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Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Arizona Teachers Vote To Strike, Sparking Statewide Walkout
Teachers in Arizona held a strike vote on Thursday that launched Arizona's first-ever statewide walkout and turned down a proposed pay raise — instead demanding increased school funding.
The Arizona Education Association and the grass-roots group the Arizona Educators United announced that teachers will walk off the job April 26.
At issue is a plan crafted by Gov. Doug Ducey to give teachers a 20 percent raise by 2020, starting with a 9 percent hike next year.
Initially, Ducey's plan drew support from two education advocacy groups, Save Our Schools Arizona and the Arizona Parent Teacher Association. But both groups have withdrawn their support, saying the plan is not sustainable and likely will come at the expense of others in the educational system.
AZPTA President Beth Simek, in a video statement, said that an analysis from the Joint Legislative Budget Committee staff, coupled with her group's research, led to their decision to oppose Ducey's plan.
"In light of the funding streams that have come to light regarding the '20 by 2020' plan, we can no longer support the governor's proposal," said Simek. "As a voice for children, we hope to see the governor and this legislature find a sustainable, long-term permanent funding source that does not hurt others in the process."
School support staff groups say they feel left out of the governor's plan.
In a tweet, Save Our Schools Arizona said, "It is now clear the existing proposal is not sustainable or comprehensive as a means of increasing educator pay and re-investing in Arizona's classrooms and schools."
Both groups said that they are still ready to work with the governor on a new plan.
Arizona's teachers plan to strike is an unprecedented move and comes with high risk.
According to The Associated Press:
"Teachers themselves could face consequences in this right-to-work state, where unions do not collectively bargain with school districts and representation is not mandatory. The Arizona Education Association has warned its 20,000 members about a 1971 Arizona attorney general opinion saying a statewide strike would be illegal under common law and participants could lose their teaching credentials."
A Nutty Professor Strikes Again
It happened again this week, another university professor was exposed as an unhinged liberal, filled with uncontrollable rage.
In the aftermath of the death of former First Lady Barbara Bush, tributes flowed in from around the world, except not from Randa Jarrar, a Fresno State University English professor. Jarrar tweeted that Mrs. Bush was a "racist" and that she was glad the "the witch is dead." In response to the outpouring of support for the Bush family, Jarrar tweeted, "F… outta here with your nice words." She also expressed extreme hatred for the relatives of Barbara Bush, tweeting "Can't wait for the rest of her family to fall to their demise."
While it is sad that a so-called English professor had to resort to profanity to express her point of view, it is even worse that someone entrusted to educate young people harbors such hatred. In response to the controversy, Fresno State University President Joseph Castro said, "Professor Jarrar's expressed personal views and commentary are obviously contrary to the core values of our University, which include respect and empathy for individuals with divergent points of view, and a sincere commitment to mutual understanding and progress." It was announced that an "investigation" into Jarrar's behavior was underway.
This semester, Jarrar is on sabbatical and is traveling overseas. She crowed that because she was tenured she could not be fired. Her arrogance only enraged people even more and after her real phone number was posted, calls started flooding in to her office. To distract her critics, Jarrar falsely claimed that her work phone number had not been officially activated and posted another one for those who "really wanna reach me."
Unfortunately, the phone number she posted was for a University of Arizona mental health crisis line. The volunteers operating the phones were inundated with calls from people wanting to complain about Jarrar, not those in need of mental health counseling. Jarrar's stunt may have prevented those who were suffering from an actual mental health crisis from receiving critical assistance.
The sad episode not only exposes the sickness of Jarrar, but also the clear problems on many college campuses today. Throughout the country, in far too many colleges and universities, administrators have hired nutcases like Jarrar to teach impressionable youngsters. As a result, many parents are paying exorbitant tuition for their children to be indoctrinated, not educated.
Presenting alternative perspectives to liberalism is not allowed on many campuses. Just this week, Professor Josh Blackman tried to present a lecture, ironically on the importance of free speech, but was shouted down by protestors at the City University of New York School of Law.
On a regular basis, conservative commentators like Ben Shapiro, Ann Coulter and Milo Yiannopoulos face threats of violence on college campus and outright hostility from administrators who look for every opportunity to cancel their speeches. Often, university officials delight in canceling conservative speeches by claiming that security costs are too high or adequate facilities for the speakers are not available.
In contrast, leftist viewpoints are seemingly always welcome and liberal professors are celebrated and protected no matter how extreme their views. Last year, Lars Maischak, another hateful Fresno State University professor, made news when he tweeted that President Donald Trump "must hang." The history instructor was not allowed to teach during last Fall's semester but, incredibly, was not fired.
In the case of Jarrar, Fresno State University should immediately terminate the employment of this detestable individual. She does not possess basic decency or respect for other points of view. Jarrar represents the antithesis to the type of atmosphere that should be cultivated on college campuses where differing opinions are encouraged and welcomed.
Another reason that may cause Fresno State to act involves the negative response from some of their major contributors. A few large donors are raising objections to Jarrar and threatening to withhold their usual financial support. One such contributor, Ed Dunkel, Jr., said, "I have huge concerns. This represents such an embarrassment to the university and the community. It's hard to believe this is an isolated thing that just happened. I have to imagine people previously knew of this person's character and what she's about."
In fact, donors may be the key in forcing universities to end the stifling environment of liberal indoctrination. If major donors started boycotting, university administrators would get the message quickly and may start to adjust their policies. Otherwise, the abuse of conservatives, the indoctrination of students and the vile hatred spewing from professors will continue unabated.
