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28yo male, frustrated with loose skin after weight loss a few years ago. Considering options. (photo)
I'm 6-4 and lost 85lb a few years ago (in only 4 mo). I hoped the skin would recover but it hasn't. I'm tall and have a smaller frame and people often... READ MORE
I am a 26yo, 6ft tall male, lost 70lbs as a kid, and I'm fit and healthy. Should I fix my skin? (Photo)
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Solipsism - Poem by Stephen Loomes
1. Birth
You stick your head out and there's lights blazing and people
Talking and there you are in the middle of this world
Which dances in infinity somewhere around the third planet out
From the sun and what are you supposed to make of it?
Are you going back in a Rolls Royce to some comfy castle
Or are you going to roll around in a cardboard box crying, screaming
Scared beyond sense waiting for the protector who might never come?
And that's the beginning of life, lying on your back crying
Or staring up at faces, visions of who-knows-what
And knowing that a smile is kind, and a frown is danger
And waiting to know who is a friend and who is a stranger!
And all of this in the middle of someone else's history.
Are you a Jew or an Arab a Christian a Hindu or Jain
A Moslem or Latter-Day Saint?
Whatever it is they're telling you, shaping your life from day one;
Here am I telling you, you 'aint!
It's a gamble how you're treated
Because as a child you've got no rights
You're a blackboard in someone else's classroom
Where others choose whether its darkness or light.
George Bernard Shaw quips from the side,
"the child is father to the man "
He should have told this to the girl who became the bride.
2. The Gamble
Life is a gamble, it is understood;
If you are lucky in your childhood
You might find yourself at school
Or all alone without control.
Are they being nice to you,
Do they care how you feel,
Are they reaching for the genius within you,
Or branding you as the fool?
And how is your body? Do you look normal?
Are the other children treating you with respect
Or are you the one they laugh about
Abandoned and lonely through neglect?
Are you the one that's left out
Or the one that they protect?
The centre-of-attention getting all the love you need
Or wide-eyed alone and starving, wishing to be loved?
As a growing child you're powerless at the whim of those who tower above,
But what are you going to do about it when you know that you are not loved?
When the teachers reject you, without parents or friends to protect you
What are you going to do and and who can show you what to do?
Are you so wounded-wild you want to hurt the ones who make you sad,
Or so mild that you can't face them,
Or worse, you try to please them when they are bad.
What lessons are you getting? Is some adult telling you there's a God
Who sees everything you think and do, and as this intrusion bears down on you
Do they tell you how you are going to survive
When all you want is to be loved?
Or are you loved, safe in a cocoon, like the chosen in the Bhagavad Gita
Born of noble birth, a child of Yogins
Or is your mother crazy and your dad a boozing cheater?
Are you destined to win, or are you programmed to lose?
And in the midst of it all on this rock shooting through space
Can you learn to be a master of your face
Or are you so lonely and needing for love
That you want to be a master of your race,
Or glorying in the encirclement of a chosen race?
3. Distraction.
There's so many distractions when the hormones come,
And there's so many attractions; and when are you going to get some?
Many thoughts and needs that circle around your head
And schoolwork and bookwork and religion
Some which want you living and some which want you dead.
Through the five portals pour the music and video and television and movies
And preachers and all around without restriction, hypnotists
Media-generals fighting war for your mind and attention and money,
Create a sea then throw a rope so you won't drown
While role models let themselves and the world down.
So your thinking gets confused as a million hucksters hawk their wares
Some dressed like bishops trying to sell you salvation like blue-chip shares.
They're crooning and they're shouting or they quietly pour their poison in your ears
Think this way, and no-one confesses that what they're trying to sell,
Has come out of someone else's vision of what's heaven and what's hell.
They have it packaged and blended and sweetened
So that you'll be attracted and think it would be fine
But the ideas that they are peddling you can never say are mine!
And they're not going to give you time to come out with your own ideas anyway
They just want you in their line.
4. The Narrow Gate.
But if for a thrill or too much time to kill,
Or a pain from someone unkind,
Who crushed you when you could not fight back
If it's not religion, a way to think or behave
Someone will offer you a joint, a pill for what you lack
And next thing you're off one step forward and two steps back.
As the drug seeps through your innocent heart,
You might feel better at the start than how you felt before
But then the chemical has a home now in your body and your brain
It is comfortable in there and it wants to remain
Looking out of your blank stare.
So your spirit is running along a steep trail.
And it is like nightmares sometimes
Grabbing hands flail for you as you try to climb,
Drawing you into the world of a junkie
Where a chemical steals years of your life.
But never gives you back your time.
5. Preserving the Holy Grail.
Whether the Holy Grail of your mind
Is filled with poison of the backyard kind,
Or shaking in your prayerful hand
On the road of someone else's ideas.
Like Paul on the road to Damascus
Dressed like Colonel Sanders of early years,
Saying I think the folks will like this one
Franchising ideas and fears
Your mind was not meant for these snares.
But do you go into your closet and pray
In secret and alone become assured
Because you know the Lord has heard
Or are you down on the street corner rejoicing for the reward?
6. Resurrection.
Ok well you're still standing after that struggle
And suddenly George Bernard, he is there
Introducing you to this adult person who is you
And you are coupled with someone and amazed
That on this third planet way out in space
Your heart beating inside you as you see another's face
And you love them and you need them
And like Plato said in his Symposium
He said like flat-fish we people are
Only half of a whole and when you find
That other half you are in awe
It is then that you discover
You are completed by your lover;
And what power is released
For ever and ever and so be it that love
Has the power of a thousand suns
But can you be certain of emotions
Any more than the God above
Or will either of you betray for another's love?
Who among us can be trusted
With this precious gift and power?
But take the plank from your own eye
Before taking the splinter from your lovers; It is morality's hour.
How much fear runs your engine when you are left alone?
Do you want to destroy those who take what you love
Or can you forgive them when they're gone?
When love's denied does the door open to hate
Can you let others be if they don't fill your needs
Or like a murderer do you wait?
When you are crossed by a good friend, do you strike their mind until it bleeds?
What depth has your compassion
Is there understanding in the end?
Is there goodness within you, or does it come from up above,
Have you found it deep inside, from a deep abiding love?
Or are you a painted vessel with a hollow-nothing where you hide
What makes you real and what makes you feel.
It is you, who must decide.
7. Rebirth.
When watching lovers punish each other
Through hurt they hurt back harder
With little compassion on show.
I wonder is hate the fate of love?
Is love divine, for evermore,
Or just a congress with a whore?
William Blake, the mystic with mind complete,
Spoke of the whore that goes from street to street
Weaving old England's winding-sheet.
But I see this great and mighty whore
Shining holy evermore,
Thrusting humanity on through time
As Bill's mortal coil inexorably unfolds.
Look now as you, trembling like never before,
Watch the midwife coax the infant into this world,
Or you the mother, wailing with pain
Delivering a human being into this worldly domain.
Then you see a new being staring up at your eyes
Crying to be loved cuddled and fed
Your love once political glows unalloyed
Your own child deserves no lies
As you cradle their sweet head,
Your excited heart feels more love than can be said
You bend over their crib and listen for the breath
Ensuring this loved one be kept from its death.
And so through this pattern which mankind pursues
With optimism life and knowledge renews.
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SEMINOLE — The defense starred for Pinellas Park on Thursday night, as the Patriots held on for a 10-8 victory against Osceola to move to 3-0 on the season.
"We play together, we play hard. Our secondaries run tight and we put pressure on them," Pinellas Park coach Kenny Crawford said.
"The D-line, they always come strong. We feel really good about our defensive guys and they're all very young."
Six minutes into the game, quarterback Antonio Harris made a solid pass to Donte Maxson for a 15-yard touchdown and 7-0 lead. The Patriots held Osceola scoreless for three quarters.
