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ARRA Outreach (Race to the Top)
ARRA Outreach (Stabilization Fund)
ARRA Outreach (Reporting)
Economic Security
Coming Up Taller
Odds and Ends
Quote to Note
Upcoming Events
ARRA Outreach (Race to the Top)
On November 4, in anticipation of this week's announcement of Race to the Top's final application, President Obama and Secretary Duncan visited James C. Wright Middle School in Madison, Wisconsin. "In the coming weeks, states will be able to compete for what we're calling a Race to the Top award," the President explained. "We're putting over $4 billion on the table, one of the largest investments that the federal government has ever made in education reform. But we're not just handing it out to states.... We're staying to states, if you're committed to real change in the way you educate your children, if you're willing to hold yourselves more accountable, and if you develop a strong plan to improve the quality of education in your state, then we'll offer you a big grant to help you make that plan a reality.... And, I'm proud to say that, already, a number of states have taken us up on this challenge." The President used the remainder of his remarks to "get into some details" about Race to the Top's four key measures of reform: designing and implementing rigorous standards and high-quality assessments; attracting and retaining great teachers and leaders; supporting data systems that inform decisions and improve instruction; and using innovation and effective approaches to turn-around struggling schools. "Don't just expect teachers to set a high bar," he stressed. "It will take parents and teachers unions and elected officials working together as partners in a common effortnot seeing each other as antagonists, but all of us having the same goal. It will take each and every one of us doing our part on behalf of our children and our country and the future we share."
Then, yesterday (November 12), the Secretary released the final application for the Race to the Top Fund, which will reward states that have raised student performance and have the capacity to accelerate achievement gains with innovative reforms. The final application includes significant changes to the proposal from the Department in July. After reviewing responses to the draft proposal from 1,161 people, who submitted thousands of unique comments, the Department restructured the application and changed it to reflect the ideas of the public. The Department will hold two rounds of competition for these grants. For the first round, it will accept states' applications until January 19, 2010. Peer reviewers will evaluate the applications, and the winners will be announced in April. For the second round, it will accept states' applications until June 1, and all the winners will be announced by September 30. (Note: Aside from the application, the web site has an executive summary of the program and a helpful summary of the significant changes that were based on comments received. Also, the Department intends to host two technical assistance planning workshops in December. One will be in Denver on December 3, 2009; the other will be in the Washington, D.C., area on December 10, 2009.)
ARRA Outreach (Stabilization Fund)
Also this week, the Secretary announced the availability of applications for the second and final phase of the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund (SFSF). "The Department has moved quickly to award more than $67 billion in education stimulus aid to date to stabilize state budgets and save jobs," he said. "We are now asking states to implement reform-based action items in order to get the remaining $11.5 billion."
Specifically, the Department is asking states to provide basic information on the four key measures of reform, including:
- How teachers and principals are evaluated, and how this information is used to support, retain, promote, or remove staff.
- The extent to which the state has a statewide longitudinal data system that includes the elements prescribed by the America COMPETES Act and how it will implement a comprehensive system by 2011.
- Whether the state provides student achievement growth data on current students and students taught in the previous year to, at a minimum, teachers of reading/language arts and math, in grades in which the state administers assessments in those subjects, in a manner that is both timely and informs instructional programs.
- The number and identity of the schools that are Title I schools in improvement, corrective action, or restructuring that are identified as persistently lowest-achieving schools.
State applications must describe the state's current ability to collect the data or other information needed, as well as the state's current ability to make the data or information easily available to the public. If the state is able to fully collect and publicly report the required data or other information at least annually, the state must furnish the most recent data or information with its plan. If a state is not able to fully collect or publicly report the data or other information at least annually, the plan must describe the state's process and timeline for developing and implementing the means to do soas soon as possible, but no later than September 30, 2011.
ARRA Outreach (Reporting)
On October 30, in reports covering approximately $160 billion (representing about half of the funds put to work through September 30, 2009), American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) recipients informed the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board that they have created or saved 640,329 direct jobs. These reports support government and private forecasters' estimates that the ARRA has created or saved, overall, an estimated one million jobs. The majority of the jobs reported were in the construction (about 80,000 jobs) and education (about 325,000 jobs) sectors.
In a separate report, the Department describes each of the ARRA education grants and their allocations. The report also contains a profile of each state that summarizes any restoration of education budgets by ARRA funds per program and compiles all reported information regarding the state's use of ARRA funds per program. To summarize: over $67 million in formula grants were awarded by the Department as of September 30, 2009. Roughly 400,000 jobs have been created or saved through these formula grants. Of those, 325,000 are education jobs; the remaining portion is attributable to general public service positions.
Economic Security
More recently, Secretary Duncan addressed the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's annual Education and Workforce Summit. This wide-ranging speech hit on many topics, such as the federal role in education, the compelling case for reforming education at every level (featuring a range of important indicators), and the core ideas that are central to reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). "I believe that the quality of our education system says as much about the long-term health of our economy as the stock market, the unemployment rate, and the size of the gross domestic product," he stated. "That's because the quality of our workforce and the intellectual breadth and depth of our future leaders is directly related to the quality of education we provide today."
At the summit, the Chamber released the second in its "Leaders and Laggards" series of state report cards. The report cards examine the 50 states and the District of Columbia in eight categories: school management, finance, staffing: hiring and evaluation, staffing: removing ineffective teachers, data, pipeline to postsecondary, technology, and state reform environment. Overall, the states posted mediocre results, and, across all the categories, not a single state earned top grades in more than one or two areas.
Coming Up Taller
First Lady Michelle Obama, honorary chair of the President's Committee on Arts and Humanities, has presented 15 programs from around the world with the Coming Up Taller Award. Bestowed to arts and humanities organizations that reach underserved youth, the award is a reminder of the meaningful role cultural activities in the lives of children. This year's recipients include the Shakespeare Remix program in New York City, where inner-city teens adapt and perform Shakespearean texts to reflect their lives, and the Harmony Project in Los Angeles, which provides free music instruction to at-risk children.
Odds and Ends
Last week, capitalizing on advanced technology, Secretary Duncan and Jordanian Minister of Education Waleed Ali-Ma'ani lead students from the U.S. and Jordan in a two-way video exchange on climate change, and the Secretary and NASA Administrator Charles Bolden joined local students for a live discussion (questions were asked in English, Russian, French, and German) with the crew aboard the International Space Station.