Harvard grad students vote to unionize
Harvard University graduate students have voted to join the United Auto Workers, part of a wave of teaching and research assistants on private college campuses embracing the labor movement.
In a National Labor Relations Board-sanctioned election held Wednesday and Thursday, the vote was 1,931 to 1,523, creating a bargaining unit of nearly 5,000 students, including several hundred undergraduates in teaching positions, the UAW and Harvard said Friday. The union said Harvard is committed to bargaining on a contract, but the university said it has not yet decided.
The UAW, with its deep blue-collar roots, has become a seemingly unlikely bastion of academic organizing, attracting more grad student members than any other union.
Since 1990, when the union successfully organized graduate students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, it has brought graduate students at four other public universities into the fold, including the massive California State University system. The effort accelerated at private universities following a 2016 NLRB ruling that recognized Columbia University students' right to organize.
At Harvard, those backing the union said they are looking for stability in their wages (the usual 3 percent annual raise was cut in half this school year), more robust health care, and a better process for resolving grievances. But above all, they are seeking bargaining power, said Ben Green, a fourth-year PhD student in applied math.
"The main thing that we really want is to have a greater say, greater democracy, in our working conditions," he said. "By joining with UAW, we're also joining with these other universities organizing with them. We're building power not just for graduate workers at Harvard, but for graduate workers across the country."
This is the second time Harvard graduate students have held a union vote. The results of the first election, in the fall of 2016, were scrapped following disputes over the voter list, leading to months of litigation.
"Regardless of the outcome, this election underscores the importance of the university's commitment to continuing to improve the experience of our students," Harvard said in a statement. "We want every student to thrive here and to benefit from Harvard's extraordinary academic opportunities."
The rise in unionization among graduate students reflects the growing role of younger, more white-collar workers in unions. Last year, a third of new union members nationwide were in professional or technical occupations, and more than three-quarters were under age 35, according to the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
Teaching and research assistants at many public-sector colleges and universities are covered by state collective bargaining laws, most of which consider grad students to be employees. Their counterparts at private schools, however, are at the mercy of the NLRB, which has gone back and forth on the issue.
The UAW, officially the United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, has 45,000 grad students and 30,000 academic workers among its 400,000 members. Although the bulk of its members are auto workers and other manufacturing employees, it also represents legal aid attorneys, Foxwoods casino workers, Museum of Modern Art employees, Village Voice writers, and Sierra Club staffers.
Interest from those at private colleges and universities was sparked in 2013, when NYU grad students voted to join the UAW through a non-NLRB election. It remains the only private university with a collective bargaining agreement. The following year, the New School and Columbia kicked off campaigns to join the UAW, followed by Harvard, Boston College, Northeastern, and Boston University.
"From that point on there was tremendous energy," said Julie Kushner, director of UAW Region 9A, which covers New England.
A 2016 decision by the NLRB, reinstating the right of grad students at private universities to organize, stoked the fire further.
Last year, grad students at Tufts and Brandeis both voted to join SEIU Local 509, among the more than 20,000 private-sector students involved in union campaigns in the past year and a half, according to the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions at Hunter College in New York.
But with President Trump in office, and his three appointees giving the NLRB a 3-2 Republican majority, the pendulum could swing back.
Given all the back and forth on whether grad students at private universities have the right to organize, and the possibility that a more conservative labor board would say they don't, some students have become reluctant to test their luck with the NLRB. Rather than risking setting a new legal precedent that could crush other union drives, some grad students — including those organizing at BC, Yale, and the University of Chicago — have abandoned their efforts to unionize through the NLRB and are trying to pressure universities to voluntarily recognize and negotiate with them, which can be difficult.
"These workers and our union are not defeated or demoralized by the threat posed by an anti-worker labor board put in place by President Trump and the Republican Congress," Kushner said. "We are inventing new strategies, switching tactics, and taking bold steps to go outside of the NLRB."
Some campaigns have reached a fever pitch. Graduate students at Columbia, whose membership with the UAW has been certified by the NLRB, voted to strike next week if the school continues to refuse to bargain.
At Harvard, the administration has sent a series of e-mails to students making a case against unionization, referencing the Columbia strike and noting that school deans and leaders would be "legally prohibited from working directly with individual students" on matters of wages and working conditions.
Along with increased stipends, better health care coverage, and more stability in their work, Harvard organizers want a sexual harassment policy that gives students more protection. Just last month, the prominent Harvard government professor Jorge Dominguez was placed on leave, and then abruptly retired, after allegations of sexual misconduct spanning three decades came to light. Despite the fact that multiple women had complained to university administrators over the years, Dominguez continued to climb the ranks.
A contract recently negotiated by the UAW at the University of Connecticut strengthened protections against sexual harassment, union officials note, including detailing specific offenses — such as sexual innuendo, unwanted touching, and standing too close — and expanding the time period that students have to file a complaint.
Grad students are highly dependent on their advisers, especially in science, where research tends to be funded by grants awarded to specific professors, making those students more vulnerable to abuse because their jobs depend on that person, said Green, the Harvard applied-math student. And as it stands, there is no clear process for addressing complaints, said Niharika Singh, a fourth-year PhD student in public policy.
"With a union we have expanded options for dealing with sexual harassment on campus," she said. "These are not minor issues. They are pervasive."
