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Taylor County High School's Future Farmers of America chapter will kick off its activities for National FFA Week today, Monday, Feb. 17.
According to the organization's website, the week-long tradition started in 1947 when the National FFA Board of Directors designated the week of George Washington's birthday as National FFA Week in recognition of his legacy as an agriculturist and farmer.
Campbellsville/Taylor County Fourth of July Celebration committee members are already at work planning and preparing for what they promise to be the biggest, best and most anticipated July fourth weekend in all of Campbellsville history.
As the celebration grows, so does the need for passionate volunteers to serve on the committee.
Leslie Moore
While winter's cold and wet weather shows no sign of relenting anytime soon, members of the Taylor County Fair Association are already getting warmed up for this year's fair. For the first time in the fair's 17-year history, the amusement rides and attractions will be extended to nine days.
The carnival will open Friday, May 30, and run through Saturday, June 7.
Jordan Antle
Campbellsville University
It might seem a little early for swimming trunks and bathing suits outside, but Campbellsville University wants residents to put their courage on ice.
Scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 22, at 1:30 p.m., the Tiger Plunge will pit the human spirit against Mother Nature as CU students, faculty and staff, along with members of the community, run through the fountain in the center of CU's Alumni & Friends Park.
Kevin Thomas
Campbellsville University began its 2014 chapel series on Wednesday, Jan. 15, with a theme of "Finding Your Compass."
The Rev. Dave Walters, vice president for admissions and student services, asked students to perform random acts of kindness as well as "paying it forward" when he requested them to "find your compass" for life.
Taylor and Green county residents can receive free help with income tax preparation from the AARP Foundation Tax-Aide program.
Electronic filing will be available free of charge. AARP membership is not required for assistance.
Counselors providing the help are retired business people with considerable experience in tax matters. This year's counselors are Brenda Cook, Carolyn Scott, Kathy Curry, Gail Munday and Bettie Jo Russell.
State Rep. John "Bam" Carney, R-Campbellsville, and State Sen. Sara Beth Gregory, R-Monticello, will host a legislative forum at Taylor County Courthouse on Monday, Jan. 20, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. to brief constituents on the 2014 legislative session. The forum is free and open to the public.
"I'm looking forward to visiting with constituents in Taylor County and sharing information about the session," Gregory said.
Campbellsville University will celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with guest speaker Dr. Forrest E. Harris, president of American Baptist College, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 22, at Ransdell Chapel.
Greater Campbellsville United is a co-sponsor of the event, and Joshua Percell and Courageous will perform.
Taylor County Fair Association recently announced that a contract has been signed with a new company to provide the midway at next year's Taylor County Fair.
The new contract is with Miller Spectacular Shows based in Greenbrier, Ark.
"We are very excited to be bringing in what we believe will be a very high quality midway and hope this is the beginning of a long-term relationship for our fair and Miller Spectacular Shows," said Mike Litchfield, president of the Taylor County Fair Association.
One hill, one home, one heart at a time. That's the internal campaign pastor Dave Walters said is moving through Lowell Avenue Baptist Church and its surrounding community.
About a year ago, the church mapped out nearby streets and assigned members of the congregation a street to walk through and pray for the people who live there.
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Live Humanely: Support your Local Shelter
Many pet shelters and wildlife rehabilitation centers provide a variety of rewarding opportunities to help animals in your community. They rely on your support, and it's a fantastic way to meet other people who care about animals just like you do.
- If you are considering a pet as a gift, instead give a PAWS pet adoption gift certificate (available at PAWS in Lynnwood and at PAWS Cat City) and a basket of pet supplies to get the person started. It's better to let your loved one choose his or her own pet to ensure the best match between animal and person.
- Host a gift drive and collect supplies for PAWS or your local shelter or wildlife rehabilitation center.
- Inspire a friend to adopt from PAWS or adopt from your local animal shelter.
- Sign up for PAWS' e-newsletters to stay current on animal issues in Washington State.
- Volunteer at PAWS, or at your local wildlife or animal shelter to walk dogs, answer phones, or help rehabilitate wildlife.
- Be a life-saver - foster a kitten or puppy.

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Pet drinking fountain and charming desktop fountain (use as both) glazed in Dawn which nicely highlights the Celtic Knot carving on the center piece. Everything is included but you can add any of our cat taps if you wish a stream.
This fountain can take any of the Downflow Cat Tap and the Serenity Flow.
* 4 inches high and 9.75 inches in diameter.
* 6+ cup capacity
Can be adapted for overseas use. Click here to select an overseas pump.
Everything is included. Simply fill with water and plug in. SEE THIS PAGE FOR DETAILS.
Each pet drinking fountain is handmade of the highest quality stoneware, one at a time and each is one of a kind. We make our own glazes from raw, pure minerals so we know exactly and how much of what is in them and can insure that they are food safe. Food safe is not simply a matter of containing no lead. If too much of any colorant is used or if any of the several toxic colorants are used the piece will not be food safe. We restrict the percentage of only non-toxic colorants to standards established by scientist potters from data derived from their extensive testing for food safeness. If a ceramicist doesn't know what is in his glazes he has no way of knowing if they are food safe. We guarantee our pet drinking fountains to be completely food-safe. In addition they are extremely easy to clean, as many of the reviews testify to.
Concerning our use of copper: None of the fountains require copper to run well and beautifully, however we recommend the use of copper and provide it with the majority of ceramic pet fountain because it is a natural antimicrobial. All our 'Bubble-up' – cat fountain designs have a short, straight copper tube but they all run equally as well without it, using only the food-safe vinyl that is included with each. Most of the Stream cat drinking fountains do not have a copper component but one can be added to most at no extra charge.


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The global response to Hobie's passing has been monumental; astronomical would be a more accurate description. Over the past few weeks, the effect that Hobie Alter had on people's lives has been shared across every medium imaginable. We have received heart felt letters, pictures, mementos, and countless stories of how a Hobie invention created a lifetime memory or contributed to a way of life. It has lit up social media with a plethora of tweets, posts, threads, and creative hash tagging. It even made the nightly news.
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Hobie Surf :: A Shameless Blog Post All About How I Caught A Fish at Fishn Mission!!
I. Caught. A. Fish. Oh YEAH!!! Read it again, I Caught A Fish!!! Woot Woot holla at yo fishermama!! One fish, two fish, red fish, MY fish!! YEW!!! And, not just any fish! I caught a dastardly, super smart, wily, shrewd Ocean Living fish! Oh, they have eluded me for two years of trying… they have nibbled and evaded my true hearts desire to pluck them from their salty home. They have snapped my line and stolen my bait. They have left me standing on the shore bellowing 'Darn you, you slippery clever rascals! Why won't you just let me catch you??!!!" Oh, but all that changed on Friday, for on Friday I went from fisher to catcher!! I sniped a calico straight out of his hidey hole in the eel grass and into my Hobie Mirage Pro Angler kayak…. Satisfaction!! Glorious sweet sweet fishy satisfaction!
