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Mid-year teacher layoffs, pay-less paydays still possible for Ypsilanti schools
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Editor's note: The amount of money Ypsilanti is expected to save by cutting 4.5 teachers and the district's website revenue has been corrected in this story.
It's January 2012 all over again at Ypsilanti Public Schools, with the added uncertainty of pay-less paydays for staff and the threat of not having a job next school year.
Ypsilanti is expected to pink slip the equivalent of 4.5 teachers in the coming weeks to help eliminate an approximately $2.02 million structural deficit.
The 4.5 teachers, pending board approval, will be laid off from the secondary schools — those affected will be some combination of staff from New Tech, the high school and middle school, Superintendent Dedrick Martin said Monday.
Despite consolidating with Willow Run Community Schools in July, Ypsilanti still is responsible for its own finances through June, the end of the current fiscal year.
Ypsilanti laid off 4.5 high school teachers a year ago, when its enrollment declined from about 3,782 in fall 2010 to 3,664 in fall 2011, a loss of 118 students.
District officials said Ypsilanti ended the 2011-12 academic year with 3,588 students. It currently has 3,365 students enrolled. The decline of 223 students is equal to nearly $1.7 million in per-pupil funding from the state.
The district budgeted for a loss of just 50 students. More than 50 percent of the 223 students Ypsilanti lost were high schoolers, officials said.
They attributed a majority of the loss to the two new charter schools that opened in the Ypsilanti community in fall 2012, WSC Academy and South Pointe Scholars.
Financial officer Cathy Secor presented Ypsilanti's budget situation to the newly appointed Board of Education in December. At Monday's meeting, Martin discussed how district officials will propose addressing the shortfall — with the state's deadline for submitting Ypsilanti's ongoing Deficit Elimination Plan (DEP) looming.
All public school districts and charter schools operating with a deficit fund balance must submit an annual plan to the Michigan Department of Education detailing how they intend to get their finances back in shape.
Willow Run Community Schools, with which Ypsilanti will merge in July, also must submit a DEP to the state by the state's Jan. 25 deadline. Willow Run, however, does not have a current-year deficit, said Superintendent Laura Lisiscki.
Despite Ypsilanti and Willow Run's plans to consolidate, the state is still requiring the two districts to submit separate DEPs. Martin explained the DEPs really are moot, considering the plans will be for districts that no longer will exist.
Willow Run also lost students from last year to Fall Count Day 2012, approximately 181 students, totaling about $1.3 million in lost revenue.
Willow Run will not need to make any budget amendments at this time, Lisiscki said. The district made its staffing adjustments before Count Day.
"We saw early signs of (enrollment) being down further than we thought. So we had a number of retirements from the spring that we didn't fill until fall when we were sure we could," Lisiscki said.
Ypsilanti wasn't so lucky.
In the fall, Ypsilanti was forced to hire back some staff members it had laid off in May in order to meet special education requirements through the state, Secor said. The district initially cut about 45 special education positions for the 2012-13 academic year.
The 4.5 teachers would be in addition to the reduction of one administrator at the high school that already has taken place. Ypsilanti High School Principal Rob Belous resigned, effective Dec. 24, 2012, after more than two months on administrative leave.
Martin said the decision was made not to fill Belous' position but to finish the school year with Ypsilanti New Tech Principal Cory McElmeel sharing his time between both buildings and YHS Assistant Principal Aaron Rose helping to carry out the head principal duties.
Martin said the district also had some additional money come in that it had not budgeted for, including about $3,000 in advertising revenue from ads running on the top of YPS' website. It also sold its latest student-built home from the Regional Career Technical Center's building program for $163,500. In all, the reduction of 4.5 teachers and the additional revenue is expected to total about $450,000.
Ypsilanti also is in the process of moving the high school's graduation ceremony from the Eastern Michigan University Convocation Center to Pease Auditorium at EMU for a savings.
Because Ypsilanti's high school student population has declined in recent years, its graduating classes have gotten smaller, Martin said.
"This year's class is not going to be that much different — 20 to 30 students less maybe. But we've been small enough the past 5 years, quite honestly, where we probably could have done it (moved the commencement ceremony)," Martin said. "But historically, we've always done it there (at the convocation center). People like it. We're just to the point where we're counting every penny."
Martin said there are some other possible budget reductions the district may have to explore to get closer to the $2.02 million shortfall figure. He said district officials and the joint Board of Education intend to further discuss both Ypsilanti and Willow Run's budgets, finances and deficit elimination plans during a meeting at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Ypsilanti High School.
Martin said because there are many budget uncertainties and requirement uncertainties as a result of the consolidation, district officials believe it's best to move a little more slowly and methodically with this round of mid-year budget cuts than they might have in the past.
"We're still waiting on a lot of information from the state, advice from lawyers and the like," he said.
In July 2012, Ypsilanti officials sounded the alarm on a cash-flow problem that could prevent staff from receiving paychecks at various points throughout the school year. The district made it through the low points in September and December when it also was projected to have insufficient funds in its bank account to pay employees on time.
However, Martin said January and February, the other two months targeted for cash-flow issues, are still up in the air.
"We're taking it week by week," he said. "It's still a concern. I think we'll be able to do enough to make it through this school year, but it's still a concern."
Students come and go in the middle of the year, taking their per-pupil foundation allowances with them, and "you can't predict the weather," Martin said, explaining some of the district's cash-at-hand depends on a lack of snow plow services and other winter-related maintenance expenses.
Thursday's Board of Education meeting is open to the public. Download an agenda here.
Danielle Arndt covers K-12 education for AnnArbor.com. Follow her on Twitter @DanielleArndt or email her at email@example.com.
Danielle Arndt
Fri, Jan 11, 2013 : 8:26 p.m.
I recently became aware that the budget deficit figure stated in this story may have changed. Additionally, the initial sale of the RCTC student-built home fell through and there currently is a second offer on the table. I have been in conversations with Superintendent Dedrick Martin about doing a another story on the district's structural deficit and efforts to close it. I will link this story to the new story as soon as possible.
