the fuse box. 8. Test to see if the mod works. Reattach the Black Ground cable to the battery, and turn the key to the on position. (You don't have to start the truck. The DRLs should come on when the truck is in Park. 9. When everything works as you like it, lock in the fuse box, replace the cover and the top. Reattach the black curved bracket. 10. Sit back and enjoy the sense of accomplishment. 03-06's http://www.chevyavalancheclub.com/index.php/topic,3635.0.html http://www.chevyavalanchefanclub.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/25638/ftdrlnstall.pdf 07-10's I think.. Sorry for all the links.. Lots of info.. http://chevyavalanchefanclub.com/cafcna/index.php/topic,89788.0.html


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Microsoft's answer to Apple's hugely popular iPad, the Surface RT tablet is starting to trickle into New Zealand through people importing the device themselves and you might be wondering what they're like.
The answer is: not bad at all. I was lent a 32GB Surface RT for a few days last week, with two keyboard covers, the shallow Touch one that doesn't have real keys, and the Type one that does.
Microsoft made sure the Surface RT would be well-built, and it does feel like a quality device. It makes for a nice, lightweight travelling device to use instead of a laptop.
This is not an iPad copy
Having the kickstand and detachable full-size keyboard covers makes all the difference when you need to be productive; I was able to type at decent speeds on both the Touch and Type keyboards within a short period of time.
Better yet, battery life is very good with the Surface RT easily lasting a day between charges.
There's a standard USB 2.0 port which means you can hook up all sorts of devices to the Surface RT, provided of course there is device driver software available for them. A micro-SD memory card slotis also available, handy because of the 32GB total storage, only 24GB is available to user data and apps.
The Surface has a trick up its sleeve that no iPad can do: you can have multiple users on it, just like on any Windows PC.
That and the ability to fence off a part of the Surface and Windows 8 for your children so they can't go and buy apps for instance is a great feature.
Another unique draw-card is the bundled Office 2013 Home and Student productivity suite with Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote, at least until Microsoft comes out with a version for Apple i-devices.
Overall, the Surface RT performs well. Some of the games you get for Windows 8 like Pinball overwhelm the Surface RT, but just about everything else including the bundled version of Office, web browsing (yes, Adobe Flash is supported) work just fine.
A few misses
For a product show-casing Microsoft's technical nous, the Surface RT has some very average cameras front and back. They work, but the image quality is nothing to write home about.
Also, while the Surface RT screen is not bad as such, it's also fairly low resolution compared to the Retina ones found in iPads.
Not having a full version of Office with Outlook for email is and macro support for Excel will be a show-stopper for some users. What's more, apparently you have to buy a separate license for Office if you intend to use it for business purposes.
There is no 3G cellular broadband, only Wi-Fi, for the Surface RT. This is easily worked around by using your smartphone as a Wi-Fi hotspot for a data connection but 3G connectivity is a feature that some (wealthier) users like to have.
Crippled Desktop
The major bug-bear is the Desktop mode in Windows 8 RT. This will irritate users who can't install alternative browsers because under the bonnet, RT uses not an Intel processor but an ARM-designed one made by graphics device company Nvidia.
Due to the ARM processor, Windows RT is unable to run normal Windows applications on the Desktop, which seems to be there just for Office. The logical next step for Microsoft would be to dump Desktop mode in Windows 8 RT completely, but right now, it was probably too difficult to do.
There are plenty of programs for the Windows 8 side of Surface RT though, in the App Store, but it's odd to have a Windows computer that doesn't run much Windows software so to speak.
Next year, Microsoft promises to release the fully-featured (and no doubt, more expensive) Surface Pro tablet. This runs an Intel-based version of Windows 8 without the limitations of the RT variant.
Flaws apart, the Surface RT is a strong first tablet offering that's good enough to warrant some growling at Microsoft's local office for not making it available for NZ customers and developers who now have to import the devices themselves.


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|Written by Alexey Root on Wed, Feb 20 2013 (23:44)
February 20, 2013
Castling for Beginners and Intermediates
Taught the rules of castling while in a whole class setting at the demonstration board (called on students for whether castling is possible in certain situations). Then, "Game Theory" challenge from Thinking with Chess: Teaching Children Ages 5-14. Notation was required from Intermediate group.
Petroff's Defense for Advanced Players
Advanced group requested to study openings. For the opening, taught "Move Order Mystery" from Science, Math, Checkmate.
At the start of class, from last week, asked about White: Na1, Kh8 Black: Pawn a2, Ka3, Black to move. Ask: Where would the white king need to be to draw this position?
And for the chess-player the success which crowns his work, the great dispeller of sorrows, is named "combination."
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Hi, Maybe i should know this allready after 3 years of beekeeping but i don't
After my last extraction this season i let the bees rob all the honey left in the supers
and i took them dry from the field to store them to the next season.
I noticed that wax moth atracted to dark combs and i didn't see
this nasty butterfly on white-yellow combs at all.
1. Does it allways like this and wax moth never live and eat in white-yellowte combs?
2. What Wax moth interest in dark combs (pollen, propolis,,,,) ?
3. How much time should i leave the combs in -5 celcius degrees freezer
so the wax moth eggs will be dead?
Thanks alot.


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Multimillion dollar project begins at Springs Power Plant
A pollution reduction project has begun to eliminate sulfur dioxide from the gas emitted from the Drake Power Plant.
According to Colorado Springs Utilities, this project does not mean the air in Colorado Springs is unsafe to breath. Michael Brady, environmental projects manager with CSU, said the air in the Pikes Peak Region is in compliance with all health-based standards.
Instead, the $130 million dollar project is designed to eliminate sulfur dioxide and reduce visibility issues in nearby areas such as national parks and monuments.
"There is a congressional mandate to restore visibility to what is considered to be its natural conditions over a 60-year period. This is basically the first step in that process," said Brady.
The project includes relocating underground utilities, installing foundations for tanks, enclosing the tanks in a structure and installing a scrubber. CSU said the technology that is to be used was developed by a local company, and is the first of its kind to be implemented in this manner.
"The sulfur dioxide will be removed as a liquid and be processed in the building where the tanks will be constructed, and then sent to the landfill as a solid byproduct," said Brady.
This project is designed to comply with the standards defined by the Clean Air Act. If CSU failed to comply, it would face a $37,000 fine per day until the pollutant was removed.
The project has been in the design phase since 2010.
Rate dollars are being used to fund the project.
For more information on CSU rates, click here.
For more information on the CSU budget, click here.


