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This page is about the people and the ministries that serve the Cathedral community. Examples include people who serve during worship, others who volunteer as greeters, and others who connect with parishioners in times of need.
Prayer Link – this is a ministry group composed of parishioners who offer daily prayers for people who request them and for people added to the parish prayer list.
Healing Touch – this is a ministry group of parishioners who offer Healing Touch (a form of treatment and prayer) to help those dealing with pain, anxiety, depression, grief, tension and any other human emotion or disability.
Healing Prayer – this is a ministry group that is centered on God's healing through prayer. This ministry seeks to offer an open and inviting opportunity for personal prayer, reflection and renewal in the context of worship.


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The Society is a voluntary membership organization to promote Methodist history. It is affiliated with the General Commission on Archives and History, an official arm of The United Methodist Church, but welcomes everyone who is interested in studying and preserving the heritage of the various branches of the Methodist movement.
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Here's a confession: I don't really read webcomics.
Sure, I kept up with Diesel Sweeties for a while, but mostly, I have a hard time keeping up with them (this shouldn't really come as a surprise, honestly, if you know I have trouble following monthly comics. That's once every four weeks. Do you really expect me to be able to remember to read something every day or every week?).
But after seeing some of the creators behind ACT-I-VATE last night at Politics & Prose, I think I better start.
Featuring founding member Dean Haspiel and creators Jim Dougan, Joe Infurnari, and Simon Fraser (right to left in the photo above) this really surprised me.
Haspiel is obviously awesome, and I liked his story of how ACT-I-VATE came about — he started by showing a photo of himself, all alone, working at his desk. You see, he said, making comics is lonely, and he found out that if he posted stuff to his LiveJournal (yay, LiveJournal!) people would respond. It began that just his friends were saying things, but soon, people he didn't know were leaving comments too.
He saw that some of his creator friends were experiencing the same sort of thing. He thought they could join forces and therefore combine their respective fanbases.
ACT-I-VATE is a noncommercial enterprise — it exists, more or less, to just promote these creators' work. Infurnari echoed this sentiment, saying he liked having a portfolio of his work online and that he could get feedback immediately. Fraser liked that he got control over his work — as primarily a creator for 2000 AD, he said he didn't often get a lot of say what happens to his creations. (That was actually a point that was brought up many times by everyone — comics, especially at DC and Marvel, are work-for-hire. Creator-controlled works are the exception and not the rule.) He said he travels a lot and likes that he's able to point people to the site when they ask him what he does.
DC local Dougan's story was a little bit more of an interesting one. He's a writer of comics and not an artist, so he's had to find people to work with, and while the point wasn't so much made, it was clear that the Internet makes it easier for him (Hyeondo Park, the artist of his ACT-I-VATE comic, Sam & Lilah, lives in Dallas).
Haspiel also told the story about how he encouraged Dougan & Park to submit Sam & Lilah to Zuda first, with the understanding it probably wouldn't win (everyone seemed to have words of praise for Zuda, though, and everything I know about Zuda makes it seem like it's a good deal). They joked about how after Sam & Lilah lost, they actually scooped the winner with their press release saying the comic was going to be on ACT-I-VATE.
While the event was for the ACT-I-VATE Primer, that seemed a little secondary to most of the discussion. They wanted to do the book because there's still a print audience (although Haspiel talked about how that's probably fading) and that there's not necessarily a crossover between webcomics readers and print comics readers (I'm probably somewhat of an example of that). It was a good way to push people to the site that may have otherwise not known about it.
Then they read from their comics, accompanied by Dougan's wife Rachel. This was, for the most part, hilarious and utterly charming. Fraser did voices and Rachel sometimes playfully stumbled over her parts (she said she hadn't rehearsed). Haspiel called for audience participation when it came to sound effects. I'm all for this and I now demand that everyone does dramatic readings of their comics during panels. This was awesome.
The Q&A section was better than most, and allowed me to realize much too late that I was sitting behind Mike Rhode of ComicsDC. (I seriously didn't make the connection until a little bit later, otherwise I probably would've said hi. So I'll just say it here: Hi, Mike!)
It was a good presentation and I left an ACT-I-VATE fan. I foresee spending many, many hours on the site now.


text: Rosa Parks Changed The Rules Subjects Arts & Humanities --Language Arts --Literature --Visual Arts Social Studies --Civics --Economics --History ---U.S. History --Regions/Cultures Grade K-2 3-5 Brief Description Students complete a diagram of the Montgomery bus that carried Rosa Parks into the history books. Work sheet included. Objectives Students will Return to Five Lessons in Black History learn the story of Rosa Parks. learn about the rules (for white people and for black people) on buses in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955. follow directions to complete a diagram illustrating seating arrangements and rules on buses in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955. role play the scene on the bus on that December day in 1955 when Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus. Keywords Rosa Parks, Black History, African American, Montgomery, bus, boycott, role play, drama Materials Needed a children's book about the story of Rosa Parks (optional) Rosa Parks Changed the Rules work sheet, one copy per student (provided) Lesson Plan In this activity, students listen to or read a selection describing the events of December 1, 1955. Then they read the rules that people had to follow on the bus. They label an illustration of the bus to reflect those rules. Read aloud to students a book about Rosa Parks. If you are unable to locate a book, you can read the story that follows: Rosa Parks was a seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama. One December day, almost 50 years ago, Rosa got on the bus to go to work. She took a seat in the first row of the section in the back of the bus that was reserved for black people like Rosa. A short time later, the bus stopped to pick up another passenger. A white person wanted to get on the bus, but there no more seats at the front of the bus, which was reserved for white people. The driver asked Rosa to move to the back of the bus so the white person could sit down. But Rosa would not move. News of Rosa's refusal to give up her seat spread quickly through Montgomery. Just a few days later black people across the city stopped riding the bus. They walked to work instead. The bus company lost lots of money because only white people rode the bus. Black people in Montgomery walked to work for almost a year. Finally, the rules were changed. The new rules let black people sit in any seat on the bus. Black people in Montgomery had Rosa to thank for the new bus rules. After sharing Rosa's story, distribute to each student a copy of the Rosa Parks Changed the Rules work sheet. Have students read the text at the top of the page that tells about the rules that were usually followed on buses in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955. Then call on students to read those rules aloud. Discuss the rules in relation to Rosa's story, and have students do the activity on the work sheet. Extension activities Share photos of the actual bus that carried Rosa Parks into the history books. For images and details about the bus, visit What If I Don't Move to the Back of the Bus? A photo of the bus before it was restored can be found here. View a brief video recreation of the events of December 1, 1955: Assessment Check students' work sheets to see if they made proper inferences and followed directions. The driver's area at the front of the bus should be colored blue. The fare box at the front of the bus should be colored green, The two long seats facing each other, and the first three rows of seats (the "white section") should be colored red. The five rows of seats at the back end of the bus should be colored black. The words "Front Door" should appear by the front door of the bus. The words "Back Door" should appear by the back door of the bus. The words "Standing Room" should appear in the area with no seats at the back of the bus. Lesson Plan Source Education World Submitted By Gary Hopkins Click to return to this week's Lesson Planning article, Lessons in Black History. See additional lessons and resources on Education World's special Black History Month archive page. Updated 1/26/2017


