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Last night I was lucky enough to attend a free lecture given by Emily Bell, head of digital content at Guardian News and Media, at University College Falmouth, where Emily has just been appointed visiting
Emily's topic was Journalism Ten Years From Now - a massively contentious topic as advertising revenues and print circulations plummet, editorial staffs shrink, new digital and social media platforms spring up everywhere and knowledgeable amateurs with blogs provide an increasing number of alternative, authoritative information sources.
Unlike net-culture visionary Clay Shirky, though, Emily doesn't think that print journalism has no future. Print will remain an important part of reaching the audience - but it will not be the primary conduit for journalism in ten years' time. Instead, going by the 'clues' we can pick up from the way journalism is changing today, journalism in ten years will have some or all of the following characteristics:
1. It will go where the audience is. Instead of hoping that people will go to their website to read or watch the news, journalists will need to take their stories out to where the readers and viewers are. Today, that means publishing stories on Twitter, on YouTube, on Facebook, as podcasts on iTunes, and so on. In ten years' time, those platforms might be different, but the principle will remain - journalists will have to take their stories to where the audience is.
2. Journalism will be networked, not siloed. Journalists will need to act as hubs, rather than destinations. They will need to create communities around themselves, linking and pointing to other stories, and connecting readers and viewers with other interesting people and information, not necessarily from their own organisation. This means getting involved in conversations with readers and viewers, rather than just publishing once and be done with it.
3. Journalists will need to be very reliable and trustworthy. Enabling readers to comment publicly on stories means that journalists can no longer get away with shoddy work - readers can and will set facts straight, add new information and deconstruct 'spin'. Part of the reason why the BBC's Robert Peston has become such a phenomenon is that his obvious deep knowledge of the finance industry means his stories and opinions are trusted.
4. Journalists will need to be ready to share information whenever they have it and in whatever way will communicate it best to the audience. This means they will need to be skilled not just in writing or broadcasting, but also in blogging, podcasting, video-recording, photography and so on, and have the technical skills to get that content out to the audience (in all the places that the audience resides) quickly.
5. Journalism will no longer be possible without the audience. Thanks to advances in mobile phone technology, nearly everyone carries digital recording equipment now, so there are 'digital witnesses' everywhere. This does not mean there is no role any more for professional journalism, though - Emily gave the example of Ian Tomlinson's death during the G20 protests: if it had not been for the fact that the Guardian had paid a reporter (Paul Lewis) to stay on top of the story and keep it high-profile, the hedge fund manager who had the crucial video evidence would not have bothered looking through all of his footage to find it and hand it to the Guardian, and the police would not have been held to account. Collaborations like these help journalism to expose cover-ups, untruths and miscarriages of justice - one of its most important roles.
Emily pointed out that all this is well and good, but what most people want to know is: where will the money come from to pay for all this professional, multi-platform, 'always-on' journalism? The truth is that no one knows, but there are some points that are worth making, viz:
1. News has never been profitable. Sky News isn't profitable; it's subsidised by other Murdoch enterprises. The Guardian isn't profitable; it's funded by a trust. BBC News isn't profitable; it's funded by the licence fee. It's very difficult to make a profit from journalism, although some new models are showing small profits, such as VillageSoup, a hyperlocal news community organisation in the US.
2. There is no point asking people to pay for online content; they won't. Emily said that people who are suggesting this as a solution now weren't online in 2001 when it was first tried and proven not to work.
3. Advertising won't go away - businesses will always want to communicate to customers - but revenues from advertising will never (again) be able to pay for modern news organisations.
Despite all this, Emily is optimistic that journalism as a profession will find ways to survive - as long as there are people who are passionate about uncovering and communicating the truth about important issues affecting our lives.
There followed a Q&A, which covered questions including:
1. Will we see an increasing in 'entrepreneurial journalism'? Emily said that examples like Rick Waghorn in the UK and Jeff Jarvis in the US show that there is a market for independent, authoritative journalists who can attract large audiences to a blog and make enough money from it to maintain it full-time.
2. What is Emily's view of user-generated journalism? Emily said there has been too much focus on the downside of allowing comments on news stories ('the noise of the rabble') and not enough focus on the fact that those comments throw up interesting new information, correction of inaccuracies etc. It is contributing to better, more accurate journalism. Media and politics have been too disconnected from the people they represent for too long - they need to be collaborative, not one-way communications.