Ok, so how did I catch said fish, you ask?? I joined a group of people (ok I crowbarred my way into an invite) from all walks of Hobie life, and went on a 'Fishn Mission' put on by Fastlane Sailing Center in San Diego. A Fishn Mission is quite possibly the best and easiest way to get out into a personal boat and spend a morning doing a bit of angling! It is SET UP for you. Seriously. You park your car right in front of Fastlane's waterfront location on Mission Bay. Walk like ten steps, turn a corner and your eyes get filled with your own little fish catching chariot in the form of a Hobie Mirage Pro Angler Kayak! It's set with snack pack, pre lured poles, and ready to be wheeled the other ten feet to the water. Sweet living indeed!!!
Before you put boat in water, Ron Lane, Fastlane's Chief of All things Fishing/sailing, gives you a brief talk on how you operate the boat. Honestly, it's pedal driven easiness with a basic rudder. SO SIMPLE, yet crazy effective and quiet. Then we got stoked out with inside fishing tips from Afran, creator/owner of Warbaits, on how to properly cast and reel for the area we would be fishing in. Then we were rolling our boats to the water and we were off! From parking lot to the water in under 15 minutes and another easy 5 minute pedal to the honey hole…. and you are on a Fishn Mission! That is precision and a team that knows what they are doing!!
Just so you know, NO experience is necessary to have a GREAT time. Along on our crew were two people who had never been in boats, or used fishing poles. Everything is so well explained and well laid out that all 12 of us Hooked Up a fish at least once on the trip. Ron has a crew of expert fishermen along who check in with you through out the day, give you advice and help you land that elusive fish of your dreams. It was with Afran's help that I finally got the right technique down to reel in my little calico friend! It was AWESOME!!! Plus, you get to yell 'Hook Up' when you catch one! Don't freak out if you have never handled a hooked fish before, the guides are on it! They help you get your 'I'm a hugely successful fisherman' photo and show you how to de-hook safely so your little fish friend can go back to his watery home and tell stories of how he was 'in the boat!!'. Oh, and there is a nice little sandy beach with restrooms where you take a snack break half way through the morning. Truly a set up for a great day if there ever was one!!!
After the day is on the water is over, you cruise back to Fastlane for a nice lunch. Then, since you are now a successful fisherman, you do what all great salty sea dogs do, you tell lies about how big the fish you caught was and how much bigger the one that got away was!! To go on your own Fishn Mission contact Fastlane (619.222.0766) and book your day!!
-Tracey Engelking. Successful Fishermama.
***I have to take a minute and thank David and Doug from Hobie by Hurley for having me along!! What an awesome gift you gave to us all! Thank you to Ron Lane for providing the stoke!! I've never met anyone more genuinely psyched on enjoying the water then you! Thank you to all the fishing guides for helping us achieve success!!! And, especially thank you to my bosses at Hobie Surf Shop, Jake and Mark, for letting me write blogs like these that sometimes highlight other shops, but that are a true reflection of the Hobie Lifestyle!!***
Hobie Shop :: 'Hobie : Master of Water, Wind and Waves' Back in Stock!!
Hobie Heart :: Sail. Leave the Shore Behind.
Hobie History :: Throwback Thursday : Hobie and Team Oracle at The Americas Cup
-Tracey Engelking


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One report this week claims the Cleveland Browns' top priority with the No. 6 overall pick in the 2013 NFL Draft is Alabama cornerback Dee Milliner.
NFL.com's Daniel Jeremiah has Milliner ranked at No. 7 overall on his sequence list for the top 50 players in the draft. Jeremiah concedes that Milliner isn't as gifted as Patrick Peterson, but Milliner has "ideal size, speed and athleticism" as a clear top cover man available this year.
NFL Network draft analyst Mike Mayock isn't quite as sold on Milliner as an elite prospect. In his pre-draft conference call Thursday, Mayock said he doesn't see a cornerback going in the top 10 this year.
Mayock believes the Philadelphia Eagles at No. 4 and the Browns at No. 6 are the two "pressure points" for offensive-tackle trades. If the Browns can entice a team such as the Miami Dolphins or San Diego Chargers to trade ahead of the Arizona Cardinals for Lane Johnson, Milliner still might be on the board with the 11th or 12th pick.
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The garbage patch territory turns into a new state
The Garbage Patch State® - a performance installation by Italian artist Maria Cristina Finucci - is on show today in Paris at the Maison de l'UNESCO, salle des pas perdus. Following an invitation by Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, and Maurizio Serra, Ambassador, Permanent Delegate of Italy to UNESCO, the event is open to the public.
This project has been put in place thanks to the collaboration of the University Ca' Foscari of Venice and the sponsorship of the Italian Ministry of the Environment, with the support of the University of Rome. The Garbage Patch to be symbolically recognized as a federal state rises in the middle of the oceans. It is a territory that comprises five areas of man-made rubbish scattered in the North Pacific, South Pacific, North Atlantic, South Atlantic and Indian Ocean. Land-based sources - such as agricultural run-off, discharge of nutrients and pesticides and untreated sewage including plastics - account for approximately 80% of marine pollution, globally. Marine habitats worldwide are contaminated with man-made debris.
The Garbage Patch is one of the most serious forms of pollution caused by humankind. The largest, discovered in 2009, is called the Great Garbage Patch, also described as the Pacific Trash Vortex, is a gyre of marine debris in the central North Pacific Ocean. The Patch is characterized by exceptionally high concentrations of pelagic plastics, chemical sludge and other debris that have been trapped by the currents. The garbage gets broken down, as a result of photodegradation, into smaller and smaller pieces. As the plastic flotsam photodegrades into smaller and smaller pieces, it concentrates in the upper water column. As it disintegrates, the plastic ultimately becomes small enough to be ingested by aquatic organisms that reside near the ocean's surface. In this way, plastic may become concentrated in neuston, thereby entering the food chain.
The official facebook page of this ambitious project announces that the Garbage Patch will be recognized as a federal state with a "population" of 36,939 tons of garbage. It was discovered in 1989, it covers an area of 15,915,933 square meters, and its flag to wave is blue, like the oceans it pollutes. The nation is large but inhabited; would anyone actually want to live in a Nation made of garbage? Maria Cristina Finucci, the artist, believes that the art has the power to raise awareness and that the tragic garbage patch phenomenon ought to be at least arrested for now, till other actions can be taken.
The UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe, Venice (Italy), supports the initiative and will help bring information to the large public, with particular emphasis on pollution, sustainable development and education. Much can be done. Find out about the problem of garbage patches and get involved, there are probably cleanup efforts happening near you! Don't discard anything near the coast, when you go to the beach make sure you pick up after yourself. Try to avoid using single-serving plastic items and replace them by reusable items. Refuse excess packaging, try to re-use and recycle as much as possible. Remember that very little of the plastic produced each year is actually recycled and much of it finds its way to the ocean.