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If you have any questions regarding Far West PETS please contact your District Governor Elect. After registration opens mid-October there will be additional contacts posted to assist you.
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May I bring my spouse or partner? PETS is a business session for Presidents-Elect; sorry, we are not able to accommodate partners.
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MEAL TICKETS - Make certain you present your meal tickets to the Sergeant-at-Arms at the entrance to meal events. All meal tickets should be included in your name badge holder.
PHOTOGRAPHS - Photos for your District Directory are being taken all day Friday and Saturday morning. These may be used for your district's directory. Please wear business attire for your photograph. Look for signs at registration and lobby directing you to the photographer's location.
CERTIFICATION - Upon your completion of this 2013 Far West PETS session, you will receive a certificate of completion presented at your last session.
HOTEL CHECK-OUT - For a rapid checkout on Sunday, use the check-out program on the T.V. monitor in your room.

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A name that seems to be in the news a lot lately is Marie Yovanovitch, who was appointed to be the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine by former President Barack Obama. She was fired by President Trump. Just for the record, ambassadors serve at the discretion of the President and can be fired for any reason. Marie Yovanovitch, however, had a reputation for saying negative things about President Trump and not supporting his policies. That is why she was fired.
Marie Yovanovitch was called before Congress as a witness in the faux impeachment hearings. She testified on October 11 in a closed-door session.
The Daily Wire posted an article today citing some problems with her testimony.
The article reports information obtained by the Tucker Carlson show:
"This show has obtained exclusively an email for that Democratic staffer for the House Foreign Affairs Committee sent by private email to the former American ambassador Marie Yovanovitch," Carlson continued. "Yovanovitch, you know, is a key player in the Democrats' impeachment probe and was recalled from her post in Ukraine by President Trump in May 2019 following allegations of serious partisanship and political bias."
This is the content of the email:
I'm writing to see if you would have time to meet up for a chat — in particular, I'm hoping to discuss some Ukraine-related oversight questions we are exploring. I'd appreciate the change to ground-truth a few pieces of information with you, some of which are quite delicate/time-sensitive and, thus, we want to make sure we get them right.
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Carlson noted that Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) asked Marie Yovanovitch about the email during her testimony and she allegedly stated that she never responded to the email.
"In fact, it turns out that she did respond," Carlson revealed. "She said she 'looked forward to chatting with [the Democratic staffer]."
"As Congressmen Zeldin pointed out, the ambassador's original answer, which was dishonest, was given under oath," Carlson concluded.
Zeldin confirmed Carlson's segment on Twitter, writing: "It appears Ambassador Yovanovitch did not accurately answer this question I asked her during her 'impeachment inquiry' deposition under oath."
The article concludes:
"I would highly suspect that this Democratic staffer's work was connected in some way to the whistleblower's effort, which has evolved into this impeachment charade," Zeldin told Fox News on Thursday night. "We do know that the whistleblower was in contact with [House Intelligence Committee Chairman] Adam Schiff's team before the whistleblower had even hired an attorney or filed a whistleblower complaint even though Schiff had lied to the public originally claiming that there was no contact. Additionally, while the contents of the email from this staffer to Ambassador Yovanovitch clearly state what the conversation would be regarding, Yovanovitch, when I asked her specifically what the staffer was looking to speak about, did not provide these details."
"I specifically asked her whether the Democratic staffer was responded to by Yovanovitch or the State Department," Zeldin concluded. "It is greatly concerning that Ambassador Yovanovitch didn't answer my question as honestly as she should have, especially while under oath."
Those attempting this faux impeachment need to remember that there are electronic records everywhere and Youtube videos of previous statements. They are in danger of being hoisted on their own petard!


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- Sep. 21 2009 00:00
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Citing budgetary shortfalls as a result of the economic crisis, the government has rescheduled the national census that had been set for 2010 to 2013, putting it after the next presidential elections and opening the way for claims that Russia does not face significant demographic problems.
Aleksandr Surinov, deputy chief of the federal State Statistical Service (Rosstat), said last week that the government had directed his agency to delay the census to 2013 because the authorities do not have the necessary funds to pay for it as a result of the economic crisis.
Rosstat has already spent some two billion rubles ($60 million) out of a planned budget of 18 billion rubles ($580 million) to develop census forms and the technology to process them. Those expenditures, Surinov said, will not go to waste, but now Moscow will not have to pay for census takers &mdash the largest part of the budget &mdash until 2013.
The census plans have been under threat for months. In February, Rosstat leaders insisted that despite reports, the census would not be delayed, pointing out that they can cut planned expenditures by 30 percent by dropping some questions and restricting plans to process the results as thoroughly as they had hoped.
Then in April, the same officials acknowledged, again in response to widespread media speculation, that the census would have to be postponed, quite possibly beyond the constitutional requirement for one by 2012, because of the economic crisis now and anticipated expenditures for the presidential election in that year.
But at the end of May, Rosstat head Vladimir Sokolin made a last ditch appeal to keep the census on track for 2010, saying any delay in conducting it would give the government the opportunity to more easily "manipulate various things in the absence of information."
Sokolin was apparently referring to two different phenomena. On the one hand, in the absence of accurate census data, the central government is in a position to continue to allocate revenue and set voting districts on the basis of older data, ignoring changes caused by regional and ethnic differences in demographic behavior and migration.
And on the other, when recent census data are not available &mdash especially given the widely recognized problems with the 2002 census, which did not conform to international standards and thus significantly overcounted the number of ethnic Russians and undercounted the number of non-Russians &mdash politicians, officials and commentators can make unsubstantiated claims.
