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Betcha didn't know that the Torah has lots to say about sustainable farming practices. Parshat Behar has a lot to say about how to sow fields, prune vineyards, and reap crops.
Organic farmer Emily Freed explains these biblical laws of the land in down-to-earth language. So get your hands, or at least your ears, dirty!
Gratitude for the Parshat Behar Animated Short
Gratitude for the Parshat Behar Animated Short
Each week, a different storyteller – some musical, some poetic, some just straight-up, tell the story of the current weekly Torah portion…and then we animate it! This particular Parashat haShavua (פָּרָשַׁת הַשָּׁבוּעַ or "weekly Torah portion") video is Episode 32 from Parshat Behar (בְּהַר "on the mount" Leviticus 25:1–26:2). Jewish interpretation is often very specific. There are a myriad of Jewish subcultures and people, and the interpretations in this series explores the array of thoughts that our diverse set of storytellers and contributors have on Torah. To see more of the videos in this series, please take a look at our collection here on our site or on our YouTube channel!
A very special thank you to each of the writers, narrators, producers, directors, sound engineers, musicians, educational advisors, artists and animators that contributed to this particular animated interpretation of Parshat Behar including Tim Cosgrove, Nick Fox-Gieg, Liesje Kraai, Sarah Lefton, Matthue Roth, and Emily Freed. Additional thanks to all of our generous funders that contributed to the G‑dcast Parashat haShavua animated series.


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Security firm 'lost contract unfairly'
A security service provider yesterday complained he had lost a contract to a company that did not have a licence to operate.
Security guard Stephen Ciangura said that he bid to offer security services on New Year's Eve at the national event organised in Valletta and Floriana.
However, the contract was given to Joseph Attard and Paul Dimech, who, Mr Ciangura said, did not have a permit to operate because they had not paid the police licence for three years.
In a judicial protest filed against the Valletta local council, Mr Attard and Mr Dimech, Mr Ciangura – who owns Executive Security Services Ltd – said that his company had always operated according to law and had all the required licences and permits to do so.
He said the security company owned by Mr Attard was being liquidated and was not even covered by insurance, as was necessary by all security firms.
The situation was prejudicial to his company, he argued, because while his company was in line with the law and observed the conditions imposed, the other was not, Mr Ciangura said.
Lawyers José Herrera and Veronique Dalli signed the protest.
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Almost every Super Mario game has Mario (and occasionally, Luigi) running around various worlds in order to save the Princess. She's portrayed as a dainty, helpless little princess who does nothing but wait for Mario to save her from the clutches of Bowser.
But what if the tables are turned? What if it's the princess who has to go and save Mario from wherever he's currently being help captive by the bad guys? That's the possibility Gary Bedell explores in 'He Just Might Be in Another Castle', which features the bad-ass princess riding an equally bad-ass Yoshi and is now available on a shirt.
Hit the break for a closer look at the design.
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According to the telegraph, 50 year old Radivoke Lajic says his "house being hit by rocks from space was the result of an extraterrestrial grudge."
"I am obviously being targeted by extraterrestrials," he said. "I don't know what I have done to annoy them but there is no other explanation that makes sense. "The chance of being hit by a meteorite is so small that getting hit six times has to be deliberate."
Certainly one of the most improbable situations we've seen in some time. Is there something special about the village of Gornji Lajici in northern Bosnia (near Prijedor)? (See the video of a supposed UFO sighting in Prijedor at the bottom of this post.) Why do the meteor strikes always happen when it is raining?
The first meteorite struck his house in November 2007. Scientists at Belgrade University have confirmed that the rocks are all meteorites.
"I have no doubt I am being targeted by aliens," he said. "They are playing games with me. I don't know why they are doing this. When it rains I can't sleep for worrying about another strike." Mr Lajic has reinforced his roof with steel for fear that a meteor may hit his house.
He paid for the steel girder by selling one of the meteorites to a university in the Netherlands.
I have to give him credit for that. Talk about turning a misfortune into something positive.
" … I have had so many visitors that I plan to make a small museum in my back garden." Mr Lajic first hit the headlines two years ago, when the fifth meteorite struck his house. Scientists are now studying magnetic fields around the property to try and explain the frequency of the strikes.
via Man claims aliens targeted his home with meteorites – Telegraph.
I'm curious about the angle of impact and the speed at which these objects were traveling. Someone obtaining real meteorites and then shooting them at his house seems more likely to me.
Not to give anyone any ideas, but cloud cover when it rains would hide someone in a blimp with a huge slingshot. Yes, an attack by a stealthy human blimp pilot is very unlikely, but it beats the odds of both aliens and natural recurring meteorite hits.
Here are some links to the 2008 reports:
Daily Mail.
At least the aliens targeting Mr. Lajic have poor aim. It took only one try for them to hit Mrs. E. "annie" H. Hodges. See my article from 2001 about a woman who was hit by a meteor while at home.
" … about 25 million meteoroids hit Earth's atmosphere every day. And while most of them burn away to nothing." – mentalfloss
What are the odds of being killed by a meteor? It is slightly more likely that you will die from being hit by a meteor than in a terrorist attack… which is to say, don't worry about it.
" Astronomer Alan Harris has made that calculation. Allowing for the number of Earth-crossing asteroids — the kind that can hit us because their orbits around the Sun intersect ours — as well as how much damage they can do (which depends on their size), he calculated that any person's lifetime odds of being killed by an asteroid impact are about 1 in 700,000. " – discover
Put another way …
"… statistically speaking, some poor Brit would be squashed by a heavenly body every 7,000 years or so. … Once in every million years, we should expect a meteorite strike that would kill 500 people." – telegraph
Of course, if the meteorites are of the rare iron type (doesn't look like it in the photo) then they are probably just being attracted by the secret underground government super magnet under his house. What? You haven't heard about the new super magnets? This article is several years old and the classified stuff is usually many years ahead:
Using the strongest materials known to man, scientists are building the most powerful electromagnet in the world — one that won't blow up a split second after it's turned on. The entire magnet will be a combination of coil sets weighing nearly 18,000 pounds and powered by jolts from a massive 1,200-megajoules motor generator. Once activated, the new magnet should be about two million times more powerful than the average refrigerator magnet. – discovery
Yes, I know about the inverse square law, but think about how we can now focus beams of sound like lasers. Do that with a super magnet and you'd have a tractor beam, right? (See this.
Getting back to the aliens, however, a post of my post of the telegraph article posted over on the David Icke site says there was a UFO sighting in the area where the man lives.
Looks fairly hoax like, you can never tell with the great software available today, but fun to believe anyway:


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" Manufacturer: Crusha / Type: Milkshake "
I've long been a fan of the Crusha milkshakes. In my opinion you really can't beat the old favourites - strawberry, banana etc. However I'm open to new avenues of adventure and so when I saw this flavour on offer at the local supermarket, I decided to give it a shot.