Website: http://www.garbagepatchstate.org/
Social Media : The Garbage Patch State, the away state
<- Back to: UNESCO Office in Venice


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Sometimes it's nice to have admin on a different host (admin.mysite.com) then the actual site (www.mysite.com).
If admin.mysite.com is not publicly accessible, then images attached to posts on admin.mysite.com will not be accessible on www.mysite.com since the url to the attached image is absolute and contains the domain (admin.mysite.com).
Is there any way to fix this? The nicest way would be if the url to an attached media would be relative and not absolute.


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So you're level 70 and you never dropped a point in cooking. And now you see all these spiffy stat foods floating around, but you always have to buy them from the Auction House or ask a friend to make it for you. Sick of being a slacker? Here's how to power your cooking to 300 the quickest way possible.
1 – 90
First, train the base cooking skill from the Cooking trainer of choice. Now, noobs don't really know to put the low level meats on the AH, so you'll likely have to kill your own. As Horde, go to Durotar and kill boards for [item]Chunk of Boar Meat[/item] as well as Scorpids for [item]Scorpid Stinger[/item]. One thing I found handy here was to actually send tells to low level characters offering to buy any meats they produce. Travel to Razor Hill and buy the [item]Scorpid Surprise[/item] recipe from Grimtak.
Farm and cook these meats until you hit 90. You will need to go back to the cooking trainer to train up to Journeyman when you hit 70.
91 – 125
Once you hit 90, head over to Barrens and talk to Grub. You can find him just NE of The Crossroads. He will give you a quest for [item]Dig Rat Stew[/item]. Head down to the southern end of Barrens and kill Dig Rats in the excavation area. You'll need 40 – 50. Unfortunately there are not many spawns here so kill 'em when you can. Turn in your quest, get your recipe and skill up on [item]Dig Rat Stew[/item] until 125.
On your way back to Grub, stop off in The Crossroads and buy the recipe, [item]Hot Lion Chops[/item] from Zargh the butcher. Once you are 125, you can learn this recipe.
126 – 175
Now you need to train Expert Cook. Head to travel to Shadowprey Village in Desolace and by the [item]Expert Cookbook[/item] from Wulan. Go out to Hillsbrad and kill lions by the dozens. You'll need around 60ish [item]Lion Meat[/item] to get your skill to 175.
176 – 225
At 175, move on to Grom'gol and buy the [item]Roast Raptor[/item] recipe from Nerrist. Kill raptors around Grom'gol until you have about 45 [item]Raptor Flesh[/item]. Cook these up and make sure you hit 225.
226 – 300
At 225, you will need to go do the Artisan cooking quest. Go to Gadgetzan and speak with Dirge Quickcleave to get the quest. While here, also buy the recipe for [item]Tender Wolf Steak[/item]. For the quest, you will need 20 [item]Alterac Swiss[/item], 12 [item]Giant Egg[/item], and 10 [item]Zesty Clam Meat[/item]. You can buy the Alterac Swiss right here in Tanaris by heading down to Caverns of Time. You can get the Clam Meat from the turtles along the coast. The Giant Eggs will drop from the Rocs but have a fairly low drop rate.
Go to Bloodvenom Post in Felwood and buy the [item]Monster Omelet[/item] recipe.
Head to Hinterlands. You're going to spend a couple of hours here killing every Owlbeast and Wolf you come across. You will need enough Giant Eggs and Tender Wolf Meat to push you all the way to 300. The last few points could be painful as [item]Monster Omelet[/item] and [item]Tender Wolf Steak[/item] both grey out at 305. You will need about 100ish combined to get you to 300.
The hard part is now over! At 300, travel to Thrallmar and buy the [item]Master Cookbook[/item] from Baxter. Skill up using [item]Clam Bar[/item], [item]Ravager Dog[/item], or [item]Buzzard Bites[/item] until you hit 325, at which point you will now be able to make [item]Talbuk Steak[/item], [item]Roasted Clefthoof[/item], and [item]Warp Burger[/item]!
Now, that seems like a lot of work. Another option is to simply get your faction with Sha'tari Skyguard to honored and you can just buy [item]Skyguard Rations[/item] from the Skyguard Quartermaster at the Skyguard outpost in Terrokar Forest. They only cost about 40s for 5, but you can only buy up to 20 at a time so you will have to make frequent trips back to buy your foods.


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Fashion?s ?The Sartorialist? Scott Schuman sits down with Lanvin menswear designer Lucas Ossendrijver for an exclusive one-on-one
Scott Schuman: Before a show, how nervous are you that you?ve made the right decisions?
Lucas Ossendrijver: I?m somebody who doubts quite a lot. In the beginning of a season, I follow a certain intuition. For me, that?s the only thing I really trust. I start with a feeling, I start with an emotion; I have this dream in my head that I start to visualize and it?s all about communication. Whether it?s the team who works with me or whether it?s a fabric manufacturer, I try to explain what I want. With fabrics, for me, I really have to see them, I have to touch them and then I know whether they?re right or not.
LO: Yes, and then I want to make the fabric speak. You have to find the right colours. Every fabric has its own colour and they?re all different. There?s never the same navy for every fabric. There are always tonal differences, which I think makes colour much richer in the end.
LO: Then the shape at the same time, actually. It?s a bit like cooking: you have all of these ingredients and you sort of intuitively find the right way to make them work.
LO: Menswear is a different language than women?s. It doesn?t work the same way. Alber and I work separately, but sometimes we do have a similarity in colours we?ve developed. But, if you look closely, they are different.
LO: [Laughs] I think they?re more like brother and sister.
LO: Yes, it?s just that the applications of it may be different. In menswear, there are so many boundaries and it?s about finding the right balance. You can start quite abstract and get experimental with an idea, but when the prototypes of the clothes arrive and I try all of them on to see if they feel believable or not, that is the real proposition and final judgment.
LO: No. That?s always a funny question because I find that really hard to answer.
LO: I don?t know. I don?t have one role model or one sort of muse.
LO: I think it?s about men in general and what they need. Sometimes people need to wear a suit, sometimes people need to wear a warm winter coat. It?s about finding solutions that are individual ? not standard.
LO: When I start a collection, it?s all very abstract. It?s much more about technique and intuition. This season, with the elastic, I was very into sportswear but trying to redefine it and not make it just ?sport? but a hybrid between tailoring and sportswear. I need some kind of newness in what I do so I can try to bring in different elements that meld together.
LO: In the studio, we have sewing machines and we mix swatches; we work with clothes we find and with prototypes from seasons before. We cut them, we change them and it?s very hands-on. To be honest, I hardly ever draw a collection. I always work directly on the clothes.
