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Join us at these river activities in 2019!
Annual Spring River Clean-up – Saturday, March 30, 2019
We'll meet at different sites along the river to restore healthy shorelines by removing litter, debris, and trash.
Appomattox Regional Riverside Park 5K TRAIL RUN
Saturday, April 6, 2019
Prince George County hosts a run through the woods and along the Appomattox River Trail (ART).
RiverFest! on the ART – Saturday, April 27, 2019
A day of family fun to celebrate and learn about our river heritage, nature, and recreation at historic Ferndale Appomattox Riverside Park.
20TH JRAC Annual Regional River Clean-up – Saturday, September 14, 2019.
Join the regional clean-up of the James River and its tributaries (Appomattox). FOLAR volunteers will meet at sites along the river.
12TH Annual Paddle or Battle the Appomattox River
Saturday, September 28, 2019
A leisurely paddle or exciting race to the finish.


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As a paralegal in KJK's Domestic Relations & Family Law Group, Carey provides support to clients in matters such as divorce, child custody, dissolution, alimony and child support issues, juvenile court proceedings for unwed parents, prenuptial agreements and adoptions.
Carey delivers an efficient, detail-oriented and compassionate approach to client service, which helps to make emotionally complex matters easier for families during difficult times. With prior experience as a bankruptcy paralegal, Carey also is skilled in navigating the financial implications of domestic relations cases.
In his spare time, Carey is an amateur photographer and videographer, and is also a foodie who spends his time exploring Northeast Ohio's latest restaurants and craft breweries.

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These washable paper bags charm with a leathery look
Jan 16, 2018, 6:36 AM EST
(Source: https://www.uashmama.com)
The idea of washable paper sounds too strange to be true, but an Italian brand called Uashmama is crafting beautiful bags with such a material and making them look and feel just like leather.
The company's unique line, including paper purses, wine bags, backpacks, and messenger bags, offers eco-conscious buyers an opportunity to contribute their bit in diverting the waste that heaps up at the landfill sites, writes Green Matters.
The secret behind these "leather-clone" bags is the virgin cellulose fiber that can be stretched and tanned to endure washing, notes Rappler. More importantly, this fiber is derived by cultivation and not deforestation.


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A local reservoir... A nice walk around, quite a few walkers, and a few cyclists, plenty of dogs too!
It's been such a long time since I actually walked anywhere! Every single muscle in my legs and adjoining are aching, real bad! Even those muscles at the front of my shins!!! Crazy eh!?!
That photograph above could be the view from the terrace! The mountain bit I mean...
The information at the reservoir, I, not intentionally! followed a woman onto the entrance to the area, I turned right at the gate, she went left, we past eachother on the route around and she left just before me, but I stopped a few times to take photographs, and stopped for a drink!
This photograph I took yesterday on my way down to the local shops, climbing back up to here was challenging! Lol... For eight weeks on placement, the furthest I walked was around the supermarket! Nothing up or downhill! I thought my heart was going to jump out of my chest climbing back up here!!
Last Saturday we went to Palm Springs, what an amazingly fabulous evening! Met up with a cousin I hadn't seen in far too many years... And I had one too many Screaming Zombies!
Popped into a casino on the way home too!


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Frank Henry Mason
1875 – 1965
S.S. Arankola in Rangoon
Image size: 8 x 15 inches
Hand made gilt frame
Reginald Shuffrey
Flourished 1920 – 1940
The Town Hall
Coloured inks, initialled lower right and dated "20th February 1937" verso
Image size: 6 x 22 inches
Gilt frame
Shuffrey was an important pre-war artist who did advertisements and worked for The Motor and The Autocar and other contemporary motoring magazines. As early as 1912 he was working for The Motor producing header sketches.
He worked for The Morris Owner magazine from April 1924, and did many cover designs for The Autocar commencing on 11 November 1927 with an advert for Rugby cars.
Shuffrey was also a popular book illustrator of the 1930's working on books for Ward Lock publishers and others. He is also noted for his London Underground poster for Speedway events dated 1928. He was the son of the artist James Allen Shuffrey (1859 - 1939).
British School
Early 20th Century
Gouache, signed with initial 'D'
Image size: 16 ¾ x 11 ¾ inches
Contemporary painted frame
George Leech
Pembrokeshire Coast
Oil on canvas, signed
Image Size: 39 x 49 inches (101 x 126 cm)
This is an original artwork for the British Railways Western Region poster.
The artist's Manresa Road Chelsea studio label verso, inscribed "Painted for British Railways NFS".
Alan Durman
Oil on board, signed lower right
Image size: 23 ¼ x 19 inches
Hand made frame
In his early days he received a photographic training in Weymouth, moved to London and was soon appointed to the Display Department of the Imperial Tobacco Co. as artist and photographer. Later he transferred to Mardon Son and Hall.
During the War he served as an officer in the R.A.S.C. He worked in all types of materials and gained a reputation as a mural artist, producing work for the Berkeley Cafe, Clifton and in Saltford Community Hall.
He was a successful poster designer some of which posters were nude studies. One done for British Railways caused a furore with Ramsgate Local Council.
He lived at Saltford where he died in 1963 aged 58.
Norman Wilkinson CBE PRI
1878 - 1971
Iona Abbey
Oil on canvas, signed and dated 1928, lower right
Image Size: 30 x 45 inches (76 x 114.5 cm)
Art Deco style frame
Commissioned by London, Midland & Scottish Railway in 1929
Private Collection
This is one of a series of works commissioned by the London, Midland and Scottish Railways (LMS) that Wilkinson produced to promote travel to the highlands and islands.
Norman Wilkinson might be considered the father of modern railway poster design. Before his involvement with the LMS, the standard of railway artwork was variable and frequently repetitive and low quality. In enlisting Wilkinson, the LMS strove to lead the way in producing more striking poster designs to appeal to the travelling public, ushering in what has become known as the golden age of the railway poster.
Wilkinson rose to the challenge of not only designing large numbers of posters himself, but also proposing the revolutionary idea of approaching Royal Academy artists to design further posters.
Algernon Talmage R. A.
Oil on canvas, signed
Image size: 30 x 45 inches
Art Deco style frame
Algernon Talmage was born in Fifield, Oxfordshire, on 23 February 1871, the second son of John Mayow Talmage by his second wife, Susan Penkivil. Both his mother and his paternal grandmother were of Cornish stock.
