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After Excel has been updated in 2016, you need to follow these 3 steps before running an add-in:
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Regular truck show goer Steve Jackman, who runs SJ Commercial Services Limited in Lancashire, attends many shows across the UK but it's this one he is looking forward to the most. "It's a good show, the family love it, and there are all sorts of things going on. It's got that personal touch, that's what we love about it," he said.
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It's been a long time since I last posted here, mostly because I've become ridiculously swamped by annoying things like 'work' and 'education' (fatuous, empty pursuits that they are). But I've been sitting on this one for a while – a brief list of some interesting Coptic blogs. I've been putting off publishing it because I keep stumbling across yet other great Coptic blogs, but I can always do a follow up post later with some more. So here, for your enjoyment, is a brief (and far from comprehensive) tour of the Coptic Blogosphere:
What happens when you take an ancient Christian community like the Copts and sprinkle its population in countries which are entirely alien (culturally, linguistically, socially, religiously) to its two-thousand year history? Do the Copts form an impenetrable bubble, draw themselves in and cut themselves off from the evil forces of the strange, new world around it? Sadly, sometimes the answer is yes, and the result is a community which is strong as iron internally, but totally incapable of speaking to the world around it. The bubble becomes a tomb. But the Copts would never have survived 2000 years if they didn't possess something stronger than the winds of cultural change; we clearly have something which can withstand even the most violent and hostile intellectual and cultural environments. I don't just mean that Copts are able to survive radical cultural changes by retreating into bunkers; I mean that no matter where you place them, they will find that they have something to say to the culture around them which is relevant and important. And that is no small feat for a two-thousand year old community that has its roots in a time when the Roman Emperor still ruled Egypt and the main alternative to Christianity was not atheism, but paganism.
The best evidence for this is the 'Coptic blogosphere'. In this post, I've collected a sample (by no means comprehensive) of some of the most interesting and informative Coptic blogs from around the world. I am bound to have missed some good ones though, so please put forward any that I have missed (either your own or blogs that you like) in the comments. I should note that because I've limited myself to Coptic blogs here, I've left out all the really fantastic blogs from the wider Orthodox world, which would require another post altogether. I'm also immensely proud to point out that there is an equal number of male and female bloggers in the list that follows. So without further ado, here is my whirlwind tour of the Coptic Blogosphere – for each blog, I've included one post which I think sums up why their blog is worth reading:
Fr Antonios Kaldas' Blog – (http://www.frantonios.org.au)
Fr. Antonios is a Coptic priest in Sydney, currently studying Philosophy (not at a theological college, but an entirely secular university). His blog plays host to musings on many and varied topics: practical spirituality, philosophy, theology, patristics, Coptic history, and the day-to-day experience of being a parish priest.
(PS: Once again, those who know me may suspect that something fishy is going on here, but I assure you that I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about, and really wish you would stop bringing it up.)
Exemplar Post: A New (Old) Take on Repentance
Stupidity and Humility (http://stupidityandhumility.blogspot.com.au)
This is the blog of Martha Farag, an undergraduate Philosophy and Psychology student at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Her posts are always honest, punchy and insightful. They also tend to be concise (which my posts almost never are). I also owe Martha special thanks for leading me to some of the other blogs on this list.
Exemplar Post: Misunderstanding and Inner Peace
Doxa – (http://macariusmichael.blogspot.ca)
This blog by Canadian Copt Mike Daoud features translations of some of the most beautiful expressions of 20th century Orthodox monasticism. Young English-speaking Copts may well have heard of Fr. Matthew the Poor and Pope Kyrillos VI, but if they cannot read Arabic, will never have the experience of actually reading the words of these insightful and heartfelt giants of modern Coptic Orthodoxy. There are many valuable texts here that can be found in English nowhere else except this blog.
Exemplar Post: A Strange Thing Took Place, from The Life of Fr. Benyamin the Hermit (This is an interesting, and rather funny anecdote about the late Pope Kyrillos VI from a biography of a Fr. Benyamin).
Practical Orthodoxy – Truth for Everyday Life (http://practicalorthodoxy.blogspot.co.uk)
This blog belongs to Donna Rizk, a youth servant in Anba Angaelos' Stevenage diocese, which means that her posts are often tinged with a practical concern for youth ministry. She has a particular interest in Apologetics, which strikes a special chord with me given the very fun apologetics meetings my parish has been running for the last few years in Sydney.
Exemplar Post: Apologetics … what?
Agape – Living Orthodox Theology (http://livingorthodoxtheology.blogspot.com.au)
This is the blog of Bavly Kost, a theology student who spent some time studying at the legendary St. Vladimir's Seminary. Like Mike Daoud, Bavly's blog features a lot of content from the 20th century monastic revival in the Coptic Church, particularly that of Fr. Matthew the Poor. Bavly often connects this in interesting and practical ways to the youth ministry of Copts in Western countries.
Exemplar Post: Woe to the Church
Practical Orthodox Spirituality (http://returnorthodoxy.blogspot.com.au)
Raymond Melika blogs here, and his posts cover a stunning range of topics. He has a wonderful ability to make the life and teachings of the Early Church relevant to the modern world which Western Copts inhabit. If you're interested in how the teachings of ancient Eastern Christianity relate to the New Atheists, existentialism and Protestant debates on faith and works, then Ray's blog is well worth your time.
Exemplar Post: Mystery and Meaning
I Shall Hope – The Story of a Fallen Daughter of the King (http://ishallhope.wordpress.com)
This is blog by medical student Veronica Azmy is still fairly new, but I've immensely enjoyed the first few posts she's put out (even though her posts seem largely geared towards girls). Even as a male , I can appreciate that Veronica's posts represent a powerful, Christian corrective to the damaging expectations and assumptions laid upon young women in Western culture.
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June 02, 2007
Last Weekend
We took a stroll through Guadalcanal Village with our friend Sally and her workbud (now our friend too, hey!) Linda. The place isn't open to the public. It's a CalTrans mitigation site, a former patch of housing on the Mare Island navy base being turned back to tidal marsh. Sally has been photographing it for a few years now, and has official permssion to be there; she got permission for us too.
The place is engagingly off-color.
By that I mean just a little spectrum-challenged.
It's the chemistry of the place -- not all toxic, just... tidal marsh and associated strangeness.
Talk about yer sea change.
Part of it is the intersection of fresh and salt waters.
Part of it's, well, I don't know what the hell it is. Not particularly an industrial site, as far as I know. But there's some strangeness in the waters
just a bit beyond the usual saltmarsh parameters.
If you look close, you get those colorful denizens too.
And some of its inhabitants are perfectly normal; they just look Martian in this place, like this purslane.
That's a common garden weed, edible (tasty, IMO) and evidently tough as all hell.
The place has that life-and-death thing going on,
that old slow dance,
and some of that's just a matter of seasons
or tides.
We had the place pretty much to ourselves, except for a couple of brief incursions: science
and commerce.
Lots of birds too, but I'll have to do some cropping to make any of them visible.
Thanks, Sally!Posted at June 2, 2007 04:55 AM
You're welcome, Ron. It was a kick, going out there with you, Joe, and Linda. You're right, it's not industrial, not commercial, but also not pristine, a weird mix of. . .returning back to nature?
