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I have a preschooler. He is three years old. Three is a fun age and honestly, a challenging age. Some parents agree with me when I say that the age of "The Terrible Two's" was cake compared to the "Three-nager" years. Preschoolers are lively, they can finally say all those cute thoughts inside their minds, and they are out to explore the world around them with diligence. What engages those little minds? What are their interests? Recently, I learned some helpful, fun facts about Preschoolers from the librarians from the Colorado Libraries for Early Literacy.
Opposites Books demonstrate sorting catagories. For example light and heavy things are opposite and can be sorted into two different groups.
Try some Non-Fiction books with beautiful pictures. They find animals interesting and beautiful.
Music Class Today is fun to read for adults. It's rythmic. My son loves it too bcause of the complex, interesting illustrations.
There is something so special about a Snow Day. As a child, my brother, sisters and I would suit up and spend the day outside making snow angels, building snow forts and creating snow families. Whether you love being out in the snow or staying warm inside with a cup of hot cocoa, a snow day is a lovely surprise at any age.
Here are some snow-inspired books perfect for a day inside or for curling up together after a snowy adventure outside.
Snow by Sam Usher. A sweet story about a little boy who waits for grandpa to play in the snow.
The Thing About Yetis by Vin Vogel. Yetis love all things winter, but also need a little warmth and sunshine from time to time.
Froggy Se Viste or Froggy Gets Dressed by Jonathan London. One of my favorites in Spanish or English. Froggy wants to play in the snow, but mom has to remind him to put on his winter clothes!
Up & Down by Britta Teckentrup. Little Penguin wants to visit his friend on a faraway iceberg. A lovely lift the flap book that teaches positional vocabulary words (high above, deep below...).
Max and Marla by Alexandra Boiger. Twos friends who aspire to be in the Winter Olympics find joy in the journey of practice and perseverance.
When I Grow Up by Emma Dodd. About to hit the shelves at the library! This book is a beautiful short story of how little bear wants to be like his parent when he grows up.
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Friday, December 4th
10:30am: Festive Family Fun
Join us for a special outdoor hayride storytime! You might need mittens and parkas, you might need sunscreen, but we'll be doing a holiday craft and you can get your picture taken with Santa! No registration required (weather permitting)
12-8pm: Holiday Used Book Sale
Make a massive dent in your holiday shopping list - without making one in your wallet - at our annual Holiday (gently) Used Book Sale. Presented by the Friends of Jefferson County Public Library. All proceeds benefit library programs like Summer Reading!
5:30-8:30pm: Holiday Open House
We close at 5pm, but only so we can snazz up the place and re-open at 5:30pm! We're celebrating the Candlelight Walk with:
Come see us before the fireworks!
Saturday, December 5th
10am-4pm: Holiday Used Book Sale
Too much going on last night to concentrate on our great selection of used books for sale? It happens. Come by on Saturday and browse at your leisure!
Saturday, December 12th
8:30-10:30am: Breakfast with Santa at Table Mountain Inn
A pancake breakfast storytime with Santa? Yes, please! And wait...do Santa's elves seem familiar? Reservations required: http://goldencochamber.org/olde-golden-christmas
The holidays are here, the holidays are here!
Kids are out of school, family is visiting....you might be looking for some extra things to do, right?
Consider a museum! And specifically, consider a storyime at a museum for something new. For example, the Denver Firefighters Museum has a "storytime at the Station" with stories, songs, and take-home crafts the first Wednesday of each month for ages 2-6. Children are admitted free with a paid adult admission.
And to make it even better, use a Culture Pass from the Library to make the adult admission free too!
Another fun storytime opportunity on the first Wednesday of the month is at Dinosaur Ridge. TricerTOTS is a dinosaur-themed storytime for ages 2-5, and includes a 10-15 minute craft or activity.
And don't forget there are always great storytimes all week at your JCPL libraries, too!
Image credit: Taylor Library on Flickr
I recently heard Rae Pica speak on the importance of moving while learning. This is active learning; engaging the body and mind. Research shows children learn best when they experience new ideas and concepts through play and movment. In an article Pica wrote titled In Defense of Active Learning, she explains that moving our bodies helps activate our brains. She had a few cute pre-writing movement ideas I thought would be fun to do at home with your little ones.
- Hand and Finger Activities: Sing "Open, Shut Them". Many libraries sing this song to begin their Storytimes. This song activates the brains of our babies, toddlers, and preschoolers as they practice their hand-eye coordination; a must-have pre-writing skill.
- Sky Writers: Use your index finger to "write" a letter, word, or a name in the sky. This will help your child practice the feeling of straight and curvy. You could take this a step further and pretend to put your sky writer in your belly button or on the tip of your nose while writing the word in the air. Kids love the belly button writer and it's super cute to watch too!
- The Above, Below, and On movement: Tape a line on the floor, use the straight edge of a rug or strech a ribbon across the floor and jump above the line, below the line, or on the line. This will help your child understand where to start and where to finish writing lower case and upper case letters. After playing this game, practice writing letters, words, or names on paper.
- Build a Story: Start a story and take turns adding to the plot creating the beginning, middle, and end of a story. For example, you could start this activity by saying, " Once there was a dog who..." and let your child add the next idea. Then you, or another family member contributes the following part of the story. This activity demonstrates the beginning, middle, and end of a story. It's a great way to pass the time in the car too!
-The Mirror Game: This game is important for replicating what the eye sees. This replication is what learning to write is all about. Stand infront of your child and take turns mimicing each others' movements. You and your child should try to move as if you were seeing a reflection of yourself in the mirror. Lucy does it best in this video clip below. Lucy is a crack up and I think this should have you and your child smiling too! Go ahead, throw on that Halloween costume while you do this!
Come to one of our 'Movin and Grovin' Fests'. The next fest is this Saturday, October 24th, at the Arvada Library and the Evergreen Library from 11:00am-4:00pm. We will have crafts!
Photo Credit: Neville Nel
With the Rae Pica Movin' and Groovin event coming up on October 14 at the Lakewood Cultural Center, I just had to write about movement. Moving our bodies strengthens our brain and reading skills. Did you know the simple act of touching your left foot with your right hand and vice versa (or crossing the midline) activates each side of your brain? Crossing the midline powerfully impacts reading, writing and physical development.
The video from Clamber Club shows children participating in different activities that encourage 'bilateral intergration' or using both sides of the brain.
Have you ever moved to familiar songs like 'Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes' or 'We're Goin' on a Bear Hunt'? These songs use TPR or Total Physical Response. TPR is fantastic for first and second language learning. Like showing a picture to represent a word, the meaning becomes clear when one sees it in action (ie. moving your arms like the wheels on the bus). Matching actions to words helps children (and adults;) see, feel and hear the meaning. Did you know you were already an expert in such a sophisticated concept?!
You will notice we move a lot in Storytime. Try Storytime songs and movement at home!
Did you know singing with your child is one way to prepare your child to read? How does singing help with reading?
- Songs introduce new words. Song lyrics often use different vocabulary than our everyday spoken language.
-Also, the different musical notes couple with the different syllables of a word. Singing and listening to you sing will help your child understand the structure and sounds of a word.
-Reading books that can be sung is a great way to show children that words are everywhere, even in songs. Words are not just in books!
Children learn about the world around them when you talk to them. Honestly, I run out of things to talk about with my three year old and five year old. So when I can't think of a thing to say to my boys, I sing. I don't have a great singing voice, but my children don't care! Colorado Libraries for Early Literacy has some fantastic rhyming and singing videos in a few different languages. I turn to these videos when I need new songs to sing to my boys or in my Storytimes. If you haven't visited the library for a Storytime, you should come! We sing, dance, read picture books, and sometimes we do a craft. We offer bilingual Storytimes too! Spanish and English storytimes at the Belmar and Wheat Ridge Libraries and American Sign Language and English Storytimes at the Belmar Library.
Check out some of these music and book suggestions.
The Wheels on the Bus
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
Fun Music
Stinky Cake
Latin Playground by Putumayo
Colorado Libraries for Early Literacy Video "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush"
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I threw around all sorts of ideas for a blog this month: second language resources, school topics, etc... I will definitely post on those themes another time. Right now, I just want to have fun! More importantly, I have come across new 2015 titles about monsters that shouldn't be missed!
Worst in Show by William Bee
Funny illustrations and a sweet story about celebrating all kinds of winners.
Five Stinky Socks by Jim Benton
A rhyming story about why each of his five socks are so STINKY!
The Monsters Under My Bed by Rebecca J. Razo
Read this bedtime story and learn how to draw monsters! Monsters won't seem so scary when you draw them as cuddly creatures.
Tickle Monster by Édouard Manceau
Like 'Go Away Big Green Monster' by Ed Emberley, kids will love deconstructing this monster with tickles!
Monstruo, ¡Sé Bueno! by Natalie Marshall
A simple and silly book in español about how to behave or 'comportarse' in different situations.
There are so many new books with Monster themes for 2015 that I can't share them all here. A hint: To find more titles on jeffcolibrary.org, type '(Monster 2015) (Children's Easy Collection)' in the search. Using the parentheses or () is like doing an 'Advanced Search' without the added step!
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Having nine nieces and nephews as well as knowing a lot of friends with children, I have been invited to countless babyshowers. My favorite gift items? Bath toys!! You can never go wrong with bathtime books, foam letters or rubber duckies. Bathtime is a wonderful opportunity to engage your baby, toddler or preschooler in the Five Early Literacy Practices: Talk, Sing, Read, Write and Play.
On pbs.org, they describe many ways you can encourage language and literacy development during bathtime; from naming body parts to asking your child what are they going to need for bathtime. There are even suggestions for first graders. My favorite one was to make up stories about the different bath toys. Once upon a time, there was a Pirate Duck named Orange Beak. He was on a mission to locate the treasure stolen by Princess Barbie and her Little Pony friends...
Ideas that incorporate the Five Early Literacy Practices into bathtime:
TALK- Use different words to describe how toys move in the water: splash, dip, sink, float, rock, glide, etc...
SING- Sing to baby about body parts (ie. Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes). Make up or learn new bathtime songs like the one about the turtle, Tiny Tim, on Jbrary (I LOVE JBRARY!!!)
READ- Read bathtime books to your baby or point out words on your child's bubble bath or shampoo bottle
WRITE- Use bathtime crayons to write baby's name on the tile or use foam letters to spell out words
PLAY- Mix in science and math concepts by adding measuring cups and spoons to your bathtub toy collection
Read a good book before or after bathtime:
A board book. Great for babies and toddlers!
A cute story about an elephant reluctant to take a bath.
One of my favorite characters, the Pigeon! Mo Willems' books make me laugh!
Rub-a-dub! Now get those kiddos into the tub! And keep logging Summer Reading minutes!
STORYTIME: a regular time at which a story is read aloud to children.
Wanna get jazzed for the day? Just come to a storytime at your local library!
I do a weekly toddler storytime at the Evergreen Library and I look forward to it all week! It is my time to shine...use silly voices, see lots of smiling faces, Shake My Sillies Out, and end with a grand finale of the Hokey Pokey...this is not your mother's storytime! Gone are the days of hushed voices and long stories. Instead today's storytimes are interactive and most of all fun!!! Filled with well illustrated and age appropriate books, songs, fingerplays, felt board and interactive activities there is something for everyone at your libraries weekly storytimes.
According to The Colorado Libraries for Early Literacy (CLeL), ECRR (Every Child Ready to Read) highlights EARLY LITERACY STORYTIMES as one of the crucial activities designed to promote early literacy in young children.
Why it's Important:
Literacy-based storytimes offer libraries a way to be partners in education with parents and caregivers. Colorado Libraries for Early Literacy (CLEL) supports the definition of a literacy-based storytime as one that contains the following components:
At the library we LOVE storytime and we want you and your child to LOVE it too! So, drop on by and give us a try, we can't wait to see you!!!


