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What's NEW in YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE and How to Use It In Your Program (Grades 6-12) - 2019 -
Presented by Shauna Yusko
Specifically Designed for Secondary Teachers, School Librarians and Public Librarians
- A comprehensive overview of the best, new books for young adults published in the past year
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In this outstanding seminar, Shauna Yusko will share the best, NEW books for young adults, all of which have just recently been published. Shauna will go beyond familiarizing you with the best of the newly published titles to share practical strategies for using these outstanding books in your classroom or library.
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All participants will leave with extensive annotated bibliographies in a comprehensive resource handbook full of outstanding ideas that you can immediately put to use to motivate and inspire your young adult readers.
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- Preview the Best, New Young Adult Books
Thousands of new books for young adults are published annually … Learn about the BEST of the most recently published young adult books
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Learn innovative strategies for utilizing the best, new books for young adults to enhance content instruction as well as your library program
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One of the fastest growing genres in young adult literature is realistic fiction … Hear about popular new titles and receive a genre listing to share with students
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Get students reading by using Web 2.0 tools to introduce the best young adult books to your classes … Discover practical ways to use QR codes to promote titles
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Rigorous classroom reading instruction still needs to be complemented with practice at home … Here's how to motivate a wide range of readers, from gifted students to reluctant readers, with books and strategies for everyone
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Find out what is happening in the teen publishing world and how you can connect with top-notch online resources
- Receive a Valuable Young Adult Literature Resource Handbook
Each seminar participant will receive a resource handbook filled with extensive topic and subject oriented bibliographies and ready-to-use activities and resources
Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately
- The best, NEW literature to use with teens
- New titles by authors who have proven their popularity with teens … Gain ideas to tie these titles to the curriculum
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- What's new in a variety of genres
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Dear Colleague:
I admit it. I have always loved to read. I was the kid who read with a flashlight under the covers. I was the teen who read instead of revising my Language Arts essay. I'm the adult who always has a book by my bed, in my bag, and on my Overdrive and Audible apps. I get excited when I see a new book. I am not allowed in bookstores with a credit card. Chances are you have a similar story – most of us were readers.
In our fantasy world of reading and teens, every student would be happy and smiling and carrying around a book bag of fresh new, inspiring books. Reading would be a part of, and a choice in, every teen's day.
As a current school librarian, I know the research that says the more students read, the more they learn and the better they do on various achievement tests. Readers not only become more curious about the world and their place in it, but they become better writers and better students. But the reality is, many students these days have very little time for reading for pleasure. Or at least, they think they don't. That is why we must work to build a culture of readers – where reading is seen as enjoyable and important.
To create a world of readers we need to arm ourselves with knowledge and enthusiasm! I'll help you find books that will be read and books you can teach. I'll share books that will inspire teens to finish one book and pick up another. I've been reading extensively to bring you recent titles that will add to your repertoire of books and I'll share my passion for young adult literature with you.
I believe that every student is a reader. All we have to do is find the right book, the right story, to allow that reader to emerge. Of course, the challenge is finding just the right book. You've all experienced that moment when you match the teen and the story. It's magic! During the course of the day, I will share a wide variety of titles that will help you make that special connection. We will talk about the newest titles for 2018 that teens will want to read.
I look forward to spending the day together, doing what readers love to do: talk about books!
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P.S. If you are looking for the best, new books that will engage and motivate your teen readers, this is a seminar you won't want to miss!
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Specifically designed for Secondary Teachers, School Librarians and Public Librarians
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Extensive Young Adult Literature Resource Handbook
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Houma-Thibodaux's unemployment rate declined in March from a year earlier to 4.1 percent, the lowest of any Louisiana metro area, state figures show.
The preliminary jobless rate for the local metro area, which covers Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes, is up from 4 percent in February, according to the Louisiana Workforce Commission. It was 4.7 percent a year ago.
The area posted the lowest unemployment rate among Louisiana's eight metro areas every month this year and last year except for October.
Houma-Thibodaux had 95,800 people employed in March, up 500 for the month and 2,100 jobs for the year, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.
Louisiana's unemployment rate was 6 percent in March, down from 6.6 percent a year earlier but up from 5.8 percent in February.
"Louisiana employers continue to add jobs, which is why the unemployment rate in most of the state was better in March than a year ago," Louisiana Workforce Commission Executive Director Curt Eysink said.
About 1.9 million people were employed across the state in March, an increase of 10,529 over the year and 164 over the month.
The number of unemployed in Louisiana was 123,780 in March, a decrease of 13,399 over the year but an increase of 3,905 over the month.
The figures exclude farm jobs and are not adjusted for seasonal variations such as an increase in farm labor during harvest season or temporary retail hiring during holidays.
March unemployment rates in other metro areas compared to a year earlier were:
- Monroe, 6.5 percent, down from 7.2 percent.
- Shreveport, 6.5 percent, up from 6.4 percent.
- New Orleans, 6.0 percent, down from 6.7 percent.
- Alexandria, 6.0 percent, down from 6.5 percent.
- Baton Rouge, 5.8 percent, down from 6.6 percent.
- Lake Charles, 5.4 percent, down from 6.1 percent.
