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Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez
by Banned Library in YA Book
A brief cover of the author and the banned book leads us to Jason meeting Kyle and Nelson at a meeting.
#48 on Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009
2004 - Texas - Along with fifteen other books with gay-positive themes this book was challenged in the Montgomery County Memorial Library System by Library Patrons of Texas using language similar to language of the website Parents Against Bad Books in Schools based out of Fairfax County, Virginia.
2005 - Arkansas - Along with fifty other books, a challenge at the Fayetteville High School library cited this book and others were too sexually explicit and promoted homosexuality
2006 - New York - After receiving complaints from parents about explicit sexual content, the book was removed from Webster Central School District high school summer reading list yet reinstated a year later after officials reviewed the selection process.
ALA. "Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009." Retrieved on 17 Aug 19 from http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/top-100-bannedchallenged-books-2000-2009
Sanchez, Alex. Rainbow Boys. Simon Pulse. New York, 2003.
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Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The tale of men of simple pleasures and simple times meeting on hard ways. Also being frozen.
1953 - Banned in Ireland
1974 - Indiana - Banned in Syracuse
Pennsylvania - Banned in Oil City
South Carolina - Challenged in Greenville by the Fourth Province of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
1979 - Michigan - Challenged but retained in Grand Blanc schools after being called "vulgar and blasphemous"
New York - Challenged in Vernon-Verona-Sherill School District
Ohio - Challenged in Continental
1981 - Arizona - Challenged in Saint David
1982 - Indiana - Challenged in Tell City for "profanity and using God's name in vain"
1983 - Alabama - Banned from classroom use at Scottsboro Skyline HIgh School for profanity
1984 - Tennessee - The Knoxville School Board chairman vowed to have "filthy books" removed from Knoxville's public schools and picked this book as the first target for it's profanity
1987 - Kentucky - Reinstated at the Christian County school libraries and English classes after being challenged for being vulgar and offensive
Illinois - Challenged at the Wheaton-Warrenville Middle school
Michigan - Challenged at the Barrien Springs High School for profanity
West Virginia - Challenged in the Marion County schools
Alabama - Removed from the Northside High School in Tuscaloosa because the book blasphemed
Arkansas - Removed from the White Chapel High School in Pine Bluff after objections from language
Challenged as a summer youth program reading assignment in Chattanooga because 'Steinbeck's known to have an anti-business attitude" as well as "being very questionable about his patriotism"
Challenged in Shelby County schools for offensive language
Kansas - Challenged but retained in Salina tenth-grade English class for profanity and taking "the Lord's name in vain"
Texas - Challenged in the Riviera schools for profanity
California - Challenged by a Fresno parent for profanity and racial slurs but retained and the child given an alternate assignment
Florida - Removed and later returned to the Suwannee High School library for being indecent
Pennsylvania - Challenged as curriculum material at the Ringgold High School in Carroll Township because the novel contained racial slurs
Tennessee - Challenged at the Jacksboro High School because the novel contains blasphemous language, excessive cursing, and sexual overtones
Virginia - Challenged as required reading in the Buckingham County schools for profanity
Alabama - A coalition of community members and clergy in Mobile requested local school officials form a special textbook screening committee. This book was the first target for profanity and "morbid and depressing themes"
California - Challenged at Modesto High school for offensive and racist language
Florida - Challenged in the Duval County public school libraries for profanity, lurid passages about sex, statements defamatory to minorities, God, women, and the disabled.
Iowa - Challenged at the Waterloo schools
Louisiana - Challenged at the Oak Hill High School in Alexandria for profanity
Ohio - Temporarily removed from Hamilton High School after a parent complained about its vulgarity and racial slurs
1993 - Arizona - Challenged at Mingus Union High School because of "profane language, moral statement, treatment of the retarded, and the violent ending"
Georgia - Challenged at the Loganville High School for language
Tennessee - Pulled from a classroom by Putnam County superintendent for language and later reinstated
Georgia - Challenged at the Stephen County Highs School library in Toccoa Falls for language
Kansas - Challenged at Galena school library for language and social implications
Minnesota - Retained at Bemidji schools after challenges to the book's questionable langauge
Virginia - Challenged but retained in Warm Springs High School
Florida - Removed, restored, restricted and eventually retained at the Bay County school in Panama City. A citizen group, 100 Black United, Inc, requested the novel's removal and "any other inadmissible literary books that have racial slurs in them, such as using of the word 'nigger.'"
Illinois - Banned from Washington Junior High School in Peru for being age inappropriate.
Minnesota - Challenged but retained at the Sauk Rapids-Rice High School in St. Cloud after a parent complained of racist language lead to racist behavior and harrassment
Ohio - Challenged but retained in the Louisville high school English class for profanity
Arizona - Challenged but retained in teh Bryan t school library because a parent complained the book "takes God's name in vain fifteen time and uses Jesus's name lightly."
California - Challenged in O'Hara Park Middle School in Oakley for racial epithets
Wisconsin - Challenged at the Barron School District
Pennsylvania - Challenged but retained at West Middlesex High School despite objections to profanity
Wisconsin - Challenged at the Tomah School District for violence and language
Michigan - Challenged in Grandville for racism, profanity and foul language
Mississippi - Banned from George County schools for profanity
2003 - Illinois - Challenged at Normal Community High School "racial slurs, profanity, violence, and does not represent traditional values." Steinbeck's The Pearl was offered as an alternative, but the family also rejected.
2006 - Pennsylvania - Retained in the Greencastle-Antrim 10th grade English classes after a complaint was filed for "racial slurs" and profanity.
Iowa - Challenged at the Newton High School for profanity and portrayal of Jesus Christ.
Kansas - parent challenge in Olathe calling it "worthless, profanity-riddled" and "derogatory towards African Americans, women, and the developmentally disabled."
Minnesota - Challenged but retained in the Brainerd School District despite complaints from two parents who objected to "Jesus Christ" as a curse word, the use of racial slurs for African Americans, and the term "Japs." They argued the book undermined the values of respect they were trying to teach.
Doyle, Robert P. Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read. 2014.
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It's So Amazing by Robie H Harris and Michael Emberley
by Banned Library in Nonfiction
It's So Amazing!: A Book about Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies, and Families (The Family Library)
By Robie H. Harris
A book about eggs, sperm, birth, babies, families, spawning, tearing free the burden of your own existential horror, and making yourself irrelevant through reproduction.
2002 - Texas - Residents of Montgomery County, Texas, wanted the books banned from the local public library system. Montgomery County Library Director, Jerilynn Adams Williams, fought the measure for three months before both books were finally allowed to return to the shelves. Williams won the 2003 PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award for her efforts.
2003 - Florida - Relocated from the young adult to the adult section of the Fort Bend County Libraries in Richmond. The same title was recently moved to the restricted section of the Fort Bend School District's media centers after a resident sent an e-mail message to the superintendent expressing concern about the book's content. The Spirit of Freedom Republican Women's Club petitioned the superintendent to have it, along with It's Perfectly Normal: A Book about Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health, moved because they contain "frontal nudity and discussion of homosexual relationship and abortion."
Arkansas - Restricted, but later returned to general circulation shelves with some limits on student access, based on a review committee's recommendations, at the Holt Middle School parent library in Fayetteville, Ark. (2005) despite a parent's complaint that it was sexually explicit.
Wisconsin - Relocated to the reference section of the Northern Hills Elementary school media center in Onalaska, Wis. (2005) because a parent complained about its frank yet kid-friendly discussion of reproduction topics, including sexual intercourse, masturbation, abortion, and homosexuality."
#37 ALA's Most Banned Books 2000-2009
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It's Perfectly Normal by Robie H. Harris and Michael Emberley
by Banned Library in Nonfiction, Picture Book
It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health (The Family Library)
Learn about your body and sexy times in this week's episode.
