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There's more to agriculture than horses, cows, ranches and farms.
The College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, through its Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, offers undergraduate and graduate programs in human development and family sciences, human nutrition and food, and textiles and merchandising that are designed to help fulfill its longstanding mission of strengthening families and communities.
The college's dedication to Wyoming's deep agricultural roots is furthered through departments such as Agricultural and Applied Economics, where students learn the business aspects of operating a farm or ranch; Agricultural Communications, which trains students for jobs in advertising, media and public relations; and Molecular Biology, which provides students with the background to excel in biological research and biotechnology.
The college also has an especially strong connection with UW Extension, which is committed to providing lifelong learning opportunities to the people of Wyoming through programs such as Cent$ible Nutrition, 4-H and various workshops and seminars that are relevant to the state's agricultural community.
The Cent$ible Nutrition Program, led by Mary Kay Wardlaw and funded through SNAP-Ed (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-Education) and the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP), provides education to help low-income families eat better for less.
(Photo: Donna Brown, Family and Consumer Sciences Department professor, showcasing textiles in the UW Textile lab.)


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In a world where you never actually really own any device you buy, a world in which your devices are locked down, it's actually incredibly refreshing to see a phone maker supporting enthusiasts this way. Of course, the company does clearly state that rooting your device - unlocking your bootloader - to run custom ROMs may void your warranty, and that it's unsupported. They even cover their bums by stating it could damage your phone or even cause injuries due to overheating.
"Therefore, you should only unlock the boot loader of your phone if you are an advanced user with good knowledge of the technology and risks involved," the site reads, "We strongly recommend that standard users NOT unlock the boot loader, as it is not needed. We are proud to deliver great phone experiences through our rigorously tested and official software releases."
The actual unlocking is a 14-step process which requires the Android SDK, but overall, it doesn't look particularly difficult of complicated. It currently only works for or will work for phones from 2011, such as the Xperia arc, Xperia neo, Xperia pro and Xperia PLAY, and then only of they are unbranded.
This is a great move by Sony Ericsson, and I'm hoping this will set a trend. It would be awesome if other phone makers set up similar websites, finally opening up to us enthousiasts. It's about time these companies realise that locking down devices is fruitless, because they will be hacked anyway. Now all we need to do is kick some carrier butt and we're all set.

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2013 Cross Country: Was the team's top finisher in each of the seven meets in which she competed…earned all-Big Sky Conference honors after finishing third at the conference championship in Bozeman, Mont…was the winner at the Hornet Jamboree and third at the Aggie Open…had five top five finishes…fastest 5K time was 16:49 at the Inter-Regional Jamboree…best 6K time was 20:19 at the NCAA West Regional.
2012 Cross Country: Redshirted during the season.
2011 Cross Country: Led Sacramento State in all six meets in which she competed…narrowly missed earned all-Big Sky honors after placing 14th at the conference championships…her time of 21:28 at the NCAA West Regional was the second fastest in school history at that meet…finished third at the Aggie Open and fifth at the Hornet Jamboree…best 5K time was 17:30.7 at the Santa Clara Invitational.
2010 Cross Country: Ran in five meets…fastest 5K time was 17:50.1 at Santa Clara.
2009 Cross Country: Competed in seven of the team's eight meets as a true freshman…led the team in her first two meets, running 18:52 at the USF Invitational and 18:03 at the Hornet Jamboree…placed sixth at the WAC Preview and seventh at the Hornet Jamboree for her highest finishes…ran 20:37 at the WAC Preview for her best 6K time.
High School: A 2009 graduate of American HS in Fremont, Calif...competed in cross country and track & field all four years...finished third in the 1,600 at the 2009 Sacramento Meet of Champions with a time of 5:03.42...ran 10:43 in the 3,200 at the California state meet...won the 2008 Mission Valley Athletic League title in the 1,600...was the MVAL cross country champion as a senior...was a two-time team MVP in cross country and track & field...top cross country times were 18:20 at the North Coast Section meet and 18:28 at the California state meet.
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10 Ways to (Stylishly) Childproof a Fireplace
It's happened: my five-month-old has started rocking on her hands and knees and I'm well aware of the next logical step — crawling. It's just about time to start baby-proofing the house. I've done it before so it shouldn't be too difficult, but the one place that we were never able to stylishly address was the fireplace. This time around, I'm determined to find a smart and pretty solution so I turned to Apartment Therapy and Pinterest for ideas and inspiration. Here are ten of my favorite ways to (stylishly) childproof a fireplace:
1.Cover it with a chalkboard-painted panel: Apartment Therapy
2.Fill it with toys: Milk Magazine
3. Create a faux stacked log fireplace facade: Pepper Design Blog
4. Fill it with books: The Yvestown Blog
5. "Light" a toy campfire: Apartment Therapy
6. Cover it with a magnetic panel: Apartment Therapy
7. Create a felt board fireplace screen: Apartment Therapy
8. Install a whiteboard fireplace cover: Apartment Therapy
9. Cover it with sheet metal: Dirty Feet and Other Confessions
10. Fill it with a basket (of toys/blankets/books/etc.): The Lettered Cottage
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Sapphire x1950 PRO Ultimate Edition
Is your video card's fan too loud? Do you want to be able to play your games in almost silent conditions to allow you to focus and dominate the competition? What if I told you that there was a video card that was silent but still gave you great framerates to play the graphically challenging games you love? Let's see if Sapphire's X1950 PRO Ultimate Edition, with a Zalman heatsink and fan, is the card you're looking for. From past experience with both Sapphire and Zalman, I have a feeling that this will be a deadly combination. We're going to find out how well this card does against other mainstream video cards, as well as some high-end video cards.
Sapphire is a leading partner with ATi. The company creates innovative, unique, and quality products for PC users all over the world. Sapphire is one of the most highly respected and trusted video card manufacturers. Partnering up with Zalman, they bring us "The Ultimate Silent Solution." Let's put that claim to the test.
Closer Look:
The box that the Sapphire X1950 PRO Ultimate Edition was packaged in was quite large. It had a see-thru display of the card with a robotic woman on the cover. On the back of the box, it shows some of the key features.
Once you get the card out, you get to see how nice the Zalman heatsink and fan is. Notice the power port, dual DVI connectors, and Crossfire connectors.
At the bottom of the box, you'll find a black box that includes a plethora of accessories. Inside is the user manual, driver CD, HDTV breakout cable, Crossfire bridge, S-Video cable, four-pin to six-pin power cable converter, DVI to D-Sub converters, a copy of PowerDVD, and a copy of the game Just Cause.


