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Happy 10th Birthday To Mo Williems' Pigeon: Celebrate With 'It's A Busload Of Pigeon Books' Box Set
Don't let the pigeon drive the BUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
My kids used to love it when we got to that part. I would scream at the top of my lungs and they would laugh until it hurt. That's why I had to give a blog shout out to Mo Willems as he celebrates his pigeon's 10th birthday.
This month, fans can take a drive down memory lane with three classic Pigeon titles at a smaller trim size with the It's a Busload of Pigeon Books! box set (retails for $15.23 on Amazon), featuring an original poster illustrated by Mo Willems.
It's a Busload of Pigeon Books! (Pub Date: April 2), $24.99—Climb on board for super fun reading with three picture books starring the famous bird! The boxed set includes three favorites: Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog! and Don't Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late!, along with an original poster illustrated by Mo Willems with activities on the reverse side.
Mo is also coming out a few new titles!!
· Don't Pigeonhole Me!: Two Decades of the Mo Willems Sketchbook (Pub Date: June 18), $40.00—Young readers first met the Pigeon in 2003. But Pigeon was born many years earlier in the pages of a Willems' sketchbook. This new adult coffee table book is a 20-year compilation of characters, scribbles, and ideas. These sketches have always been the well from which Willems draws ideas and inspiration. Featuring a foreword by Eric Carle and an introduction by Willems, this volume includes all twenty sketchbooks from the last two decades.
· A Big Guy Took My Ball! (An Elephant & Piggie Book) (Pub Date: May 21), $8.99—Elephant and Piggie, Willems' Geisel Award-winning duo, will also have a new tale of their own. Gerald and Piggie, a curious pair, are best friends. Piggie is devastated when a big guy takes her ball. Gerald is big, too . . . but is he big enough to help his best friend?
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I can't wait for the new books. My son loves reading the Piggy & Elephant Books but my daughter loves the Pigeon series. even though she's only 17 months, she woofs and squeals at all the right points in "Pigeon Wants a Puppy"
Love Mo, although in person he's a tiny bit scary. My fave is "Leonardo the Terrible Monster" (my husband's name).
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The holiday season is on its way, and with it the beginning of party season. Now is the time for all things festive and glamorous! I love it when I get an opportunity to dress up, but since I started wearing a capsule wardrobe, dressy occasions are a bit different. I keep a few dresses in my capsule wardrobe that can be dressed up or down depending on the event, and over the past year I've learned a few tricks to elevate any outfit and make it look more dressed up. I went to the symphony over the weekend, and thought I'd share how I implemented these tricks for that evening.
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I like to think of my style as classic with a touch of vintage, and that really comes into play with my more dressy looks. My hair, makeup, jacket, and shoes are all vintage inspired elements that give the look a little bit of personality. I love that these black heels have a t-strap because it's a subtle, almost undetectable detail that adds a retro flair.
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Anyone remember that show called "On the Lot?" This was a reality competition show from about ten years ago that was made when the networks were trying to apply the "American Idol" formula onto all sorts of random things, in this case filmmaking and it took the form of contestants making short films every week for the viewing public to vote on. It wasn't very good. I bring this up because one of the most memorable things about it was a contestant named Mateen Kemet, an African-American fellow who was very interested in reflecting his political beliefs in his films. His most memorable short on the show was for "horror movie week" in which he interpreted the theme creatively and made a movie about the anxiety that minorities feel when they're pulled over by the police. It was pretty interesting, certainly more memorable than every other contestant's films even if a lily-white Fox Network show maybe wasn't the most obvious place for biting political statements. If I recall correctly I think it actually got a decent number of votes and he moved on to the next round but the short seemed to function better as a political statement than as a true genre film, a fact that I doubt troubled him much. I was reminded of this obscure moment in reality television when watching the new hit horror film Get Out, which uses the language of the horror movie to look at the anxieties of being black in modern America.
The film begins in modern New York City, where an African-American man named Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya) and his white girlfriend Rose Armitage (Allison Williams) are planning a trip to visit her parents in upstate New York. Chris is wary of this as visiting white people of an older generation can always go in some bad "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner" directions but Rose tries to assure him that her parents aren't like that and that they "would have gladly voted for Obama a third time if they could." When they get to her childhood home we meet those parents, who seem to be affable upper-middle class former hippies with all the trappings of modern progressivism. Her father Dean (Bradley Whitford) talks rapturously about Jesse Owens and her mother Missy (Catherine Keener) has a sort of earth-mother vibe going on and is apparently an accomplished therapist with an interest in hypnosis. Things seem to be going alright in theory but something seems to be profoundly off about the place. The parents have a pair of African American servants, a groundskeeper named Walter (Marcus Henderson) and a maid named Georgina (Betty Gabriel) who seem oddly servile, almost inhuman. Something's going on and he's not sure what.
The setup for Get Out would seem to immediately remind audiences of the 1975 feminist thriller The Stepford Wives, in which it's revealed that the town a woman has moved into have been replacing all of its women with servile robot housewives with the not so subtle message being that society forces women to give up their individuality to meet patriarchal demands. It wasn't really a particularly scary movie, at least scene to scene and it's not really a movie that all that many people actually watch all that often anymore, but it made its point pretty well and has remained something of a cultural touchstone ever since. Get Out is similar in that it's not a particularly frightening movie in terms of raw suspense. People who go to this expecting to be scared by it the way they'd be scared by a James Wan or something and who have no interest in engaging in its racial messages will leave disappointed. The film lives and dies by its allegory and to me that allegory is a bit hard to grasp.
