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Has anyone done this excursion?
Hi Flatman, welcome to Cruise-Chat. Which island is this one for? We've done quite a few sail/snorkels/beach party excursions and have enjoyed all of them. There are some fabulous snorkeling/diving areas in the Caribbean. Since you didn't post in the Caribbean Port Chat section, this must be some other island. Perhaps Hawaii? or Tahiti? or Australia? Please let us know and we'll do our best to give you an answer. Hope you have a fantastic cruise and once again, welcome aboard!
Hi Penny3333, I'm sorry about not saying which port I was referring to. I've never posted on this site before and really don't know what I'm doing yet. The port we're going to do the Deluxe Sail,Snorkel and beach Party is going to be Cozumel Mexico on the Carnival Triumph on April 21st 2009. Can you tell me about what this usually costs?
As for my lack of knowledge on using this site, it seems all I see are posts that are very old. How do get to recent posts?
Cozumel is amazing. The water is great, the snorkeling is fantastic, and every beach we've been to there has been nice. Normally, with lunch included, for a catamaran 4-6 hour excursion it will run around $150/pp. The most recent posts will be mixed in between topics. You can use the "Find" feature and clicked on
Advance and you can narrow your search.
Hi again, thanks for replying. I'll try again and eventually I'll get the hang of this site..Again thanks!
Hi again Penny 3333, Don't mean to be a bother but I have a question. Under your name it says that your a moderator. does that mean like a host of this site or are you just like me, another poster? I'm new to this site as you already know, and I do have a few questions. Maybe you can steer me in the right directions..
No, I don't host the site, just try to help out. There are a few of us that volunteer our time to help keep the board clean, the messages in the proper areas, delete unauthorized advertising, and various housekeeping chores. All of us try to answer any questions we can. If I can't answer your questions, usually someone else can. If not, we'll do our best to find the answer.
Okay great! Now I have a better idea of who I'm chating with.Thanks..
Penny, that was a good explanation of Moderator duties IMO. http://cruise-chat.com/groupee_commo...icon_smile.gif
Hi Flatman, I just happened to have my last cruise papers out looking for something else. The price list as of late October has the excursion priced at $62 per person.
At 120 days from your sailing you can book online and check prices if you are registered on Carnival.com.
As Penny noted, someone will usually know the answer, or help point you in the right direction to find it. The Members of this forum are the most knowledgeable and friendly that I have ever found on a cruise forum.
Welcome aboard,
thanks Dwayne, I think your right about the freindly people here. I asked this same question on another site that's similiar and got smart remarks about looking it up myself. After explaining the 120 day thing, this woman says " it only took ME 1 minute to come up with the answer! " Well, bottom line was that she sails in 25 days..lol. BTW Dwayne, what part of South Carolina are you from? I spent 25 years living at Edisto Beach, which is as beautiful as most of the places we cruise to IMHO..
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Sep 16, 2012 - By Bruce Tippets, Sports EditorSenior Beau Green believes the Lander Valley High School boys cross country team is on track to make a run at the Class 3-A state title next month in Douglas.
The Tigers took a big step on Thursday, winning the team title at the Lander Invitational.
LVHS posted 26 points in its only home meet of the season. Worland finished second with 65 points. Wyoming Indian placed third at 69 points. Riverton High School was fourth at 109, points and Lyman came in fifth at 130.
"We have more work to do, because the 3-A West is just a tough conference," said Green after the meet Thursday afternoon. "We just have to go out every day and work hard. I think that we are doing that really well."
Jackson is considered the front-runner for the state title. Jackson has won the 3-A state title the last two years.
"Jackson has been the powerhouse the past couple of years," Green said. "Star Valley, Powell and Wheatland from the East will be up there. It will be interesting this year."
There are five weeks left in the regular season.
"We are going to have five hard weeks, just pushing it every day," Green said. "That last week is what it's going to come down to in Douglas.
Lander's Kade Simonson led the way Thursday with a second-place finish in a time of 17.22.
"We are getting better every week, and we like to see that," coach Kevin Green said. "The kids are running personal records. They are really tired right now, because I'm working them really hard. When we start to taper toward conference and state we will see those times even get better."
Beau Green placed fifth on his home course in a time of 17:41.
"We have a strong team this year," Green said. "It's amazing on how close that we are. We have 10 guys that are competing for varsity spots. We are all close friends."
Green was followed by Drew Gramlich (sixth, 17:42), Micah Whiting (eighth, 17:58) and George Case (ninth, 18:07)
"They are all pretty even," coach Green said. "They are all placing well. They are running together without me harping at them."
The Lander Invitational was held on the Lander Golf Course. The course had a big hill in the early stage of the race.
"The hill starts farther back than you think," Beau Green said. "There is a hill in Douglas. It helps us tremendously to run a hill at our home meet."
Worland and the Lyman Eagles are in the Class 3-A West conference. Wyoming Indian is the top team in the Class 2-A level.
"The competition was good at our home meet," Beau Green said. "It's good to have competition no matter where we go.
The LVHS girls finished third in the four-team field scoring 52 points. Riverton won the meet (41 points), and Lyman came in second (45).
Lander placers from Lander Invitational meet held Thursday
2. Kade Simonson, 17:22; 5. Beau Green, 17:41; 6. Drew Gramlich, 17:42; 8. Micah Whiting, 17:58; 9. George Case, 18:07; 10. Tristan Herr, 18:18; 12. Robbie Coulter, 18:36; 13. Bailey Selley, 18:50; 16. Nate Linton, 19:01.
Team standings
1. Lander, 26; 2. Worland, 65; 3. Wyoming Indian, 69; 4. Riverton, 109; 5. Lyman, 130.
8. Aspen Hemingway, 23:21; 12. Lindsay Crane, 23:59; 14. April Makeshine, 24:23; 5. Taylor Blasko, 24;39.
Team standings
1. Riverton High School 41; 2. Lyman, 45; 3. Lander Valley High School, 52; 4. Wyoming Indian, 75.
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The 'Killer Elite' actor claims that he doesn't even know he has been rumored to be cast in 'Transformers 4' and '5' as the replacer of the Sam Witwicky depicter.
After Shia LaBeouf said on several different occasions that he will not return for the next "Transformers" movies, rumors ran wild that Jason Statham was eyed to replace the Sam Witwicky depicterr. However, the 44-year-old actor whose girlfriend Rosie Huntington-Whiteley replaced Megan Fox in "Transformers: Dark of the Moon" has personally slammed the swirling speculations.
The "Killer Elite" thesp told MTV that he didn't even know he's been rumored to be cast in the autobot-war film franchise. "You know, I don't know how those things start. You read them. Someone told me about it. [But] the internet is a dangerous place," he said. "There's a lot of stuff out there."
Though denying his involvement in the next "Transformers" films, Statham still sang praises to director Michael Bay. "I've got a lot of stuff in front of me, but Michael Bay is a talented man. This last one just made a billion dollars around the world, so people like his films. He's a talented man," so the British actor gushed.
On Monday, October 17, Hasbro announced that the toy company is currently in "active discussion" with Paramount Pictures, Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg about making "Transformers 4" and "5". Variety reported that Paramount plans to shoot the two movies back-to-back to save the budget. Multiple sources additionally revealed that Bay is still interested in helming the projects despite rumors to the contrary.
"Transformers: Dark of the Moon" has grossed $1.1. billion worldwide, placing it on the fourth place in the all-time box-office list. It was released in U.S. theaters last June 29, with LaBeouf, Whiteley, as well as Tyrese Gibson and Josh Duhamel lining up in the cast ensemble.


