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ILPA seeks applications for McClendon scholarships
By Anthony Arriaga
Project Coordinator, UTSA Institute for Law and Public Affairs
(Aug. 21, 2006)--The UTSA Institute for Law and Public Affairs is accepting applications for the McClendon Legislative Scholars Program. Created in September 2004, the program is a collaborative initiative of State Rep. Ruth Jones McClendon and UTSA.
Coordinated by the UTSA Institute for Law and Public Affairs, the program provides undergraduate and graduate students with an opportunity to serve as an intern in the Texas House of Representatives during regular legislative sessions.
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Students who are interested in public policy and a commitment to public service, as exemplified by McClendon, are encouraged to apply.
The 2007 McClendon Legislative Scholars will receive a stipend of $10,000 ($2,000 per month for five months, January through May) and will be responsible for their own housing, transportation and other expenses during their stay in Austin.
The internship requires the ability to perform and manage a number of diverse activities including writing a variety of documents, analyzing proposals, performing research and meeting with stakeholders. Good judgment, independent thinking, and a high degree of ingenuity, resourcefulness and professionalism are critical to the successful management of an intern's responsibilities.
Download the McClendon Legislative Scholars Program application. Submit an application by fax at (210) 458-2993, or deliver or mail it to UTSA Institute for Law and Public Affairs, 501 West Durango Blvd., Buena Vista Street Building Room 4.356, San Antonio, Texas 78207.
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SECOND WORLD WAR HISTORY COMES ALIVE - Wednesday, 18 September 2013
History comes to life for Year Six pupils at Padnell Junior School tomorrow Wednesday (September 18) as they undergo a Second World War-style evacuation programme, led by their teachers and the Royal Armouries' education team from Fort Nelson.
The pupils, aged 10 and 11, will learn how children were sent away from their city homes in a bid to save civilian lives from aerial bombardment during The Blitz.
To help add authenticity, the children will handle artefacts from Royal Armouries' collection, dating to the 1939-45 conflict and learn about Fort Nelson – home to the big guns – and its role in defending Portsmouth during the war.
Second World War role play experiences will be led by teachers and Royal Armouries' staff in full costume. The evacuees will:
• Participate in an air raid and evacuation to nearby St Wilfrid's Village Hall
• Dig for victory with the Women's Land Army
• Try aircraft spotting with the Auxiliary Territorial Service
• Complete drills under the watchful eye of the Home Guard
• Play wartime games
Fort education team member Nicole Heard, who also teaches at the school, said, "This is a great chance for history to come alive in an exciting and meaningful way. The aim is to make the day as realistic as possible, while also entertaining the children and allowing them to handle authentic objects."
The pupils will arrive for their school day as usual, before being "labelled and sorted" in preparation for the evacuation process to the nearby village hall. They will also read letters sent by their parents, wishing them luck and preparing them for what lies ahead.
They will round off their evacuation experience by tasting rationed food, during afternoon tea.
For full details of all Royal Armouries' events, please visit www.royalarmouries.org
To find Fort Nelson, follow the brown Tourist signs from the M27. The Fort is open seven days a week, from 10.30am to 4pm (winter hours).
Notes to editors
- Royal Armouries is the national museum of arms and armour and has sites in Leeds, HM Tower of London, Fort Nelson and Louisville, Kentucky. It is the first British national museum to open a permanent presence in another country
- Admission to the museum is free. However, there may be a small charge for some special events.
- Open all year daily, 10am-5pm. Closed 24-25 December
- Information Line: 0113 220 1999
- Website: www.royalarmouries.org
- The Royal Armouries Museum should not be confused with Royal Armouries International plc, the private sector corporate hospitality business.
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To listen or love music so much it brings you to your own death, mostly suicide. It doesnt mean you have to die for music, but to die becuase of it.
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Occupy Atlanta gives John Lewis the cold shoulder
posted at 1:30 pm on October 9, 2011 by Jazz Shaw
Apparently having solved all other problems in Georgia, a group of roughly 300 protesters decided to mimic the recent events in Manhattan and set up Occupy Atlanta. Unlike their brothers and sisters in arms up in the Big Apple, though, they didn't have to wait for weeks on end to attract the attention of the political establishment. On the very first evening, member of Congress and civil rights icon John Lewis showed up to lend his support and say a few words to the assembled crowd. So… how did that work out?
About 200 people attended the event. U.S. Congressman John Lewis even stopped by for about half an hour.
Several demonstrators held signs showing their frustration with Washington's relationship with big business. Many people voiced general frustration. One woman said she was there for changes for animals. Another attendee said he didn't think either party represented his feelings.
Congressman Lewis (D, GA) was ready to talk to the group, but they didn't give him a chance to speak.
"I was going to say, I stand with you. I support you, what you're down," said Lewis to the media.
Wait a minute, here. You're not going to even let John Lewis speak? Doesn't that make you a… a… what's the word I'm looking for, Jim Hoft?
How very racist.
That was it. Thanks.
This produced precisely the opposite effect which the organizers had been hoping for, at least with one attendee.
Michelle Williams was excited to attend the event and no longer wanted to be associated with the movement, citing how Lewis was treated.
"I am angry because this is not what democracy is all about. This is Marxist more Stalin like. Your movement, you're just riff-raff. You're an organized mob," said Williams.
The video follows, and I'm beginning to sense a recurring theme here. Interviews done by ABC with a selection of protesters once again found a group of people with, shall we say, a rather eclectic set of issues they wanted to address. I'm not sure who was being targeted by the lady who wanted to talk about the way Wall Street treats animals, but I'm sure she means well.
You can sort it out for yourselves. ROLL 212!
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Then we have DEPTH aka #6 or #7 CB's:
Trumaine McBride
Antonio Dennard
Terrence Frederick
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Then we have DEPTH aka #6 or #7 CB's:
Trumaine McBride
Antonio Dennard
Terrence Frederick
Buddy Jackson
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"Once a Giant, ALWAYS, a Giant."
You just answered your own question. T2 is coming off injury who knows how he will play. Corey is getting old, hopefully he can bounce back but who knows. Ross isn't a starter, Hosley is unproven, and so is Prince although I like what i've seen.
Oh and those other guys...cmon.
i was worried about the first group of corners you listed
but that 2nd group totally refeshed my memory and won me over!!
come on bro let's be real here....
All those guys on the bottom are unproven. Webster is old and is coming off an injury. TT is coming back from 3 ACL tears. Ross? Lol yeah okay..Hosley still has a lot of learning to do. Prince is the only one.
Mood: WOOF!
Ross doesn't need to be a starter with Webster and Prince. Giants are putting a lot of stock into Webster becoming the C-Web of old.
Hosley showed a ton of potential. This will be his second year in the defense, he should be good to go this season.