The film was written and directed by Jordan Peele, one half of the sketch comedy duo Key and Peele (he's the one with the hair) who are both bi-racial and much of their comedy stems from the tension of straddling the worlds of white and black. That was the main theme of the duo's feature film debut Keanu, which featured the likes of Keegan-Michael Key introducing some gang members to the music of George Michael. Here Peele looks at the darker side of all this. Malcom X once said that Southern white conservatives were like angry wolves lashing out at African Americans but that Northern white liberals were like foxes who hunt the lamb by acting friendly towards it before striking out and betraying it and believed that they were both two sides to the same coin. Get Out seems to share this belief at least to some extent, as it is ultimately a story about two-faced liberals who put on a nice face but hold a secret agenda. Here most of this secret racial animus takes the form of micro-aggressions: the slightly off tone that Rose's parents take on when they see him, the stupid questions that he has to answer when attending their boujee dinner party, the agro tone that her brother takes on (which I guess isn't that micro).
All micro-aggressions certainly seem annoying and I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of them, but they alone would seem more annoying than scary, but this isn't a satire (at least it's not just a satire) it's a horror movie so this family's ill-intent needs to go quite a bit further than that. Eventually it's revealed that they are not only less progressive than they appear but are in fact taking part in a scheme to kidnap black people and implant the minds of the elderly white people into their bodies in order to reverse the aging process… and this is where the movie's allegory starts to lose me. In the film white liberals and their micro-aggressions aren't merely clueless people who aren't as enlightened as they think they are: they're evil. They aren't blind to their own racism, in fact they're perfectly aware of it and are quite deliberately hiding it so that they can actively exploit and harm the black victims they're luring to their spaces. What exactly is this next step supposed to be a stand-in for? What end game is the film positing is the result of the sort of benevolent liberal racism the movie is attacking?
Perhaps the suggestion is that by trying to incorporate these black people into white society they're trying to rob them of their culture and heritage and turn them into "Oreos," but Chris doesn't really present himself as being particularly "black" in his mannerisms to begin with and the earlier micro-aggressions rarely seem to show all that much hostility towards his culture. Perhaps the film is suggesting that white people all secretly want to be black out of some primal jealously, but that kind of thing seems to be more the domain of teenagers who want to emulate rappers than elderly people who pine for whatever slight athletic advantages they have, and again this doesn't seem to be at the root of the micro-aggressions that were occurring earlier. I think the more plausible message would seem to be that these white people only like black people insomuch as they can use them as props in order to make themselves seem cooler and more progressive, but if that's their ultimate end-goal why would they be keeping their current brainwashed black people as servants? That would seem to be the opposite of that goal.
I went into this movie pretty earnestly trying to get to the bottom of Peele's critiques of the white liberal racism but I must say by the movie's end I felt like I was left with more questions than answers. I feel like what the movie may be missing is some model of what the "right kind" of white liberal looks like. In the film every one of the white people turns out to be two-faced and awful both before and after their full motivations are revealed, and yet I'm not entirely sure what they could have done not to be judged as such. Early in the film Rose is depicted as being a privileged fool when she stands up to a cop on Chris' behalf and yet later she's depicted as a traitor for failing to stand up on his behalf when other people around her start asking inappropriate questions and her brother starts acting like a dick. People who go out of their way not to seem racist are believed to be hiding racial animus, people who do the opposite and make their racism clear are also obviously awful, and people who try not to bring up race at all are likely to also be seen as conspicuously two faced.
The movie perhaps inadvertently makes being white something of the ultimate catch-22 in which one can never really be without sin… and maybe that is a legitimate point of view and I can also see why Peele wouldn't want to give white audiences and easy out, but there's something rather hopeless about the film's view of race in America. Again, Jordan Peele is the product of an inter-racial marriage and he is himself married to a white woman, clearly he doesn't really think it's impossible for whites and blacks to live in harmony and yet he still ends the movie with Chris killing the "white bitch" and then returning to his black friend and by extension the black community, presumably never to make the mistake of going to a white girls' parents' house again. That's pretty damn dark, and again, I'm sure Peele isn't really a segregationist and that I'm maybe taking this to some symbolic extreme but what other conclusion am I to come to from this?
Of course maybe I'm just making the white boy mistake of trying to make this about me. This is a movie about a black man told from the perspective of a black man, maybe it's a big mistake to be looking at it as some kind of how to manual about how to be a white guy and how not to be a white guy. It's more likely that the movie is simply trying to make you feel empathy for this guy and give you an idea of how and why he's so ill at ease in these elite white settings, but then I have to go back to the point I made two pages ago: the movie isn't that scary. I feel like there would have been more tension to the whole situation if the film had done the Rosemary's Baby thing and left it ambiguous for much of the run-time as to whether there was truly a threat here or whether Chris was being paranoid but with the film's opening scene and the absolutely bizarre way the black servants behave it's clear that Chris' concerns are more than valid and you're actually ahead of him in realizing that he's in mortal danger. Otherwise there just isn't a whole lot in the way of really scary scenes here. There's a jump scare or two complete with musical stings and things do start to get a little gory at the end and there are one or two legitimately suspenseful scenes here or there but I do think Jordan Peele's inexperience behind the camera shows and he's not terribly elegant in executing on some of the horror sequences.