3. Here in Cornwall there is a big digital divide - a lot of people do not have broadband/internet access. How will journalism serve their needs in the digital age? Emily said that mobile phone technology will soon make decent-speed internet access almost ubiquitous, even for the country's poorest people and remotest communities. The more pertinent problem is that many people do not and will not read the news - and that will not change, no matter what technology they have access to. 'You can watch TV all day and not see a single minute of news'. The real challenge - for journalists and politicians - will be how to get information to those who currently choose not to receive it.
4. How does Emily deal with information overload? Emily said she looks to filters like following trusted people on Twitter and using RSS to filter news and other information.
And that's it - if you were at the event, please feel free to add anything I've missed or correct anything I've got wrong.


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It's the law: A yellow New York City taxi that is available for hire has to take you to any destination you request within the city.
Of course, that's not always how it works in practice. In June, I flagged down a cabbie in the East Village. He locked his doors and demanded to know my destination before I got in. I told him I wanted to go to Queens. He drove off.
I made good on my threat, and I got results: The Taxi and Limousine Commission notified me by email this morning that the driver who jilted me has pleaded guilty to refusing a fare.
A TLC representative informed me that the driver's penalty was a $100 fine, which seems fair. Had he pleaded not guilty, there would have been a hearing, which I was kind of excited to attend and write about. But I'll take this outcome, too.
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Shown here is a page of advertisements from the, including several placed by women looking for employment as governesses in private homes. During the early-mid 19th century, advertising was the most common way to find employment as a governess.
Women typically used these advertisements to outlinetheir education, accomplishments and previous experience. In particular, wealthy upper-class families sought governesses with skills in languages and 'feminine' accomplishments, such as music or art. Alternatively, the mistress or master of a house might have chosen to place 'wanted' adverts in newspapers.
Newspaper advertising drew criticism, however. During the 1840s, the Governesses' Benevolent Institution, founded in 1841, sought to set up a formal, regulated employment register. It was argued that newspaper advertising undermined the professionalism of the governess and allowed dishonesty on the part of both governess and employer. Campaigners also used the advertisements to reveal the disparity between governesses' poor pay and employers' ever-demanding expectations.
As the 'kind fairy' tells Jane Eyre: 'Those who want situations advertise'. Jane secures her employment at Thornfield by placing an advertisement, almost identical to those shown here, in the local newspaper (ch. 10). These scenes reveal the novel's commitment to realism.
From to , the governess is a familiar figure in Victorian literature. She is also a strange one: not part of the family, yet not quite an ordinary servant. Kathryn Hughes focuses on the role and status of the governess in 19th century society.
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The human shoulder is an amazing device. Mikhail Grabovski has decided to use his to carry his business associates. On Tuesday, Maple Leafs' fans realized something that, apparently, the National Hockey League didn't. This season, Grabovski – and his shoulders – are all-stars. Since December 6th, Grabovski has done something that doesn't happen a lot in professional sports but, when it does, it's magnificent to watch. Grabovski has thrown an entire team on his back and said, "Let's go, boys. I'm leading us to victory." And, what's made even more of a difference lately, is that his teammates have decided to use their shoulders too.
Beginning on that magical Monday night in December – a 5-4 overtime win against Washington, in which Grabovski scored the acrobatic shootout winner – Grabovski has played fifteen games. He has scored twelve times. He has not gone two straight games without a goal. The Leafs have won eight of those games. And, now, Grabovski's worth ethic has begun to rub off.
Kris Versteeg, who sucked mightily in October, has turned on his personal jets. I wasn't sure he had any. Since that December night, Versteeg has not gone two games without at least one point. He's not a goal-scoring machine, but his efforts are putting him more and more at the forefront of the Leafs' attack. He's getting chances and creating them.
Impressed by him or not (I choose not), even Phil Kessel is starting to find his offensive groove. His tough-angle goal in Los Angeles on Monday night gave the Leafs a two-to-one lead. It was the pivotal score in the Leafs' win. And, with these non-Grabovskis scoring, it gives the Leafs a balanced attack which, of course, is much more difficult to defend against.
NHL history is rife with players throwing their teams on their backs and lugging them to victory. Rookie Dino Ciccarelli took the 1981 Minnesota North Stars all the way to the Stanley Cup Final. Mark Messier kept the Rangers afloat on their way to the 1994 Stanley Cup. Wayne Gretzky carried the Oilers in virtually every game they played. (This is not an exaggeration).
