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What's Special About the Novi Community School District?
An overview of programs and services for students with special learning needs.
The Novi Community School District offers a full continuum of program/service options designed to meet the individual needs of eligible students with disabilities from birth through age 26. Novi Community Schools' Special Education programs operate in accordance with all state and federal guidelines. Novi's special education programs assist students with a variety of social, emotional and learning impairments. Emphasis is placed on educating all students in traditional classrooms in their neighborhood school, to the maximum extent appropriate based on their individual needs. All decisions regarding programs and placement are made by an Individualized Educational Planning Team. Parental involvement in the development as well as implementation is an integral part of programming.
What is Early On® Oakland?
Early On® Oakland is a network of services for families of children birth to age three who are developmentally delayed, or are at risk of developing delays because of an established medical condition, or who have a disability.
Early On® Oakland is based on a partnership between families and Service Providers, and helps the families find the support they need for their child. There are no income restrictions for eligibility.
If that little voice inside your head is telling you that something isn't "quite right" with your baby or toddler, don't wait to reach out for help. The first years of a child's life are too important to let slip by. Don't wait to see if your little one "outgrows" your concern. Working on delays and concerns early means that children have a good chance for a great start in life.
Put your mind at ease, and give your child the help he or she may need by visiting Early On® Oakland today!
For free information and resources about your child's development, call 248.209.2084 or toll-free at 866.456.2084.
The Student Support Team (SST) is a problem-solving process that may be used by teachers and parents to help address learning or behavioral differences. At the SST meeting, specific learning challenges are identified and intervention strategies are decided upon. The SST may reconvene as many times as necessary to resolve the concern.
Novi Community Schools provides evaluations for students who are suspected of having a disability under IDEA (the federal special education law) and/or Section 504. If there is reason to suspect that the student has a disability, staff may use the SST process to recommend an evaluation. Parental consent will be requested prior to evaluation. Following the 504 or special education evaluation, a team meeting is held to review the evaluation data and develop an appropriate program for the student.
Resource programs are available in all buildings. All these programs serve students with a variety of disabilities including emotional, cognitive, speech/language, hearing, vision, physical/health impairments and learning disabilities. Teachers in these programs are endorsed in one or more areas of special education. The amount and type of support that the student will receive from the resource program is determined by the IEP Team.
At all levels the resource programs are departmentalized; students may move from class to class and may see more than one resource teacher based on the subjects they are taking within the special education department. In grades 5-8 the resource program sometimes provides support through a model known as coteaching. In this situation general education and resource teachers share responsibilities in the general classroom. Placement in a coteaching team or classroom is a decision made by the IEP Team. At the Middle School and High School, options such as an Integrated Studies class and the Academic Support Center assist students in achieving the high standards set by the Michigan Merit Curriculum.
At Orchard Hills, Parkview, Novi Woods, Novi Meadows, the Middle School, and the High School there are resource programs for students who have more significant challenges and need most of their instruction in a special education classroom. These programs focus on basic academics, life skills, and prevocational education, and might include students who have been found eligible under the categories of cognitive impairment, physical impairment, autism, emotional impairment, or any other disability which requires intensive support from a team of educators.
An Early Childhood Special Education (ECSE) program serves preschool-aged children with disabilities who require a specialized classroom setting (i.e., their needs cannot be met in a typical preschool or day care setting.) This program is housed at the ITC, adjacent to the Community Education Preschool classrooms, and runs for four half-days per week.
A wide range of related services is available within Novi Community Schools to meet the individual needs of eligible students. These include speech/language therapy, school social work services, occupational and physical therapy, and teacher consultant services. Transition plans are developed for all eligible students beginning at age 16 or younger if appropriate. One of the High School resource teachers oversees community placements for secondary students who have that need. Functional Behavior Assessments are conducted for students at all levels whose behavior impedes their own learning or the learning of others, and Behavior Intervention Plans are developed as necessary by the IEP Team. Appropriate related services are identified through the IEPT process.
Oakland Schools, the intermediate school district of which Novi is a part, currently provides a variety of services to students, parents and staff. The Student Support Center at Oakland Schools currently provides consultation in the areas of hearing and audiology, vision, speech/language, augmentative communication, and assistive technology. Itinerant teacher consultants provide services to students who have hearing, visual or physical impairments, and orientation/mobility specialists provide training to students who are blind/visually impaired. All referrals for Oakland Schools services are processed through the Director of Student Services in the resident district.
Some students have specific needs which are best addressed in specialized settings. These students are identified through the IEP Team process. Novi students have access to several center-type programs which are operated by neighboring districts through cooperative agreements and tuition arrangements. These may include programs for students who have been identified under the categories of cognitive impairment, severe multiple impairment, autism, hearing impairment, and physical impairment. Prevocational training is available at the post-secondary level. Novi's youngest residents, those ages 0-3, may be served through Early Intervention services provided by the Walled Lake School District. Additional out-of-district placements also may be available through contractual arrangements with other agencies, depending on the needs of the student as identified by the IEP Team. Referrals to all out-of-district programs are handled through the Director of Student Services in the resident district.
For evaluations of infants and toddlers (ages 0-3) call:
Laurie Leonard at Early On Oakland
Phone: 248-209-2084 or
Toll Free (866) 456-2084
For evaluations of Birth - 3 and preschoolers (ages 3 -5) call:
Jen Ellis, Child Find Coordinator
Phone: 248-675-3434 Ext. 9108
For new families moving to Novi (requiring information for Special Education), call:
Cindy Pingel (k-12, Adult Ed.)
Phone: 248-449-1200 Ext. 2030
For records request, call:
Nancy Turner
Phone: 248-449-1207
For evaluations of students in grades K-12, call:
Shailee Patel, Director of Student Services
Phone: 248-449-1413
For Section 504 evaluations, call:
Darby Hoppenstedt, 504 Coordinator
Phone: 248-449-1418
Please note the following resources which are available to assist parents in understanding their rights relative to state and federal disability laws:
- Oakland Schools Special Education Compliance Support Unit: 248-209-2000
- Michigan Alliance for Families: 800-292-7851
It is the policy of the Novi Community Schools not to discriminate on the basis of religion, race, national origin, sex or handicap in educational programs, activities or services. All students shall have an equal opportunity to participate in, and benefit from, all academic and extra-curricular activities and services.
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Improper Activities Reporting Policy 114
|Policy 114
|Approved: February 17, 2011
Improper Activities Reporting Policy
Policy 114
|Source of Authority:
N.C.G.S. § 116-34(a);
UNC Code § 502(A)
|Revision Authority:
|First Issued: February 17, 2011
|Related Policies:
|N.C.G.S. Chapter 126, Article 14;
Alcohol Policy 102;
Cash Management Policy 302;
Facilities Use Policy 402
Fixed Assets Policy 304;
Contracts & Authority to Sign Policy 109;
Conflicts of Interest (Board of Trustees) Policy 108;
Conflicts of Interest (Employees) Policy 603;
Illegal Drugs Policy 702;
Involuntary Withdrawal Policy 807;
Political Activities Policy 117;
Prohibited Harassment Policy 117;
Purchasing Policy 308;
Research Misconduct Policy 120;
Smoking Policy 703;
Technology Use Policy 508;
Threat Assessment Policy 704;
Travel Policy 310;
Weapons Policy 705;
Workplace Violence Policy 706
|Responsible Offices:
|Human Resources Department
|Effective Date:
|February 17, 2011
I. Purpose
This policy provides guidance for reporting alleged improper activities by UNCSA employees and for protecting employees for reporting such alleged activities.
II. Scope
This policy applies to all UNCSA employees.
