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9/2/2009 - Asheville NC Real Estate - Biltmore House Helping Asheville Housing Market?
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Asheville NC real estate has seen strength through the housing pullback that is going on in much of the country. Many people attribute this to the Biltmore House being close by and the fact that North Carolina as a whole has remained a very strong housing market. The cities of Raleigh and Charlotte have also seen very small declines in real estate when compared to other major cities throughout the country.
If you have been thinking about moving to Asheville, NC or investing in real estate in this area you are in for a treat. Most Americans do not realize how amazing this small city in North Carolina is. Nestled in the Great Smoky Mountains, this city offers plenty of entertainment but can also provide plenty of outdoors activities. The outdoor activities include mountain biking, hiking, fly fishing, rock climbing and white water rafting just to name a few.
The real estate in this area has remained relatively cheap because of the fact that the city is not well known throughout the country. Some investors have made a ton of money in this area of the last decade because this is the case. Several white water rafting rivers are scattered throughout this area and this is becoming a huge tourist attraction during the recession. It is often a cheap vacation that can take up several hours of your time with exciting outdoor fun.
With outdoors sports gaining in popularity, the city of Asheville, North Carolina is gaining in popularity too. To top things off, the Biltmore House has brought many tourists to the area because it is the biggest single family household still remaining in America. The Biltmore House is quite amazing to see and I would suggest anyone who has not been there to make the trip to Asheville, NC and check it out.
There are several reasons that real estate is popular in Asheville, NC but one of the most important reasons is that it is a great city with great people. When you visit Asheville you will know exactly what I am talking about. There is very little traffic and most of the locals are extremely friendly and will give you all the tips on enjoying the area.

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Poetry should be fun for students and it's our job as teachers to help students love the sound of written language. We model our passion through our lessons, memories from our childhood, and our enthusiasm. I remember my dad reciting Lewis Carroll's "The Walrus and the Carpenter" word for word...the whole thing! I was amazed and it soon became a poem I could recite and fall in love with as well. My students were amazed that I, too, could recite much of the poem from memory.
Here are some tips to get you started teaching poetry in your classroom!
Tip #1: Start by reading your own favorite poem to students. It helps them see that you enjoy poetry, and that they, too, can enjoy poetry. If you don't have a favorite, Shel Silverstein is great poet to begin with, because 4th graders love the humor and can relate to the poems. Make sure to read the poem with great intonation and emotion. It will really hook them. When you've finished reading the poem, talk about the mood, the speaker in the poem, the setting and the problem in the poem. Then you can challenge students to find the figurative language. Once you've done all of this, re-read the poem so your students can see the poem from a whole new perspective.
Not sure which poems to read? Here is a list of some of my favorite poems:
"Sick" by Shel Silverstein
"Sarah Cynthia Silvia Stout" by Shel Silverstein
"The Giving Tree" by Shel Silverstein
"Paul Revere's Ride" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"The Walrus and the Carpenter" by Lewis Carroll
"Sneezles" by A.A. Milne
"The Owl and the Pussycat" by Edward Lear
"Wynken, Blyken, and Nod" by Eugene Field
"Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" by Jane Taylor
Tip #3: Introduce different forms of poems. This allows you to teach about the rules of poetry. For example: Haikus have a very specific 5, 7, 5 syllable rule that must be followed, while other poems simply use rhyming words, while others have no form at all. Challenge students to find the rule that is followed within each poem.
Tip #4: Introduce the vocabulary of poetry. This will really help students understand what they are reading and learning about. Try using an interactive notebook to engage kids even more. If you are searching for something to get you started, check out this interactive notebook of figurative language. Students also love reference posters that are posted on a word wall for easy reference. Last but not least, let students play a game to learn the vocabulary of poetry. Students don''t even realize how much they are learning when they see how fun Cootie Catcher Vocab is!!
Tip #5: Let students try their hand at writing poetry! I know it sounds crazy, but you will be surprised. Give students the reins, and let them write about whatever interests them. I think you will be surprised at how much students take ownership of writing poems, and find their own style, even the boys! Not sure where to start? This 6 week poetry unit gives you all that you need to introduce poetry writing, guidelines, templates, poetry outlines, templates, and so much more!
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Bachelorette Party Decoration, Games and Ideas
Great! So you are having a Bachelorette Party! You must now be needing Bachelorette Party Ideas, Seems like you are entering a real fun zone while thinking to say it out loud by throwing a party. You see, the fun element should never be ignored when it comes to party be it a Bachelorette Party or any other. However, for a party like Bachelorette Party, the decoration, games and related items are very exclusive to Bachelorette Party only.
Trying to mix it with the other general party items might sound like a good and innovative idea but from what we have seen, the Bachelorette Party theme and decorations are really really different than other party items.
Given that its now a very common trend out here in India as well, we see ladies mostly buying fun and decoration items for the Bachelorette Party and less of the dining items. Probably its available at their local store or may be even at home. And if you ask us which one amongst the fun and decoration items are in demand most, we would not take a second to scream Yes! The Fun Items.
