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Isn't publically offering a $5million dollar personal check to a sitting President with the aim of soliciting special favours or services in kind a serious federal offence..?
Sure, it might be made out to "a charity of your choice", but that's just the same as offering a cop who pulls you over to make a spontaneous donation to the Fraternal Order of Police Benevolent Fund or private fundraising for Central American Contra Death Squads in order to pay for them to have food and adequate medical supplies in the field. And not bazookas.
Didn't he claim to be "totally satisfied" the last time once he saw the long form birth certificate?
What's he going to demand next time? Paternity test? Cheek swab? Skin sample? The Suddentenland?
The real painful truth about Donald Trump is this: he is, in actuality, a TERRIBLE businessman.
And unbelievably, just by sheer virtue of the fact no-one's ever sumouned the will or the patience to tell it to him straight, he actually believes he's a one-man corporate genius, demigod of a tycoon and that his hair and his face look either natural or good. And not like Snooki's delinquent absentee father/deadbeat Dad.
He doesn't have the intellectual or financial prowess to calculate a tip properly.
Check out some of these failed business schemes that have bankrupted other people (never him) about four or five times now... They're just awful, ideas TERRIBLE business pitches with absoulutely no market and no future:-
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"In the early 90s, Trump found himself the owner of apersonal debt of $900 million. That's not the companies he owns. At the time, his companies were in $3.5 billion of corporate debt. No, he himself owed almost a billion dollars personally after somehow convincing the world he was worth more than NASA's 30-year Voyager missions to Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus.
You could offer to buy everyone in the United States a drink and not owe as much money as he did. He could have personally cancelled out the Seychelles' economy by moving there.
While sane men with jobs can't borrow a few grand, a man who's filed more 11's than a fantasy soccer manager was allowed to spend the lifetime income of over five hundred of them before anyone noticed he didn't actually have it. The corporate debts equal the entire education budget of two states, meaning society would actually have seen the exact same fiscal return if they'd invested the money in educating millions of children. And people still lend him money today. Enjoy that thought as you chew dry macaroni to pay off your student loans."
"In 1988 Eastern Air Lines routes were about as profitable as Indian buffalo hunting grounds, and dying out faster. Trump's cunning plan was to buy them and make them more expensive. He justified the increased fares with the sort of pointless bling typically reserved for silver-plated watermelons. The Trump Shuttles featured maple wood veneer floors, chrome seat belt latches, and gold-plated toilet fittings so that the passengers could know how it felt to value money as much as Trump does.
His idea of the Mile High Club is to screw investors up there
His idea of the Mile High Club is to screw investors up there
The purchase was financed by a $380 million loan from 22 banks and not one of them ever saw a cent. As we'll soon find out, Trump has knocked over more banks than the Joker, who at least leaves once he's taken the money. Trump tends not to be satisfied with ruining mere days.
For instance, after he defaulted on the loans the banks were forced to repossess the airline's assets, which it turns out were worth approximately as much as the Hindenburg's spare gas tank. They couldn't sell them, they couldn't use them, and they had to negotiate a settlement to force the company to even try to turn a profit. Since then it's been repeatedly re-merged with other divisions in the world's only financial application of homeopathy. They seem to be attempting to dilute it with enough other companies that Trump's presence will stop mattering quite as much."
Read more: 10 Stories About Donald Trump You Won't Believe Are True | Cracked.com http://www.cracked.com/blog/10-stories-about-donald-trump-you-wont-believe-are-true/#ixzz2AHtTddqM
Oh, I can't resist it any longer....
Just one last time, for old time's sake...


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At some point, San Jule befriended Bob Anshen, an equally gregarious man who moved in similar left-wing, intellectual circles. In 1950, as Eichler was starting his homebuilding business, Anshen's firm, Anshen and Allen, came on board as architect and Anshen suggested Eichler use San Jule for marketing.
Eichler and San Jule hit it off. "They had a relation that was almost like a love affair," says Joe Eichler's son, Ned Eichler. "They were very close." Both shared the same political and social convictions.
"We felt we were pioneers, like exploring a new country," San Jule said in a 1996 interview, "and that's what made us close. I remember back then, there was such a great deal of excitement that I never wanted to go to bed at night." His bed was in an Eichler home, first in Redwood City, then Palo Alto.
"The days of Eichler Homes were days of great progress in housing in this country," San Jule said during a 2003 appearance at the 'Celebrate Eichlers' event in Palo Alto. "It revolutionized the whole concept of subdivision housing."
In the 1996 interview, San Jule said he, Eichler, and Anshen formed a partnership with a "handshake agreement." San Jule always credited himself as one of the founders of Eichler Homes. Ned says that neither San Jule nor Anshen ever had an ownership stake in the Eichler company.
But San Jule clearly made a large mark on the young firm. He designed the publicity, secured local and national press, and handled governmental relations and permitting—which wasn't easy, given the unusual structure and look of the homes.
He recalled taking out full-page ads in every San Francisco paper for new model homes in 1950. "The first weekend 20,000 people showed up."
"That could have been the first time anybody ever took out full-page ads for houses," he said.
After Eichler delivered what San Jule called a "tremendously arrogant, angry speech" to a city council, San Jule replaced him as the public face of the company.
Don Tishman, the developer who used San Jule for similar purposes decades later, recalls San Jule's effectiveness. "He was calm. He didn't get excited. He had a great sense of public relations, and he was very good at positioning an entity. He was really good at branding before anyone else was."
Joe Eichler also gained attention as one of the very few homebuilders at the time who would sell to blacks and other minorities. This was something Eichler believed in strongly. But it's possible that San Jule goaded him into it, and certain that San Jule was staunchly behind the policy.
"We broke down all the resistance that was based on racial prejudice," San Jule said in 2003. "We were the first ones [among tract developers] to do that, and it worked."
Stories from the early days of Eichler Homes tell of Eichler and San Jule tossing out customers who complained about minorities moving in. San Jule brought the same open-door policy to his next job, at the homebuilder Burke and Wyatt, says Koshland, who worked for the firm as loan processor.
Financing for open-plan, odd-looking modern homes was often hard to arrange in the early 1950s. Banks and the Federal Housing Authority and the Veterans Administration were afraid they wouldn't be marketable. Banks and federal agencies were also reluctant to lend to projects that sold to blacks. San Jule and Eichler lobbied for federal financing reforms.
San Jule continued his crusade against discriminatory lending in later years, when he served on committees of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). He bragged that his efforts helped lead to the creation in 1965 of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Eichler was in business to make money but, like San Jule, he was motivated as well by social ideals. In years to come, Eichler built urban neighborhoods and urban highrises, including redevelopment projects on blighted land. It's not unlikely that San Jule's idealism and dedication to providing housing for all rubbed off on his boss.
But San Jule could also rub Eichler the wrong way. "He and my father were bound to clash. They both had big egos," Ned Eichler says. And Joe Eichler got upset at San Jule's drinking. "He fired him for some reason," Ned says.
San Jule was deeply hurt, Ned says, and the two men never had a rapprochement after he left the company in 1953. But in later years San Jule always spoke of Eichler with affection.
The falling out with Eichler was one of several personal and professional setbacks San Jule was to have in his career. It coincided with a divorce from Miriam—and his quick marriage to Yvonne, whose husband was his college friend and who had been living in an Eichler in Palo Alto. Yvonne brought to the marriage three young children; they later had a daughter.

