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Here we are once again…it's Friday!
I'm super excited because we're going to the mountains today! Josh was asked to attend Life Pacific's Fall Retreat this year and the thought of being home alone with all four kids for two whole days had me terrified. Luckily, our friend, who also works at the college, pulled some strings to make it possible for the kids and I to tag along!
Funnily enough, this will only be my second retreat with Life Pacific; my first being my freshman year the Fall of 1999.
I'm looking forward to the coolness of the mountain air, some pine trees that will remind me of home, and inspiring worship and messages. We're only going to be gone for one night, but I'm going to make the most of it!
Now, without further ado…I will announce the winner of my first giveaway!
The winner of their very own, personal copy of Anne Jackson's "Permission to Speak Freely" is…*
I'll be emailing you to get your shipping information. For those of you who didn't win, I wish I could buy each person who entered a book. However, I have four children and no job, so I'd suggest heading out to your nearest bookstore and picking it up! :)
Oh, and the next time I decide to do a giveaway would someone please remind me that if it ends at midnight I have to stay up till midnight? Thanks…
And now for my Friday Favs…
Meeting people from Twitter and blogging in real life makes it that much more fun to read what they write. I got to meet Dawn Carter at our tweetup last month.
Josh and I sat next to her and her husband, the guys bonded over the fact that they have crazy wives addicted to Twitter. Even better, we discovered that we have a six degrees of separation thing going on through Life Pacific College and the Idea Camp.
So this week Dawn wrote two posts that I really connected with and wanted to share.
The first was a guest post for Tyler Braun as part of his Dancing Jesus: Mentoring in the Church blog series.
Dawn provides a number of reasons not to mentor. What I loved about this post is that I really believe in mentoring. I want more mentoring and I want to mentor more. The most important thing about mentoring though is that you're doing it for the right reasons. My main right reason is: God told me to.
The last thing we need is this flavor of exhausted Christian influencing another generation. Mentoring isn't about adding another project to do. Or having someone under your tutelage. In fact, it isn't about you at all. (Dawn Carter, Man of Depravity.com)
Ahh! I love this post!
The second post that Dawn wrote this week was on her own blog, The Chronicles of Dawnia.
So here's the thing. I've been a SAHM for a while now and I haven't really been participating in ministry outside my home (because being a mom is a ministry…can I get an AMEN). But, I have been reading blogs, listening to sermons, attending online seminars and reading books about ministry, Christian life, leadership, mentoring, burnout, and more.
I have become Jabba the Christian.
And Dawn pointed it out to me. She is starting to do something about it and I am praying about starting to do something about it — is that like saying I'll start my diet on Monday? But truthfully, I know that I've been consuming a lot and I want to make sure that I'm looking for those opportunities that God provides for me to pour it out.
That's partly why I started this blog; I see it as a ministry.
As Dawn says:
It feels good. And it beats being the huge green Hutt. (Chronicles of Dawnia)
Jonathan Acuff is brilliant. He has discovered a way of making fun of Christians without causing us all to become defensive. Maybe it's because we know he's one of us. It's like that rule that it's ok for me to make fun of my sister, but if you try to do it I'll punch you in the face. I never feel like punching Jonathan in the face.
He should make that his new tagline:
Jonathan Acuff | A Guy You Don't Want to Punch in the Face
Anyway, as funny as he is, I've discovered a little secret about him…a secret I share with the hordes of others who read his blog. He's actually smart and serious. Every Wednesday is "serious day" at the Stuff Christians Like blog. God has definitely spoken to me through a few of these Wednesday posts (He speaks through the funny ones too, just so you know).
Back to the point…this Wednesday Jon Acuff wrote a post titled: Wondering why God makes life impossible sometimes. He discusses those situations with God where:
More than just not showing up when I want him to in the way I want him to, it feels like he actually makes things harder than they need to be. (Jonathan Acuff, StuffChristiansLike.net)
Aside from the funny story about him in his underwear in 8th grade, Jonathan gives an interesting reason for why God does this in our life. I'm not going to tell you though, you have to read it for yourself.
So that's it…we have a winner to my first giveaway, some good blog posts for you to peruse this weekend and I'm off to the mountains!!
Before I go, though, I'd love to hear about your favorite posts from this week or what your weekend plans are…


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Evan Fardella may be the fastest baseball player in the Mountain Valley Conference.
The centerfielder's first step is as quick as they come and his ability to read the ball off the bat is a talent no coach can teach.
So when Wagner's coaching staff saw Fardella play at the Big 26 Classic last summer — Pennsylvania's top 26 prospects against Maryland — well, let's just say they were sold.
"Every time I got on base I stole one or two bases," Fardella said of the three-game series.
Fardella, a Pocono Mountain East senior and career .383 hitter, was named Pennsylvania's Player of the Series. Fardella signed early to attend the Staten Island, N.Y., school where he will play in the outfield for the Northeast Conference school. He'll receive a scholarship just over 50 percent.
He called his decision, "a relief," and looks forward to coaching his younger brother's 10-year-old basketball team this winter, while preparing for his senior season with the Cardinals.
"The campus is absolutely beautiful," Fardella said. "They play at the Staten Island Yankees stadium. It's a beautiful pro stadium, the grass is nice and the outfield is wide open to run."
And Fardella can run. On the base paths last spring, Fardella was 24 of 25 in stolen base attempts. He's 33 of 36 for his career.
"I'm still amazed how fast he is," said Fardella's baseball coach at Pocono Mountain East, Matt Loringer. "His first two steps, it's not like anybody I've ever coached or seen at his age."
Loringer recalled one of Fardella's top moments. In a game against Tamaqua, Fardella was on second base with the bases loaded when the ball went to the backstop on a wild pitch.
"I looked up to find him and he was passing me to go home," Loringer said. "He was able to see the ball was going to hit the dirt and he was able to get the jump nobody gets."
Fardella is also the quarterback on the football team where he threw for 1,333 yards and 13 touchdowns, while running for another 307 and four touchdowns. His coach, Phil Dorn, said Fardella was getting attention from Division II and III schools, but new his senior's real love was baseball.
"For us, the things he did you don't draw up and scheme," Dorn said.