Also last week, the Secretary joined military leaders to discuss the importance of early learning in improving a child's chances for success in life, whether choosing college, the workforce, or the military.
Then, this week, the Secretary delivered remarks on "The Promise of Promise Neighborhoods" at a Harlem Children's Zone meeting.
Preceding the White House Tribal Nations Conference, Assistant Secretary for Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development Carmel Martin and Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education Thelma Melendez met with Tribal leaders at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian to discuss reauthorization of the ESEA.
To improve preparedness in response to the H1N1 flu outbreak, the Department has issued guidance under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) to answer questions that school officials may have concerning the disclosure of personally identifiable information from students' education records to outside entities when facing a outbreak.
In accordance with Section 111 of the Higher Education Opportunity Act, the Department's Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) issued a net price calculator template. All institutions participating in student financial aid programs have two years to implement use of the template on their web sites or develop a customized version that must include, at a minimum, the same elements as the Department's version. Utilizing both student-entered and institution-provided data, the template allows prospective students to calculate a net price at an institution using the following basic formula: price of attendance minus grant aid.
Quote to Note
"For much of the past year, I have spent time highlighting our challenges. I have been to 32 states and hundreds of schools in cities, suburbs, and rural communities. I have met with thousands of students, parents, and teachers.... They know what's wrong. And, they know what has to change. Now, we need to come together around the solutions. Thus, today, I extend my hand in partnership to the Chamber and, more broadly, to the business community. I ask for your help, your input, your ideas, and your support. I need your members across America to take a more active role in education reform."
|Secretary of Education Arne Duncan (11/9/09), speaking at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Upcoming Events
Don't forget! Assistant Secretary for Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development Carmel Martin and Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education Thelma Melendez are hosting a series of events at the Department's headquarters (400 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C.) where stakeholders can offer input on the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). (Note: Stakeholders are also invited to send comments to firstname.lastname@example.com.)
Next week is International Education Week (November 16-20), jointly sponsored by the Departments of Education and State. This year's theme is "Creating a Vision for a Better Future," emphasizing the role international education plays in ensuring both a more secure and prosperous future. (Note: A list of planned activities across the globe is online.)
The next "Education News Parents Can Use" broadcast, a national town hall meeting for students, is planned for December 15 (2:00-3:00 p.m. ET). The Secretary will take comments and questions from students in the studio audience and around the country via telephone, email, and video.
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Film and TV show collections gather hours of entertainment
It's the best thing that has ever happened for movie buffs and TV fanatics.
Thanks to the availability and the compact packaging of DVD and Blu-ray box-set collections, it's easy to be a "completionist."
The task of finding the perfect big Christmas or Hanukkah gift for collectors has been simplified, as well.
It wasn't so many years ago, remember, that giving every film from a popular movie series or every episode from a long-running TV show would have meant wrapping an unwieldy tower of videotapes.
Imagine how clumsy the packaging would be for, say, nearly two dozen James Bond/007 movies or, worse yet, for 10 seasons of JAG.
But today, the $310 JAG megaset -- more than 225 episodes and extras on 56 discs, plus a 38-page "Insider's Manual" book and a "Challenge Coin" like the one that decided Harm and Mac's fate in the finale -- fits neatly in a box that won't look as if you wrapped an air-conditioning unit.
Thanks to advances in home-video technology, you can go big in a finite amount of space.
Here are some showcase DVD and Blu-ray collections that would make spectacular gifts this year. If you shop wisely, you can even find deep discounts off the list prices.
For movie lovers
Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection
This 15-film limited-edition Blu-ray set focuses on Hitchcock's Hollywood years, beginning with Saboteur in 1942 and ending with Family Plot, his final film, in 1976. The titles you'll want to watch first, however, are the Master's greatest works: Psycho, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest and The Birds. Not coincidentally, these films are the ones accompanied by the most extras. Each movie has been digitally restored. Also included is a collectible book. List price: $299.98.
Universal Classic Monsters: The Essentials Collection
In the 1930s and '40s, Universal Pictures was king of the horror movie and home of the monsters. Films such as Frankenstein, Dracula and The Wolf Man have endured as classics. Those and five other favorites ( The Mummy, The Invisible Man, The Bride of Frankenstein, The Phantom of the Opera and Creature From the Black Lagoon) have been digitally restored for this Blu-ray set, and they look beautiful. Also included: more than 12 hours of bonus features and a collectible book. List price: $159.98
Bond 50: The Complete 22 Film Collection
This box set features the first 22 "official" James Bond films, from Dr. No to Quantum of Solace, on Blu-ray in one complete offering for the first time. Nine of these films, in fact, are available on Blu-ray for the first time. And thinking ahead, this package's designers left an open slot for Skyfall, No. 23 in the 50-year film series, once it becomes available on home video. There also are more than 130 hours of bonus content, some of it never before seen. List price: $299.99.
Film Movement gift-box collections
Film Movement is a distributor offering limited-edition, 12-film box sets of award-winning movies from film festivals including Cannes, Venice, Tribeca, Sundance, Toronto and South by Southwest. The DVDs come in a holiday gift box, with a nylon 24-DVD carrying case. The six sets are Romance, Sundance Hits, French Language, English Language, Latin American and Audience Favorites. List price: $150. To order, go to www.filmmovement.com.
Also worth considering
Tarantino XX is an eight-film Blu-ray collection celebrating Quentin Tarantino's 20 years of filmmaking. All of the essentials are included (such as Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and the "Kill Bill" movies) as well as the not-so-essential Death Proof. It's priced at $119.99.
The Dark Knight Trilogy, available on DVD and Blu-ray, showcases the three Christian Bale/Christopher Nolan adventures: Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises. The three-disc DVD version costs $38.99; the five-disc Blu-ray version is $52.99.
The Francis Ford Coppola: 5-Film Collection is an incomplete history of this director's work. But the five titles ( Apocalypse Now, Apocalypse Now Redux, One From the Heart, Tetro and The Conversation) will make an interesting and eclectic movie marathon. It's $39.99.