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Keeping weeds to a minimum
Potato growers can add a new weapon to their weed- control arsenal for the 2012 season with Reflex, a Syngenta herbicide that has shown a lot of promise in university research trials.
Reflex has been available for several years, but wasn't labeled for potatoes until 2011.
"Herbicides are usually developed for crops other than potatoes, and Reflex was listed for cotton and soybeans," said Pamela J.S. Hutchinson, a University of Idaho potato cropping systems specialist. "None of the herbicides were developed specifically for potatoes. They were developed for another crop first, and that is the challenge in getting herbicides for potatoes."
Reflex is a pre-emergence herbicide that inhibits protox, an enzyme in chlorophyll production. Applied through a ground sprayer or overhead sprinkler irrigation system, it has shown excellent control of pigweed and nightshade weeds, typically at 90 percent over the course of a season. While it is less effective against common lambsquarters, control is increased when Reflex is tank-mixed with Prowl, Metribuzin, Boundary or Dual Magnum.
Older herbicides continue to exhibit success in controlling a variety of weeds, each attacking with a different mode of action.
Matrix, offered by DuPont, inhibits branch chain amino acid production, an important aspect of creating plant cells. It can be applied to the soil as a pre- or post-emergence foliar application. Control is 95 percent or greater against nightshade, with the exception of cutleaf nightshade.
Matrix also works well on redroot pigweed and most grasses, but is less efficient with common lambsquarters. However, a tank mixture of Prowl or Metribuzin with Matrix has shown to significantly increase effectiveness with common lambsquarters.
Outlook, a BASF herbicide, only can be applied as a pre- emergent and has a mode of action that prohibits very long- chain fatty acid production – vital to any plant's survival. It is effective against pigweed, grasses and nightshade, including 100 percent control of hairy nightshade throughout the season. Hutchinson said Outlook is less useful against common lambsquarters, though effectiveness increases when tank- mixed with Prowl and Metribuzin.
Chateau is a Valent herbicide that suppresses weeds – especially hairy nightshade – and can only be used as a pre-emergent. It has the same mode of action as Reflex and can be applied through a ground application or with overhead irrigation.
"The active ingredient in Chateau, flumioxazin, is used post-emergence in non-crop areas as a burn-down herbicide because it has a lot of activity on the foliage, but if you apply it pre-emergence, the potato is safe and it still has the same activity on the weeds," Hutchinson said. "The thing about Chateau is you have to have at least two inches of soil covering the sprout coming up from the seed piece."
Although Reflex and Chateau share the same mode of action, all other herbicides labeled for potatoes have an alternative mode that provides an important tactic in combating herbicide resistance.
A prime example of herbicide resistance is glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup. Many growers of Roundup Ready crops, such as cotton and corn, are experiencing resistance in weed populations. While resistance hasn't presented serious problems for potato herbicides, researchers have discovered a few pockets of herbicide resistance in potato fields.
For example, Hutchinson has located Metribuzin-resistant redroot pigweed populations in southeast Idaho, where growers have relied on the herbicide every other season since the 1970s.
Weed scouting
Many experts promote weed scouting as a method to find resistance before it gets serious.
"Growers have scouted for insects in crops, and the time is now to scout for weeds," said Les Glasgow, Syngenta technical asset lead for herbicides. Glasgow also helps develop strategies to control herbicide resistance. "They can usually be seen in small sections, and spread out from there, so it's being out there and seeing how well an herbicide works."
If there is a question that a weed is exhibiting resistant behavior, labs at ag universities can test the seeds. That typically involves growing the potentially resistant seeds and applying herbicides to which the weeds are suspected of being resistant to assess survivor levels.
Options for growers
Growers who find resistant weed populations in their fields have options. The first is identifying the herbicide that is no longer effective, then finding an alternative with a different mode of action to combat the population. It is also important to tank-mix herbicides with alternative modes of action to reduce herbicide resistance in weed populations.
"Always tank mix two products at the same time that attack different growth sites in a plant's metabolism, like light process, cell metabolism or cell division," said Mike Cunnane, DuPont crop production manager for specialty crop herbicides.
Crop rotation allows growers to find new herbicides with modes of action that may not be available for potatoes. Also, early cultivation between rows eliminates weeds, although it isn't effective the whole season. Residual herbicides have proven effective because they last for weeks until planting before deterioration.
"One major trend being driven by resistance is applying residual herbicides in the fall, when the temperatures are cool and the soil is wet," Cunnane said. "When things warm up in the spring, the residual herbicide is still in the soil and you start controlling (weeds) in the spring as they start germinating."
Pre-emergence herbicides have also proven effective at the beginning of the season because they have an impact on weeds shortly after planting, potentially reducing or eliminating the need for post- emergence applications. But the single factor all experts agree on is mixing or alternating herbicides with different modes of action to help prevent or delay the development of herbicide-resistant populations.
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Nissan Leaf hums a record 55 mph going backwards.
The U.K.'s Goodwood Festival of Speed over the weekend must have seemed more like a carnival with all the stunts and oddball goings-on. A particularly silly one: Nissan's Leaf electric car set a record as the fastest car in reverse. It covered one mile at an average 55 mph.
Stunt driver Terry Grant said, "The only complaint I have is slight neck ache from constantly looking over my shoulder."
Also from Goodwood:
Jaguar races camouflaged F-type two-seater.
Infiniti uses Lotus hybrid hardware to turn sexy show car into runner.
Lotus gets Evora hybrid running in time for the festival.
Ridiculous feats are not new for him or Nissan. Last year at Goodwood, he set a record by driving a Nissan Juke up the hill on two wheels.
Nissan says such clowning has a serious purpose: Grab attention, as any good marketer likes to do. The company says the Goodwood events dovetail with its social media-driven campaign, "The Big Turn On."
Nissan hopes to spread the electric vehicle message across Europe, where diesel power is the hot setup.
Nissan also raced its Leaf Nismo RC against the clock (going forward) to set a record for electric vehicles. The Nismo Leaf was driven by FIA GT1 race champ Michael Krumm.
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Former No. 1 overall pick Matt Bush, who was trying to make a comeback in the Tampa Bay Rays farm system as a reliever, was arrested Thursday night in Florida for leaving the scene of an accident.
According to NBC 2 in Fort Myers, Fla., Bush's Dodge SUV hit a motorcycle and seriously injured a 72 year-old man. Bush then tried to flee the scene.
"Literally the tire on the SUV ran over the driver's head," witness Scott Sugden told the TV station. "Without the helmet, the gentleman would have been dead instantly.
Alcohol may have been a factor, according to Florida Highway Patrol.
Bush was the top pick by the San Diego Padres in 2004 as a shortstop.
He had a 4.14 ERA in 53 games since converting to a relief pitcher in 2007.
The former phenom had a history of run-ins with the law for alcohol-related offenses. In 2004, he was arrested and suspended by the Padres after getting into a bar fight in Arizona. He also had a drinking-related incident in 2009 before he was traded to the Toronto Blue Jays in 2009.
Bush has been taken into custody and charged with fleeing the scene and driving with a suspended license with serious injuries, DUI with serious injuries and DUI with property damage.
Now 26 year-old, Bush had hoped to revitalize his career as a pitcher. That may be in jeopardy now.
He's one of three No. 1 overall draft picks since 2007 yet to make the major leagues. Tim Beckham (2008), Bryce Harper (2010) and Gerrit Cole (2011) are the others, but still have their futures ahead of them.
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- Robbery level requirement has been raised from 3 to 5.
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- Loaning scams no longer have level requirements and money limits.
- The loaning properties is no longer protected by the rules.
