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The recent focus on the AoA lawsuit against Dartmouth (which has been dismissed at the request of the AoA) caused me to neglect reporting on a piece of threatened litigation against the college pertaining to a different, though perhaps not entirely unrelated, matter. A few months ago a former Dartmouth writing instructor, Priya Venkatesan, informed some of her former students that she was planning to sue them, along with Dartmouth.
Dartmouth inflicted Venkatesan on an unlucky set of Writing 5 students (most Dartmouth freshmen are required to take one of the seminars that comprise Writing 5 in order to improve their expository writing). Venkatesan in turn inflicted her post-modern views of science on the students. As Joseph Rago of the Wall Street Journal reports, she taught them that "scientific knowledge has suspect access to truth," inasmuch as "scientific facts do not correspond to a natural reality but conform to a social construct." Her goal, then, was to "problematize" technology and the life sciences. As if we don't have enough problems.
Showing clear signs of life, some of Venkatesan's students reacted by taking issue with her theses during class. Venkatesan deemed this pushback "very bully-ish, very aggressive, and very disrespectful." She responded by accusing the students of "fascist demagoguery," consulting a physician about "intellectual distress," and canceling classes for a week. Later, as noted, she threatened to sue some of her students for creating a "hostile work environment," and to sue Dartmouth itself for countenancing the "harassment." To her credit, however, Venkatesan has apparently reconsidered her decision to sue.
Venkatesan has moved on to Northwestern. She leaves behind some questions, especially this one: how could Dartmouth have hired her? Dartmouth's answer likely would be that employers make bad hiring decisions from time to time. A good case can be made, however, that this bad hiring decisions was the product to some extent of weaknesses in Dartmouth's approach to the teaching of writing (whether similar weaknesses extend to other courses at Dartmouth is the subject for another day).
There were three problems with hiring Venkatesan to teach expository writing. First, learning how to write well is difficult enough without the distraction of a wacky ideology — i.e., that scientific knowledge is, in essence, a fraud perpetrated by the white male hierarchy — or indeed any ideology. Second, Venkatesan does not appear to be a good writer. Third, given her over-the-top reaction to disagreement by her students, she does not appear to be very stable.
Dartmouth certainly can be excused for not having anticipated the third of these defects. But unless the missives collected here are an aberration, the college probably should have been able to discern that Venkatesan's writing falls short of what is expected of a college writing instructor. And Venkatesan has made no secret of her bizarre post-modern views.
Unfortunately, these views might have made Venkatsesan more, not less, appealing to Dartmouth. For I'm told that Venkatesan's seminar was hardly the only one in the Writing 5 program with a left-wing ideological bent. I'd like to be able to demonstrate this by sharing the subject matter of past and current seminars with our readers, but this does not seem to be possible because Dartmouth apparently elects not to provide descriptions on its website (or maybe my computer search skills are inadequate; I'll accept help here). One student reports having combed through the Writing 5 offerings several terms ago in the hope of finding an indoctrination-free seminar. According to this student, he thought he had finally succeeded, but once he took the course found himself locking horns with his instructor over politics and making very little progress with his writing.
Nor is this an isolated case. Although my daughter did not take Writing 5, the reports of the students I've spoken to about the course range from lukewarm to strongly negative. In fact, several expressed to me how fortunate my daughter was not to be saddled with it.
In theory, writing about contentious matters may seem like a good way to improve one's expository writing skills. And given an able, fair-minded professor, this theory can be transformed into practice. For example, Walter Sinnot-Armstrong's Philosophy 3 course (Reason and Argument) teaches, in essence, argumentation. Students must write a final paper on a controversial subject, such as race-based preferences for minority group members. Sinnot-Armstrong, moreover, is an unabashed liberal. Yet based on what I've heard, the course is an excellent one in which conservatives freely write what they think about these highly-charged subjects and pay no price for doing. That's because Sinnot-Armstrong apparently brings no agenda to the classroom other than teaching the methodology of argument.
But it seems the same cannot be said consistently about the instructors of Writing 5 (who are not professors). In a course whose subject matter is avowedly ideological (which is not really the case with Philosophy 3), the temptation to exalt the ideology over the writing is inherently difficult to resist. It may even be the case (though I don't know for sure) that some post-modern ideologues view the two things — ideology and writing — as inextricably linked. In any case, the prospect for mischief is great; the prospect for improving one's writing is not. And so it too frequently plays out.
The college appears finally to have recognized that its writing program is flawed. Unfortunately, as I'll discuss in a follow-up post, Dean Folt's plan to redress this problem is, to put it kindly, counter-intuitive.
UPDATE: Priya Venkatesan came to Dartmouth from the University of California at San Diego where she was a teaching assistant. UC San Diego is the home of a notorious mandatory freshman program called Dimensions of Culture, which lasts a full year. As I described here, this program is, apart from the underlying "hate whitey" indoctrination, largely incomprehensibe to students. As one student put it:
I had no idea what was going on in that class. And even the TA said she had no idea what it was about. . . .Everyone hated the class, and they know it, and even at the end of the year they gave out these pins that said, "I survived DOC." And the lecturers [asked] "Aren't you so glad it's done?"
Given the scope of DOC at UC San Diego, it must be a magnet for TAs. However, I don't know whether Venkatesan taught in the program. If she did, this would tend to make her hiring less excusable, and to reinforce the view that her odd post-modern leftist views made her more, not less, appealing to Dartmouth.
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Confession aired in killing of 5-year-old girl in Falls
LOCKPORT – John R. Freeman Jr. grasped the situation he was in last summer after his accomplice told Niagara Falls police that Freeman had killed a 5-year-old Cheektowaga girl.
"I'm going down, and it could be for life," Freeman told Detective Daniel Dobrasz Jr. in a videotaped interview, highlights of which were read aloud Thursday in Niagara County Court.
Freeman, 17, of Sixth Street, Niagara Falls, is charged with second-degree murder in the strangulation of Isabella S. Tennant in her great-grandparents' Sixth Street home on the night of Aug. 26. Freeman, a friend of the great-grandparents, had been baby-sitting the girl while her mother worked in a Niagara Falls bar.
The next morning, while police were questioning Freeman as a possible source of information in what was then considered a missing child case, Tyler S. Best, 18, of Barnard Street, Buffalo, went to Police Headquarters to report that he had helped Freeman stuff the girl's body into a stolen garbage tote that they left in an alley.
The information from Best, who is charged with tampering with physical evidence, turned the tone of the detectives' interview with Freeman from a search for information to an accusatory situation, County Judge Matthew J. Murphy III said as he ruled that all of Freeman's statements to police would be admissible at his trial.
Murphy said the video shows Dobrasz reading Freeman his rights, and Freeman agreed to answer questions without asking for a lawyer.
"I guess so, because I already heard Tyler Best snitched," Freeman told Dobrasz. "Tyler Best confessed that we murdered Bella. … Let me ask you one question: Did he say I did it?"
"You knew what happened. You weren't being honest," Dobrasz said, according to Murphy. "Your [back] is in a sling."
"I already heard he said I did it, so I did it," Freeman answered.
