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from the Calgary Herald via Canada.com:
After polishing off the St. Louis Blues 3-2 on Saturday, the [Calgary Flames] travelled to the airport. Once there, Flames coaches, trainers and staff -- not to mention The FAN 960 broadcast crew -- actually shoved [a 737] down the runway. Really.
With everyone aboard, the step-truck, flush against the plane, had conked out. Which put takeoff in limbo. "The captain went out, looked at the tarmac, realized that there was a little bit of slope going backwards," said Flames coach Jim Playfair after Sunday morning's workout. "He asked for help."

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Seattle's Interim Police Chief Apologizes For 1986 Music Video Mocking Homeless

Apr 26, 2013

Seattle Interim Police Chief Jim Pugel says "I'll apologize for the rest of my life" for appearing in a department produced video showing officers mocking the city's homeless to the tune of a classic pop hit.

The Seattle Police Department released the video on Thursday and issued an apology online under the headline, "We Own This Circa 1986 Video And For That We Apologize."

It's hugely embarrassing, it was in poor taste and I own it. And it shouldn't have been done.

The video shows Seattle police officers dressed as homeless men dancing to a parody of The Drifters' 1964 hit "Under the Boardwalk." Lyrics include:

Under the Viaduct, where dirt is our floor
Under the Viaduct, who could ask for more?
Under the Viaduct, we’ll be drinking our booze
Under the Viaduct, our sores continue to ooze

Speaking with Steve Scher on Weekday, Pugel said he regrets making the video. "It's hugely embarrassing, it was in poor taste and I own it. And it shouldn't have been done," Pugel said.

Pugel said the SPD planned to make the video public earlier, but the release was delayed by last week's bombings at the Boston Marathon and the explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant. Releasing it then, Pugel said, "would have been in even poorer taste."

Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn's office says the mayor was made aware of the video when he first asked Pugel to serve as acting chief. McGinn says Pugel "made the right call to share the video and to apologize."

Pugel is an assistant chief who has been with the department for 30 years. Earlier this month, Mayor Mike McGinn named him to lead the SPD when outgoing chief John Diaz retires at the end of May.

The city is currently working with a court-appointed monitor to implement police reforms addressing allegations of biased policing and excessive force by the Seattle Police Department.

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The Year In Music

Dec 3, 2012

What kind of year was 2012 musically? Which artists rose to the top? What musical trends did you hear? We review the year in music with The Vera Project's Beth Warshaw-Duncan, Liz Riley of Three Imaginary Girls and writer/DJ/hip-hop artist Larry Mizell. What musical discoveries did you make this year? Share them with us at 206.543.5869 or

Also this hour: we speak with Seattle City Councilmember Richard Conlin about plans for a South Lake Union upzone and we hear a response to Marine Captain Zoe Bedell's legal challenge to allow women to serve in combat.


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In Fresno, Downtown Planning Effort Faces Fiscal Crunch

Nov 1, 2012

The City of Fresno's effort to draft a vision for a revitalized downtown hit a roadblock on Tuesday, after the Fresno City Council rejected a proposal to allocate an additional $70,000 to the project on a 4-3 vote.

City staff told the council that additional funding was necessary because the city had to terminate its contract with the main consultant for the project due to non-performance. The city has already spent over $2 million in federal community development block grant funding on the project, but key elements remain incomplete. The city estimates that it will cost another $700,000 to finish the project, but it only has $560,000 in approved funding left.

In early 2010, the city hired a Pasadena based architecture and planning firm, Moule & Polyzoides (MPA) to lead the effort to re-write the city's development code for downtown, and chart the future for key downtown neighborhoods, including the Fulton pedestrian mall, and the area around the planned high speed rail station. The project was also charged with doing a key environmental study that would support future downtown developments, and the re-introduction of traffic to Fulton Mall.

But according to a city staff report, the decline in the economy forced MPA to reduce its staffing, leaving it unable to complete the project. In an effort to finish the work, city staff wanted to work directly with four subcontractors who had already been working on the project under contract under MPA.

The council rejected the request for an additional $70,000 on the project in a 4-3 vote.

Also on Tuesday, the council moved forward with a plan by council member Lee Brand to to streamline the development process for so-called “infill” projects in the city.

It’s part of an effort to steer growth back into older neighborhoods in the city. The council approved plans  to create a special committee and a community task force to recommend ways the city can make it easier to redevelop older neighborhoods.

Brand’s "Infill Development Act" also calls for an inventory of vacant land within the city and to explore a new fee structure to provide incentives to develop in established neighborhoods. The council hopes to complete the work in conjunction with the city’s new 2035 General Plan in the first part of 2013.


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Quick look at the Marlies’ 2012-13 schedule

Dallas Eakins will return as head coach for the Toronto Marlies in the 2012-13 season- Image Courtesy of Graig Abel

TORONTO– The American Hockey League announced their 2012-13 season schedule on Friday and this is how it breaks down for the Toronto Marlies.

Toronto’s first game of the season will be its home opener and it takes place October 13th against the Rochester Americans.

Their first eight games of the season will be against North Division opponents.

Starting October 26th the Marlies will head out on their biggest road trip of the year and return to the Ricoh Coliseum on November 17th. Eight games in total, the trip will start and finish in Hamilton against the Bulldogs.

Like last season, the Marlies will host a home game at the Air Canada Centre against the Bulldogs on December 26th.

On December 30th Toronto will face the Grand Rapids Griffins at Comerica Park in an outdoor game.

Toronto longest home stand is 10 games long and goes from February 23rd to March 16th, starting with the Milwaukee Admirals and wrapping up with the Americans.

The Marlies will only face 18 of the other 29 clubs in the AHL, which means you won’t get to see teams such as the Providence Bruins, Manchester Monarchs or Worcester Sharks unless they were to meet in the Calder Cup finals.

29 of Toronto’s 38 home games will be on weekends. One is a Friday night game, 17 on a Saturday and 11 more on a Sunday.

The Marlies will play the Bulldogs the most of any opponent, 12 times, with 38 division games in total.

Although the Marlies will not play the Norfolk Admirals, they will have an opportunity to face many of the same players from the 2012 Calder Cup Champions as the Tampa Bay Lightning changed their AHL affiliate to the Syracuse Crunch. The Anaheim Ducks, who were previously with Syracuse, have agreed to a partnership with Norfolk. Basically, the two NHL clubs swapped AHL rosters.

Toronto will face the Crunch twice. Their first meeting will be in Syracuse on February 20th while Toronto will host on March 6th.

The season will consist of 76 games and the 2013 All-Star weekend is scheduled for January 27-28th in Providence, Rhode Island.

Back in June the Board of Governors held their annual meeting and approved an alignment change in the Western Conference that affects three teams. Also, the former West Division has been renamed and will be known as the South Division.

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Section 503 How Does It Affect Corporate America?

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Recently, Hammond had the opportunity to travel toWashington, D.C., and attend the annual meeting of Direct Employers Association. “Direct Employers Association is a nonprofit human resource consortium of leading global employers formed to improve labor market efficiency through the sharing of best practices, research, and the development of technology.”

If you would like to contact this organization, Click Here.

Hammond says the association is a “wonderful resource” that connects companies with job seekers, as well as partners in diversity such as VIP. For her part at the conference, Hammond participated in a panel to discuss partnerships with the National Organization on Disability whose mission is to “research, develop, and demonstrate creative approaches to disability employment issues.”
The panel discussion focused on changes and revisions to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. As of September 2013, Section 503 of the bill seeks compliance from employers receiving federal dollars to ensure that a minimum of seven percent of its workforce include people with disabilities. What’s more, the new regulations require that employers invite applicants to self-identify as individuals with disabilities at both the pre-offer and post-offer phases of the application process, and that employers invite their employees to self-identify every five years. Hammond says in the past people with disabilities were reluctant to disclose their status fearing discrimination. Section 503 now encourages employers to look at their current workforce and see if they are already compliant, and, if not, influences them to seek out the services of companies like VIP in order to gain compliance of the new guidelines.
When asked about the benefits of corporations partnering with VIP, Hammond immediately raised the fact that the new revisions require compliance, and that VIP can assist them in the utilization of meeting those requirements. Hammond underscores her point by adding, “We have a viable workforce that does a wonderful job. They’re eager to fulfill any job that they’re provided an opportunity to do, and it just makes great business sense.”
Hammond also says VIP is blessed with visionary leadership that puts key components in place to assist employers in every facet of working with a diverse population, including training and support. “We’re basically a one-stop-shop,” Hammond says. “Make the phone call to VIP, partner with us, and sit back and reap the benefits.”

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Los Angeles Business Journal

Air Lease Makes Large Airbus Purchase

By RYAN FAUGHNDER Monday, February 4, 2013

Los Angeles firm Air Lease Corp. said Monday it has ordered 39 Airbus jets in a deal estimated at $9 billion.

Air Lease ordered 20 of the plane manufacturer’s A350-900 aircraft and five A350-1000s, which are the largest planes in the A350 line. The company also ordered 14 of Airbus’s A321neo aircraft. The $9 billion estimate is based on list prices from Airbus, headquartered in Blagnac, France.

The A350 aircraft are scheduled to enter service in 2014. The planes seat 270 to 350 passengers and are designed to use 25 percent less fuel than existing aircraft. They compete with Boeing’s 787 Dreamliners, which have been grounded because of fire risk.

“The A350 family is becoming the industry benchmark for efficiency in the long-haul segment,” Steven Udvar-Hazy, Air Lease chief executive, said in a statement.

“These aircraft will help airlines grow their businesses while simultaneously reducing their operating costs and emissions.”

