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B is for Breathe is a children's book about emotions and learning healthy coping skills at an early age.The book provides examples of different ways children can express their feelings, cope with fussy and frustrating emotions and practice calm down strategies. The illustrations are fun and exciting and the characters are of diverse ethnicities that many children can relate to.
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Cool public art and architecture is a drawing point for many travellers, an educational tool for young visitors and their families. It's a wonderful way to learn about the world. Here are some fun artistic and architectural attractions to check out in cities across ...Read More

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How to Quarter a Deer in the Field
If you enjoy deer hunting then knowing how to quarter a deer in the field is essential. Learning to pack the meat in the field is important because dragging your deer all the way back could cause the hide to rip and spoil the meat. By quartering the deer in the field, you can carry useable meat back with you, leaving unwanted parts for scavengers. If you want to learn how to quarter a deer in the field make sure to have a friend with you and follow some easy techniques.
Things Required:
– Sharp Hunting Knife
– Rope
In the first step you need to hang the deer by tying the back legs with a rope and then throw the free end over a tree which needs to be at least 15 feet above the ground. Now pull the rope with the help of a friend to lift the deer off the ground. Make sure that the animal is no longer touching the surface. Now secure the position of the deer by tying the free end of the rope to another tree.
You now need to cut the deer by inserting a knife into the belly of the animal. Make an incision just where the rib cage ends. Do not insert the knife too far or you might puncture the organs inside the stomach. Starting from the hide you need to slice up to the anus. Now holding the anus you need to cut the skin and then insert your hands in through an open cavity in order to pull the intestines. Any organs still clinging need to be cut as well.
Now skin the deer right from the top and then work your way down. However, the cut should be made from the hide and on to the back of the legs. You now have to open the incision which was made when you gutted the deer. Grab a corner of the skin on the leg and cut the membrane holding the skin with the meat. Now pull the skin down as you slice and remember to keep the side with hair away from the meat. You need to continue doing this until you have the hide hanging down the neck of the deer. You should now cut off the head of the deer.
Cut both legs of the deer in order to slice the meat. You need to saw the feet off and throw them away. You will have to cut the meat from the loins and the ribs. Now in order to cut the back legs, you would need to cut through the spine. Pack your meat and make your way back to your truck to store it.


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Wickliffe, OH -- (ReleaseWire) -- 02/13/2015 --Normandy Catering and Party Center, a prominent catering and food service organization in the Greater Cleveland area since 1978, is honored to announce its newest partnership with The Goodtime III in Cleveland, Ohio.
The Goodtime Ships are a tradition in Cleveland, operating continuously each summer since 1958. The Goodtime III is Cleveland's largest excursion vessel, and is a truly unique venue for any event, including awards dinners, corporate parties, bat and bar mitzvahs, weddings, receptions and private parties. The ship features four Decks, three bars, two dancefloors, while providing guests with stunning views of downtown Cleveland. Captain Rick, owner of the Goodtime ships says, "We are thrilled to have Normandy Catering on board as our catering partner. They will add gourmet taste to an already exceptional experience for our guests."
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Surveillance and maintenance challenge overview
Keeping our nuclear legacy safe and secure costs millions of pounds each year. There is an opportunity to deploy innovative approaches to reduce this cost and improve the strategic approach of deferred decommissioning.
The vast Sellafield site is home to many facilities that have a planned stage of surveillance and maintenance. It takes place after operations have ceased and until the plant is ready for demolition. The term surveillance and maintenance is applied to the function of monitoring and keeping safe and secure nuclear plants and their nuclear inventory in their post- operational lives. Surveillance and maintenance, therefore, is conducted as part of ensuring nuclear material is appropriately immobilised, cooled, contained and shielded.
Surveillance and maintenance is often extended, from years into decades as the Sellafield decommissioning programme develops over time.
The programme adapts to deliver an overall risk and hazard reduction mission within available funds.
The spending on surveillance and maintenance, part of the UK taxpayer's nuclear liability, is significant; often many £millions per annum per plant.
The purpose of these Sellafield Ltd surveillance and maintenance Challenge Statements is to seek innovative ideas that will reduce the cost of the surveillance and maintenance of nuclear facilities:
- Reducing surveillance and maintenance costs, through innovation, can save millions of pounds
- These savings can be used to accelerate decommissioning
- Acceleration, in turn, further reduces surveillance and maintenance periods and costs
- The UK taxpayer receives better value for money
- Our nuclear legacy is dealt with sooner
This Challenge Statement seeks innovative ideas to address the costs associated with the surveillance and maintenance of nuclear chemical process plants. These comprise large, shielded cells containing stainless steel vessels and pipework.
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The interconnected stainless steel tanks, columns and vessels can be several metres in length or diameter, weighing several tonnes. This equipment was used to undertake chemical reactions and processes on the radioactive feedstock. Fuel reprocessing plants, e.g. ThORP and Magnox, contain tens of cells, linked together to form a complete separation process.
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Ink pads seemed a bit dry. Otherwise ok.
As evidenced by the fact that I made a considerable investment by purchasing all 64 mini ink cubes and not a single one work properly as evidenced by the photos I sent to BOTH Tim Holtz and Ranger Customer Service. First it was suggested that I try the Distress Ink Refresher, which I did, thus wasting an additional $10.00. Then customer service had the audacity to state that I was using the product incorrectly! SERIOUSLY? The photos that I sent were all stamped (press & twist) on smooth Neenah 110# cardstock. Not a single cube produce solid uniform coverage!!!
So customer service, rather than admitting that these were a defective product batch chose instead to insult my capabilities in using (or more accurately, incorrectly using) their product. I guess a good defense starts (and ends) with mean offense.
Ranger has made no plans to replace these expensive worthless items!
Maybe customer service should be renamed "Protect the Company" at all costs, regardless of how rude, unprofessional and disrespectful they go about it!