Moments later, according to the judge, Freeman said, "I guess I'm a little bit crazy. I just admitted to a killing. That's a little bit crazy."
Defense attorney Robert Viola is considering a psychiatric defense for Freeman. He said a doctor has examined the defendant and should have a report ready in three weeks.
The doctor also will consider records on Freeman's behavior from as far back as elementary school, obtained through a subpoena that Murphy signed.
In the wake of the expected psychiatric report, the prosecution will be allowed to have Freeman examined by a doctor of its choice. The situation will be updated at a pretrial conference set for May 2.
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Eight Days Till Fall
Thanks to all our guests for a nice summer. There are eight days till fall. The fall colors will soon be coming in. It is a photographers time of year, so if you want some beautiful pictures of Lake Tahoe take a drive. You can get a great picture from the road but if you take a hike you can get incredible pictures.
The squirrels are scrambling to collect nuts for their winter stash of food. And birds are collecting nesting materials for bedding. They seem to know when and how winter will arrive. We haven't had any Bear sightings yet, but they will soon be out and about.
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A puddle of indiscriminate bodily fluids including blood, semen, fecal matter and soft tissue, usually surrounded by empty cans of PBR and well worn rabbit hide condoms. When tested DNA evidence can with 99% positivity link each of the fluids donors to a single family though on most occasions there are 6 or more donors.
The only thing left at the scene of the terrible crime was a steaming cesspool of rape juice.
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The secretions produced by a woman's body that prevent conception as a result of a "legitimate rape."
If she is legitimately raped the rape juice keeps her from getting pregnant
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"Man, my leather gloves are just covered in rape juice"
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a batch of jungle juice, usually made by men that's so potent it's obvious intention is to have co-partiers, preferably the ladies, blackout.
I had no idea where I was when I woke up this morning. Must have been all that rape juice I drank last night.
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A foul, rank smelling substance, even worse than bong water. Thick in consistency. Reeks of the stench of blood, sweat, tears and sometimes a little poop.
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Maui Kitebeach to be banned?, Petition to save
Post general kiteboarding discussion topics here!
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BFD, I am well aware of the situation, kite boarders need to tread lightly on a multi use beaches.
Know there are consequences, they picked on the wrong person.
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and put in following opinion "I always wanted to go there for kitesurfing. If this ban will be in effect, I will go else where"
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I don't think there's anything wrong with hearing the voice of a visitor and respecting the fact that they feel dissatisfied - but they must also realize reason stands that it would be for the greater good not to enforce a ban as others mentioned
With a little tolerance and cooperation I'm sure there is enough island to go around for everyone no matter what one likes to do... But I think visitors should be as prepared to respect that philosophy as Maui is prepared to welcome them to their home
"When in Rome..." (Cue Ron Burgundy gif)
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So he was right....
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Grow up idiots
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This all came about when a family complained about kiters coming into a swimming area. The kiters said they need this particular area to launch during certain wind conditions. I'm sure this is true. But, the kiters, instead of doing the right thing and trying to work it out with the swimmers, or working with the authorities to get the swimming area moved, foolishly escalated things by making it personal between them and the family. Apparently there were threats, swearing, name calling, near fights, and vandalism (the family car's tires were punctured by someone).
In contrast to this, for years windsurfers have helped maintain the buoys and lines marking the swimming area roped off near where the lifeguard station used to be. And, at times when the lines were down we let tourists know to stay out of these areas. Unfortunately the kiters don't seem to know that they and we won't get what we want by antagonizing others.
The state has now posted signs declaring some areas to be swimming areas based on laws that go back decades. This means nobody can legally launch there or come in there (especially bad if one has a break down or the wind drops).
Now we're forced to do what the kiters should have done at the start: work with the authorities to recognize the need for us to have shoreline access in particular areas, and that swimming areas can be moved to areas that don't interfere with windsport access.
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The bigger picture here is what does this mean for NorCal access?
We need to be proactive in avoiding a situation like that here.
One of the places I'm concerned about is Dillon.
That's one of the places where the most user variability is concentrated.
Maybe we should come up with launch guidelines there that will minimize the chances of an accident or possibly worse a fight like they they got that started this whole thing at Kanaha.
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I am a San Francisco Board Sailing Association volunteer Site steward and field representative.
When Jesse Richman was passing through this summer he commented on the problems on Maui and asked for my advice.
I gave him all the written information I had. He commented on our good efforts on safety, access and getting along with other user groups.
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Warner Bros. presented new footage from its upcoming big-screen adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novel 300 at Comic-Con International in San Diego on Saturday. The extended footage, cut in the style of a trailer but roughly five minutes or so in length, went over so well with the crowd of thousands that it was played three times to resounding applause.
The footage was accompanied by appearances by director Zack Snyder, comic book legend Frank Miller, and two of the film's stars, Gerard Butler and David Wenham. The panelists answered questions from the crowd, mainly of the "how was it like working on this film" variety.
The 300 segment included striking images of the Spartans in battle against the invading Persians, with many a limb, eye and even a spinning severed head lost in the bloodshed. The highly stylized cinematography and direction was, like Sin City before it, an almost direct translation of Miller's and Lynn Varney's imagery to the silver screen.
The footage tracked Leonidas (Butler), king of the ill-fated Spartans, from birth, through his lifelong training as a warrior to the threat posed to the Greek states by the invading Persians. The 300 Spartans of Miller's imagination are recreated here in exquisite detail, down to the way in which their capes flow and their battlefield moves.
Along with the crowd reactions to Spider-Man 3 and Grind House, 300 proved to be one of the big winners at this year's Comic-Con.
For more comics, film, TV, DVD and videogame news from the event, be sure to visit IGN's massive Comic-Con Index.


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Senator propose task force to determine tax reform
Senator propose task force to determine tax reform
LINCOLN, Neb. —
A co-sponsor of Gov. Dave Heineman's plan to eliminate or reduce the state income tax favors a special legislative working group to help get the bill passed.
Sen. Brad Ashford said he's talked with the governor and fellow co-sponsor Sen. Beau McCoy about creating a task force of interested businesses, farmers and community groups.
The group would determine what sales tax exemptions could be eliminated or what new services will be taxed to offset income or property tax reductions.
After two days of heated opposition from businesses and community leaders, Ashford said it was the start of a good discussion that needs to continue.
Revenue committee chairman Galen Hadley said the legislature will determine how to proceed next week.


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Graduate Student Links Dino Eggshells and Ancient Climates
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Fourth-year Richard Gilder Graduate School (RGGS) doctoral student Shaena Montanari uses her geology training and subtle clues left by dinosaurs to reconstruct the environment of Mongolia's Gobi Desert as it was 70 million years ago. Based on an innovative approach that takes cues from the geochemistry of dinosaur eggshells, Montanari's latest findings—that late in the Mesozoic "age of the dinosaurs" the Gobi desert was a much wetter and warmer place than today—were presented this week at a poster session of the American Geophysical Union's Fall Meeting in San Francisco.