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The program consists of a private "insiders" tour of the museum and a specialized art activity.
Some feedback from past participants:
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Crazy Gem
iOS iPhone Games
Crazy Gem is a gem classified matching game.
The mystical treasure contained in the ancient mystical Egypt.Waiting for you to explore!
Roles: Line up 2 gems with the same patterns and evade the others, then the 2 gems will be disappeared as you wish when there is no more than 3 connected lines. Access the next level when all the gems disappeared within the specified period of time.
Game Features:
Except the traditional matching method, Crazy Gem gains the combo mode. Only by combining the speed and the accuracy, players can trigger the combo mode. In the combo mode, players can not only get the higher scores but also gain time, which makes you feel easy to play.
In the combo mode, the lightning appearing repeatedly can cut the gems directly. The special effect of the shining gems makes players enjoy the perfect visual effect.
Each level limits 30 seconds to play. Access the next level when all the gems disappeared in an accurate and speeding way.
More level up, more difficult will appear. And the dual-screen mode will appear. To make more gems disappeared, players will feel more excited. This game also has a three screen mode!
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Aortic Valve Replacement Surgery
As I personally experienced, an aortic valve replacement surgery (AVR) is a surgical procedure used to implant a prosthetic valve in the patient's heart. The two most common forms of heart valve replacement devices are:
- A mechanical valve replacement; and
- A bioprosthetic valve replacement, or biological valve, which is made from the tissue of a pig, cow, horse or human.
Most, but not all, AVR operations are performed using "open-heart" procedures through an incision to the patient's chest (sternotomy) or ribs (thoracotomy). The picture below shows an aortic valve replacement operation using an incision to patient's sternum.
There are several heart valve disorders which stimulate the patient need for AVR. Aortic valve disease can result from a congenital defect. Or, it can result from a serious bacterial infection. However, the two most common diseases that force the patient to undergo valve replacement surgery are:
- Aortic Stenosis. A valve experiencing aortic stenosis is narrowed. That means blood flow through the valve is constricted. A stenotic valve has rigid leaflets that have degenerated over time or are experiencing other factors including calcification.
- Aortic Regurgitation. A valve experiencing aortic regurgitation typically maintains loose or floppy leaflets that enable blood to leak back into the heart. Often to referred to as aortic insufficiency or aortic incompetence, aortic regurgitation is typically referred to as a leaky heart valve.
When Is Aortic Valve Replacement Required?
Like most forms of heart disorders, there are different degrees, or levels, of aortic valve disease which determine the need for surgical treatment. Patients with mild and moderate forms of aortic stenosis and aortic regurgitation do not typically require surgery. However, if a patient is diagnosed with severe form of valve disease, a repair or replacement is often recommended.
It is critical to note that not all patients experience symptoms prior to AVR surgery. Patients can be asymptomatic -- without symptoms -- and still suffer from severe aortic valve disease. It is for this reason that patients diagnosed with aortic valve disease, or even a tiny heart murmur, should actively monitor the condition of their heart over time via regular echocardiograms.
Without an appropriately timed surgery, the patient's heart can experience major complications. The most common complication is an enlarged heart muscle which can be a precursor to congestive heart failure. (So you know, my heart had started to dilate (enlarge) just prior to my aortic valve replacement).
It should also be noted that aortic valve replacement surgery may be needed if the valve leaflets, which control the flow of blood through the heart, suffer from severe aortic valve calcification. Finally, a congential defect, known as a bicuspid aortic valve, may trigger the need for an aortic valve replacement. For me, my bicuspid aortic valve created a situation in which I suffered from both aortic stenosis and aortic regurgitation simultaneously.
Mechanical & Biological Devices
Prior to surgery, the patient, along with their family and surgeon, will select a replacement aortic valve that may be mechanical (artificial) or biological (tissue-based).
- Aortic mechanical heart valve replacements are made from incredibly durable metals, polymers, and other substances that can exist within the body without infection. Mechanical heart valves can exist within the human heart for more than 30 years. However, mechanical heart valves require the patient to take anticoagulation medicine to prevent the risk of blood clots. Blood thinners, like Coumadin, must be used by the patient for the balance of their lives.
- Aortic biological heart valve replacements are made from the tissue of cows, pigs, horses and humans. The tissue is properly treated with special chemical processes to reduce the risk of infection and rejection. Patients who receive a biological device during an aortic valve replacement surgery are not required to use blood thinners. However, research suggests that the average life expectancy of bioprosthetic valve is between 10-15 years.
As noted above, there are advantages and disadvantages with each device. Given the patient's health, risk factors, age, diagnosis and lifestyle, valve selection can be a very diffiicult decision for the patient. I encourage you to speak with your doctor, your family and your friends to help you determine the appropriate, aortic valve replacement for you.
The Different Surgical Approaches For Aortic Valve Replacement
AVR surgery is typically an "open heart" procedure performed by a heart surgeon, also known as cardiothoracic surgeons. There are several different approaches by which the surgeon can access your diseased aortic valve:
- Traditional AVR procedures require the breast bone (sternum) to be split down the middle using a procedure known as a median sternotomy. This provides the surgeon with full access to the patient's heart and chest cavity. The patient's heart is stopped and cooled. After the aortic valve replacement is complete, the heart is restarted and the patient's sternum is commonly held together using sternal wires which help the chest plate heal.
- Newer minimally invasive procedures for aortic valve replacement are being developed and used with patients including mini-sternotomy, mini-thoracotomy and transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). These newer procedures for aortic valve replacement are designed to reduce the trauma to the body (sternum, rib cage) and accelerate patient recovery.
- Recently, the FDA approved the Perceval Sutureless Valve that be delivered and fixed into the heart faster than traditional valves. This means that the patient is on the heart-lung machine for a shorter period of time. To learn more, click here.
- One additional approach for patients to consider is the Ross Procedure. In this unique form of AVR, the patient's own pulmonary valve is used to replace the defective aortic valve. Then, the surgeon uses a homograft valve (from a human donor) and inserts it into the pulmonary position.
In this video, Dr. Marc Gillinov, a leading heart valve surgeon from the Cleveland Clinic, discusses minimally invasive surgical approaches for AVR. So you know, Dr. Gillinov performed double heart valve surgery on Robin Williams, the actor and comedian, in 2009.
As with valve selection, there will be several factors - surgeon experience, patient health, age and diagnosis - that will determine the patient's to benefit from the surgical approaches referenced above.


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This article in CNN Technology speaks about low and high tech solutions for reducing reliance on fossil fuels from using simple building materials such as straw and clay to installing solar panels on roofs.
Sieben Linden, the village in eastern Germany, mixes high- and low-tech approaches. Some of its roughly 100 residents live in homes built with little more than clay, wood and straw. Straw bales coated with clay are put inside the homes' walls. The insulation reduces the need for powered heating and cooling, making the houses much more energy efficient than homes made with standard building materials, according to village resident Martin Schlegel.
"The energy you save by [using straw] is sufficient to heat this house 12 years, compared to a house built with normal modern materials," he said. Those who worry about the straw easily catching fire should think again, Schlegel said. He said that because the bales are tightly packed, they don't ignite quickly.
"[Burning] a sheet of paper — it is very easy. But try to light a telephone book," he said, comparing the bales to the book. Straw-bale construction was used in Nebraska in the 19th century. The villagers of Sieben Linden take a more technological approach, fitting their homes with solar panels.


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A name with resonance in the fashion and cosmetics industry, Guerlain is ready to launch a new mascara in January 2012, the new must-have mascara named Noir G de Guerlain. The new design of the brand was inspired by it's own makeup product the Rouge G de Guerlain, as a woman needs more than just a high quality mascara to look good, she also needs a mirror to ensure a flawless application. The Noir G de Guerlain mascara will feature a black packaging, a refillable compact tube with a pop-up mirror, similar with the design featured by the Roug... Read More


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Hello. If you don't mind driving to Buena Park (near Beach and Artesia), you can join our group that plays after 6 p.m. weekdays. Most often we play on Fridays, but sometimes we play on Tuesday or Thursday as well. Let me know if you'd be interested in joining us, and I'll send you my contact info.
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Have a look at our introduction page which will help you navigate the massive network which now has over 39,300 members and 600 local tennis groups.
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10 Ideas for a Natural, Organic Child's Easter Basket
Happy Spring, Friends!
Since Easter is only a few weeks away, this week I share some ideas on creating an all-natural Easter basket for children filled with eco-friendly, reusable treasures that will continue to be enjoyed year-round.
Click above to view this week's video and discover many alternatives to a basket filled with sweets and candy.
All products mentioned in this video can be found at Bella Luna Toys under the category Seasonal Toys.
Here are the specific products mentioned in the video:
- Swing Bolga Basket
- Grow-Your-Own Easter Grass Kit
- Play Silks
- eco-eggs® Natural Egg Dying Kit
- Kid's Ukrainian Easter Eggs Kit
- Felted Spring Eggs Kit
- Felted Chicks Kit
- Ostheimer Wooden Toy Figures
- Beeswax Candles
- Rabbit and Bird in Tree Wooden Puzzle
Have other ideas for special Easter basket additions? Please share them here!


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The campus Property Control Office is assigned the task of administering the Property Control System (PCS) and ensuring that the campus abides by all State and Research Foundation requirements.
The State University of New York Property Control System was developed by SUNY-Central Administration to provide uniformity in property accountability throughout the SUNY System, and to be in conformity with regulations as required by the State University Construction Fund (SUCF), the Division of Budget (DOB), the SUNY Research Foundation, and the Office of the State Controller (OSC).
The Property Control Office is dedicated to assisting the campus in many areas. We attach and issue asset decals for equipment with the criteria set for each expenditure area. (see Policies and Procedures) In addition, Property Control provides a service to all departments on campus for the pick up and re-distribution of surplus equipment throughout Binghamton University.