III. Definitions
IV. Policy
A. Reporting. All employees should report verbally or in writing to their supervisor, or other appropriate authority at UNCSA as described below, all evidence of activity by a UNCSA department or employee that may constitute:
1. A violation of State or federal law, rule or regulation;
2. Fraud;
3. Misappropriation;
4. Substantial and specific danger to the public health and safety; OR
5. Gross mismanagement, a gross waste of monies, or gross abuse of authority.
B. Protections
1. From Retaliation. Any employee who reports such incidents as described above shall be protected from discharge, threats of retaliation, or other types of discrimination regarding compensation, terms, conditions, location, or privileges of employment directly related to the disclosure of such reports, unless the employee knows or has reason to believe that the report is inaccurate.
2. For Refusal to Act. In addition, no employee may be adversely affected in the manner described above because the employee refused to carry out a directive which in fact constitutes a violation of State or federal law, rule or regulation, or poses a substantial and specific danger to the public health and safety.
3. Generally. These protections shall include employees who report any of the activities described above to the State Auditor through the established statewide hotline or to the Program Evaluation Division.
V. Revision History
A. February 17, 2011 – Adopted by Board of Trustees as part of UNCSA Policy Manual
Improper Activities Reporting Procedures
Procedure #114
I. Reporting Improper Activities
A. Any employee who desires to report evidence of alleged improper activity as described may contact any of the following:
1. the director of the office responsible for the administrative or educational function at issue;
2. the employee's immediate supervisor, department chair, dean, director, or Vice Chancellor/Provost in their supervisory chain at a level sufficient to allow objectivity in evaluating the subject of concern;
3. UNCSA Internal Auditor (770-3310);
4. Chief of UNCSA Police (770-3349);
5. Chancellor (770-3200); OR
6. Chairman of Board of Trustees.
B. Furthermore, employees may also report improper activities to the State Auditor by calling the 24 hour toll-free hotline (1-800-730-8477) or by sending an email mailto: email@example.com
C. Improper activities may also be reported to the State Auditor's Program Evaluation Division.
D. Employees are encouraged to provide as much specific information as possible including names, dates, places, and events that took place, the employee's perception of why the incident(s) may be a violation, and what action the employee recommends be taken.
E. Anonymous or telephonic communications will be accepted.
F. Employees who choose to identify themselves will receive a reply to their report within 30 working days or as soon as practicable thereafter.
G. Any questions regarding this policy may be directed to the Director of Human Resources.

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On so many occasions, we've ruin our relationships, our marriages and families by allowing some relationships concerns/issues to matter to us. We tend to attached so much importance to them than they deserved and they finally break down the unions we so much admired. Just because as a new couples, we had the wrong impression that everything will continue just as we started. Therefore, when we experience little challenges in our relationships, we give it more attention than normal. The attitude which is always unhealthy for every relationships.
In most cases, having an healthy marriage/relationships all depends on you. We all need to understand that a number of daily marital problems we are experiencing are normal and deserved no special attention than few things to be done to get it corrected. In marriage, you don't create problems when there is non, and you don't escalate issues when you should just talk it over with your partners.
Below are some of the relationship issues that are not worthy of giving a chance to destroy our affairs.
1) Boredom In Marriage: This happens and it happens to every marriage at one point or the other. You will just experience a sudden falling short of interest in everything. You feel like everything is bored and they are not just as it used to be or how you anticipated. You feel depressed with your marriage, and everything is just stagnant for a moment. You feel like the feeling of love and closeness you shared with your partner is not there anymore.
We shouldn't allow this feeling to matter a lot to us, and we should try as much as possible not to blame our partners for this. Instead, look for a romantic way of solving the problem. We could arrange for a weekly visit to a cinema, a park, a club or reading the same romantic novel which we will have to talk about it at night.
2) Non Sexual Cheating: On so many occasions, we hear of partners cheating on each other. So many marriages has been broken for this reason alone. Let me say, cheating can come in various means. A partner could feel cheated when his/her partner deceived her with lies. A partner might feel cheater when he/she is a kind of been neglected or abandoned.
Your partner might feel cheated when you refused to fulfill your promises, spying through their phones, checking their stuff unnecessarily and so many other issues like that. In my own opinion, all these issues should not be allowed to destroy our relationships except when it has exceeded into a sexual cheating which is a big issue to be considered.
Even at that point, so many partners would be left with no option than to forgive the spouse who cheated on them sexually. So don't allow unnecessary non sexual cheating to murder your marriage.
3) Misunderstanding: This is not new and actually happens in every marriage. We are human beings and we are imperfect therefore our relationships with others cannot be perfect as well. The reality is that all relationships and marriages have their weaknesses. So there is possibility that we are going to have some misunderstanding in our marriages with our partners.
When this happens, don't see it as something special that the whole world has to be aware of. Talk to your partner about it, apologize in case you are at fault, and settle it without inviting outsiders. This may not be applicable where someone married to a natural trouble maker as partner.
4) Distance In Marriage: No doubt that physical intimacy in any relationship is very important. Giving a frequent hug, a kiss, a touch and participating in a loving relationship benefits us to live much longer, more healthier and content. But the benefits of this might not be there in a situation where a partner is a kind of far to the other.
sincerely, it is an issue to be addressed but should not be allowed to destroy your marriage. It normal, and at one point or the other, we experience movement and have to be away from our homes for a while. We might even be around but our job, studies or research is taking much of our time.
These are serious relationship issues that should not be allowed to destroy our marriages no matter what.
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Television is a grind and reality shows in particular consume lot of time and energy. Two episodes shot in one day is a common practice. Usually, the two episodes are shot in about 12-13 hours. However, the inaugural shoot of Zara Nachke Dikha 2 stretched to a mind boggling 24 hours.
The contestants assembled at Filmcity studio no.7 at 7.00 am on 21 April and only left a good 24 hours later. Thus actors, who work in daily soaps, were severely inconvenienced.
A contestant requesting anonymity informs, "This is my first reality show but never did I thought that the first day would turn out to be so hectic. All contestants arrived on time. Arshad and Vaibhavi in fact arrived before scheduled time. Shilpa Shetty arrived by 10.00 am We had to perform four times which required four different props and clothing. The make-up and dressing took a lot of time. By the time, we began shooting for the second episode, it was well past mid-night. The likes of Sanjeeda Shaikh and Rashmi Desai slept only for a few minutes as they had a 7.00 am shoot for their respective shows."
Another contestant adds, "I worked for 24 hours for ZND, thereafter I had to report for a 9.00 am shoot. I simply rushed to the sets. As a result, I ended up shooting for 36 hours. Worse, I couldn't get to brush my teeth that day. Fortunately, I'm now heading home and will straight away land on bed."
Meanwhile, eviction is part of this season. Every week the wining team shall nominate a candidate from a rival team. That individual will be put to test next week and if his/her performance fails to impress the judges than that contestant will be evicted. In the first episode, the successful girls have nominated a guy. To find out who is he, tune into Zara Nachke Dikha on 1 May.


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It's that time of the year when peaches are aplenty! Ripe and ready to be eaten, these luscious fruit are a delight when in season. Made in pies, juices, oatmeal, fruit bowls, salads, popsicles, ice cream — you name it — peaches are a favorite among many. A friend of mine had recently gifted me a large basket of donut peaches. With so many, I had to think of ways to sneak this sweet treat into every meal. So I decide to make a peach smoothie with toasted buckwheat groats. It's a simple, green smoothie that satisfies your hunger and your metabolism!
For this smoothie, I used 2 small donut peaches, but if you were to use a regular peach, 1 would be enough. I also added spinach, almond milk, blueberries, banana, and some ice. Feel free to add more peaches if you want. You could also skip the blueberries, but because blueberries are in season I couldn't resist. Mango would also be delightful and compliment the flavors wonderfully.
