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Music Educator Concert Tickets
School music educators are eligible for up to two Barnett & Company Masterworks concert tickets at $15 each. Please mention this discount and be prepared to provide further information to verify music educator status. Discounted tickets are subject to availability and do not apply to loge/box seats.
Elementary Teachers
Music Teacher Professional Learning Community
Join elementary teachers around the area throughout the year to meet, eat, and exchange best teaching practices. Free to all teachers; Non-music teachers are welcome to attend!
Using Google Drive in the Music Classroom
Tuesday, September 12, 2017 • 4:30pm to 6:00pm • Tivoli Center (CSO Offices)
*Due to Hamilton County School closures, Using Google Drive in the Music Classroom has been cancelled.
Unpacking the New Tennessee Music Standards
Monday, November 13, 2017 • 4:30pm to 6:00pm • Tivoli Theatre Dance Studio
*Teachers invited to take dinner break, then return for CSO's 7:30 rehearsal of Stravinky's Petrushka
Using Google Drive in the Music Classroom (rescheduled for this date)
January 31, 2018 • 4:30pm to 6:00pm • Tivoli Center (CSO Offices)
Being Your Program's Best Advocate
March 1, 2018 • 4:30pm to 6:00pm • Tivoli Theatre Dance Studio
*Teachers invited to take dinner break, then return for CSO's Music Education Night at the Sibeluis Symphony No. 5 concert (ticket purchase required)
Music Educator Concert Night
Join the CSO for a celebration of music educators and music education on March 1, 2018's Sibelius Symphony No. 5 concert. Teachers are invited to attend the VIP Lounge as celebrated guests of the CSO during intermission for free hors d'oeuvres and wine. Please mention the music educator discount when purchasing your ticket to ensure your RSVP.
Ensembles in School Reservation
Young People's Concerts
Compose Yourself!
Wednesday, February 7, 2018 at 10:00am
Wednesday, February 7, 2018 at 12:00pm
Thursday, February 8, 2018 at 10:00am
Tivoli Theatre
Friday, February 9, 2018 at 10:00am
Friday, February 9, 2018 at 12:00pm
North Cleveland Church of God
Please email Staci Spring with your chosen concert date and time and number of students/teachers attending.
Download Compose Yourself! Teacher's Guide (PDF)
Youtube performance by Racine Symphony:
Instrument Trunk Show
To check-out an instrument, please download and fill out the form below. Instrument scheduling is subject to availability.
Instrument Check-Out Sheet
Available instruments:
- Violin
- Viola
- Cello
- Double Bass
- Flute
- Clarinet
- Bassoon
- Trumpet
- Trombone
- French Horn
- Saxophone
- Snare Drum
- Tambourine and other various percussion instruments
For more information, contact Staci Spring at firstname.lastname@example.com or at 423.267.8583 x 2100.
Teachers guides
Teachers guides for past Young People's Concerts, Opera performances, and other CSO performances are available for teachers to download, copy, and use. Please give credit to the CSO Education Department when appropriate.
Beethoven Symphony No. 5
The Planets
American Variations
American Rhapsody
Peter & the Wolf
Peter & the Wolf Coloring Book
Musical Mystery
Symphonic Voyagers
All Aboard: Coast to Coast
Peter & The Wolf
Middle/High School Teachers
Leading from the Podium: The Art of Conducting in the Classroom
Friday, February 9 & Saturday, February 10, 2018 • UTC Fine Arts Center • $120 for participants, $50 for auditors
Geared toward middle and high school conductors, the Chattanooga Symphony & Opera will offer a unique workshop and provide a limited number of participants conducting opportunities with the Chattanooga Symphony & Opera. This intensive program will include coaching and pertinent profession related presentations of score study, rehearsal techniques, developing student leadership and more with CSO Music Director Kayoko Dan and University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Director of Bands Craig Davis.
The repertoire for the workshop will include Gounod's Petite Symphonie, Mozart's Symphony No. 40, and Grieg's Holberg Suite.
Up to nine active participants will be accepted. Applications are due January 2, 2018. Please fill out the form below or download a copy of the form by clicking here to mail to the CSO office.
Instrument Drive
The Chattanooga Symphony & Opera understands that there is a lack of quality musical instruments for instruction in many of our schools. To help address this need, the CSO will conduct an instrument drive for new and used instruments and monetary donations. If you have a need for musical instruments for your school or program, please fill out the form below. We'll do our best to help!
In March 2018, the CSO will join with local educators and organizations to celebrate music in Chattanooga schools.
Read Across America Day
As a part of MIOSM, the CSO will celebrate music through story. CSO volunteers will read Lesléa Newman's s Ketzel: the Cat Who Composed and present the book to the music teacher or school library. This story is a great follow-up to the February Young People's Concerts Compose Yourself showing anyone can be a composer!
To sign-up for a time, fill out the form below.
Visit the CSO's Music in Our Schools Month website to learn more about the book and author!
Moment for Music
Celebrate Music in your school every day with Moment for Music. Developed by the CSO and tested by several Hamilton County music teachers last year, this includes musical samples curated for each school day and a corresponding book of information and other activities. Share these musical moments over your school's PA system during announcements, at a morning assembly, or to kick off each music class for a short, fun way to put Music in Your School.
View the online guide here, or download the PDF. Email email@example.com for more information or to request a hard copy.
Music Educator Celebration Concert Night
Thursday, March 1, 2018 • 7:30pm • Tivoli Theatre
Join the CSO for a celebration of music educators and music education on our Sibelius Symphony No. 5 concert. Teachers are invited to attend the VIP Lounge as celebrated guests of the CSO during intermission for free hors d'oeuvres and wine. Please mention the music educator discount when purchasing your ticket to ensure your RSVP.
Music in Our Schools Month Website
The CSO's Music in Our Schools Month website has a variety of resources that teachers and the general public can utilize, including materials to share their support with elected officials who make important decisions every year regarding music and arts in the schools.
Music Teachers – shine a spotlight on your music program or exceptional students at the MIOSM website. Email a short paragraph and any relevant pictures to Staci Spring to be included on the website.


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Prof. Neng-Chung Hu of Intelligent Building Research Center presented his innovation to the guests from Ruentex Group, which the variable daylight illuminant simulates the sunshine spectrum through the day, from dawn through noon until dusk, while bathroom lighting provides less glare and dark-adaptation time for the elderly going in and out of the bathroom during the night.
Yeng-Horng Perng, Vice Present of Taiwan Tech, showed the model of Taiwan Building Technology Center to the guests from Ruentex Group.

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When I think of mead, I think of vikings. Many other people drank mead. There are accounts of mead from 4000 BC, Romans and Egyptians all had a taste. We've been having some fun brewing up English Ale, Plum wine and most recently mead or a honey wine.
Mead is very easy to make. It doesn't take long to put the ingredients together but it does take a while to ferment once it's bottled. We haven't even tried it yet because it takes 6 months to ferment in the bottles but I'm excited to sample the brew.
What you'll need:
- 4 ½ pounds of honey
- Juice of 2 lemons
- Juice of 2 oranges
- 1 heaping tsp yeast
- Large pot
- Demijohn
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Are you a Light Empath or a Dark Empath?