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- New Zealand fashion designer Trelise Cooper flew to New Delhi seeking new styles
- Cooper was drawn to the city's tradition of flamboyantly colored clothes
- She says that the journey helped her create a line of clothing fused with opulence and romance
With a star-studded client list that includes Catherine Zeta-Jones, Lindsay Lohan, Julia Roberts and Michelle Pfeiffer, Trelise Cooper is an internationally known fashion designer.
Starting out with a boutique store in Auckland, New Zealand, during the mid-1980s, Cooper's ascent onto the fashion stage -- and the front covers of Vogue and Marie Claire -- is made more remarkable by the fact that she never received any formal training as either a designer or seamstress.
Instead, Cooper relied on her self-confessed "obsession" for detail, as well as a natural eye for fashion. "I was born a fashion designer" she says, and soon after she set up shop, her clothes acquired a reputation for their bold use of pattern and intricate stitching.
Cooper took up the "Fusion Journey" challenge to travel from New Zealand to New Delhi, India's capital. Although it's a city she had been to on business many times before, she says that she'd never allowed herself the time to study its traditional dress in earnest.
There she was tasked with creating a new fashion line that would combine her own sophisticated modern style with the vibrant, brightly colored traditions of Indian dress-making.
In her own words, Cooper retraces the footsteps of her Fusion Journey.
Trelise Cooper: I absolutely adore the historical aspect of clothing. My ranges are full of influences from 19th-century French, English, even American vintage styles. So it's no surprise I have always enjoyed combing through flea markets in small towns and finding rare antique gems to steal some inspiration.
I'm also obsessed with detail, so when I find a Victorian gown or a 50s bridal slip that I like, then it's important for me to be able to emulate the exact stitching, embroidery or beading used at the time. In the West, unfortunately, most of our expert hand-stitching traditions have been lost -- the skills have not been passed on and the seamstress geniuses from the couture houses of Europe have not been replaced.
That is why I'm often traveling to India. It's one of the very best places in the world to find that expertise still thriving. From one village to the next you find whole families, generations, that have their own specialties of stitch work.
Honestly, I can give them any old historical piece that I've found and they will either take it away and recreate it almost perfectly, or they'll say "hmmm ... I don't know this stitching, but I know a place nearby that does." It's a fashion designer's dream!
So in one sense, I've been fusing my clothes with Indian influences for a while. However, I think this was the first time I've traveled to India with a conscious intention to create a fusion of styles: their own traditional dress with my more modern, western creations.
I just love the color and the vibrancy that is India. New Delhi is exciting and chaotic and noisy and dusty and smoky and hot. Everything is so full of intense color and I realized that, on a subconscious level at least, I've been influenced by Indian style ... In fact, when it comes to bold use of colors and the use of these rich, deep dyes, how can anyone deny the huge influence of India on fashion around the world?
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Walking through the streets, you see color combinations that you'd never imagine would work. I recall a beautiful woman wearing a sari in bright, radiant pink mixed with a lime green print. I mean, lime and pink! It sounds garish, but on her, with the quality of the dye and the way the colors had been combined it looked absolutely stunning.
We made our way to a shop that I can only describe as a treasure trove of fabrics and other goodies. This was the place to find all the accessories, textiles, ribbons, bows, buttons, and beads that I could take back to my studio in Auckland to use as inspiration for the final creations.
There were ideas there, old and new, that I'd never thought about. Already I could envisage opportunities to use all sorts of different laces and braids, detailed examples of hand stitching, with some other antique dresses we'd picked up from a local supplier.
Much as I love them personally, I don't sell things like saris -- and I never would -- it's not a style that would appeal to the tastes of my particular customers. However, what I took back to New Zealand, was their techniques, their intense celebratory colors, their detailed embellishments, their expert use of beads and sequins.
I worked on the new line for many months, and these are the elements I hope I managed to incorporate into them. I think they've added an opulence, a romance. But I'll only know I have finished the creative process when someone comes in and says that, no matter what, they have to have it.
The garment takes them on a journey, and so my journey with the garment has finished.


text: Actually, setting 5 IS working, just not 1-4. The AC will blow cold on 5, and there is NOTHING on the other settings. When we got this vehicle back in 2007, I did notice a continual problem of setting 1 on fan, the air just didn't blow much unless the truck was moving. Then, last year, there was this little mouse squeak noise from the area to the left and under the steering wheel dash side. It'd do it every, oh, 11 seconds as a rhythm. I was wondering what that forebode. Perhaps now I know.SO.....I know little to bubkus about this, so help me out, please. Fan only blows on 5, dead on 1-4. AC works. Chkd the AC fuse BEFORE I realized that 5 worked ok.What might this be?Thanks from a newbie!Hil


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From HaskellWiki
1 Product
Recall the construction of a cartesian product of two sets: . We have functions and extracting the two sets from the product, and we can take any two functions and and take them together to form a function .Similarly, we can form the type of pairs of Haskell types:
An element of the pair is completely determined by the two elements included in it. Hence, if we have a pair of generalized elements and , we can find a unique generalized element such that the projection arrows on this gives us the original elements back.
This argument indicates to us a possible definition that avoids talking about elements in sets in the first place, and we are lead to the
Definition A product of two objects A,B in a category C is an object equipped with arrows such that for any other object V with arrows , there is a unique arrow such that the diagram
commutes. The diagram is called a product cone if it is a diagram of a product with the projection arrows from its definition.In the category of sets, the unique map is given by q(v) = (q1(v),q2(v)). In the Haskell category, it is given by the combinator
We tend to talk about the product. The justification for this lies in the first interesting
Proposition If P and P' are both products for A,B, then they are isomorphic.
Proof Consider the diagram
Both vertical arrows are given by the product property of the two product cones involved. Their compositions are endo-arrows of P,P', such that in each case, we get a diagram like
with (or P'), and q1 = p1,q2 = p2. There is, by the product property, only one endoarrow that can make the diagram work - but both the composition of the two arrows, and the identity arrow itself, make the diagram commute. Therefore, the composition has to be the identity. QED.
We can expand the binary product to higher order products easily - instead of pairs of arrows, we have families of arrows, and all the diagrams carry over to the larger case.
1.1 Binary functions
Functions into a product help define the product in the first place, and function as elements of the product. Functions from a product, on the other hand, allow us to put a formalism around the idea of functions of several variables.So a function of two variables, of types
2 CoproductThe product came, in part, out of considering the pair construction. One alternative way to write the
data Pair a b = Pair a b
and the resulting type is isomorphic, in Hask, to the product type we discussed above.This is one of two basic things we can do in a
The other thing we can do is to form a union type, by something like
data Union a b = Left a | Right b
This type guarantees the existence of two functions
Left :: a -> Union a b Right :: b -> Union a b
Similarly, in the category of sets we have the disjoint union , which also comes with functions .
