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This is a city of coexisting extremes: Wealth and opulence adjoin poverty and squalor; courtesy counterbalances crime; sensuality shares space with spirituality. The topography pulls you abruptly from sea level to cloud level and beyond, as mountains burst randomly through the cityscape.
At times I felt as though I were resting in the hollow of a giant's hand whose massive fingers curled protectively upward. In fact Christ the Redeemer, Cristo Redentor, Rio's signature statue, stands with arms outstretched at the top of Corcovado Mountain, almost a half a mile high. It's visible from nearly every quarter of the city, blessing beaches and boulevards.
On our first visit, a stop three years ago, my wife, Janice, and I viewed the city from the base of that statue, skittered carefully along the edges of the notorious favelas where shanties appear Krazy-Glued to the hillsides, and walked Copacabana Beach in the morning sunlight, when its only inhabitants were yoga class devotees. We left Rio feeling deliciously frustrated. As much as we had loved it, there was much more to discover. We returned in November.
The city of 11.4 million is on Brazil's southeast coast, just north of the Tropic of Capricorn. Europeans got their first look at the area on New Year's Day 1502, when Portuguese explorer Gaspar de Lemos visited. It gained economic prominence in the 18th century as a major shipping center for gold mined in Brazil's inland highlands.
In the mid-20th century, tourists began arriving, drawn to the city's sugary beaches and to the most enticing of its rocky fingers, Sugarloaf. But their ardor diminished in the 1980s with reports of increasing crime linked to the widening gulf between rich and poor.
Janice and I did the cable car trip to Sugarloaf, atop our list of musts this trip, in two hops. Our first stop was Urca, 700 feet high and an interesting viewpoint. Central Rio lay to the northwest, and the upscale Botafogo district and quiet Botafogo Bay spread below us. A series of sightseeing helicopters lighted at Urca's landing pad for a few seconds and then flitted off like dragonflies. We chose to dangle like spiders as we inched up the cable to Sugarloaf.
At 1,300 feet, commanding a point at the water's edge, Sugarloaf is a natural skybox, and from it we could see the series of beaches that are so central to Rio's personality: Leme, Copacabana, Ipanema, Leblon. In another direction, Christ the Redeemer stood as if commanding the clouds to part. To the north was little Santos Dumont Airport, and from our extraordinary vantage we could look down at planes as they swooped over the bay, banking, gliding down from the north, then holding fast to the short runways.
Beyond the airport, two ferryboats traveling in opposite directions traced thin, straight wakes in Guanabara Bay. (There's no river, although Rio de Janeiro means "river of January." De Lemos, who named the city, was mistaken.)
Keeping a watchful eye
The tranquil scene seemed at odds with Rio's reputation as a dangerous place, owing to not just muggings and purse snatchings but also drug- related violence. We were routinely advised to keep our eyes open, to leave valuables in the hotel safe, to telephone for cabs rather than hail them on the street, to avoid walking alone on the beach and to stay out of favelas.
All of which we did. On Rio's streets, we walked close together, keeping my wallet pocket and Janice's purse between us. We assessed each approaching person as a potential mugger and steered clear of crowds.
Was it overkill? Perhaps. We experienced not a single threatening episode in Rio — except for one taxi ride with a driver who sped through red lights, crossing himself as he did so.
But since our last visit it seemed the city's residents had become more cautious. More residents in the beach areas had put bars over their windows. And a lot of them had dogs — not Rottweilers or German shepherds but little white poodles, unclipped and freshly washed and fluffed. They looked like cotton candy with eyes.
On Sundays, when major streets were closed to all but pedestrians, it looked as though all the dogs and their owners were promenading along the beaches. Kids played soccer in the sand; people crowded beachside stands to buy coco gelado, a chilled coconut with the top lopped off so that you can drink the refreshing contents through a straw. Many sunbathed, exposing substantial quantities of skin but eschewing outright nudity.
Janice and I walked from Leme at the north end of Copacabana southwest along patterned mosaic sidewalks. We paused at the Copacabana Palace Hotel, celebrated in 1933's "Flying Down to Rio" when it hosted the film's stars, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Maurice Chevalier stayed there. In a mezzanine gallery, we studied their photos as well as those of more contemporary guests: Anne Rice, Robert De Niro and a young Mick Jagger.
Janice and I veered away from the beach to find a record store to buy bossa nova CDs. Although Brazil has launched other styles of music — samba and tropicalia, for example — Antonio Carlos Jobim's bossa nova is Brazilian music for me and many other Americans.
In 1962, smitten by a young girl who passed daily on her way to the beach, Jobim and his songwriting partner Vinicius de Moraes sat in the Veloso Bar and wrote "The Girl From Ipanema," the ultimate song of lust and longing. Soon the whole world knew about her — "tall and tan and young and lovely." Jobim, known locally and affectionately as Tom, died in 1994.
Rio's international airport is named for him; the bar, on a street called Rua Vinicius de Moraes, has been renamed Garota de Ipanema, after the girl.
At 11 that night, Janice and I returned to Rua Vinicius de Moraes and a smoky second-floor club also called Vinicius. Singer Claudia Telles and guitarist and vocalist Paulinho Tapajos alternated strains unfamiliar to our North American ears with '60s classics — "Quiet Nights," "One Note Samba." Claudia shimmied, Paulinho strummed, and I sat there sipping the sugary residue of my caipirinha, made of lime juice and sugar cane brandy, thinking, "How cool is this? I'm in Ipanema hearing someone sing 'The Girl From Ipanema' across the street from the bar where it was written."
They sang it in Portuguese, a wonderful language that seems to blend Latin intonation with Slavic pronunciation. S becomes esh, and, oddly, R is spoken as H.
That might explain the momentary confusion the next morning when our guide came to pick us up for a tour of the Tijuca Forest. Our name was on her list, written as it sounds in Brazil: Raines. Anna Maria motioned us into the back of a Jeep, after sending me back to our room for a jacket. Although we wouldn't be traveling far, we would be a world apart from sultry Copacabana.
Tijuca is a mountain jungle inside the city's limits. The forest, laced with waterfalls and trails, covers 46 square miles of hills. At its peak, it's 3,300 feet high, topping even Corcovado.
As the Jeep climbed a steep, winding road, Anna Maria gave us a running commentary on the flora in Brazilian nomenclature: pink impatiens are shameless Marys; a hibiscus that never opens is a priest's kiss; the nonconformist white leafy trees that interrupt the waxy-green landscape are good-for-nothings.
We stopped suddenly because our driver had seen something move in the branches overhead. A pair of capuchin monkeys scrambled through the foliage, staying tantalizingly out of camera range. Alas, that was our experience with Tijuca's fauna: Although we saw brilliant butterflies and a bizarre walking stick insect, the toucans had apparently taken the day off, the marmosets were bashful and the poisonous coral snakes snubbed us.
But there was still plenty to look at. From the 1,300-foot-high Asia-themed Vista Chinesa, we saw Corcovado's summit and the twin peaks of Dois Irmaos (Two Brothers). We stopped at the 1,500-foot-high Emperor's Table, a picnic spot for Brazil's 19th century emperor Dom Pedro II. It took him 15 hours to reach it.
