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Book Club
While our official book club did not continue in a formal way at our school, we always recommend "Comprehension & Collaboration - Inquiry Circles in Action" by Stephanie Harvey & Harvey Daniels to colleagues. This resource remains a staple in our teacher library and it continues to be a reference for the inquiry approach to teaching in our school. The book club approach was the best way for us to tackle a different approach to teaching and for all of us to have the same understanding of what inquiry can look like in a classroom.
The Learning Continues!
Our last book club meeting, ended with grand conversations and excitement about continuing the journey. It was decided that next school year, we would revisit our professional learning text. We all felt that, we are only scratching the tip of the iceberg on what inquiry-based learning, could look like in our classrooms. Stay tuned!
Curiosity Notebook
Our book club members got together for a great discussion around classrooms and routines. It's interesting to note, how teachers approach ideas differently. After reading chapter 8, one teacher created a "Curiosity Notebook," while another started a "Wonder Board." We talked about small group work and it's importance. It needs to be noted that some teachers give up quickly on small group because they feel that students working can be loud and disruptive. Our own experience, proves that by spending time with developing relationships, routines and expectations... small group work can be very successful.
Chapter 9
So...we did not meet on February 29th because of a snow/ice day. Please note, I hope we can meet in March and I'm recommending that we read chapter 9. Our next meeting will cover both chapter 8 & chapter 9. I will contact you as soon as possible with a date!
Guiding questions for chapter 9:
1. What possibilities do you see for your own school or board in the "small-group model adapted for curricular inquiry?"
2. Select one of the small-group inquiry stories to discuss in depth.
3. Compare and contrast"content"and"process"learning.
4. Students' academic work improves when teachers and students set expectations. What are the benefits of the chart—"Develop Group Ground Rules"—like the one Mary developed?
5. What are some of the potential forms students might use to take their learning "public?"
Identify one chunk of curriculum that is coming up in your teaching and make plans to teach it inquiry-circle style. Use the lessons in Chapter 7 as well as the classroom accounts in this chapter to support your planning and work with kids. What works? What is difficult? What are the kids saying and doing that's different from everyday work? If possible, visit each others' classrooms to observe and chat. Report back to the study group, bringing stories, samples of kids' work, or classroom videos to share.
(Available on Heinemen-http://www.heinemann.com/products/E01230.aspx)
Please note, I will come in and take pictures or videos of your lesson. Let me know how I can help! Hope to see you in March.
We will be meeting on February 29th. Here are the guiding questions for Chapter 8:
1. How and why do authentic questions create engagement and foster motivation in kids?
2. What advantages do you see in question-driven teaching? How does it reflect and translate to the "real-world?"
3. Talk about some of the potential advantages of mini-inquiries. How would you use them in your classroom?
Use the lessons in Chapter 7 as well as the classroom accounts to support your planning and working with kids.
Comprehension & Collaboration, Inquiry Circles in Action - Stephanie Harvey, Harvey Daniels - Study
Key Lessons - Chapter 7
This chapter reminds us of the importance of teacher modeling. It also explains the instructional strategy known as the Gradual Release of Responsibility. The authors use a sport example that makes it easy for us to see the benefits of this strategy for student learning. This chapter contains 27 key lessons which, we have been working through. Anne worked on the lesson called "Ask Questions and Wonder About Information" (page 121). A video clip has been posted in the previous blog post about this lesson.
A concern raised was finding TIME to allow our students to dig deeper! Jessica is a half-time teacher and with her schedule is finding it challenging to set-up inquiry learning. Anne talked about how she was able to integrate the inquiry into her writing workshop. We all agreed that inquiry teaching is worth the effort and we will continue to work on key lessons from the book. Next meeting is February 29th @ 2:20.
Inquiry project
Great meeting today! Our learning and sharing is growing. We shared slides & videos of lessons. Inquiry and learning from teachers and students is quite evident.
Into the Classroom
In Chapter Seven we are to look over the twenty-seven key lessons included in this chapter. Please select one of the lessons that fit into your teaching this month, and try it our with your kids. On February 2nd, come prepared to report back to the study group, bringing stories, sample of kids' work, or classroom videos to share. If you need help with collecting information or getting started, please let me (or Pete) know. Looking forward to hearing about your experience.
Minutes from December Meeting
Thanks Danielle for the snacks and for facilitating our talk. We had a great discussion but once again ran out of time.
Highlights from the Meeting:
- Everyone enjoyed reading Chapter 5 - Preparing Your Active Learning Classroom- The ten key elements had practical ideas that could be implemented right away.
- Anne liked the quote from David Perkins (p. 75) 'Far from thinking coming after knowledge, knowledge comes on the coattails of thinking.' 'Learning floats on a sea of talk' is another quote that reminds us of what our classroom should sound like and feel like...interaction is central to inquiry-based learning.
- We discussed the importance of having short non-fiction text available in the classroom but it was noted that many of our classrooms are in desperate need of this resource - (talked about asking parents to donate magazines)
- Danielle started an inquiry-learning project on hibernation with her grade ones, she used a few codes from p. 93 to start her exploration
-The computers were available for us to investigate the websites listed in chapter six. The idea was for each of us to look at a few websites to explore then report to the group. We're hoping that you will share the sites you investigated from this chapter here and that you will share your favourite sites that you visit frequently, too
On the Agenda
Discussion around chapter 5 - Preparing Your Active Learning Classroom & chapter 6 Surfing and Searching: Internet Research in School. In chapter 6 there is a plethora of websites to discover. Danielle and I were thinking we could have computers at our meeting so that we can each take a few sites to explore.
For our next meeting we will work on chapter 7. We will select one of the 27 lessons that fits into our teaching for January, and try it out with our kids.
Be prepared to report back to the group, bringing stories, samples of kids' work or classroom videos to share.
Louise Robitaille is a retired Special Education Resource teacher and Literacy Coach. Follow on Twitter-@robitaille2011
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Date of Stay: July, 2007
Very nice campground. We were here during a hot streak (days in the low 90s) so shade was at a premium. Both mini-cabins are NOT in the shade and only Mini-Cabin 2 has any sort of tree near it for shaded parking. The mini-cabins are nice, however, and have a microwave and refrigerator. If you're planning to visit during the summer I would bring a fan, too. The campground was nice and family-oriented. No loud music or partying at night. Close walking or biking access to Lake Huron. Gorgeous clear water and sandy beaches. Also close access (2.9 mi) to Big Boy restaurant for breakfast bike ride!!!!
Date of Stay: July, 2007
We actually quite liked this campground. Granted, it IS quite crowded, but then Michigan has a large population and this campground is easy to get to from the Detroit Metro area as well as Saginaw area. We did have some rather loud 20-something campers whom we had to ask to turn down their music, but for the most part, they did. They were late sleepers, as well (imagine that!). We camped in Mini-Cabin which was small and standard (nothing fancy at all!) but did include a microwave, fridge and full-length mirror. (Wall heater, too, but it was in the 80s and 90s when we were there). Swimming wasn't a problem at all. No swimmer's itch. There are a lot of jet-skiers and boaters with rather loud engines and stinky exhaust fumes. So if you want a quiet place to go, stay away. But for a family of four, it was quite nice. The ice cream at Park Store is awesome, HUGE and CHEAP!!! Order single-scoop only!

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Archive for June, 2010
Aw, here's to the crazies…
Dicking around with icons today, I happened to zoom in to check out the icon for OS X's TextEdit application in detail…
That's pretty classy. It's from Apple's Think Different campaign from the nineties.
Dear ABC|iView
I think it's awesome that the ABC is offering TV shows online, but I have problems with *how* they are being offered. By making the iView website one big Adobe Flash application the thing breaks all accessibility guidelines– text is not selectable, the user interface can not be enlarged for the vision impaired, and keyboard navigation is virtually non-existent. Any decent interface, especially a web-based one, should be navigable without a mouse!
I bought a PS3 partly on the promise of iView integration, but I discover now that all it does is open the iView web page, which can ONLY be navigated on the PS3 via the game controller (and not the media remote). So the experience is exactly like using iView on a desktop, only without a mouse, ie: Horrible!