I love all the Distress Ink kits I've gotten. great colors, blending capabilities. Having so much fun blending different combinations to see the results as I am learning. Also good for stamping.
Tim Holtz is amazing. His distress inks are wonderful to use. Colors are so vibrant. If you are looking for inks these are the ones you get.
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Exactement ce qu'il faut pour le encrer nos tags et autres découpages pour le scrapbooking, ou bien faire des fonds colorés.
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Dissension Amongst the Ranks...
|Crazed Colossus slain while in disguise (5)
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DescriptionGnomus was kind enough to put this concoction together for the final strike. I merely pour it upon this tabard that you have provided for me and the item is imbued with the essence of the Illidari filth.
Take the enchanted tabard and travel to the Eclipsion Fields, southwest of Eclipse Point. Once there, use the tabard to transform into an agent of Illidan. While in disguise, slay the crazed colossi that wander the field. They will think it an attack by the Eclipsion and sever all ties!
You have returned!
Well, well, well... If it isn't the soldier I sent out into the field. You're back and in one piece.
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I knew you wouldn't let me down, soldier. You've stopped a major Illidari advance and, in doing so, earned yourself a little reward.
<Yoregar nods.>
I knew you wouldn't let me down, soldier. You've stopped a major Illidari advance and, in doing so, earned yourself a little reward.
You will be able to choose one of these rewards:
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like the leaves of Autumn." — John Muir
Over the last few days, it has rained steadily. Windfall branches and kindling fell from the old trees onto the grass. One of my neighbors gathered the twigs and branches that fell into his rented yard from his surrounding neighbors and threw them over my fence. I decided that it was a good night for a fire.
Tonight, early autumn winds are blowing strong and steadily under a cloud covered full moon. Crickets are singing away, unaware that summer has passed.
But in a few weeks, the grass will stop growing. Impatients and petunias will be replaced by chrysanthemums. Humid air will be replaced by crisp breezes aflutter with colorful leaves.
The promise of apple-scented air and starry nights stirring up crackling, fire lit breezes dissolves the cares of the day.
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In celebration of 12 years of World of Warcraft, Blizzard is giving players a special anniversary gift in the form of an adorable Corgi puppy. Sadly, they are only available in in-game form.
According to a post on the game's official site, players who log in between now and November 30 will be able to claim their special "Anniversary Gift Package" in the mail, as well as earn the "WoW's 12 Anniversary" achievement.
The 12th anniversary package includes 200 Timewarped Badges and an item that will increase the experience and reputation you gain from kills by 12 percent for an hour. You'll also receive a "Letter from the Timewalkers" that begins a new quest based in Stormwind or Orgrimmar.
Daily quests will be available from Historian Llore and Historian Ju'pe, which will allow you to earn more Timewarped Badges by correctly answering various WoW trivia questions. It's also through these questgivers that you'll be able to purchase the Corgi Pup and other anniversary items.
Blizzard has big things in store for fans of its long-running MMO, as the next major patch for Legion will add a new raid, flying and more.
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MOLLY MAID Supports Tories Call for Tax Breaks to Hire Cleaners
24 Jul, 2012, 14:00 BST
LONDON, July 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
- Tax Deduction for Maid Service - A Question of Fairness and Taxes
MOLLY MAID supports Tory Minister, David Gauke's view on tax avoidance revealed today. As the nation's largest employer in the UK's billion pound domestic cleaning sector, MOLLY MAID also says Prime Minister David Cameron's idea of implementing family oriented tax policies providing homeowners with the ability to write off a proportion of their house cleaning bills would create thousands of jobs and millions in new government revenues.
MOLLY MAID, Chief Executive, Pam Bader OBE, strongly believes that as many as 250,000 new jobs could be created and £500 million collected in additional government revenue through VAT, National Insurance contributions and income tax. To Pam and her 1,000 strong workforce competing in an industry that is 98% dominated by the 'black market', David Cameron's remarks are music to her ears.
"Most people don't think that housecleaning in Britain is as large an industry as it is or that it could play such a pivotal role in helping to get the country's finances back in order. In 2010, we calculated the industry to be worth just over £1.6 billion, but surprisingly more than £1.5 billion is carried out by black market cleaners," says Pam from her Head Office in Maidenhead, Berkshire.
As a mother of three and grandmother, who has had to balance the demands of building a business with bringing up a family, Pam is a firm believer that working mothers need a helping hand. "Most working mothers spend 40 hours at paid work and as many as 40 hours working in their home and it adds up." But what motivates her even more is the prospect that such an initiative would also help to shift much of her industry from the black market into legitimate, tax paying work. "The Swedish tax model for purchasing domestic help has literally transformed an entire industry. It has moved domestic cleaning work into the above ground economy and by doing so has created thousands of jobs and new government revenues."
Research commissioned through MORI by MOLLY MAID in 2010 shows that 6% of all households in Britain pay to have their home cleaned, but only a small fraction of these households (less than 2%) pay a legitimate company like hers to have it done. The research by MOLLY MAID shows that HMRC is missing out on some £1.575 billion currently paid to individuals and firms who do not pay VAT and almost certainly do not pay tax on their income. That adds up to a considerable amount of money says Pam; money that she indicates could be used to help pay for increased tax credits for child care or programmes to support more women entering the workforce.
"I whole heartedly support Mr Cameron in his endeavours of bringing this to the fore and welcome further investigation of this area. It is a debate that we have needed for a long time." With more than 25 years of successful operations in the UK, Pam is hopeful that MOLLY MAID is well placed to provide the government with some useful insight into the industry in a bid to help reduce the amount of tax evasion that she has witnessed being rampant throughout the industry for years. Tax evasion that the Chancellor recently described in the Budget speech as 'morally repugnant'.
