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The Surprising Benefits of Ground Blinds
Posted on December 20, 2011
Everyone knows that to kill whitetails with a bow you have to be at least 15 feet off the ground, right?
Wrong. Today's combination of safe, inexpensive portable treestands and an extreme focus on hunting trophy bucks has turned ground hunting into a dying art–a trend that's likely causing bowhunters to miss out on some great opportunities and a lot of fun. On nearly every property I hunt, there are excellent ambush sites that offer no possibility of placing effective treestands. I emphasize the word, "effective,†because there are sometimes trees available, but those in poor position relative to deer movement don't offer shot opportunities, and trees with too little cover are sure recipes for getting busted.
Deer move in spatial patterns governed by food, habitat structure, topography and wind direction. Bucks especially like to move in thick cover or on the edge of it–for instance, where a thicket meets a swamp or field. It's no coincidence that the thickest places have few trees, since tree canopies block sunlight, which prevents development of brushy security cover.
In my area of upstate New York and much of the Northeast, farm abandonment during the past 50 years has created a plethora of brush-choked fields that provide bedding cover and food but lack trees for hanging a stand. I would guess that many of the very best areas for daytime deer activity go unexplored by bowhunters who think that hunting on the ground is a waste of time.
I remember watching a video several years ago that featured Mark and Terry Drury hunting the early season in Wyoming. After numerous unsuccessful hunts, the reluctant brothers decided to set up on the ground at the edge of a brushy bedding area.
Improvising, they used 5-gallon buckets for seats and brush trimmings for cover. The duo seemed embarrassed at trying this ridiculous tactic, and Terry was genuinely dumbfounded when he tagged a wide eight-point that went down within sight. It takes just one experience like that to make you a believer.
Hunting mature bucks is fun, and I don't deny that it's what turns my "bowhunting crank.†However, I also like to eat venison, so filling the freezer is important to me, too.
For the experienced hunter, it can get a little routine shooting does, especially in farmland and suburban areas where deer are abundant and relatively easy to ambush from elevated stands. So, awhile back, I started spending more time on the ground for the added challenge. Getting down to earth (pun intended) has taught me a lot about deer behavior and what works and what doesn't when you're at eye level with deer.
The main principles of successful deer hunting are the same–whether you're aloft or planted on the ground, but there are some nuances that are particular to each approach. Nevertheless, they're all about fooling a deer's senses.
Be Easy on Their Eyes
In their video, the Drury brothers unknowingly debunked a common misconception about ground hunting and a deer's ability to see.
Many hunters believe that if you are on the ground, you must be totally hidden within a pop-up blind or wall of brush. I've actually found that having complete concealment isn't necessary and is sometimes a liability, because it limits your line of sight and effective shooting zones.
I like to set up with a sparse screen of brush or mesh fabric in front of me and a visually complicated backdrop behind me. Good backgrounds include upturned stumps, the dense tops of fallen trees, thick shrubs such as rose or honeysuckle and rocky outcrops. The idea is to break your silhouette, not completely hide your form.
My standard set up is a lightweight, folding aluminum stool and a skirt-type blind, which is nothing more than camo fabric attached to telescoping fiberglass stakes. With these items attached to my backpack, I can be set up in a few minutes. Brush blinds work great if they are built ahead of time, but for wily whitetails, building an impromptu blind can exceed acceptable disturbance and scent levels.
If I'm hunting an open area where I know that it's difficult to find a good backdrop, I'll often wear a ghillie suit. One note of caution, however: Ghillie suits are great at breaking the human silhouette, but they are not so great for uninhibited bow shooting. I strongly suggest practicing with your full suit on and trimming the strands that interfere with the travel of your bowstring.
When evaluating your ground setup, try to imagine how a deer might see the situation. Because deer are prey animals, their eyes are positioned on the sides of their head, allowing for a wide field of view and an excellent ability to sense movement, but poor depth perception. In my experience, the keys are to stay in the shadows, make sure you have adequate back cover and limit your movement.
If you're nestled in heavy cover, such as a cattail marsh or standing corn field, cut a few narrow sight windows to either side of your shooting lane so that you can see deer coming and be prepared. Otherwise, if a deer pops from the cover unexpectedly, you'll have to make too much movement to get ready. The key is to be in position before the deer steps into your shooting lane.
In open habitats, such as field edges and power line cuts, it's good to give the deer something other than you to focus on. Deer decoys work best, but they are often cumbersome and can be dangerous to use when hunting from the ground. As a safe alternative, a turkey decoy will focus a deer's attention and give it confidence that everything is safe.
Several seasons ago, during New York's late archery season, I pushed the limits of good sense by setting up on the ground in a large opening with little cover. It was too cold to crawl up in a tree, and the unusual east wind didn't allow me to hunt from my usual ground blind on the opening's opposite side. I hoped my doe decoy would keep any passing deer distracted enough to allow me to draw my bow unseen. It worked–in the middle of a wicked snow squall. A year-and-half-old doe tarried too long at my decoy, giving me just the chance I needed. The shot was true, adding some much appreciated venison to the freezer.
Nullify Their Noses
Deer are notorious for their acute sense of smell. Scent molecules from our bodies drift from a treestand like snowflakes on a gentle breeze. On a day with consistent wind, we can use this to our advantage, as a deer approaching from upwind can move downwind near our tree while our scent drifts harmlessly overhead.
From the ground, however, there is no buffering of our stench. If a deer gets downwind, you are usually busted. For this reason, playing the wind is do or die when ground hunting. I'm pretty careful about my scent-control, but the fact is, if a deer gets downwind of you, you might as well have a neon sign advertising your location. The best medicine is to not let that happen.
For this reason, I try to follow these rules: (1) Never hunt flats on days without a predominant wind direction; (2) In the evenings, take advantage of downward-moving thermals on ridges; (3) always be cognizant of when the wind shifts uphill during mid- to late morning; (4) when possible, hunt with your back to a feature that deer are reluctant to move through, such as a water body or open field. To be sure of my wind situation, I like to use baking powder in a squeeze bottle to frequently check wind direction. During pre-dawn, a disposable lighter works great to detect subtle air movements.
Sometimes, the wind just doesn't cooperate. Last season I was after a good buck that I called "Sandy's Slammer,†in reference to the landowner's name. Arriving at Sandy's property, I discovered that the weatherman must have been smoking something funny, because the wind was not behaving at all as he predicted. I knew that to hunt the blind I had hoped to would just send my scent sailing through the "Slammer's†bedding area, so I headed for the other end of the property.
Decked out in my ghillie suit and tucked into the top of a fallen white pine, I was eager to see how my setup performed. I didn't have long to wait.
Just after nocking an arrow, I saw legs approaching through the dogwood brush to my left. Before long, the old doe was nearly in my lap. With a steady wind in my face, I focused on remaining completely motionless.