We can use all this to mimic the product definition. The directions of the inclusions indicate that we may well want the dualization of the definition. Thus we define:
Definition A coproduct A + B of objects A,B in a category C is an object equipped with arrows such that for any other object V with arrows , there is a unique arrow such that the diagram
commutes. The diagram is called a coproduct cocone, and the arrows are inclusion arrows.
The other thing you can do in a Haskell data type declaration looks like this:
Coproduct a b = A a | B b
This type provides us with functions
A :: a -> Coproduct a b B :: b -> Coproduct a b
and hence looks quite like a dual to the product construction, in that the guaranteed functions the type brings are in the reverse directions from the arrows that the product projection arrows.
So, maybe what we want to do is to simply dualize the entire definition?
Definition Let C be a category. The coproduct of two objects A,B is an object A + B equipped with maps and such that any other object V with maps has a unique map such that v1 = vi1 and v2 = vi2.
In the Haskell case, the maps i1,i2 are the type constructors A,B. And indeed, this Coproduct, the union type construction, is the type which guarantees inclusion of source types, but with minimal additional assumptions on the type.
In the category of sets, the coproduct construction is one where we can embed both sets into the coproduct, faithfully, and the result has no additional structure beyond that. Thus, the coproduct in set, is the disjoint union of the included sets: both sets are included without identifications made, and no extra elements are introduced.
Proposition If C,C' are both coproducts for some A,B, then they are isomorphic.
The proof is almost exactly the same as the proof for the product case.
- Diagram definition
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3 Algebra of datatypes
Recall from [User:Michiexile/MATH198/Lecture_3|Lecture 3] that we can consider endofunctors as container datatypes. Some of the more obvious such container datatypes include:
data 1 a = Empty data T a = T a
These being the data type that has only one single element and the data type that has exactly one value contained.Using these, we can generate a whole slew of further datatypes. First off, we can generate a data type with any finite number of elements by (n times). Remember that the coproduct construction for data types allows us to know which summand of the coproduct a given part is in, so the single elements in all the
Furthermore, we can note that , with the isomorphism given by the maps
f (Empty, T x) = T x g (T x) = (Empty, T x)
Thus we have the capacity to add and multiply types with each other. We can verify, for any types A,B,C
We can thus make sense of types like T3 + 2T2 (either a triple of single values, or one out of two tagged pairs of single values).
This allows us to start working out a calculus of data types with versatile expression power. We can produce recursive data type definitions by using equations to define data types, that then allow a direct translation back into Haskell data type definitions, such as:
The real power of this way of rewriting types comes in the recognition that we can use algebraic methods to reason about our data types. For instance:
List = 1 + T * List = 1 + T * (1 + T * List) = 1 + T * 1 + T * T* List = 1 + T + T * T * List
so a list is either empty, contains one element, or contains at least two elements. Using, though, ideas from the theory of power series, or from continued fractions, we can start analyzing the data types using steps on the way that seem completely bizarre, but arriving at important property. Again, an easy example for illustration:
List = 1 + T * List -- and thus List - T * List = 1 -- even though (-) doesn't make sense for data types (1 - T) * List = 1 -- still ignoring that (-)... List = 1 / (1 - T) -- even though (/) doesn't make sense for data types = 1 + T + T*T + T*T*T + ... -- by the geometric series identity
and hence, we can conclude - using formally algebraic steps in between - that a list by the given definition consists of either an empty list, a single value, a pair of values, three values, et.c.
At this point, I'd recommend anyone interested in more perspectives on this approach to data types, and thinks one may do with them, to read the following references:
3.1 Blog posts
3.2 Research papers
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- What are the products in the category C(P) of a poset P? What are the coproducts?
- Prove that any two coproducts are isomorphic.
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Happy New Year!
December 31, 2012
2012 has been fun
Happy New Year!
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Happy New Year to you! That cat with antlers is damn fantastic.ReplyDelete
- amberDecember 31, 2012
what beauty! love all these pics!ReplyDelete
Happy New Year also. Love all the pics!ReplyDelete
Beautiful pics! Happy New Year to you too!ReplyDelete
an amazing collection of images. wishing you a great start into the sparkling fresh year!ReplyDelete
Beautiful post. Happy New Year!ReplyDelete
Dear Ariele, I am wondering what that thing could be, what it is used for, the thing on pic 17 from 21 on this post, left beside the cactus, in front of the framed drawing and behind the hammer.ReplyDeleteReplies
That wooden thing you are referring to is actually an icecream cone roller, for making your own cones from scratch. Pretty isn't it? Thanks for your question Klaus!Delete
Yes, a pretty thing. A richness of pretty, wonderfulful things, things with a history, the ability to tell storys and your keen sense of discover, locate and choosing these things, your phantasie in using this wonderful old materials, wood, chairs and your gift to tell stories about all that. Great blog. It insinuates me: Why not making such a wonderful table yourself. Could be some great days. Stop! You havend even a saw! Lets see!Delete
- AnonymousJanuary 28, 2013
I think that's actually a wooden pestle for a conical food sieve, similar to this one:Delete
I've got one I love — and now I have a new use for it: shaping ice cream cones.
Just discovered your work on tumblr and had to find out more about you. The work is beautiful and your story is quite an inspiration to all us struggling artists. I did a post on you on my blog. Thanks :)ReplyDelete
Just a quick Hello from GErmany, to tell you that I enjoy your photos and...well..I have to admit..i love your cat =))ReplyDelete
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happy new year2013!!!ReplyDelete
Just found your blog and thrilled to have found you - love you photos and stories - thank you - warm wishes from Sydney xReplyDelete
You know I'm your biggest Instagram fan right!? Cats, wood, and cakes. who could ask for more? xoReplyDelete
your work is so amazing..! well done, and "bonne continuation" :) Elisa, from FranceReplyDelete
Just discovered your work on tumblr and had to find out more about you. The work is beautiful and your story is quite an inspiration to all us struggling artists. I did a post on you on my blog.roofing montrealReplyDelete
i was wondering, why the hell haven't i met you work before buying my new dinning table!ReplyDelete
by the way...do you ship to Portugal?
first time i saw your work i stand with my mouth open...speechless!