Pam continues, "No one asks their cleaner if they are paying taxes on the money they earn, but if they knew how much they earned annually I am quite sure they would change their mind. We estimate that 'black market' cleaners could be earning as much as £18,000 per year, tax free, for less than 20 hours a week. Any one making this amount of money should be contributing to the tax system."
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MOLLY MAID is one of the world's largest professional domestic cleaning services, carrying out 1.8 million home cleans every year worldwide. Initially founded in Canada in 1979, MOLLY MAID currently trades in Canada, USA, Japan, Portugal, and the UK.
MOLLY MAID offers a 100 per cent guaranteed, flexible and affordable domestic cleaning service. Staff are fully insured, work in teams of two and arrive in MOLLY MAID branded cars, bringing with them all the necessary cleaning equipment and supplies.
MOLLY MAID came to the UK in 1984 and has grown from a standing start to 71 Franchise Owners nationwide and a current annual turnover of over £15.5 million in 2011.


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Great Wine Brands Should Be Timeless
By Mark Scott
Great wine is an extension the vintner's soul. So those serious about the wine they craft are also serious about the brand they build. Which should mean they want to build a timeless brand.
Timeless brands remedy human problems. They improve human experiences. They communicate in human ways. Branding is soulish.
So let's talk about 3 BIG things timeless brands do...
1. Timeless brands connect emotionally
A timeless brand seizes on the reality that people aren't in the market for products as much as they are for experiences. Especially wine brands. Smart brands make their touchpoints less about a product line and more about quality of life. So subjective and emotional connections are what ultimately makes their messaging work. Think about how brands like Southwest and Progressive build a human connection and present themselves as down-to-earth and approachable. In what ways can your brand build emotional connections? Figure that out and you're on your way to building a lasting brand.
2. Timeless brands tell meaningful stories
If any product should tell a story, certainly wine should. Meaningful narratives are far better than tired product claims. Kind of like how Willie Nelson's beat up old road-worn guitar is more believable than a spankin' new guitar off the shelf.
For Maryland Wine Cellars, the big idea is "putting Maryland wine on the world map." You know that's a crazy idea, right? Because see, while there isn't anything about Maryland soil or climate that prohibits fine winemaking, let's face it, the Old Line State isn't historically known for noteworthy wines. So the story Maryland Wine Cellars is telling is compelling. It's a story about creating something where there's a void. A story that is determined to rewire common thinking. A story that kicks against history and defies stereotypes. How is your brand using the power of story?
3. Timeless brands don't sell. They educate.
It's one thing to have a product that meets a desire. It's another thing to establish yourself as an authority. That's why enduring brands aren't all that interested in short-sighted gains. They invest long term by building the currency of trust and authority. Brands that consistently impart value to earn the trust of consumers tend to keep those customers for life.
Connecting emotionally, telling meaningful stories, and educating in the marketplace are 3 surefire ways that businesses build timeless brands. Do it in long form and then make it fit on a napkin. Whether it's a book or blog post, documentary or a Tweet, choose language that connects emotionally, tells stories, and educates consumers. That's how your brand will endure.
So produce wine that is an extension of your soul. Then build a brand worthy of that -- a brand that truly endures.
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Drink, Play, [email protected]#k: One Man's Search for Anything Across Ireland, Las Vegas, and Thailand
By Andrew Gottlieb
Every so often a travel book gets picked up by seemingly every book club in America and becomes a bestseller. Under the Tuscan Sun was one, then came Eat, Pray, Love, the story of a woman getting divorced, traveling, and finding herself (with the help of a torrid love affair of course). From best I can tell, that is the plot line to adopt if you want to go from writing a standard travel narrative to being touted by Oprah. I can't tell you if that still-popular book is any good, but my wife and her friends sure loved it...
So what would the male version of this journey of self-discovery and focused self-absorption look like? Would it be anywhere close to popular since guys don't generally read that kind of thing? Comedian Andrew Gottlieb thought it would be fun to find out and he fired off drink, play, [email protected]#k—a romp through the pubs of Dublin, the casinos of Las Vegas, and the women of Thailand. Surprisingly though, this turns out to be an almost-believable story from a real character instead of a hedonistic cardboard cut-out.
It's the story of Bob Sullivan, a guy with a normal name who has suffered at the hands of a domineering wife. ("As a man, my default setting is, 'I'm always right.' But as a married man, I made a conscious decision to reset my default position to 'my wife is always right.') When she bolts on him for another man, he decides to hit the road for a year and bow to the gods of pleasure. He does what you would expect—drinking, gambling, and getting up when he feels like it—but finds he can't just be an irresponsible jerk as he planned. The fact that he doesn't even get laid until the third section makes this more than the kind of "guy gone wild" year of debauchery he easily could have pursued.
There are sections that defy credulity, with a month being comped at the Bellagio and more coincidences than an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Plus most of the time it's the kind of prose that makes you smile instead of letting out an audible chuckle. But overall it works. Instead of a bunch of one-liners and verbal acrobatics, we get an almost credible story about a guy trying to get his mojo back.
In the end, the guy gets a great girl and stays with the girl, even passing up a yacht full of hotties in Thailand to swim to shore and reunite with her. It all plays out like the Hollywood movie you will surely see someday in theaters. It'll never sell as well as its parody subject matter though: for better or for worse, it seems that most guys would rather drink, gamble, and chase women in a foreign land than to read a book about somebody else doing it.
Quest For The Kasbah
By Richard Bangs
Richard Bangs was one of the original great adventurers and founded one of the two companies that merged into Mountain Travel Sobek. He is now the host of a travel show on PBS: Adventures with Purpose. Each long adventure eventually ends up being both a show and a book, so Bangs is never at a loss for memory jogging scenes if he loses his notes.
