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The English Teacher: Sixth Grade
The teacher gave me a "C" on my book report, claiming I'd plagiarized. I hadn't. I had read the unabridged version of Robin Hood, which had more details and better language than the knockoff we were reading in class. The teacher was American, new to our island. She didn't want to show weakness, so even after my mother and grandmother protested, the C remained. What could my vexation do? I was eleven. The teacher was an adult. It was a Catholic school, where even parents had little say. So I settled on feeling something else: flattered. I was smarter than the teacher thought. I'd tricked her!
In high school there were privileges handed out for achievement or commendable behavior. Senior girls didn't have to wear socks, which were a part of the uniform for everyone else. A particularly coveted privilege was being allowed to go to the head of the lunch line. The food was gross, so this was a privilege only because you didn't have to lean against the wall, stuck in the line that ribboned through the cafeteria, and because the others watched you with envy. We were practicing for VIP lines at exclusive nightclubs.
She was from the northeast and accustomed to the cold. I was from an island in the Caribbean and had only seen snow twice. But we had other things in common. On the first day we presented pictures of our boyfriends to each other. She was white and had a black boyfriend. I was black and had a white boyfriend. She and I were both going to be psychology majors and we were in the same weed-out psych lecture class. All this assured me that we were going to be friends. After the first quarter we both received the same Dean's List announcement.
The fact that I am you telling you about this means: a) I am bragging, which feels dangerous, thrilling and narcissistic—especially in print, and b) I am communicating to you what I could not to my teacher, to the president of the National Honor Society, to my freshman roommate and to others I haven't mentioned.


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Views of the Borax Industry, ca. 1898-ca. 1915
Views of the Borax Industry, ca. 1898-ca. 1915
BANC PIC 1905.17174--PICThe Bancroft Library
University of California
Berkeley, California 1997
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- December 1996
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:1 Bayonne Refinery, looking at front of building from the dock, showing warehouse in the foreground and trestle.
:2 Bayonne Refinery - north side of building.
:3 Bayonne Refinery - west view of building showing Glycerine Lye tanks in the foreground.
:4 Engine room Bayonne Refinery which develops power and light to operate the plant.
:5 Boiler room Bayonne Refinery, with a capacity of 2000 H. P.
:6 Storage bunkers Bayonne Refinery where Borate of lime and coal are received from canal boats and stored.
:7 Laboratory Bayonne Refinery where analyses of the Crude material and other working tests of the process are worked out.
:8 Mill room in Bayonne Refinery where the Crude material is crushed and ground.
:9 Filler press room Bayonne Refinery where the liquor is leeched from the residue Lime which forms a part of the process.
:10 This shows Borax crystallizing tanks, the method of crystallizing and the men removing the finished product from the tanks.
:11 Showing Refined Borax in cars after it has been taken from the crystallizing tanks. It is then broken from the wire hangers, put throught [sic] rolls and run up to storage bins.
:12 Mill at the Bayonne Refinery for grinding Borax into powder which is afterwards put into barrels and packages.
:13 Borax Glass room Bayonne Refinery showing the Borax Glass in lump form in the background and the mill for grinding Borax Glass in the foreground and the finished product is shown on the left-hand side of the picture.
:14 Packing room Bayonne Refinery showing 20 Mule Team Package Borax and other cartons being folded on machines prior to being filled with the various 20 Mule Team Products.
:15 Filling and weighing machines where 20 Mule Team Borax is packed into cartons by automatic machinery.
:16 Boric Acid crystallizing room in the Bayonne Refinery showing the Boric Acid in process of crystallization and also showing the finished product in the hands of a workman.
:17 Boric Acid powdering mill in Bayonne Refinery showing the packing of powdered Boric Acid into barrels. Crystal Boric and Granulated Boric are also packed into barrels in this same room.
:18 Stripping room Soap Department Bayonne Refinery showing the method of removing the sides and ends of Soap frames after the soap has cooled.
:19 Slabbing and cutting tables Soap Dept. Bayonne Refinery showing the frames of soap cut into slabs by machine on the left, which are then sent to the cutting table shown at the right-hand side of the table, where the slabs are cut into bars and sent to the tunnels for drying.
:20 Press room Soap Dept. Bayonne Refinery showing tunnels where the soap is dried before going to the presses. The presses are in the foregound. After the soap is pressed it is put on a belt and delivered to the wrapping room.
:21 Soap Wrapping Room, Bayonne Refinery, showing automatic machine for wrapping soap. This machine wraps 115 cakes a minute. The girls place the soap in cases which are afterwards nailed up and sent down in the elevator in the background to the Shipping Room below.
:22 Soap chipping room Soap Dept. Bayonne Refinery showing man feeding soap into soap chipping machine which cuts the soap into chips which are delivered into barrels on the floor below.
:23 Stock room Bayonne Refinery showing the various products ready for shipment.
:24 Electric railway Bayonne Refinery showing a train load of 20 Mule Team Products being sent to the dock for shipment to all parts of the country.
:25 Borax Refinery at Alameda, Cal. on the shore of San Francisco Bay.
:26 Wash-pans in the Alameda refinery where the crude mineral is washed for all the Borax it contains.
:27 View of the Crystallizing Room in the Alameda refinery.
:28 Another view of the Crystallizing Room in the Alameda refinery.
:29 Showing the Mill for powdering borax and the method of preparing it for shipment in barrels.
