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[Verse 1: Zombie Juice]
Welcome to my world, visions like my mind
On a thin wire, struggle but I'm here
Still high like it's no fear, tip toe
Like a ballerina, you can't see me, John Cena
Play my cards with a poker face
Sometimes I feel like the only race
Racing, speeding, still hungry like I ain't eating, call it even
A spade a spade, some other hoes, but I live in the shade
Palm trees, fronto, Bob Marley
I'm the dutch master, I'll box you, boy—like Cassius
Put 'em in a casket, like the Taker
21-and-0 on you haters, 21 Os
Step up in the building, something like Elvis
I'm 'bout to re-up, this here better than my last, uh
Mortal thought, living through all of y'all
Treat this shit like my only child, son of God
Calculate my visions, what I want is how I'm living
You might win some, but you just lost one
This beat here banging, Erick Arc, son
If you double cross, you hit the floor, Allen I-son
[Hook: Meechy Darko + Erick Arc Elliot]
Young, dumb motherfucker, life's guns and butter
My grandpop still make that crack rock bubble
Tell karma I love her, been a real good motherfucker
So she bless us with
Pussy, drugs, and money
I ride for my dogs, get high with my dogs
Niggas won't snitch, don't abide by the law
Blowing loud on the porch, Makaveli on my thoughts
How many real niggas will be down for the cause?
[Verse 2: Erick Arc Elliot]
Some days are made for reminiscing
Drug dealers with no product or pot to even piss in
Permission by granted God we see Allah
Molecules, minuscule, and regardless of who you are
You a part of early stardom, I believe we all achieve
In the eyes of martyrs, never a problem
Hearts fall apart so I stitched mine
Quick to choke a nigga, I be tryna bitch mine
Shorty sweet like clementine
I rap for the niggas that make beats but never get to shine, shine
Hey, Vinyl Blue in Green, Miles Davis CDs
I compose my sixteens before eighty-eight keys
The first time I did drugs it was making the beats
MPC bang my head, it even haunts me in sleep
Everybody's a snake, that's why I try to keep the grass cut
See it when they coming, then I heat they ass up
[Hook: Meechy Darko + Erick Arc Elliot]
Young, dumb motherfucker, life's guns and butter
My grandpop still make that crack rock bubble
Tell karma I love her, been a real good motherfucker
So she bless us with
Pussy, drugs, and money
I ride for my dogs, get high with my dogs
Niggas won't snitch, don't abide by the law
Blowing loud on the porch, Machiavelli on my thoughts
How many real niggas will be down for the cause?
[Verse 3: Meechy Darko]
If rap was illegal, you bitch niggas wouldn't even write a bar
Shit, I'd probably be behind bars
Raising the bar through these bars, I am at the bar
Taking shots of Henny, telling the bartender about all of my flaws
I'm in love with hip-hop not from the allure
I am sure, every single dog gets its day on the cross
No labels telling me fables, bitch, I am my own boss
Stoned off Triple OG, watch me zone off
Supreme entity, public enemy, energy that I'm harvesting
In pursuit of the riches, I want more green than them army men figures
So much 'shrooms and acid that my thoughts
Are tangled and twisted like gangbanger fingers
Right before they flick on the trigger and dismantle your ligaments
Metal fragments will hit you, so many holes in a nigga
That when the wind blows, he whistles, bet that I could read your mental
With my finger on temple and learn the deepest
Darkest secrets that your shadow will tell you
Cause you heard that I'm a better beast and stay closer to jay like a memory
And if your eyes ain't bloodshot, you need to get some better weed
Screaming, what the bloodclot? Shotty in a stolen V
Follow the law? I don't even follow the lord, flexing
Like I just shot up a bottle of 'roids, sexing
Bad exotic chick on top of your boy, chip on my shoulder
Only if chips involved, motherfucker
[Outro: Sample]
"I see you got yourself a little business going. Well, that's good, that's good, when you make that paper, but when you making paper you gotta learn some rules to go with it. You gotta learn the difference between guns and butter. There's two types of niggas in this world: there're niggas with guns and niggas with butter. Now what are guns? The guns, that's the real estate. There's stocks and bonds, artwork, you know shit that appreciates with value. What's the butter? Cars, clothes, jewelry, all that other bullshit that don't mean shit after you buy it. That's what it's all about, guns and butter baby! Lil' dumb motherfuckers"
Regular and Complex (GNB) is the 8th track of the Flatbush ZOMBiES sophmore mixtape BetterOffDEAD. The mixtape itself was released the 11th September 2013.
The "GNB" in parentheses stands for "Guns N' Butter," a reference to the 2001 movie Baby Boy.


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Usually there's a concrete reason for a band to embark on a tour, but it wasn't immediately apparent in the case of experimental rock outfit Blonde Redhead leading up to its arrival Wednesday night at Santa Ana's Constellation Room.
The band hasn't had a new album since 2010's Penny Sparkle, and likewise hasn't announced plans for a follow-up – not even a news update on its blog for two years. Nor did they preview anything new in this 300-capacity space – it was a more or less a typical BR set list, pulling mostly from the group's three releases on 4AD Records: 2004's Misery Is a Butterfly, 2007's 23 and its trip-hop-heavy foray from a few years ago.
That's not to say there wasn't substance within that premise. If anything, the trio – comprising Japanese singer/guitarist Kazu Makino and twin Pace brothers, Amedeo (guitar) and Simone (drums) – capitalized on the Constellation's intimate acoustics to serve up a tantalizing refresher of why they continue to stand out as one of the most compelling groups of the last two decades.
In a venue less than half the size of L.A.'s El Rey Theatre – the close-quarters spot where they performed Tuesday night – and with a sound system twice as crisp, Makino's tribal hollering on songs like "Not Getting There" and "23" was all the more engrossing. Every eye in the room fixated on her trancelike swaying as her tone reached an unmatched level of tortured soulfulness on the shoegaze-meets-circus-music piece that opened the encore, "In Particular."
Makino is often presented as the band's focal point, or "frontwoman," yet notwithstanding her enigmatic presence during the extended New Wave jams of "Spring and by Summer Fall" and "Messenger," there were plenty of instances this night where the Paces held the spotlight.
Despite Amedeo having the flu, prompting an apology for not being able to move much during the heavy groove of "Spain," the brothers played with spellbinding tightness indicative of their jazz roots. Simone sounded off with the blinding precision of a drum machine on "SW" and the punk-infused encore-capper, "Equus."
Meanwhile, Amedeo – erasing any notion of inhibiting illness – exerted his weirdly enthralling vocal gait for "Falling Man" and the rarely-played noise-rock anthem "Melody of Certain Three." That track likewise highlighted the twins' talent for controlled chaos with riffs and rhythms that, aided by Makino's precise six-string bass lines, shifted rapidly from harmony to bedlam with affecting ease.
The motivation for this show, essentially a third (albeit short) U.S. leg behind Penny Sparkle, may be illusive, but its lingering head-trip served a purpose: now anticipation is sufficiently piqued for whatever mind-bending soundscapes Blonde Redhead explores next. Hopefully sooner than later.
Photo also by David Hall, for the Register

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Title text: Inappropriate places for the Penis Game include baby showers and terrorist attacks.
The Chaos Game is a method of generating a fractal by repeatedly applying randomly-chosen transformation functions to a point and plotting the position of the new point each time. The transformation functions are randomly chosen from a small, predefined list. The surprising result of this is that, even though the functions are picked randomly, a distinctly non-random fractal image emerges. The exact nature of this image depends on the list of transformation functions used.
One such fractal that can be produced by the Chaos Game is the Sierpinski Triangle, which is the fractal pictured in this comic.
The Penis Game, on the other hand, is a childish activity where people (usually schoolchildren) compete to shout "Penis!" increasingly loudly in the presence of an authority figure (usually a teacher) without getting in trouble.
The two games could be said to be similar in that they both involve iterations of transformations; in the Chaos Game, a point's position is transformed (moving it closer and closer to the attractor set of the transformations); in the Penis game, the volume of the phrase "Penis!" is transformed (becoming louder and louder). The difference is that the Chaos Game works by negative feedback (eventually settling down into a well-defined image) whereas the Penis Game involves positive feedback (at some point, the cry of "Penis!" will become loud enough that the culprit will get in trouble and the game will end). Nonetheless, they could be vaguely considered inverses of each other, and Randall appears to be conflating the two in this comic.
The title text may be calling attention to the fact that a mathematical object such as a fractal is also an inappropriate place in which to be playing the Penis Game.
- [A large triangle is shown, with many smaller triangles inside.]
- [Words are in the triangles.]
- [is in the largest tringle]
- Haha, penis.