Prince is not unproven. He allowed ONE TD all season.
Those other guys would be nothing more than last CB on the depth chart. McBride was impressing in camp last season. One of them has to be good enough to be a #6 or #7
"Once a Giant, ALWAYS, a Giant."
Also, our corners get depleted almost every offseason, you should know that.
Mood: WOOF!


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In an astonishingly audacious move, Lotus intends to burst out of its Spartan quasi-racer niche. It has announced the Elite, a car to challenge the high-profile luxury GT supercars -- Ferrari California, Aston Martin DB9, AMG SL, Corvette ZR1.The Elite will be shown at the Paris salon, and is intended for production in spring 2014. Lotus is showing it this early because it obviously needs to make a whole new audience aware of the brand.Power comes from a Lotus-developed version of the Lexus IS-F's five-liter V8. It makes 550 horsepower in 'base' trim, and 620 in R trim. Lotus says the R version will hit 62mph from rest in less than 3.5 seconds.The rest at link.Lotus Elite
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Burn me at the stake, but if the CR-Z looked more like that in the rear, it would look so much better. Why the CR-Z comes to mind with this car is beyond me.Gotta be the sorta long nose and way the lines connect at the front of the driver door. It's a great looking car, though.
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I want a freakin Esprit.
=================================No, Brian, it's a foreign car, the "T" is silent. Sweet, I'm getting an Audi!
So Lotus wants to move up to the already crowded Big Boys niche market.....ok......
___________________________________________ Heaven: where the police are British, the cooks French, the mechanics German, the lovers Italian, and it is all organized and run by the Swiss. Hell: where the police are German, the cooks British, the mechanics French, the lovers Swiss, and it is all organized and run by the Italians.
Reagan Logan:So Lotus wants to move up to the already crowded Big Boys niche market.....ok......Don't act like this isn't a seriously cool car.
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already looks heavy.
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Is this the ever-so infamous Esprit replacement? Or something else? Cause i heard there is 2 concepts
It's Lotus. I doubt it will be.
=================================No, Brian, it's a foreign car, the "T" is silent. Sweet, I'm getting an Audi!
Nice ride, but that's no Lotus.
Reagan Logan:So Lotus wants to move up to the already crowded Big Boys niche market.....ok......Heel Toe:Don't act like this isn't a seriously cool car.Its a cool car, but c'mon, this isn't Lotus. Colin Chapman would be rolling in his grave if he knew they were purposely and willingly adding weight to a Lotus. The whole point of Lotus has always been "To add speed, add lightness." More quotes here.


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The lawyer for As I Lay Dying frontman Tim Lambesis is suggesting that the rocker's steroid use may have had something to do with his alleged attempt to hire a hitman to kill his estranged wife.
According to "U-T San Diego," Lambesis was in court Friday asking the judge to reduce his bail from three million dollars. The judge eventually lowered it to two million dollars, although Lambesis' lawyer, Thomas Warwick, had asked for $250,000.
The defense attorney also argued that Lambesis' "thought processes were devastatingly affected by his steroid use." Warwick explained that Lambesis started using steroids around the same time he got into body building and healthy eating.
Lambesis pleaded not guilty to solicitation for murder after he was arrested earlier this month. His As I Lay Dying bandmates, meanwhile, have cancelled their planned tour with Killswitch Engage. The trek was scheduled to start next week, but the band says it's best if they say off the road while "the current situation gets sorted."
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I am hoping to re-queen one of my 3 colonies to improve temper. I would like to take the queen out to a nuc box (as insurance) then allow them to raise a queen from a frame of aggs from my best behaved colony.
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Westpac has been named as the anchor customer of IBM's first New Zealand delivery centre, which launches today in Auckland.
The centre - at Unitec Institute of Technology's Mt Albert campus in Auckland - hopes to employ up to 400 people over the next two years, including students and graduates from the tertiary provider.
The venture is based on a centre which IBM launched in Australia in 2005 and according to IBM it will give students paid work-experience that complements their studies.
Westpac has signed a five year contract with the centre, which will provide it with "important technical and IT support" from under-graduate and post-graduate computer science students.
The Westpac deal will employ around 120 students and equates to approximately 50-full time positions, an IBM spokesperson said.
"This initiative gives students the opportunity to learn from the best in the world and create their own career path without necessarily having to leave town.
That process in turn becomes part of a broader economic success story," said Westpac's chief operating officer Jim Stabback.
Unitec's chief executive Rick Ede said the initiative was an "excellent example' of collaboration between business and tertiary education" and that it would contribute to New Zealand's economy.
Last month it was revealed that Air New Zealand plans to outsource some of its contact centre work to the delivery centre.
Under the proposal, about 70 temporary staff handling domestic and short-haul inquiries would be shifted from the airline's own operation to the venture in Mt Albert.


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Joe Ben Wheat, curator emeritus of the University of Colorado Museum and an internationally known archaeologist, died today at St. Anthony Hospital South in Denver after a short illness. He was 81.
Wheat, of Boulder, had worked at the University of Colorado Museum from 1953 until his retirement in 1986. He was a former president of the Society for American Archaeology. Wheat was an internationally known scholar and a prolific publisher of scholarly papers.
"His research was always aimed at helping us better understand past peoples of the American Southwest," said Linda Cordell, director of the University of Colorado Museum. "He was the consummate scholar."
Wheat was a pioneer in exploring the Mogollon region along the Arizona and New Mexico border, Cordell said. He made important contributions to Paleoindian arachaeology and for many years did archaeological work in the area surrounding Mesa Verde in southwest Colorado, particularly in Yellow Jacket Canyon near Cortez.
He enjoyed teaching tremendously and taught the CU-Boulder field school at Yellow Jacket for many years, Cordell said. Many of his students have gone on to professional careers in anthropology.
"He was a remarkably accessible and a genuinely kind human being," Cordell said. "He devoted his life and his career to the University of Colorado Museum and to the archaeology."
Wheat served as a curator and consultant on American Indian textile exhibits throughout the country, including displays at the Smithsonian Institution and the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Cordell said.
"His extremely wide-ranging knowledge was always something you could depend on," said Peter Robinson, professor of natural history and curator of geology at the University of Colorado Museum. "He was an accomplished ethnologist and was responsible for organizing the significant Navajo textiles collection the museum has."
Wheat also was responsible for the museum's significant collection of Southwestern jewelry.
Wheat was born on April 21, 1916 in Van Horn, Texas, and had amassed a substantial collection of Indian artifacts by age 11, many of which were displayed at his family's hardware store. He earned a bachelor's degree at the University of California at Berkeley in 1937 and a master's and doctorate from the University of Arizona in 1949 and 1953.