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But as I always say, smoothie bowls are about using produce you have and getting creative with your food. So whatever you like and decide to make, make sure to have fun with it!
In a high-speed blender, add the almond milk, spinach, banana, blueberries, peach, and ice and blend until smooth. Pour into a bowl.
For the toppings, in a saucepan over medium heat, add the coconut oil and the buckwheat groats. Toast until golden brown. Add the cinnamon and salt to your liking and pour over the smoothie bowl. Top with sliced banana, gogji berries, and coconut flakes. Enjoy!
Yields: 1 serving
Total time: 10 minutes
1 cup almond milk
1 cup spinach
1 banana
1/2 cup blueberries
1 large peach
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1 teaspoon coconut oil
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I wrote yesterday that Maryland has a proposal to cut off water and electricity to the NSA data center.
And now a Utah Legislator is proposing to cut off water to the NSA data center.
Utah legislator to propose halting water to NSA data centerLegislation » The bill also would prohibit universities from partnering with NSA.
By Nate Carlisle
| The Salt Lake TribuneFirst Published 5 hours ago • Updated 16 minutes ago
A state representative wants to shut down the National Security Agency's Utah Data Center by shutting off their water, but has not yet filed a bill that he acknowledges has little chance of passing.
Rep. Marc Roberts, R-Santaquin, has entered what is called a boxcar bill labeled "Prohibition on Electronic Data Collection Assistance." The bill had not been formally filed as of late Wednesday, and no draft had been posted online.
And not only is Utah thinking of cutting off water it is cutting off access to the local university.
The bill would do more than shut off water to the Utah Data Center, which needs the water to cool the massive facility in Bluffdale. Mike Maharrey, the national communications director at the Tenth Amendment Center, said he has seen a draft of the bill and it would also prevent Utah's public universities from partnering with the NSA and prohibit businesses from receiving state contracts if they also do business with the NSA.
The universities provision would impact the University of Utah, which for years has received NSA grants to conduct mathematics research and recently created, at the NSA's request, a course teaching data center management.
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We wrote a book about a hurricane, and now, like our fictional hero in Jack and The Fountain of Youth, we are waiting to learn in what direction a potentially devastating storm will turn.
And yet … here's the view in Carpenter Country as of Friday afternoon. The sky is blue.
The Spanish moss hangs motionless.
The hummingbird moth flits through the plumbago.
Surrounded by such peace, we might be tempted to believe the danger does not exist … but we are not.
Because we have been forewarned, this is the view of the window of the Carpenter Country studio as of Friday afternoon.
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the distance from here to chicago is seeming shorter and shorter every day. and these two have a great deal to do with that growing feeling that chicago becoming a welcoming backyard. rachelle and tyler have been together for some time...just ask any one of their seemingly endless number of friends and you will quickly learn that this wedding day was an exciting point on the horizon for so so many. and to think that they allowed me to share it with them is quite amazing...a stranger, from michigan, little old nathan. but truly, these two exude a deep love for those in their lives and a sincere willingness to welcome newcomers into the fold. and welcomed i felt!
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Valve Announces SteamOS
Valve has lifted the lid on the first of its three announcements due this week and it is SteamOS.
At LinuxCon in New Orleans, Gabe Newell first mentioned more SteamBox details would be coming. Last week Valve put up a countdown page about "the Steam universe expanding" next year with three icons, each signifying a major announcement. The countdown timer for the first announcement has been expired and revealed to be the long rumored SteamOS.
The Linux-powered SteamOS is the logical extension of Valves work on porting their game engine and titles over to the platform. Further more, the company see it as being the heart of their plans for the living room aka the SteamBox console.
As weve been working on bringing Steam to the living room, weve come to the conclusion that the environment best suited to delivering value to customers is an operating system built around Steam itself, the SteamOS page reads. SteamOS combines the rock-solid architecture of Linux with a gaming experience built for the big screen. It will be available soon as a free stand-alone operating system for living room machines.
Valve said SteamOS contains "significant performance increases in graphics processing," and the company is now working on improving input latency and audio performance." "Game developers are already taking advantage of these gains as they target SteamOS for their new releases." No specific developers are named, one can suspect 4A Games (developers of Metro: Last Light) and Crytek among them.
Valve also mentions, "hundreds" of games already run on SteamOS, and announcements about AAA titles being brought to SteamOS in 2014 are coming in the next few weeks. In-home streaming is Valve's solution for games that don't support SteamOS natively it'll allow you to run Steam on your existing Windows- or Mac-based PC and use a SteamOS-based machine to stream them to the television in your living room.
The OS and the yet to be announced hardware are intended to compete with traditional game consoles, and it seemingly evolves Steam's "Big Picture Mode" to that end. Valve specifically lists four new features as the pillars of SteamOS: in-home streaming, family sharing, music / TV / movies, and family options.
For in-home streaming, Valve promises simplicity by allowing you to simply turn on an existing PC or Mac with Steam and start beaming games over WiFi to your TV.
In terms of media, Valve says it's working with "many of the media services you know and love" to bring access to various media services.
Family sharing and family options both offer accessibility for Steam to multiple household members, as well as the ability to restrict certain features or content to younger users. Specifically, users can " take turns playing one another's games while earning your own Steam achievements and saving your individual game progress to the Steam cloud." Family sharing is actually already in beta on Steam right now.
In keeping with Valves spirit of user-generated content, the new game-focused operating system will be open allowing Content creators can connect directly to their customers, according to Valve, and users can alter or replace any part of the software or hardware they want.
According to the info on their official site, SteamOS will be available soon as a free download for users and as a freely licensable operating system for manufacturers. Also a list of AAA titles coming natively to SteamOS in 2014 will released in the coming days.
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Amazon has issued series orders for three new children's programs as well as two new drama pilots and a one off Shaun the Sheep special for its growing lineup of original programming.
Dino Dana, created by J.J. Johnson (Dino Dan, Annedroids), is a follow up to the 2015 program Dino Dan and takes viewers to "a whole new level of dinosaur encounters," according to Amazon. "The series will feature 16 new prehistoric creatures, an adopted baby dino and, for the first time, two sisters. After a chance encounter with Trek and his Dino Field Guide, Dana, a 'paleontologist in training,' and her teenage sister Emily, begin to see dinosaurs all around them, leading to plenty of action and adventure." The series is intended for preschool-age children.
The second series is The Kicks, a live-action show based on a book series of the same name by athlete and Olympic gold medalist Alex Morgan. Starring Sixx Orange, E'myri Crutchfield (Vacation), Gabe Eggerling (The Dreamsters: Welcome to the Dreamery, Jake and the Never Land Pirates), Sophia Mitri Schloss (The Librarians, Grimm), Monica Lacy (The Cell, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) and Tim Martin Gleason (Drop Dead Diva, New Girl), the series follows Devin Burke, who "was the star player on her soccer team back home until her family moved to California midway through the school year. Now, Devin has to rise to the challenge after discovering that her new school team has been on a losing streak over the last few months and is badly in need of a leader to rally the team together." The Kicks is intended for children between the ages of six and 11.
The third of the new children's shows is Lost in Oz, an animated series set in the world of L. Frank Baum's Oz books and their motion picture adaptation The Wizard of Oz. Developed by Mark Warshaw (Smallville, Heroes), Darin Mark (Dirty Little Secret), Jared Mark (Elevated, Pete Smalls is Dead) and Abram Makowka (Tug, TripTank), the series is described as a modern reimagining of the beloved fantasy world "set in a modern, metropolitan Emerald City. Stranded in this spectacular world, 12-year-old Dorothy Gale befriends West, a young, street-smart witch grappling with dark temptations, and Ojo, a giant munchkin. With Dorothy's dog Toto, this unlikely crew embarks on an epic journey, seeking out the magic Dorothy needs to get back to Kansas. The challenge for Dorothy, and everyone else in this world, is that Oz is facing the greatest magic crisis in eons." Lost in Oz is intended for children between the ages of six and 11.
