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Download our Manifesto for 2016
Party Policy
PPP wants the opportunity to implement an Agenda for Change when our candidate is made President of the Republic of Ghana. This Agenda is built on four pillars – Stewardship, Education, Healthcare and Jobs. We will implement the Agenda using the spirit of inclusiveness that will enable us to use the best Ghanaians; full participation of women and the youth; and above all a leadership that is incorruptible. By dealing with corruption, we can double government revenue which we will use to pay for our transformational initiatives in education, healthcare and job creation…. Read More
Health Policy
Health is wealth, and a healthy nation is a productive nation. These underscore the importance of good health. Ghanaians cannot boast of this complimentary wealth, which comes with good health because of the appalling state of our environment… Read more
Education Policy
Provide Quality Education for Every Ghanaian Child: Standardize school facilities from kindergarten to Senior High School with libraries, toilets, classrooms, kitchen, housing for teachers, playground, etc: and Ensure free and compulsory education in public schools from kindergarten to Senior High School (including computer training). We will deploy an "Education Police" to enforce the compulsory aspect of our policy. An integral part of this objective will be an objective to significantly increase vocational/technical training so that all school leavers gain employable skills. This will include a comprehensive sports programme to instill discipline and promote better health…. Read more
Energy Policy
Provide Energy for Industrialization and Rapid Development. Implement solutions with a sense of urgency to meet domestic needs for industry and domestic use and make Ghana a net exporter of power again in four years. To enable us achieve this objective, we will provide tax incentives to enable development of alternative sources of fuel and power – bio fuels and solar. We aim to ensure that the contribution from alternative sources of energy reaches a minimum of 10% of what we need in a decade. Harness our natural resources (particularly oil and gas) to ensure maximum benefit and prosperity for all Ghanaians… Read more
Economic Policy
Improve the Performance of Government. Reform state institutions, make government efficient and raise revenue to be able to pay public servants well to motivate them facilitate the work of the private sector and Ghanaian society in general… Read more
Gender Policy
"Drafted with Support from the UNDP"
Globally, there has been a myriad efforts aimed at broadening political participation.The undertaking of these efforts has been by diverse agents and agencies including individuals, civil society organizations, political parties, state agencies, inter-governmental organizations and states. Such inputs for instance, have manifested inframeworks such as the 1979 Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW); the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (1995); the Millennium Development Goals (2000), the Solemn Declaration on Gender Equality (2003); and the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (2003) among…Read more
Communications Policy
"Drafted with Support from the UNDP"
The PPP's first internal communications policy is a result of concerted efforts by different people – all those who provided support, talked things over, read, wrote, offered comments, allowed us to quote their remarks and assisted in the editing, proofreading etc – a few of whom we wish to mention. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) under its Joint Party Support and Strengthening (J-PASS) project provided financial support to the initiative. UNDP's support under J-PASS assists political parties respond to the gaps in political governance and strengthens their capacities to function effectively as institutions of governance. J-PASS is working with the political parties to improve and strengthen internal democracy of the parties as well as their communication with external stakeholders and institutions. We thank Chika Charles Aniekwe, the J-PASSS Project Manager for his input and support at…Read more


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Although you do not need to send out the invitations until a few weeks before the wedding, you may get a special deal if you buy everything at the beginning of the wedding planning process in the same color scheme from the same company.
A good printing company or stationer can also print your table plans, place name cards, and wedding programs, as well as items like napkins, coasters, and wedding cake boxes.
Try to stick to similar colors and styles as your invitations to give a coordinated look to your wedding stationery.
Print out your menu cards, readings, place name cards and wedding programs as soon as the details are finalized. We recommend two months before, as the details are unlikely to change.
It is not necessary to get these done professionally at the stationer's or printer's if you are on a budget. You can easily create these items on your computer using free templates that can be downloaded from the Internet, or ask a computer savvy friend to help out.
Do make sure you use good quality paper, cardstock, and envelopes.

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Harris Tweed Hebrides has teamed up with the Bethesda Care Home and Hospice to design a unique Harris Tweed which reflects the values and vibrancy of the organisation.
It was given its first outing today (Monday June 19th) at the Shawbost mill.
The design is a bright, vibrant sea blue window pane check. The Bethesda creative sewing team will transform the fabric into a fantastic range of ladies' and gents' accessories which will be sold to raise funds for the organisation, which provides vital care and palliative services on the island.
Brand Development Director, Margaret A. MacLeod, said: "Harris Tweed Hebrides team were delighted to assist with this project. Whether it's the care home or the hospice, all of us at the Shawbost mill recognise the importance of this facility within our local community and the amazing commitment of the Bethesda team.
"We provide on-going donations of fabric to help ensure the Bethesda shop is well stocked with locally made, high quality accessories.
"However, the fact that Bethesda now has its own dedicated design of Harris Tweed will add an extra dimension to that relationship and hopefully create a significant source of income to support the services they provide".
Bethesda's head of fundraising, D. R. Macdonald, said: "We have a number of extremely talented volunteers who have been making bags, purses, cushion covers and dog coats over the past few years with fabric kindly donated by Harris Tweed Hebrides and we felt it was time to have our own bespoke Tweed.
"With the tremendous help and encouragement we have received from the staff at Harris Tweed Hebrides, particularly Margaret Ann, we are delighted to launch the Bethesda Harris Tweed which we believe will appeal to many customers for a wide range of uses.
"We recognise the importance of Harris Tweed to our local economy and are proud to promote it while at the same time raising necessary funds for our local Hospice which will continue to benefit many in the local community".
The range of accessories made in the new Bethesda Harris Tweed will be available from the Bethesda Shop, Bayhead, Stornoway over the coming weeks.
Carol Somerville, D.R. MacDonald and Catherine Gomez from Bethesda with HTH chairman, Brian Wilson, displaying the new Bethesda Harris Tweed


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L'Arche communities are places where those with disabilities, called core members, and those who share life with them, called assistants live together in a faith-based community. Assistants usually come for a minimum of a year. Experience with people with disabilities is not a requirement. For us, some of the most important criteria are an open heart, willingness to learn, commitment to personal growth, and belief in the unique sacredness and value of every individual
Mission: The Mission of L'Arche is:To make known the gifts of people with developmental disabilities,Revealed through mutually transforming relationships.To engage in our diverse cultures, working together toward a human society.To foster community that is inspired by the core values in our founding storyand responds to the changing needs of our members.
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Axl Rose Dating Lana Del Rey?
April 11, 2012 | News | No Comments|
Lana Del Rey is rumored to be dating Axl Rose, according to the Daily News. They have been seen leaving hotels together as of late, and Lana had previously recorded a creepy love song called "Axl Rose Husband", prior to her current stardom. Axl's guitarist denies the affair, but Lana had attended two consecutive Guns N Roses concerts recently, and only someone having sex with Axl would make that kind of commitment.
Tags: Axl Rose, Guns n' Roses, video games
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Perfume Playground Club | Melbourne | OPENING LAUNCH - 10 NOV
Do you love to engage your senses? Have you ever thought about blending perfume?
The Perfume Playground Club says no to synthetics. Come and have fun with the natural world.
In our friendly, relaxed open sessions, you get to have fun with Natural scent for 2 hours. There is no formal structure and we find magic happens when everyone shares their knowledge and ideas.
We operate a strict reservation policy, so please remember to reserve your place!
At your first session, we will give you a brief safety orientation of Scent Lab before we begin.
Please note all perfumery equipment e.g. bottles, scent strips, perfumers alcohol, beakers, droppers are provided.
You are then free to explore the scent organ to select 5 materials you'd like to work with.