I've been photographing Guadalcanal Village now for several years, always thinking it can't offer much more to photograph but it does.
More photos of GV can be seen on my website (http://www.sallymack.us) under "Wetlands" and my most recent ones under "Exhibits".
Posted by: Sally at June 2, 2007 04:42 PM
Very interesting, very cool. I like how that odd, rusty palette you mention is evident in every shot, even in the red-painted boat and the artificially redheaded young scientist's hair.
Thanks for the tour!
Posted by: Sara at June 4, 2007 08:22 PM
so fascinating.
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The House Law and Justice Committee today approved legislation by state Rep. Peter Lucido seeking to protect children from criminals with multiple abuse violations.
"All forms of repeated child abuse are despicable and should be treated with increasing penalties," said Lucido, vice chair of the Law and Justice Committee. "We have to protect our future and most precious citizens better. This will do that by putting the people who are reckless over and over again someplace where they can't hurt kids."
House Bill 4486 strengthens penalties starting with a second conviction, expanding possible prison time up to five years for a third-degree offense and two years for a fourth-degree violation. Current law allows for two-year and one-year sentences for respective convictions.
A third-degree violation occurs when an individual "knowingly or intentionally" causes a child to be harmed, while a fourth-degree infraction involves reckless actions that leads to the physical harm. Under Lucido's legislation, any prior child abuse conviction – regardless of degree – counts as a repeat violation and qualifies for more strict sentencing.
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Manchester, April 16: Manchester City have been champions-elect for much of the Premier League season and their title triumph was finally confirmed on Sunday (April 15).
City's 3-1 win at Wembley against Tottenham on Saturday (April 14) meant Manchester United had to avoid defeat at home to West Brom to keep their slim hopes alive.
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After such a long and arduous summer, most folks welcome winter's chill. Unfortunately, with the cold come shorter days and longer, darker nights, triggering what is commonly known as "seasonal depression" in many people. If someone just can't let summer go, they need only remember that winter, at least in the South, is for the birds. Song birds … [Read more...]
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As the temperatures drop and leaves begin to fall, the frosty joys of the season require a whole new set of gardening skills. Any of your container plants still outside after summer's end will need to be moved inside before nighttime temperatures begin consistently dipping below 45 degrees if they are to survive. First move your plants into a … [Read more...]
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Monday, April 25, 2011
Oh, where is this country drive?
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WOW! Now, that's my kind of drive! I love going for long drives in the country...so much to see and it's a great way to just clear your mind!ReplyDelete
So beautiful....I wish we had a car when we lived there, I think we missed a lot of beauty! Gorgeous shots!ReplyDelete
Amazingly beautiful scenes, May! I do love living here in Germany. Such a wonderful opportunity to see more of the country than you ever dreamed possible.ReplyDelete
Wow, it looks so pretty and serene. Definitely a place to put on my list of places to visit! Beautiful photos!ReplyDelete
What cool shots of your countryside. Love that first one.ReplyDelete
Oh May! I love your drive in the country! The pictures are so beautiful! What a wonderful world we live in! So glad you are a part of Communal Global!ReplyDelete
Fabulous shots. I adore that first one. It's amazing.ReplyDelete
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These are so beautiful! It makes me want to hop in a car (not that I have one!) and go for a drive in the country! Thanks for wetting my appetite for a scenic drive!ReplyDelete
Tamar - linking up with CG!
I love seeing Germany through your eyes. :) We pretty much drove around everywhere during our trip through southern Germany and we loved it! Of course, that was when gas prices were nowhere near what they are now! :)ReplyDelete
beautiful shots, May! I didnt know abt commune global ...sounds like a cool concept!ReplyDelete
Country drives in Germany and The Netherlands is my favorite! you can see all types of beautiful scenery..be it homes,animals,flowers or open spaces. LOVE these photos May :)ReplyDelete


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Tonight, get retro at Lakefront Arena with Vanilla Ice and friends or check out AD and the Birds at the other arena. If you're looking for local music, check out some brass on Frenchmen or Colin Lake in the Quarter. On this day in 1811, five men were selected to draft a new Louisiana constitution. Now, more to do this Friday.
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Steve Gunn is visiting Uptown tonight, but across the city, there is plenty of opportunity to check out NOLA jazz, indie rock, end even some comedy. On this day in 1964, Louis Armstrong hit the top of the album chart with Hello, Dolly!. Find those dancing shoes and get ready for more tonight.
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President Obama's eulogy for Reverend Clementa Pinckney
Earlier today President Barack Obama, aka Preacher in Chief, aka Reverend President gave the eulogy for Reverend Clementa Pinckney in front of thousands of mourners at the College of Charleston's TD Arena.
Reverend Pinckney was one of nine Mother Emanuel AME Church members who were murdered during bible study last Wednesday June 17, 2015.
CHARLESTON, S.C. — President Obama in remembering the life of slain pastor Rev. Clementa Pinckney delivered an impassioned call on Friday for unity and racial understanding. Thousands of people packed an arena at the College of Charleston to pay their respects to Pinckney who was killed with eight other worshippers at the historic Emanuel AME Church. Obama played to the role of both pastor and president during his eulogy, leading the crowd in a loud and joyful rendition of "Amazing Grace." "Blinded by hatred, the alleged killer would not see the grace surrounding Reverend Pinckney and that Bible study group, the light of love that shown as they opened the church doors and invited a stranger to join in their prayer circle," Obama said of the killings in which a 21-year-old man, Dylann Roof, apparently motivated by racial hatred, is alleged to have killed nine black worshippers during a Wednesday night Bible study. "The alleged killer could have never anticipated the way the families of the fallen would respond when they saw him in court in the midst of unspeakable grief, with words of forgiveness. He couldn't imagine that."
Funeral services for Ethel Lance and Sharonda Coleman-Singleton were held yesterday.
I saw the the entire service on C-SPAN. Didn't want any commercial interruptions or news anchors running their mouths during the service. President Obama gave a fantastic eulogy. I felt like I was back in church for the first time in years.
During the latter part of the eulogy President Obama broke out into his version of Amazing Grace.
Rest in Peace Reverend Clementa Pinckney. And rest in peace to Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, Depayne Middleton Doctor, Cynthia Hurd, Susie Jackson, Ethel Lance, Tywanza Sanders, Reverend Daniel Simmons and Myra Thompson.
You're In My House says President Barack Obama
President Obama had to give a presidential smackdown to a heckler during a White House event honoring the LGBT community.
He should have added "Don't start none, won't be none."
Alright Mr. President 🙂
President Obama gets his own Twitter account
Earlier today I noticed a headline in twitter that President Obama now has his own Twitter account.
So I decided to check it out and there it was. The first time I checked he just had one tweet.
Later on there were three tweets. One interesting tweet was with former President Bill Clinton.
FLOTUS could be former President Clinton. Oh well I won't go there right now. Just saying.
Anyway I also noticed how fast President Obama has gained followers. This morning when I first saw his account he had just under 100,000 followers. Right now as I'm blogging he has over 1.3 million followers. Damn he has a fast growing account. I guess by tomorrow morning that could grow to over 2 million followers. Welcome to Twitter Mr. President.