Now, when new flavours bounce onto the market we have to ask ourselves why they weren't there in the line up in the first place. Moreover why don't we really see much mixing of any citrus with milk. Sure there are a few exceptions but by and large milk takes a detour around the citrus family.
The bottle I purchased was smaller than the one illustrated above, so I wouldn't have so much to plough through if I decided it wasn't all that good.
Crusha works in the same way that a normal dilute juice does. That is to say, you add a small amount to a glass then add your chosen milk. So you pour your lime crusha into the glass and wow is it green. But this obviously dies down to a light 'mint' green (or however Dulux would put it) once you add your milk. Make sure the milk is damn cold, damn damn cold. Don't argue, just do so.
The taste. Well, if 'whelmed' isn't a word then it should be. I was neither over nor under-whelmed. I was a little disappointed to be honest. I'm not sure what I was expecting to be honest or whether I was ever going to like it. But frankly it wasn't so awful I wanted to throw it away, nor was it so good that I wanted another glass of it afterwards. I suppose I'm leaning towards being underwhelmed by the experience.
There was a lime taste and there was the sweetness from the sheer amount of sugar in this stuff, but it just didn't seem right.
Individuals can add as much or as little crusha as they like so obviously the 'tang' of the lime will be different for different folks.
Bottom line is that I just don't think I'm a fan of lime milkshake.
This flavour milkshake was a limited edition, and currently isn't on offer at the moment. However these things usually come in cycles and will almost certainly make another appearance in the future, whereupon I will probably buy another bottle to figure out if I like it or not.
I am So glad I decided on a change yesterday and went shopping to Morrisons for a change as I found the limited edition lime flavoured Crusha milk shake mix.
I joined a Facebook group last year to try and reinstate this flavour as it was discontinued many years ago. Glad to find out that the power of facebook got the company to bring it back as a limited edition.
I used to love this flavour as a youngster but like the Wispa and secret Chocolate bars they became a thing of the past.
Crusha is made by the silver spoon sugar company.
Lime milkshake is so refreshingly nice but I bet some people will be pulling a face at this thought right now. I mean you wouldn't have a lemon milkshake would you, No way yuck, But lime is different.
This comes in a 500ml plastic bottle, which used to be glass in the old days lol.
The mix is a dark green colour liquid syrup mix not powder which when put with milk turns into a mint colour. You add the amount of mix to your own preference. More if you like it stronger less for weaker.
My partner wouldn't even try to taste this after saying it smelt like cleaning fluid. Honestly I wouldn't like it so much if it did. The taste is hard to describe as not a lot of products contain lime. I find it very refreshing to drink and I made a huge glass as soon as got home from shopping and added some ice to make it extra cold. It isn't overly sweet and definitely not sour either.
A seller is selling these on Ebay for £4 a bottle, he is cashing on on them being a limited edition and not everyone is aware they are back in the shops. I didn't know and hadn't checked the facebook group that states where they are now available.
From what I understand these are currently available in Tesco, Morrisons and Waitrose. They are priced around the £1.50 mark, Possibly cheaper if on offer.
I don't know how long these will be back on the shelves but I hope like the Wispa bar they become permanent.
These are good to help kids get their calcium in take due to the milk. Other flavours available from Crusha are strawberry, Raspberry,Banana & chocolate.
Water, Sugar, Lime Juice from Concentrate (12%), Natural Flavouring, Colours (Mixed Carotenes, Copper Chlorophyll), Preservative (Potassium Sorbate), Acidity Regulator (Trisodium Citrate), Sweetener (Sodium Saccharin).
25ml of syrup with 175ml semi skimmed milk is worth 116 calories.
Hope those that have turned their nose up at this flavour will give it a try.
Crusha Lime disappeared from the shop shelves for a while so I was very pleased when I saw it in Tesco at the weekend on offer of 2 for £2 , this was on all the different flavours
It comes in a plastic bottle and cant really be missed as its green ! and at the present moment has limited edition on the bottle wrapper I wish I was able to put a picture on the review as the current label looks nothing like the above picture , the bottle top is a screw top which keeps the unused amount fresh
Its not really necessary to keep the mix in the fridge but it helps to keep it chilled to add to milk , I use semi skimmed milk and for an extra treat at times add some ice cream to make it a little bit thicker
I have to say at times I feel the 25ml of mix to 175 ml of milk although it turns the milk green ( in a good way) it might be a bit too weak in taste for some people I tend to use 35ml to my milk as I like it a little bit stronger
When you open the bottle you can smell the lime scent and taste it when you mix the two together you may find it rather sweet , however its a matter of taste , and can be adjusted by the amount you add to the milk
I mix the two of them together in my food processor and it adds a bit of air so it is almost a cheeper version of the more expensive fast food versions especially if you add the ice cream !! but of course adds a bit to the waist band !
The bottle claims to make 20 servings but Id say that depends on how strong or weak you want the flavour , it is also a very watery mix so care needs to be taken not to pour half a bottle into the one cup !
This has to be my favourite flavour closely followed by raspberry , and makes milk more enjoyable to drink and as we all know milk is a good source of calcium .
**Introduction and reason for purchase**
My older son Kieran has always been a big milk drinker but trying to encourage his younger brother Zak to drink more of the white stuff has been a battle since he was more or less born as he's just not a fan. He drinks water generally with a small glass or two or fresh orange thrown in daily, though recently due to several bouts of tonsillitis he was finding orange juice too sharp to drink so I suggested he tried some Crusha flavouring in some milk. To my surprise he gladly agreed and has been a fan ever since.
I've purchased all of the Crusha flavours at one time or another as I adore plain milk myself, but now and again I do like a milkshake as it is a nice tasty treat, and as the Lime one is currently Zak's favourite it is the one I have in at the moment and which my review will now focus on.
**What is it?**
Crusha is the brand name for a liquid mix which is available in several different flavours and when added to milk creates milkshakes. The brand has been around for many years now and features cats on their adverts which are known as the Crusha Crew and all have names - Zoe, Milly, Archie, Louie and Errol (apparently).
As well as the Lime flavour which I'm currently reviewing there are also several different flavours available including:
*Cherry & Vanilla
The brand has recently introduced a range of desserts including milkshake puddings and jelly though I haven't tried any of the desserts so can't comment on them, whereas I've tested out all of the milkshake mixes at some point or another.
**Price, packaging and availability**
Crusha is packaged in a fully recyclable plastic bottle and comes in one size which holds 500ml. The colouring of the packaging is dependent on which flavour you have chosen to buy and as the one I'm reviewing is the Lime flavour it will come as no surprise to learn the bottle has a white background with a bright green hue to it. The packaging is extremely eye catching due to it's flamboyant colouring so really stands out amongst it's competitors on the supermarket shelves, and I have to admit I've never had to search for it as it's stood out immediately so the designers have got it spot on there. The bottle is upright standing and is in the shape of an old fashioned milk bottle, whilst the drink is accessible via an easy to unscrew plastic lid and when first bought there is a removable plastic seal for freshness.