Wed, Jan 9, 2013 : 3:44 p.m.
A serious analysis of the operations of YPSD would reveal a very top heavy organization. Across the state it is highly unusual for a district the size of YPSD to have a Superintendent, Assistant Superintendent, Executive Director of Human Resources, Exective Director of Operations, and so on. YPSD is full of unnecessary positions at the top each with salaries in excess of 100K. None of which have a successful career past, instead they have brought their pattern of failures to us. Looking for ways to cut: The assistant superintendents office with no less than seven full and part-time employees, might be a place to start. The office of educational quality: When we are one of the lowest perfroming districts in the state, if they are holding the teaching staff accountable for results, why isn't the superintendent holding that office accountable? Accountabilty from the top down, is true leadership. Can't balance the budget then who is to blame. Smokescreens and shiny objects can't hide the failure of the administration forever. Leave our classrooms alone and protect our children.
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Sat, Jan 12, 2013 : 3:51 p.m.
Don't forget that five or six "administrative assistants" (secretaries) are earning well over $50,000 per year, and nearly all of them lack college degrees. They make more than most of the teachers and have been earning more than teaching staff ever since the Dr. Hunt hiring fiasco. Tax-payers take note.
Wed, Jan 9, 2013 : 5:02 p.m.
They just remodeled the "White House" where the central administrators reside. How can you cut staff when you just put all that money into their offices. Yes, tongue is firmly in cheek . . .
Wed, Jan 9, 2013 : 4:09 a.m.
Ypsilanti still has a Superintendent and an Assistant Superintendent. According to the most recent article on the consolidation, the district has a total of 3,144 students. Why aren't they laying off someone in Administration rather than 4.5 teachers. I'm sure their salaries are higher than the teacher's!
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Wed, Jan 9, 2013 : 11:13 a.m.
The more important question is: Where is all the public input for the YPSD and its state of affairs and past, current, and future direction? There are 21 comments regarding the Belleville teacher and her topless photos and five-year probation, and that story just came out yesterday.
Tue, Jan 8, 2013 : 7:30 p.m.
"But historically, we've always done it there (at the convocation center)...." The Convocation Center was built in 1998, so prior to that, the graduation ceremony must have been held elsewhere.
Wed, Jan 9, 2013 : 5 p.m.
YpsiLivin - Yes they were - in the YHS gym.
Tue, Jan 8, 2013 : 6:29 p.m.
>including about $400,000 in advertising revenue from ads running on the top of YPS' website That can't be right. Those ads can't be making them more than a couple hundred a month.
Tue, Jan 8, 2013 : 5:24 p.m.
My kids were graduated in the late '70's when the classes were about 500. The Ypsi High gym was able to handle the ceremony quite well. How much would it cost to rent our own gym?
Tue, Jan 8, 2013 : 4:01 p.m.
>> They attributed a majority of the loss to the two new charter high schools that opened in the Ypsilanti community in fall 2012 Wow, they just don't get it. Why would any student go somewhere else if they (and their families) were satisfied where they were?
Tue, Jan 8, 2013 : 5:12 p.m.
Exactly glimmer, I live in the Ypsilanti community and have spent $50k to send my kid to a better school and he's only in the 7th grade. And thats on top of what my taxes pay to the public school.
Tue, Jan 8, 2013 : 3:45 p.m.
"Reducing its staff by 4.5 teachers at the secondary level is expected to save YPS $450,000, Martin said." Fuzzy math at its finest. Firing 4.5 teachers who makes around 45k a year somehow equals 450k? Are they just making up stuff now? Even if you add in the YHS principal, there is no way that works out to 450k, even with insurance and benefits. Well there is one less person they need to interview for the new superintendent position.
Tue, Jan 8, 2013 : 3:14 p.m.
South Pointe Scholars is not a charter high school, it goes grades K-6 currently and will max out at 8th grade. If that is a reason Ypsilanti is using for loss of high school students, that is inaccurate. The loss is related to the lack of leadership.
Tue, Jan 8, 2013 : 2:04 p.m.
I'm assuming the administration will also have payless paydays.
Now Found
Tue, Jan 8, 2013 : 4:38 p.m.
YPSD teachers took a 10% paycut in the fall. Could someone verify if the administration did as well?
Tue, Jan 8, 2013 : 1:54 p.m.
Welcome to the new normal.................
Jim Pryce
Tue, Jan 8, 2013 : 12:39 p.m.
I'm sure Pease Auditorium isn't free. In 1980 with over a 300 graduating class, & my brothers in 1981 & 1983 with classes as big. We used the Gym for graduation. Wow, use your OWN building ? Duh, nobody think of that?
tom swift jr.
Tue, Jan 8, 2013 : 12:04 p.m.
Counting on a lack of snow to balance your budget seems like a risky way to do business.
Tue, Jan 8, 2013 : 6:16 p.m.
Does anyone know how many of the board members that actually have kids currently enrolled in Ypsi or Willow Run Schools? Maybe then thay would understand what is important in this whole mess.
Tue, Jan 8, 2013 : 3:47 p.m.
Outside of a poor job market or ties to Ypsi, why would any teacher want to re-apply for a job in the new district? So far, the new board has shown a willingness to just keep the same old people involved (almost half are from the old boards), so why should anyone think anything is going to change or get fixed?
Now Found
Tue, Jan 8, 2013 : 12:27 p.m.
Not paying the teachers for their work is also a risky way to do business. Hopefully if they are not paid, they will not show up for work. Consolidate some buildings for a change and save money through building closure first before expecting your workers to show up and not receive payment for services rendered. Ridiculous!


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Build a little thingy that likes to hang out in the middle of water.
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Can you make a "flinker"-something that you put in a pitcher of water that doesn't float on the top or sink to the bottom, but just flinks in the middle of the water? Your flinker has to flink for 10 seconds. Design your own flinker using styrofoam peanuts, string and washers or pennies.
Test it in the water, then change one thing at a time in your design to make your flinker work better. What can you change to make it flink? Could you attach washers or pennies to your Styrofoam peanut with string? Or, could you change the shape of the Styrofoam?