The previously mentioned Shaun the Sheep special is titled Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's Lllamas and is directed by Jay Grace (Chicken Run, Wallace and Gromitt: The Curse of the Were Rabbit) from a script by Lee Pressman (Peter Rabbit, Thomas & Friends: Whale of a Tale and Other Sodor Adventures), Primetime Emmy Award nominee Richard Starzak (Shaun the Sheep Movie, Rex the Runt) and Nick Vincent Murphy (Moone Boy, Hideaways). In the special, which will run for 30 minutes, "the Farmer and Bitzer go to a Country Fair and Shaun accompanies them intent on causing mischief. Shaun spies an auction of three exotic and very crafty Llamas and cleverly gets the unwitting Farmer to buy them. At first everything's great fun, but soon their new Llama roommates get a bit too comfortable in their new home. When things spiral out of control, Shaun is forced to take action to oust the intruders and save the farm."
"We're excited to offer our Prime members a beautifully reimagined world in our first original kids 6-to-11 animated series and bring to the screen Alex Morgan's successful book series with an inspirational role model at the core," said Tara Sorensen, Amazon Studio's Head of Kids Programming. "Aardman and Sinking Ship are award-winning producers and we're excited to debut Dino Dana and Shaun the Sheep on Prime Video."
Dino Dana, The Kicks and Lost in Oz will all be available exclusively for Amazon Prime Members in 2016, while Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer's Llamas will arrive quite soon, launching this Friday, November 13, 2015.
Meanwhile, Deadline is reporting that Amazon has also ordered two new drama pilots, presumably for its fall 2016 season. The Last Tycoon is a drama based on The Love of the Last Tycoon, an unfinished novel by The Great Gatsby author F. Scott Fitzgerald, who passed away before its completion. The uncompleted novel was posthumously published in 1941. The series would be a period piece set in the 1930s and follow a man who quickly climbs the ranks at a movie studio and comes head to head with his colleagues as a result. The series is written by Academy Award nominee Billy Ray (Captain Philips, State of Play), who will also direct the pilot.
The other pilot is The Interestings, based on the 2013 Meg Wolitzer novel of the same name. Written by Lyn Greene (Masters of Sex, Boss) and Richard Levine (Nip/Tuck, JAG), the series would depict the lives of a group of friends over thirty years as they struggle with adulthood and the challenges that come with it.


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What makes postcard printing distinct from a regular letter is the design on its front side, which feature a monument or an area that identifies a certain place. If you're somewhere around New York or New Jersey, it would be normal to see at stores and thrift shops postcards with the Statue of Liberty as their design.
Nowadays, however, postcards are widely used by businesses to promote their product or service. For those looking to follow the footstep of said businesses, here are 15 examples of postcard designs that you can use as basis for your promotional tools.
Creative Postcard Designs
To maximize exposure of your business using postcard printing, do the following:
- Create a mailing list by collect personal information such as address, name, age, gender, and interests, which will be used to determine your target market.
- Make a postcard design appropriate to your audience. Be sure to incorporate your logo as your brand identity and deliver a short but clear message
- Print as many as necessary before sending them out as direct mailers.
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Ryan BLANCH
I am a criminal defense attorney and the managing partner of a criminal and litigation firm. I live in New York City with my wife and 2 children. A writer at heart but not by discipline, I hope to find satori vicariously through this community.
By the way, if we have any crime writers out there, do I have stories for you.
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Mount Holyoke College Ends Production of 'Vagina Monologues' To Show Support For Transgender Students
The Vagina Monologues, first written by Eve Ensler, features a varying number of monologues that are generally performed by a different actress for each role. It covers aspects of the feminine lifestyle including sex, love, rape, menstruation, birth, orgasm and the vagina.
The play has been a staple in Mount Holyoke College, an all-women's school, since the 1990s. According to Elizabeth Nolan Brown, the school would put on a production of the play every year as a way to "celebrate the vagina" and women's sexuality. This ritual will end this year due to concerns that the play is "not inclusive enough."
In an email sent school-wide, Erin Murphy, a student at Mount Holyoke, explained that, "At its core, the show offers an extremely narrow perspective on what it means to be a woman.
"Gender is a wide and varied experience, one that cannot one that cannot simply be reduced to biological or anatomical distinctions, and many of us who have participated in the show have grown increasingly uncomfortable presenting material that is inherently reductionist and exclusive."
According to the NY Daily News, the performers at Mount Holyoke told a Facebook group page that they have decided to create their own original play called "The Student Body" which will focus on sex and gender. The group also criticized Ensler's play, claiming that it "fails the trans community in a lot of ways."
This decision may be related to the college's major change in admission policy in September 2014. The college decided to not only allow cisgender females ("cis" refers to those whose gender identity matches their body), but others who identify as women as well.
"We recognize that what it means to be a woman is not static," said Lynn Pasquerella, the school's president. "Just as early feminists argued that reducing women to their biological functions was a foundation of women's oppression, we acknowledge that gender identity is not reducible to the body. And we are mindful that exclusion from the category of 'woman' based on properties of birth is nothing new."
After Mount Holyoke took a major step towards full inclusion of transgender women in their institution, they continued to be a pioneer in the support of transgender women by ending their production of Ensler's outdated play. Their new set of monologues promises be more inclusive than Ensler's monologues and continue to pioneer progressive change.
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Matboucha and Lecso
So this week it's tomatoes. Hum. Gloat. Little skip of glee. Tomatoes are one of my favourite vegetables – even though they are technically fruit. In Australia I spend a lot of time searching for tomatoes that taste real, but rarely find them. No need to search high and low in Jerusalem. One of the best things about living here is how good the tomatoes are.
They smell peppery and dusty, as if they just came out of the earth, like the lot I bought today. And the cream of the crop for salads, the cherry tomatoes, are sweet and bursting with flavour.
"They're like ice cream!" an Australian friend exclaimed, as we ate them out of the punnet like cherries or blueberries, with no adornment of any kind.
So when the opportunity came to to do a story with one of the Israeli growers I grabbed it. The farm was down south, near the border with Gaza and Egypt. It's as hot as Hades down there and inside the greenhouse it was even hotter. Regularly timed sprays of water left moisture literally hanging in the air. Through the sweaty haze, the tomatoes gave off a fruity, peppery scent that was overpowering.
I asked what made these tomatoes so sweet. The soil they grew in didn't look like much. It was basically sand. The greenhouse manager explained that there were many factors, including picking the tomatoes as ripe as possible off the vine. They should be red, not green. They should not be held in cold storage for 12 months and sprayed with some gas to turn them red, as still happens in Australia. If they're tasteless, it's because they're not really ripe.
Sun and water also make a difference. They've found - and it's counter-intuitive - that the saltier the water, the sweeter the tomato, as long as it doesn't reach a tipping point where it spoils the fruit. I wrote all this down diligently, the humidity making smudges on the page, and then making writing impossible. That's when it was time for eating.
Hungary and North Africa
This week we're preparing two tomato dishes, one from North Africa and the other from Hungary, staples in both kitchens, with similar ingredients. Both are popular with the grandmothers from this project.
Rina Mevorach, the grandmother who lived through the German occupation of Libya during World War Two makes Matboucha, and it is also part of the Moroccan and Algerian Jewish kitchens. Rosa Bagdadli, who was born in Greece, also makes Matboucha. Rosa makes Matboucha even though it is not a Greek dish. It has become an Israeli one, part of the salads served as a first course on a Friday night.