We left the Jeep to walk a path that ran along the edge of a wooded ridge about 50 feet above the forest floor. We could hear a stream and waterfalls gurgling below but couldn't see them through the growth.
Anna Maria thumped a eucalyptus tree, and water oozed from its spongy trunk. She showed us where hearts of palm come from. Only a small part of the tree is edible, and harvesting kills the tree. It takes 12 years to mature, a fact that made me pause the next time I was at a salad bar.
She pointed out an impromptu shrine where a puddle of congealed candle wax indicated that followers of Candomblé, an African animist faith, had entered the park and left an illegal offering. Then we left on a slow, brake-burning descent to sea level.
At Sao Conrado Beach we watched hang gliders push off from the 1,700-foot top of Pedra Bonita, circle like multicolored gulls and finally glide to the sand.
Flavors of the city
When I noted a kiosk where vendors sold a confection that resembled chocolate pudding, Anna Maria brightened. It was açai, she said, frozen juice of palm fruit, which tastes like a gritty, vaguely berry-flavored sorbet.
I can imagine traveling to Rio just for the juices. The city's many juice bars serve fresh varieties that you'd expect — pineapple, mango, papaya — and some that you seldom encounter in the U.S. The sweet guarana soda, made from a fruit that looks like eyes, reminded me of Dr Pepper. Caldo de cana is made by squeezing lengths of sugar cane in steel crushers. And acerola is described as cherry-like, but I thought it suggested rhubarb and tomato.
The food at the little stands is satisfying too — and cheap. For a couple of bucks we ate spicy chicken-filled turnovers, beef pies, cheese puffs. Brazilian rotisserie chickens seemed small, but they were more flavorful than American linebacker-sized birds.
For glorious gluttony, though, nothing beats a churrascaria, the Brazilian barbecue house where waiters cut beef, lamb, chicken and sausages hot off their skewers at your table until, almost speechless with excess, you beg them to stop. My favorite was picanha, a beefsteak with texture tougher than Americans prefer — but its flavor is pure essence of cow.
We finished our stay with a Mass marathon. We began at Sao Bento monastery, a Baroque festival of a building on a hill overlooking downtown Rio. The entire Mass, except for the homily, was sung or chanted. The dark interior of the nave was almost completely gilded carved wood with figures of pontiffs or muscular cherubs in the curlicues.
Next we caught the end of Mass at Nossa Senhora da Candelaria, the big 19th century church downtown. Here the decorative medium was stone: Rock cherubs posed acrobatically on each other's shoulders inside great arches. Art Nouveau stained glass complemented little trees of lighted lamp globes.
At the hilltop Nossa Senhora da Gloria do Outeiro, the simplest of the three churches but a favorite of Emperor Dom Pedro II, fresh calla lilies graced the carved wood altar. Blue-and-white Portuguese tiles accented some of the walls of the 1714 church. A choir somewhere behind us sang forcefully, seeming to shake the walls and wide plank floors while the organ played loudly enough to fill a soccer stadium.
Janice and I went to three Masses in one day. But I don't suppose you can stockpile spiritual points any more than you can ever get enough of Rio.
Life at the beach
From LAX, Varig has direct flights (one stop, no change of planes) to Rio de Janeiro. United, American, Continental and Lan Chile offer connecting service (change of planes). Restricted round-trip fares begin at $827.
To call numbers below from the U.S., dial 011 (the international dialing code), 55 (country code for Brazil), 21 (area code for Rio) and local number.
Copacabana Palace, 1702 Avenida Atlantica; 2548-7070, fax 2235-7330, https://www.copacabanapalace.com.br . Legendary and still luxurious, the Palace has a prime spot on Copacabana Beach. Doubles $395.
Everest Rio, 1117 Rua Prudente de Morais; 2525-2222, fax 2521-3198, https://www.everest.com.br . Modern hotel in Ipanema, but not on the beach. Still, there are great views of the beach and the lagoon from its top-floor restaurant (where they mix a dandy caipirinha). Doubles $114.
Rio Copa, 370 Avenida Princesa Isabel (Copacabana); 2546-9500, https://www.riocopa.com/ingles/rio/index.asp . On a busy street about three blocks off the beach, but the low rates are a compensation. Clean, comfortable doubles from $66.
Fellini, 104 Rua General Urquiza, Leblon Beach; 2511-3600. Inexpensive self-serve place good for a quick lunch on a beach day. Salad bar and Italian and Brazilian entrees. You pay by the weight of the food. Typical lunch $6.
Marius, 290 Avenida Atlantica, Leme; 2542-2393. The churrascuria against which others are measured. Famous for the parade of skewer-bearing waiters, but its salad bar also is incredible. Dinner for two about $50 with drinks.
Mistura Fina, 3207 Avenida Borges de Medeiros (near the lagoon); 2537-2844, https://www.misturafina.com.br/historia.html . Elegant setting with Brazilian and European cuisine to match. Typical dinner for two $90 with wine.
Taberna da Gloria, 32A Rua do Russel; 2265-7835. Great for dinner on Sundays, when families crowd the place. It has huge servings, so you may want to share the entrees.
Riotur, the City of Rio Tourism Authority, 3601 Aviation Blvd., Suite 2100, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266; (310) 643 2638, https://www.riodejaneiro-turismo.com .
Brazilian Consulate General, 8484 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 711, Beverly Hills, CA 90211; (323) 651-2664, fax (323) 651-1274, https://www.brazilian-consulate.org . Visa processing fee is $100 per person.
— Jerry V. Haines


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News about Iran, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times. More
Iran, known as Persia until 1935 and now officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, is the second-largest nation in the Middle East by population. Iran shares a border, along with historical and religious ties, with Iraq.
Iran has been a quasi-theocracy since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, which deposed Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran. Democratically elected President Hassan Rouhani is head of the republic, but divine leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei controls the military, the judiciary and the state broadcasting services. Shiite Islam is the state religion of Iran, with Sunni Muslims constituting a very small minority of the nation.
Iran continues to face international criticism for not adhering to the requirements of United Nations Security Council resolutions regarding its nuclear facilities and its uranium enrichment program.
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I just found an interesting blog by a lady named Ginny about two things that go very well together. Reading and Knitting…. Here is a peak….
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Yarn Along
~ Two of my favorite things are knitting and reading, and the evidence of this often shows up in my photographs. I love seeing what other people are knitting and reading as well. So, what are you knitting or crocheting right now? What are you reading? Take a photo and share it either on your blog or on Flickr. Leave a link below to share your photo with the rest of us! ~
So here goes. My first knitting & reading post.
I have been reading the Sword of Truth series for a few years now. Chainfire is the 9th book of 12, and I have just opened the cover today (inspired to do so by this Yarn Along). I love reading about Richard and Kahlan's adventures. The books are long, but I read them very quickly, putting most other things in life on hold! I don't know if I can ration my time between reading this book and knitting. It might be all or nothing… but we will see.
The socks are almost finished. I am using Patons Kroy Sox FX, Cascade Colours, and Weasley Homestead sock pattern by Erica Lueder I originally planned to make these for someone as a Christmas gift, but they are turning out a bit small… funny.. they seem to be 'just my size'… sooooo, I guess they are just my socks now.
If anyone else wants to join in the Yarn Along, join me, it looks like it will be fun, and a nice way to connect with other knitting/reading bloggers.
