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Dear World Cup
I know that you're leaving me, that it's over, and that there's nothing I can do about it, but I'm afraid there are some things that can't be left unsaid.
You seem to think you can just swan into my life, seduce me and then disappear four weeks later.
You say that it's you and not me. That you'll be back, but I have to wait four years. Four years! What cruelty.
Of course we had our problems. Uruguay were revolting cheats and England were denied a fantastic goal which could have changed everything.
But we got through them together. Uruguay were knocked out in the next round and new technology looks likely to be introduced in the future.
Then there was the lack of goals and that brutal final lacking the finesse we ached to see.
But goals aren't everything in football, and for all the thuggishness between Spain and the Netherlands, the right team won in the end.
There was nothing we couldn't get through together.
And what about the good times? Remember when France collapsed and were sent home flying economy class "in disgrace".
How we laughed (though by that standard I too flew home "in disgrace").
And what about the world champions Italy? They didn't manage to win a game and when the minnows of New Zealand grabbed a point we celebrated with dinner and a few too many red wines.
Sometimes you were so beautiful I wanted to marry you right there and then. Like that Dutch goal in the semi-final, or like Germany's dismantling of Argentina.
And you taught me things. How teamwork could prove so much stronger than individual brilliance, for example. We waved goodbye to Rooney, Ronaldo and Messi and opened our arms to Nelsen, Muller and Xavi.
Yet you want to forget all this and move on?
And you expect me to be waiting? Well I can't promise anything. There are plenty more fish in the sea. You're not the only tournament in the world, you know? The English Premier League has been making eyes at me and promising to get in touch mid-August.
The European Championships are flirtatiously visiting in two years.
But the worst thing of all? You know you're the only one for me and I'll wait patiently until you come back. See you in four years.


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1. Decide whether you want to carry it with the safety on or off. I would carry it without the safety on, but if anyone wants to carry it with the safety activated, they should include that in their training (draw + turn off safety).
2. I think this model has a magazine disconnect safety. I would try to remove it if it can be removed. I know the SR9c I have had a mag disconnect safety that I removed, but I doubt this one is built just like it. But if you're comfortable with the gun not firing without a magazine in it, that's your prerogative.
3. Dry fire, dry fire, dry fire. This trigger is LONG and HEAVY. The trigger pull on my Kahr is long and smooth, but it takes a while to be able to master accurate shots with that trigger. Practice makes perfect. Be sure to get that trigger pull down while focusing on that front sight.
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It does. I am dont see why you would want to discharge it without the magazine in though. Not real fimailiar with this feature.
Can you recommend a good holster.
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ECU Football picked to win division
ECU Football picked to win division
IRVING, TX - Coming off its sixth bowl appearance in the last seven years, East Carolina has been tabbed the Conference USA East Division favorites by the league's 14 head coaches on Wednesday.
The Pirates picked up 11 of 14 first place votes for a total of 95 points to finish ahead of Marshall (82) and Middle Tennessee (70), both of which also garnered first place votes. Defending C-USA champion Tulsa was chosen unanimously as the preseason favorite to win the West Division accumulating 98 total points. Rice (76) and new conference member Louisiana Tech (72) came in second and third, respectively.
The league's ninth annual Championship Game, pitting the champions of the East and West divisions, will be held Saturday, December 7.
ECU, who turned in an 8-5 overall record and a 7-1 C-USA mark (co-divisional champs), return 16 of 22 positional starters with eight on each side of the ball. The Pirates also return 76 percent of their rushing yards, 88 percent of their passing yards and 81.8 percent of their turnover production.
<P>Of the 16 returnees, Vintavious Cooper (RB), Justin Hardy (WR), Derrell Johnson (LB) and Will Simmons (OL) all garnered preseason first-team accolades. The quartet of honorees also earned preseason all-league accolades by Athlon Sports and Phil Steele's College Football Preview Magazine, while being named to the Biletnikoff Award (top receiver), Butkus Award (top linebacker) and Outland Trophy (top interior lineman) Watch Lists.
Hardy (All-Purpose Player-of-the-Year nominee) and Johnson (top 40 linebackers at the FBS level nominee) also garnered College Football Performance Awards (CFPA) Watch List honors.
Cooper, the 2012 C-USA Newcomer-of-the-Year, took home second-team all-conference honors last fall after a dazzling debut season in ECU's backfield. He appeared in all 13 games, starting the last eight ,and authored four 100-yard rushing games (151/UTEP, 172/UAB, 121/Navy, 140/UH), which is ranked as the second-highest total in C-USA. The Homerville, Ga. native booked three-straight triple-digit rushing efforts (vs. Blazers, Midshipmen and Cougars), the first by a Pirate since 2003 (Marvin Townes), and became the 12th player in school history to rush for 1,000 yards in a season (1,049). The senior running back scored eight total TDs (7 rush, 1 pass), standing second on the team with Shane Carden behind Justin Hardy (11).
A key component in the Pirates' potent passing attack in 2012, Hardy was a first-team all-conference selection after ranking among the national FBS leaders in receptions per game (21st/6.77 rpg), total receiving yards (23rd/1,105) and reception yards per game (31st/85.0 ypg). The Vanceboro, N.C. native became just the fourth receiver in school history to reach 1,000 reception yards (1,105) in a single season, which ranks third all-time at ECU. He also ranked among the C-USA leaders in receptions per game (2nd), 100-yard receiving games (2nd), receiving yards per game (3rd), all-purpose yards (7th), all-purpose yards (7th/1,280) and scoring TDs (8th).
Last year Johnson led all ECU defenders in sacks, tackles for lost yardage, fumble recoveries and quarterback pressures on his way to second-team all-league accolades. He stood among the league's top 10 with 7.0 sacks and netted 11.0 overall stops behind the line of scrimmage while starting all 13 contests. In addition, the Baltimore prep product was credited with a pair of fumble recoveries, keyed a pass rush with eight pressures and logged 62 total tackles - 27 solo.
Simmons earned all-conference honors a year ago after starting all 13 games at right guard and was a vital member of an offensive line that helped produce five 100-yard rushing performances and four 300-yard passing contests. Additionally he was part of three games where ECU produced 550 or more yards of total offense (600/UAB, 550/UH, 555/MAR). The Ahoskie, N.C. native also helped pave the way for a season-high 245 yards rushing against the Cougars in 2012, while playing a pivotal role for an offensive unit that provided pass protection for Carden's single-game passing record of 439 yards against Marshall and Cooper's 1,049-yard rushing season.
Season tickets for East Carolina's 2013 home football schedule are on sale now. Season ticket packages start as low as $150 in the upper deck, while lower level ticket locations begin at $200 and require a Pirate Club membership. Tickets can be purchased by calling the ECU Athletic Ticket Office at 252-737-4500 or through the Online Ticket Center on www.ECUPirates.com. For more information on the Pirate Club, visit www.ecupirateclub.com.
Sales for single-game tickets will begin on Monday, August 5 at 9:00 a.m.
EAST DIVISION - Points
1. East Carolina (11) - 95
2. Marshall (2) - 82
3. Middle Tennessee (1) - 70
5. Southern Miss - 40
6. Florida Atlantic - 28
WEST DIVISION - Points
1. Tulsa (14) - 98
2. Rice - 76
3. Louisiana Tech - 72
5. North Texas - 39
6. Tulane - 31
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Man Dion Jordan could be a special player getting 10 yards on his zone drops really impressive for a guy that size.
Can't have it both ways my friend..