Matboucha is tomatoes, cooked till they are thick and syrupy, and served at room temperature as a salad. It's as if you are making a pasta sauce and then keep reducing till all the liquidis gone. Some versions add red capsicums, others don't.
I first ate the tomato only version of Matboucha in 2003, in a flyblown desert town on the border of Jordan and Iraq, waiting to go in to cover the US invasion. This was the Jordanian version, and our local fixer prepared it for breakfast each morning, till I became addicted.
There is always chilli, garlic and paprika. They are non-negotiable. For another layer of flavour you can add red peppers.
I'm suggesting the simplest version here ie tomato, garlic and chilli only, which is how Food is Love grandmothers Rina and Rosa make it. While it is also delicious with capsicum, I don't feel their lack, and it is a significant saving in time and work.
The secret to matboucha is to simmer it for a long time, until all liquids have evaporated. You can adjust the amount of chili to make it as spicy or as mild as you'd like. I like mine salty, in honour of my Jordanian fixer's version. Grandmothers Rina and Rosa use less salt.
Serves 2 or 3, or more as part of a larger mezze table.
- 2 kilograms / 4.5 pounds tomatoes, peeled
- 8 garlic cloves
- 3 chilli peppers-- or less - or none, if you don't like spicy!
- 1 tablespoon sweet paprika
- Salt and pepper
- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil - olive oil or canola
- optional: 3 -4 red capsicums, roasted
1. Peel your tomatoes. In the end, I do think this step is unavoidable. My usual method, is to cut a cross in the skin and dip the tomatoes in boiling water. After 30 seconds, when the skin starts to split, plunge them into a bowl of cold water and peel.
2. Roughly chop the tomatoes, the chilli peppers and the garlic cloves. The garlic pieces can be large – halves or thirds will do.
3. Set a pot over low heat, and warm the oil. Add the garlic, stirring for just a few seconds, without allowing it to colour. You are just flavouring the oil. Add the tomatoes, stir, and cover. Allow to cook, over low heat, for an hour.
4. Chop the hot peppers and add to the pot. If you want to go the extra mile, grill them until you blacken the skins. Place them in a plastic or paper bag, and rub them. They will shed their skins, like snakes. Peel, chop and add to the pot.
5. Add the paprika, salt and pepper. Stir, and cook uncovered, on a low flame, for approximately another hour until all of the liquid has evaporated. Check - it may also start to burn.
The salad should be thick. I have cooked it for less time, as it does firm up if you put it in the fridge. It will keep for up to a week there. I'm told that it freezes well, but I have never frozen it myself.
This lot of spring tomatoes were so sweet, they produced the sweetest Matboucha I've ever made. Just goes to show, the quality of the ingredients is crucial! I served it in a grain bowl, inspired by an American caterer with Israeli roots, Vered Guttman. Lentils, freekeh, matboucha, cracked olives, Japanese pickled ginger, and slices of white cheese or seared tofu. Top with a few roasted hazelnuts, and finely sliced nori or spring onions, if you like, too.
test kitchen reports
In Madrid, Candice also prepared Matboucha. She enjoyed her experience with the carrot fritters so much, that she's back for a second week! She said her Matboucha had a lovely rich colour, but was a little too sweet. She did add red peppers ie capsicums but not enough chilli.
"The sweetness may be due to my choice of Kumato as my tomato. I love their color (anywhere from black to green with red highlights) and flavour. Also thought using a hybrid developed in Spain, would give it a bit of a local touch. Next time, I'll add something with some real punch like jalepeño or perhaps a dash of berbere spice. And I won't use the Kumato," she says ruefully.
"I served the Matboucha with a sturdy Spanish rosé, some flat-bread and two North African dishes: spicy lentils and broad bean 'ful'. Tasty."
In Sydney, where winter is settling in, Margo made her Matboucha with tinned tomatoes, just as I was asking myself whether that would work.
"I must confess, I cheated shameless this week and used tinned tomatoes. I can't quite call mine a 'salad', but the result however is tasty and firm and would make a great bonus to an antipasto plate. I shall try it as spaghetti sauce this evening."
So it seems the answer to that question is yes. Thanks Margo!
There as just as many versions of the Hungarian favourite, Lecso – pronounced lecho.
- 1 kg / 2.25 lb / 6 green bell peppers (capsicum)
- 500 g / 1 lb / 4 large tomatoes
- 1 onion
- 4 tablespoons oil
- 1 heaped tablespoon ground paprika
- Salt
- Plus – see below: sausage, eggs or rice
Essentially, this is also tomato and capsicum cooked together with paprika, like in the Matboucha, but more capsicums than tomatoes, you won't get away with leaving them out of this dish! Then it's not left plain. They usually they add protein, most often sausage, or egg; and/or also carbs, like rice or pasta. The classic version is made with bacon fat – for obvious reasons, that doesn't work in the Jewish kitchen!
For Agi Adler, one of our grandmothers who was born in Budapest, this dish is the taste of home. She emerged from World War Two a teenager and an orphan, and she prepares it the way her mother did, with rice. Baba Schwartz, also born in Hungary, still prepares lesco regularly, and served it to me, when I dropped by for a surprise lunch, adding fried eggs.
- Finely chop the onion and fry in hot oil, until translucent. Remove from heat and stir in the paprika.
- While the onion is frying, remove the stalks and seeds from the peppers, and cut into rings. Chop the tomatoes.
- Add the peppers and salt to the pan, and cover with a lid. Simmer gently for about 10 minutes, then add the tomatoes and cook until soft and pulpy, another 20 minutes or so.
When you are ready to serve, add 200 g / 6 oz sausage to the pan. Hungarians use Debrecziner; frankfurters or chorizo are both also good. The sausage is usually sliced, but it can also be left whole. Cook for a few minutes till all the tastes meld.
Serve 1-2 eggs per person. Beat with a little salt. Pour over the cooked vegetables, and heat, stirring, until the egg begins to set. Depending how much you stir, It ends up like something between an omelette and a scrambled eggs with vegetables.
Fry 1/2 cup of white rice in a little oil, then add to the pan. It adds flavour, but if you want to cut down on oil, you can skip this step, and just put the rice straight into the pan. Cook over a low heat. The rice will swell in the vegetable juice. Watch it, in case it needs more water. Agi Adler usually makes it with rice, but she will also add sausage if she wants this dish to be a full meal.
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In Sydney, Judy, graphic designer and cook, served it plain, more like the Matboucha, the way her mother Klari, a Czech Holocaust survivor, always did. For Judy, born in Sydney, this is also the taste of home.
In Melbourne, in her gluten free, fructose free kitchen, Amanda was sold on the dish from the moment she began cooking.
"Oh wow this smelt sooooooooo good!!!! Looks amazing, cannot wait to serve for Friday night dinner :) Made me feel like I was back in a little cafe in Budapest somewhere... Probably over on Buda. Overlooking the river. Hahaha!!"
Looks like I might be away next week, so we might not have a new recipe. I will write though, since I am travelling for work. Wanted to end on a lovely comment about this website from the South African food blogger, Tandy Sinclair. On her blog Lavender and Lime, she said Food is Love is one of the most moving sites she's visited. Hope it is for you too!


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I'm Ruben Rosado Jr. and a graduate of Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. During my years in Rutgers, I became head of public relations for Latin Images and Rutgers Union Estudiantil Puertorriquena. I used my interest in art in order to make posters, banners, backdrops, etc. for these clubs. In Mason Gross School of the Arts, I worked closely under recognized artists Mel Edwards, Tim Bruner, and Lloyd McNeil. I have exhibited in the Mason Gross Civic Square Building Art Gallery, New Brunswick State Theatre, Perth Amboy Art Gallery, Center for Latino Arts and Culture in New Brunswick, and the Guild of Creative Art, Shrewsbury, NJ, where I am an associate member. I have also illustrated books for retired Yale Professor Dr. Felix Padilla and author, Roberta Writer and have appeared in the Home News Tribune, Amboy Beacon, and New Brunswick Carta Latina.