Even if Flash is necessary for the video playback, there is no justification for implementing the whole iView site with it–Â something that could have been done more easily, cheaply, openly and more *accessibly* in HTML.
Why o why does the ABC hate the disabled?
Digital Media Shenanigans
I'm well on the way to securing my status as Single Guy with Too Much Free Time now that I have my own place as well as both an Xbox 360 and a PS3+PlayTV.
Most of this evening has been spent rearranging my whole setup, with cables and boxes everywhere, and the rest of the time configuring media related software. The 360 was a bit of a stupid purchase actually since I knew there was a new one about to be launched but I went and paid full retail anyway, for a system that just a week later (after the new one was officially announced) I could have gotten for $150 less.
The later PS3 purchase was largely inspired by the relatively new PlayTV add-on, as well the promise of ABC iView integration, and to a small extent the option of watching Blu-ray movies.
Here follows my carefully considered and balanced opinions of the two systems' strengths and weaknesses:
Xbox 360 (not the just announced shiny one):
- Noisy! Originally I had this on a shelf below the TV but the whine of the fan got on my nerves so now it is stashed behind a glass cabinet door. The new one is supposed to be quieter, and it would want to be.
- Stupid! Would you believe that it doesn't come with built-in wireless networking? It didn't even occur to me that this would be an issue since both the PS3 and the Wii have had wireless forever. The XBox 360 Wifi adapter can be purchase separately for something like 50% the cost of the original console.
- Ugly! That concave casing really doesn't look right anywhere in a home media setup. It wouldn't be so bad if at least the front panel was flat, but it is not. The new 360 has a more faceted design, but still if you keep it horizontally it looks like someone has kicked in a big dent at the front.
- Clumsy/Inconsistent/Schizophrenic – I'm really starting to appreciate Apple at this point, for their ability to make a remote with almost no buttons which still gets things done. The amount of time with xbox I expect a button to play something but instead it "selects" and opens another tab… argg! So I decided to run Windows Media Center on it for a more media-centric experience (since hey it's supposed to be a games machine normally) but it's hardly just a mattering of flicking it into a different mode. I can't believe I have to wait almost 20 seconds for it to: Launch; Search for a Windows PC; Connect; Show splash screen; fade in to pretty but not particularly great WMC interface. Urgggh. And now that I'm in WMC mode, none of the buttons work like they do when playing media from the regular 360 dashboard. It took me ages to find the play/pause button on the controller, because for some incomprehensible reason it is the Right Thumbstick Button, ie you have to clumsily push down on the top of the analog thumbstick just to play or pause a video!
PS3 slim:
- Less Noisy! Significantly quieter than the 360, but by no means silent. Instead of whining it makes more of a thrumming sound, and I do not feel compelled to stash it behind a door just yet.
- Equally crappy media playing experience… it's like both Microsoft and Sony don't want you to use their systems for this purpose! I finally got it finding my shared media via the DNLA sharing feature of Windows Media Player (but not WM Center, even though this is the logical place to put this goddamn setting). Of course, both Microsoft and Sony could have simply made their consoles find SMB shares (ie common-or-garden variety shared folders on the network) but Noooooooo they have to use dodgy "media sharing" protocols which require extra settings and hoops and give stupid random errors during playback. DNLA reminds me of XML-RPC on the web: it's almost completely redundant, and usually poorly implemented.
- iView integration my arse! iView is supported by launching a browser window and going to the iView website exactly as you would using a desktop PC– the only integration is that they add a shortcut to the top menu. So now you are in a browser window watching a video, and NONE of the buttons on the controller do anything useful like pause the video; instead you have to wiggle the thumbstick to move a mouse cursor on your TV screen until it hovers over the pause button on the iView Flash player. So it's all the non-immersiveness of the browser experience combined with the added handicap that you don't actually have a goddamn mouse to at least make page navigation bearable. Oh and in fullscreen mode on a 4:3 TV the cursor position messes up so you actually have to click beside the onscreen button instead of on it. I blame the ABC and Sony equally for this crummy implementation.
- No rear USB ports! Now this may not seem like a big deal, unless of course you want to connect some weird peripheral to your PS3, like, say, the goddamn PlayTV add-on! (The 360 has a rear port, but I'll be damned if I'm going to shell out for that ripoff Wifi adapter)
- PlayTV – Actually this seems pretty cool… Dual digital tuners mean you get decent PVR functionality from your PS3. From preliminary messing about it does mostly what I expect (it shows you program guides and such although I haven't worked out how to tell it to always record the Daily Show yet). Pity about the USB cable now permanently protruding from the front of the unit though– it really messes with my feng shui. Also I watch hardly any free-to-air TV, because there is so little worth watching, so as cool as the device is it probably won't really enhance my viewing experience that much.
Oh yeah both systems play games and stuff… yawn! These days I only seem to like indie or art games, not the big titles that consoles are sold on. I tried playing Fable II for a while, since I remember lots of buzz about it because it's supposed to be this totally immersive narrative where every decision affects the future, but I got very very bored very very quickly when I realized that the moral universe was defined by a bunch of decisions to either help someone with a random and pointless task, or go crazy and whack them with a sword. My suspension of disbelief was seriously disrupted by the disembodied narrator voice of Zoë Wanamaker trying to casually instruct me on my hero status, potion skill levels, etc etc zzzzz……. Here's the thing with all that D&D style charisma-points bollocks in role-playing games: it was necessary to allow people to keep track of things before we had computers to do it for us. Now that we do, I don't want to know. Just make my character limp when they're hurt and let me notice for myself that I am getting better at shooting things with arrows, and don't bug me with stats!
I know I must sound like the most whiny & spoiled little first-world shit right now, but I just can't believe how hard it is to get an entertainment setup which just works. There is so much great technology here, and yet no sense that anyone actually gives a toss about whether it's well designed or pleasant to use– it feels like so much wasted potential.
21 years ago…
I was sitting by a river looking cool and earnest, not to mention thin– weighing in somewhere around 75kg I think…
Last week I turned 38, way more than twice the age I was then– I could have had a kid when I was 21 and he would be that age now. At least I don't yet weigh twice as much.
I'm going to have to do a modern recreation of that pose…
Are monospaced fonts just a hangover from olden times?
With modern languages becoming more and more verbose, especially when fully qualified namespaces are used, I sometimes wonder why I'm still using monospaced fonts for coding. After all, I don't like reading anything else in a fixed-width typeface, so why is code so different?
Here's the same [random, very old] snippet of C++ code, in DejaVu Sans Mono:
And in Verdana (proportional spacing):
Which looks better? To be honest I think the latter is more readable, but still it feels wrong to look at code this way.
But really I can't see too many reasons against it. Vertical alignment of characters should be irrelevant to pretty much any modern language. IMHO indents should be handled with tabs, and when code mingles tabs and spaces changing fonts merely gives the same wonky layout problems as we already get when people use different IDE settings for tab widths. In general function and type names are more readable with proportional spacing, and take up less horizontal space– surely a good thing. About the only strike against using a proportional font that I can think of is when you're writing daggy console apps with quoted strings of ASCII dashes and asterisks expected to line up to make nice boxes on your 80 x 40 character screen, and that seems kind of anachronistic these days…
It's been a while…
This is the first time I've been able to build DriveyC++ in more than two years… thanks largely to an idiotic decision to refactor my codebase back then, when I simply did not have the time to do it properly and so ended up breaking everything. Refactoring is something that many programmers, including myself, feel a compulsive desire to do sometimes. It's like rearranging the furniture when you're procrastinating, only instead of ten items you find yourself moving thousands of things, as well as renaming them. So now the chair that was in the corner is called furniture::seat and for some reason ends up in the laundry. Also, because so many changes are made in such a short time frame, you inevitably make terrible mistakes which cause everything to stop working. Usually these are caught and fixed relatively quickly, but if you make all the changes and then immediately stop working on it you get to come back in two years and say WTF! and wonder why nothing seems familiar and even the most basic shit has stopped working.
