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TexShare Advisory Board Meeting
10:15 AM until 2:00 PM on October 20, 2006
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
1201 Brazos, room 314
Austin, TX
1. Ed Seidenberg welcomed new board member Candice Scott, and welcomed back renewing members Martha Tandy and Cathy Dean. He also presented a certificate of appreciation to Syma Zerkow for her outstanding work as the past Chair for the Electronic Information Working Group.
2. Doug Ferrier was reelected Chair of the board for 2007, and Martha Tandy was reelected Vice Chair.
3. Minutes from the June 30, 2006 meeting were approved.
4. The next 3 board meetings were scheduled: Jan. 26, 2007; April 27, 2007; and July 13, 2007.
5. No public comment.
6. TSLAC Update: TSLAC Update: Ed Seidenberg gave an update on the building renovation (there was a meeting with Senator Ogden in November) and the Sunset process. The Sunset staff released their report on Sept. 20th. Next, the Sunset Commission will hold public hearings on Nov. 14th or 15th. After that, the Sunset Commission will announce their decisions on Dec. 12th or 13th.
7. TexShare LAR Budget '08-'09: Beverley Shirley reported on the LAR request, and Ed Seidenberg discussed budgetary issues (see item #11-G below). The Chair will draft and forward to the board a resolution in support of TSLAC's budget strategies for '08-'09 biennium.
8. TexTreasures Rules: Beverley Shirley and Ellen Safley reported.
The agency is consolidating all the grants under one subchapter of the rules. Each TSLAC grant program will have a separate section for their specific rules, but the general rules will apply to all grants. Some of the details will not be put in the rules, but will be addressed in the guidelines for each grant program. The task of the working group was to look at the existing TexTreasures rules and recommend changes. The changes considered include:
- Do we still see the purpose of TexTreasures grants as "seed" money, or do we want to allow the grants to fully fund discrete projects?
The recommendation of the group was to drop the seed money and allow funding to discrete projects. The issue of allowing applicants to apply for additional funding for the same project for up to 3 years of funding was also discussed, but we didn't come to a final recommendation.
- Microfilming is now in use as a preservation technology, not as a strategy for increased access to collections. Would it, therefore, be appropriate to remove "microfilming" from the list of eligible project activities?
The group agreed that microfilming was principally a preservation technology, and that these grants are not specifically for preservation activities but is meant for access and resource sharing projects. The group recommends that "microfilming" be removed from the list of eligible project activities.
- TexShare member libraries have forged a number of valuable partnerships enabling their joint digital projects. Should we allow non-profit organizations applying on behalf of TexShare members to be eligible? Should we allow TexTreasures funding to be applied to non-member partners in the project as well as to TexShare member collections?
After a lengthy discussion, the group agreed that the applicant should be a TexShare member, and the funds should be awarded to the applicant. TexShare members can apply on behalf of a partnership that includes non-members, and the funds can be directed to non-profit organizations in the partnership.
- Other competitive grants offered by TSLAC do not specify a match in the grants' rules; rather match is specified in the grant guidelines and does not come into play for amounts at the $20,000 - $25,000 level. Should we remove the match requirement from TexTreasures grants? If so, should we ask applicants to address sustainable access to their collections in the project design portion?
The recommendation of the group is to remove the match requirement from the grant rules, but award points in the scoring for cost effectiveness to encourage leveraging local resources. The group proposes adding a question to the rules under Award Criteria, Cost Effectiveness – "Does the project proposal leverage local resources?"
- Other competitive grants offered by TSLAC do not specify a cap on the amount of the grant. Should we continue to cap grants to individual applicants at $20,000? Would it be appropriate to have a larger cap for collaborative projects - $25,000?
The group recommends keeping the cap at $20,000 for a single applicant and raising the cap to $25,000 for collaborative projects. This should be taken out of the rules and put in the guidelines to be consistent with the other TSLAC grants.
- The commission will also be considering a proposal that for FY2008 and FY2009 portions of each competitive grant be reserved for regional library system applications, should systems choose to apply. We ask the TexShare Advisory Board to make recommendations to the commission regarding this proposal as it relates to TexTreasures grants.
There was concern expressed by the working group that the grant funds available are too small to reserve a portion of it for the Systems. The working group would be scoring all applications, while only giving out 2 or 3 grants each year based on those scores. The time and energy necessary to go through the process of awarding the grants would be disproportional to the small number of grants awarded on the basis of that scoring process.
The board voted to forward these WG recommendations to the Commission.
9. Working Group Reports:
A. Card Program: Jay Clark reported.
- In FY06, there were 30,095 TexShare cards issued from the 392 TexShare libraries that reported. There were 457,552 items circulated. This reflects a decline in items circulated from the public libraries. It was suggested that more promotion of the TexShare card use to the public libraries might help to address the decline in circulation. (See item #11-E for one approach TexShare staff is already taking. This class will also be repeated at TLA Annual Conference in April 2007.)
- In the 10th anniversary of the program, we should keep in mind that TexShare has created a program that is providing to Texas citizens resources equivalent of building a university library or a large public library.
B. Interlibrary Loan/Courier Service: Kate Cordts reported.
- The Interlibrary Loan/Courier Working Group presented the 7th Interlibrary Loan Workshop on September 29th at the Doubletree Hotel in Austin. The location was changed this year to provide an opportunity for Interlibrary Loan professionals and staff in other parts of Texas to attend more easily. Total registration was 134, making this the best-attended workshop to date. The keynote topic was "Rethinking Resource Sharing" and most of the presentations were focused on the changing role of Interlibrary Loan not only in Texas but on a global level. The workshop went smoothly and was well received by the participants. PowerPoint presentations are posted to the TexShare web site at: http://www.texshare.edu/ill-courier/7thworkshop/agenda.html
Interlibrary Loan Department of the Year awards were presented during the workshop. The winners were: Academic Library -- Texas A&M University, College Station; Public Library -- Amarillo Public Library; and Special Library -- Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
The WG has suggested that future workshops be held in different locations around the state. Early discussion for the next workshop suggested holding it in San Antonio or Corpus Christi in the Spring 2008.
- WG members contacted non-reporting libraries earlier this year and Ann Mason contacted every non-reporting library before the end of the fiscal year. These efforts resulted in an excellent report. Almost 100% of courier participants reported statistics! Only one library did not report. These statistics are vital for the Cost Avoidance report to the legislature.
Final statistics for FY 06:
Subsidized libraries 163
Non-subsidized libraries 11
Total shipped 329,582
Total received 332,513
C. Education Services Program: No report.
D. Electronic Information: Kerry Keck reported.
- As reported this summer, TSLAC has completed contract negotiations for this fiscal year. The EIWG plans to meet to review TexShare's need for expanding the TexSelect program. We hope to add 2 to 3 new databases to the program during the next year. EIWG will work to develop guidelines and a timeline for weeding the netLibrary ebook collection.
- The following new members have been named to replace representatives whose terms have expired: Kristen L. Cook, McLennan Community College; Kristen Merritt, Palestine Public Library; Stephanie Langenkamp, San Marcos Public Library. The WG expresses sincere thanks to the outgoing members: Marian Jackson, Tyler Junior College; Janis Test, Abilene Public Library; and outgoing chair Syma Zerkow, Houston Public Library.
E. Communications: Greg Tramel reported.
- The TexSharing Toolkit 2.0 is on the TexShare Outreach Materials web page www.texshare.edu/outreach_materials.html. It now includes the TexShare Communication Plan Workbook: A Step-by-Step Customizable Marketing Guide for TexShare Member Libraries. The TexSharing Toolkit includes other materials to enthuse staff, customers, funding entities, and others in the community about TexShare services. It contains logos, brochures, bookmarks, flyers, sticker and button templates, customizable press releases, posters, customizable Op-Ed articles and database searching guides.
- The TexShare Communications WG TLA Conference 2007 program will be Take the Cloak of Invisibility off Your E-Collections! Making "E" Visible presented by Lesley Williams, Head, Information Services, Evanston Public Library, IL. To draw patrons past the Googles of the world, we need to revolutionize how electronic resources are promoted. Hear what Lesley suggests librarians and vendors do to "uncloak" electronic collections. Lesley Williams is the author of the June 15, 2006 Library Journal article addressing this topic www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6341888.html.
