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Newburg R-II School Board members approved a list of objectives to meet in the district's Comprehensive School Improvement Plan (CSIP) at their meeting Dec. 20.
Newburg R-II School Board members approved a list of objectives to meet in the district's Comprehensive School Improvement Plan (CSIP) at their meeting Dec. 20.
A CSIP is a five-year strategic plan, which identifies important long-range improvement issues related to student achievement and describes in detail the actions that will be taken to address the issues.
A CSIP is a required element of the Missouri School Improvement Plan (MSIP).
"We have a CSIP and we revamped it in the fourth cycle of MSIP and we came to a five-goal format with objectives and strategies," said Newburg Schools Superintendent John Westerman at the board meeting.
Westerman explained that the CSIP has a list of "overriding things we need to accomplish, especially over the next year." Under the CSIP are building school improvement plans, technology plans, special education compliance plans and other plans. For instance, each building within the district has its own building-level specific strategies and action plans to meet the overall district objectives but may also include additional objectives to be met at the building level.
The five goals listed in the school district's CSIP are the same ones that the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) have come up with.
Newburg Schools staff member Rose Blair said the plan has measureable objectives and will explain "who will do what in what time period."
The CSIP explains how certain issues will be remedied and represents a commitment by the district to make improvements.
Annual review of student performance data is used to assist with making revisions in specific strategies of both the building level and district level CSIP objectives.
"What we're trying to do is come up with a process that we always follow and with this process, each year, we'll have a needs assessment and that needs assessment will come from the bottom up. What we've been doing is top down."
Westerman said he wants the process to not be dependent on specific individuals. "We've got to do something to make sure the process continues" regardless of who is in certain positions in the district, the superintendent said.
The objectives that were unanimously approved by all seven board members at their Dec. 20 meeting are listed below.
The Newburg Mission Statement is "Newburg has C.L.A.S.S.: Committed to Learning and Student Success."
Goal 1: Develop and enhance quality educational/instructional programs to improve performance and enable students to meet their personal, achievement and career goals.
• Objective 1: Develop and implement plans to ensure all students are demonstrating growth and/or achieving at or above state mandated levels as determined by annual state-mandated assessments and/or district determined assessments in an annual review.
• Objective 2: Develop and implement plans to support at-risk students to persist in graduation goals with their cohort groups.
Goal 2: Recruit, attract, develop, and retain highly qualified staff to carry out the LEA (local educational agency)/District mission, goals and objectives.
• Objective 1: Develop and implement plans to provide students with a highly effective, professional and caring staff throughout their academic time in the district. This is measured through staff participation in annual district evaluations.
Goal 3: Provide and maintain appropriate instructional resources, support services, functional and safe facilities.
• Objective 1: Facilities that are adequate to house the programs of the district as reviewed by the district on an annual review by a district facilities committee.
• Objective 2: Provide an environment that is physically and emotionally safe and clean for students, staff, and patrons as determined by annual review by district staff and administrators.
• Objective 3: Provide and support technology for the utilization of current and future technology needs of students and other district stakeholders as determined by the district's technology committee's annual review.
Goal 4: Promote, facilitate and enhance parent, student and community involvement in LEA/District educational programs.
• Objective 1: Develop and implement plans to enhance the school district's external communication process as measured by annual review conducted by district staff.
• Objective 2: Develop and implement programs and opportunities to foster positive relationships with individuals, organizations and agencies in and near the district. This will be measured annually, through criteria developed within the district.
Goal 5: Govern the LEA/District in an efficient and effective manner providing leadership and representation to benefit the students, staff and patrons of the district.
• Objective 1: Internal communication will be efficient, support staff engagement, and promote student achievement as reviewed annually by district personnel and district-established criteria.
• Objective 2: Building level school improvement plans will be developed and reviewed annually for modification as objectives are met and/or building needs change.