For TV lovers
Mission: Impossible: The Complete Television Collection
Let's be honest: If you've got all seven seasons of Mission: Impossible in one DVD box set, you'll spend the bulk of your time watching the first three great seasons, when Martin Landau and Barbara Bain were cast members. Without them, the quality slipped and the plots got repetitive. What's more, there's really no reason to bother with episodes from the 1988-90 remake, which is included here. Still, there are so many great episodes -- and it's wonderfully packaged in an imaginative "dynamite" case. List price: $370.99.
The Fugitive: The Most Wanted Edition
All four seasons of this 1960s classic, starring David Janssen as fugitive Richard Kimble, "an innocent victim of blind justice, falsely convicted for the murder of his wife, reprieved by fate when a train wreck freed him en route to the death house," are in pristine condition, transferred from the original film negatives and audio. The 33-disc set also includes special features and a soundtrack CD of the score by composer Pete Rugolo. There's also a reproduction of Kimble's wanted poster. List price: $259.99.
The Carol Burnett Show: The Ultimate Collection
The 22-DVD set, with 50 episodes of one of TV's great comedy-variety shows, is housed in a collectible box with a replica curtain from the show's opening. The episodes were hand-picked by Burnett herself. There also are more than 20 hours of bonus features and a 20-page memory book. The megaset costs $199.95, but distributor Time Life also is offering the same product autographed by Burnett, Vicki Lawrence and Tim Conway for $399.99.
Also worth considering
All 300 episodes of The Red Green Show, a cult-favorite series about all things manly, Canadian and duct-taped, are on DVD for the first time. The Complete Red Green Show: High (Quality) Quantity Collection costs $299.99.
The Doctor Who: Limited Edition Giftset, spanning Seasons 1-6, comes with a collectible Sonic Screwdriver and a comic book. It costs $249.95.
House: The Complete Series, all eight seasons of Dr. Nasty, packaged together for the first time, is available on DVD for $199.98.
Entourage: The Complete Series, eight seasons on 18 discs, is available on Blu-ray for $299.99 and on DVD for $249.99.
Friends: The Complete Series, with three hours of never-before-seen extras, is available on Blu-ray for the first time. It's $279.99.
Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Early Cases Collection includes all 45 mysteries from the first six seasons. It's listed at $249.99 on Blu-ray, $199.99 on DVD.
For documentary enthusiasts and sports fans
War in HD
This six-disc collection is actually two History channel series lumped together: WWII in HD (which aired in 2009) and Vietnam in HD (2011). When it comes to World War II documentaries, WWII in HD set the standard against which all other must be compared. This was established in large part through the use of high-definition-quality color WWII footage, making the events that many Americans know only through black-and-white newsreel footage into something viscerally new and alive. List price: $69.95.
Titanic At 100: Mystery Solved Collector's Edition
Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, this three-disc set contains four documentaries that shed new light on one of the most famous shipwrecks in history. One doc, Titanic at 100, offers never-before-seen views of the wreck site. Another, Titanic's Achilles Heel, explores the theory that the ship's demise might have been due to a design flaw. List price: $49.95.
Ancient Aliens Collector's Edition
Did intelligent life forms visit Earth thousands of years ago and bring technologies that affected the course of human history? Do aliens visit us now? This History series, produced with the cooperation of Chariots of the Gods author Erich von Daniken, blurs the lines between serious investigation and crackpot conspiracy theory. List price: $99.95.
San Francisco Giants: 2012 World Series Collector's Edition
It might be painful for Rangers fans to watch the Giants sweep the Tigers in four games, because it will remind them of a World Series dream unfulfilled, of a crash-and-burn finish to a once-promising season. But if you can handle it, this eight-disc set contains every play from every game, plus a few extra pivotal games from the Giants' championship season. List price: $99.95 for Blu-ray, $79.95 for DVD.

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My friends have made the American people think me a sort of superman, able to cope successfully with the most difficult and complicated problems....They expect the impossible of me and should there arise conditions with which the political machinery is unable to cope, I will be the one to suffer.1
Later that year the stock market crashed, plunging the nation into a depression that rocked not only the United States, but the entire world. The political machinery was unable to cope with the Great Depression, and for some years Hoover's reputation suffered. One newspaper called him "President Reject"; a textbook called him "the man with ice water in his veins." In 1932, however, one commentator prophesied, "Hoover will be known as the greatest innocent bystander in history...full of courage and patriotism, undaunted to the last...a brave man fighting valiantly, futilely to the end."
1 Richard Norton Smith, An Uncommon Man: The Triumph of Herbert Hoover (Worland, Wyo.: High Plains Publishing Company, Inc., 1984), 103.


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LINCOLN — A majority of faculty and staff within the Addison Northeast Supervisory Union on Monday supported a vote of no confidence in Superintendent David Adams, the teachers' union said.
Hours after making that announcement on Tuesday, the union, the Addison Northeast Education Association, delivered to the ANeSU board the results of a climate survey it conducted, which found that staff disagree with administrators on a number of key issues.
BRISTOL — In just the first five minutes of this past Thursday's public negotiations between the Addison Northeast Supervisory Union teachers' union and the board of the Bristol-area schools, the public learned how far apart the two sides' proposals are. In their opening statement, the teachers were frank in their disapproval of the board's first contract draft.
BRISTOL — Facing each other across long rows of tables six feet apart at Mount Abraham Union High School on Thursday evening, Addison Northeast Supervisory Union teachers and school board members negotiated terms for a new collective bargaining agreement.
Hard to miss was a NEAT TV tripod and camera between the rows of tables — an unusual sight at a teachers' contract negotiation.
This week's writer is Stephen Dale, executive director of the Vermont School Boards Association.
Vermont's school districts provide very generous health insurance benefits to their employees — among the most generous health insurance benefits available to any Vermonter. The current cost of these benefits is contributing to rapidly rising property taxes, limiting the ability of schools to invest in the education of our students.
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MIDDLEBURY — The Addison Central Supervisory Union board and the three unions representing district teachers have signed off on a new, three-year agreement that affords educators average annual salary increases of around 3.6 percent and requires them to pay 15 percent of their health care premiums by the third year of the pact.