I bought my Lime Crusha from Morrisons as it is the only place locally to me that stocks a large range of their flavours. My most recent bottle was bought for me via my mum and cost £1.19 as it was on offer, though the usual RRP is around the £2 mark depending on where you shop.
Lime is considered to be a 'limited' flavour though I've been buying it for many years now on a fairly consistent basis (mainly from Morrisons) and have yet struggled to find it.
**Taste and appearance**
The lime milkshake mix has a watery consistency and is transparent with a dark green hue. As soon as you undo the lid and remove the foil covering the lime aroma is quite overpowering and though it gives off a very blatant citrus blast it's also softened by a sweet sugary scent.
**My experience (and Zak's) of drinking Crusha**
I love milk and every evening I either drink a half pint of cows milk or soya milk, depending if we have any in. Although I love the taste of milk 'plain' I do enjoy a milkshake now and again so I often have milkshake mixes in my cupboard and Crusha tends to be my choice of mix as I find it tasty and easy to use. I used to buy powdered milkshake mixes years ago (Nesquik was a particular favourite) but found it time consuming waiting for the powder to dissolve in comparison with a liquid based formula that mixed instantly with little effort, and so my love affair with Crusha began from there.
A few months ago I had both the Lime and the Cherry & Vanilla flavours in my cupboard and was using the latter to make myself a milkshake when my son Zak said he wanted to have a taste. He's never been a big fan of milk, though as he eats plenty of dairy products this never concerned me too much, but I was pleased in his interest in a milk based drink so gladly offered him a taste. This went down a treat, but he said he thought he would like the lime flavour better and after trying it he was hooked and so it's the flavour I've been buying ever since.
What I like the most about Crusha is how quick and easy it is to use. The instructions on the back of the bottle inform us to mix 25ml of Crusha with 175ml of cold milk though I play it by ear and depending on how much milk I'm using I simply add enough to create the required taste. Because the lime flavour is very strong I find it to be the most economical of the flavours as you only need a very small amount for big results, making the mix last much longer than the other flavours (in my opinion anyway).
Once you pour the mix into milk it falls quite heavily to the bottom of the glass and so at first the milk appears to be only the palest hint of green, but a quick swizzle with a spoon soon turns the milk into an almost emerald green colour so again go for the 'less is more' as it tastes too strong otherwise and more can always be added if not strong enough at first. I can drink milk at room temperature but when I use this lime mix it tastes superior when added to cold milk and is so refreshing, especially on a hot day.
On sipping the milkshake I always notice the lime tang that hits the back of my throat but is softened by a sweet sugary aftertaste, though I hastened to add is not too sweet. I find that milk, as much as I love it, can be a bit 'claggy' but when I drink it with the lime added it always tastes smoother and is very thirst quenching.
I'm not a fan of printing lengthy ingredients lists in my reviews but feel when it comes to food and drink I think it is needed to some extent, though feel free to skip the following.
Each 25ml serving has:
Calories - 116
Protein - 6g
Carbohydrates - 15.5g
of which are sugars - 15.1g
Fat - 4g
of which are saturates - 2g
Fibre - 0g
Sodium - 0.08g
Crusha is suitable for vegetarians and for more information they have a user friendly website - www.crusha.co.uk
Once opened Crusha needs to be kept somewhere cool but not refrigerated.
A standard 500ml bottle intends to give approximately 20 servings but as I've previously mentioned less is needed in my opinion than the stated 25ml per serving and I find a bottle lasts around 28 to 30 servings usually.
I find Crusha Lime to be a very flavoursome beverage when mixed with ice cold milk, it is extremely refreshing and makes such a change from my usual choice of drinks such as tea or orange juice. I eat quite a healthy diet, as do my family, and though Crusha contains sugars and sweeteners I feel that for the amount I drink it's not too much of an impact on my health nor that of my son's. I'm a great believer of 'a bit of what you fancy does you good' and so as this is responsibly drank by both myself and my son (on average maybe two to three times a week each) then there are far worse things food and drink wise that could be more damaging so as a treat yes I would highly recommend this lime mix.
I do like the fact that there is little mess involved when making up the milkshakes as it instantly blends in with the milk to create a luscious lime flavour and one stir with a spoon and it's ready so its very convenient.
The only slight negative I have and this seems to only concern the lime version as I regularly buy all of the flavours, but once you've added the mix and stirred it if you don't drink the milkshake there and then the lime seems to sink and creates a sugary segment at the bottom of the glass which isn't very pleasant. I've never had this happen with the other flavours but it is a bit off putting with the lime as I like to sip my drink and not necessarily gulp it down.
**Suggested recipe**
Zak has been suffering with recurrent tonsillitis recently so to ease his throat I bought him his favourite ice cream which is vanilla. When I saw a suggested recipe for a thicker milkshake on the back of the lime crusha bottle recently we decided to give it a go and I can highly recommend it:
"..Try blending your milkshake with two scoops of vanilla ice cream for an extra cold and delicious lime shake. Top with a slice of lime for a citrus treat.."
It's not the healthiest of things but then life would be very boring if we all ate and drank just healthy things all of the time so for a treat this is highly recommended by me (and Zak). It offers just the right balance of citrus combined with sweetness to give the most delicious tasting lime milkshake which tastes quite natural amazingly and not artificial like some milkshake mixes.
A tasty treat in our household and a firm favourite.


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Capitol Christmas Tree Arrives in Washington (photos)
The 2013 Capitol Christmas, an 88-foot-tall Engelmann spruce from Colville National Forest in northeastern Washington State, arrived in Washington, D.C., Nov. 25. The tree spent several weeks on the road visiting 22 communities across the country before arriving at the U.S. Capitol in time for Thanksgiving. It will be decorated by more than 5,000 handmade ornaments, handcrafted by Washingtonians to reflect this year's theme, "Sharing Washington's Good Nature." It will be lit in a ceremony by House Speaker John Boehner, 5 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 3, on the Capitol's West Front lawn. Architect of the Capitol Stephen T. Ayers, will serve as master of ceremonies. After the lighting ceremony, the Capitol Christmas Tree will be lit nightly from dusk to 11 p.m. throughout the holiday season. The Capitol Christmas Tree has been a tradition at the U.S. Capitol since 1964.
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Potential museum visitors access information about the organization and decide if they want to visit by using web-based sites such as a museum's website, social media platforms, and peer-review sites over more "traditional" forms of advertising. In fact, when comparing how folks get their information about leisure activities, it's not even close: web and mobile platforms (including social media) are disproportionately influencing your museum's visitation and attendance.