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Breeds of Pigeons in the subgroup 'Wattle'
March 8, 2016
English Carrier
French Bagdad
Polish Cere Pigeon
Spanish Barb
Steinhiem Bagdad
English Carrier
French Bagdad
Polish Cere Pigeon
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Origami Math
The Man without Fingernails
Sushi in School
At School We Need a Robotics Class
Deadly Kitties
Every Kid Should Have A Ball
Stop Wars
Mutations and the Disabled
Freedom for All People (Stop Racist People)
Recipe for Alien Soup
Pelican Jokes
What if I was a Penguin
Death Poem
My Little Owl Friend
Describe Your Shoe
Poseidon, Zeus, Hermes, Achilles, and Hercules (My Hermit Crabs): If they could speak
I'm a big fan of Ferit Kuyas's work. His new book on Guatemala City will be out soon. I'm excited.
I have loved ex-votos ever since I spotted a small cluster of them in the back of my abuelita's church. I was immediately fascinated with their strangeness and power. As soon as I had a paycheck I started collecting them and have studied the Mexican forms of this art in detail. That said, I've only been vaguely aware of the European ex-voto traditions that inspired the Mexican tradition. A blog called Chaudron has collected a fantastic set of Italian ex-votos of people falling (who were presumably miraculously saved).
The Atlantic's InFocus blog features a set of extraordinary portraits of Native Americans. Many of images remind me of the faces, hairstyles, and ceremonial costumes of people I encountered in the far corners of Tibet in the late 90s.
Photo by Aaron Tang
Photographer Ramsay de Give and editor/producer Kristen Joy Watts have a lovely project in The Weight of Objects which pairs portraits with pictures of treasured objects and text. We were lucky to have the kids photographed for this a few weeks ago. The Weight of Objects also features a super instagram feed that teases upcoming photos.
RIP Rogert Ebert.
I had many email interactions with him when I was working in Hollywood, most of them pleasant. But my favorite exchange was this one which was his response to Bring It On which I was helping promote. I had not known he had seen the movie yet and had sent him a studio blurb which described the movie as a girl power flick. He did not mince words.
Roger Ebert
August 18, 2000
Girl power? Bimbo power, I'd say. Wait until you see "Girlfight."
"Bring It On" is so thin, shallow, callow, and ripe with missed opportunities! It needed to be an R so that it could have explored the material it waters down.
Related: A bad review
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The second presidential debate will be contested tonight. Included are links to historical presidential debates past as well as old ads/speeches for years with no debates. My favorite link is one of a Democratic Ronald Reagan campaigning for Truman.
2012 Obama / Romney 1
2008 Obama / McCain 1, Obama / McCain 2, Obama / McCain 3
2004 Bush / Kerry 1 (Pt 1) Bush / Kerry 1 (Pt 2) Bush / Kerry 1 (Pt 3) etc.
2000 Bush / Gore (Pt 1.), Bush / Gore (Pt 2.), Bush / Gore (Pt 3.), Bush / Gore (Pt 4.), Bush / Gore (Pt 5.), Bush / Gore (Pt 6.), Bush / Gore (Pt 7.)
1996 Clinton / Dole 1, Clinton / Dole 2
1992 Clinton / G W H Bush / Ross Perot
1988 Bush / Dukakis
1984 Reagan / Mondale
1980 Reagan / Carter
1976 Carter / Ford 3
1972 Nixon / McGovern (no debate)
1968 Nixon / Wallace /Humphrey (no debate)
1964 Johnson / Goldwater (no debate)
1960 Kennedy / Nixon
1956 Eisenhower / Stevenson (no debate)
1952 Eisenhower / Stevenson (no debate)
1948 Truman / Dewey (no debate)
1944 Roosevelt / Dewey (no debate)
1940 Roosevelt / Wendell Wilkie (no debate)
1936 Roosevelt / Landon (no debate)
1932 Roosevelt / Hoover (no debate)
1928 Hoover / Smith (no debate)
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Semi related: Eisenhower in Color, Inaugural Addresses Past, Abe Lincoln in Person, Teddy Roosevelt Recording
Gabriel: "At the end of the rainbow is an everything tree. It can make whatever you want. Cherries... Toys... Even little dogs... Just everything"
Me: "What does it look like?"
Gabriel: "You can't see it, that's why it's at the end of the rainbow. You can never find it."
Me: "Can you draw it?"
Gabriel: "I can draw it. Maybe you can. Maybe. I don't know, but most people can't."
Me: "Why?"
Gabriel: "You know why... people get dusty in their mind."
Somewhere deep in a storage unit in Texas sits a signed photograph of Neil Armstrong, beneath it you will find a short handwritten letter from him addressed to me.
I spent my 6th grade summer biking to the library, going through Who's Who in America and writing anyone I thought famous. Most of my letters were simple and gushing (this is a draft of a letter I wrote to Dr. J). But my letters to astronauts were different. I was a space geek. A file cabinet in my bedroom bulged with pages cut from magazines and newspapers: Venera 9, Venera 10, Apollo-Soyuz, Viking, Luna 24, Voyager, Pioneer etc., were all neatly cataloged and categorized. A set of 4x6 note cards detailed all the major known objects in the solar system with a drawing of each. I had several bookshelves devoted to space literature was an avid model rocketeer. Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff had been released in January of that year. I devoured it. Worship was too small a word for what I felt about the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo astronauts. I didn't understand why Apollo had ended. Why weren't we still pushing humans deeper into the void?
The plans for the Space Shuttle (which hadn't launched yet) seemed absurd to me. I wondered, "why build a space plane when Mars beckons?" I poured all these thoughts into my astronaut fan letters. Many sent letters, but Armstrong's was memorable. It was short and simple. He told me he wouldn't have gotten to the moon if he hadn't been an engineer and that he didn't do it alone. He advised me to learn to use a slide rule, to think through problems, and to work hard. He told me to never stop looking up at the sky and imagining what was up there.
This week I've read every Armstrong obituary I've come across. Characteristically, The Economist published one of the best. They dug up this quote:
Armstrong offered the following self-portrait: "I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer, born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace and propelled by compressible flow."
I didn't expect to be surprised anything I read this week about Armstrong and his two hours and thirteen minutes on the moon, but several little details reported in the Armstrong tribute/news river were new to me. I had not known his iconic portrait of Buzz Aldrin was doctored by NASA to correct for a bad crop and that there were few pictures of Armstrong actually on the moon. I recommend paging through the 122 shots in the unedited archive of all 122 images taken during that first moonwalk. The mistakes and the pictures normally edited out somehow bring the archive to life. They also made me wonder, did they pause at the hatch on the way back in and take one last look. What did it sound like in those suits?
A college friend's mom was a beauty queen who escorted astronauts around San Juan on their post-landing worldwide triumphal journey. She noted that the NASA guys partied hard— harder even than the Beatles who she also guided around the city, but not Armstrong, "He was cool. You hardly knew he was there."
It is easy to be nostalgic about the idea of moon landing, about a night when the whole world was united. My mother painted a picture of suburban Houston where all the television sets were flickring in unison and the streets were empty. EB White describes a more distracted scene here in NY. But was it really worldwide? I've travelled to plenty of places where people have no idea we went up there.
No man born after 1935 has walked on the moon. In a few short years the last astronaut to holding those memories will be gone. The moment is already fading from our collective experience being relegated to a deeper past... easier to mythologize, but also easier to forget.
Lydia Netzer writes in the NYTimes:
Remember Plato's allegory of the cave. In the cave, the people look at shadows moving on the wall. They watch the shadows move, and they think that's living. What if they could go outside and see the sun? That's us, moving from the Earth to the Moon. That's Neil Armstrong, who died at the age of 82 over the weekend, standing on the Moon, and looking back at Earth.
The thing about the cave is, it's not just one cave. It's more caves, and more, all nested within one another. The Moon was our first cave; Mars will be next. And then there will be another cave, and another.
Related: Mexican Lullaby, La Luna, Wanderers, Luna Llena,
I have no idea how I stumbled onto the Photography Archives of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, but I can tell you they are rich, deep, occasionally odd and well worth the journey.
I have a soft spot for road trip photography that traces an emotional, historical, or personal journey. Melba Arellano's Carretera National project tracing the Acapulco-Zihuatanejo highway feels as if it was made just for me.
How important has your sense of optimism been to your career?
I don't believe in optimism. I believe in optimal behavior. That's a different thing. If you behave every day of your life to the top of your genetics, what can you do? Test it. Find out. You don't know—you haven't done it yet. You must live life at the top of your voice! At the top of your lungs shout and listen to the echoes. I learned a lesson years ago. I had some wonderful Swedish meatballs at my mother's table with my dad and my brother and when I finished I pushed back from the table and said, God! That was beautiful. And my brother said, No, it was good. See the difference?
Action is hope. At the end of each day, when you've done your work, you lie there and think, Well, I'll be damned, I did this today. It doesn't matter how good it is, or how bad—you did it. At the end of the week you'll have a certain amount of accumulation. At the end of a year, you look back and say, I'll be damned, it's been a good year.
Read the entire Ray Bradbury interview at the Paris Review.
Found at my kid's school:
Misery by Kyle Takuru
It was a nice spring day and I was
I had nothing to do
my brother had the
my dad had the
the cable was broken
my mom was texting
The day was
the next day was the playdate
and I woke up on the
When I was a kid I imagined the sound of night to be wind in the branches and the beat of firefly wings.
As a teen I imagined it to be the breath of the sleeping.
Night in New York where the quiet hours were never so quiet, was always a conversation, muffled and rich.
In LA it was the tinkle and chime of a distant party.
Today, if I close my eyes after 2 or so, wherever I am, night is always full of keyboards... clicking away, endlessly, out there in the dark.
I'm a fan of images of inbetween places so I-Hsuen Chen's project "Nowhere in Taiwan" is tailor made for my taste. The project which was just featured on Culture Hall is part of a series of projects all centered around finding moments of intimacy.
In addition to her professional site, I-Hsuen posts regularly to a photo blog.
On Friday Jason Kottke recommended the audio version of Charlotte's Web read by EB White himself. We happened to have a long drive that night and took it for a listen. The audiobook is simply produced without fussy music or sound effects, it's just White reading and it's wonderful.
To get a sense of White's voice, you can check out this Academy award nominated short The Family That Dwelt Apart; it's an adaptation of one of his New Yorker short stories and is also self-narrated.
And since we're on a White kick, fans might also enjoy this 1970's era form letter to his young readers.
Dear Reader:
I receive many letters from children and can't answer them all -- there wouldn't be time enough in a day. That is why I am sending you this printed reply to your letter. I'll try to answer some of the questions that are commonly asked.
Where did I get the idea for Stuart Little and for Charlotte's Web? Well, many years ago I went to bed one night in a railway sleeping car, and during the night I dreamed about a tiny boy who acted rather like a mouse. That's how the story of Stuart Little got started.
As for Charlotte's Web, I like animals and my barn is a very pleasant place to be, at all hours. One day when I was on my way to feed the pig, I began feeling sorry for the pig because, like most pigs, he was doomed to die. This made me sad. So I started thinking of ways to save a pig's life. I had been watching a big grey spider at her work and was impressed by how clever she was at weaving. Gradually I worked the spider into the story that you know, a story of friendship and salvation on a farm. Three years after I started writing it, it was published. (I am not a fast worker, as you can see.)
Sometimes I'm asked how old I was when I started to write, and what made me want to write. I started early -- as soon as I could spell. In fact, I can't remember any time in my life when I wasn't busy writing. I don't know what caused me to do it, or why I enjoyed it, but I think children often find pleasure and satisfaction is trying to set their thoughts down on paper, either in words or in pictures. I was no good at drawing, so I used words instead. As I grew older, I found that writing can be a way of earning a living.
Some of my readers want me to visit their school. Some want me to send a picture, or an autograph, or a book. And some ask questions about my family and my animals and my pets. Much as I'd like to, I can't go visiting. I can't send books, either -- you can find them in a bookstore or a library. Many children assume that a writer owns (or even makes) his own books. This is not true -- books are made by the publisher. If a writer wants a copy, he must buy it. That's why I can't send books. And I do not send autographs -- I leave that to the movie stars. I live most of the year in the country, in New England. From our windows we can look out at the sea and the mountains. I live near my married son and three grandchildren.
Are my stories true, you ask? No, they are imaginary tales, containing fantastic characters and events. In real life, a family doesn't have a child who looks like a mouse; in real life, a spider doesn't spin words in her web. In real life, a swan doesn't blow a trumpet. But real life is only one kind of life -- there is also the life of the imagination. And although my stories are imaginary, I like to think that there is some truth in them, too -- truth about the way people and animals feel and think and act.
Yours sincerely,
E.B. White
1. "They should be fast."
2. "They should have something on them. Something pretty cool like rocket boosters or fire or bush babies or something."
3. "Maybe they should glow in the dark so you can see them when it is night... or you could have a light on them and a remote control."
4. "They should be faster than regular shoes."
5. "When your feet are in them, your legs should be really fast."
6. "They should not make sounds when you walk. I like to scare people."
7. "You have to make sure they are fast shoes. SUPER FAST!"
8. "They should be soft."
9. "They should never smell like feet."
10. "When you run in fast shoes you should always win."
Transcribed January 18, 2011
Carl Van Vechten, and Iowan, was a music critic, photographer, and patron of the Harlem Renaissance. He's best known for his studio portraits of artists, writers, actors, and musicians. Yale's Beinecke Library holds a large Van Vechten's kodachrome cache full of unusual images of well known African American performers (this tough and intimate Billie Holiday portrait was new to me). More images from Yale's collection can be found here. (found via It's never summer)
Note: The Library server seems to fail regularly, so browse
Dear Santa,
This Christmas I would like an exhaustive English language monograph featuring the work of Rokuro Taniuchi.
Thanks in advance!
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Editor's note: Taniuchi was a Japanese artist/illustrator who known for his illustrations in comic books, children's books, and magazines (he painted over 1000 magazine covers.) Five galleries of Rokuro's work can be found on Will Schofield's completely excellent book illustration blog 50 Watts. An overview of Rokuro's work can be found on Amazon Japan.
Also please check out 50 Watt's fantastic book illustration collections on flickr. But beware, they will kill your afternoon.
I'm a big fan of Mexican photographer Livia Corona. Her most recent project titled "Two Million Homes for Mexico" was just featured on Culturehall. The project name comes from a promise that Mexican president Vincent Fox made in 2000 to build two million homes during his term. The homes were indeed built at a rate of 2500 per day, and now a decade later Corona explores what they've become.
I'm intrigued by Cairo based Ahmad Hosni's project Go Down Moses on South Sinai in which he tackles "eco-tourism and self-perception of ethnicity". He talks more about this project in this interview.
My wife is a great champion of the food writer and memoirist MKF Fischer and often reads me excerpts. I've become a fan myself as Fischer's writing is spare, modern, dark and amusing.
These are Fischer's chapter headings (always great) from How to Cook a Wolf, a book published in 1942.
3 How to Be Sage Without Hemlock
10 How to Catch the Wolf
14 How to Distribute Your Virtue
26 How to Boil Water
46 How to Greet the Spring
53 How Not to Boil an Egg
66 How to Keep Alive
72 How to Rise Up Like New Bread
80 How to be Cheerful Through Starving
86 How to Make a Pigeon Cry
121 How to Pray for Peace
133 How to Be Content with a Vegetable Love
138 How to Make a Great Show
145 How to Have a Sleek Pelt
151 How to Comfort Sorrow
163 How to Be a Wise Man
167 How to Lure the Wolf
If you don't know Fischer's writing, I recommend this small except from The Gastronomical Me on the moment she discovered food. The passage also happens to be a nice piece on fatherhood.
Continue reading "MFK Fisher's Chapter Headings" →
I've always loved the classic Indian educational posters of the Indian Book Depot, Map House. Today I discovered The Indian Book Depot is now online! The site features a fairly comprehensive collection of their classic posters and maps.
You can also find the charts in a beautiful oversized (and now out of print) book called An Ideal Boy.
p.s. How many of you had the Monks 'Bad Habits' start playing in your mind when you saw the title for this post?
The British director Ken Russell died yesterday. I never cared much for the films that gave him notoriety, but always found his photography striking. Like Kubrick he started as a photographer and made many notable images before turning to directing. He aspired to be a fashion photographer, but his documentary images are the ones with real meat. Only a few of this type of image can be found online (I've seen book of his work somewhere, but can't find a link),
A few image galleries: Ken Russell a Retrospective, Images for Sale, Ken Russell's Fabulous 50's.
Related: Kubrick's Photography: Overview, Chicago, New York.
With Scorsese's Hugo coming out soon I thought it would be a good time to revisit some of Georges Melies' early films (Hugo features a fictional Melies). Melies was a magician who originally used his films in his act, but the films quickly took over and by 1898 he was the largest producer of staged films in France.
Melies was one of the first filmmakers to use film to tell a story with sets, he created the first proper movie studio (with moving sets, and glass walls to let in the maximum amount of light), he was one of the first filmmakers to experiment with long form film, and he shot the first erotic film (After the Ball) and of course the special effects techniques he perfected still underly most modern effects. Melies' special effects techniques are even more impressive if you consider that most were created in-camera by rewinding and re-filming various parts of the scene. He made hundreds of popular films, but never made much money from them. Distribution was expensive and he had problems with counterfeiters. (Thomas Edison copied and distributed Melies' films in the US and never paid Melies a dime.) By 1913 his film was failing and he sold what remained of it. Most of Melies' archives were destroyed (the majority of his cellulose film stock was melted down by the French Army to make boot heels). His wife died and he married his mistress. For many years he was a toy salesman at a kiosk in Montparnasse station. His plight was discovered by a writer in a French film journal and soon after some of his films were discovered, restored and exhibited. A group of filmmakers put together a pension fund for him and he spent his last years in a home for cinema veterans.
Thanks to web, Melies' existing films are very easy to find. I've included a few below (my favcorites are starred).
Note most of these films include bad modern soundtracks and are better watched silent.
1896 - The Haunted Castle ✶
1896 - A Nightmare
1896 - The Vanishing Lady
1897 - The Haunted Castle (tinted)
1898 - Un Homme de Têtes
1898 - The Astronomer's Dream
1898 - The Magician
1899 - Man With a Rubber Head ✶
1899 - The Mysterious Portrait
1899 - Evoking the Spirits
1899 - Cinderella
1900 - The Magic Book
1900 - One Man Band
1902 - The Devil and the Statue
1902 - The Eruption in Martinique
1902 - Gulliver's Travels
1902 - A Trip to the Moon
1903 - The Melomaniac ✶
1903 - The Infernal Cauldron
1903 - The Infernal Cakewalk
1904 - Untamable Whiskers ✶
1904 - Le voyage a travers l'impossible"
1904 - The Mermaid
1905 - The Black Devil
1905 - The Fantastic Dirigible ✶
1905 - Living Playing Cards ✶
1905 - The Gambler's Paradise
1906 - The Merry Frolics of Satan
1907 - Satan in Prison
1907 - Hilarious Posters
1909 - Le Locataire Diabolique
1908 - La Photographie electrique a distance
1912 - The Conquest of the Pole ✶
A more complete list of Goerges Melies films.
For decent copies of these films you should splurge and get the Melies 5 DVD set. It features 170! shorts.
Related: Multiple Sidosis
Uploaded, just because it's awesome. More information & link to a gigantic version of the image.