VERGENNES — In a packed high school library that has become characteristic of recent board meetings, the Vergennes Union High School board on Monday evening warned a new budget that will force administrators to lay off staff.
The spending proposal totals $9,417,197, which is $316,725 less than the budget Addison Northwest Supervisory Union voters rejected on Town Meeting Day. It is also less than the budget for the current fiscal year.
MIDDLEBURY — The UD-3 school board will spend the next six weeks fine tuning the first draft of a 2014-2015 budget of $17,157,619, a spending plan that reflects a 3.45-percent increase while resulting in a reduction of two full-time teaching positions at Middlebury Union Middle School.
"I think it's been a positive process," ACSU Superintendent Peter Burrows said of the budget preparation, which will continue at the UD-3 board's Nov. 19 meeting.
MIDDLEBURY — Carol Callahan has divided her attention among up to 20 children for each of the past 30 years.
Now Callahan, 65, is ready to downsize her "brood" — a.k.a. her students at Middlebury's Mary Hogan Elementary School, where she has taught since the early 1980s. Callahan will be retiring this year in order to travel and devote more time to a new young person in her life — her granddaughter Daisy, who will celebrate her first birthday next month.
ADDISON — Vergennes resident Karen Florucci can't pin down whether she was in second or third grade when she picked out her career, but the choice stuck.
In early June, Florucci will retire after 25 years teaching at Addison Central School, 21 in kindergarten and four in second grade.
Before arriving at ACS, the 1972 Castleton State College graduate taught two years of elementary school in Castleton and three years at the now-shuttered Brandon Training Center, and then for four years in the 1980s operated her own kindergarten in her Vergennes home.
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Green Chile recalls over 250k pounds of burritos after possible Listeria contamination
Green Chile Food Co. is recalling 252,854 pounds of meat and poultry burrito products due to a possible Listeria contamination, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service.
The ready-to-eat frozen burritos were produced and packaged between March 8 and May 10, and were shipped to California, Oregon, Illinois and South Dakota. FSIS inspectors uncovered the problem during a routine Listeria monocytogenes product sample of beef and potato burrito.
There have been no confirmed reports of illness due to consumption of the products.
Foods contaminated with L. monocytogenes can lead to listeriosis, a serious infection that primarily affects older people, those with weakened immune systems and pregnant women and their newborns, says the FSIS.
Symptoms of listeriosis include fever, headache, stiff neck, muscle aches, confusion, loss of balance and convulsions sometimes preceded by gastrointestinal symptoms, such as diarrhea.
Green Chile is a New Mexico-based company that "hand rolls each pre-wrapped burrito," according to a statement on its website.
A full listing of contaminated products can be found here.


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from R.C. Sproul Jr. Aug 31, 2013 Category: Articles
The serpent is more crafty than any of the beasts of the field. He attacks while retreating, retreating while attacking. He concedes this point, all the while making that point. He is both a tar baby and quicksilver. And we are fools for forgetting it.
Consider, if you will, the battles that have dotted the evangelical landscape over the past thirty years. We had lordship salvation, integrationist psychology, seeker sensitive worship, Jabez, WWJD, Promise Keepers, Harold Camping, y2k and a host of other end of the world scenarios, charismatic gifts, modalist elephants, and in one tiny circle of the evangelical world, federal vision, Shepherdism and the New Perspective.
Most of these issues are or were important. There are right answers and wrong answers, and wrong ideas have bad consequences. What if, however, the devil's goal was less to encourage us to end up on the wrong side of these issues, and more to distract us from more damaging issues? What if some of these were false fronts, and we left sundry other flanks exposed? What if while we were all scratching our heads the devil was dropping our drawers?
Though there are competing studies, some more alarming than others, the hard truth is that evangelicals are sleeping with partners to whom they are not married. Hundreds of thousands of them, with barely a word even spoken. How many churches, for instance, have a reputation for preaching against fornication? How many denominations are known as those that take adultery seriously? I suspect when church historians in the next millennia look back at our age they may just define us as that group that gave up on sex. We could not remain relevant and faithful to the Word on sex, and we chose relevant. It would be bad enough if we had allowed ourselves to be swept up in the culture's sexual tsunami. But the truth is worse—we have failed to be salt and light. It is less that we are worse off because we are like them, more they are worse off because they are like us.
The result is not merely immorality. The trouble with not keeping your pants on isn't that you offend that great Prude in the sky. The problem is that it leads to death (Proverbs 7:27). How many of our grievous social ills trace their roots to the lie that we can have sex outside marriage with no great consequence? To put it another way, what would this world look like if there were no more adultery and fornication? Because families would be intact, ghettoes and the pathologies that come with them would fade away. The murder rate would drop precipitously. Little boys would grow up with fathers, and when grown would be fathers, working and providing for their own families. Little girls would grow up knowing they were loved by their daddies, and would be secure. Sexually transmitted diseases would go the way of polio. Sexual trafficking would be but a shameful memory.
Best of all, babies would be safe in their mother's wombs. The murder of babies, which is no mere social ill but is our greatest shame, would wither from the scene.
That is not the world we live in. For two reasons. First, we have come to believe that sexual sins have little reach. Wrong we're willing to confess. Dangerous we are willing to consider. Destroying our world? No, not that. The pathway to death? That's just biblical hyperbole. Second, and perhaps the cause of the folly of the first, we won't preach against this because then people won't come to church. We think it more important to not drive anyone away, to not lose one giving unit, than to see the power of the Word preached to change the world. We sold our prophetic birthright for a mess of relevance pottage.
Faithful biblical preaching recognizes that theology doesn't stop with our minds. Faithful biblical preaching preaches the whole of the Bible, and calls out our sins, even if the world thinks them not sins at all. I pray a day will come when we say of this pastor or that, "You ought to download his sermons. He preaches sin. He's a marriage-ist." I pray a day will come when one believer will say to another, "I was reading Spurgeon the other day, and he got after it. I had no idea that guy preached fidelity." I pray, with Paul, a day will come when sexual sin is so faithfully preached against that it will not be named once among us (Ephesians 5:3). It matters, eternally.


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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale women's fencing team put up a stellar performance at Payne Whitney Gymnasium on Feb. 4, beating out Vassar 19-8 and Drew 26-1.