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Request / Response applications use the reply-to property, described in Table 1.9, "Mapping to AMQP 0-10 Message Properties", to allow a server to respond to the client that sent a message. A server sets up a service queue, with a name known to clients. A client creates a private queue for the server's response, creates a message for a request, sets the request's reply-to property to the address of the client's response queue, and sends the request to the service queue. The server sends the response to the address specified in the request's reply-to property.
Example 1.18. Request / Response Applications in C++
This example shows the C++ code for a client and server that use the request / response pattern.
The server creates a service queue and waits for a message to arrive. If it receives a message, it sends a message back to the sender.
Receiver receiver = session.createReceiver("service_queue; {create: always}"); Message request = receiver.fetch(); const Address& address = request.getReplyTo(); // Get "reply-to" from request ... if (address) { Sender sender = session.createSender(address); // ... send response to "reply-to" Message response("pong!"); sender.send(response); session.acknowledge(); }
The client creates a sender for the service queue, and
also creates a response queue that is deleted when the
client closes the receiver for the response queue. In the C++
client, if the address starts with the character
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Sender sender = session.createSender("service_queue"); Address responseQueue("#response-queue; {create:always, delete:always}"); Receiver receiver = session.createReceiver(responseQueue); Message request; request.setReplyTo(responseQueue); request.setContent("ping"); sender.send(request); Message response = receiver.fetch(); std::cout << request.getContent() << " -> " << response.getContent() << std::endl;
The client sends the string
ping to
the server. The server sends the response
pong back to the same client, using the
replyTo property.
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Intercultural Studies
Minor in Intercultural Studies
Seminary Undergraduate Programs
As the entire world becomes more accessible and the workplace becomes increasingly multinational, it is more likely that Christians in a variety of technical and professional disciplines will spend part of their careers in a cross-cultural setting. Whether in the United States or abroad, the Intercultural Studies (Missions) minor is designed to help prepare men and women to work effectively in whatever setting they are called to as communicators of the gospel.
The Intercultural Studies (Missions) program is tailored to the needs of individual students. The Intercultural Studies (Missions) minor does not automatically satisfy all educational requirements for ministerial credentials with the General Council of the Assembly of God, and students may need to complete additional educational requirements depending on the policy of the District in which they are seeking credentials. The minor examines the practical aspects of cross-cultural living and how to understand different cultural factors. Attention is given to developing an understanding of the diversity of cultures throughout the world.
Program Plan (pdf)
|Want to see exactly what classes you will take? The Program Plan (sometimes called a degree sheet) includes all specific requirements - including University proficiencies, Frameworks courses and degree requirements.
Each of Evangel's academic programs is made up of a set of core curriculum, program requirements and electives. The courses listed below are just a small sample of courses that might be taken as a part of this specific program.
|Introduction to Intercultural Ministries
|Introduction to contemporary missions work and its biblical basis.
|Working Cross-Culturally
|Practical aspects of cross-cultural living. Attention to personal and family adjustments and to understanding and living among people whose culture is different from one's own.
|Intercultural Communications
|The impact of culture on the communication process. Attention to developing an understanding of the diversity of cultures in the world and of the ways cultural differences influence the ways people interact.
|Best Practices in Modern Missions
|Missionary history, principles, and methods. Attention to the history of missions of the Assemblies of God.
|Team Building and Sending Agencies
|Examination of a variety of sending agencies with special attention to the policies of the Assemblies of God World Missions and the Assemblies of God Home Missions. Also investigates current topics in missions strategy.
Evangel University's world-class faculty is made up of caring, Christian professionals who are distinguished in their fields and dedicated to the development of tomorrow's Christian leaders.
Paul York: Assistant professor of Intercultural Studies
Paul York grew up in a missionary family in Nigeria and later served as a Bible college professor in Ethiopia. He has led short-term church planting teams to Africa and has done teaching, preaching, and team leading in Europe, Central America and Asia. He and his wife, Lisa, also were U.S. missionaries with Chi Alpha. […] read more
NOTE: A minor is a secondary field of interest that is meant to complement your academic major. While your major is chosen for your intended career choice, your minor may be something you pursue for your personal interest or to augment your major.
General Undergraduate Requirements
The following are general requirements for all students beginning an undergraduate program at Evangel. For more information visit Undergraduate Admissions Requirements.
|Graduation from high school, or having the equivalent of a high school diploma such as the General Education Development (GED) examination.
|Core Subjects
|A minimum of a 2.0 GPA in core college prep classes (English, math, social sciences and science with a lab) or high school final GPA if no college credits have been earned.
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|>Entering freshmen should take the ACT or SAT test. The codes for Evangel are as follows: SAT: 6198. ACT: 2296.
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"It's up to me to provide momentum, energy, and an impulse to the project." In his first interview, Jeremy Herrin talks about his role as a director and his return to the Globe stage. He also discusses his casting process and how he approaches Shakespeare's text.
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Harper Ray:
Welcome to the first ever "Adopt a Director" podcast series. My name is Harper Ray and I'll be talking to director, Jeremy Herrin. Through these conversations, Jeremy will chart his journey in staging The Tempest at Shakespeare's Globe for the 2013 season. In this first interview, we will explore his thoughts on directing, thoughts on The Tempest, and wider issues relating to directing for the Globe.
Have you directed Shakespeare before and where was that?
Jeremy Herrin:
That was [here] at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre and it was a couple of years ago. It was a production of Much Ado About Nothing, which turned out to be one of the great experiences of my life. That was the first Shakespeare that I'd ever directed. I suppose the thing about Shakespeare that I think is most remarkable – even more remarkable than the incredible skill he's got as a dramatist, in that he keeps the whole story moving brilliantly and there's moments of real poetry and transport and drama and comedy and you get a real sense that all the characters are subtly and peculiarly different – I think that even more impressive than all of that is the generosity of the world view behind it. There's no cynicism in there, but there's a lot of realism. There's no short cuts or sentimentality. It's just an incredible experience.
What do you see a role of the director as being?
Well, it's lots of different things, depending on what's needed at the time. I suppose it's up to me to provide momentum and energy and an impulse to the project. It's up to me to practically make it happen. It's up to me to be the arbiter of taste. It depends how you do it. And I chose to try and be as much of a facilitator as possible. I provide a platform, or an opportunity, for the other artists that I'm working with to express themselves and to do their best work: work that feels true to the text and true to themselves. So, it's lots of different things but, at it's best, it's a collaborative facilitator.
At this point, do you have an idea of the major themes or issues in the play?
Today, it strikes me that it's a play about vengeance and vengeance being overtaken by virtue. As human beings, we have a base instinct to rectify the wrongs we might have received through a violence or recrimination on some level. And yet, the highest part of ourselves is about forgiveness and the possibility of redemption. And that's often a very difficult place to get to, even in everyday life in the 21st century. To feel a sense of generosity towards someone who's behaving aggressively is a really difficult place to get to. And I think – today, anyway. Probably because of the work I've been doing this morning – it seems to me that it's a play that anatomizes that on a fairy tale scale.
When casting central roles, what were you looking for and why?
I don't know. It's an instinctive and intuitive thing that, as a director, I feel I want to see that person play that part. And that it would feel right that that person plays that part if this other person plays that particular part. So, you just start to form a picture. There's a lot of trial and error with casting but it's intuitive and instinctive. Physically, you want to be able to tell the story: if you didn't hear it [the play], you would want to feel the sense that the story was right. So, physically, you do a bit of casting. But there's no point in just casting physically. You want actors that can respond to the text and have got the skills and the talent to form their interpretation with all the tricks of the trade. And you want people that are going to be interested in working in the way I [or you] like to work.
Did you have a particular text or edition that you used? And if so, did you edit it?
We used the folio. We worked with Giles [Block, Globe Associate - Text] on the folio. He knocked up something from the folio that was as close to the original punctuation that we could get. Which I really like because it doesn't normalize the speaking in the way that a 21st century editor would do with a full stop because there's lots of colons, which means that the energy flows through the lines. And it means that the actors can go on and then they can play it at pace, which I think is one of the best ways to play Shakespeare. It's almost like if you stopped and you explained every image, there'd be far too much to cope with. Whereas, if you understand everything and you try and communicate it quickly, it goes in. T.S. Elliot said this thing: "poetry communicates beyond comprehension." So, you don't have to understand it but you fundamentally comprehend it. Understanding is somehow more weighty than being able to pick apart each image. And, I suppose, if you stopped and explained everything, you wouldn't stand a chance because the writing is so fertile.
How does knowing that this production is intended for the Globe stage change or impact your approach?
Well, if you were doing it in another theatre with lights and with a different stage, I would definitely have made lots of different design choices. And, I suppose, it's really possible to do a really good modern dress or a contemporary setting of The Tempest that would work really nicely. But my feeling was that that wouldn't work so well in the Globe because the environment is so complete. It's almost like a set in itself that places it in a historical context, which is wonderful for all sorts of other aspects of the play and certainly in terms of the stuff that I was saying before about not reducing the play to a thesis. It [the stage] prevents you doing that. It sits the play up and it allows you to help yourself, in terms of its broader thematic meaning, which is really great.
But, if I was doing it in another [space], that'd be a different thing. I think I'd be more interested in creating contemporary stereotypes to explain some of the comedy, in a way that you probably can't do in that setting [at the Globe]. There are all sorts of issues about lighting: you could cut from scene to scene in a more contemporary and naturalistic way [in other spaces] in a way that you just can't do at the Globe because it's daylight or light's on all the time. So, you are often aware that you are in a play, which is good for comedy, as well, because there's no fourth wall. That is really flexible. And I think a lot of people are funny about the actors' relationship with the audience, in that it seems sort of vulgar or crude. But, actually, it's because it's all things: it can be as heightened as it can be crude. I think people that are worried about that are people that are probably worried about life itself because you've got all of those registers (those tonal registers) from the most base to the most spiritual, the most elevated. And it seems [there's] something slightly prissy and Victorian about trying to contain reality behind an imaginary fourth wall. I think what's wonderful about the Shakespearean stage is that it's there and that it's undeniable in reality. It's got a beating heart and it smells and it's real. And often, that's inconvenient because we have to engage with what the cleverest person in history tells us life and reality is. So, it's great for that.
Obviously, this play features different locations (including the shipwreck) and various magical acts. Now, you've mentioned before about different mechanics that other theatres can employ such as stage lighting or projection or pre-recorded sound effects. Without those things here [at the Globe], how do you approach conveying some of those?
Well, I suppose you really lean on the language and the intention of the actors and the conspiracy that we can all create within that circle, with the audience about believing it. At the moment, we're trying to do the shipwreck in the first scene. [It] has got a level of self-conscious playmaking about it. We'll see how we go. But, at the moment, my instinct is that we're going to literally ask the audience to help create that in quite a subtle way. But their imagination will be involved in that way and then I think we'll move on from there. That was the wonderful thing that I discovered last time, doing Much Ado About Nothing. There was no way I could have predicted (and I didn't predict) how much of a part of the experience the audience is. So, this time, I know what that is and I'm going to have fun using that. Last time, it took me a few previews to realize, "actually, we could have a lot of fun here." And the audience is really, really up for that. And they're really up for being engaged. There's something about people being on their feet and only paying a fiver that makes for a really great night or afternoon. It's because they really want to be there. And, actually, if they didn't want to be there, they could just walk out. I think that's really, really wonderful. Rather than a 20th or 21st century audience that are sat passively in the dark, waiting for things to happen to them, in the Elizabethan model, they [the audience] are going to make it a good afternoon. They're going to make it a good night.