As of now Get Out is sitting at 99% on Rotten Tomatoes with 176 positive review and only one negative review, meaning that if I was deemed worthy of contributing to that website's aggregator I'd be sitting alone with Armond fucking White in not being terribly impressed with the movie. That's not good company to be in. Honestly though that score kind of makes me think there really is something wrong with the movie. I'd think that if a movie was truly provocative then unanimous praise should be the last thing it wants to receive. Movies that break boundaries and tell harsh truths should divide people and get people riled up and if all the do is receive praise from the very people it's speaking out against then something's wrong. In the case of Get Out I think Peele has oddly found a way to appeal to all sides in all the wrong ways. Conservatives, who tend to hate latte liberals even more than black people, will watch it and say "see, those liberals are the real racists" and will proceed with their usual deplorableness secure in knowing that they're no worse than the other guys. Liberals will watch it and vocally approve of it lest they be accused of being the kind of two-faced liberal the movie is out to attack. And finally the actual minorities will watch it and appreciate that a movie is finally acknowledging their lived experience. That last reaction is fair enough, I'm certainly in no position to argue with that, but reviews are meant to be a personal reaction and I personally don't think the movie worked for me. As a horror movie I found it limp and if it set out to prove that liberal racism was just as bad as overt racism, well, consider me unconvinced… I don't know what that says about me.


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Nature's Best health food store is in the same Riverfront section as the cafe (they used to be attached, but have since both expanded).
Sheboygan's Harborcentre.
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The vegan options basically included a black bean burger and a hummus sandwich. Both were OK. I was hoping for some better options but was glad they had at least those two.
I grew up as an weird kid being welcomed and encouraged to find community at The Weather Center cafe. I was first introduced to hummus, real coffee, and poetry nights when Sheboygan had no other coffeehouses. As an adult having lived in Minneapolis and now in San Francisco, I still crave Weather Center blend coffee and monkey chunk cookies. If you're driving near Sheboygan, stop in for a coffee and you might find yourself there for a few hours, listening to the Weather Channel above, lost in the self-taught art exhibits on the walls or paging through an animal encyclopedia. In summer you can sit or walk through the Harborcentre overlooking the Sheboygan River and Lake Michigan, or watch the snow falling in winter. If you're lucky, you'll get to chat with Teek the surfing owner, his mother the favorite substitute teacher for many Sheboyganites, or with one of the budding cartoonists, poets, and vegan chefs waiting to be discovered who will wait on your table.
From Milwaukee: Follow interstate highway I-43 North and take exit # 123 towards Sheboygan/Sheboygan Falls. Turn right onto WI-28 E/Washington Ave. Turn left onto S Taylor Dr. Turn right onto Indiana Ave. Continue following Indiana Ave. Turn slight left. Turn left onto S. 8th. Turn right onto Riverfront Dr.
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Wheelchair Accessible
$ - inexpensive
- Deli
- Greek
- Eclectic (Varied)
- Kid-Friendly
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I am a kindergarten teacher educator and owner and director of Institute of early childhood developers in Kenya. I have read much about Froebel. I prefer his methods in my Amicus kindergarten and teacher training programmes my desire is to liase with international colleges or institutes who prefer his methods and offer international diplomas. I have had over 15 years experience in early childhood education. Kindly
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From 4th to 17th August 1999, two teachers from Barcelona will visit villages and cities where Fröbel lived and worked. We would like to contact people interested in Fröbel at each site. Marta Mata email@example.com
I am writing a book on 11 historical figures of early childhood and would like to know where I could get an image of the grave stone of Froebel with the sphere, cylinder and cube. Jennifer Wolfe email@example.com
There are more images of the gravestones at this web site, the pictures are linked to larger copies.
Congratulations on starting the Friedrich Froebel webring. It's great working with you. Claudia
I find your site very interesting. I put your url in my homepage about education, technologies, and nature.
I'm so happy to have found you! I can't believe I haven't searched sooner! I'm a Froebel convert, and so are others I have shared the book Inventing Kindergarten with. A good friend introduced me to the book. I teach German to young children and was a regular classroom teacher for years. I want to spread the word about Froebel and his teachings. Lillie Kate Webb firstname.lastname@example.com
Your page on Johannes Itten and the Bauhaus was so interesting to read, I`m going to use it when I teach. Johannes Itten's theory of color is one of our main subjects at the college. Maybe it`s because he was trained an Froebel educator that he developed a theory that is so easy to teach, so logical and with an understandable progression? Nina Scott Frisch mailto:email@example.com from Norway
Hello, from St. Louis, Missouri, USA. A few years ago, while taking a history of St. Louis class, the instructor told us about the origins of kindergarten in St. Louis. The founder of St. Louis kindergartens was a woman named Susan Blow, who studied Froebel's kindergartens in Germany. I could swear that the instructor told us that a Helen Froebel, a relation to Freidrich, cam to St. Louis to assist Susan Blow. No where have I been able to find any information to substantiate this fact. Currently I have a bet with friends that I am right. Do you have any information on a Helen Froebel. I would be indebted to you if you have any information to share. Karen Wittmayer email@example.com
There is excellemt information available on this site.
I am interested in the Froebel concept of education. I am now a grandmother had I known more when my son was small, I would have investigated more at that time. What I could not offer my son, I would like to offer my grandson!
I am a teacher at PFH (Pestalozzi-Fröbel-Haus in Berlin). You may see a picture of the building in my homepage http://home.pages.de/~ralfD
Sean Griffin, email email@example.com would be very interested to hear from practicising teachers who are implementing Froebelian principles in their classrooms at any grade level.
I am head of Balham Nursery School in South London. Our work today is still strongly influenced by the Froebelian idea of nature and unity ie our Garden is fundamental to all areas of the curriculum. We are quite close to Froebel College at Roehampton Institute - home of some examples of Froebel's Gifts and Occupations and Froebel Research Committee. Would be good to have more info about Froebel's influence on nursery education today - Montessori seems to be the best known pioneer!
