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Open Compute Project- Last Year, when he appeared onstage at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Mark Zuckerberg painted Facebook as a friend of the world’s wireless carriers-not a foe.

Sure, Facebook was building drones, satellites, and lasers as a way of bringing wireless service to all those people on Earth who don’t already have it, and that might seem like competition for the mobile establishment. But Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder and CEO, insisted that the real leaders in this area were the existing operators, companies like Verizon and AT&T and Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone that have long delivered wireless service to our phones and tablets.

Open Compute Project google“It’s important not to lose sight of the fact that the real companies that are driving [the evolution of our mobile networks] are the operators and all the investments they’re putting together,” he pointedly proclaimed at MWC, where those operators gather each year to celebrate their own way of doing things.

For some, his words seemed disingenuous—maybe even a little audacious. After all, Facebook was also pushing various Internet apps that seemed to undermine those same mobile operators, including Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Free Basics, its Internet service for people in the developing world. These apps offer things like free texting and free calling—in effect, services designed to replace services that generate an awful lot of revenue for the mobile operators. And indeed, some carriers saw it that way. (Free Basics in particular has angered operators as well as app builders and policy makers).

But twelve months on, with Zuckerberg due to appear at MWC for the second year running, Facebook has made good on his claims of mobile world friendship—at least in one very big way.

Today, Facebook unveiled a new project that seeks not only to accelerate the evolution of technologies that drive our mobile networks, but to freely share this work with the world’s telecoms. Working alongside Deutsche Telekom (the largest wireless carrier in Germany), SK Telecom (the largest wireless carrier in South Korea), and Nokia Networks (which supplies much of the network hardware used by the world’s carriers), Facebook plans on building everything from new wireless radios—the hardware that shuttles wireless signals to and from our phones—to new optical fiber equipment that can shuttle data between those radios. Then, the company says, it will “open source” the designs, so that any wireless carrier can use them.

The hope is that this will lead to better wireless networks—wireless networks that can keep up with all the stuff we’re doing on our cell phones, from listening to music and watching videos to, yes, diving into virtual reality. “These really immersive experiences are all looming,” says Facebook’s Jay Parikh. They’re looming not only for the telcos, but for, well, Facebook itself. That’s why the company is launching this new project. Facebook wants to ensure that the telcos can deliver all the video—and all the virtual reality—it will stream across its social network, all over the world, in the years to come.

Parikh, Facebook’s vice president of engineering, drove the creation of what he calls the Telecom Infra Project. That’s Facebook-speak for telecommunications infrastructure project, but you can just call it TIP. This big idea echoes another seminal Facebook effort: the Open Compute Project. With Open Compute, Facebook remade the hardware inside the massive computer data centers that drive modern Internet services and then freely shared the designs with anyone who wanted them—helping to upend the traditional server and networking industries in the process. With TIP, Facebook is poised to do much the same with the hardware that telecoms use outside the data center.

This might involve the drones and lasers Facebook is already building inside its own Connectivity Lab as it works to bring Internet access to the developing world, but TIP will also extend all the way to the edge of mobile networks—from the massive base stations that serve as hubs for the network to the wireless radios that transmit data to consumer smartphones from local towers.

Late last month, Facebook launched a new effort inside the Open Compute Project that seeks to help telecoms improve the hardware inside their data centers. Now, it also aims to help them improve the hardware across the rest of their networks—to help them expand and enhance their networks at a much faster rate. “The only path that I know that works is to basically take a couple of pages of our playbook for open source software and the hardware and data center work we’ve done, and try to approach the telecom infrastructure problem in a similar vein,” Parikh says.

For Axel Clauberg, a vice president of architecture at Deutsche Telekom, the project makes good sense—not just for Facebook but for the telecoms. “We believe that the exponential growth of Internet traffic requires new approaches,” he says. “The Open Compute Project has proven that open specifications for hardware, combined with an active community can have a drastic impact on efficiency and cost. TIP will trigger the same for all areas of the network.”

Erik Ekudden—a tech strategist at Ericsson, which, like Nokia, builds much of the gear that telcos used outside the data center—also sees potential in this fundamental idea. Lessons that companies like Facebook have learned in the data center, he says, could help telcoms improve their mobile networks. But he also says that ideas can move the other way—from the telcoms to Internet giants like Facebook.

A Better Network for Facebook
Does it really make sense that Facebook, of all companies, is running this project? Well, the company has long worked to build new telecom technology under the aegis of its Connectivity Lab. And after years spent running the Open Compute Project, it certainly understands how to push hardware markets in new directions.

Over the last several years, as Facebook expanded its online empire to hundreds of millions of people, company engineers came to realize they needed a new way of building this empire. They couldn’t use traditional hardware from traditional suppliers like Dell, HP, and Cisco. It was too expensive, too elaborate, and too difficult to operate at such an enormous scale.

So, they built a cheaper, more streamlined, and more malleable breed of gear, including computer servers, data storage devices, and networking switches. The basic idea was to build very large networks from very small and very cheap pieces that could be easily reprogrammed—and easily replaced.

In building a similarly large empire, Google had also designed its own hardware. But Facebook went further. Through the Open Compute Project, it open sourced this gear, and it encouraged others to do the same.

The result was an entirely new market for data center hardware. Big online operations—like Apple and Rackspace and Fidelity—suddenly had access to hardware designs that better suited their needs, and with many hardware vendors embracing these designs and turning them into commercial gear, they had more choice. Tech giants like Apple and Rackspace and Microsoft have all joined the Open Compute Project, as have finance giants like Fidelity, Goldman Sachs, and Bank of America—all looking to streamline and improve their data center hardware in similar ways.

About two years ago, during a meeting with Zuckerberg at Facebook headquarters, Parikh suggested the company do the same thing with telecom hardware. Facebook wanted the telecoms to improve their networking infrastructure at a much faster rate, and Parikh saw an obvious way of encouraging this speedup. “We had this Open Compute thing,” Parikh remembers, “and it dawned on me that the same kind of problem is facing the telecos—but it’s probably twenty times worse. There’s a lot less choice there. These networks are expensive. They’re hard to deploy. They’re hard to operate.”

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But the idea needed a few years to gestate. In March 2014, Facebook launched its Connectivity Lab. Led by Yael Maguire, who had previously driven much of the company’s Open Compute work, the lab aimed to build a wide range of technologies that could deliver Internet access to the hinterlands around the world. Following similar work at Google, this effort included satellites that would circle the Earth and drones that would float through the stratosphere as well as a new breed of laser that could move data between such hubs.

