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De lo que soy/Of what I
February 11 - May 10, 2003
Reception: Thursday, April 10, 5:00 - 7:00 pm
Laura Anderson Barbata, Sandra Bermudez, Marta María Pérez Bravo, Monika Bravo, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Mónica Castillo, Josely Carvalho, Esperanza Cortés, Elba Damast, Annalee Davis, Patricia Villalobos Echeverría, Scherezade García, Marina Gutiérrez, Anaida Hernández, Matilde Marín, Beatriz Mejia-Krumbein, Lydia Negrón, Mari Mater O'Neill, Tatiana Parcero, Belkis Ramírez, Eugenia Vargas, and Kukuli Velarde.
Installation view
María Magdalena Campos-Pons
To make a self-portrait is to posit some part of the persona as an identity. It is an assertion of the self, reflecting interests, aspirations, and desires. This exhibition focuses on work in which the artist's life provides a primary source. Much of it blends daily life, memory, invention, and a perception of some aspect of the persona. In some of the work the artist is literally depicted, in others she is represented symbolically or metaphorically. Some of the artists work as diarists, others not. The topics are diverse, ranging from universal rites of passagechildhood, coming of age, romance, maternity, motherhoodto those issues often associated with Latin American arta concern with social and political content and an interest in surrealism and fantasy. For some of the artists it is the intersection of life with historical events that provides the defining moment.
The notion of identity shaped by association with the mythic abounds and the attributes of the gods provide further insights into the persona. Works include references to Wonder Woman, the Egyptian goddess Mut; the orishas, Shango, Yamaya, Obbataca, and Oshosi; the Hindu goddess Kali; the Aztec goddesses Tonatzin and Coatlicue; and the Christian Virgin of Guadalupe and the Virgin Mary. Others in the exhibition work in an attempt to counter the mythic presence of Frieda Kahlo whose work has come to define contemporary Latin American self-portraiture.
Transcultural dislocation is a theme in much of the workmost of the artists have lived in more than one country and culture. The notion of a "hybrid identity," in which cultures merge, provides a subtext in many of the artists' work. There is common agreement that home is not a fixed locale but carried within.
Monika Bravo's poetic images of a dramatic storm moving through New York harbor, of boat traffic traversing the rivers, and of rain on her studio windows, are some of the last footage to capture the views from the World Trade Center. Bravo was a participant in the World Views program sponsored by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Seven hours of video, condensed to five minutes and forty seconds in time lapse, record the extraordinary evening before the towers were attacked. Panoramic vistas and streaks of lightning are set to music and capture the beauty of the city at night. Shot from the 92nd floor of the north tower, September 10, 2001 Uno Nunca Muere la Vispera is dedicated to the memory of Michael Richards, a fellow artist who spent the night in his studio and did not escape the next morning.
Laura Anderson Barbata
Monika Bravo
The New York City skyline, harbor and bridges feature prominently in other works by Bravo. This footage was intended to be a part of an installation entitled A_Maze. The 2001 Uno Nunca Muere la Vispera refers to a saying in her native Colombia which means you die on the day you are intended to die. This work was produced, in part, with a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts to Lehman College Art Gallery.
Historic events also provide the content in four mixed media photographs from the Terremoto / Earthquake series by Patricia Villalobos Echeverría. This series grows out of her experience of the massive 1972 earthquake in Managua, Nicaragua. Ten thousand people were killed in this city which lies on the San Andreas Fault. The body is central to her work and it provides a locus from which to examine the political, social, historical and mythological content. The four prints are richly layered in meaning and offer multiple interpretations. They reference both the seismic events as well as their political consequences. In this series Villalobos is identified with Coatlicue, a form of the Aztec mother goddess Tonatzin whose identity is also merged with the Virgin of Guadalupe. Their composite identities are a metaphor for her ownborn in Tennessee to Salvadorian parents, Villalobos, grew up in Nicaragua and the United States.
In the photographs Villalobos lays across a field of stars which suggests the night sky as well as the American flag. Superimposed on the photographic image are serigraphs of seismologist's graphs of the quakes, which also function as targets. Her body is bound with wire and her open eyes appear lifeless. The gelatin silver prints are streaked with washesprinter's ink diluted with solventswhich provide a painterly surface and a sense of eroded earth.
Argentinean Matilde Marín's large-scale photographic installation is composed of 31 shadow portraits. Trained as a sculptor, Marín has worked for many years as a printmaker. More recently she has incorporated photography, video, and digital imagery into her work. In a sense the collage of photographs in this exhibition, Itinerary, is a travelogue, recording the light and textures. Created over a period of years, Marín has photographed her cast image in many countries. Shadow lengths suggest the hour of day and, in the broader sense, the passage of time. This formalist composition is Marín's ephemeral mark on the landscape.
Installation view
María Magdalena Campos-Pons has worked in many media and continues to explore performance-based photography as a means of examining identity. Campos-Pons emigrated from Cuba in 1988 and much of her work over the past fifteen years has dealt with memory of another time and place. She has frequently referenced the spirituality of Santeria, a syncretic practice with roots in Catholicism and Yoruba religions, in the objects and colors she uses. Her body too functions as a signifier. In the Nesting series cultural dislocation continues as an element but this time the objects also include wooden representations of North American birds, a gift from her mother-in-law. Birds are traditionally a symbol of freedom. These birds are also migratory and live in multiple environments, as Campos-Pons does. Perhaps, as the title of the series implies, it is a settling in.
Campos-Pons works with a large format Polaroid camera, which produces singular and instantaneous results. She stands before the camera as if in a trance. Her pose is both frontal and formal. In Nesting I she is the nest. Her hair, looped into fine braids mixed with beads, surrounds and camouflages her head. Yellow facial paint along with the intricate coiffeur reference African traditions. Birds flank her sides and top her head in the photograph. In Nesting II she poses in imitation of the owls that are part of this composition. Her eye coloring suggests African body paint as well as the markings of the owl. In the Nesting series the amber color of the background and the beads are a reference to Ochosi, the hunter orisha. In a poem she wrote about nesting, Campos-Pons enumerates those things, which characterize a nest. It is both a utopia and an entrapment.
Kukuli Velarde's video installation The Apple of His Eye, is a very personal examination of parental expectations and their consequences. It focuses on adolescence and the painful process of separation and the transition to adulthood. Velarde, raised in Peru, was a gifted child artist and the daughter of a man who once aspired to be a painter. The tale is a classic one of a father who chose a career for a childpublishing books of her work as a teenagerand a child who took flight from her family, from painting and from Peru. The video is structured as a father/daughter dialogue with Velarde's father speaking on camera and the artist responding in text replies. Both are speaking with the perspective of time and distance. The video is surrounded by line drawings done directly on the walls. Large-eyed princesses, monsters, flocks of vicuna, mermaids, puppies, and adolescent girls frolic on an 8 foot by 24 foot surface and recreate her earlier style.