President Obama brings out his anger translator Luther
Last night at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, also called the Nerd Prom, President Barack Obama brought out his anger translator Luther. Luther is Keegan-Michael Key from the Comedy Central series Key and Peele.
President Barack Obama knew he might need some help to get his points across at this year's White House Correspondents' Dinner, so he brought in his anger translator Luther to make his message more clear.
Luther, whom fans might recognize as Keegan-Michael Key from the Comedy Central series "Key & Peele," helped Obama speak on climate change and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign.
And check out this video relating to the November 2012 election victory.
President Obama's ice cream conspiracy
President Obama spent some time in Bar Harbor, Maine last weekend with his family. Well apparently the Obamas choice of where to get some ice cream caused quite a stir amongst the right wing blogosphere. The name of the ice cream shop is Mount Desert Island Ice Cream. The logo outside the shop features a upright black fist clenching a spoon.
To some this logo resembles the black power symbol from the 1960's. Mount Desert is owned by a white woman named Linda Parker. With a state that has a black population of 1%, I doubt that this white woman is trying to overthrow the white race and the state of Maine.
Blogosphere goes bananas over 'black power' sundaes
'It's just ice cream,' says Mount Desert Island business owner
By Bill Trotter
BDN Staff
BAR HARBOR, Maine — Black Power Ice Cream?
Linda Parker never contemplated this name for her business, opting instead for the less provocative "Mount Desert Island Ice Cream" when she started making her cold confections in 2005.
The company boasts "fearless flavor" as its motto, but with varieties such as Mexican chocolate, blueberry basil and stout, her customers are more likely to encounter a Fig Newton at her business than they are Huey Newton.
Never mind that the former Black Panther leader died more than 20 years ago. The reason all this has come up is that Parker's customers this past weekend included President Barack Obama and his family, who stopped in for some cones one afternoon during a whirlwind two-day family vacation on MDI. Photos of the impromptu visit were taken and posted online, where several bloggers noticed that the shop's logo of an upright black fist clenching a spoon resembles the clenched black fist that was adopted as a black power symbol in the 1960s.
Even Linda Parker thought the outrage over President Obama's visit was crazy.
Parker said she and her husband first saw the blog posts on Saturday, the day after Obama's visit to her shop. She said the notion that the president, who ordered coconut ice cream, used her small-town ice cream shop to demonstrate allegiance to the black power movement is absurd.
"It just seemed really hilarious to us," Parker said. "All I'm doing is getting up, making ice cream, and going to bed. That's all I do all summer. No time for radical insurgency."
President Obama ordered a coconut flavored ice cream. Can you imagine the outrage if he had ordered black walnut or even chocolate? Fox News, Andrew Breitbart, Rush and the rest of the right-wing lunatic fringe would be hyperventilating.
Valerie Jarrett: President Obama's BFF
New York Times Magazine has an interesting article about Valerie Jarrett. She's President Barack Obama's Senior Advisor to the President and Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Relations and Public Liaison.
The Ultimate Obama Insider
By ROBERT DRAPER
On Jan. 25, 2008, the day before the South Carolina Democratic primary, Barack Obama endured a grueling succession of campaign events across the state. When his staff informed him that the evening would conclude with a brief show-up at the Pink Ice Ball, a gala for the African-American sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha, Obama flatly refused to attend. "I've been to sorority events before," he said. "We're not gonna change anybody's mind."
Rick Wade, a senior adviser, Stacey Brayboy, the state campaign manager, and Anton Gunn, the state political director, took turns beseeching their boss. The gala, they told Obama, would be attended by more than 2,000 college-educated African-American women, a constituent group that was originally skeptical of the candidate's "blackness" and that the campaign worked tirelessly to wrest from Hillary Clinton. State luminaries like Representative James Clyburn — himself an undeclared black voter — would be expecting him. They would be in and out in five minutes.
Obama's irritation grew. "Man, it's late, I'm tired," he snapped. "I'm not going to any sorority event."
The three staff members knew what their only option was at this point. "If you want him to do something," Gunn would later tell me, "there are two people he's not going to say no to: Valerie Jarrett and Michelle Obama."
At the day's penultimate event, a rally in Columbia, Gunn, Brayboy and Wade pleaded their case to Jarrett, the Obamas' longtime friend and consigliere. When they were finished, Jarrett told them, "We can make that happen," as Gunn would recall it. Jarrett informed Michelle of the situation, and when the candidate stepped offstage from the rally, Obama's wife told him he had one last stop to make before they called it a night.
Check out the entire magazine article at the New York Times.
President Barack Obama and fatherhood
President Barack Obama graces the cover of today's edition of Parade Magazine with his daughters Malia and Sasha.
President Obama talks about how much fatherhood is important to him when it comes to his two daughters and how many fathers need to step up to the plate and spend more time in their childrens lives.
'We Need Fathers To Step Up'
by President Barack Obama
Two days before the inauguration, PARADE published a letter from Barack Obama to his daughters about what he hoped for them and all the children of America. The letter attracted international attention. On this Father's Day, we asked the President to reflect on what fatherhood means to him.
[Get the story behind the story from PARADE Editor Janice Kaplan.]
As the father of two young girls who have shown such poise, humor, and patience in the unconventional life into which they have been thrust, I mark this Father's Day—our first in the White House—with a deep sense of gratitude. One of the greatest benefits of being President is that I now live right above the office. I see my girls off to school nearly every morning and have dinner with them nearly every night. It is a welcome change after so many years out on the campaign trail and commuting between Chicago and Capitol Hill.
But I observe this Father's Day not just as a father grateful to be present in my daughters' lives but also as a son who grew up without a father in my own life. My father left my family when I was 2 years old, and I knew him mainly from the letters he wrote and the stories my family told. And while I was lucky to have two wonderful grandparents who poured everything they had into helping my mother raise my sister and me, I still felt the weight of his absence throughout my childhood.
As an adult, working as a community organizer and later as a legislator, I would often walk through the streets of Chicago's South Side and see boys marked by that same absence—boys without supervision or direction or anyone to help them as they struggled to grow into men. I identified with their frustration and disengagement—with their sense of having been let down.
In many ways, I came to understand the importance of fatherhood through its absence—both in my life and in the lives of others. I came to understand that the hole a man leaves when he abandons his responsibility to his children is one that no government can fill. We can do everything possible to provide good jobs and good schools and safe streets for our kids, but it will never be enough to fully make up the difference.
That is why we need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise one.
Read the entire article at Parade Magazine.com and check out the Obama family photo album.
Happy Father's Day
Good morning and Happy Father's Day to all the dads, granddads and other father like folks out there. Hope you all have a great day.
Father's Day doesn't receive all the hype and hoopla that Mother's Day receives but fatherhood is still important in our society. According to the History Channel the first known celebration of Father's Day occurred on July 5, 1908.
The first known celebration of Father's Day was on July 5, 1908 in Fairmont, West Virginia, where it was commemorated at William Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church South – now known as Central United Methodist Church. Grace Golden Clayton is believed to have suggested it to her pastor after a deadly explosion in nearby Monongah in December, killing 361 men.
