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Even though it's not quite Spring yet, I'm adding my own little bits of sunshine to my days. Here are a few of my current favourite things…Prairie Girl approved!
Vovito Island Grapefruit candle…This amazing fragrance reminds me of Hawaii. It"s like a little jar of paradise! I keep it in my bedroom.
Pandora tulip-pearl ring. I'm a Pandora lover, and this ring is perfectly pretty. My sister just happened to have bought me the matching earrings last year. The ring was a "To Me, Love Me" gift.
Cupcake Red Velvet wine.
"Our first blended red wine for Cupcake Vineyards has over the top aromas of chocolate, deep rich blackberries, red fruits that follow through the palate to a creamy mocha finish that is unmistakable in its intensity and length, with a hint of coconut. It's reminiscent of a blackberry chocolate cupcake with a mocha coulis." Why wouldn't you try it after reading all that!?!
These sweaters from Vancouver Boutique, Barefoot Contessa , are so perfectly cute and cheery! A great piece to help the transition in to Spring. (Pics from the Barefoot Contessa Facebook page)
I saw these cute little teapots at David's Tea today. They have a built in infuser for your loose leaf tea. I want one!


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To install radial shaft seals without damaging the sealing lip, SKF recommends chamfering or rounding the shaft ends or shoulders (table).
If the direction of installation is Z, the values provided in the table should be adhered to. If the direction of installation is Y, the shaft end should be rounded or chamfered.
To install a seal over a shaft shoulder or end that has not been rounded or chamfered, SKF recommends using an installation sleeve. For additional information, refer to the section Seal installation, heavy industrial applications.

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The Rectangular Meditation Cushion is a simple rectangular cushion that can be used alone for meditation or in conjunction with any of our other meditation cushions to provide extra lift. This cushion can also be used for yoga practice, or as a prop for stretching, raising the legs, or to support any area of the body during meditation or bodywork sessions. The rectangular shape makes it easy to stack and store multiple cushions.
A convenient carry handle is sewn into the end of the cushion for easy transporting.
The Rectangular Meditation Cushion can be filled with either Kapok (5" high) or Buckwheat Hulls (3" high). Kapok (a dense cotton-like material) provides firm support, yet it can be shaped as needed. The Buckwheat Hulls conform to the shape of the body and provide a grounded feeling. Both versions come with a removable cover that can be washed in cool water and mild detergent. The Kapok and Buckwheat Hulls are enclosed in Linen fabric to contain the material when the cover is removed.
Buckwheat Hull Rectangular Meditation Cushion
- Dimensions: 14" long by 8-1/2" wide by 3" high
- Weight: 3 pounds
Kapok Rectangular Meditation Cushion
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- Weight: 3 pounds
- The slight increase in price is needed to offset the additional materials for this larger cushion.


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18 June, 2013
Great VideoOne of the best U2 videos. I love it. Everytime I watch it. It touches my heart.
08 February, 2010
beautiful food for thoughtAlways moving, this music is touched by God. Great video!
04 February, 2010
please video #1One of the best videos U2 ever put out there. It has everything and gets me emotional whenever I watch. Im sure we all know that is Bob Hewson all scruffy in the video. Love the strings . . .please also might be the best song on the album . . U2 the best music in the world . . peace n love 612joeman
04 February, 2010
beautifulPopmart was my first tour of U2.I was 13 years old. I love the pop album it's a nice album to play in the summer with songs as Starring at the sun,Velvet dress and Playboy Mansion.Beautiful album to play in my trabant kubel (cabrio). I think please is one of the best political songs of the last 20 years. It's still up to date with everything that's happening around us today.I'll hope you will play it the next tour in europe.


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Game On! Let's make these games count already!
I got my tickets for when the Cubs come to NY and I can't wait! Have a ticket to three out of four games as I have to see as much as I can in person this year with the Cubs' only trip to NY coming first thing in April, only a month away!
Not expecting a lot of long ball seeing that Citi Field's dimensions are horrendous when it comes to home runs. So hopefully Lou's line up table setters in Theriot and Fukudome find their way on base a bunch and Lee and Rami are able to find holes in the outfield to knock them in. It's not too hard to find holes in the Mets outfield. For one, especially without Beltran, they aren't very good. Francoeur is a joke. Bay hasn't played at Citi Field so getting used to the park and its dimensions will take some time. As for Pagan, I liked him as a Cub and was sad to see young potential get away. All in the same, he's no Carlos Beltran. All that, plus the fact that the outfield is ginormous (another flaw in the designing of Citi Field) if Theriot and Fukudome can find their way on, we should be starting off those ballgames up a run or two and ready to roll.
Little concerned about Rami's soreness and the time he is missing this Spring. I'm watching the replay of today's Cubs/Indians Spring game right now. Interesting to see Baker at third. I figure if he's making the ballclub, it's more so for his ability to play second base. Having a guy who can play third and second wouldn't hurt as it looks like Lou has wanted to see if Fontenot and Baker both are capable of playing either the left or right side of the infield. That makes me wonder if perhaps Lou is concerned about Rami as well.
Byrd's looked pretty solid so far this Spring which is good to see. We need a guy that can patrol centerfield with authority but also get the job done at the plate. Rangers fans I communicated with on Twitter were especially disappointed to see Marlon come to the Cubs. I'm starting to see why in watching him perform this Spring and hopefully it continues on into the regular season.
Got my 2010 Cubs club card, my Cubs jacket for early April games, my Cubs jersey and my Fukudome t-shirt ready to hit Citi Field with abandon no matter how warm or cold it may end up being. Opening Day across the country is always a crapshoot when it comes to the weather and more often than not you end up freezing for at least 2/3's of the game. I remember catching one opening day in New York and 50% of the fans in the upper level was standing in the aisles at the corners of the stadium trying to get into the sunny spots and avoid the shade. Hopefully my dates with the Cubs coming to town in April avoid the usual early season chill factor.
I don't foresee Samardzija making the club as a starter this year. We'll need him to perform well out of the bullpen though with a huge blow to the squad with Guzman's injury. Guzman was a guy that made me feel real comfortable with our bullpen and now without him, not sure how this is going to play out. And Silva? How do you guys feel about Silva? I'm not so sure he's the guy we need to get us through the early part of the season either until Lilly is closer to 100% and ready to step into his usual spot in the starting rotation.
Whatever Lou decides to do, I can't wait to find out and I can't wait to see it perform in games that count!
I received a copy of the Maple Street Press' 2010 Cubs Annual and it's amazing. Great coverage of last year with an insightful look into the 2010 season. All of the photos are in beautiful color and the stat breakdown of each player on the roster is detailed down to the finest percentage of performance. It's great to read a high quality observation and analysis of what the Cubs have been lately, what they could truly potentially be in 2010 and what the future holds with a breakdown of the hottest prospects in the Cubs organization. Two things that really jump out at me right away is that it is as up to date as you can possibly get (the rosters are up to date and accurate…nothing bothers me more than a company that tries to get an annual out to early and for instance, still has Bradley as a Cub and no mention of Marlon Byrd)….the other thing that stands out is that it is 100% Cubs. That may sound like an obvious observation, but take a trip to Borders or Barnes and Noble or browse on line for a while. Try to find a preview to the upcoming season that doesn't simply feed about five pages of Cubs info (that might not be up to date) in a program that runs about 150 pages long. Hardly worth your money as a Cubs fan. If you are looking for a truly efficient breakdown of what to expect going into this regular season, pick up a copy of the Maple Street Press' Cubs Annual for 2010. You certainly won't be disappointed.
Hopefully we can say the same thing about our Cubs' season come Fall and the games hit a point where they could REALLY mean something! Go Cubs Go!