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Slimkey V2 Monitor Stand
Product: Slimkey V2 Moniter Stand
Price: $64.99
Rating: Strong Recommend*
If there's one thing we're obsessed with it is optimizing desk space. Our desk is long, but very shallow in depth, so our laptop + external monitor setup is always a work in progress, with the myriad of drives and other USB peripherals we're attaching/detaching regularly. The Slimkey V2 Monitor stand seems to have been constructed with users such as ourselves in mind, as it has helped us eke out a little bit more useable space, while adding a USB 2.0 hub too.
The Slimkey V2 is an improved update of the Lowkey Stand, designed specifically for iMac and Apple Cinema Display users. But even our clunky-design Dell monitor was nicely complemented by this sturdy powder coated aluminum stand (lipstick on a pig), providing us with space not only for our compact wireless keyboard, but also for our compact LaCie hard drive, both which slide easily underneath for an eye pleasing streamline appearance that blends well with Apple's industrial design.
The stand 18.5"(W) x 9"(D) x 1.1"(H) is rated for 35lbs of weight and it feels every bit capable of supporting that amount of stress. The stand is gently curved, thick metal with a center leg hidden underneath for support.
A welcomed bonus feature for a MacBook Pro user such as myself is the 4-port USB 2.0 hub situated in the right rear side of the stand; this frees up some of the inherent cable clutter using a laptop. Our only beef with this inclusion is related to the overall design: USB cables seem a little too visible from a neat-nik's perspective. But perhaps we just need more fashionable USB cables?
Overall, if you're an Apple user looking to streamline your setup and minimize footprint while maximizing utility, the Slimkey V2 Monitor Stand is a no-brainer accessory. Well constructed, in tune with Apple's industrial design, all with the additional features of a USB hub and a place to hide away your laptop, the Slimkey V2 is an elegant desktop companion.
Pros: Construction is excellent, the 4 port USB 2.0 helps clear clutter, creates usable space underneath
Cons: A little bit deep in depth for narrow desks; wish design hid USB ports
Our Ratings:
Strong Recommend*
Weak Recommend
Don't Recommend
Apartment Therapy Media/Unplggd makes every effort to test and review products fairly and transparently. The views expressed in this review are the personal views of the reviewer and this particular product review was not sponsored or paid for in any way by the manufacturer or an agent working on their behalf. However, the manufacturer did give us the product for testing and review purposes.