Couple that with some insanely complicated meta-programming and jumping a few VC versions and you get the situation I have with Jujuscript (and therefore the original Drivey demo) where you have no idea why something was working before and not now (and sometimes it's hard to see how it even worked in the first place). Is it because of subtle version differences in template argument parsing? All I know is that when I reference an array element in Jujuscript it now shows up as a generic R-Value instead of a typed L-Value, and I'm yet to get to the bottom of it, but it means 90% of my scripts no longer work.
The moral of the story: don't change several things at once, and don't refactor unless you have time to follow up and iron out the brand new set of problems this will introduce. Also, just because you have namespaces doesn't mean it's ok to use the same type name for different objects– at some point this will bite you in the ass.
I'm guessing the majority of people who've bought iPads are already iPhone owners, and of those who bought the non-3G iPads I'm also guessing most have felt a bit annoyed about the fact that you can't tether your iPad to your iPhone (or any other phone). So basically even though the iPad has both Bluetooth and WiFi (as does the iPhone) and there is no good technical reason for it, Apple prevents you from having this arrangement:
Basically the iPad and the iPhone don't even recognize each other via Bluetooth, and the only way to use the iPhone as a WiFi hotspot is to jailbreak it :(
If you have a regular WiFi hotspot this doesn't matter of course, since the iPad will just connect using that instead. But unfortunately my ADSL connection won't be established for 7-10 days, and that's a long time to wait!
Now unlike the iPad, the iMac can tether to the iPhone (and actually works surprisingly well with 1.5Mbps downloads). So with a little bit of dicking around I can set up a direct WiFi connection to the iMac and use Internet Sharing* to bridge the WiFi connection to the Bluetooth one, resulting in the following:
A little more roundabout but hey it gets the job done…. EXCEPT… it so happens that when the iMac is in WiFi host mode it only supports WEP encryption, and there is some weird bug in the iPad at the moment that screws up the password to WEP connections, so if I want to run with this arrangement I have to leave the WiFi unsecured (in which case some random neighbor could connect and start hosing my precious phone bandwidth).
So the next thing I'll try (as soon as I get a Cat-5 network cable) will involve a second bridge via the Airport wireless router, resulting in this charmingly simple arrangement:
This way I should be finally be able to access my iPhone's 3G connection securely from the iPad.
So simple.
* In OS X go to System Preferences > Sharing > Internet Sharing
New digs
Well I've basically moved in now, and it was all relatively painless since the place is almost entirely furnished. So much easier than the last time I moved into a new house, when I spent the first few days in discomfort while I acquired furniture and appliances (my first night there I slept on an air mattress which deflated during the night). This time around it's a piece of cake!
My new study!
My new kitchen!
My new bedroom!
The only furniture I've felt the need to introduce are a desk and a coffee table (from IKEA of course). The desk was cheap but took forever to put together thanks to the number of crappy phillips-head screws needed (ow my hand), so coffee table can wait til tomorrow.
Internet & phone is yet to be arranged, so currently I'm tethering my iMac to my iPhone (via Bluetooth)… it would be nice if I could do the same with the iPad grrrrrr….
My new home/office (starting next week)
After weeks and weeks of looking at places to rent (and missing out on many that I liked– this is not a good time to be renting around Sydney) I have finally secured a little place of my own, in which I will be achieving great things over the next 6 months.
This is the second bedroom, which I think will make a nice study/office.
Well out of the city, less than 200m from the beach (close enough to hear the ocean), the idea is that here I will be able to live well and concentrate on being productive without too many distractions, and hopefully the fact that I will be paying a tonne of rent will provide an extra incentive to get my ass into gear.


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What are the characteristics of a wise person?
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This is quite a difficult question based on the subjectivity involved in the recognition of a "wise" person. The word, (or its equivalent) when translated, has foundations in all the religions and, despite the disparities between the religions, this is something they all agree on.
There is a reason why, when referring to "wise" people, there is always a depth of understanding . A wise person has knowledge but his wisdom ensures that he applies that knowledge. His understanding is such that he knows that learning is an ongoing and interactive process. A wise man endeavours to learn from others, even if he has to make himself look foolish in his attempts.
A wise person has an acceptance of the truth that is multi-faceted and accepts other people's versions of the truth. He realizes that perception creates different truths and will explore all reasoning to get to the real truth.
Plato, a philosopher and great follower of Socrates maintained that:
the wisest man of all, as confirmed by a religious oracle, was one who professed to have no wisdom at all: Socrates
Socrates maintained that the search for wisdom was a lifelong pursuit.
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Milan-born food photographer Alessandro Guerani describes himself as a photographer who also loves cooking. He confesses that although he is "very precise and punctilious" on a photo set, he balances this out by being "terribly messy with pots and ladles" in the kitchen. Here, he talks to us about the quiet revolution in food photography that he has witnessed over the past few years.
Up until very recently, food photography was a branch, and not one of great importance, of the still life genre. The images had mostly a "technical" or a "documentary" approach, but nonetheless the overall style was very realistic without many trills and frills. The food image was created strictly to provide in a straightforward way the result of a published recipe or the appearance of the advertised product.
Only in the last few years, food photography has been raised to its own specialized branch of imagery. This happened because food in the mind of the audience has shifted from a mere means of nourishment to something that provides inner satisfaction, emotions and also social status. Food photographers began applying the various techniques used for years by fashion photographers to create and provide images that inspire these concepts in the audience.
If you examine a good quality, modern, food image you should notice how its setting, lighting and composition became of paramount importance in conveying emotions to the viewer. It's not that realism or supply of information about the subject are no longer important, it's rather that they aren't considered sufficient nowadays for a food image to fulfil its scope.
Beauty is as essential as information today. There has been a revolution in food photography and as with every revolution this brought about a complete upheaval within the food photography style, with Australia leading the race. A complete change of the working methods and the rise of the importance of prop styling has added a completely new approach to food styling.
The end result is that the modern food image sells a lifestyle, not just a recipe or a product. We food photographers are compelled to produce imagery that "stands out" in a communication world that is every day more and more visually based and driven (Pinterest anyone?). Technical prowess is no longer enough.Specialization is now the key, as is having a good team with whom to work. Be very open to genre contamination and acquire a good knowledge of other visual arts.
Blog: Foodografia
Portfolio: www.alessandroguerani.com
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Gun fired after Douglass Township domestic dispute
DOUGLASS TOWNSHIP — A man fired a gun after a domestic disturbance in Douglass Township on Wednesday.
Montcalm County Sheriff's Sgt. Brian Waber said a boyfriend and girlfriend were arguing in a mobile home around 10:40 a.m. at 5414 W. Briggs Road when a gun discharged.
The girlfriend left the residence during the argument and headed to a neighbor's house when her boyfriend armed himself with a rifle. She heard a gunshot as she was reaching the neighbor's house.
Her boyfriend shot one round through an interior wall and it lodged in another wall. Nobody was injured.
"He did discharge one round through the home, which definitely causes a serious safety concern for people inside the home, neighbors or people driving by on the road," Undersheriff Mark Bellinger said.
The girlfriend left the neighbor's house and returned to her home before police arrived.
Deputies closed Briggs Road and surrounded the suspect's home when they arrived. They used a loudspeaker to coax the couple from the residence.
"The situation was very tense when deputies arrived," Bellinger said. "It was a very serious situation that the deputies handled very well."
The boyfriend, whose name has not been released, was arrested at the scene. He will be arraigned today or Thursday in 64B District on weapons charges.
The Montcalm County Sheriff's Office is still investigating the incident.


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U.S. leaning toward taking part in Durban 2 summit. (Snips)
Senior U.S. officials in Washington and New York are leaning in favor of participating in the "Durban 2" UN-sponsored anti-racism conference scheduled to take place on April 20 in Geneva...
... Israel plans on boycotting the conference for fear that it will turn into a platform for singling out Jerusalem for criticism over its policies in the Palestinian territories.
Leading figures in the organized American Jewish community have been lobbying Western ambassadors and European diplomats in the UN to dissuade their governments from participating in the Geneva summit. ...