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Connect With Low-Literate Families: A Three-Tiered Approach
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Research shows that the connection between home and school is enhanced when children share learning experiences with their families. This lesson plan follows a three-tier scaffolding model to suggest how teachers can prepare take-home reading activities for children to share with their parents or caregivers. By preparing students to read a selection unassisted and providing prompts for parentchild discussion, the model provides opportunities for low-literate parents or caregivers to celebrate their children's achievement and contribute their personal experiences and knowledge in ways that are comfortable to them.
Smith, M.C., & Elish-Piper, L. (2002). Primary-grade educators and adult literacy: Some strategies for assisting low-literate parents. The Reading Teacher, 56(2), 156165.
- Many literacy activities that teachers send home with children living in low-literate families are difficult for parents or caregivers, who may be intimidated or confused by the demands of the particular activity.
- Teachers can develop successful take-home literacy activities for children from low-literate families by following a three-tier scaffolding model that takes into consideration the needs of the families. The three-tier approach consists of
|Preparing students to take the activity home.
|Sending students home to work on the activity with their parents or caregivers.
|Having students share in class what their experiences were with the at-home activity.
Morrow, L.M., Kuhn, M.R., & Schwanenflugel, P.J. (2006). The Family Fluency Program. The Reading Teacher, 60(4), 322333.
This program introduces parents to strategies to use at home including echo reading, choral reading, and partner reading.
Kuhn, M. (2004). Helping students become accurate, expressive readers: Fluency instruction for small groups. The Reading Teacher, 58(4), 338344.
Wilfong, L.G. (2008). Building fluency, word-recognition ability, and confidence in struggling readers: The poetry academy. The Reading Teacher, 62(1), 413.


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Google Maps viewers can now travel in time -- to 2007, when Google Maps began snapping images -- and see how things used to be and are now.
Some venues are more interesting than others, such as the Freedom Tower in New York City, which has grown in the last few years. If a Google Maps image has a clock on the upper-left of the photo, then it can be clicked on and users can take a short trip through time, according to the Official Google Blog.
"This new feature can also serve as a digital timeline of recent history, like the reconstruction after the devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Onagawa, Japan. You can even experience different seasons and see what it would be like to cruise Italian roadways in both summer and winter," wrote Vinay Shet, Google Street View product manager.
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The view does help if you can't remember what things looked like seven years ago, but for those of us that do, it's likely the Google service will be more interesting in 20, 30 or even 100 years from now.