This depicts the fun element that the ladies have during the Bachelorette Party. Fun items are those funny wearable, nasty adult wearable and games. If you are having a party at home even in this case sky is the limit for what you can do in the categories of:
- Bachelorette Party Dining
- Bachelorette Party Decoration Ideas
- Bachelorette Party Games
- Bachelorette Party Wearable
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"There's a special place in hell for women who don't help other women!" Madelyn Albright."There's a special place in hell for men who abuse women," Eric Gondwe."Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves," by Abraham Lincoln, (1809 - 1865), 16th US president (in reference to slavery, but quote is also applicable to women's rights)."There is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm," Beverly Sills."I have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat," Rebecca West, 1913."Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience," by Mary Wollstonecraft."Everybody counts in applying democracy. And there will never be a true democracy until every responsible and law-abiding adult in it, without regard to race, sex, color or creed has his or her own inalienable and unpurchasable voice in government," by Carrie Chapman Catt."We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help to free the other half," by Emmeline Pankhurst."It is not gender which is destroying our culture.... it is our interpretations of culture which has destroyed gender equality," by Cambodian civil society group."The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes," by Bella Abzug."If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it," by Margaret Fuller. "The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind," by Mary Ritter Beard (1876-1958)."Gender inequality, which remains pervasive worldwide, tends to lower the productivity of labour and the efficiency of labour allocation in households and the economy, intensifying the unequal distribution of resources. It also contributes to the non-monetary aspects of poverty – lack of security, opportunity and empowerment – that lower the quality of life for both men and women. While women and girls bear the largest and most direct costs of these inequalities, the costs cut broadly across society, ultimately hindering development and poverty reduction," by Gender and Development Group -World Bank, from the report "Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals" (2003)."When women thrive, all of society benefits, and succeeding generations are given a better start in life," by Kofi Annan."Male and female citizens, being equal in the eyes of the law, must be equally admitted to all honors, positions, and public employment according to their capacity and without other distinctions besides those of their virtues and talents," by Olympe de Gouges."It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine....How much more ridiculous is it in relation to mind, to soul, to thought, where there is as undeniably no such thing as sex..." by Elizabeth Cady Stanton"Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind," by Rigoberta Menchú Tum (1959-), Guatemalan social reformer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate."The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all," by Aung San Suu Kyi (1945 - ), Daw Burmese-Myanmarese dissident and politician; Leader of National League for Democracy, Nobel Peace Prize laureate"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God," Matthew 5:9."This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour in which this system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen or those earned. We are really talking about humanism," by Gloria Steinem."Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences," by Susan B. Anthony."Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison," by Mary Wollstonecraft."Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge," by Unknown Author."It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head," by Sally Kempton, Esquire, 1970."Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the right to impose definitions of reality on others," by Liz Stanley and Sue Wise."Men define intelligence, men define usefulness, men tell us what is beautiful, men even tell us what is womanly," by Sally Kempton."The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, "It's a girl," by Shirley Chisholm."Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human," by Robin Morgan."I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body," by Elaine Boosler."Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy," by Estelle R. Ramey.Jesus was such an opponent of traditions that had nothing to do with the scripture. "You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions," Mark 7:9."Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths," by Lois Wyse."Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse," by Golda Meir."I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified (white) men in running our government," by Cissy Farenthold.
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We've included a brief summary of what these games are and how to choose them, the different types of slot machines, how to create an account, what will help you play the games for free, among other important information.
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For reprints of publications produced through our office, be sure to contact us rather than the printer. We archive all of our jobs and can easily update your information and obtain a printing estimate for you.
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UWG FLSA Updates and Implementation Information
On May 18, 2016, the Department of Labor announced its final rule updating the FLSA overtime regulations with a December 1, 2016 deadline.
The Department of Labor's Final Rule on Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for Executive, Administrative, Professional, Outside Sales and Computer Employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) (the "Overtime Rule" or "Final Rule") will strengthen overtime protections and provide greater clarity for both workers and employers alike across sectors, including higher education. The Final Rule updates the salary level required for the executive, administrative, and professional ("white collar") exemptions to ensure that the FLSA's intended overtime protections are fully implemented, and to simplify the identification of overtime-protected employees. The Department of Labor updated the salary level threshold above which certain "white collar" workers may be exempt from overtime to equal the 40th percentile of earnings of full-time salaried workers from the lowest wage Census Region. Once effective, the rule will raise the salary level from its previous amount of $455 per week (the equivalent of $23,660 a year) to $913 per week (the equivalent of $47,476 per year) in 2016. The rule will also raise the compensation level for highly compensated employees subject to a more minimal duties test from its previous amount of $100,000 to $134,004 annually. The Final Rule establishes a mechanism for automatically updating the salary level (and compensation level for highly compensated employees) every three years, with the first update to take place in 2020. Salaried white collar employees paid below the updated salary level are generally entitled to overtime pay; such employees paid at or above the salary level may be exempt from overtime pay if they primarily perform certain duties. These changes take effect on December 1, 2016. The Final Rule does not include any changes to the duties tests, which also affect the determination of who is exempt from overtime. Citation: (Wage and Hour Division, 2016)
In order to ensure timely compliance with the new regulations, The University of West
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- Department of Labor FLSA Overtime Final Rule Webinars (see specific link to higher education presentation)
- Department of Labor Guidance for Higher Education Institutions on Paying Overtime under the FLSA
- USG Vacation Cash Out Request Form (Monthly to Bi-Weekly Transition)
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Human Resources along with the Staff Advisory Council invite you to learn more about the changes that are going into effect with the new Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Here you will learn details around the new rules set by the U.S. Federal Government along with details on what this means for those effected. We will mainly focus on the payroll schedule and adjustments employees may want to consider. There will be time for questions and to speak to an HR or SAC representative.
