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A federal judge Friday gave the Tucson Unified School District approval to close 11 schools, TUSD announced on its website.
The district plans to close the schools at the end of the current school year to save $4.2 million. That is part way toward a projected $17 million budget deficit TUSD faces next school year.
Court approval was required for the closure because the district is under a federal desegregation order being overseen by a court-appointed official, known as a "special master."
"The closures are subject to court-adopted conditions that were put forth by the special master appointed by the court to oversee the desegregation order known as the Unitary Status Plan," the TUSD announcement said. The plan is the governing document for the desegregation case, which dates to the 1970s.
Changing attendance boundaries to accommodate the schools' students still requires court approval, officials said. TUSD has held public meetings in the last month to explain the proposed boundary changes in affected areas.
Schools scheduled for closure when classes recess for the summer are Brichta Elementary School, Carson Middle School, Corbett Elementary School, Fort Lowell-Townsend K-8, Hohokam Middle School, Howenstine High School, Lyons Elementary School, Maxwell Middle School, Menlo Park Elementary, Schumaker Elementary School and Wakefield Middle School.
Maxwell, now housing sixth, seventh and eighth graders, will reopen in the fall as a K-8 school, according to TUSD.
The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund filed a federal court objection to the proposed closures last month. The objection said Tucson Unified "is causing disruption to thousands of students" and the criteria used to chose which schools to close was flawed, according to court documents.
"Any type of change to the number of schools or the location of school impacts the demographics and the racial concentration of the various schools," said Nancy Ramirez with MALDEF. The organization is representing the Latino plaintiffs in the desegregation case.
TUSD filed a response to the objection in late January saying allegations about purposely keeping schools non-racially diverse are untrue. TUSD students are assigned to a school within an attendance boundary but have the opportunity to enroll in any other school in TUSD or any other school district, according to court documents.
Shutting down 11 schools will cut less than a third of TUSD's deficit, the district's board approved a modification of school site funding formulas a couple weeks ago that will result in $4 million more in budget reductions.
Despite a previous vote to explore outsourcing jobs, the TUSD Governing Board has pulled back from a plan to outsource janitorial, grounds maintenance and other jobs as another way to save money. Officials have said they are seeking savings in reductions in central administration, salary cuts, furlough days and medical insurance contribution levels, among other options.
Board members have voted to revisit outsourcing at the next public meeting.


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Honda Mean Mower Tears the Grass and Track at Spa (W/Video)
With the World Touring Car Championship underway, Honda's Mean Mower has decided to join in on the fun at the Spa Francorchamps race circuit in Belgium. The video below features the world's fastest lawn mower with Castrol Honda Racing driver Tiago Monteiro at the helm.
Monteiro makes the smart decision to get familiar with the Mean Mower on the relatively safe and grassy area of the track where the powerful mower easily drifts and goes sideways. If that weren't ridiculous (and awesome) enough, Monteiro straps on a helmet and heads to the asphalt, ready to tackle the challenging track including turns three, four, and five that make up the famous Eau Rouge section of Spa Francorchamps. The video cuts off as Moneiro reaches the Kemmel Straight so we don't know if the racer reached the Mean Mower's record-breaking top speed of 116.57 mph, which was verified by Guinness World Records earlier this month.
Honda worked with Team Dynamics to create the Mean Mower, which is based on the company's HF2620 Lawn Tractor. Its extensive list of modifications includes a 109-hp, 1000-cc engine from a Honda VTR Firestorm motorcycle, a bespoke chassis, Scorpion exhaust system, custom six-speed gearbox, and ATV wheels. The Mean Mower weighs just 309 pounds and runs from 0-60 mph in an estimated 4 seconds. It does, in fact, cut grass, though at a reduced speed of 15 mph.
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KCBM: Sunday Volleyball – Theis Park
June 17, 2018 @ 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
We have found the best place to setup is on the west side of the park along Oak Street.
Parking is available in three areas, the Kauffman Memorial Garden parking lot off of Rockhill Rd, Locust Street on the East side of the Prak and Oak St on the west side.
Don't know how to play? Not to worry, We will go over general game play and practice before we start the games.
Everyone is welcome to join us. We are a not-so-competitive group that gets together to exercise and to catch up with each other. We usually gather for dinner afterwards at places that don't mind having hungry, tired, sweaty and hairy gays in their restaurants.
As a reminder, here is the Code of Conduct we established for ourselves.
Kansas City Bear Mafia Volleyball Code of Conduct.