Try to get it to flink for at least 10 seconds.
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Choyce, age 9 of Santa Fe, NM
Mine flinked for 33 seconds and I used a cork, a pipe cleaner, some sewing needles, some thumb tacks, and one washer.
Clara, age 8 of Santa Fe
Instead of packing peanuts my enrichment class used corks, pipe cleaners, a bead, pins and one big washer and three little washers.
Ammar, age 11 of Harvey, IL
it stayed in the middle for like 20 secinds
Samantha, age 10 of Dallas, TX
This is giving me great ideas for my science project. we have to make a flinker. I can't wait to try it. My teacher said that fruit works well too.
Annika, age 7 of Gormley, CT
i workerd really well
Sarah, age 12 of Keller, TX
it flinked for 243 seconds!!!
Bailey, age 12 of Omaha, NE
I made mine flink with 3 paper clips and masking tape.
Josh, age 12 of Omaha, NE
The packing peanuts desolved before we got to add thiings on to them.
Rachel, age 11 of Omaha, NE
Our packing peanuts dizolved before we could weigh them down.
We did the flinker and it did not woprk the packing penuts disolvexd every time.
Greg, age 10 of Omaha, NE
The packing peanut disolved but if you surrounded it with tape it worked.
Tyler, age 11 of Omaha, NE
The packing peunuts desolved before we try the experiment.
Danny, age 11 of Omaha, NE
We decided to use pennies because the peanuts desolve quickly.
Deion, age 12 of Orange, NJ
I tried to make it flink. I used alot of paper clips and it floated then I took some of them off then it still floated. I took more off and it started to go down in the water, it go to the bottom but some of the styrofoam peanuts was above the water a little bit. But it wasn't floating all the way to the top or the bottom. It was really fun trying this project!
Sam, age 14 of New York, NY
Well, I used paperclips. Twelve of them. Then I attached it to the styraphome peanut. And it flikced for more than 15 min! I think this is what happened because I did it three years go, so this project isnt new on zoom.
Anderssen, age 4 of SK
It Worked! MY flinker flinked for a 10 sec. period and then it sunk but it worked long enough!
Julie, age 14 of Ketch Harbour, NS
It floate at first, but then it just slowly started to sink as I added more paper clips, eventually it just started flinking.
Megan, age 12 of Dundalk, HI
It was floating in the middle it was really cool. I liked it I told all my friends in my neighborhood and know I am cool and so is ZOOM!
Natalie, age 10 of Georgetown, ON
When I did it it flinked! I left it there overnight when I woke up, the styrafoam peanut was on the bottom.
Peter, age 11 of Watertown, SD
It flinked for 47 seconds.
Sejal, age 8 of Duluth, GA
I tried to make all the small objects I had flink, but only two of them flinked and they flinked for about 2 minutes. It was really fun to watch. I thought I was watching a water dance made by chick peas and black- eye peas.
Heather, age 13 of Fremont, CA
It worked I made the Flinker and put in in the jar it stayed there for 20 seconds.
Yahira'a, age 7 of Louisburg, NC
It started to go down but if you sake it for 10 secs it will stay longer.
Katie, age 12 of Fallbrook, CA
I am on a swim team and when I am not swimming back and forth I like to see if I can make myself flink. By going under water and blowing just enough air out my nose I can get pretty close to the same weight as the water.
Savannah, age 13 of Fox Lake, IL
It flinked in the middle of a cup. It was really fun to make.
Tori & Maddie, age 12 of Fulton, NY
We tryed many things in our room to make it flink but we had two earasers, one small and one alittle bigger than the other. We tied it to a helium filled ballon and it flinked.
Kylie, age 10 of Milford, IL
The flinker is all about how much water you have in the container. I tryed it with a piece of foam and safety pins. 1st I try it with 3 saftey pins and it floated. Then with 5 it floated, next 6 = floated, then 7 = sunk, then 6 = flaoted, 6 = floated, 6 = floated, 6 = floated, 5= floated, 7 = sunk, 7 = sunk. Then I finally got it to flink with 6, but through the whole thing I varyated the water.
Brittany, age 13 of Arlington, MN
It didn't work like in the picture, so then I added about 11 more paperclips to the peanut and then it sank. So I took some off and then it floated on top of the water. So then I got a bigger peanut and it worked.
Amy, age 9 of San Diego, CA
It was so hard! I got it to flink for about 2 seconds, but another girl got 7 seconds!
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440. CHAIRMAN: Thank you. Do you happen to know whether
anybody is actually making this point in the House in the Committee
stage of the Courts Bill?
441. MR LEWIS: I am not sure. I have not looked myself
at the reports. I am not aware of anyone from the borough councils
442. CHAIRMAN: I wonder if anyone has been briefed
to do so. We are on about the sixth day already. I have the Order
Paper here. It does not say what day it is but it is quite a few.
443. LORD TORDOFF: Could we find out if this part
of the Bill has been passed through the Committee already and,
if not, whether there are any amendments down.
444. MR LEWIS: I suspect it is a simple repeal provision.
If it is the repeal clause at the end of the Bill then it is unlikely,
I would have thought.
445. CHAIRMAN: It is also a Bill which started in
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446. MR LEWIS: I do not think there is any controversy
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no views on that, it is just a question of when it happens really.
447. CHAIRMAN: Thank you. Perhaps that is not something
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448. MR LEWIS: Clause 31, Hotel Proprietors Act 1956.
This clause was, of course, dealt with in the Select Committee
and was allowed to proceed with the amendments proposed by the
449. Clause 32 we shall deal with in the morning.
450. Now we come to Clause 33, my Lord. I believe
you may have been warned about this but we had some last minute
correspondence with the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister who
reported against this clause. We have made a proposal to them
for a possible amendment which we think might well meet their
concerns but as yet we have not received a response from them.
They are here and I wonder if we might perhaps either adjourn
for a short period just to see where we stand on that or, in the
alternative, I can proceed with the remaining clauses and come
back to it but we would still need some time to have a word with
451. CHAIRMAN: I think it might be convenient for
us to adjourn because we might just be able to come to a conclusion
on 27 to whatever it was during that time. We will adjourn until
quarter past three.