LO: No, I went to art school. It wasn?t until I bought a hand-tailored jacket at a flea market and opened it up and found the construction inside that I became fascinated with menswear because it?s all about something hidden inside and the construction.
LO: It?s both. The press are important, but you?re getting judged by them for 10 minutes and, afterward, you get judged by the people who buy and wear the clothes. I think both are connected and both are important because you try to push forward and to make things people will like.
LO: The funny thing is there?s a huge archive for womenswear: books with embroideries, sketches, fabrics ? everything, but for men?s, there is zero. For me, that was very liberating; you can start from zero. The only thing that is there is the made-to-measure department, which I?m really proud of. So when I started, I would go up to see the tailors and see how they work.
LO: I think they?re very important, especially for men. An accessory is an item you can buy quite easily and you can go a little bit further with it in terms of style without losing yourself. Also, a suit and a tie can be very different if the tie?s knitted, for example. It?s different without being extreme ? [insert a space here] it looks like a tie, but it?s soft and less rigid.
LO: The way I started was an experiment, really. It wasn?t about a strategy. My team and I did what we thought was right. We did what we liked and we still do. In that sense, I feel very free. At the same time, now that it?s becoming bigger, it?s a bit scary. But what I hope to do is to continue the freedom. I think there?s still lots to do.
PS – It was really fun doing this interview with Lucas. I was pretty happy with the questions I asked, and it is so much easier to do an interview when someone else transcribes your conversation (thanks Holts). I also loved getting to do the interview and take the portrait (I am an American multi-tasker). Hopefully I will get a chance to do more of these in the future.


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We live in a world where television is arguably better than it has ever been. The ratings may still be dominated by the usual laugh track sitcoms, police procedurals and reality competitions, but beyond all of the numbers is an impressive amount of genre diversity and high quality product. There are also shows that develop die-hard fan bases that then become the vocal minority (just another parallel between TV and comics).
Unfortunately, sometimes these shows don't catch on in the mainstream and get canned. It's an experience all television fans have endured in our lives and it never gets any easier to swallow. Whether it's been Arrested Development, Firefly, Jericho, Terriers, Freaks and Geeks or Twin Peaks, we've all struggled with the painstaking realization that our characters were going away forever, far before their time.
At least, that's the way it used to be. Comic books have a new trend now: continuing television shows that have ended, sometimes prematurely and sometimes not. While adaptations of TV shows are nothing new, billing a series as "____: Season [Insert Number]" is catching on like wildfire. The first huge success was with Dark Horse's Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 and it's hardly let up from there. In fact, today marks the launch of DC Comics' Smallville Season 11 (it's even releasing on Fridays, the show's old timeslot), which is written by show writer and comics scribe Bryan Q. Miller. It picks up six months after the season 10 finale (find my lengthy interview with Miller here), and continues the show's story and continuity.
Is it a true eleventh season like fans had hoped? I guess in terms of it being on an actual television with human actors, no, it's not. What it is, though, is an opportunity for comics to find new readers while servicing a certain core fan base – something the comics industry is, frankly, horrible at doing on its own. Month after month, we see the superhero publishers catering to the same crowd over and over again.
The average comic book reader is in their thirties, and these books, more often than not, are being made for them. That's a terrifying thought and a short-term solution to maintaining comic book sales. While I've talked about the importance of having more all-ages comics available across the board, another solution to forging new readership are these television continuations.
DC's New 52 relaunch caught some lapsed readers and newbies, but ultimately DC didn't spread their net wide enough. If the publishers aren't willing to push an all-out marketing campaign that isn't limited to the same old comic book websites, things like Smallville Season 11 are their best bet to bring in new eyeballs. Smallville is enormously popular, and it's clear that there are fans of the show that have never read a comic book before. It's the job of DC to make sure those fans know about the expansion of their favorite show into a new medium. Smallville fans are an incredibly vocal group; when I first posted the Season 11 interview I linked to above, I was shocked at the amount of responses I received from TV fans that were completely unaware of the book's existence.
This, to me, marks a failure on DC's part to put this book in front of the correct eyes. The fact that Smallville is digital-first means that it's more easily accessible for readers that don't have/don't know about their local comic book shop. There should've been advertisements on TV (at least the CW) or on the Smallville blu-ray or recently released box set. Even better, why not start including a free download code in all future editions of the DVDs and such? I admit I have no idea what the investment/potential return would be on promotions like that, but it's the only way they are going to reach the mythical "new" readers that don't even know comics still exist.
The alternate potential of these comics is that for shows like Jericho – canceled after two seasons but now with two additional seasons courtesy of IDW Publishing – there can be a second lease on life through comic books. While taking on a canceled show is probably less beneficial to the industry's desire to gain new readers, for a smaller publisher like IDW it's a great way to raise awareness of their own brand and provide a fan service.
The question boils down to risk and reward. Are there enough fans of Jericho out there – a show that ended over four years ago – for DC to launch a comic book series? As it seems to me, that would be a case of DC doing more for the property than the property would do for them. But in the case of IDW, a publisher with a focus on these kind of licensed properties (they also handle TMNT, Star Trek, Doctor Who and loads of others) and a smaller market share, licensing the franchise was likely beneficial to them. Given that this is their second go-round with Jericho, that must be the case.
I don't think every short changed TV show is a fit for comics, nor do I think a successful show with a vocal, passionate fandom should automatically be continued, never mind the fact that some shows simply wouldn't work as a comic. But things like Smallville, Jericho, or Buffy are prime candidates for continuing in this medium, particularly because the nature of these shows have built a foundation for a larger world, leading to infinite possibilities that could have never been accomplished on TV, either because of budget limitations or actor availability. For example, Smallville playing host to action sequences in space and a bevy of DC Universe guest stars. More importantly, these comics are an opportunity to show the potential of the medium to brand new faces.
What do you think of the show-to-comics trend? Are there any shows you'd like to see continue as a comic? Do you think this will work in bringing in new readers? Sound off in the comments or find me on Twitter!
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Kaze no Stigma
Kaze no Stigma
Stigma of the Wind
The official site for the anime:
Based on a shounen light novel.
Serialized in the young men's light novel magazine Dragon Magazine.
Published under the shounen light novel label Fujimi Fantasia Bunko.
There's 6 volumes released of this light novel, and 3 short stories light novels.
Here are the covers:
The short stories light novels:
Author: YAMATO Takahiro (山門敬弘)
Illustrator: NANTO Hanamaru (納都花丸)
A manga based on the light novel will be serialized in the shounen manga magazine Dragon AGE.
Drawing: Neko Miyakai (猫都夏椅)
Genre: Shounen, Action, Fantasy
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At least this couple looks like they may have their act together from the covers. Though, she could have had a better school uniform. It doesn't look very practical for fighting to me.
Any info on what's it about?
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The author of the light novel is sick and getting medical treatment, thats why the light novel has stopped on volume 6.
