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I've been working on some Thanksgiving centers and activities that I thought I would have finished last week. Well, I kind of got on a roll and kept adding things to the pack. It's now 158 pages long with 10 centers (color plus black & white), activities for 2 books, 3 crafts, and activities to help you teach about the Pilgrims and the Mayflower.
You can find some images from the unit below.
I've changed the name of my unit because it was the same as Amy Lemons' wonderful unit. So sorry about any confusion that this may have caused!
I have a freebie for you from the unit. I made some cards for you to give to your class and some cards for you to hand out to other teachers, parents, aides, custodians, and other school support staff. I don't think we tell them often enough how thankful we are for their help.
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Since I am so thankful for my blog followers, I have this 158 page unit on sale until tomorrow night. It's normally $8 but I have it marked down to $6.
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For those of you who made it to the end of my post, I will give away this pack for free to the first two people to comment on my blog. Don't forget to leave your email!

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by Kristen Rosser cross posted from her blog Wordgazer's WordsThis Fourth of July, I have a confession to make.I used to wake up every Independence Day morning with "God Bless America" on my lips. I used to feel a thrill of excitement and reverence when I faced the flag and pledged allegiance, when I put my hand over my heart and sang along with The Star-Spangled Banner.I still say the Pledge. I still put my hand over my heart, and I still sing the National Anthem. I still love America. … [Read more...]
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2 seconds of stink?
I keep forgetting to ask about this... but for some reason (since we picked it up in june) There is a 2 - 3 second stink that comes out of the vents just after start. This only happens if it has sat for at least a few hours.
It reeks too... like chemicals + BO? or feet? not even sure how to describe it. Goes away very fast but its always there.
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ok 54 people have read this and no comments. Im thinking i am alone on this one. I guess i will need to ask the service dept on the next visit.
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I would consult the service department. I do not have this issue.
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Mutant B.O. sounds like a Seinfeld episode.
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Nothing worse than stale butt gas! :eek:
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54 other people like me thought it was a great thread title and had to read it.
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I used to have a 3rd gen 4 runner and every time I was on an incline and giving it gas it would smell like sulfur. Granted, it wasn't on start up, but man, did that stink.
Also, there was a TSB on that, so it was rectified at a certain point.
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I used to get the same smell every time I turned the a/c on. I replaced the air filter and it did not help. It only comes on w/ the a/c for the first few seconds.
I had that problem and cleaned the tubing by spraying Lysol in there for a solid 5 minutes with ac on
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A friend of mine had the same exact problem, turned-out to be his bad breath and the A-C was blowing it back in his face. :)
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Katrina B: WTF? V. Stiviano said WHAT to Drakes diss??
Does V. Stiviano lack a BRAIN?
At the EPSY's she was called the "side piece of the year" by the one and only Drake.
Well, Stiviano must have the hots for Drake or something because she COMPLETELY dismissed his diss and took it as a compliment!
It's always good to look at the bright side of things.. but I just don't see anything positive coming out of the name "side piece."
It's like being called a THOT by a guy and saying "Thank you" to his insult.
For those of you who don't know what a THOT is let me clarify:
"That Ho Over There"
That's basically what Drake called her!
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Requiring mains power, this turbo is for indoor-use only, but it's simple to set up and the wireless bar-mounted computer doesn't take long to master.
You can also download an app and use an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad with it, giving you the option to ride courses created with Google maps. In action it gives a smooth ride, with no slip when sprinting.
There are several training options, including to a set power (which can be programmed into an interval session), or just train to a certain level, which you can adjust on the go.
The power measurements matched those on our PowerTap to within 5-10W, provided we kept the cadence consistent ( 90rpm) and didn't change it too suddenly. Similarly we could get a good match between displayed power and the PowerTap on Level 3 of the resistance setting.
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CORAL GABLES, Fla. – University of Miami women's soccer interim head coach Jason Hamilton announced the program's newest class of Hurricanes, set to join the program for the 2013 season.
The six-member class, comprised of Gianna Dal Pozzo, Ariel Kupritz, Gracie Lachowecki, Betsy Middleton, Cortney O'Connell, and Catalina Perez, is widely considered among the best classes in the ACC.
"We are very excited about the incoming class," Hamilton said. "They are a great bunch of players that we think can have an immediate impact on our program. This should be one of the best incoming classes in our history."
Dal Pozzo, a center midfielder from Naperville, Ill., was a four-year letterwinner at Neuqua Valley High School. She was selected all-conference for three straight years (2010-12), all-sectional as a sophomore (2010) and senior (2012), and was also an academic all-conference selection as a junior (2011). Dal Pozzo helped guide Neuqua Valley to a 59-9-4 record during her final three years, including a 15-goal, eight-assist campaign as a junior and 17-goal sophomore season.
Kupritz, who enrolled at Miami in January after graduating early from Maryville (Tenn.) High School, will add to the Hurricanes' forward pool in the fall. Kupritz was named all-conference and all-state during her freshman and sophomore years, scoring 57 goals and notching 14 assists over those two seasons. She was also selected for two national team camps, and competed in the Olympic Development Program throughout high school. She helped guide her club side Brentwood Soccer Club (Nashville, Tenn.) to three state championships and two regional finals.
Lachowecki, an offensive standout from Evansville, Ind., ended her dominant four-year career at Reitz Memorial High School as Indiana Miss Soccer and the Indiana Gatorade Player of the Year. Lachowecki guided Reitz to 75-8-6 record over her four years, collecting whopping totals of 113 goals, 47 assists and 273 points. A standout on the field and in the classroom, Lachowecki was named Evansville Metro Player of the Year for three consecutive years (2010-12), Indiana Coaches of Girls Sports Association (ICGSA), first-team all-state back-to-back years (2011-12), and NSCAA All-America in 2012.
Middleton, an attacking center midfielder from Elon, N.C., arrives in Coral Gables after a stellar four-year career at Western Alamance High School. Middleton was named first-team all-region for three consecutive seasons (2010-12), an academic all-conference selection four straight years (2010-13), and racked up 29 goals and 30 assists from her midfield position in 2011-12. She arrives with an impressive track record both on the field and in the classroom, where she was ranked among the top graduating students in her class.
O'Connell, a forward from Chantilly, Va., competed for Bethesda Freedom, which qualified the US Youth Soccer Regional I Championships. She played just two seasons at Freedom High School, where she earned all-district honors as both a freshman and sophomore. O'Connell was a member of the Virginia Olympic Development Program in 2006 and 2007, and was named to Washington Freedom Super Y Team from 2008-2010.
Perez, from nearby Boca Raton, Fla., joins the Hurricanes' goalkeeper ranks after a dominant career at Saint Andrew's School. Perez, who also competed in cross country, water polo and tennis at Saint Andrew's, was named Palm Beach All-County as a sophomore and junior. Perhaps most impressive is Perez' pedigree on the international level, where she has competed for the Colombia Youth National Teams since 2009, including a trip to the U-20 FIFA World Cup hosted by Germany in 2009 as well as the Pan American Games in 2011 with the Colombia Senior Women's National Team.