In doing some web research on Froebel after seeing that great book by Norman Brosterman, I came across your site. Wow. I am putting together a small piece on Froebel on my education website and I'd like to point people to Froebel Web - it is such a great resource. Inventing Kindergarten blew me away. Froebel's work was so visionary. And as you or someone in your site mentions, his approach is very relevant today with its emphasis on play, sensitivity to nature, etc. I had no idea of his influence on people like Wright, and other artists. That's a great story about Wright's mother buying the blocks.
I have been asked by Routledge to edit a collection of Froebel's work and Froebelian texts relating to the English nursery school. A description of the project is to be found at: http://www.rdg.ac.uk/ESM/ESM/Froebel.html There is also a link to the proposed list of contents. If any one has any alternative suggestions or any comments at all on the selection please feel
free to contact me. Dr Kevin J. Brehony, School of Education, The University of Reading, Bulmershe Court, Reading RG6 1HY, UK Telephone: +44 (0) 1734 875123 x 4873. Fax:+44 (0)1734 318863 e-mail: email@example.com
Please could you forward on to me the Ten Common Principles of Froebel's Pioneers as I cannot find them listed on the internet site, many thanks for your help in this urgent matter. email@example.com
This question isn't easy to answer, because Froebel never compiled a readable system of his pedagogics. In which context did you come across the "ten principles"? I think the ten principles are a compilation of his pupils like Eleonore Heerwart. I've never found a compilation of ten principles of education in the original writings of Froebel. Winfried Mueller
Froebel Institute in London or Froebel College in Dublin may be able to assist.
Is one structure for a kindergarten school day developmentally more appropriate than another based on the research? For example, half days five days per week, or all mornings, or full days, or alternating full days. Kathy Svoboda
I am a graduate student studying the effects of full day kindergarten vs. half day kindergarten. Your site has been a terrific help in establishing the history of kindergarten. Do you know of any other sites that would help my research? I greatly appreciate all of your hard work. Christine Marchand
update - Thanks for your help. I am getting some interesting facts on this topic. Currently the U.S. Department of Educatiopn has a 5 year longitudinal study that began this school year. That should be interesting. I'll let you know what else I can find. Christine Marchand
Just want to say hi! to all other Froebels. Have been working on getting my Froebel family web page, setup, but it is going very slow. Will be back here again soon (I hope) Love to all. Herbert H Froebel
First thank you for the wonderful treasures you are providing those of us interested in Froebel. I am a lecturer of education at Froebel College and Adlerian psychologist.
My interest in in the spirituality of education, connections between Froebel philosophy and the psychological theories of Alfred Adler. I would love to hear from anyone who shares these interests and my commitment to a spiritual-holistic view of education.
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I was just reading about Fröbel and the history of kindergarten in Finland. I'm currently teaching in a school for special children and thought that it would be interesting to make the Fröbel blocks in woodcraft classes. I've heard a lot about those blocks but never had a opportunity to play with them. That's a shame but now when I have graduated both preschool teacher and masters programeme in Education I do have an opportunity to do what ever interests me. Mikko Tiihonen email@example.com
I came across the autobiography of Bertrand Russell and noticed, that Fröbel has not only been inspiration for architects etc. but allso for philophers. Russell writes about going to kindergarten where influence of Froebel was found. It must have been one of the first Froebel kindergartens in England. Russell writes little about positive experiences in the kindergarten and him learning to read in there. For close information see: Russell, B, The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell 1872-1914. George Allen & Unwin. (Chapter Childhood, and of course I have forgotten the refering pages -) Greetings from snowy Finland, Mikko Tiihonen firstname.lastname@example.com
My wife is doing a research on Friedrich Froebel for her teacher training course and wanted some details about him, his life style and method. Jimmy Tangree firstname.lastname@example.com India
Please could you send me some information about any Froebel Kindergarten's in the UK? Also are there any internet sites about any Froebel Kindergartern's with online Kindergarten prospectuses for the schools? Stacey Matthews firstname.lastname@example.com
I am doing a study of development psychology. This is as I see an advanced form of science, that gives us an understanding of how man develops from childhood to his death through several stages. In each stage he is experiencing a crises, that he can solve or fail to solve. This theory is mainly developed by Erik Erikson. In the highest state man is idetifying himself with the whole of society. In this Marvellous theory I am missing the mystical idea that man can go further and identify with something even greater, the whole, or the universe. I remember several years ago reading about Fröbel saying that children by nature want to learn, by nature want to help. This mean that we don't have to teach children to become good citizens, we have only to stimulate what is already inside them. I thank you for your page! By giving out the deep ideas of Friedrich Fröbel you contribute to the improvement of humanity. I believe that the bad conditions that are in society all over the world today only can be cured, as your ancestor rightly told two hundred years ago, by stimulating the soul in ourselves and other people and thereby get a connection to God and universal love. Torgny Jansson email@example.com
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Tel Aviv Is Rising In The Ranks Of Gay Porn?
We're so excited for Tel Aviv Pride this year. But our trip there may start to look like a trip to Los Angeles or Fort Lauderdale. All three cities are very LGBT friendly and great destinations for us homosexuals to visit, but now Tel Aviv is catching up with the US coastal towns in another way. Israel is becoming a destination for the gay porn industry.
According to film maker Haaretz, the gay porn industry in Israel has a boutique quality. He states that most of the content is being made with around 10 actors. These actors can expect to ear about $275 to $500 a day, which is a good amount more than the average daily pay in that country.
Is the intent to put LA and Fort Lauderdale out of business? "I'm not competing with foreign sites that show guys with abs who look like a million bucks," said Haaretz. He elaborated that everything is more homey and looks more like amateur porn.
