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State and Local Budget Writers Brace for Worst
Uncertainty over federal funding is leading many local and state officials to use worst-case scenarios to plan next year's school budgets, anticipating at least a 17 percent cut in federal aid.
The bleak forecasts are fueling talk of pink slips and program cuts, especially in many urban and poor rural school systems where federal money pays for nearly 20 percent of school budgets. On the average, money from Washington makes up about 6 percent of school spending.
"Funding delays cause school districts to function with tunnel vision," David L. Snead, the superintendent of the Detroit schools, said at a recent news briefing on Capitol Hill. "Who can we hire? How can we develop supply budgets?"
A five-month-old deadlock between Congress and President Clinton over short- and long-term federal budget plans is at the root of the anxiety. The ongoing dispute has stalled 1996 spending bills for several agencies, including the Department of Education, which has been without a firm budget since Oct. 1, when the fiscal year began.
Instead, the Education Department and other agencies, including the Department of Health and Human Services, are being financed by a makeshift spending bill that expires March 15. And without any idea when the budget standoff will end, local officials are projecting many federal revenues for 1996-97 based on that bill.
If extended over a whole budget year, the short-term bill would cut $3.1 billion from the 1995 Education Department budget of $32 billion.
"It's a terrible, terrible way of doing the public's business," Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley said here last week at a rally sponsored by the National School Boards Association. "But that's where we are."
'Waiting and Hoping'
The political fight is creating headaches from coast to coast.
Anticipating cuts in impact aid, which compensates the district for schooling students who live on the tax-exempt Fort Eustis Army base, and Title I, which pays for services in schools with high concentrations of poor students, administrators in Newport News, Va., have already banned field trips and started a partial hiring freeze.
"We're waiting and hoping to have a decision to make adjustments in our budget," said Wayne Lett, the assistant superintendent for business for the 31,000-student system, which must submit a draft budget for the 1996-97 school year by March 15.
Boston school officials submitted a draft budget last week that would cut 17 of 79 schools from the Title I program, as well as 60 staff members, due to a projected loss of $3.5 million from $20.6 million in Title I funds.
"Even if the money comes back, teachers could be told they're out of a job," said Jack Baptista, the Title I director for the 62,600-student district. Making the situation even more dire is the requirement that Boston teachers be told of new assignments by April 1. "It causes frustration and consternation," Mr. Baptista said.
In a typical year, federal officials would already have state estimates for programs like Title I, special education, job training, and Safe and Drug-Free Schools. And by now, they would also have a picture of what funding for fiscal 1997 might look like as the president released his budget plan for next year. (See story, page 19.)
But things are far from normal. Mr. Clinton's 1997 plan is full of asterisks, and, except for Title I, the largest federal K-12 program, estimates for fiscal 1996 were unavailable last week. Marshall S. Smith, the Education Department's undersecretary, said funding data will be out by March 15.
Negotiations in Des Moines
In the meantime, local officials are keeping one eye on Washington while looking ahead with the other.
David Agazzei, the budget director for the Chicago schools, said his department will brief local school councils on budget procedures this week and will release their estimates for next year on March 6.
An 18 percent cut he is projecting in the $220 million the district received in federal school aid last year would, among other reductions, cut Title I aid by $28 million, from $145 million now, and vocational-training funds by $1.1 million, from $5.5 million.
"It will be hard to put together school-improvement plans backed by dollars," Mr. Agazzei added. "Schools will have to make some tough decisions."
In Oakland, Calif., doubt over federal aid is pulling apart the mosaic of funding for school security, technology, and immigrant-education programs, said Jean Quan, the director of the Oakland school board.
And Des Moines, Iowa, school board member Suzette Jensen said last week's opening round of contract negotiations with teachers would be complicated by the uncertainty of federal funding.
"Bipartisan support for education has dissolved," Ms. Jensen said. "Suddenly, there's an upheaval in things we've worked for so long."
Tide Turning?
That upheaval continues as Democrats accuse Republicans of trying to balance the federal budget on the backs of children. Republicans reply that Democrats want to perpetuate costly but failed programs while forcing federal involvement on local schools.
"I have a great deal of hope that we can put together a budget deal by March 15," Rep. John Edward Porter, R-Ill., the chairman of the House subcommittee that oversees education spending, said in an interview. "But the president has to be part of making any agreement."
The tide could be turning in favor of increased education funding. Recent House and Senate votes narrowly fell short of setting education spending at fiscal 1995 levels, which were higher than the current program funding rates.
Last week, about 250 school board members gathered in front of the Capitol for the NSBA rally. In the subfreezing weather, they chanted and urged Congress to pass a final education spending bill that increases school funding.
"As local school boards, we have to balance out budgets, and guesswork isn't good enough," said Roberta G. Doering, the NSBA president and a school board member in Agawam, Mass.
State-Budget Caveats
The budget impasse is also leaving a sting with state lawmakers who are at work on fiscal 1997 budgets. Without knowing how much money--or flexibility--Congress will give states, some governors are predicting a long budget season.
Gov. Paul E. Patton of Kentucky, who was elected last fall, delivered his first budget to lawmakers last month with the caveat that Congress could render his figures meaningless almost overnight. A change in Washington "could change our budget situation next week, next month, or any time during the next year," the Democrat said.
Some Washington observers suggest Republican state leaders are more confident about their projections because they have inside information on federal budget talks.
But at least one GOP governor, New York's George E. Pataki, has said the uncertainties of a long stalemate pose hazards for states. New York's fiscal year begins April 1, some two months before many states'.
As state budgets move from governors' desks to legislative committees, lawmakers must begin divining what Washington will do.
"I get eight to 10 calls a day," said Aaron Bell, the director of education and job-training programs for the National Conference of State Legislatures in Denver. "The question is always, 'What the hell is going to happen?"'
For state budget writers, uncertainty over the fate of federal Medicaid, welfare, and transportation payments is the biggest obstacle, as those programs account for most of the money that flows from Washington to states. Education cuts do not pose nearly the same problem, because federal school funds are a minor part of most state budgets.
Some state leaders say they will try to fill some the holes left by cuts in federal school spending.
In his State of the State Address last month, Gov. Parris N. Glendening of Maryland listed a number of programs that would be cut--including Title I--and said, "We will step in and pay for some of these programs ourselves because it is the only responsible thing to do."
But the chances that states can plug budget gaps left by federal cuts are not good in poorer states, which rely more on help from Washington.
"We're in a lean, mean kind of budget year," said John Hartman, the executive director of the Mississippi School Boards Association. "We just don't have the money. It's that simple."
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I have a dream to one day author a brilliant book. I am still unsure what the genre or subject matter of this book could be, but I have a hope that the talent necessary to reach this achievement exists within me. That word dream is used for a precise reason, that reason being a doubt in the possibility of this ever being reality. It is a dream, and dreams are never reality. My random musings and thoughts concerning this project have a similar effect that a vivid or powerful dream can have. Intense ideas and profundity crop up in my mind and I try to cling to these and make them a part of a greater whole. We all know what happens on waking, however. Like any dream narrative, time and daily distraction cause any cogency to deteriorate swiftly, or you realize that what seemed so clear was actually completely absurd. This often becomes apparent when trying to relate the dream/thoughts back to another person What's left are scraps of my intrigue and a memory that the dream/thoughts I felt were really cool, but I can't recreate the moment with any confidence. This results in a considerable amount of disappointment and I become complacent, letting these dreams and deep thoughts drift into my minds eye and then float away. I wave hello and toy with them briefly but never get too excited because the dejection of being unable to bring it all into sharp focus so many times has left me without the resolve or motivation. I doubt and come to believe falsely that I just do not have what it takes.
