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Unlike the governor, who recognizes how hard the recession has been on teachers, lawmakers in the House and Senate seem more concerned about the politics of implementing a performance-based pay system
There has been a significant amount of talk about the governor's proposal to give all classroom teachers a $2,500 raise at the start of the next school year. While I applaud the governor for beginning a long-overdue conversation about teacher compensation, we must look at the complete context of his proposal and the proposals last week from both the Florida House and Senate.
In Volusia County, teachers — and all employees for that matter — are taking home less money today than they did five years ago. While Volusia's teachers and employees have only seen their pay increase about 3 percent over the past five years, they are having more taken out of their paychecks. Volusia's school employees, like all public sector workers, have had 3 percent of their compensation taken to cover their retirement, an amount previously paid by the employer. Health care costs have also risen significantly over the past five years. This has literally meant that our teachers and other staff now take home, in some cases, as much as $200 less per month then they did five years ago.
But this is bigger than just Volusia County. Due to major budget cuts in the education budget, Florida's teachers have slipped to 45th in the nation in teacher pay — nearly $10,000 behind the national average in the latest survey from the National Education Association.
The governor's courageous attempt to bring attention to the woefully low teacher pay in our state should be applauded, but there are issues with his proposal. For one, he proposes to increase only the pay of classroom teachers, which has a narrow definition in state law that excludes guidance counselors, media specialists, psychologists, social workers and others. When all our employees are suffering due to constant budget cuts, we should be addressing the pay of all who play a role in the education of our children. Also, by the governor's own admission, the Florida Constitution requires that salary increases be negotiated between the school district and the union representing the employees.
Last week, the House and Senate responded to the governor's proposal for increasing teachers' pay. However, unlike the governor, who recognizes how hard the recession has been on teachers, lawmakers in the House and Senate seem more concerned about the politics of implementing a performance-based pay system. While there may be some merit in developing a performance-based pay system, it must be based on a sound teacher evaluation. Two years ago, lawmakers passed legislation dealing with teacher evaluation. Since that legislation was developed without input from teachers and school administrators, many of us knew it would not work. Earlier this year, the results that came in proved the evaluation system thrust on school districts is not working.
Even Senate President Don Gaetz said the system is not working, and we need to take a step back and take the time to get it done correctly.
Since, by lawmakers' own admission, the evaluation system is not a good measure of teacher performance, how can they still insist on a performance-based pay system when we cannot measure performance?
Our teachers, and other school employees, work hard every day with our most valuable assets, our children. I believe we need to do more to ensure that we support good teaching and great teachers. This means we must focus on quality teaching, making sure our teachers have everything they need to do their jobs and that we pay a salary that is commensurate with the work they do. The governor started a very important conversation. I hope that our lawmakers participate in this conversation and listen to all stakeholders. When that happens, we will finally be able to do what is best for our schools and our students.
Spar, of Ormond Beach, is president of the Volusia Teachers Organization.


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EUREKA — Neil Reagan's contributions to Eureka College have often been overshadowed by his younger brother.
Not quite as much Thursday when the college used the 159th anniversary of Eureka's founding and what would have been Ronald Reagan's 103rd birthday to announce a $1 million gift from the estate of Neil and Bess Reagan.
Neil Reagan, of course, was the first brother, the only sibling of the country's 40th president, Ronald Reagan, another Eureka alumni.
"With only 700 students, the size of the gift will have a strong impact," said John Morris, director of the college's Ronald Reagan Society. The money will go into Eureka's roughly $20 million endowment to support various student scholarships.
Neil and Bess Reagan also left more than 100 objects and photographs to the college. Much of it documents bits and pieces of a man who followed his brother to Eureka College, then to California and the entertainment business.
A former advertising executive, Neil "Moon" Reagan died in 1996 at the age of 88. His wife, Bess, died in 2010 at 102.
Neil Reagan graduated from Eureka in 1933, a year after Ronald Reagan graduated from the college. Both majored in economics and sociology and both went on to serve as trustees of the college. The Reagan Physical Education Center on Eureka's campus was named in honor of the brothers.
Neil Reagan also directed the radio series "Dr. Christian" and directed his brother in the television series "Death Valley Days."
The college actually received the memorabilia more than a year ago, as sort of a first installment of the bequest, said Tony Glass, archivist and curator of collections at Eureka.
One of the most interesting finds was a scrapbook documenting Neil Reagan's early efforts to build an acting career, Glass said.
"I wish we could say we had boxes of letters, correspondence and things of that nature," Glass added. "But it's hard to assess interest or value until everything has had a chance to age, I guess."
What, if any, of Ronald Reagan's estate will end up at the college is an open question while his widow, Nancy, still is alive.
"We don't know what might come down the pike," Glass said.
Neil Reagan's gift merely adds another layer of the Reagan brothers' legacy to Eureka, Morris said.
"These two guys came from the most humble roots, small-town Illinois, went to this small school — it's an American story," Morris said. "It's the promise of opportunity in America that's a central theme of Eureka College."
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Michael Graney, former Ticonderoga principal, was recently named as K-12 principal of Bolton Central Schools.
Ticonderoga High School Principal Michael Graney was appointed recently to the position of K-12 principal at Bolton Central School.
Having lead Ticonderoga High for 11 years, Graney said this week he was looking forward to his new position in Bolton, and his move was a matter of seeking out new challenges.
"I know many people in Bolton and admire their (school) district," he said. "It feels like a nice fit for me personally and professionally."
Bolton's Board of Education appointed Graney Nov. 14. He replaces former Bolton principal Damian Switzer, who resigned at the end of July to return to the Queensbury School District. James Polunci will remain as the interim principal at Bolton until Graney is on the job.
Prior to serving as Ticonderoga's principal, Graney was a physical education instructor and driver education teacher at the high school for eight years. For two years prior, he taught elementary Math, Science and Physical Education at Putnam Central School.
Ticonderoga superintendent John McDonald said Graney will be missed.