Obviously, both Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev would prefer not to have a census showing adverse developments on their watch just before the 2012 vote, but they and others already feel free to make claims about the state of Russian society that independent observers suggest are not supported by facts.
This week, for example, Vitaly Kolbanov, the head of the analytic department of the Ministry of Health and Social Development, told a conference on "The Health of the Nation and State Demographic Policy" that the Russian Federation does not face "a demographic crisis."
That may be a message authorities want to be delivered, but even other participants at the same meeting offered data sets on alcoholism, tobacco use, health, and mortality that suggest at the very least that Kolbanov's rosy portrait of the situation is overstated, something an accurate census would almost certainly confirm.
But if the Russian government does not have enough money to finance a census in its own country, it appears likely that it will be financing one outside its borders: The Abkhaz authorities announced yesterday that they will be conducting a census in February of next year.


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Bluegrass Legend Ralph Stanley Dies
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Martin Armstrong Rages "The EU Is Nothing Without Britain!"
Brexit vote shows there is more to man than homo economicus. Proud of my ancestral homeland today.
The EU wants the Internet to be a "Safe Space"
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New Rule Requires Doctors To Treat Trans Patients As Their Pretend Sex - The consequences of a doctor's decision not to treat a patient acting like the opposite sex now range from loss of federal funding to civil lawsuits to potential criminal investigation.
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Clinton failed to hand over key email to State Department
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Re: The EU Is Nothing Without Britain!
I would say almost nothing since I think Germany is nearly as big a part of the EU as the UK is. That said, the future for the UK is going to be rocky for a while, but owning its own future is worth more than whatever they got from the EU.
As rocky as the UK will likely have it, the EU will probably have it much worse. The UK is only the first. If there is an EU in ten years it will look a lot different and probably be a lot smaller.
"Can insanity be required by law?"--C'mon, you already know the answer to that.
Re: Clinton failed to hand over key email to State Department
That implies there was only one 'key' email she failed to hand over. Leave it to the AP to put the best face on the story.
Re Brexit:
Wretch wrote at Belmont Club:
The rebellion is real.
All of a sudden the invincible status quo looks very mortal.
The big losers -- apart from the European project itself -- were conventional wisdom, which predicted a comfortable win for the Remain faction all the way until the roof fell in and President Obama. He made a special trip across the Atlantic to lobby British voters to stay in the EU. He was apparently less than convincing.
Nor did the thinly veiled warnings of operatives like Strobe Talbott, who hinted darkly at the end of the British-American special relationship in the event of Brexit cut much ice. If today's events prove anything, besides Talbott's fallibility, it is that Brussels, not London is the capital of a dying empire. "Voters in France, Italy and the Netherlands are demanding their own votes on European Union membership and the euro, as the continent faces a "contagion" of referendums. If the unthinkable was no longer impossible, the inevitable was no longer fore ordinaed.
What happens next?
Will the ruling class be able to drag their bureaucratic feet disentangling the UK from the EU? Meanwhile, like blaming Bush for every ill in our economy, will they blame every economic ill in the UK on leaving the EU and try to stampede the electorate into rejoining?
The immediate rhetoric in the aftermath of the vote suggests none of that will happen, but I can't help but think they would like to put Humpty Dumpty back together again if they could.
And President Obozo telling the Brits they would have to go to the back of the line if they opted out. I think the UK voters just hurled a giant egg and hit him square in the face. Heh.
Looks like a can of worms must be sorted through to extricate the UK from the EU:
I think the military arms of the EU countries (what little there is) and NATO should be very alert. The train wreck that the end of the EU will be will probably be seen as an opportunity to Putin to cause more trouble - at the minimum.
"Republicans have a shot at replacing Obamacare"
Why? Why replace why not eliminate. We have the best health care in the world because it isn't owned and run by the government. Why would we want to make it worse and more expensive?
My suggestion is don't try to fix or replace Obamacare but simply make to simple changes: Make it voluntary not mandatory and eliminate federal subsidies. Let Obamacare die a natural death.
Why would we want socialized healthcare if fails everywhere it's tried? Do you really want the federal government running healthcare? There would be quota's budget overruns which would result in closed clinics/hospitals, higher taxes, death panels, health care denied, etc. If you like the VA health care you will love socialized health care.
yeah, except that the whole obamacare thing was NOT about healthcare and all about CONTROL.
Even the RINOS aren't going to step away from that.
The democrats are once again fighting to take away liberties. It would be bad enough if it was only the democrats, but bad bills barely did not pass the senate, where it should be pointed out republicans have the majority. One more justice on the supreme court, and the democrat president would be able to create law. Who needs congress? The left leaning justices have shown that the constitution is just a piece of paper, meaningless to them. I am not a yuuge Trump fan, but I will vote for him. The consequences of Hillary presidency are catastrophic. A Trump presidency will have the effect of congress reestablishing their check on the executive branch. Both parties will move heaven and earth to way lay him. Count on it. And that gives me hope for our constitutional republic. We the people are not subjects!
Gender was originally a theory developed by a quack psychiatrist in the 1960s. His theory was discredited but now gender quackery is the law.
The EU was a C.I.A. construct in the belief that it is easier for the U.S. to impact and control policies over one government vs. lots of smaller ones. It was devised, packaged and sold on false premises with both intended and unintended consequences that have destroyed sovereignty, Western civilization, individualism and personal freedom. Bye, bye, bye. May the rest of the EU smarten up…and the U.S.