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Once again, as has been previously documented here, FoxNews.com and Fox News Latino have different ways of telling the same story. Where FoxNews.com uses the words "illegal immigrants" on Fox News Latino, they show up as "undocumented immigrants." Plus, FoxNews.com made a point of describing those "illegal immigrants" recently released by ICE with language that made them sound distinctly more dangerous.
The recent headlines on FoxNews.com and on Fox News Latino were, essentially, about the same news: ICE's release of immigrants due to "budgetary reasons." But there were some significant differences in attitude. Here's FoxNews.com:
and here's Fox News Latino:
The lede paragraphs contain much of the same text but with some significant differences in attitude. FoxNews.com begins its article with the following:
"The top US immigation enforcement official acknowledged Thursday that the Obama administration has in fact released thousands of illegal immigrants from local jails over the past month despite prior claims that the release was only in the hundreds."
Compare that to Fox Latino:
"The Obama administration admitted Thursday that it had released more than 2,000 undocumented immigrants from immigration jails due to budget concerns during three weeks in February. The announcement comes after weeks of denials from government officials and intense criticism from Republican lawmakers."
One might assume Fox thinks its Latino viewers don't like being called "illegal" and one could conclude that based on Fox Latino's own poll which found that 46% find the offensive. But Fox only seems to care about that on its Latino site.
But wait, there's more.
FoxNews.com's third paragraph reads as follows:
For the first time, (ICE enforcement director John Morton) explained the kinds of detainees that were sprung from local jails—he said they included detainees held on theft charges, financial criminals and drunken drivers.
But that news is not reported until the 10th paragraph in the Fox News Latino report - and it's phrased quite differently:
Morton said that although the most serious offender category can include people convicted of aggravated felonies, many of those released were facing financial crimes. Those released include immigrants who had faced multiple drunken driving offenses, misdemeanor crimes and traffic offenses, Morton said.
Apparently, Fox figures its Latino readers will never check out how they're portrayed elsewhere in Foxdom.
To the point.
Texas, as well as Nevada, has a sizable population of Mexican Americans who have been abused for a long time. When the Tejanos move the state to go blue, it's buy buy byiiie gNOpigs.
In no way enough to explain the dynamics of Mexican immigration to the USA.
For anyone who wants to watch it.
Especially if they step into a bar where there's sure to be a red-faced tousle-haired drunk complaining loudly against the spics/dagos/wops who are "taking our jobs" and "running wild" in the streets.
I don't think people are wont to leave their brains behind when crossing the border but an awful lot of people born on this side seem to have lost theirs while growing up. Fox Latino is starting to look a lot like FNC may be shooting itself in the foot.
Both pieces are re-fries of an Associated Press report.
Fox News
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Fox Latino
Based on reporting by the Associated Press.
I'll leave the nuance to the readers.
One more thing, the last paragraph in both pieces.
The immigrants who were released still eventually face deportation and are required to appear for upcoming court hearings. But they are no longer confined in immigration jails, where advocacy experts say they cost about $164 per day, per person. Immigrants who are granted supervised release — with conditions that can include mandatory check-ins, home visits and GPS devices — cost the government from 30 cents to $14 a day, according to the National Immigration Forum, a group that advocates on behalf of immigrants.
I mentioned this before.
The Fox gNOpig Propaganda Network talking heads and the wingnutsphere were braying in paranoia that President Obama had released these immigrants, as if the jail doors were wide open and every illeeeegul with 3 meter long machetes were set free to go on a murderous rampage.
Same ol', same ol' Fox News BS.


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I'm seeing a guy who likes to eat out, and he's mostly vegan (though not at all over-the-top about it, will sometimes eat eggs and fish). He loves places like City O City, and we've been out to Watercourse and a few other places. He _really_ likes pho and we've been out for that as well.
What I was curious about was whether anyone can think of some good restaurants (besides Asian cuisine) that are not primarily vegetarian/vegan but nevertheless have a lot of options in that area.


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A couple moves from the big city to the countryside and starts a small farm...wait, you've heard this premise before? What? Trite? Hackneyed? But, I have goats. Really cute pictures of tiny baby goats. And cheesemaking recipes. We slaughter our own pigs and cure our own bacon! Well, that's in the master plan, anyway. Just read it, you'll see.