I also should tell you about BookCrossing.com if you are not already aware.
This is a description of BookCrossing copied from their website:
What is BookCrossing?
It's the World's Library. It's a smart social networking site. It's a celebration of literature and a place where books get new life. BookCrossing is the act of giving a book a unique identity so, as the book is passed from reader to reader, it can be tracked and thus connecting its readers. There are currently 966,366 BookCrossers and 8,236,297 books travelling throughout 132 countries. Our community is changing the world and touching lives one book at a time.
What's our mission?
Very simply, we aim to connect people through books.
How do we do it?
Label. Share. Follow. Breath new life into books instead of letting your old favorites collect dust – pass them along to another reader. Our online archival and tracking system allows members to connect with other readers, journal and review literature and trade and follow their books as lives are changed through "reading and releasing". Users are able to tag and track their individual books by marking them with BCIDs (BookCrossing Identity Numbers). Each BCID is unique to each book – once it's registered on our site, the book can then be followed and journaled forever. BookCrossing is free to join and free to play. So don't be 'shelf'ish with your books – read and release!
When and how did it start?
Although there were websites tracking things such as dollar bills and pictures, business partner Ron Hornbaker noted that nothing existed for tracking books. After all, books were more than just tangible objects, rather they possessed elements of emotional attachment and strong opinion; books were not only items collected and revered, but were intrinsically shared. This was the nidus that began our journey. With the help of Ron's wife, Kaori, and cofounders Bruce & Heather Pedersen, the site was launched on April 21, 2001. The site remains a fun way to track and share books while connecting people at deeper levels using books as the architecture and glue to facilitate the Great Conversation.
Do check into BookCrossing yourselves. I've met some nice people (at a monthly coffee and book exchange) already!


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With Tytus being released soon, there is no doubt in my mind that Megator should follow.
But there are 3 other evil giants that we often forget : Azdar, Belzar, and Chadzar, the giants from the 200x MYP cartoon !
As far as I remember them, they would be totally AWESOME in MOTUC ! I would buy each of them for sure !
I can see them based on Tytus or Megator, of course.
I'm not saying that we'll get them right away, but I think it would be a logical and very good idea to release them in MOTUC !
So, who would like these giants in her/his MOTUC collection ?
Let's support Azdar, Belzar and Chadzar, and let's make their release happen in MOTUC !


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Black Boxes in Cars Raise Privacy Concerns
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal regulators are poised to propose new rules requiring event data recorders - also called "black boxes" - in all new cars and light trucks despite privacy concerns.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is expected to publish the rules in the next few days. Automakers have been quietly tucking the devices - which automatically record the actions of drivers and the responses of their vehicles in a continuous information loop - into most new cars for years.
The idea is to gather information that can help investigators determine the cause of accidents and lead to safer vehicle designs. But privacy advocates say government regulators and auto manufacturers are fostering the spread of an intrusive technology without first putting in place policies to prevent misuse of the information collected.
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Hi Jon,
I've asked in the past about recursive macros. I know this is something you have worked on and plan to add. But today I noticed another command that would meet my requirements and may be easier to implement. Running
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NEW YORK -- Town Sports International Holdings Inc. (TSI) had an 8.7 percent increase in revenue in the third quarter 2007 compared to the third quarter of last year, the company announced on Nov. 1. Third quarter 2007 revenue was $118.9 million compared to $109.4 million in third quarter 2006.
Alex Alimanestianu, chief executive officer of TSI, said in a call with investors and analysts on Nov. 1 that although membership increased 6.9 percent, the company's mature clubs had experienced slightly lower than expected membership sales in the third quarter. The numbers picked up in October, however. He was unable to explain the sluggish sales and refuted a question that implied the company's clustering strategy might be causing new clubs to cannibalize members from more mature clubs. He said that the company researches locations to ensure cannibalization does not occur and that membership actually increases at mature clubs that are near newer facilities.
The company expects total revenue for 2007 to be in the range of $473 million to $475 million, representing 9 percent to 10 percent growth over 2006, Alimanestianu says. Net income is expected to be between $12.5 million and $13.3 million for 2007, compared to $4.6 million in 2006.
"We remain excited about the many opportunities ahead of us," says Alimanestianu, who took over the CEO role on Nov. 1 for Bob Giardina, who departed for personal and health reasons. Alimanestianu indicated that the company will continue with its clustering strategy and will expand into the Hartford, CT, and Providence, RI, markets over the next 12 months.
"Our new clubs are performing very well," he says. "We also continue to see opportunities in corporate sales, which leverages our clustering model, as well as personal training and the overall ancillary revenue business, which continues to be strong."
Alimanestianu adds that in the future, the company will benefit from economies of scale, from greater leadership in core markets, and from the maturation of TSI's accelerated club openings in 2007.


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Now that the US government is not longer shut down (at least for the time being…), it feels like an appropriate time to visit the work of Jason Hughes. For years, he has used money as his medium, literally. Hughes obtains dollar bills previously removed from circulation and shredded by the government. He takes the bills, weaving them together or applying them to panel. With both approaches, it is staggering to think about the amount of work, attention to detail, and time that goes into each piece.
Sometimes, Hughes will take the scraps and weave them together, while other times he will arrange them to form different icons like a heart, bullseye, and eye. The imagery has ties to American culture. For instance, the star inside of the circle is reminiscent of the classic Converse All Star shoes.
The process of Hughes' work is as important as the outcome. The act of creating a piece explores ideas of labor, value, and worth. It highlights the disparity between skilled labor and industry in the United States. Jobs that are often tedious, like working in a factory, for instance, are very low on the pay scale. But, they make things we have work and keep our homes, buildings, and society running smoothly. Another Day, Another Dollar (directly above) reconstructs the dollar bill, which seems to say that yes, another day is another dollar, but when you consider the amount of work that went into that single dollars, it isn't enough.
By taking this shredded money, which was otherwise worthless before, Hughes assigns a new value by changing its context. Now, composed and presented as art, he creates something that is worth much more than the sum of its parts.


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Thursday, November 08, 2012
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (November 7, 2012) – Title defenses in the $125,000 Bonnie Heath Turf Cup by Robert Leibner's Bad Debt and the $150,000 Elmer Heubeck Distaff by Tonys Investments, LLC's My Pal Chrisy highlight the 11th Florida Million Day at Calder Casino & Race Course Saturday, an afternoon featuring eight stakes restricted to registered Florida-bred horses and named in honor of Florida racing dignitaries totaling $1 million in purse money.
A consistent runner that has finished no worse than third in each of his last 18 starts, Bad Debt, who was third behind recent Breeders' Cup Turf winner Little Mike in this year's Sunshine Millions Turf, will start from post three in the eight-horse Bonnie Heath and will be ridden by Kendrick Carmouche, who was aboard the son of Grand Reward for his 2011 victory.
Returning to challenge Bad Debt for Bonnie Heath Turf supremacy is John Eaton and Steve Laymon's Picou, last year's runner-up who has not run since, along with Dennis Manning's Roman Tiger, who crossed the wire third in the 2011 running but was disqualified and placed sixth for impeding with another rival in the stretch.