In Eugenia Vargas' photographic series My Horse and I, toy store surrogates, evolved from her earlier performance-based self-portraits, enact a sequence which reads like fiction. Vargas grew up in southern Chile and like many children developed an important, early relationship with her horse. Its presence in her work is both literal and metaphorical. In this series childhood experiences are transformed through memory and the imagination. Intense color saturation of the reds and greens in these prints creates an eerie dream-like sense of narrative. While it suggests both the idyllic play of childhood and a sense of nostalgia, it also hints at a darker interpretation. My Horse and I offers a visual narrative in which one cannot help but see images of power and control, metaphors for sexuality, and a sense of loss.
Scherezade García
Tatiana Parcero
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the work of Mexican-born Tatiana Parcero, her body is the primary subject.
Ignoring the whole, Parcero isolates partsher eyes, her hand, and
her stomach in the three works in this exhibition. Using transparency overlays
she adds additional imagery and meaning. In Nuevo
Mundo #10, an early map of the New World is an obvious metaphor for new life. The map is superimposed on a dramatic profile of her pregnant bellyits landmasses, harbors and newly charted seas seem to radiate out from her navel. In Palmas #31, a photograph of her hands are paired with a Meso American codex. If fortunes are to be told by reading the hands, Mexican history and the legacy of the Spanish conquest mark Parcero's lifeline and predictions of the future will be predicated on the past.
The photography of Marta María Pérez Bravo hovers between the documentation of performance and the symbolic representation of the syncretic beliefs of Afro-Cuban religions, particularly Santeria and Palo Monte. In the three photographs in the exhibition the forms are minimal. Between her legs are objects, attributes of the orishas and their offerings. The images float on a light ground conveying a sense of mystery.
In an untitled large-scale print by Mari Mater O'Neill two comic style heroines do battle with some undefined force of evil. Frame by frame they wield shovels and hoes. A trowel dangles from the belt of one of the figures. Flowers and hearts adorn the background. The final sequence culminates with the two in a romantic kiss. Prominently displayed in the center panel is the stamp of the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, the chief arts agency on the island, lending its imprimatur. The style of this work marks a change in the more lyrical style of O'Neill's earlier work.
Sandra Bermudez
Sandra Bermudez
Anaida Hernández deals with the external self, the visage. Her installation Multiplo is interactive. Fifty small mirrors, attached by magnets, cover a galvanized steel wall. Initially reflecting the artist's image, it now includes the viewer as a composite portrait made up of many small facets. The mirrors are intended to be used by the viewer, taken from the wall and examined. Each mirror handle has a simple symbol stenciled on the back, such as a heart or dice, possibly suggesting an attribute or an arbitrary fortune or fate. Watching the interaction for just a few minutes, one becomes aware that this work is about appearance and maybe even vanity. The audience tries not to be seduced by their own image but usually fails. Hernández's earlier installations have focused on social issues such as domestic violence, immigration, and human rights. This work seems related to her more recent installations which deal with the notion of games"games of chance" as a metaphor for the arbitrary nature of fate and the "games people play" as a reference to interpersonal relationships. Anaida Hernández moved to New York from Puerto Rico in the mid-1990s and has recently settled in the Bronx.
Marina Gutiérrez's two works in this exhibition are richly layered in meaning with references that range from the art historical and literary to the personal. Her sculptural installation Dis-illusionment Gown - Body Mask series alludes to the loss of love. The figure hangs from a coathanger, like a garment on the rack, and might possibly read in an earlier era as an allusion to abortion. Its war-tattered face is covered with writingPablo Neruda's poem of love lost "los versos mas triste." The bodice of her dress is clad in armor and she wears a Purple Heart with a labyrinth within. The neckline is embossed with the phases of the moon. A cage-like skirt is adorned with small mesh boxes that compartmentalize objects representing aspects of an idealized domestic lifedoll furniture, fingernails with red polish, penises, and babies.
Two mythic females, whose domain is the sky, are found in the imagery of a second work by Gutiérrez. Mut, consort of Amon, arches across the two panels of a large-scale print and a smaller figure of Wonder Woman stands at the bottom. The surface of the larger figure, with milagros attached, provides a ground for images of fertility and childhoodbabies, a couple, a hopscotch court. The figures are surrounded by the parts of a bifurcated identityon one side with the tropical scenes of Puerto Rico and on the other with the urban views of New York City.
Kukuli Velarde
Marina Gutiérrez
Josely Carvalho's book of roofs//#0001.tracajá.40 is a part of an ongoing project, a visual diary that ranges from an interactive Website to mixed-media installations. The series, inspired by the clay roof tiles that have been used for centuries in Brazil, began in the late 1990s. The series title provides a broad metaphor for shelter, both for the body and the soul. The early production of the tiles, said to be shaped by draping clay across the leg of a worker, infers a connection of labor, production, and the body.
The prints in this series of forty works combine traditional woodcut with digital images. Delicate strata of hand-made paper joined with Roplex, create a translucent, multi-layered image. In book of roofs//#0001.tracajá.40 the Hindu goddess Kali, creator and destroyer, slayer of time and death, is overlaid with an image of the bone structure of a sea turtle. The latter functions as a metaphor for the self and a personal icon for Carvalho. It appears throughout Carvalho's work. The sea turtle is an animal that travels great distances and navigates both sea and land. Its home is always with it. In a sense it is a metaphor for living and working in two cultures, Brazil and New York, as Carvalho does.
Colombian-born Esperanza Cortés links the flourishing of her own artistic career with the birth of her daughter in an autobiographical, mixed-media work. The work includes a pregnant nude in low relief that floats on a blue/green encaustic ground, perhaps a reminder of the primordial sea from which we all evolved. Veins radiate out from her pubis, running down the figure to root her to the earth and upward to become the branches of a "tree of life" in full foliage. Beneath the figure is a vessel, like those intended to hold holy water, conferring a blessing and offering purification. Decorative tin leaves and glass beads embellish this altar-like composition. Defined in symbols of blood and water, this earth mother image is depicted as a powerful force of nature.
In Reflections Lydia M. Negrón is represented as a serene, contemplative figure surrounded by objects. Each is embedded with allusions to the multiple cultures in which she lives, connecting to her Puerto Rican heritage and to her life in the United States. Catholic traditions, a bible, rosary beads, and a painting of the Virgin Mary, are in one corner. A mirror with Taíno iconography is in another. Designs on the frame of another mirror reference African art. There is a chandelier with an American eagle. Negrón exists somewhere in the middlein a room filled with sources of light and mirrored reflections, Negrón's environment is an autobiographical reference.