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Two hundred fifty years ago, Ascalon burned.
Desperate to defend his land from advancing hordes of bestial charr, King Adelbern summoned the all-powerful Foefire to repel the invaders. But magic can be a double-edged sword. The Foefire burned both charr and human alike. While the charr corpses smoldered, the slain Ascalonians rose again, transformed by their king's rage into ghostly protectors and charged with guarding the realm — forever. The once mighty kingdom became a haunted shadow of its former glory.
Centuries later, the descendants of Ascalon, exiled to the nation of Kryta, are besieged on all sides. To save humankind, Queen Jennah seeks to negotiate a treaty with the hated charr. One obstacle remains. The charr legions won't sign the truce until their most prized possession, the Claw of the Khan-Ur, is returned from the ruins of fallen Ascalon.
Now, a mismatched band of adventurers, each plagued by ghosts of their own, sets forth into a haunted, war-torn land to retrieve the Claw. Without the artifact, there is no hope for peace between humans and charr — but the undead king who rules Ascalon won't give it up easily, and not everyone wants peace!
Ghosts of Ascalon — the first original Guild Wars novel! — is scheduled for release in North America and Europe in the summer of 2010. Written by acclaimed fantasy authors Matt Forbeck and Jeff Grubb, Ghosts of Ascalon sets the stage for the release of the highly anticipated Guild Wars 2 MMO.
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CUFP defyance You propose to your girlfriend with a script!! I know its corny, but she loved it! She's learning Linux, and some programming stuff, so I thought it would be cute. I had her run it in front of our friends. I'm a new daddy and now I'm getting married in August! Wooo Hooo!!

 BTW: I didn't use strict cause I was in a hurry and left it out. Bad Practice, I know I know..  #!/usr/bin/perl -wT sub love { local ( $first, $last ) = @_; print "\nWill You Marry Me, $first $last ??\n"; chomp( $love = <STDIN> ); if ( $love =~ /yes/ ) { &yes } else { print "Error no 1 Kernel Failure Shutting Down\n" } } sub yes { print "\nGood!! I couldn't live without you!!\n\n"; print " **** **** ******* ******* *************** ************* ********* ***** * \n"; } my $a = Danyeal; my $b = Waddell; &love( $a, $b );

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With so much competition in online businesses, it can be challenging to create a successful online business. To achieve success on the internet, your website needs to be popular. Here are some tips that help you started with the online business.
Study your customers
Study your customers carefully and target those needs that are not met by your competitors. eBay is a great example. eBay was quick at learning customers' desire to earn economic profits by marketing second hand products. ebay felt the need for a platform where sellers and consumers could meet and do business. Ecommerce technologies helped eBay to setup the desired platform. If you're a newbie in online business then start small but do it the right way.
Determining a Target Market
Without knowing who your target customers are, how can you be truly successful? Sure, big entrepreneurs can easily reach wider audience, but as a newbie in this field, you have to face the competitors from all over the world. Hence, you need to target on one specific market to make your business successful and more appealing to your customers.
Look at different business models
There are some important online business models that business owners choose to succeed in their online business. Some choose the web to sell their own physical products through a drop shipping service. Others make a good income by designing information websites that link into advertisements. Some entrepreneurs market their own information through e-books or e-products while others earn money through affiliate programs.
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Simple language can make a big difference in your reputation. If you speak to your customers in corporate terms, they would have no idea of what you are trying to convey. Explain things to customers in a simple language and it makes easy for interacting with them.
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If you're having an online business, think of a domain name for your website. Your web address should be well planned and should represent your brand. SEO factors consider your domain name. Set up a domain name that is simple and easy to remember. It should describe your brand. Many successful companies have used their company name with ".com" as an extension for their domain.
Online businesses hardly see their customers face to face. Hence, the text on the screen should be impressive when it comes to potential customers. Copywriting plays an important role in the success of an online business. You don't have to be a grammar expert or a great author to write for the internet. You can always take the help of a copywriter or learn the basics of copywriting and use it in your business.
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – A microchip helped bring a missing cat back home on Monday, according to Fort Wayne Animal Care and Control officials.
Charlie, who is now 10 years old, showed up at Animal Care and Control on Monday. Employees scanned the cat and saw Charlie had a microchip which identified Virginia Fryback, of Fort Wayne, as his owner.
Fryback said Charlie disappeared from her home five years ago.
"I never thought I see him again," Fryback said.
Microchips are tiny transponders, about the size of a grain of rice, that use radio frequency waves to transmit information about an animal. They're designed to last about 25 years and they are implanted by a veterinarian or animal shelter just under the skin, usually right between the shoulder blades.
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Mark's cancer diagnosis brought the lyrics into sharp focus. "The lesson for me, and all of us really, is to be mindful of what you say or the words you write down. God has an amazing way of using those words to remind you to rest in Him, rest in truth, and just be held." The song is included on the new live album from Casting Crowns and is a reminder to trust in our God who holds the future in His hands.
Recorded live at Casting Crowns' home church, A Live Worship Experience features a combination of the band's signature hits and today's top worship songs including "Good Good Father," "Thrive," "Just Be Held," "Called Me Higher," and more.
"A Live Worship Experience" was a moment for all of us to get swept away in the beauty of worship. We are proud to share that with you and hope it will help lead you in to a time of total surrender.
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If you use Greek and Hebrew in your blog posts, here's a tip that will help you make it look good and give you the ability to make changes across your entire site in just a few seconds. There are two main things you need to do.
Step 1: Add Styles to Your Style Sheet
The first thing you need to do is find your style sheet. Your style sheet is the global control for how your site looks—text, colors, images, and more. If you're familiar with creating styles in a word processing program like Microsoft Word, then you already understand the concept. You create and define a style, apply it to various units of text, and then when you edit that style in your style sheet, all of the text tagged with the style is instantly updated.
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If you use the self-hosted version of WordPress, you can find your style sheet in the admin panel by going to Appearance > Editor. Your style sheet is most likely named style.css. Click on it to load it, and then scroll to the bottom to add your new styles.1 You can access your style sheet via FTP2 by going to /public_html/wp-content/themes/{your-theme-name}/style.css. I typically use Dreamweaver to open and edit my style sheet. Other blogging platforms should be pretty similar.