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During the moving of my things from Mike's porch, when Mike and I were both in the hospital, my Cutterpillar was lost. It was freezing and they only had one half day to get everything in the storage unit. I think it and my scoreboard, all my card samples and a beautiful candle warmer got thrown out, even though the Cutterpillar was in the box. As I don't want to spend the money on another Cutterpillar, I have been looking smaller. I have come down to a Fiskars trimmer that folds in half and a Cutterpillar Crop. Does anyone have either of these. I have read the reviews on Amazon. The two things I want are to be able to cut multiple sheets of paper and to get an accurate cut I know about the inaccuracy of the 6 in measurment on the Fiskars, but that doesn't really bother me, but they also said that the cuts weren't ccompletely accurate, but I don't know if the Crop cuts more than 2 sheets of paper, If that is the case, I will go with the Fiskars. Does anyone Have experianc with either of these? Please excuse any mistakes as I am not seeing what I have typed very well.
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By Harold E. Varmus, Director of the U.S. National Cancer Institute; and Robert D. Hormats, Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment
For many people, the term biodiversity might seem highly technical and irrelevant to their day to day concerns. If you think that, think again. It may just save your life.
Biological diversity—or biodiversity—simply refers to the variety of plants, animals, and other living things on Earth. The Earth's biodiversity has an immense impact on our daily lives and cannot be taken for granted. Today, Earth Day, is a chance to reflect on the value of our planet's biodiversity and to take action to ensure that it is protected.
Tragically—and to the detriment of all of us—Earth's biodiversity is disappearing at an alarming rate. This is due to factors such as deforestation, environmental degradation, and habitat destruction from agriculture, settlement, and other uses; pollution; climate change; and chronic over-exploitation or poaching of fish and wildlife species. Scientists estimate that the planet is losing species at a rate 1,000 to 10,000 times above the rate of species extinction that would occur normally without human activity. Particularly disheartening is the fact that, in many cases, we are losing species before we even know of them or know how they fit into our shared planet.A green crested lizard in Borneo is one example of the planet's staggering biodiversity. Photo: Lee Ellams, My Shot
The benefits of biodiversity are immeasurable. Biodiversity is the foundation of agriculture, forests, and fisheries. Plants and animals support tourism and trade. Biodiversity in ecosystems plays a critical role in the global carbon cycle and contributes to nutrient and water cycling. The loss of life on Earth—from microscopic bacteria to migratory birds—threatens the proper function of our planet. Moreover, biodiversity loss deprives humanity of scientific insights into the origins and evolution of life, as well as future beneficial discoveries in medicine, agriculture, and other fields.
There are numerous examples of advances stemming from bio-inspiration: The piranha bite-proof scales of the arapaima fish are being studied by scientists and engineers to develop new types of body armor that are strong yet flexible. Lessons learned from biological antifreeze proteins found in the blood of Arctic fish are being used to enhance cyro-preservation techniques for human organ transplants, improve the nutrition and taste of frozen foods, and increase the temperature tolerance of agricultural crops.
Drawing inspiration from nature is not new. The Wright Brothers' glider and airplane designs were based, in part, upon their observations of pigeons in flight. Wilbur Wright noticed that pigeons bent the tips of their wings to maintain proper balance and equilibrium in flight. This led to the breakthrough concept of wing-warping, which the Wright Brothers successfully used to control turning in their flier.
Protecting our planet's biodiversity is especially important to every one of us because it can help make the difference between life and death for ourselves and countless future generations. Medical history is ripe with examples of chemicals and pharmaceutical products derived from naturally occurring plants or bacteria that prevent or treat serious diseases. Among these are digitalis (found in foxglove and used to treat heart failure for at least three centuries); the many antibiotics found in soil bacteria; artemisinins (first used in China in the third century as an extract of sweet wormwood and now part of the standard treatment for malaria world-wide); taxol (from yew trees) and colchicine (from autumn crocus) used for treatment of many cancers and gout; and even aspirin (from willow bark) used to treat a wide variety of inflammatory disorders, allay pain, and prevent inappropriate clotting and certain cancers.
Biodiversity loss runs the real risk of depriving us of the plants, animals, and microorganisms that could unlock cures for some of mankind's most devastating ailments. Therefore—whether we suffer from a headache or heart disease—we all benefit from biodiversity and we all have a strong interest in fighting against the many policies and practices that threaten the variety of life on Earth.
Once a species is gone, it is gone forever. Maintaining the Earth's biodiversity—the broad and rich variety of life on our planet that is the product of billions of years of evolution—by preserving our forests, jungles, deserts, oceans, estuaries, and other habitats is critical to supporting the development of life-saving medicines and other bio-inspired innovations, as well as to ensuring the continued viability of our planet. Alternatively, the continued loss of biodiversity will seriously and adversely affect—in countless ways—all species, including Homo sapiens. If that fact fails to encourage all of us to make greater efforts to protect biodiversity, it is hard to know what will.
Harold Varmus, M.D., co-recipient of a Nobel Prize for studies of the genetic basis of cancer, is the Director of the National Cancer Institute. He previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and as Director of the National Institutes of Health.
Robert Hormats, Ph.D., is the Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment at the U.S. Department of State. He previously served as Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs (International), Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs, and Ambassador and Deputy U.S. Trade Representative.


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Several years ago I visited the Dia Beacon, a sprawling modern art museum just outside of New York City. It was a gray winter day, and my friend and I were practically the only people there. As we wandered around, I was stopped in my tracks by two spare, grid-like drawings. They were tentative and minimal but somehow conveyed so much power. I couldn't stop looking at them. I learned that they were by the artist Agnes Martin, and since that time I've come to love her work, much of which uses hand-drawn, repetitive lines and soft, tonal washes of color. (If you'd like to see more of her work you can click here.)
Since Martin's drawings and paintings use so many straight lines, they make for perfect quilt inspiration, and this Watercolor Quilt is my humble homage. I chose subdued lilac gray and peach to closely match some of my favorite Agnes Martin paintings. And to make the project more my own, I widened the color range a bit and finished the quilt off with a luminescent (premade!) neon bias tape. The neon might seem weird at first, but it kind of makes the whole quilt glow!
Despite its highbrow origins, this project couldn't be simpler or more fun to sew. You cut a bunch of strips and then sew them together. That's it, no corners to match up or tricky angles! And all of these cotton fabrics are soft and lovely to work with, bringing their own intrinsic beauty to the picture. This utter simplicity somehow leads to an engaging and sophisticated piece of work, much like the simplicity of Agnes Martin's paintings belies so much more.
Get ready to make some art! –Molly
- Backing Fabric: 1 3/4 yards Moda Muslin, 90 inch 60 X 60 count, Natural
- Fabric A: 1 1/4 yards Moda Muslin, 45 inch 200 count, White
- Fabric B: 3/4 yard Kiyohara's Fine Solids, Grey
- Fabric C: 1/2 yard Kiyohara's Fine Solids, Beige
- Fabric D: 1/2 yard Kiyohara Upholstery Weight Solids, Pink
- Fabric E: 1/4 yard Shot Cotton, Pumpkin
- Fabric F: 1/4 yard Kiyohara Linen Blend Solids, Light Beige
- 1 Throw Size Natural Request Dream, 100% pure cotton batting
- 6 yards Neon Bias Tape, Yellow
- A large spool of Gutermann's 100% Cotton Thread, color 1040
- A spool of Mettler's Neon Thread, Sour Apple
You will also need…
Finished Measurements: 50 inches square
Note: if you have limited experience using a rotary cutter you might want to download the PDF of this very old Purl Bee story about rotary cutting. We are planning on doing an updated version soon with better photos but the information is still very good!
You will piece the quilt top from lots of long 2-inch strips. Here's how to cut the strips…
Cut a 2-inch wide strip from selvage to selvage and then trim off the selvages so that each piece is approximately 2 inches by 42 inches. The exact length of each strip will vary slightly from fabric to fabric.
From Fabric A, cut 20 strips.
From Fabric B, cut 10 strips.
From Fabric C, cut 4 strips.
From Fabric D, cut 5 strips.
From Fabric E, cut 2 strips.
From Fabric F, cut 2 strips.
Note: You will piece the entire quilt top using the color 1040 cotton thread with right sides together and a precise ¼-inch seam allowance. Use your machine's ¼-inch foot if you have one.
Sew one Fabric A strip to a second Fabric A strip, seaming across one of the 2-inch sides so that you have one very long strip. Cut one side of this strip down so that the whole thing is 50 inches long and press the seam allowances open. Put the leftover portion of the second strip aside; you'll be using it again soon.
Now do the same thing to create a 50-inch strip of Fabric D: Piece one Fabric D strip to another across one of the 2-inch sides so that you have a very long strip. Cut this strip down to 50 inches, press the seam allowances open, and put the leftover portion of the strip aside.
Pin and piece the long sides of the 50-inch Fabric A strip to the 50-inch Fabric D strip. Press the seam allowances towards the colored strip (Fabric D). This is the beginning of the Quilt Top.
Now, using the leftover portion of the Fabric A strip, piece it to another Fabric A strip along a 2-inch side. Cut the resulting strip to 50 inches (and put the leftover portion of the strip aside). Press the seam allowances open, and then piece this strip to the bottom long edge of the Quilt Top. Press the seam allowances towards the colored strip.
You will be constructing the entire quilt top in this manner: Piece the strips together to make a long strip; cut it to 50 inches; piece it to the bottom long edge of the Quilt Top; and press the seam allowance towards the colored strip.
To make the piecing manageable, sew the Quilt Top together in three sections of 11 strips each in the following fabric order…. (Note that there is always a white Fabric A strip in between each colored strip except for the second and third strips of Section 3. Press the seam between these two strips in the opposite direction of the previous seam.)
Section 1:
Section 2:
Section 3:
Now piece the bottom of Section 1 to the top of Section 2 and the bottom of Section 2 to the top of Section 3.
Press the entire Quilt Top flat, making sure all of the long seams are neatly pressed towards the colored strips.
Quilt and Bind
Cut the Backing Fabric into a 60-inch square and press it flat. Tape this piece onto a smooth surface (like a clean floor) so that it is taut.
Lay the Batting on top of the Backing. Then center the Quilt Top, right side facing up, on top of the previous two layers. These three layers together are now the Quilt Sandwich.
To baste the Quilt Sandwich use bent arm safety pins to pin the three layers together every few inches across its entire area. Once the Quilt Sandwich is entirely basted, un-tape the backing from the floor and you are ready for quilting!
Using your machine's walking foot and the 100% cotton thread, stitch the three layers together "in the ditch," meaning right next to every horizontal seam on the side without the seam allowance. In this case, that means you will be sewing on the white side of the seam for all, but one, seam.
When you are done with quilting, trim the batting and backing to match the outer edges of the Quilt Top.
Sew the Neon Binding around all four edges using the Neon Thread.
For a much more in-depth explanation of quilting and binding, with lots of photos, please check out Corinne's Denim Pinwheel Quilt project here and scroll down to the "Finishing the Pieced Top" section.