Preciosas imagenes.. cuanto buen gusto!!ReplyDelete
i love your work! so beautiful. what a neat little space to live in.ReplyDelete
Your pictures are so amazing! Your wood works reminds me of a cold winter in the mountains doing winter sports. Very niceReplyDelete
- brisedeprintempsMarch 27, 2013
Sorry for my broken English (I'm French), but I would say how great is your work, and your blog is so beautiful. And as a big fan of cats, yours is adorable !ReplyDelete
Your blog is wonderful. I love your creativity. It's really inspiring.ReplyDelete
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I enjoy your photo posts on Instagram, especially the latest posts from Maine. What a wonderful perspective you have and beautiful woodwork! Thank you for the inspiration! Your dog is lovely too!ReplyDelete


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By Kevin Mooney
Without question, 2012 will be a memorable year for Thierry Henry. Two months after wrapping up a successful 2011 season for the New York Red Bulls, he packed his bags and headed to London to join Arsenal on loan. And with two game-winning goals -- including one on virtually his last kick with the Club -- the Frenchman only added to his legendary status.
But his time back at the Emirates had an expiration date, and he returned to America for his third season with the Red Bulls. USA.Arsenal.com tracked Henry's progress throughout the 2012 season. Below is a brief summary of the first half of his season.
The Red Bulls got off to a slow start in 2012, dropping their first two games of the season - both on the road. Still, the opening game against FC Dallas gave Red Bull supporters a glimpse of things to come as Henry developed a partnership with off-season acquisition Kenny Cooper and set up Cooper's first goal in a New York shirt.
The team and the captain found their form when they made their season debut at Red Bull Arena on March 25. And they found it quickly. Henry scored the opener within three minutes, added an assist within six and completed his brace early in the second half as New York cruised to a 4-1 win over the Colorado Rapids.
And then Henry stepped up his play even more. In the following game against the Montreal Impact, he netted his first MLS hat-trick and added another assist in the 5-2 win. With five goals and three assists, Henry had already eclipsed his totals from his debut season in just four games -- and earned the MLS Player of the Month award.
Match highlights courtesy of NewYorkRedBulls.com
Henry picked up where he left off in March and notched his third multi-goal game of the season. His two goal, one assist performance against Columbus Crew put him at the top of the MLS scoring chart and kept the Red Bulls near the top of the Eastern Conference.
But things began to take a turn the following week against the San Jose Earthquakes at home. Henry picked up an assist on Kenny Cooper's seventh goal of the season, but the visitors responded and New York slipped to a 2-2 draw. The following week, a visit to arch-rivals DC United saw the Red Bulls limp home after suffering a 4-1 loss. Henry did provide the lone bright spot with the consolation goal off a free-kick in the 72nd minute -- his eight of the season.
The Red Bulls closed out the month by returning to their winning ways, but it came at a cost. Shortly after giving his side a 1-0 lead, Henry left the game with a hamstring injury. It would be nearly a month before he would return to action.
Clip courtesy of NewYorkRedBulls.com
Even without the services of their captain and leading scorer, the Red Bulls went on a tear, winning their next four matches -- three of them on the road. Henry finally made his return on May 23, but visiting Chivas USA spoiled the day and secured a point at Red Bull Arena.
Not wishing to risk re-aggravating his hamstring injury, Henry sat out the next two matches -- US Open Cup ties: A 3-0 win over the Charleston Battery and a 3-1 loss at the hands of the Harrisburg City Islanders.
The MLS entered a two-week international break after the Red Bulls were ousted from the US Open Cup, and it seemed a good opportunity for Henry to completely recover from his injury and pick up where he left off in April. Instead, the striker suffered a calf injury while training on his own that would force him to miss the next two games.
Henry returned to action against DC United on June 24, but started the game on the bench. The Red Bulls built a 3-1 lead, but Head Coach Hans Backe put Henry on after DC came within one. He managed to get off two shots in 21 minutes as the Red Bulls hung on to the 3-2 win.
A trip to Toronto on the last day of the month saw Henry get his first start in five weeks. The day ended with a 1-1 draw and New York slipping into second place in the MLS Eastern Conference.
Coming soon: Henry returns to form as the Red Bulls chase a playoff spot.


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#1 Sun 26 Aug 12 11:04pm
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Youth Football Concession Stands
Hi Jamie I am on the board of a newly formed American Youth Football (Pop Warner) league in Southern California. Our mission statement includes our goal to be the premier youth sports league in our community. As we view it to be part of a premier league we must excel on and off the field. We require that all players keep good grades and perform at least 8 hours of community service. In addition we have banned all sales of candy, cookie dough and other junk food from out fundraisers. We have also removed all junk food and sugary drinks from our concessions. Unfortunately this has cut into the overall sales. I feel there is a way to offer healthy choices as part of a concessions stand (snack bar menu) but we are having trouble making the right choices. Your help would be appreciated.
#2 Mon 27 Aug 12 1:43am
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Re: Youth Football Concession Stands
Hi Jbrett,
Jamie mightn't see this, but others here might have some ideas.
I am not sure what facilities you have for keeping food warm or cold, and what sort of help you can get from volunteers etc.
My thinking is that there are a few things you could try: Work out your guidelines (maybe with a dietician) and then ask local caterers to tender so that you get a cut of the income, but the caterer can do all the work.
If you have a volunteer program, making delicious wraps (once you get your food safety certificates etc) or doing baked potatoes with coleslaw (for example) could be a way of raising money, giving volunteers a satisfying project, upping your profile, and being a model for other youth sports leagues.
I think it is great that your league is considering this issue. It is so important to connect sport and healthy eating in the minds of your members.
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A musical genre refering to many newer "indie" bands who play catchy, danceable songs. The tunes usually have a very basic "disco" beat consisting mostly of snare and hi-hat patterns. The guitar is usually very brisk sounding and slightly overdriven, consisting primarily of barre chords. The basslines are typical disco-esque and driving. What makes these bands psuedo disco is that they're several decades late and claim to be "rock" or "indie".
A primary example of a pseudo disco band is Franz Ferdinand and they are awesome.
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MORRIS >> The Bantam Lake State Boat Launch will be closed for five days for the installation of marina docks and a new anchoring system, according to the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP).
From Monday April 29 until Friday May 3, the boat launch will be closed for safety reasons. Divers will be in the water installing this "new and improved" anchoring system. The closure of the boat launch is for their protection.
"In the event that the anchoring system gets in sooner, we will be opening sooner. But, at the most it will be closed throughout the entire week," Eleanor Mariani, director of the boating division for DEEP said.
The old anchoring system "needed replacing," Mariani said.
The new helix anchor system will not require pilings, which are large supports that hold the dock in place.
"With this system you don't need to have those big supports coming out of the water. Rather, the anchors just hold the docks in place," Mariani said. "Generally where those big pilings are it takes space away from the dock system and in this case, there's unfettered access."
DEEP suggested in a press release that boaters use the nearby launches at West Hill Pond in Barkhamsted, or either Highland Lake or Winchester Lake in Winchester.
