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Expert Panel to Review High School Dropout, Graduation Rates
Seeing Behind the Averages
Close-Up: No Child Left BehindScientifically Based Research
Remedial Ed in Higher Ed
On the Horizon
New Web Site! Students Urged to Protect Their Identity
Expert Panel to Review High School Dropout, Graduation Rates
U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige last month announced a contract to the National Institute of Statistical Sciences to convene a group of experts to review methods for reporting high school dropouts and on-time graduates. The work will be supported by the National Center for Education Statistics, the research arm of the Department. An interim report is expected from the panel this spring.
One issue challenging the quality and usability of statistics on high school dropouts and completions is the comparison of disparate populations, for example, the comparison of diplomas awarded to 12th-graders and the high school credentials of the larger 18-24 year-old cohort. The number of diplomas awarded represents only about two-thirds of the ninth-graders who entered public schools four years earlier, yet approximately 85 percent of the 18- to 24-year-old population has a high school credential. Another issue is that there may be substantial differences among states in the definition used to determine whether a child has dropped out, is chronically truant or has moved to another state.
Provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act require that public high schools and school districts be held accountable for graduating students on time. Schools and districts are required to report graduation data disaggregated by subgroup. Currently, data collection and reporting systems are not in place in most states to track students directly through their grade-to-grade progression or their movement in and out of schools. In some states, different calculations have been developed that rely on data not designed for this purpose.
For a list of group members, visit www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2003/12/12192003.html.
Seeing Behind the Averages
By Dennis Young, Sterling, Va.
Significant changes have marked my 25 years as principal of Meadowland Elementary in Sterling, Va. Our instructional strength was once our studentsstudents who came to school well prepared and had supportive parents. For example, during our first year in 1979, 15 of the 22 students in one class scored 88 percent or higher on standardized exams; only one student scored below 50 percent. At first predominately white, our school in recent years has become 40-percent ethnic minority. Average test scores remain high, but the accountability requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 have compelled us to look for additional ways to help all of our studentsparticularly those whose scores have been eclipsed by higher averages.
During recent years, we have achieved success in creating a community of learners where all students are engaged. We do not believe that building a child's self-esteem will result in higher achievement. We believe that achievement will result in higher self-esteem. Therefore, we have created a variety of programs allowing our students in grades K-5 to enjoy success.
We create the expectation that all students will participate and earn rewards in these programs. As children earn incentiveswhich vary from souvenirs to an invitation to a special eventand are engaged in these programs, they develop ownership of their success. This success, coupled with the understanding that effort is needed to be successful, is hopefully transferred to their daily efforts in the classroom. Student helpers, parents, certified staff and middle and high school volunteers help carry out these programs. It is not expected that every child will participate in every program. But we have so many programs that a climate has developed, where participation and success are expected. A guiding strategy as we design these programs was best voiced by philosopher and economist John Stewart Mill, who said "The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, will never do what he can do."
One of our programs is Poetry Masters. It has various rewards and goals for the students to reach by memorizing poems. There is a poem-of-the-month and, if the child takes the initiative, additional poems to memorize to reach higher goals in the program.
Another program that reflects how we have made adjustments to encourage all students to participate is Running with Math. Students who participate in this program are given a weekly worksheet with math problems in addition to their regular homework. Originally, the incentives were based on the number of problems the child got correct. Only strong math students usually participated. Since we feel students don't discuss math enough, we changed the format of the program so that a child will get credit for doing the worksheet if a parent or someone at home discusses how he or she would solve the problem with which the child had difficulty. Currently, more than 50 percent of the students earn the various incentives associated with this program. For a few of the students who have the interest but not the support at home, we provide adult and student helpers to keep them involved.
These programs have helped our students to develop a "can do" attitude that has enabled them to be successful on recent state assessments. On the 2002-03 exam, 97 percent of our students passed in math with more than 50 percent of the students earning advanced scores. In reading, 93 percent of the students passed.
This year, our school started a diversity awareness committee that helps us to monitor school activities for their inclusion of all students. The committee attempts to bring to our attention problems in this area that might otherwise go unnoticed. For example, it shares with teachers how many students from each population subgroup are participating in Running with Math. It gives us information as to whether the books displayed in the library and classroom represent a range of people and cultures. This will help our teachers see behind the averages to ensure that all students have an equal opportunity not only to learn but also to gain a sense of achievement through our school.
Dennis Young has been principal of Meadowland Elementary School in Sterling, Va., since the school opened in 1979. He has been an educator in Loudoun County Public Schools (Va.) for 37 years. Young is a recipient of the 1991 Washington Post Outstanding Principal Award.
Close-Up: No Child Left BehindScientifically Based Research
|"No Child Left Behind promises a more just, equitable societyone in which all our nation's students will be given the attention they deserve, regardless of their skin color, accent or zip code."
U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige, in a statement celebrating the two-year anniversary of the No Child Left Behind Act, Jan. 8, 2004.
The federal K-12 grant programs under the No Child Left Behind Act require state and local education officials to use scientifically based research to guide their decisions about which programs and strategies to implement. However, they must sort through a myriad of claims to decide which interventions merit consideration for their schools and classrooms.
To assist educators in finding and using strategies that have been validated in rigorous studies, the Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES) recently released the user-friendly guide Identifying and Implementing Educational Practices Supported by Rigorous Evidence. The 19-page publication offers evaluation factors to help determine the effectiveness of an educational interventionsuch as a reading or mathematics curriculum, schoolwide reform programs, after-school programs and new educational technologiesthat claim to be able to improve educational outcomes and be supported by evidence.
This guide supports the Department's goal of transforming education into an evidence-based field. It was developed for IES by the Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, sponsored by the Council for Excellence in Government, with the mission to advance government policy based on rigorous evidence of program effectiveness.
An online copy is available at www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ies/news.html#guide.
Remedial Ed in Higher Ed
Forty-two percent of entering freshmen at public two-year colleges and about one out of five (20 percent) entering freshmen at four-year public institutions enrolled in at least one remedial course in fall 2000, according to Remedial Education at Degree-Granting Postsecondary Institutions in Fall 2000, a new report by the Department's National Center for Education Statistics.
Virtually all (98 percent) of public two-year colleges and 80 percent of public four-year institutions offered at least one remedial reading, writing or mathematics course in fall 2000. The report also found that the proportion of students who spent an average of one year in remediation increased from 28 to 35 percent from 1995 to 2000 while the number who spent less than one year in remediation dropped from 67 to 60 percent.
"My hope is that through No Child Left Behind, we can strengthen our nation's primary and secondary education so that all students enter the postsecondary world as prepared as possible," said Secretary Paige.
The study can be downloaded at: http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2004010.
On the Horizon
|Did You Know?
Evidence-based interventions can spark major improvements in education. For example, studies suggest that one-on-one tutoring by qualified tutors for at-risk readers in grades 1-3 results in the average tutored student reading more proficiently than approximately 75 percent of the untutored students in the control group.
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Identifying and Implementing Educational Practices Supported by Rigorous Evidence: A User-Friendly Guide, 2003.
February 17
8:00-9:00 p.m. E.T. Education News Parents Can Use monthly broadcast will focus on charter schools and school choice. Visit www.ed.gov/news/av/video/edtv/03-04-schedule.html or call 1-800-USA-LEARN for details.
March 15-20
Excellence in Science, Technology and Math Education (ESTME) Week. Among the week's activities, the U.S. Department of Education will partner with the National Science Foundation for a science summit on March 16 in Washington, D.C. Visit www.ESTME.org.