Fardella's natural baseball ability was brought out at an early age by his dad, Blaine. The senior said by age 6 his dad was throwing the ball to him as hard as he could and he would catch it.
"I always loved it," Fardella said. "We'd go outside and I was ready to go."
A natural right-hander at the plate, Fardella may experiment with switch-hitting this year. If he's successful, it'll be just another weapon to highlight his speed.
Defensively, Fardella is full-out all the time and said he prides his game on what he can do with his glove.
"I've always loved defense," Fardella said. "As a Little League player, I was always one of the best on defense. Defense was always exciting to me."

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Game Mechani(sm) of the Week
February 01, 2009, 12:27:22 AM »
Inspired by Philippe Tromeur's work last year, I've decided to do something similar this year.
I'm dedicating a single weekly entry my blog to a series that I'm calling the "Game Mechani(sm) of the Week".
It's basically a weekly brainstorming session where I propose a new system or game mechanism that I haven't seen in play, but which could be adapted for some type of gaming use. Or it could be new ways to use existing mechanisms I've encountered. By the end of the year I hope to have a decent toolkit of concepts that can be used to constrict a wide variety of games.
So far I'm up to number 6.
If anyone wants to have a look, please do so. Offer comments, advice for how the mechanism could be used, ideas for how it could be modified or improved, ask questions, provide constructive criticism.
It can be found at:
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Re: Game Mechani(sm) of the Week
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February 27, 2009, 08:57:13 PM »
That is an ambitious goal. Good luck.
By the way, on your blog, you can get rid off the excessive spaces above your tables by removing any line returns inside of the table code. It's a Blogger glitch.
Hopefully that means something to you.
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February 27, 2009, 10:40:24 PM »
Thanks for that tip about Blogger...I've had that issue a couple of times and had wondered how to resolve it.
So far so good though, 9 mechanisms, 9 weeks into the year.
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Re: Game Mechani(sm) of the Week
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March 01, 2009, 05:11:14 PM »
That is an excellent idea. I'll hop in when I can.
Any idea on how to use this thread? I am thinking maybe just an update every so often, so as not to duplicate the discussion at the blog.
Best, Ron
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March 02, 2009, 12:20:49 AM »
I'll try to make sure that I keep a log every month or so, indicating the recent game mechanisms I've submitted.
It'd be nice to get some more dialogue happening over on the blog, (it'll make me think that people actually read it and maybe even care). I'm trying to cover a wide range of different aspects in roleplaying, and where possible I'm deliberately not tying them into a specific game system.
So far, the mechanisms I've offered an examination of...
Mechanism 1: The Conscience Bag
In which I offer a concept revolving around a bag of beads, then explore the use of this bag as a tool to guide a character's conscience.
Mechanism 2: Escalation in a Limited Field
In which I look at a mechanism that brings character into an inevitable conflict with an outside force.
Mechanism 3: Tarot Mysteries
In which I post an email I had offered someone as a suggestion for supernatural powers/weaknesses based in the tarot.
Mechanism 4: Counter Maps
In which I look at a way to rapidly deploy play surfaces through the use of poker chips or similar counters.
Mechanism 5: What doesn't kill us makes us stronger
In which I look at an experience system where advancement is gained through failure in a task.
Mechanism 6: Pigeonholing
In which I look at the way keywords are used, and how they can used more effectively.
Mechanism 7: Supernatural Powers
In which I look at a method of overall conflict resolution for powers rather than a task resolution basis (such as that which is found in many systems).
Mechanism 8: The Character Matrix
In which I rehash a post that I made here in the first thoughts part of the forum.
Mechanism 9: Matrixed Experience
In which I rehash another post that I made here in the first thoughts part of the forum (because I had felt lazy this week.)
Mechanism 10: Hit Locations
In which I examine a method of assigning damage locations in tandem with dealing damage, as a single combat hit roll.
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May 21, 2009, 07:26:43 PM »
I just thought I'd provide a bit of an update on how this project has been progressing. A few of the topics have seen some discussion, but I haven't really been getting a lot of feedback or dialogue lately. So this is just a reminder that I'm still plugging away at my goal.
The weekly bit of the title isn't really accurate, so weeks I don't post anything, some week (and even some days) I'll do two or three in a row, it depends how much inspiration I;ve got and how much time is available. Then again, it's been more than a month since I promised that I'd give "monthly" updates. I think I'm sitting ahead of my weekly schedule at this point, and I've done this because I may have a new job lined up that will take quite a bit of my free time away.
Anyway...here's the recent batch of entries.
Mechanism 11: Sharing the Spotlight
In which I offer a mechanism to ensure a single player doesn't dominate a game session too heavily, through the introduction of "scene purchasing tokens".
Mechanism 12: SNAP!
In which I look at the role traditional card games with established mechanisms can play in an RPG.
Mechanism 13: Scales of Morality
In which I steal a concept that was offered here at the forge by Egonblaidd.
Mechanism 14: Gathering the Party
In which I consider some options for regrouping a party, or establishing mechanisms that make it less likely for players to branch off on their own.
Mechanism 15: Disposability
In which I briefly look at the phenomenon of a disposable character sheet that is literally destroyed during play.
Mechanism 16: Balanced Story Threat Introductions
In which I offer a suggestion for a method of balancing story encounters with respect to the environment, the characters and the narrative.
Mechanism 17: Virtues and Vices
In which I pull a mechanism from a game I've had on the backburner for a while, offering it as a way of dealing with character morality and commitment.
Mechanism 18: Life Path
In which I remember some of the old games with life path generators, and other mechanisms for developing a character's background.
Mechanism 19: Fate Points
In which I look at a few game that have used a meta-currency to adjust a character's potential for success based on the player's desire to succeed.
Mechanism 20: Injuries vs Hit Points
In which I compare the two common versions of impairment within roleplaying games. A linear scale from healthy to unconscious/dead, and a field of potential injuries applied to the character.
Mechanism 21: Otherkind Dice
In which I look at the notion of rolling a pool of dice, then assigning the results across a range of options to define the scope of a task and other relative effects.
Have a look through them, feel free to comment, offer suggestions, or shoot them down in flames.
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October 31, 2009, 03:00:12 AM »
I hope this isn't considered a necro of the thread, but I just thought I'd share the status of this project with everyone.