"We have continued to watch them all develop since the time they committed to us, and we are confident that we are bringing in the right players to continue the success we've had over the past couple of years," Hamilton said.
Coming off back-to-back postseason appearances, the Hurricanes will open fall camp in August. For more information on the Hurricanes' upcoming season, LIKE Miami soccer on Facebook.


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Photo Detective: Props in Family Photos
By Maureen A. Taylor
Our Photo Detective points out how props can provide clues in family photos.
In the early days of photography, professional shutterbugs often used props to give an image context and warmth. Curtains, backdrops, rugs and furniture frequently appear in old family portraits. Painted backdrops also were common in photo studios. By the 1880s, the painted scenes mimicked household interiors and landscapes.
Patrons also brought their own props to pose with, and these items can reveal your ancestor's occupation, hobby or other personal details. Such is the case with this photo belonging to Alaric DeArment.


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A Nautical Text of the Avant-Garde: Heimrad Bäcker's Seascape
Oh how we are fawning over Seascape by Heimrad Bäcker (Ugly Duckling Presse 2013), which "uses documentary material to recount a minor historical episode from World War II: the crew of a German submarine comes upon three men on a Norwegian lifeboat and refuses to take them on board. Bäcker's account of Nazi inhumanity uncannily echoes Un coup de dés, Marcel Broodthaers' A Voyage on the North Sea, and other nautical texts of the avant-garde." It's reviewed at Molossus by David Shook:
Each page of this letter-pressed edition features a single log entry:1215 Quad AL 1973, SW 4/5, heavy rain, rising sea, moderate rough swell, clear
These brief, specialized annotations give way just once, to an extended—contextually, at exactly 90 words—account of the submarine happening on three Norwegian sailors in the lifeboat of a torpedoed tanker. Rather than allowing the men, who had been adrift for four weeks, to board the submarine the U-boat captain "turned down their request to be taken aboard, provisioned the boat with food and water and gave them the course and distance to the Icelandic coast," before noting his opinion that given their condition and the weather their rescue was unlikely (read: impossible).
It is easy to speculate that the precise language of the logbook reflects and perhaps even contributes toward the detachment demonstrated by the terse prose description of the small book's central event. Patrick Greaney, an associate professor of German at the University of Colorado Boulder, achieves a straightforward translation from the German, and offers a brief contextualizing note at the book's end, noting that Seascape is the first of Bäcker's four works cannibalizing and recontextualizing texts about Nazism and the Shoah. Bäcker's "concrete poetry" could be a work of contemporary Conceptual Writing: there is nothing new under the sun. The sudden intrusion of human narrative, which could only have been uncovered through exhaustive research (Bäcker cites pages 340 – 41 of Vol. XIV and 623 – 25 of Vol. XXXV of the trial transcripts.), endows the work with a didactic quality without blatant moralizing: this is the dehumanizing nature of war, now you decide how to feel and respond.
In a tipped-in, two-fold broadsheet, Charles Bernstein declares, after Adorno, that "To write prose after Auschwitz is barbaric," then explains that Bäcker's nachschrift literally means after writing. After briefly cataloguing precedents and influences—Swedish poet Åde Hodell's Orderbuch (1965) is a particularly haunting example—Bernstein writes that Bäcker's nachschrift "feels for the ground of a post-Englightenment, aftermodern poetry, as a blind person feels for another's face." He's right, and Seascape succeeds not just as aftermodern poem, but as an emotionally compelling work of literature.
And if you're in Denver or near: Check out the coordinating exhibition, Landscape M, at Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, up until January. They give us a brief bio:
The photographer and poet Heimrad Bäcker (1925-2003) dedicated his life to documenting the remnants of Nazism and the Holocaust. Bäcker's photographs look away from the scenes usually associated with the Shoah—barracks, gates, train tracks—and focus on the minute and incidental traces left behind in the Austrian landscape: indentations in stone, twisted steel rods, and concrete foundations. His examination of Austrian history is also a self-critical reflection on his enthusiastic participation, as a teenager, in the Hitler Youth and the Nazi Party. Landscape M focuses on Bäcker's works related to Mauthausen, the largest concentration camp in Austria. MCA Denver's exhibition is the first of Bäcker's work in the US, and it is the first to show the body of work left behind after his death.
Bäcker also influenced Rob Fitterman's Holocaust Museum (Counterpath Press), which Charles Bernstein thoroughly covered at Jacket2 last year. He discusses there another Bäcker work, Transcript:
Transcript, first published in 1986, is a work made up entirely of quotations or citations (collages of found texts, as Walter Benjamin envisioned), which are often visually arranged in a manner that resembles the grid lists of concrete poetry. These found linguistic shards confront, without summarizing or representing, the Systemic Extermination. In contrast to Reznikoff's elegiac event-moments in Holocaust, Bäcker's source texts (which overlap with those used by Reznikoff) are sampled, fragmented, constellated. Narrative is under erasure, but ineradicable. Transcript's sources are documented in notes that form an integral part of the text.
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All 14 Big Ten football coaches will visit ESPN's Bristol, Conn., headquarters July 30-31 to take part in ESPN's annual mid-summer college football coaches' "car wash" - in which guests appear across multiple programs and platforms over one day. The schedules for the Big Ten coaches will include a mixture of interviews with more than 25 different shows and writers across ESPN's television, radio and digital media platforms.
Today's schedules includes seven Big Ten coaches:
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Debate: New technologies are killing hand-made craft
Is there still a place for teaching traditional craft in art and design higher education as preparation for employment in today's creative industries?
Craft – the art of hand making – exists as an end in itself and provides a visual and tangible element of research, development and product. Craft has traditionally questioned and influenced design and manufacturing through its understanding of the properties and potential of materials.
As part of the culture of consumerism, the challenges of 2D digital developments have been embraced and 3D now seeks the skills of hand-forming to progress. Some see this as riding roughshod over traditional craftsmanship. What is the impact of new technologies on quality and value and where does this leave the traditional craft maker?
Panel members include:
- Andrew Adams, Corporate Services Manager by Johnson Tiles in Stoke on Trent
- Christopher Breward, Principal Edinburgh College of Art; Vice-Principal Creative Industries and Performing Arts, formerly Head of Research Victoria and Albert Museum
- Rebecca Earley, Textile Designer and Academic; Professor in Sustainable Textiles and Fashion Design Chelsea College of Arts; Director Textile Futures Research Centre UAL
- Grant Gibson (Chair), Craft, Design and Architecture Writer; Editor Crafts Magazine
- Tavs Jørgensen, Potter and 3D ceramic designer; Research Fellow, Autonomatic Research Group University College Falmouth; Visiting Tutor Royal College of Art
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Spotlight on Janet Morrison: University of Values
Ten years ago Janet Morrison started a summer camp where high school students teach elementary school children about social justice and the importance of being community leaders. But this is not a seasonal feat. Every Thursday night throughout the school year Morrison teaches teens to design lessons for the summer camp. There is a great sense of pride in becoming a summer teacher, (nine of the positions are paid!), and many of the campers anxiously await their chance to become teachers too.
