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Out of necessity, comes some really cool ideas.
With an admission office of two and a school of 650 students to keep full, Matthew Evans, Director of Admission at Saint Mark's High School (Wilmington, DE), turned to predictive modeling to aggregate data and make more informed decisions.
Higher Ed has used predictive modeling for years, so why not now in independent schools?
Using 11 key data points, Matthew's able to better predict the likelihood of a student enrolling in his school. Given the high level of school competition from local public, charter, and private schools, his predictive modeling gave him a unique edge and contributed to an increase in the school's admission yield.
He doesn't base his decisions solely on the predictive data, but it's one more tool that he can turn to as he evaluates his admission funnel.
In episode 14 of Blackbaud K–12's Get Connected Podcast, Matthew joins me to dive into his model and its impact. It's a fascinating view — one that I think every admission office should hear.
For a more detailed breakdown of the main points covered in our conversation, make sure to check out the show notes below.
You have a few listening options. Download the episode, listen to the podcast below or subscribe to our channel on iTunes!
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Episode Notes:
- Matthew shares his background prior to arriving at Saint Mark's High School.
- Like with all private schools across the country, competition to enroll students in Delaware is fierce. With a large number of private schools, public schools and charter schools in his area,Matthew lays out his market's competitive recruitment landscape.
- In the conversation, you'll get a feel for what the admission office looked like prior to Matthew's arrival, along with some of the immediate data challenges he needed to tackle.
- Learn whyMatthew turned to predictive modeling and gain insight into how he built his formula to track the 11 key data points.
- As with most admission offices, the concept of parent/school negotiations is becoming more prevalent. Hear how Matthew's predictive model gave him more confidence as he went into each of these conversations.
- Now that he's at the one year mark with his model,Matthew reflects on its success and challenges (as well as opportunities heading into 2015-2016!).
- For a school considering a predictive model,Matthew has advice that you need to hear. Make sure to listen to the entire episode for his recommendations.
About the Author
Peter Baron is the Chief Member Relations Officer at the Enrollment Management Association. Prior to joining EMA, Peter served as a senior product marketing manager, for Blackbaud K-12. Peter is the founder of edSocialMedia, a community-driven site dedicated to exploring the role of social media in education. He regularly contributes to various online communities and education conferences like NAIS, CASE/NAIS & SSATB to explain the importance of providing modern, user-friendly experiences for school constituents. Peter also serves as a trustee for Wolfeboro, The Summer Boarding School and is an Executive Committee member of TABS' North American Boarding School Initiative.Follow on Twitter More Content by Peter Baron


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The co-host of Fox News' Fox & Friends mocked Jon Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity" in Washington, DC on the show Sunday.
The "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear" took place on October 30th at the National Mall and was led by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.
"There was this big rally put on by comedians, which many people unfortunately think are news people," said Gretchen Carlson.
After her co-host, Steve Doocy, claimed the rally was "not supposed to be political" yet mainly "beat up on the right," the show aired a clip of Stewart speaking at the rally.
"Yeah, it got political," Gretchen Carlson said after the clip. "And he looks fancy in his suit, like he actually is a real news person."
Fox & Friends then aired a clip from a previous segment of Geraldo At Large.
"I definitely would say there were more pockets of animosity here than at any Tea Party," said Fox News contributor and conservative comedian Steven Crowder in the clip. "I had one gentleman actually, ironically enough, smack my camera out of my hand and grab my arm because I didn't have my Canadian passport.
"There were people circling the Fox News van saying to blow up the Fox News van we have this all on tape. … If this is designed to restore sanity, it's based on a divisive concept of referring essentially to all tea partiers as insane. That's really what they're saying. So you got a lot of that, a lot of vulgar signs, you know calling them teabaggers."
An estimated 215,000 people attended the "Rally to Restore Sanity," according to CBS News.
This video is from Fox News' Fox & Friends, broadcast Oct. 31, 2010.

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Saturday, February 13, 2010
The Killing Spring, Part 5
Startled awake by the Iron Maiden ringtone of his cell, both Gene and Stinky shot to their feet. Stinky scampered into the kitchen; Gene blinked the blur from his eyes as he fished the phone from his pocket and flipped it open...
"Mom! Put down the glass, leave Dad and get off that plane!"
"Gene?" The confused voice wasn't Mom, though it sounded distinctly familiar. "What the heck are you talking about?"
As the sleepy fogged cleared, he realized...
Pulling the phone away from his ear, his worst suspicions were confirmed. There was her cell number and picture on the tiny screen, her face smiling seductively.
The grandfather clock clanged, the echoes of its chime bouncing off the floor and walls.
The clock chimed a second time.
So much time wasted!
Still, there might be some stragglers. It was pretty cold and wet for a spring morning.
"Gene? You there? What's going on?"
He took a second to shake the cobwebs of sleep from his head. "Nothing. Sorry, bubblehead."
Rachel's voice caught in her throat. "Bubblehead? What's that supposed to mean?"
Now fully awake, Gene was sharp and quick. While silently cursing Dad, he chimed, "Bubbles are shiny, bright and cute...like you."
And if you swallow this bull, you are a bubble head, just like Dad said.
"Well, that's sweet, I guess. Though coming up with nicknames isn't exactly your specialty."
Yep. Bubblehead. God, I hate it when Dad's right.
"Hey, babe. Parents gone yet?" Rachel's voice was coy and teasing, which normally drove him crazy, as it must have her previous boyfriends, including Clay Walker, his ex-best friend and captain of the football team. They quit being friends roughly around the time Rachel decided to, in Gene's humble opinion, trade-up.
For once, he was at a loss for words. Pacing the dining room, he slapped his forehead at his own stupidity, forgetting he fleetingly mentioned Mom and Dad would be out of town. He should have known Rachel would be all over that.
Control began to ebb away again.
"Um...yeah," he croaked, then mentally kicked himself for not thinking to simply lie..
"Cool," she cooed. "Hey, look, I know it's early, but I told Taylor and Monica your house was free this week, and wouldn't it be cool if-"
Aw, crap, here it comes. Why didn't I see this coming?
"-a bunch of us got together and partied at your place tonight?"
Sweat beaded on his forehead. "Yeah...um, about that-"
"Maybe you could come get me early...like now, so we could have some alone time."
She was practically purring like Stinky always did. Gene suddenly grew angry, not at Rachel for automatically assuming he'd be tempted by such a cloying, manipulative tone, but for the fact he was tempted. Rachel was one of the hottest girls in school, even if she did often dump guys like Clay Walker, and various other members of the football team, simply because her attention span was roughly that of the average goldfish. Gene knew he'd be the next to be tossed onto the growing pile of guys whose lives she ruined, but that didn't change the fact that, for now, she was his, and having Rachel Perry was like taking home a championship trophy.
