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Showcasing the fresh colors, textures and flavors of seasonal vegetables, this autographed book features the culinary expertise of Martha Stewart, one of America's best-known cooks, gardeners and all-around vegetable lovers. Explore a world of healthy, delicious possibilities with mostly vegetarian recipes, all designed to delight even the most dedicated carnivores.
- Autographed copy, signed by Martha Stewart.
- An indispensable resource for selecting, storing, preparing and cooking seasonal vegetables, fresh from the garden or your farmers' market.
- Includes over 150 delicious, easy-to-follow recipes for every course of a meal.
- Chapters are thoughtfully organized according to type of vegetable, including Bulbs, Roots, Tubers, Greens, Stalks & Stems, Pods, Shoots, Leaves, Flowers & Buds and Kernels.
- Recipe highlights include roasted carrots and red quinoa with miso dressing, Swiss chard lasagna, endive and fennel salad with pomegranate seeds, asparagus and watercress pizza, smoky Brussels sprouts gratin, and spiced parsnip cupcakes with cream cheese frosting.
- Hardcover, 328 pages.
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Jerrymanders (Eastland, K 2017) is a natural evolution of the Book as we have come to know it. The progression from paper to digital was inevitable, and the technologies that are now available, and those that are in the making, make the Book, a short form digital moment in time for a reader. Stories in digital form have taken on a more serialised process that 21st century people have come to expect as the reduction in concentration for many continues while they reduce their lives to byte sized snippets to fit into 140 characters or less (Twitter, 2017).
The rule book as we once knew it is being rewritten, and although many still follow rules for better writing outcomes (Anae 2017), many more fail to understand even the basic of writing rules, such as punctuation breaking Annie Proulx fifth rule: "Rewrite and edit until you achieve the most felicitous phrase/sentence/paragraph/page/story/chapter"( Proulx 2017). These books appear to be appealing to the masses by some very good voice actors, thereby bypassing editorial processes. New readers are in fact listeners.
As an observer, it is obvious what is happening. As a writer it creates a conflict; why should anyone care about looking for a reputable publisher when millions are making a good living by hiring a voice actor to read their stories for them, making up punctuation as they go along (Amazon 2017)? Many are choosing to mass produce pulp and get paid well for it. I admit I would like to get paid for writing, but I have chosen to write well.


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Hoping to share information about the looming financial crisis, AC Transit has held the first in a series of five public forums to solicit input on ways to preserve service for as many people as possible. And so far, the public response has been both enlightening and plentiful.
More than 100 people showed up for forums in San Leandro, Newark and Berkeley, and agency officials anticipate even larger turnouts for the final two workshops scheduled in San Pablo and Oakland.
Based on the forecasted economic environment over the next two years, the District is expected to suffer significant declines in its main revenue sources. There has been a steady decline in revenues from sales taxes. But especially aggravating has been Governor Schwarzenegger's decision to eliminate State Transit Assistance (STA) funding for the next five years, redirecting more than $100 million that could be used to help balance the District's budget.
As is, the District will drain its financial reserves and face a deficit of as much as $57 million by the end of the 2010 fiscal year. To cope with the shortfall, the District is forced to reduce its service by at least 15 percent, and organized the workshops to hear from bus riders and the community at-large on how best to do it.
"These are not easy times for any of us," said General Manager Rick Fernandez. "So, we want to make our dilemma clear to the public and, most of all, hear the community's concerns and ideas."
On May 27, 2009, the agency's Board of Directors will convene a public hearing to consider whether to officially declare a "state of emergency."
Despite the recent passage of Measure VV, the ongoing weakening of the local economy and the catastrophic loss of STA funding is causing AC Transit to adopt a fare increase, effective July 1, 2009; scrutinize all expenditures; institute a hiring freeze for all but essential positions; direct staff to achieve operating/service efficiencies of 15 percent of the budget; and, as last resort, outline service adjustments that will be enacted later this year.


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WARSAW - Poland's top Catholic cleric apologised Tuesday for suggesting parents shared the blame for paedophilia cases, including those involving Catholic priests, after a public outcry.
Poland is one of Europe's most strongly Roman Catholic countries, but public loyalty to the church is weakening, particularly in the wake of a series of allegations of paedophilia involving priests.
Speaking to the Polish PAP news agency Tuesday, Archbishop Jozef Michalik condemned paedophile priests, but said child abuse "manifests itself when a child is looking for love" and could be avoided "given a healthy relationship between parents".
Michalik later apologised and said he had been misunderstood, after the comments sparked a media storm. "Often a person who is lost will take advantage of a child. The child doesn't have the power to draw a person into anything," he told reporters.
"I'm sorry for the misunderstanding. A child is innocent."
Unlike the United States or Ireland, child sex abuse by priests in Poland remains a largely taboo subject and has not so far provoked widespread public outcry.
Nonetheless Poland's Catholic Church is expected to declare "zero tolerance" for paedophiles on Wednesday.
It issued an unprecedented apology earlier this month over alleged paedophile priests, as prosecutors on both sides of the Atlantic began investigations against two high-profile suspects.
Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski, a 65-year-old Pole who served as a papal envoy in the Dominican Republic's Santo Domingo for around five years, is being investigated for allegedly having sex with teenage boys.
Authorities on the Caribbean island nation are also investigating Wojciech Gil, a 36-year-old priest suspected of raping several young boys while serving there.
Gil told Polish media last week the allegations were fabricated, pointing to Dominican drug gangs possibly trying to frame him.
Despite the apology, Church leaders in Poland insist they will not be offering victims any material compensation.


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Fox's decision to hire Mark Millar as a creative consultant on their Marvel properties is a win-win for the studio and fans. For the business side of things, he'll get to work with talent including Bryan Singer, Matthew Vaughn, James Mangold and Josh Trank to create a cohesive universe shared by the X-Men and the upcoming reboot of Fantastic Four.
For the fans however, Millar will happily and openly talk about things the studio may not want him talking about just yet. First he hinted at a Fantastic Four and X-Men crossover down the line, and now, he's teasing what moviegoers will see in X-Men: Days of Future Past.
