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Social Studies Project Examples
School 429 in Moscow Russia, Teddy Bear Project Partner of Sunnyside Elementary School in Washington State, USA.
The Bullying Project
The Bullying Project allows students worldwide to share feelings and thoughts about bullying and teasing with peers worldwide and to remove some of the feelings of loneliness. The students who have developed the project wanted to use the power of the internet to let their peers know that people dealing with the issues of bullying and teasing ARE NOT ALONE. That being bullied and teased is NOT THEIR fault and they can do something about it. Students can contribute their personal reflections, music, poetry, and films.
- Age Level: 5-19 Years Old
- Curriculum Focus: Multidisciplinary Writing, art, music, video, social studies
- End Products for Students: Stories on website, opportunities for problem solving, active online listening, resources for assistance, researched by students
- Timeline/Schedule: Ongoing
- Webpage: http://www.bullying.org
- Contact Person: Bill Belsey, Canada, email@example.com
- Level of Technology Used: Web, E-mail, Online Forum
- Supporting Organization: iEARN-Canada
- Language(s) of communication: All
City Quest!
Students explore their towns' history, architecture, and places of interest and create a Tourism section for the City Quest website. By doing this, they can promote their community, appreciate international collaboration, and still have some fun.
- Age: 5-19
- Timeline/Schedule: from now on until 8/31/06
- Level of technology used: Email; List server; IRC; Chat; student-created webpages
- End product for students: a webpage about their town/city on the City Quest website
- Curriculum Areas: Arts; Business; Community Interest; History; Information Technology; Language; Multicultural Studies; Science; Social Studies; Technology
- Webpage: http://www.cityquest.nl/
- Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Languages: English, Dutch, Japanese
Faces of War
This project studies the life experiences of ordinary people in traumatic historical circumstances. We are creating here an opportunity to reconsider history and to scale it to the dimensions of individual people rather than politics, ideologies, or national movements. This project binds generations and cultures through sharing. A range of cross-curriculum components are available: Global Art, Writing Exchanges, and Transcripts of Interviews with local veterans of war/strife as well as with students in conflict situations. This work will be published in the "Faces of War" magazine and on the WWW: Faces of War.
- Age Level: 11-19 Years Old
- Curriculum Focus: Language arts, art, social studies
- End Products for Students: Stories and art on the web or in the magazine
- Timeline/Schedule: Ongoing
- Webpage: http://www.araratcc.vic.edu.au/users/jot/fow/faces.html
- Contact Person: Joanne Tate, Australia, firstname.lastname@example.com
- Level of Technology Used: WWW-based forums, newsreaders, email distribution lists, web browser
- Supporting Organization: iEARN-Australia
- Longevity: 3 Years
- Languages of communication: English, but other languages are welcome
Feeding Minds, Fighting Hunger
Feeding Minds Fighting Hunger is a global education initiative designed to help youth discuss and understand issues of hunger, malnutrition, poverty and food security and to stimulate them to participate in activities to create a world free from hunger. On World Food Day, 16th October - and throughout the year - students and teachers from all over the world come together to discuss how lessons plans have been adapted locally and explore ways to raise awareness.
For this project three lessons are provided for primary, intermediate and secondary. Participants are invited to discuss and share with peers around the world the issues of hunger and poverty in their local/national context and how the Feeding Minds Fighting Hunger lessons plans have been used in their classrooms. New ideas, activities and lessons from around the world will be collected and distributed each year.
- Age: Primary through Secondary
- Dates: Ongoing
- Languages: English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Italian, Arabic, Kiswahili
- Level of technology used: e-mail, WWW, forum, CD-ROM
- Webpage: http://www.feedingminds.org, http://www.iearn.org/projects/feedingmindsfightinghunger.html
- Contact: Stephen Vhenya, Zimbabwe, email@example.com; Losira Okelo, USA, firstname.lastname@example.com
- Supporting Organization: iEARN-USA
Fight Against Child Labour
This ongoing project continues to bring together young people in research on and discussion of issues relating to children's rights and the burdens carried by millions of children through excessive and harmful labor.
- Age Level: 10-19 Years Old
- Curriculum Focus: Language arts, art, social studies
- End Products for Students: Website, Adoption of action agendas to assist in the abolition of the worst forms of child labor
- Timeline/Schedule: Ongoing
- Webpage: http://www.iearn.org.au/clp/
- Contact Persons: Bob Carter, Australia, email@example.com; Salimata Sene, Senegal, email@example.com; Lockias Chitanana, Zimbabwe, firstname.lastname@example.com; Udara Soysa, Sri Lanka, firstname.lastname@example.com; Sarah Alam, Pakistan, firstname.lastname@example.com; Melissa Buckley, Australia, email@example.com
- Level of Technology Used: WWW-based forums, newsreaders, email distribution lists, web browser
- Supporting Organization: iEARN-Australia
- Language(s) of communication: English and French, but potential participants should suggest use of any language
Friends and Flags
Friends and Flags is a collaborative learning project that combines authentic language learning with promoting multicultural awareness. Classrooms that have registered for the project are placed in learning circles of 6 countries per circle. Circle partners are encouraged to communicate via email, discussion lists, chat rooms, message boards and on the project website. Each class in the circle also prepares a cultural package which includes a student written country book for the other 5 classes in the circle. These packages are mailed in the post. This MANY to MANY exchange enables all classes to create authentic and tangible multi-cultural learning centers.
- Age Levels: Grades 4-11 Years Old
- Curriculum Focus: Social Studies, writing
- End Product(s) for students: multicultural learning center
- Timeline/schedule: ongoing
- Webpage: http://www.friendsandflags.org
- Contact Person: Karen Eini email@example.com
- Level of Technology Used: E-mail, WWW forums, chat
- Language(s) of communication: English
Helping Hands
Students research online information, conduct interviews and participate in Forums with their peers from around the world on topics related to kids living on the streets. After research, interviews and class discussions, students write an essay about homeless children in the targeted country.
- Age: 6-18
- Curriculum Focus: Social Studies, Geography, History, Technology, Politics, Health, Language Arts.
- End Product(s) for students: Essay
- Timeline/schedule: ongoing
- Webpage: http://www.epals.com/projects/helping_hands/
- Contact: Register on the website
- Level of Technology Used: E-mail, WWW forum
- Supporting organization: Project Concern International
- Language: English
The Junior Journal
The Junior Journal is an online newspaper edited and published exclusively by children, dealing with global issues.
- Age Level: 11-19 Years Old
- Curriculum Focus: Interdisciplinary, social studies, language arts
- End Products for Students: Online Journal, Student edited, little censorship
- Timeline/Schedule: Ongoing
- Webpage: http://journal.jrsummit.net/servlet/pluto
- Contact Person: Spiros Tzelepisk, Greece, email@example.com
- Level of Technology Used: Online collaboration in editing, email, web publishing
- Supporting Organization: MIT Media Lab
- Language(s) of communication: All
Learning Circles
Learning Circles are highly interactive, project-based partnerships among a small number of schools located throughout the world. Each session is 14 weeks. To join a Learning Circle, you must be a member of iEARN and complete a Learning Circle placement form two weeks before the beginning of the session. There are three general Learning Circle themes by which classrooms are grouped. The social studies theme Places and Perspectives is listed below. Two additional language arts circles can be found in the Language Arts section of the guide.
Places and Perspectives - Places and Perspectives encourages students to explore regional history, culture, government, and geography by sharing their knowledge with people from different locations. The goal is to help students understand how historical events and geographic conditions interact to help shape their lives and gives them a deeper understanding of themselves, their families and their communities. Each classroom sponsors a project for a section in the Places and Perspectives Review. For instance, a classroom might sponsor a section on local legends, interview native inhabitants or the elderly, describe the historical attractions of the area, examine local constitutions, or compare weather patterns, map studies.
- Age Level: All. Each Learning Circle Theme is divided into different age levels, Primary, Middle, and High School
- End Products: Publications, and in some cases WWW pages
- Timeline/Schedule: Session 1 (Sep. to Jan.) Session 2 (Feb. to May)
- Webpage: Places and Perspectives http://www.iearn.org/circles/lcguide/pp/pp.html
- Level of Technology Used: E-mail, WWW forums
- Contact: Margaret Riel, USA firstname.lastname@example.com
- Supporting Organization: iEARN
- Languages of communication: English, Spanish.