Last year the camp focused on voting rights. This year the focus is on the Civil Rights Movement. Morrison always strives to keep her weekly classes as interactive as possible. Unfortunately creating innovative lesson plans on the Civil Right's Movement proved to be difficult because of the lack of inclusive, engaging resources. Morrison immersed herself in different workshops, books and organizations prior to beginning the Thursday night sessions. During her research she discovered Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching.
"It's been a great source of curriculum ideas. It was the first thing I picked up. I knew I wanted to focus on civil rights and wanted to keep a social justice theme. It is the only resource I could find that included engaging lessons for elementary school students," says Morrison.
Morrison also participated in the Civil Rights Teaching Global Learning Network, a groundbreaking online education project that links classrooms together across geographic and cultural lines in dialogue and collaborative lessons on civil rights. This project was helpful because she was able to see examples of what other students were working on and was able to get lesson plan ideas and advice from Maggie Donovan, one of the teachers (and contributing writer to Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching) who shared her wealth of knowledge with the network.
In her weekly sessions Morrison used several lessons from Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching, including Women's Work: The Untold Story of the Civil Rights Movement (handout on this lesson). Her students took on the role of the women in the lesson by pretending they were at a civil rights conference and having political conversations with each other. They really got into their characters which helped heighten their awareness of the important but often overlooked work of women during the Civil Rights Movement.
Morrison also turned to other resources for creative and meaningful lessons. In one class she had her students participate in a role-playing activity on student sit-ins. The students were split into three groups, playing the Black college students at the counter, the white waitresses and the angry white mob. They were given scripts and every student played all three roles. Her students were able to feel the pain of the college students and the power of those yelling at them. Several students said they never expected to feel so powerful when they were in the position of taunting those at the counter, which presented an interesting role reversal for students whose voices in society are often marginalized. (Resource: The Civil Movement for Kids: A history with 21 Activities)
After the sit-in role play Morrison realized her students needed to express themselves in a group setting so she created a lesson where her students got the opportunity to share their feelings and find their voice. She read the book Black Misery (by Langston Hughes) in class and explained it. Afterwards her students wrote and read their own misery poems to the class, which helped them share their stories, talk about some of the burdens they bare and link their lives to the Civil Rights Movement.
After learning about the Civil Rights Movement, the high school student's work on developing lesson plans, which are as interactive and powerful as their weekly sessions. Morrison reviews their lesson plans and by the time the first day of camp begins, the teenagers know the background information, the camp's topic for the summer, and has prepared lessons. Morrison has noticed that it is much easier to get the high school students to study material if they are learning for the young children they want to reach.
"Adults don't realize how much teenagers care for these kids. The kids worship the teenagers and the teenagers get a great sense of pride from that and realize their influence," says Morrison.
The camp and the weekly classes are set up to empower teenagers to take on leadership roles and has evolved to have as much to do with power as they do social justice. The teenagers are empowered to become leaders, educators, role models, vocal community members and in turn, by example, so to are the campers. This program works well because there are high expectations, from Morrison, from the teenage student teachers and from the campers. This shared value system fosters community and stimulates growth. Each year the seasons change, the bar rises and the process continues.
To learn more about the University of Values program, located in Dallas, Texas, email Janet Morrison.


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April 18, 2014
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. -- University of Michigan women's basketball head coach Kim Barnes Arico was inducted into the Adelphi University Athletic Hall of Fame on Thursday night (April 17). In addition, her 2001-02 Adelphi women's basketball team was given the Panther Legendary Team award.
Barnes Arico coached the Panthers from 1999-2002, putting together three of the most successful seasons in women's basketball history at Adelphi. She was named East Coast Conference Coach of the Year twice and led Adelphi to the program's first national ranking during the 2001-02 season. She went 65-24 overall as the Panthers' coach, earning NIT/Met Writers Association Division II Coach of the Year honors after the 2001-02 season.
In 2001-02, Barnes Arico's Panthers became the first and only team in program history to capture an East Coast Conference regular-season title and tournament crown in the same season. Adelphi went on to make the team's second appearance in the NCAA Tournament that season. The Panthers ended the year with a Sweet 16 appearance and a 28-3 overall record.
Following her tenure with the Panthers, Barnes Arico coached at St. John's for 10 seasons before being named the Michigan head coach on April 20, 2012. In her two seasons at U-M, Barnes Arico has put together back-to-back 20-win seasons and led the Wolverines to two straight postseason berths. She has 42 wins in Ann Arbor, the most ever by a second-year head coach in program history.
Barnes Arico recorded her 300th career win this past season in an 83-59 win over Southern on Dec. 20. She was recently named to the coaching staff of the USA Basketball U18 team and will spend a portion of the summer coaching the team during training camp and the 2014 FIBA Americas U18 Championship.
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Stucco basement walls
Plan to stucco my basement walls. They are poured concrete walls that have been painted. I am going to hang wire lathe. Questions...
1- Do I need paper backed lathe? I don't think so but thought I'd ask.
2- do I need expansion joints. If so, what is the best method?
No way in a million years would I suggest doing that.
Stucco will act like a sponge and soak up the moisture that's sure to be in those walls.
The stucco is masonry.
In these kind of situations it is always good to ask for the problem that one is trying to solve.
The concrete walls have been painted, and if within the last few decades probably a latex paint. That's what we've got as a starting condition.
Where do we need to go? That's what we want to end up with. The best way to get there is the solution that we seek.
Bestways, just exactly what problem are you trying to solve, for which you thought the stucco might be the solution?
No problems. What kind of problems would stucco solve??? It's simply decorative... I am turning this portion of the basement into a usable area. Stucco dries just as the concrete walls do. I don't want to close up the walls with framing and drywall and have hidden problems later... Never been wet before but it is a basement. Stucco goes on the exterior and can tolerate wetness and breathes to dry out. Stucco does not soak up water like a sponge. It does not hold water... It may wick moisture through the concrete wall but it will evaporate before I ever see it just as the water that is currently passing through my walls. Anyway, any answers out there to the original post?
What it now comes down to is that stucco won't stick by itself to a painted surface, so either a messy sandblasting project or a wire mesh support mechanically fastened to the existing wall is what you should plan on doing.
If you have a sound, stable, dry concrete wall, I can't think of a good reason not to fasten some wire lath and stucco it.
Paper backed? No reason.
Expansion joints? Probably not, unless it's an awfully big basement wall. Is it cracked? Moving?
before you set yourself up for disappointment & more :furious: expense later on, 1st do a simple moisture test,,, you may discover you do have 1 out of 1,000 homes that was waterproofed - NOT just damp-proofed to pass code rqmts :thumbsup:
tape a 2.0 x 2.0 plastic sheet to the wall - IF, after 2 days, there's collected moisture behind the sheet, you have moisture issues,,, IF its on the room-side, you have high humidity,,, once determining the level of moisture, have at it - whatever you decide to do.