Director James Mangold is currently shooting The Wolverine with star Hugh Jackman, and as we speak, Jane Goldman, Simon Kinberg and Matthew Vaughn are putting together the screenplay for the series' next installment, X-Men: Days of Future Past, which aims to redefine, and potentially relaunch the franchise.
When Bryan Singer confirmed the rumors that X-Men: First Class 2 would be indeed be based on Days of Future Past, he guardedly admitted that it would ambitiously tap into the much larger X-Men universe and blow it up, so to speak, in order to compete with the larger-scale events and crossovers we're seeing from Marvel Studios with The Avengers and the six confirmed followup films.
In chatting with SFX magazine, Millar - who's spending a lot of time on the set of Kick-Ass 2 - briefly discussed Matthew Vaughn's plans for the next X-Men movie which begins shooting early next year.
"Vaughn is going for a big sci-fi style thing with X-Men: Days of Future Past."
He described Days of Future Past as "X-Men meets The Terminator," and continued, saying that for fans of the books, it's "no spoiler" to reveal that the First Class sequel will explore an apocalyptic future.
"You've got robots, you've got time travel, you've got superheroes - it's got everything in one film... Cost-wise it's going to go up, and ambitious-wise it's gone up. But Vaughn can handle it. Vaughn made Kick-Ass for $28 million."
Our own Kofi Outlaw described the future depicted in the Days of Future Past storyline as something out of the Terminator universe and it's appropriate that Millar does the same. For fans who've waited years for it to happen (and we're not counting that tease in the beginning of X-Men 3), we're finally going to see Sentinels grace the screen.
For those unfamiliar with the mechanical beasts, Sentinels are giant anti-mutant killing machines. They range in size and there have been plenty of iterations of them through the years in the books, games and even the cartoons, but they're typically purplish in color, humanoid in shape, and stand several stories tall.
If Fox, Bryan Singer and Matthew Vaughn ever wanted to up the action ante and deliver what would one of the most ambitious action set pieces seen in a comic book movie, having the X-Men (the original trilogy's team and that of the First Class quasi-prequel) face off against an army of Sentinels would be the way to do it. Maybe Hugh Jackman can fight one solo and it'll look like this.
And how cool would it be to see the time-travelling soldiers Cable and Bishop join the fray?
Matthew Vaughn Bryan Singer will direct X-Men: Days of Future Past with returning stars Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy and Jason Flemyng, who could be joined by the return of Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Famke Janssen, Halle Berry, Ian McKellen, Anna Paquin, James Marsden, Ellen Page, Shawn Ashmore. Stay tuned!
The Wolverine releases July 26, 2013 and X-Men: Days of Future Past hits theaters on July 18, 2014.
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A "glitch" on Trump's website was the culprit behind the disappearance of his controversial statement calling for a ban on Muslims.
"The website was temporarily redirecting all specific press release pages to the home page," Trump spokesman Steven Cheung said in an email to Reuters.
But, despite the statement's reappearance on the site, one of Trump's top advisers, Walid Phares, said that the suggested ban on Muslims is off the table in an interview after the election.
The notorious statement calling for a ban on Muslims entering the United States disappeared from the president-elect's website on Tuesday, leading to a plethora of media reports and expert commentary about possible changes in Trump policy.
After the November 2015 terrorist attacks on France, Trump called for the complete shutdown of Muslims entering the US "until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on."
Since first calling for the blanket ban, Trump has reiterated his proposal on several occasions. Videos and speeches defending the ban haven't been taken down from the Trump campaign website.
Trump later adjusted his promise, replacing the "total and complete shutdown" with "extreme vetting", most notably in his second presidential debate with former Democratic presidential hopeful Hilary Clinton.
Trump's counter-terrorism and foreign policy adviser Walid Phares previously explained to The Daily Caller that Trump's call was more about the "need for a foreign policy and counter-terrorism strategy shift" than the actual ban of Muslims.
"The issue is, if you don't have a measure for detecting who is who, and who is a jihadist and who is not, then we will keep having more bloodshed," he said.
Phares added that Trump's attitude stems from being a business man who is "simply looking at the problem from a national security perspective". He assured that Trump does not have any xenophobic ideologies.
"Lately, he has been adapting his position. The more he is informed of the subject, the more he is adapting."
In an interview with TRT World's Imran Garda a day after Trump's election, Phares said the ban was off the table. He said it "belonged to a different timezone".
"No more Muslims are on the table in terms of ban, this is over," Phares claimed, adding that Trump will work with Arab governments combating jihadists.
Trump will make sure to establish "an international web that would intercept the move of these radicals into the US".
In his victory speech, Trump vowed to be there for "Americans from all races, religions, backgrounds and beliefs".
Still, his election raises concern among Muslims and Arabs, in and out of the US. Some feel unsafe living in the country, and the past year has seen numerous hate crimes linked to Trump's campaign. The 24 hours that followed Trump's election also saw a spike in hate crimes, specifically against hijab-wearing Muslim women.


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Washington D.C. [USA] July 6 (ANI): Turns out, training in musical improvisation may teach your brain to think differently.
In a new study, researchers from the Columbia University found that skilled improvisers are better than musicians with limited improvisational experience at distinguishing between chords that can be used interchangeably in a piece of music and chords that cannot.
Further, when the improvisers recognized a chord unsuitable for substitution, their brains showed a pattern of electrical activity distinct from non-improvising musicians.
"It turns out that the degree to which we can predict how musicians respond to different types of musical substitution has nothing to do with how much they practice, but the way they practice," said Paul Sajda, a biomedical engineer at Columbia Engineering. She added, "Improvisational practice seems to reinforce how the brain represents different types of musical structures."
The researchers asked 40 musicians to listen to a series of chord progressions interspersed with two types of chord variations: one from the same functional class (say, a similar chord with its notes inverted), and one from outside the class (say, a major chord juxtaposed against a minor chord).