Pennsylvania - Challenged at Chester County Library because the book it prompted kids to begin desiring sex and "a clear example of child pornography"
Utah - Challenged at Provo Library for discussions of sex, masturbation, and homosexuality
Washington - Removed from Clover Park School District because parents claimed it was too graphic and "could foster more questions than it answers"
Missouri - Challenged but retained at Mexico-Audrain County Library by a Baptist minister who complained about the title and it's discussion of sex, death, and birth.
North Dakota - Challenged but retained at the Fargo Public Library as "explicit, pornographic, and too easily accessible to children"
1999 - California - Challenged but retained at the Auburn-Placer County Public Library for being sexually explicit
2000 - Massachusettes - Challenged at Holland Public Library due to sexually explicit content and moved from children's to adults section
Alaska - Restricted to elementary school kids with parental permission in Anchorage due to values and because "marriage is mentioned once in the whole book, while homosexual relationships are allocated an entire section"
Florida - Challenged at Marion County Public Library for being pornographic
2002 - Texas - Challenged, but retained, in Montgomery County library system after the Republican Leadership Council characterized the book as "vulgar" and trying to "minimize or even negate that homosexuality is a problem".
2003 - Texas - Moved from the young adult to the adult section of the Fort Bend County Libraries in Richmond. Also moved to the restricted section of the Fort Bend School Districts media centers after a resident complained via email about the book's content.
2005 - Arkansas - Challenged, but retained at the Holt Middle School library in Fayetteville despite a parent's complaint that it was sexually explicit.
2008 - Maine - A Lewiston patron refused to return the book to the Lewiston and Auburn public libraries because she was "sufficiently horrified by the illustrations and sexually graphic, amoral, abnormal contents." A police investigation found the library did not violate the town ordinance against obscenity and the patron will stand trial for theft.
2011 - Florida - Challenged, but retained at the Lee County libraries despite the book's explicit illustrations.
2015 - Missouri - Challenged as an e-book at the Francis Howell middle school libraries in St. Charles because of cartoon nudity.
2016 - Oregon - Rainer parents complained after books used by 6th grade class were left out in view of 4th graders. ""Inappropriate human development and sexuality books were disseminated to students who had library. Procedures have been put into place to make sure this doesn't happen again. All questionable books have been pulled from library shelves." - school's principal
Doyle, Robert P. Banned Books: Challenging Our Right to Read. ALA, 2014.
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Forever... by Judy Blume
Forever . . . (Richard Jackson Book)
By Judy Blume
Young love finds itself in a boring story banned so many times it should have its own shelf in the library.
Park Hill Jr. High School, Missouri for promoting "the stranglehold of humanism on life in America"
Scranton, PA - challenged for language, "masturbation, birth control, and disobedience to parents"
Akron, Ohio - challenged in school libraries
Howard-Suamico High School, Wisconsin - "it demoralizes marital sex."
Cedar Rapids, Iowa - "pornography and explores areas God didn't intend to explore outside of marriage"
Holdrege, Nebraska - challenged and moved to the adult section at the public library for being "pornographic and does not promote the sanctity of life, family life."
Patrick County, Virginia - placed on restricted shelf
Campbell County, Wyoming - challenged in school libraries as pornography and that it would encourage children "to experiment with sexual encounters."
Moreno Valley, California - challenged at school libraries for profanity, sex, and thems that encourage disrespectful behavior
Eliot, Minnesota - challenged at a classroom library for not casting "a responsible role of parents," that the teens of today are not as sex-minded as the characters, and being pornography, creating a bad role model.
1988 - West Hernando Middle School, Florida - school principal recommended it be removed from school library as inappropriate
1992 - Herrin Junior High School, Illinois - placed on reserve to be checked out with parental permission for being "sexually provocative reading."
Schaumburg, Illinois - removed from Frost Junior High School library because "it's basically a sexual 'how-to-do' book for junior high students. It glamorizes [sex] and puts ideas in their heads."
Rib Lake, Wisconsin - Superintendent found the book "sexually explicit" and filed a "request for reconsideration." The book was confiscated by the principal after being placed on the "parental permission shelf." A guidance councilor spoke out against the principal's actions, his contract was not renewed in retaliation, and a federal jury awarded him $394,560.
1994 - Mediapolis School District, Wisconsin - Removed from school libraries for not promoting abstinence or monogamy, and "lacks any aesthetic, literary, or social value." Returned a month later accessible to high school students.
Gainesville, Florida - removed after a science teacher objected to the sexual content and reference to marijuana
Muncie, Indiana - moved to restricted section of high school library requiring written parental permission.
1996 - Wilton School District, Iowa - challenged for sexual content
1997 - Elgin School District U46, Illinois - banned from middle school libraries for sex. Decision upheld in 1999 and returned to shelves in 2002.
2006 - Fayetteville, Arkansas - Challenged in the Fayetteville Middle and Junior High School libraries along with more than 50 other titles as being too sexually explicit and promoting homosexuality.
Doyle, Robert P. Banned Book: Challenging Our Freedom to Read.
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Fighting Back: Lawsuits Challenge New Gun Sale Reporting Law
By Bob Owens 2011-08-11T03:00:13
Firearms retailers, a leading industry trade organization, and Americans' most powerful gun lobby are making good on a threat to challenge the Obama administration's attempt to assert gun control measures by executive fiat. The legal challenge is being supported by the Second Amendment Task Force, a bipartisan group of congressional legislators that asserts the ATF lacks the authority "to track the purchases of law-abiding Americans."
J&G Sales in Prescott, AZ, and Foothills Firearms in Yuma, AZ, intend to challenge the new ATF long-gun reporting rule focused on semi-automatic rifle sales in southwest border states. The rule would require gun shops to report the sale of five or more semi-automatic centerfire rifles to an individual within a week to the ATF.
The government claims that the rule is designed to help cut down on the straw purchase of multiple military-look rifles by gun smugglers working for the Mexican drug cartels. Critics point out the uselessness of the law, noting that the cartels would easily adapt to get around the requirement by simply sending straw purchasers to more shops or employing more purchasers. Critics also point to an existing handgun reporting law passed by Congress that the rifle reporting measure was based upon as proof of the reporting requirement's inherent failure, as pistols continue to flow over the border.
The National Shooting Sports Foundation and the National Rifle Association intend to bracket the Obama administration with a pair of lawsuits, challenging what they view as an attempt to unconstitutionally circumvent Congress and create de facto laws by executive branch mandate:
"[We] are committed to cooperating with ATF and other law enforcement agencies ... to investigate and enforce violations of firearms laws," according to a copy of the industry group's lawsuit not yet filed in court. "However, Congress has conferred only limited authority on ATF to require federally-licensed firearms dealers to submit information regarding firearms sales. In this case, ATF's demand exceeds its authority and is prohibited under federal law."
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder defends the new reporting requirement: "Action we have taken is consistent with the law." He also claims, rather less credibly: "The measures that we are proposing are appropriate ones to stop the flow of guns from the United States into Mexico."
Holder's words might have more credibility if agencies under his command were not under fire for running 2,020 guns into Mexico in "Operation Fast and Furious," which led to the deaths of an estimated 150 Mexican law enforcement officers and the murders of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and ICE Agent Jaime Zapata. Fast and Furious was being used to run guns to Mexico, where the violence the government-allowed weapons program caused was used to justify the reporting requirement Holder is now defending:
Katie Pavlich broke the story yesterday of a "smoking gun" email between ATF officials: Mark R Chait, assistant director for field operations with the ATF, copied ATF deputy assistant director for field operations on an email to William Newell, the special agent in charge (SAC) of the Phoenix Field Division:
"Bill – Can you see if these guns were all purchased from the same FfL and at one time. We are looking at anecdotal cases to support a letter on long gun multiple sales."
Chait was asking Newell to use tracing data to support an initiative supported by the administration to require the reporting of multiple rifle sales.
https://pjmedia.com/blog/fighting-back-lawsuits-challenge-new-gun-sale-reporting-law/