The world is watching and listening to Mr. Trump.
Not according to Frederick Forsyth (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-06-23/european-union-government-deception).
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Re: Bureaucrats with guns
With the "deference" SCOTUS pays to the executive-branch agencies with regards to making and interpreting their own rules, the agencies' only effective check is their reliance on the DoJ to enforce their directives - having their own SWAT teams effectively makes each agency its own little fiefdom and each agency head his own little warlord. If the President is not cnstrained by Congress nor the Constitution why should the EPA be constrained by the Congress or by the Constitution or by the President? This is I think the biggest threat to the US - the regulatory state is becoming self-sufficient and nobody is in control anymore.


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Slow Fashion supporters seek to tame the beast of globalization, revealing the beauty of an interconnected world.
Fiber Goes West
The average bargain-bin t-shirt travels 16,000 miles from farm to customer. Cotton grown in Texas is milled and dyed in China, manufactured in Bangladesh, then shipped to a retailer in San Francisco. By contrast, Slow Fashion designers defy this insanity by localizing production, processing, and distribution. Conscious fashion begins with conscious materials and ends with conscious consumers.
Some designers use only sustainable fibers like hemp, bamboo, and organics. Seriously eco-chic designers like Kigo Footwear have developed "cradle-to-cradle" production, offering rewards to customers who recycle their shoes.
Weave Us Together
The textile industry is highly labor-intensive, and employs millions of people worldwide. Unfortunately, many people work in grueling conditions for very little pay. In 1955, the U.S. made 90% of our apparel. Now we only make 3%. Textile jobs have been outsourced to countries with poor wages and no labor laws. To amend this injustice, some Slow Fashion designers like Blue Fish find skilled garment workers locally and pay them fair wages. Roozt.com features a host of ethical designers who empower workers in impoverished countries with living wages, education, and micro loans. Other designers are choosing small-scale productions and creating custom made-to-order items. With Etsy now boasting over 94,000 sellers, it's easy to find authentic and uniquely handmade apparel.
Slow Fashion Is For Lovers
The most important piece of the Slow Fashion movement is YOU, the consumer. The choices of millions drive the industry. We've all had a favorite shirt that we loved until it was all loved out. What if every piece of clothing you had was like that? Slow Fashion also means taking the time to seek out clothing worth loving. It's about valuing quality over quantity, and long-term investments over "impulse buy's." Each time we spend our heart-earned money, we can vote for a better world.
Let's vote for what we love – within and without.


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Freewheel Radio was founded in Co.Sligo, Ireland in November 2018. The station broadcasts 24/7 to countries covered by it's stream licence.
Freewheel Radio was founded by Kevin Morgan. Kevin studied radio in Ballyfermot College of Further Education, Dublin in the early noughties and went on to work in local radio with Midlands 103 for more than ten years. He has also worked with online radio stations "Klubb FM", "Radio Snowflake" and "Realcast Radio".
The idea of Freewheel Radio was born when he was looking for an outlet for the abundence of music he has built up over the years. "Realcast Radio allowed me to choose whatever I wanted to play, with nobody looking over my shoulder". "When Realcast finished broadcasting, I wanted to continue playing the good tunes, and what better way than to have your own radio station!"
Music and a love of radio are at the forefront of the venture. This radio station isn't here to pump out advertising or fill your ears with showbiz gossip. Decent tunes and some fun is the ethos we are operating under.
The playlist consists mostly of alternative, indie, soul and rock music, but is not restricted to those genres.
As the station evolves, we would really appreciate your feedback. Also, if you are reading this and would like to get involved with the station, please get in touch!
Considering the station is all about decent music, we are committed to paying royalties in full, unlike many other online radio stations. Our stream is licenced with PPI and IMRO in Ireland.
All of this costs a lot more than we thought at the start of the journey! So we do appreciate any donation you can offer to keep us afloat!
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Lost and Found
See this page for last call on pick-up of lost and found items.
C'mon Out and Celebrate With EOCX!
It's that time of the year again. Join us to relive the thrill of victory, and the agony of defeat. Here are the details:
|Sunday, December 1st
|2pm to 4pm
Westboro Legion, 389-391 Richmond Rd, Ottawa
in the lower room
|Street parking
Light snacks and coffee/tea will be provided. Alcohol, soft drinks and juice can be purchased on site.
2019 Calendar
- September 22 – Upper Canada Village, Morrisburg
- September 29 – KIN Vineyards, Carp. Madison event
- October 6 – Renfrew Fair Grounds, Renfrew
- October 13 – Pine Grove Forest, NCC Greenbelt, P16, Ottawa
- October 20 – Long Sault Parkway, East Woodland Island
- November 3 – Cornwall Civic Complex, Cornwall
- November 10 – Ma-te-way Park, Renfrew
- November 17 – Alfred Taylor Recreation Centre, North Gower
- November 24 – Conlon Farm Recreation Complex, Perth
Notes for the 2019 race season:
- Registration is open at CCN!
- Keep up on announcements and discussion on the Ottawa Cyclocross Facebook page
- OBC: For kids ages 5-18, a fun and friendly cyclocross program is offered by the Ottawa Bicycle Club. Practices run throughout September in preparation for the EOCX races. For information please visit the OBC Youth Cyclocross information page.
- Check back to this site and our Facebook page for updates.