The improvisers identified the oddball chords unsuitable for substitution faster and more accurately than the mostly classically-trained musicians with limited improvisational practice.
"Improvisation is hardly confined to music- it underlies much of daily life. Faced with a delayed train, you might decide to walk or take the bus; a missing ingredient, the closest alternative. With a flexible mindset, a creative solution is often at hand. With music, as with cooking, the trick is knowing the rules of substitution," said the study's lead author.
The findings are present in the Journal- Psychology of music. (ANI)
Skilled musical improvisers may have the upper hand
ANI | Updated: Jul 06, 2018 17:38 IST
Washington D.C. [USA] July 6 (ANI): Turns out, training in musical improvisation may teach your brain to think differently.


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Cairns Hockey Association | About Us
To all our visitors, we welcome you to Cairns Hockey and the Great Barrier Reef Region, your gateway to discovering the magic of Australia's true tropics. Here, you can play your chosen sport on our acclaimed, international standard, artificial playing surface and then just lose yourself in the magical, natural attractions that abound in our slice of heaven.
Take a day off to swim among the bright, colourful fish and coral in the world heritage listed Great Barrier Reef. Escape to a secluded tropical island, walk through some of the oldest rainforests on the planet, or visit the great many natural wonders of the Tablelands. It's the ultimate destination to enjoy this great sport and spectacular, natural beauty at its absolute best, or to find fun and adventure. It's also the perfect place to relax, be pampered, and enjoy the laid back feel of the tropics. We enjoy a great level of competition, both serious and social, but welcome all like long lost mates.
To all our locals, players, parents, supporters and spectators alike, we welcome you back and promise you an exciting 2016 season. We urge you all to support your clubs in their endeavors to grow our sport and accept the challenges that lay ahead.
We welcome you to our Cairns Hockey, playing the game for 90 years!
Cairns Hockey | Quick Facts
Cairns Hockey was established in 1927/28 nearly 92 years ago to administer hockey in the Cairns region. It has grown into a vibrant hockey association with four (4) clubs – Brothers, Saints, Souths and Stingers – with strengthening relationships with Tableland teams, beginning to participate in the local competition. Its home is at the exciting Cairns North Sporting Precinct on Lake Street. Over 118 teams from Under 10 to Masters – male and female during the winter season , 60 plus teams playing Indoor. Social and Walking Hockey also enjoy the sport. There is a balance of participation opportunities, talent pathway options as well as volunteer roles within the sport.
Cairns Regional Hockey Centre's facilities include:
Cairns Hockey is an incorporated association managed by a duly elected volunteer Board of Management. The Board consists of a President, Finance Director and 3 additional Board members, elected by its members at an AGM. The Board employs administrative, ground maintenance and coaching and development staff to drive and deliver the competitions and supporting programs. It appoints volunteer operating committees to assist and support the advancement of hockey programs, pathways and competitions.
|Competition Membership
Hockey supported school and community recruitment programs are delivered across the region with more than 3,000 participants annually. Cairns Hockey runs a full field winter competition and a modified summer competition. It also recognized an indoor competition. 1,600 plus people (males and females) participated in these competitions, from Under 11 through to Masters. The competition is also open to regional teams from the Atherton Tablelands, in both junior and senior competition grades.
Over 350 players and officials represent Cairns and are involved in Talent Pathway Programs across regional, state and national championships annually. In addition, Cairns Hockey delivers programs targeting skill development through the Regional Academy. These programs provide additional opportunity to over 200 members and supporters.
Cairns Hockey Association | Plans & Programs
Cairns Hockey – Aim to be Australia's Leading Hockey Region by 2020
Cairns Hockey Board and its members are proud to present the 2016-2020 strategic plan for hockey in the region. It is about hockey and the development and delivery of the game in Far North Queensland and ultimately, it's about our presence, our existence and our relevance in the greater community. The regional sporting landscape is changing and is becoming a recognized product to bring economic benefit to the region. Cairns Hockey is well placed to leverage this and development programs based on sound business and social responsibility models.
2018 Annual Report Annual Report FINAL 2018
2017 Annual Report http://www.cairnshockey.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/CnsHockey_AnnualReport173.pdf
2016 Annual Report cnshockey_annualreport166
A copy of 2015 Annual Report http://www.cairnshockey.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Annual-Report.pdf
- High Level of Member Satisfaction
- Sustained Growth within the Region
- Strong Financial Performance
- Expanding competition formats – competitive and social
- Delivering Successful Pathways
- Quality Facilities and Venues
- Strong Social Responsibility Priorities
Cairns Hockey bases its existence on a series of core values, which it weaves through all program plans, programs and projects. Click below to download plans for 2018
Cairns Hockey Association | Board & Committee
Cairns Hockey Governance
Cairns Hockey aims to be "Australia's best hockey region" by 2020. Important information is available on how Cairns Hockey plans to achieve this, our volunteer Board Members and Committee members, the direction, plans and programs Cairns Hockey is taking, as well as the history of where we came from and the strategic planning to direct us into the future. To download a one-page diagram of the Cairns Hockey governance structure, click here.
Our Board
The Cairns Hockey Board comprises 5 members and has a history of being one of the best gender balanced boards throughout its history, with currently 3 women and 2 men making up the 5 members. Amongst the specialist skill sets on the board, are people with experience in finance, medicine, human resources, small business and management. The current board members are:
President- John Watts
Director of Finance – Cheryl Overlack
Sonja Noonan
Wayne Duda
Michelle Annison
A copy of recent annual reports and auditors reports are available for download below.
- Cairns Hockey Association 2015 Annual Report
- Cairns Hockey Association 2015 Auditors Report
- 2016 Cairns Hockey Annual Report
- 2017 Annual Report
- Annual Report FINAL 2018
- 30 September 2018 Cairns Hockey Association Inc – AUDITED FINANCIAL REPORT
- Annual Report 2019
- Cairns Hockey Association Inc – FINANCIAL REPORT 30 September 2019
Our Committees
To offer assistance and support to the organisation's management and its board, Cairns Hockey has a number of committees. These committees oversee, on behalf of the board of management, key areas of operation and issues in line with the strategic plan 2016- 2020.