- Gambling is no longer protected, just like loaning. This means that there are no level requirements or money limits for gambling scams, and that anyone can scam via gambling, including legal casinos.
- Raffles (of any type) are no longer protected either since they are a form of gambling.
- Los Santos High School is now a safezone.
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Odette Keeley, news anchor for "Stories From The Ethnic Media" in NAM's radio program, "New America Now" on 91.7 FM KALW, talks to ethnic media professionals on stories in their news outlets and their take on the news of the day.
This week: Two of the New America Media's California Ethnic Media Award Winners.
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If you are an Arcade Kid, you know street fighter, space invader loving person, this "Arcade Machine Pendant" By Han Cholo is for you. Click over for more images.
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First Niagara Center (map it)
One Seymour H Knox III Plaza
Buffalo, NY 14203
Year Opened: 1996
Capacity: 18,690
There are no tickets available at this time.
Official Review by Andrew Kulyk, Stadium Journey Regional Correspondent
Since starting play back in 1992, the Buffalo Bandits have been one of the signature franchises in what is now named the National Lacrosse League. Sharing a home with the NHL Buffalo Sabres at the First Niagara Center, the Bandits have claimed bragging rights as one of the top organizations during their run, winning four league titles, numerous appearances in the championship game and they boast the top rank in terms of attendance and season ticket support .
The FANFARE scale is our metric device for rating each stadium experience. It covers the following:
Each area is rated from 0 to 5 stars with 5 being the best. The overall composite score is the "FANFARE Score".
The menu presentation at First Niagara Center is top notch, concession stands have been given a fresh new look in terms of lighting and canopies, and food items have been expanded. The signature carved Buffalo "Beef on Weck" sandwich is a Buffalo treat not to be missed. Bar areas including the Blue Zone and Pour Man's Aud Club on the main level, and the Harbour Club on the 200 level, provide full bar service.
The 100 level Harbour Club, which is a members only fine dining club at Sabres games, is open for a pregame buffet prior to Bandits games. Fans can buy a combo game and buffet ticket which gets soft drinks and a pizza and wing spread.
Where to begin? Buffalo Bandits fans are so loud and so passionate. Many come dressed in costume, faces painted black and orange, with all sorts of zany attire. The game presentation is truly over the top. The cheerleaders rock with a pregame montage, but the marker for crazy public address announcers can be found right here at Bandits games. Chris Swenson, better known as "Swennie" has been with the team since day one. His unique chants, play calls and riling up the crowd come across as over the top to some, but mostly the fans eat it up. The players have appreciated his passion over the years, even inviting Swennie to join the team in the championship photo when the team last won it all in 2008.
One of the signature chants is a fan driven one, going back to the team's earliest years. Whenever an opposing player heads to the penalty box, the guys sitting behind the box begin the chant "B-O-X, B-O-X, to the Box! to the Box!... to the Box to the Box, to the Box!". The entire building joins in and the slogan blares on the ribbon boards. It is a uniquely Bandits thing.
Along with the clap along music bumps, the "win the jersey if the team scores in the next minute" contest, and other timeout entertainment, a night at a Bandits game is all great fun.
The best way to describe the neighborhood around First Niagara Center is "emerging". After a long period of delay and inertia, momentum is developing for the adjoining Canalside neighborhood at the foot of Main Street. Original old streets have been unearthed and cobbled, waterways and canals from a by gone era are being dug. Private investment is on its way.
There are a number of pre and post game hangouts worth mentioning � Morrissey's, Benchwarmers and the new Lagerhaus 95 bistros line Mississippi Street.
Pearl Street Brewery is always a good bet for food and drink. Swannie House down on Michigan has been around forever, and lots of old grain elevator pics and other old time Buffalo memorabilia line their walls.
The spaghetti parm at Chef's Restaurant on Seneca, just a short drive, is to die for.
Cobblestone Bar is a bit seedy, but for what it's worth, is the "official" post game party hangout. We like Washington Square Lounge, a 70s era tavern where the beer is cold and the wings are cheap.
Buffalo Bandits fans get the highest marks. They lead the league in attendance. And true story � in the old days of the Major Indoor Lacrosse League, home field advantage was awarded based on paid attendance. In 1992, the inaugural season for the team, the Bandits lost by a nose to their then arch rival Philadelphia Wings, and the championship game took place down in Philly. The following year, the Bandits sold out each home game at the old Aud, nosing out the Wings by some 500 a game. That gave Buffalo the rights to host the championship game. Oh, Buffalo won both contests. Yes they won league championships in their first two seasons, and in fact, had a perfect season in 1993. Their bond and love affair with the community has been cemented ever since.
First Niagara Center is relatively easy to find, exit off the I-190 at Elm Street or Church Street and follow the traffic. Surface lots near the arena abound. Street parking is free nights and weekends so grab a space if you can. The Metrorail runs from the UB South Campus right to the front door of the First Niagara Center and the fare is $1.75. Or park anywhere downtown and ride for free as the downtown portion of the line is a fare free zone.
Single ticket prices run from $25-$35 each for 100 level seats, $35 for the clubs and $25 for the balcony. But look out for bargains. The team offers a 4 pack for $89, which includes 4 balcony tickets and meals at a national fast food chain. Student surge tickets are also available day of game for as low as $10. Aggressive ticket promotions is how they manage to fill the house on many a game night. Concession prices are reasonable and parking free/cheap. What's not to like?
We're liking the layout of the team's four championship banners and their two retired numbers hanging up high � Darris Kilgour and Rich Kilgour, mainstays of the powerhouse teams of the 90s and both remain with the team as coaches. John Tavares, who holds every individual record there is to be had in box lacrosse, will have his banner raised up to the rafters the day after he steps down. Now in his 21st season in the game, who knows when that will be for the "Ageless Wonder".
Also props to the players, all of who have full time jobs outside of the sport. They do a victory lap after wins, they engage with the fans, they take part in autograph sessions and fan fests. These guys truly know how to bond with fans and sell their product to the people.
Home Field Advantage
I love the idea of deciding home field advantage based on attendance. What a great way to inspire people to go and support their team. I haven't heard of this before. I would love to see it in the NBA or NHL. Maybe do it as a % of capacity rather than total numbers, just so there isn't a greater advantage to the team's with the largest arenas. Very cool. THink it is time to go and check out an NLL game...
by paul | Feb 02, 2012 09:03 AM
What's He Got? ....
The Bandits are an aboslutely fantastic game experience. I've been lucky enough to be there when they hosted the Champion's Cup, and the atmosphere was off the charts! The PA announcer is excellent, and walks the fine line between being entertaining and annoying. The best line however, is when the goalie makes a save, the announcer yells out "What's he got?!?" which is followed by the crowd response ... "NOTHING!"
by profan9 | Feb 03, 2012 07:36 AM
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"Wehrheim scores podium at biggest race of the year" Norcross, GA (November 29, 2010) -- Team Top Kart USA's Chris Wehrheim scored a podium at the SKUSA SuperNationals XIV with a fifth place finish in TaG Sr. This was Chris's first time back in...
"Wehrheim scores podium at biggest race of the year"
Norcross, GA (November 29, 2010) -- Team Top Kart USA's Chris Wehrheim scored a podium at the SKUSA SuperNationals XIV with a fifth place finish in TaG Sr. This was Chris's first time back in a kart in almost a year. Chris was consistent the entire weekend, improving each session and peaking at just the right time.
From the first session on track Chris was very comfortable with his Fleming Leopard powered Top Kart "Flash". Chris spent the majority of Wednesday's practice working on engine tuning and his driving, ending the day inside the top 15. On Thursday Chris made his first chassis change of the weekend and continued to improve his package. Chris' final practice session was his first new tire run of the weekend and his consistency continued, ending the day in eighth.