Dion Sims has offically declared.. I think Sims is basically Martellus Bennett when Bennett came out, with much potential and elite size/blocking ability, and solid recieving ability .. Keyword of course is potential, but i just find it funny how so many prospects can mirror other prospects from yrs past almost identically.. Dion Sims would be a nice cheaper alternative to Bennett in my opinion.. Woulden't mind the GIANTS trading up for a EX 3rd rder and selecting Dion Sims after they use there 3rd rder on another player..
Whats everyones take on Trevardo Williams OLB UCONN? Walts partner Charlie Campbell mocked em to us in RD3 of his latest draft, is why i'm curious.. Williams burst on the scene this past season for UCONN with double digit sack total, and basically is a pass rusher with limited pass coverege skills, but weight about 234lbs, which is to light for outside in a 3/4..
Do u think Williams could fit at SLB in a 4/3? Would be nice to have a guy who can rush the passer from the LB positon..
U doing that same mock u did last yr redeye with someone reppin every team and it goes 7rds? That was fun to follow along with ya..
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What do you think should be the modus operandi for an ethical hacker while dealing with a new exploit. To put it more clearly and in simple terms, say for example, an ethical hacker come across a new exploit while working. Now the first step that he will be initiating is to protect his systems from the subject exploit. What are the other steps that a ethical hacker is supposed to do? Does any of the certification body talk about these issues? Is he supposed to inform anybody or can he submit a work report on the exploit to any of the certification body?
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I can hear Belichick now; "Make them throw to Edelman"
Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience. MB Rule # 1
I think people are reading too much into this.
The facts? He's a third-choice WR and a punt returner...who was that for the Giants last year? Oh yes, Hixon who has now left the buiding....
And breathe.
Nothing to do with cruz, need a return guy now that Wilson and Randle are first team players


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"Marcantonio" loft in San Lorenzo, Rome
Size40 m²
Floor No.0
- Kitchen
- Pets allowed
Accommodation summary
|Via dei Sabelli, 00185 Roma, Italy
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In the district headquarters of the prestigious University "La Sapienza" University the most Europe 's largest. In the heart of old Rome, the district boasts more the true "dolce vita" Roman, in the evening of that day is a quiet neighborhood of artisans and workers of all types, becomes the center of life Roman night. From shutters closed during the day emerge lights, sounds and colors, a chic and trendy places, restaurants, pizzerias, pubs, disco, and any other type of entertainment to offer Roma is located in San Lorenzo.
The palace was built in the late nineteenth century. It has recently been performed a thorough restructuring of both the external courtyards and gardens.
The apartments are all tastefully and elegantly furnished, with carpets,
paintings, linens, and of excellent quality, the kitchens are equipped with
dishes and comfort.
In the residence there is the possibility of parking, and you can bring your pets. The prices are absolutely competitive for the quality of the rooms and the services we offer. Loft very special ceilings and beautiful furnishings in excellent building with large living room with sofa (which if necessary is a double bed), separate kitchen and large bedroom and bathroom loft air heating. independent refrigerator and washing machine small terrace.
House rulescheck in: 14:30 to 22:00
check in from 22:00 (10 pm) until 24:00 = 20 euro
check in CLOSE 24:00
Expenses: mandatory cleaning is € 30 directly to the check-in
The security deposit is € 30, the output will be returned if you have not caused damage or not you have left the dirty kitchen (dishes, pots, glasses, cutlery ...).
NOT included in the price paid on Wimdu:
- Optional parking (€ 20.00 per night for a car);
-Internet wi fi Euro 3,00 for a day
- The detergent;
- The tablecloths and napkins;
- Sugar, salt, pepper and oil;
- air conditioning: 5,00 Euro al giorno
All of these options may still be requested from us, by paying an extra fee.
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Reviews of this property
The loft is situated in a lively part of Rome which is hip because of the University and students that live there and low on tourists.
Its close to termini rail station and has tram and buses close by.
Its a nice space with a small but compleet kitchen.
The bathroom is small and the shower is too small in size; when you're big you will not fit!
Another problem is thats it is noisy; noisy from other apartments and noisy because of the restaurant nextdoor who has a outside terras but where you also hear the kitchen rumor through te wall.
Top apartment in the suburb of Rome, which I love! For a very competitive price, who could ask for more? will definitely be back.
Appartamento magnifico, nel quartiere di Roma che amo! Ad un prezzo assolutamente concorrenziale, cosa chiedere di più? tornerò sicuramente.
sympat loft very well located, a bit noisy with the adjoining restaurant (better be a spectator actor will eat in this restaurant friendly and approachable), very satisfied :)
loft trés sympat, bien situé, un peu bruyant avec le restaurant qui jouxte (mieux vaut etre acteur que spectateur allez manger dans ce resto sympa et abordable), trés satisfaite :)
Die Wohnung wird ähnlich wie ein Hotelzimmer vermietet. Der "check in" erfolgt gegen Vorlage und Kopie des Ausweises von einem Mitarbeiter des Vermieters.
Die Ausstattung der Wohnung ist sehr dürftig. Das Badezimmer ist sehr klein, der Duschkopf verkalkt und die Armatur defekt. Die Raumhöhe in Badezimmer und der Schlafempore ist ca. 190 cm was für große Menschen sehr schmerzhaft sein kann!
Internet sowie Endreinigung müssen zusätzlich bezahlt werden, was bei dem Preis Leistungsverhältnis des Apartments nicht gerechtfertigt ist.
Gerne wieder Rom allerdings nicht in dieser Unterkunft.
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appt. was a little shabby, furniture not functional
friendly host, great Location
we loved the Sunna pattio
All in all a very nice apartment!
Metro/Bus lines 3 min. walk from apartment. Lots of Bars are situated near to the Apartment.
Ideal for a city trip in Rome!
Reception was very friendly, always available via phone if there were any questions concerning Rome or apartment.
Accommodation like on pictures! Terrace very big & beautiful!
Only negative thing: No elevator & water in shower is changing.
Organisation very good and friendly, rooms fine and clean. Shower very small and water temperature changing. Carpet in front of entrance door was smelling.
All in all very nice flat
The apartment in general was quite nice. 2 separate bedrooms with ok beds, kitchen equipped with all basics that you need for a short stay incl. coffee, tea etc., and a small bathroom with shower, WC and BD. However, we had problems with the water in the shower being cold every single day and thus always had to call the local agent, Andrea, to fix it. He was very helpful each time, came promptly and organised someone to fix it properly after our stay, but nonetheless this took quite a toll on our experience of the flat. Without this, it would have been a 5 star review. Andrea also recommended a great restaurant close by. Best aperitivo & pizza ever!
Very well situated flat in Roma with a very good connection with the tramway. But people have to know the restaurant under this appartment is quite noisy in the evening half of the week (including Sundays). It is necessary to come with good earplugs (with them you have not at all any trouble to sleep) and a night mask because curtains protect few from the day light in the morning. Internet wifi connection is difficult to get and is available only near the kitchen window.
Great, clean, friendly and well located apartment.
Un apartamento estupendo, limpio, agradable y bien situado.
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Volkswagen Taigun Concept Unveiled in Sao Paulo
B-Class SUV Concept Smaller Than Small
Volkswagen is continuing the SUV downsizing trend with its latest vision of the future of the small ute, the Taigun concept, which is just unveiled in Brazil at the 2012 Sao Paulo International Motor. The two other B-Class SUVs of note that are currently in production or will be shortly are the Ford EcoSport and Opel Mokka/Chevrolet Trax and its American equivalent, the Buick Encore.