DEEP purchased Beverly's marina and the boat launch in 2011 from Bantam Lake Properties LLC. The Beverly's property is 2.82 aces and includes lake frontage, a 9,172 square foot structure and a ramp for launching boats.
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I can't do it.
I know my team could take a hit, but I just can't watch this game knowing that I'll be rooting for him to get yards. Its against the Giants and Giants > fantasy
I hope we smack him hard and swarm him like a bunch a crazed dogs! I want to be able to enjoy watching JPP tackle him for a loss.
Lets go Giants!


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Pamela D. Hall, PhD
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Dr. Pamela D. Hall joined the faculty of Barry University in the fall of 2009. She is an Assistant Professor of Psychology. In addition to teaching, she is the faculty advisor for the Psychology Club. Prior to arriving at Barry University, Dr. Hall taught at Hampton University and worked as a Development Consultant for Southern Partner's Fund, a non-profit foundation in Atlanta, Georgia. She received her PhD in Social Psychology with minors in Quantitative and Cognitive Psychology from Ohio State University. Dr. Hall is actively involved in projects throughout south Florida involving empowerment of children and families, particularly Haitian adolescents. She has developed service learning partnerships with Liberty City Revitalization Trust, Mt. Tabor Missionary Baptist Church, Sinai Plaza Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, Feeding South Florida, and the Haitian Youth Community Center of Florida. She is running a funded program for Haitian middle and high school students each summer called the Haitian Empowerment and Literacy Project (H.E.L.P.). The program's mission is to improve literacy and social skills development of adolescents by using Haitian culture, education, history, and different art mediums. Each summer she also does social justice volunteer activities at the State University of Haiti and Lakou Soleil Center in St. Raphael, Haiti.
Research Interests
- Effect of Music on memory and comprehension
- Role of meditation in improving memory and reducing anxiety amongst children and adolescents
- The benefits of service learning on college student development
- Haitian adolescents academic, emotional, and social development
Selected Supervised Student Research
- Hernandez, T. (2013). Listening to music, music preference and reading comprehension. Master's Thesis.
- Velasco, M. (2013). Literacy, nutrition, art education and fitness benefits on working memory in Haitian Adolescents. Master's Thesis.
- Profilo, D. A. (2011). The relationship between personality and music preference. Master's Thesis.
- Cleland, S.(2009). The influence of rap and hip-hop music on youth.
- Jackman, D.(2009). The use of the PhotoVoice methodology to study oppression in Haitian and African-American males. Maximizing Access to Research Careers (MARC) Thesis.
Selected Publications/Presentations
- Hall, P.D., & Rivera-Torres (2011). Student perceptions regarding the benefits of minority faculty at predominately white colleges and universities. Journal of Multicultural Education, 7(2), 1-17.
- Lubin, N., Hall, P.D., & Desir, C. (2013). The Haitian academic self. Poster presented at Florida Academy of Sciences, Miami, Florida.
- Hall, P.D., Desir, C., & Lubin, N. (2013). The psychological benefits of acculturation for Haitian American adolescents. Poster presented at the American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Honolulu, Hawaii.
- Hall, P.D. (2013). Using service learning to examine college student's attitudes towards helping. Poster presented at the Southeastern Psychological Association Annual Convention, Atlanta, Georgia.
- Hall, P.D., Desir, C., Rivera-Torres, K., & Hall, S. (2012). How do they measure up? Measuring Self-Esteem and Depression levels amongst Haitian Adolescents. Poster presented at the American Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida.
- Hall, P.D., Desir, C., Rivera-Torres, K. (2012). Haitian American adolescents' self-esteem trajectories. Poster presented at the Association of Psychological Sciences Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.
- Hall, P.D. (2011). Implementation of service learning in a senior psychology capstone course. Paper presented at the Southeastern Ecological Community Psychology Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.
- Hall, P.D., & Rivera-Torres, K. (2011). The benefits of minority professors at universities in South Florida. Poster presented at the Southeastern Psychological Association, Jacksonville, Florida.
- Desir, C., & Hall, P.D. ( 2011). Haitian High school students find their voice at the Literacy Initiative for Empowerment (L.I.F.E.) Program. Panel presentation at the Qualitative Report Second Annual Conference. Nova Southeastern University, Davie, Florida.
- Hall, P.D., & Desir, C. (2010). Literacy Initiative for Empowerment: Haitian High school students in South Florida use PhotoVoice methodology for empowerment. Paper presented at the Haitian Studies Association Annual Conference. Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
- Al-Mateen, C., Best, A., Brookman, R., Hall, P.D., & Singh, N.(1999). Sexual abuse and peri-menstrual symptoms in adolescent girls. Journal of Interpersonal Violence,14, 1211-1224.
- Hall, P. D. (January, 1999). The effects of meditation on the academic performance of African-American college students. Journal of Black Studies, 29, 408-415.
- Hall, P. D. (July, 1998). The relationship between types of rap music and memory in African-American children. Journal of Black Studies, 28, 802-814.
Professional Memberships
- Association of Black Psychologists
- Association of Psychological Sciences
- Southeastern Psychological Association
Undergraduate Courses
- Social Psychology
- Cognitive Psychology
- Community Psychology
- Introduction to Psychology
- Senior Seminar
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Everybody knows that the first rock critics were those sweaty adolescents who got dragged up to American Bandstand's Rate-a-Record display by Dick Clark. And this was eons before any sort of literary dissection of Blonde on Blonde. However tidy it may seem to match pithy music with a comment as pithy as "I give it a 93, Mr. Clark – it's a cinch to pony to," rock 'n' roll's potential (or should I say stomach?) for discourse quickly outgrew such comments. Rock 'n' roll's rather unliterary formal crudity (in flux, as ever) and its assumed status as a "mere" popular music (in decline) seem to warrant exegesis as a phenomenon even while discouraging it as a matter of principle. So, it's no surprise that the best rock criticism harnesses a lot of rock 'n' roll's best aesthetic impulses. Both performers and critics try to steer clear of elitism; both try to make connections between the music and the rest of the world; both aim for a pointed vivacity, whether brutish or snappy. Gee, it sounds like rock criticism's only problem is that you can't dance to it.