Over the years I have self diagnosed myself with a handful of psychological disorders or conditions to make sense of why I struggle with making something out of what I perceive to be an extraordinary skill at thinking outside of the box. A cliche, I know, and not very specific. But I truly feel as though I have a unique ability that allows me to shift and see topics from varying angles. Of course I bounce around with frenetic urgency from topic to topic, argument to counter argument. Yes, that's it, I must have adult ADD (attention deficit disorder). Disorder being a terrible word that's been tagged onto these perfectly useful ways of thinking differently. Or is it depression creating an unusual self obsession with my existential angst. I have all the ideas I need but it must just be this depressive state that is sapping me of any sort of push to channel my creativity. Wait, no, it could be bipolar. But if that's the case why do I not get this shot of manic intensity that for periods of time could allow me to imagine and succeed. Ahh, I see, I'm one of those bipolar's, the kind who tends towards low grade ever pervasive depression and any hint of mania is the problematic kind. What if I am just completely deluded and really am nothing special? Just an average person with an irrational complex that causes me to think I'm bright. None or all of this could be true, and with time I've come to understand the ridiculousness of psychological hypochondriasis, a truly modern epidemic. I know one thing is for sure, I'm diagnosable as a complicated and colorful human being. And that's the best I can do. All these possible disorders of the mind lie on a spectrum, in reality, and like almost everything in life the truth is probably somewhere in the middle. It's a conglomeration and collision of all the theories I've considered. The stock tri-fold "biopsychosocial" phenomenon. Something that we all happen to be. I am diagnosable with Michael V Unusualness, bound to eventually be in the DSM-LVII which will have 7 billion "disorders" of the mind so as to encompass every single permutation of human being.
I've written about genius and insanity, the blurred lines between them. I believe I am preoccupied with this thought of being something great. Leaving the world in some way changed because I existed. Wow, is that sentence as self absorbed as I think it sounds? I've entertained this "dream" and have hardly allowed it to become an actual aspiration, self sabotaging and running away from it at the same time wanting it so badly. Really this is nothing unique, most of us have a dissonance between solipsistic contemplation and rational consideration of our actual place in the world. Because fear lies at the heart of avoiding success and avoiding being good at something, I often convince myself that I am wired for eternal ambivalence. Does the word paradox apply? I sure hope so because I freakin' love that word.
I want to write a brilliant book and maybe I will some day. It could just end up being a compilation of these absurd ramblings. Never solving anything, but brimming with delight at trying to figure myself, other people, and the universe out. Maybe I'll catch lightning in a bottle, have a lunar moon landing moment where it seems inexplicable but nevertheless there they were, not on Earth but staring back at it from over two-hundred thousand miles away. Do you think they thought to themselves "How the hell did we get here? This shouldn't have been possible." How is this preoccupation with my own self importance aspirations of any interest to people who may read this? I could try to give an answer to that but I'd be full of it by suggesting that I actually knew. I will simply leave off with a quote by John Gray, who wrote a brilliant book himself in the form of 'Straw Dogs: thoughts on humans and other animals'
"Anyone who truly wants to escape human solipsism should not seek out empty places. Instead of fleeing to desert, where they will be thrown back into their own thoughts, they will do better to seek out the company of other animals."
― John Gray, Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
-Favorite albums of 2013, in consideration for #1 (Arcade Fire 'Reflektor', STRFKR 'Miracle Mile, Danny Brown 'Old', Vampire Weekend 'Modern Vampires of the City')
-TV show I think we are all tortured to be ambivalent about as we wait and see if it can become the great show it think it is: The Walking Dead
-TV show pleasant surprise: Masters of Sex
-TV show I'm part way through that is already in the category of sublime: Six Feet Under
-Issues I'm waffling on
1. Foreign films being remade for American audiences
2. Films dramatizing reality and saying they are based on a true story (while the phrase doesn't suggest it's completely true, the use of real names, places and events, seems to prime an audience to believe that what they are seeing actually occurred, often times without question)

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Sutter's Mill was a sawmill owned by 19th century pioneer John Sutter. It was located in Coloma, California, at the bank of the South Fork American River. Sutter's Mill is most famous for its association with the California Gold Rush.
On January 24, 1848, James Marshall, an employee/partner of Sutter's, found several flakes of gold that began the transformation of California from a sleepy outpost to a bustling center of activity.[1] Sutter and Marshall tried to keep the discovery secret, but eventually the word got out. During the next seven years, approximately 300,000 people came to California (half by land and half by sea) to seek their fortunes mining for gold or selling supplies like picks and shovels to the gold prospectors.
The first documentation of the Sutter's Mill discovery were by Henry Bigler[2] and Azariah Smith,[3] in their respective diaries. Like several other people working at the mill, these two workers were discharged veterans of the Mormon Battalion.[4] After this discovery at the mill, the "gold rush" era began and many people came from the east emigrated to find fortune. The era helped to transform people like Levi Strauss and Luzena Wilson.
The site of the mill is located on the South Fork American River. Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park is registered as California Historical Landmark #530.[5] The current Sutter's Mill is a replica of the original building. It was built using Marshall's own drawings and an early day photo as reference for the recreation of the mill.
The mill was also the namesake and inspiration for a song by singer-songwriter Dan Fogelberg.[6]
The actual spot where James W. Marshall discovered gold, near Sutter's Mill, Coloma, Ca.
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With the help of Blain's Farm & Fleet and Nutrena Poultry Specialist Twain Lockhart, you can learn how to predator-proof your chicken coop. From coyotes to raccoons, there are plenty of wild animals that want to feast on your flock. There are a few simple precautions and safety measures you can take to protect your birds.
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Common chicken coop predators are coyotes, raccoons, minks, and weasels. These wild animals are nocturnal, and prey on chickens at night. Even neighborhood dogs may be curious and go after your chickens. Research which animals are prevalent in your area. Ask your neighbors, especially if they're fellow chicken farmers.
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Lock your windows – Lock the windows of your coop to keep predators out. If you leave them unlocked, you're giving predators easy access into the coop. You can also cover the coop windows with hardware cloth to keep predators out. Secure it with hardware, not just staples.
Install a motion sensor light – A motion sensor light can scare off animals. As nocturnal creatures, a bright flood light should help deter them away from the coop.
Bury fences underground – Your chicken run should have the proper strength fence to keep predators out. Bury the fencing at least 12″ underground to deter digging rodents and other predators.
Shelter the run – Along with fencing around the run and coop, you also need to cover the top of the run. Aerial attacks from owls, hawks and other birds of prey can happen. Climbing predators, such as weasels and raccoons, can squeeze and tear through chicken wire. Use heavy-duty hardware cloth to keep these critters out of the run.
Keep feed locked up tight – Keep chicken feed locked up in metal barrels with a tight lid to keep out rodents. Also keep the barrels out of reach of other predators, like raccoons and bears. Don't keep feeders outside while your chickens free range. The feed will attract wild birds and animals that can carry diseases, or worse, will go after your chickens and eggs. When it's feeding time, keep the feed in the coop.
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The New York Giants have the defense – now they need to work on the O-line.