After browsing some multiflora rose not 25 feet from me, she moved to the far side of the opening, turning away at a hard angle. I remember thinking that the angle might be too hard, because it really narrowed my effective target. But I was already committed, and the string slipped from my fingers.
I watched, dismayed, as the arrow struck the right hindquarter and disappeared, angling forward into the body cavity. After a tough tracking job that took me in a half-mile semi-circle through head-high dogwood, I finally found the doe very much dead.
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relating to public safety; clarifying the application of the criminal and traffic
surcharge to offenders who enter diversion programs; amending Minnesota
Statutes 2012, section 357.021, subdivision 6.
Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 357.021, subdivision 6, is amended to read:
(a) Except as provided
in this paragraph, the court shall impose and the court administrator shall collect a $75
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petty misdemeanor offense, other than a violation of a law or ordinance relating to vehicle
parking, for which there shall be a $12 surcharge. When a defendant is convicted of more
than one offense in a case, the surcharge shall be imposed only once in that case. In the
Second Judicial District, the court shall impose, and the court administrator shall collect,
an additional $1 surcharge on every person convicted of any felony, gross misdemeanor,
misdemeanor, or petty misdemeanor offense, including a violation of a law or ordinance
relating to vehicle parking, if the Ramsey County Board of Commissioners authorizes the
$1 surcharge. The surcharge shall be imposed whether or not the person is sentenced to
imprisonment or the sentence is stayed. The surcharge shall not be imposed when a person
is convicted of a petty misdemeanor for which no fine is imposed.
(b) If the court fails to impose a surcharge as required by this subdivision, the court
administrator shall show the imposition of the surcharge, collect the surcharge, and
correct the record.
(c) The court may not waive payment of the surcharge required under this
subdivision. Upon a showing of indigency or undue hardship upon the convicted person
or the convicted person's immediate family, the sentencing court may authorize payment
of the surcharge in installments.
(d) The court administrator or other entity collecting a surcharge shall forward it to
the commissioner of management and budget.
(e) If the convicted person is sentenced to imprisonment and has not paid the
surcharge before the term of imprisonment begins, the chief executive officer of the
correctional facility in which the convicted person is incarcerated shall collect the
surcharge from any earnings the inmate accrues from work performed in the facility or
while on conditional release. The chief executive officer shall forward the amount collected
to the court administrator or other entity collecting the surcharge imposed by the court.
(f) A person who enters a new text beginnew text enddiversion programdeleted text begin,deleted text end
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violation of chapter 169new text beginnew text endmust pay
the surcharge described in this subdivision. A surcharge imposed under this paragraph
shall be imposed only once per case.
(g) The surcharge does not apply to administrative citations issued pursuant to
section 169.999.
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Sera Flowers steals a bottle of Arbor red from Cersei's wine celler. Mira Forrester can take a sip. Tyrion Lannister mentions that Arbor red is a favourite of Cersei's. [5]
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Samwell Tarly is sent to the Arbor as a page and cupbearer where Horas and Hobber Redwyne despised him and found many different ways to shame and humiliate him. If he pleased Lord Paxter, Samwell would have been betrothed to Lord Paxter's daughter, but he is ultimately sent home to Horn Hill.
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|Regional Capital:
Old Oak · Red Lake · Goldengrove · Bitterbridge · Tumbleton · Grassy Vale · Cider Hall · Ashford · Horn Hill · Brightwater Keep · Bandallon · Honeyholt · Oldtown (The Citadel · The Hightower · Starry Sept) · Uplands · Blackcrown · Three Towers · Sun House · The Arbor
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Chiropractic Benefits: From I-Ching to "Ka-Ching!"
By Anthony Rosner, PhD, LLD [Hon.], LLCI remember back in college, and especially in graduate school at Harvard, countless, endless bull sessions (some influenced by wine; some egged on a bit further by pitchers of beer, in which I was, like, totally transported into the subjunctive) that were shaped by our ethical and spiritual values as to how we might actually change the world. One of our hallowed symbols of this period (emerging from the late 1960s) was the I-Ching,1 an ancient Chinese divination manual full of symbolism and poetic text. This was to be our vision of the world order, motivated by a strong moral commitment.
Now, of course, so many of these lofty goals are driven by money - seen in globalization, publishing conglomerates, the Disney entertainment empire, or the postings each week in USA Today of the top-grossing movies from Hollywood. (This used to be just a specialty item published in Variety, rather than an issue of national consciousness.) And so it is with health care, and chiropractic, in particular. This occurs against the background of the beleaguered U.S. health care system (spending upward of twice as much per capita, yet ranking lower than France or Japan, and holding 37th place in an overall list of 1,912), which struggles to keep pace with major inflationary pressures within the health care industry.
On one hand, the efforts of the chiropractic research community to document the theory and practice of chiropractic - in no small part due to the efforts of FCER - have been amply recognized in the indexed literature as having enabled the profession to approach mainstream status.3,4 However, the economics of chiropractic care seem far less established, to date. This is not at all helped by the fact that out of a total of 50,000 randomized clinical trials in health care, only 121 (0.2%) were reported just a little over a decade ago to have included economic analyses.5 In terms of what appears to have captured public attention, a stream of reports from the Workmen's Compensation Research Institute in recent years,6,7 as well as from the California Workers' Compensation Institute (WCRI),8 have all suggested that chiropractors are a major cost driver in at least two states (California and Texas), and consequently require strict controls.
Here is the problem, painted in broad strokes: What are the leading alternatives to chiropractic services for back care? We know that the total expenditure for back pain in the United States is over $90 billion annually. We also know that the costs of prescription drugs runs about $14 billion annually, more than 15% of that $90 billion total, with expenditures increasing more rapidly than health service outlays such as inpatient or outpatient care, office-based visits, emergency room, or home health.9 On top of this, we can graft the rate of all surgeries (17.6%) found to be unnecessary by the Congressional Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce.10
Plugging in the number of lower back surgeries in the United States, found to exceed $250,000 per year at a hospital cost of $11,000 per patient,11 this would mean that the total number of unnecessary back surgeries in this country could approach 44,000, with a total cost of $484 million. As far as prescription drug expenditures are concerned, with total spending doubling from 1995-2000, tripling from 1990-2000, and identified as a key factor spiking U.S. health care costs in recent years,12 costs associated with chiropractic would seem like small potatoes indeed.