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15 Summer Dishes from East & Southeast Asia
Even if you aren't traveling far this summer, you can take a trip through Asia right in your own kitchen. Here are 15 of our favorite Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Thai, and Vietnamese dishes for warm weather, including refreshing salads, barbecue crowd pleasers, and quick-cooking dinners.
• 1 Green Papaya Salad (Som Tam) – If you can't find the green papaya to make this crunchy, shrimpy Thai salad, you can substitute shredded carrots or bean sprouts.
• 2 Summer Project: Make Vegetable Maki Sushi With Kids! – Kids home from school? Try this fun and tasty cooking project.
• 3 Korean Barbecued Short-Ribs – Barbecued kalbi, or short ribs, are easy to prepare and a definite crowd pleaser.
• 4 Bún Chay (Vietnamese Vegetarian Noodle Salad) – Our favorite summer dish is a refreshing combination of rice noodles, herbs, tofu, and a salty-sour-sweet sauce.
• 5 Korean Seafood Pancake (Haemul Pajeon) – Cooked in a skillet, this mixture of batter, seafood, and scallions makes a quick meal.
• 6 How To Make DIY Spicy Tuna Sushi – Save money by making your own maki sushi rolls or hand rolls at home.
• 7 Bánh Mì with Lemongrass Tofu – Top savory tofu with crisp, tangy relish and herbs for a flavorful lunch or dinner.
• 8 How To Make Chirashi At Home – This Japanese-style one-bowl meal is filling, versatile, and omnivore- or vegetarian-friendly.
• 9 Chinese Comfort Food: Stir-Fried Egg and Tomato – Here's a deliciously different way to enjoy all those summer tomatoes!
• 10 Vegetarian Naengmyun (Korean Cold Noodles) – Cool down with this dish of icy, tangy broth, buckwheat noodles, and crisp vegetables.
• 11 Easy Japanese Pickled Cucumber – This crispy, cool side dish is one of our picnic basket staples.
• 12 Danse's Green Curry with Seafood – Some say spicy food cools you down in hot weather; give this fragrant, well-balanced dinner a try.
• 13 Kenny Lao's Rickshaw Dumplings – Serve these at a party or freeze them for an easy meal when it's too hot too cook.
• 14 Chè Đậu Xanh (Vietnamese Dessert Soup With Mung Beans) – Tender mung beans simmered in coconut milk make a sweet, cool dessert.
• 15 Marking's Bibingka – This chewy, coconut-y Filipino cake is guaranteed to be a hit at your next gathering.
Related: 10 Quick and Easy Stir-Fry Dinners
(Images: See linked posts for full image credits)


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"It's me and Burt against the world."
-- Linda Pugach, 2007
With those words, Linda Pugach explained, perhaps as well as anyone could, an unfathomable chain of events.
In 1959, she was Linda Riss, a 22-year-old dark-haired beauty with a creamy complexion, a sassy mouth and curves in all the right places. She fell for a successful older man named Burton Pugach, who wined and dined her--until she found out about his wife.
Then she dumped him.
Then he hired a goon to throw lye in her face and went to prison for 14 years.
When he got out, she married him.
The marriage dumbfounded some who knew her and many who didn't. But it lasted almost 39 years, long enough, she once told the New York Times, to become "sort of dull, like anyone else's life," though clearly it wasn't.
Pugach, who had a history of cardiac problems, died of heart failure Tuesday in a New York City hospital, said her husband, who is her sole survivor. She was 75.
Like him, she had been an only child, who grew up in less-than-ideal circumstances. Born in New York City on Feb. 23, 1937, she was raised by her mother and grandmother after her parents' marriage fell apart.
She was 20 when Burton spotted her in a Bronx park. He wasn't like most of the men who came on to her: He was a lawyer, had connections in the movie business, and owned a nightclub and a private plane. He sent her roses. When she left for work in the morning, he was outside, waiting to drive her in his Cadillac convertible.
"It was over my head," she recalled in the Washington Post in 2007. "I was used to guys leaning on their car saying, 'Hey babe, you wanna ride?'"
The courtship went on for a year--until she learned he was the married father of a 3-year-old girl. She met another man and became engaged, a development that Burton did not take well. According to the Post, he demanded that she sleep with him, marry him or suffer terrible consequences.
"If I can't have you," he said, "no one else will."
On June 15, 1959, a man dressed as a messenger rang her doorbell. She expected a present—her engagement party had been held the day before—but instead she was splashed in the face with a liquid that caused a "hot, burning sensation." She was permanently scarred and lost an eye.
Burton passed the time in prison providing legal aid to other inmates and writing letters to the woman he maimed. "Despite what I did," one of his letters said, "you will never find a man to love you more than me." At her behest, he began to make restitution, sending her money in regular payments.
After a period of recovery, she got on with her life the best she could. She covered her scars and a new glass eye with dark glasses, moved to Queens and rode a bus across town to a job as a receptionist. She took art classes and learned to paint. She went on dates and eventually fell in love with another man, but when she took her glasses off for him, he fled.
She was, she acknowledged, "damaged merchandise."
When Burton came up for parole, Linda registered her objections. "I want him to come out of prison in a box," she told the Bronx district attorney in the early 1970s, according to an account by veteran New York journalist Jimmy Breslin. Every time Burton was eligible for release, Breslin wrote in Newsday in 1997, Linda went "shrieking mad."
But some observers, Breslin wrote, sensed that the woman doth protest too much.
One of these was Margaret Powers, a New York City police officer who had been assigned to protect Linda after the assault. They became good friends.
"I could detect there was still some interest there," Powers, who now lives in California, recalled last week about Linda's attitude toward Burton. Who but Burton knew her as the beautiful girl she once was? Who but the man who had so horribly wronged her would feel the obligation to make things right?
In 1974, Burton finally won his release from Attica prison. He was under orders to stay away from Linda but was determined to send her a message. He got his chance when a local TV station interviewed him. She was watching when he asked her to marry him.
With Powers' encouragement, a mutual friend set up a meeting. "I was scared stiff it was a set-up," Burton, 85, recalled in an interview with the Los Angeles Times last week. But Linda was there, and she said yes.
When they were married on Nov. 27, 1974, the tabloids screamed the news and TV talk shows clamored for interviews.
They were always asked: Was it love that made them do it?
For Burton, there could be only one answer. "When we got married, I didn't have two dimes to roll together. She had more money than I did, so she didn't marry me for my money," the disbarred attorney, who worked as a paralegal after prison, said last week. "She married me because she loved me."
With Linda, the explanations varied.
"In my heart, I probably do love him," she told Geraldo Rivera after the nuptials. "I just find it hard to say the word."
Years later, she offered another motivation.
"Marrying him has been the best revenge. I'm a ball-breaker," she told the Washington Post in 2007 when "Crazy Love," a documentary about her roller-coaster relationship with Burton, was released.
"They would always be arguing, in public and in private," said director Dan Klores, who spent hours interviewing her for the film. "She would say things like: 'Burt, he's a weakling, I'm much tougher than he is.' She knew how to yank his chains."
Yet something held them together. She painted his portrait. He bought her furs. They took trips and regularly ate out at a local diner. A book about them was published in 1976 called "A Very Different Love Story," by Barry Stainback.
When glaucoma stole the sight from her remaining eye, she grew more dependent on Burton, but still "she took care of the house. She took care of me," he said. "The incident," as he calls the lye attack, was behind them.
As astonishing as their marriage was, its longevity was even more unexpected.
In the early 1990s, nearly 20 years after they exchanged vows, Linda had heart surgery and spent several weeks in the hospital. During her convalescence, Burton started an affair with another woman.
It lasted five years and ended badly, with Burton on trial in 1997 for threatening to kill her. The woman testified that when she tried to end the relationship, Burton told her, "It's 1959 all over again."
Except that this time Linda took the stand to defend him. She called him a "wonderful and caring husband." Convicted on one count of harassment, he spent 15 days in jail. Then he and Linda went back to being, in her words, "an old married couple."


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Broke Brendan Fraser wants alimony payments reduced
The Mummy star split from Afton Smith, the mother of his three sons, in 2007 and their divorce was settled in 2009.
However, the actor now wants to have his annual £562,500 payments to Smith cut down, insisting he doesn't make enough money now to cover the costs.
The case has gone to court in Connecticut and Smith has accused her ex-husband of hiding his millions from her, but the actor argues he is not earning big money from movies any more and lists numerous "medical issues" which have hampered his earning abilities, according to the New York Post.
Fraser is expected to take the stand to testify at Stamford Superior Court later this month (Feb13).