We'll make up the five 4ml vials of your chosen scents so you can start experimenting in your own space. You get to take everything home with you including your perfume creation.
Maximum of 10 people per session, all levels welcome.
6:00 pm-8:00 pm, Thursdays
We hold sessions at L2, 287 Collins St, Melbourne VIC, 3000. Find directions, here.
Intro Session: $50
You have access to the scent lab and get to choose 5 materials to work with and take home. Extra vials of scent may be selected at the costs below.
Returning Club Members: $15
This includes a lab fee, and access to the scent organ. The Scent Lab is open to club members and materials over and above what was chosen for the intro session can be purchased on site. 4ml Vials are sold at $10.00 each
Stay connected with club news by joining here.
For More Information : http://perfumeplayground.co/contact-us/
We look forward to seeing you.
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Today, April 12th, marks 5 years since I launched the Detroit Area Diaper Bank.
I knew on that day in 2009 that Metro Detroit needed a diaper bank, that the diaper issue needed to be brought forward and people made aware of the need, but what I couldn't have imagined on that day is how our community would respond.
SO MUCH generosity, enthusiasm, and compassion! You, our donors and supporters, have helped us collect and distribute almost 2 million diapers to help our neighbors in need over the past 5 years – that's absolutely amazing. And I hope you will continue your enthusiasm for the issue and remember that this need never goes away. Nonprofits all across the area continue their good works and need your support.
Things are beginning to accelerate toward our move date, so I'm considering today the technical "close" date for DADB. I have one more distribution of adult diapers coming up and then our resources will finally be exhausted. These past 5 years have been beyond fulfilling, an experience I will carry with me always – thank you. From the bottom of my heart, thank you.
Thank you to our friends
at the Canton Observer for this
article: Diaper Bank Founder Handing
Reins to Nonprofits and this Editorial:
Diaper Bank Founder Will Be Missed
Sometimes the New Year really brings THE NEW.
A surprising development came up for my family this new year – we're moving to Mexico City! While not something we saw coming, we're excited for the opportunity.
So what does this mean for the Diaper Bank?
As soon as the word came down from my husband's company that the Mexico move was definitely happening, I started giving thought to how the work I've been doing can continue, how our nonprofit partners can continue bringing in diapers for the families they work with, and how they can continue beating the drum about diaper need across Metro Detroit. One thing DADB has proven over the last almost-five years is that when the diaper issue is raised, made a focus, and explained – especially specifying that there is NO support for diapers from WIC, Food Stamps or Medicare — and then you ask the community to help, MANY respond. While "diapers" sat on nonprofit organizations' wish lists across Metro Detroit for years and years, there hadn't been concerted effort to tell people WHY diapers are such a big need and how they're a chronically unmet basic need for our youngest and oldest neighbors. When informed about the issue, most people "get it" – not all, but a lot do. And the incredible support and donor base we've grown since 2009 is evidence of that. I have been continually blown away by the response from our community and I want to give our donors and supporters places they can go to continue giving in this unique and much-needed way after I've gone.
So I've been working with our nonprofit partners to brand and engage their own diaper pantries/banks so we can connect community organizations and donors directly to them — we're essentially "de-centralizing" the Detroit Area Diaper Bank and moving the focus back to the nonprofits themselves. My hope is that the nonprofits can continue highlighting the need and capitalizing on the momentum DADB's created. Just as they work to get people on their feet and independent with information, resources and support, we are providing them with all of the information and tools that have worked for us and encouraging them to take ownership over this issue, become independent and able to bring diapers in themselves, and continue educating and advocating around the community about diaper need. I have certainly learned a lot about what works and doesn't work since DADB launched in April 2009 and I think a lot of our lessons, success and momentum can be transitioned to our partner organizations. I will continue distributing the resources we have on hand and spend down what we have in the bank to buy diapers and continue supplying our partners over the next few months while helping them get their internal efforts up and running.
An example of one of our partners working hard to get their own pantry going is Hope Clinic, based in Washtenaw County and also serving Wayne County. Hope Clinic has been an active recipient partner of the Diaper Bank for years, knows how important diapers are to its clients, and is eager to get its own pantry up and running. I've already been able to connect two organizations in Washtenaw County that wanted to run diaper drives for DADB with them and they're taking over one of our diaper donation drop-off locations.
This is our vision going forward – the next phase of addressing diaper need in Metro Detroit and hopefully the legacy of the Detroit Area Diaper Bank – donors and organizations that care about diaper need connecting directly to nonprofits, and nonprofits that have set themselves up to receive and attract ongoing donations and are connecting with and being found by donors.
Many of our nonprofit partners are still in the process of working through the information I've supplied and seeing what they can do internally — once they are ready to "go live", I will transition our website, which I will keep up for at least a year or two, into a locator of diaper pantries and local nonprofits that need diapers, so keep an eye out for that and I will also share links through social media, our newsletter, and email. We have stopped accepting donations, but there's still an accessible link to our Partner page on our website that will allow donors to connect with partner nonprofits until the more specific diaper pantry info is made available.
We still have work to do over the next few months as there are still diapers to distribute and partners working to get pantries set up, so you will still hear from DADB, but the message will be more about our partner nonprofits and their efforts and needs. There are also many, many, MANY thanks I need to bestow but I can't even begin to think about that just yet, that will have to be its own post further down the road. But I do want to say a general and very heartfelt thank you to everyone who has believed, encouraged, and supported me along the way on the journey that has been the Detroit Area Diaper Bank, it would not still be here without the generous, compassionate embrace we've received from our amazing community. I'm counting on everyone to continue caring, engaging, talking, or shouting, if need be, about the diaper issue and working together to continue making a difference with diapers in Metro Detroit!
Thank you. Gracias. Now, back to work.
Black Friday, Cyber Monday … after two days of shopping, a day to give back.
Today is #GivingTuesday.
Please consider a gift today and remember the Diaper Bank in your year-end giving.
We met our big Fall Diaper Drive goal, we shook its hand, and then ran right past it.
THANK YOU to ALL of our Donors and Diaper Drive Hosts and participants and Dropoff Locations. Thank you to volunteers Bruce Will, who picked up most of those diaper drives and donations at our dropoff locations, and Melva Parks, who took ALL of the open and partial packages and loose resources and got them distribution-ready.
Big, big thanks, too, to the Canton Public Library for hosting the anchor event for our Fall Drive for the 5th year in a row, it was another phenomenally successful "Stuff the Truck!" event on November 20th and 21st. A record number of diapers came in again this year, bringing the amount the Canton Library has helped collect for the Detroit Area Diaper Bank to 158,116 over the past 5 years!
Our deep thanks, too, to Fat Chef in a Little Coat Catering and the Hulett Family for allowing us to use their beautiful bright yellow truck to "stuff" for the 4th year in a row. And thanks to ALL of the volunteers who came out to help in the truck over the 2 days, particularly Lisa Kluka, who has helped BOTH mornings of EVERY year for the past 4 years!!
You can see pictures from this year's Stuff the Truck event HERE.
THANK YOU to everyone who made our 5th Annual Fall Diaper Drive such a phenomenal success, it will help us help our nonprofit partners through the holidays and into the winter months. Distributions, in fact, start at the end of this week! Thank you for helping us make a difference with diapers.
THANK YOU to all of our donors and supporters for your help and support in 2013!
It's been an amazing few weeks of media exposure for the Detroit Area Diaper Bank and at the perfect time, just as we launched our 5th Annual Fall Diaper Drive! In case anyone missed any of our recent coverage, here are the highlights:
Such fantastic exposure! We're so grateful for all of the opportunities. And the launch of our 5th Annual Fall Diaper Drive undoubtedly benefitted, as we crossed the 10% mark of our big fall goal in the first week!