When we spoke to Parikh about a year into this effort, we asked if the Open Compute Project could serve as a model for Facebook’s work with drones and satellites and lasers. “Absolutely,” he said. “A lot of the things that we’ve learned—that we’ve been working on from a philosophical perspective in [the Open Compute Project]—help us get in the right mindset when it comes to connecting four to five billion more people to the Internet.” He stopped short of saying the company might open source its drone designs. But now, in launching the Telecom Infra Project, that’s exactly the kind of thing the company is looking to do.

In other words, anything that the company builds inside the Connectivity Lab could trickle down to TIP, which means it could be open sourced. That might include drones and lasers as well as other gear. “The only way that this [Connectivity Lab] technology has any impact,” says Maguire, “is if we’re open about it.”

At the same time, TIP will explore technology that can push places like the US and Europe towards “5G” technologies—which would offer speeds well beyond today’s 4G networks. “It shouldn’t take ten years to upgrade your network to get to that new technology,” Parikh says. And in the developing world, he hopes to move networks beyond the much the slower 2G tech that are now the norm.

In particular, Parikh says, the project could explore new radio technologies along the lines of the pCell radios developed by serial inventor Steve Perlman and his company, Artemis Research. pCell antennas don’t just blanket a neighborhood with a single signal, or cell, that all phones and tablets share. They broadcast signals that combine to create a “personal cell” that follows your phone from place to place. Perlman has estimated that this technology could increase wireless speeds by 1,000 fold.

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So far, Perlman has had relatively little luck pushing his tech into big-name telecoms. But Nokia Networks, one the major hardware vendors that supplies the telecoms, is kicking the tires on pCell—and Nokia is now part of TIP. The project includes not only Facebook and various telecoms, but companies that already build telecom hardware. Chip maker Intel is also a founding member.

The politics of a project like this can be delicate. The other big telecom suppliers—Ericsson and Huawei—have not joined the project, and they may take issue with the idea of open sourcing designs. After all, they make their money from proprietary gear. And, well, not everyone wants Facebook sticking its nose in their businesses. The company has received an enormous about of criticism over Free Basics, with many saying that the company shouldn’t naturally assume that other parts of the world can’t take care of themselves. But, well, this is how Facebook operates: with a will to make big changes, and the resources to follow through. With projects like Open Compute—-which, unlike Free Basics, is a long way from the buzzsaw of the net neutrality debate—this attitude was enormously effective.

“We are expecting similar changes [to what] already happened within the data center,” says Deutsche Telekom’s Clauberg. “While this impacts existing players, it also creates large opportunities.” He means opportunities for telcoms and the companies that build hardware for telcoms. But the project will also bring new opportunities for the rest of us. If wireless networks get better, we, the consumers, are the ultimate beneficiaries. We’re the ones watching all that video—and all that virtual reality. And spending all that time on Facebook.


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A Week in Year 6

On Wednesday 24th February a professional owl keeper came into school and introduced to us different species of Owls, such as: Tawny, Great Grey, Barn, Eurasian eagle and  Indian eagle. We learnt interesting facts about owls and we even got to hold the Barn owl. It was a very interesting and fun afternoon.
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Last week we had practice SATs. We set up our hall like how we would in SATs and we completed lots of papers including: Maths, Arithmetic and reasoning , reading and ESPG. It really helped us to understand the conditions for SATs.
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World Book Day

On Friday we celebrated World Book Day. Our theme was ‘A Magical Read’ and we had a range of costumes from Marvel to Hogwarts. In Y6 we had a pack with a variety of World Book Day activities.

Conscience Alley

Today we did  conscience Alley to persuade the Sorting Hat to put Harry in Gryffindor, as our topic this term is Harry Potter.  To be a member of Gryffindor house you have to be loyal, determined and courageous/brave.

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Spring Fundraiser Auction and Exhibition Bird Bath and Beyond

April 7 & 8

Please join us in welcoming Spring and celebrating our mission to serve the arts and artists of our community. For the first time in many years we are asking artists to contribute their original and inspired works for an event conceived by our founder, Robin Larsen, to give back to the organization in a spirited way. Just 10 years ago, the first Bird Bath & Beyond event was held on March 30, 2008 and it was a remarkable success - raising over $10,000 of support for our fledgling organization.

Members and Artists!

Please consider a contribution of theme related works for this Exhibition and Event. The artworks will be exhibited during gallery hours April 7 and 8. The reception and auction is Sunday April 8, 6 – 8 pm.

  • Bird Bath & Beyond is an event to showcase the creative works of our members and contributors
  • All Works must be for sale or auction. Artists will receive a letter of gift-in-kind donation for the amount of the sale of the art work. New Hope Arts is a 501©3 non-profit organization.
  • All works must be delivered suitable for installation. Include any special instructions.
  • Images of art works may be used for promotion and press during the exhibition.

All contributing artists will be invited to the reception on Sunday, April 8. A catalog of the exhibition including all contributions will be available. Doors open at 5:30 pm - the auction begins at 7 pm.

Delivery for the art works i during gallery hours Friday and Saturday, March 30 and 31 noon 4 pm and Monday, April 2 11 am-2 pm and Tuesday April 3, 1-3 pm or by appointment.

Entries may be emailed to info@newhopearts.org or brought to New Hope Arts on the delivery dates.

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This position is central to the delivery of Undergraduate and Master programs within the Department of Nursing, particularly in the area of Critical Care Nursing. The individual appointed will join a team of teacher/researchers and provide both width and depth to the team, through teaching excellence and research ability. The individual will be expected to be working with liberal educational methods, including laboratory simulation and have well developed organizational skills. The Department is within the College of Health Sciences and inter-professional activities in both teaching and research should be areas that the candidate has experience of and is motivated to develop.

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  • Teaching at the Baccalaureate and Master levels
  • Leadership in teaching at the Undergraduate and Graduate levels in theory aspects and practice of Critical Care Nursing
  • Curriculum refinement and evaluation
  • Student advising
  • Research, contributing to the Department's growing portfolio of grants and publications
  • Community engagement participation

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  • Specialty qualification (PhD degree) in Critical Care Nursing from an accredited institution.
  • A minimum of 5 years post-doctoral teaching experiences in Critical Care Nursing in academic settings.
  • Eligible for UAE professional nurse licensure.
  • Demonstrate current scholarly activity and a track record of research publication.
  • Experience in Laboratory Simulation Instruction.
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Ability to work effectively with Faculty, Staff and Students from diverse cultural background is essential. Teaching in their specialization area, clinical supervision and research competencies are required. Experience with program development in Critical Care, program accreditation, on-line teaching, simulation; and in obtaining externally funded grants are desirable. Candidate must have adequate research profile.