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Day 4 - Waller Minaret
Things got significantly tougher today. The northernmost of the Minarets, Waller's easiest route is class 5.2, though the route description is rather confusing in Secor's book. We started from Agnews Meadow, using the Shadow Lake Trail to Ediza Lake. Six of us made it to Ediza in under 2hrs, then another 1.5hrs to the crest at a pass just south of Ritter Pass and just north of Waller Minaret. Interestingly, this quite useable pass is not mentioned in Secor and offers a much easier route to Waller than the suggested Ritter Pass. There was more than a mile of snow on the northeast side of the crest starting about halfway up from Ediza. It was moderately suncupped and quite good for cramponing in the early morning. It was a collective effort to find a useable route to Waller's summit via the West Face/West Ridge routes that we tried to follow. The last hundred yards follows the crest over an impressive array of exposed blocks, mostly class 3 with a bit of class 4 and much exposure off two sides. The summit register was placed by the SRC in the 1990's and there were only a handful of entries since 1994. Interestingly, Doug Mantle had been up there twice. More interestingly, the register had actual signatures from Jules Eichorn and Ted Waller, the first ascentionists, that were collected from them before the register was placed.
Aside from those six, we had about seven other participants that went to Volcanic Ridge, Clyde Minaret, or just out for a stroll to Ritter Pass or around the loop (Shadow Lake Trail - Minaret Trail).
Michael G. maintains the yellow jersey lead by a slim 15minute margin. Tom G. holds the King of the Mountain (polka dot) jersey with 9 summits in 4 days. We have no participants under 25 signed up this year, so the White jersey is unclaimed. If any youngsters want to show up for a day next weekend, the jersey is theirs' for the taking.
Tomorrow we're heading to North Lake and Piute Pass for an ascent of Matthes Peak on the Glacier Divide. More snow and crampon/axe work is expected.
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Bradenton resident Kei Nishikori put an end to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga's bid for a World Tour Finals spot by defeating the Frenchman 1-6, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (7) on Tuesday in the second round of the Paris Masters.
In other second-round matches, Richard Gasquet of France outlasted Fernando Verdasco of Spain 7-5, 6-7 (6), 6-3 to stay in contention for the tournament in London.
Last year's runner-up Jerzy Janowicz of Poland beat Colombian qualifier Santiago Giraldo 7-6 (3), 6-3, and Novak Djokovic of Serbia ousted French qualifier Pierre-Hugues Herbert 7-6 (3), 6-3.
In the tiebreaker of the final set, the eighth-seeded Tsonga wasted his first match point by double-faulting. Nishikori fired an ace to save a second match point and then won the match when Tsonga made his eighth double-fault.
Nishikori blew a 4-1 lead in the second set but capitalized on a string of unforced errors from the 2008 champion in the tiebreaker to even the match.
"I believe he managed well, because I could have won that match," Tsonga said. "He was very solid, especially during the important moments of the match."
The ninth-seeded Gasquet also labored but he converted his fifth match point when Verdasco sent a backhand long.
Verdasco hit two service winners to save two match points at 6-5 in the second set. The Spaniard then erased seven break points in the final set before dropping serve at 3-all with a wide forehand.
"It's sort of a gift for me to be here and contend for a World Tour Finals spot," Gasquet said. "It rewards a good season."
Ranked 189th in the world and playing just his second tournament on the main tour, Herbert forced Djokovic to save two set points at 6-5. The second-seeded Serb then took a 5-2 lead in the tiebreaker and went a set up when Herbert netted a forehand.
Djokovic, who won the Paris Masters in 2009, led 5-0 in the second set and held off a late charge from Herbert to seal the victory when the Frenchman's forehand return sailed long.
The Australian Open champion still has a chance to finish the season ahead of No. 1 Rafael Nadal in the rankings.
"If I finish No. 1 of the world, definitely it will be great for me," Djokovic said. "But again, the chances are not very big. And Nadal is where is he is, No. 1 of the world, because he played the best tennis and he has the results."
Djokovic won tournaments in Beijing and Shanghai earlier this month.
Nadal, Djokovic, David Ferrer, Juan Martin del Potro and Tomas Berdych have already qualified for the tournament in London next week. There are still three spots up for grabs as Andy Murray withdrew from the season-ending event to recover from back surgery.
In first-round matches, Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria rallied past two-time semifinalist Michael Llodra of France 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-3, Spanish lucky loser Pablo Andujar overcame Vasek Pospisil of Canada 6-4, 2-6, 6-4, and Kevin Anderson of South Africa was leading 4-6, 7-6 (0), 2-1 when his opponent, Mikhail Youzhny of Russia, retired because of pain in his right elbow.
Andujar replaced Gael Monfils in the main draw after the Frenchman pulled out because of a left wrist injury.
Marcel Granollers of Spain, Ivan Dodig of Croatia, French wild card Nicolas Mahut and Polish qualifier Michal Przysiezny also moved into the second round.
Granollers will face the top-seeded Nadal after his 6-4, 6-4 victory over Dmitry Tursunov of Russia. Dodig beat Edouard Roger-Vasselin of France 7-6 (6), 6-4, Przysiezny defeated Jarkko Nieminen of Finland 6-3, 7-6 (6), and Mahut downed Alexandr Dolgopolov of Ukraine 7-6 (6), 6-1.
Nishikori beats Tsonga at Paris Masters
Bradenton resident Kei Nishikori put an end to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga's bid for a World Tour Finals spot by defeating the Frenchman 1-6, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (7) on Tuesday in the second round of the Paris Masters.