Our thanks to WXYZ Channel 7 for highlighting Diaper Bank Founder Marybeth Levine and the mission of DADB during the Detroit 20/20 "Person of the Week" segment on Friday, July 26th's 5:00 newscast!
As we reach the mid-point of July, summer reminders are everywhere – it's hot, the splash parks are crowded, vacations are what we're prepping for or recovering from, and the kids are starting to get stir crazy.
But soon enough, "Back to School" ads will be all over the TV and radio, and that means the Detroit Area Diaper Bank's Annual Fall Diaper Drive will be launching!
This will be the Diaper Bank's FIFTH Annual Fall Diaper Drive – it's hard to believe time has flown by so fast since the first drive in 2009! The fall drive helps drive donations into the Diaper Bank so it can fulfill more partner agencies' families' needs and help through the holidays and start of the new year, when donations tend to slow down.
Keep an eye out for our launch announcement and details about the drive and events this fall, but it's never too early to start planning how YOU can help make sure the Diaper Bank makes its big fall goal by Thanksgiving 2013. Can you, your family, your office/company, your community organization or place of worship run a diaper drive or fundraiser to support the Detroit Area Diaper Bank?
Please start making plans and spreading the word, the Diaper Bank can only succeed with the help of an engaged and supportive community. Our community has helped the Diaper Bank collect and distribute close to 1.7 million diapers and incontinence supplies to more than 60 nonprofits and state agencies serving our neediest neighbors across Southeast Michigan since 2009 – we need your help to continue making this very real difference with diapers across Metro Detroit!
Enjoy the rest of your summer and get excited for this year's big Fall Drive!
We could not have done this without all of our donors and supporters, so we want to take this opportunity to say THANK YOU to everyone who has embraced our community Diaper Bank and helped us grow so quickly. Together, we really are making a difference with diapers across Metro Detroit!
We have so many donors and supporters to thank, we're afraid of leaving someone out — so let us first just say THANK YOU to all of the individual donors — those who donated money as well as those who donated diapers — every single donation makes a HUGE difference for us, so THANK YOU for supporting the Detroit Area Diaper Bank!
We also have to recognize our ace volunteers Bruce Will and Melva Parks who help us collect and maximize every diaper donated – Bruce coordinates donation pickups and Melva coordinates repackaging and getting open packages and loose diapers ready for distribution. They're huge keys to our operational success and we can't thank them enough for all of their time and dedication!
More BIG thanks to everyone who ran and/or participated in a diaper drive or fundraiser or recognized the Diaper Bank with a grant or award.
And our deepest thanks to all of the local businesses and community organizations that are supporting us and helping us grow in Southeast Michigan. We're so grateful to have so many people taking an interest in and believing in our mission, we really, truly couldn't do this without every bit of the support and encouragement we've received. THANK YOU.
Since January 1st of this year, the Detroit Area Diaper Bank has already distributed 97,705 diapers and incontinence supplies to organizations serving our neighbors in need in Wayne, Washtenaw, Oakland, Macomb, and Monroe Counties, and will be distributing another 25-30,000 at our distribution next Friday. THANK YOU for helping us make this very real difference with diapers across Metro Detroit!
Please make a donation to help us continue helping our neighbors in need during our 5th year! And THANK YOU for all of your encouragement and support these past 4 years!
Make a donation! Only have a few dollars to spare? Every single dollar helps, so to make it easy, you can Set it and Forget it!
Run a Diaper Drive!
Have extra diapers that have been outgrown or aren't needed any more? Any size, any brand, baby through adult, we take them all. We accept open packages as well as new packages – someone will be SO grateful to get your leftovers! Please see our list of diaper dropoff locations (and we'll come pick up if none are convenient to you!).
Click through GoodSearch and GoodShop to make your online searches and dollars do double-duty – or download our custom toolbar and make it a seamless part of your online environment!
If you're a Kroger shopper in Michigan or Ohio, register your Kroger card through Community Rewards and select DADB as the charity you support, we'll benefit from your everyday shopping!
A school social worker put an emergency call into one of our recipient partners, a local Society of St. Vincent de Paul.
A severely disabled 11-year-old boy is in their programs and his low-income parents are having trouble keeping him in a supply of adult-size Large diapers. Diapers are an ongoing and crushing expense for this family, this is a child that has never been out of diapers and will never potty train.
This is the gap a community Diaper Bank can help fill. Parents of a severely disabled child already have so much on their plate, keeping him clean with a healthy supply of diapers is an emotional and financial stressor we can try to help alleviate through our nonprofit partner. We were able to get a supply to our partner who got them to the social worker the next day.
Thank you for helping us make this very real difference with diapers.
How important is the support of The Canton Public Library to The Detroit Area Diaper Bank?
Since 2009, Diaper Drives hosted by Canton Library have brought 113,153 diapers into the Diaper Bank for distribution to our neighbors in need across Metro Detroit!
This is what these past 4 years of our diaper drive partnership with CPL has looked like:
2009 (1st drive, drop off inside the library): 17,254 diapers
2010 (1st Stuff the Truck drive): 26,312 diapers
2011 (2nd Stuff the Truck drive): 30,813 diapers
2012 (3rd Stuff the Truck drive): 38,954 diapers
The drive has grown every year, and we have SO MANY people, organizations and companies to thank, starting with, of course, the fabulous Canton Public Library.
We'll always be beyond grateful they "found" us on Twitter just months after we launched in spring 2009 and expressed interest in hosting a diaper drive for us. We literally built our first fall drive around them in 2009, having an overall goal of collecting "30,000 by Thanksgiving" and made the Library drive the "anchor" event to the fall diaper drive. We collected more than 1/2 of the original goal during just that one day drive and smashed the 30K goal that fall by more than 20K diapers. And look at us now! Collecting more than twice that 1st library drive amount during Stuff the Truck 2012, helping us to reach toward our ambitious "200,000 by Thanksgiving" fall diaper drive goal!
We couldn't have grown the Library drive from an in-lobby effort to the size it is now without the generous support of Fat Chef in a Little Coat Catering Service, a fantastic Canton-based company owned by the Hulett Family who selflessly give up use of their bright yellow truck for two days so we can park it in front of Canton Library and "stuff" it full of diapers. Not only do the Huletts drive the truck over to our storage space at the end of night 2 and help us unload, Mom Cathy Hulett brought us THE most delicious meat-lovers pizza to keep us fueled up through the final few hours at the truck last night! You have to check out the amazing food they offer at their new storefront in Cherry Hill Village!
We are always thankful to our ace volunteers Bruce Will, Melva Parks and Jessica Roland, who work continuously and tirelessly to support the Diaper Bank throughout the year, but stepped it up even more the last two days. Shout-out to Melva's granddaughter Kendall, who has a big future in diaper-package sealing, counting and stuffing!
And our great in-truck volunteers this year: Lisa Kluka (3rd year in the truck!), Marybeth Miller, St. Mary Girl Scouts from Wayne (and Bridget Jarvis and other parents!) and Girl Scouts from Troop 640 in Canton, Laura Dyas, Darius Daneshyar, Carlye Petro, Ed Weidenbach. Lisa, Marybeth M., and Jessica came for chunks of time on BOTH days — we're so grateful for ALL of the volunteers, not only do many hands make light work, but everyone was great company and made the time fly by.
Most of all, our deepest, most sincere thanks to all of the DONORS. The generosity of our community never ceases to amaze me. We received some very large donations from companies like J&B Medical Supply and organizations like The Livonia Senior Center. We also received some huge diaper collections from diaper drives like the one at The Funky Frog Children's Resale Boutique in Rochester and church groups and community organizations, some of whom we didn't even realize had been collecting for us. We also received some very generous financial donations, which will help us purchase additional diapers.
