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Back in the late 1980's, Madonna – the singer – wore crucifixes as fashion accessories. Within five minutes, teenage girls all over the world were aping her. Shane Lynch, of Boyzone, has been snapped wearing Rosary beads as have Christina Aguilera, Shakira, Rihanna and Kelly Osbourne.
Catholics have registered their discomfort with symbols of their faith being used as frivolous fashion accessories. Indeed, in the convent where I went to school, we were expressly forbidden from wearing rosary beads, because they were just for praying with. This direction appears to be based on Canon Law, which states "Sacred objects, set aside for divine worship by dedication or blessing, are to be treated with reverence. They are not to be made over to secular or inappropriate use, even though they may belong to private persons".
In the past month, two designers have fallen foul of Hindus for depicting deities on their clothing. Australian swimwear manufacturer, Lisa Blue, apologised to members of the Hindu community at the beginning of May: An image of Goddess Lakshmi appeared on items of its apparel at Rosemount Australian Fashion Week (RAFW) in Sydney at the end of April. In the past few days, design house Manish Arora has removed images of leggings, miniskirts and harem pants from its website following complaints about the depiction of Lord Shiva on them.
Members of the Hindu community were outraged that images of revered gods were represented on clothing made to be worn on the lower parts of the body.
But do those who get their knickers in a twist over the wearing of traditionally religious symbols as fashionable accoutrements need to lighten up? Does it matter? Should they be grateful that their religion is being celebrated – no matter what form that celebration takes? Should they rejoice at the fact that their religion is reaching a wider audience? Or is their outrage justified? What do you think?


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It's a position precious few artists ever experience: How does one follow-up after writing the defining song of an era? Much like Outkast's "Hey Ya" and Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy," Gotye's ubiquitous hit "Somebody That I Used to Know" is the kind of song that transcends music and becomes an indelible part of pop culture at large.
For Gotye, the move was to release a new animated video for the song "Save Me," taken from Making Mirrors, the same album that spawned his worldwide hit with Kimbra.
"Hey folks, check out the new film clip for 'Save Me,' singlehandedly directed and animated by the fabulous Peter Lowey at Piepants Animation," Gotye said on his Facebook page. "There's actually a bunch of new videos coming out soon, so stay tuned. I even made one myself!"
The emotional clip depicts the transformative powers of love, mirroring the languid, orchestral pop feel of the song, closer in spirit to classic Peter Gabriel than anything currently on the charts.
Gotye's extensive U.S tour kicks off August 22 at the legendary Red Rocks Ampitheatre in Denver, and includes stops at the Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival in Seattle and the Austin City Limits Music Festival.
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The proposed operating budget for the town of Mancos in fiscal year 2014 tops out at more than $1.6 million, up 8 percent from 2013.
Nearly half of the town's proposed overall 2014 budget, nearly $770,000, is tentatively allocated for staff wages, up 5 percent from the previous year. Planned funding for sewer operations is expected to see a double-digit percentage increase to more than $335,000.
"The balanced budget estimates that revenues will meet expenditures," said Town Administrator Andrea Phillips. "Nearly 75 percent of the revenues for the general fund are from sales, property and other taxes."
Phillips said revenues in the water and sewer enterprise fund are almost entirely derived from user fees.
The proposed 2014 capital-improvement budget totals $265,600, which includes an upgrade to the town's website.
"The website will provide a better user experience, and assist the town in sharing critical information with citizens," she said.
Under state law, the board must adopt the budget by Dec. 15. Phillips said opportunities for public input into the budget would become available in coming weeks.
Town trustees are slated to address the proposed budget at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9, at Town Hall.
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Add Spain date!! December 19!!
Jim Carrey will be in Spain December 12!!!! I´m sooooo happy now!!!!!!
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I think I'm gonna see it in Belgium! Cannot wait!
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Midwest, West highest in contemplating suicide
(AP) -- More adults in the Midwest and West have suicidal thoughts than people in the rest of the country, but Rhode Island leads in suicide attempts, according to the first government study of its kind.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study, released Thursday, presents a different look at suicide in America - one that focuses on suicide in the planning stages.
"This report highlights that we have opportunities to intervene before someone dies by suicide. We can identify risks and take action before a suicide attempt takes place," said CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden, in a statement.
Overall, the Midwest and West had significantly higher rates of suicide contemplation than the South and Northeast. Researchers say they don't have any data to explain why some states or regional were different than others.
Utah had the highest rate of serious thoughts of suicide (1 in 15 adults) while Rhode Island was at the top of the range for planning a suicide (1 in 36) and suicide attempts (1 in 67).
Georgia was at the bottom of the range for suicide thoughts (1 in 50), planning a suicide (1 in 1,000) and, along with Delaware, for suicide attempts (1 in 1,000).
The study was based on confidential surveys of more than 90,000 U.S. adults in 2008 and 2009. The participants did not include homeless people, those in the military or those hospitalized with psychiatric problems.
The government's previous state-by-state suicide data was suicide deaths, with the highest rates in rustic Western states like Alaska, New Mexico, Wyoming and Montana.
The new study's results suggest that places where a lot of people report contemplating suicide may not be the same places where suicide is most common.
For example, Rhode Island had one of the nation's lowest suicide rates in 2007. But in the new study, it ranked at the top in terms of both suicide planning and attempts.
Researchers aren't sure why, but there are theories.
Perhaps demographics are part of the answer. Adolescents and females had the highest rates of thinking about suicide, while older males have the highest rates of actual suicide deaths, said Dr. Alex Crosby, a CDC epidemiologist who is the study's lead author.
So a state with a lot of young people and women might look high in suicide thoughts and planning, but not as high in deaths.
Also, it's possible that suicide attempts in places like Alaska or Wyoming tend to use guns or other methods that are more lethal. It's also possible that suicide planners in sparsely populated Western states have fewer friends or health professionals around to save them, said Matthew Nock, a Harvard University psychology professor who has researched suicide patterns.
The CDC collaborated with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration on the study, which is part of a federal effort to get better data on the nation's suicide problem. About 36,000 Americans die from suicide annually, and more than 600,000 go to hospitals with injuries from suicide attempts.
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Holy Paladin Reforging
Don't we all love questions with no clear answers?
I've had a few people ask about reforging. Each time, I make my way to Elitist Jerks.
At first, the answer I got from there was "Definitely Haste. All Haste all the time OMG yes."
Then I went back and got the answer "Haste is nice, but Crit packs a better punch."
When I looked closely, I also saw "How about Mastery? Can we give Mastery a try?"
Then I spoke with paladins who don't frequent the various resources and received an overwhelming: "Moar Spirit plz!"
For the time being, reforging isn't a black and white issue. And I hope it stays that way- I love paladin healing right now: it feels as if each successful paladin has their own style and adapts in their own way to different content. Which is how healing should be. I don't know about the rest of you, but the constant adjustments to fit each unique situation is the whole reason I fell in love with healing in the first place.
Love story aside, I'm going to take a look at the different reforging options. If you want a "do this" answer, scroll down a bit and you'll find some reforging suggestions to fit your paladining lifestyle. And if you read all the way to the end, I'll let you in on my personal strategy.
I'm going to inspire myself from the debate in the Holy Paladin thread on Elitist Jerks as well as use my own experiences to weigh the pros and cons.
Two Three weeks into the expansion, I've done countless heroics, with pugs of all skill (and common sense) levels as well as guild groups, I've killed Conclave of Wind on 10 man, 25 man kills are Halfus (X2) and Argaloth (I've done quite a bit of log parsing from other guilds for Halfus too, to see how other healing teams are handling the fight), with a some wiping experience on a few other 25 man bosses. The only area I haven't investigated much is the world of PvP, so you die hard PvPers are unfortunately on your own for this.
Part 1: Pros and Cons to the different stats
Ah Spirit! our new baby. I've written about mana regen, spirit and intellect before. Though it predates Cataclysm, the message still holds true: if you're managing your spells well, you've maxed out the intellect you have access to and you're running out of mana, then you need more Spirit.
An reoccurring argument in favor of Spirit is that you can never have too much mana. You should always prepare for the worst case scenario and the worst case scenario always involves you running out of mana.