KCBM Volleyball is a great place for volleyball players of all skill levels to come together and share in, or discover, their enjoyment for the game. We are not a competitive league and play is purely recreational. However, we do enjoy healthy competition. Our main goal is simple, we want all players to have fun! We have a few simple guidelines, and do our best to follow them.
1. We always treat each other with respect and dignity. And we hold each other to that standard.
2. We work together as a team and strive for three hits when possible.
3. We communicate with each other. Do your best to call the ball and provide encouragement to your fellow teammates.
4. Teams are picked by random chip drawing, best 2 out of 3 games and then new teams.


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Apparently, Lola has decided that--now that she is 14 months old--she is old enough to hang with the big boys.
Yesterday, Colin took her outside to play--and she certainly did just that.
While the boys were monkeys on the swing set, she had some fun on the slide.
Mommy nervously watched from the deck....
She did well! One leg over....the other leg over...until she was all the way on the slide.
Cameron decided to make silly faces at her, and to coach her from the top, saying things like,
"C'mon baby girl! All the way to the top...you can do it! You are a good climber Lola!"
....but he just ended up causing her to laugh, lose her grip, and slip to the bottom.
She landed in a giant hole the boys have created with their feet from their non-stop sliding.
Seriously. It is deep.
She didn't seem to mind.
She clapped and bobbed up and down for about five minutes....
....and then found a leaf and made the 'icky' face.
She made sure to show her brothers.
Colin is such a servant....he was the push-er, as usual, while Ethan was the push--ee.
It was adorable to look out and see a foursome on our swing set. But it was even better to see my boys' love and protection for their little sister while they played. They were not more than two feet away from her most of the time, making sure she was okay.
She was.
{Rockin' her first dirt mustache}
I'd say it was a successful first trip to the swing set.
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Review: Welk's 'Chicago' has 'Razzle Dazzle'
Ray Limon's production doesn't soften the cynicism in the story
When the musical "Chicago" debuted in 1975, audiences and critics were initially put off by its cynicism and unsympathetic characters. Over time, its rough edges have been softened by stage and film directors.
But at Welk Resort Theatre, where a new production of Kander and Ebb's classic opened Saturday, director/choreographer Ray Limon has embraced the musical's darkest roots. You may not like the selfish, fame-craving characters in this satirical tale of crime and celebrity in Prohibition-era Chicago, but you'll love this high-energy production.
Limon's production honors Bob Fosse's original choreography and vaudeville staging concept in the well-danced show. And since each character is a vaudevillian, Limon allows them to step outside the story and have their moment to milk the audience for applause, whether it's RC Sands' quivering lips and chin as crime reporter Mary Sunshine or an epically long final note sung by Randall Dodge as greedy defense attorney Billy Flynn.
Co-starring as the "merry murderesses" Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart — who both plan to cash in on their notoriety as stage stars after Flynn springs them from jail — are Welk vet Natalie Nucci and newcomer Adrienne
It's a nice pairing. Nucci's a seasoned pro with fire in her belly, sardonic humor and desperation in her eyes. Storrs is greener, hungrier, vivacious and cruel. Their characters aren't nice ladies, but, boy, can these ladies dance.
There's great support work here from Dodge (who wears a pencil-thin mustache and self-adoring sneer with aplomb); the scene-stealing Sands; the touchingly tender Shaun Thomas as Roxie's cuckolded husband, Amos, and the soulful Valerie Geason as the prison Matron. There's also a solid dance company and onstage band led by music director/keyboardist Justin Gray.
Virtually every number's a standout, though it's hard to top the ensembles "We Both Reached for the Gun" and "Cell Block Tango," or the perfectly delivered duet "Class."
Welk has the unfortunate timing of opening its "Chicago" on the heels of San Diego Musical Theatre's much bigger and more spectacular staging of the musical. But this "Chicago" has heart. Not its characters, mind you — they're a gleefully unrepentant lot — but in its cast.
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Ediger, Salomon Salomon (1876-1940)
Salomon Salomon Ediger, a preacher and teacher of the Mennonite Church in Russia, was born 14 November 1876, in Gnadenfeld, South Russia, the son of Salomon and Susanna Mierau Ediger. He attended school in Gnadenfeld, and later taught in the elementary school there for several years, then studied theology at the Predigerschule in Basel. The director of the school was Wilhelm Arnold, a student of Tobias Beck, and the instructors in theology were Johannes von Huene, the father of the noted Tübingen professor; Hermann Gottsched, an authority on Kierkegaard; Samuel Preiswerk; and a certain Schütter. A number of talented and stimulating fellow students also contributed to Ediger's development into the personality he was later to become. For many years Ediger taught religion and German in the Zentralschule at Ohrloff, succeeding Kornelius B. Unruh. His wife was a daughter of Heinrich Dirks of Gnadenfeld, a missionary; she died in 1924.