With a solid morning warm-up under his belt Chris was ready for qualifying and ended the session in thirteenth, which gave him a seventh starting position for each of the five heat races. Chris' congruity earned him a fifth position in all three of his heat races, giving him the fifth place starting spot for the final.
The inside row was the place to start all weekend and Chris got off to another great start, but was forced wide in turn two and fell to ninth position. As the leaders started to build a lead over the main field Chris began his charge to the front. Once taking charge of the chasing group Chris started to close the gap to the leaders at two to three tenths a lap and with around seven laps to go caught the group. With five laps to go Chris made his pass for sixth position, but was while exiting the corner and again lost touch. In the last four laps Chris gained ground on the leader and on the last lap made a pass for the final podium position.
"This was just an incredible weekend on and off the track," commented Wehrheim. "I really missed being in a kart this year and am very happy with the result. I have to give a big thanks to the Ostrom's and Adkins Speed Center for lending me a 2009 Leopard for the final."
Rising Star has also launched Chris's website (www.chriswehrheim.com) where fans can now keep track of all of Chris's racing action in one location. Chris's next race will be WKA Kartweek at Daytona International Speedway in the TaG classes. Chris is also finalizing his 2011 racing plans in the Grand-Am Continental Challenge series, which he hopes to announce in the coming weeks.
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Mumbai: Kareena Kapoor has a busy schedule for 2011. Five new films are to be shot this year, all staring the beautiful actress. "Ra.One" is the most popular of all, in which the actress will play opposite Shahrukh Khan. Another actor who will get cosy with Katreena is Salman Khan, in "Bodyguard".
Her boyfriend will not be getting too jealous, as Saif Ali Khan will star with Kareena in "Agent Vinod", the next film on Kareena's list for this year. "Short Term Shaadi" will follow up close, as Kareena will end her on screen partnership with Saif and join Imran Khan. And last, Aamir Khan will be enjoying the honor of playing alongside the actress in a yet untitled film, which appears to be a psychological thriller.
Kareena did not enjoy success or popularity in the past year. "Golmaal 3" may have been a success, but "Milenge Milenge" was a real disaster at the box office, and "We Are Family" was no better.
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Behind a stifling defense and a withering, three-headed ground attack, Auburn rolled to an easy 35-7 Southeastern Conference win over Vanderbilt Saturday before 82,657 at Jordan-Hare Stadium. Coming off a rousing win over Florida, the Tigers (4-2, 2-1 SEC) showed no sign of a hangover in beating the Commodores for the thirteenth straight time.
The Commodores (3-2, 1-2) meanwhile might be on the verge of a quarterback controversy after starter Chris Nickson had another poor outing in the first half (5-of-16 passing for 38 yards). He was replaced in the second half by sophomore Mackenzi Adams, who completed 4-of-9 passes and directed the team's only scoring drive in the fourth quarter.
Afterwards, head coach Bobby Johnson hinted that the starting job might be up for re-evaluation in the coming week.
"Chris didn't have a good day," said Johnson. "We went with Mackenzi in the second half and gave him an opportunity to get in there and do some good things. We will examine the situation and see what we are going to do.
"You can't blame it all on Chris, but our quarterback is key and a very important part of our offense, and it is important for him to execute."
For the second time this season, the coaches pulled Nickson from a game after a number of his throws were egregiously errant. With Nickson misfiring, the Commodores went 3-and-out on five straight first-half possessions, and could only watch as Auburn mounted a 28-0 lead.
"[The incompletions] got me out of my rhythm," acknowledged Nickson, who stoically faced the media afterwards. "It is hard to get back in the groove and keep playing when you have so many incompletions in a row."
It was a day of few positives for Vanderbilt (3-2, 1-2), which remains in need of three more wins in order to qualify for bowl eligibility.
The Auburn tailback trio of Ben Tate, Brad Lester and Mario Fannin combined to lead Auburn to 239 rushing yards. The Tigers scored on four of their first five possessions and were in complete control with 3:29 left in the second quarter when a 17-yard run by Lester gave them a 28-0 lead.
Meanwhile the Auburn defense bottled up Earl Bennett, but couldn't keep him from breaking the school record for receptions (200 by Keith Edwards). Bennett's 4 catches (for 31 yards) gave him 202 for his career, only 6 short of Craig Yeast's SEC record (208).
"It is good to break the record, but I would much rather have a win," said Bennett.
Moving the ball almost at will on Vanderbilt's defense, Auburn's offense took control in the first quarter with a pair of long touchdown drives to put the Tigers up 14-zip.
After the Tigers tacked on two more touchdowns in the second quarter and another in the third, Myron Lewis gave the team a spark with an interception of Auburn's Brandon Cox. Lewis returned the ball to the Tiger 26, but the offense couldn't capitalize.
In the final quarter, relief signal caller Adams helped Vandy avoid the shutout. Aided by some tough running by Jared Hawkins and Jeff Jennings, and a pair of pass interference calls in the red zone, Vandy drove 91 yards in 15 plays to cut the final margin to 35-7. Cassen Jackson-Garrison got the score on a 1-yard plunge.
Third-string QB Richard Kovalcheck got into the game in mop-up duty for the team's final possession.
"Vanderbilt has a good team," said Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville. "Bobby Johnson has done a good job of bringing his team to another level. They came in here with higher expectations than what happened today. They just caught a pretty good football team getting better and making improvements."
The Commodores return to Vanderbilt Stadium next Saturday for a 5 p.m. CT Homecoming game vs. Georgia. ESPN2 will televise the game nationally.
"We are going to examine this game closely," said Johnson. "We are going to challenge our team. We have a lot of football to play this year.
"This is a tough pill to swallow, and I thought we would compete better and I thought we had a chance to come here and have a great game. We didn't do either."
- Auburn has now taken 13 straight victories from Vanderbilt in the sparsely played series since the Commodores' win in the 1955 Gator Bowl. The Tigers edged ahead in the all-time series, 20-19-1.
- Jeff Jennings returned to action with a heavily taped ankle after missing the last two games. He rushed for 35 yards on 9 carries.
- Starting linebacker Brandon Bryant left the game in the second quarter with a serious-looking leg injury and did not return.
- In honor of Auburn's 1957 national championship team, Auburn wore white jerseys at home and decal-less helmets for the first time in many years. Vanderbilt wore gold jerseys and black pants, a combination usually seen only at Vanderbilt Stadium.
- Auburn running back Brad Lester returned to action after a 5-game suspension. The junior gained 77 yards and two touchdowns on 13 carries.


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Cyber studies lead Latrobe grad to West Point
The intense physical fitness test for the U.S. Military Academy was the least of 17-year-old David Henderson Jr.'s worries when he considered applying.
He will graduate as valedictorian Thursday from Agora Cyber Charter School with many accolades, including leading the Greater Latrobe Senior High School swim team as captain.
Henderson of Latrobe will be among the first of his peers to have completed his entire education in cyber charter schools when he joins the West Point corps of cadets July 1.
Mike Brantley, a spokesman for West Point, said, "It is rare that we would admit someone from a cyber school," but he could not provide enrollment statistics.
Agora guidance counselor Jennifer Grubert said Henderson may be only the second student from the K-12 network of cyber charter schools nationwide to be accepted at a military academy and the first to West Point.
"Colleges are starting to acknowledge the quality students in online education," she said. "It's exciting because it's something that hasn't happened before."
Theresa and David Henderson Sr. said they decided to enroll all four of their children in an online charter school because David Sr. is a pastor and has served for five years as head of Latrobe United Methodist Church.