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About Me
I'm a retired elementary teacher, a wife, mom, and grandma. But I'm not quite ready for shuffleboard and canasta - there's too much to see and do! I love to travel, and I like to infuse some of those experiences in my stories.
Since then I've kept busy writing several other books (please check them out by clicking on the Books tab above), and had stories appear in two Chicken Soup for the Soul books!
I also like to create things - I spend a lot of time sewing, crocheting, and scrapbooking. Unfortunately, organization is not my strong suit. My family wishes I would spend less time creating, and more time cleaning.
My first book, The Legacy, was published by Astraea Press in July, 2011. Since then I've kept busy writing five other books, and had stories appear in two Chicken Soup for the Soul books! Follow me on Facebook and Twitter or visit my blog to find out about my current projects!


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SANAA, Yemen — Hundreds of Islamic militants cemented control over a town in southern Yemen on Sunday, even seizing army tanks, military officials said, while breakaway army units encouraged other military forces to switch their loyalties and join the uprising.
The growing number of defections in the military posed the most serious threat yet to President Ali Abdullah Saleh's three-decade grip on his country.
A leader of the breakaway forces, Maj. Gen. Abdullah Ali Elewa, appealed to other units to join.
"Stand side by side with the courageous armed forces, Republican Guards and security officers who endorsed the peaceful popular youthful revolution and announced their support to stand up to the tyrants and corrupt, and unjust," he said. Nine military officers signed the statement.


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The day before Crazy 4 Cult 4 opens, and the gallery is abuzz with anticipation. The art really is so impressive, I hope as many of you as possible can swing by the opening reception, Friday night, 7 - 10 PM. With Kevin Smith hyping it up on KROQ this morning (which is becoming an annual tradition in its own right), we're expecting quite a fun evening.
For those interested in purchasing prints (which by the amount of emails seems like everyone), the first time they will be available is at the opening reception on Friday night. Then, prints will be for sale online at our website, gallery1988.com, on Saturday afternoon. And all the originals will be up then too!
And we will start the line outside the gallery at 5 PM PT.
Time for sneak peeks again...
Stella Im Hultberg, who's portrait of Marla from Fight Club is a major highlight from Crazy 4 Cult's past, returns for CFC, this time giving us her take on Mathilda from 'Leon: The Professional." She basically did it again, as this piece is stunning.
Justin Santora celebrates the 15th Anniversary of Mallrats with a poster depicting "that kid on the escalator." One of my favorite moments from one of my favorite movies. Can't wait for people to get this signed by Kevin Smith himself.
G1988 newbie Scott Listfield literally has BLOWN us all away. This incredible piece is even more stunning in person and lays down the parking law. The trip to the opening reception would be worth it if we only displayed this one piece, trust me.
Casey Weldon and I obviously share a muse, as he takes a shot at Mathilda as well, showing us Natalie in all her NY shine.
Daniel Elson brings his meece to the show again, this time from a galaxy far, far away. Love these!
And lastly, here's the Crazy 4 Cult official poster for 2010, this time designed by Sir Mike Mitchell. I can't really praise these enough and by the amount of emails we're getting, neither can you.
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Ooooh! Culty.
Labels: Casey Weldon, Crazy 4 Cult 4, Daniel Elson, Justin Santora, Mike Mitchell, Stella Im Hultberg
2 comments:
- Denise Vasquez said...
Looking forward to the show tonight! I'll be writing an article about it for the Examiner!
PeAce LoVe aRt & sOuL
Denise Vasquez
LA Cultural Events Examiner
- July 9, 2010 at 3:10 PM
What time on "saturday afternoon"?
- July 10, 2010 at 11:06 AM
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More New Pen Styles!!!
So, as promised... here are some more new styles we recently finished.
The Concava
The first one here is called the Concava, named so because of the shape of the top of the pen where the clip is. As you can tell, it curves in, giving it a very feminine shape. The Concava Style Penz are a little wider than our Slimlines, but there are a lot of heavy metal components, so they are a little weighty for those who like a little more heft, but still want a more slender pen.
The Princess
Meet the Princess Pen! This beauty has Swarovski crystals embedded in the center band and the clip, making it a pen with bling! These will come in Chrome with Blue crystals (pictured below), Chrome, Gold or Rose Gold with clear crystals, Chrome with Pink crystals, and Gold with Red crystals. I made this one pictured for Leon (my boss). He wanted to give it to his daughter for a graduation gift as she finished her degree at NCU. I have another on in similar color in the store, and will have other color options available soon.
Jr. Antony
The Junior Antony is one of our Fountain Penz. Not only is this style beautiful, with all the hand carved circles in the center band and the cap and finial ends, it writes like a dream. Th Jr. Antonys come fitted it with a German made #6 medium Jowo nib and both an ink converter and ink cartridge standard, but I can get fine, extra fine, and broad nibs as well. This particular one has a body that is half wood burl and half resin, giving it a distinct look. As with most of our Penz, I can make these in almost and plating combination as well as the color or material of your choice. Just let me know what you want, and I'll make it.
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By March next year, JSW Cement, the cement arm of the JSW Group and a new entrant in the industry, is looking at doubling its cement production capacity to 4,00,000 tonne per month. The company has a grinding facility at Nandyal in Andhra Pradesh with an installed capacity of 4.8 million tonne per annum (mtpa), of which, only 50 per cent of the capacity is being utilised.
RC Sodani, Director and Chief Executive Officer of JSW Cement told the media in Hyderabad that the company is producing only 2,00,000 tonne per month and expect to double production by utilising its full capacity at the Nandyal plant by March.
In addition to the Nandyal plant, JSW Cements has a 0.70 mtpa grinding facility at Vijayanagar in Bellary district of Karnataka, adjacent to its steel plant. It is planning to set up another 0.70 mtpa facility in Bellary at the steel complex with an investment of Rs 350 crore and a 4.3-mtpa facility at Gulbarga with a proposed investment of Rs 1,500 crore.


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You know it's nearing World Cup time when a new Nike advert appears featuring Brazil's plethora of stars.
Six months before the 2014 World Cup kicks off, that moment has arrived.
Facing a team wearing a kit that looks suspiciously like Argentina, the Samba Boys go back to their roots with flashbacks showing where they learnt their trademark flair.
It's a cracker. But nothing will ever compare to this:
And another thing...
Jason Kidd, Brooklyn Nets coach, fined for intentionally spilling drink
Will Smith shows Novak Djokovic how to dance while watching match in Argentina
This Buffalo Bills fan falls from top tier of stadium, and amazingly sustains only a shoulder injury
Edinson Cavani scores stunning free-kick as Uruguay take a huge step towards the World Cup
Bosnian striker fails to tap the ball into an empty net with arguably the worst miss ever
Real Madrid basketball captain scores incredible overhead shot to beat the buzzer
Ice hockey mascot Marty the Marmot gets munched by competitive fan in Canada
The Eternal Derby, between Red Star and Partizan Belgrade, can lay claim to being the most explosive in the world ... after fans torch the stadium.
Notorious joker (!) Andrea Pirlo dons a scary mask for an interview on Hallowe'en.
Xabi Alonso pulls off an outrageous nutmeg on Zinedine Zidane during Real Madrid's wonderful, wonderful training sessions.