"Mike has done a fantastic job as principal," McDonald said, noting that Graney was instrumental in developing new programs, including Marine Technology courses and alternative high school. He also praised him for upholding high academic standards at Ticonderoga, which McDonald said contributed to the school's top 2 percent ranking in a U.S. News & World Report study.
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Bolton Superintendent Ray Ciccarelli Jr. said that Graney was chosen from a pool of highly qualified candidates because he had the most diverse educational experience and a strong desire to work at Bolton.
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If the audit is related to a determination that denied benefits, the Quality Control Investigator will ask you to confirm the information provided in the original fact-finding investigation, and will ask for some general employment information about the claimant that is required by the Department of Labor. The investigator will also contact the claimant to confirm his/her original statement.
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The Sequester and/or Government Shutdown Approacheth
Anybody else ****ing fed up with this shit? 2013: Year of the Cliff.
Sequester hits March 1st. Government shutdown hits March 27th.
Here's the conversation on the fiscal cliff. Here's the conversation on the debt ceiling (which we'll be returning to by May... sigh).
The White House discusses the entirety of the impact in post 136. It's devastating.
Here's the FAQ on the sequester (from September):
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The White House has released its plan explaining how the sequesters mandatory spending cuts to defense and domestic spending will be implemented in 2013. Heres the background on what the sequester is, how it happened and what happens from here:
What is the sequester?
Its a package of automatic spending cuts thats part of the Budget Control Act (BCA), which was passed in August 2011. The cuts, which are projected to total $1.2 trillion, are scheduled to begin in 2013 and end in 2021, evenly divided over the nine-year period. The cuts are also evenly split between defense spending with spending on wars exempt and discretionary domestic spending, which exempts most spending on entitlements like Social Security and Medicaid, as the Bipartisan Policy Center explains. The total cuts for 2013 will be $109 billion, according to the new White House report.
Under the BCA, the cuts were triggered to take effect beginning Jan. 1 if the supercommittee didnt to agree to a $1.2 trillion deficit-reduction package by Nov. 23, 2011. The group failed to reach a deal, so the sequester was triggered.
Why does everyone hate the sequester so much?
Legislators dont have any discretion with the across-the-board cuts: They are intended to hit all affected programs equally, though the cuts to individual areas will range from 7.6 percent to 9.6 percent (and 2 percent to Medicare providers). The indiscriminate pain is meant to pressure legislators into making a budget deal to avoid the cuts.
How would these cuts affect the country?
Since the details just came out, its not entirely clear yet. But many top defense officials have warned that the cuts will lead the military to be hollowed out. Democratic legislators have similarly warned about the impact on vital social programs. And defense, health care and other industries that are significantly dependent on federal spending say that major job losses will happen if the cuts end up taking effect.
At the same time, if legislators try to avoid the sequester without replacing it with real deficit reduction, the U.S. could face another credit downgrade.
Why did Congress and the White House agree to the sequester in the first place?
The government was approaching its debt limit, which needed to be raised through a congressional vote or else the country would default in early August 2011. While Democrats were in favor of a clean vote without strings attached, Republicans were demanding substantial cuts in exchange for raising the debt limit.
President Obama and congressional leaders ultimately agreed to the BCA, which would allow the debt ceiling to be raised by $2.1 trillion in exchange for the establishment of the supercommittee tied to the fall-back sequester, as the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities explains. The deal also includes mandatory spending reductions on top of the sequester by putting caps on non-entitlement discretionary spending that will reduce funding by $1 trillion by 2021.
Who supported the debt-ceiling deal?
Party leaders, the White House and most members of Congress supported the debt-ceiling deal: The BCA passed on a 268-161 vote in the House, with about one-third of House Republicans and half of House Democrats opposing it. It passed in the Senate, 74-26, with six Democratic senators and 19 Republican senators opposing it.
Can the sequester be avoided?
Yes, but only if Congress passes another budget deal that would achieve at least $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction. Both Democrats and Republicans have offered proposals to do so, but there still isnt much progress on a deal. The political obstacles are the same as during the supercommittee negotiations: Republicans dont want to raise taxes to generate revenue, while Democrats are reluctant to make dramatic changes to entitlement programs to achieve savings.
What happens from here?
No one on Capitol Hill thinks any deal will happen before Election Day. After Nov. 6, Congress will have just a few weeks to come up with an alternative to the sequester. The challenge is complicated by the fact that the Bush tax cuts, the payroll tax, unemployment benefits and a host of other tax breaks are all scheduled to expire Dec. 31. The cumulative impact of all of these scheduled cuts and changes is whats popularly known as the fiscal cliff. Theres already talk of passing a short-term stopgap budget plan during the lame-duck session to buy legislators more time to come up with a grand bargain.
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Everybody pretty much just going through the motions.
Pretty obvious everybody is just saving their strength for the budget fight.
Obama reaches out to Boehner, McConnell as sequester cuts loom
By Justin Sink
President Obama on Thursday phoned Republican leaders in Congress to discuss the impasse surrounding $85 billion in automatic spending cuts set to hit the government on March 1.
Obama made phone calls to Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) eight days before the cuts are implemented and one day after Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned they would lead to the furloughing of 800,000 civilian defense workers.
White House press secretary Jay Carney declined to give details of the call, while Republicans picked at Obama for not calling Democrats, a criticism that suggested they saw the calls as a political stunt.
"He placed calls earlier today to Sen. McConnell and Speaker Boehner, had good conversations, but I have no further readout of those calls for you," Carney told reporters at his daily press briefing.
The calls appear aimed at demonstrating Obama is engaged in trying to avert the sequester — which the president has described as a "meat cleaver" approach to budget cutting — and to answer GOP criticisms he hasn't reached out to them on major policy disputes.
A spokesman for Boehner suggested Obama should instead focus his efforts on Senate Democrats, noting that while the House has passed a pair of sequester replacement bills, the upper chamber has passed none.
"If he wants to avert the sequester, shouldn't the President be focused on the House of Congress that HASN'T acted, and where his own political party holds the majority?" Boehner spokesman Michael Steel said in an email.