452. MR LEWIS: That should be fine.
453. CHAIRMAN: Ladies and gentlemen, before we continue
with the Bill, while you have been negotiating amongst yourselves
on the advertisements clause we have concluded on the section
of the fixed penalties, 26 to 29, and our conclusion is as follows:
we find that the proposed Clause 29A is potentially in conflict
with the provisions of Clause 116 of the Local Government Bill
which is currently before the House of Commons and we therefore
cannot agree that that clause should proceed. We agree to the
remainder of the Clauses 26 to 29 with the amendments proposed
in the Filled Bill.
454. MR LEWIS: Thank you, my Lord.
455. CHAIRMAN: We will, of course, as with the last
one, be giving our reasons when we produce our report.
456. MR LEWIS: My Lord, I am pleased to report that
our discussions were fruitful while you were away. The position
we have reached with the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister who
report against Clause 33 is this: we have been discussing very
recently with them some proposed further amendments to this clause
to meet the concerns which they have raised. We have not come
to a final agreement on the drafting of further amendments and,
understandably, the Department has to seek the agreement of other
officials within the Department and also Ministers and there simply
has not been enough time in the last few days for that to happen.
457. My Lord, we have put together a further paper
of amendments, and I do apologise for the lateness of this, but
of course I would hope that Mr Saunders would have some time perhaps
before tomorrow to have a look at what we have put together. I
should mention, as I have just suggested, these amendments are
not agreed in a final form by the Department but they are certainly
a significant step, I hope they will agree, to what they might
be satisfied with at a later stage. It is, of course, open for
the Department to come back in the House of Commons if they remain
opposed to the clause with the additional proposed amendments.
We, of course, accept that and we would not take any point against
them if they do come back to the House of Commons and say that
they have decided they would like Clause 33, at the worst, to
be removed from the Bill or amended in a different way.
458. So, my Lord, that is the position. You have
just received the amendments which themselves contain some manuscript
amendments. Perhaps rather than spending time studying those in
great detail right now I could, perhaps, describe what Clause
33 is all about, because we still need your approval for the Clause
to go forward at all, whether or not the Department stand up and
make any objection here today, which - as part of the agreement
we have reached - they will not.
459. CHAIRMAN: I think we really should get this
in the right order. We would like to know, first of all, what
Clause 33 is all about and then we can agree to the amendments,
with the fact that you have got further time to get it all right.


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Climatologists: Climatism - "Hype in Stead of Reason"
Posted By Anders On March 15, 2008 @ 10:19 In English, Euromed | 4 Comments
On March 2-4, 2008 a [1] [1] panel of 500 hundred professional Climatologists met in New York to dicuss the Climate Changes . They call themselves the NIPCC (The Nongovernmental
International Panel on Climate Change).
They Are sceptic to the IPCC (the United Nations-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) the 2007 Nobel Prize winners alongside with Al Gore who preaches climatic Apocalypse just around the corner. So, was Al Gore present with the NIPCC? No! He was invited - [2]
but Al Gore declined!
And that is understandable: He and the IPCC received the Nobel Peace Prize for amateur mess: Their land based [3] temperature measurements were made by stations receiving irrelevant heat. E.g. they were placed at a parking bay, beside a major air conditioning machine etc.
This blog has previously described the [4] global warming swindle and the [5] huge gains made on it by the masterminds behind the the New World Order.
Now the New World Order/EU is panicking us with [6] WW3 because of these climate changes. And war is not the only threat from Solana and Benita Ferrero Waldner according to the Guardian, March 10, 2008: They even painted a more scaring bogey of millions of migrants due to loss af arable land because of receding coast linies - due to CO2-triggered climate change.
[7] NIPCC graph of temperature from boreholes of the inland ice of Greenland. Up left: Temp. over the last 100.000 years. Up right over the last 10.000 years.
The acme of the NIPCC Conference was the presentation of the [7] findings of the NIPCC by the highly respected S. Fred Singer.
He and Frederick Seitz stated: "It is an independent examination of the evidence available in the published, peer-reviewed literature – examined without bias and selectivity. It includes data published by the IPCC and further elaborated in the U.S.-sponsored CCSP report as well as many research papers ignored by the IPCC, plus additional scientific results that became available after the IPCC deadline of May 2006.
The central problems for policymakers in the debate over global warming are
(1) is the reported warming trend real and how significant is it?
(2) how much of the warming trend is due to natural causes and how much is due to human-generated greenhouse gases?
(3) would the effects of continued warming be harmful or beneficial to plant and wildlife and to human civilization?
In this NIPCC report we have presented evidence that helps provide answers to all three questions.
(1) The extent of the modern warming – the subject of the first question – appears to be less than is claimed by the IPCC and in the popular media.
[8] Temperature variations during the last 3000 years in the Sargasso Sea
The only truly global observations come from weather satellites, and these have not shown any warming trend since 1998.
We show that the twentieth century is in no way unusual and that warming periods of greater magnitude have occurred in the historic past – without any catastrophic consequences.
(2) This report shows conclusively that the human greenhouse gas contribution to current warming is insignificant.
Increase in [9] sea level since 1900: the increase is constant, 2 mm a year. The speed of the increase did not accelerate as CO2 emission increased in the 20. century. Solana´s and Ferrero Waldner´s bogey is pure, political scaremongering by the New World Order
(3) The effects of modest warming.
A major scare associated with a putative future warming is a rapid rise in sea level, but even the IPCC has been scaling its estimates.
We show here that there will be little if any acceleration, and therefore no additional increase in the rate of ongoing sea-level rise. This holds true even if there is a decades-long warming, whether natural or manmade.
[10] [11] Atmospheric CO2 content (red graph) and the content due to calculated human emission (green graph). They do not go together.
The increase of the red graph is due to CO2-release from the oceans in connection with the Northern Hemisphere emerging from a minor glacial age from 1500-end of 19. century.