During his childhood, he was involved in an accident with a gun, which crippled his right hand. As a result, he would paint with his left hand, and be exempted from active service in the First World War.
Little is known of Talmage's early education, though it has been suggested that he spent a short time at university. However, he studied under Sir Hubert von Herkomer at his school of art in Bushey, Hertfordshire. Founded in 1883, the school allowed British artists to pursue an almost Continental training. The students were put to drawing heads from life and from life-casts, and every three months were allowed to try for entry into life classes, which consisted of drawing from nude models.
The emphasis on studying from life, which Talmage received under Herkomer, provided him with the ability to become a versatile painter in the naturalistic tradition.By 1888, Talmage and two of his fellow students, Arnesby Brown and William Titcomb, had discovered in St Ives, Cornwall, the familiar security of a small art colony such as that which they had known in Bushey. Along with such artists as Julius Olsson and Adrian Stokes, Talmage founded an Artists' Club, which enabled these painters of the sea to meet and discuss different techniques for capturing the essence of the wild and rugged north coast of Cornwall.
By 1900, Talmage and Olsson had established the Cornish School of Landscape, Figure and Sea Painting. The Cornish coastline, made beautiful by the ever-changing light and moods of the sea, enabled Talmage to establish his characteristic mellow palette and enchanting use of light.
Continental 1946
Cote d'Or
Gouache on paper
Image size: 37½ x 24 inches
We have a selection of these striking original artworks for advertisements, all by the same artist.
Continental 1946
Jacques Super Chocolat
Gouache on paper
Image size: 38 x 24 ½ inches
We have a selection of these striking original artworks for advertisements.
Continental 1946
Record, Geneva
Gouache on paper, initialled and dated lower right
Image size: 38 x 24 inches
We have a selection of these striking original artworks for advertisements, all by the same artist.
European 1946
Gouache on paper
Image size: 38 x 24 inches
We have a selection of these striking original artworks for advertisements, all by the same artist.
Continental 1946
Gibbs Toothpaste
Gouache on paper
Image size: 38 x 24 inches
We have a selection of these striking original artworks for advertisements, all by the same artist.


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My motor stalled and the red LED was flashing continuously. What is wrong?
The ignition has sensed either too much current or a short circuit draw from the coil (S), or seen excessive charging system voltage. This should be examined prior to condemning the 2000i. Also, be sure to check the chassis ground and the ground cable (s). A poor ground can also cause a random stall.


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There is no villa so affordably luxurious as Villa Camilla Bali – set in the heart of Canggu. Located along Batu Bolong aka. the heart line of Canggu – you are a walk or quick scoot to everything – position perfection.
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Villa Camilla Bali provides all modern amenities you could hope for in-house, while being located in the hippest neighbourhood in the Gu. The Jalan Batu Bolong area is growing at such a rate, that you will not be left without things to do or places to eat. Canggu's hottest yoga studio, The Practice, is within walking distance, as are many of our favourite cafes: get your health kick at Motion Cafe or Eden Cafe or drop by Gypsy for an afternoon cocktail. Top nightlife spots like Old Man's and Deus are also close by, as is Batu Bolong beach, where you can master the basics of surfing or watch others do so while you sip on an ice cold coconut on the deck at The Lawn.
Whether you're looking forward to spending your holiday lazing around the pool and getting food delivered to the luxury of your own villa, or you'd rather explore every little corner of our favourite seaside town, Villa Camilla Bali is your go-to in the heart of the Gu!


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There has been an elevator at the Bonaventure métro station for about four years now, yet no one bound by a wheelchair can access it. That's because although an elevator links the platform with the station's underground turnstiles, there are no elevators linking the station's underground entrance to the street.
Bonventure métro station has an elevator, but nobody can get to it
There has been an elevator at the Bonaventure métro station for about four years now, yet no one in a wheelchair can access it.
That's because although an elevator links the platform with the station's underground turnstiles, there are no elevators linking the métro's underground entrance to the street.
A plan to rectify the situation has been plagued with delays.
The STM only owns the station, not any of the buildings that lead to it, so building an elevator from the street level falls on the shoulders of the Agence métropolitaine de transport.
In 2011, the AMT announced a plan to build three elevators, costing an estimated $5.9 million, in the Terminus Centre-Ville at 1000 de la Gauchetière St., adjacent to the métro station, where buses arrive from the South Shore. The elevators would link the Centre Sud and Sud terminals both to the building's lobby, and to the Bonaventure métro station.
The transit body had to negotiate with the owner of the building, Ivanhoe Cambridge, and, ironically, the STM to get access to the spots where it would like to build the elevators.
The project has been delayed because the AMT revised its design of the elevators in 2012 to make them larger, said AMT spokesperson Fanie St-Pierre.
"It also took a very long time to put together the plans and specifications for the project, as well as the call for tenders," St-Pierre said. "It is a complicated project."
She added the AMT expects to go to tenders sometime in 2015, but did not know how long construction would last.
The delays are very frustrating for Laurence Parent, who gets around in a wheelchair and is an advocate for those with reduced mobility.
"We have been waiting for five years already, and every year, they say, 'oh, it's going to be next year,' " Parent said. "Even though there is an elevator in the métro, the station itself is completely inaccessible."
She added that access to the Bonaventure métro is key to granting more mobility to people who are in wheelchairs because the station is situated near commuter train lines, most of which have some access for wheelchairs.
Seven of the STM's 68 métro stations are fully accessible: the Montmorency, Cartier and de la Concorde stations in Laval, which were built with elevators, Berri-UQAM, Lionel-Groulx (only for the Orange Line), Côte-Vertu and Henri-Bourassa. The STM is focusing on the Orange Line first because that's where the first three wheelchair-accessible stations were built. The Jean-Talon and Champ-de-Mars stations are next in line for elevators. The plan is for all 68 stations to be eventually equipped with elevators.
Parent said she's not holding her breath.
"They build a new station every three or four years," she said. "At this rate, we'll see the whole network completed by the year 2085. It's terrible."


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Sorry for the lack of #BL12 posts the past two weeks- I didn't get to watch the show until later in the week and by that time thought a recap was too postdated.