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YCIP'ers work to stop texting & driving
Students sign pledges during lunch break.
Janae Wiggins has seen people driving around town while texting on their cell phones.
"They clearly are not paying attention," said the Gothenburg High School senior. "I think it's scary to feel you're not safe when it's going on."
As a result, and after borrowing an idea from the Future Business Leaders of America in Cozad, several members of Gothenburg's Youth Community Improvement Program (YCIP) started their own campaign against texting and driving.
The students received money for a banner and bracelets from State Farm Insurance agent Heidi Bazata who sponsored the campaign.
For a couple of days last week during their lunch break, students were then asked to sign the banner.
Signers then received a bracelet, reminding them of their signed pledge not to text and drive.
YCIP'er and senior Jordyn Haake said she thought most everyone in high school signed the banner which will be hung in the Main Street area of the school.
During high school announcements, which are broadcast to classrooms, YCIP'ers included messages about the dangers of texting and driving.
Haake said she thought the campaign was important because driving requires one's full attention.
"When you're on the phone, you're not attentive," Haake said.
She noted that texting and driving is becoming more of a societal problem.
"It's the way we communicate now," junior and fellow YCIP'er Makayla Franzen said.
Both Franzen and Haake said they think texting and driving is difficult to do in the first place.
Wiggins wondered if the problem might be more prevalent in smaller communities like Gothenburg.
Without a lot of traffic, she said motorists might be more inclined to try it.
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LOS ANGELES, February 1st, 2017 Production has begun in the U.K. on writer/director Paul Thomas Andersons untitled new film. Three-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis is joined in the cast by Lesley Manville, who was a BAFTA Award nominee for Best Actress for Another Year, and Vicky Krieps, whose films include A Most Wanted Man and Focus Features Hanna.Focus holds worldwide rights to the film, and will distribute the film in the U.S. later this year with Universal Pictures handling international distribution.The films producers are JoAnne Sellar, Megan Ellison, through her Annapurna Pictures, and Paul Thomas Anderson. The executive producers are Peter Heslop, Adam Somner, and Daniel Lupi. Chelsea Barnard and Jillian Longnecker are overseeing production for Annapurna.Continuing their creative collaboration following 2007s There Will Be Blood, which earned Mr. Day-Lewis the Best Actor Academy Award, Mr. Anderson will once again explore a distinctive milieu of the 20th century. The new movie is a drama set in the couture world of 1950s London. The story illuminates the life behind the curtain of an uncompromising dressmaker commissioned by royalty and high society.The creative team includes Academy Award-winning costume designer Mark Bridges, marking his eighth consecutive project with Mr. Anderson; Emmy Award-winning production designer Mark Tildesley and BAFTA Award-nominated set decorator Véronique Melery; Academy Award-nominated film editor Dylan Tichenor, and BAFTA Award-nominated composer Jonny Greenwood, each marking their fourth feature with Mr. Anderson; casting director Cassandra Kulukundis, on her seventh film with Mr. Anderson; and lighting cameraman Michael Bauman.
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IIRC Snecma was selected to be the partner to "rescue" the Kaveri project years ago. Why did it take years to decide this partnership would not work?The Ministry of Defence (MoD) will no longer ask French aircraft engine builder Snecma to help it in resurrecting the indigenous Kaveri jet engine, which has reached a dead end in development.
If Snecma would not transfer key technologies required for India to become self reliant in engine design, was the problem that Snecma refused to transfer critical technology or was it that the price asked was too high? If the problem was not price, will any other engine manufacturer be prepared to transfer the key technologies required?To develop a more powerful Kaveri engine quickly and to become self-reliant in engine design, we need a foreign partner which can bring in core technologies. Otherwise the next cycle of engine development could take another 15-20 years, admits Ramnarayan, frankly.


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Country star Deana Carter has filed for divorce from her husband more than a year after the couple separated.
The Strawberry Wine singer has filed papers in Los Angeles, citing irreconcilable differences.
In the documents, obtained by TMZ.com, Carter reveals she separated from Brandon Malone in August, 2011.
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'He is very playful… fun to watch'
DES MOINES, Iowa —
Blank Park Zoo's new male lion is officially on exhibit.
The lion, named Deuce, arrived at the zoo last fall after the death of Cha Cha.