The large donations definitely had an impact on how quickly the truck was "stuffed", but I will personally never get over the number of times a car would pull up in the loop in front of the Library and stop just to have someone walk a pack of diapers over to us, get back in their car and drive off. It happened over and over and over throughout the two days, and it was just the most amazing, heartwarming thing to see.
We loved meeting and thanking and talking with our neighbors, seeing so many people from so many places around the region, coming to donate diapers for those in need.
Many people said they donated last year and looked for the drive again this year, many people just heard of it for the first time this year but already pledged to help again next year. We'll still be picking up diapers from some donors throughout the next week – some couldn't get the diapers to us during the two days, some could only fit part of what they have to donate in their car. Diapers continue to be dropped off at the Library today and probably will throughout the next couple weeks.
The final count of donated diapers at 9 pm last night was 38,954!
And a quick, final thank you to Mother Nature, who finally came through with a couple of very nice days for us. After having 4 of the coldest November days over the last two years, including having sleet blow in on us IN the truck last year, two sunny days in the mid-to-high 40s made a very fun event all the more pleasant. So thanks for not having fun at our expense, this year, Ma Nature!


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With some pretty impressive sprinting against some strong opposition,Tom Boonen won the first two stages of Paris-Nice – his eighth and ninth wins this season.
The Paris-Nice kicked off on Sunday with a Prologue, defending champion Bobby Julich was the winner over a 4.8km test.
After a bunch sprint on Monday's stage to Saint-Amand-Montrond the Belgian rider showed top form, and perhaps a sign of things to come for the rest of the spring classics and perhaps the overall Pro-Tour 2006. After stage 1, Great Britain's Bradley Wiggins, (Cofidis le Credit par Telephone) was placed well in 7th and Roger Hammond (Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team) was sitting in 123rd place in the General Classification.
Julich finished in 48th place on Monday, positioning him second to Boonen in the general classifications with seven seconds between them. After Tuesday's stage "Bobby J" is now 17 seconds in arrears as he rolled in with the bunch.
Tuseday's stage to Belleville (wonder if anyone had a rendez-vous?) was unlucky for Bradley Wiggins as he had a crash. He still managed to get up and finish, so hopefully the damage isn't too bad. He has slipped to 118th overall and is now 1'35" behind Boonen. Roger Hammond is improving and managed 14th in a big bunch gallop that was only going to have one winner, he moves into the top 100 in 98th place. However Boonen being the 6 foot 3 inches tall and 80kg+ will probably suffer for the next couple of days as the race heads into the hills.
Paris-Nice has been a spectacular annual event since the 1930's and sees a range of international cycling talent put through their paces in a testing range of stages finishing up in Nice. Hence it usually gets called "The Race to The Sun". We could do with one of those here…
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Despite her young age Komal from Uttar Pradesh in northern India has already faced a lifetime of discrimination. But she's determined to use sport to show her strength, and is literally taking the fight for girls to get the same opportunity as boys into her own hand. Tackling the belief that girls are worth less than boys, she's wrestling to the ground one of the root causes of violence against women and girls.
Right from childhood, girls like me are taught to accept that men and boys are superior to them. In my district we aren't allowed to be educated like boys. Instead our role is to take care of younger siblings and household chores - training us for our main role, as a wife. Once married, most girls around here face domestic violence as we're just not seen as equal.
I saw wrestling as an opportunity to continue my education and make my parents proud - and show my strength as a girl. I knew my family and I would face discrimination - but I think all girls should get the same opportunities to participate in sports as the boys.
Once I make a decision, no one can stop me - so with the support of my teacher, my parents let me compete and I won the silver medal in a state competition. I proved to my community that girls can succeed!
My mother especially is really proud. She hopes my future is full of more opportunities than she had. I believe the opportunity to study and participate in sport is something that every girl should be able to do.
Women and girls should have equal rights as other members in the family and society. Given the opportunity, we will prove our strength. Everyone should treat both male and female members equally - and I will continue to fight for this.


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Tiger Burger
Food trucks and pop-up restaurants have been transforming Auckland's dining landscape over the last few years, gracing us with innovative, inventive and affordable food. But sometimes you don't want to have to wait for the 1st and 3rd Friday of every month to eat your new favourite food, so happy news it was to hear that Tiger Burger had found a permanent home in the suburb of Grey Lynn.
The new home of Tiger Burger is a clean and minimalistic space, their white walls adorned with quirky illustrations of Oriental rabbits and their spirit animal, the tiger. Six girlfriends and I swooped in on Grey Lynn on a cold Wednesday night in the hopes of sampling Tiger Burger in a less outdoorsy setting. However, even at the early hour of 6.30pm we were too big a party to fit ourselves around a table inside. Luckily there's a long high table out front under heat lamp that would be agreeable to most parties, provided there's no breeze and you come dressed in a puffer without bare ankles.
The menu is small in a good way. There are four burger options to choose from, a beef, pork, chicken and vego option. The Kimcheese ($13), a grilled beef burger with sautéed kimchi, aged cheddar and chilli mayo was the obvious choice for me, being somewhat of a burger puritan. The chicken option (The Gang-Jeong, $13) featured double-fried chicken thigh whilst the pork option (The Bossam, $14) came with a massive slab of pork-belly that protruded out from the bun in all directions.
To accompany our host of burgers, we ordered a selection of fries with sesame mayo, the Kimcheese fries (fries loaded with kimchi, aged cheddar, crème sauce and kimchi ketchup) and a few rounds of the Seoulful bites (Korean fried chicken with yang nyum sauce and honey garlic mayo). The Seoulful bites were a real winner; hot and crispy fried chicken without an ounce of greasiness, served with a traditional Korean dipping sauce that was warm and punchy.
Their fries were of a similarly high standard, although I must gripe that when cheese makes an appearance on such dishes, it really should arrive all molten and gooey; theirs unfortunately came intact and grated, a cold reminder that the cheese had probably come straight out of the fridge.
The same thing happened in my Kimcheese burger. Everything was perfect: the bun had just the right texture, the beef pattie was medium-rare, hot and juicy, and the sautéed kimchee delivered a nice, warm bite. But the slice of aged cheddar inside was doing that awkward thing cheese does when it's subjected to something warm, but not hot enough to melt it (I call it 'cheese sweat').
The fusion of East meets West in fast food is still a novel one here, and the best of both worlds was generally well executed at Tiger Burger. However I'm not such a fan of the sesame mayonnaise that accompanied some of the dishes. I get it, it ain't Korean unless it has sesame oil in it, but the flavour rather overpowered the fries and chicken that was dunked in it.
If you like a bit of spice, if you like a bit of Korean, and if you're hungry for a burger but a bit bored of the conventional, do try Tiger Burger.
Phone: 027 847 5020
Hours: Tue – Thurs and Sun, 5-9 pm. Fri-Sat 5-10pm.
Prices: Burgers $13-$14 ; Sides $7-$12; Burger extras $2-$5; Desserts $8-$9
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Bathrooms: Good
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Shakespeare in Hollywood
Commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company, and winner of The Helen Hayes Award for Best New Play of the Year. It's 1934, and Shakespeare's most famous fairies, Oberon and Puck, have magically materialized on the Warner Bros. Hollywood set of Max Reinhardt's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Instantly smitten by the glitz and glamour of show biz, the two are ushered onto the silver screen to play (who else?) themselves. With a little help from a feisty flower, blonde bombshells, movie moguls, and arrogant "asses" are tossed into loopy love triangles, with raucous results. The mischievous magic of moviedom sparkles in this hilarious comic romp. Commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare in Hollywood had its world premier in 2003 at Arena Stage and won the Helen Hayes award for Best New Play of the Year.