The Committees Are:
- Facility Management Team (Terms of Reference)
- Competitions Committee (Terms of Reference)
- Recruitment and Junior Development Committee (Terms of Reference)
- Finance and Audit Committee (Terms of Reference)
- Officiating Committee
- Indoor Committee Indoor Committee Terms of Reference
- Events Committee
- Aspire Advisory Group Aspire Committee Terms of Reference
To see the members of each committee, please download our committee membership listing.
Cairns Hockey Staff
Cairns Hockey continues to drive strategic objectives. Current structure includes :-
- Align the organizational structure with the strategic pillars of its 2016-2020 strategic plan
- Prioritize the Aspire to be Deadly Program and maximize its opportunities
- Support organizational succession planning and a healthy work and life balance for Senior Staff
The process included the detailed
- Review of Aspire to be Deadly and the confirmation of the 2019-2021 Program provides Cairns Hockey with the ability to be innovative using the budget allocation for salaries and connecting ASPIRE into CAIRNS mainstream programs as part of the mentoring and pathways outcomes bringing value added benefits across the whole of the association if managed well
- Review of Coaching Department identified timing for succession planning, potential opportunities to take advantage of our current human resources available and innovate towards new programs
- Strengthening and expanding a position to market hockey in the region and build the hockey brand with organizational restructure freeing up our skilled workforce to use their significant skills in the best way possible for the association moving forward
- Aligns with our strategies for obtaining new funding sources
- Identified the need for increased club support and included this as a priority within the restructure
- Confirmation of new bookkeeping and financial processes to strengthen financial performance
Cairns Hockey Board has worked very hard engaging many different areas of the association to obtain broad based feedback and is confident the new structure moving forward will advance Cairns Hockey now and in the future.
Cairns Hockey Volunteer and Employed Workforce Information
OPERATIONS MANAGER /CEO ROLE – In practice the new structure provides the Operations Manager/CEO – Julie McNeil to have more time to focus on the Facility Development, engagement with stakeholders, government, supporters, securing funding and support to benefit Cairns Hockey and ensure all our governance, policy, compliance and reporting is undertaken in a professional and managed way. To ensure this could be done, the old Regional Coaching Director position has been reviewed and changed and competition management is transferred from Operations Manager. The management of the ASPIRE TO BE DEADLY PROGRAM remains with the Operations Manager/CEO. The primary responsibility is to ensure the driving of the 2016-2020 Strategic Plan and identified objectives using her extensive management skills and knowledge of working in not for profit sector. Aligning with this is a delivery of communication plans and engagement programs to assist clubs build capacities and to coordinate the best use of all the knowledge, skill and experience available through-out the organization. Stakeholder engagement is an important function and it is hoped that clubs and members will feel comfortable in engaging and working through challenges and opportunities. Operations Manager/CEO is the Board liaison and is responsible for day to day finance management and staff supervision.
REGIONAL COMPETITION AND COACHING DIRECTOR – The new role has a new name REGIONAL COMPETITION AND COACHING DIRECTOR to better reflect its role. David McNeil retains this position and is responsible for driving the strategic objectives of sustained growth, expanding competitive and social competitions and successful pathways. This includes taking over the management of the CHA competition, chairing the competitions committee, drives and delivers local and regional competition, coaching support, mentors and training, game development, recruitment and retention across pre season, winter, summer, Indoor, Social and Rep programs including Academy and other pathway programs.
REGIONAL PROGRAMS COORDINATOR – This role is upgraded and Wes Ferns' will expand his role to support
- Coach Education
- Skill Based Program Support
- Talent ID Programs in particular Under 18, Under 15, Under 13 and Under 11
- Aspire Support
- School recruitment
Wes will report to Regional Competitions and Coaching Director in all aspects of growth, competition and pathway associated programs, Wes has the added responsibility of reporting to Operations Manager in relation to the Aspire to be Deadly Program. This role reports to the CHA Board through the Operations Manager.
ASPIRE AMBASSADOR – Jess Fatnowna- this is a casual position designed to strengthen the mentor support program delivered across Aspire and works to coordinate local and regional opportunities
CAIRNS HOCKEY DEVELOPMENT OFFICER – Lisa Fatnowna continues her role in this position and after nearly 1 year in the role as a school based trainee. Lisa has been asked to advance her roles in recruitment and development, will be assisting in school hockey programs, assist the Junior Programs, deliver Aspire to be Deadly and her role is expanded to offer some administrative support
CAIRNS HOCKEY DEVELOPMENT OFFICER – Jayden Atkinson begins this role in January 2019 and is a casual position to support junior hockey advancement and skill development. Jayden will also develop a role with media support as the year progresses
GROUNDSMAN AND CARETAKER – Rance Wallace continues in his role of ensuring the facility is maintained and delivered to our members in the best possible condition. Reporting to the Operations Manager, this position has a dual role of maintaining the facility within the budgets available and coordinating the ongoing repairs and upkeep in a professional manner and dealing with any emergency situation relating to the facility. This role also has the responsibility of ensuring the security of the facility. This position includes the residence on the premises.
BOOKKEEPER- RODNEY ELLWOOD– brings extensive experience and skill in financial control practices and process to Cairns Hockey supporting the strategic objective of strong financial performance. Rodney will work with Operations Manager to produce budgets, financial reporting to Board Members and checks and balances to ensure compliance across statutory and other financial responsibility. Both Rodney and Julie will work closely with Director of Finance to ensure Board support.
MEMBERSHIP AND COMPETITIONS SUPPORT OFFICER- JANICE NOONAN continues in a part time role designed to support the restructure. This role has undergone some changes and it is important to understand that Janice will be reporting to Regional Competition and Coaching Director in all matters relating to competition and her role across competition will be driven through the priorities identified through competition committee. Janice is also the person to contact in relation to the membership data base.