Big Cat Scat: Grant Boosts Critical Research
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For the past five years, Museum scientists, in collaboration with the Panthera Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting big cats in the wild, have been tracking tigers, lions, jaguars, and snow leopards through DNA in scat, or fecal specimens, gathered in the field. Now, through a generous grant from the Leslie and Daniel Ziff Foundation, the Global Felid Conservation Genetics Program can accelerate the pace of this important work by expanding the program's laboratory component.
"We're very excited about it," says George Amato, director of the Museum's Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics and the Center for Conservation Genetics, which is responsible for sequencing the big cats' DNA and analyzing the results. "In terms of scale, it is now the largest project of its kind in the world."
December 7 SciCafe: Q and A with Angela Belcher
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What if materials in nature could be harnessed to design smarter technologies? Join MIT Professor Angela Belcher at the December 7 SciCafe, Material World: How Bioengineering and Nanotechnology Could Save the Planet, to learn how she creates more efficient technologies in clean energy, electronics, and medical research using materials from nature. Applying biology, engineering, nanotechnology, and materials science to her work, Dr. Belcher has created virus-enabled batteries and more efficient solar cells. Belcher will bring examples of her research to Wednesday's event, including the first biological battery her team produced as well as a shell of an abalone, a relative of the oyster and the inspiration for many of her projects.
First Look: Hall of North American Mammals
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Over the last few months, an expert team of conservators and Museum artists has led the restoration of the dioramas of the Hall of North American Mammals, which first opened in 1942 and has offered generations of Museum visitors spectacular views of North America's natural heritage. This is the first in a series of inside looks at the comprehensive restoration and conservation process, which will be completed by fall of 2012.
Cleared and Stained: Picturing a Ponyfish
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While advances in imaging technologies have opened new pathways for scientists to study natural phenomena, researchers continue to make remarkable discoveries using techniques that have been around for decades. John Sparks, associate curator in the Museum's Department of Ichthyology, uses enzymes and dyes to reveal key anatomical structures in different species of fishes for study of their function and evolution.
Among his study subjects are ponyfishes (family Leiognathidae), a group of bioluminescent fishes common in the Indian Ocean and Western Pacific that have a light organ. This internal structure, which varies among ponyfish species, surrounds the esophagus and contains luminescent bacteria, the source of the fish's light. The light organ is larger in males, which have a second species-specific anatomical feature: translucent skin patches, which allow them to use the light organ in displays to attract mates in turbid waters. (Bioluminescent organisms will be explored in the exciting new exhibition Creatures of Light: Nature's Bioluminescence, which opens at the Museum on March 31, 2012.)


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I still remember reading about AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! (Force = Mass x Acceleration) for the first time three years ago, compliments of Anthony Burch's Indie Nation series.
As a general rule, I'm a hug fan of free-falling/free-running games, which explains my love for the Jumping Flash franchise and Mirror's Edge, so this was right up my alley. While it made a decent splash on PC, thankfully the game eventually came to iOS and broadened its audience for $3. Now you can have it for a buck.
If the game hooks you in, think about getting the original, and the self described semi-sequel on PC. You won't regret it!
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Andrew is an Engineer with more than twenty five years experience in the design of building structures. Educated in Western Australia, Andrew has been in the UK for 20 years. Andrew's work is spread across a wide range of countries and sectors, with a particular focus on buildings with unusual and geometrically complex structures. Andrew is a keen supporter of Emerging Architects, and tutors at the Bartlett School of Architecture.


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Marion Cotillard: Cannes Jumpsuit!
Marion Cotillard attends the Chopard 150th Anniversary Party at Palm Beach, Pointe Croisette in France during the Cannes Film Festival on Monday (May 17).
The 34-year-old French actress wore a Lefranc Ferrand jumpsuit, shoes and clutch by Jimmy Choo, and Chopard jewerly.
Marion has been recently serving as the face of the Lady Dior handbag. This past weekend, she was spotted at the unveiling of the Dior Cruise 2011 collection in Shanghai where she was joined by Charlize Theron.
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Alexis' Perfectly Purple Abode
Name: Alexis
Location: United States
I wanted Alexis' room to be comfortable but fun, light and airy; functional but dreamy. I am happy with how it turned out.
The room we had for her is the smallest in the house, and I was concerned that we wouldn't be able to decorate it the way I wanted. I am not great with styling or design, I am not crafty, and we didn't have a huge budget. But I feel that we were able to do exactly what I had envisioned with minor concessions.
Thanks, Elena! Readers, you can see more of Elena by visiting her blog, The Art of Making a Baby.
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Advice: Should I stay with a man who enjoys making me mad?
Dear Carolyn:
My boyfriend of two and a half years loves to push my buttons. We are both incredibly stubborn, hate to be wrong/love to be right. About once a week, a normal disagreement (e.g., a wrong turn) will cause major heart -- and headache. He says these things that really get under my skin -- and in my anger I call him every name in the book.
When he doesn't seem fazed by it, I escalate it by saying I don't know why someone who loves me would try to say such hurtful things and I don't know why I would sign up for this for the rest of my life (marriage).
This does really bother him, because he honestly would like to get married and is ready when I am.
These arguments annoy the $!$& out of me, and I just don't know how to move past this. We don't even have great makeup sex because I'm so mad I withdraw! I try to ignore his rude little comments (OK, yes, maybe we both just had a stressful day and a wrong turn doesn't help matters ... ), but he won't stop and I just end up steaming and exploding later.
If it is this bad now, I shudder to think where two and a half kids and a mortgage will leave us.
-- Maryland
Much shuddering just transpired. (We're shuddering with you, not at.)
There's obviously no place for nastiness (button-pushing, name-calling) in relationships.
Less obviously, there's no place for stubbornness. Everyone loves to be right, and no one loves to be wrong; you are not even remotely special in your preferences there. What distinguishes you from others who aren't "stubborn" is that you behave as if there's a cost to admitting error that you're not willing to pay.
Whether this stems from your relationship or from immaturity, I can't say; certainly both are common, and often overlap.
Some signs that it's your relationship: You're not this way with others; in the beginning, you weren't this way with him; you feel mounting frustration at not being heard, understood or respected.
Some signs that it's you: This is business as usual for you, and it feels like a problem only when you run across someone as argumentative as you are.
Either way, I suggest individual counseling to help both of you learn more productive ways to communicate when you're upset.
In an intimate relationship, there are steep costs to an unwillingness to admit you're wrong: It damages your credibility, because everyone's wrong sometimes, usually often; it diminishes your partner, since you're more invested in your victory than his truth; it's defensive, which will keep you from ever being truly close; it paralyzes problem-solving.
And: It's a kind of willful ignorance, since you deny yourself a clear view of how your partner deals with your vulnerability. Someone who punishes you for humbly and readily admitting fault is unkind at best, and oh boy do you want that information before you get any more deeply entwined.
The exception to the stubbornness-has-no-place rule: When you've fully considered alternate viewpoints; when you're confident in your beliefs; when you accept you may still be wrong; when you're not trying to bring someone around to your way of thinking, and instead merely defending your right to live by your own beliefs -- then stubbornness is the kind of virtue that can keep you from becoming anyone's emotional or ideological prey.