New Web Site! Students Urged to Protect Their Identity
The U.S. Department of Education is taking several action steps to help combat the growing problem of identity theft, which can threaten thousands of college students. One of the fastest growing crimes, identity theft affected nearly 10 million people and cost victims more than $5 billion last year.
"Victims of identity theft can spend months or even years clearing the damage caused to their reputations and credit records," said Secretary of Education Rod Paige. "During the time it takes them to resolve these issues, they can possibly miss out on job opportunities and be refused student loans, a mortgage or car loans. We want to help students prevent those headaches."
The Department has launched a new Web resourcewww.ed.gov/misusedthat includes tips for students and families for protecting their identity, such as their Social Security numbers and driver's license information, along with advice on how they can detect identity theft. Credit card offers, dormitory burglaries, inexperience in financial management and even the way many professors post grades make students extremely exposed to identity theft.
For example, a recent national survey found that 48 percent of respondents stated that they keep personal financial information in their dormitory room, and 31 percent said their room or a room in their building had been burglarized, risking both their personal information and belongings to theft.
The Department also has a hotline1-800-MISUSEDfor anyone who suspects student loan fraud. And soon the student loan billing statements will include tips for protecting against identity theft.
The Achiever is published semi-monthly during the school year for parents and community leaders by the Office of Intergovernmental and Interagency Affairs, U.S. Department of Education (ED). Rod Paige, Secretary.
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NORAD is tracking Santa!
Volunteers answer thousands of calls from curious kids
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - It's the busiest travel day of the year, for Santa of course!
As usual, NORAD keeps track of Santa's flight. At their headquarters in Colorado Springs, volunteers updated kids on his progress through thousands of phone calls, emails and on twitter. NORAD also kept their website up-to-date with Santa's progress.
They estimate receiving about 3,700 phone calls per hour. A volunteer staff of 1,250 answered phones on two-hour shifts for 24 hours.
For the third year in a row, First Lady Michelle Obama answered phone calls from kids.
"This is such a wonderful holiday tradition, and I'm always so thrilled to be a part of it. I love hearing the excitement and anticipation in the children's voices as they learn Santa's location ... that's what brings the magic of this night to life for all of us," said Mrs. Obama.
From NORAD:
"The tradition began in 1955 after a Colorado Springs-based Sears Roebuck & Co. advertisement misprinted the telephone number for children to call Santa. Instead of reaching Santa, the phone number put kids through to the CONAD Commander-in-Chief's operations "hotline." The Director of Operations at the time, Colonel Harry Shoup, had his staff check the radar for indications of Santa making his way south from the North Pole. Children who called were given updates on his location, and a tradition was born."
In 1958, the governments of Canada and the United States created a bi-national air defense command for North America called the North American Aerospace Defense Command, also known as NORAD, which then took on the tradition of tracking Santa.
NORAD uses four high-tech systems to track Santa – radar, satellites, Santa Cams and fighter jets.

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#1 Sat 31 Mar 07 6:55pm
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Slow Cooking
Hi, Has anyone ever tried to roast beef in a slow cooker, just bought one and dying to try it out. I have a 4lb joint of topside I'd like to try but have,nt a clue where to start. Any help appreciated
#2 Sat 31 Mar 07 6:59pm
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#3 Sat 31 Mar 07 7:03pm
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Re: Slow Cooking
Beef Roast with Root Vegetables
from food network.
Show: Quick Fix Meals with Robin Miller
Episode: Beef it Up
Recipe Summary
Difficulty: Easy
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 12 hours
Yield: 4 servings (with leftovers for 2 additional meals)
1/2 cup chopped onion
2 large sweet potatoes, cut into 2-inch pieces
2 parsnips, peeled and chopped
1 celery root (celeriac), peeled and chopped
1 (5-pound) boneless beef roast, trimmed of fat
Salt and ground black pepper
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 (14-ounce) can diced tomatoes
1/3 cup maple syrup
2 teaspoons chili powder
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon onion powder
Arrange onion, sweet potatoes, parsnips and celery root in bottom of slow cooker. Season beef all over with salt and black pepper. Rub flour all over beef. Place roast on top of vegetables in slow cooker.
Whisk together tomatoes, maple syrup, chili powder, cumin, garlic powder, and onion powder. Pour mixture over beef.
Cover and cook on LOW for 12 hours or on HIGH for 8 hours.
Remove beef from slow cooker and shred with 2 forks. Serve 1/3 of shredded beef with this meal (and all of the vegetables) and refrigerate remaining beef for another use.
Pot Roast Recipe courtesy Paula Deen
Show: Paula's Home Cooking
Episode: Fire House Pot Luck Dinner
Recipe Summary
Difficulty: Easy
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 8 hours
Yield: 6 servings
1 (3-pound) boneless chuck roast
1 1/2 teaspoons House seasoning, recipe follows
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 onion, thinly sliced
3 bay leaves
3 or 4 beef bouillon cubes, crushed
2 garlic cloves, crushed
1 (10 3/4-ounce) can condensed cream of mushroom soup
1/2 cup Chardonnay
Sprinkle roast on all sides with house seasoning. Using a skillet over high heat, sear roast until brown in oil. Place roast in a slow cooker, and layer onions, bay leaves, crushed bouillon cubes, garlic, and cream of mushroom soup. Add the Chardonnay and cover with enough water to cover all of the ingredients. Cook on the low setting for 8 hours.
House Seasoning:
1 cup salt
1/4 cup black pepper
1/4 cup garlic powder
Mix ingredients together and store in an airtight container for up to 6 months
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Re: Slow Cooking
Slow Cooker Pot Roast
4 pounds chuck roast
salt and pepper to taste
1 packet dry onion soup mix
1 cup water
3 carrots, chopped
1 onion, chopped
3 potatoes, peeled and cubed
1 stalk celery, chopped
Take the chuck roast and season with salt and pepper to taste. Brown on all sides in a large skillet over high heat.
Place in the slow cooker and add the soup mix, water, carrots, onion, potatoes and celery.
Cover and cook on low setting for 8 to 10 hours.
Crockpot Savory Pot Roast
3 lb. boneless beef chuck roast
1 Tbsp. olive oil
8 small potatoes, cut in half
3 cups baby carrots
1 onion, chopped
3 cloves garlic, minced
5 oz. jar prepared horseradish
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
1 cup water
Heat oil in a large skillet and brown the roast about 10 minutes, turning occasionally, until browned. Place vegetables in the crockpot. Place beef on top of vegetables. Mix together horseradish, salt and pepper in a small bowl and spread over the beef.
Pour water over all. Cover slow cooker and cook on low heat for 8-10 hours until everything is tender
Crockpot Garlic Beef
5 to 6 lbs beef chuck roast, cut into small chunks
1/4 cup mustard
1 cup water
8 -10 garlic cloves, sliced
Combine all ingredients in your slow cooker. Cover and cook for 6 to 8 hours
Variation: add 1 cup of BBQ sauce or 1 cup of soy sauce .
#5 Fri 06 Apr 07 5:40pm
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Re: Slow Cooking
In the end I simply trimmed off any bits of fat, browned the meat off to seal in the flavour and put it in the slow cooker on top of an inverted saucer (so it wasnt sitting in any fat or juices) I cooked it overnight on the slow setting for about 14 hrs in total.
The beef I have to say was so moist and tender it was delicious - but the gravy, made from the juices was, I have to say the very best I have ever tasted. Give it a try and let me know what you think.