As with the New Zealand book we reviewed before, Quest for the Kasbah is a poetic, lyrical telling of his journey (minus the film crew). Bangs writes with a fluidity and an eye for detail that is highly expressive without being pretentious, a balance so many lesser writers never seem to get right. He gives equal weight to perfect scenery and imperfect lodgings, but all with a wink and a sense that it all rolls into the package together. He relishes the tale of women breaking nuts in a cooperative as much as the tale of being secluded in the dunes of the Sahara, with no connection to the outside world.
This is no "I came, I saw, I spliced together the footage" kind of book that would result from your usual quickie travel show jaunt. Bangs dives into his subject matter fully and immerses himself in the history, the politics, and the meaning behind the architecture. He doesn't take the "quest" part of his title lightly, constantly working to unearth the story behind the details, the three thousand years of habit and thought that led to the medina, the souk, or the kasbah. He moves from Mogodor to Merzouga, from Berbers to Moroccan Jews, and from Paul Bowles to Orson Wells, all the while sounding like he really knows the context.
Bangs covers Morocco thoroughly, both in a geographic sense and a feel sense. It's been more than a decade since I set foot on Moroccan soil, but reading Quest for the Kasbah my memories of date trees, swirling dust, and sunset on the desert dunes were as vivid as they have ever been.
Editor Tim Leffel is author of the books Make Your Travel Dollars Worth a Fortune and The World's Cheapest Destinations (now in its 3rd edition). He is co-author of Traveler's Tool Kit: Mexico and Central America.
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When we bought retail stocks in 2017, it was a deeply unpopular trade. Nobody wanted them, as apparently Amazon (AMZN) was going to take over the retail sector all by itself. There were certainly days early in the process that weren't much fun. One of our retail stocks would report OK numbers with some positives and some negatives, and the stock would go down 7%, sending the rest of the retail stocks down 2%.
Nevertheless, the range of possibilities continued to look good, so we continued to hold and buy more. We generally invest in sad stocks, so feeling bad early on is a common part of the game.
What happened? Over the next year, consumer discretionary ended up being the top performing sector. In 2018, consumer staples have struck me as a fairly similar opportunity. I don't mean to indicate they will be the top performer over the next year, but they should do quite well.
A primary cause of the unpopularity of staples in 2018 is the same as it was for retail in 2017. Apparently Amazon is killing staples companies as well. Like with retail, is Amazon a potential problem? Sure. Is this the first time staples companies have ever encountered a problem? Should we expect them to just fall down and die? Of course not. This is business. Some will adapt, some will die, as always happens. The companies themselves largely realize this and at least some of them are creating plans to deal with the new landscape. These are the ones that we are interested in.
How does this work? It's a pretty common occurrence. The general opportunity lies in the fact that most people expect whatever happened in the recent past to be what happens going forward. We look at things differently. Maybe today sales are weak and margins are low, but we tend to look at the history of how the company has performed and the landscape that's set out in front of them.
Do they have a plan to improve? Is the landscape ahead easier than the landscape behind? Should margins and sales remain weak or should we expect change? We try to set up a range of likely opportunities and consider how shares are priced within that range.
In this case, staples aren't priced bargain basement like they were in 2000, but they do represent a generally good risk/reward opportunity. This is also in contrast to many of today's popular sectors, which are coming from a very friendly landscape and fundamentals. Should we expect that to continue? History tells us not to count on it, though many investors still seem to hold out hope. We are always looking for good risk/reward opportunities, and right now staples seem to fit that bill, as did retail in 2017.
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Dongzhi Festival it is an official name. It was common festival in Chinese, Japanese, Koreans and Vietnamese. It is an annual festival. Dongzhi means the arrival of winter. This festival is related to Winter solstice .
The origins of this festival can be traced back to the yin and yang philosophy of balance and harmony in the cosmos.
Traditionally the Festival is also a time for the family to get together. One activity that occurs during these get-togethers is the making and eating of Tangyuan (it madeof glutinous rice flour) or balls (its may be plain or stuffed) of glutinous rice , which symbolize reunion.
Then they cooked in a sweet soup or savory broth with both the ball and the soup/broth with both the ball and the soup/broth served in one bowl. It is also often served with a mildly alcoholic unfiltered rice wine containing whole grains of glutinous rice.
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Stuffy Game
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Who's in The Bag?
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Now Can We Talk About Standards?
As most of us were still wrapping our heads around the news that Old Man Trump (note: I will refer to him henceforth as "Old Man Trump" in an homage to the great Woodrow Wilson Guthrie, who once wrote a song about Old Man Trump's old man to protest what he saw as discriminatory housing practice favored by Fred Trump, Donald's dear old dad) named billionaire school choice activist Betsy DeVos to run the U.S. Department of Education, another piece of news trickled out. It is that DeVos apparently wasn't even Old Man Trump's first choice for the job. And, no, it wasn't Ben Carson either, surprisingly. It was Jerry Falwell, Jr., the president of Liberty University.
There is much that I could say about that, but I'll leave it at this: the common link that connects Falwell and DeVos is not free-market school choice activism or even billionaire status, though I'd be willing to bet Falwell has no trouble meeting his bills every month. It is ardent—some would say extreme—religious conservatism. This choice was clearly intended to signal Trump's commitment to opening fresh new fronts in the culture war. He's not just interested, apparently, in school choice. He's interested in school choice for a purpose, and that purpose appears to be to open private, religious schools to a flood of public money while convincing voters that this isn't about religion or culture at all but is, instead, all about "freedom." The freedom, as it happens, for parents to choose to have their children educated without knowing anything about the quality of the education their children receive in educational terms.
That's a complicated sentence, so let me rephrase it. If Trump's school choice boondoggle is successful in any form—and, unlike some others, I believe this is very much a possibility—then parents will be given some kind of voucher by the government they can use to send their kids to school anywhere at all. And given that we already do a woefully inadequate job of providing evidence of the value of education to the public in either public or private school settings, there's a really good chance that they'll be spending money in the dark. Worse, they'll be susceptible to marketing techniques that would put Trump University to shame. Take it from someone who endured five hours of marketing presentations from people selling health insurance last month: it's easy to be persuaded by marketing materials without knowing exactly what it is that you're buying. Especially when you don't know exactly what it is that you're buying.