FACILITY AND GAME SERVICES SUPPORT – MEGAN SCHENK This role that has been created to ensure there is a point of contact relating to the facilities support – hiring/training/repairs and maintenance , coordinate and supervise food and beverage responsibilities on site, and support Talent Pathways through representative travel/mentoring. This is a dynamic role and with the improvements being completed, the role will be reviewed to ensure all new responsibilities are overseen with possible additional support. This role is filled by Megan Schenk and it becomes a full time role at Cairns Hockey. This position will work from the Lake Street office. The role will also support the Operations Manager/CEO in day to day activities, with event support an added role during the year. Megan is the point of contact for all club and member inquiries apart from competition matters.
CANTEEN SUPERVISOR – To Be advised will fill the role originally setup by Penny in 2016 on a casual basis responsible for the delivery of food and beverage services through the canteen. We have been reviewing this role and Peter will have a greater role in delivering quality service and products, statutory and health service compliance, ordering, and financial reporting. Peter will also be responsible for recruitment and training of canteen support personnel.
BAR SUPERVISOR- Brian Ferns continues in his role on a casual basis ensuring the bar is running efficiently and effectively and meeting the needs of our members. Brian has been undertaking this role and we appreciate his commitment and support to Cairns Hockey.
FACILITY SUPPORT – Ray Bolton works with Rance to provide specialist skills and knowledge on a casual basis.
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- London shop sells super-chocolatey hot chocolate.
- It's decorated with three types of sauce: white, milk and dark chocolate.
- The family recipe comes from Rome and goes back over 80 years.
Said Dal 1923, in London's Soho, creates Instagram-worthy hot chocolates.
Each one starts with an overflow of white, milk, and dark chocolate drizzled around the rim of a cup.
The cup is filled with hot chocolate, made from melting a block of chocolate and adding milk mixture. The hot chocolate comes in three flavors: milk, dark and gianduia (hazelnut).
The recipe comes from its original shop in Rome, Italy. They now have two branches in London - on Broadwick Street and Rathbone Place.
The shop sells pralines and chocolate bars. It also covers cakes and strawberries in melted chocolate, for an extreme chocolaty experience.
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Jumping feet first into the world of furniture painting and refinishing can be intimidating. That's why Cindy Klein, owner of The Painted Crate, offers three levels of workshop classes. Whether you're just getting started or already know the basics, her workshops will help you take your skills to the next level so you can begin creating pieces you love.
This class is for the true beginner. Cindy will walk you through everything you need to know about painting furniture. You can bring in something small and easy. If you don't have anything, don't worry, she has a piece for you to learn on. You'll learn two painting techniques, she'll teach you about wax and poly finishes, and she'll provide everything you need. This three-hour class is best when 1 – 3 people are enrolled, and the cost is $60 per person.
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|The Inside Passage's Tilly 1*M
50% Grade Nubian - GN1388478
|Please click on name for detailed pedigree information.
|Tilly has been with us since she was 6 days old and is our first Alaska goat and the founding member of the Ketchi-Kids herd. She has been
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per day. When milked through for two years she was still producing over 6# per day at the end of the lactation. 2011 marked Tilly's first season on
milk test and she was able to continue her stellar production and easily earn her milk star.
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50% Nubian/50% Saanen - E1507527
|During the time we were waiting for the kids that we had reserved to be born
this little gal happened along on the Black Mesa Ranch in Arizona. We are
partial to Experimentals and Grades here at Ketchi-kids and she was just too
adorable not to add to our doe lineup, so Blondie made the trip north with a
couple of Nubian friends. Blondie kidded with a single buckling in March 2011,
and proceeded to milk well enough to easily earn her milk star as a first
|"I'm Baaaaad!"
|Blondie @ 4 months old
|Blondie @ 5 months old
|4 year old Tilly
|Black Mesa Lillith's Hollyhock (Holly)
PB Nubian - N1547177
|Once again, coming to us all the way from the fine herd of
Black Mesa Ranch in AZ. This girl has some FANTASTIC
bloodlines and production records behind her and we are
very excited to see what she can do for us here in our herd.
|Black Mesa Espeez's Penelope (Penny)
Purebred Nubian - N1547174
|Penelope is the littermate sister to our new junior herdsire, Alexander. We had reserved a doe or a buck from this particular
breeding and when Espeez decided to be cooperative and give us one of each it was just impossible to pick one over the other and
so we just bought them both! Hoping this beautiful little gal will follow in her mother's footsteps. Her dam, Espeez, has been a
DHIR Elite Doe for 4 years running so she will have to take LARGE steps in order to keep up. ;0)
|Blondie at one week old and the queen of
the barrel!
Thanks to Kathryn at BMR for the great pic!
|Penny at 3 months old.
|O.K. So Penny has more than a bit of an underbite, but how can you resist this face? (Or the production records on her paperwork?!)
|5 year old Tilly
|Holly at 3 months old
|Ketchi-Kids Blizzard's Wintry Mix (Mix)
Purebred Nubian - PN1582770
|Mix is a full sister to our girl Flurry from last spring. We weren't intending to keep
a doe from this breeding, but she just looked too promising to pass up. We no
longer own her sire or dam so this is also the last time for this breeding, so figured
we might as well keep her. ;0)
|Ketchi-Kids Penelope's Meryl (Meryl)
Purebred Nubian - PN1625206
|Meryl and her brother we born unexpectedly 10 days early. Luckily we came
home from Wal-mart before they got too cold! Meryl is much improved over her
mother in so many ways that we decided to keep her so we could see how she
|Ketchi-Kids Holly's Natasha (Tasha)
Purebred Nubian - PN1625205
|Tasha's dam, Holly, is one of our best producers and she is only a first freshener,
so when she threw a beautiful doeling with some flashy markings and a wonderful
top line is was a no-brainer to keep her!
|Reuel Rida's EXP Rena (Rena)
Purebred Nubian - PN1629231
|Seems that this was the year for impulse purchases. Sigh. This girl was my
second choice breeding and was born while I was waiting on my first choice to be
born. She was born on my birthday, so I figured that I was supposed to have her,
and the rest is history. LOL


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American Airlines does not have any personnel in Beijing, so if you need assistance with rebooking or trying to make a flight the only way to do so is to call the United States. American outsources their check-in counter personnel to Air China, and Air China shuts down the counter early to force fliers that can make a flight to miss their flight and have to rebooked on Air China.