- [is in the next largest tringle below the last one]
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Missing triangles[edit]
Any idea why there are some (at least 3) small triangles missing? --188.8.131.52 18:46, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
- Where?--Dgbrt (talk) 21:46, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
There's actually an extra triangle as well that doesn't fit the pattern. It's DDLRLL. -- 18.104.22.168 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
- It's a secret message ILLUMINATI CONFERMED22.214.171.124 04:07, 25 May 2015 (UTC)
I don't think this article meets standards of neutrality. Calling the penis game "infantile" is insensitive to those exploring their sexuality and does not reflect the nuances of the penis community. 184.108.40.206 21:21, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
^ I agree. That said, if this were an IRL discussion, I'm fairly certain it would devolve into people just playing the penis game. TheMightyGunns (talk) 20:44, 22 May 2014 (UTC)
^ Edited. 184.108.40.206 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
Should the situations in the title text be explained as to why they are inappropriate?


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More than entertainment, these books can be a powerful coping tool when a struggling reader connects with the text. Paperback books look and feel like a trade edition and are complete in just under 200 pages. Naomis cousin, Carlotta Valencia, is coming to live with the Martinez family. And she is a handful--a spoiled brat with a chip on her shoulder. She is a flirt. She is brazen. She is promiscuous. But under the eye of the Martinez parents, she now has to do chores and homework. Shes jealous of Naomi. And she has her eye on Ernesto. Then Clay. But Ernesto loves Naomi. And Clay loves Mira at least he finds out he truly loves his girlfriend when he takes Carlotta out; he wants an easy score. But he is spotted by Miras friends and quickly tells Carlotta to get lost. He realizes he has too much to lose. After getting shot down again and again... embarrassed...deflated...Carlotta cleans up her act. She does her schoolwork. And she starts mentoring a freshman girl who she connects with. Carlotta learns that she has a lot going for her and a lot to offer...thanks to Naomi and Ernesto.
Finding the "right book" for struggling learners is essential to build both confidence and proficiency. Reading supports must be seamless, so that struggling readers are not stigmatized. The District 13 series does just that--written using carefully chosen vocabulary and simple sentences, the novels offer compelling teen stories about characters that interest young adult readers. Using sports as a backdrop, these edgy and mature titles confront issues that are of great importance to urban teens, especially teenaged boys: Coming of age, dating, fitting in, friendships, drugs, self-esteem, and school. Straightforward plots move readers through the 48-pages of text quickly and efficiently with satisfying resolutions. Synopsis: Terrance thought about football. He was sore from practice. That was good. Coach Fisher said his blocks were better. He'd get to play in the game! Coach was right about football. You've got to have something to work for. It makes you work at everything.
Real Diva: After some unsettling news for Yaris Fernandez, everyone is "up in her business." Her dad forbids her from seeing her boyfriend, Hagen, who is hangin with the wrong crowd. He even threatens to move the family away. Yaris decides to take charge and fight for whats right. Man Up: Hagen Cruz is making some bad decisions. Hes hangin with gang members and pressuring his girl, Yaris, to go all-the-way. When she says no, he dumps her and gets a ton of grief from her cheer crew. Hes lost so much, but is to too late to rebuild his relationships?
Gravel Road, award-winning realistic teen fiction, highlights the talents of our urban street lit authors. Each book is approximately 200 pages, and is written at a 3.0 reading level. Nasreen and Mia are two very different girls. But they stand out at Arondale High. And kids make assumptions about the only Muslim and the new black girl--the only African American--in school. "Who let you into the suburbs?" Samantha asks. Everyone gawks. Nasreen has kept her head down for years. Eighteen months and shes out, she tells herself. Off to college. Mia is bold. Yeah, she wishes she were somewhere else, but shes not going to take the bullying lying down. She has to live her life. Graduate. Get into a good school. The school administrators are ignorant. And worse. The bullying escalates. Both at school and online. The girls come up with a plan to fight back. To regain some dignity. To turn the tables on the bullies.
More than entertainment, these books can be a powerful coping tool when a struggling reader connects with the text. Paperback books look and feel like a trade edition and are complete in just under 200 pages. Ernesto and Naomi are mentoring two at-risk freshmen whove had it rough. Naomis father isnt happy that shes hanging around at-risk kids, but Ernesto convinces him that the kids are fine. Meanwhile, Clay is up to his cruel tricks. Mira has taken him back, and his parents have rewarded his bad behavior with a new car. Its too hard to resist temptation; someone has let the air out of the new cars tires. Meanwhile, Miras ex- and rebound, Kenny, is floored when Mira dumps him and takes Clay back. Kenny gets another kid to call Clay and accuse Mira of cheating. Clay is livid but doesnt lose his temper like hes done in the past. Is volatile Clay turning over a new leaf? Mira begs Ernesto to find out who made the call.
More than entertainment, these books can be a powerful coping tool when a struggling reader connects with the text. Paperback books look and feel like a trade edition and are complete in just under 200 pages. Mona Lisa is average. Not pretty. Not ugly. Shes very insecure and lacks self confidence. Monas mom harps on her to start dating. Then Julio begins to show an interest in her. Hes on the track team and a close friend of Ernestos. When Mona returns Julios interest, though, her mom is upset because Julio is not from a good family. Hes poor. His father is practically a bum. They live in a mobile home, and not the plush kind. Not the type of people Mrs. Corsella approves of. And she hatches a plan to get her daughter to date someone more socially acceptable. Mona becomes defiant, running away from home. Her mom is convinced shes been kidnapped by Julio. But Julio turns out to be the hero when Mona calls him to rescue her in Phoenix after she is approached by a smarmy guy and loses all of her cash.
Ronette wants to fly solo for a while. But Cornell Londona senioris interested. Ronettes not sure shes ready for another relationship. Besides, Jayson still wants her back; for now hes firmly in the friend column. Chyna, her frenemy roommate, has stolen one of her poems and rapped it, which puts them on the verge of a hip-hop deal. No lie. Now the Houseman Gammas are knocking


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When I sat down with Ken Hassell Wednesday, a small switch in my brain flipped.
It�s that switch that makes the rest of your body aware that you are being watched. In this case, Hassell watched me from a seat about four feet away in a room on the second floor above a cafeteria at Elon University.
That switch is hard-wired to the seemingly enormous part of my brain I call the �me lobe.� It�s that self-centered part of my brain that too often overtakes the other parts.
It sizes up others as soon as I meet them for the first time, and scans their faces desperately for some clue about how they are sizing me up. Hassell�s exhibit at Elon this week, it seems to me, was designed to help participants understand the �me lobe� a little better.
Hassell�s exhibit, �The Artist is Present,� was held Monday through Wednesday of this week. He sat in his chair for seven hours a day, eyes closed, meditating. When he heard someone sit down across from him, he gazed at them in silence until they went away.
We ran a story about the exhibit in Wednesday�s edition. There was a bit of talk around the office about whether this was a worthwhile endeavor or Ivory Tower hokum.
I had to find out.
I found Hassell just after lunch on Wednesday seated alone in a conference room. He wore a grey sweater and a black throw over his legs. Another throw was on the back of the chair I took across from him.
He opened his eyes and we looked at each other.
I went into this encounter with a lot more information about Hassell than he had about me. Going online before I left for Elon, I was able to read about his childhood and his academic career. I watched video interviews with him and read anonymous reviews of his classes from his former students.
Hassell didn�t know me from Adam. He may have assumed I was an Elon student, albeit one with a few gray hairs.
In a press release about the exhibit, Hassell talks about breaking through preconceptions and cultural stereotypes. He talks about the way that, when we meet someone new, we immediately judge them based on visual clues. In most cases, many of the assumptions we make based on those cues might be dropped as we talk to this new acquaintance. In this case, I wasn�t talking to him. I still haven�t talked to him.
At first glance, it�s not so weird to look at a stranger without talking. But then you start thinking about it.
What was I supposed to do? Was it OK to smile? To nod? When someone else entered the room and sat down in a chair on the side, I couldn�t decide whether to look over at them. When construction work being done outside shattered the silence in the room, I felt the urge to acknowledge to him how annoying it was. But how?
We exchange glances with thousands of people throughout our lives, at grocery stores, on airplanes or along the sidewalk. These are people we have a chance to meet but don�t take that chance. Who knows what we�ve missed because of it?
I didn�t have a chance to meet Ken Hassell, at least not on Wednesday. I wanted to, after learning about him and sharing a slightly strange, but also slightly significant, moment with him. Maybe I will some day.
I stayed about 10 minutes. I couldn�t ignore my ingrained sense of politeness and left the chair in case this new person who entered the room wanted to sit down. I sat on the side for a little and then went back to the office.
Was the exhibit life-altering? Probably not.