If we are going to argue dollars and cents, then the chiropractic community has a significant issue to deal with - a challenge to which the FCER has risen. Beginning with an appearance in Harrisburg in November 2001 at the Pennsylvania state legislature, I have been rebutting the arguments put forth by the WCRI,6,7 and have just returned from Austin, where I put in a similar appearance before the Select Interim Workers' Compensation Senate Committee of Texas for the same purpose. In both California and Texas, chiropractic workers' compensation benefits have been getting hammered, based on evidence that is far from convincing. To quote Tom and Ray Magliozzi on National Public Radio ("In my humble opinion ...), these are the major flaws in the WCRI arguments erroneously used to downgrade chiropractic services in workers' compensation systems:
These are but a few of the problems with the recent reports from the WCRI6,7 which I have deconstructed elsewhere, addressing the WCRI, in particular,24 and workers' compensation issues, in general.25 So, where should the limited number of health care dollars be spent? We can applaud the advances of heroic medicine, but in these times, we must maintain our focus or those aspects of chiropractic health care that are designed to minimize the onset of more costly and invasive procedures further on. Although a couple of encouraging studies that could be interpreted as suggestive of the benefits of maintenance care have appeared in the journals,26,27 far more attention has to be paid to the fact that the lion's share of the current cost burden upon health care systems is not within the chiropractic realm at all. This problem can only be solved with properly designed cost-effectiveness studies, which, to date, lack all the elements needed to capture the true direct and indirect costs of an episode of illness.14 Furthermore, far more research to document the potential benefits of maintenance care is needed.
Once this is achieved, the incessant din of "ka-ching!" in health care might be silenced enough for us to be able to devote more time to the entire well-being of the patient. Who knows? This might even entail being able to revisit some forgotten tenets of the I-Ching.1
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NBC's 'Up All Night' starring Christina Applegate, Will Arnett and Maya Rudolph is getting a makeover. The show, originally shot in a one camera format (ala Modern Family) will change over to multi-camera format (like traditional comedies ie. The Big Bang Theory) when it comes back this Winter. It will play out it's already filmed one camera aspect in December and go with the more traditional style when it returns in February. The idea came from Lorne Michaels himself after seeing Applegate and Arnett perform a skit in the multi-camera format on SNL. Will it work to being the show more life? That remains so be seen.


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Georgia's Quality Deer Herd
Georgia needs to do like South Carolina, Florida, Alabama and so on. Have you ever heard this statement? We sure have; wish we had nickel for every time we have heard it regarding deer management. It often seems that a lot of time is spent looking at the neighbors' grass and the longer we look; the greener it gets. Meanwhile, we don't inspect our own grass with same detail. And, so it is with deer hunting in Georgia and Georgia's deer herd. So, how green is our grass? You may be surprised!
Georgia supports a very healthy, productive deer herd. The most recent pre-hunt deer herd estimate for Georgia was a conservative 1.2 million deer (2002). The result of this healthy, productive deer herd is that Georgia's 280,000 deer hunters harvested 410,000 deer in 2002. On the other hand, your comrades in Alabama harvested 410,000, Florida - 140,000, South Carolina - 309,000 and Tennessee - 157,000. This is quite a feat considering our pre-hunt population estimate in 1980, just 20 years ago, was only 473,000 and our harvest was about 135,500 deer. Georgia's deer hunters and deer herd have come a long way in a short period of time and are no doubt leaders in the South! Is their grass still looking greener?
What about the successful Georgia deer hunters? The average deer hunter harvests 1.5 deer per season and it takes the average deer hunter just 14 days to harvest a deer. This is incredible when compared to 1980 when the average deer hunter harvested 0.4 deer, and it took the average hunter 31 days to harvest a deer! Deer hunting in the 1980's was good; now it's great. No doubt, the good old days of deer hunting are right now! Georgia deer hunters are harvesting more deer and are more successful than ever before.
Good Ole Days of Deer Hunting Are Now
Well, we briefly described the outstanding deer hunting opportunity that we cherish in Georgia. Now, what about our deer herd? We have mentioned its general size, but what about its quality? It may be of surprise, but Georgia actually has a quality deer herd and has since about 1996. There are several ways to judge the quality of our deer herd including Boone & Crockett records (B&C), Pope & Young records (P&Y) and the number of mature bucks (2½ years old and older) harvested.
Did you know that Georgia has 80 B&C record bucks? Our surrounding states do not even compare. We are numero uno! At a distant second to Georgia is Tennessee with just 18 B&C bucks and third is Alabama with 11. Our grass seems to be quite green!
Boone & Crockett Bucks Entered in All-Time Records Book through 2000 in Georgia and Surrounding States
Yet, our grass gets even greener. Georgia has 198 P&Y record bucks! Once again, Georgia is the leader. Alabama is second at 110 and then comes Tennessee at 105. That other grass is starting to have several brown spots (no pun intended)!
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RI Farm Bureau to skip event over Cuomo remarks
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The Rhode Island Farm Bureau says it won't attend a conference in Albany because of "disturbing and insensitive" comments by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who said "extreme conservatives" weren't welcome in the state.
The non-governmental group's board voted against sending a delegation to a March conference for Northeast farm bureaus after Cuomo in an interview described "extreme conservatives" as pro-assault weapons, against abortion and anti-gay and said they "have no place" in New York.
The Rhode Island bureau feels the comments fly in the face of policies adopted by the American Farm Bureau that it has also embraced, including on guns, abortion and "family and moral responsibility." The local president said Tuesday the organizations champion "freedom and family values."
The New York Farm Bureau says it respects the Rhode Island affiliate's right to express its opinion.
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One unique feature of using the digital medium as a means for expression resides in its capacity to produce systems with "autonomous players", each with its own complex behaviour, maintaining a relationship attuned to the audience. Within real-time systems, this sort of creation uses "initiative-taking" techniques, artificial intelligence, artificial life, learning technologies, generators, analysis engines and more. In practical terms, this consists of using technology mainly applied to the realm of video games, but applying them instead to artistic creations in order to create Living Art works.
The aim of this seminar is to help artists commit to the realm of digital creation, and to design and steer a project in this field. The speakers are among the top specialists in digital art in France. This seminar is open to artists and graduates of fine arts and art history, as well as professionals dealing with artistic and cultural initiatives.
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We finally did it. We bit the bullet and decided to mulch the whole damn front yard.
All of it.
No landscaping (anytime soon), no nothing.
The yard has a gorgeous canopy of shade from our two Texas Live Oaks so very little will grow there.
Our two 100 lbs. dogs were kind enough to remove any last vestige of grass.
I highly recommend this method of grass removal. That or goats.
If you put goats in your urban front yard, please let me know because that would make you stranger than us and I'd like to send some folks your way. (Those folks being the several who stopped by today to inquire as to whether we were really mulching our entire yard. )
It took a couple of years for the dogs to do their job, but, voila!, no grass.
Natural Gardener put their bulk soils on sale and we moved on it.
If you're into points, that is.
I, for one, am not.
Especially when it is 4 in the afternoon and all I have had to eat is one small taco and 400 glasses of water.
Surrounding my two lovely old oaks are these mammoth concrete rings lovingly (I assume) installed by old man Luetkenholter some many years ago.
He then put down a layer of plastic and then filled it with soil and then planted succulents in there.
Bad, bad Mr. Luetkenholter.
They looked nice and tidy and old-fashioned, but they were choking the trees!