After their critical win over the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday, the Giants hold a 9-4 record. They appear playoff-bound for the first time since their last Super Bowl title of 2012, and the defense is arguably as good as it was back then. Since we all know defense wins games this can only be seen as a positive. But for whatever reason, the Giants still aren't the team to explode on both sides of the football. Sure, their defense handed another loss to the "best team in football". But it was anyone's game until the 4th quarter, due to the fact that the Giants have lost their offensive spark since last year.
"We beat 'em two times, and we've played pretty well, but our focus is on Detroit now," said Odell Beckham Jr., postgame. " We've got work to do. We've got so much talent, and we know we can play better."
On paper the Giants have one of the best receiving corps in football. Beckham Jr., Victor Cruz and Sterling Shepard provide quarterback Eli Manning with three capable look options aside from the run game. And still – STILL – the Giants couldn't get the knock-out punch over Dallas. Each receiver dropped at least one critical pass, which caused Manning to lose faith in his look options. The result? Continuous sub-par attempts at running the ball to ensure positive yardage. And the only thing worse than the Giants run game, is their offensive line.
We all know Manning isn't a Russell Wilson type quarterback, who can escape a collapsing pocket and make the completion. In fact, when Manning holds the football for more than four seconds, the resulting play is a sack, fumble, interception, or incomplete pass, with the latter being the most desirable outcome.
If the Giants want to continue their Super Bowl run, the O-line needs to beef up against the opposing pass rush to protect their quarterback. When given the time, Manning will make accurate passes to move the chains. Simply put, the offensive unit needs to gel immediately …or else.
"Offensively you just gotta pin your ears back and just go, and just not be fearful of doing anything," said Cruz. "Run your play calls, be confident, execute your game plan and take it from there."
Despite missed opportunities and way too many turnovers, the Giants proved their grit over their division rivals for one of their biggest wins of the season. Last time the Giants managed similar wins in 2012, they went on to claim Super Bowl XLVI. And there's no denying there's a that same almost eerie energy around these Giants, as there was in 2012.


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The homeownership society is clearly over. Even as home prices soar and value returns to real estate, the one number that just keeps falling is the nation's homeownership rate. In the first quarter of this year, it fell below 65 percent for the first time since 1995. It now stands at 64.8 percent, according to the U.S. Census, down from a high of over 69 percent at the height of the last housing boom.
"Homeownership is one of the most important paths to the middle class for families. It's how folks put down roots, build wealth put kids through college, start businesses," said Shaun Donovan, secretary of Housing and Urban Development. "If there are people who are ready to buy a home, but who aren't getting access to credit, then we've got a problem, and that is what we are facing right now."
Donovan is looking for more swift action from lawmakers on Capitol Hill who are tackling a bill on housing finance reform this week. That bill also, Donovan stresses, includes access to more affordable rental housing.
Home sales were higher in 2013, but that was largely due to huge demand from individual and institutional investors on the low end of the market. Using all cash, they bought up swaths of single-family homes in the most distressed markets, pushing prices higher by double digits. They didn't leave much behind for regular, credit-dependent buyers.


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I hope that you are keeping zen about your upcoming exams- I'm here for ya.
Since January have been in Nepal! Volunteering with Restless Development helping to improve livelyhoods and employment prospects in poverty stricken communities- check out my pics for a revision brake or give a little donation if you can (even a couple of quid goes a long way).
It was an amazing experience and our work benefited so many people! Unfortunately though, there was nooooo wifi what so ever (I know), so I haven't made any adjustments in a while.
So whilst I'm doing this keep an eye out for any helpful points in the comments (thank you so much for everyone who takes the time to comment feedback and corrections, keeping hannahhelp alive).
One more point, which is that I am going to put some ads on the blog.
Though this may be controversial I hope y'all understand: I am trying to get together money for a plane flight to Africa so that I can volunteer there with a charity working to prevent the spread of AIDs in the young population.
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Samuel Fuller School desires to be a school community in which the servanthood of Christ is modeled for our students and where parents take an active role in the school's mission. Therefore, it is expected that each SFS family will contribute its time and effort to help meet the needs of the school. This service provides a way for parents to remain more intimately connected to the school community while also helping to keep the tuition cost down. In order to facilitate this community of service, the SFS Board has appointed a service coordinator to oversee and organize our volunteers. Samuel Fuller School parents are expected to reach out to the service coordinator at the start of each school year so they may find ways they can serve the school community. Parent participation will be taken into consideration as part of the re-registration process each year.
Some of the areas in which volunteers are needed include:
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Beaches have been a bit of a write-off so they'll be an unknown quantity when it settles.
Estuaries: Flatties are now showing up in good numbers in the Tweed and the creeks with a few whiting. Someone said the blackfish have come back in the Tweed and Pottsville and Cudgen creeks after the rough seas. Better get out there and into them before the sea settles down too much and they run back to sea. Muddies showing up around Tumbulgum and the bass are still going well around Murwillumbah, including a couple of real quality fish.
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Every personal, administrative or criminal injury that is caused by using an alcoholic drinks falls under this law. Each of these cases have its own set of regulations regarding this law that is monitored by state and local institutions, while the federal institutions and law regulate import, taxes, labels and advertisement of alcoholic beverages. Federal law also regulates the usage of alcohol, for example: in 1984 Congress voted and made a legislation...
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Federal law also regulates the usage of alcohol, for example: in 1984 Congress voted and made a legislation regarding use of alcoholic beverages; every person who is under the 21 years of life cannot possess of purchase alcohol and all states implemented this regulation into their law.
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For 15 days he kept on telling the same story. Finally, after long hours of despair one of the police officers started to give more attention to the Liu constant accusations to the noodle restaurant.
The attention came when Liu asked for help from his family members. After hearing his story, a few members of his family went to the famous restaurant and order the same noodles with hot pot souse that he used to eat. Tomorrow they went to take test on drug, and guess what happened then! After going to police and showing the test results to the police officers, Liu was set free and police launched an investigation.
Let's come back on our main character, the restaurant owner. Apparently, he purchased about 2kg of poppy shells for 600 yuan (756 $), and using it as one of the ingredients for his famous hot pot souse for noodles. His business was growing, so probably half of his clients were addictive to his cuisine.


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We get two good rides in ! One down on the RR on the still frozen snow packed Rail way, Kizz is hyper and going down the pave (we can only go on the pave on the ridge, as the woods has sinky deep snow still ) and he spooks at every mail box.. fun fun! heeheh he even gives a little buck or two on the road, he's some frisky!!
Meeting Kaaren and Robyn on Tim's road before a ride on the RR
April 18/2014
Second ride we head down the pave to Kaaren's and meet Robyn, Kaaren and her daughter and ride on the RR down there a while. (the RR is clear down there!)
We have two pretty good rides ! Next up.. the clinic with Amanda! My very first clinic!! I'm so nervous!
I'm so nervous when the day finally comes to get ready to go! I have NEVER gone to a clinic, have NO IDEA what to expect! Have never had a man coach me before, nor had a coach I didn't know at all before...Haven't had much lessons or training period over the years!!
I'm excited but also worried I will end up looking foolish, I know I have a lot of faults for all that I have watched and tried to emulate on my own.. I get things done.. survived starting kizz and put over 200 miles on trails on him last year.. I feel GOOD about what we have done so far. Do I really want to go and feel BAD about my riding skills or Kizz's training so far??