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Q: Impossible to download FLV files on Android? I'm thinking if it would be possible to write an app for Android which would allow a user to download flash videos from a website without making the user to start playback of every video manually in a browser. The app should also ideally work for any website playing flash videos and not just some specific websites. The app should not require root.
After doing my homework and googling a lot I came to the conclusion that such an app is not possible but I just wanted more experienced people to confirm this (or maybe suggest workarounds if I am wrong).
How such an app could (theoretically, ideally) work:

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*the app starts a service which runs in a background thread and doesn't even require an opened activity.

*the service loads the webpage (html file) where the video is

*the app parses the page to find the .swf file which normally plays the video

*the app somehow sends a fake click to the action script in the swf file as if the user pressed "Play"

*after a short while the app checks the cache of the webview (yet, there is no activity shown to the user). If there are any .flv files in the cache, it copies them, say, to some folder on SD card
In this scheme multiple things would probably fail:
in 3: I'm not sure one can emulate a click on Play button for the swf file, especially if we don't know what exact website we are on (we want the app to work on any website) and websites use their own, custom-written swf flash players. Also I'm not sure the .swf file would even be in a state where it could receive input if we don't even have a running activity
in 4: web cache is stored under /data/data/app_package_name/cache/webViewCacheChromium and this folder is not accessible even for the app itself (?) unless the phone is rooted.
I guess that's it, so it shouldn't be possible to make such an app.
Btw, does the FVD extension for Google Chrome get FLV files by scanning the Chrome browser cache?
Thanks!
EDIT: I know that Youtube now uses html5, I'm not looking to download Youtube videos.
EDIT: I've seen apps that work with specific websites (e.g. with Youtube) but making such an app is not viable since websites change ways they deliver flv files as basic defense. My question is about starting fake playback and getting the video files which are already in the cache.

A: I think this is possible:
1: Where does the "website" come from? Are you going to catch when the user opens his browser and types in a website? If so, this is not possible.
I suppose you will get the "website" from somewhere.

2 You do not need to emulate the play button: you only need the .flv file. It is pretty easy to scrape the website for the .swf file using any available tool. You can try jsoup

3 Sometimes, the swf gets this file in the usual param approach. For example <embed bla bla link="http://website/file"> You just need to scrape and get this file.

4 Now if the link to the file is not available, you will have to decompile the swf file. This is the challenging part. Check some of the available tools here. With hard work, you might be able to get a result. I say so because there are already lots of tools out there that do what you want. Keepvid is in java for example.