Picou, who runs for trainer Dave Fawkes, will start from post two under Paco Lopez while Roman Tiger, conditioned by Manning and winner of the Grade 3 Tampa Bay Stakes earlier this year, will be guided from post eight by Joe Bravo.
The Tony Lutchman-trained My Pal Chrisy, surprise winner of last year's Elmer Heubeck Distaff, will have to defeat eight rivals, including a pair of recent graded stakes-placed runners, if she is to repeat in 2012.
The daughter of Alex's Pal, a six-time winner over the Calder main track that was last seen finishing second in the $75,000 Stage Door Betty Handicap will try and defend her title from post four in the 1 1/16-mile race with Luca Panici to ride.
Live Oak Plantation's Successful Song, second in the Grade 2 Molly Pitcher Stakes two starts ago and most recently third when favored in the $75,000 Lady's Secret at Monmouth Park, will look to improve upon her fourth-place performance in last year's Elmer Heubeck for trainer Eddie Plesa, Jr.
The daughter of Successful Appeal drew post five and will be ridden by Angel Serpa, who won both finals of the Florida Stallion Stakes when last seen competing at Calder in October.
Mark Hoffman and Earl Trostrud, Jr.'s Hooh Why, a Grade 1 winner during her juvenile season and runner-up in both the Grade 3 Ontario Matron and the Grade 3 Arlington Matron this year, was assigned post seven for the Elmer Heubeck and will be ridden by recent Breeders' Cup Sprint-winning jockey Willie Martinez.
Larry Fugate's Cash Rules, a four-time stakes winner at Calder this year including a victory in the Grade 3 Spend A Buck Handicap in his last start, headlines a field of six that will assemble for the $150,000 Carl G. Rose Handicap.
Trained by Dave Fawkes, the son of Peace Rules enters the Carl Rose on a three-race winning streak, adding successive victories in the $75,000 Darn That Alarm and the $55,000 Band Is Passing to his recent Spend A Buck score.
Cash Rules will start from post three under Luis Saez in the 1 1/8-mile Carl Rose where he will meet Centaur Farms, Inc.'s recent allowance winner Megamove along with Jessica Colon's Miami Mile Handicap hero Imperial Czar.
The most contentious race on the Florida Million Day card looks to be the $125,000 Jack Dudley Sprint Handicap, a six-furlong dash that drew a field of 10, five of which exit winning performances with the other five entering the race off runner-up efforts.
GZS Stable, LLC's Dual Exhauzt enters the Jack Dudley off two straight victories, most recently taking the $75,000 Kenny Noe Jr. Handicap, while Frank C. Calabrese's Bull Dozer has visited the winner's circle following each of his last three outings while winning those races by a combined 15 lengths.
Also slated for a start in the Jack Dudley is Shadybrook Farm, Inc. and Robert Eversole's stakes-placed Cajun Breeze, Shivananda Racing's recent allowance winner Off the Jak, and Donald Dizney's Unbridled Stakes runner-up Bahamian Squall.
A pair of main track tests for 2-year-olds will be run as part of the Florida Million Day program with David Melin and Laurie Plesa's two-time stakes winner Brave Dave scheduled to meet just five foes in the seven-furlong $125,000 Jack Price Juvenile, while West Point Thoroughbreds' Grade 1 Frizette third-place finisher Toasting is set to face nine rivals in the seven-furlong $125,000 Joe O'Farrell Juvenile Fillies.
Juvenile runners will also take to the turf on Florida Million Day, with Gilbert Campbell's impressive turf-maiden winner Reporting Star among the field of 10 entered for the 1 1/16-mile $100,000 Arthur I. Appleton Juvenile Turf and Florida Stallion Stakes My Dear Girl heroine Verso a Verso the headlining name in the 11-horse John Franks Juvenile Fillies Turf.
First race post time at Calder on Saturday is 12:30 p.m. The eight stakes that make up the Florida Million Day program will begin with the Jack Price Juvenile as race four at approximately 1:47 p.m. and will be run in succession concluding with the Bonnie Heath Turf Cup as race 11 at 4:49 p.m.
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Berkeley Skating Rink on Thin Ice By MATTHEW ARTZ
City officials are threatening to shut down Iceland, Berkeley's World War II-era ice skating rink, if the rink's management doesn't act fast to address dozens of code violations.
"They're not anywhere near up to standards," said City Planning Director Dan Marks.
A city audit of Iceland performed last year found 36 violations, the most serious ones connected to the rink's ammonia system used to chill the ice surface.
Ammonia, a common refrigerant for skating rinks, is a toxic gas that can be lethal, and turn highly combustible when mixed with oil. Common ailments associated with exposure to ammonia include nose and throat irritation, convulsive coughing, severe eye irritation, and respiratory spasms. Iceland's ammonia system only poses a community health risk in the event of an accidental release.
Still, with homes and Berkeley Alternative High School just blocks away from the South Berkeley rink, Berkeley Deputy Fire Chief David Orth, labeled the rink's refrigeration system "a distinct hazard to life or property" in a Dec. 3 letter to Iceland management.
The city's push to bring the rink into compliance with city and state codes comes after the rink leaked 33 pounds of ammonia in June 2003. Although the rink never called the fire department, firefighters at a station one block east of the rink at Milvia and Derby streets smelled the noxious gas and raced to the rink. The leak was later found to be caused by a faulty valve that had been replaced without city permits, Orth told the Daily Planet.
In 1998, he said, a larger ammonia leak at the rink required the fire department to set up water streams to dissipate the cloud of ammonia being released into the atmosphere.
In response to the June 2003 release and the audit findings the city urged Iceland to hire an engineering consultant to address the city's concerns and has met with Iceland officials seven times since this March. A letter sent Dec. 15 from City Manager Phil Kamlarz alerting city councilmembers to the city's concerns came after Iceland's consultant, Katin Engineering Consulting, released a report showing several safety deficiencies remaining at the rink.
City officials are pushing Iceland management either to upgrade its ammonia system, which can hold up to 750 pounds of the gas, or to dump it for a different refrigerant, most likely freon, which East Bay Iceland, operator of the Berkeley rink, uses in its two other facilities in Dublin and Belmont.
Jay Westcott, Berkeley Iceland's general manager, insisted that the rink planned to stick with the ammonia system. "The city is acting like our equipment is ready to fail immediately but the integrity of the system is excellent," he said.
Westcott added that Iceland is conducting tests to determine the condition of the pipes and compressors that circulate the ammonia. Even if the tests' results, expected to be released next week, show no corrosion, Westcott acknowledged the rink needs to upgrade its system significantly.
"We know what the city wants and we're prepared to do it," he said.
Deputy Chief Orth has given the rink a Jan. 8 deadline—under threat of closure—to formulate a plan to address the fire department's three biggest concerns. Unlike modern ammonia systems, Orth said, Iceland's control room lacks a discharge tank to neutralize escaped ammonia by dumping it into water, a water spray system to treat ammonia contaminated air and a way for the fire department to move the ammonia away from the source of the leak by remote control.
Without such controls, Orth said firefighters responding to a leak now have to risk their safety by entering the rink's control room.
Although city and rink officials haven't settled on a timetable for repairs, Orth said the fire department's top priorities would have to be addressed quickly for the rink to remain open.