The argument against Spirit is that our main spells are weak and cheap. We even recently got nerfed because our infinite mana bar was mocking other healing classes. Our output on the other hand…
On a personal level, I struggled with mana a lot when I first started heroics, but as I gathered 346 gear, the only times I run low on mana is when something goes terribly wrong at the beginning of a fight. I do, however, lose people a lot due to not being able to get big, fast, beefy heals out at the right time.
During Wrath, we hoarded Haste on our gear. We hugged it and kissed it and called it sweet little names. (At least I did that, can't speak for the rest of you.) In Cataclysm opinions are divided. EJ reports the Global Cooldown cap (the amount of Haste you need to get a 1 second global cooldown) to be 3489. It's not possible to reach that number right now. If you want to know how much Haste I have, try dividing 3489 by 3.
Haste still has it's advantages though. It scales pretty well, 100 Haste on your gear will increase your Haste percentage by about 0.78%, which makes it the best scaling stat between it and its brothers Crit and Mastery. It's a reliable stat: your spells will be faster, all the time. It makes your annoyingly long Divine Light less annoyingly long, it wrings more ticks out of your Holy Radiance (which is pretty sweet in a raid) and it does let you get more casts out during a fight. If you're the type who melees for some Seal of Insight mana back, Haste will get you some more swings in.
On the downside, sometimes we prefer quality over quantity. Since everyone has unbelievably huge health pools and our spells are kinda weak, Haste will have you casting more instead of casting stronger, which can eventually be a strain on your mana (however, Haste does encourage you to use the slow but more mana efficient Divine Light instead of the quick Flash of Light for big, omg heals).
Crit was a bit of a "meh" stat toward the second half of Wrath, since it's mana regen component was nerfed and eventually removed. It was nice at lower gear levels for the added output, but for the most part, paladin heals were so earthshakingly strong that Crit did little more than increase our overheal from 80% to 90%.
In Cataclysm, overheal is more or less a thing of the past. I can spam heals to my hearts content and rarely get more than 30% overheal. Crit isn't wasted anymore: the stronger heals means less heavy lifting to bring a nearly dead player back to full health. And with massive health pools, weak heals and large damage intakes (at least in 25 man raids), every boost helps. Bigger heals also mean less casts, less casts mean less mana drain. A Holy Shock crit also procs Infusion of Light, which is a huge blessing when you want Divine Light RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW. (Thanks to Palaria for pointing out my omission.) As well, from a logistics perspective, building a Crit set is easier since the justice points and tier 11 pieces are more likely to have Crit than haste or mastery.
The major downside of Crit is it's dependency on chance, or the RNG. Random extra healing is fine for heavy lifting, but during criticial (omg a pun!) moments, you need your extra output at that very second, not when the RNG is kind to you. Pro-crit paladins also mention how Crit refreshes Conviction, which is true. Still, Conviction is very easy to keep up: with 11.16% crit unbuffed, my raid logs show a 85-95% uptime on Conviction. The times it fell off were most likely times where I wasn't casting. So you want some crit to keep Conviction up, but there's no need to go all out.
Mastery is still a mystery stat. Recount does apparently track it, but doesn't give much information as to when it procced. I haven't been able to track my Mastery using Recount. World of Logs, to my greatest sadness, doesn't track it as anything other than a buff yet.
I've been testing it the old fashioned way: mousing over the buff to see the numbers. I get Mastery bubbles of anywhere between ~1k (with Holy Shock) to ~5k (with Divine Light). I'm guessing it's nice in heroics to cushion to the frequent yet minimal random damage as I'm going around healing everyone up to full health. It also falls well into heal gaps, as I'm trying to cast.
In a raid setting, I'm not so sure. I haven't done enough 10 mans to guesstimate the amount of damage that goes on in there (Conclave of Wind was only slightly more damage intense than heroics), but on 25 man, the little 5k that pops out of your mana draining Divine Lights doesn't go very far. 25 man damage is intense and Mastery just doesn't up our output as much as Haste or, possibly, Crit.
Part 2: Reforging Recommendations
Consider boosting your Spirit via reforging if:
– You're still getting used to the paladin healing style.
– You're not quite geared for the content you're trying to run.
– Your heroics teammates have no regard for your mana bar.
– You don't regularly have access to external mana regen via a Shaman, Replenishment or other. (Unlikely, but can happen in 5 mans as well as in 10 man teams)
Consider boosting your Haste via reforging if:
– You have no or very little trouble managing your mana bar.
– You play with people who often need a quick save.
– You like a fast playstyle.
– You're often assigned raid healing.
– You use Holy Radiance on cooldown.
– Your targets tend to die while you're midheal.
– You prefer Divine Light over Flash of Light as your big heal.
Consider boosting your Crit via reforging if:
– You often find yourself out of mana due to heavy lifting (using Divine Light in a non-urgent matter to get a low health target back to full).
– Your overheal is close to zero.
– You're interested in exploring Crit and it's relationship with Mastery.
Consider boosting your Mastery via reforging if:
– You mostly only run heroics.
– You prefer to use Divine Light over Flash of Light as your big heal.
– You're able to effectively use Light of Dawn in heroics.
– You want to explore the relationship between Mastery and Crit.
Part 3: What I'm trying out
Right now I'm prioritizing Haste, reforging Crit where I can. On pieces I can't reforge to Haste, I've been reforging Crit to Spirit.
This is seems to follow the most popular trend, both from EJ and the official forums (although I don't consider the official forums to be a valid source of information). It's not necessarily a permanent thing, though, at least not for me. At the time being, I'm doing very well with a Haste build and the rare times I do run out, its due to something very bad happening and no amount of mana would have prevented the wipe.
I am interested in playing with Crit and Mastery, but I'll wait until I have some tier gear. And hopefully by then World of Logs will be tracking Mastery.
Regardless, going by the posters on EJ are reporting, Haste build paladins and Crit build paladins are both raiding successfully, and until we get more data it's hard to say which is the most efficient. (Granted, those saying they're doing well with their stats could be always be lying, so we'd have to look at their raid logs to know for sure.) Selfishly, I hope both trends have their worth. The joy of healing comes from thinking, adapting and executing. If I wanted to play cookie-cutter, I'd be dpsing.Explore posts in the same categories: Paladinning Info
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14 Comments on "Holy Paladin Reforging"
December 22, 2010 at 5:51 pm
Great post, Ophelie! Lots of great information in there.
I have been following the same strategy that you have, prioritizing Spirit and Haste over crit and mastery and reforging as necessary. So far I feel that I have been successful, although I'm not into heroics yet. I haven't had any mana issues yet and rarely lose people in the dungeons that I have ran so far.
3400 haste is a frightenly high number. I think it's fair to say that Blizzard does not want us to have a 1 second GCD anymore.
December 22, 2010 at 6:15 pm
One thought that I've been mulling over as a tank – and it may be applicable here too – is the question "if all secondary stats are roughly equal in power, and my gear is fairly balanced, do I even need to reforge?"
December 22, 2010 at 8:35 pm
I'll probably go for Spirit and Haste at 85, but I understand the lure of Crit in what is supposed to be a 'slower' healing environment. I think I'll end up playing with Crit & Mastery gear once I can put together a passable secondary set of gear. Or I'll just reforge my gear for a second raid week on the same content to gauge the performance differences.
December 23, 2010 at 3:20 pm
I agree with your thoughts, and do the same haste/spirit reforging. We're currently 10m 5/12 + Argaloth and I find the haste well spent. I see a lot of spike dmg to tanks where fast heals are necessary (and WoG saves my a**). I'm ~1300 haste and 3k combat mp5. With FoL at 1.22 in raid I will continue to get haste but am trying to see what playing with spirit trinkets will gain. OOM is always a danger with new progression when things aren't yet fine tuned.
Same thoughts on mastery. It might be good later, but just doesn't seem worth it yet.
December 23, 2010 at 7:21 pm
Did my first 10man last night, and I have found that I need a bit more haste so I can better use Divine Light, or I need to use Flash of Light more (I hate casting it for some odd reason)
One thing that should be noted about crit, with every Holy Shock Crit = an almost instant Divine Light.
I foresee Paladin's getting around 2k haste and then stacking Crit


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To add to Righthaven's indignities, the company is now being sued by its process server, Las Vegas-based Legal Wings, Inc. Legal Wings claims that Righthaven rang up $5,670 in charges during 2010 (note: this was even before Righthaven began listing like an oil tanker on a reef) but has refused to pay up.