I didn't get a photo of the other tree when I removed the ring, but, man, oh, man that poor thing.
The surface roots were unable to escape the cement ring so they grew in a circle, round and round and round, basically choking the tree.
I had to remove all the plants that had been planted in the top, gently, ever so gently loosen some of those entangled roots without breaking them and then mulch the hell out of the roots that were now exposed.
You do not envy me that job.
Now I've got to do it to the other one.
This one looks like it's in better shape.
Most of these roots appear to be from the decorative plants.
I know the surface roots are tangled some, but not nearly as bad as the other ones.
Both trees are sending millions of distress suckers all over the yard. I brainstormed with the arborist and I think our plan will work.
I've got my fingers crossed.
I let the first one sit for a couple of months before attempting to do the other one and it's looking good.
I had them pruned as well and I'm sure that helped.
This lovely drought hasn't done them any favors either, although I've been drip watering them when restrictions allowed.
Poor babies.
Moving on to the bright side.
The new front pathway/steps are installed!
I'll get the other stock tank pond installed next week and style you with a better picture.
He went in to use the bathroom.
When he came out he informed me that he couldn't pee because there was a roach in the bathroom.
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I am writing this message on behalf of my father, who is having the following
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on algebra and calculus (out of fun and interest) and he meticulously
writes down the answers to each problem he solves. He would like to do this
on his computer, but after a bit of discussion, I discovered that any of
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By Oscar K. Serrano, MD
One of the things I admire most about surgeons is the critical nature with which they scrutinize their work. This self-criticism and striving for constant improvement is, perhaps, what attracted me to surgery in the first place. That ability to take questions from the bedside or operating room and to search for answers through laboratory research or clinical trials in an effort to improve the quality of care we provide resonated with me.
Resident Research Day at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City is an excellent venue to demonstrate these critical thinking skills. It provides an organized opportunity to present findings from a year-long project that residents have researched under the guidance of a faculty mentor. It also gives residents the experience of a formal research meeting with a strict format and time guidelines.
My research project evaluated the clinical utility of PET imaging for the staging of gastric cancer. I was interested in assessing how much more information PET added in the work-up of gastric cancer when compared to a quality CT scan. Our results demonstrated that PET changed the management of care in approximately 15 percent of cases, thereby leading us to conclude that PET is a valuable tool in the staging of gastric cancer.
My experience at Resident Research Day was very special. I felt very fortunate to be selected to give an oral presentation, a prestigious recognition that enabled me to highlight our work to our department. I rehearsed for two weeks and tried to squeeze every second from the seven minutes I was given.
That morning, I was very nervous. As I walked up to the podium, I suddenly realized the entire department was ready to scrutinize my work in an open forum. The presentation went faster than I had practiced – I hadn't taken nerves into consideration. However, I managed to say everything I wanted to mention and still had time for questions.
The discussion was perhaps the most challenging part. Senior surgeons were engaged and asked difficult questions. No matter how much one reads or how much time is spent looking at the data, there will always be someone who will think of a question that will leave you puzzled. I guess this is the beauty of research symposiums such as Resident Research Day: the ability to share your findings with someone new to the topic and for them to provide innovative and creative ideas.
Resident Research Day proved to be an excellent exercise in critical thinking and scientific inquiry. It provides a formal outlet for residents to showcase our work and adds a solid academic foundation as we journey through our residency. And now, at the next medical meeting I attend, I feel better prepared to be the surgeon in the crowd who asks a question that really makes the researcher think!
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Monday, April 6, 2009
HipHopGame Interview
Here's an interview from HipHopGame, a follow up to our previous interview. I discuss the deal and a little of how I got to this point. Shout out to Wale. The way they worded the question on the text version made my response seem a little off "As long as the vibe is there." All good though.
Thanks to Brian and Tom at HHG.
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you the truth man...been following your music for awhile...can't wait for that warm up man!
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- Elite said...
hi you are a good rapper, and make a good beat. HoYa!
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Hey, I can't believe I just found out about your blog(crazy) well you have to check out my blog I put together for school. I had to get creative with it becausse it's for a school project. My first blog had to be about going for goals and never losing faith, so it was funny because for weeks I strungled on what to write. At the time of the assignment, I was thinking that my goal of making it in this industry was just a joke, so it was hard to write something, until I attended your show at S.O.B's(amazing. The next day I put my blog together, and you became my first blog story. My professor loved it!!! You got me that A+(ha) Since the blog did so well, I decided to base my research paper on you(huh?) Well the paper has to be based on someone who inspired you(aww)so yeah!!! P.S, I reached out to your people and hopes that you would be able to speak to my college english class, I think it would be good for them to hear your story and how hard to strungle to get to your dream....I mean they need to hear it(including me) So yeah, check out my blog and maybe I could hand you my research paper on you in person(hint)lol. http://talkwithcautions.wordpress.com/
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Collaborative business process modeling using 3D virtual environments
West, Stephen, Brown, Ross A., & Recker, Jan C. (2010) Collaborative business process modeling using 3D virtual environments. In Proceedings of the 16th Americas Conference on Information Systems : Sustainable IT Collaboration around the Globe, Association for Information Systems (AIS), Swissôtel Lima, Lima.
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Process modeling is a complex organizational task that requires many iterations and communication between the business analysts and the domain specialists involved in the process modeling. The challenge of process modeling is exacerbated, when the process of modeling has to be performed in a cross-organizational, distributed environment. Some systems have been developed to support collaborative process modeling, all of which use traditional 2D interfaces. We present an environment for collaborative process modeling, using 3D virtual environment technology. We make use of avatar instantiations of user ego centres, to allow for the spatial embodiment of the user with reference to the process model. We describe an innovative prototype collaborative process modeling approach, implemented as a modeling environment in Second Life. This approach leverages the use of virtual environments to provide user context for editing and collaborative exercises. We present a positive preliminary report on a case study, in which a test group modelled a business process using the system in Second Life.
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Your Move, Rachael Ray
See, Jeff, this is why you're still sitting at the kids table at 35.
Okay, before anyone says anything, let's just calm down and think about all the things we're thankful for this year, shall we? I'll go first.
I'm thankful for the love of two wonderful parents who have done the best they could to raise me right. You failed, obviously, but you tried and that's what matters.
I'm thankful for the caring of my siblings who never once let me forget that I'm leeching off of Mom and Dad by refusing to find a real job and living rent free in their basement. I know it must suck to watch me float through life on our parent's good graces. I know this because you never let me forget it. Bobby? Tara? I'm looking at you guys.
And most of all, I'm thankful for you, Uncle Gary. Had it not been for you and that bottle of Wild Turkey last night, I may have spent some of Dad's hard-earned money on an actual pie. Even though I woke up with an incredible hangover, I powered through and made do with the pumpkin we didn't carve last month.
But you know what I'd really be thankful for, right now? Some aspirin. Could someone maybe go grab some from the bathroom for me? Thanks.
