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Well, I am a fan of rhodes and have said multiple times that I think he is exactly the type of player who fits our mold.
I dont really buy the whole "my friend is a Giant scout tho would risk his entire career by telling a poster on the boards our draft strategy" thing, but its ok. I do agree Rhodes is worth a lot.
However, I would disagree with those who think this 1st round is bad, or at least I would disagree about it being bad for the Giants. The knock on this draft class is that there are no stand outs. That the top 20 picks are all very close in value. I think that is a fair assessment. But we are picking 19th, which means we could hardly be in a better position because we can get equivalent talent at our pick to the guys picking way ahead of us. The only difference is we wont have to pay them as much.
Furthermore, I think a lot of draft class bashing is because there arent any premier, top notch clear cut star Qbs, RB or WRs. Those are the position the media loves.
But, we arent in need of those positions. We need Oline, DL, LB, CB and possibly Safety and TE. This is a decent class is every 1 of those areas. I consider the Giants kinda lucky to have a class strong in the areas of need for the current team. It allows us to concentrate moreso on value. That said, I think trade backs will be hard to come by this year. Teams will want more than usual.
FYI, it is also strongly rumored that Rhodes will not fall past Miami at the 12th pick.
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Ya, i agree santa, its gonna be harder for teams to trade for extra picks this yr.. I think its more so that everyone is gonna want to add additonal picks this yr, becasue its not secret how closely grouped the prospects are this yr, and with all the underclassmen, u can get what would of been future 1st rders in the 2nd and 3rd rd range, so why trade up for just one of em and cost ur team picks?
Rhodes could be exactly what the G'men are looking for...would be excited if we got him but wouldn't spend too much to get there....

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So here's what I'm rolling with at the moment:
Considering hiding my player frame and cooldown bar active on mouseover when out of combat, and fully visible once in combat.
Dbm is still pretty much unconfigured. Will sort that in the near future.
Also, for some reason; when I take a screenshot in combat, some of the borders on texts and such go a little blurry, after I upload them to Imgur. Just pointing that out so people don't think I'm running with nasty blurry borders
Just an idea of where everything is on my screen (when it appears, of course)
Have not logged on to a class where a pet is used yet (or summoned my Water Elemental :P) so the pet bar is unconfigured also.
I've always been very stubborn about swapping to ElvUI, but now I see that it is very awesome :P
Maybe now people won't ask me to upload my UI, as they can simply make it themselves! Hehe! ^_^


text: www.fatcatpatterns.com has some angel blocks. They are listed under blocks of the month. Only 1 you get for free is the current month's block but you could print it out, and make some changes to the pattern yourself so each angel would have a little more personality of its own. There is also an angel wing pattern available right now and I think it is free too.


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Volume VII, No. 1
Improving Reading: One Mentor, One Child, One Book at a Time
What's New
- From the U.S. Department of Education
- From the Office of Innovation and Improvement
- Arts Education
- Charter Schools
- Leadership
- Raising Student Achievement
- Reading
- School Improvement
- Science
- Teacher Quality and Development
- Math and Science Education
- Raising the Student Achievement
- School Improvement
- Teacher Quality and Development
- Technology in Education
Improving Reading: One Mentor, One Child, One Book at a Time
When Kimberley started working with her mentor at her local Washington, D.C. elementary school, she would always choose books that were below her reading ability. Jill, her mentor and a U.S. Department of Education employee, thought that Kimberley needed help improving her self-confidence and completing what she was reading. Jill encouraged her to try more difficult books, ones that had more text than pictures or ones that were more advanced than books her peers in the third grade were reading. "Kimberley impressed me as a girl who was smart, but she didn't believe in herself, and she had trouble concentrating," she said. Nevertheless, Jill stayed with her, and trust and respect developed as they took turns reading to each other week after week. Two years later, when Kimberley graduated from fifth grade, things had changed. "At the beginning of fifth grade, I convinced her to read the first Harry Potter book because we were always talking about the movies," Jill remembered. "She did it! Her confidence had improved and sometimes she would read three or four pages before she realized that it was my turn to read. Kimberley tried to find out how the books end, but she would have to read all of them, I told her, if she wanted to find out."
The executive director of Everybody Wins! DC, Mary Saladar, has heard many stories like this over the past fourteen years. And she could tell her own stories, too, because Saladar has mentored the same child for eight years and has seen growth that has been nothing short of "amazing." Originally started in a single New York City school in 1991, Everybody Wins! (EW!) USA currently pairs more than 7,300 trained volunteers with more than 9,000 low-income students across the country. The Program aims to improve student achievement in reading by providing quality, age-appropriate books to students who might otherwise not have access to them, and by pairing "at-risk" students with adult volunteers who serve as their reading mentors. The nonprofit organization has a simple but powerful mantra of "one mentor, one child, one book at a time" and is working to close the "literacy gap" in elementary schools across 16 states and Washington, D.C. They presently serve 4,000 children in 36 Title I schools in D.C. alone.
A "Powerful" Approach to Addressing the Literacy Gap
EW!'s goals are aligned to address the literacy gap which, according to data from the 2007 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), continues to exist between middle-class and low-income students in the elementary grades. Among the factors that contribute to the achievement disparity for low-income children are the relative lack of books in the home and lack of learning environments that foster students' interest in reading, as well as fewer opportunities to learn and practice new reading skills. NAEP statistics show that only one-half of low-income fourth graders read at or above the basic level compared to nearly 80 percent of middle-class students in fourth grade. In urban locations, the disparities are even greater. In Washington, D.C., for instance, less than a third of fourth graders who are eligible for free or reduced meals read at or above the basic level.
At the core of Everybody Wins! is the Power Lunch, a one-hour, once-a-week opportunity for participating students to meet and read with their EW! reading mentors. Adult mentors, generally recruited from local corporations and other organizations in both the public and private sectors, volunteer their time and talents to the program. Throughout the one-hour sessions, EW! reading mentors, using school libraries or classrooms, read aloud to their student partners or listen to and encourage their partners as they read, promoting reading skills and the general enjoyment of reading and talking about books.
"Each school has an office with two part-time employees who are the communicators. They connect with the school, the teachers, the children, and the volunteer mentors," said Saladar. "There are a lot of costs associated with running the program," she noted, as she explained that they have to buy books, fund celebrations, hold at least three annual book distributions, supply book carts and provide enrichment activities. And yet, effective management has been noted as one of the reasons for their success. Another reason for success, according to Saladar, is that the point of Everybody Wins! is that children learn to read for pleasure. "Studies emphasize this," she said. "Our volunteers do not go over drills or tutor. Our volunteers are there to inspire the children…to serve as positive role models. They root for the children, look into their eyes, and tell them that they can do anything."