IF you can rent an aurand hand scarifier, that's the best tool for wall prep,,, 2nd best is a bushing tool on a bosch chipping gun
That's sensible, but would you need to do that to the painted wall surface for the moisture test? If the present paint is not blistering, does that suggest moisture may not be an issue?
the op's 7.15 post: ' ,,,water... It may wick moisture through the concrete wall but it will evaporate before I ever see it just as the water that is currently passing through my walls. ' Anyway, any answers out there,,, '
you are also correct, pro :thumbsup:
Okay. I have one hair line crack that only goes halfway down the wall and then can't see it. It is about 1/16" and I have monitored it for the past 4 years and it has not changed or moved. There are also hairline cracks at a couple inside corners and they have not changed either. Are you saying if I do have a moisture problem then it can present a problem behind the stucco??? How? I will do a check but I believe I am okay...
the easiest AND cheapest method to determine crack movement is to plaster the crack @ several intervals,,, IF you consider your very fine home's basement similar to a ship's hull below the waterline, it should be easier to understand why you have OR will have water issues,,, then again, you might not now OR ever but a reasonable & prudent owner will ascertain that prior to investing more $
now go do something outside & let me & pro take our naps :laughing:
I may be an idiot here but still confused. I am going the stucco route to avoid possible water problems. I thought about using rigid foam boards against foundation walls, frame, and drywall in front of that.
I chose the stucco route to avoid possible water problems and it not being able to dry.. Stucco is 99% of the time applied on the exterior of buildings and most of the time directly to concrete or block walls. If it can be done on the exterior without water issues how can it present a problem inside. It is simply another coat of concrete/masonry to the walls. The walls will perform the same with or without stucco on them... Not trying to be annoying but need to know why you are worried about water with stucco.
I don't plan on having water issues down there but even if I did I am not concerned with the stucco getting wet. It dries with no issues and does not trap water or moisture.
I can see your concern if I was framing and insulating with fiberglass. Now that is a sponge and breeding ground for mold...
Its dark here and I can't work outside now:)
for the record, i never even thought of the word ' idiot ' :no: but,,,,, since you raised the issue :laughing:
what possible coating could 1 apply to a subterranean basement wall on the INSIDE to keep water from penetrating the wall from the OUTSIDE ? answser - not 1 damn'd thing,,, 1 could prevent water from showing up INSIDE for a short time however any invisible damage would still occur & not be apparent til the wall collapsed,,, the likelihood of that happending to a conc wall is much less than masonary block, of course
' Stucco is 99% of the time applied on the exterior of buildings ',,, you make our point but don't accept it yourself so show us the 1% when its applied to the inside of a bsmt wall ?
yes, it dries w/no issues so howcum there are folk who specialize in repairing it ? only prudent owners & conscientious builders plan for water issues in basements,,, that's my opinion - yours obviously is at odds
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10 Uses for White Bread from Our Food Department
Semolina, nine-grain, rye, straight-up wheat–we're a fan of bread. But when you're having a tomato sandwich or a pile of ribs, nothing compares to white bread, the closest thing for us to a slice of heaven. Sure, it's a perfect vehicle for sandwiches, but our food team has some other ideas for how to make use of a loaf.
1. "Grind white bread up in a food processor to make bread crumbs and use them to make meatballs with moist texture." – Hunter Lewis, Executive Editor
2. Sop up leftover sauce. It's the best way to join the clean plate club.
3. "You can use it as the pastry topping on cobblers. Cut 5 slices of white bread into strips (crusts removed). Mix 1 1/4 cups sugar, 1/2 cup melted butter, 2 Tbsp. flour, and 1 large egg. Drizzle mixture over strips. Lace over fruit filling in and 8-inch baking dish. Delicious!" – Pam Lolley, Test Kitchen Professional
4. When you break a glass, use a slice to pick up all the microscopic shards on the floor. The tiny pieces will stick right to it.
5. "If you're feeling ambitious, roll them until they're flat and use the slices for eggroll wrappers." – Whitney Wright, Deputy Food Director
6. Cut up into 1 or 2-inch cubes, drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with herbs (from your one-pot herb garden) and bake until crispy for homemade croutons.
7. "Put a slice in your bag or canister of brown sugar to keep it from drying it out and clumping." – Hannah Hayes, Assistant Food Editor
8. Use a slice with the crusts removed to gently dust oil paintings or remove scuffs from high-gloss walls.
9. "It's really the best bread for overnight breakfast casseroles. Nothing else gives you the same souffle effect." – W.W.
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Rallo, who played at Ferris State from 2002-06, had appeared in 37 games this season for the Idaho Steelheads of the East Coast Hockey League (ECHL) prior to joining Iowa which is the top affiliate of the National Hockey League's (NHL) Dallas Stars. He currently ranks fifth in team scoring and 72nd among the ECHL's top points leaders with 31 points on 13 goals with 18 assists while totaling 43 penalty minutes. The 6-0, 195-pound center also has registered three power-play goals and two short-handed tallies for the Steelheads to date this campaign.
Rallo made his professional debut on March 24, 2006 with Idaho and attended the Iowa Stars' training camp prior to the start of the 2006-07 season.
Rallo was selected as Ferris State's Most Valuable Player following the 2005-06 season in which he led the Bulldogs in almost every offensive category. The recipient of Lloyd Earl Trophy as Ferris' top points getter with a career season-high 39 points on 17 goals and 22 assists in 40 contests a season ago, Rallo scored nine power-play goals, three short-handed lamplighters and chalked up a team-leading 11 multiple-point game performances. He was recognized twice last season (Nov. 14 and Nov. 28) as the Central Collegiate Hockey Association's (CCHA) Offensive Player of the Week. Rallo also was chosen as the Bulldogs' 2005-06 CCHA Scholar-Athlete of the Year and was a co-winner of the team's Blue Line Competitive Award.
The four-year FSU letterwinner concluded his career with 108 points on 46 goals and 62 assists to go with a plus five efficiency rating. He also amassed 27 multiple-point games and seven game-winning lamplighters in his collegiate career. The 2003-04 CCHA All-Academic Special Mention honoree currently ranks 29th among the program's all-time leaders in points and is tied for 25th in goal scoring.
Rallo along with Nesbitt were members of the Bulldogs' 2002-03 team which registered a school-record 31-10-1 overall mark while capturing the program's first-ever CCHA Regular-Season Championship title and advancing to the Elite Eight of the 2003 NCAA Division I Championship Tournament, also a first for the Bulldog men's ice hockey program.
Rallo, who hails from Gurnee, Ill., was recognized as the 2001-02 USA Hockey Junior Player of the Year and played two seasons (2000-01 and 2001-02) in the junior ranks for the Springfield (Ill.) Jr. Blues of the North American Hockey League (NAHL).


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Erin Heatherton Displays Victoria's Secret Bikini Line
Showing off her flawless beach bod, Erin Heatherton was featured in the 2013 Victoria's Secret Swim Catalogue.
The 23-year-old Angel modeled a variety of sexy swimwear, including a pink coral pleated top bikini, a green-and-flesh-toned patterned halter top, and a teeny pink-and-black polka-dotted strapless bikini.
Having recently split from an 11-month relationship with Leonardo DiCaprio in November, the blonde beauty has reportedly moved on with an unidentified beau.
According to a New York Post insider, she enjoyed an intimate dinner at Lure Fishbar in New York City on New Year's Eve with her handsome hunk. Check out Erin and the other Angels in the commercial for their new swim line below.