Dozens of human rights groups and activists in the United States have petitioned President Barack Obama to rethink his decision to boycott the conference, expected by many countries to be used as a forum for criticizing Israel. ....
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Israel fears exposure of its racist practices.
Presidents Conference calls for Ahmadinejad walkout. --- April 14, 2009
NEW YORK (JTA) -- Leaders of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations called for a walkout when the president of Iran speaks in Geneva next week. ....
U.S. says Durban changes welcome but insufficient. --- April 13, 2009
WASHINGTON (JTA) -- The United States commended changes in the draft document for "Durban II" but said more was needed to entice it into joining the anti-racism conference. ....
Pope: Durban II "An Important Initiative" - Apr/19/09
(IsraelNN.com) Pope Benedict XVI had words of support Sunday for the United Nations conference on racism starting Monday in Geneva. The pope made no mention of the boycott of the conference, but urged participating countries to join forces to eliminate intolerance and discrimination in the world. ...
Earlier this weekend, the United States joined Israel, Canada, Holland, Italy and Australia in boycotting the conference, saying it could single out Israel for criticism ...
Durban II text still opposed by Israel. (Conference against Racism)
The 'Conference against Racism' opens in Geneva on Monday (4-20-09).
Revised UN draft reaffirms text endorsed in 2001 summit, which singled out Israel for criticism.
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- Alison Apotheker
Alison Apotheker has been teaching at PCC for 10 years. Her poems have appeared in many national literary magazines, including Mid-American Review, Prairie Schooner, North American Review and Crab Orchard Review. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has received the C. Hamilton Bailey fellowship from Oregon Literary Arts. Her first book of poems, Slim Margin, published by WordTech Communications is available through Amazon and Powells.
She lives with her husband, two young children, and a dog named Norm in an old fixer-upper in NE Portland.
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I am a native Oregonian, the sixth generation in a long line of filbert and strawberry farmers in Washington County, and I have taught at PCC Rock Creek for 16 years. Over the course of these years I've taught a wide range of our course offerings, including Writing 80, 90, 115, 121, 122, 123, 185, 213, and 227, as well as several literature classes, including the 100 sequence of Fiction, Drama, and Poetry, and the Shakespeare sequence. I've also reworked several of these courses in order to teach them in an online format, including Writing 121, 122, 227, and the Shakespeare sequence (English 201 and 202), and I've been teaching online for 12 years. I am currently teaching Writing 121 and Shakespeare online.
- Samm Erickson
Samm Erickson is currently in his seventh year teaching at the Rock Creek Campus. He teaches primarily WR 115 and WR 122. His writing courses are focused on preparing students for the writing challenges that they will face in other college courses and in the real world. His favorite classes to teach are ENGL 251 – Literature of Science Fiction and ENGL 262 – Introduction to Mythology. Both disciplines explore the panoply of humanity and He believes that through encountering different belief systems and social structures, students are able to learn more about themselves and the contemporary world. When he's not teaching or grading papers, Samm likes to pretend he's a lead guitar player in a local rock and roll band.
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Chris Jensen lives in Southeast Portland with his wife, four children, and four chickens. For many years he has been building a wooden boat with his kids, who will soon be too big for the boat; he hopes to finish soon. He has been teaching composition and English at PCC since 2000. His teaching philosophy embraces everyone from Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (who said teaching is friendship) to Victor Comerchero (who said teaching is the assault on illusion) to Theodore Roethke (who said teaching is to carry on one's education in public). As of late, Jensen stresses themes of ecocomposition in his WR 121 courses, while in WR 122 the focus is on fast food, slow food, and other forms of eating. This year, he will also teach WR 115 (Intro to Expository Writing), ENG 104 (Intro to Fiction), and ENG 275 (The Bible as Literature).
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Elizabeth Knight received a BA in English from UNH where she studied poetry with Charles Simic. She has an MFA in poetry from the UM/Amherst. In 1990 she received the prestigious Massachusetts Artist Fellowship in Nonfiction. She has published poetry and non fiction in many journals and magazines, including Prairie Schooner, Poetry East, Fiberarts, American Craft and CLR -- Elizabeth is also a visual artist represented by PDX Gallery. She is currently working on a new book about animal assisted therapy, getting ready for a show in 2008 and training her 3 dogs in obedience and for therapy work. But she always has time for her students.
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Michael McDowell has written articles for Willamette Week, worked as a senior technical writer for Bank of America, and published essays in such books as The Ecocriticism Reader and Reading the Earth. In nearly ten years as a full-time college undergraduate and graduate English student, he learned how to write both personal and academic essays—a skill which he is pleased to pass on in the Writing 115, 121, and 122 courses he teaches.
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Like many people, I am a transplant to Oregon. I grew up on a farm outside of Paris, Kentucky and then spent four years sandwiched between cornfields in Ohio at Miami University before moving West. I got my start teaching in Eugene, Oregon where I worked as a tutor at a private center for college students with learning disabilities, then moved to Portland to work as a graduate teaching assistant and pursue an M.A. in English Literature at Portland State University. Before joining PCC-Rock Creek as a full-time faculty member in 2000, I worked as an adjunct English instructor for PCC's Rock Creek, SE Campus and Cascade campuses and for Marylhurst University and The Pacific Northwest College of Art. I also directed the writing centers at Marylhurst University and Clark College in Vancouver. I've been teaching online classes for the last few years, mostly Writing 121. I also teach Introduction to Science Fiction online. When I'm not reading student papers, teaching, or working on committees, I'm studying filmmaking at The Northwest Film Center.


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Council Passes Fire Safety Bill
A bill that would improve fire safety in the city was passed by the City Council late last week. Councilman James Sanders Jr. sponsored the Standpipe Bill legislation in response to the Deutsche Bank tragedy that took the lives of two New York City Firefighters, Joseph Graffagnino and Robert Beddia in August of 2007.
"Regrettably the tragedy of Deutsche Bank taught us a valuable lesson and it cost us the lives of firefighters Robert Beddia and Joseph Graffagnino," Sanders said. "Never again will we send our firefighters into harm's way without ensuring they are protected. Today we have set a new standard of safety that should prevent incidents such as this from occurring again." Sanders' bill will require building owners to improve standpipe systems at construction, demolition, abatement sites and buildings across New York City.
Five major safety improvements will be enacted: • Establish uniform color coding of standpipe and sprinkler systems so that they are not accidently damaged and rendered inoperable. • Require that the cutting and capping of a standpipe or sprinkler system be completed by a licensed master plumber or fire suppression piping contractor who has obtained a permit for such work on a given site to ensure agency personnel know what is happening and the work is done correctly. • Installation of an air-pressurized alarm system in dry standpipes during construction and demolition operations to ensure any breech in the system is immediately detected. • Require pressure testing of new or altered sprinkler or standpipe systems. • Require site safety managers to conduct daily checks of standpipes and weekly tracing of the system at demolition sites to ensure no breech has occurred.
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Couldn′t snag tickets to the SMTown concert in Tokyo? Now you can watch it in the comfort of your own home!
The special edition of SMTown Live in Tokyo concert will air on Japanese satellite TV station, Wowow, on November 13. This is the first time a SM concert will be aired on Japanese television.
During the concert, which took place September 3-4 at the Tokyo Dome, 36 SM Entertainment artists including TVXQ, Girls' Generation, Super Junior, f(x), BoA, Kangta, and the Grace put on splendid performances. The concert exceeded expectations and drew 150,000 Japanese fans.
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In today's collection of blogosphere-generated NHL trade rumors: Cory Schneider to the Maple Leafs? Shea Weber to the Oilers? Could Jarome Iginla, Martin Brodeur and Shea Weber be dealt at some point this season? Enjoy!
GATHER.COM: Larry Seely (citing Bleacher Report) listed the Toronto Maple Leafs as one of the teams that would make a deal for Vancouver Canucks backup Cory Schneider. he also cited Bleacher Report in suggesting the Edmonton Oilers could be a destination for Nashville Predators defenseman Shea Weber (though he erroneously titled his post, "Shea Weber to Colorado Avalanche?").