Federal Support to Improve and Expand the Program
A current $478,492 U.S. Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Education (FIE) grant is helping the national organization to improve its organizational capacity, to disseminate best practices in mentoring, marketing, and volunteer recruitment, as well as to expand its abilities to serve more low-income students. EW! USA will attempt to support 1,000 new Power Lunch student-mentor matches this school year, just the first step to reaching 100,000 students by 2016, the organization's 25th anniversary. For EW! DC, support from the national program office has helped to fund the operation of Power Lunch, as well as Readers Are Leaders, which pairs upper-grade student mentors with younger students for weekly one-on-one, one hour read-aloud sessions; Story Time, which brings storytellers and local authors into elementary schools to perform for students; and EW! Book Clubs, in which groups of fourth- and fifth-grade students and their adult reading mentors select books to read and discuss each month. In D.C., mentors come from more than one hundred agencies and companies.
Employees at the U.S. Department of Education have mentored students in the Power Lunch program since 1998, at nearby Amidon-Bowen Elementary School in southwest Washington, D.C. The program at Amidon-Bowen, which pairs 140 students with mentors throughout the community, was recently recognized by Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings as part of a visit to commemorate the Department's special partnership with the school. Teachers at Amidon-Bowen and other school sites recently completed evaluation surveys that will serve as a baseline to evaluate students' progress in the current school year.
An EW! DC Power Lunch evaluation conducted during 2007 – 2008, designed to enable the national organization to increase the alignment of its affiliate sites with a set of national EW! standards, showed that Power Lunch students had an 11 percent increase in excellent ratings on reading comprehension and fluency, interest in reading, class participation, and self-confidence. The evaluations were the result of teachers' evaluations of their students' participation in the Power Lunch program.
Across the EW! USA programs nationwide, a recent survey of executive directors of the 13 regional affiliates revealed four specific features that define the program and help contribute to its success:
- Consistency. This involves consistent attendance by the mentor and student, maintaining pairs over years, if possible, and the consistent reading-focused, student-mentor interaction that serves as the core of the program.
- One-on-One Interaction. All Power Lunch programs work within this same framework – from the mentor-student relationship to the school coordinator-school teacher interaction.
- School-Based Programming. Children in the program can participate easily, right at their own school, and the commitment of mentors to specific schools creates opportunities for program expansions, including addition of the Readers As Leaders and Story Time components.
- School Coordinator Role. Coordinators are present in each of the schools, which is an unusual yet successful feature, as compared to other literacy programs.
In January, EW! is honoring National Mentoring Month by inviting all reading mentors to share their experience with a friend or colleague who may be interested in joining the Power Lunch program. Guests may accompany mentors to join their reading session, meet their student mentee, browse the book selections, and learn more about the Power Lunch program.
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What's New
From the U.S. Department of Education
Secretary Spellings applauded the nomination of Arne Duncan as incoming Secretary of Education and released a fact sheet on the Department's efforts to improve educational opportunities for all children. (Dec.16)
Secretary Spellings announced the release of non-regulatory guidance to implement a uniform and accurate measure of the high school graduation rate that is comparable across States. The uniform high school graduation rate is a critical step toward improving high school accountability. (Dec. 23)
Secretary Spellings delivered remarks and administered the oath of office to new and re-appointed members of the National Assessment Governing Board in Arlington, Va. The 26-member governing board develops policy guidance for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the only continuing nationwide assessment of what students have learned in various subjects in the U.S. The board is involved in selecting the subjects to be tested; identifying learning objectives for each grade tested; identifying appropriate achievement goals; and ensuring that all test items are free from racial, cultural, gender, or regional bias. (Nov. 21)
The National Center for Education Research within the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) has announced its third "Summer Research Training Institute on Cluster-Randomized Trials," to be held June 21 through July 3, 2009, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. This training institute aims to increase the national capacity of researchers to develop and conduct rigorous evaluations regarding the impact of education interventions. More information is available online. For assistance, please contact Christina Chhin, at (202) 219-2280 or firstname.lastname@example.com. (January 2009)
The National Board for Education Sciences, the advisory body to IES, has released the National Board for Education Sciences: Five-Year Report, 2003 Through 2008. The report includes an evaluation of the performance of IES, and the board's recommendations for the improvement of IES and the reauthorization of the Education Sciences Reform Act. (November 2008)
In response to the Report to the President on Issues Raised by the Virginia Tech Tragedy the Departments of Education and Health and Human Services have issued joint guidance PDF-[259KB], regarding the application of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) to student health records. This guidance addresses the interplay between FERPA and HIPAA privacy rules at the elementary, secondary, and postsecondary levels, including during health or safety emergencies. (November 2008)
As the U.S. Department of Education and our entire nation observes the transition from one Administration to the next, the January 20th edition of Education News Parents Can Use will take a look back at some of the most engaging topics explored on shows from our recent past. The next edition of Education News will feature the Teaching Ambassador Fellows -- five exemplary teachers who are spending a year at the Department of Education, contributing their firsthand knowledge and experience to the development of federal education policy. They will consider a range of topics, from early childhood education to the value of service learning, and from supporting English Language Learners to the challenges of recruiting, preparing, retaining and rewarding teachers. Also featured on the program will be videotaped success stories from innovative schools and school districts on early childhood education, community service, health and nutrition curriculum, and language competency that will ready students for the challenges of the 21st century. FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE GO TO http://www.ed.gov/edtv/ (You can watch archived webcasts at http://www.connectlive.com/events/ednews/.)
From the Office of Innovation and Improvement
Many charter schools rank obtaining facilities as one of the greatest impediments to starting their schools. Making Charter School Facilities More Affordable: State-driven Policy Approaches, the latest Innovations in Education guide from the Office of Innovation and Improvement, is designed to help states better understand the facilities-related challenges encountered by charter schools and how to address them effectively. Within the guide are helpful links to state statutes that form or affect policies that are helping charter schools to successfully respond to these challenges. Free copies of the new guide can be ordered from ED PUBS. This and the other guides in the Innovations in Education series can be viewed and downloaded from the Web site.
The Women's Educational Equity Act (WEEA) Grant Program is recruiting peer reviewers for its upcoming grant competition scheduled for April 13 - 24. If you are interested in serving as a peer reviewer, please notify the WEEA program by an e-mail to: email@example.com.
