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New Method for Scoring Sweat Losses in Horses Proposed
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New Method for Scoring Sweat Losses in Horses Proposed
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psalmi from Finland wrote about Hotel Azur 4 years, 10 months ago
Hotel Azur is the family hotel of the party capital of Hungary, Siófok. It has lots of activities for children, including guided drawing, sports and even mini-olympics while parents may relax over the bar or taking sun baths.
It has also private beach over the Lake Balaton so you don't have to pay the high prices to the Coke Club in order to swim in the lake. You can also enjoy their spa massages, free morning yogas or rent tenniscourt for some afternoon sport fun.
Bikes are available to rent so you can take a trip outside Siófok to see the countryside of Hungary. While it is possible, I recommend to take a ship or a ferry to northern Balaton and rent a bike there. There is much more to see, including Tihány nature reserve and Loćzy cave above Balatonfüred to mention some.
psalmi from Finland wrote about Füred Kemping beach 4 years, 9 months ago
Füred Kemping beach has lots of sandy beach combined with excellent water sports activities. You can rent a windsurf (with an international license) or practise water skiing of -boarding in the 1 kilometer long track built in the water in addition to just enjoy the shallow waters by swimming.
There are also cabins to change into swimming gear and restaurants to fill your stomach after a full day of water sporting activities. In case you are biking around Lake Balaton, this is the place where you want to spend an extra day if you can afford to.
psalmi from Finland wrote about Siófok 4 years, 10 months ago
Siofok is the party capital on Hungary. Thousands of young Hungarians arrive to the beaches and bars of Siofok all the way from Budapest by train to party. Accompanied with the 200 000 visitors it really makes the village one big party.
Coke Club is biggest of these attractions, just by Lake Balaton with organized programme all day long.
psalmi from Finland wrote about Jokai Villekert 4 years, 10 months ago
Jokai Villakert serves a bit above than average priced food near the party district of Siófok. You can get both traditional Hungarian foods and nprmal restaurant dishes, beefs chicken etc.
Grilled chicken is worth having here. It was served only with grilled vegetables in marinade but man was that good.
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psalmi from Finland wrote about Peron Pizzeria & Pub 4 years, 9 months ago
When you are in dire need of fast food while in Balatonfüred nearby its main railway station, check out this place. Popular amongst natives it serves excellent lunch in very low prices, even on Hungarian scale.
psalmi from Finland wrote about Balzalikom Restaurant 4 years, 9 months ago
They sure know how to make chicken in Hungary. Sama applies to Bazsalikom Restaurant in particular, their chicken-breast with salad was one of the best I've ever tasted.
Conveniently located at the beach, you have also good views to Lake Balaton so you can enjoy the sights while dining.
psalmi from Finland wrote about Siófok 4 years, 2 months ago
Arriving at Siofok early in the morning. By the dawn we hit the shores of Lake Balaton and found the way to our hotel. There is plenty of things to do at Siofók, including renting cars, bikes, vespas or other means of transportations.
It is also no more than a few hours from Budapest so a daytrip there is also an option but why would anyone bother? (We would, an explanation follows soon.)
psalmi from Finland wrote about Hotel Azur 4 years, 2 months ago
Hotel Azur is the family hotel of the party capital of Hungary, Siófok. It has lots of activities for children, including guided drawing, sports and even mini-olympics while parents may relax over the bar or taking sun baths.
Hotel Azur was also our pick of choice when we needed a bit of luxury at the beginning of our vacation. Luckily we chose the Siofók side of Lake Balaton as the biggest city and all of the north side, Balatonfüred and others were mostly occupied by germans and even getting service in english proved to be difficult.
psalmi from Finland wrote about Siófok 4 years, 2 months ago
Getting to and from Budapest was easy but in a crowded trains you can't really count on having seats for you. On our way there the train was so overcrowded they had us standing and sitting by the car doors. Although it doesn't compare to the rush in Italian trains during a national holiday it was still a way too uncomfortable.
As it was the week on which Hungarians had their national day there was some extra partying going on at Siófok at the evening. That meant we had to share the car in which we sat in the train with about hundred youngsters coming there to party. That wasn't bad at all, we had nice conversations with a couple of them wondering why on earth we came to Hungary and to Sziget festivals while there were better ones like Tuska in Finland and Helsinki in particular. Go figure.