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WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (UPI) -- A Republican congressman challenged U.S. President Obama Saturday to help avoid scheduled budget cuts he said would seriously weaken the nation's armed forces.
Delivering the GOP's weekly address, Rep. Allen West of Florida described the pending sequestration as a "dark cloud" that "hangs over our military," the Hill reported.
If the cuts go into effect as scheduled Jan. 2, the United States would be left with "the smallest ground force since 1940, the smallest Navy since 1915, and the smallest tactical fighter force in the history of the modern United States Air Force," said West, a 22-year Army veteran.
He said violence in North Africa and the Middle East this week demonstrated the need for a strong military.
Accusing the president of a failure to lead, West challenged the president to accept a Republican proposal that would forestall the mandated slashes for all federal departments.
Republicans have rejected Democratic and administration proposals to reduce the deficit through a combination of spending cuts and tax increases on income over $250,000.
In a report issued Friday, the White House Office of Management and Budget said the cuts scheduled to take effect Jan.2 "would be deeply destructive to national security" and normal government function.
The report emphasized the administration had no discretion in deciding what programs would be cut, or by how much, and said the sequestration should not be permitted to occur.
A majority of Republicans in Congress -- including House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio and GOP vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin -- voted for the sequestration plan.

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Hello Lil Luna's :0)
My name Destiny and I'm the blogger behind A Place for Us. I'm so happy to be here helping Kristyn out for her Christmas in July series! You guys are so lucky to have such a fabulous blog host! Just a little bit about myself and blog, I'm an AZ native with a family of five! We are a messy family trying our best to live in a "model" home! My blog is about home décor, DIYing, and home décor crafting! You might come to my blog as a newlywed fresh off the boat from your honeymoon and might be thinking "What now?!". Or maybe your a mom and you want to make "A Place for Us" SO bad but you just don't know where to begin. No matter who you are or what type of home you have, your in the right place. Sit back, relax and let me hold your hand as I give you the tools and advice you need to create YOUR home. Check in weekly for the latest in design, trends, looks for less, decorating advice, easy entertaining, marriage & kids, tutorials, crafty home decor and much more.
1 – What is your favorite holiday and why?
Christmas, duh! I read this book a while back called the Seven Love Languages and of course my love language was gifts:) Now as much as I LOVE receiving them I equally enjoy giving and wrapping up a fun gift for friends and family! The entire meaning of Christmas is so close to my heart and I really do think its "the most wonderful time of the year"
2 – What is your favorite Christmas Tradition?
My favorite Christmas tradition is opening up a gift the night before!! The kids love it, I love it and Reggie does too! It's like getting a taste of what's to come the next morning! I also love to eat a big fat, really bad for you breakfast! French Toast, bacon, eggs, homemade cinnamon buns!!! Yummy! I also love baking for my family and friends as well! Check out this easy way to make your cupcakes SPRINKLE! Every year for the past 6 years or so I have been making Christmas Cupcakes to share with family and friends. One of my FAVORITE cupcake decorating techniques is rolling a frosted cupcake in fine colored sugar! GLITTER CUPCAKES! Super fun for the kids to make too. It just makes for a really clean and easy to eat cupcake! So here is what you need to frost the EASIEST cupcake in the world……
HOME ALONE!!! I think this was the first Christmas movie I remember watching back to back to back! It's such a classic and brings me right back to my childhood Christmas memories.
4 – What has been the best present you've ever received and why?
Best present I received? WOW!! That's a hard one girl! I think I would have to say my family! Some might think that's not a real gift, but I would have to argue that! I'm mean the odds of finding THE perfect mate, and having not just one child, but three is a miracle in my eyes and it's something that I know I could never achieve on my own!
5 – Why do you blog?
I blog to help! I really just want to help other folks out! I remember back in high school I was HORRIBLE at math…like 2+2=what? Horrible. I remember there being a gal in my class who not only GOT fractions and to the whatever to the power stuff , but she was super passionate about it! She was always willing to help. I just couldn't wrap my brain around how someone could truly enjoy something so foreign and hard for me and be able to understand it SOOO well! It wasn't until I found my passion for decorating that I really understood! I'm willing to share what I know because it's my passion, it's second nature, it's not work to me and I love it! So if your willing to learn I'm willing to teach and share!
Thanks so much for having me Kristyn! Come on over and visit me at A Place for Us anytime friends!!
Thanks Destiny!! These look so good!!
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March 26, 2015 - Industry News
Eaton now offers is Advantage Series transmission in more configurations to broaden its appear to different long-haul, linehaul and regional markets. The Advantage Series automated models now come with a fuel-saving coast mode to decrease parasitic drag on the drive train when operating on hilly terrain.
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The Eaton UltraShift Plus is available in the 13-speed MHP and 10-speed LAS series and the 11.9-liter Cummins Westport ISX12 G is available up to 400 horsepower and 1,450 lb.-ft. of torque.
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New Arrival Dominguez
Mileka Jones and Isaiah Dominguez of Washington are pleased to announce the birth of their son Josiah Charles. He was born on Jan. 30, 2014, weighing 5 pounds, 6.4 ounces and measuring 17 3/4 inches long. He was welcomed home by two brothers, Mason, 5, and Silas, 1.
Grandparents are Karin Bennett of Washington, and Emma Dominguez of West Liberty.