American only has one flight a day out of Beijing, and it's partner airlines in One World cannot get you to another destination in time to make another American flight to the US on the same day.
You will be forced to wait another day to leave China, and you will be forced to pay for all of the rebooking fees and differences in the flight costs even though Air China running the counter for American shuts the counter down early so that they can try to force you to fly Air China.
Do not fly American into or out of Beijing the cheaper flight is not worth the hassle because the likelihood of you getting screwed over and be forced to pay more than you would have to fly on United, Cathay, Air China, Korean Air, Asiana, Continential, or any other airline that has daily flights to the US out of Beijing.
I see you learned the game American Airlines is playing.
Yes, you are exactly right about Beijing Airport, and American Airlines.
I was going to Manila Philippines and had to go from one terminal to the other in Beijing, American Airline would not give the connecting flight boarding passes so we had to get it from the Philippine Airline Ticket Counter, it closed 10 minutes early. So 16 passengers waited one hour and ten minutes to see our flight leave.
Then we all had to wait another twelve hours to buy another connection flight to Manila Philippines. All the time running into the rudest employees I have ever had to deal with. We finally decided to go direct to Philippine Airlines and bypass AA paying $224 for the rebooking AA wanted over $300 for.
And I have never seen a ruder airport staff than Beijing. They would put a hand in the face and refuse to help.
This won't happen again I will never fly AA, or go through Beijing.
Obviously AA no fly was late for a flight and had problems. We flew in and out of Beijing on American got to the airport on time and had no problems.
It is true that they only have one flight but, that is the way it is to Shanghai and to Deli also.
It is all worth while when you get on the plane and it is ice cold in the summer and warm in the winter. Unlike the other planes in and out of Beijing.


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We Must Get Our Prayers From God
We Must Get Our Prayers From God.
It does not follow that because a thing is the will of God, He will necessarily lead you to pray for it. He may have other burdens for you. We must get our prayers from God, and pray to know His will. It may take time. God was dealing with Hudson Taylor for 15 years before He laid upon him the burden of definite prayer for the foundation of the China Inland Mission. God is not in a hurry. He cannot do things with us until we are trained and ready for them. It is a solemn thing to enter into a faith covenant with God. It is binding on both parties. You lift up your hand to God, you definitely ask for and definitely receive His proffered gift – then do not go back on your faith, even if you live to be a hundred.
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Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Pharmaceutical Chemistry is the study of the molecular and mechanistic aspects of pharmaceuticals. The discipline emphasizes the chemistry of drug design and development, drug action, drug transport, drug delivery, and targeting. The development of new pharmaceuticals is critically dependent on a molecular-level understanding of biological processes and mechanisms of drug action. Progress in the field now depends on the design and synthesis of new molecules using tools such as structure activity relationships, combinatorial chemistry, and computer-aided drug design. In recent years rational design of drugs tuned to specific target sites is becoming a reality due to concurrent advances in chemistry and biology, including elucidation of the human genome. Chemists continue to be at the forefront of drug design, synthesis, testing, and development. Pharmaceutical Chemistry will emphasize the molecular basis underlying the creation of new drugs and health applications of bioactive compounds.
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Pharmaceutical chemistry is a discipline at the intersection of chemistry, especially synthetic organic chemistry, and pharmacology and various other biological specialties, where they are involved with design, chemical synthesis and development for market of pharmaceutical agents, or bio-active molecules (drugs). In particular, Pharmaceutical chemistry in its most common guide focusing on small organic molecules encompasses synthetic organic chemistry and aspects of natural products and computational chemistry in close combination with chemical biology, enzymology and structural biology, together aiming at the discovery and development of new therapeutic agents. Practically speaking, it involves chemical aspects of identification, and then systematic, thorough synthetic alteration of new chemical entities to make them suitable for therapeutic use. It includes synthetic and computational aspects of the study of existing drugs and agents in development in relation to their bioactivities (biological activities and properties), i.e., understanding their structure-activity relationships (SAR). Pharmaceutical chemistry is focused on quality aspects of medicines and aims to assure fitness for purpose of medicinal products.
Computer-assisted drug design (CADD), also called computer-assisted molecular design (CAMD), represents more recent applications of computers as tools in the drug design process. Quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSAR) represent an attempt to correlate structural or property descriptors of compounds with activities. These physicochemical descriptors, which include parameters to account for hydrophobicity, topology, electronic properties, and steric effects, are determined empirically or, more recently, by computational methods. Activities used in QSAR include chemical measurements and biological assays. QSAR currently are being applied in many disciplines, with many pertaining to drug design and environmental risk assessment.
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Viewed by: 12922 people Comments (8) Category: Discussions, Phyllis Jones Tags: inclusive schools
Phyllis Jones is an associate professor in Special Education at the University of SouthFlorida. Her research interests include inclusion, insider perspectives, andthe education of teachers of students with low incidence disabilities. She iscurrently Principal Investigator of a project that supports meaningful accessto general education for students with low incidence disabilities.
When I was a young girl living in the North East of England, our main form of transport out of the small town was a public bus. My family and I would sit in the bus shelter waiting for the bus to arrive with a sense of positive anticipation of the trip we were going to take. However, on occasion we would wait and the bus would not arrive at the scheduled time; sometimes the bus was late and sometimes it did not come at all. On many of these occasions, we had to return home or change our plans for the day. We never knew if the bus that was late would actually come, and I remember vividly, the sense of worry I had about whether the bus would ever come at all.
This feeling of worry is something that I currently experience as I work in the South West of Florida. The focus of my concern is about how far we have actually come as a community to develop and support meaningful inclusion opportunities for students with severe and complex disabilities. Two recent experiences have brought this unease to the forefront.