The following data indicates how the American public accesses information in order to make visitation decisions regarding leisure activities – such as the decision to go to a visitor-serving organization. This data has been compiled by IMPACTS Research & Development (the company for which I work) based on information from the National Awareness, Attitudes & Usage Study – the largest survey of the American public concerning visitor-serving organizations heretofore conducted in the United States. HPV stands for "high propensity visitor" and indicates persons in the United States with the demographic, psychographic and behavioral attributes typically suggestive of a likely visitor to a zoo, aquarium, museum, botanic garden, historic site, or other VSO. In short, HPVs are high-potential museum-goers.
The categories above were determined by how the American public itself identified information channels and categories. Here's an explanation of what they mean:
Web + mobile: This category refers not only to the organization's web and mobile platforms (its "sovereign" content) but also information found on other websites – including mobile websites – that pertain to the information being sought regarding the VSO. For example, this would include information found on nytimes.com – but exclude the print edition of The New York Times as this information channel has been separately quantified within the "Newspapers (print)" category.
WOM: This stands for "word of mouth" and represents person-to-person testimonials and social media. Here, we are acceding to the market's definition of WOM. The data indicates that they believe that social media functions as a form of testimony and/or endorsement (potentially both positive and negative). Since the market regards social media as a form of WOM, it has been so categorized accordingly.
Peer review web + mobile: This refers to TripAdvisor and Yelp (and the respective mobile web/apps for each), and other platforms with similar peer-reviewed content. "Peer review web + mobile" is considered separately from WOM because, again, this is consistent with the market's perception and use of the informational channel. The market separately distinguishes social media and WOM from peer review sites because the former is perceived as "point-to-point/person-to-person" while the latter is perceived as a repository/aggregator. In other words, for people seeking information, WOM is a review meant for "my" consideration, while a peer review is meant for general consideration. One is personal; one is general.
For this very reason, strong WOM will generally outweigh a peer review on Yelp, TripAdvisor, or a similar peer review site. In other words, a person will generally be more likely to give consideration to a positive recommendation from a friend on Facebook than a one-star review from someone that they do not know on TripAdvisor. However, the reach of a peer review makes it functionally impossible to counter every negative peer review with a positive, first-person endorsement. It takes both attention to word of mouth marketing/social media AND peer review sites in order for an organization to maximize its endorsement opportunity.
Museums must prioritize web and social media… and make sure they have adequate resources and support to manage online communities. When it comes to annual budgeting for marketing, many museums allocate "last year's budget plus five percent" to the effort without assessing how methods of communication and accessing information have changed. Time and time again, organizations say, "we cannot afford to hire a full-time social media person." All too often, these are the same organizations that think nothing of spending $40,000 per year for glossy brochures and collateral materials…which, data indicates, have 11.5x LESS value as an information channel than does word of mouth marketing and social media to high propensity visitors– and 7.8x LESS value as an information channel than peer review sites. Increasingly, organizations that experience visitor growth will be those that have social media and online community management support… Stunning how growth flatlines when nothing changes, isn't it? (said with a smile). We see this all the time. Growth depends upon adjustment according to timely awareness, attitude, and usage data.
Museums cannot "buy" their way to prosperity (as they may have once thought more brochures meant more business). According to the Bass Model, the initial sale of something depends upon the number of people interested in a product (called the coefficient of innovation, or "P"). Advertising represents "P." However, all other sales are based upon the number of folks drawn to the product after seeing friends use the product (Coefficient of imitation, or "Q"). Word of mouth marketing represents "Q." According to IMPACTS data, "Q" (Word of mouth) is 12.85x that of "P"(Advertising). In other words, word of mouth marketing has 12.85x more power than traditional advertising. So, while who a person visits with matters more than what they visit, so too does word of mouth matter more than advertising. Of course, both advertising and WOM work together to maximize marketing opportunity. Advertising is not unimportant. However, no pragmatic amount of advertising can reliably overcome lousy WOM and not-so-great peer reviews.
Two points of clarity on the data so that it is not "used for wrong": 1) The slide above is not intended to be an all-inclusive means of indicating information channels. Instead, it quantifies the relative proportion and influence of the indicated information channels when compared to one another. 2) The data indicates how HPVs and the total American population access information about VSOs and leisure activities in order to make visitation decisions. It does NOT intend to make budgeting recommendations or take into account how much money should mathematically be spent in each category (i.e.- 3.8x more for Travel magazines than printed brochures), though a good application of this data may be in considering an organization's marketing and communications investment by media channel.


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A place to work or hang out with the kids
"It's small, but we've all found a different use for it when guests aren't visiting," says Maltzman, a fifth-grade teacher. He uses it as a quiet getaway where he can grade papers; 4- year-old Max has claimed the closet as a favorite hiding place; and Gosselin prefers the loft for napping.
"It's exactly what we've always wanted," Maltzman says. "It's just cozy."
They used Smith & Fong's Durapalm for the flooring and added a dark stain. The plantation-grown coconut palm is relatively inexpensive and hardwearing.


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The Voice 2016: Paloma Faith admits to making a mistake on the showOnly Love Can Hurt Like This star reveals regret not turning her chair for Divina De Campo
Saturday, January 16, 2016
PALOMA Faith has admitted to making a mistake on The Voice.
Having taken to the stage, Paloma, Ricky Wilson, will.i.am and Boy George all listened to Divina De Campo audition.
However, the talented singer, who showed off his impressive opera skills, failed to do enough to make the coaches turn around.
But that all changed when they came face to face with the drag queen.
While Boy George admitted his shock over Divina, the Only Love Can Hurt Like This singer admitted she would have "turned her chair" if she had known.
Speaking about Divina after he had left the stage, Paloma went on to declare how she regrets not choosing Divina for her group.
"When I turned, I made a massive mistake.
"He's my favourite one I've seen."
Better luck next time Paloma!
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FRANKFORT - Legislation aimed at revamping Kentucky's juvenile justice system by locking up fewer minors passed the state House by a wide margin Thursday, leaving it one step from reaching the governor's desk.
A major focus of the measure would steer more young offenders toward community-based treatment as an alternative to detention.
Supporters said the changes would yield about $24 million in savings over five years, while improving prospects for troubled youth.
Rep. John Tilley, D-Hopkinsville, said the current system dealing with minors too often presents "a pretty grim picture - a picture of incarcerating far too many low-level offenders and getting far too few results."
The measure passed the Democratic-run House on an 84-15 vote. It returns to the Republican-led Senate, which will consider minor changes by the House. Sen. Whitney Westerfield, the bill's sponsor, said he would urge the Senate to accept those changes and send the measure to Gov. Steve Beshear.
"This is the first and biggest step in reshaping Kentucky's juvenile code in decades," said Westerfield, R-Hopkinsville. "It's going to help not just the taxpayers but Kentucky's children for many, many years to come."
The bill aims to keep more kids out of detention centers for skipping school, running away or smoking.