Hi All,
From my brief reading and understanding of light and dark empaths, it appears dark empaths are able to lift the lid or veil on the dark forces at work in this world. They do not take things at face value and can see and feel deceit and underhandedness. The light empaths are usually overly optimistic and take things at face value. We certainly need both the light and dark empaths to see the truth and to lighten up and make peace with the dualities in this world


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Consumer Reviews of PEERLESS boilers
Popularity:#58 of 69 brands of boilers
21% of customers recommend
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Date created: 2017-03-03 Name: J. Mullen
Location: Bellmore, NY
Satisfaction Rating:
"Unhappy Customer"
I would not recommend this boiler to anyone; horrible; mislead by our oil company. Thought we would get a nice modern looking, quieter, easier to operate boiler. Not the case. It looks barbaric, is noisy and requires constant emptying due to "pickling". So unhappy with it. Sorry we ever bought it. Also warranty is not transferable to new owner if we sell the house. Hate it.
Date created: 2017-01-22 Name: Elizabeth kelly
Location: Westchester, PA
Satisfaction Rating:
"Many days without heat & had to replace after only 6 years"
This Peerless Pinnacle boiler cost us thousands of dollars before we gave up and replaced it. The warranty was never honored and the heater was only 6 years old! We spent many nights trying to keep our house from having frozen pipes as well as our personal discomfort (a very cold 2016 Christmas week) UPDATE: 2017-02-11 Our 6 year old unit ended up costing us over $9000 with the removal, replacement, adjustments, new oil tank, and time off work. Never, never, buy a Peerless Pinnacle anything.
Date created: 2016-10-14 Name: Jeff convoy
Location: Parsippany, NJ
Satisfaction Rating:
"Peerless: Wake up cold"
High efficiency and lower consumption translates into "you can't be charged for gas if your boiler doesn't work". Whatever I would have picked up in efficiency, I've paid out in repairs as I have changed out almost every part of the boiler and the system still fails to work. I wake every morning to a cold house because the igniter won't fire correctly and god forbid you contact Peerless, they literally hang up on you.
Date created: 2016-02-16 Name: Bill Rhoads
Location: Pennsylvania
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I have worked on HVAC for 30 years. I have never had to replace a flame sensor! They usually foul out because they get dirty. If you clean them with steel wool or grit cloth, they should be fine. Make sure that the boiler slopes to the back. It is in the manual ! If it does not slope, the condensate will not drain and foul out the sensor! As for the flow sensor, they do go bad. Also the blower (Version 1) does go bad. I have no knowledge of a pressure sensor. Make sure that the vent pipes are installed correctly. Also, make sure that the unit has been combustion analyzed. This is also very important!
Date created: 2015-12-21 Name: Armen
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I've had this piece of junk for 11 years and pretty much every year I had to replace some part on it. It finally crapped out completely. My last boiler lasted 25 years. Do not get this brand unless you want to spend a ton of money on maintenance costs every year.
Date created: 2015-12-04 Location: Chicago, IL
Satisfaction Rating:
"A review of the Peerless MI85 Boiler"
I've owned my Peerless MI85-04 boiler for two years. It is a decent boiler that is made somewhat more cheaply than my previous boiler, but is more energy efficient at the same time. It easily produces enough heat for the entire home. There are no constantly burning pilot lights like the last one had. Also, there is a periodic check of the heat and water levels that is performed automatically. This is done to check that the boiler is running properly. At the same time, it makes it more complicated and produces a tendency for certain parts to malfunction. A slight amount of rust is already forming on some of the burner tubes. A better quality of metal should have been used. These are the only drawbacks. It hasn't had to be repaired since. I probably would not recommend this brand to anyone or buy it again until I looked at other boiler options from different companies.
Date created: 2015-11-04 Name: ed lanza
Location: Magnolia, NJ
Satisfaction Rating:
"Don't buy"
We purchased a new gas steam boiler to replace our older oil furnace just over a year ago and I am beginning to think we made a big mistake. We spent over $11,000 and after just 1 heating season the boiler is malfunctioning. It is no longer under warranty and it is going to cost over $600 to replace a control module and another part which is obviously defective. I sent emails to Peerless and they reply that it's no longer under warranty.The dealer we purchased it from has already charged us a $300 service call to diagnose the problem, which totals $900 to fix a heater that is 13 months old. Don't buy a Peerless!
Date created: 2015-09-16 Name: danpiunno
Location: Ohio
Satisfaction Rating:
"Great unit...period"
Self installed. Very quiet, cast iron, it is excellent quality. Saves money on gas and heats my home like a dream. Have had it for 12 years and never a problem except one time the rheostat failed. Oh well, an $8 part and 5 minutes later the heat was back on. I own 3 of these units; one in the barn, one in the house and one at work. All running perfect.
Date created: 2015-03-27 Location: Red Hook, NY
Satisfaction Rating:
"I Love my Peerless Furnace"
I have owned my furnace for three years and have no complaints about it. After installing it, I immediately noticed a savings on my heating bill. The furnace uses significantly less oil then my previous unit. My peerless furnace easily connected to a Beckett Heat Manager which lowered my heating bill even more. Before purchasing my furnace, I knew that Peerless was one of the best brans in the United States and my furnace has lived up to the Peerless reputation. I have not had any problems with my furnace and can not think of anything that I dislike about this furnace. Over the last three years, I have had no break downs, I have not needed to replace any parts except for normal maintenance and it has not required any service beyond normal maintenance. I would absolutely recommend a Peerless brand furnace to my friends, family, or anyone else looking to purchase a new furnace.
Date created: 2015-03-09 Location: Easthampton, MA
Satisfaction Rating:
"Peerless has no Peer!"
Our boiler is from the 1980's and came with the house, but we are quite happy with it! It runs beautifully despite being very old. We get it cleaned and checked yearly and that seems to be all of the upkeep it needs to keep on chugging. It does its job well and keeps our house and water warm when we need it to. The only downside is that it is not nearly as efficient as a new boiler would be (as we've been told many times by our oil company). We realize this and would love to save the money over time that a new boiler would provide; however, we do not currently have the disposable income to spend a ton of money on a new boiler, so we are very happy that this one keeps on ticking! My Dad always said that they don't make them like they used to and that is totally apparent with this boiler!
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Wowie what a weekend! Once again, social media has taken centre stage enabling action and results on issues that in less enlightened times may have never have come to the attention of many and may have remained unresolved. More..
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Mindfulness for Job Seekers
Science , Industry and Business Library | 188 Madison Ave. New York, NY 10016
Presented by Laura Jackson
Presented by Laura Jackson
This is a free event Seating is on a first come, first seated basis
Learn mindfulness techniques that bring relaxation and effortless focus to challenging situations and relationships. Mindfulness is the practice of bringing full, non-judgmental awareness to the present moment. The struggle of searching for a job can be overwhelming at times. See if the practice of mindfulness meditation and some easy to use on-the-spot techniques can help you during these challenging times. Instructor Laura Jackson has been practicing Zen meditation for 12 years and is a UCLA-trained mindfulness facilitator.?
Participants are encouraged to attend all sessions for full benefit, but can attend individual sessions in the series as well: May 24 & 31, June 7, 14, 21, & 28 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
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Summo Corp. Completes Sale to The voestalpine GroupJuly 2016
Summo Corp. completed the sale of its tubular steel manufacturing and distribution division to the voestalpine Group, a global technology and capital goods group listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange consisting of more than 500 companies and locations in more than 50 countries. In connection with the sale, Summo Corp. also sold its tube honing and finishing division to Cardon Rehabilitation and Medical Equipment Limited.
Wildeboer Dellelce LLP acted for Summo Corp. with a team that included Troy Pocaluyko, Nick Gray, Joel Fraser (corporate/securities), John O'Connor (tax) and Jonathon Born (real estate).