:30 The famous 20 Mule Team crossing the desert.
:31 A fine picture of the Mojave desert in California, over which the 20 Mule Team made regular trips from the mine to the railroad.
:32 Showing the 20 Mule Team resting at one of the camps on the way.
:33 A portion of Death Valley, Cal., showing Mount Blanco, the great borax deposit. This is the white mountain in the center of the picture.
:34 The Pacific Coast Borax Company's office in Death Valley, near Mount Blanco.
:35 Showing a salt marsh in Death Valley, over which it is practically impossible to cross with safety.
:36 Showing the grave of some prospector or teamster who perished in Death Valley.
:37 A remnant of an old emigrant's outfit left by the emigrants who perished while attempting to cross Death Valley in 1850.
:38 The remains of some ill-fated ox who perished in an alkali flat.
:39 Showing the superintendent of the mines in Death Valley approaching the works. The white streak showing in the distance is alkali.
:40 This shows a pile of crude borate mineral near Death Valley Borax Works.
:41 Grease-wood material used for fuel in Death Valley.
:42 Greenland Ranch, an oasis in the desert. The property of the Pacific Coast Borax Company in Death Valley.
:43 A party of prospectors on the desert searching for Borax.
:44 A view of one of the Borax mines during the days of the 20 Mule Team.
:45 A Borax miner about to enter his home in an abandoned tunnel. Note the miner's candle in his right hand and the canteen of water by his left side.
:46 20 Mule Team unloading at railroad in Daggett, Cal., after its long trip across the desert.
:47 The cabin occupied by Mr. F.M. Smith to Nevada when he discovered Borax.
:48 The first boiling pan used by Mr. Smith in Nevada.
:49 Borax transportation in the future. A dream, but not an impossibility.


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"02JAN44--Commissioned NAS Whidbey Is. WA, 3 Jan 1944 Paul Masterton commanding. NAS Kaneohe T.H. 6 May 1944 to 5 Aug 1944 Tarawa Is. 5 Aug. to 30 Aug. 1944 Strikes against Nauru and Jaluit Is. Tinian Is. 30 Aug. 1944 to June 1945 Strikes against Yap, Woleai, Pagan, Lamotrek and Puluwat Islands. Beginning 13 March 1945 several crews assigned duties at Iwo Jima for strikes against picket boats west of Iwo Jima. At least 1 sunk 1 damaged. Disestablished June 1945. 1 crew/plane lost to enemy action. 1 crew/plane lose during operational training. 3 purple hearts. Squadron Insigna: Mean appearing black bat carrying a large bomb, two smaller bombs under each wing. He is firing the fixed forward guns (from his wings) across a great red "setting sun" of Japan..."
VB/VPB-151: VB-151 etablished at NAS Whidbey Island, Washington, 3 January 1944 with PV-1s; redesignated VPB-151 1 October 1944. To NAS Alameda, California, 15 April for transport to the Territory of Hawaii in escort aircraft carrier USS Sitkoh Bay(CVE-86) arriving NAS Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, on 7 May. To NAB Betio, Gilbert Islands 5 August and began flying bombing attacks on Japanese installations in the Marshall Islands. To North Field, Tinian, Mariana Islands 29 August to fly search patrols and bombing missions to Japanese bases in the Caroline and Marshall Islands. To NAB Tinian, Mariana Islands, 18 November and continued operations. Detachment deployed to Motoyama Airfield, Iwo Jima, 13-19 March 1945, to fly antipicket boat sweeps. To NAS San Diego, California, via Hawaii on 4-21 June and disestablished on 30 June 1945.


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Putting people against the wall does not solve your current issues that you might have or might inherited from your pre successor. It can in a long run permanently put you and your nation into a hole.
History comes and goes, but it changes the society, the country, the nation during it's movement following phenomenon like: "Ups and Downs", "Eliminations" and "Great Depression".
That's is the reason believes take place to people's mind to understand the phenomenon.
Just a matter of few seconds billionaire turn into homeless or eliminated from earth with nothing.
That is the same reason Almighty comes in place.
As because Almighty is one, who totally controls PAST, PRESENT and FUTURE in one linear line.
Almighty can see PAST, PRESENT and FUTURE at a given split of second.
That is also the same reason Almighty knows what is inside of you and what is outside of you.
Almighty - the most high, most powerful.
I like to all of you to pay attention to Quranic surah 112 and 113.
Text translated bellow in English by Marmaduke Pickthal as shown below:
Surah 112. Al-'Ikhlāş
1. Say: He is Allah, the One!
2. Allah, the eternally Besought of all!
3. He begetteth not nor was begotten.
4. And there is none comparable unto Him.
Surah 113. Al-Falaq
1. Say: I seek refuge in the Lord of Daybreak
2. From the evil of that which He created;
3. From the evil of the darkness when it is intense,
4. And from the evil of malignant witchcraft,
5. And from the evil of the envier when he envieth.
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In the weeks and days before 11 November each year, millions of Canadians sprout red poppies on their lapels. After the Armistice of the "War to End All Wars" the Royal British Legion and the Royal Canadian Legion adopted the red poppy in 1921 as a symbol of collective remembrance. How many other countries embrace this symbol so wholeheartedly and publicly?