When religious instruction was prohibited in the Zentralschule, Ediger taught German and other subjects, and in order to be able to continue his work in the school, he gave up his ministerial status; but since he was unable to join the atheistic league, he was deprived of his position. To support his family, he accepted a position as instructor in the culture of silk in the collectives. But in 1934 he was arrested and sentenced to five years of exile. He returned to Melitopol in 1939 in broken health, and died on 16 November 1940.
In August 1917 Ediger preached the opening sermon of the Allgemeiner Mennonitischer Kongress, a sermon that the delegates at that meeting will never forget. He was a Christian in whom there was no guile!—In August 1941, when the German army was about to enter the Melitopol district, his children were sent into exile. Their subsequent fate is unknown.
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Unruh, Benjamin H. "Ediger, Salomon Salomon (1876-1940)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1956. Web. 7 Aug 2020. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Ediger,_Salomon_Salomon_(1876-1940)&oldid=133068.
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Unruh, Benjamin H. (1956). Ediger, Salomon Salomon (1876-1940). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 7 August 2020, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Ediger,_Salomon_Salomon_(1876-1940)&oldid=133068.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, p. 149. All rights reserved.
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Thai coconut rice with salmon
Nutrition and extra info
- kcal857
- fat48g
- saturates24g
- carbs74g
- sugars2g
- fibre0g
- protein38g
- salt2.55g
- 20g pack of fresh coriander
- 3 limes
The same shape, but smaller than…
- 2 x 400ml cans coconut milk
Coconut milkko-ko-nut mill-k
Coconut milk is not the slightly opaque liquid that flows from a freshly opened coconut –…
- 2 tbsp light olive oil
Olive oilol-iv oyl
Probably the most widely-used oil in cooking, olive oil is pressed from fresh olives. It's…
- 25g butter
Butter is a dairy product made from separating whole milk or cream into fat and…
- 2 shallots, finely chopped
Related to the onion (as opposed to being a younger version of it), shallots grow in clusters at…
- 90g jar Thai red curry paste (we used Bart's spices)
- 500g basmati rice
- 4 kaffir lime leaves, fresh or freeze dried
- 6 skinless salmon fillets, each weighing about 140g/5oz
- 3 tbsp soy sauce (we used Kikkoman's)
Soy saucesoy sor-s
An Asian condiment and ingredient that comes in a variety of of varieties ranging from light to…
- 2 tsp golden caster sugar
- 4 spring onions
Spring onionsp-ring un-yun
Also known as scallions or green onions, spring onions are in fact very young onions, harvested…
- 1 plump red chilli, seeded and finely chopped
- simple green salad, to serve
You will need a wide-based shallow casserole about 30cm in diameter, or a deep-sided sauté pan, with a tight-fitting lid as the salmon needs to steam in a single layer. Pick the coriander leaves off the stalks, finely chop the stalks and put the leaves in a bowl. Grate the zest of one of the limes. Set aside. Pour both cans of coconut milk into a large jug, then fill one of the empty cans with cold water and stir this into the jug.
Heat the oil and butter in the pan over a lowish heat, tip in the shallots and sizzle gently for about 5 minutes, stirring, until they start to turn golden. Stir the curry paste in and cook for another minute.
Take the pan off the heat and add the lime zest, coriander stalks, rice and a heaped teaspoon of salt, then mix everything together until the rice is coated in the curry paste. (You can prepare this up to two hours ahead.)
Pour the coconut milk mixture over the rice and stir. Bring to simmering point on a medium heat, stirring gently now and then. Get the spoon right to the bottom of the pan so the rice doesn't stick to it. Scatter in the lime leaves and leave everything to simmer, uncovered, for 5 minutes.
Stir the rice once more, then lay the salmon fillets on top. Cover and leave to barely simmer over a very low heat for 15-20 minutes until the salmon looks cooked and the rice is tender. Cook everything very gently or you will have crunchy rice on the bottom and no liquid left.
While the fish is cooking, juice two of the limes (the grated lime and another) and in a small bowl mix the juice with the soy sauce and sugar until the sugar has dissolved. Trim the spring onions, then split lengthways and slice into thin strands on the diagonal. Mix the spring onions and chilli with the coriander leaves. Cut the third lime into six wedges.