SPECTOR'S NOTE: The Toronto Maple Leafs have been linked to Evgeni Nabokov in the rumor mill, and it wouldn't be surprising if the Leafs had been in touch with the Canucks about Schneider's availability. That being said, it appears the Canucks aren't in any hurry to move Schneider this season, preferring to hang onto him to spell off starter Roberto Luongo more often this season. As for Weber, while I wouldn't doubt the Oilers would love to have someone like him patrolling their blueline, they're currently in no hurry to pursue him, nor are the Predators in any hurry to move him.
BLEACHER REPORT: Donald Wood suggested Weber, Calgary's Jarome Iginla and New Jersey's Martin Brodeur could be on the move this season.
SPECTOR'S NOTE: I don't believe Iginla wants to move, nor do I believe Flames management wish to consider that option, at least not during the season. The Predators, as noted earlier, aren't in any hurry to move Weber, and if they're still in the playoff chase by the trade deadline, won't consider it. As for Brodeur, he knows he's coming to the end of his career, having previously acknowledged this, though he didn't rule out perhaps playing one more season after this one, depending on his performance and if there's another lockout. The Devils won't trade him. Period. End of story.


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"There's some backstage drama that you don't know about. I guess there's a problem with the wireless mics and they can hear what we're saying at The Color Purple!"
That was Kristen Schaal speaking to Eugene Mirman onstage last night at the Wilbur Theatre. The two were reconvening after their respective solo sets when Schaal delivered the news of the audio malfunction, presumably discovered while Mirman - he of the booming baritone - was on stage.
Lexington High alum Eugene Mirman and Kristen Schaal, who were on an acclaimed HBO series together, will be doing standup together as well at the Wilbur Theatre later this month. Here, they interview each other, with predictably enjoyable results. Show info is after the jump.


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When Shaun McRae wanted advice on players and the state of the NRL before signing a two-year contract with South Sydney, he turned to an unusual confidant: Sydney Roosters coach Ricky Stuart.
The Rabbitohs confirmed one of league's worst-kept secrets yesterday when Hull's McRae was appointed to take over as coach next year.
It was an example of the old alliances in the game falling apart and others being established. Stuart may coach Souths' sworn enemies but his ties with McRae go back more than 20 years, to when they were both at Canberra.
"Ricky and I are good mates," McRae said last night. "There's a lot of people there from the Canberra days . . . Tim Sheens at Wests Tigers along with Bryan Hider, Craig Bellamy at Melbourne, I think Dean Lance is still on staff [at the Storm].
"Gary Belcher is on staff at the Broncos, I worked with Wayne Bennett in '87.
"I've had a chat to [Ricky] about a couple of things and obviously we've stolen a couple of players off him - Peter Cusack and Shannon Hegarty.
"Rick's just a down-to-earth bloke who would help anybody but when it comes to game plans and tactics and strategies, I think it will be closed shop."
Souths chief executive Shane Richardson said the club's recent penchant for sacking coaches would not continue. "I have been involved with rugby league as an administrator for 16 years and I've never sacked a coach," he said.
Richardson said he had signed a couple of young players whom he couldn't name, and that the only spot to be filled on the full-time staff was a strength and conditioning expert. Assistant coaches Brendan Hurst and Mitch Healey had been told they would not be needed next year.


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You have a fine 9mm in the SR9c...great choice. Like others have said, shoot the other two and buy what feels or seems right. Besides, it won't be long before you buy the other anyway.
This is a discussion on .40 vs .45 within the Defensive Carry Guns forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; I have an S&W .40 that I currently carry, however I am looking forward to upgrading to a 1911 compact .45. I would say stopping ...
I have an S&W .40 that I currently carry, however I am looking forward to upgrading to a 1911 compact .45. I would say stopping power is good enough for both, however I love the accuracy and short trigger pull the 1911 has.
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You have a fine 9mm in the SR9c...great choice. Like others have said, shoot the other two and buy what feels or seems right. Besides, it won't be long before you buy the other anyway.
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The Second Amendment is timeless for our Founders grasped that self-defense is three-fold: every free individual must protect themselves against the evil will of the man, the mob and the state.
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Just a little FYI from me. The SR40 is actually a very smooth shooting .40 caliber gun and since you already have the SR9, the ergonomics will be the same.
Don't remember were I read it but the SR40 is touted as one of the best, smoothest .40 cals to fire. I know mine is!
Lots of good feed back on this for you to digest. I am a fan of both the 45 and 40. My choice for concealed carry is the glock 27 and my XD 45 was my bed side weapon until recently. The 45 has a little bit less perceived recoil than the 40. However after a little time with the 40 it is a very comfortable weapon to shoot. First time I took my Grandson out to shoot pistols he was 11 or 12 years old. Started him on a 22 stepped up to 9 mm, than 40 and 45. He kept grabbing the 40 and shooting it.
Which ever you choose will serve you well. Just remember to practice often.
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
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Hey SFCDan, I've got the Para LDA and I can't say enough good stuff about it. Heaven forbid but I'd stack it next to a Kimber any day. I can say for sure that it's right there with my Colt 1991 and that almost hurts to admit. Give it a look. The DA trigger is pretty slick, very nice touch from the factory.
Sorry for the digressive post.
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Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the Peoples' Liberty's Teeth." - George Washington
Get a 357 sig. Read up the stats on it. I believe it is supreme as a SD round for a pistol.
If there's nothing wrong with the SR9c you have and you shoot it well, I don't see that switching to .40 or .45 is to your benefit. The 9 is fine for SD/HD duty. And, you've already purchased another 9 (Shield), so I don't see why you would need to make the move to a larger caliber.
You have two fine SD guns there. Learn to shoot them well. In fact, shoot the hell out of them. Learn each gun's characteristics. Exploit each gun's advantages and overcome it's weaknesses. IOW, master what you have, before moving onto another caliber and muddying up the waters.
So, if I were to answer the question, (why did you shoot him ten times?). Cause that's how many bullets my gun had in it, wouldn't be good.Originally Posted by SATCHMO1960
As for the .40 or .45 question. Both are awesome defense rounds. I like the .40 myself; carry a Beretta PX4 SC around for awhile now and find both the pistol and the caliber excellent for self defense. A little on the snappy side for sure, but what would ya expect from a round with .357 magnum like firepower..
Yah, me too. I currently have an SR9c and was thinking of getting a SR40c. However, I've shot a SR40 and one of the Glock 40's and it did feel a bit "flippy". But I don't know if a .45 might be too much "kick" regardless.
I also have a SR9c for my edc. But a Kimber Super Carry in .45 is calling me. I would really llike to try the SR40c, just have not had the chance. I want that warm, fuzzy, 1911 feeling too.
In my Glock 23 also carry the Federal 180 grain HST...Wicked rounds they are :) :)
"Be not ye afraid of them: remember the LORD, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses." Nehemiah 4:14
If you don't shoot much why get a second caliber to worry about. 9mm will work for defense.
"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." Thomas Jefferson
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I hope this helps. I have been down this same road many times. I carry 9mm and 38/357. I am not against 45. I see no real ballistic advantage over the 9 or 45 by going with a 40. Most go for a 40 cause they want a small gun. THat is what I did when I went with a glock 23 but cost of ammo was not cool. I rented a 19 and it shot smoother, more accurately, and faster with more roungs. I was sold. I now carry a that glock 19 or my magnum depending on my mood and dress. I have gone throough the 357 sigs and all that it just was not worth the loss in money and time. Stick with what you have and train alot. Work on your accuracy and speed. 9mm is just fine. Most of the pro's I know carry 9mm and when asked why they usually say something like they are secure with thier guns manliness or something smart a@@ed like that. Thier point is with quality of ammo being much better now adays than any other time in the past, good training, etc, you are just as safe with a 9 as any other caliber if you really do research and not listen to arm chair commando's. Plus more ammo on you means more ammo on target more time in a fight.