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First humans to leave Africa went to China, not Europe – "The first humans to leave Africa decamped to far east Asia, not Europe. A trove of ancient teeth found in a cave in China adds evidence to the idea that humans reached the region thousands of years before they made it to Europe. The find suggests that modern humans reached China between 80,000 and 120,000 years ago. That challenges the widespread assumption that humans didn't leave Africa until 60,000 years ago. It's further evidence that Homo sapiens may have left Africa several times, says María Martinón-Torres of University College London. 'It means we have to re-think different models of our dispersal.'" – and john hawks tweeted: "An 80kya modern human population in SE Asia w/Denisovan ancestry might help explain pattern of admixture in Philippines Mamanwa."
Way Down South – "I hear (tweets by Razib Khan, concerning Sankararaman's talk at ASHG) that the Denisovans had substantially more genetic diversity than Neanderthals (determined mainly by the variety seen in admixed segments)…." – from greg cochran.
Lactase persistence and ancient DNA – "'…it seems plausible to me that the [European LP] allele first appeared in Central Europe, was spread around Europe by the LBK, before being introduced to the steppe later by migration from Europe.'"
Stonehenge builders had barbecue feasts at nearby party centre – and milk and cheeeeeese!
Basques are not simply a fusion of Iberian hunter-gatherers and early farmers – "[T]he story told by the PCA is that Basques are the progeny of Bronze Age Iberians, who, unlike their Copper Age predecessors, experienced a pulse of steppe-related admixture from the east…. The key question now is who brought the steppe-related ancestry to Basque country. Were they Indo-Europeans or speakers of Proto-Basque?"
Sex‐specific demography and generalization of the Trivers–Willard theory – h/t owen jones! who tweeted: "Can mothers adaptively adjust offspring sex ratio? It's complicated…."
The Great Migration and African-American genomic diversity – "We find higher African ancestry in southern United States compared to the North and West. We show that relatedness patterns track north- and west-bound routes followed during the Great Migration, suggesting that admixture occurred predominantly in the South prior to the Civil War and that ancestry-biased migration is responsible for regional differences in ancestry. Rare genetic traits among African-Americans can therefore be shared over long geographic distances along the Great Migration routes, yet their distribution over short distances remains highly structured."
Connectivity matrix predicts fluid intelligence – "The enchanted loom is slowly giving up its secrets, of which it holds many. The patterns of brain activity that so many researchers have tracked with wonder are beginning to reveal a larger pattern: the possibility that each of us has a habitual pattern of brain activity which identifies us, and distinguishes us from others. So, dear reader, we are separated by the idiosyncratic rhythms of our brains, dancing to a different beat, visiting a different pattern of cortical locations, and no doubt coming to different conclusions…. The unexpected finding which I find startling is that individuals can be identified by their habitual brain patterns (not just on specific tasks) and those patterns of activity predict fluid intelligence on Raven's Matrices at about r=0.5." – from dr. james thompson.
Meta-analysis of associations between human brain volume and intelligence differences: How strong are they and what do they mean? – "Positive associations between human intelligence and brain size have been suspected for more than 150 years…. Our results showed significant positive associations of brain volume and IQ (r = .24, R2 = .06) that generalize over age (children vs. adults), IQ domain (full-scale, performance, and verbal IQ), and sex…. We show that the strength of the positive association of brain volume and IQ has been overestimated in the literature, but remains robust even when accounting for different types of dissemination bias, although reported effects have been declining over time."
Correlation not Causation: The Relationship between Personality Traits and Political Ideologies – "Here we test the causal relationship between personality traits and political attitudes using a direction of causation structural model on a genetically informative sample. The results suggest that personality traits do not cause people to develop political attitudes; rather the correlation between the two is a function of an innate common underlying genetic factor." – h/t robin hanson!
Generalised Anxiety Disorder – A Twin Study of Genetic Architecture, Genome-Wide Association and Differential Gene Expression – "A heritability analysis of the same cohort also confirmed a significant genetic component with h2 of 0.42." – h/t siberian fox! – and jayman tweeted: "I suspect anxiety is more common in some places than others. Perhaps due to genetic pacification."
A Unified Crime Theory: The Evolutionary Taxonomy – "Drawing on a variety of influences, we argue that many types of crime can be understood in the evolutionary context of human life history. Along these lines, we present a framework capable of explaining different patterns of criminal offending both at the individual level as well as the macro-level." – from brian boutwell et al.
Resting heart rate and antisocial behavior: An updated systematic review and meta-analysis – "Low resting heart rate was associated with higher levels of antisocial behavior…. Results were similar across behaviors, including aggression and violence." – h/t anthony hoskin!
The association between childhood autistic traits and adolescent psychotic experiences is explained by general neuropsychiatric problems – from amir sariaslan et al. amir tweeted: "The 'p factor' explains assoc's btwn childhood autistic traits and adolescent psychotic experiences."
The Flynn Effect: IQ Testing Across Space and Time – from steve sailer.
What Extroverts and Introverts Can Learn From Snails – "Genes may change a snail's 'personality' and the thickness of its skin (or rather, its shell)"
Dimensional assessment of normal and abnormal personality in adults of the general population: Comparison of 'five' and 'alternative five' personality models – h/t andrew sabisky! who tweeted: "are normal and pathological personality all part of one continuum?"
So what if grammars don't help social mobility? – "On the Today programme and the New Statesman website, a statistic was quoted showing that grammar schools have a smaller percentage of pupils on free school meals than comprehensives. There are probably many reasons for this, but most likely the largest factor involved is that intelligence is hereditary and social class correlates with IQ; in other words, middle-class kids tend on average to be more intelligent than working-class ones. You could make the system fairer by replacing grammar entrance exams (for which richer parents hire tutors to help their children pass) with straight-up IQ tests, but the number of poorer children would still be disproportionately low. In fact the more social mobility we have over the generations, as everyone seems to want, the more that social class will correlate with intelligence. Richard Herrnstein pointed this out more than four decades ago. Many years earlier, Michael Young warned about this very process in The Rise of the Meritocracy. Social mobility does have its downsides; that's because intelligence is just another privilege you inherit from mummy and daddy." – from ed west.
The economic value of Breaking Bad: How misbehavior in school pays off for some kids – "Surprisingly, we find evidence that some non-cognitive skills that manifest as childhood misbehavior in the classroom (and are predictive of lower schooling attainment) are also predictive of higher earnings later in life."
A social science without sacred values – "We argue (1) that many social scientists are paranoid egalitarian meliorists; (2) that they are therefore very sensitive to threats to a sacred egalitarian narrative; (3) that this sensitivity may be excessive (at least in the domain of science) and may cause researchers to unfairly reject research that challenges egalitarianism; (4) that this may then lead to the marginalization of individuals who forward controversial theories and/or data; and (5) that these tendencies lead to bias in the social sciences." – from the winegard bros.
Social Status: Down the Rabbit Hole – h/t billare! who tweeted: "There are two systems of social status: Dominance & Prestige. For what selfish reasons might the latter one evolve?" – this was a really interesting read, btw.
Why Drunk Vegetarians Eat Meat – h/t jonathan haidt! who tweeted: "…esp. health vegs; moral vegs feel more disgust."
Shame, guilt, and facial emotion processing: initial evidence for a positive relationship between guilt-proneness and facial emotion recognition ability – "Guilt-prone people are highly skilled at recognising other people's emotions." [via] – w.e.i.r.d. study. pretty small n.
Gamblers, Scientists and the Mysterious Hot Hand – "We're all in the same boat. We evolved with this uncanny ability to find patterns. The difficulty lies in separating what really exists from what is only in our minds." – h/t claire lehmann!
Dobzhansky and Montagu's Debate on Race: The Aftermath
The Mutant Genes Behind the Black Death – "Only a few genetic changes were enough to turn an ordinary stomach bug into the bacteria responsible for the plague."
The End of Indian Summer – "At first, human rights commissions fought discrimination only in employment and housing, and there was strong resistance to prosecution of people simply for their ideas. This situation changed from the 1970s onward. Human rights took the place in society that formerly belonged to religion, and human rights advocates acquired the immunity from criticism that formerly belonged to the clergy. Discrimination was no longer wrong in certain cases and under certain circumstances. It became evil, and people who condoned it in any form and for any reason were likewise evil." – from peter frost.
Is Eastern Europe Any More Xenophobic Than Western Europe? – yes. but france is an exception in the west.
bonus: superforecasting conference on october 24th, if you happen to be in or near london: Superforecasting and Geopolitical Intelligence- Who can Predict the Future, and how?
bonus bonus: Did photosynthesis begin 3.2 billion years ago? – "Rusty rocks from ancient ocean suggest bacteria produced oxygen far earlier than thought."
bonus bonus bonus: The Beetle That Eavesdrops on an Ant's Secret Language – "A beetle evolves to 'listen in' on ants' chemical messages to one another, changing the balance of an ecosystem." [via]
bonus bonus bonus bonus: Ants con others into being their slaves by mimicking their scent
bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus: Sticky situation: maple syrup bandits face Quebec courts for infamous heist – "Trials are under way for the 2012 attempt to steal $18m worth of Quebec's sweetest export – a case that has succeeded in capturing Hollywood's attention."
bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus bonus: Pop Culture Pulsar: The Science Behind Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures Album Cover
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Secretive Patent Holder Sues Lots Of Companies For Remote Activation Software
from the gotta-get-it-done-before-bilski deptBrian points us to the news of yet another questionable patent lawsuit filed by yet another shell company, yet again in Eastern Texas against a ton of software companies. The patent in question (5,222,134) is for a "secure system for activating personal computer software at remote locations," and was originally filed back in 1991 and granted in 1993 -- meaning that the patent is actually nearing end of life. Odd, then, that it was suddenly noticed that all these companies were infringing. The lawsuit is filed by a shell company called BetaNet, and no one seems willing to speak. The lawyers representing BetaNet won't say who is behind the company, or how they even got the patent. This is typical. Many of these types of lawsuits are filed by shell companies to hide who is actually behind them. As for the defendants, here's the list:
Adobe, Apple, Arial Software, Autodesk, Carbonite, Corel, Kodak, IBM, Intuit, Microsoft, McAfee, Online Holdings, Oracle, Rockwell, Rosetta Stone, SAP, Siemens, and Sony.Obviously, none of those companies could have come up with ways to remotely activate software without this patent (yes, that's sarcasm). As the Register notes in the link above, even some of the software products listed as violating this patent don't seem to involve activation at all, raising serious questions about how they could possibly violate this patent. This sounds like yet another case of someone having read the book Rembrandt's in the Attic and deciding to go trolling for companies to sue with a meaningless patent.
Filed Under: activation, east texas, patents, software
Companies: adobe, apple, arial software, autodesk, betanet, carbonite, corel, ibm, intuit, kodak, mcafee, microsoft, online holdings, oracle, rockwell, rosetta stone, sap, siemens, sony