Annalee Davis
Elba Damast's This is the way I feel presents a multi-headed self-portrait that displays a distinctly irreverent personality. She clowns with bared teeth, dangles a cigarette from her mouth, and sticks her tongue out. Each head is a heart, the seat of one's emotional life and an icon Damast has used throughout her more recent work. The patterned floral background is an extension of her interest in eastern philosophy and Indian miniature paintings. Surrounded by a small fence, the figure is corralled, suggesting restraints and limits. It is hard not to see this dominant central figure with its millefleur pattern in the background without thinking of the well-known medieval tapestry Unicorn in Captivity. In a second work, a Janus-headed bust, her head is again a heart. She looks in two directions. A large bronze heart, engraved with words of love, is exposed on her chest.
Although trained as an architect, Belkis Ramírez works as a printmaker, using the print and, sometimes, the block from which it is printed as a medium for large-scale installations as well as smaller works. Her figurative work deals with a range of issues, from the marginalization of women and freedom of speech to the ecological problems in Latin American countries. Se ha secado mi jardín/my garden has dried up shows the artist's self-portrait carved from a plank of mahogany, like a wood-cut block. Surrounded with barbed wire, she is both protected from the outside world by this barrier and caged in by it. The title refers to plants that died when a friend failed to water them for her.
Beatriz Mejia-Krumbein uses a quilt made in her native Colombia as the ground for her self-portrait. The quilt is accompanied by a statement that the artist asked be posted with the work"My artist inside can be ignored but nobody has the power to make it mute to myself." Mejia-Krumbein paints herself onto the reverse side of the quilt without concealing its raw seams and stitching. In this work she is surrounded by smaller ghostly portraits, with wide open eyes. Her mouth sewn closed and her arms tied or encircled with shackles. Through the work Mejia-Krumbein also addresses larger issues of political repression and fear in a violent society, of bearing witness yet being voiceless. She thinks of the quilt as a symbol of fragmentation as well as a symbol of unity. With its individual pieces stitched together and bonded, it provides shelter and comfort.
Photographer Sandra Bermudez uses eroticism and desire throughout her work as the means to an end. In two works in this exhibition I Miss You and I Need You, she creates playful, seductive works that seem to reference pornography as much as contemporary body art. Large-scale tondos offer close-ups of Bermudez's lips, teeth and tongue as she mouths words of love. In these works, which are part of a larger series, Bermudez's mouth is painted with bright red lipstick. The intense color is reinforced by the rich saturated C-print tones. Her native country of Colombia is known for its exportation of red roses and professional beauty pageants, which market women and romance for international consumption. These photographs parody the glossy images of Penthouse and Playboy.
Matilde Marín
Mónica Castillo
Dominican-born, New York artist Scherezade García is represented by two works, details from the Paradise Series, Sleep my little child I and Sleep my little child II. Sea and sky surround cherubic infants on bright pink, baby crib mattresses. Painted on the underside of a plastic covering, these babies with halos and plump cheeks are accompanied by the earliest desires of worldly goodstoys and candy. These images juxtapose the sacred and the profanethe pure spiritual being of a sleeping child and the potential for corruption by the culture.
Mexican artist Mónica Castillo works against the tradition of female self-portraiture in her country that has been largely defined by the cult of Frida Kahlo with its intimate details of pain and despair. Castillo has concentrated on the making and re-making of her own image since 1993, always using her face in such a way that the works cannot be taken for personal revelations. She is represented in this exhibition with a fiberglass cast of her face and upper torso. Painted chocolate brown with oil and acrylic, the surface is covered with street debriscigarette butts, pop tops, orange peels, discarded paper, and crumpled leaves. This artist wants us to look at her self-portraits and see that they are not about her at all.
Laura Anderson Barbata uses familiar objects to examine inequities, in the installation Legal but Illegitimate. Alluding to racial and economic disparities and to wishes and dreams, it is composed of two taxidermy pigeons on a simple table. The white bird wearing a gilded wishbone is enclosed within a small rectangular structure constructed of mirrors. The door is left ajar. The black pigeon is outside the structure, alone with his meatless bone, peering inside. The two fail to communicate and it is unclear which, if either, is free.
Annalee Davis uses her work to examine cultural and historical issues of the Caribbean and her homeland of Barbados. In her installation (up) rooted, a small house floats in the air connected to the gallery floor with an expansive tangle of roots. The house is small but broadly anchored to the earth. Davis's own roots in the region go back for several hundred years. In this work she focuses on recent migrations since the 50s, that have taken people away for employment, education, and for opportunity. No one stays in one place permanently and "home is a place carried within."
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One of Oklahoma's largest earthquakes on record rattled other parts of the Midwest on Saturday from Nebraska to North Texas, and likely will turn new attention to the practice of disposing oil and gas field wastewater deep underground.
An increase in magnitude 3.0 or greater earthquakes in Oklahoma has been linked to underground disposal of wastewater from oil and natural gas production.
The United States Geological Survey said a 5.6 magnitude earthquake happened at 7:02 a.m. Saturday in north-central Oklahoma, on the fringe of an area where regulators had stepped in to limit wastewateral gas production. Five aftershocks, ranging from 3.6 to 2.7, were reported in the hour after the initial quake.
The Oklahoma Corporation Commission, which since 2013 has asked wastewater-well owners to reduce disposal volumes in parts of the state, directed about 35 wells within an approximately 500-square-mile area around the epicenter to shut down within seven to 10 days because of previous connections between the injection of wastewater and earthquakes.
"All of our actions have been based on the link that researchers have drawn between the Arbuckle disposal well operations and earthquakes in Oklahoma," spokesman Matt Skinner said Saturday. "We're trying to do this as quickly as possible, but we have to follow the recommendations of the seismologists, who tell us everything going off at once can cause an (earthquake)."
People in Kansas City and St. Louis, Missouri; Chicago; Gilbert, Arizona; Fayetteville and Little Rock, Arkansas; Des Moines, Iowa; Memphis, Tennessee; and Big Lake in southwest Texas, all reported feeling the earthquake.
NBC affiliate KJRH's meteorologist Taft Price captured video of the cameras in their Tulsa studio shaking as the earthquake hit.
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Pawnee County Emergency Management Director Mark Randell said no buildings collapsed in the town of 2,200 about nine miles southeast of the epicenter. "We've got buildings cracked," Randell said. "Most of it's brick and mortar, old buildings from the early 1900s."
Randell also said a man suffered a minor head injury when part of a fireplace fell on him as he protected a child. The man was treated and released.
The office of Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin tweeted that state highway crews were checking for bridge damage and the state Department of Emergency Management would assess damage and determine how to address it.
The damage is not as severe as the 2011 quake near Prague, Oklahoma, about 60 miles south of Pawnee, despite being the same magnitude and approximately the same depth below the surface. Saturday's was 3.7 miles deep, compared to 3.1 miles in 2011. Both are shallow quakes, during which shaking is more intense, like setting off "a bomb directly under a city," USGS seismologist Susan Hough has said.