"We knew early on we didn't want our kids to be shuffled from one school to the next," said Theresa Henderson.
When David Jr. initially became interested in attending a military academy when he was in eighth grade, his parents supported him, even though they knew it was a rigorous process.
His mother's father had spent his career in the military and his father served in the Army. The family heritage includes soldiers back to the Civil War.
"He knew he didn't want to go to a typical college. ... He kind of wanted something more," Theresa Henderson said.
Until December 2011, when the first cyber charter graduate enlisted in the military, the diploma was considered second-tier compared to one from a brick-and-mortar school.
That policy has since changed and did not apply to military academies, so the Hendersons never had reservations about their son's interest in the rigorous application process.
"The question's never been the level of education that's available," David Sr. said. "For us and our lifestyle and the way my job is and the feelings we have ... at the end of the day, nobody is going to take care of your children as well as you are."
David Jr. will speak before the cyber school's 1,037 seniors as the head of the class Thursday at Giant Center in Hershey.
"He is truly exceptional," said Daniel Shaffer, congressional district coordinator for West Point admission in Pennsylvania's 18th district. "We seem to get the best of the best. The hardest part in my job is finding deficiencies in these men and women, because they're all outstanding."
Last June, David Jr. got his first taste of the academy when he attended the Summer Leadership Seminar as one of only 500 high school juniors admitted to the weeklong West Point orientation program.
Then, he began the application process for three of the military academies in July 2012 for interviews with Pennsylvania senators Pat Toomey and Bob Casey, as well as former Congressman Mark Critz.
"It was such a daunting process because there's so much involved," Theresa Henderson said. "We never knew the competition is so fierce."
Ten percent of the application is based on the physical fitness test, 60 percent on academic record and 30 percent on leadership potential, including extracurricular activities and community service, David Jr. said.
Each elected official can make 10 nominations to each military academy. The high school senior found out in December that Critz nominated him to all three academies.
But that wasn't the end — he still had to be accepted.
David Henderson Sr. recalled the phone call when his son received the good news.
"It was about 8 o'clock on a Thursday night," he said. "His cell phone rang and it came up a Johnstown number. ... He immediately jumped out of the chair and he said, 'Yes, hello, Congressman Critz.'"
David Jr. said at first he was just glad to have some certainty about his future.
"Relieved is the best word I can find," he said. "I wanted to make sure I was going somewhere."
That gave way to "shocked" and "thrilled," he said. "I was absolutely ecstatic for the day."
Stacey Federoff is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. She can be reached at 724-836-6660 or email@example.com.


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Gilbert Hernandez Kicks it Old School With Iron Man in 'Strange Tales II' [Exclusive Preview]
Marvel's Strange Tales II #2 arrives in stores next week, and while the indie creator anthology is bursting at the seams with talent, the issue should especially resonate with fans of Love and Rockets creators (and all around prolific talents) the Hernandez brothers. Not only will the issue sport a cover and content by Jaime Hernandez, it will also include "Old-School Rules!" a short by Gilbert Hernandez starring Iron Man and original Human Torch sidekick Toro. Check out our exclusive preview from Marvel after the jump.Gilbert Hernandez is joined by colorist Jim Campbell and letterer Jared Fletcher for a story uniting Marvel's Golden Age with its swinging Silver Age. While Hernandez's penchant for magic realism isn't necessarily going to be a component of this tale, judging from the first panel, Tony Stark is already on his way to a boozy realm of his own making (and looks like he couldn't be happier).
See out a sample from Gilbert Hernandez's upcoming Strange Tales contribution below, followed by Jaime Hernandez's cover:


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I work with computers, did my college coursework in sociology, and have an analytical mind. I enjoy puzzles and systems.
I play video games, and design(and test) systems recreationally, enjoy reading, and the study of people.
I'm not an underwear model, unless you're talking about flannel underwear that comes with a trap door in it.
I draw and paint, but I'm lousy at both. I do it because I like it, and to hell with the rest. I noticed that OKC says I'm "Less Artistic". I think it means I am "Less Like That Annoying Skinny Guy In The Stupid Beret And Black Clothes". I hate that guy.
I read. It's a habit I've been in since I was a wee sprout.
Apparently, I can tell stories well.
B. The Thing, John Carpenter. Big trouble in Little China. Fight Club. Mr. Holland's Opus. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Ghostbusters. Shaun of the Dead. Bad Taste. And many more...
C. Hmm. Crowded House. Beautiful sounds, some of the pieces are just haunting. ABBA. Marty Robbins. Bloodhound gang. Nobuo Uematsu. Aerosmith. BBVD. Enya. The geniuses behind the Katamari Damacy soundtrack. Monster magnet. Soul Coughing. White Zombie. Scatterbrain. Squeeze. The Leevees. Tears for Fears. A Ha. Weird Al. Holst. Bach. Brahms. Tom Lehrer(who I really enjoy performing). I have to add Abendlied by Rheinberger and Wen ich wein vogler wur by Schumann. Astoundingly lovely choral arrangements I could never get tired of performing.
D. I used to be an absolute foodie. Now, my menu has become pretty limited. I love spices and intense flavors, and am pretty egalitarian with the breadth of my cuisine choices.
Food. Good food. I love to cook, and I love to share the labors of well cooked food with pride. Guess that makes me a foodie.
Games. Yep, those fun intellectual exercisers. Video games, RPGs, even a well played few hands of poker.
Books. Without these, I'd be lost. Where can flight of fancy lie next to the squalor and perfidy of my nation but on my bookshelf?
Media: Not the devices themselves, but the social and artistic expression they allow to be conveyed. The ability to get information and emotion catapaulted to you from anywhere in the world is an amazing thing.


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Thursday, November 17, 2016
A new online high school for gifted kids
Greetings! I know it has been a long time since I've posted here, but there's some great news that I wanted to share with the Gifted Exchange audience. The Davidson Institute -- which is the sponsor of this blog -- has just announced the launch of a new full-time online high school option for the 2017-2018 academic year. The Davidson Academy in Reno has been serving the profoundly gifted population for the last 10 years, but has required students to live in Nevada (or families to move there). Now, the Davidson Academy's Online High School will serve students who live anywhere in the U.S. For the 2017-2018 year, courses will be available for incoming freshmen and sophomores. Courses for juniors and seniors will be added in subsequent years. Applicants must be 12 to 15 years old as of Sept. 30, 2017, and will need to submit SAT or ACT scores and commit to being full-time students. The age requirement will be expanded upward as more advanced high school courses are added in future years. For Nevada residents, the Davidson Academy is free to attend in person or online. For out-of-state students, there will be a $100 application and assessment fee, and if accepted, people will pay tuition, but there is financial assistance available. The application deadline is March 1, 2017. If space is available, late applications will be considered until April 15. While there are various online school options available to students, the Davidson Academy has a unique perspective on the needs of profoundly gifted young people, and aims to create a community of such students (and families) who often don't get a chance to spend much time with their intellectual peers. If you've been trying to figure out a good school option for your gifted pre-teen/young teen, this could be worth checking out.