Learning Democracy Through International Collaboration
The project focuses on student rights and duties, tolerance and freedom, civic responsibilities and engagement. This way secondary school students will be able to enhance democracy knowledge which hopefully will lead to their active participation in the community. For eight weeks the participating classes will be posting their responses to the project questions presented prior to the project start and respond to the messages posted by their international partners.
- Ages: 15-18
- Timeline/Schedule: September-June
- Webpage: http://www.iearn.org/democracy/
- Level of Technology Used: e-mail, www, forum
- Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Supporting organization: iEARN
- Language: English
National Cuisine and Traditions
Participating students send their partners pictures of themselves with a short introduction and essay "My Favorite Foods". Later they exchange recipes of their foods and try to cook their partners' dishes, take photographs, and write their reflections. Students then meet online to discuss their experience and ask their partners about their cuisine.
- Age: 10-17 years old
- Dates: Ongoing until 6/30/07 (Check the website for registration deadlines)
- End product for students: Online cookbook
- Level of technology used: Discussion Forum; Email; List server; digital photo
- Webpage: http://www.globalschoolnet.org/GSH/pr/GetDetail.cfm?
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- Contact: Cheryl MacLean - firstname.lastname@example.com
- Supportng Organization – IREX-Uzbekistan
Peace Corps: Coverdell World Wise Schools Program
Coverdell World Wise Schools (CWWS) seeks to engage learners in an inquiry about the themselves and others in order to broaden perspectives, promote cultural awareness, appreciate global connections, and encourage service. School classrooms can be paired with a Peace Corp volunteer during the school year to learn together about the country and community in which the Peace Corps volunteer is working. They can read from the CyberVolunteer archives, in which they can find rich letters from Peace Corps volunteers, accompanied by lesson plans. The Water in Africa project allows teachers to access unit lesson plans on water issues, with photos and stories about water in communities throughout Africa that have been provided by Peace Corps volunteers. Online videos about several countries served by the Peace Corps are available for free viewing.
- Age Level: 5–19
- Curriculum Focus: Interdisciplinary, social studies, language arts, geography
- End Products for Students: Learning about communities around the world, including a better understanding of cross-cultural issues
- Time line/Schedule: Ongoing
- URL: http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws
- Contact Person: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Level of Technology Used: WWW, E-mail
- Supporting Organization: Peace Corps Coverdell World Wise Schools Program
- Language(s) of communication: Primarily English
Postcard Geography
Class-to-class exchange of picture postcards (purchased, computer or handmade). This project creates opportunity to foster global friendships and can be a gateway to class-to-class exchanges of all kinds.
- Age Level: 5-19 Years Old
- Curriculum Focus: Arts, Business, Community Interest, Social Studies, Information Technology, Language Arts
- End Products for Students: Display of postcards and maps on bulletin boards, scrapbooks, web pages
- Timeline/Schedule: Registration: August 15 - September 15, Mailing: September 15 - December 15
- Webpage: http://pcg.cyberbee.com/
- Contact Person: Leni Donlan, US, firstname.lastname@example.com
- Level of Technology Used: Email, Web Based Discussion Form, Snail mail
- Supporting Organization: The Educational CyberPlayGround
- Languages of communication: English or native language
Women in My Country
There are three dimensions of the project:
1) Women's Social Status in one's country (A historical study and comparing women's social status in different types of governments)
2) Politician Women in one's country (A historical Study from ancient times til now)
3) Introducing outstanding women (scientists, researchers, artists, writers).
The project helps the students gain a deeper knowledge of human beings in general while they study historical, sociological, and biological differences between women and men. Thus, they won't categorize people into two opposing groups, or strong and weak ones. Instead, they consider women and men as different human types. Doing the project at an international level, we can compare women's social status in different nations. Studying similarities and differences may result in deeper understanding.
- Category: Interdisciplinary Social Studies
- Ages: 12-14, 15-20
- Expected outcomes: Doing the project at an international level, we can compare women's social status in different nations. Studying similarities and differences between the two genders may result in deeper understanding. Students will identify the problems women face all over the world and offer new solutions.
- Dates: Ongoing
- Languages: English
- Contact: Leila Mohammadhossein, firstname.lastname@example.com
The Teddy Bear Project
An international teddy bear exchange using email. After registration teachers are sent a partner class to work with in this project. The classes send each other a Teddy Bear or other soft toy by airmail. When it arrives the bear writes home a diary message by email at least once a week describing its adventures, the places it has been, as well as the things it has seen and done. Available for Prep/Kinder to Year 9 the project aims to encourage authentic writing by providing the children with a real audience. They write their email messages as if they are the visiting bear. The project provides an opportunity for students to develop understandings about cultures other than their own.
- Age Level: 5-19 Years Old
- Curriculum Focus: Language, the Arts, Social Studies, Technology
- End Products for Students: Many schools will develop web pages demonstrating their participation in the project, including the children's art work. These pages can be linked to form the project home page.
- Time line/Schedule: Ongoing
- Webpage: http://www.iearn.org.au/tbear
- Contact Persons: Anahi Ramos, Argentina, email@example.com; Fumi Ito, Japan, firstname.lastname@example.com
- Level of Technology Used: WWW-based forums, newsreaders, email distribution lists
- Supporting Organization: iEARN
- Languages of communication: English, German, Spanish
UNICEF Voices of Youth
A project created by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) for young people who want to know more, do more and say more about the world. Through readings on the website, participating in forums, children and adolescents in different countries explore, speak out and take action on global issues that are important to them and lead to creating a world fit for children. On a regular basis, Voices of Youth also hosts special chats on child rights issues in which adults and decision makers are occasionally invited to participate.
Voices of Youth is guided by the Convention on the Rights of the Child that ensures young people's rights to participate in decision making processes, to express opinions freely, and to be equipped with the knowledge and skills they need to bring about change in their own lives and in their communities.
- Age Level: 5-19 Years Old
- Curriculum Focus: Social Studies
- End Products for Students: Online Discussion
- Time line/Schedule: Ongoing
- Webpage: http://www.unicef.org/voy/
- Level of Technology Used: WWW-based Forums, Chat
- Supporting Organization: UNICEF
- Languages of communication: English, French, Spanish


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3 anthologies are on their way and I got some stuff in them!
First is Hive #5 from the US. They have a one page strip called Library Tales. If you've grabbed my book already, you may recognize it but it's nice to have some new people see it too. Pre-order now!
A while ago I mentioned this 5 page story and soon you'll find it in the forthcoming New British Comics #3.
Then there is the newspaper format anthology called The Sorry Entertainer which is just being edited. In it will be a brand new page by me about wrestling! I should also mention that you can find my stupid strip Benson Berner in the latest issue of Stool Pigeon music newspaper. The strip is on this blog but you get to have it in paper form and a bunch of other comics too. It's free all over the UK and other countries.

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Hi, I'm trying to time my sorting methods for my class, and I'm unsure why the elapsed time for each one after the first is wrong, I'm updating the start and end times. I'm currently timing my merge sort.
this is what I do using command lines and save to all the running times to a text file: run_times.txt
For example: >java Insertion_sort >> run_times.txt
When I check the run_times.txt I get for example:
elapsed time: 6000ms
run time: 1000ms
run time: 1020ms
run time: 1080ms
*I know the running time of approximatley 6000ms is correct, but why are the other times not timed properly. I reset start and end times after the inner for loop done inserting 1,000,000 items. I hope it's a silly mistake I made...
public static void main(String[] args) { int array = create_array(size); long start = 0; long end = 0; for ( int j=0; i<50; i++ )//run a total of 50 times { start = System.currentTimeMillis();//restarting time after all 1 000 000 items sorted for ( int j = 0; j < 1_000_000; ++j )//turn this into a method, don't do more work by reading values from an array mergeSort(array, 1_000_000); end = System.currentTimeMillis(); System.out.println("Run time: " + (end - start) ); }


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Three first-timers among potential hosts for NCAA tournament
The National Anthem prior to the 2013 NCAA Championship game in the Georgia Dome. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images)
The eight cities named as potential Final Four hosts from 2017-2020 feature five familiar domes. Fortunately, there's a trio of new venues in the mix.