Many of us are familiar with the words of the famous poem In Flanders Field. In 1915 then-Major John McCrae was the exhausted Brigade Surgeon serving with the First Brigade of the Canadian Forces Artillery in the Flanders area of Belgium. Some of the worst fighting and casualties of the war occurred there at Ypres. A weary McCrae paused while patching wounded soldiers and burying the dead to write some immortal words:
In Flanders fields, the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
Every year I am deeply touched by his words. For some time I lived on the same street where John McCrae was born, in the city of Guelph, Ontario. McCrae House is a National Historic Site—the family stone cottage is a small civic museum to honour him: http://guelph.ca/museum/. Because my father was in the First World War, I wanted to see if I could learn something new ... and I did. It is said that at least since Napoleonic times, perhaps earlier, scarlet poppy flowers mark the blood of battlefield victims.
Photograph from Veterans Affairs Canada, www.vac-acc.gc.ca.
We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Flanders was apparently not noted for a poppy presence in the early twentieth century. However, many sources repeat the same information—in the First World War the countryside became so devastated from continual artillery bombardment and rubble, the soil was infused with lime, creating fertile conditions for papaver rhoes. Certainly the blooms were in full flower in May 1915 when McCrae was a witness.
Canada also remembers its veterans in many other ways. Services are held on November 11th at cenotaphs in every city and town across the land. Anyone can visit the beautiful national Books of Remembrance online at: www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers. Donations for wearing the poppy are held in trust accounts to provide for the needs of service veterans and their families.
McCrae's haunting words endure through the years with visual and emotional impact. They affect soldiers, veterans and civilians alike. He was buried with full military honours in the Commonwealth section of Wimereux Cemetery in France, the location of wartime British hospital services.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch, be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
20 October 2008
Labels: First World War, Flanders, John McCrae, military, poppies, Remembrance Day
2 comments:
- Sheri Fenley said...
Great post. US Veterans organizations (years ago) used to make paper poppies and sell them for donations.
Sheri Fenley
- Tuesday, 21 October, 2008
- Carole said...
Hi Brenda
I visited my friend in Guelph several years ago and we went to the McCrae Memorial. I still have the postcard, which I put on my blog. Thanks for even more information about his heartfelt poem and the beautiful red poppy.
- Friday, 12 November, 2010
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UCL DECIDE is supported by UCL together with Virgin Media, Alcatel-Lucent, HEFCE and Fujitsu. The project will partner with leading global businesses including the BBC to provide media content and leading technology firm ATOS to provide critical technical infrastructure. DC Thomson and the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) have endorsed the need for such a service and are intending to work with the partners as soon as the service is live.
To launch the 'lab', UCL will develop a closed, university only app store so that small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) will be able to test apps with staff and students and act on their feedback to iron out glitches and bugs – giving them a better chance of success when they are released into the marketplace.
Additionally, it is intended that the BBC will provide access to archive material for SMEs developing digital technology as part of the initiative. In the longer term, this will enable archive film clips; radio broadcast excerpts and historic interviews; speeches and soundbites to be integrated into a vast array of apps and other products – providing exciting new products and services to consumers and an unparalleled opportunity for British businesses by easing access to a globally-important public resource.
To facilitate access to this treasure trove of digital content, UCL DECIDE plans to pilot an automated system so that SMEs can license material from the archive more effectively, to the benefit of both the content owners and the providers of the new products that make use of it.
A small version of the living lab approach has already been piloted by TipGain, a company set up by former UCL students. The business developed a peer-based social marketing service, targeting customers directly with offers that might appeal to them rather than through untargeted mass-media channels like newspapers. UCL Advances, the university's centre for entrepreneurship, assisted the team through providing a large group to test a smart phone app which offered discounts at internal UCL catering outlets as a starting point, offering a 25% discount voucher for coffees.
Hundreds of voucher-led sales were made, demonstrating that the technology worked and with customer conversion rates up to ten times higher than through other promotion marketing methods. TipGain has since gone on to sign-up customers ranging from London restaurant chain Busaba Eathai to local sporting goods retailers.
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UCL is already a major partner in the Government's Tech City initiative to develop Europe's largest digital cluster in East London. Professor Stephen Caddick, UCL's VP for enterprise, has recently been appointed to the Tech City advisory group, whilst UCL Advances has collaborated in opening incubators for digital start-ups in both Bloomsbury and, shortly, in Shoreditch.
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Monday, June 13, 2011
Fried Shrimp Fritters with Sweet Potato and Taro(Cucuk Udang)
7 comments :
- ann low said...
WOW! This really sounds good and delicious and I can eat a lot too!
- June 13, 2011 at 5:45 AM
- Jayanthy Kumaran said...
pass me d plate plz...absolutely inviting..:PP
Tasty Appetite
- June 13, 2011 at 6:18 AM
- Linh N.L. said...
Looks really good, it's worth a try!
- June 13, 2011 at 8:47 AM
- Little Corner of Mine said...
Looks so good! I would love this kind of snack.
- June 15, 2011 at 11:37 AM
- Shu Han said...
my mum loves this snack! I've never tried it before all these years in singapore, because I get very disturbed by the idea of eating the shrimps with the shells. now i realise they actually can be eaten and add crunch and calcium! maybe i'll try this next time i go back to singapore (:
- June 15, 2011 at 6:30 PM
- ICook4Fun said...
I like this type of fritters too but the small Asian store here don't carry taro often. I have to go all the way to Philly to get it.