"If they say it will take two years, that's unacceptable, if they say 90 days, that would be OK," Orth said.
Tasha Brooks, who lives across the street from the rink and smelled ammonia from the 1998 leak said she was less concerned about ammonia than late night noise from the rink.
"If I was concerned about chemicals, I wouldn't live in Berkeley," she said.
Despite the city's concerns, ammonia has been making a comeback in U.S. ice rinks over the past decade, said Peter Martell, executive director of the Ice Skating Institute, a national association of ice rink operators of which East Bay Iceland is a member. He added that he didn't know of any rink in the U.S. or Canada being shut down because of its ammonia system.
"One good thing about ammonia is that it has such a strong odor, if it leaks, you know it right away," Martell said.
In the mid 1960s, ammonia gave way as the leading ice rink refrigerant to Freon, which was championed by its manufacturer, Dupont, and seen as a less toxic gas than ammonia. However, Freon, a chloroflurocarbon, was later believed to deplete ozone and was targeted for elimination by 2025 under The Montreal Protocol, an international treaty.
Now, Martell said that ammonia, which is cheaper and does not deplete ozone, has made a comeback in the U.S., sparked largely by Canadian rink suppliers, most of whom never switched to Freon.
"Freon doesn't make sense for us," Westcott said. He estimated that switching to the gas would cost the rink nearly $300,000—a far steeper price tag than upgrading the current ammonia system.
As it has since Iceland opened in 1940, the system works by sending the ammonia from the rink's control room through a loop of pipes and compressors to the roof of the rink and back. The ammonia cools the salt water brine located underneath the ice surface.
Within Berkeley, Orth said that Bayer operates a more modern ammonia system and that the Takara Sake factory recently switched from ammonia to Freon after experiencing an ammonia leak several years ago.
John Burley, an ice rink supplier specializing in Freon refrigeration systems, said that new forms of Freon, although they are more expensive, do little or no damage to the ozone.
Orth said that the 64-year-old rink would never be able to comply fully with all city and state regulations if it kept its current system, but that with significant upgrades and stringent monitoring, the city could keep the rink in operation.
"Our intent is to keep it open," Orth said. "It's an institution."
Opened in 1940, by the Zamboni family, maker of the famed ice-paving machine, Iceland in its early days hosted the U.S. National Figure Championships and more recently has served as a part-time training facility for Olympic gold medal winners Brian Boitano and Kristi Yamaguchi.
Currently, the rink claims to draw between 100,000 and 150,000 skaters every year and has more than 300 children in its hockey programs.
"There's a lot of sentimentality for this rink," said Mary and Greg Wong, who had their first date at Iceland in 1977 and were skating there last week. "Generations of families have come here. It would be devastating if it closed."›


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I am honored that Dr. Bill Smith, who writes the blog, Dr. Bill Tells Ancestor Stories, has chosen me as a recipient of the Ancestor Approved Award. This award was created by Leslie Ann Ballou as "a way to let my fellow genealogy bloggers know how much I appreciate and enjoy their blogs full of tips and tricks as well as funny and heartwarming stories".
It's gratifying to know (and I'm sure many bloggers would agree) that people are actually reading what I write and are enjoying it.
The rules of this award state that the recipient list ten things they have learned about any of their ancestors that has surprised, humbled, or enlightened them and then pass the award along to ten other bloggers who they feel are doing their ancestors proud. I'm happy to pass the award to the following bloggers:
Denise Barrett Olson – http://family.moultriecreek.us/
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Sally Jacobs – http://practicalarchivist.com/blog/
Ben Sayer – http://macgenealogist.com/
Brenda K. Wolfgram Moore – http://gtags79.blogspot.com
Roger Moffat – http://lisaandroger.com/
Lee Drew – http://famhist.wordpress.com/
Karen Krugman – http://genealogyframeofmind.blogspot.com/
Cheryl Fleming Palmer – http://heritagehappens.blogspot.com/
Some of the things I have learned that have surprised, humbled, or enlightened me will have to wait for another time.
Thanks again, Bill, for this award! I really appreciate it.


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Q: What is the status of the new program addition to Berry College, the Bachelor of Science in Nursing?
A: Berry College was granted initial approval for a baccalaureate degree program in nursing by the Georgia Board of Nursing (GBON) in November 2012. The first nursing cohort will graduate in May 2015.
Q: When
will applications be accepted for the Nursing Program?
A: Students may apply to the nursing program beginning October 1st every year. Nursing admission decisions are made by March 1st. The first step for students interested in pursuing a nursing degree at Berry is to complete the general
admission process. Admission to the nursing program requires an additional application after enrollment to Berry, and space is limited.
Q: What classes should I take?
A: Prospective nursing students are encouraged to begin the general-education courses that are required for all Berry degrees. A new cohort of nursing students will begin every fall semester.
Follow this link for a more detailed Curriculum.
Q: Why is earning a nursing degree a good career choice?
A: Because nurses with baccalaureate degrees are in high demand and will continue to be in the foreseeable future. National studies suggest that Georgia alone will face a shortage of nearly 40,000 registered nurses (RNs) by 2020 if effective action is not taken, and national numbers are even more staggering. The Institute of Medicine released its landmark report on The Future of Nursing, initiated by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which called for increasing the number of baccalaureate-prepared nurses in the workforce to 80% and doubling the population of nurses with doctoral degrees. The current nursing workforce falls far short of these recommendations with only 50% of registered nurses prepared at the baccalaureate or graduate degree level. (
http://thefutureofnursing.org )
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at Berry College?
A: You must be enrolled and taking classes at Berry College to be considered for admission to our nursing program.
Q: Do I have to finish all prerequisites before I
can submit an application?
A: No, but you must be able to finish all prerequisites before beginning the nursing courses. You must also indicate the courses in which you are currently enrolled or plan to enroll in the following semester on your application.
Q: What grade point
average (GPA) is required? A: Applicants must have at least a 2.8 GPA. Students with the highest overall GPA, Science GPA, English and Math GPA, and most hours earned at Berry College will be given priority admission.
Q: Will any of my
credits from other schools transfer to Berry?
A: Some may and some may not. The best way to determine this is to schedule an appointment to meet with the dean and let her look over your transcripts. The Registrar's office determines the transferability of courses taken at other institutions.
Q: How many students
are accepted each year? A: Our classroom will accommodate 30 students.
Q: Is the Cultural
Immersion a required part of Berry's curriculum?A: Yes
Q: Does Berry College
have a bridge program? A: No
Q: Does Berry College
offer CNA classes?A: No
Q: Are any of the
nursing classes offered at night or online? A: No
Q: Is there a test
required for admission to the nursing program? A: No
Q: How long is the
nursing program? A: Berry's BSN program consists of 2 years (4 semesters plus the 2 week cultural immersion) after completing 2 years of core requirements.
Q: If I'm currently
admitted to a BSN program and move to this area, can I complete my nursing requirements at Berry College?A: No, we do not accept nursing courses from other programs.
Q: Can I still work
and be in the BSN program? A: The BSN program requires many hours in the classroom, clinical practice, and independent study. Working more than 10 hours a week is not advised.