When the rice and fish are ready, take the pan off the heat and leave to stand for 5 minutes. To serve, scatter a third of the coriander salad over everything in the pan. Spoon some coconut rice on each plate, then, using a fish slice, put a salmon portion on top. Drizzle with some of the soy and lime dressing and scatter a spoonful of the coriander salad on top. Give everyone a lime wedge to squeeze over it. Serve the remaining dressing if anyone wants extra, and a side salad.


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Watergate in full: Epic documentary shows at Berlin fest
Charles Ferguson thought Watergate had never "properly been done." The result was a documentary that explores the American presidential scandal in its full epic span.
BERLIN -- Charles Ferguson thought Watergate had never "properly been done." The result was a documentary that explores the American presidential scandal in its full epic span, clocking in at more than four hours.
The director of financial crisis documentary "Inside Job," which won an Oscar in 2011, is presenting the film this week at the Berlin International Film Festival, where it had its European premiere. The documentary was shown in the U.S. last year.
Ferguson told The Associated Press on Tuesday that while many books have been written and films made about the 1970s scandal that ended U.S. President Richard Nixon's time in the White House, "there's never been one place where the entire story was told in a comprehensive way."
Titled "Watergate — Or: How We Learned to Stop an Out of Control President," the documentary features extensive interviews with many of the surviving players in the scandal, 1970s news footage as well as material from Nixon's notorious tapes.
It frames the scandal in a wider context, including the Vietnam War and foreign crises during Nixon's presidency, while detailing the beginnings and development of Watergate through to and beyond Nixon's 1974 resignation. Nixon quit as he faced impeachment over his role in the attempted cover-up of a break-in at Democratic Party headquarters executed by burglars connected to his re-election campaign.
Ferguson mixes the interviews and archival footage with re-enactments of scenes from the Nixon tapes. The director said he felt that would be "easier on the viewer," given the tapes' poor audio quality.
Ferguson, who was in high school at the time, recalled watching the U.S. Senate's Watergate hearings. He said he came up with the idea for the documentary about five years ago.
"I felt that it hadn't ever properly been done," he said.
Work on the film started as "things were happening in American politics that made us think that we might live through it again," Ferguson said.
President Donald Trump's administration and its scandals have drawn comparisons with the characters and events of the Nixon era. Ferguson's documentary avoids explicit reference to any possible modern-day parallels, but does go out of its way to explain American law and the mechanics of impeachment.
"I felt that it was necessary to show how the American legal and constitutional system worked in this situation so that people would understand what might happen now," Ferguson said.
"I also felt that it was important not to bias the film in any way as a function of what was going on now, but rather to show what happened during Watergate and let people draw their own conclusions about what was the same and what was different," he said.


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AE 321 is an advanced climbing skills course focusing on traditional lead climbing, including selection and placement of protection, route finding, lead climbing and belaying techniques, multiple pitch climbing, advanced anchor building, rescue systems, and climbing instructional strategies.
Like other AE outdoor skills courses this course is not an activity course, per se, but a professional skills course for preparing adventure educators in the field of outdoor education to work effectively in institutional settings.
For those without leading experience, your climbing knowledge and skills will grow dramatically. For those with leading experience, this course will introduce you to the institutional context, expand your repertoire of lead climbing skills, and begin to prepare you to work directly with the kinds of clients/students you may encounter in an adventure education program which uses lead climbing to accomplish educational goals. If you're interested in working as a professional climbing guide or for an organization like Outward Bound or NOLS with a well-managed climbing or mountaineering program, then I suggest you eventually look into seeking certification through the American Mountain Guides Association (AMGA). This course provides a strong foundation for moving in that direction, particularly if you've had limited exposure to lead climbing in institutional settings.
What this course is not:
- If you have limited traditional lead climbing experience, this class will not turn you into a masterful lead climber – there's simply not enough time for this. However, it will serve as a "spring-board" for further education and development.
- The focus in this course is not on making you a stronger climber, but a smarter climber. You can get strong on your own time.
- AE 101 (Foundations of AE) & AE 121 (Top Rope Rock Climbing).
- At least one year of personal top-rope climbing experience.
- AE major or minor.
- Proficiency in all AE 121 skills, including:
- Being able to set up and manage a top rope rock climb using a "top" or "sling-shot" belay system.
- All knots and basic rope work taught in AE 121.