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August 9, 2012 at 2:56 PM

Xander Bogaerts promoted to Portland

Shortstop Xander Bogaerts (pictured) has been promoted from High A Salem to Double-A Portland, according to Salem Red Sox radio broadcaster Evan Lepler.

Bogaerts, widely regarded as the top prospect in the Red Sox minor league system, hit .302/.378/.505 with 15 home runs, 27 doubles and 64 RBI in 104 games for Salem this season. He did so while being well-ahead of the minor league age advancement scale at just 19 years of age. In fact, Bogaerts will become the second-youngest player in the Eastern League behind the Orioles' Dylan Bundy, who was just promoted following his start on Wednesday.

Fresh off of Carolina League Player of the Week honors, Bogaerts has been very impressive since the All-Star break, hitting .317/.395/.542 with six home runs and 22 RBI. The talented middle infielder will turn 20 on October 1 and was named to both the Carolina League All-Star team and the MLB Futures Game World Team this season, where he started as the designated hitter.

Originally signed as an international free agent in 2009, Bogaerts has quickly burst onto the prospect scene, including an impressive .260/.324/.509 showing with 16 home runs and 45 RBI in 72 games last season in his United States debut with the Low A Greenville Drive.

While many scouts expect that Bogaerts will eventually profile better at third base or potentially in the outfield, he has stuck to the shortstop position his entire minor league career, making 17 errors in 409 chances for the Red Sox this season.

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Hothouse Earth Scenario Threatens To Make The Planet Uninhabitable

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He adds that it may be hard or even impossible to prevent the entire row of dominoes from tumbling.

The Earth is at risk of falling into an irreversible greenhouse state due to global warming, which would make several regions of the planet uninhabitable for humans, an worldwide study revealed on Tuesday.

Currently, the global average temperature is slightly one degree higher than that of the pre-industrial era and increases 0.17 degrees each decade.

The study led by Will Steffen from the Australian National University (ANU) warned that this situation could result in temperatures rising to approximately five degrees over pre-industrial levels and sea level rising up by 10-60 metres in the long term, reports Efe news.

About 200 countries agreed in 2015 to limit temperature rise to "well below" 2 deg C above pre-industrial levels, a threshold believed to be a tipping point for the climate.

This cascade 'may tip the entire Earth system into a new mode of operation, ' said co-author Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.

Planet Earth is inching towards crossing the Rubicon by passing a tipping point and entering an irresistible "Hothouse" state.

'Hothouse Earth is likely to be uncontrollable and unsafe to many, ' said the article by scientists at University of Copenhagen, Australian National University and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany.

Unai Emery: 'Danny Welbeck staying at Arsenal'
Ahead of them could be the exciting triumvirate of Mesut Ozil, Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. Arsenal have received six red cards in Premier League opening weekend fixtures, more than any other side.

Omarosa claims Trump is a racist, used N-word on 'The Apprentice'
Another White House official confirmed that Manigault Newman brought Cohen into the White House and was later rebuked for it. She wrote that she worked to get a copy of it and that is why she was sacked from the White House.

Sabates thinks France unfairly blamed for NASCAR's downturn
Brian France has retreated from the spotlight the last two years as NASCAR has struggled with attendance and television rankings. He knows the ins and outs of what's going on to this very minute in the sport, has been around the sport for a long time.

Scientists warn that the new conclusions show that the planet is at risk to enter "Hothouse Earth" conditions, where the global average temperature in the long-term will stabilize at 4-to-5 degrees Celsius higher than pre-industrial temperatures with sea levels 10-to-60 meters higher than they now are.

Melting polar ice caps would lead to dramatically higher sea levels, flooding coastal land that is home to hundreds of millions of people.

The study authors 'collated previously published ideas and theories to present a narrative on how the threshold change would work, ' he said.

But that challenge will become exponentially more hard if the earth itself gets into the act, the researchers said. The changes could be forest and land management, better soil management for agriculture, fertilizing the ocean waters to stimulate uptake of carbon dioxide, and carbon capture and storage in addition to reducing fossil-fuel emissions, according to their figures.

"Our study indicates that human-caused global warming of 2 degrees Celsius may trigger other Earth System processes, often called feedbacks, that can trigger further warming - even if we stop emitting greenhouse gases", he said.

The potential feedbacks include permafrost thaw, a loss of methane hydrates from the ocean's floor, dieback of the Amazon rainforest and a loss of Arctic summer sea ice.

Commenting on the research, some experts said uncontrolled warming is still uncertain but not implausible.

If the floods, fires, heat waves, and droughts we have experienced in the past few years have anything to do with it, we are already experiencing the early changes in our climate system, and they will get worse.

  • Magic Leap’s mixed reality headset is finally on sale

    Magic Leap’s mixed reality headset is finally on sale

    Today, it has finally released its first product: The Magic Leap One, Creator Edition , the first "mixed-reality" headset. The device will cost $2,295, with an optional Professional Developer Package available for $495.
    DOOM Eternal gameplay reveal: Here's how to watch

    DOOM Eternal gameplay reveal: Here's how to watch

    You can find both of the gameplay sections that were shown today for DOOM Eternal below courtesy of MKIceAndFire . As promised, id Software and Bethesda has revealed at QuakeCon 2018 the first gameplay footage for DOOM Eternal .
    Partial Solar Eclipse 2018

    Partial Solar Eclipse 2018

    The first eclipse of 2018 was the super blue blood moon on January 31, but the first partial solar eclipse was on February 15. The eclipse will officially begin at 9.02am BST (8.02am UTC) when the moon first appears to make contact with the sun's disk.
  • Blue Light From Phones Speeds Up Blindness, Study Claims

    Blue Light From Phones Speeds Up Blindness, Study Claims

    A new study from the University of Toledo has revealed how blue light from smart devices and screens is damaging our eyes. Instead, he said, it's just blue light, which "can kill any cell type". "It can kill any cell type".
    NASA counts down to launch of first spacecraft to ‘touch Sun’

    NASA counts down to launch of first spacecraft to ‘touch Sun’

    The spacecraft and its suite of delicate instruments will be protected from the sun's extreme heat by a carbon fiber heat shield . NASA says it's ready for a historic trip to the sun this weekend.
    Australians are exploiting a little-known perk: A free picture of the Queen

    Australians are exploiting a little-known perk: A free picture of the Queen

    The Queen is Australia's head of state and is represented by Governor-General of Australia in Canberra, now Sir Peter Cosgrove. In 1999, a referendum found that Australians wanted to remain a constitutional monarchy with 54.87 per cent voting in favour.
  • CVS Health (CVS) Issues FY18 Earnings Guidance