The human body clean of intoxicants and narcotics can fight to a level of causing serious bodily injury and or death for up to 60 seconds with no functioning heart and just the oxygen levels in the muscles and in the brain. One shot stops is B.S. cause it does not happen. Physics is a pain cause a basic fact for every action there is an opposite reaction and guns are not immune from that so the "knock down power" is false. The only truth with hand guns is when compaired to rifles and shotguns is that they are notoriously unreliable when it comes to stopping a fight, they are inaccurate, they are hard to shoot. The only thing they have going for them is they are small. Hollow points are all designed to meet FBI and other groups standards which are roughly 14" penetration of ballistic gelatin and roughly a 50% or more expantion with zero loss in weight.


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Bryce Dessner, a.k.a. one of five Brooklyn dudes who make those introspective jams that everyone loves, a.k.a. the guitarist of The National, has an announcement. As the Trouble Will Find Me buzz subsides, Dessner is churning up some buzz of his own. This fall, he'll make his debut as a composer on a four-track album, Aheym, out November 5 via Anti.
The album is a collaboration between Dessner and the contemporary classical Kronos Quartet. There's a story behind every musical team-up, and in this case, Dessner originally wrote the album's title track "Aheym" in 2009 for the Quartet's Celebrate Brooklyn! performance. He wrote the song as a tribute to his immigrant grandparents, and more specifically, his grandmother Sarah Dessner.
Tracklist For Aheym:
01. Aheym
02. Little Blue Something
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from string import capwordscapwords('\"this is test\", please tell me.')# output: '\"this Is Test\", Please Tell Me.' ^
Why is it not equal to this? ↓
'\"This Is Test\", Please Tell Me.' ^
How can I do it?
Let's say that I have a two word string and I want to capitalizeboth of them.
name <- c("zip code", "state", "final count")
Hmisc package has a function
capitalize which capitalized the first word, but I'm not surehow to get the second word capitalized. The help page for
capitalize doesn't suggest that it can perform that task.
library(Hmisc)capitalize(name)# [1] "Zip code" "State" "Final count"
I want to get:
c("Zip Code", "State", "Final Count")
What about three-word strings:
name2 <- c("I like pizza")
I am learning Java on my own and practicing using online exercises. I have only learned up until methods thus far so using an array for this exercise is beyond my scope, even though several solutions online use arrays to do what I want.
The exercise is this: Have the user enter a string with vowels. Wherever there is a vowel letter, display that vowel as a capital letter.
Example: If the user enters "apples", the correct output is ApplEs
I have this code so far:
import java.util.Scanner;public class CapitalizeVowels { public static void main(String[] args) { Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in); System.out.print("Enter a string ~ "); String string = keyboard.nextLine(); for (int i = 0; i < string.length(); i++) { System.out.print(string.charAt(i)); if (string.charAt(i) == 'a' || string.charAt(i) == 'e' || string.charAt(i) == 'i' || string.charAt(i) == 'o' || string.charAt(i) == 'u') { char upperCaseVowel = Character.toUpperCase(string.charAt(i)); System.out.print(upperCaseVowel); // need to replace string.charAt(i) with upperCaseVowel // find something to replace characters } } }}
When I run my code as it is, with the input string "apples", for example, I get "aAppleEs" as my output. Both the lower case vowels and the upper case vowels are being printed. I am thinking that I should replace string.charAt(i) which is the lower case vowel with upperCaseVowel but I can't find any replace() method or something to that effect for characters. I tried other things like StringBuilder, etc. but I haven't come across a solution that is simple enough to avoid arrays as I didn't learn them yet. Any help on how I can get to the proper output is highly appreciated. Thanks!
How do I make the first letter of a string uppercase, but not change the case of any of the other letters?
For example:
I want capitalize first character of string in angularjs
As i used
{{ uppercase_expression | uppercase}} it convert whole string to upper case.
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The apartment consists of two rooms, one of which is connected with a kitchenette, a hallway, a bathroom with a shower cabin and a toilet. To sleep on you will have two single beds that can be joined together to form a double bed and a double sofa bed in one of the rooms and also another double convertible sofa in the other room. The rooms have access to a sunny balcony overlooking the gardens of the Order of the Carmelites and church towers nearby. It is an ideal place to relax in peace and tranquility after a busy day; here you will also hear the bells coming from the St Mary's Basilica.
Electric cooker, Refrigerator, Electric kettle, Microvawe oven, Iron, Crockery and Cutlery
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The appartment is nice but maybe too small for 8 people. Martin is a nice host, and the location is good. Everything was ok.
A very conveniently placed flat between old square and the castle, practically very close to every historic place. Flat is also well furbished with enough space up to three peoples. Downstairs there is a bakery where you can have a fresh breakfast.
So all fine, the only think is the communication (slow in reply) which need to be improved.
Another trip to Krakow and another fantastic opportunity, good location, clean, good style and overall good service. If so gladly recommend this apartment and this landlord
Endnu en tur til Krakow og endnu en fantastik lejlighed , god beliggenhed, rent , god stil og total god service . Vil så gerne anbefale denne lejlighed og denne udlejer ,
+ The apartment has super location !!!!! - No washing machine, no elevator, bad beds.
+ Leiligheten har super beliggenhet!!!!! - ikke oppvaskemaskin, ikke heis, dårlige senger.
The apartment met our expectations but the agency that managed the Windu and were below it. I never received a reply to my emails custom in number 5. We gave RV outside the apartment but no one came because the address of the apartment and that the agency that manages were false . We were very lucky to find it after several hours.
L'appartement a répondu à nos attentes mais l'agence qui le gérait et Windu étaient en dessous de tout. Je n'ai jamais reçu de réponse personnalisées à mes mails au nombre de 5. Nous avions donné RV devant l'appartement mais personne n'est venu puisque l'adresse de l'appartement et celle de l'agence qui le gère étaient fausses. Nous avons eu beaucoup de chance de le trouver au bout de plusieurs heures.
The apartment was very centrally located in Krakow. It was furnished with all the important things (coffee maker, hair dryer, ironing board, Wäschständer) and clean. A toaster would have been great. The balcony chairs and the table should be replaced, as they are very shook and were no longer stable. All the main attractions could be easily reached on foot.
In the same house could tours (eg Auschwitz etc.) are booked.
Overall, highly recommended!
Many Thanks!
Das Apartment lag sehr zentral in Krakau. Es war mit allen wichtigen Dingen (Kaffeemaschine, Haartrockner, Bügelbrett, Wäschständer) eingerichtet und sauber. Ein Toaster wäre toll gewesen. Die Balkonstühle und der Tisch sollten ausgetauscht werden, da sie sehr wackelten und nicht mehr stabil waren. Alle wichtigen Sehenswürdigkeiten konnten gut zu Fuss erreicht werden.
Im gleichen Haus konnten Touren (z.B. Auschwitz etc.) gebucht werden.
Insgesamt absolut empfehlenswert!
Vielen Dank!
Amazing apartment! Unbeatable location.
Increíble apartamento! Localización inmejorable.
Very good downtown
Muy bien céntrico
An amazing apartment, very well located new and clean and tidy! Repeat
Un apartamento increíble, muy bien situado limpio y nuevo y ordenado! Repetiremos
A good size clean and quiet apartment. Slight smell coming from the bathroom and the pictures are from the flat below (we think) not the top floor one where we stayed as the kitchen is slightly different. However this didnt affect our stay. Great views, location and the staff were very helpful finding us a cot at short notice and sorting the cable TV late in the evening.
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Subsequently, Curran moved to Dallas where he quickly immersed himself in the city's vibrant blues traditions as well as the roots music scene in Austin. It was during this time that Curran toured with retro-country sensation Wayne Hancock. Citing such influences as Wynonie Harris, Otis West, Roy Brown, and many other postwar blues and rock & roll artists, Curran released his solo album debut, Fixin' Your Head, in 2000. Recording live, single takes on vintage equipment, Curran has cultivated an impressive retro '50s jump blues sound that is only enhanced by his predilection for vintage clothes and Nu-Nile pomade. Nitelife Boogie followed in 2001 and further solidified Curran's reputation as one of the most authentic and exciting roots musicians of his generation.