- You are active and healthy enough to be able to follow 5.8 and carry a 50 lb. pack uphill for 30 minutes.


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Members of Congress, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Department of Defense, and Department of Veterans' Affairs honored nearly 200 wounded service members on March 18th, 2009, at the 5th Annual Armed Forces Foundation (AFF) Congressional Gala. The event, hosted by Senator John McCain and Congressman C.W. Bill Young (among others), raised close to $1 million dollars and once again, our very own Project American Heroes was showcased as a featured guest. Prominently displayed in the front of the Atrium in the Ronald Reagan Building at the International Trade Center on Pennsylvania Ave, the '69 Rally Sport Camano's stunning custom paint scheme blended exquisitely with the red and black decor of the evening (this was, of course, no accident thanks to the planning by AFF president Patricia Driscoll and her dedicated staff). Fox New's Brian Kilmeade once again took the podium as the evening's emcee and kept things rolling along while Comedian Jeff Allen (www.jeffallencomedy.com) provided the entertainment.
At the Gala, Admiral Eric T. Olson was awarded the Bill and Beverly Young Humanitarian of the Year Award while Dana White, president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) was honored with the Sheldon Adelson Patriot Award for humanitarianism in industry for his and his company's dedication to the welfare of our men and women in uniform.
Other notable attendees included Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General James Cartwright, General George Casey (Chief of Staff of the United States Army), Admiral Gary Roughead (Chief of Naval Operations), General James Conway (Commandant of the Marine Corps), Secretary Michael Donley (Secretary of the Airforce), LTG Stanley McChrystal (Director of the Joint Staff), General Norton Schwartz (Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force), and UFC fighter Kenny Florian.
A very special thanks goes out to Dave Wilson and the professional transporters from Intercity Lines who once again made our trip possible by donating their time and efforts to move the Camaro around the country on its promotional tour. Please keep them in mind when you or anyone you know needs a professional to transport their classic or exotic car.
Next stop for Project American Heroes will be the Source Interlink offices in Tampa, Florida where it will be detailed and prepped for its sale at the Palm Beach Barrett-Jackson auction on Friday afternoon, April 10. I will forward further details on the auction as they become available.
Thanks for all of your generous support. Please continue to help us spread the word about this most worthwhile endeavor so that we can find that one special guy with the funds and the heart to purchase our beauty and provide much needed funds to support our dedicated servicemen.
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Twenty-five years ago, an event took place which, even now, remains in the American consciousness: the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, killing all aboard, including teacher Christa McAuliffe.
Twenty-five years ago, an event took place which, even now, remains in the American consciousness: the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, killing all aboard, including teacher Christa McAuliffe.
Like national tragedies before and since, many of us remember what we were doing the moment we heard the news.
If you'll recall, many people around the country were excited by this shuttle launch. For the first time in history, an average person, a teacher, would go to space.
For NASA, it was a chance to prove the shuttle to be a safe, reliable form of space travel. Having an average person go up on a shuttle mission was a way to show that the space age had arrived, that going into orbit could be as commonplace as taking a trip on an airplane.
Schoolchildren around the country gathered in classrooms and gymnasiums to watch the launch on television. For months before the event, schools made the upcoming launch part of their science curriculum, with renewed attention on the space program.
Then, 72 seconds into the flight and 10 miles above the ground, the launch went horribly wrong. A malfunctioning O-ring allowed gases and burning rocket fuel to escape, causing a fiery explosion and killing all seven onboard.
For many of us watching the event unfold on television, it was a stomach-churning shock to the system. We recall scanning the television screen for some sign of the spacecraft as the solid rocket boosters separated from a fireball, going off in different directions. There was none –– only smoke, fire and debris.
Since that time, it's been revealed that engineers warned NASA against the launch, saying the unexpected frigid temperatures in Florida the night before would render the O-rings stiff, inflexible and worthless. Those fears were overruled by the engineers' superiors.
In the years preceding the Challenger explosion, NASA was viewed as the "good news" federal agency. Its scientists shared their breakthroughs and triumphs with the world. Successful NASA missions, including the historic 1969 moon landing, provided a little relief from the horrors of the Vietnam War.
After the explosion, and in the wake of the Columbia shuttle disaster in 2003, that changed. Even today, as the shuttle program is slated to end later this year, NASA stresses that space is a very dangerous place.
Indeed. And we can take comfort in the fact that NASA's top concern today is safety, not schedules.
Our thoughts are with the families of the Challenger seven today.
-- Daily News (Neosho, Mo.)