The Speaker has insisted repeatedly that the House will not act again to replace the automatic cuts until a plan passes the Senate. But the odds of a deal in the Senate are slim, with McConnell saying that he is "not interested in an eleventh-hour negotiation."
"It's pretty clear to me that the sequester is going to go into effect," McConnell told reporters last week.
Obama and Democrats want to replace the sequester with a combination of tax hikes and spending cuts, but Republicans say no tax increases should be a part of the package after January's "fiscal cliff" deal, which raised tax rates on annual household income above $450,000.
Senate Democrats are expected to bring a bill to the floor next week that would replace part of the sequester with a minimum 30 percent tax on millionaires, a proposal Republicans have rejected.
The calls to McConnell and Boehner on the sequester follow calls by Obama on Tuesday to several Republican senators — including Sens. John McCain (Ariz.), Marco Rubio (Fla.) and Lindsey Graham (S.C.) — after they criticized him for not talking to them about immigration reform.
Obama has been criticized by Republicans for not reaching out to them on his agenda.
The president this week has waged a public campaign aimed at setting up the GOP for blame if they are not averted.
On Thursday, Obama said he didn't know if Republicans would be willing to continue negotiating to avoid the across-the-board cuts.
"At this point, we continue to reach out to Republicans and say this is not going to be good for the economy and this is not going to be good for ordinary people, but I don't know if they're going to move," Obama said during an interview on Al Sharpton's radio show. "We're going to have to try to keep pushing over the next seven or eight days."
In the interview with Sharpton, Obama repeated his charge that Republicans valued tax carve-outs for the wealthy over averting the sequester cuts.
"My sense is their basic view is that nothing is important enough to raise taxes on wealthy individuals or corporations, and they would prefer to see these kind of cuts that could slow down our recovery over closing tax loopholes," Obama said. "And that's the thing that binds their party together at this point."
Republicans have disputed that characterization, with Boehner spokesman Brendan Buck saying that Republicans were open to closing loopholes as long as savings were not used to finance new deficit spending.
"Americans know that if they give President Obama more tax revenue, he isn't going to use it to reduce the deficit; he's going to spend it," Buck said in a statement Tuesday.
Obama also argued that he felt like he had the political advantage, pointing to a USA Today poll released Thursday that showed a majority of Americans supported a deficit deal that included both new revenue sources and spending reduction.
"When you look at polling, 75 percent of the American people agree with me, that the way to reduce deficit sensibly is through a combination of spending cuts and tax revenue," Obama said.
"Unfortunately I think Republicans right now are so dug in on this notion of never raising taxes that it becomes difficult for them to see an obvious answer right in front of them."
Republicans have argued that they already agreed to new revenues in the "fiscal cliff" deal last month and that a sequester deal should come only from spending cuts.
The interview with Sharpton was one of three taped Thursday with African-American radio hosts, the latest leg of a media blitz intended to intensify pressure on congressional Republicans.
On Wednesday, Obama taped interviews with eight television stations, and earlier in the week he gave a speech urging a sequester deal at a White House event featuring first-responders facing furloughs or layoffs.
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Love this piece from Krugman. A perfect, invaluable summary of the issue.
Sequester of Fools
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: February 21, 2013
They're baaack! Just about two years ago, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, the co-chairmen of the late unlamented debt commission, warned us to expect a terrible fiscal crisis within, um, two years unless we adopted their plan. The crisis hasn't materialized, but they're nonetheless back with a new version. And, in case you're interested, after last year's election — in which American voters made it clear that they want to preserve the social safety net while raising taxes on the rich — the famous fomenters of fiscal fear have moved to the right, calling for even less revenue and even more spending cuts.
But you aren't interested, are you? Almost nobody is. Messrs. Bowles and Simpson had their moment — the annus horribilis of 2011, when Washington was in thrall to deficit scolds insisting that, in the face of record-high long-term unemployment and record-low borrowing costs, we forget about jobs and concentrate exclusively on a "grand bargain" that would supposedly (not actually) settle budget disputes for ever after.
That moment has now passed; even Mr. Bowles concedes that the search for a grand bargain is on "life support." Let's convene a death panel! But the legacy of that year of living foolishly lives on, in the form of the "sequester," one of the worst policy ideas in our nation's history.
Here's how it happened: Republicans engaged in unprecedented hostage-taking, threatening to push America into default by refusing to raise the debt ceiling unless President Obama agreed to a grand bargain on their terms. Mr. Obama, alas, didn't stand firm; instead, he tried to buy time. And, somehow, both sides decided that the way to buy time was to create a fiscal doomsday machine that would inflict gratuitous damage on the nation through spending cuts unless a grand bargain was reached. Sure enough, there is no bargain, and the doomsday machine will go off at the end of next week.
There's a silly debate under way about who bears responsibility for the sequester, which almost everyone now agrees was a really bad idea. The truth is that Republicans and Democrats alike signed on to this idea. But that's water under the bridge. The question we should be asking is who has a better plan for dealing with the aftermath of that shared mistake.
The right policy would be to forget about the whole thing. America doesn't face a deficit crisis, nor will it face such a crisis anytime soon. Meanwhile, we have a weak economy that is recovering far too slowly from the recession that began in 2007. And, as Janet Yellen, the vice chairwoman of the Federal Reserve, recently emphasized, one main reason for the sluggish recovery is that government spending has been far weaker in this business cycle than in the past. We should be spending more, not less, until we're close to full employment; the sequester is exactly what the doctor didn't order.
Unfortunately, neither party is proposing that we just call the whole thing off. But the proposal from Senate Democrats at least moves in the right direction, replacing the most destructive spending cuts — those that fall on the most vulnerable members of our society — with tax increases on the wealthy, and delaying austerity in a way that would protect the economy.
House Republicans, on the other hand, want to take everything that's bad about the sequester and make it worse: canceling cuts in the defense budget, which actually does contain a lot of waste and fraud, and replacing them with severe cuts in aid to America's neediest. This would hit the nation with a double whammy, reducing growth while increasing injustice.