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UTSA's Rivera Center offers study workshops
By Shelley Kilpatrick
Student Writer, College of Liberal and Fine Arts
(Sept. 17, 2007)--The UTSA Tomás Rivera Center for Student Success will host Study Smart, a series of workshops to help students learn new ways to study.
The free sessions are 2-2:45 p.m. on five Tuesdays this semester in Durango Building Room 2.114 at the Downtown Campus.
Today's headlines
- La Prensa Foundation is newest member of UTSA Lone Star Society
- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
- UTSA begins new way-finding sign installation this summer at Main Campus
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Irishrose, your quilts are all so cheery.
Sharon, It's nice that your group works on quilts for the soldiers and their families.
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The Game's bringing it back to his roots with the edgy new single "Bigger Than Me" – the first preview to his upcoming album, Blood Money La Familia, due in September. The second verse takes aim at the 2014 XXL Freshmen, in general, as Game calls 'em soft and that there's no 3 Stacks in their class. Game continues addressing up and coming rappers ("emoji-ass rappers") on the third verse and boasts himself and some peers in the process (even 50) calling himself the "black Marshall Mathers". He may even cross the line by telling Frank Ocean he can, well… it feels bad to even type. At this point, you gotta hear Game's latest below (that also has his usual nice name-drops, most notably the Hulk Hogan/Sting line and a nod to Complex).


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I got my wife a Glock 26. She likes it but she is tiny and it is hard for her to conceal that on her body. I love revolvers. I usually carry a S&W 642 Airweight along with my Glock 19. Yuppers. 2 gunz. But I wouldn't recommend a snubbie for any new shooter not just women. They are hard to shoot accurately as it is even with experienced shooters if they have never handled them. although easy an reliable there are other options out there that have a higher capacity and just as easy to handle. One thing I didn't think of when I got my wife her 26 is her comfort of carrying one in the chamber without a safety so it looks like a trip to the funstore is in my near future. Same with the revolvers with her though. She doesnt like the idea of carrying something without an external safety.
I have trained her though to shoot comfortably and handle the Glock though. I think it boils down to the shooter. I just give my opinion and let them make up their mind. Silly me though i can't even convince her to wear what I like to see her in much less that Glock is the way to go lol. My advice would also always involve a common ammo type. .38 Special is good, but I would usually advise 9mm, .40 cal, or good ol' .45. There is a reason Police and Military use them.


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[quote user="bandwgn86"][quote user="bansaw"][quote user="mjg407"][quote user="bansaw"]how these countries think they can survive without raising taxes is beyond me
even the U.S fighting TWO wars and when is the last time they had a tax hike, its just bizarre.
people always lol at Canada for our taxes but we came through this world mess pretty damn good. Thank god Paul Martin built up that surplus so the Conservatyives could squander it...we'd be in the same mess as everyone else
but the time for the rich paying squat is coming to an and
Yeah but half the populous doesn't pay income tax here.[/quote]its just inanity how this has been allowed to happen
and now so many unemployed/underemployed they aren't paying now either
looked at this the other day...2 things shocked me
- the Debt to GDP ratio
-on the bottom Liability per taxpayer
[/quote]scary.. i cant believe they have a clock out in the open for everyone to see? talk about piling on. everyone knows its bad right know why depress the good people that had nothing to do with it..[/quote]why depress people?
its a fact of life. I'm amazed that we can see stuff like that in this day and age, crazy whats on the web
but I didnt post to depress....or rub noses, I'm fully aware that as America goes Canada goes. Absolutely shocking what war in this age did to an economy though
just an aside...watched Jon Stewart few minutes ago and Hamad Karzi (sp?) Pres Afghanistan said if Pakistan was attacked - seemed to speaking about a US attack, said Afghanistan would fight with Pakistan.
**** them, lets get all our troops home, let them all starve and kill each other for all I care - **** them


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A remarkable report recently appeared from Richard Zare's Stanford University group that exemplifies quantum mysteries, even as it has a partially classical explanation. Diatomic molecules can be induced to fall apart by either heat or light. The Stanford group looked at a simple diatomic, ICl (the mixed partner to familiar diatomic chlorine, Cl2, and iodine, I2) and its photodissociation by a beam of linearly polarized green light. Off come Cl and I atom fragments; the Cl atom is the one they studied.
The electron in the Cl atom has two kinds of angular momentum—one is its intrinsic spin, the other the angular momentum of its orbital motion. The two kinds of Cl atoms in which (as the Cl sails away) the odd electron is rotating clockwise or counterclockwise (thus with "topspin" or "backspin" with respect to the direction of motion) can be experimentally distinguished.
The remarkable outcome of the quantum nature of the bond-breaking process is that this "handedness" (helicity) of the electronic angular momentum oscillates between backspin and topspin, depending on the wavelength (thus energy) of the dissociating light! The explanation comes only from the wavelike properties of the material molecule, more precisely from the interference of wave-like descriptions of the mixture of different electronic states accessed by the absorption of that light.
Actually, a classical model gets us part of the way to understanding what transpires. The absorption of light starts the electron cloud in the ICl molecule oscillating. Normally, such oscillations have the same symmetry as the molecule; that is, the oscillation occurs either along the bond or at right angles to the bond. In the particular case that Zare's group studies, the excitation of the electron cloud is to a mixed state in which the electron cloud oscillates both along the bond axis and at right angles to it because of quantum-interference effects. The resulting electron motion is a circulation (the helicity) whose sense of rotation depends on how the two different motions are combined. The fragments carry away in the topspin or backspin the memory of that interference.
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- The Boyfriend gave me a new nickname this week. Muffie Fuddlebottom. I have no idea what goes on in that man's head.
- Confession time. Within minutes of receiving the email about the Toms flats, I bought a pair. I know, I know. They're not exactly "budget friendly." But I think the company's One for One policy is fantastic and with the exception of a 5 dollar dress from the thrift store, I haven't bought any new shoes OR clothes in about four months. Plus, let's be honest. We all know I'm gonna wear the shizznit outta those shoes once they arrive. Can you tell I'm totally trying to justify this purchase?
- I finally got my hands on a copy of Catching Fire, the second book in the Hunger Games series. I'm only a few chapters in but oh my goodness. So good!
- This Sunday is a big day for our little family. Beside it being Super Bowl Sunday, it's also the one-year anniversary of the day we adopted Molly. Since we don't know the actual day she was born, I'm just calling February 5th her birthday!
|Molly, one week after we brought her home. She was so little!!


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especially in bone up "study," 1880s student slang, probably from "Bohn's Classical Library," a popular series in higher education published by German-born English publisher Henry George Bohn (1796-1884) as part of a broad series of "libraries" he issued from 1846, totaling 766 volumes, continued after 1864 by G. Bell & Sons.
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Meandering through a classic theory of why rivers meander
Brian Hayes
Water runs downhill—we all know that. As a rule, it follows the
path of steepest descent, seeking out the shortest and fastest route
from top to bottom. So how can we make sense of meandering rivers,
which wiggle-waggle down the valley, prolonging their journey to the
sea and greatly lengthening their course? Why doesn't the flowing
water—acting under the tug of gravity—just carve out a
shortcut across all those loops?
I first encountered the mysteries of meanders in an article by Luna
B. Leopold and Walter Langbein, published 40 years ago in
Scientific American. They gave a lucid account of how
meanders form and why they assume their characteristic sinuous
shapes. I was a student at the time, and the article made a lasting
impression. Not that I was inspired to go off and pursue a career in
potamology, but the Leopold-Langbein theory of meanders was an
eye-opener all the same. It brought home to me the curious fact that
the world is a comprehensible place: You can look at a landform,
say, and expect to understand what you see. The patterns of nature
make sense, if you know how to read them.