- June 15, 2011 at 7:47 PM
- My Asian Kitchen said...
Thank you dear for your kind words ♥
haha!! thank you for sharing wt me ☺
Thank you ☺
Thank you dear..who don't like fried food?
shu han:
haha!! you have the same idea as my hubby!! he said nobody eat shrimp with shell attached!! well,so sorry sir,we Malaysian do and that is how this snack was created!! try it ,actually when shrimp was deep fried it's really tasty!!
the spanish supermarket or meat farm market in my area so carry taro but little but expensive..but I bought this few weeks ago when I was at Flushing!!
- June 16, 2011 at 12:56 AM
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Lenten reflection: Holy Week
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Crowded out: Caffe meets Royale end
Coffee lovers on The Corner just lost one of their favorite low-key haunts. Having occupied a prime piece of real estate in the gorgeous and historic Chancellor Building for over six years, Espresso Royale Caffé closed its doors last Saturday, April 12.
Dozens of unharried regulars showed up to say farewell and enjoy the sunshine and limited offerings on the pleasant, atmospheric patio. The interior– which underwent a major and extremely costly renovation a few years ago– was, as one might expect, much less cheery: Stripped bare walls, tired couches, and a cold brick oven greeted the faithful.
An indication of how much this spot will be missed, the empty pastry case was covered with good-bye notes ranging in tone from beholden– "Thank you for being here for me during some emotionally trying phases of medical school. I'll miss you!" to plaintive– "Why? Why? This was my second home– now where will I go?" to downright mad– "No more C-ville ERC– what the crap?"
Dish went directly to the source.
Headquartered in Michigan, the relatively small (compared to Starbucks!) 15-year-old Espresso Caffé Corporation owns and operates 21 cafés in college towns and urban areas ranging from Ann Arbor to Boston to Athens, Georgia.
Although larger than most and the only one ever to offer a make-your-own-pizza bar, the Charlottesville location couldn't hold its own on the restaurant and café-dense Corner.
"When we opened, we were the only ones on the Corner. Then came Starbucks and Greenberry's, and we took a killing," says Lisa Tuveson, vp and director of company ops. She forgot to mention Higher Grounds, which has espresso bars in the hospital and at Plan 9 on The Corner.
Tuveson also cites the recent proliferation of neighborhood eateries as a reason for the marginal success of the pizza bar prototype, which has since been nixed. But according to founder and president Marcus Goller, the morning is to blame.
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Time to move on.
"We're really proud of our Charlottesville staff and our loyal customers. It just wasn't the right location for us. So we've decided to focus on what we do best (coffee) and let someone else take the space," Goller explains.
The comapany has the lease for another year and hopes to sublet soon. Restaurant? Nightclub? We'll keep you posted.
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I've seen literal gridlock all four ways because of the jammed intersection. I've also seen a couple of near brawls break out with drivers halfway out of their cars. The geography of that intersection (Willow merging to one lane) makes a true solution impossible, but surely something can be done.
Kevin Sharp
Palo Alto
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And the northbound approach at Middlefield will be changed to have one left-turn lane, one through lane, one shared through and right-turn lane, and one right-turn lane.
Q You have written about the snarl at Bayfront Expressway and Willow Road in Menlo Park before where Facebook's headquarters are. I have noticed that the morning commute, while heavy, is usually not bad past Facebook.
The evening, on the other hand, is often a nightmare. I believe this is due to the traffic light allowing cars to go from Facebook's parking lot across Bayfront to Willow or left onto eastbound Bayfront toward the Dumbarton. The situation has been pushed past its tipping point and nasty clogs have become routine.
How about this (and I know it's a tall order): Prohibit traffic from the Facebook lot from crossing Bayfront to Willow Road or turning left onto Bayfront from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.? Traffic from Facebook would exit and turn right toward Marsh and 101. I don't know if this would improve the evening commute, but it seems like it would be easy to try for a few months to find out.
Dan Dahl
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May 4th is Star Wars day, because geeks love puns and, you know, May the Fourth be with you!
So, in honor of Star Wars day I've put together a list of cool Star Wars inspired stuff from around the web. It's kind of random, but all of it is cool, and if you love Star Wars I'm sure you'll find at least a few of these interesting.
Some of these are older than others, but hopefully there's a few things on here you haven't seen before, and if not, take a walk down memory lane and peruse it again. Enjoy!
Brandon Peat's Star Wars Alphabet
The absolutely cutest alphabet of characters from a galaxy far, far away. Perfect for decorating the room of any young geeks in training.
Some are obvious, L is for Luke and Leia, V is for Vader, Y is for Yoda, but there's a few in there that you might not have thought of off the top of your head unless you've read the books. In any case, all are adorable, and the drawings are great.
One of the best things ever, Star Wars Uncut is a fan version of the original film, with a twist. The movie was broken down into 15-second clips, and fans could lay claim to whichever section they wanted, and then produce that segment in any style they wanted. Some filmed their pieces as live action, some animated them, some used stop motion, and there are many, many creative little gems in here. All are different.
After all the mini-scenes were claimed, shot, and turned back in, they were stitched back together into one (semi)cohesive whole.
Some of the bits are funny, some are epic, some are lame, but the combination is nothing short of awesome.
Adam Watson Envisions Star Wars by Dr. Seuss
This one is exactly what is sounds like. An artist decided to sketch what he envisioned would have been Dr. Seuss' take on the famous story. Complete with artwork and rhyming poems in the tradition of Theodor Seuss Geisel himself, this homage is both funny and inspiring all at the same time.