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Ghost467 wrote:Narya putting clothes back on is better than any invention he could ever make.
frodofrodo wrote:Ghost467 wrote:Narya putting clothes back on is better than any invention he could ever make.
Truth be told >.>
Dabloxxer wrote:Agreed
Btw ive been waiting for something on wongen thats from after cata release
Such as:
-Monster ambush; *dismount*__*transform to worgen* *gets head crashed in halfway through transformation*
-revisiting gilneas after done with the queast chain (part of warcief's command: silverpine forest; or worgen starting quests)
-bosses respawning every 5 seconds >=[
-roit of he fans who wanna be in thier own comic strip!!!!!
-Educational Comics
-how he got the worgen into the stocks
-the inventions they yelled about
-worgen biting a scourge zombie, then getting zombified by the plauge goo
-the charecters breakung through the lines between comics and waging war
-how i can't spell on my ipod
-how city vendors have such crappy armor despite being centers of trade; and how you can find thebest armour from isolated merchants withiut any way to store 5 sets of armour,shield,and weapon and infinite food!
-Inflation of gingerbread over holidays, and plain old overpricing(ex. 50 silver per light leather)
-and how hard it can be to find a set of matching armour due to them being leggings of (one genus of an certian species[brown bear, black bear, thristle bear)
-uhh.... some weird loophole in tye plot(ex. stormwind stockade dungeon, there a hole in its plot)
-stupid npc
-this endless list
Dabloxxer wrote:PS if you didnt notice i spelled worgen wrong in my list, sorry i use my ipod for this when i can, as i have a program that limits my computer time...
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pgabrail needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 34 designs submitted by 10 freelance designers.
Access Outdoor Storage
We are a new outdoor storage facility that caters to RVs, boats, semi-trucks, large dump trucks, etc...we specialize in the big stuff that can't be stored indoors.
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This logo will be used on billboards and other forms of advertising so it has to have great appeal and ease to look at.
Anyone and everyone with a large RV/Boat/SemiTruck/equipment/etc...
No real requirements. Just make sure you look at our website to get an idea of the look.
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Hypnotic Media LLC needed a new other design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 21 designs submitted by 8 freelance designers.
This is design that is going to go on a webpage designed to sell a product. The format should be gif
Hypnotic Sales Control
I'm looking for a graphic of a program I am promoting. The program is about sales using hypnotic mindcontrol. I am enclosing a design for my hypnotic mind control book and want to have something similar but with a slant on sales. go to http://www.secretsofmindcontrol.net/book.html for the example
- It must have a sales theme such as someone handing over money or signing a contract etc..
- It must be a book and 4 DVD and 4 CD's
- gif format is prefered
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Brad Banker grew up a sports fan outside Green Bay, Wis., but auto racing was not high on his list of passions. His father was a longtime employee of the Packers and Banker, who somehow became a fan of the rival Minnesota Vikings, wound up playing football and lacrosse at Moorhead State in Minnesota.
Banker taught for a year after getting his master's, but went into commercial real estate to make a little more money. But it wasn't until Banker got his commercial trucking license and found a job working for Andretti Racing that he finally found his dream job.
Starting off driving the team's haulers from stop to stop, Banker eventually got a part-time gig changing tires on pit road and wound up overseeing the team's logistical issues for everything from corporate tents to Port-o-Johns. He still moonlights as a tire changer for Indy Car driver E.J. Viso.
"If they let me sit around and play with million-dollar cars, it's pretty hard to go back to work in a school," said Banker, who went to graduate school in order to become a teacher, coach and eventually a high school athletic director.
Banker, 33, has the kind of job that many race car fans would covet: being part of the week-to-week IndyCar Series caravan that crisscrosses the country – and the world – for one of the longest seasons in sports. Last week it was Sonoma, Calif., and this week it's been the Grand Prix of Baltimore.
Though he arrived by airplane ahead of the haulers, which set up shop in the parking lot of Oriole Park on Thursday after driving cross country, Banker knows he and others have a busy week ahead in feeding the crews for five different drivers as well as many of the team's four dozen sponsors and their guests.
It's somewhat of a homecoming for Banker, who also spent a year managing apartments at UMES.
"It was interesting coming from Green Bay to a historically black college," Banker said. "Coming from a little town in Wisconsin, you don't really understand the scope of the world. Traveling around the world with Andretti Racing is also pretty interesting."
Now settled in Indianapolis with his wife, Banker is only one of the key behind-the-scenes employees for the Andretti Racing team, which takes upwards of 150 people on the road each week. Feeding them alone costs $10,000 a week, according to Banker.
"Some weekends it's bigger because it's in-market [for the sponsors]," Banker said.
There is also the cost of hotels, rental cars and planes – as well as maintaining the race cars so they're in peak condition come race day. Given the nomadic nature of the IndyCar series itself, most of those not driving rarely have a day off.
E.J. Viso, a 28-year-old Venezuelan who drives in the IndyCar Series for Andretti Autosport, said that "pretty much this job [driving] is what happens behind the scenes, what you see in a race weekend is pretty much the result of what you see behind the scenes.
"Many people think that racing is cool, it's simple and that's it. You come and race on the weekend and that's it. But actually the only fun part of being a race car driving is that race on the weekend.
"Everything behind it is what is reallly tough and probably makes the difference between drivers, between teams. The difference between a winning driver and team is the amount of preparation behind the scenes."
Erwin Brecher, Andretti's Austrian-born, Seattle-based chef, joined Andretti Autosport around the same time as Banker. He has been working with the Andretti family for more than 30 years, initially through the team's association with Texaco.
Brecher cooks up more than 600 meals each weekend, including a filet mignon dinner on Sunday. For the race at Mid-Ohio last month, Brecher said that he prepared more than a dozen seven-pound filets, 50 pounds of fish, 30 pounds of bacon, a couple cases of potatoes and vegetables.
The day starts around 4 a.m.
"In my position, if you are a race fan, it won't work," Brecher said. "By the time the race starts, you have to clean everything up and break everything down. Watch it on TV or read it in the papers the next day. After so many years, it's like everything else."
Not that Brecher is much of a race fan.
"I take the Fifth," he said with a laugh.


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Join the various chamber ensembles for performances representing student and faculty talent. The concert is free, no ticket required, and everyone is welcome to attend.
Small performing groups such as the woodwind, brass, and string ensembles give students the opportunity to explore the wealth of repertoire that has been written for smaller instrumental combinations. Typical ensembles include the Buffalo State College Saxophone Quartet, Clarinet Choir, Flute Trio, Brass Quintet, and String Quartet, all of which play music from a broad spectrum of styles, by composers as various as Mozart, Villa-Lobos, Beethoven, Lennon-McCartney, Nelhybel, Bach, and Jobim. Students in these groups enjoy the challenge and rewards of playing one-on-a-part, and perform not only in concert situations, but also for college and community events such as receptions and awards ceremonies.


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(Left) Ricardo Sandoval, (middle) Juliann Scheafer, (Right) Jason Greenberg, 2017 Orange County Roadeo winners.
Newport-Mesa Unified School District (NMUSD) school bus drivers Ricardo Sandoval, Juliann Scheafer and Jason Greenberg win top honors at the 57th annual Orange County School Bus Roadeo, which attracted nearly 100 drivers.
Ricardo Sandoval, who has been a school bus driver with NMUSD for four years, won first place in the county and first place overall. Juliann Scheafer was awarded third place in the county. As a team, Ricardo, Juliann and Jason placed first countywide.
NMUSD school bus drivers have been competing in the Roadeo, on and off, since 1991, and have amassed 18 first place individual wins and seven team wins at the county level.
School Bus Safety Roadeos are held across the United States and require drivers to pass a written test prior to competing in the seven behind the wheel events. The emphasis throughout the competition is safety and by design, increases safety awareness. Various Roadeos occur throughout California, leading up to the statewide competition. Drivers that perform well at the state level are invited to compete at the International Roadeo competition. Last year, NMUSD bus driver Victor Garza was awarded first place at the International Roadeo. Part of NMUSD's success in the Roadeo can be attributed to the rigorous training program, ongoing education and testing that takes place within the district.
"Everything we do, all of the training, all of the testing is to increase safety. We want parents to know that we have some of the best drivers in the state," said NMUSD Transportation Operations Supervisor Norm Turner.
Participation in the Roadeo is voluntary and NMUSD consistently participates and succeeds at these events. Some drivers attend the Roadeo even if they are not participating in the competition just to support their colleagues, often times cooking and volunteering at the event.
There is a proud history throughout NMUSD of providing safe and efficient school bus transportation. NMUSD is an industry leader in student transportation for a variety of reasons including maintaining clean buses in good working order, having some of the best drivers in the state, and assisting other districts implement the Bus in the Classroom student transportation safety skill training program.
NMUSD is currently hiring bus drivers! If you or someone you know is interested in joining an award-winning team of school bus drivers, please visit the job opportunities website. Drivers can start with little or no experience and through paid training get the experience and licensing necessary to become a school bus driver. Juliann Scheafer, one of this year's award-winning Roadeo participants, began with NMUSD in 2014 with no previous experience. She received her training through NMUSD and went on to successfully compete at the state level finishing with a fourth place win within her first year.


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Whether in the areas of bathroom and wellness, fine dining, tiles or cooking, our products distinguish themselves through noble impression, intuitive manageability and long-lasting quality. Let yourself be surprised and convinced by our innovative design made by Villeroy & Boch.