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Jared + Alise baby Reveal
Oh how days like these make my heart happy!! Days on the farm, yes. Days celebrating new life, a thousand times yes!! I have been so blessed to document some big moments in this beautiful couples life, and I was beyond honored to get to capture some baby reveal images for them. Celebrating the joy, and gift this new little one will be to Jared and Alise.
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EVENT DATE: Jun 01, 2015
I really want to go to Argentiana to grow as a person and experance new things I would like to exprience that may change my life in a better way. Let me give you a little more background about myself rather before I go on.
Here is a essay to explain some of my life to help you get a better understanding of who I am and still tying to become.......
I hated myself when I realized I had nothing. They say opportunity is the key to success; unfortunately my mother never handed me down any keys because she did not have any resources. Most of the time, my heart would hurt and I would forget about working and why I should have a passion to reach my highest expectations. Finding my own identity and obtaining self-respect was hard and is still hard for me today. I had to experience many difficulties in order to acquire motivation and desire. Throughout life, I have faced many hardships but have found hard work and determination to be the keys to success.I hope now that you have a sense of some my expriences an trails I still face today. I thing expriencing this trip and many others will help me find out what I want to be in the futre. Right now I'm leaning more toward social work beucase I love helping people. I hope to exprience many mission trips to better help my understanding with a variety of people ranther then just the american culture. I hope you can better understand me need and dontate.
I was born in poverty and changed my life by the choices I made, but I still have not completely gotten out of poverty. However, I believe I eventually can by working hard. When I don't work hard, I can't reach my potential and cannot succeed. This was the only reason I didn't end my life by the bullet and eventually found happiness in my self growth as a person. I had to teach myself to read, rather than someone teaching me. I had to find out what school I wanted to go to, and I had to find help through others to get the good grades I wanted. Deciding how to encourage myself to work hard gave me value. This made me gather my life together and overcome trials, while striving for potential. From a young age, I was deprived of the chance to learn how to read, this would haunt me even through school.
I remember the first time our teacher made us read out loud during class. From kindergarten all the way up to third grade, I never read any books because I was never really motivated to learn. I would act like I was reading, but really, I was looking at the pictures. One day, however, my third grade teacher called on me to read, but I wasn't paying attention and didn't know what page we were on. "Kelly," she repeated, and I asked what page we were on. When she repeated what page we were on, I just stood there, shocked. Looking side to side at the sentence in the book, I started to hesitate through it. My first sentence came out muddled and choppy. The tears rolled down my face while the teacher tried to comfort me once she noticed that I couldn't read. There was an awkward silence as the students looked at me. I could not read, and every one of my classmates knew it. That was third grade the day I broke down in tears because I didn't know how to read and I was not comfortable learning how. Because of this incident, I was placed in handicap classes. Handicap classes were classes designed for students with mental disabilities in order to teach basic reading skills as well as council students to be happy. It got annoying to get taken out of class ever time the class transitioned to English and Math to go to these classes. I felt shamed every time the teacher told me to go to the handicap classes. To my ten-year-old mind, it felt unfair and unnecessary for me to keep going to those classes, because I knew I was smart, the teachers just didn't realize it. Even though I eventually did learn how to read, this obstacle was only the first of many challenges to overcome.
I remember my first IQ test: it said that I was reading at a fourth grade reading level while I was in the eighth grade. I was ashamed; I didn't know I was so illiterate. I never thought I could really get over an F- in classes or ever escape the special resource classes. All those times I cheated on people's assignments and tried not to feel like I was a poor and uneducated student led me to the inevitable: I still failed as a student. However, this was the point that I decided I would start doing things to change my situation. I would stay behind after class and work on homework and study for classes long after the other students had gone. One teacher started to notice my effort to stay behind and learn more. Every single night, he offered to give lessons that I would take advantage of. I really wanted to stay after class to get good grades in my math and reading assignments. I felt like some teachers were truly just staying after to help me learn. Rather than focusing on my letter grades, they taught me that living life is more important. I tried hard, but even after giving my best, I still felt insufficient. This feeling would end up haunting me even in high school.
I didn't know if I was going to go to high school or college because that was where my family members discontinued their educations due to poverty. However, I made it to high school, passing the point where most of family stopped. Yet, I never had the good grades to want to stay in high school. When I started getting bad grades, I felt the same hopelessness from before. Again, I felt the need to improve my situation or at least escape the feeling of hopelessness. I wanted purpose, so I worked hard in order to get better grades. Through my hard work and stubbornness to overcome the many obstacles, I was ultimately rewarded when I found myself walking down the aisle to receive my diploma. Still, this was not an easy task.
I went to a school called Rio Lindo Adventist Academy. It was a huge high school and it had a college life vibe to it. It really made me realize that a really nice school campus can exist. My trials on the campus brought back old struggles. I was still a child who didn't know how to actually read and I stood out compared to the many students who could. I felt the difference between the privileged people around me and myself. It was even apparent in the dorms: everyone else had refrigerators, guitars, couches, shelves of food, and nice apple laptops. Comparing myself to them, it felt like I was the equivalent of a beggar. However, people noticed my lack of luxuries, and would often invite me to share food and let me use their computers. This kindness gave me hope and led me to believe that I could work hard and eventually make it out of poverty. Yet, one challenge in particular arose that almost demolished this dream: the SAT.
Despite my low writing and reading level, I still received an opportunity to write an essay to go to Georgetown University to study for the SAT and ACT. By a miracle, I was received to the program and got the chance to study with the cream of the crop students from all around the world. Yet despite my usual efforts, I struggled at Georgetown. I didn't know what I was really getting myself into, and when classes started, I suddenly felt the stress. I was not able to keep up with the reading and writing assignments. I was tasked with memorizing almost 40 SAT words daily and had a rough time. All of my Georgetown teachers did their best to encourage me to keep studying. I even asked the RAs to help me with my essays I had to write. One of the things I struggled with the most, however, was the SAT math because it was more difficult than any math that I had ever seen. However, I left Georgetown stuffed with knowledge, but still didn't perform as well as I thought I would. I ended up getting a 1400 on my SAT compared to my friends who were also at Georgetown that got 1700 or above. I was immensely discouraged when I compared myself to them, but was also disappointed at the fact that I didn't take full advantage of my experience there. I wasted the expenses and did not achieve my potential to get in a huge university. Still, I did not give up complete hope and, against all expectations from family members, I made it to college.
I came to PUC with an undeclared major this year, the fall of 2012. Coming up early, I found a job at the custodial department and started working until PUC opened. During this time, I was reminded of my lack of learning and wanted to make it better. When school started, I started making choices to improve my situation. Still, I did not start well in PUC like most classmates who got nothing but A's. I found that I had too much reading, just like at Georgetown, in my first week of classes. Everyone I knew was reading like it was so easy, and most read the assignments a week ahead of time. Before I started to fail in classes and experience depression like at Georgetown, help came quickly. The Teaching Learning Center found me and helped me with my linguistic poverty and issues. I went to receive counseling and get tested for ADHD, and kept going to them for help with classes. They went out of their way to help me keep up in classes and gave me tutors and a study coach to help me stay on track.
Although I am still struggling, it doesn't mean that I can't reach my highest potential, get good grades, or even succeed in life. Overcoming my challenges that I faced in the third grade, to studying after school in middle school, to studying for the SAT at Georgetown, to even writing papers for college English classes, I have found that hard work and diligence is the only way to overcome hardships. As long as I work hard and keep up my motivation, I will eventually become successful and will be able to drive myself out of poverty. This, coupled with the support of middle school teachers to my Georgetown teachers to even TLC workers, I have been able to make it this far and, with continued support, I will be able to eventually graduate college and find my place in life.