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Category: Drinks
By Betty Hallock | Dec. 29, 2011
Alex Day is standing behind the custom bar at the headquarters of Proprietors, the drinks consulting company he and his partner David Kaplan recently set up in downtown Los Angeles -- an office cum cocktail lab that they've dubbed Chapter ...
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Step 1In a cocktail shaker filled with ice, combine the camomile-infused Calvados, lemon juice, Chartreuse and simple syrup; shake and strain into a chilled flute. Top with dry sparkling wine.
By Betty Hallock | Dec. 29, 2011
Alex Day is standing behind the custom bar at the headquarters of Proprietors, the drinks consulting company he and his partner David Kaplan recently set up in downtown Los Angeles -- an office cum cocktail lab that they've dubbed Chapter & Verse. "Champagne is always a good idea," Day says as he carefully pours sparkling wine along the spiraled handle of a bar spoon that leads into a flute partly filled with Armagnac, Royal Combier and a couple of dashes each of Angostura and Peychaud's bitters. "Energy, excitement, playfulness, celebration, these are things that Champagne taps into."
Especially on New Year's Eve and when bubbles -- whether Champagne, house-made seltzer or carbonated spirits -- are showing up on more bar menus. "It's definitely something we've been thinking a lot about," says Day, who along with Kaplan is opening a bar called Demi Monde in New York in February with "some focus on sparkling drinks." That includes "highly charged" seltzers, sodas, phosphates and effervescent cocktails such as the one mentioned above, titled the Field Marshal.
But you don't need a carbonating system to enjoy some sparkle, just a bottle or two of Champagne (or sparkling wine -- the drier the better). "You can pretty much top off any cocktail with Champagne," Kaplan says. "It's not a boilerplate category."
The early 19th century original Champagne cocktail is simply a bitters-soaked sugar cube in a glass of Champagne. But bubbly lends itself to creativity. In the Chapter & Verse office, stocked with a spirits library that includes a not-yet-released gentiane liqueur, a grapefruit elixir and lactic acid, along with every imaginable type of liquor, Day shakes a mixture of camomile-infused Calvados with lemon juice, yellow Chartreuse and simple syrup, then pours it into a flute, tops it with Spanish sparkling cava and calls it the Whisper Campaign.
"I can't get away from camomile and Calvados," Day says. Both have an affinity for the sparkling wine, as do a lot of ingredients, including some you might not expect.
"High-proof bourbon shouldn't work with Champagne, but it does," notes Kaplan, referring to the classic Seelbach (bourbon, triple sec, bitters, Champagne).
"And I'll never pass up a French 75; gin works especially well with Champagne," Day says, noting gin's floral qualities.
At Ray's and Stark Bar at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, beverage director Paul Sanguinetti shakes gin with Aperol, lemon juice, orange bitters, basil and mint, adds it to a St-Germain-rinsed glass and tops it with rose Champagne. He's calling it Rose Wishes (and Caviar Dreams), gilding the lily with its garnish: a tiny dollop of sturgeon caviar on top of a basil leaf.
"I'm looking for good acidity and, depending on what I'm mixing with, not too much of a yeasty, brioche character but notes of apple and citrus," Sanguinetti says. "Though with a brandy cocktail, the toasty notes actually do well. Balance is the most important. And it's likely that if your Champagne's not balanced, then your cocktail won't be balanced."
That doesn't mean breaking the bank with '95 Krug "Clos d'Ambonnay." Among Sanguinetti's recommendations are Cremant de Bourgogne -- French sparkling wine not made in the Champagne region -- and South African sparkling wines from Graham Beck (including its rose) priced at less than $20. "There are great cavas that I like using because of their value, good quality and flavors that are going to mesh well," he says.
Though he might prefer a Ruinart Brut Blanc de Blancs Champagne, Day says he's also a fan of Spanish cava and Portuguese espumante. Or try the Napa sparklers from French Champagne makers such as Mumm. But he shies from Prosecco for what he describes as its "wineyness."
Don't rule it out entirely, however. There's an entire section of sparkling cocktails on the menu at Hatfield's on the edge of Hollywood, all made with Prosecco, including the Hendrick's Experience (Hendrick's gin, Thai basil, lemon, Prosecco), Festivus (Calvados, pear, bitters, Prosecco) and a passion fruit pisco sour (pisco, lemon, passion fruit, egg white and Angostura bitters).
Hatfield's sommelier Jonathan Baird says he uses Adami Bosco di Gica Prosecco di Valdobbiadene for its balance of minerality and ripe fruit; it retails for about $17. Baird transforms amaro, a digestif, into a lively aperitif called Da Milano by adding Prosecco to Ramazzotti herbal liqueur and fresh lemon juice. "It's a nice way to kick off a party," he says.
Meanwhile, Josh Goldman, the sommelier at Michael Voltaggio's Melrose Avenue restaurant Ink, is sticking to cava. "The thing I like most about cavas ... is that there's a little more subtlety to them, which lends itself to being almost a kind of a neutral spirit, depending what you mix in with it. Nice and dry and fresh and crisp and with good acidity, that's what I look for in cavas. It goes pretty much with everything."
It's used in a drink that bar manager Devon Espinosa makes called It's the End of the Year as We Know It: spiced apple cider, fresh lemon and ginger juice and dry cava. "Winter flavors, perfect to end the year with," says Espinosa.


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LANSING, MI -- As many as 16,000 more 4-year-olds will go to preschool in Michigan next school year, a significant enrollment boost that Gov. Rick Snyder hopes to increase even more the following year.
An influx of up to $65 million — a nearly 60 percent bump over current funding — will help pay the full cost of preschool for disadvantaged kids whose families make up to 250 percent of the poverty line. The income cutoff is roughly $39,000 for a parent with one child, $59,000 for a family of four.
The Republican governor, who is expected to sign the 2013-14 school spending plan soon, kicked off a conference of business and political leaders on Mackinac Island last week by saying he was "really proud" of the agreement to emphasize early learning in the budget.
"It's about time," he said. "Over the next two years we're going to get rid of the waiting list for kids in the state of Michigan to say they can have preschool now."
Snyder's preschool initiative is likely his biggest single budget success this year considering two other big-ticket plans — expanding Medicaid health insurance to more residents and raising taxes and fees for road maintenance — remain stalled in the GOP-controlled Legislature.
Unlike with those proposals, additional pre-K funding had buy-in from pretty much every key constituency: Republican and Democratic legislative leaders, the business community and other groups. It was never a guarantee, though, because the budget also funds K-12 schools, universities and community colleges that have either seen funding cut or spending increases not keep up with inflation.
When Snyder submits his next budget in 2014, he is expected to ask for another $65 million increase. In the span of just two years, Michigan would go from enrolling 32,000 4-year-olds in the Great Start Readiness Program to 66,000. Under the bill awaiting Snyder's signature, slots would first go to the poorest children, with kids from better-earning families given slots if available.
"It's about continuing the investment so it's not just a one-time investment, but it's an annual investment that is increasing over time," said Carla Thompson, vice president for program strategy at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, a Battle Creek-based philanthropic organization that helps vulnerable children.
An influential factor behind Michigan's move is the business community. A year ago, a coalition of 100 business leaders called for doubling the number of underprivileged 4-year-olds receiving taxpayer-funded preschool.