    CVS Health (CVS) Issues FY18 Earnings Guidance

    That charge and some costs tied to a pending $69 billion acquisition of the health insurer Aetna led to the quarterly loss. Net loss attributable to CVS was $2.56 billion, or $2.52 per share, in the second quarter ended June 30.
    Perseid meteor shower to peak over Canada this weekend

    Perseid meteor shower to peak over Canada this weekend

    The comet Swift-Tuttle orbits the sun once every 133 years, so every August, the Earth passes through the comet's debris field. The Perseids are best seen after 11 PM, away from city lights , and while looking at the northeastern sky.
    Brad Pitt’s $8m loan to Angelina Jolie

    Brad Pitt’s $8m loan to Angelina Jolie

    Jolie was trying to restrict Pitt's interactions with the children, and the judge came down hard on her earlier this summer. Angelina Jolie would have been better off saying it was child support since a loan she will have to pay back - see below.
  • Barcelona midfielder Andre Gomes reveals reason for loan move

    Barcelona midfielder Andre Gomes reveals reason for loan move

    Everton signed Yerry Mina for 30.25 million euros, André Gomes on a one-season loan deal, and Bernard on a free transfer. This is a great opportunity for me and I am looking forward to competing here.
    Features of electronic giant’s first smartwatch revealed — Samsung Galaxy Watch

    Features of electronic giant’s first smartwatch revealed — Samsung Galaxy Watch

    If everything works as it should, then you will be able to use the same sort of voice commands on watch as you can on the Note 9. With the Note9, Samsung played shamelessly to its fanbase and gave them what they've asked for pretty much every year.
    Wacken Open Air nursing home escapees weren't elderly, didn't attend festival

    Wacken Open Air nursing home escapees weren't elderly, didn't attend festival

    But perhaps most surprising of all is that the duo didn't even make it to Wacken Open Air last week. This earned them recognition on social media as "heroes", as reported by Deutsche Welle .

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United's all-time leading goalscorer told Sky Sports: "I think it will be hard after the season they had previous year ". United had been hoping to sign a centre-back before the deadline but hope has faded in recent days.

Isabela Moner Appears as Dora the Explorer in Film's 1st Pic
On Friday, Paramount Pictures released the first look at its live-action " Dora the Explorer " film, produced by Michael Bay . The image features Moner sporting Dora's classic hairdo, complete with the explorer's trademark pink shirt and orange shorts.

House of Fraser chain goes into administration
Later this morning, Sports Direct boss and Newcastle United owner, Mike Ashley , stepped in to buy the ailing department store. House of Fraser has gone into administration and been rescued at a knock-down price by the Sports Direct founder Mike Ashley .

Magic To Host Bulls & Jazz In Mexico City This December
The game is the second of a two-game series in which the Magic will also play the Chicago Bulls in the Arena Ciudad de Mexico. Chicago Bulls President and COO Michael Reinsdorf released a statement about today's news.

'Real Housewife' Bethenny Frankel's boyfriend found dead in Trump Tower
The Blast reports that the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in NY confirmed that Shields' body was discovered around 9 a.m. Bethenny Frankel's on-again, off-again boyfriend Dennis Shields has reportedly died from a suspected overdose.

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However, no official notification confirming the swearing-in ceremony on August 18 has been issued as yet. Mr Khan had contested from five constituencies and had won from all of them.

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Kylie Jenner is making a video about her 'lip filler journey'
She will live to do the same and share this very moment with you too", one follower said. You're less selfish - and I actually enjoy changing diapers.

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Ecuador’s soccer teams live-stream their matches on YouTube

Due to the legal conflict over the TV rights, Ecuadorian teams Liga de Quito, Barcelona and Emelec decided to live stream their matches for the recent date of the local tournament on their YouTube channels.
The match between Barcelona and El Nacional was available on the YouTube channel BSCtv and was produced by Digital Plus. According to El Comercio newspaper, Barcelona SC registered 533,279 total views. In turn, the YouTube channel of La Liga de Quito (which played against Técnico Universitario) reached 65,418 views and the match between Emelec and Deportivo Cuenca recorded 77,298.
Meanwhile, the clubs seek to recover the TV rights to start negotiating directly with pay TV operators. Once the creation of the Professional Soccer League is completed (this project awaits approval by the Ministry of Sport) the rights will be negotiated collectively again. Currently, the Ecuadorian championship is not available on any pay TV channel due to the suspension of the contract between the Ecuadorian Soccer Federation (FEF) and GolTV.


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Monday, October 5, 2015

Aided Language Input/Modeling Videos

Looking for a little modeling inspiration? Check out these videos of modeling in action :)

Note: These are all YouTube hosted public listed videos. I don't own them (well, except for the two that have my kids in them) or have any affiliation with anyone involved in them.

This is a really solid, great overview to Aided Language Input. I love how it doesn't focus on requesting, but shows how to model comments, questions, and many other things that a child (or, really, any person) might want to say.

This video is about using a PODD book for communication, but the first three minutes demonstrate some great modeling and exploration that would be useful to an AAC communication partner on any type of system:

This clip shows modeling in a therapy session with a 2 year old who is new to AAC:

This video (of Maya and I) shows dual device modeling--when the AAC user has their device and the communication partner uses a second device to model. At home we use a mix of modeling on one device and dual device modeling:

This video shows modeling in action with an older student (longer sentences, questioning).

This video (of my kids) shows Will learning the word "drink" on his talker. There is modeling in the beginning and then again around 1:45 (and I think this shows the light, fun tone that home AAC use can/should have):

And this is an example of what modeling sometimes really looks like: only occasional attention paid by the kids, as I model away to myself. But you can see Maya sneaking glances, and we've seen over time that these glances really add up, and she will apply this learning later:

Hungry for more videos about modeling? Check out this Pinterest Board from the great Lauren Enders: AAC Video Example of Implementation/Aided Language Support.

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No two writers think alike. Everyone is unique. For the same reason, everyone has his very own means of using language. But as much as the science of essay writing can be involved, there are some general parameters to be followed. While writing an essay, certain tips will help you make it a great one.

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August 31 Association Report

As with much of the northeast coast, high winds and extremely large swells kept boats at the dock in Beach Haven. The captains of the Beach Haven Charter Fishing Association used the forced time off to tend to various items on their boats that might have needed attention. With the summer flounder season in New Jersey closing on Tuesday, September 5, the captains hope the weather conditions subside and the fish are still around that were present right before the nasty weather.