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The 2011 Big Island Film Festival awards were held this morning at the Fairmont Orchid Resort.
Festival Director Leo Sears addressed the group around 10:00 and folks started in on their food.
Anna Akaka, wife of Danny Akaka, Jr., lead off the opening pule and blessed the crowd and the filmmakers for making it a great festival this year.
Golden Honu Award recipient Kristina Anapau and her boyfriend Moran Cerf were in attendance.
Mr. Sears began by thanking the Sponsors of the Festival such as the Fairmont Orchid, the Shops at Mauna Lani, the County of Hawaii and John Mason with the Hawaii County Film Office, "Redeeming Light International" as well as others were also thanked.
Kenwood Vineyards was recognized as a "big sponsor" since they have sponsored the festival for so many years.
Naketha Mattocks was recognized for her support and workshop that she put on called "The Inside Pitch" and Ron Osborn was recognized for his continual work with the festival.
Mayor Kenoi was on hand and signed a bottle of wine that all of the celebrities and filmmakers signed that would be auctioned off later for the Wounded Warriors project.
Actress Sarah Wayne Callies who was the recipient of the "No Ka Oi" award earlier in the week was also present.
An autographed picture of Kristina Anapau was auctioned off for charity as well and I just had to drop the big bucks to keep my son happy!
I'd like to thank all those that worked so hard to put this on and especially thank Leo Sears for working so hard at ensuring such a smooth festival happens.
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Twelve films received Golden Honu Awards at the 6thAnnual Big Island Film Festival today. Best Feature went to "Queen of the Lot," starring Tanna Frederick and Noah Wyle, written and directed by Henry Jaglom, produced by Rosemary Marks.
Celebrity actresses Sarah Wayne Callies ("The Walking Dead") and Hilo's own Kristina Anapau ("Black Swan") were present to receive special "No Ka Oi" awards from Big Island Film Festival Executive Director Leo Sears.
Winners were selected from 63 entries from across the country and around the world, including 10 made in Hawai'i. The made-on-Maui film, "Get A Job," starring Willie K, Eric Gilliom, Augie T, Henry Kapono and many other top Hawaiian entertainers, won 2011 Audience Choice Feature.
2011 Big Island Film Festival Golden Honu Awards:
Actress "No Ka Oi" – Sarah Wayne Callies
Actress "No Ka Oi" – Kristina Anapau
The Barbara Award – "Regular Kids"
Best Family Short – "The Green Tie Affair"
Best Animated Short – "Bait"
Best Hawaiian Short – "Layover, On the Shore"
Best Foreign Short – "Futility"
Best Student Short – "Thief"
Best Short – "Wounded"
Best Family Feature – "Trainmaster II: Jeremiah's Treasure"
"Best Student Feature" – "Farmer's Tan"
Best Hawaiian Feature – "Get A Job"
Best Foreign Feature – "The Drummond Will"
Best Feature – "Queen of the Lot"
Audience Choice Short – "The Historian Paradox"
Audience Choice Feature – "Get A Job"
Some of the winners that were present to receive their awards:
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Another Friday the 13th is upon us, which is bad news for anyone who suffers from paraskevidekatriaphobia. I'm not a particularly superstitious person myself, and no Friday the 13th has given me reason to be wary of the date. In fact, given that one of my weekly features comes out every Friday, it's conveniently provided me with a ready-made topic that can be easily tied into our interests as a community that loves basketball and basketball gaming. I've previously written about some of the unluckiest moments in NBA history, unlucky moments in basketball gaming, and even my favourite players who have worn number thirteen.
For this Friday the 13th, I thought that I'd revisit that second topic with a few personal anecdotes. We've all had our unlucky moments on the virtual hardwood, and since we tend to get somewhat invested in the video games that we play, those moments can certainly be rage-inducing. I feel as though I don't do enough top five countdowns for the Friday Five, so I've decided to rank these moments according to the amount of frustration they caused me, and how unlucky they felt. Without any further ado, these are my top five unluckiest moments in basketball gaming.


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Tom Cleverley is to be given a new contract by Manchester United that would see the England international's weekly wage doubled, bringing him closer to his more senior teammates in the Old Trafford financial pecking order, the Daily Mail has reported.
The Mail adds that Cleverley currently takes home £40,000 per week from United, which, if doubled, would see him receive the kind of pay packet usually reserved for key members of Sir Alex Ferguson's side. With the bump in income would come a multi-year extension to Cleverley's contract, tying down the 23-year-old for the foreseeable future.
Having previously spent time on loan at Wigan Athletic, Cleverley was introduced to the United first team at the start of last season, only to suffer an injury against Everton at Goodison Park that left him on the sidelines for much of the campaign. Since regaining fitness, however, Cleverley has been a regular in the United team and made his senior England bow under Roy Hodgson.


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British beauty Alice Eve is one of the many new faces joining the "Sex and The City 2" fold, when the sequel hits theaters on May 28.
As Charlotte York's (Kristin Davis) gorgeous foreign nanny Erin in the series, Alice will reportedly be part of a story line that spices things up for the Fab Four.
While she couldn't say much about the script, Alice did reveal that watching life on set for her castmates was an experience.
"It was mayhem for them," Alice said, referring to Kristin, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall and Cynthia Nixon. "Everywhere they went, everybody knew."
Her own scenes, however, were much more low key.
"My stuff was — I didn't have that," she laughed. "I just kind of turned up and smiled and was glad to be in the room."
While Alice didn't get the full "SATC2" mania, she did actually pick up some tips from her co-stars.
"They were all there bouncing around in their heels all day, which was insane," Alice said. "I now wear heels, which I didn't do before, because I saw how they actually do it, for real. You know they wear them all day, so that was incredible."
Before she takes the big screen with Carrie Bradshaw and the gang, Alice will appear in theaters on March 12 in the romantic comedy "She's Out Of My League."
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Episode 67: Over, Under, Soldier, Spy is out!
In the sixty-seventh episode, Thomas and Danny look at the Giants ZiPS and PECOTA projections and make over/under bets, and discuss Thomas' hygiene habits.
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Loops are fairly common in SQL Server stored procedures. If you discover a loop in a stored procedure, you might find that the code iterates thousands of times before the loop exits. One way to improve the performance of loops is to optimize variable handling.
Do you know the difference between using the SELECT and SET commands to assign values to variables? Many SQL Server developers believe that the commands perform the same function, except that SELECT was designed to return data, whereas SET is optimized to assign values to local variables; therefore, most developers use SET to change variables. This action is correct most of the time.
Certainly, if you're setting a variable's value, SET is the recommended command; however, sometimes SET isn't the best command for the job. Every time you use the SET command, an assignation language element executes. Thus, if you're setting multiple variables, each SET command runs like a SELECT @variable statement. Consider the following two statements, which are functionally equivalent:
SET @iOne = 1; SET @iTwo = 2; SET @iThree = 3; SET @iFour = 4; SELECT @iOne = 1, @iTwo = 2, @iThree = 3, @iFour = 4;
Although the statements are similar, the SELECT statement runs significantly faster than the SET statement. Each SET statement runs individually and updates one value per execution, whereas the entire SELECT statement runs as a whole and updates all four values in one execution.
To test this action, I ran each statement in a loop one million times. I found that the SET block ran in 0.0094 milliseconds (ms) on average and the SELECT statement ran in only 0.0039 ms. The SELECT statement ran 59 percent faster than the SET statement. If you're looping through a query only a few hundred thousand times, you probably won't notice a difference between the speed of the two commands; however, the difference in speed might be important to an end user who must wait 10 seconds rather than just 3 seconds for a report to generate.
Another thing to consider is that you can embed your variable updates in preexisting SELECT and UPDATE statements within a loop. In the benchmark tests I ran, each variable that I added to a SELECT or UPDATE statement required an additional 0.00016 ms. By comparison, adding a SET statement required 0.0027 ms. I was surprised to learn that adding a SET statement introduces a processing delay that is 1687.5 percent longer than the processing delay caused by adding a variable to a previously existing SELECT assignation statement. If you're looping through rows, you can further expedite your loop by altering multiple variables in one UPDATE statement, as Listing 1 shows.


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Tampa Bay Rays Manager Joe Maddon Buys Beer for Fans Because He's Just That Awesome
Joe Maddon continues to find innovative ways to get his team and its fans pumped up.
The Tampa Bay Rays manager bought beer for anyone who wore team gear to a Long Beach, California bar on Tuesday while his squad was in town to take on the Los Angeles Angels.
We don't know how much Maddon's promotion worked, but the Rays did beat the Angels, 7-1, putting a halt to a five-game losing streak and keeping the team squarely in the middle of the wild card race.
Props to Maddon for finding a cool way to keep his fans excited and let's give him another hand for reaching out on Twitter. This guy is just one cool manager.


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About a week ago, I went digging through my bin of things from when I was younger and found the baptism dress that my mom made for me when I was baptized (all the way back in 1982). On a whim, I had Anna try it on and it fit her just perfectly. We had a little chat while she had it on and I told her about my dress and how it would mean so much to me if she wore it when she was baptized and then she could keep it to remember her special day. I'm so grateful that she thought it was a brilliant idea.
Because Sam is a boy, he got to prepare for his actual baptism with Tony and I had to sit with everyone else. But this time, Anna was the only girl getting baptized so she and I were all alone in the dressing room and we got to share a sweet minute that was so precious. I am grateful to have had that time with her.
Anna is an amazing little girl. Tonight, she gave the dinner prayer. She forgot to bless the food, but she did remember to ask for help so that she could make good decisions because she had been baptized.
What a good example and a wonderful reminder to me.