Exception to the exception: If you're fighting once a week over your soul, then it's time to declare incompatibility and part ways. Keep the counseling appointment, though; there's no excuse for calling anyone "every name in the book," no matter how justifiably angry you are.
Dear Carolyn:
I have four siblings who constantly squabble, bicker and post negative comments about each other and many of their friends on Facebook. This interaction has caused one of them legal problems and has destroyed many of their relationships.
I do not have a Facebook account and ignore all of this for the most part. However, sometimes I can't help but to wonder what is being said about me, if anything. Do you think Facebook and its significance should have me worried? Or am I right for simply writing off my siblings as middle-aged teenagers?
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People who trash others to the point of legal calamity are trashing you. No need to waste time wondering whether your name ever comes up.
Facebook and its significance are worrisome on many levels, but none of them warrants your doing anything but the sensible thing you have already chosen: ignoring "all of this."
As apt as your "middle-aged teenagers" remark appears to be, anyone who wants to fly below (or above) detection by negative-minded people would be wise to avoid any appearance of looking down his or her beak.


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Six Blue Devils from the Central Connecticut men's track and field team took seven spots on the 2013 NEC Indoor Men's All-Conference team. CCSU earned three spots on the first team, three second team and also boasted one all-rookie awardee.
The Blue Devils placed third at the Northeast Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships on Feb. 10 and junior Craig Hunt was awarded the Most Outstanding Track Performer of the meet.
Hunt, who took first in both the 3,000 and 5,000 meter races with times of 8:31.83 and 14:54.75, respectively was named to the All-Conference First Team for both performances. Also notching first team honors was Central's distance medley relay team made up of sophomores Joey Farrington and Brian Biekert as well as freshmen Malcolm Connor and Joseph Gioielli. The team crossed the finish line in 10:15.75.
Gioielli was also named to the All-Rookie team for his performance in the 800 meter run which he finished in 1:53.06 for third place overall.
Gioielli's DMR teammate, Biekert, also earned his own individual spot on the NEC Indoor All-Conference Second Team for his second-place finish in the one mile run with a time of 4:19.16.
Also earning second-team honors was senior Aaron Radden, who took two spots for his performances in the 60 and 200 meter dash events. Radden placed second in both races with times of 6.89 and 21.71, respectively.
The Blue Devils continue competition on Friday, Feb. 22 and Saturday, Feb. 23 at the New England Indoor Championships at Boston University in Boston, MA.


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The most commonly used coordinate system on the sphere is the geographic system ( λ , φ ) . The curvilinear nature of these coordinates on the sphere lead to some "metric" terms in the component momentum equations. Under the thin-atmosphere and hydrostatic approximations these terms are discretized:
where a is the radius of the planet (sphericity is assumed) or the radial distance of the particle (i.e. a function of height). It is easy to see that this discretization satisfies all the properties of the discrete Coriolis terms since the metric factor u a tan φ can be viewed as a modification of the vertical Coriolis parameter: f → f + u a tan φ .
The equations of motion integrated by the model involve four prognostic equations for flow, u and v , temperature, θ , and salt/moisture, S , and three diagnostic equations for vertical flow, w , density/buoyancy, ρ / b , and pressure/geo-potential, ϕ h y d . In addition, the surface pressure or height may by described by either a prognostic or diagnostic equation and if non-hydrostatics terms are included then a diagnostic equation for non-hydrostatic pressure is also solved. The combination of prognostic and diagnostic equations requires a model algorithm that can march forward prognostic variables while satisfying constraints imposed by diagnostic equations.
Since the model comes in several flavors and formulation, it would be confusing to present the model algorithm exactly as written into code along with all the switches and optional terms. Instead, we present the algorithm for each of the basic formulations which are:
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Last call for 'Up Close at Hope'
There is nothing more beautiful and athletic as dance. To see great dancers up close is a special treat.
Festival Ballet's popular dance program has been a favorite of ours for years. Sitting in their Black Box Theatre (actually their rehearsal space) at their studios at 825 Hope St. on Providence's East Side is a magical experience. You still have an opportunity to catch the program this Friday, November 2 at 8 p.m. and Saturday Nov. 3 at 7:30 p.m.
There are nine new works in the program, which opens with the one signature piece starring Jennifer Ricci, titled "A Spektor of Things," with music by Regina Spektor. Ricci is accompanied by two men carrying poles. Her acrobatic dancing is breathtaking. I've seen it three times and marvel at her athleticism and poise every time.
Ricci also appears in a hysterically funny parody of "Taming of the Shrew," with music by Vivaldi, and a lively "Neighborhood Stories" with music by Stravinsky.
Classical ballet is not forgotten in a mesmerizing piece by Egidijus, "Spring," with music by Verdi, and a pas de deux by the young and talented Viulla Putrius and Mindaugas Bauzys.
Of the nine selections, there are eight different choreographers, each presenting their own styles. The program flows beautifully, with a short intermission to enjoy wine and hors d' oeuvres. Tickets at $50 are at a premium. Call 353-1129. There will be another ""Up Close At Hope" in March.


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After getting back from a run today, I went into our garage to cool down and my wife was on the exercise bike and saw something out of the corner of her eye. We both looked and saw this beautiful European Hornet (Vespa crabro) on a box, struggling to move. On closer inspection (and a check with some online sources) we came to the conclusion that this is probably a Queen – the size seemed right and there are 13 segments to her antennae and 7 body segments.
I gently picked her up on some paper and put her outside in the sun, but she could barely crawl. She flipped onto her back at one point and I almost had to help her back over. I've never performed first aid on a Hornet before and I wasn't sure what to try and feed her…
Being vegan, we didn't have any honey to hand, but we figured some sort of sugary liquid might work.. enter the Agave Nectar! We put a large drop close to her, but she couldn't get to it and, by this point, was barely moving. I grabbed a feather that was close by and used the pointy end to move some of the Agave Nectar towards her gorgeous face – I got it as close as I could without it touching her. It seemed to work – she sensed it and managed the tiniest of head movements and stuck her mandibles into it.
For the next ten minutes or so, she gradually began to move more and more and really seemed to be enjoying the drink.
Finally, she had enough energy to move again and started cleaning her legs and wings…
She had a little scurry around and prepared for take off – she launched into the air and vanished over the fence.
So yea, that's how to save a Hornet.
The new Passion Flower is doing nicely.
I found this poor little furry lump of gorgeousness looking very unhappy and hardly moving on the ground, so I gently slid a thin sliver of bark under those crazy legs and they managed to hang on.
I slowly lifted the Bee up onto our Buddleia and they just managed to crawl off. After a rest they started to have a drink…
That seemed to revive the little beast and and they became more active, crawling all over and drinking/eating more and more.
Twenty minutes later, off they flew!
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It's a scorcher! Too hot for the boy – he's moved very little today. I can't blame him.
I always enjoy a trip to Tyland Barn and usually come away with at least a couple of shots I like. This time was a short visit, but pleasant nonetheless. I was fortunate enough to have a very willing Small Skipper (Thymelicus sylvestris) land close to me and flit about for a few seconds.