Luna Leopold died last February at age 90. Reading accounts of his
life and work led me back to that fondly remembered Scientific
American article from 1966, as well as another article
published a few years earlier in American Scientist. I
found them still lucid and engaging—and yet, on reflection,
not quite fully satisfying. It's not so much that the answers now
seemed less compelling, but they led to many further questions,
which I had lacked the wit to ask the first time around. Maybe
nature is indeed comprehensible, but I couldn't say that I truly
understood river meanders. So I delved deeper into the work of
Leopold and his colleagues, and I looked at how others have
approached the same problems. I even tried a few simplistic computer
experiments of my own. After all that, there's still no shortage of questions.
Old Man River
Luna Bergere Leopold had a river meandering through his childhood.
It was the Wisconsin River, which passed by an abandoned farm north
of Madison where his family spent their weekends in a converted
chicken coop. Luna's father was Aldo Leopold—forester,
outdoorsman and pioneering conservationist, a philosopher among the
lumberjacks. It was Luna Leopold who assembled and edited his
father's book of essays, A Sand County Almanac, published
posthumously in 1949.
Luna Leopold studied civil engineering, then meteorology and finally
geology. He worked more than 20 years with the U.S. Geological
Survey, including a decade as Chief Hydrologist. Then he had a
second long career at the University of California, Berkeley. I
think it safe to say that Leopold was the foremost American student
of rivers and the landscapes they create. And he did not study them
from a Washington office or a Berkeley classroom; he got his feet
wet. An obituary in the Washington Postdescribed his way of life:
Well known for his scientific fieldwork, he also made bows
and arrows, hunted and fished, rode horses, composed piano and
guitar music, danced, flew planes, painted landscapes, wrote poetry,
bound books, acted on stage, built furniture, claimed to cook
strawberry shortcake in a camp Dutch oven and told campfire stories.
He floated on a raft through the Grand Canyon to measure the depth
of the Colorado River.
Most of Leopold's work was done in collaboration with colleagues,
but for brevity in what follows I shall refer to joint work by his
name alone.
Around the Bend
Leopold brought a distinctively quantitative and mathematical style
to the study of rivers. For example, he formulated scaling laws that
describe how the cross section of a natural channel changes as a
function of the volume of water flowing through it. He even did some
computer simulations—without a computer! Using shuffled decks
of cards or tables of random numbers, he carried out probabilistic
studies of landform features such as the branching of a drainage network.
The serpentine shapes of meanders certainly invite mathematical
analysis. Although in nature the curves are highly
irregular—no two alike, perhaps—Leopold argued that they
all derive from a specific underlying form, which he called a
sine-generated curve.
Imagine you are canoeing down a meandering river with a compass in
hand, making note of your heading at regular intervals. According to
Leopold, your direction should vary sinusoidally as a function of
the distance you have traveled along the river centerline. This is
not to say that the shape of the river itself is a sine curve;
rather, the sine function specifies the heading. The governing
equation is:
Here q is the heading angle, measured with respect to the mean
down-valley direction (the path the river would follow if it did not
meander at all); s is distance along the stream centerline;
and w is the maximum angle that the path makes with the down-valley
axis. For small values of w, less than 90 degrees, the
sine-generated curve has gentle undulations, so that the river
weaves back and forth but at all times maintains a down-valley
component of motion. At w=90 degrees, the path of the stream crosses
perpendicular to the valley axis. At still larger values of w, the
lobes of the curve become horseshoe-shaped, and for part of each
meander cycle the river's course takes it back up the valley. A
little beyond w=120 degrees, adjacent lobes of the curve begin to
overlap. On graph paper the lines merely cross, but in a river this
event signals the development of a "cutoff," diverting the
flow and leaving behind a stranded oxbow lake.
The sine-generated curve looks like a plausible candidate for
describing meanders, at least within a limited parameter range. But
what made Leopold so sure it was the one right candidate?
His argument goes as follows. Take two points a and
b connected by a stretch of river of length L,
where L is greater than the straight-line distance from
a to b. Now think of all the ways of bending and
folding this segment of river into a smooth curve without changing
its length or detaching it from its end points. Among all such
paths, the sine-generated curve has three interesting properties: It
is the path of minimal bending stress, it is the path of minimal
variance in direction, and it is the path representing the most
likely random walk. I shall first discuss the two minimization
principles and return later to the random walks.
The bending stress of a river is the work or energy that has to be
expended to make its path deviate from a straight line. At each
point along the route, the bending stress is proportional to the
square of the curvature at that point. For a straight segment,
bending stress and curvature are both zero; they increase as a turn
gets sharper. Among all smooth, length-L curves from
a to b, the sine-generated curve has the smallest
squared curvature summed over the entire path.
Directional variance is a similar concept. As you follow the river
from ato b, measure at each point along the way
how much your heading deviates from the mean down-valley direction,
then compute the sum of the squares of these angles. Again, the
sine-generated curve yields the smallest possible total.
These properties of the sine-generated curve are mildly surprising.
I would have guessed that an arc of a circle—the most
symmetrical curve—would have the lowest squared curvature and
directional variance, but that is not the case. (Of course a
straight line is superior, but that solution is forbidden by the
length constraint.)
Leopold offers a simple demonstration of how the sine-generated
curve emerges as a natural solution to a problem of minimizing work
or energy. If you hold the ends of a strip of spring steel so that
it forms a horseshoe-shaped loop, the metal spontaneously adopts the
form of a sine-generated curve. I couldn't resist trying this
myself. I found that it works reliably only for single loops. If you
try to fold the spring into multiple meanders, the configuration is unstable.
The Best of All Possible Meanders
Perhaps the strongest rationale in support of Leopold's theory of
meanders is simply that meanders look more like sine-generated
curves than like other common objects from the mathematical
cupboard. But why should we expect meanders to have any
simple mathematical form?
The explanations based on bending stress and directional variance
rest on principles of global optimization. The favored path is one
that optimizes some property measured over the entire course of the
river. By choosing the path with the smallest total squared
curvature, for example, the river minimizes the energy it invests in
turning through sharp bends.
The physical sciences are full of such optimization laws. Optics,
for example, has the principle of least time, which explains the
geometry of refraction by saying that light always follows the path
that can be traversed fastest. This manner of reasoning has proved
very successful, and yet it can be tricky to apply. Why
does light take the path of shortest travel time? And how does a
photon know what angle of refraction will get it through a
window-pane most quickly?
In the case of the meandering river, it's not obvious which
variables ought to be optimized. Minimizing energy cost seems
plausible enough, but what about directional variance? Leopold
himself points out that it might make more sense to minimize the
variance in curvature, so that the work of turning the river would
be spread out as uniformly as possible. But that choice would favor
the circle over the sine-generated curve.
It's also hard to know where to stop optimizing. The curves
under discussion here are the best possible curves only if one
accepts a number of constraints or assumptions, some of which seem
rather arbitrary. For example, as the experiment with a steel spring
reveals, bending stress can be further reduced by converting a
series of little meanders into a single big one. Thus if minimal
bending stress were the only criterion governing the river's plan
form, all meanders would be as large as possible—but they
aren't. Most meanders have a characteristic scale, proportional to
the width of the river. An even more critical assumption is the
fixed length L. We could make the meander problem go away
altogether just by shortening the river.
Finally, to have much explanatory power, a global optimization
principle needs to be linked to some local mechanism that puts it
into effect. We may well calculate that a certain shape of bend
minimizes energy loss, but what are the forces at each point along
the river channel that create and maintain that shape? The river
can't think globally; it can only act locally.