He has been going through a long process to get used to his new home and to the two female lions.
"He is very playful -- so much fun to watch," said Chad Comer, animal curator. "At two years old, he is still very active for a lion, and his mane has started to grow."
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Manchester man charged with destroying evidence, possessing marijuana
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MANCHESTER — A city man was charged with destroying evidence after police thought the cigarette he was smoking smelled of marijuana and the man tried to "grind" it into the ground to destroy it, police said.
Police said two officers driving past a man smoking a cigarette in an alley near Spruce Street smelled what they said was the odor of burning marijuana. As they approached the man, he tossed the cigarette aside and stepped on it.
Bakr El Maaergi, 35, was charged with falsifying physical evidence, possession of a controlled drug, resisting arrest and violating bail conditions. Police said he also had hand-rolled cigarettes that later tested positive for marijuana, and was out on bail in connection with a similar incident.
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Opening At Dollirium
This past Sunday I hopped in my car and headed out to London, Ontario, for the opening of "The Home Grown Doll Show" at Dollirium.
With my trusty camera in tow, and a friend at my side, I enjoyed a short road trip to a small art gallery showcasing Canadian talent. And that included a few pieces from yours truly.
There is something very strange about walking into a building and finding your art there. And something comforting about it. It was like having a group of friends waiting for me.
I do love that Pilch - second figure from the left in the banner - is a big toothy ham in a group of some more serious looking faces.
I never know what to do in these sorts of situations. It's one thing to stand behind a table of your work and talk to people. It's another to mill about a crowded space where people might make conversation with you about the work on the wall.
It feels a lot like being at a party where you don't really know anyone. Since I am an introvert, that can be mildly uncomfortable. I was blessed to have so many things to preoccupy my attention or else I might have gotten twitchy...or in trouble.
At one point a couple were leaned in close to my figures, examining them, discussing them at length. It took all my willpower not to step beside them, my shoulder to theirs, and just start nodding thoughtfully.
I was a good ghoul.
In fact, I even made myself leave the room. When I came back, two of my pieces had sold (apparently to an owner of a Tattoo shop which will be their new home).
I snapped a number of photographs of the current show and pieces still on display from previous ones. My suggestion is to go to the dollirium website to find out information.
Here are names of the artists starting top left:
- Melanie Ashton
- Eduardo Espondola
- Deb Mellor
- Keely Benkey-Reichman
And now bottom row, left to right:
- Christophe Goussault
- Chris Elliot
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- Jacqui Gallant
Last year at FanExpo I bought a copy of Dan Holst Soelberg's book "Eight Pound Fly" for my friend (it's great, by the way. I can recommend picking up any of his illustrated books if you or someone you know likes a bit of twisted/darker humour).
Well, Sara Deck has created a series of sculptures inspired by his stories. They are packed with personality and oodles of fun. Check them out below.
(side note: my new recurring thought this last year has been "I REALLY need to learn how to sew").
I know a lot of artists. I know a number of Canadian artists. But I don't get to meet or see a lot of Canadian sculptors who do darker pieces. There is something wonderful about finding peers. It made the event that much more enjoyable for me.
But from a fan perspective, I have to say the highlight was getting to see a piece by Sandra ArtreagA in person.
Sandra is from Spain, and I have ogled her work from afar for a while now. I never expected to see any of her work in person, but there it was: Brainheart.
It's not my favourite piece, but it's still gorgeous, and to see all the delicious tiny details in person was just fantastic.
There was another figure hanging partially in front of it, casting a shadow over its face. I think I gasped loudly and thought "Sacrilege!". This figure (no one's figure, really) should not be in a spot where the light doesn't reach it.
Ah well. What can you do? Sadly, I didn't have $900 to take it home and display it with more reverence.
If you go to their website and look to buy poor Archie, you can't see his face because all the pictures they take for the gallery website shots are straight on. Archie is looking upward in his pose, so their picture (not shown) is a great portait of his chin. Maybe Archie just wouldn't stand still for them. He can be fickle.
And that was my Sunday. Two hour drive west, less than two hours looking at art, then another two hour drive home.
The show runs until July. I encourage you to see pieces in person.
I actually have another show coming up in two weeks. This one isn't in a gallery, but rather at a large event, and my pieces will be part of the display at the opening night party. More on that soon *wink*.