But the Warriors weren't without their own shining moments on defense.
After Pinellas Park took advantage of Osceola's offensive struggles in the third, recovering the ball on the Warriors' 30-yard line, Osceola defender Tavaris Williams kept the Patriots from scoring.
The Patriots' line, charged by linebacker Kal-El Williams and defensive backs Angel Addison, Leondre Horne and Rashaan Watson, held Osceola (1-2) to only 153 rushing yards. Running back Jamil Morris kept Osceola from being shut out after a strong drive in the fourth. Quadarius Patterson tallied the two-point conversion to cap scoring.
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The Anna Wintour rumors have the Vogue editor-in-chief becoming the next United States Ambassador to Britain. According to the Daily Mail, the British-born editor of the US edition of Vogue magazine was one of Barack Obama's most high profile fundraisers. The Anna Wintour rumors have her in line to top an ambassador shortlist being drawn up for Obama.
Louis Susman is the outgoing US Ambassador to Britain, and someone needs to be chosen to replace him within weeks. Obama is likely to reward Anna Wintour for donating tens of thousands of dollars to the US President's election campaign and helping raise another $500,000.
As previously reported by The Inquisitr, more Anna Wintour rumors had the Vogue chief helping the Obama campaign in other ways by pressuring the fashion news media to squish favorable coverage of Ann Romney's choices on fashion. Meanwhile, First Lady Michelle Obama received plenty of compliments from the fashion industry and leading fashion designers even produced pro-Obama clothing lines.
Anna Wintour's main competition for the US Ambassador job comes from Matthew Barzun, who was finance chairman for President Obama's re-election campaign.
"A large number of Obama's ambassadors have been fundraisers. Both these two fit the bill," said a Democrat source in Washington.
"Anna Wintour is just the kind of figure who could be an effective ambassador. You're a messenger boy or girl for the President to the host government and to the business and political worlds, but you're also supposed to be able to throw a party. She's obviously got fantastic connections in London and that would be an advantage. She's the definition of a glamour pick. I can see it happening."
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'MAKE up for lost points', that's the message from Burnley boss Sean Dyche as his players prepare for tomorrow's trip to Peterborough United.
The Clarets are still smarting from losing late on to Birmingham City last weekend, after wrongly being reduced to 10 men.
Dean Marney will be available to them this weekend, after their appeal against his three-match ban was successful.
But Dyche, who has catalogued six major incorrect refereeing calls in his Turf Moor tenure – three resulting in red cards – is out to avenge defeat, at the expense of a side who have lost 18 of their 28 games.
This is no time for sympathy.
"We're looking for another three points on Saturday," said Dyche on transfer deadline day.
"That's probably the biggest story at the moment!"
While pleased with the outcome of Marney's appeal, the consequences of his initial second-half dismissal – with the score at 1-1 and Burnley poised to continue a winning run – still smart.
"I'm really pleased with (the appeal) but I must say I'm not really too happy at the bigger picture," said the Clarets chief.
"That's six major decisions we've had go against us. When you look at that it obviously has an effect on the outcome of games.
"We're a little bit aggrieved at that. All these clubs in the Championship are playing for a massive pot of gold, and of course the honour and the accolade of playing in the top flight, and this club recently went through that so they know how it feels.
"It's something that I want to challenge to experience and it makes it even more difficult if you have big decisions go against you.
"The one on Saturday was, I thought, a real obvious one and I'm pleased to say the appeal saw it that way too, because I was flummoxed how Dean Marney could possibly get sent off last week.
"It doesn't get us the points back, but at least the player can go again."
And after seeing the gap to the play-offs grow one point to five last weekend, that's exactly what Dyche intends to do when he goes toe-to-toe with Ferguson junior.
"I think Darren's his own man. He's got his own thoughts on what he wants to do," he said.
"The impression I got when I used to play against him at Wrexham was that he was probably thinking beyond his playing career then at 30-ish, as I was.
"He thinks about the game and what he wants from his team.
"I think we all do, I'm not exaggerating just for Darren, but I probably know him slightly better than some, and I know Eoin Jess who was there as a coach with him.
"They are good people trying to do the right thing."
Dyche added: "Darren is someone I respect in the game and he makes sure his teams are ready to try to win. Even this season they had a really tough run and bounced out of that with three wins on the bounce.
"They're a force to be reckoned with, they have their own ups and downs, but we've got to believe in what we do.
"Despite a few decisions going against us we've done really well lately and looked a really promising side.
"We've looked like a side that can score and keep it tight. I've been really pleased with that.
"A little nudge in the wrong direction last week soon nudges back in the right direction.
"But it's down to us going to Peterborough with a really solid mental attitude, good team shape and show our ability to go and win."
Dyche hopes to welcome back top scorer Charlie Austin after missing the best part of six games with a hamstring injury.
Defender Michael Duff could also return from a similar strain although the game may come too early for Ben Mee.
"Charlie's had a good couple of days," said Dyche.
"Duffo's back in training. Ben Mee's just behind them, he's had a little niggle during his comeback – not a major setback but just slowed him down a little bit.
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PHILADELPHIA — If the Eagles are going to come back to beat Dallas today, they will have to do it without quarterback Michael Vick.
Vick suffered a concussion during the second quarter and is out for the rest of the game.
Rookie Nick Foles will try to rally the Eagles from a 10-7 halftime deficit.
The Eagles got off to an encouraging start at Lincoln Financial Field. Wide receiver Riley Cooper made a great one-handed catch on a 2-yard touchdown pass from Vick on the Eagles' first series to give them a 7-0 lead.
The touchdown marked the first time the Eagles have scored on their opening possession all season, and was just their second first-quarter touchdown of the year.
Cowboys running back Felix Jones tied the game on an 11-yard scoring run on Dallas' first drive. Dan Bailey kicked a 30-yard field goal to give the Cowboys their three-point lead.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The players had apparently heard enough about Ohio State's early-season issues.
Rather than play that same broken record for the Buckeyes, Urban Meyer decided to bust out the greatest hits instead.
Mixed in with the ineffective drives that were difficult for the Ohio State coach to watch when he reviewed the film on Sunday were a handful that revealed the true potential of the offense when it's rolling. And instead of reliving both the good and the bad from the 29-15 win over UAB on Saturday, when the players arrived to the practice complex to start preparing for a trip to Michigan State, the former was all they saw.
"I just put together a reel of four drives, and it was about as well done as we've played all year," Meyer said during his Monday news conference. "I did that more for me, I think. I have to eat lunch, and I wasn't about to eat lunch after what I saw.
"So just put together three or four good drives for me, and one thing about this team, when it's time to go win a game, to date they've gone out and won a game. We are what we are right now, and it's a workmanlike team that has to get better."
The Buckeyes have shown flashes of being much more than that offensively, though, which Meyer reminded them of as their attention turned to the toughest test they will have faced this season against Michigan State's stingy defense.
For starters, he highlighted the sharp passes and decision-making of quarterback Braxton Miller. He pointed out the progress right tackle Reid Fragel has made with a couple pancake blocks. And while that doesn't mean the Buckeyes won't have to watch a few mistakes on film throughout the week, Sunday was all about the positives.
"I think he told me one time he was a psych major," center Corey Linsley said. "That could play a factor in what he does. It was the best thing for us right now.
"Everybody left that game feeling like, 'How did that just happen? How did we not just absolutely dominate every aspect of the game?' After seeing that, it was like, 'Well, we could have, and this is how you do it.' So, I felt that was the best thing for us."
Now all the Buckeyes have to do is give Meyer more drives to choose from when he puts together his clips next time.
Bumps and bruises: A little wiggle room was left just in case, but Meyer didn't stop all that shy of assuring that Carlos Hyde would return to the backfield against the Spartans.