text: BeWellNM.com New ACA Numbers Show Surge In Enrollment By Deborah Martinez • Apr 6, 2014 Deborah Martinez The New Mexico Health Exchange reports that a total of 51,400 people have signed up for insurance coverage, either under the Affordable Care Act or directly through health insurance companies as of March 31. The numbers seem large because unlike past reports, this one includes insurance exchange (or marketplace) shoppers and individuals and groups purchasing plans that are separate from the ACA. Hundreds Head To Santa Fe Health Care Event Ahead Of Deadline By Deborah Martinez • Mar 30, 2014 Deborah Martinez Midnight Monday is the deadline to sign up for healthcare under the Affordable Care Act. Over the weekend in New Mexico people lined up to get covered, either through the insurance marketplace or Medicaid. From those in their 60s to young people under 26 covered under their parents' plan, hundreds stood in the bright spring sunshine sign up under Medicaid, or with one of four insurance plans. Insurers Vie For Low-Income Patient Data By Deborah Martinez • Mar 11, 2014 Deborah Martinez As the March 31st deadline looms for signing up for individual insurance under the Affordable Care Act, insurance companies tried to obtain personal information in order to contact potential customers who were previously covered by a state plan. But state officials would not release the information. New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange officials say they will market Obamacare to the low-income group themselves, rather than provide personal information to the four big insurance companies.


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- Talks for student on a variety of topics (e.g. eating disorders, social skills, organizational skills…)
- Support for school staff in addressing challenging situations with children (e.g. suspected abuse)
- Helping teachers determine whether a child needs a referral or evaluation.


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Takoma Park, Maryland, circa 1928. "Washington Sanitarium, children." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
My first thought was that this looks like a sad place to be for a child, despite the light and fresh air provided by the windows. This looks like it might be an enclosed porch, though, so perhaps they spent most of their time in a room that was a little more welcoming. I hope parents were able to be with them, but I suspect they were only permitted to be there for a short time each day.
the nurse's kiss curl. She doesn't seem too bothered about her charges standing on the beds. I bet they wouldn't be allowed to do that at home.
That's what happens when you stand on the bed!
Every time my wife has been in the maternity ward (and it's been a few), you can't tell nurses from techs from med students from food service people. Everybody wears the same garish scrubs. The one thing you can be sure of is that the people coming in all day are hardly ever doctors.
So many pretty '20s touches: the sunny room with its many windows and roll-up window shades at the exact same height with their pull cords, the bobbed hair of the children, the flapper nurse's smile and spit curl in the middle of her forehead, the little decorative shade around the ceiling fixture, the comfy radiators for cold weather. And not a safety railing anywhere! That youngster on the end is a step away from a nasty fall and may wind up like the child in the rear bed!
Sure was nice when nurses looked like nurses. Today, I can't tell them from the housekeepers. (No disrespect to housekeepers intended.)


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Tinkersmiths Makerspace has been providing Charlottesville based makers with a well equipped workspace for over three years. An incredible accomplishment achieved without any external financial support. No grants, no corporate sponsorship, no member dues, no monetary donations. We wanted a completely organic exploratory scenario that would fully allow us to discover our strengths. We have sustained our burn rate with revenue generated from our technical and fabrication services offerings.
Having matured into to fully functional Fab Lab with prototyping and manufacturing capabilities we are comfortable exploring corporate and other types of sponsorship opportunities. Tinkersmiths has years of rich learning experiences that are leveraged against hundreds of items or products produced. We can build "branded stuff" for your company as services for hire. We can put your company identity on certain sponsored projects like these there.
Please don't hesitate to call if you want to contribute towards uplifting the intellectual capacity of the Charlottesville community while providing rich tactile experiences for people of all walks of life.


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City pleased with cheese brine on roads so far
City pleased with cheese brine on roads so far
If you are out driving you may notice something different on some roads.
The city of Milwaukee is using a cheese brine and rock salt mix on the icy roads in Bay View.
The city adds cheese brine to the salt, hoping to melt the ice and snow faster.
"We've had a vast array of different types of storms. We've had storms where we've had a couple of inches. We've had ice. We've had rain, so our results are preliminary at this point, but we're giving it a try, and so far, we like what we see," said Mary Bengsch of Milwaukee's Department of Public Works.
This is Milwaukee's first year using cheese brine, but it has been used in other parts of the state for years.


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NCFL's most prominent two-generation solutions are Toyota Family Learning and the Family and Child Education (FACE) program. Both represent more than 20 years of NCFL's place-based approach based to two-generation learning, 66 sites, and our continuous improvement and innovation on the original family literacy model. More information on the exponential impact of Toyota Family Learning and NCFL's two-generation efforts is available in the brief From Theory to Outcomes: NCFL's Two-Generation Movement for Families.
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When children and families solve community issues together, they are simultaneously learning and applying 21st-century college and career readiness skills. NCFL is validating this through Toyota Family Learning, a six-year, nationwide movement that is providing educational solutions and opportunities for low-income and ethnically-diverse families to roll up their sleeves and build stronger communities.
A critical element in this movement is the next iteration of the four-component model, now being tested in 10 U.S. communities. Family Service Learning—families learning and achieving together and mentoring each other—is emerging as a proven driver for family progress and change in this effort. Launched in 2013, Toyota Family Learning is fast becoming a visible partner in environmental stewardship, financial literacy, volunteerism, and civic engagement.