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There is a long tradition of using acid based silage additives in Northern Europe. Initially only formic acid was used. We have produced formic acid at site Perstorp since the fifties and have sold it for the purpose of ensiling since the 1960s. Realizing the great benefits of using acid based silage additives, we also started to blend propionic acid (another product that is manufactured at site Perstorp) into the silage additives to increase the performance of the products. The most recent innovation sees the salts of these organic acids used to buffer silage additives for safer handling and easier transport.
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Imagine this: you have recently become a parent. It's a beautiful baby. Let's say a baby boy. I'm sure you would give him the best care possible: a nice and warm room with a clean bed to sleep in. Clean diapers every few hours, and milk to feed him whenever he asks for it. And then, after 3 weeks, you decide to switch the diet from milk to potatoes and meat. I know you are thinking this is impossible and wrong, right? You are correct, it is impossible. Weaning simply can't be rushed. Let's keep this thought in mind and think about the way we look at the weaning process in piglets. Most piglets are weaned between 3 and 4 weeks of age, which is very soon, but until now the most economical solution.
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Since December 1, 2010 all substances have to be registered under REACH and the products must be labeled according to the CLP (Classification Labeling and Packaging) legislation. Preparations and mixtures of feed additives, need to comply with the CLP regulation from 1 June 2015.
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It is a great honor to have this opportunity for an interview. I am John Zhao. My Chinese name is Hu, which means Tiger. I have been working for Perstorp as sales manager in China for 4 months now. I got my master's degree in animal nutrition from SDAU 5 years ago. In my spare time I like to swim and play tennis. I also enjoy travelling.
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Ekstrand Elementary
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DeWitt, Iowa 52742
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Start Time 8:15 A.M.
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Students walking or getting picked up 3:05 P.M.
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Ekstrand Elementary School is located in DeWitt, Iowa, serving students in Pre-kindergarten through grade three. Students from the towns of DeWitt, Grand Mound, Welton, and Low Moor attend this building. Ekstrand Elementary was built in 1970 and named for Mr. Ekstrand who was both a principal and superintendent in the district.


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BRUNSWICK — Not all children look forward to the end of school.
For some, it can mean not having a safe place to be for hours at a time. It can also mean not knowing where or when they will have their next meal.
So starting this month, the Midcoast Hunger Prevention Program is expanding its Summer Food Service Program to make meals more accessible for area children and teenagers who face food insecurity.
MCHPP will celebrate its new summer meals location at Perryman Village near Cooks Corner on Friday at noon. The group also has locations at its main office at 84A Union St. and Marcia Buker School at 28 High St. in Richmond.
The summer program began June 17 and serves youth from Brunswick, Topsham, Harpswell, Bowdoin, Bowdoinham, Durham, Lisbon and Lisbon Falls.
The program's expansion comes during a time when youth hunger and homelessness are growing, with area school districts setting new records for the number of students on free or reduced lunches and students living in insecure situations.
For instance, the Brunswick School Department saw an all-time high of 26 homeless students in the 2012-2013 school year, up from the previous year's 23. There were six in the 2007-2008 school year.
"That's the highest number we've had since my tenure here," said Assistant Superintendent Greg Bartlett, who serves as the district's homeless liaison. "It has progressively gone up over time. I remember when I originally started 19 years ago and the number was four."
Bartlett said the homeless student figure doesn't necessarily mean that all of them lack a place to live, but they may be living in a situation that is considered educationally disruptive, according to the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, a landmark U.S. law passed in 1987.
The School Department also saw a larger percentage of students receiving free or reduced lunches: more than 32 percent during the 2012-2013 school year, higher than the previous year's 28 percent. That figure was just below 23 percent in the 2007-2008 school year.
In School Administrative District 75, health coordinator and homeless liaison Mary Booth said homelessness is a larger issue than ever.
She said the 2012-2013 school year brought a record of 75 students who either didn't have a place to live or lived in a place considered educationally disruptive, because it either involved two or more families living in a single-unit space or a family constantly moving.
Even more startling, Booth said, less than 30 percent of those students were at the high school level: 40 of them were elementary school students.
Those numbers are greater than the 45 students in the 2007-2008 school year, when 65 percent were in high school.
"The numbers are probably higher (for high school), but when you become a high-schooler or middle-schooler there's a different perception," she said.
Booth noted that SAD 75 is careful when reviewing applications for McKinney-Vento benefits, and that the larger number this year is not indicative of the district loosening its standards.
"We're very careful about finding out what the situations are and whether or not it fits the definition of the law," she said.
Donna Verhoeven is the outreach coordinator for the Merrymeeting Project, a program funded by McKinney-Vento grants that aids homeless youth. She said school can be the basic building block for children living in poverty when it comes to safety and security.
Verhoeven said teenagers and children – accompanied by family or not – can find themselves homeless for reasons including economics, family conflict, substance abuse, sexual orientation and mental health issues.
"When kids are in school they have a routine, a structure, just by the nature of where they have been," Verhoeven said. "They haven't been familiar with that structure. Since they have it, they realize it's the very thing they need."
To keep a child progressing through school and working towards a healthy life, she said those basic needs of safety and security must be maintained throughout the summer, or else the troubles of life might set them back.
"It's that lack of predictability that often causes them to make choices that they might have not made if they had other choices," Verhoeven said.
Working with around 35-40 teenagers and children a year, Verhoeven said she can often see their anxiety increase when the school year comes to a close and the answer to food and shelter is an unknown.
"The fear factor is just enormous," she said.
Even for the ones who receive food stamps, Verhoeven said it doesn't do them much good when they don't have a means to transport, store or cook the food they purchase.
She said that's why programs like MCHPP's Summer Food Service Program can help fill the gap and maintain a sense of structure for the area's struggling youth.
"Once we meet those safety and security needs, that will allow people to think about what they would like to be doing," Verhoeven said, "which allows for the growth of the person."