"Plaintiff has made repeated demands for payment of the monies dues and owing on the Agreement, but the Defendant has failed and refused, and still fails and refuses to pay the balance owed to Plaintiff," says a new court action from Legal Wings, which wants its cash.
One gets the strong sense that Righthaven sees the legal system as a sort of winepress, terrific for squeezing smalltime bloggers until the cash flows out. But when the majesty of the law attempts to put the squeeze on Righthaven, it's fine to simply walk away.
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D1-A payday: 'Full cost of attendance' a disgrace
Thank goodness Rob Burns cares about academics. The rising senior from Northern Virginia had a 4.01 GPA after his junior year at Stone Bridge High School and could have gone to almost any college. Considering nearly all football players at NCAA Division I-A schools get full scholarships, without UVA's academic reputation, the superstar defensive end may have signed elsewhere. And if certain bigwigs have their way, Virginia might be unable to afford kids like Burns in the future.
As a rule, Ivy League football players are the only ones who don't receive athletic scholarships. Everywhere else, football players, regardless of GPA, receive full tuition as well as room and board, special food, use of exclusive facilities, individual tutoring, stipends, and often have access to a "needy student fund" for clothes and other necessities.
Since they already have such a sweet deal, it's no wonder the notion of paying college football players is unsavory at the very least. But the knowledge that schools make so much money from football while the players receive a paltry $50,000+ in education and perks seems unjust to a great many people. So what to do?
The Big Ten and the SEC think they have the answer: if giving them a paycheck is the problem, just hand football players money another way. Pay them, but don't pay them. Expand athletic scholarships to cover "the full cost of attendance."
As Ivan Maisel of ESPN so aptly put it, "Full cost of attendance is bureaucratic jargon." With the right spin, anything could be included. A trip home for Thanksgiving? Done. A Tempur-Pedic mattress for that aching back? Sure. An X-Box to study up on Madden? You got it. Some iTunes gift cards to purchase blood-pumping music? Why not? Oh? You don't have an iPod? Why, ask and ye shall receive.
Until now, the argument against "full cost of attendance" has been financial: schools can't afford it, and NCAA scholarship limits don't allow it. But as Reggie Bush, Cam Newton, and numerous others have proved, plenty of folks out there are itching to pad players' pockets, and boosters would surely be happy to jump at a legitimate chance to provide players with their hearts' desires.
Undoubtedly the money to provide "full cost of attendance" is there for the taking, so what– if anything– is the problem?
By not calling it an actual paycheck (tacky!), proponents of the plan believe the serfs on the academic side of campus won't be offended (a gross display of naïveté, to be sure) and the players would have nothing to fear from the taxman. "Full cost of attendance" would be a gift-in-kind sort of program, only with money.
One has to wonder if commissioners Jim Delany (Big Ten) and Mike Slive (SEC) remember Enron and Lehman Brothers. Though they promote "full cost of attendance" as a scholarship program, it's just transparent creative accounting wrapped in ham-handed (and equally transparent) linguistic doublespeak.
"Full cost of attendance" is nothing more than a vulgar and flagrant manipulation of the laws that prohibit college athletes from being paid. (And its endorsement is grossly unbefitting a man– Slive– who got his JD from UVA!)
A rose is a rose is a rose– so Gertrude Stein said. It's the law of identity, which both Delany and Slive, being lawyers, should know. A thing is itself; it is what it is.
"Full cost of attendance" is nothing but a paycheck, and a blank one at that. Call it what you will, it's something neither Virginia nor any other college can afford.
Juanita lives on a farm in Charlotte County with her husband, son and many dogs.


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South Georgia Museum
From South Georgia Museum
The South Georgia Museum is located in the villa at Grytviken that formerly acted as the whaling station manager's house. The museum was established by Nigel Bonner in 1991 as a whaling museum. Its scope now embraces all the main areas of island's history, including most aspects of South Georgia's human heritage and natural history.
Exhibits include discovery, exploration, Shackleton, surveying and mountaineering expeditions, sealing in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the early days of whaling, techniques of modern whaling in the middle part of the 20th century, whalers' social life, maritime history, and natural history. Displays also cover the 1982 conflict and subsequent British military presence until 2001.
The South Georgia Heritage Trust took over the management of the museum in July 2006.
Listen to Sarah Lurcock (SGHT Director on South Georgia) talking about the Museum and life on the island (AntArctic Stories podcast) here.
You can read the Museum Annual Reports on the SGHT website here.
You can find out more about the history of South Georgia with our timeline.
[edit] South Georgia Museum Collection
Click on a room to find out more about the Museum displays. You can now search, view and comment on our collection by using eHive
If you would like further information about the collection please email the SGHT Director, South Georgia: Sarah Lurcock
Do you have an artefact you would like to donate to the South Georgia Museum? Please contact the SGHT Director, South Georgia to find out more.


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Central PTA
Central Elementary is recognized as one of the Peninsula's finest public elementary schools. Our involvement as a community of parents is a critical factor to ensure Central continues this standard of excellence. The Central PTA provides critical programs and resources that benefit every Central student. Your volunteer time and financial donations directly impact your child's classroom and school - immediately enriching the quality of your child's education. Thank you for supporting the Central PTA!
Welcome to Central!
Our school is so lucky to have such an active and involved community. Central's PTA is here to help nurture and grow that community, among students, parents, teachers and staff. If you have been on campus and seen the Green Team recycling lunch debris, the Art in Action team covered in pastels and paint, the Walking Track leaders cheering on students or the kids feeling proud in their Dolphin Spirit Wear - then you've seen our PTA in action. If your kids have come home talking about a field trip, a music lesson, new classroom books or science supplies - then they've felt the support of the PTA in their classrooms. And if you've had the pleasure of being on campus for the Dolphin Dash or Discovery Day, then you've seen the joy and excitement that come when our PTA volunteers and our Central community join together for the kids.
Our PTA is able to have such a positive impact in our school because of the hundreds of Central volunteers who give their time, talents, voices and love to our community. We ask that every Central family give what they are able, both financially and with their time. We thank you for joining us in supporting our dedicated teachers and staff, and helping make Central such an amazing learning environment for our kids.
If you have questions about PTA opportunities, if you're new to our school and want to receive information about the PTA, or if you have any feedback that you would like to share with the PTA, please send me an email.
We look forward to seeing you around campus. Go Dolphins!
- Hannah Heller, PTA President, on behalf of the 2018-19 PTA Board
Sign up for the Central Scoop, our PTA Newsletter, sent directly to your email every Tuesday with updates on events, activities and other important school news. Text 228-28 with the word Centralscoop - it's that easy! You will be prompted to enter an email address, which will be automatically added to the distribution list. Get connected, get the Scoop!
Welcome to Central! It's not always easy starting at a new school; our PTA can help you to connect with your new community and feel welcomed. Our Annual Newcomer's Tea (the second morning of school, 8:30 am in Dolphin Park) is a great time to come meet and greet, and to find out more about Central. We also hope you will join us for our PTA Association Meetings, beginning in September. Also - be sure to review our calendar, and to sign up for our eNewsletter, the Central Scoop (see below). We look forward to meeting you and welcoming you to the Central community!
Order your child's school supplies for next year! Donate $50 to the PTA and skip the store, we will order everything your child needs. Donate today via paypal: paypal.me/CentralPTA or by check made to "Central PTA" please note your child's name and "School Supply Fund" on your paypal or check donation. All donations are tax deductible and voluntary.
Central PTA supports every student at our school. In partnership with our school district and our education foundation, SchoolForce, we help to make sure that our kids receive an incredible education. Our annual PTA budget covers field trips, classroom supplies, teacher training and more. We ask for a donation of $150 per student; your contribution is completely voluntary, and you are not required to donate if you want to join the PTA. However, we hope that you will consider making a donation to help us budget for and provide many important opportunities for students here at Central.
Examples of PTA Programs at Central include:
- Teacher training & supplies
- Art Programs
- Vocal Music Programs
- Technology in classrooms
- Classroom materials
- Chrome Books
- Discovery Day
- Staff Development
- Hot Lunch Program
- Expanding libraries in classrooms
- Educational Assemblies & Field Trips
- Community Activities
- Parent Education
State funding does not provide sufficient resources to deliver the quality of education Central has historically provided. PTA members support each of these programs and more, through their donations and through their many volunteer efforts in a variety of areas – in the classroom, as technology gurus, through running special events, and by organizing PTAs many special programs and services. We hope you will join us in building our community and enhancing all of our children's educational experience. See our PTA volunteer page for more information on how to get involved!