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August 14, 2006
Ms. MaryEllen Elia
Hillsborough County Public Schools
901 E. Kennedy Blvd.
P.O. Box 3408
Tampa, FL 33601
Dear Ms. Elia:
I am writing with regard to a flexibility agreement on behalf of Hillsborough County Public Schools (HCPS) to provide supplemental educational services (SES) under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB). This agreement will allow HCPS to be eligible to provide SES to eligible students in Title I schools under section 1116(e) of Title I, even though the district has been identified for improvement under section 1116(c) and, thus, under the Department's regulations (34 C.F.R. §200.47(b)(1)(iv)(B)), in the absence of a flexibility agreement, is ineligible to provide SES this school year.
SES is an important component of NCLB, giving low-income families real options to obtain free tutoring and other academic enrichment services for their children. This extra help for students who attend schools in need of improvement is a key element of school improvement efforts and efforts to increase student achievement. We have learned valuable lessons about SES in these first few years of implementation. Creating and implementing a successful SES program requires coordination and cooperation by States, school districts, providers, and parents.
Unfortunately, not enough eligible students are receiving SES. Through our monitoring and evaluation work, we have learned that, in 2003-04, only 17 percent of eligible students participated in SES. In an effort to boost student participation rates and increase the quality of SES being offered to students, the U.S. Department of Education (Department) began a pilot last year that gave Boston Public Schools and Chicago Public Schools the opportunity to provide SES to eligible students in Title I schools even though both districts were identified for improvement. We would like to expand this pilot in the 2006-07 school year to continue to address two key priorities: (1) ensure that more students are receiving SES, and (2) ensure that we are able to obtain quality information on how SES programs are improving the academic achievement of students receiving services. I hope to gain valuable information about SES from these pilot sites – information that can be shared with other States, districts, and the Congress to help them improve the quality of these services.
I, therefore, am approving a flexibility agreement for HCPS under section 9401 of the ESEA for the 2006-07 school year as part of the Department's SES pilot. This agreement permits HCPS to be eligible to be a provider of SES to eligible students in Title I schools even though the district has been identified for improvement. HCPS will still need to become an approved provider through Florida's normal approval process. My approval of this flexibility agreement is also conditioned on HCPS's fulfilling the conditions detailed in the enclosure. One of the conditions of this agreement stipulates that our Department will conduct a third-party evaluation of SES in HCPS during the 2006-07 school year. We will need HCPS to supply our evaluator with student achievement data files and other information necessary to conduct an evaluation of the achievement gains of students participating in SES in HCPS.
In addition, as required by section 9401(b)(3)(B) of the ESEA, within 30 days of the date of this letter, HCPS must provide notice and information to the public about its participation in the pilot in the manner in which it customarily provides similar notice to the public. HCPS must also submit a report under section 9401(e)(1) of the ESEA to the Florida Department of Education at the end of the 2006-07 school year that describes the district's provision of SES in Title I schools; describes how those schools continued to provide Title I services to eligible students; and evaluates the progress of the district and schools in improving the quality of instruction and the academic achievement of students. The Florida Department of Education must then submit a report to the Department based on HCPS's report.
This flexibility agreement will serve several important goals: increasing the numbers of students receiving SES; ensuring early notice about SES through multiple venues and extended enrollment windows; allowing external organizations reasonable access to school facilities; and providing information on the academic achievement of students receiving SES. Making this SES pilot program a success for all involved, particularly the children receiving the services, will provide the Department with important information that will help to ensure the successful implementation of SES in future years. We hope that HCPS will become a model of high-quality implementation of SES. To that end, the Department would like to work in partnership with HCPS throughout this year as it implements SES, and we ask HCPS to share with the Department examples of those practices and strategies that are effective and information on why. The Department would like to learn from the experiences of HCPS and disseminate that information to other districts around the country.
This flexibility agreement applies to the provision of SES in Title I schools in Hillsborough County during the 2006-07 school year and is subject to an annual review at the end of the school year.
SES is an important component of NCLB, and we look forward to working with you to ensure that students are accessing services and succeeding in the classroom.
Margaret Spellings
cc: Honorable Ruth Ann Minner