But it fulfills a requirement we all should strive for, and that�s to take a little time each day to think differently.
City editor Brent Lancaster can be reached at email@example.com or 336-506-3040. Follow him at Twitter.com/tnbrentl.


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If you can't hear sound through your Xbox One Chat Headset, make sure you're following one of the supported scenarios in the table below, and then try the troubleshooting steps on this page.
Via Xbox Wireless and USB
Via Bluetooth
Xbox One console
Xbox Wireless Controller only – 8
Not supported
Windows 10
Xbox Wireless Controller only – 8
Note Wireless connection requires Xbox Wireless Adapter for Windows
Xbox Wireless Controller only – 1
Note Requires Windows 10 Anniversary Edition and Xbox Wireless Controller with Bluetooth
Windows 8.1
Xbox Wireless Controller only - 4
Note Wireless connection requires Xbox Wireless Adapter for Windows
Not supported
Windows 7
Xbox Wireless Controller only - 4
Note Wireless connection requires Xbox Wireless Adapter for Windows
Not supported
Note Never pull on the headset cable when removing it from your controller. Remove your headset from your controller by pulling on the body of the headset plug.
If these steps didn't solve the problem, use the following troubleshooting solutions.
Note The Xbox One Chat Headset is designed for use with Xbox One controllers only. The headset is not intended to be used with any other device. The Xbox One console doesn't transmit game sounds or music through the Xbox One Chat Headset. If you're looking for an Xbox headset that provides both game and chat audio, see Xbox One Stereo Headset.
To do this, follow these steps:
When you set up a profile for a child on the console, the Privacy & online safety settings let the owner of the parent profile control who can communicate via chat with the child profile on Xbox Live. In the Privacy & online safety section of your account, you can enable chat communication in the child's profile. For gamers under age 17, the default setting is "Friends Only."
Note If you hear an echo effect, it often originates from the person who is talking and not from the person who hears the echo. For example, if you hear an echo only when someone else talks, the problem may be with the headset connection of the person who is talking.
The following conditions may cause an echo or noise during gameplay:
If you or other players hear an echo or other noise during gameplay, try the following:
If you can hear others in a party or game but they can't hear you, try these solutions.
Solution 1: Make sure your headset is not muted
Check that the orange LED light next to the Mute button is not on.
Solution 2: Test your Xbox One Chat Headset
To test your headset, you'll need to download Skype to your Windows device:
Note When you first set up Skype, you'll be prompted to check your sound and video quality.
For more information on testing with Skype, see the Skype article, Solving your speaker or headphones issues.
If you've followed these troubleshooting steps but your chat headset still doesn't work, it may need to be replaced. To order a replacement, go to Device Support.
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Kane brings Stanley Cup back to Buffaloby Staff Writer / Chicago Blackhawks
A magical summer for Chicago Blackhawks forward Patrick Kane ended on a high note when the 2013 Conn Smythe Trophy winner enjoyed his day with the Stanley Cup on Saturday in his hometown of Buffalo.
As he did when he had the Cup in Buffalo in 2010, Kane took the iconic trophy to Niagara Falls, where he posed for photos with friends and family. The trip this year included the Conn Smythe Trophy, which Kane was given as MVP of the Stanley Cup Playoffs after scoring nine goals and 19 points in 23 games.
The day started with an 8:30 a.m. appearance at the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station. Hosted by the base's hangar 907, Kane was escorted around the military facility atop a military-grade Humvee, and he and his hardware spent 2 1/2 hours meeting military personnel and posing for photos. The Blackhawks star also participated in a special ceremony in which he honored the Buffalo Sled Veteran Warriors and Buffalo Warriors Hockey Team.
"For you guys to give up your personal lives and sacrifice for what you do for our country is unbelievable," Kane told the crowd, according to the Buffalo News. "I can carry around a Stanley Cup that's 35 pounds or an MVP trophy that's brought along with us here today, but you guys carry our country on your back. It's really amazing."
Kane then led a parade through town, in which he rode atop a Zamboni as the procession marched toward Imperial Pizza, a popular pizzeria where he was greeted by dozens of Buffalo residents.
"It was a thrill of a lifetime, riding in and being on the back of the Zamboni carrying the Stanley Cup, with all the little kids and people wearing the jersey that you once wore screaming your name," Kane said. "So it was definitely a fun moment."
Following the parade, Kane made an appearance at 1 p.m. at the West Seneca Town Rink. It was at the hometown rink where Kane met with locals and posed for photographs for two hours. With a private party planned for Saturday night, it brings to an end an incredible summer for the 24-year-old.
After winning the Stanley Cup for the second time in his young career, Kane made a memorable appearance on the "Late Show with David Letterman" before celebrating onstage alongside Jimmy Buffet during a Chicago concert. Kane also appeared on stage with Buffet after he won the Cup in 2010.
If that wasn't enough, Kane County in Illinois declared Aug. 8 (the 8/8 date matching Kane's jersey number, 88) "Patrick Kane County Day" in honor of the hockey hero, who scored the Cup-winning goal against the Philadelphia Flyers in 2010.


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With activities for children in preschool through age 5
Working With Teachers and Schools
Research has shown that children at all grade levels do better in school, feel more confident about themselves as learners and have higher expectations for themselves when their parents are supportive of and involved with their education.[ 4 ] Here are some ways that you can stay involved in your child's school life:
Visit your child's school. During your visit, look for clues as to whether the school values science.
- Do you see science learning centers? Displays related to science? Science-related drawings on the bulletin boards? Are there plants, terrariums, aquariums or collections (of rocks or insects, for example) in the classrooms, front hall or library?
- Do you see any science equipment in evidence? Are there magnifiers? Magnets? Pictures? Videos? Is the equipment up-to-date?
- Does the school library contain science books? If so, are they recent publications?
- Is there enough space in the classrooms or elsewhere in the school for students to conduct science experiments?
Find out about the school's science curriculum. Ask for a school handbook. If none is available, meet with the school's principal and ask questions such as the following:
- What methods and materials does the school use for science instruction? Are these methods based on sound research evidence about what works best? Are the materials up-to-date? Can students do hands-on science projects? Does the science curriculum follow state science standards and guidelines?
- Are the science teachers highly qualified? Do they meet state certification and subject-area knowledge requirements?
- What facilities and resources are available to teach science? If the school budget for science instruction is inadequate, what has the school or district tried to do to obtain resources from other sources, such as businesses and service organizations?
- How much time is spent on science instruction?
- How does the school measure student progress in science? What tests does it use?
- How do the students at the school score on state assessments of science?
- Are activities available that parents can use at home to supplement and support instruction?
Meet with your child's teacher. Schedule an appointment and ask how your child approaches science. Does he enjoy it? Does he participate actively? Does he understand assignments and do them accurately? If the teacher indicates that your child has problems with science, ask for specific things that you can do to help him.
Visit your child's classroom. In the classroom, look for the following:
- Do students have opportunities for hands-on experiences working with materials? Do students discuss their ideas, make predictions and offer explanations? Do they have opportunities to talk and work with each other as well as with the teacher?
- Does the instruction show students how to connect the science concepts they're learning to their personal experiences and to explore how science and technology affect their lives?
- Does instruction include activities in which students apply their science skills and knowledge to real problems and situations?
- Do students have opportunities to use science equipment and technology?
- Does the teacher expect all students to succeed? Does he help them set high goals for themselves? Does he listen to their explanations and ideas?
- Do science tests and assessments match state and local standards? Do they match what has been taught? Are they used appropriately to plan instruction and evaluate student understanding?
Find out if the school has a Web site and, if so, get the address. School Web sites can provide you with ready access to all kinds of information, including homework assignments, class schedules, lesson plans and test dates.
Find out how your child's school is performing by checking its annual report card required under the No Child Left Behind Act. Prepared by your school district, this report card shows how students at your school performed on state assessments and how their performance compares to that of other schools in the district. The law currently requires regular assessments in reading and math; and science assessments to be in place by the school year 2007-08. (For more information on No Child Left Behind, see the Resources section.)
Get actively involved. Attend parent-teacher meetings. If you're unable to attend, ask that the minutes of the meetings be sent to you, or that they be made available on the school's Web site. If your schedule permits, volunteer to help with the science program. Teachers often send home lists of ways in which parents can get involved, including the following:
- Assisting with classroom science projects;
- Chaperoning science-related field trips;
- Offering to set up a science display in the school's front hallway or in your child's classroom;
- Leading hands-on lessons (if you have a good science background yourself);
- Helping in a computer laboratory or other area requiring adult supervision; and
- Starting a drive to raise money for computers, science equipment, books or field trips.