River of Randomness
The random-walk model of river meandering is one example of how a
local rule—in this case aimless wandering—might give
rise to large-scale regularity. The premise is that over decades or
centuries, a river channel can drift over its floodplain, twisting
and shifting at random (although always subject to certain
constraints, such as not flowing uphill). Any configuration is
possible, but all of the most likely ones, according to Leopold,
look something like a sine-generated curve.
The mention of random walks in this context both intrigued and
confused me. Random walks have become a common notion in recent
years, and yet the kind of walk that yields the sine-generated curve
was not one I had encountered before. From Leopold's description I
was not able to grasp all the details. He referred to earlier work
by Hermann von Schelling, but the crucial document was a 1964
technical report from the General Electric Company, which I had a
hard time tracking down. Eventually I found a copy at the Smith
College library.
The process studied by von Schelling is one in which a walker takes
a step of unit length, turns through a randomly selected angle,
takes another step in the new direction, and so on. Not just any
such walk qualifies, however. To be admitted, a walk must begin by
leaving point a at a specified angle; it must end by
reaching point b; and in between it must cover a specified
distance L. Among random paths that satisfy these
constraints, von Schelling asked what the most frequent or likely
paths might look like. If the walker chooses each step's direction
from a uniform probability distribution (so that any angle is
equally likely), von Schelling got no nontrivial answer. But he did
find a solution for a walk where the turning angle at each step is
drawn at random from a normal, or Gaussian, distribution with a mean
of zero.
Von Schelling's mathematical solution takes the form of an integral
that he found difficult to evaluate. The sine-generated curve is an
approximation to the value of this integral—inexact, but quite
close within the range of parameter values of interest for river
meanders. Strictly speaking, the properties of minimal squared
curvature and minimal directional variance have been proved only for
the exact curve defined by the integral, not for the approximation.
At the level of detail needed for describing river channels,
however, the discrepancy is of no consequence.
From a computational point of view, the trouble with these
most-frequent random walks is that they're not nearly frequent
enough. The naive algorithm for generating examples of such paths
calls for launching many walkers from point a, all in the
appropriate initial direction, and then discarding all walks except
those that happen to reach point bafter exactly
Lunit-length steps. There are infinitely many walks that
satisfy these criteria, and yet the probability of ever seeing one
is zero. Life is too short to wait for such events.
In order to get some rough idea of what individual von Schelling
walks might look like, I have tried a sloppier algorithm. Instead of
insisting that a walk end precisely at point b, I accept
any walk that takes the requisite number of steps and lands within
one further step of b. Even with this relaxed criterion,
the algorithm is practical only for fairly short walks.
Superimposing a few hundred of these walks produces quite a frizzy
hairball, but taking the average of all the paths yields a smooth
arc that resembles a sine-generated curve. One peculiarity of the
average walk is its asymmetry: It leans one way or the other,
depending on the departure angle at point a. The reason is
that we have specified the direction of the initial segment but put
no constraint on the final step at b. This may have been an
oversight in the way the problem was formulated by von Schelling.
(On the other hand, for what it's worth, many river meanders exhibit
systematic asymmetry, typically crossing the valley at a sharper
angle on the upstream leg.)
A deeper perplexity awaits when we go in search of von Schelling's
"most likely" or "most frequent" random walk.
Should we look for it among the individual walk trajectories, or in
the average of all such walks? Which of these is the right model for
a river meander? Often, the terms "typical" and
"average" are nearly synonymous, and Leopold clearly
thought that the average would be representative of the population;
"the most probable path is the average path of a random
walk," he wrote. In other words, if you choose a random walk at
random, it will probably be much like the average of all random
walks. Von Schelling offered an analogy with thermodynamics, where
uncommon events (such as perfume returning to its bottle) are so
utterly improbable that we invent laws of physics to forbid them.
It's a fundamental assumption, he wrote, "that in our
environment random walks are approaching most frequent paths in an
overwhelming majority of cases." But then he added: "This
is far from being self-evident."
It's certainly not evident in the little sample of walks I
generated. Not one of the individual walks looks anything like the
average of all the walks. If we imagine a river channel wandering
over a floodplain according to this algorithm, wouldn't a snapshot
made at some arbitrary moment be likely to resemble a single random
walk, rather than the average? But it's the average of the walks
that corresponds more closely to the sine-generated curve and to the
shapes seen in real landscapes.
Admittedly, the algorithm that generated these specimens is inexact,
at best. Von Schelling's calculations call for taking a limit as the
step size goes to zero, and my simulations are nowhere near that
limit. Also, it should be noted that individual walks can be made
more like the average walk by reducing the standard deviation of the
angular distribution—by squeezing the randomness out of the
random walk. Still, as von Schelling noted, it's far from
self-evident that the typical path will ever come to resemble the
average path.
Shifting Sands
Let me return to the question with which I began this column: Why
doesn't a river just take the shortest path to the sea? From the
point of view of a drop of water moving with the current, there is
no paradox in the existence of meanders. The water follows the local
gravitational gradient, which always points downriver. But how does
that gradient get twisted into such tortuous shapes? The issue is
not how the channel guides the river but how the river carves the channel.
Simple curves, random walks and optimization principles may not be
enough to answer such questions. We may need to get into the
nitty-gritty of erosion, deposition and sediment transport. Leopold
dealt with these matters in his accounts of meanders, as others had
before him, going back a century or more. The basic idea is that
once a bend has formed, differential erosion and deposition tend to
exaggerate it. Water flows more rapidly near the outer bank, which
therefore tends to wash away. Meanwhile the slower current near the
inner bank drops its load of sediment, forming a "point
bar." The net effect is to shift the channel in a way that
widens the bend.
Computer simulations of this process have produced some very
realistic-looking meanders. The models are detailed and elaborate,
incorporating dozens of subtle effects—cross-channel currents,
graded sediment, variations in bank erodibility. The output
reproduces not only the static form of natural meanders but also
their evolution.
Is that the answer, then: What we need to understand meandering is
not abstract mathematics but a bucket of sand and silt? I would be
willing to leave it at that but for one extraordinary fact: Rivers
meander even when they carry no sediment, and even when they have no
banks! Meltwater streams atop glaciers, with no sand to deposit in
point bars, meander much like other rivers. And the Gulf Stream,
flowing unconfined in the open ocean, also meanders in a way
remarkably like that of a river carving its way through continental
alluvium. It appears there may be some principle at work that
transcends the particular dynamics of the erosion-deposition cycle.
Reviewing the state of meander studies in 1998, David Knighton of
the University of Sheffield concluded, "There is no general
agreement as to how or why streams meander." That's a bit of a
step backward from where I began—with admiration for Luna
Leopold's simple and elegant theory. But I haven't lost my
admiration, or given up on simple and elegant explanations. Although
meanders have so far wriggled out of my grasp, I still think the
universe will turn out to be a comprehensible place.
© Brian Hayes
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/num2/up-a-lazy-river/3
© 2016 Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society


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Quality Parts/Bushmaster. Back then they were the higher end too.
seems years ago i was on bushmasters mailing list and they sent me a few catalogs after i bought that m17s or XM15 back in the 90s somewhere.
the catalog i am looking at is from 1998.
some interesting prices straight from bushmaster--
bushmaster xm-15 lower stripped--$109.99
bushmaster xm15 lower assembled with a2 stock set --- SALE $209.99
lower parts kit $59.99
m4 barrel assembly $214
xm-15e2 kit $595 complete minus lower
m4, a2,complete upper $485
flat-top stripped upper rec $119
m16/ar-15 blot carrier group BCG $109.99
assembled ar-15/m16 bolt $44
firing pin $5.95
my favorite! hell why didn't i buy this??--LOL 37mm flare launcher kit $199!