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Tip by mom's ex sparked Boatright probe
The information that sparked UConn point guard Ryan Boatright's latest eligibility review was brought to the NCAA by an ex-boyfriend of Boatright's mother, a source said.
This ex-boyfriend also tipped off the NCAA on the plane ticket Boatright received from former AAU coach Reggie Rose, a violation that cost him the first six games of his freshman year.
The source said the current review also involves allegations of "some type of improper benefit from the AAU team."
The man who provided the information had a court case against Tanesha Boatright, a source said, and is "doing whatever he can to get back at her. It has little to do with Ryan.
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"He doesn't even know the rules and regulations of the NCAA and recruitment," the source said. "He was just throwing everything out there."
The ex-boyfriend is also a cousin of Boatright's father.
Boatright sat out of Saturday's win over Notre Dame after learning of the review Friday night. UConn officials did not comment on the expected timetable for the current investigation.
Boatright can practice with the team while the process takes place, but is not allowed to participate in games or travel with the team. He was present for the Notre Dame game, roughly 120 miles from his hometown of Aurora, Ill., simply because UConn had already landed in South Bend when it was contacted by the NCAA.
Boatright is averaging 10.2 points, 3.5 rebounds and 3.2 assists per game.


text: "Shout! The Mod Musical" on stage at the Saint Michael's Playhouse, July 31 - Aug 10 News Home 07.24.13 By: Buff Lindau L to R: Stefanie O'Connell, Chelsey Whitelock, Beth Kuhn, Charlotte Munson, Amanda Ryan Paige. Photo by Brian MacDonald Shout! The Mod Musical showcases the fabulous sounds that made England swing in the 60s, and chronicles the dawn of a new era, complete with fashions and dances, music and hair. The show presents an irresistible blend of captivating songs, eye-popping dress and psychedelic dances "that make you want to stand up and Shout!" Shout! The Mod Musical appears at the Saint Michael's Playhouse July 31 to August 10. The show will be staged, evenings at 8 p.m. July 31 – August 3, 6-10; and matinees at 2 p.m. August 3 and 10. "Every year we like to end our season with a crowd-pleasing smash hit, and this year is no exception," said Chuck Tobin, producing artistic director of the Playhouse. "Shout! The Mod Musical features music that topped the charts from 1960 to 1970. The music of Petula Clark, Dusty Springfield, Cela Black and other British '60s pop stars will have you dancing in your seat and singing along," Tobin said. "This show brings back the sounds that made England swing in the '60's with eye-popping fashions and of course those over-the-top hairdos." Playhouse accolades Saint Michael's Playhouse, now in its 66th season, is an award-winning professional theater, recognized by NYC Drama League as "one of the best regional theater companies in America," and named "Best of New England" by Yankee Magazine. Keith Andrews (Director/Choreographer) Previously at the Playhouse, Keith directed last year's productions of Nunsense and Forever Plaid as well as The Drowsy Chaperone, The Marvelous Wonderettes, Spelling Bee, Always…Patsy Cline, Dames at Sea, Breaking Up is Hard to Do, Barnum, Pump Boys and Dinettes, Suds, My Way, The Pirates of Penzance, and Big River. Keith has directed the National Tours of The Full Monty and Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh and other recent directing/choreography credits include: 9 to 5, the Musical (starring Sally Struthers), Avenue Q, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (starring Joe Piscopo), The Wedding Singer, My Fair Lady, and Little Shop of Horrors, to name just a few. As a choreographer, Keith has recently worked on the world premiere of Love, Incorporated and has received a New York Innovative Theater Award for Best Production of a Musical and nomination for Best Choreography for his work on the new show, Like You Like It. As a performer, Keith has toured all over the world with shows such as: West Side Story, Mame, Jesus Christ Superstar and the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. In educational theater, Keith directs and choreographs student industry showcases at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in NYC. Tom Cleary (Music Director) has long-term performing associations with artists including Ray Vega, Ellen Powell and recently bassist Mike Gordon. He has been featured as a pianist on recordings by trombonist Rick Davies (Salsa Norteña) and vocalist Hillary Capps (A Perfect Dozen and Playlist), and as an arranger on the album Hey Sadie by singer/songwriter Amber deLaurentis (all available on iTunes). As a composer he was recently commissioned by the group Social Band (his piece 'Three Seasons' will be included on their forthcoming third CD). As a musical director he has worked on many productions at Saint Michael's Playhouse, including Into the Woods, The Drowsy Chaperone, and Forever Plaid. Cast (in their own words): Beth Kuhn (Yellow Girl) is so thrilled to be working at Saint Michael's Playhouse for the first time! National Tours: Legally Blonde (Mom/Whitney, u/s Paulette/Vivienne) New York/Regional: Nunsense (Robert Anne, Flat Rock Playhouse), Legally Blonde (Mom/Whitney, Ogunquit Playhouse), Red Hot and Blue (Vivian, Musicals Tonight!), Pump Boys and Dinettes (Prudie Cupp, Heritage Theatre Festival), Gypsy (June, Cohoes Music Hall), Urinetown (Soupy Sue, Rocky Mountain Repertory) and many others. Beth is a proud graduate of the University of Michigan. Charlotte Munson (Blue Girl) is thrilled to be back at Saint Michael's Playhouse! SMP credits include Rapunzel in Into the Woods and Edith in The Pirates of Penzance. She was most recently seen Off-Broadway as a finalist in NYMF's Next Broadway Sensation at New World Stages. She directed and wrote Calendar Girls produced in NYC at the Drama Bookshop. Charlotte has won the Boston Lotta Award, Lyric Theatre Award, and the New Horizon's Playwright's Award in LA for her play Look at Me. NYC: Wendy in Princes, Cinderella in Disenchanted, and Sydney in The Hedge Fund directed by Tony Spinosa. Regional: Pennywise in Urinetown with Bigfork Playhouse, Juliet in Romeo and Juliet with NE Shakespeare Ensemble, and Jane in Quilters with VTC. Stefanie O'Connell (Red Girl) A graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts (CAP21), Stefanie's past credits include the tours of Cinderella starring Lea Salonga (u/s Cinderella), Oklahoma! (u/s Ado Annie), and Fancy Nancy (Nancy). Other credits include How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Phyllis Who) at Madison Square Garden in New York City, West Side Story (Maria), and Celebration (Angel). Stefanie is also training for the NYC Marathon this fall! Amanda Ryan Paige (Green Girl) Off-Broadway: Zanna Don't! (Houseman); Charlie Brown, Henry and Mudge (Lortel). Other NYC Credits: Trailer Park (NYMF); Awesome 80's Prom (workshop/co-writer); Dreams This Way/ Raw Impressions (TADA!); Babes In Toyland (Avery Fisher); Lucky Stiff (APAC). National Tour: Fiddler, Water Coolers. Regional: Ring of Fire (Alhambra); Boeing Boeing, Pump Boys and Dinettes, Trailer Park (Mason St.); Nunsense, Unnecessary Farce, Marvelous Wonderettes, Boeing Boeing, Perfect/Change, Brighton Beach Memoirs (Saint Michael's Playhouse); Nunsense, Boeing Boeing, Spelling Bee (Northern Stage); Ring of Fire (Fireside); Pump Boys and Dinettes, Trailer Park (Willows); Pump Boys and Dinettes, Stand By Your Man (Mtn. Playhouse); Urinetown (Carousel); Das Barbecu (Arvada); No, No Nanette (Goodspeed); Noises Off!, Brighton Beach Memoirs (Leatherstocking); Carousel, Over Here! (Conn. Rep) Chelsey Whitelock (Orange Girl) is shouting with excitement to be making her Saint Michael's debut! She was just recently seen as Betty in The Great American Trailer Park Musical at the Merry Go Round Playhouse. She has been seen on the stages of Carnegie Hall, the Gateway Playhouse, Fulton Opera House, Fullerton CLO, and on the North American Tour of Annie to name a few. Information Saint Michael's Playhouse has been producing professional theater since 1947 and is located in Colchester, Vermont minutes from downtown Burlington and Lake Champlain. For more information and tickets, visit saintmichaelsplayhouse.org or call 802-654-2281. Ticket prices: $31.50 – $42.50 Playhouse background The Saint Michael's Playhouse is housed in the Saint Michael's College McCarthy Arts Center, one of the finest theater facilities in the state; the Playhouse attracts approximately 16,000 theatergoers each season. Saint Michael's Playhouse is a professional company operating as an auxiliary enterprise of Saint Michael's College. The Playhouse is Greater Burlington's only Actors' Equity resident theater company and as such operates under contract with Actors' Equity Association in New York City. At the same time, Saint Michael's College students have the opportunity to learn from the pros through internships in technical theater, costuming, lighting, set construction, and publicity.