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Tutu Made Honorary Fellow of Guild of Church Musicians
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has been made an Honorary Fellow of the Guild of Church Musicians.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has been made an Honorary Fellow of the Guild of Church Musicians. The award was given at a ceremony led by Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor on 7 November at Westminster Cathedral.
The Cardinal, who is patron of the Guild, presented Archbishop Tutu with the award during the annual presentation held after a service of afternoon prayer.
The award was given in recognition of his work as a theologian and church leader.
Archbishop Tutu has now been awarded more than 180 awards and fellowships including a Nobel Prize for his work over the years.
Cardinal Murphy-O'Conner said at the award, "You have received many awards in your life, but this is an important one too. It is good that the harmony of peace and reconciliation in your life is being recognised."
The Guild's John Ewington said that he had received the award for his work as an "outstanding Christian leader" and theologian.
Archbishop Tutu responded saying that, "It is not that I cannot sing a note, what I cannot do is read music... Fortunately, as he has pointed out, it is not for my musical ability so much as I suppose the fact that I can pass off for a theologian."
Archbishop Tutu expressed his thanks to all those who had helped him in his work as a theologian and church leader, especially Robert Runcie who served as Archbishop of Canterbury between 1980 and 1991.
Speaking in tribute of those who helped in the struggle against apartheid, Archbishop Tutu said, "The church worldwide needed that leadership and now today we are free."


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Currently, she serves as Department Chair of the Medical Assistant Program at Saddleback College. She feels that this is by far her most rewarding position. She enjoys educating as well as mentoring our students. She works with the other Medical Assistant Program staff to help train our students to become the best medical assistants in our community. She is very proud to say that the Saddleback College Medical Assistant graduates are the best and they do get jobs after graduation!


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What! Annie Lou Riddle had a plan but nowhere in that scenario did she expect to accidentally sell her soul in exchange for a job. Want to read more and discuss with friends at the library? We will be reading Devilishly Hot by Kathy Love [2].
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Rangers will look to add more goals to their grit
GREENBURGH, N.Y. (AP) – The New York Rangers had the best record in the Eastern Conference and reached the conference final on the strength of a tough defense, great goaltending and a relentlessly rugged style.
What they lacked, and what ultimately led them to being ousted by the New Jersey Devils on Friday in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference final, was some more scoring to go with all that grit.
The Rangers finished the regular season ranked 11th in the NHL in goals scored with an average of 2.71 goals per game. That number dropped during the playoffs to 2.15 goals per game. The Rangers scored more than three goals in a playoff game only once, and that was in the first round against Ottawa.
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"I think we have made improvements but I don't think any organization in the league wants to sit still," coach John Tortorella said. "We have to continue to improve as an organization, not just skill but all throughout."
The Rangers have $49.1 million in player salaries earmarked for next season. With the salary cap expected to max out around $76 million and the organization's usual willingness to spend, it would be no surprise if New York made a run at unrestricted free agent stars Zach Parise and Ryan Suter.
"Sometimes when you think it's a really good piece but he doesn't exactly fit in all the little things you do, you can teach him those things if he really brings you something else," Tortorella said. "We have to work extremely hard to score goals. Along the way if there's something that can help, you find a way to teach your concept (to a player and) allow some talent to let (him) work for you."
Tortorella warned the organization "will not lose the premise," of being a physical, defensive-oriented team no matter which new players are added.
"People have to join in," Tortorella said.
Managing the cap will be delicate as the Rangers have 11 free agents, including backup goaltender Martin Biron, right wing Brandon Prust and defenseman Michael Del Zotto. Defenseman Ryan McDonagh and forwards Artem Anisimov, Derek Stepan and Carl Hagelin can become restricted free agents after next season.
"I love it here and we have a good thing going," Prust said. "I would love to be back. Obviously money is a factor, but it's not the biggest factor for me. Being a big part of a winning team, and that's something we have here, is what I want."
Collectively, the Rangers expressed pride in the fact that they were able to win their first division for the first time in 18 years. They also expressed their belief that they can win a Stanley Cup championship. Yet the emotional wound from losing 3-2 in overtime to the Devils was still fresh.
"It's an empty feeling," forward Brad Richards said. "It will be for a while."
Notes: While saying he "loves the guys," free agent right wing Mats Zuccarello said he does not want play under a two-way contract and has "other options." It had been speculated over the weekend that Zuccarello was going to sign with Metallurg Magnitogorsk of the Kontinental Hockey League. … Tortorella said he saw defenseman Michael Sauer "for the first time in months," during the team's end-of-season meetings. Sauer suffered a season-ending concussion from a hit by Toronto Maple Leafs defenseman Dion Phaneuf on Dec. 5. Tortorella said he was not confident about Sauer being ready for training camp. … Assistant coach Mike Sullivan has been linked to the Calgary Flames' head coaching vacancy. While Tortorella said Sullivan "is a huge part of this organization," he added that his top assistant, "should be a head coach in this league." …Brandon Dubinsky said he suffered a high ankle sprain in the first round.
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I would have to agree with a lot of statements on the need to start off with the course grit papers for a guy just starting off and trying to do a real nice job with there first projects. There is A LOT to learn about what grits to start with verses how the finished clear laid down etc,etc. Someone new to this can get into some real trouble fast starting off with the course grits. Now having said that and looking at the pics of the elcamino, I can tell this guy really wants this car to look the best he can possibly get it to look. I have met quite a few guys that are unbelievable fussy. 67 elcamino may just be "one of these guys". Urethane wave is a real problem to get rid of with a "soft block" and I really don"t care what grit you start with. Im with John L on this one for sure. You Must start off with with a hard block and at least 1000 grit paper, I think of it as "shaping" the clear with that initial cut with the hard block. After that a large 3M squeegee works fine for your 1500 and up. This always gets that super flat laquer like look that has a mile of depth. This is a very tediuos and super time consuming job to say the least, and you had better make real sure everything is operating room clean, because sanding with the hard block you DO NOT want a piece of junk getting between that. I would not recommend this type of sanding the clear to someone fairly new at this, although there are always the exceptions.
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Description: Evil Hat produces a series of Fate-based commercial roleplaying games. The first of these is Spirit of the Century, a Pulp game set in the 1920′s. Next was the Dresden Files RPG, based on the series of novels by best-selling author Jim Butcher.
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Have you heard the news about Belle Isle? According to some Detroit high school science students, zombies have threatened to take it over, and only through their intensive lab experiments will it survive! At least that's the storyline in their specially-created comic book fantasy, "Battle for Belle Isle," 40 pages of educational curiosity and high jinx, courtesy of the Third 90 Network—a Michigan Colleges Foundation (MCF) program that pairs member colleges like Marygrove with urban high school students for hands-on learning in environmental science.