Of the eight finalists, Phoenix is the only city not to have previously hosted a Final Four, but the Minneapolis bid includes the new Vikings stadium, set to open in 2016, and the Atlanta bid aces out the Georgia Dome in favor of the new Falcons Stadium, planned for 2017. Still, the regions named have combined to host 24 previous men's Final Fours, plus the tournament this year and next.
Here's a rundown of the eight prospective hosts, half of which will end up hosting the three-game set.
• Atlanta: Last year's host and the host in 1977, 2002 and 2007 won't be offering up the 71,000-seat Georgia Dome, instead giving the selection committee a look at the new Falcons Stadium. The retractable roof venue will expand to hold 75,000 in time for the 2017 football season, meaning Atlanta is in contention for the 2018, 2019 and 2020 Final Fours.
• Indianapolis: Already host to the Final Four six times (1980, 1991, 1997, 2000, 2006 and 2010), with the most recent occurrence inside the 67,000-seat Lucas Oil Stadium, a favorite city of selection committees the nation over again offers up its retractable-roof venue for the big event. Home to the Colts, Lucas Oil's steel-rail roof closes off and converts into a non-football facility most of the year, which we'll see when it hosts the Final Four in 2015.
• Minneapolis: With previous hosting experience only in 1992 and 2001, this bid includes the planned 65,000-seat Vikings Stadium. The fully enclosed stadium -- with no retractable roof -- will likely open in 2016 and offer a new-look venue with a transparent roof and angular seating arrangement designed to host more than football.
• New Orleans: With past hosting dates in 1982, 1987, 1993, 2003 and 2012m the 72,000-seat Superdome that we've all grown quite familiar with is back in the mix for another Final Four.
• North Texas: Dallas hosted the Final Four in 1986, and we'll see how AT&T Stadium, home to the Cowboys west of Dallas, fares this April when it hosts its first Final Four. Lacking rave reviews from the 2011 Super Bowl, this retractable-roof venue that can seat 80,000 will have a chance to give the NCAA something to think about if it can pull this year's Final Four off in style.
• Phoenix/Glendale: The only city in the mix to have never hosted a Final Four, the 63,000-seat University of Phoenix Stadium, with its retractable roof and grass that slides into the sunshine, is in the running. The stadium also serves as the only proposed venue in the West.
• San Antonio: We've seen the Final Four in San Antonio in 1998, 2004 and 2008, but the second Texas city on the list gives us the 72,000-seat Alamodome for one of the four tournaments.
• St. Louis: The city last hosted a Final Four in 2005, with its only two other hosting opportunities coming in 1973 and 1978. The Edward Jones Dome, home of the Rams since 1995, seats 66,000 and gives the host committee another Midwest city to choose from.
Along with AT&T Stadium hosting the 2014 event and Lucas Oil Stadium in 2015, Houston's Reliant Stadium will handle 2016.
In order to qualify as a Final Four host site, the venue must hold at least 60,000 fans and the city or region must have at least 10,000 full-service hotel rooms "within reasonable proximity to the competition venue."
Bid committees have until May to finalize their bid packets, with the NCAA visiting each finalist city in August, September or October. Expect the announcement of the four winning cities in early November.
Tim Newcomb covers stadiums, design and technology for Sports Illustrated. Follow him on Twitter at @tdnewcomb.


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Better Late Than Never
Well, for some reason, the MLBlogs system wouldn't let me log in today and so you loyal Bastianites out there were left without a pregame post to help feed your daily Blue Jays banter. Of course, as I'm ready to depart the cavernous dome that Toronto dominates so well, the blogger is up and running.
So, no lineups for you all to digest, but I'll offer my postgame thoughts. Dustin McGowan looked good tonight. No, his stuff didn't look particularly dominant, but when he can walk away with those results (7 1/3 scoreless innings and only four hits allowed), under the circumstances, it's pretty impressive.
Go back two starts, when McGowan admitted he was shaking off signs from Gregg Zaun in Boston, where the pitcher was afraid to throw his curve. He became one-dimensional and the BoSox sent him to the showers after a complete beatdown. McGowan said manager John Gibbons spoke with him about using the curve, even when it's not at its best, and the pitcher has listened.
The result? No more win, loss, win, loss, etc; for an eighth straight outing. Over the past two starts, McGowan has allowed two runs and he's picked up two straight wins. During this four-game set, Toronto has turned in three shutouts, courtesy of Josh Towers, Roy Halladay, McGowan and some zeroes from the relief corps.
Good timing, considering both Seattle and Minnesota are above the Jays in the Wild Card race. But it hasn't just been the pitching. During the four-game winning streak — still hard to believe that's the longest of the year, or maybe it's really not hard to believe with all the injuries and lineup woes — Toronto has outscored its opponents 22-4.
A significant streak is needed if the Jays want to make any kind of impact in the Wild Card race. Four games won't cut it. Toronto needs to use capitalize on the chance it has right now and issue a sweep over the Twins on Wednesday. That would be a 5-1 homestand before hitting the road to face the White Sox and Devil Rays — teams Toronto should, key word "should", beat.
Being a realist, I don't think the Jays will be able to make up the ground it needs to cover to get back in the postseason hunt. I know, stranger things have happened, but right now I just don't see it. If Jesse Litsch can show something tomorrow, and Towers can continue his run until A.J. Burnett returns, I guess anything's possible. But it seems like a task far too tall with only 62 games left on the ol' schedule.
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I agree that there is probably too little time in the schedule to make up the ground they need to make up but stranger things have happened. The Mariners are in a bit of a nose dive right now and the Indians have lost two straight to the BoSox. The Yankees are hot right now but the Jays have more games left with them so who knows? I wouldn't put money on them but I'm interested to see if this team can put together the extended winning streak that has eluded them this season and last. I'm curious to see what Gibby's lineup is going to be on Wednesday afternoon. He usually gives a few guys the day off when there is an afternoon game following a night game. I bet we see Clark at third and Thigpen behind the plate tomorrow and possibly Stairs in the lineup as well. Mind you, a day off on Thursday may convince Gibbons to put his best lineup out there to get the sweep.
I, at this point would be happy if they can simply duplicate last years record. To say that they have too little games left is an understatement. However if they can finish the season strong it'll hopefully help the fringe fans in showing up for next year and if they can stay healthy then a wild-card spot (next year) is definitaly a possibility. If they go after David Eckstein in the offseason i'll be happy. By the way a caller on Mike Wilners show asked J.P. specifically if he would be interested in a david Eckstein type of player and Riccardi responded with "i really like david" he couldn't comment any further obviously but that suggests to me that he would at least be curious about it.
I didn't end up watching the game today, but I must say that I am disappointed to have seen that Casey Janssen was used in a 7 to nothing game. Come on John, he couldn't have gone to Tallet, Frasor, or anyone else who's been used less? that was unnecassary.
It was a 4-0 game with a runner on first when Janssen came in. Tallet is more of a long relief guy, and Gibbons was probably saving him in case he would be needed to pitch multiple innings if Litsch had a poor outing tomorrow.
i agree with torgen that putting janessen was the right move because it was 4-0 that time.
i too am anxious to see the lineup today, even though they have a day off tomorrow i don't think we will see glaus.
oh and i think 62 games is alot we have i htink 8 games to make up and we have almost 8 times the chances. If bluejays can get it going especially in the games that matter and against the teams that matter then we may still be in the race. you never know.
Well, when we came out of NY, I would have said it's over as well. BUT
The Jays appear to be on a roll, and if you compare the schedules of Cleveland, Boston, New York and Toronto, we have the lighest schedule through to the end of August. In addition, a lot of teams above us play each other over the next month-particulary Cleveland-Detroit.
We could be as few as 7 games back tonight in the wild card if both Boston and ourselfs win.
So call me an optimist, but if we can keep playing like we have with both pitching and timely hitting-it ain't over yet.