Other effects of a putative increase in temperature and carbon dioxide are likely to be benign, promoting not only the growth of crops and forests but also benefitting human health. Ocean acidification is not judged to be a problem, as indicated by available data. After all, CO2 levels have been up to 20 times the present value during the Phanerozoic Period, the past 500 million years. During this time Earth's climate has been remarkably stable, with no 'run-away' greenhouse effects – indicating strong negative feedbacks.
If, for whatever reason, a modest warming were to occur – even one that matches temperatures seen during the Medieval Warm Period of around 1100 AD or the much larger ones recorded during the Holocene Climate Optimum of some 6,000 years ago – the impact would not be damaging but would probably be, on the whole, beneficial.
[8] Average glacier shortening of 169 glaciers. Note: The decrease occurs at the same speed before and after the break-through of industrialisation and car-driving in the 20. century and their accompanying increasing CO2 emission.
Sources of error in IPCC´s model calculations.
A: Using data published by the IPCC and further elaborated in the U.S.-sponsored CCSP report, we have shown that observed temperature trend patterns disagree sharply with those calculated from greenhouse models. It is significant that the IPCC has never made such a comparison, or it would have discovered the same result.
Instead, the IPCC relied for its conclusion on circumstantial 'evidence' that does not hold up under scrutiny.
B: We also discuss the many shortcomings of climate models in trying to simulate what is happening in the real atmosphere. Why do greenhouse gas models calculate large temperature increases. The most likely explanation is that models ignore the negative feedbacks that occur in the real atmosphere. New observations reported from satellites suggest it is the distribution of water vapor that could produce suchstrong negative feedbacks.
C: The IPCC is pre-programmed to produce reports to support the hypotheses of man-made warming and the control of greenhouse gases, as envisioned in the Global Climate Treaty ([13] Kyoto 1997). The 1990 IPCC Summary completely ignored satellite data, since they showed no warming. The 1995 IPCC report was notorious for the significant alterations made to the text after it was approved by the scientists – in order to convey the impression of a human influence. The 2001 IPCC report claimed the twentieth century showed 'unusual warming' based on the now-discredited hockey-stick graph. The latest IPCC report, published in 2007, completely devaluates the climate contributions from changes in solar activity, which are likely to dominate any human influence.
Arctic surface air [8] temperature compared with total solar irradiance,
which correlates well with Arctic temperature ,while hydrocarbon use does not correlate.
Empirical evidence suggests very strongly that the main cause of warming and cooling on a decadal scale derives from solar activity via its modulation of cosmic rays that in turn affect atmospheric cloudiness.
According to published research, cosmic-ray variations are also responsible for major climate changes observed in the paleo-record going back 500 million years.
Climate changes are primarily of natural origin rather than man-made.
In conclusion, this NIPCC report falsifies the principal IPCC conclusion that the reported warming (since 1979) is very likely caused by the human emission of greenhouse gases. In other words, increasing carbon dioxide is not responsible for current warming.
Policies adopted and called for in the name of 'fighting global warming' are unnecessary
The Kyoto Protocol – even if punctiliously observed by all participating nations – would decrease calculated future temperatures by only 0.02 degrees C by 2050, an undetectable amount.
It is regrettable that the public debate over climate change, fueled by the errors and exaggerations contained in the reports of the IPCC, has strayed so far from scientific truth. It is an embarrassment to science that hype has replaced reason in the global debate over so important an issue."
Yes, it is indeed regrettable, but what can be expected, when the IPCC "experts" are people like [15] Trilateral Commissionist Jimmy Carter and biased NGOs payed by the UN and EU?
The EU has agreed upon 20% reduction of CO2 emission by 2020, the UK by 15% - and [16] Denmark by 30%!! as compared to 1990 values. Therefore, the EU will [17] increase biofuel production - in spite of the fact that occupying arable land for that purpose means reduction of food production and increasing food prices. All for a lie!!
And even just after Solana and Ferrero Waldner told us, that arable land will disappear in the next decade!! In a later post I shall deal with this topic.
I shal return to this topic later.
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URLs in this post:
[1] : http://www.heartland.org/NewYork08/newyork08.cfm
but Al Gore declined!
: http://debatte.welt.de/kommentare/63831/klimakatastrophe+alles+nur+heisse+luft
[3] temperature measurements: http://www.pi-news.net/2008/03/interview-mit-vaclav-klaus-zur-iccc-konferenz/
[4] global warming swindle: http://euro-med.dk/?p=41
[5] huge gains: http://euro-med.dk/?p=56
[6] WW3: http://euro-med.dk/?p=612
[7] NIPCC graph: http://heartland.temp.siteexecutive.com/pdf/22835.pdf
[8] Temperature variations: http://folk.uio.no/tomvs/esef/Robinson-Soon-2007.pdf
[9] sea level since 1900: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level_rise
[10] Image: http://euro-med.dk/billeder/co2-atm.jpg
[11] Atmospheric CO2: http://folk.uio.no/tomvs/esef/Icecap_CarbonDioxide.pdf
[12] Image: http://euro-med.dk/billeder/glacier-shortening_rrsoon-2007.jpg
[13] Kyoto 1997: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol
[14] Image: http://euro-med.dk/billeder/arctic-t_solar_rrsoon-2007.jpg
[15] Trilateral Commissionist: http://euro-med.dk/?p=528
[16] Denmark by 30%: http://politiken.dk/politik/article483289.ece
[17] increase biofuel production: http://uk.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUKL1083655920080310?pageNumber=2&virtualBrandCha
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|Homes Bill
Mr. Mullin: As it happens, I could have guessed most of the answers that I have received, because they largely concern matters of common sense.
One must bear in mind throughout this discussion that the schedule, like the enforcement clause that we have just discussed, is lifted almost entirely from the Property Misdescriptions Act 1991, which was introduced by the previous Government. The same questions might therefore have been asked of that Act, although I doubt whether they were.