Luckily this week I actually was able to watch the show on Tuesday night (1/2 hr delayed so I didn't have to watch the commercials of course) and I am so glad I did- GREAT episode!
Trainers: Dolvett really had to kick John's butt this week or else he was at risk of going home. The last thing this show needs is Dolvett to go home so I am really glad they managed to hold on for one more week.
Competitions: The Thanksgiving eating challenge was actually pretty gross. None of that food looked good! Lucky for him Vinny was able to win the 3 lb advantage and the rest of the contestants were left with excess calories to burn off.
The Jacob's ladder challenge is always one of my favorites because the contestants actually have to do a lot of physical activity to win it. An hour and a half of any type of cardio is no joke but I am guessing it was very difficult on that thing. John winning the one pound advantage at this might actually do him more harm than good in the upcoming weeks.
Weigh in: So John has a terrible weight loss week but a 1 lb advantage. Then he selfishly gives Sunny the 1 lb disadvantage putting her and Ramon under the yellow line. I am with Antone on this one in that I was SHOCKED John went on to vote for Sunny. He knew she did not deserve to be up for elimination and yet he still tried to eliminate her?
I really hope he understands that if he is below the yellow line next week he is going home without question. But maybe he already knew that. Either way Ramon went home and the date they showed with Jessica was just too much for my cheesy quota.
Anyone else think Ramon is going to propose during the marathon?
Why do you think John so stupidly voted for Sunny?


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Childhood Apraxia of Speech: Lets Talk About It
Are you a speech language pathologist who has questions about diagnosis and treatment of childhood apraxia of speech or CAS?
|Childhood Apraxia of Speech: What SLPs Need to Know
This post is the first in a series.I have been given an amazing opportunity to learn about assessment and treatment of childhood apraxia of speech, and I have been tasked to spread the word about what I have learned to other speech language pathologists. So I hope you will grab a hot cup of coffee and sit down with me, and let's talk about it!
I love learning. The nerdy side of me gets excited about diving into a topic that interests me and I love unraveling as much information as I can absorb. Childhood apraxia of speech is one of those topics that I have been craving to know more about. As a speech language pathologist, I have seen how this speech disorder can affect a child's communication, and I want to discover as much as I can about how to help.
Learning from Dr. Edythe Strand
This past weekend, I had the privilege to participate with 25 other clinicians in a marathon of learning on childhood apraxia of speech sponsored by the Once Upon a Time Foundation. The University of North Texas hosted Dr. Edythe Strand, Ph.D to teach us. I have attended one-day workshops given by Dr. Strand and couldn't have been more thrilled to have this opportunity to learn more.
|CAS Intensive Training Workshop.
Dr. Strand is a dynamic teacher, researcher and also a clinician herself. She is an Emeritus Consultant of the Department of Neurology at the Mayo clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and Emeritus Professor at the Mayo College of Medicine. She is the former head of the Department of Speech Pathology at Mayo Clinic. Dr. Strand has done groundbreaking research on CAS and developed an evidence-based treatment approach known as DTTC. She is considered a leading expert in the field. She is currently working on development of a dynamic assessment for CAS. Dr. Strand is also funny, kind, encouraging and passionate about her work.
Twenty hours of intensive focus meant we covered a LOT of ground.
This small group intensive training extended for three days, all day and evening sessions too. So I want to share in chunks. Let's talk about one piece at a time.
I want you to know that I am not an expert on childhood apraxia of speech. I am a clinician who, like many of you, serves children with CAS and seeks to learn as much as I can about how to provide the best treatment for this tricky disorder. One purpose of this wonderful training was to share the knowledge we learned, and help advance understanding about diagnosis and treatment of CAS. So I am simply sharing my take-aways from what I have learned from Dr. Strand and a bit of my experience with CAS.
Coming to this training, I had many questions, and I know many of you do too. We talked about this in my earlier post, Childhood Apraxia of Speech: Your Questions. What are your questions? I hope this series will answer some of them for you.
So let's start at the beginning.
Just What is Childhood Apraxia of Speech?
In graduate school, SLPs are taught that CAS is a motor speech disorder.
The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association or ASHA has a position statement on Childhood Apraxia of Speech adopted in 2007 and recommends this definition:
Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) is a neurological childhood (pediatric) speech sound disorder in which the precision and consistency of movements underlying speech are impaired in the absence of neuromuscular deficits (e.g., abnormal reflexes, abnormal tone). CAS may occur as a result of known neurological impairment, in association with complex neurobehavioral disorders of known or unknown origin, or as an idiopathic neurogenic speech sound disorder. The core impairment in planning and/or programming spatiotemporal parameters of movement sequences results in errors in speech sound production and prosody.
Let's look more closely at that.
CAS is not a medical diagnosis.
CAS is a childhood neurologically based speech sound disorder. A speech sound disorder. Dr. Strand emphasized that CAS is not a medical diagnosis.
Some SLPs, particularly school-based SLPs, have reported that they have been told by their employers that they can not identify or diagnose CAS, as we cannot make medical diagnoses. If this is what you have been told, I encourage you to do your research and discuss this with your employer, because identification of the disorder is essential to framing thinking about treatment planning.
SLPs regularly identify speech and language disorders: phonological disorders, fluency disorders, expressive and receptive language disorders. Similarly, it should be appropriate to identify CAS, if you have the specialized training and experience to do so. If you do not, please refer a child to an SLP that does have specialized training, as accurate diagnosis is important. I will talk more about diagnosis of CAS in the next post.
CAS is a disorder of movement.
CAS is an impairment in the precision and consistency of the muscle movements necessary to produce speech. Programming of the movements is impaired, not the phonemes themselves. This is important in framing our approaches to remediation. This is why therapy for CAS based on principles of Motor Learning Theory works and why a phonological approach, which emphasizes teaching the sounds of speech, is not the most effective approach to apraxia.
I should note here that there are several approaches to treatment, many of which show promise, and one size does not fit all. But more about that later.
CAS is not the result of muscle weakness.
The movements underlying speech are impaired in the absence of neuromuscular deficits. CAS is not a result of weakness, abnormal tone or reflexes. The core impairment is in planning the sequence of movements needed for speech production. When we speak, our brain must program which muscles to move, when, in what order, how hard, and how far. A child with CAS has difficulty coordinating these movements, resulting in inaccurate speech sound production and prosody.