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The investigation into Jameis Winston's role in a sexual battery allegation had been "inactive" in February because the complainant told police she didn't want to pursue charges, according to an email sent by a city official last week. But a Tallahassee police spokesman says the case was made active again earlier this month not because of media attention, but because of "a new piece of information."
The Tallahassee Democrat has obtained a letter from City Manager Anita Favors Thompson to city commissioners, written last Tuesday, after the Tampa Bay Times and TMZ had sought access to the police report of the December 2012 incident, but before the report was released to media. It sheds more light on the incident, and also on how TPD handled it over the last year.
The email, Favors Thompson said the Tallahassee Police Department followed up on the case referred to it by Florida State University police "against FSU football player Jameis Winston" by a woman who indicated she was intoxicated at a local bar and was taken advantage of while impaired. TPD initiated an investigation and began to interview witnesses and compile details on the case, but stopped getting responses from the woman and could no longer contact her.
"Shortly thereafter a representative of the young woman's family who is an attorney contacted TPD and said the young woman had changed her mind and did not wish to prosecute," the email said.
Sometime in February, the case was moved from the designation "open-active" to "open-inactive," which would explain the initial confusion about whether the case had been closed.
The city not only alerted officials to what was sure to become a major news story, but also FSU's president and campus police.
A major question is what spurred police to reactivate the investigation, which had been dormant for nine months. A Nov. 8 inquiry from Tampa Bay Times reporter Matt Baker appears to have gotten things moving, but TPD spokesman David Northway said there was more to it.
"Someone integrally involved has (to have) given us a new piece of information," Northway told the Democrat this week. "It has to be someone involved in the case (who) provides a lead to reactivate it."
So: still very confusing, and not likely to be cleared up any time soon. Once the case was sent to the state attorney's office, it was determined that there was more investigation to be done, and its status was switched back to "open-active." That means the file and any updates on the case are entirely closed to the media.


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Bitcoin just can't seem to shake its association with the underworld.
The arrest announced Monday of Charlie Shrem, a New York-based bitcoin entrepreneur for alleged links to illegal drugs exchange Silk Road, brought bitcoin squarely back into association with activities -- drug purchases, money-laundering -- that its more mainstream advocates have sought to downplay.
The cryptocurrency has emerged as a darling of venture capitalists, championed by both young entrepreneurs and Internet legends like Marc Andreeson, who are eager to establish the digital currency as the next frontier for financial payments. But law enforcement has shown it's ready to act if --in officials' words -- bitcoin is used for very "old-fashioned" crimes.
"Truly innovative business models don't need to resort to old-fashioned law-breaking, and when Bitcoins, like any traditional currency, are laundered and used to fuel criminal activity, law enforcement has no choice but to act," said U.S. attorney Preet Bharara in a statement.
Shrem, the chief executive of the bitcoin company BitInstant and vice chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation, was arrested Sunday at John F. Kennedy International Airport. The Justice Department also unveiled the arrest of Robert M. Faiella, an underground bitcoin exchanger known as "BTCKing."
The two were allegedly involved in a scheme to sell more than $1 million in bitcoin to users of the bitcoin-only drug market Silk Road, which was seized by authorities in October. Charges include conspiring to commit money laundering and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business. Shrem, 24, was additionally charged with violating the Bank Secrecy Act, as he allegedly failed to report suspicious activity regarding Faiella's illegal transactions through his company. The complaint doesn't list BitInstant by name.
"We are surprised and shocked by the news today. As a foundation, we take these allegations seriously and do not condone illegal activity," said a spokesperson for the Bitcoin Foundation in an email.
Shrem's arrest illustrates a tug-of-war between the old and new proponents of bitcoin. Bitcoin is a virtual currency that its proponents have also described as a way to revolutionize payments. The concept was first circulated on a mailing list in 2008. In its early years, bitcoin was often associated activities such as buying banned drugs on the Internet through the website Silk Road. But interest in bitcoin, along with its price, surged in 2013 as bitcoin companies attracted funds from prominent investors, some of whom were involved in early Internet companies. The Senate held its first hearing on bitcoin and other virtual currencies in November that was described as pretty positive for bitcoin, propelling prices above $1,000 in the wake of the event.
The virtual currency isn't created by a central bank, but instead relies on a process called mining that pits computers against each other in a race to solve cryptographic problems. The correct winners -- computers often band together to mine as a group -- are awarded a block of bitcoin. The first block of bitcoin was mined in January 2009.
Shrem co-founded BitInstant in 2011 with a $10,000 investment from his mother. Since then, BitInstant raised $1.5 million in a seed round led by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss in May 2013. Shrem is also the co-owner of the New York City bar EVR, which accepts bitcoins.
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss issued a statement in the wake of the arrest:
"When we invested in BitInstant in the fall of 2012, its management made a commitment to us that they would abide by all applicable laws - including money laundering laws - and we expected nothing less. Although BitInstant is not named in today's indictment of Charlie Shrem, we are obviously deeply concerned about his arrest. We were passive investors in BitInstant and will do everything we can to help law enforcement officials. We fully support any and all governmental efforts to ensure that money laundering requirements are enforced, and look forward to clearer regulation being implemented on the purchase and sale of bitcoins."