The hon. Member for East Worthing and Shoreham asked about the circumstances in which paragraph 4(1), which will enable withdrawal of a fixed penalty notice, will be used. It will be used, for example, if a mistake has been made. Has it occurred to the hon. Gentleman that people sometimes make mistakes? Not everybody corrects their mistakes, of course, but trading standards officers do. He asked whether paragraph 6(4), which enables the seizing of documents, would in such circumstances leave the sale in limbo. In fact, the vendor would not be prejudiced by seizure because copy documents can be made and he could retain his own copy.
The hon. Gentleman asked what safeguards exist in terms of the reasonableness of trading standards officers' behaviour. The short answer to that is the British legal system. He asked who is to notify a person whose documents have been seized. That is the estate agent's job, because he has a contractual relationship with the vendor and is therefore liable. The hon. Gentleman also asked what constitutes a reasonable hour for the exercising of an officer's power. Here he is returning to his ``something of the night'' argument, in which he imagines trading standards officers exercising their powers in a gestapo-like fashion at 4 o'clock in the morning. That might happen in west Sussex, but it certainly does not in Sunderland. His guess as to what constitutes a reasonable hour is as good as mine, but I imagine that the English courts might have something to say if officers started bashing down doors at 4 o'clock in the morning. I rest my case.
Mr. Loughton: I am glad that the answers were so simple and such a matter of common sense that the Minister still needed to read the notes that were thrust under his nose. That shows that the answers were not obvious. Indeed, they give rise to further questions.
Of course a sale will not be interrupted, because only copy documents are requiredthere will not just be one seller's pack. However, the weights and measures officer will, presumably, have taken action either because something in the seller's pack is incorrect, or because something has not been included in it. Could the sale process be restarted for the vendor, seamlessly and straight away? Could it be restarted with the same firm of estate agents, which would then be required simply to insert the missing document or correct the erroneous one? Given the basis of employee or employer responsibility and liability, could the sale continue with the same estate agent even though an employee of that estate agency was the subject of a criminal investigation? There is a potential conflict of interest. If the sale cannot be restarted with the same estate agent, how easily can it be transferred to an alternative firm?
For the Minister yet again to dismiss my question in a complacent manner is most unsatisfactory. He tells us that the estate agent is contractually obliged to communicate to the vendor that a sale has been interrupted or suspendedwhatever terminology he chooses to accept. Where in the contract is it clearly stated that the estate agent has a contractual duty to inform the vendor of any seizure of documents, any interruption or potential interruption of the sale through the actions of weights and measures officers? We, as laymen, want the answers, but so do technical experts and practitioners in the field. It is not a matter of common sense. There are many details still to be provided. The Ministersolodid not know the answers. We should approach the questions with rather more seriousness than he has shown.
Mr. Mullin: I dealt with all the points head on. The notes that I was struggling to read were my own. They were to remind me of the clauses to which the hon. Gentleman had drawn my attention. He asked whether the sale could continue. Yes, it could, although it is possible that the vendor might have lost confidence in the estate agent if there had been a raid that resulted in documents being taken away. The cause of the raid might have been a complaint from the vendor, which would make it highly likely that he would want to go elsewhere. That is a matter for the vendor to decide.
The hon. Gentleman asked about the estate agent's duty to inform the vendor in the event that he is investigated. The estate agent has a duty to market the property. He has a duty towards the vendor from the moment an agreement is reached. A contract does not have to written down in black and white, although there will be terms and conditions that are standard to the profession. The estate agent will be expected to perform his duty to the best of his ability. If he keeps quiet about some relevant consideration, such as the fact that he is, in some way, under investigation, he will be in breach of that duty.
Question put and agreed to.
Schedule 1 agreed to.
Clause 10 ordered to stand part of the Bill.
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NEW DELHI — An activist from the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir said on Thursday that he had been prevented from boarding a flight in Delhi as he was on his way to Geneva to speak at a session of the United Nations Human Rights Council.
The activist, Khurram Parvez, of the Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society, planned to submit a "civil society stakeholder's report" to the council on the situation in Kashmir, where the death of a commander for a separatist group in July has set off clashes between stone-throwing protesters and Indian security forces. He had also planned to attend a European Union session in Brussels.
More than 70 people, most of them civilians, have been killed in the confrontations, and thousands of civilians and security forces have been injured.
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I'm in a George Saunders phase these days, reading Tenth of December, his collection released last year. I've taken a break to read the introduction. And here, in the form of an anecdote, I discover something about the relevance of death to writing. So I wax lyrical, I beat my brow and praise the muse for making me think of life-versus-death, of language, of me, of writing. Again.
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The anecdote is in the volume's introduction, an article by Joel Lovell reprinted from New York Times Magazine of January 2013.
The article is a summary of a discussion (or series of discussions) between Lovell and Saunders. In it, at some point, Saunders tells the story of how he faced death in a near crash while on a plane from Chicago to Syracuse.
Everything has gone well, the flight progressing as per schedule. Then suddenly there's a banging noise on the side of the plane, black smokes starts pouring in, the pilot gives a message in a trembling voice, women start screaming, a boy asks if this was supposed to happen. It looks certain: they are going to die. And here goes Saunders' voice now, explaining what he went through (with occasional explanatory interventions from Lovell):
"And I remember thinking, No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Just that one syllable, over and over. And also thinking, You could actually piss yourself. And the strongest thing was the sense of that seat right there." He pointed toward the imaginary seat back in front of him. "I thought, Oh, yeah, this body. I've had it all this time, and that's what's going to do it. That right there." He had assumed that if he was ever faced with death, he would "handle it with aplomb," he would be present in the moment, he would make peace in the time he had left. "But I couldn't even remember my own name," he said. "I was so completely not present. I was just the word no."
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The story captures very well the thing I want to talk about here: not so much death pure and simple as death through/of/by means of language. Or, to be more precise, the myth of the single word, a myth which has been teasing the world of writing since, probably, the beginnings of writing itself: how to put It (yes, capital I, coz it's the World I'm talking about) into a single syllable? How to find that sole gust of air coming out of your lungs that can encapsulate Everything? To Saunders (and I'm sure it is to others too – writers I can't think of right now) it's this proximity of death. This experience so complex in its (biological? cultural?) simplicity comes packaged with the usual suspects: the awareness of one's body becoming irrelevant, of the event of one's life becoming irrecoverable, of the proximity of the question of mortality becoming, suddenly, irrefutable.