It was also during a sermon in 1909 that Sonora Smart Dodd became inspired by Mother's Day. After the death of her mother, Sonora and her siblings were raised by their father William Jackson Smart, a Civil War veteran. Sonora wanted to show how thankful she was to her father and, because William was born in June, she worked to have the first Father's Day celebrated on June 19, 1910.
In 1924, President Coolidge recommended that Father's Day become a national holiday. President Johnson designated the third Sunday of June to be Father's Day in 1966. It was not until 1972 that President Nixon instituted Father's Day as a national observance.
Did You Know – Roses are the official flower on Father's Day, red for fathers who were still living and white for those who have passed on.
Check out History.com for more information about Father's Day.
On Friday President Barack Obama held a national day of conversation about fatherhood and personal responsibility.
Famous and not so famous fathers mentored youth throughout Washington, D.C. area on Friday at the request of President Obama.
First Father Knows Best: Famed Dads Mentor Youth
By Dan Zak
Washington Post Staff Writer
The students of Ballou Senior High School's automotive technology program can thank Barack Obama's absent father for their current predicament: getting rapped at by Darryl McDaniels of Run-DMC, who's mixing rhyme and reason about being a good man and finding significance in one's life. He and a dozen male students are sitting in the program's auto shop in Southeast yesterday afternoon, sheltered from the first truly sunny day in recent memory.
"I didn't come here to be a famous rap dude," says McDaniels, standing in front of a hydraulic brake demonstrator across from three busted-up cars on hydraulic lifts. "I didn't come here to be the king of rock. If [Run-DMC] didn't do what we did, there would be no hip-hop."
The students consider this theory.
McDaniels ponders his example more deeply, saying: "What I represent is purpose and destiny. . . . Don't let anyone tell you you can't do it. . . . I was like y'all, a school kid growing up in the 'hood. . . . And I became not just a rapper but one of the greatest ever to do it. And the reason it happened was because I took every opportunity."
Former Pittsburgh Steelers coach Bill Cowher sits nearby, silently, in a beige suit and blue oxford shirt, next to the diagram of a multi-part fuel-injection trainer. His mustache won't say whether he's smiling.
The Super Bowl champion and one-third of the legendary hip-hop group were in the garage as part of President Obama's national day of conversation about fatherhood and personal responsibility. Father's Day is tomorrow, and Obama — whose father's absence shaped his life and inspired a best-selling book — deployed famous and semi-famous men to eight sites in the Washington area to interact with nonprofit organizations that focus on youth mentorship. Obama visited one such group in Arlington yesterday morning before heading back to the White House for a town-hall meeting on fatherhood and a mentoring session with young men on the South Lawn.
You can read the entire Washington Post article here.
PETA, President Obama and the fly
PETA is at it again. President Barack Obama had an interview on CNBC at the White House on Tuesday. A fly was buzzing around the president, he swatted the pesky fly and killed it. Well PETA was a little upset over the president's fly killing skills.
PETA bugged by President Obama's fly swatting
BY Michael Saul
President Obama's impressive fly-swatting prowess has left the nation's insect-loving militants both bugged and buzzing.
"Swatting a fly on TV indicates that he's not perfect," Bruce Friedrich, vice president for policy at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), told the Daily News Thursday.
Swatting a fly means the fly better get lost or the fly will get killed. I own a flyswatter and I will use it 😉
"President Obama is not the Buddha. He is human like the rest of us," Friedrich said. "But human beings often don't think before we act, and, so people swat flies and far worse."
We don't think before we act? For a damn fly? Like I said, I own a flyswatter and I will use it.
During an interview with CNBC at the White House on Tuesday, a fly buzzed around the nation's commander in chief.
"Hey, get out of here," the president playfully ordered the insect. When the fly didn't buzz off, Obama exhibited a talent not previously seen by the American public.` He patiently waited for the fly to settle.
He slowly raised his hand. His eyes cast downward, carefully tracking the fly's movement. The look on his face suggested serious, deep concentration. And, then, he smacked the fly dead in a single try.
"Nice!" CNBC's John Harwood exclaimed. "Now, where were we?" Obama asked Harwood.
When he realized onlookers were slightly awed by the quick kill, Obama said,
"That was pretty impressive, wasn't it? I got the sucker."
PETA praised the president and First Lady Michelle Obama for their record on animals, such as opposing factory farming and the Canadian seal hunt while in the Senate.
But the fly swatting was a definite mistake, albeit a small one, Friedrich argued.
PETA is sending Obama a bug catching device, which allows people to capture insects and set them free.
"It's not a huge deal. One might even call it a non-story. But if the media wants to talk about fly-swatting, we'll talk about compassion, even for flies."
The White House is declining to comment.
No word yet on funeral arrangements.
Check out President Obama's fly killing skills here at the New York Daily News.
If I see a fly buzzing around me, I will kill it. And I dare PETA to do something about it.
But I love people with black skin
So says Diane Black, the Tennessee Republican state senator whose legislative aide Sherri Goforth sent out an email showing President Barack Obama looking like a spook.
You see, Sherri Goforth sent an email showing images of all the presidents of the United States. According to the Los Angeles Times:
She did it by sending out an e-mail with images of all the presidents of the United States, with Barack Obama depicted below in the bottom right hand corner only as a pair of bright white eyes on a black background. Sort of like a ghost. But between just us, probably more like a spook. And for those not steeped in quaint Southern terminology for blacks, "spook" was once (an apparently still is) a popular slur.
The Los Angeles Times article also mentions the following:
Her boss, who reprimanded her, is emphasizing that she had nothing to do with it. The senator says she has always been a friend to "people with black skin."
I feel much better now 😦
According to the Nashville Scene Diane Black has done plenty for black folks:
"It absolutely does not reflect any of my beliefs," she says of the email that her staffer sent on a state computer to a bunch of her Republican buddies. "This is, believe me, not at all anything having to do with being derogatory toward someone in a minority."
In fact, Black says, she's "reached out to people all over this world" as a nurse. As evidence of her racist-free heart, she cites her trips to Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Guatemala. She went deep into the jungles of Guatemala like a great white bwana to help babies.
"I spent time in Haiti during the time of Aristide working with people with black skin who needed medical help," she says. And if that's not enough, her family once hosted a Brazilian exchange student in their home. Wow!
And what about Goforth? She said she sent the email to the wrong list of people. So apparently there was right list of people to send the email to but she hit the wrong button. Go figure. Anyway after backtracking on that wrong list comment Ms. Goforth issued another apology:
"I want to offer my deepest apology regarding the offensive nature of the email forwarded to several of my colleagues. I also want to make it clear that it was forwarded to me from an acquaintance with absolutely no political party ties and who is outside the Tennessee Capitol Hill arena. I should have deleted it upon receipt. Again, I am deeply sorry and offer a sincere apology to anyone offended."
Makes your head spin, don't it? I mean Rusty DePass basically calls First Lady Michelle Obama a gorilla and now this. So who will be the next person to act a fool and show their true colors.