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UK charts: Forza 4 races to top spot
Forza Motorsport 4's headed to the top of the UK charts, pulling FIFA 12 from the summit after two weeks.
The Turn 10 racer is the biggest launch for a 360 racer in the UK ever.
Just Dance 3 was a new entry at two following its first multi-platform launch on Xbox 360 and Wii. The PS3 version is out in December.
FIFA 12 tumbles to three, while rival Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 stumbles at five, the first time a new PES title hasn't been top of the UK charts at launch for a good while.
RAGE is the other game in the top five. Last week's three Dark Souls slipped to seven.
New entry Ace Combat: Assault Horizon misses out on the top ten, entering at 12. Fellow new entries Skylanders: Spyro's Adventures entered at 16, while Spiderman: Edge of Time just makes it into the top 40 at 39.
Find the top ten for the week ending October 15 below. Last week's data is here.
- Forza Motorsport 4
- Just Dance 3
- Pro Evolution Soccer 2012
- Gears of War 3
- Dark Souls
- Zumba Fitness
- Jonah Lomu Rugby Challenge


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The Santa Clara Valley Water District is a water wholesaler. The following charges reflect what water retailers and agricultural users pay for wholesale or well water.
The 2012 Water Utility Enterprise Report: Protection and Augmentation of Water Supplies or PAWS 2012 Report, listed on the right, presents the financial and water supply information that forms the basis for the fiscal year 2012-2013 wholesale water charges.
Questions about retail water charges should be addressed to the appropriate retail water agency.
Water charges for Fiscal Year 2012 - 2013 (effective July 1, 2012)
Non-Agricultural Water (AF)
Zone W-2
Zone W-5
(See a zone map)
Surface Water 1
Zone W-2 Deliveries 2
Zone W-5 Deliveries 3
Minimum Charge--Zone W-2 4
Minimum Charge--Zone W-5 5
Contract 6
Non-contract 7
Recycled water
1 Surface water charge is the sum of the basic user charge plus the water master charge.
2 Other Zone W-5 Deliveries = Basic User (AG or M&I @ $17.70/AF or $295/AF) + Water Master ($12.60/AF).
3 Other Zone W-2 Deliveries = Basic User (AG or M&I @ $17.70/AF or $622/AF) + Water Master ($12.60/AF).
4 Minimum Charge W-5 = 0.75 X Basic User W-5 (M&I @ $295/AF, Ag @ 17.70/AF).
5 Minimum Charge W-2 = 0.75 X Basic User W-2 (M&I @ $622/AF, Ag @ 17.70/AF).
6 Treated Water Charge is the sum of Basic User ($622/AF) and Treated Water Surcharge ($100/AF).
7 The charge for non-contract deliveries is the sum of the basic user charge ($622/AF) and the treated water surcharge for non-contract water ($50/AF).
AF = acre feet
Ag = agricultural
Non-Ag = municipal and industrial


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Thorpe suffers double OT loss
BOB FORD/TIMES NEWS Jim Thorpe's Micheal Principe (5) moves in to keep the ball away from Pottsville's Adam Campbell as teammate Anthony Pavia looks on.
Heading into Tuesday's soccer game with Pottsville, Jim Thorpe didn't care what its record was.
The Olympians didn't mind that they had come up short in all of their previous soccer games. No, they were going to put all of their heart into this one game on this one day - Senior Day.
Jim Thorpe came out strong and took a 1-0 lead midway through the first half thanks to a goal from Ritchie Buele. The Olympians battled as best as they could for the remainder of the game, but allowed a goal late in the second half and another early into double overtime to fall to the Crimson Tide, 2-1.
"I thought we played pretty well," said Jim Thorpe head coach Anthony Dixon. "We hustled the whole game and we were in it until the end.
"The kids have really come along. They have made a lot of progress since the beginning of the year. That is the only thing I could ask of a team as young as us."
Jim Thorpe senior Mitch Franko had a nice look at the net just minutes into the game but was turned away by Pottsville goalie Luke DiCello. DiCello denied Franko again roughly 10 minutes later on a point-blank shot. Franko had picked up a loose ball on the right side of the Crimson Tide net, but didn't have a good enough angle to get it past DiCello.
Following a send-in by a Jim Thorpe mid-fielder, DiCello was forced to come out of the net and make a play on the ball because an Olympian forward was bearing down to make a play. DiCello was able to punch the ball out, but it went right to Buele. Buele send a high-arcing shot over the head of DiCello for the goal.
While its offense was busy applying pressure on its end, Jim Thorpe's defense was playing just as well. Sophomore Shane Bletcher-Otto exemplified their play by making a sliding block to prevent an open shot. He, along with sophomore Dalton Becker and freshmen Caleb Heller and Billy Sterling, played so well that goalie Justin Kaminski didn't have to make his first save until 13:56 remained in the first half.
"The defense played very well," Dixon said. "They tightened up and that is one of the best games they have played all season.
"They are learning. A lot of them are freshman and sophomores and they are learning every week. They are getting there."
Kaminski did his best to preserve the lead in the second half as he made a leaping, one-handed save at the twenty minute mark. He ended with ten saves on the day.
Pottsville picked up its offensive pressure throughout the second half and finally broke through with eight minutes to go. Shavinsky Thomas scored a goal much like Buele's and knotted the score at one. Kaminski came out to make a play on a loose ball, but Thomas got to it first and tapped it over his head for the goal.
The Tide continued to press on offense as the game ventured into overtime. They would record six shots in 11 minutes and 19 seconds of extra play, with their last shot being the game-winner in double overtime. Thomas, who stands well of six-foot, put away a header off a corner-kick from teammate Kory Fanelli.
Jim Thorpe will play its last game of the season at Upper Dauphin on Thursday. Dixon acknowldged that not much can come out of their last game, but still wants his team to have fun as they look toward next season.
"Obviously with one game left I want the kids to just enjoy themselves," said the first-year head coach. "Then next year we will work and try to improve. I think next year we will start winning a few games.
"I am definitely excited about our future. I am going to be here for a while and these boys are coming along very well."


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I don't know about you, but I'm ready for summer vacation. Yes, I'm fully aware its only spring break, and we still have a few more months left in the school year. A mom's gotta dream. In fact, I'm dreaming about fun in the sun once temperatures warm up here in Colorado — and for my family, that means camping with the kids.
We're the proud owners of a beat-up, pop-up camper, and we've towed it to campgrounds around Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. While I didn't grow up camping, my husband did, so from him I've learned everything about setting up camp, making camping food, spotting wildlife and figuring out whether or not berries are poisonous (I'm still not good at that last one).
I'm so fortunate my husband served as my own personal camping tutor when I started camping as a 28-year-old — and then when we introduced our children to camping mix when each was only months old. But even if you have never slept under the stars before, and you'd like to try, I suggest this fabulous primer for camping with children: a guide by my pal Helen Olsson, The Down and Dirty Guide to Camping with Kids: How to Plan Memorable Family Adventures and Connect Kids to Nature.
Helen — aka Mad Dog Mom, who's also an Epic Mom with me — walks the walk when it comes to camping. Not only did she grow up vacationing in the wilderness, she's raising three children to love the outdoors as much as she does. She notes that one's definition of camping may change once kids are in the mix: While I miss the hours of quiet contemplation once associated with my camping trips, I relish the new moments of excitement, enthusiasm, adventure, and downright hilarity. … Simply put, there is little else that warms my cockles like the whoops and grins of my kids in the woods.
I agree! Camping is the one time that my family leaves the computers behind. Without electricity, wi-fi or cell service, it's just us, the s'mores, the sleeping bags and the stars. We hike, we fish, we kayak…. we totally enjoy one another's company in the great outdoors.
Throughout the upbeat and irreverent Camping with Kids, Helen shares a bunch of humorous anecdotes from her on family's adventures in nature — not only the fun she has with her children, but also stories from her childhood. But the crux of the book is a definitely camping with children how-to guide, filled with packing checklists, first-aid tips, camping recipes, games for the kids and arts-and-crafts projects.
I appreciate Helen's ode to duct tape, her picture map of how to best set up a campsite and the "smart tips" peppered throughout the book, like "Collect dryer lint to use as tinder" "Bring along tablecloth weights to keep your plastic tablecloth from blowing away in the wind" and "Garage sales are great places to pick up old cutlery for camping."
Order The Down and Dirty Guide to Camping with Kids on Helen Olsson's Mad Dog Mom website. It retails for $17.95, but if you use the promo code DOWN30, you can save 30 percent. I think the book would make a great Mother's Day or Father's Day gift for anyone who is brand-new to camping or a seasoned backpacker who happens to be a new parent. After all, as we all know, children bring a whole new perspective and set of logistics to anything we do!


