The Nest Is EMPTY

Its hard to believe, less than 3 weeks from pretty blue eggs, to ugly hatchlings, then adorable chicks, now young birds....

Robins Growing fast from john on Vimeo.

VIMEO not Youtube.... youtube has a 10 minute limit, and I was too crushed to cut anything out of the little story.

IF IT WONT PLAY: http://vimeo.com/5734056

Watch a little..... the grown baby, after its first flight into a shrub (about 8 feet from the empty nest).....

(Google owns youtube. so vimeo is a competitor . . . not that I think evil of google, but sometimes it prefers 'its own' family members....)

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Robins growing up fast

I added the CHIRPING from a bird related net page.....

I ADDED THE CHIRPING, youtube sent me a nasty note when I stuck in The Summer Breeze . . . a very nice song....

have been eating and growing up fast. Watch their beaks get pointier, the feathers thicker, their wings flap.

the chirps are robins, but from a robin tribue page.....

WATCH FOR THE SURPRISE HUMMING BIRD!!

next: they fly away

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picture in picture video experiment.......

. . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . .make it full screen, right by the sound icon

an experiment with picture in picture gone amuck, note the main picture, at an angle giving it a more real look (?), the the amuck: 4 in little monitors behind it..... a mix of toys..... now where can I put the baby birds? the PC is on desk in the the library . . . .

The baby birds are growing fast!

the eggs have hatched!

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Yesterday we saw the robin chicks for the first time....

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its going to be one rocking robin!

Best bait for your Zombies trapping (according to Pride & Prejudice & Zombies)

from PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES.
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Pride & Prejudice and Zombies, from an Austen purist

http://jbeckhamlat.blogspot.com/2009/06/pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies.html is below,

NOW:
an interesting stat:

After all, Seth allowed Jane Austen to do the bulk of the writing (85% of the text is hers) and she had already plotted the basic outline of the book.

http://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/2009/04/04/pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies-a-review-of-a-high-concept-parody/


Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Review of a High Concept Parody
April 4, 2009 by Vic

I read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and it made me chuckle, but purists will vomit from the moment they read the opening line: “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains will be in want of more brains.” If ever a classic was treated with tongue in cheek irreverence, author Seth Grahame-Smith managed to do it. Oh, I imagine that the coldly calculated jingle of cash was also a great motivator. After all, Seth allowed Jane Austen to do the bulk of the writing (85% of the text is hers) and she had already plotted the basic outline of the book. To give him his due, he’s given her half the credit, although he and his publisher will be raking in all the profits of this high concept book.

So what’s all the fuss about and why are film studios fighting over film rights to this story? Well, long ago in the island of Britain a zombie plague threatened its inhabitants. Thankfully, zombies are slow moving, dead, and stupid, else they would have overwhelmed the English population, decimating the land. The longer zombies have been dead, the less recognizable as humans they become, having lost eyes and limbs and patches of skin, and wearing clothes that are rotten and in tatters. Some zombies are so gross in both looks and eating habits that they cause the observer to vomit, The merest scratch from a zombie will turn a human into one, as poor Charlotte Collins discovers. A comic character rather than a tragic one, her tongue and mouth degenerate early on, causing Charlotte to lisp and talk like, well, a zombie. The thing is, nobody but Elizabeth notices. Hah! In the land of the dead and stupid, even the living are stupid. This plague has been threatening England for at least a generation, but people are still dumb enough to sit near windows at Assembly Balls where zombies can get at them and scoop out their brains, or open doors and windows in steamy kitchens, as the cooks did at Netherfield Park, so that those who were making dinner BECAME dinner.

Kagan Yale Lectures Ancient Greece

http://oyc.yale.edu/classics/introduction-to-ancient-greek-history/content/downloads.html

CLCV 205: Introduction to Ancient Greek History (Fall, 2007)
Syllabus

Professor: Donald Kagan, Sterling Professor of Classics and History, Yale University

Description: This is an introductory course in Greek history tracing the development of Greek civilization as manifested in political, intellectual, and creative achievements from the Bronze Age to the end of the classical period. Students read original sources in translation as well as the works of modern scholars.


Texts:

Pomeroy, Burstein, Donlan and Roberts. Ancient Greece. Oxford University Press: New York, 1999.

Kagan, Donald. "Problems in Ancient History." In The Ancient Near East and Greece. 2nd ed., vol. 1. Prentice-Hall: New York, 1975.

Herodotus, The Histories.
Plutarch, The Rise and Fall of the Athens.
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War.

Requirements:
Students will have an opportunity to choose one of two programs for completing their work in the course:

Plan A
Students electing Plan A will take an in-class midterm and final examination. The midterm will cover all assigned readings to that date. Students in this program will also submit a paper on Herodotus, not to exceed 1500 words. The topic for the paper will be announced in class.

Plan B
Students electing Plan B will take an in-class midterm and final examination and will enroll in discussion sections which meet once a week for fifty minutes. These sections will offer the students an opportunity to discuss in detail issues raised in the course. Students in Plan B are encouraged to propose topics for discussion to the teaching fellow who will lead the discussions. Students following Plan B will submit a paper, not more than 1500 words long, on a topic of their own choosing, subject to the approval of the section leader.

Students in Plan B are required to attend their section meetings regularly and to come prepared to discuss the topic announced the week before by the section leader. Classroom participation will be one factor in determining grades.

Grading:
The grades for students electing Plan A will be determined by computing the average grade on the paper, the midterm examination and the final examination; all three will count equally.
Grades for students electing Plan B will be determined by weighing the midterm, final and paper grades at 30% each and performance in section at 10%

Akron, that hotbed of culture, CLETUS is in the building

where there was an acrimonious campaing to SAVE THE SEWERS last fall, now has entertainment to equal:


For your Patriot Day Celebration, after the SPAM, consider:

The festival will be open with free admission July 2-3 from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Musical entertainment at Lock 3 Park July 2 will begin at 7 p.m. with Cletus Black, followed by The Machine, America’s Premier Pink Floyd Experience. On July 3, The Juke Hounds and Satisfaction, a Rolling Stones Experience, will
perform, beginning at 7 p.m.

( http://www.akron.com/akron-ohio-entertainment-news.asp?aID=5834 )

for a True ROLLING STONES EXPERIENCE byob no doubt! for the PINK FLOYD experience, well, bring 3.

Happy Holidays!