As always, many pundits want to portray the deadlock over the sequester as a situation in which both sides are at fault, and in which both should give ground. But there's really no symmetry here. A middle-of-the-road solution would presumably involve a mix of spending cuts and tax increases; well, that's what Democrats are proposing, while Republicans are adamant that it should be cuts only. And given that the proposed Republican cuts would be even worse than those set to happen under the sequester, it's hard to see why Democrats should negotiate at all, as opposed to just letting the sequester happen.
So here we go. The good news is that compared with our last two self-inflicted crises, the sequester is relatively small potatoes. A failure to raise the debt ceiling would have threatened chaos in world financial markets; failure to reach a deal on the so-called fiscal cliff would have led to so much sudden austerity that we might well have plunged back into recession. The sequester, by contrast, will probably cost "only" around 700,000 jobs.
But the looming mess remains a monument to the power of truly bad ideas — ideas that the entire Washington establishment was somehow convinced represented deep wisdom.
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Post subject: What conservatives have done to government in California
I graduated from high school in Southern California in 1967. I had a terrific teacher for American government, who was fond of saying that each society gets the government it deserves. Im often fairly astonished at how little some of the posters on this forum know about California governmentwhat it spends money on, what benefits come from that spending, and how much the right wing has cut from needed programs over the past 40 years since I graduated from an excellent public school system.
Lets start with a few facts about what the State spends money on. The current state budget can be found here:
Most of the money from the General Fund is spent on four things:
Health and Human Services $27 billion
K-12 Education $38 billion
Higher Education $ 9 billion
Corrections $ 9 billion
No other budget category totals more than $3 billion, out of a total General Fund spending of $96 billion.
Because I volunteer in public schools teaching reading and math, I am particularly concerned about the health of our education system. Proposition 13, sponsored by Howard Jarvis, has led to a dramatic decline in the amount of money spent on education in California, and has shifted policy control from local governments to the State. It cut local property tax revenues by nearly 60%. The impact on education was dramatic. In 1969, 3.7% of personal income in California went to public education, with nearly 50% of that funding coming from local property taxes. In 2008, under 3.3% of personal income went to public education, and California had fallen to 44th in per pupil spending in the US, and last in the ratio of students to teachers.
Higher education has suffered as well. In 1980 15% of the States budget went to higher education, by 2011 that had dropped to 9%, and another $1.5 billion was cut since 2010 due to the Republicans refusal to increase taxes during the recession. Fees have doubled in the past five years, and Californias successful higher education system has become far less accessible to the poor and the middle class.
When I graduated from high school at went on to the University of California, there was a consensus in California that public investments in higher education resulted in substantially higher income, and tax revenues, over the life of each person educated. Indeed, researchers such as James J. Heckman have found that each dollar invested in education returns at least $1.50 in public revenues, and early childhood education can return $5.00 or more. The constant cuts in education, which was what helped create much of Californias wealth, is akin to slaughtering the goose that laid golden eggs.
Thanks to ill-conceived conservative ideas like the three strikes law, Californias prison population, and spending on prisons, has skyrocketed while education has been slashed. Between 1980 and 2011, the money spent on prisons has increased by 436%, and is now nearly as high as higher education. Ironically, efforts to educate poor children help reduce the prison population, and more than pay for their costs.
Grappling with the issue of crime is neither easy nor without difficult political issues. The increasing punitive approach supported by conservatives resulted in an increase in the prison population from 67,000 in 1987 to 163,000 at its peak in 2006, and now about 120,000. The courts have ordered a reduction in the prison population because overcrowding violates Constitutional standards, and some have estimated that 44% of the prison population is a low risk for re-violating because of their age. However, many of these prisoners committed serious crimes. A number of analyses of criminal behavior have shown that the age of the population is an important factor in the crime rate because the peak for criminal activity occurs during the age group from 14 to 25. In any event, the crime rate has been going down in the United States for more than a decade.
I began thinking about this subject when I had a chance to hear Tony Jackson, the new head of the California Department of Parks and Recreation speak. He pointed out that California has had a 50% increase in park acreage, while suffering a 1/3 cut in staffing. Most windsurfers use State and local parks for reaching the waterand get there on publicly funded roads. Many facilities used by windsurfers have been built by funding from the Department of Boating and Waterwaysnow a part of the Department of Parks and Recreation. Frequently we use facilities with no entrance or parking fees. The budget for the Department is $576 millionbut there are over $1.3 billion in unfunded maintenance needs. The Parks budget amounts to $15 per person in California.
There was a time when Republicans supported investment in infrastructure, and recognized that those investments created immense wealth and opportunities for capitalists. Eisenhower is the granddaddy of the Interstate Highway System, which reduced the costs of transportation dramatically and led to huge economic benefits. Construction of the railroad system, funded largely by grants of Federal lands in the mid 19th century, had the same impact. More recently the governments investments in ports and airports and satellites has allowed private investors to benefit from improved technology. Yet funding for infrastructure is no longer favored by the GOP, and our highways and bridges have serious backlogs in maintenance and replacement funding. Republicans prevented funding of additional infrastructure investment when proposed by Obama, prolonging the downturn in construction jobs.
I find it particularly ironic that the Republicans have acceded to the series of quantitative easing measures by the Fed, while blocking measures that would increase private employment and consumption. We've been willing to subsidize the investor class with those measures, while starving the consumers that might have made the economic recovery more robust. While this is regrettable, it is part of a pattern whereby the GOP has abandoned many of the policies of investment that created wealth in this country, and pandered to the social conservatives. It has damaged the economy in California--but has also led to the dramatic decline of the GOP as a reputable brand in the state.
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mac, since we're the same age and we graduated from high schools that were only a few miles apart, I can acknowledge that much of what you're saying about changes in the state of California since 1967 is true, particularly the huge effects of Prop. 13. No doubt, the Republicans have played a big role in screwing things up by refusing to work cooperatively with Democrats in the key areas that you highlighted. However, more recently Republicans have lost enough seats in the state legislature where they, as the minority, can no longer block important legislation. Now, one wonders whether the Democratic majority can begin to reverse the negative trend that was so many years in the making. One can only hope.