But now? During my time? The killing time? Rachel, that's just not fair.
"Gene?" She insisted at his silence, impatience oozing from the phone with each passing second her didn't reply. Gene felt pretty certain that, if he didn't come up with a Rachel-friendly response in the next few seconds, she'd move on. Maybe to Ashton Nicholls, the corner back on the team and a year younger, who made no bones in the locker room what he'd do if he had a prize like Rachel.
Is this the crap Clay went through with her before she dumped him because he wasn't paying enough attention to her?
A brief second of empathy went out to his ex-best friend, who failed to hang onto Rachel like someone trying to tackle a greased pig at a state fair. A great friendship ruined, just because some high school tart wagged her tail in another direction.
Oh God, but what a tail.
Gene fumbled for words, but despite opening his mouth, none spilled out.
What to do?
I should be killing right now, alone with my weapons of grisly death, and I'm wasting my time dealing with this petty crap. It's been a whole year since my last killing. How much longer do I have to wait?
"Well, the thing is..."
On the other hand, this is Rachel Perry on the phone...my Rachel Perry, the girl who every guy dreams about when their Dad's girly magazines no longer do the trick; the girl I destroyed a ten-year friendship for. The girl who chose me, Gene Dacron, as her current boy-toy. How many guys in school can boast that distinction? And, after all, this is just the first day of Spring Break. Couldn't I just put off the killing for one day? For Rachel? Besides, swapping spit on Mom and Dad's living room couch sounds pretty good right now.
Apparently, Rachel didn't care about Gene's internal turmoil, nor his hesitation in responding to her suggestions.
"Look, Gene," The seduction left her voice. "Your parents are gone. My parents are at work and I'm home alone, yet you ain't comin' to get me. If you've really got to think about this, then maybe-"
"No, no, no!" He did his best to keep from sounding like he was groveling, which made him suddenly resent the girl he tried so hard to catch. Gene resisted the urge to hang up on her right then and there. "That ain't it. I gotta do some errands for my folks first, and I won't be home 'till this afternoon."
A lengthy pause over the phone. Gene didn't know whether to be relieved or disturbed. If Rachel broke it off now - and why am I leaving everything up to her? - it would free him to commence with the killing right away, with no further interruptions. On the other hand, if she bought his ruse, and was willing to wait a few hours, he could have the best of both worlds...sex and death.
He could practically hear the rusty gears in Rachel's head churning, not that she was hard to figure out; her talent for manipulating shameless boys - which Gene didn't want to admit he was one of - had little to do with her intellect.
"Fine," she finally declared. "Do your errands. But call me when you're done. I've got a lot of friends waiting to know what our plans are tonight."
She didn't bother to say goodbye as she hung up.
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday scaled back an anti-corruption law used by federal prosecutors to bring to justice crooked politicians and executives.
The 6-3 decision potentially undermines the high-profile convictions of former Enron chief executive Jeffrey Skilling and Canadian newspaper magnate Conrad Black.
In a unanimous opinion in the Skilling case, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote that it's clear Congress in 1988 intended to address bribes and kickbacks in a 28-word "honest services" statute, which is based on the idea that people are entitled to the honest services of their elected officials and the executives in charge of big companies.
However, the statute covers only bribery and kickback schemes and not the less precise conflict-of-interest cases that prosecutors brought against those officials, the justices wrote.
Skilling's conduct "entailed no bribe or kickback," Ginsburg wrote. "Construing the honest services statute to extend beyond that core meaning, we conclude, would encounter a vagueness shoal," she wrote.
Three of the justices — Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas — said they would have found the honest services law unconstitutional and would have overturned it.
The justices sent the cases of Skilling and Black back to the lower courts, as well as a third case involving former Alaska state Rep. Bruce Weyhrauch, who federal prosecutors alleged solicited legal work from the oilfield services company Veco Corp. at a time when Veco was pushing hard to win support for lower oil taxes in the state Legislature.
Criminal defense attorneys called the decision a "huge narrowing of a very broad statute," but it may mean a more difficult time for prosecutors pursuing white-collar and corruption cases. The law was often used when federal prosecutors couldn't prove someone accepted bribes, but where they had enough evidence to show they took freebies such as tickets or jobs.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said the decision undermined congressional efforts to "protect Americans from abuses by powerful corporate and political interests."
"By issuing decisions benefitting corrupt officials who violate the peoples' trust, and corrupt business people who disregard fairness and risk, the court has once again undermined the government's ability to protect the interests of hardworking Americans," Leahy said.
A jury in 2006 convicted Skilling of 19 counts of conspiracy, insider trading and lying to auditors in his role at Enron. Black, the former publisher of the Chicago Sun Times and other newspapers, is serving a 6 1/2 year prison term for depriving shareholders of the Hollinger International media company of his honest services when he and other executives schemed to pay themselves a $5.5 million management fee.
Black's attorney, Miguel Estrada, said he was confident that lower courts "will quickly conclude that the errors that the Supreme Court has now conclusively found tainted every aspect of this case."
Justice Department spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler said Thursday that the government would continue to "vigorously defend" its successful prosecutions in the Skilling and Black cases as they return to a lower court for review.
Schmaler said the Justice Department is disappointed the Supreme Court narrowed the honest services law and is determining whether "the court's interpretation leaves us with all the tools we need to ferret out corruption."
"The American people are entitled to the honest services of both public servants and corporate executives, and the department will continue to bring all appropriate cases in order to hold corrupt officials accountable for their actions," she said.
Anticipating the Supreme Court would curtail the use of the statute, one government watchdog group said Thursday that it already has suggested legislation to make the law more specific on conflicts of interest.
"Federal law currently prohibits executive branch employees from taking any official action that affects their personal financial interest," said Melanie Sloane of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. "This statute could easily be extended to cover members of Congress and state and local officials to ensure Americans are protected from government officials who sacrifice the public interest for their own private gain."
However, many criminal defense lawyers argue that the decision could improve prosecutions by forcing government attorneys to be more precise in their indictments. Relying on the vague honest services statute has resulted in an "intellectual laziness" on the part of the Justice Department, said Cory Andrews of the Washington Legal Foundation.
"I think it's going to improve them and force them to sharpen their indictments, to sharpen their cases," Andrews said. "Part of the culture there, and even the mentality among the U.S. attorney's office, is that this very blunt instrument doesn't require them to have good aim."