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Posted: Sun 24 May 2009, 02:18
Post subject: EeePC901 & upup alpha9
Good news. WiFi works out of the box (WPK on ra0/rt2860sta) with a frugal install of upup-476 on my EeePC901 (did not work with previous upups)
The Package Manager configuration does not wok correctly for me. I choose up to 5 radio buttons (as it advises) but the tabs which appear (or rather not appear) seems somewhat random with great difficulty in getting any of the puppy x official ones to appear.
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Forgot to add I also installed Atomix from the Jaunty repo with no problems.
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in the previous Alpha I was able to tweak the Xorg settings to get my max monitor resolution. Not so this version.
Maybe I will find some clues here:
So I changed to Vesa and got the max resolution that way
Valide (using devx) was crashing on me - I believe there is a later version that is more stable. However I was able to code genie from the command line.
Also noticed 3 different search programs and be interested which people prefer?
Also do people 'trim the fat' when installing packages - do you notice a difference?
Also the pctorrent downloader . . . Does it work? I find transmission in 4.2.1 works but have had no luck with pctorrent How about you?
Just like to say that for day to day use I boot into 4.2.1
To be on the cutting edge the Alpha 9 is great fun and already very usable
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Hi Lobster
Also do people 'trim the fat' when installing packages - do you notice a difference?
If you get a package from the Puppy repos then no, these are usually trimmed already. But if getting the package from the Jaunty repos then yes. There are usually helpfiles and dev files that are not needed, but be warned: due to Puppy's skinny nature, if you download packages from the Jaunty repos they may require many dependencies, these should be taken care of by Petget... (is that fancy new package manager still called Petget? It can get other formats too.)
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When I first tried to use Pawdioconverter in Woof alfa 9 in the Windows computer that wouldn't run Pcdripper, it would not go. Pawdioconverter would go to the final step before it actually began ripping and converting, then stop there, without a console window showing or anything happening. What finally made it work was to choose the option to convert in the background, without the console window.
If there's a similar option in Pcdripper, not to show the rxvt window while ripping, I'll try that soon in the Windows machine that won't run Pcdripper in Woof but will in earlier versions of Puppy.
Edit: Pcdripper does not have the option to not show the console while it's running.
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Posted: Sun 24 May 2009, 21:49
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failed downloading busybox pet specified within woof a9. It did not exist, nor did the specified linux kernel(the v4 ticks you spoke of in blog). I can manually correct my own, but figure there was a reason for this. minimal others, this was the based on a ubuntu distro_specs setup. I saw that you sh#!canned the others whilst you work, faac fails to dl for debian, but is fine in ubuntu. You can dl the faac for debian from main deb repo. I think i can plow ahead with the debian and slack issues, but want (and feel it makes sense) to use the exact same kernel as you for now. You should do a side by side of the deb and ubuntu builds. i was unsided upfront, but now have taken the debian base side. i built a7 deb and used the upup matching release. three test systems, deb loaded and ran better. Maybe a hybridized deb/ubuntu? ubuntu has plowed ahead on peripherial support, which has given it a good edge in that reguard. That was only due to the financial backing of Canocial. maybe puppy could be used as a way to backport the ubuntu updates to debian repos? It would be a great way to stiffen up debian again, right? Or better yet, pet both of the best in both realms, and obsolete the giant builds for one of a finer repose
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Posted: Mon 25 May 2009, 03:04
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ok... PC2
IBM Thinkpad R31, Celeron 1066, 512 ram, 8M onboard graphics
Xorg would not work, it usually does in all puppies with 1024x768x24. Used Xvesa with said res.
Looks good but no drive icons. Try to run Pmount and sda1 and sda2 show up in the gui, I will click one and Pmount just vanishes. I tried this in terminal
#mount /dev/sda1
and get
mount: can't find /dev/sda1 in /etc/fsatab or /etc/mtab
Ran "Pmount" in term.
/usr/sbin/pmount: line 291: 8377 Teminated yaf-splash -font "8x16" -outline 0 -margin 4 -bg orange -text "Puppy Drive Mounter"
Please wait, probing hardware..."
and it exited directly without a peep.
So I couldn't try networking because I use ndiswrapper on this machine and the files are in the doze install, I'll copy them over and try it later.
How can I copy it over if I can't do a save?
Ooh, shutdown... just restarted X, clicked reboot..same thing.. restarts X, only on
Update: I reported that shutdown and reboot would only restart X and that Pmount would not work, and that I could only use Xvesa.
Well I can still only use Xvesa but I ... er "fixed" the other issues for me. I ran the Xorgwizard using the shortcut in the menu... (before, even [ctrl]-[alt]-[bkspce] was restarting X
) That worked, tried Xorg again, all different res sizes, no go. Tried Xvesa and everything started to work as it should.. good too, I thought I had another mini-frisbee...
Pmount seems to work fine and the drive icons show up on the desktop.
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Location: Hervey Bay
Posted: Mon 25 May 2009, 09:09
Post subject:
full HD install
Abiword desktop icon dont work, as reported by bosco.
Desktop icon switcher, choice dont stay put after reboot.
On the plus side, gxine plays raw dv codec out of the box, Debian dont, it dont even have ffmpeg. Aung
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Posts: 171
Location: UK
Posted: Mon 25 May 2009, 09:54
Post subject: upup-476 retro for dial up.
Loaded upup-476 retro from Cd for Full hard drive install.
If left to own devices boots up and can be installed ok.
If Used pfix=ram then scanning for puppy files on computer disk drive comes up with upup-476.sfs not found Dropping out to initial
ramdisk console.
Gparted goes into endless loop.
If flash disk with data left in usb port on installation then grub comes up with windows as 1, then fd0 as 2 and loading bootloader to hd on 3.
Clicking on any of them goes back to grub menu. The only cure to reformat and install again minus the flash drive.
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Posted: Mon 25 May 2009, 13:45
Post subject: some feedback
Subject description: some feedback
Full hd upup 476 install
agree with Aung:
Abiword write icon ceased to work; #exec abiword in console does!
Desktop icons changed but not persistent to reboot.
Samba shares working correctly to other wondows PCs.
after a wifi usb try, unable to detect any modem (etH0 was still there).
After all upup 476 goes supersonic-flying.
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Posted: Mon 25 May 2009, 14:34
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CPU Scaling dont work in upup !
After about 15 Minutes UPUP freeze for some moment and then it shutdown automaticly.
I have proved in the folder
cd /devices/system/cpu/cpu0
if there is some cpu scaling enabled in upup but i cant find something.
MY CPU i getting really hot about 93 Celsius Degree.
A Solution for me is to load kernel modules for handling CPU Scaling
How to keep your cpu cool and your fan quiet
MAJOR BUG: Puppy 4.0 is Burning the CPU
Alpha 9 with pfix=ram Bugs (the Iso without the IDE drivers) are too:
-If booting in Vesa Pmount dont work. I have only 3 ext3 Partitions and 1 VFAT Partition on the hd. Every Puppy till yet didnt had problems on this hd with this Partition.
If booting in Xorg however Pmoun works without any problems for the same HD.
-If booting in Vesa Puppy cant shutdown or reboot. Exit to prompt dont work also. For me it looks like that a click in the Menu for "reboot" or "shutdown" just restart the xserver.
In Xorg However shutdown, reboot and exit to prompt works.
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Posted: Tue 26 May 2009, 00:50
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in the previous Alpha I was able to tweak the Xorg settings to get my max monitor resolution. Not so this version.
This version too now
It may have been as simple as selecting the generic drivers when running xorgwizard
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Location: Kentucky
Posted: Tue 26 May 2009, 01:59
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I finally got around to doing a full install of Upup 4.76 on a P3 733mhz, 256mb ram (1gb swap) earlier tonight.Replaced Upup 4.71 alpha 7, since the drive was already partitioned wiping the drive and installing only took about ten minutes.
In my brief time so far, all of the basics worked out of the box.Puppy packages all installed fine but the Ubuntu packages seem to be a bit of hit or miss. Some work well and some have problems.
I downloaded Firefox 3.0.8 and used "trim the fat" and it wouldn't launch. Removed it and reinstalled as downloaded and it works now. Still think Firepup is faster though.
For an alpha Upup 4.76 works pretty darn good.
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Posted: Tue 26 May 2009, 14:29
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Cups installs the proper driver and can print a test page and print from Abiword. However, it cannot print from other applications that I've tried ie.: gnumeric, Seamonkey and Firefox.
Another problem, gxine doesn't work. When trying to run it from a console, it rapidly scrolls the attached error message.
System: Dell Dimension 8250, Pent 4 at 2.40GHz, 1.5GB ram, 128 MB ATI Radeon 9700 Pro graphics card with TV-out and DVI, Soundblaster Live with 5.1 audio, Intel Pro 100M Integrated PCI NIC Card, HP Photosmart 5280 All-in-One, Printer-Scanner-Copier
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Posted: Tue 26 May 2009, 17:05
Post subject: Woof Alpha 9 Rocks
Subject description: Everything from the box works but...
I have been using upup since Alpha 7. I'm using it now! It's the fastes I've seen to load on my Compaq Presario F750.
-AMD Athlon X2 (64)
-1 GB ram
-1280 x 800 display
-Atheros ar24xx wifi
-CD/DVD broken so i don't use it
It all worked so great out of the box, except for abiword and can't load a Openoffice .sfs, tried 2.2 and 3.01. I figure it will eventually be working or an alternative will arrive.
All of Tuxxx's programs work! Great games(Gnome)! Takes me back to the days of Fedora 3. I loved that system.
I also put together a old Dell 4100:
-Pentium II
-256 MB ram
-1024 x 800 display
-CD/DVD burner
-CD drve
-Floppy drive
-10 GB drive
-6 GB drive
I have these puppies on it:
2.15CE(won't boot), 3.01, 4.1.2, 4.2-SUE edition
I will install Woof alpha 9 on it and see what happens
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Posted: Thu 28 May 2009, 05:16
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Béèm wrote:
I really don't have luck with my Medion MD8818 as I still have the black screen with the 3 iso's. I am thinking now, that puppy 5 won't be for me after all.
I got the idea to boot with loglevel=7 and I can compare between the good working alpha 6 and this alpha9 (the picture is kinda blurred)
The good working one in spite of the PCI-Express Device error:
sr 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
scsi 2:0:1:0: CD-ROM HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8164B 0U08 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
sr 2:0:1:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1
ata4: port disabled. ignoring.
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
cpuidle: using governor ladder
TCP cubic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Using IPI Shortcut mode
Freeing unused kernel memory: 308k freed
+------ PCI-Express Device Error ------+
Error Severity : Uncorrected (Non-Fatal)
PCIE Bus Error type : Transaction Layer
Flow Control Protocol : First
Receiver ID : 0010
VendorID=1106h, DeviceID=a327h, Bus=00h, Device=02h, Function=00h
pcieport-driver 0000:00:02.0: broadcast error_detected message
pcieport-driver 0000:00:02.0: broadcast mmio_enabled message
pcieport-driver 0000:00:02.0: broadcast resume message
pcieport-driver 0000:00:02.0: AER driver successfully recovered
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input0
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
uhci_hcd: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
Hope this can help to pin-point the issue.
Fellow poster davids45 and suffering from the same problem with the Medion MD8818, suggested to try to boot with acpi=off.
Altho I don't like to loose the acpi functionality I gave it a try.
I can boot my Medion MD8818 now with alpha9.
I still demand that Barry finds a solution so I can boot with acpi=on again.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Oct. 1, 2009) - After picking up its first Atlantic Sun Conference win last week, the ETSU women's soccer team contiunes its quest for a A-Sun title as they travel for a 7:30 p.m., match Friday at Belmont.
After battling through the toughest non-conference schedule in school history the Bucs (2-8-0, 1-1-0 A-Sun) split a pair league contests last weekend. ETSU earned its first three conference points with a 1-0 double overtime win over North Florida last Friday, before falling to Jacksonville 2-0 Sunday.
Individually, sophomore keeper Megan Masch (Virginia Beach, Va.), contiunes to dominate the conference with a league-best 70 saves. Overall, the second-year starter also leads the A-Sun in saves per match, in addition to sitting fourth among league keepers in save percentage.
Offensively, junior forward Terri Miller (Cape Coral, Fla.) leads the Buc attack after scoring the game-winning goal against the Lady Ospreys. Currently, the crafty back is tied for the team lead in goals, while leading ETSU in game winners.
Belmont (5-4-1, 2-0-0 A-Sun) welcomes the Bucs to the Witten Soccer Complex after winning four straight contests. The red-hot Bruins earned their second A-Sun win Tuesday, a 2-0 victory over conference foe Lipscomb.
Individually, junior midfielder Jayme Trocino has been the biggest part of the Bruins success. The Franklin, Tenn., native currently leads the A-Sun with seven goals, after scoring at least one goal in the Bruins last four consecutive contests.
In their last meeting the Bucs dropped Belmont 1-0 last October. In that critical match senior forward Jordan Monty (Mesquite, Texas) netted the game-winning goal in the 24th minute. Overall, ETSU leads Belmont - the defending A-Sun Tournament champs - 5-4-0.
On a side note, Friday's contest should be a special match for Rick and Karen Musacchio. The match will mark the first time that the couples two daughters, ETSU freshman midfielder Kathy Musacchio (Nashville, Tenn.) and Belmont senior forward Annie Musacchio, will compete against one another.
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Rider: (14 seasons)
Style: Freeriding, Surf,
Weather: 18 to 25 knots
Build Quality: 9/10(fins could be more sharper in my mind)
Satisfaction: 10/10
Disclosure: (eppo team rider)
Mako King and Mako 140 sublime...been riding the king for a month or so, now the 140 so here it goes...
Well I was looking for a light wind option. Bought a sector no good for me. Then a choptop light wind, nah. Had a go on a skim, no I'm not mark shinn ( that guys is a damn freak on a skim). Read some small post on the fifth page in on some random no name forum and someone espoused the virtues of the mako king. So thought Farq it and got one. It was a punt that payed off and from my buy and sell history this has got to be a first. Those who know me are laughing right now! Shut ya face!
When it arrived I thought dear god what have I done. Weird as concave, rounded edges at 165cm, just looked like a big penis. Comes with just a deck grip and surf straps as that is its intended purpose. Three 100 mm surf fins and two 56's. So I banged them on and hit the water, with a slight mutant stance.
Well one word. Smooth. Another. Farqin fast, oh that's two.
Dont hear much about these board locally and for the first times a few years they have a newish design by tucking in the rails. They really are tucked hey. When I overlayed my shinn monk 41cm from the top it looked wider than the 45cm king. Turning them over back to back then you can see the difference. Obviously an optical illusion but you see my point.
So what about the tucked rails. Well I can only suggest, as I'm no board designer, but it must contribute to the immense load you can lay on this rail. First time I rode it in the ocean as usual, it was only 14 odd knots on my 11m edge, was cruisin upwind no problems. Then the wind slowly filled in to 18 to 20 and I thought, I suppose this is where I should be going in. But alas, as the wind picked up, as well as the incredible apparent wind of the edge, the more I layed into the rail, the more it bit. So then I started to pull the trigger, release and there and then I knew this large looking penis board could pop and load unbelievably well.
In the meantime I had sold my cardboard wave ( to ya for this board) and my shinn monk ( looking for a 130 forever, bought a size too big for this 74 kg frame on an edge), and I'm down to just this board. Wind hits 20 plus, into the mid twenties, so out comes the nine and same thing. Fast, smooth and yet highly rigid with a big ass biting rail to load and pop. Yet when the wind dropped, cruised and pointed crazily upwind. I was now throwing down all that I throw down in my gangnam stabber dog style on what sounds like a big board. Ah finally this is what I was looking for.
But it doesn't feel big, it feels really small underfoot. Look its no sector, its no fly door but its good enough to get me going and having fun in winds that I think are worth having fun in. And it is sooooo much more dynamic. Its like you are riding on a film of glass, incredibly fast, totally in control that then has a rail that will bite the waters ahead off if need be for gust control and more importantly loaded jumps. What has me stuffed as how such a rigid board with little flex can be so comfortable. Here lies some engineering marvel I presume.
A mate of mine got on it and said straight away yep I want one. Perfect cross over.
By now I had dropped the fin size down to 56s up the middle and two 5
Cardboard 50s on the side. Now this thing was really singing. Keep the big fins for the rare and few big wave days we have. Still allowed me to ride it strapless if i wished. In the waves....
It has the ability to be ridden flat engaging the fins which gives you great tracking control down the face, and then by moving onto your rails, it bites and gets you back up and around the wave face. Yes it's not a surfboard, it has its own feel. But its not a TT feel either, nor is it like any mutant I've tried either. It has a real tucked in and connected feel to the wave depending on whether you employ the fins or the rails or a mixture of both. You really have control of how much slippage you require. The best feeling is when you just park and ride (it is big enough for this), lock into the face and head straight down the line in the pit of a wave. Like a SB I suppose, but hey it's not. Its better! In my humble opinion of course. Lol.
Here's the big kicker for me. THERE IS NO CHANGE IN TECHNIQUE GOING BACK THE OTHER WAY. NONE, NOTHING. The concave must have something to do with this I presume.
By now my TT instincts had kicked in and I installed a couple of shinn pads using the OCean Rodeo straps ( they are really really comfy), and had it set up slightly mutant style. Oh man this is when the fun really began.
Got my mate on it, he wants one, period. Here's a cool little ditty. Young bloke whose a mad surfboard rider/REO kind of dude whose awaken to the fact that the big surf days are numbered in summer ( go figure, der) only been at it six months but been surfing since he was 4. Anyhow didn't click with any TTs I put him on. So he takes the king out on his reo, and when I was boosting over his head (I know its a problem I really go to stop it) I looked way down and saw he was riding the mako strapless. I forgot to mention actually this thing is sweet strapless for all you SB junkies. He couldn't fit his feet in the straps so he just rode it strapless. He had Never ridden strapless before, and I watched him just kicking ass in the small surf coming through. Yeh this dude is an awesome surfer and its is starting to come through now in his kiting. He said, I want one for those crappy swell days (and I thought, but didn't say, oh 80 percent of the time then, ba ha ha ha).
So TT, full directional or mutant, you choose. When wind light throw off the side fins and becomes a sweet TT ride. Very versatile indeed.
Anyhow in the market for a shinn monk 2013 (still am) but this is how much I loved this board, I put forward a future monk purchase and got myself a 140!
I know crazy right. Just took a punt and it payed off. First time for everything I suppose.
Anyhow the 140 (just been on it today as well as three others, ha ha ha), has the same characterises but this comes as a full TT setup. You can mutant the thing but I thought I'd just keep it as a TT. Same smoothness, fast as a crazy horse on crack, same bite but everything is smaller, quicker, lighter. My brother came in and said I want one. Currently ordering one for him. Said quote' this is the best board I have ever ridden'. He's been at it for 5 seasons now has flown and rode all my obvious gear fluctuations some of you are aware of. So his opinion has some strength behind it. The surfer guy got it in the surf today and came in and said, yep its a 150 for me. ( he weighs a bit more than me).
Jesus this thing works in the surf. Sorry to say but better than the cardboard wave, well that's not the entire truth, the wave is very good for a bottom turn and slash back on the wave face....mmm shouldn't compare very different boards really. ****s all over the shinn though in the surf, from a very very big height. Sorry it just does. The same tracking ability down the face as the king, with increased rail bite when you need it is still there, but obviously more quicker and lighter than the king. Loves a right handed to, up and slash, fast hard. You can let this thing slide as much as you want it to. Then you can make it not slide at all. Full control.
Today is a crazy day, that southerly kicked in early and was driven not by a Seabreeze in the morning. Some of the gusts were really up there. At times even on the 9m edge I thought damn this is a 25 knot plus gust here. But no probs bite that bastard tucked rail down and bang the kite shoots forward, you shoot upwind and it s all done fast and yet controlled.
There is one thing that the Shinn beats it and that's loading for a jump. At very high speeds both boards allow, more technique is needed with the 140 set up as a TT only. The back feels like it wants to slip out. It doesn't, it just feels that way. the king in mutant mode doesnt though, which is weird, well not really when you think about it. reckon with a couple of very small TT side fins though, this tracking would increase heaps. But I must be honest here. Then again you can't have it all your way. Also only been my third time on this board. I started to alleviate this feeling by the end of the session today, so early days yet. But yeh I think the monk has its number in this department. But in terms on controlling an edge at high speed they both excel just as good. I would say the mako is smoother though overall, which is a big statement as the monk is very very smooth.
And I would highly recommend you gangnam stabber dog stylist to give this board a crack. Honestly it is that Farqin good. I'm stoked, big time DUDES, its SICK (private Seabreeze forum joke just recently sorry).
Be interesting getting the 140 set up with the Side fins, might try this soon. But it works so good as a TT I'm not game to change it. The king would be a great surfboard type cross over, the deck pad gives great grip and if you set it up line I have you can actually go strapless as well. In the waves now and then this is what I do. Pretty easy to gybe and switch feet actually if you proficient on a SB.
Anyhow I could write a lot more but damn its long enough. Get on one, seriously.