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i am learning arrays i want to whats the following effect of cods while passing array to the following function
void fun(array[])
void fun(array[4])
void fun(array[],4)
void fun(array[5],4)
please help me .thank you in advance
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i am learning arrays i want to whats the following effect of cods while passing array to the following function
void fun(array[])
void fun(array[4])
void fun(array[],4)
void fun(array[5],4)
please help me .thank you in advance
The first and third can never work. The second sends a specific array element to a function, while the fourth sends a specific array element and a separate integer.
thanks understood.what is mean passing entire array element and passing element by element.answer with example are appreciated Thank you in advance
"passing entire array element" doesn't mean anything at all. Neither does "passing element by element". You can pass an array (the whole thing) by giving its name (without any punctuation), or you can pass a particular element (by specifying which element to pass using [brackets]). And of course, that has to match what the function expects.
int foo[10];
void fun1(int bar[]); //expects an array
void fun2(int bar); //expect an int
fun1(foo); //works
fun2(foo[7]); //works
fun1(foo[]); //error: foo[] is meaningless
fun2(foo[]); //error: foo[] is meaningless
fun1(foo[7]); //error: fun1 expects array, not int
fun2(foo); //error: fun2 expects int, not array
actuall fun1 expects array.you too passing array of specific element then it works rightQuote:
fun1(foo[7]); //error: fun1 expects array, not int
here fun 2 expects int but you passing array.how this worksQuote:
fun2(foo[7]); //works
Hopefully that explains why both of your remarks are incorrect.Code:
int foo[10];
foo[7] = 22;
fun1(foo[7]); //this passes the value 22 into fun1 because thats what foo[7] equals. However fun1 wants an array so this is a failed call
fun2(foo[7]); //Again we pass in the value 22 which is exactly what fun2 wants since it only wants an int value so this call succeeds.
in void func i have declared size of array x has 0.but it displaying value of x[2],x[3].how is thisCode:
#include <iostream>#include <time.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
using namespace std;
void func(int x[0])//my doubt is here
int main()
int a[4]={1,2,3,5};
return 0; }
You're accessing memory still, that will display random numbers. Very undesirable behavior.
Just pass std::array!
*When you have a multi-dimensional array, only the first size is irrelevant; the rest must be specified (and specified correctly for what is passed in to it).
thanks Tabstop .You gave a clear view. what do you mean is "void func(int x[0]) or "void func(int x[3])" what ever the size of array it just consider to take an array.that is what u meaning am i right
This article covers various techniques when passing arrays to functions along with pitfalls: SourceForge.net: Safer arrays in Cpp - cpwiki
I actually still disagree with that article quite heavily.
Take for example this code.
The comment about the assert is wrong. Mainly, I think the author put the cart before the horse.Code:
#include <iostream>
#include <assert.h>
template <typename type, size_t N>
size_t SizeOf ( type (&)[N] )
// parameter not used, omitted name to inhibit this warning
return N;
void foo(int arr[10], int& a, size_t size)
assert(size == 10); // <--- Bad things happen if a programmer forgets this assert.
std::cout << "a is: " << a << std::endl;
arr[9] = 100;
std::cout << "a is: " << a << std::endl;
int main()
int a = 10;
int arr[7];
foo(arr, a, SizeOf(arr));
If the intent of the function foo is to use an array of ten ints and only an array of ten ints then something like:
actually enforces what needs to be enforced. C arrays in C and C++, by design, decay into pointers so int[10] means int* and 10 is ignored.Code:
void foo( std::array<int, 10> );
Bad things might happen if you forget the assert, but a better solution, I think, is to make foo work with any size array, or just abandon C interfacing. According to the article, it's "ugly" and in my opinion the solutions are kludges.
Something like this is also neater.Code:
void foo(int *first, int *const last);
Well, the article's examples should probably be rewritten to loops doing stuff with the array. That makes more sense, but doesn't change the dangers of not knowing the array bounds.
However, your range-like function has its downsides: it pushes the checking of valid ranges to the caller, which causes more bugs. Additionally, depending on how the function is written, you may prevent compiler optimizations because compilers have a harder time tracking pointers than array indices.


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Week 3 of Hard Knocks.
1000 - Joe Buck Live. Great show. Previously on Hard Knocks. Carson talks down to the Bengals "trainers". Why, because he can and should. Players hit each other.
1002 - We open at dawn. Bratkowski looks svelte on that bike. He ought to ride into the sunset and never come back.
1005 - "When this football team takes the field what are they gonna say?" Their helmets are kickass but I'm glad I don't play for them.
1006 - Roy Williams,"Tom got skills man. And he fast." Translation: I hate when white boys are faster than me.
1008 - Wow, HippopataSmith is getting dogged on pretty hard. That won't be awkward or anything once he joins the team a couple months from now.
1010 - Horse country...a**holes and elbows...HBO is really reaching on that segue. I love Zimmer though. "Whole bunch of guys on our defense that no one wanted." Yes, you are correct about that Mike.
1013 - Mauauauaulaaagaaa. Oooooooh snap! Is that guy dead? "He is a sumbitch." Uh oh, this Bengals trainer's job is to make sure Maualuaga is diagnosed and out for the year with a sprained/fractured vertebrae in his shoulder blade. I wouldnt be surprsied if we saw them bloodletting players with leeches.
1017 - Marvin is on his A game today, "You could grow a goddamn ankle back by now. People recover quicker from malaria." Straight killin it.
1018 - Palmer, "Im an astoundingly fast healer." Trainer, "Not if I have anything to do with it. We're thinking you'll be back by week 10."
1019 - You hear that Mikey Boy, the O-line needs continuity. Sign Andre Smith already.
1023 - Ochocinco condoms everyone. No words.
1025 - Benny Scott. Brat, "Hes real." Good, cause I was hoping we wouldn't be giving carries to a hologram. Things that are also true about Bernard. He plays football. He eats multiple times a day.
1026 - Brian Leonard. Steady(Slow). Pass protects. White.
1028 - Fitzgerald, "I know the trainers are certified in Haiti so if you feel something tell me cause they dont know what they're doing."
1030 - "What's his name? Don't worry about it. I dont know his name either." Darryl Blackstock cried himself to sleep that night.
1032 - MESS BRADY UP!!!!!!! Don't even wait for the game to start. Just Kerrigan him now.
1034 - Chad's fast, but is he Tom Nelson fast?
1035 - Understatement. Rey looks good.
1037 - Frostee just hit somebooodddyyy.
1040 - Its offical Chad is just as good of a kicker as Shayne. At least on kickoffs that is.
1041 - Tom nelson BRINGS THE PHYSICALITY!
1042 - The Shirley experminet continues unabated.
1042 - Seriously, why would Leonard get the 3rd spot? So that the Bengals can have a slow but steady pass blocker. Meanwhile Dede is making tacklers look straight foolish.
1044 - Tom Nelson BRINGS THE STRIPPABILITY. Next brilliant Mikey idea. Nelson running the wildcat.
1045 - Most beautiful city in the world. Look at that river. You could eat dinner off of that river.
1046 - Chad doesnt even have to say anything to make me laugh. Is he at Claire's in the Kenwood mall?
1048 - Are we going to get through a whole episode without any Mikey Boy? Please say so. It's soothing when we actually look like a professional organization with these meetings.
1049 - And nope. Mikey cuts some more guys. Oh boy, Katie and Alvin. She always look like shes taking a dump. So you meet for 4 hours and you dont make any progress. I hate both of them. "Lets stay in touch." What is that? You're business partners. Hammer something out and get the player in practice.
1051 - Is Lippincott wearing a diaper underneath those shorts. Does he wear his shorts like that so that no one will notice all his shirts are actaully tube tops?
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While the suits from BP (NYSE:BP), ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM), Chevron (NYSE:CVX), ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP) and Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE:RDS.A) sat in front of a congressional firing squad today, I couldn't help but question the whole dog and pony show.
Lawmakers called the plans to handle deepwater oil disasters (which were issued by major oil companies), "cookie cutter" and "virtually worthless."
Well, clearly Washington's oversight of these drilling operations have been just as "virtually worthless." Otherwise, we wouldn't be having this conversation right now.
They sit there, looking down on the stone-faced execs, lecturing about responsibility and greed. But who's questioning those in Washington who spent decades turning a blind eye and allowing the oil companies to bypass safety procedures in an effort to get more oil, and get it faster.
The hypocrisy is mind-boggling.
Now tonight, President Obama will address the nation. And it looks like he's really going to talk up the urgency of a clean energy transition.
Here are a few recent comments that I suspect the President will elaborate on this evening. . .
"Beyond the risks inherent in drilling four miles beneath the surface of the Earth, our dependence on oil means that we will continue to send billions of dollars of our hard-earned wealth to other countries every month - including many in dangerous and unstable regions."
". . .our continued dependence on fossil fuels will jeopardize our national security. It will smother our planet. And it will continue to put our economy and our environment at risk. "
"We cannot delay any longer, and that is why I am asking for your help."
Will tonight's speech light a fire under our complacent asses and force partisan bullies to put aside their own personal, selfish agendas in an effort to support a very necessary clean energy transition?
Probably not.
At the end of the day, most folks will continue to be motivated by cheap gas prices instead of images of oil-soaked pelicans. It's a sad commentary on our value system – but it's a reality.
And in Washington. . .well, it's politics as usual.
In fact, just today, a couple of House and Senate Republicans introduced legislation to lift the six-month ban on offshore drilling starts, claiming that if it continues, it will be a devastating blow to the economy of Louisiana and other Gulf states.
I guess waiting until we've figured out why this last spill happened doesn't take priority.
You think Louisiana's economy is going to be hurt by this six-month moratorium? I can assure you, it's peanuts compared to the economic damage that'll be done if we see a repeat of this BP disaster.
Don't kid yourself. If there was a problem with one, there's a problem with another. And based on what we're hearing now about all the shortcuts that have been taken and the lack of responsible regulatory oversight by our holier-than-thou lawmakers in Washington – only a complete scumbag would recommend risking more or our natural capital in the Gulf right now.
Supporting this questionable legislation, Representative Pete Olson from Texas said. . .
"It would take a minimum of 5-10 years to get production back to normal operations should these rigs leave."
Yeah, well it could take anywhere from 30 to 50 years for our ecosystem services (i.e. - cycling of nutrients and water, control of pests and diseases and the maintenance of biodiversity) to stabilize again.
Sorry Pete, but the security of these free, natural, and self-regulating services that we need to survive are more important than the short-term impact of a six-month ban on offshore drilling starts.
By the way, since 2008, Pete Olson has landed $216,300 from the oil and gas industry.
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This morning, I am leading a workshop with Juan called "Creating your presence on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn". The workshop is for the southern California chapter of the Association for Commuter Transportation (ACT), the trade association for TDM and rideshare professionals.
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The presentation goes through the basics of the three social networking sites and brings up good examples of how people are using these sites to disseminate information to commuters.