Their latest venture: partnering with the Belle Isle Conservancy to conduct environmental research in and around the Blue Heron Lagoon. Students are half-way through a year-long program that focuses primarily on water quality testing. Could their results hold the key to the island's future? Maybe. But their findings are certain to teach them a bundle about the island's ecosystem, and a whole lot more about themselves— and the way they like to learn.
The Institute for Arts Infused Education at Marygrove is helping to put a creative spin on this already innovative learning model, by teaching students to report their findings in a frame-by-frame comic book format, using colorful illustrations and thought bubbles to animate their lab reports. The results were compiled in a published keepsake comic book. And everyone involved had something to contribute.
Students identify tiny creatures and read tree rings for the good of humanity!
The Third 90 Network "Battle for Belle Isle" comic book's focus on creatures—the undead kind—is a great metaphor for the creepy crawly things students were sifting out of the lagoon and slapping onto their petri dishes. Macroinvertebrates were the catch of the day—and they revealed some pretty interesting things about the water.
Fact: Macroinvertebrates make up an important part of wetland food webs and ecosystem function, and the Great Lakes—Belle Isle in particular— is home to many birds and fish that depend on them for their habitats. They get a bad rap for being spineless and somewhat unattractive. But their contributions to the island, especially, are nothing short of beautiful. See for yourself.
The presence of pollution-tolerant blood midges could spell disaster for the lagoon's water quality if it weren't for the abundance of Mayfly nymphs— known by their street name, Fishflies. Fishflies are very sensitive to pollution, and despite their fishy smell, they are excellent bioindicators of clean water sources. After conducting various tests, including turbidity, biological oxygen demand and pH, students found the water quality to be in the medium range; just fine for sustaining the extraordinary animal and plant life on the floating urban oasis we all know and love.
Another important test required the use of a tree borer tool. Part cork screw, part apple corer— the trick is to screw it into the tree deep enough to make a full revolution and then pull it out with enough force so as to get a whole, intact piece for study. What you end up with is a tiny replica of the trunk itself, complete with rings that show evidence of drought, flood or fire with virtually every birthday the tree has ever had. Cool.
Geeky science turns cheeky science at the Blue Heron Lagoon!
"I am no artist," says Nakeyah, a sophomore from Cornerstone Leadership and Business High School in Detroit. "But reporting our results this way is pretty fun." She set her sights on going to medical school, and has always liked science class.
"I hope stick figures are ok, because that's really all I can do," said Nakeyah's classmate and lab partner, Nina. "They want us to think outside of the box," Nina adds with a chuckle. She is passionate about science and is planning to study engineering, or some related field where research plays a prominent role. Her drawing skills are much better than she lets on.
On the flip side, science never appealed to Marygrove senior Danielle Regier until she signed up to be an Academic Project Assistant. It happened quickly. She began to see the beauty in nature's "hidden" world—the tiny, colorful organisms that live, sometimes only for a day—just long enough to ensure that life keeps moving up the food chain. An art major looking forward to a career in graphic design, Regier witnessed the powerful combination of art and science, and how students can be influenced and enriched by both.
"There is so much more to environmental science than I realized," Regier said "It opened my eyes to how closely connected science and the arts really are."
Regier's mentor partner, Marygrove sophomore Ginette Balbin-Cuesta helped students tap into their creative sides, and tell their story through the visual language of art. Balbin-Cuesta is a double major in art and biology. "The biggest thing we wanted to get across to the kids was that we are all visual creatures, and there are many different ways to communicate a message."
Communications guru Daniel Pink would certainly agree. The former Washington speechwriter-turned-author has sold a handful of best-sellers in the last decade about the needed shift from an information-based corporate culture to a more conceptual one. He believes employers are going to increasingly look for creative college graduates who can think with both sides of their brain.
In his book "A Whole New Mind," which is still going strong with new editions in several languages, Pink contends "… the capabilities we once disdained or thought frivolous—the "right-brain" qualities of inventiveness, empathy, joyfulness, and meaning—increasingly will determine who flourishes and who flounders."
Knowing his audience well, Pink published a career guide for Generation Y, or so-called "Millennials" as a manga (that's Japanese for comic book). "The Adventures of Johnny Bunko" details the importance of knowing one's strengths; advises that there is no set plan to follow, and everyone must carve out their own path. He cautions our youth to remember that on the job, it's "not all about you"—serving others is what ultimately will serve you best. And for goodness' sake, do something that matters.
Those ideals are shared by the Third 90 Network, a program that began as a partnership in 2010 with Detroit's University Prep Academy, and has expanded to include roughly 50 students and student mentors from the city's Cornerstone Leadership and Business High School, Henry Ford Academy for Creative Studies, and University Prep Science and Math School. MCF runs sister programs on the west side of the state. The projects engage high school students in a challenging academic setting, working side-by-side with college faculty and student mentors who donate their time to this service.
The Third 90 extends the urban academic classroom to the great outdoors with hands-on field and lab work in environmental science. It teaches so many good things in addition to science though, such as the importance of stewardship and giving back to the community, especially the ecological one. It also helps high school students determine the best fit for them when selecting a college. After all, that is the mission of the MCF, a collective of 14 independent, Michigan-based institutions grounded in the liberal arts.
Faculty saves the day by providing tools for differentiated learning!
Mary Lou Greene, Co-chair of the Marygrove Department of Visual and Performing Arts and Director of the Institute for Arts Infused Education, hand-selected the talent of Matt Wilson for the arts portion of this project. Wilson is a digital colorist and writer of three independent comic book titles of his own: Dark Fury, Soul Vamp and Colossal Gods. A Marygrove College alum and certified teacher by training, he worked with Regier and Balbin-Cuesta to prepare and publish the comic book for Third 90. In his spare time, Wilson creates lesson plans for secondary school teachers to give their curriculums a boost.
"The comic book is just another tool teachers can use to change the state of the material students are absorbing," Wilson says. "At the Institute, we see art as a transformative way to engage every type of learner." Case in point, the tired book report in English class can leap to life in a comic book format. So why not apply the same principle to the very linear nature of a lab report? Eureka!
It's clever. The U.S. model of comic booking is collaborative; writers, illustrators and colorists work together to achieve the end result. It's an appropriate medium for the Third 90 project, since lab partners work in groups of two or more. "It's a nice break from the routine way of reporting information," Wilson says, "It coaxes students out of their comfort zones." (Maybe even helps certain visual learners realize theirs). The sequential nature of comic booking draws on a number of skill sets and shakes up the linear pattern of thinking, forcing students to be active learners.
To engage students, Wilson and his team capitalized on the resurgence of comic themes of late, evidenced by the popularity of such blockbusters as Iron Man and Batman. And the idea to use zombies for the subversive parallel plot? Well again, that's just popular horror fiction, sure to resonate with young people. "We live in a sound bite world," Wilson adds. True enough, it's snippets over substance these days. Millennials are quite literally wired to interpret information this way— although anyone over 45 is still scratching their heads about this. Spoiler alert: It's here to stay.