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The M phase of the cell cycle is the process known as mitosis. Some scientists classify cytokinesis as separate from mitosis, but still in the M phase. Mitosis is split into 4 distinct phases plus cytokinesis.
Prophase is the longest phase of mitosis. Chromatin condenses to form chromosomes, centrioles move to the poles, spindles form, the chromosomes attach to the spindle fibers at the centromere and the nuclear envelope breaks down.
Metaphase is usually brief. Chromosomes line up across the center of the cell and microtubules connect the centromere of each chromosome to the two spindles at the poles.
Anaphase is the next phase. The spindles split the sister chromatids and when they reach the poles and stop moving, anaphase is over.
Telophase if the final phase. The distinct, condensed chromosomes disperse, the nuclear envelope reforms around the chromosomes, and the spindles break apart.
Cytokinesis is the last step of cell division. This involves the division of cytoplasm and the cell membrane pinches shut, separating the two daughter cells.
This Krispy Kreme illustration is actually a great example of what this looks like:
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IFAW Highlights Threats to Sharks in Yemen
Concerned about the conservation of sharks in the Republic of Yemen, the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW - www.ifaw.org) is organizing a national workshop in collaboration with the Yemen Environment Protection Authority.
It is estimated 70 million sharks worldwide are caught every year. Sharks are exploited mainly for their highly valued parts such as fins, teeth and jaws. The demand for shark fin soup drives the cruel practice of "finning" in which a shark's fins are cut off and the animal is thrown back into the water, often alive.
Fifty delegates from Republic of Yemen will gather for the Shark Conservation in Workshop in Al Mukalla City, Yemen, January 19-21, 2013. Delegates are from government and non-government organization authorities which work on regulate and conserve fishery will attend the workshop along with representatives from fishers unions and organizations.
The workshop aims to find ways on how to conserve sharks in Yemen as well as protect sharks from commercial exploitation and overfishing. The workshop also comes within the framework of the preparations for the 16th meeting of the conference of the parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.
Dr. Elsayed Mohamed, IFAW's Middle East Regional Director said: "IFAW aims to draw attention to the threats sharks face and call for shark conservation by bringing together national experts from governmental, scientific and commercial communities to focus on what can be done to save sharks in Yemen."
"The objectives of the workshop are to raise the awareness among officials about shark conservation status in Yemen, identify threats to sharks and suggest recommendations for law enforcement." Dr. Elsayed Mohamed added.
The 50 experts represent Yemeni officials from the General Environment Protection Authority, Ministry of Fisheries, Marine Science & Biological Research Authority, Chamber of Commerce, Cost Guards, Fisheries Associations, Local Governmental Council and fisheries companies.
Expert from IFAW will join the workshop to share best practices about shark conservation and to discuss how international agreements such as CITES can provide the best solutions to save sharks in Yemeni waters.
Dr. Mohamed added: "CITES as a global agreement aimed at regulating, not stopping, the shark fishing industry or affecting domestic fisheries. CITES works to ensure that the international trade in sharks does not threaten their survival."
Throughout the three-day workshop, national experts will review shark species, biology, fishing, national management and legislation in Yemen and define the impact of the government and fishermen on shark conservation. In addition, officials and fishermen will discuss how they can work together to manage and protect shark populations and suggest shark fishery management plans.
Sharks have limited biological productivity and are facing many threats around the world such as overfishing and by-catch. If sharks populations continue to decline, the conservation of the marine ecosystem would be under serious threat.
IFAW promotes responsible shark watching and considers it not only the most sustainable but also economically beneficial. It can generate a significant of revenue for local communities (e.g., the value of reef sharks as an ecotourism asset can be as much as US$200,000/year).
About IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare)
Founded in 1969, IFAW saves animals in crisis around the world. With projects in more than 40 countries, IFAW rescues individual animals, works to prevent cruelty to animals and advocates for the protection of wildlife and habitats. For more information, visit www.ifaw.org. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter.


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Angola and the 3km Wave
This wave doesn't yet have a name. Davey and Benji Brand spent late August surfing a 3km long left somewhere in Angola. They claim to have mainly surfed the first 1.5km which had up to seven makable barrel sections. These Monopoly number figures seem astonishing – fortunately you can judge for yourself.
To accompany the release of this video we interviewed Davey Brand (surfer) and Dan Mace (filmer).
How did it all come about?
"Alan van Gysen had already headed up there with some surfers – they'd been up there for a few days but had left by the time we arrived. We hoped that we'd judged it right." Dan told us "Benji and Davey are both chart hounds and we knew a swell was on the way, but no-one ever expected to find this."
"There were really long waits and when they came through it was the best waves I've seen in my entire life. I've been to Fiji, Hawaii, everywhere. This was by far the best I'd ever seen. The wave itself is a sand-spit quite far out from a little town. The wind pumps the sand into the perfect shape and it's just a mechanical barrel the whole way." Davey Brand
Tell us about the wave itself?
"I've been to Donkey Bay (the original name for Skeleton Bay) and whatnot, but from the beach this looked like an endless, endless wave. It was like a dream. I couldn't believe it." Said Dan. "Like a machine churning out wave, after wave, after wave. There were really long lulls because the period was around 21 seconds."
"22 seconds" Interjects Davey, who's been listening intently until this point. Rubbing his hands down his sides, he elaborates... "There were really long waits between sets but when they came through they were the best waves I've seen in my entire life. I've been to Fiji, Hawaii, everywhere. This was by far the best I'd ever seen. The wave itself is a sand spit quite far out from a little town. The wind pumps the sand into the perfect shape and it's just a mechanical barrel the whole way."
"If you look at it on Google Earth there are thousands of waves which could be this wave" Confirms Dan, keen to make this point. "It will be extremely difficult for people to find it. I don't know exactly how the spot was found originally, I think it was via the locals or some local miners. But there's no-one there. The waves were insane and there was just Benji and Davey.
"You can sort of take off wherever you want on the wave because it's such a perfect shape." Says Davey "But you have to time the paddleout as there are 25 minute periods when it looks like a lake, and then suddenly, a 10 wave set arrives and you've got to be in the right place. There's a really strong rip which pulls you down the point and if you wait for too long then you will be pushed too far down. If you paddled your hardest you'd still end up going backwards.
"Each section of the wave barrels, some faster, some slower, but you can make it through all of them. It was so perfect that it's hard to describe the individual sections as it is just a mechanical barrel."
"The wave was so long I would wait for the boys to catch the set and then head to the bottom of the point to drive them back up. For the first 10 waves you could hear them screaming in the barrel from where I was filming. They'd come out of the water, hang on the side of the car and scream the whole way up to the top of the point before running back out."Dan Mace
"It's like Donkey Bay meets an Indonesian reef." Dan fills in. "It has that Indo feel with a lot of power. It's kind of a complete wave. It draws comparison to Mundaka or Desert Point.
"The wave was so long I would wait for the boys to catch the set and then head to the bottom of the point to drive them back up. For the first 10 waves you could hear them screaming in the barrel from where I was filming. They'd come out of the water, hang on the side of the car and scream the whole way up to the top of the point before running back out."
This search for the new. What drives your exploration?
"I'm creating these short forms for Davey and Benji Drand" says Dan Mace. "The last one was in Namibia but that's now a very marketed wave. So what we have been trying to do is find undiscovered places which no-one has surfed before.
"If it wasn't for blind luck we'd have been stuck. We blew up a car engine, it was so hectic. Even if we released the GPS coordinates it would never get crowded. To get there is a huge ball-ache."
"It would be easier to get into North Korea than to get there. Even if we create a load of hype around it there will never be a crowd. Davey Brand
"It would be easier to get into North Korea than to get there." Agrees Davey. "Even if we create a load of hype around it there will never be a crowd."
"These videos are the unhatched egg of an idea." Says Dan "When I go there I try to get really involved in the culture, gather what the environment is really like and then add the surfing in there. I want it to be of interest to other people as well. For people to say, oh fuck they have waves there, but for it to be approachable by a wider audience."
Angola seems like a challenging place to attempt this?
"Luanda (the capital of Angola) is just about the worst place in the world to film. It is so expensive, and can be tough as they only speak Portuguese, nothing else. When you walk down the street people will come come and bring trouble. Even running for the plane we were stopped by officials who ask, "How many Kwanzas do you have? The currency of Angola."Give us money, give us money, they demand, knowing we are in a rush to get through. They want to take you for what they can." Said Dan.
"There's so much money in Angola." Continues Dan "The Chinese have arrived hungry for resources, they have come in and said 'we will build your roads for you, your high-end hotels if you give us X you know" And that X is I ask? Diamonds? "Oil and the mining." Replies Davey
"When you walk down the road there's a five star hotel but the road is torn-apart, and there's dead dogs lying in the street, flies everywhere." Remembers Dan "There's poverty right there, and then next door a massive hotel with Audi R8s in it, the fanciest cars, and the richest looking people you've ever seen. They probably work in oil. And outside, on the doorstep, just death. There's nothing when you drive down the road. You're like, wow what a nice street.... Everything is still torn apart, completely smashed and broken. We found a completely abandoned village near a waterfall, with everything sort of intact but abandoned since the war.
This is all in the film?
"Yes" replies Dan. "It's hard to know what to include, and there will be more than one edit. But one thing we want to get across is there is no infrastructure. If you crash your car, then you leave it on the side of the road. When you are driving down the road there are endless rusted cars and they have no wheels."
"They take the engines and leave the scrap metal there." Agrees Davey.
"Just on the side of the road, lines of rusting wrecks, there's no space left to crash your car." says Dan "It's hectic. And we had car issues, we had huge car issues, and myself and Davey, well, we're not really mechanics.
"We got lost in the desert the one night trying to find the lodge we were going back to, which is on the beach, but we took the wrong turn and we weren't really familiar with the desert and we were using our iPhones as compasses and Davey was like telling me where to go "head south this is is good. etc."
Straight across the sand?
"There are no roads" Replied Davey "There are just sand dunes and big cliffs. You were driving and all of a sudden there were 50 metre cliffs leering out of the dark."
"We were driving by on iPhone compasses and we compared the phones one was saying North East and the other South West. So we realised we had been driving in a circle. If it wasn't for a faint lighthouse in the distance, which we knew was pretty close to where we were staying then who knows? We saw it out there in the dark, but it was so much further than it looked, and it still took us another three hours to access the point where the lighthouse was."
"We were running out of petrol by that point, which was pretty sketchy." Agrees Davey. "Later we wrecked the radiator and the gasket of the rental car (it had a hole, then two holes, and the water exited) and had to try an explain we needed another car in Portuguese before the next swell arrived. Everything in Angola takes time and everything breaks down. You have to be really, really, patient and it was quite an experience."
"Benji said, quite truthfully, that you can have the best and the worst day of your life in one hour here." Remembers Dan "Things can change quickly and to sort something out simply in Angola is impossible. Even going to the shops to buy some food will result in something going wrong. It teaches you to sit and wait for things to happen. It's tough"
"We want to highlight how difficult it is to get here so people understand." Says Davey. "In the beginning it wasn't this exact wave which brought us here. We looked on Google Earth and saw lots of potential, little bays and thought this would be a nice place to go and check out. It seemed to get a lot of the swells which come from South America a sweep through here, and on the large storms it will be cleaner and calmer than say down in Capetown.
"We never expected to see a wave this good, we just expected to find a few smaller, nice waves. We actually camped a night there on the spit, waiting and checking it every hour, getting in our wetsuits at dawn and surfing all day.
This is an easier wave than Donkey Bay?
Donkey Bay is more of a sand grinder. This spot is a little further out and a little better shaped, the barrels are perhaps a little wider, and it isn't so thick, scary and dark. It was just more perfect.Davey Brand
"Donkey Bay is more of a sand grinder. This spot is a little further out and a little better shaped, the barrels are perhaps a little wider, and it isn't so thick, scary and dark. It was just more perfect. There was a little air drop, but nothing too technical, and certainly nothing like Donkeys. People will compare it because it is such a long barrel and looks somewhat similar but on the wave it feels radically different. They really aren't comparable."
And if you could surf this wave every day how good would you be?
"You'd be very good at barrel-riding that's for sure. It's so easy and machine like that you pick your line and know when to race and when to stall but it's not like Donkey where you have to make the biggest air drop of your life and sneak under the lip and find your line. This is much easier."
"Halfway through the day Benji came to me and said, 'I've got all the barrels that I need. I don't know what I'm doing'." Remembers Dan "When the guys closed their eyes they were just seeing perfect endless barrel shots, tunnel vision. I could hardly drive back after a day of watching waves run along the exact same line, everything was moving in the same fashion as the waves rolling down the point."
"That day we even left early, about 4pm, after surfing for 9 hours straight." Said Davey "Only stopping to catch a lift up. Our legs were cramping and we couldn't move so we called it a day."