All of which leads me to ask: now is it okay if we talk about the importance of establishing educational standards?
I say this knowing full well that some readers will dismiss the question as irrelevant. What do standards have to do with vouchers? Why we should force everybody to do learn the same thing in the same way? Why do you hate freedom?
The answer to the last question is easy, so I'll take it first: I don't. I love freedom. I love it so much that I want to protect it for everybody, not just the ones with the ability to take the few open spots in the most prestigious schools, or for the kids who look like me. I think every kid has a right to get a good education, and I can't see any good reason for denying that. I see standards as an engine of equity and a guarantor of quality and safety. Would you eat meat that wasn't stamped safe to eat or had an expiration date that passed a month ago? Would you eat in a restaurant that failed an inspection? Would you drive a car with a one-star crash safety rating? I'll bet you wouldn't.
But education isn't like those things, people say. It's not a meal or a restaurant or a car. Quality varies, and any attempt to nail it down demeans the whole process. I'll meet you halfway on that. Quality does vary, and it's not always easy to nail down. Part of the reason, of course, is because we've never come to any agreement on what constitutes a good education. Does that mean we should never attempt to define it? Quality varies in your local restaurants too, but everybody at least has a right to know that any restaurant they choose has passed inspection and is serving food that is safe to eat. Moreover, it's absurd to think that submitting to such inspections somehow prevents chefs from being creative or producing outstanding meals. Trying to define what's good and what isn't doesn't demean the process of figuring out what's good. It enriches that process, and improves the final product.
Fine, fine, you say. So what does this have to do with vouchers? At the risk of overextending the metaphor, think of these vouchers like coupons—coupons that you can take to any restaurant in town to get a free meal. Where would you go? What if the coupon could cover the entire cost of a meal at some restaurants, but only part of the cost of a meal at others? I think a lot of us would like to believe that we'd go for the cheapest meal possible, but consider a couple of factors. First, what if the cheaper meal is cheap because it's of low quality? Maybe I could buy more food with my voucher at McDonald's than I could at the local Irish pub, but we all know about the nutritional value of the Big Mac. (We might also know the nutritional value of a pint of Smithwick's, but that's another issue.)
And consider this: if everyone had a coupon that would almost certainly affect the cost of the meals available to all of us. It might also affect their quality. But still most people with the means to do it would probably use the coupon to pay part of the cost of a more expensive, and presumably better, meal. And those restaurants would probably fill up quickly.
We're still talking about food here, people—and, frankly, it's making me hungry—but there's a point to all of it. Consider that a meal is like an education in at least one sense: you don't know how good it is until it's gone. And everyone's taste is different. What I like may not be what you like. Also, if a lot of people choose a certain restaurant it fills to capacity quickly. Pretty soon people have to be turned away. What you want is for people to have a variety of options to choose from, tailored to their tastes but also of such high quality that people will occasionally branch out and try something new. The best restaurants don't usually focus on just one thing; they offer surprises, rotate their menus, introduce patrons to new tastes. Still, their ability to meet basic expectations is what makes all of this possible. It doesn't matter how creative you are if the food you're serving is unsafe to eat.
I think I've taken this about as far as it can go, but you get the point: we have examples right around us that can help us make sense of what it might mean to allow unlimited choice in a world where anything goes. Betsy DeVos has already helped create that kind of educational environment in Detroit. Is this the model we want for the rest of America?
I don't think we do, no matter how much we think we do. The bottom line is that creating more opportunities for choice without making any attempt to establish a baseline of quality is not just irresponsible, it's unconscionable. Anyone paying attention knows that we live in a society increasingly characterized by gross inequality. To write blank checks to parents in an environment characterized by inequality and to do it, especially, in a world in which fact checking is dismissed as "elitist" and "out of touch" and where presidential aides go on the radio to announce that facts are just opinions is problematic, to say the least.
I'm not reflexively opposed to choice in education at all—I don't know anyone who is. But I am opposed to social engineering that makes our society less equitable and exacerbates inequality. I don't think there is any doubt that unregulated school choice would do precisely that.
So I guess I'll just ask the question again: now can we finally have a real conversation about standards?


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Skirt Community: Caring for the Aging
By Helen Mitternight
Someone had called the police. An elderly woman was wandering around the neighborhood and the caller was concerned about neglect or abuse. The police department's senior citizen victims advocate called Jamie Roper of the Mayor's Office on Aging, and, together, they went to the scene.
At the woman's home, her husband, a man in his 80s, was at wit's end. He thought his wife had dementia and he wasn't strong enough to restrain her, nor could he watch her all of the time.
Jamie called Trident Area Agency on Aging and the nonprofit's dementia specialist was able to get the woman medical help, as well as arrange for a respite grant so the husband could have someone give him much-needed relief to run errands or just take time for himself.
"They are a godsend to me because a lot of times, seniors just don't know where to turn," Jamie says. "The good thing about them is that none of it is income-based, so they serve any senior, and they are so flexible in their ability to work with people."
TAAA, known before 2005 as ElderLink, is a nonprofit serving seniors, adults with disabilities and family caregivers in Berkeley, Dorchester and Charleston counties.
TAAA offers or contracts for services including information and referral; assistance in filling out forms such as Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or other assistance services; long-term care ombudsmanship; insurance counseling; and family caregiver support and respite care. They even offer mini-grants for respite care and supplies such as nutritional drinks or incontinence products.