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that Darthly Vader.
Star Wars Vector Art by Jessica Finson
A stunning series of Star Wars character portraits done by DeviantArt artist Jessica Finson that are so well done, you don't realize at first glance that they are vector art images. The time consuming, arduous process speaks volumes of the artist's talent.
Han Solo Carbonite Chocolate Bar
For anyone and everyone who ever wanted their own Han Solo frozen in carbonite to hang on their wall like Jabba the Hutt, then thought, "Hey, what if that was made out of chocolate instead?"
A normal candy bar will never satisfy you again.
Star Wars Condoms (No really)
Milan designer Benedetto Papi created a series of conceptual Star Wars condom wrappers, each with the picture of a character's face and a movie quote on it that applies equally to sex. It's tongue in cheek of course, but definitely clever.
Super Cute Star Wars Characters By Xander
A collection of famous Star Wars characters redesigned by DeviantArt artist Xander made into such cute little adorable characters you'd think it was a children's film, and not a sci-fi classic of epic proportions.
As an aside, I would totally buy a children's book made with these illustrations and read it to my kids if they would ever make one.
Jeff Hulligan's Dead Star Wars
A little creepy perhaps, but this series of Star Wars portraits by Jeff Hulligan features a character's head blended with that of a skull. It may seem a bit dark, and it is, but the artwork is beautiful and the concept is both original and creative, so I felt it should be included on the list. Well done.
Ewoks In Family's Vacation Photos
A graphic designer named Anthony Herrera decided to insert Ewoks into the background of some of his family's vacation photos from Sequoia National Park after having told his kids that it was where they (the Ewoks) lived. We guess he said this because he was referencing that this was where they filmed the Endor scenes in the movie Return of the Jedi.
After his daughter didn't find any Ewoks on the vacation – and apparently she looked – Herrera explained that they're shy and people don't usually see them, but then made these little Photoshop additions to their vacation pictures, to the delight of his children, who now believe the little Ewoks were watching them secretly throughout their vacation.
The dad stated: "I'm a little wrong for lying to her and falsifying the pictures, but I don't care. She'll never forget the time she spent in the big woods with Ewoks."
We agree. It's not really any different then telling children about Santa or the Easter Bunny, and when this girl gets older she's just going to realize how much her dad loved her and tried to make her feel special, which he did.
That's it…
That's my round-up for this year's May 4th – but of course there's tons of other great Star Wars stuff out there.
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2011 IDEA Academy
July 12-15, 2011
How Can Due Process Be Improved?
Two days of the 10th National Academy were devoted to developing recommendations to improve due process for consideration by the U.S. Congress during the next reauthorization of IDEA. This will mark the first time that suggestions for improving the due process hearing system will have originated with active hearing officers. Two additional days were allocated for traditional presentations.
Special Overview for New IDEA Hearing Officers
A one-day overview of the special education process and hearing system was available for persons who have no or very little experience with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. The focus was on distinguishing IDEA hearings from other types of hearings. Thereafter, attendees participated in the regular program.
Program Materials
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Vanessa's plantlife modpack
This modpack supplies my Flowers-Plus and Poison Ivy mods, rewritten from scratch to use biome_lib, plus an updated version of the classic Bushes mod (e.g. various kinds of berries), a reduced version of the original Nature mod, called Nature Classic here, Mossmanikin's Ferns and Dryplants mods, the components of his Undergrowth modpack, bas080's vines and rope mod, and my 3D Mushrooms mod.
The purpose of the modpack as a whole is to add various kinds of foliage to the world.
Download: https://gitlab.com/VanessaE/plantlife_m ... master.zip
...or browse the code: https://gitlab.com/VanessaE/plantlife_modpack
Install: First, you must completely remove any copies of this modpack and/or any individual copies of its components that you may have previously installed. Then, download the above zip, extract it, and put the resultant "VanessaE-plantlife_modpack-xxxxxxx" folder into your Minetest mods folder. It's a good idea to rename the folder to just "plantlife_modpack".
Dependencies: biome_lib, minetest_game from commit 408ee69f or later, and Minetest engine 0.4.16 or later.
Recommends: moretrees
License: LGPL 3.0 for code, CC-by-SA 4.0 for media and everything else.
Important details:
Configuration: By default, all of the components of this modpack are enabled. Any of them can be disabled by simply deleting their respective folders from within the modpack's main folder, as is normally the case with a modpack.
Usage and Crafting Information:
Seaweed spawns on water or grass close to the shoreline, or on very small stone islands in water. Waterlilies of course spawn on water. and will only do so in pools that are 3 nodes deep or less. Waterlilies only spawn when there at least a significant amount of light. Seaweed will grow only in dimly-lit areas along water-dirt/grass shorelines.
Poison Ivy will spawn on grass and in some cases, on vertical surfaces including trees and jungle trees where they meet the dirt or grass. Ivy previously spawned on the ground will grow taller/thicker or start climbing up the aforementioned vertical surfaces. Poison ivy will not grow near flowers, though flowers may occasionally grow near a previously-spawned poison ivy plant. Poison ivy grows only in the daytime, though it doesn't require a large amount of light. At present, the poison ivy presents little more than an annoyance - since there are no mods to my knowledge that use poison ivy, about all you can do right now is cut the stuff down and either re-plant or aim for the trash can. No damage is done by harvesting them.