Just as the EcoSport is considerably smaller than the Escape/Kuga, the Taigun is quite a bit smaller than the C-segment Tiguan. Similar to the Ford EcoSport, the Taigun features a 1.0-liter three-cylinder turbocharged, direct-injected engine. In this application, the engine produces 110 hp and 129 lb-ft of torque. Ford offers three power levels with its 1.0 EcoBoost I-3, with the EcoSport getting the mid-range 120 hp model.
The VW Taigun concept takes the cake for being the smallest in the segment, with a short overall length of only 152 inches, nearly four inches shorter than the three-door Mini Clubman, and more than 10 inches shorter than the four-door Countryman. By comparison, the EcoSport stretches 167 inches bumper-to-bumper and the Buick Encore is 168.5 inches long. Volkswagen also claims a feathery 2172-lb weight for the concept, which would make it the lightest in its class as well -- the Encore and the Countryman both tip the scales at over 3000 lb. Official weight has not been released for the Ford EcoSport, but even at an estimated 2600-2700 lb, the Taigun would be lighter still.
Of course, the caveat with all "concept" cars is that things change in the transition from concept to production and there's a good chance the production version of the Taigun will be slightly larger and heavier than the concept. The likelihood of a sub-Tiguan SUV being produced are not in doubt, however, with multiple sources confirming that an SUV model smaller than the Tiguan was in the works.
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After a decade hidden from view, one of the most important documents in American history is set to burst back onto public display, the Forward has learned.
George Washington's 1790 letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island, in which the first president vowed that America would give "to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance," will form the centerpiece of a special show at the National Museum of American Jewish History, opening on June 29.
Ivy Barsky, the NMAJH's director and chief operating officer, said she was "absolutely thrilled" to have acquired the letter, widely regarded as Washington's most eloquent statement on religious liberty, on a three-year loan. Barsky said her museum's location in Philadelphia, opposite the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall, meant that one of the founding documents of the nation "is really and truly where it belongs."
As the Forward reported in a series of articles and editorials last year, Washington's letter spent decades on display in the Klutznick Museum at B'nai B'rith International's flagship headquarters in Washington. In 2002, when financial pressures forced B'nai B'rith to relocate to smaller offices, the majority of its collection, including the letter, was put into storage. Many scholars did not know where the letter was until the Forward revealed it to be housed in an art storage facility in suburban Maryland.
Several institutions, including the NMAJH and the Library of Congress, have tried for years to pry the letter away. But B'nai B'rith claimed that its hands were tied by the letter's legal owner, the Morris Morgenstern Foundation, which would not allow the letter to be moved.
B'nai B'rith's former president Moishe Smith told the Forward last December that he tried to convince the foundation to loan the letter to the NMAJH for its official opening in 2010 but was turned down.
Barsky, who met with the Forward at a hotel in lower Manhattan on May 7, said she did not know what prompted the Morgenstern foundation's representative, Richard Morgenstern, to change his mind. He first called the museum towards the end of last year, initiating several months of conversation that resulted in the loan agreement.
Josh Perelman, the NMAJH's chief curator, said he found Morgenstern to be a person who "cares deeply" for the letter and who understands its "critical importance for American Jewish and American history."
Perelman described the loan as a "remarkable opportunity" for the museum.
Read the remarkable story of how the Forward untangled the mystery of Washington's letter and led the fight for it to be returned to public display.
He said Washington's letter was in "magnificent condition," though it had been laminated. Perelman said lamination was "standard practice" in conservation about 60 years ago and that many institutions, including the National Archives, hold documents that have been laminated. He hopes the letter will be delaminated in the future.
Since Perelman learned of the acquisition he has secured other important religious freedom documents on loan to form the basis of the museum's first special exhibition: "To Bigotry No Sanction: George Washington and Religious Freedom."
The documents include originals of Washington's letters to Quakers, Lutherans and Catholics; Thomas Jefferson's draft of "An Act for Establishing Religious Freedom," and one of the first public printings of the U.S. Constitution.
Perelman said the exhibition will illustrate the "intensive discussion about the role of religion in public life" which took place during America's early years. Of all the documents the museum has brought together, Perelman said that nothing quite compares with Washington's letter to the Jews of Newport.
"It is deeply eloquent, and it is so meaningful," said Perelman, who was so moved by the imminent arrival of the letter that he read the text to his children, ages 5 and 9. "I get chills every time I read it, because its prose and its promises are immensely significant."
Washington drafted his letter following an official reception in Newport in August 1790. His immortal eight-word phrase was inspired by an almost identical line in a letter he received from the Newport congregation's president, Moses Seixas, who heralded the advent of an American government "which to bigotry gives no sanction, to persecution no assistance."
The Forward revealed last year that Morris Morgenstern bought the Washington letter from Howard Milkman Jr., a direct descendant of Seixas, around 1950. Morgenstern bought a copy of the Seixas letter, from Seixas's letter book, at the same time.
Since Morgenstern's death, in 1969, the letters have been controlled by his son, Frank Morgenstern, the sole trustee of the Morris Morgenstern Foundation, and by Frank's son, Richard Morgenstern.
Under the terms of Morgenstern's loan to the NMAJH, both documents can be displayed for only three months each year because of conservation concerns.
Barsky would not disclose the amount for which the Washington letter has been insured, but she said the museum had to raise $1 million to cover costs. The museum also plans to adjust the configuration of its fourth floor gallery to create a permanent space for the letter after the special exhibition closes on September 30.
Jonathan Sarna, the museum's chief historian, said he was thrilled that the NMAJH was "bringing back to life something that has not been seen for a very long time."
"My hope is that the Jewish community will appreciate the deep, deep significance of this and will turn out in large numbers to really see one of the great documents of modern Jewish history," said Sarna, a professor of American Jewish history at Brandeis University.
Sarna, who was speaking from a car traveling across Indiana, rattled off a line from Washington's letter almost verbatim — "It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights.…" — before underlining the importance of the letter not just as a piece of paper, but also as a statement about an integral part of America's character.
"You're not just seeing the Mona Lisa," Sarna said. "Really this is an opportunity to educate Jews and non-Jews about one of the great texts of early America that… talked about religious liberty in the United States."
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It is now: PG: Jennings, Nelson, Evans (SG & SF) SG: Wade, Dunleavy SF: Gallinari, Marion PF: Boozer, Stoudemire C: Hickson, Blatche
Full Analysis: I think you have a solid team dro and if your guys stay hot you might have a shot at sneaking in.
i really hope blake griffin gets lou gehrig's disease
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hey blake griffin...good job. good effort
quote:24 pt lead going into tomorrow is not enough. gonna be a war tomorrow
quote:paul george out again
quote:that 11 game win streak prediction wasn't well thought out
Good lord TN09's team is bad
quote:my 4 remaining players have been very hit or miss lately. it looks good for me right now but anything can happen. paul george being out makes me pretty confident though
someone keep tyson off the boards...i'm gonna lose
quote:look at west and hill's numbers from last game compared to the ones before that. george's injury helping me out a lot
i didn't really connect the dots on george's injury affecting our matchup until now...ya, that sucks for me too
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Originally a bastardization of the phrase "straw man argument," which has now come to mean any argument so ridiculous and nonsensical that it isn't even worth debating.
Bearer1 says, "A child mentality in that immaturity affords them the rights of the immaturity to respond with substandard response."
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any of you use or used the shamrock mating nuc?
any of you use or used the shamrock mating nuc?