In the picture is the wonderful tourist information center of Siófok. It's quite close to the railway station and worth a visit just to see its exteriors. This vine-covered old water tower is awesome.
psalmi from Finland wrote about Loćzy cave 4 years, 2 months ago
The most disappointing tourist sight seeing there was. The next day, on Sunday, we hiked for an hour or so to get there and for what - a puny cave with nothing interesting to see. It was really no reason to come all the way up here. Luckily at least parts of the remaining day proved to be better.
On this picture I pose by the skull cave lookalike, btw.
psalmi from Finland wrote about Füred Kemping 4 years, 2 months ago
From Lóczy cave we decided to try for something different; the water skiing and wind surfing. Füred Kemping by Balatonfüred was the only place it was supposed to be possible by norhern Balaton, but as it were, nothing is ever that simple.
As for water skiing, they had only during mornings those practice sessions you can ski all you want. We, us two total beginners, didn't want to waste our precious dimes there, turned into wind surfing instead. Strangely enough, you would have to have a license for doing that in Hungary, too. Of course the only way you can get it is via day long course which we were of course late already as it was way past midday when we finally arrived there.
To add to the misery, everybody talked germany and we had really trouble understanding eachother.
psalmi from Finland wrote about Balatonfüred 4 years, 2 months ago
We didn't take the boat to Balatonfüred for nothing after all. As we were heading back to the boat really unhappy with the events of the day so far we noticed something that made it all go away. There was the annual Balatonfüred wine fair going on - a mile long boulevard crowded with cabins selling local (excellent) wines for less that one euro per glass.
I wish we didn't leave the city in the first place for the "sights" and "sports".
psalmi from Finland wrote about Siófok 4 years, 2 months ago
Disclaimer. While there isn't possibility to create sight of day trip entries to travel stories, you'll have to forgive me for duplicating places we slept.
And don't be fooled that our trip would end here, I am just at the very beginning of it. There will be more just when I have time for adding more to it.
psalmi from Finland wrote about Tihany 4 years, 2 months ago
On Monday we really got into doing some sports. We rented bikes from our hotel as we thought it was supposed to be cheap there. Little did we know that instead of the low list price we'd be charged per hour for full 1,5 € per hour. And we were happy to pay as originally they tried to charge us five times more by accident.
Put that aside and you have a perfect day out by the Balaton. Sun was shining from cloudless sky and temperature was somewhere well beyond 30°C as it was for the whole week.
Tihány itself was a lovely village on a top of a small hill. It was a tough ride to get up there with our lousy bikes and all (we were lucky they actually found two that worked) but well worth the trouble.
psalmi replied 4 years, 2 months ago:
There was also this excellent restaurant at the top of Tihany. Too bad I've already forgotten its name but maybe it'll come to me later and I can update it here.
It had a fancy outdoors kitchen where they actually prepared the food, a harmonica for providing entertainment and best of all - a heavenly goulash soup.
kirsi replied 4 years, 2 months ago:
If you have more time, Tihány would be perfect for a day's trekking. The middle of peninsula is all hills and forest with hiking paths throughout. Probably great views as well, but we could not risk it with our bikes.
psalmi from Finland wrote about Siófok 4 years, 2 months ago
Somewhere on our way back to Siófok we took a wrong turn and ended to a private beach with an outrageous entry fee. We had to turn around and cycle around the whole of Tihany, a good five kilometers extra. While at it, we got to see some nature and animals, too.
Traveling between Siófok and Tihány is easiest by the ferry crossing at Tihány peninsula. Its only a few minutes and you're on the other side. Ferries seem to be pretty frequent too. Another option would be to take the boat from Siófok or Balatonfüred directly and enjoy the boat ride.
psalmi from Finland wrote about Siófok 4 years, 2 months ago
This is really something you want to see - national day, or even better, the whole previous week in Hungary. Siófok had big installations by the port, including country fair, where you could get anything from cheese to wines and sheep skins.
We actually got one of those sheep skins, a black one, although we are still not sure whether it was the sheep's or sheep dog's skin as it had such a long white tail.