"For the insurance, we don't sell insurance, but we can work with them to find the program that fits them the best, including Medicare and Medicaid. For the ombudsman program, we use people who are trained and have background checks to look into and settle complaints in licensed long-term care facilities," says Stephanie Blunt, TAAA's executive director. "And, last year, we gave over 700 respite grants for families where maybe you have a senior taking care of a spouse, or children taking care of aging parents. The respite grants give them the chance to go to the grocery, or go to the doctor, or even take a nap if that's what they need. "We're a one-stop shop for aging and disability services."
Stephanie was almost raised to do this job. Her mother was a senior services provider in Dorchester County, and later worked at a center that served those with disabilities. Stephanie was recruited to help out at health fairs and holiday parties and volunteered during summers at the center. She started at TAAA in 1995, left for similar work in Berkeley County, and then returned to TAAA in 2000. By 2002, she was named executive director.
Last fiscal year, TAAA helped more than 2,500 people with family caregiver support and provided 527 respite grants, helped almost 570 people with information and referrals, and looked into almost 3,000 complaints against long-term care facilities.
For Stephanie, being on the spot for people in need is what it's all about. She recalls a woman who came to TAAA during the holidays a few years ago. The woman was caring for her father, who had Alzheimer's, and her husband had just died in an automobile accident.
"She was the primary caregiver and she had to plan a funeral," Stephanie recalls. "You could just see the stress and worry and shock, and we were able to provide her an emergency respite grant so her father could be at a safe place while she worked through that difficult time. To me, that's what it's all about. Being here when people need you, not when it's convenient for the organization but when people need you."
Stephanie says donations are always welcome, but she urges people to donate time as well, either through TAAA's volunteer ombudsman program or even locally.
"If you have an aging neighbor, look out for them," Stephanie says. "If they're no longer driving, offer to take them to the doctor, or pick up their prescriptions or groceries, or offer to take their trash out. People should be there for their neighbors."
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3D printing to provide jobs boost
NEW South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian has vowed to turn Western Sydney into a "Silicon Valley of 3D printing" that will secure thousands of long-term jobs for the area.
Ms Berejiklian was speaking in Germany during a trade mission to Europe that has been overshadowed by bitter debate on her abortion bill back home.
She declared that "enhanced 3D printing capabilities will be a key component of a new defence and space industry hub at the Aerotropolis."
She made the statement after signing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) in the Munich branch of GE Additive, a leader in the 3D printing of metals which has pioneered the mass production of gas turbines for jet engines, to develop industrial-scale 3D printing in Western Sydney.
The MOU is merely an expression of intent and does not legally bind GE Additive into opening a branch in the city.
But Stuart Ayres, NSW Minister for Jobs, Investment, Tourism and Western Sydney, who was on the trade mission with the premier, was as confident as his boss that it would lead to a major boost in the city's economy.
"What Silicon Valley has done for software, I think Western Sydney can do for additive and advanced manufacturing," he said.
"It's about creating jobs that will exist well into the future and allowing Western Sydney employees to plug into global supply chains," he added.
The statements follow an agreement signed in December between the NSW government and 18 NSW space companies, research and education institutions, as well as the national science agency, the CSIRO, to establish a new space industry hub at the Aerotropolis.
Ms Berejiklian, who was given a gift of a titanium 3D-printed waratah by GE Additive executives, was the first NSW Premier to lead a trade mission to Germany in two decades.
The trip to Munich followed two days in the UK, where she signed a memorandum of understanding with the University of Sheffield to build an advanced manufacturing training centre in Western Sydney.
The premier has also had meetings with UK international trade secretary Liz Truss inside No. 10 Downing St.
The meeting was a crucial edge over Victoria ahead of Britain's plans to leave the European Union on October 31, which could lead to a major boost with trade with Australia.
The trade mission is due to end on Friday in Berlin.


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Want to know the moment that changed Hip-Hop forever? Of course you do. And Questlove has the answer.
During his appearance on last night's The Daily Show, Quest explained how an episode of The Cosby Show influenced a whole generation of artists.
The episode in question featured Stevie Wonder inviting the Huxtables to his studio after a mishap involving a car accident. During the session, he shows Theo and Denise the art of sampling. Questlove believes that this moment showed a generation of artists how to produce. It's quite a brilliant idea, if not a bit of a reach.
But who am I to argue with a guy wearing a Scrabble tie? Go cop Mo Meta Blues as it's sure to be a great read by a scholar and a gentleman.
And here's the Cosby Show clip in question.
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The Roots of the U.S. Militarization of Hawai'i: Invasion and Occupation
The militarization of Hawai'i was driven by the desire of U.S. leaders to access markets and resources in Asia and was amplified by their ideology of white supremacy. In the 19th century, the independent Kingdom of Hawai'i had entered into treaties with dozens of other nations, including the United States, Great Britain and France. But due to its strategic location and role as a vital refueling and provisioning stop for nearly all transpacific commerce Hawai'i was a highly coveted prize to U.S. leaders with imperial ambitions.
In 1873 U.S. military spies picked Waimomi, which is one of the original names of Pearl Harbor, as the "key to the central Pacific Ocean." In 1887 haole (white foreigner) business leaders and descendants of missionaries staged a coup d'etat and forcibly enacted the "Bayonet Constitution", which dramatically shifted power to the haole minority and disenfranchised most of the non-white population. This enabled the leaders of the coup to adopt a new Treaty of Reciprocity that ceded exclusive use of Pearl Harbor to the U.S. in exchange for dropping tariffs on Hawai'i grown sugar, a move that was strongly opposed by Hawaiian nationals.
When Kalakaua's successor, Queen Lili'uokalani tried to restore provisions of the former Hawaiian constitution, the haole coup leaders conspired with the rogue U.S. Minister John Stevens to land U.S. troops. On January 17, 1893, U.S. Marines from the U.S.S. Boston backed the conspiracy to oust the Queen. To avoid bloodshed and preserve Hawai'i's neutrality, the Queen temporarily yielded to the U.S. troops, expecting that leaders in Washington, D.C. would disavow the military action in accordance with its treaties, and restore Hawai'i's sovereignty. But despite President Cleveland's acknowledgement of the illegality of the U.S. military invasion of Hawai'i, the U.S. did not act to restore the Kingdom.