As Mary C. Curtis over at Politics Daily states:
Lindsey Graham, one of South Carolina's U.S. senators, has said he is "deeply troubled" by comments about race made by Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
So Senator Graham, since statements that speak of the need for diversity on the bench upset you, I know you'll be demanding a clear apology from DePass – a South Carolina colleague — for his comments comparing the First Lady of the United States to an animal.
Is Senator Graham deeply troubled by Rusty DePass's gorilla comments?
Yes folks we are certainly living in a post racial society.


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Caution: nethunter can swallow up large amounts of valuable time. Only use it if you have time to spare and don't mind hacking (as in close to the true sense of the word) in order to fix issues that arise. Having reached a stable state now, I will think twice about changing anything anytime soon!
I've used nethunter for fun stuff on my oneplus One for around a year now. There were a very small number of minor niggles that annoyed me a little, but that I chose to just live with, and everything was fine. The user interface wasn't amazing, but the tools mostly worked as intended. It was awesome, running on CM 11 and nethunter 2.x. BDFProxy did what it said on the tin, BEeF worked nicely with MITMProxy injecting hooks, I could run vulnerability scans with openVAS, and it generally rocked my world. The Swiss army knife for ethical hackers and script kiddies alike.
Around January this year I spotted that a new version of nethunter had been released, and I was pretty excited. As soon as I was able to, I followed the upgrade instructions on the nethunter site through CM 12 and installed nethunter 3.0. Things have been far less awesome since then. I'll describe some of the issues and then the resolution at the end of this post.
Issue number 1: drivedroid just stopped working. Drivedroid is great because it allows you to host an ISO or other disk image from your phone, over a USB cable and make it appear as though it is a CD drive, writeable USB stick, or read only USB. It's amazing knowing that you can boot into tails, kali, DEFT, or any other favourite live CD distro or tool of your choosing, even konboot. With CM12, none of this worked. In CM 13 it does.
Issue number 2: The phone crashed randomly and frequently. It could happen overnight while I was asleep, meaning that my alarm wouldn't go off. It could happen when I disabled WiFi tethering. Rebooting the phone would sometimes fix, but sometimes required 3 or 4 reboots. Clearing the cache would increase the chance of success but was still not full-proof. CM 13 fixed this.
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October 31 1990: It's about just after 12 midnight and I''m staring at my bedroom entrance, listening and observing to see if any one is awake down stairs. The darkness is so creepy and the small beams of light coming through my window make the darkness all that more freaky. It's going to be Halloween in the morning and I will have to plead with my mother to go out with Ramona to 'Trick or treat'. The shadows move and sway inviting me to come and play and although I've obliged to the many a times before, tonight is the night where supposedly bad things can happen. I can see the whiteness of the skirting boards just breaking the darkness and I can barely make out the chair and its arm. Laying in my bed, on my belly my arms are holding up my head as they crossed together under my pillow. I feel scared, but excited and want to have a reason to leave my bed. My mum's bedroom is directly beneath mine so I don't want to come out of bed to heavy, else she'd wake up and stop me from what I am about to do. Looking back towards the door, I slowly stretch out my right leg extending it slowly to the ladder of my bunk bed. Eyes still fixed on the doorway, pushing myself backwards with my arms I glide down my mattress and my left leg now connects to the ladder. My head covered with my duvet, I stop under it hoping once I take it off my mum hasn't miraculously walked up the stairs in silence and is watching me or even worse some sort of scary looking goat (I've always disliked goats and sheep). Swinging my right hand over my head I unveil myself from the duvet, jump down and into the passage, because everyone know the quicker you do things in the dark the safer you are.
I turn on the light switch, and the red glow of the bulb illuminates me (Why my mum chose to have a red light bulb, still bemuses me). I go into the bath room for a sharp object and sitting in the light I pick and prod and my wart on my left hand trying to get it of. The blood begins to flow and I dig in deeper to the roots. Flicking the sharp pointy object my mother uses for her nails, the wart slowly peal back and I pick it off. I hate the thing. I went to bed shortly after.
The morning of Halloween and Ramona has left for school already. I'm dressed as a skeleton and my mum smiles at me, with that same hope she had in her eyes in 'Woolworths' but she seems happy. Meadow is in his pram and I have a sudden urge to slap his peanut shaped face, but don't. I walk to school with my mum, with my plan.
"Hey Rogue, you alright?" Ricard welcomes me and I know from this day we will be some what friends, real friends. He can be part of my plan.
"Yeah." Turning around I wave and say bye to my mum and walk with Ricard to the class room. "Wanna come somewhere with me?" I ask him with my plan all set out. I mean what could go wrong apart from everything going right?
"Where?" he asks me, slowing his pace and looking at me as to know I have something devious in mind.
"We're gonna go to my old school, to Daubeny. And well... I am gonna get my friends to come out and play too." The plan was great, it had no flaws, nothing was going to go wrong. All we have to do is not go into class and be seen my any of the teachers. Wednesday is a maths day, so we won't be in Simba's class. Making my way to the toilets before our class I notice the 'Short wearing teacher' and is stupid looking strapped on glasses. He looks at Ricard and myself but did he notice it was us? Did he even care? Had he said anything I know something would have kicked off again cause my blood has already started to boil.
"How are we gonna get there? To your old school Roe?" sitting on the bench trying to hide in the coats Ricard has no idea of what my plans are. I would have thought someone like him would be more cunning, obviously not.
"We have to walk, I don't get the bus to school any more, so I don't have money" I lied a little. "Well I do but it's for teas at play-centre." I quickly add. Bus fare for children was about 30 pence, I had £1. That meant I had to give up a cake or something, forget that, walking was our best option and was already part of my plan.
"Ok!" He says with some hope lost in his eyes for bus fare. Well it seemed that way.
So after telling Ricard how we were going to get to Daubeny, we waited for all the children and teacher to get to their final destinations for the morning sessions. Still in the toilets we both hide behind the coat. Watching him, the little rat, I tell him to wear someone else's coat and look for a better pair of jeans in the spears basket. He looks like a rugger muffin and it's not a nice look.
We creep down the stairs and bend down passed the receptionist. Running towards the gates and hear an adult shout. Shit we've been caught. Both of us stop in our tracks and turn around, thank the gods the teacher was shouting out to another child in the play ground Hut classes. Out of the gates we slip, run down the road, cross the zebra crossing and now we have to start walking cool, clam and collected like we're doing nothing wrong.
Now I don't know how I know the way to Daubeny, but like a homing pigeon, crossed bred with a blood hound I sniff my way. Walking passed Ricard's council estate, he tells me to say to any one he may know, that we have been asked to go to the shops for a teacher. No, I had already planned to say the fire alarm had gone off and we had to leave the school, my plans always work. So I stuck to my plan and told him so. The world seems much more larger than what it normally does when I'm out and about with my mother. The builders seem to touch the heaven and all the adults are staring at us. Good thing we don't have a school uniform otherwise we'd be clocked for sure. We had to pass a police station on the way but luckily Ricard knew a back route for us to take so we weren't seen. They would have taken us back to school and for sure I would get the blame. Getting closer to where I need to be with my little follower, we are at the hill that leads down to Daubeny. I begin to run and see Annah's mum walking from the shops.