What was interesting was the party they had set up on the stage. The main performer way - YOU. Yes, it was karaoke stage. The cacophony was unbelievable when you could hear three to four different sources of music overlapping.
kirsi replied 4 years, 2 months ago:
They also had nice sailboat trips during the fireworks - you could see all villages firing them to the skies from the middle of the lake. Probably the best views would have been on the shore, closer to villages, but the starry night on a boat (with free booze) was something to remember.
psalmi replied 4 years, 2 months ago:
Not to mention the strong winds that created waves so big I never thought could fit into the lake. Our wooden yacht was really rolling through the 1,5 meter high waves.
You can see the rolling from the lights in this picture; the camera was sitting firmly on my lap for the duration of the exposure.
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The Iowa Department of Education (DE) is pleased to announce the Teaching Strategies GOLD State Service Umbrella Agreement (the statewide license with Teaching Strategies, Inc.) has been finalized. This agreement provides the GOLD online assessment system and reduces the subscriber fees for all state and federally funded early childhood programs and services, including Iowa school districts, their community partners, Shared Visions, as well as Head Start, Area Education Agencies and other programs located in the state of Iowa. This web‐based online system will allow programs, as well as AEAs and the DE, to assess child progress based on research‐based widely held expectations from birth through kindergarten and provide reports at the individual, group, regional and statewide level.
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The purpose of Iowa's Statewide Voluntary Preschool Program for Four-Year-Old Children is to provide an opportunity for all young children in the State of Iowa to enter school ready to learn by expanding voluntary access to quality preschool curricula for all four-year-old children. The allocation of funds for the Statewide Voluntary Preschool Program is intended to improve access to quality early childhood education and provide a predictable, equitable and sustainable funding method to increase the number of children participating in quality programs. Therefore, the four-year-old preschool funds are intended to increase the number of children participating in quality programs.
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Kindergarten Literacy Assessment - The Kindergarten Literacy Assessment is given to all kindergarten children. This report provides information about the performance of children who attended the Statewide Voluntary Preschool Program on the DIBELS assessment. The Statewide Voluntary Preschool Program demonstrates significant results.
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A total of 320 school districts were awarded funding to provide the program in the 2011-12 school year. The 2011-12 certified enrollment is 20,396 four-year-old students.
The following is guidance that can assist participating school districts and community partners.
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The Statewide Voluntary Preschool Program for Four-Year-Old Children was established May 10, 2007 when Governor Chet Culver signed House File 877 (HF 877) . The Preschool Program provides an opportunity for all young children in the State of Iowa to enter school ready to learn by expanding voluntary access to quality preschool curricula for all four-year-old children.
These rules implement the Statewide Voluntary Preschool for Four-Year-Old Children created in new Iowa Code section 256c by Iowa Acts 2007 (HF 877). They provide guidance to school districts in the implementation of this new preschool program. These rules are subject to non-substantive changes by the Iowa Code Editor.
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Curriculum Decision-Making
The National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) outlines dimensions to consider when making decisions about preschool curriculum in this Policy Brief.
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Participating school districts in the Statewide Voluntary Preschool Program for Four-Year-Old Children will follow the Iowa Early Learning Standards. These standards identify the knowledge, skills, motivation, and attitudes needed by preschoolers that lead to success as students enter school and as adults. The six developmental areas are:
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- approaches toward learning
- social and emotional development
- communication, language, and literacy
- mathematics and science
- creative arts
Iowa Early Learning Standards (2012)
Program Standards
Programs participating in Statewide Voluntary Preschool Program for Four-Year-Old Children must meet one of the following program standards. Each standard is indicative of high quality programming efforts. Preschool programs meet or will meet quality standards within 12 months of implementation of the preschool program.
- Head Start Program Performance Standards
- National Association of Education of Young Children (NAEYC) Standards and Criteria http://www.naeyc.org/accreditation/
- Iowa Quality Preschool Program Standards (QPPS)
Preschool Teacher Assistant Qualifications
The type of preschool program and required program standards determine the type of qualifications required for teaching assistants. This document provides options that are open to teaching assistants for meeting state and federal requirements.
Qualifications for Preschool Teacher Assistants
Quality Preschools
Research offers unarguable evidence that children who participate in a high-quality, research-based preschool program exhibit stronger language, math, thinking, and social skills. The Iowa Department of Education provides both research and policy guidance in this Issue Brief.