Click here to read the results of Goodling Institute for Family Literacy at Penn State University's independent evaluation of 2014-15 Toyota Family Learning programming, which served 296 predominately low-income families (including 860 children).
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Visit http://toyotafamilylearning.org for much more information on the Toyota Family Learning Program.
Since 1990, NCFL has worked with the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) in the U.S. Department of the Interior to help more than 42,690 individuals from 17,000 American Indian families improve their literacy skills and lives through the Family and Child Education (FACE) program.
FACE's center-based program, based on the four-component family literacy model, is an early-childhood/parental-involvement program designed to provide culturally-responsive education, resources, and support for American Indian families with children from birth to five years of age. Currently FACE is operating in 43 programs at BIE-funded schools in 10 states.
Parents have earned their GEDs, become employed, and learned how to support their children's language and literacy development and school success. Children have received a host of educational services, scored higher than their peers on K-3 standardized reading and math tests, are less likely to require special education services, learned about their culture and community, and thrived in school.


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Hackney Schools Music & Dance Festival 2018
We are delighted to announce and the 21st Hackney Schools Music & Dance Festival, the largest schools' musical event in the borough.
What's On
HMS and our partners run an extensive year round workshop and performance programme in venues across the borough. See our calendar for more information.
Network Partners
Through our network of partners we work extensively with local organisations to enable coherent and effective progression routes for young people.
Ensembles & Choirs
We provide a variety of progression routes into ensembles for young musicians at different stages of learning. These include orchestras, jazz groups, percussion and choirs across the borough.
Services for Schools
We offer advice and guidance on the music curriculum and support to monitor progress in music for all. The service also develops talented students and culminates in major performances.
Hackney Music Gala 2017
The Hackney Music Service Annual Gala concert celebrating the achievements of some of the most gifted and talented musical pupils and students in our schools and community.


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YAY!! It's Friday!!! Have a great weekend!!
It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
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YAY!! It's Friday!!! Have a great weekend!!
It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
J. K. Rowling
Here's to Tuesday…you get us through rest of the week!!
Our entire life – consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
Jean Anouilh
Here is to a wonderful peaceful day!! Have a great Tuesday!!
We do not remember days, we remember moments.
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Have an amazing Thursday!!!
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
William Shakespeare
Have a peaceful Sunday!!
Things do not change; we change.
Henry David Thoreau
Here's to Tuesday…have an amazing day! Not too many more till 2017!!!
If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.
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Ahhhh…what an amazing day!! Hope your Sunday is restful and enjoyable!!
Things do not change; we change.
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I have been watching people in Britain, France, Greece and other places riot because they are getting shafted by TPB and they are sick of seeing their nation's wealth being stolen from them, but nothing in America.
Why are we Americans so dam apathetic? Why are we so easily distracted by Monday Night Football and Jersey Shore that we are not reacting to the massive fraud and theft being perpetrated on us. Why are we allowing the government to give our national wealth away to Global Corporations and foreign Countries?
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Part of it must be the fluoridated water
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lol wadeva b you go strong with that BS IDGAF!!! Its funny but America invented violence and you guy are just now catching on
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Originally posted by Ryu400
So keep up the protests if you want a society where you're either poor or an elite ruler.
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Originally posted by Ryu400
So keep up the protests if you want a society where you're either poor or an elite ruler.
And wtf do you think we have now?
And thanks to the policies of Cameron, Clegg and the rest of the inbred, pompous arrogant twats we are heading right back to Victorianesque times and all the inequalities and injustices that prevailed then.


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Every water feature project is unique. Providing a "customized engineering design" meeting all unique requirements is what we do. We carefully take into consideration the project's business opportunities, constraints, local culture, and the environment.
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TEMPCO develop a free cooling based on PLC system control, where industrial processes needs energy saving or recovery on cooling procedure. PLC with a sophisticated control software, achieve to maximize the energy saving, improving the efficency of standard free cooling systems.
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An excellent lightweight child carrier for short hikes and urban jaunts.
ADJUSTABLE FOR A PERFECT FIT: Control straps makes torso fit comfortable for people 5' to 6'.
CONTROL STRAPS fine tune load distribution between your shoulders and hips.
STERNUM STRAP distributes the load across the breastplate and pulls the shoulder straps closer together, eliminating under-the-arm pressure.
SHOULDER PADS have sturdy foam to cushion load and shock.
FIVE-POINT SAFETY HARNESS holds child in securely, with straps over both the child's shoulders and around the waist.
HIGH-BACKED SEAT offers 12" of back support, providing much back, neck, and head protection for child.
WATER-RESISTANT 480 cubic inch UNDERSEAT POCKET for supplies.
LOADING STAND opens out for stability, folds back when in use.
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Mae Tao Clinic is viewed as an excellent training facility as it offers skilled trainers, including Burmese doctors, senior medics, and international professionals. Due to the Clinic's high patient load, it also offers extensive practical training. Although travel from inside Burma to the Clinic is expensive and difficult, involving passage through areas of conflict and the passing of security checkpoints both in Burma and Thailand, participants come from all over Burma to attend trainings at MTC.