- The TexShare web page re-design is currently in stage 5, which is the create navigation stage. We are currently working with the new Webmaster and LRS staff to focus on the navigability of a new TexShare web page and to make sure all state and federal legal requirements applicable to state Web sites are met.
- It was suggested that the group discuss how they could assist the Card WG in promoting the Card program as Jay Clark mentioned above.
F. Library of Texas: Jeanette Mosey reported.
- Usability Testing: Diane Neal has submitted her report on the Usability Testing for the Library of Texas. The working group will discuss it and bring details of that discussion to you at the next meeting of the Advisory Board.
- LoT Enhancements Update:
- Allow a library to automatically verify patron status for ILL or hold requests via support of SIP2 and NCIP standards for this function. Status: In testing.
- Allow users to place holds on items they find in their home library catalog and provide a list of possible branches for user pickup based on patron status, again via support of SIP2 and NCIP standards for this function. Status: In testing.
- Support ILL request processing via ISO ILL protocol-compliant messages and via email systems. Status: In testing.
- Link item records to external databases using Open-URL link resolvers. Status: Implemented.
- Adjust the "Advanced Search" page to make it more article-friendly by adding start and end date boxes; adding AND, OR, and NOT operators; making 4 text boxes with default fields "title, author, keyword, Journal title;" re-labeling the ID number as ISBN/ISSN. Status: Implemented.
- Display "Link to Article" button instead of the actual URL. Status: Implemented.
- Add an "Article Text" link at top of full-record display, taking the user to the beginning of the text. Status: Implemented.
- For items that include summary of an article, add a "Summary" label and link to the beginning of the summary. Status: Implemented.
- Allow a library to have local results appear first on the right side of the results page. Status: Implemented.
- Sharing MARC Records FAQ: The Working Group discussed a draft "FAQ on Sharing MARC Records" at its July meeting and is revising it. Permission forms to link to library catalogs and download MARC records were mailed to Library Directors during the summer.
- Local Database Subscriptions & Virtual Reference Services Links: The WG discussed possible ways for libraries to formally alert Kevin to local database (non-TexShare) subscriptions and about virtual reference (VR) services for linking from a library's LoT interface page.
- LoT WG Web Site: the WG web site is being taken under review.
G. TexTreasures Grants: See agenda item #8 above.
10. Strategic Partner Reports
A. University of Texas at Austin: No report
B. Amigos: Tim Prather reported.
The Summer 2006 Express Gazette was distributed. A report was also distributed from Bonnie Juergens on the national symposium she attended entitled "Moving Mountains: A Symposium Exploring Library Courier Services." The symposium was held Sept. 14-15 in Denver and over 100 people attended. The information on the symposium is on their web site at: http://www.clicweb.org/couriersymposium
C. ESC-20: Susanna Garza reported.
- At this point, 2.3 million K-12 students are being served by K-12 TexShare databases. All 20 ESC's have supported the initiative.
- New information is constantly being added to the K-12 TexShare web site at: http://web.esc20.net/texshare/
- Two articles of importance on information literacy from the 21st Century Skills organization were mentioned: Go to www.21stcenturyskills.org and click on Publications, then on Learning for 21st Century and Road to 21st Century.
- TSLAC has offered hope and leadership to the school libraries with the K-12 TexShare database initiative. This program connects school, public and academic libraries. They now have opportunities to work together that did not exist in the past. While TEA has added the restoration of TLC as a priority in the new Texas Long Range Plan for Technology, the result will depend on funding appropriations by the legislature.
9. Administrative Report: Beverley Shirley reported.
A. TexShare Board Members: Welcome to Candice Scott, Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs - Library, Information Technology and Academic Support Services, Schreiner University, Kerrville, who is joining the board as a representative of private universities. Welcome back to Martha Tandy and Cathy Dean, who have agreed to serve another term on the board.
B. TexShare Database Fees: As of October 12, 2006, we have collected $866,893 of the TexShare FY07 Database Program Fees. 277 libraries have paid.
C. TexShare Databases: The Bridge to TexShare for Small and Rural Libraries (http://www.texshare.edu/bridge/mainpage.html) continues into its 3rd year of development. This year, Dr. Roy's classes will develop updated tutorials and provide instruction on the databases to local libraries and communities. Database Coordinator, Russlene Waukechon, and Automation Consultant, Eduardo Loera, are discussing similar partnerships with Dr. Diane Neal and her Information Storage and Retrieval class at TWU and Dr. Ana Cleveland and Frances May at UNT.
In accordance with the recommendations of the EIWG, FY2006 database purchases did not include NetLibrary ebooks. The publishers with which NetLibrary contracts have determined that library consortia must buy multiple copies of each ebook title purchased. Peggy Rudd and members of the Library Resource Sharing staff met with Rich Rosy, Vice President of OCLC in charge of NetLibrary content, to discuss the new NetLibrary purchasing model. Mr. Rosy is willing to work with us, but we have not been able to identify an affordable option for adding NetLibrary books to our collection at this time.
D. Communication Plan Workbooks: The Communication Plan Workbooks developed by the Communications Working Group have been very popular items! After distributing over 100 workbooks at the TLA Annual Conference last April, we have had several requests for these "best sellers." It's in its "third printing," and is also available online at http://www.texshare.edu/toolkit/internal/commplan.html.
E. TexShare Card Classes: Ann Mason partnered with Wendy Clark, Loan Star Coordinator, to present two videoconference training sessions on "A Texas-Sized Collaboration: The TexShare Card and Loan Star Libraries Programs." The purpose of these sessions was to explain the requirements and benefits of participating in each program, and to show how libraries can maximize service to their communities by participating in both programs. About 100 public librarians from around the state participated in this workshop.
F. TCAL Update: Doug Ferrier, Kathy Hoffman, Sue Phillips, Robert Watkins, and Beverley Shirley presented a TexShare update to the Texas Council of Academic Library Directors (TCAL) at their annual meeting on September 20, 2006. The presentation included an overview of the TexShare Advisory Boards and Working Groups; information on the new TexShare core databases, the TexSelect program, and participation of K-12 school libraries in group purchase of databases; an introduction to the new joint TexShare-Amigos Database Partnerships service; and updates on a variety of other TexShare programs.
G. TSLAC Appropriations Request for TexShare programs: In the last three legislative sessions, TSLAC has submitted both the TexShare databases and the Loan Star Library program for exceptional item funding. In all three biennium, the TexShare databases received exceptional item funding while the Loan Star Library program did not. This history indicates that if TSLAC requests exceptional items for both programs again, there is a clear and significant danger that the Loan Star Library program would not receive the restoration or growth in funding that is needed to advance the condition of public libraries in the state. With Texas public libraries ranked 47th in the nation in terms of per capita expenditures, they are in great need of additional revenue from the state. If the colleges and universities of Texas hope for students to come to their institutions with a strong background in research skills, the condition of the public libraries must be made a statewide priority.
Impact of the TSLAC budgetary strategy on our K-12 partners is of concern. While we are committed to a healthy future for K-12 school libraries, the unforeseen requirement to cut our current budget forced us to look at the timing for a request for the Legislature to fund school databases. In a time when we were forced to cut 10% from an existing program, when the issue of K-12 school libraries was still up for review by both the Sunset staff an interim House study, and when the TEA draft Long-Range Plan for Technology proposed re-establishing funding for TLC in the TEA budget, there was (and still is) uncertainty regarding the agency and the best strategy for serving K-12 libraries. Two years from now this uncertainty should be resolved, and we should be better prepared to approach the Legislature with a funding request.
H. TexTreasures Rules: Grants for Access to Local Holdings (TexTreasures Grants) have been a part of the TexShare program for many years. Due to budget cuts, these grants have not been available since 2003. Our Legislative Appropriation Request budgets funding for restoration of this grant program in the FY2008-2009 biennium. See TexTreasures discussion above (item #8).
Next board meeting will be January 26, 2007.