The A350 planes have received 617 orders from 35 customers including Air Lease.

Udvar-Házy ranked No. 11 last year on the Business Journal’s list of Wealthiest Angelenos with an estimated net worth of $3.2 billion. Before launching Air Lease in 2010 he was the founder of aircraft leasing giant International Lease Finance Corp.


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Sunday, October 05, 2008

New Narrative Painting

I've been trying to get the canvas covered on this one, in between all the other things I am working on, and I am almost there. Finally I have a week that is slim on classes and private lessons, so I hope to be able to get a lot done on this in the studio over the next few days. Since taking the reference photos for this, these lovely ladies had their babies one day after the other! I have yet to meet the little munchkins in person, but perhaps this will be a good week for that, too.

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dugbuddy said...

I am really excited to see how this one progresses. Wonderful start. Love the composition. Just so wonderful how busy you are.


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: New: Book Report: The Design of Design

It's Groundhog Day, which the movies tell us is a day in which we have to worry about the same thing repeating over again. So maybe today's a good day to report on a book whose title repeats, The Design of Design.

Fred Brooks has been around for the design of a few computer architectures. And he's worked on some house remodels and additions. Now he's written this book about the general design process.

The strict waterfall method is still a bad idea. New to me, what I learned from this book: the people who originally created the waterfall method didn't mean for it to be applied strictly. They were saying stuff more like "At various stages, you're gonna have to think about X or deal with Y, but you're gonna have to move forwards and backwards between those stages. Too bad that folks setting up a bunch of government contracts overlooked the "and backwards" part, and thus some parts of the software industry followed (and follow) strict waterfall.

The important thing: When designing something, figure out what the critical resource is. If you're mass-manufacturing something, watch the manufacturing cost. If you're stopping a forest fire, watch the time. Don't assume that you know what the critical resource is at first. And once you've figured it out, don't get distracted, don't prematurely-optimize your design for something that doesn't matter.

There's a good chapter on Esthetics and Style in Technical Design. I.e., what do we mean when we say something is "elegant"? It's easy to just say "simple", but a machine that only implements NOOP is simple and useless. Brooks brings up a computer architecture by van der Poel with just one opcode. By being clever, a programmer could use that opcode to do anything, but the resulting code was complex. A simple instruction set doesn't lead to elegance. If simplicity isn't enought, what else do you need?

Structural Clarity

Parsimony is not enough. One also needs a certain straightforwardness in a language or computer architecture. There should be a direct route from what one wants to say to how one says it...

Structure. "Elegance" in a technical design demands that the basic structural concept of the design be plainly evident and, if not logically straightforward, easily explained.

Metaphor. Both "elegance" and comprehensibility are aided by the use of familiar and simple metaphors, especially in UIs to the designed object...

What is Good Computer Architecture?

...Blaauw and I believe that that consistency underlies all principles of quality. A good architecture is consistent in the sense that, given a partial knowledge of the system, one can predict the remainder... From consistency flow three major design principles: orthogonality, propriety, and generality.

Orthogonality: Do Not Link What Is Independent. A change in one orthogonal function has no observable effect on any other function in the set...

Propriety: Do Not Introduce What Is Immaterial. ...An example of propriety in computers is the unique representation of zero in twos-complement notation. In contrast, both signed-magnitude and ones-complement notations attach a sign to zero, a distinction that is extraneous. More rules have to be made as to how the signed zero behaves in arithmetic... Parsimony is a subset of propriety. Another is transparency, the property that a function's implementation of the datapath with a pipelined organization should be invisible to the programmer.

Generality: Do Not Restrict What Is Inherent. Generality is the ability to use a function for many ends. It expresses the professional humility of the designer, his conviction that users will be inventive beyond his imagination and that needs may change beyond his ability to forecast... When you don't know, grant freedom.

He still contends that great designers are born, not made. I dunno if I agree with that; he doesn't score any points by citing his examples from the Bible. He points out: once you've found a talented designer, don't nudge them into management. I agree with that.

He writes up some examples of the design process; I kinda wish that only one of these had been from home design/remodel projects. Still, this was overall a good book.

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Tuesday, July 10, 2007
The Rain, Coffeeshops, the Infamous Hagen, and the Hamburger Hamburger
Internet access has been a bit sparse until now, but I'm pretty sure that - at least for the time being - I'm back in business. I'm currently in Berlin with quite a lot of catching up to do, so let's start at the very best place: the beginning.

We last left our heroine in Amsterdam. No drug jokes, please. After a day of wandering aimlessly and trusting my gut to take me a-wanderin' around the city, I decided to relax an afternoon away sitting in a nearby cafe, indulging in a late lunch and coffee and watching the street performer doing silly things with fire in the square outside. The performer finished up his act just as I was finishing off my rather decadent salade chevre (if there is one thing the Dutch know, it is their fine, fine cuisine) and kaffee (yes, I'm picking up a bit of German along the way too) as I raised my hand to call for the check. Just behind me was a gentleman who had, all this time, been sitting rather quietly. He was old, a bit dishevelled - though not in a scary or intimidating sort of way - and missing most of his teeth, which he later and rather matter-of-factly informed me he had decided not to put in that day.

His name was Peter. He looked to be in about his mid-seventies, which I gauged by way of his stories about World War II. He was German but moved to Amsterdam when the war became serious. Of course, we all know that World War II eventually found its way into Holland. But Peter was still sad and even bitter. He mentioned many times that he could not believe the Dutch would let the Nazis in - which of course was not their choice, but that was his phrasing of it. He was angry over his Jewish business partner who survived the war, but with scars; angry over his house right across from the zoo that was destroyed and burned; angry for his mother who died amongst the inhumanity. In a city of tolerance - one of the things you notice quite easily about Amsterdam - he was against organized religion, having been assaulted by a priest in the parish where he acted as altar boy. Though we often joke about such a cliche, we often forget it is based in a harsh and gritty reality.

I mostly listened, which anyone who knows me will tell you is a miracle, though with a story like his it was not all that hard. We sat as the busboys and waiters hovered. We were taking up two tables and we were both done ordering, but we didn't yield. And after about an hour and a half of conversation, we parted ways. Later, I saw his old house across from the zoo. Though restored, you could still see remnants of what was previously there. Though Peter lives on the other side of town now anyway.

I headed back to the hostel, where I met two of my roomies, Thomas and John. From Norway, they were making their way through Amsterdam one coffeeshop at a time. If you don't know what an Amsterdam coffeeshop is, look it up. And, by the way, on a separate type of coffee shop note, there are NO Starbuckses in Amsterdam. Though I do like to indulge in Starbucks on occasion and they do make a pretty good panini-on-the-go, it was nice for once to drink REAL ESPRESSO. Which will of course be topped only upon my arrival in Italy later this month.

My final day in Amsterdam, I met up with my university chum, Chris, and his sister, Laura. We did the full-fledged walking tour together, which was really fun and nothing if not comprehensive. One of the great things they have now in Europe is called NewEurope Tours. They're free - the guides work only off of tips and they're quite enthusiastic and well-versed. So far, they have them in London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Munich, and Paris. They also have paid tours, though those usually cover a smaller area but in more detail. At the end of a long walking day, we unwound for dinner and I prepared myself to up and out to Germany.

The next morning, I arose early to meet my morning train to Cologne (Koln). It was a rather uneventful trip, but a very unseasonably rainy and cold one. I thought the weather would calm down upon arriving on the Continent though, alas, it was not to be. I followed the directions from the train station to the subway stop at Neumarkt, followed by a tram to Rudolfplatz. I got off the tram and looked around seeing no Engelbertstrasse in sight. Nor were the rest of the directions I was given any clearer. Even after calling the hostel, I could not seem to find the place. After wandering about in the most dismal weather you can imagine, I finally stumbled across Wall Street English. I was familiar with the company because my friend Candy works for them in Beijing.

I would also like to point out at this juncture that in every city I have been to thus far, I have encountered a Wall Street English and a Bang & Olufsen - don't ask me why or how. It's by that same logic that, in every city I travel to, I always land in Chinatown talking to some old Chinese lady in Mandarin about my strange expat life in Laiwu.

Anyway, I told them where I was staying and they didn't even need the address. Turns out I'm not the first non German-speaking foreigner to be unable to locate this place. They need better directions, because the ones they gave me were just wrong. But I did find the place. And though the room was empty upon my arrival, upon my return at the end of a day of Doms and German brew, I met my lovely roommates who I will kindly refer to as the Professor and his son (sorry, no Mary Ann here). They were both professors, in fact, and - outside of those Americans I intentionally met up with - they were the first Americans I had met amidst my travels. We spent the evening chatting about our trips and plans and giving and getting travel advice (in my case, only getting). The senior professor had even taught at the University of Florida (go Gators!) and they seemed excited to have an English-speaking roommate. As it turned out, though very sweet, the lady in the bunk bed underneath me was Austrian, spoke no English, and was a bit crazy. She also kicked in her sleep.

Next, it was off to the beautiful harbor town of Hamburg. Though I had originally planned to take a mid-morning train, I took an earlier one instead. I wanted the extra time in Hamburg, as I would only be spending two days there. As we will later see, this proved to be a not-so-wise decision.

I settled in on the train and got to work on my memoirs. Memoirs? A little early you say? It's NEVER too early. Just kidding. Or am I? Anyway, a couple of stations down the line, I was joined in the seat next to me by a German teacher named Dorothea. She saw me typing in English and she immediately jumped into a rather fluent strain of English, as we did brief introductions and exchanged pleasantries. About a half hour later, we pulled into the now infamous (at least in my story) Hagen Hauptbahnhof. I heard announcements in German, which there usually were, though there were no announcements in English, as there also usually were. I saw a couple of "polizei" go by, though that was hardly strange, and went back to my typing. After about seven minutes, I realized we hadn't moved. For a station as relatively small as the one in Hagen, this was rather odd. When I looked up again, there were police, emergency workers, and firemen all suited up. I turned to Dorothea and asked what was going on. She sighed and said, "oh yes, they've stopped making announcements in English, haven't they?"