High Quality Preschools Issue Brief (2007-05-22)
Staff Development
Participating school district teachers will receive professional development focusing on areas appropriate to the role of an early childhood teacher and implemented in accordance with Iowa Code section 284.6. School districts will also make appropriate professional development opportunities available to community partner teachers of the preschool program who are not employed by the district. District support staff working in four-year-old preschool classrooms should also be provided opportunities for staff development in early childhood education. These opportunities are to be addressed in the school district career development plan and follow the Iowa Professional Development Model.
Teacher Quality
Numerous studies have found that the education levels of preschool teachers and specialized training in each childhood education predict teaching quality and positively Affect children's achievement of social, emotional, language, literacy and cognitive skills. The Iowa Department of Education provides both research and policy guidance in this Issue Brief
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Participating School Districts must work within the transportation guidelines of Iowa Code section 285.10.
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On-site Visits 2013-2014
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Desk Audits 2013-2014
District Desk Audits 2013-2014
SWVPP Desk Audit Form 2013-2014
Contacts in your Area
Each Area Education Agency has Early Childhood Consultants that can provide information and support to local school districts as they plan for the Statewide Voluntary Preschool Program for Four-Year-Old Children. Contact information is provided in the following document:
2009-2010 AEA Early Childhood Leadership Network
Supporting Links
Statewide Voluntary Preschool Program for Four-Year-Old Children requires participating school districts to adopt an assessment system linked to its research or evidence-based curriculum.
The Iowa Department of Education does not endorse any one preschool assessment. Commonly used, commercially developed assessment tools linked to research-based or evidence-based curriculums include:
- The Creative Curriculum Developmental Continuum Assessment System; Teaching Strategies, Inc., Washington DC
http://www.creativecurriculum.net/features.cfm - Child Observation Record (COR); High/Scope Educational Research Foundation, Ypsilanti, MI http://highscope.org/Content.asp?ContentId=371
Statewide Voluntary Preschool Program for Four-Year-Old Children requires participating school districts to adopt a research or evidence-based curriculum that is developmentally appropriate, including age appropriate, individually appropriate, and culturally appropriate. In order to meet the needs of the diverse population of children, families and communities; the curriculum should be culturally sensitive and flexible.
The Iowa Department of Education does not endorse any one preschool curriculum. Commonly used, commercially developed curriculum packages that meet the above criteria include:
- Creative Curriculum for Preschool http://www.teachingstrategies.com/
- High Scope http://www.highscope.org/
Best Practices in Curriculum, Assessment & Program Evaluation
The National Association of the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) has a Position Statement on Early Childhood Curriculum, Assessment, and Program Evaluation to guide implementers of early care and education programs.
Hiring Licensed Teachers
The Teach Iowa website is an avenue to recruit licensed teachers for the preschool program:
- School districts can post job vacancies and search applicants' resumes.
- Early childhood teachers interested in these jobs can search for jobs and share information with School Districts through the online application.


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Horrid movie, even the "Fresh" reviews say it's cheesy.
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Agreed.Originally Posted by JamesTheGreat
not gonna see the sequel, the first was bad enough.
yeah i fucking hated boondock saints. people fucking love that movie- i think it's the worst. and thats saying a lot coming from a boston irish kid
the gay detective in the first one always seemed weird to me and how he always spaced out and visualized shit when he came on a crime scene seemed kind of corn ball
i remember one hilarious scene where the detective wakes up after sleeping on a bean bag and he freaks out
his reaction was so priceless, i wish i had a gif of that shot
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They love the missal, they love it not: Two decidedly different reactions to the new translationBy Scott Alessi| commentsblog
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Last week, Pope Francis made some inflammatory remarks about capitalism. Do you think capitalism is consistent with Catholicism? poll Choices Yes! Capitalism is the most just economic system. Yes, so long as it is regulated and restrained. Maybe. I really haven't thought about it much. No. Capitalism and Catholicism really don't mesh.
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Back in 2011, Hope Solo was the greatest. She was helping sell women's soccer to America and posing nude in ESPN The Magazine with a garden hose, simultaneously taking the world by storm as both sports hero and sex symbol. She was an awesome combination of talent and gigantic beauty, and it was fun to write about her on the Internet.
After that, things started to get … complicated. She went on 'Dancing With The Stars,' but ultimately claimed the show was rigged and that her partner had physically abused her. She married NFL tight end Jerramy Stevens, a guy previously convicted with assault and accused of rape, immediately after he'd been taken in for assaulting her. She also sorta ratted out everyone in the Olympics.