text: The Flaneur on Film by Rob Stone Posted on 10 Feb 2014 Catherine Grant's excellent website Film Studies for Free has just published a new piece by Prof. Rob Stone. 'The Flâneur on Film: On films by Richard Linklater and Others' features Stone's recent video essay on Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise entitled Between Sunrise and Sunless. Shot in Vienna to coincide with the release of the third part of Linklater's trilogy, Before Midnight, the video essay is accompanied by Stone's reflections on the notion of the flâneur as it applies to the films of Linklater and others, reflections developed in Stone's recent monograph, The Cinema of Richard Linklater: Walk Don't Run. You can see Stone's text and video essay for free here.


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Cosplayer Katarini > Costume of Neptune (Hyperdimension Neptunia)
- Most Recent Photo
- 11-04-2012
- Series
- Hyperdimension Neptunia
- Character
- Neptune
- Year Completed:
- Construction Difficulty:
- Normal
- Costume worn at:
- Penny Arcade Expo (PAX West) 2012
- Sakura-con 2012
About this Costume
- Construction Details:
Socks were ordered from The Sock Dreams.org
Shoes were recycled and I spray painted them purple+white and put blue laces in. These shoes are NOT comfortable really. :(
Hoodie dress is extremely warm and comfortable. :) The hood is actually too small for my head so I can't wear it up at all. Lots of fabric glue was used. The zipper works but doesn't unzip all the way so I pull it on over my head.
I made the accessories using craft foam, fabric, and other cheap materials to keep costs down.
- Personal Thoughts:
- oh man.... I love Neptune, I love this game. I have the artbook :3
I may update it later on and do a different version or remake the hoodie from scratch down the line.
Wig Details
- Wig Brand
- Ayanamisatoru / greatarchy09
- Wig Name
- Baby-Girl
- Original Color:
- Snow Purple
- Styling Time
- 2 hours
- Wig Quality Rating
- 4 / 5.00
- Styling Notes
- I cut and styled the wig using curlers and hair spray to make it a bit flippy. I cut the bangs and the hair into an a-line bob.
- Wig Review
- This wig is pretty comfortable and easy to style. But sometimes the curls fall out, and I couldn't get it properly flipped out like I wanted.
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Making the Choice for Peace
I speak at conferences in cities all over the world and sometimes I ask our crew to place a rocking chair in a conspicuous place on the stage. Occasionally, while I am speaking, I'll walk over and sit in the chair and begin to rock.
I don't do this because I'm tired or because I want to give the impression that I'm relaxed. I do this to illustrate a point. When you rock in a rocking chair, you generate a lot of activity and movement—back and forth, back and forth. But no matter how active you may appear to be, you never actually go anywhere. You can be really active, vigorously moving back and forth, but you'll never accomplish anything. You'll always stay right where you started.
Like the rocking chair, we all get involved in things every day that appear to be necessary. We're moving around a lot and generating a lot of activity, but we're not accomplishing a thing.
For example, we can get upset and worry and stew about situations we couldn't change if we tried. We can fret and be anxious about things and call our friends and talk about those things. We can read articles that deal with those things or watch television shows that deal with those subjects. But none of those things will change our circumstances at all.
I want to share a Bible verse with you. John 14:27 says, Peace I leave with you; My [own] peace I now give and bequeath to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid. [Stop allowing yourselves to be agitated and disturbed; and do not permit yourselves to be fearful and intimidated and cowardly and unsettled] (AMP).
Now let me explain the context of this verse to you because it's very important. This verse includes some of the very last words Jesus spoke to His disciples before He ascended into heaven. Now think about that for a minute. Imagine that you are getting ready to go on a long trip and just before you walk out the door, you turn to your family… What do you say? You say the most important things—those things you don't want them to forget.
That's the way it was with Jesus. He knew He was getting ready to leave them and wanted to pass along some of the most important things He could think of. He told them to stop allowing themselves to be agitated and disturbed, and not to permit themselves to be fearful and intimidated, cowardly or unsettled.
Did you realize that these things are about choices that you make? You don't have to live a life filled with agitation and fear. You don't have to be intimidated and unsettled. Having peace is a choice. You can actually choose to walk in the peace that Jesus was referring to in that verse above.
Now, there is a "worldly" kind of peace that people have when everything is going their way and they're getting everything they want. But anyone can have peace when everything is going their way. That's not difficult at all; in fact, it's natural.
But the way that we show the real power of God in our lives is when we have many of the same kinds of unpleasant circumstances that other people have and yet, while they are upset and unsettled, wasting their time worrying and fretting, we're peaceful and calm, enjoying life right in the midst of the trials and tribulations.
You can wish you didn't get upset and fretful. You can wish you didn't become anxious and agitated. But just like the rocking chair doesn't actually take you anywhere, just wishing for something never accomplishes anything.
What about you? Are you choosing peace today? Remember the rocking chair. Don't fall into the trap of busying yourself with fretting and worrying about circumstances that you cannot change.
No matter what your circumstances may be, having peace and contentment is a choice you make. You no longer have to live under your circumstances. Get up out of the rocking chair and make the bold choice to walk in the peace of Christ!