As I nodded, she continued, "I think there is someone underneath the train. People often commit suicide this way."

I though about this for a moment. People often commit suicide this way? What kind of a comment is that? But she explained further that they did not know the cause or what exactly had happened - just that someone had ended up beneath the train and they had not yet determined what the people on the train should do.

By this time, the police had cordoned off the area with police tape and some people - those whose destinations were easily reachable on other trains or relatively nearby - had already begun to disembark. Finally, an announcement came on which Dorothea proceeded to translate. We would all have to take a train to Dortmund, another nearby train hub, and from there we would have to join another train to Hamburg. Anyone whose destinations were beyond there would have to take yet another train. Luckily, Hamburg was my last stop, though Dorothea would have to continue on even further. She was kind enough to wait for me and guide me. I must admit, amidst all of my independent travels, it was nice to have someone guiding ME around for a while. Like a puppy, I followed where she led, afraid to get lost in the German jumble of a creek without an English-speaking paddle. English-speaking paddle? Yeah. I'm sticking with it.

Though we had to stand the whole three-and-a-half hour journey (which is exactly why I made reservations in the first place...sigh), I did finally make it to Hamburg, with a brief but grateful goodbye to Dorothea.

Once in Hamburg, travel was easy. I didn't know how to go, but figured I'd give the traveler information area a try before ringing up the hostel itself. I had no directional information about the hostel, knowing only that it was on a street called Lubecker Strasse. And it turns out, that is indeed the name of a subway stop on the main line from the train station, heading northward. I figured, what the heck, right? The day couldn't get much more difficult. The worst part had to have passed. And wouldn't you know it, as I came out of the subway exit at Lubecker Strasse, there it was. Too easy, you say? Yeah, I thought so too.

I get inside, and they tell me they only accept cash. Which is fine. I just need an ATM. And as I'm heading out the door, they also throw in that there is a 50 Euro key deposit. What? Is the key made of diamond-encrusted platinum? So I go, and since I left my umbrella behind, it of course begins to rain. Hard. It's cold and I'm tired, having been on a train that ran over someone and all, and though the guy at the front desk says the ATM is only 40 or 50 meters away, it is most definitely not. Upon reaching the ATM vestibule in the rain, I find the door is locked. Because it's a Saturday afternoon and only in China are the banks open on a Saturday afternoon. Sort of makes me miss Beijing. SORT OF.

I try both banks on both sides of the road. Nothing. I go back and tell the guy at the hostel. He insists that even an American debit card should work to open the vestibule. So I go back and try it again. This time I bring my umbrella. Except it's not raining anymore. I get there and it doesn't work. But this time, there's someone inside who lets me in. And the ATM seems okay with my card - it's apparently only the door that's cranky. So I go back, check in, and it turns out the "dormitory-style" rooms are all full so I'm going to have to settle for a single room all to myself. How sad. Though I was supposed to change into the dormitory-style room the second day, it apparently was not worth moving my single, wheel-able suitcase down the hall and so I got the single both nights. It was an EXTREMELY welcome change after sharing rooms for the previous week and a half.

The first day I was recovering and too tired to do anything as a result of, what would turn out to be, my current rhinovirus (why do I always get sick on my vacations?), but the second day turned out to be a LOT more fun. Letting my internal compass be my guide (well, I didn't really have a choice seeing as I had neither a good Hamburg guidebook nor internet access in my hostel) I managed to find the Rathaus, the harbor, and the entire downtown section of Hamburg. I strolled around on a beautiful Sunday morning in which (GASP!) the sun actually came out. Everything was closed as it was Sunday, but I did get to go inside the Rathaus (the city hall) and the (world's most beautiful) city park, also partaking in the outdoor market and food and drink festival going on next door.

As it turns out, there was also some sort of motorcycle gathering going on and all day, throughout my activities, I would constantly hear the roar of engines. Some of the bikes were quite cool, especially these mini ones that looked like Tonka bikes. There were even a few mini racecars driving around.

That evening, I dined the way dining was meant to be done in Hamburg. Eating hamburgers. Though usually touted as American fare, the hamburger does come from Hamburg, and they do a pretty damn good job of it. McDonald's? You should be ashamed! I'm not even sure fast food burger should be allowed in this fair city!

I left early the next morning to head on to Berlin. Upon arriving at my hostel on Pariser Strasse, I settled in taking in all of the touring materials (and free internet!) that the hostel had to offer. I decided not to waste time and jumped in on a city tour that afternoon with Annabel, the world's biggest Berlin Wall buff. We saw the spot of Hitler's bunker and suicide spot (currently a truly ugly carpark/dog poo grounds and a sewer pipe respectively - a fitting end if ever I saw one) as well as the remains of the Berlin Wall, the location of Checkpoint Charlie (currently the world's funniest-looking tourist trap), and Schinkel's architecture and columns, amongst the rest. Boy, did that Schinkel love his columns...well, I guess that one's only funny if you know Annabel.

On this tour, I also met Emma from Scotland, who will be meeting me again at the end of the month when our paths cross once again in Florence. Unfortunately, this second day in Berlin has been not as much fun as the first. The cold, biting rain of this morning is only now just calming down and I am, as I mentioned before, living out the old 50s flick, Attack of the Rhinovirus! Aaaaaah! So I'm bulking up on vitamins (which I must surely be deficient in by now through my travels), drinking fortified baby juice (apparently much healthier and less sugary than the adult version), and eating lots and lots of fruit, in hopes I will quickly recover.

Silver lining? At least it gave me time to write. I know I've missed it!
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Wednesday, July 04, 2007
London Calling
I know it's been a while. For those of you who have been waiting with bated breath for my next post, you may exhale now. I've just come from three days in England. Did I have a nice time? In between the rain, perhaps. Actually despite rain, traffic, and, you know, TERRORIST ATTACKS, it was a pretty nice time. On my first day there they had many of the roads blocked off - some for security, some for a charity race that was going on. Bringing me to one of the funniest things I came across. Toward the final leg of the rainy, rainy race guess what came out of the loudspeakers as a morale boost to the exhausted runners? "Do You Hear the People Sing?" from Les Miserables. In the United States we use MC Hammer and 50 Cent to get pumped up. Not in England. How very prim and proper of them. When I heard a subway street musician playing "Castle on a Cloud" later that same evening, I thought I must be cracking up.

In one day I did a self-imposed, (almost) neverending, 7 and a half hour walking tour through every imaginable touristy district in London. I witnessed race-fueled fisticuffs in Soho (London's Red Light District of sorts) and had to filter through Bobbies three rows thick in front of 10 Downing Street. At Buckingham Palace, royal guards were placed side-by-side with automatic gun-wielding police officers. Cars on nearly every block were being secured and towed and the tube was milling with police in fluorescent yellow vests. Quite an interesting time to be visiting. But I did the tube and buses and walked on foot - all without incident. Which I will treat as a testament to London's awesome law enforcement and leave it at that. Though I should note, if the government is reading this, I was walking by St. James' Palace near where the princes' apartments are and found it someone disconcerting that I saw nary a guard in sight. I'm not here to tell you how to do your job. Just a note.

Other highlights include taking in Don Giovanni at the Royal Opera House and landing on the recieving end of catcalls by male prostitutes. Good times were had by all. Wishing you were here!

Note: I am currently in Amsterdam. Having seen tulips, Rembrandts, and more wooden shoes than you can shake a stick at, I already consider this trip a success. However, I should note that my official policy is to write about (not take pictures of) my experiences. This philosophy goes something along the lines of: pictures should be of people, not of THINGS. So I will not drone on and on over pictures of fields of flowers, windmills, and Vermeers (the equivalent of shoving pictures of your baby in a stranger's face and asking about how cute she is). Instead, I'll try to give you a sense of the experience. For now, I will merely document the obvious. You'll get a better overview when I have more time to reflect. Until then, over and out.
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Monday, May 16, 2011

Kinderglynn Summer Packet Winner!!

Thanks to all of you who entered the Kinderglynn Summer Packet Giveaway. All of you shared so many great and fun ideas for the end of the year!! Through a random drawing this morning, Mrs. Erickson was chosen at the winner!! Mrs. Erickson, the email in your post is not working for me. Will you email me directly so I can send you your packet. Thanks!!

I have tried multiple times to save the number generator box to add it to the post, but can't seem to make it work. If anyone can help me with this for the future, I would appreciate it. Thanks!! The winning number was 46.

Thanks again to Donna for so graciously offering her packet for the giveaway and to all of you who entered!!

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Thank you so much! This made my Monday a little happier! Mrs. Larremore, I e-mailed you earlier today. Thanks again!

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Working the Waiver Wire: Week 8 Free Agent Pickup Advice

Here is some advice on working the waiver wire in your fantasy league (for personal advice email larry at

Matchups to Avoid (at your discretion): Steelers defense, Ravens defense, Giants pass defense, Chargers pass defense.

Matchups to Exploit (at your discretion): Houston, Buffalo, Jacksonville, Oakland, and New England’s secondary. Buffalo, Oakland, Arizona, Tampa Bay, Detroit, and Indy’s run defense. Start a defense playing Carolina, Arizona, Cleveland, and San Francisco.