Arts Education
Americans for the Arts, The NAMM Foundation, and the Ad Council have collaborated with Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment to create new public service announcements (PSAs) in the newest phase of "The Arts. Ask For More" public awareness program. Characters from Disney's "Little Einsteins" are used in the new PSAs to promote arts education to parents and to children in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. The NAMM Foundation and the Ad Council also have produced television advertisements that encourage both children and parents to participate in the arts together. The characters' adventures with the arts help kids develop creativity and self-expression while emphasizing teamwork, friendship, and exploration. Spoofs of "healthy arts food products" like "Raisin Brahms," featuring the composer Johannes Brahms, and "Van Goghgurt," featuring the artist Vincent van Gogh, continue the approach from the earlier phase of the national awareness campaign. (January 2009)
Charter Schools
The fourth annual report from the National Charter School Research Project at the University of Washington Bothell Center on Reinventing Public Education—Hopes, Fears, and Reality—reveals that charter schools generally are more different than alike, not only in terms of their student populations, missions, and achievement results, but also in their capacity and response to local needs. (December 2008)
New Leaders for New Schools (NLNS) (see Innovator, June 13, 2005), the national nonprofit that offers an innovative pathway for aspiring educators to become principals in high-need schools, has selected the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools in North Carolina as its newest partner. The goal is for schools in the district to achieve 90- to 100-percent proficiency in core academic subjects once NLNS principals have been at the helm for five years. (Dec. 10)
Raising Student Achievement
In September 2008, the Data Quality Campaign and the National Center for Educational Achievement, with the support of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, conducted a survey to determine the number of states that have built the infrastructure necessary to use longitudinal data. A progress report reveals that 29 states track students' individual college-readiness test scores. The report asserts, however, that states still have a long way to go before they have the types of data systems that will inform ways to drive improved student performance. A new Web site provides an overview of the findings. (January 2009)
The National Governors Association Center for Best Practices recently partnered with ACT, Inc. on a pilot project in Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Pennsylvania to increase the rigor of coursework in high schools. ACT trained 98 teachers in 18 high schools to use "state-of-the-art" curriculum units and new instructional practices, which were integrated with a system of assessments. Results PDF-[2.14MB], of the pilot project indicate that increases in student achievement are strongly correlated to coursework that is aligned to academic standards. (2008)
The National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance has released a report, Enhanced Reading Opportunities: Findings from the Second Year of Implementation. This is the second report on the impact of two literacy programs, "Reading Apprenticeship Academic Literacy" (RAAL) and "Xtreme Reading" (XR). Both programs are designed to improve the reading comprehension skills and school performance of struggling ninth-grade students. The report describes the effects of the programs on students entering high school who are two to five years behind grade level in reading. (November 2008)
School Improvement
The International Benchmarking Advisory Group has issued a report, Benchmarking for Success: Ensuring U.S. Students Receive a World-Class Education PDF-[2.80MB]. The report provides states with guidance for benchmarking their K-12 education systems against those of top-performing countries. Also included are recommendations for ensuring that the U.S. offers students expanded opportunities for college and career success. The advisory group was convened by the National Governors Association, the Council of Chief State School Officers, and Achieve, Inc. (2008)
The Education Commission of the States has produced two new resources focused on policies that relate to student performance in high school. The first brief PDF-[85KB], reviews research emphasizing the freshman year as a predictor of later high-school performance. The second brief PDF-[83KB], highlights research indicating the types of parental involvement that positively impact high school students, and identifies a set of policies and practices that can increase parental involvement in education. (2008)
Achieve, Inc. and the Education Trust have issued Measures that Matter, a joint, ongoing effort that aims to provide strategic and technical assistance to states in creating college- and career-ready assessment and accountability systems that ensure all students graduate from high school ready to succeed in life. The two organizations conducted research and commissioned papers on various topics. (November 2008)
The Siemens Foundation has announced the results of the prestigious "Siemens Competition in Math, Science, and Technology," which enables high school students to receive national recognition for science research projects. Some of the nation's brightest leaders of tomorrow took on groundbreaking research regarding life-threatening infections and the deadly side effects of chemotherapeutics. Wen Chyan and the team of Sajith M. Wickramasekara and Andrew Y. Guo were named the $100,000 grand-prize winners. The competition is administered by the College Board and funded by the Siemens Foundation. (Dec. 8)
Teacher Quality and Development
The latest edition of the Teacher Professional Development Sourcebook is now online. Differentiated instruction—a practice in which teachers accommodate students' various learning styles and needs—is a featured topic. The Sourcebook also includes an updated and expanded resource directory of professional development products and services, as well as topics on English-Language learning, reading, and classroom management. (January 2009)
For the second consecutive year, the number of new teachers certified through the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) has reached a record high. NBPTS announced that 9,600 teachers earned certification nationally in 2008. This number represents a 12-percent increase over the number of teachers who achieved National Board Certification in 2007. Nearly half of all National Board Certified teachers work in high-need schools, as defined by the National Center for Education Statistics. (December 2008)
Researcher and teaching analyst Richard Ingersoll reveals that that far too many teachers have neither a college degree nor a state certificate in the subjects they teach in a report PDF-[572KB], for the Education Trust. Using data from the latest federal Schools and Staffing Survey, Ingersoll asserts that this problem is at its worst in middle schools, high poverty/high minority schools, and mathematics classes. (November 2008)
Innovations in the News
Math and Science Education
Students in several Asian countries again outpaced American students in math and science performance, according to the 2007 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, or TIMSS, which surveyed fourth- and eighth-grade students worldwide. American students at both grade levels made gains in math, but not in science, over their performance in past TIMSS surveys. In a special analysis, students in Massachusetts and Minnesota outperformed both their American classmates and those of most other countries. [More—The New York Times] (Dec.10)
In Texas, a group of leaders from higher education and the private sector have put forward a plan to improve math and science achievement, as well as to attract more highly qualified teachers of these subjects. Citing the need for young persons who can innovate and help Texas compete in the global marketplace, the Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas proposed improvements in pay and other financial incentives for teachers of science and math as well as changes in the state's accountability system. [More—The Dallas Morning News] (Dec. 9)
An intrepid group of students and teachers at Dacula Middle School in Georgia are on a mission to "seek out new worlds of knowledge …and boldly go where no student has gone before." Their classroom, known as the USS Innerpride, is replete with a command bridge and other trappings of the venerable "Star Trek" series. The 40 "cadets" of the Starfleet Institute, all of whom were performing below grade level on the math and science state exams, received personal invitations to join the mission from co-commanders Celisa Edwards and Jayne Lawson, who are finding that their engaging theme and emphasis on learning motivation are producing promising results: "Last year's cadets boasted gains of 28 to 77 points on the math and science…exams." [More—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution] (Dec. 7)
Raising Student Achievement
Known by various names in school districts, Response to Intervention (RTI), early-intervention programs that serve students needing extra support but who have not been identified as needing special education services, is getting more attention since its endorsement in the 2004 reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. The National Education Association is trying to introduce many of its more than 3 million members to the RTI process, intended to "increase the capacity of teachers to engage in RTI programs as they spread through school districts." Federal special education funds can be used in part for this early-intervention effort. [More—Education Week] (Dec. 10)
In Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara offer findings concerning the most effective methods of teaching new skills. Their conclusion: It depends. Study participants had to complete tasks that involved categorizing items by three different methods: "starting with easy problems, starting with harder problems then moving to easier examples, or being shown examples in random order." In instances when the categories were easily described, all three approaches worked. When the categories were not easily described, researchers found that starting with the harder problems and moving to the easier ones produced favored results. [More—ScienceDaily] (Dec.1)
School Improvement
Alaska is on the way to having its first comprehensive, statewide education plan as the result of a recent summit in Anchorage. Organized by the state's Department of Education and Early Development, the event brought together a diverse group of 450 Alaskans, including representatives of businesses, higher education, teachers, parents, and state and local policymakers. The 44 resulting goals and outcomes now go to the State Board of Education and Early Development and the University of Alaska Board of Regents. [More—The Bristol Bay (AK) Times] (Dec. 3)
And the 2008 Broad Prize for Urban Education goes to—the Brownsville Independent School District, where 94 percent of the students are from low-income families and more than 40 percent are English-language learners. Students outperformed other Texas districts serving low-income students in reading and math. The annual prize recognizes the most improved urban school district in the nation. [More—Education Week (premium article access compliments of Edweek.org)] (Dec.1)
A new statewide effort in Mississippi to reduce the high school dropout rate is experiencing positive results in the northeast part of the state. The Office of Dropout Prevention at the Mississippi Department of Education, which began its "On the Bus" campaign two years ago, reports that 22 of 31 districts in the northeast improved their dropout rates between 2006 and 2007. Statewide, the average dropout rate decreased as well, from 17.6 to 15.9 percent, but in a number of the northeast districts, the rates were in the single digits. With all Mississippi districts now required to have dropout prevention plans in place, the Office of Dropout Prevention is expecting the percentages to continue to decline. [More—The AP] (Dec.8)
In Colorado, education leaders are using the results of a study of dropouts in five of the state's districts to target the middle grades for early warning signs of problems associated with dropping out. Researchers focused on multiple indicators, including behavior and attendance records as well as grades, in the five districts with the state's highest dropout rates. While the complete data from the study will be ready for release next spring, school leaders in Pueblo, one of the five districts studied, are starting to make policy changes based on the data for their schools. [More—The Denver Post] (Dec.1)
Teacher Quality and Development
The National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) plans to streamline its process of accrediting teacher-preparation programs and may offer options to institutions that include nontraditional programs such as urban teacher residencies. According to NCATE's president, James G. Cibulka, the NCATE board has requested recommendations for redesigning the accreditation process by next spring. Among the expected changes are cost efficiencies for colleges and universities undergoing accreditation. A recent survey of NCATE-accredited institutions revealed their desire for a "more focused, streamlined process with less paperwork and more emphasis on adding value." [More—Education Week] (Nov. 20)
Technology in Education
Eleven school districts and one charter school in Michigan plan to increase the number of students taking online courses based on a waiver granted by the state's department of education. Michigan students are currently limited to taking only two online courses outside of their school buildings in a semester. Districts and charter schools applied for waivers of these restrictions in response to a challenge from State Superintendent Mike Flanagan to come up with innovative ideas for reaching more students and improving achievement. The waiver also follows Michigan's 2006 decision to require an online course or other online learning experience for graduation from high school. [More—The Detroit Free Press] (January 3)
The Tennessee Department of Education, in partnership with Apple, Inc. and the state's board of regents, launched ELC, the electronic learning center, making it the third state to offer resources to K-12 teachers and students through iTunesU. The new site contains more than 280 curriculum-based resources developed by the state education department. Teachers have access to training sessions about new state academic standards and resources on such topics as classroom behavior and reading. "Students can access relevant lessons when doing homework and or studying for tests," according to Education Commissioner Timothy Webb. The electronic center's content currently covers grades two through eight. [More—The Murfreesboro (TN) Post] (Dec. 18)
In Virginia, the state's secretaries of education and technology have launched an experiment with the "flexbook," an effort to digitize course content. Taking a cue from higher education where electronic texts are on the rise, Virginia is partnering with CK-12, a nonprofit, high-tech organization that provides electronic textbooks in several areas of the sciences, to work with teachers in the state in developing the new online resources in biophysics, nanotechnology, and other emerging science fields. [More—The Washington Post] (Nov. 30)
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To medal, I think the skaters are going to have to skate a solid SP (65+) and a solid LP (130+).
130+ LP this year: Liza, Mao, Carolina, Yuna.
Ashley, Akiko, and Adelina have come close and those three have the potential to surpass 130 if clean (and, in Ashley's case, can add a 2A/3T or 3F/3T).
No one else has even come close to the 130 mark internationally, and Liza might have trouble scoring over 60 in the SP with the PCS she gets, so it would appear likely that these skaters will occupy the top 7 spots (and the top 3 we expect to fill up the podium). Obviously, some of these skaters will not do their best and might finish outside the top 7 but it is going to be a tall order for skaters outside this group to break into the top 5.


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Who We Are
The 48 Hour Film Project is a wild and sleepless weekend in which you and your team have a blast making a movie. All writing, shooting, editing and scoring must be completed in just 48 hours.
On Friday night, you are assigned a character, a prop, a line of dialogue and a genre, that must be included in your movie. 48 hours later, you must submit your film. Next? Your masterpiece will show on the big screen of a local theater!
In 2014 the 48HFP will visit more than 120 cities where more than 60,000 people will make short films. The Project has truly spread to the four corners of the globe as filmmakers from Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas will compete to see who can make the best short film in a weekend.
Our Mission
The 48 Hour Film Project's mission is to advance filmmaking and promote filmmakers. Through its festival/competition, the Project encourages filmmakers and would-be filmmakers to get out there and make movies. The tight deadline of 48 hours puts the focus squarely on the filmmakers—emphasizing creativity and teamwork skills. While the time limit places an unusual restriction on the filmmakers, it is also liberating by putting an emphasis on "doing" instead of "talking."
Our History
Back in May 2001, Mark Ruppert came up with a crazy idea: to try to make a film in 48 hours. He quickly enlisted his filmmaking partner, Liz Langston, and several other DC filmmakers to form their own teams and join him in this experiment. The big question back then was: "Would films made in only 48 hours even be watchable?"
The answer was a resounding yes, and now ten years later and with more than 900 competitions having taken place around the world, it is amazing to consider the success of the Project. 2014 marks the 13th time we've visited Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York and Austin, and the 15th time for DC.
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MARION, Va. - Community members in Southwest Virginia joined people across the nation to remember the September 11 terrorist attacks.
In Marion, Virginia they dedicated a piece of the World Trade Center outside the fire department.
The theme of Wednesday's dedication ceremony was "we remember." Everyone at the ceremony young and old said it together to make sure nobody forgets the lives lost and the sacrifice of so many.
Some people at the ceremony were at the center of the 9/11 attacks. "You'll never forget the smell, the feel, and the emotions. I don't think it'll go away. It's like it was yesterday," says Jason Berry.
Berry is now the Washington County, Virginia Administrator, but on September 11, 2001, he worked in the Pentagon. "It's gratifying to know people not in New York, Pennsylvania, or Virginia know what people went through, what we went through," adds Berry.
Berry says the large turnout in Marion is proof people will always remembered what happen. The town is hoping a piece of steel from the World Trade Center will keep the history alive. "Parents bring the kids down and explain the history behind this," says Marion mayor David Helms.
They received the piece of steel after a firefighter wrote a letter explaining why they wanted a piece of the World Trade Center for their memorial garden outside the fire department. "[It's a] 14-foot long, four-ton piece of steel. We were just humbled and amazed they picked Marion, Virginia for that to come to," says Marion Fire Department vice president Ken Heath.
For Jason Berry, who saw the devastation firsthand 12 years ago, he wants all Americans to remember the unity our nation had in the days following the attacks. "Americans really had a change of heart. Even if you were total strangers it would be nice if we could go back to those days but on good terms," adds Berry.
We learned the Town of Marion is working on a second phase for the memorial garden. That will be two lights shining up in the sky to look like the Twin Towers.