The Winklevoss twins and other major players in the bitcoin space are expected to speak at a few bitcoin events this week, including a two-day hearing run by the New York State Department for Financial Services that begins tomorrow.
Here are some reactions on Twitter:
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Read more about bitcoin on MarketWatch:
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Monday, July 2, 2012
Leadman Race #1
The Leadville Marathon.
26.2 miles in 3:45.
8:36 pace with 6000+ vertical gain.
Course profile:
Whew. So happy to get that first race done! I had never stepped foot on the Leadville Marathon course so my time goal was arbitrary and really I just wanted feel OK and race well. Neither of those panned out. My climbing legs were absent from the gun and I never felt good on the climbs (excuse #1- too much biking in the last few weeks I think), a bad thing with that course profile. The winner, Marshall Thomson, was over a minute behind me at Mt Evans two weeks ago but today he simply ran away from me in the opening mile. By mile 4 I had completely disengaged from racing and started to think about my training on the bike this coming week (excuse #2). I hiked much of Mosquito Pass (miles 10-13) and on the descent I developed blisters on the balls of both my feet (excuse #3), something another athlete said also happened with her Hokas. By mile 16 I was in total shut down mode trying to run gingerly to avoid having the blisters open up (excuse #4) and I simply held a steady relaxed effort to the finish hoping that it was enough to put time on my fellow Leadman competitors. A bad race that luckily turned out OK so I can't whine (much).
Sunday my legs felt very good and I was able to get in a solid bike. The blisters are only mild and won't be an issue, had I tried to hammer the last 10 miles it may have turned out much worse... so a couple of positives.
The next race is the Silver Rush 50 mile mountain bike in two weeks. Last year this was the race that put me in the emergency room for a ct scan, so I have a demon. From the day I entered Leadman this race has weighed heavily on my mind, maybe more than the 100 run. It's a good reminder that in order to win Leadman you first have to finish and that anything can happen.
15 comments:
- Steve Pero said...
Nice effort...maybe not what you wanted for that particular race, but being almost an hour ahead of the next Leadman is great!
Best of luck with the rest of the series...
- July 02, 2012
- Brett said...
Yea but I can see from the chart the course is very flat from mile 24.3 to mile 24.4. :?)
Great start, and good job of keeping everything in perspective. I would imagine the lion's share of time differences will come down to the longer 100 mile distances.
- July 02, 2012
- Wassdoc said...
Remarkable that despite all of your travails that you still finished ahead of Tim DeBoom. I wonder how he felt out there. Interesting comments on the bike training going in, which might have sapped your legs for the marathon, but will help you for the upcoming bike events. It's got to be very tricky trying to prepare for each and all of the events and be at the top of your game for all of them. What's with the shoes? You've worn them before without this problem. Was it too hot out (more sweat)? Was it your socks (friction)? I'm curious. Since you normally don't have issues with blisters, you probably don't do anything to prevent them like vaseline/body glide, etc. By the way, if I recall correctly, you were in the lead when you crashed last year, trying to tear up the course. I imagine that you'll be slightly less aggressive, or not, this year? Congratulations on a great start to Leadman!
- July 02, 2012
- Damie said...
sweet! Yes...finish or it doesn't count. Lot's of opportunity with all of this to accomplish so many different things. Sending you good vibes!
- July 02, 2012
- Brandon Fuller said...
So the conventional wisdom says to take that race easy because you have bigger fish to fry in the series. Doesn't sound like you respected that but I think your goals are different.
Hokas = Blisters. They generate too much heat inside the shoe. I did better at WS100 with Injinji socks to combat that in that toes. Plus, water in the shoes never hurts. That being said, I haven't ever got out of that course without some kind of heal trouble. That last 5 miles down the road running 7 or so minute miles just pounds the shit out of you in ways you won't have to deal with the rest of the season.
- July 02, 2012
- Matt Newell said...
Solid day Lucho! Go get it... Demons be damned!!!
- July 02, 2012
- James said...
Great Job Time!! It was great to finally meet you!! Best of luck with the rest of the Leadman. We're all pulling for you!
- July 02, 2012
- Dave said...
Tim! So proud of you, that is an awesome race on that course. And it's an end in itself, you know? Sometimes overcoming internal adversity is the biggest accomplishment. If you felt perfect, it would have been perfectly easy, and that will be no f**king fun when the book of Leadman is written.
- July 03, 2012
- Brett said...
BF, not so sure about Hokas and blisters. I ran a hot Bighorn race recently (+/- 10,000 feet of vertical) and only had tiny blister problems which were from stepping on the sides of rocks. I would be more interested to hear if he heel strikes any when going downhill. I think even a little of that creates a ton of repeated forward sliding of the heel inside the shoe.
- July 03, 2012
- Lucho said...
Thanks everyone!
Mike- Tim DeBoom is a new dad and has only run long a couple of times this year. He was out there just for fun.
Brett/ Brandon- I think the blisters were from pushing the downhills. I need to wear them a bit more before Pb to get used to them or decide to ditch them completely.
- July 03, 2012
- Brandon Fuller said...
Everybody is different -- read Fixing Your Feet if you haven't. Worthwhile. But I have heard more than not getting them because of the density of the upper.
- July 03, 2012
- Lucho said...