Despite successful protests by Hawaiian nationals to defeat two attempted treaties of annexation to the U.S., the outbreak of the Spanish-American War triggered the full-scale military occupation of Hawai'i. On July 6, 1898, Congress passed a simple joint resolution that authorized the seizure of Hawai'i. Virtually overnight, Hawai'i became the hub of the United States' vast military enterprise in the Pacific and a launching pad for its imperial thrust into Asia.
U.S. occupation brought unbridled military expansion in Hawai'i. Construction of a naval base at Pearl Harbor began in 1900, destroying 36 traditional Hawaiian fishponds and transforming what was once a rich food source for O'ahu into a vast naval station. This was soon to be followed by the construction of Fort Shafter, Fort Ruger, Fort Armstrong, Fort DeRussy, Fort Kamehameha, Fort Weaver and Schofield Barracks. General Macomb wrote "Oahu is to be encircled with a ring of steel." From 1898 to 1941, Hawai'i was ruled by a haole oligarchy that controlled the government and business and a military occupation that provided the force to control the majority non-white population of Kanaka Maoli and Asian settlers in Hawai'i.
World War II and the Expansion of U.S. Empire
The Japanese surprise attack on U.S. military targets in Hawai'i on December 7, 1941 provided the long-anticipated opportunity and the justification for the military to impose martial law in Hawai'i. Many of Hawai'i's Japanese community leaders were arrested, put in detention centers and shipped off to concentration camps in America. Large tracts of land were seized through presidential executive orders, swelling military land holdings to its peak of 600,000 acres (242,806.8 hectares) in 1944.
The transition from World War II to the Cold War transformed Hawai'i from a remote military outpost of the United States into the center from which the U.S. projected its power outward across the Pacific. Tragically it turned Hawai'i into both a casualty of and an accomplice in the building of empire.
The U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM), the oldest and largest of the United States' unified commands, was established in Hawai'i on January 1, 1947. The PACOM area of responsibility stretches over more than 50 percent of the earth's surface and encompasses 43 countries, 20 territories and possessions and 10 U.S. territories, 60 percent of the world's population, the world's six largest armed forces, and five of the seven worldwide U.S. mutual defense treaties. PACOM has 300,000 military personnel in the theater (one fifth of the total U.S. active-duty military force), including 100,000 forward-deployed troops in the western Pacific. Kanaka Maoli activist Kaleikoa Kaeo described the US military in Hawai'i as a monstrous he'e (octopus), its head represented by the Pacific Command headquarters, its eyes and ears the mountaintop telescopes, radar facilities, and underwater sensors, and its brain and nervous system the supercomputers and fiber optic networks that crisscross the islands. The tentacles of the he'e stretch from the west coast of North America to the East Coast of Africa, from Alaska to Antarctica.
Other Resources:
David Keanu Sai's Doctoral Dissertation, University of Hawai`i at Manoa, Political Science, "The American Occupation of the Hawaiian Kingdom: Beginning the Transition from Occupied to Restored State." (December 2008)


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Were you unable to watch Nintendo's E3 Nintendo Direct today? No worries! We got you covered with today's proceedings in our E3 2018 Nintendo Direct recap. Read on to see what Nintendo had to share this year.
Daemon X Machina
A very Gundamesque trailer was shown to kick things off for Nintendo. Giant mechs do battle in what appears to be open space rather than on rails. The mech shooter is coming to Nintendo Switch in 2019.
Xenoblade Chronicles 2
A new story expansion was shown off for the game. Torna: The Golden Country is coming September 14, 2018.
Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee
Reggie gave a demonstration of the PokeBall Plus. Mew will come exclusive to every PokeBall Plus when the accessory releases on November 16, 2018.
Super Mario Party
A new Mario Party game is in development and makes exciting use of the touch screen console. It appears that haptic feedback can translate between both consoles. Characters will now have their own specific dice blocks. New mini-games make use of the Joy-Con's features. Fans will be happy to know that the game will go back to its four player competitive roots, going for the most Power Stars to win. Super Mario Party is available on October 5, 2018.
Fire Emblem Three Houses
Fire Emblem makes its debut on Nintendo Switch. This latest entry in the series will stay true to its strategic roots, but also employs beautiful animation, as well as real time battle initiations. Fans of the series can expect the game in Spring 2019.
The popular battle royale game is available starting today.
Starting out the indie showcase, Overcooked!2 is available August 7, 2018.
Killer Queen Black
Two teams of four players duke it out in this Nintendo Switch exclusive when it launches later this year.
Hollow Knight
Available on Nintendo eShop starting today.
Octopath Traveler
Exclusive to Nintendo Switch is coming July 3, 2018.
2018 games lineup:
Starlink – October 16
Arena of Valor – Fall 2018
Minecraft – June 21
Sushi Striker – Now Available
Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle: Donkey Kong Adventure – June 26
A Pixark – Fall 2018
Just Dance 2019 – October 23
Dragonball FighterZ – 2018
Splatoon 2 Octo Expansion – Summer 2018
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker – July 13
Crash Bandicoot: N-Sane Trilogy – June 29
FIFA 19 – September 28
ARK Survival Evolved – Fall 2018
Wasteland 2: Director's Cut – Fall 2018
Paladins: Champions of the Realm – Available Now
Fallout Shelter – Available Now
Dark Souls Remastered – Summer 2018
SNK Heroines – September 7
Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate – August 28
Wolfenstein II – June 29
The World Ends With You: Final Remix – Fall 2018
Megaman 11 – October 2
Mario Tennis Aces – June 22
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Masahiro Sakurai appeared to discuss the new Smash game. Wow there's a lot to discuss so let's be quick and concise over what happened during the moment everyone was waiting for.