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My reckless adoption of a foreign culture caused me to abandon everything I knew to be true about how young girls and women should be treated and it began with a question many teenagers ask themselves, that is "Where do I belong?"
Upon reflection, when we stop long enough to see how the world really works, the answer seems obvious. Be quiet and still for the answer is breathed.
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I see it as part of my job to empower you to make a difference. The more you understand what is going on at the legislature, the more you can communicate to others about what needs to be changed.
So, here is my first series of posts on the state budget. Our brilliant Democratic staff at the State House presented on the budget last month and I realized how useful it could be if you could see these, too.
Check Facebook or Twitter daily as we post another in this 13-part series.
Slide 1 of 13. See how Arizona has more money for education than the GOP leaders pretended during session. For those of us on the inside, we could see that the GOP leadership was cynically trying to close down session before the revised revenue figures came in, which they knew would demonstrate that we were going to have more revenue. I made this prediction during session. They closed down session with a draconian budget and now here we are.
In Slide 2 of 13 you can see that revenues were stronger than predicted. Again, I doubt that they did not see this coming when we passed the state budget in April.
So, the question becomes, what can we do with these funds to make things a little easier on students and families. Also, it begs the question: do we need to raid our state trust lands to pay for something we can cover in more responsible ways?
I think the most interesting take-away in slide 3 of 13 is that there is about $250 million that is projected to be on-going revenue. In other words, our economy has recovered enough that we can count on this level of revenue for at least the next few years. Of course, if you lived through the Great Recession, you know that no revenue is for sure. But, if we know we have this for the next few years, does that change how we plan ahead?
Slide 4 of 13 shows you how the $497 million in cuts was distributed. In other words, who got hit the hardest. The unexpected new $325M in FY15, along with money from the Rainey Day Fund, could return most of this money back to students, schools and critical services. What do you think?
Slide 5 of 13 shows how spending has increased or decreased from FY08 to now. The graph shows how spending on correctional facilities has grown by 33% over 8 years, whereas spending on community colleges dropped 67% and school facilities boards lost 59% of their state funding.
Slide 6 of 13 explains how tax cuts mixed with spending cuts is not a new trend for the GOP. Taxes were cut by $3 Billion over 20 years and all we have received in return is less spending but more debt.
In Slide 7 of 13 it's clear that promises of tax cuts leading to more jobs is simply untrue. In July alone, Arizona's unemployment rate grew and the majority of those gaps in the job market come from local government education. In other words, the FY 16 tax cuts haven't lead to more jobs, they've just lead to less jobs in public education.
Slide 8 of 13 shows how AZ spends about $3,000 less on education than the national average. State funding for education has gone down 18% since 2007.
Slide 9 of 13 shows how state university enrollment has grown by 32,000 since 2006, yet funding has been consistently cut. To make up for gaps in funding, Universities are forced to raise tuition rates and put thousands of students deeper into debt.
When maintenance is put off on a property, what was a small problem usually turns into a big, expensive problem. Slide 10 of 13 shows how the GOP has put off $4.6 billion worth of repairs.
Slide 11 of 13 shows how state debt has grown from $4.98B in 2005 to $9.42B
Slide 12 of 13 shows how little Arizona pays in aid for children. We are the 9th lowest in Temporary assistance benefits. We are the 3rd lowest in the nation for preschool attendance. We don't even have a Child Health Insurance Program. Yet we still have a growing debt.
Slide 13 of 13 shows how budgets relate to average personal income, adjusted for inflation. If the FY16 budget reflected the average for the past 22 years, we should be spending about $2 Billion more on things like education, healthcare, and needy child support.


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By Leila Knetsch.
Variation in instructional strategies is important in the science classroom. As a kinaesthetic/visual learner myself, I have always appreciated the hands-on learning of laboratory work in the science classroom. However, there are other ways to have hands-on learning and one of them is to use Veritech tiles. The picture below shows the set with an elementary workbook but you have to imagine a green tray with a clear lid. The students move the tiles off the green tray and bring them back into the tray as they match them. When they are done, they flip them over, and look at the pattern formed on the other side! It's quick and excellent feedback for them.
You simply create (or use the two samples below) a list of matching terms and descriptions and use the numbered tiles and tray to make a match. The beauty of it is that you can check your answers instantly because there are 64 different combinations of patterns (series of Vs, arrows, inverted triangles, etc.) that can be checked instantly! If you are an enterprising person, you could create different versions of the same thing and use it as a quiz where students actually hand in the tray of tiles and you could count the ones that they had wrong.
(Editor's Note: The author's first article on this topic was developed for grade 12 Biology. You may see that article at: http://stao.ca/res2/mags/2012-jun/11C_veritech_tiles.pdf ).
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Latitude: 54.9027 / 54°54'9"N
Longitude: -1.517 / 1°31'1"W
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OS Northings: 556548
OS Grid: NZ310565
Mapcode National: GBR KCVR.C9
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Entry Name: Gates and Gate Piers to West of Washington Old Hall
Listing Date: 15 July 1985
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1025423
English Heritage Legacy ID: 303232
Location: Sunderland, NE38
County: Sunderland
Electoral Ward/Division: Washington Central
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Alex Tanguay and Ryan O'Reilly scored 1:47 apart in the second period, Semyon Varlamov stopped 29 shots and the Colorado Avalanche held off the Calgary Flames 3-2 on Saturday night.
John Mitchell added another goal for the Avalanche, who went 2-1 on a three-game homestand to remain in the playoff chase. They have a few days off before embarking on a five-game trip.
Varlamov remains unbeaten in his last five starts. He made a crucial stop in the waning seconds to secure the win for Colorado.
David Jones and Lance Bouma scored for the Flames. Karri Ramo made 23 saves as he filled in for Jonas Hiller, who played the night before in a 6-3 win against Toronto. Calgary is 5-2-1 and holding onto a playoff spot after losing top defenseman Mark Giordano for the season because of a torn biceps tendon.


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Artist Helen Frankenthaler
During the bustle of the holidays, it's easy to lose track of important news events. The death of pioneering post-World War II artist, Helen Frankenthaler on December 27 may have been such an event, but her achievements deserve to be acknowledged.
Beginning in 1952 Frankenthaler took abstract art in a new direction by pouring thinned paint directly onto unprimed canvases. Applauded for its lyricism and luminous color, Frankenthaler's work not only gave rise to the Color Field movement, but also has remained vital throughout the years.
Frankenthaler was equally talented as a printmaker, and the Weatherspoon is privileged to own a 34-color Ukiyo-e style woodcut entitled Snow Pines, 2004. The art world definitely has lost a significant talent.
Image: Helen Frankenthaler, Snow Pines, 2004, 34-color Ukiyo-e style woodcut, Ed. 6 out of 65, 37 1/2 x 26 in. Museum purchase with funds from the Weatherspoon Art Museum Acquisition Endowment, the Louise D. and Herbert S. Falk Acquisition Endowment, the Lynn Richardson Prickett Acquisition Endowment, the Weatherspoon Guild Acquisition Endowment, and a bequest by Hubert Humphrey, 2011.
Read about this new WAM acquisition in our Winter newsletter on page 9 here.
Wikipedia article about Frankenthaler.
More photos of Helen and her work on the blog Habitually Chic.