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After waiting for 2 weeks for the strike at Potosi to end, and already having psychologically accepted that I would skip this important part of my trip for now, I did end up being able to go. The one thing I really learn here is that I can plan as much as I want, up till now I think the rate of really doing things as planned were probably about 1 out of 250. Nice, just taking things as they come, but I still consider it important to research the options.
The Salar is the main attraction of Bolivia, Bolivia's Machu Picchu. And along the road many travelers told me the tour is much nicer starting from Tupiza instead of its standard starting point, Uyuni. Little detail is that it is also double the price, and the tour ends in Uyuni. Not sure if it was really worth it for me.My tour friends were 3 french people from the Pyrenean area, being perfect because the french language database in my mind started to be written over by Spanish
The tour was great, amazing nature, mind blowing... just a pity to be in the jeep for 4 days, would have been great to hike in nature, but the main sights are very spread out. We saw mountains (realizing we hovered around 4000 meters altitude constantly, everything is high here, weird because you have large flat areas, but still they're at 4000m altitude, and the little hills we pass are actually high mountains). We slept at 4600m, wow! Pretty cold, it's still winter here, but already a LOT better then June/July (the first night of the Salkantay trek was the coldest of my life). So having it had a lot worse, I found this very comfortable. Few layers of fleece, sleeping bag, and a nice night of rest. Traveling definitely makes you shift your comfort level and a happier person :).
Our driver was a young guy, and he was really doing his best to be great. The last day, he tried to take a short-cut through the salar, and so he took a road nobody took, and we soon found out why. Suddenly he braked really hard and we had to get out of the car asap
And as there was no other car coming here (obviously), we were really stuck.
The driver and the one guy in the group started walking looking for help. This gave me such a deja-vu to different disaster-movies... 2 of the group leave for help, we won't see them again!
As the salar is a giant flat it took them more then an hour to disappear from our sight.
We waited for hours, and the group already decided they would eat me first :( But luckily, after long hours of waiting in the middle of nowhere, and getting a tan, we saw a jeep coming with our driver happily waving on the top of the roof.
And then that stupid stupid jeep... drove towards us.
Do NOT drive fast towards a place where another car got stuck. Not if it's the salar. Of course suddenly the rescue-car also got stuck
All images of doom raised in my head thanks to Hollywood came back, but now with new company. This started to look like a Lost-episode.
Anyways too make a long story short, we did get out, eventually, after a lot of pushing, digging, dragging giant pieces of salt, and finally finding the secret button to turn on the 4x4 drive. UGHHH that did it of course!!! RTFM! I would say! :)
Earlier in this trip we encountered the weirdest animals, like huge chinchillas, of bunnys with fluffy tales that can climb, with the name "biscoti", just like an italian thing to dip in the coffee.
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In many respects these curves are reminiscent of fractals, the objects of fractional dimension that Benoit Mandelbrot made famous. The curves' self-similarity is fractal-like: Zooming in reveals ever more intricate detail. But the Hilbert curve is not a fractal, because its dimension is not a fraction. Any finite approximation is simply a one-dimensional line. On passing to the limit of infinite crinkliness, the curve suddenly becomes a two-dimensional square. There is no intermediate state.
Even though the complete path of an infinite space-filling curve cannot be drawn on paper, it is still a perfectly well-defined object. You can calculate the location along the curve of any specific point you might care to know about. The result is exact if the input is exact. A few landmark points for the Hilbert curve are plotted in the illustration at right (For an interactive version of this illustration, see http://bit-player.org/extras/hilbert/).
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Everyone has the right idea. In the past I have painted a few cars with this same problem. Sand down to the primer with 80 grit. Go back over the car with 180 grit. Be careful along the edges. Run water over the car in sections and look for any imperfections that may occur. Water will high light any imperfections or deep scratches that may show up after your base coat. Prime the car with three coats of a water base etching primer. This will take care of any spots you sanded thru to bare metal by accident. Add another coat on all the edges of every thing such as wheel wells, door jams. Think you know want I mean. By using a water base primer you will be covering the old paint and primer and should have no lift off off the old material. Water base is a God saver if you don't know what was sprayed before. Make sure you wipe down the areas you are going to primer with a good cleaner and rags. Your paint shop can recommend what to use. Once you have the primer down, you can start sanding with 320. Ask your paint shop for the product data sheets for the type of paint you are going to lay down, ei: Flssh times between coats, size of spray nozzle, ect... Each maufacturer has their requirements that need to be adhered to. Once you lay down the top coat follow the instructions for applying the clear coat. If you are spraying at home in the garage you should check with your city and find out what restrictions they may have so you don't have a nosy neighbor calling in on you. Most shops these days are going to a waterbase material due to environmental issues. It goes on thinner and will require additional coats. If you have NEVER sanded with a DA, I would recommend you block sand by hand after laying a guide coat down in getting the primer ready for your base coat. It will take a bit longer but you won't have waves were you sanding a little more than other areas. The guide coat will reveal any high or low spots you may want to take care of before the base coat. Sand in the directon of the panels. Mainly front to back, never cross hatch or sand the guide coat in anX pattern. Never sand using just your fingers either. Use a backing pad or a foam pad that will help apply even pressure. If you have any questions fell free to call me at 682-227-3095
I will add a little info here as well about the SPI epoxy. This is a real nice epoxy primer that is sandable, and is all I use now. I have just started using it as a finish blocking primer after the spray poly is done instead of the 2K urethane primers. The other thing I have noticed about it is this stuff goes a real long way . I use quite a bit of it and have not had any type of problems with it at all. Trust me you will love it. Have always used the high end PPG DPLF epoxys and wont use it any more.............................................. as a side note to USMC not real sure what you mean by never sand in an x pattern when blocking, that is the ONLY way you should be blocking in.
The other thing to remember is most panels have a slight bow to them and are not as flat as they may seem. So in order to keep your flat block against a bowed panel you must sand in an x pattern to maintain a flat blocking of the panel.
If i can add this as well, when blocking, minimal pressure on the block...let the sand paper do the work...I always tell people that their block isn't an eraser, it's made to get the panel straight.
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Thanks guys... good info. Worked on it for 8 hours today... didnt get alot done but I did manage to get the nose section sanded down and ready for epoxy. I worked on a fender and a door too... I think now that I am just going to strip the top surfaces of the car to metal and sand the sides down to the factory primer with my orbital leaving a 220 scratch...then epoxy over everything... Car definitely has just the factory paint on it. Let me know if thats a dumb idea.
Car is in the garage now, safe and dry...
Hi Andy on the bumpers I'd say OK, leave the factory primer on, but remove as much as possible. if your using 220, try even a 320 (I know it will take longer but it's worth it) that way you won't cut into the plastic and you can always block out the primer to get it straight. The rest of the car I would take down to bare metal and you can use a more aggressive media like 80 grit. In a case where the paint is peeling the integrity of the original primer is in question as well as the top coat (Material is 25 years old) I would without a doubt strip it all to bare metal.
Ok, Im just going to sand the bumpers and scuff the ground effects because the paint on them is in great shape... I'll take the panels where the clear was compromised down to the metal.