There's also good reason to feel the hitting will continue. With the exception of Rios, every other hitter we have is below their normal yearly output and BA. Baseball is always a game of averages, so I feel the pendulum could "over" sweep as far in the other direction for us and our hitters could go on a tear.
From here on in, this team gets stronger each and every day. If nothing else, we're going to see what this team is capable of over the next 6 weeks-but don't give up hope just quite yet.
Now let's win tonight and hope Boston do as well….
Its not uncommon for a "small" team to have to pay part of a players salary or any team for that matter. The best one that comes to mind is Texas who pays a portion of A-Rod's salary. (They agreed to pay 4mil signing bonus and 67mil of the remaining 179mil ). I am sure they will be ecstatic when they can dump that , we are talking big bucks. I never have agreed with that part of ball .I think if another team wants a player they should have to take over his contract . Players have become a commodity but then baseball is a business
Oh and Harry , I have seen all the movies and have just bought the last book. Now I need to find time to read it . Have a great day all and take care ………GOOOOOOO JAYSSSSSSSS
well said gsummer
now this might be long so get ready
firstly i think JP should sign eckstein and i have expressed my view earlier on why. Now if David eckstein is signed then i believe he is a lead-off kind of guy. That would leave little use for johnson with lind coming up.
Now if we sign eckstein for 2-3 years then we wait until kevin ahrens comes up and takes over at ss. Until then eckstein stays here. Now with eckstien here there might not be a huge need for santos and that i believe would allow us to use him in a trade.
Furthermore with lind coming up and having eckstein johnson might not be needed. Therefore we johnson might also be used in a trade and bring lind up. Re-sign Stairs for the 4th outfeilder and if god-forbid an injury occurs to lind rios and wells we can bring up another kid from minors to majors such as griffin (think he is an outfeilder) because then stairs i think might be good enough to do the everyday job. We could always go the other way and trade lind however i don't like that since he is young and if he can do anything he did last september then he is a good batter to have.
So if eckstein is signed we got johnson or lind and santos we can trade. Now if JP asks bedard's agent if he really does wanna come to TO then how about this offer. Burnett and Santos or Burnett and Johnson (not lind) for Bedard. I believe that it would be good for the Orioles and good for us.
If the orioles are unwilling to trade bedard then we can ask bedard to tell the O's to be traded and then maybe O's will accept offer. Although i doubt any player would do that.
I think there are alot of opions on here so could you guys leave some feedback on it.
one more thing wat position does Snider play? and when do u think he will be up in the majors?
Indigo trust me the last book is the best and it's just so sad that the epic saga of the harry potter books is gone however i will advise u to read till the end and just say that Dumbledore will never truly be gone until there's none who's loyal to him.(something like that)
Personally, I'm not that hot on Eckstein-for two reasons. Number one, by the time spring training rolls around he'll be 33 and definately in the back end of his career. Second, he already makes 4.6 million, so it's likely it'll cost 6 mill per year for 2-3 years, and we'll be tying ourselves down to a contract like the Yanks have with old players.
The other issue is, I don't think we'd get anything of value for Santos, and there's no way the Jays would trade Lind or Johnson and keep Stairs.
Bedard is not going anywhere until he becomes a free agent. Baltimore would be crazy to trade him. Snider plays left field, and you can watch his progress at the following site:
Ahrens is off to a slow start-unfortuantely, so he's likely 3 years away.
Garry brougt up a potential trade that might work. He suggested trading Towers for Jesus Marchan-an up and coming ss with the Phillies. If you'd like to check him out go here:
I don't know if he could make it at the major level, but he certainly looks good.
i saw merchan he is impressive and i would certainly trade for him but like u said he isn't gonna be ready to play short next year so that is of no use to us next year unless u wanna stick with mcdonald. And JP himself said that he like David.
I understand that David is 33 then how about sign him to 2 year deal 33-35 he probably won't be in his prime but i'm certain he can still play. 6 million might be alot however if he wants to play here and with good negotiating we might be able to get him for a little less. Plus if we trade burnett then we will have enough money to sign him and 5-6 millin isn't gonna be a problem.
I didn't wanna get rid of johnson and lind just one of them. And certainly not now but in the off-season. Especially with Wells here for 8 years and rios here and lind and snider coming up. You know that johnson, is probably gonna leave. Why not now? True sinder is still about 1-2 years away from majors but then again lind is ready next year. Therefore we got a major logjam for the outfeild. Think about it out of these 5 which 3 would u keep lind, johnson, wells, rios and snider. I would keep the latter 3 however seeing as snider is 1-2 years away keep lind or johnson for those 2 years and trade the other. If riccardi thinks we can make a serious run for the play-offs then keep stairs other-wise get rid of him and sign him back agian in the off-season. ALso stairs comes cheaper than johnson and lind.
and you are right we might not get any trade value for santos although if put together in a package it might work. A package somewhat like what brought him here in the first place.
If the orioles are gonna be sellers this season then i don't understand why then don't get rid of bedard and get alot in return. Orioles know that he probably doesn't wanna stay there.
some of the ideas are all over the place sorry about that
thanks for the site however i thought that snider can hit for power also however i was wrong. Hopefully he is still developing but his numbers are impressive. These are 4 players from Lansing i like
Travis Sinder:
311 atbats
98 hits
7 hr
60 rbi
44 runs
Scot Campbell: 2b (not the greatest)
272 atbats
50 runs
78 hits
4 hr
31 rbi
51 BB (that's good shows that he is already patient)
Now for pitchers:
seth Overbay:
we already mentioned him he is great however look at adrian martin………..
adrian martin:
2-2 in 4 games started
What do u guys think about them?
the link below gices you a hot link to all minor league teams.
Snider is off to a slower start this year on HR's, last year he led the ookie league. I expect that number will rise before very long-he is streaky on Hr's, like most power hitters.
By the way Seth Overbey is now in New Hampshire. He's jumped from Lansing to Dunedin to New Hampshire in the last 3 months. Not bad.
Good call Derek, Gibbons at his finest again..the team has the day off thursday,they are on a roll, need to win and the ***** still rests Johnson and Glaus…what a surprise.
I don't think htat johnson should be rested i believe johnson can do it, resting glaus is understandable though.
i didn't know snider was off to a slower start, but if like u say he can get his hr going i we would really need to do something about johnson and lind. Perhaps lind can turn DH after thomas is gone.
thanks for the link that's actually where i got the info from.
I didn't get to know what u guys thought about Adrain Martin and Scott Cambell?
And wat about the the long post i posted at 10: 23 am july 25?
I disagree, with the off day Thursday. Clark and his .215 average would have a hard time hitting a beach ball.
perhaps but i think glaus should be well rested too he is always hobbling around and for 1 game i don't think i want to risk him not playing 7 other games.
anyone here get the rogers preview channels?
I do like Merchan and think he could make it with us-particualry with extra help from Macdonald and Buttefield. He's a good contact hitter with speed, so even if he struggles, he shouldn't struggle for long. My concern is Phillie will want more than Towers for him. But we also have Santos as a potential. I think it makes more sense to explore those possibilities than signing some 33 year old on the downside of his career.
This team is going to contend next year, we need both Lind and Johnson. If anyone gets let go it will be Stairs. Snider is likely 2-3 years away-remember he's only 19. When he makes it, then one of the outfielders will get traded, but not likely until then.
We will not trade Burnett-count on it. He's got too much potential. And frankly, our rotation next year of Halliday, Burentt, Marcum, McGowan and either Chacin or Litsche looks really good to me.
mmracing-I agree with you.
Clark is the leadoff hitter????????????
Hey nice start from Jessie-6 pitches and we're out of there
yes halladay burnett mcgowan marcum and towers/chacin/litsch is good however halladay bedard and the rest is even better. But if orioles aren't willing to trade then we should keep burnett and hope he doesn't become too injury prone.
Onto merchan sure he might be good and with the help of mcdonald and butterfield he might get better and good enough to play in the majors however i would rather go with a vet in this situation since the jays are gonna be contenders. and eckstein has some experience in the post season too.
You are correct johnson and lind perhaps should be traded and if we do let go off stairs how are we gonna solve the situitation next year in the out field. Johnson Lind Rios and Wells cause frankly all 4 are starters while stairs is a back-up and that's why i wanted to keep him.