This butterfly is often found basking on vegetation, or making short buzzing flights among tall grass stems. Despite its name, four skipper species found in the British Isles are the same size or smaller than the Small Skipper. The male is distinguished from the female by the sex brand on its forewings, which is a slightly curved line of specialised scent scales.
I love Summer, mainly because the bugs are out in force. Found this little fella in the front garden. Speckled Bush Crickets are amazing – this is a young one, not fully grown.
Went out late last night to see where our cat was – he was in the garage, chilling. As I walked through the door I noticed this Spider doing what Spiders do best – weaving some web magic around what-looks-like a Bee.


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STOCKTON - Hundreds of job seekers lined up Tuesday for a free job fair at a downtown Stockton hotel.
STOCKTON - Hundreds of job seekers lined up Tuesday for a free job fair at a downtown Stockton hotel.
The line that started at the University Plaza Waterfront Hotel ballroom stretched down the hallway, past the hotel bar, around some tables and chairs, down another hall to the lobby, around the entry atrium, out the front door and along Fremont Street, wrapping around the building so those toward the end of the line could see where the queue started.
By the end of the day, organizers had counted more than 1,200 hopefuls in attendance.
Demand for jobs is high in San Joaquin County, where the unemployment rate doggedly remains in double digits - 14.5 percent in December - more than five years after the start of the Great Recession.
That wasn't news for Michael Waller of Manteca, who described himself as a military veteran with years of experience in credit analysis and warehouse management and who has been on the job hunt for several months. He noted his wife had been unemployed for 21/2 years before recently landing a position with the city of Stockton.
"I'm looking, hopefully, for a couple of interviews out of this," he said as he entered the job fair.
Jim Peterson of Tracy said he'd been keeping food on the table as a manufacturer's representative selling equipment and materials to fire departments and others, but he has no health coverage or other benefits as an independent contractor.
He said he'd been looking for a regular paycheck and benefits for a year and a half but admitted, "Prospects are pretty grim."
Shrinking government budgets have hit hard at the industry he's pursued for 15 years as fire agency leaders have to choose between cutting equipment budgets or personnel.
Still, there's always hope.
"I have a good feeling today," said Dominque Simoni, a Stockton native and child development student at San Joaquin Delta College. She said the job fair was the best opportunity she'd heard of recently.
"I'm hopefully looking for a career, not just a job."
Karen Dewal, who led those staging the 21st annual Stockton HIREevent Tuesday, applauded the strong turnout.
"It very nice to see all these professional-looking people here today," she said.
The event attracted 14 employers, altogether offering more than 600 job openings, she said.
Many of the openings involved seasonal jobs with DNC Parks & Resorts, the concession operator at Yosemite National Park, but there were also a number of higher-level openings, Dewal said.
Both Stockton and the San Joaquin County Office of Education had immediate openings. The city needs police officers, code enforcement officers and a utility district auditor, among others. The Office of Education sought specialized instructors and an online developer.
And Specialty Granules Inc., an Ione company that produces materials used in asphalt-composite roofing, needs an accountant familiar with a manufacturing operation.
Gina Hayes, a company human resources supervisor, said an online recruitment effort for that position, as well as plant maintenance mechanics, had come up empty.
"We're trying to expand our reach for recruitment," she said, which had brought her company to Tuesday's job fair.
Anyone who missed the event can go online to jobjournal.com for information about participating employers and their job openings.
Contact reporter Reed Fujii at (209) 546-8253 or email@example.com.


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Tuesday, August 09, 2011 - Ivan and Michal - Screen Test - FULL CONTACT
Ivan and Michal - Screen Test - FULL CONTACT
Michal Herak and Ivan Cakovsky give us an excellent scene. We were very keen to try Michal, who had never done anything with a guy before. We decided to try him out in the passive role and wanted to get someone reliable to induct him. So Ivan came in to do the business. They start off with some kissing, which Michal seems to take to with some relish. Then he follows Ivan's lead in feeling for his dick in his slipys, and rubbing ensues. Ivan seems very keen and is soon down on Michal's dick, before he even has his undies off. He quickly gets Michal hard adn removes the slipys, then goes back to sucking on a very nice cock. I van certainly knows what he is doing and sucks it so well. Then they swap over and Michal is so keen to get his mouth on Ivan's rampant dick that he goes straight down on it, without his hands even touching the cock, his mouth just sucks it up. For a first timer Michal is really getting into it and sucks Ivan with gusto. As he does so Ivan's hand soon finds its way to have a feel of Michal's ass, which is soon to get more than just a feel. My goodness Michal does it very well, a real star sucker I think. Ivan then get Michal down on his stomach, ass exposed so he can start to play with it. He teases Michal's ass with his tongue, flicking at it and then licking it before he decides to use a finger. So the first thing ever to enter Michal's ...
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This scene could be 'The Tale of Two Daneks' as it featured Danek Telvak, and Danek Carka. Danek T is a newcomer, who hasn't experienced sex with a guy before, so putting him with sex fiend Danek C seemed a good idea. They get right to it, after a couple of kisses, with Danek T's dick being shown by Danek C. He has a quick suck and then starts to lick and kiss Danek T, wanking him at the same time. Then he starts the proper sucking while Danek T wanks him. Then, after removing Danek T's jeans Danek C pushes his new friend down on to his throbbing dick, for his first suck. Danek C is very eager that Danek T really gets a good taste of his cock, and gets up to feed his mouth, I must say he does a good job of sucking for the first time. Danek C wants to suck some more, so he goes back down on Danek T, and the guys switch back and forth, pleasuring each other. As Danek T sucks Danek C manages to get access to his ass and rims it and slips a finger in too, before moving to a full 69 and it is not long before Danek C is back in action fingering Danek T's tight ass, rimming him along the way. Clearly he is enjoying that hole and wants more of it. Two fingers go in, opening him up real good. Danek C decides the time is right and slides his dick into Danek T's eager hole. Danek T takes it very well, as the dick goes in and out, pulling all the way out and slamming back in again. The guys move so that Danek T can sit and ride that throbbing dick, and to let Danek C fuck upwards into the waiting hole, fucking like a jack rabbit Danek C is really working the hole. Danek T, for his part, is doing great and bounces up and down on the dick, his own dick flapping round as he does it. A change back to missionary and Danek T wanks his cock until he shoots his load, while being pounded by Danek C's hard dick. Then Danek C pulls out and drops his load in to Danek T's open mouth. Danek T is eager to clean that cock off and after doing so the guys get up, but before going to clean up Danek C cant hold back from a final taste of Danek T's mouth, filled with his cum. What a lovely scene this is with both guys giving of their best.
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Over the weekend I made a Preview video of a shoot we did at the castle, starring Dima Lukin and Danek Carka, the singer. It's a very nice scene. It's a preview instead of a Backstage Preview because Franky was doing a foot shoot elsewhere on the site while Boris and Pavel were shooting the scene.