A self-avowed bad dancer himself, the Village Voice's Robert Christgau, of all rock critics, has most directly translated rock 'n' roll's punch and bravado to the page. In fact, he looms over the Land of Rock-Crit with the same impossible force of personality as many a rock 'n' roller. If only by the tone of his writing, Christgau means to shake you up. Or, as he puts it, "I'd always believed that rock criticism should piss people off…I hope the result comes across both considered and immediate, like good rock 'n' roll." Although this friskiness often turns abrasive, Christgau also shares a strain of populism that runs gratifyingly through much of rock 'n' roll. It's Christgau's pragmatism even more than the deliberate inelegance of his style, that's evident in the format of his monthly Consumer Guide. Since 1969, the notorious Christgau's Consumer Guide has rated 20 albums a month, devoting a short paragraph to each and affixing a grade from A plus to E minus at the end of each comment. It's the most consciously broad utilitarian discussion of current rock 'n' roll around. Hell, it's almost as helpful as Rate-a-Record. The selection sprawls purposefully from the top of the pops to critics' tips, from SoHo's coffee-table artifacts to suburbia's. Of course, the choice of records is skewed, simulating a random sample while being anything but.
Compiling as well as rewriting the Consumer Guides of the '70s, adding twice again as many evaluations along with introductory essays on the decade and his grading system, Christgau's Record Guide (Ticknor & Fields, 472 pp., $9.95) manages both a critic's acuity and a compiler's thoroughness. That's not to say that every pop LP of the '70s appears here, only that even the book's omissions and glossing-overs yield their own evaluation. After all, if you intend to present the '70s as an endless succession of product, your point of view depends a lot on which product you choose to consider. Only two Barbra Streisand albums (out of … don't ask) are listed; only one Rush album, and nary a Styx or an Andy Gibb release. Although Christgau writes about his share of purely popular music, these absences tell another story. "Given the inevitable exceptions and time lag," Christgau notes in an opening essay on the Consumer Guide itself, "the way to find good music in 1969 was the same as in 1954 and 1964 – by turning on the radio and watching the charts… Not all of the most popular rock was good, but most of the good rock seemed to be popular." During the '70s, though, it soon became a critical commonplace to ignore the dross that floated to the top of the charts in favor of the quirkier stuff at the depths.
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Our Rush players, parents and coaches are amazing, bottom line. If you need proof just check out this album.
A huge number of teams across the nation showed their support for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month this October. We invite you to read their uplifting stories below, and send your pics to be added to the album! #RushForTheCure
Surely we weren't informed of all the wonderful efforts made, so whether you are featured below or not, THANK YOU TO ALL WHO SHOWED SUPPORT.
Kansas Rush
On October 19th and 20th, all Kansas Rush Soccer Club teams wore pink jerseys while playing league games for cancer awareness and raised funds to donate to Children's Mercy Hospital cancer program. Kansas Rush is committed to teaching our young players not only about the love of the game of soccer, but also the importance of community service. We believe in teaching life skills both on and off the field. This event teaches our players the importance of giving our time to our local community. At Kansas Rush, we have individual teams who participate in community service activities, but this gives us the opportunity to show our commitment to community service club wide!
Georgia Rush
This GU15 team is 7-0-0 and their GK is from Michigan Rush, and flies to Atlanta every weekend.
Picture: In a South Georgia Cotton Field after a win in their RUSH for the CURE jersey's.
Texas Rush
TX Rush players wore the shirts once per week in training for ECNL teams in the month of October, and in 'pre-game' warm up for all ECNL games in the month of October - 300 + shirts sold associated with the ECNL program!
New Mexico Rush
NM Rush Soccer Club currently has all its competitive players sporting pink jersey's throughout the month of October for its DCSL league matches. All proceeds raised from the teams purchasing the Pink Rush Game Jersey's will be donated to local NM Cancer Foundation.
Pennsylvania Rush
In 2012, Members of PA Rush Soccer's U10 boys and U12 girls team and their supporters used pink practice T-shirts to promote breast cancer awareness. This year they ordered pink socks and the teams practiced with and played a few games with their pink socks on all the funds raised went to Breast Cancer Awareness.
Delaware Rush
Several teams bought pink socks for use at various tournaments over the Columbus Day weekend.
Alaska Rush
AK Rush has shown their support for Breast Cancer Awareness Month for the past 2 years now. Last year they wore pink (socks, underarmor, headbands) during all games in the month of October. Not only the players wore pink but all coaches and parents showed their support as well. They also made pink ribbons and sold for donations, raising over $450.00 that was donated to a local mammogram clinic for lower income families. They also dedicated each of our games to a Breast Cancer Survivor and had the survivor attend their dedicated game. This year, players, parents and coaches are supporting Breast Cancer Awareness month by wearing pink at all games.
Colorado Rush
The GU16 team with CO Rush decided to write a Rush core value, Unity, by a breast cancer sign to symbolize the club and to represent all the women and families affected by breast cancer. "We weren't only playing to win that day, we were playing for something bigger." -Zoe Zinis
Maryland Rush
The boys of MRM Rush Academy Blue '03 (U10B) and MRM Rush Academy Blue '02 (U11B) asked to wear pink socks for all their games in the month of October! It was a great success!


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OK guys I now have a barrel and stub in hand!!
I have the stock for the barrel wrenches in hand and cut to length. I am going to start milling out the notches very soon "tonight"
yes they will have a clamp bolt to help prevent slip.
NOW as for the drive hole. I can make a 3/4" square hole BUT I had an idea I thought I would run by you guys. how about I drill a large hole place a large bolt through it and weld it in place. them you could have something like a 7/8" hex to put a 7/8" box wrench on... what do you think?? just a thought.
do you think it would be strong enough?? I will do a test at work and get some results.
I do not have the reciever wrench yet to work from BUT it is on the way.
I have to be honest with all of you as for as a time frame here so nobody is disapointed or upset. I have to work for the next 11 days in a row to cover a co-workers vacation. I can do some work but not much with this project. after that I should have all the stock and things should move rite along.
hope this is not to dissapointing. I am shure the price will make up for it.
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Summer vacation is often times synonymous with road trip. If you're planning a trip with the kiddos in the next couple months, here are a few off-line entertainment ideas.
Children of all ages (and grownups too!) love a goody bag. A travel twist on this idea is Mileage Bags from page 47 of 101 Activities You Can Do with Your Child (790.191). Fill some paper lunch bags with snacks, small car-friendly toys and other welcome diversions to make the drive less tedious. Before you go, have the kids decorate the bags and discuss at what mileage markers they will be distributed. If you're unsure of the placement of the mileage markers along the way, designate distances based on the car's odometer. Get creative with your bags – make coupons for items like ice cream at the rest stop or knick knacks from the gift shop. Older children and teens may appreciate "1 hour riding shotgun" to get away from annoying siblings!