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I've been using the PM3.HD skin on my Xbox for a while now, and I'm quite pleased with it. However, one thing is holding me back from using it full-time; audio selection. The MC360 skin allows me to select which audio track I want to use for a video, while the video is playing, no less. But the PM3.HD skin doesn't even let you change audio options ANYWHERE! Is there some hidden menu that I need to access? Anybody who watches anime knows that switching between audio tracks of a video file is a necessary feature, and if PM3.HD does in fact support it, that would be fantastic. So, how do I access multiple audio track settings for videos in PM3.HD?
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The Arlington Housing Authority operates several housing assistance programs which provide direct housing in government-owned developments or subsidized housing in privately-owned dwellings for persons of low or very low income. There are elderly housing units in five modern developments: the Robert Hauser Memorial Building, Drake Village, Chestnut Manor Winslow Towers and Gerard Cusack Terrace. In addition, Menotomy Manor offers housing for families in both duplex and townhouse units. Other subsidized housing plans are also available.
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Maryland Doctors Pays $450K to Resolve Medicaid Fraud CaseAuthorities say a Maryland doctor has paid $450,000 to the state to resolve allegations that she submitted false billing records to the Medicaid program.
Judge Sets $1M Bond for Doctor Accused of Human TraffickingA state judge has set bond at $1 million cash only for a Sioux Falls doctor accused of human trafficking.
Doc Pleads Guilty to Health Care Fraud in Federal Drug CaseA Maryland physician who fled to Panama amid allegations he over prescribed addictive painkillers has pleaded guilty to a federal charge of health-care fraud.
Doctor With Rape Conviction Settles Wrongful Death LawsuitA doctor who got a Maryland medical license despite his Florida rape conviction has settled a wrongful death lawsuit in Baltimore County.
Revoked Doctor Filing Court Appeal In Assisted Suicide CaseA Baltimore anesthesiologist who advised people on methods of suicide is appealing his Maryland medical license revocation.
Future Doctors Group Began At Broadneck HighPaxton Paganelli, 17, has always wanted to be a doctor. The Broadneck High School senior is applying to several pre-med track programs at top-ranked universities nationwide.
Md. Surgeon With Ebola Coming From Sierra Leone To US For CareA surgeon working in West Africa's Sierra Leone has been diagnosed with Ebola and will be flown to the United States for treatment on Saturday, according to a person in the federal government with direct knowledge of the case.
Report Blasts Md. Medical Board In Dando CaseThe inspector general of Maryland's public health agency is blasting the state medical board's decision to license a doctor in 1996 despite his conviction for raping a Florida woman at gunpoint 10 years earlier.
Bill Would Require Background Checks For Md. DoctorsMaryland doctors would undergo criminal background checks and be continuously monitored under legislation the state medical licensing board plans to propose next year.
U.S. Doctor Exposed To Ebola Virus Admitted To NIHAn American doctor who was exposed to the Ebola virus while volunteering in Sierra Leone was admitted Sunday to a hospital at the National Institutes of Health near the nation's capital.
Western Md. Doctor Has Court Date On Sex ChargeA suspended physician from western Maryland is due in court in Cumberland for a status hearing on charges he molested a female patient.
Coworker Found Disturbing Images That Launched Dr. Levy InvestigationShocking new information is released involving the Johns Hopkins doctor secretly filming his patients.


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Paradise Point Resort & Spa in San Diego Joins Destination Hotels & Resorts
Paradise Point Resort & Spa in San Diego has joined the Destination Hotels & Resorts collection!
Set in the middle of San Diego's beautiful Mission Bay, Paradise Point Resort & Spa is a lush garden and beach escape just minutes from Downtown San Diego.
Spread across the island, amid swaying palms and tropical blossoms, are 462 guestrooms and suites that are spacious, colorfully designed and full of California comfort. Encircled by one mile of white sandy beaches, this San Diego resort is just minutes from the airport and San Diego's famous attractions, including SeaWorld and the San Diego Zoo. But you will feel oceans away.
With 32,000 square feet of flexible meeting and event space, Paradise Point features inspirational garden and water views, along with a variety of spectacular outdoor settings for receptions and theme parties. It's supported by an experienced, professional staff that can accommodate conferences, conventions and special events from10 to 1,100 attendees.
Whether you are visiting San Diego for business or pleasure, Paradise Point Resort & Spa is the perfect San Diego escape. We hope to see you soon in Paradise.


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Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Madonna, and artists like them have come a long way in their careers. They have become masters of their craft, and have achieved their superstar status with a lot of hard work. But as big as each of them are, they all started from somewhere. We're taking a look at how these artists got their big breaks.
 Beyonce
 Before Queen B was a big solo artist, Beyonce had a successful career as a part of Destiny's Child from the time she was a child, so it's hard to tell when she got her big break. Her single "Crazy In Love," had launched her career to another level as a solo artist, but in the recent book Becoming Beyonce The Untold Story, author J. Randy Taraborrelli included the moment Bey and her fellow Destiny's Child members finally reached the milestone of getting a record deal. According to the book, Matthew Knowles, the band's manager had surprised the girls with their contracts by putting them in Luby's corporation envelopes (Luby's cafeteria was a place they ate at after church). The book says, at first, the girls thought it was gift certificates to Luby's, but when they opened the envelopes up, they found their recording contracts. Beyonce recalled (according to the book), "We ran all around the shop [Tina Knowles's hair salon Headliners], jumping up and down, holding our contracts in the air for the customers to see. It was a beautiful day at Headliners, that's for sure."
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Photo: Getty Images One Direction
 One Direction is now taking their hiatus, but over the last five years, the guys have really made a name for themselves. They recently recalled in an interview with Alan Carr of the UK's "The Chatty Man" show that they knew they were getting big when they had arrived and performed at their first VMAs. Harry said, "I think it was our first VMAs was a big one. Because it was one of our first trips in America, really, where we were working. And it was kind of everyone that we'd grown up listening to, and who we were listening to at the time was the audience. So, when we performed and stuff, it was right in front of people who we have on our devices." Liam added of the performance, "We were singing and I was looking, I could just see R. Kelly right there. And I was like 'Oh my God, that's R. Kelly. You can't mistake R. Kelly."
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Photo: WireImage Lady Gaga
 Mother Monster has been involved music from childhood, and has written records for other superstar artists, but her big break a solo artist really came from Akon. Akon met Lady G as a writer when he was working on records for The Pussycat Dolls, and after he recognized her amazing vocal abilities, it eventually led to a joint deal with Interscope Records and Akon's KonLive Distribution. In a joint interview with Fuse (one of Gaga's first), Akon said of meeting Lady G, "When I met her, it was crazy because I was like, 'wow she's an incredible writer,' and the next day came, and I realized that she's an incredible vocalist."