Volunteers are the heart of our Central PTA; it is through over 14,000 annual volunteer hours that we make our programs go! We ask that each Central family volunteer in some way, each year. Please visit our PTA Volunteer Page for information about volunteer opportunities throughout the year, and to find ways to get involved at Central.
Our PTA Association Meetings are a great opportunity to learn more about PTA at Central. At each meeting, our Principal shares important information about what is happening around school, and PTA Officers give budget and committee updates. PTA Members vote on important items including spending proposals and the annual board slate. Please join us and help do the work of PTA!
Association Meetings are held the third Wednesday of the month, on alternating months, and usually last about an hour. All Association Meetings are held in the Central MUR.
Executive Board Meetings are held the first Wednesday of each month. Contact the PTA President for additional meeting information or to schedule an agenda item. Thank you!
Upcoming Events
August 22 - Back To School Night 6:30-7:30 pm
August 23- Ice Cream Social
September 2 - Labor Day Holiday
September 18- PTA Association Meeting 8:30am MUR
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PTA Meetings
September: 9/18/19 - 8:30 AM
November: 11/13/19 - 7 PM
January: 1/22/20 - 7 PM
March: 3/18/20 - 7 PM
May: 5/13/20 - 8:30 AM
PTA Executive Board
Principal: Chris Marchetti
President: Hannah Heller
Executive Vice President: Jenn Yu
Secretary: Deidre Brill
Treasurer: Marcela Ramirez
1st VP- Fundraising: Mike Wong
2nd VP - PTA Council: Carisa Olivo
Financial Secretary: Adelina Ratner
Auditor: Charu Shukla
Historian: Bryan Townsend
Parliamentarian: Jennifer Dicker


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God is doing something new through a new generation of conspirators. They are comprised by at least four streams: emerging, missional, multicultural, and monastic. You can read about what God is doing through a new generation of innovators in The New Conspirators: Creating the Future One Mustard Seed at a Time.
The emerging stream had its beginnings with young leaders in Britain who wanted to create new ways to engage a postmodern generation. They have fashioned a range of imaginative new expressions - from cafes to art centers - that engage those that would never come to a traditional church. You can find a large number of emerging leaders all over the U.S. struggling to create new forms of church. They are connected to groups like Emergent Village, Soularize, and Youth Specialities.
There are a few theologians who question the biblical orthodoxy of some of these leaders. The emerging leaders I have had an opportunity to work with have a very high view of scripture. But they tend to approach scripture more as narrative - story and mystery with a welcome humility.
There are three major characteristics that impress me about the emerging stream that come directly out of their commitment to scripture:
First, they are not only concerned about orthodoxy but orthopraxy. They are interested in seeing a more authentic whole life faith than is often found in established. They are keen to see a faith that impacts every aspect of their lives and lifestyles.
Second, they want to be involved in expressions of church in which word and deed mission is central, not marginal. As a consequence, many emerging churches are often more outwardly focused on the lives and communities in which they serve.
Third, even though many of these young leaders come from evangelical roots, they have left the ideologies of the religious right and political right behind and have started doing their own thinking. As a consequence, they tend to embrace views that transcend right and left. They value family integrity and care for the vulnerable, but also are typically strong advocates of social justice and care of creation.
Next week: the missional stream.
Tom Sine founded Mustard Seed Associates in 1989. He has worked as a consultant in futures research and planning for numerous nonprofit organizations and speaks at gatherings all over the world with his wife, Christine. His newest book, The New Conspirators: Creating the Future One Mustard Seed at a Time, comes out next month. Join the New Conspirators, Feb. 28-29 and Mar. 1 at Bethany Community Church in Seattle and discover what God is doing through a new generation of risk takers. Join this festival of imagination and create new ways to be a difference in uncertain times: www.thenewconspirators.wordpress.com
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This fall, Woodmere Art Museum offers children's exhibitions, weekly art making activities for kids and the annual Harry Potter straw maze.
For eight weekends from Sept. 20 through Nov. 3, Dumbledore's Powers will be open for families and children ages 4-11. Harry Potter-themed art-making activities include designing a coat of arms for a Hogwarts house, creating a broomstick bookmark and creating your own book of spells.
Woodmere's family programming for the fall also includes The Dream at 50: A Tribute to MLK, a children's gallery exhibition featuring award-winning artwork by local students to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. This exhibition is on view through October 20 in the Helen Millard Children's Gallery.
Woodmere Art Museum is located at 9201 Germantown Ave. Admission to special exhibitions is $10 for adults, $7 for seniors, and free for students, children and Museum members; exhibitions in the Founder's Gallery and Helen Millard Children's Gallery are free. For more information, visit woodmereartmuseum.org or call 215-247-0476.


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The old adage, "the show must go on," has new meaning for pop star Pink.
Just one day after she fell out of a harness and into a steel barricade during a performance in Nurnberg, Germany, she returned to the stage on Friday to continue her European tour, reported Us Magazine.
"Well, we did it!!!" Pink tweeted. "Always get right back on the horse that bucked you. Thank u gorgeous people of Salem, Germany!!! Totally worth it!"
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Pink, who is known for incorporating aerial stunts in her performances, was rushed to the hospital immediately after the painful fall.
She was not clipped in properly to the harness and when it began to lift, Pink was flung from the stage, ending the concert.
From the ambulance, the Grammy winner apologized to her fans via twitter and later assured them that she was okay.
"Nothings broken, no fluid in the lungs, just seriously sore," the singer tweeted.
Pink's "Funhouse Summer Carnival Tour" will conclude, July 25 in Norway.


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Launching in conjunction with the Blu-ray Disc and DVD release of the blockbuster "Star Trek" movie from Paramount Pictures on November 17, Star Trek: D-A-C is a fast-paced, top-down space shooter where up to twelve players can compete in inter-galactic battles between Starfleet and the Romulan Empire. Since its maiden voyage on Xbox LIVE Arcade in May, Star Trek: D-A-C has been expanded with two additional ship classes, a single player game mode, several new pick-ups, a new map for Assault Mode, enhanced gameplay features and more.
Star Trek: D-A-C features NVIDIA 3D Vision compatibility, allowing equipped PC players to engage in intense stereoscopic 3D battles. Planets, ships, space stations, meteors and asteroids jump off the screen in 3D for an immersive deep space flight experience. Players with an NVIDIA GeForce GPU in their PC can experience dynamic NVIDIA PhysX effects including blazing explosions and reactive debris.
Star Trek: D-A-C supports online multiplayer, online co-op and single player gameplay. There are four different game types - Survival, Team Deathmatch, Conquest and Assault. In the all-new single-player Survival Mode, Starfleet captains have only three lives to blast through waves of enemy ships. When destroyed, enemy ships and drones drop special ability and score pick-ups, and players are challenged to grab as many as they can before their lives run out. Top scores will move players to the top of the leader boards and Starfleet ranks. In Team Deathmatch, teams go head-to-head, clashing in a winner-takes-all fight to the finish. In Conquest, teams must simultaneously protect and conquer control points in space. In Assault, teams take turns trying to dominate or defend a sector of space.
In Star Trek: D-A-C, players choose from five ship types for both the Romulans and the Federation - the all-new Missile Cruiser, all-new Support Frigate, Bomber, Fighter and Flagship - with each ship offering unique capabilities for players to master and manipulate from the Captain's chair. The Missile Cruiser is a heavy artillery ship that features a longer range than any other ship in the game, but is vulnerable to close range attacks due to a low rate of fire and slower flight speed. The Support Frigate allows players to heal friendly ships and easily target escape pods. The nimble Bomber speeds in and out of battles, dropping bombs in its wake. The Fighter attacks ships head-on, blasting missiles and dodging attacks. The durable Flagship allows players to target enemies with a reticule and inflict damage with an auto-firing phaser that attacks nearby enemies. The Starfleet Flagship is the U.S.S. Enterprise™ featured in the "Star Trek" film.