Health workers, doctors, or medical students arriving on the border in 1989, no matter their specialty, were all responding to the same emergency – Malaria. Residents in student camps with some type of clinic facility were the lucky ones. For the rest, illness meant long periods of travel, often on foot and by boat to seek medical care; there were simply not enough medical facilities to attend to the continual flow of new arrivals to the border. Eventually, each camp established its own health care facility, but staffed with only a few doctors and senior medics it was not enough. After about a year on the border, the health workers of the different camps began to discuss providing coordinated medical trainings, which led to the first formal medical trainings in the student camps.
At this point MTC was focused on offering referral services to patients, with Dr. Cynthia providing informal medical 'discussions' in the evenings as a means of training, with visiting doctors helping when they were there. Dr. Cynthia recalls, "We didn't have manuals, textbooks, or a curriculum. We just started with the basics, physiology…malaria." These informal trainings went on for over a year. After a couple years on the border, with acute treatment fairly well established, it was identified that lacking not only at the clinic, but all along the border were maternal and child health care services. As the students started to marry and have children, these services became essential.
Dr. Cynthia met with Women's Education for Advancement and Education (WEAVE) to discuss the need for maternal and child health care training, which resulted in a 6-week programme. This training, the first formal training conducted by Dr. Cynthia, was conducted in 1991 inside Burma as it was identified that the services were most desperately needed in the IDP areas. The training focused on maternal health, especially safe motherhood and family planning. After this first training, some of the trainees who had come from different villages along the border decided to return to MTC, where a more comprehensive maternal and child health care training would be conducted. The training was run in 1992 and 1993 with a 3-month theory and a 3-month practical portion. Most of the participants of these first two years had previous health care training and so this acted as a specialised upgrade training. By 1994 this was no longer sufficient; there was a great demand for more basic health care workers, and so theme was expanded to 4-month theoretical, 4-month practical segments, covering basic health care so that individuals without any previous training could join the programme. The increases still were not providing adequate training for these new participants however, so the first 10-month Primary Health Care Training was offered in 1995/1996. This training was conducted for five consecutive years, with trainees from other ethnic groups and various camps along the border joining in.
In 2001, Burma Medical Association and the National Health Education Committee held a joint conference where the decision was made to begin coordinating the training programmes offered on the border, and to develop standardised curriculums for these programmes. It was concluded that all health organisations should be providing two levels of training: a 6-month Community Health Worker (CHW) Training, and a 2-year Health Assistant (HA) Training. MTC, BMA, BPHWT and NHEC began collaboration to develop standardised training curriculums. A commitment was made to ongoing Laboratory Training, as well as to standardise a Traditional Birth Attendant (TBA) training curriculum.
Training Programmes
The growth and development of training programmes continued in this fashion – an organic response to the continually changing needs of the growing population on the border. The MTC Training Programme has grown to include trainings in: Prosthetics, Eye Care, Dental, and Comprehensive Reproductive Health, Emergency Obstetric Care Training (EmOC), Expanded Programme of Immunisation (EPI), Level II Medic Health Worker Training, Continuing Medical Education (CME), Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO), Nurse Aide Training as well as an Internship Programme for previously trained health care workers to come for upgrade training. There are frequent short workshops available on topics such as: Leadership Training, Supervisor Workshops, Gender-based Violence, Community Management, Human Rights, and Environmental Health.
Mae Tao Clinic has developed itself to become a key training centre for ethnic and community based health workers along the Thai-Burma border. A variety of courses is offered, covering different subjects, departments and levels of care. MTC carries out a number of capacity-building sessions, as well as providing professional development opportunities through continuing medical education (CME). To ensure formal recognition of health workers' skills and knowledge, MTC strongly advocates for its staff to enrol in and graduate from accredited courses at Thai universities. As MTC is a member of the Health Systems Strengthening (HSS) Eastern Burma consortium, training and capacity building is not only carried out for MTC staff, but also for health workers of 7 partner organisations within the HSS project. The Ministry of Health and Sports' (MoHS) aim to realize Universal Health Coverage by 2030, calls for trained and accredited health workers that can fill the current gap in human resources. Members of the HSS consortium are collaborating to jointly train their health workforce, so they can deliver quality health care in the ethnic areas of Eastern Burma. As a strategy for future recognition and integration of their workforce in the formal Burmese health system, HSS partners are actively involving the MoHS in training curriculum review development.
Certificate in Public Health (full-time and part-time): This certificate course is one of the first steps towards recognized accreditation for health-workers at MTC and our partner organizations. In April 2016, MTC hosted the Certificate in Public Health (CPH) course. The training certificate is accredited by Thammasat University of Thailand. The training uses Magwe University training curriculum from Burma which includes 22 theory modules (391 teaching hours), first aid and laboratory practical sessions, plus, field trip and presentation activities.
Although the trainings are incredibly beneficial to the populations living both inside Burma and along its many borders, the fact that such a diverse group of individuals come to MTC for the trainings also poses one of the biggest challenges – that is to say, training a group of individuals from various social, cultural and political backgrounds, with different education and skill levels. A further problem is student retention, which can be as challenging as staff retention; although it is required that participants of the training programme have not applied for resettlement before beginning the training, this is not always the only problem and some students end up leaving the programme due to other obligations.