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I was professional tennis player until last year, but I was retired last year. I want to play tennis with you, but I can find partner. Can someone teach me? I arrived at Santa Barbara 4th December, I want to make friends. I came here for learning Englisg, so I speak English not good. If you are junior or professional tennis player, I can play with you.
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Sorry to hear that you have no one to play with. I am and ex-teaching pro, just getting back into game but can prob hit some good balls. Very flexible schedule-
Hi Brad~ I came back Santa Barbara.. I am studying English at SBCC, so I have time in the afternoon week days..
However, I cannot play some balls every Wednesday.. If I have time, I call you.. Thank you~
Do you have time Monday afternoon, 1/17? I can meet you at the SBCC tennis courts-
Hi Seung-
Didn't hear back so I made other plans. Can you play Wednesday or Thursday?
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The Non-Jewish Victims - Who Were the Five Million?
Polish Citizens
First Target
Jehovah Witnesses Stood Firm
No Need for the Disabled
Pink Triangles for Homosexuals
The Survivors Personal Stories
The Legacy - 2nd Generation
Holocaust - Non-Jewish Holocaust Victims
It was only after I moved to the Los Angeles area several years ago that I realized that many people were not aware that millions of victims of the Holocaust were NOT Jewish. Outside the Polish community, I heard very little mention about the five million non-Jewish victims -- usually referred to as "the others".
I mentioned that my parents were survivors of the Holocaust, people
would look at me oddly and say, "Oh, I didn't know you were
I realized that most people were not aware of any other Holocaust victims except Jews.
I am Jewish. I converted in 1978 after studying at the University of Judaism one year before marrying a Jewish man. I belong to a temple where my daughter attends religious school. I love the Jewish religion and I admire the Jewish community. In no way do I want to diminish the enormous magnitude of the victimization and murder of the 5,860,000 Jewish people. The Jews were singled out by the Nazis for total extermination -- a significant fact that I do not repudiate, nor want to diminish in any way. The Jewish people have done an extraordinary job of making the younger generation around the world aware of their persecution and the immense tragedy of the Holocaust.
But what about "the others"? There were five million of them. Who were they? Whose children, whose mothers and fathers were they? How could five million human beings have been killed and forgotten?
studying carefully-documented books, and interviewing non-Jewish survivors,
I found more information about the five million forgotten than I had
ever imagined -- information that most people are not aware of. Polish
citizens suffered enormously during the Holocaust -- Jews and non-Jews.
1997 - 2012 - Copyright.
Black Victims


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