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Author Notes: These little dumplings are so easy, so tasty, and so softly plump they melt in your mouth. I saw a TV show for making use of wonton wrappers as fresh pasta and have been using them for everything lately. As a matter of fact I am making pasta sauce today with veal parm and fettucine (kak: Sliced wonton wrappers!). They taste so light and airy compared to dry noodles and no need to make a mess making your own. Also they are less filling or caloric as they have no egg.
Any way, I made these a couple weeks ago using leftover baked chicken breasts, but a chicken roasted from the store would be easy too.
They are very light so I made a butter, white wine and shallot sauce with some fresh parsley sprinkles on top. It is like eating a cloud pillow! —kristy49
Serves 2
- 1 cup ricotta
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
- 2 tablespoons minced fine shallot
- 1 cup shredded fine cooked white meat chicken
- 1 teaspoon dried parsley
- salt & pepper to taste
- 8-10 large wonton wrappers
- 1 egg beaten with 1 Tsp. water
- 1 stick butter
- 1 minced clove garlic
- 1 teaspoon dried parsley
- 1/4 cup white dry wine (Chardonay or pint grigio)
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- salt & pepper to taste
- Mix ricotta, parmesan, sour cream, shredded chicken, parsley, shallot together, season with salt & pepper to taste. Set into fridge while making the sauce.
- Saute igarlic in olive oil, add butter, parsley and white wine, season to taste, set aside.
- Bring a large pot of water to boil, season with salt.
- Set wontons one at a time on lightly floured cutting board, and fill each with a tablespoon or so of the ricotta mix. Paint all 4 edges with egg mixture. Pull up each of 4 corners and seal edges, then twist top lightly to form a pointed top dumpling. Set onto lightly floured dish while you fill the rest. At this point they can be covered and refrigerated for 24 hours so this is a great make-ahead dish.
- Drop 4 dumplings at a time into boiling water and cook for 4 minutes, then remove and add to sauce. Cook second batch of 4 and do the same. Lightly toss with sauce and serve in shallow bowls with some sauce and with fresh grated parmesan on top.
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Horse Shoe Trail
Journey from Valley Forge to the Appalachian Trail
Take your horse, bicycle or hiking boots to explore the wooded trails and open meadows that lie along this beloved trail. Keep an eye out for birds, deer and other wildlife along the way, particularly at the Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area. And you might not want to look down when crossing the old-fashioned cable bridge at French Creek, if you're afraid of heights that is.
The trail goes by a number of fascinating historic sites, including the Wharton Esherick Museum and Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site, before it ends at Stony Mountain, where it connects with the Appalachian Trail.
Come Prepared
Wear sturdy shoes and boots, and be sure to pack a lunch as well as plenty of water.
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The Circle T Trail Riders' annual trail ride is a 160-mile equestrian adventure from Harrisburg to Valley Forge held in June. Call (717) 949-2213 for more information.
Outsider's Tip
You might not find horseshoes on this trail, but you'll likely run into horses as well as people. Hence the name, horse-shoe trail.
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Google's search bar is a great handy-dandy tool. As Google continues to enhance and make "search" user friendly for consumers, there are a few quick keywords (that if memorized) can shave seconds off time and help simplify your life. I posted this blog as I saw an article come through that said "12 Google Search Hacks". Well, of course that post title got my attention as I am a Google Partner and I really didn't like the word "hack" in it. So I spent some time going thru the post and tested some of their tips. It was pretty cool! I used some on my iPhone and some on my desktop. Some worked for me and some didn't. Some I was interested in and some I wasn't. So out of the list, I thought I would write a blog on some of the features that I felt made my life simpler using Google search and I hope you find the same. I share their link below my post if you want their full 20 list. Here are 16 cool Google search tips that I found very useful:
1. Find out what the weather is like without stepping outside. Before I used to have an outside thermometer near the back door, that was easy for me to read from inside the house to get the temperature. I also had to listen to the radio to get the future forecast. Today, all I have to do is go to the app I have installed on my phone or do a Google search. If you type in "weather" with any location (geo-targetted) you will get the forecast. Today I tested Ottawa and I am about 5 1/2hrs from that area. Cool! So use the keyword "weather (with your location)" in the search bar.


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Episode 017 of the Shine Springs Farm Shinecast features an interview with David Snow of Snow's Bend Farm in Coker, Alabama. Snow's Bend Farm is one of Alabama's premiere sustainable farms. David and Margaret Ann have a thriving CSA program and supply produce to some of the nation's leading farm-to-table restaurants
Although David doesn't name the restaurants, I know that Snow's Bend Farm produce is served at Frank Stitt's Highland's Bar & Grill and Hot + Hot Fish Club, and Epiphany Cafe among others.
Stream it here or subscribe and listen via iTunes, doubleTwist or Zune.
I'm continuing to explore options for getting these interviews transcribed, but here are some highlights of this week's episode:
Snow's Bend Farm in Coker, Alabama is located on land in David's family since the 1860s. In 2004, David & Margaret Ann moved to Alabama to begin farming at Snow's Bend Farm. They started with a 1/4-acre garden in first year. Prior to David and Margaret Ann's return to Alabama, in David's lifetime, the land had been leased to a "conventional row crop farmer."
They now manage 15 acres for commercial vegetable production (10 acres in planted at a time) and have eight fenced acres where they raise pastured pigs. They plan to add cattle in the near future.
Although David wasn't raised in a farming family, he always had a connection to the family farm for recreational purposes so he has a strong "attachment to place."
"My earliest motivation stems from becoming aware in college years of how food was produced, environmental and social welfare issues that accompany industrial agricultural systems," David says.
"I studied natural resources in college but couldn't find a job when graduated," David explains. "I expected to work for park service, geologic survey, forestry service, maybe return to the farm when I retired."
After undergrad (or near the end of undergrad), David spent 4 months working in Ecuador with that country's largest grassroots conservation group. They started small plot sustainable farms.
David also did an independent study working on an organic farm near his family land.
In 2003, David's partner, Margaret Ann, was evacuated from Morocco where she was serving in the Peace Corp. They settled in Seattle, near her parents, and worked on an a farm in that area for the season. They became "addicted" to the fresh food grown at the farm and that they purchased from area farmers markets.
Sustainable farms that grow organically must compete quality not price.
As David points out, it costs more to produce food sustainably, but the benefits are spread around the local community.
The environmental benefits include building the soil, rather than degrading the soil.
In the interview, I pointed out that I believe that health benefits are not taken into account in the economic equation. In other words, the true costs of the conventional food system are not reflected in the cost of the products sold. The environmental and health costs of industrial food system and highly-processed foods not factored into the "cost" of food, so the price of organically and sustainably grown foods appears higher due to the artificial deflation of the true cost of conventional, subsidized agriculture.
Challenges that Young Farmers Face, in David's view are as follows:
1. Access to Land, particularly prime farmland
2. Training and experience in sustainable farming
3. Labor
4. Access to markets
Sustainable farms need to be in a larger urban area to have viable market
Rural residents often either don't want produce, or they grow their own, or know someone who grows
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I hope you enjoyed this episode of the Shine Springs Farm Shinecast. I'd love to hear your feedback on these interviews. Do you enjoy the interview episodes. Leave your thoughts below as a comment. Thanks!


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Just stopping by to say, "I'm new." I joined awhile back, but have never posted. With a full-time job and a retired husband, my sewing time is limited. Mostly, I am accumulating projects and making plans. I know that I won't work forever.
I am terrible at following patterns - I will change the colors, the setting, the size, etc. But, I love to make gifts for others. My challenge now - to finish the quilt my mother started for me.
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Welcome edreger. Many of us find some way to alter plans and make them our own. You will see that when we do a mystery quilt, which happens about twice a year.
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Welcome edreger. My quilting time is also limited but I do love making plans for future projects.
Hi edreger, welcome! Glad you have joined us, enjoy!
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Loss of key decision-makers cannot be ignored
THIS year's mass exodus of our most experienced public servants is a cause for great concern and yet another worrying result of the troika-directed efforts to save our blighted economy.
Kerry is losing scores of its most experienced public servants this week as so many eligible opt for retirement with secure remuneration rather than face uncertainty into the future.
Those who are going cannot be blamed in the least for their decision to retire; in fact most do so with a heavy heart, saddened that so many years' service has had to end prematurely with much work left undone.
The real concern is for the frontline staffing in our police, health and education services primarily.
It is welcome that Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton has announced a special 'transition' programme — to ensure a continuity of staffing levels at the coalface of policing and health, among other vital services.
However, the loss might yet prove to be not so great in staffing numbers as it is in terms of real, vital experience.
Hundreds of the most senior gardaí and nurses will depart the Garda Síochána and the HSE taking with them decades of hard-earned experience and all that brings with it; including the ability to make key decisions on the lives of people in a split second and the ability to administer complex systems with efficiency and common sense.
Teachers with deep knowledge of the learning needs of their students and the running of schools also depart in droves. The same is true for staff at our county council, where 32 people have retired across the four county authories, according to preliminary figures on Tuesday. Those 32 retirees have been responsible, until now, for some of the most primary services we have, from water to waste and so on.
It is no surprise that many in the county are worried about the future of their communities with this 'brain drain'. The implications scarcely need to be outlined. Suffice to say that without this level of apparently wise management at the top of our public services in Kerry, it is unknown how these organisations will cope with their huge challenges in the near future.
What can be stated is that it will certainly make things harder on those remaining.
As ever, we must ask as to the real economic return for this shoring-up of top salaries nationally.
Is it worth more to the State to reduce numbers at the highest pay streams than it is to lose so much experience in a single go?