I have 2 of them.... interesting units. I like them but..... durable, stout, well built..... nice size ( a little large for a mateing nuc) don't interchange with anything else. not supers, tops bottoms, screens... nothing...... if I was in the market for just mateing nucs I would consider them again..... Liek I said they are dedicated.
charlie, can you tell me how you got yours setup? i plan on getting mine going.. i am in n.j.
There pretty straight foward. they come with a dividers and feeders, you can pull the divider and run it as a 2 way One issue was with getting them to draw comb. I don't think there was any way on the frames when I got mine. I had to brush them with wax to get them to draw good. I would also put some screen wire in the feeders to help with drowning. but you can set them straight on the cround, the lids lock down, and they seal up the compartments well enough fighting is not a problem if the lids on right.


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The Extremely Secret Dakini of Naropa is the commentary to the practice of Vajrayogini in the Naro Kacho lineage composed by Kyabje Pabongkha as revealed to him directly by Vajrayogini herself. This text has become the basis for almost every subsequent Vajrayogini commentary in the Gelug tradition. Kyabje Pabongkha's commentary is both very thorough in its presentation and deeply inspiring. It provides rich detail about all eleven yogas of the generation stage, the transference of consciousness, tsok offering, left-sided conduct, and many other auxiliary practices, making it essential for practitioners of Vajrayogini. There is also a stunning explanation of the completion stage providing many extraordinarily profound methods unique to the practice of Vajrayogini because of its relationship to the Six Yogas of Naropa. The second half of the book contains several sadhanas for the practice of Vajrayogini including six-session guru yoga as well as two sadhanas on the transference of consciousness.
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Some gifts create endowments that provide scholarships through the earnings, while in other cases, monies are given to fund specific scholarships on an annual basis. Given the dramatic reductions in state support for all of higher education in Colorado, it is even more important for those of us who can help to do so now.
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Ship Date: August 2005
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With the official videogame license of the NFL and its players and in its 16 th year of the franchise, Madden NFL 06 offers game changing innovation and complete NFL authenticity. With more than 40 million copies sold, Madden NFL Football continues to be the #1 football franchise.
For the first time in 10 years, the Madden NFL Football franchise has revolutionized its passing game—giving Madden NFL 06 the most groundbreaking and innovative offensive arsenal ever created. The new QB Vision Control lets you scan the field, look off defenders, and make perfect throws within your quarterback's unique field of vision. QB Precision Placement lets you put the ball exactly where you want it. Madden NFL 06 brings authentic NFL passing to video games like never before.
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Quarterback Vision Control : Look off receivers and make heads turn with the revolutionary QB Vision Control mechanic. Each QB has a different field of vision, depending on his rating. It's now tougher to hit receivers outside the QB Vision Control .
Precision Placement : Choose exactly where to throw the ball—lead the receiver across the middle or take a little off a deep pass to set up a jump-ball.
Additional Passing Features: Formation Specific Audibles—different audibles for different situations; Smart Routes— receivers adjust their routes to pick up first downs or cross the goal line; Head Tracking—players now turn their heads when looking for the ball—no more blind catches.
NFL Superstar Mode: This entirely new single-player mode allows you to experience the life of an NFL player by earning one of more than 60 Personas ranging from MVP to Movie Star.
More Robust Online Features ** : Share files via your EA Locker and instantly find a solid match-up with improved matchmaking. Check your EA SPORTS Fantasy Football stats in game.
Broadcast Presentation: Improved graphics, tons of scripted scenes, and new replays and sequences.
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|Ella, Rob, and teacups through the lens of a disposable camera. Disneyland '08
I hope my boys are thoughtful with their pictures. My friend Joanna got them disposable cameras for their birthday a few months ago. I haven't developed the film yet, but from what I saw, their photos aren't going to be anything profound. I think Oscar took five pictures of his hand without a flash in a restaurant, followed by one of Owen's eye with the flash on. Brilliant. I tried to explain how it works, but whatever. That's what he thought was picture worthy. The potential for something great is within these cameras, so I'm going for it again. Profound or lame, if I ever develop the film, I'll post the pictures here.
As for me, I'll take photographer Keith Pitts suggestion and make sure I start the night before. I always forget to take pictures of Santa's cookies, my children sleeping, and the stockings hanging. Taking those three pictures would add so much to the story of the holiday. I'll have to see how the night goes, but I hope I can muster up the energy to capture it right. Mainly because this could be the last year all my kids are believers. Ella is in 2nd grade. This is the end, right?
Read more of Keith's Christmas Day tips here.
After the jump, two more pictures for our trip to Disneyland. I'm not putting them on my main page because I look terrible! ha Plus a round up of the best disposable camera pictures from around the web after the jump. Including one of someone's hand!
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I work near about 20 hives. Found a pretty big swarm on a low tree about a week ago, caught it and installed it, pretty cool. Since then I have been keeping a closer eye on the other hives (not mine). I noticed one of the hives has been bearding the last two days. Its slowly growing but fairly small. There is a clump hanging over the ledge by the entrance that is about the size of a softball and about the same amount spread out over the hive. I don't have permission to open the hives or I would be looking for swarm cells. I have read that if they are bearding at this time it is most likely about to swarm. What do you guys think?
Also a question about keeping swarms. If i was to catch a swarm on friday evening and had to keep it until monday morning to buy supplies should transport the hive to the backyard and leave the box with a small opening or should i keep it in a cool place closed until then? If so should i feed them?


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After more than 20 years at Roadrunner Records and 12 as President, Jonas Nachsin is stepping down from the label. It is unknown at this time who will replace him, but in the hours after his departure, sources told Billboard.biz that nine people had been let go from the label. An exit letter that Nachsin penned to his staff also was obtained by Billboard, and it reads in part: "I am so proud of what we have accomplished to showcase Roadrunner as not only a 'record company' but as a lifestyle and cultural beacon for fans around the globe. The chemistry of groundbreaking artists worked by a world-class group of truly committed employees has made Roadrunner a name with no equal over the years. That will continue."Nachsin's memo was followed by one from Atlantic co-chairmen Craig Kallman and Julie Greenwald, thanking him for his years of dedication and service. "For two decades, Jonas has been a passionate champion of Roadrunner's incredible roster of artists and helped forge the unique identity of one of the world's great labels," the memo reads in part. "Everyone who has worked with Jonas -- including artists, managers, the Roadrunner team and the wider Warner Music family -- have all been touched by his commitment and leadership. He has been instrumental in the careers of so many extraordinary artists, from superstars including Nickelback and Slipknot to breaking talents Young the Giant and Stone Sour. We will all miss Jonas and wish him the best in his next endeavor."
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text: alright guys heres my dilemma... my rear leafs are in need of replacing, been noticing for some time that they have been sagging, theyre pretty flat right now. I have the OEM 2/1 leaf pack which is rated around 1500 lbs per side. Now on top of that I do have 3" rear blocks that I would like to rid myself of, just not a fan of the blocks and never have been. so basically im looking to solve 2 problems... To do this I have 2 main options I am looking at and other options that can be pieced together. Option 1: (~$300.00) ___order a set of 2500 leaf springs (4/1 leaf pack) rated at 2025 lbs per side, which would provide between 2-3" of lift. ______pros: remove blocks, same stance (ballpark), increased load capacity (if needed) ______cons: rough ride when empty...(I would like input on how rough it is, if i chose this option, because, frankly, I'm driving a truck, its not like I expect a smooth ride anyway...) Option 2: (~$200.00 + ~$200.00 for 1500 (2/1 leaf pack) replacement leaf springs) ___order offroaddesigns shackle flip kit http://www.offroaddesign.com/catalog/shacklekit.htm ______pros: kit provides 4" of lift, flips the leaf spring shackle, remove blocks, removes tension shackle converts it to compression shackle ______cons: labor of removing riveted OEM shackles (fun work?!), must buy this and OEM replacement leaf springs because with lift it provides it still doesnt fix my sagging springs id rather stay away from an add-a-leaf. obviously i cant do both of these options because it would provide too much lift...(i.e. 2500 leafs + shackle flip) just wondering some input on this topic, thanks guys!