The classic Bushes mod operates similar to how it has in the past, but there are changes in keeping with modern usage of minetest: the bushes are spawned closer together, are tightly perlin-controlled instead of just spawning all over the map, and there are more than just strawberries now - namely there are also blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, and gooseberries.
When you dig a bush, the tool you're using determines what you get:
- Digging by hand or with any tool/object not mentioned below gives you just the fruits, and replaces the bush with a fruitless one. Over time, the fruit will re-grow.
- Using an axe destroys the bush to get sticks.
- Using a shovel gives you the whole bush. Replanting a bush causes a fruitless bush to be planted, but as above, it will regrow fruits. Every so often, digging a bush this way will yield two, making it possible to farm them over long periods of time.
- Using a pickaxe just destroys the bush.
Fruits and fruit pies behave as follows:
- Sugar or raw fruit heals 1/2 heart.
- A raw pie heals 2 hearts.
- A cooked pie heals 3 hearts or it can be split into 6 slices.
- A slice of pie heals 1/2 heart.
- A basket of pies heals 9 hearts (and consumes the basket).
If you have the farming mod installed (comes standard with minetest_game), you can encourage the bushes to re-grow their berries considerably faster by planting them on hoed soil.
If you have farming_plus installed, you can use its strawberries in these recipes freely - mix and match with bushes' strawberries as desired (you'll only see one strawberry variety in your inventory, but it's cross-compatible).
Default trees' leaves will, when found within 20 meters of water, gradually turn into leaves with apple blossoms, which will eventually spawn a few apples. Said blossoms will turn back into leaves eventually (regardless of distance to water). Blossom-bearing leaves can be used as fuel.
Unlike the original Nature Pack, this version of the Nature mod does not feature iron trees, nor does it cause default trees to grow. This version produces a much-reduced crop of apples as well, to avoid upsetting the survival aspect of the game.
This modpack includes a variety of ferns from Mossmanikin's ferns mod: lady-fern (Athyrium), tree ferns (Dicksonia) in small and "giant" sizes, horsetail (Equisetum) in 4 sizes.
For more details about this component of plantlife, including crafting recipes and technical notes, see the original forum thread by Mossmanikin:
The dryplants mod modifies the default spread of wild grass, in addition to adding reedmace, junca grass, cattails, and more.
For more details about this component of plantlife, including extensive crafting recipes and technical notes, see the original forum thread by Mossmanikin:
This modpack incorporates all of the components of Mossmanikin's Undergrowth Modpack, which modifies the landscape around trees to include things like fallen trunks, leaves on grass, random sticks on the ground, moss on trees, small boulders here and there, roots at the bases of trees, small bush-like trees, large sapling-like plants, and a LOT more.
For more details about this component of plantlife, including crafting recipes and technical nodes, see the original forum thread by Mossmanikin:
This modpack will, by way of the vines mod, grow vines on Moretrees' jungle trees and willows, if you have that mod installed also. You can collect these vines using shears, and craft them into ropes and rope "boxes" which will spool out rope as needed to handle deep holes and such.
For more information about that component of this modpack, see the forum thread for it:
Crafting recipes:
Bushes Classic:
Craft two papyrus side by side to get a one portion of sugar.
Craft two sugar, one farming flour, and three of the desired fruit to get a pie.
Cook that pie to make it a bit healthier. :-)
If so desired, craft one of those pies by itself to split into six slices.
You can also craft two sugar, one farming flour, and six of any of the available fruits, mix-and-match, to get two mixed berry pies. Cook/eat/slice as with the other pies. Yields 2.
Craft four sticks in a "T" shape to get a basket.
Craft three pies and one empty basket to get a basket of pies (duh ;-) ). Useful for condensing your inventory of pies.
Flowers Plus:
To make a flower pot, put three clay bricks in the crafting grid in a "v" shape as above (yields 1). To put a flower into a pot, just put one of each into the crafting grid.
You can also place a cactus in a flowerpot by putting one of each into the craft grid, and a potted bonsai tree can be had by crafting a flower pot with a default tree sapling.
(Poison Ivy shown here with a wildly different spawn pattern than what is currently used)
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The federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (20 U.S.C. 1232g) and regulations adopted thereunder (34 C.F.R. 99) set out requirements designed to protect students' privacy in their records maintained by the campus. The statute and regulations govern access to certain student records maintained by the campus and the release of such records. FERPA provides that the campus must give students access to most records directly related to the student, and must also provide opportunity for a hearing to correct the records if the student claims they are inaccurate, misleading, or otherwise inappropriate. The right to a hearing under this law does not include any right to challenge the appropriateness of a grade determined by the instructor. FERPA generally requires the campus obtain a student's written consent before releasing personally identifiable data pertaining to the student. The campus has adopted a set of policies and procedures governing implementation of FERPA and the regulations. Copies of these policies and procedures may be obtained at (designate location on campus). Among the types of information included in the campus statement of policies and procedures are: (1) the types of student records maintained and the information they contain; (2) the official responsible for maintaining each type of record; (3) the location of access lists indicating persons requesting or receiving information from the record; (4) policies for reviewing and expunging records; (5) student access rights to their records; (6) the procedures for challenging the content of student records; (7) the right of the student to file a complaint with the Department of Education. The Department of Education has established an office and review board to investigate complaints and adjudicate violations. The designated office is: Family Policy Compliance Office, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20202-5920.