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"A Regular"
Wednesday, November 28, 2007 No comments
This past Monday my aunt was given tickets to the Maverick's game...of course, I managed to clear my schedule and attend! They didn't win, but win or lose, it's more fun to see in person. I took this picture for you, Holly. Look who has the ball...The Maverick's as a whole need a little work, Dirk was right on target.
Oh, Christmas Tree
Monday, November 26, 2007 2 comments
This is not this trees final resting place (it's just the only Christmas decorations I have out, which is hard to believe considering how long I've been playing Christmas music on my radio). Anyway, this tree is for my Mom. I bought a little four foot tree this weekend for my Mom and all the pink ornaments and flowers to match. My favorite ornaments are these little pink birds, there are some pretty cute ornaments I was able to find, including some real diva pink crystals dangling randomly throughout. My Mom's favorite color is pink, and it was another year of pink problems and pink victories, so I wanted her to have a little something to commemorate the year's events (and those prior). AND this also serves as an illustration of one of the things I bought on my shopping marathon this holiday break. They were reporting on the millions of dollars that were spent on Black Friday alone, and I was doing the calculations in my head, I think I'm responsible for at least half of the spending reported in the media this Monday morning :O)
B to the Third Power
This Sunday I helped my cousin, Brian celebrate his 18th Birthday. We went Bowling and out to eat. Five of you had birthdays over the break....I'm worn out just thinking about it, so I'm only reporting on the official blog regarding 1/5th of the celebrations that took place over this long weekend, but happy birthday to you if you are reading this and too had a celebration this break. This blog was brought to you by the letter "B."
Tags: Family, Special Occasions
Stars Vs. Toronto
Saturday, November 24, 2007 No comments
Nothing says "the holidays" like time with gal pals, a great hockey fight, and dollar hot dog night at a Star's game. Stars won tonight against Toronto Leafs 3-1.
Harvesting Memories 2007
Thursday, November 22, 2007 1 comment
Lilly and Max helped me carve the turkey this year, but they spent the rest of the day looking in the backdoor as family arrived to celebrate Thanksgiving (and an early Christmas exchange with Jimmy and Lydia). We managed to consume a great meal and get in the annual game of T U R K E Y. Brian is this year's champion. We also were able to get in a trip to the movies tonight to see Enchanted, a super cute movie. I'm headed to bed now to pile up strength for my four am shop-a-thon!
Pedicures to Pies
Wednesday, November 21, 2007 1 comment
You are getting a play by play of my day by day right now....I'm having fun with projects. Today Holly, Lydia and I went and got pedicures and then headed to a tea room for lunch, you know any day that starts with a pedicure has to be a good one :O). The rest of the day I finished up a few mini projects. A few days ago I baked some leaf shaped cookies to bag up for a fun table decorations, it's a friend's recipe I've been wanting to try out (I've tried it once, but I wanted to try it again.) I baked an apple pie and played around with little apple cookie cutters, and then I marked another thing off of my 101 To Do List-make a holiday arrangments, they are just baby arrangments, but I made some candle holders for my table this year.
If I were twenty years younger....
There is a little old lady that lives inside of me that tells me every fall to hire someone to rake my leaves....she has raked 18 bags of leaves thus far, but she still looks up (when her aching back allows) and seeing 7 full trees. It's been a strange, warm fall, so the colors aren't that impressive up above, it's either green, or dead on the ground. Unfortunately, there is also an accountant that lives inside of me that says I can't pay someone to do something I can do myself. I was just telling someone the other day that if I were 20 years younger I would have LOVED having so many leaves to play in, I can only imagine the piles I would have built, and the friends I would have buried under leaves, but now as I rake I'm very careful to avoid the leaf dwelling bugs and grasshoppers in each pile. Bugs didn't exist when I was busy playing childhood games.....but they are definitely a part of the fall season now. Regardless of it all, I do love the trees...and the leaves, it means it's fall-my favorite season.
Mavericks VS Toronto
This evening Holly, Brian, Lois, Mom, Lydia, Jimmy and I headed to the Maverick's game. They played the Toronto Raptors. Who knew a game against a Canadian basketball team could be so exciting? They spent most of the game behind...by as much as 20 points the first half, but they came back to win it, per our request. I heart the Mavs!
Posting Frenzy
One of my goals over my holiday break is to post as much as possible, just to make things a little more lively around here. I'm finally completely well, which is great, and I have a three day break, and I didn't even bring home THAT much work which means I can't work even if I wanted to (or rather, felt like I should be working). I had my flu shot this week to hopefully prevent future illnesses (here's hoping) and I have the best little four legged nurse in town, she doesn't cure my illness, but she likes to cuddle when I don't feel well and go to bed before the sun....so here's my latest Lilly picture, I was loving her leg position when I captured her picture here. Silly puppy.
Tags: Pets
Bob Beamon
Tuesday, November 20, 2007 No comments
To make a long story short (which is not something I do very often). Olympic Gold Medalist Bob Beamon came to my school today for a national Diabetes campaign. It was a big deal, and it will be on the local news channels and local newspapers as well as National news stations and papers (USA Today is one of the newspapers I know was there, but there were at least 20 different media outlets). For those of you who don't know (myself included until recently) he holds the record at the Olympic games for jumping 29 feet 2.5 inches in the long jump. Just seeing the visual of how far that is was pretty incredible. Anyway, to my knowledge I've never met any other Olympic Gold Medalist, so.....I just thought I'd share. As for pictures, I don't think I can legally take or share those, so you'll just have to pick up a paper. The kids were super cute though, he was talking about the 'highs' and 'lows' of his life and the low was his Diabetes diagnosis and treatment and he was discussing the nutrition aspect of leading a healthy life and he asked the kids what sort of things they should be having for meals and one little Kindergartener without missing a beat said, "Steak and Sandwiches"....maybe you had to be there, but since I was, it made me smile.
Warm Fuzzy of the Week
Thursday, November 15, 2007 No comments
The age old question in schools (regardless of the grade) is-"What do you want to be when you grow up?" It's talked about, written about, drawn, played out in centers-you name it, they have done it (and yet so many of us are still so confused as adults about what we want to be when we grow up ;o)). Anyway, this week it seems to be popping up in my face a little bit more than usual. A third grader wrote about wanted to be an alien when he grew up in one of the small groups, and today as I was walked down the halls I saw a chart where the Pre-K teacher had scribed each students response, and then they wrote their name next to it....and here were a few of my favorites:
-A Princess
-A Baseball
-A Power Ranger
-Big, Big, Big, Big
-A Mermaid
-A Sleeping Beauty
-A Strong Doctor
-A Princess
-A Baseball
-A Power Ranger
-Big, Big, Big, Big
-A Mermaid
-A Sleeping Beauty
-A Strong Doctor
Tags: Work
Aimee's Baby Shower
Friday, November 09, 2007 1 comment
Yesterday I helped host a baby shower for Aimee, who is expecting a little girl at the beginning of December. We went with all sweets (pink, of course), and tried to make it as low key as possible, which is absolutely Aimee's way, it took us awhile to even get her to let us throw her a shower! In the end, we all had a good time. There were about 25-30 people there to celebrate the big event, which has been a long time coming :O)
Tags: Baby Shower, Friends, Parties, Showers
Stock in Kleenex
Wednesday, November 07, 2007 1 comment
If I knew how long I was going to be congested, I would have invested in kleenex. I'm recovering from the 'stuff' that is going around...so---->no blogging for the last week or so. The highlights of my last week that didn't involve sleeping or popping cold pills included a huge project at work that will end in May (h-e-l-p), the start of Saturday school, and lots of birthday parties and a baby shower. The birthdays were this past weekend (Maggie and Kelly), November is full of birthdays, I have 9 good pals celebrating (that I can think of right now, I won't name them in case I'm forgetting yours :O). I'll attach one of the two cakes that MADE it onto a table this weekend with people celebrating the big events. I had a typical Christy Cooking Disaster: two cake mixes later and four pans in the oven (the first two even LOOKED funny and I double checked before making the second, but still overlooked the fact that-I forgot the eggs, needless to say, it was a long night.
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Taking on 17 diseases with names like schistosomiasis, lymphatic filariasis and dracunculiasis may seem daunting. Yet earlier this year the World Health Organization (WHO) set targets for intensified control, elimination or eradication of all of these neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) by 2020.
In the past, NTDs were tackled vertically, or one by one, even in parts of the world where people were at risk for multiple infections. For decades the World Health Assembly (WHA), the decision-making body of the WHO, has chipped away at this huge global health challenge by passing resolutions that address individual NTDs.
But yesterday the WHA passed a landmark resolution that for the first time takes on all 17 NTDs at once. The resolution reinforces the approach that the global health community has taken recently to combat NTDs, which focuses on combining treatment programs for the most common NTDs to achieve cost reductions and increase coverage.
This is significant not only because it more effectively addresses these pervasive diseases of poverty; it also elevates the status of diseases that individually would not attract such attention, despite their tremendous impact on the world's most vulnerable populations. Now is the time for action. As Dr. Neeraj Mistry, managing director of the Global Network, notes in the video below:
"Collectively, these 17 diseases affect a billion and a half people around the world and these are the billion and a half people that live on less than a $1.25 a day. This resolution means that governments around the world will actually institute policies and put money towards tropical diseases programs to change the predicament of the poorest communities."
For full coverage of the WHA resolution, visit the WHO's Neglected tropical diseases page.