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"'Shakespeare in Hollywood' will charm your socks off. It left me smiling in my Amtrak aisle seat all the way home to New York."
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"Shakespeare in Hollywood is so deliciously inventive, you'd swear Ludwig and the Bard were in cahoots. At once poignant and funny, literary and farcical, sophisticated and silly, political and fanciful, high-brow and low-brow … a delight!"
The Baltimore Sun
"Lights, camera, action -- there's plenty of it in Ken Ludwig's fantastical farce … Ludwig has constructed an amazingly dense and layered romp [and] clearly had a ball fusing Shakespearean diction with the wisecracking verbal jousting that characterized pre-World War II comedies."
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"A fast, funny, entertaining night."
Winner of the Helen Hayes Award as Best New Play of the Year.
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Shakespeare in Shakespeare in Hollywood by Walter Bilderback
Shakespeare On Screen by Walter Bilderback
Shakespeare in Hollywood - Notes on Max Reinhardt by Walter Bilderback
Comedy and the Great Tradition by Ken Ludwig
Simon Reade discusses how the RSC commissioned Shakespeare in Hollywood
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Arena Stage production PC: Scott Suchman, Courtesy of Arena Stage,
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Wilma Theatre production PC: Jim Roese,
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Maggie Lacey as Olivia Darnell - Casey Biggs as Oberon (Arena Stage)
Alice Ripley as Lydia Lansing - Robert Prosky as Max Reinhardt (Arena Stage)
Left Emily Donahoe as Puck - Casey Biggs as Oberon (Arena Stage)
RightRobert Prosky as Max Reinhardt - Everett Quinton as Will Hays (Arena Stage)
Rick Foucheux as Jack Warner - Michael Skinner as Daryl -Robert Prosky as Max Reinhardt - Alice Ripley as Lydia Lansing (Arena Stage)
Ellen Karas as Louella Parsons - Adam Richman as Jimmy Cagney (Arena Stage)
The Wilma Theater Production:
Michael Sharon as Oberon - Caroline Tamas as Puck (The Wilma Theater)
Shakespeare in Hollywood at The Maret School
Director, Rachel Lurie Gayer
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Left: Anna Smeragliuolo as Lydia Lansing and Doug Eacho as Dick Powell
Right: Katherine Haselkorn as Olivia Darnell
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Collaboration plays a critical role in helping businesses grow; from increasing productivity to developing new products, a team that collaborates is at the heart of a successful company. Yet collaboration requires a shared vision, values and complementary styles. Today's workforce is the first in history to span five generations, so it is no surprise that organizations are facing challenges when it comes to intergenerational collaboration. Workplace communications are evolving rapidly, and each generation defines successful collaboration differently.
It is up to companies to assess their workforce and employ the right strategies and tools to bridge the generational gaps. Here's a closer look at what business leaders need to know as their businesses grow.
The Importance of Unifying the Workforce
In a recent report, 56% of millennials felt they made better decisions when collaborating. While baby boomers pride themselves on thinking differently than earlier generations, a close 49% surveyed also prioritized collaboration. In other words, different age groups are more aligned in their skills and preferences than leaders assume. However, what may be different is how and when people believe communication works – and what tools they rely on to get it done.
Unifying the intergenerational workforce is important as America faces a massive exodus of workers over the next decade. There is an average of 10,000 baby boomers retiring per day, without showing any signs of slowing down. With critical talent retiring, companies risk what is known as "brain drain" while simultaneously facing the need to train, motivate, and retain millennials and Gen Zs.
Defining Priorities
With different generations come different perspectives. Managing a diverse workforce can sometimes present challenging biases and tensions. However, the right strategies can help companies create collaborative processes, develop an open culture, and support the needs of workers across generations. Some approaches to consider include:
- Intergenerational Board: Creating discussion groups that contain representatives from all age groups is a great way to start a dialogue on collaboration. When you assign everyone the same responsibility, you are creating a sense of unity and an equal playing field. When a group is working toward common goals, they tend to forget they are representing different generations. Not only can this approach help create opportunities for collaboration, but it can bring diverse perspectives to solving business challenges such as hiring, new product development or building morale.
- Formal Mentorship Relationships: Another group that encourages collaboration is a leadership committee comprised of your company's most experienced workers. These workers represent a vast brain trust of institutional knowledge, industry connections and the potential for innovation. Encourage this committee to take an active role in determining what knowledge needs to be codified for new generations of workers – and to convey that in part through formal mentorship relationships.
- Data Analysis: Using technology to analyze employee data helps define the areas of priority for an organization. Metrics like age, skills, retirement losses, and longevity can all be taken into consideration when developing strategies for collaboration. For example, have you used analytics to evaluate which departments are most likely to be impacted by Baby Boomers retiring or which departments need access to mentoring relationships? Data-driven decision-making can help you focus your collaborative efforts where they'll make the biggest difference.
Breaking down barriers that inhibit collaboration happen by creating opportunities for people to work together. By creating value for every generation, and encouraging collaboration among group representatives, companies have a solid plan for their rapidly changing workforce.
Technology Plays a Big Role
Technology can facilitate collaboration in many different ways. Millennials are often referred to as the collaboration generation, and technology is the reason why. They more readily adopt new applications and are open to diverse platforms for communication. There are several forms of technology that can help facilitate intergenerational collaboration, including:
- Project Management Software: One of the most effective collaboration tools, this type of technology is a prime vehicle for task management and collaboration. Employees can track their work as a team, analyze their data, and set group goals – all from a shared environment, with real-time visibility. Project management tools provide a fact-based approach to communication that cuts through each generation's style and focuses instead on results.
- Team Collaboration Tools: Team collaboration applications often feature instant messaging and file sharing for documents. Features also allow users to work together in real time to contribute to projects and edit documents. Uniting a workforce under one platform, for all necessary forms of communication, is one way to encourage group collaboration. Companies have had success in facilitating intergenerational communication by showing how certain types of tools, such as instant messaging, can increase efficiency and enhances the likelihood of adopting these tools.
- Mobility: Younger workers – including Millennials and Gen Z – expect to be supplied with tools for mobility. Millennial workers value flexible schedules, and if Baby Boomers are going to reach them effectively, they have to be able to work with them on a remote basis. At the same time, it's important to facilitate periodic face-to-face meetings to help build rapport and play to workers who prefer to communicate that way. It's important to remember that while it's great to encourage mobility within the workforce, not everyone is the same. You must make sure everyone is working in an environment that is beneficial to both them and their team. Platforms compatible with mobile devices yield faster communication among the intergenerational workforce. Companies can facilitate this by ensuring they choose platforms and programs that create a similar experience across devices, so workers remain productive no matter what device they're working on.
- Cloud-based knowledge sharing: Mission-critical platforms should have cloud capabilities – and nowhere is this more accurate than creating a company knowledge bank. Without this online repository, file sharing, remote collaboration, and project management is not possible. In order to preserve the vast knowledge and experience of the older working generation, there has to be a shared and easily accessible place to utilize the company's resources. The cloud enables people to collaborate at any time, from any place; and share real-time, critical data.
- Training: The final piece of successfully introducing new technology is a focus on training. Whether you're introducing new devices or rolling out a new software program, integrating new technology into a business often causes a backlash. Take time to develop a comprehensive training initiative that gets everyone up to speed, and have IT resources available to help troubleshoot questions and ease the transition.
The landscape of the American labor force is changing rapidly. As companies find new ways to thrive against the backdrop of a growing Millennial and Gen Z workforce and the rapid departure of Baby Boomer talent, intergenerational communication is key to helping your business grow. From investing in the right collaborative technology to defining organizational priorities, this is an important issue for companies to address proactively.