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John Thompson served at the bureau more than two decades.
President Obama has named John H. Thompson, the president and CEO of the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center, to be the next Census director.
Thompson would bring four decades of experience as a statistician, including two decades at the Commerce Department in various positions.
Census has been without a director since Robert Graves resigned last year to become provost at Georgetown University.
The selection of Thompson, which had been rumored for weeks among interest groups concerned about proposals to cut Census funding, was welcomed as a "wise choice" by Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
"Most people know that the Census Bureau is the government agency charged with counting our nation's population every 10 years," Carper said in a statement. "What is less known, but still critically important, is that the Census Bureau regularly provides the government, business, and academia with an updated picture of who we are as individuals, communities, and a nation."
Carper said Thompson's "several years working in management positions at the bureau and his previous tenure there means he is familiar with the agency's unique culture and mission and he understands the important link between a well-run agency and a successful enumeration."
Phil Sparks, co-director of the Census Project, a coalition of 600 associations, think tanks, academics, local officials and civil rights groups, said Thompson will make "an excellent director of the Census Bureau." He has "solid previous experience in senior management of the bureau and is currently head of what most people consider the most prestigious survey research center in America," Sparks told Government Executive. He added that he hoped there would be no resistance in the Senate because "the bureau has been waiting for a director since August 2012."
While at Commerce, Thompson was chief of the Decennial Management Division, worked in the Statistical Support Division from 1987 to 1995 and the Statistical Methods Division from 1975 to 1987. He has been a member of the American Statistical Association since 1975, according to a White House bio, and is currently a member of the Committee on National Statistics with the National Academy of Sciences. Thompson received a B.S. and M.S. from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
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Jessica Simpson's rumored romance with Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan is getting professional.
The two, who were first spotted together in December, have hit the recording studio together.
Kerry Brown, a producer, posted pics of Jessica and Billy working on music on Twitter. And in response to one of the Tweets, Jessica wrote of Billy, "He braids my prayers."
Jessica seemed to be enjoing herself in the studio, Tweeting, "Fun to be lost in laughter" and later, "I am blessed."
A source told E! News late last year that Jessica is gaga over the Chicago rocker.
"She has fallen hard and is smitten," a source told the Web site.
Billy, 42, who previously has been linked romantically with Courtney Love and Tila Tequila, may reportedly be making Jessica happy, but another source told E! at the time that he hasn't fit in with the family yet.
"He's just another in an endless string of Jessica's boyfriends," the source said. "They think he's too old for her. No one takes any of her boyfriends seriously anymore because she has had so many. They're sick of all of them being 'the one.'"
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BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – The Brevard County School District says they will allow a Cocoa High student who claims he was kicked out of school after he turned to pornography to pay his family's bills to return to the classroom.
Senior Robert Marucci told WKMG-TV Monday night he was being kicked out of school for his role in an adult film. The school district said on Tuesday that was wrong and that the investigation is over, clearing Marucci and allow him to come back to school on Wednesday.
"No child would ever be suspended for a job that they have outside of the school environment," said Michelle Irwin, a spokesperson for the district.
However, when WKMG-TV asked why then he was suspended, administrators said they received information that Marucci made threats, after students found pictures of his work online and started to taunt him.
"In this particular case, we had an investigation, which is now complete, and the student is welcomed to come back to talk to Dr. Sullivan about his educational options," said Irwin.
Local 6 checked with Cocoa police, they confirmed they did investigate the alleged threats but found nothing.
"If this was a credible threat, wouldn't they have taken the appropriate measures or was it just an excuse to get rid of a student they didn't like," said parent Scott Murphy.
Marucci said he never made the threats and his mother told WKMG-TV the principal never mentioned the threats but did mention his job.
Meanwhile, the rumor mill has been on overdrive at Cocoa High as some students protested and campaigned to ensure their classmate can graduate in May.
Marucci's mother, Melyssa Lieb, said that she believes what her son does outside of class, posing for an adult website, got him kicked out of school.
"She (Dr. Sullivan) flat out told me that my son was expelled not just suspended, he was expelled due to his explicit, adult, lifestyle career," Lieb told WKMG-TV Monday.
Marucci said he "did this to help my mother out economically."


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Learning, Play, and Your 1- to 3-Month-Old
What Your Baby Is Learning
After learning to recognize your voice, your face, and your touch, and to associate them with comfort, your baby will start responding even more to you during these months — and will even give you a smile!
Babies this age spend more time awake and alert and become more curious about their parents and about objects that they see. They also start getting physically stronger and better able to coordinate movements. Encourage the learning process by talking to your little one, responding to his or her vocal expressions, and providing colorful age-appropriate toys.
You'll now see your baby's personality emerge. In the first month or two of life, newborns depend on others to initiate interaction. But by the end of the third month your baby will engage you with facial expressions, vocalizations, and gestures.
As their eyesight improves, babies become better able to distinguish between different sights and sounds. Your baby will be carefully watching your facial expressions and listening to your voice, responding to you with coos and gurgles, and around 2 months, respond to your smile with a smile. Between 3 and 4 months, most infants can squeal with delight and laugh out loud.
Babies will learn to open and shut their fists and can hold a rattle placed in their hands. They'll soon discover that they're the one that caused the rattle to make noise.
Babies also start to explore their surroundings with their hands, reaching out, swatting at, and grasping for a favorite toy. They'll also begin to notice their hands and feet, and they'll become a source of amusement. They enjoy staring at their hands, playing with their fingers, and bringing their hands or a toy to their mouth.
Encouraging Your Baby to Learn
Respond to your baby's coos and gurgling with sounds of your own so that your baby will be encouraged to keep using his or her voice for expression. In this way, your infant hears the sounds of language and learns about conversation.
Your baby's sense of touch is also getting better. Provide colorful objects of different textures, shapes, and sizes for your infant to hold and explore. This is a good age to introduce an infant gym with interesting objects that dangle for your baby to swat at. Or hold a toy just out of reach for your baby to reach for, swat, and grab hold of. But don't string up toys on cribs or other baby equipment — your baby could get tangled in them.
At times your baby will have had enough stimulation. Watch for signs that your little one might be overstimulated and ready for a break.
Other ideas for encouraging your baby to learn and play:
- Gently clap your baby's hands together or stretch arms (crossed, out wide, or overhead).
- Gently move your baby's legs as if pedaling a bicycle.
- Use a favorite toy for your baby to focus on and follow, or shake a rattle for your infant to find.
- While awake, let your baby spend some time on his or her tummy to help strengthen the neck and shoulders. Always supervise your infant during "tummy time" and be ready to help if he or she gets tired or frustrated in this position. Never put a baby to sleep on his or her stomach. Infants should sleep on their backs to reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
- Make different facial expressions for your baby to imitate.
- Talk to your baby and let your baby respond.
There's a wide range of normal among babies. If you're concerned about your little one's vision or hearing, or your baby doesn't seem to be developing well in other ways, talk with your doctor.


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At the moment bzr treats deletion of a directory containing unversioned files (either ignored or unknown) as a conflict.
This is a bit annoying because often the unversioned files are generated trash, like .pyc files from Python. However in some cases people do have "precious" files that are ignored but shouldn't be just deleted.
Vincent has a merge proposal up that will instead move the files into a bzr-orphans directory in the root of the tree.
What would you like to have happen? My feeling is that there should be a configuration option to choose the policy, and we should perhaps eventually distinguish "junk" (safe to delete) from "precious", as Baz and GNU Arch did.