Another way to pass the time is to play "Snork" (page 76) which is a kind of I Spy game. One person supplies clues while the rest try to identify the object. The person starting the game should choose an object that is passed frequently such as a signpost or green car or gas station. Each time you pass the chosen object that person calls out "snork" – or really any agreed upon word will do. The game can be easily adjusted to varying ages and skills, such as a green car with 4 people in it. Do be careful not to pick something that comes up so frequently that it may be "snork, snork, snork, snork…"
And don't forget to keep reading this summer. WPPL's science-themed summer reading program has begun so don't forget to sign the kids up for FIZZ BOOM READ. Different prizes are awarded for reaching goals at the preschool, grade school and teen levels. Grown-ups can participate too in LITERARY ELEMENTS. Every book read (audios included) or program attended receives one drawing for your chance at a weekly prize. The program finishes August 2nd with everyone getting a chance at some very cool grand prizes.
If the kids need additional incentives for reading, have a Book Bonanza at home (as seen in Family Fun's June/July 2014 issue).
Make the Board:
1. Using strips of double-sided tape, attach 16 envelopes to a sheet of foam core or sturdy corrugated cardboard in a grid as shown (our board measures 21 by 29 inches).
2. For the labels, print your own prompts or our template below onto paper. Cut out the prompts (we used a 2-inch circle punch).
3. Fill each envelope with a prize (see suggestions below) and seal it with a label affixed with double-sided tape.
Hit the Books:
After finishing a book on a specified topic, the reader opens the corresponding envelope to find a prize. Some prize ideas could be glow-in-the-dark star stickers for a space or science fiction themed book or glitter glue for fairy tales. For bulkier prizes, wrap them as presents and attach the book "assignments" to it.
Some traveling fiction to rally the troops!
Fred & Ted's Road Trip, JE Eastman, Peter
SpongeBob's Runaway Road Trip, JE SpongeBob:Runaway
Barfing in the Backseat: How I survived my Family Road Trip, JF Winkler, Henry
Road Trip, JF Paulsen, Jim
For Teens:
Amy & Roger's Epic Detour, YA Matson, Morgan
The Geography of You and Me, YA Smith, Jennifer
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, YA Brashares, Ann
How To Ruin a Summer Vacation, YA Elkeles, Simone


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Committee meets to discuss library funding
A fundraising committee met on behalf of the Pine River Public library on July 8 to discuss library funding options.
The meeting attracted approximately 12 people representing the Pine River City Council, the public, the Pine River Library Foundation, and the Kitchigami Regional Library System. Discussion revealed that fundraising done by the foundation might not be the solution the council was looking for.
"As a foundation, if we raise money we have to raise it for our whole service area. The city would only get twenty some percent benefit from that," Steve Hansen of the foundation said. "If they are looking to raise money to offset the rent or the cost of the library, they are going to have to do that themselves, and the implication was they thought the foundation would do that for them."
The call for fundraising initially came at a June 25 planning meeting when members of the Pine River City Council asked the library, and those present, to form a committee to raise funds to offset maintenance and repair costs in the library in hopes that this would eliminate the need for increases in the city's lease expenses for the library. The goal was to raise as much as $1,400. The July 8 committee meeting may have eliminated that possibility.
"Part of the miscommunication was we signed the new lease in 2010. So in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 the rent has been the same. The foundation has absorbed all operating cost increases such as insurance, gas, all those kinds of things. We've not increased the rent basically because the city has been in a financial funk. We can no longer absorb that aspect," Hansen said.
The foundation is hoping to increase reserves for the library in case of emergency maintenance and repair needs. This would be done by increasing lease fees to cover operating cost increases. The library roof is also still being paid for.
Between a June 11 regular city council meeting and the June 25 planning and zoning meeting, it was made clear that there were misunderstandings between the city and the foundation concerning who was responsible for what expenses, among other issues. The fundraising committee did not create a plan for fundraising on July 8, but did begin planning to improve communication, and eliminate misunderstandings between the city and the foundation.
"The foundation is going to provide the city operating or financial reports about the building," Hansen said.
Hansen also said that the city should also look into their agreements, contracts and leases between Kitchigami and the library foundation to make sure they understand their responsibilities.
Hansen also stressed the importance of the Pine River Public Library.
"This library has one of the highest usages there is. In 75 percent and more of the people that use that library are pulled from outside the community of Pine River, and many many communities that host a library pay significantly more," Hansen said.


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Thread: What book are you reading?
Some of that won't just be the translation - I've never found Ol' Dusty to be a particularly great writer as far as putting one word in front of the other is concerned. It's that rich stew of plotting, ideas and borderline insane characters that I stayed for.
White Noise would be my favourite Delillo but it was the first I read and I've found him to be very much an author of diminishing returns.
Currently, I've been reading a lot of George Saunders (amazing) and have just started cracking into You Bright And Risen Angels by Vollman. So far so very good but I should probably also get into the the 3rd ASoFaI (did I do it right?) before I am exposed to spoilers for the TV series' third season finale that left everyone so shocked.
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I'm currently reading Pride and Prejudice, which so far seems like a really bad episode of Downton Abbey. There are far too many named characters here (most of whom do absolutely nothing), and no one really stands out in a way that makes me actually care about what happens to them. I'm only one "volume" in, however, so maybe it'll get better as it goes along.
When taking breaks from Pride, I'm also making my way through From Hell, which I was excited about because the Jack the Ripper mythos fascinate me, but I'm only three chapters in and its taken a turn into some weird X-Files level conspiracy weirdness so...we'll see. The art is fantastic to be certain, and there have been some great scenes, I'm just not sure how it'll all come together. Still, I suppose I'm enjoying it.
I made it through Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! in one piece, somehow. It's good. Really, really good. It's still very difficult to read, though.
Next in line is either Heart of Darkness or A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Both are fairly short, thankfully.Immersive Sims on Steam WIP
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Your name is burning in the language of Xanadu.
Finished Volume 1 of Sandman. It was the first time i read one of his comics.
I had always been a DC fan. Sandman tough feels weird tough when comparing to regular action comics. Yet I love the setting and want more!
Shame its 25 bucks per volume. Can't justify buying one volume more than once a month.
They did a rerelease of the full set which you can get for £90 in the UK now. Still seems like a lot of money but it's not so bad for 10 volumes. I've been thinking of getting it, I have the first 3 volumes already but never read further due to later ones being out of print at the time, plus one of them got water damaged.
Just bought the 4th book of the Japanese light novel series Math Girls by Mr. Hiroshi Yuki. I have ordered the previous 3 books as well and hopefully will get them within 2-3 weeks. Of course, I am gonna read the Chinese translated version. Glad to learn that this series has English translation as well but the prices are rather high:
Actually Mr. Yuki has recently finished the 5th book but it generally took about a year for an installment to be translated. After all, translation involves a large amount of mathematical languages.