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As long as parents are "looking for a miracle" (as the parents in the article put it), and as long as doctors are making quick & easy profits, no one has any motivation to look into the *behavioral* and *alternative* treatments for depression available. Of course, as the article also says, many of the things which *cause* teenagers to be depressed are considered "unchangeable" (when in actuality they are NOT.)
|This is criminal. The parents should have sued the doctor as well
While they're at it, they should sue themselves, for not paying enough attention to what was happening to their kid after they moved across town into their shiny new house because "Mark was doing so well."
They ripped the son out of an environment where he was popular and doing well, and dropped him into a place where he had no friends and had trouble being accepted. That's difficult when you're twelve years old. That kid started going down the tubes almost immediately after the move. He was throwing off almost every kind of "child in distress" warning, from getting into trouble to having his grades go to pot.
These parents are consumed with guilt because they know they did this. Them lashing out at drug companies and doctors is just their way of trying to deflect blame that they know is theirs. What was needed here was some parenting. And they didn't do it. They just watched the kid go down the tubes, and finally turned to a doctor in desperation.
None of this has anything to do with the general case of adolescents and SSRI's; I'm not a doctor and I won't play one on the Internet. But this particular case sounds to me to be more about parents who were more concerned about their material well-being and status than they were about the emotional and spiritual well-being of their child. They've got an "Always an A-B student" suddenly put into a "special needs class." Hello? Earth to Mom and Dad! Danger Will Robinson! Whoop! Whoop! What do they do? Schedule something for the Summer, when it would be more convenient... for them. Oh yeah, this was all the fault of those nasty drug companies. Feh.