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Up Front With Martin B. Deutsch
VACATION OPTIONS ALL OVER THE U.S.
BY MARTIN B. DEUTSCH
August 1, 1962 -- Led by an enthusiastic forecast from the American Automobile Association, reports are pouring in from all sides that 1962 will shatter the records for vacation travel on the domestic front. The AAA's prediction that twelve to fifteen percent more Americans will join the traffic stream in search of pleasure this year than in 1961 is echoes in varying degrees by the airlines, the railroads, the bus companies and the car-rental companies. Just a casual glance at the heavy highway traffic (much of it with out-of-state license plates) and the crowded terminals will convince you that this year's travel flow will live up to advance expectations.
In view of this mushrooming interest in events, resorts and attractions from coast to coast, we've decided to take another look at a random selection of vacation destinations, hoping around the map from Nevada and Arizona out west, to Wisconsin in the Midwest, then down south to Florida, and finally up north to New England. We've rolled the dice and they always seem to come up "Las Vegas," so that's where we'll get underway.
Often referred to as the "come-as-you-are" city, this amazing desert resort is endowed with year-round vacation appeal for the man on the loose, the husband-and-wife team or the entire family. Blessed with constant sunshine, an annual temperature average near seventy degrees and humidity under twenty percent, Las Vegas is informal, relaxing and ideal for sportswear. (We would like to point out, however, that recommended evening wear at the better hotels is a suit or a sports coat with tie for the men, cocktail dresses for the women.) Swimming weather runs from April through September, and while the other months are mild, it's wise to take along a topcoat for the evenings.
There are plenty of places to hang your hat(s) in Las Vegas, so to speak. At any one time, the city can put up you and your family, along with 26,000 other visitors, in 13,000 air-conditioned rooms at twelve resort hotels, thirty-five commercial hotels and 250 motels. Among the best-known resorts along the city's famous "Strip" are the Desert Inn, Stardust, Hacienda, Tropicana, Dunes, Flamingo, Sands, New Frontier, Riviera, Thunderbird, El Rancho Vegas and Sahara. The best-known hotels "downtown" are the Fremont, Elwell, Showboat and El Cortez. The area's excellent motels are too numerous to list. Rates are moderate, with a room for two at one of the Strip's glittering dozen available for as little as $14 per day, without meals. The food both at the hotels and the many fine restaurants is easy on the palate and also on the pocketbook. Many of the resort hotels serve a generous buffet in the evening (either at the bar or in the casino) without charge, and chuck-wagon snacks are served after midnight, free or at a very low rate.
In many cases, the cost of a meal (or just a drink) includes some of the top entertainment or floor shows in the world. Frequent headliners include such personalities as Frank Sinatra, Tony Martin, Dean Martin, Milton Berle, Victor Borge, George Gobel, Harry Belafonte, Sammy Davis, Jr., Jayne Mansfield and Mitzi Gaynor. The Strip resorts usually schedule a dinner show at seven p.m., a later show at eleven. (Reservations should be made in advance.)
Of special interest to the head of the household is the following communiqué from Las Vegas designed to set his doubts (if he had any) at rest: "While the seminudity in some of the production has been given a degree of publicity, not all of the dining rooms have the "Adults Only" sign outside. Many of the shows are designed to provide family entertainment, and one of the lavish productions does not uncover its bosoms until the late show, allowing family groups to enjoy the more modest performance with dinner." (Okay?)
There's also plenty to do, for all, during the day. Just about every resort hotel and motel comes with a swimming pool, tennis courts abound, and in the last twelve months, three new eighteen-hole golf courses have been opened, bringing the area's total to six. There are also seven driving ranges and a nine-hole pitch-and-putt layout.
A number of guest ranches in the area offer horseback riding. Thirty minutes to the south, at Hoover Dam, lies Lake Mead, with 550 miles of shore line, with beaches, boat docks, camping and trailer sites and year-round fishing for largemouth bass, trout, crappie and bluegill. Costs for family bloating and fishing are moderate. Forty minutes by car to the north of Vegas lies Mt. Charleston, where winter-sports buffs will find skiing, skating and camping. The summer visitor will enjoy picnics in the verdant surroundings.
The city is also within easy driving distance of the north and south rims of the Grand Canyon, Cedar Breaks National Monument, Bryce Canyon National Park, Zion National Park, Death Valley and the Valley of Fire. (Four major state highways converge on Las Vegas, making it easily accessible from all directions.)
Las Vegas also offers a year-round program of events to please you and your family. For example, some of the highlights scheduled for the rest of this year include: El Cortez Hunting Contest (August 25 to December 31); Lake Mead National Ski Races (Sept 8-9); Sahara Fall Trapshooting Tournament (September 19-22); Las Vegas Community Fair (October 15-21); Stardust Ladies national PGA Golf Tournament (October 18-21), and Sahara Miss Rodeo American Pageant (November 25-29). As another indication of the growing importance of Las Vegas in the vacation world, the American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) will hold its annual convention there (October 22-27).
Aside from the city's easy access by auto, Las Vegas is also convenient by air, rail and bus. Seven airlines fly daily from all parts of the country to McCarran Field. These airlines include Bonanza, Delta, National, Pacific, TWA, United and Western. The major rail carrier into Las Vegas is Union Pacific; the two main bus lines, Greyhound and Trailways.
Since Las Vegas became a city in 1905, gambling has played a major role there. You'll find the casinos tastefully furnished, the personnel pleasant and the pressure for you to play nonexistent. If you never feed a single dime into a slot machine, you'll still be welcome to enjoy an exciting and reasonably priced vacation in this attractive Nevada resort.
Just about 100 miles southeast of Las Vegas, via U.S. Highway 93, lies a relatively little-known but fast-growing vacation area, the community of Kingman Hub of Arizona's Mohave Country. Kingman has Lake Mead to the north, Lake Mohave to the west and Lake Havasu to the south. To further pinpoint the area, Kingman sits on U.S. 66, a major east-west highway. Phoenix is situated 187 fast miles to the southeast, on U.S. 93.
Enveloped in a dry, desert-like climate, Kingman's temperature averages in the sixties, with a summer high of ninety-five, a winter low of thirty-one. The town has a permanent population of 6,000, thirty-seven motels, three hotels and five trailer parks. Just fourteen miles away lies Hualapai Mountain Recreation Park, 6,000 to 8,000 feet up, noted for camping facilities, picnic areas and nominally priced cabins in the summer and skiing in the winter. The three lakes we've already mentioned offer superb fishing, boating and water sports the year around.
In Mohave County's 13,000 square miles, you'll also find the hunting favorable for elk, wild turkey, antelope, bighorn sheep, deer, waterfowl, quail and cottontail. The sightseeing in the country, using Kingman as headquarters, is both varied and absorbing. Among the highlights are the Grand Canyon, the Giant Joshua Forest, Fort Mohave Indian Reservation, Havasu Lake National Wildlife Refuge, White-Hills Ghost Town, Kaibab National Forest and Pie Spring National Monument, to mention just a few. And the three dams that form major lakes--Hoover, Davis and Parker--are worth seeing.
Besides its prominent location on major highways, Kingman is also served by major bus lines, the Santa Fe Railroad and by Bonanza Airlines, flying several times a day to Las Vegas, Phoenix and Los Angeles.
Mention the State of Wisconsin and the chances are you'll immediately think of cows and cheese, lakes and fish--and undoubtedly beer. These ingredients all contribute to something else for which this state is famous--vacations. To whet your appetite (or refresh your memory if you've already been there), let us just cite some statistics. Wisconsin has nearly 9,000 lakes, 3,514 miles of stream and 3,262 camp sites for tent and trailer travelers. Before we describe the contents of some of these lakes and streams, let's take a quick look at some of the state's other attractions.
Most of the southern tier, the access way for visitors by car, is dominated by vast pastures for millions of Holstein, Jersey and Guernsey cows. The milk produced by these herds eventually turns up on grocery shelves as Swiss, Cheddar brick, cottage, Edam, Gouda, blue, Gorgonzola, Mozzarella and many other kinds of popular cheeses. The landscape in this dairy country is clean-cut, pastoral and eye-filling.
Driving east, the visitor can stop over in Milwaukee, nucleus of an urban complex with more than 1,000,000 people, plus a profusion of museums, theaters, zoo, parks, breweries, professional baseball and football and a State Forest recreation area. Milwaukee has also become an international seaport since the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway. Long a major harbor for the large ships that ply the Great Lakes, the city now plays host to such exotic visitors as tramp steamers from the Mediterranean, freighters from Scandinavia and tankers from East Coast ports. The airport, Mitchell Field, sends jets to major cities in North America, as well as to Japan, the Orient, Mexico and Hawaii.
Just twenty minutes outside the city, the Kettle Moraine State Forest offers camp sites, beaches, trails, woods. Also found in the counties outside of Milwaukee are golf courses, fishing lakes and duck marshes.
Madison, the state capital, embraces one of the nation's largest state universities, five lakes for fishing, parks and beaches and the Wisconsin River. This busy stream is fragmented by twenty-six dams, all of which create lakes for fishing, boating and hunting. A short distance north along the river nestle the famous Wisconsin Dells, with boat trips through the cliff-lined gorge, the Cypress Garden Water Ski Show, the Stand Rock Indian Ceremonial Dances, and other attractions that combine to make the Dells a "must" for the visitor.