In a move that garnered him a slightly higher profile, Curran signed with legit-blues label Blind Pig Records in 2002 and released his third album the following year. Featuring more of Curran's old-school blues and R&B, Doctor Velvet found the still twenty-something artist branching out into Delta blues, reworking the Sonics' garage rock classic "Shot Down," and performing alongside one of his musical idols, original Fabulous Thunderbirds guitarist Jimmie Vaughan. Further accolades followed in 2004 as Curran received the W.C. Handy Award for Best New Artist Debut and released his fourth album, Player!
Toward the latter stages of the tour promoting Player!, Curran parted ways with his longtime Nitelifes rhythm section of ex-Fabulous Thunderbirds bassist Preston Hubbard and drummer Damien Llanes. Ironically, Curran then joined vocalist Kim Wilson's latest incarnation of the Fabulous Thunderbirds in time to record the band's 2005 release Painted On.
After leaving the T-Birds, Curran formed the punk-blues combo Deguello with T-Birds' bassist Ronnie James Weber, and played in various side projects including the old-school punk- and garage-influenced band the Flash Boys before relaunching his solo career.
In 2009, Curran was diagnosed with oral cancer. He was undergoing treatment when he released his fifth studio album, 2010's Reform School Girl, on Eclecto Groove Records. In late 2010, doctors deemed him cancer-free. However, in 2011 the cancer returned and Curran once again went through a round of chemotherapy. Curran celebrated his 35th birthday and was undergoing more treatment for his cancer when he died on October 6, 2012. ~ Matt Collar, Rovi
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Am I ready ( one direction fan Fic)
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#1 Sep 10, 2012
Hope u enjoy (note: this may not be apropetite for younger ages)
#2 Sep 10, 2012
Desiree's POV
I was gonna jump and end this torture forever. I tweeted my last goodbyes to my all time favorite band one direction. They had helped me this far but now it's too much to handle. I was gonna do it. I was gonna end my life. I jumped into the Ice cold water below. I felt something hit my head then it all went black.
#3 Sep 10, 2012
When I get 1 comment I will continue. Btw if u want 2 b in my story u name the guy ( not Harry or Niall) and I might pick u!!!;)
#4 Sep 10, 2012
Plz comment if u do I'll let u in my story if u comment 1st 2nd 0r 3 rd I'll let u pick from the guys minus Harry and Niall :)
#5 Sep 10, 2012
It's good write mOre please...
#6 Sep 10, 2012
Can I be lou's Gf .... Please
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#8 Sep 10, 2012
Thanks I will!!!!!
#9 Sep 10, 2012
I woke up to someone blOwing air into my lungs. I could here their husky yet familiar voice. He was yelling " breathe, breathe. For me please!" it sounded like he was crying. I coughed uP water and opened my eyes. My vision was blurry and I couldn't see anything. I heard the stranger he said" thank god, are you okay"?!!? I tried to run away but I just managed tO stand up. I touched my head and my hand got wet. I looked down at my hand... Blood. Suddenly I felt weak and collapsed, I closed my eyes and my head hit the ground again, this time even harder. I passed out from pain the second time today.
#10 Sep 10, 2012
Yes u may!!:)
#11 Sep 10, 2012
Stranger POV
I was at dinner with my lads and I excused myself for fresh air by the bridge.all the sudden I see the most beautiful girl I had ever seen standing on the edge. I was walking over to be careful and ask her her name, but then she jumped.....
Sorry it's soo short I ran outa ideas since this one is soo short I only want five comments to continue!:)
#12 Sep 10, 2012
Never mind here's more!!!
#13 Sep 10, 2012
YO here it is
Am I ready?
Stranger POV
I saw her sinking into the water not even struggling. I waded into the water and dragged her out. Her head was bleeding badly I knew she was gonna need stitches. I layer her on the grass. She wasn't breathing. I plugged her nose and blew into her mouth. Again and again, nothing happened. I tried one more time thankfully she spit up water. " thank god, are you okay"?!?! She didn't reply she just stood. I was suprised to see she could in her condition. She touched her head then started getting a little tipsy. She fell on the ground just before I could catch her and she passed out again.
#14 Sep 10, 2012
More!!!!! Can I be Liam or Harry gf?
#15 Sep 10, 2012
U can b Liam's gf :)
#16 Sep 10, 2012
Desiree POV
I heard a rumbling sound. I opened my eyes to find out that I was in a car. And my head was on somebody's lap. I tried to open my eyes but I couldn't. I lifted my head up but it was quickly pushed down by somebody... But who? " keep your head down love, Liam said not to let you move." his accent was amazing but who's Liam? I open my eyes to see that I was only in my bra and underwair. I looked around and saw five boys staring at me. Who could they be? Wait...did he say Liam, that means that... No it can't be... It is... Omg I'm in a car with one direction and my head is in Harry styles lap! I hear Niall say "she's awake"! Liam shushed him" shush, you'll make her sick with all this yelling. Then I fall back asleep. In my sleep I could here the boys talking " Liam do you think she'll live"? Harry asked worried." I dont. Know her heads still bleeding pretty badly and we almost to the hospital it could go either way...". " oh god I hope she makes it she sure it a beaut"Niall said. "guys her head started bleeding again we need something to stop it" 'doctor' Liam said. Then I heard tearing of fabric and I felt someone tying cloth to my head. " uhhhh"I moaned from the pain. Then I felt Harry rub my back and say" it's okay we're almost to the hospital, love. And with that I go to sleep and wake and I couldn't breathe. It felt like suicide all over again.
AN Hope u like love u all it's kinda funny how I came up with this story cuz I was just sitting in art class today wAiting for the teacher to come check my work and I started writing classy right!;) LLN
#17 Sep 10, 2012
Thank u so much!!:) btw I luv ur story
Paris, Canada
#18 Sep 10, 2012
Keep going please
#19 Sep 10, 2012
So classy!!! Write more!!!!:D lol
#20 Sep 10, 2012
Thanks but cuz I just came up with it today I'm stuck soo I'll upload more tonite or tomarow afternoon cuz I have school
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The ice pack strapped to Scott Campbell's left thigh as he slumps against the wall of the Pakuranga rugby club's changing rooms will become a familiar companion over the next month.
New Zealand's best baseballer will need it to help keep the pain at bay as he pushes his body where he knows only too well it struggles to go.
Campbell found out the hard way his body simply can't take the rigours of day-in, day-out baseball.
Having taken him to within spitting distance of becoming this country's first major leaguer, it failed him at the final hurdle.
Drafted by the Blue Jays in 2006 after a stellar college career with Gonzaga, Campbell scorched through the minor leagues.
After two and a half seasons feasting on lower level pitching he was selected for the 2008 MLB All Star Futures game - the annual contest that showcases baseball's best emerging talent.
The starting infield for the international team at Yankee Stadium that year was Pablo Sandoval, who hit three home runs for the Giants in the opening game of the just completed World Series; current Angels short stop and two-time All Star Elvis Andrus; Ivan De Jesus, who made his Major League debut last year for the Dodgers and is now with the Red Sox - and Campbell.
Not hard to spot the tough luck story there. While his contemporaries kicked on, Campbell's dream quickly hit the skids.
Troubled by pain in his hip, he initially tried to battle through. But his performance declined and he eventually hit the DL [disabled list].
After a couple of aborted comebacks he sat out the entire 2010 season. Then he broke down in spring training, missing all of 2011. After two years of surgeries and failed rehabilitations, he accepted the game was up.
Like Travis Wilson before him - who toiled for eight years in the minors without breaking through - Campbell was destined to be an oh-so-close story.
He announced his retirement in March.
"I knew I was making the right decision," he says.
Like Wilson, Campbell likely came within a phone call of a call up to the Bigs. Coming so close to realising his dream doesn't eat at him, he insists.
"At the end of the day the only thing that matters to me is that I know I could have played at that level, competed and been a good player. But there are lots of guys who never had that opportunity and could have done the same thing. It's frustrating but I've got to be happy with everything I did leading up to that point. It is what it is now."