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- Walt Disney and the First Golden Age of Disney Animation – Panelists include those who participated first-hand (or witnessed) the remarkable creation of Walt Disney's feature animated films: Joe Hale (43-year Disney veteran who contributed his artistic talents to such films as Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, and Mary Poppins), Burny Mattinson (Disney Legend and 50-year veteran of Disney animation who contributed his artistic talents to such "Golden Age" favorites as Sleeping Beauty, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, and The Jungle Book), Ted Thomas (Son of legendary Disney animator Frank Thomas and director/writer of the acclaimed documentaries Frank and Ollie and Walt & El Grupo).
- Roy E. Disney and the Second Golden Age of Disney Animation – Roundtable discussion of Roy E. Disney's influence on the "Second Golden Age of Disney Animation." Panelists include: John Musker (Noted Disney animation writer, director, and producer whose directorial Disney film credits include some of Disney's most successful animated films The Great Mouse Detective, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules, and The Princess and the Frog), Ron Clements (Noted Disney animation writer, director, and producer whose directorial Disney film credits include some of Disney's most successful animated films The Great Mouse Detective, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules, and The Princess and the Frog), Dave Bossert (Author of an upcoming book on Roy E. Disney, and creative director and head of special projects at Walt Disney Animation Studios; artistic coordinator and visual effects supervisor on Fantasia/2000 and associate producer of the short "Destino" among many other accomplishments), Roy P. Disney (Son of Disney Legend Roy E. Disney, former Disney Imagineer, and first-hand witness to Disney animation's second "Golden Age"), Don Hahn (Noted author, Disney animation historian, and producer of some of Disney's most successful animated films of the second golden age, including Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and The Emperor's New Groove).
- The Greatest Disney Animation You Never Saw – Enjoy a "Behind-The-Magic" peek at the art of Disney feature animation. Academy Award®-nominated film producer and author Don Hahn and Creative Director for Walt Disney Animation Studios David Bossert present rarely seen (or never before seen at all) Disney artwork and animation from more than 75 years of Disney animated features.
- Animating The Disney Parks – Disney Parks owe a great deal of their creative development and design to the roots of Disney animation. Join current and former Disney Imagineers as they discuss how legendary Disney Imagineers, including Marc Davis, Mary Blair, Claude Coates, Herb Ryman, John Hench, and many others, successfully transferred their skills and talents from the world of Disney feature animation to "animating the Disney Parks." Join our panelists who personally worked with many of these Disney animation and Imagineering greats:Tony Baxte (Senior vice president, Creative Development at Walt Disney Imagineering, whose project credits include Disneyland Paris, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, Indiana Jones™ Adventure, and Splash Mountain), Eddie Sotto (Noted experiential designer, mixed-media producer, conceptualist, and former Disney Imagineer, whose projects included the design of Main Street, U.S.A. at Disneyland Paris, early work on Indiana Jones™ Adventure at Disneyland, plus Mission: SPACE at Epcot and Pooh's Hunny Hunt at Tokyo Disneyland).
- An Evening Concert: Dick Van Dyke & The Vantastix – The fun continues into the night with an unforgettable evening of harmony provided by Dick Van Dyke & The Vantastix. The popular vocal quartet is comprised of legendary television, Broadway and film star Dick Van Dyke and three renowned west coast musicians—Mike Mendyke, Bryan Chadima, and Eric Bradley. Songs from Van Dyke's varied entertainment career, in addition to many well-known Disney hits and timeless pop standards, will be performed by Van Dyke and The Vantastix in a show rich in humor, pure entertainment, and sing-along favorites. It's a once-in-a-lifetime experience you won't want to miss!
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- Wacky and Wild Disney Animation – Go on a wacky and irreverent ride through some of the most psychedelic and visually stunning animation ever put on film in this fun and humorous retrospective of Disney feature animation: Jerry Beck (Well-known animation historian, with 10 books and numerous articles to his credit), Eric Goldberg (A veteran director, designer and animator, his Disney credits includes being the supervising animator of Genie in Aladdin, co-director of Pocahontas, animator of Phil in Hercules, followed by Fantasia/2000, which he directed, wrote, and animated two critically acclaimed sequences: "Carnival of the Animals" and "Rhapsody in Blue." His animation work can also be seen in the Tokyo Disney Seas attraction Magic Lamp Theatre and the recently unveiled Gran Fiesta Tour Starring The Three Caballeros at the Mexico Pavilion at Epcot).
- Tinker Bell: The Evolution of a Disney Character – Have you ever wondered how a character becomes a "Disney" character? As we take you on a fascinating trip through the decades in a presentation filled with never-before-seen art, photos, and film clips, you'll see how Tinker Bell developed into one of Disney's most iconic characters. Your tour guides include: Ginni Mack (One of the original Ink & Paint "girls" from the early days of Disney Feature Animation who continued with the Studio through the completion of Beauty and the Beast), Mindy Johnson (Author of the upcoming book Tinker Bell: An Evolution). Margaret Kerry (Live-action reference model for Tinker Bell in Walt Disney's 1953 animated film classic Peter Pan).
- Disney Feature Animation Stars—Drawing With Personality – The Walt Disney Studios is often credited with perfecting "personality animation," creating from paper and pencil characters that seemingly live and breathe. In this entertaining and educational presentation you'll discover the secrets behind the creation of some of Disney's most beloved animated stars, plus you'll get the chance to design your own Disney animated character under the guidance of a master Disney animator. Your instructor: Andreas Deja—30-year Disney animation veteran, whose impressive body of work includes serving as supervising animator on characters in several classic Disney animated features, including Gurgi in The Black Cauldron, Gaston in Beauty and the Beast, Jafar in Aladdin, Scar in The Lion King, Mickey Mouse in Fantasia/2000, Lilo in Lilo & Stitch, Mama Odie in The Princess and the Frog, and Tigger in Winnie the Pooh. He's also a noted Disney animation historian and authority on the work of legendary Disney animator Milt Kahl.
- Hearing Voices: A Salute to Disney Character Voice Artists – Meet the artists behind the voices: Dick Jones (Voice of Pinocchio from Pinocchio, 1940), Kathryn Beaumont (Voice of Alice from Alice in Wonderland, 1951 and Wendy Darling from Peter Pan, 1953), Lisa Davis (Voice of Anita from One Hundred and One Dalmatians, 1961), David Frankham (Voice of Sergeant Tibbs from One Hundred and One Dalmatians, 1961), Bruce Reitherman (Voice of Mowgli from The Jungle Book, 1967 and Christopher Robin from Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree, 1966), Chris Sanders (voice of Stitch from Lilo & Stitch, 2002).
- Snow White: Still "The Fairest of Them All" – Walt Disney's animation masterpiece, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, introduced an entirely new filmmaking genre—the Disney animated feature—and put in motion the creation of an unparalleled library of films that remain unrivaled in their artistic and storytelling achievements. Join us as we salute this groundbreaking film with a rare west coast appearance by 93-years-young Marge Champion, the live-action reference model for the character of Snow White. Also joining the presentation will be Gabriella Calicchio, CEO of The Walt Disney Family Museum, to provide insights on the museum's upcoming Snow White exhibition and an exciting new D23 opportunity.
- An Evening With Disney Legend and Oscar-Winner Alan Menken – Please "Be Our Guest" as we conclude our celebration with a rare musical concert by Disney Legend Alan Menken. With eight Academy Awards®, Alan Menken has received more Oscars than any living person. He has written songs and scores for some of the world's most beloved films: Tangled (Oscar nominee), Enchanted (three Oscar nominations) The Little Mermaid (two Oscar wins), Beauty and the Beast (two Oscar wins), Aladdin (two Oscar wins), Pocahontas (two Oscar wins), Hercules (Oscar nominee), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Oscar® nominee), Little Shop of Horrors (Oscar nominee), Home on the Range, and Newsies.
- Waking Sleeping Beauty – The Director's Cut – Presented exclusively for Destination D is the definitive director's cut (not available on DVD) of the acclaimed 2010 film documentary Waking Sleeping Beauty. With screening hosted by director Don Hahn, the film chronicles how by the mid-1980s the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. Waking Sleeping Beauty is the true story of how Disney regained its magic with a staggering output of hits—The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, and more—over a 10-year period.
That's quite an amazing line up for just two days, don't you think? You can find more information about Destination D and purchase tickets here: D23's Destination D: 75 Years of Disney Animated Features – Tickets
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Federal Work Study is a need based, federally funded employment program that allows students to earn money through on-campus or off-campus employment to help with educational expenses. Students are required to fill out the FAFSA to determine eligibility. Please contact email@example.com for more information.
Application Process
Complete & Submit a FAFSA
- Complete and submit a FAFSA at www.fafsa.ed.gov.
- Make sure to check Lighthouse account for any additional requirements that may be needed to complete the FAFSA.
Fill out the Student Worker Pre-application online
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will be forwarded to either:
- Work-study Placement: FWS administrator in the Financial Aid Department.
- Student Assistant Placement: Kim Hoyt, Cooperative Education Coordinator, located in ATC Room 150-A.
Employment Eligibility Review
- The administrators will review applications for employment eligibility.
- Applications for eligible students are then forwarded to hiring departments for consideration.
Qualifying Students
- Qualifying students may be selected to interview with hiring department.
- The department supervisor is responsible for the final hiring decision.
If Hired
- If hired, the student will need to complete the GCSC "Student Employment Package" and Work Authorization Form.
- These documents will be provided to the student either by the department supervisor, the Financial Aid Office, or Kim Hoyt.
- Schedules
Credit Hour Requirement
- How many credit hours must I be enrolled in to participate in FWS?
- The student must be enrolled in at least 6 credit hours per semester.
- This rule also applies to the summer term.
- The student must be enrolled in at least 6 credit hours per semester.
Available Jobs
- What types of jobs are available?
- Most positions are clerical and customer service oriented. There are several positions available that offer opportunities to tutor both college and elementary (K-5) level students. An attempt is made to match your major of study with a related department but it is not guaranteed.
Maximum Work Hours per Week
- How many hours can I work?
- Students can work up to 20 hours per week. Number of hours a student is eligible for is determined by a student's unmet need in his/her financial aid budget.
- Unmet need is calculated by…
- Cost of Attendance – Expected Family Contribution (EFC) = Financial Need
- Financial Need – All Financial Aid Awarded = Unmet Need
- A student's unmet need is divided by the number of "work weeks" in a semester and up to 20 work hours per week.
- The FWS Administrator will determine number of hours/week student is allowed to work and will report number on Student's Work Authorization Form.
Non Pell Grant Eligible Students
- I am not eligible for the Pell Grant; Do I still qualify for FWS funds?
- Maybe. FWS awards are based on unmet need in your financial aid budget. Even though a student may not qualify for the Pell Grant, they still may have unfulfilled "unmet need".
FWS Advantages
- Are there advantages to participating in FWS?
- Yes. Income earned under the FWS program can be excluded in calculating financial aid eligibility on your FAFSA; be sure to report these FWS earnings in question 44c.
- You earn on-the-job experience that can be applied to future employment endeavors and help you further develop your reference list on a resume. Flexible work schedules that accommodate your school schedule. By working on campus you can save on commuting costs.
FWS Wages
- How often are students paid? How much can I earn per hour?
- Students are paid once a month, generally the last week of the month.
- Students are paid the current minimum wage for the State of Florida.
- To view current rates please visit https://www.dol.gov/whd/minwage/america.htm
- Are FWS earnings taxable?
- Yes, FWS earnings are considered taxable income. The Business Office will mail out
W-2s by the end of January.
- If you consent to electronic W-2s on Lighthouse, you can view and download a copy
of your W-2 under the "Employee" tab.
- If you consent to electronic W-2s on Lighthouse, you can view and download a copy of your W-2 under the "Employee" tab.
- FICA (Social Security and Medicare) taxes do not apply to service performed by students employed by GCSC where the student is pursuing a course of study. Please visit https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/student-exception-to-fica-tax for more information.
- For questions regarding tax requirements, please consult the IRS or your tax advisor.
- Yes, FWS earnings are considered taxable income. The Business Office will mail out W-2s by the end of January.
Work-Study vs Student Assistant
- Can I work both a Work-study and Student Assistant position?
- No. A student must choose either to work under the Work-study or Student Assistant Program.
Applying for FWS
- Do I need to apply for FWS each year to continue receiving it or to be considered?
- You are required to fill out the FAFSA every academic year.
- Please email email@example.com to update application and extend consideration beyond the original academic year you applied for.
- How many credit hours must I be enrolled in to participate in FWS?
- Information for Federal Work Study Students
Orientation Must be completed by end of the first day of employment. Student Worker Orientation is available online. Upon completion of the orientation, complete both the quiz and Acknowledgment form. Forward a copy of the Acknowledgment form to the Financial Aid Office. Schedule Your department supervisor will develop a schedule with you that should not interfere with class hours. Students are not permitted to work during scheduled class times. Timesheets Timesheets are must be submitted in Lighthouse around the 21st of each month (with the exception of holiday breaks). Your department supervisor will receive an email from payroll specifying when the time sheets are due. Make sure that you report your time worked on a work-study time sheet. You should not work more than 20 hours per week. If your time sheet is submitted after the due date, you will not receive payment until the following pay period. Direct Deposit FWS students have the option to either pick-up their check in the Business Office or can opt to use direct deposit. Taxes FWS funds are considered taxable income. You may be required to file taxes. For further assistance, please refer to IRS regulations at www.irs.gov or discuss with a professional tax preparer. Studying Work-study does not mean that time on the job is dedicated to study time for classes. If you have completed all of your tasks for the day, you may study on the clock with your supervisor's permission. Calling Out Contact your direct supervisor if you plan on being absent from work or will be late. You will need to make arrangements with your supervisor to make up missed hours. Dress Code Ask your supervisor about dress code policies for your particular department. In general, students are expected to have a clean and neat appearance; keep in mind that you are representing GCSC. Tuition & Fees / Bookstore Vouchers FWS funds cannot be applied to your tuition/fees or bookstore charges. Funds are earned through work and cannot be awarded in advance.
Information for Department Supervisor
Hiring Process
Supervisor requests a Student-Employment allocation by submitting an email to email@example.com that includes:
- A detailed job description
- Supervisor information
- Preferred student-employee availability
- Student submit a "Student-Employment Pre-application" online
- Student-Employment committee screens pre-applications
- Student-Employment committee forwards pre-applications to supervisor
- Supervisor reviews pre-applications
- Supervisor schedules and conducts interviews
- Supervisor recommends student(s) for hire by sending an email to email@example.com
- Student-Employment committee contacts student to offer employment
- Student-Employment committee completes a "Student-Employment Work Authorization"
- Student completes Student-Employment Hiring packet and submits it to Human Resources
- Human Resources on-boards Student-Employee
- Student-Employee reports to supervisor and begins employment
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Shen seniors can apply for Rotary scholarship
5:11 pm, Wednesday, January 30, 2013
CLIFTON PARK — The Shenendehowa Rotary is accepting applications for a $500 scholarship awarded annually to a senior in the Shenendehowa School District community.
The scholarship will be awarded to the applicant who is judged to display the best combination of dedication to school, community, work and plans for the future. Students attending Shen should contact the guidance office for an application and submission deadlines.
The application form and deadline for those applicants not attending Shenendehowa High can be found at http://www.shenrotary.org.
Shenendehowa Rotary is celebrating more than 50 years as a service organization. It meets at 7:15 a.m. Thursday for breakfast at Coburg Village, at the intersection of Grooms and Vischer Ferry roads.
— Staff report