I agree Brandon, no way to predict how a shoe will feel on everyone. Biomechanics are a huge cause of blisters so how your foot lands is key. I definitely don't like the uppers on the Hokas. I ended up cutting away a bunch of extra material to make them more supple.
- July 03, 2012
- Jay said...
Had same issue with balls of my feet in Bondi B's last year at Pb100. Ended up having to walk in from about the dam but still <25. Need to experiment with some duct tape or glide on my feet at Silver Rush.
- July 07, 2012
- Lucho said...
Jay- I'm definitely nervous about them at Pb. I'm thinking about changing to my Nike Lunars for Hope Pass. I think it was the severe descending/ climbing that gave me blisters.
- July 08, 2012
- the runner said...
Good work man. All that elevation work paid off. Nice pace.
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The Rules
Rather than go over all the details, we'll just hit the highlights of what the teams were required to accomplish to win. Holley supplied a complete LS6 engine for each team complete with all the necessary pieces, including a Holley intake and an HP EFI system with the wiring harness. Hooker headers were also supplied but were not required, nor was an exhaust system. The teams were selected from a bank of entries, and Holley's Bill Tichenor told us that most teams failed to supply sufficient information and were bounced before the selection process even began. Once the two teams were selected, the car had to drive from the track's main gate to the site under its own power and was allowed to cool down. Four team members were allowed to work on the car, but only with handtools. No power tools were allowed except for unexpected fabrication work. The official time would end when the car started and moved 10 feet under its own power. Holley reps would then inspect the car and assess penalties for loose bolts or other infractions. The final test was a short drive to ensure the car was properly assembled. If it failed the drive, the timer would start again and the team would have to repair and retest the car.
The Engine Swap Challenge
At the horn, both teams attacked their cars. The first surprise came almost immediately from Team Olds when the front bumper fell off within seconds, and in less than two minutes the entire front clip was sitting on the ground next to the car. Team Camaro had barely begun its effort, and it appeared that the team was almost instantly behind. Justin told me later, "Our goal was five minutes to get the old engine out, and we did it in six." Justin's friend Trent Lower was the one who put the most amount of effort into their preparation. "He's a fabricator, so he'll look at something until he figures out a way to make it work better," Justin says. Just after this event, Trent put those talents to work at a shop of his own called Iowa County Customs in Parnell, Iowa. The Olds team looked almost choreographed, where each member had precisely defined tasks. We noticed that when Clay turned the small-block over with the crank bolt there were marks on the balancer to indicate where the converter bolts would be accessible, and the rumor was that the bolts holding the converter in place were very short. We also witnessed a battery quick-disconnect, fuel quick-connect fittings, and radiator hoses with hand-twist clamps preconfigured for the LS engine. While the crew was removing the old engine, Justin was making all the wiring harness connections for the EFI system and filling the engine with oil. With very little drama, the old small-block lay on the ground, and the LS6 slipped right into place.
At around the 11-minute mark, Team Olds had its LS6 bolted in place while Team Camaro was making headway, having removed the Rat. But the Camaro guys were hampered by adding a new flywheel and mechanical clutch linkage adapter on the new LS engine before it could go back in. That's when disaster struck. The mechanical clutch linkage adapter hit a boss on the block that needed some tweaking. While hammering on the aluminum-block boss, the impacts cracked the block through to the water jacket, which immediately began leaking. A Holley representative was called in, but the damage had been done.
Team Olds was aware of some kind of problem with the Camaro, but its members were running their own race. As the announcer acknowledged the 20-minute mark, the whole team let out an audible groan, and it was apparent that this had been their goal. As it was, they weren't far off. Attempting to use the Hooker headers burned a few minutes when the passenger-side header crashed into the trans shift linkage, necessitating a switch to stock exhaust manifolds. In less than 30 minutes, Justin fired the engine to ensure it would run, and then the team jammed to complete the reassembly. A scant few seconds later, the front clip was dropped back onto the body, and with sweat dripping, Trent climbed behind the wheel, fired the engine, and backed up the car the required distance to stop the timers. A postswap inspection revealed only a loose throttle linkage, and the final official time was posted as an astonishing 31 minutes, 57 seconds. Considering Holley had allowed room in the schedule for the Engine Swap Challenge to continue through to the following Sunday if necessary, Team Olds had just placed an impressive elapsed time line in the sand for future competitors.
The RideTech Suspension Challenge
It doesn't take long for you to learn that Olds' owner Justin Dermody is a hustler. Not more than 10 minutes after his team had completed the Engine Swap Challenge, he walked down to the RideTech trailer to see what kind of deal he could swing on a complete pneumatic suspension system from company owner Brett Voelkel. Brett just happened to have a complete A-body chassis on display sitting in front of his trailer. Brett said, "Tell you what, you bring your car over here, and if you guys can swap the complete suspension over before the end of the day, you can have it." Clearly, Justin and his guys were on a roll. Then Brett suggested they baseline the car on the slalom and then test it again after the suspension swap. They bolted the Hooker headers on the Olds after removing the shift linkage, Justin and Brett donned helmets, and Brett flogged the Olds through the wet/dry slalom course. Then Team Olds rolled the big Snap-on toolbox in front of the RideTech trailer and let the wrenches fly. Three hours and six minutes later, after battling 40-year-old rusted bolts that had never been off the car, the Olds was sitting on a complete RideTech Street Challenge Level 3 suspension that includes both the front strong-arm pieces with the muscle car front sway bar along with the matching rear system and controlled by the Ride PROe3 control system. When Brett blasted through the autocross course again with the new suspension in place, the upgrade was worth 16 seconds-all accomplished in less than four hours. Amazing.