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Catalogue Description: For the sum of $3,000 we received: Two Victorian drawing rooms including all woodwork, doors and door frames, windows and window frames, ceilings, mouldings, pilasters, chandeliers, mantelpieces, fireplaces, and all other materials in or part of said rooms, together with the complete furnishings. Library (originally the parlor): Late Empire style with Gothic pointed arch motif (this motif is also used in the decoration on the panels on the doors separating the parlor and library). This arch motif, called an "ogee" is a recessed area, painted medium-brown, into which a desk is placed. The woodwork around the ogee is painted white, as are the woodwork around the large window, floor mouldings, and ceiling mouldings. Floors-wide planks painted (stained?) raw sienna. Walls-plaster, painted medium yellow-green. Ceiling-moulded plaster with flat areas painted beige and recessed areas painted white and brown. Pilasters-Corinthian capitals, painted light grey, which frame double sliding doors between the two rooms. Drawing Room: Main room on the first floor. Except for the relocation of the windows, the room is presented as it was built and furnished in the middle of the 19th century. Floors-wide planks painted (stained) raw sienna. Walls-Grey plaster from floor moulding to ceiling moulding. There is simple wood paneling below each of three windows, painted white. Also, painted white are the floor moulding, pilasters and window frames. Ceiling-moulded plaster with flat areas painted medium grey along the out portion near the walls and painted beige within the center rectangle of the ceiling. The elaborate moulding and recessed ceiling decor are painted light grey. The moulding has leaf-like decoration and the ceiling has one rosette near each corner and leaf and flower designs. Pilasters-Corinthian capital, painted light grey, which frame double doors between the two rooms. The area about the doors is divided into three sections: lower, plain; middle, has a strip of fleur-de-le; top, stepped and chalice effect. Fireplace-white marble with scalloped shell and leaf scroll units at sides. Also, shutters (louver) on all windows. And, portraits of Col. Millian and his wife, Hannah (for whom the house was built) hang in the room, painted by John G. Taggart in Dec. 1851.


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One of the qualities of Land of the Lost that I've always very much admired is the series' sense of internal consistency, at least during the series' first two years.
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In "One of Our Pylons is Missing," for example, viewers discover how this unusual lost world is powered. Chaka (Philip Paley), Holly (Kathy Coleman), Will (Wesley Eure) and Rick (Spencer Milligan) discover a strange hole in the ground where a pylon should be, and find that it leads down -- for lack of a better word -- to the planet core.
But this is no ordinary planet core. Instead, they discover a huge red, glowing mass there. It is "like a sun," as Rick notes. This mass is the main source of energy for all of Altrusia, and the weird "heart" consumes matter, transforms it into energy, and then distributes that energy throughout the land via all the pylons. It's a perfect system…if it's fed and supported.
Unfortunately, Rick, Chaka, Holly and Spot all end up orbiting the giant sun or heart, and are nearly consumed by it. Spot gets zapped, dragged in, and then absorbed. Finally, Marshall and Holly give the mass a terrible "heart ache" by reflecting back its absorption ray with their mirror signaling devices.
I still recall the first time I saw this episode. It was a Saturday morning in 1975, and we were visiting my grandparents' house in Verona, NJ. I sat down to watch the show in the family room, and was absolutely blown away by the visuals, especially the moment where poor Spot gets digested by the giant power source.
Today, of course, the special effects don't hold up particularly well. In fact, they seem kind of clumsy now. But the important thing is that when I was a kid, the effects successfully showcased a world (and a place) unlike any I had ever seen. Today, it's plain that action figures are utilized to depict Holly, Rick and Chaka getting tossed down the hole into the heart chamber. Worse, the chroma-key effects showing the threesome orbiting the coruscating heart are crude and a little funny, to say the least.
Still, the idea of the Marshalls finding (unexpectedly) the power source for the Land of the Lost is a great one. As a child, I loved the concept, especially since there was a dangerous aspect to it. For a while, it indeed looks like Holly's goose is cooked. But this episode fulfilled the promise of exploring a new world, and finding things in that new world that made sense, and were consistent with what came before. That's no small deal.
When I watched "One of Our Pylons is Missing" again for this review, I could more also detect the flaws in the story, to be certain. The first ten minutes of the episode consist largely of the Marshalls' trying to understand why Chaka is upset. He keeps trying to explain; they keep trying to translate. It's tiresome, and a very, very long scene.
Once the hole opens up and we have our first look at the "master scheme of things" in the Land of the Lost -- "the most vital part" as Marshall establishes -– the episode picks up substantially. So I still have nostalgic appreciation for "One of Our Pylons is Missing" because it is one episode I remember watching in first run. But, yes, it could certainly be paced a little bit better.
That said, this was a Land of the Lost episode that absolutely inspired by five year old son, Joel. After watching it, he quickly transformed his Star Wars Death Star toy into "the heartbeat of the Land of the Lost" and then proceeded to feed it every small, loose toy he had nearby, from game pieces and dice to mini-figures and accouterments. Then Joel insisted that we overfed it, and had the heartbeat of the Land of the Lost…vomit. Instant mess!
Still, it's nice to know that -- dated special effects and all -- "One of Our Pylons is Missing" still inspires imaginative and creative play.
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By Jessica Mirasol in January 2010
Title: Allan Blank Papers, 1958-2009
Primary Creator: Blank, Allan (1925-2013)
Extent: 60.0 Linear Feet
This collection has been organized into the following series:
I. Original Compositions
II. Sketches and Sketchbooks
III. Correspondence
IV. Programs
V. Publicity
VI. Personal and Professional Reference Materials
VII. Videos and Recordings
Date Acquired: 00/00/1999. More info below under Accruals.
Subjects: 20th century music, Acoustic guitar, American String Teachers Association, Associated Music Publishers, Association for the Promotion of New Music, Baritone (Musical instrument), Bass clarinet, Bassoon, Blank, Allan, 1925-, Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers, Brass quartet, Brass quintet, Carl Fischer Inc, Clarinet, Cornell University, Dorn Publications, Double bass, Earnestly Music, Edition Pro Nova, English horn, Euphonium, Falls House Press, Flute, Hampton Roads Region (Va.), Harp, HoneyRock, Horn (Musical Instrument), Jazz band series, Music for Percussion, Inc., National Endowment for the Arts, Nichols Music, Oboe, Old Dominion University, Opera--Juvenile, Operas, Organ (Musical Instrument), Percussion, Piccolo, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Richmond (Va.), Roncorp Inc., Saxophone, Seesaw Music, Smith Publications, String quartet, String trio, Symphonic band series, Theodore Presser Company, Trombone, Trumpet, Tuba, Viola, Violin, Violoncello, Virginia Commission on the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth Universtiy, Virginia Music Educators Association, Vocal Music - - 20th century, Wind quintets (Bassoon, Clarinet, Flute, Horn, Oboe) - - 20th century
Allan Blank was born in New York in 1925. His early musical training was on the violin, and he attended the High School of Music and Art where his interest in conducting and composition was fostered. He furthered his studies at the Juilliard School of Music (1945-1947); Washington Square College (B.A., 1948); University of Minnesota (M.A., l950) and the University of Iowa. He was a violinist with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (1950-1952) and has taught at a number of schools and universities.
He was Professor Emeritus at Virginia Commonwealth University where he taught from 1978-1996. He has a number of published works distributed among the following publishers: Carl Fischer, Theodore Presser, Seesaw Music, Music For Percussion, Dorn Publications, Nichols Music, Roncorp Inc., Falls House Press, HoneyRock, Boosey and Hawkes, Smith Publications, Association for the Promotion of New Music, Associated Music Publishers, American String Teachers Association, Edition Pro Nova and Earnestly Music.
Blank's awards include First Prize in the George Eastman Competition (1983), sponsored by the Eastman School of Music for his Duo for Bassoon and Piano; a grant (l983) from the National Endowment for the Arts in support of his one-act opera, The Magic Bonbons; three commissions (l979, l988, and l991) from the Virginia Music Teachers Association and two commissions to write music for the Virginia Shakespeare Festival at Williamsburg. In 1988 he won both the Eric Satie Mostly Tonal Award for his string trio, Fantasy on Cantillation Motives, and the Annual Choral Competition Contest, sponsored by the Chautauqua Chamber Singers, for his setting called Poor Richard's Almanack. In l989 he was a winner in the Lind Solo Competition, sponsored by Cornell University, and in 1990 he was awarded a grant from the Virginia Commission of the Arts for a Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra. Allan Blank is listed in a number of biographical references, including The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. He died November 12, 2013 in Bon Air, Virginia.
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Acoustic guitar
American String Teachers Association
Associated Music Publishers
Association for the Promotion of New Music
Baritone (Musical instrument)
Bass clarinet
Blank, Allan, 1925-
Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers
Brass quartet
Brass quintet
Carl Fischer Inc
Cornell University
Dorn Publications
Double bass
Earnestly Music
Edition Pro Nova
English horn
Falls House Press
Hampton Roads Region (Va.)
Horn (Musical Instrument)
Jazz band series
Music for Percussion, Inc.
National Endowment for the Arts
Nichols Music
Old Dominion University
Organ (Musical Instrument)
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Richmond (Va.)
Roncorp Inc.
Seesaw Music
Smith Publications
String quartet
String trio
Symphonic band series
Theodore Presser Company
Virginia Commission on the Arts
Virginia Commonwealth Universtiy
Virginia Music Educators Association
Vocal Music - - 20th century
Wind quintets (Bassoon, Clarinet, Flute, Horn, Oboe) - - 20th century
Repository: Music Special Collections
Accruals: Additions were made in 2000, 2009, and 2010.
Access Restrictions: Materials are available for room use only.
Use Restrictions: Copyright has not been assigned to the University Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the University Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the University Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
Physical Access Note: Original reel to reel recordings are not available for use.
Acquisition Source: Allan Blank
Acquisition Method: Gift
Preferred Citation: [Identification of item], Box Number [insert number], Allan Blank Papers, Old Dominion University Libraries, F. Ludwig Diehn Composers Room, Diehn Fine and Performing Arts Center, Norfolk, VA
Processing Information: The collection was processed by Jessica Mirasol in 2010.
Finding Aid Revision History: Major revisions to this finding aid occurred in 2010 after new additions were processed.