Those results build on momentum picked up in past weeks, when the Bulldogs defeated Sacred Heart 15-12, and position the team well for the upcoming Feb. 11-12 Ivy League Championships, hosted this year at Coxe Cage.
"I'm incredibly proud of the women's team for our results this weekend," junior captain Robyn Shaffer said. "In the past, one squad has faltered while the other two have picked up victories — but this weekend, all three squads performed amazingly, resulting in decisive team victories.
Against Vassar, the epee weapon squad finished with a 7-2 verdict, while the foil and saber squads fenced diligently to close with a 6-3 record.
Then, the Bulldogs almost clean-swept Drew: the foil and saber squad won 9-0, while the epee squad finished with a 8-1 verdict.
"Home meets are always fun — we had an amazing crowd come out, cheering, holding signs and practically screaming after each point," Shaffer said. "We all really love and appreciate the student support!"
Next week, the Bulldogs will compete at the Ivy League Championships.
Report filed by James Lu '14, Yale Sports Publicity.


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Carnival of Genealogy: Family Wartime Stories
Welcome to the 32nd Carnival of Genealogy. The theme: Family Stories of Wartime. The entries span the Revolutionary War to the Korean Conflict.
On the same day I was reading through the submitted entries, I asked my SO to set the TiVo to record all seven episodes of Ken Burns's The War (begins Sunday, 23 September on PBS), a 14+ hour documentary that tells the story of World War 2 through the eyes of ordinary people from four American communities. "In extraordinary times, there are no ordinary lives." We also watched a documentary that the TiVo recorded earlier this year: The Perilous Fight: WW2 in color. Color motion picture was accompanied by excerpts from diaries and letters written by those who lived it. It was a (mostly) sober couple of hours of non-Glenn Miller getting In The Mood (er, not that mood) for the Carnival, and for the upcoming Ken Burns documentary.
Ken Burns and PBS are promoting the The Veteran's History Project (VHP), a nationwide oral history project to record and preserve the stories of Americans in wartime at the Library of Congress.
Pearl Harbor
The common theme of the documentaries, the VHP, and this carnival: Great historical events do not belong to the Kings and Queens, Presidents and Prime Ministers, War Secretaries and Generals, decision makers and strategists. When one nation fights another, the war is experienced from family to family, household to household. Whether victim, refugee, prisoner, laborer, soldier, the events of that war seep into every corner of a nation.
So here are some stories of war from the households of family (and neighbors) of the carnival partipants.
Revolutionary War
Revolutionary War-era maps and charts
Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings tells us the story of Patriot Soldier, Isaac Buck, one of his favorite ancestors and his service and war pension. Good for Isaac Buck that he received a pension, and good for Randy that the records are there to tell him of his ancestor.
The Revolutionary War is also known as "the First Civil War," according to Tim Abbot of Walking the Berkshires. His account about the Curries at the time of the American Revolution, A House Divided: The Tory in the Family. It's the story of another relative in the Currie family, a story that he received thanks to his blog. "There was also a younger son, Ross Currie, and he followed a different path that I might never have known about, had not one of his descendants living in Canada found this blog and shared the story of the Tory in the family."
Civil War, or The War Between the States
Let's hear it for guest authors! Terry Thornton of Hill Country of Monroe County, Mississippi and Robin Linn presents Hiram C. Edge, Hill Country Confederate. Of this story, Terry says, "Writer Robin Linn has captured so much of the activity of this Hill Country CSA military unit's early service in the Civil War (from military duties to playing marbles to swimming in the bay). Her words paint a picture of the volunteers time and work—- and the sadness of death by war or from disease. I appreciate Robin's permission to post her copyrighted work at Hill Country and her permission to submit her piece to this carnival. Although not about one of the great World Wars, it is about war—- and how one Hill Country man, Hiram Edge, made the ultimate sacrifice and died in the service of his country."
A late-harvest guest story! In The Carnival of Genealogy goes Wine-Tasting, I plucked a sun-ripened family story while tasting Zinfandels at Tom Dugan's California Wine and Cheese here in Monrovia. We discussed word usage in tasting notes, then writing in general. Tom mentioned that about the only writing he does is for his genealogy. Ah ha! I told him of the carnival, and asked him if he had a war story. He sent me an email with a quick sketch about one Peter Whelan, born in Ireland, emigrated to the states age 10, enlisted at age 20 and fought in the Civil War.
The fine pairing of genealogy with writing: The Footnote Maven presents a chapter of the family chronicle in progress, The Campbells Enter the War Between the States. The story begins with the canny businessman father John Campbell, but focuses on the fate of his son Isaac in the highly divided are-you-with-us-or-against-us Missouri. This story has legs.*
Here are two stories of toughness and privation in World War 1.
War is tough. Supplies and sustenance dwindle. Necessity is the mother of invention, and when one needs to keep starvation at bay, one will invent ways to hold onto one's food supply. This brief anecdote by Ralph Brandi at Geneablogy (and There Is No Cats) is a story his grandmother told him. When you read it, be sure to draw a mental picture of her family's solution to the problem!
War is tough when your ally switches sides, mid-war, and your other ally takes what is yours and gives you lousy supplies. Miriam Robbins Midkiff of AnceStories: The Stories of My Ancestors, says this is "the story of my great-grandfather's experiences during a little-known war between the U.S. and Russia," entitled A Polar Bear in North Russia.
In Europe, War is hell. Steve Danko remembers an ancestor from Poland in The Biography of Wiktor Dziurzyński.
In the air (and to the ground)… Becky Wiseman of kinexxions presents Dad and the 511th, about her father's service in the Pacific in a parachute infantry regiment.
At sea…. Janice Brown at Cow Hampshire presents World War II: When My Dad Was a MoMM. Illustrated! Following Janice's story, be sure to check out the comment left by Omnipotent Poohbah, which underscores the whole reason for the Veterans History project and probably The War documentary. The comment begins "I recently learned that my father may have been involved in one of the first captures…" and ends "Amazing what you find out when you get the old fellas talking." You'll have to go there to read what's in between.
(Both Dad and the 511th and My Dad Was a MoMM will introduce you to certain foreign currency whose style might look a leetle familiar.)