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Daniel Galba is ages 21 and lives in Liberec, where he works as a locksmith. He enjoys machines, tennis and swimming. What a nice looking guy Daniel is, with an almost constant smile on his face. He clearly enjoyed doing this shoot, and showing himself off. With some lovely poses, showing off a very nice endowment, of quite significant length, and a most attractive rear end too. I like him very much indeed, and will be keen to see his erotic video. I hope he will agree to more too.
Erotic Video
Janda Micka is 28 years old and lives in Frydek-Mistek. He is self-employed and in his spare time he enjoys cycling. Janda is good looking guy, with a great body. He starts his video sitting on the floor, with a bare chest, and his hand starts to rub over it. Travelling downn to his groin and squeezing it and then back up to his oiled chest, using both hands. Then climbing onto his knees his hands dip into his jeans, and out again, teasing us. Then he begins to open the jeans, he is naked underneath and he slowly pushes the jeans down, turning as he does so we see a gorgeous bubble butt. The jeans are down sufficiently so the butt is fully exposed and Janda bends forward to expose the hole for us. His hands spread the cheeks and we see a wonderful hairy crack. Up on his knees his hands caress his ass some more until he turns and sits again, pushing the jeans down to his ankles. His big, fat dick is finally exposed to us already semi hard, it seems, as he fully sheds the jeans. As he plays a little with his cock we see his massive balls and see his hand rub over them too. Then onto his knees, widely spread so the balls are hanging gloriously, he wanks his cock and rubs his chest. Janda turns and bends over again so we see th eass and he pushes his cock back between his legs, to make sure we can still see it. His hole looks divine as he does it, the hole opening as he moves back and forth. Jands turns again and wanks his cock as he takes a big black chain and puts it around his neck. Clearly enjoying the attention of the camera Janda lays back and wanks that big cock, before standing and letting us see the hardness standing proud. Giving us a delightful smile, so pleased with himself, he takes the chain and wraps it around himself and around his dick. He gives us some wonderful views as he works his body for our pleasure. Then he is ready for the money shot, so he lays on the floor and wanks his dick to a very nice cum shot. And so, off to the shower to clean up and bring a really excellent erotic video to an end.
Flip Flop
Artur Lafek and Ivan Cakovsky, 2 of my favorite performers came in for a flip-flop duo. Artur, who only recently bottomed for the first time, seems to be every ready for sex and the same certainly applies to Ivan. The scene starts with the guys already down to their slipys and kissing. Ivan, as keen as ever, quickly has his hand in Artur's undies, playing with his dick, then he ducks down and starts to suck on Artur's cock, pulling the slipys down. After sucking for a time Ivan goes back up and kisses Artur again, and Artur then goes down on Ivan's rock hard dick. Golly he is always so hard. Artur has certainly learnt, very quickly, how to be an expert sucker. The guys then remove the undies completely and Ivan gives Artur's dick some more attention, and get's Artur's dick standing proud and hard very soon. He really works on the cock, and soon they move to 69, with Ivan on top. It is great to see two such sexy guys going at it with each other. We get a great view of Ivan's ass as Artur laps at his cock and balls, with Ivan sucking on Artur's throbbing cock in the background. Then Ivan pulls Artur's legs up, for access to his ass, and spits on the hole a few times, and diddles it with his finger. When he deems the time is right Ivan moves round and starts to slide his dick into Artur's novice ass. They go at it really well, with Ivan plowing nice and hard. Ivan pulls out and reclines on the bed, so that Artur can get up and sit on his dick. Artur is hard and starts to slide his ass over Ivan's rampant cock, bouncing up and down on it real well. Then Ivan starts to fuck the ass, ramming his cock in and out hard and fast. Artur turns his head back so he can kiss Ivan as he is being fucked, and this only makes Ivan fuck even faster into Arturs eager hole. A nice change of position to spoon, sees Artur ramming his cock deep into Ivan's open hole. Artur fucks at a more sedate pace, but gets his dick in nice and deep, before a change to missionary for more fucking, and Artur is able to lean down and kiss Ivan as he fucks. All this action puts Ivan over the edge and he shoots his load while Artur is deep inside him. Artur moves up to Ivan's head and drops his load on him and Ivan takes the spent cock in his mouth to finish it off. Artur bends forward for a final kiss to bring a wonderful scene to a very nice end.
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Michal Herak and Ivan Cakovsky give us an excellent scene. We were very keen to try Michal, who had never done anything with a guy before. We decided to try him out in the passive role and wanted to get someone reliable to induct him. So Ivan came in to do the business. They start off with some kissing, which Michal seems to take to with some relish. Then he follows Ivan's lead in feeling for his dick in his slipys, and rubbing ensues. Ivan seems very keen and is soon down on Michal's dick, before he even has his undies off. He quickly gets Michal hard adn removes the slipys, then goes back to sucking on a very nice cock. I van certainly knows what he is doing and sucks it so well. Then they swap over and Michal is so keen to get his mouth on Ivan's rampant dick that he goes straight down on it, without his hands even touching the cock, his mouth just sucks it up. For a first timer Michal is really getting into it and sucks Ivan with gusto. As he does so Ivan's hand soon finds its way to have a feel of Michal's ass, which is soon to get more than just a feel. My goodness Michal does it very well, a real star sucker I think. Ivan then get Michal down on his stomach, ass exposed so he can start to play with it. He teases Michal's ass with his tongue, flicking at it and then licking it before he decides to use a finger. So the first thing ever to enter Michal's ass is Ivan's finger, and he copes well with it, as Ivan decides a little more rimming is in order. Ivan then climbs on top of Michal and slides his big dick deep into that tight ass. When Ivan feels Michal is ready he pulls him up to his knees, cock still deep in his ass and continues to fuck him.Michal is certainly feeling it, but takes it very well. Another change sees the guys in the spoon position, and we get a wonderful view of Ivan's dick pounding into Michal's ass. Ivan is really giving a good fuck and moves to missionary for another deep pounding. He really knows how to fuck and Michal is feeling it real good as the dick bangs into his ass. Ivan can't hold back any longer and pulls out and up to Michals face to cum. Michal is wonderful as he licks the cock and then sucks it clean. Then the final flourish is for Michal to cum himself. A really great scene with both guys doing very well, but top marks to Michal for the way he coped with his first mansex.
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Parts of a Flower
Peduncle: The stalk of a flower.
Receptacle: The part of a flower stalk where the parts of the flower are attached.
Sepal: The outer parts of the flower (often green and leaf-like) that enclose a developing bud.
Petal: The parts of a flower that are often conspicuously colored.
Stamen: The pollen producing part of a flower, usually with a slender filament supporting the anther.
Anther: The part of the stamen where pollen is produced.
Pistil: The ovule producing part of a flower. The ovary often supports a long style, topped by a stigma. The mature ovary is a fruit, and the mature ovule is a seed.
Stigma: The part of the pistil where pollen germinates.
Ovary: The enlarged basal portion of the pistil where ovules are produced.
More About This Resource...
This illustrated guide is designed to help students recognize and learn the different parts of a flower. The single Web page, which can be easily printed for use at field sites, identifies these parts:
- plant
- stigma
- style
- ovary
- stamen
- anther
- filament
- petal
- ovule with embryo sac
- sepal
- receptacle
- peduncle
Completion Time
Less than 1 period
Teacher Tip
Supplement a study of biodiversity with an activity drawn from this guide to the parts of a flower.