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Last night I had the good fortune to practice in the dojo of my good friend and senior, Sensei Pat Nakata, who teaches Chibana Shorin-Ryu. Because a student was visiting from the mainland, the class practiced each of the kata in the style's curriculum. This was a great opportunity for me to get to see the kata and the way that they are performed.
Although I also practice Shorin-Ryu, I practice the Kishaba Juku form, which is based on some of the same and several different kata. But even our kata that are the same, are different.
So I followed along in the back of the dojo, like a little child you might see at a dance performance dancing away on the side to music of his own creation. All together, we practiced the various kata a total of 50 times overall. This took 2 1/2 hours, with a short break and periodic corrections.
Nakata Sensei is an excellent Sensei and has a very serious and organized approach to teaching. And he practices each kata with the students all the time. Not once did he stand on the side and command or simply watch the students. As one of his students mentioned to me, "Nakata Sensei leads from the front." That is good advice for all instructors.
What I would like to address in this post, is the issue of kiai. There were no kiai in any of the kata that Nakata Sensei lead. None. What I mean by this is that there were no designated places in the kata where the student is supposed to kiai (or yell, sort of).
Instead, Nakata Sensei and his students expel their breath with a hiss-like sound for each movement, and tighten their bodies. In essence, they kiai for each movement.
We do the same in Kishaba Juku, but we also kia for certain movements (for those movements, we kiai rather than hiss).
Practicing the kata a total of 50 times was quite a workout for my lungs!
I asked Nakata Sensei about the kiai issue and he told me that there are no kiai in their kata, except for the breath hissing (not his term, just my observation). I asked him whether Chibana Sensei taught any specific kiai points and he said "no." Then I asked if Itosu Sensei taught any specific kiai points, and he said that he did not believe so.
So where did the kiai come from? In my style, we practice the Pinan kata, for example, and there are kiai points. If Itosu Sensei created the Pinan, you would think that he would have been clear about the kiai. Chibana Sensei learned from Itosu Sensei directly, so I an confident that his version of the Pinan is authentic and unaltered, or at least less altered than other styles.
And when you compare different styles of Karate, the kiai in the same kata are often in different places.
One last observation. We always hear that in the really old days, Karate was practiced late at night at the Sensei's family hakka (tomb). At such a place and time, I am pretty sure that the students would not be yelling.
So where did the kiai come from?
My own theory is that specific kiai were added in modern times for performance purposes -- essentially to surprise and impress a crowd. If you think about it, if there are 30 movements in a kata, and the student is supposed to kiai only for two of those movements, what about the other 28? Of course, the answer is that in a real situation, the student will kiai when it is appropriate to do so.
But I do not think that a "loud" kiai is necessary, or even preferable. When you see students kiai with their mouths wide open, you might think that this is unsafe, and that their jaws could easily be broken if hit. They could also bite off their tongues and shatter their teeth.
I prefer the method of using a kiai (the hissing type) for each movement. This also ensures that the students will not hold their breath (on the 28 movements, for example, without a loud kiai).
If you practice kiai all the time, you will likely do so when attacked. If you only practice kiai for performance reasons, you will probably not do so.
These are just my observations and thoughts. If you feel attached to a specifically placed kiai, that is fine. Some people were taught by their instructors that the founder of their style had maintained the kata in unaltered form from ancient times. So the kiai is a special thing... since it must be ancient.
Then again, if all these founders did not change anything, why are there so many differences? Kiai are just the tip of the iceberg on this much larger issue.
I am very grateful to Nakata Sensei and his students for always making me feel at home in their dojo. They have helped me to appreciate and respect Karate even more.
Charles C. Goodin
No Kiai
Last night I had the good fortune to practice in the dojo of my good friend and senior, Sensei Pat Nakata, who teaches Chibana Shorin-Ryu. Because a student was visiting from the mainland, the class practiced each of the kata in the style's curriculum. This was a great opportunity for me to get to see the kata and the way that they are performed.
Posted by Charles C. Goodin on Friday, August 08, 2008