Lawyers for Alaska's Weyhrauch tell Supreme Court ethics statute is too vague
Enron setbacks could hurt other white-collar prosecutions
Supreme Court boosts federal prosecutors in terror cases
Florida beachfront landowners lose in Supreme Court tie
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In the next 810 minutes of football, Arsene Wenger has the opportunity to rescue his reputation and build the platform for the most crucial pre-season period since he took over at Arsenal back in 1996.
After the international break, Premier League business is resumed this weekend - and for Wenger there are nine matches to maintain his record of securing a Champions League place in every full season when he has been in charge.
Make no mistake - the next two months are vital to Wenger.
A season which started with such optimism suddenly declined in late autumn. Now there is one target left - a top-four finish. Even fourth place does not guarantee a group place in European football's premier competition because a play-off has to be won before that can be contemplated.
But the chance will be there and if it is, Wenger will be able to use the summer break to re-inforce a squad that has looked less than convincing at times this season.
There is no doubt that major changes are in the pipeline at The Emirates in the close season. The "socialism" of the wage structure is set to the give way to a meritocracy to enable Wenger to compete with top stars like Falcao of Atletico Madrid - and clearly the lure and the cash from the Champions League will be a huge asset to the Frenchman.
And there can be no excuses for failing to finish in the first four.
Firstly, he will have the gifted Jack Wilshere back for at least the last six matches.
And secondly, he has no distraction - albeit more by accident than design - of competing for another trophy. The three other candidates to finish behind champions-elect Manchester United all have other commitments.
Manchester City are still involved in the FA Cup as are Chelsea ... who also have the Europa League to consider. Tottenham - not enjoying the best of runs at a critical time - have played one game more than the others at the top and are themselves still in the Europa League.
Finally, there is the programme that Arsenal face and it is - on paper - less demanding by far than those of their rivals.
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Reading ( home), West Bromwich Albion (away), Norwich (home), Everton (home), Fulham (away), Manchester United (home), QPR (away), Wigan (home),Newcastle (away).
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Odd power problem
This isn't Win7 specific (mostly)
First, look at my system specs.
OK, for the past few months, I've been having a problem where about 60% of the time on boot, I guess the video hardware doesn't kick in. What's weird is that it not only doesn't load any video (both monitors stay in "powered down" mode - yellow light), but the system access light stays solid red.
All of the fans work. I checked the circuitry twice. I don't have any power problems at all, period, once it boots. I've tried other cards, different power cables, etc. I've even underclocked my system (I never overclocked it).
I mostly work around it by hitting reset and waiting to see if the monitors turn on.
My guess would be some fault in the hardware, but I can't find it. I've done everything short of switching motherboards.
Now, the weird part... when I switched from Vista to 7100, it worked frine. When I upgraded to 7201, it reverted.
Before I go out and spend on a new motherboard, I wanted to see if anyone has a better idea.
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Bring it over here, we'll workbench it and see what's going on.
Honestly, it sounds like a BIOS/Mobo problem. Do you run defaults in BIOS?
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hehe, I'll bring some beer
Yea, I tried resetting BIOS. I'm looking up new motherboards now (when something breaks, it is a great excuse to upgrade, of course).
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|14 Jun 2009
Any BIOS upgrades available for it?
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|14 Jun 2009
Going to be installing 7229 in a sec, I'll check BIOS version when I reboot
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|14 Jun 2009
BIOS is updated.
I took the opportunity to upgrade my motherboard. Maybe I'll have enough next month for a new processor :-p
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|14 Jun 2009
Windows 7
My computer actually just started doing this yesterday...I'm running build 7100, my graphics card is an ATI 4770. I've discovered that I can boot up into safe mode just fine, and clean out the display driver using driver sweeper...and then it'll boot up regularly (with the windows driver), but once I try to install the ATI driver again, it will boot up into a black screen...I tried several different drivers and it doesn't matter which one I choose, I only get the black screen. Any suggestions?
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|16 Jun 2009
Well, I have bad news for both of us, Caerus. I just installed a new motherboard. Checked the wiring twice. Exact same problem remains... so it isn't the power supply, it isn't the motherboard or BIOS, it isn't the OS, it isn't the RAM, it isn't the video card, it isn't the wiring...
BTW, doesn't everyone love putting a computer together? The smell of fresh plastic... the terror of running power through the system the first time... I even love all the little cuts you get on your fingers from boards, jumpers, and the like.
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I want to ask you a very general question first,
which is not a very good way to do this, but as you think back over your
work when you first began writing plays here with the Carolina
Playmakers in the '20s and then the '30s, what do
you see as the impact of the Depression and the social ferment the
Depression era had on you as an artist and as a person?
- Well, you ask what effect the Depression had on me as a writer and an artist, that's asking what effect it had on others. You could ask the same sort of question about what effect the First World War had, or what did the disappointment in such people as Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge have, or what effect did the failure of Woodrow Wilson's dream of a united world, a League of Nations, what effect did that have on me? All these things are a part of the pabulum or part of the grist that comes out of your mill that you mix up and feed on. So, you see, the Depression of the '30s, its effect on the environment in which I grew up, was simply a continued statement of the poverty that I knew as a child. In Harnett County, when I was a child, the effect of the Civil War was still there. The state, this university in part, had not recovered. Anyway, the rural life in eastern North Carolina when I was a boy was very much like the life and cimes of, say, the Revolution or pre-Civil War. The roads were just sand beds and often in riding along in a wagon, you would have to dodge the limbs that hung over the road from the trees on either side. There was no paving. The doctors were rather crude. I remember old Doctor McNeill, he carried his instruments of torture in a saddle bag and he always came smelling of liquor. So, there was a hiatus between my childhood and the '30s when I came up here as a student and life was a little more active and less poverty stricken, but the Depression was just a familiar condition to me and I had been writing lots of stories and one act plays about the tenant farmers and about the Negro and all of those plays and stories or playlets sang the song of poverty, of depression, of almost disfranchisement, of lack of opportunity, of the squeeze of economic serfdom.
- But did the change in the intellectual climate of the '30s change the way that you thought about those problems, the causes of that poverty, the solutions to those injustices?