Last weekend Captain Ray Lopez had the Jayhee Cho party out for a trolling trip at the Barnegat Ridge on the â€œMiss Liane.â€ The group managed to boat multiple false albacore and one nice Bonita. Captain Ray also had the Jamie Cusmano group out on the â€œMiss Liane.â€ Sporty conditions mandated fishing inside in the area of the Barnegat Inlet. There was plenty of action there as multiple black sea bass, fluke, sea robins, and sand sharks were caught.Â

Just before the ocean became roiled up, Captain Carl Sheppard had a group of eight avid anglers out on the â€œStarfish.â€ Fishing structure in the ocean, the group reeled in the first triggerfish of the season and ended up with four to take home. Also going in the cooler was a nice 20-inch fluke. Captain Carl remarked the whole group did well with the youngsters aboard maybe even out-fishing their parents.

Captain Gary Dugan of the â€œIrish Jigâ€ reports he is optimistic and keeping his fingers crossed that the fluke are still around this weekend. Once that season ends he will turn to wreck fishing until the stripers arrive.

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Monday, May 16, 2016

Washington Nationals Host Law Enforcement Night

In the second game of a doubleheader, the Washington Nationals hosted law enforcement officers, their families and supporters on Saturday, May 14, 2016. Anne Arundel County State Attorney Wes Adams joined Police Unity Tour members Maggie Deboard, Tim Benedict and Karen Bonz on the field for a pre-game ceremony.

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Thursday, July 14, 2011

Rocketeer revisited

Aggiecon 23 convention logo derived from art deco Rocketeer movie one-sheet
I am a big fan of Dave Stevens' The Rocketeer. I have been for a long time. Take a look at that drawing at right. That's the official logo and t-shirt design I worked up for Aggiecon 23 way back in 1992. That's Texas A&M University's historic Ol' Sarge mascot incorporated into the design, which got a lot of chuckles because of the incongruity. The convention was wary about spending so much to have a multi-colored shirt printed up, but in the end every last shirt sold out, and to this day I'm measurably proud of my brief and otherwise unremarkable career as an artist.

I'm a sucker for the swash-buckling, cliffhanger adventures of the 1930s pulp adventure heroes. I deeply love the movies Raiders of the Lost Ark and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, and enjoyed the short-lived TV series Tales of the Gold Monkey so much that I wrote up a springboard to relaunch it as an ongoing comic book series in the early years of our new century. Lest you think that was a product of wishful thinking and ill-advised fan fiction, I actually got as far as discussing licensing with Universal before the comic publisher got cold feet and backed out (for the record, Universal wasn't even sure if they still owned the rights. Most of the people I spoke with hadn't even heard of the series. Can I pick a hot property, or what?). But The Rocketeer? Wowness!

For those of you unfamiliar with The Rocketeer, let me explain. No, there is no time. Let me sum up: Cliff Secord, a Gee Bee racing pilot in 1938 discovers a stolen rocket pack designed by Doc Freakin' Savage that allows a man to fly through the air with the greatest of ease. With the aid of his airplane mechanic buddy Peavy, he debuts an air show stunt act as the Rocketeer to make enough money to keep his bombshell "art model" girlfriend Betty happy, but soon runs afoul of mobsters and Nazi agents who want to steal the rocket pack. Oh, the Feds and Doc Savage (along with Savage's assistant Monk and Ham) want the rocket pack, too. Cliff, headstrong and passionate, doesn't always make the wisest of choices. Mayhem ensues. And that's just the first story arc. The second, "Cliff's New York Adventure," follows up immediately on the first with Cliff chasing his now-estranged girlfriend to New York City, where he runs into that other great pulp character, the Shadow, who enlists Cliff's help in thwarting a serial killer. That's just aces in my book. Stevens was careful never to name or overtly identify any of these trademarked characters, but the homage is clear enough to anyone with even a passing familiarity with the genre. In 1991 a well-regarded movie version was put out by Disney, which combined elements of both storylines to craft a more cohesive plot. The "Betty" character was changed to "Jenny" and her overt sexuality toned down, while Cliff was somewhat less of a lunkhead in the film, but other than that, the spirit of the film is remarkably faithful to the comic, evidence of Stevens' close involvement with the project (one thing that surprised me is that there is not Neville Sinclair/Errol Flynn analogue in the comics. I'd heard the Errol Flynn connection for years, obviously from people who'd never actually read Stevens' original).

I can't recall when I actually became aware of the existence of Dave Stevens' Rocketeer. I was aware of the character in comic form before the movie adaptation came out in 1991. I almost certainly did not know about it prior to the fall of 1988, when I arrived at college and discovered my first dedicated comic book retailer. Up until then, I'd lived in a very small town and hadn't seen comics with any regularity until the local grocery store started carrying Marvel and DC on the magazine racks in 1987 (I know the date well, because I still have Silver Surfer no. 1 in my long boxes--oh, that Ben Grimm!). Somewhere along the line, I came across The Rocketeer and got all giddy. I can't recall if it was in the back pages of Starslayer or a later incarnation. I just remember the designs and artwork were killer, and I'd never seen anything like it. I also never owned anything like it either. For some reason or other, I never managed to acquire a single issue of The Rocketeer in comic form, with the exception of the Peter David/Russ Heath movie adaptation, which doesn't really count. Area comic shops didn't have it in their back issue bins. When Wizard World came to Texas in November of 2003, I made the long trip up to Dallas (along with Mark Finn) with the intent to buy every single comic book that ever featured Dave Stevens' inspired creation. I went home empty-handed. There were plenty of Cerebus collections, but no Rocketeer anything. I turned to Ebay and discovered the joys of being sniped constantly or watching back issues go for outrageous sums. For a comic I was ostensibly a big fan of, I was having a hell of a time getting my hands on any. At some point, I gave up and forgot about it.

Enter IDW Publishing. Before Stevens' untimely death in 2008, the wheels were set in motion for a collected omnibus publication of all of Stevens' Rocketeer stories from the previous two decades. The Rocketeer: The Complete Deluxe Adventures is a magnificent book. I can't stress that enough. It's also quite costly at $75 retail (a non-deluxe edition, The Rocketeer: The Complete Adventures, can be had for around $20). I also feel obligated to point out there's the Dave Stevens' The Rocketeer Artist's Edition available for the bargain price of $250 (although it was initially offered by IDW for $100), which reproduces Stevens' page layouts with pencil marks, liquid paper and all the artistic detritus that comes with producing a comic. I'm not that hard-core. But what does the deluxe edition bring to the table that the other doesn't? Lots. First of all, it's got a gorgeous, full-color slipcase, as seen two images up, and is oversized with lush, lush, lush artwork. Both of Stevens' completed Rocketeer adventures: The Rocketeer and The Rocketeer: Cliff's New York Adventure simply pop off the page with all-new coloring by Laura Martin. Every single page could be framed as a work of art. I'm telling you, it's that good.