- Distribute copies of theParts of a Flowerto students.
- Divide the class into small groups, and give each group a flower to dissect.
- Have the students examine the specimen and then create a poster-sized illustration of the flower that labels its individual parts.


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Indian all-rounder and World Cup hero Yuvraj Singh will don national colours for the first time since battling cancer when a two-match Twenty20 series against New Zealand starts on Saturday.
The 30-year-old left-hander underwent chemotherapy in the United States in March and April to treat a rare germ-cell tumour between his lungs which was diagnosed late last year.
Yuvraj, who was man of the tournament in India's World Cup triumph last year, has not played competitive cricket since two home Tests against the West Indies last November.
But the selectors recalled him as soon as he was declared fit by doctors at the National Cricket Academy in Bangalore where he had begun light training in July.
Cancer survivor Yuvraj back for India
Indian all-rounder and World Cup hero Yuvraj Singh will don national colours for the first time since battling cancer when a two-match Twenty20 series against New Zealand starts on Saturday.
"It is hard to believe that I will be playing for India again," Yuvraj said ahead of the first Twenty20 game against the Black Caps in the southern coastal town of Visakhapatnam.
"A few months back I had trouble climbing four steps, now I can't wait to take the field. It is like starting a new life," said the all-rounder.
Veteran spinner Harbhajan Singh, also making a comeback after being out of favour with the selectors for a year, said he was delighted to see close friend Yuvraj back in action.
"Now this is what we call a comeback," said Harbhajan. "There can't be a bigger inspiration in cricket than Yuvi. It is a privilege to be back in the dressing room with him."
The match on Saturday and the second game in Chennai on Tuesday will serve as a tune-up for the World Twenty20 that starts in Sri Lanka on September 18.
The Black Caps are hoping to end their Indian tour on a high by winning the Twenty20 games after being whitewashed 2-0 in the recent Test series.
All-rounder Jacob Oram, who did not play in the Tests, said the two games were timely ahead of the tournament in Sri Lanka.
"We are here to win but whatever happens we have to make sure we learn from the series because it's great preparation," Oram said.
"You are not going to get a tougher competition than playing India in India. Fifty-over champs but perennial T20 favourites as well."
New Zealand will be boosted by the return of influential all-rounder and former captain Daniel Vettori, who missed the Tests due to a groin injury.
Tickets for the first game at the 27,000-capacity Andhra Cricket Association stadium have been sold out despite forecasts of bad weather on Saturday.
India (from): Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt), Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag, Suresh Raina, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Irfan Pathan, Ravichandran Ashwin, Zaheer Khan, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Ashok Dinda, Rohit Sharma, Piyush Chawla, Harbhajan Singh, Manoj Tiwary.
New Zealand (from): Ross Taylor (capt), Martin Guptill, Rob Nicol, Brendon McCullum, Kane Williamson, BJ Watling, James Franklin, Jacob Oram, Nathan McCullum, Daniel Vettori, Kyle Mills, Doug Bracewell, Tim Southee, Ronnie Hira, Adam Milne.


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Update: Now available as a "HAPPY WHATEVER" greeting card! …A funny card to make anyone happy whatever the occasion.
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This is really cute. I like the perspective.
Lovely perspective and love the girls face - you captured the naughtiness brilliantly.
That is so cute! Your work always amazes me!
Great job! I love the perspective, lighting and color choices.
Esto está muy bueno!!!... me gusta mucho
Tee hee! Very amusing illustration - I love the colour and angle!
Tihi! Bunny go bye bye! Hope he comes down before he pops!
Great piece Zari!
Hahaha such a colorful and fun piece!
So funny! Love the perspective!
Llegue hasta aqui a traves del blog de Xiriflus. Todo tu trabajo es maravilloso Zari, realmente una delicia.
Mi abrazo
Son geniales estas dos últimas illos Zari!!! Las vaquitas marchosas me encantaron ;)
Qué tal sigue todo?
Un besote!!! :D
This is great!
That color jumps at you, incredible style too. Love it.
The character are so adorable, I like them. Very nice and creative illus.
Hey! You have awesomee work up here! And all this, besides being an architect.. that's awesome! I love the tango and hollow especially! Thanks for the visit and I do hope your book is doing well! I shall keep visiting to look at your work! =)
jaja! Genial, Zari!
Muy buena la perspectiva y la paleta en la que trabajaste.
Wonderful perspective Zari!
Ha ha! Great illustration!
By the way, how do you get pics to enlarge on clicking? I just can't seem to get it to happen...
Wow! Sunny & fresh colours:)
Love this fun piece with cute characters:)
This is fantastic, Zari!


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Reflections on dead 6 year olds and questions for Shin and other believers
You know, right now, my life is all about the life of a 6 year old. Ballet classes. Chess classes. Piano recitals. Playdates and birthday parties and Mo Willems books. Assurances that she doesn't need to decide this week whether she is going to be an artist or an entomologist or a veterinarian when she grows up. There is time to decide. I love listening to her tell me about her interpretation of the world, and the events that she observes. I love her questions. It is such a wonderful age, full of such joy and discovery, and although they share so many common characteristics, 6 year olds have such clearly defined personalities.
I keep watching the videos of interviews with the parents of the children, all ages 6 and 7, who were killed in the shooting. The little artist who loved the sea, the little girl whose father said she was the family's little CEO, the mischievous little boy, the little boy who wanted to know how old he had to be to sing on stage, the little girl who loved horses, whose parents promised her a pony for her 10th birthday. I don't know why I do it, but I keep watching these videos. And I weep.
I weep because these innocent lives were lost, and these children will never reach their dreams. They will never fulfill their potentials. They are gone.
You Shin, believe that they are in heaven. Their parents believe that they are in heaven. Holding hands with their friends. Under the loving supervision of Jesus and their principal and their beloved teachers. Looking down lovingly on their families.
These parents say that they believe this. Then why are they crying? Why are they mourning? Shouldn't they be celebrating? So many of the reporters interviewing the parents believe this too. Why are they fighting back tears? The first responders, who set up a triage station in hopes of saving some lives. Why aren't they happy? These kids could have lived a few more years. They could have sinned. They could have lost their chance at an eternity in paradise. Why aren't all these believers happy?
According to you Shin, these innocent little 6 and 7 year olds get a free ticket to heaven. If they had lived a few more years, they most certainly would have had the opportunity to sin, and they might have failed the audition to get into heaven and they would have been condemned to death or hell or whatever you think happens to those of us who don't pass your god's tests.
So why aren't you celebrating, Shin? I know you find the question of whether stuff is predestined very interesting. But whether they were saved by these brutal murders, or whether they really had no potential to lose because it was their destiny to die so young, isn't it wonderful that they are guaranteed an ETERNITY of wonderfulness?