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Here is a set of DIY GanzGoggles made from the Kasina light strips. We are offering these light strips for sale for Kasina and Procyon. Contact email@example.com for details.
It is a very easy build and the strip fits perfectly. You get the added benefit of an adjustable strap and foam padding around the eyes. They are very comfortable. There are air holes on each side too.
These are the googles from Amazon http://amzn.to/1ORNaim The Arc One company has several
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In many meditation practices it is common to keep the eyes half closed rather than fully closed. While it is possible to do this somewhat with regular closed eye Ganzframes with the DeepVision glasses this becomes a whole new experience.
Many of the super saturated colors mute down to very pleasing shades. Greens and blues are especially nice. Reds pop with full strength. In fact in the upper vision red is very prominent and carries strong patterns. While at the bottom of the vision
Wondering whether stimulating frequencies during sessions works? I am posting some EEG recordings to demonstrate what this looks like on me personally. Now, I do have 20+ years of meditation experience, so that must be considered. However, with all the affordable reasonably precise EEGs available, it is time for people to start demonstrating the claims that they make. Show and not tell so to speak.
Recorded at FP1 and FP2 on the forehead. Not the usual place to record entrainment. So
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The Kasina has the ability to alter the modulation depth programmed in a KBS file from the interface. It can also apply volume modulation to external audio files played through the AUX jack. This post describes this feature which was introduced in firmware 1.12. It shows up in the KBS player.
Two settings work in conjunction with one another. The UP button on the Control Pad controls to what audio the modulation is applied. Either KBS audio only, AUX audio only or both KBS and AUX.
Updated 06-21-2015 at 12:14 AM by neuroasis
I have uploaded the first release of the Audacity Mind Machine Suite to Github here:
This is a set of plugins, effect chains, and equalization presets to create mind machine sessions including AudioStrobe and SpectraStrobe, binaural beats, monaural beats and isochronic entrainment tracks.
With the effect Chains in Audacity you can edit light tracks in a number of ways including stripping them out, doing
After a long and extended development period (with many sleepless nights) the new version of the Kasina Basic Session Editor is ready to let out into the wild!
It offers a vast set of new features to make KBS session editing more powerful. There is also utilities to manage and control most aspects of Kasina SD card management and firmware updating. Videos tutorials are online with many more coming.
Please try out the software and report any bugs that you find through
Exciting news today everyone... MindPlace is going mobile with our first AudioStrobe app!
This is our first foray into these waters so we have decided to use a 'shell application' as a testing platform to try out different interfaces and controls. This helps us to avoid the App Stores and the unfun parts of the making mobile apps and get right to the good stuff. It also allows us to switch out things quickly and try new versions.
The platform is called MobMuPlat - Mobile
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Attached are templates that allow you to create SpectraStrobe and AudioStrobe in the free GNaural application. http://gnaural.sourceforge.net/
These templates provide the basic elements for SpectraStrobe: Red, Green and Blue tone tracks and the SpectraStrobe reference track. Do not alter the base frequency of any of these tracks because it is this frequency that creates the light signals. For the reference track do not change anything. Note the volume of light tracks need to be low.
Based on the ideas from the post: http://www.mindplacesupport.com/foru...d-Fun-Patterns for the Kasina and new Procyon frames...
Attached is a template for you to print and cutout a simple cover for your Ganzframes which will allow you to view them with eyes open. This should work for Procyon, Proteus, last revision Sirius and the extra color frames we sell. Basically, all the ones with purple frames.
It is not quite as smooth
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A simple method to use the Kasina glasses with your eyes open is to cut out paper inserts and place them over the LEDs. The spread is not perfectly smooth and the overall effect doesn't compare to true eye open glasses (forthcoming from MindPlace). However, it is fun and easy to do.
The first attachment provides a template that you can cut out. There is a notch on the left lens to allow it to slip under wiring cover. They fit the lens fairly tight. Four groups are on one sheet so you
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City of the month: Bogotá
Is the old city center still a no-go area? Isn't the traffic really bad? And do they really eat chocolate with cheese? We shed light on Bogotá, the city of the month.
Is the old city center still a no-go area?
No, La Candelaria has changed completely in the past few years. The streets have been repaved, the old colonial houses restored, and several private universities have opened here. It's been transformed into a really hip area with museums, galleries, restaurants and bars – and it's safe.
Are Colombians really as fat as in the paintings of Fernando Botero, your most famous artist?
Of course, there are slim people here! But our idea of beauty is different from yours in Europe. Many men like voluptuous women, and having a bit of a belly shows that a man is successful and always has enough to eat.
Chocolate with cheese – are you serious?
All Colombian children were given chocolate con queso to drink by their grandmothers. We would dip the salty cheese in the hot, sweet chocolate and watch it melt. Our grannies knew that this combination had a lot of nutritional value. Today, the children eat other things for breakfast, but people still eat arepas, corn patties, with every meal.
Where did the gold in the Gold Museum come from?
Much of it was originally acquired from private collectors. New exhibits come from official archeological digs now that trading with gold artifacts has been prohibited. Our nation's soil is studded with treasures. Since the peace treaty with the guerrillas, we can excavate in regions that have barely been explored so far – I'm sure we will discover plenty more.
Isn't the traffic really bad in Bogotá?
Only during rush hour. The city introduced express buses 15 years ago that have their own lane and are often faster than the cars. One in eight people daily use Bogotá's almost 500 kilometers of cycle paths – more than any other city in Latin America!
Has answered our questions: Eduardo Londoño
Archeological Director of the Museo del Oro, the Gold Museum of Bogotá
In November, Lufthansa flies six times weekly from Frankfurt (FRA) to Bogotá (BOG). Use the app to calculate your miles. Download here: miles-and-more.com/app