The Buckeyes could be ready to welcome Michael Bennett back to the defensive line and get two starters in the secondary in the lineup again as well.
Meyer called Hyde "very probable," and Bennett, safety C.J. Barnett and cornerback Bradley Roby were all designated as probable to suit up as the Buckeyes open Big Ten play on Saturday at Michigan State.
All four guys would provide a lift for Meyer, though he might have a bit more of a need for those three defensive starters given some occasional tackling issues over the last couple weeks on that side of the ball.
"I think every indication is [Bennett] is going to play," Meyer said. "I'll give you an update [this week on Roby and Barnett]. They ran around yesterday. I saw them both earlier, they were both bright-eyed and ready to go, getting treatment.
"I'd say probable at this point, and we need them obviously."
Champions club: Doran Grant's first start produced one of the highest grades on the team when the coaching staff evaluated the film. But the sophomore cornerback couldn't quite match safety Christian Bryant, who continued his two-week surge by earning defensive player of the week honors just ahead of Grant's impressive debut.
Bryant just missed an appearance in the Champions Club named by the coaches after every game last week thanks to a tackle that slipped away from him, but he more than made up for it by grading out at 93 percent against UAB to take the top honors on his side of the ball.
The other members from the latest victory:
Defense: Defensive tackle Johnathan Hankins
Offense: Quarterback Braxton Miller, wide receivers Evan Spencer, Corey "Philly" Brown and Jake Stoneburner, right tackle Reid Fragel and running back Jordan Hall (player of the week)
Special teams: Bryce Haynes
He said it: "I wasn't aware of all the expectations, I know it's Ohio State and there's all kinds of expectations here. I'm not giving up. I think by the end of the year this might be a hell of a football team -- might be sooner than that." -- Meyer, on meeting the high expectations for the program


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Many people familiar with 31-year-old Alfred Spellman probably don't realize the wealth of knowledge and topics that the Rakontur producer (Cocaine Cowboys, The U) frequently tweets. While most Twitter users babble about nonsense on the social networking tool, in 140 characters or fewer, Spellman lets us know about inner happenings at Rakontur (FYI, Dawg Fight, the back-yard fighter documentary based on a 2008 New Times story, comes out this fall) and comments on drug-related news and general Miami fucked-up-ness.Choice tweets include:"wonder where this guy's headed: Former Nazi and convicted child molester dies in Chile at 88 (New York Times)""Electric Pickle, why'd you have to cross the picket line and let Jersey Shore shoot?""keepin it classy, GOP ——> Republican congressman shouts 'baby killer' at Stupak on House floor during vote."
What you need is a weekend away. But alas, Miamians, you're already living in the very place most Floridians vacation. So where to go? If you answered the Keys, go ahead and line up in bumper-to-bumper traffic on the Seven Mile Bridge. (Besides, it's the same pastel motels, just more coconuts.) Instead, steer the car north like you're heading for Disney, but bypass all the mouse-touting exits and that spooky biblical theme park called the Holy Land Experience. Deep in the Ocala National Forest is Wekiwa Springs State Park, where you can spend the weekend camping in a backcountry Florida Shangri-la. Here's the scene: Moss-draped oaks canopy the park's springs, and pristine blue water nestles in natural rock that, thanks to the Floridan Aquifer, is always a cool 72 degrees. As for lodging, choose one of the campsites in the inner circle for the best shade, and kayak the Wekiwa Lagoon for some guaranteed gator watching. Camping costs $24 a night, or for primitive camping, $5 a person. Otherwise, park admission is $6 per car. For noncampers, the park is open 8 a.m. to sunset.
Most TV news talking heads, even the dudes, look and act like failed beauty queens trying to make a second career for themselves. But WSVN's Belkys Nerey bucks that trend. The 42-year-old Emmy winner is a solid, straight-up anchorwoman — telegenic but still intelligent. Born in Havana, Nerey spent her childhood in Long Island before tripping down I-95 to South Florida. Once here, she studied radio and television at Miami Dade College and Florida International University, got her start in cable news, and earned a spot in the Magic City's media parade as cohost of local gossip institution Deco Drive. Today, Nerey is cruising through the post-Deco phase of her career, holding down WSVN's nightly newscasts alongside Craig Stevens. And whether it's a celebrity sex scandal or a political con job, she always delivers the day's stories with appropriate seriousness. Case in point: Unlike some of the lesser faces populating the public airwaves, Nerey never falls prey to that annoying TV anchor tic of flashing a vacant smile after reporting Miami's latest murder.
Without warning, a woman brandishes two bushels of tree limbs and proceeds to beat our friend Lourdes from toes to shoulders. Between sweeps of the soggy branches, the woman dumps bucket after bucket of cold water on our friend. No, she's not swabbing the deck of a fishing boat. She's helping Lourdes relax with platza, one of the traditional spa treatments available at the Russian and Turkish Baths on Miami Beach. The baths attract Miami's ultimate relaxation-seekers, those who are willing to abandon modesty, vanity, and sometimes plain old comfort if it gets them closer to bliss. Women and men in barely-there bathing suits, heads wrapped in towel turbans, endure the volcanic heat of the schvitz as if sweating were a way to absolve past sins. A skeletal older man stands under a heavy waterfall that pounds on his bony shoulders. He raises his head, eyes closed, waiting to be beamed up to the mother ship. Make your way through the rest of the grotto-like rooms and hear the cries of those jumping into the icy polar tank; catch glimpses of red flesh, pores screaming from the extreme heat, and shield your eyes from the meaty woman having the mud hosed off. What are you looking at, you perv? Pass the wet branches and wait your turn. A day pass costs $30, and the baths are open from noon until midnight.
Michael Putney doesn't tweet. He doesn't pop up when we search his name on Facebook. And as far as we can tell, he doesn't blog. No, sir, Michael Putney is decidedly old school, and in this Internet age, we couldn't appreciate him more. While most TV reporters seem to come and go, Putney has been covering local government and politics in South Florida for nearly 30 years. Add to his incisive reporting a hosting gig on This Week in South Florida, one of the few must-watch local programs, and his occasional columns in the Miami Herald (which often upstage the newspaper's regular gaggle of columnists). There are few voices on local airwaves we trust as much as Putney and who report on politics with such authority.
Miami is a town where clubs spit out adjectives like exclusive, VIP, and upscale like an overchewed piece of Juicy Fruit. But WALL Lounge is actually one of the few places that can blow hard without bursting its own bubble. Jessica Alba, Gabrielle Union, the All American Rejects, Erykah Badu, Swizz Beatz, Jamie Foxx, Jason Binn, and Selita Ebanks are just a few of the celebrities who have walked through WALL's infamous doors. Other guest sightings have been rumored, but unless the press snaps a picture, they're almost impossible to confirm. In fact, it's nearly impossible to get a photo of the place, period. WALL's success lies in its size; it is so boutique it does not merit a VIP section — the lounge itself is the VIP. So if you're lucky enough to get in, keep the video phone ready — you might catch a TMZ-worthy moment.


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Fed meeting steals focus as markets drop slightly
NEW YORK — Nobody wanted to stick out their neck on Tuesday.
The stock market edged slightly lower as the Federal Reserve started a two-day policy meeting that may herald the beginning of the end for its economic stimulus.
Few expect that the Fed will announce it plans to pare back, or "taper," its huge bond-buying program when its meeting wraps up on Wednesday. However, good news on the economy this month, including a blockbuster jobs report, and a budget deal in Washington appear to have increased the likelihood of a change.
"It's just the taper drama, that's really all the market seems focused on," said Dean Junkans, CIO for Wells Fargo Private Bank. "The chances of them doing something tomorrow are higher than they were a month ago."