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Friday, April 15, 2016
It isn't either/or
I have been reading (and enjoying) Anders Ericsson's new book, Peak. Ericsson's career has focused on researching how one achieves world class performance in competitive fields such as music or chess. His concept of "deliberate practice" has been written about widely in popular literature. I was thinking of the concept of practice, and intelligence in the context of false choices recently. One of the tasks on the WISC (the intelligence test many children take when assessing for giftedness) features a test of working memory. The test giver reads numbers to you and you repeat them back (and repeat them backwards). The strings of numbers get longer. Ericsson isn't writing about children's intelligence tests (and none of this should be construed that I am arguing with his points), but anyway, he opens his book with a discussion of such a working memory test. One of his early experiments was to turn a decent-but-not-top Carnegie Mellon student (where Ericsson was teaching) into the world random digit memory champ. Through diligent, deliberate practice, the student was able to repeat back 82 digits, which had not been done before. Now digit memorization is its own whole big competition, and the champions can repeat back hundreds of digits. Getting this reasonably intelligent young man to 82 digits, then the world record, required about 200 hours. So it is reasonable to infer that a generally diligent young child might be coached to remember strings of 8, 9, 10 digits fairly easily. At least this subtest of the WISC would seem to be easily manipulated. So...then what? Long time readers of this blog know that there have been a string of articles over the years pointing out that there is X, Y, or Z problem with intelligence testing, or the current state of gifted education, and therefore the idea of giftedness is itself a myth. Even if all these woes are accurate, though, therefore...what? What do you do with a bright child who is completely bored out of her mind in class, who teaches herself to read at a young age, who memorizes long strings of facts because she finds them fascinating, who pipes up from the backseat at age 5 with such interesting observations as "you know, multiplication is just a faster way to add?" The point is, there can be facts that point in various directions that can be simultaneously true. Sure, certain elements of intelligence testing can probably be coached. It can also be true that there are extremely bright children whose educational needs are not being met in the regular classroom, and who need individualized instruction that challenges their frenetic brains. They need to be given an opportunity to work at the edge of their capacity, instead of being bored all the time. Few things in life are truly either/or, and this isn't one of them either.
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Friday, March 11, 2016
Standardized testing -- in or out?
My oldest child is now in 3rd grade, which in our state means it's time for the big No Child Left Behind-inspired assessments. There have been emails going around about the process of opting out, and my son even asked me about it. Some parents were having their children skip the tests, he said, so what about us? I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand, I know what the tests will show. He knows the third grade material. His school is full of above-average children. This is time that he will not be learning much new material, or reading novels, or inventing timelines for fictional characters, or playing outside in the lovely spring air. On the other hand, it is test practice, and I have my suspicions that test-taking is not one of his strong suits. Given that there is a lot of test taking in life (SATs, etc.) this is not a bad thing to practice in years when it doesn't much matter. I am also not opposed to testing and assessment at all. While there were many flaws with NCLB (the lack of national standards, the once-annual as opposed to value-added and no-ceiling approaches) I know that there were schools that simply weren't teaching kids, and then claimed that tests couldn't account for all they did. Well, maybe. My son has had amazing teachers, which any test would show. I had plenty of good teachers over the years, too, though I also had some lousy teachers that I feel more rigorous assessment could have sussed out. That at least is the basic idea of testing and accountability. In any case, I know many readers of Gifted Exchange have dealt with NCLB grade-level tests for years. What did you do? Did your schools have a culture of opting out? Did lots of families opt out, or was there broad encouragement to stay in? (if not from administrators, from other parents at least). I would be curious to hear your experiences.
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Saturday, February 20, 2016
This doesn't make differences less noticeable
One of the arguments against self-contained gifted classes is that children who don't receive this label will feel inferior. While that would certainly be a sad outcome, an experiment in Baltimore raises the question of how, exactly, creating heterogeneous classes would change that. A recent article in the Baltimore Sun highlights changes in the area's gifted programs. In years past, all students were screened in 2nd grade, and students who met the criteria were put in advanced classes in reading and math. While some argue that second grade is a bit late, screening all children is definitely best practice (as opposed to having a secret program that parents have to ask about). In any case, school officials decided that they wanted to move away from a so-called tracking approach, and do flexible, in-class groupings instead. Kids could move in and out of groups as they progressed. There is nothing wrong with fluid grouping, and indeed, too many gifted programs have had no in or out, regardless of how life progressed. But the Sun article raised an interesting point, that "the new approach only makes differences among children of varying skill levels more noticeable, potentially harming those deemed not ready for more advanced material." In the words of one mother, "Children notice the differences. I think it calls more attention to the fact that children are reading in different groups." When kids are in a different class down the hall learning something different, you're only vaguely aware of it at any given moment. If you are very obviously in the lower level group in a mixed class, the differences are right in your face. So the problem isn't solved, and a new one is created: teachers have to adjust to multiple levels constantly. Even the best, most experienced teachers find this difficult. It's hard to see how this is a step forward.
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Wednesday, January 20, 2016
How to work and homeschool too
I hope everyone had a great New Year! I know from previous surveys that a high proportion (perhaps 50 percent) of families of profoundly gifted students wind up homeschooling at some point during their school years. These days there are a lot more options for online schooling and individualized instruction than in the past. One thing that holds some families back is the assumption that one parent (likely Mom for a variety of reasons) will need to stop working in order to homeschool. But it turns out that working and homeschooling aren't incompatible. I have a piece published over at Fast Company today on the ultimate second shift - "How These Parents Work and Homeschool Too." To make it work, families need to embrace a few ideas. First, work does not need to happen between 9 and 5, but even if it does, school does not need to happen between 9 and 3. Any of the 168 hours in a week can be in play! (well, probably not 2 a.m. to 5 a.m., but still). Second, all working parents need childcare. For some parents, school serves this function, but the educational and custodial care functions of school can be unbundled. A number of homeschooling, working parents have nannies for some chunk of time. These caregivers might be able to supervise some aspects of schooling (e.g. trouble shooting for an elementary school student taking an online class). Third, homeschooling parents can share the load. Two parents taking half the homeschooling means that the time load is cut in two. Many families belong to homeschooling co-ops or even district-run programs that offer electives or specialized instruction one day a week. This becomes time parents can work. Homeschooled kids might go to college classes, or do intense athletic or artistic endeavors, which fills some time too. If the pieces of work can be moved around, then the math works. Someone could work 35-40 hours a week, and homeschool for 20, sleep 8 hours a night, and still have 52-57 waking hours per week left over. It would be a full life, but a doable one. Do you or have you homeschooled? If so, did you maintain any professional involvements during this time?
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Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Acceleration, math, and college standards
California has long had issues with matching up its public K-12 school system with its system of public universities. When I was out there a few years ago doing some reporting, I learned that a number of schools had (until recently, people were trying to change this) not offered the classes that were necessary to attend one of California's 4-year public universities. In other words, young people with perfectly good high school diplomas would find themselves needing to do lots of extra course work in order to enroll, not because they didn't stretch in high school, but because apparently no one was thinking that children from those high schools might wish to earn 4-year degrees from one of the major universities. Talk about low expectations. Anyway, I was thinking of this as I read an article in EdSource about how districts are choosing to accelerate students. There's been a bit of a rethink about how many 8th graders are taking algebra as it's become clear that many haven't been prepared. If you have trouble with algebra, most higher level math is going to be tough to understand. This impulse brushes up with a different issue, though, which is that in order to attend one of the flagship universities, you really need to have followed a sequence that includes something like calculus your senior year. It's hard to get there without doing algebra in 8th grade. So this leads to the question: who gets accelerated? Ideally, everyone would be free to work at his/her own pace with no judgements. But if not taking algebra in 8th grade means you're probably not going to have the right classes for a top university 4 years later, it becomes a bit more fraught. You potentially have people making the choice of who seems like college material and who doesn't, quite early. So, broadly, how should acceleration decisions get made? The Ed Source article details efforts to make sure the criteria are fair. I remember years ago taking the Iowa Algebra Aptitude Test to see if I was ready for algebra in 6th grade (fun story: the teacher administering it had such a heavy southern accent I thought for a long time that it was the "Owl" Algebra test). Of course, tests have their problems too. So there are other options. Teachers can recommend people who didn't quite get the right scores, though teachers can't recommend against someone who did get the right score. And parents can elect to accelerate children too. There are arguments for or against these options. Good teachers naturally teach to the middle of a class. They are constantly checking for understanding, and if most of the class isn't getting something, they'll stay there. This means that if enough children who aren't quite ready for accelerated math are in a class, it can get watered down. On the other hand, questions of who's in/who's out sometimes become so big and fraught that schools decide it's better to have everyone do the same thing. And that's not a win either. So in general I think that if people are willing to try more advanced classes, it's OK to let them, especially if classes are then benchmarked to state or national tests so there's a force against watering them down (a la AP Classes). What math sequence did your children take? If they took classes post-calculus in high school, what were those?