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The University
Marywood University prepares students to have a positive impact on society at regional and global levels while providing each student with the foundation for success in an interdependent world. Marywood University is coeducational, comprehensive, residential, and Catholic. Founded in 1915 by the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the University serves men and women from a variety of backgrounds and religions.
The University enrolls over 3,400 students in an array of undergraduate and graduate programs. Committed to enriching human lives through ethical and religious values and a tradition of service and motivated by a pioneering, progressive spirit, Marywood provides a framework for educational excellence that enables students to develop fully as persons and to master professional and leadership skills necessary for meeting human needs.
Situated on a hill top, Marywood's scenic 115-acre campus is part of an attractive residential area of the city of Scranton in northeastern Pennsylvania. With a population over 70,000, Scranton is the sixth-largest city in Pennsylvania and is the county seat of Lackawanna County. Marywood has the advantage of being relatively close to major cities of the northeast. Distances by car to some of these cities are as follows:
2 1/2 hours to New York City
2 1/2 hours to Philadelphia
4 hours to Washington, D.C.
5 1/2 hours to Boston
Several airlines serve the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport, which is 20 minutes from campus. The Pocono Mountains, offering spectacular scenery and an abundance of outdoor recreational opportunities including downhill skiing, are only a few minutes from campus.
Academic Programs
Marywood's programs are administered through four degree-granting colleges. Undergraduate degrees are offered in over 60 academic programs including the arts, sciences, music, fine arts, social work, and nursing. All students are required to complete a core curriculum in the liberal arts in addition to the courses in their major. Opportunities for undergraduates abound through double majors, honors and independent study programs, practicums, internships, and study abroad. Army and Air Force ROTC programs are available.
The University is fully accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (3624 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104; 267-284-5000), and its programs are accredited by the overseeing organizations in each discipline.
Full list of Marywood's accreditations
91% of Marywood's full-time faculty members hold the highest degree in their field. The student-faculty ratio is 13:1. Faculty members are evaluated on both their teaching and their scholarly and artistic activities.
Financial Aid
Marywood offers a comprehensive program of financial aid to assist students in meeting educational costs. Eligibility for federal and state-funded programs is based on demonstrated financial need. In determining financial need, a federal eligibility formula is used to analyze family income and assets.
Over $26 million of institutional aid is awarded annually to Marywood students. Applicants to Marywood are considered for all financial assistance programs for which they qualify. Candidates are required to submit the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) and the Marywood application form, preferably by February 15.
Marywood University has an enrollment of more than 3,000 students; enrollment at the graduate level is over 1,000 students. Students, both full-time and parttime, represent a diversity of backgrounds. Actively working to increase the diversity of the student body in Marywood's programs is a high priority. Marywood's size permits a closeness in faculty-student relations, uncommon in larger research-oriented schools.


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ed: just read that both Smith and Clarke got 2-fers in the Windward Islands game. Maybe it won't be so bad.
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ed: just read that both Smith and Clarke got 2-fers in the Windward Islands game. Maybe it won't be so bad.
I'm tired of watching 20/20 matches where batsmen slaughter hapless bowlers....
Give me pitches that offer some assistance to bowlers for a change.
I don't see how slow pitches, or turning pitches could take away the quality?
IMO the team which covers all basis ie. Spin, Seam, Pace, will be the team to come on top. And in all honesty, the team who can read the pitch correctly and design the playing 11 accordingly deserves a lot of credit for getting it right.
Walking into the WC without adequate resources in the first place and then start blaming the pitch is wrong.
So you've got spinners who've no good length because batsmen can play back. The ball does grip and turn (that's the nature of these pitches, the ball grips so much it loses pace off the pitch) but it's too slow as I say with there being no good length and batsmen being able to play back so much you have to dart it in to beat the bat ie bowl quicker cutters or darts.
The pitch basically nullifies all bowling threat, except for medium pacers or darters. But it nullifies quality stroke-play the ball isn't timed.
So you get a bit of a stalemate and your slogger types become more important because a) you need power to get the ball off the square and b) you don't really need batting technique because it's easy to survive. Allied with the mediums and darters and you've got the reasons why slow and low pitches negate quality and produce poor spectacles.
These (or at least the ones we've seen in the Carribean of late - I'm not going to judge the pitches for this tournament until I've seen them) aren't really bowler-friendly though; they're just batsman-unfriendly. They don't make it easier to bowl genuinely wicket-taking balls; they just make it a lot harder for natural strokeplay. That's not a good thing.
I wouldn't call the thriller just ended (SL vs NZ) a boring game, even though, relatively, it had a lower amount of the so called bat dominating the ball.
In any case, i would enjoy it irrespective of the pitches. Both team play on the same pitch. As long as its not way too below standard.
The NZ vs Srilanka match was great.
It become monotonous and bowing to see slam bam hitting all the time ,even in t20 cricket .So a bit variation in the pitch is welcome ,specially if there is not a distinct advantage with the toss.
Is one option playing T20 matches on artificial pitches? Let's be honest, most fans go to T20 matches wanting to see big hits and lots of runs. Not low scores.
I personally don't mind at all however and think the warm-ups games looked close and very interesting, but think perhaps artificial pitches would be popular with a lot of people.
I didn't get to see the NZ-SL match but it sounds like pretty top viewing. I like an even contest between bat and ball and prefer matches where 140-160 is par instead of 170-190. Love it having a bit in it for the bowler, but obviously too much for the bowler is as bad as a total road.
I have a feeling that this world cup may not be as entertaining as the two previous once..
the pitches are going to be the main reason for this diseaster..
I wonder why tournments like this doesn't take place in places like Aus.. they always make quality pitches there..


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NEW YORK (AP) LeBron James had 24 points, nine rebounds and seven assists, and the Miami Heat blew out Brooklyn in the second half for a 105-85 victory Wednesday night, their 13th in a row over the Nets.
Dwyane Wade added 21 points and Chris Bosh had 16 for the Heat, who outscored the Nets 56-36 in the second half after it was tied at halftime.
In their first game since falling in double overtime Sunday at Boston, the Heat made sure this would be a much easier night. James, Wade and Bosh were all on the bench long before the end, and Miami shot 52 percent from the field and made 11 of 19 3-pointers.
Brook Lopez, chosen to his first All-Star team Wednesday, scored 21 points for the Nets, who had their eight-game home winning streak snapped.