Firstly, the biggest announcement is that Super Smash Bros. Ultimate will feature every single character who has ever appeared to this point. Yes, from the N64 original to Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS, including the latter's DLC characters.
In the Direct, the roster begins with the eight original N64 characters, but it remains to be seen if this is how the roster will begin out of the box. It's said that the unlock progression for characters will be at its most rewarding, hence why all the characters now bear a number next to their name indicating their numbered appearance in Smash history.
Eight player battles will return from the Wii U game.
New costume swaps will be available for several characters, depicting recent portrayals in new games since the last Smash game. These characters include: Mario, Link, Ike, Pikachu (now with a female form), Zelda, Ganondorf, Fox, and Pokemon Trainer (also with a female trainer option).
There will be minor to major tweaks to gameplay. To highlight a few that were mentioned:
- Samus can now charge her beam in midair and cancel out of it at the player's risk
- Snake will be voiced by David Hayter again (confirmed in a tweet from David Hayter) though it remains to be seen if he's recorded new dialogue for the characters added to the Smash roster since Brawl.
- Fox and Falco ditch the Landmaster and use their Arwings for their final smash.
- King Dedede can now fire missles out of his hammer for his final smash.
- Zelda's new final smash is the Triforce of Wisdom.
- Pac-Man and Sonic have gained a speed boost for their final smash attacks.
- Pokemon Trainer can freely change Pokemon in battle.
- Cloud's Limit Break will now always display. Similarly, you can now see how much of a charge Robin carries for his/her tome and sword. You can now see what items Villager is carrying in his/her pocket.
- Bowser's final smash has changed. He is still Giga Bowser, but at his biggest, and can now punch at other fighters from the background of the stage.
- Shulk's Monado Arts can now be manually selected rather than on a cycle system.
- Ganondorf's final smash now depicts him as the Demon King Ganon from Ocarina of Time, rather than his Dark Beast form from Twilight Princess.
- Pit's final smash is now the Lightning Chariot.
- Zero Suit Samus' final smash now has her leap onto her ship in the background while she fire's her zero laser from atop the ship's cockpit.
- Olimar's helmet is now capable of cracking.
- Rodin, from the Bayonetta games, is now an assist trophy. Bayonetta's different looks come with alternate sound effects for her weapons.
- Donkey Kong's final smash has changed to a powerful series of fury punches.
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate introduces a concept called "Echo Fighters", noted by a symbol next to the character's name. Echo Fighters is a term applied to clone characters. For example, Dark Pit came from Pit, and Lucina came from Marth.
- A "new" Echo Fighter is introduced: Daisy who comes from Peach, with a slightly different moveset.
The Inklings were shown off in gameplay for the first time. Fighters covered in their ink are more susceptible to damage. The Inklings make use of several weapons from their own games like the Splattershot, Splat Bomb, and Splat Roller. Their final smash is the Killer Wail. The Inklings can run out of ink but can recharge while shielding and pressing B. They will have their own stage inspired by the game, there are eight alternate costumes, and the Squid Sisters will be an assist trophy. The Inkling Girl (so far) is confirmed to have a new amiibo. Perhaps the Inkling Boy will be a store exclusive along the likes of Bayonetta, Cloud, and Robin.
New Assist Trophies are incoming and some can even be KO'd.
New Pokemon from the more recent games will appear in Pokeballs.
GameCube controllers will be compatible with Super Smash Bros. Ultimate along with all previously released amiibo.
Finally, all the fans who have been requesting this for years have their wish granted: Ridley, from the Metroid series, is playable for the first time. Along with the surprise announcement, Ridley will also be getting his own amiibo. Color swaps also include his Meta Ridley counterpart, as seen in Metroid Prime.
Finally, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate will be available on December 7, 2018.


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Food Allergy Awareness
Last week was Food Allergy Awareness week and this month is Celiac Awareness month. It's been a busy month! So if you are part of either celebration, or both, what do you want the world to know that they don't already know about your dietary restrictions? How about its not easy to stop at a curb market to grab a snack? How about learning how


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Ashton Kutcher signs with Virgin Galactic to be 500th space tourist
Sir Richard Branson has said his venture to launch paying tourists into space has netted its 500th customer - US actor Ashton Kutcher.
Sir Richard Branson has said his venture to launch paying tourists into space has netted its 500th customer – US actor Ashton Kutcher.
The billionaire made the announcement on his blog, saying he gave the actor a quick call to congratulate him.
"He is as thrilled as we are at the prospect of being among the first to cross the final frontier (and back!) with us and to experience the magic of space for himself," Sir Richard wrote.
Kutcher is among dozens of Hollywood names, international entrepreneurs, scientists, space buffs and others who have made deposits to be among the first to reach the edge of the Earth on the Virgin Galactic spaceline.
Sir Richard has said the aim is to one day make travelling to space safe and affordable for the masses, not just those who can afford the current 200,000 US dollar (£126,000) ticket price.
Virgin Galactic is in the final stages of its test flight programme. The company plans to begin commercial operations next year and Sir Richard said he and his children plan to be on the first commercial flight.
Virgin Galactic customers will ride in a six-seat spacecraft that looks like a small plane, with wings near the rear that sweep upward. Once the craft and its mother ship reach a certain altitude, the smaller craft is released and its rockets are fired, pushing passengers back into their seats for the trip to suborbital space.
Customers will get a 150-minute flight with about five minutes of weightlessness and views of Earth that until now only astronauts have been able to experience.
"I still sometimes have to pinch myself that it's for real," Sir Richard said of the venture. "Ashton is joining a fast expanding group of true pioneers who are on their way to a life changing experience and a place in the history books."