Farther north stretches an almost unbroken vacationland of lakes, forests and trout streams to lure hunters and fishermen throughout the year, sun seekers and water-sports fans in the summer, and skiers in the winter. The lakes (9,000) feature muskies, walleyes and bass. The numerous streams are noted for the scrappy small-mouth bass. The 3,262 camp sites are scattered across the state, but their number naturally increases as you head north. (The state also has many fine hotels, motels and cottages for those who prefer more conventional facilities.) In order to improve its state parks and camp grounds, Wisconsin now charges two dollars for a sticker, issued to residents and nonresidents who visit the recreational sites. The sticker is valid for one full season.
Folders, camp-site lists, maps, hunting and fishing guides and other materials may be obtained without charge from the Wisconsin Conservation Department, Box 540, Madison 1, Wisconsin.
The New England region is especially appealing in late summer and autumn, when the turning foliage provides an unending display of nature at her best. In a recent "Travel Travails" column, we discussed the merits of touring New England by car, so this month, we'll say a few words about another pleasant and inexpensive way to visit these Northeast states--by motorcoach.
Most of the New England motorcoach tours begin and end in New York City, and they usually take a full week. For example, Casser Tours offers a seven-day package that covers all the states, sightseeing highlights, such as Desert of Maine, Lake Winnepesaukee and the Shaker Museum, as well as the cities of Boston, Lexington and Concord. Departures are scheduled for every Sunday through September sixteenth. The tour costs $118.75 (plus tax) and includes travel by air-conditioned motorcoach, first-class hotel rooms, guided sightseeing, admission fees, baggage tips, and some meals.
Another New York-based company, Tauck Tours, provides seven-day New England trips every Sunday through September ninth, featuring the Berkshire Hills, the Green Mountains of Vermont, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, Crawford and Franconia Notches, Maine's lakes, Portland, the New England cost, Boston, Lexington, Concord and Cape Cod. A similar one-week program, "Autumn in New England and Colonial New York State," is available Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays, September ninth through October twenty-second. The latter tour also includes New York's Lake George region. Both the summer and fall packages cost $179 (plus $2.40 tax), meals included.
A scenic tour by motorcoach is a relaxing way to travel. You can get a much better look at the countryside because someone else is doing the driving, all the other details and arrangements are taken care of for you, and the chances are that you'll meet some compatible companions.
Additional information and brochures are available from your travel agent, or from Casser Tours, 203 West 41st Street, New York 36, New York, and from Tauck Tours, 475 Fifth Avenue, New York 17, New York.
Down Florida way, one of the car-rental firms has come up with a program to encourage low-cost family vacations. Dixie Rent-A-Car of Miami and Fort Lauderdale has acquired a fleet of Volkswagen "Campers," new station wagons for "living aboard," with accommodations for two adults and one or two youngsters. Besides overcoming any "no-vacancy" problems, you might occasionally encounter, the "Camper" allows you to vary your itinerary according to your whims, and also permits access to many beaches, lakes, fishing and boating areas that only someone with private transportation and a place to stay, can enjoy.
The "Camper" features a tent, curtains on all windows, cabinets for drinks and glasses, folding chair, icebox, linen closet, cabinet for toilet articles, with wash basin, mirror and shelves, folded-down dining table, electric lighting with 6V outlet for shaver, skylight and roof rack. Rental rate is nine dollars a day or forty-four weekly, plus ten cents a mile. This includes all gas, oil, maintenance and insurance. Information is available from Dixie Rent-A-Car, P.O. Box 59-2263, Miami, Florida.
TRAVEL TIPS: Still in the car-rental field, the Hertz Corporation has introduced a three-month vacation rate that lowers costs by about one-third in many cities coast-to-coast. You've probably already seen the slogan, "Just Add Hertz and Steer," that dominates nationwide Hertz advertising in conjunction with the new program. Under the reduced vacation rate, travelers have a choice of sedans, compacts, convertibles, station wagons and sports cars. The three-month rate for a fully-equipped sedan is $650, including 3,000 miles of driving. Beyond this figure, there is a reduced charge of six cents a mile. With regular rates, the three-month cost would be much higher-about $1,200 minimum. The new vacation rate includes insurance, maintenance and a full tank of gasoline. You supply your own gas thereafter. As part of the program, Hertz provides, free of charge, eight full-color travel guides covering all major sightseeing areas in the United States. Detailed tour maps and photographs are included. Information and tour guides are available from your travel agent, or from Hertz, 660 Madison Avenue, New York 21, New York.
This column originally appeared in Argosy magazine.
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The JFET-input TL070 Operational Amplifier is designed as the lower-noise version of the TL080 Amplifier with low input-bias and offset currents and fast slew rate. The low harmonic distortion and low noise make the TL070 ideally suited for high-fidelity and audio-preamplifier applications. This Amplifier features JFET inputs (for high input impedance) coupled with bipolar output stages integrated on a single monolithic chip.
The TL070I device is characterized for operation from -40C to 85C.
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US Army picks winners to build light and medium robotic combat vehicles
By: Jen Judson January 9, 2020
A team of Textron, Howe & Howe, and FLIR Systems unveiled its Ripsaw M5 robotic combat vehicle at the Association of the U.S. Army's annual show in October 2019. (Courtesy of Textron)
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army has picked winners to build base platforms for its light- and medium-class robotic combat vehicles, according to a service statement released Jan. 9.
The Army's Combat Capabilities Development Command and the service's Next Generation Combat Vehicle Cross-Functional Team "intends" — pending successful negotiations — to award a contract to QinetiQ North America to build four RCV-light prototypes and another contract to Textron to build four RCV-medium prototypes, the release stated.
Through a rapid contracting mechanism, the National Advanced Mobility Consortium is coordinating the Army's awards to industry, and the service expects to be officially under contract with both companies by mid-February, according to the statement.
While it was anticipated the Army would award up to two contracts per category at the end of the second quarter this fiscal year, it appears the awards have come earlier and are both limited to one company.
The prototypes, according to the statement, will be used to "determine the feasibility of integrating unmanned vehicles into ground combat operations. The Light and Medium RCVs will be used to conduct a company-level experiment at the end of 2021."
Results from that effort, as well as a platoon-level experiment in March 2020 and several virtual experiments, will help the Army decide in 2023 how it wants to proceed with robots on the battlefield.
"Robots have the potential to revolutionize the way we conduct ground combat operations," Brig. Gen. Ross Coffman, director of the NGCV CFT, said in the statement. "Whether that's giving increased fire power to a dismounted patrol, breaching an enemy fighting position, or providing [chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive] reconnaissance, we envision these vehicles providing commanders more time and space for decisions and reducing risk to soldiers."
Out of a large pool of whitepaper submissions, a Textron and Howe & Howe team, a team of QinetiQ North America and Pratt & Miller, HDT Global, and Oshkosh were each issued a request for prototype proposals in the RCV-light competition in October 2019.
Three teams were picked to move on in the RCV-medium competition in November 2019: General Dynamics Land Systems, QinetiQ North America, and the Textron and Howe & Howe team.
It is noteworthy that the companies selected to build prototypes in each category are the only two companies to have offerings in both the light and medium competitions, demonstrating potentially that they are the only companies with the flexibility to build in both categories.
Dirty work: Robots take on complex obstacles in US Army exercise
Learning by doing, the Army is assessing how robots can be an asset on the battlefield.
By: Jen Judson
At the Association of the U.S. Army's annual conference in October, Textron and Howe & Howe dramatically unveiled their RCV Ripsaw M5, which is based on the latter's deep history of building unmanned ground vehicles, but adds technology like scalable armor and suspension as well as mobility options to cope with the challenges expected in the future fight. FLIR Systems is also part of the team, contributing its advanced sensors.
"Bringing together Howe & Howe, Textron Systems and FLIR Systems really represents a dream team," Textron CEO Lisa Atherton said in a statement released at the show. "We formed this team based on our shared focus to serve this customer with disruptive ideas and proven experience, and we are dedicated to meeting and exceeding their requirements through the RCV program."
The team told Defense News before the AUSA conference that it planned to submit a version of Ripsaw both for the light and medium variant of the Army's robotic combat vehicle.
The Qinetiq and Pratt & Miller team submitted a variant of the Expeditionary Modular Autonomous Vehicle tailored toward the Army's RCV-light requirements. The offering combines Qinetiq's modular open-architecture control systems with Pratt & Miller's advanced mobility platform.
The Army is also examining the utility of an RCV-heavy variant but is using robotic M113 armored personnel carriers as surrogate platforms for evaluations. That effort will focus on manned-unmanned teaming in a robotic wingman formation, with a manned Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle serving as the platform for the robot's operators.
Army preps for key tests of seeker capable of attacking maritime targets
US agency forecasts cost for missile defense plans over next decade
Lebanese military to receive 100 armored vehicles from UK to secure borders
Australia selects Boeing Apache as next armed reconnaissance helicopter
Why America needs a layered homeland missile defense