Major stock indices fell, but just slightly. The Standard & Poor's 500 index eased five points, or 0.3 percent, to 1,781. The Dow Jones industrial average crept down nine points, or 0.1 percent, to 15,875.26. The Nasdaq composite edged lower by five points, or 0.1 percent, to 4,023.68.
Eight of the 10 industrial groups in the S&P 500 declined, led by phone companies. Materials stocks and technology companies edged higher.
A couple of big companies bucked the downward trend when they pledged to hand more cash to stock holders.
Boeing rose $1.16, or 1 percent, to $135.88 after the plane maker increased its stock buyback program by $10 billion and raised its dividend 52 percent. 3M climbed $3.73, or 3 percent, to $131.39 after raising its dividend by 35 percent. The company also forecast solid earnings next year.
Stocks have surged this year as the Fed kept buying $85 billion in bonds every month to hold down long-term interest rates. As well as boosting the economy, that stimulus has made stocks a more attractive investment compared to bonds.
The only setbacks for the market this year have come when investors were nervous that the Fed was about to cut back its stimulus.
The S&P 500 index dropped 1.5 percent in June when Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke outlined a potential exit for the Fed from its stimulus strategy. The index fell 3.1 percent in August when investors thought the policy would change in September.
Instead of worrying about the market's immediate reaction to the Fed's announcement on Wednesday, investors should focus on the positive backdrop for stocks, said Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment strategist at Charles Schwab.
The economy is improving, companies are investing more and earnings are forecast to grow at a steady rate, ensuring there will be demand for stocks.
"Dips that we get are not going to be terribly severe," Sonders said.


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Emily Oaks Nature Center is offering a free trail pack to
families with kids 2-5. Come use the grounds to explore shapes,
colors and textures of nature, and receive program ideas to
continue your explorations at home.
Stop by after picking up the report
card. Bring your report card and receive a special treat
This high energy, creative show explains the principles of
supply and demand, "assets" versus "things," and how currency,
banks and markets work. Learn how anyone can make themselves into
sturdy financial "ants" rather than hapless "grasshoppers."
Registration required.
Stomp and Shout's classes are designed to engage your children
in experiences that help them gain a sense of themselves and a
connection to the world they live in.
Forts are the perfect place for pretend stakeout areas and
secret society meetings. Use couch cushions, upside-down
tables, doors, headboards-even stairs that go nowhere!-to create a
cool and cozy space that's all your own.
Explore the magic that happens when soap, water, and air
combine. Use wild wands to makebubbles big and small. Catch,
dance with and even step inside giant bubbles.
The exhibit features the rare Black Java
and White Java strains of chicken, which were an endangered species
less than a decade ago. Includes a special child-height egg
incubator, hatchery unit and a pen for newborn chicks. Runs from
March 18-June 16.
A multi-media, interactive, exhibit that allows children to discover how nature is reflected and celebrated in the lives of Japanese children through special seasonal environments and traditional Japanese activities. The exhibit focuses on the regions of Lake Biwa, Sapporo, Kyoto and Fukuoka, offering an in-depth exploration of each region through video, audio and visual media, as well as authentic props and hands-on interactive activities.
Kids will be able
to explore the pet vet office and learn a new respect for creatures
as they nurse sick and injured animals back to health
on the examining and operating tables; examine
x-rays; get play animals clean; determine
what diet is best and make a healthy meal; climb
aboard a large format animal scale; help the lost pets
find their correct homes and clamber through the pet
obstacle course.


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Entrepreneur Michael Robertson is yet again launching a new online music service--one that offers digital albums stripped of security software that can be played on any music device, including iPods.
Robertson, the founder of MP3.com and MP3tunes.com, announced the launch Thursday of Anywherecd.com.
Unfortunately, his customers are required to buy complete albums without the option of buying individual songs, have such a tiny music library to choose from, and must often pay more for an album than they do at the top online music stores.
Sagging music sales have forced record labels to effectively enter into negotiations with consumers. Executives are trying to figure out what how much more they have to offer before music fans once again pay for music.
"Last year, I decided it was time to revisit selling music in the MP3 format," Robertson said in a statement. "I reached out to many labels and all were polite...My message was to use the MP3 format to boost sales by offering a new buying option for online music fans. If they purchase an album, they immediately get high quality MP3 files which they can own forever with the confidence that they'll work on any music device available."
It's trendy right now to attempt to offer music unrestricted by Digital Rights Management software. Two weeks ago, EMI and Apple announced that the music label would offer DRM-free songs on iTunes offer starting in May.
Soon after, Microsoft announced that it too planned to sell unsecured songs from EMI but has yet to say when.
Unprotected MP3 files will cost more. For example, "Elephant" by the band The White Stripes sells for $11.95 on Robertson's new site, but costs only $9.99 on iTunes. A customer on Anywherecd.com can also choose to buy a digital album as well as a CD version for $14.95.
As for the small music library, Robertson said in the statement that "AnywhereCD will continue to grow and new content will be added in the near future."


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FOR many, the events of the past few days have been the canary in the coalmine for the Australian car industry.
Ford Australia's decision to suspend all car manufacturing at Broadmeadows and Geelong for a week, and stand down production-line staff on half pay, follows yet another handout ($100 million) to the US company from the federal and Victorian governments this year. That payment guaranteed local production only until 2016.
Volumes of the company's marquee vehicle - the Falcon - have nosedived, and are now down 25 per cent on last year's record low. Indeed, Falcon sales have been fewer in the past three years than at any other point in the 52-year history of the badge. That includes 1960, when the family car was launched into a tiny Australian market.
For much of those five decades Falcon was safely inside the three top-selling Australian cars, but today it struggles to stay inside the top 20.
Australians now buy more utes than Falcon sedans.
For those who have followed the demise of the US car industry in Detroit, the tale is frighteningly familiar - government handouts propping up an industry making cars few people want.
It's not just Ford getting the handouts either. The Gillard government's $275 million assistance package for Holden to continue making cars in Australia until 2022 has had its fair share of criticism.
For the car industry workers of Broadmeadows and Geelong, the tale of Detroit will read like their worst nightmare.
Driving around the suburbs of Detroit, the place Americans and the world knows as Motor City, it makes you wonder what would have happened here if the US car industry was thrown on the scrap heap.
In 1915, 13 of America's 15 most popular car brands were made in Detroit. By 2006, not one of America's top 10 were designed or made in the US, let alone Detroit. Japanese companies were making them.
That is despite America's Big Three car companies all being located in the greater Detroit area.
While Detroit will still be considered the epicentre of the US auto industry, there is no questioning that it has lost some of its grunt.
In the 15 years before the 2008 bailout, the Big Three had shed more than 83,000 jobs. But in the same period, more than 91,000 auto jobs were created further south in Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Virginia and Texas. All cheaper than Detroit - just as Thailand is when compared with Australia.
While driving around Detroit's neighbourhoods, Joy Santiago, owner of Dwellings Unlimited, points out the beautiful stone-crafted mansions that can now be picked up up for between $US300,000 and $US600,000.
These were the suburbs where the car industry built manufacturing plants and workers built communities around them. Now, many are deserted, with homes burnt out and others that have lost up to 90 per cent of their value.
Santiago says the bailout saved some of the pain from falling property prices, but didn't manage to completely stem the bleeding.
''If the US didn't bail out the mortgage companies, then property values would have probably gone down more quickly, but the market has continued to decline in some markets,'' she says. ''The bailout only slowed down the decline of property values. It was only a temporary fix, a Band-Aid.''
Maureen Donohue Krauss, vice-president of business attraction at the Detroit Regional Chamber, says the human side of the bailout is something that gets lost in the politics.
''I was the director of economic development for Oakland County [Detroit] at the time of the bailout. I managed 100 people and it is hard to do that when 10 per cent have partners who have lost their jobs, or people are asking me for a day off so they can attend bankruptcy court or because they are losing their homes. It doesn't get harder than what this city and state went through in 2009,'' she says.