He received the Colorado State Archaeologists Award in 1979 and the CU-Boulder Robert L. Stearns Award in 1982. He was listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in American Men of Science.
He is survived by his wife, Barbara K. Wheat, of Boulder; two brothers, Lou Wheate (cq) of Apache Junction, Ariz., and William G. Wheat of Las Cruces, N.M.; two nieces, Cathy Kamat of Las Cruces and Jean Gregory of Oak Ridge, Tenn.; and several grand nieces and nephews.
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School year begins first week of September
The first day of middle school and high school (grades 5-12) at Pequot Lakes Schools will be Tuesday, Sept. 3, and the first day of school for elementary students (grades K through 4) will be Thursday, Sept. 5.
Following is back to school information for the 2013-14 school year.
In preparation for the school start, parents of new students entering kindergarten through grade 4 are asked to see Teresa in the Eagle View office from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. now through Aug. 16 for registration. Parents of new students entering grades 5-12 are asked to register in the appropriate office (middle level office for grades 5-8; high school office for grades 9-12). Bring the child's birth certificate, immunization records and Social Security number, along with your residence E911 address.
The high school guidance counselor will meet with new students (grades 9-12) by appointment only from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Aug. 20-21. Appointments can be made by calling the high school office at 218-568-8888.
Returning students in grades 5-12 may pick up their schedules and locker assignments from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. beginning Tuesday, Aug. 27.
Orientation/open houses
Middle level/high school: Note a new date for the middle level and high school (grades 5-12) open house: Wednesday, Sept. 11, from 4:30-8 p.m. Students and parents are invited to attend.
Tours highlighting the new additions and renovations will be given throughout the evening. Orientation meetings for students and their parents are scheduled in the auditorium as follows: grade 9 at 4:30 p.m., grade 5 at 5 p.m., grade 6 at 5:30 p.m., grade 7 at 6 p.m. and grade 8 at 6:30 p.m.
Elementary: Eagle View will not be participating in the Sept. 11 orientation/open house.
The first day of classes for Eagle View students will be Thursday, Sept. 5. There will not be classes for students at Eagle View on Tuesday, Sept. 3, and Wednesday, Sept. 4. During these two days, parent-student-teacher conferences will be held.
• Parents and students will have a 30-minute conference with the child's teacher.
• Multiple-student families will be scheduled on the same day and in a common block of time.
• Lifetouch Photographers will take school pictures and picture package orders.
• The school nurse will do vision/hearing screenings, as well as other yearly screenings related to health at school.
• Lunch accounts can be established or replenished.
Conference schedules will be sent out in August. Plan enough time to complete the conference, screenings and school pictures (approximately one hour for one child plus 30 minutes for each additional child).
Early childhood programs: An open house and meet-the-teacher for ECFE, school readiness and Learning is Fun will be Tuesday, Sept. 3, from 4-6:30 p.m. and Wednesday, Sept. 4, from 9-11:30 a.m. at the early childhood center on the east end of Eagle View.
Class times and information are also available in the community education brochure and on the school website.
The early childhood screening will be Friday, Sept. 6.
Youth sports
Fall sports registration began Aug. 5 at the Pequot Lakes Community Education office. Programs include grades 3-6 football, grades 3-6 volleyball and grades 2-6 soccer.
Registration forms are available on the Pequot Lakes School website. Click on the Community Education link, then youth sports and the sport of interest. Youth sports registration forms and fees will only be accepted at the Community Education Office now through Thursday, Aug. 15.
Registrations after Aug. 15 will be accepted only if space is available and will be assessed a late fee. Questions can be directed to youth sports at 218-568-8090 or Community Education at 218-568-9200.
With a few exceptions, athletic fees for the 2013-14 school year will remain at $100 per student per activity for grades 9-12 and $75 per student per activity for grades 6-8 with no maximum. Fees are based on the level at which the student is participating at the beginning of the season, and must be paid before the first practice.
No one will be denied the right to participate due to financial hardship.
Parking fees will remain at $30 for the school year. Parking permits are available in the high school office.
Activity passes
Family activity pass fees remain at $90. Individual activity passes are available as follows: adults, $30; students (grades K-12) and senior citizens (60+ years), $20. Activity passes are available for purchase online, in the district office during regular office hours or during the open house on Wednesday, Sept. 11.
Meal program
School lunch prices are set at $2.15 for students in grades K-4 and $2.40 for students in grades 5-12. Breakfast prices will remain at $1.55 for grades K-12.
The lunch program is on a prepay basis, and a minimum balance of $20 is recommended per student for the school start. Free/reduced lunch guidelines and applications are available in any of the school offices.
Online payments
Pequot Lakes School District has contracted with RevTrak, a national credit card payment processor, to provide the convenience of making online payments for athletic fees, activity passes, Community Education classes and food service.
Online payments may be made into food service accounts through the familiar Skyward Family Access portal, or through a web store payment. If your child's food service balance is low, it only takes a few minutes to add money using a Discover, VISA or MasterCard (credit/debit). No additional fees are charged for this service.
School supplies
Refer to the school supply list when making supply purchases for elementary and middle level students. General elementary needs are pencils, crayons, erasers, notebooks, tennis shoes for gym, water-based markers, pocket folders, backpacks and glue sticks. Most teachers prefer that students do not use trapper keepers.
A detailed list may be picked up in any of the school offices or accessed on the school website.
Students at the high school level will need pens and pencils, spiral notebooks, folders and gym clothes (T-shirts, shorts, socks and tennis shoes). Other supplies will be determined by specific class/teacher.
Kid Konnection
This school-aged child care program is enrolling students in grades K-6. Child care hours during the school year are from 7-8 a.m. before school and from 3-6 p.m. after school.
Kid Konnection is open on many of the non-school days from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., and opens at noon on three-hour early dismissal days.
Call 218-562-6109 for more information.
Students in grades 5 and 6 may ride the bus from Eagle View to the middle school in the morning, and/or may ride the bus from the Middle School building to Eagle View after school. Busing arrangements should be made by calling the transportation director at 218-568-8541.
Kid Konnection registration forms are available on the school website. Click on the Community Education tab on the left and then Kid Konnection.
Dedication of middle level/
high school additions
and renovations
A dedication ceremony, as well as tours and free admission to volleyball matches, will be held Thursday, Sept. 12. On Friday, Sept. 13, admission to the football game will be free and tours will be offered.
Watch for more information in the Echo and on the school website, pequotlakes.k12.mn.us.


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I cant for the life me print off Warre's book....my printers ancient, works is prehistoric so I'm going off what I can find online.