Even if you can't volunteer for work at the school, you can help your child learn when you're at home and contribute a great deal to his success at school. The key question is, "What can I do at home, easily and in a few minutes each day, to reinforce and extend what the school is teaching?"


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2nd July 2006, 01:44 PM
Hi there... I am new to this site and am so glad to find it and all the great info here. I have a 7 month Cav named Freddy. He is the most adorable friend anyone can have!! I am just a bit worried about him because I have done alot of reading about pet store puppies and that is where I got Freddy. He was so cute and I could not look away! I had to have him! Now I am fearful he will get sick and I will be heart broken. I am always on guard fro starange behavior or any signs of the conditions I have read about. I will keep on readnig and watching him but it sure is not fun worrying all the time. Happy 4th everyone!!
Michelle and Freddy
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An ongoing series of articles on songs & performances of the early Grateful Dead.
November 25, 2010
The Very Short Tale of Golden Road
They decided to write a song about the Haight hippie scene. The title came to them from Sue Swanson – she was their first fan, having watched over them ever since the first Warlocks rehearsals at Dana Morgan's store in '65. (She'd been Weir's friend, and immediately became so enthusiastic about them, she insisted on going to every Warlocks rehearsal and even playing the 45s they learned songs from. "My job was to change the 45s. 'Play that part again!' It was a crummy little phonograph that would sit on the counter. I'll never forget the sound of them practicing in there, and all the cymbals and everything in the whole room would be…making all this noise.")
She'd been their constant companion since then. With the Dead's first album now finally being released, Sue decided it was time to organize a fan club, and called it The Golden Road to Unlimited Devotion. She, Connie Bonner, and Bob Matthews put out the Dead's first fan newsletter that April, the Olompali Sunday Times. (The first two issues can be seen here: http://www.dead.net/tags/fan-club - they're short, and well worth the read.)
The Dead recorded the song at Coast Recorders in San Francisco later in February, rather than going back to LA. They were able to take more time with this song, recording lots of takes, so it's more layered with overdubs than the other songs on the album.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45YoZCo8dvU - the alternate single mix, with more studio effects than the cleaner album mix.
Lyrically, it's something of an attempt to capture the Haight scene in a bottle, inviting everyone to "come and join the party every day." (Ironically, the second fan-club newsletter from May describes the Haight being swamped with tourists, staring at the hippies!)
Garcia said, "The Golden Road was our effort at nailing down some of that feeling, I guess. That was sort of our group writing experience before Hunter was with us. We kept it simple. But what can you say? 'We took a bunch of acid and had a lot of fun?'"
The band credited Golden Road on the album to McGannahan Skjellyfetti – a mythical character, based on a name in Kenneth Patchen's book Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer. (My guess is Pigpen was the Patchen fan, since he was into beat poetry.)
As it turned out, Skjellyfetti would have a brief writing career, getting credits for Golden Road, Cold Rain & Snow, New Minglewood Blues, and "Feedback" on Live/Dead, before fading away. (On more recent CD issues, he's disappeared altogether under the stern frowns of music publishers.)
We only have two live Golden Roads.
3/18/67 - http://www.archive.org/details/gd1967-03-18.sbd.sacks.1594.shnf (the other, better Archive file is currently not streaming)
'5/5/67' - http://www.archive.org/details/gd67-05-05.sbs.yerys.1595.sbeok.shnf (segues into New Potato Caboose)
It's unusual among the Dead's live songs – they do it exactly like the studio version (even the guitar solo's unchanged) - and clocking in at two minutes, it must be the shortest live song they ever did. (Which may be one reason they moved on and left it behind – in '67, the Dead didn't stand still for long. Ironically, this summer-of-love song was already history by the summer of love.)
Those who wonder why the Dead dropped it so quickly should also remember that all the Dead's early pre-Hunter songs followed that pattern. Garcia was never too happy with his lyrics ("I felt my lyric writing was woefully inadequate"), and the band was eager to abandon their early compositions. (They were primarily a covers band at the time, and wrote very few of their own songs in any case.) Almost none of their 1966 songs made it into '67 except for Cream Puff War (that we know of…for all we know, they may well have played Alice D Millionaire or Tastebud live in '67). And by the time Hunter started writing lyrics for them, pretty much all their older original songs were dropped.
Though they likely played Golden Road quite often in early '67, it probably didn't last in their sets past the summer/fall.
Some inaccurate setlist sites report more specific performances of Golden Road. Deadbase.com, for instance, shows the mysterious 6/15/67 Straight Theater show with the setlist borrowed from '5/5/67'. Setlists.net has at least finally omitted their hoax listing of 12/18/65 Big Beat Club (which also used the same setlist).
For the 4/12/67 Mime Troupe benefit at the Fillmore, Golden Road is the only song listed, and is said to have opened the set. The Dead may well have played it.
6/8/67 Cafe au Go Go has a very nice-looking setlist which includes Cream Puff, Cryptical, New Potato, Born Cross-Eyed, and Alligator>Caution. Clearly a fake! (The available setlist for 6/6/67, though probably also fake and suspiciously Pigpen-heavy, does at least show what a full mid-'67 set would have looked like, and is also partly confirmed by Phil Lesh's description of a Café au Go Go set in his book: "Pig's blues and R&B, arrangements of traditional songs, a Dylan song," and Alligator…though ironically, he may have just looked up this setlist!)
Back in the real world, there is also a video of Golden Road from a '60s British TV show called Whicker's World. This was "a weekly UK news journal show that ventured to San Francisco to report on the hippie generation. The Grateful Dead were featured getting stoned in their Haight Ashbury pad, as well as performing The Golden Road." (The filming took place in March '67, and is actually mentioned with some excitement in the first fan-club newsletter.)
I can't find a good link to this clip, so I'll offer this description from deadlists: "The video portion is intense to watch. Strobe lights are flashing and the camera zooms in and out very fast on the band members… There is a lot of footage of people dancing (and the guy doing the oil-based light show)."
The British narrator announces the clip: "An assault on the senses, an LSD trip without drugs. Flashing strobe lights, spermatazoic color."
Sad to say, the Golden Road is not live, but dubbed from the album.
The band did at least mention Golden Road onstage again, a few years later. On 6/7/70, the fourth night of a Fillmore West run, the Dead were taking a little break onstage after Sitting on Top of the World.
Garcia explained, "We're waiting around until a good idea comes up." Of course, the audience offered a few ideas of their own. (Earlier in the show, the band had jokingly aborted Louie Louie as Weir exclaimed, "Hey man, none of us knows that song!")
Now Weir spoke up again: "Hey, there's a guy over there, and he's always over there, and he always yells out 'Golden Road.' And I want to know who he is, man, because you take the cake. I mean, actually, quite truthfully, we've forgotten that song, we've forgotten how to play it."
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McGannahan Skjellyfetti was also credited more recently on the Grayfolded album from John Oswald. This album of course was the Dark Star double disc super mix.ReplyDelete
I have a good copy of the complete Whickers World on video (which I converted to dvd), I'm gonna try to put it out there. On the same video, I also have the unedited complete press conference from their first bust in '67, as well as some other very nice old stuff that I found in a video sale and was labelled "Grateful Dead Scrapbook". Great find of which I have no idea how it was put together.ReplyDelete
There is a need for a good compilation of the Dead's early videos - there are lots of bits & pieces that are rather scattered, some not easy to find.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 2, 2011 at 6:51 PM
Is the 7" single mix of "Golden Road" available on CD?ReplyDelete
Not that I know of, unfortunately.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 6, 2012 at 2:45 AM
Was it on any of the LP compilations or is just a total rarity (like the 7" take of Music Never Stopped with extra Donna bridge & 7" of Dancin in the Streets with extra horn section)?ReplyDelete
You know, I think I'm mistaken about it not being available. Wasn't thinking!ReplyDelete
The youtube page I linked to is from Skeletons from the Closet - it has a more phased, cluttered sound, especially noticeable in the solo.
If I had a copy of Skeletons I could say for sure, but it's quite possible that the most recent CD reissue uses the 2001-remastered album mix, and the original issue has the single mix.
This page confirms that different mixes of Golden Road were used on the single and album:
But it's vague about which mix was put on Skeletons.
Someone else will have to check!