''If letting the auto industry collapse didn't impact one in 10 jobs directly in your country then maybe you could have ignored it. It is scary to think, though, about how much worse things would have got.''
The chamber says about 70 per cent of its work was spent on the auto industry and encouraging new auto companies to relocate.
A key plank of that approach is education. These aren't the same high-paying, low-skilled jobs as times gone by. The local curriculum for primary and secondary students in Michigan incorporates subjects such as robotics and nanotechnology to try to encourage the next generation to stay in Detroit and consider a career in the auto industry.
Meanwhile, the chamber is trying to diversify the region's industrial base.
''We are not trying to reinvent the wheel here in terms of attracting new industries. We are working on using our strengths and know-how to grow other sectors, whether that be logistics, defence, aerospace or medical technology,'' Donohue Krauss says.
Delisa Shaw is a fourth-generation auto-worker in Detroit. She started working for Chrysler in 1985 just five years after the first government bailout of the company (Jimmy Carter provided $US1.5 billion to rescue Chrysler, a figure which was matched by US and foreign banks). She took advantage of the opportunities the company provided, rising through the ranks before finishing up with the company in December after almost 27 years.
Shaw is proud of the role the auto industry has played in industrialising America, putting people to work and creating a prosperous nation for all. She does not believe it is unreasonable that it has been thrown a lifeline.
''The automotive industry is why this country is as well off as it is,'' she says. ''It really carried other industries for many years. If there aren't the auto jobs then people move away, you don't need the teachers or the nurses, your restaurants close, your shops shut down.''
She says the company's bankruptcy hit staff morale, something that was felt across the community and the country.
''We all look back and think 'What do I do wrong? What did I do right?' It gets muddled because we all felt like we were doing the best job that we could.''
In hindsight Shaw agrees that embracing technology as well as better education and training were perhaps the missing links in sustaining the industry.
''If we don't deal with technology, though, you get left behind, and President Obama has attached a requirement to the bailout money that manufacturers really have to embrace new technology. I think it was a hard lesson learnt,'' she says.
Whether it is in Australia or in the United States, government assistance for the auto industry is one of those rare policy areas that has largely transcended partisan politics. Labor, Liberal, Democrat and Republican leaders alike have all lined up with chequebooks to support a local industry for car design and manufacturing.
It has been four years since the Bush administration and then the Obama administration tapped taxpayers for billions of dollars to save its spluttering auto industry. The debate being had in Australia is one that swirled around ferociously in America back in 2008/09 and there is much to be learnt from its experience.
At the time of the US car bailout, oil prices were sticking above $US150 a barrel. That didn't help the big US car companies which were churning out gas-guzzling SUVs and ''pick-up trucks'', vehicles that had been a lucrative cash-cow for the industry.
Interest rates were also rising and housing prices were falling. Lenders were less amenable to refinancing mortgages and a wave of foreclosures started the subprime mortgage crisis.
The reverberations were felt in the US auto industry which had 25 per cent of its vehicle sales tied to those lines of credit.
So both the Bush and Obama administrations stepped in with a total of about $US80 billion in loans for GM and Chrysler, insisting that letting the pair go under would do more damage to the US economy than a bailout.
It wasn't enough, however, to save either company from slipping into bankruptcy. US taxpayers became car company owners with the Treasury taking a 61 per cent stake in GM.
Its holding in the new GM, which relisted on the New York Stock Exchange in November 2010, has been reduced to 33.3 per cent.
While it is true that both GM and Chrysler have paid back US government loans, whether or not it has been a good deal for taxpayers is harder to assess.
A report by the Treasury Department out last month rejects criticism that it has been a dud deal for taxpayers.
"Overall, the government is now expected to at least break even on its financial stability programs and may realise a positive return," the report says.
But that doesn't include stimulus measures like tax cuts or fluctuations in the price of GM shares it holds. GM shares are still 27 per cent off the IPO listing price of $US33. It is estimated that for taxpayers to break even on this deal, GM shares would have to be trading about $53.
Chrysler points out that the $US1.3 billion loss from its agreement with the US government belonged to old Chrysler and isn't part of the Chrysler Group formed in 2009. It appears a moot point. But the new company has added more than 9400 jobs and invested $US4.5 billion in North America.
So was it worth it?
The notion that anything is ''too big to fail'' is still a major point of contention in the US, whether you are talking about Wall Street or the auto industry. The argument goes that if corporations are so committed to free market economics then surely they have to accept their fate if the market determines their business is a failure. These companies who have accepted government support are the same companies who have long urged governments to butt out of their business.
A Washington Post poll found only 41 per cent of Americans supported the bailout of GM and Chrysler. The Wall Street Journal put support at 39 per cent.
The public anger directed at the Big Three was palpable, particularly during the bailout period when their chief executives Rick Wagoner (GM), Alan Mulally (Ford) and Robert Nardelli (Chrysler) alighted from their private luxury jets in Washington DC with their caps in hand, oblivious to the message they were sending.
It was a monumental blunder that further damaged their respective brands and was continually used against the companies to show how out of touch they had become. (In December 2008, GM and Ford announced they were selling their private jet fleets.)
Professor John Heitmann, auto industry expert at the University of Dayton, says as widely unpopular as the bailout of GM and Chrysler was at the time, he believes it has been proved to be the right decision.
''If you look at it now, the auto industry is doing quite well,'' he said. ''Is it doing well because of the bailout, or because of consumer demand and the cyclical nature of the auto industry in general? Would it have done better if GM was forced to break up?
''It probably wouldn't have been a good thing, only because it is so difficult to establish yourself. Not only was the brand damaged, but trying to get into the international car business right now is not easy, so I am beginning to think that it was the right thing to do.''
The US car industry has been dubbed ''The Phoenix'' for its turnaround in fortunes. GM and Chrysler have both paid back the bailout money and are now turning record profits.
GM posted its best net profit, a whopping $US7.6 billion for calendar 2011. Hard to think that it is the same GM that only four years ago endured a loss of $US30.9 billion. Now, it is outselling Toyota which had claimed the ascendancy over the past few years as the US car companies buckled.
Chrysler also managed its first result in the black last year since filing for bankruptcy, posting a respectable $US183 million profit.
However, Americans have started expecting more from their car companies.
Take a look at GM's March sales figures. They climbed 12 per cent - 231,052 vehicles - last month, but that was not enough to please the market. It had higher expectations and sent GM shares down more than 3 per cent.
Ford sold 223,418 vehicles - its best March sales since 2007, including record sales of fuel-efficient vehicles such as the Ford Focus.
America's ''jobless recovery'' is starting to become a ''jobs-filled recovery'' with unemployment dropping to 8.3 per cent from its peak last year of almost 10 per cent. The auto industry has helped contribute to that decrease by starting to rehire some of the 300,000 workers who lost their jobs during the bailout.
So how has the US car industry been able to turn things around so quickly, and if it was so easy why didn't they do itbefore the bailout?
Mark Reuss, president of GM North America and former managing director of Holden, told BusinessDay at the New York Auto Show that GM was now a ''wildly different'' company that had ''completely changed''.
''It really comes down to product, and of the product we have introduced over the past 2½ years, all of them have been a hit. In areas where we were terrible: small cars, mid-sized cars. All we did was trucks.''
He is frank in his acknowledgement that GM lost the trust of Americans as it forced cars on people that they didn't want.
Reuss says that trust is being painstakingly restored quarter by quarter.
''I think the [sales] data supports that,'' he said. ''You can't just go out and say 'trust me', that doesn't work. If you are transparent about how the company is going - good and bad - and people can look into the company and see how it operates and that we are not fooling anybody any more, then the trust starts to be restored.''