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Spirit & Truth
"Worship is not music. It is not songs, instruments, painting, or dancing… They are expressions of worship. Worship is a relationship with Jesus. It is all about relationship, connection with Jesus. It's all about His presence. It's all about Him." – Kim Walker
I so agree with Kim Walker! We can express worship through everything we do. I believe that there is widespread belief that worship happens only during Sunday service or worship gathering! We have a tendency to compartmentalize it but worship is our personal heart connection with Jesus. It happens right where we are. Anywhere we go, we can worship and pour out our hearts to God. When we are home alone in our room, when we are in the church, school, kitchen, on the top of the mountain, under the sea…we can worship… It is a personal relationship with God who is worthy of all. It is pouring out everything we have unto Him, in response to His love so amazing! Can you imagine what kind of worship services we will have, if days before that, we all fight to be in His presence? Even the middle of our busy-mundane life, we press on and press in to be in the His presence. Then comes the day of our Church services and we are all stirred and have laid down everything at His feet! I can imagine healing taking place right there. People's heart tenderized and massive revelation of the knowledge of Jesus to everyone. Haha! i remember what Jesus said:
Jesus declared, "Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth." (John 4:21-24 NIV)
Wooooh! Like that to the Samaritans, we are also not orphans or fatherless but we will all worship the Father in spirit and in truth. I believe that it is happening now! God is changing our paradigm towards worship and it's so awesome. Let's press on with our walk and remember the how God loves us so. Always come with a ready heart and an open spirit!
Excited to lead worship on Saturday during Hotrock!
I Am Wholehearted Right Now!
God Is Not Afraid
I would like to share my personal reflection on Matthew 14: 22-36. This is one of the famous stories we all know from the bible – "Jesus Walks On Water." (I encourage all of you to read the whole chapter 14 of this book.)
The story began with the report that John the baptist was beheaded. When Jesus got the news, he slipped away by boat to an out-of-the-way place by himself. Perhaps, he was sad about the news. But unsuccessfully–someone saw him and the word got around. Soon a lot of people from the nearby villages walked around the lake to where he was. When he saw them coming, he was overcome with pity, he was filled with compassion and healed their sick. All of it: Cough, flu, boils, leprosy, cancer, blind eyes, crippled people, back pain, sore eyes, bungang araw (haha!), etc. Yes, all of it. Name it, He healed it! Boom!
After that healing ministry, Jesus then performed another miracle. He had the people sit on the grass. He took the five loaves and two fish, lifted his face to heaven in prayer, blessed, broke, and gave the bread to the disciples. The disciples then gave the food to the congregation. They all ate their fill. They gathered twelve baskets of leftovers. The number of those who ate was about five thousand men, besides women and children.
As soon as the meal was finished, he insisted that the disciples get in the boat and go on ahead to the other side while he dismissed the people. With the crowd dispersed, he climbed the mountain so he could be by himself and pray. He stayed there alone, late into the night. Meanwhile, the boat was far out to sea when the wind came up against them and they were battered by the waves. Meanwhile, the boat was far out to sea when the wind came up against them and they were battered by the waves. At about four o'clock in the morning, Jesus came toward them walking on the water. They were scared out of their wits.
"A ghost!" they said, crying out in terror.
But Jesus was quick to comfort them. "Courage, it's me. Don't be afraid."
Peter, suddenly bold, said, "Master, if it's really you, call me to come to you on the water."
He said, "Come ahead." Jumping out of the boat, Peter walked on the water to Jesus.
But when he looked down at the waves churning beneath his feet, he lost his nerve and started to sink. He cried, "Master, save me!" Jesus didn't hesitate. He reached down and grabbed his hand.
Then he said, "Faint-heart, what got into you?" The two of them climbed into the boat, and the wind died down. The disciples in the boat, having watched the whole thing, worshiped Jesus, saying, "This is it! You are God's Son for sure!"
Awesome! In a stunning fulfillment of the story, Jesus, a real flesh-and-blood Man, comes walking on top of the stormy seas. What's more awesome here is that He invites Peter to come and join Him. I wish i could share exactly the overwhelming feeling i have in my heart upon creating this blog. What if it was me? I wish it was me. Haha! Anyways, we have read this story many times & interpreted it (accurately) in a spiritual sense, but it really happened! Jesus was really out there walking on water, dancing with the waves. It sound impossible! It was impossible, but it happened! And then Peter really said, in time and space, during the fourth watch of the night (between 3:00 and 6:00 AM), "Lord, if it's really you, ask me to walk on water!"
I ask God a lot of questions upon reading this story again. I've also wondered why the time of day is included in some of the stories. It seems incidental, but i believe it's because God is telling us that these incredible encounters happened in real time during a real storm in a real night, with real water and the real possibility of disaster.
Jesus loves Peter's request, and answers him without hesitation: "Come!" Imagine the scream in Peter's heart. "OH NO! He's calling my bluff!" We can hardly imagine the moment. But he went for it. He dared, if only for a moment, to dance upon his fears, and the Bridegroom's heart was thrilled. Even though Peter lost his focus, even though he began to sink, the Lord was there, and that's the whole point! When the King invites us to come, we can presume upon His power to save. Jesus statement about Peter's "little faith" is not so much of a rebuke as it is the affectionate and playful response of a fatherly Bridegroom whose heart is absolutely exhilarated at the willingness of His child-friend to dare to trust Him. Far from being critical of Peter, I believe Jesus is saying "O Peter! If you only knew what's possible! Trust me, and i will take you through places and events you even dreamed of, for with me all things are possible."
Most of the time we picture Jesus as so kind and so gentle towards our mistake that we think He is not able to go where we are or meet us in our own shortcomings. God is not afraid to go where we are. When we are in doubt, God can go and meet us in that place of doubt, and still love us just the same. When we are crippled by fear, God can come infuse courage to rise up within you. When we are in the grip of our compromises, Jesus can reach out His hands and still embrace us. Our God is greater. All things are possible. Our God is stronger. Jesus is a warrior, His love fights back over what really matters to Him – YOU!
So get out of the boat and walk on water. Get out of your comfort zones and draw near to Jesus in obedience & faith.
"O Sovereign King! O, Majestic Lord of all things! I long to dare to run with You! I long to for the courage of the leap of faith, the joy of the victorious dance upon the stormy waves, upon the mountains and hills of my fears. Call me again, Lord! Don't give up on me! Sooner or later, i will trust You more!"
I Am Wholehearted Right Now!


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The basis of breed shows is the judging of pedigree dogs against the 'Breed Standard', which is a picture in words that describes each breed of pedigree dog. For all licensed breed shows, the Kennel Club Breed Standards must be used for the judging of pedigree dogs.
The Breed Standards are owned by the Kennel Club, and all changes are subject to approval by the Kennel Club Board. New Breed Standards, for newly recognised breeds, are drawn up once the breed has become sufficiently established within the UK. Careful research is conducted into the historical background, health and temperament of any new breed before Kennel Club recognition is granted. The Kennel Club currently recognises 218 breeds. Upon recognition, breeds are placed on the Imported Breed Register until they are deemed eligible for transferral to the Breed Register.
There are many different breeds of pedigree dog for you to meet at Discover Dogs, held in London each year, each with their own special characteristics. Each breed of dog belongs to a group of similar breeds, which may be investigated below.
> Gundog
Dogs that were originally trained to find live game and/or to retrieve game that had been shot and wounded. This group is divided into four categories - Retrievers, Spaniels, Hunt/Point/Retrieve, Pointers and Setters - although many of the breeds are capable of doing the same work as the other sub-groups. They make good companions, their temperament making them ideal all-round family dogs.