CAS can co-occur with other disorders, or present by itself.
This is one reason it can be so tricky to diagnose, even for the experts! A child with CAS can also have other diagnoses such as dysarthria, velopharyngeal insufficiency, ataxia or autism. Often children will have linguistic deficits as well: difficulty with phonology, semantics and syntax.
How many children have CAS?
Experts have identified many characteristics seen in CAS, but a lack of clear guidelines has made determining the actual incidence and prevalance of CAS difficult as discussed in ASHA's Technical Report on Childhood Apraxia of Speech. Estimates at this time are 1 or 2 in 100 children have CAS (Shriberg et al., 1997) and that 3.4%-4.3% of children identified with a speech disorder have CAS (Delaney & Kent, 2004).
The incidence of CAS is greater in boys than girls, and prevalence is reported to be higher in children with certain medical conditions. So if you have a caseload of 50 children, you might expect to have one or two children with CAS on average. Of course the actual number on your specific caseload can vary.
Dr. Strand has a YouTube series you need to check out.
These videos were made to help explain CAS to parents, but they have terrific information and excellent video examples for SLPs too. I highly recommend you take a look, and share with parents.
The Whole Thing: Childhood Apraxia of Speech: Information for Parents
This video is 52 minutes long, and contains all the segments. But you can also view her videos in shorter segments.
In this video, Dr. Strand talks explains what childhood apraxia of speech is, and talks about key terms. Definitions and Descriptions of Childhood Apraxia of Speech
So how do I assess and exactly what do I look for?
In my next post in the series, I will be talking about diagnosis. I invite you to follow my blog, and sign up for my e-mail list, so you don't miss a post on CAS. I also invite and encourage your questions and comments, let's learn together!
Read the second post in this series Is it CAS? Navigating Differential Diagnosis .
Read the second post in this series Is it CAS? Navigating Differential Diagnosis .
Until next time!


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I don't think we really wanted to talk about this, but I feel like we probably need to. (Also: we're still working on the next chapter of Philosopher's Stone, I swear we'll finish shredding that book eventually. Then there are only six more to go… FML.)
(Loten adds: my bad, guys. As I mentioned on my FFN profile, I'm tangled up in 'real life', in the process of buying a house, working a lot more, etc etc. It's hard to find time to settle in for a few hours of book shredding. Once I've moved into the new place, sometime in the next few months, things should be easier and our posts should be a lot more regular. In the meantime, sorry!)
This is the most complete plot summary we've seen, if you need to catch up.
And for the record, we first learnt about this from this DTCL thread. So thanks for covering this and giving me a jumping off point.
It seems like Rowling is trying to insist on keeping the plot secret, and a lot of people have been humouring her, so for a while it was hard to discern the truth amidst the rumours. Truthfully, we had a hard time believing a lot of what was being said also; a lot of the rumoured plot points sound like bad attempts at trolling. We had no intention of paying through the nose to see it and even less desire to do so now, but that said, I do agree with the people who have been saying that all of this secrecy is insulting to the fans who cannot afford to travel or buy overpriced tickets for this rubbish. At least let them learn the plot, for fuck's sake.
(I assume she knew deep down that if anyone found out the plot there's no way in hell they'd fork out to go and see it or to buy the script when it's published.)
So far, what I've been able to discern is that the plot of this thing resembles what would happen if you fed the content of fanfiction.net into an algorithm, and then decided the result wasn't stupid enough. Go get your badfic bingo cards and strap in.
We've got a villain who could not be more of a barely-literate teenager's OC, right down to the implausibly coloured hair, whose very existence contradicts canon to a ludicrous extent. An insane 'plot' involving all the time-travel garbage Rowling always claimed to hate dealing with. And a protagonist bearing deep emotional scars because Harry went on to become even more of an abusive asshole than we predicted he would.
I have also run across a common apologetic, which goes something like this: "Of course it sounds stupid when you just list off the plot! It was written as a play, so you have to see it in that format before judging it! Lots of plays seem lacklustre in script form. When you add in the stage effects and the suchlike, it's pretty good." Well, to answer that in one word: bullshit. Okay, so it looks pretty, special effects are fun and you see people playing recognisable characters, so fucking what? It's still a remarkably stupid, shallow and incoherent story, and adds absolutely nothing of interest to the greater canon.
(Me again. As I said on Skype a couple of days ago when we were first discussing this, I'm not sure how seeing a bunch of people who don't look or sound anything like my headcanons acting out a really bad story is any better than reading about the bad story. If anything, I think it would be worse. I resent the implication that we're all toddlers who can be distracted by shiny things and forget to be upset.)
I think that's about the extent of what I want to say about it. Except, perhaps, this: it has apparently given us alternative timelines in which Hermione becomes a rather Snapelike professor, and in which Snape apparently survives (possibly not simultaneously, but I suppose we can hope?), so there may be some potential for half-decent fanfic in those. I leave that possibility open to any authors interested in taking it on. (Likewise, I will admit to having taken some pleasure in watching the Ron/Hermione shippers implode over various implications in the play.)
Anyway, Rowling's a hack and her involvement in this travesty does not speak well of her as a writer. Of course, her writing and plotting abilities have always been rather poor, so has her knowledge of her own canon, as we've been discovering over the course of our reread… but as low as the bar was, she's failed to surmount it. That's rather impressive, honestly.


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Shylock Is My Name by by Howard Jacobson
Shylock Is My Name is the second novel to appear in Hogarth Press's Shakespeare Project. In this series, eight well-known novelists have each been commissioned to retell one of Shakespeare's plays for a modern audience. Jeanette Winterson launched the project with The Gap of Time, her take on The Winter's Tale; the third in the series, the thoroughly enjoyable Vinegar Girl, a reworking of The Taming of the Shrew by Anne Tyler, was published in July. The brief for the project specifies a modern rendering of the plays, in much the same way that Shakespeare borrowed from Plutarch. This is in contrast with drawing on the plays as inspiration, in the manner, for example, of West Side Story.