Volume 6 (the latest volume available) got released on 20/10/2005.
Next issue of Dragon Magazine (a young men's novel magazine) will have some type of special in it (at least thats what I understood :P ).
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I like the look of it =) The art is Great! Though still like anything I'm not going to get my hopes up to much, but I'll keep a eye out and see what the pre-view shows the anime to be like.Yasunari NITTA, who did the Canvas 2 Character designs, which I liked.. but going from the art of the cover I was thinking something different then Canvas 2.
There is a fair bit of Information here. Its not in english though it doesn't come out to bad from a google translation, if you can be bother to take a look.
Though for a quite Note..
Animation Studio: GONZO
Director: Jun' ichi SAKATA
Series Composition: Mayori SEKIJIMA
From what I Gather, the Story is about the Guy, who got kicked out of his fire Clan because he had no talent. 4 years down the road he comes back to Japan and has power to manipulate the wind, and on his return to japan he is a Suspect in a murder. At least that what I got from crappy online translations... >.>
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I want something among the lines of Shakugan no SHANA quality of animation >.< I'm not asking for Kyoto Animation super high quality >.<
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Beautiful fighter.
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Kaze no Stigma is a lil' gem i've been keeping an eye on for some time now, and believe me - it might look like it, but its nothing like Shakugan no Shana. The anime shall be interesting.. though it'll fail in the art department. Its GONZO.. so they'll change it to how they see fit.
I can so imagine a perfectly musical score for this one.. hope i don't get to lost in that thought. ^^;;
NeoSam: Have you got any bigger images by any chance? I wouldn't mind making a few avatars for myself.
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I'm looking for all the images of the calendar, but with no success
Ahh, I found some nice stuff here:
A box for the light novels (with illustrations) and a poster
Hmm... it seems there was a manga of this too, but it was only a one shot manga (it got published in October 2004 issue of the shounen manga magazine Dragon AGE). well, there is now a bigger chance for a real manga after the announcement of the anime ^_^
I'm adding Stigma of the Wind as a translation to the first post of this thread.
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I'll post more info about the manga when its available.
The male oriented light novel magazine Dragon Magazine has the protagonist of Kaze no Stigma on the cover:
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The character is voiced by Daisuke Ono who acted for Sven Carl Bayan in Gundam Stargazer, Yukito Kunisaki in AIR,Itsuki Koizumi in Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Mabashi in Bleach, and Enju from Rozen Maiden.
He is a new and very cool voice actor, judging from this, i think the anime is really going to be good.
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I was impressed earlier this week when I read that Genentech has given over 14,000 iPads to their employees. The company doesn't have a BYOD policy (yet?) but sees increased productivity from the employees it has given iPads. While neat, the big "wow" came when I read how many internal enterprise apps they have.
Genentech has been running an internal app store for four years. In that time they've amassed 110 apps. While that might seem small compared with the hundreds of thousands of apps you'd find in Apple, Android, or Windows stores, it is impressive for a company creating apps just for its employees.
A recent survey of 200 companies by MGI Research found seventy percent of the companies surveyed had five or fewer mobile apps in development and half of the companies had no employee-focused mobile apps in production.
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Btw Pink Floyd album out in October is called "The Endless River". Based on 1994 sessions is Rick Wright's swansong and very beautiful.— Polly Samson (@PollySamson) July 5, 2014
Keyboardist Rick Wright, who was one of Pink Floyd's founding members, died of cancer in 2008.
"The Endless River" will arrive on the heels of the 20th anniversary of Pink Floyd's "The Division Bell," an occasion marked with a deluxe reissue June 30. According to a statement from the band, the upcoming album has its roots in that 1994 disc.
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I am writing to you as a lifelong Pottstown YMCA member and parent of two kids who love their swim team. As a family - both my family and our collective swim team family - we deserve to have questions answered by the Philadelphia Freedom Valley YMCA and the Pottstown YMCA.
While I love Coach Kathy and I know it has been stated numerous times recently that she is a tremendous person, coach and mentor to hundreds of kids spanning nearly 30 years as a coach at the Pottstown YMCA, the real issue here is not the firing of one coach, but the systematic dismantling of a swim team that has left hundreds of kids 'homeless,' meaning they no longer have a team at this point in time. There is no longer a single swim coach on staff at the Pottstown Y (the remaining coaches resigned in solidarity with Coach Kathy and I applaud them for doing so).
I was forced to make a decision that I thought I would never have to make - terminating my membership that I have had since middle school. I did this in support of Coach Kathy, our swim program and because I was left with no other alternative since I have two kids who truly love swimming. The fact that the Philadelphia and Pottstown YMCAs have yet to publicly make any statements, contact any of the affected swim team families or even post it in a Tweet or a Facebook post is utterly disturbing. Their silence is deafening and their lack of respect for the community in which they serve is despicable.
The YMCA I loved was all about the community: senior centers, day cares, youth activities, etc. This new-look YMCA is an abomination and should not be allowed to carry the name 'Young Men's Christian Association.' I am calling for the firing of every executive in both the Pottstown and Freedom Valley YMCA who had any part, no matter how small, in this mess of a situation. That will only happen if we collectively, as a community, fight for what is right.
I implore every person reading this to contact their local congressman, the Philadelphia media outlets and plaster social media with the facts - that the 225 families of truly dedicated, community-oriented swimmers are worth fighting for and are worth the time it takes to type an email.
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Today, Marvel continued its week of teaser images for Dan Slott's upcoming "Amazing Spider-Man" six issue event, "Ends of the Earth," featuring four bookend issues with art by Stefano Caselli. Beginning in March with "Amazing Spider-Man" #682 -- just in time for the book's 50th Anniversary -- the story arc features the new Sinister Six and the fruition of Dr. Otto Octavius' master plan to take over the entire globe. While the first teaser featured the Sinister Six and yesterday's offering depicted humans in agony, today is the first glimpse of the web-slinger himself -- and he's suiting up for battle.
"We've seen Doc Ock and the Sinister Six slowly building and percolating this master plan," Slott said in 2011. "On the way it's stretched out into the Marvel Universe proper. We've seen Doc Ock totally smack down Iron Man. He totally wiped the floor with Hank Pym's team in 'Avengers Academy.' Over in 'Spider-Man' during an FF team up, Doc Ock pwned Reed Richards! He took over the Baxter Building and stole all kinds of stuff. Doc Ock's been taking out the biggest brains on his stomp to global domination."
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Having his breakout season in 2012, Jordan Zimmermann has been a guy the Washington Nationals have been able to rely on. 27 years old in 2013, Zimmermann helps anchor the young Nationals rotation including Gio Gonzalez and Stephen Strasburg. The Nationals had success in 2012, winning the NL East and making the playoffs for the first time as a franchise. The Nationals got unlucky though, and were eliminated by the St. Louis Cardinals in the Division Series. This year the Nationals will hope to build on their 2012 performance, and Jordan Zimmermann will most likely be a big help.