It all comes like an avalanche. The multiplicity of life tumbling over one's entire being, somewhere between ecstasy and regret. A Sturm und Drang moment. The very possibility of Death comes as a surplus: too much, too soon, too close, too devastating: the argument of the inevitable made apparent. So the experience arrives avalanche-like to cover one's Everything, head to toe, consciousness, ego and all. Faced with this too-muchness of the prospect of death, one is overcome by the realization that one only has words to deal with the problem. One only has language. Language to deal with Everything. And then – then and there – language simplifies itself, it purifies its cloudy waters, it finds the Syllable. One's Everything becomes (because everything is a becoming – the happening of becoming) the Syllable. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. A negation.
When faced with the evidence of Death's abundance, one can only formulate a negation. To affirm would be absurd. Affirmation means addition. Say Yes and you enlarge the abundance, make it more – abundant. But with No, with the only syllable that language allows itself to materialize as, you discover that a one-word essence is possible. That through all the fear and confusion and debris of the mind, there's one sound that can cover the entire horizon: it can cover the fear, as well as the confusion, as well as the debris of the mind.
Life is a dermatological problem. It creeps inside you through your skin. It is also, as one of my good poet friends said somewhere, a sexually transmitted disease with lethal consequences. There are many ways to describe life. Many words, that is, since in order to celebrate its own glory Life has buddied up pretty well with language. But Death? When Death comes, there's No – the Syllable – and nothing else. The only operation permitted is repetition. Not diversity, not complex loquacity, not armies of synonyms summoned to barrage the evidence of death, but repetition. Again and again and again. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. A repetition that can only be stopped by Death itself: once you're dead you can no longer repeat words.
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With the repeated Syllable one witnesses the self-defense of language. As in all self-defense techniques, what the self-defender has to do is find the right combination of moves, the right position of the body, the right punch, the right kick in the groin that renders the attacker useless. It's all in the way the technique is perfected, the repetition that makes the moves right, the practice that makes perfect.
The same goes with the monosyllabic negation of Death: the perfection of the word, its monosyllableness, its punctual, efficient statement.
The martial arts of language.
The jujitsu of the Empire of Words.
Twisting Death's hand, throwing her to the floor and saying, I'm so terribly afraid of you the only disciplined way in which I can behave is use a single word. So that if you occur, if you do smite me and take me away, I know at least I've said something to you in exchange. I showed you that I am truly a being of words.
Take the word hand for my hand.
Take the word head for my head.
Take the word eye for my eye.
And so on for my ego, self, the I that I like to think I am.
So that when you, Death, come to me you find me as a text. It's no wonder, then, that when you frighten me with the death you stand for, Death, I have something to say.
Famous last words are proof of this – of the textuality of the human being. So that what you, Death, take with you when you think you annihilate me is in fact a text: a collection of words, a manifestation of language. You take away the potentiality of writing, since every word contains in itself the possibility of it becoming a mark on a page: a poem, an edict, a revolt, a resignation.
You eradicate the text that I am, but in doing so you set me free: free of the constraints of writing, free of the processed meat of language, free of conventionalities. You make me one with the word I can utter. No name, no body, no identity. Only the Syllable – not my annihilation but yours, since the Syllable doesn't require the technology of writing (which to me, as a writer, stands for everything that's technological in the human species); it only requires the biology of my vocal chords. This reminds me that biology is where the difference between Life and Death looks truly sharp, really relevant, where it matters to say something – to say.
And so with the following definition I can march forward: An utterance is the end of death.


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That's my diagnosis of the surprising inclusion of "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close," one of the year's worst films, in both the Best Picture race and the Supporting Actor category (Max Von Sydow). BTW: In case you think I'm alone here, the movie has only a 46 score on Metacritic, including an F from the Onion A.V. Club.


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I can't believe that one would seriously suggest that a widely believed good found in the text doesn't exist. "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" – the principal of empathy that many atheists on this board seem to think they have copyrighted and patented – is one such widely believed good. EOb
Believing it and then ignoring it, or actively trashing it with every word that comes out of your mouth and every action you do is hardly an example of textural good morality.
The Pentateuch version is Lev 19:18 "Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord" is hardly a radical moral edict for a social animal or a tribal human. But OK if practiced dilligently. For Jews does that mean Hasidim are loved? I understand that some Jews have rejected them. For Christians are JWs and LDS Christian and vice versa? For Muslims is ISIS your neighbor?
Jesus radicalized the whole thing. When challenged "Who is your neighbor" told the parable of the Good Samaritan. Keep in mind that it was a Samaritan who refused Jesus hospitality, causing him to shake the dust off his sandals. In modern day terms think of dark skinned immigrants without documentation. Or for Paul competitive sects that practiced temple prostitution. Are either "loved as thyself?"


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Learn more about five establishments in the Detroit area serving poutine, one of the most indulgent and satisfyingly savory Canadian dishes. Even the Detroit Tigers are getting in on it offering hotdogs topped with authentic poutine.
Our northern neighbors in Windsor and Canada in general love to combine french fries, cheese curds and beef gravy in a dish called poutine. Pronounced pu-tin, it originated in Quebec and spread throughout Canada and to a lesser extent, North America.
Green Dot Stables
2200 W Lafayette Blvd
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Known for their inexpensive a la carte menu. They serve real food without a lot of frills including house made Kobe beef dogs and sliders. Le Poutine consists of non-traditional shoestring fries, curds and gravy. $3
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Get your passport ready and head over to Windsor for the Canadian experience. Locals rave about the perfectly assembled poutine here. Layers of fries, cheese curds and perfect gravy in a styrofoam cup. It's simple, but well-executed. Regular $6
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Near the huge abandoned Michigan Central Station that's become an icon of Detroit's decline is an inviting burger bar with poutine to die for. They're also known for their inventive burgers. The poutine consists of hand cut fries that stay crunchy even in the gravy. $4 side or $6 to share
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Sources close to German magazine Autobild say that a BMW X2 model is in works and scheduled to ship in 2016. This is not the first report to emerge, back in 2012, German media reported on an X2 rumor, followed by a contradictory report just a year later.