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I am an environmental planner. My passion goes to create ecologically sound communities in both developed and developing countries. Through my hands on-experiences in the Himalayas, Southern Africa, South Asia, and North America, the necessity of cultivating healthy human-nature relationships as the foundation of sustainable and resilient communities, was indelibly impressed on me. As a Ph.D. student at University of British Columbia, Canada, I am working on developing sustainable solutions for societies that are forced to adapt to climate change through indigenous innovation. As a naturalist and an artist, I also try to integrate art into science. My photos and drawings highlight people's relationships to nature, and their lives within the natural environment. Discovering the relationships is my life's work to inspire how to create ecologically sound communities.
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A wonderful event for children of all ages: lift off into the magic of poetry with Perri the Poetry Fairy.
Susan Blair of Wenatchee believes in fairies. As a matter of fact, she is one. Wearing a turquoise blue glittery dress, with her dainty wings fluttering and her shiny wand, Susan and her kid friends read poetry aloud, then create more poetry together.
"I want them to feel the rhythm, the heartbeat of the poem. Poetry is like music, it has its own beat," says Susan, aka Perri the Poetry Fairy.
Author of the poetry collection What Remains of a Life, Blair will have her poetry activity books available for those who want to take poetry's magic home… and get their hands, wings, and hearts moving to poetry's music.


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I was incredibly disappointed to read your feature on Islam and ethical consumerism in EC 156. There is no place for religion and religious constraints in Ethical Consumer as the rules of religion often stop you thinking for yourself in an objective manner. For example, your article supports Halal food. Many of your readers will disagree with this as it still involves killing animals. There is much debate over the ethics of Halal and how much it actually reduces suffering of the animal in comparison to modern methods used. This decision must be made by an individual outside of the rules of religion in order to qualify for the title of being an "ethical consumer". I follow a faith system myself but I try and differentiate my decisions about my lifestyle choices so religion does not rule them without considered thought and justification. I urge EC to refrain from bringing in religion into their issues again as it decreases your credibility, especially when you show bias in only presenting a single viewpoint from a single belief system.
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Ed: Ethical Consumer's work has in the past frequently crossed over with that of (mainly Christian) faith groups on Fairtrade, arms manufacture and ethical investment particularly. Indeed, the next story but one to appear on our website after the Islam piece was on the subject of the Pope's June encyclical where he said "Purchasing is always a moral act" and backed consumer boycotts. Particularly in the current climate of Islamophobia in some parts of Europe, we felt that this article on Isam and Ethical Consumption offered an novel and measured reflection on the subject.
Amnesty unethical?
On a basic but undeniably accurate level, the commodification and subsequent purchase of a prostituted person introduces a consumer angle. Two photos of past conferences depict an Amnesty International presence. I write to ask if you are aware of the recent sex trade policy adopted by Amnesty, that concerns have been raised about the process of adoption and about how this policy impacts on the human rights of women and girls. I very much look forward to EC going large as it is sorely needed. But I am concerned that your reputation should not suffer at such a crucial time.
Brigitte Lechner, by email
To survive I know that your magazine needs to make money from inserts, but I was disappointed to see an Amnesty International leafltet fall out of the recent issue. In its bid to legalise the grotesque sex industry Amnesty cannot be considered an ethical organisation.
Laura Bird, by email
Ed: Amnesty's website states that their International Council Meeting in August 2015 passed a resolution recommending that they develop "a policy that supports the full decriminalization of all aspects of consensual sex work. The policy will also call on states to ensure that sex workers enjoy full and equal legal protection from exploitation, trafficking and violence." Although clearly controversial, the campaign has not yet been developed, and may yet fail to see the light of day. Their work generally is excellent.
The case of the missing biscuits
Good range of coverage in EC 156. I have to admit I was a little surprised that you didn't cover Border Biscuits in your report on same: they're small, but I understand a bestseller throughout the UK; the company looks as if it might be worth your consideration next time though I fully understand that you can't cover everyone of course.
Conrad Hughes, by email
Coffee pod reuse
I am a regular reader of your magazine and recently saw a letter from Chris Rogers (EC155) regarding deciding which pods to use with a Nespresso machine that he was given as a gift.
Having been in the same position I wanted to offer another option that I discovered when I researching the same issue: refillable pods. I used a coffee duck with my older Senseo machine and for the Nespresso discovered 'BigSis' refillable pods. They are plastic pods with aluminium stick-on lids that you peel off in one after use. I find them easy to clean – the coffee comes out with a little tap. I like this solution because it allows me to vary the coffee that I put in them giving me more choice of fairtrade coffee to use and also reduces the waste. I would find it useful if you could review the different refillable pods on offers and the companies that supply them as although I think the products are more sustainable than single use pods I don't know much about the companies' backgrounds.
Cheryl Anderson, by email
Ed: A timely letter. See page 14 in this issue!
Where are my pants?
I'm writing, because I have good reason to believe that Pants to Poverty may have gone out of business. In brief, (excuse the pun), I placed an order over 2 weeks ago, which has not arrived, and they have failed to reply to three emails, and their phone number is 'unrecognised'. A web search revealed Facebook postings from several other customers who have had the same experience, going back to the end of June. Are you able to shed any light on what has become of this company which you currently giving a top ethical rating?
Guy Johnson, by email
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I have absolutely no excuse but by way of an explanation:
I now have enough money to send you your pants and to all those that have been waiting.
Ethical Fasion?
I read with some amusement the piece on "Ethical fashion discussions" (EC156), since the basic premise of the fashion industry is to encourage people to discard perfectly good clothing and buy something which is simply different. How unethical can you get?
Mike Fowler, by email
Boycotting militaristic language
I've been boycotting Amazon and Starbucks for more than two years now. I've persuaded many of my friends to boycott them too. I've written to British Gas to say how disappointed I am that they are promoting Amazon gift certificates, and am shocked that they want to be associated with an organisation under formal investigation for tax avoidance and antitrust practices. I came across your website today, and was initially excited but then I read your sentence on Amazon's recent decision to route sales through the UK: "It is fair to say that this is a battle well won, but the war is far from over."
I thought I'd let you know that using words like 'war' puts a lot of people off. We are tired of 'war' – we hear it every day all day 'War on Poverty' 'War on Terror' – the whole bloody world is at 'war' and we, the average Joe public, are sick of it.
Christine Homer, by email
Keeping Good Energy on their toes
Good Energy are behind the Big Deal currently being promoted by 38 Degrees. As a happy Good Energy customer myself, it is exciting that so many more people might get signed up. However, I noticed that Good Energy has recently updated their fuel procurement policy to include BioDiesel and burning wood chips, with somewhat aspirational phrasing about the way in which they would "ideally" source such electricity from local/sustainable sources. While I trust them more than the Big Six, we must keep an eye on the smaller providers too. As they get bigger, the temptation might be to cut corners. Scrutiny must ensure that their energy really is ethical, and isn't contributing to deforestation or turning over agricultural land to biofuels and pushing up food prices.
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Ed: Many thanks for the heads-up. On their website Good Energy state that they "have some of the strictest purchasing criteria in the industry – it's also some of the most transparent". Both their Renewable Electricity Procurement and Biogeneration Procurement Policies are available to view on their website.
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As a recruit, a coaching change can be your worst nightmare.
After spending several months getting familiar with a particular coach and his demeanor, a recruit has maybe two months to get comfortable with the new staff and its philosophy. The most recent coaching change at Florida Atlantic might not have been as bad.
There was the public relations disaster at the end of former coach Carl Pelini's tenure in October, but the stability of the program since has helped keep this recruiting class together.
Interim coach Brian Wright led the Owls to four consecutive victories to end the season and then was passed over for the permanent position, which went to Charlie Partridge. Wright was retained as the associate head coach and offensive coordinator on the new staff, which gave recruits some comfort.