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Unions have called for Worthing High School to scrap its plans to become an academy, following the resignation of head teacher, Alison Beer.
Eric Skyte, of the NASUWT, said: "As yet, there is no evidence that changing to academy status improves the quality of education.
"The school must call an emergency meeting of the full governing body and put a stop to this damaging conversion."


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Getting to Havelock North
The north easterly drive from Wellington to Havelock North took approx. four hours. We broke the journey up in Greytown in the Wairarapa. At an hour's drive from Wellington it's a popular weekend escape with antique shops and restaurants. We had a good lunch at the Main Street Deli and were lured into the Lolly Jar for dessert by its endless jars of pic'n'mix.
Havelock North
What a gorgeous area the Hawkes Bay region is. A friend had recommended we stay in Havelock North, a sweet little town filled with vineyards, orchards and an upmarket shopping parade with artisan bakers, restaurants and boutiques. We spent a wonderful few days here unwinding and taking in the fresh air (we don't get much of that in Hong Kong)
Where did we stay?
I chose the Cottages on St Andrews for several reasons; there were farm animals on site, a kids playground and a pool.
Unfortunately the weather wasn't quite hot enough for us to swim but it was great to stay in a 'cottage' right next to the kids playground. Di has 5 cottages available and we were in No 2.
The cottages are more like bungalows and ours was lovely and spacious with a master bedroom at one end and twin bedroom at the other, divided in the middle with a lounge, kitchen/diner and bathroom. We loved the flexibility of eating breakfast at ours and having a picnic dinner outside.
What did we do?
- Have a stroll around the very small town centre. The Visitor Information hut is extremely useful and filled with leaflets, maps etc and lovely staff who'll clue you in on what to do.
- The Arataki Honey Visitor Center is a free museum which has displays on how bees make honey. There's a great little activity station for the kids including bee dressing up outfits! I loved the honey tasting – who knew there were so many versions available. Needless to say I ended up buying lots of pots of honey to bring back to Hong Kong (am a sucker for a gift shop).
- In Hawkes Bay, you are spoiled for choice with wineries. We went for one of the more family friendly options, the Clearview Estate winery in Te Awanga. This is a stunning spot with vines to your left and the sparkling sea to your right. Best of all is a kids playground leaving the adults to their own playground of the tasting room…
- The Hawkes Bay Farmyard Zoo is brilliant, the exact kind of zoo young kids enjoy e.g. feeding and petting animals, pony rides and a playground. My two year old enjoyed her first pony ride or older kids can opt for horse trekking (both at extra cost).
- Take your pick from any number of beach from Waimarama to Ocean Beach. We found our own little secluded spot near the Clearview winery although my girls were a bit bemused by the lack of golden sand and the plentiful pebbles.
- We loved strawberry picking at The Strawberry Patch. Not only did we leave with a huge bag of cheap, delicious strawberries, they also sell the most delicious homemade strawberry icecreams.
Where did we eat?
- We ate both nights back at the cottage. On the first night, a rather average fish'n'chips from a takeaway joint in town and the second night with a picnic with goodies bought from the local supermarket.
- Ya Bon in Havelock North has delicious coffees and pastries – a great breakfast spot (try their brown sugar brioche)
- Amazing coffee at Bay Espresso (pick one up on your drive to Napier)