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When I said do not block sand in an X pattern it was meant for the final sanding with the 600 to 800 grit paper. You should already have a good surface from sanding in an X pattern on the 80 or 180 grit paper during your prep stage before you switch to the higher grits. Sand with the direction of the car on your higher number grits. Always refer to the product data sheets for the final grit sanding. You can never go wrong if you follow their sheets
Been workin' on the car... still a long way off from epoxy prime, but working a few hours each day... most of the dissassembly is done, just need to get the driver side GFX off... GM put some tough paint on this car, the areas where I am going to metal are taking a while w/ 40/80 on my DA. I snapped some pics... but nothing is done...Ive been skipping around a bit
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Your getting there Andy, I saw that you took the door handle off on the passenger side, I couldn't make out if you took it of on the driver's side. Have you found anything in the way of previous repairs or anything? Looks good...won't be long now.
I have the pass side tore down pretty good... driver side needs handle, mirror, GFX taken off...Ive been skipping around a little to keep things interesting.
Only thing I have found repair wise seem to be the nose...it appears at least to me that the orig nose got crunched and they replaced it with a blue one...Im seeing layers of bright blue paint after sanding...they did a good job because theres no flaking and the fenders seem to have been unharmed.
I'm just taking my time...no need to rush anything... I do want to get it in epoxy quickly so I can get nova #2 back inside.
It all looks good Andy, it's great to hear that you haven't found any major previous damage...that's going to save you time and money...Also glad to hear that your not rushing it and taking lots of pictures, going to help the resale if that's the route you go.
Bumpers are usually the first thing to get hit...that's why they call them bumpers I guess...all good though.
I know even when I do a customer's car and spend a lot of time on it, the hardest thing to do is give him the keys.
Tonight I got the GFX off the driver side and the door handle and lock cylinder out, also mirror off. Got the window sweep off the driver door, which is a little tedious on these things, only b/c i needed a 7mm box end wrench and dont have one. I managed ok with a socket in a small vise grip...tight squeeze.
BIG box came from Summit today!! Two new dura blocks (11", 4"), rolls of 180 and 320 sticky back paper , scuff pads red and grey, green 3m tape, a Gal. 1:1 epoxy primer and catalyst and a Gal. High Solids clear/activator/reducer, quart of lightweight filler. Still need the base coat which will probably be Chroma Base. Other than some 500 paper and maybe some more paper for colorsanding...I should have everything covered material wise.
Couldnt resist doing some blocking with the 180 and my new blocks on a couple sections...WOW. Well worth it and I wished I had used the sticky stuff on my Nova! MUCH EASIER! I might add that the $17 a roll paper from Summit is GREAT! Made in germany stamped on the back of it too.
Also did some more paint stripping with 80 on my DA in "GRINDER MODE" and then while my comp was pumping up I would hit the same area with 80 on my dewalt orbital sander, worked good because I was always busy...not waiting, and gave my comp a break. I have a 60 gallon 220v plus a 20 gal. auxilary tank btw.
Won't be long now till I'm spraying Epoxy on this thing...hoping for a few warm days coming soon.
Drove the Nova to work today...
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BEND, Ore. - A Bend man called a taxi for a ride home from a downtown bar late Wednesday night, but said he had no money, went inside to get some - and instead came out with an Airsoft pistol he pointed at the cabbie's face, police said.
Police were called shortly after 11 p.m. to a reported weapons offense in the area of SW Garfield Avenue, said Cpl. John Lawrence.
Officers contacted the taxi driver, Mark Dietrich, 45, of Bend, who said he gave Robert Lincoln Farnsworth, 25, a ride from a downtown bar to Farnsworth's home on Garfield Avenue, Lawrence said.
When they arrived, Dietrich said Farnsworth told him he didn't have any money to pay the fare. Farnsworth agreed to let Dietrich hold his ID card while Farnsworth went into his home to get money.
After a brief time inside the residence, the cabbie said Farnsworth returned to the taxi, pointed a gun in his face, demanding his ID back and threatening the driver, Lawrence said.
"All of a sudden, the passenger side door opens up," Dietrich said. "He grabbed me by the shoulder and went to go ahead and grab the driver's license."
Dietrich said he got out of the taxi and after the two pursued each other briefly around the cab, placed the ID card on the windshield. He was able to get away unhurt, and called police.
"I feared for my life," said Dietrich. "You know, this is something the guy took from me, I will never ever get back, is that trust."
Officers determined Farnsworth was inside a home, and he at first refused to come out, Lawrence said.
After several verbal warnings from officers and Bend police K-9 Zlatan, Farnsworth complied and was taken into custody without further incident, the corporal said.
During a search of the home, Lawrence said, officers found an Airsoft pistol believed to have been the weapon Farnsworth used.
Farnsworth was lodged in the Deschutes County Jail on local charges of second-degree robbery, menacing and theft of services. He also was held on a Teton County, Wyoming warrant for drug delivery.
Dietrich, who had just moved to Bend and taken the taxi job two weeks ago, returned to work Thursday afternoon and told NewsChannel 21 he's not going to let Wednesday night's scare keep him from driving his cab.
"There was some apprehension about coming to work today," said Dietrich. "It's kind of like that thing, get back in the saddle -- don't let it taint you, don't let it take over your life."


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Bryan Farthing and Elizabeth Higbee worked with third-graders from Tuesday-Friday, Feb. 12-15, for two performances of Prairie Fire's adaptation of "Cinderella." Students staged the play for their classmates Friday afternoon and again that night.
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The only solutions extracted by our government from those who have the imagination and means to constructively help our poor are ever-rising minimum wages and taxes to keep alive those displaced by the rising minimum wages and the resulting illegal labor market. Private initiative is putting to shame our public schools, is profitably employing untold millions in Brazil, Russia, India and China, while here 50 million Americans languish in hunger. Again and again it was proven that only when fundamental economical and social truths are faced without political prejudice and corruption can an economy succeed, and yet we refuse to let go of Democrats' failing dogma.
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four bucks in food assistance a day, previously established under bi-partisan support for 40 years, caused "many social programs have led to the creation of vast urban deserts where people are terminally ensconced in unemployment"
okay, thanks for sharing your unfounded opinion. How about supporting facts next time?
The food bill has funneled FOUR BILLION dollars of taxpayer money the last decade into just the hands of some rich guys growing cotton, solely because they donate money (i.e. they buy) politicians. Web Link
FOUR BILLION taxpayer dollars for corporate welfare to rich guys vs four bucks a day for a hungry American? Who's drinking the koolaid now, Virgil? Easy to do that in San Carlos. That's where your copy and pasted letter from the Mercury says you hail from.
I will respect the tea party when they stop republicans from giving our tax dollars away in corporate welfare scams. Until then, just a fringe, albeit noisy, bunch of useless loons. Even if they get a letter published in the Merc. Web Link
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on Jul 15, 2013 at 10:04 am
Republicans love them some corporate welfare, especially when it goes to groups that fund their campaigns.
Food aid for the hungry poor? Nope, though the Republicans are the first to inject race into the debate. Yesterday:
- CHRIS WALLACE: "Don't House Republicans run the risk of once again being seen as being insensitive to the needs of the poor?"