New gameplay updates in Star Trek: D-A-C include variable AI difficulty settings, customizable goals that allow players to set game time limits and number of kills needed to win, improved mechanics for capturing control points in Conquest games, and host migration, which will allow games to continue even if the host player disconnects. Star Trek: D-A-C also incorporates music and signature sounds taken directly from the "Star Trek" film.
Star Trek: D-A-C can now be downloaded for $9.99 from Steam here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4320/
Star Trek: D-A-C can now be purchased for PlayStationNetwork for $9.99 here: https://us.playstation.com/PS3/Games/STAR_TREK_D_A_C
Star Trek: D-A-C will soon be available for download for 800 Microsoft Points on Xbox LIVE Arcade. Star Trek: D-A-C is rated "E" by the ESRB.


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Sales System
The National Agents Alliance® Sales System is the key to opening the door to a whole new way of doing business. It is the most unique system ever developed that emphasizes the value of YOUR time, not the client's. The system elevates you into the position of consultant and not life insurance salesperson. When you go on an appointment, there is no doubt between you and the client what you plan on accomplishing that evening: they are going to choose a program that best fits their needs and budget AND they are going to fill out an application and write a check for the first month's premium. The only thing they have to figure out is which options work for them in relationship to how much they can pay per month – you're already filling out the application while they are deciding.
In fact, during many of our appointments, the clients already have their checkbook out and sometimes even before we begin, they want to know to whom to make the check and for how much.
When we receive our leads, it isn't a matter of seeing how many appointments we can talk our way into; it really is a mentality of how many leads can we filter out who are going to waste our time. We only go on the appointments that agree beforehand that they are going to sign an app and write a check. Simple as that.
Our new agents who are experienced in the industry are surprised and impressed with the systematic qualification filter used to sniff out the prospects from the suspects. But in reality, the prospects are not prospects at all; they are committed buyers already by the time we walk through their front door.
Can you imagine working a system where you can go out on 5 to 7 appointments in a week, each lasting about 45 minutes and closing 95%?
How long did that take to make money? Our sales people with families love our program because with the time efficiency with which they make money, they can spend so much more time with their families.
Our training system is comprehensive with training seminars, tapes, nationwide teleconferences, periodic meetings, etc. All at no cost to you. Get this – no one makes a dime on any training function or tool. Why you ask? Simple, we want you in the field maximizing your income as soon as possible – we are not in the business of profiting from selling a "system".
Now, not everyone is going to be successful coming on board with us. Why? Several reasons.
- If you have a fear of contacting leads on the phone, do not come on board with us – you will spend most of your time contacting leads on the phone and the remainder of your time going on appointments.
- If you think that you will use YOUR selling system versus using ours, that might be okay if you are closing our required sales ratio to leads, but no one in the history of National Agents Alliance® has ever used their own selling system and been able to meet our minimum sales performance standards. You can try and be the first one but the odds are against you. Besides, why re-invent the wheel? We will teach you exactly how to be successful in a minimum amount of time. Why not just listen, learn and make money?
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the website totally rocks dude it rockz ma world dude..but dude.. whats up wid nightingale dude? like dude!!!! whats is it up with the jonh keats dude like oh my god dude it is totally confusing dude like was this dude crazy or something?
why did he pick a nightingale dude? like why not a peacock dude? i mean so what if this keats dude wants to be immortal like the nightingale's song whats so daymn beautiful about the song?? it is highly annoying and provactive i would like to ring the birds neck not praise its concept of immortality like dude what is up with that?!
this keats dude wants to drink himself to death how does he even know the nightingales life is pure and serene it goes through problems tooo dude!!! this keats dude needs to get over this darkness thing instead of such vintictive comparism embrace the world as the nightingale has...maybe this keats dude should be a mime like mimick the birds song dude? then he could feel this concept of immortality he is constantly referring to in his pieces. DUDE... this man had no life but to impose darkness on everyone elses life!!!! this is just not right dude!!!!
and then after all this work then he questions what he really wants?? LIKE DUDE HE IS CRAZY!!! DOESNT KNOW WHAT HE WANTS DUDE!!!! AND DUDE DONT GET ME STARTED ON MELANCHOLY DUDE!!


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Perhaps Feng Jin Yuan could accept being demoted and chased from home. After all, such a large situation had occurred with Feng Chen Yu. It was impossible that the imperial family would not have any thoughts. But upon mentioning the deed, his heart sank. He had taken half a step into a hole.
It's over. He had used the deed to borrow money from Feng Yu Heng. The pre-determined return date had not yet arrived, and he did not have one million taels of silver prepared. How should he go and retrieve this deed?
Seeing that Feng Jin Yuan's expression was not quite right, An shi stepped forward and gently said: "Husband, the family should suffer together and rejoice together. This is nothing. Whether a residence is large or small, it does not matter. As long as we have a place to live, that is enough. If the deed must be returned, just return it. We will move."
Jin Zhen also said: "That's right, with so many things happening at this manor, I keep feeling that it is unlucky. Moving would be good."
If this was under normal circumstances, Feng Jin Yuan might have felt moved from hearing An shi say such things, but how could he still have the mind to feel moved? With his mind running hot, he suddenly said: "Move, why move? We won't move! My Feng family has lived in this manor for many years. Which part of this manor has not been taken care of? Could it be that I must cup my hands and make concessions just like this? 8000 is 8000. Even if I must melt down pots to sell the iron, I cannot allow mother to live uncomfortably."
In his eagerness, he had brought out the matriarch. It sounded like he was being a good son, but the matriarch did not appreciate this. She just asked Feng Jin Yuan: "Melt down pots to sell the iron? How much money could that be sold for? In order to marry that vile woman from Qian Zhou, you already spent all of the money in the manor. I will no longer live in this courtyard. Just bring the deed out. There is no need to wait for another four days. We will move out right now!"
Everyone was in agreement. Zhang Yuan also nodded, saying: "Elder madam is right. Rather than forcefully keeping up appearances, it would be better to live peacefully." While saying this, he reached into his sleeve and pulled out a piece of paper, "This is the deed for the residence on the Southwest side of the capital. Lord Feng, hand over the deed for this side."
Feng Jin Yuan's face was red, and everyone was waiting for him to hand over the deed, but he did not bring it out. Cheng Jun Man was puzzled: "Is husband still unwilling to part with this place?"
Feng Jin Yuan nodded, "After living here for many years, how could I possibly move out just like that." After thinking a little, he finally managed to come up with an excuse, "In three days, Chen Yu will be executed. I want to hold a ritual for her at home. Even if it is not for her, it needs to be done for the Feng family to live peacefully in the future. It would be best if the ritual was done at the old manor to prevent harming the new place."
With him saying this, the matriarch was in agreement, saying: "That's right, to perform a ritual for a dead person immediately after moving in would be too unlucky. It would be best to have it done here."
Upon hearing this, Zhang Yuan did not continue pressing the issue. With a wave of his hand, he returned the deed to his sleeve then said: "Then we will return in a few days time." After saying this, he quickly left with his group of eunuchs.
Feng Jin Yuan finally let out a sigh of relief, but this was only temporary. He had four days at most. After four days, he would still need to face the problem of handing over the deed. At this very moment, he also began to hate Feng Chen Yu. If it was not for her causing all of this, he would not have been demoted, and the Feng family would not have been chased out!
The matriarch snorted and said to granny Zhao: "Go bring out the court dress that came with my title of first rank noble lady. When the time comes, have eunuch Zhang take it away too." She then glared at Feng Jin Yuan: "Your court clothes should also be turned in. From this day forward, you won't need to be attending court. The Feng family truly raised a good daughter."
The matriarch spoke for herself, and Feng Jin Yuan's mind was also thinking quickly. The hatred that he had just felt for Chen Yu had somehow ended up being directed at Feng Yu Heng. That's right! He should not hate Chen Yu. The one that he should hate is Feng Yu Heng. It was her that had done something to Chen Yu's body. It was her that hoped wholeheartedly to collapse the Feng family. Feng Jin Yuan felt that he had given birth to a demon. If possible, he really hoped the person that would be executed on the day after would be his second daughter, Feng Yu Heng.
"Bring the elder madam back first." He gritted his teeth and angrily said: "I will be going out." Once he said this, he did not wait for anyone to react before walking out of the manor.
An shi saw he go out and turn right. She subconsciously turned toward Tong Sheng pavilion and felt that he was definitely going to look for Feng Yu Heng.