"Roe what are you doing around here, I thought you had left Daubeny darling?" Although I want to stop and say 'Hi' to Annah's mum I know if I do, I'd risk the chance of telling her my plan and she'd try and stop me. Ricard and I keep running, I tell him who she was and that I miss my old school. He lacks behind.
Getting to the corner of the school, I slow down. The gates are open and I knew this cause the school keeper didn't lock them till after the first 'Play time" for the late comers. Tall old building of mine I wish I had not left, please take me back. So thinking to myself once I get in the school I'll go back to my old class and then hopefully be able to sit down and be with Stewart, Cemal, Jerome and Jags again. We walk passed the school keepers house and a flash memory of me eating ants in the sun washes over me. Ricard stops walking behind me. "Come n you pussy!" I whisper shout at him.
"No, I'm going back." He shouts back at me. Not wanting a teacher to come out and see the both of us there, I run through the toilets where I first saw my first crimson rain and leave him to his own devices. I haven't got time to ponder on his feelings at this point. I just want my Stewart back.
Walking up the dusty smelling corridors and looking at the red border paint that went along the walls, I get excited, so excited a loud 'Ha' escapes my mouth and echos the staircase. I stop, hoping that not a soul had heard. Continuing up the case, I stop at the middle hall to where my class would have been, had I not been transfered. I walk slowly to the door and look through the window, my eyes begin to well up and the tears I don't even want to hold back. I can see them all, all of them in one class and at the front is Stewart. His eyes seemingly soulless look as though the soul really had gone, Cemal smile was now a stern and anger stone worked figure. Jerome is with a boy I don't know and seems to have moved on, Dee and her clone Contentina sharing bubble gum under the table, but where is Jags? The teacher writes on the chalk board with her back towards the class, and although it seems as though she has them under control really, they are sitting being even more rebellious. They aren't even attempting to listen to what she's saying.
"Oh my god, Rogue!, what are you doing here?" Turning around to see a more filled out Jags I gasp and want to through my hands round him, but something seems different, stranger. He's now a stranger to me.
"Erm... I came to visit you lot." I say, knowing that maybe now it was a bad choice to bunk-off off school and risk getting into trouble again.
Looking at me oddly Jags goes on to say "Well we're all in class now. You should of come at break time. Thats why I went..." Being interrupted by voice behind him I look at the tall dark man.
"What are you two doing out of class." The dark man says to us both i look at him and turn my head down to the floor hoping he doesn't realise who I am. "Rogue is it? Didn't you leave last term? Why are you here?" He knows who I am.
"I came to visit." I say in a small voice
"Ok, come with me, lets go say 'Hello' to Mrs Stuffing, the Head Mistress." She wasn't the Head mistress it was Mrs Stygal. I say okay and wave back at Jags. he looks at me with the "Your in trouble eyes" and man was I. He looks like a Big hairy gay guy.
In her office she questions me about my intentions and appreciates that they were good but that I couldn't do such things like leaving school and going to another. She makes a phone call, "We have him here." she said and after hanging up walks towards her door and locks it with a key. Great so there's no chance of me escaping and we're on the second floor. Looking to my left I notice the Mongoose attacking a King Cobra, a stuffed piece I didn't find the slightest amusing.
"Thats disgusting." I mutter.
"What is?" she says to me walking back to her desk and planting her fat arse on the chair.
"That! The snake and Mongoose. How would you like it if I cut your throat and gutted you like a fish and stuffed you up, placing you on some shelf. Maybe one day you'll find out." Clutching onto her chair arms and me leaning towards her I can see she wants to pick up the phone with her hesitant movements. I'm staring at her with daggers, only to notice she is looking down at the floor with concern, only to notice that I have had another episode of loosing myself. The phone is on the floor shattered into pieces.
A knock t the door and she swiftly passes me. seeing the crack in the door as she begins to open it I try to run out calling her a 'Fat Bitch', I see two police officers. Screwed!.
"You have changed so much Rogue Lorday, what has happened?" I don't believe her concern.
Now hand cuffed to the female officer, I'm taken back to my "Hell mouth' of a school. Back to class after an hour or so. Lunch time play, saw the gates being monitored. My actions are now affecting everything and everyone.
"This is Greyson, you know him right?" Ricard introduces me to the cute Oriental boy, wearing his oversized jacket.
"Hi, I got loads of toys. You can come, my house and play with Ricard if you want." Greyson seems friendly enough, I just can't believe Ricard would want me to torture him in the playground if they were friends. If he could do that to Greyson, what could he do to me? Not much with Rio around I'm guessing.
"Yeah sure, I don't mind when?" I ask this little cutie.
"Friday." he smiles and I just think to myself, "Someone need to get this dude a toothbrush", he had that white stuff on the tops of his gums and between his teeth. Maybe he forgot to brush that morning, fuck thats nasty, but he could have bitten into an apple or something. But I can tell we're going to be friends, he seems really nice.
My mother is unimpressed with the days activities and takes me home holding my hand (how embarrassing) walking really fast. Getting home she tells me I'm grounded and I can't even go to Aunt Jacky's house, I have to go to Aunt Ceecee's or Aunt Gee's. They were hard core, they beat me, they beat me hard.
I'm dreading Friday night and that long, depressing ride in the back of a cab. I better get to planning. Wait didn't that get me in all this mess in the first place?
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Sunday, 30 October 2011
MEMOIRS OF MARBIE: All Hallow's Eve's DLR (Dirty little rendezvous)
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I turned the last page and realised I had finished for now, like a junky I need another fix.ReplyDelete
A damn good read your description in both chapters I have read were fantastic you write so well and with precise memory in most parts.
I applaud you for taking me into your past and putting your inner most thoughts on paper for all to read.
My friend these words need to be published for the world to read. I love the way you write because it takes me to your place as though I was there, I feel it I see it.
Your words made me actually laugh out loud.
I need more!!!!!
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2015-2016 Sangamon County Excellence in School Wellness Award - It's Here!
Due: Friday, April 8th, 2016
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The Sangamon County Excellence in School Wellness Award was created to recognize public schools in Sangamon County that have taken steps to create a healthy environment for their students and staff in the areas of nutrition education, school food, physical activity, staff wellness, and more. A healthy school environment is positively associated with academic achievement and improved behavior, helps prevent childhood obesity, and decreases the risk of future chronic diseases by promoting ideal health practices among youth.
Schools are the places to teach the best practices in every subject, and Sangamon County schools are creating new programs, working with community partners, and making changes to the environment, school food, and policies so that nutrition and physical activity become second nature to current and future students. We will reap the benefits through a new generation of healthy, thriving youth and a healthier future for Illinois. For their commitment to their students' health, we would like to recognize their efforts with this award.
Annually, schools in Sangamon County will be selected to receive the Sangamon County Excellence in School Wellness Award in Gold, Silver, or Bronze. Winners will be chosen and contacted in April 2016. Winning schools will be recognized and awarded their Certificate of Excellence in a subsequent school board meeting for their district.
Congratulations to our winners for 2014-2015!