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I don't even have to look at these posts to know how laughable they are. Imagine Moore, Gore, Soros, Striesand, Pelosi, Reid, Clooney, and Marx all rolled into one extreme left burrito whining about "Those Damned Obstructionists" trying to impede California's rush to insanity.
I'm sure saner heads will correct me if my assumption is wrong.
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It would be funny if it weren't so sad:
I don't even have to look at these posts to know how laughable they are.
Don't confuse me with facts, my mind is closed.
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"I'm sure saner heads will correct me if my assumption is wrong."
Why waste any time on a twisted person that can't see or acknowledge the majority of posts here?
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I would really be interested to see how the per capita tax rate compares to historical rates. Adjusted for inflation.
I did my own brief research into Colorado education budget after a teacher friend complained about reduced funding. What I found is that a LOT of tax revenue is being spent in other areas including teacher retirement increases... which were not included in the education budget. It seems our aging populations may be having across the board fiscal ramifications.
One would really need to look at the entire budget from a historical perspective to see if the money is being diverted or is actually less. Are there less or more students in the schools as a fraction of the total population? It would seem that education costs should have been higher pushing the baby boomers through the system.
This is just the start of the trend. As population ages, resources will be stretched for traditional government spending...as dollars follow the aging boomers again.
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I have to admit that being a CPA or statistician isn't my strong suit, but there are some simple comparisons that provide a picture of things and how they've changed.
Like mac, I attended the University of California (Irvine). I spent a couple of years there and graduated in 1971. For my first year my (tuition) fee was $300, and it increased in my second year to $450.
What does it cost to attend a University of California campus today? I'm guessing that it would be about $8-10K a year, and that doesn't include room and board. Of course, the effects of inflation over the years have had an unquestionable impact, so they must be factored into the picture. Yet, overall, I think most of us can begin to understand that a citizen of the state of California isn't receiving the kind of value that we once did, and unfortunately, it's not just in California. A 4 year degree today is huge money, and it is far beyond what lower and middle class folks can afford.
And where's the Republican party on this in Washington? They just couldn't find agreement with Democrats in maintaining loan interest rates at where they are now. They would prefer that they double. It's pretty clear to me that Republicans aren't willing to invest in America, even though our future depends so much on educating our citizenry.
It amazes me that Republicans don't get the picture.
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Here is one of the problems...
According to the national center for education statistics (have not figured out how to link with ipad), we now spend over three times as much per pupil (in today's dollars) than we did in 1960. How much should we spend? We now have less students vs population and spend way more per student.
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.... with no results to show for it.
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CB--simply not the case in California. You can't get any lower than last in class size. I know, from spending 15 or so hours a week in a classroom, that for kids who are struggling, more time with someone teaching matters in a huge way.
Salaries and pensions are not the source of bigger budgets--in fact California's budget shrunk by 1/3 during the recession and has not yet come back. Here are the sequential general fund budgets from 2007-8 on, in millions:
2007-8 102,574.0
2008-9 82,772.1
2009-10 87,041.1
2010-11 93,488.9
2011-12 87,070.8
2012-13 95,394.2
2013-14 98,500.6
In California, local governmental pensions and salaries are way too high. You can retire, as a non-police non-fire employee, at 55, with 2.7 times your years of service times your last salary. For State employees, the multiplier is 2.0 at 60, and the salaries are low. Most school teachers make less than truck drivers in public works departments.
Administrators at the University system suck up too much money. You can find things here and there where people are gaming the system and have broken the trust of the public. But they are small in comparison to the number of cuts. And the willingness of conservatives to brag about not paying any attention to the facts. You saw it here.
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Step 3 – Uninstall noxious files of BestMovies Now from Registry.
1. click "Windows key + R key" together to open Run window, then input "regedit" in Run window and press Enter button to open Registry:
2. Locate and uninstall registry files generated by BestMovies Now and other threats as below:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Start Page Redirect="http://<random>.com"
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\virus name
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon "Shell" = "%AppData%\<BestMovies Now>.exe"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run 'Random' HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Random
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Step 1 – Start a scan with SpyHunter to delete BestMovies Now completely from your PC.
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After SpyHunter is downloaded, your Google Chrome /Mozilla Firefox /Internet Explorer may shows such fake system related security warning "This type of file can harm your PC. Do you want to keep Download_Spyhunter-Installer.exe anyway?", which is created by this BestMovies Now virus to cheat you, kindly just ignore the fake or bogus warning and press on "Keep" button.
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2. Once MacKeeper is installed into your system, use the Find & Fix feature to check the status of your Mac computer and delete BestMovies Now and all infections and fix all types of problems:
3. If BestMovies Now virus is detect & Fix did not solve all your problems, you can use the Geek on Demand feature to get a Apple expert to help you as an personal assistant. The Apple Certified Support Professional experts will provide various solutions for all type of technical issues, whether a minor nuisance or a catastrophic failure.
Mackeeper is a complete package of 16 software, you can get almost all necessary tools for your Mac system and everything will become simple and convenient on your Mac System. Here are some most powerful tools packed in MacKeeper:
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Important Note To Ignore Viruses :– Something You Should Know After Removing BestMovies Now
To avoid BestMovies Now coming back and prevent attacks from other infections, follow these basic rules while using your computer:
- You must be always select Custom Installation no matter what application you are going to install;
- Uncheck hidden options which attempt to install additional programs you never need;
- Scan all your downloaded files and applications or attachments of email before you open them;
- you should Never open any attachments of unknown or spam emails;
- never try to update any app from nonofficial websites.


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Name: Mila G
Location: Vancouver, BC
Check out Mila G on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram
Birthday: December 10
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius
Height: 5'3"
Measurements: 32D-24-34
Ethnicity/ Nationality: Japanese
Where are you from?
I am from Tokyo, Japan, but I now live in Vancouver, Canada.
Are you currently working?
Yes, I am a part time waitress in Vancouver as well as a part-time model. I am willing to be a full time model or an actress in the future though.
Does your personality match your Zodiac sign?
I don't believe in Zodiac signs, or blood types, lol. I don't even know what my Zodiac sign means.