TexShare Advisory Board Members:
Nancy Anderson, Howard Payne University
Cathy Dean
Doug Ferrier, UT Brownsville/Texas Southmost College
Maurice Fortin, Angelo State University
Larry Justiss, Tom Green County Library System
Dennis Michaelis, McLennan Community College
Candice Scott, Schreiner University
Martha Tandy, Weatherford College
Texas State Library and Archives Commission:
Mike Avila, Library Resource Sharing Division
Sue Bennett, Library Resource Sharing Division
Dave Hardy, Library Resource Sharing Division
Ann Mason, Library Resource Sharing Division
Ed Seidenberg, Assistant State Librarian
Beverley Shirley, Library Resource Sharing Division
Russlene Waukechon, Library Resource Sharing Division
Working Group Chairs/Liaisons:
Jay Clark, San Jacinto College, Card WG
Kate Cordts, San Antonio Public Library, ILL/Courier Services WG
Kerry Keck, Rice University, Electronic Information WG
Jeanette Mosey, Austin Community College, Library of Texas WG
Ellen Safley, UT Dallas, TexTreasures WG
Greg Tramel, Montgomery Country Memorial Library System, Communications WG
Strategic Partners:
Susanna Garza, ESC-20
Sue Phillips, University of Texas at Austin
Tim Prather, Amigos Library Services
Catherine Hamer, UT Austin
Elizabeth Puthoff, ICUT
Syma Zerkow, Houston Public Library


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Series: The Lunar Chronicles #4
Published by Feiwel & Friends on November 10th 2015
Genres: Fantasy, Retelling, Sci-Fi, Young Adult
Pages: 823
Princess Winter is admired by the Lunar people for her grace and kindness, and despite the scars that mark her face, her beauty is said to be even more breathtaking than that of her stepmother, Queen Levana.
Winter despises her stepmother, and knows Levana won't approve of her feelings for her childhood friend--the handsome palace guard, Jacin. But Winter isn't as weak as Levana believes her to be and she's been undermining her stepmother's wishes for years. Together with the cyborg mechanic, Cinder, and her allies, Winter might even have the power to launch a revolution and win a war that's been raging for far too long.
Can Cinder, Scarlet, Cress, and Winter defeat Levana and find their happily ever afters? Fans will not want to miss this thrilling conclusion to Marissa Meyer's national bestselling Lunar Chronicles series.
This review will mostly likely be pretty incoherent and random. But all you need really need to know is that this book is epic and fantastic and wonderful and I'm soooooooooo sad that it's over.
There's a lot going on story-wise, especially when you have 8-10 main characters. They never quite all together and they mix and match throughout the book, doing crazy action-packed things as they (Cinder and the crew) try to take down Queen Levena.
800 plus pages is really long.There's definitely parts that I could have liked better, like the fight scenes. I found it usually a bit all over the place, and I would have liked it more if Cinder and crew had a bit more of a plan. Things got a bit chaotic. But that being said, I loved every bit.
There was one especially amazing moment that seriously made me love Cinder so much. It's epic and intense and awesome and just brilliant.
She heard gunshots, but she had already jumped. The black sky opened up before her and she fell.
Sometimes I feel bad for Levena, but jeez, she is evil. There's also a few other characters I wouldn't mind seeing getting a kick in the butt.
Winter and Jacin
I really liked Winter, she's definitely an interesting character. She's a bit crazy but is such a wonderful, sweet person.
"She was prettier than a bouquet of roses and crazier than a headless chicken. Fitting in was not an option."
I wasn't the biggest fan of Jacin in Cress, but he won me over more in this. I love how much he cares for Winter. They only had this book to make me fall in love them, and they did a pretty good job.
"I'm delusional, and crazy, and damaged. I've known it a long time, we both have. Scarlet tells me all the time."
"You're perfect," he said, finishing his thought as if she hadn't interrupted.
Also, Winter and Scarlet was such an interesting pair!
Cress and Thorne
Arrrg, these guys. They're totally sneaking up to be my favourite pair. I love how much character development there is for both of them. They're so awkward and cute. Cress finding her self-confidence is a happy thing.
"I'll find you," Thorne whispered. He pressed a hasty kiss against her mouth, wrapping her hand around something heavy and warm. "Be heroic".
And she was (:
Thorne is still hilarious and awesome. He makes me so happy. A bijillion points for Thorne for being the hero Cress deserves.
Thorne glances back at the pantry. "Did you see any rice in there? Maybe we could fill Cinder's head with it."
Everyone stared at him.
"You know, to … absorb the moisture, or something. Isn't that a thing?"
Scarlet and Wolf
Scarlet and Wolf definitely have the biggest struggles to deal with, so I'm crazy happy they're finally togetheeeeer!
He was here. He was here. […]
"I smelled you." Wolf was grinning so wide she see the sharp teeth he normally tried to hide. It had been a long time since she'd seem him so happy.
Scarlet was pretty badass in this and Wolf for the most part got a lot of the short end of the straw (like for real, heartbreaking). I was ecstatic when he finally got his HEA with Scarlet.
"I need him as much as he needs me. But that doesn't make it love."
Winter lowered her lashes. "Actually, dear friend, I suspect that is precisely what makes it love."
Cinder and Kai!
Awwwww they cute. They don't actually have a ton of time together, but they've finally worked out their feelings for each other so we got a lot cute moments!
"Let's not overlook your ability to make every girl swoon with just a smile."
It took Kai a moment to hear her over his frustration, but then his expression cleared and he grinned.
"Yep," she said, shutting the panel. "That's the one."
Cinder and Kai both have grown so much over the 4 books! I love Cinder with all the characters. Cinder and Thorne will definitely be forever one of my favourite platonic couple. Kai and Thorne are actually pretty amazing, too!
Kai tilted her chin towards him and kissed her. She didn't know what number it was – she'd finally figured out how to turn of her brain's auto-count function and she didn't care how many times he kissed her. She did care that every kiss no longer felt like their last.
Has become even more awesome in this book! I love love her sass. Cinder and Iko have the friendship we all should strive for.
"I'm literally broken."
Iko settled a hand on Cinder's shoulder's "Yeah, but broken isn't the same as unfixable."
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SANTA ANA (CBSLA.com) — Santa Ana police are asking the public to come forward if they have seen a missing Santa Ana mother.
Martha Anaya, 28, was last seen Nov. 12, according to officials.
Authorities said the woman is known to frequent the areas of First and Lyon Streets but that she left home without her 6-year-old, a change of clothes or any personal belongings.
For those reasons alone, police are finding the woman's disappearance puzzling.
Santa Ana police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna said, "It's not normal for her to not check on the child."
Anaya is about 5-foot-6, weighs 130 pounds and has brown hair and brown eyes. She has several tattoos — "Amy" on her left wrist, "Melody" on her right wrist, and "R.I.P. It was all a Dreamer" and "Butterfly" on the left side of her chest, Bertagna said.
Anyone with information about her whereabouts is asked to call investigators at (714) 245-8393 or police dispatch operators at (714) 834-4211.
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GILBERTSVILLE >> What's Christmas without jingle bells and sleighs?
A Gilbertsville business asked that same question recently and decided to contribute to the community's Christmas spirit in a unique way.
"Pennsylvania Dutch folk artistry is very much alive and thriving today, and we wanted to use this sleigh to foster even greater appreciation for such an important part of our local culture," says Lisa Romero, owner of The Swamp Door, 2030 Swamp Pike, Gilbertsville.
The Swamp Door Antiques & Curiosities recently commissioned local folk artist Nancy Stauffer, of Gilbertsville, to turn a two-person sleigh into a series of paintings featuring nostalgic scenes from winters past and the art piece is becoming a local hit.
"We had hoped the sleigh would get some attention. But Nancy's nostalgic interpretation of bygone winters is wowing so many people, we're starting to plan a future where we preserve and donate the sleigh to a local museum so future generations can enjoy it," said Romero.
Stauffer is a retired hair stylist and grandmother of three who has experience creating thousands of fine folk art pieces over the course of the last 20 years. Stauffer says this is the largest piece of work she has ever completed. She worked on it throughout the summer and was inspired by the designs of two of her contemporaries: folk artists Helan Barrick and Jo Sonja Jansen.
"This has been an exciting, fun project," Stauffer says. "And it's been great getting so much wonderful feedback from the community. But for me, I'm just thrilled to know this isn't simply a Christmas decoration … It's a gift to the people who live here. I love that."
The sleigh required significant repairs before it was painted so Stauffer enlisted the help of her husband, Laverne Stauffer, a retired maintenance employee of Kraft Foods in Allentown. In addition to the repairs, Laverne also weather-proofed the piece so it could remain outside and accessible to the public throughout the holiday season, Romero said.