Reuss hopes the diesel-powered Chevrolet Cruze, to be introduced in to the US market next year, will add to the half a million diesel cars GM sold in 2011 across Europe, Asia, Africa and South America.
''We have been catching up and surpassing most makers with fuel-efficient vehicles. It is not rocket science,'' he says. ''People don't have to go to the smallest, weirdest thing. They want a big sedan that is fuel efficient, so that's what we should offer them.''
To paint GM as a company that wasn't innovating prior to the bailout is inaccurate. Many of its success stories today were on the drawing board before the bailout.
Mary Barra, GM's senior vice-president of global product development, says the company is narrowing its focus on innovation based on what customers are asking for. ''We have always wanted to drive innovation, but if you do a little of everything you get a lot of nothing,'' she told BusinessDay.
''I think right now we have to focus on being customer driven. So fuel economy is important to customers. Another key area is enabling great design.
''People forget how many 'firsts' GM has had and there are plenty more 'firsts' yet to happen on these vehicles, and I want those to be GM vehicles.''
Reuss says Australia is a good test bed for innovation and remains an important part of GM's business.
GM Holden was the second-most-popular car in Australia last year with 126,095 new vehicles sold, down 5.1 per cent year on year and behind Toyota, which sold 181,624 new vehicles, down 15.4 per cent.
''We remain absolutely committed to Australia,'' Reuss says. ''There are a lot of people committed to Australia and the business model and making money there.''
The Australian car industry is dealing with a different set of circumstances, including a strong Australian dollar hitting exports. But what the American experience shows is that targeted innovation, responding to customer feedback, creating better fuel efficiency and sleeker design may just see Australian manufacturers replicating the turnaround of their US counterparts.


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BuddyWay is a free GPS cell phone tracking software that will enable any mobile phone or PDA with a built-in GPS to turn it into a GPS tracking device. It is a pretty full featured service geared toward people who love to take the road trip. The fact that it is targeted at people who are going to be hitting the road one has to look no farther than the About page of this free GPS cell phone tracker. It reads, "Going on a trip? Meeting your friends? Do you want to save your memories? Do you want to show others where you've been lately? You've came to the right place!" If that does not say that this is meant for people looking to use their cell phone to track and record their road trips, I do not know what would!
Here is a list of some of BuddyWays features:
- Track any GPS-enabled phone or PDA in real-time online.
- Save trips to look at later and relive all the glorious road trip moments.
- BuddyWay allows you to share the trips with other people or to keep them to yourself.
- Record special locations on your phone and make comments about them in real time for your followers, family, or friends back home to see directly from your mobile device.
- Visualize your previous trips in 3-D on Google Earth with an easy import and save feature.
- Record and view trip metrics and graphs such as trip duration, trip length, average and maximum speed, changes in your altitude, etc.
- Setup geofence alerts that will notify you of upcoming areas of interest that you set.
This set of features is obvious geared to those who travel extensively or who are making some type of life-event journey like backpacking through Europe or taking a coast to coast trip in the United States. I mean the possibilities for fun are pretty extensive.
BuddyWay Free GPS Cell Phone Tracking And Europe
Wouldn't it be great to be able to make a detailed log of all the places you go and all the things that you see on a trip to Europe? Well, that can be made possible with this cell phone tracking software. It might look something like this. You and a small group of friends decide that you want to go to Europe together to do some back packing. You'll go all over the place, but you really want to hit up the the British Isles and the Continent. In fact, you have several things that you desperately want to see and a host of other things that you would not mind seeing if your journeys take you in that direction.
You hear about GPS cell phone tracking and how it can be used with pretty much any cell phone these days and you decide to give it a once over to see what all the hoopla is about. Almost immediately you are smitten by the idea and want to get the absolute best software so that you can make a detailed history of your trip as well as share your adventures with friends and family back home. You also want to stay safe and secure and be able to let your friends on the trip with you know where you are at at any given moment so that you can help each other out if it is necessary or hook up to catch some cool art in a museum.
Several cell phone trackers creep up your list but you finally decided that you want to go with the free GPS cell phone tracking software from BuddyWay since it offers some interesting features that you want to take advantage of. In particular, you like that you can set up alerts for when you approach areas of interest that you get to define yourself. Before you even go on your trip you make a list of all the different things that you would love to be able to see or do while in that city. You then decide which places or sites are worthy of setting up an alert for – like the Eiffel tower, or an awesome restaurant overlooking the Venetian waterways; it doesn't really matter what it is as long as it interests you. Setting these alerts up before hand will give you the freedom as you are traveling about a city to stop at little side excursions that will interest you whenever you feel like it.
Another benefit to using a traveler friendly GPS cell phone tracking software is that it lets you make comments about your trip from your phone. As you are standing in the Alps watching the sun set in a bedazzling array of colors you can snap photos and breath it all in. Then, when the sun drops below the horizon and the deep purple of dusk fades into the star speckled black of night you can take out your cell phone and mark the spot where your heart jumped for joy at the resplendent beauty of God's creation.
Or, as you walk through the old, worn down streets of some ancient city you found yourself struck by the weight of history and sense a profound change in your soul you can sit and stew in the wonder that is humanity. After the moment has passed, you can make a not of your spot, maybe take a picture, and make a brief comment about what when on in your BuddyWay software.
As you make all these little notes your family and friends get to experience your journey and grow with you as these experiences gradually change the way you think about the world around you. They will get to taste what you see and feel what you hear as you share it all with them. This is the power of GPS cell phone tracking technology when used appropriately and safely.
BuddyWay will also allow you to stay connected with your group of friends on the trip with you. It might come in handy when there are different places that people want to go in a specific city. Maybe some want to go to museums, while others want to get a feel for the city by walking the streets and eating in local restaurants, and others still want to hit up some happening bars and clubs. As all three go about their way if something particularly interesting comes up they can quickly share it with their friends and let them know where the action is at on their cell phones with little or no effort. Finding them is even a cinch since they know exactly where they are thanks to the mobile phone tracking they are using.
Finally, once the trip is over and done you can relive it all by downloading your travel onto Google Earth and play it back for yourself, your travel companions, your family, and your friends for all to experience exactly what you saw. This will put all the old boring slide shows of yesteryear far behind you as you walk your family around the city that you experienced. You can be their virtual tour guide through the ups and downs and ins and outs of your journey. Nothing will be missed.
Free GPS cell phone trackers like BuddyWay provide a great service to travelers of all interest levels and experience. Anyone can benefit from being able to review their trips with a host of information at their disposal. While BuddyWay may not be the most social of all the free trackers out there for cell phones, it does provide an excellent product for the traveler market. Anyone interested in what their travels look like should definitely give BuddyWay a shot at being their GPS tracking software for their cell phone. It really is that good.
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Kanye West: 'Stop Calling Me Hitler, I'm Michael Jordan!'
We shouldn't hate too much on the intellectually disabled.
They can't help that their brains don't work right.
derp derp
Just look at me….Ima playa ya'll
"Call me douchebag, asshole, or scumbag. But 'Hitler'… that's just too far."
you can t even compare this piece of shit to hitler, hitler had power, lots of it, what does this bitch have ? gold chains and tatoos in forearms ?? hahahahaha


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The study of 3,000 U.S. social network users delved deeper into how social sites affect family and friend relationships and consumer attitudes towards brands and products.
Shiny new toys for dad will be one of the biggest hits this year, along with special outings, gift certificates and clothing.
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Today chicagotribune.com headlines:
"DNA links 3rd player to alleged attack"
The Tribune news services' story begins:
Prosecutors believe they have DNA evidence to tie a third Duke lacrosse player to the alleged attack on a 27-year-old exotic dancer, news outlets in Durham reported Thursday.