40rd mag $24.99
30rd mag $29.99 civilian leo $9.99
aside from the BCG prices of today and some of the other scarce parts--the prices ain't that much higher today.
and you got to consider a 1998 dollar was worth quite a bit more than a deflated 2013 "obamma" dollar.
Quality Parts/Bushmaster. Back then they were the higher end too.
The higher prices reflected the fact that there were not as many companies in the GAME back then... it was mostly Bushmaster, Colt ,Olympic arms ,Eagle arms/Armalite, Pack West Arms, maybe a few others.. now there are a lot more competition in the market.. B2B
i wonder where vulcan was back then? --LOL--
seems like CAI was around with AKs--but i have slept since the 90s---
That's back when bushmaster was the shady "not sure if it's an ATF operation" table at the gun shows. All the LPK bits for a M16, and a template with the sear pin hole location to "make sure yours doesn't have the hole in this exact location in this exact size".
EDIT: What's with all these companies being from minnesota?


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How I Pray for My Future Husband – Mandisa
One of the most important ways I have learned to pray is with scripture. I've heard Max Lucado say that his wife prays Psalm 112 over him regularly, so I decided to do the same for my future husband. Here's an example of how I turn a few of those verses into prayers. (From The Voice translation)
(From verse 1)
I praise You, Eternal God, for how You work in the lives of Your children, including my future husband. I pray that as You teach him how to revere You, he will be blessed. Make him a man who turns from evil and takes great pleasure in Your commandments.
(From verses 4 & 7)
Holy Spirit, when life is dark and difficult, please shine a light and lead him to live rightly, cultivate mercy, compassion and a pursuit for justice in his heart. I pray that You would build his faith; that he will not be afraid when the news is bad because he has resolved to trust in You.
(From verses 8 & 10)
Create a confident and fearless heart in my future husband, Eternal God. Make him Satan's
worst enemy and give him an expectation to see the Enemy defeated! Strengthen him to resist the devil and his wicked desires. May the demons clench their teeth and dissolve to nothing as they and their evil temptations flee from his life because of the authority he wears in You, Lord!


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By: Janet Woodcock, M.D.
FDA is taking a step today that is intended to improve the communication of important drug safety information about generic drugs to both prescribers and patients.
All drug manufacturers are required to keep close tabs on their drugs once they go to market, reviewing all reports of adverse events involving their drug and reporting these findings to FDA.
But currently, only brand name manufacturers are able to independently update and promptly distribute revised drug safety information, also called labeling, and they can distribute that information before FDA has reviewed or approved the change. These updates, which are submitted in changes being effected supplements, ensure that this important safety information gets to the public as quickly as possible.
Right now generic companies, who are responsible for over 80% of the prescription drugs dispensed to patients, aren't able to revise their drug safety information as quickly as the brand name. They must provide supporting information to FDA, which then determines whether safety information for both the brand and generic drugs should be revised before updates can occur.
Today, FDA is issuing a proposed rule that would allow generic drug manufacturers to independently update and promptly distribute revised product labeling — just like brand name manufacturers – before FDA reviews or approves the change.
Empowering generic drug companies to update their own drug safety information is intended to provide them the incentive to more actively participate with FDA in ensuring the timeliness, accuracy, and completeness of this information.
The brand manufacturer would be expected to consider the information provided by the generic drug manufacturer as part of its review and evaluation of adverse drug experience information for its drug.
And to make sure that the drug safety information updates from both generic and brand name companies are readily available to health care professionals and the public, FDA plans to post these updates on its website.
Faster safety updates and easier access to this information should be a win–win for all involved.
Janet Woodcock, M.D., is director of FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research


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Last Modified: Friday, June 21, 2013 10:21 AM
Justin Hill is expected to be named as the 13th head baseball coach in McNeese State history at a news conference Friday morning at the Jack V. Doland Fieldhouse.
He replaces Terry Burrows, who resigned in May after six years at the helm.
The move was initially reported by a Monroe newspaper via Twitter, but was neither confirmed nor denied by sources at McNeese. The school only acknowledged that there will be an 11 a.m. new conference to introduce a new baseball coach.
Hill has spent the past two years as Louisiana-Monroe's pitching coach, but comes to McNeese with deep Southland ties.
Hill was Southeastern Louisiana's pitching coach and recruiting coordinator from 2008-11, and was an assistant at Sam Houston State in 2007. His one-year stint under Smoke Laval at LSU in 2006 was preceded by a two-year stay at Northwestern State, where the Demons reached the NCAA regionals in 2005.
The West Monroe native pitched at LSU for two years, and was named to the all-SEC academic team as a junior in 2001.


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The only good comic movies were both punishers. Theyre really the only ones that stuck to the comics.
I've never been a fan of those kind of cartoons (Spiderman, superman, Xmen...etc)....only cartoon I ever really like was adult oriented likeThe Simpsons.....as a child I liked stuff like Tom and Jerry or the Roadrunner lol.....Yea, my friends think I'm crazy too


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I have lurked for a while hoping to find the answer.
Here's the thing. I have stumbled onto an open wifi access point via my phone and it gave me an IP address!
The question is how to tell the corporation, which is actually a retail store, they have an open wireless network with out:-
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b. Getting someone that will not get me arrested- I visit the store a lot, hey you gotta eat right!
c. Do I advise the PCI DSS that they have an open point, maybe they could be the first on to actually be fined
I have tracked down the IT Directors email address and he is not responing to my emails - well why would he!
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Discussion in 'Pistons and NBA' started by TaS, Feb 25, 2008.
Nope. Yogi said dumb things on purpose. Plus he was a better coach... Yogi Berra - Coach And Manager
See that makes a little sense, but he seems to be saying if we make shots, we can set our defense. If we set our defense we can made shots. It's a vicious circle of Flip talk.
the problem (if you listen to him) is that that's all he talks about. Our shots dropped. Our shots didn't drop. blah blah. your defense cannot be predicated on something that averages 46%. if anything, he needs to fill airspace and doesn't want to talk about his strategies so he keeps going back to hitting shots and other circular meanderings. that's the only logical thing i can think of.
It may be true. You do not hear more insightful or intelligent sentences even from "true" coaches like pop or zenmaster during halftime interviews. At least I haven't. And there are many, many coaches who do not like to discuss lockerroom tensions publicly and therefore to press they say polite things but in lockerrom .