The first phase of the multi-week project culminated in a presentation at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in December, where students presented their work. Forty new high school students will join the group of 20 remaining in March when further explorations are planned on the island. What's next for these creative, sleuthing scientists? Matt Wilson won't say—in keeping with a typical plot device in comics, he will only leave a cliffhanger that "photography will be involved." BLAST! To be continued (dot, dot, dot!)


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The screen is a limiting factor on the Blackberry Curve 9360, as it is on pretty much all of Blackberry's messaging style phones. It's small, measuring just 2.44inches across the diagonal and its resolution is relatively low at 480x360 pixels. It works fine for stuff like email, blackberry messenger and even the Facebook app, but it's much more problematic when you're trying to us the web browser to view normal websites. It just feels very pokey and the lack of touch for pinch to zoom gestures makes navigating all but the simplest pages a bit of a bind.
As ever on BlackBerry's non touchscreen mobiles, the keyboard really is excellent. There's just enough distance between the keys to stop you from accidentally hitting adjacent ones when you're trying to tap out emails at speed, but the keys are still large enough to feel substantial under your fingers and thumbs. They also respond nicely with a little click when pressed, so it's easy to tell whether you've hit them properly or just skimmed over the surface in your haste. They layout is good too, although it would have been nice to have common punctuation marks, such as the comma and full stop on dedicated keys.
The phone's hardware is pretty modest compared to most of today's smartphones. It uses a single core 800Mz processor, but this doesn't matter a great deal, as the Blackberry 7 OS that the phone runs on isn't particularly greedy when it comes to raw horsepower. In fact, the handset never feels sluggish to use, as apps load reasonably quickly and menus open and close in the blink of an eye. There are also some extras you wouldn't necessarily expect to find on a budget mobile, such as the inclusion of NFC technology.
The user interface isn't the easiest to get to grips with and lacks a lot of the simplicity of iOS and Android. It's overly reliant on pop up menus, which can often be several stages deep and which are difficult to come to terms with if you're used to the much flatter approach of more modern OSes like Windows Phone, Android and iOS.
Key to the phone's appeal, though, is its messaging capabilities. These now integrate with Facebook and Twitter so you're pretty much immediately notified of new status updates or Tweets, as well as just emails as they appear. However, most other phones now push these types of message out to you in real time too. What they lack, though, is the Blackberry Messenger service, which has become something of a phenomenon amongst today's youth. It's understandable as the service is not only free to use, but provides a more instant way to communicate than just text messaging. In fact, it's one of this phone's main strengths.
Nevertheless, the range of apps available in the BlackBerry App World store is shocking poor compared to Android or iOS, and currently most big name games never make an appearance on the platform.
The camera isn't great either. It's a 5.0Megapixel shooter, but while it does have an LED flash, it doesn't have any autofocus capabilities. Pictures aren't terrible by any means, but they're a bit lacking in detail and if there isn't a lot of light available they tend to look quite noisy too.
The batteries in BlackBerry phones used to last for days and days, but as the company has added more features to its handsets things have changed. The 9360 doesn't last anywhere near as long as older Blackberry models. However, compared to many of today's mid and high-end Android devices its battery life is still better than average. You can stretch it to around two days of usage if you're careful, something that you would really struggle to do with most Android phones.
The Blackberry Curve 9360 is a major pain to use for browsing normal websites due to its lack of touch input and small, low resolution display, so if you're looking for a phone to spend a lot of time browsing normal sites there are several budget Android models that would better fit the bill. However, if you're already addicted to BBM, love having a physical keyboard and need a mobile with decent battery life, it's actually not too bad an option, especially given its current low asking price.
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This phone has been out for months.....the review is too late and as a result rather pointless.
Very stupid phone!! Always freezes for no reason and is soo slow...ugh I regret purchasing this phone.
im fine with it just the battery life is crap
my battery has shrunk! So whenever it vibrates it turns off, thank you blackberry.
Black berry 9360 2013 Model is a very stupid phone. Bought two for me and my girlfriend, we both experiencing same problems, they phone will freeze and stupid track pad doesn't move at all. I am very disappointed on this model, I've now even moved back to my Samsung and Sony Ericson because of this embarrassment. I've insured the first one and when I sent but back, these people took forever to return it back and I had to do follow ups myself but I pay the monthly insurance cover with no hesitation
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Monday marks the first day of the month, and that means one important thing for Indiana County — the Lions Club annual Fourth of July Celebration is this week.
The celebration, held every year at J.S. Mack Community Center, begins with a flea market at 8 a.m. Thursday in the animal barns.
"It's a big flea market," said Lion Bill Stancombe, and it goes on all day.
Vendors have reserved space ahead of time, and there is still table space available.
Starting the festivities at 9:30 a.m. is the Marion Center Lions Pet Parade, which will feature cats, dogs and other animals and their owners. Last year, the pets had the opportunity to perform tricks.
Ticket sales for the demolition derby begin at 9 a.m., and the derby will begin at 1 p.m.
"We're hoping around 60 (cars) will be there," said Stancombe, who is the demolition derby coordinator. "We're having a tractor demolition derby, too, and we're expecting around 30 of them."
The event includes multiple heats.
Stancombe said that the last three cars running in the demolition win $200 and the chance to compete in the feature, where the first-place winner can win $1,000, the second-place winner can win $500 and the third place winner can win $200.
"Probably around 3,000 people every year," he said, come to see the derby.
Don Huey is there helping tow the cars off, getting the track ready and "everything like that" with his equipment, he said, and in addition, the fire department volunteers and paramedics and trucks are available in case there's a fire or someone gets hurt.
The lawn tractor derby has one heat, and Stancombe expects about 30 tractor-drivers to compete. The winner of the tractor derby receives $200.
Throughout the day, the celebration features vendors, face painting, clowns, games, entertainment, a mechanical bull, inflatable bouncing rides and a photo booth.
In addition, more than 20 vendors have been present for the event in the past, selling hamburgers, sausage sandwiches, funnel cakes and more.
The car cruise will be held from 1 to 5 p.m., with about 80 vehicles expected to be on display.
The most attended event during the celebration, Stancombe said, is by far the fireworks display held at dusk. Starfire Corp., of Northern Cambria, presents the traditional Independence Day fireworks display again this year.
"Probably around 20,000 go up to the grass," he said. "Everything's just filled, the grandstands filled. Of course a lot of people get up around the cemetery and on the hills."
Volunteers, Stancombe said, play a big role in the celebration.
"We have them running ragged," Stancombe said.
Volunteers mainly help to keep the fairgrounds clean during the events, helping with the 50/50 raffle, selling tickets and getting people in to the grounds.
"Most of the volunteers are really good," he said.
The next day, volunteers help with post-celebration clean up.
"There's always a mess afterwards," he said.
The Lions Club is always looking for volunteers to help with the event.