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China is often referred to as the world's factory; manufacturing more than half of all the computers and mobile phones produced worldwide. Living in China and working for Greenpeace, I have seen first-hand the destructive impacts this industry can have on our fragile environment. I also know that any steps taken by major global brands, like Apple, can potentially have a huge impact on suppliers in my home country.
On Tuesday, Apple announced a new commitment to tackle hazardous chemicals in its manufacturing supply chain. This included a ban on two dangerous chemical substances – benzene and n-hexane – often used in cleaning agents. This news comes after months of public pressure, including a petition from China Labor Watch and Green America who called on Apple to address concerns about worker safety in its product supply chain.
For the first time, Apple also made public its Regulated Substances Specification (RSS) – a list of restricted substances for suppliers – representing an important step towards increasing the company's transparency and accountability. While Apple might not be the first company to release a list like this, it is one of the largest to do so, and this move will hopefully set an example for others to follow. Such a list encourages companies to speed-up reducing and eliminating hazardous substances, especially in Global South countries, like China, where regulations tend not to be as stringent as in Europe or North America.
While Apple and other companies are making progress down the road towards removing hazardous substances from our mobile phones, laptops and other electronics products, tens of thousands of chemicals are still being used in manufacturing them. Many of these substances are just as a harmful to human health and the environment.
In 2009, Greenpeace China released a report investigating electronics manufacturing facilities on the Pearl River delta. 'Poisoning the Pearl' revealed that three facilities making printed circuit boards were found to be discharging a number of organic pollutants into the Pearl River, including brominated flame-retardants.
Greenpeace is not alone in its calls to change the industry. Besides China Labour Watch and Green America, since 2008, a coalition of 40 Chinese NGOs, including IPE (the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs) launched the Green Choice Alliance (GCA). This project aims to curb environmental pollution in China's manufacturing hubs by trying to make supply chain management systems transparent.
Apple's latest commitments show that companies listen when people demand change. It also shows they can and should be responsible for investigating their own supply chains and reveal the results to their customers. Transparency is the first step on the pathway to ridding our phones, computers, tablets and the electronic devices of hazardous substances for good. Global companies have a responsibility to protect our health and our environment, both inside and outside the factory fence line.
Yixiu Wu is the head of the Toxics Campaign at Greenpeace East Asia.
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Statehouse consensus on Hickenlooper's State of the State: upbeat, optimistic
One thing they could agree on, however, was that the speech was funny and upbeat, much like the governor himself. Any time a governor quotes Taylor Swift ("Haters gonna hate.") and the awesome HBO show "The Wire," ("It's all connected.") it's hard to call it downbeat. The speech ended with, "Go Broncos and God bless the state of Colorado."
Here is some of the reaction I gathered from members of the House, which I cover, and a feed from my colleague John Frank, who covers the Senate and spoke with Senate President Bill Cadman afterward.


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Dark Void delivers a ground breaking combination of fast paced vertical combat mixed with mid-air and on-foot action.
Something is consuming our universe, a vast and ancient force almost beyond our comprehension. Millions of years ago, the minions of that power found their way to the 3rd planet of an unremarkable yellow star. Ours. The race they created came to call their masters "The Watchers." For millennia we knew them as gods and served their dark purposes, but a few humans developed extraordinary powers. They were known as the Adepts and they rose up, banishing The Watchers into a parallel universe, where they've manipulated and schemed from afar. Until now.
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If you're a fan of comics, or of retro culture in general, you may remember "The Rocketeer," the Dave Stevens series of the 1980s -- or the 1991 movie that was adapted from it. For those who don't, it was a story set in the late 1930s that followed a brash, headstrong pilot who gets hold of a rocket pack invented by an aging engineer, and uses it to fight Nazis.
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Capcom announced in a press release today that it has signed a deal with Plan B Entertainment, Brad Pitt's production company, to bring Dark Void to the silver screen. The film's being billed as a sci-fi action franchise (implying multiple sequels) and could star Plan B head Brad Pitt. According to Capcom Senior VP of Licensing, Germaine Gioia, "Dark Void was developed with a wide-screen mentality - a world full of adventure presented in cinematic scope and scale." Dark Void (the game) will ship next year, on January 22. Read More »
When Dark Void was delayed to 2010, many were left wondering why its release was put on hold. According to Kotaku, the reason for delay was to add one new feature, and to make the game less penalizing in air-combat. Shana T. Bryant, Capcom associate producer, explained that the new feature is a hover mode that allows you to float in mid-air, while slowly drifting to the ground. The team made the decision in light of making Dark Void a more tactical shooter, but also had to rework the game to make sure the new feature didn't make the title too easy.
Another tweak that can be attributed to the delay was the axing of a gameplay tenet Kotaku dubbed, "Death By Touching." In earlier builds of Dark Void, players were instantly killed when their air-craft collided with any surface in the game. Now, you can collide with the world without instantly dieing, but you will sustain damage.
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Hurricane Sandy devastated the Rockaway Peninsula, destroying homes and flooding the region. Residents found themselves scattered to wherever shelter might be found, and schools closed indefinitely.