The decision of course was easy... as sensitive & shy as I am, I know it is for the best. It will be a help to us surely. I figure even if I come away with ONE thing I can change or learn then that is worth it! PLUS, getting Kizz out to a new place and riding in a ring with PURPOSE will be good for him. It's not all about racing my love <3
Friday ----
The Day comes and I am all packed and ready to go.. I get Kizz all ready and waiting in the wash rack for his trailer ride
They arrive and I load Kizz up.. he gets right on like the good boy he is.. so proud of him. New trailer, new horse.. but he hops right on beside her. We get on our way and are there in under 2 hours.. We unload and get them settled in their stalls for the night..
It rained that first night and it was a little chilly camping out in Amanda's mom's van, but WAYYY better than it would have been tenting! We were the only ones who stayed on the grounds so It's good we were prepared to stay! the property was beautiful! a smaller warm up ring down by the barn, a beautiful large ring, showers and bathrooms, bleachers and announcers booth by the ring up top.. lots of beautiful grass to park on or camp on.. and fenced all the way around with a gate ! loved it!!
Kizz warming himself up in the warm up ring lol
Saturday ---
The next morning when we got up it was drizzling still from the downpour the night before. But we tacked up at 8:50 to ride for 9am (after some Tim Hortons to warm up! )
I at last minute remembered to take off my sheepskin cover... boy that would have been squishy to ride in the rain with! haha!!!
Mounted up and headed to the ring.. Kizz entered and was very excitable in the ring.. but we did lots of circles and walked all around and let him get used to the scary announcers booth.. haha
Soon Mitch put us to work walking around the ring and getting good positions , as well as working to get our horses moving with purpose and from behind. We moved on to trotting around and worked on the same things. He told me to put more leg on my horse and showed me where exactly. He also wanted me to tighten up my reins (which at first I completely didn't understand but later seen how it helped kizz and myself both balance better ) He quickly picked up a nicer better trot I could POST to! Not only slow and nice I could SIT to, but a nice good paced one that I could post to and get things done with! Nice !! so happy.
He reminded me over and over again about my hand position , legs ON, sit up better, and of course my worst LOOK up! Where I'm going. It was a full time job for him to keep reminding me to tighten my reins, at one point he even tied a knot in my reins and had me keep them THAT tight!! Finally we worked on some cantering, and he seen the first direction Kizz's goosiness jumping around.. but we got a half circle done. The transition was what he was looking for (thank goodness , since I the second time I cantered, it was on the wrong lead )
I notice as I am tacking up for our second ride that day, that Kizz is ultra sensitive to my touch... more than normal!! hmmmm...
makes me wonder if he needs a supplement or something of some kind.. something to think on for sure.
Kendra & Fluke, Amanda & Prime and myself & Kizz at the end of a rainy lesson
The second ride of the day Kizz was really picking up on this all! a smoother nice trot that I could really post to and work on my position at the same time, I was so amazed how quickly we were getting things done that I hadn't been able to do over the past 3 months by myself in the indoor!! At almost the end of the ride, I was asking for a canter and he jumped off sideways bucking.. I lost my seat and almost gained it back when he gave one last good buck and I went off the left side and rolled.. I laid flat for a bit to check everything.. everything seemed perfectly fine! phew! Got up and there was Kizz looking down at me, as if to say.. HOW DID YOU GET DOWN THERE MOM?!?! DARN horse!! Mitch helped me mount up again and we worked on some more getting a good trot. Quite a few times Mitch yelled out that he wouldn't CHANGE a thing! "YAHOOO!! what an accomplishment for me, with as much as I had to fix to get there!!! so proud! I was beaming everytime he said that. Great ride, I'm soooo happy I went!
We finished the day out with a yummy warm meal at a local truck stop.. oh was it GOOD! got the chores all done, horses settled for the night and tucked ourselves into the van for the 2nd night. It was early we were both super tired! We each had a cooler, and fell promptly to sleep!
Sunday ----
Sunday morning we wake up and the sun is shining!!! yahooo!!! We get up, get the horses done, go grab some Tim's and get ready for our first ride at 9 again.
We mount up separately and head up , as our ninny horses have decided they have to be together at all times haha
Kizz & bronwyn
The second day goes even better ,work more on my hands and position, reminds me leg on, look up and ahead.. and my outside rein to be down , tighten inside rein to turn and keep my hands in correct position!! I'm getting there !
As he notices things I am doing as I ask for the canter, we work on them.. I am "goosing" Kizz when I ask for the canter, He is sensitive and needs less bump and my leg is also too far back.. He shows me a better position for Kizz for asking the canter.. he also Works on me setting back , hands down and for me to still STEER while I ask for the canter!! We do a couple each way and I don't get dumped again lol
I have so much to work on !! phew! it's been such a great couple days though I'm super happy and excited about this! I got more accomplished in 4 lessons with him, than I did over 3 months riding in the indoor this winter !!! Wow! I'm SOLD :)
Amanda with her beautiful mare Bronwyn
Look at Kizz's position here.. never seen this before haha!
love this boy, so beautiful and super smart, Mitch got on him at the end of the first ride on the second day so I could see how good he moves, and He said a few times that Kizz was very smart and caught on to something he did with him after only 3 times! He also said he really liked him :) So glad my boy is so likable to someone other than his momma!
getting some one on one with Mitch!
I could go on for another hour about how happy I am about going to this clinic and how much I learned! but I will cut it off now. I really did have a great experience and can't wait to go do another clinic with Mitch! Never had someone explain things in such a way they made such sense and I seen immediate results! Thankful I went!
Was also happy to get home, get Kizz safely off the trailer, and put away ... and get hugs and love from my hubby and Kiddos!! It was mothers day!! Hubby bbq'd me lovely steaks and made me a lovely meal even including dessert! He finished my chicken coop While I was gone too.. feeling Very loved <3
Wish me luck I can use some of what I learned on the trail and not be a complete beginning again when I go to my next clinic :)
Our Accident :(
Kizz and I have our very first Accident (hopefully our only!) On our very next ride out after the clinic. I ride down the pave to meet up with Robyn. Her mare got spooked by a crazy chained up dog at the crossroads near her house , and ran into the field and cut her leg a bit on some wire in the field. As I ride onto her road I see her standing with her mare ! They are a little shook up but ok. So she mounts up and we go for a short ride on the RR. I ride back with her past the crazy chained dog (also across a wooden bridge on that road, Kizz has never seen before!) we take the outside and ride along by the dog. The horses are fine. Bambi is happy to have another horse along to comfort her I think!
We ride almost the whole way to Robyn's house, then turn.. On the way back Kizz is PERFECT. We go by the crazy dog and across the old Wooden bridge. Once we got onto the pave we decide to trot a bit. Kizz is still very hyper since he had a very short ride . He picks up a little canter on the pave and I stupidly let him :( As we go around a pot hole in the pave, he spooks a bit, (just that little stutter spook that you wouldn't normally notice!) and his front feet in the boots loose grip and we start to go down!! We slide along the pave for a ways!! I slide along my knee , calf and helmet a bit! When we are stopped I jump up and Kizz hops up! It's not as bad as I thought it was going to be going down!!! but then I see why.. poor kizz has taken the brunt of the fall and has road rash along his stifle area and on his left front elbow area.. he also has a little bit of chafing on his back hooves and fetlocks but not bad. He isn't dripping blood from the two wounds but they're bloody :(
I walk my poor guy home and access the damage. My husband comes out and gets me the garden hose going so I can hose it and see it better. Robyn arrives and helps me as well. We clean it and put some Wonder dust on them . I turn him out to pasture with his buddy and he gallops off! Guess nothing is too seriously hurt!! BUT over the next few days he does lay around in the grass alot and I think he's probably very stiff.. over 2 weeks his wounds heal and then we get back out for a little ride and he's back in the game!!
walking home after our accident
our first Conditioning ride back after the accident.