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Rajpuri Caves, Panchgani, Mahabaleswar is a religious tourist spot in the Western Ghats of Maharashtra state of India. It is believed that the Pandavas stayed here during their exile period.
You may be keen on India travel to Panchgani to know more about India. You can also select Goa tour packages to visit the near by state of Goa famous for its beaches and Churches and Convents of Goa which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Rajpuri Caves are a group of ancient caves, 7 km from Panchgani, surrounded by ponds which have medicinal (curing) properties. Devotees visiting the Rajpuri caves believe that taking a bath in the holy ponds cures them of all their evils and diseases. It is believed that holy rover Ganges runs through these ponds.
Rajpuri Caves consists of 4 caves; out of which 3 are interlinked and one is a separate cave.
Lord Karthikeya (son of Lord Shiva) temple, constructed out of the sands from the caves, is the main temple in the region. Local goddess of Ghatjal Devi's temple around is also there.
Panchgani is beautiful hill station situated at 1330 m above sea level. Panchgani consists of five hills, surrounded by beautiful scenery. It is a non-polluted hill station. Panchgani is one of the most sought after fill station in Maharashtra state.
How to reach Rajpuri Caves, Panchgani, Mahabaleswar
The best mode of travel is Jeep or any other four wheel drive or other powerful vehicles. Motor bikes are available for hire at the hill station local sight seeing. Panchagni is well connected by road to all parts of the country by Pune – Mumbai expressway.
Pune railway station is at a distance of 118 km from Mahabaleshwar. Wathar railway station at 64 km away is the nearest railway station.
Mumbai is at around 250 km distance from Panchgani.
Hotels near Rajpuri Caves, Panchgani, Mahabaleswar
Hotel Millennium Park (millenniumpark panchgani.com – remove the space in between the words to look at the hotel) is a good hotel. Summer Plaza (summerplaza resort.com – remove the space in between the words to look at the hotel) is another good hotel.


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Sierra Leone police free woman accused of FGM
Sierra Leonean police have released a woman accused of female genital mutilation following pressure from a powerful society of circumcisers.
Elsie Kondoromoh was "tentatively" released after a large number of cutters protested against her arrest, police inspector Marty Tarawallie said.
Stick-wielding cutters have also protested at a hospital where her alleged victim is being treated.
Female circumcision is currently banned in Sierra Leone.
The ban came in force following the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in the region in December 2013, killing some 11,000 people.
But female circumcision, which traditionalists see as a passage to womanhood, has been revived in recent months, reports the BBC's Umaru Fofana from the eastern region of Kenema, where the incident happened.
Many activists accuse the authorities of failing to stop it because of the enormous power circumcisers wield within their communities, he adds.
On a local radio station on Wednesday, a caller said they were prepared to "die and to kill" to continue practising female circumcision.
The uniform-clad cutters have a society, known as Soweis, representing them. Ms Kondoromoh is the national vice-president of the Soweis council.
Alleged victim Khadija Balayma Allieu, 28, said that she was blindfolded and dragged into a room at a home in Kenema by up to five or six cutters.
"One sat on my chest, one each held my hands. Another two held my legs and spread them open. They gagged me as I shouted. Then she [Ms Kondoromoh] started cutting," Ms Allieu told the BBC.
"I felt her cut towards my vagina. She dipped her hand inside my vagina and I felt her pull something and cut it. They held my head down and continued cutting. I started bleeding profusely. I tried screaming but there was [a] cloth inside my mouth," she added.
Ms Kondoromoh has denied any wrongdoing but has admitted to circumcising her.
She said that Ms Allieu met her at her home saying that she was being "taunted" by her fellow women because she had not been circumcised.
Types of FGM
•Clitoridectomy - partial or total removal of the clitoris
•Excision - removal of the clitoris and inner labia (lips), with or without the outer labia
•Infibulation - cutting, removing and sewing up the genitalia
•Any other type of intentional damage to the female genitalia (burning, scraping et cetera)
Ms Kondoromoh added that she cared for Ms Allieu after she was circumcised.
"She told me that she would be taunted and further provoked if she went back home and so wanted to spend time with me to recover," the cutter said.
"I told her she could stay with me as we were only three in my house. I bought provisions for her. I woke up every morning to prepare food for her before leaving home."
Our correspondent says police rescued Ms Allieu several days later after she managed to call them, and said they found her in a "weak and hopeless state".
Ms Allieu seemed to be in excruciating pain when he met her at a hospital, with medical staff describing her condition as serious but stable, he adds.
With fears for Ms Allieu's safety growing after a group of circumcisers went to the hospital with sticks to demand that she be handed over to them, activists are calling for her evacuation from Sierra Leone, our correspondent says.
Insp Tarawallie told the BBC that investigations were continuing.
She defended the decision to release Ms Kondoromoh from custody, saying that cutters "are around us".
"They were singing above their voices demanding that we should release that woman," Insp Tarawallie added.


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Good Old Days in Eretz Israel
The story of an alleged rape in Mea She'arim that had the whole country in an uproar, 100 years ago.