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Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens: Deciphering the Dynasties of the Ancient Maya
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Behind the ancient cities of the Maya and their abandoned artworks lie the turbulent stories of their ruling dynasties. One of the world's greatest and most powerful civilizations, the Maya experienced constant conflict in a landscape divided among numerous kingdoms. Intense rivalries, rapacious conquerors, and repeated dynastic defeat and breakdown are common themes in many tales of this mighty civilization.
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Using a portion of New York's share of the national mortgage settlement, in June, Schneiderman announced the launch of the homeowner protection program, his office's commitment of $60 million over three years to fund housing counseling and legal services for struggling New York homeowners. Throughout this program, 35 legal services organizations and 59 housing counseling agencies statewide will receive funding to provide free foreclosure prevention services. By supporting the work of direct service providers who specialize in delivery of assistance to at-risk homeowners affected by foreclosures, this effort will minimize homeowner displacement and foster the stabilization of neighborhoods across the state for the benefit of the public and the state as a whole.


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Explore the cultural heart of the Middle East. From the modern business metropolis of Riyadh to the holy Muslim cities of Mecca and Medina, Saudi Arabia offers a range of historical and cultural experiences. Roughly divided into five historical regions, from Hejaz on the Red Sea coast - the city where most of the country's trade and commerce takes place, to the Eastern Province.
Situated at the heart of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh offers a fascinating fusion of new and old. The historic old town remains largely intact next to Saudi Arabia's modern capital of hotels, restaurants and shopping centres. Saudi Arabia's commercial centre Jeddah also offers a wonderful blend of ancient and modern styles. Explore the coral houses and traditional market souks of al-Balad or enjoy Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast.
There are many opportunities for adventure holidays in Saudi Arabia as the country enjoys two coastlines on the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, both popular areas for water sports. The Jeddah Corniche is the largest waterfront area in Saudi Arabia, a tourist capital offering 30 km of beach resorts and luxury hotels and providing the ideal opportunity for scuba diving amongst the coral reefs.
A travel Visa is essential when booking flights to Saudi Arabia, but internal travel permits are no longer required. As a Muslim country, you are expected to pay heed to local customs and beliefs and to dress conservatively in public. If you are visiting Saudi Arabia during the fasting month of Ramadan this may also entail abstaining from eating, drinking and smoking in public during the daylight hours.
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Bold BOG's in tandem with lawmakers on tuition hike
Source: Tallahassee Democrat
Having already put a freeze on freshman enrollment in Florida's public universities - which haven't received legislative funding to accommodate growth in nearly six years - the Board of Governors on Thursday took its second bold step forward in bolstering the State University System.
Meeting in Tallahassee, the board voted to raise tuition by 5 percent for undergraduates, effective this coming spring semester.
That means a full-time student taking 15 credit hours will pay an additional $55 per semester, a modest increase in a state where tuition is at or near the bottom of all 50 states, where vast numbers of students are on Bright Futures scholarships that are not need-based, and where our universities have been dropping like a rock in almost all important measurable categories.
BOG Chairman Carolyn Roberts, championing the increase, expressed her frustration at Florida having the lowest faculty-student ratio of any university system in the country. This is a very big deal. No matter how welcome all Florida students are to seek a college degree, if our universities don't have the money to hire sufficient top-notch faculty - not just grad-student teaching assistants - to teach the classes students need when they need them, students don't graduate on time.
The upshot - and a point Gov. Charlie Crist has surely not overlooked - is that delays in graduating end up costing students far, far more than $55 per semester for one or two more years of room and board. (Students spend more than $55 per semester at coffee shops.)
Apparently the dismal message about our universities has been heard across town where legislative committees have been in progress this week. On Thursday the Senate dittoed the House's Wednesday recommendation to include this 5-percent tuition hike in the budgets they'll be working on in special session next week.
This hike is not inconsistent with lawmakers' chief task of cutting the state budget by $1.1 billion; on the contrary it is a means of raising revenues microcosmically.
Nevertheless, though the BOG is a constitutionally independent body, it is certainly not independent from politics. And so it was with some delicacy that it proceeded with the tuition hike, knowing that Mr. Crist is resisting it, and also directing a portion of the tuition increase be dedicated to need-based aid.
This should help appease Florida A&M University President James Ammons, who has made a special pleading for his student population, which tends to come from a lower economic demographic than the other universities.