Shakespeare's plays abound in incredible narrative twists and coincidences, with an abundance of female-to-male cross-dressings (so much more interesting in Shakespeare's time, when the girls were played by boys dressed up as girls who then dressed up as boys). The Merchant of Venice, the play on which Jacobson's novel rests, is no exception. The absurdities of the original play demand a deft imagination and a raft of novel-writing skills for a satisfying retelling. Jacobson's offering succeeds only partially.
It is often forgotten that The Merchant of Venice is considered a comedy (although not by this reviewer). The cultural capital that has adhered to Shylock, together with the play's themes of revenge (exacting 'the pound of flesh') and mercilessness ('The character of mercy is not strained'), nudge it in popular thought towards tragedy. Jacobson remains true to the comedic under-pinnings, with several laugh-aloud moments in his novel.
The Merchant of Venice is a play that polarises opinion. Is it anti-Semitic? Is it Portia's play or Shylock's? The devoted Shakespearean Harold Bloom regards the play as deeply anti-Semitic and Portia as the central character. Jacobson takes the opposing view on both accounts. Shylock and his contemporary incarnation, the wealthy British Jew and art collector Simon Strulovsky, dominate Jacobson's tale, while his Portia/Plurabelle is confined to a cardboard cut-out, minor role.
In Jacobson's retelling, Strulovsky meets Shylock in a Manchester graveyard. (This is akin to a connection with a deeper self occurring outside the therapy room.) Both men have troublesome, ungrateful daughters, and Jacobson has given them beloved wives: Shylock's Leah, who predeceases him and with whom he talks constantly; and Strulovsky's Kay, felled by a major stroke two years earlier and now requiring round-the-clock care. Strulovsky invites Shylock to his home, and there Shylock remains for the duration of the novel, engaging Strulovsky in many rather static, talking-head discussions that shed light on the original play but create longueurs in the novel.
The primary difference between the two men is that Shylock has gained in wisdom in four hundred years, patience too. He presents much more sympathetically than Shakespeare's Shylock, but then there's nothing like a dose of self-knowledge coupled with love and yearning for a dead spouse to make a character more attractive. Shylock's asides to his absent wife, his incorporating her into his daily life, are affecting and deeply humanising. The hard-hearted, uncompromising, unchristian Jew of Shakespeare's play has been banished from Jacobson's Shylock – to the extent that even Plurabelle is won over by him in a way her progenitor, Portia, never could be.
Shakespeare's Shylock is as much undone by his daughter, Jessica, as he is by the Venetian Christians. Indeed, for me, Jessica has always been the main villain in the play. In one of the more compelling narrative threads of Jacobson's novel, the complex relationship between Strulovsky and his daughter, Beatrice, is explored. (Beatrice? This daughter who ostensibly brings so little joy: clearly a not-insignificant choice of name.) Strulovsky is revealed as a father who loves and protects his daughter a little too much. And so, perhaps, for Shylock and Jessica.
It is Jacobson's interrogation of the perplexities in Shakespeare's play wherein the interest of this book lies. For those who have wondered why Shylock does not relent, why he does not find in himself that quality of mercy required to dismiss Antonio's bond, and why such a toxic relationship has developed between him and his daughter Jessica, Jacobson supplies some possible answers through the Shylock/Strulovsky dialogues. And those shocking words of Shylock, almost the last he utters in the play: 'I am content,' he says. But how can he be? Everything has been taken from him. Jacobson's novel addresses this conundrum cleverly – not through narrative, but again through one of the Shylock–Strulovsky dialogues.
These long discussions between Shylock and Strulovsky, while they illuminate the difficulties of the play and will be of interest to Shakespeare's fans, do not satisfy novelistically. I cannot imagine why readers unfamiliar with the play would bother. Then there are issues of plot and characterisation. Rather than the pound of flesh of the Shylock–Antonio bond, Jacobson's version settles for a foreskin, for circumcision. Within the comic aspects of Jacobson's novel there is a sharp irony here with a satisfying twist at the end, but for those who do not know the play, plot devices such as this simply tip into absurdity. And with the exception of Shylock/Strulovsky, none of the characters are well fleshed out, some like Beatrice's lover, are nothing more than stereotypes. (The Bard can get away with stereotypes and archetypes and convoluted and absurd plots, but a modern can not.)
The strength of Jacobson's retelling of The Merchant of Venice is in its seeking to explain this problematic play, not in his having written a gripping novel.


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Ruben Gonzalez needed a new book or magazine cover design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 46 designs submitted by 15 freelance designers.
Olympic Motivation
I'm a professional speaker, an Olympic athlete and an author. I speak for big corporate clients' sales meetings, inspiring their people to produce more. Also speak for associations. Mostly business meetings.
I'm open to having our pictures in the back cover as long as the front
cover is really engaging.
8.5 x 5.5 book cover. Spine = 0.53 " = 13.462 mm. Need a 1/8" bleed
all around.
I co-wrote a book with my daughter. We interviewed 100 Olympic
athletes asking them how they got their dream, what was the biggest
struggle they had to overcome, and what it felt like what they
realized their dream. The book is designed to help people fight for
their dream. I tried laying it out myself but it has no WOW factor. I
realize I need a pro. I'll attach my attempt to help you get an idea.
Will also attach photos of my daughter and I. I don't care what color
the background or the text and title are. Don't care what font. Want
both my daughter and I on the cover pretty big. The cover needs to
appeal to professional corporate types. Fortune 500 execs. The book
250 pages long. Will need a 1/8" bleed all around for printing. Need
it in Jpeg and PDF.
Looking for a simple look. Not too busy. Like a business book.
Can't have any Olympic rings on the cover.
Foreword by Scott Hamilton
Dream, Struggle, Victory
How to Think
Like an Olympian
to Realize
Your Dreams
Gabriela Gonzalez
and Ruben Gonzalez
Praise for
Dream, Struggle, Victory
"A must-read for anyone who needs a quick shot of inspiration!"
Dave Ramsey - New York Times best-selling author
and nationally syndicated radio show host
"A passionate call to action, challenging you
to be the best that you can be."
Pat Williams - Orlando Magic senior vice president
Author of Leadership Excellence
"This book will motivate you, stimulate you, stiffen your spine,
and give you the drive to succeed in anything you do."
Brian Tracy - Author of Million Dollar Habits
"This book is will challenge you to be the best that you can be."