- Well, that's a good question, because when I was growing up and we would go to church on Sunday and I remember that if somebody had a dollar bill, they would say to my father, "Mr. Billy, I want to give a quarter to the church today. Could you change a dollar?" Well, my daddy, like everybody else, would open his little purse, he had a little well worn pocketbook with a little snap on it, and he would always turn his back on the questioner and open it and fish out four quarters or fifty cents. That was an interesting habit that people would always turn their backs when they made change. I used to think about it. Well, money was so difficult to get and I guess that they didn't want you to see how little they had in their purse. Anyway, money was a squeezed item. So, poverty was just natural to me, it was natural and the '30s was just an old familiar thing. Of course, some of us had been able to … I was able to get an old tin lizzie, a Ford, to drive in, and during the Depression I was able to continue because I was teaching here and I got some sort of a salary, not much. But all down in eastern North Carolina where I was born, the people were reduced to what they called "Hoover carts." I don't know whether you know what a "Hoover cart" is. Well, they weren't able to buy gasoline and they would take two wheels off of a Ford and put it to a cart and have a mule or horse to pull it. My sister, they all had "Hoover carts." And their old Fords, that was about all they could afford, would set up under the shelter. The kids had a lot of fun with these "Hoover carts." So, I don't think it affected …well, a person like John Steinbeck writing Grapes of Wrath came out of that. His fine novel was due actually, I guess, to the Depression. Maybe he wouldn't have written it without the Dust Bowl and so on in the Midwest. But it didn't change me.
- I guess that what I am wondering is not so much whether the poverty of the Depression changed you, surprised you, because I can see that it would be very unlikely to. Just as the Depression for poor people didn't make that much difference in people's lives in a lot of ways. It made a difference much more slowly and wasn't a great shock to those people. But by 1930, you were part of a broader intellectual community. I am wondering more whether you began to think more systematically about things that you had taken more for granted, whether you felt more anger, were you moved more toward looking for solutions?
- Yes, I think that's a very good question. I sort of slipped away from it. Did I ponder somewhat the reasons for this sort of thing, why it had come? Now, the earlier post-Civil War thing, there were a lot of old soldiers around and I would hear their stories, the shadow of that great foolish tragedy, I guess, if a tragedy can be foolish, was still clouding the scene, but slowly disappearing. That came naturally. I had already begun to feel that it was a foolish and insane war then, but I understood the reasons for our condition, why there was so much poverty in eastern North Carolina. I understood that, but when this thing in the '30s came on the nation, it certainly raised a question of "What is wrong here? What is wrong with our democracy that causes this to happen?" Then, there were rebellions, blow-ups at places where people, the mill workers sometimes and in sporadic instances in farming, you would read where a Negro tenant had murdered his landlord or something. So, there were sporadic rebellions against this condition, but no answer as to why this had happened. I don't think that we got an answer. Actually, I think that we hadn't solved the thing and this Second World War came along and that put everybody in fear of an enemy and you could get gas rationing, you could get controls, you could get all of that because as soon as you are threatened from an outside enemy, you can behave yourself and cooperate. So, now that we are in this present recession, call it a depression, I am completely confused as to the reasons and just as much confused by the remedies that are suggested. They don't make sense. So now today, following the 1930 business, and we were assured by the fellows in Washington that it could never happen again, couldn't have another one because we've got these safeguards, we've got the Federal Reserve, we've got the bank insurance and so on and banks can't fail and it can't happen again. Now apparently we are approaching the same sort of thing and no answers are given.
- What did you think about the New Deal at the time?
- Well, I was suspicious of the New Deal because from way back, hard work, and I guess the way that we were raised in Harnett County, I felt that you could not give people liberty, freedom and so on, just give it to them. I will never forget the feeling that I had here at the University. I went out to the athletic field one day where they had a steam shovel digging a bank and so on. The steam shovel had been moved over to one side and they had about a hundred men with shovels and wheelbarrows. I said, "Great gun, what is going on here?" "Oh, the New Deal is providing jobs." I said, "Gee whiz, but look. It is just picayunish, that steam shovel can do this." "Yes, but we have got to have jobs." So, I said, "Well, this is crazy, because the whole philosophy of the machine age is more result with less effort. Push a button and a great bulldozer will push right through a hill." So, I felt that this was not right, this was charity and there was something wrong about it. Then when I was down in Manteo working on a drama down there, and seeing the CCC camp boys, which was a WPA, a government thing set up, these boys were planting sea oats along the sand dunes and were protecting the sea shore and doing all kinds of good work, I thought, "Well, this is great, because that is the only way that they can do it." But to stop a steam shovel! I don't know what is wrong, except a simple statement that a democracy whose liberty, the liberty of its individuals can run rampant without a concurrent responsiblity to go with the liberty or freedom, will produce this sort of thing. If a labor union thinks mainly in terms of its own self and EXXON oil people think only in terms of their profit, then you get these head on competitions and you get fights and this one will grab and this one will grab. So, our democracy now, that I have always believed in, has got a terrible evil in it, a lack of sense of responsibility to go with the freedom and I think that there should be a balance there, a liberty carries with it an equal responsibility. Only in that way will the liberty survive. It will run rampant and go into some kind of madness and ultimately produce some kind of dictatorship. This man, Judge Craven here, addressing the law students recently for graduation ….
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- Braxton Craven said that the American people will not continue to fear for their lives, violence, and be without jobs. They won't endure that ultimately. Ultimately, they will be willing to give up the Ten Amendments, freedom of assembly, freedom of this and that and the other, in order to get these values which are now pretty much lost. When I was in Russia, I could walk at night up and down the streets of Leningrad or Moscow at any time of night. I can't do that in Washington or New York. I don't dare do it. The fear for your life has become so strong that Judge Craven said that ultimately people would be willing to give up their certain kinds of liberty for jobs and for safety. Well, my good friend Jonathan Daniels, who was Press Secretary for awhile for President Roosevelt, editor of the News and Observer, he said, "Oh, you quit worrying. We will muddle along. We'll continue."
- When did he say that? Recently?