I know it’s the bye week for many of players and you’ll need some replacements, but unfortunately there aren’t many must-have type guys. You can find some guys to plug holes, but not many difference makers.

Donald Brown, RB, Colts – Joseph Addai will probably be out a month with his shoulder injury. Whoever gets the bulk of the carries will have lots of fantasy value and be a good bet for a touchdown each week. I’m thinking it will be Brown.
Mike Hart, RB, Colts – Hart has been receiving carries and will likely have a strong role in the offense with Addai out. He and Brown are both worth pickups, but Brown will probably be the man.

*Make sure they’re not still available: Kenny Britt

Matt Cassel, QB, Chiefs – Just like we said for his matchup last week against the Jags, not a lot of yards but he’ll throw for a few scores.
Jon Kitna, QB, Cowboys – Lots of weapons at his disposal and he’s playing the horrendous Jacksonville secondary. He should have nice stats this week.
Rams – They’re getting sacks, strips, and they’re not allowing many points. They’re a good play at home against the Panthers.

Lee Evans, WR, Bills – I wasn’t buying Evans last week after his touchdown catch and then he went out and scored three against Baltimore. Go figure. I still think you’ll be disappointed if you’re relying on him from here on out.
David Gettis, WR, Panthers – Matt Moore went over 300 yards and targeted Gettis nine times (his drop was a sure touchdown). Moore calls him a stud. I wouldn’t go that far or expect 100 yard games on a regular basis
Josh Freeman, QB, Buccaneers – He’s just a good player. Not huge stats, but maybe 200 yards a touchdown, a few rushing yards, and hardly any mistakes. He’s a steady option.
James Jones, WR, Packers – Had his first 100-yard game of the season and is becoming Rodgers’ second favorite target, especially with Donald Driver hurt.
Jason Avant, WR, Eagles – With DeSean Jackson out, he steps up and becomes the nice possession receiver for Philly. Two straight 60+ yard games.
*Make sure they’re not still available: Danny Amendola, Willis McGahee, Todd Heap

Jordan Shipley, WR, Bengals – He caught all six of his targets for 131 yards and his first career touchdown. He’s a good player, but the Bengals have way too many receiving options for him to get consistent looks.
Matt Moore, QB, Panthers – He came out of the bye week with a purpose throwing for over 300 yards, but don’t expect many more spectacular games. Don’t forget he has 7 INTs in 100 attempts.
Brandon LaFell, WR, Panthers – If you’re relying on Carolina Panthers to help your fantasy team, you’re in trouble. LaFell won’t bail you out.
Jason Campbell, QB, Raiders – Posted his highest career passer rating in a game on Sunday but he’s still not very good. They’ll go back to Gradkowski when he’s healthy.
Dez Bryant, WR, Cowboys – He’s a good player and coming off a three touchdown game, but his catch totals are low. I like his chances to produce less with Kitna in there.

LeGarrette Blount, RB, Bucs – Looked great dragging defenders on his way to a 72-yard performance on 11 carries. He could be their starting back by the time it’s all over.
Chester Taylor, RB, Bears – He’s now going to get the goal-line carries. The problem is the Bears’ offense has been dreadful, and they hardly run it.
Matthew Stafford, QB, Lions – He returns this week but faces a good Washington secondary. I was big on him to start the year and think he’ll be a good fantasy option.

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Study shows long-term success in recovery from borderline personality disorder

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Borderline Borderline personality disorder has long been considered one of the toughest psychiatric disorders to resolve. There have been many questions about how to best treat the condition, which is marked by unstable relationships, unhappiness, mood changes, impulsive behavior and poor decision-making.

Advances in understanding and treating the condition have been made in recent years, however. And a new study offers hope that recovery, although challenging, can be long-lasting.

Many Zanarini of McLean Hospital in Massachusetts studied 290 hospitalized patients with BPD over 10 years. Half of the patients recovered from the disorder after 10 years of follow-up. Recovery was defined as at least two years without symptoms and both social and vocational functioning. Overall, 93% of patients achieved a remission of symptoms lasting at least two years and 86% for at least four years.

The research suggests that while it may be difficult to achieve recovery, once recovery has been attained it appears to last. While many treatments focus on symptoms, therapy should include work on improving relationships and functioning in the workplace, areas that vastly boost the odds of long-term recovery, the authors said.

The study is published online Thursday in The American Journal of Psychiatry.

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A 'smaller, more compact' Book Expo America

May 28, 2009 | 12:43 pm

Oddly, Book Expo America is going to feel more crowded when it fires up Friday, even though attendance is expected to be off by about 14% from the last time it was held here in New York City’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in 2007.

Lance Fensterman, a vice president at show producer Reed Exhibitions, just told early-bird reporters that when it became clear attendance was going to be lower this year because of the economic troubles battering the publishing industry, the organizers “made a concerted choice to pare it down a little more. Perhaps we’re crazy, but I don’t think so. We see BEA as needing to be a highly focused, high-level event. And that probably means a smaller, more compact event.”

So, Fensterman said, they rejected about 1,500 credential requests from “industry professionals,” which he described as the “other” category -- in essence, publishing hangers-on and people who slip in because they have a friend with a bookstore. “Our exhibitors told us this was the group that had the least amount of value to them,” he said. Fensterman has been trying to spin the decline as a distillation process for a couple of weeks now.

But the publishing houses are sending fewer people too. Exhibitor registrations, including the number of credentialed staffers, are down by as much as 15%. Fensterman said, however, that the number of attendees who are members of the American Booksellers Assn. is about even with 2007. Press and media credentials are up by about 20%. And the amount of space BEA takes up will be down 21%.

So, what does all that mean? A leaner, busier show. So get your elbows ready.

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World Series notebook: Rangers' repeat appearance not enough

October 22, 2011 |  4:07 pm

The Texas Rangers are the first American League team to make consecutive appearances in the World Series since the New York Yankees in 2000 and '01. But Texas General Manager Jon Daniels said Saturday he has no intention of resting on those laurels.

“It’s a tremendous accomplishment: just making the playoffs, winning a division, obviously advancing to the playoffs and advancing into the World Series,” he said. “We talk a lot about [how] we didn't want to be known as a one-hit wonder. We don't want to look back 10 years from now and say it was a nice accomplishment but we weren't able to build on it.

“We’re not happy with getting there twice. We want to win it and try to build something where we look back after 10 years and we’re not just comparing, you know, who’s better, 2010 versus 2011? But 2011 versus 2015, 2013 versus 2018. Obviously that’s the dream for every club. We’re definitely motivated, and the bottom line is the players have to get it done on the field. And they have.”

What’s in a name?

For the record, it’s pronounced zep-CHIN-skee. But Cardinals reliever Marc Rzepcynski said only two people have gotten his surname right the first time they tried and both were teaching assistants at UC Riverside whose families were from Poland.

Rzepcynski says the "r" is silent –- but certainly not the "k," since the left-hander has struck out more than a batter an inning in his first postseason.

If hitting against him is difficult, so is calling him by name, which is why the former Servite High (Anaheim, Calif.) standout answers to a number of nicknames including “Scrabble” and “Alphabet.” Even his own manager, Tony La Russa, who speaks two languages and has a law degree, has shortened him name to  “R-Zep.”

Some opposing managers won’t go that far.

“I don't know how to pronounce his last name, so I'm not even going to try,” said Texas skipper Ron Washington, who refers to Rzepcynski simply as “Marc.”

Home is where the wins are

No team in the American League won more games at home this year than Texas, which went 52-29 at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington during the regular season. And the Rangers went into Saturday’s Game 3 of the World Series having won four consecutive postseason games there as well.

“When you have the fans that we have, it certainly gives you a boost,” said Texas Manager Ron Washington. “You're always comfortable in your home ballpark. There's no doubt about it. Does that mean that you totally can win? No, the game is played between the lines.

“The things that happen through the course of a ballgame that you have to deal with, and if you deal with them, you get the last opportunity at your ballpark. And we've been pretty good with last opportunities at this ballpark.”

Not that any of that matters to St. Louis. The Milwaukee Brewers had a baseball-best 57 wins at home this summer and the Cardinals beat them twice in three games at Milwaukee during the league championship series.

“It's a non-factor,” Cardinal Manager Tony La Russa said of the home-field advantage. “When a club like ours goes on the road, we have a real toughness.”

-- Kevin Baxter, reporting from Arlington, Texas

Photo: Shea McKinnerney cleans an on-deck circle before the start of Game 3 of the World Series on Saturday at the Ballpark in Arlington. Credit: Charlie Riedel / Associated Press


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Why is Senegal -- an African success story -- becoming unstable?

January 30, 2012 |  6:06 pm

People in Dakar, Senegal, demonstrate against President Abdoulaye Wade

This story has been updated. See the note below for details.

Senegal has been regarded as a rare success story in West Africa, a stable democracy that has never had a military coup. But it looked a lot less stable on Monday when paramilitaries opened fire on protesters.

What is behind the unrest in Senegal?

The trouble swirls around President Abdoulaye Wade, who has been criticized for increasing presidential power since he was elected. Roughly two-thirds of Senegalese senators are now chosen by the president, and he successfully pushed to extend presidential terms to seven years. He also tried to make it possible to win the presidency outright with just 25% of the vote.

His opponents see him as erratic and wasteful, pointing to pet projects like a hulking Soviet-style bronze statue called the Monument to the African Renaissance, which cost $27 million. Wade once said he had never made a mistake in a decade in power.

Many are fearful that he is grooming his son Karim as a successor. When Wade tried to create the position of vice president, a job that critics believed was a stepping stone for his son, protests erupted and he backed down.

What triggered this round of protests?