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Adjust your fingers into the classic Vulcan configuration, with the pinky and ring finger all the way to the left and the middle and index finger all the way to the right. Approach your woman and insert two in the pink, two in the stink. Next, tighten the grip by clamping your fingers toward each other. This should completely decimate her gooch if performed with any sort of competence.
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Sadly summer (as most of us know it) is coming to an end. And so is our blonde crush feature. I've been sharing my picks of summer blondes courtesy Schwarzkopf Professional's © BLONDME line of color, care, and styling products. Click here if you need to catch up. And remember to read below for details on how to win product. But first, my last blonde pick…
Last week it was Rachael Taylor promoting Charlie's Angels. This week my pick it's Heather Locklear, seen here with her longtime boyfriend and brand new fiancé All I Need Jack Wagner out for dinner on Saturday night, the first time they've been seen together since announcing their engagement. Appropriately then, she's what Schwarzkopf would call a Saturday Night Blonde - flirtatious, playful, kittenish, playful. And about to turn a half century 50 next month. There's, um, a lot of work that's gone into making 50 look like this, no doubt. Drama too. But they say that even more work has gone into being well, that Heather is more well than she has been in a long time. And, well, this is the best news then, isn't it? Also, it obviously shows up in her hair.
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Escherichia coli (E. coli) are bacteria that indicate fecal contamination and potential human health risks. E. coli indicate the presence of fecal matter from birds, rodents, pets, livestock, humans and other warm-blooded animals.
E. coli and other bacteria are natural inhabitants of the lower intestine of warm-blooded animals. A few strains of E. coli can cause serious illness in humans.
Researchers used studies at Great Lakes swimming beaches with known human sources of fecal contamination to establish safe levels of fecal bacteria based on an accepted risk of eight occurrences of gastrointestinal (GI) illnesses per 1,000 swimmers. These GI illnesses are most likely caused by a variety of bacteria, viruses and parasites present in fecal matter and not by E. coli alone. Oregon Department of Environmental Quality rules say that no single surface water sample may exceed 406 E. coli colonies per 100 milliliters (colonies/100 mL) and the logarithmic mean of five water samples collected within 30 days may not exceed 126 colonies/100 mL.
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College offers 'entertainment technology' course
BRISTOL, Tenn. - How do you go about learning something new? If you're old-school you might read a book, or in the modern age look it up online.
But there are some things that are best learned from those who are involved. That's the idea behind a new class being offered in downtown Bristol featuring bluegrass hall-of-famer Doyle Lawson.
At a glance it certainly looks like an ordinary summer class at Northeast State Community College's new Bristol campus, but those attending are a wide variety of students that are all here to learn about the technical side of the entertainment business.
There's no real textbook per se, but a whole lot of knowledge from those who know all about it from spending years in the business. "My interest in it is for the last 25 years I have had a tremendously tough time finding technicians in this field. Academic theatre produces a certain kind of person but nobody was providing sort of entertainment technology," says Todd Hensley with Appalachain Light and Production.
The students themselves come to the class from different directions. "I've played bluegrass all my life and toured across the country with many bands, but I'm a complete idiot of any kind of sound production. I want to learn more about that," student Crystal Shipley says.
"I sing gospel music and my son plays bluegrass music. I like both them and it just seems like when I'm at an event the sound guy is always gone or the lighting guy is gone, and no one knows what to do. I thought it would be a good opportunity to educate myself," student Jay Richaradson adds.
It's also a great way for a young 14-year-old entrepreneur to learn new things. "When I was about eight I started by having my first sound system, a portable from Radio Shack. I enjoyed using it and seeing what I could go with it. Then I bought a more professional system and moved to a DJ business," student Austin Ramsey said.
A theatre manger with Lamplight Theatre is seeking new knowledge as well. "I've been with the [Lamplight] ministry 10 years now. I've done lighting, sound, costumes, set design, everything. So this is giving me the opportunity to learn the new things that are out there," says Mary McClure.
And what better way to learn than hands on from those who are in the business? "It's an accumulated years of experience that I can hopefully pass along to these folks here," Bluegrass Hall of Fame member Doyle Lawson said.
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ICT Based Education: Creating Workforce for Building Digital Bangladesh
ICT Based Education: Creating Workforce for Building Digital Bangladesh
Syed Tamjid ur Rahman
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ChangeMaker: Society for Social and Economic Development
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
Nelson Mandela, South African statesman (1918- )
The purpose of ICTs Based Education: This Reference paper is to provide decision makers, planners, and practitioners with a summary of what is known about the potential and conditions of effective use of ICT based education and learning by drawing on knowledge, research, and experience.
The paper has two sections, each of which addresses different users and serves different functions.
Section 1 presents decision makers with a summary of:
• Challenges facing decision makers
• Characteristics and uses of ICTs
• Options and choices for leveraging the potential of ICTs in achieving national and educational goals and solving educational problems
• Pre-requisite and co-requisite conditions for effective integration of ICTs into the educational process
• Processes to integrate ICTs into education
Section 2 of the paper deals with:
• The rationales and realities of ICT based education,
• The options and choices for leveraging the potential of ICTs in achieving national and educational goals and solving educational problems, and
• The pre-requisite and co-requisite conditions for effective integration of ICTs into the educational process
Thomas Edison, the father of electricity and inventor of the motion picture, predicted in 1922 that "the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and… in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks."
Since then high levels of excitement and expectation have been generated by every new generation of information and communication technologies (ICTs): compact discs and CD-ROMs, videodiscs, microcomputer-based laboratories, the Internet, virtual reality, local and wide area networks, instructional software, Macs, PCs, laptops, notebooks, educational television, voice mail, e-mail, satellite communication, VCRs, cable TV, interactive radio, etc. The list of "hot" technologies available for education goes on and on.
Challenges Facing Decision Makers
Decision makers face two types of challenges that have significant implications for education development.
National Challenges
• Countries are experiencing significant shifts in the global economic environment characterized by changing patterns of trade and competition, technological innovation, and globalization of information. Together, these developments are producing a new worldwide economy that is global, high speed, knowledge driven, and competitive.
• At the national level, all facets of modern society are becoming knowledge dependent, and without the essential knowledge and skills for modern living, people will remain on the margins of society, and society itself will lose their vast potential contributions.
• There is a digital divide between and within countries. The challenge is to bridge this divide and extend access information and technological skills.
Educational Challenges
Despite the dramatic progress in education achieved so far at the national and school levels, much remains to be done:
• Bangladesh, to a large degree, continues to struggle with issues of children out of school and illiterate youths and adults.
• Inequities in educational opportunities, quality of educational services and level of learning achievement persist by gender, rural/urban locality, ethnic background, and socioeconomic status.
• The quality of learning and the capacity to define and monitor this quality is lacking.
• The means and scope of education continue to be narrow and confined to historical models of delivery, and the use of other channels continues to be ad hoc and marginal.
• The increase in quantitative and qualitative demand for education is not matched by an increase in resources.