It's now the end of October, and I'm 42 Mechani(sm)s through my project.
It's the home stretch and I consider the project to be reasonably successful, thanks to those people who've been following it, and thanks to those people who've made comments along the way.
Once the year is out, I'll offer a full index of the blog entries over at my website...
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January 01, 2010, 05:43:48 PM »
Well, the year is over and I managed to get 52 game mechani(sm)s discussed in varying degrees of detail over at my blog. It's been a fun project, really helped to open my mind to certain design choices made by other game artists, and I might try to do something similar in a few more years. To those who've been watching and commenting, a heartfelt thankyou.
If anyone's interested in having a look, an index of the bog entries has been generated over at my website.
You can access the index here.
Feel free to have a look, make comments, shoot down my theories with your own empirical evidence, provide new ways to look at the ideas from your own perspective.
But for me, on to some new projects...and back to some projects that I've been avoiding.
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January 15, 2010, 12:27:37 AM »
I'm trying to remember if I commented on one and which one - blogger is crap at keeping track of comments (well, atleast compared to wordpress)
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January 15, 2010, 11:06:42 PM »
Callan, you did comment on at least one to my memory...
I've actually been thinking of porting the whole blog across to another platform...either wordpress or livejournal.
I'll let everyone know if I go through with this and update links on my page accordingly.
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I'm having a bit of a trouble with my firewall, an attacker has been able to spoof my address and is attacking my lan computer. I have antispoof rules in my pf.conf but they have gotten around them. So I'm thinking if I can't stop them, at least I can limit them. I have stateful tracking options on ssh, and apache but the attacker is using an already established connection (like that created by a web browser [<my.ip.address>:54535]) and doing unicode point attacks. My stateful tracking options are such:
WAN_STO="(max 5, source-track rule, max-src-states 5, max-src-conn 10, max-src-nodes 10, max-src-conn-rate 5/30, overload <blockedip> flush global)"
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Appreciate the quick response jggimi. I've got the antispoof rules up like you suggested and have tried several other variants but I have yet to find one that will be able to antispoof an established connection. These spoofs are from connections established from the web browser. Someone has been able to get a hold of my ip and port of established web connections and inject attacks. An example:
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If I understand what you've posted, there is an attack vector from your webserver on softlayer.com's network block, into your private network. Do I understand that correctly?
If so, I'm astonished you would bother to obfuscate an RFC 1918 address, but not redact the IP address of your hacked or misconfigured webserver. That would be the address to remove from a public forum.
I don't necessarily understand why you are allowing the webserver to have unrestricted access to your private LAN. You should be able to limit it's access to necessary back end systems, such as DB servers, and limit it to specific ports, as well.
State table management will not help you at all with existing states, as you've discovered. Nor will antispoofing, since there is no address spoofing, there is an attack coming from your webserver. If I understand your problem, of course.
Best practice is to place Internet-facing servers in a DMZ between two firewalls. Forgive this ASCII diagram:
{internet} [FW1] -- Webservers, etc -- [FW2] -- {private network}
This allows for a fairly open set of rules for FW1, and a very restrictive set of rules for FW2. Access to the private network from the DMZ can be limited to necessary and valid connections from the DMZ servers -- such as a backend database -- which may eliminate the DMZ as a general attack vector into a private network, in the event of a misconfigured webserver, administrator ignorance, or other problems that enable an attack.
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A business was evacuated Monday night when a man called in a bomb threat.
A business was evacuated Monday night when a man called in a bomb threat.
About 30 employees filed outside of Robert Bosch Corporation at 1980 Indian Creek Road, Lincolnton, about 9:30 p.m. after the call came in.
The man called the plant and told employees that he had placed C-4 explosives in the building and was going to blow the facility up at one minute to midnight.
The building was evacuated and deputies conducted a sweep of the interior and exterior of the building searching for any suspicious items. No such items were found, and employees returned to their stations as soon as the building was confirmed to be secure.
Investigators reviewed the calls and questioned workers and identified the caller as an ex-boyfriend of an employee who was trying to get her fired.
Detectives arrested Chris Carl Lee, 29, of 1042 Mountain Crest Drive, in Kings Mountain.
Lee was arrested Tuesday around 4:30 a.m. at his residence without resistance. He was charged with felony false report of a bomb and held under a $100,000 secured bond.
You can reach reporter Diane Turbyfill at 704-869-1817 and twitter.com/GazetteDiane.


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Susan was born in London, England, and lives in Burnaby. She graduated with Honours in Printmaking from the Vancouver School of Art in 1979 and later in Philosophy from the University of British Columbia. Her etchings, linocuts, monotypes and mixed media works have been exhibited across Canada and the US and in Japan, Spain, Finland and Peru. They are in many private and corporate collections, including Vancity, TD Bank, IBM, NCR, The Salient Group and CP and Westin Hotels, as well as such public collections as the Canada Council Art Bank and the Vancouver, Burnaby, Richmond and SFU galleries. As a former journalist, Gransby also writes, edits and curates.
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Tuesday, April 3, 2012
A personal announcement
About 5 years of work, not just by me but my many others, have gone into this site and it has become the most detailed source on the English Internet for information about Japanese Whisky. As I have said so many times that it has become boring, Nonjatta has always been a team effort and the door has always been open to anybody who is interested in spreading the word about Japanese whisky to join the team. Although I must admit right now to having half a mind to chucking it all in, I do feel I should try to maintain it, but I am going to need a lot of help in the short term.
I am going to be asking regular contributors to temporarily take posting privileges that would allow them to post independently of my (up to now very loose) editorship and keep the site going. I appeal to anyone else who has quality content to offer to work with them.
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- Joshua said...
Chris - I am so sorry to hear this news. My heart and hopes go out to you, your son and your family.
I wish for your son a very speedy recovery.
- April 3, 2012 at 10:12 AM
- Macdeffe said...
My best wishes for a speedy recovery for Dan.
- April 3, 2012 at 12:40 PM
- Regev Porat said...
Hopefully everything will be ok.
- April 3, 2012 at 4:01 PM
- David Havelin said...
I wish Dan a speedy return to full health, and strength for his family while helping him through it.