This book is a trove for Stevens fans. As you can see above, there are a generous number of page breakdowns along with Stevens' original, hand-written scripts on yellow legal pad. You don't get more authentic than this. While entire scripts aren't reprinted, and his breakdowns only give a hint to his fluid creative process, they're valuable reference material for aspiring comic writers as well as artists on how one particularly gifted creator made his magic. There's also a nice section on the legendary Bettie Page, the 50s pin-up icon who was the direct inspiration for Cliff Secord's girlfriend "Betty" in the comic. I don't know if any Rocketeer fans are unaware of the story by this point, but The Rocketeer helped revived mainstream interest in Page, eventually prompting Stevens to track her down and discover the former model (living in modest conditions) was not receiving any compensation from all the businesses profiting from her likeness. Stevens took on the role of her financial guardian of sorts, and Page was able to live out her life in relative comfort. It's a nice story, and reaffirms that people can do nice things for each other because it's the right thing to do. I also learned that B-movie "Scream Queen" Brinke Stevens (who also happens to be Dave Stevens' ex-wife) modeled for the iconic Betty photo session splash in the initial storyline's run. Learn something new every day.

There's a host of pencil sketches, designs and memorabilia ideas packed into the book that makes me want to cry, they're so beautiful. There's one sketch for an unproduced metal sign Stevens worked up that I'd love to have hanging in my office. But the most distressing thing about the collection is how damn few Rocketeer stories ever got published. It seems like there should be a lot more, since Stevens first published his masterwork in 1982 and a pretty good movie adaptation came out in 1991. But Stevens only completed two storylines that together barely fill the number of pages we've come to expect for a "graphic novel." And even so, "Cliff's New York Adventure" is open ended, with Cliff and Betty's relationship issues unresolved and Cliff still on the East Coast with the ownership issues of the rocket pack unresolved. Stevens' gleeful obsession with pulp-era characters--populating his two Rocketeer stories with unnamed versions of Doc Savage and the Shadow--is a clear precursor to Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen--so it's no surprise that his next proposed storyline picks up directly after "New York Adventure" ends, finding Cliff in New Jersey and involved with another character that first appeared in 1938, Superman. And not just any Superman, but the Superman of 1938, as Siegel and Schuster created him, literally "faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound." As if that's not enough to get any comic geek's heart pumping, Stevens sets the epic team-up on Halloween, 1938. Yeah, Orson Wells' Mercury Theatre broadcast of "War of the Worlds." Except that the alien invasion is real, and the Rocketeer and Superman have to team up to save the Earth. And defeat a giant robot as well. Naturally, DC Comics turned the story down and it remains unpublished to this day. Philistines!

But there is always hope. IDW Publishing has brought back the character with The Rocketeer Adventures, a mini-series anthology backed by an all-star lineup of talent. The collected volume is due out in November, and I can't wait to see what extra goodies are packed in there. Hopefully, this new mini-series will beget another, and perhaps even an ongoing. In a perfect world, we will never have to go so long between Rocketeer stories ever again, even if Dave Stevens is no longer around to share them with us.

Crotchety Old Fan said...

Thanks for this. I'm very much a Rocketeer fan (still have my lapel pin from the movie premiere) - but, while I'd really like to possess that $250 artists edition, I'd much rather have a rocket pack.

One reason I think the whole thing works is that the era in which it is sent is one in which "anything was possible". Within that context we're not concerned with fuel consumption, aerodynamics et al.

Interestingly, regarding the proposed 3rd story: Martian invasions seem to be on a strict 40 year cycle (111, 71, 31 years - the novel, the radio play, the album), so perhaps we'll see that comic come 2018.... (

Jayme Lynn Blaschke said...

We can only hope! DC goes through periodic phases where they rediscover brilliant proposals they'd canned previously and suddenly find a way to make them happen (usually when the property, team-up or writer/artist becomes very popular). I wouldn't be surprise to see this happen some day, maybe as a joint publishing venture between DC and IDW. If so, Chris Roberson would be my first choice to script that third issue from Stevens' outline. Chris has already shown he can write an analog of the 1938 Superman to great effect.

Cait Coker said...

Oh this is awesome!! I absolutely adored The Rocketeer film when I was a kid and had no idea 'til now it was a comic!! Time to go shopping for the library...!


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Stefan Gonzalez is a drummer, percussionist, and vocalist from Dallas, TX. He is most known for his work with his family bands Yells at Eels (with brother Aaron Gonzalez and father Dennis Gonzalez) and Akkolyte (with brother Aaron). Stefan also performs regularly in Europe with Ingebrigt Haker Flaten's super group The Young Mothers featuring Texas-based musicians Jonathan Horne, Jawwaad Taylor, Jason Jackson, and Amsterdam-based drummer Frank Rosaly. He performs solo under the moniker Orgullo Primitivo and also plays with the Dallas industrial noise trio Mother II.

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ombining factual biography with the imaginative structure and investment in the language of the novel, Anthony Joseph fully engages with the world he recreates, and by presenting a multifaceted view from Kitch’s friends, rivals and even enemies, he gets to the heart of the man behind the music and the myth, reaching behind the sobriquet to present a holistic portrait of the calypso icon Lord Kitchener.

Born into colonial Trinidad in 1922 as Aldwyn Roberts, ‘Kitch’ emerged in the 1950s, at the forefront of multicultural Britain, acting as an intermediary between the growing Caribbean community, the islands they had left behind, and the often hostile conditions of life in post-war Britain. In the process, Kitch, as he was affectionally called, single-handedly popularised the calypso in Britain, with recordings such as ‘London is the Place for Me’, ‘The Underground Train’ and ‘Ghana’.

Joseph spoke to Lord Kitchener just once, in 1984, when he found the calypso icon standing alone for a moment in Queen’s Park Savannah, one Carnival Monday afternoon. It was a pivotal meeting in which the great calypsonian outlined his musical vision, an event which forms a moving epilogue to Kitch, Joseph’s unique biography of the Grandmaster.

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Norway's women won 14-0 in their World Championship qualifier against Macedonia on Saturday. Norway international Isabell Herlovsen (Lyon) scored six of the goals.

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Norway's veteran biathlete Halvard Hanevold (40), in the last competition of his career, won the bronze medal in the men's 15km mass start World Cup final in Russia on Saturday. Austria's Dominik Landertinger won.

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Norway's team had to settle for second place in the Biathlon Mixed Relay World Championship in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia on Sunday. The German team won comfortably. Sweden finished third.(Photo : Ann Kristin Flatland)

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Norway's Petter Northug continued on his winning streak, when he won the season-ending 15km cross country handicap race at Falun Sweden on Sunday, ahead of France's Maurice Manificat. Sweden 's Marcus Hellner placed third.