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Photo: Getty Images Rihanna
 It's hard to imagine Rihanna as nervous while performing, given that she's about to drop her 8th studio album ANTI, but nervous is what she was when she got her big break from Jay Z. After hearing her demo, the rapper asked her to perform for he and L.A. Reid at his office. She sang Whitney Houston's "For The Love of Me," "Pon De Replay," and another song called "The Last Time" -- and crushed it. Rihanna told The Guardian of performing for Jay Z:
 "That's when I really got nervous. I was like: 'Oh God, he's right there, I can't look, I can't look, I can't look!' I remember being extremely quiet. I was very shy. I was cold the entire time. I had butterflies. I'm sitting across from Jay Z. Like, Jay Z. I was star-struck." She added, "The audition definitely went well. They [Def Jam] locked me into the office - till 3am. And Jay Z said, 'There's only two ways out. Out the door after you sign this deal. Or through this window...' And we were on the 29th floor. Very flattering."
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Photo: Getty Images Justin Bieber
 It's true Justin Bieber was discovered through YouTube, but he really got his big break from Scooter Braun -- the very first Belieber -- by accident. In an interview with Bloomberg, Scooter explained that he was watching videos of another artist for Akon, when he stumbled upon Justin on YouTube, which quickly turned into watching more of young Biebs's covers. This lead to Scooter flying Justin and his mom down to Atlanta (illegally, according to Scooter himself) to move forward with a music career.
 "I was consulting for Akon on a different artist. And I was watching YouTube videos of that artist, and telling him what I thought of him. And they were singing Aretha Franklin's "Respect." So in related videos, there was a kid in the distance, a little tiny thing, and I thought it was the same person. When I clicked on it, it was a 12-year-old kid. It was an accident. I stumbled upon it, and my gut went crazy, and I watched another video, and I watched another video, and then I saw him singing Ne-Yo's "So Sick." And when I saw this little Canadian kid with so much soul, I just knew that there was something there." He added, "They were Canadian, so I definitely brought them over illegally, kept them in the country illegally, and put them in a townhouse around the corner from me in my name so no one knew they were there."
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Photo: Getty Images Taylor Swift
 T-Swizzle may be one of the biggest pop stars on the planet today, but it was Big Machine's Scott Borchetta who gave Taylor her first big break. She performed for him in Nashville, after moving their at 14 years old to pursue a career in music, and nailed her performance because she became one of Big Machine's first signings. Scot told Billboard of 14-year-old Taylor, "She was a fascinating person, even at 14 years old. She had such an amazing desire for people to like her and get to know her, and she has found a way to engage anybody whom she wants to, whether it's the immediate fan or the biggest stars in the world."
Listen to Taylor Swift Radio on iHeartRadio

Photo: Getty Images Becky G
 Becky G got her big break thanks to a cover of Kanye West and Jay-Z's song "Otis," she had posted online. The one-take video caught the attention of Dr. Luke, who ended up signing Becky to his Kemosabe Records, an imprint label of Sony Music Entertainment. She recalls what it was like getting a call from Dr. Luke in a 2013 interview with Teen Vogue:
 "At nine years old I had what I call my 'mini midlife crisis.' My family had just lost our home in Moreno Valley, so the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage back in Inglewood and lived there for two years. It was really tough going from having my own room in a cute little house to sharing a room with six other people, and I turned to music as a way to express myself. I kept working on it, and when I was 14 years old I posted a cover of 'Otis' by Kanye West and Jay-Z. I did 30 bars of rapping straight and shot a one-take music video, and Dr. Luke saw it a week and a half later." She adds, "I was so excited. I got a call that he wanted to meet me, and my life literally changed the next day when we met and he said he wanted to sign me. I've been working on my music ever since then, writing songs for other people, and now I'm working on my own album."
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Photo: Getty Images Meghan Trainor
 As you may now, Meghan Trainor has made ukulele skills., and performed "All About That Bass" for record executive L.A. Reid on the mini instrument while showcasing her vocals. According to Billboard, Reid was all about Meghan, and was so impressed that he told her that she should be the voice behind the chart-topping tune, and signed her to Epic Records.
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Photo: Getty Images Madonna
 Madonna has well-earned her title of "Queen of Pop," but if it weren't for DJ/producer Mark Kamins, she might not have that name today. Kamins is the one who passed her demos along to Sire Records' Seymour Stein, who ended up signing her. Following Kamin's death in 2013, Madonna told The Hollywood Reporter, "If it weren't for him, I might not have had a singing career. He was the first DJ to play my demos before I had a record deal." She added, "He believed in me before anyone else did. I owe him a lot."
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Photo: Getty Images Britney Spears
 Britney was famously on "The Mickey Mouse" club, along with stars like Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, and Keri Russell, who all had successful careers like Britney after the show was eventually cancelled. Following the show, Brit was originally in talks with manager Lou Pearlman to join girl group Innosense, but was encouraged to send solo demos to record labels by family friend and entertainment lawyer Larry Rudolph. She eventually landed a record deal with Jive Records. During an interview with ET, when she was just 17 years old, she recalled the moment she realized she and the rest of her Mickey Mouse Club friends had made it big. "I was at a Teen People party, there was Keri Russell, there [were] some people from *NSYNC, and Christina Aguilera, she was there, and it was so cool to see everyone. We're like 'Oh my goodness.'"
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Photo: WireImage 5 Seconds of Summer
 In case you haven't noticed, 5 Seconds of Summer of Summer is quickly taking over the music world. And the moment they felt they got their big break is all thanks to One Direction's Louis Tomlinson. 5SOS drummer Ashton Irwin told ET Canada, "[5SOS] were sort of doing our own thing in Australia for a while. And we were touring around and we did national tours and stuff. And we made it over to New Zealand and that's about as far as we got." The band's bassist Calum Hood added, "[Louis Tomlinson] contacted us and he was like 'We should tour' and we were like 'Oh my, that's a big step!'"
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Photo: Getty Images Mariah Carey
 Mariah Carey caught her big break from Columbia Records executive Tommy Mattola. Mariah had become friendly with 1988 singer Brenda Starr, who she sang backup for. The duo attended an industry party where Brenda passed along Mariah's demo to Mattola. Tommy had left the party and played the demo in the car on the way home, but when he heard it, he immediately turned around to go back to the soiree to find Mariah. In his memoir, Hitmaker, Tommy wrote, "An unbelievable energy was running through me, screaming, 'Turn the car around! That may be the best voice you've ever heard in your life!'" In fact (as he recalled in his book), he believed in Mariah so much, that he told his therapist, who advised him against pursuing her, "You don't understand! Mariah is going to be the biggest star in the world. She's going to be as big as Michael Jackson."
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Photo: WireImage Shawn Mendes
 Shawn Mendes has exploded onto the music scene over the last year or two. He may have a few hit songs and an album under his belt now, but before that, he was posting covers to YouTube while learning to play the guitar (a gift he received from his parents for his 15th birthday). And it was those covers on YouTube and Vine that would eventually lead him to a record deal, but he recalls a moment in particular that sticks out to him. He tells Radio Disney, "I started posting covers online, and the views went up and up and up, and I went down to Toronto one afternoon for a meetup, and I was just blown away with how many people were there. There was like, two thousand people [that] showed up. It was insane."