> Hound
Breeds originally used for hunting either by scent or by sight. The scent hounds include the Beagle and Bloodhound and the sight hounds such breeds as the Whippet and Greyhound. Many of them enjoy a significant amount of exercise and can be described as dignified, aloof but trustworthy companions.
> Pastoral
The Pastoral Group consists of herding dogs that are associated with working cattle, sheep, reindeer and other cloven footed animals. Usually this type of dog has a weatherproof double coat to protect it from the elements when working in severe conditions. Breeds such as the Collie family, Old English Sheepdogs and Samoyeds who have been herding reindeer for centuries are but a few included in this group.
> Terrier
Dogs originally bred and used for hunting vermin. 'Terrier' comes from the Latin word Terra, meaning earth. This hardy collection of dogs were selectively bred to be extremely brave and tough, and to pursue fox, badger, rat and otter (to name but a few) above and below ground. Dogs of terrier type have been known here since ancient times, and as early as the Middle Ages, these game breeds were portrayed by writers and painters.
> Toy
The Toy breeds are small companion or lap dogs. Many of the Toy breeds were bred for this capacity although some have been placed into this category simply due to their size. They should have friendly personalities and love attention. They do not need a large amount of exercise and some can be finicky eaters.
> Utility
This group consists of miscellaneous breeds of dog mainly of a non-sporting origin, including the Bulldog, Dalmatian, Akita and Poodle. The name 'Utility' essentially means fitness for a purpose and this group consists of an extremely mixed and varied bunch, most breeds having been selectively bred to perform a specific function not included in the sporting and working categories.
> Working
Over the centuries these dogs were selectively bred to become guards and search and rescue dogs. Arguably, the working group consists of some of the most heroic canines in the world, aiding humans in many walks of life, including the Boxer, Great Dane and St. Bernard. This group consists of the real specialists in their field who excel in their line of work.


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For more than a decade, research studies of mathematics education in high-performing countries have concluded that mathematics education in the United States must become substantially more focused and coherent in order to improve mathematics achievement in this country. To deliver on this promise, the mathematics standards are designed to address the problem of a curriculum that is "a mile wide and an inch deep."
These new standards build on the best of high-quality math standards from states across the country. They also draw on the most important international models for mathematical practice, as well as research and input from numerous sources, including state departments of education, scholars, assessment developers, professional organizations, educators, parents and students, and members of the public.
The math standards provide clarity and specificity rather than broad general statements. They endeavor to follow the design envisioned by William Schmidt and Richard Houang (2002), by not only stressing conceptual understanding of key ideas, but also by continually returning to organizing principles such as place value and the laws of arithmetic to structure those ideas.
Elko County School District high school students need three (3)mathematics credits to graduate. For an advanced diploma and the Millennium scholarship, they need four (4) credits which include Algebra II and Geometry.


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Episode Number: 1084
Episode Guest: Douglas Murray
Original Airdate: February 26, 2018
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Guest Bio: Douglas Murray is an author, journalist, and political commentator. He is the founder of the Centre for Social Cohesion and is the associate director of the Henry Jackson Society and associate editor of The Spectator, a British magazine discussing culture and politics. His latest book The Strange Death of Europe is available now.
Topics Discussed: Doug on Sam Harris' podcast; Doug was labeled by Twitter as promoting hate speech; Jordan Peterson is considered a troublemaker; the tech industry is a progressive thought bubble echo chamber; Joe thinks we're in an adolescent stage of communication; new artificial intelligence system can see what you are thinking; there's no logical human being taking the wheel; can the online world forgive; everyone lives in a glass house throwing as many stones as they can; Joe explains the Jamie Kilstein drama to Douglas; people addicted to fighting/drama online; some people are proud of being blocked by popular people; someone sent Douglas animal porn; The President Erdogan Offensive Poetry Competition; retaliation for humor; Charlie Hebdo 2015 attack; some people only read headlines and not articles; Salmon Rushdie; bullshit arguments; things aren't as bad as people think; more Charlie Hebdo talk; Curtis Culwell Center "Draw Muhammad" attack; saying you can't draw something is a slippery slope; South Park Muhammad story controversy; more talk about Muhammad; (1:00:00) how many people actually read the entire bible; ridiculous rules in the bible; Elisha and the Two Bears bible story; more talk about religion; Morten Storm talk; people are learning things and discovering contradictions in the religions they follow by Googling about them; Richard Dawkins debate about the splitting of the moon; The God Delusion book; rational discussion of religion is difficult; racism after the 9/11 attacks; Douglas talks about some recent terrorist attacks in the UK; Three Girls BBC TV show; Rochdale child sex abuse ring; journalism and publishing the facts; France and terrorist attacks; we act like cowards when something really happens; misinformation during chaos; The Seven Sins of Memory book; flaws with our memories; eyewitness testimony is one of the worst types of evidence; America and gun control talk; Samuel L. Jackson on Trump's idea to arm teachers with guns; talk about terrorist attacks and the weapons used by terrorists; it's too easy to buy a gun in America; mental health, psych meds/antidepressants, and mass shooters; issues that aren't being discussed; Tom Daley and Dustin Lance Black having baby; people don't want to discuss gender or sexuality; Joe thinks he can get away with saying things because people don't take him seriously and because he's kind; Caitlyn Jenner killed someone in an automobile accident; today's generation will have a harder life than their parents did; telling people to "stay in your lane"; white privilege and cowardice; radical progressive ideology is coming from modern progressives who aren't religious; "free thinkers" stick to their rigid ideologies; "I know it when I see it"; mockery lets people know how ridiculous others think their ideas are; male feminists; virtue signalling; (2:00:00) our behavior is experimental; we're not born perfectly, we all have flaws; saying someone who disagrees with you is evil; assume that someone with an opposing viewpoint might have an honest motive with reasons to disagree; Nazis; The Strange Death of Europe book.
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"I think television is filling some of that now, in terms of bringing out more product. That's certainly the idea with the Netflix shows. But I don't know that we will necessarily say "Okay, we're now moving strategically to three a year, now we're moving to four a year." What I think is more likely - if [knocks on wood-like table] the next group of movies work and people want to see additional stories - we'll have too many franchises and you can't do one of each franchise every two or three years. We'd have to move to three a year, but that would have to be a natural move if it were to occur. We'd have a [script] draft, we'd have a filmmaker, we'd have a character the audience wants to see - let's slot in a place for a third one. Or a fourth one.
But it's hard enough to deliver two quality, hopefully bar-raising movies a year."


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Learning Javascript
The other day in the hot tub and bar at DjangoSki there was a conversation about Javascript with Jereme and Brian. We all talked about this a bit and there were two salient points that came out of the discussion for me.
There's a whole generation of web developers who haven't really learned JavaScript. Generation being about the 5 years between "use a bit of javascript to validate a form" and Ajax. For those developers (myself included) there's rarely been a formal stage where people go off and learn JavaScript as a language.
If you were going to start building an app in Django, presumably the first thing you'd do is go and learn Python. When I started messing around with Rails, the first thing I did was spend a day or two at least figuring out how Ruby works. But I never really spent a similar amount of time with JavaScript. Instead it sort of went:
Me (circa 2000): "oh we could do that in JavaScript, it won't work for some people, but that would be cool, let's use Altavista to find a bit of code to do that".
That piece of code would then be mangled and repeated without necessarily understanding it all. You get to grips with the syntax and then something like prototyping comes along you learn a bit more. But all the language subtleties? I doubt they were commonly learnt.