"Our goal is to display this sleigh every year from Thanksgiving through early January," Romero says. "To watch people's delight in seeing it, and hear them share heart-warming stories of Christmases they remember from years ago, makes it all worthwhile."


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October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. To raise awareness, Governor Ducey lights the State Capitol Dome purple to launch the Lighting Arizona Purple campaign. The Lighting Arizona Purple campaign encourages all Arizonans to join the Governor in taking a stance against domestic violence by learning about the issue and by lighting their own homes purple. This year's Lighting Arizona Purple event is sponsored by Arizona-based PetSmart Charities and the Home Depot.
PetSmart Charities is committed to supporting the human-animal bond by connecting people and pets. As the leading funder of animal welfare, PetSmart Charities provides funding to nonprofit organizations, such as domestic violence shelters, to help keep pets and the people who love them together. By helping organizations provide resources and access to care to keep pets in their homes, we can reduce shelter intake and prevent pet homelessness.
Additionally the Home Depot, in partnership with the Arizona Governor's Office of Youth, Faith and Family, will be selling Purple Light Bulbs to their customers at all Arizona store locations. A percentage from each sale will go to support the Domestic Violence Prevention Fund established through the Governor's Office. The GOYFF is also going to provide outreach materials so that victims of this terrible crime can be connected to help and resources. Together Arizona's can join with the Governor and say, "NO MORE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE."


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Even though some of the participants could not speak, thei smiles said a lot.
The Carroll County Education Center for children with disabilities had its annual spring program yesterday in the activities room of the Westminster school.
This year's theme was "Growing Up Great," and the prekindergarten through intermediate classes performed skits about professions.
"We have specific units we do, and we rotate," said Robin Shamer, a music teacher who organized the program. "Whatever is the last unit is the theme for the program."


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By Tim Lambert
10th Century Hastings is a small but important town with its own mint
1101 The Danes sack Hastings
1339 The French burn Hastings
1377 The French burn Hastings again but the town soon recovers
1563 Plague strikes Hastings
1589 Queen Elizabeth grants Hastings a charter (a document giving the town a mayor and corporation)
1619 Hastings Grammar School is founded
1720 Hastings has a population of about 1,500
1794 The first guide to Hastings is published and the town develops as a seaside resort
1797 Marine Parade is built
1801 Hastings has a population of 3,175
1820 A body of men are given powers to pave, clean and light the streets
1820s Pelham Place, Castle Street and Wellington Place are built
1830 Hastings gains its first newspaper. Hastings also gains gas light.
1833 Hastings gains a piped water supply
1851 Hastings has a population of 17,000. The railway reaches Hastings.
1858 Holy Trinity Church is built
1862 Queens Hotel is built
1872 Hastings pier is built
1879 A museum is founded in Hastings
1881 Hastings Town Hall is built
1882 Alexandra Park is built. The first electric light in Hastings is switched on.
1883 St Mary Star of the Sea is built
1891 West Hill Lift is built
1901 The population of Hastings is 62,000
1902 East Cliff Railway is built
1923 Royal East Sussex Hospital is built
1927 White Rock Pavilion is built
1938 Marina Court is built
World War II In Hastings 154 people are killed by bombing
1951 The corporation buys Hastings Castle
1856 The Fishermen's Museum opens
1985 White Rock Theatre opens
1986 The Shipwreck Heritage Centre opens
1993 A new fish markets is built
1996 Priory Meadow Shopping Centre opens
2000 Underwater World opens
2001 Hastings skate park is built
A history of Hastings
A timeline of Brighton
A timeline of Canterbury
A timeline of Worthing
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State of Origin mind games are back with Queensland veteran Corey Parker calling for "consistency" from the NRL match review panel over NSW players Wade Graham and James Tamou.
Graham is at risk of missing out on an Origin debut in game two in Brisbane next week after he hit Johnathan Thurston high in Cronulla's NRL win over North Queensland on Monday night.
Given Graham has a 50 per cent loading from a similar hit last year, as well as carryover points, even an early guilty plea to a grade-one careless high tackle charge would rule him out of Origin II through suspension.
Meanwhile Blues teammate Tamou will also have to head to the judiciary to be cleared to play the match if he is charged for a shoulder charge on NSW teammate Andrew Fifita from the same match.
Parker on Tuesday risked the Blues' ire by indicating that he believed both players should be sanctioned.
"We're all in the same business, so whether they hold true to the consistency, we don't know," Parker told Sky Sports Radio's Big Sports Breakfast.
"We'll wait and see."
The subject of the judiciary in the lead-in to Origin matches has long angered Queensland players and officials.
Star Maroons half Johnathan Thurston was forced to clear his name at a hearing in 2011 for a grade-two contrary conduct charge after he made contact with a referee that would have ruled him out of an Origin clash.
The charge was among issues which prompted then Queensland coach Mal Meninga's infamous newspaper column which labelled NSW powerbrokers as "the filth and rats that continue to linger in the sewers and dark corners".
There was also anger when NSW star Jarryd Hayne escaped suspension at a hearing and played an Origin match in 2010 when he beat a striking charge after an apparent headbutt on Melbourne's Queensland fullback Billy Slater.


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Adapting decision making to uncertainty when addressing sea level rise response in Puget Sound
Petersen, A., D.J. Canning, T.M. Leschine, and E.L. Miles. 2008. Adapting decision making to uncertainty when addressing sea level rise response in Puget Sound. Proceedings of the 15th Biennial Coastal Zone Conference, July 22-26, 2007, Portland, Oregon. Charleston, SC: NOAA Coastal Services Center.
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It is difficult for decision makers to deal with scientific uncertainty when making public policy choices. These difficulties become particularly apparent as local jurisdictions begin to address climate change and its related impacts. Preparation and incorporation of climate predictions is hampered by the complex non-linear nature of the climate system and the variability of future climate scenarios. Additionally, the surrounding institutional, legal and policy system is primarily linear. This difference in structure increases the complexity of addressing climate change impacts. Sea level rise in Puget Sound provides a relevant current forum within which to address these issues. Though still in a preliminary stage, this study identifies identifies a number of key issues related to addressing sea level rise in Puget Sound.
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A comparison of communication in the US presidential primaries of the 20th century. It examines the role of the candidates and the media during primary elections and the communication patterns that transcend time regarding political image, horse race coverage and negative campaigning.When primaries were contested, the media found them well suited to their need for stories about famous people and conflict and ... A partya#39;s image might be harmed, for example, if the primary coverage revealed its aquot;serious rifts and associations with extremismaquot; ... with almost 14, 000, 000 people voting in 40 states and the District of Columbia (Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report, August 3, 1996, p.
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By: James Linderman
If your experiences in getting your music "out there" have been anything like mine, you've already experienced enough rejection to need numerous hours of therapy and perhaps enough to qualify for a guest spot on Dr. Phil.
Sure, I've had some hills between all the valleys. This has been a particularly good year. But I still don't see the impact of all of my diligent work on my bank account, nor am I booked for a tuxedo fitting for one of those fancy awards shows anytime soon.
It's therefore very refreshing to read Trax, a new e-book written by Susan Finch that can offer us music writers a different spin on what to do with all the music floating around in our heads and how to make a dent in an otherwise, virtually undentable industry.
Trax is about getting your music to fit a market most of us have not even considered; commercials and TV shows. Sound simple? Well it is... and it isn't.
The author explains that post-production houses have a voracious need for music but lots of incremental rules for pitching your work - much like the rules that exist in all professional media.
The author, however, happens to very conveniently know all the tricks of the trade, gleaned from working in a New York post-production house and working her way up through the ranks in this also very competitive industry.
So what's in this e-book?
It starts out explaining how post-production houses operate and the role that our music plays in their work.
It then comprehensively covers pitching protocol so that you could enter this industry looking like you have been working in it for years, right off the bat. Very cool stuff.
There is a section on setting up your business and establishing a web-site for your work if you decide to do more than dabble in this.
There are also listings of some music studios that specialize in this kind of work, so you can check out the competition.
The author then provides 50 pages of listings for post-production houses in the U.S. and the U.K. for you to send your music to. She also ends the book with some sample contracts so that you can check out a couple of them before you have to sign one.
Trax by Susan Finch is certainly an indispensable e-book for anyone who has ever considered writing music for TV or commercials, or for someone sitting in a small production studio as I am right now feeling like it's time to try something new.