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TMI: New Fusion Center failed to stop Boston bombing
WASHINGTON — Federal Fusion Centers — massive data-retention facilities funded in part by the Department of Homeland Security — have spread out across 77 cities, collaborating with local law-enforcement agencies to identify and defuse terrorist threats.
Wrap it up! KS legislature costs $45k per day
By Travis Perry │ Kansas Watchdog
OSAWATOMIE — Sunflower State lawmakers are feeling the heat as it comes down to crunch time.
Despite months of debate leading up to this 90th day of the legislative session, elected officials are still scrambling to reach a deal on the state sales tax, a key component in Gov. Sam Brownback's sweeping income [...]
House committee to scrutinize campaign ads from nonprofits
Nonprofit groups exploiting a loophole in Pennsylvania's campaign finance laws will be subject to legislative scrutiny.
Lawmakers target artists' taxpayer-funded world travel
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In the waning days of the Minnesota State Legislature's 2013 session, unfinished business stemming from a Watchdog Minnesota investigation surfaced on the Senate floor. The issue: How to rein in a State Arts Board program that's sent dozens of Minnesota artists on taxpayer-funded trips around the world?
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DES MOINES – Iowa leaders have taken over an investigation into the state's first publicly reported case of cheating on the standardized tests that determine the overall performance of schools.
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PORTLAND – The funding for a data collection center aimed at identifying and defusing terrorist threats in Oregon is in flux.
Homeland Security meets IRS protesters in St. Louis
By Johnny Kampis | Missouri Watchdog
A few hundred Missouri residents participated in a rally in front of the local Internal Revenue Service on Wednesday in support of the tea party and other conservative groups who were targeted by the tax agency.
The protesters, holding signs as they chanted and sang, were met not by local police but officers with the Department of Homeland Security, who were on hand to keep the peace.
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For the past couple of weeks, the politicians in Washington, D.C. have been engaged in their beloved sport of chasing "scandals."
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MADISON – "Sour grapes."
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HARRISBURG – An FBI agent in Florida shot and killed a man who was being questioned about his ties to suspected Boston bombers Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
But this was no bloody shoot out like the one that took place on the streets of Boston last month. The man killed early Wednesday [...]
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By Johnny Kampis | Missouri Watchdog
A few hundred Missouri residents participated in a rally in front of the local Internal Revenue Service on Wednesday in support of the tea party and other conservative groups who were targeted by the tax agency.
The protesters, holding signs as they chanted and sang, were met not by local police but officers with the Department of Homeland Security, who were on hand to keep the peace.
Homeland Security meets IRS protesters in St. Louis
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Since that application was filed, True the Vote's founders, [...]
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As scandal after scandal continues to unfold in front of the nation, President Barack Obama's administration reels, struggling to defend itself, allay fears about government ineptitude and reset the narrative in the the president's favor.
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Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic candidate for governor in Virginia, has an Internet problem.
Ask former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum how much fun that can be.
Last week, McAuliffe launched Women for Terry, a political subgroup designed to bolster his credentials with female voters in Virginia. Unfortunately for the Democratic hopeful, his campaign forgot to tie up the [...]
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MADISON — Since word hit that the University of Wisconsin System had accumulated more than $1 billion in reserves even as tuition continued to soar and state funding plummeted, the UW Board of Regents has gotten a lot suggestions on what to do with that money.
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By Tom Gantert | Michigan Capitol Confidential
About 80 fast food workers picketed restaurant chains earlier this month saying they wanted to double their pay, going from minimum wage $7.40 an hour to $15 an hour.
But business and economic experts say some of those workers would be out of a job if their demands were ever met.
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SACRAMENTO — The Department of State Hospitals appears to be flouting the legislative process. Instead of getting legislative approval for a $50 million expansion, they've been implementing the changes since February, and just now asked for approval.
A seemingly routine committee hearing about the massive amounts of spending by the equally massive Department of [...]
California state hospitals flout legislative process
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Mark Hayward reports in the Union Leader that the University of New Hampshire is spending $100,000 to have a New York company to redesign the UNH logo.
An academic clock tower doesn't really connect with UNH, according to marketing experts weighing in on the University of New Hampshire's move to redesign [...]
University of New Hampshire spends $100K on new logos
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The South Carolina Senate is running out of time.
During Wednesday's floor debate on the state budget for next fiscal year, which starts July 1, the Republican majority learned the budget debate could extend into a third week.