Similarly, a big problem for me with JavaScript is the documentation. Let's say you want to do something simple, a
string split. Compare these three searches for Ruby, Python and JavaScript. The Python and Perl searches land you directly on the official Python and Ruby docs. Those docs are of excellent quality and explain the point simply and clearly.
These days with server side JavaScript frameworks, people are learning JavaScript so much earlier and actually learning the language, and that's a good thing. Of course, you can go read great books like this: JavaScript: The Good Parts and I hope people do.
Perhaps this is because there's a lack of a clear owner of JavaScript. Perhaps because for so long people have been linking to sites like w3schools, that their Page Rank is now unassailable. But it would really help JavaScript if there was one definitive documentation reference and source that we could use and learn from. That would make a huge difference to how the language is used.


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How Do I Get My Car Ready for Winter?October 28th, 2015 by Titan Auto
Winter weather brings cold temperatures and sometimes dangerous driving conditions. Long before the temperature turns cold you can prepare your vehicle for comfortable and safer Winter driving. In November and early December we recommend: 1. Measuring Tire Tread depths 2. Testing your Battery 3. Inspecting Windshield wiper blades 4. Inspecting the Windshield for chips and


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|Bear in the Big Blue House
|September 6, 1999
|Written by
|Joey Mazzarino
|Dean Gordon
Doc Hogg stops by the Big Blue House to collect for charity. He's collecting for muskrat relief following recent flooding that left many of them homeless. Bear is completely out of money, so Doc Hogg agrees to come back later. Bear and Ojo then find Tutter struggling to cram an excess of stuff into his mousehole, giving Ojo the idea for a yard sale. The idea takes off and Pip and Pop are assigned to be sales-otters. Treelo finds some things of his own to sell and Ojo helps out by painting pictures. Tutter, however, finds it difficult at first to part with some of his things. Shadow sings Bear a twist on the traditional nursery rhyme "To market, to market" featuring a preposterous and an emu while noting that as a Shadow she doesn't have any place to store money.
- Many of the shows most prevalent recurring guest-characters are present for the yard sale, including Otto and Etta Otter, Grandma Flutter, Jeremiah Tortoise, Lois, Harry, and Mama Duck.
- The characters exchange dollars and cents for their purchases in this episode. However, in the fourth-season episode "A Trip to the General Store," clams are used as Woodland Valley's official currency.
- Joey Mazzarino is credited as Joseph Mazzarino.
- Otto and Etta Otter pose in the style of the famous American Gothic for Ojo's painting.
- Doc Hogg states in this episode that he is the great imperial boar of the Woodland Valley chapter of the "Swiners." This is a reference the Shriners, an order of free masons known for their charitable works. The Imperial Potentate is the highest ranking Shriner in the world.
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Synology DS212j review (part 3)
Synology provided me the opportunity to test a NAS device: the DS212j. In the next couple of weeks, I will write a review of this device split over a number of blog posts. It will be a rather untraditional NAS review, because I will also spend time looking at its features for running .NET and PHP code, how easily it can run developer tools and finally I will have a look at the SDK.
- The Synology DS212j
- Setting up a Development environment on the NAS
- Running custom .NET/PHP/… code (this article)
- A look at the DSM4.1 SDK
In this third part of the review of the Synology DS212j, we will have a look at the device its capabilities to host custom written software. The DSM operating system is in essence a Linux based operating system powered by the well-known Apache web server. This means that most of your software should run without glitches. The only differences between the DS212j and traditional servers are the different CPU architecture (ARM vs. x86) and the fact that the device is using an embedded (and thus slower) processor.
Please note: the high-end devices of Synology are equipped with more powerful Intel processors.
I will mainly concentrate on the hosting of web based applications, although nothing prevents you from running custom console applications on the device as well.
DNS Server
One of the optional packages that can be installed on the DSM OS is a DNS server. End users should never be confronted with IP addresses of computers. They should use human readable domain names. If you do not already have a DNS server on your local network, I highly recommend setting this up on the DS212j. This way, you can give nice domain names to all your applications hosted on the DS212j.
I choose to create a master zone called "intranet". In this master zone, I created all the necessary resource records for my hosting needs.
Please note: once you have set up the DS212j as the DNS server for your network, you are not restricted to using it solely for assigning domain names to the NAS itself. You can use it to assign domain names to any device in your network.
Apache webserver
Out of the box the DSM OS comes equipped with the Apache web server and support for PHP. By using the package center, support for various other programming languages (Python, Perl and Mono) can easily be added.
Furthermore support for MySQL databases is available and the phpMyAdmin management can be installed for easy database management. No other databases are available in package center.
Uploading web applications
Uploading a web application to the NAS is easy. It is sufficient to copy the web application to a subdirectory of the special "web" share on the NAS by FTP, Windows networking or WebDAV.
Optionally, virtual directories can be created using the configuration panel of the DSM OS.
.NET (with Mono)
Thanks to the Mono project, the DS212j has the ability to run .NET software. Unfortunately, the version of Mono available in the package center is still version 2.11. This version does not yet include support for ASP.NET MVC 4.0.
From Mono 3.0 onwards, the Mono developers bundled the open source ASP.NET MVC framework of Microsoft. So .NET developers are currently restricted to using ASP.NET 3.5 Webforms features. Let's all hope Synology will update the Mono package in the near future 🙂
I created a couple of test ASP.NET applications and most basic features seem to work without real issues as long as you stick to ASP.NET 3.5. I was not able to easily deploy ASP.NET 4.0 applications (Mono complained about various issues with my web.config).
Publishing from Visual Studio 2010/2012
Visual Studio provides the possibility to publish web applications straight from the IDE to a web server. In order to publish to the DSM OS you must ensure that FTP is activated on the NAS. Once this is the case, you can configure Visual Studio by right clicking on the project node and selecting the "Publish…" option.
In the Publish screen you can create a new publish profile for the NAS as shown on the screenshots below.
You can also use the web.config transformation mechanism to modify the web.config for the release build if other settings are required on the DSM OS. You could also whish create a dedicated build configuration for publishing to the NAS.
For more information, please see the following MSDN links:
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd465326.aspx
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/kkz9kefa.aspx
The DSM OS offers out of the box a fully functioning PHP 5.3.21 environment. Unlike the limited .NET hosting support offered through Mono, the PHP support is 100% the same as on any other Linux server. This means that most of your applications can run on the DS212j with no or minor modifications.
I am by no means a PHP expert, but during this part of the review I used the opportunity to develop a simple mobile web application in jQuery Mobile and PHP. I encountered no issue at all to migrate the app from my Windows machine to the DSM. The entire application continued to function correctly.
Depending on the requirements, the DS212j can be a great hosting environment for running your own (web) applications. It comes with support for most of the programming languages you expect to have on a Linux server. Just keep in mind that the NAS is powered with an ARM CPU optimized for low power consumption. Do not expect to see the same performance as offered by modern computers or servers.


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I finally got to do a bit of crafting yesterday, the kids were home sick from school with the flu for two days, not fun! We're all better now so yay, a card-making I will go...lol. I cannot remember the last time I made a criss cross card so when I saw the TOMIC challenge I was happy to have a go, and it was so fun. Only sad part is as the lovely Mel pointed out I missed the part of Princes and Princesses...lmao!
This is my first time using this Tilda, I've always loved her but didn't like that fact that her arrangement had candy canes and could only be used at Christmas! So I decided to give her a bouquet of flowers using flowersoft. I coloured her with copics. The papers are all K & Company. I decided to stamp a sympathy message inside. The beautiful flowers are all Wild Orchid Crafts. I am entering Bunny Zoe's Crafts - Ribbon or Twine, The Pink Elephant - Flowers, Catered Crop - Brads,Chocolate, Coffee & Cards - Pearls/Lace