George Chavel - President and CEO, Sodexo
"The insights in this book will help you turn dreams into
Marshall Goldsmith - Author of MOJO and
What Got You Here Won't Get You There
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Eight-year-old Woodside brain cancer patient Zamora Moon Martinez-Lusinchi is scheduled to begin an experimental treatment for her cancer in Bristol, England, on Nov. 28, her mother says.
Marisa Martinez said the family of four will leave on Nov. 18 to arrive in time for pre-treatment testing.
The 8-year-old was diagnosed in July with an up-to-now untreatable and always fatal brain tumor, diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, known as DIPG.
The trial treatment will attempt to get around the fact that such tumors cannot be surgically removed because they are close to areas of the brain regulating functions such as breathing and balance. The brain protects itself against intrusion from outside agents through what is called the "blood/brain barrier," so most chemotherapy drugs never reach the tumor.
In the trial, drugs will be injected directly into the tumor via a micro-catheter that will be robotically implanted in Zamora's skull.
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102nd Artist Meeting
Joseph Martin Risiott
The 102nd Art Discussion Group Meeting will be held on Thursday 26th April 2012 at 19.15hrs at MISCO OFFICE (first floor) in Fino Showrooms in Notabile Road, Mriehel. For this meeting the Society is inviting Joseph Martin Risiott a Maltese draughtsman and artist of particular works in relief made from paper pulp. E. V. Borg, the chairman of the group will introduce him to the audience and the artist will answer questions about technique, subject matter and career.
Joseph Martin Risiott (b.1949) was intrigued by aesthetics and artistic media from childhood. He enrolled at the Malta School of Art in the 60's. There he developed skills in figurative and object drawing under Esprit Barthet (1919-99). Joseph started his professional career as a perspectives technician and draughtsman with a local leading architectural firm in the 70's' a niche market created during the construction boom for technical draughtsmen with technical skills and artistic talent.
The experience gained in these initial formative years gave him the opportunity to master certain skills of a 'trade' that would later influence his creative expression in perspective, composition and symmetry. He later became a designer with a prominent furniture manufacturer and with the advent of computer generated imagery, Joseph developed his skills in this field until he was engaged for the rest of his career with a leading events and exhibitions company. His responsibility was to design and realize exhibition stands for local and foreign demand. However although he was responsible for organizing exhibitions for private and state entities his dream of exhibiting his own art works kept eluding him until he featured in the collective 'Novonoveart' recently organized by the Malta Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (MSAMC).
Since his recent retirement he has continued working with a particular paper pulp creating fascinating reliefs other than the traditional work in pen, ink and graphite. Personal and intimate experiences have deeply influenced Joseph to express works dealing with human and natural evolutionary cycles, the afterlife and the cosmos.
ADG invites its members, their friends and the public to this cultural and artistic event that would surely interest those with an inquisitive mind about art and craft.
E. V. Borg
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Speakers included:
- Heather Alexander, editor at Dial Books for Young Readers
- Quinlan Lee, agent for Adams Literary
- Suzanne Morgan Williams, author of Bull Rider
- Louise Jackson, author of Exiled
- Freelance author Sue Bradford-Edwards
- Rich Davis, children's book illustrator for Viking.
I especially enjoyed Suzanne Morgan Williams' workshop, Make Your Writing Shine. She showed us a revision technique that involves indicating dialogue, action, description, and internal thought with different colored markers--a good way to visually check what's happening in each scene. Ideally, there will be several colors next to a given paragraph. If there are large, unbroken blocks of description or internal thought, it's probably a good idea to work in some action.


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The Latin American Research Group Australia (www.latitudesgroup.info) has organised a half-day event on disrupting neoliberal discourse and practices from converting most of Australian academics and staff into 'casuals'; students into customers; unreflective education into 'active' or 'distance' learning; degrees into paid licenses for future (un)employment; and surveillance over staff and competition among them into 'performance', amid many other commodified and autocratic paths taken by public universities today in Australia. It will feature presentations by academics, students and activists, including interviews with protagonists of the 2011 Chilean Winter student movement, who managed to mobilise an entire country and radically change the national discourse on the invasion of the market into higher education and most public areas. The conference is open to the public with prior registration (email@example.com). The conference will end with a gathering hosted by the Latin America Social Forum Sydney from 5pm.
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People in the Pause
(Contributors to A Deliberate Pause)
How did this book come to be?
For A Deliberate Pause, I interviewed more than 200 individuals whose experiences encompass a full range of profiles and perspectives that make up the entrepreneurial universe. These interviewees are part of the conversation you will join by reading this book.
I call them contributors.
They cross boundaries defined by industry, tax status, definition of value, geography, gender, and other limiting demographics. Many are, of course, entrepreneurs. Just as important, they are investors and donors, advisors and teachers of entrepreneurship, with several filling more than one of these roles. About half come from the for-profit world; nearly one-quarter are female; roughly one-fifth are minorities or immigrants.
As you will see, these entrepreneurial contributors belie the stereotypes. They know what makes entrepreneurship work and they eagerly shared what they've seen and learned. When you meet them on the pages of A Deliberate Pause, you no doubt will recognize some names from news headlines and others associated with whatever slice of the world you inhabit. Many will be new to you. But regardless of role, background, notoriety, or geography, all of them feel deeply passionate about entrepreneurship. Individually and together, they have a great deal to teach from their own ventures, from advising others, and simply from inhabiting the entrepreneurial universe.
One thing is clear: What these exceptional, thoughtful individuals contribute about entrepreneurship isn't commonly taught in business schools or noted in trendy business books. This book relates what these veterans and advocates of the entrepreneurial universe believe should be known and talked about but isn't. Their stories allow you to understand who is behind the powerful force of entrepreneurship, how they go about doing their work, and why they do what they do despite the odds and setbacks.
What was in it for them to be a part of this book?
They want millions more people to understand entrepreneurship better because they know the benefits will accrue to humanity's progress. And they know it's time to put that understanding into action.