"Between now and next week, you will see us with many, many more amendments," [...]
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In upholding the federal health care law's individual mandate as a tax, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts reiterated Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes' promise that "[t]he power to tax is not the power to destroy while this Court sits."
With the IRS' recent targeted investigations of tea parties, balanced budget advocates, [...]
Who's next on the IRS list?
By Jarrett Skorup | Mackinac Center
With a push from Gov. Rick Snyder, the business community, public employee unions and most of the significant lobbying groups in the state, both branches of the Legislature have proposed budgets that significantly expand spending on early childhood education. Unfortunately, this spending will likely not result in any significantly improved educational [...]
Mackinac Center: Michigan Head Start a false start
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In the months leading up to reportedly the worst cyber-security failure in U.S. history at a state agency, South Carolina Department of Revenue officials deemed data encryption too costly on one hand while spurning offers of free cyber protection from another state agency with the other.
The result was an unprecedented [...]
SC Senate cyber security bill faces tough test in House
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Upon rereading David Ramsey's piece on the genesis of the "private option," it's hard not to notice the flood of admiring compliments he bestows on the intellect of its creators. They are "clever," "smart," "open-minded," and "pragmatic." As they work in tandem with Governor Mike Beebe, they are "thoughtful and nuanced."
In particular, Senator Jonathan [...]
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What is going on with the California-based Ivanpah solar plant?
In April 2011, Brightsource Energy received a loan guarantee of $1.6 billion from the Department of Energy for the Ivanpah project. It's located along I-15 at the California-Nevada border, 29 miles northeast of Barstow. The loan amount was three times that given by the DOE to the [...]


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Brochin Opposing Liquor License at Towson Lanes
The state senator sent a letter to the county liquor board chairman voicing his opposition to the license at the bowling alley ahead of a Monday hearing.
State Senator Jim Brochin is siding with the Campus Hills community in it's fight against AMF Towson Lanes obtaining a liquor license.
Campus Hills residents have complained about disruptive activity occuring outside the bowling alley, and are petitioning against the license. An attorney representing Towson Lanes said management has found no evidence supporting the residents' accusations.
Towson Lanes is scheduled for a liquor board hearing on Monday.
Brochin, who represents Towson, sent the following letter to liquor board Chairman Charles Klein on Friday.
Dear Chairman Klein,
I am writing today to express my opposition to the liquor license application for AMF Towson Lanes located at 701 Southwick Dr in Towson.
AMF is located in the heart of a residential neighborhood, Campus Hills, which is a quiet community in Towson made up of 369 post-war era homes with residents of all ages, from very young to senior citizens. AMF is bordered on both sides by residential homes, a community pool behind it, and Cromwell Valley Elementary School nearby. It is my understanding that a bowling area in a residential area or in close proximity to facilities used primarily by children and families has never received a liquor license of this kind.
Additionally, AMF management did not reach out community input prior to the original hearing date, September 10. Moreover, it is my understanding that AMF management was not aware of prior police-related incidents at the location. According to the community resident, neighbors have repeatedly called the bowling alley manager to report issues of crime and violence, and in most cases, their concerns were never addressed.
As the State Senator for this area, I value AMF Towson and its contributions to the community, from jobs to entertainment. However, given the concerns mentioned above, I do not believe granting AMF Towson Lanes a liquor license is in the best interest of the community.
Buck Harmon
4:43 pm on Saturday, October 20, 2012
Are we talking beer and wine or hard liquor?
M. Sullivan
9:01 am on Monday, October 22, 2012
What's the difference? You can get just as drunk on either. It's just a matter of volume.
g.r. cyr
5:51 am on Sunday, October 21, 2012
thank you senator brochin for stepping up to the plate for campus hills. you might have indicated that just across the street is another great residential community that would be affected. the bowling alley has been a negative element in the peaceful enjoyment of our property, and needs no further enhancement of it's negative effect on our community.
6:56 am on Sunday, October 21, 2012
I give full support to the community's desires, but if the liquor board does give its approval for the change, it might not be such a bad thing.
BYOB is tricky. EVERYBODY who choses to drink will have alcohol with them; a six-pack or a 30-pack, in their car; thus the possibility of drinking in the parking lot and the problems that causes. The establishment has little control over that. If customers must buy their drinks at the bar in the bowling alley, management does have some control over that. Also, there is the increased of the alcohol itself. People might not drink as much because of the cost.