An shi's guess was correct. Feng Jin Yuan had indeed gone to the county princess' manor. The matter of moving out was extremely urgent. There was truly nothing else he could do. He had no choice but to go to Feng Yu Heng to see if he could get the deed back first.
But he never thought that just getting into the county princess' manor would require three layers of notification. From the imperial guards to the gatekeeper then to the servant in Feng Yu Heng's courtyard, Feng Jin Yuan waited for a full stick of incense in time before he was invited into the manor's gates.
Qing Yu was present, thus she personally led Feng Jin Yuan into the manor. When passing by Yao shi's courtyard, Qing Yu said: "Lord Feng, please come around this way to prevent disturbing madam's peace."
The anger that Feng Jin Yuan had been suppressing the entire time suddenly welled up, "Such a grand stature! This prime minister definitely will not go around today!"
Qing Yu was frank, directly stopped. Looking coldly at Feng Jin Yuan, she reminded him: "Could it be that my lord forgot that you are no longer the prime minister. Why are you still referring to yourself as this prime minister? Are you not afraid that these words will leak, and the Feng family will end up meeting with another crisis?"
Feng Jin Yuan was given a start. He had referred to himself as a prime minister for so many years, and he had become accustomed to it. Now that this girl reminded him, he finally reacted. He had to pay a bit more attention. Disaster had always been caused by words, but he definitely could not cause another crisis for the Feng family.
But he was puzzled, "The imperial decree just came from the palace. How did you know about it so quickly? Could it be that you have placed a spy in the Feng family?"
Qing Yu very nearly laughed, "My lord, what do you mean by Feng family? Could it be that young miss is not part of the Feng family? Moreover, young miss is currently still taking care of the Feng family. Is there still a need for her to specially investigate? Which one doesn't listen to young miss' orders? Also, his Majesty sent young miss a roasted duck, and this news came from the eunuch that delivered the duck. His Majesty also wished for young miss to hear some good news. If my lord has any objections, please go into the palace to see his Majesty!"
How could Feng Jin Yuan still have that ability. Snorting, he went around.
Finally arriving at Feng Yu Heng's courtyard, he immediately saw that girl sitting under a red date tree. She was eating roasted duck rolls, directly picking them up with her hands. She had a very ugly eating appearance, and he truly could not understand. That high-class ninth prince, how did he end up taking an interest in this girl.
Qing Yun brought him to the courtyard. Without announcing anything, she walked directly over to Feng Yu Heng and prepared another roll. Huang Quan was holding the duck and saying to her: "This servant will bring it to the kitchen. I will have the chef from the Refined Deity Building prepare a nice soup."
Feng Yu Heng was enjoying the meal and did not have a chance to speak. She just waved her hand to have her go quickly. Wang Chuan stood to the side and glanced at Feng Jin Yuan. Smiling, she said: "Lord Feng, there's no point in staring at the duck hungrily. This was sent by his Majesty to young miss. Nobody else is allowed to have any."
Feng Jin Yuan immediately rushed to say: "Who's coveting that damn thing!"
The person whose mouth was full finally stopped. Glaring, she coldly said: "Say it again!"
"What will happen even if I said it another ten times!" Feng Jin Yuan lost his composure upon seeing his second daughter, "Even if I said it another ten times, it is still just a damn duck! Be careful not to choke to death!"
"Wang Chuan." Feng Yu Heng put down the duck that she had not yet finished eating and calmly said: "Along with the plate, put the rest of what has not been eaten back into the food box. Immediately send it into the palace." While saying this, she raised her head to look up at the sky. Using a handkerchief that she received from Qing Yu, she wiped her hands and removed the identification from her waist: "Go quickly. If you're any later, the palace's gates will have closed. Remember, you must send it to father Emperor or eunuch Zhang Yuan. Just say that Official Feng said that this duck is just a damn duck, and this county princess might choke to death on it. Tell father Emperor that this county princess does not want to die and still wishes to contribute to Da Shun."
Wang Chuan forcefully suppressed her desire to laugh. Smoothly picking up the plate, she was about to leave. Only then did Feng Jin Yuan react and realize that he had misspoken. He hated that he could not slap himself. He clearly knew that this duck had been sent by the Emperor, but why did he still say such a thing? He truly could not control his emotions whenever he saw this girl. This was no good.
He stopped Wang Chuan, finally controlling his emotions: "I did not have that sort of meaning. There is no need to take it seriously." He then spoke to Feng Yu Heng: "Father came today to ask you for something."
"Ask me?" Feng Yu Heng shrugged, "Father came to ask me for help, yet you actually cursed me to die from choking. If I died, who would help you?"
Feng Jin Yuan did not wish to argue with her; however, he had noticed the words that she had used and said with joy: "Your meaning is… you've agreed?"
"I do not agree." Feng Yu Heng clearly told him, "No matter what it is, I will not agree to it. There is no need for father to waste your time. Please go back."
"You…" Feng Jin Yuan became frantic, "I am your father. Having given birth and raised you for all these years, why do you not care about that relationship at all?"
Feng Yu Heng raised her hand as if to hit him, "You gave birth to me? Did you carry the pregnancy? You raised me? You sent me into the mountains to be raised? Feng Jin Yuan, I will tell you, the little bit of fatherly relation you had was completely erased by all of the open and covert attempts to harm and kill us. You should already be thankful that I allowed you into this county princess' manor today. If you continue to make impertinent remarks toward me, you will not be permitted to take a single step into this county princess' manor."
Feng Jin Yuan's face was completely red. Feng Yu Heng mocking and cursing him had never left him with any face. His old face was not worth a damn thing to this daughter. He beat the drums to sound a retreat. With relations so cold, was there any point in him opening his mouth?
But if he did not mention it, there would not be any hope. The palace's matters were urgent. Even if he had to discard his face on this day, he would still need to ask.
Thus he gritted his teeth and frankly said: "I cam today to discuss the matter of the Feng manor's deed. Right now, the Emperor wishes to take it back. Look, can you return it to me first."
Feng Yu Heng raised an eyebrow: "I can, but you need to return the one million taels of silver that you owe me."
Feng Jin Yuan stomped his foot, "If I could bring out the one million taels, why would I bother wasting words with you."
"Even you know that you are wasting your time, yet you still say so much. Do you not feel tired." Feng Yu Heng coldly glared at the body's original owner's shameless father and reminded him: "Rather than coming here to ask me for the deed, it would be better to go and borrow money. Once you have borrowed one million taels, the deed will naturally be given to you."
Given her idea, Feng Jin Yuan also felt that rather than continuing to lose face here, it would be better to go borrow money. Thus he stomped his feet and pointed at Feng Yu Heng, saying: "Little beast, when I have gathered than one million taels to trade for the deed, I will definitely cut our relationship as father and daughter. I will never come again!"
Just as the words came out, the sudden sound of thunder erupted from the clear skies. The boom shook even the ground
Feng Jin Yuan was given a fright and nearly fell to the ground. Feng Yu Heng, however, suddenly laughed. Pointing at the shameless dad, she said: "Did you hear that. You cursed me, and even the king of heaven is unhappy!"


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UPDATE NOTE: This original post referred to California Forward, but it is two entities. California Forward, a 501(c)3, is limited in what it can do. The political activities, including the backing of the initiative in this post, are conducted by an affiliated organization, California Forward Action Fund, a 501(c)4 that has more freedom to engage in advocacy.
What if you gave people who had spent years thinking about reforming California some serious political money?
We're about to find out.
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California Forward, a nonprofit that has pursued reform on governance in recent years, has been funded by foundations on its research and philanthropic work, but hasn't had big money to wage politics (since its foundation backers can't give big to their political advocacy affiliate, the California Forward Action Fund, and since there are few natural donor constituencies for political reform).
But billionaire Nicolas Berggruen, who convened a reform effort known as the Think Long Committee, is already changing that.
It was disclosed this week that Berggruen gave $1.2 million to a California Forward Action Fund-backed ballot initiative to change various aspects of the budget process.
This initiative has many pieces, and its impact on the broken budget process is expected to be modest. But it's a big deal that Berggruen and California Forward Action Fund are working together, in that it combines a well-funded if new player on the California reform scene with one of its most sophisticated reform groups.
If you think California needs big fixes, this provides a bit of hope.