I decided to try the modified frames. Hoping I can inspect a little easier. The screws are something the local bee guy showed me for getting bar space...I believe the jig I made is the last pic to get the right space, or atleast close. Worked pretty slick though I'd hate to do more than a few hives at a time!!! The handles are not on yet...I ran out of screws...
I also liked the roof idea vs the standard warre roof though i wonder if that was a smart move. The original plans for this style of roof used a wire screen mesh insead of cloth for the quilt so it didnt need to be covered. I'll likely be changing this out. Any thoughts on that?
Feeders are fat beemans style. I had one on a tbh I really liked it was too short and I managed to overfill it more often than not. The part under the ramp managed to get crushed and I didnt notice it. So these are taller to a point I had to shim the pan a little to get it up where I liked it.
I need to invest in a nail gun...screws get old after awhile lol. One step at a time.
I hope I dont regret this but I decided to leave them unfinished. My tbh's had a little mold in them, not much but slightly. I'm assuming it was a moisture issue as the hive had a ton of ice inside. Hence the switch to warre's. I'm not sure I fully understand how to get it properly vented, time will tell. It seems simple enough but with few beeks overwintering getting local knowledge hasnt been easy.
My landing boards are retractable/removable. I added 2 per screen door latches. They work pretty slick. The idea is I'm thinking of putting the two hives together and foam boarding them. I'm thinking if I leave them in the warm orientation, it should be 'easy'. I found the method on this link http://mbbeekeeping.com/5-pack-winte...ref_map=%5B%5D
It leaves some questions. I'll likely go 2 or 3 boxes depending on how big the hive is. It brings me back to condensation issues (something I had a major issue with last winter!!!). This is all barring I try to overwinter outdoors again. if I can swing a shed of some kind I'll likely be bringing them indoors which makes this method moot, though I still think it's a pretty slick idea!
Any tips/advice is great, I'm all ears. Though I'm a little short on time to make changes now. I fly out for a few weeks and upon my return my packages will already be here by a couple of days.
oh I do have a question the aluminum roofs. I'm thinking if I keep this roof I'd like to add that is there any good write ups on what to use and how its done?
Nice build. Can't help with any of your questions though.
You have some very interesting modifications. I think I'll copy the half frame idea with screws for spacing. The top feeder idea seems okay. However, when I used a similar style that I bought from http://www.thewarrestore.com/apps/we...s/show/1136914, there were lots of molds growing in the feeder where the bees can't access them. So I modified it by removing the screen to give the bees access to all surfaces of the top feeder but I let a waffle shelf liner float in the syrup so the bees don't drown. It worked fine until the syrup is gone and the bees try to propilize the liner into the bottom of the feeder. Plus, a problem that I discovered this Spring with my modification is that the wood of the feeder is cracking apart maybe due to too much humidity. So I may use a similar container (maybe a square tupperware pan) in the feeder to prevent the wood from staying wet all the time.
With the quilt, I decided to do away with it cause there were molds growing in there, too. Instead, I left the top feeder to act as a condensation collector to give the bees another source of water for drinking (indoor plumbing). And I placed an entrance hole on one side of the feeder as a top entrance which I left open through the winter. Here is a link where I talked about my rationale for this. http://www.beesource.com/forums/show...t=condensation
For my roof, I changed the Warre style roof to a flat telescoping style so the side protects the top entrance. This way, there won't be any direct wind blowing into the top entrance. I think the Warre style roof would work just as well though. I might go ahead and return the original roof later on.
So far, my one bee colony is still alive in spite of all the experimentations I've done to them. But winter is still threatening to come back in our area so they may die out yet. :-( We'll see.
Thanks for sharing your ideas and pictures.
One more observation. Because you are not using a regular Warre style roof, the cloth in your quilt would likely absorb rain water when it's raining out. So your roof modification may not be a good idea. Just my thought.
Nice frames, one thing you may want to do is include a bee space on the side bars. I make full frames and run them foundationless.
I would call it a Modified Warre. Those are frames.
the feeder's worked well. I didn't use it much. I guess I should have elaborated, I did tilt he pan so the bees can get to it. I didn't feed much unlike last year, mainly enough to get things rolling and that was it. I took some woods scraps and propped the screened end up so it was almost resting on the bottom of the pan and propped the opposite side up so as they took it, it ran down to them in the screened area. Anyways, they worked well, no mold, no leaking, and no frame feeders full of dead bees.
The screws are nice (they came from a lang guy). I got put onto a better easier idea. If you're going to run some sort of frame (partial or full), I like the concept. Notched sides to take the top bars. If you're going only top bars I think it'd be a waste a time. It allows you to keep space, and also to get to the bars without having to try and shove my fat fingers between them. I can easily grab the ends and lift. IF you can remove them to begin with!
A note on the partial frames. I don't think I'd do them or if I did I'd run them full length and thinner. The idea was to inspect and so far I haven't been able to remove one once they full combed the bar. My tools too big to get to the bottom without getting into the neighboring comb. I need to build a smaller one....if I can ever get the tablesaw fixed, I'll have the time to tinker lol.
So far the quilts doing good, of course our summers are normally quite dry I thought about making an ear to go over them, simple mod and much easier to build than the traditional warre top.
I'm not following beespace on the side bars? The idea was (because the bees didn't listen I cant say IS anymore lol), that they'd attached comb to those ears/side bars. Which would help allow removal and inspection. The bees made a bee space there for themselves and attached to the side walls of the hives below the ears. Which as you can imagine would be a mess to try and bust free for an inspection.
IMHO its a downfall to this hive, not really being able to inspect things atleast once in awhile. It would be nice to see I have a laying queen or I don't, or if there's a queen at all. My season is too short to be guessing.
I'm not worried about what its called really. My goal is to keep bees you can label it as you so desire. My issues are over wintering and I'm hoping the smaller boxes might leaded to better wintering success. I may go to full frames next year, we'll see. Or swap over to medium foundationless langs, again winters going to be the tell all.
an issue I'm having is figuring out how to nader alone. I need some kind of lift I can get into the woods. The hives are 2 cinder blocks high. At this point I'm pretty much stuck for wood projects, with a messed up saw that's been giving me fits for 5 weeks now! sure wish I had the dough to upgrade!!! So for now I've supered the last box. It took them a bit to move up but they are slowly.
Dan, how is overwintering going for you with the Warre? How are they doing in general versus the KTBH?
I am going to install a package in a hive at a friends place this spring and since I won't be able to get out there and inspect as often as a KTBH seems to require I would like to try a Warre. (My impression is that this hive type requires the least amount of inspections.) The guy who owns the property likes to do woodworking so I gave him the plans with the idea that if he wants to he could build the hive.
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>My impression is that this hive type requires the least amount of inspections.