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The tier 7 Tiger P can be a difficult opponent to take down frontally if you don't know where to aim. For experienced players damaging the Tiger P once you know its weak spots is a breeze since it is peppered with weak spots. This guide for World of Tanks Tiger P weak spots breaks down the entire tank's effective armor. You'll learn where to aim and how to penetrate the Tiger P's armor with ease.
World of Tanks Tiger P Weak Spots |Video Review|
World of Tanks Tiger P Weak Spots |Frontal|
Frontally the Tiger P looks intimidating with its 200mm thick front hull value in the garage. This does give the Tiger P great protection across its front hull but doesn't fully protect it from even lower tier tanks. The turret is also disappointing for Tiger P drivers since it mostly falls below 159mm effective armor. For Tiger P drivers your best bet is to try to stay pointing directly forward since angling will expose very weak side armor.
Starting with the front hull you have a 200mm thick upper hull plate that is difficult to damage for most tanks under tier 9. The angled cheek sections that flank this area are surprisingly weak at 113mm effective armor. For the uninformed these areas typically would be avoided since they appear strong. Since they are only 80mm thick the 45 degree angle on them doesn't provide dequate protection. Moving down the front hull you have two extremely tough areas to penetrate before getting to the lower glacis. The lower glacis drops down from 200mm thick to 80mm. Again the angle on the armor doesn't improve its protection very much. The weakest area on the front hull are two small weak spots beneath the cheek areas. This armor is only 25mm thick and virtually unprotected against any foe the Tiger P faces.
Higher up on the turret you find a very complex view of the turret armor. The Tiger P's mantlet spans most of the turret front and makes it appear to be difficult to tackle. Aiming around the gun you'll find the weakest armor highlighted in yellow. Just stick to the rule of shooting areas that appear flat and are towards the center of the mantlet. Beneath the mantlet the turret ring isn't very strong either sitting at 101mm effectiveness. The edges are actually very weak since they are only 80mm thick and 88mm effective. To top of the Tiger P's armor you have a cupola that is very large and easy to damage.
While the Tiger P's armor isn't going to win any awards it is decent for a tier 7 heavy tank. What makes it easily damaged is the various weak 80mm areas you find across the front that ruin the thicker armor that works very well against tier 5-8 enemies. Tiger P drivers need to know how to cover up as many of these weak spots as possible. Meanwhile plan to come across people that know your weak spots and not to lean to hard on your armor.
World of Tanks Tiger P Weak Spots |Side|
What little armor the Tiger P has doesn't translate over to the side armor. Virtually the entire side is below 99mm effectiveness and it is easy to avoid the strong areas. Simply avoid shooting at the thick/angled portions towards the front and also the cupola edges.
World of Tanks Tiger P Weak Spots |Rear|
Compared to the side the Tiger P's rear hull is actually better protected. The lower portion of the hull is extremely weak but the angled upper hull is modestly strong. Don't expect the rear armor to deflect many rounds; but occasionally you can get one against a tier 5-6 tank.
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I am as susceptible as anyone to a fantasy. Words like "gourmet" and the name of a fancy chef flying into town were peppered throughout the email invitation. I was in: sign me up for a week of relaxing at an all-inclusive resort by the sea, eating desert fruit and fresh Caribbean seafood, and interviewing the star chef. Was this real life, I wondered, as I dug out my bathing suit from its winter hiding spot? Or was I counting my freshly caught mahi-mahi before it came anywhere near the line? The answer, I'm afraid, comes with the reality that I just now had to Google what kind of fish might be … [Read more...]
Raccoon Battles and Bowel Movements: The Fantasy of the All-Inclusive Resort
Mac and Miso: Inspiration and Failure
I broke my blog. I wasn't paying attention, and I hit update on something, and it overrode changes I'd made that do minor things. Things I'm sure other people don't even pay attention to, like whether the ads fit in their boxes or not. Whether there is a 'next post' button at the bottom of the page. My blog is broken, and while I designed it my self, I'll be honest, it was a while ago and I can't for the life of me remember how I made it work before. This was supposed to be a post about inspiration. Specifically about the chef and photographer who inspired the dish above and the photo I … [Read more...]
One Burner Bitch
One Burner Bitch is the theoretical name I came up with for my imaginary blog about the week I've had without a stove. This little guy in the picture above has been my only heat source, and I tell you what: It has made me bitchy. So first, the situation as it stands now: I would show the 'before' picture but it made me cry, so I don't want to have it hanging around the blog. Long story short? I dropped my KitchenAid mixer onto the glass top stove. It was ugly. I had bread in the oven and let that finish baking, but once we removed the broken glass, we unplugged the whole thing to avoid … [Read more...]
Carlos eats the Quadstrocity
Last night I met Carlos. He was a very cool guy and had recently (six hours prior) completed a task both ridiculous and amazing. --Side note: Guys, this is gross. Grandma, stop reading. I'll get you a nice post on a Guatemalan restaurant soon-- He ate a doubled up double down. What is that? You may have read about the Double Down--a sandwich where the bread is replaced by fried chicken, enveloping bacon and cheese. So Carlos, my new buddy over here put two together, called it the Quadstrocity and ate it. Isn't the buzz about this stupid sandwich over? You might wonder. Probably. So why am I … [Read more...]
Why Bad Food Can Be Good For You
To eat truly terrible food every once in a great while can actually be a blessing in disguise. As I unloaded my treats and treasures carried from New Orleans this weekend into my fridge last night, I gave thanks for all the great food I eat. I very rarely eat really awful food anymore. I'm not talking McDonald's French fries, to which I'm morally opposed, and which are terrible for you, but let's be honest folks, taste amazing. I'm talking food that tastes, looks and if we're on such levels, acts in such a way that you expect it to come from a child's diaper. People eat bad food for … [Read more...]
Know Your Limits
There is a reticence I feel when writing about screwing up a dish. Nobody wants to read about bad food, why would they read articles by someone who makes the same mistakes they could? So after a failure this weekend, I was hesitant to write this morning. Never-mind that I successfully made ice cream twice this weekend, my first two times (caramel and sea salt and honey-rosemary). That is not what I think about as I sit down to inform my readers out there in internet land. I can think only of my screw ups this weekend. I've long known that baking is not for me. I don't like measuring and I … [Read more...]
Gourd-Tastic, Part 2: A failed pumpkin pie
Okay, I know I should pretend I am fantastic at everything and all, but I admit it--I failed at pumpkin pie. Not directly through any fault of my own, of course. Not really.Basically I have never made a pie before and at B's suggestion, decided to try my hand at it. Using the beginner's bible (aka Mark Bittman's How to Make Everything) I followed a pretty simple recipe for flaky pre baked pie crust. Problem 1: I didn't have unsalted butter. Okay, no problem, I like salt, I omitted the salt from the recipe and used salted butter. Then I started making the filling. Problem 2: We had about half … [Read more...]


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Hope on Wheels is a cycling event in Middle Tennessee offering cyclers of all ability levels an opportunity to ride and fundraise to support those impacted with a cancer diagnosis. All abilities can ride, train and fundraise throughout the year to prepare for this landmark bike ride. 100% of participant entry fees and fundraising dollars are directed to the event beneficiary, The Minnie Pearl Cancer Foundation, a nonprofit public charity that offers one-on-one guidance to those impacted by cancer.
When: Saturday, September 10th. Check in begins at 6:30am. Ride from 8am-4:30pm.Where: Healthways World Headquarters701 Cool Springs BlvdFranklin, TNCost: Register at HOW100.orgPre-Registration Fee: $45 (until July 31st)Regular Registration Fee: $60 (after July 31st)
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Water and food stations as well as restrooms are stationed along the road approximately 10-15 miles apart. All rest stops will be stocked with water, a carbohydrate replacement drink, fruit, and snack foods. All participants are highly encouraged to have a water bottle, preferably two, on their bike as it can be quite hot in early September.
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I've hit rough terrain again, unfortunately. Before I begin I've posted the question I'm stuck on. I've solved part i but part ii involves part i, respectively.
Q: A body starts at and moves with constant acceleration for 4 metres. If it then has a velocity of find:
i) how long it will take to move the next 4 m? [A = 0.56 s]
ii) how far it will move in the next 3 seconds? [A = 36 m]
For part i of the question:
Let , and
Now, therefore,
From ,
For part ii of the question:
Let , then
I don't understand why this does not equate to 36 m? Is the initial velocity for the next 3 seconds ?