One of the main reasons the Nationals were eliminated so early last season is because of the shutting down of Stephen Strasburg. In the middle of the season, I wrote about the pros and cons of shutting Strasburg down, and in the end the situation ended badly. Last year, the Nationals had a very strong rotation consisting of Strasburg, Zimmermann, Gonzalez, and Edwin Jackson. By shutting Strasburg down, the Nationals lost a quarter of their rotation and had to scramble when the Division Series went more than three games. Ross Detwiler got the start and Zimmermann had to come into the game in a relief role. There was no reason for this to have to happen. Protecting Strasburg was important, but in my opinion the Nationals overprotected him, which cost them dearly in the playoffs.
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The Nationals will have no problem winning in the regular season, and Jordan Zimmermann is one of the main reasons. Last year, Zimmermann posted a very strong 2.94 ERA and a 12-8 record in 32 starts. As I mentioned earlier, the pitcher is still very young at 27 years old this year. He made his debut in 2009, so he already has four years of experience under his belt. If he builds on last year and posts a similar ERA with a slightly improved win-loss record, we could see an elite pitcher entering his prime. With a good 2013 performance, Zimmermann could be compared to guys like Matt Cain or David Price. In a few years, Zimmermann will receive Cy Young votes and could compete with Strasburg to be the ace of the staff.
For Zimmermann, the Nationals signing Gio Gonzalez was important. As a developing pitcher, Zimmermann benefitted greatly from a veteran presence. Although Gonzalez is just a year older than Zimmermann, he has a full year more of experience. The Gonzalez signing also took some pressure off of Zimmermann and Strasburg in the rotation, because a third guy was able to take some of the load off. Edwin Jackson further helped on that front.
I see the three pitchers in Zimmermann, Strasburg, and Gonzalez maturing together and taking the Nats' to the playoffs in the years to come. GM Mike Rizzo did a great job building this team and got lucky with the draft classes in the years that he had the first overall pick. With a strong rotation anchored by these three and a strong lineup held down by Bryce Harper and Ryan Zimmerman, I see the Nationals as a very successful franchise in the years to come. This is especially true if Jordan Zimmermann takes the next step and becomes an elite pitcher.
The only concern with Zimmermann is his health. At the end of 2009, he felt elbow pain and had TJ Surgery. He only pitched part of 2010 and had his innings capped in 2011. Now, hopefully, all of Zimmermann's health struggles are behind him and he will continue to pitch the Nationals to victory for the years to come.
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How 'The Simpsons' Helped Launch 'Wreck-It-Ralph'
Rich Moore, a veteran of such TV shows as "The Simpsons" and "Futurama," found himself facing a fresh challenge when he signed up to direct the Disney movie "Wreck-It Ralph," which today was nominated for an Oscar for best animated feature film.
"In television the stories are very circular where you begin at square one, take the characters through a journey and by the end of the episode they're pretty much back to square one," Moore said in an interview with Speakeasy. "Whereas in a movie, we're watching a character evolve."
To create "Wreck-It Ralph," a movie about a videogame character trying to find his place in the world, Moore decided to work from the inside out, creating believable characters and finding actors that could play them before refining the plot that would drive the movie.
Moore talked to Speakeasy today about his nomination, his decision to cast comic Sarah Silverman to voice one of the "Wreck-It Ralph" leads, and the possibility of a sequel.
How did you get involved in "Wreck-It Ralph"?
I started working at Disney four years ago, back in 2008, and I came in as a director and when I came in I found out there was this notion of doing a movie about video games that had been kicking around the studio for a long, long time. That was something that seemed interesting to me. It seemed like a great world to set a movie in. But I didn't want to that movie to be just about videogames, just about plot, action and adventure. I wanted a really solid story at the middle of the movie. I fell in love with the concept of this very simple Donkey Kong-esque character struggling with this very profound and human conflict of what is the meaning of life? What if if I'm not happy with this one thing that I've been programmed to do? That was the genesis of my involvement with "Wreck-It-Ralph."
How did you come to cast Sarah Silverman and John C. Reilly in the movie?
The idea of who these characters were and who was going to play them was determined very early on in the process. It was myself and the screenwriter Phil Johnston, both of us like to begin a project like this from the inside out, with the characters, what they're thinking, what they represent. The first one that was really solidified in my mind was Sarah's character Vanellope. Her character, a lot of it was inspired by Sarah's own memoirs that she had published a few years before I started working on the movie. I would listen to the books on tape version of it, I would listen to it on my iPod, and the part where she would describe herself as a kid, that she was naïve and innocent but wholly inappropriate that was instrumental in the creation of the character of Vanellope for Sarah. With John C. Reilly I wanted someone who could bring real depth and humanity to the character of Ralph.
Not everything Sarah Silverman does is family friendly. What made you think she was right for this Disney film?
I've been a fan of Sarah's for a long, long time. For me, I've always seen this angle that everything she does is very naïve and childlike. She got typecast that she was a blue comic, or the mean girlfriend. I thought if we could find the right vehicle she would be perfect. When we made the film, we had a table read of the first draft of the script, which is not done a lot in animation. This is something I learned in "The Simpsons"—every "Simpsons" script at some early stage of production is read before a group of people. We had many of the actors who ended up playing the final parts there at the table read....If there were any questions if she would be appropriate I want to show the group that she was as perfect as I thought. It was a screaming success.
Will there be a sequel?
We definitely left that possibility open. I would love to re-explore the world and see more of it. I think it's a world rich in storylines. I feel like this movie just barely scratched the surface of what we can do with the subject of videogames.
Is there anything concrete?
Not at this point. But we've definitely been talking about it.


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Max Cure believes in funding innovative and novel childhood cancer research in an effort to find cures for the various forms of childhood cancer and to create less-toxic and more effective treatments for children and young adults diagnosed with cancer. More than $1.5 million has been donated, primarily to fund The Immune Cell Therapy Lab at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.LEARN MORE
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The Homeschool
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Private School Affidavit
2018/2019 School Year
Your affidavit needs to be true as of the date you are filing it (and you are signing it under penalty of perjury, so take this obligation seriously). If, for any reason, the information in the filed affidavit ceases to be true at any point during the school year, you do NOT need to update it. So if, for example, you move, or you add or drop children from your school, or your school even stops operating, you do not need to report anything to the CDE. If you file an affidavit the following school year, you would just need to make sure that the affidavit you file at that time is true as of the date you file it. However, if you realize after filing that your affidavit was not correct at the time of filing and that you need to make changes, you can do so by sending an e-mail to email@example.com. The CDE requests that you include the affidavit confirmation number, the school name and address, and the name and telephone number of the person requesting the changes. You may also make changes by contacting the CDE private schools office at 916-445-7331.