While the workforce will grow more slowly in coming decades, the demand for well-trained workers will remain high, said Rob Grunewald, associate economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis who has written about the economic return of educating 3- and 4-year-olds.
Kids getting a high-quality education before starting kindergarten are more likely to succeed academically, landing better jobs and making more money. They also are less likely to drop out of school, go on welfare and commit crimes — costs covered by the public.
"There's a growing awareness that if we are to make these investments today, we are going to benefit from that in the future," Grunewald said.
Earlier this year, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan released a report recommending pre-kindergarten programs for every poor student within 10 years. Just a few states make pre-K available to all 4-year-olds.
Advocates say once children get behind in school, it is very difficult for them to catch up.
"Public education is not about heroic interventions. It's about a teacher and 20 kids. They start out behind, they stay behind and then bad things starts happening," said Bob Harbison, who spoke about Oklahoma's experience with early childhood education at the Detroit Regional Chamber's recent policy conference. Oklahoma is seen as a national leader on the issue and enrolled 74 percent of 4-year-olds in a state pre-K program in the 2010-11 school year.
Michigan's public preschool program had enrolled 18 percent of 4-year-olds — ranking middle-of-the-pack nationally, according to the National Institute for Early Education Research. Many parents send their kids to private preschool or day care, or the children do not start school until kindergarten.
Snyder said a key marker of students' future success is their third-grade reading proficiency. Sixty-eight percent of all Michigan third-graders are proficient readers; 55 percent of third-graders qualifying for free or reduced lunch are proficient.
"That's a key driver and one of the most important single metrics for the success of someone's life," he said. "You have to have early childhood as part of that equation."


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Hubble Views of Comet-like Asteroid P/2010 A2
This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope picture of a comet-like object called P/2010 A2, which was first discovered by the LINEAR (Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research program) sky survey on January 6. The object appears so unusual in ground-based telescopic images that discretionary time on Hubble was used to take a close-up look. This picture, from the January 29 observation, shows a bizarre X-pattern of filamentary structures near the point-like nucleus of the object and trailing streamers of dust.
The inset picture shows a complex structure that suggests the object is not a comet but instead the product of a head-on collision between two asteroids traveling five times faster than a rifle bullet (5 kilometers per second). Astronomers have long thought that the asteroid belt is being ground down through collisions, but such a smashup has never before been seen.
The filaments are made of dust and gravel, presumably recently thrown out of the 460-foot-diameter nucleus. Some of the filaments are swept back by radiation pressure from sunlight to create straight dust streaks. Embedded in the filaments are co-moving blobs of dust that likely originate from tiny unseen parent bodies. An impact origin would also be consistent with the absence of gas in spectra recorded using ground-based telescopes.
At the time of the Hubble observations, the object was approximately 180 million miles (300 million km) from the Sun and 90 million miles (140 million km) from Earth. The Hubble images were recorded with the new Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). The image was taken in visible light. The color in the image is not what the human eye would see. A blue color map was added to bring out subtle details.


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'the navigation on the Rino 520 and Rino 530 are similar to the eTrex Vista C units, in that they come with installed base maps of the US, allows for user downloadable detailed maps, it performs auto routing, off route calculation, turn by turn directions with audible alerts, and has the ability to accept these downloads though a USB connection.'
'The Garmin Rino 530 and Garmin Rino 520 is waterproof to IPX7 standards and is WAAS capable.'
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Recorded in 1965 but not released until 1980, Etcetera holds its own against the flurry of albums Wayne Shorter released during the mid-'60s, a time when he was at the peak of his powers. It is hard to imagine why Blue Note might have chosen to shelve the album, as it shows Shorter in a very favorable light with an incredibly responsive rhythm section performing four of his originals and a cover of Gil Evans' "Barracudas." The low-key nature of the album as a whole, especially the title track, might have contributed to Blue Note's lack of attention, but there are definitely gems here, especially the closing track, "Indian Song." At times the rest of the album seems like a warm-up for that amazing tune, where Shorter swirls around in a hypnotizing dance with Herbie Hancock's piano, grounded by the nocturnal bass of Cecil McBee and the airy structure of Joe Chambers' drumming. The short, repetitive themes and passionate, soulful playing echo John Coltrane, but this quartet has its own flavor, and the perfect, intricate web they weave here helps pull the whole session up to a higher level. ~ Stacia Proefrock


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On behalf of the Carol Holt Faculty and Staff, we want to give a big THANK YOU to all of you for making Teacher Appreciation Week amazing! We were fed, pampered, and showered with gifts beyond belief. Thank you to our PTA and all the families that made this possible!
This upcoming Monday and Tuesday our 3rd and 4th graders will be taking the Math and Reading STAAR tests. We are confident that our students will do a great job since all of them have worked so hard in preparation for these exams. Please remember that visitors are not allowed on campus on these two day due to test security. We also had to make a few changes to our lunch schedule in order to accommodate for an uninterrupted 4 hour testing time slot that we are required to provide our students who take these tests.
Here are the changes we made to the lunch schedule:1st grade - 11:30 a.m.3rd grade - 12:15 p.m.4th grade - 12:30 p.m.
Monday, May 14h Math STAAR1st Grade lunch – 11:303rd Grade lunch – 12:154th Grade lunch – 12:30
Tuesday, May 15th Reading STAAR1st Grade lunch – 11:303rd Grade lunch – 12:154th Grade lunch – 12:30
Wednesday, May 16th Have a Wonderful Wednesday!STAAR Make-ups
Thursday, May 17th 4th Grade Field Trip to the RangersSTAAR Make-ups
Friday, May 18th Happy Friday
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Monday, May 21st Blazing Star & Awesome Author Ceremony by invitation
Tuesday, May 22nd Luau Dress Up Day
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Republican governors in Kansas, Nebraska and Louisiana and policy advocates in North Carolina are touting a shift in tax policy away from income taxes and toward sales taxes, arguing that this would bring businesses and jobs to their states, in part by lowering the compliance costs associated with corporate and personal income taxes.
"When I started as governor, we had the highest state income tax in the region," Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback said last week in his State of the State address. "Now we have the second lowest, and I want us to take it to zero. Look out Texas, here comes Kansas!"
Texas is one of seven states with no income tax. Alaska, Florida, Nevada, South Dakota, Washington and Wyoming are the others, and Tennessee and New Hampshire only tax dividend and interest income.
But Texas makes up for it by having the third highest property taxes nationally. Brownback, on the other hand, thinks that he can eliminate income taxes in Kansas without raising other taxes.
"By making government more efficient and growing our economy," Brownback said in his annual address, "we can keep the sales tax flat at its current level and cut income taxes on our lower income working families to 1.9 percent and drop the top rate to 3.5 percent. This glide path to zero will not cut funding for schools, higher education or essential safety net programs."
Proponents of the move against income taxes believe it will create growth and jobs, and they claim to have the data to prove it. They argue that shifting the tax base toward consumption allows wage earners and investors to retain more of their "next dollar earned," especially if they choose to save or invest it. With a progressive income tax, they argue, "next dollars" are hit harder and harder, thus discouraging productivity and investment.
Critics see consumption taxes as a dubious talisman that cannot deliver greater prosperity but that will put greater burdens on the poor. The poor, they argue, consume almost all their income and would thus bear a proportionally greater share of a consumption tax regime.