Thierry Henry proves he's still got it with spectacular long-range strike for New York Red Bulls
Gareth Bale is depicted as Forrest Gump by Catalan press ahead of El Classico
Is this the worst dive (and most shameless penalty appeal) in football history? Arturo Vidal of Juventus, take a, er, bow.
Stephanie Roche scores goal of the season contender for Peamount United
Late-night impromptu Toure brothers' chant, performed by boozed-up students, stops traffic in Newcastle
When high fives go wrong: James Faulkener floors Australia wicketkeeper Brad Haddin after poking him in the eye.
Five floored in Moto2 crash during Malaysian Grand Prix at the Sepang International circuit
Ravel Morrison's silky skills get the unnecessary-slo-mo-plus-epic-soundtrack treatment by the FA
Raheem Sterling and England U21s display skills in head tennis - finished with a bicyle kick
Incredible footage of Real Madrid's nine-year-old Japanese wonderkid in action.
University of Arkansas' student's basketball trick shot from up on the roof.
Ravel Morrison, scorer of a fantastic solo goal against Spurs, hints at his vast potential in this highlights reel from the Manchester United academy.
Call off the search for goal of the season: we have a winner. St Neots Town centre-back Rene Steer scores this 35-yard screamer in FA Cup qualifier.
John Daly strikes a perfect tee shot from the mouth of a reclining man...
Shane Watson delivers the no-ball of the century during Champions League Twenty20 match.
An oldie but a goodie: German side Rot-Weiss Essen's free-kick slapstick bamboozles the opposition back in 2012.


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The Third Element: Employee-Driven Innovation and Improvement
Unleashing creativity and innovation
Great organisations understand that a continual stream of ideas is a vital resource for improvement and innovation. They create times and spaces where people can discuss ideas with their co-workers or in their team meetings. They set up buzz boards where ideas can be shared and dedicated spaces where people can think in different ways together. They encourage meetings in cafés, a creative time away from the immediate pressures of the workplace. They enable ad hoc teams, awaydays, and times when people who otherwise wouldn't meet are mixed together, a pool of dialogue and creativity.
It can be as simple as establishing regular forums that enable staff at all levels of an organisation to leave job titles and hierarchies behind, and to explore new ideas through open and free-thinking discussion.
Opportunities such as Down Tools Week at Red Gate Software enable staff to step back from the day job to develop their own ideas for new products and ways of working. In Devon and Cornwall Police these forums have generated great ideas for improving the service at a time of financial stringency. Electric bicycles, for example, are a great way of improving visibility while ensuring that officers can cover enough territory in remote rural areas.
Ideas for improving the business should also be part of the day job. Innocent encourages staff at every level to think continuously about ideas for improvement and innovation. Being 70% sure that an idea will work is sufficient to get the support needed to take it forward. The Met Office argues strongly that new ideas can come from anyone. A network of volunteer "guerrillas" recruited from every level of the organisation is gradually establishing a culture of innovation in ways that break down silos and release new waves of creativity. Likewise Arginta actively encourages employees to challenge managers when things aren't working.
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We haven't armed ourselves with two kindles, a netbook and an ipad for nothing. Below is a list of the movies and television series we've watched and the books we've read on the road. (Book recommendations are always welcome!)
**If you're interested in buying any of the books below, please consider clicking through the amazon.com link provided. Amazon will pay me a tiny amount of money for each purchase made through my links, which I will then use to buy more books!**
TV Shows:
The Shield Seasons 1-7
Breaking Bad Seasons 1 and 2
Freaks and Geeks Season 1
Slings and Arrows Season 1
Vampire Diaries Seasons 1 and 2
**If you're interested in buying any of the books below, please consider clicking through the amazon.com link provided. Amazon will pay me a tiny amount of money for each purchase made through my links, which I will then use to buy more books!**
TV Shows:
The Shield Seasons 1-7
Breaking Bad Seasons 1 and 2
Freaks and Geeks Season 1
Slings and Arrows Season 1
Vampire Diaries Seasons 1 and 2
Glee Season 3
Nip/Tuck Season 1
One Tree Hill Season 1
The Good Wife Season 1
Sons of Anarchy Season 1
Firefly (half of Season 1, then we gave up. Man that show sucked)
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: and other Clinical Tales - Oliver Sacks
Room - Emma Donoghue
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers - Mary Roach
A Visit from the Goon Squad - Jennifer Egan
Red Hook Road - Ayelet Waldman
Freedom: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club) - Jonathan Franzen
Fall of Giants - Ken Follett
Long After Midnight at the Nino Bien - Brian Winter
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex - Mary Roach
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle - David Wroblewski
And the Money Kept Rolling in (And Out) - Paul Blustein
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Just Kids - Patti Smith
Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff - Rosemary Mahoney
Great House: A Novel - Nicole Krauss
Sons and Lovers- D.H. Lawrence
Cleopatra: A Life - Stacy Schiff
In Patagonia - Bruce Chatwin
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - Helen Simonson
The Invisible Bridge - Julie Orringer
Little Bee - Chris Cleave
Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand
Nefertiti: A Novel - Michelle Moran
Mirage - Nina Burleigh
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine - Michael Lewis
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
The Host: A Novel - Stephanie Meyer
Arabian Sands - Wilfred Thesiger
Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picoult
The Long Walk- Slavomir Rawicz
The God of Small Things: A Novel - Arundhati Roy
City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi - William Dalrymple
A Passage to India- E.M. Forster
The Pact - Jodi Picoult
Sacred Games - Vikram Chandra
Life - Keith Richards
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games) - Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay (The Final Book of The Hunger Games) - Suzanne Collins
Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris
Born Standing Up - Steve Martin
Eating Animals - Jonathan Safran Foer
Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World - Rita Golden Gelman
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
The Weird Sisters - Eleanor Brown
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
I Am Legend - Richard Matheson
About a Boy - Nick Hornby
Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
The Vampire Lestat - Anne Rice
The Queen of the Damned - Anne Rice
The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee- Sarah Silverman
Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal - Conor Grennan
John Adams - David McCullough
The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
The Glass Room - Simon Mawer
The Kitchen House- Kathleen Grissom
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig
The Forsyte Saga - Complete- John Galsworthy
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (P.S.) - Loung Ung
Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind- Loung Ung
When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge - Chanrithy Him
Bossypants - Tina Fey
The Prince of Tides - Pat Conroy
The Paris Wife: A Novel - Paula McLain
The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath
The Beautiful and Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Maine - J. Courtney Sullivan
The Best of Times: A Novel - Penny Vincenzi
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and The Restaurant at the End of Universe - Douglas Adams
The Dark Half - Stephen King
Nothing to Envy - Barbara Demick
The Bonesetter's Daughter - Amy Tan
The Year of Living Biblically - AJ Jacobs
The Imperfectionists - Tim Rachman
Where Men Win Glory - Jon Krakauer
Children of Dust - Eli Eteraz
An American Childhood - Annie Dillard
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World - Jack Weatherford
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
In Garden of Beasts - Erik Larsen
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith


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Hollywood Nights: American Idol continues to not makes sense, eliminates Melanie Tierce and I'm pretty sure no one involved in the show knows how the internet works
It doesn't make sense.
On American Idol, it never has.
Hollywood Week is the best part of American Idol's audition process. You see the pressure in contestants' faces, you can hear the nerves in notes and you get to see the joy and the pain come out in equal measure once J-Lo, Keith Urban and Harry Connick Jr. deliver the good or bad news (depending on if you're in the front or back row).
But for all its greatness, Hollywood Week has a serious flaw and it reared its ugly head again Wednesday night.
There weren't many surprise inclusions – perhaps Jaci Butler, whose lime jello hair didn't make up for a poor performance of "Centuries" or cute-as-a-button/bangs legend Michelle Marie, whose sound was incredibly flawed but still got through – but there was at least one glaring elimination and the fact Idol judges and producers left us without answers to how they make their decisions.