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War of 1812
Woman of Two Worlds: Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte and Her Quest for an Imperial Legacy
Presented by the Von Hess Foundation
Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte was one of the femme fatales of the War of 1812 generation, setting the gossipmongers atwitter with her revealing empire dresses at society events. Her marriage to Napoleon Bonaparte's younger brother Jerome became an international drama. Even at ninety-four, Elizabeth was still making news as one of America's richest women. As the official keeper of Elizabeth's memory, The Maryland Historical Society is launching a major new exhibition, entitled "Woman of Two Worlds: Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte and the Quest for an Imperial Legacy" that will open on June 9, 2013.
|Portrait of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte, George D'Almaine after Gilbert Stuart, 1856, Maryland Historical Society, Gift of Mrs. Charles Joseph Bonaparte, xx.5.78
The exhibition illustrates the 'two worlds' of France and America that Elizabeth inhabited and showcases her pearl and garnet tiara, silver, porcelain, paintings, textiles, jewelry, manuscripts, furniture and one of her "scandalous" dresses in the French-style. Curator-led tours will be offered on Sunday, June 9th at 1pm and 3pm, and on Thursday, June 20th at 6pm.
In Full Glory Reflected: Maryland during the War of 1812
In Full Glory Reflected is Maryland's largest display devoted to the War of 1812 and its era. The exhibition fills an entire gallery floor with a fascinating array of artifacts and documents, many donated by the Defenders of Baltimore themselves.
Visitors explore life in the early-nineteenth century as they follow Baltimore's evolution from a small, scenic village to a bustling boomtown. Clipper ships carry them from the Chesapeake to China, and they discover the significance of maritime trade during this period. They watch as impressments, riots, and raids lead to war with Great Britain, and as war leads to battles like Bladensburg and North Point. They experience the disastrous surrender of the capital in Washington, and the heroic defense of Baltimore. Finally, they learn how the War of 1812 has been and will be commemorated. Visitors leave the exhibition considering what Americans were thinking, feeling, and doing during the early-nineteenth century. They also have a better understanding of the experience of Marylanders during the War of 1812.
The exhibition features many important objects, including: a mug known as the "Etting Cup," circa 1814, owned by Samuel Etting and etched with images and names associated with the Battle of Baltimore; a canteen inscribed by Shipley Liester Jr. and used in the Battle of North Point on September 12, 1814; Rembrandt Peale's portraits of Joshua Barney, George Armistead, and other Defenders of Baltimore; a photograph of the "Old Defenders of Baltimore in Druid Hill Park" by W. Ashman, circa 1876-1880; and the original manuscript of the "Star-Spangled Banner," written by Francis Scott Key at the Battle of Baltimore in 1814.
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It is important to let the marinating tofu do its thing (at the very least) for a few hours - preferably overnight.
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- 12 ounces extra-firm organic tofu
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 tablespoon garam masala spice blend
- 6 medium cloves garlic, crushed then chopped
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1/4 teaspoon fine grain sea salt
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice, freshly squeezed
- 1 7 or 8-ounce container of Greek yogurt
- Unwrap the tofu. Dry it off by patting and pressing with a few paper towels. Cut the tofu
- Unwrap the tofu. Dry it off by patting and pressing with a few paper towels. Cut the tofu into slabs roughly the size of a business card, with the thickness of a pencil. In a wide, shallow rimmed dish (a tart pan or pie dish works great) whisk to gether all the remaining ingredients. Place the tofu in the marinade in a single layer and gently coat the tofu with the yogurt. Cover and refrigerate for (at least) a few hours. I sometimes leave it marinating for a few days, cooking the tofu when needed. In a grill pan, or on a grill, cook the tofu (retaining some of the yogurt slather on each piece) over medium heat until the tofu is cooked through and the surface of the tofu has nice color. Flip once along the way. If the pan/grill is too hot the outside of the tofu will overcook before the inside is hot, so be mindful of this. Serve over carrot salad.


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Dateline: date rape: UVA gets national coverage
The issue of date rape on college campuses made national news on Sunday, December 11, as NBC's newszine Dateline covered the issue– and featured UVA student Annie Hylton telling her story of sexual assault.
"It was disgusting," Hylton said of UVA's response to her alleged attack. Particularly offensive, she explained to NBC's Hoda Kotb, is the fact that cheating on a test means automatic expulsion thanks to UVA's venerable honor code, but no one has ever been expelled from the school for sexual assault.
Hylton first publicly told her story in the Hook's November 11, 2004 cover story, "How UVA turns its back on rape." She alleged that a fellow student, Matthew Hamilton, had raped her in December 2001 when she was an 18-year-old first-year and he was a 21-year-old third-year.
While UVA's sexual assault board found in Hylton's favor, UVA allowed Hamilton to complete his degree provided he stay away from Hylton. As with many cases of alleged date rape, the physical evidence was scant, and Charlottesville's Commonwealth's Attorney declined to take her case.
Hylton later sued Hamilton for $1.5 million. At the end of August 2005, a Charlottesville jury– while rejecting the notion that Hamilton had raped Hylton– nonetheless found Hamilton "negligent" and awarded Hylton $150,000. Hamilton is currently appealing that decision.
Hylton could not be reached for comment on the Dateline piece, but Susan Russell, the mother of a former UVA student who transferred from the school following a sexual assault, says she thinks the show "was a good piece that scratched the surface, but it didn't get into the depths of the problem.
"Why do universities handle this crime as an administrative process as opposed to a criminal process?" asks Russell, who launched the website uvavictimsofrape.com in March 2004, a month after her daughter's assault.
Although Russell feels the Dateline piece wasn't hard enough on school administrations including UVA's– school representatives say the piece didn't do them any favors.
UVA spokesperson Carol Wood expresses frustration that a Dateline reporter declined the chance to talk to a university administrator to hear specifics about UVA's new sexual assault policies.
"It could have been a little more balanced," she says.
Annie Hylton's story makes it to Dateline.


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And that is OK. So they say.
Actually, chances are you may find today pretty awful and all. If you see awful, that is.
Or if you get all prickly and scrunchy-in-the-face about things.
Look for rainbows, I say.
Or maybe just for new pens that can color some rainbows. Good compromise.
I listed a new banner in my TpT store that will help you see rainbows in your classroom.
And consolidate 'friends of ten'.
There are all sorts of goodies in this packet. A backline version, as well as colored.
Blank rainbow pennants. Yippee! You could make 'friends of 925' with those! If you are so inclined.
AND a printable backline student pennant. Your sweeties can color their own rainbow with appropriately numbered sections to represent the addition-fact-combinations.
It is on sale this weekend, in my TpT store!
Thanks so much for stopping by - you are awesome!