Implications for Education
These challenges pose serious questions for planning education and training systems and force rethinking in the way education is perceived, delivered, and managed. Where does this leave education development? With six far-reaching implications:
1. Holistic Education Structure. Bangladesh needs a whole spectrum of knowledge and skills to deal with technology and the globalization of knowledge and to adjust to continuous economic and social changes.
2. Focus on Learning. The ancient objective of education, to teach how to learn, problem solve, and synthesize the old with the new, is now transformed from desirable to indispensable.
3. Education for Everyone. Modern economic, social, political, and technological requirements demand that all members of society have a minimum level of basic education.
4. Education Anytime. The need for continuous access to information and knowledge makes education lifelong to help individuals, families, workplaces, and communities to adapt to economic and societal changes, and to keep the door open to those who have dropped out along the way.
5. Education Anywhere. To cope with the diversity and complexity of and the changing demands for education services, learning cannot be confined to the traditional classroom. It is unrealistic and unaffordable to continue to ask learners to come to a designated place every time they have to engage in learning.
6. Preparation for the Future. The future is changing so dramatically and quickly that it poses a nightmare for educational decision makers, strategists, and planners. We are educating students for the unknown, so the best we can do is to equip them with the necessary conceptual, cognitive, attitudinal, and social tools to continue learning anytime, anywhere, on demand.
The Question of ICTs
It is going to be very difficult—if not impossible—for Bangladesh to meet the objective of effective learning, for all, anywhere, anytime. Our inability to meet this challenge, however, is self-inflicted because we tend to think of linear scaling, that is, using the same model of education (a school constrained by space and time) but more of it and on a larger scale. What we really need is to think radically and differently.
Here ICTs are offered as a solution to this dilemma. Almost every decision maker in every school system is under tremendous pressure to provide every classroom (if not every student) with technologies, including computers and their accessories and connectivity to the Internet. The pressures are coming from many directions:
• Vendors who wish to sell the most advanced technologies
• Parents who want to ensure that their children are not left behind in the technological revolution
• Businesses that want to replicate in schools the dramatic impact that ICTs have had in the worlds of commerce, business, and entertainment
• Technology advocates who see ICTs as the latest hope for reform education
The question that many decision makers are asking is: If ICTs have the potential to significantly improve the teaching/learning process and revolutionize the education enterprise, in the same manner in which they revolutionized business and entertainment, why haven't we experienced such drastic effects consistently? If technologies are the solution they claim to be, then where is the problem?
Research and experience have shown that the answer to this question is embedded in two critical explorations of the nature and use of ICTs and in two crucial applications of the potential of ICTs and the conditions for their effectiveness.
1. What technologies are we talking about?
2. To what use are we putting ICTs?
3. Is the potential of ICTs properly exploited?
4. Are the conditions for ICT effectiveness met?
The first two questions are discussed below; the second two are elaborated in the next sections.
What Technologies Are We Talking About?
Decision makers frequently talk about technology in the singular. Technologies differ in their properties, scope, and potential. An audio technology can only capture sound, while a video technology depicts sound and motion. A CD provides multimedia digital content, while a Web version adds interactivity.
Under pressures to be fashionable and adopt the latest educational innovations, the temptation is to limit ICTs to the Internet and exclude other technologies such as radio and television. These technologies use reception equipment that is readily available in homes, have proven to be effective and inexpensive in packaging high-quality educational materials, reach "unreachable clientele," and overcome geographical and cultural hurdles.
Additionally, it is important to distinguish among three types of technologies:
1. instrument technologies
2. instructional technologies, and
3. dissemination technologies.
For instance, a video is an instructional technology, a TV or DVD is an instrument, and a TV broadcast is a dissemination technology. Similarly, a multimedia module is an instructional technology, the CD or Web is a dissemination technology, and a computer is an instrument. In planning for, implementing, and assessing ICT-enhanced projects we need to be clear about the types of technology we are talking about.
To What Use Are We Putting ICTs?
The impact of ICT based education depends to a large extent on the purpose for which ICTs are used. For example, if videos are talking heads and software is digital text, we should not expect learning results significantly different from classroom lecturing or textbook use. However, these instructional technologies may extend educational opportunities to situations where there is no lecturer or textbook.
Is The Potential Of ICTs Properly Exploited?
Research and experience have demonstrated that different ICTs have the potential to contribute to different facets of educational development and effective learning:
• expanding access
• increasing efficiency
• enhancing quality of learning and teaching, and
• improving policy planning and management.
ICTs also offer possibilities in facilitating skill formation, sustaining lifelong learning, and advancing community linkages. Planning for effective ICT based education necessitates an understanding of the potential of technologies to meet different educational objectives and, consequently, to decide which of these objectives is pursued. This decision affects the choice of technologies and modalities of use.
Expanding Educational Opportunities
It is unrealistic to assume that conventional delivery mechanisms will provide educational opportunities for all in affordable and sustainable ways. ICTs have the potential to help reach this objective. They can overcome geographic, social, and infrastructure barriers to reach populations that cannot normally be served by conventional delivery systems. Additionally they provide feasible, efficient, and quick educational opportunities.
Increasing Efficiency
The capacity of ICTs to reach students in any place and at any time has the potential to promote revolutionary changes in the traditional educational model.
• ICTs eliminate the premise that learning time equals classroom time. To avoid overcrowded classrooms, a school may adopt a dual-shift system without reducing its students' actual study time. Students may attend school for half a day and spend the other half involved in educational activities at home, in a library, at work, or in another unconventional setting. They may be required to watch an educational radio/television program and complete related activities or work on an online lesson at the school technology lab or in a community learning center.
• ICTs can make multi-grade schools in areas with low population density viable institutions rather than a necessary evil. While the teacher attends to certain students who need individual attention, other students can listen to an educational program on the radio, watch a television broadcast, or interact with multimedia computer software.
• ICTs can provide courses that small rural or urban schools cannot offer to their students because it is difficult for those institutions to recruit and retain specialized teachers, particularly to teach mathematics, science, and foreign languages. Schools that do not need a full-time physics or English teacher can use online instruction, using already developed multimedia materials and sharing one "teacher" among several schools. Alternatively, retired or part-time teachers who live hundreds of miles away can teach the online courses.
Enhancing Quality of Learning
Research and experience have shown that ICTs, used well in classrooms, enhance the learning process, in the following ways:
• They motivate and engage students in the learning process. Students are motivated only when the learning activities are authentic, challenging, multidisciplinary, and multi-sensorial. Videos, television, and computer multimedia software can be excellent instructional aids to engage students in the learning process. In addition, sound, color, and movement stimulate the students' sensorial apparatus and bring enjoyment to the learning process.
• They bring abstract concepts to life. Teachers have a hard time teaching, and students have a hard time learning, abstract concepts, particularly when they contradict immediate intuition and common knowledge. Images, sounds, movements, animations, and simulations may demonstrate an abstract concept in a real manner.
• The foster inquiry and exploration. The inquiry process is a source of affective and intellectual enjoyment. This sense of adventure is taken away in a traditional classroom, where questions and answers are established a priori and are unrelated to students' interests, and where research is reduced to a word in the textbook. ICTs have the potential to let students explore the world in cost-effective and safe ways. Videos and computer animations can bring movement to static textbook lessons. Using these tools, students can initiate their own inquiry process, develop hypotheses, and then test them.
• They provide opportunities for students to practice basic skills on their own time and at their own pace.
• They allow students to use the information they acquire to solve problems, formulate new problems, and explain the world around them.
• They provide access to worldwide information resources.
• They offer the most cost-effective (and in some cases the only) means for bringing the world into the classroom.