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Q: Airflow fetch data from db and print it out I was tasked with creating a POC where people can fetch data from a db, process it and send it to S3. I'm still learning Airflow and there are things I do not fully understand. I hope you are able to help me out.
So I'm trying to fetch data from mysql db at the moment and print it out. The problem is I always get 'None' returned. I'm trying to utilise xcom but it doesn't work and I read that I shouldn't use xcom for this.
Here's what I have now:
def print_query():
query = ti.xcom_pull(task_ids='mysql_query')
print(query)

default_args = {
    'owner': 'me',
    'start_date': dt.datetime(2019, 8, 15),
    'retries': 1,
    'retry_delay': dt.timedelta(minutes=5),
}

dag = DAG('s3_dag_test', default_args=default_args)

python = PythonOperator(
    task_id='print',
    provide_context=True,
    python_callable=print_query,
    dag=dag)

query = MySqlOperator(
    task_id='mysql_query',
    sql='SELECT * FROM sakila.actor',
    mysql_conn_id='mysql_db',
    dag=dag)

query >> python

First tasks runs fine(mysql_query), however the second one fails as I get None. What is wrong?
Also, the actual error that I get is this:
ERROR - print_query() got an unexpected keyword argument 'dag'

Any ideas?

A: To use context in your python function you must use kwargs and define your callable as
def print_query(**kwargs):

Then you can use it as:
def print_query(**kwargs):
    query = kwargs['ti'].xcom_pull(task_ids='mysql_query')
    print(query)

Or you can add ti explictly:
def print_query(ti, **kwargs):
    query = ti.xcom_pull(task_ids='mysql_query')
    print(query)


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#pragma once
#include <aws/elasticbeanstalk/ElasticBeanstalk_EXPORTS.h>
#include <aws/core/utils/memory/stl/AWSStreamFwd.h>
#include <aws/core/utils/memory/stl/AWSString.h>
#include <aws/core/utils/memory/stl/AWSVector.h>
#include <utility>

namespace Aws
{
namespace Utils
{
namespace Xml
{
  class XmlNode;
} // namespace Xml
} // namespace Utils
namespace ElasticBeanstalk
{
namespace Model
{

  /**
   *
Describes the solution stack.

See Also:
   AWS
   * API Reference

   */
  class AWS_ELASTICBEANSTALK_API SolutionStackDescription
  {
  public:
    SolutionStackDescription();
    SolutionStackDescription(const Aws::Utils::Xml::XmlNode& xmlNode);
    SolutionStackDescription& operator=(const Aws::Utils::Xml::XmlNode& xmlNode);

    void OutputToStream(Aws::OStream& ostream, const char* location, unsigned index, const char* locationValue) const;
    void OutputToStream(Aws::OStream& oStream, const char* location) const;

    /**
     *
The name of the solution stack.

     */
    inline const Aws::String& GetSolutionStackName() const{ return m_solutionStackName; }

    /**
     *
The name of the solution stack.

     */
    inline bool SolutionStackNameHasBeenSet() const { return m_solutionStackNameHasBeenSet; }

    /**
     *
The name of the solution stack.

     */
    inline void SetSolutionStackName(const Aws::String& value) { m_solutionStackNameHasBeenSet = true; m_solutionStackName = value; }

    /**
     *
The name of the solution stack.