What would you say are your strengths as a model?
I hold very strong relationships with my fans. I enjoy talking to my supporters at any events or shows, they mean a lot to me and they made me be where I am as a model. I started to model in 2012, and now I am hitting 17.6K + supporters on my Facebook page. I believe I am a very hard worker and I'm very professional when it comes to business. I really promote myself and the events I go to.
What is your best beauty secret?
Eat like a man and workout!
What car do you currently drive? Why did you buy it?
I actually don't have a driving license.... yes.. I know I should get one... I like Porsche, because when I was little my uncle is the only one in my family who liked cars and he was driving a Porsche back then. I was very little but when I saw the door opened from bottom to up... I just fell in love!
Do you have a dream car?
Porsche 918 Spyder. I dream about it of course. and if I get to drive this car, my uncle would be proud.
What are your future plans?
To become a selfmade millionaire.
Do you ever drink?
I drink a bit. I love shiso mojito, a Japanese herb. Shiso mojito has the shiso instead of mint! It's very good and very healthy!
Where do you like to eat?
Definately Japanese Restaurants. I order Goma Ae which is boiled spinach with sesame sauce.
Are you saving money for anything at the moment?
Yes! To take my parents to a trip in 2014. Their very first travel abroad was Hawaii for their honeymoon 25 years ago, but since then their life was always in Japan. I want to take my parents to some tropical country and get them on a jet ski hahaha.
Do you have any hobbies? If so what are they?
I have lots hobbies! Work out at the gym, play tennis, play games, eat healthy, cooking, search how to become self made millionaire :p. I love playing video games such as COD, kill some zombies, or the new GTA5. Maybe I am a wifey material!
How do you keep in such excellent shape?
I watch my food calories, and I work out. I only exercise my butt and stomach. And I also run! Usually I run for thirty minutes, then I do 100 squats, followed by another 50 squats with dumbbells. After that I do sit ups for 20 minutes! I usually end my workout with 3 sets of planks for 2 minutes each, ending it with a high kick run for 1 minute and plank between.
Are you big on first impressions? What do you first notice on a man?
Yes first impressions are so important. I first notice their smile and the way they talk.
What's on your travel itinerary? Are you planning to go to anywhere in the close future?
I am planning to take my parents to the Philippines next year! I am very excited because it's their second time travelling abroad and I just want to make sure that they have great time =)
Who is your favorite musical artist?
I love Bruno Mars. I just love his voice and Music. His voice really touches my heart and memories.
Who motivates and inspires you?
Arianny Celeste, because shes the one true natural beauty. Elegant and classy too! I just met her at DTP Auto show in Vancouver and I took a picture with her and asked for an autograph on my cell phone case! I was just too happy when she asked me if I am Japanese. I felt my life was complete.
What else can you tell us about yourself?
OK! It's really end of the interview but English is not my first language, so please be nice to my poor English skills. =)
Any last words?:
I want to be the next PASMAG feature model <3 <3 <3
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Rhabdomyosarcoma is a cancerous (malignant) tumor of the muscles that are attached to the bones.
It can occur in many places in the body. The most common sites are the head and neck, the urogenital tract, and the arms or legs.
Alternative Names
Soft tissue sarcoma; Alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma; Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma; Sarcoma botryoides
Rhabdomyosarcoma is the most common soft tissue tumor in children.
The cause of rhabdomyosarcoma is unknown. It is a rare tumor with only several hundred new cases per year in the United States.
Some children with certain birth defects are at an increased risk. Some families have a gene mutation that increases this risk. Most children with rhabdomyosarcoma do not have any known risk factors.
The most common symptom is a mass that may or may not be painful.
Other symptoms vary depending on location of the tumor:
- Tumors in the nose or throat may cause bleeding, congestion, swallowing problems, or neurological problems if they extend into the brain.
- Tumors around the eyes may cause bulging of the eye, problems with vision, swelling around the eye, or pain.
- Tumors in the ears, may cause pain, hearing loss, or swelling.
- Bladder and
vaginal tumorsmay cause lead to trouble starting to urinate or having a bowel movement, or poor control of urine.
- Muscle tumors may lead to a painful lump, and are often thought to be an injury.
Exams and Tests
Diagnosis of rhabdomyosarcoma is often delayed because of lack of symptoms and because the tumor may appear at the same time as a recent injury. Early diagnosis is important because rhabdomyosarcomaspreads quickly.
A complete physical exam should be done. Tests may include:
Biopsyof the tumor
- Chest x-ray
- CT scan of the chest to look for spread of the tumor
CT scanof the tumor site
- Bone marrow biopsy (may show the cancer has spread)
Bone scanto look for spread of the tumor MRIscan of the tumor site
- Spinal tap (
lumbar puncture)
Treatment depends on the site and type of rhabdomyosarcoma.
Either radiation or chemotherapy, or both, will be used before or after surgery. In general, surgery and radiation therapy are used to treat the primary site of the tumor. Chemotherapy is used to treat disease at all sites in the body.
Chemotherapy is an essential part of treatment to prevent further spread of the cancer. Many different chemotherapy drugs are active against rhabdomyosarcoma. Your doctor will discuss these with you.
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Outlook (Prognosis)
While aggressive treatment is usually necessary, most children with rhabdomyosarcoma achieve long-term survival. Cure depends on the specific type of tumor, its location, and how much it has spread.
Possible Complications
- Complications from chemotherapy
- Location in which surgery is not possible
When to Contact a Medical Professional
Call your health care provider if your child has symptoms of rhabdomyosarcoma.
Dome JS, Rodriguea-Galindo C, Spunt SL, Santana VM. Pediatric solid tumors. In: Niederhuber JE, Armitage JO, Doroshow JH, et al., eds. Abeloffs Clinical Oncology. 5th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone; 2013:chap 95.
Goldblum JR, Folpe AL, Weiss SW. Rhabdomyosarcoma. In: Goldblum JR, Folpe AL, Weiss SW. Enzinger and Weisss Soft Tissue Tumors. 6th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Saunders; chap 20.