If you have questions about whether and how to file the affidavit, contact the CDE (916-445-7331). If you do, we encourage you to approach all dealings with them in a business-like way.
You might wish to post your questions first to the HSC community since there is a good chance someone will know the answer. Ask on our yahoogroups email list (email@example.com) or our Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/HomeSchoolAssociationofCalifornia).
At the beginning of the form, you're asked to affirm the statement that "This is... a private full-time... school... [that]... offer[s] instruction in the several branches of study required to be taught in public schools of the state,... [ that offers this] instruction... in English [, and that keeps]... attendance [records]...". Only schools that can affirm this should be filing private school affidavits. See the discussion under item 51 below. If you are only providing "enrichment" at this time while your child attends another school that is taking primary responsibility for your child's education, do not file. If you're unsure whether your child will last in the school/charter program he or she is in now and you may wish to withdraw your child at some later time to homeschool, do not file now. The CDE will accept filings of affidavits throughout the school year for newly-formed schools, and we have no reason to think that people who file at a later time will, absent other factors (such as unresolved truancy problems with the former school), be subject to any greater scrutiny than schools that file during the October filing period.
Enter the name you have chosen for your school. Any name you choose is permissible, although you may wish to use a name that is business-like and professional. "Cutesy" names may draw attention or unwarranted scrutiny to your school. This name should be used on all correspondence concerning the school. We strongly recommend that you either purchase printed letterhead and envelopes or prepare letterhead on your computer for you to use in correspondence on school matters. You need not worry about trademark issues or whether your name is unique unless you plan to operate it as a business; seek competent legal advice if you do.
If your school had previously been assigned a CDE code (usually only given to schools with six or more students), enter it.
Select the county where your school is located from a drop down menu.
It is necessary to list the public school district in which your private school is located. Choose from the drop down menu after selecting your county. If you have both elementary age and high school age children and your public elementary and high schools are in different districts, the CDE says to choose the district which the majority of the private school's children would attend. If you have equal numbers of children in each, just pick one. They confirmed that your filing is valid for the grades in your school that would be covered by the district you did not choose.
California law requires you to provide a street address in California (as opposed to a P.O. box) where your school conducts business. For most people, this will be your home address, and we recommend that you use that. If there is some reason why you feel you can't use your home address (e.g. you have concerns about personal security, or you travel extensively), please contact the HSC legal team. It might be better, in such a case, for you to join a private satellite program instead of forming your own school.
See 5 above.
A phone number is necessary for your school. If you use an answering machine, consider changing your outgoing message to be appropriate for both family and school use.
8. Optional School Fax Number
A fax number is optional. You can skip this question if desired.
The CDE uses the e-mail to send you a confirmation of your filing. As the CDE no longer requires you to submit a physical copy of the affidavit, this e-mail confirmation replaces the signed post office receipt as confirmation of your submission. When you provide an e-mail address, you might want to see if your internet service provider allows you to create a new account that has your school name in it (for example, firstname.lastname@example.com), as this looks more professional than many typical family e-mail addresses (like firstname.lastname@example.com).
Enter an additional e-mail address to receive communications if you wish.
11. Optional School Website
This is optional. You may enter a school website if you wish.
(if different from street address given in 5 and 6) - Enter mailing street address, including trying to find your "street" or "way" or "court" from a drop down menu.
Choose one from the choices given: coeducational (you offer to teach both boys and girls), boys only or girls only. We generally recommend that you select coeducational, only because you never know how circumstances in your life might change.
Even though your children sleep there, mark "Day Only." Residential Boarding Schools have complex requirements.
16. Does the school provide special education services?
We suggest that you check "no" to this question, even if one of your children has learning issues or had an IEP when in public school.
You are to select, from a drop down menu, the lowest and highest grades OFFERED by your school, not the grades actually attended by your children. Since kindergarten is not compulsory, it is not necessary to offer it even if you have age-appropriate children. For example: You may choose to offer grades 1 - 12 or grades 1 - 6 even if you only have one child in the 3rd grade.
If you offer secondary education (grades 7 - 12), it is advisable to check "yes". There is nothing in the California statutes that prevents a home-based private school from issuing a diploma.
Choose either "Non-Religious" or "Religious." If you choose "Religious," you have to pick the religion from a drop down menu. We recommend you choose non-religious even if religion is important to you. Many church affiliates must meet additional requirements imposed by their churches.
If your school filed an affidavit in a prior year under a different name, check "yes".
If you answered "yes" to 20, fill in this box.
Mark "no" unless the public school district in which your school site is located has changed since last year. See 4 above for situations where the elementary and high school districts where you live are different and you now need to choose a different one.
See 20. If the public school district in which your school site is located has changed since last year, enter in the name of the former district. The name appears on your last year's affidavit.
You may enter the age range for the students actually attending, or the age range of students to whom education is offered. Do not include preschool age children in this range. It is not required to include kindergarten.
You should mark the boxes that correspond to your students' grade levels or you can check "ungraded elementary" or ungraded secondary." It is not necessary to mark any kindergarten age children in the kindergarten box since kindergarten is not required, but some people may choose to mark kindergarten if you desire to file a personal beliefs exemption for immunizations that will, under current law, be grandfathered in until the child reaches 7th grade. Do not mark any children who are formally enrolled in another legal school, such as a public charter school. The system will automatically fill in 0s for the other grades.
We generally recommend that, if you choose to use grade levels, you use the grade levels that match your children's chronological ages, even if they are doing work above or below their traditional grade level. We doubt that what you put in the affidavit would be controlling for any other purpose. For instance, if you were later to enroll your child in public school, they may or may not agree with you if you think a grade level other than the traditional one is appropriate, and the fact that you had listed your child as two grade levels ahead on your affidavit would have no importance to them. EXCEPTION: If you plan for your child to take the CHSPE but the child isn't yet of 10th grade age (16), they will be prevented from doing so. You must have marked someone at at least 10th grade level on the affidavit for one academic year prior to the test or the child should be completing grade 10 the semester the CHSPE is taken. Finally, please see the discussion at the beginning about whether you are really operating a private school. The affidavit won't be accepted by the CDE system with an enrollment of zero. Do NOT file now with a false number of students if your child is in another school but you're trying to keep your options open. File when you are really operating a full-time private school.
Mark number of students who graduated.
Count each person only once. Even if you are philosophically opposed to "teaching" your child "full-time," you should fill in one full-time teacher. Remember, you are establishing a full-time day school. For example: If you are both the teacher and the administrator, mark "1" under "Full-time teacher" and leave number of administrators and other school staff blank.
You must list a site administrator. This can be the same person as the School Staff (teacher) or the Director/Principal Officer.
You're asked to pick a title for the site administrator, such as Principal, Headmaster, Headmistress, from a drop down menu. There's not a lot of importance as to which you choose.
30. Site Administrator Email Address
Fill in email address for Site Administrator.
This can be the same person as the "Site Administrator."