It is not the type of hive that determines how much inspections it needs. You could build an eight frame wide Langstroth foundationless hive and operate it in the same way as a Warre. It is just the Warre philosophy that says they should not be frequently inspected. And that they have no frames and therefore are all combed tight making for more damage when you do inspect them.
Thanks odfrank, that was helpful. I decided to go with what I have and see how it goes. I can give them resources that way, whereas with a Warre it would be starting anew.
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If you do the spacing screws on opposite corners then the frames can be flipped either way, which is much more convenient.
Michael Bush bushfarms.com/bees.htm "Everything works if you let it." ThePracticalBeekeeper.com 42y 40h 39yTF
Well I went in and looked a few days ago, we weren't much above freezing but I did want to see if they were at the top and needed feed. They were quite a ways down and I THINK dead...I'm not sure. I shut things up pretty quick and walked away for now. We're on the uphill swing towards spring 2 months away.
if they did die I don't believe I'll be doing bees again this year.
I thought having spacers would be nice. It was, but inspecting was non existent. I let them go too long and they cross combed pretty good. That's a great idear Michael. I'll try and remember it if I do this again.
IMHO I would do something similar with foundationless in a slightly larger box if you wanted to stay with the warre principle and not loose a pile of space due to the frames. It may or may not work. I was hoping the smaller hive would help keep things warmer for the winter. When it comes down to it, overwintering up here I really need to have them inside there really is no other way, the long cold winters are too much outside.
I really missed the windows I had in my tbh's. Though they did frost up extremely bad when it was cold out. I'm not sure there's a way around that when kept outside for the winter.
I hope you have a quiet cluster versus the alternative. I thought I had lost one of mine because when I looked in I didn't see any movement. I ordered an "insurance package" that night but the next day decided to knock on the side of the hive. Saw a little movement but not much so decided they were dwindling ...nope they are ALIVE .
Someone on the Equipment forum posted a thread on a Serbian hive called an AZ Grom (the AZ has an accent above it not available on my keyboard). They seem to keep them in beehouses or little portable trailers. One person posted one that just had three in it. I'm not saying try yet another hive type but that maybe a small shed type of shelter you can insulate and that they can fly in and out of may help. I think I saw pictures on here once of a hive in Bernhard's attic so it evidently can be done. Not sure how inspections are handled but from the videos I saw it didn't seem to be a big deal.
I really love my windows too. I've seen Warre plans that have them. The one I saw had space to put insulation in behind the window cover. I think they are a major heat sink so I put insulation between the window covers and glass on mine. It seems to help, even on the one I could only put that metallic bubble stuff with a pretty low R value on. The one cover I put the inch foam under is probably warmer than the 1 1/2" wood sides on the nuc.
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I actually have warre plans with windows but opted out due to all the moisture I saw the first year in the tbh's.
Thanks for the link. I think the main issue for overwintering for me is keeping them in a smaller range temps. Too cold, they eat too much, too warm, they get to active and eat too much. I don't think as long as last spring lingered, that overwintering success was very high. There's only a couple of people doing it and so far they've been pretty quiet about it.
if I got big enough I was thinking a toyo stove (small heater), and a HRV to help with temp control would be the way to go. I don't know what what point spending 3-5k on those two things alone would make it worth while though. Keeping bees in north pole may just not bee doable for a small time person. I think at some point packages will get too high to buy bees yearly like 99% of the people are doing though. That will be the turning point.
I was trying to save a weak colony this winter so got a terrarium heater and a thermostat. My thermostat won't go down to a low enough setting but Michael Bush mentioned using them for overwintering nucs and setting at 45°F so they must be available. Something like that hooked up to a solar cell might be affordable enough to use. (I plugged mine onto my house power but it means I had to put them right up to the screen patio. Place it between the two hives flush together and wrap them as a unit?
3rd yr - 1 KTBH & 4 KTBH nucs - TF - USDA Zn 6b
AKDan, I just posted on a year-old thread you had. I searched your name due to a reference from another thread. I have a little project going because of a late swarm 2 years ago, when I went looking for a commercial hive heater and was disappointed in what I found. I'm an electronic engineer and decided to design my own warmer with a very tight custom controller, after a lot of research. I lost my original little swarm (size of baseball at time of loss) but not until late March last year, and only after a 2 hour power failure on a sub freezing day. I considered it a success and set out to do further testing this winter. We have had outstanding results and now I'm encouraged. My heater design goes directly inside the hive (Currently Langstroth) and will shortly fit between 2 frames without displacing a frame, although my prototypes thus far, displaced one. I've always placed a frame between my warmer and the cluster, but this last year, we had 2 hives move their cluster to incorporate the warmer directly in the center of the cluster. So it appears the bees have spoken, so now, that is my plan going forward. Currently we sense temp either in the cluster or just above, and apply heat directly to the cluster low in the box. We tested a nuc last fall with a higher setting around 75 F until late November, to extend the brood season to bolster strength, and succeeded in having brood right up until we turned it down in late November, to dormant temp zone. This nuc gained at least one full frame of bees in this time. We left a second nuc set to the 70's all winter long, and she raised brood all winter long! This particular hive had a fairly high mortality rate evidenced by bees on the ground and the bottom board, but found that the nuc had actually grown with the all-winter brooding with the dead being replaced. So while its a small sample, the results are encouraging and we think we may be on to something that could be of help to your region. My control box with no bees, maintained an internal temperature, well in dormant range, until I removed that newer prototype and placed it in my small swarm, to get some in-hive experience with bees. That switch took place just a week before a power failure, on a sub freezing day, took out my remaining small survivors.
I don't know if its enough to keep your boxes above dormant in such cold environments, but with current ratings in the neighborhood of 40 BTU/hr with 12 Watts, it might. Of course insulation and wind break are necessary. It would be possible to scale this design up to what ever it takes to get yours through the winter if you have electricity near your hives.
So don't give up before we've given this a college try... Warmbees!
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interesting idear wb, you'll have to post pics/info sometime. I'm at some point planning on building a shed. Dunno if I'll keep bees this summer or not at this point. As much fun as it is, it's not cheap to continually repackage hives. I give everything away, so we'll see. Should know for certain in 3-4 weeks whether they are truly dead or not.


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A medical condition in which a guys balls seem to climb upward. The opposite of testicular retraction.
Yeah, he was sent to the hospital with Wonderlandism. He said he was in a lot of pain, by the time they got him in the ER his balls were practially on the cieling!
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It's been a long road through a hot kitchen to get to the overseas challenge of the latest MasterChef series, but the remaining eight cooks probably didn't think their chances of winning would come down to the results of a crab race.
The night before their challenge at Dolphin Island Resort in Fiji, the cooks were rounded up and presented with eight live crabs to choose from. The aim wasn't to prepare them for eating, but to get them in position to win a race to be first out of a circle in the sand.