- Yes. I don't know that any of these things have affected what I've been trying to do, what I have been trying to write, except right now I am working on something and I can feel the present situation in the country, the lack of leadership, the cruelty, the wastage bearing down on me so that the scenes that I am working at now, I feel them affected by it. So, I am having my characters say things that were true then, this is back in 1783, they are saying things that they might say a little differently if we weren't in this dilemma. So, I go back to Washington's farewell address, not in the play but as something consonant to that. He said, "The nation is like a man, its word, its honor. It must be believed in and it must adhere to the truth, to the virtues." Now, our democracy has gotten to where they wouldn't think of telling the truth. "Oh, no, you musn't tell the truth." Like Henry Kissinger, he meets someone and he smiles. And the CIA, now the arm of the government has gotten so far and dissolute and degraded that it indulges in murder. It advocates murder of your adversaries. It has been pretty well proved. The Rockefeller Commission may not come out as strongly about it, but I believe from what I have read, talked about and heard, that they actually did plot to kill Castro, that they actually did have something to do with the murder of Allende in Chile and that murder … they use the word, "elimination, to eliminate." Well, you say, "Great God, what have we come to in this American democracy?" And this whooping up, even worse than the Boy Scout jubilation of Henry Kissinger and Ford over this wretched incident of the Mayaguez, this ship, and they went over there and tore loose, and they came out with a great victory and people are applauding. Now and whenever Ford appears, they stand up and give him an ovation. So, you say, "Oh, American people, what are you? What's happened?" Well, Jonathan would say, "Well now Paul, we are just the way that we have always been." But Rome wasn't always the same, Carthage fell, Babylon fell, Tyre, a great many civilizations, Greece fell. I have just been reading Oswald Spengler, I picked up his book in Germany in 1928, I think it was, and he wrote a book, a two-volume thing, already prophesying the downfall of the western world. He called it Der Untergang des Abendlandes, the going down of the western world. His theory was that the western world's civilization is ripe and as Sir Walter Raleigh says, "in reason rotten." I don't necessarily—well, I don't know enough about it. One thing that H.L. Mencken helped us do in the South, he used to make fun of the Bible Belt, you know, and he said that one of the first ways of repentence and rebuilding is to recognize the situation or condition that you are in. So, way back then, before the Depression, I would go down to Harnett County, or travel in eastern North Carolina, and the fields were all brown in the winter time, the cotton stalks standing brown and empty, and the tobacco stalks. I wrote a piece way back, a kind of a roll call, I think that it was 1925, calling for us to have green fields in the winter in the South. Let's have cattle. In Minnesota, where it goes forty below zero, a great dairy country. And all of the Piedmont, North Carolina is a wonderful soil for dairying, but we have got more Baptists in North Carolina, than we have cows. "We need more cows and less Baptists." Well now, part of the whole southern reawakening came all around here. When I wrote that in 1925, there wasn't a single dairy anywhere. My calling the roll had nothing to do with it except that I was just representative of the whole mood of the people, a reawakening in North Carolina. The University here had a lot to do with it and State College, sending people out teaching better farming. Now you can travel through here and you have green fields all over eastern North Carolina. You can see cattle grazing. So, we have done a lot in that way physically, but there is something that has gone wrong in the political set up. Well, when Eisenhower became President, I said, "Well, he may not be a very brilliant man, but he is an honest man." Then we had this fellow Powers, who flew over Russia in his U-2, whatever it was, and he fell and Eisenhower declared that he knew nothing about any spies. He was telling a lie. Later it was proved that he was lying and I thought, "Oh, my goodness!" Then when Ford was appointed, I thought that maybe he was an honest guy and he is going to tell us the truth. One of the first things that he did was he claimed that he had read all the correspondence and there was no agreement with Vietnam, no agreement about force. Well, gosh, it comes out that the very stuff that he said he had read, they showed it t.v. and quoting Nixon who said, "We will respond with force." So, I said, "My gosh, there's Ford. I can't even believe in Ford."


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A police union official filed a complaint Thursday with the Florida Elections Commission, accusing Gov. Rick Scott of illegally coercing on-duty police officers to attend a campaign event in Tampa on Monday.
The complaint was filed by Jeff Marano of the Florida Police Benevolent Association, a union supporting Scott's leading Democratic challenger, Charlie Crist. Marano is president of the PBA's Broward County chapter.
Under Florida law, it's a first-degree misdemeanor for a public official to "directly or indirectly coerce" any employee to engage in political activity, and employees are prohibited from doing so while working.
Scott's campaign said it made its intentions clear but a high-ranking member of the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office insisted that he believed he was going to a state event to meet the governor and discuss ways to reduce crime, which is why he asked several deputies to come along.
"We obviously didn't know we were going to a campaign event," said Hillsborough Col. Jim Previtera. "Had we known it was a campaign event, we wouldn't have been there."
Previtera said he was working on July 4th, a Friday, when Cody Vildostegui, a Scott campaign aide, asked him to attend a press conference about reducing crime. Previtera's boss, Sheriff David Gee, who supports Scott, was unable to attend.
Also in attendance was another Scott supporter, Pinellas Sheriff Bob Gualtieri, who said the same campaign staffer made it clear to him that it was an event promoting Scott's re-election bid.
"It was unequivocally clear to me that this was purely a political event," Gualtieri said. "I knew what I was going into.... Where the communication broke down, I don't know, but it didn't break down with me."
Gualtieri said Scott's campaign even asked him for his private email address to avoid using a government email account for political purposes.
As an elected official, Gualtieri is exempt from the ban on public employees attending campaign events during working hours.
The Tampa event was part of Scott's three-city "Let's Keep Florida Safe" campaign swing. Public notifications of the events were made by his campaign, not the governor's office.
Also present were Holmes Beach Police Chief William Tokajer and Craig Baker, a law enforcement officer from the Florida Fish & Wildlife Commission, a state agency under Scott's control.
FWC spokeswoman Katie Purcell said she didn't know who told Baker to attend but that the request came from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, which she said asks FWC to provide additional security for the governor at events.
"There was a misunderstanding as to what it was for," Purcell said. "We were under the impression that's what it was for. It turned out to be more of a political event."
FDLE spokeswoman Gretl Plessinger confirmed Purcell's account, and said it was a misunderstanding. "We've taken steps to ensure similar misunderstandings will not occur in the future," Plessinger said.
To buttress his allegations, Marano cited news reports by WFLA-Ch. 8, the Tampa Tribune and WTVT-Ch. 13, which quoted Chief Tokajer as saying the campaign did not tell him that the event was political.
Tokajer did not respond to a request for comment Thursday.
"Rick Scott's political campaign facilitated the violation of [law] by soliciting the assistance of on-duty law enforcement officers — under the false pretense of security — only to repeatedly feature them as props in the background of campaign events," Marano's complaint alleges.
Marano's allegation is one of a record number of elections and ethics complaints filed against Scott or Crist. Both sides are using the complaint process to attack their opponents on everything from a law firm's billboards featuring Crist's face to Scott's reporting of his use of a family-owned jet for campaign travel.
A dozen have been filed so far with more likely to come.
"If what it alleges is true, it's disgusting," Crist said of the latest complaint after a speech at a statewide news editors meeting in Coral Gables. "To lure law enforcement officers unknowingly to a political campaign event is something I didn't even think Rick Scott would do."
Scott's campaign issued a response that did not address the allegations in the complaint.
"This is just another sad distraction from Charlie Crist's numerous ethical problems, including his broken promise to be transparent by releasing tax returns for both himself and his spouse," Scott campaign spokesman Greg Blair said.
Times staff writer Dan Sullivan and Miami Herald staff writer Amy Sherman contributed to this report. Contact Steve Bousquet at email@example.com or (850) 224-7263 . Follow @SteveBousquet.


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basic sloper size 8 once again and moved and customized around for one of my final project of this year, features two pockets, one for a relaxed and another as if "unsheathing" a sword kinda move thus the reason for the inverted opening on the pocket (the lime green in the front). wide band at the bottom, it is mostly a preteen like size because of the size 8, much too short for my preference but it was a good ratio overall. mesh on the shoulder area and on the hood bottom area just for interest and a "vent" like effect.