David Adamson
Bob Allen
Allen Alley
Patty Alper
John Altorfer
Brad Barnhorn
Spencer Beebe
Jeff Bede
David BenDaniel
Mike Bernstein
Jason Berv
Brien Biondi
Ryan Black
Jim Blasingame
PV Boccasam
David Boyer
Don Britton
Telaekah Brooks
Jan Bruce
Kevin Burns
Craig Burris
Bill Campbell
Mary Cantando
Siobhan Canty
Lyles Carr
Carter Cast
Bill Cast
Robin Chase
Michael Chasen
Nick Cho
Duke Chung
Dwayne Clark
Jim Click
Charles Conn
Joe Cracchhiolo
Noah Croom
Doug Davidoff
Mike Devine
Matt Dorman
Cheryl Dorsey
Bill Drayton
Esther Dyson
Robert Egger
Karl Eller
Mary Ann Elliott
Ben Elowitz
Jed Emerson
Doug Epstein
Rafe Esquith
Najlah Feanny Hicks
Brad Feder
Ed Feeney
Charlie Ferris
Will Finnerty
Betsy Flanagan
Gene Foley
David Ford
Gregg Fraley
Mark Frantz
Edie Fraser
Scott Frederick
Betsy Friedlander
Ching Ho Fung
Ken Getz
Melinna Giannini
Tom Gillespie
Martin Goebel
Casey Golden
Maria Gomez
Sandy Gooch
Rick Phalen
Alex Pinchev
Dan Pink
Jared Polis
Eddie Poplowski
Jim Quest
Ken Ramberg
Dennis Ratner
Robert Reffkin
Dave Remick
Gene Reichers
Arjun Rishi
Sandy Robertson
Steve Rogers
Jon Roush
Margarita Rozenfeld
Steve Russell
Carl Safina
Gene Samburg
Jeff Sandefer
Roger Sant
Otto Scharmer
Spencer Schock
Peter Seligmann
Peter Senge
Jim Shaffer
Baiju Shah
Billy Shields
Billy Shore
Michael Shuman
Wayne Silby
Michael Simon
Geoff Smart
Philippe Sommer
Alan Sorkin
Rick Sperling
Vikki Spruill
Reggie Stanley
Jill Stelfox
Michael Strong
Unky Sundt
Mike Sutton
Tom Szaky
Richard Tait
Velan Thillairajah
Carlene Theissen
Rick Toren
Karen Usher
Patrick Von Bargen
Julian Waits
Tom Ward
Danny Warshay
Alice Waters
Ann Webster
Harry Weller
Brad Whitehead
Tien Wong
John Wood
Jim Wrathall
April Young
Muhammad Yunus
John Zitzner
Adamson Editions
Integrity Arts
Alper Portfolio Group
Global NutriFoods
Chesapeake Capital
Cornell, Johnson School
The Watershed School
Young Entrepreneurs Org
Small Business Advocate
Troy Systems
Network Alliance
Southeastern University
Body & Soul Magazine
Sage Software
Smart CEO Magazine
The Woman's Advantage
Greater DC Cares
The McCormick Group
Tri-state Medical IPA
Murky Coffee
Aegis Assisted Living
Jim Click Automotive
Godwin Sports
Imagine Companies
Secure Software
Credible Wireless
Echoing Green
Release 1.0
DC Central Kitchen
Eller Outdoor
Arrowhead Global
Blended Value
Evolve Sports
Hobart Elementary
The Heart Gallery
Simply Bits
Feeney & Associates
Mintz Levin
Georgetown University
Start-up Studio
SBA (Former Chair)
Aegis Assisted Living
Jack's Notebook
Red Shift Ventures
Business Women's Net
Valhalla Partners
Willmott & Associates
ABC Codes
Sustainable Northwest
Small Act Network
Mary's Center
Mrs. Gooch's
Radio Station Owner
Red Hat
A Whole New Mind
Anderson Daymon
Cornell University
Goldman Sachs
Greater DC Cares
Valhalla Partners
Robertson, Stephens & Co
Kellogg Business School
The Nature Conservancy
Incite International
Blue Ocean Institute
Kastle Key
Acton MBA
Sloan School
Schock Logistics
Conservation International
The Fifth Discipline
The Leadership Solution
Sunrise Assisted Living
Share Our Strength
Going Local
Calvert Funds
Darden School of Business
Social Venture Partners
Mosaic Youth Theatre
Ocean Conservancy
Calvert Funds
Flow Idealism
Sundt Corp
Ctr for Future of Oceans
The Personnel Office
Kaufmann Foundation
Cornell University
DEW Ventures
Edible School Yard
Harvard Medical School
New Enterprise Associates
Cleveland Foundation
Room to Read
Grameen Bank
E-City Cleveland
There are many voices in the entrepreneurial universe.
My goal with A Deliberate Pause was not to speak for each of my contributors or to try to tell their stories in full. they can do a much better job of that than anyone else. In fact, many of them have.
If you'd like to learn more about some of the contributors to ADP, you might want to check out the veritable library of books they've generated. You'll find classics, lesser known volumes, and most of all: wisdom.
Laurence Gonzales
Bill Gorog
Bijoy Goswami
David Green
Allen Grossman
Irv Grousbeck
Anil Gupta
Rob Hagen
Travis Hardmon
Verne Harnish
Kristi Hedges
Oran Hesterman
John Holaday
Jeffrey Hollender
Gary Hoover
Dipak Jain
John Jaquette
Charlene Drew Jarvis
Donna Jensen Madier
Dave Jilk
Judy Jobbitt
Craig Johnson
Gary Jonas
Gene Kahn
Julie Kantor
Andy Kapit
Guy Kawasaki
Karen Kerrigan
Raj Khera
Ruth Taylor Kidd
Judy Kirpich
Mary Knebel
Ray Leach
Reggie Van Lee
Mena Lofland
Rich Lyons
Mary MacPherson
Darius Mahdjoubi
Tracy Stone Manning
Steve Mariotti
Art Marks
John May
Mike McCaffery
Rob McGovern
Peter Meehan
Andreas Merkyl
Caren DeWitt Merrick
Jeff Mitchell
Dan T. Moore III
Mario Morino
Mike Morris
Robin Mudge
Gary Mulhair
Will Murray
Gary Myers
Mary Naylor
Cory Neal
Kirk Neiswander
Nell Newman
Stephen O'Connor
Eric Olsen
Jan Olsen
Joel Peterson
Deep Survival
Lexus Nexus
Bootstrap Austin
The Eye Fund
Harvard Business School
Stanford Business School
Smith School of Business
Commerce 5
Natl Capital Child Dvlpmt
Shea Hedges
WK Kellogg Foundation
Seventh Generation
Kellogg Business School
Cornell University
Southeastern University
George Mason University
Venture Law Group
20/20 Eye Centers
Cascadian Farms
Sm Bus E-ship Council
Booz Allen
Suitland High School
Haas School of Business
Univ of Texas Austin
Clark Fork Foundation
Valhalla Partners
New Vantage Partners
Stanford Mgmt Company
Newman's Own Organics
California Environ Assoc
Klamath Tribe
Dan T Moore Companies
Legent Technologies
Ocean Optics
Pioneer Healthcare
Conservation Impact
VIP Desk
Case Western University
Newman's Own organics
New World Publishing
Handwriting Without Tears
Handwriting Without Tears
Trammel Crow Company
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When I started working with Catholic schools, many of them saw marketing as advertising, and wondered where they should spend their very limited funds to get the most bang for their buck – a Yellow Pages ad? Television commercials? Billboards?