In future years and elections, the combination of Berggruen's money and his expertise with broad reform, along with California Forward Action Fund's sophistication and organization creates the opportunity for top-to-bottom structural reform that the state needs.
Whether that will happen remains to be seen.
There is considerable disagreement on policy particulars among the good government community, and the reform plan of Berggruen's Think Long group has only some overlap with California Forward Action Fund's reform frameworks. But there is potential here.
Let us know what you think. Comment below, send us your thoughts via Twitter @PropZero or add your comment to our Facebook page.


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At LogNormal, we're all about collecting and making sense of real user performance data. We collect over a billion data points a month, and there's a lot you can tell about the web and your users if you know how to look at this data. In this post, I'd like to go over some of the statistical methods we use to make sense of this data.
For Speed Awareness Month, LogNormal is giving away two months of our top tier product for free. You can check out the details on our web site. This article will tell you a little about what goes into building your own real user measurement system.
The entire topic is much larger than I can cover in a single post, so go through the references at the end if you're interested in more information.
Data and Distribution
The data we're looking at is the time between the user initiating an action (like a page load), and that action completing. In most cases, this is the time from a user requesting a page and that page's onload event firing.
For a site with few page views, the probability distribution looks something like this:
And for a site with a large number of page views, the probability distribution looks like this:
The x-axis is page load time while the y-axis is the number of data points that fell into a particular bucket. The actual number of data points that fall into a bucket is not important, it's the relative value that is.
We notice that as the number of data points increases, the distribution becomes more striking until you're able to map well known probability distribution functions (PDFs) to it. In this case, the load time looks a lot like a Log-normal distribution, ie, a distribution where the y-axis v/s the logarithm of the x-axis is Normal (or Gaussian) in nature.
You can read more about Log-normal distributions at Wikipedia and on Wolfram Alpha.
While these tend to be the most common, they aren't the only distributions. We also sometimes see a bimodal distribution like this:
This often shows up when two different distributions are added together.
Central tendency
Now regardless of the distribution, we need a measure of central tendency to tell us what the "Average" user experience is. Note that I've included the term "Average" in quotes because it's often misinterpreted. Most people use the term average to refer to the arithmetic mean. Statistically though, the Average could refer to any single number that summarises a dataset, and there are many that we can pick from.
The most common are the arithmetic mean, the median and the mode. There's also the geometric mean, the harmonic mean and a few others that we won't cover.
I'll briefly go over each of these terms.
The arithmetic mean
The arithmetic mean is simply the sum of all readings divided by the number of readings. In the rest of this document, we'll refer to the arithmetic mean as amean or μ (the greek letter mu).
The best thing about the amean is that it's really easy to calculate. Even with a very large number of data points, you only need to hold on to the sum of all points and the number of points. In terms of memory, this should require two integers.
The biggest drawback of the amean is that it is very susceptible to outliers. For example, the arithmetic mean of the following three sets is the same:
Set 1: 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 91
Set 2: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
Set 3: 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 16, 17, 17, 17, 18
The median
Unlike the amean, the median actually does show up in the data set (more or less). The median is the middle data point (also called the 50% percentile) after sorting all data points in ascending order. In the Set 2 above, the median is 10. Set 1 is slightly different because there are an even number of data points, and consequently, two middle points. In this case, we take the amean of the two middle points, and in this case we end up with (1+1)/2 == 1.
The cool thing about medians is that they aren't susceptible to outliers. The point with value 91 in Set 1 doesn't affect the median at all. It reacts more to where the bulk of the data is.
What makes medians hard to calculate is that you need to hold a sorted list of all data points in memory at once. This is fine if your dataset is small, but as you start growing beyond a few thousand data points, it gets fairly memory intensive. (Ever notice how most databases do not have a MEDIAN function, but most spreadsheet applications do?)
Medians are also not a great measure of central tendency when you have a bimodal distribution like in Set 3. In this case we have two separate clusters of data, but the median ends up being (5+15)/2 == 10, which isn't even in the dataset.
The mode
We've mentioned bimodal distributions. The term bimodal comes from the fact that the distribution has two modes. Which brings up the question, "What is a mode?". The French term la mode means fashion (the related phrase à la mode means in style). In terms of a data distribution, the mode is the the most popular term in the dataset.
Looking at our three datasets above, the modes are 1, n/a and (3, 17).
In the first set, the most popular (or frequent) value is 1. In set 3, it's a tie between 3 and 17. In set 2, each term shows up only once, so there's no "most popular" term.
When looking at large sets of real data though, we'll approximate a bit, we may call a distribution multi-modal (or bimodal) if it has more than one term that's far more popular than the others, even if all modes do not have equal popularity.
Looking back at our third distribution, we see that the two peaks aren't of the same height, but they're close enough, and each is a local maximum so we consider the distribution bimodal.
Finding a single mode involves finding the most popular data point in a data set. This isn't too hard, and only requires a frequency table, which is less memory intensive than storing every data point. Finding multiple modes involves walking the distribution to find local maxima.
The geometric mean
Just like the arithmetic mean, the geometric mean involves counters. Unlike the aritmetic mean, it uses multiplication and roots rather than addition and division. We'll use the terms gmean or μg to refer to the geometric mean.
The geometric mean of a set of N numbers is the Nth root of the product of all N numbers. Writing this in code, it would look like:
pow(x1 * x2 * ... * xN, 1/N)
The problem we're most likely to encounter when calculating a geometric mean is numeric overflow. If you multiply too many numbers, your product is going to overflow sooner or later. Luckily, there's more than one way to do things mathematically, and we can covert multiplication and roots into summation and division using logs and exponents. So the above expression turns into:
exp((log(x1) + log(x2) + ... + log(xN))/N)
So when would one use the geometric mean?
It turns out that the amean is great for Normal distributions and similarly, the gmean is great for Log-normal distributions.
So we've looked at central tendency a bit, but that only tells us what our data is centered around. None of the central tendency numbers tell us how closely we're centered around that value. We also need a means to tell us the spread of the data.
When dealing with means (arithmetic or geometric), we can use the variance, standard deviation or standard error. The method for calculating these numbers is mostly the same for arithmetic and geometric means, except that we'll use exponents and logs for the geometric spread.
For the median, spread is determined by looking at other percentile values, quartiles and inter quartile filtering.
Arithmetic Standard Deviation
The traditional way of calculating a standard deviation involves taking the square of the difference between each data point and the amean, then taking the mean of all those squares, and finally taking the square root of this new mean. This is also called a Root Mean Square (RMS for short).
This requires us to keep track of every data point until we've calculated the mean.
A less memory intensive way, and one which can be streamed is to calculate a running sum of squares. If we then want the standard deviation at any point, we use the following expression:
sqrt(sum(x^2)/N - (sum(x)/N)^2)
As data comes in, we need to add it to our sum and add its square to our sum of squares, and that's about it.
The details of how we end up with this expression are well documented on the Wikipedia page about Standard deviation, so I won't go into it here. We'll refer to the standard deviation using the terms SD or σ (the greek letter sigma).
Geometric Standard Deviation
The geometric standard deviation is almost the same, except we use log(x) instead of x, and once we get the final result, pass it to the exp() function. Similar to the arithmetic standard deviation, we'll use the symbol σg to refer to the geometric standard deviation.
The one difference between arithmetic and geometric standard deviation is the notation we use for the spread. For arithmetic standard deviation, we use
μ ± σ whereas for the geometric standard deviation, we use
μg */ σg.
As we've seen in the curves above, real user performance data can have a very long tail, and if you care about user experience, you'll want to know how far to the right that tail goes. We can do this by looking at things like the 95th, 98th or 99th percentile values of the curve. The method of getting a percentile is exactly the same as the method for getting the median. We need to sort all data points in ascending order, and then pick the pth point depending on the percentile we care about.
For example, if we have 1 million data points, and want to know the 95th percentile, we'd look for the 1,000,000 * 0.95 == 950,000th point. Similarly, for the 75th or 25th percentiles, we'd look for the 750,000th or 250,000th points.
In Set 2 (reproduced below), with 9 points, what would the 95th and 25thpercentiles be? For fractional indices, round down if your arrays are zero based.