Chancellor Mark Rosenberg also intends to ask his board to continue discussing increases in tuition and fees over the next three years, as a means of bringing SUS back from the abyss.
How far Mr. Rosenberg's board can proceed unilaterally is not yet crystal clear. A lawsuit has been filed asserting its autonomy, but until that is resolved, it is significant that lawmakers are in tandem with the BOG in terms of raising tuition.
Meanwhile, however, university presidents and trustees systemwide haven't been too certain about which side of the bread their butter's on, and most haven't shown their hand regarding this $55 hike. But, in fact, the universities have had to write their budgets in accordance with the status quo - minus the critical reductions demanded of all state agencies.
In this precarious political environment, Thursday's unanimous vote by the BOG was significant, essential and not a minute too soon.


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In addition to its Indianapolis office, the Indiana Chapter of The Nature Conservancy has six project offices located throughout the state.
Project Offices
The Conservancy is currently, or historically has been, involved in the acquisition and management of the following Indiana nature preserves. The list is organized by region.
Indiana Preserves
Barker Woods
Conrad Station Savanna
German Methodist Cemetery Prairie
Holley Savanna
Hoosier Prairie
Houghton Lake
Kankakee Sands
Moraine Nature Preserve
NIPSCO Savanna
Ober Sand Savanna
Spinn Prairie
Tefft Savanna Complex
Tolleston Strand Plain / Ivanhoe Dune & Swale
Trail Creek Fen
Bicentennial Woods
Douglas Woods
Eagle Marsh
Fawn River Fen
Manitou Island Wetlands
Marsh Lake Complex
Merry Lea
Olin Lake
Oppenheim Woods
Pipewort Pond
Swamp Angel
Central West
Big Walnut
Black Rock Barrens
Fall Creek Gorge
Fern Cliff
Goose Pond Fish & Wildlife Area
Hall Woods
Mossy Point
Pine Hills
Portland Arch
Central East
Shrader-Weaver Woods
Ziegler Woods
South Central
Anderson Falls
Beanblossom Bottoms
Cedar Bluffs
Green's Bluff
Whip-poor-will Woods
Bluffs of Beaver Bend
Goose Pond Cypress Slough
Kramer Original Woods
Mackey Island
Orangeville Rise & Wesley Chapel Gulf/Lost River
Point Township Complex
Saunders Woods
Shooting Star Cliffs / Saalman Hollow
Thousand Acre Woods
Brock Sampson-Hardin Ridge
Chelsea Flatwoods
Guthrie Woods/ Tribbett Woods
Harrison County Glades / Teeple Glade
Ohio River Glades
Peccary Cave
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I've been teaching knitting for 7 years and my students have gone on to create bags, scarves, headbands, and bracelets. Within the first few lessons, you'll be able to complete a headband or scarf and as time goes on you'll be able to knit a hat in the round. I specialize in working with heavy weight yards and creating a funky, wildly textured projects. I love working with students of all ages and experience levels and I can't wait to meet you!
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As my student, you can expect to learn basic through advanced skills crochet skills, including making a slip knot, single crochet, double crochet, triple crochet, how to make a granny square, crocheting in the round, and how to read patterns. In knitting, you will learn the skills of casting on stitches onto the needle, the garter and stockinette stitch, how to knit in the round using circular or double pointed needles, and how to read patterns.
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Music was instilled in me from a very young age with piano lessons, and I grew up playing the piano, flute, and singing in choirs. I graduated from Grove City College with a degree in vocal music, and always looked forward to teaching piano and voice lessons during the summer months. My students appreciate that lessons are fun and worthy of their time. You will not walk away from a lesson without new knowledge and skills!