Children committing those so-called "status offenses" represent about 13 percent of all youngsters held in Kentucky's detention centers, Tilley said. Those offenders could still end up in court and in detention if the bill becomes law, but only after early intervention through treatment, he said.
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The bill's reach would go further, allowing youths accused of misdemeanors or lesser felonies to avoid detention time, unless they committed sex or weapons crimes or had one prior offense. The changes would not affect the most serious young offenders, Tilley said.
The measure calls for input from teams from the locality or region to track the progress of young offenders. Those teams, consisting of juvenile justice officials and other stakeholders, would help determine if a child needs more treatment or should go before a judge.
Rep. Kevin Bratcher, R-Louisville, spoke out against the bill, saying it would make it easier for young offenders.
"We're watering down the justice system today," he said.
Rep. Derrick Graham, D-Frankfort, countered that the bill would give children who went astray a second chance.
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Your handle says RugerFan. You would be ahead of the game if you would stick with them IMHO.
I found one for 170$ in a pawn shop, is it worth buying?
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Your handle says RugerFan. You would be ahead of the game if you would stick with them IMHO.
Well i am in need of a semi-automatic handgun for under 200$ any suggestions or should i just go ahead and buy the HI-POINT?
Too fugly! Save your $170, add some to it and buy a Glock, HK, Colt, Sig, etc., etc., etc.
Fugly? Thats a security system! No one wants to steal a fugly gun!
Save up your money and purchase something reliable, that you can operate with confidence. There are excellent, used, pistols from Ruger, Glock, Smith and Wesson, Springfield Armory, and others, that will be a world better for you than what you are considering.
When I want something, I set my sights on that and save up for it. The wait and anticipation are worth the results.
Any 9MM for under 200$? I heard the HI-POINT was really good so im still deciding.
$170 is to much for a brand new HI-Point, wait for a gun show to roll around, and buy a brand new one for $120, if all you are gonna do is target shoot with it, the HI-Point is fine for that, but if you are going for self defense, try looking at a Kel-Tec, brand new for about $230 whats up with all the bad mouthing the Hi-Point? several of my friends have Hi-Points of different calibers, including 9mm, they are cheep for those who want to pop of shots at a cheaper price, we have never had a problem that was not ammunition related, ugly yes, so what? are you focused of what the gun looks like? or where the bullet is going??? HMMM......
$170 is the right price if it comes with the optional laser.Brand New
There's no way I would buy one. Say what you want, but you get what you pay for.
I might buy a new Mark 3 but i kinda wanted something under 200$ that fired centerfire.
If that's what you want by all means get it and enjoy it. You asked us and we told you what we would do. That don't mean spit if you are determined to get it. Go for it and good luck.
My friend's Hi Point 9mm's slide cracked and broke in half. It's your money!
You are a Ruger fan? I think you should save a bit more(not much more) and find a Ruger P95DC. You will be happy you did.
Go to the High Point Forum and ask the guys who own them. You will hear almost no complaints and if it does break, they are warranteed forever. I don't have one, but have read on a lot of forums and they get a lot of bad press from those who don't own them and/or have never shot them.
Save up your money and buy a used Ruger P series. It might be twice the cost but its much more than twice the gun imho!
If your looking for an inexpensive centerfire handgun look at Bersa I think they are a very under rated manufacturer.
Save your money! My friend bought one (at a super cheap price) and it always malfunctioned. He always blamed it on the ammo, but we were shooting the same ammo, and I had no problems.
It's your money, so if you want one, go ahead.


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Should be 4 stacked cards a year and the rest be aimed at new guys getting a chance and rankings.
Should be 4 stacked cards a year and the rest be aimed at new guys getting a chance and rankings.
Retired 2k and out.
people want to watch more than 4 good cards a year, they won't sell tickets or ppv without names on a card, they won't expand, they won't grow the sport. it would mean countries and cities who get the ufc once a year will be fobbed off with poor cards.
with the expansion of divisions and female fighters, growth into asia and most likely africa eventually, and continued growth through europe and australia they have more need to put on more shows than ever before. and far more scope of fighters and quality to be able to do so.
we watch football every week, I've no issue watching fighting...
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Event a week I would probably not watch and be more selective, as it stands I havent missed a single event in god knows how long but there is a danger of over saturation to some extent - plus 54 cards a year, thats a lot of fighters to follow and remember - I always find I am more invested in a fight when I can actually remember the fighters previous fight(s), of late there have been a fair few fighters that I know I have seen before but couldn't tell you who against or what the outcome was... getting hard to keep track already so with even more shows it will dilute that side of things for me at least..
We watch football every week but you generally support one of the teams you are watching so are invested, with 2 fighters you know nothing about you won't have that same interest... Suppose it depends how much you love the sport as well - the more you do, the more likely you will watch all events regardless but the more casual fans, this won't make much difference to other than the ability to catch a fight every weekend should you not be doing something else..
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Personally i'm glad there has been as many cards as there has been but this might bee too much.
Never been a fan of midweek fight cards and not a fan of some main events that has been announced (recently Rockhold vs. Philippou) but if more derving fighters get a shot then i'll happily put up with it.
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But what they will probably do is provide things like stats and details on a "area" basis so that people that are from that region can have the stats about fighters from that region etc.
Guess they are banking on there being a different level of fan, one who will follow the countries best fighters, a general fan who will watch whenever they can and not busy and the diehard who will try and get as many events in as they can
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too many events to keep up with! half the fighters i don't even know or even heard of
UFC should be only for top 25 fighters..... up and comers can go fight in RFA, Legacy etc etc. I'll watch that too.
ufc need to sort there match making out as well....you got top 10 fighters facing guys who arent even ranked top 20. giving easy fights to big names instead of the top contenders facing each other
we're talking about REAL fighting with REAL fighters and REAL results.
i agree with others about midweek shows. but 2 fights nights and a stacked main event each month would be fine imo. ufc on 3 saturdays a month, keeps it relevant, keeps it growing, doesn't oversaturate it too much. 12 major events a year.
"The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war"
It will evolve so they have a North US champ, European champ etc. Then they fight for a world title.
Does the WBC sanction more than 1 boxing match per week? Of course they do.
It is great to see the sport grow but people are right, it is hard to keep up with.
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Merrick Watts and Tim Rosso at the Ralph modeling awards. Tim is on the right and to me he kind of looks like Russell Crowe. Of course that could be the NyQuil I am taking right now. God, I love NyQuil.
I don't know why Kim Cattrall was at an awards show unless there is some type of event for fastest removal of clothing in a television program, but she was there. Actually, from looking at the other photos of her at the event it looks like she was the "date" of the Chairman of Daimler. Something tells me that a free Mercedes can buy lots of dates.
Jason Statham is a good looking guy.
Dennis Hopper was also at the World Sports Awards. Again, not sure why. A presenter perhaps? Demonstrating the dangers of drugs to athletes?