MCHPP's summer sites are three of 288 throughout the state, according to Maine Department of Education spokeswoman Samantha Warren.
"It's at an all-time high for number of sites and sponsors, so there is a summer feeding program for every county," Warren said.
Karen Parker, executive director of MCHPP, said her group will provide meals at each summer site based on data from the past, though it will adjust service depending on the volume of children and teenagers who attend.
Parker said MCHPP is looking for more volunteers this summer, in addition to foundation and internship support in the coming year for expansion. She said she knows the issue of youth hunger and homelessness is growing, which she hopes to address with the increased number of summer sites.
"It's real and it's in our community," Parker said. "If kids are well-fed through the summer, then they will be more ready to learn more about nutrition during the school year."
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Midcoast Hunger Prevention Program's Summer Food Service Program is available at Perryman Village near Cooks Corner, Brunswick, from noon-1 p.m., Monday-Friday.
MCHPP's main location at 84A Union St., Brunswick, is open 1-2 p.m., Monday-Friday, and a Richmond location at Marcia Buker School, 28 High St., is open 12:15-1 p.m., Tuesday-Thursday.


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NEW YORK J.C. Penney Co. (JCP) and its largest shareholder and former board member William Ackman have made a deal that sets terms for allowing him to unload his stake in the company.
The agreement, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission Friday, comes three days after Ackman resigned from Penney's board as part of a deal to resolve an unusually public battle between the activist investor and the struggling department store.
Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management has 17.7 percent stake in Penney.
Under the deal, Ackman can make up to four requests to the company to register the sale of his shares. The agreement terminates when he owns less than 5 percent of the company's stock.
Penney's stock fell 45 cents, or 3 percent, to $13.38 in morning trading.
Ackman has not been having a good year. He took a negative position on nutritional supplement company Herbalife, only to see other top investors, most notably Carl Icahn and George Soros, go long. So far they have been vindicated, and Ackman's position has led to large losses.
Ackman successfuly pushed for the installation of former Apple executive Ron Johnson as CEO of Penney, only to see Johnson ousted after only 17 months on the job, after his radical makeover of the chain failed to boost results. Ackman's latest push to quickly find a new CEO was met with open hostility by Penney's board as well as other investors, leading to his resignation from the board.


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50 Weeks. 50 Grants. 50 Playmakers
The 50 Fund's Playmakers program recognized the herculean efforts of community-based Bay Area nonprofits and the people who make those impacts possible.
Get inspired by their stories.
Our 20th 50 Fund Playmaker is Catholic Charities Canal Family Support which supports families, aging & disabled adults, and youth through social services and opportunities for healthy growth and development, like their Kids Club Afterschool program. Catholic Charities Canal Family Support recognized Carlos Garcia, Senior Program Director as their Playmaker. Carlos has been working with at-risk youth and emotionally-disturbed adolescents for more than 30 years.Watch Video
Our 19th 50 Fund Playmaker is the Bayview Hunters Point Foundation for Community Improvement, an organization dedicated to assisting the community in its efforts to respond to the socio-economic challenges that low-income communities of color face. BHPF recognized Jacob Moody their Executive Director as their Playmaker. With a background in social work and mental health, Moody has focused on improving the outcomes of the youth who participate in their Youth Services program.Watch Video
Community Works West engages youth & adults in arts, education & restorative justice programs that interrupt & heal the impact of incarceration & violence by empowering individuals, families & communities. CWW is recognizing Zoe Willmott as their Playmaker, program coordinator for Project WHAT! & also a former client of program. Her work has impacted thousands of families who visit inmates at California State Prison, Solano.Watch Video
Our 17th 50 Fund Playmaker is the East Bay College Fund, which helps resilient public school students gain access to and succeed in college by providing college access services, mentoring, scholarships and support networks. The College Fund has recognized Andrew Wilson, also an alumnus of the East Bay College Fund, who serves as a college advisor at Oakland Technical High School.Watch Video
Our 16th 50 Fund Playmaker is the Boys & Girls Club of the Coastside in Half Moon Bay. Servicing Moonridge, an affordable housing development in Half Moon Bay primarily consisting of migrant and low-income families. The Club has recognized Julio Serrano, who started the outreach program to the children living in Moonridge and donates his time on the weekends to work with the youth directly on their soccer program.Watch Video
Our 15th 50 Fund Playmaker is the Child Abuse Prevention Council (CAPC) of Contra Costa County. CAPC has a long history of working to prevent the abuse and neglect of children. CAPC has recognized Lakisha Hill as their Playmaker. CAPC's Child Safety Awareness Coordinator for its Speak Up Be Safe Program, Lakisha is being recognized for her fierce determination and gentle compassion in helping families to be both safe and stable.Watch Video


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There are separate pits in hell, so goes the yarn, allocated to countries. The guards there are having a hell of a time, it is said, trying to prevent those languishing in these pits from escaping. But in a far away corner, there is said to be a pit sans any guards. For no one has ever escaped from it. Whenever someone begins to crawl up the slippery walls hoping to escape hundreds of others promptly pull him down. And the name board above this unguarded pit reads, 'Sri Lanka'.
This national trait succinctly captured in the yarn is reflected in protests from some quarters against Mr. Lakshman Kadirgamar running for the coveted post of the Commonwealth Secretary General. The LTTE lobbyists are hysterical and are making frantic efforts to have us believe that the world will end if Kadirgamar is elected to that post. Others are grinding their axes under the pretext of crusading for democracy in Zimbabwe. According to them, the African nations supportive of Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe are behind Kadirgamar's candidature and as such Kadirgamar should not contest or if he dares do so, he should be defeated by all means.