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Browsing Center for Nursing Research: Nursing Measurement Tools and Instruments (UB only) by Title
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Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS) (1989)Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS) was developed to assess how fatigue affects physical functioning, motivation, exercise, and if the fatigue had interfered with patient's work, family, or social life.
Fatigue Toxicity Rating Scale (PF-Tox) (1996)Individuals may experience excessive tiredness when they are ill, receive treatment, or recover from their illness/treatment. This uncommon sense of exhaustion is not typically dismissed by either a good night's sleep or ...
Four Factor Index of Social Status [1975] (1975-01)Revision of the Two Factor Index of Social Position. Index includes these four factors: education, occupation, sex, and marital status. Includes description, coding and scoring information.
Frommelt Attitudes Toward Care of the Dying Scale (FATCOD) (1991)The Frommelt Attitudes Toward Care of the Dying (FATCOD) Scale is a 30-item scale designed to measure participants' attitudes toward providing care to dying patients. While two-thirds of the statements address nurses' ...
Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - Lung (FACT-L) (Dr .David Cella. Dr. Cella has granted FACIT.org the right to license usage of the FACIT System to other parties., 1995)The FACT-L questionnaire asks about symptoms reported among lung cancer patients that may affect their quality of life.
The Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Head & Neck Scale (FACT H&N, 4th version). (Dr, David Cella who has "granted FACIT.org the right to license usage of the FACIT System to other parties"., 1996)The Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy Core Instrument (FACT-G) added head and neck related symptoms sub-scales to create the FACT H&N questionnaire.
General Sleep Disturbance Scale (GSDS) (1992)General Sleep Disturbance Scale (GSDS) is a subjective measure of sleep disturbance. The GSDS contains 21 items rating the frequency of specific sleep problems during the past week from 0 (not at all) to 7 (every day). Lee ...
Good Death Inventory: A Measure for Evaluating Good Death from the Bereaved Family Member's Perspective (Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 2008)Good Death Inventory (GDI) is a measure for evaluating good death from the bereaved family member's perspective. The GDI is a valid scale to measure end-of-life care comprehensive outcomes from the bereaved family member's ...
The Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile II (Permission to use this scale may be obtained from: Susan Noble Walker, College of Nursing, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198-5330, 1995)The revised version of Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile (HPLP II) intended to assess behaviors that linked with health-promoting lifestyle, and how much frequent the individual practice these behaviors.
The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) (Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 1983)A self-assessment scale has been developed to detect states of depression and anxiety in the setting of an hospital medical outpatient clinic. The anxiety and depressive subscales are also valid measures of severity of the ...
Karnofsky Performance Status Scale (1984)The Karnofsky Performance Status Scale (KPS) measures the level of patient activity and could provide an insight about patient readiness for some medical treatments or interventions.
Lee's Fatigue Scale (LFS) (1991)A visual analogue scale to evaluate fatigue severity (LFS) was developed by Lee et al (1991). Original Lee's fatigue scale was modified from a 100 mm visual analogue scale format to 0-10 numeric rating scale (NRS) to assess ...
Locus of Control Scale (1966)Locus of Control Scale examines the extent of which people believe having a control (internal/external) over their life situations and their outcomes.
Lung Cancer Symptom Scale (LCSS) (1995)The Lung Cancer Symptom Scale (LCSS) is a disease and site specific quality of life measure to capture the experience of lung cancer. The LCSS is comprised of two components, a nine-item questionnaire for the patient, and ...
Lung Cancer Symptom Scale (LCSS) (2004)The LCSS is designed as a site-specific measure of quality of life (QL), particularly for use in clinical trials.
Lung Cancer Symptom Scale (LCSS): Administration, Scoring, and Procedures Manual (1995)A rating scale to measure the physical and functional dimensions of quality of life for people with lung cancer. Two components; one for patients, and one for health professionals.
Manual for the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychologists Press, 1970)The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory contains separate self-report scales to measure two distinct anxiety concepts: state anxiety (A-State) and trait anxiety (A-Trait). The STAI A-Trait scale had 20 statements to ask how they ...
Manual for the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory STAI (Form Y) ("Self-Evaluation Questionnaire") (Consulting Psychologists Press, Inc., 1983)Contents include: Acknowledgments, Introduction, Administration, Scoring and Norms, Development, Reliability, and Validity, Research with STAI, References and Appendices
Meaning of Illness Instrument (2003)This instrument has been used to evaluate positive and negative perceptions of illness in women with cancer.
The measurement of uncertainty in illness (Journal of Nursing Research, 1981)Mishel Uncertainty in Illness Scale (MUIS) was developed to assess what events that hospitalized patients exposed to during their disease journey are perceived as ambiguous and uncertain.


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Hi I'm Miss Ratay
A little bit about me.
I have a Bachelor of Science Degree in Early Childhood Education from California University of Pennsylvania and I am currently attending Point Park University and working on my Masters Degree in School Administration with a Principal Certification.
I have been teaching in the Diocese for over 25 years. My first teaching assignments was at St. Joan of Arc school where I taught 5-8th grade Language Arts. I then moved to James Lavelle Catholic teaching 2nd grade for 18 years. When James Lavelle closed I was hired at Nativity and there I taught a combined 1st and 2nd grade classroom . We merged with St. Germaine's in 2005 to become St. Katharine Drexel. At St. Katharine Drexel I taught 1st grade for 4 years and 3 and 4th the last year, I also taught k-8th grade music for the 5 years the school was opened.