The chance to play a key role in the birth of this country's national baseball team is certainly some consolation. He's had a cortisone shot and believes he can get through the rigours of a six-game build-up tour of Australia and a four-match tournament in Taiwan.
"I know there are going to be some rough days ahead but that's okay," he says.
"Having this opportunity to get out there and perform for my country is kind of special. It may be my last chance. Who knows what the hip is going to do over the next couple of years. I'm looking forward to it. It's going to be a good ride."
How successfully Campbell and fellow Major League prospects Boss Moanaroa and Daniel Devonshire can patrol the infield will be crucial to the Diamond Blacks' chances. The Asian teams they will play won't possess huge power, but will put the ball in play and place huge pressure on the infield.
While Campbell's shot at the big time has passed, it is simply a matter of time until a Kiwi breaks through, he says.
"A lot of guys in the minor leagues are good enough to play at Major League level. It's just when the timing is right. I know it is going to happen. We've got a lot of good players here and a handful of them at least would be able to play at the Major League level."
If they are good enough they will certainly get spotted at the Classic, says Diamond Blacks manager Andy Skeels - the first New Zealand-born player to be drafted by a Major League club when he was signed by by the San Diego Padres in 1987.
"I don't care where you are on this planet, if you can play, Major League Baseball wants to see you," Skeels says.
"And the World Baseball Classic is 'pull the curtains back and let's see what's been hiding there all these years'. [Our players] are going to get a chance to be looked at by scouts from every single major league organisation. It is a huge, huge opportunity for these kids."
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When Rabbi Marjorie Slome, the new rabbi at the West End Temple, moved away from counseling to go back to the pulpit, she expected lots of challenges, but not the one that she faced on her first day at West End.
"I was scheduled for my first service on Sunday, January 23," she told The Wave in a wide-ranging interview. "As we all know, the night before it snowed more than a foot. My service was called off and I had to wait to meet my new congregants. It was not an auspicious start."
Rabbi Slome, who is married to a specialist in anti-Semitism and extremism for the American Jewish Congress and who is the mother of a 13-year-old boy and an 11-year-old girl, admits that she does not have much experience with Rockaway.
She says that she came to the peninsula and to West End Temple about 17 years ago for a conference following Thanksgiving. She had a date with David Stern, the man who would later become her husband, and she was in a rush to get going.
"I remember telling the rabbi that was running the conference to speak quicker, that I had a date," she says with a laugh. She does remember, however that Rabbi Joseph Weiss was one of the leaders of the conference and she thinks of him with reverence.
Slome, a Cincinnati native, has been "pulpit free" for many years, working in Brooklyn with unaffiliated families and in an interfaith outreach program. She was the director of the Brownstone Brooklyn Jewish Coalition.
During that time, she authored many articles on Judaism for those seeking to convert to the faith and co-authored a popular book, "Introduction to Judaism," a book that is often considered as "Judaism 101" by experts in the field.
Lawrence Epstein, the President of the Conversion to Judaism Resource Center said that the book "Provides an excellent gateway to Jewish life, particularly for those who are choosing to become Jewish as well as born Jews who see an adult re-connection to their heritage."
Slome says that it was time for her to leave that focus and get back to the pulpit, although she says she will still do outreach to the unaffiliated Jewish families in Rockaway.
"I have some strengths in that area," she said with a smile.
When she was ready to go back to the pulpit, she says, she looked for a "good fit professionally" and adds that Rockaway seems to be that fit.
"The rabbinate is difficult and challenging," she says, "more so than outreach."
"Every rabbi defines his or her own focus," she adds. "Mine not only focuses on unaffiliated families, but teaching and pastoral duties."
When asked what changes she plans to make at the synagogue, she said, with a twinkle in her eye, that she wanted to change the soda machine from Pepsi to Coke and that she had to ask for a change in the by-laws.
"The temple's by-laws talk about the rabbi – he," she said. "We have to change that to reflect the fact that the rabbi can be a she as well."
Slome replaces Rabbi Melvyn May, who was with West End for about three years. So, was she surprised that West End, which has never had a female leader in the past, chose her for its pulpit?
"I'm really not sure whether I was surprised," she answered. "Women in the pulpit in Reform Synagogues is pretty standard stuff now. Twenty years ago, it might have raised some eyebrows, but today, I don't think so."
"I guess that it's going to be a little different for some people," she added, "but I have been treated well be everyone. I have received a very warm welcome."
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Todd Lyscio begins July 1 as the executive director at Crosslake Community School.
He joins the school with 29 years of experience in education and education-related fields.
Lyscio will succeed Tami Martin, who resigned to take a position as superintendent of schools at Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop in southern Minnesota.
During his career, Lyscio has served as a classroom teacher, counselor, coach, activities director, middle school assistant principal, high school principal, director of community education and, most recently, as the head of a regional education service agency.
Lyscio has expressed excitement over his return to a role that allows him to be in more direct contact with students, their families and the staff who daily impact their education. He said he is thrilled to work in an environment that seems to have a strong emphasis on whole-child development as well as a desire to impact the community in which the school is located.
Knowing that a key element of Crosslake Community School, as with other charter schools, is innovation, Lyscio looks forward to working in a setting that promotes creativity and collaboration among students and staff.
In addition, he looks forward to connecting with a community that has already demonstrated a high level of support, given the success of the recent fundraising event held at Moonlite Bay.
Lyscio and his wife, Connie, live in Baxter, where she teaches for the Brainerd schools. They have two sons: Tom, a graduate student at St. Scholastica in Duluth; and Mike, a freshman at Brainerd High School.
When not working, Lyscio enjoys music, golf, skiing, reading and time with the family and their two dogs, Riglee and Roo.
Crosslake Community School will host a meet and greet from 6:30-8 p.m. Tuesday, July 9, to provide the community and Crosslake Community School families the opportunity to meet Lyscio. Refreshments will be provided.


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A comedy-drama about the Women's Army Corps, Keep Your Powder Dry (1945) is a distaff version of the "buddy" movie about servicemen and was credited with a slight rise in WAC recruitment around the country during World War II. The movie focuses on three young women who have joined up for very different reasons. The debutante (Lana Turner) is trying to prove she's worthy of the family fortune and plans to leave the service once she has the money safely in hand. The "Army brat" (Laraine Day) is following family tradition. And the soldier's wife (Susan Peters) just wants to be near her husband.
The debutante and the Army professional cannot abide each other - a relationship reportedly not unlike that on the set between Turner and Day. In the movie, the conflict grows sharper after Day is promoted to cadet commander and abuses her rank to make Turner's life miserable. It takes tragedy to bring the women together and inspire their total commitment to the Corps.
Keep Your Powder Dry has been called "a fairly authentic look" at the WACs, although MGM's glossy style dictated that the women's off-duty clothing be unrealistically glamorous. In her autobiography, Lana (1982), Turner's memories of the movie center on costume designer Irene. Turner wrote that during pre-production she received a studio memo of reprimand about missing many of her wardrobe appointments - even though it was Irene who was not showing up. When the actress went to studio head Louis B. Mayer to defend herself, she was told that the memo was a face-saving device for Irene, who was an alcoholic but so valuable to MGM that the studio was willing to bear with her problems and delays. Turner wrote of Irene, "One day her sad life ended when she jumped from the window of a suite in the Knickerbocker Hotel on Hollywood Boulevard. She didn't hit the pavement but landed on the awning, dead, and they didn't find her for two days."
Co-star Susan Peters, who once commented that "Luck is the most frightening thing in the world," also had a tragic life. Shortly after filming Keep Your Powder Dry she suffered a severe spinal injury from a hunting accident caused by a shotgun that left her paralyzed from the waist down. After attempting a comeback in a wheelchair in The Sign of the Ram (1948), she died of starvation in 1952 at age 31. Peters, Oscar-nominated as Best Supporting Actress for Random Harvest (1942), became a character in a play by Richard Willett, also called Random Harvest, that was produced in New York in 2001.
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