Dubois Elementary, Springfield IL – Gold Winner
Harvard Park Elementary, Springfield IL – Gold Winner
Matheny-Withrow Elementary, Springfield IL – Gold Winner with Distinction
Special thanks to our 2014-2015 community partners in Sangamon County who support & appreciate our schools' efforts to improve school wellness!
GenHkids, Illinois Department of Public Health, County Market, Springfield Urban League, YMCA of Sprignfield, Illinois State Board of Education, Illinois Action for Healthy Kids, Sangamon County Department of Public Health, and the Sangamon-Menard Regional Office of Education
Eligible schools include:
- K-12 Public schools within Sangamon County
- K-12 Alternative public schools within Sangamon County
- Additional consideration will be given to schools with a free/reduced lunch population above 40% and first time applicants, however all schools are highly encouraged to apply
- Qualifying school wellness activities must have taken place in the 2015-2016 school year (August 1, 2015 – July 31, 2016)
A complete application consists of:
- Copy of district wellness policy
- Excellence in School Wellness Award application
- Deadline – Fri, April 8th, 2016
- Email application as attachment to email@example.com, or
- Fax to 217-524-6662, or
- Mail to c/o: Whitney Ajie, 700 South Airport Drive, Springfield, IL 62707
Award submission & notification process:
- Award application to be submitted by Fri, April 8th, 2016 at 5:00pm
- Award winners will be notified by April 29th
- Award winners will be recognized with a Certificate of Excellence at a subsequent Board of Education meeting for their school district
Scoring information & Criteria for Excellence in School Wellness Award
Schools will be assessed based on their responses to the checklist questions under several critical areas related to school wellness. Based on each response, a school will receive a point(s) or fraction of a point per question.
Schools that provide additional information in their open response sections, included for each wellness area, could be awarded additional points based on the details of their planning process, reach, implementation, impact, creativity, longevity/maintenance, student/family feedback, etc. The open response sections give each school the opportunity to illustrate more openly the work they've done to satisfy the criteria.
A school's final score is based on the sum of their checklist points, open response points, and any additional points scored for additional consideration, e.g. first time applicant, over 40% free/reduced lunch, etc. If at or above 40 total points, a school will be placed in either the Bronze, Silver, or Gold award category.
Award categories based on score:
- Bronze: 40-60 points
- Silver: 61-80 points
- Gold: 81-100 points
Baseline requirements:
- Participate in the National School Lunch Program and/or National School Breakfast Program
- Have a written, district wellness policy
- Have a school wellness team – Additional consideration for teams that include a parent(s), student(s), and/or community member(s)
- Elementary schools: Offer a minimum of 75 minutes of physical activity each week (includes Physical Education (PE) classes and recess)
- Middle schools/Junior high schools: Compliant with daily PE requirements for all students, other than exempt students; or, for every grade a student completes, the student completes the equivalent of 1 semester of PE
- High schools: Compliant with daily PE requirements for all students, other than exempt students; or, by graduation each student will have completed the equivalent of 2 credits (or 4 semesters of PE)
Scoring rubric:
- Nutrition & Activity – 60 points maximum:
- Food Service – 20 points
- Nutrition/Nutrition Education – 20 points
- Physical Education/Activity – 20 points
- Outreach – 30 points maximum:
- Marketing/Promotion – 15 points
- Family/Community Involvement – 15 points
- Staff Wellness – 10 points maximum
Additional notes:
- Quality of programming, above quantity, and policy implementation is emphasized
- Inclusion of parents and students in planning, promotion, and implementation of school wellness activities is strongly encouraged
- Inclusion of community partners in your school wellness efforts is strongly encouraged
- Inclusion of pictures and/or video documenting school wellness activities is welcomed
Contact information:
Please don't hesitate to contact Whitney Ajie at University of Illinois Extension with questions or concerns. Phone: 217-782-4617. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com. Website: http://web.extension.illinois.edu/lms/
We look forward to reading your application!
Due: Friday, April 8th, 2016
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Download the fillable PDF document from the link provided. The form can be filled in using Adobe Reader and saved on any computer. Please respond to the application questions in the critical areas of school wellness: Food Service, Nutrition/Nutrition Education, Physical Education/Activity, Marketing/Promotion, Family/Community Involvement, and Staff Wellness.
Under each heading, there is a checklist of several questions and an open response section. The open response section is optional, but highly encouraged as it could earn you additional points. The open response section allows you illustrate how you have supported and implemented your school's wellness goals in each area. The more details you provide, the better we can assess your school's efforts. You do not have to answer every question, unless it is a required question; however, you will only be assessed by the questions that have a response. Schools will receive a score between 0-100, and will compete for the Gold, Silver or Bronze awards - Bronze Category (40-60 points), Silver Category (61-80 points), or Gold Category (81-100 points). Within each category, an overall winner will be announced as a Bronze with Distinction, Silver with Distinction, or Gold with Distinction winner. To select the overall winner, the final score as well as the open responses or any additional documentation submitted will be considered.
Activities must have taken place between August 1, 2015 and July 31, 2016. Examples of what to include in your open response are: detailed explanation of the activity, who and what was involved in planning and implementation, the duration of the activity and/or how long the activity has been maintained, how the activity is/will be monitored or maintained over time, how the activity has impacted students, parents and/or staff (e.g. in-class behavior, attendance, truancy, grades, fitness tests, trips to nurse/principal's office, plate waste, involvement, attitudes, efficiency, instructional time, etc.), how the activity meets your school's needs or satisfies part of the wellness policy, any community or family involvement, how the activity was innovative or creative, how money was raised or grant funding was received, and similar relevant information. Your open response entries may be typed and submitted with your application. Additional documents (including pictures and video) are encouraged if they support or further explain your activities in each section. When submitting supporting documentation, please label the documents as to which section they are supporting, i.e. Food Service, Nutrition/Nutrition Education, Physical Education/Activity, Marketing/Promotion, Family/Community Involvement, or Staff Wellness. Please label your supporting documents with the appropriate section on the top right-hand side.
You are required to include a copy of your district's wellness policy, as well as any rules & regulations for the policy, with your completed application. If your school has added policies or rules that go above and beyond the district's policy, please include those as well.


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I realize that today's update reveals almost as little as Monday's title page but did you really expect to learn a lot from the very first strip? It's hard for me to talk casually about things because I've got about 30 of the estimated 60 strips for this series done. I already know where things are headed and I'm very excited about sharing those things with you… it'll just take time. But with a MWF schedule you guys'll be up to speed in no time.
For now, read back through the original race and pay attention. I CAN tell you that in the coming weeks there will be callbacks to that series as well as new revelations about the past. So read that and also enjoy this little bonus image of Bunny as Robocop. This was fun to do and I'd love to flesh out a full body drawing. Eventually.
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Star Plus' new quiz show Kya Aap Panchvi Pass Se Tez Hai, which will be hosted by actor Shah Rukh Khan, is expected to rustle up over Rs 18 crore from mobile and landline calls and through SMSes.
This amount is a lot higher than the Rs 10-12 crore it earned during Kaun Banega Crorepati last year. The show will run for 36 episodes starting April.