- AnonymousFebruary 13, 2012 at 4:34 AM
Somebody posted the "performance" part of the Whicker's World video on YouTube a few months ago:ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 9, 2014 at 11:48 AM
fyi - the "whicker's world" segments about sf in 1967 w/ gd and others.ReplyDelete
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5Mr7LrBkWY '' wickers world '' - san francisco - summer 1967 - (pt1of4). (gd sequence is edited out)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX9uqxQDh0k Grateful Dead - Whicker's World 1967.wmv
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw7g1UmXjaw '' wickers world '' - san francisco - summer 1967 - (pt2of4).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fmR_-wBlIY '' wickers world '' - san francisco - summer 1967 - (pt3of4).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqU8RBmZ68A '' wickers world '' - san francisco - summer 1967 - (pt4of4).Replies
Thanks for the links.Delete
Bob Matthews remembers the Golden Road recording session, after the rest of the album was done, "at the old Coast Recorders at 960 Bush Street. One or two nights, I remember being into the sixties on the number of takes. One of the unique little overdub things: if you listen to the intro and a couple of choruses on the outs, there's some funny little percussion stuff, which is Kreutzmann beating on Garcia's guitar with his drumsticks while Jerry was fingering the chords."ReplyDelete
(from This Is All A Dream We Dreamed, p.69)
It's hard to believe that they were doing 60 takes of Golden Road, but this indicates the greater level of care they put into recording this single in San Francisco than they put into the whole rest of the album in Los Angeles. I don't know if Hassinger was the engineer on this session.
Garcia & others commented on the Golden Road recording session in a couple of radio interviews in early '67.ReplyDelete
With Larry Miller, March '67 -
Garcia: This was recorded after we recorded the body of the album, and the actual song is a new song; we were thinking specifically of a single, so we just played around, and came up with some nice changes and cooperated on the entire thing, and came up with the Golden Road, which is a good song; I mean it's like really fun to sing and fun to play and everything like that, and it seems like a good single - whatever that is - we thought it could be a single.
Weir: We worked it up some in the recording session, which we didn't do on most of the album.
Garcia: This is the only one that has any kind of recording stunts on it, so there are two flattop guitars and three electric guitars and so forth; we got twice as many voices as normal.
With Tom Donahue, April '67 -
Garcia: We were the ones that mixed [the album], the mono mix and the stereo...
DJ: Where? ...
Lesh: RCA, with the exception of the single which was cut at Coast. And the single, I think sounds more like us than the album does. It sounds dirtier.
Garcia: And fuller.
Lesh: And more stuff going on...
Garcia: Well we did a lot more stuff on the single too, like we put a lot more, you know, we overlaid a lot of stuff.
Lesh: It's a recording rather than a transcription.
Garcia: Right, right, and somehow it comes out sounding more like the way we sound live, just because of the enormous amount of confusion involved. And maybe, you know, it's like we're used to playing in a big –
DJ: And there were more people jammed in the studio at Coast that night.
Garcia: Oh that's true –
DJ: 'Cause I came in and there were a lot of people.
- AnonymousFebruary 1, 2016 at 6:33 AM
Listened to the Golden Road "versions". I'm thinking it's not a different mix, just mastered separately from the album - probably by a different engineer maybe at a different plant. All were common at the time. Since the band worked on it separately and specifically as a single, it's unlikely they would have spent studio time remixing it for the LP, as opposed to just adding it when WB wanted both another track and the "opening hit".ReplyDeleteReplies
Good point. Listening again (I don't have the original vinyl, just what's available digitally), I couldn't point out any specific mixing differences, just a more phased and murky sound on the single version; so it's likely the single & album are just different masterings of the same mix.Delete
The single version does sound notably different, though, distinctly "watery." The album remaster has a much clearer sound.
Listening closely made me appreciate Garcia's comments about how many overdubs they did. I still can't tell what instruments are making all the sounds, there are so many little touches in there - it's a very dense recording, especially for 4-track.
By the way, as Garcia mentions above, the Dead did supervise two mixes of the album - mono and stereo, as was typical in the '60s.
It's the only Dead album to be released in mono, and the mono mix has never been issued on CD, although it was put out in a limited vinyl release a few years ago.
- AnonymousFebruary 2, 2016 at 2:40 PM
I used vinyl for the comparison as digital would be a further remastering anyway.Delete
I also A/B'd the album. I think Garcia must have meant they supervised while a fold-down was made to mono (std in 67 in the US) because the ratios/sliders are the same. With a mix like this, multiple tracks would have been bounced down to work to 4-track while recording was ongoing, making it unlikely (esp. for an unestablished act, nationally) they would have peeled it all apart and started over for a mono mix as that would likely have meant more recording time and dollars (as we see with the Beatles pure-mono mixes and others from the time period).
- AnonymousFebruary 2, 2016 at 2:49 PM
Remastering can be funny that way because EQ and even varispeed was added in that period. Dead ALT mixes tend to be obvious (c.f. the next two albums). I have 70s copies of E72 and the Sugar Mag 7" (taken from E72) and they sound at first like different mixes because the single was so muddy. But the 7" outro has the telltale Donna duet and is from the Paris show (albeit heavily edited).Delete
It's interesting to hear that the mono mix may just be a fold-down rather than a separate mix from the 4-track, but that certainly would have saved time. I haven't read any details about the mono mix.Delete
Jefferson Airplane, just a couple months earlier, had a separate mono mix of Surrealistic Pillow with much less reverb than the stereo mix - I suppose that was the producer's decision. They were also a more established band, and spent more time recording that album.
As for the Dead, I know Born Cross-Eyed had a separate mix on the single than the Anthem album, but at that point the Dead were spending a lot more time in the studio. And some of the later singles that Warners released were significantly edited (Truckin' was also a different mix, I believe), but not per the Dead's wishes.
- AnonymousFebruary 2, 2016 at 8:16 PM
To my ears it's a fold down, which still gives it a different sonic feel and different mastering. I just wanted to add this info because I think this site is a great resource.Delete
Reverb across a master is another item added by some engineers while mastering at the plant. In some cases from that era, it may or may not be added the same way or at all for a later pressing. (As opposed to, say, the 7" Truckin' where reverb was added to Bob's vocals at the mixing stage to make it warmer for radio). By the time of Anthem/Aoxo they had several ALT versions of tracks (Doin that rag - both of which were released, the St Stephen with the telephone, etc.). Airplane had two chart-topping singles in 67 and RCA/Victor probably thought they were about to become a hit machine (and not release something as weird as Baxter's!).
I think all of the WB singles but one are edits or different mixes after Golden Road:
Dark Star - studio mix
Born Crosseyed - 7" mix
Uncle John's Band /New Speedway - edits
Truckin - remix
Ripple - edit
One More Saturday Night (from Ace but labeled GD on single) - edit
Bertha (sat night b side) - longer than orig Skull Fuck version
Sugar Mag - solo/jam removed
Mr Charlie b-side - album version
- AnonymousFebruary 2, 2016 at 8:41 PM
BTW - there are three mixes of Born Cross EyedDelete
7" mix - Apr68
Orig album mix - Jul68
Remix album version - 72 (remixed by Lesh fall 71 but probably not entering pressing and distribution stream until 72)
While Garcia drastically reimagined Aoxomoxoa in his 1971 remix, Phil went in a similar direction and made Anthem somewhat cleaner and less trippy in his remix. Some comments on it here:Delete
Phil added a big closing chord to Born Cross-Eyed, which they should've done on the original album (they did put a different crashing feedback ending on the single).
I heard them play golden road at a kings beach bowl at Lake Tahoe in summer of 1967....ReplyDelete


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Where did my motivation go?
Hmm...not sure how to answer that.
Recently, I've been a slacker with cooking and other things. I've been too lazy to cook. Is that really bad? I'm not bored of cooking but I'm just not in the mood. I also have a few things (unrelated to cooking) that I have to figure out and think about but the laziness pushes me away from doing that too. Have you ever felt like doing nothing? Where did my motivation to do things go?
It took me more effort just to make the marinade for the fish last night. Why didn't I do it the next day or the day after that, you ask? Well, I was "planing" to cook miso salmon on Monday so I bought fish from the market on Monday. However, I procrastinated on the task until Tuesday. If I didn't do it last night the fish would go bad. So, I did. At least it's a good start right?
Thanks for all the comments from the last post - The best pizza dough! As you know Denise's secret is bread obsession. She left me a comment with interesting information and I'd like to share. Denise said cold rise dough has a special flavor compared to normal rise dough.. If Denise who is an expert on making bread said so, the dough recipe is worth bookmarking! This information is new to me and I'm glad to know. Thanks Denise!
I apologize if this pumpkin sauce is too late past Fall. I'm not going to lie, this dish was made a few months back and hasn't gotten a chance to shine on this blog. I also made penne with the same pumpkin sauce for the New Year's Eve party I hosted. I used fresh homemade pumpkin puree. If you don't have it or are lazy, don't worry at all. Canned pure pumpkin puree works just fine.
Fingers are crossed that my motivation will come back soon (muah!)
1 cup Pumpkin puree
6 springs of fresh sage, cut into chiffonade, divided.