- April 3, 2012 at 6:45 PM
i have been a quiet reader of your blog for sometimes, u have really open up my eyes on Japanese whiskies. Its always the right to put family first, best wishes for your son and your family.
- April 3, 2012 at 7:00 PM
- Soheil Samouhi said...
my heart and mind is with you and your family. I know how it feels to take care of an ill child. I hope he recovers very soon. best of luck
- April 3, 2012 at 10:51 PM
- Chris said...
My best wishes and prayers for Dan. I hope he makes a speedy recovery.
Take Care
- April 3, 2012 at 11:37 PM
Hi Chris, best wishes from Singapore hoping that your boy makes a swift and full recovery. Your site has been an invaluable resource to many and we're all hoping that things go back to normal for your family soon.
- April 4, 2012 at 3:33 AM
Dear everybody,
Thank you all for the support.
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Is that an idiom, an idiomatic expression or how would you classify that?
Is there a picturebehind it?
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Yes that would be an idiom. As for it's origin, I have no idea.
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The Online Etymology Dictionary has an interesting entry. I'm not sure why it doesn't cite its sources so we can check them.
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Data is expanding at a rate that outpaces the speed at which IT practitioners are becoming compliance experts, and information governance (IG) practices that create specific rules regarding the management of data are still largely undefined and difficult to enforce. Perhaps the most perplexing and pressing challenge related to IG is governing unstructured data, which is not found within an organized database.
Unstructured data typically includes Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, PDFs, media text files, emails, audio files and images. According to reports from IDG and Gartner, unstructured data is growing at a rate of 62 percent per year, and by 2022, 93 percent of digital data will be unstructured. Further complicating the issue is that this data is often created and saved over a multitude of repositories like ECM systems, shared drives, desktops, cloud environments, etc.
According to Rob Hamilton, vice president and digital market leader, Recall, corralling unstructured data is possible, but it cannot occur if IG decision-makers create policies that drastically impact business user workflow. If policies make their job significantly more difficult, they'll find workarounds for managing data that may put the organization at risk. The following suggestions can shrink the amount of unstructured data, help maintain compliance and gain buy-in from those most impacted by IG policies.
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Some good points and lets be honest, this is broken record for most high end professional designer like yourself or Elliot. Trouble is for the rest of us, trying to earn a decent crumb is what seems to be the most diluted of industries. When a client says "Web 2.0" "Zing" "I want it to pop" and other BS terms, what do we do? We just bite the bullet. We can only advise and after that the paying client gets what they pay for basically.
What I would suggest is, that designers put themselves out there more. Do what THEY want to see in personal projects. Who cares if no one likes it, as long as it's original that's what matters, then after a while fine tuning that style will be the best thing you could possible do. Obviously stick to certain design rules, but after that, go wild.
People just don't go wild anymore or take any chances :(


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Many of our parents and students are under the wrong impression that the North Carolina State Board of Education has delayed the decision whether to close the Children�s Village Academy until its December meeting. That impression is not true.
On behalf of the Children�s Village Academy Board of Directors, staff and faculty, I would like to take this opportunity to clear up a misconception stemming from an article in The Free Press published Tuesday about Children�s Village Academy.
Many of our parents and students are under the wrong impression � which was never stated or implied in Tuesday�s article � that the North Carolina State Board of Education has delayed the decision whether to close the Children�s Village Academy until its December meeting. That impression is not true.
To the contrary, Dr. Joel Medley, Director of Charter Schools for the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, met with representatives of theCVA Board of Directors to communicate the state board�s decision to take any notion of closing CVA off the table given the tremendous progress the school has made in retiring its debts following the misfortunes of Hurricane Irene, among other unforeseen circumstances.
The State Board was actually supportive of CVA operating next school year and beyond as long as it continues to show such great progress and works closely with DPI officials to reach even higher goals of financial success next school year, 2013-14.
The December meeting is simply the timeframe identified by the N.C. Board of Education to obtain an update to verify CVA is still on track with achieving its financial goals to significantly grow its financial reserve and for implementing the high quality academic program the school has had in the past.
Even if CVA somehow falls short of its financial goals to grow its financial reserve (which is highly unlikely given the school is now practically deficit-free), Dr. Medley has assured CVA officials the State Board would neverconsider closing a school in the middle of a school year under such circumstances.
In addition, the DPI�s Office of Charter Schools expressed its strong support (including specific recommendations) for Phase II of CVA�s Science, Engineering, Technology, and Mathematics (STEM) program, due to be implemented next school year, 2013-14.
During the first phase of CVA�s STEM program, the middle students excelled so well in mathematics that more than 80 percent of its eighth grade graduating class scored high enough on the Kinston High School placement test to be eligible for advanced placement math classes. The middle school students also �exceeded expected growth� with the majority of them scoring at levels 3 or 4 on their mathematics/reading End-of Grade (EOG) exams. This school is not the type the state wants to close.
Using a full staff of highly qualified, certified teachers, the 2013-14 STEM program will focus on the science component. CVA seeks to prepare the nation�s next generation of 21st century scientists, including doctors, nurses, engineers, programmers, psychologists, pilots and mechanics, among others.
CVA has a long history of providing high quality education for the community since it opened in 1997. For many years, CVA was the only elementary school in Kinston to make Adequate Yearly Progress, High Growth, or Schoolof Distinction, under No Child Left Behind for numerous contiguous years since the early 2000s.
With the assistance of DPI and the support of the N.C. Board of Education, CVA is destined to become one of the highest sought-after STEM programs in the state. During our next academic year, the STEM program has the potential of launching the school to its highest academic achievement to date.
CVA�s doors are always open and all are welcome. Stop by.
James Harper Jr. is the secretary/treasurer of the CVA board of directors. You may reach him by contacting the school. The opinions of the guest columnist are not necessarily those of The Free Press.
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ECI Screenprint's world is populated by technical schematics, precision machinery, and demanding applications. But as you'll discover, it's the human element that ultimately allows this industrial-printing specialist to grow and explore new technologies.
Thomaston, CT is a small New England town that fewer than 8000 people call home. Its name pays homage to Seth Thomas, a famous clock maker who, nearly 200 years ago, set up shop in what was then called Plymouth Hollow. He often is credited as being a pioneer in the mass production of clocks of high quality and innovative design. Perhaps that's why membrane-switch producer ECI Screenprint, Inc. finds the old Seth Thomas Clock Co. factory a natural fit for its design and manufacturing headquarters.