I wish you luck.
3:45 pm on Sunday, October 21, 2012
Do you think they get any drunker whether they bring it in or buy it there?
This calls for a Pat McDonough press conference. Brochin and McDonough can talk about "those people".
9:38 pm on Sunday, October 21, 2012
Don't worry, they can just get the State Police to patrol the parking lot.
bill jones
8:29 am on Monday, March 11, 2013
I happen to bowl there in a weekly league and resent the implication of some of the comments. Bowling is a wholesome sport that helps bring a community together. I have never seen criminal or even very unruly conduct. People can get boisterous but that is true in any game or sport. Most bowling alleys that don't have liquor licenses allow the patrons to bring their-these lanes don't.


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In 2005, the telecom regulator in Brazil asked incumbents to undertake the account separation and cost modeling. The goal was allowing the regulator to set prices based on an assessment of incumbents finance and physical data, especially the definition of cost-based prices at the wholesale market (interconnection, leased lines and unbundling prices) and the measurement of productivity to define X-factor applied to the retail tariffs in the price cap readjustment. In 2003, Brazilian government issued a decree introducing cost based regulation for the Brazilian telecommunications sector to establish interconnection fees and leased line prices.
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I only been to this park once and didn't enjoy it as I felt it was very much like a zoo.
Am I wrong to think like this, as we going back this year and we are not sure if the Animal Kingdom will be on the agenda....
I refuse to go to any zoo in the UK, should Animal Kingdom be any different?
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oooooh can of worms! i feel it's more like a safari park like we have in the UK and the animals always seem well care for. I don't go to Zoos myself if that helps.
Besides the animals you have some good rides too, dinosaur, expedition everest, kali river rapids, primeval whirl and some dinosaur thing akin to dumbo. Don't forget the fantastic west end worth Lion King Show and the Wonder of Flight.
hope that helps a bit
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Great topic!
Here, the advertizements for DAK are "NAHTAZU!
It's more than a matter of semantics though. Disney does incredible research behind the scenes. It's because of such research that the code for elephant language was deciphered! Disney zoologists/biologist/psychologists broke that code. That's the sort of research they do; long term; long reaching effect.
Now, there is another side. I love gorillas. Passionately. My great missed dream in life was to have been able to work with gorillas... so, I have paid much attention and spent much time at DAK watching the gorillas.
Early on, we'd get to the park before opening, and be let in! We'd head directly for the Pangani Forest trail, and sometimes be there before the CMs. We've seen some incredible things. The (former, he's been moved ) dominant male silverback signs! We actually saw him, and it was incredible.
The CMs on the trail used to be quite firm about keeping everyone quiet, reminding us that we were in the animals' world, ect. The gorillas were active, lively. The first little boy gorilla was too funny!!! We saw him go into a whole routine one time because he had a leaf stuck to his foot! What a treasure to have seen him. The first little girl was a daredevil! She would climb high in the tree then "cry" for Mama who would come along and snatch her down!
All events that I would never have seen, things I would have never learned.
However, over the course of time, CMs stopped controlling the visitors as closely, the gorillas have become acclimated and some have been switched out (none of the original family are there any longer, save one ) so it's lost some of it's "personal" feel for us. We are no longer allowed in early (that's ok...) and we no longer then have that private time.
The CMs are noisier than the guests sometime. They drive me nuts.
The bachelor side has had a dramatic fight where one gorilla was killed by the dominant, and another lost some fingers. That really made me sick, and very sad. I know these things happen in the wild but I can't get past the thought that perhaps the gorillas would have been able to run away in the wild? (Where there was more space to run)??? I don't know.
So, do we still go there? Yes. Do we learn things still? Oh yes. But it has changed, and not necessarily for the better.
Not a real answer, but as honest as I could be.
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See? I can spend the entire day there. The park itself is so highly detailed that you can easily lose hours just taking in the whole thing. The village of Harambe is so well done that when I walked across the bridge that very first day, I stopped dead in my tracks and asked Herself, "THIS is DISNEY????" It was that real.
Look at everything. Everything from the ground you are walking on, to the light poles, to the benches, to the walls of the buildings... everything is detailed. Look at the stone sculptures. Depending upon the time of the year, even some of the trees will become more elaborate. There is one that we call the sausage tree as it has salami sized "flowers" hanging off of it. They are brown and really resemble a sausage or salami in a casing!