True, African nations are with Mugabe and Sri Lanka is likely to get their support against the incumbent Secretary General who will also be in the fray. But should that mean Sri Lanka has to stay away so that Don Mckinnon will win with ease? It is also being argued that if Sri Lanka woos the African nations, it will, in so doing, forfeit its right to condemn Zimbabwe for Mugabe's despotism.
This argument is fraught with obfuscation. Even if Sri Lanka were to pull out from the race, someone else would get these votes. If that happens, by extension of the flawed argument, that country too won't be able to censure Mugabe. Or in the event of the candidate supported by pro-Zimbabwe Africans losing, there will emerge a new rift in the Commonwealth—between pro Mugabe Africans and others.
Why should one belabour reductionism and try to attribute Sri Lanka's entry into the fray to Mugabe's machinations? Apart from the prestige of the post, which naturally accrues to the holder and, no doubt boosts his 'ego', the country he represents surely stands to gain. How a country like Sri Lanka badly in need of international clout will benefit from having a person like Kadirgamar at the helm of the Commonwealth is too obvious to merit elaboration.
There is reason for the LTTE sympathisers to worry about this prospect. Kadirgamar, it should be recalled, was the man whose relentless efforts have put the LTTE in the straitjacket of foreign bans. But why should others worry? Mugabe in a far away land with no hostility shown towards Sri Lanka, we believe, could not be the real reason.
Be that as it may, Mugabe is no saint. He is a despot and Zimbabwe will be a better place without him. But is he the only despot in this world?
Remember Pinochet of Chile? He was also a despot of the worst order responsible for crimes against humanity. But he has been a bosom pal of Britain, the knight astride the steed of morality charging at Mugabe. Remember Papa Doc of Haiti, who killed his countrymen in their thousands and plundered the national wealth of that country? He was backed to the hilt by the US until he became too embarrassing. The US provided Saddam Hussein, the despot on the run, with 'crop spraying' helicopters during the Iran-Iraq war knowing only too well that they were used for chemical attacks on Iranians. A US Senate Inquiry revealed in 1995 that the US had supplied to Iraq samples of all strains of germs—courtesy the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention —which Iraq used for producing biological weapons? The UN weapons inspectors later found the sites where the weapons had been made. Iraq obtained uranium from Portugal, France and Italy and embarked on building centrifuge enrichment facilities with German assistance. So much for despots and their allies.
The detractors of Kadirgamar accuse Mugabe of land grab and destruction wreaked on white man's property. But they don't mention Wellassa, which had been Sri Lanka's rice bowl before 1817. Have they forgotten that the British reduced Wellassa (meaning in Sinhala One Hundred Thousand Paddy Fields) to rubble to quell Keppetipola's rebellion against the tyranny of the British and that the British rendered tens of thousands of Kandyan peasants landless by grabbing their land for plantations?
Mugabe has come under fire over rigging polls. Quite rightly! But the fact remains that elections held—however rigged they may be—are much better than no elections at all. Here in Sri Lanka the LTTE, which hasn't faced any election and therefore doesn't have representation even in a local government authority has appointed itself the sole representatives of Tamils and is demanding a de facto separate state encompassing one third of Sri Lanka's landmass and two thirds of its territorial water. And the other day we had EU Commissioner Chris Patten meeting the LTTE leader and shaking hands with him granting in the process some legitimacy to the outfit against whose crimes Mugabe's violence pales into insignificance. So why bash only Mugabe?
Kadirgamar's age also appears to be a source of worry for his critics who want him out of the race. Look at the Pope leading one of the most powerful institutions in the world, the Catholic Church. Nelson Mandela is another example. So why should Kadirgamar be considered too old?
Kadirgamar is unarguably fully qualified to run for the post of Commonwealth Secretary General. And he deserves the unstinted support of all right thinking Sri Lankans. Whether he will succeed or not remains to be seen but run he must. And let none obstruct him by trotting out flimsy excuses.
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Lost Plateauby Marco Dalmonte English translation by Gary Davies
Uí (Ordana) - Nature, fertility, protection of forests and sylvan races
Uatumá (Zirchev) - Hunting, survival, bravery, sylvan races, animals, nature
Maraú-Uxuí (Terra) - Balance of the life cycle, earth, birth, fertility, seasons
The Night Spider (Aracne Prime) - Deceit, oppression, obscurity, aranea and spiders
Ilsundal - Protection of elves and nature, wisdom, knowledge, magic, tradition, serenity and peace
Ninfangle - Rakastas, bravery, adventure, travel, battle, hunting
Bastet - Rakastas, felines, capriciousness, fortune, fertility
Ka - Protection of life, prosperity, magic, healing, wisdom, rakastas, stone giants
1. The region known as the Lost Plateau (also called the Thothian Plateau due to nearby Thothia that claims the area on paper) occupies all the southern part of the Isle of Dawn, stretching between Thothia to the east and Shadow Coast to the west, and to the south it faces onto the Bellissarian Sea with a series of escarpments and cliffs that don't permit any landfall (this area is also called the Great Escarpment). Within it abound the subtropical vegetation and the more disparate animal species, and live many intelligent creatures like aranea, phanaton, rakasta, elves and stone giants (in descending order).
2. It is thought that the phanaton tribes that live in the forests of the Plateau share the same pantheon of the Jibarú and therefore worship Uí (Ordana), Uatumá (Zirchev) and Maraú-Uxuí (Terra), the racial Immortals of the phanatons. These phanatons are the descendents of the slaves of the aranea people, who successfully rebelled when Korotiku caused the collapse the Empire of Aran and forced Aracne Prime to flee in the depths of the Mystaran underground. From that far-off past, the phanatons have always remained fiercely independent and sworn enemies of the aranea, and the only people with which they have held an alliance are the Trueflower elves and the treants of the forests (who share the veneration of Ordana).