In a recent conversation with a mom, I was told about her 3rd grade son with Down Syndrome, Sean. In his school career so far, Sean has had a series of schooling experiences that have been both inclusive and self contained. As his mom relayed his story, it illustrated to me the sketchy nature of inclusive provision in the state. For two years Sean was able to take advantage of a co teach inclusion classroom. The next year he was placed in a general education first grade classroom with the constant support of his mother. Going into 3rd grade, he was placed in a segregated class for younger students, because he was not able to read and was not seen to 'fit in' academically with his age appropriate Varying Exceptionalities (VE) classroom. This story showed me how tenuous inclusive opportunities are for families and children alike. It illustrates how professionals can look at a young boy, and with the 'best professional intentions'; adopt the most dangerous assumption, leading to segregation. The stumbling block for Sean is that he cannot read, Mom notes that he has not actually received reading instruction so far in his school career. In order to be included it appears that children must read and therefore Sean must earn his way into the general education classroom by becoming a reader.
I was reminded of another family in a similar situation in the North East of England over ten years ago. Nadia is a sister to four siblings and a vivacious daughter to Katie and Andy. She is deaf and has Cerebral Palsy. Nadia was six years old when I first met her. At the time, the family lived in a small village and Nadia attended a kindergarten class that was attached to the elementary school her brother and sisters attended. All the children walked to school together. Nadia made lots of friends and was a central part of the school community. Unfortunately, at the end of her kindergarten year the school began a conversation about a separate 1st grade provision for Nadia. Professionals believed Nadia had severe intellectual disabilities because of the complexity of her cerebral palsy and deafness. They believed the general education setting was not an appropriate placement for her. Again a 'most dangerous assumption' was adopted and it was suggested that Nadia attend a segregated center school many miles away from the village. I had the pleasure of meeting Nadia who indeed presented as a very complex little girl. Mom and Dad believed she was bright, but the assessment processes administered did not represent her ability, just her disability. When I met Nadia, I indeed encountered a very bright and alert young girl who enjoyed playing and teasing her brothers and sisters. She was a beautiful communicator, especially with her friends, but alas not in the formal communication systems we share as a community.
The family believed strongly that they wanted all of their children to attend the same school, so they began a search around the UK for a school that would welcome them all. They found one, over 300 miles away and decided to relocate the whole family. Ten years later, last week, I received an email giving me a progress report on Nadia. She has enjoyed a successful school career and just passed her exams that allow her to attend college. She is an active member on the local community council and is working towards a career in the health services. She has sleepovers with an array of friends, has a penchant for black nail varnish and appears very 'up' on fashion trends! School has clearly been so much more than academics for Nadia and illustrates the powerful impact of the hidden as well as explicit curriculum experiences in a student's school career. I wonder what Nadia's story would be if Kate and Andy had acquiesced to professional advice and sent Nadia to the segregated special school.
In order to remain in general education successfully, Nadia received a tremendous amount of support. Her schools have been creative and open to learning about Nadia with the strong acknowledgement that Nadia belonged in the school. The use of Assistive Technology showed Nadia has many more abilities than her obvious impairments. As professionals, it is apparent in research, professional literature and pockets of practice that we appreciate that meaningful inclusion is complex. We appreciate it requires a systemic approach to change that acknowledges Universal Design for Learning. We also are aware of the role of positive professional attitudes and the need to believe that all children can learn.
However, I feel as if I am waiting at a bus stop and that the bus is just not arriving. In my twelve years as a teacher educator my approach to professional development and systems change has been an optimistic one, believing that we will build effective inclusive schools. I trust that I am contributing to the building of such schools slowly and strongly as I impact professional attitudes, policies and practices through my teaching, service and research. In August of 2009, I am troubled that in a few weeks, when school resumes, there are many children, like Nadia and Sean; who are waiting at 'bus stops' around the country for a bus to take them to their neighborhood community school. But, that bus may never come, or if it comes, as in the story of Sean, it has frequent breakdowns. I think about how many children we deprive of a rigorous and relevant general education because we use particular systems and processes of assessment and then the children do not 'fit in' to the status quo of current general education provision. All of this pondering poses many questions a couple of which keep coming to mind:
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We (IEP team) received a psychoeducational evaluation on a student from a well know clinic for students with disabilities on the east coast. It was very disheartening to read in the report that although the school district was commended for educating this student in the general education program with supports, the parents and school team should discuss this child receiving literacy and math instruction in a separate environment as the curriculum in the classroom was going to be too challenging. Why are they not aware that not every child has to learn to same thing at the same time in the classroom and that content can be modified significantly. I have been given access to communicate with the team learder at this clinic and I will have the integration vs. segregation conversation but I am appalled I need to have this conversation. The medical model of 'treating' disabilities still prevails strongly in the community of 'experts' where parents seek answers to their child's needs.
Thank you Joan – your response raises issues related to Universal Design for Learning…until we accept that our schools and classrooms must be designed for all students at the outset. Kroeger (2004) talks about the curriculum of UDL being one that does not need adaptation. This is a very powerful vision that I believe is a very challenging concept for policy makers and educators, as it questions our current traditional approach to curriculum. I appreciate your response Joan – please keep up the quest for effective inclusive practice!
I share the frustration many educators are facing when attempting to include students with disabilities in the general education setting. State and Federal mandates require students to particicpate in standardized assessments that are grade level specific. While we can identify accommodations and modifications, the student is required to take their grade level assessment even if they are receiving instruction on a modified level. I appreciate the accountability such assessment provides, but for inclusive efforts to be realized, we must allow for individual differences to guide both the instruction and assessment for students with disabilities. Recognizing professional judgement in this area could serve to open doors for inclusive practice for many more cildren.
My newest hope lies in efforts related to response to intervention/instruction. This pushes the educational system to base needs and services on the needs of an indivudal rather than on a label. It also requires flexible responsive grouping rather than a single classroom or service provided all the time for a designated group of students. As the system adapts to this practice, I think there will be more frequent decisions based on regularly assessments in classrooms as opposed to a psych. test. Sudent's strengths will be identifed and recognized as well as their needs. And it won't take a label to get services to meet the needs.