However, hard bedrock beneath the surface in north-central Oklahoma is likely the reason for less damage, Oklahoma Geological Survey geophysicist Jefferson Chang said, adding that the subsurface around Prague is softer.
"It's pretty much comparable to the Prague event," Chang said. "But in harder rock, it won't shake as much."
Pawnee furniture store owner Lee Wills told The Associated Press that he first thought it was a thunderstorm.
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Some parts of Oklahoma now match northern California for the nation's most shake-prone, and one Oklahoma region has a 1 in 8 chance of a damaging quake in 2016. The area where the quake was centered is on the edge of a region covered by a "regional earthquake response plan" issued in March by the commission, whose goal was to cut the number of earthquakes by reducing wastewater injection volume by 40 percent from 2014 levels.
Oklahoma and Kansas both had an uptick in quakes in the first half of this decade. Kansas moved quickly to limit volume, while Oklahoma concentrated on the depth of the disposal. Kansas saw a 60 percent drop while the frequency of quakes in Oklahoma continued to climb.
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Game 15, UMBC vs. UMass Lowell Game Notes
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BALTIMORE – The UMBC women's basketball team returns home on Saturday, Jan. 11, when it hosts UMass Lowell in the first game of a UMBC basketball doubleheader at the RAC Arena. The Retrievers' women's basketball team opens the afternoon with a 1 p.m. tip-off, followed by the men's team facing off against Maine at 3:30 p.m. All the action can be seen live at UMBCRetrievers.tv courtesy of the America East digital network (now available on most mobile devices), or can be heard on Q1370 (www.q1370.com) with Troy Green and Dan Levin on the call.
SCOUTING THE RETRIEVERS (2-12, 1-1 AEC): UMBC evened its America East record to 1-1 after falling to Maine, 68-39, in front of an ESPN3 crowd on Wednesday evening. The Black Bears hit nine first-half threes and saw 31 of their points come off of UMBC turnovers. Freshman guard Taylor McCarley hit nine-of-12 free throws and finished with a career-high 16 points, while sophomore Liz McNaughton hit four-of-five attempts to reach double-digit points for the a career-best three consecutive games.
McNaughton has upped her scoring average from 1.8 ppg as a freshman to 6.0 ppg per game during the 2013-14 campaign. The second-year guard is 62 percent from the floor over the last three games and is averaging 10.7 points and 2.7 rebounds per game during the span. Freshman forward Sara Tarbert is the only Retriever scoring in double-figures, ranking seventh in the America East in scoring (12.6), while also ranking in fourth in rebounding (6.9). Sophomore center Bridget O'Donnell is third in the America East in blocked shots (18) and is seventh in defensive rebounds per game (4.5).
SCOUTING THE RIVER HAWKS (0-12, 0-2 AEC): UMass Lowell is winless in its inaugural Division I campaign, suffering a heart-breaking 65-64 contest to Binghamton in its latest contest. The River Hawks led by as many as 17 in the second half, but a 13-0 Binghamton run eliminated the Bearcats' deficit, allowing Morgan Murphy to score the game-winner with 20 seconds to go. Sophomore forward Lindsey Doucette notched her first-career double-double, scoring a career-high 24 points and adding 14 boards.
UML ranks fifth in the league in scoring, averaging 63.8 points per game, but are last in the conference in scoring defense, surrendering 89.3 points per contest. Junior guard Shannon Samuels is the only River Hawk to start all 12 games on the season and leads the squad in scoring (13.7 ppg), assists (3.2 apg) and steals (2.3 spg). Samuels ranks in the top-five in the league in both scoring (third) and steals (second). Doucette is chipping in 8.4 points, 6.8 rebounds and 1.0 blocks.
Newcomer UMass Lowell was picked to finish the season last in the America East conference, after posting an 18-9 record in Division II action last year. The River Hawks finished in fourth place in the Northeast-10 Conference with a 15-7 mark, but return just one starter from last season's squad.
INSIDE THE SERIES: UMBC faces off against conference-newcomer UMass Lowell for the first time.
ON THE HORIZON FOR THE RETRIEVERS: The Retrievers host their ninth annual Midday Madness contest on Jan. 15 versus New Hampshire at noon. The annual event, which welcomes local elementary and middle school students to campus, brought 2,905 fans to the RAC Arena last season, and is set to be even bigger in 2014.


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If that means what I think it means you should know better than joking about stuff like that, especially at your age, grow up
I hope Moshies is with his Russian mate securing another manager
It does and no.. so fuck off
why not go as young as possible at this point?
This is about the strength of it. We're still a small club playing at being a big boy. Making costly errors in appointments and contract terms.
I hope nothing like that ever affects any of your family you pathetic man
The really really worrying thing is even if he brings in a striker like Geroud in January that won't make one iota of difference, I doubt even that if we had held on to Lukaku we would be doing any better with this set up and the players he has brought in.
Everybody including me thought Barkley is thick... seems like he is the only one who knew what was coming. Koeman has to go. Really has to go. ASAP! Use some of that $60m line of credit to pay him off. There are good managers out there without a job currently. Get one of them.
Looks like a positive change in formation and personnel. But guys, dont get wound up if we're not that great. Confidence is low and some players havent played together.And remember Burnley are no mugs... they drew at Lpool & Spurs.
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Annual Erie Town Fair and Balloon Launch
Balloon chase crew members assist getting one of the balloons ready to launch on Friday.
The Annual Erie Town Fair is the Chamber's largest event of the year. The Historic Downtown hosts over 200 craft and food vendors. Performances on stage at the Coal Creek Ball Park offer a variety of entertainment by local groups. Garage Rats Car Club hosts the annual Car Show attracting more than 60 cars and trucks. Traditional carnival games continue throughout the day at the Coal Creek Park. Hot Air Balloons launch at 6:15 am, weather permitting on Saturday and Sunday.
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Culinary expertise is more important than winter sports
Many Zermatt winter sports enthusiasts don't just make their choices based on the beautiful slopes on this side or the other side, but rather based on this or the other cuisine. Cucina italiana, or specifically cucina valdostana or Valais specialities? Cervinia/Valtournenche offers precisely the kind of exotic dishes that Swiss guests adore. Often home cooking, served simple and warm, with a glass of fine wine and concluded with a mandatory grappa. You need time for this culinary experience and you need to leave the slopes to be, well just slopes, for some time. And many make their first pit stop on the Testa.
The Rifugio delle Guide del Cervino (3,480 m) on Testa Grigia looks inconspicuous. A low rise building amidst houses of indifferent beauty, with and without aerials. This is the meeting place for Val d'Aosta mountain guides, open 365 days a year and many hand-drawn portraits show the ancestors and ancient ancestors of the charismatic mountain guides. Names like Gaspard, Carrel, Barmasse, Pession, Bich or Maquignaz are reminiscent of the pioneers of Alpine mountaineering. Three men manage the Rifugio: Laurent Nicoletta (35), Eric Windeler (38) and Massimiliano Pession (38) from Cervinia and Valtournenche. They and their chef Antonello Felice (35) have built up a lasting reputation amongst carnivores with their home-made specialities: meat, meat and more meat. Exquisitely prepared, with portions weighing up to 300 grammes of beef entrecôte from Ireland or Argentina. Or lamb cutlets too.