Yes clark shouldn't be leading off it should be vernon especially when he is done so good what is gibbons thinking?
And yes nice start for litch hopefully he can keep it up
13 pitches for silva
first pitch litsch thew to morneau was excellent
Forget about Bedard-he's under the Oriole control until the end of 2008 and they only pay him 3.4 mill a year.
We might be able to trade for him, this time next year if the Orioles do not think they can resing him.
Hey, I didn't say trade Johnson or Lind, I said we need both of them-let stairs go.
Hey 16 pitches, two innings no hits.
Now lets get some runs for the kid
i saying what will u do with our out-feild situitation keep lind on the bench? too young and valuable to do that. Keep johnson? only lead-off guy if we don't get eckstein? keep wells? 128 million gone down the drain + best CF out there keep rios? best jays player no way u can keep him on he bench.
so out of the 4 who do u keep on the bench and who do u play?
ohoh someone's gotten injured hope it's not someone from the jays
how is everybody today,We don't know the story on johnson remember back surgery is no joke he may need this rest,The jays GM likes to keep this information in house so they may not tell us the truth.
As for glaus I said before he's lame but he's game that means he will play with a lot of pain and not show it but it will afect his performance this I know I used to train harness horses and some of them would race through a lot of pain not unlike glaus.
If we go on a roll we really can't afford to trade anyone,we will need Towers and Stairs,If burnett comes back it can only help.
When Chacin comes back trade him and Lind and a prospect???? for Beddard.
It is very uncommon for a small market team to pay salaries for the big market teams. The A-Rod ordeal is a very rare situtation. You say it is common, I would like to here more cases. Sox are known to buy themselves out of the situations they got themselves in. Case and point Edgar Reintara, he didn't fit in Boston so they decided to pay most if not all of his salary in 06 and alot of it in 07 to get Marte so they could ship Marte to Cleveland to get Crisp.


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Food pantry information for low-income residents:
Nancy's Hope Food Pantry located in Columbia detailed map here is open from 10 am to 4 pm each week Monday through Saturday.
St. Patrick's Church Food Pantry in Sonora detailed map here is open for breakfast Tuesdays and Thursdays at St. Patrick's Catholic Church starting at 6:30AM and ending at 8AM
St. Patrick's Church also offers a Food Pantry for low-income residents 9 am to 4 pm Monday through Thursday
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text: News Environment Himalayan Glacier Goof-Up: More Fake Ammo for the Climate Denial Industry By Karl Burkart Writer Swarthmore College University of Oregon Karl Burkart is a writer, architect, digital strategist, and nonprofit executive focused on issues including climate change, biodiversity, clean energy, and sustainable agriculture. our editorial process Karl Burkart Updated November 07, 2019 Share Twitter Pinterest Email News Environment Business & Policy Science Animals Home & Design Current Events Treehugger Voices Let's get this straight. The glaciers in Africa, Europe, Greenland, North America, South America and, yes, the Himalayas are melting. Of the 442 major glaciers, 398 are diminishing and at accelerating rates. This is irrefutable, basic science. What is in doubt is exactly how quickly and in what configuration the melting is occurring. Like all natural systems, the formation and deformation of glaciers is extraordinarily complex, enough so to warrant an entire branch of science (glaciology). For example ... Vast stretch of glaciers in the Tibetan Plateau are dwindling so rapidly that Chinese government officials are becoming increasingly alarmed over the impact of diminishing water supplies. Meanwhile, in another corner of the same plateau (home of Mount Everest) the glaciers appear to be growing. Ice, it turns out, is very complicated stuff. That's why there are hundreds of scientists examining everything from time-lapse photographs to NASA satellite imagery, to atmospheric water vapor particles. But all the evidence points to the same conclusion: The Himalayan glaciers are as a whole diminishing. So let's put that to rest right away. No debate. It's melting. Get used to it. Here's just one example: Now back to the "Glacier Goof-up" story. As it turns out Fred Pearce — the journalist who is responsible for originally publishing the apocalyptic date of 2035 alongside the rather outlandish claim that the Himalayan glaciers would disappear by said date — is the same Fred Pearce who just ran the story in the New Scientist that is causing a euphoric frenzy in the climate skeptic community: Debate heats up over IPCC melting glaciers claim. The title implies that there is some form of a "debate" actually occurring at the IPPC (the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) about whether or not glaciers are melting. Such a debate does not exist and one wonders why the author (or the New Scientist editor) chose to paint the story in such a misleading light. Here's one theory — perhaps this recent article was an attempt to preemptively clear the journalist's name for an error he made back in 1999. According to an article in today's Hindustan Times, the now-retired scientist Dr. Syed Hasnain who allegedly made the 2035 pronouncement, said he was misquoted: On the basis of our research in 1999, I must have said that glaciers in the Central and Eastern Himalayas will lose mass during the next 40/50 years at their present rate of decline. What Dr. Hasnain did not say in reference to the Himalayan glaciers is that "...the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high." That nugget apparently came from the flowing pen of Fred Pearson, a nugget which subsequently ended up in a WWF (World Wildlife Foundation) report that was then briefly cited in one of three IPCC reports published in 2007. At the time the 1999 New Scientist article came out, the claim was roundly dismissed by numerous scientists. But the faux factoid stuck, and for a reason that is utterly incomprehensible to anyone, the authors of the 2007 IPCC felt inclined to reference it. The story gets a little stranger and exposes a fundamental handicap displayed by the scientific community in general — a total lack of concern with public opinion. Scientists only really seem to care about what other scientists think about them. Normal humans just don't seem to matter that much, a point well made by George Monbiot in his description of the almost Laurel & Hardy reaction by scientists in the East Anglia controversy (aka Climate Gate). Watch his hilarious monologue (VIDEO). In the case of the Glacier Goof-up, when Dr. Hasnain found out he had been misquoted, did he ask for a correction? Nah ... for him it was of little importance. The reference was made in the context of a "news story," not a scientific paper. So he figured it didn't really matter that much. Little did he know that this misquotation would eventually put him and the journalist who interviewed him at the center of a climate controversy, while providing the climate change denial industry with their biggest piece of weaponized misinformation to date. And yes, they are working it. Just google "Himalayan glaciers" and you will see pages upon pages of right-wing blogs talking about how this finally proves the IPCC's lack of credibility along with the validity of thousands of hard-core scientific studies published over the last decade. And it's not just the blogs. Several major media publications have picked up the spin with similarly misleading headlines such as this one from the Telegraph: UN report on glaciers melting is based on speculation. How have we come to this? Is everyone hurting so badly for traffic that they would prefer to put out fishbait titles like this knowing full-well that most readers will get as far as "speculation" "debate" and "controversy" and quickly throw the glacier out with the bathwater? At best this is just lame reporting and at worst, a conspiracy to strike a confused public (more) dumb. In perfect inept form, IPCC head Rajendra Pachauri announced that the organization is investigating the matter and will have a position in "... two or three days." Take your time boys, no one is watching ... except tens of thousands of media organizations, numerous well-funded right-wing think tanks, and an army of tweet-happy skeptics that are taking your hesitation to the bank. Fortunately, the Union of Concerned Scientists decided not to wait. They issued a formal statement today clarifying that while the particular reference was in error, "Glaciers are still melting." However this controversy works out and whomever gets fired over it, one thing is certain ... the glaciers really don't care what any of us think. They're going to keep trickling away. Photo above of Rajendra Pachuri by University of Copenhagen. ADDENDUM: I found out that the BBC called out this epic blunder on the part of the IPCC last year. Another report stated the date of 2350 (as the likely last day of the great Himalayan glaciers). The BBC surmises that a little dyslexia was to blame for inclusion in the report, which seems far-fetched given that this equally speculative figure came from a 1996 report, 10 years before we had amassed sufficient evidence to plot the speed of deglaciation in the Himalayas. When confronted with this blunder last year, RK Pachauri said. "I don't have anything to add on glaciers." Also check out: 10 places to visit before they vanishTop 7 Disappearing Glaciers


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A federal magistrate granted bail Thursday for Keith Jackson, state Sen. Leland Yee's former fundraiser and co-defendant on political corruption charges, rejecting prosecutors' request to hold him in jail until trial.