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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Friday, February 26, 2010
Leif Peng: An Illustrator You Should Know?
But Thomas James, the genius behind Escape from Illustration Island, one of the best illustration resources on the Net, seems to think so. Thomas interviewed me recently for his excellent, ongoing EFII podcast series. If you haven't had enough of my blather here on Today's Inspiration (or if you're just curious to hear what I sound like) then go on over to Escape from Illustration Island and click the play button.
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- Chad Sterling6:59 PM
It's a good interview,Leif.I found your thoughts on self-promotion very interesting, so i'm going to have to rethink my strategy there.ReplyDelete
Given your comments about the decline of conventional illustration,arguably more of us are going to become visualizers or concept designers rather than illustrators.
Confession, I always thought your name was pronounced as in 'leaf' raher than 'life'.Apologies.
What happens in Pt2?
I really like Today's Inspiration and have been following for about six months now. I have to say it's one of the best sources and one of those I constantly turn to when I want to find good articles on illustrators. But one thing that I noticed is that I don't see a lot of female illustrators being featured here. Maybe it's been said before, if so my bad. I know it would make it more interesting for many of course including me too.ReplyDelete
I illustrated to it! Kept me working and not singing or doing hip hop hand gestures like music does to me. You've gotta keep talking Leif, you're a good guy to listen to!ReplyDelete
Wow, thanks for your enthusiastic comments and encouragement, everyone. You really made my day :^)ReplyDelete
Chad; I honestly don't remember what I said during that long, rambling - really enjoyable! - conversation with Thomas... but if you found part 1 interesting then I hope part 2 doesn't disappoint. And thanks again :^)
lopez de victoria; I'm so glad you decided to speak up after six months of visiting. Your feedback helps me decide who and what to feature on Today's Inspiration. Actually, I do feature quite a few female illustrators whenever possible ... but the fact that you aren't aware of them tells me I'm not doing a good enough job of pointing them out. I will try to think of something that those with a specific interest in female illustrators of the mid-century can turn to as a quick reference... perhaps a separate blog collecting all the female artists I've featured with a link in the sidebar? we'll see. And thanks again. :^)
Kagan; I was grinning from ear to ear after reading your comment and imagining you drawing while listening to me go on and on. And on. Hip hop is better... J5 is my soundtrack lately... but thanks for the compliment mon ami. :^)
Good point although I don't see why separate? I think one place to go to for all is better than jumping between here and there. Keep it up always :DReplyDelete
So interesting Leif. I can't wait to listen to part 2.ReplyDelete


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I was recently reminded of a saying an employer once told me and that is that "it takes just as long to do it right as it does to do it wrong"! This sentence became my mantra as it proved correct over and over again.
The PPSA in Australia has been modelled on the New Zealand and Canadian model and because of this we can recognise the precedent set in Canada in the case of Fairbanx. This case involved a company called "Friction Tecnology Consultants". Notice the fact that the legally registered name did not include a "h" in the word technology. This business carried on trading with the orthographically correct spelling of the word in their letter head and invoices. They even signed a factoring agreement with a company called Fairbanx using the incorrect spelling.
Fairbanx registered its security interest in Friction Technology Consultants on the PPSR and used the incorrect spelling of the name but did not check the actual registration of the organisation. Later the debtor applied for a loan from Royal Bank based on its current and future owned assets. The bank did a search using the legally incorrect name and found the registration by Fairbanx. The bank agreed to the loan some months later and did a second search using the correct name and found no registrations and placed their own interest. As a condition of the loan the bank had instructed the debtor to cease factoring its accounts with Fairbanx but they ignored this directive.
The bank and Fairbanx ended up in dispute over some invoices that had been factored to Fairbanx. Since both actions were covered by the PPS there is the fact that Fairbanx had registered some two years before the bank. When the case was heard it was found that their registration was unperfected as it was against the incorrectly spelt company name.
There are two very interesting points, even lessons here. You must always be extremely sure as to the actual registered name of the company you are dealing with. The second is to never give up your position even if you think you were last to register as the "Bradbury Rule" exists and the last one standing is likely to be the one paid.


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If you are going to contribute and wish to be the part of ongoing development of BRL-CAD, you are highly recommended to read following introductory article to let you know the current roadmap of the project.
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Last weekend a rather bizarre article appeared in the Wall Street Journal, one that claimed Apple was seeing weak demand for the iPhone 5 based on a couple of guys telling the reporter that screen orders for Q2 had been cut in half, one that original included a ridiculous 65 million unit figure that later disappeared, only to be echoed by Reuters a short time later, one that sent Apple's stock price tumbling -- again -- based on nothing more than unsubstantiated, illogical, incalculable rumor.
That it was the Wall Street Journal that published the story likely lent the story credibility it might not otherwise have enjoyed. A bunch of smart tech heads discussed the story on Branch.
Kevin Michaluk forwarded me the above video from 2010 where Jim Cramer elaborates on how he, and presumably others, manipulate BlackBerry (RIMM) and Apple (APPL) stock by spreading just these types of rumors.
I'm posting it here so I can link back to it any time and every time another one of these rumors surfaces.


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Spring in the NorthWest is such a funny thing. It is both slow and sudden. Winter has casually hung on here, while much of the rest of the country has seen it claim February with a vengeance! We're all mostly content with a mild, damp, coldish month, with the exception of poor BC where they've been desperate for snow and colder temps. As a winter sport comrade and devote, I feel their pain. And I feel the conflicted pain of crossing my fingers for cold weather to hold and more rain/snow to fall so that my upcoming snowboarding trip will be all I'm hoping for, but at the same time my flower loving nature is so excited by the hydrangea buds, cherry blossoms and daffodils that have burst open after the last two days of glorious sunshine and 60 degree weather. Continue reading
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a. a usually subterranean and often globular bud having fleshy leaves emergent at the top and a stem reduced to a flat disk, rooting from the underside, as in the onion and lily.
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Salix discolor [Pussy Willow]
As January rushes past with a blur of wind and rain, and the occasional leftover dead leaf, a few hints of life greet us, reminding us the sun hasn't really forsaken us, and that flowers are soon to be upon us. I am a Winter lover: naked trees, bright green grass, though slightly downtrodden, and cloud filtered daylight actually bring me joy and a sense satisfaction… there is a subtly complex beauty in the network of tree branches the way they are visible in Winter that I can stare at for hours. I so enjoy them that I do not spend Winter depressed and pining for flowers.
Plant of the Week: Lunaria Annua
Commonly known as Money Plant.
As a kid who loved to use anything and everything as "food" or "supplies" for all sorts of play houses in the backyard, the money plant was gold. Continue reading


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Members of the public and local officials turned the spotlight on Met-Ed Thursday evening during a forum addressing the widespread power outages caused by Hurricane Sandy.
Members of the public and local officials turned the spotlight on Met-Ed Thursday evening during a forum addressing the widespread power outages caused by Hurricane Sandy.
"If they gave me a chance to choose my electric provider, I'd drop Met-Ed like a lead balloon and go to PPL," said Stroud Township resident Bruce Samson, who was without power for a week during Sandy.
Bushkill resident Joe Meehan lost $350 worth of food when his power went out for a week and had to stay in a hotel when the temperature in his house dropped to about 44 degrees.
"Did the power company really look at the worst possible scenario?" he asked.
The meeting at Fernwood Resort in Bushkill was attended by Chairman Robert Powelson and other representatives of the state Public Utility Commission, the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency and utility representatives.
The event was organized by state Sen. Lisa Baker, R-20.
The storm brought a record number of downed poles for Met-Ed workers, about 1,040 across the utility's coverage area.
The magnitude of Sandy was very different from Irene or the October snowstorm, said Scott Surgeoner, a representative from Met-Ed who attended Thursday's meeting.
"I want our customers to understand we do appreciate them coming out and we do listen to their feedback," he said. "There are lessons to be learned in every major event, and we are going to do our best to meet our customers' expectations."
At the height of the storm, there were about 92,000 customers without power in Pike and Monroe counties. That includes Met-Ed and PPL customers.
Many of those who attended Thursday's meeting felt PPL had a better response time and repeatedly asked why.
Surgeoner was unsure of how Met-Ed's numbers compared to PPL's in terms of downed poles and wires, and that information was not provided at the meeting.
On Main Street in Stroudsburg, stores connected to PPL lost power for only one day, but those on Met-Ed were out for a week, said Martha Loomis, co-owner of Josephine's Fleur-de-lis.
Loomis, and others at the meeting, cited a lack of communication and access to information about when their power would be restored.
"I came to work every day hoping the electric would be on. I had to pay my bills in the dark," she said.
Meanwhile, next door at Dunkelberger's Sports Outfitter and the 14k Outlet, power was on because those businesses use PPL, she said.
"What our residents needed most of all was information, and that was the one thing I couldn't give them," said Middle Smithfield Supervisor Annette Atkinson.
Township officials repeatedly called Met-Ed, but never got a response, she said.
"We heard from a lot of people that PPL was out fixing while Met-Ed was out assessing," said Lehman Township Supervisor Paul Menditto.
Township officials also learned after the fact that Met-Ed had set up conference calls with certain municipal and county officials.
"Lehman was without power, phone or even cellphone service, so we weren't even aware," said Menditto, who suggested the utility company send out e-mails advertising conference calls in advance of the storm.
Carl Wilgus, Executive Director of the Pocono Mountains Visitors Bureau lost power at 5:45 p.m. Oct. 29, at which time he reported the outage to Met-Ed.
He was contacted by a customer service representative at 11:30 p.m. that night.
"I couldn't get an estimate on when my power would be restored," he said.
At the end of the phone call, the customer representative asked him if he was pleased with how the phone call went.
"Was I pleased? No," he said. "They should have been able to give me an estimate of when my power would be restored."
Met-Ed will continue to work on its response to customers and how it disseminates information, Surgeoner said.
After Irene and the October 2011 snowstorm, Met-Ed launched a "24/7" power center on its homepage with a map showing current outages and links to where customers can report them.
The outage center is also available by smart phone.
In addition, Met-Ed had a First Energy employee stationed at every emergency management facility in their coverage area during the storm.
"We may need to look at doing that on a more local level," Surgeoner said.
As for providing more information about restoration times, "That can be a double-edged sword, because an estimation in a storm of this magnitude is very difficult to make," he said.
The Public Utilities Commission will hold a hearing in Harrisburg on Jan. 10 to again address the performance of the state's utilities companies, Powelson said.
"We heard you loud and clear and this has been an eye opener for us," he said, addressing the crowd Thursday. "I can assure you over the next couple months, we will be taking corrective action against the things we heard here tonight."
A copy of the transcript from Thursday's meeting can be obtained by contacting Lisa Baker at email@example.com.