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Iran’s weather varies vastly depending on the region, meaning that you can go for skiing and then fly for less than an hour to the south and swim inside the sea in winter. Because of global weather changes Iran is experiencing warmer summers even in cold cities, but in mountainous areas you can experience cold weather throughout the year.

Raining in Iran depends directly to the rainy clouds that come from Mediterranean Sea; they get into Iran from North West of the country and exit from north east to Pakistan and Afghanistan. We have 4 main climates in Iran that are obviously different from region to region, these climates are mountainous cold, Caspian wet moderate, semi-arid to arid warm, southern wet and hot.

Iran climates

In this map you can see climatic regions of Iran which we give you some practical information about.

Arid and semi-arid warm weather

Since large portions of Iran are actually deserts, the weather in neighboring areas is greatly affected by their status, cities located near large deserts such as Dasht-e-Kavir and Lut have arid weather while cities near Zagros and Alborz mountain range have semi-arid weather.

As you can see on internet sources Lut desert is hottest place in the world with registered temperature as 70.1 Celsius degrees, so cities near those deserts have long hot summers and due to desert climate, cold nights, but the situation near mountains is better since they provide water sources as well as preventing dramatic changes in temperature.

Cities like Yazd, Kerman, Kashan and Qom have arid and hot weather and cities like Tehran, Isfahan and Mashhad have semi-arid and half mountainous weather.

for having a better and more enjoyable trip to these cities we recommend you to avoid planning a trip during summer to these cities as there are restrictions about clothing that might not let you wear your typical comfortable clothes. Summers in arid and hot cities like Yazd start sooner than cities near mountains like Isfahan, starting from about June to end of September.

Temperature range Temperature range in cities vary from minus 5 to 47 degrees

Best time to go Best time to travel is between the end of September until December and from end of February until middle of May.

What should we do there? Arid and hot weather near deserts especially in summers can be dangerous for the unprepared.

In arid hot cities, make sure to cover all your body from sunlight with clothes and sun screen (at least SPF 60) as you can easily get sun burned. Use sunglasses with at least Cat5 glasses to protect your eyes against the sun. Use lip creams to protect your lips from getting dry.

Before heading towards deserts, it is advisable to buy a Keffiyeh (a cotton Scarf), which is called Chafiyeh in Iran, from a city before head. Buy a sun hat to protect your head from the sun; and have a water bottle with you. And be careful! never ever go to desert without a professional guide or you will be in danger.

Mountainous Climate

Alborz and Zagros mountain ranges occupy thousands hectares of land and because of that cold mountainous weather is the second most widespread climate in Iran.

Specially Zagros mountain range in western Iran hosts amazing nature and because it is located far away from the capital Tehran it is mostly untouched.

Like other mountainous areas long and cold winter is typical of this area except for northern side of Alborz range; Areas with this climate, even those with lots of rain, can be classified as semi-arid.

Temperature range Temperature range in mountainous areas vary from minus 35 Celsius degrees (north east of Tehran) to 35 degrees at summers.

Best time to go Best time to travel is from end of March until October otherwise its cold especially in the middle of winter. Of course for mountain climbing this date range is even shorter and is limited to summers.

What should we do there? Of course in the middle of winter you can face snowy roads leading to cities in this area and might even encounter roads are closed for hours or few days.

In winters, mountain climbing is only for professional climbers with complete winter equipment.

Do not forget sun screen and moisturizers for your lips to prevent dryness.

Southern wet and hot climate

Because in the south we are closer to the equator, weather gets warmer and because we have Persian Gulf and Oman Sea, there is humidity too.

Temperature can reach to more than 55 degrees in summer even inside cities and humidity can be more than 85 percent, so as you can imagine, the weather is quite uncomfortable in southern Iran during summers.

West of this area near Iraq border in Khuzestan province, we get occasional sand storms that come from Iraq which are dangerous for health; so always check weather warnings and make sure you are travelling at the best time.

Unlike summers, in winters the weather is amazing in south and you can even swim inside Persian Gulf and around its islands such as Qeshm or Kish.

Temperature range Temperature range in mountainous areas range from minus 35 Celsius degrees (north east of Tehran) to 35 degrees at summers.

Best time to go Best time to travel is October through April.

what should we do there? southern Iran is hot and humid, so you definitely need good wide sunglasses, kaffyeh or chafieh is useful too, avoid bad hotels and in warm days never ever turn off the cooling systems since vermin is a threat.

Because of humidity and heat, bacteria grow fast; so avoid meat in unknown restaurants or never buy fish and meat from street vendors, just buy everything you want from shops and stores with refrigerators.

Caspian Moderate Wet Climate

The area between Caspian Sea and Alborz Range is named Caspian lands and Iranians call it Shomal (which means north in Persian). Because of high mountains, clouds and humidity coming from the sea gets trapped behind these mountains, unable to escape. Causing humid, rainy weather, resulting in vast rainforests.

In mountainous areas of this land we have snow at winters and cold weather in summers, but the weather is moderate with high precipitation across the Caspian lands. In winters, some roads leading to Mazandaran might be closed due to snow.

Since humidity and moderate weather is rare in Iran, many Iranians love Caspian climate and because of that, you can see thousands of modern buildings which mostly have been built by Tehranis especially in Mazandaran, so the roads leading to Mazandaran are busy in holidays.

Temperature range Temperature range in low lands is from 10 to 34 degrees Celsius and in high lands from 0 to 24 degrees Celsius.

Best time to go Best time to travel is April through June, September and October.

what should we do there? What should we do there? Caspian Lands are like Europe. Just bring water resistant clothes and ask about roads conditions in winter.


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Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Very sad

Danica is absolutely desperate: Plavkan, beautiful, gentle Russian blue, that she has been nurturing for years, was adopted days ago; she called today to see how he has been adjusting, and those people tell her: he is gone! She was in total shock!!! She also feels guilty.

She told me she'll go over there tomorrow and she'll try to find him. To make the things worse, it is in Belgrade, ( a good three hour drive).

The worst thing is - these people were not upset at all. They were kind of apologetic, but that was all. They could not understand why she was so upset.

She said: did I save him as a kitten and nurture him so they can just dispose of him!

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Danica has received several donations, and with my $ 200., this month will bring some joy to her and her kitties.

It is very, very cold over there, and snowy, and it is very hard for her to take some of the sick ones to the vet on the bike. She told me she had to use her car today, which she rarely does, for she has no money for gas. But she had to.