One of those schools, Beach Channel, had qualified for the high school football playoffs. It wasn't clear, though, if they'd be able to compete—the team's equipment had been washed out by the storm, and they lacked a locker room and practice facilities (their football field had been turned into an emergency helipad). Only 15% of the school's students showed up on the first day of classes at a temporary location.
So when coach Victor Nazario organized his team before Saturday's playoff game against Staten Island's Port Richmond Red Raiders, he found 25 eager, hungry, and tired players before him. He delivered the speech you see above, captured by New York City education blog Gotham Schools. Sadly, there's no Hollywood ending to this story—Beach Channel's season ended in a 38-6 loss. Senior wide receiver Justin Zemser was already looking past the game, though:
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Listen up, ladies: The deep timbre of a male voice may sound attractive, but low-voiced men actually tend to have lower sperm counts, a new study says.
Multiple studies have found that women usually favor masculine features, such as prominent jaws, high muscle mass, and low-pitched voices.
The theory is that these traits signal a high-quality mate—for instance, it's been proposed that masculine men generally have more robust amounts of sperm.
But the new research revealed that, while deep voices are attractive to women, low-pitched men actually tended to have lower concentrations of sperm in their ejaculate.
(Find out how a man produces 1,500 sperm a second.)
The finding suggests that men who evolutionarily invest most of their energy into making themselves attractive to females may suffer deficiencies in other areas—in this case, sperm counts.
For instance, the male hormone testosterone—which lowers voice pitch—can thwart sperm production, according to study leader Leigh Simmons, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Western Australia.
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For the study, Simmons and colleagues recruited 54 heterosexual men and 30 heterosexual women from a college campus.
The team recorded the voices of the male volunteers, then asked the female volunteers to rate the men's voices in terms of attractiveness and masculinity. Not surprisingly, the women rated deep voices as most alluring.
Each male volunteer then collected a semen sample "in the privacy of their own home and returned it to the lab for analysis," Simmons said via email.
The samples were entered into a computer-assisted sperm-analysis system, or its ability to swim toward its target, the egg—as well as the number of sperm in the semen.
The analysis showed that men with more attractive voices did not have better sperm quality than those with less desirable voices.
In fact, Simmons noted, the sperm from the deep-voiced men were "perfectly motile" and fertile—there were just fewer sperm cells in the ejaculate.
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An overriding question in this kind of research is why characteristically masculine traits evolved in people.
"In our evolutionary past, [masculine] men would have had greater reproductive success, leading to sexual dimorphism [differences between men and women] in voices, faces, bodies, etcetera," said Simmons, whose study appeared December 21 in the journal PLoS ONE.
"This is all very well researched in non-human animals—think of elk or peacocks. But we know less about our own evolutionary history."
Masculinity is also important in competing with other men, Simmons emphasized. Evolutionary psychologist Laura Dane agreed.
"It's equally likely (if not more likely) that males, in general, have bigger and more muscular bodies as well as lower-pitched voices because they had to compete with other males for dominance and status," Dane, of Douglas College in Canada, said by email.
In fact, a woman's preference for masculinity may be a byproduct of her interest in finding a dominant mate—someone who would offer the best protection for her and her family.
The new study also fits into the idea that masculinity may have a role beyond attracting females, she added, a topic currently under investigation.
"If masculine traits lead to higher dominance/status positions—even at the expense of some level of sperm quality—then the trade-off between masculine traits and fertility makes more sense," she said.


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also check the availability of your proposed name for your new company. However to proceed with incorporation of your new company you still have to engage a company secretarial firm.
The first Step you have to search for the website of Suruhanjaya Syarikat Malaysia (SSM) : www.ssm.com.my
Then click "e-Info > e-info Logo > My e-Account > Register e-Account".
Once the e-Registration Page appears, please key in all the information required, such as User Name, Password, Confirm Password, e-mail address and Image Verification. After that please click the check box at the bottom page and then click "Submit" button.
The Main Page of My e-Account will appear. To perform a Name Search of the Companies just click the "Search" menu.
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The best tennis bags require an innovative merging of design and functionality—a blend that Nike has certainly mastered over the years. Here you'll find the latest Nike tennis bags, including the highly lauded, all-in-one Court Tech 1 bag. Nike tennis bags, backpacks, and duffel bags offer players of all skill levels the perfect compartmental storage solutions for all their gear, from racquets and balls to braces and tennis apparel. Shop below, and be sure to check out our complete collection of tennis bags and Nike tennis gear as well.
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|Pjotr Leschenko Gloomy Sunday (CD)
|This new release of ORIENTE Musik is dedicated to the charismatic Russian singer Pjotr Leschenko. The 4th Leschenko-CD Gloomy Sunday contains recordings from 1931 to 1937, the years Leschenko was well on his way to conquering the whole of Europe from his exile in Bucharest. In the centre of this release stands the ballad of Gloomy Sunday, the song of deep despair which subsequently held a magical attraction for all those who wanted to put an end to their lives. Anyway, Leschenko recorded the song before it turned into a kind of anthem for those in danger of suicide. So it's not a speculation - it's Leschenko's feeling for the tragic and desperate mood of a song that has lost none of its fascination or power to allure. The accent is again on the tango's. There are nine of them, among others the Polish compositions Skutschno (Boring) and Ty I Eta Gitara (You and this guitar). On the occasion of the research for our recent release Polskie Tango we realized that Leschenko had numerous Polish compositions in his repertoire, mainly of gifted composer Jerzy Petersburski.
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