Yelena Isinbayeva is a pole vaulter. Compared to what she wears when she vaults, this dress probably seemed like a good idea.
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Patrick Dempsey, at the airport waiting for his wife. Bet she had fun.
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Monday July 23rd, 2012 4:47pm
"Making decisions in the present is difficult because you change by the time the consequences come to fruition."
-Me, to myself, right now, as I'm writing this
Now that our season and my competitive athletic career is over I've had some time to reflect on what lacrosse means to me and how the sport has altered my life for the better.
Ever since I can remember my dream was to be a varsity athlete at the University of Michigan. Growing up in Ann Arbor a few minutes from The Big House I played every sport possible until I reached middle school, when I started to narrow my focus to football and my first love, hockey. I always figured I'd make it in either of those two sports and didn't have any doubts about my chances until I played a season of AAA hockey and was paired on defense with a 6'3", 230 pound 13 year old. He hit me so hard one day at practice that I was light-headed for an entire week, and after that I had a jarring realization that I wasn't the physical specimen I once thought I was.
I didn't pick up a lacrosse stick until 8th grade, but from my first practice I was hooked, enough to quit hockey so I could focus on football and lacrosse in high school. It was the perfect balance between the physicality of football and hockey that I loved and the finesse of sports like basketball and soccer that I had to give up as I got older. I idolized my brother Paul, who I still think has the best hands off any longpole I've ever seen, and Jesse Churchward, who like me played both football and lacrosse at Pioneer and went on to play at Towson.
By the time my junior year rolled around I knew I knew I wanted to play lacrosse at the highest level possible and get out of the town I had been living in my entire life. While most of my friends would go on to attend the University of Michigan, I needed a fresh start and didn't think club lacrosse would be enough of a challenge for me.
I should've known my college lacrosse career would be tumultuous judging from my first day at the Top 205 camp during the summer of my junior year. The first drill I did I got smoked in one on one's while Maryland's coach Dave Cottle was a few feet away, and I managed to sleep through my alarm before the night session and arrived to my team's first game with only a few minutes to go. I managed to totally redeem myself at the Peak 200 camp and make the all star team, which luckily caught the eye of Coach Fedorjaka from Bucknell, where my brother played. I'll never forget the night Coach Fed called me at home to tell me my test scores were (finally) high enough and I had gotten into Bucknell; everything seemed to be going my way. For the first time in my life I felt like I was in control: I knew what college I'd be attending while my friends were stressing over admission letters, I had a hot girlfriend from our crosstown rival high school who proudly wore my lacrosse windbreaker and loved hanging out in my basement, and I had a great group of friends.
I earned All-American honors my senior year and had a lot of momentum going into the summer. I discovered NO-Xplode right around the time I received my Bucknell summer workout packet and spent my mornings causing soccer Moms to cancel their memberships from my local gym because of how socially unacceptable my lifts were, my afternoons lounging at the pool, and my nights at whoever's parents were out of town. Life was good, and I couldn't wait for a fresh start at college away from home.
Covering Birmingham Seaholm's Matt Trahan in my final high school lacrosse game. Little did I know at the time that Matt would become one of my good friends (and such a heartthrob).
When I first arrived at Bucknell I had a rude awakening... literally. I'll spare you the details of how I arrived there, but on the morning of my first day of classes I woke up in a bath tub of a senior girl's house and walked a half mile in the wrong direction before sprinting to my dorm room and walking in late to Professor Fleming's (famous on campus for wearing the same black shirt and jeans every day) 9 a.m. Logic class. This set the tone for my relationship with professors in college.
After a mid-week 6 a.m. lift my friend convinced me to sit in the front row even though I had only gotten a few hours of sleep the night before. The next thing I knew I woke up to something hitting my chest and the entire class staring at me in disbelief. I looked down at my jacket and saw that it was covered in chalk: Professor Fleming had thrown his giant eraser at me to wake me up from my nap and continued teaching like nothing had happened. I had to wait until the end of class to return it to him, and class became a little more awkward for the rest of the semester. While I got stressed over class early in my college career by the time I was a senior at Michigan I had figured out how to beat the system and actually passed two upper level film classes without watching a single movie. If I was a player in Madden my inferring/implying rating last year would've been a 99, meaning I'd have the highest possible rating for two categories:
While college classes were a difficult adjustment, lacrosse was even more of an eye opener. I had suddenly gone from being the best player on my team a few months before to one of the worst. My stick skills were awful, I routinely tripped during footwork drills, and I was enjoying the all-you-can-eat cafeteria food (on top of partying four days a week) a little too much. I quickly realized that it didn't matter how much you could bench, squat, or Zotman curl if you were completely winded after only a few minutes on the field. Over winter break I made it my goal to make all my run test times, something I hadn't done all year. I dropped close to four minutes off my 5K time and went from 230 pounds to a svelt 215. While lacrosse was a certainly the main motivating factor in my decision to get in shape, I was also trying to impress a girl who was my first crush in college. Unfortunately, things never worked out between us during my time at Bucknell, and thanks to her I now have a greater appreciation of the Jim & Pam pre-marriage storyline on The Office in addition to having a lot of songs by Bright Eyes in my iTunes library.
Even though I had figured out the physical aspect of the college game I struggled with the mental part. I worked my way up to number four on the depth chart my sophomore year and earned a starting spot on man-down before losing my spot to a freshman in the middle of the season and never getting it back. It was also during my sophomore year that I had decided to apply for (and somehow get accepted into) the highly competitive business school at Bucknell. My first semester as a business major was during the season, and to say that I struggled would be the ultimate understatement. I figured that it was the right choice because both my brother and my father were successful in the business world, but looking back on it, it was probably the dumbest decision I've ever made. I remember trying to hold back tears in the stairwell of the library while I was on the phone with my brother and asking him to define terms that I was going to be tested on the next day. As hard as I tried to learn the material, I just wasn't interested. It was, in a word, miserable.
I missed being able to use my writing ability to get thru classes, but luckily my friends from home had started a blog for all of us to keep in touch and I fell in love with writing posts about anything to get my mind off business classes, even if I knew that only a few people would ever see them. I somehow passed all of my classes (at least the ones I didn't drop) and switched my major to English with a concentration in Creative Writing as soon as I finished my last business final. While I enjoyed being able to write again, I started developing an interest in television and film and wanted to give myself the best possible chance of finding a career within the entertainment industry. Because Bucknell didn't offer film as a major and I had convinced myself that I was no longer passionate about lacrosse I decided to leave school immediately after the first semester of my junior year, unsure of what would come next.