The '11 Engine Swap Challenge
Holley had so much fun with this year's event that you can expect to see an improved (which means much more challenging) version of the Car Craft Engine Swap Challenge at next year's event. The dates are already locked in for September 9-11, 2011, at Beech Bend Raceway Park in Bowling Green, Kentucky. For updated information, check out LSfest.com.


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25-year-old Meadows looking to make history as city�s youngest mayor
A new candidate has entered the mayoral race in Kinston.
Adrien Meadows � who currently works at the Smithfield Plant in Kinston � filed for mayor of the city right before the Lenoir County Board of Elections closed Wednesday. Meadows joins Ralph Clark and John Marks as candidates for the position that will be filled after the current term of Kinston Mayor B.J. Murphy � who said he will not run for re-election � ends.
At 25 years old, Meadows would be the youngest mayor in the history of Kinston if he wins. Murphy was 29 when he was elected in 2009.
�There are a lot of problems in the city and things aren�t getting better,� Meadows said. �Nothing is really being solved and I figured, �if you need something done right you need to do it yourself.��
Meadows believes he can use his age to an advantage by being a beacon of hope to some of the younger residents of Kinston.
�Our future is looking bleak,� Meadows said. �Someone needs to stand up for the young people because this isn�t right. Things need to be done; otherwise there won�t be a future.�
Meadows graduated from Kinston High School in 2006 and attended Elizabeth City State University. During his time in college, Meadows was the chapter president of Alpha Phi Omega National Service Fraternity for a year, committee chairman of Relay for Life for two years and a committee member of the March of Dimes for two years.
Although Meadows doesn�t have political experience, he believes his ability to lead and his point of views on life make him a worthy candidate.
�Besides my leadership skills, I have perspectives of the world,� Meadows said. �I can sense everyone�s struggle and pain. Everyone is looking for a way out and the economy is getting worse. I fear the middle class and those in poverty will become desperate. When that happens, crime goes up.�
Meadows said he wants the residents of Kinston to know that he is ready to work and do big things for the city.
�I�m here to fix problems and do my best to really make a difference,� Meadows said.
Junious Smith III can be reached at 252-559-1077 and firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at @JuniousSmithIII.
Campaign filings
Here is the list of those who have filed for November�s elections in Lenoir, Greene and Jones counties. Thursday�s filers are in bold.
Mayor� � Ralph Clark, John Marks, Adrien Meadows
City Councilman (two seats) � Robbie Swinson(incumbent)
La Grange
Town commissioners (three seats) � David Holmes (incumbent), Bobby Wooten (incumbent), Veronica �Nicky� Lee (incumbent)
Pink Hill
Town board members (two seats) � Robin King Whaley
Mayor � Bobby Taylor (incumbent)
Town commissioners (two seats) � none
Snow Hill
Mayor � Dennis Liles (incumbent)
Town commissioners (three seats) � Rebecca �Becky� Scarborough (incumbent), Geraldine �Pat� Shackleford (incumbent), Robert �Bobby� Taylor Jr. (incumbent)
Mayor � Susan McKeel Casper (incumbent)
Town commissioners (five seats) � Fitzhugh McKeel Jr. (incumbent)
Maury Sanitation Land District
Board member (three seats) � Julian Jones Jr. (incumbent)
Mayor � Darlene Spivey (incumbent)
Town commissioners (three seats) � Daniel Johnson Willis, Robert Horvath (incumbent)
Mayor � none
Town commissioners (five seats) � Brenda Foy, David Chatman, Bobby Flowers (incumbent)
Mayor � James Bender (incumbent)
Town commissioners (two seats) � none
Sources: Dana King, Director of the Lenoir County Board of Elections; Gail Lee, Director of the Jones County Board of Elections and Jane Monroe, Director of the Greene County Board of Elections


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From: Germany
Genre: Dance/Electronica, House, Chillout
Tom Cloverfield is musician, composer, DJ and producer who became an important figure in the world of house and chillout music on the German electronic music scene. Meanwhile his songs are played by radio stations and famous clubs all over the world.
He releases his work through his own label, Ultrasonic Music Germany.
After a handful of well-received singles his full length debut album E-Talk was released in 2009. The next albums Universe and Sunny followed 2010, Jewels For Ibiza was released 2011. His t…


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Friday, October 21, 2011
Grandma and her wagon
Not exactly a genealogy funny but I love it. This is my grandmother. She was born in 1900. She was raised to be a proper young lady, dressed nicely and with the idea of "cleanliness is next to Godliness". Not sure what happened here. Wish I had ask her for details.
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Unit F: Things That Move
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- Sounds All Around
- Summary: This simple text illustrates that sounds surround us.
On Level
- Heat and Eat!
- Summary: People have different ways of heating their food.
- Shadows
- Summary: Light shining on different objects casts different shadows.
- Guess Whose Shadow?