ECI Screenprint opened in 1991 with co-owners Edward Cook and Irma E. Diaz at the helm. The business that would become a specialist in high-quality and high-tolerance design, printing, and assembly of membrane switches and related products actually got its start in P-O-P displays and labeling. It was during the first few years of operation that Cook's background in engineering moved to the forefront at ECI and shifted the shop's focus to industrial applications.
"It blossomed from the fact that I'm an engineer and I've always enjoyed the type of business were I can look at a blueprint, talk to an engineer, and get into details," Cook explains. "I think that although P-O-P started us off and helped us get going, which was very helpful in the beginning, our emphasis has always been to build usable graphics for industrial applications."
Rather than dedicate further marketing resources to securing point-of-purchase work, ECI instead made its commitment to membrane switches and placed a full-page ad in the Thomas Register to promote its abilities in planning, engineering, production, assembly, and rapid prototyping and turnaround. Cook says he believes ECI was the first to offer five-day turnaround for high-end membrane switches, including rush jobs from customers who needed fully functional prototypes—a service that helped ECI make a name for itself in industrial screen printing and manufacturing, grow its business, and service valuable accounts in times of economic uncertainty.
Equipment and specialties
ECI uses many of the standard screen-printing products available in the marketplace in prepress, production, and finishing. The shop then modifies or upgrades them in house to improve registration and material handling and to minimize operator intervention.
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|christina ricci, 1998
|FRANCESCA WOODMAN where do i begin??
truth be told, my desktop is a total mess. Laura Palmer is also sleeping on the desktop. I really love photographed plastic. Francesca Woodman's work is fairly new to me. Photographs. Mind=blown. Blown=mind. I dont know where to begin. Her work is astonishing. She died in 1981 at the age of 22. She jumped off a building.


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|Fotografia de Christer Strömholm
Lying together in the park on Seventh,
our backs smoosh grass and I say
I will love you till I become a child again,
when feeding me and bathing me is no longer romantic,
but rather necessary.
I will love you till there is no till.
Till I die.
And when that electroencephalogram shuts down, baby
that's when the real lovin' kicks in.
Forgive me for sounding selfish
but I won't be able to wait under the earth for you
(albeit a romantic thought for groundhogs,
gophers and the gooey worms).
I will not be able to wait for you…
but I will meet up with you
and here's where you will find me:
get a pen–
Hold your finger up
(two fingers if your hands are frail by now)
and count two stars directly to the left
of the North American moon.
You will find me there.
You will find me darting behind amazing quasars
Behind flirtatious winks
of bright and blasting boom stars!
Sometimes charging so far into space
the darkness goes blue.
I will be there chasing sound waves
riding them like two-dollar pony ride horses
that have finally broken free and wild.
I will be facing backwards, lying sideways,
no hands, sidesaddle, sometimes standing
sometimes screaming zip zang zowie!
My God, it's good to be back in space… Where is everybody?
You will recognize my voice.
You will see the flash of a fire trail
burning off the back of me
burning like a gasoline comet kerosene sapphire.
This is my voice.
Don't look for my body or a ghost.
I'll resemble more a pilot light than a man now.
I'm sure some will see
this cobalt star white light from earth
and cast me a wish like a wonder bomb.
And I'll think "Hmmph. people still do that?"
I'm sure I'll take the light wonder bombs
to the point in the universe
where sound does end.
The back porch of God's summer home.
It's so quiet here, you float.
It feels the way cotton candy tastes.
I say to him… why do I call you God?
He says 'Because Grand Poobah sounds ridiculous.'
(Who knew he was so witty?)
I ask him 'Lord, so many poets have tried to nail it and missed, what is holy?'
At that moment,
the planets begin to spin and awaken
and large movie screens appear on Mars, Saturn and Venus
each bearing images I have witnessed
and over each and every clip flashes the word holy.
magic tricks–holy
cows' tongues–holy
snowballs upside the head–holy
clumsy first kisses–holy
sneaking into movies–holy
your mother teaching you to slow dance
the fear returning
the fear overcome–holy
eating top ramen on upside-down frisbees
cause it was either plates or more beer–holy
drunk beach cruiser nights–holy
the $5.00 you made in vegas
and the $450.00 you lost–holy
the last time you were nervous holding hands–holy
feeling God at a pool hall but not church–holy
sleeping during your uncle's memorized dinner prayer–holy
losing your watch in the waves and all that signifies–holy
the day you got to really speak to your father cause the television broke–holy
the day your grandmother told you something meaningful
cause she was dying–holy
the medicine
the hope
the blood
the fear
the trust
the crush
the work
the loss
the love
the test
the birth
the end
the finale
the design
in the stars
is the same
in our hearts
the design
in the stars
is the same
in our hearts
in the rebuilt machinery of our hearts
So love, you should know what to look for
and exactly where to go…
Take your time and don't worry about getting lost.
You'll find me.
Up there, a finger and two dots away.
If you're wondering if I'll still be able to hold you
…I honestly don't know
But I do know that I could still fall for
a swish of light that comes barreling
and cascading towards me.
It will resemble your sweet definite hands.
The universe will bend.
The planets will bow.
And I will say "Oh, there you are. I been waitin' for ya. Now we can go."
And the two pilot lights go zoooooooom
into the black construction paper night
as somewhere else
two other lovers lie down on their backs and say
"What the hell was that?"
Derrick Brown


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This Sunday I went to see Step Up 3D, and I have to say that it has all the elements that I require in a great summer movie.
1. No distracting plot.
2. Lots of energy without resorting to blowing things up…
3. Except for my MIND, of course. The dancing was a little mind blowing at points (see: Madd Chadd, Master of Mechanical Movement)
You can read profiles of all the main dancers in the movie in this USA Today article. But what I really want to talk about is: what do you do once you've gone to see Step Up 3D and are infected with dance fever? YouTube videos will only exacerbate the problem.
Our librarians have already put together some resources that can help you with this dilemma. Click here to see their collections of links to specific dance resources in the catalog, and links to lists of Pittsburgh based dance companies and recretational dance groups.