Three men manage the Rifugio: Laurent Nicoletta (35), Eric Windeler (38) and Massimiliano Pession (38) from Cervinia and Valtournenche. They and their chef Antonello Felice (35) have built up a lasting reputation amongst carnivores with their home-made specialities: meat, meat and more meat. Exquisitely prepared, with portions weighing up to 300 grammes of beef entrecôte from Ireland or Argentina. Or lamb cutlets too.
Gattisti, mountaineers and athletes
"Noi siamo l'autogrill dei gattisti," says Laurent. The Rifugio is also the meeting places for piste basher (snowcat) drivers from both countries, who take a short break here to have a chat and a cup of coffee. And athletes come here too after their strenuous training sessions: Martin or Simon Anthamatten from Zermatt, Yannic Ecoeur or Florent Troillet, who have rapidly covered the route from Zermatt (1,620 m) to the "Testa". "Even opponents meet up here," says Laurent Nicoletta. Opponents and, at the same time, friends, who contest Alpine skiing races, like the Patrouille des Glaciers or the Matterhorn Ultraks. Alpine climbers planning a future expedition to the Himalayas or to South America often hang out here too. They acclimatise their bodies sleeping in the 40-bed dormitories to complete their essential altitude training. High and convenient is their maxim: half-board costs only 50 euros.
However, the Rifugio is also a "posto strategico". Laurent Nicoletta, who is also a mountain guide, is the Rescue Chief and has responsibility for Alpine rescue for the Cervinia/Valtournenche region. The Rifugio is also the starting point for the ascent of the Matterhorn up the Lionsgrat ridge (Cresta del Leone). "Our climbers mainly want to climb to the cross," explains Laurent. Many choose this route, because the Hörnligrat on the Zermatt side is overcrowded. But Laurent does not always have boastful pride in his visitors. The lodge can only be reached by crossing the glacier. This is not an issue in winter for skiers crossing on the groomed slopes but "in summer it is imperative that you are accompanied by a mountain guide," he says, pointing towards the Theodul Glacier. "There are some people who simply don't take glaciers seriously. They even become rude when you warn them," he says with the grim laughter of someone who knows.
Many of the ancestors of Laurent, Eric, and Massimiliano underwent difficult times and were familiar with heavy work as mountain farmers, earning extra income as mountain guides or mule drovers. They were confronted throughout their lives by smuggling, however, Laurent does not reveal whether they themselves smuggled.
Historical building at the pass
The Rifugio delle Guide del Cervino on the Testa Grigia was built in 1980 because the Theodul Lodge (Rifugio del Teodulo, 3,317 m) owned by the Club Alpino Italiano (CAI) had burned down shortly before. This historic building directly on the Theodul Pass originally dates back to 1928 and was rebuilt after the fire. The premises were renovated in 2011/2012 and here too the cuisine is regional. The accommodation provides the essentials - for skiers and climbers, in the summer and winter season. The dining room alone is worth a visit, because the large window offers a unique and unusual view of the Matterhorn and the Grandes Murailles. Descents on skis in the moonlight are organised from this lodge for fans of romantic skiing.
A whole host of stopovers
Skiers from Zermatt always talk about the same thing: they always keep each other up to date about the time of the last cabin running from Cervinia to Testa Grigia. Because anyone who comes too late, has to stay in Italy. That in itself is not such a bad thing, because there is a wide selection of hotels and good restaurants.
Many of the restaurants in the "comprensorio sciistico Cervinia/Valtournenche" are of international repute. Like the restaurant Foyer des Guides in Valtournenche, just before the bottom of the slope. However, if you don't want to eat so far down the slopes, you can lunch in the Chalet des Etoiles, where Italy shows its most beautiful Alpine Chic-side. With excellent cuisine. One thing, however: Getting a table is not easy. Useful tip: Don't be deterred from sitting away from the hustle and bustle on the terrace. You can say the same about the terrace of the Ristorante Bontadini - don't be deterred if you enjoy good food. Last but not least, La Pera Doussa, an agri-tourism establishment where mountain farmers feel at home. The older generation speaks the local language, the Valdostana, similar to French. The special factor here: leave the slope shortly before it ends at Valtournenche and follow the small signpost for "Agriturismo". Don't forget to take euros with you, otherwise the exchange rate to Swiss francs might not work out in your favour. The food is excellent, and ultimately, after a large grappa, you have to take your courage in both hands because you will be carried back to the slopes on the back of a snow-mobile.


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The Spicket River Greenway, now complete, is a 3.5 mile long "emerald bracelet" of green spaces and walking paths connecting parks and open space through multiple neighborhoods, meeting multiple bottom lines by helping the community achieve the dual goals of riverfront restoration and neighborhood revitalization. The Greenway, envisioned by the community over 15 years ago, has come to fruition through a multi-year collaborative effort that has included GWL, local, state, and Federal government, numerous community organizations, and a diverse group of stakeholders that over the years have: participated in the 2002 Urban RiverVisions planning and charrette sessions; advocated for enforcement efforts against illegal dumping with the Spicket River Task Force and the Clean Spicket Campaign; and championed reclamation of the river with direct action, including the thousands of residents who have cleared over 120 tons of debris and thousands of tires from the Spicket River's banks over the course of annual Cleanups that started in 2002. Ten anchor sites along the Greenway have recently been rehabilitated or built: Dr. Nina Scarito Park, Misserville Skate Park, William Kennedy Playstead, Manchester Street Park, Immigrant Place park, Hayden Schofield Playstead, Spray Park, Facella, Oxford paper site and Ferrous site. For it's impact, the Greenway received an honorable mention for the U.S. Conference of Mayors 2013 Livability Award. The Spicket River Greenway is a truly transformative project that has created numerous benefits to the residents, visitors and business in the city, such as:
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Since my husband and I were married in 2003, we started making things for people at Christmas along with purchasing that perfect gift. When we became a one-income household, we cut back to just making gifts. This worked out well because everyone received the same gift and we spent the same amount of time and money on all of the gifts. Here is a list in case you are looking for last minute ideas.
For the adults:
- Soap: You can purchase kits, molds, and dies at your local craft store. We are fortunate enough to have access to lavender and made lavender soap with a sprig in the middle for decorative purposes.
- Bread: We have made bread but it goes stale quickly. So, one year we put together baskets with the dry ingredients for making beer bread, a good bottle of beer, and a handwritten recipe card.
- Project bag: Most of the women in my family are into some sort of fiber art. We made project bags one year for the women, and gave beer with the dry goods for making beer bread to the guys. For those who don't knit/crochet, I crocheted hot pads.