The latest rumor say that an X2 model would be based off the UKL front-wheel drive platform that will also be featured in the second-generation X1. The three door crossover would run against the Audi Q3 and Mercedes-Benz GLA and be designed as a smaller premium Sports Activity Coupe.
Under the hood, the BMW X2 will use the same powerplants as the next X1, a combination of three and four-cylinder petrol and diesel engines. A hybrid variant could be planned as well.
If it comes to market, it remains to be seen how the X2 will play against BMW's first FWD vehicle, the Active Tourer.
Same magazine briefly mentions a BMW X7 model, the very same large SUV that was canceled a few years back. Not many details are offered at this time, but the report says BMW prepares three different plug-in hybrid modules for all X models: three-cylinder (only with front-wheel drive), four-cylinder engine (with rear-wheel drive for X3/X4), six-cylinder (or four-wheel drive for X5/X6/X7).Autobild]


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Following on from 2009's 'Falling Debris', Hunt and Kilgour, along with Kilgour's regular backing band the Heavy Eights, recorded latest album 'The 9th' over a week at the Chicks Hotel in Port Chalmers, just outside of Dunedin. Unlike 'Falling Debris', where Hunt's poems were worked into songs and performed entirely by Kilgour and the Heavy Eights, 'The 9th' sees Sam Hunt take the lead vocalist position. This gives 'The 9th' a different feel, as Hunt's vocals were recorded live with the backing band, which gives the poems a powerful platform to stand on.
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This September 5 is set to be the longest Teachers' Day ever — and teachers will have very little to do with it.
For Prime Minister Narendra Modi to celebrate 105 minutes of the day as he wants to, state governments and schools are at work, organising the logistics, generator sets, TVs, radios, etc.
But with chief ministers too now seeking to be seen and heard, what is normally a day of break from regular classes is set to become a long lesson in competitive lecturing for children, stretching way past school hours.
While the union HRD Ministry has sought to clarify that it had only asked state education secretaries to "facilitate" students watching the live telecast of the PM's Teachers' Day engagement from 3 pm to 4.45 pm, and that it was never supposed to be "mandatory", few, including private schools, are taking chances.
Not when in several states there is talk of notices having been circulated, warning that details of attendance in schools on that day will have to be presented.
Capital Delhi, which is believed to have sparked the fears of "mandatory attendance", had a directive that said, "Any laxity in arrangements shall be viewed seriously."
In Gujarat, Chief Minister Anandiben Patel has decided to have her own two-hour session in the morning, followed by Modi's later. The state is already celebrating a Knowledge Week, a first-time initiative. Attendance details have to be sent the same evening.
In Haryana, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, still smarting from having been hooted at a Modi function, will be addressing students for the first time on Teachers' Day.
His programme will also precede the PM's. A string of programmes is planned to keep the children entertained in between the two shows.
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan of Madhya Pradesh has his own plans for the day, plus the state government has decided that September 5 will end with a roll call for children and teachers. That is to ensure nobody skips the PM's speech.
The Akhilesh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh will be riding on the laptops it gifted as part of its Class XII pass scheme to show the Modi function — a rare example of bonhomie between the two governments.
Uttarakhand wants homes with TVs to chip in, or it will just arrange for students to go to those homes. At the end of the day, district-level education officials have to communicate to the state Director General, Education, the number of students who watched the PM's programme in their areas.
Chhattisgarh too expects owners of homes with TV sets in remote areas to step up to the plate. Many of the state's schools are in tribal areas without electricity. For probably the first time, these schools will have TVs and radios, even if for only 105 minutes.
In Kerala, the biggest worry is that schools close at noon on September 5 for a week-long Onam break. How they will keep the children engaged until 3 pm is the biggest worry for schools.
The Northeastern states are worried about areas where night falls early, for example in Hayuliang in Arunachal Pradesh's Anjaw district, where the sun sets at 4.15 pm — half an hour before Modi decides to call it a day.
West Bengal, though, isn't tearing out any hairs. "One fine morning you send an order and tell us it has to be carried out in three days' time. It is not done," Education Minister Partha Chatterjee said, adding the state has its own plans.
The principal of a leading CBSE school in Chennai, who did not want to be identified, was blunt. "Promoting one person is not a good practice. On Teachers' Day, let us not lie to the children that everything is perfect in the country and everything will be taken care of by the PM. Schools need not telecast a PM's speech…we have better things to do. After all, education is about liberating our students," he said.
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SANTA ANA, Calif. --A natural gas leak triggered a big traffic headache near Orange County's John Wayne Airport on Wednesday morning.The trouble began at about 7:30 a.m. when construction workers building a utility plant at the east end of the airport ripped through a natural gas line.
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The Big Reveal: It was...the grey shirt! Collared, cuffed, made in linen and worn open, it's actually a favourite of mine. The bright floral top was a bit of a red herring, I'll admit, but it's so nice I kind of wish I'd made it.
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Again, anything's game except for my shoes, my glasses, and any clothing that you can't see at all. Before you start, though, I've added a clue to this round, if you'd like to use it. Just click on the word "CLUE" below, and the clue-card will reveal itself.
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PS: There's only one outfit photo this time because, well, it was really windy out and I wasn't using the mini-tripod, so...my camera fell twice and the second time, the lens got stuck. (Yeah. Self-photos are not working out for me too well—but at least I have a whole month to get better at them, haha.)
The camera's 6 years old—it was my first "big" purchase in high school—and I'm sentimental about it so I'm going to muck around and try to get it working.
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Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal is set to make her Broadway debut in the revival of The Real Thing.
The Dark Knight star will appear alongside Ewan McGregor in the Tony Award-winning Tom Stoppard play, which tells the story of a playwright who leaves his wife for another woman.
Gyllenhaal's other theater credits include Closer, Anthony and Cleopatra and Three Sisters.
The stage production will premiere at the Roundabout Theater Company in New York in October (14).