1 fresh Bay leaf or 2 dried bay leaf
1 packaged Turkey Italian sausage, removed cast
1 cup cream
1 cup dry white wine
1 cup chicken stock or broth
4 cloves garlic, minced
4 shallots, thinly sliced
1 tbs butter
1 tbs olive oil
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp fresh ground nutmeg
1/4 cup minced parsley
Grated Parmesan cheese
Salt and pepper for seasoning
|Pumpkin sauce and sausage
- Boil water for pasta. Season with salt. Cook to al dente or follow packaged instruction. If you use fresh pasta, it will only take about 4-6 mins.
- Heat up a skillet on medium-high heat. Add olive oil and butter. Add shallots. Cook until shallots are getting brown, then add garlic and half portion of sage.
- Add sausage and cook until it's cooked through. Remove on a plate and set aside.
- With leftover oil, add the remaining sage and bay leaf. Cook for a few mins.
- Add wine. Cook until wine is reduced to half, then add chicken stock and pumpkin. Cook until it's mixed and heated. Put cooked sausage back in a skillet. Season with cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, and pepper.
- Stir in cream. Cook for another 10-15 mins. Correct seasoning.
- Pour the sauce over spaghetti and mix well.
- Sprinkle minced parsley.
- When serving, top it with grated Parmesan cheese.
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Shabazz Napier scored 13 points and grabbed eight rebounds to help Connecticut over Washington 61-53 on Saturday in the final nonconference game of the year for both teams.
Omar Calhoun led UConn with 14 points and Ryan Boatright added 12 to help the Huskies to their fourth consecutive win.
Scott Suggs had 15 to lead Washington (8-5), which lost for the first time in five games.
UConn's win came hours after Ollie agreed to a new 5 ½-year contract worth just under $7 million. Ollie had been coaching under a one-season deal that he signed after taking over from Hall of Fame coach Jim Calhoun in September.
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Ollie said his legs were shaking during the standing ovation as the student section chanted his name.
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UConn held Washington star C.J. Wilcox to just five points on 2-of-12 shooting. Wilcox, who came in scoring more than 19 points per game, had scored 20 or more in three straight games and seven of the Huskies' last eight. He had scored in double figures in every game this season.
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MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury selectmen on Thursday, Jan. 31, will seek public feedback on the concept of boosting the town's sales, rooms, meals and alcohol taxes by 1 percent to generate revenues for a new in-town bridge at Cross Street.
Thursday's hearing, set for 7 p.m. in the municipal gym, will be the first in a series of meetings and votes selectmen will need to convene if the town is to implement a series of "local option taxes." Board members are hoping to have those taxes at the town's disposal to pay down a portion of the estimated $16 million price tag of a proposed Cross Street bridge project.
Middlebury College has already promised to donate $9 million toward the project, which would link Main Street with Court Street across the Otter Creek, via Cross Street. Selectmen are hoping to cover the balance of the project costs through local option taxes and federal highway money, thereby eliminating the need to raise local property taxes.
At this point, selectmen are looking for the ability to implement all the available local option taxes — sales, rooms, meals and alcohol.
"The board is looking at all four, thinking it is the fairest way to distribute the burden," said Middlebury Town Manager Bill Finger. "It is also the most direct was to spread the (tax) base out."
Figures provided by the Vermont Tax Department show that a 1-percent local sales, meals, rooms and alcohol taxes would have netted Middlebury $725,319 in 2007. That, combined with the college's commitment of $600,000 annually over the life of a 30-year bond for the project, should more than cover yearly debt service payments, officials said. Finger said the town is still crunching numbers on the exact annual payments Middlebury will need to make a 30-year bond.
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BRISTOL — After nearly two decades leading the Bristol Fire Department, Mark Bouvier has passed the mantle of authority to a younger generation. Second Assistant Chief John "Peeker" Heffernan took over as chief earlier this month from Bouvier.
"It was a combination of feeling that I've done what I set out to do, and sometimes there's the loss of the, if you'll pardon the pun, the fire in the belly," said Bouvier, 59. "It was a good time, I felt, to hand over the reins."
Two other senior officers — Fire Truck Captain Peter Bouvier (Mark's brother), and First Assistant Chief Peter Coffey — also stepped away from those posts on Jan. 5 because of other demands on their time.
Mark Bouvier has spent a total of 34 years in the fire department, with the last 18 years as chief and seven years before that as an assistant chief. Peter Bouvier was assistant fire truck captain for the past 19 years, and was assistant truck captain for one year before that. Coffey was first assistant chief for 19 years, and was the second assistant chief for one year before that.
All told, Peter and Mark Bouvier and Peter Coffey have spent 65 years as officers of the Bristol Fire Department.
Peter Bouvier and Coffey could not be reached for comment, but Heffernan said that they also were stepping aside partly due to other demands on their time.
Mark Bouvier stressed that he, along with the others, will still be around as members of the department, just not in leadership positions.
"I'm just stepping aside, not out," he said.
Heffernan said he was glad to know that the former officers will still be around to offer guidance here and there. "They said they were willing to help, and that's why I agreed to take the spot," Heffernan said.
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MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury selectmen on Friday, Feb. 1, will finalize a Town Meeting Day warning that will have huge implications for the proposed in-town bridge project.
As the Addison Independent went to press on Wednesday, town officials were still working with financial analysts to determine whether to ask voters to endorse the $16 million Cross Street bridge in a single vote this March, or divide it up into two or more referenda spaced over two town meetings.
The decision is likely to come down to which scenario will get the town the best interest rate on 30-year bonds it will have to float to proceed with the plan. Officials are hoping to craft a financing scheme that will depend on little or no property tax revenues. Selectmen want to pay back the principal and interest on bonds through a combination of local option taxes, federal highway funds and a promised college contribution of $600,000 annually for 30 years.
"The appealing aspect is the rather attractive interest rates which would be available to the town should we bond for the entire amount," said Selectman Dean George, chairman of Middlebury's bridge committee.
Middlebury Town Manager Bill Finger noted officials originally estimated a 5-percent interest rate on bonding for the bridge project. Those estimates are now at around 4.2 percent, with the potential for even lower rates during some of the earlier years of the bond issue.
"The implications of the lower interest rate are pretty profound, with the potential savings over the life of the bond of $4 million to $5 million in interest," Finger said. "It makes a big difference."
George added that the town may be able to reinvest the bond during the early years of bond repayments and apply those proceeds toward interest payments.
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury selectmen on Tuesday endorsed a contract that would allow the town to buy Steele's Service Center at 83 Main St. for $820,000, with the intent of eventually removing the business to make way for the proposed Cross Street Bridge.
The potential deal — which must be approved by Middlebury voters on Town Meeting Day — would allow Paul and Jane Steele to maintain their operation until the structure needs to be removed as part of the $16 million bridge project. The new span would link Main Street with Court Street across the Otter Creek, via Cross Street.
"It's a tremendously important piece for us in moving ahead with the bridge project," Middlebury selectboard Chairman John Tenny said of the Steeles' property.
The tentative accord with the Steeles leaves three other, less high-profile properties the town must acquire within the right-of-way of the proposed bridge. Selectmen are optimistic they will be able to strike deals with those landowners, too.
The potential sale and destruction of the service center would represent the end of a long, successful era for the Steele family. Paul Steele began working at the business in 1968, before acquiring it in 1982.
"We are pleased to have arrived at a mutually satisfactory agreement with the town," said Jane Steele, Paul's wife, who also works at the business.
"We will still be here during all the planning stages," she stressed, "and we will still operate a towing service no matter where we are located."
The couple already has the flexibility to relocate the business to the Frog Hollow area. The town several years ago granted the Steeles permission to perform auto repair services on their Mill Street property. The property comprises the garage and two homes at the base of Mill Street.
BRISTOL — Negotiations over teacher contracts in the Addison Northeast Supervisory Union have reached a pivotal moment. A fact-finding report released by a mediator to the parties this month and a Jan. 17 meeting led to agreement on several parts of a proposed new contract, but some major issues like salaries, health insurance and planning time remain unresolved.
The negotiating committees for the six ANeSU school boards and the teachers' union, the Addison Northeast Education Association, plan to meet again on Feb. 7 with mediator Ira Lobel of Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service to continue talks.
Teachers in the ANeSU schools — Beeman Elementary School in New Haven, Bristol Elementary School, Lincoln Community School, Monkton Central School, Robinson Elementary School in Starksboro and Mount Abraham Union High School — have been working without a contract since July 2007 while the union and the school boards of the schools have tried to come to an agreement.
The mediator's fact-finding report will not be made public until Jan. 28, according to ANeSU Superintendent Evelyn Howard.
A number of components of the contract have essentially been settled, but all agreements are tentative until a contract is finalized and signed. Casey said the school boards and the union have reached tentative agreements on the sick leave, scheduling rules for extracurricular activities, and several related issues.