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Photo: Getty Images Ed Sheeran
 Ed Sheeran has both Jamie Foxx and Elton John to thank for his big break. Ed was playing a gig at The Foxxhole, which is a music night run by Foxx, where Jamie's manager was so impressed he booked Ed to perform on Jamie's radio show. He told the Daily Mail, "His manager saw me and booked me to play on Jamie's radio show. I did that and Jamie said, 'Just come to my house and jam.'" Ed rashed on Jamie's couch for a week, while also recording new music in his home studio! It was Ed's appearance on the show that helped him land a record deal.
 Where does Elton John fit into all of this? Elton called up Ed to sign him to his management company, and has been a mentor to Sheeran throughout his career. He told the Daily Mail in 2009, "Now he's giving me advice on how to break America, which is amazing, as he's someone who knows what it is to break America."
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Just a quick check in to let you all know that Im still hanging out and ruling the roost here at home, the weather here is a bit mixed even though its supposed to be summer, but Im cool with that,
What are all you guy's at???????
Have a great summer dudes whatever you all get up too.
Oh Boy, The sun is shinning and its hot hot hot, I love napping in the sun but mommy keeps wanting to put sunblock on my ears, man I hate that stuff!!!!!!!!! I have a couple of fav places I like to lie, on top of the garage roof where mom cant get me, thats the best hee hee, and there is lots of trees and shrubs to lie under when its too hot, I think I heard mom say that the weather is to get a bit cooler this weekend but hey as long as I can get out and about strutting my stuff I dont care,
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - The University of Tennessee football team will host an open practice at Neyland Stadium on Saturday, Aug. 17. The team will practice from 6:50 p.m. - 8:15 p.m., and fans can enter at Gates 14, 20, and 21 beginning at 6:00 p.m.
Fans will have their first opportunity to pick up the "Official Game Day Guide" with Coach Butch Jones on the cover. The Official Team Shop in the Neyland Stadium will be open.
"On behalf of Team 117, I would like to invite the best and most passionate fans in the country to help us prepare for the upcoming season," said head coach Butch Jones. "We hope to see everyone at our open practice on Saturday, August 17th at Neyland Stadium as we continue to work toward the opening of the 2013 season."
Admission to the event and parking will both be free of charge, and concession stands will be open. Parking will be available in the following lots: G-3, G-4, G-5, G-10, and Staff Lot 9.
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i have a small addition on my house, sitting on brick piers. not sure if these actually go down as it looks like they are just sitting on the ground.
there is a crawl space underneath that is totally inaccessible unless i gut the walls, which run down all the way to the ground (clapboard over plywood).
in any case, i'm going to remove the walls soon, brace up the structure and dig proper piers.
here's my question: the rest of my house has a stone and mortar foundation, parged over, and another addition in cinder block. i want to be able to veneer the addition after giving it a proper foundation.
is it possible to do a stone veneer between post and pier? can i simply frame a floating wall between posts with 2Xs and PT fly, and veneer over that?
or do i need a continuous poured or block footing to carry the weight of the veneer?
another option is to stucco over the entire house's foundation, but i would rather remove the parge, repoint what i have, and add more stone veneer to try to match.
If it is the artificial stone of very thin brick sticking it on a wall might work if the wall is supported frequently and is rigid enough or you can expect cracks.
If you are talking about real brick of stone, then you need a ledger angle at the bottom bolted frequently to the structure to carry the weight.
A lot depends on the pier spacing and method of attachment.
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Politicians are having trouble coming to grips withĀ e-learning in schools.
Providing education in the 21st century requires big investments in network and computer infrastructure, to support self-paced interactive learning. But there's too little incentive to produce compelling electronic curriculum, because the supporting infrastructure just isn't there yet - and because there's no curriculum to justify it.
This chicken-and-egg problem manifested itself in the Victorian Parliament last week when Jacinta Allan, Minister for Education Services, answered a few curlies from Victor Perton, her Opposition counterpart. Knowing that without adequate bandwidth the opportunity for e-learning is in peril, Perton asked on notice: "What are the key performance indicators that (your) broadband objectives are required to meet? What are the future targets and present-day outcomes for network capacity?"
Since it's hard to know the bandwidth requirements or popularity of
applications not yet written or deployed, Allan replied: "The current use of ITC
by students, teachers and administrators in schools and TAFE institutes varies
enormously and a reliable model for forecasting data communications requirements
in the education and training sectors is not available."
Perhaps anticipating this, Perton also asked on what basis ADSL was chosen for school upgrades, rather than real two-way broadband. He also requested any copies of studies supporting this decision, but wasn't so lucky.
"The provision of the information requested cannot be justified," the minister replied, "on the grounds that it would require an unreasonable diversion of time and resources, which are not available."
But the task of addressing education's future urgently requires adequate time and resources diverted to it. Crunch time for state education is around the corner. The teaching profession isn't attracting replacement talent in sufficient numbers, while private sector e-learning investments might render state school students unable to compete.
Perton says a computer can be provided for every student for as little as $300 a year -therefore, my call for an annual $10 billion ($2200 a student) federal commitment was implied by the shadow minister to be like Soviet-style central planning - his favourite characterisation of Labor's policy. But in this case, the Government can't even produce a usage model, much less a five-year plan. So I say Perton's idea, though on the right track, doesn't go far enough.
A federal spending initiative for the states is justified, for Perton's $300 plan may be enough for student computers but it won't buy the most engaging, interactive curriculum.
Good-quality e-learning might cost, say, $20,000 per hour to produce. Therefore, a 250-hour subject (including homework and alternate learning paths) comes to $5 million for curriculum development alone, or $400 million for an entire year-level offering of 80 subjects. And we still have servers, software licences, technical support, teacher training and 11 other year levels to go ...
"What analysis has the Department of Education and Training undertaken to gauge the bandwidth needs of the state school system now and into the future," Perton further asked on notice, "taking into account curriculum changes, multimedia developments and student and teacher uptake and skills development?"
Once again, the minister replied: "The provision of the information requested cannot be justified on the grounds that it would require an unreasonable diversion of time and resources, which are not available."
I think it might be time to divert resources for a few pilot studies - pick a subject, get some school councils on side, develop the curriculum, then run the subject in a few schools fully on e-learning and some half-time and see what difference it makes.
The world's second and third largest education markets are NSW and Victoria. That's because in other places, state schools are administered locally, fragmenting overseas markets into little fiefdoms. In the e-learning market, we have two of the world's superpowers. Therefore our state and federal governments must not fail to capitalise on this opportunity to benefit the local IT industry - now by itself running a trade deficit of $10 billion a year.
But at last the tyranny of distance doesn't matter - in theory: "Has there been a delay in the roll-out of broadband to schools caused by the wait for (the Government's) Telecommunications Purchasing and Management Strategy (TPAMS)?" Perton asked, again on notice. "If so, how long is the delay?"
See above for the minister's reply about time and resources, also trotted out for a further seven related questions.
But if we don't make some time and resources available real soon, we risk importing curriculum from our smaller, fragmented competitors - then paying them extra to customise to our requirements.
Meanwhile, a whole generation misses out.