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I think you are giving the man too much credit. He strikes me as a guy who is just striking while the iron is hot. It isn't that hard to be viewed as a uniter when you are running on the "change" ticket. Most of America is unhappy with the direction that the country has turned. It would be political suicide for any politician to run on the "business as usual" model.
I seriously doubt he is the Anti Christ. I am not even convinced that he will win the democratic nomination. That would be a pretty staggering defeat for a man who is supposed to rule the world.
Originally posted by SteveR
The Anti Christ is a Uniter. He is a man of many allegiances. He is the black sheep. He is deeply inspiring and popular. He floats on the desperation of the masses. He is the great deceiver. He demands difference. He seeks power, and will sell his soul to get there.
All of these statements apply to Him at the time of writing.
Uniter: Obama has white, black, male and female support - support in every demographic in South Carolina and many places across the United States.
transcending divisons
Allegiances: Obama is a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ, an African-American fundamentalist Christian only club. He was also a Muslim, still practicing we do not know for certain. Obama was raised in America and the Far East by a white mother and black father. obama, unmasked
Popularity: Coming out of relatively isolated state politics, inexperienced Obama sweeps the nation with the status and crowd grabbing power of a superstar. Where did it come from? The Anti Christ is the void that all pile their hopes and dreams into.
obama fever
Deception: "On Iraq my position is no different than George Bush's". Bill Clinton has done a fair share to expose Obama's lies. The anti-war and change ticket has been thoroughly compromised, yet no uproar from Obama supporters. No mass dessertion. All continues on like magic. Nothing can stop prophecy.
obama's lies
Power: To put it lightly, Obama has long obsessed about power, and the Presidency, even from his studious years in the far east.
who obama really is
He is The False Messiah.
The actual prophecy critera:
1.- He will come as a man of Peace (Obama promises peace in Iraq, defeat for the US)
2.- He will come mounted on a white Female horse(Obama mother is white who had 6 African husbands)
3.- He will come to deceive( Obama says he's a Christian but in fact he was born a Muslim, practices the Islamic religion, prays Friday's facing Mecca)
4.- He will make himself the most powerful man on earth, if elected
5.- He will try to destroy the Jewish People and Israel( Obama has said he loves the Arabs specially the Palestinians, hates Israel and Jews. Admires Hitler, Osama etc)
6.- He will present himself as good and righteous but in fact he's Satan himself. Violence is in his heart
7.- Obama will help Al Qaida in its evil projects.
8.- Barack Hussein Obama is the "King of the South" predicted in the Bible.(Daniel .11, Kenya is south of Jerusalem)
9.- Obama comes to implant muslim Sharia Law upon America.
Barack Obama says he wants to bring Change. I believe him.
Remember, you will know the truth in your soul.
Trust your Instincts
"People can think what they want about me, I could really give a hoot. People think that the AC is coming out of the mid-east. My personal belief is that the AC is going to rise right out of the UN, and with this guys popularity, charisma, and how he is climbing the ranks in government real fast!!!, He may be in the UN next."
"When I first heard of Barak, a few days ago, the first thing I heard is that he is a guy who came out of nowhere and now many flock to his side. When my wife and I heard this, we both thought the same thing, the anti-christ. Now I am not claiming him to be, just something that triggered that thought in both of us."
"My sister and I both feel something "spooky" about this guy, but can't quite figure out what it is. It is odd that strangers come up to him on the street. Why would they do that, unless they were drawn to him."
"I don't think we should directly label Obama as AC, but it is very interresting. While I was watching him, the VERY FIRST thought that came to my mind was asking the Lord if I was looking at the AC. I don't have a big opinion either way, but man, that was pretty scary."
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Daniel 10:13
But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia.


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State aid clearance for CCL aid to UK energy intensive users
DG Competition decision (6 pages, PDF) clearing under the Article 87 State aid rules two additional climate change agreements made by the UK government with the Cold Storage and Distribution Federation and the British Glass Manufacturing Federation. These agreements reduce the climate change levy for the federations' members in exchange for a target for improvements in energy efficiency agreed with each federation. The Commission cleared these federations' participation in the scheme until 2011 (ten years after the introduction of the levy) on the grounds that there was evidence that such agreements were a more effective way of reducing carbon dioxide emissions than the imposition of the full climate change levy. Under its 2001 environmental guidelines (13 pages, PDF) it did not need to examine whether all the aid provided under the agreements was necessary to make the federations enter into these agreements or the members of the federations reach the agreed targets.
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All Blacks loom for dejected Welsh
Wales interim coach Rob Howley insists the prospect of facing world champions New Zealand can lift the gloom hanging over his team after Friday's 26-19 loss to Samoa.
Wales may have won the Six Nations this year but are veering towards crisis point after Samoa subjected them to a fifth straight defeat.
That has seen Wales, World Cup semifinalists this time last year, slump to eighth in the world rankings with the All Blacks due here at the Millennium Stadium next Saturday.
Howley said: "Many of us have been here before and we know what it's like as players and coaches.
"Over the past 12 months this team has been to a World Cup semifinal and a Grand Slam, we've had many highs and now we're going through a low point. We have to look at ourselves individually and collectively and bounce back.
"Rugby gives you an opportunity to do that and I've told the players to look forward to when they're winning again. We will stick together and we have two good games to come in new Zealand and Australia."
Ashley Beck gave Wales a 13-6 lead with an interception try on his home debut only for Fa'atoina Autagavaia, George Pisi and Johnny Leota to cross as Samoa evoked memories of their famous World Cup victories over Wales in 1991 and 1999, then as Western Samoa, with a combination of ferocious tackling and clinical finishing.
That was in stark contrast to Wales who failed to put together any sustained pressure due to basic errors and a lack of composure and led to Samoa captain David Lemi branding the European champions as "predictable".
Lemi said: "We've been watching Wales since the World Cup. They used the same tactics in the Six Nations and against Argentina. If you stop their go-forward man then you stop them playing.
"Wales' strength is in their tight five but we controlled the scrums and lineouts and their talented backs did not get the ball to play.
"We were bitterly disappointed to lose in the World Cup and this was a bit of pay back."
Howley responded: "We have changed things so if they (Samoa) want to say we're predictable then it's up to them.
"We are disappointed as a coaching team and players. International rugby is about discipline and making the most of opportunities when they come along.
"We were out-performed by a Samoa team able to keep the ball for longer periods than we were, which was the most disappointing aspect. We were not smart enough with the ball."
Wales lost trio ospreys trio hooker Richard Hibbard (shoulder), flyhalf Dan Biggar (shoulder) and lock Ian Evans (knee) before half-time and all three now look set to join the growing casualty list that already includes Adam Jones, Dan Lydiate and Alun Wyn Jones.
Samoa now head to France for next week's Test in Paris.
Head coach Stephen Betham said: "We will give it our best shot against France. The boys have proved we can achieve our goals. We were not here to make up the numbers, we came to win and try to get in the top eight. The players proved they wanted it."


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A 48-year-old Hamilton Heights man was found dead in his apartment this morning — tied up with a bag over his head, law-enforcement sources said.
The victim's home attendant found him inside the Manhattan pad on Hamilton Place near West 142 Street at 10:20 a.m., cops said.
The dead man's name has not been released pending proper family notification, cops said.
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(ABC 6 News)-The Rochester school district received a $2 million grant from the Minnesota Department of Education that will go towards after-school programs and the services they provide.
The district announced at Tuesday night's school board meeting, it received a grant of $2 million from the Minnesota Department of Education to go toward after-school programs and services.
The grant will help students get more out-of-classroom education experiences.
It will also provide after-school programming at the district's four middle schools and the district's two community schools, Gage and Riverside Elementary School.
In addition, the grant was awarded to the Boys and Girls Club of Rochester as well as three after-school programs like the Somali Kulan Community.
"You're going to be helping little kids understand how to navigate through the school system, how to do homework, how to get prepared for exams in school and it's just something you can see the end results in, not right now but later on, and it's just so gratifying," said Abdi Roble, owner of Somali Kulan Community.
The grant is for 3 years but the district may receive an additional two, two-year extension if they meet the goals of the grant.
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Naruto may be over, but movie about his son announced for next summer release
On December 6, The Last: Naruto the Movie was released in 266 theaters across Japan, commemorating the 15th year of the Naruto franchise. At two select theaters in Tokyo on opening day, fans were treated to greetings on stage by the cast and crew of the movie, and creator Masashi Kishimoto made the surprising announcement of plans to release a movie about Naruto's son Bolt in August of next year.