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Iglesia de Santa Cruz de la Cañada
Served by Sons of the Holy Family Priests and Dominican Sisters. Click on the previous links to learn more about our church, its leadership, and its programs.
Belonging to the Diocese of Santa Fe, La Iglesia de Santa Cruz de la Cañada (Holy Cross Catholic Church) and Holy Cross School work together to give your child the best Catholic Christian education possible. We give each student numerous opportunities to grow in faith and knowledge through prayer, mass, and the study of scripture. All of God's children must grow to understand that the Gospel must be a part of their daily lives.
Obituary for Father Casimiro Roca-Toscas
Rev. Casimiro Roca-Toscas, S.F., former rector of el Santuario de Chimayo, NM, died August 4, 2015. At the time, he was at home in the rectory at Holy Family Church, with his brothers Sons of the Holy Family and caretaker, who have been helping him for several years. He had celebrated his ninety-seventh birthday eleven days earlier.
Guided by the Holy Spirit and the word made flesh, and centered in the Eucharist, fount of holiness, we, the community of Santa Cruz De La Cañada, build families rooted in the values of the Holy Family of Nazareth to bear fruit for the Kingdom of God.
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Here's Will Ferrell, Dressed as a Trojan While Conducting the USC Marching Band (Video)
We interrupt our regularly scheduled lineup of depressing-ass sports stories to bring you something that will, in all likelihood, make you laugh.
That something? It's Will Ferrell. Directing the USC Trojans marching band. In full Trojan regalia. But of course, you probably figured all that out just from looking at the picture. So just go ahead and watch the clip:
Ferrell was on campus recently for a speaking engagement. But of course, lots of people are on the USC campus every single day for speaking engagements, and they don't all end up dressed like this and conducting the school's marching band. No, Ferrell is special. Not only is he an alum of USC (true story), but he is also a sports nut who's always doing stuff like this.
Well, maybe not exactly like this, but you know what I mean.
In any case, it was nice of Ferrell to stop by his old stomping grounds and cheer everybody up. It's been kind of a rough year for USC football. Right Lane Kiffin?
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Strategic Master Plan
Dear Friends,
Much has changed since the first Sisters of Charity of Nazareth arrived at the dock in Leonardtown in the late 1800s to begin a Catholic school. St. Mary's Ryken is strong today because of the legacy we have received from them and from the Xaverian Brothers.
To successfully fulfill our mission, we have been vigilant in meeting the needs of our students and our campus: we have broadened Advanced Placement (AP) courses; enhanced the curriculums in the math and science departments; expanded enrichment programs in student activities, fine arts and athletics; and have kept our campus and classroom technology up-to-date. Today, all of the campus is wireless, all faculty have laptops and iPads, and all classrooms are outfitted with interactive smart boards.
Our record for academic excellence is strong and students continue to be accepted into their first choice colleges across the country, and we have seen a steady increase in enrollment. We remain proud of the outstanding service our students and alums dedicate themselves to throughout the world. They embody a voice that understands clearly what "falling in love with the service of God" means.
But, now, it is time for us to commit seriously to our future.
Over the past few years, we have honed our strategic plan. We must continue to focus on providing excellence in college preparatory programs and attracting and retaining the very best teachers. We must have new facilities for our growing student population. We must upgrade a physical plant that has been in constant use for over 50 years. We must maintain our beautiful campus. We must grow a healthy endowment to continue the tradition of Catholic education in Southern Maryland and assure that every student, who desires it, has an opportunity for a St. Mary's Ryken education.
To this end we designed a strategic master plan, which took shape because of a rigorous self-study process and the dedicated work of board members, parents, alumni, students, faculty and administrators.
First and foremost, we examined our identity as a Catholic college preparatory Xaverian Brothers sponsored school through the Mission Effectiveness Study, which is used by all thirteen Xaverian Brothers high schools. This study examined six broad areas to identify how St. Mary's Ryken consciously brings our mission to life on campus.
Second, we surveyed parents, alumni, students and faculty, through a second self-study in preparation for the Middle States reaccreditation process.
Using the results of these two self-studies, the board of directors identified five important goals for the future of St. Mary's Ryken. Once goals were identified, key strategies were designed. Please keep in mind that we have achieved much since the strategic plan goals were formed, but we still have much to accomplish.
It is the strength of our faith, the history of our tradition, and the power of our legacy that leads us to build the foundation for tomorrow.
Mary Joy Hurlburt
Strategic Plan Goals
Goal 1: Educate the Whole Person
Prepare every student for a lifetime of growth in faith, academics, leadership, and community.
Key Strategies:
Responding to our Mission Effectiveness Study, St. Mary's Ryken will
- enhance the Campus Ministry program to be a vital part of our students' lives. (UPDATE: The Greene Murphy Campus Ministry Center opened in September 2012 and serves as a hub for the expanded offerings of the Campus Ministry program.)
- re-evaluate the Ryken Program in light of the latest educational best practices and ensure that the program serves the needs of students with learning differences so that they can excel withiin the college preparatory curriculum.
- emphasize a healthy lifestyle by hiring a full-time nurse. (UPDATE: A nurse's suite was constructed and a full-time nurse was hired during the summer of 2012.)
- develop a strategic technology master plan, which will enhance teaching and student learning across the curriculum.
Building on our college preparatory curriculum that is comprehensive, rigorous and intellectually challenging, St. Mary's Ryken will:
- continue to improve standardized test scores.
- add a non-western foreign language. (UPDATE: Chinese was added to the World Languages program in fall 2010.)
- enhance the course offerings in the fine arts department.
- continue to develop AP (Advanced Placement) programs.
- ensure that the curriculum reflects global awareness and social justice.
Goal 2: Reaffirming Our Faculty
To draw, to hold and to sustain the strongest possible faculty who will be committed to the Xaverian philosophy of education and to fulfilling the mission of St. Mary's Ryken.
Key Strategies:
- Maintain salaries and benefits that are on a competitive level regionally and build greater predictability and clarity to compensation for faculty and staff.
- Provide a professional development educator to maximize student learning and best practices for teachers. Encourage innovative teaching methodology and curriculum development.
- Expand opportunities for faculty, staff and administrators to remain at the top of their profession. Encourage, support and nurture individual professional growth, department and cross-curricular growth and school-wide initiatives by developing a cohesive professional development plan to expand over the next five years.