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The Obama campaign has chosen the Gekko frame to define Romney for the fall election and has staked its early advertising on it. But Howell may be an even better bet.
It is hard not to be moved by the recent Obama ads that portray Romney as a coldblooded capitalist whose company, Bain Capital, single-mindedly extracted profits from businesses regardless of the human cost. Indeed an earlier version of these ads proved powerful when Senator Ted Kennedy fended off Romney's challenge in their 1994 Senate race.
Yet as effective as these ads may have been in 1994, they may be far less so today, and they even could boomerang against the President.
In 1994 Romney was caught off-guard with these attacks on Bain, and he had no convincing reply. But he's had nearly two decades to road test a response, which he did quite effectively during the GOP primaries after Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry accused him of vulture capitalism, and he now seems fully comfortable portraying Bain critics as angry, divisive, politically motivated, and ignorant of how the private sector works.
In fact he may be willing to take a few lumps to get his message across. "Having been in the private sector for 25 years gives me a perspective on how jobs are created that someone who's never spent a day in the private sector, like President Obama, simply doesn't understand," he told Time magazine.
To independents who run from partisan anger and see themselves as economically savvy, Romney's message may resonate. And it fits with the Republican meme about Obama — that he is a liberal ideologue who's in over his head and amateurish about how to get the economy moving again. Even some Democrats cringe at the implications of Obama's attacks.
Yet Obama shouldn't shrink from questioning Romney's wealth. He only needs to fine-tune his approach a bit.
Romney is now familiar enough to most Americans that they may resist any attempt to demonize him as a political Gordon Gekko. But they are also familiar enough with his elitist mannerisms and outlook, with his various economic conceits, that portraying him as a Thurston Howell may be a far more successful strategy.
The result could be a powerful framing of Romney as an out-of-touch elitist who condescends to the rest of us and neither understands, identifies with, nor cares about the deep-seated dreams and aspirations of the American people.
Campaign strategists say that one of the most effective arrows in the political quiver is to define an opponent as "not one of us." Romney was at his weakest during the GOP primaries when he seemed like a man of privilege looking down on average Americans. That is precisely how Obama must portray him in the general election.
In a way that is far more clueless than Romney realizes, his run for the White House is driven by his conviction that he epitomizes the American Dream, that his life is a model of success to which every American aspires.
Repeatedly Romney equates prosperity with success, and he views the ability to become wealthy — to join the "millionaires and billionaires and executives and Wall Street" — as central to the American Dream. To Romney, success is all about getting rich. "Those people who have been most successful," he told Matt Lauer on the Today Show, "will be in the one percent."
When he talks about how many Cadillacs his wife drives, when he makes $10,000 bets, when he invests in tax shelters overseas, or when he builds a new seaside mansion that has an elevator for his cars, he appears to think that Americans admire him for his prosperity and want to be exactly like him. "I will not apologize for having been successful," he says.
How revealing was his recent Liberty University commencement speech, in which he describes the worldly dreams and challenges we all face as "ambitions fulfilled, ambitions disappointed … investments won, investments lost … elections won, elections lost." Ambitions, investments, elections — that's Mitt Romney, certainly not the rest of us.
The American people see life and its hopes differently. In fact many may feel put off by the idea that not being rich and having a portfolio means they haven't truly succeeded. To most Americans, success is about having a good and secure job, a home to raise their kids, the ability to enjoy free time, and the freedom never to worry about their health care or retirement needs.
Teachers may not get rich, but they feel enormous success when they inspire young people and contribute to the betterment of our country. Aerospace workers may not get rich, but their success comes through a secure job and the pride in building our next generation of airplanes. Civil engineers may not get rich, but as the brains behind our buildings and infrastructure, they feel tremendous success. The millions who work in nonprofits certainly won't get rich, but it's value of what they do that makes them feel successful.
There's a humility to the American Dream, something the super-rich like Romney don't appreciate or understand when they proclaim their success as the paradigm for us all. Americans want to do well in life, but unlike Romney, the American Dream doesn't necessarily mean focusing solely on money. The more Romney lectures us about success, the more he shows how out of touch he is.
According to the Pew Economic Mobility Project, when Americans were asked to define the American Dream, "becoming rich" was next to last among twelve factors. As the New York Times observed, Americans define "the American dream not in terms of mansions and luxury cars but as something more basic — a home, a college degree, financial security and enough left over for a few extras like dining out."
Mitt Romney is so detached from this version of the American Dream that he honestly thinks the rest of us should be grateful when rich people create jobs. Those who become rich, he says, "help make us all better off." Yet when he boasts of creating 100,000 jobs from his work at Bain Capital, which is his version of making the rest of us "better off," he neglects to say what types of jobs these were.
At Staples, Sports Authority and Domino's, the three Bain success stories Romney hails, a typical employee earns about $10 per hour, right at the poverty level for a family of four and less than one-third the median income for four-person families living in the United States.
So while Romney and his ilk get rich, the supposed beneficiaries of his economic know-how barely get a livable wage, and he thinks we should thank him for it. The more Romney brags about his ability to create jobs without mentioning the types of jobs he's created, the more he reveals how little he knows about the American Dream and the lives of Americans who don't share his privilege.
The Obama campaign should hit back at Romney and tell him that no, Americans don't envy his success, that it's not the rich but the American people through their hard work and education and sacrifice that made this country prosperous, that the American Dream is not about building mansions and owning horses and having Swiss bank accounts but rather about a good, secure and meaningful life that provides for our loved ones and doesn't fear the future.
Romney often accuses Obama of penalizing success, but the President must turn that around by showing how Democratic policies actually support the success of all Americans whereas Romney and the Republicans promote policies that benefit only the wealthiest few. It's Romney who penalizes success, Obama should argue, because from his lofty perch hobnobbing with sports team owners and private equity billionaires he really doesn't understand what most Americans want for their lives.
The President needs to make the case that a healthy private sector is necessary but not sufficient for achieving the American Dream, that Americans gain their sense of security not just through decent jobs but through popular initiatives such as Social Security, Medicare, universal health care, a good transportation system, student loans, and laws that keep workers safe and Wall Street contributing to rather than wrecking the economy.
In other words, we don't owe thanks to rich people, as Romney would have us believe. If anything, they owe us for building a society that enables some to get wealthy and most others to find contentment through their own version of what it means to succeed. Americans favor taxing those whose wallets have benefited most from our country, but this isn't about redistribution or penalizing success — it's about paying for the policies that support our American Dream.
So go ahead and make your money, Mitt Romney, but it wasn't solely on your own that you earned your riches — it was from standing on the shoulders of the American people and the society we've built. And stop patronizing us by saying that the wealthiest are the most successful in America. Yes, you may be successful, but guess what? In our own way the rest of us are too. We just define it differently from you.
Karl Rove often says that the best political campaign is one that goes after its opponent's strengths, not weaknesses. Mitt Romney sees his version of success as the strength of his candidacy. If framed correctly, it actually could turn into his biggest weakness.
This article has also been published in The Huffington Post.
A former speechwriter and strategist for causes, candidates, and members of Congress, Leonard Steinhorn has written on American politics and culture for major newspapers and magazines, and is currently the director of the Public Communications department at American University.