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Cosplayer Akarui > Costume of Kaoru Kamiya (Rurouni Kenshin)
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- Series
- Rurouni Kenshin
- Character
- Kaoru Kamiya
- Special Variation:
- Dojo garb/1st episode
- Year Completed:
- Construction Difficulty:
- Very Easy
About this Costume
- Construction Details:
I needed a costume for the PSCS Dunwoody Shoot and I thought that Kaoru would be perfect. Pretty easy stuff, just threw on an extra white haori we had laying around from previous Bleach cosplay, some bandages, black hakama and styled/cut a wig to match her hair style. I finished it off with her white ponytail and a bokken and I was set to go. Totally did it to go with Kodoz's Kenshin
- Personal Thoughts:
- I liked Kaoru a lot and would definitely like to wear it again sometime soon... Maybe try several different outfits of hers.. I'd like to dress up as Kenji too, but dunno when I could do that lol.
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With a stay at Hotel Primus Valencia in Valencia (Camins al Grau), you'll be minutes from Aqua Shopping Center and close to City of Arts and Sciences. This 4-star hotel is within close proximity of Oceanografic Aquarium and Prince Felipe Museum of Sciences.
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Grab a bite to eat at the hotel's restaurant, where you can enjoy drinks at a bar, take in a garden view, and even dine alfresco (weather permitting). You can also stay in and take advantage of 24-hour room service. Relax with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge or a poolside bar.
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Brendan Eich was just days into his new role as chairman of Mozilla, maker of the popular web browser Firefox, when an uprising put his job in jeopardy.
Employees and social media observers had learned that Mr. Eich once donated $1,000 to support Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment that outlawed gay marriage in California during the 2008 election. And they were angry about it, casting a vote of non-confidence, signing petitions demanding he step down.
Mr. Eich held on for a few weeks, but was no match for the online masses. On Thursday afternoon, he resigned.
"We didn't act like you'd expect Mozilla to act," read a company statement. "We didn't move fast enough to engage with people once the controversy started. We're sorry. We must do better."
Cue the backlash to the backlash: The Mozilla Governance mailing list was flooded with angry messages Friday morning, decrying the death of free speech.
By week's end, the Mozilla affair had truly become an outrage, the word echoed in headline after headline about the controversy. It is not unlike the #CancelColbert meme that followed the same cycle the week before, when Asian-American writer and "hashtag activist" Suey Park launched the campaign after disproving of a joke by the satirical comedian Stephen Colbert and rode the wave of "white liberal" vitriol hurled back in her direction.
"Outrage" was even on the lips of the Ottawa car wash owner who publicly complained this week about embattled Conservative MP Eve Adams' alleged meltdown at the pumps.
While outrage has always thrived in North American culture, it's a more urgent and influential presence in today's 24-hour news cycle world in which anyone with an opinion can speak up and major corporations and politicians actually listen. And the new outrage is a force — one that can galvanize people to a cause (think Idle No More and the swelling protests against rape culture), but also lead to knee-jerk decisions and strip the nuance from public debate, observers say. An "outrage economy" has bloomed in this environment, and it's only just gaining momentum.
"[Outrage] is actually incredibly democratic — you can run civil society campaigns very effectively and I think that's a good thing," said Chris Berg, research fellow with the Institute of Public Affairs, a free market think-tank in Melbourne, Australia, who has written about the "outrage economy," which he defines as a network in which Twitter and longstanding political and corporate entities co-exist and outrage is the "currency" for change.
"But from the perspective of organizations, they have to spend more time trying to figure out 'Is this backlash real? Or is it something that has sparked up and will die down within 24 hours?'"
Decades ago, politicians and corporate boards could assess the necessary response to a concern based on whether they got one letter of complaint or 100. Today, they tend to "assume that 1,000 tweets means the entire general population is furious about something when that's not necessarily the case," he said. It's made for an "incredibly nervous political and corporate class."
'Outrage is good for ratings, outrage is good for business'
That said, "organizations can build campaigns on the back of this sort of social media buildup" and often quite successfully — think of the way Tide has started to include more men in their advertisements after hearing the outcry of lack of representation online.
Outrage has bred its own profitable industry in the growing realm of American public opinion media, writes Jeffrey Berry, a professor of political science at Tufts University and author of The Outrage Industry: Political Opinion Media and the New Incivility, published this year.
While polls of the broad American public find a bitter dislike for the kind of mud-slinging that's become customary on channels like Fox News and MSNBC, Prof. Berry's research, conducted with co-author Sarah Sobieraj, found these shows have a healthy daily aggregate audience of roughly 47 million people.
In terms of program viewers, however, these audiences are actually quite small, yet fiercely devoted, he said, which is attractive to advertisers. People who watch these programs also tend to be more engaged politically, and politicians know this and do their best to connect with that audience by saying outrageous things, Prof. Berry said, pointing to Republican politicians Michele Bachmann and Ted Cruz as examples.
This dynamic comes at a cost, he said.
"Our takeaway is that all of this makes compromise more difficult because opponents are portrayed as enemies and the rhetoric is ratcheted up so high that we send people to Congress who really care mostly about their primary voters, which is only a small slice of their district or state, and feel like they need to really give those primary voters what they want or they're going to lose their seat."
Viewers see outrage as entertainment, he said, which makes for good TV and for an extremely click-able web story headline, which gives the comment legs into the following day.
"That outrage impulse is kind of like when you're hungry and you walk into the kitchen and there's this big plate of cookies sitting right there and it's so easy to [indulge]," said Alexandra Samuel, vice-president of social media for Vision Critical, a North American communications company based in Vancouver. "Or you could take five minutes and go into the fridge and make yourself a peanut butter sandwich on whole wheat bread. … You know what's going to make you feel better in 20 minutes, but it's that easy, instant, tempting fix."
It's far easier to send out an angry tweet pegged with the outrage hashtag of the hour, and, as Ms. Samuel points out, the human condition is to obsess about the negative, to be defensive. There has been so much acceleration in terms of how media spread, she said, that there is no longer time for a person to stop and assess whether they care enough about a cause to hop on the bandwagon.
Ms. Samuel connects this outrage to the larger themes of anxiety that are prevalent beyond the nebulous confines of the Internet. "We do know that levels of interpersonal trust and communication have gone down dramatically over the course of the last century," she said. "Part of that outrage culture comes from the weakening of the ties… [to] a baseline sense that you're part of a larger human project, that we're all in this together. People do not feel as if we're all in this together."
Outrage is a "really pleasurable emotion," but it doesn't allow much room for nuance, said Aimée Morrison, an English professor at the University of Waterloo who researches the way we document our lives online.
"We tend to get outraged about things that strike at the core of our very identity," she said. Which explains why traditionally marginalized groups have found success in campaigns on Twitter and other forms of social media — Idle No More began as a Twitter meme but gained national mainstream media attention and the attention of governments before largely fizzling out.
The joke that started the #CancelColbert meme was aimed at Washington Redskins owner Dan Synder, who created a foundation for native Americans to soothe those offended by the team name but incorporated the word Redskins in the charity's title — something Mr. Colbert mocked by saying he'd create a "Ching-Chong Ding-Dong Foundation for Sensitivity to Orientals or Whatever," to show the "Asian community I care."
Ms. Park of the CancelColbert campaign, who did not respond to an interview request, dismisses accusations that she took the joke out of context. The very fact that her outrage drew attention to the way Asian Americans may feel about white people making jokes — even satirical ones — at their expense set her well on her way to her activist goal.
"Outrage is good for ratings, outrage is good for business," Prof. Morrison said. "But outrage can also swamp out some very difficult but important conversations."
Ms. Samuel fears this climate of outrage — which happens concurrently with all the good things the Internet has brought — and the threats of violence (however serious or not) it can foster, might shut some people up, rather than encourage them to continue speaking their minds.
And while outrage is by no means new, we do need to get used to the new environment in which it's playing out, said Prof. Morrison, and realize that it does matter.
"I think we need to be more clear," she said, "that what happens on the Internet is real life."
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The icy-hearted Mrs. Tifton is not as pleased with the Penderwicks as Jeffrey is, though, and warns the new friends to stay out of trouble. Which, of course, they will, won't they? One thing's for sure: it will be a summer the Penderwicks will never forget.
Deliciously nostalgic and quaintly witty, this is a story as breezy and carefree as a summer day.
©2005 Jeanne Birdsall; (P) Random House, Inc. Listening Library, an imprint of the Random House Audio Publishing Group
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"Happy Accident"
I accidentally downloaded this book not realizing it was a children's book, but once I started listening, I was transported to magical summer childhood memories, and couldn't bring myself to stop! This would be a great book to engage kids ranging from 6 to 12-ish, or just listen to it on your own if you want to escape the real world of paying bills, doing dishes, or commuting to work!
"My daughter LOVES this story!"
My daughter absolutely loves this story & has listened to it so many times I think she has some of it memorized.
She started listenting to it at about age 7 and at age 9 still enjoys it. My older daughters also enjoy the story.
"Absolutely delightful and charming!"
I am a reading tutor and am using this on my iPod with my student to work on fluency, and reading with expression. I am finding new insights each time I listen to the story.
I love the way she performs the different voices.
"Excellent doesn't begin to describe!"
I listened to this audiobook with my 10 year old daughter, and the only thing we didn't like was when it ended. The characters became so real that she and I discussed aspects of them at times when we weren't listening. As a mother, I especially appreciated the kindness shared between the family members and friends within these chapters. This is a well-written and wonderfully narrated piece of children's literature that I highly recommend.
"A cross between Little Women and Huckleberry Finn"
The characters are so delightful! I enjoyed spending time with this family and experiencing all of their adventures with them. It is a children's book, so everything is family-friendly and kosher enough.
Unfortunately, the narrator sound a little clunky at some points. Most of the time, however, she is un-intrusive.
"Worth a Chance"
I took a chance on a potentially good story of a family made up of four girls...so myself and three boys listened to and were completely entertained. Mr. Penderwick is a good father to a highly intelligent and rambunctious group of daughters.
"5 year old loved it"
My 5 year old loved this. It's mostly character-driven, with a few little adventures and not a lot of plot but that's kind of nice for a kids' book. It's almost like Pippi Longstocking -- just some kids having a great time together; it's a very kind of 1950s plot set in modern times, which is lovely (although, like many 1950s stories, with zero racial diversity). The performance was excellent, she did different voices for the characters.
"Despite sound quality still a good listen"
The story is wonderful! The reader does a very good job with the different voices. My only complaint is that about 4 times in the audio there is skipping. It is distracting and annoying. I tried deleting the audio file from my phone and down loading it again, but it was still there.
Despite the skipping I still recommend this for the excellent story and great narration.
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text: This box is running Fedora Core 1 and so, yes, it's running a userspace balance daemon (Redhat's).I'll try out the noirqbalance option and get back to the list on that one.Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:>On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Dan Creswell wrote:>> >>>I'm having zero success in getting 2.6.3 stable under interrupt load. I>>can kill my machine in a variety of fashions all of which appear, to my>>naive eye, related to interrupt load:>>>>(1) LAN traffic via E1000 card (X is not running)>>(2) Running X for more than a few minutes - starting up a couple of>>applications whilst performing some disk-based activity (such as a>>compile) usually seems to do the trick.>>>>(2) is worth a little more examination. I have an NVIDIA card (I can>>hear you all groan) *but* I get the same results with the XFree driver>>*or* the proprietary NVIDIA driver.>>>>Disabling IO-APIC usage seems to resolve the problem.>> >>>>Does the 'noirqbalance' kernel parameter also serve as a workaround? Are>you using any userspace irq balancers?>> >>>Machine is a dual Xeon, Tyan S2665 (E7505 chipset) with an MPT-Fusion>>SCSI controller.>>>>2.4.26-pre1 and various other 2.4 kernels give me no problems at all. I>>really want to switch my machines over to 2.6 but I can't whilst this>>problem persists.>> >>>> >-To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" inthe body of a message to email@example.com majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlPlease read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/