- Research, identify and support educational initiatives that provide school-wide growth in cooperation with the leadership in the local business community and the Patuxent Naval Air Station. Establish partnerships with institutions of higher learning (i.e. St. Mary's College of Maryland, Catholic University, Mount St. Mary's University, University of Maryland). (UPDATE: The SMR STEM 100 program was implemented in the 2009-10 academic year. Engineers and scientists from the base conduct in-classroom lessons at SMR and students visit the naval base for more learning opportunities. The Xaverian Programs of Excellence (X-Pax magnet program) were implemented for the 2010-11 academic year and are four accelerated courses of study for advanced students.)
- Recognize and reward outstanding performance and accomplishments. Link the cohesive professional development plan to teacher supervision and evaluation.
Goal 3: Improving Our Facilities
Build, renovate and maintain facilities to enhance teaching and all learning experiences for our students.
Key Strategies:
- Construct a new athletic gym that will meet the growing needs of our student population while also meeting our vital need for a place where the entire school community can gather.
- Rebuild the track, upgrade fields and create a new turf field, which can be used by our outstanding student athletes in the competitive Washington Catholic Athletic Conference and by the greater community.
- Complete the lower level of Romuald Hall to meet the growing needs of our band and choir programs. Enhance the sound and lighting system in the theater and upgrade handicap accessibility in the theater.
- Expand improvements made to the original classroom buildings that will provide a comfortable and safe learning environment.
- Build a science center that will consolidate the science classrooms and laboratory facilities in one area with state-of-the-art equipment and technologies. Build a new student center for students that includes an upgraded food service area and a completely upgraded kitchen.
Goal 4: Advancing Our Resources
Strengthen St. Mary's Ryken's financial foundation for the 21st century to ensure its position as a leader in Catholic college preparatory education.
Key Strategies:
- Secure capital endowment and annual fund support through a comprehensive campaign to accomplish the goals of the strategic plan.
- Strengthen the advancement efforts in the areas of cultivation and stewardship particularly for alumni.
- Develop an endowment to enable St. Mary's Ryken to sustain competitive compensation and professional development funding for faculty and staff.
- Develop endowments designated for financial aid, technology, campus beautification and building maintenance.
- Establish a long-range financial model that balances the current and future needs of the school and that will guide the annual budget decisions such as tuition.
Goal 5: Growing Our Enrollment
Sustain a thematic and comprehensive marketing program that targets enrollment audiences and communicates clearly the message of St. Mary's Ryken High School in Southern Maryland.
Key Strategies:
- Develop a strategic marketing plan that will assist the school in a comprehensive approach and visual image of publications and marketing materials. Know and understand the audience to whom the message will be delivered.
- Establish specific enrollment strategies for projected demographic growth in the Southern Maryland region over the next five to ten years.
- Develop and deliver a key core message centered on the mission of the school, which emphasizes St. Mary's Ryken's legacy of educating the whole person.
- Create a magnet program on leadership for students
- Develop a speaker series and guest faculty program in person and online, so that St. Mary's Ryken is recognized as a center of Catholic leadership and intellectual growth.


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Big 'Rings' wingding
Newline pic gets snazzy launch
By TIMOTHY M. GRAY
CANNES -- New Line kicked off its three-"Rings" circus in a big way this week.
Cannes is famous for its film promotions, but it's hard to remember a pic with a splashier launch here than "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy.
As part of its worldwide media launch, the company has flown in the filmmakers and a dozen stars for four days of tubthumping that began May 10 with a screening of footage from the three pics. It culminated May 13 with a "Rings" wingding, where designers, sets and mammoth props were flown from New Zealand to dress up a chateau just outside of Cannes.
It's no surprise that New Line is pulling out all the stops. At a press confab at the chateau May 11, Fine Line Features prez Mark Ordesky (an exec producer on the films) admitted to an aggregate budget of $270 million for the three films. While denying the studio's entire future rests on the pics' success, he said, with smiling understatement, that it's "the most ambitious thing we've ever attempted."
The first pic bows Dec. 19 in the U.S., with Europe, Australasia and Latin America openings in the following 10 days.
Looking surprisingly relaxed and unsurprisingly enthused -- the media reaction to the 25 minutes of footage ranged from upbeat to wildly enthusiastic -- Ordesky declined to tell Variety the marketing budget. He only said it's "commensurate with the investment we've made in these films," and then laughed at his own corporate-speak.
However, since the marketing budget for the second "Austin Powers" movie was estimated in the $30 million-$40 million range, it's safe to bet "Rings" will at least fall in that shagadelic neighborhood.
Rolf Mittweg, prez of worldwide distribution and marketing, agreed with Ordesky that they don't want to "hype" the pic -- in other words, they'll market it, but they don't want the public to overdose on it before it's opened. ("You'll notice we don't have any posters on the Croisette," Ordesky pointed out.)
Mittweg told Variety, "We've rounded up some amazing promotional partners," but declined details. Still, the promo push will shift into a higher gear this fall.
Ordesky added that Cannes was the logical place to kick off the media launch. The company closed pre-sales on the film here last year, and the "Rings" launch has three goals: "Our partners are here and we wanted to show them their money had been well placed and was up on the screen"; second, the worldwide media is gathered here for the fest, with 150 of them gathering for the junket meets with stars and filmmakers; and, tied in with that, the company wants to get the word out to the public and fans of the books.
Their challenge is marketing a work that, said Ordesky, is "so well known, so loved" to so many (100 million copies have been printed of J.R.R. Tolkien's three books in 40 languages), but totally unknown to large segments of the world, including many American teenagers.
The films will be released each December through 2003. Though principal lensing has wrapped and three teams of editors are working simultaneously, each will be finished only shortly before its bow.
At the press sesh, director-producer-co-writer Peter Jackson said he set about making "one big, long movie." Producer Barrie Osborne said all three shot simultaneously, mostly for logistical reasons: They had to build roads into remote areas of New Zealand and, since it was protected land, the roads had to be removed immediately after end of filming. Thus, it made sense to avoid doing that three times.
Also at the press confab was co-writer Philippa Boyens. The press then had a chance to sit down with "Ring" actors Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Sean Astin, Sean Bean, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd, Christopher Lee, Dominic Monaghan, Viggo Mortensen, John Rhys-Davies and Liv Tyler.
Richard Taylor, of WETA special effects, said the long work schedule was often hard -- the first pic alone features 550 CGI shots -- but when workers would feel a slump, he'd just say, "It's 'Lord of the Rings' -- c'mon, pick up your plate!"
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[Doctor:] "But you're not being rational, Miss Tyler.
Now you know you can't expect to live any kind of a life among them... Normal people.
[Miss Tyler:] "I could try... I... I could wear a mask for this bandage...
Or... I wouldn't bother anybody
I'd just go my own way... I'd get a job, any job! Who are you people anyway!