Correspondence from sea Jasia of Creative Gene "borrows" a friend's relative to tell a story in eight parts. It begins with WWII, One Man's Story, Part 1 of 8.
On "The Home Front," the nation was busy busy busy with work to support the war effort. Lori Thornton of Smoky Mountain Family Historian describes the nearby Home Front efforts with her story, Gulf Ordnance Plant.
They also serve who wait… and wait. The Home Front was filled with waiting. Waiting and missing the one who is gone. Waiting and altering New Year's traditions during the time he's away. Terry Thornton's vivid memory of Curt and JoWill Thornton and the War (and how his Dad waited for Curt's return) is his memory touchstone for this war:
"I was not quite two and one-half years old when Pearl Harbor meant that we were at war. My memories of the early years of the war center about my first friends, Curt and JoWill and of Curt's leaving for the military. And then I remember clearly his arrival home safe and sound. I can't hear the phrase World War Two without thinking of Curt and JoWill. It is through them that I can put the war years into a time frame within my memory span."
Long after the war, the VA hospital… and a mystery. Amy Crooks at Untangled Family Roots says, "This one really isn't a war story, but a story about a man I never had the chance to know. I never heard his war stories. I have such a desire to know more about my mother's father. Even she knows so little when it comes to his life before my grandmother. He died when I was two, so I never had the chance to ask him or hear any of his stories. All I do know is that he was a WWII Veteran. He died in 1971 in Modesto, CA, but spent a couple of his last years in a Veteran Hospital in Southern CA battling bone marrow cancer. Amy's post is Untangled Family Roots: WWII Records, 1973 Fire.
Korean Conflict
Training and Skills for ships at sea. My Dad was in the Navy in the early 1950s, during the Korean War. I've interviewed him about youth and early Navy experience. (more interviews to come). In Father's Oral History about, well, a digital tool, I transcribe a couple of stories about skills required for a Navy officer.
Mail Call!
Remember to Write! Our final entry is not a story about a particular family member during a particular wartime, but a story of family and war and letters from war. Jennifer Jackson of Jacksbox4you appreciates letters. She knows their value. She says, my "blog entry includes a video link to Roots Television regarding a gentleman's [Andrew Carroll] quest to preserve letters from those that have served in the war. It is wonderfully done and worth watching." Her carnival entry is War and Love Letters. Flash required. Just. go. see. it. It gave me chills, it made my boyfriend stop what he was doing and come to my computer monitor to watch.
I'm utterly stoked that she found this video and submitted it. because I've been reading Andrew Carroll's book, War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars. I just visited The Legacy Project's site, at WarLetters.com, and notice that there are more books listed than the one I'm reading.
So go read… and remember to write!
…and, of course, remember to watch The War on PBS.
War Brides? Well, how about just Brides, then? And Grooms
Call for submissions! The topic for the next edition of the Carnival of Genealogy will be: Weddings! Is there a cultural or religious wedding tradition in your family? Do you have a funny family wedding story you'd care to share? Did your grandparents elope? Cousin marry cousin? Is there an especially touching wedding photo in your collection? Do you think your ancestor holds the record for the most times married? Write about a wedding(s) in your family and submit it for the next edition of the COG. The deadline for submissions is October 1st. You can submit your blog article for the next edition using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.
But wait! There's more!
In some alternative universe where everyone's title is "mister" and all signs of respect are "sir," Craig Manson and I might be having this conversation:
"Permission to blog freely, sir!"
"At ease, soldier."
"Sir, request permission for inclusion in the carnival, sir! I had other duties that I faithfully carried out, sir!"
"Soldier, that's an affirmative. … Oh, and soldier? Thanks. I shall call you sir."
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on September 18, 2007 in
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• History
• Oral History Projects
• Veterans History Project
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Unfortunately, Craig Manson was so busy compiling and writing his articles about Ancestry.com and the Internet Biographical Collection that he missed THIS Carnival.
Both he, and his article, "A Missed Bus," should receive special mention.
What a great looking Carnival! Thanks for all your work in presenting these various looks at war from so many time periods in the USA. I'm going to learn a lot reading all these. Thanks.
Terry Thornton
Hill Country of Monroe County, Mississippi
This is an absolutely fantastic edition of the carnival. I love all your extras and visuals.
Bravo and thank you!
P.S. I am putting together the materials for the Veterans History Project for my husband which will be video taped by Inventive Productions. They do this for free for the project here in Washington.
I loved all the extra photos! This has been a very interesting Carnival.
Janice, thanks for that mention. So worthy, so deserving, so hilarious, so going to be included a mere minutes from now.
And thanks for the comments—esp about the visuals—Terry, fM and Lori. I figured that not only is there an amazing digital repository in the Library of Congress to help illustrate this post (and break up the text, ahem), but that each image is a link back to an area of their site where you can happily and profitably lose hours exploring in your own research. So: bonus!
fM, that. is. so. cool! I totally want to hear about your experiences w/ the Vets History Project.
What an amazing looking Carnival! Thanks for all the work you have put into this.
All I can say is wow.Sounds you had an amazing carnival.
Really, really interesting.


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Jude Law: 'Hacking scandal turned my life into a public soap opera'
Hollywood actor JUDE LAW has blamed the phone hacking scandal for turning his life into a "public soap opera", insisting he began to distrust his close friends and family when personal details started appearing in the press.
The Alfie star won £130,000 in damages from Rupert Murdoch's now-defunct News of the World tabloid amid allegations his cell phone voicemail messages had been repeatedly listened to between 2003 and 2006.
Law has now opened up about the problems he faced and reveals he began feeling "paranoid" when personal stories about his private life began hitting headlines.
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Law insists he fully supports the freedom of the press, but he hopes the public's fascination with gossip will come to an end.
He adds, "I want it to get better, I recognise the importance of the freedom of the press, it is something we should uphold and something we should support and it's an important part of a democratic society, but at the same time surely let's come to an end with this obsession with gossip... it seems to me that it's time that we all lifted our heads out of the gutter."


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DeKALB – Drivers parking illegally in the city will have to pay higher towing fees under a DeKalb City Council ordinance passed Monday.
The council's 6-2 vote also was approved for final action and will be enacted immediately.