Details were not available on all those agreements as the Addison Independent went to press, but Joanne Casey, head negotiator for the teachers' union, said that most of those aspects of the contracts will probably remain the same as under the last contract.
MIDDLEBURY POLICE OFFICER Scott Fisher, left, listens as Vermont State Police Sgt. Lee Hodsden presents the results of his investigation into the Dec. 28 vandalism at the former Robert Frost summer home in Ripton. More than two dozen youths, most with ties to Middlebury Union High School, have been cited in connection with the case.
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January 21, 2008
RIPTON — Vermont State Police on Friday said they are citing into court 28 youths — the vast majority of them Middlebury Union High School students — in connection with an underage drinking party that caused an estimated $10,600 in damage to the former summer home of Robert Frost in Ripton.
The suspects are scheduled to be arraigned in Addison County District Court on Feb. 11 on various misdemeanor charges, including unlawful trespass; unlawful mischief; furnishing alcohol to minors; enabling the consumption of alcohol by minors; contributing to the delinquency of a minor; and underage drinking.
Police said as many as 50 people attended the party at the Homer Noble Farm on Dec. 28. Some partygoers destroyed antique tables, chairs, pictures, dishes, glasses, windows and lighting fixtures; sprayed the contents of two fire extinguishers around the first floor and vomited and urinated inside the building and on the damaged property.
Authorities, who announced the citations during a Friday morning press conference, singled out two individuals in particular: Andrew Ford, 17, of Ripton, a former seasonal kitchen staffer at Middlebury College's Bread Loaf campus, whom they allege planned the party, picked the site and put up money for alcohol consumed there; and Patrick Deering, 22, of Middlebury, who allegedly bought a large quantity of beer for the young partiers.
BRISTOL — Fuel prices have risen precipitously in the last year and a half, pinching the budgets of many Vermonters. But a few residents of the Bristol area, if they look very carefully at their bills in the coming months, may find the math a little confusing. They might not see a record of a delivery even though they distinctly remember one in recent days, or a fuel tank might last the usual amount of time even though the bill shows it was only filled halfway.
Customers of Jackman's Inc., though, needn't waste too much time trying to figure it out. The Bristol fuel dealer recently began its "Share Care" program to help its customers in need get through the winter. Jackman's Inc. is quietly paying parts of the bills of its customers who need the help the most.
"We were concerned if people could afford the fuel this year," said Jackman's bookkeeper Sharon Bushey.
Share Care began around the end of November when the company started a fund with $800 and solicited contributions from local individuals and businesses. Donations from individuals and businesses in the area have raised that sum to $2,120 so far, according to Bushey, most of which came during the holiday season. Jackman's Inc., which is unrelated to Jackman Fuels, is still seeking more donations.
"We're going to continue right through the winter," said Peter Jackman, co-owner of Jackman's Inc.
Fuel prices have been rising continually, and are now at $3.79 a gallon for kerosene and $3.37 a gallon for fuel oil, according to Bushey. In November of 2006 a gallon of fuel oil was going for $2.56.
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One of the least-considered aspects of the defined-benefit pension deficits that have made traditional teacher compensation far too expensive to keep around is the fact that the full costs of the retirement plans to taxpayers and children are still not dealt with in a fully honest way. Because pension systems often use inflated rates of returns on their investments (often around eight percent, even as actual rates of return of stocks on the Standard & Poor's 500 index was only around four percent during the last decade), pension deficits are often reported as being lower than they actually are. This deliberate hiding of real costs, along with unrealized losses on investments, and methods of valuing assets that wouldn't be used by private sector pensions, often mans that states and districts are not fully reckoning with the true costs of pensions. Add in the so-called "smoothing", or adjustments used to keep the volatility pensions experience with investments from wrecking havoc on budgets, and essentially the $1.1 trillion in pension deficits and unfunded retired teacher healthcare liabilities estimated by Dropout Nation may actually be greater than realized.
Which is why school reformers, along with cost-cutting governors and legislators, should pay attention to a report released last year by Moody's Investors Service, one of the big three bond rating agencies. As part of its effort to bring more transparency to the credit-worthiness of state and local governments — as well as address complaints that it and its counterparts, Fitch and S&P, were too lax in monitoring credit-worthiness of Fannie Mae and private-sector players during the run-up to the nation's current fiscal woes — Moody's announced that it would adjust how it calculates defined-benefit pension deficits that governments (including school districts) actually bear. The key step starts with ditching the often-inflated rates of returns on investments set by pensions and instead valuing the assets based on the interest rate of high-grade long term corporate bonds (about 5.5 percent, or more than two percentage points lower than rates of return assumed by pension operators); such a move, in turn, would give taxpayers (and government bond investors) a better sense of the real size of pension deficits.
Through this approach (along with other moves such as a 17-year schedule to amortize, or decrease, those deficits) Moody's would also show how much states, municipalities, and districts should actually be paying over time. On average, a pension with an inflated rate of return of eight percent would have an estimated underfunding that would be, on average, 35.6 percent larger than reported; each point point of difference between the Moody's rate of 5.5 percent and the inflated rate of return general equals a 13.3 percent increase in estimated underfunding. Based on these new estimates, states, districts and municipalities face $2.2 trillion in pension deficits — and this doesn't include the unfunded healthcare costs for retired teachers and other public-sector employees. Based on the model (along with those offered up by researchers as University of Rochester professor Robert Novy-Marx and Joshua Rauh of Northwestern University), many governments and districts are insolvent in all but name only.
The consequences of Moody's move are just beginning to be understood. As Redwood Valley, Calif. pension analyst John Dickerson noted in an analysis released earlier this month, six California counties with their own pensions (instead of paying into the Golden State's Public Employees' Retirement System) would actually have to pay down $10 billion in pension deficits, versus the $4 billion they currently report bad on inflated rates of return. As a result, these counties would be expected by bondholders to pay out $1.4 billion a year just to pay down their pension deficits, more than double the $640 million they currently pay. For Contra Costa County near San Francisco, the percentage of property tax dollars devoted to pension deficit pay down would increase from 33 percent to 54 percent, crowding out funding for basic municipal activities. In short, these governments would be considered technically insolvent under Moody's model, which would be the one bond investors would accept. Such a judgement will make it harder for municipalities to borrow without considerable costs that could be too difficult to bear.
For school districts such as Chicago and New York City, which handle their own pensions, the impact on their borrowing and budgets will be devastating. Under the Moody's model, Chicago would likely have to pay $547 million over 17 years, far greater than the $196 million in pension payments it will make this year and more than the $535 million it will pay out next year just to cover a pension deficit of $9.3 billion. That deficit is 35.6 percent greater than the $6.8 billion listed on its 2011 comprehensive annual financial report; a doubling in 2014 would add to the $1 billion budget gap the district must fill before the start of the next school year. Like many pensions, Chicago assumes an eight percent rate of return in spite of what is actually likely to be reaped on the market over time. Moody's has already looked askance upon Chicago's fiscal management — especially the deal it struck with the American Federation of Teachers' Second City local that will add $295 million in additional costs — and this will cost the Second City dearly every time it goes out into the bond market; the district's $116 million float in November (along with $6 billion in debt outstanding), was rated by Moody's as A2 Stable with a "negative" outlook.
For New York City, which reported a $17 billion underfunding in 2009 (the latest year available) — and is likely larger than that based on the fact that the market value of its assets that year was $7.7 billion lower than the actuarial valuation — that underfunding would likely be $23 billion under the Moody's model. The city already pays out $2 billion a year in pension payments, about 10 percent of its $24 billion annual budget; if the district's payments increased by 50 percent or more as required under Moody's model to pay down the pension deficit, the Big Apple would likely have to lay off some of the 75,000 teachers on its payroll; this would adversely hit the district's less-senior teachers, who, under New York State's reverse-seniority rules, would be the first to lose their jobs. Again, like most pensions, New York City's teacher retirement system assumes an inflated rate of return of eight percent.
But the trouble isn't just faced by municipalities with their own pension funds. School districts paying into statewide pension systems such as California's Teachers Retirement System would also take a hit because Moody's would assign a share of the newly-adjusted pension deficits to their respective balance sheets — and bondholders can know what they would have to pay out if they were behaving in a fiscally sensible manner. For Illinois' state government and districts outside of Chicago, the notoriously-underfunded teachers' pension would see its reported 2012 underfunding increase from $52 billion to $71 billion under the Moody's model (based on reducing its rate of return from eight percent to 5.5 percent under the model), and would be expected by bondholders to have to pay out $4.7 billion more a year just to pay down the deficit. In Maryland, where Gov. Martin O'Malley successfully off-loaded a portion of teachers' pension costs onto districts (and the counties that essentially control their finances), the pension deficit would increase from $12 billion to $15 billion based on the model; districts would then be assigned shares of those increased costs and then bear the judgement of Moody's and bondholders on their fiscal health. As for states that bear the full burden of teachers' pensions? The hits to the fiscal bottom lines just keep coming.