- Photos of shadows of all shapes and sizes accompany simple text describing how shadows are made.
- All About Sounds
- Simple words and photos clearly present the concept of sound.
- Light: Shadows, Mirrors, and Rainbows
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He was asked about the benefit of aerodynamic road frames for mass-start racing. These frames claim to save approximately 1% to 2% of total wind resistance. There's a bunch of them. Kestrel was really the first to my knowledge with their carbon fiber Talon, although that failed to catch on among the mass-start crowd. Cervelo was the first to really break through with its aluminum Soloist, followed by Soloist Carbon (SLC), SLC-SL, and finally this year the S-series. More recently, Felt (with its AR) and Ridley (with its Noah) have jumped on board. There's still others. Chris Boardman claims to be testing an aero road frame.
Yet the pros are sometimes reluctant to take advantage of these. While Cervelo was largely successful with its SLC, and even more so with its S3, at getting pro riders on their aero frame, on Garmin, for example, despite the much-publicized AR series debut at last year's Tour, this year (so far) the riders are all on the "conventional" F1. And when Kestrel broke into the pro ranks with its Rock Racing sponsorship, it's with the RT-900 as opposed to the Talon or Talon SL.
So why? Lennard says aero isn't a benefit in any significant cross-wind. He cites data on the Hed web site, that resistance of aero rims begins to increase above 8 degrees yaw. Let's check out some of the data he references, using Zipp wheels to limit the number of variables other than rim depth:
As Zinn notes, the resistance does increase for the deepest dish rims above a certain yaw, in this case 10 degrees. However, an advantage over shallower dish is retained out to at least 20 degrees. For a racing bike moving along at typically 10 meters per second or more, a 20 degree yaw represents a near-surface cross-wind component of 3.6 meters per second. That's 3.3 meters per second even if longitudinal relative wind is reduced 10%, a ballpark number for drafting benefit. Basically, 20 degree yaw relatively large under the vast majority of conditions.
The pros seem to agree. For essentially all mass-start races from tight criteriums to epic Tour stages, riders are on deep dish wheels. The days of 25.4 mm are long gone. The only evident exception is the cobbled classics like Paris-Roubaix and Flanders, where while deep carbon is becoming popular, old school metal rims are still relatively common due to their reliability.
Zinn argues that the mass penalty of profiled tube road frames makes them an unwise choice for criteriums, where accelerating out of corners makes low mass a premium. Lennard, Lennard, Lennard. I know you know how to run numbers.
Consider sprinting out of a tight corner from 30 kph to 45 kph over 5 seconds. For a rider + bike totaling even 75 kg, that's 650 watts into acceleration alone, not counting wind resistance. But the mass difference of an aero frame and post relative to a non-aero frame and post is only around 150 grams (compare the Kestrel Talon SL to the Fuji SL-1, for example, each relatively unpainted carbon road frames: paint would increase the differential). The extra power to accelerate the heavier frame over the same 5 seconds is only 1.3 watts. Yet wind tunnel data at multiple yaw angles shows the aerodynamic frame saves at least this much at these speeds. So even in the tight corner the aero frame may be better. The rest of the lap, the aero benefit is just icing on the cake.
So why aren't the pro riders jumping all over the aero revolution? The obvious answers are comfort, stiffness, handling, and/or geometry. Pros like stiff frames, generally, perhaps not for simple reasons of energy transfer efficiency (analysis has shown that substantial majority of energy going into frame flex is returned through the drivetrain into propulsion), but in how the bike feels. With Cervelo, the geometry is the same between the S (aero) and R (conventional) series, but for example with Felt the two differ substantially, the AR having longer head tubes at the same front-center distance. That may be an issue with Garmin.
So I think Zinn got lazy here. He started with the answer he wanted, then kludged reasoning to justify that. But the question is obviously more complicated. From wind tunnel data, you'd think every cat 4 would be on an aero frame just to be competitive. But at the top, pros keep winning races on "conventional" frames.


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Former F1 driver Zanardi returns to auto racing
January 21, 2014
MUNICH (AP) — Former Formula One driver and Paralympic handbike champion Alessandro Zanardi will return to auto racing this year.
BMW Motorsport says the 47-year-old Italian will drive one of its cars in the Blancpain GT Sprint Series. The BMW Z4 model will be specially modified for Zanardi, who lost both his legs in a CART series accident in Germany in 2001.
Zanardi, who later returned to motor racing in different series before retiring in 2009, will race in six of seven races on the circuit.
Zanardi won two gold medals at the 2012 London Olympics in handcycling, a sport in which the bike is powered by the arms.
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Let the Sun Shine
January 2014 – Solar energy is booming across the country and around the world, because it is increasingly affordable, productive and reliable. Utilities in California and Colorado that only recently were considering building natural gas-powered generating plants have announced they will use solar instead, because it's cheaper.
Costs are down for residential solar installations, too, and a big selling point for home and business owners is the ability to net-meter, or sell back to the utility the excess electricity their systems generate. Actually, no money changes hands in this arrangement. Customers are credited for the electricity their solar panels feed into the grid, which reduces their utility bills. In New York State, net metering is limited to 10% over the amount the building uses. In the case of a business, a school or municipality, this electricity can be credited to another site owned by the same entity.