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Thursday, December 10, 2015
More kids take calculus in high school. Is this a good thing?
I took AP Calculus (AB) my sophomore year in high school, and then a semester of the BC version my junior year. While this was certainly considered "advanced," it's not particularly rare to take at least the AB version in high school anymore. According to this article in The Conversation, the proportion of students sitting for an AP Calculus exam has risen from about 5 percent in the 1980s to 15 percent now. Author Kevin Knudson posits that it's unlikely that the talent bench has gotten three times deeper in the intervening years. Instead, he claims that in the rush to stand out for college admissions, more students are pushing to take calculus. However, when they take college calculus classes, they find that they would have been better served by having a deeper understanding of algebra, geometry, and pre-calculus concepts. I have mixed feelings on this. It is possible that having more students take AP Calculus classes could dilute the class. Experienced teachers have a good sense of what students are grasping and not grasping, and they naturally tend toward the mean. They move on when the majority of the class "gets it." This means the class would move slower if it contained a broad group of students vs. the most mathematically advanced students. Knudson also points out that the rise of AP classes may be a result of schools failing to offer gifted education to high school students. Advanced classes seem like something, and since they're broadly perceived as a metric of a high school's quality, administrators are happy to offer them. On the other hand, AP classes are that -- something -- and they're benchmarked for quality and understanding in a way that many other courses are not. If all a teacher's students score 4s and 5s on the AP exam, she is at least covering the required topics. If they score 1s and 2s, something isn't working. That's apparent, even if the students all get A's. Likewise, one of the things that has always made gifted education easy to cut is that it's seemed aimed at just a few kids. AP classes that enroll 10-15 percent of students are harder to cut. That's a much bigger constituency. What do you think? Is the expansion of AP classes a good thing, or is the situation more complicated?
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Since I have longer have time to be in an actual book club, I started keeping a little book journal for myself. I have really enjoyed writing a brief review of books after I read them so that down the road I can recall authors I enjoyed, or recommend a book to a friend.
If you're anything like me you find the opportunity to read a lot more in the summer. My kids are required (by me) to read at least 30 minutes each day, but I also challenged them to read at least 10 chapter books each to earn a big family outing at the end of the summer.
While I LOVE to read, time and energy elude me {particularly as we start packing up our house}, so I have also challenged myself to read at least 10 books for a much needed break and some enjoyment. If you're looking for some inspiration, I'm posting a list of my recommended reads – look for it in the sidebar over there on the top right under my profile picture.
In addition to my recommended books, I'll post a list of books that have been recommended to me that I hope to read soon. Please tell me if you have a book to add to this list!


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The programme was repeated on Sunday, 2 January, 2005, at 2102 GMT.
From 1 January, 2005, a new hi-tech system called chip and pin had intended to fight the £400 million a year of fraud on credit and debit cards.
Instead of signing for their goods, people were to enter their personal four digit number.
But Money Box has learnt that many retailers still do not have chip and pin technology installed. And the banks have still not upgraded 53 million cards, about four out of 10.
As a result, banks and retailers have decided people can still sign for goods rather than entering a pin for at least another six months.
Woolworth's is one retailer that does have the new technology. We spoke to its spokesman Daniel Himsworth, and also to Peter Williams, a St Albans convenience store owner.
Sandra Quinn is from the Association for Payment Clearing Services (Apacs), which is in charge of the roll-out of chip and pin. We asked her to explain why the delays are occurring.
Presenter: Paul Lewis
Producer: Jessica Dunbar
Reporter: Samantha Washington
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Gyration Ultra GT Full-Size Keyboard Suite
Gyration ULTRA GT 30 MOUSE & FULL-SIZED USB SUITE GYROTOOLS RECHARGEABLE
Mousing around takes on a whole new meaning with Gyration's $100 suite. You can use the mouse on your desk, as you would a conventional mouse, but you can also pick up the mouse and wave it around in the air. You hold the mouse as if you were giving it a handshake, clicking as you go. But before you can start such gymnastics, you must charge the device for 9 hours; Gyration's mouse was the only input device in our test group requiring an initial battery charge.
We installed the keyboard and mouse without a hitch. However, one tester, in a separate evaluation, found that the wireless connection needed to be reestablished every time the PC started up.We contacted Gyration about this problem. The company didn't provide a possible explanation for the connection troubles, but offered to test the evaluation unit. At the time of this writing, Gyration's internal testing is in progress.
The keys on the Gyration keyboard felt rather soft to the touch; one tester described the sensation as slightly mushy. The keys travel a bit after you press them, and if you tend to type with a light hand, you may feel that you must press the Gyration's keys fairly hard to get a good response. Overall, typing on the keyboard was very pleasant, but this spongy feeling will not be everyone's cup of tea. We preferred using the keyboard without the included wrist rest.
For our reviewers, Gyration's quirky mouse, like the Kensington Expert Mouse Wireless, required an adjustment period of a couple of days. For one thing, its narrow shape makes it hard to hold, especially if you have large hands and/or long fingers. Plus, getting comfortable with its in-air antics takes a while.
The Gyration device uses a gyroscope sensor that is designed to detect the motion of your hand, causing the cursor to move accordingly on screen. Your thumb rests on the right- and left-click buttons, and either your index finger or your middle finger presses the extra button on the mouse's underside to move the pointer--when you're waving the mouse around in the air, you press and hold the button underneath as you drag the pointer across the screen. All three buttons felt strange at first, and our hands and arms got tired.
The Gyration set offers a massive number of programmable options, and its software is easy to use. There are 15 hot-keys up for grabs on the keyboard, plus you can assign dozens of custom commands to particular gestures with the mouse. For example, you can hold down the right-click button and slide the mouse to the right across your desk to close the active application. You can also create similar commands by gesturing in certain patterns in the air. We found the programming options very handy, once we got the hang of the mouse.
We tried typing from as far away as 30 feet, and both the keyboard and the mouse worked fine at that range. Of course, most people don't type at that distance from a desktop monitor (we could barely read the on-screen text at that distance), but the capability would be useful when you want to surf the Web or browse through music tracks from your couch while looking at your massive TV screen, or when you want to click through a presentation in a large conference room.
The keyboard takes four AA batteries (you're provided with a set), and the rechargeable mouse charges up in its desktop cradle. Gyration says that the mouse should run on a single charge for five to seven days, and the keyboard should run three to four months.
If you want to wield your mouse the way a conductor wields a baton, give the Gyration a try.
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Hans-Peter Minetti
Traces of Stones
A married East German Communist Party secretary finds himself disgraced, his morals scrutinized and his career in shambles after his affair with a young woman is exposed. Meanwhile, a construction foreman -- who happens to be an outspoken critic of the government -- professes his love for the woman, sparking a complicated love triangle. Banned for 25 years, this 1966 drama released after Germany's reunification met with critical acclaim.