There are orchids growing from the trees, and other very exotic flowers.
There is DeVine. Keep an eye out for that particularly elaborate flora!
There is the tree where all sorts of little items are left to appeal to a particular deity.
There are many opportunities to learn from the little open air school that features a cast member from an area of Africa. We've listened to presentations from a young woman from Botswana (yes, they really do eat a certain caterpillar like bug there ) and a young man from Tanzania (wish I could say it like he did) and South Africa, Nigeria... we've learned so much from them.
Rafiki's Planet Earth also called the Conservation Station is a place that gets a short shrift in my opinion. There is much, much information there but it takes time to absorb it all. When you enter the building there you can stand for as long as your legs will hold you studying the mural of the animals. How many animals can you find, and how many hidden Mickeys?
Animal Kingdom is a departure from the other Disney (and other companies) theme parks. It's not a thrill park, it's a learning park, that tries to bring the African and Asian continents alive, through culture and through animals. That they work hard behind the scenes to contribute to our knowledge base of animals, and conserve the natural habitats of the animals is one of the most important things they do.
Goodness! I am running on. I do love the place. EPCOT and DAK are my two favorite parks.
Now, as for DHS? You can have it! I'll stop by yearly for the Star Wars Weekends (long story, don't ask ) and for the Spectacle of Lights, but that's about it for me.
MK, when the boy (or other visiting guests) wants to go, or on that first Saturday in June...
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I have to agree with Tink, we love th AK and Epcot ,HS not so much after Ty does TOT and the Aerosmith Coaster ride We spend hours on the trail and just love the whole research bit. Places like this help maintain the education level that we need. I get the fact that in the ideal situation the animals would be in their natural habitat but this allows for some close up research in animal behavior. And we do support certain zoo's like our own and Cleveland. These places would remain open regardless and financial help is crucial to the rain forest areas that both zoo's have
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I like AK. They treat the animals really well and the cast members are really happy to share any info about the animals in their care.
TIP: instead of eating breakfast at your resort, eat at Pizzafari. It's faster, quieter, and the same food as a resort cafeteria breakfast (probably better).
DEFINITELY see Finding Nemo and Festival of the Lion King. At Lion King, when you enter the auditorium, bypass the ushers and head for the bleacher section pretty much straight ahead and sit on the end on the right. This is the "elephant" section and the performers come out of the curtains RIGHT THERE.
Expedition Everest is the best coaster I've been on. It's a super-smooth ride but, it's still exciting with the backwards drop and the Yeti trying to get you.
They have beer.
The afternoon parade is so fun! The cast members interact WAY more with the crowd than the MK parades (in my opinion). By 5pm I'm definitely done for the day. AK is the perfect park to visit if you need a "low impact" day.Gwen
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Another TIP:
Watch the parade from the area that runs right in front of Festival of the Lion King. Then, immediately following the end of the parade, turn back & walk straight to the Festival of the Lion King show and catch the last showing. It's the perfect ending to the day, and when you come out most people have already exited the park, so it can be a lovely stroll at the end of a lovely day.
We love DAK, for any number of reasons that may change throughout our trip.
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Most futurist experts believe that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is going to play a key role in the development of technology. Some of those believe that AI will ultimately provide the quickest route to a 'technological singularity', past which no further technological innovation will be possible. This article will use the rich picture we have built, as well as some of the considerations we have made in previous articles, to assess the possibilities for the future of AI.
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same here, I think he only cared about Lily but he cared about Harry because he only cared for Lily
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It had to be both of them cuz Snape sent the patronous that led him to Gryffindor's sword
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Snape did not like Harry because he reminded him so much of James, Harry's father. James humiliated Snape every chance he got and he probably felt that James stole Lily away forever.
Snape protected Harry because he loved Lily all his life. Maybe he knew that someday he would have to face Lily in Heaven and he wanted to be able to tell her that he'd done everything he could for her son. I think protecting Harry was Snape's way of making it up to Lily for calling her a Mudblood -
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Poetry Out Loud is a national poetry recitation competition created by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation and administered in partnership with the Kentucky Arts Council. Each participating school receives an artist residency and the opportunity for the school champion to attend the state competition with a chaperone.
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