I hear the parents, talking about their dead children as angels in heaven, and the parents are so clearly suffering. Really suffering. If they really believed, wouldn't they be celebrating? I can't help but feel that on some level, they really know it is not true. Their children are gone. Gone. Gone forever. They are not holding hands on clouds and taking turns sitting in Jesus's throne. Their lives are over, and their parents know it. Their parents mourn the ponies they will never ride and the paintings they will never paint and the songs that they will never sing and the footprints they will never again leave on a beach. I mourn with them. I mourn because I feel with every inch of my being, that these kids were should have experienced these things. And so much more.
Like every parent, I imagine how I would feel if I were the parent of one of these children. I try to imagine how I would feel as me. And then I try to imagine how I would feel if I were a believer. I try to imagine a parallel situation. And this is the best that I can do.
I imagine, that 20 years from now, my beautiful daughter has fulfilled her life's dream, and is selected to be part of a small, elite crew, whose mission is to colonize Mars. I will never see her again. I will not dance at her wedding. I will not snuggle my future grandchildren, and spoil them with grandmotherly gifts. I will be cheated out of the future that I had imagined. But my daughter will be happy.
How would I feel? Sure, there would be nights that I might privately cry a little bit out of selfishness, perhaps a little resentful about the fact that I did not get to enjoy the parts of my daughter's life that I felt entitled to enjoy. But mostly, I would be happy. Happy for her. Proud. There is nothing I want more than my daughter's happiness. And if I believed that she was happy, fulfilled, living out her potential, that joy would far outweigh my selfish feelings of being cheated out of anticipated milestones.
I would miss her. But if she were well, if she were happy, I would celebrate. Her joy, her well-being, would outweigh my selfish feelings of not having her near me.
If these parents really really really believe that their kids hit the jackpot, skipped the audition and went straight to paradise for all of eternity, why are they not celebrating?
I can't help but feel that deep down, as much as they want to believe, they know it is not true.
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Pitti Immagine #80: Boys and Girls
On the flight to Florence I was seated next to two hard-nosed suited and booted types, albeit clad immaculately pressed-then-intentionally-creased shirts and roll-hemmed chinos with three inches of ankle exposed. They resembled Italian mafiosi on an extended Riviera holiday. Ironically, their business was suiting and booting rather than cement shoes - the only mafia they belonged to was the fashion mafia (not that that isn't a deadly breed when it wants to be). Their conversation was entirely fashion-focused - but rather than expounding the delights of Givenchy's latest or indulging in idle gossip, it was all hard facts and figures. No black, we're pushing navy; red and green stripe or blue with white; these are the colours for S/S 2013.
That underlines what Pitti Immagine is really about - business. Big business - billions of dollars in fashion revenue flowing through the thousands of stands that cluster in the Pitti Immagine pavilions. The Immagine part, however, is what the press come to see - the guest designers, the specially-devised spectacles innovatively cooked-up to enliven the somewhat staid trade fair. Navy suits may be in for the mass-market, as my neighbour on the plane asserted, but they're nothing for fashion journalists to write home about.
This season, that Immagine comes from two American labels - Band Of Outsiders, and Rodarte, who stage their site-specific shows over the next two days. Scott Sternberg presents the Band Of Outsiders mens and womenswear, including the 2012 Resort collection, and Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte show a specially created collection to close the fair in style on Thursday.
More to come very shortly. This evening's entertainment is a performance titled 'Vestirsi Da Uomo' (Dressed Like A Man) devised by Olivier Saillard of the Musée Galliera, turning the spotlight on a group of menswear firms but with a definite feminine twist. Fitting given the focus of Pitti, it feels.


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SAN FRANCISCO, Calf. - Another year, another victory for the American League in the All-Star Game.
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Ichiro Suzuki hit the first inside-the-park homer in All-Star game history, driving in Brian Roberts to give the A-L a 2-to-1 lead in the top of the fifth. Carl Crawford made it 3-to-1 with a solo shot in the sixth before Victor Martinez added a two-run blast that gave the A-L a three-run cushion in the eighth.
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In my January column ("Fishing Expeditions and Autism: A Big Catch for Genetic Research?" Psychiatric Times, January 2009, page 12), I described the great difficulties researchers face characterizing the genetic basis of the disease. Complexities range from trying to establish a stable diagnostic profile to making sense of the few isolated mutations that show clear associations (either with disease or syndrome variants).
Using the metaphor of a fishing net, I discussed 2 overall research strategies that geneticists commonly use to catch these elusive sequences of interest. One strategy is to cast nets that act like large purse seiners to collect many sequences in a single (and usually quite expensive) effort. The other strategy is akin to dropping a single fishing line into the genetic waters to see if anything "bites." In Part 1, I described one particularly successful strategy that snagged a large number of useful sequences.
Here, the focus narrows: I will not describe the isolation of many sequences, but rather only one. Our "catch" is called MeCP2, a gene whose mutations can give rise to a wide spectrum of related postnatal neurodevelopmental disorders—including autism spectrum disorders. I will start with some background regions about gene regulation, move to the biological functions of MeCP2, and then focus on studies in animal models that provide tantalizing hints about the origins of autistic behavior. My goal is to show that research progress in autism is a continuum of efforts, ranging from large projects with lots of identifiable sequences to small projects that focus on the properties of single genes.
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There is a lot of heavy-duty molecular biology behind MeCP2. Getting the clearest view requires us to review 4 pieces of background information. Feel free to skip to the section "MeCP2 and Rett syndrome" if Class II genes and CpG islands are working parts of your vocabulary.
Gene classes. As you recall from your undergraduate days, genes are broken down into 3 classes. Class I genes encode the information necessary to make ribosomal RNAs. Class II genes encode the information to make mRNA, and these genes are in the distinct minority (only about 2% of activatable sequences). Class III genes encode transfer RNAs.
Class II genes can be broken down into 2 functional parts. The first part includes the nucleotides that are necessary to encode the protein, which are called the "structural sequences." The second part, which often lies in front of the gene, is called the "promoter." Promoters act like tiny on-off switches that either allow or block the manufacture of the cognate message.
And how is that message made? The enzyme complex that creates the message is called "RNA polymerase II." Not all genes are transcriptionally active at the same time, and some never become activated at all (eg, neurons do not do the same job as, say, skeletal muscles, and have very different activation profiles). Understanding how the RNA polymerase II complex knows which gene to turn on in a complex cellular environment has been a focus of intense investigation for decades.


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Justin Bieber is apparently worried police will find naked pictures and evidence of drug use on his cell phone, according to TMZ.
This is about as surprising as discovering the sun came up in the east this morning.
Nevertheless, law enforcement sources reportedly told the website when they searched Bieber's house Tuesday, looking for evidence connecting him to last week's egg-throwing incident with his neighbor, they seized his cell phone.
Sources told TMZ that investigators are interested in incriminating texts that in which he brags to someone about the egg-throwing. One source called it a "text high 5."
I bet within a week there's going to be a boy band named "Text High 5."
Anyway, sources say Bieber is concerned more about discussions and references to drugs — not because he would get arrested, since there would be no physical evidence, but because such a discovery would leak to the press. Apparently all those selfies he's taken of him and his friends smoking pot weren't enough to make us believe Justin Bieber does drugs.
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