• The supply (via the Internet) students with a platform through which they can communicate with colleagues from distant places, exchange work, develop research, and function as if there were no geographical boundaries.
Enhancing Quality of Teaching
Teaching is one of the most challenging and crucial professions in the world. Teachers are critical in facilitating learning and in making it more efficient and effective; they hold the key to the success of any educational reform; and they are accountable for successful human development of the nation and for preparing the foundation for social and economic development. Obviously, teachers cannot be prepared for these unfolding challenges once and for all. One-shot training, no matter how effective and successful, will not suffice. A new paradigm must emerge that replaces training with a lifelong continuum of professional preparedness and development of teachers.
ICTs can contribute significantly to the main components of this continuum:
• First, ICTs and properly developed multimedia materials can enhance the initial preparation of teachers by providing good training materials, facilitating simulations, capturing and analyzing practice-teaching, bringing world experience into the training institution, familiarizing trainees with sources of materials and support, and training potential teachers in the use of technologies for teaching/learning.
• Second, ICTs open a whole world of lifelong upgrading and professional development for teachers by providing courses at a distance, asynchronous learning, and training on demand. ICTs' advantages include ease of revisions and introduction of new courses in response to emerging demands.
• Finally, ICTs break the professional isolation from which many teachers suffer. With ICTs, they can connect easily with headquarters, colleagues and mentors, universities and centers of expertise, and sources of teaching materials.
Facilitating Skill Formation
There was a time when planning for vocational and technical training was a straightforward exercise, but this is no longer the case. Sectoral needs, job definitions, skill requirements, and training standards are changing faster than the life cycle of a training program. Traditional training programs cannot address these new realities adequately; they are costly in terms of travel and lost time on the job, disruptive, slow to be modified, and incapable of responding to new needs and provisions in a timely fashion.
ICTs have the potential to contribute to skill formation in the same way that they enhance the quality of learning and teaching in general. Additionally, network technologies have the potential to deliver the most timely and appropriate knowledge and skills to the right people, at the most suitable time, in the most convenient place. E-training allows for personalized, just-in-time, up-to-date, and user-centric educational activities.
ICT-enhanced solutions that advance educational opportunities, efficiency, quality of learning, and quality of teaching are also applicable for improving skill formation. Certain solutions, however, have been particularly effective in this area. Examples include simulations, competency-based multimedia, video and interactive media, and workplace e-training—providing synchronous and asynchronous opportunities through the Internet, video conferencing, videos, CDs, television, etc.
Sustaining Lifelong Learning
The modern demands on countries, societies, and individuals necessitate lifelong learning for all, anywhere and anytime. Some of the reasons for such a need are:
• The fast–changing, technology-based economy requires worker flexibility to adjust to new demands and the ability to learn new skills.
• The increasing sophistication of modern societies demands constant updating of the knowledge and skills of their citizens.
• The escalating knowledge makes the "educated" obsolete unless they continuously update their knowledge.
• As society evolves, we are unlikely to continue the present life-cycle pattern of prolonged education at the beginning of life and an extended retirement period at the end.
• Lifelong learning provides opportunities for those who are unemployed to reenter the workforce.
Certainly, formal, traditional systems cannot cope with this demand, even if they are well financed, run, and maintained. It is not possible to bring learning opportunities to all of the places where adult learners are. Likewise, it is not feasible to accommodate all learners in adult education centers and offer them programs that meet their many needs. The diversity of requirements and settings calls for a diversity of means.
ICTs may provide their most valuable contribution in this domain. They are flexible, unconstrained by time and place, can be used on demand, and provide just-in-time education. They have the potential to offer synchronous as well as asynchronous learning opportunities. Above all, if well prepared, they can pack a wealth of expertise and experience in efficient packages that can be modified and updated in response to feedback, new demands, and varied contexts. Possibilities fall in a wide range of technologies, including videos, correspondence, Internet, and e-learning superstructure.
Many of the specific solutions cited for expanding education opportunities and for skill formation are equally relevant for providing and sustaining lifelong learning. Two additional solutions are increasingly adopted:
• Open universities provide opportunities for lifelong learning, not only through degree programs but also through non-degree offerings to enhance knowledge and skills for occupational, family, and personal purposes.
• "Third Age" universities for persons aged 60 and over—the University of the Third Age in China has been one of the most successful programs in promoting lifelong learning.
Improving Policy Planning and Management
Many educational institutions and systems have introduced simple management and statistical information systems, but this should be only the beginning. More specifically, technology for management can be the underpinnings of reform in two areas:
• Management of Institutions and Systems: At the school/institution level, technologies are crucial in such areas as admissions, student flow, personnel, staff development, and facilities. At the system-wide level, technologies provide critical support in domains such as school mapping, automated personnel and payroll systems, management information systems, communications, and information gathering, analysis, and use.
• Management of Policy Making: Here ICTs can be valuable in storing and analyzing data on education indicators, student assessment, educational physical and human infrastructure, cost, and finance. More important, they can assist in constructing and assessing policy scenarios around different intended policy options to determine requirements and consequences and to help select those that are the most appropriate. During policy implementation, ICTs can facilitate tracer studies and tracking systems as well as summative and formative evaluation.
Advancing Community Linkages
Bangladesh experiences disparities in the spread and use of ICTs. Modern ICTs have not corrected the divide between technology-rich and technology-poor areas. The technology gap is not the result of the choices made by individual households, but poor neighborhoods and rural communities lack the necessary infrastructure available in affluent and more populated areas.
Access to ICTs opens vast opportunities for individuals and communities to improve their economic and social well-being, and to bring them from the margins into the mainstream of society.
Where there is a technological gap, a digital divide, there is also a gender divide. This divide cannot be attributed to inherent female characteristics, as evidenced by the high percentage of female ICT users in the industrialized world and by the thousands of offices around the world where women are frequently more competent in dealing with computers and the Internet than are men. Where access to ICTs is limited, there seem to be extra barriers hindering women's access to and use of ICTs. Some of the barriers have to do with disadvantages that women have in terms of education, social value, and economic status. Other barriers include ambivalence, technophobia, lack of training opportunities, and uninviting ICT environments for women.
Community Telecenters
Despite the importance of access to ICTs, achieving such access at the home or individual levels in poverty-stricken areas is untenable because of barriers of infrastructure, ICT literacy, and costs. The community telecenter, one answer to this problem, is a public facility that allows individuals within the served community to have access to ICTs on demand for free or at low cost. Also, some centers provide training in the use of ICTs and others provide educational opportunities via ICTs.
Community Radio
Radio in general and community radio in particular has the potential to expand access to education to the remote areas. It is almost universally available, inexpensive, reliable, easy to use and maintain, and usable where there is no electricity infrastructure. Community Radio can offer critical educational access based on the needs and expectations of the community.
Women and Telecenters
Many telecenter projects have carefully and creatively crafted outreach efforts to attract women. The most successful are those designed with adequate attention to the needs, capacities, and preferences of local communities in general and of women in particular.
Are The Conditions For ICT Effectiveness Met?
It is essential to distinguish between potential and effectiveness. No ICT potential is realized automatically. Placing a radio and a TV in every school, putting a computer in every classroom, and wiring every building for the Internet will not solve the problem automatically. The problem is not strictly technological; it is educational and contextual, so constraints must be alleviated and conditions met. Experience points to seven parameters necessary for the potential of ICTs to be realized in knowledge dissemination, effective learning and training, and efficient education services.