The local ABC affiliate, citing sources, reported that the third player is the same person who was identified with "90 percent" certainty by the alleged victim in a photo lineup. That lineup was conducted by police weeks after the March 13 off-campus lacrosse team party where the alleged incident took place.
The potential evidence--a DNA sample found under a fake fingernail worn by the alleged victim and linked to the lacrosse player--was recovered from the off-campus home where the alleged attack took place. […]
The lead paragraphs certainly support the Tribs headline: "DNA links 3rd player to the alleged attack."
But if you read down to the story's last two paragraphs, you learn:
The Durham Herald Sun newspaper reported Thursday that the tissue sample used for testing did not allow for a 100 percent match, but it was "consistent" with DNA of the third player. Because a complete DNA pattern was not obtained from the sample on the fingernail, it was impossible to match that sample with near certainty to the third player, the newspaper said.
Defense sources told the ABC station that results from this set of DNA tests are also inconclusive and that there is no match, and that to say otherwise is "very misleading." They also say it would not be unusual to find players' DNA in the bathroom or garbage can of a house where many spent time.
Given the information in the last two paragraphs, how can the Trib justify its headline, "DNA links 3rd player to the alleged attack," or its lead paragraphs?
The Trib's headline and its equally misleading lead paragraphs are further examples of MSM news bias directed against the Duke lacrosse players


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Mille Lacs County Times
The Milaca High School Band Program participated in the Region 5 Solo Ensemble Contest that was Tuesday, Feb. 28 at the school.
Students from Milaca, Mora and Foley high schools were featured at the event. Milaca fielded 25 entries in the contest and earned nine excellent and 16 superior ratings. Milaca also earned "Best at Site" awards at all three contests during the day.
"I was really proud of our kids today," Band Director Andrew Nelson said. "They worked hard in preparation and it showed in performance. The judges commented about how well prepared all of the students were from each school, so the "Best at Site" awards were really earned today. Solo Ensemble contest really demonstrates a lot about the quality of our band program. Thanks to everyone involved, especially our parents and administration. These kids get a lot of support."
Excellent Ratings:
Ellie Oleen (alto sax)
Chloe Chambers (bassoon)
Dustin Bergh (tuba)
Ellen So (oboe)
Jessica Sikkink (clarinet)
Claire Coffee (snare drum)
Ashley Salgren (trumpet)
Kaija Crowe, Ashley Salgren, Lexie Swenson, Dustin Bergh and Kyle Welch (brass quintet)
Ellen So, Jessica Sikkink, Sophie Bauer, Reice Golden and Chloe Chambers (woodwind quintet)
Superior Ratings:
Izzy Noor (clarinet)
Jared Gould (vibes)
Rachel Starry (flute)
Ashley Bussmann (trumpet)
Austin Aguilera (trombone)
Makayla Wiedewitsch (French horn)
Meghan Bolt (clarinet)
Kaija Crowe (trumpet)
Kristen Schindeldecker (alto sax)
Molly Briggle (tenor sax)
Ashley Haukos (trumpet)
Lexie Swenson (French horn)
Sophie Bauer (flute)
Izzy Noor and Meghan Bolt (clarinet duet)
Best at Site awards:
Sophie Bauer (flute)
Izzy Noor and Meghan Bolt (clarinet duet)
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Montessori nurseries? Can somebody explain in basic terms?(12 Posts)
I've never heard of one before and have just come across one while looking for a nursery for dd incase today's job hunt is successful.
Has anyone any experience of them?
Urgh. I have had it with bloody montessori. To give you a non biased view however...all schools are different and follow different interpretations of the ethos. Some may encourage kids to role play and experiment with the 'work' materials, others may be regimented and prefer order without praise for the child. I've seen it first hand and its not for me. I advise you read up on it and investigate nurseries around you.
Hmm ok... I'll have a look and see if I can figure anything else out!
Thanks for the honesty
I disagree. My DH studied montessori and raves about it. My MIL has been a teacher for 40 years and only has good things to say about it. She says all of her brightest students come from the montessori system (she is not a montessori teacher but works for an SDA school) It's basically learning life skills through play. Each nursery would have a different ethos so ask them to explain if you want to know more.
Check it is a full accredited Montessori school as there are actually not that many, lots call themselves Montessori but there are no for al recognitions so cannot check they follow the basic principles.
I am not sure I can explain it well really,but it is not just learn through play. All nurseries do that! It is quite ordered, quiet, and 'logical' from my understanding of reading into it and a friends little one gong there. Unfortunately she is quite reserved anyway and needs to be encouraged out of her shell, it doesn't do that!
I think the suitability of it will depend on your own ideas of 'learning' and also on your child's personality.
All schools are different. Ours was set up by Maria herself and it is lovely. The kids follow the Early Years curriculum - paint, read, feed the goldfish, dig in the garden, Learn about planets... Same as other schools (no plastic toys). They are taught to be considerate and sharing (like other schools), help out (like other schools). They are praised and punished (like other schools) etc etc etc...
There's a lot of babble about it being all airy-fairy-Hugo, but we found the discipline very good (I can't stand brats or badly behaved, pushy, whiney kids).
You need to go and see for yourself. They are all different.
I think the biggest difference is that they didn't do dolls, trains, cars or toys as such. The children used bricks and sand trays, they painted, dustpan and brushes, poured water from jugs to cups. Everything was designed for children to USE properly and to have confidence in their practical skills.
The morning or afternoon (mine went for 3 hour sessions) included the chance to do what you liked with these "materials". Quite often the children did not run amok and were quite engaged in what we mght consider serious activities. Books, drama, music all part of session. Reading and writingfor older kids but only when ready.Use of sandpaper letters. My son was not allowed to hold a pencil the whole time he was there,as they said he was not ready. My children loved the teachers (they were proper Mntessoi teachers or in training assistants) and never found it boring. I made sure they had walked there though, and walked back as otherwise possibly not enough energy expent!
DD3 goes to an (accredited) Montessori Nursery. They do have cars (admittedly wooden).
DD3 arrives in the morning, chooses her name from the board, chooses a peg to put her name above and hangs her bag/coat on it. She then chooses her name again and posts it in the post-box.
Activities are placed on trays and she may choose any activity on the shelf. If another child has the activity she wants to use, she can ask to join them, but if that child says no, she must wait until the child is finished. Similarly, if a child wants to do something on the floor, they get a little mat out, which defines their space. Other children must ask to join if they think it looks interesting.
All the activities promote defined skills, and are orientated Left to Right in preparation for reading and writing later. Fine motor activities may include using tweezers to move cotton wool balls from one bowl to another, for example.
The equipment the children use is all 'real', such as crockery for eating lunch, a real workbench with hand drill, hammer, etc. The intention is that children learn to respect and care for their equipment.
DD3's pre-school has African Land Snails and tortoises, and they borrow eggs from a local farm to watch them hatch into chicks, then return them after a few weeks.
They have circle time, where they play games, sing songs, etc., and they have French, yoga, etc., too.
It's fabulous!
Its a lot of fun. Where I work there's an 'ordinary' nursery and when I go onto the floor it does seem more 'freestyle' although I know its not really! Loads of noise and 'letting off steam'!
The montessori kids seem more focussed somehow - happy doing something, not running around in circles, dancing, watching cartoons, or trying to climb over the furniture. They play with the 'usual' toys (yes - not dollies, but we had a fab kitchen and punch and judy booth) but also with wooden blocks, weights, pouring/measuring jugs, salt playdough, sand pit, globes, garden time, goldfish to kill (that was purely an accidental thing) etc. They are encouraged to share and help out (wiping down the tables etc). These were from 2.5 years old.
Wow French and yoga!
Thanks everyone, good to get other perspectives ill definitely have to have a look round and try and get a feel for the place like I will with the others!