The move by Moody's, along with the efforts of the Government Accounting Standards Board to force districts (as well as states and municipalities) to come clean about the high costs of their compensation regimes, will certainly serve as a lever for reform. As your editor has written in The American Spectator and elsewhere, the long-term burdens of the defined-benefit pension deals, near-lifetime employment, and seniority- and degree-based pay scales struck between states, districts, and affiliates of the AFT and the National Education Association will likely do as much to spur reform as the systemic academic failure that is the most-public aspect of the nation's education crisis. As Moody's begins to apply its model to districts and other governments, expect more governors and districts to embrace performance-based pay scales as well as efforts to cash-balance existing pensions (and move toward defined-contribution plans for newly-hired teachers) in order to address these burdens. Which will mean more battles between states, districts, and NEA and AFT affiliates from here on.


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Fluids: The Lifeblood of Your Ride
Your vehicle has a lot of different fluids running through it to keep it working properly. Keeping an eye on these vital fluids and maintaining them at healthy levels will increase driving performance and help to reduce maintenance costs.
While many car repairs require a skilled professional, maintaining the levels of essential car fluids is easy and possible for even the most automotive repair-challenged drivers. Knowing which fluids you can easily maintain yourself may help you save you a lot of money and headaches in the long run, so consider the following six important car fluids that should be maintained as recommended:
1. Engine Oil
Checking and changing oil is critical to keep your engine running properly and efficiently. Check the oil level with the engine off and the car parked on a level surface. After opening the hood, remove the dipstick and wipe it clean with a rag or cloth. Then, return it to the oil reservoir. Take it out again and see if the level is within the acceptable range marked on the dipstick. If you're adding oil, be sure to not overfill, as this can damage the engine.
Most car manufacturers provide guidelines for changing the vehicle's oil – typically, every 3,000 miles or three to six months.
2. Transmission Fluid
Checking the automatic transmission fluid is another vital item on the car maintenance checklist. Find the transmission fluid dipstick and follow the same steps as monitoring the engine oil, but this time while the engine is running. If the fluid appears brown or has a burnt smell, have it checked immediately by a professional mechanic.
Follow the manufacturer's recommendations for changing transmission fluid, typically about every 30,000 miles.
3. Power Steering Fluid
If you have a power steering fluid reservoir, open the cap and check the level visually; otherwise, follow the dipstick method. The fluid should stay level, so if you need to add fluid, have it checked as soon as possible for a leak.
Power steering fluid should typically be changed every three years or 50,000 miles.
4. Brake Fluid
Most, if not all, vehicles on the road today have a translucent brake fluid reservoir that allows you to see through it so you can check the fluid level without opening the cap. Once you locate the brake fluid reservoir, you will see markings on the side that tell you if you need to add any brake fluid. If your brake pads are starting to wear, the brake fluid level will drop. If the fluid drops below two-thirds full, you may want to have it checked.
5. Coolant
When you check the engine's coolant, make sure your car has been turned off and had time to cool down. Locate the coolant reservoir (usually a translucent plastic tank) and eyeball the level of the coolant against the full and low indicators. The engine can be damaged from overheating, so make sure that the reserve tank contains adequate coolant and never allow the temperature of your car's engine to redline.
Replace most engine coolant or antifreeze every 30,000 miles – or every two to three years. Newer formulas, however, may last up to 50,000 miles, so check the recommendations on the coolant bottle.
6. Windshield Washer Fluid
You can check the windshield washer fluid level by looking at the marker on the opaque chamber or by looking into the reservoir. Depending on usage, consider checking the wiper fluid reservoir every week or so and keep it full.
By taking the time to periodically check these fluids, a car will enjoy a healthy and safe level of operation.
Joe Campanella is the EVP of business development at CARCHEX. Headquartered in Hunt Valley, Md.,CARCHEX is the premier provider of Extended Auto Warranties and Mobile Vehicle Inspections. CARCHEX is the preferred partner to the most trusted names in the automotive industry, including Pat Goss of TV's MotorWeek, Carfax and Kelley Blue Book. You can read their automotive blog here.


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Hepatitis Testing Conducted During Colonoscopy Appointments Aided Older Patients
Researchers investigated whether baby boomers would be willing to be tested for viral hepatitis during routine colonoscopies. The researchers offered hepatitis tests to 500 individuals ages 50 to 65 years during appointments for outpatient colonoscopy between October 2010 and January 2011. Of the 376 persons who accepted the offer, 346 gave blood samples and reported risk factors and vaccination history as well as their potential exposure to hepatitis. Researchers offered vaccination to participants who did not have immunity to hepatitis A (HAV) or B viruses (HBV) and scheduled follow-up meetings for those who tested positive for hepatitis C (HCV) antibodies or HBV antigen.
Of the 346 participants, 93 percent did not have immunity to HAV, HBV, or both; 240 patients tested negative for HAV; and 283 tested negative for HBV antibodies. Researchers found one or more risk factors for chronic hepatitis in 36 percent of participants; 8 percent had multiple risk factors. The most common risk factors were getting a tattoo before the year 2000 (8 percent), high-risk sexual behavior and/or having STDs (8 percent), and ever having injected or snorted drugs (7 percent). Researchers found HCV antibodies in four individuals; one person had detectable virus. All four participants who tested positive for HCV complied with testing and follow-up, and the individual with detectable virus received vaccination against HAV and HBV, improved his diet, stopped drinking alcohol, and agreed to noninterferon-based treatment.
Researchers contend that using an existing healthcare screening system is a highly desirable way of complying with CDC's recommendation for one-time hepatitis screening of baby boomers in the United States. They conclude that incorporating viral hepatitis screening with colorectal cancer screening has the potential to be an easily instituted mass-screening mechanism.
The full report, "Birth Cohort Screening for Chronic Hepatitis During Colonoscopy Appointments," was published online in the American Journal of Gastroenterology, (2013; doi: 10.1038/ajg.2013.50).


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Motor control unit for Hydraulic Power Unit
In reference to the container solution that Electromach has designed for the company Balance Point Control (BPC): Electromach received the order to build a motor control unit for an Hydraulic Power Unit (HPU) in cooperation with the company Hycos (Hydraulics and Control Systems).
Hycos is specialised in designing and constructing turnkey hydraulic drive systems for the Marine and Offshore Industry, including the hardware and software for the associated control system.
In consultation with the end user, BPC, it has been decided to outsource the construction of the complete motor control unit to Electromach.
The Hydraulic Power Unit has been fully designed and equipped by the company Hycos. The HPU will be used for a new rig assist 'snubbing unit', a project from the company BPC, for which Electromach has already designed a container solution for earlier this year. For the End customer this was also the reason why they asked Electromach to cooperate with Hycos in this project.
(Please see the article: Containerized control unit for Rig Assist Snubbing Unit in our February issue of our newsletter)
HPU (Hydraulic Power Unit)
The HPU is a complete hydraulic system, which drives all components together to activate the snubbing unit. The HPU consists of 4 electric motors, which drives 4 hydraulic pumps. Each one is foreseen of it's own soft starter. This specific configuration has been chosen to limit the starting current and to ensure a high level of redundancy. By means of the hydraulic circuits, the operator can choose for each pump separately, the 'jack' or the 'aux' system, which guarantees a flexible and highly reliable configuration.
Electromach had to build a motor control unit suitable for 4 electro motors and it had to fit in the front end of a standard size container, which has a width of only 2 meters! Also the available height was limited. Together with the Hycos engineers, we managed to realise a reliable design which met all desired specifications.
In addition, the motor control unit in the container had to withstand extreme movements. One of the requirements was that the container had to be suitable for lifting vertically, with the door to the ground. In this way the container could be lowered into a narrow opening on the platform.
'Exd' solution, CUBEx
Using the flameproof 'Exd' CUBEx enclosures in combination with Electromach Stainless Steel series of BE enclosures, it was possible to create a compact control unit. One of the biggest advantages of the CUBEx enclosures are the straight sides, which makes it possible to mount the enclosures as close as 20mm apart (and they are also certified!).
Due to the limited space, the cable entries are mounted on the rear of the panel. The 4 soft starters, including the PLC, are mounted in 4 separate Exd CUBEx enclosures.
De container meets the Norsok Z-015 directive and the motor control unit is ATEX certified, Ex II 2G Exde [ia] IIB T4
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