Perton believes we can fix all this within state budgets, by collaborating with the smaller overseas players. But he hasn't seen the bandwidth bill yet. If you want interaction between students, opening up opportunities to regional or disadvantaged kids, and host fee-paying or aid-program students logging in from overseas, you need to hand-hold them with two-way video conferencing. We are now talking two-way broadband, ultimately being used by up to a third of students at once.
A school of 1000 might easily chew through a 20-megabit link.
This is 10 times more than many of the best schools have, due to Australia's telecommunications costs. These are especially high for real (not ADSL) two-way broadband - the type we must soon have in abundance for the future of education. Once again, the e-learning mantle falls in the federal arena. But will they pick it up?
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Stale smoke hangs forever in the air at Jack's apartment. There's a giant Bob Marley poster and two bookcases filled with boy-movie DVDs. The furniture is obscenely comfortable, especially the huge, shapeless chair they call "the poof." The TV is always on. Jack—not his real name—and his roommate love old, terrible movies. They own every episode of "Mystery Science Theatre 3000," from Joel, to Mike, to when Pearl took over as villain and the show left Comedy Central.
I come here often, and always I tell myself, "This is the last time." Today I brought a friend from school with me, Brad (also not his real name). We're here to buy an eighth of pot for $50 to split. Marijuana has been legal to cultivate and possess in Missoula since 2009 with either a medical or a caregiver's card, but Jack and I have neither; everything about this transaction is still illegal.
I've been hanging out in living rooms just like this one since I was 16 years old—over 13 years now. I told Brad that this place had to be seen to be believed, and now I watch him soak in the room with child-like wonder.
Brad comes from a good home. He didn't spend his youth in these places and it's a welcome vacation from the stress of higher education. On the way home he talks about what a trip this has been in a dull, slow-motion voice courtesy of the gravity bong we just tore through. I'm happy to give him the experience but I can't help but be a little annoyed. "It's a nice place to visit, isn't it?" I want to tell him. "I live here."
It might surprise you to learn that I'm not a complete screw-up. I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, and I moved to Montana in the fall of 2009 to get my masters of fine arts in fiction at UM. They gave me a full teaching assistantship, which means they trusted me to teach your children, and now I edit the calendar here at the Indy. I've published stories in respectable journals, I've won awards and my students loved me. Everything looks fine on paper. But there are some notable gaps in my résumé, and only I know the whole story. I graduated from college with good grades, but it took me eight years to do it, and not because I took time off to explore Europe or work in my field. No. I spent most of my twenties delivering pizzas, withdrawing from classes and getting high.
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- I meant to change once I got to grad school. But then I found a dealer, and like magic the stuff landed in my hands again and I've been smoking it alone in my bedroom for days...Deer frolic outside and I curse Missoula for looking and acting like a Disney film.
Tell just about anybody that you've struggled with marijuana addiction, and they'll say the same thing: "But I thought marijuana wasn't addicting..." Both occasional users and non-users claim this. (Daily users tend to say it with much more conviction.) Remember the scene in Half Baked when Dave Chapelle steps into an NA meeting claiming to be addicted to weed? "Have you ever sucked some dick for marijuana?" a haggard Bob Saget chides him. The scene ends with another dude screaming "Boo this man!"—and then all the real drug addicts throw trash at Chapelle. I'm not saying this has been my experience, exactly, but it's not far off.
Where do beliefs like this come from? I have some theories. Cannabis is a unique plant, unlike just about any other common drug. It's pretty much impossible to overdose. Also, the withdrawal symptoms are hard to pinpoint, not because they don't exist but because the drug stays in your system for around 30 days. (Any casual user subjected to drug testing at the workplace will tell you this is one of life's great injustices. The hard stuff is gone in 48 hours, but marijuana lingers.)
Around 20 years ago, scientists discovered what they came to call the cannabinoid receptors. THC floats into the brain and binds itself to these receptors in a kind of marriage, a yin and yang so perfect and cosmically beautiful I want to cry just thinking about it, and this sparks the feel-good, chemical reaction we call "getting high." That feeling got me through the banality of high school. It helped me to let go of the things that truly don't matter. It made food so, so delicious. I smoked, parts of my brain opened up, and the meanings of books ached inside of me for days. Seriously, have you ever listened to OK Computer on weed? God gave us this plant. I believe that. But like all things heaven sent, she ought to be feared and respected. I'm not just being cute: Marijuana is a girl. The male plants are useless and growers hate them. Maybe they can be made into rope or something. Women are powerful, and they can be harsh mistresses if you let them curl up inside you.


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RIVERSIDE, Calif. --- UC Irvine was unable to hang on to a one-run lead as UC Riverside scored twice in the eighth to come away with a 2-1 win Sunday at the Riverside Sports Complex. The loss snaps a seven-game win streak for the Anteaters as UCI drops to 37-14 overall (15-6 Big West).
Trailing 1-0 in the bottom of the eighth, UCR's Trevor Hairgrove worked a one-out walk from Andrew Thurman to start the rally. Thurman gave way to Jimmy Litchfield, who was tagged for an RBI double by Ryan Goetz, tying the score at 1-1. Tony Nix followed with a single to right to plate Goetz for the eventual game-winning run.
Matt Whitehouse spun a seven inning shutout in the start for UCI, striking out seven and holding the Highlanders to just four hits but did not factor in the decision. Litchfield fell to 2-1 with the loss after giving up a run on three hits.
Jordan Fox had the lone RBI for UCI in the fourth, knocking in a run with a one-out single to left to score Sean Madigan from second, who had coaxed a leadoff walk from starter Trevor Frank and took third on a single down the left-field line from Brian Hernandez.
Frank limited UCI to a run on four hits in seven innings while striking out three but also did not figure in the decision. Dustin Emmons pitched two hitless innings with three strikeouts to improve to 6-3 on the year.


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Bus Terminal Commuters: "Can we Get a Fan, at Least?"
Commuters lift up the bottom of their shirts of it to wipe the sweat off their nose and necks, as they line up and wait for their bus at the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
They pull out any papers they might have in their bags to fan themselves.
"I'm melting," said Christina LaFontant. "It's really hot."
"It's just barely comfortable," said Michael Savino. "Just barely."
"There's supposed to be air conditioning," said Jack Riggio. "You don't feel it."
Some of the bus waiting areas do have air conditioning. Commuter Karen Bode said it could be a little cooler though.
"It's a small area hey can definitely make it a lot colder."
Many of the waiting areas don't have any functioning AC. And commuters say they don't expect that.
"But a fan, something," said LaFontant "This is a waiting area and you want to feel comfortable."
She says long wait times don't help either.
A spokesperson for the Port Authority, Chris Valens, said they've been hearing these complaints.
For the past two weeks he says the Port Authority has brought in extra maintenance staff for the afternoon rush – to make sure temperature sensors are working correctly.
But Valens said it's an old building. Everything doesn't run how it should.
At least commuters are just passing through, though.
The people who work on the subway platforms selling flowers or running a snack stand, like Bernys Rosario, say there's no escaping the mugginess.
"We just buy water, put it in the fridge, let it stay overnight so we can let them stay there real cool," he said. "Actually there's nothing. Nothing we can do."