"It was a crazy period of change," Coral Gables running back Greg Howell said. "Hiring coach Partridge was an excellent move because he's a great coach and a great person. He cares about us developing into good men off the field."
The defense was a point of pride for FAU last season, giving up an average of 276 yards against Conference USA foes last season. The Owls lose three of their four best linebackers from 2013, but reloaded with Tallahassee Godby's Kris Harris and junior college transfer Richard Dorvilus. Both are three-star recruits who are about 225 pounds and turned down offers from BCS programs to join FAU. Dorvilus had 10 tackles and a sack in four games at Independence Community College in Kansas.
FAU also will welcome Cypress Bay safety Marquese Dudley-Gordon. The 5-10 defensive back is great in run support and good in pass defense.
The Owls offense was terrible last season with quarterback Jaquez Johnson supplying most of the yardage. FAU brought in a lot of help to support and challenge Johnson in the 2014 class.
Howell is a three-star recruit and one of four running backs committed to this class. He led Class 8A in rushing last year, but finished third in Miami-Dade County behind Miami Central's commit Joseph Yearby (UM) and Dalvin Cook (FSU).
There will a strong competition in the backfield between Howell and Daytona Beach Mainland's Trevaughn Rodriguez, who spurned offers from three ACC schools and was given a four-star rating by ESPN.
Rodriguez had a rocky senior year. He was ruled ineligible at Mainland because he violated a bylaw prohibiting players from following coaches from one school to another during a calendar year. When the coach resigned in mid-September, Rodriguez was ruled eligible. He ran for more than 1,300 yards last season and was Mainland's starting quarterback for the last five games of the season, passing for 845 yards and 10 touchdowns.
However, he won't need to play quarterback at FAU with the talented Jason Driskel committed to the Owls.
Jason's older brother, Jeff, was the starting quarterback at the University of Florida before he was injured. Jason is a bit smaller than his brother, but the two-star recruit has all the tools necessary to become the future leader of the Owls. He has the size — 6-foot-2, 210 pounds — necessary to play quarterback and he has the intelligence to be able to read the defense, scoring 31 of a possible 36 on his ACT.
Driskel has enrolled early at FAU with Miami Central guard Reginald Bain. Both will be eligible to participate in spring practice.
Howell said he has not spoken with Bain or Driskel about their experience thus far on campus and added he does not speak often to other members of the class. He said he exchange messages with them "here and there to keep in touch."


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Sunday, February 15, 2009
A Sh&tty Valentine's Day
(If you're not in the mood to read, enjoy the unrelated pix of healthy boys or skip all the way to the end to evaluate the unknown properties of some seemingly mundane grocery items.)
We've been holed up for the last two days, hearing a torrential rainstorm rumbling above, which has somehow added a bit of cozy charm to the situation, although probably only to me, since I'm the only one not in the throes of one ailment or another (sleep deprivation not included, of course).
I'll spare you the details featuring the wrong body fluids for a romantic holiday and just say that the micro dude was hit first. After multiple changes of clothes and bedding, he got a bit more settled, and Nanny J kindly came over to give us a break. SwingDaddy and I both got an hour's sleep (and I do mean sleep) before she took ill and went home.
SwingDaddy took Q-ster out for some necessities like diaper rash cream, Stain Stick, and extra crib sheets to add to the rotation through laundry. I was cleaning up a projectile vomit when they returned, waving a beautiful bouquet. We had just enough time to admire it together before Q-ster started looking green. I located a bucket, and when he got sick shortly afterwards, it was IN the bucket. This is a really huge deal to those of us with children who are at the age when they can occasionally remember their instructions even in moments of crisis.
My mom had a bell that she'd give to us if we were sick, in case we couldn't speak loudly enough to call for help. Lacking a bell, we handed the little dude a Baby Einstein toy that says the primary colors in three languages and plays snippets of classical tunes whenever you poke it. He got the idea immediately and summoned us with Rondo Alla Turca (Mozart k331) for his next barfing session before he started abusing the setup and shaking it just to see us scurry to him from the laundry room or kitchen.
We dug out the spare baby monitor to hook up in his room, and after a few more rounds of changing and cleaning, the boys fell asleep. It was early enough that SwingDaddy and I had time to sit on the couch, our respective baby monitors (Buster for me, Q-ster for him) side by side, watching WALL-E and studiously only kissing each other on the cheek, in case one of us already had the virus and the other didn't. Great movie, by the way.
We both went to sleep with a bucket on the floor beside us, in case we were struck in the night, but the wakings were entirely from caring for the young'uns. I'm writing this while standing guard over Buster, sleeping curled up like a bug, his naked butt in the air. I wanted to air his poor bottom to recover from diaper rash, and he was so exhausted that he feel asleep. This is far more detail than anyone could possibly care about, but I can't leave the room in case he wakes up (crawling undiapered baby with diarrhea = a disaster beyond your imagination) and I've run out of laundry to fold.
Ah, he's waking now. If you don't hear from me tomorrow, you'll know that I've been hit with the bug too – send help.
Updated: Made a quick trip to Target today for more diapers. The person in line ahead of me had only two items, but it took extra time to get through the cashier, because she carded him. His purchases? Theraflu and a case of Red Bull.
Do you have to be over 18 to take flu medicine or buy energy drinks now? Or maybe the combination seemed suspicious.
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Sorry to hear about the sickness that hit you guys. I hope that you're all feeling better soon.
- Mayberry said...
Oh, yuck! Hope it's all over now. What a weekend.
- Desiree said...
Sorry to hear about your weekend. I was the only one in our house struck with the stomach flu, and it was BAD. Andrew kicked off the next round of illness the next day with a fever and cold. After giving him Tylenol I curled up next to him, still recovering from my illness, and after hearing one heave from him I quickly whipped him out of our bed and ran to the bathroom, just managing to get his head over the toiled before the vomit hit the floor! Yay! Victory for me! Now we are all sick with colds and coughs and stuck indoors. Isn't winter delightful?? :)
Hoping for some healthy days ahead for your house. Q-ster was sorely missed yesterday by Andrew as he was in princess/fairy overload.
- Momma to LG said...
You poor thing! I am sorry we missed you at Tay Tay's but now understand. I would offer some help but, yeah, don't want to bring that home with me.
- ewe are here said...
Ugh. I have felt your pain.
And red bull is disgusting... I think it's been outlawed in some european countries, too, because of it's abuse with alcohol.
- Damselfly said...
Oh, you poor guys! Hope you can get a do-over.


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National Rocky Road Day is celebrated on June 2nd of each year. This is an unofficial holiday in honor of Rocky Road Ice Cream.
Rocky road ice cream is a chocolate flavored ice cream. Though there are variations on the flavor, it is traditionally composed of chocolate ice cream, nuts, and marshmallows. According to one source, the flavor was created in March 1929 by William Dreyer in Oakland, California when he cut up walnuts and marshmallows with his wife's sewing scissors and added them to his chocolate ice cream in a manner that reflected his partner Joseph Edy's chocolate candy creation incorporating walnuts and marshmallow pieces. Later, the walnuts would be replaced by pieces of toasted almond. After the Wall Street Crash of 1929, Dreyer and Edy gave the flavor its current name "to give folks something to smile about in the midst of the Great Depression." Alternatively, Fentons Creamery in Oakland claims that William Dreyer based his recipe on a Rocky Road-style ice cream flavor invented by his friend, Fentons' George Farren, who blended his own Rocky Road-style candy bar into ice cream; however, Dreyer substituted almonds for walnuts.