Melanie Tierce's performance Wednesday wasn't nearly as good as her original audition, but it was far from bad and definitely superior to some of the contestants who did earn a chance to shine/embarrass themselves in Group Night. She was given a little camera time and unceremoniously evicted.
It was a little too reminiscent of Tessa Kate, who had maybe the best audition in Season 13, before getting booted without us hearing from her again. Tessa and Melanie were both model gorgeous, both had soothing, calm W(Girl)WG voices and had what it took to do well on the show. Both left with little explanation.
Idol has shortened the audition process. You can't possibly fit 190 auditions into a two-hour show, nevermind a one-hour episode and to expect them to would be a little ridiculous. But with the advent of this internet thing, couldn't it be entirely possible to give viewers a glimpse at every single person who made it to Hollywood?
It wouldn't be hard. Throw everyone's headshot up, give fans an opportunity to click their name to listen or watch their audition. Add a link with judges' comments. Give fans a reason why something happened.
There is one major flaw in that process and it's what American Idol has always lacked. Transparency.
Idol doesn't want America to know what ingredients go into their recipe. They know fans will eat the hot dog regardless of how many rat tails are in it.
You don't have to know the game to tell who's winning a football game. There's a scoreboard. When Big Brother or Survivor has an eviction, fans get the vote count. Why can't American Idol do the same, especially at this point in the show? It's not like Hollywood Week was last week. It was filmed months ago. More than enough time to put up videos, explanations for elimination and giving fans what they want.
Instead, they just do what they've always done and given fans the finger. The middle.
We're probably going to see several more examples of this for Group Night. Traditionally people have been advanced or eliminated despite all evidence pointing to the contrary. Group Night is the worst night for the competition but the BEST part of Hollywood Week because of the FIGHTS. Oh boy I can't wait.
Some other notes from the night:
–Olivia Rox, Emily Brooke, Jenn Blosil and Shelbie Z are for real.
–Trent Harmon is 100 percent passing out during Group Night or he's going try and make out with everyone to try and improve his chances.
-Hey Idol, you know what I want right now – maybe a list of contestants who are performing in Group Night. Don't care who they perform with, I just want to know who is still alive.
-By the sound of her audition, it's clear Jeneve Rose is a badass. Amelia Eisenhauer – who we didn't see Wednesday – has a sword, so she's a badass. It these two don't get together, find a third badass, and become an ass-kicking version of the Dixie Chicks, Scott Borchetta ain't doing his job right.
-Jenn Blosil's "J-Blow" comment was Top 5 funniest thing I've heard this season and proving, as if their was any doubt, that she may not be an Ivy Leaguer.
-Stop with the Tristan McIntosh. I like to be mentally prepared to cry and not have it sprung on me.
-I think I saw Elvie Shane and Kory Wheeler get through, think I saw Adam Lasher tweet about getting through so as long as CJ Johnson is alive my dream of bro-ing out with four contestants when they come to PVD on tour is alive.
–Manny Torres completely ignored my column about singing The Weeknd.. I know I blogged it last week and this was filmed months ago, but the point remains – don't sing "I Can't Feel My Face" unless you love, love, love cocaine.
-Speaking of Manny, loved how he did the regular voice and then HEAVY Spanish accent once he started talking about him and J-Lo both being from Puerto Rico. I'm wondering if this glimpse of him was just for fun or if this dude makes a run.
–Poh Scott's been on twice. Her sister, Season 14's Shi, has been shown twice and cried both times. I want this streak to keep going.
-The words coming out of my mouth when I thought Emily Brooke was eliminated would have made the J-Lo who used to hang out with P Diddy blush. (#NeverForget)
-Need to know if Dalton Rappatoni wears eyeliner or is related to Derek Carr.
-I'm slowly starting to like Jordan Sasser, minus the hair. Part jealousy (#BaldLife), part because man buns are the worst. If he gets on the live shows, I'm paying a competition $100 to snip it off on live TV.
-With the giant afro and gold dress LaPorsha Renae looked like a lion while singing Katy Perry's "Roar," which was either the best accident ever or the sneakiest best wardrobe choice in the history of the show.
@DudesReviewIdol always try my bst 2 coordinate my outfits w/my song 2me it bcoms 1 w/the song&msg Im tryin 2 convey https://t.co/nMWLHvj2nI
— La'Porsha~Renae (@KokumoAsha) January 28, 2016
-Harrison Cohen got booted, which sucks for him. The good news for the young lad is he doesn't realize how much ass he's gonna get now that he's famous. Boy band ass. Could be worse consolation prizes for a high school kid.
-I missed Lee Jean on the first watch because I was so happy to see Melany Huber, but Lee was much better in Hollywood than he was on the original audition. Sneaky Top 12 guy right there.
-Pretty pumped Papa Chavez didn't embarrass himself like he did when Kyrsti originally performed. I'm sure she is too.
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Sysco Corporation and Newberry Executive Solutions receive 2016 Leadership Excellence Awards recognizing exceptional Leadership Development Programs
LEAD2016 at Nashville, TN —February 4, 2016 — Distinguished recipients of the Leadership Excellence Awards for 2016 were named today for outstanding achievements in leadership development and programs in the areas of Education, Corporate, and Individuals at the LEAD2016 event being held at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee. The prestigious Leadership Awards salute the world's top leadership practitioners and programs and highlight their roles in developing their most important asset - their people.
For more than 33 years, Leadership Excellence, now a part of HR.com, has identified and recognized the top leadership organizations and their strategies and solutions in a yearly ranking by appropriate category. This year, the ranking process and award categories were streamlined and updated to better define the leadership efforts nominated.
"Effective leadership development programs and activities are a must in today's business. Programs and individuals recognized in the Leadership Excellence Awards program have made significant contributions developing leaders," stated Debbie McGrath, CEO of HR.com.
The following were corporate award winners for Best Mentoring Program, based on their remarkable internal programs:
1st Humana Inc, Development Acceleration Program 2nd PSEG, GROW 3rd Sysco Corporation in collaboration with Newberry Executive Solutions, WOW! Women On the Way to Peak Performance ProgramSM
The WOW! Women On the Way to Peak Performance ProgramSM (WOW! ProgramSM) was a partnership between Newberry Executive Solutions and Sysco Corporation. Designed to help high-potential women achieve greater career success and to have a bigger impact on the business, the program: • Strengthened leadership skills in areas that women often struggle with, and areas proven to drive high performance • Provided relevant content and tools that are easy to implement and that get results • Was delivered in a simple, structured, meaningful way
Neena Newberry designed the WOW! ProgramSM to make it easy for companies to implement with audio and exercises to prepare participants before attending each monthly in-person meeting, where they applied the content further. Two officers at Sysco, Sandra Carson and Raina Avalon, facilitated the meetings, bringing invaluable company perspective and experience to the program.
Sysco's results are exciting. Over 50% of the women have since been promoted, crediting some of the shifts they made to lessons they learned through the WOW! ProgramSM. Participants shared many examples of how a particular module had had a significant impact on how they approached a project or their daily work and, consequently, their business results. The women are more confident and better prepared for challenges in the company, and are paying it forward in ways we hadn't expected, expanding the reach and impact of the WOW! ProgramSM.
This program was also recognized with a second award, the Winners' Circle award for Best Executive Coaching. The complete list of this year's award winners will be published in the February edition of Leadership Excellence Essentials. The Leadership Excellence publication will also feature interviews from select top award winners in each category in upcoming monthly issues starting in April. These interviews will outline each program's unique qualities that made them a Leadership Excellence Winner.
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