Jackson, former president of the San Francisco Board of Education, was one of 26 defendants charged last week with conspiring to commit crimes in exchange for payoffs from undercover FBI agents. He faces some of the most serious charges, including gun trafficking, drug dealing and arranging a purported murder for hire.
But at a hearing Thursday morning, U.S. Magistrate Nathanael Cousins said he was convinced that Jackson, a "lifelong member of this community with significant ties to this community" and no criminal record, could be released safely while awaiting trial.
Cousins set bail at $250,000, partly secured by property posted by family members. Jackson was released from jail in Oakland at 6:30 p.m. after prosecutors unsuccessfully appealed Cousins' order.
Yee, facing seven felony charges for allegedly agreeing to import guns and promising preferential treatment for undercover agents posing as campaign contributors, is free on a $500,000 bond.
The San Francisco Democrat was suspended from office by his fellow senators after the charges were filed, and gave up his campaign for secretary of state.
An FBI affidavit said the five-year investigation initially targeted Chinatown gangster Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow and his associates, accused of laundering $2.3 million for undercover agents. Investigators said they started looking at Yee in 2011 after Jackson, an associate of both Yee and Chow, asked an undercover agent to contribute to Yee's campaign for San Francisco mayor.
Between 2011 and early this year, federal agents alleged, Yee accepted thousands of dollars in contributions and promised in return to help his supposed donors win contracts, meet with key lawmakers and receive illegal firearms.
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Ted Kennedy Laid to Rest at Arlington National Cemetery
Political friends and foes mourn "greatest senator of our time."
Aug. 29, 2009 -- Eulogized by a president, mourned by the powerful and buried among the nation's fallen heroes, Sen. Ted Kennedy was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery this evening following a day of pomp and pageantry befitting the last prince of America's most prominent political family.
His sundown burial in Arlington, 100 feet from where his slain brothers President John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy are interred, followed three days of official mourning after his death from brain cancer late Tuesday night. His body was transported from his seaside home in Hyannis Port to Boston Thursday.
A funeral was held Boston this morning, before an honor guard accompanied Kennedy's body back to Washington for a final visit to the Capitol and burial at Arlington.
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica in Roxbury, Mass., was filled Saturday morning with the scent of incense and pew upon pew of politicians and dignitaries -- including President Obama, three former presidents and dozens of lawmakers -- who came to pay their respects to a man who spent his life in public service and whose name became synonymous with liberalism for an entire generation.
A military honor guard carried a flag-draped coffin into the church as steady rain fell. As his sons Ted Kennedy Jr. and Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., remembered their father, Kennedy's wife Vicki sat stoically, though choking back tears.
Ted Kennedy Jr. spoke from the pulpit about a day shortly after losing a leg to cancer when he was 12 years old, when he slipped walking up an icy driveway as he headed out to go sledding. "I started to cry and I said, 'I'll never be able to climb up that hill,'" he said.
"And he lifted me up in his strong, gentle arms and said something I will never forget. He said, 'I know you can do it. There is nothing that you can't do.'"
'Ted Kennedy Has Gone Home Now'
In his eulogy, Obama hailed Kennedy as a staunch liberal, "the lion of the U.S. Senate -- a man whose name graces nearly 1,000 laws, and who penned more than 300 himself," and praised him for political acumen and willingness to cross the aisle.
He said it was the senator's "own suffering" -- the assassinations of his brothers, the cancer battles of two children and the deaths of three nephews whom he helped raise -- that made Kennedy "more alive to the plight and suffering of others."
Obama's speech was at turns political and personal as he remembered a friend whose endorsement helped boost last year's presidential campaign.
"The landmark laws that he championed -- the Civil Rights Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, immigration reform, children's health care, the Family and Medical Leave Act -- all have a running thread. Ted Kennedy's life's work was not to champion those with wealth or power or special connections," Obama's said.
Recalling Kennedy's own words at the 1980 Democratic National Convention, the speech that ended his presidential ambitions and fomented his fate as a lifelong legislator, Obama said: "Ted Kennedy has gone home now, guided by his faith and by the light of those he has loved and lost. At last he is with them once more, leaving those of us who grieve his passing with the memories he gave, the good he did, the dream he kept alive."
Also in attendance were Vice President Joe Biden, former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Jimmy Carter, and Kennedy's closest colleagues, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
More than 85 members of the Kennedy family attended, including wife Vicki and his five children, niece Maria Shriver and her husband, Republican Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The sea of dark suits and somber faces also included actor Jack Nicholson and singer Tony Bennet.
Kennedy Funeral Procession Greeted by Hundreds at Capitol
Following the funeral Kennedy was flown to Washington for burial.
Much the way mourners lined the streets for his arrival by hearse in Boston on Wednesday, thousands of people stood outside the Capitol, where hundreds of legislators and Congressional staffers crowded the steps outside the Senate to cheer as Kennedy's casket stopped.
His journey from the Capitol to Arlington followed the same route of President Kennedy's 1963 funeral procession.
At Arlington, his casket was accompanied by a "joint casket team," an honor guard composed of members of all the branches of the armed forces. An Army firing party fired 21 shots, and a bugler played "Taps."
Kennedy's grave site will be marked by Sunday morning with a "very modest" walkway leading to it. It will feature a wooden cross and a footstone until a "more substantial" memorial can be placed, said John Metzler, the cemetery's superintendent.


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Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Worst of NYC Craigslist SPECIAL EDITION: More Bike Love
You ran over my cat with your fixed gear track bike - m4w - 24
Reply to: [deleted]: 2007-07-16, 11:04AM EDT
You were the tall, skinny girl in the skinny jeans and winter cap who ran over my cat last week because you could not stop your fixed gear track bike in time. Don't you think you should pay my vet bills? Also, I thought you were cute, even if in a stinky and reckless sort of way. Maybe if we get over this hump we can go hang out together and stuff. Do you like Japanther?
Yes, I already posted this one, but I'm posting it again since he added the bit about "Do you like Japanther?" In fact he's posted this a few times since I linked to it last. Obviously it's a fake, but what's this guy's motivation? Laughs? Attention? Is he trying to solicit serious replies? Regardless, it's a perfect example of people wanting the worst thing for them--like making a keirin bike with no tire clearance, no braze-ons, and no provision for a brake your only ride. She ran over his cat, and guaranteed if they get together she'll end up severing some part of his body in her fixed-gear drivetrain.
your dread mullet is gone.... - w4m - 20 (Lower East Side)
Reply to: [deleted]: 2007-07-14, 3:08PM EDT
but i still like the way the elephant on the back of your leg moves when you ride your bike on Ave A. lets split a pack of blue American Spirits
"Yeah, could you do a tattoo that looks like it's moving when I ride my fixed-gear?" Just like the decals sell the bike, the hair, clothes and accessories sell the person. Another potential disaster. At 20 years old I suppose this poor girl is still about six broke musicians and four STDs away from figuring out what to actually look for in a guy. Though I suppose the fact that she still likes him despite his having cut off his "dread mullet" implies she's maturing a bit.
Woman on Track Bike - m4w - 29
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Date: 2007-07-14, 11:43AM EDT
Saturday morning you were riding w me down 5th ave from 42nd street to union square. i had a white track bike. you had blue shorts and you had yellow bull horn handle bars. ive been looking for a track bike riding partner that can keep up, and your super fast. wanna hit the streets?
Mixing romance and cycling can be tricky. Certainly some people can do it successfully. (Tim Johnson and Lynn Bessette for example.) But more often trying to find a partner whose interest in cycling equals yours is a bad idea. As George Costanza will tell you, worlds will collide. Finding a girl who likes to drink beer and watch sports, or a guy who likes to shop and get manicures (just to employ some tired stereotypes) might seem like a good idea in theory, but you might not be so happy once it actually happens.