For the last four year I taught 4 year old pre school and it was a wonderful experience. I loved working with the little one they were so sweet and kept my day busy and entertaining. I am very happy to be back in the classroom teaching third grade. The third grade student also keep me amuse, busy and entertained in their own special third grade ways. I feel extremely lucky to be their teacher.
My Catholic Philosophy of Education
My belief is that a Catholic education is the key to a child's success. It prepares the child to respect the sacred dignity of the person as an individual and how to become a member of our community. A Catholic education enables students to translate the Good News into action within a challenging and disciplined environment provided by caring and nurturing teachers.
I believe our Catholic Schools are places where children learn academically and, just as important to grow as people. An important part of this development comes from a child's faith journey as they learn how their faith relates to everyday life. Teaching in a Catholic school, with a faith based education, provided me with the opportunity to help children in their moral and spiritual growth.
As a Catholic school teacher, my philosophy is to create a positive and nurturing environment that promotes the growth of the whole child. I believe that children should be actively involved in their learning and should be given the opportunity to make choices, share, express ideas and discover. I feel blessed that my teaching is rooted in the Catholic Faith and that we are able to explore the wonders of God's creations.
I have come to realize through my many years as a Catholic school teacher how vital Catholic Education is to the preparation for young people to achieve success in all endeavors set before them. I hope to instill a love of God, learning, and a desire for constant knowledge with in each student.


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Miss Sharon Jones!2016
Miss Sharon Jones! (2016)
Critic Consensus: Miss Sharon Jones! only captures a portion of its subject's power -- or her inspiring story -- but that's more than enough to offer absorbing, entertaining viewing for fans and newcomers alike.
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The film's real success lies in having Jones as its primary subject, and that's because she's a wickedly funny, fierce, phenomenal force of nature, a positive, vivacious character whose generosity and charisma touches every single person.
"You think you've seen something/ Lord, I've just begun," Sharon Jones sings, and you don't doubt her for a second.
Initially dismissed by a record exec as "too black, too short, too old," to succeed, dynamic R&B powerhouse Sharon Jones wasn't about to let that, or anything else, stop her.
We don't learn enough about Jones away from her cancer. And because Jones is not especially insightful about her disease (not many people could be), we don't learn enough about her within it, either.
What makes "Miss Sharon Jones" most captivating is how its subject, in spite of hardship, remains a magnetic stage presence.
Yes, cancer sucks. But frankly, there's nothing distinctive about this documentary, even though it's about a very distinctive person.
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The Story of the Bible
"The Story of the Bible" is a 5-part program that invites you to take a step back and look at the Bible as a whole. If God has inspired every detail of Holy Scripture, we should be able to find an overarching story that runs from Genesis to Revelation. But what is that story?
Part 1 of this program begins by introducing us to God as the Great Author who has inspired the Story of the Bible. It answers the question, "Who is God?" In Part 2, we then consider the Hero of the story, Jesus, whose greatness excels all who came before him. In Part 3, we learn a deeper significance to the way our Bridegroom-Hero managed to slay the Great Dragon, the serpent of old, to win us as his bride. In Part 4, we then look at our destiny as the Bride of Christ. Finally, in Part 5, we learn about the happily ever after ending to our story and ask the question, "What heaven will be like?"
Join us as we celebrate the greatest story ever told, the story of our redemption!
Your Instructor
Dr. Warren A. Gage holds a Th.M. from Dallas Theological Seminary, a J.D. from SMU School of Law, and a Ph.D. in philosophy and literature from the University of Dallas. He also completed a year of post-graduate study at Tübingen University in Germany. He worked for twelve years as a trial attorney and was national counsel for a Fortune 400 defense contractor. For the next twelve years, he was a Professor of Old Testament at Knox Theological Seminary. He currently serves as President of the Alexandrian Forum.


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MICAT 2019 Exam Format follows the Multiple Choice Question pattern. It is divided into 2 papers- Paper 1 and Paper 2. Aspirants are given 125 minutes to clear the test i.e. 35 minutes to attempt Paper-1 and 90 minutes to clear Paper-2. Both the tests are organized in online mode. Paper -1 includes 4 descriptive type questions while Paper-2 includes 90 MCQs.
MICAT 2019 or Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad Admission Test is organized for PG Diploma in Management. Every year almost 8000 aspirants appear for MICAT Exam. It will be held twice in a year. One, in the month of December and other in February.
Interested aspirants can apply online on the official website. MICAT Application Form will be made available in September 2018 for Paper-1 and in January 2019 for Paper-2. Both MICAT 1 and MICAT 2 scores are considered for final admission of aspirants. Aspirants can check all important details regarding MICAT 2019 Exam Format, marking scheme further in the article.
|Exam Name
|MICA Admission Test
|Organizing Authority
|Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad
|Method of Examination
|Exam Period
|2.5 hours
|Medium of Examination
|Marking scheme
|No negative marking in Paper1 ¼ mark is deducted in Paper-2
|Total Questions
|Number of Papers
|Number of Sections
MICAT 2019 will be organized in online method i.e. it will be a computer-based exam. MICAT Exam Format consists of 2 papers- Paper 1 and Paper 2.
Paper 1 contains 4 descriptive type questions and Paper 2 contains 90 objective types of questions. The exam is mainly held to test thinking ability, reasoning ability, writing skills and General awareness of the aspirants. There are total 94 questions asked in the MICAT exam.