Lougle and Moomin have explained it perfectly. One of my friends thought it was a Stepford Wives nursery because all the children glided quietlyfrom one activity to another. There was, with exception of a few hyper (French) boys, complete concentration from the 2.5 years-5 year old range, all in one room. Some children went to school only in Year 1, because they were French, so I wonder whether older children in the room helped create a good atmosphere.
Different themes, history, art history, geography, French, all covered.
Still it was just 3 - 6 hours, so not day care as such. Not sure it could be sustained for an entire day.
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Bucks will have a uniform change this year
One of the most anticipated changes Milwaukee Bucks fans hoped for with new owners was some kind of uniform change or alteration. Unfortunately, jerseys for the 2014-15 season were planned long in advance. But, the NBA is doing something unique for the teams that have won championships -- which means there will be a change after all.
Tennessee-based graphic designer Conrad Burry noticed it while flipping through his retailer-only catalog of jerseys for the upcoming season.
It's subtle, but noticeable. He noticed a gold tab on the collar.
ESPN.com reported that the gold tabs "would be the first league-wide championship badge ever used by one of the 'Big Four' North American professional sports leagues, and it is similar to the star system used by soccer teams to denote World Cup titles."
Personally, I love this idea. Championships are hard to come by, and this is a great way to for the NBA to work in a uniform change and honor its past champions.
This opens the door for other ideas, or different ways to acknowledge teams like Chicago, Boston and Los Angeles that have multiple titles. But, one step at a time.
This is especially good timing for the Bucks, who now make sure "championship caliber" is peppered throughout discussions regarding the future the franchise under new co-owners Marc Lasry and Wes Edens.
The owners are doing it right by harkening back to those championship days in the 1970s, and the league did them an unintended solid in deciding to add this to the jerseys.
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FW: Problem using a dialog and dynamic - problem sorted
Thanks to all who pointed out the "Method" issue. Seems obvious now, and
something I'll be able to keep an eye out for in the future.
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Ellsmore [mailto:paul.ellsmore at nanion.co.uk]
Sent: 22 March 2009 10:46
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Subject: [mg97914] [mg97795] Problem using a dialog and dynamic
The following code should show a button and a text field. When I click the
button, i should get a system dialog allowing me to select a folder, and the
folder's file and pathname should then be displayed in the text field.
Panel[Grid[{{Button["Select/Change Project
nt Project Directory:",InputField[Dynamic[sourcedir],String]}]}}]
Unfortunately, the performance is erratic!
If I click the button, then select a folder of the C drive, say C:\first,
and click "open", the textfield display C:\first as expected. But if I then
click the button again, and select, say, folder off the C:\first\second and
click "open", the textfield does not change, nor does it for any subsequent
clicks. However, if I select the desktop, it works as expected, and if I
select the C: drive again it also works.
To summarise, if i want to change the folder selection, I have to select the
C: drive once, then click again and select the subfolder I want, and if I
want to change the subfolder, I have to select the c: drive again, before I
can select the new subfolder.
Is this a bug, or am I doing something stupid? I am using V7 on Windows
Vista Home Premium.
Thanks in advance,
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Paducah Tilghman will send several standout defensive players to the University of Louisville's Junior Day on Saturday.
Defensive back Darrius Spivey-Nunn was profiled last week and will be joined on the trop by linebacker Derik Overstreet.
The 6-foot-3, 240-pound Overstreet said his U of L visit will be the first Junior Day that he's attended and noted that he's "hearing the most from Louisville."
Overstreet said he has also heard from Kentucky and Murray State.
As a junior, Overstreet had 92 tackles, including 44 solos. He helped the Blue Tornado defense to an 8-4 record.
"I feel like I played pretty good but I can still do better," Overstreet said. "My run defense is good and so is my pass defense. I need to get better on the edge rushing. Colleges are looking at me as a linebacker and a defensive end."
Indianapolis North Central running back/defensive back Jalen McIntyre made an unofficial visit to Papa John's Cardinal Stadium when Louisville hosted South Florida last fall.
The 5-foot-11, 195-pound McIntyre will make a return trip this weekend for Junior Day. He went to Bowling Green last weekend and will then make a trip to Purdue's Junior Day on Sunday.
McIntyre is also hearing from Indiana and Iowa among others but said he's still waiting on his first scholarship offer.
"I continue to get a lot of letters," McIntyre said. "I feel like it will pick up the more Junior Days I go to and the more exposure I get.
"It's going good for me and I think it will get better."
McIntyre said he is "really looking forward" to making it back to U of L and is hoping he can make an impression on the coaching staff.
"I would be more than interested," he said of U of L. "They have a really good team, an up-and-coming program, and I heard they're going into the ACC."
U OF L IN TOP FOUR FOR Georgia WR
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The 6-foot-3, 204-pound Googer, who plays linebacker, quarterback and wide receiver, named South Carolina, North Carolina, Notre Dame and Louisville.
Googer, recruited by most as a wide receiver, listed South Carolina as a favorite. He said he wants to get to see U of L sometime soon.
He has over 15 scholarship offers.
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Even Batman would be jealous of this motorized Tumbler made from Lego bricks. The model was designed and built by Sariel, and he was careful to make it match the steering and suspension of the vehicles created for the Dark Knight movies. He spent over a month on the bodywork and said it led him "to believe that Chris Nolan secretly hates model builders and created Tumbler so as to make them hate themselves."
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Hazel Park volleyball season ends in district final loss
By Mark Vest
Posted November 14, 2012
Hazel Park volleyball's season came to an end Nov. 2, as the Vikings were defeated by Warren Fitzgerald 3-1 in a Class B district final.
Things looked good for Hazel Park early, winning the first game 25-22. Although Fitzgerald went on to take the next three games, it was no easy chore closing out Hazel Park.
Games two and three were tightly contested, with Fitzgerald winning 25-21 in the second game and 25-22 in the third. It wasn't until the fourth game that the Spartans, after falling behind 1-0, scored nine unanswered points, creating a little distance that ultimately led to a 25-13 victory.
Although coach Sue Stuef was disappointed it wasn't Hazel Park celebrating a district championship, she views making it as far as the Vikings did as a step in the right direction.
"I am extremely proud of my kids," she said. "They fought like crazy, especially the first game. They just came out like gangbusters. They dominated. I think Fitzgerald was in shock with how we came out. We just couldn't quite hold that level of play together. But I've got a great group of kids. We've come a long way between last year and this year."
Hazel Park went 8-14-4 on the season, but Stuef isn't using wins and losses as the only barometer to evaluate her team. She saw something in her squad that doesn't always show up in a record book.
"I'm very happy with our season because of the progress we've made," she said. "This is one of the greatest groups of kids I've worked with. I've coached for 25 seasons between volleyball, basketball and softball, and this is one awesome group of kids. I love them dearly, and they know that. They played so well together, and I can't say enough nice things about them."
Stuef believes that the Vikings can use their appearance in the district final as a steppingstone to bigger and better things. Although Hazel Park will lose seniors Felisha Paholsky, Jonnea Daley, Brittany Richardville and Taryn Goslow, Stuef expressed confidence that the Vikings will return with a strong nucleus of players intact next season.
"I think we're going to do some really special things next year," she said. "I think we're going to do very well. We're going to use this as our next jumping-off point. If we continue to move upward like we did this year and we continue that forward momentum, I don't know what's going to stop us next year. I really don't."
About the author
Mark Vest is on the sports beat at C&G Newspapers. He covers high school sports for the Fraser-Clinton Chronicle and Grosse Pointe Times. In the past couple years or so, he has also began to cover collegiate sports for schools such as the University of Detroit Mercy, Oakland University, Wayne State University, Macomb Community College and Oakland Community College. Vest has worked at C&G Newspapers since 2011 and attended Oakland University and Oakland Community College.
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