I am posting some sweet photos, and few absolutely beautiful videos that Danica made of her cats. On one of the videos you will see how the cats actually enter the shelter ( through a small opening on the bottom of the door, that moves), and it looks so sweet, but at the same time little sad.

Thank you, every each of you, for everything you donate for this woman and her cause.

And here are some videos of some regular shelter residents interacting with Danica:

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Here are the pictures:

So, in addition to new Face, who was adopted into a happy home, adopted were also: Plavkan, and Chris!!! Very happy, loving homes!!!Three cats adopted - unheard of in the shelter for a long time!

I am adding also one of the pictures of our loving Milance, where Danica commented: He is not into trouble only when asleep!

Sunday, February 15, 2009

New kitty

Another young, poor cat on Danica's back. She gave him a name: Face...He does have a prominent little face, and sad too. Mooshy sad little face...

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Milance 1

Here they are : 4 videos of the little one, including a very angry trip to the vet. First, calm at home:

Not having fun at the vet (but it's for your own good, little one!)

Make sure they know how you feel!

Making really sure...

See, that wasn't so bad...

Monday, February 9, 2009

Some new video of Milance coming up

I am trying to upload few latest videos that Danica made of Milance, three of them at the vet,s office. You have to see and hear how angry this little one gets!

His diarrhea is under control, which means a new surgery is coming up very soon. Danica is dreading it , because, this is going to be his third one! Too much for such a small guy.

Also, Danica said that there is news that the city of Novi Sad will start soon demolishing the part of the neighborhood where the shelter is, and making a mall!!!What will happen to the kitties?!


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Biola Professor Gives Evidence for God

Nov. 27, 2006 By Jenna Bartlo

Dr. William Lane Craig, research professor of philosophy at Biola, argued for the existence of God at an apologetics conference in D.C. Craig opened the event that more than 1,400 attended at McLean Bible Church.

Craig was quoted in The Christian Post saying, “The knowledge of God is unique in that the knowledge of God is conditioned by moral and spiritual factors,” said Craig. “A spiritually indifferent person can have a perfectly profound knowledge of mathematics, or history, or physics, or Russian literature, or even theology. But a spiritually indifferent person cannot obtain the knowledge of God.”

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Boating course teaches basics of staying safe on the water

The Palm Beach Power Squadron is having a safe boating class in Lake Park.

A day or so spent in the classroom could go a long way toward returning home safely from a sunny afternoon at sea.

RELATED: A year after Tequesta teens tragedy, is boating safer?

The Palm Beach Power Squadron’s safe boating course is Saturday and Sunday at the headquarters, 1125 Old Dixie Highway, a half-mile south of Northlake Boulevard. The class from 8:15 a.m. to 4 p.m. with a break for lunch covers knowing your boat, fueling procedures, navigation rules, anchoring, emergencies and other topics. Registration is 8:15 a.m. Saturday.

A review and 60-question exam starts at 2 p.m. Sunday. Passing the test earns a Florida Boating Safety Education ID card, which is required by the state for everyone born after Jan. 1, 1988 operating a boat of 10 hp or more. The course is $30 per person, but those 12 to 19 years old will be admitted free when accompanied by a parent.

For more information, call Bill Eldridge at 561-254-5609.

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The White House Website Removes Mentions of Climate Change

Just as Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States, the official White House website was updated with his portrait and his policies, which include many changes from what the site had said earlier this morning.

Among the first changes noted was the elimination of all mentions of “climate change” and the posting of Trump’s America First Energy Plan. The plan calls for rolling back regulations, including “harmful and unnecessary policies such as the Climate Action Plan and the Waters of the U.S. rule.” The Climate Action Plan was Barack Obama’s set of policies aimed at combatting the causes of global warming. The plan further says President Trump will tap domestic energy sources while refocusing “the EPA on its essential mission of protecting our air and water.”

Like Trump’s energy plan, his foreign-policy page on is labeled “America First.” The page promises a “foreign policy focused on American interests and American national security.” That includes building more ships for the Navy while embracing diplomacy. Russia also gets a subtle shout-out.

The website’s sections on LGBT, civil rights, and health-care are nowhere to be found. That doesn’t necessarily mean they’re never coming back though. The website for the Domestic Policy Council is also down and we know it’s going to live on in under Trump. He’s already appointed someone to lead it.

Trump White House officials said more information will be added to the site in the coming day and weeks. “The transition of the site is in progress as updates are made,” Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks told the Huffington Post.

Anyway, why speculate on what may be left off the site, when there’s already so much bad stuff on it? For example, it declares the Trump administration a “law-and-order administration,” but misstates crime stats about Washington, D.C. The “Standing Up for Our Law Enforcement Community” section also says the Trump administration will end the “dangerous anti-police atmosphere in America” and casts dissenters as “rioters,” “looters,” and “violent disruptors.”

Bios for Trump, Vice-President Mike Pence, and their wives have also been added to the site. Those for the Pences and the First Lady are standard fare, although Melania Trump’s bio does promote her jewelry line by name. Trump’s, on the other hand, is a bit much.

This post has been updated with Hope Hicks’s statement. Removes Climate Change Mentions


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The Great Room at South Oxford Space, is a beautiful, wood panelled room with large windows and a small raised stage. Run by the Alliance of Resident Theaters, founded in 1972, A.R.T./New York assists over 380 member theatres in managing their theatre companies effectively so they may realize their rich artistic visions and serve their diverse audiences well.

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Super Sprint Tri

Bike, swim or run to register for Ocean Pines Aquatics’ 2nd Super Sprint Tri to be held on Saturday, Sept. 17 at 8 am at the Swim & Racquet Club Pool, located at 10 Seabreeze Road in Ocean Pines.

This fun event will consist of a quarter-mile swim, a 6.2-mile bike ride and a 1.5-mile run. Twelve three-member teams will be competing. Each team member will compete in all three events before tagging off to the next team member.

Each participant will receive a long-sleeved “finisher” shirt, and food and drinks will be provided.

The cost is $105 per team. A $35 deposit is required to hold the team’s spot with the balance due prior to the event day.  Registered team members may also swim at a reduced rate of $4 a visit through Sept. 16.

A team representative meeting will be held on Monday, Sept. 12 at 6 pm at the Swim & Racquet Club Pool. Instructions and a course description will be given at that time. Teams should arrive at the pool at 7 am the day of the event to register and check in.

Volunteers are needed to assist with the event. To volunteer, email

For more information or to register, contact the Ocean Pines Aquatics Department at 410-641-5255.  Information regarding additional Ocean Pines aquatics programs, including an online version of the Ocean Pines Activity Guide, is available at

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