- Lavender Sachets: Sachets are SUPER easy to make. If you grow your own lavender, these are practically free, and all you need to know is a straight stitch, or even use fabric glue if you don't sew. For the guys in your life who wouldn't be likely to appreciate sachets, why not make a neck wrap with rice, buckwheat, or lavender?
- Pickles: Who doesn't like pickles? It's an easy canning activity along with jams, jellies, and sauces.
- Brag Books and Calendars: We made brag books for the grandparents the first years of the kids lives. But, the company stopped offering a half sheet size book. This year we chose to order calendars from Costco for all of the grandparents. We also purchased School Days picture frames one year so that when we give a wallet and 5x7 at Christmas, the pictures have a frame.
- Bonbons and Bark: Bonbons are complicated, messy and had to be refrigerated. They were our first gift, and we won't do them again. We have also made hard candy, peppermint bark, and cookies for Christmas.
- Coupons: I made up certificates for free photography sittings and gave them to the family members who have kids. All I had to do was print them, roll them up and put a bow on them. If you offer a service that is useful, this is a great gift.
For the kids...
- Name Frames: I looked up what each child's name meant and made a framed collage based on the name meaning.
- Drawstring Backpacks: We did these as the main gift and put other little stuff in them. A good pattern for these is easy to find.
- Soap: Again, you can find kits at your local craft store. We put toys in the soap for the kids to look forward to getting when the soap was gone.
- Amigurumi: Last year I crocheted this bear or something similar for all of the kids. I knew what I was doing early in the year, so I was able to pace myself to finish all of the projects (since I had 10 of them to make and I am a slow crocheter).
- Find It Game: You can sew one or save clear pop bottles and fill them with rice and found objects. Just be sure to make a list or take a picture of what you put in the game. These are great for car trips or quiet time.
SPOILER WARNING for those family members and friends who read this: This year we are making spaghetti sauce and homemade pasta for the adults and freezer paper stenciled T-Shirts for the kids. You can check out most of the shirts on my Pinterest board. Next year we are already making plans for the adult gift, but that will be for another post (Hint: Wil Wheaton might have some advice for us).


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Michigan thief returns $800 from 1980's convenience store burglary
Thief writes: 'I did a very bad thing'
MIDDLEVILLE, Mich. – A person who claims to have stolen $800 from a Michigan convenience store about 30 years ago has repaid the money in cash anonymously -- with interest.
A letter written by the person who admitted to breaking and enter a Middleville convenience store and stealing about $800 back in the 1980s did not leave a return address or a signature – just a plea for forgiveness.
The letter, in part, reads: "I did a very bad thing that I am ashamed of and have lived with this guilt"
The Barry County Sheriff's Department, as well as WOOD-TV received a copy of the letter.
Bob Baker, the Barry County Undersheriff said, "Inside the letter were 12 one hundred dollar bills."
The sheriff's department tracked down the man who owned the store when the crime was committed. He'll soon have the money he lost 30 years ago back in his wallet. As for the person who wrote the letter, police won't track him down. The statute of limitations of the crime ran out long ago.
Baker said, "From the legal standpoint, the time has gone by, and especially if this has bothered you for 30 years, I think you've suffered enough."
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GAINESVILLE - The buzzwords surrounding Florida last fall were "repeat," "perfection," and "legacy," remnants of winning the 2008 national championship, returning nearly every starter and being the overwhelming favorite to do it again.
A year later, Gainesville is filled with "uncertainty."
The Gators have a new quarterback, four new assistant coaches, a revamped defense and few proven playmakers. They lost stars Tim Tebow, Brandon Spikes, Aaron Hernandez and Joe Haden, nearly lost coach Urban Meyer, and entered fall practice without a clear-cut identity for the first time in years.
"It's a little different feeling," Meyer said. "But it's still Florida. It's still a bunch of good athletes. Not good, probably great athletes running around that field. It's a year of accountability and development. And if that happens. we'll have a good team. If it doesn't, we won't."
Meyer compared this season to 2007, the year after Florida won its second national title and the year Tebow took over as the starting quarterback. Expectations were high back then, but the Gators didn't have enough talent or experience to avoid four losses.
But Meyer and his players don't expect another rebuilding year. Not even close, really. Following several strong recruiting classes, they believe this is a reloading year that could include another trip to Atlanta for the conference title game. The Gators begin play Saturday against Miami (Ohio).
Florida has represented the Eastern Division three times in the last four years, with the lone loss coming last year against Alabama. That 32-13 drubbing still resonates with players and coaches.
"When you have a loss so devastating as that one, you want to go into that next season hungry," quarterback John Brantley said. "A lot of people really have been doubting us. That's another big thing. We like to be tested like that. That's what gives us a chip on our shoulders."
Brantley has waited three years - even longer considering his background - for a chance to take over Florida's offense. He grew up in nearby Ocala rooting for the Gators. His father played quarterback at Florida and his uncle was a standout linebacker at Florida.
The youngest Brantley has even bigger shoes to fill. He's stepping in after Tebow, a three-time Heisman Trophy finalist who helped the Gators win 26 of 28 games the last two years. Tebow was Mr. Everything at Florida, serving as the team's emotional leader and the offense's go-to guy. He also got as much recognition for what he did off the field as he did on it.
Brantley hopes to avoid any comparisons while trying to create his own identity.
"I'm not going to be doing the hoo-rah kind of stuff," he said. "That's just not my style. And you know what? All the guys respect that about me. That's why we've got other guys on the team like Mike Pouncey and Ahmad Black, other people that will do that stuff to get the team going."
Maybe so, but the Gators are still trying to figure out who will get the offense and defense rolling.
Tebow, Spikes, Hernandez and Haden were among the key playmakers the last two years. Now, it's up to guys like Brantley, running back Jeff Demps, linebacker Jelani Jenkins and safety Will Hill to get it done.
"Each year, somebody leaves, somebody comes in and steps up big," linebacker Brandon Hicks said. "Once you have people that are willing to step up, it doesn't matter who leaves."
Florida has four coaches leave, too.
Defensive coordinator Charlie Strong took the head coaching job at Louisville. Cornerbacks coach Vance Bedford and running backs coach Kenny Carter went with him. Receivers coach Billy Gonzales moved to LSU. Meyer replaced them with three coaches from his past - Zach Azzanni, D.J. Durkin and Stan Drayton - and hired longtime NFL assistant Teryl Austin to tweak the defense.
All four signed on at Florida without knowing how long Meyer would be around.
Despite losing Tebow, Gators have high expectations
GAINESVILLE - The buzzwords surrounding Florida last fall were "repeat," "perfection," and "legacy," remnants of winning the 2008 national championship, returning nearly every starter and being the overwhelming favorite to do it again.


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Sophomore Tommasso di Robilant went 8-1 Wednesday to lead the Crimson's foil squad (Harvard Athletic Communications).