No one thought of a Web site. If they did, they had a parent in the school who could put together a Web page for the school.
About 10 years ago, I offered a series of 12 posts to help schools create a marketing plan for their school. There were three things that were necessary to understand before a school could begin their plan. A school needed to know their "remarkable" traits, that marketing was not just advertising, and that marketing needed to be purposeful.
All three of these concepts took some time to understand, since schools needed know what made them truly remarkable places to be, and many touted qualities which were "expectations" of parents of prospective students. Marketing was not just advertising, but, according to Investopedia.com,"It's anything a company does to acquire customers and maintain a relationship with them. Even the small tasks like writing thank-you letters [and] returning calls promptly can be thought of as marketing."
Marketing also needs to be purposeful. If a school was going to spend their limited funds on a billboard, what was the purpose of doing so? Was it so that the community would know that the school exists (awareness)? Was it so that people of the community could support the good works of the school with a contribution (funding)? Or was it so that interested parents would call the school for an appointment (enrollment)?
If it was for the last item, there was no way a parent was going to copy the school's phone number while driving past the sign at 60 miles per hour…even if they passed by it every day for a month…especially if the billboard was up during the month of November.
But, true to my "three leads to four leads to five" theory, there were two more ideas that needed to be kept in mind: marketing is not a "short-term" strategy, and the other is the topic of today's article.
Marketing is a "medium-term" strategy, in that great marketing for enrollment will not bring copious amounts of new students to the school in the short-term. It will, however, bring inquiries from parents of prospective students. Your enrollment process, consisting continuing to follow-up with the family, inviting them to experience your school community, turns those inquiries into students in the seats.
Read the previous line again, and you'll see the answer to the question posed in the title of today's Marketing Matters article. Your school is a community; NOT a family. In educational circles, learning groups are referred to as "the community of learners." In a faith-focused light, your parish or church might be termed a family, but when we're talking about school, parents form a community.
If you've been a subscriber to these weekly Marketing Matters, you may recall a previous article listing the four "marks" of a faith-based school – Faith, Academics, Community and Experience. They combine to form the acronym, FACE. When parents seek out your school, they're looking for a safe and caring community for their child – since THEY are the family. Parents treasure their children, and want personalized treatment for them. Why would they want to give them to a "family" with 100+ kids? Even the Catechism of the Catholic Church defines the father and mother as the primary educator of their children. To refer to your school a "family" usurps that responsibility…and if we want our children to be more responsible, we have to teach their parents to be responsible as well.
We can carry the family analogy further for the Catholic and Christian school. Jesus is the bridegroom, and his bride is the Church. I've heard it said that the Church, itself, is the "community of believers." Therefore, the family relationship is created when Jesus is joined with His community of believers. In a family, there is always some type of paternal and maternal relationship involved. Anything less and different is, as we hear today, a "new" kind of family. In that light, some administrators would argue that there are many kinds of families involved in our schools today. If that is true, then stating that the school is a family is tantamount to trying to fit families into another type of family structure that really doesn't exist, or, is itself a different kind of family. It makes much more sense to say that many types of families make up a community…just like the many types of families that comprises the community in which you and your family resides.
Perhaps the distinction can most readily be seen in terms of support. The community is supported by all the members based on their ability to contribute, and even by people outside of the community that once were members; the family is usually supported by a breadwinner with others making varying degrees of commitment as long as they're living under the same roof. When members of the family leave, the family core usually provides support to the member that left until they can make it on their own, begin their own family, or return to the original family should there be an event or circumstance that requires them to do so. The family provides a support dynamic different from that of the community.
Why is it important to know this distinction? It helps to remember that old adage, "United, we stand; divided, we fall." When too many people start to worry about themselves do whatever they want to do, and leave the community, the community is weakened. With a family, you are always a member. If it were true that we are family, then it wouldn't matter if one or two (or twelve) parents decide on their own that they can't afford the increase in tuition and make the decision to withdraw their children. If we are family, they might be back next year – but rarely do they return. Therefore, when a decision is made for the good of the community, and someone says, "I don't want to do that, so I won't," the strength of the community is undermined. The decision of one member of the community affects every other member of the community.
It's important, therefore, to find activities that strengthen the community in order to grow your school. The school community provides positive word of mouth marketing for the school, which is the most effective and the least expensive type of marketing available. Growing a community of raving fans about your school is worth much more than any billboard campaign that's designed to increase enrollment. Billboards are for raising awareness.
Your school community is one of your best assets, and like all assets, needs to be protected.
© Michael V. Ziemski, SchoolAdvancement, 2014-2019 (Original Publication Date: 20140609)


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Healthy Vegetarian Salad
This is a very addictive salad! The combination of ingredients are so perfect that you will be craving it for days on end! This is a raw salad, so no cooking is required
1 small box cherry tomatoes, halved
1 avocado diced
1/2 can of sweet corn
1/2 green bell pepper, diced
1/6 red onion, diced or sliced into small, thin pieces
1 cup cilantro leaves
1/2 tps extra virgin olive oil
1 lime
1 tbs raw sunflower seeds
1 tbs raw pumpkin seeds
Mix all the ingredients together and add squeezed lime juice to the salad. Mix or toss the salad again and it is ready to serve!
Servings: 5
Time: 30 minutes