The elderly president has been in office since 2000 and has set his sights on a third term in 2012, even though the constitution limits presidents to two terms. Wade argues that he is exempt from the rule because he was elected before the term limits were put into force. Last week, a constitutional court ruled in his favor.

Protests erupted across the country, spearheaded by young people.

“They’re not going to put up with Wade sticking around in office,” said Richard Downie, deputy director of the Africa program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. “Whether he wins fair or unfair, there are going to be large protests.… This election will be decided on the streets.”

Senegalese police say an officer was hit in the head by a brick and killed during riots Friday. A Senegalese journalist told the Associated Press that after police ran out of tear gas Monday and couldn’t get protesters to disperse, they turned to bullets. The gunfire reportedly killed a high school student and a woman in her 60s.

What happens now?

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns said Monday that Wade's bid for reelection threatened Senegal's political stability. Amnesty International condemned the violence and the detention of a Wade opponent.

The violence could also put international aid at risk. Two and a half years ago, the country was awarded $540 million over five years to reduce poverty from the Millennium Challenge Corp., a U.S. foreign aid agency that requires grantees to “demonstrate a commitment to just and democratic governance.” The MCC was not immediately available for comment Monday afternoon. [Updated 1:21 p.m. Feb. 2: An MCC official stated that the agency is closely monitoring the events in Senegal in coordination with the U.S. embassy in Dakar.]

Downie said the military is another wild card. “Will they come out in defense of the constitution and prevent Wade from remaining in power?” he asked.

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Thousands of millennia-old stone etchings believed to have been made by hunter-gatherers roaming northern Mexico are being catalogued by archeologists.

The carvings, known as petroglyphs, are deemed to be around 6,000 years old and consist of wavy lines, concentric circles and even images of deer that the artists were probably tracking. The archaeologists found around 8,000 of these drawings at the site in Narigua, in northern Mexico.

Experts examining the site believe that the etchings are either part of the hunter-gatherer society’s initiation rites or the representation of stars. Gerardo Rivas, an archeologist for Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), said the petroglyphs were found in a settlement that, while believed to be only a temporary stopover, still contained the remains of cooking implements and stoves.

Rivas added that the findings could reveal clues as to how the people built tools and what level of sophistication their society had. There are also indications that the inhabitants of the area lived in huts, which were in some cases portable.

Along with the petroglyphs, researchers have found some 500 stones with decorations on them at the site, which measures two miles in radius and is said to be the most important in the Mexican state of Coahuila, given its high number 'petrograbados.'

Archaeologists also found carvings or modern crosses that they believe were either left by the Spanish or indigenous converts in the 16th century.

While the archaeologists are still hard at work cataloguing all the stones – a process that began last August – they soon plan to open the area up to tourists at the site, which lies around 60 miles west of the Mexican city of Monterrey.

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Confusion continues over the new Department of Administration rules announced December 1 which require advance permits for many demonstrations held within the Wisconsin State Capitol. Among the more controversial aspects of the policy are its applicability to small groups of protestors and the discretion granted to the State Capitol police to require permit seekers to pay security costs in advance. I have already written about the manner in which this policy goes too far, and how it impermissibly infringes upon the First Amendment rights of protestors.

One response to the criticism of the new DOA policy has been to compare the DOA policy to the rules governing demonstrations at the United States Capitol building. At first reading, it appears that protestors are completely banned from the United States Capitol building under guidelines issued by the United States Capitol Police. Those guidelines state that “demonstration activity is prohibited and will not be permitted inside any Capitol buildings.” You can read the U.S. Capitol Police policy here.

At a recent forum to discuss the new DOA policy, one participant asked, if the U.S. Capitol Police can ban demonstrations altogether within their building, why can’t the Department of Administration impose restrictions in the State Capitol building that are something less than a complete ban?  The simple answer to this question is that the U.S. Capitol building is not considered a public forum, while the Wisconsin State Capitol is.

The expression of political speech receives the greatest protection under the First Amendment when it takes place in a public forum:

Speech restrictions in traditional public forums are generally subject to the most exacting forms of judicial scrutiny. A government entity may never restrict all forms of communicative activity in these spaces. Public forum doctrine also requires that all restrictions based upon the content of the speech must be subject to strict scrutiny; that is, they must further a compelling state interest in a narrowly tailored way. Courts strike down restrictions on speech in traditional public forums when the restrictions do not satisfy strict scrutiny. In traditional public forums a government may, however, impose content-neutral time, place, and manner restrictions as long as those restrictions are “narrowly tailored to serve a significant government interest, and leave open ample alternative channels of communication.

Michael J. Friedman, Dazed and Confused: Explaining Judicial Determinations of Traditional Public Forum Status, 82 TUL. L. REV. 929, 933 (2008).

In contrast, a far lower form of judicial scrutiny applies to evaluate speech restrictions in nonpublic forums. In a nonpublic forum, speech restrictions need only be reasonable and viewpoint-neutral. See id. at 935.

In Gaylor v. Thompson, 939 F. Supp. 1363 (W.D. Wis. 1996), District Judge Barbara Crabb held that the Wisconsin State Capitol is a public forum. This ruling is unsurprising. The interior of the Wisconsin State Capitol building has traditionally been a site for public expression and protest. As a result, any restrictions on speech within the Wisconsin State Capitol building must meet the stricter standard described above.  As stated by Judge Crabb:

In this instance, the state of Wisconsin has opened the capitol rotunda to a variety of displays and exhibits and must be considered a public forum for the purpose of First Amendment analysis. However, that decision does not mean that the state is prohibited from imposing certain regulations on the time, place and manner of the displays. The state can implement such restrictions provided they “are justified without reference to the content of the regulated speech, that they are narrowly tailored to serve a significant governmental interest, and that they leave open ample alternative channels for communication of the information.”

However, in the case of Bynum v. U.S. Capitol Police Bd., 93 F. Supp.2d 50 (D.D.C. 2000) the court ruled that the United States Capitol is not a public forum.  The court noted that as early as 1946 the U.S. Congress had passed a law banning protests and demonstrations inside of the U.S. Capitol. That law, coupled with a lack of a tradition of public access to the U.S. Capitol building for protests, and the exclusive control that Congress exercises over the District of Columbia, led the court to conclude that the U.S. Capitol is not a public forum:

Which brings the Court to what may seem a somewhat surprising conclusion that the inside of the United States Capitol is a nonpublic forum for First Amendment forum analysis purposes. While in many respects the Capitol must be viewed as sui generis, it appears that its designation as a nonpublic forum most closely conforms with Congress’ intent and the forum-based approach adopted by the Supreme Court. As a nonpublic forum, the government may restrict First Amendment activity in the Capitol so long as the restrictions are “viewpoint neutral” and “reasonable in light of the purpose served by the forum.” [citations omitted]

Because it found the U.S. Capitol building to be a non-public forum, the court evaluated restrictions on speech within the U.S. Capitol building under the more forgiving standard of reasonableness.

However, it is important to note that, even under this lower constitutional standard, the court still found that the only reasonable justification for government rules restricting speech would be the disruptive effect of the protestor’s conduct. Therefore, even under the nonpublic forum standard, the United States Capitol Police were still prohibited from banning expressive conduct that was non-disruptive.

In the case of plaintiff Bynum, he was a pastor who led a small group in prayer and meditation, in a conversational tone, within Statuary Hall and other portions of the Capitol Building. The Bynum court held:

The Court, however, cannot conclude that the regulation is reasonable in light of the purposes it could legitimately serve. While the regulation is justified by the need expressed in the statute to prevent disruptive conduct in the Capitol, it sweeps too broadly by inviting the Capitol Police to restrict behavior that is in no way disruptive, such as “speechmaking . . . or other expressive conduct. . . .” Because the regulation’s proscriptions are not limited to the legitimate purposes set forth in the statute, it is an unreasonable and therefore an unconstitutional restriction on speech. [citation omitted]

The Bynum court issued an injunction ordering the U.S. Capitol Police not to enforce restrictions on First Amendment conduct within the Capitol Building unless they are addressed towards disruptive or obstructive conduct.

Therefore, even under the lesser standards applicable in a nonpublic forum, the First Amendment prevents the U.S. Capitol Police from completely banning small, non-disruptive protests within the U.S. Capitol building. Any statement in the current written policy of the U.S. Capitol Police that purports to completely ban protests inside of the U.S. Capitol cannot be enforced. For example, in one highly publicized recent case, the U.S. Capitol Police apologized to an individual for mistakenly removing her from the Capitol Gallery for wearing a T-shirt with a political slogan.

[Note: Unlike the interior of the U.S. Capitol building, the grounds surrounding the building are a public forum. See Lederman v. United States, 291 F.3d 36 ( D.C. Cir. 2002).]

The bottom line is that it makes a difference for the constitutional analysis of the new DOA policy that the Wisconsin State Capitol is a public forum.

Might the legislators in Madison pass a bill declaring that the Wisconsin State Capitol is no longer a public forum? Not really, because once a location has become a public forum by tradition the government may not arbitrarily remove that status. In any event, such a law would violate the Wisconsin State Constitution, which provides that the doors of the State Capitol shall remain open while the legislature is in session. There is, of course, no analogue for this provision in the federal Constitution. Even though the Wisconsin Supreme Court has recently treated the “open doors” provision of the Wisconsin Constitution in a rather cavalier manner, it is difficult to conceive how any legislative attempt to completely foreclose protests within the State Capitol building could survive a state constitutional challenge.