WALTHAM, Mass. – For the fourth time in its four-year existence, the Beanpot title went to the No. 2 Harvard men's fencing team, who defeated local rivals Boston College, Brandeis and MIT in Waltham, Mass., Wednesday.
The Crimson topped Boston College, 19-8, beat host Brandeis, 20-7, and won, 19-8, over Cambridge rival MIT to hoist the trophy for the fourth consecutive year. Junior co-captain Valentin Staller went undefeated (9-0) in the three bouts to anchor a sabre squad that went 22-5 on the day in leading Harvard. Sophomore Tommasso di Robilant went 8-1 in the foil event and classmate Thomas Kolasa was 7-2 in sabre.
The Crimson will now prepare for the NCAA Northeast Regional, set for March 13 at a site to be determined.


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Manning leads Colts past Dolphins
MIAMI -- While the Miami Dolphins' celebrities were making a Hollywood-style grand entrance, Peyton Manning slipped in a side door and stole the show.
Manning threw two touchdown passes to take some sheen off the Dolphins' glitzy makeover under new owner Stephen Ross, and the Indianapolis Colts came from behind four times to win 27-23 Monday night.
The Dolphins rolled out an orange carpet for the pregame arrival of Ross' celebrity partners. The crowd included Serena and Venus Williams, Gloria and Emilio Estefan, Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez, Jimmy Buffett and Colts rooter Tiger Woods.
But Manning was the big star. He had the ball for less than 15 minutes but threw touchdown passes of 80 yards to Dallas Clark and 48 yards to Pierre Garcon.
The first came score on the first play from scrimmage, the latter with 3:18 left for the game's final points.
"It was about being efficient when it counted, in the fourth quarter," Manning said. "That's really what the game's about."
Manning finished 14 for 23 for 303 yards, and the Colts improved to 2-0. The Dolphins fell to 0-2 even though they had 239 yards rushing, including 107 with the wildcat.
Indianapolis had the ball for only 14:53, the lowest time of possession for a winning team in the NFL since 1977.
"It's really disheartening," Miami coach Tony Sparano said. "That's exactly the formula to beat that team."
Indy trailed 10-7, 13-10 and 20-13, but each time pulled even. Down 23-20 after Miami scored with 3:50 left, the Colts rallied one more time with a big play by Garcon.
"Pierre was patient," Manning said. "He was more talkative than he had been all game, saying, 'I can beat him. I can beat him.' Of course we didn't get many possessions, but he came up big when we really needed him."
After completions of 15 and 17 yards, Manning hit Garcon with a short pass on the right side. Garcon cut to the middle, then broke back toward to the corner of the end zone to score.
Miami reached the Colts 30-yard line with 6 seconds left, but Chad Pennington's desperation pass was intercepted in the end zone by Antoine Bethea.
That was the Dolphins' lone turnover. They were 15 for 21 on third-down conversions, punted once and controlled the ball for a team-record 45 minutes. They had to wonder how they lost.
The answer: Manning. He earned his 119th victory with the Colts, breaking the team record for a quarterback he shared with Johnny Unitas.
"I don't feel comfortable with these comparisons to Unitas," Manning said. "But I'm very proud to wear the same uniform as Johnny Unitas. He was a real winner."
Miami's Ronnie Brown rushed for 136 yards, including 62 in the wildcat, taking a direct snap each time. Teammate Ricky Williams added 69 yards rushing.
Manning took only three snaps in the third quarter. The Dolphins controlled the ball for nearly nine minutes on a 13-play, 80-yard touchdown drive capped by Brown's 3-yard run. That put them ahead 20-13 early in the fourth quarter.
Indy quickly pulled even again. Manning hit Clark for 49 yards to set up a 15-yard scoring run by Donald Brown.
Miami drove 51 yards and broke a 20-all tie with Dan Carpenter's 45-yard field goal with 3:50 left. He made two other field goals but also missed from 49, which kept the Dolphins from trying a game-winning kick in the final seconds.
The Colts struck 12 seconds into the game when Manning threw deep to tight end Clark, who had slipped 5 yards behind linebacker Akin Ayodele. Clark broke a tackle by Gibril Wilson near midfield and sprinted to the end zone.
Miami responded with a 75-yard drive to tie the score. Three wildcat plays netted 28 yards, including a 14-yard touchdown run by Ronnie Brown.
After Carpenter kicked a field goal with 43 seconds left in the second quarter, a call overturned by a replay review allowed the Colts to kick a field goal on the final play of the half for a 13-all tie. Wilson intercepted Manning, but a review determined the pass instead was incomplete. Manning then hit Clark for 20 yards with two seconds left, and Adam Vinatieri kicked a 48-yard field goal. ©


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Chuck Hagel likely to be confirmed by Senate, but criticism remains
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., an outspoken critic of defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel, said Sunday that Hagel assuaged his concerns over an an alleged 2007 remark about Israel, while another detractor, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said he expected his former colleague to ultimately win approval from the Senate.
Graham said on "Fox News Sunday" that Hagel sent him a letter disavowing an alleged comment about Israel and the State Department. A 2007 blog post from a GOP strategist resurfaced last week, indicating that Hagel remarked in an appearance that year at Rutgers University that the State Department had become adjunct to the Israeli Foreign Minister's office.
"I got a letter back from Senator Hagel in response to my question, did you say that, and do you believe that? And the letter said he did not recall saying that. He disavows that statement," Graham said.
Barring new developments, Graham said, Hagel's explanation is satisfactory. "I'll just take him at his word unless something new comes along," he said.
McCain, who like Graham voted to block Hagel's nomination process last week, said he expects the former Nebraska senator to win approval from the Senate, which is set to vote on him again later this month.
"I don't believe he is qualified. But I don't believe that we should hold up his nomination any further," McCain said on NBC News's "Meet The Press."
The latest remarks from McCain and Graham illustrate the trajectory of the Senate battle over President Barack Obama's nominee to head the Pentagon. While Republicans launched a historic filibuster last week and largely remain opposed to confirming Hagel, they're willing to eventually allow a simple-majority vote on his nomination, virtually assuring him of approval, given Democrats' Senate majority.
Calling for more time to review Hagel's record, Graham and McCain were joined by all but four of their GOP colleagues last Thursday in a vote that prevented Hagel's nomination from proceeding to a simple-majority vote. Democrats swiftly criticized the maneuver, which represented the first time a defense secretary nominee had been filibustered.
A top Obama administration official and a Senate Democratic ally sought to defend Hagel's record on Sunday. White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough said on "Meet The Press" that there is no undisclosed information about Hagel that would hurt his reputation. Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., vouched for Hagel's credentials in an appearance on CNN's "State of The Union," saying he has "the experience" to be defense secretary, citing his status as a combat veteran, "a business leader" and "the second deputy head of V.A. in the Reagan administration." Hagel, Reed noted, also has "the confidence of the president."