     */
    inline void SetSolutionStackName(Aws::String&& value) { m_solutionStackNameHasBeenSet = true; m_solutionStackName = std::move(value); }

    /**
     *
The name of the solution stack.

     */
    inline void SetSolutionStackName(const char* value) { m_solutionStackNameHasBeenSet = true; m_solutionStackName.assign(value); }

    /**
     *
The name of the solution stack.

     */
    inline SolutionStackDescription& WithSolutionStackName(const Aws::String& value) { SetSolutionStackName(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The name of the solution stack.

     */
    inline SolutionStackDescription& WithSolutionStackName(Aws::String&& value) { SetSolutionStackName(std::move(value)); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The name of the solution stack.

     */
    inline SolutionStackDescription& WithSolutionStackName(const char* value) { SetSolutionStackName(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The permitted file types allowed for a solution stack.

     */
    inline const Aws::Vector<Aws::String>& GetPermittedFileTypes() const{ return m_permittedFileTypes; }

    /**
     *
The permitted file types allowed for a solution stack.

     */
    inline bool PermittedFileTypesHasBeenSet() const { return m_permittedFileTypesHasBeenSet; }

    /**
     *
The permitted file types allowed for a solution stack.

     */
    inline void SetPermittedFileTypes(const Aws::Vector<Aws::String>& value) { m_permittedFileTypesHasBeenSet = true; m_permittedFileTypes = value; }

    /**
     *
The permitted file types allowed for a solution stack.

     */
    inline void SetPermittedFileTypes(Aws::Vector<Aws::String>&& value) { m_permittedFileTypesHasBeenSet = true; m_permittedFileTypes = std::move(value); }

    /**
     *
The permitted file types allowed for a solution stack.

     */
    inline SolutionStackDescription& WithPermittedFileTypes(const Aws::Vector<Aws::String>& value) { SetPermittedFileTypes(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The permitted file types allowed for a solution stack.

     */
    inline SolutionStackDescription& WithPermittedFileTypes(Aws::Vector<Aws::String>&& value) { SetPermittedFileTypes(std::move(value)); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The permitted file types allowed for a solution stack.

     */
    inline SolutionStackDescription& AddPermittedFileTypes(const Aws::String& value) { m_permittedFileTypesHasBeenSet = true; m_permittedFileTypes.push_back(value); return *this; }

    /**
     *
The permitted file types allowed for a solution stack.

     */
    inline SolutionStackDescription& AddPermittedFileTypes(Aws::String&& value) { m_permittedFileTypesHasBeenSet = true; m_permittedFileTypes.push_back(std::move(value)); return *this; }

    /**
     *
The permitted file types allowed for a solution stack.

     */
    inline SolutionStackDescription& AddPermittedFileTypes(const char* value) { m_permittedFileTypesHasBeenSet = true; m_permittedFileTypes.push_back(value); return *this; }

  private:

    Aws::String m_solutionStackName;
    bool m_solutionStackNameHasBeenSet;

    Aws::Vector<Aws::String> m_permittedFileTypes;
    bool m_permittedFileTypesHasBeenSet;
  };

} // namespace Model
} // namespace ElasticBeanstalk
} // namespace Aws

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Список Группы Всемирного банка (2020)
Ожидаемая продолжительность жизни при рождении в 2019 году согласно данным Группы Всемирного банка. На общий список наложен фильтр согласно списку государств Южной Америки. Значения в таблицах Группы Всемирного банка округлённые. Все вычисления проведены на неокруглённых данных, поэтому, вследствие нюансов округления, в некоторых местах возникли кажущиеся нестыковки индикаторов, размером в 0,01 года.

Список Группы Всемирного банка (2019)
Ожидаемая продолжительность жизни при рождении в 2019 году согласно данным Группы Всемирного банка.

Список Всемирной организации здравоохранения (2019)
Список стран по ожидаемой продолжительности жизни, согласно данным ВОЗ за 2019 год.