This is such great news for consumers and for the environment; wouldn't you think everyone would be celebrating? Unfortunately, the fossil fuel industry's response is to try to shut it all down. Their designated weapon is ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council. ALEC ghost-writes and promotes industry-friendly legislation to protect the interests of their corporate clients.
In the case of residential solar electric generation, the plan of attack is to persuade state legislatures to approve a tax on residential solar generation, claiming that homeowners who install solar panels are "freeloading" on the distribution system – the grid – and should be charged to "sell" their electricity to other customers. In November, Arizona became the first state to penalize homeowners with solar installations, imposing an average monthly surcharge of $5 per residential customer. New Mexico followed suit. While these charges fall far short of the outrageous $100 monthly surcharge the ALEC legislation originally sought, it is nevertheless an egregious misrepresentation of the mechanism of net metering, a deception that ultimately harms the utilities as well as homeowners.
Independent research by the Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) reveals that net metering actually provides a significant financial benefit to utilities, making nonsense of ALEC's argument. IREC's analysis of New Mexico's surcharge found that on-site generation helped the utility avoid energy costs, line losses, capacity upgrades, and transmission costs, and that these benefits added up to more than 15 cents for every kilowatt hour (kWh) generated. Even when any costs related to net metering were included, the policy had a net benefit to the utility of 7.8 cents per kWh.
That's not going to sway the folks at ALEC, who recently announced their goals for 2014: block climate legislation and EPA enforcement of environmental laws, weaken state clean energy regulations and limits on greenhouse gas emissions, and of course, punish homeowners for installing solar panels.
The Guardian newspaper recently shone a little antiseptic sunshine on this agenda by quoting ALEC spokesman John Eick: "What we saw in 2013 was an attempt to repeal RPS [Renewable Portfolio Standards] laws, and when that failed . . . what we are seeing now is a strategy that appears to be pro-clean energy but would actually weaken those pro-clean energy laws by retreating to the lowest common denominator."
On my own agenda for 2014 is a resolution to expose and reject deceptive, "lowest common denominator" environmental legislation that weakens standards and slows our progress to sustainability.


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The Air Force's new advertisement for flight surgeons
The military is currently facing a critical shortage in the number of flight surgeons. The Air Force in particular has been struggling over the past few years to fill its numbers with qualified doctors who can take care of pilots and their families. Recently, the Air Force began development of a new advertising campaign in an attempt to draw more flight surgeons. As an exclusive to this website, I have obtained a copy of the first script and will share it here:
Hello, my name is Captain Martin. I'm a flight surgeon for the best Air Force in the world. Just to show you how wonderful things are here in the USAF, let me share with you my previous week.
Monday: I got to meet real, honest-to-God pilots today. They were so friendly… so tough in their flight suits. I think that I'm going to get a flight suit, too. Joy! The colonel says that if I act right, he'll let me hold the stick the next time we go flying.
Tuesday: I went to the confidence course today. The Air Force uses the term "confidence" because the outdated term "obstacle course" is too negative. I had such a wonderful time. As I was climbing the ropes, rock 'n roll music was playing and everyone was saluting me. It was awesome!
Wednesday: I went to clinic today and saw patients.
Thursday: I had to get up at 4:00 a.m. this morning for mandatory physical training. I knew that being in the Air Force would be tough, but I guess that all this training is great so that I can buff up and women will stop laughing at me when I tell them that I'm in the military.
Friday: my assistants did not show up to the clinic today until after 11:00 a.m. It was no big deal. I couldn't find any of the patients' charts anyway. I just went from scratch like I did back when I was in medical school.
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Vero said,
Saturday: stood together in a big group hug and sang Cumbaya with my fellow officers. Such bonding! Joy!
Somebody actually got paid to write this crap?
Quash said,
HAHA great post, I was all damn this could be something I might want to take a look at should it come to scramblin time. Then you said hold the stick, and I died laughing
medical said,
nice article… thanks
ROTFLMAO said,
But where are the condos?


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Expert Error
From Conservapedia
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Expert Error consists of serious errors by recognized experts about scientific, engineering or economic theories or possibilities. We start with examples:
- Lord Kelvin claiming heavier than air flight, radio, and radioactivity were impossible.[1]
- Opposition by 19th century European doctors to Ignaz Semmelweiss's discovery that invisible "particles" were transmitting disease and killing patients in a Vienna hospital.[2]
- Albert Einstein thought nuclear power would never be commercially viable.
- Opposition by experts to the United States Patent Office, because supposedly everything useful has been invented.[3]
- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM in the 1960s, believed there would never be a market for more than a handful of computers in the entire world.
- Irving Fisher, professor of economics at Yale, declared a few days before the 1929 stock market crash, "Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. I do not feel there will be soon if ever a 50 or 60 point break from present levels, such as (bears) have predicted. I expect to see the stock market a good deal higher within a few months."[4]
- Philipp von Jolly, professor for physics and mathematics at the University of Munich, advised Max Planck in 1874 not to study physics as almost everything was already discovered, and all that remained was to fill a few unimportant holes.
- Aristotle had "quaint" notions of physics (such as the idea that force must be continuously applied to keep a body in motion; he had no idea of friction or air resistance). He believed in the spontaneous generation of life from inanimate matter; experts adhered to his theories for over two thousand years.