Aldermen Ron Naylor and Dave Baker of the 5th and 6th wards, respectively, voted against the ordinance.
Drivers who park illegally in the city will have to pay a fee of $75 once a towing vehicle has begun moving their car.
If a driver was illegally parked in a privately owned space, the driver might pay up to $170.
The city also can tow a vehicle if the driver is connected to an illegal activity. For instance, if a person was transporting marijuana or driving under the influence of alcohol, police can have the car towed and impounded.
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DeKalb Police Chief Gene Lowery said steep towing charges act as a deterrent to crime.
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Lowery said the city might not get to keep the administrative fee because the owner of the car is entitled to due process.
DeKalb Mayor Kris Povlsen said he does not predict this ordinance will have much impact on regular drivers.
"Regular drivers shouldn't see anything different than what we've had," Povlsen said. "If you're illegally parked ... there's an increase in the fee. There's no change in the procedure except the fee."
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The city is also branching out on who gets to tow on behalf of it. For the past 17 years, all city-initiated towing has been done by Lovett's 24 Hour Towing. However, under the ordinance, the police will set up a tow rotation among, at most, three DeKalb-based companies.
Lowery said he has no complaints against the services Lovett's has provided, but having more than one company is helpful in situations that require massive amounts of towing. On homecoming weekend, Lowery ordered the towing of 24 vehicles that were illegally parked and cited a number of times.
Bill Lovett, owner of Lovett's 24 Hour Towing, voiced his disapproval to the City Council about sharing duties with two other companies. He said the loss of exclusivity will hurt his business.
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TOWSON, Md. - The Yale gymnastics team placed third in a tri-meet at Towson with William & Mary Friday night. The Bulldogs finished with a 187.950. Towson won with a 192.850, followed by William & Mary with a 190.325.
Joyce Li led Yale with a 38.425 in the all-around, placing fifth. Tara Feld was seventh with a 37.325 and Morgan Traina was ninth with a 36.350.
Li was second on the balance beam with a 9.650. Feld had a 9.725 to place sixth in the floor exercise. Lindsay Andsager had Yale's top score on the uneven parallel bars, a 9.700. Tabitha Tay added a 9.575 to pace Yale on the vault.
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What Role Memory Plays In Personal Development
Our memory works by stimulus and response. When there is something stimulating the response, it is easy to apply, but for something to even do that YOU NEED TO REMEMBER! After that, applying is almost effortless and second nature. There is still work but it is a hell of a lot less! r


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[lastfm]Adele[/lastfm] doesn't need much help stopping a show with her brilliant vocal performance. The other night she stunned a crowd with just her pipes and some light backing guitar as she knocked out an amazing version of Aretha Franklin's "Natural Woman." We don't know yet whether she'll bust out the cover for her streaming Live on Letterman concert Monday night, but then again, with Adele at the helm, anything's possible.Vodpod videos no longer available.
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By Rob Glidden
Staff Writer
The annual "Red Ribbon Rally" returned for its 22nd year, inviting Southington students of all ages to declare their opposition to drug use.
The rally is usually held on the town green, but rainy weather moved it indoors to the auditorium at nearby Derynoski Elementary School. The crowd easily filled the seats and cheers and laughter sometimes threatened to drown out the speakers.
"I'm proud of every student in our schools who is saying 'I don't need it. I don't want it. Get it away from me,'" said Reverend Victoria Triano, who has served as the master of ceremonies at the event for years.
The annual event, put on by the Southington Drug Task Force, is typically but has a somber origin. It ties in with the national Red Ribbon program, which originated in 1988 to honor the memory of murdered drug enforcement agent Enrique Camarena. At Camarena's funeral, family and friends wore red ribbons to honor his commitment to keeping dangerous substances away from communities.
Numerous student groups and athletic teams took to the stage during the rally, all proclaiming that their interests were more rewarding than drug use.
"Instead of doing drugs, I'd rather spend time with my friends," said Leanne Raymond, the current Junior Miss Southington.
Natalie Nyerick, of the Southington High School Key Club, told the crowd that "we would rather volunteer and help out than do drugs."
The theme of "we have better things to do" has been consistent among students through the last few years of the Rally, but many speakers also made an appeal to parents to urge them to stay engaged in the daily lives of their children. Trish Kenefick, a teacher at DePaolo Middle School and one of the leaders of the Drug Task Force, said parents are "the glue for a drug free community."
Superintendent Dr. Joseph Erardi reminded the crowd that, at the same time as the rally, the cafeteria at Derynoski was hosting a meeting of the Parents 4 A Change support group, filled with parents coping with the trauma of a child struggling with substance abuse.
"Sometimes great young adults can still make bad decisions," he said. "It's much easier to stay off drugs than it is to get off drugs."


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This lesson demonstrates the ways in which ranchos in northern New Mexico provide evidence of the ability of Hispano culture to adapt to new influences while still maintaining its traditional character. The following activities will help students apply what they have learned.
Activity 1: Early Building Materials
If possible, have a few students mix their local soil--clay if possible--with straw and water and put the mixture in several wooden molds about 12" by 18" by 4". Let the mixture dry in the sun for a few days. Students can then see for themselves what building with these adobe bricks would be like.
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Inmate wounded in Mass. hospital is arraigned
An inmate accused of wounding a deputy during an escape attempt at a Boston hospital is being held on $1 million bail.
Police says 36-year-old Raymond Wallace of Marblehead snatched a gun from one of two Middlesex County deputies escorting him for treatment Wednesday and shot the deputy in the leg. The other deputy shot Wallace in the chest.
Wallace was being held on armed robbery charges at the time. A prosecutor says the deputies removed Wallace's handcuffs to allow him to use a restroom, where he managed to get out of his leg restraints as well.
Wallace was arraigned Tuesday on assault, escape and firearms charges in his bed at Massachusetts General Hospital. A not guilty plea was entered.
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BERLIN – Changing some job categories under standard workmen's compensation insurance codes has saved the town of Berlin a total of $70,000 in insurance premiums.
A reclassification of some positions under national insurance codes resulted in a $35,000 to $37,000 refund in workmen's compensation insurance premiums for fiscal year 2009 premiums from the current provider, with roughly the same refund expected from fiscal year 2008.