The owner of the winning crab would go last in the next day's challenge, giving them more time to plan and prepare their dish. The owner of the loser would go first.
After much whooping and hollering, and a bit of cheating from a Jandal-pusher (overlooked by judge Josh Emett), Vanessa was deemed the winner. Aaron's crab staged a strike and didn't move at all, so he lost.
And so began the overseas experience of the latest crop of MasterChef contestants. After 10 weeks of gruelling challenges, Aaron Brunet, Eliott Brookes, Jennis Hayes, Kelly Kaihea, Paula Saengthian-Ngam, Sushil Ravikumar, Ella Krauts and Vanessa Baxter had made it through. They were buzzing with excitement as they boarded the Jetstar flight earlier that day, but you could also sense the competition was getting serious. Some were reading cookbooks, and I spotted Brunet writing notes and menu plans in a hardback notebook. For each of them the finish line is in sight, and each of them really wants to win.
Besides that, they seem to get along well, and have become a tight-knit group.
On landing we were whisked off to the paradise that is Dolphin Island, which would put anyone in a good mood.
Dolphin Island is owned by the same company that owns Huka Lodge. It is a 5.6ha private luxury retreat that accommodates no more than eight guests at a time. The MasterChef contestants were brought to the island by float plane from Nadi International Airport and settled into their beautiful bure suites by island host Dawn Simpson.
As the sun went down, they were welcomed with a traditional Fijian dance and fire show.
After the excitement of the crab race, the guests enjoyed a delicious lovo, or Fijian hangi.
There was whole fish served with chicken, vegetables and palusami, a traditional dish made with corned beef and coconut cream. The judges ate at the main bure, which has a palm-thatched roof, Pacific-inspired table settings and comfortable decor. The contestants enjoyed some wine and some even had a dip in the lap pool after dinner.
The next morning, the challenge began.
Long boats turned up at the island early carrying fresh local produce such as taro, mango, papaya, pineapple, coconut and seafood, including barracuda, coral trout and crab.
The contestants had only a few minutes to grab what they could and then each had an hour to create a dish fit for guests at Dolphin Island.
The judges were set up on the beach and each contestant carried their dish from the kitchen to the judges' table (judge Simon Gault was unable to go to Fiji so Rudy Crane from Huka Lodge stepped in to help critique).
Sushil Ravikumar was slammed by Emett for cooking another curry, his fourth in the competition.
"A curry got you to here and you come to Fiji and cook another curry. How is this curry different?," demanded Emett. "I'm beginning to wonder if this is all you can cook. This better be the best curry ever. It's going to be the last curry you cook in this competition."
Ray McVinnie was more kind, saying he loves eating curry in hot climates and would simply judge what was put in front of him.
Between tastings, I had a few minutes with the judges. McVinnie said the contestants had done extremely well so far.
"We're halfway through the competiton. This year the quality of the contestants is outstanding. They can cook. They have been watching previous series and especially in the last few episodes these guys are just learning so much," he said.
"It's all about the food. I can tell these contestants love cooking and love food. It's all they talk about. I'm looking for someone who understands food. If they understand food, it will come out in their dish.
"Fiji is fantastic. We went to the markets to see the wonderful fresh produce and beautiful fish, then had it all brought to Dolphin Island on long boats. It was so colourful. The food here is amazing so it's really interesting to see what the contestants have created," he says.
Emett said the judges have had to eat some "doozies" this season but other dishes were top notch.
"If something is good I just can't stop eating it. I can't just have a spoonful and leave it at that. There have been some great dishes where I have thought 'I want to eat all of this'," he said.
"It's been good this year. There have been some treats for us along the way. The fact that we got to come out here was a treat for all of us," he said.
In previous episodes, Gault has called Brunet a rock star and a genius. Brunet has consistently wowed the judges and blitzed challenges every week.
The 42-year-old from Raglan is modest about his skills, saying his wife had to convince him to enter.
"My wife did encourage me a lot last year when we were watching TV. She asked me the questions on the application form and filled it in for me. I'm into cooking at home for my family and wanted to be more professional, so this is a good challenge," said Brunet.
He said he made the most of being on the beautiful island by getting up at 4am for a swim.
"It has been amazing to be here. It's the most incredibly luxurious island. I have a beautiful room but I wanted to make the most of being here so got up early. It was great. You get used to a bit less sleep."
Brunet said he gets on well with the other contestants and the judges.
"They're great, really nice. We have been living and breathing this competition for two months."
He loved the challenge of cooking at Dolphin Island. "I didn't have time to get nervous. We had Huka Lodge's chef Michel Louws in the kitchen. He's worked in restaurants with three Michelin stars and having him here to help was great," he said.
Louws oversaw the contestants in the kitchen and judged them on their performance; his score was combined with the judges' score for each contestant's overall mark. Louws said he was impressed with the contestants, and one was so good that a trainee position at Huka Lodge was offered. You'll have to watch tonight's episode to find out who.
As for the other contestants, who knows?
Last season, contestant Brenton Thornton didn't win but scored a a 12-month apprenticeship with judge Gault, leading to a full-time job at Gault's waterfront restaurant Fish. Maybe this year another contestant will walk away with a job, one that doesn't depend on the outcome of a crab race.
The Fiji special of MasterChef screens tonight on TV One at 7.30pm.


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David Petraeus
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David Howell Petraeus (born November 7, 1952) was a general in the United States Army and a director of the CIA.
- There are no easy choices. The way ahead will be very hard. Progress will require determination and difficult U.S. and Iraqi actions, especially the latter, as ultimately the outcome will be determined by the Iraqis. But hard is not hopeless, and if confirmed, I pledge to do my utmost to lead our wonderful men and women in uniform and those of our coalition partners in Iraq as we endeavor to help the Iraqis make the most of the opportunity our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines have given to them.
- Syria has allowed its soil to be transited by foreign fighters who have come from a variety of source countries in the Gulf area and in the — in North African countries.
There are some signs that that may have been reduced somewhat in the last couple of months. We need to watch that a bit and see if that is the case.
- Iran, as we have already discussed, has carried out very, very harmful activities inside Iraq. Funding, trainings, arming and, in some cases, even directing the activities of the special groups associated with the Jaish al-Mahdi and the Sadr Militia.
- As quoted in "Ranking House Committee Members Grill Crocker and Petraeus on U.S. Progress in Iraq" in The Washington Post (10 September 2007)
- Political progress will only take place if sufficient security exists.