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Resume,Songs, My new blog, NeX-6, My facebook page
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Musical stuff I like
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Uncle Bill's Helicopter - A speech I gave to ITT Tech - Chicken soup for engineers
Beating the Brand - A pathological exploration of how branding makes it hard to think straight
Inside the Internet Mind - trying to map the weather within the global supercomputer that consists of humans and google
Sex In Politics - If politicians spent more time pounding the flesh rather than pressing it, it would be a better world
Getting resources from space - An alternative to blowing money on mars using NEAs.
On the Columbia - Why I care about space
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Where's Cherie?
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Journalist Janet Street-Porter's recent op-ed denouncing the British homeschooling movement pretty much missed the point. Still, we have to agree that when it comes to deciding how to educate children, the most important thing to ask is "who knows best?"
Indeed, this is the question that legislators and social commentators in the United Kingdom are wrestling with as they try to determine why more and more parents are taking on the daunting task of teaching their children at home—and what to do about it.
Though still small compared to the movement in the United States, the number of students being homeschooled in the U.K. has increased by at least 40% in the last four years. This remarkable growth apparently unnerves critics such as Street-Porter who argue that raising children is simply too involved to be accomplished without the guidance of "experts."
Our response is to invoke a truth we feel should be self-evident: Who has more expertise on what children need than their own parents?
In the Home School Legal Defense Association's 30-plus years of advancing homeschool freedom, we've seen over and over again that loving, committed parents are in the best position to craft individualized educational programs for their children.
This is not (as Street-Porter characterizes it) about "helicopter parents" imposing "insidious control." It's about parents being sensitive, flexible, and creative for the good of their youngsters.
Street-Porter almost sees this, when she grudgingly admits the good that many homeschool parents in the U.K. have accomplished in caring for their children with special needs—especially those who struggle with mental health issues.
As one British homeschool mom told the BBC: "Actually home education is not the easy option. Home education is actually a hard option, and we have done this, and lots of other parents have done this, and are succeeding and are seeing their children blossom into fantastic human beings and succeeding in life."
It reminds me of an American homeschool family we profiled a few years ago. To help their son Caleb cope with autism, these California parents tapped into a wide range of resources that aren't necessarily available at state schools: individual therapy, special camps, vocational training. Their determination paid off when, as a young man, Caleb landed a job and began ministering at church.
Caleb's success story also belies Street-Porter's assertion that homeschool students are somehow shortchanged if they never experience certain hallmarks of traditional schooling: bullies, ironclad schedules, and being forced to socialize with complete strangers.
But avoiding a one-size-fits-all teaching method and hazards such as belligerent classmates are some of the primary reasons parents choose to homeschool. After all, home is supposed to be a sanctuary, the place where kids are most likely to feel safe, to be themselves—and to thrive.
As for socialization, if Street-Porter consulted her own country's history she would see that homeschool parents often go to great lengths to ensure their children have ample opportunities to grow and learn through interactions outside the family.
England's reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, was essentially homeschooled along with her sister (through the help of some very learned tutors). To aid in their girls' development, the queen's parents arranged for the equivalent of a girl scouting troop to be formed at Buckingham Palace.
Of course, few parents are blessed with the resources of the royal family, a reality Street-Porter alludes to when she disdains all private schooling on the grounds that it often excludes the poor.
But that doesn't mean homeschooling is only for the middle and upper classes.
At HSLDA, we are quite aware that homeschooling is demanding—most things worth doing take effort. Nevertheless, most parents choose this mode of education not because it is a luxury they can afford, but because they are convinced it is best for their children. This includes low-income and single parents.
This is also why our advocacy involves so much more than lobbying and legal work.
We encourage members to seek out support and to be engaged in the broader community. To this end we connect families with state and local homeschool groups and offer an educational consultant team whom our members may contact for answers to a wide range of questions.
For parents who feel stretched and who are searching for solutions to overwhelming challenges, we offer financial assistance and other practical help through HSLDA Compassion, our charitable outreach.
Ultimately, we see homeschooling as a means of promoting freedom and benefiting families. We've seen the movement accomplish great things here in the United States, and we're certain it can do the same in the U.K.
—Mike Donnelly, HSLDA Director of Global Outreach
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- Nonstick vegetable oil spray
- 22 chocolate wafer cookies
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 1/4 cup unsalted butter melted
- 1 cup whole milk
- 1 pinch salt
- 3 large egg yolks
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 6 ounces good-quality white chocolate chopped (such as Bakers or Lindt)
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 2 tablespoons green crème de menthe
- 2 tablespoons light crème de cacao
- 3/4 cup chilled whipping cream
- Shaved white and dark chocolates
Servings 6
Step 1
For Crust: Spray 9-inch-diameter glass or ceramic pie dish with nonstick spray. Finely grind chocolate cookies and sugar in processor. Blend in butter. Press crumb mixture onto bottom and up sides of prepared dish. Freeze.
For Filling: Combine milk and salt in heavy small saucepan. Bring to simmer. Whisk egg yolks and cornstarch in medium bowl to blend well. Gradually whisk in hot milk mixture. Return mixture to same saucepan. Stir over medium-low heat until mixture thickens, about 6 minutes. Remove from heat. Add white chocolate and butter; whisk until smooth.
Transfer custard to large bowl. Whisk in crème de menthe and crème de cacao. Set custard over another large bowl of ice water until cold and thick but not set, stirring often, about 30 minutes.
Whip cream in medium bowl until stiff peaks form. Stir 1/3 of whipped cream into custard. Fold in remaining whipped cream. Pour filling into crust. Freeze at least 5 hours or up to 2 days.
Garnish with shaved chocolates.
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We've been getting a lot of new birthday parties on the site, so I thought this was a good time to write about Birthday Party Bash, a new game for the Nintendo Wii. I have not tried it yet, but since my husband is big gamer (and is trying to turn my daughter, who just turned three, into one too), I'm sure we will own it soon.
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I want to join others in appreciating the strong statement by Bp. Tom Wright http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6710640.ece on the actions of the Episcopal General Convention 2009. It is not time to quibble about the past. He clearly sees the road taken by The Episcopal Church and expounds the biblical basis for marriage and against homosexual practice which undergirds the 1998 Lambeth Resolution 1.10 on Human Sexuality. Bravo!
As for Bp. Wright's concern about Anglican Church in North America, I am sure, knowing the Anglican Communion hierarchy, that there will be no rush to enfranchise ACNA or disenfranchise the Communion Partners remaining in TEC. But is it too much to ask the Archbishop of Canterbury to reaffirm the Primates' call at Dar es Salaam for the cessation on lawsuits for all orthodox in TEC and ACNA on threat of immediately withdrawing his recognition?
The big question for the days ahead is whether the two streams of the orthodox movement – which had coalesced in the Anglican Communion Network in North America and the Global South coalition – will begin to come together again. I believe their reunion, not at first political but spiritual and practical, is devoutly to be wished.
Let me point out two positive indicators for why this can happen.
First, from the side of the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, there has always been an openness to the wider Communion. Note the following words in the GAFCON Statement from a year ago:
We, the participants in the Global Anglican Future Conference, are a fellowship of confessing Anglicans for the benefit of the Church and the furtherance of its mission. We are a fellowship of people united in the communion (koinonia) of the one Spirit and committed to work and pray together in the common mission of Christ. It is a confessing fellowship in that its members confess the faith of Christ crucified, stand firm for the gospel in the global and Anglican context, and affirm a contemporary rule, the Jerusalem Declaration, to guide the movement for the future. We are a fellowship of Anglicans, including provinces, dioceses, churches, missionary jurisdictions, para-church organisations and individual Anglican Christians whose goal is to reform, heal and revitalise the Anglican Communion and expand its mission to the world.
And Jerusalem Declaration, clause 11:
We are committed to the unity of all those who know and love Christ and to building authentic ecumenical relationships. We recognise the orders and jurisdiction of those Anglicans who uphold orthodox faith and practice, and we encourage them to join us in this declaration.
And again:
…we shall seek to expand participation in this fellowship beyond those who have come to Jerusalem, including cooperation with the Global South and the Council of Anglican Provinces in Africa.
I see no reason to think that ACNA and the GAFCON churches would desire to rush to exclude the remnant in TEC from recognition by Canterbury and the wider Communion, even if they had that power, which clearly they do not. I would think that the GAFCON Provinces like Uganda will continue to consider itself in communion with all those who stand against the heretics – can we now call them schismatics as well? – in TEC.
Secondly, I find it significant that Bp. Wright is concerned that the faithful remnant of TEC be able to adopt the Anglican Communion Covenant. I agree. Therefore it must be clear to the ABC and his consulting group that section 4.1.5 remain untampered with in any final draft. It reads as follows:
(4.1.5) It shall be open to other Churches to adopt the Covenant. Adoption of this Covenant does not bring any right of recognition by, or membership of, the Instruments of Communion. Such recognition and membership are dependent on the satisfaction of those conditions set out by each of the Instruments. However, adoption of the Covenant by a Church may be accompanied by a formal request to the Instruments for recognition and membership to be acted upon according to each Instrument's procedures.
This clause in particular is the reason that section 4 of the Covenant was torpedoed in Jamaica – torpedoed by the very folks who have passed Resolution D025 in Anaheim. If it were to happen that the ABC and his advisors were to weaken or remove section 4.1.5, I hope Bp. Wright would be the first to denounce such an action, and I hope the rest of the churches would ignore the amendments and adopt the original Ridley Cambridge Text.* Section 4.1.5 offers hope both to the orthodox in TEC and to the ACNA that there will be an ultimate reconciliation of believers within the Anglican Communion. Noli hoc tangere. Don't touch!
These are days of sadness and stress for faithful Anglicans inside and outside The Episcopal Church. We know that "weeping may remain for a night, but rejoicing comes in the morning." I believe a new morning is breaking for our Communion and our tradition.
*Of course, one might wish the Covenant Text to be strengthened, but that seems a stretch given the ABC's appointees and can be done later by amendment.
Friday, July 17, 2009
RESPONSE TO BISHOP TOM WRIGHT on TEC General Convention 2009
I want to join others in appreciating the strong statement by Bp. Tom Wright http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6710640.ece on the actions of the Episcopal General Convention 2009. It is not time to quibble about the past. He clearly sees the road taken by The Episcopal Church and expounds the biblical basis for marriage and against homosexual practice which undergirds the 1998 Lambeth Resolution 1.10 on Human Sexuality. Bravo!
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Thanksgiving was really quiet at our house this year. We typically have a group of neighbors over who do not have family nearby and we all enjoy a loud, raucous, delicious Thanksgiving together. This year, however, everyone was heading out of town which left us to a house with, well… just us.
I was a little bummed about it at first, afraid that my kids would not think the day was special. I planned on still cooking up a big Thanksgiving feast with the typical goodies to eat, but it would be strange not having other people here. How would my kids differentiate this day from any other?
As I was cooking up our feast, I looked over in my produce basket and noticed a few sweet potatoes. We don't typically have sweet potatoes for Thanksgiving, but you know what? This year is anything but typical. I grabbed up the sweet potatoes and thought about what to do with them. Should I make Amy's Scalloped Sweet Potatoes? How about Shari's Crab Stuffed Sweet Potatoes? Maybe Lori's Glazed Sweet Potatoes would be the recipe to adorn our Thanksgiving table? Those all sounded delicious, but what I was really craving was Sweet Potato Fries. Totally not something you would normally find on the table at Thanksgiving, right?
Right then and there is when I figured out that there was some joy and benefit in having a quiet, just us Thanksgiving. It didn't matter that Sweet Potato Fries aren't a typical Thanksgiving feast food. This was our Thanksgiving, and there was no one else here to tell me that there are other things that my sweet potatoes should be used for on Thanksgiving that would be more appropriate.
I baked up the sweet potato fries and Nick, Leah and I ate them up as an appetizer to our Thanksgiving meal. The other kids didn't even get the chance to snack on them because we kept this little secret to ourselves.
We ended up having a very happy Thanksgiving, special indeed because it was what we made of it. We hope your day was just as special!
Recipe: Baked Sweet Potato Fries (from Paula Deen and The Food Network)
I didn't end up making a large batch of House Seasoning. I just sprinkled what I thought would be a good amount of each ingredient onto the potatoes.
House Seasoning
- 1 cup salt
- 1/4 cup black pepper
- 1/4 cup garlic powder
- Olive Oil, for tossing (I used Avocado Oil that we received at BlogHer Food)
- 5 sweet potatoes, peeled and sliced into 1/4-inch long slices, then 1/4-wide inch strips, using a crinkle cut knife
- Oil
- 1 tablespoon House Seasoning
- 1/2 teaspoon paprika
For the House Seasoning: Mix ingredients together and store in an airtight container for up to 6 months.
Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
Line a sheet tray with parchment. In a large bowl toss sweet potatoes with just enough oil to coat. Sprinkle with House Seasoning and paprika. Spread sweet potatoes in single layer on prepared baking sheet, being sure not to overcrowd. Bake until sweet potatoes are tender and golden brown, turning occasionally, about 20 minutes. Let cool 5 to 10 minutes before serving.