- Jean Boulliard of the French Academy of Sciences claimed that mechanical reproduction of human speech was an impossibility.
- Sir George Bidell Airy, Astronomer Royal of Great Britain, persuaded the British government to discontinue funding for Charles Babbage's analytical engine on the grounds that it was "worthless." Modern astronomy, of course, relies heavily on computers that wouldn't have been possible without Babbage's work.
- A Yale economics professor dismissed Fred Smith's idea of overnight mail delivery aided by computers as deserving no better than a 'C' grade because "in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible." [5]
- Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak's idea for a personal computer was summarily dismissed by Atari and Hewett-Packard, in part because they didn't have college degrees yet.[6]
- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, professor of strategy at Ecole Superieure de Guerre, dismissed airplanes as "interesting toys" of no military value.
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- ↑ http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~fringwal/stoopid.lis
- ↑ An 1856 publication in a prominent Viennese medical periodical, Viennese Medical Weekly, by Jozsef Fleischer, a student of Semmelweis, showed success of chlorine washings. However, the editor for the periodical wrote at the end of the report "We believe that this chlorine-washing theory has long outlived its usefulness. The experiences and statistical results of most maternity institutions protest against the views presented above. ... The Semmelweiss Reflex
- ↑ This opposition can be found in many forms, from weakening the strength of patents by small inventors today to repetition of a quote attributed to Charles Duell, Commissioner of the Patent Office, in 1899: "everything that can be invented has been invented." While Charles Duell never said such a thing and it doesn't reflect his position on patents at all, "this saying has been so often quoted that it has been gradually accepted as a truth, and thus being still repeatedly quoted again and again even by prominent scholars." Bojan Pretnar, "Two Sources of Persistent Patent Controversy," p.4
- ↑ Quoted on Oct. 17, 1929.
- ↑ http://www.mamohanraj.com/expert.html
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Grown Ups 2
Critics of waterboarding say that its results are not conclusive and don't prove guilt. This is due to an eventual degradation of the recipient's willpower, to the point where they're willing to say whatever the torturer wants to hear so they can gain a reprieve from their endless onslaught. It's a criticism that can be levied at many torture tactics, but if that's the desired effect, none are as potent as watching "Grown Ups 2." Halfway through this thing, I was ready to admit guilt to any number of horrible atrocities, just so long as it meant the movie would end. Plainly put, this isn't just the most unfunny comedy of the year. It's one of the most unfunny comedies of all time.
While the first movie was certainly no gut buster, it at least had a script. It had a story for the characters to exist in and progress, even if minimally. Conversely, the sequel feels more like a sketch comedy show. It doesn't have a story so much as it does a series of random encounters that put our characters in allegedly goofy situations. There are unconnected scenes that take place at a ballet recital where the beautiful, big breasted teacher overshadows the children on stage, a female aerobics class where the skeevy janitor pretends to be the instructor and gets the women to perform sexually suggestive maneuvers, a doctor's office where the "hilarious" payoff results in the doctor pulling out a flask from behind his lab coat, a finale where the old timers face off against an invading frat led by a character IMDB refers to as "Frat Boy Andy" (Taylor Lautner) and more. Quite literally, none of these scenes have anything to do with each other.
Continuing in the tradition of such lowbrow comedies as pretty much any Adam Sandler movie in the last five or six years, "Grown Ups 2" is riddled with potty humor so misguided and poorly delivered that it does a disservice to the values of actual excrement. The very first joke in the movie involves a deer urinating in Lenny's (Sandler) mouth and it's all downhill from there. Simulated defecation while standing on a chocolate ice cream machine, actual defecation in a retail store toilet and "burp snarts" (when you start with a burp as a sneeze is coming out, which pushes out a subsequent fart) become the order of the day. And if you don't find burp snarts funny the first time, you won't the second time either. Or the third. Or fourth. Or fifth. Or when the film wraps itself up with one, the final joke in a movie so full of scatological humor like this that I wouldn't be surprised to hear the pages of the completed script were accidentally used as toilet paper and the filmmakers couldn't tell the difference.
When the film can't find an organic (used in every sense of the word) way to include a pee or poo joke, "Grown Ups 2" reverts to slapstick humor. If your idea of a good time comes from watching people fall over, get hit with any number of odd assortments, accidentally spray pepper spray in their faces and have their crotch eaten by a deer, then this is the movie for you. In particular, Nick Swardson, playing a character imaginatively named Nick, exists solely to inflict harm upon. He takes so much abuse in this movie, I actually felt bad for him. His career has plummeted so far (if you can actually find a peak somewhere, that is), that he is relegated to a literal punching bag, the lowest point of a movie that already sinks so low it passes by the bottom of the barrel and digs a trench under it.
For every joke that delivers the mildest of chuckles (which would total, if my math is correct, one), there are about 150 that are so bad, they actually diminish your faith in humanity, especially if the crowd you're watching this abomination with is actually laughing. Frankly, if this is what we find funny, there's no hope for the future of American comedy. With a runtime of an hour and 40 minutes, "Grown Ups 2" is about an hour and 39 minutes too long and is an absolute embarrassment for all involved.
Grown Ups 2 receives an easy 0/5


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