Set 2: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
Inter Quartile Range
The Inter Quartile Range is the middle 50% of data points in a set. It includes all points between the 25th and 75th percentiles. The IQR is more robust than the entire range (min, max) since outliers are not included in the set. IQR is actually a single number which is the difference between the 75th and 25th percentile numbers.
Data filtering
When dealing with real user performance data, we may need to apply two levels of filtering. The first is to strip out absurd data. Remember that as with any data received over a web interface, you really cannot trust that the data you're receiveing was sent by code you wrote, or someone else trying to masquerade as your code. The best you can do is require sane limits on your inputs, and make sure they fit these limits.
In addition to limiting for sanity, you also need to split your data set into two (or three) parts, one of which includes typical data points, and the remainder including outliers. These are both interesting sets, but need to be analysed separately.
Band-pass & sanity filtering
If you've ever used a graphic equaliser on a music system, you've worked with a band pass filter. In the audio-electronics world, a band-pass filter passes through components of the audio stream that fall within a certain frequency band, while blocking everything else. For example, to enhance bass effects and dampen other effects, we might pass through signals between 20Hz and 200Hz and block everything else, or let something else deal with it through a parallel stream.
With performance data, we can define similar limits. You should never see a page load in less than 0 seconds, and in fact it's highly unlikely that you'd see a page load in under 50 milliseconds (loading content from cache may be an exception). It's also unlikely that you'd see a page in over 3-4 minutes… not because it doesn't happen, but because users are unlikely to hang around that long*.
Similarly, if you see timestamps in the distant past or distant future, chances are that it's either fake data, or a very badly misconfigured system sending you that data. In both cases it's probably something you want to drop (or pass to a separate handler for further analysis).
* Users may tolerate very long page load times if the page loads in a background tab and they never actually see it.
IQR Filtering
IQR filtering is based on the Inter Quartile Range that we saw earlier. Its job is to strip out outliers so we only look at typical data. To filter a dataset using IQR filtering, we first find the inter quartile range
We then define a field width of 1.5 times this range:
fw = 1.5 * (Q3-Q1).
Finally, we run a band-pass filter on the data set with an open interval of
(Q1-fw, Q3+fw). An open interval is one in which the end points are not included, so your test would be
x[i] > Q1-fw && x[i] < Q3+fw.
We can also include points that fall below the interval into a low-outliers group, and points that fall above the interval into a high-outliers group.
The great thing about IQR filtering is that it's based on your dataset and not on some arbitrary limits derived from intuition 😉 In other words, it will work just as well for datapoints coming in over a slow dialup network and datapoints coming in over a T3 line. A straight band-pass filter might not.
Example Numbers
As an example, here are some of the numbers we see for a near Log-normal distribution of data:
Notice how close the geometric mean and the median are to each other while the arithmetic mean gets pulled out to the right.
We've gone over how to find central tendency and spread and how to filter your data. This covers everything you need to analyse your performance data.
And if you'd rather not do all of this yourself, have a look at the RUM tool we've built at LogNormal. Send us up to 100 million data points a month and we'll do the rest.
To celebrate Speed Awareness Month, you'll get 2 free months of our Pro service if you sign up at http://www.lognormal.com/promos/speedawarenessmonth.
Thanks for following along, and let's go make the web faster.
- What Do You 'Mean'? Revisiting Statistics for Web Response Time Measurements — David M. Ciemiewicz
- Web Performance — Not a Simple Number — Peter J Cevcik
- Double-hump distribution — J.D. Meier, Carlos Farre, Prashant Bansode, Scott Barber, Dennis Rea
- Band-pass filters — Tony R. Kuphaldt on All About Circuits
- Wikipedia Articles on Normal distribution, Log-normal distribution, Bimodal distribution, Geometric Mean, Memory Efficient Standard Deviation
- The boomerang JavaScript library on github
Philip Tellis (@bluesmoon) is a geek who likes to make the computer do his work for him. As co-founder and CTO of Log-Normal (@log_normal), he analyses the impact of various design decisions on web application performance, scalability and security. He is also the lead developer of "boomerang" -- a JavaScript based web performance testing tool. Prior to LogNormal, Philip worked on the Exceptional Performance team at Yahoo!
Tags: analysis, data, real user measurement, rum, statistics
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Originally from Washington Heights, Mora received a Bachelor's in Liberal Arts from the University of Vermont, and interned at non-profits throughout college.
He returned to New York in 2006, where he landed a job at Accion New York, now called Accion U USA, the largest nonprofit micro-finance company in the country.
"I was all about working for socially responsible or financially responsible organizations," Mora said, adding that he "always wanted to do something in business."
He found his calling at the QEDC, where he runs programs to help entrepreneurs, and a yearly competition that this year is awarding its winners $10,000 each to launch their companies.
His background as a risk-analyst and his experience working as an assistant to an entrepreneur prepared him to design programs to help Queens start-ups gain footing in the business world, he said.
"You basically kind of play the sounding board to start-up businesses," Mora said. "Start-ups can take months or years, and especially those that take years, that's the most rewarding thing because you've seen your consistent relationship with that client be helpful."
The QEDC gets most of its funding for its entrepreneurial programs from foundations such as Citi, and the Empire State Development Corporation. The number of start-ups in Queens grows each year, but Mora has to work with the same amount of funding regardless of how many more clients he takes on.
"We've seen high increase in demand from individuals who are looking to start businesses," he said, but "people don't pay for our services, so it's not like we get more money from them."
Despite a lack of funding, Mora continues to take on more clients, because he enjoys working with the diverse group of people Queens has to offer.
"You get a mixed bag, a huge range of start-ups, but at the same time it's like a gift," he said. "You get to meet so many different people and develop a wide knowledge base."


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The rapid growth in the older adult market over the next few decades is a factor every health and fitness club must consider in their strategic planning.
In 1900, only 4 percent of the population, or 123,000 people, were 65 and older. In the next 30 years, the 50+ group will grow by 74 percent and the under 50 group by 1 percent.
The fitness professionals or program champions are key to success in programming for older adults. Position your program at the forefront with professionals that have knowledge of exercise science with a focus on exercise and aging.
The older adult population is loyal if properly served. Customer service is the best way to market your programs and enhance retention. Communication is the foundation of building good relationships that keep the older adult market coming back. It is estimated that 68 percent of customers quit because of an attitude of indifference to the customer by an employee.
High-quality communication is essential in providing exceptional customer service. The challenge of communicating with other people is that there is no reality, only perception. We all have different perceptions of what we hear and say. In communication, 55 percent is body language, 38 percent is intonation and 7 percent is verbal. A smile is a curved line that can set a lot of things straight. Eye contact indicates your interest in the speaker. Smile and look at your clients. Communicate a genuine interest in building relationships with the older adults in your club. Their loyalty will be second to none.
National health observances can be effectively used to plan programs and promote better health while marketing your club to older adults. The American Journal of Preventive Medicine reported that older Americans, when supported with reminders of the benefits of exercise increase their adherence to exercise by 80 percent. Promote health through fit facts posted throughout your center and with health promotion activities. You can contact the American Hospital Association in Chicago for a calendar of national health observances. Here are a few ideas:
Ring in the New Year. Offer an 8- to 10-week wellness challenge to get people on track with their health and fitness goals. Begin with a pre-assessment. Participants monitor their activity and their food intake throughout the program. Select a holiday spot and make the challenge an imaginary journey — Paris anyone? Base mileage on ACSM guidelines, e.g. aerobic activity three times a week for 20 minutes. Assign mileage to minutes of aerobic activity, strength and flexibility training, attendance to educational seminars, five fruits and vegetables a day, and improvements made by post-assessment time. A map of the journey in a high traffic area will stimulate interest.
National heart month. Offer a 2 for 1 healthy heart promotion. One person can be a member or both can be new members. Post statistics about heart healthy practices as fit facts around your center. Contact the American Heart Association to find out what community events you can help them promote.
National nutrition month. A great time to offer healthy cooking classes.
The last Wednesday in May is national senior health and fitness day. Host a walk and roll in the park. Grandparents walk and grandchildren ride bikes, roller blades or strollers.
Check out the International Concil On Active Aging. at icaa.cc to find out more.
Success with the older adult market is an essential component of your strategic plan now and in the future.
Terry Eckmann is an assistant professor at Minot State University in Minot, ND. She is co-owner of Fitness First Inc. and has produced three older adult exercise videos. Contact Terry at [email protected].