Some employees in the electric line crew were designated under the wrong insurance code, said Berlin Human Resources Director Rachel Bomar, and changing that designation changed the amount of premium paid on those workers.
Town staff worked out the savings through making sure the correct salary amounts were used to calculate the premium.
The town should also save the same amount on fiscal year 2008 premiums after the annual audit, Bomar said, since the town is allowed to apply the job reclassifications for the last two fiscal years.
The fiscal year 2009 refund will be reflected as a credit in Berlin's fiscal year 2010 workmen's compensation insurance contract that will begin on July 1 for the new fiscal year.
"This contract is considerably less than what we approved last year at this time," said Bomar.
Several insurance providers declined to quote their services to the town because of the electric operation, she said, but with only two quotes submitted, the town still saves money.
Berlin will continue to purchase liability insurance from the Local Government Insurance Trust (LGIT), which the town has done since 2001. After soliciting quotes, staff concluded that LGIT still offered the best value for cost for the town's liability insurance. The LGIT liability coverage is comprehensive and not scattered between different lines of insurance, Bomar said.
The town could achieve additional savings by creating a plan to contain any environmental exposure from fuel tanks at the electric plant, which would reduce premiums.
Bomar said that the town has some direct exposure to liability because of the lack of such a plan.
Dave Thomas, electric manager, said an environmental exposure policy could be pulled together quickly.
The town has a year to create this policy, Bomar said, since it would not see a premium reduction until fiscal year 2011. She suggested that the environmental exposure policy be completed by December 2009.
The electric operation is already undertaking most of the practices outlined in an environmental exposure policy, but has not codified or documented those practices formally.
A spill containment policy could reduce the premium by a third, said Rick Martelo, risk management representative with the town's new insurance broker, Atlantic, Smith, Cropper and Deeley, because the town would have options with other insurance carriers with that plan in place.
Councilman Dean Burrell questioned whether the town had any liability exposure over chemicals used at the wastewater treatment plant.
That premium is built into the insurance on the wastewater treatment plant property, Bomar said.
Staff will continue to look at ways to save on insurance by reducing exposure and the frequency of incidents.
"We are spending our money much more wisely than in the past," said Bomar.


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division cases
This information was the most current on file in criminal division of Marion County District Court as of Sept. 20. Information often is not available until more than a week after hearings. Journal entries must be checked before they are filed.
Gary Thomas Bradfield, 107 S. Cedar St., Goessel; second amended complaint Sept. 18 on charges of criminal damage to property, driving under the influence
Cody L. Fistler, 785 Old Mill Rd., Peabody; pleaded not guilty to charge of possession of stolen property Aug. 19, jury trial is set for Oct. 30.
Joyce E. Loomis, 413 S. 4th St., Marion; charges of battery, disorderly conduct dismissed Sept. 17.
Michael E. Richmond, 204 N. Roosevelt St., Marion; first amended complaint on charge of disorderly conduct Sept. 12, plea hearing set for Sept. 17.
Daniel Ernesto Sanchez, 312 W. 5th St., Newton; first amended complaint Sept. 16 on charge of disorderly conduct.
Ryan Joel Shrewsbury, 2258 George Washington Dr., Wichita; sentenced to 12 months probation in lieu of 30 days jail Aug. 26, ordered to pay $1,106
Dedrick Shaqeil Thiessen, 207 N. Jefferson St., Hillsboro; charges of residential burglary, misdemeanor theft, and three charges of forgery dismissed Sept. 4.


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Options are no good if they're just going to create trashy games. If you want to get rid of strategic play because it hurts to think, I can tell you how to make Doodle Earth games. If those are still to complicated then you should probably leave. I'm sure there's an online tic-tac-toe site somewhere.


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The Hunter's Breath: On Expedition with the Weddell Seals of the Antarctic
M. Evans and Company, 2004 - Nature - 276 pages
The only mammal on earth able to survive year-round in the most extreme Antarctic temperatures is the Weddell seal, and it holds a wealth of knowledge for scientists. This is the story of a dedicated group that went to Antarctica to study this largely unknown creature. In the course of the journey, they learned that every day in this harsh climate brings with it the possibility of blizzards, frostbite, and high winds. On the coldest, driest, and windiest continent on the planet, there is scant room for error. Yet, this intrepid group, led by the author, managed to find not only the seals in this wilderness, but other, never-before-seen life forms on the ocean floor.
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Mount Bachelor Ski Resort
Mt. Bachelor is not your typical mountain. At other resorts, the highest point often is difficult to distinguish from neighboring summits, which may be just a few feet higher or lower. But Mt. Bachelor, a stately volcanic cone that is part of the Cascades mountain range, rises from Oregon's high desert and is visible for miles in every direction. On the eastern side of the Cascades, where snow falls lighter and drier than at other Northwestern resorts, Mt. Bachelor has become a popular destination for Western skiers and snowboarders. Despite no on-mountain lodging and little nightlife, Mt. Bachelor attracts visitors with its dependable snowpack, clear dry air, average day-time winter temperatures of 26 degrees, and fine skiing and snowboarding from early November into July. Visitors should keep in mind that all that snow results from a lot of storms, and winds often close the Summit Express chair, a high-speed quad to the 9,065-foot treeless summit. An average stormy day brings winds of 60 to 70 miles per hour, which can kick up ground blizzards where the snow swirls into a whiteout six feet high. (Visibility is usually better lower on the mountain, where the ski trails are protected by trees.) But when the weather is clear and you're standing on top, you can see California's Mt. Shasta 180 miles to the south.Between the Outback and Red chairs is an unusual geologic feature, a lone cinder cone. It's not lift-served, so powder lasts there until it's wind-packed. By getting up a head of steam from Leeway, skiers can swoop up nearly two-thirds of the way and climb the rest.


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Dane, the IT guy, responds to a call from the new employee Valentina Nappi who is having password trouble. He lets her know it's a problem with the computer and restarts it. He asks her to go eat since they are just waiting there and Valentina would love for him to eat, specifically some Italian. She made a good choice, because Dane loves Italian food. She sits on the edge of her desk spreading her legs giving Dane the idea of what Italian dish he's eating tonight. He'll just have to tell HR that it's a good team building exercise between departments.
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