- REP. STEVE KING: "Well, I think that that was characterized by the Congressional Black Caucus and the Hispanic Caucus on Thursday in the wrong fashion...."
Yet in that hypocrite Steve King's own district, 85 percent of food stamp recipients were non-Hispanic whites.
We all know that Johnson's War on Poverty was aimed at the millions of white poor in Appalachia, for example, and it worked, lifting more whites out of poverty than ever before. Yet it was Reagan's race war and his mythical welfare cheat with a supposed Cadillac (a location and company named after a Native American tribe, of course) that is all most whites remember about the War on Poverty.
Now, Republicans want to take food aid away from a single mom, trying to work her way up from her two part time jobs at Walmart and mickey d.
Yet Republicans hide behind the false mask of being Christian. No wonder they never get elected around here.
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on Jul 15, 2013 at 11:11 am
When some of us criticize Democrats for their unabashed support of failing social welfare programs, please do not think that means we support the Republicans unabashed support of corporate welfare. Nothing could be further from the truth.
It would appear that an increasing number of voters are finding it increasingly difficult to identify with either of the two major political parties.
As I've said many times before, a pox on both of their houses.
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on Jul 15, 2013 at 11:40 am
False equivalence: taking money from programs helping the poor and hungry, and giving it away as corporate welfare to the rich who have bought the politicians. There is a difference, even if blinder wearing tea bag partiers refuse to see it, or seek to smear both with the same brush.
'failing social welfare programs' yet the discussion is about SNAP: the most effective anti-poverty program in history.
- SNAP and other nutrition programs have helped make severe hunger in America rare. Before the late 1960s, when the federal government began providing nutrition assistance, hunger and severe malnutrition could be found in many low-income communities in the United States. Today, in large part because of these programs, such severe conditions are no longer found in large numbers Web Link
'It would appear that an increasing number of voters are finding it increasingly difficult to identify with either of the two major political parties.' Nope. Just the narrow circle you talk to - proof below
- 2012 Obama 66 million, Romney 61 million, all others < 2 million. all the greens and libertarians = well less than two percent
compare to
- 1992 Ross Perot got 19%, Nineteen Percent!
- 1996 Ross Perot got over 8% Eight Percent
- even John Anderson, 1980, got three times the vote share of The Others of 2012
- George Wallace got 13 percent in 1968
Third parties make more noise these days of 500 channels, but have less impact. They will continue to lessen unless we stop the wealthy from buying politicians and the resulting corporate welfare that returns their contributions at a healthy profit. Please don't bother us with voter reg info of people registering as independents. That's noise, they still vote for their old party affiliation (<2% voted 3rd party in 2012)
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on Jul 15, 2013 at 12:28 pm
False statement. No one has suggested "taking money from programs helping the poor and hungry." But we do want to take it away from those who falsely claim disability (in shockingly increasing numbers) or hardship when there is none. As for America's "hungry," it is ironic that the biggest health issue for our poor is obesity. I'm not saying that there aren't hungry people in America, but that's the first time in world history this has happened.
And, in case you missed it, my criticism extends to corporate welfare too, such as for ADM, Goldman Sachs and even Solyndra.
I don't ignore either largess.
a resident of Woodside: other
on Jul 15, 2013 at 12:32 pm
As for party affiliation, you have to start somewhere. And it is clear that the influence of independents is increasing. That will hopefully reverse the polarization in the two major parties who increasingly seem to represent their fringe elements.
Recall that a very small group of voters - the Tea Party - has almost single handedly stymied Congress by electing just 80 Representatives. No, I don't support them, but as Europe knows too well, you don't have to win a majority, you just have to deny a majority to others.
a resident of another community
on Jul 15, 2013 at 7:54 pm
POGO sez: "As for America's "hungry," it is ironic that the biggest health issue for our poor is obesity."
How insightful.
It reminds me that the America's biggest problem it's the widening gap between those who are hungry and POGOs
Be prepared to be visited by three ghosts.
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Jul 15, 2013 at 7:56 pm
Nice deflection Joe. Care to actually address the issue?
a resident of Woodside: other
on Jul 15, 2013 at 9:08 pm
Actually, not even very good deflection.
But even so, here's a citation from the American Journal of Nutrition: Web Link This journal is THE peer-reviewed publication for these healthcare providers.
a resident of another community
on Jul 15, 2013 at 11:14 pm
Pogo answers his/her own question about the rates of obesity amongst the poor, "..such that energy-dense foods composed of refined grains, added sugars, or fats may represent the lowest-cost option to the consumer". The cheapest food is the worst crap you can eat. Yes, Pogo, it is a 'first in hisory', due mostly to agribusiness being subsidized to pump corn and soy out cheap, and adding salt sugar and fat (coincidentally, the title of the next book in the pile to read.)
As for your "no one has suggested "taking money from programs helping the poor and hungry" - isn't that why the Republicans took SNAP out of the farm bill? As the aforementioned tea bagger Steve King said - he wants to kill it.
"As for party affiliation, you have to start somewhere." Somewhere would have been with the numbers generated by Wallace, Perot or even Anderson, not the feeble <2% figure posted in 2012. The tea bag party is just the extreme edge of the GOP, not even close to an actual 3rd party. They can't even stop the corporate welfare put in place by the corporate wing of the GOP. Have you seen that filibustered or obstructed? See Steve King hollering about that today amongst his tea bagging brethren?
Me, neither.
a resident of Menlo Park: Belle Haven
on Jul 16, 2013 at 1:03 pm
Joe - nailed it - not a deflection at all, nailed it. Easy for the greedy to want to drop help for the poor. Tea party is the greediest of all - "git yer guvmint hands off my Medicare" Web Link
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a resident of Atherton: other
on Jul 17, 2013 at 1:39 pm
The problem is that the Marshal plan set the precedent of misusing US taxpayer dollars, first in Euro than all over the world using various covers of both covert and overt methods.
Just follow the money and we see WHO benefits: military tech corporations and their industrial vertical stack, or horizonal, depending upon where you take the first peek.
Nothing new under the sun, but sure would be nice to have voters that knew not only WHAT was going on, but HOW to vote for the right people to rule over us!!!!!!


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Security dealers/integrators from across North America entered the 15th Annual SAMMY Awards to match their sales, marketing and installation prowess against industry peers. Who won and why, plus what can you learn from their successes is explained within.
Rodney Bosch, Scott Goldfine and Ashley Willis May 31, 2010
Maybe even before high quality, dependable service, a business' marketing strategy is the single biggest factor to determine the success or failure of most any company. No matter if you are boutique mom-'n'-pop security installer or an integration powerhouse, how you are perceived in the marketplace will likely determine the well-being of your company.
Not to be confused with simple advertising, an effective marketing plan is necessary to create a demand for your products and services. Think of your marketing strategy as an investment in future sales. Prospective clients need to be made aware of your company and what it offers. Marketing provides the means in which you expand your customer base.
It is in that spirit that each year SSI hosts the SAMMY (Sales & Marketing) Awards. Not simply to honor excellence in sales, marketing and installation endeavors, but ultimately to provide a platform to share best practices among your industry brethren. From yard signs to vehicle graphic designs, promotional giveaways to winning newsletters, there are numerous tools to reach and persuasively promote your company — without breaking the bank.