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Set of Rollag Threshing Bee Aluminum Plates 1980-2002
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Set of the commemorative aluminum plates from the Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion in Rollag, MN. All plates from 1980-2002 are included. These are the plates that are designed each year just for the bee, and then made during the bee with a 1890's aluminum press. They are in mint condition. Shipping will be a hair higher than normal because these have some weight to them.***REVISION After reviewing the plates, I was in error. This set is missing the 1998 plate. T are 22 plates in total, 1980-2002 EXCEPT for 1998. I apologize for my oversight. I realize this is a very important detail for some people.


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Phoenix firefighters, police and Mayor Phil Gordon gathered Wednesday morning to encourage residents to avoid the dangers of lighting their own fireworks and leave the show up to the professionals.
"Fourth of July is coming in just a few days and this year is unique because there are legal fireworks that can be purchased in Arizona," said Capt. Scott Walker of the Phoenix Fire Department. "With this dynamic we really want to inform people about the dangers involved with fireworks use for people and children and also in our state that currently has so many fires going on. We really have a lot of issues we want to cover."
The fire department warned of two main issues with fireworks: They can lead to fires, and can also lead to injuries.
Walker said about 7,000 injuries occur each year from firework use. Teenagers and children are especially likely to be injured. He also said fireworks cause about 22,000 fires and $42 million in property damage across the country each year.
In December the state Legislature passed a bill the makes the sale of fireworks in Arizona legal, but allowed cities to control which fireworks are legal to be set off within city limits. In Phoenix only sparklers, smoke devices and novelties are permitted. Any ground sparklers, sparkling wheels, explosives or sky rockets are prohibited in Phoenix city limits.
"We all know the dangers of fires," Gordon said. "The state is literally on fire today. We know what this will do to our deserts, our buildings and our cities, yet today our Legislature allows it. They'll be pointing the finger somewhere else when damage occurs this weekend but they all voted to allow this. Mark my words."
The fire department demonstrated how quickly a sparkler can turn dangerous if the sparks get near dry brush or hair. The Director of the Arizona Burn Center, Dr. Kevin Foster, explained that one-third of all firework injuries they see are from sparklers.
"Most of the injuries that we see are the result of the proper use of legal fireworks," Foster said. "Just because something is legal does not make it safe."
Sgt. Trent Crump of the Phoenix Police Department said Phoenix police will be on holiday staffing over the weekend, especially looking out for drunk drivers. They encourage residents to use common sense when reacting to fireworks in the neighborhood.
"We're encouraging people to use fireworks safely," Crump said. "If you think people are using them improperly, call us. Because some fireworks are legal now we don't want to be responding unnecessarily to calls, but if you think that somebody is creating a dangerous situation with the use of them and if you think it is an occasion where children are unsupervised, those are the kind of things we'd like people to call about."
Crump said if they respond to calls where no damage has been done but illegal fireworks are present they will most likely use the situation to educate and just confiscate the illegal fireworks. This is the first year fireworks are legal, so Crump says they're trying to take a common sense approach.
Both Phoenix firefighters and Phoenix police can issue citations for illegal firework use. A violation would be considered a Class 1 misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail and up to a $2,500 fine. That's not including any liability for damage incurred by the fireworks.


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Salt Lake City police arrested a woman in connection with robbing a laundromat after a witness to the crime spotted her taking a nap in the grass on Thursday.
The 27-year-old woman allegedly approached a clerk Wednesday at Century Cleaning Barn, 910 W. North Temple, and demanded money. She escaped with $50 and ran out the door, according to a news release from the Salt Lake City Police Department.
A witness to the robbery called police on Thursday after recognizing the woman sleeping in the grass near 805 W. North Temple. Police arrested the woman around 6:30 p.m.
She is being held in the Salt Lake County jail on suspicion of second-degree felony robbery.
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text: AIU Professor to Publish Textbook on Global Business Leadership Posted August 28, 2013 by AIU in Business Degrees Tags: Business Degrees School of Business Associate Professor Dr. Eileen (E.S.) Wibbeke shall soon have the second edition of her textbook, "Global Business Leadership," published by Routledge in Oxford, UK. "The first edition set a new standard in understanding global business leadership. The second edition creates a whole new genre with its benchmark interviews with global thought leaders and is a must read," says Dr. Robert Moran in his review of the book. Dr. Moran is a Professor, Emeritus, at Thunderbird School of Global Management. Written with Sarah McArthur, the book will be published on Oct. 1, 2013. Read more about the book "Global Business Leadership." Dr. Wibbeke has also been selected to the Fulbright Specialist Program (FSP) to work on an upcoming project. FSP promotes linkages between U.S. scholars and professionals and their counterparts at host institutions overseas. Along with teaching at AIU, Dr. Wibbeke spent twenty years in business leadership and management roles for Fortune 500 firms, including a decade in the Silicon Valley, and is an international consultant and professor of leadership management. AIU Online faculty member Dr. Jack Aschkenazi's dissertation on expatriate management is mentioned in the book as well, in the Acknowledgements section and in the text of the book. Read These Related Articles: Meet AIU Alumnus David Allen Bassham 7 Apps That Can Make You More Efficient Meet AIU Alumna Robinne Alexander, Executive Director of Strahan Global Outreach Inc. Share Classes Start Request Info LIVE CHAT Apply Now


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By James R. Healey and Sharon Silke Carty, USA TODAY
An internal Toyota document dated last July says the company saved $100 million in 2007 by getting the government to OK replacing floor mats in 55,000 vehicles as a solution to sudden acceleration complaints.
It's listed under "wins for Toyota — safety group" in the report, which is among documents obtained by a subpoena from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
That and other references to saving money on safety issues raise the question of "whether Toyota was lobbying for less rigid actions from regulators to protect their bottom line," said Kurt Bardella, spokesman for the committee's ranking Republican, Darrell Issa of California.
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The panel is to hold a hearing Wednesday on Toyota's recalls and whether the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) acted promptly on Toyota safety complaints. Toyota global head Akio Toyoda is to appear.
On Monday, Toyota also revealed that it received subpoenas from the Securities and Exchange Commission and from a federal grand jury requesting documents related to its disclosure policies, unintended acceleration of its vehicles and the braking system of its Prius hybrid.
Toyota says it received the grand jury request from the Southern District of New York on Feb. 8. It disclosed the requests in a filing with the SEC on Monday and says it intends to comply with the requests.
The Toyota report also cautioned that "NHTSA is more sensitive to public/congressional criticism" and that, combined with changes in regulations, will result in "more investigations and more forced recalls."
Toyota finally, this year, recalled 5.4 million vehicles not only to replace the mats but also to change poorly designed gas pedals because of sudden acceleration complaints. It also recalled more than 2 million vehicles for sticky gas pedals.
Another key document surfaced as a result of subpoenas to U.S. auto insurers. State Farm, the biggest, says that in a review of files for the subpoena, it found a letter to NHTSA dated Feb. 27, 2004, citing five cases of Toyota or Lexus sudden acceleration in the previous 12 months.
That's three years earlier than the insurer previously had said, and some five years before Toyota detailed sudden acceleration problems for the government.
A NHTSA note dated March 1, 2004, told State Farm its report "was very timely" as it was "looking into similar reports." NHTSA started in December 2003. The disclosures add to Toyota's stiffest challenge since it set up shop in the U.S. in 1957.
Also looming: A hearing Tuesday by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Both panels will "be out for blood. They are going to grandstand because it's an election year," says Paul Argenti, crisis-communication professor at Dartmouth.
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