That said, I see two potential scenarios here. In the first, an overzealous guy with no riding partners attempts to show off and drops a frustrated and bored girl at every intersection. In the second, an overzealous guy with no riding partners gets dropped at every intersection by a girl who's a much stronger rider than him. I think in either case this guy will eventually learn to do what the rest of us do: regale our significant others with greatly enhanced tales of our riding exploits after we get home.
you were riding the train i was riding my bike - m4w - 23
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Date: 2007-07-12, 9:39PM EDT
I know this sounds silly, and so late, but i haven't stopped thinking about you. you were on the train and i was riding my bike over the manhattan bridge, tried to give you my number. i remember your dark hair and waving to me. i hope to god you are looking at this, cuz that would fucking rock
yours aaron
Okay, I'll admit it. This one plucked the spokes of my heart. I imagine the kid from "Breaking Away," riding his red Masi next to the Q train as a dark-haired bambina waves a white hanky from within, like a parting scene in an old movie. This idyll is only slightly tainted by his use of the phrase, "that would fucking rock." Of course it's possible that this guy is an unemployed lunatic who spends the day riding back and forth pantsless on the Manhattan Bridge pedestrian path, trying desperately to get the attention of women on the train. And of course it's also possible that what he interpreted as a wave was in fact an obscene gesture of some kind. Nonetheless, I'm going to allow myself to remain deluded, and to imagine that somewhere something is happening that doesn't completely piss me off.
23 comments:
- Jim said...
Oh snobtastic one:
That bike/train love guy - if she ever replies to him - how long do you think they go before he realizes he can't stand her because she's the kind of knucklehead with such bad judgment, that she looks at an idiot wearing ragged clothing, with no visible means of support, no discernable vocabulary and no brakes on his bike, and thinks, "Hmmmm... good relationship material..."?
- July 17, 2007 at 12:35 PM
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- July 17, 2007 at 2:08 PM
- July 17, 2007 at 2:37 PM
- Art said...
Speaking of skidded up tires, check this genius out:
Is this brakeless wonder hard to stop because it has Conti Hometrainer tires? Or is it because the description implies that those tires are mounted on tubular rims? I think Boise State is going to want that diploma back.
Also, bonus points for the randomly placed top tube protector.
- July 17, 2007 at 2:51 PM
- BikeSnobNYC said...
Oh, my god, that Seattle bike proves once and for all the fixed-gear customizing scene has caught and surpassed the Harley customizing scene in terms of sheer wanton spending and bad taste.
The Conti Hometrainer bike is sublime. It is actually already part of my next post, but for a totally different reason. Thank you for pointing that out. Absolutely stunning.
- July 17, 2007 at 3:23 PM
- BikeSnobNYC said...
Oh, Art, I went back and took a closer look at the rims. I'm at least going to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume they're clinchers. Mavic did used to make a Reflex clincher in that anodized blue color, if I recall correctly. Though when you're riding around town on a home trainer-specific tire, anything is possible...
- July 17, 2007 at 3:27 PM
- Art said...
Thanks. I've only seen the Reflex in tubular, and was wondering how he got those tires onto them.
- July 17, 2007 at 4:04 PM
"I used to be into hip-hop and rap, but now I'm feeling the Hipster crowd, mostly for the hotter chicks!"
That's preposterous! The chicks are WAY hotter in the hip-hop scene...seriously!
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- July 17, 2007 at 6:26 PM
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I showed the guys at my local shop your site and I they got a good laugh out of the fixies, which are currently the bane of the service manager's existence.
He said for the past few months there hasn't been a day when a guy in girl's jeans has come in to get his "chain tightened" or a cog swapped. He said whenever they complain about being charged, which is every time, he'll just point to their front wheel and remind them if they can afford carbon they can afford to pay $10 for a cog swap.
- July 17, 2007 at 6:38 PM
I had a pair of those blue Reflex clinchers in the late 90's. Same thing as what's now called the Open Pro and what was previously called the Open 4.
- July 17, 2007 at 6:56 PM
Hey, I've ridden Ksyriums... when they were free!
- July 18, 2007 at 7:45 PM
- Unknown said...
Jim wrote:
she's the kind of knucklehead with such bad judgment, that she looks at an idiot wearing ragged clothing, with no visible means of support, no discernable vocabulary and no brakes on his bike, and thinks, "Hmmmm... good relationship material..."?
How exactly is one's means of support supposed to be visible when one is riding a bicycle? Were we all issued jerseys with our job titles and tax brackets emblazoned on the back? If so, I didn't get mine. Can I just shout it out when I pass people?
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I think "no visible means of support" implies he is seen hanging out from 11 am to 3 am every day. Often face, hand and neck tattoos are involved, and requesting that the girl pay for everything on the first date and every date thereafter can be a clue.
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Why was I worried? Because at the time, all (OK probably 98%) of them were drinkers. And that's what we did together most of the time when we hung out. We got wasted.
What was I worried about? Two things. Firstly, getting a lot of shit for becoming alcohol free. And sadly, this did happen. It was awkward and unpleasant for about the first two months but I stayed true to myself and didn't cave to the peer pressure. Secondly, would I still HAVE any friends as an alcoholfree person?!? Scary thought!!!!
To explore these fears, I confided in my wonderful, lovely fitness coach from http://www.swellfitliving.com She gave me some advice back in January that I'm forever grateful for. And I want to share this with you – it's been a powerful life lesson for me! She said:
- That as I embark on my new journey, I WILL find a new tribe. That I willl attract positive people including new friendships, centered around positive, supportive, healthy lifestyles
- My real friends will love, respect and support me on my alcoholfree journey. Rather than drinking, we can do brunches, lunches and real friendships will grow stronger and stronger as time goes on.
And you know what? She was absolutely right!!!! I was sooooo wrong. I spent time and energy worrying about nothing. 🤦🏽♀ I don't like to admit I am wrong about things. But I was so wrong in this case!
The reality of what happened was as follows. Over the last few months, I:
- Have lost a small handful of 'friends'. But we're we really friends or just drinking acquaintances? If they don't what to know me for the alcoholfree me, that's their loss. I've moved on.
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English 205
Section 01 [H]
Spring 2007
MWF 11:10 am - 12:00 noon.
Todd 311
Intro. Shakespeare
Course Description:
This course has been very recently designed and created for non-English-majors who recognize that a university experience is not complete without at least one Shakespeare class but who may hesitate to enroll in a 300-level class they think will be filled with lots of literary and language virtuosi.
So, we'll read and see some Shakespeare plays, most of which will be selected by class vote. We'll give some heretical consideration to the Authorship Controversy and Tudor Cover-Up. We'll see a lot of Shakespeare in film clips, and we'll take advantage of any film adaptations or local performances appearing this season.
Why you want this course:
- You can finally work past the trauma of high school Shakespeare.
- Shakespeare essentially created our conception of what a human being is, of human psychology and human relationships. In other words, Shakespeare created us.
- How can you accept a university degree without having taken a Shakespeare class?
- Shakespeare shaped the English language more than anyone else, ever.
- It may be your last chance to master this key field of subtle literacy.
- Shakespeare cultivates sensitivity and sensibility. How much of that is in circulation these days?
- A guy who's been dead for four hundred years can make you laugh and feel something. That's a kind of miracle.
Course Objectives:
To gain exposure to Renaissance (or Early Modern) thought, poetic craft, and drama by poring over the works of one rather well-known English author.
To increase intellectual maturation and clarification of our own values through examination of ideas and attitudes in literary/cultural contexts and through articulation of these.
To develop skills in verbal analysis, critical thinking, and detection of subtlety through reading, discussion, and writing about some tricky literature.
Required Text:
The Riverside Shakespeare. 2nd ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1997.
Course Requirements:
A significant part of your life this semester has to become Shakespeare studies. Studying this stuff can be demanding, but at least we'll be doing it together as a "learning community." Because classroom interaction is essential for this to be a valuable experience, and because frequent quizzes and homework writings will be exchanged and no late assignments of any sort will be accepted, more than a few absences will affect your grade regardless of reason. Here's the math:
I will frequently ask for relatively minor homework assignments to be turned in (or submitted electronically), designed primarily to stimulate subsequent discussion [although it will arise anyway because the readings are so provocative (i.e., cool)] and to practice conventions for writing about literature. At other times I will ask you to answer questions in writing in class, often ad lib responses to the reading before class discussion begins. Homework assignments and quizzes will receive numerical grades (points) and, although these writings cannot be made up (except for a couple optional writings that can take their place), the final semester totals will be curved if necessary. (30%)
You will submit two written projects of manageable length. (30%)
Your presence will be kindly requested at three exams. (30%)
Class participation and other service to the learning community will be expected (occasional group work, for example). (10%)
Students with Disabilities:
I am committed to providing assistance to help you be successful in this course. Reasonable accommodations are available for students with a documented disability. Please visit the Disability Resource Center (DRC) during the first two weeks of every semester to seek information or to qualify for accommodations. All accommodations must be approved through the DRC (Admin. Annex Bldg. Room 205). Call 509-335-3417 to make an appointment with a disability counselor.