"Any time any one wants to volunteer they can come down, we never turn them down," Stancombe said.
Those who want to volunteer can also contact any local Lions Club member.
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Good Grades For Students May Not Translate Into Good Report Cards For Schools
The variable this year is the grading formula state officials are using to calculate each school's scores. The reason school grades are being figured differently this year. And the x-factor is the significance low scoring students play in the final tally.
For the first time, science scores will figure into the school's overall grade. While Alachua County scores are above the state average of 37 points, the concern is that students are less motivated to do well on the exam since they don't need it to be promoted to the next grade or to graduate.
But weighing even more heavily is the importance given to the scores of students with the lowest grades. Now in it's own separate category, the bottom scorers in reading and now in math must add up to 50 points or higher for each school or the school automatically losses a grade. The lowest 25% typically include students with special needs and E.S.E students.
But bad or failing grades translate into less money for schools in bonuses for staff. According to the Alachua County School Board spokesperson, Jackie Johnson,"What the studies have shown, not only is the grading formula very hard but the state of Florida has set the proficiency level on the tests very high especially at the high school level so reach what the state calls proficiency at the state level especially on the high school is the equivalent to scoring the top 20 percent nationwide. that's a very high bar for the students to clear.."
School boards here in North Central Florida are saying parents need to look past the school grade and examine how their students are actually performing.
Johnson adds, "...The formula places so much emphasis on those lowest performing students that it's really over-shadowing everything else that is happening at your schools."
By Stacey Samuel, WCJB TV20 News
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Winter is close to being over so I went ahead and dusted off the fog light that's been sitting on my work bench to replace the passenger one that busted 500 miles after I took delivery
Pictures attached below, it was only about a 10-20 minute job, and with the DEF tank behind the passenger fog, I picked the worst one to break. Definitely a do it yourself job to save ~$100.
First picture is my broken light and the only tools I used. A thumb wheel, a T20 torx bit and a 1/4" bit driver extension.
1. Pull the lower side grill from the front bumper, reference picture two for tab locations if you need to slip something in there that won't gouge your bumper.
2. Disconnect wire from fog light (or just twist the whole bulb and pull out to get at wire connector.
3. Using thumb wheel and no extension unscrew the closest screw (I used a dental mirror to see what I was dealing with, but rest assured its a T20).
4. Add extension for the innermost screw as it is set deeper and there is space behind.
5. This was honestly the worst part, in order to get the housing out you have to squeeze it over the DEF tank and bring it out the far top left corner of the opening (driver side would be much better).
6. Reverse steps to install new housing. Don't forget to connect the wiring back up and align if need be
Third picture is the DEF secondary tank that is smack dab in the way.
Fourth picture shows how tight it is to the front bumper, I don't have huge hands, but I don't have little dainty hands either and I didn't have an issue squeezing my hands back there but getting the fog light out sucked.
Fifth picture is the part number for the splash gaurds / air deflectors. I thought I saw someone asking for this the other day but couldn't find the thread again, they are only held on by 2 screws and not necessary for this job but since I was down there
Thanks for the writeup.
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bodyfillers and priming help please.
I've been reading all the threads about body work and I am more confused than before. I was origionally going to do my body filling in stages when I had finished patching that area,for example the tail pan, then move on to another area.I now see where it is recommended to metal etch and epoxy prime before putting on filler.Is this what I should do ? If so, how do you prep the primer before you apply the filler to get good adhesion?I thought you roughened up bare steel to make the filler stick. If I am to prime and metal etch before the body filler,is it acceptable to brush it on to the area you are working with? these wold be smaller areas that will be sanded heavily anyway when smoothing the bodyfiller. I would spend more time cleaning the gun than spraying with it. I don't have the whole body stripped yet so couldn't prime it all yet. Also, where would you use light weight versus fiberglass versus metal filler and/or glaze. I've only used filler a little bit and it was the cheapest I could find at the time. Help please.
All you need to do is scuff the epoxy primer prior to the bondo. The whole idea of using the primer first is to seal the metal from any moisture that may be absorbed in the filler prior to final paint. The filler is very porous and if the humidity is high can easily allow moisture to come in contact with the base metal promoting rust.
The way I would do it is to weld in all patches then prime any bare metal areas. Spray the epoxy don't brush it on. It's not designed for that. Once you have primed all the bare metal you can take your time doing the bondo work and work on one section at a time knowing the rest of the metal is protected.
As centerline said the purpose of the primer FIRST is to protect the bare metal.
Theres nothing wrong with appling filler to bare metal or even epoxy primer. Appling filler over epoxy is NOW a recommened repair process on a few of the EURO cars and I see it coming into the more mainstream cars some time soon.
Before appling just scuff up the epoxy with 80 or even 180 grit just enough to give it some bite. Todays modern fillers no longer need that 24-36 grit gouge. I use nothing but 80 grit on steel and 180 on aluminum everyday at work.
Very rarely do I use 36 grit or anything.
As for bare metal am an etch primer fan. If you look at the big 3's(PPG, Dupont and S-W) warrenty paint process you'll see that ETCH primer is the recommended primer to use on bare metal.
On the tech sheets on PPG's and Dupont's epoxy that stat for MAX performance apply 1 coat of etch primer prior to usage of epoxy on bare metal.
So when I do filler over primer I spray on my etch primer first then apply two coats of epoxy. I like to allow atleast 2 good days for a full cure on epoxy, as epoxy is a somewhat slow drier by nature. Ive seen cases of filler peeling right off the epoxy because people applied it too soon and the still escaping solvents loosened the filler. So make sure you wait long enough.
As for body filler I HIGHLY recommened you to spring the extra cash for some good stuff. You wont believe the difference in fillers. The added ease of application and sanding is WELL WORTH the extra 10 bucks. I highly recommened either of the three, Evercoat's Rage, Rage Gold or the new Xtreme.
The poly glazes like evercoat's metal glaze and poly glaze are meant for a skim coat over small dings and or to finish off a filler repair. After each filler repair I do I skim it with poly glaze because it sands great, feathers out much better makes for a nice repair.
Poly glazes are NOT meant to be used as a regular filler its just meant to be used as a finisher.
Fiberglass fillers are meant to be applied in areas that need more fill or areas where stress might be of concern, as the fibers make the filler stronger. Also they are a tad more water resistant but NOT water proof like the can says. They still contain the same filler material(TALC) as the regular filers.
The downside to that is they dont sand well nor feather out well. They make for a great base filler when you need some fill, just that you want to topcoat with a regular filler or poly glaze to finish it off for a nice repair.
Hopefully that helps...Eric
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Thanks sevt-chevelle for the explanation.My main concern was getting filler to stick properlly to the epoxy primer. I see drying timeonthe primer is also a factor, and was not sure how much it needed roughened up.I think I'll do all my patching, finish stripping the whole body now, then etch,prime, and fill , instead of doing it in stages as I had planned.
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