After a long 15 years and 700 episodes in Shonen Jump Magazine, Naruto creator Masashi Kishimoto is right back to work, writing the story for the next film in the famed franchise. Fans all over Japan and the world lamented the end of an era when the manga ended last month, but now they already have something look forward to. Boruto (Bolt) Uzumaki, Naruto's son, will be featured in an upcoming movie out for release next summer, and what this movie will be about is still unknown, even to the creator himself. "I'm thinking about what kind of story to write," said Kishimoto to a packed theater in Shinjuku. "I just got done finishing up the last episode of the manga after all this time, and I haven't even had time to rest." He was half joking, of course, but if the success of The Last: Naruto the Movie is any indication, he's going to be busy for quite some time. With packed theaters all over Japan, this newest movie, which answers questions that have lingered from the last two episodes of the manga, stands to make over 2 billion yen (16 million dollars), a franchise record.
This summer, Naruto hands the baton over to his son.
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Thin Skin, Strong Stomach: The Anatomy of Political Correctness
It is sad that the crowds should be amused by what should outrage them, these manifestations of riotous vulgarity; but what is to be done? The insult to the public is exonerated by the Public's laughter. The laughter of every man is the accomplice of universal degradation. The populace like all tyrants must have a buffoon.–Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
Amid the part-bacchanalia, part-Ides of March preparation for America's Super Bowl Sunday, briefly consider the centrality of labeling to the schematic of it all. Think of the labels being employed by the secular-progressive social engineers, who will be the ones flashing everything on your TV screen Sunday (and always). Whether you would consider it or not, the commercial spoliation of prudent ideation will assail at least two or three of your senses.
The simple fact is: media progressivism has survived—thrived—even in spite of its parent ideologies' countless patent failures. It has done so through the selective use of terms of art which spoil and subvert the ideas their signifiers designate. Once popular ideas have become rotten, so follows the soul of the people. I speak not of some formless, future danger of the hypochondriac sort, of course, but rather of an American fait accompli.
The pulp is already rotted from the tooth. Too late to tend to that aspect of the American corpus, ruined from saccharine sweetness. Look instead to the translucent skin and the protruding gut.
Through it all, one wonders: how did the nasty, brutish, and truth-befuddling ideas of secular progressives endure so perennially? (Secular-progressivism is truly the cockroach of the cultural world—it endures and outlasts all, notwithstanding its pestilent existence.) Doesn't truth "out," as the saying goes? All else does in 2014, after all.
Not when masterminds subvert the intelligible good with such furtive labels as: the slaughter of one's own offspring as an item of "women's health"; an illegal resident as an "undocumented" one; the armed defense of one's home or family as "gun violence". Diabolic genius!
No doubt at long last that mislabeling works on its intended audience.
What is to be done in response to such willful misnaming? Conservative commentators have spanned the spectrum from outright rejection of the left's linguistic chicanery all the way to tongue-in-cheek emulation. As to the latter, something about codifying "abortion" as "fetal bullying" (which would veritably garnish more popular attention) so trivializes the truth that the former seems the only proper response, irrespective of efficacy. Even if, as a result, greater attention were to be drawn to the American infanticide, that means of so doing would count as a "Pyrrhic victory," to be sure. The detriment would outweigh the benefit.
And yet, the question persists: what if something so absurd is the only way to break through to the American consumer? To save babies? One must reconsider the propositions of Plato's Gorgias.
The members of the American "straw audience," have for generations now frightened their physicians via the staggering physiognomy of the ruined soul: thin skin and a strong stomach. The public man has assumed the form of the bottom-feeder: a delicate animal that consumes all but withers at the approach of even a minnow. His fragile physique can sustain almost nothing by external touch, neither much light nor any amount of tactile pressure; on the other hand, his gastroenterology effortlessly breaks down all manner of fetid or toxic waste, aluminum cans, shattered glass. He is all gut, no guts.
This is to say, the American public will now witlessly advocate for eggshell-skull-standards of scrutiny applied to the increasingly brittle politics of identity; yet all the while, they'll subject grade-schoolers to moral and sexual perversity sufficient to reverse the metabolization of any healthy adult.
For instance, the Washington Redskins and the Atlanta Braves should, according to their respective leagues, rethink the "reprobate" cultural minutiae of their mascots—which are held out as odiously egregious offenses against tact. Even the thematic mention of skin color or head feathers warrants a franchise name change, we are told. All while the National Football League features guest-performers and commercials at Super Bowl's Halftime which act out or croon about sweaty-toothed gang-bangs over absurdly banal, pop-bubblegum, sonic slurry. (I'll let the reader figure out which performer this is: the answer is several.)
No doubt, my skin is a little thicker and my stomach more sensitive. And I keep on hand a fresh batch of purgatives along with my Super Bowl spread. I recommend them to all my guests.
Come Sunday, we all shall need purging: behind every athlete a mendicant eunuch pitching you a "lifestyle change."
O to diagnose the etiology of that binary sensibility in the average progressive's mind: they'll correct you for saying "third-world"–it's developing country–as they pepper their correction with a head-spinning cadre of 4-letter anatomical allusions in obscenity which would redden the Marquis de Sade's sub-angelic face. I'm not sure which came first: the Bill Maher-styled thin skin, or the Bill Maher-styled strong stomach.
Either way, make no mistake: both the thin skin and the strong stomach are sine qua nons to the survival of 21st-century postmodernism. Both are indispensable. Neither is independently effective in readying the way for the Apolaustic Order being marshaled by its authors.
Indeed, pleasure remains the only item of holy worth to the secular progressives. We all know as much. They have even commandeered the popular intuition as to which "happiness" the Declaration of Independence language "pursues." They would have us believe that the "happiness" of Jefferson, Madison, et al. is nothing like the classical Eudaimonian sort, that of ethical goodness. Oh no. We are lowly animals, worthy of fleeting pleasure, but not redemption and never contrition.
It is a beast's sensory pleasure that Super Bowl features will explicate: the ultimate end of our lives and the single, temporary shelter from suffering, sickness, and death. Sin, on their staggering configuration of things, is not itself the "sickness unto death," but rather, the single solace from sickness and death.
From the living room to the marketplace to the courtroom, most conservatives have been disappointingly hasty to forget what republicanism requires: rigorous textual fidelity to dusty, fusty, and musty old palimpsests of moral mandamus at the heart of human culture. In a word, most conservatives have been abjectly unimaginative in their acceptance of "PC," outside of the occasional rant here or there. In that sense, they have been more than a little disillusioning in their wholesale abandonment of textualism: what words really mean. And when the fixed meaning of text is gone, woe to the God-fearer, who will be persecuted for his thick skin and sickened for his sensitive stomach.
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The brouhaha between the Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee and four top area theaters is turning out to be serious and could well diminish the impact of the honors.
Four leading theaters-- Goodman, Steppenwolf, Marriott's Lincolnshire and Victory Gardens--have withdrawn from the competition for the 1996-97 season, saying they've been asking the committee since last December to address their request to change the awards to include multiple winners--as in the annual Jeff Citation honors given annually to non-Equity Chicago theaters. "Our goal was to see the awards become a complete celebration . . . rather than a single-winner competition," the theater heads wrote in a letter withdrawing from the competition Monday.


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Parenting has been a challenge as of late with my daughter. It's really hard coming to terms with having a pre-pubescent/pre-teen on my hands, and one with my attitude to boot. It's like dealing with a shorter smarter-assed (is that a word?) version of myself. Allow me to lay these three short stories on you so that can see where I am coming from. And as you read, just imagine, from afar my mother is sitting back and smirking knowing that she's finally gotten her revenge on me.