3. Aracne Prime is worshipped by the aranea that infest the forests of the region, arrived here millennia ago from another plane and that once housed the centre of their vast empire now in ruins. Until the events of M5 (that happens between 1003 and 1004 AC), the Immortal lived under the city of Aran, at the centre of the Lost Plateau, and from there rules its subjects and the nearby Thothia.
4. The Trueflower elves made probably part of the migration of the Shiye towards Alphatia and arrived by chance on the island, after having remained isolated during the journey on the Rainbow Bridge and had taken the wrong exit. Abandoning it themselves, they have found a favourable cooperation with the phanatons and they also therefore share the religion, very similar to their philosophy of life. It is extremely probable that these elves conserved one of the nine seeds originally created by Ilsundal for the migration of Mealiden, and that therefore possess one of the two Mother Trees that were lost during the elven dispersion (that derived exactly from the seed of the Shiye, who Eiryndul probably has wanted to purposely remove from the clan in order best influence the leader and convert them to his own cult) and are for that reason followers of Ilsundal.
5. There are several tribes of nomadic Fast Runner rakasta settled for centuries in the forests of the Thothian Plateau (Dragon Magazine nr 247) that have always made difficult the colonisation of the territory with acts of sabotage and guerrilla warfare. They are followers of Ninfangle, patron of hunting, battle and the nomadic style of life typical of the oldest rakasta, and have taken from the nearby Thothians (and from the contact with their cousins that live in Thothia) as well as the cult of Bastet, mother of the rakasta and lady of fortune and fertility, the one that is identified with the more instinctive aspects of the rakasta spirit.
6. Ka is worshipped separately also by the clan of hunakoi giants (stone giants with reddish skin) that live along the course of the Aurora River and on the southern slopes of the Great Escarpment.


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The public, used to seeing problems solved in an hour on television programs, is getting weary of a war that has gone on for four years. Much of the problems can be traced to the Bush administration's "Rosy Scenario" predicting a quick war followed by a rush to democracy by an oppressed Iraqi public. As the war dragged on, public support for the war dropped.
While perceptions of the state of affairs in Iraq have been deteriorating steadily since the summer of 2003, the past year has seen a particularly sharp drop, support for the war has declined as much as the three previous years combined 24 points in the last year compared to 21 points in the previous three years.
Support for the war shows a sharp difference between the two major parities. Democrats are solidifying their support for a withdrawal, 74 percent now compared to 66 percent in January. In contrast Republicans support keeping troops in Iraq by 71 percent to 23 percent. Independents are more closely divided on the issue with 53 percent favoring withdrawal and 40 percent staying. That is a slide from January when Independents were evenly split.
The movement for Congress to mandate a troop pullout by August 2008 is growing. Nearly six-in-ten say they would like to see their representative vote for such legislation, compared with just 33 percent who want their representative to oppose it. Of those supporting a withdrawal only 16 percent favor an immediate pullout.
While the present troop surge in Iraq is opposed by a majority of the public, 63 to 31 percent, with public support slipping, it may be the administration's last chance for success.


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The Bachelor star, who lives in Los Angeles, and the winner, who resides in her hometown of Montreal, revealed to E! News that they have called it quits and ended their engagement, five months after his proposal to her was shown on the season 21 finale.
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Arranged marriages have been a long and solid culture of Tamil people. And some would think that it no longer an effective way to find that perfect match. However, Tamilians have proven that this is not the case, for finding that perfect match undergoes some basic principles that, if you think about it, are the same when you are looking for your own partner.
Parents know best:
From history, the parents are responsible in choosing the best groom for their daughter, in which they are going to present gifts and dowry. A meeting is held between parents of the girl and the boy. They go to the family priest, or head priest for a consultation, if their children are compatible by reading the stars. And if they are, marriage is arranged.
In this process, they will know the qualities of both the family and the groom. Therefore, in Tamil Matrimony Love Stories, it shows that the whole family is involved in making sure that the new couple will be happy and the perfect match.
Stories of "Love conquers all":
Tamil Matrimony Love Stories has a basis. A lot of old scripts agree about the love that is formed through arrange marriages. And the success of the love they have is written in all forms – poetry, books, and stories. Here are some of them:
The Eight Anthologies (Eṭṭuttokai) – this is an ancient lyrical poetry that talks about the four aspects of life – virtue, material, joy and salvation. Love and happiness are included in the aspect of Joy. The beauty and expression on how people meet and form love such in a way that they are bound in a Tamil Marriage.
Thirukural – in Tamil literature, this is considered as a very important piece that talks about the emancipations of the human heart and the spirit. It focuses on the virtues of love, forgiveness and peace. Perhaps the part that talks about the Tamil Marriages is in the couplet 3, about a union that will last.
It is not about being the perfect match, but being the perfect person:
To be loved is one of the most amazing things a person can have. And in Tamil Marriages, it is not being the perfect couple, but being that perfect person for each other. That is why finding the person that contains the characteristics you want is very important. As well as having the best qualities that reflect the Tamil virtues is also important. These are needed to make the relationship work and find true happiness in marriage.
This is what makes Tamil Matrimony very effective. Even though it is considered an arranged marriage, the way of looking for the person, the planning and meeting of both families, makes the arranged marriage seems like it's not really an arrange one, but a love marriage.
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What makes Tamil Matrimony successful? This is because of the support that both families give. They also proceed with all the Tamil rituals for the couple and follow-ups to make sure that the couple is doing very well. They also follow the necessary virtues to make their family life better.