Mr. Yuki is a IT professionals who happens to be very enthusiastic in authoring textbooks and casual readings promoting science and technology. He wrote tons of elementary programming textbooks though no one bothers to translate them in foreign language. His science promotion writings, however, are generally quite popular both in Japan and overseas.
About a guy and some math-gifted girls discussing mathematics, and, of course, some common Japanese style teen romances. In East Asia we have a genre call Science Promotion Publications. Scientists try to promote understanding of science through those readings. Fiction is an increasingly popular kinda presentation.
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Finished up Abaddon's Gate (third book in The Expanse) the other night, started reading the english translation of Metro 2033.
I still think the strongest Expanse book is Leviathan Wakes, but mostly because of the strong contrast between the viewpoint characters. It was nice to read about two very strong and very moral characters who just have completely different ethical views. Caliban's War was okay, but there was no real contrast. Everyone was of the "I have to do some bad stuff to make the world a better place", and they just varied in terms of what they thought was "bad".
Abaddon's Gate did a decent job of going back to the original contrast while also demonstrating that the solar system has changed since the protomolecule was discovered. Holden is still a goody-two-shoes, but he is also a much more mature man who is capable of admitting when he is wrong. And Bull was similar to Miller in that he was willing to do some pretty messed up stuff in the name of making the world a better place, but he was also a man who was truly selfless and only cared about protecting the world (Miller was a selfish asshole :p). And not to spoil anything, but Melba was a surprisingly interesting read.
Also had a few great gut punches and did a really good job of making the reader care about even the lesser viewpoint character (Pastor Anna). Her narrative gets really good near the end (in fact, during the climax, I would put her as first/second best read), but it is clear the authors didn't know what to do with her for the first half of the book but also understood they couldn't just pull her out of storage when it was important. The contrast of her and Amos (who still has no viewpoint chapters) was VERY good and well written. And it was nice that the writers toned back the borderline comedic sociopathy that Amos exhibited in Caliban's War and brought him back to "a good-hearted unrepentant killer". As much as I would love a few viewpoint chapters from him, I think keeping his mind a secret is a much better choice as the reader knows just enough to have a good feeling of the turmoil that is going through his head but not enough to truly comprehend him.Steam: Gundato
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On a non fiction wave at present. Have been reading 'The Art of Thinking Clearly' by Rolf Dobelli which is a book that basically categorizes and succinctly explains all manner of everyday cognitive biases. Really interesting stuff, very insightful and full of good (and often amusing) examples of them in effect. Highly recommended to all and sundry.2017 Yay!!!!
Why yes you're right I'm deliciously evil. Tradition is the tyranny of dead men
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Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes....
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Rereading William Gibson's Pattern Recognition for what I think is only the third or fourth time (not much for me; I reread a lot), and I'm growing more and more fond of it each time. There's something about the tone or atmosphere or whatever to call it, that makes it feel very sharp in a pleasant way. The plot is good, but for me it's much more about the tone.
It's sort of like Gibson has been working towards getting that sharpness through all of his books and now it's really there.
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Why yes you're right I'm deliciously evil. Tradition is the tyranny of dead men
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Why yes you're right I'm deliciously evil. Tradition is the tyranny of dead men
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As we speak, I've reached the final pages of Stephen Kings The Stand (the unabridged edition). I read it a few years back and wanted to read it again during a long flight a couple of weeks ago. I didn't manage to finish it then, but I will tonight. Great book, even though I don't care much for the somewhat christian hocus pocus the book ends with.
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Finally finished the last ~80 pages of Eisenhorn last night. I put it off for months for some reason. It felt like an extended graphic novel, but what an engaging and overall well-written story -- great series, all told. Ending felt incredibly rushed though. For anyone who's read it and the Ravenor omnibus, is Alizabeth mentioned at all? I don't see why she'd be relevant in it, but it's the end I most wanted unloosed in Eisenhorn.
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Voyage au bout de la nuit.
Just finished Everything Flows by Vasiliy Grossman. Second book of his that I've read (the other being Life and Fate), and I can't recommend them enough. Really worth reading, historically accurate novels that draw heavily on the experiences of the author living in Soviet Russia.
Life and Fate is a long and often subtle war story. Everything Flows is the opposite. It's short and direct; at times it becomes more essay than novel (unfinished, Grossman was still revising it when he died). Grossman's writing is clear and concise, and frequently insightful and moving. It's the fresh perspective I liked most. The book contains an account of the "Terror Famine", an event I hadn't even heard of where millions of Ukrainian peasants died due to state grain confiscation. He also devotes a few chapters to attacking Lenin and Lenin's image. Even now Lenin seems to be venerated to a degree as a noble revolutionary while everything bad is attributed to Stalin, but Grossman paints him as a man defined by the ruthlessness that brought the Bolshevik Party to power and laid the foundations for Stalin's state.
Haven't had the chance to look into proper non-fiction accounts yet, but certainly an interesting read.
In fact, come to think of it, they also barely promoted the latest Gaunt's Ghosts book. So yeah, pretty sure BL is pissed at him for something or another.
Err, to answer you question: she is a presence in Ravenor, but she was really Gregor's love (her and Gideon were just friends), and Ravenor kind of has other stuff to deal with. It is unclear exactly how the Bequin/"Eisenhorn VS Raveor" trilogy is going to work, but the viewpoint character is a pariah who is referred to as Bequin, so yeah :p
Of the two existing trilogies, I prefer Eisenhorn conceptually (a good man being turned into a Renegade), but Ravenor has much better writing.Steam: Gundato
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I AM guilty this month of sending my sp late...It goes out tomorrow. and I HAVE never been this late...JANUARY has been very challenging and I am ready to get on with a new month and spring weather... any of you gals living where it is warmer ... PLEASE send WA. some sun... DON'T want the heat, just some sunshine!! THANKS.... At that note... I AM IN FOR FEB. and promised Lori I would not be so slow at mailing out. SO I promise all of YOU also I will NOT be LATE.... :-)
ooh, looks like fun, but I think I'll have to wait til next month.
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hav4boys, It's good that you had the eye exam and discovered the problem. I'll keep you and your son in my prayers.
Hav4boys, please know that my DH and I will most certainly be keeping your son, you, and your family in our prayers. Please keep us updated on his condition!
Hav4boys, I'll be praying for your son and your family.
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Gamespot and IGN recently took the time to review today's other big title - Grand Theft Auto for Game Boy Advance. Unfortnately, Gamespot gave the game a low 6.5/10, with IGN being a little more supportive with their 8.5/10 rating.
"There's some nostalgic gameplay here, but by and large GTA Advance just isn't much fun."
The first trailer of the game has also been released by Rockstar. You can grab it from the link below.
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