External linksEdit
- Official Army biography
- Charlie Rose TV program: An hour with General David Petraeus Google Video of program taped 2007-04-26
- Profile in The New York Times
- Graduate Alumni profile Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
- "In Company of Soldiers" (March 15, 2004) by Rick Atkinson
- "101st Airborne Scores Success in Reconstruction of Northern Iraq" (September 4, 2003) by Michael R. Gordon, The New York Times
- "The Story of O" (April 4, 2004) written by Christopher Dickey, The New York Times
- "An Open Mind For A New Army" (October 31, 2005) by Julian E. Barnes,U.S. News & World Report
- "Bush To Name A New General To Oversee Iraq" (January 5, 2006) by Michael R. Gordon, The New York Times
- "Our Man in Iraq" (October 26, 2006) by Wesley Morgan, The Daily Princetonian
- "FM 3-24 New Army/Marine Counterinsurgency Manual, (December, 2006), Forward written by LTG David Petraeus
- "Leader of the Fabled 101st to Command in Iraq" (January 5, 2007) by Tom Bowman, NPR
- "Iraq Will be Petraeus' Knot to Untie" (January 6, 2007) by Rick Atkinson, The Washington Post
- "Petraeus Takes Reins in Iraq" (January 10, 2007) by Wesley Morgan, The Daily Princetonian
- "Petraeus Faces Tough Road in Iraq (January 12, 2007) by Wesley Morgan, The Daily Princetonian
- "Petraeus on Vietnam's Legacy" (January 14, 2007) by Rachel Dry, The Washington Post—excerpts Petraeus' doctoral dissertation, "The American Military and the Lessons of Vietnam."
- "Senate confirms new top general for Iraq" (January 26, 2007) Associated Press, CNN
- "David and Goliath, and Petraeus" (January 28, 2007) by Steven Alvarez, The Orlando Sentinel
- "US Iraq chief warns of long war" (July 9, 2007) BBC News
- "Scions of the Surge" (March 24, 2008) Newsweek
- "Leader of the Year: Right Man, Right Time" by Lisa DePaulo
- "The Story of Power" by John Meacham
- "An Intellectual Surge" by James Crabtree.
- The Generals' Insurgency: The Story Behind the U.S. Troop Surge in Iraq. Washington Post.


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[/quote]Cool, will be good to see Banks and Bavaro there. Only bad part is that they will be on the sidelines and witness to a masacre worse than Monday's Saint's game. []


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Suspect sought after fatal late-night shooting
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. - A warrant has been issued for a suspect's arrest following a fatal shooting in Johnson City.
Police aren't revealing the suspect's name, but told us no arrest has been made as of Wednesday evening.
Johnson City Police are investigating, and right now they're asking for help in finding out what happened shortly after midnight on Nathaniel Drive.
It's a day of sorrow at Johnson City's Westgate Village Apartments.
Police told us 47-year-old Timothy B. Peregoy, who was staying in one of the apartments, was shot early Wednesday morning..
Investigators said he was lying on the sidewalk when help arrived. "He was transported to the medical center where he was pronounced dead," said Captain Mike Street with JCPD.
Neighbor Shirley Garland told us she heard a loud commotion and what sounded like people fighting. "There was a lot of screaming and hollering going on over there," said Garland.
Multiple neighbors in the apartment complex told News 5 in the midst of the commotion, they heard what they believed to be two gunshots.
Captain Street told us they need to look at forensic evidence after an autopsy to help determine what happened. "Until we get a report from them, we're not sure how many times he was shot exactly. There is the possibility it was multiple times," Captain Street said.
Investigators said family was there at the time of the shooting, but the case isn't believed to be a domestic situation, but clear answers have yet to be revealed. "Right now we're not getting a lot of information that's helping us at this point," said Captain Street.
That's leaving this community still shaken with fear. "It's awful scary, yes, and a place like this anyway, because there's so much that goes on in here," Garland added.
Police are asking anyone with information to please call (423) 434-6166.To send a confidential tip text '423JCPD' and your information to 847411 (TIP411), or send a tip to www.citizenobserver.com.


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The Role—and Dearth—of Advanced Course Work at the Secondary Level
In the face of these rapidly intensifying demands on the global worker, the United States continues to experience disappointingly low rates of high school completion and college preparation. 9 Roughly 30 percent of U.S. students fail to graduate from high school within four years, if at all, 10 with the number approaching 50 percent for African-American, Hispanic, and Native American students. 11 Among those who do receive a high school diploma, some find that while they have fulfilled all their district's graduation requirements, they have not met the entrance requirements for their state university system.
Still others are accepted into higher education but require remedial classes before they can undertake college-level studies. In its report released in September 2006, the Secretary of Education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education noted that "among high school graduates who do make it on to postsecondary education, a troubling number waste time—and taxpayer dollars—mastering English and math skills that they should have learned in high school. And some never complete their degrees at all....
"There are also disturbing signs that many students who do earn degrees have not actually mastered the reading, writing, and thinking skills we expect of college graduates. Over the past decade, literacy among college graduates has actually declined.... The consequences of these problems are most severe for students from low-income families and for racial and ethnic minorities." 12
There are no simple solutions to this complex challenge. Indeed, students' education success— including their likelihood of graduating from high school eager and prepared to succeed in college—depends on a wide range of factors, not all of them even related to their schooling. But all other things being equal, it is axiomatic that if students are to be successfully prepared for the demands of higher education and the increasingly competitive work environment, they must have access to the right course work. As students move through secondary school, they must be provided with greater rigor in their core classes, that is, the basic courses needed for graduation. But students also must have access to courses beyond the basic core, courses that push them even harder intellectually, deepening their knowledge and understanding in key content areas and helping them to hone highlevel research and thinking skills. In short, students need access to advanced course work.
What constitutes advanced course work? For its annual report, The Condition of Education, the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)—the primary federal entity that collects and analyzes education-related data—defines advanced courses according to the "academic pipeline" taxonomy. 13 Based on this classification system, NCES identifies advanced mathematics courses as those with content that is more challenging than algebra I and geometry I and advanced science courses as those with content that is more challenging than general biology. Advanced English courses are those designated as honors, and advanced language courses are those designed for students who have already completed two full years of high school courses in a given language. NCES also considers as advanced any courses authorized by the College Board or the International Baccalaureate (IB) foundation. 14 (For more information about AP and IB programs, see page 10.)