National Cancer Institute: PDQ Childhood Rhabdomyosarcoma Treatment. Bethesda, Md: National Cancer Institute. Date last modified: November 26, 2013. Available at: http://cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/childrhabdomyosarcoma/HealthProfessional. Accessed: March 23, 2014.
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WINTERPARK, Fla., Jan. 3, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Centor, Inc. (OTCBB:CNTO) is pleased to announce the appointment of C.W. (Charlie) Chapman to the Company Advisory Board and the launch of a new corporate website: www.centorenergyinc.com.
Mr. Chapman is a professional engineer with over 40 years of broad experience, knowledge and relationship contacts in the petroleum and gas industries. Mr. Chapman has experience in almost every aspect of these industries including an expertise in reservoir engineering and production optimization. In 1985 he founded and is currently President of Petroleum Engineering, LTD overseeing all aspects of the diversified professional services of the firm. Petroleum Engineering LTD, provides comprehensive petroleum engineering, geological, geophysical and management services to a multinational clientele. Mr. Chapman is a member of numerous professional organizations including but not limited to the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologist and Geophysicists of Alberta (APEGGA) and The Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers (SPEE).
Mr. Sullivan stated: "Mr. Chapman is an extraordinary addition to the Centor team. As an Advisory Board member the Company will benefit from Mr. Chapman's expertise in optimizing operations as well as a wealth of industry knowledge and contacts to obtain resources, recruit professional services and target additional acquisitions." Mr. Sullivan continued: "I also welcome you to visit our new corporate website where you will find additional information on the Company, our recent acquisition of shale oil resources and our going forward strategy. As always our goal is to keep our shareholders fully informed and provide profitable growth and consistently expand shareholder value for the Company."
James Michael Sullivan, President and CEO
For further Information and inquiries please call: 866-491-3128.
Certain statements in this release, other than statements of historical fact, may include forward-looking information that involves various risks and uncertainties. There can be no assurance that such forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate. Actual result and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. These and all subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements are based on the estimates and opinions of management on the dates they are made and expressly qualified in their entirety by this notice. The Company assumes no obligation to update forward-looking statements should circumstances or management's estimates or opinions change, other than as required pursuant to applicable securities laws.
Source:Centor, Inc.


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Sensational Saturday it is sensational to read interesting things and improve your skills as a blogger and as an entrepreneur.
Each Sensational Saturday I am going to give you some great articles on blogging and business that I have found interesting during the past week. Be sure to check both sets of articles, there is often relevant overlap!
For Bloggers
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If you come across an interesting article for bloggers or business people you would like me to highlight here, please email it to me at: janeanedavis@janeane's world.com
Sensational Saturday - it is sensational to get better at what you do. So, the question for you this sensational Saturday is what steps are you taking to make your blog and business better?
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The first release of Microsoft's Surface tablet computers will be Wi-Fi-only, two unnamed sources told the Washington Post.
When the tablets were launched Monday, Microsoft did not say whether the initial release of the Surface tablet on Windows RT or Windows 8 Pro would have cellular connectivity. Officials referred to a shortened spec sheet that left many details about the tablets unclear. The spec sheet lists both models of the Surface tablet as coming with various ports and a 2x2 MIMO antenna. Such antennas can be used in both Wi-Fi and cellular communications. Since the spec sheet was incomplete, it can't be assumed there will be no cellular connectivity, analysts said.
One informed source associated with a chip maker that's likely to provide chips for Surface tablets told Computerworld there wouldn't be a chip for a cellular radio connection in the first release. However, it wasn't clear what other chip makers will do.
The new iPad from Apple has 4G LTE cellular and Wi-Fi connections, although some models are Wi-Fi-only. Analysts for months have noted that Wi-Fi-only models sell better and make up the majority of the market, partly because many users don't want to pay extra for a cellular connection for a tablet as well as a smartphone.
Part of the Verizon Wireless Share Everything plan launching June 28 will allow customers with both tablets and smartphones to share the data service between them. That data sharing plan is expected to encourage interest in more purchases of cellular plans for tablets.
Some analysts say Microsoft will eventually want to offer a tablet with cellular service to expand the locations where the tablets can be used and have Internet access. Since tablets aren't as light and portable as a smartphone, which can be kept in a pants pocket , so users often find them easier to use within Wi-Fi zones in an office, coffee shop or at home.
The Post's sources also said Microsoft is using Pegatron Corp. in Taiwan to manufacture the Surface.
Matt Hamblen covers mobile and wireless, smartphones and other handhelds, and wireless networking for Computerworld. Follow Matt on Twitter at @matthamblen or subscribe to Matt's RSS feed. His email address is firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Company: MAHC
Updated: 5/21/2014
The Activity Director's position is responsible for planning, organizing, developing and directing a comprehensive activity program that meets the social, physical, and emotional needs of Fox Ridge residents. The Activity Director is responsible for "orienting" new residents to the community; planning and supervising volunteer services within the community; and coordinating resident family events. Essential Job Duties 1. Assess resident preferences and develop a program of opportunities and activities that are meaningful to the residents. To serve and enhance their sense of well-being (identity, growth, autonomy, security, connectedness, meaning and joy). 2. Organize, implement, evaluate and direct the overall activities for their assigned Fox Ridge facility. 3. Carries out the large, small, and one-to-one events in accordance to the facility's activity schedule. For the purpose of providing any and all of the following: a friendly visitor; sensory stimulation; reality orientation and cognitive stimulation. 4. Prepares and plans the Activity Unit's budget for food, equipment, supplies, and labor, and submit to the Administrator for review, recommendations, and approval; forecasts the needs of the unit. 5. Creation of the monthly activity calendar and communication to the residents' upcoming scheduled activities and events. 6. Oversees the facility's project assignments to ensure projects are within budget, with quality and on schedule within the activity department. 7. Evaluates programming quality and participation on an ongoing basis through surveys and direct interaction with residents and families. 8. Solicits advice from other units concerning the operation of the Activities Unit to identify problem areas and/or improve services. 9. Arranges transportation for events. 10. Assist residents to activities and events as needed. EEO To apply for this position, please visit www.foxridgeliving.net/careers/


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Okay, so the other night, I had a dream I was on the Titanic while it was sinking, and right before I died, I somehow teleported to a zoo and saw sad animals. Then the zoo turned into wildlife, where I saw animals being hunted, and trees being cut down.