I believe we are moving in the right direction and see many more positive inclusion experiences than years ago. As leaders in education, we need to keep the focus and direction clear so we don't get pulled off course with the many obsticles that will always come up.
I appreciated reading of your experiences with inclusion and how spotty it appears to be, not just in the US but elsewhere. My experience as an educational administrator has convinced me that we really do not have any state or district expectations for meaningful inclusion. Our schools are left on their own to decide on how students with disabilities will receive their instruction. An individual school can be develop a state of the art program but they are usually on their own to do so. That cannot be acceptable if we are to make any real progress.
At the university level, expectations for inclusive practices must be part of the training for administrators and for general education teachers and must come from their general education professors. I am glad you are at our local university and can use your influence at this critical level.
Phyllis, your comments mirror the experiences in Australia also. We do not have legislated (mandatory) IEPs or assistive technology requirements for schools, only tyhe notion of 'providing for students'needs'. Although the education departments usually require some form of provision, the format is quite open. We are in the process of developing a national curriculum for all states, and there is a conspicuous lack of reference to supporting the needs of ALL students. This is very discouraging as UDL should be the focus of the new curriculum, and in fact it is the perfect time to incorporate these principles. Hopefully the bus will not pass by without picking us up.
I agree with the earlier comment from Fran, that in order for the inclusive model to be sucessful general education teachers must receive adequate training at the university level. To expect general education teachers to teach students with special needs in a regular ed classroom with no training on how to do this is unfair to the teacher and to the student. I also beleive this training should not be restricted to 1 or 2 classes squeezed into the curriculum but should be imersed through out a teachers training/education. In this way the teacher is given multiple opportunities to gain education and training themselves. In todays world teachers who are currently working who received their post grad experience years ago are often ill equipted to educate children with special needs in a regular ed class. This is in no way the teachers fault but is a need that should be addressed.
In my role as a speech-language pathologist in the public schools of Sarasota County I have had the opportunity to be part of the inclusion model. In many ways it can serve special needs children well. However in my opinion proceeding with caution is indicated here. We must be careful that we do not rob special need students of their opportunity to an individualized education. The reality of regular ed classrooms is that the possibility of this is all to real. Teachers even when they differentiate the curriculum are not individualizing it. If so how could a teacher be expected to cover the curriculum completely in one year. I don't feel that special need students need to earn their way in but they do need to be able to have some degree of participating with their peers. It may not sound as though I am an advocate of inclusion but I am in certain circumstances for some children. In twenty years of my school experience I have not found any one model to be the fix. I do like a blend of inclusion with support services so the child can benefit from both models. I would like to note that specialty center schools have their place in educational system. In Sarasota County we have two schools for Exceptional Student Education, each providing educational services otherwise unavailable at regular school sites. Pine View services gifted students and Oak Park services students with varying disabilities. Staff is specially trained and programs, equipment and other factors have parents opting for these types of school placements. I do agree the bus has been slow to arrive if at all.
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k-Caldarella, Michael A. Vincent. b. July 28, 1898, San Francisco, California; Italian American; Grammar school education; Prior military service in the US Army Medical Corps, PFC; Divorced; Railroad engineer (Seaman?); received passport# 453906 on June 29, 1937 which listed his address as 788 9th Avenue, San Francisco, California; Sailed July 3, 1937 aboard the Berengaria; Served with the XV BDE, Mackenzie-Papineau BN; Killed in action March 17, 1938, Caspe, during the Retreats.
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Singapore has had only six finance ministers since it became self-governing in 1959, and from tomorrow there will be a seventh.
Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, 50, joins the select list when he takes over the post Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has helmed since 2001.
To observers and the financial community, it is a natural progression in his career and he is the right man for the job.
Mr Tharman spent much of his professional career at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the central bank and financial regulator.
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He quit to join politics in 2001 and was one of the seven newcomers thrown into the political deep end as they were given appointments right after being elected.
Even in 2001, the talk among financial analysts was that given his MAS pedigree, he was certain to take over the finance portfolio from Mr Lee when the latter succeeded then-prime minister Goh Chok Tong.
Mr Lee kept the Finance post on becoming Prime Minister in August 2004, but Mr Tharman became MAS deputy chairman that same year.
That, and his appointment as Second Finance Minister in May last year signalled there was no change in course and his delivery of this year's Budget was further confirmation of this.
With the promotion announced yesterday, he joins the ranks of other finance ministers: Dr Goh Keng Swee, Mr Lim Kim San, Mr Hon Sui Sen, Dr Tony Tan, Dr Richard Hu and PM Lee.
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Citibank Singapore chief executive Jonathan Larsen added: "Tharman took on a role as managing director of MAS during Singapore's transition period towards a more liberalised banking sector. He has been instrumental in helping the financial sector to thrive and attract multinational players to set up operations here."
But there remain challenges: improving Singapore's competitiveness despite growing pressures from an ageing population and widening income gap, cost of living issues, and meeting the pressures of globalisation.
But as West Coast GRC MP Arthur Fong put it: "As Education Minister, even though he is not a trained educator, he put his heart into the job, and it showed. So going into the role of Finance Minister, you know he not only has the heart, but the technical capabilities as well."
Indeed, Mr Tharman is credited for having an indelible mark in Education – a portfolio he will keep until after next year's Budget.
He is credited, among other things, for allowing mainstream schools to run budgets and operations more independently; boosting prospects for Institute of Technical Education students; and making significant changes to streaming.
Said Mr Fong: "He exceeded a lot of people's expectations by putting the fun back in learning. 'Teach less learn more' wasn't just a convenient term. He put it to work to allow not only children but also parents, to enjoy new ways of learning."
Agreeing, businessman Anson Lim, 50, a father of three boys, said Mr Tharman got schools and parents to realise that children have different abilities and intelligences:
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But Mr Tharman himself said he was only keeping up the momentum and direction of change since he took over from Mr Teo Chee Hean in 2003.
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