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Editorial - High court balancing religious freedom, nondiscrimination
On April 19, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Christian Legal Society v. Martinez -- setting the stage for what could be a landmark decision further defining the extent to which religious groups have a right to be exempt from government nondiscrimination policies.
The case arose in 2004 when a chapter of the Christian Legal Society tried to become a registered student organization at the University of California's Hastings College of the Law. Although CLS was allowed to meet on campus, officially recognized groups receive a variety of benefits, including use of the school name, access to school media and eligibility for activity-fee funding.
Hastings denied CLS recognition on the grounds the group violates the school's policy prohibiting discrimination on the basis of religion and sexual orientation by barring non-Christians and non-celibate gays and lesbians from becoming voting members or leaders. CLS opens meetings and activities to all, but only those who agree to its statement of faith can vote and serve as officers.
CLS sued, charging that Hastings had violated its rights of free speech, religious liberty and freedom of association. After lower courts ruled in favor of the law school, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the CLS appeal.
At issue in the case is whether a public institution can withhold official recognition and funding from a religiously based student group that requires its officers and voting members to adhere to a code of conduct and core religious beliefs.
During oral argument several justices focused on sorting out the dispute between Hastings and CLS over what the school's policy actually means in practice. Must all recognized student groups allow any student to join, vote and serve as an officer (the so-called "all-comers" policy), as Hastings claims? Or have some student groups been allowed to reject students who don't share the group's values, as CLS contends?
If the latter is true, then the Court could well decide that Hastings has practiced viewpoint discrimination by imposing on CLS a requirement of accepting all students as voting members and officers while permitting other recognized student groups to limit voting membership and officers to students who agree with the group's beliefs.
But even if every recognized student organization is truly open to all (raising the specter of Democrats taking over the Republican club or global-warming skeptics running the environmental club), CLS argues that it is still a violation of the First Amendment to deny religious groups freedom of association as a condition for participating in a free-speech forum.
Hastings replies a public educational institution has a strong interest in promoting nondiscrimination and, in furtherance of that goal, it is reasonable to recognize only those student groups that agree to admit all comers as voting members and leaders.
When two worthy claims collide -- a public university's commitment to nondiscrimination vs. a religious group's need to control its own message and membership -- the case is close and difficult. That's why the justices appeared to be sharply divided during oral argument, and will no doubt remain divided when they decide the issue this summer.
Although preventing discrimination is laudable, I'm troubled when any government entity creates a public forum for speech that is closed to some expressions of religious speech. There's a contradiction between the law school's stated aim to encourage diverse viewpoints and a policy that has the effect of excluding groups with deeply held religious convictions.
True, CLS can still meet on campus -- but only at the sufferance of the administration and with limited access to students. Ironically, by denying recognition to religious groups with a faith requirement for voting membership, the university discriminates against such groups in the name of advancing nondiscrimination.
Charles C. Haynes is director of the Religious Freedom Education Project at the Newseum in Washington, DC.


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She is coloured in Copics. The backing paper is from a craft paper pad I bought a while ago in Lidl. I created the rose using a new set from Altenew that I got in a magazine, and added embellishments from my stash.
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Last night, L decided to SHOW OUT at piano lesson.
She likes to do things her way. On her time. For as long as she wants. And then not.
In our schooling, I work hard to determine when it's time to set a boundary/expectation and when it's time to let her direct her own learning. For example, the other day when we did the Unifix cubes decomposition of numbers 10, 9, and 8, I showed her how to represent 10 and 0 and asked her to slide one over to represent 9 and 1. From there, she did the sliding while I recorded and we talked about it. When we got mid-way through the 8's, she slowed WAAAAAY down. She didn't ask to be done, but I could tell she was about done. I told her, "When you finish the 8's, I think we should be done. It seems like you're getting tired." True to form, when it was time for the last slide over, she decided she needed to be done now. Nice try, stinker! "I know you're so, so tired! Let's have a snuggle so you can get enough energy to finish the last one. What should we play when we're done?" 30 seconds and then we were ready to face life again. That was a time I tried really hard to follow what her behavior was saying while still finding a way to help her persevere (just a little bit).
I think we do pretty well with that at home.
At a lesson, though? It's a whole other story! L would like to see just how much she's able to get away with when faced with an external authority figure.
Last night's antics included putting her feet on the piano. Twice.
This is NOT, btw, our kid trying to show us that she doesn't want to do piano. She loves piano, she loves her teacher, she practices spontaneously and joyfully, etc. Was she tired last night? Sure! Was she also just seeing if her teacher would put an end to her hijinks? Absolutely. Did her teacher put an end to the hijinks? Not effectively.
You see, L is cute. She is tiny for her age and has great big anime-like eyes and a charming disposition and is generally advanced. She's like a cartoon character of a "gifted kid". Everyone loves her. We don't leave the house without people commenting on/to her, and generally they're right. She is kind and cute and funny and spunky.
She's also really strong-willed. Stubborn, in fact. I don't know where she gets it.
In any case, her piano teacher has fallen into the same trap so many before her have: being afraid to say NO to L. Not a questioning no "Can you please stop that, ok?" or a smiling no to keep it from feeling too harsh. A "Oh hells no!" no that stops L in her tracks and helps her understand that you don't always get to set the rules.
Since her teacher was unable to set that boundary, we set as an expectation today that L would write an "I'm sorry" song to practice for her teacher at her next lesson. Again, she loves writing songs, so this is a consequence that is very much in line with her gifts and desires.
Except she doesn't want to. She is tired. She is bored. She can't think right now. Etc. Etc. Etc.
Unfortunately for L, her mommy and daddy are both pretty good at setting an expectation and sticking to it. Expectation? You will finish writing the song, then you can play.
Today's homeschool lesson may be on perseverance and consequences. It's been 2+ hours so far. She seems to be getting it together now (especially since we've mentioned that we're going out to lunch but little girls who haven't completed their songs will not be eating restaurant food).
Update: The song is finished! Want a laugh? Here it is!
It is to the tune of "Hot Cross Buns" and the lyrics go:
I'm sorry
I'm sorry
I put my feet
On the piano
I'm sorry
Turns out bribery involving vegan Indian food works!
And we're back to joyful playing!


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Sunday, January 19, 2014
Pasadena's Jane Austen Evening
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Oooooh!!! Aaaaahh!!! The more I scroll down, the better the pictures get and the more fun things are to be found in them!! I cannot believe how many people were at that dance! How delightfully fun!! Your dress is so fabulous! Everything about it is so lovely! The pleating, stitching, sheer-iness of it! Your slippers are so darling! Love the stitiching on them as well! And yeah!! Your reticule! You look divine! What fun!!ReplyDelete
What is the best way to attach the embroidered panel a) if it's between two other pieces of fabric and b) if it's to attach to the bottom of a hem or sleeve? Thanks. AnnabelReplyDeleteReplies
Hmm.. I don't know about the best way, but what I did (and it's the first time I've done this) was for the insertion, I pressed the seam allowances under and tacked the panel on top of the main fabric. I then basted and stitched the insertion down. Then I cut open the main fabric, under the panel and pressed it back and tacked it down.Delete
For the hem, I stitched the bottom of the dress and top of the panel together, seam allowances on the inside. Then I turned up the seam allowances and tacked them to the dress.
I hope that was somewhat easy to understand.