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 Список старейших людей в мире
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When I transitioned to a Charlotte Mason style homeschool mid-way through my son's 1st-grade year, I began using a timetable I had devised to fit in all the subjects I wanted to include.
I see a lot of misconceptions about why one would choose or not choose to follow a strict schedule in a homeschool, so I want to share why we have chosen to do so. I am not suggesting that you must have a strict schedule to enjoy these benefits; they just happen to be the benefits we are experiencing by following this type of schedule.
I am a firm believer that learning happens all the time. A big reason why my husband and I decided to homeschool our children from birth onward is that we wanted to protect our children's childhood by providing them with lots of unstructured time to explore interests, play with their siblings, and enjoy time in nature.
By following a fairly strict schedule for our lessons, I can ensure that my children have time to practice piano, contribute to family life through chores, spend time outside, participate in activities like soccer and still have hours every day to do things like playing their made-up games, practicing their latest obsessions (lately string games and sewing), reading, drawing, or thinking.
When I set the time for lessons and require my children to do the lessons one after another, I am giving them daily practice in attending to varied subjects of the curriculum. Because I set the time for the lessons, I can be accountable to ensure they are paying attention the whole time. I can see if they are writing, reading, or narrating. Or, I can see if they are looking around the room or staring into space.
Because each lesson is set for a certain period of time, the lesson must take place during that time. It cannot take 1 hour to do the math work because you are stumped and decided to let your mind wander. It cannot take 30 minutes to read a chapter of geography because you want to procrastinate since it isn't your favorite book.
My son usually doesn't like to switch to a new lesson and return to the old one, so when he is dawdling, I ask him if we need to switch to the next lesson right now. Most often, this happens when he has hit a very challenging math problem and feels stuck or when he feels like I am asking him to do something that he shouldn't have to do. He either says, "Yes!" and we move on to our next subject without shame or he begins to pour out the feelings that are blocking his ability to focus. After I hear that "it is too hard" or "this problem is taking too long" or "I don't want to do this" we can take some deep breaths, remember that the goal is not to get through the work but to learn and grow, and reorient ourselves back to the problem.
Every single time we have done either of these techniques, my son has been able to do the remaining work without dawdling. Most importantly, I feel like he is learning more valuable lessons about life and work and obedience, as well as developing his habit of attention.
As parents, it is tempting to become attached to our children finishing an amount of work per day, per month, or per year. But do we really want to teach our children that quantity trumps quality or that chugging through huge swaths of content equals knowledge?
I could go on and on about the benefits of short lessons. Probably the biggest single reason I began following the Charlotte Mason method was that I became convinced that short lessons are the key to an excellent education. For 2 years, I had observed the benefits of (ever so) slowly reading living books at our morning time, as opposed to gulping them down in huge portions. In small bites, my children were endlessly attentive and inquisitive and if I switched between different subjects, their attention span would be incredibly long for their young ages of then 4 and 6.
I had also observed that my boys improved skills faster when they were given downtime before moving on to new content. This is why I would only let them do (for fun) 3 Kumon workbook pages a day or 2 chapters of Life of Fred even though there were many days they wanted to do more.
By being committed to short lessons following a fairly strict schedule, even the most difficult lesson seems doable for my 2nd-grader and I hope that my rising 1st-grader will find it the same. And I wonder if short lessons are possible if a schedule is not followed since a student might be free to "moon" over a single problem or page for as long as they were not discovered.
If I have chosen to include a certain subject in my children's curriculum, I believe it is important. However, it is hard to break cultural ideas that math and history are more important than art, at least for me. A schedule holds both me and the child accountable for doing both the subjects that come easily or seem "more important" and the subjects that are more challenging for both of us or seem like "electives."
The question is not,––how much does the youth know? when he has finished his education––but how much does he care? and about how many orders of things does he care? In fact, how large is the room in which he finds his feet set? and, therefore, how full is the life he has before him? I know you may bring a horse to the water, but you cannot make him drink. What I complain of is that we do not bring our horse to the water. School Education, vol 3 pg 170-171.
If I consistently do not bring my charges to the vital waters of art and geography and singing, I fear I am sending the message that these things are not worth caring about.
Right now, my hardest subjects to want to do are singing and drawing. Because these lessons are scheduled and short, I can see them within the context of the whole education. They offer a meaningful break from more academic work. They show my children that I value beauty, personal development, and different aptitudes, not just facts and mainstream skills subjects.
I take my vocation as a homemaker and a homeschooling mother very seriously. As a consequence, I see myself owing duties to my husband, each of my children, as well as my community.
Fulfilling some duties compels me to continue to develop myself as a homeschool educator, friend, and wife. Fulfilling other duties means cooking, cleaning, and bill-paying. Obviously, I devote serious effort to planning and carrying out consistent homeschooling. But still, I need time and energy to devote to other people and other activities on a daily basis.
After homeschooling lessons are done, my children are free to play and I am free to devote myself to other work. This work includes spending more time with my children! But it also includes preparing for my Charlotte Mason reading group, chatting with a friend, or taking a rest if needed, as well as cooking and cleaning.
I don't have to nag my children to complete school work and instead can use that energy to nag my children to do their chores. Just kidding! They still need to be reminded to get other things accomplished, but there is plenty of time for playing and work in their schedule.
But what about rabbit trails, spontaneity, time management skills, compartmentalizing learning?
There are a lot of myths and misconceptions about strict schedules. As I was articulating the benefits we've discovered from following a schedule, it led me to think about all the reasons why I thought I'd never do a schedule like this! Many of those reasons were related to common myths about strict schedules I had learned from those who follow a less-structured style of homeschooling.
Next up, I'll be discussing those myths and how they do not apply to the way I implement a schedule in our homeschool. See my post on 6 Myths About Strict Homeschool Schedules here.
In conclusion, I love our "strict" schedule and it works for us!
But I never for one minute think it is the only way to achieve the same benefits or results. And I don't for one second think it is the best way or only way to homeschool successfully.
I want to offer our example for those interested in giving a more rigid schedule a try or those troubleshooting their current system of scheduling homeschooling into a busy day.
Curious about what this looks like in practice? Here is a bit about our strict homeschool schedule right now.
Does a schedule of subjects or timetable work for you in this season of homeschooling? Why or why not?


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Trego commission hears about wind
Hays Daily News - Kaley Lyon - June 10, 2008
General Kansas
Wind farm talk was blowing from a new direction Monday morning as Trego County Commissioners heard from Iberdrola Project Manager Krista Gordon. Gordon attended the weekly meeting to discuss plans for the tentatively dubbed Saline Wind Project, which the company hopes to develop north of Ellis in Ellis and Trego counties. A second project, the Chetolah Crossing Wind Project, planned for southwestern Ellis County, southeastern Trego County and northwestern Rush County, also was discussed. "I just wanted to introduce myself to you and make sure your board is aware that we're working in Trego County," she said.
Wind farm talk was blowing from a new direction Monday morning as Trego County Commissioners heard from Iberdrola Project Manager Krista Gordon.
Gordon attended the weekly meeting to discuss plans for the tentatively dubbed Saline Wind Project, which the company hopes to develop north of Ellis in Ellis and Trego counties.
A second project, the Chetolah Crossing Wind Project, planned for southwestern Ellis County, southeastern Trego County and northwestern Rush County, also was discussed.
"I just wanted to introduce myself to you and make sure your board is aware that we're working in Trego County," she said.
Commissioners voiced enthusiasm for the proposed projects.
"It sounds great to me," commissioner Dean L. Papes said.
Gordon also requested permission for the company to install a 197-foot tall meteorological tower to collect wind data in the proposed project area. It's expected another tower could need to be constructed in the next few years, she said.
As with the two met towers installed southwest of Hays, this tower also will gauge solar data in case it also becomes a commercially viable entity, Gordon said.
One difference between the process in Ellis and Trego counties is Trego County has not... more [truncated due to possible copyright]
One difference between the process in Ellis and Trego counties is Trego County has not implemented countywide zoning. There is, however, a 3-mile radius zoned around the city of WaKeeney.
While some turbine placement has begun for this area, and plans are moving forward, Gordon estimated it could take three to five years for these projects to become a reality.
That is partly because progress on a proposed transmission infrastructure expansion, which would run from Spearville to the Hays area and north to Nebraska, is pending, she said.
If approved, the line would add to the capacity of the Southwest Power Pool and expand the energy production export capacity in the area, Gordon said.
If this additional line does not go through, the wind energy potential in the area would be diminished.
Gordon, however, said she has high hopes such a transmission system will be implemented, as several proposals for such an expansion have been made.
"I think this proposal is critical to getting these two projects up," she said. "It sounds like a go."
No matter the fate of the much-contested Hays wind project, these two projects still will be pursued, and all three are independent of each other, Gordon said.
At this point, both projects are considered at 200 megawatts of production, the same as the first Ellis County proposal. The figure is tentative, however, and plans for both projects are in the early stages.
Data must be collected before the plans can be finalized, she said this morning.
"I think it's important for people to understand these projects don't always come to fruition," Gordon said this morning. "I have very high hopes for both of them, but sometimes after we measure wind resource and conduct environmental studies, something comes up that precludes further development.
"They're not built until they're built."
Source: http://www.hdnews.net/Story...
http://www.windaction.org/posts/15439-trego-commission-hears-about-wind


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Something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue! Here are my wedding nails!!! Using all @gelish_official gel polishes and some random acrylics!! Thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate with us!!
thank you so much! it was such a magical day!!