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Dr. Zenon Knasiak offers veterinary house Calls in Seattle, Renton,
Bellevue, Redmond, Kirkland, Issaquah, Sammamish, Newcastle, Kent, Auburn, Burien and Tukwila
Compassionate Home Euthanasia for Cats and Dogs
A trip to the vet's office has never been one of your pet's favorite experiences. It generally involves a stressful car ride to an unfamiliar place. At-home euthanasia can be a great gift for your pet in their time of need. In the comfort of your own home, you are free to create a calm, soothing atmosphere by dimming the lights, playing quiet, familiar music, and lighting candles. The experience should be as peaceful as possible. Doing these things can give you a greater sense of control in a difficult time, and allow a more peaceful experience for everyone involved.
The Procedure
When the time comes, Dr. Knasiak will come to your home to help you say goodbye to your pet. After meeting with you and your family, he'll administer a series of 2 injections to your pet: The first injection is a sedative that will cause your pet to become very calm, sleepy and comfortable within 2-5 minutes. This injection is painless and does not require any restraint. When you and your pet are ready, Dr. Knasiak will administer the final injection, which is a concentrated barbiturate solution. Within several seconds the animal will lose consciousness and the body's functions will gently slow down and stop.
Following home euthanasia, many pet owners choose to have their pet's remains individually cremated (private cremation) and returned to them. Dr. Knasiak trusts and recommends St. Morris Crematory in Seattle for this service. They specialize in individual pet cremation. Non-private cremation is also available. Dr. Knasiak can transport your pet's remains directly to the crematory following euthanasia. Individually cremated remains can be picked up by owners from Dr. Knasiak's office or delivered to your home in 14 days, in a simple container or decorative urn. In non-private cremation, your pet's remains will be cremated with other animals, and their ashes cannot be returned. Also, burial at home is an option open to all owners. If you have any questions or would like to schedule an appointment, Please call Dr. Knasiak at 206-225-0463.