Holy bejeezus you look stunning! Wonderful job!!!ReplyDelete
Sheer dresses are quite lovely. I love that pleated, dippy detail on the front of yours. Quite unique! :) It sure does look like a well attended event.ReplyDelete
There were so many people, I couldn't believe it! I think sheer dresses are beautiful, too. The dippy front was copied from the dress. I think theres only one other dress I've seen with that shaped neckline. It is also at the Museo del Traje. I don't know where the dresses were originally made, or if it was a Spanish fashion at the time.Delete
You look every inch the Regency Lady!ReplyDelete
Your dress is stunning! Beautiful job with the embroidery.ReplyDelete


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The first project is Spooky Countdown by Primitive Hare. I am stitching one of these per week alongside Giovanna, we will finish in plenty of time for Hallowe'en. Gio is stitching her's as a full sampler, I am stitching mine to mount as tombstone markers for my Hallowe'en Countdown Tree this year.
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In organizing my beauties, I realized that I should really de-stash some of my babies. Over the next couple days or so, I plan on listing some my babies in my etsy shop to hopefully find a new home. I am sure that they will find a great home and be made into beautiful designs... These are the current babies that I have selected for de-stash:
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Very satisfied with this place. The prices are great the facilities are well kept. 8 bucks for twilight! That's less than a dollar a hole! My friends living in the city are jealous about this place.
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Just went here today. I just wanted to inform everyone that they guy at the golf shop today told me monday is half price. Only 4 for a large bucket for the driving range.
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Fun, clean, and beautiful scenery. Can do various activities in a decent amount of space; bbq, kids park, volleyball, walk the dog on the paved trail around the lake or jog, small boating, eating outside off the lake; and of course, golf. This is our 1st choice of park or forest preserve.
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love this place! although i'm not a golfer but looks tempting. the paddle boats are too much fun! love the path. fortunately i work close enough to just park my car on my lunch & stare at the water. very calm place compared to lake arlington with the lance armstrong wannabes cycling too close for comfort.
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I've been wanting to go paddleboating since last summer and had no idea there was somewhere so close to my condo! Now I'll tell you why Twin Lakes is so awesome and I'm going to go back as much as I possibly can this summer:
-You can paddleboat, canoe or kayak for just $5/hour pp! Boating is only open weekends from 11am-6pm
-It's a nice little lake with some adorable large baby ducks and a [email protected]$$ black duck circling around, not to mention a little waterfall island in the center
-You can chill out on the deck overlooking the lake
-Roccovino's with good food options and liquor! Totally surprised me to see a well established 'burbs pizza joint branch here. Bottles of house wine for $18!
-Friday night bands every other week on the outdoor deck from 7-9pm, I gotta check that out!
-The lake is called DOUGHNUT LAKE! No joke. That alone warrants this spot 5 stars.
The young guys working here and the guys working in the food spot were friendly and great. I saw a lot of people fishing which surprised me and then creeped me out worrying about coming face to face with a catfish if my boat overturned! Twin Lakes also has a driving range and golf course for you players.
Twin Lakes is a bit hidden, but it's off the Northwest Hwy exit on 53. Follow the signs and enjoy free parking - yay 'burbs!
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PCs present:
- Luke, playing Andy, a 3rd level fighter
- Jason, playing Mixaham, a 1st level magic-user
- Dan, playing Diogenes, a 1st level fighter; then Evangelios, a 1st level fighter; then Brother Ambrose, a 1st level cleric
This session began with the PCs back in Riverfork, about to set off in search of the tower of the Three Faced Wizard. They needed his help to freeze or purify an underground lake containing "water demons", in order to satisfy the kobold kolony of The Worm's Mouth, who were keeping the ex-river pirate henchman Hector hostage. Who swallowed a spider to catch a fly, etc.
The Three Faced Wizard apparently lived three days to the North across very rough terrain. The party decided that it would probably be more trouble than it was worth to take their wagon, so they set off on foot: the party had now been whittled down by death and absence [Patrice, playing Dragosta, couldn't make it this week] to Andy and Mixaham, with the hireling Christina and two henchmen river pirates, Diogenes and Evangelios. A new player, Dan, took over Diogenes, who he quickly christened 'Diog'.
On the second day out, they came across a wagon some distance away, with camping equipment around it. After being challenged by whoever was inside the wagon, and threatened with crossbow fire, they executed a pretty effective raid, with Diogenes sprinting forward under cover of Andy's heavy crossbow, while Mixaham unleashed a darkness spell. This resulted in the capture of two prospectors, who seemed willing to give up their gold. Andy was in the mood to just take half of their treasure, but Diogenes slit their throats for 'banditry'. [I think Dan was taking the whole river pirate business seriously.]
The party took the mules and wagon owned by the prospectors and continued on their way. But that night the scent of the mules attracted a griffon through a random encounter roll; since this was at night, I decided that the griffon was instead a 'growlfin' - a griffon but with an owl's fore-body instead of an eagle's. This resulted in quite a fight. The growlfin went for the mules, and killed them in short shrift. The party took the opportunity to do some serious damage to the monster while it was distracted - but then it killed Christina and badly savaged Andy. Diogenes then attempted to distract the beast from his friend but was likewise dispatched by the growlfin's beak. It was looking seriously bad for the party, and things got even worse the next round, when the growlfin unceremoniously slaughtered Evangelios. (Once Diogenes had died we decided Dan could 'be' Evangelios - he was killed instantly. I'm not sure Dan even had the chance to roll the dice. Good times.)
This left the badly wounded Andy and Mixaham. We were staring a TPK down the barrel. But the growlfin was badly injured by Andy in the next round and I let Dan roll for its morale check to build suspense: he rolled badly (or well, depending on your perspective) and the beast decided enough was enough and fled.
Andy and Mixaham were in no position to continue. Three of their comrades, plus their mules, were lying hither and thither amidst scattered blood and entrails. They spent that night in nervous fear of the growlfin returning, but the next morning came across an apparently friendly cleric, Brother Ambrose, who was tracking the growlfin in order to smite it as a demon. (What a coincidence!) He agreed to team up with Andy and Mixaham to get revenge on the creature.
They rested for a day, during which they spotted a gold dragon flying far off in the distance. Hardly being in the mood for another entanglement with anything, they kept out of sight. The following day they headed off following the trail of blood left by the wounded growlfin. They tracked it to its nest, in a huge hollow cypress tree; Brother Ambrose managed to creep closer...and closer....and closer....throwing it chunks of meat, until he was close enough to 'smite' it in the head. With the beast dead, Mixaham proceeded to dissect it, as is his wont, in order to try to gain alchemical materials. He was now in possession of a growlfin's internal organs, with plenty of blood and bile too.
The party continued their journey and reached the tower of the Three Faced Wizard without incident. The tower of the Three Faced Wizard lies at the foot of high mountains. It is made entirely from silver. As the party approached, they began to hear a grinding, squelching sound underneath them that grew louder and louder; they subsequently learned that this was the work of giant earthworms whose noise prevents spell-casting in the area - except by the Three Faced Wizard, who is used to it.
At the tower they were met by the Three Faced Wizard's three apprentices - a beautiful red-head, brunette, and blonde, known as the First, Second and Third. These apprentices agreed to let Mixaham have an audience with the wizard. After passing his baboon servants and giant lizard guards, the party reached the top of the tower and the Three Faced Wizard's solar. The wizard agreed to provide Mixaham and Andy with a potion that would freeze an underground lake, but he needed a captive "ice spirit" in order to do this. The party would need to go to a nearby glacier in order to try to get one, and the wizard gave Mixaham a magic ring in order to capture such a being. In return, he wanted any magical or interesting treasure the party came across inside the glacier. He also agreed to teleport the party to the kobolds' cave afterwards, in order to meet the one week deadline for freeing Hector, which would otherwise pass before they could get to him; in return they promised to give him a considerable amount of treasure. Mixaham was also able to ask for some alchemical training in return for handing over his accumulated wealth, some thousands of gp-worth of gems.