The funny thing about looking back at my time at Bucknell is that I really don't remember much about what happened on the lacrosse field. I have a lot of regrets: I spent far too much time worrying about school, lacrosse, and girls whose names I can't even remember today. But I'll always remember the training room/locker room/stretching line conversations, the late nights at the cafeteria spent hoarding giant bowls of apple sauce and delaying the inevitable trek to the library, the froshies (every year Bucknell somehow manages to recruit "the worst froshies ever" that are even worse than the year before), Coach Fed yelling "nuts!" whenever I screwed up, the Jerry Shreck dance parties, being on the field at the same time as my brother for the first time in my life during the Lafayette game my freshman year, the trips to KFC for $1 Snackers, the Super Saturdays, parties at the lax house, the late night freestyle sessions, and the times when I needed a friend and one of my teammates was there for me. I made some stupid decisions right after I left Bucknell out of frustration that caused me to become even more distant from my teammates and I still regret it to this day. My teammates at Bucknell are some of the most genuinely fun, caring, and interesting people I've ever met and I hope that someday I can reconnect with all of them.
A video I made during my last semester at Bucknell that eventually won me $5,000 from an online contest. I couldn't have done it without the help of my teammates. My Christmas ornament at the Christmas party that year read "Pat 'Did you vote for my video yet?' Stansik." This started the trend of me barraging everyone I know on Facebook whenever I post anything.
One of my fondest memories is from one late night after everyone had left a party and only a few of my teammates were still around. Me and a few other guys had become infatuated with a plastic donkey we had found earlier and started kicking it around the house, each time exclaiming "kick the donkey!" (now that I think about it, "kick" might have actually been another four letter word). We proceeded to spend the next two hours kicking this plastic donkey around the street in the middle of the dark before we all decided it was time to go to bed. It sounds strange, but these are the kinds of things that I miss the most. Now that I'm older, I don't think if I'll ever find myself kicking a plastic donkey around a street past 2 a.m., and even if I do, it probably won't be as fun. My time at Bucknell taught me that it didn't matter what you were doing as long as you were around people that you loved. As much as I loved everyone I met at Bucknell, I felt like I needed to make a change. Even though my time there didn't go as I planned, it shaped my life and outlook tremendously and I'll always cherish the memories and friendships I made there.
I found out that I was accepted to the University of Michigan while I was enrolled at a local community college. It was the only school I had applied to and was excited to spend the upcoming year with all of my best friends from high school. Even though my family and friends had tried to convince me to play for Michigan's club team I had decided that I was going to focus on my schoolwork and my career. I quickly realized that my pre-requesite classes weren't the hands-on experience I was expecting and started to lose interest. I made some videos that had potential but weren't well-executed and decided after the football season that I needed something to fill the void of not playing lacrosse. I threw my hat over the fence, signed up for a marathon over spring break in Las Vegas, and dedicated myself to getting into the best shape of my life. While I achieved this goal and finished the race in an impressive time for someone who hates running I still didn't feel satisfied. I felt like part of me was missing, and as hard as I tried to fill the void with things other than lacrosse, I still felt empty inside.
I had major surgery as soon as the school year was over and was told that if I went through with the procedure I would never be able to play contact sports again. I assumed I was done with lacrosse and decided to go ahead with the procedure. As the anesthesia started to kick in and I began fading away the doctors asked me if I played any sports. The last thing I remember before I faded away was my answer: "not anymore."
As I ran to the box I looked up at the scoreboard and saw that we were still down one goal to Arizona State in the semifinals of the MCLA tournament with a few minutes to go. I grabbed my specially marked water bottle and kneeled over to catch my breath, unsure if I had just taken the last shift of my lacrosse career. My mind was racing but I never doubted that we would tie the game until we lost possession and the final whistle sounded. I found myself kneeling on the field in a state of shock: I had experienced this same feeling before after my final high school football game, but at the time I still had lacrosse to look forward to.
Now it was all over: the hours of practicing, the workouts that lasted an hour and a half too long, the wall ball sessions, the feeling of laying your shoulder into someone and not feeling anything during a perfect open field hit, the bus trips that made my legs numb, the rush of giving it your all on the field; it all flashed before my eyes as I stared down at the grass and saw that my eye black had started to smear and run down my cheeks. I had always known this day would eventually come, but I never knew how much it would hurt to accept that I was officially done. Right before I stood up and walked back to the locker room I took a deep breath and looked down at the block M on my chest and managed to laugh in between the uncontrollable sobs. It wasn't the ending I expected when I used to dream about playing for Michigan as a kid, but then again, I've learned that life has a funny way of giving you what you want most when you least expect it.
The best lessons arise out of situations in which you are certain things will happen one way and you end up with a completely unexpected outcome. When I decided to transfer from Bucknell I assumed that my time at Michigan would be fully devoted to my newfound passion of comedy writing and filmmaking, but the void of being unable to compete and bond with a group of teammates proved to be large enough to significantly alter my path. Now that I'm done I can't imagine what my year would have been like without lacrosse, but I'm sure that it would have been more difficult from a social perspective. I initially decided to play lacrosse at Michigan mostly because I no longer had friends on campus (I'm not gonna lie: this video factored into my decision as well), but by the time it was over I not only had made some of the best friends I've ever met, I was also able to end my lacrosse career in a much more desirable fashion than the first time around, earning a starting spot for the last five games after having pneumonia for the majority of the season.
At the beginning I assumed that I would excel on the field and that making friends with guys who had been together for years would be the hard part, but it turned out to be the complete opposite. The way I was welcomed and embraced by my teammates from the very beginning is something I will never forget and I am forever grateful to them for making my final year of college the best year of my life. I wish that I would have played both years, but it took stepping away from the game to realize how important it was to me, and as trivial as it might sound, hanging my jersey next to my brother and father's jerseys in my basement was a huge deal for me. I finally have closure with my lifelong love of athletics and will have confidence because of that in the future endeavors that I pursue because I know I did the best I could with what I had.
The most important thing I learned from my experience is that you shouldn't try to plan out your future in advance because it causes you to miss out on the present. I've found that some of my best memories and my best work have come when I get completely off track because I end up arriving somewhere I never would have imagined in the first place.
Sometimes it takes looking thru your syllabus for the first time all semester after missing a week of your Anthropology class to realize that your nightlife experience could be studied in a similar fashion. You might not have the time to film a full-length documentary, but maybe one of your teammates is kind enough to lend you a Flip cam and what you end up with is even better.
My biggest regret is not taking advantage of opportunities during my first year at Michigan, but I was lucky enough to have an extra year to branch out and end college on a high note.
Playing lacrosse at Michigan has given me opportunities that would have otherwise been unavailable to me, and for that I am extremely thankful. Hosting Nick Beattie and his Notre Dame teammates was one of the coolest things I've ever done, right up there with greasing my hair back and pretending to be John Travolta for four minutes. Seeing Hoodie Allen live and hanging out with him after the concert wasn't too bad either. But most of all, I've been lucky enough to meet amazing people who helped to make my year unforgettable.