The original Rocky Road ice cream used chocolate ice cream with no chocolate chip pieces. Today, Rocky Road can be obtained based on vanilla ice cream with chocolate chips, marshmallows and almonds.
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Senior living could take a lesson from this Nobel Laureate
John O'Connor
Richard Thaler is not your typical college professor. For one thing, he was just awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
But even if you remove that distinction, he still would stand out in a room full of colleagues. You see, he simply tends to think differently than the rest of the herd.
As the 72-year-old noted in a press conference earlier this week, "I basically have made a career stealing ideas from psychologists."
Thaler already has achieved a level of fame arguing that people are irrational and that they tend to act accordingly. Perhaps you read his best-selling book, "Nudge," which helps people choose more wisely.
Or maybe you saw the University of Chicago professor explain the hot-hand fallacy in the film "The Big Short."
So what does this have to do with senior living? Not much, except that perhaps the way you go about trying to fill your units may be seriously flawed.
As Thaler sees it, human and financial behavior tends to be a lot messier and complicated than many economists would have us believe.
Put another way, a logical, well-considered presentation on how moving into an assisted living makes economic sense might not be best approach to use.
What might work, however, is if you develop a way to make the transition as hassle-free and automatic as possible. It's an approach he used to help many employees start investing in 401(k)s and to up their contributions along the way to retirement.
"I don't think I've changed anybody's mind in 40 years; you basically don't change anybody's mind," he noted.
Yet what do so many senior living organizations try to do? They try to convince people to leave a home they don't want to leave, so they can end up in a place they don't want to be.
If Thaler is correct, it might make far more sense to have a business model that makes the transition so hassle-free and automatic that the customer barely gives it a thought. Easier said than done, I know.
But the guy just might be on to something. The folks at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences sure seem to think so.
John O'Connor is editorial director of McKnight's Senior Living. Email him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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A DIY review – build this antenna and save yourself some money!
Ho Ho Ho! Merry Christmas! I'm sure most of you will be receiving electronics from Santa tonight, spending a decent amount of money on audio, visual, or computing equipment. Regarding the visual aspect, more specifically TV reception, here's something worth building.
For the last bunch of months I wasn't too pleased with my cable provider's services. Another price increase in August, as well as bad reception (grainy) through the cable box, and an increase in annoying pop-up ads, was the last straw. I also realized that there were maybe only three channels that I was really watching. In addition, the media has been reporting how more and more people are cutting their cable in favour of streaming services and other cheaper entertainment sources too.
- Nov 13, 2016: CBC: $25 basic TV can't stop customers from cutting their cable in record numbers
- Oct 30, 2013: CTV: Many Canadians cutting the cord on traditional cable
I decided to join the club and cut the cord. I remembered seeing plans earlier this year in Make Magazine describing how to build a coat hanger antenna. I managed to find the plans online and decided to give it a shot. It's cheap, it's quick, and the reception? Surprisingly awesome! I get six channels… for FREE! All six are coming in crystal clear. Much clearer than they ever did through the cable box. I don't watch too much TV, but the shows I do watch, like The Blacklist, The Goldbergs, Agents of SHIELD, SNL, and the new reboot of MacGyver, are on these channels. This wasn't a build featured on an episode of MacGyver, but like I mentioned earlier, it was in Make Magazine. The channels I get are pretty much the essentials:
- Global
- CityTV
- Omni
- YesTV
On rare occasions the signal for Global disappears for brief moments of time, but its not bad. Surprising as Global is owned by Shaw, and Shaw's HQ is located here in Calgary (*whispering* and they were also my old cable provider). I'm currently living in a basement and thought the antenna wouldn't pick up much, but I can get 2 more channels than a store-bought antenna I picked up for a few bucks at Princess Auto. For better reception, I placed the antenna on my windowsill. The following section has links to the instructions, pics of my build, and a description of a minor modification.
The Build
All you need is:
- a piece or two of wood (depending if you decide to build the stand too. I omitted the stand in my build),
- some hardware,
- 4-6 coat hangers,
- and a small 75 ohm to 300 ohm matching transformer (which you can probably find at Princess Auto, The Source, Active Electronics, or dollar stores)
The instructions (with video) containing more specific details of the materials can be found here:
The first major step is to mark your board with the appropriate hole spacing for the screws.
Attach your screws loosely – don't crank them in all the way so you can slip the coat hanger dipoles underneath first. Remember to take sandpaper or some other abrasive and rub off the enamel coating wherever there is a contact point on the coat hangers. When everything is positioned properly, then drive the screws in.
The matching transformer with the coaxial connector is attached to the two middle screws.
Rather than cutting up two coat hangers to bend out straight and stretch along the length of the wood, I used hardware wire. Super cheap at Dollarama – I paid $1.25 if I recall. Also note that in the two places where the wire crosses over; in the original plans it would've been coat hangers with the enamel coating. The plans don't specify if at these two points there is a connection or not, so I just slipped on a couple pieces of heat shrink tubing. Also, I recommend filing the sharp cut ends of the coat hangers, for safety reasons.
Notice the black heat shrink tubing in the cross section.
Works great, and I'm now saving about $50 a month! This build is definitely worth trying. Quick, cheap, and easy. For those of you in Calgary, you may have better luck picking up more channels if you position your antenna facing the Paskapoo slopes/Sarcee Trail area – that's where the transmission towers are.


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The moon did appear from behind dark clouds
Only again for to steal out of sight
And boobook owl called in the Parkland
His voice echoing in the calm night.
Lovers arm in arm under the street lamps
They stop to embrace as they walk along
And the nesting magpies are fluting
They warble a beautiful song.
A beautiful night in September
And balmy the calm evening air
The Spring is Mother Nature's young Season
And than her there is none so fair.
Were I a poet I'd capture some of this beauty
And on paper in words jot it down
Of this beautiful night in the Springtime
In a park of a southern town.
The moon behind the clouds is hiding
And the flute of the magpie sounds melodious and clear
And young lovers out arm in arm courting
And the cry of the boobook I hear.
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Visual Ecology: Evolution, Behavior, and Conservation
Overall, my research interests lie at how light affects animals. In most cases, I research the visual perception of light by animals but have studied how light can affect thermoregulatory behaviors as well. Currently I have two main interests within the realm of sensory ecology: 1) Anthropogenic light and visual ecology; 2) Behavioral and visual ecology of animals.
Anthropogenic Light and Visual Ecology
As a postdoctoral fellow with the National Park Service Night Skies Division, I have focused my research on how the overwhelming light produced by humans affects visual systems and ecology of animals. Currently, I have several research topics ranging from the effects of light from oil and gas developments on predator and prey use to the perception of light domes by myriad taxa. I will update this page as I begin to submit work from this research. Stay tuned.
Behavioral and Visual Ecology of Animals
An organism's environment can be as dynamic as its behavior. Thus animal behavior and the environment can be tightly linked. One underdeveloped topic in behavioral ecology is how the environment has sculpted animal communication. For visual signals, such as warning colors of toxic butterflies or bright ornaments of male birds, the environment can drastically affect the perception of visual signals by an intended receiver. This can happen through different backgrounds (i.e. sand vs. blue sky), different lighting environments (i.e. shady forest vs. open fields), or different perceptual abilities of receivers (dichromatic vs trichromatic color vision). Due to environmental effects, animals should behave in ways to optimize both production and reception of signals. My research focuses on how the environment has driven and affects visual systems, visual signals, and behavior, mostly in arthropods.