Or check out some of these DVDS for inspiration and skill-sharpening:
RIZE, directed by David LaChapelle, a super energy-packed documentary about Clowning and Krumping.
Singing in the Rain: The classic of the classics. There's a scene in Step Up 3D that is very reminiscent of the old musicals, and the dance here is exhilirating in its own right.
Any of these DVDs that can be searched for under the subject heading Dancers — Drama.
Or, these Dance Workout DVDS!
Dance Your Ass Off: The Workout
Dancing with the Stars Cardio Dance
Fat Burning Hip Hop Dance Grooves
Or, you could just get the soundtrack to one of the Step Up movies (here) and make your own choreography. Just make sure to share it with your local teen librarian. Who knows, we might hold our own Library Jam.
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Designed specifically for vegetative growth.
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Hubble ACS Image of NGC 4163
9.5 million light-years or 2.9 megaparsecs
88 arcseconds (4,000 light-years or 1,200 parsecs) wide
The image was created from Hubble data from proposal 9771: I. Karachentsev (Russian Academy of Sciences, Special Astrophysical Observatory), B. Tully (University of Hawaii), V. Karachentseva (Kyiv University), A. Dolphin (Raytheon Company), S. Sakai (University of California, Los Angeles), E. Shaya (University of Maryland), and M. Sharina, L. Makarova, and D. Makarov (Russian Academy of Sciences, Special Astrophysical Observatory).
The science team comprises: K. McQuinn and E. Skillman (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis), J. Cannon (Macalester College, MN), J. Dalcanton (University of Washington, Seattle), A. Dolphin (Raytheon Company), and D. Stark and D. Weisz (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis).
F606W (R) and F814W (I)
These images are composites of several separate exposures made by the ACS instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope. Two filters were used to sample broad wavelength ranges for each image. The color results from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic image. In this case, the assigned colors are orange/yellow for the I-band (F814W) and cyan/blue for the wide V-band (F606W) filter. The images have been further adjusted so the colors more closely resemble their true visual appearance, particularly the red hydrogen emission of the star-forming regions.
Cyan: F606W (R)
Yellow: F814W (I)
NASA, ESA, and K. McQuinn (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis)


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Anvil (also known by its development name Scimitar) is a game engine created by video game developer Ubisoft for use on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 for Prince of Persia and Assassin's Creed series.
Only registered members can share their thoughts. So come on! Join the community today (totally free - or sign in with your social account on the right) and join in the conversation.
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Divided Under God on the reversal in the Margaret Doughty case.
On Friday June 14th, we broke the story of Margaret Doughty, a 64-year old atheist from the UK who was told by the USCIS that in order to gain conscientious objector status, she would need to provide evidence of a religious reason for her objection "on official church stationery, attesting to the fact that [she is] a member in good standing and the church's official position on the bearing of arms." This was a clear violation of the First Amendment's Establishment Clause, as pointed out in a similar Supreme Court Case, Welsh v. United States.
The story hit the national stage, featured in articles on CNN, Huffington Post, Raw Story, RichardDawkins.net, and many others. Ms. Doughty's case was brought to the attention of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, who wrote a letter to the USCIS on her behalf, as well as the American Humanist Association, who did the same. Ms. Doughty's local Congressman, Blake Farenthold, also got involved, helping to get her case escalated to the highest levels of the USCIS for review.
Today, she received an email from the congressional office with the following message from the USCIS included:
"This Service hereby withdraws the request for evidence (RFE) issued on June 7, 2013. This Service accepts your detailed statement in satisfaction of the information requested by the RFE. Your application for naturalization has been approved."
Solidarity forever, eh?
More coverage –
The American Humanist Association
The BBC (via YouTube)


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Ventana Wilderness
IntroductionThe United States Congress designated the Ventana Wilderness (map) in 1969 and it now has a total of 236,726 acres. All of this wilderness is located in California and is managed by the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service.
DescriptionLegend relates that the unique notch at the summit of Ventana Double Cone (4,853 feet) was once connected by a rock bridge forming a window, or ventana in Spanish. First established as a Primitive area before becoming Wilderness, Ventana straddles the Santa Lucia Mountains south of the Monterey Peninsula, an area of ruggedly beautiful coastal mountains. You'll find steep-sided, sharp-crested ridges and craggy peaks falling into V-shaped valleys wondrously hidden from the outside world. Elevations range from 600 feet where the Wild and Scenic Big Sur River leaves the Wilderness to 5,750 feet where the boundary circumvents Junipero Serra Peak in the eastern section (which is separated from the main section by non-Wilderness Arroyo Seco Indians Road). Most of the streams fall rapidly through narrow canyons over bedrock or exposed boulders, and waterfalls, deep pools, and thermal springs can be found along the major streams. A great diversity of vegetation is dominated by chaparral, the brushy cover that grows over much of Central and Southern California. Grassy meadows and stands of pine are located throughout the area, and virgin coastal redwood trees stand in the deep canyons of the fast-moving Big Sur and Little Sur Rivers. The largest population of mountain lions in America lives in the Santa Lucia Mountains; wild pigs, wild turkeys, and opossums may be found in abundance. Numerous other mammals and birds share the area, including the California condor.
The area offers approximately 197 miles of trails from at least nine trailheads. The Pine Ridge Trail (24 miles) in the middle of the northern section is the most popular. Trails from Little Sur River in the north and Kirk Creek in the south attract many backpackers, and the trail from Kirk Creek up to Vicente Flat offers a challenging five-mile ascent to higher country with extensive views.
Planning to Visit the Ventana Wilderness?
- Print a fact sheet
- General things to consider when visiting any wilderness
- Regulations
- Contact the Bureau of Land Management or the Forest Service
- Visit the National Forest wilderness website
Leave No TraceHow to follow the seven standard Leave No Trace principles differs in different parts of the country (desert vs. Rocky Mountains). Click on any of the principles listed below to learn more about how they apply in the Ventana Wilderness.