Now that my athletic career is over its time for me to move onto the next phase of my life. While I enjoyed writing these posts (and encourage current and future players to blog for Inside Lacrosse) and making the video blogs, what I really want to do is to write comedy. Whether it's doing stand up, writing and directing short videos, or submitting articles online, I plan on doing whatever it takes to make my dreams a reality. It's going to be hard, but my favorite feeling in the world is making someone laugh, and I'm hoping that someday I can make a career out of it. I will post anything that I make on my website, which you can find here.
Check out my latest video about the horror of losing your cell phone on silent.
However, that doesn't mean that lacrosse is completely out of the picture; I'm currently working on a pilot for a lacrosse series that I hope to make in the next few years. My teammates got me hooked on Friday Night Lights this year, and I think that lacrosse deserves to be represented accurately in a similar fashion instead of being constantly caricatured. The lacrosse community has introduced me to some of the most interesting people I've ever met, and I want to show people outside of it the kind of people we are without resorting to generalizations. Lacrosse has done a lot for me in my lifetime, and I feel obligated to pay homage to the people and the culture that I've been privileged to get to know and experience throughout the years.
I'm sure most of you only read these blogs to watch the videos at the end, and even then you were probably disappointed that I didn't touch more on Michigan's transition from a club team to varsity. The truth is it was a difficult subject for me to write about because it was my childhood dream to play a varsity sport at the University of Michigan. While I'm jealous of my teammates who get to be apart of Michigan's transition to varsity, I wouldn't trade my experience last year for anything. Even though the irony of Michigan going DI the year after I graduated stung, I'm ready to move on to the next phase of my life and try to make a career out of my second love: making people laugh. Hopefully, my income will rapidly increase over the next few years so I can proudly donate large sums of cash to the program, but for the time being I hope they accept the money I make from bottle returns (Michigan's ten cent bottle deposit FTW! The fact that I'm not joking right now FTL!).
For those of you who missed it, here's my last Michigan video blog of the year:
I also made a video blog during my time at the Vail Lacrosse Shootout this summer while playing for the Jammin' Salmon:
If you've enjoyed these blog posts and video blogs please subscribe to me on Youtube and follow me on Twitter @PatStansik.
One of my favorite parts about making these videos was choosing what music to put in them after I've compiled all the footage. But what I loved even more is when people ask me in the comments section what the song names are even though I always include them in the video description. In honor of people who don't understand how to use the Internet, here is a playlist of all of the songs I used in my video blogs this year. If you want the download links click here.
I've also enjoyed reading and responding to the insightful responses to my posts in the comments section. I know everyone's been waiting for me to address the issue of whether Michigan's club team would beat Salisbury, but I'll hold off for now because I don't want to start a heated debate. I'm also going to go out on a limb and say that I only have one down vote on each of my video blogs and they all probably came from the 412 area code.
I'd like to thank Danielle and Inside Lacrosse for allowing me to write these blogs and do something I thought I'd never have a chance to do when I quit playing lacrosse at Bucknell. If you're a current player and want more respect from your teammates based solely on the fact that you have the ability to make them look cool online you should email Danielle and blog for Inside Lacrosse this year.
Thank you to my Dad for always being there for me and teaching me to fall in love with sports, my Mom for washing more compression shorts than any human being ever should, my brother for teaching me how to play the game of lacrosse, my sister for our shared love of being socially unacceptable in public places and greek yogurt, and everyone else who has ever supported me. I'd like to especially thank my teammates and coaches from this past year: you have affected my life for the better more than any of you will ever know. I will never forget the time I was fortunate enough to spend with you. Even when I'm not #withtheboys I will always be #fortheboys.
Thank you for taking the time to read this. I hope you enjoyed reading my posts as much as I enjoyed writing them. I know most of you weren't expecting any of these blogs to be anything more than simple updates, but I'm glad I had an outlet for capturing the moments I spent with my team. This was a fun ride (fun ride) that I will never forget. Thanks again, and for now, so long.


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Wild Bird Identification Guide: Pocket Backyard Bird Guide
I bought this guide several years ago and keep it in a basket by the window with small binoculars. An affordable, easy way to introduce children to the animals that live in their part of the world. You can add other guides to bugs, trees, and plants as they grow.


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Covering Kids & Families
The Foundation's program, Covering Kids and Families, was designed to increase the number of eligible children and adults who are benefiting from federal and state health care coverage programs. Working through state-local coalitions, this project is an initiative to find, enroll, and retain eligible, but uninsured children and adults. The purpose of the project is to complement new and ongoing federal, state, and private-sector activities to expand coverage to children and adults.
Grant Details
Amount Awarded $1,000,000.00
Awarded on: 12/17/2001
Time frame: 1/1/2002 - 12/31/2005
Grant Number: 43209
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Well into her pregnancy, Heidi Klum was spotted out with her daughter Leni for a doctor's appointment in Santa Monica on Monday (August 31).
The Victoria's Secret supermodel walked alongside her little girl as the pair made their way inside Saint John's hospital to get checked up.
She has always been a doting mother, and yesterday (July 27) Heidi Klum was spotted treating her kids to a fun-filled afternoon at a Beverly Hills park.
The "Project Runway" mommy looked plenty preggers as she followed Leni, Henry, and Johan around the playground, looking summertime chic in an all-black maternity outfit.
She's always up to something, it seems, and earlier today (July 8) Heidi Klum was spotted paying a visit to "Good Morning America" in Times Square.
The German supermodel/mommy looked stunning as she strolled down the Manhattan street sporting a funky black top with a black and white striped skirt and black heels.
She has always displayed a high level of self-confidence, and yesterday (July 7) Heidi Klum was spotted showing off her beautiful pregnancy body.
The "Project Runway" babe looked leggy in a pair of denim short shorts along with a striped smock-style top and sunglasses as she strolled along the Hudson River with her kids Leni, Henry, and Johan, as well as her mother Erna.
Displaying her growing baby bump, Heidi Klum tended to her motherly duties by taking Leni and Henry out to a Greenwich Village playground on Friday afternoon (July 3).
Having a marvelous time, the Victoria's Secret supermodel pushed her darling daughter on the swings before taking a breather on a nearby bench while watching her little ones play in the sandbox.
Keeping busy in the Big Apple, a growingly pregnant Heidi Klum was spotted spending time with her loving family on Tuesday (June 24).
To kick off the day's affairs, the supermodel mommy took her daughter, Leni, and sons, Henri and Johan, for a stroll in Hudson River Park.
Tending to her motherly duties, Heidi Klum was spotted spending some active quality time with her children in New York City's Central Park yesterday (June 17).
The "Project Runway" hottie looked to be having a marvelous time with her daughter Leni and sons Henry and Johan, keeping a watchful eye on them as they frolicked.
Enjoying some downtime with the family, Heidi Klum and Seal were spotted out in Los Angeles on Saturday (May 30) with their kids.