Environmental factors affecting signal efficacy
Visual signals can drastically be affected by available light and the background, and although this has been well known for decades, very little research into the effects of light environment on signal efficacy exists. Fortunately, we now have inexpensive techniques that enable accurate quantification of light environment that can be utilized with studying the ecology and behavior of signal-receiver interactions to shed light onto environmental effects on animal communication. Ongoing research in this sub-discipline includes how perceived conspicuousness of different mimicry rings of Heliconius butterflies is affected by the different available light environments in the tropical rainforest. We also have an ongoing project examining how the sunrise affects conspicuousness of a multicomponent warning signal in the pipeline swallowtail. This project further investigates how animals have evolved and behave to increase signal efficacy.
Physiological ecology of vision
Just as visual signals are dependent upon the environment, visual systems of animals have evolved under certain selection pressures in different environments. Sensory drive predicts that individuals will evolve sensory systems that are able to extract as much information from cues (e.g. mate condition, prey toxicity, etc) as possible. My current research investigates how and why insect visual systems differ as a result of light environment and conspecific interactions. We are currently investigating how different tropical light environments (i.e. nocturnal, forest understory, open fields) has selected for different eye morphology and visual sensitivity.
Evolution and maintenance of mimetic populations
Over one hundred and fifty years ago, Henry Bates discovered "a most powerful proof of the theory of natural selection" by revealing the fascinating adaptation of an edible animal resembling a conspicuous, inedible animal to reduce risk of predation, termed Batesian mimicry. Then 16 years after Bates' discovery, Fritz Müller devised one of the first mathematical models supporting natural selection. Müller demonstrated that two conspicuous and unpalatable individuals can both gain protection from predation if they converge on the same warning signal (e.g. yellow and black stripes of wasps), this phenomenon was fittingly dubbed Müllerian mimicry. Therefore, although Batesian and Müllerian mimicry both confuse predators, Batesian mimicry is a parasitic relationship between the edible mimic and the inedible model, while Müllerian mimics mutually benefit from the mimetic relationship. Although mimics can be striking lookalikes of their model, paradoxically, many resemble their model imprecisely. Furthermore, the degree of mimicry precision and accuracy varies within the same species, which begs the question: if natural selection is so powerful, then why are so many mimics imprecise? First, what determines if the mimetic resemblance is precise or imprecise? For visual mimicry (i.e. color and pattern) we now have the ability to mathematically model if two color patches or patterns are noticeably different at the level of the photoreceptors in a perceiver's eye. These models compare the photon catch of each of the different photoreceptors of the perceiver and then calculates if the differences between the patch reflectance spectra are perceivable when neural noise is added. These visual models allow for an objective definition of imprecise mimicry: the ecologically relevant predator is able to discriminate between the coloration of the model and mimic. We are currently investigating different hypotheses explaining imprecise mimicry in many species of butterflies.
Adaptive coloration
I have always been fascinated with animal coloration and I actively investigate colorful phenotypes in a range of animals. Through this fascination, I am able to ask questions into sexual selection, thermoregulation, and my favorite: predator-prey interactions. Animal coloration is a matter of life and death. Why do some butterflies have bright iridescent coloration while others are drab and inconspicuous or patterned with bands and stripes? Current research includes how bands of butterflies are effective in disruptive camouflage and thermoregulation, how spider web coloration is mediated by different environmental conditions, and colleagues and I are currently investigating gila monster developmental color change.


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The Main Stages of Work
The Department of Internal Medicine № 2
The department was founded in August, 1936. The first lecturers were Professor Fishenzon, Professor Geft, junior members of teaching Shinkaryova, Zaslavska. Before the Great World War the department staff worked at the problem of cardio-vascular system and gastrointestinal tract diagnostics and treatment.
In post-war years the department was headed by Professor Britvan, then by Professor Davidov and by senior lecturer Lidskyy. At that time the scientific themes were connected with the study of cardiovascular system pathology and blood system diseases ( junior members of teaching Rybachuk, Pilat and others).
From 1952 to 1956 the head of the department was Professor Piayd. He guided the study of oncology tasks.
In 1956 Professor Kolotova headed the staff of the department. At that time the scientific interest was connected with the study of blood system diseases.
In 1961 senior lecturer Golovtsev was appointed the head of the department. At that time the staff of the department studied the tasks of hemodynamics in case of hypotonia, some aspects of hepatology, metabolism of microelements in case of atherosclerosis.
From 1967 the head of the department was Professor Kuchuk. At that time the department consisted of several senior lecturer courses.
In 1992 the department was headed by Professor Malenkyy.
The members of the department wrote their research works, which became interesting for international association.
The department of hospital therapy № 1 was renamed into the department of internal medicine №2 because of the introduction of Bologna Process standards The creative energy of the department staff is directed to further improvement of specialists' training, which is planned to introduce by means of the improvement of study process methodical ware, its further computerization, improvement of teachers' pedagogical skills and equipment of the department, scientific searches intensification.
In 2008 the department was headed by Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Kolisnyk. He guided research of the department, which is called " The peculiarities
of medical rehabilitation measures in case of internal organs and systems diseases of patients with vertebral pathology".
In 2013 the department was headed by Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Shevchuk Sergey Viktorovich. At present time the department is working at the research project: "To examine the role of clinical, molecular genetic, metabolic, inflammatory and gemokoagulyatsii factors in the formation of cardiovascular lesions in rheumatoid arthritis and to develop recommendations for their prevention and treatment."
Shevchuk Sergiy Victorovich
Head of Department, Doctor of Medical Sciences
Masіk Nadiya Prokopіvna
Professor, PhD
Solyeyko Olena Vitalyivna
Professor, Doctor of Medical Sciences
Otkalenko Yuriy Konstantinovich
Associate Professor, PhD
Marynych Liubov Ivanivna
reseach Assistent, PhD
Osipenko Iryna Pavlivna
reseach Assistent, PhD
Iliuk Iryna Anatolyivna
Associate Professor, PhD
Bondarchuk Svetlana Vitalyivna
research Assistant
Danchenko Olesya Petrivna
research Assistant
Korobko Elena Anatolyivna
Associate Professor, PhD
Lysenko Dmitriy Andryevich
Associate Professor, PhD
Atamanchuk Mykola Stepanovich
Associate Professor, PhD
Nechiporuk Sergey Vasilievich
research Assistant, PhD
Science activity
In recent years the department has completed two dissertations for a doctor degree (senior lecturer P.F.Kolisnyk, senior lecturer O.V. Solyeyko ), 9 dissertations for a candidate degree (N.P. Masik, S.V. Nechyporuk, O.M. Shanchuk, B.I. Kornyeyev, D.A. Lysenko, O.A. Korobko, I.P. Gumeniuk, I.A. Ilyuk, R.A. Kravets). Two doctoral dissertations (senior lecturer D.A. Lysenko, senior lecturer N.P. Masik ) and 3 dissertations for a candidate degree: junior lecturer O.P.Danchenko, junior lecturer S.V. Bondarchuk, junior lecturer I.P. Osypenko are being completed.
Under the guidance of Doctor of Medical Sciences P.F. Kolisnyk the department research work "The peculiarities of medical rehabilitation measures in case of internal organs and systems diseases of patients with vertebral pathology" was performed.
As a part of this work three candidate dissertations were defended: V.V. Homovskyy, I.P. Gumeniuk, R.A. Kravets. Currently, the department is conducting research work:
"The working out of programmes of multilevel medical rehabilitation in case of internal organs and systems diseases.


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