It should be obvious by now that the permit policies currently in place at the United States Capitol are completely irrelevant to the First Amendment analysis that applies to a public forum like the Wisconsin State Capitol. As I previously wrote, the new DOA policy is overbroad because it allows fees to be imposed on the indigent as a condition of protesting, it vests unbounded discretion in the Capitol police to determine whether to impose advance fees for security costs, and it requires permits from small groups of four or more protesters. These restrictions fail to meet the strict standards used to evaluate limitations on speech in a public forum. Even in a nonpublic forum like the U.S. Capitol, the federal courts have enjoined attempts to prevent small groups from engaging in non-disruptive protests without a permit.

By looking to the policies in place at the U.S. Capitol, the defenders of the DOA policy have fallen into a logical trap. The advocate thinks to himself, “If only I can argue Proposition X, then I will win the argument.” So the advocate searches high and low for evidence in support of Proposition X. Alas, arguing backwards from a conclusion never works.

Here, Proposition X is the assertion that “Restrictions on speech in the United States Capitol reflect what may be constitutionally restricted in the Wisconsin State Capitol.” As the above discussion illustrates, this assertion rests upon a myriad of mistaken assumptions.

By drafting an overbroad policy with little or no guidance for how the security staff is supposed to implement it, the Department of Administration has placed the Wisconsin State Capitol Police in a very difficult position. Rather than continue in its attempts to justify restrictions that indefensibly infringe upon the First Amendment rights of citizens, the DOA should withdraw its new policy and start from scratch.

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  1. Ted Voth Jr Says:

    So we learn that the Constitution doesn’t really mean what it says? Swell…

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Kimberlé Crenshaw teaches Civil Rights and other courses in critical race studies and constitutional law. Her primary scholarly interests center around race and the law, and she was a founder and has been a leader in the intellectual movement called Critical Race Theory. She was elected Professor of the Year by the 1991 and 1994 graduating classes. She now splits her time each year between UCLA and the Columbia School of Law.

At the University of Wisconsin Law School, where she received her LL.M., Professor Crenshaw was a William H. Hastie Fellow. She then clerked for Justice Shirley Abrahamson of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Professor Crenshaw's publications include Critical Race Theory (edited by Crenshaw, et al., 1995) and Words that Wound: Critical Race Theory, Assaultive Speech and the First Amendment (with Matsuda, et al., 1993).

In 2007, Professor Crenshaw was awarded the Fulbright Chair for Latin America in Brazil.  In 2008, she was nominated an Alphonse Fletcher Fellow.  In the same year she joined the selective group of scholars awarded with an in-residence fellowship at the Center of Advanced Behavioral Studies at Stanford.

You can find out more about Professor Crenshaw's work through her think tank, The African American Policy Forum, at http://aapf.org/.


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Sunday, June 29, 2014

ABA President Weighs in on Unaccompanied Minors from Central America

In testimony by before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary on June 25, James R. Slikenat, President of the American Bar Association offers some views on the much-publicized spike in unaccomapnied minors from Central America coming to the United States:

"The reasons that children immigrate to the United States are often complex and multifaceted. Children express both push and pull factors that cause them to leave their home countries and seek protection, opportunity, and family reunification in the United States. Reasons include escaping from abuse and very real threats by powerful and violent street gangs, including the 18th Street gang and the Mara Salvatrucha gang. These gangs frequently engage in forced recruitment of teenage boys, sexual slavery of teenage girls, and targeted extortion efforts, often focusing on children with parents and extended family members in the United States. The gangs are terrifying and relentless in their efforts to exact compliance. A more recent phenomenon, children are fleeing these countries due to threats by multinational drug trafficking organizations, demanding that children act as drug mules or look-outs for illicit cartel activities. Furthermore, many of the children ProBAR [an ABA project in South Texas] represents have been abandoned, abused, or neglected in their home countries by parents or by extended family members. In most cases involving children, there are multiple factors that fuel the decision to migrate to the United States; however there is no question that the increasing violence and lawlessness in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras is a major cause of the recent influx.

There is no question that the rapid increase in unaccomp anied children entering our country presents many difficult challenges . However, in the rush to address the current crisis, the United States cannot abandon the principles of fairness and due process that make this country a beacon a light and hope for those suffering persecution around the world. Any short - or long - term solutions designed to address the influx of children must bear this ideal firmly in mind."

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops offered similar testimony on the issue.

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The Eighth International Literacy & Education Research Network Conference on

4-8 July 2001

Keynote & Plenary Speakers

Professor Mary Kalantzis

Dean, Faculty of Education, Language and Community Services, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

Brief Biography

Professor Mary Kalantzis is Dean of the Faculty of Education, Language and Community Services at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. She was a part time Commissioner of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission from 1994 to 1997 and Chair of the Queensland Ethnic Affairs Ministerial Advisory Committee from 1995 to 1997. Her publications include co-authorship of Minority Languages and Dominant Culture with Cope and Slade (Falmer Press, London, 1989); Cultures of Schooling: Pedagogies for Cultural Difference and Social Access, with Cope, Noble and Poynting (Falmer Press, London, 1990); and Productive Diversity (Pluto Press, Sydney, 1997). Her latest books are an edited collection, with Bill Cope, based on the work of the New London Group, Multiliteracies: Literacy Learning and the Design of Social Futures (Routledge, London, 2000) and A Place in the Sun: Re-creating the Australian Way of Life (Harper Collins, Sydney, 2000).

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Iron & Steel Preservation

LCC Iron & Steel Preservation (ISP)

Iron & Steel Preservation Workshop

"Historic wrought iron and steel truss bridges that were fabricated between 1850 and 1950 are rapidly being replaced today with new concrete or steel bridges, primarily because of the lack of knowledge in the restoration of historic metals," explains Vern Mesler, Technical Careers Adjunct Faculty in welding. "We need to develop expertise in preserving the original materials by combining modern technology such as electric arc welding with historic methods like hot riveting."

Repair, Rehabilitation, and Restoration of Metals

Our workshop has the goal of increasing the number of engineers, designers, builders and contractors who can confidently specify industrial processes for the repair, rehabilitation and preservation of metals using both current steel fabrication methods and historic technologies.

Repair - Repair of critical members of a bridge or building requires the knowledge of industrial processes, and the selection of the applicable process for a particular repair application. Two of the most popular arc welding processes used for onsite repairs are the Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW) and the Flux Cored Arc Welding (FCAW) processes, both processes will be demonstrated at the March ISP workshop with hands-on opportunities for workshop participants.

Rehabilitation - Replacing a metal truss bridge or building with a new structure can have a negative economic impact on a community, many of these structures can be brought up to current standards such as the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), and the American Welding Society (AWS). With the careful selection, and application of industrial processes along with engineering innovation a rehabilitation project can extend the service life of a culturally significant bridge or building.

LCC Iron & Steel Preservation (ISP)

Restoration - If a bridge or building is declared historically significant than the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties often governs. Repair, rehabilitation, and restoration of original historic metals with current industrial tools such as arc welding process, flame straightening, brazing, and riveting can save and protect much of the original metal. ISP workshop participants will have a better understanding and greater sensitivity toward existing metal structures, and fabrication technologies.

LCC is accredited by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training as an IACET education provider and will issue Continuing Education Units (CEUs) to participants at the end of each conference day.

View our videos of Restoration and Preservation of Historic Metals

Custom Welding Courses

Repair, rehabilitation and restoration of metals is essential for preservation of metal structures, and the electric arc welding process is a valuable tool for preservation projects that involve both historic and contemporary metals. For those who are responsible for making decisions for preservation or the training of those performing the work, Lansing Community College can design a welding course that meets your requirements.

Other training courses include:

  • Braze welding
  • Flame straightening
  • Hot riveting with a field rivet hammers

Customized Arc Welding Courses

Customized arc welding courses are being offered at Lansing Community College, West Campus, Lansing, Michigan. These courses can be designed for individuals or groups for either introductory or advanced training in the Flux Cored Arc Welding (FCAW), Metal Cored Arc Welding (MCAW), and Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW) processes.

Your Custom Course Could Include

Depending on the client's needs, customized courses can include lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on activities with instructions on the essential variables (voltage, amperage, and other operating parameters) of the arc welding processes.

  • Safety procedures used in the Flux Cored Arc Welding (FCAW), Metal Cored Arc Welding (MCAW) and Shielded Metal Arc Welding processes.
  • Equipment used in the FCAW, MCAW and SMAW processes, including power sources, flow meters, guns and wire feeders. The selection of gases and wire combinations for different metals.
  • Electrode and wire AWS classification system for the FCAW, MCAW and SMAW processes.
  • Proper set-up procedures for amperage (wire feed speed); effects of voltage and gas flow for FCAW and MCAW processes; effect of amperage for SMAW.
  • Weld gauges for measuring fillet welds (in the flat and horizontal positions) and groove welds.
  • Weld defects and discontinuities, their causes and repair procedures, and methods for reducing distortion.

Rates depend on the number of hours of training. Sample rates are as follows:

  • $2,500 an eight hour course with one instructor and five students
  • $3,600 sixteen hour course with one instructor and five students
  • $4,650 twenty four hour course with one instructor and five students

Lansing Community College is authorized to award Continuing Education Credits (CEUs) for these customized training courses.

American Welding Society Certification Tests

Lansing Community College has on staff American Welding Society certified welding inspectors (CWI) who can conduct Standard AWS certification tests for the FCAW, MCAW, and SMAW processes. The costs for certification testing are separate from the course, arrangements to be made directly with the CWIs

Of Interest To

  • State and Federal Departments of Transportation (DOTs, FHWA)
  • State Historic Preservation Offices (SHPOs)
  • Engineers
  • Ironworkers, Steel fabricators
  • Craftsmen
  • General Contractors
  • Preservationists, Historians
  • Students and Educators

Contact Us

Vern Mesler

Phone: (517) 483-9853

Scholarship Opportunities

Scholarships to attend the ISP workshop will be awarded to undergraduate and graduate students in welding, engineering, historic preservation and related fields.