In fact, the percentages of students taking advanced courses have risen over the years. According to NCES, 68 percent of students graduating from high school in 2004 (the last year for which these data are available) had completed advanced course work in science, compared to just 38 percent in 1982. Similar growth occurred in the percentage of graduates who had completed courses in advanced academic mathematics— 50 percent in 2004 compared to 26 percent in 1982. 15 In English, the percentage of students who had taken an advanced course classified as "honors" rose from 13 percent to 33 percent during this period. 16 One challenge, of course, is to raise these percentages across the board. But equally important is to get more students into the kinds of even higher-level advanced courses that will open more doors for them in their subsequent academic pursuits. NCES found that only 18 percent of graduates in 2004 had completed at least one course of either chemistry II, physics II, or advanced biology, and a similarly small percentage (14 percent) had completed a calculus course. 17
Unfortunately, access to advanced classes is neither equal, nor even universal, across the nation's schools. NCES's most recent transcript analysis, which looked at the availability of advanced courses in English, math, science, and foreign languages, found that for more than a quarter of U.S. high school students, there were no advanced courses available at their home school. While 74 percent had access to at least one course, only 58 percent had access to at least two courses, and only 22 percent attended schools that offered four or more advanced courses. NCES data show that students in rural schools and in schools with a 12th-grade enrollment smaller than 150 have the least opportunity to take one or more advanced courses in math, science, English, or a foreign language. 18
Even in schools that offer advanced courses, access can be limited and unequal. One problem is that in many schools advanced courses are "singletons." These are courses that, due to limited enrollment or staffing, have only one section and, therefore, are offered at only one time of day (unlike required courses, such as algebra I, for which multiple sections are likely to be scheduled throughout the school day). Among the students most likely to experience scheduling conflicts are those who want to take multiple advanced courses (e.g., AP Spanish literature and AP chemistry) but find that the courses are scheduled at the same time, or who want to take one or more singleton advanced courses and one or more singleton electives (e.g., studio art III, orchestra, and chorus). The smaller the school, the more likely it is that there will be scheduling conflicts for students interested in advanced courses. In some instances, however, students seeking advanced courses have no scheduling conflicts but are closed out of advanced courses because the courses themselves are oversubscribed and the school does not have the resources to add more sections.
While some schools open such courses to any student who shows a strong interest, other schools require students to meet certain prerequisites before signing up for higher-level course work. For example, students may need to be recommended by one or more teachers, be designated as an honors student, have a certain grade point average, or have a history of success in college preparatory classes. While it is difficult to argue against the reasonableness of wanting students to demonstrate that they have the knowledge and skills needed to succeed in advanced courses, if such access filters are applied too strictly—taken as rigid rules rather than guidelines—they can exclude students who, with the right support, could succeed despite having only an average (or slightly less-than-average) academic record. In this category might be, for example, the student whose learning disabilities cause him to struggle in English language arts but who does well in mathematics, or the late-blooming learner who, interest piqued by a particular subject, is willing to work harder than ever before in order to succeed. Unfortunately, despite a growing recognition that advanced course work is beneficial to a wide range of students, so long as there is a paucity of such courses in U.S. secondary schools and, therefore, a limited number of seats available, only those students considered most qualified are likely to be accepted for the limited number of seats in advanced courses.
As districts and schools seek to increase the numbers of students taking advanced course work, more of them have begun turning to online course delivery as a practical and effective means of expanding access. Based on its survey of the chief administrators from 366 (out of 16,000) school districts nationwide, representing 3,632 schools and 2 million students, the Sloan Consortium estimates that, during the 2005–06 school year, 700,000 K–12 students participated in online learning. More than half of the respondents (57.9 percent) reported having at least one student who had taken an online course in 2005–06, and an additional quarter (24.5 percent) reported expecting at least one student to take an online course within the next three years. The Sloan survey asked about both online courses (defined as those for which all or most of the content is delivered online, with at least 80 percent of seat time replaced by online activity) and blended or hybrid courses (defined as those that use both online and faceto- face delivery with a substantial portion— 30–79 percent—of the content delivered online). Although these percentages relate specifically to online courses, the fact that teachers at bricks-and-mortar schools are incorporating online components into their traditional courses is a significant development, an indication that educators are increasingly seeing online learning as a logical extension of teaching and learning in a traditional classroom. While not all of the districts captured in the Sloan survey are necessarily using or planning to use online courses to deliver advanced content, approximately 68 percent of Sloan respondents rated as "important" using online learning to offer AP or college-level courses, and a little more than half (approximately 55 percent) rated as "important" reducing scheduling conflicts for students. 19
Online learning is fast becoming a part of the norm. The Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that works with leaders and policymakers in 16 member states to improve pre-K through postsecondary education, reports that 12 of its member states already operate a state-sponsored virtual school, and each of its other states is expected to have one within the next couple of years. Once implemented, such schools are likely to ramp up quickly in the face of strong interest. For example, the Georgia Virtual School, created by legislative action just two years ago, already had 4,600 students enrolled in courses as of the 2006–07 school year. Of the 80 courses it offers, 18 are AP. 20
As growing numbers of districts and schools become interested in using online learning to deliver advanced course work, how do they go about translating their interest into on-the-ground success? This guide helps answer that question.


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It's uncanny how elite he is for 16 games only to morph into some kind of Mark Sanchez/ Tony Romo hybrid come the post season!
It's hard to fathom.
It's uncanny how elite he is for 16 games only to morph into some kind of Mark Sanchez/ Tony Romo hybrid come the post season!
It's hard to fathom.
After yesterday he has 8 one and done playoff appearances which is kinda crazy. I think that was 4 more than anyone else in the superbowl era according to ESPN
Even Tebow won a playoff game for Denver, unlike Peyton.
I'm not saying he played great, but did you actually watch that game?
Here's what I think is hard to fathom.
Explain to me how the QB cost them the game when he had them leading with 31 seconds remaining and basic defensive situational awareness would prevent any receiver from getting behind, not one but two defenders when the offensive team has the ball on their own 30, needs a TD to tie, there are 31 seconds left and the offense has no time outs.
That was a travesty.
Again, your point about Peyton Manning's play has some merit, he didn't play great, but he didn't cost them the game. That game never should have gone to OT.
I agree. D cost Denver that game at the end.
John Fox will be getting a serious talk from John Elway to explain why he spent a fortune for Peyton Manning and Fox took the ball out of his hands with the game on the line!
Forget the Past, Live for the Future!
Doesn't matter Peyton gets more passes than any qb in nfl history. Even his SB pick six was the receivers fault.


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Kim Kardashian, Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez and more show off their national pride in these America-approved bikinis!
Presidents' Day is a time to take off work and appreciate all the accomplishments made by our country's leaders. Now it's time to appreciate all the hard work these celebrities put in the gym to achieve their star spangled bikini bods!
It may be winter time, but these starlets are smoking hot in their patriotic bikinis. If you're not in California to hit the beach this Presidents' Day, check out Hollywood's elite showing of their hottest red, white, and blue swimwear! To celebrate Presidents' Day 2011, let's take a look at some of Hollywood's hottest celebs — Kate Hudson, Miranda Kerr and Gisele Bundchen to name a few — and tell us who you think looks the hottest frolicking on the beach in their stars and stripes!