The party set off for the glacier. Here they found a series of caves [DM's note: this is level 2 from the B1 module] and began to explore them in search of an 'ice spirit'. They didn't do this before the session ended, but they did manage to kill two ice zombies and a carrion crawler, and flee from an ochre jelly and some crab spiders. Brother Ambrose also almost died from a poison gas trap on a chest, but survived with 1 hp remaining.
A very enjoyable session, but I wasn't particularly happy with the way B1 worked in play - it was, I think, a little bit dull. I will have to spice it up a bit for next week. Dan almost managed the considerable feat of having three separate PCs die in a single session, but Brother Ambrose proved a bit luckier than Diogenes and Evangelios had been. The perils of wilderness travel as low-level characters in D&D was strongly in evidence here.


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The new money will be released when administrators provide details of projects, a government spokesman said.
More money could also be announced this week for the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, the finance minister said.
More than 10,500 people died in India and more than 5,500 are missing presumed dead - almost all in the Andamans and Nicobars.
Bank aid
Wednesday's package was announced after a cabinet meeting in Delhi.
It covers Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Pondicherry.
The cash is in addition to the five billion rupees announced on 27 December for immediate relief and rescue work.
Finance Minister P Chidambaram said the new package included $251m for the fishing community.
Another $5.3m has been set aside for repairing and restoring damaged fishing harbours and landing places.
The cabinet also agreed on the construction of 170,500 houses at a cost of $173m.
Earlier this month, the government put the cost of the tsunami at $1.6bn on the mainland alone, with reports of another $600m on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
It said compensation payouts were expected to top one billion rupees.
India rejected relief and rescue aid from other countries in the aftermath of the disaster but has asked the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank for help in reconstruction projects.
On Tuesday, India's ambassador to the United Nations, Nirupam Sen, said the role of the UN and its agencies was critical in implementing quick and concrete programmes for the affected areas.
However, he also said India had a "well-oiled machinery, experienced and trained personnel and the resources required to successfully deal with the unexpected disaster within our existing capacity".


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Ashes to Ashes
|Ashes to Ashes
Being in the Province of Titanuranus Press Office is like being in the TV show 'Ashes to Ashes'.
It is a sheltered workshop for has-been journalists who are all labouring under the misapprehension it is 1981.
It is rare indeed to find one that knows anything about politics.
The exceptions are all serving time.
As a rule they are clueless and witless.
They are good at Scrabble.
But Scrabble is interrupted every afternoon around 4.30 while they gather together to play a different game.
That game is called 'What will be on the front page tomorrow?'
|Billion Dollar Babies
The main function of the Province Press Office is putting out press releases.
Nobody reads these archaic, turgid offerings except the opposition and a handful of lazy journalists looking for a line to fill up a story.
The only time they attract any real attention is when they stuff up.
This is one of those times.
They are about to send out a press release that is not just smoke and mirrors.
Not just gilding the lily a bit.
It is a blatant porky and it is titled "Billion Dollar Babies"
|The Premiere arrives
after inspecting asbestos
The Premiere's white cane can be heard tapping the walls of the hallway.
There is an air of expectancy.
The press release is in response to opposition claims the government had some how managed to flush one billion dollars down the toilet.
The press release is the most fanciful piece of fiction ever concocted.
It is read out almost sermon like to the Premiere who is nodding furiously.
They did not flush the billion dollars down the toilet it states.
They 'invested it' in health.
|Some Smart Alec ...
The fact is that during the period in question the Premiere was in fact the Health Minister.
The Health Minister did a fantastic job of keeping health off the front page.
As the former Premiere of the Province of New Wales, Morris Yemen, stated "If you want to fix the health system you will need to spend the entire budget on Health.
Keeping it off the front page is the main game.
Keeping health off the front page does not come cheap.
It costs money.
All problems must be stamped on immediately.
This means bloating the Health dept with bureaucrats.
Not ordinary bureaucrats either.
Expensive ones!
No one in Titanuranus can run a hospital apparently.
They must come from another Province or another country even.
And their girlfriends must come too!
|The Health Minister's
Resident GP
It is bloated beyond belief.
It is so bloated there is a dedicated General Practitioner on staff.
This comes in handy as many of the Ministers and their staff suffer from gout due to all the good living.
Having a GP on hand to write out scripts save hobbling to the medical centre.
According to the press release the real evil here is the completely out of the blue Goods and Services Tax Receipts and Province Tax Revenue surprise.
We have even gone as far as to stand in front of an angry mob and liken Titanuranus to Greece and Italy before being booed off stage.
Such a press release is usually backed up with a doorstop press conference.
|Tattoo and Steady
Tattoo is from the Province run News Agency Northern Cross.
Tattoo is well known in Titanuranus for pointing to the sky and yelling out "the plane! the plane! the plane!
Tattoo is from the Peter Gilligen school of journalism -
"This fantastic news for Titanuranus Premiere - would you like to embellish?"
Tattoo's only question is "How would you like me to present this one Premiere?
The Premiere tells him to sort it out with 'Steady'.
Steady and Tattoo like to go 'exploring' together down at the beach.
The doorstop continues.
|The Premiere's White Cane
In relation to:
The 12 Year Old Girl Strip Search Disgrace.
The Great Kangaroo Point Oval Swindle.
The Great Police Boat Scandal.
The Integrity Shop Fiasco.
|The 12 Year Old Girl
Strip Search Disgrace
The Forestry Round Table Debacle.
The Snouts in the Trough Legislation Outrage.
The Great Community Cabinet Confidence Trick.
The Cover Up.
The list goes on.
The Premiere is forced to prevaricate.
To each question the Premiere answers "I cannot see that. I cannot see that at all".
The Province Press Office is not alone in being stuck in 1981.
The Premiere is firmly entrenched in 1981 as well.
The white cane is waved about and the Premiere proclaims "It is all the fault of Facebook".
The Premiere is clearly having an ongoing struggle with reality.
|Gene Hunt and Alex Drake
Rescue the Premiere
Gene tells Steady to run off and write the 'State of the Province' speech.
"That should be good for a laff" he says.
"Who would have thought that a pollie with so much promise would turn out to be such a failure?" Gene asks Alex.
"Never did set the house ablaze that one" replies Alex.


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She Likes to Talk
There is a telling moment in "Paris Is Paris Is Paris: Gertrude Stein in Paris," a one-woman show by Tom Parks currently playing at the Carl Cherry Center, in which Gertrude Stein (Carol Daly) expresses her disgust for the callous disregard that James Joyce showed his one-time mentor Sylvia Beach. Beach, founder of the Shakespeare & Company bookstore in Paris, had supported Joyce and published Ulysses when no one else would; after it became a success and a world-wide cause célèbre, he dumped her for a bigger contract, leaving her in financial peril. In Parks's play, this act of disloyalty earns Stein's swift condemnation. Yet in Daly's subtle portrayal, one can imagine an even deeper source of displeasure: the unwelcome knowledge that Joyce's famously modernist novel will be remembered as more important to the history of literature than anything Stein ever wrote. She quickly changes the subject, but the feeling lingers: anything that threatens Gertrude Stein's sense of herself as the most important person in the room must be banished.