Welding Technology Program at Lansing Community College

Applied Manufacturing Technologies
West Campus Room 103
Phone: (517) 483-5338
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Saturday, August 29, 2009

A Rainbow Birthday Cake

From Mommy I'm Hungry

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Earlier this month we celebrated a Birthday in our family. Brooke from Conversations With A Cupcake blogged about her colorful fruity cake, and I knew I had to make one for my little girl who's now 6! How fun is this cake?

This was a HUGE hit! She didn't know about it being rainbow until I cut into it! I shared a preview of this on Facebook, and everyone loved it. It was the tallest cake I have ever made! So tall I had to remove shelves in my fridge! Even though the layers aren't a full layer size, the cake still equals out to being 4 regular layers tall, each cut in half, get it?
Each layer has it's own wonderful fruity flavor! *I used a 16 oz bag of frozen berry medley which had the berries I needed.
I used a double batch of frosting, and it wasn't enough. As you can see it's pretty much plain, I didn't have enough for piping and such. So make a triple batch if you want to decorate all out.

*Here's a cake support tip: stick a cake dowel rod in the middle of the whole cake to keep it in place!

(I just noticed, you can see how tall it is, sitting next to a gallon of milk in the fridge!)

From Mommy I'm Hungry

Double batch of boxed white cake mix -2 boxes (or homemade batches if you prefer minus the egg, water, oil below)
6 eggs
1 c. water
2/3 c. vegetable oil
Zest of 1 orange + 2 T. juice
Zest of 1 lemon + 2 T. juice
Zest of 1 lime + 2 T. juice
1/2 c. fresh or frozen raspberries, mashed
1/2 c. fresh or frozen blueberries, mashed
1/2 c. fresh or frozen blackberries, mashed
Wilton's gel icing colors in red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple

6 bowls
6 disposable round 8" foil cake pans (square pans would be fun too, check the $1 store!)

Make the batter for the cake as directed using the eggs, water and oil. Scoop 1 Cup of cake batter in each of the 6 bowls.

In the first bowl, mix raspberries and 1/4 tsp. red coloring in the batter.
In the second bowl, mix orange zest and juice, and 1/2 tsp. orange coloring.
In the third bowl, mix lemon zest and juice and 1/4 tsp. yellow coloring.
In the fourth bowl, mix lime zest and juice and 1/4 tsp. green coloring.
In the fifth bowl, mix blueberries and 1/4 tsp. blue coloring.
In the sixth bowl, mix blackberries and 1/4 tsp. purple coloring.

Prepare six 8 inch cake pans by greasing and flouring each generously. Using a spatula, spoon and spread each color of batter into its own cake pan. Bake in an oven, preheated to 350 degrees for 17-20 minutes, or until tops spring back when touched lightly. Allow to cool completely. Frost.

Cream Cheese Icing (For this cake, I doubled it -to the right)
1/2 c. butter (softened) -1C.
8 oz. pkg cream cheese (softened) -16 oz.
4 c. (1 lb) confectioner's sugar -8 C. (2 lb)
1 tsp Vanilla or lemon extract

Cream butter and cream cheese until smooth. Add sugar and extract. Beat on high speed until smooth, light and fluffy. Frost cake.

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19 Lovely Comments:

Courtney said...

I'm always a fan of multicolored cakes. This one is awesome!! :)

Melody said...

I can definitely see a request for this cake in my future! Beautiful!

Mommy's Kitchen said...

That cake is huge and so pretty. You did a awesome job I bet she was a happy little girl.

Mrsblocko said...

Your cake turned out beautifully! How did you get your frosting to turn out so smooth and thick? I made this cake and mine had lots of issues.

Kathie @ my net finds said...

I made a rainbow cake once, years ago, but it was just plain vanilla flavored and did NOT look as pretty as yours! excellent job! I also recently saw a rainbow cake that was "tie-dye"...instead of entire layers being colored, you divide it up and just put each measured portion in on top of each other...I'm not explaining it well! Anyway, great job :-)

Barbara Bakes said...

What a fun cake! I'm sure it would be a hit at any birthday party!

pixen said...

It's so colorful!!! I don't think I can eat such fabulous cake. Just look at the vibrant colors... it's as if really dip in rainbow! It's not only great with kids but adult as well. Surely brought out the child in us. All I can say was 'gorgeous, scrumptious... and so sexy' :-D So kind of you to share the recipe and yummy picts!

Nurit said...

Wow, although I never use food coloring, I got to say this looks impressive.

Betty said...

Hi, compliments is very very very particular and so beautiful.
bye and have a good day.
sorry for my bad English!

NikiTheo said...

Awesome cake!!! I don't even know if I have enough cake pans to do so many layers! And I would def have to remove a shelf in the fridge to get that in there!
Happy birthday to your little one!

Deeba @Passionate About Baking said...

That's a drop dead gorgeous cake Rachelle...would be a winner with my kids too. Fabulous!

Deanna said...

This is beautiful! I love how you added the fruit in with the different colors, what a great idea!

Chrystina said...

Rachelle, you have once again outdone yourself! This so rocks!! I love it!! The flavored layers are a wonderful idea!! This cake is beyond beautiful!

MN_Mom said...

Nice post! I did a rainbow cake, too. I didn't know they were so popular. See mine aaaaaaaaaaaa

Nancy said...

That is a great cake. I am not sure I have the patience for this, but I think I am going to give it a try.

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Aboriginal students from Shepparton
visiting Storm HQ

Twenty Aboriginal students from the Academy of Sport, Health and Education (ASHE) in Shepparton will be furthering their learning at the Melbourne Storm tomorrow afternoon.

ASHE is a program devised in partnership between the Rumbalara Football Netball Club and the University of Melbourne in order to broaden the career and education opportunities for the Koorie community in Shepparton.

The students will be watching training and then speaking to some of the players in order to get an understanding of what it means to be a professional sportsman and the sacrifices that are necessary in order to achieve at the highest level. This will most likely happen between 1:00pm ? 3:30pm. It is possible we may even send a couple of players on the MCG tour with them.

The aim of ASHE is to deliver highly individualised tuition and personal development opportunities in an environment where the students are comfortable and have a great sense of ownership.

So far, they have been given a tour of Optus Oval and some advice from former Carlton footballer Adrian Hickmott. They are also attending lectures at the university and doing a tour of the MCG as part of their excursion.

At present, there are 20 full-time students enrolled at ASHE undertaking studies in Certificate II or Certificate III in Sport from the Shepparton Campus.


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engage Super League Rd 26 Review

Leeds Rhinos 54 (Senior 3, Thackray 2, Donald 2, Gibson, Lauiti?iti tries; Sinfield 9 goals) def. Warrington Wolves 16 (Sullivan, Barnett, Swann tries; Briers 2 goals). Att: 17,349.

Leeds Rhinos came back to form as they thrashed the Warrington Wolves at The Headingley Carnegie Stadium.

Leeds, celebrating the opening of their new Carnegie Stand and 100 years to the day since their first ever match at the thirteen a side code, crossed for nine times in all with Jamie Thackray notching two before half-time - the second a sixty metre special.

Scott Donald also scored twice while Ali Lauiti?iti and youngster Ashley Gibson grabbed one apiece. Kevin Sinfield kicked nine goals while Michael Sullivan, Richie Barnett and Logan Swann scored for the visitors.

This win means that the Rhinos cannot finish any lower than third in the engage Super League table.

St Helens 34 (Gardner 2, Gilmour, Wellens, Pryce, Lyon tries; Lyon 4, Hooper goals) def. Wakefield Wildcats 12 (Demetriou, Watene tries; Rooney 2 goals). Att: 8,991.

Challenge Cup winners St Helens virtually clinched the League Leaders shield with a hard-fought win over Wakefield Wildcats at Knowsley Road.

Wakefield took an early shock lead via Jason Demetriou's try but scores from Paul Wellens, Jamie Lyon and Lee Gilmour put Saints 16-6 ahead at half time. Adam Watene's try made it 16-12 before Saints upped the pace and with tries from Lyon Pryce and a brace for Ade Garner the game was sealed.

Wakefield must now win their remaining two games to have any chance of avoiding relegation.

Wigan Warriors 38 (Dobson 3, Richards 2, Ashton, Godwin tries; Dobson 5 goals) def. Bradford Bulls 16 (Lynch, Pryce, Withers tries; Deacon 2 goals). Att: 15,830.

Wigan moved well clear of the relegation zone with a comprehensive win over Bradford Bulls at the JJB Stadium.

Brian Noble enjoyed a triumphant reunion against his old club Bradford as the hosts stunned the visitors in the opening quarter by running in three unanswered tries by Chris Ashton, Pat Richards and Michael Dobson. Richards intercepted a pass to run 90m for his second just before the break.

Dobson's second, at the start of the second half, made it 28-0 before Michael Withers scored the first of three Bradford tries, but Wayne Godwin and Dobson's hat-trick try sealed it.

Andy Lynch and Karl Pryce both crossed for consolations in the last twenty minutes. This Victory lifted Wigan four points clear of Wakefield and within four points of the play-off positions with two matches left.

Castleford Tigers 27 (Lupton, McGoldrick, Dyer, Manu, A Fletcher tries; Brough 3 goals, Sculthorpe field goal) def. Harlequins R.L. 12 (Williams, Sykes tries; Sykes 2 goals). Att: 5,531.