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For the best flavor, marinate the chicken overnight. If you're short of time, use a 15-ounce can of cannellini or lima beans instead of the dried beans. With this rich, garlicky sauce, you need only a fresh salad to complete the meal.
- Yield
- Serves 4
- Sauce
- 9 ounces dried large white beans, such as lima beans
- 1/2 cup ground almonds
- 2 garlic cloves
- 1 tablespoon white wine vinegar
- Scant 1/2 cup olive oil
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon cold-pressed flaxseed oil
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground white pepper
- Chicken
- 2 spring chickens (poussins), (about 2 pounds each)
- Juice of 1 lemon
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
- 3 tablespoons dry white wine
- 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 1 onion, finely chopped
- Salt and pepper
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh herbs, such as parsley, thyme, or oregano
- Lemon wedges, to serve
- 1. For the sauce, soak the beans in a generous amount of water overnight.
- 2. Using poultry sheers, cut each chicken along the backbone and remove as much of the backbone as possible. Press the chickens with your fist to flatten them slightly and then place them in a large glass dish that will fit in the refrigerator.
- 3. Combine the lemon juice, olive oil, oregano, wine, garlic, onion, and some salt and pepper in a blender and purée to make a paste. Spread the paste over the chicken and massage it into the meat. Cover the dish and refrigerate for at least 2 hours, or, preferably, overnight.
- 4. The next day, drain the beans, put them in a saucepan, and add enough fresh water to cover the beans by about 3 inches. Bring to a boil over medium heat and cook for 10 minutes, then reduce the heat, and simmer the beans until completely soft, 1 to 1 1/2 hours. Drain well.
- 5. Put the beans, almonds, garlic, and vinegar in a food processor and process to a smooth paste. Gradually add the olive oil and lemon juice through the hole in the lid, processing to a thick sauce. Add the flaxseed oil and season with salt and pepper. Set aside.
- 6. Preheat the broiler until very hot, prepare the grill, or preheat the oven to 350°F.
- 7. Wipe away excess marinade from the chicken, then cook under the broiler, on the barbecue or in a roasting pan in the oven until cooked through, approximately 45 minutes. Test by piercing the thickest part of the flesh with a knife: when the chicken is cooked, the juices will run clear.
- 8. Cut the chickens in half, sprinkle with the herbs, and serve with the sauce and lemon wedges.
Nutritional analysis provided by TasteBook, using the USDA Nutrition Database
Reprinted with permission from Eating the Greek Way: More Than 100 Fresh and Delicious Recipes from Some of the Healthiest People in the World by Dr. Fedon Alexander Lindberg. Copyright © 2007 by Dr. Fedon Alexander Lindberg. Published by Crown Publishing Group. All Rights Reserved.
Fedon Alexander Lindberg, M.D.,was born and raised in Greece, where he learned to appreciate the good things in life. The genetic propensity to diabetes in his family led him to become a specialist in internal medicine and endocrine disorders. Having pursued his postdoctorate fellowship at the University of California, San Diego, he now runs four highly successful clinics in Norway, where he lives. A household name in Scandinavia, Dr. Lindberg is also an enthusiastic cook and food writer with several bestselling books, including The Greek Doctors Diet. This is his first cookbook to be published in the United States.


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I wont buy from DSA because of the wait time from order to ship... If something can be ordered online and added to a cart, or paid for, the company should have the part on hand ready to ship. I was ready to buy a para kit, and the railed para cover. I think I will figure something else out...
[quote=SA58;553649]Do you think there would be the same wait on gun parts as there would be for a rifle?quote]
Yes, I have heard of more then a few people droping orders from DSA and getting the parts from Falcon arms due to long wait times...
How long was the wait for a para kit? How long ago was the order placed?
...I'm not tense! Just terribly, terribly alert.
He's admitted to sending guns back to at least three different manufacturers.
Something tells me the constant in that equation is not the gun, but the operator....
That's what I figured from the get go, but I still wanted to point out his absence.
iansstud... the reason I ask is because it looks like DSA has been pretty good about shipping out the para kits in fairly short order recently.
...I'm not tense! Just terribly, terribly alert.
Hockydad probably thought he had gotten on another flame board and doesnt want to come back in fear of getting blasted again. I settled in here after visiting many other sites that were vicious. The dude may have a legitamate issue,or he may not. But lets not damn him right off the bat. Many complaint posts have been resolved after the poster is asked a few simple questions. I hope I didn't misspell anything!
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DSA might be feeling the heat, their was a post from DS on the falfiles for a XX% off of a reciver (10-29) for file members. the back log of repair work looks to be gun maker wide. a coworker got a NIB ruger that needed some work the repair took more than 90 day's to redo the forcing cone, 1Hr toops to complete. as far as selling parts that are not in the bin, it is more common than you think. not that it is OK to do. muttman
he should have gotten one of those fine ass century R1A1 FALS
Yall can take up for him all you want, I want use anything but DSA for my FALs wait or not
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The federal goverment's proposal for a bailout of the financial industry sounded somewhat familiar to me. I remembered that I had blogged about a similar proposal about a year ago on Conglomerate.
Robert Kuttner of the Boston Globe was advancing a plan to create a federal agency to buy up troubled mortgages and renegotiate them so that those who could afford it would be able to stay in their homes. The proposal was modeled on the New Deal's Home Owners Loan Corporation. I thought it was a proposal that merited attention. Many of Conglomerate's commenters thought otherwise, and condemned the idea as a bailout of greedy, irresponsible homeowners and/or investors.
Without commenting on the merits of the specific proposal that Kuttner advanced (I am sure it had some flaws), I cannot help but think that we could have forestalled the current crisis if government leaders had come together to address the problems when they surfaced at the consumer end.