This is a the story of an alleged rape in Mea She'arim, Jerusalem, 100 years ago. "The whole country was in an uproar," wrote S.Y. Agnon, "saying this is Jerusalem and these are its Hasids."
When she told her grandmother she had been raped, Haya Dina Sofa Kaiser was about 15 years old. Her father, Alter Noah Kaiser, was an admor - a rabbinical leader - born in Ukraine with a colorful and adventurous life story that eventually took him to London, a man who was known for his amazing power to heal the sick. In 1909 he sent his mother, his daughter and her younger brother by two years to Jerusalem. He lodged them at the Warshawsky Hotel, which operated at the time in Mea She'arim. The owner of the hotel, Yaakov Yosef Herling, promised to see to whatever the family needed, in return for his fees.
In 1912, a 70-page pamphlet was published in Jaffa, with the title "The Swindler in Jerusalem, or The Macher from Kollel Warsaw," macher being Yiddish for a self-important fixer, and kollel being a full-time religious-studies center for married men. Its author, Arieh Meir Kaiser, was the older brother of the two children; he wrote in Yiddish. He described the Warshawsky Hotel as a brothel that also catered to homosexual activity. Moreover, he claimed that "Arabs without manners and, in general, suspicious people" also lodged there. Kaiser related in detail how hotelkeeper Herling, the swindler and macher of the title, made servants of the two children and raped the girl. According to her, it happened on the night before Yom Kippur: Herling sent her to the cellar to bring chickens for the kapparot ritual, in which sins are symbolically transferred to the fowl. He followed her, gagged her with feathers and did what he did.
A few days after the pamphlet was published, the Hebrew newspapers began reporting the story and Herling, a prominent figure in Agudas Israel, the ultra-Orthodox political movement, sued Kaiser in a rabbinical court. He vehemently denied he had raped the girl and claimed Kaiser was defaming him in order to avoid paying the debt owed by his family to the hotel.
Natan Baron, a veteran journalist and researcher of the history of the courts in Israel, writes in the latest issue of the journal Cathedra (published by the Yitzhak Ben-Zvi Institute ) that the importance of this affair goes beyond the personal stories of the people involved: It has a place in the history of society, politics and the press here.
At the time, there were three newspapers coming out in Jerusalem: Haor, Herut and Moriah, and all of them gave extensive coverage to the story, which was quite sensational and "yellow" even in terms of our times, and included details of the medical examinations of the girl. One female doctor determined she had not been raped, whereas a male doctor determined she was not a virgin.
Kaiser's trial was held in Jaffa. It attracted hundreds of curiosity seekers but only few managed to enter the home of Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak Hacohen Kook, the city's chief rabbi. Kook was a friend of Kaiser's and had received money from him before the affair. It would have been appropriate for him to have recused himself. Instead, he established a special rabbinical court and in an unprecedented manner appointed six of the city's notable Jews as judges, among them Mordecai Ben Hillel Hacohen and Yaakov Shertok. Hacohen was an uncle of Rosa Cohen, Yitzhak Rabin's mother; Shertok was the father of Israel's first foreign minister and second prime minister, Moshe Sharett. This family context is relevant because the trial was depicted as a confrontation between "the Old Yishuv" - the Jewish community in Palestine predating the Zionist movement - and "the new Yishuv"; between Jerusalem and Jaffa; and between the ultra-Orthodox and the secular Zionists. The court held 12 sessions, heard 43 witnesses and toured the hotel. Finally the judges decided not to pass a verdict but only to publish the findings of their inquiries. In other words, the plaintiff, who claimed he had been wrongly accused of rape, was not vindicated. However, neither evidence of homosexual activity at the hotel nor of regular Arab lodgers was found.
Rabbi Kook asked to add a minority opinion, but the six judges refused his request: In no way were they able to agree to most of his comments, which were contrary to their conscience, and they published their decision without his input. Kook decided to remain silent; to this day it is not known what his opinion was.
In any case, in Mea She'arim, they continued to believe that their community had fallen victim to a nefarious secular plot and that the girl had made up the whole story. As was their wont then - as it is today - they wrote of Haya Dina Sofa Kaiser that her "impurity was blatantly obvious and perhaps she wickedly lusted after someone, and perhaps she wanted to get a prostitute's fee, and perhaps she bribed some individual."
The Warshawsky Hotel relocated from Mea She'arim to the center of Jerusalem and remained in the ownership of the Herling family until it shut down in the 1960s. The family's subsequent history would seem to reflect the victory of secular Zionism: Yaakov Yosef Herling's grandson was Brig. Gen. Avraham Arnan, the founder of the Sayeret Matkal special operations unit in the Israel Defense Forces.
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- Kark Mobile Education: A tablet game for 4- to 12-year-old kids that uses QR codes.
- Wildby: An iPhone app with a talking encyclopedia for 5- to 12-year-olds who don't know how to read. Cofounded by Thomas Tan and Huang Yanying, who both worked on a startup before.
- Remember: A social network for families to share and store photo memories, similar to FamilyLeaf. (Pivoted from Gradeful.)
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