Human Victory Cigar Punditry and other sins of commission « 2008 Pistons vs. Philly - Series Recap ECF Game 1 Postgame Presser : Doc Rivers » ECF Game 1 Postgame Presser : Flip Saunders by TheMicrowave Coach Flip Saunders of the Detroit Pistons, after the Pistons' loss to the Boston Celtics in Game 1 of the 2008 Eastern Conference Finals. Q. Flip, could you just talk about just your general thoughts on tonight. It seemed like you guys for the most part were kind of a step behind tonight. Flip Saunders: Yeah, we just didn't seem to be in a good flow. They may have had something to do with that. They slammed my playbook shut. Just couldn't get up over the hump. Just couldn't reopen my playbook. We didn't get into our offense quick enough. My offense sets up my defense, but I couldn't get my offense set up. Defensively we were a step slow on rotations. They shot the ball well. We need to hit our shots. I told our guys as bad as we played, we had opportunities. In the third quarter I think we had six or seven turnovers, which basically blew the game open and we had trouble recovering from that. Q. Chauncey and Rip had only one field goal, only six shots in the first half. They seemed passive, not as aggressive in the first half. Flip Saunders: Like I said, we just didn't get in the flow. They were aggressive. They took away some of our pick-and-roll situations. We swung the ball. We got some pretty good looks. Didn't make some shots early. What we did do, we did attack the basket in the second quarter. Got to the free-throw line a lot. Got us back in the game. Like I said, we didn't play with great flow offensively. When we did, we moved the ball, we made some shots. We just weren't consistent enough. Q. Kevin averaged just under 20 in the regular season, but for some reason he seemed to have a lot of success, even had a big game offensively tonight. What is he doing? Coach Flip Saunders: He just got aggressive. You know, got in situations, pick-and-pop situations, knocking down the 17-footer. He played well. KG is one of those that if he gets off to a good start and hits the first two or three jumpers, he can get it rolling. I think he was extra excited to play against Rasheed, gets pumped up to play. He came out and I thought he set the tone early. Q. Did you feel like what you saw in the second half, did you sense that the rust was kind of getting shook off a little bit? Coach Flip Saunders: Yeah, I think a little bit. It wasn't a matter of rust as it was we had too many mental mistakes. We weren't in the right situations on some offensive sets. We weren't in the right situation on some defensive rotations, and when you do that, it messes up the whole team. And the whole team looks a step slow because you've got one guy out of place at times. So we've got to look at some film and make sure that we get a little sharper on that, no question. Q. Can you talk about Rajon and just how much did he disrupt things out there? Coach Flip Saunders: He did a nice job defensively picking up the floor, got into some things off the ball, knocking some things. And then he made the big shot out of the corner, made the big three, two big shots in the fourth quarter. When the shot clock was coming down, he rose up and shot that like he knew it was going in. When he's making those shots, like I said — I thought at the beginning of the year when we played them, I thought he was one of the most improved players in the league, and he's playing extremely especially in these playoffs at home. Q. That question kind of anticipated mine, but are you prepared to live with him taking those kind of particular shots? Coach Flip Saunders: No, because I think he can make those. You can't give him too many dare shots, as I'd call it. When he's made shots, they've been successful, and he's made shots at home and they've been able to win at home. 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What was the most insightful thing Flip said in that press conference? You know, something that made you realize that you're just a fan and he has a much deeper level of knowledge about how the game really works.
Uhhh . . . Well the press conference made me feel like i'm much smarter than Flip as a fan so it gives hope to all those ordinary people that they can be NBA coaches one day. edited to add; How is that KG getting aggressive when we kept leaving him open?
His jargon is so rich he just leaves out whole words. Kinda like how I type.
The announcers were saying that early in the game, and I wondered the same thing, too. If he makes the long jumpshots he's being aggressive, if he misses he's not?
He's always aggressive.
actually he has a tendancy to be what sheed does... he defers to much to his teamates and in the cleveland series he did it alot, it was something that alot of the tv media was calling him out for. So hit or miss, him taking shots is what they were referring to him as being aggressive.
At least KG will put the ball on the ground to shake you. When is the last time Sheed dribbled?
Not often, thats for sure. He did put the ball on the floor when they switched him with Tayshaun and put him weakside. He was able to pump fake the corner/wing 3pt shot and take it to the rim on more than one occasion. Why this isn't happening more has got to be pride IMO. The big dogs want to play on the strong side of the floor, only occasionally (and begrudgingly) passing it to Tayshaun and other guys who aren't fully vested in "the club".
I was surprized to see Sheed dribble game 3. Still wasn't much help. No one was hot game 3 so it didn't make a diff. where or when, who got the ball.
By the way, love the sig. It's ironically still relevant today. Its a testament of sorts to the egos on this ballclub, and how they are getting in the way of the team concept on both ends of the floor. IMO.
Com'mon game 2 every player scored 15 pts. You can't be more democratic. Aside from Bup-Bups size 8.5 all the egos are in check. Which means some one isn't pushing hard enough. - But CB is the court leader so he's allowed a little bigger head.
Watch the offensive sets when a bench player is in (besides Stuckey) and tell me where the democracy is. It can be Tay and Sheed and three bench guys and noone else touches the ball besides Tay and Sheed. Thats what I hate. ( Seriously, I hate it) I am sitting there screaming "pass the ball, you (lunkheads?)"
Actually Sheed will pass, although he's not very often in the position too since our guards/SF hog the ball, but i've seen him pass to Stuckey, even AA, and Amir. He's the most unselfish of the bunch. Tay/Rip/Chaunce see them in with the bench time as me time.
I agree. Sheed's the most unselfish of all of them, but it's still an old boys club. And I hate it.
- I remember near the start of the season and Rip was out so THEY labeled AA as the SG. I don't think he touched the ball the whole game as CB took all the shots. I was thinking "Oh boy we get to see if AA can shoot". SHHEIT
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Last night my 18 month old discovered (and got stung) a bumblebee nest, it is around a pet door in our old farm house.
I am not sure accessing it will be possible, due to the location (exterior wall, under main structural beam and no crawl space). I don't want to kill them, but leaving them there is not a option.
Ideally I will be able to access the nest and move it. If that is not practical or possible I am looking for options.
PS bumble bee stings hurt, and quite a bit more than honeybees in my opinion (I got nailed hauling him out of the line of fire)
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This is my 1st try at painting Fett armor. Please be kind
These were made using WoF's templates and trash cans (I wonder if I did a search on the keyword trash can how many hits would come up )
I know that the mythosaur symbol is too big, but its saving grace is that it is hand painted.
I also haven't painted the lines around the silver, but I'm not sure if I'm going to do it or not. This is for a stand up display for personal satisfaction and I'm not 100% bound by the phrase "movie-accurate"
Lemme' know what you think. (PS I haven't dull-cote'd yet. If I do anything else to them I will remask the silver then dull-cote after that)


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Thirteen years worth of silly memories
Luke: We'd like to say we're honored to follow up the speech of our valedictorians — Erin, Gunnar and Alexis.
Marissa: They've put so much hard work into their academics and they really deserve the title.
Luke: Well, here we are at graduation. Like us, and those of you who've been here for the past 13 years, I think we can all agree that it's been a long, long, LONG time.
Marissa: For those of us that haven't been here quite as long, I bet we can still agree it's time to close this chapter of our lives and begin a new one.
Luke: Even though this chapter has ended, we will still carry the memories we've all made together with us. Like in kindergarten when Marissa cried and puked every day because she missed her mom.
Marissa: But that wasn't THAT big of a deal considering we only had to go to school every other day, and Whitney's mom, Marcia, was there for hugs. What about when Emily Bickford had the longest hair ever?
Luke: In first grade when "Dee" and "Dee Dee" were our helpers
Marissa: In second grade when Mrs. Sopelle's "Yacker-Tracker" went off every 10 seconds in art class.
Luke: When Elise Runberg became "teacher for a day" in Mrs. Thompson's class.
Marissa: Or when Zach Northenscold's name was Colby.
Luke: In third grade when everyone got to go on the camping trip EXCEPT Mr. Chantland's class.
Marissa: Or when Jessica Kreitz's Great-Aunt Cece would give out mints to everyone at recess.
Luke: In fourth grade when Matt Pitan and Jake Nelson let their lizards be Mr. Harmala's class pets ... then their tails fell off.