Story 1:
I had off from work on March 8th because I was managing an assembly at Owen's school. My husband happened to travel to Allentown for work that day. Owen had stayed home sick from school because he was running a fever. I left the house for an hour to head to Ross. When I got back home, it was around dismissal time. Owen and I waited for Gabby, but she was late. We thought that maybe her bus had some trouble, but after a short while, I started to panic. I texted my husband and asked if he had signed any permission slips for her to go anywhere, or if he knew of any trips she may have been going on. He didn't respond. I tried to call the school, but no one was answering. Then I called the transportation department at the school – no answer. At this point, I was ready to call out the FBI, National Guard, have helicopters swooping with search lights and an amber alert called. I tried to remain as calm as humanly possible which wasn't going well. I flew over to the school and flagged down the first adult I could find in the building (which was essentially a ghost town except for some kind sports practice going on inside of the gym). I really don't even remember what kind of sport was being practiced, that is how upset I was at the time. The coach somehow managed to determine that my daughter was one of the children who participated in the Science Olympiad which was being held at Penn State Wilkes-Barre. He then called the instructor that was over at the school with the kids and confirmed that Gabby was indeed there. My heart attack turned into rage. I drove over to PSU WB where I found my daughter sitting in the bleachers with the rest of her class.
I mean, what's my angle here for this parenting disaster? Do I scream at her in front of her friends for making me have a damn near panic attack? Do I ground her for the rest of her life and turn her off from participating in any extra-curricular activities? Do I just hug her and be grateful she's somewhere safe? How do I handle this?
And to make matters worse (for me, not her) she won a damn medal! I am proud of her, yet SEETHING with rage.
She came in 4th place for one of the activities they participated in – I believe it had something to do with a hoverboard or hovercraft.
And the little shit was on TV for a few seconds.
I had a discussion with her teacher after I managed to find her in the crowd. Gabby was supposed to bring home a paper giving us all of the details of what was happening the day of this event (what to wear, when to be picked up, how much money to bring for lunch, etc) but, she never brought it home to show us, so neither my husband or I had any idea it was going on. I was perfectly fine with her participating, it was just a shitty way of finding out. It would have been nice to actually see her at the awards ceremony! Fricking kid.
Story 2:
We were just recovering from the fallout of story number 1, when THIS happened: My daughter decided to crawl out of her window. Let me set up the story for you first before I tell you WHY she decided to do this. The Friday after story number 1 happened, 3/10, we got 6″ of snow. School canceled classes and both kids were home for the day. I was off and my husband was working from home. Owen decided to hang out in the basement and play video games, Rich was also working in the basement, I was watching TV in the living room and Gabby was in her room most of the day drawing and playing on her tablet. At some point, she decided that she wanted to go outside and play in the snow….which is fine. Except, rather than going through the people sized hole in the house (otherwise known as a door), she decided she wanted to go through the cubby sized hole in the house (otherwise known as the window in her bedroom). I am not sure the logic of leading up to this decision. She told me that she didn't think we'd allow her to go out and play, so she took it upon herself to crawl out of her window. Her cunning plan had one huge flaw. She underestimated the height of the window from the ground and couldn't get back inside. Another flaw: Instead of walking up to the people sized hole in the house and knocking on the door to be let back in the house, she decides to carry a huge outdoor chair across the yard and places it up against the side of the house and uses it as a ladder to crawl back inside. Now mind you, this all happened while she was wearing no coat or shoes and in broad daylight. I can only imagine what my neighbors were thinking.
And to top it off, rather than tell your parent about what stupidity you just have gotten yourself into face-to-face, you send it via text message, because of course.
I used to call her Houdini because she would manage to find a way to take off her poopie diapers without taking off her footie pajamas in her crib. It seems she's graduated into houdining out of houses. Ugh. I could literally just kill her. Not to mention that we don't have health insurance for two months because of Rich changing jobs. Now is not the time to start working on scaling the facades of houses, kid.
Story 3:
This one is more of a icky girl problem thing and I'm sorry in advance of the TMI nature of the topic. BUT ANYWAY, last year, Gabby got a visit from the monthly crimson fairy for the first time. Now even at my age – 36 – I still hate and have issues with my monthly visitor. You'd think that over the years, handling it would become easier or second nature. YEAH NOT SO MUCH. I am barely able to deal with my menses, now I have a mini me walking around that I have to deal with as well. Needless to say, it hasn't been a fun year for me.
Ooooh and does she get ever so moody every month. Slamming doors, back talking, correcting grammar, and fighting her brother. Although I can't tell if it's the PMS, the teenagerhood onset or the fact that SHE HAS ALWAYS BEEN THIS WAY SINCE SHE COULD TALK. But, I digress….
I noticed recently that we are going through jars of pickles like water. I usually buy the large jar of mini gherkins by Mt. Olive from the supermarket. Before kids, we could have that jar of pickles for weeks before finally killing it. Now, it's like we could go through it in 3 days (maybe less). I know we all love the pickles, but really? As an experiment, I bought two of the large jars during a recent supermarket run. That lasted about a week. Finally at dinner one night I asked, where are all of these pickles going? I really wasn't expecting to get an answer, but the sass queen volunteered that she was eating them all. Owen chimed in and said "YEAH SHE DOES EAT A LOT OF THEM WHEN SHE GETS HOME FROM SCHOOL!" After Rich yelled at her to stop eating so many of them because it would ruin her dinner, she informed us that her friends told her that eating pickles during your time of the month works better than chocolate because you won't get zits. Who is perpetuating this rumor!? No chocolate!?! Whaaaaaat? I think I laughed so hard that I snorted. Is this something that they read in Seventeen or Cosmo?
Hence the title of this blog entry – PMS Pickles.
At this point, I think the warranty is up on this child and I lost the receipt to return her. I guess I'll just have to float her up the river like Moses.
This parenting thing is for the birds.


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Here an other flier for SISMA.
With the headliners Od Fulmine there was also "the amazing" Davide Toffolo from Tre Allegri Ragazzi Morti on stage.
I am really proud to draw him because he is also one of the best italian cartoonist and with his comics he influenced a lot my way of sketching.


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WALLACE WADE STADIUM/DURHAM Duke gets a very big opportunity on a sunny and warm day in the Bull City.
The Blue Devils are all right after a 2-2 non-conference start, riding pretty high after a 49-14 romp over N.C. Central in the inaugural Bull City Gridiron Classic last week.
The visitor is No. 6 Virginia Tech (3-1, 1-0), the favorite to win the ACC and a team on a roll after a 31-7 romp over then-No. 9 Miami a week ago in Blacksburg.
Frank Beamer's Hokies have won eight straight in the series, and the only close one of those was a 14-3 victory over the Blue Devils last season at Lane Stadium. And although the Blue Devils play hard and well, the streak goes to nine as the Hokies hang on to win 34-26.
Lane Stadium, oddly enough, is a place I have visited a lot, since my first three paid newspaper jobs were at papers in Virginia. The first was from 1978-80 at Franklin's Tidewater News, which came out twice a week and was the flagship of a small chain of six papers in the Southeastern part of the state.
Since it was farm country - pork, peanuts and pine trees - at least a plurality of the locals were Hokie fans.
And that number increased when then-coach Bill Dooley showed up in Courtland to sign local Southampton High hero Cyrus Lawrence, who remains the best high school football player I have ever covered. The trips to Blacksburg for most home games were over 250 miles away after about five hours of sleep, but well worth a chance to begin covering major-college sports.
Lawrence was good enough as a true freshman that by the end of September he was listed as a co-starter at tailback alongside senior Kenny Lewis, who was the Hokies' career rushing leader at the time. Lawrence might have been a bigger national star if the Hokies hadn't been independents at the time, and his football career was ended during his senior year by an injury to his anterior cruciate ligament that surgeons didn't know how to fix at the time.
OK OK, I'll move back to 2009, eat some kind of egg and sausage casserole concoction and start the game.
Duke has a nice home crowd, augmented by perhaps 5-7,000 Hokies, but plenty of seats are available. And it's band day. The announced crowd is 26,211, about what it was for the NCCU game in the rain last week.
The game starts very slowly, but finally gets going late in the first quarter.
Duke goes 79 yards in seven plays to take the early lead, with Thaddeus Lewis hitting a wide-open Brandon King down the left sideline at about the 30 en route to a 48-yard touchdown pass. Will Snyderwine adds the boot and it's 7-0 at the 3:35 mark.
The Hokies don't take long to answer, scoring 96 seconds later on Danny Coale's 36-yard reception from Tyrod Taylor to complete the four-play, 60-yard drive. Matt Waldron adds the boot to make it 7-7 as the quarter comes to a close.
After a three-and-out from Duke the Hokies make it 10-7 with 10:41 left in the half, as Waldron nails a 40-yard field goal to finish a nine-play, 39-yard possession.