Needless to say, this affected me.
So I went online and gathered up sites with free ways to help the earth.
1. Sign petitions.
Go to change.org/petitions okay? As long as you're 13 or older, you can sign all sorts of petitions, from Chinese labor to sea life to global warming to more money for schools. I like signing petitions, and I hope you do to!
2. Click to donate.
Click a button. Money is donated. Hurray! Sadly, you can only press a button once a day. But still cool!
Sites include:
Also, go to http://www.oneclickatatime.org/ to see more!
3. Trivia and games.
If you know how the click-to-donate sites work, you'll have an idea about how these work!
If anyone knows any other sites or ways to donate for free online, comment!
If anyone has any questions, comment!
If anyone has done them all, comment!
Once I hit 25 comments (not including my own), I'll turn this post into a page!
Now, I'll make a commitment of my own. For every like, or pingback on this post, I'll donate a few cents to various charities! (I know it's not much, but there's hardly anything I can make this specific kind of commitment to.)
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The Hunger Games is the hot-ticket item at the movies right now; It's already sold-out record numbers of advanced showings, and earned strong reviews from critics (click here for our official review). The film is looking like a big success for Lionsgate (a sequel, Catching Fire, is already on the way) - but that doesn't mean that everyone is sold on seeing it.
In fact, there is a considerable portion of the larger moviegoing public that hasn't read any of Suzanne Collins' novels and is wondering what all the hubbub is about this film and if it's worth a trip to the theater.
So, for those who have not yet been bitten by Hunger Gamesfever, we've compiled 5 things you should know to help you better make your decision about whether or not to see the film.
5. There is Action and Violence
Contrary to what The Hunger Games trailers would have you believe, this film is about more than just the drama surrounding protagonist Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) trying to save her sister, Prim. There is actually, you know, a brutal tournament that takes place.
Admittedly, the studio has taken a risky step by leaving footage of the deadly melee that is the actual "hunger games" out of any preview materials. Having read the book, trust us when we say that the film offers plenty of action (and some pretty horrific moments) once Katniss is on the playing field fighting for her life. Dangers include mutated beasts, video game-style traps - and oh, yeah, the 20+ other young combatants looking to murder one another.
If you're worried that this film looks boring and/or sappy - don't. There are plenty of thrills and chills to be had.
4. There's No Soapy 'Twilight' Romantic Stuff
Those unfamiliar with The Hunger Games have taken one look at the two male protagonists in the film trailers - Gale (Liam Hemsworth) and Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) - and immediately leapt to the conclusion that the film would emulate the soapy teen love triangle of The Twilight Saga. While we can see the similarity, that assumption is still an erroneous one.
Katniss Everdeen is not the type of girl to get hung up on boys. Author Suzanne Collins created a unique heroine whose only focus is survival, period. The two boys in her life are only there because they help with that survival goal - whether at home in the forests hunting for food (Gale), or during the public relations campaign that precedes the games (Peeta).
No sappy love story to see here, folks. Once the games begin, Katniss' concern is keeping herself alive. Any love or affection she shows is all part of the game...
3. It's Not Just a Clone of That Film You Saw Before
Even as The Hunger Games nears its theatrical debut, there are snarky individuals who like to drop comments about how the film is a recycled version of earlier films like The Running Man, or Japenese cult-classic Battle Royale - or (to lesser extent) deathmatch films like The Condemned. However, these so-called "insights" lack, well, insight into what The Hunger Games is truly about.
Sure, there are obvious shades of influence all over Suzanne Collins' work, but the fact is that Collins succeeded in creating her own unique characters, narrative, and thematic angles - as well as a world and mythos that is all her own. While The Hunger Games does intersect with other, similar, stories at certain points, it is also more modern and topical than any of the aforementioned films it's being compared to.
Genre movies often share similar premises - it's all about the uniqueness of the story that's crafted within that premise. In the case of Hunger Games, that story is one worth exploring.
2. Director Gary Ross has Skills
Director Gary Ross may not be a director whose name you're immediately familiar with, but the man has definite skills.The Hunger Games is only the third feature film he's directed, but the other two entries on that list arePleasantville and Seabiscuit - both of which received multiple Oscar nominations and are loved by their respective fans.
Did we also mention that Ross is a screenwriter who has worked on the scripts for each of his films, including Hunger Games? Oh, and before directing his own work, Ross wrote scripts for little films like Big, Dave and Mr. Baseball. You may have heard of them.
That's all to say: The Hunger Games has been crafted by a man who very much knows how to make a film. And if early reports are any indication, Ross has taken the book and not only translated it to screen intact - he's improved upon it in some ways.
1. The Cast Has Skills Too
If you look at the cast of fresh young faces that are starring in The Hunger Games and assume that they aren't seasoned enough to deliver a compelling movie, you'd be wrong. The movie has celebrated veterans like Donald Sutherland, Stanley Tucci (Devil Wears Prada), Toby Jones, Elizabeth Banks (Zack and Mirir) and Woody Harrelson all elevating the material, and the young actors are just as talented.
Star Jennifer Lawrence broke into the mainstream with a 2011 Best Actress Oscar nomination for her role in the indie drama Winter's Bone. Co-star Josh Hutcherson played a major role in The Kids Are All Right, which was also nominated for multiple 2011 Oscars. That combination alone should tell you what kind of talent Ross and the studio snagged for this film. Even the cast of supporting characters has some proven acting talent, including Orphan star Isabelle Fuhrman and rocker Lenny Kravitz, who earned respect for his role in Precious, and may be a case of pitch-perfect casting as Katniss' enigmatic stylist, Cinna.
In terms of acting talent, The Hunger Games cast is far from amateur hour.
Kofi Outlaw blogs at Screen Rant.