Marissa: At lunch when Charlie Box shook his chocolate milk all over Maria Schommer.
Luke: Or when Marissa's mom declared Connor Chambers the worst crafter in the world when we'd make clay pens or Christmas ornaments.
Marissa: In fifth grade when we skated on the pond together before Christmas break.
Luke: When we started switching classes and everyone was afraid of "Mrs. Dunn Dunn Dunn."
Marissa: Or the time we all had to brave the dreaded "talk," which turns out wasn't about what we thought it was going to be about.
Luke: In sixth grade when we went to Ski Gull.
Marissa: Or when Samm Rathman broke her finger playing Red Rover ... then we couldn't play that anymore.
Luke: Or when we got the gym class bus driver fired because she made us pay her to talk on the ride over.
Marissa: In seventh grade when Jens pushed Austin Leibel into Mr. Lempola's computer and broke it.
Luke: When Marnie Goerges flipped over the handlebars of her bike during our first bike trip.
Marissa: Or when we had to make little blob families to demonstrate genetics in Mrs. LeSart's class.
Luke: In the eighth grade talent show when Kyle Narveson proposed to Connor Chambers and we listened to the God-like voice of Paige Reiger.
Marissa: Back when we could buy three cookies for a dollar and other delicious treats at A la Carte.
Luke: But then we finally made it to high school, where we gained about 15 classmates from Crosslake Community School.
Marissa: Suddenly, we weren't all in the same classes and began making the friends that we still have today.
Luke: When Elizabeth Ciesluk's name developed into Theb, Elizrika, Debra, Elizabath, Deathray and many more heartfelt nicknames.
Marissa: The time Ellie Heggerston walked into biology class with her skirt tucked in.
Luke: When one day our dream to have a real fire drill came true and the bathroom lit on fire and flooded the hallways.
Marissa: The day that Luke and Cheyenne Syvertson got married in Mrs. Nelson's English class.
Luke: Or when Nicole Traut and her relay team won state in track and field.
Marissa: What about that time that Kaylyn Eggena just disappeared from school for three months?
Luke: And the days that Kevin Beltz's dad would bring his snakes to school.
Marissa: When Mrs. Bialon's class left an open milk carton in her plant for a week.
Luke: Or the fact that Taylor Stiller has said "bless you" to everyone on earth who has ever sneezed.
Marissa: Nic Olmscheid and Cheyenne Wilson's infectious laughs.
Luke: When Chris Whitney shot his middle toe off.
Marissa: Or the time that Abby Palmer and Morgan Steffen went to Costa Rica and Morgan came back looking like a tomato.
Luke: During the band trip when Zoe Buehl put pretzels and goldfish in Chelsea Dowdall's hair while she slept.
Marissa: The day Allen, Aspen, Kegan and Travis buried Jesse Hanson's truck in snow.
Luke: When Charlie Roy and Cohl DeVries got a "Macklemore" haircut, or the time that Wes Mumm convinced a quarter of the grade to participate in "Junior Skip Day."
Marissa: At Savannah Stone's birthday party when Maddie, Sierra and Amy drove the golf carts away.
Luke: When Ben Sullivan gave his speech to Mrs. Nelson's English class.
Marissa: Or the fact that wherever you were in the halls, you would always be able to hear Jordan Redmond and Emily Erickson.
Luke: At Philip Huss's summer party where Jared Brockway and Kendall Johnson went extreme tubing.
Marissa: When Brady Cable, Ashley Dawson and I were advanced math buddies.
Luke: How Rosie, Kristin, Abby, Emma and Sabrina led the volleyball team in its best season ever.
Marissa: Sean, Mikey and Peter's crazy conversations in band.
Luke: Or being able to always count on Josh Schenk to show up late then fall asleep in first hour.
Marissa: We know that's not everyone, and we could go on and on about the things we've done. But let's save that for a reunion.
Luke: Even though it's been said we're a class that didn't always get along, the fact is that we've grown up together, and that's what counts.
Marissa: We've shaped each other into who we will be for the rest of our lives, starting now, and these silly memories overcome all of the struggles we've faced with each other and against each other for the last 13 years.
Luke: But today, it's all over. When we leave, we will take the good and leave the bad. We will forget about who we were as a class and begin to identify ourselves as the individuals who we have become.
Marissa: As Macklemore once said, "And we danced.
Luke: "And we cried.
Marissa: "And we laughed.
Both: and had a really, really, really good time."


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This morning I was called by a furniture store about a swarm behind their building. The swarm was on a guardrail type post between their property and the news station's property. The news station had already called somebody else but I arrived first. When the other beek arrived he let me take the swarm as he played commentary on the mic for the camera. All went well and the swarm was put in the box with only one sting to the camera man. They interviewed both of us beeks. They asked questions about why the bees do this. What should be done about it and how they can contact a beekeeper to come collect the swarm. They asked why we think it is important to save the bees rather than spray them. They said that it would likely be the main story on tonights news. I think this is going to be great for educating people on bees and helping to save them. I will post a link to the news story as soon as it runs and they post it online.
Direction to view the story: I was quite disappointed at how much they cut out of the story. They didn't even include much of the directions on what to do and how to know who to call. Once again the media lets me down.
Go to www.wthitv.com
You will see a video screen on the right hand side of the screen. Under the screen there will be small thumbnail photos that can be viewed. Scroll to the right until you get to the story "Bees attach WTHI Station"


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PS this is a one day sale or till SMG runs OOS and you got to be a club member to get that price.
6 Thermold 20 - Rd. Mags With 3 Maglocks - 1168463, 16 - 20 Rounds at Sportsman's Guide
one day only sale @ SMG six 20 rd thermelts mags for $$26.99
that works out to like $4.33 some odd change each.
this is very close to the pre-panic price -- i fact i think i bought a few of these from CDNN months before the panic for $4.59 each.
go to "retail me not" and find a $10 off discount code.
about the quality of these 20s well the three or four i got from CDNN work well enough , no jams and i have used them a bit.
i wouldn't want these to be my only mags in the sandbox but they should be ok for "range " mags.
now i have had some issues with the thermelts but they were the 30rd versions.
yea i know i said i wasn't gonna buy any more mags--LOL!
PS this is a one day sale or till SMG runs OOS and you got to be a club member to get that price.
SG2092 works for $10 off your order if you order $49 or more.
good to see mags going for the non gouge price ain't it??-- even if for just one day.
code SN413 worked for me for $10 off the $26.99 price--
now on back order till 8 may 2013--
No big loss IMO,,, I think there junk,, at least they don't work worth crap in my Bushy, I won't be getting anytime soon anyways ,, got plenty,, Good Ones!!
I bought 12 from Centerfire when things 1st got crazy for $4 or so a piece. I went to a gunshow 2 weeks later and they were selling for $20 I should have tried to sell some then. I haven't tried them all but some have worked in a RRA lower for me. I will likely only use them for range mags or if I'm desperate.
I was at a Cabella's today and they had Tapco AK mags for $12.99 A lot of our favorite places online also have them for around the same price.
mags are coming back in stock the good ones like DSG/D&H, troy ind and so on --there generally running about $15 or so.
i don't use 20 that much , i do like to have a few cheap but workable mags for range duty. my thermelts will probably never see more than 10 or 12 rounds anyway --i find t6hat several mags with various loads are better than having a bunch of loos rounds.
the only thing about these that makes them a deal is thir sor of below the normal price of $4.69 LOL!
hell i got some of these cheap bastards , they work so far. if you see the feed lips giving out just chuck up in the trash.
these fall in the disposable mag bin--LOL