Unlike KBC-3, where Airtel, MTNL and BSNL were exclusive telecom partners, this time around, the channel is going non-exclusive. The channel is in the process of getting on board almost every telecom service provider, which means that participants need not just call from an Airtel or MTNL/BSNL number.
"This will increase the base of participants than if the lines are open to only 2-3 service providers. Last year, Airtel provided around 20 million subscribers (largely mobile and around 2 million landline users), the major chunk of landline user base was contributed by MTNL/BSNL. However, with the growing subscriber base, it makes sense for the channel to sign on more than two telecom service providers. This will ensure reach to around 280 million users in the country," said a source close to the development.
During KBC-3, Airtel (mobile and landline combined) accounted for 40 per cent of the calls, while MTNL/BSNL contributed to the remaining. Star Plus is said to have signed on a few telecom partners that include Spice, Airtel, MTNL and BSNL, and is in talks with Reliance Communications, Idea Cellular, Tata Indicom and Vodafone, according to the source.
When contacted, Viren Popli, the senior vice-president of Star Mobile Entertainment, said, "We do plan to go non-exclusive, but cannot divulge any details at this stage."
Last year, calls for KBC-3 were priced at Rs 2.40 per pulse for both landlines and mobiles. The call rates this time will be around Rs 4 per landline call and Rs 6 for mobiles and SMS.
That apart, the revenue-sharing terms between the telecom operator and the channel have also been revised. While Star Plus earned 22 per cent and the telecom operator kept the rest, for Kya Aap Panchvi Pass Se Tez Hai, the revenue sharing terms will now be 50 per cent each.
Star expects to receive at least 2 million calls per episode, earning Star Plus over Rs 18 crore from telecom interactivity (it is estimated to earn 50 per cent of the Rs 36 crore from 36 episodes), said a source close to the development.
Kya Aap Panchvi Pass Se Tez Hai is the Indian version of the international show, Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader, in which adults are quizzed on questions from textbooks of standards 1 to 5. At each level, the contestant has the chance to win a specific amount and the maximum winning amount for the show is Rs 5 crore.


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10 Weirdest Things You Don't Know (Yet)
You learn something every day and today you're going to learn 10. Get ready and hold on:
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Okunoshima Island in Japan is full of tame rabbits that hop up to greet you
Miyajima Island has tame deer!
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The Octopus's Garden is a real thing
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The scariest animal in New Zealand is the wild ferret
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Dolphins are known to protect surfers and fisherman from sharks
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Rats laugh when tickled (proven fact)
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Several towns have elected animals as mayor -- one cat has been mayor of an Alaskan town for 15 years
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Pluto never really was a planet. If you melted all its ice, it'd be smaller than our moonPhotos of Pluto coming soon!
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Every media outlet in America was obsessed with a dress prank on Feb. 27, 2015 in which people claimed to see white and gold on a blue and black dress.
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A flock of crows is called a murder
Many claim a flock of flamingoes is called a flamboyance, but good luck digging to the bottom of that internet rabbit hole.
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The national animal of Scotland is the unicornGoogle it if you don't believe me.


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Family: Myrtaceae
Genus: Beaufortia
Category: Shrub - Evergreen
Zones: Some frost tolerance
Size: To 10' tall?
Exposure: Sun, Filtered Sun
Tall, erect, unbranched stems with red, bottlebrush flowers at the end in summer. Buds appear 12 months before the flower opens. Small leaves, directly from the stems, curved back.
From Bot. Reg.
...height of nearly five feet: the branches few, situated far up on the stem... The inflorescence is produced below the branches, and owes its beauty to long scarlet stamineous shafts, branching at the head into distinct filaments, four or five of which project from each small green and nearly unseen corolla. The foliage is harsh, of a dull opaque green; each leaf about half an inch long and the third of one broad.
Introduced to England in 1803.
Published in Hort. Kew. 4 in 1812.
Also published in Bot. Reg. 1: 18 in 1815.
From Bot. Reg.
Discovered by Mr. Brown. Introduced by Mr. Good in 1803.


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The 6 Seasons from North India perspective (Concept applicable universally!):
Starting from the month of Magha (Mid-Jan onwards), the three seasons (Ritus) are:
- Shishir (शिशिर ऋतु,): The months are Mid-Jan to Mid-March (माघ, फाल्गुन) & it is mostly Cold, Dewy & Winter Season,
- Vasant (वसंत ऋतु): The months are Mid-March to Mid-May (चैत्र, बैशाख) & it is the Spring Season and
- Grishma (ग्रीष्म ऋतु): The months are Mid-May to Mid-July (ज्येष्ठ, आषाढ़) & it is the Summer Season.
These three Seasons (Ritus) form Uttarayana (Increasing Northern Declination (Latitude)); Or, Adana Kala (Debilitating Period). . 'Adana' is Agneya (Predominance of Agni). 'Unctuous' effect of Nature is predominant. Winds are sharp and rough.
The prominent Tastes, increasingly, are: 'Tiqta (Bitter)', 'Kashaya (Astringent)' and 'Katu (Pungent)'.
The other three seasons (Ritus) are:
- Varsha (वर्षा ऋतु): The months are Mid-July to Mid-Sept (श्रावण, भाद्रपद) & it is the Rainy Season,
- Sharad (शरद ऋतु): The months are Mid-Sept to Mid-Nov (आश्विन, कार्तिक) & it is the Autumn Season and
- Hemant (हेमन्त ऋतु): The months are Mid-Nov to Mid-Jan (अग्रहायण, पौष) & the Season would be 'Fall Winter'.
These three Seasons (Ritus) form Dakshinayana (Increasing Southerly Declination (Latitude)); Or, Visarga Kala. 'Visarga' is Saumya (i.e. Has predominance of Soma, The Moon). The earth gets cooled by Clouds, Rains and Cold Winds.
The prominent Tastes, increasingly, are: 'Amla (Sour)', 'Lavanya (salty)', and 'Madhura (Sweet)' (All these three tastes are Unctuous Tastes). This is a Strength Enhancing period.


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Yesterday evening, in the Whelans pub in Dublin, I was transported back in time to around the 1930-1940's by the Scott Bradlee & Postmodern Jukebox. It wasn't just their music that did this, oh no, it was the way they played, the way they acted, everything.
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Peter, 18, will spend 10 months volunteering at Don Bosco Don Thuan, a boarding house and vocational school with 180+ students in the south of Vietnam. The community has a particular focus on working with destitute young people from the surrounding areas. Part of Peter's role will be to assist with teaching English as part of the school's new English programme, as well as assisting with the boarding house and the outreach work with teenagers from the local area.
Angela, also 18, will spend 7 months at Don Bosco Sihanoukville. Based in the international tourist hub of Sihanoukville in the south of Cambodia, the works of this house include a technical school,boarding house, a hospitality training centre, prison outreach, and early years education. The Salesians also run a hotel, guest house and cafe to create employment opportunities for the young people they train. Angela will be assisting with the nursery and early years education as well as working with young women (boarders) from the technical school.
We ask you to keep them in your prayers as they begin the next steps of their journey, and to continue to pray for volunteers Joe in India, and James in Vietnam.
Do keep an eye out for updates from Peter and Angela's placements.