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Megan Newman, 'Doah Editor-In-Chief
September 18, 2013
13 dead, including the shooter and several injured in the aftermath of Monday's Navy Yard Shooting.
Around 8:15 a.m. Monday morning shots rang out in Building 197 of the Navy Yard Military Base in Washington, D.C. The Shooter, Navy Veteran, Aaron Alexis, 34 of Fort Worth, TX. reportedly began shooting from a fourth floor overlook targeting those on the first floor of the building. Employees in Building 197 began taking cover, some hid in locked offices and closets, others ran for the exits. The order of events following the initial shots is still under investigation.
Dozens of horrific personal accounts of the events include mass confusion, panic and screaming, as well as reports blood streaked hallways and bodies scattered across the floors.
Navy Commander Tim Jervis, 48, told the Washington Post of his near brush with death, the civilian man standing next to him was shot in an alleyway next to Building 197, after having just exited the building.
Victims were both Military personnel and civilians. D.C. police officer, Scott Williams, 23, was among the injured.
Alexis' motive for the shooting is still unknown, the Associated Press reported that Alexis was being treated for mental health issues including paranoia and a sleep disorder. Alexis had allegedly been hearing voices in his head in the weeks leading up to the shooting.
Alexis gained access to the military installation as a tech. employee from Hewlett-Packard, as a subcontractor who was updating computer systems at Navy and Marine Corps. installations and bases. Alexis had just begun working at the Navy Yard at the beginning of the month.
The shooting has already resulted in security review orders of all Navy and Marine Corps bases and installations. This will most likely lead up to a review of the military's background check system as Alexis had not lost his security clearance despite being having been arrested for shooting a bullet into a neighbor's apartment in 2010.
This led to his discharge from the Navy in 2011 for a "pattern of misconduct" according to a Navy official. Alexis' change in mental health should also have brought his security clearance to a review.
The FBI has taken over the investigation of the shooting along with help from local authorities. "I want the investigation to be seamless so that federal and local authorities are working together and as this investigation moves forward we will do everything in our power to make sure that whoever carried out this cowardly act is held responsible." said President Obama in a statement Monday afternoon.
As more information about the shooting and the shooter are being discovered the focus has come to the 12 people killed and the dozens of poeple injured.
Of those killed were Michael Arnold, 59, of Lorton; Sylvia Frasier, 53, of Waldorf; Kathy Gaarde, 62, of Woodbridge; John Roger Johnson; 73, of Derwood; Frank Kohler, 50, of Tall Timbers; Kenneth Bernard Proctor, 46, of Waldorf; Vishnu Schalchendia Pandit, 61, of North Potomac; Mary Francis Knight, 51, of Reston; Gerald L. Read, 58, of Alexandria; Martin Bodrog, 54, of Annandale; Richard Michael Ridgell, 52, of Westminster; Arthur Daniels, 51, of Southeast Washington.
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The influence of the American Revolution
To the American colonies, the Quebec Act was menacing—it reestablished to the north and west an area despotically ruled, predominantly French and Roman Catholic, with an alien form of land tenure. Instead of intimidating the American colonies, the act helped push the Americans to open revolt. Indeed, the first act of the American Continental Congress in 1775 was not to declare independence but to invade Canada. The failure of that invasion ensured that the continent north of the Rio Grande would, on the recognition of American independence, be divided between the Americans and the British.
Not all American colonists had supported the cause of independence, and many had resisted it in arms. At the conclusion of hostilities, these loyalists had to make their peace with the new republic, though many went into exile. The refugees, known as United Empire Loyalists, were the object of considerable concern to the British government, which sought to compensate them for their losses and to assist them in establishing new homes. Some went to the United Kingdom, others to the British West Indies, but the majority emigrated to Nova Scotia or Quebec. Nova Scotia, which to a great extent had been recently settled by American colonists, had not, except for an ineffectual rising or two, joined the revolting colonies. Overawed by British sea power and by the fortress of Halifax, Nova Scotians at first kept quiet, and later many of them even made fortunes privateering against American commerce. Easily reached by sea from New York, Nova Scotia became the chief refuge of the loyalists. Some settled in the peninsula itself, some in Cape Breton and in the separate colony of Prince Edward Island. A large number, however, settled along the St. John River, north of the Bay of Fundy. Dissatisfied with tardy government from Halifax, they promptly agitated for a government of their own, and equally promptly the new province of New Brunswick was created for them in 1784, with its own governor and assembly.
In Quebec the loyalists simply crossed the new frontier and settled along the St. Lawrence River to the west of the old French settlements. Their impact in Quebec was even greater than in Nova Scotia and led to the creation of the Constitutional Act of 1791. The loyalists who settled in Central Canada were for the most part quite different from those who went to what were soon to be called the Maritime colonies (later the Maritime Provinces). The latter had possessed an elite of government officials and professional men, often loyalist regiments with their officers and men, from the long-settled seaboard areas. The Central Canadian loyalists, however, were largely from upper New York, especially the Mohawk valley country, and from Pennsylvania and were almost wholly simple frontier folk and recent immigrants, driven from their homes by neighbours who often used the Revolution to dispossess them of their lands (thus explaining the bitter fighting along the frontier and the long loyalist hatred in the new province for all things American). Their coming transformed the character of the population of Quebec. That province had been given a government much like that of New France, except for the important office of intendant, and the province was in population almost wholly French, as it was in civil law. Most loyalists had one desire, to hold the land granted them in simple ownership, something the civil law of Quebec did not allow. Some of them—how many is uncertain—also wanted representative government, which was denied by the Quebec Act. Their representations reached London and were listened to with respect.
The Constitutional Act of 1791
The appeals of the loyalists caused a great problem for the British government. The measures taken in the Quebec Act to conciliate the French could not in honour or policy be withdrawn. Yet the loyalists could not be required to live under French civil and land law and without the representative assembly to which they were accustomed. One obvious answer was to divide Quebec into separate French and English provinces. The English province would have, of course, English common law and an assembly. The French province might have been left with the forms of government provided by the Quebec Act. But there had already been one revolution in America, and by 1789 another had broken out in France. British statesmen felt that the former had occurred partly because Americans had not been granted the British constitution in its proper forms. From this view, the thing to do was to give both the new province and Quebec the British constitution in its entirety as far as circumstances might permit. The result would be, it was hoped, to assimilate the French population.
After a fiery debate in the British House of Commons, the Constitutional Act of 1791 gave the same constitution to the colonies of Upper and Lower Canada (now Ontario and Quebec, respectively). Nothing that had been given the French in 1774 was revoked, but the form of government was changed to the familiar one of governor with his executive council, a legislative council, and an assembly elected on what was for the time a wide franchise. The result of this last provision was that the first assembly in 1792 had a majority of French members.
National growth in the early 19th century
Population trends
The influx of loyalists changed the composition of the population of the British North American colonies by adding elements at once American yet profoundly attached to British institutions; it also increased the population by some 6,000 in the old province of Quebec. To these were to be added the unknown numbers of "late loyalists"—settlers, primarily land seekers, who arrived from the northern states as late as 1812. Some 80,000 came to Nova Scotia, although not all remained; of these, about 20,000 settled in what became New Brunswick, and a few hundred on Prince Edward Island.
The newcomers also added to the growing diversity of the population of the colonies. In Newfoundland there were already the West Country English and a growing number of Irish—a total of more than 26,000 by 1806. Nova Scotia had, in addition to New Englanders, loyalists, and Yorkshiremen, the Germans of Lunenburg and the Highland Scots of Pictou county and of Cape Breton Island—in all, an estimated 65,000 in 1806, with 2,513 on Cape Breton Island. New Brunswick had a population of about 35,000 in 1806, mostly loyalists or of loyalist descent, but already the southern Irish, drawn by the timber trade, were beginning to appear on the rivers of the north shore. Prince Edward Island, with a population of 9,676 in 1806, had some Acadians, some loyalists, some English, Scots, and Irish. In Upper Canada in 1806 the population numbered 70,718; in Lower Canada it was estimated at 250,000.
The first Canadian population mosaic had taken shape as it was to remain for a century, a mixture of British, French, and German. The British element was to be steadily reinforced by northern English (coming by way of Liverpool), Highland and Lowland Scots, and southern and northern Irish. The result was the creation of a society in which religious liberty and a great measure of social equality were necessary for social cohesion and common effort.
Until 1815, however, the number of immigrants was small: Highlanders for Glengarry county in Upper Canada, disbanded soldiers in Lanark county south of the Ottawa River, and a straggle of Irish after the rebellion of 1798 was crushed. Nor did the numbers increase appreciably after 1815; not until 1830 did the English, Scottish, and Irish begin coming to the British North American colonies in great volume. Thereafter, thousands arrived each year. The British North American colonies became predominantly British in population, except in Lower Canada, a fact that was to determine the course of Canadian history for the next 100 years.


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McClaren poised for Derby County return
Steve McClaren is expected to be appointed as Derby County head coach on Wednesday just 17 months after he was sacked, BBC Radio Derby reports.
Nigel Pearson left his role as boss by mutual consent on Saturday after less than five months, and McClaren, 55, has been in talks with the Rams.
Chris Powell, who has been in temporary charge, is expected to return to his role as assistant manager.
Ex-England boss McClaren left Derby in acrimonious circumstances in May 2015.
Following constant speculation linking him with the job at Newcastle, McClaren subsequently joined the Magpies but was sacked in March 2016.
Pearson, who replaced Paul Clement as boss, was originally suspended by the Championship side pending a club investigation into his "behaviour" following a heated exchange with owner Mel Morris.
McClaren won just six of 28 Premier League games in charge of Newcastle, who were just one place off the foot of the table when he departed and they were eventually relegated.
He only spent two seasons with the Rams, leading them to Championship play-off final defeat by QPR in 2013-2014.
Derby lost 3-0 at home to Reading on the final day of the following season, meaning they missed out on the play-offs after ending February top of the table, and McClaren was sacked in the same month.
BBC Radio 5 live's Pat Murphy said: "McClaren was interviewed last night just hours after Morris spoke warmly to a business leaders' conference about the head coach he sacked almost 18 months ago after the club's season had imploded.
"McClaren is recognised as one of England's outstanding coaches and Powell – who played for him at Derby in the 1990s when McClaren was first-team coach – is happy to work under him.
"It will be McClaren's fourth spell at Derby. His contract will run to summer 2018 and he's expected to be in the dug-out for the Leeds match this Saturday. The rest of the coaching staff will be kept on."
As well as coaching England from 2006-07, McClaren was previously manager at Middlesbrough, FC Twente, Wolfsburg and Nottingham Forest.
McClaren U-turn a 'shock'
Analysis: BBC Radio Derby's Owen Bradley
"Shocked is an understatement considering the nature of Steve McClaren's departure.
"Though he was ultimately sacked, McClaren damaged lots of relationships at the club by never bringing to an end the links with Newcastle. In the eyes of some, that derailed Derby's promotion campaign.
"Mel Morris is a big fan of McClaren's quality as a coach, but was part of the group that sacked him. If that relationship has been repaired then it will happen."


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