- Plan Ahead and Prepare
- Travel and Camp on Durable Surfaces
- Dispose of Waste Properly
- Leave What You Find
- Minimize Campfire Impacts
- Respect Wildlife
- Be Considerate of Other Visitors


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Rituals is a brand I've talked about on here a couple of times before, but only one I really realised the full extend of the brand's offerings recently – there are Rituals products that you can use every step of the way morning to night…so that's what I did!
I spent a whole day living a 'day in the life of' Rituals…and wanted to give a few of my favourites a little mention via a blog post, starting with fragrance (which, yep – I didn't know they did fragrance either). This is Violet + White Lily, and first up the packaging is gorgeous – glass bottle, mirrored metallic label and wooden lid. Very dressing table worthy – and the fragrance is a fresh floral, not in your face like roses floral, lighter than that. Very wearable and much more modern smelling than I expect from traditional fragrances like Violet and White Lily.
Next up in my day of discovery of Rituals are a few other products across the range from the traditional bath/pampering products…to tea!
The handbag essentials:
The lip balm which is frankly an absolute God-send at the moment when my lips are drier than the Sahara. It's a very simple, but very effective balm in the simple, easy to apply on the go tube.
Then there's the multi-tasking Shimmer compact in Sunglow Pink five shades of shimmer that can be used individually or merged together – this is ideal for a during the day touch up, the pink for a touch of glowy blush, the white for a shimmery highlight and the bronze for an eyeshadow touch up all in one little compact.
Then there's the Hammam Mint Tea:
I'm not a big tea drinker, because I always feel the need to add sugar or honey or another type of sweetener to it – so avoid to prevent total sugar overload. But this is gorgeous, it's minty without being like a cup of steaming extra strong mints, it has a natural sweetness and is generally yummy. Plus mint is good if you have an upset stomach. Another product I didn't know Rituals did…
Rituals Skincare:
I gave my skincare routine a Rituals overhaul too, with a couple of gems that I've kept in daily rotation since my 'day in the life of' – my favourites being the eye cream (might sound odd, but have taken to patting this around the eye area, after applying make-up to keep the eye area totally hydrated during the day), the moisture mask and the night cream – both gorgeous moisture boost products. Really creamy and rich and ideal for dry winter skin.
Bath time:
Wu Wei Calming Cream Bath, actually as I write this I have enjoyed a long relaxing bubble bath and this stuff really is gorgeous. Creamy and moisturising with more bubbles than I can shake a stick at (why I'd want to shake a stick at bubbles I don't know…) For a full pampering experience I go for a hand full of the Himalaya Wisdom Scrub – which is much needed after a few months of being wrapped up under layers and layers of clothes! This stuff smells really good, but not quite as amazing as the Sakura Scrub which was one of the first ever products I tried from the brand and still a favourite of mine.
Home fragrance:
Last but by no means least is my absolute favourite discovery from my Rituals day: the candles – I knew they did home reed diffusers, but didn't know they did candles – and they're gorgeous! Not only do they smell good but they look gorgeous and they're really reasonably priced at £16.50 – my new favourite home candles, far less guilt inducing than Diptyque or Jo Malone, but just as pretty (if not more so)!
Along with these favourites I've also learnt the range extends to bed linen sprays, stress roll-on products, deodorant, hair styling products… the list goes on and on! Best thing, it's a lovely way to add a little touch of luxury to everyday life!
More Rituals info on the website
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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) Mark Lyons scored 18 points, Nick Johnson had 10 points and seven assists, and No. 9 Arizona rolled over Northern Arizona 93-50 on Wednesday night.
Arizona (4-0) overwhelmed the Lumberjacks from the get-go, showing no signs of rust after an eight-day break.
Dropping in 3-pointers and soaring in for dunks, the Wildcats built an 18-point lead in the first half and shut down Northern Arizona in the second for their 29th straight win over the Lumberjacks (2-4).
Arizona shot 58 percent, made 12 of 21 from 3-point range and had 22 assists on 30 field goals to kick off a stretch of four games in 11 days.
Solomon Hill had 17 points, Brandon Ashley grabbed 11 rebounds and Johnson added four steals for the Wildcats.
Dewayne Russell had 13 points and Blake Hamilton 11 for Northern Arizona, winless in 24 all-time games against ranked opponents.
The game marked the return of Northern Arizona coach Jack Murphy to McKale Center.
Murphy spent eight years at Arizona under coach Lute Olson, working his way up from student manager to director of operations. He also spent time as an advance scout for the NBA's Denver Nuggets under George Karl and was an assistant to Josh Pastner at Memphis, so he's worked for some of the best minds in basketball.
Murphy will need that knowledge to turn around Northern Arizona, a program that lost its coach last season and its final 16 games to finish 5-24.
The Lumberjacks did manage to pull off a big upset during their forgetful 2011-12 season, knocking off Arizona State 69-68 in Tempe when Stallon Saldivar hit a 3-pointer with less than a second left.
The Wildcats gave them no shot of a repeat, spoiling Murphy's return shortly after the opening tip.
Arizona scored the game's first nine points and had a 16-point lead midway through the first half.
Johnson was the catalyst early, forcing a turnover to set up a breakaway dunk and sailing in for a dunk on an alley-oop pass from Jordin Mayes to score seven quick points. He also gave NAU trouble by repeatedly getting into the lane, setting up Grant Jerrett for a dunk with an in-traffic bounce pass for one of his four first-half assists.
The Wildcats had 10 assists on their 15 first-half field goals - in 27 shots - and led 39-26 after NAU's Russell hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer.
Lyons led Arizona with eight points in the first half and put the game way out of reach to open the second, hitting two 3-pointers that helped push the lead to 53-28 in the first 4 minutes.
Arizona's starting backcourt gave NAU's guards all kinds of trouble defensively.
Lyons forced Russell into a 5-second violation on the Lumberjacks' opening possession of the game and defensive pressure on the perimeter led to another turnover to start the second half.
Combined, they helped force NAU's top four guards into 10 of the team's 15 turnovers.
The Lumberjacks didn't shoot particularly well, either, missing 16 of their first 20 shots before hitting a few down the stretch, after the game had long been out of reach.


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China Southern Airlines' A320 plane makes emergency landing due to mechanical fault
BEIJING – An official from a northeastern Chinese airport says an Airbus A320 on a domestic flight made an emergency landing because of a mechanical fault.