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Mayor Don Wesely today announced that the City of Lincoln has been awarded a grant of $100,000 in technology improvement products and services by the 3Com Company. The money will be used to help improve the City's constituent services and networking capabilities.
As a component of Mayor Wesely's Information Technology initiative, the City has developed a partnership with University of Nebraska-Lincoln J.D. Edwards Honors Program students to help design an improved tracking system for resolving citizen complaints.
"Our project will result in the development of prototype software that will bridge each different City department's computer tracking system so we can implement a comprehensive constituent services tracking system," said Mayor Wesely. "The resulting electronic tracking system will improve how the City resolves constituent concerns, identify which departments receive the largest number of concerns, help determine where cost efficiencies could be gained and produce quarterly reports by department."
The 3Com Company, which provides much of the City's networking equipment, has placed a high priority on its Urban Challenge Program by providing grants and awards of products and services to non-profit organizations and governmental entities.
"We are very excited about the award of this grant," said Doug Thomas, Information Services Manager for the City of Lincoln. "We're looking forward to continuing our relationship with 3Comm in enhancing our current information technology infrastructure. This grant will assist in our ongoing efforts to continue to provide a high level of service to the citizens of Lincoln and Lancaster County."
3Com's Urban Challenge Program was created to help cities incorporate new uses for information technology into the fabric of their communities and enhance education and public communications systems.
3Com is a provider of innovative, practical and high-value networking products for enterprise customers. 3Com is also a leader in Internet protocol (IP) service platforms and access infrastructure for the network service provider market.
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New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman said on Monday that his office has secured a $9.5 million settlement with SmartBuy, a North Carolina-based retailer and financing firm.
Through a kiosk at Salmon Run Mall in Watertown, N.Y., SmartBuy preyed on Army soldiers stationed at nearby Fort Drum, overcharging them for electronics and forcing them into high-interest installment terms, the Attorney General's office charged.
This is the second settlement Schneiderman has reached with SmartBuy and its affiliated companies, wiping out a total of $12.9 million in debt for service members.
"SmartBuy took advantage of service members using deceptive practices, roping them into high-interest contracts and ruining their credit. These actions are nothing short of unconscionable. I am proud that we were able to wipe out the debts of thousands of men and women who stand up for us every day," Schneiderman said. "While protecting our values overseas, this is the last thing these soldiers needed to be worried about at home."
The New York state investigation revealed that SmartBuy's Salmon Run Mall practices were part of a larger scheme to defraud service members by deceptively reselling them computers and electronics at inflated prices and locking the soldiers into revolving credit agreements with undisclosed fees and very high interest rates paid directly from military paychecks to unlicensed lenders.
SmartBuy purchased merchandise from stores like Sam's Club, Costco and Walmart. The items were then marked up by 200% to 325%, and included an added interest of 10% to 25%. The interest rates averaged out at 244%.
According to the terms of Monday's settlement, the settling companies will contractually release all of the approximately 358 New York State soldiers, and an additional 3,963 soldiers nationwide, from their debt. The defendants will also clear all negative credit reports related to the contracts and will pay a $150,000 penalty to the state. The total value of the second resolution is $9,562,234.10.
Under the consent order and judgment signed by State Supreme Court Justice Hugh Gilbert in Jefferson County, the settling companies also are banned from doing business in New York.


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Media Contact: Museum Communications Officer, Koshland Science Museum
Phone: 202-334-1201, Email: Museum Communications Officer
Maureen O'Leary, Office of News and Public Information, The National Academies
202-334-2138, Email: Maureen O'Leary
March 19, 2009 – WASHINGTON – Beginning in April, a series of events at the Marian Koshland Science Museum will explore climate change and possible solutions from many different angles. In addition, the museum will host a free family day that focuses on keeping pets and their people healthy. The schedule of events follows:
Picturing the Impact of Climate Change
Tuesday, April 7, 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Admission: FREE!
Join NASA scientist Gavin Schmidt and accomplished photographer Joshua Wolfe as they demonstrate how photographs can illustrate the effects of global warming more poignantly than any temperature graph or chart. The two will show photos and satellite images of retreating glaciers, sinking villages in Alaska's tundra, and drying lakes from their new book, Climate Change: Picturing the Science. They will also discuss how scientists gather climate data and come up with cutting-edge research findings. A book signing will follow the event.
Earth Day Poetry Slam
Wednesday, April 22, 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Admission: $7; $5 for students
Climate change is a global problem, but the impacts and potential solutions will affect us locally. Join poets from DC Slam as they express their take on climate change solutions in competitive performance poetry. Expect to be inspired, challenged, and amused! Audience members can also participate and will help judge the competition.
Global Climate Change Science Café: Problems and Solutions
Thursday, April 23, 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Admission: $7; $5 for students
Climate change research has been making headlines for years, but deciphering the data and choosing how to respond on an individual level can be overwhelming. Join Andy Jorgensen, a chemist and educator who is developing curricular materials on climate change, for an interactive, informal discussion. Participants are encouraged to present their suggestions. The event is being hosted by the American Chemical Society.
Healthy Pet, Healthy You
Saturday, May 9, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Admission: FREE!
Why do pets need to be vaccinated? What do those heartworm pills actually do? Find out how to keep pets and their owners healthy at this free family day featuring Heather Bair-Brake, veterinarian and health education coordinator at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In addition, the DC Humane Society will be on hand from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. with some furry friends who are looking for a home.
Climate Change: Birds, Bees, Flowers, and Trees
Thursday, May 14; 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Admission: $7; $5 for students
Learn how rising temperatures are affecting North American songbirds, flowering plants, and other species from Gregory S. Butcher, director of bird conservation at the National Audubon Society; and David Inouye, director of the sustainable development and conservation biology graduate program at the University of Maryland. Participants will learn how the impacts of climate change are studied in plants and animals as well as how to observe and collect data as "citizen scientists." The event is being sponsored by the National Environmental Education Foundation.
Tickets and additional information are available through the museum at 202-334-1201 or the events page; advance ticket purchase is recommended for all events. Reporters who wish to cover these programs should pre-register.
The Marian Koshland Science Museum engages the general public in an exploration of the current scientific issues that affect their lives. The museum's state-of-the-art exhibits, public events, and educational programs provide information that stimulates discussion and provides insight into how science supports decision-making. Located at 6th and E streets, N.W., the museum is easily accessible by metro at the Gallery Place/Chinatown and Judiciary Square stops.