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"I don't have anything to say about Bruges. NOW LEAVE ME ALONE!"
"That's for John Lennon, ya Yankee fuckin' cunt!"
"I grew up in Dublin, I love Dublin. Maybe, if I grew up on a farm, and was retarded, Bruges might impress me, but I didn't, so, it doesn't"
Bruges is a very boring city in the very boring province of West-Vlaanderen in the very boring country of Belgium. Because of this, the author of this article may or may not have spiced things up a bit, by inserting very subtle exagerations and slightly twisted facts.
BRUGES IS ON TEH MOON!!... Wait, what?... I said slightly twisted facts...Ok, Bruges used to be near the sea, and we all know it will be near the sea again (with all that global warming going on) so just remember this: Bruges is near the sea. It will eventually become the Venice of Belgium, but that's not until april 12, 2032, so just forget that for now. Bruges is a mere 44 km from Ghent to the southeast and 145km from Brussels, and, it's just 385000 km from the moon. The neighbouring villages are: Waffle Ville, Sprouttown, Tinkle Town, and New Seattle.
Bruges was inhabited in 400 BC by a group of lost mongolians. As they settled they found the area rich with resources of boredom and gray weather.
Later on during the medieval times, Bruges became known for the creativity of it's inhabitants, in fact the first ever recorded instance of a group suicide was registered in Bruges, when Jan the Mongolian and Pieter the wiseman with the crooked cock, convinced a group of their loyal followers that God would punish them for their sins (mainly consisting in marrying their own cousins), by sending down from the skies sunny weather and nightclubs.
A statue in honour of these pioneers is today erected in the main market square of Bruges, also the tower that overlooks the square was based on the form of noble man Pieter's crooked cock. And tourists today can still buy and enjoy fries shaped into the form of his member.
We all like hot chicks, cold beer, cool nightclubs, so naturally Bruges has none of that. Why do you think Dr Evil (Bruges most famous inhabitant) became so evil? Not because he was having a good time in Bruges! Seriously, the only good thing Bruges has to offer is Brugse Zot, which means "The Bruges' crazy man" and is a kind of beer. Needless to say, if you drink to much of it, you'll go crazy. So it isn't even that good. Apart from that, Bruges is all about small alleys, (perfect for robbing old ladies) old buildings such as the Sagrada Familia, (yawn) and Bruges' main export products are: starch and boredom. (yawn again.)
Famous Brugesieans[edit]
Dr Evil (most famous Brugeaiulean)
Jan The Mongolian (founder of Bruges)
Pieter The Wiseman With The Crooked Cock (co-founder of Bruges)
Rik Torfs (Bruges' popular cocaine snorting vampire)
Jan Van Eyck (Painter)
Kamagurka (Cartoonist and comedian)
Jean-Pierre Van Rossem (Genius, master thief, politician and prisoner)
As mentioned before, Bruges main export product is starch, and starch related products such as: starch porridge, starch and sprouts tv dinners, the tv show Husky and Starch, the tv show Starch and Starch, and furthermore, starch starch starch starch starch. In 2032 however, the main export product will become Ecstacy. Many labs throughout the town are already producing it, but the inhabitants of Bruges are waiting for the sea to come back so they can export the stuf by ship.
Bruges has a "seapark", which is called the Dolphinarium. This is not really a seapark though, it's actually a training facility for military dolphins. The dolphins there are trained to tip over ships with their snouts, do recon missions, and even to defuse seamines. Some inhabitants of Bruges say that genetic modification goes on there as well, and that the Dolphinarium is creating flying dolphins. Wether this is to be attribuated to the halucinogenic properties of the "Brugse Zot" or not, is unsure at this point.
|Belgium · Belgium/Cities · Brussels · Antwerp · Flanders · Bruges · Aarschot
|Language and Ethnic Groups
|Flemish · French · Belgian · Belgians · Walloons (les) · Wallon (la)
|Culture and History
|Belgium national cricket team · Belgian Mountain Troops · Battle of Waterloo · WWI · Pommes Frites style Pont Neuf avec sa Mayonnaise
|Hercule Poirot · Tintin · Marcel Poot · Peter Paul Rubens · Rik Torfs


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Number of Recording Pixels- Still Images:1) 16:9 - Large: 4000 x 2248; Medium 1: 2816 x 1584; Medium 2: 1920 x 1080; Small: 640 x 3602) 3:2 - Large: 4000 x 2664; Medium 1: 2816 x 1880; Medium 2: 1600 x 1064; Small: 640 x 4243) 4:3 - Large: 4000 x 3000; Medium 1: 2816 x 2112; Medium 2: 1600 x 1200; Small: 640 x 4804) 1:1 - Large: 2992 x 2992; Medium 1: 2112 x 2112; Medium 2: 1200 x 1200; Small: 480 x 480
Videos:- Full HD 1920 x 1080: 60 fps, 30 fps (29.97)- HD 1280 x 720: 30 fps (29.97)- Miniature Effect HD 1280 x 720: 6 fps, 3 fps, 1.5 fps- Miniature Effect 640 x 480: 6 fps / 3 fps / 1.5 fps- Super Slow Motion Movie 640 x 480: 120 fps- Super Slow Motion Movie 320 x 240: 240 fps- 640 x 480: 30 fps (29.97)- Digest Movie HD 1280 x 720: 30 fps (29.97)
Playback SpecificationsPlayback Modes FileStills & Videos:- Auto Rotate (Automatic vertical/horizontal detection), Index Continuous Display, Image Advance (Operation Tools, Transition Effects, Scroll Display), Rotate, Favorites, My Category, Smart Shuffle, Group Playback, Digest Movie, Slideshow (Playback Interval, Repeat, Effect, Playlist), Search (Date, Favorites, Digest, People, Name)Still Images:- Single, Index, Magnification (2-10x), Switch to other images while zoomed, Information Display, Discreet, Red-eye Correction, i-Contrast, Photobook Setup, Trimming, Resize, My Colors, Face ID Info, Information Display (Histogram, Location Information, Overexposure Warning)Videos:- Normal Playback, Slow Motion, Skip Backward, Previous Frame, Next Frame, Skip Forward, Erase chapters, Editing- Using the software included with the camera (ImageBrowser EX), there are 8 levels (1/8x to 1x) of playback speed for Super Slow Motion Movies possible on a computer.
Erasing SpecificationsErase Modes- Select Image, Select Range, Select All Images- The image data in the memory card stored with the Design rule for Camera File systems format can be erased (however, protected images cannot be erased).- Using the Movie editing function, sections of the movie can be deleted.
InterfacesVideo Out- NTSC/PAL (dedicated connector (female) with unified type of digital, audio and video), Mini-HDMITM connector
Audio Out- Stereo (dedicated connector (female) with unified type of digital, audio and video)
Other- SD memory card slot; direct connection to Canon SELPHY, PIXMA Photo Printers & PictBridge compatible printers
Power Source- Battery Pack NB-6L
Shooting Capacity- Normal: Approx. 210 shots- ECO Mode: Approx. 260 shots
Playback Time- Approx. 3 hr. 30 min.
Physical SpecificationsOperating Temperature- 32-104?F/0-40?C
Operating Humidity- 10-90%
Dimensions (W x H x D)- 4.19 x 2.47 x 1.28 in. / 106.4 x 62.8 x 32.6mm
Weight- 8.22 oz. / 233g (CIPA standard)- 7.41 oz. / 210g (Body only)- All data are based on Canon's Standard Test Method. Subject to change without notice.