Parks's witty, well-constructed play is presented as a visit with the grand expatriate author in a salon in her apartment in Paris. The year is 1945. Picasso's sensitive portrait of Stein hangs on a wall. She sits at a small table; pours herself tea; stands up when the moods strikes her; exhorts the audience to "listen, listen!"; recites some of her writing; reminisces about her past and the famous artists and writers she has encountered; and shares details of a life spent with "Miss Toklas," the life companion whose "autobiography" (written by Stein) was and remains Stein's most celebrated book.
Some of the most enjoyable scenes in the play are when Daly winningly recites Stein's own work, such as the tender Valentine poem she wrote to Toklas ("she is very lovely and mine which is very lovely"), and a brief, rousing rendition of "On the Trail of the Lonesome Pine," a cowboy song Stein liked to sing for guests. Despite a life lived abroad, Stein would always consider herself resolutely American.
Daly is a compelling performer and masters Parks's long, intermissionless script with confidence and flair. One senses that she could dig even deeper into Stein's character if given the chance, but this visit with Gertrude Stein is on the whole a polite affair, with drama and conflict kept at bay. Though I found "Paris Is Paris Is Paris" entertaining, I also found myself wishing for some moment of imaginative fancy, some theatrical probing of Stein's inner life—something I couldn't find in a book. The pre-recorded introduction and conclusion contribute to a certain academic, encyclopedic atmosphere.
Yet Parks takes a palpable delight in Stein's inventive wordplay and his play is as much a writerly homage to a modernist master as a depiction of an aging woman in a chatty and nostalgic mood. "I like to talk," Stein says, and talk she does. It is a credit to Daly and Parks that our interest is held throughout the show, which runs, perhaps too long, at nearly an hour and a half.
Near the end of the play, Stein reads from an exchange of letters between "Miss Toklas" and "Miss Stein." Alice would like to express her mounting displeasure at the visits of Ernest Hemingway, who is uncouth; also, she would like to know how Miss Stein will take her tea. "I take my tea with neither milk nor lemon nor sugar," Miss Stein replies, ignoring the troubling reference to Hemingway—another closed door to whatever shadows hung behind the mask of Gertrude Stein's singular, art-filled life.
"Paris Is Paris Is Paris: Gertrude Stein in Paris," will play at the Carl Cherry Center, 4th and Guadeloupe, in Carmel, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 pm and Sundays at 3:00 p.m., through April 1. Call (831) 620-2163 for tickets.


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I am vehemently against Captain America being made gay in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and here's why:
If you are longing for gay comic book hero that you can admire and idolize, then you don't know anything about comic books, can't function Google, and in my opinion, don't deserve to be a part of the conversation.
If half the energy put into #GiveCaptainAmericaABoyfriend went into adapting The Authority into a mature and faithful film, it would be light-years better for the community, comic books as a medium, and the world.
Begging to have an agenda-switch flipped on an existing character is so sad and desperate when writers are making amazing things that fit the agenda and the offended parties are just too lazy or busy being offended to find it.
That's the fans' job in this exchange: to find what you like and support it. If you don't, who will? And if your demographic is small, then it makes that job that much more important. Do your job.


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ABC Christmas Challenge - "H" for Hat
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Welcome to Transitional KindergartenROOM 19 - CLASSROOM EXPECTATIONSBE SAFE! BE KIND! DO YOUR BEST EVERYWHERE!Weekly parent bulletins and school notices are sent home in Friday Folders so be sure to check your child's backpack for important information each week.Reading logs are due at the end of the month.We have snack time daily and students bring snacks to share based on our classroom snack calendar. Snacks should be store bought and please be sure to send enough for approximately 22 students.Daily Class Schedule:7:50 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Language Arts10:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. Math11:15 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. Lunch11:50 a.m. - 12:50 p.m. Rest Time/Centers12:50 p.m. - 1:10 p.m. Recess1:10 p.m. - 2:10 p.m. Social Studies/Science/Art
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Rebirth by Lil Wayne is due out June 22nd, 2010.
Lil Wayne's generally delayed album Rebirth has yet another release date, according to Wal-Mart's website.
Rebirth's release date has been pushed back a minimum of six times over the past two years, with the last reported date being February 1.
Lil Wayne fans who hoped they would enjoy the album prior to his February deadline to report to jail, will now have to wait until the summer as the album is expected to hit stores June 22.
Lil Wayne is due to start his one-year prison sentence for a gun possession charge in New York on February 9 2010.
In related news, Lil Wayne landed at #26 on Pollstar's list of Top 50 grossing tours of 2009, topping artists like Beyonce, Toby Keith and Kiss, by raking in a total of $32.1 million dollars.
Rock group U2 topped the list with $123 million earned, followed by Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band which earned a total of $94 million.


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Nine Washington University alumni—including one from the Sam Fox School—have been selected to conduct research or teach English this year as participants in the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.
The program recognizes talented students who are committed to promoting global collaboration and understanding through research and teaching.
Francis Aguillard, who earned a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the Sam Fox School in 2013, will pursue an MSc in City Design and Social Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Since graduation, Aguillard has worked as a designer at Waggonner & Ball Architects in New Orleans. Among other projects, he assisted with the award-winning Greater New Orleans Urban Water Plan, created by an international Dutch-American team led by Waggonner & Ball.
"When I started working for Waggonner & Ball, I did not know I would work on the firm's urban design and planning projects," Aguillard said. "However, I had many studios at WashU that focused on landscape and urbanism. Thus, my assignments at Waggonner & Ball afforded me the great opportunity to continue learning about issues at the intersection of ecology, policy, design, engineering, and sociology once back in my hometown of New Orleans."
"Looking to formalize this interest in the city and its resource-supplying environs, I sought out urban-oriented graduate design programs to strengthen my understanding of environments and contexts beyond the building wall," he continued. That led him apply to both the LSE's City Design and Social Science program—which appeals to his desire to incorporate the social sciences into his design work—and to the Fulbright Program.
"It's a great honor to be a designer within a program that hosts students from a wide variety of disciplines and to help represent the value of architectural and design thinking," Aguillard said. "Just as I believe buildings should be engaged with their contexts, I believe that the disciplinary pursuit of architecture must be engaged within academic institutions and in relationship to other disciplines. The Fulbright Program and the LSE are fantastic opportunities for me to apply this philosophy."
Additional Washington University Fulbright Participants
Daniel Bromberg, who earned a degree in anthropology from Arts & Sciences in 2015, will study public health in the Netherlands.
Janice Cantieri, who earned a degree in international and area studies from Arts & Sciences in 2015, will study crisis journalism in Fiji.
Sarah Cohen, who earned a degree in urban studies in Arts & Sciences in 2011, will teach English in Columbia.
Mackenzie Findlay, who earned a degree in women, gender and sexuality studies from Arts & Sciences in 2015, will teach English in Indonesia.
Christian Gordon, who earned a degree in educational studies from Arts & Sciences in 2015, will teach English in Turkey.
Caroline Gutman, who earned a graduate degree in Chinese from Arts & Sciences in 2009, will study economic development in China.
Alexander Lu, who earned a degree in biochemistry and molecular biology from Arts & Sciences in 2015, will research spinal cord injuries in Germany.
Jeffrey Woodham, who earned a degree in international and area studies from Arts & Sciences in 2014, will teach English in Jordan.