Provide the name and street address of the person maintaining your records. This can be, but does not have to be, the same address as the physical school address you entered earlier. For most people, this will be your name and your home address. If, for any reason you have entered a place other than your home address as your school address (e.g. people who are reluctant to use their home address due to personal security concerns, or who were traveling extensively), make sure that the address you put here is for someone who actually maintains your records. This can be a relative, a friend, your accountant, whomever. But it has to be someone explicitly willing to take on that job, and at least a copy of the records should be kept at that address. All persons operating private schools must maintain attendance records, records of courses of study offered, and the names, addresses and qualifications of the faculty, even those of you who are using a correspondence school that maintains grades and records. Again, an email address is optional.
Unless you have formed a corporation and been granted a federal tax exemption, you must select number 43, "none of the above."
You are asked to check a series of boxes indicating that you understand:
The CDE is no longer requiring that you mail in a signed copy of the affidavit. They used to ask for this because, by signing personally, you were making a statement under penalty of perjury. If it turned out you were lying, you could be held in contempt of court and subjected to penalties. They evidently believe that an electronic signature now has the same legal force and effect as one in pen and ink, so they are only asking for your name and some other personal identifying information.
Before you hit the "submit form" button, we recommend you do two things. First, carefully check all the fields for accuracy. Second, we recommend that you try to print or save the form so that you have a record of what you submitted even if something goes wrong after that. Once you've done all that, click on "submit form." A confirmation page with a unique confirmation number will come up displaying the data. First, write the confirmation number down on a piece of paper. If something goes wrong with printing or your internet connection, at least you'll have the number that the CDE can use to find you in the system. Then print at least one copy of the confirmation page to keep at your school site with your records. If this page successfully printed with all of the information in the form before you hit the "submit form" button, you can get rid of the earlier form; the one with your confirmation number is the one that proves you filed the affidavit. This is the page that attendance officers are entitled to see if they come to your home asking about whether your child is enrolled in a legal school. It is also the page that you can give, for instance, to bookstores to try to get teacher discounts.
Schools using the CDE's online filing system will have met their obligation to file a private school affidavit only when the data have successfully been submitted online; if the filing never makes it to the page where you get a confirmation number, you'll need to try again. Schools using paper affidavits, whether the form provided by the CDE or one they made up containing the statutorily required information, will be in compliance with 33190 only when they have mailed their affidavits to the CDE. If you're mailing your affidavit, we recommend that you mail it by certified mail, return receipt requested. This is powerful proof that your affidavit was received, and is worth every penny. Use a cover letter on your letterhead that sounds official. For example: "Enclosed for filing on behalf of [name of school] is the confirmation copy of the private school affidavit for the 2016-2017 school year. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call the undersigned at the above number" will work fine.
Finally, and most importantly, keep in mind that, whether you are filing online with an electronic signature or filing a paper copy, you are signing the affidavit under penalty of perjury. Perjury is a criminal offense. Take it seriously.
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Transparency Market Research Report Add "Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2013 - 2019" to its database.
Albany, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/14/2013 -- Transparency Market Research is Published new Market Report "Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2013 - 2019," the global market is expected to reach a value of USD 30.2 billion by 2019, at a CAGR of 11.1% from 2013 to 2019.
Browse the full report with complete TOC at http://www.transparencymarketresearch.com/intelligent-transportation-system-market.html
The demand of ITS systems is rising globally due to increased congestion in metropolitan areas. Development and deployment of intelligent transportation system not only reduces traffic, but also reduces number of accidents and improves quality of life by controlling vehicle emission levels. In addition, these systems reduce financial burden on countries by reducing fuel consumptions and traveling delays. These benefits of ITS systems are motivating both developed and developing countries to invest in these technologies instead of spending huge amount on transportation network expansion.
Advanced transportation management systems (ATMS) used for traffic control and management accounted for the largest revenue share of 42.1% of the overall market. Significant investment is expected in this segment with increasing traffic problems in both developed and developing economies across the world. Advanced vehicle pricing systems which include electronic toll collection, congestion pricing, vehicle mile travel and other road user charging systems are expected to have a huge demand across the world. This is due to the increasing attention of highway and local transportation operators to reduce traffic on both urban and inter-urban transportation networks.
Traffic management and road user charging were two dominating applications with a share of 58% in 2012.
Environment protection is emerging as well as the fastest growing application of ITS. In addition, automotive telematics is another major segment in ITS applications. Huge demand for vehicle position systems and navigation systems are expected from both vehicle manufacturers and owners due to increasing need to access real-time information. Advancement in wireless technologies are playing important role in the development of automotive telematics market. In wireless technologies, market is moving from dedicated short range communication (DSRC) technology to more sophisticated satellite based vehicle positioning systems (VPS) due to their higher adaptability and flexibility.
Global ITS market was dominated by North America and accounted for 42.2% of the revenue share in 2012. Government initiative and promotional activities particularly in the U.S. increased the demand for ITS systems in both public and private sector in North America. Asia-Pacific is the fastest growing region in the global market through the estimated period and huge investment is expected from developing countries including India, China, Thailand and Malaysia. In addition, large development in ITS market is expected in Middle East, Africa and South America as countries in these regions are investing in the transportation sector to support their economic growth.
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Global ITS industry looks very competitive with large numbers of multinational and domestic hardware, software and end-use solution suppliers. The major players in the global ITS market include Siemens AG (Germany), Kapsch TrafficCom AG(Austria), Hitachi Ltd (Japan), Q-Free ASA (Norway), TomTom NV (Netherlands), Denso Corp (Japan), Xerox (U.S.) and others.
The global intelligent transportation system market is segmented as below:
By type
- Advanced traveler information systems (ATIS)
- Advanced transportation management systems (ATMS)
- Advanced transportation pricing systems (ATPS)
- Advanced public transportation systems (APTS)
- Cooperative systems
By application
- Traffic management
- Road safety and surveillance
- Freight management
- Public transport
- Environment protection
- Automotive telematics
- Parking management
- Road user charging
By Geography
North America
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- Mexico
- Germany
- Italy
- Russia
- Rest of Europe
- Australia
- China
- India
- Japan
- Singapore
- Korea
- Rest of Asia-Pacific
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If you didn't think the top baby names of 2012 list offered any insight into this year's trends, think again: parents are increasingly naming their babies after their favorite technology.
As CNET pointed out, Babycenter.com's list shows the name Mac for boys jumped 12 percent in 2012, most likely a tribute to mom and dad's favorite computer. And for girls, the name Siri — also the name of the personal assistant that you can talk to in an iPhone 4S or 5 — went up by 5 percent.
The name Apple itself rose 15 percent for girls in 2012, although this could just be parents following Gwyneth Paltrow's lead, or some other naming trend we haven't noticed yet about fruit.
Click here for our list of tech-inspired baby names, including recent addition Hashtag!