Castleford took a big step towards retaining their Super League status with victory over Harlequins R.L. at the Jungle.

The Tigers began strongly with Luke Dyer and Ryan McGoldrick both going over for tries. Paul Sykes and Danny Williams got Quins back into the game before Peter Lupton went over just on half-time, to give the hosts a 16-12 lead.

However, second-half tries from Willie Manu and Adam Fletcher gave the Tigers some breathing space and with some stout defence, they held on for a vital win.

Huddersfield Giants 24 (Drew, Reilly, Paul, Nero tries; De Vere 4 goals) def. Salford City Reds 18 (Hodgson, Fitzpatrick, Coley, Wilshere tries; Charles goal). Att: 5,027.

Huddersfield Giants claimed a dramatic last minute win over Salford City Reds at Galpharm Stadium.

The home side took a 14-8 lead at half-time with tries from Brad Drew and Chris Nero. Michael De Vere kicked three goals. Andy Coley and Jon Wilshere crossed for the Reds.

Paul Reilly grabbed Huddersfield's third but tries from Karl Fitzpatrick and David Hodgson brought Salford level at 18-all. In the last minute Robbie Paul followed up Earl Crabtree break to score the match winning try, which keep the Giants four points clear of Wakefield with two games left.

Hull F.C. 26 (Briscoe, G.Horne, Tony, Domic, Carvell tries; Cooke 3 goals) def. Catalans Dragons 12 (Bosc, Jones tries; Frayssinous 2 goals). Att: 10,300.

Hull kept their grip on second place with a hard-fought victory over Catalans Dragons at the K.C. Stadium.

The French team took a shock 6-4 lead at half-time with Stacey Jones crossing for a converted try, Shaun Briscoe going over for the hosts.

But the Black and Whites stepped up a gear in the second half - Gareth Carvell, Sid Domic, Graham Horne and Motu Tony all scoring to seal a 17th victory in 18 games.

Thomas Bosc grabbed a late second for Catalans but they remain bottom.


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Ellensburg WA Challenge 2012

Signups are currently not open for this event. For more information, please email joe@kidwind.org, or call (877) 917-0079.

Sat, 05/12/2012

With support from Puget Sound Energy (PSE) and Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF), we will be bringing the KidWind Challenge to Central Washington this spring!

At the KidWind Challenge, students design and construct small-scale wind turbines from scratch. We bring our custom-built, portable wind tunnel to the competition - where student teams test their wind turbines to see who can produce the most power! We will have some great cash prizes this year, as well as t-shirts for all participants.

The KidWind Challenge is FREE for students to participate, and open to any students from grade 4 through grade 12. We will have two separate age divisions for the competition - Middle School (4-8 grade) and High School (9-12 grade).

Click here to download the full KidWind Challenge Rules

Can you build the most powerful turbine?

Free and open to any 4th-12th grade team!
All participants will get a free KidWind Challenge T-Shirt.
Cash prizes awarded to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place teams in each grade division.

Registration: 10:00 am
Wind Tunnel Testing begins at 11:00 am
The Challenge will end by 3:00 pm

Central Washington University
Hogue Hall
Fluke Corporation Interdisciplinary Lab
Ellensburg, WA

N-19 & 20

Student Participating in a KidWind Challenge
KidWind Challenge Participants


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IndigoGuitarAthlete's picture

I have a kitten.MY kitten is white. It is very cute.

ProfessorOcean's picture

I would like a pet dog because they are cute and friendly. I like chihuahuas.

PrincessDesertGoblin's picture

I don't have a pet but I would like to have one on my birthday I would like to have a puppy

CaptainDinosaurMarathon's picture

Hi friends. i have a dog name called as maya

MasterSilver500's picture

I'm doesn't have a pet.

MasterSilver500's picture

I'm too,PrincessPiano600

PrettyWooden500's picture

I have one cat and one dog the cat name is Ernst and the dog name is Benji. I like cats My favoriter animal is cat animals all of them.

StarryDiamond5000's picture

I had a dog. His name was Milisav, but he ran away from home.

QueenBubble800's picture

Yes. i have one cat and two rabbits

MagicEatingBow's picture

I have a pet rooster in my grandpa's village. It is Alexandros. I want to buy a fish.

LadySlideQuail's picture

In my class, it's has a fish. I'm very like it, but it"s not my.

MissPopMarigold's picture

Hi I have a dog but I have to take it back to the people so they can train him.

WhiteBlueWow's picture

 i have 2 perrots  . their names are tom and jack . i like them very much.

MissPopMarigold's picture

I have a dog , his name is Cliper his gona be for the blind people. We are trainig him.

ProfessorTrainCycling's picture

No, I haven't got a pet, but I want a dog.

WildRedKitty's picture

 I  have 6 cats  in  the  garden.  They  are  so  nice.  When   I  open  the  door they  run  up    and   begin  to  meow  loudly.     They    always  want   to   eat .  We feed them every day.   When   foreign  cats  come  to  eat   our  cats  expel   them    from  our   garden. They are not hospitable.

SpottyPixiePrincess's picture

 I have 2 cats a male and a female and 1 dog. The male cat have furry fur and a little bit white and orange.
They are friendly each other and they never fight each other. I love them.

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hi! I had a small deer,  Diry . I also had guinea pig. and two dogs. and one beautiful cat, Clara

MetalGrassRabbit's picture

I like pets. My favourite animal is dogs but I don't like cats! I don't have pets at home.

MetalGrassRabbit's picture

Hello my name is Giovanni and my favourite animal is a dog and lives in the home's Granthmouther

KingTombRobot's picture

I would like a cat or a dog. I'd take care about them.  I think dogs are the best pets.

LilacSongHello's picture

 I have got a kitten. He is white and black. His name is Barsik. He runs very fast. I like cats.

Do you like cats?

SuperPlatinum1000's picture

No, I don't have a pet. Yes I would like to have a pet, dog. I think that will be cats, dogs, monkey...

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I have not pet but my favourite pet is cat.

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I have a cat and her name is Fifi, she really clever and smart. I really love her

DJDeerPotato's picture

I have 2 dogs and over 20 goldfish. 1 of my dogs is a pain the other 1 just lays on the bed all day and does nothing. they'll do anything for a sweet.

CaptainPianoDJ's picture

dog is my life

ProfessorVioletTomb's picture

I dont have a pet but I have wrote a poem on a cat:
My cat's name is pussy
its very soft and fluffy
it act's as mad to me
I dont do bad to it
I'll give you more milk
but dont take my favourite chocolate the DAIRYMILK  SILK

I'am eager to have a pet but the only problem is:who will clean the area
living with pets is fun
pets have great talents
some can run very fast,some can leap high,some can speak
1 of the pet which is in many varieties is a dog
there are more than25 varieties of dogs
parrot is another pet which can speak
having pets is not a good decision
because only when the animal is happy in the envioronment
the enviorenment looks nice

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Hi ProfessorVioletTomb,
I like your poem! I love cats, I've got two. I think they make the best pets!

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 Well,I haven't got a pet but I wery want  guinea pigs or a cat

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I have got four cats, before I had also a lot of fish, three turtles and eleven parrots.

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I have a guinea pig

LadyBluebellSand's picture

my dad will give me a cat i want its name will be lolyan  or cocy

PrincessPiano600's picture

I haven't got any pets.

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Yes , l have . lt can run fast and jump far . lt is little dog .

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I love dogs more than me. but, I have a cat and she is cute. She is one year old and her eyes are blue. She has a creamy colour. Her name is Fibby. She likes to play with the ball and rope. She likes sleeping so much. I love my cuty cat so much, but i love dogs more.

MissGigantosaurusOrchestra's picture

No, I have not got a pet. I would like to have a cat and a dog! I think the best pet would be the dog. When you are alone, you can play with him.
What do you think about dogs?

LadyRedPelican's picture

i dont have any pet.i love cats,and i dont like dogs!!!

MissChimpanzeeDiplodocus's picture

I have a budgie. His name is Pepík.Is it very beautiful pet.

AgentPurpleSpell's picture

I love cats
but I have no one.

BlueZebra7000's picture

I would like a dog and horses. Because i think dogs are  nice and make you happy. I like horseriding.

DukeBlue1000's picture

 I like as pets the fish ! Of course, I don 't eat them !

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SilverJugglerPoppy's picture

mi mane is jennifer i leve ecuador .. i love animalis .......:)

PinkGrassBow's picture

I love animals very much, but I have no one I hope that I have a cat would be named Katie

SparklingAmulet200's picture

I have yorkshire, Max. He is so cute! He is great in jumping, smart, excited, persistent but quite unfriendly and loud

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I have a dog it is a Wicklow Collie it's name is Harley!!!


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Giants release RB Ahmad Bradshaw, DT Chris Canty

One day after releasing linebacker Michael Boley [1], the Giants [2] continued their salary-cap purge on Wednesday by parting ways with leading rusher Ahmad Bradshaw [3] and defensive tackle Chris Canty.

All three players were keys to the Giants’ Super Bowl [4] championship a year ago, but all three have battled injuries while playing under big contracts.

Bradshaw, just 26, led the team in rushing the past three seasons, amassing 1,015 this past season. But he has been slowed by knee and ankle issues and was scheduled to make $4.25 million in 2013. He leaves New York as the franchise’s sixth-leading rusher with 4,232 yards.

Canty, who joined the Giants in 2009 after playing four seasons for the Cowboys, was slated to make $6.5 million next season. He missed seven games in 2012 with a knee issue. Boley, who played all 16 games in 2012 but was slowed by shoulder and hamstring problems, was pegged to make $4 million.