What is this state! Who makes all these rules and traditions and statutes that
People who are different have to stay away from people who are normal?
The state isn't God, doctor. "
[Doctor:] "Miss Tyler, please... please..."
[Miss Tyler:] "THE STATE IS NOT GOD!"
I don't bathe in the flesh like the American way...
But I've savored the breathe of American ladies...
Another bee in the petals of a flower choked in the weeds...
Your mother lied when she said she knows of real beauty... Ohhhh
[Doctor:] What is the dimensional difference between beauty and something... Repellent... ?
If you swallow the bait
With a bottle of wine
You can live like a queen
In the open wound of a pretty smile...
If you swallow the bait
With a bottle of wine
You can live like a queen
In the open wound of a pretty smile.
[End chorus]
Well I ate for hours and hours and hours and I'm still hungry...
I Filled the body with gasoline and let you ignite me... Ohh
I'd only wish I had a match for every baby girl on Earth.
To save them from drowning in their mother's milk after birth...
After birth...
[Miss Tyler:] "You mean imprisoned, don't you doctor?
You're talking about a ghetto aren't you?
A ghetto designed for freaks! "
You don't sleep in your skin 'cause it makes you feel cheap...
So you hang it next to your bed and hope your bones will still keep... Ohh
If you swallow the bait
With a bottle of wine
If you swallow the bait
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"These are stories we don't often get a chance to hear – indeed they are often the hardest stories for people who have had strokes to articulate until they are set to music. Music seems to tap into a part of the brain that sets language free, the rhythm allowing words to flow where they are normally stumbled over"
Written after a series of workshops with stroke recovery groups, Parkinson's community groups and dementia healthy living clubs and inspired by Natalie Abrahami's production of Wings by Arthur Kopit, Sing Before You Speak Again was staged this November.
Sing Before You Speak Again's director Thomas Martin explained a little more about the production which took the form of an original choral song cycle written by Deanna Rodger and Joseph Atkins.
Some of the text was verbatim, but most of it was poetic – in Deanna's lyrical world, memories become motors, houses become ships tossed about on a cold sea, and brains become balloons to be popped or let go. Joe's composition brings these images to life with rich and challenging harmonies, filled with cheeky echoes of our participants' favourite artists – Bob Marley, The Beatles, Joni Mitchell.
Sing Before You Speak Again has taken us through a range of emotions with the hope that our audiences leave with a little more understanding of what having a stroke feels like and the often disorientating effects – Wendy, Participant
Following the week of performances some of the company took part in a series of special performances at community centres with Nunhead Dementia Cafe, time & talents and Stockwell Healthy Living Club who helped inspire the original songs that the creative team had met during their original workshops.
We had a great time @Time_Talents sharing songs from #SingBeforeYouSpeakAgain with some of the people who inspired the show pic.twitter.com/ONCRAJHHEa
— YoungVic Taking Part (@YVTakingPart) November 8, 2017
It was so brilliant to have such great entertainment and even more special to meet the singers. – Nunhead Dementia Cafe
We're extremely grateful to some incredible local groups who opened their doors and allowed us to get involved. Our production wouldn't have been possible without the workshops and support of the following organisations, Aphasia Re-Connect, Southwark and Lambeth Parkinson's Support Group, Stockwell Healthy Living Club and Time & Talents.


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|Mark Kitcatt
EuroCitizens: How is Brexit going to affect the music industry?
MK: I came to Spain in the early nineties, before EU directives on free movement came into force. That changed the whole music business. Suddenly, bands could move around freely, play concerts anywhere in the EU and sell their merchandise with no problems. Since then, for UK bands, virtually all Europe has been an open market. It costs the same for a group to play in Milan as in Manchester, or in Alicante as in Aberdeen. The single market has thus given British music a huge competitive advantage.
EuroCitizens: So what will happen with a hard Brexit and the UK's departure from this single market?
MK: All these advantages will be lost overnight and we may go back to the bad old days of visas and work permits. This will dramatically hit touring which is now the main source of income for most
musicians, since the increase in piracy. Of course, the impact on young artists who are starting out will be even harder. The UK will also suffer as a destination for creators from Spain and the rest of Europe if barriers to free movement go up.
EuroCitizens: You are a member of independent music associations such as IMPALA, UFI and WIN. Have you had any reaction from the UK government about your concerns?
MK: Frankly, they just don't seem to know what is going to happen and we have received no clear answers. As with their dealings with citizens' groups like EuroCitizens and British in Europe, all our contacts with them have been cloaked in secrecy. Things are not looking good.
EuroCitizens: As a UK national living in the EU, are you worried about your own future?
MK: I'm married to a Spaniard and my children have Spanish nationality, so I'm not worried about my personal future in this country. I always have the option of applying for Spanish nationality. However, since Brexit my eldest son has decided not to study at a UK university due to the uncertainty that has arisen. I also know several young Britons in Spain who have not lived here very long and who may have to go back to the UK after Great Britain leaves the EU.
EuroCitizens: Do you think Brexit will have any other impact?
MK: Yes, it will dramatically reduce the UK's 'soft power', the influence it gains through pop music as well as through films and TV. English is the lingua franca of music and this enables Britain to have an enormous cultural impact in Europe. On top of that, the essence of modern music is of reaching across cultures and the mixing of different cultures. It is universal, is the antithesis of putting up barriers, walls and borders. Unfortunately, that is what the UK and the USA seem to be trying to do at the moment, to retreat from the world.
That's why we decided to call our concert on 24 June 'Música sin Fronteras'!


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LG Optimus M (MetroPCS)While not as advanced as the Optimus handsets on other carriers, the Optimus M is still a great entry-level Android phone for MetroPCS customers.
As though as the LG Optimus T for T-Mobile, the Optimus S from Sprint, this is the LG Optimus M from MetroPCS. I'm Nicole Lee, senior associate editor for cnet.com and this is a first look at the LG Optimus M from MetroPCS and it's a very basic entry-level Android phone. On the front is a very nice 3-inch display here that is very bright and colorful as you can see. On the back is a 3.2 megapixel camera lens. Compared to the other LG Optimus phones, the LG Optimus M is not quite as robust in terms of design and features. As you can see, even though it's nice and slim, it's still a little bit rough around the edges, a little bit retro-looking. However, it does come with Android 2.2 and it also has a slew of multimedia features like GPS, Bluetooth and more. Because this is a very basic entry-level android phone, it does not have portable hotspot tethering, which is quite a disappointment. It also does not have built-in flash in the browser. The LG Optimus M is available for around $230 for MetroPCS, but that's without the contract. I'm Nicole Lee and this has been a first look at the LG Optimus M.