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Mother Obama's cabinet is pretty bare
You know, as much fun as it is to pick on the United States Secret Service for their recent troubles in Columbia, I didn't really think the organization was in any real trouble. I've changed my mind about that though. Evidently Janet Napolitano regards the issues at the Secret Service as being so important that she has had to tear herself away from overseeing the sexual assault of as many airline passengers as possible (through her Transportation Safety Authority, or TSA organ). I had no idea the Secret Service was in such bad shape that she would have to let the TSA molest people unsupervised in order for her to rush to the defense of the Secret Service. If her work at TSA is any indication, we should soon be seeing surprising results from her direct supervision of the Secret Service. Maybe getting the "once over" from a secret service agent is about to take on a whole new meaning. That should have the effect of the secret service agents feeling less need for consorting with prostitutes after a long day of "working the crowd".Don't worry, if the secret service under Napolitano's influence gets out of hand, you could always complain to the justice department under Eric Holder…, hmm, that may not work out. Oh well, I'm sure that since Secretary Napolitano has done such a fine job with the TSA, and don't forget how well she has secured our borders, not to mention the cooperation she is giving the State of Arizona in their struggles with illegal immigration, she will have the United States Secret Service in apple pie order before you know it. Say, I wonder how the secret service agents took the news that Janet Napolitano seems to be taking their defense personally "in hand"? I bet they're just jumping for joy over at the old secret service shop.So using the secret service's recent troubles as a starting point, let's do a little summing up of the Obama administration up to this point. Janet Napolitano is the Secretary of Homeland Security, and under her watch, sitting congressman have called the police, as have individual citizens, to complain about being assaulted, sexually and otherwise, by uniformed TSA agents. Additionally, as I've pointed out above, the United States Secret Service, which has to my knowledge never had a whisper of impropriety attached to it, is now behaving with all the finesse of a drunken bachelor party in a strip club. Not to mention that, judging by the administrations lawsuit against Arizona, illegal immigration seems to be somewhat less than a priority at the Homeland Security Agency.I already mentioned Eric Holder, so let's go their next. Under Holder, the Justice department has sold guns to Mexican drug lords, at least one of which was then used to kill an American law enforcement officer. The (non) justice department has also refused to prosecute the "new" (as if racism is new or different depending on who practices it) black panthers who were clearly, and this is more important, provably, committing voter intimidation at a polling place in the United States. With a justice department like that we are soon going to be appealing to countries like Uganda to send us people to monitor our elections and polling places. This is the same justice department that The Barack has instructed to "look into" the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman case, but while they can monitor a local murder case, they can't seem to notice the new black panthers putting a dead or alive reward on an American citizen, even though they are doing it in the national media (such as it is). I would have to say that Holder has been about as successful as the Titanic was unsinkable.Okay, next let's take a look at Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. Now if you are an abortion fan, or even better a fan of federally funded (and that I might remind you means federally controlled) abortions, you might consider her to be a bit of a success.A couple of things occur to me about this woman and her post. First, how do you get away with calling someone who is not only participating in causing more abortions, and no matter what else you think about abortions the fact that an unborn baby dies in one is not debatable, but is additionally going to force people to pay for them; people who are morally opposed to anything to do with abortions, the Secretary of Health and Human Services? Shouldn't her title be something a little closer to the Commissar in Charge of Population Control and Eugenics? Secondly, it occurs to me that I'm only aware of one other country in the world where the government is in charge of abortions and that Country is China, where they have forced abortions.So moving on, how about the job Hilda Solis is doing as the Secretary of Labor. While the National Labor Relations Board doesn't actually work for her, in fact as near as I can tell, it essentially reports directly to the President (yes, that worries me). I didn't notice "Secretary" Solis running to Boeings defense when it was being sued by the NLRB for, wait for it, building a factory and trying to hire workers to construct jets. Of course they built that factory in a right to work state, which apparently makes you an enemy of the administration on a level with the State of Arizona.Hey, how about that Timothy Geithner guy over at the Treasury Department? Now, I must say, he is probably the most pro-job guy in the administration. After all, I'm sure the I.R.S has to keep a spare agent or two around just to make sure he doesn't make any more embarrassing slip ups regarding paying his taxes. On top of that, his policies and methods are a large part of the reason the printing presses are running nonstop printing money. I don't know if the mint worked three shifts a day before The Obama and his buddies came to town or not, but I bet those presses are running flat out 24/7 now.I could certainly go on pointing out what fools and incompetents some of the Cabinet Secretaries are, after all we haven't even touched the Departments of Education and Energy yet. However; the point is that even though The Barack likes to blame George W. Bush, or really anybody else for any and all troubles, the actual fact is his political appointees are doing exactly what he wants them to do, and doing exactly as he instructs them to do it. The question isn't whether or not the administrations is carrying out the policies they do on purpose or not, they are. The question is why are they implementing them at all? What is the real goal of all of the financial upheaval, cultural strife and unrest that is originating from the federal government in Washington D.C.?Bruce Kreitler is the author of Obamageddon (the Culmination of the Progressive Looting of America) and posts this and other articles at BruceKreitler.com.