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Passion and Inspiration
Paul Alder, VistaGreen's creator, spent years researching and developing the artificial plants that adorn the Signature Panel system today. His tireless efforts catapulted a non-existent industry into the forefront of artificial greening. Paul's vision and work paid off with an ingenious green wall solution that looks and feels stunningly. "Creating a product that is so true-to-nature turned out to be a kind of practical magic, we're proud to say, it did however take a lot of hard work, and over 25 years of experience to pull it off," says Paul.
Paul Alder is the head of this fast-growing world-wide artificial greenery brand. 25 years in the horticulture and technical landscape industry lead him to this top position in the artificial living wall market. Helping him get there were lessons learned from his days earning accolade after accolade on the world's toughest garden circuits. Starting humbly at the Royal Parks, by the age of 24 he was supervising a staff of 40 tending to the parks and went on to work for himself winning 12 national awards in England, five Chelsea medals including the highly coveted Gold and a Gold medal at Hampton Court Flower Show.
Thoughtful design, creativity and an exuberant drive took Paul's talent to this place of impeccably reproduced artificial living walls. He is both the inspiration and passion behind the brand with its goal to transform the environments of urban spaces where real vegetation could never thrive.
Because VistaGreen's incredible customization capabilities will always center around user-designed outcomes, expect innovation to come year after year from VistaGreen, ensuring today's green wall design is not your last green wall design.
We are a team of green wall build and design experts. Fuelled by innovation, we are constantly improving our alignment with nature to realize a reflection of the amazingly simple beauty of nature in style and function.
Efficiency drives the VistaGreen green wall family every day when making decisions on product development or green wall installation techniques. Quality is never compromised with our best-in-class vertical gardens as we subject all panels and artificial plant varieties to the most rigorous testing and continuous find tuning.


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Baylor running back Shock Linwood had a hard time sleeping because he couldn't quit thinking about what happened.
Quarterback Bryce Petty was quickly reminding everyone that the ninth-ranked Bears still have plenty in reach, even though their national championship hopes ended with that lopsided loss at Oklahoma State.
"Does that game kind of change our postseason chances? Maybe a little bit," Petty said. "But it definitely doesn't take away anything from the season that we've had, and that we're going to have."
While the 49-17 loss did put a damper on what had been an unblemished record, the Bears (9-1, 6-1 Big 12) can still have their best season ever. They can still win their first Big 12 title, and can still get to a BCS bowl.
The Bears have to keep all that in perspective with two games left in the regular season, at TCU (4-7, 2-6) this weekend before closing out at home against Texas.
"It's a challenge, but there's certainly a lot out there and we've got to start Saturday," coach Art Briles said.
This was the latest Baylor had ever gotten into a season before its first loss. The only undefeated season in school history was a 3-0 record in 1900, and the Bears have reached 10 wins only twice (1980 with linebacker Mike Singletary, and 2011 with Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Robert Griffin III).
Cyril Richardson, the Bears' big left guard, said they always talk about putting losses -- or wins -- behind them.
"Now is the time to practice what we preach," Richardson said. "We are definitely going to do that."
Briles will be coaching with a heavy heart following the unexpected death of his older brother, Eddie, who died Wednesday from an apparent head injury after a fall.
Win their last two games, and the Bears are guaranteed at least a share of the Big 12 title no matter what the seventh-ranked Cowboys do in their Dec. 7 finale against Oklahoma.
If Oklahoma State loses the Bedlam game, which should end about the same time Baylor kicks off against Texas that day, the Bears could win the outright Big 12 championship and Fiesta Bowl berth.
Even if Baylor ties for the Big 12 title and is left out of the Fiesta, a one-loss Bears team that is still on a record-setting pace with 56 points and 662 total yards a game could be an attractive option for an at-large BCS spot.
Baylor has faced 14-0 deficits in its last two games. The Bears recovered quickly against Texas Tech to take a 21-20 lead by the end of the first quarter and never trailed again.
But they were down 35-3 after three quarters at Oklahoma State last Saturday night. The Bears had three fumbles, one by Petty and two by Linwood, who was held to 29 yards on 14 carries after consecutive 180-yard rushing games.
"I've been thinking about it a lot," Linwood said. "But I just have to let it go and move on to TCU."
The Oklahoma State game was still scoreless when Petty tripped short of the end zone and fell down at the 1. Two plays later, Linwood fumbled trying to stretch for a touchdown, and the Cowboys responded with a 99-yard touchdown drive.
Petty, the fourth-year junior in his first season as a starter, is confident that the Bears will show their resiliency against the Frogs.
"It's due to the better leadership of the guys and we just didn't have things go our way," Petty said. "The past few games, we've had mishaps where we were able to capitalize and we knew that we couldn't have that (against Oklahoma State). ... We couldn't give their offense that many opportunities. Unfortunately we did, and that was the outcome. As an offense, we've got to get better.
"This week, we've got to have a good week of practice," he said. "Have fun, and just be Baylor."


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ROSES to area academic teams for recent honors: Pottstown High School Business Technology students who successfully showcased their talents at the Montgomery County Intermediate Unit Annual Computer Fair and Phoenixville Area High School Academic Team which is headed to the National Championships in Atlanta. We are quick to point to the successes of area sports teams; academic teams' accomplishments equally deserve that recognition. These wins represent academic talent and commitment of our young people. Congratulations to these teams, and good luck to Phoenixville on Memorial Day weekend in Atlanta.
THORNS to the allowable practice of triple-dipping by public employees who retire, collect a pension, take a temporary job for pay and then collect unemployment benefits when the term of the job ends. State law says retirees who come back to work cannot hold the position for more than 95 days or they lose pension and health benefits. That sets the stage for unemployment. A proposal before the state House of Representatives could save taxpayers as much as $1 million, according to projections. With an unfunded pension burden of $41 billion, Pennsylvania can't afford laws on the books that allow triple-dipping. We support the current effort to see it corrected.
ROSES to Coventry Little League for its 'Stepping up to the Plate' food collection effort planned at Saturday's Opening Day festivities. Those attending the festivities at Wampler Complex are asked to bring food items for North Coventry Food Pantry, which serves more than 100 families in need who live in the Owen J. Roberts School District. The Coventry Little League food pantry drive demonstrates public service and sets a good example for the youth involved in the league.
THORNS to our representatives in Congress who have been caught up in the politics of the Affordable Care Act known as Obamacare instead of fixing what's wrong with it. Of course, it didn't help that most Democratic members of Congress who voted for the bill didn't bother to read it before voting on it. A local example is the need for Royal Medical to move out of Pottstown in order to survive as a business in the changing health-care field. The move is necessitated by methods for Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement that will dramatically affect income for medical equipment supply firms like Royal Medical. The issue could be fixed, along with other mistakes that are certain to be part of a law this massive. But the focus has been on criticize-or-defend rather than fix. No one gains by waiting to see something fail.


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Search suspended for missing millionaire
Guma Aguiar's boat washes ashore in Fort Lauderdale
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – The search for a South Florida millionaire whose boat was found run aground on Fort Lauderdale Beach was suspended late Thursday.
Fort Lauderdale police said they received a report at 1:15 a.m. that a boat had washed ashore in the 300 block of South Atlantic Boulevard.
Guma Aguiar, 35, of Fort Lauderdale, had reportedly gone out on the boat about 7:30 p.m., police said. Aguiar has not been seen since then.
Sea Tow said nothing seemed out of the ordinary aboard Aguiar's boat, except a broken tie rod, which keeps the two motors parallel. Without the tie rod, boaters said, Aguiar could have been tossed overboard.
On Thursday morning, the Coast Guard cutter Dolphin was searching off Fort Lauderdale, while a Coast Guard airplane joined the search from the air.
Crews were mapping out an area where the current may have taken Aguiar since Tuesday.
Investigators said they have not found any signs of Aguiar.
A Coast Guard vessel out of Fort Pierce was also being used to search for Aguiar.
Aguiar made millions in energy and donated much of it to Israeli causes, including sponsoring an Israeli soccer team. He also donated money to the Chabad Lubavitch of Fort Lauderdale.
The assumption is that Aguiar was aboard his boat Tuesday night.
The Coast Guard suspended the search just before 9 p.m. Thursday.
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