Even as they are set to clear the way for Hagel's confirmation, Republicans aren't backing away from their highly critical assessment of him. Graham called Hagel "one of the most unqualified, radical choices for secretary of defense in a very long time."
The Senate is set to vote on Hagel again on Feb. 26. If he is confirmed, it will bring to a close a process that exposed the sharp political divisions that have seized the Senate, and the persisting tension between the Obama administration and congressional Republicans on some national security issues.
Both Graham and McCain reiterated Sunday that they continue to have questions about the administration's response to the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on a diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, that claimed the lives of four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens. Last week, Graham said that he didn't think the Senate should move ahead on the nominations of Hagel for the Defense Department and John Brennan to head the Central Intelligence Agency until the administration was more forthcoming on the attack.
For his part, McDonough said he remains confident that Hagel will be a great defense secretary once he is confirmed, even as his nomination has sparked an intense political fight.
"He's not going to be a weaker defense secretary. I think he'll be a great defense secretary," McDonough said.


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Parent-School Partnerships: An Education MustOctober 10, 2017
By Dr. Bruce Machiafava
Parent involvement is an essential element in education today. Whether your child attends a public or private school, principals, teachers, and administrators devote much time and energy to involving parents in their children's schools. A strong partnership between parents and the school leads to a higher rate of student success.
What makes parent engagement so crucial to student success? As Sunny P. Chico, the author of the YOU: Your Child's First Teacher 3-book set explains, "Over 92 percent of a child's life from birth to age 18 is spent at home or doing parent-approved activities. Only 8 percent of a child's life in the same time period is spent at school." With so much of a child's life influenced by parental decisions, our children will learn from our actions.
This learning begins at birth and continues right up to kindergarten. During these years children acquire an amazing amount of knowledge. They learn to walk, run, and play games and sports. They acquire a language (sometimes two), they learn to read, and they develop social skills. They explore their world, starting with what they see in their cribs and continuing through their home and neighborhood.
This is quite a curriculum. It can be very challenging for many parents. Unfortunately, most schools don't become involved with these children until they are officially enrolled in school. So parents need to seek help in being the first teachers from social agencies, formal and informal groups of parents, family members and whatever help books and videos they can find.
Once the child enters school, the parent is largely relieved of the responsibility for formal education; the professional teachers take over. The parent's role shifts to two major responsibilities: supporting the child in learning what is taught at school and advocating for the child with the school.
Supporting learning at home involves such activities as:
Insuring good health, seeing that the child eats properly and sleeps enough, making sure the backpack has the required books, pencils, assignments due, etc.
An Environment for Learning
This environment can be a room or a desk in a corner or the kitchen table. It must be free from TV, music, phones, and other distractions. Multitasking rarely works for studying.
Parents should guide and supervise a child's homework but not do it. Know the assignment and the due date and check to see what grade the teacher gives.
Speak with the teacher on a regular basis, not just when there's a problem. Advocating for one's child may require intervening when grades are suffering or if a behavior problem has occurred. This doesn't mean a confrontation with the teacher or the principal. Most issues can be resolved if the parent and the teacher or principal work together.
When parents partner with the school to continue classroom learning at home, students benefit. Reach out to your child's principal and teachers today to see how you can help at home.


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We all know Jews control the media. Yes, ever since our secret protocols were revealed the entire world knows our real intensions. Today as I watched will.i.am's inspirational Yes We Can song in support of Presidential candidate Barack Obama, I could not help noticing how deep our control of the media goes, as one of our spies was able to insert a subliminal message in our secret Hebrew language.
Watch the clip, and roll to minute marks 1:09 and 1:44:
[singlepic id=12 w=320 h=200 float=right]Now you know how Obama won*: our very own Israeli-born Mossad agent/part-time model/struggling actress Maya Rubin was able to infiltrate the editing studio where the video was made, and inserted a message to all our sleeper agents in our encrypted holy tongue: 'Ken, Anu Yeholim' which loosely translates to 'Yes, We Can'. Those of you in the know remember that this is the same message that notified American Zionists not to go to work on that day in 2001.
* At the time of publishing this post the polls are still open, so obviously this is another Jewish scheme† to lure people who Google the subject.
† Any reference to Jewish schemes, Zionists plots, acts of espionage and the general conspiratorial undertone in this post should be taken as mere satire by anyone reading this‡.
‡ Except for Jews, which are ordered to take this post literally by the General HQ.


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NIC has been involved in the commercial cleaning sector for over 50 years and has over 20 years' franchising experience.
It's this industry knowledge and experience, together with the low overheads that come from being a home-based management franchise, that ensures the continued success of its franchisees.
Minimise the risk
Starting your own business can be a daunting prospect. Having a network of support and a proven business model can help you to minimise the risk and maximise your potential. It's your own business, but you have the support, training and a successful and recognised brand behind you.
As one of the largest single industries in the UK, currently worth over £8.8 billion per year, the cleaning and support services market continues to grow. With this significant growth potential and the majority of the work being contractual business, NIC franchisees continue to grow year on year.
The potential is only limited by a franchisee's vision, drive, commitment and enthusiasm, which is why people like Rob Hampton, Kerry Miller and Charlotte Eccleston have built successful businesses.
Rob chose to become part of the NIC network after running his own cleaning business. Since joining NIC, he has seen his business grow to over £800,000 a year.
Rob says: "I began to look at how I could take my business to the next level and chose NIC, as I could see the benefits of the support and national presence that an experienced franchisor could offer me."
He adds: "I was able to use my existing knowledge of the cleaning industry, which together with the excellent sales and marketing support offered by NIC, meant I was able to grow my business substantially."
Rob has also been able to take advantage of the excellent administrative support provided by NIC, which means all his invoicing, payroll and credit control is taken care of, leaving him free to concentrate on running and growing his business.
Profitable business
Business partners Charlotte and Kerry are among NIC's many success stories who are now enjoying the flexibility running your own commercial cleaning business can bring to your life. With a turnover approaching £2 million a year, the pair have built a profitable business.
Charlotte recalls: "I began to look at commercial cleaning franchises, a sector that stood out for me because there's no limit to your potential earnings and it's an essential service." Kerry adds: "We enjoy running a franchise, especially being your own boss and the flexibility that brings."
As a management franchise, cleaning industry experience is not required to become an NIC franchisee, as a comprehensive training course is provided. Ongoing support and mentoring is also provided through locally based business development managers, who work with and support franchisees to help secure, develop and grow their businesses throughout the life of their franchise.
In addition to the company's substantial experience and success, NIC provides new franchisees with a guaranteed minimum gross profit* offer through its 'Business Builder' programme.
NIC's business development team will help secure new contracts and in the first year of your franchise the company will provide you with a guaranteed minimum gross profit from day one.
*Subject to your investment level.
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