If you are in search of ideas to develop or improve your marketing collateral, be sure to check out the following brief profiles highlighting winners of the 10 marketing categories from this year's 15th annual affair held in March.
We hope you'll be motivated to incorporate some of these concepts into your own campaigns and enter the program next year to take a run at SAMMY success! SSI would like to thank program sponsors Altronix, Honeywell Security, ADI, Fire-Lite, TRI-ED, PSA Security Network, Visonic, Electronic Security Association (ESA), Campus Safety Magazine and ISC for helping make the 2010 SAMMY Awards possible.
Stanley Convergent Security Solutions
Best Overall Integrated Marketing Campaign
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While cynics might look at a company the size of Stanley Convergent Security Solutions (CSS) and say, "Of course they have great marketing materials, they have the money to do whatever they want," upon closer scrutiny the principles, creativity and drive the 2,000-people-strong company exemplifies would likely lead to success regardless of budget. The company's marketing philosophy is an extension of its Customer Excellence program of account management, installation, service, monitoring and billing touch points.
"When creating materials such as brochures and collateral, we convey our focus on 'customer excellence' by looking at them as not only tools for the sales associates, but tools for the customer as well," says Director of Marketing Beth Tarnoff.
"To help customers select the security solution that is best for them, we use diagrams to explain system types, make easy bullet lists of advantages to compare one offering against another and highlight key features to the customer throughout."
SAMMY judges were captivated by Stanley CSS' yellow, black and white, sports-themed materials that range from basic sales brochures to flamboyant trade show booths. The entry scored especially well in the areas of overall central marketing theme, appearance and use of color, and company representation effectiveness. As a result, the company proudly captured its third Best Overall Integrated Marketing Campaign award in the past four years.
"We enter the SAMMY's because we believe it is a great asset to the security industry to provide recognition to the sales and marketing efforts of security companies," says Stanley CSS North America President and COO Tony Byerly. "We put a lot of effort throughout the year into our marketing program, various sales/marketing initiatives and community outreach. It is an honor to be recognized for all our hard work, creativity and overall efforts. It also provides us a constant challenge not only to be better than the competition, but also to continually create new, unique marketing approaches."
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Earlier this week Riverland Today brought news of the Lyrup Community's hopes to turn a former school into a caravan park or backpackers. The Lyrup school was closed on the 14th of December last year. We heard from the Renmark Paringa Council about it's support. This morning I spoke to president of the Lyrup Community Club and community member Jason Johns.
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3 Choice Voting Option[ Edited ]
Can ND please introduce a 3 choice option in the voting?
This will give us a wider variety of map choices and will even out the map weights that are currently problematic with the amount maps that are in the game (DLC included)
Or is this too technically impossible for advanced game creators like you ND?
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Re: 3 Choice Voting Option
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Great idea! I've been wanting this and 6 players per side to be implemented since day 1
as in 12 players altogether? Good idea but if you were to do that you'd need much bigger maps as it would be quite cluttered
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LU is the best i get it like once a day
Just once? Lucky you. I get it 4 times every few matches. Also, airport. Not together all the time. Sometimes it's with another map I haven't played on for a long time (eg highrise) and people just pick it.
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Cindy those wall hangings are lovely!
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
Cindy--I like those wall hangings...good job!
Three finishes for April-May. I think I counted them as March too... LOL
My daughter's family went to Disney World last spring. 2012. Each of her three children had a clipboard with fabric squares which they used to collect the character signatures. She whipped them into quilts as soon as she got home then left them with me. Long story, short... the lady who was suppose to quilt them fell through so I stepped up. I had this great idea of putting Mickey Mouse ears all over them.
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Second pic, second finish. 92"x78". Pink Disney, yes for Princess GD. Echo Mickeys over siggis and flowers and hearts for filler.
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I LOVE them all. I feel bad I got better as I went, and more creative. Truly, I am a beginner at free motion. The first quilt was JUST Mickey ears. Then I got more bold and creative as I went on. The castle border I printed as clip art, pinned the picture in it's spot, and sewed over the outline, then spent today removing paper 40 castles total, I think.
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Sheri: What a great job on all three, good memories captured. So you don't have enough UFOs of your own so you have to have other people start them for you? LOL
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Oh Sheri They are wonderful!!!
My initials are BB, so dublb is double B.
Sheri--I think all three will be much appreciated! Great job.
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#11 Thu 04 Oct 12 8:57am
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Congratulations, Cindy! And how lovely to see you back on the Forums - you've been missed
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wooohooo Sadie -Hoshi / Cindy so good to 'see' you again
And getting Married .. so exciting
Have you tried those once a day non- drowsey hayfever tablets , I have found then to be ok.
Sounds like you have had your hands pretty full these days and are pretty busy.
Loking forward to finding more out about the wedding .
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Well, the wedding is over and done with and all the rellys have gone home.
We had a great day and few days with family. It was sad to see them go. Now it is time to reorganise the house and go back to work.
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Glad you had a great day!
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Congratulations Cindy! I was born in Adelaide but haven't been back for years! Good luck with everything.
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#17 Mon 05 Nov 12 11:53am
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Congratulations Cindy, I hope you are in honeymoon land even while facing housework and paidwork! Sending lots of best wishes!
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Congratulations from me too on your recent wedding, Cindy!!!...welcome back to J.O. Land & for letting us ALL know your such happy news!!!
Oh! P.S. ...I'm wondering whether any of your Kiwi relatives 'flew' over for your BIG DAY?! ...take care & best wishes again to you both!!!
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In June, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) organized a debate on this year's focus of the World Water Development Report - Water and Energy- in collaboration with UN-Water. Looking at the issues from multiple angles enabled participants to understand interlinkages, policy, regional and social impacts and how it all relates to sustainable development.
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I caught up with Chevron's vice president for global exploration this week to ask him what impact the BP well disaster and the drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico would have on his company's plans for future deepwater development. "There is an easy answer," the Chevron vice president, Bobby Ryan, said without hesitation. "They have not changed."
Chevron, the second-largest American oil company after Exxon Mobil, is one of the largest deepwater explorers in the Gulf of Mexico, and also has major deepwater projects in Europe, Asia and West Africa. The six-month drilling moratorium instituted by the Obama administration following the April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon has suspended work on five Chevron deepwater wells. "Our plans are, the day that the moratorium is lifted, to go right back to the prospects we were drilling at the time work was suspended, as well as the other prospects that are in our queue," he said. Mr. Ryan conceded that he and other Chevron executives do not know what new regulations will be imposed by the administration and Congress in the aftermath of the BP disaster. "We'd like to believe we will be back on track soon," he said.
A six-month delay, assuming that the moratorium is not prolonged, must be put in perspective, he said. "It's a long-term business," he noted. The operations involved in completing a deepwater well project can take 15 years between initial evaluation, drilling and initial production. "It's a fair assumption people could make that costs will go up because permits will take longer," he acknowledged. But work on next year's business plan is continuing normally. "I can tell you with confidence that basically nothing has changed," he added. "We're committed to deepwater."