Educational Policy
Technology is only a tool: no technology can fix a bad educational philosophy or compensate for bad practice. Therefore, educational choices have to be made first in terms of objectives, methodologies, and roles of teachers and students before decisions can be made about the appropriate ICT interventions. The effectiveness of different levels of sophistication of ICTs depends to a large extent on the role of learners and teachers as practiced in the educational process and on the purposes behind using ICTs for student learning and for teaching.
Approach to ICTs
Classrooms are constrained environments, and conventional instructional materials are static. If technology-enhanced education programs are taped classrooms, digital texts, and PowerPoint transparencies, then we are missing out on the tremendous potential of technologies that can animate, simulate, capture reality, add movement to static concepts, and extend our touch to the whole universe. Movies and TV programs are not replicas of theater-packaged theater plays; they tell the same story in a more dramatic and multifaceted manner. So should ICT based education.
It is important to identify the most appropriate, cost-effective, and sustainable technology and level of application for the different educational objectives. Then, the whole prerequisite hardware infrastructure needs to be in place with the supporting elements, such as electricity, maintenance, and technical services. It is not realistic to expect teachers, who will be struggling with a new role and pedagogy, to assume technical responsibility for the hardware.
ICT-Enhanced Content
ICT-enhanced instructional content is one of the most forgotten areas, but evidently the most crucial component. Introducing TVs, radios, computers, and connectivity into schools without sufficient curriculum-related ICT-enhanced content is like building roads but without making cars available. Acquisition and development of content software that is integral to the teaching/learning process is a must.
Committed and Trained Personnel
People involved in integrating technologies into the teaching/learning process have to be convinced of the value of the technologies, comfortable with them, and skilled in using them. Therefore, orientation and training for all concerned staff in the strategic, technical, and pedagogical dimensions of the process is a necessary condition for success.
Piloting and Evaluation
The strong belief in the potential of technology, market push, and enthusiasm for introducing technology into schools creates the temptation to implement it immediately and full scale. Integrating technologies into education is a very sophisticated, multifaceted process, and, just like any other innovation, it should not be introduced without piloting its different components on a smaller scale. Even technologies we are sure about need to be piloted in new contexts. No matter how well an ICT project is designed and planned for, many aspects need to be tested on a small scale first. Among these aspects are appropriate technologies, suitability of instructional materials, production process, classroom implementability, learning effectiveness, and cost-benefit ratio.
Depending on the results of the evaluation of a pilot scheme, the elements of implementation or the ICT-intervention policy itself may need modifications. Then plans need to be drawn for scaling up the ICT intervention. At this stage more care needs to be given to implementation planning because of the higher risks, larger scope, and more intricate application issues.
Financial Resources
Acquiring ICTs, no matter how hard and expensive, may be the easiest and cheapest element in a series of elements that ultimately could make these technologies sustainable or beneficial. Educational authorities need to budget sufficiently for all of the parameters outlined earlier, including maintenance.
Integrating Technology into Education
The challenges facing education will escalate, and the struggle between needs and resources will deepen. The quest for radical solutions will intensify, and the pressure on decision makers to "do something" with ICTs will keep mounting. The temptation is to introduce ICTs immediately and full scale. Since the potential is great and the stakes are high, decision makers should be bold but not reckless, cautious but not slow, and calculating but not procrastinating.
The worst that could happen is for each country to deal with these issues in isolation by reinventing the wheel and failing to learn from the experiences (and mistakes) of others. It is essential therefore for decision makers, planners, and practitioners to be well aware of the wealth of worldwide knowledge, research, experience, and thinking. This awareness should not lead to transplantation of ideas and experiences but, rather, should enlighten, guide, and inspire locally conceived and implemented decisions and plans.
Experience has consistently taught us that integrating technology into the educational process is not a simple, one-step activity. It is an intricate, multifaceted process that involves a series of deliberate decisions, plans, and measures:
• Mapping of the present situation in terms of national goals, educational context, ICTs in education, and the dynamics of change
• Identification of educational areas for ICT intervention and formulation of corresponding ICT-in-education policies
• Planning for implementation— infrastructure, hardware, ICT-enhanced content, personnel training, and cost
• Evaluation of ICT intervention and subsequent adjustments and follow-up actions
Technologies have great potential for knowledge dissemination, effective learning, and efficient education services. Yet, if the educational policies and strategies are not right, if ICT based education policies are not well thought out, and if the prerequisite conditions for using these technologies are not met concurrently, this potential will not be realized.


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What are peoples experiences on taking their bees back to CA to winter instead of their home state? Kind of curious since a western WA winter is pretty wet and my thought would be that CA would be much better for the bees. Pros? Cons?
What are peoples experiences on taking their bees back to CA to winter instead of their home state? Kind of curious since a western WA winter is pretty wet and my thought would be that CA would be much better for the bees. Pros? Cons?
Pros- More cleansing flights, potentially more brood, not as wet as WA.
I would not take the bees down if you do not have a safe and secure holding yard...
Ya...... that's what we need. More unattended, overcrowded, CCD ridden hives. See how that worked out for the Olsen's from your fine state. Better to keep them home under the blankets than wasting away far away from home.
These would be my hives. The reason I was asking was that when I was down in CA tending to my bees two weeks ago I talked to an orchard grower that offered to have my hives kept at his place in November. He has a direct line of sight of where they would be kept from his residence. After November 1st if my hives are not ready for the winter in WA they just will not be. So If they are moved to CA the first week of Nov. it would not make any difference in the amount of care they would receive regardless of where they were kept at that point. I tend to them about once a month in WA during the winter, so that would not change if they went to CA. After Almonds they would come back to WA. I am just looking for other beekeepers experience on how well their hives did doing it this way. Eric Olsen is wintering his hives in a cold storage shed now. This seems to be working well for him. I do not have the facilities available to me to winter my hives that way. I am looking to find a better way to have stronger hives for the almond pollination that still makes economic sense.
>>I am looking to find a better way to have stronger hives for the almond pollination that still makes economic sense<<
Me too.
Not trying to hijack, but how did the Olsons do this winter in the buildings? Any updates?
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I have not heard anything directly from Mr Olsen. Indirectly from Steve Shepard of WSU, sounds like the bees did well.
Bees get lots of flying days in the Ca. Valleys . That can be good and bad. Expect to get complaints about bees buzzing any neighbors. They will also waste a lot of energy looking for food if they aren't good and heavy.
Skunks are an underestimated problem in many areas. Skunks were really bad last year. Then there are the thieves...
For the last three years my wintering loss has been around 30%. Having them stolen would be a greater loss.... If they did go to CA, having them within view of the orchard owners residence would be greater security then some of my remote yards that I use right now in WA. I like to have my hives over 110 pounds going into winter in WA. Sounds like I would have to up that to take them down to CA. Thanks for your input.
I tried your Nutra bee product this year. I put 4-5 pounds on the hives the end of December. I was real pleased at how the girls got on it and started brooding up. The only complaint I have is that without something underneath it will start to run down the frames because of the high moisture in Western Washington. Next time I will try wax paper or newspaper to slow that problem down.
Scott you might try putting sub on mid to end of august. Huge difference with populations of young bees.
Keith, I did not get it directly from you. I bought the blue tubs from another beekeeper that had some to spare. I really don't feel you owe anything to me because of it. I appritiate you standing behind your product though. I had more 15-19 frame hives then I have ever had this early in the season.
RAC, I really did not have it on my radar that I was going to CA till I was asked if I wanted to put my hives in on a load in late November. I got the offer to buy Keith's sub in mid December, so that is why I didn't use it sooner. Next year is a different story. I'm asking the questions so that if I can learn from others that have been down this road before.