Tech made it 17-7 on a controversial play later in the quarter, as Taylor connected with Jarrett Boykin from 28 yards out to finish a seven-play, 72-yard march with Waldron adding the kick. Controversial because of the catch itself, in which Boykin and the Blue Devils' much shorter Leon Wright snagged the ball simultaneously. Boykin came up with it after they rolled over, and the call held up upon further review. The ruling, Duke coach David Cutcliffe later explains, is "simultaneous possession in the end zone."
Duke completed the first-half scoring with seven seconds left on Snyderwine's 29-yard field goal.
The Blue Devils scored again on their first possession of the second on a 25-yard Snyderwine boot to make it 17-13. The big play that set up that one was a 74-yard pass from Lewis to Conner Vernon that set the Devils up at the Tech 7.
The Hokies respond with a field goal of their own with 8:33 left in the quarter, as Waldron hits from 33 to finish a nine-play 49-yard march and take the lead back to seven.
Duke trims it again with 13:57 left, when Will Snyderwine connecting from 47 yards out to finish a 17-play, 45-yard drive. The big play is on fourth and 4 from the Tech 33, when up-back Brandon King takes a direct snap on the punt attempt and picks up the first down.
But the Hokies respond immediately, taking it 62 yards on nine plays with Josh Oglesby taking it in from 12 out. Waldron's boot makes it 27-16 with 9:37 remaining.
Duke stays in it, coming back to slice the lead to eight on Snyderwine's 43-yarder with 7:08 to play. Lewis' 55-yard connection to Conner Vernon is the key to the drive.
The Hokies get an insurance touchdown with 2:28 left, as Oglesby goes in from 19 out to finish the eight-play, 78-yard drive.
Duke scores on a four-yard pass from Lewis to Austin Kelly with :25 to go, with Snyderwine's kick making it 34-26. But the Hokies cover the onside kick and it's over.
They said it ...
Duke coach David Cutcliffe: "It wasn't a choke, but we just didn't finish the job. When you've got an opportunity, you've got to finish it."
Tech coach Frank Beamer: "I thought we played hard. I think Duke has a good program. ... I think Duke of a good football team. I don't think that's the old Duke football team. I think that's the new Duke football team."
Lewis: "It's no longer OK to get close and go toe-to-toe with a team. We've got to come out with a victory. But we know what we have to do now. We've just got to finish."
What does it all mean?
That Tech will hold its spot in the rankings, and Duke has to win five of its last seven to reach its dreams of a bowl game.
Stars of the game
1. Taylor, 17-for-22 for 327 yards and two TDs.
2. Lewis, 22-for-40 for 359 yards and two TDs.
3. Oglesby, 59 yards and two touchdowns on six carries.
Play of the game
Boykin's weird touchdown catch.
All-time series
Virginia Tech leads 10-7.
Duke: Lost 1.
Tech: Won 4.
On deck
Duke at N.C. State, Oct. 10, 4 p.m.
Boston College at Virginia Tech, Oct. 10, noon
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How fun to participate in another week of Kiwi Lane's DT Doodles! I really love the layout I was able to create and I am so grateful for the inspiration that the ladies over at Kiwi Lane provide on a regular basis.
Here is the sketch for this week. It was to design a card, but I didn't have the right templates and I had the idea to turn it into a layout for each of the kids' birthday albums. I absolutely love it!
And here is my interpretation:
This is an 8x8 layout and I used the following templates:
*the arrow from Adventure
*ring 2 from Rings
I had a splat looking shape, but it just didn't work out for this layout.
There is also journaling on the tag behind the photo.


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Isn't this exciting? We're out of the tedium of Genesis (world created, man falls, many people live and die. Oh, and attempted forced buggery and a spot of incest). We're into Exodus now; the Bible has got going, that tricky first chapter is out of the way and the real action can start!
When the chapter begins, both Joseph and the Israelite-friendly Pharaoh are both dead. The new Pharaoh didn't know Joseph and so has no idea that he has to be nice to the Israelites. Which is a really odd bit of continuity, did the previous guy not leave any notes? Did all his advisers die (silly question, if this is in the time of the pyramids, the answer is probably yes), but still. He tells the midwives that when they attend a birth they should kill the baby if it's a boy. The midwives don't do this (they fear God, apparently) and say that the women are too lively and give birth before the midwife gets there. And the Pharaoh believes this! New Pharaoh master plan: cast the boys into the river. Genius.
The hero of this chapter is Moses and the story of him being put into the river by his mother is a well-known one. Or so I thought. I had always been told that he was set adrift in his "ark of bulrushes" and that the Pharaoh's daughter happened to find him. However, lets look at the text, shall we? (Exodus 2:3-5)
?3And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
4And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.
5And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.
Right, Moses is in fact next to the river, not in it, and it seems that instead of being providential that he should drift by a particular bit of river just as the Pharaoh's daughter is there, it's likely that the daughter bathed in the area regularly at a particular time and so it is easy to plan the time to drop the baby off. It's not explained why, when the Pharaoh's daughter realises that the baby is Jewish that she still decides to keep the baby. Was she married and childless? Was she bored? Did she like the idea of adopting a child? Was she a decent human being (even though the Egyptians are rarely cast in a good light in the Bible)? Was it a power play against her father and she thought that this was a good way to start? The Bible glosses over motives and simply sees any person's actions as pro-God or anti-God. Far too simplistic. Anyway, the daughter asks for a Hebrew nursemaid and Moses' mother gets the job.
Just when you think the Bible is a bit logical, it gets silly again. Moses is now grown and sees an Egyptian smiting a Jew. So Moses kills the Egyptian and buries him in the sand. Stupidly. The next day Moses is confronted by two of his countrymen who ask:
13And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?
14And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.
Because when you see a stranger kill a man and bury him in the desert, you immediately think "serial killer", rather than "friend". Actually, Moses (for all his Egyptian upbringing) is a moron. When an oppressor is killed, the oppressee is the first person you look at. So Moses, by his stupid actions, has probably just made life infinitely more difficult for the rest of the Israelites.
The Pharoah finds out, but Moses escapes the country. And another thing: what status does Moses hold in Egypt? Is he a slave, an employee of the court, the adopted son of the Pharaoh's daughter, what? Regardless, he disappears off to Midian to allow the Pharaoh to punish the Jews without Moses having to take responsibility. While he is there, he sees 7 young women trying to get water for their sheep. Some shepherds won't let them, so Moses helps and is welcomed into the family. He marries and sires a child. By the end of Exodus chapter 2, we can guess that Moses has been out of Egypt for around a year. Question: these young women are the daughters of the local priest. Why are they getting no respect from their fellow shepherds? Surely it's a bad idea to annoy a priest, especially when you live in a theocracy? Seriously, the Bible makes very little sense.
Good news though:
23And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
24And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
25And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.
God's job is to look after the Israelites. He only has one people and they aren't that numerous, but he "remembered his covenant" after the Israelites have spent a long time in bondage and He only recalls that he made an agreement eventually. This is a God with a handful of followers and people want Him to look after them when there are billions of people in the world. It's not likely that prayers will ever get answered as he seems a little forgetful and we're only into Chapter 2.
The cast has been assembled, so we'll see what Exodus 3 has in store for us next time!
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1. Bring water and snacks. It was incredibly hot in the gym/cafeteria and the nearest school water fountain had a noticable chlorine taste. The snacks are just standard protocol for outings: I'm a grazer during the day.
2. Sit in front of the precinct leader. We were behind her and couldn't hear anything since she didn't seem to recognize that with all the extra people and attendant side conversations, rustling, and such, she needed to raise her voice at least a smidge. She was talking as if there were two people gathered to caucus in her living room. Grrr.
3. Find a chair as soon as you arrive. The lunchroom tables are great for holding the rear ends of squirming 7 year olds or the average super model, but not adult-sized ones. Note to self.
A better shot of the three of us with Ava wide awake.
Oh, and I looked up the school rankings for the caucus site elementary school with the fancy climbing wall. It received one out of five on one site, three stars out of 10 on another, and 859th of 1069 public elementary schools ranked in Washington. Looks like the kids will need the practice climbing up from the bottom. Ugh and unbelievable at the same time that that doesn't strike school leaders as wrong in some fundamental way. I've got five years until Ava goes to school. I'm afraid. Very, very afraid.


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