The questions will be divided into following parts:
|Paper I
|No. of Questions
|Paper II
|No. of Multiple Choice Questions
|Argument Writing
|4 Descriptive type of Questions
|Part I
|Psychometric Test
|Story Writing
|Part II
|Reasoning and Verbal Ability
|Essay Writing
|Part III
|General Knowledge
|Part IV
|Verbal Ability
|Part V
|Quantitative Ability
|Part VI
|Divergent and Convergent Reasoning
Aspirants will get 2 hours 5 minutes to clear the MICAT Test 2019. They must ensure that they submit the test within the stipulated time. No extra time will be offered to them.
Aspirants have to solve Paper-1 which is descriptive in nature in 35 minutes and Paper-2 which is objective nature in 90 minutes.
Till now, the official authority has not announced any official information concerned marking scheme eligible in the exam. Also, various marking scheme will be followed for Paper 1 and Paper2.
Paper-1 will be the descriptive pattern. Aspirants have to attempt 4 questions based on story writing, essay writing and Augmented writing. No negative marking will be done in this section and aspirants will be given 35 minutes to clear this section. They are advised to attempt all the questions to attain maximum marks in this section.
Paper-2 is divided into 3 parts. The first part will be of psychometric test. In second and third part i.e. logical and reasoning ability and General awareness section, 0.25 mark will be reduced for every wrong response. No negative marking is eligible here. Aspirants have to attempt 85 questions in approximately 120 minutes.
MICAT 2019 includes 2 papers and the syllabus for both the papers is various.
In Paper-1, Writing Ability is one of the major areas where an aspirant's ideas can be approached right at its source. It judges the aspirants based on their views on a particular topic. In this part, the aspirant will be given a topic and the aspirant will have to write both for and against the topic.
However, Paper-2 assess the aspirants' analytical aptitude, differing thinking, written communication skills, and general awareness of the communications industry.
Aspirants can take help of certain books for their better preparation of MICAT 2019 exam and the same have been tabulated below.
|Book Name
|Author Name
|How to Prepare for DI?
|Arun Sharma
|Word Power
|Made Easy
|High School English Grammar
|Wren and Martin
|How to Prepare for Quantitative Analysis?
|Arun Sharma
|Quantitative Aptitude for Competitive Examinations
|Abhijit Guha
|Pearson Guide for DI and LR
|Nishit K Sinha
|How to Prepare for LR?
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Ok, it's been well over a year ago (maybe closer to two) when we did the "Breastaurant Showdown" and compared Hooters, Twin Peaks, Tilted Kilt, Bone Daddy's, Burger Girl, and Bikini's. In the end, Hooters won with a friendly staff and consistently good food.
Unfortunately, my last two visits to Hooters (Irving and North Arlington) were fantastic examples of a great restaurant that might be resting on laurels.
IRVING: I want to like this Hooters location. It's perfectly located near all the shopping and is easy to get to. My last visit, my server was not friendly at all. Ironically, she was very friendly to the table behind us – which turned out to be her boyfriend and his buddies. Go figure.
They lost my order and I get my food 40 mins after everyone else at the table. "They lost your ticket so we had to turn it in again." That was my "apology/explanation".
NORTH ARLINGTON: Similar story here. Our waitress is hardly engaged with her tables. She is busy standing at the ordering-computer with the other girls talking about where they are going after work. Boomerjacks as it turns out- I can hear all this clear as day and I am not even close to them-they are just loudly discussing how they are going to get F#@#ed Up after work- and how it sucks at work and they wish they could get "cut".
Also at this location, they screw up our order. They sauce everyone's order backwards. So the "hot" guy gets mild, the "mild" girl gets "xxx", and I also get mild. I notice on their menu that they have made a few changes so I ask if they have perhaps changes sauce recipes because mine is not very hot. She looks at all dishes and says "oh, looks like they got the sauces all wrong. I bet that is what happened."
And then she smiles and walks away. No "hey, let's fix this" or anything. We were just left to eat the screwed up orders.
We figured she would return in a few minutes and we would just send it all back. After 13 minutes we just end up trading dishes (which were all different) just to get the right sauces. Oh and look at that nicely burnt bun. YUM.
While we are sitting there with drinks that needed refills, we can see other tables looking for their server as well. I spot another computer terminal that is also the server-talk-spot housing 4 girls by the front door. If tables are taken care of, who cares what you do, but when several tables are frustrated- it's a problem. They weren't busy on this night.
The food was good despite eating something I didn't order and a bit burnt- BUT- this lack of attention by the cooks, server, and manager is rather disconcerting.
My server did show up at check time, with a big smile, and began some "so you guys out having fun tonight?" chit-chat. Don't talk-up- the-tip now, sweetheart. Damage is already done.
I can only imagine that with Bikini's and now a new Red Neck Heaven in the neighborhood that good servers are hard to find. It's really the only thing I can think of as a possible excuse for this.
I have always enjoyed Hooters as a place to get good food, a couple of beers, and watch a game or two. We don't go there trying to hustle or hit on the girls. Our group just seriously loves hot-wings, beer, and sports. It's that simple.
I praised Hooters for having girls that weren't overly-flirty-in-a-hustling-you-for-a-tip kind of way. I liked that they were just friendly AND took care of their server business. PERIOD. I took plenty of flack for giving Hooters that praise.
Now I just wonder what the future holds.
Here is hoping they turn those two stores around soon.