The official from Taiping Airport in Harbin city confirmed Tuesday that China Southern Airlines flight CZ 3624 headed for the southern city of Guangzhou returned to Harbin after takeoff Monday and made an emergency landing. She declined to specify the mechanical fault and would only give her surname, Bai.
The official Xinhua News Agency reported that the housing on the plane's left engine had fallen off, citing a statement from the airline.
Xinhua says the passengers left in another plane later Monday. It says the cause of the problem is being investigated.


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We are presented with repeated slaps to the face that is tent amount to being knocked out with a strong right hook
3 of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1952, as their action was tent amount to interfering with his legal rights to seek redress in a court of law
yet minimum wage abolition is tent amount to slavery
The semantics are hard to see, unless it's like a ball-park figure. There's something about "tent amount" that works but I can't put my finger on it.
On the plain in Spain where it mainly rains.
Tent amount makes more sense than tantamount if you don't speak Norman. Maybe also a connection to "testament"? See , and
Historically Appleby was one of the largest and wealthiest Parishes in Leicestershire, which the size of church is test-amount to.
Travel blurb
you continue to slander Anwar Awlaki, a man whose prison sentence alone is test amount to the fact that he has done far more
"Religio-political doctrine forum" that was not possible to link to
Being that steadfast in your Sony love is test-amount to being close minded
"Gamers" but also impossible to link to
It is test amount to such a state of the world that such corruption can happen against the people, again, this is simply people giving into their manifestationof instinct.I believe it is these small grey beings that can read my mind, and work with both the illuminati
Crazy ravings
This is not far off. If X is "tenement to" evil Y, X must be the seedy place where Y can flower.
They can want for nothing and envy nothing. To stop at anything is tenement to child abuse.
Keep children away from video games
Attempting such a feat on the weekends is tenement to suicide
Motorbike forum
I know they mean well, but to deny a child such pleasure is tenement to blasphemy in my book!
Book banning comment
Tenement as sorry testament.
The fact that such an inarticulate incompetent fool is able to survive in public life is tenement to the quality of interviewers we have in N.I.
Northern Ireland blog
Bar Monsta's metallers did not last there long, and new management has taken over yet again. The above sign on the window of the entrance is tenement to their policy.
Club evolution
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You guys inspired me to go looking for tantamount>>catamount, though I wasn't expecting much. Wrong – there are dozens. Sure, some are jokes, but a surprising number look authentic. I think this is purely malapropic. Examples:
For many, the thought of leaving their dog in the care of even the most professionally run kennel or boarding facility is catamount to leaving a child in an orphanage while the parent goes on a fun-filled vacation.
http://www.divorce360.com/divorce-artic … ?artid=440
This jump start of sales is catamount to having a hit on your hands.
http://www.writeandpublishnow.com/promo … _book.html
(Apparently to First Graders reading a Junie B book is catamount to pure genius.)
http://www.kellyology.net/2010/08/on-te … ifted.html
Cataphorically amazing.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
I see some paramount->catamount going on out there too.
This model displays the catamount importance by which genocide affects international relations
There is no denying the reality of Matthew 25 when Jesus clearly states, that what we do for the least of these is of catamount importance.
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And the third side of the triangle paramount/tantamount appears to be a fairly common mistake.
Their understanding is of tantamount importance for the safe and efficient application of drugs relevant to anesthesia.
to suggest social networking has not or will not lead to other technologies is paramount to saying the invention of the telephone was nice but it didn't help anything that much.


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Mermaids Adventure At Sea (Naty)
Hi Marlins fans! This is Mermaid Naty writing to you from Southeast Asia. Our trip overseas to support our troops had been beyond words. I am amazed and honored to be a part of this life changing experience. My favorite and most memorable event in Southwest Asia was our Mermaids adventure at sea with the United States Navy. On Sunday, we took a boat ride in the Persian Gulf. Before hopping on the boat, we had to strap on these heavy bulky life jackets and tie our hair back. We quickly jumped on the front of the boat in order to get the best view. We were warned that we were going to get wet, but we thought it is all or nothing and decided to ride it out in the front. We should have known were in for a special treat when all the other passengers rode on the back of the boat. As we were admiring the beautiful view and listening to our guide, the waves suddenly started getting real choppy and the captain increased the speed at which we were traveling. We quickly realized we were going to get soaked! Let's just say when we arrived to our destination, we were all soaked from head to toe. Ashley, Kim and I were laughing nonstop as we were getting splashed on because our hair and makeup turned into a complete disaster. We held on tightly to the railing to maintain our position as the boat soared through the harbor. It was quite an adventure and a moment we all will always remember (especially the sailors who warned us). The once pretty, dolled up Mermaids ended up soaked but feeling like true troopers. I look forward to sharing more stories with you soon!


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Kurt Nimmo
December 20, 2012
California Democrat Sen. Barbara Boxer has introduced legislation following the Sandy Hook school massacre that would allow military occupation of public schools.
Under the proposed law, state governors would have the authority to post National Guard troops at school doors or use them to perform administrative duties to free up police officers and sheriff's deputies to safeguard schools, according to the Rancho Mirage Democrat.
Boxer claims posting soldiers at schools and having them perform administrative duties would not violate Posse Comitatus.
"The slaughter of the innocents must stop," Boxer said during a news conference in Washington. "We have to do more than talk because we've talked before, we've cried before, we've lamented before. So we have to act."
Boxer announced a related bill during the news conference. It would increase the number of security cameras and metal detectors in schools under the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program administered by the Justice Department.
She urged Congress to include her proposals in any legislation that will be taken up by Congress in January in response to the Connecticut shooting. Boxer's news conference on Wednesday preceded one held by Obama where he appointed vice president Joe Biden to oversee a national task force on rolling back the Second Amendment.
Many public education institutions in the United States now resemble locked down prisons with heavy police presence, impromptu drug searches (including strip searches), chainlink fences and security perimeters, real-time surveillance cameras (in the UK, cameras monitor bathrooms), and RFID badges.
In 2004, studies revealed that 60 percent of high school teachers reported armed police officers stationed at their schools, and in 2005 nearly 70 percent of public school students between the ages of 12 and 18 said police officers or security guards patrolled their hallways, according to the ACLU.