A policy vogue
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman both joined Brownback last week in proposing that their states abandon income tax.
"Our current tax system needs to be modernized and reformed," Heineman said in his State of the State address on Jan. 18. "It's been nearly five decades since Nebraska had a serious debate about our overall tax system. Life has changed drastically since the 1960s, when we were operating in a completely different economic environment."
Heineman and Brownback were put in the shadow of the more prominent Gov. Bobby Jindal in the larger Louisiana.
"The bottom line is that for too long, Louisiana's workers and small businesses have suffered from having a state tax structure that is too complex and that holds back economic prosperity," Jindal said in a public statement on his website. "It's time to change that so people can keep more of their own money and foster an environment where businesses want to invest and create good-paying jobs."
Jindal said eliminating the complex income tax would make the state more attractive to investors, stimulating economic growth.
Tar Heels
Then there is the Civitas Institute, a conservative North Carolina think tank, which argues that the Tar Heel State would have seen significant economic growth had it dumped its income tax earlier.
"A consumption-based tax reform could increase North Carolina's average rate of personal income growth by 0.38 percent to 0.66 percent per year," wrote Civitas' Francis DeLuca in the Washington Times.
"These numbers aren't surprising, given that states with no personal income tax have average annual growth rates 0.5 percent higher than other states, and states without corporate income taxes average a full percentage point higher each year," Deluca wrote.
David Balfour of Civitas said that North Carolina's corporate and personal incomes taxes are both the highest in the Southeast region. Lawmakers in North Carolina have known for years that their tax rates make them uncompetitive in the region, he said. The Civitas proposal would broaden the sales tax, which currently only applies to goods, extending it to most services as well.
"Most states tax relatively few services," Balfour said. "Each state taxes small number of services, but each taxes different services." The plan, Balfour said, is to collect all of the pieces of service taxes from around the country and employ them all in North Carolina.
Who gets hit?
Like Civitas, Jindal in Louisiana plans to replace his state's lost income taxes with sales taxes, a move some see as "regressive." That is, they argue it would shift burdens from the wealthy to the poor.
Louisiana already has some of the highest sales taxes in the nation, said Ben Harris of the Urban Institute, "and to make up the revenue you would have to push the sales tax well above 10 percent."
The problem, Harris said, is that "low-income households devote a higher share of their income to consumption, since they spend less and save more." The impact on the poor is critical in Louisiana, which Harris said is already the sixth most unequal state.
But the regressivity argument does not persuade Balfour, who argues that the cash value of food stamps, Medicaid and subsidized child care subsidies are being lost in those equations.
"The problem I see with measures of sales tax regressivity is that you can't have a very accurate measure of tax burden as a share of income when you are leaving out a significant source of income for a segment of the population."
Balfour points to a recent study by the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, which found that net welfare benefits create perverse incentives when added together.
"The single mom is better off earning gross income of $29,000 with $57,327 in net income and benefits than to earn gross income of $69,000 with net income and benefits of $57,045," the report argued.
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This collection never lost focus and at no point did it feel costumey - it was modern, desirable and rich in colour, texture and ideas. In fact, let's not sit on the fence here, it was their most accomplished to date.
Beautiful makeup backstage @peterpilotto with @maccosmetics #LFW @glamour_beauty @KCDworldwide http://t.co/AD3wGZHS
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I had to control myself in Peter Pilotto... Literally wanted to cheer every single look. And the soundtrack! The dread of the bass. Ultra.
Here's @PeterPilotto's model board - @CharlotteStockdale styled the show to perfection & was raving about the boys! http://t.co/9Ohp1pIj
Power ponies backstage at Peter Pilotto @missjourdandunn by @lorealprofUK #LFW http://t.co/6uW2qjZ6
One of the @NKirkwoodLondon boots at @peterpilotto! There were also flat brogues on the runway. #highandlow http://t.co/FktkQLq3
I so hope someone has done some nice close-up Vines of those amazing Peter Pilotto embroideries #LFW
The finale of the @PeterPilotto Autumn/Winter 2013 show in London this morning #LFW http://t.co/I6bymHAP
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High necks, shapely shoulders, lots of trousers and mannish overcoats from Peter Pilotto #lfw
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Peter Pilotto is inspired by the Spanish renaissance artists, in particulat El Greco #lfw
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Gagne scores 1st goal of season in 1st game back with Flyers; Philadelphia tops Washington 4-1NHL.com @NHLdotcom
PHILADELPHIA - Claude Giroux scored 23 seconds in, and Simon Gagne added a goal in his first game back with the Flyers as Philadelphia rolled to a 4-1 victory over the Washington Capitals on Wednesday night.
Wayne Simmonds gave Philadelphia a 2-0 lead less than four minutes later, and Gagne scored his first goal of the season in the second period, one day after being reacquired by the Flyers from the Los Angeles Kings.
Max Talbot stretched the advantage to 4-0 in the second, chasing goalie Braden Holtby to the bench just one day following his home shutout of Carolina. Talbot's slap shot hit the camera inside the net and quickly ricocheted out.
Ilya Bryzgalov made 23 saves and was in line for a shutout until Joel Ward tipped in his own deflection with 2:09 left to cut the Capitals' deficit to 4-1.


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Heads up, Wall Street.
Protesters from the Occupy Wall Street plan to strike again in the Financial District marking the anti-corporate movement's anniversary on Monday, September 17th.
Bloomberg News' Max Abelson reports that for the event, which is being called "S17", protesters will attempt to block traffic in the area and surround the New York Stock Exchange.
What's more is some protesters are planning on bringing their own handcuffs to make citizens' arrests of bankers, according to Bloomberg.
We were there when Occupy Wall Street began on September 17, 2011. Check out what it looked like here >


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New Google Tool Tots Up a Mobile Ad's ROI
Mar 29, 2013 5:00 AM PT
Google this week unveiled new tools designed to help businesses figure out the true worth of their mobile advertising.
The tool set, called the Full Value of Mobile, will try to help marketers see all the pathways for converting customers that mobile can offer.
"We created the Full Value of Mobile initiative to help marketers better understand how mobile is driving value for their business across mobile sites, apps, calls, in-store and cross-device," Joanna Werther, head of mobile ads marketing for Google, told the E-Commerce Times. "Many marketers know that these different paths drive value, but haven't been able to attribute that value because it's traditionally been difficult to measure," Werther said. "We built these tools to be relevant for everyone from the biggest brands to the smallest corner shop, and hope that it will help them begin to investigate mobile's full impact online and offline."
Google's move to assist marketers follows in Yelp's footsteps. The mobile review app on Monday introduced its Revenue Estimation Tool for Local Businesses, which offers similar insight into ROI.
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Marketers can go to the site howtogomo.com to access the tools and resources, which include an ROI calculator, case studies, and tips for measurement. In keeping with Google style, it also introduces the tool with a video that offers examples of each conversion path.
"I see it as a small and medium business pitch," Chris Silva, industry analyst at the Altimeter Group told the E-Commerce Times. "Especially the video, the marketing they did around it. They're trying to use traditional marketing channels to reach marketers, maybe large brands and agencies, to spur this forward."
While this tool is accessible to agencies and brands, "this is largely aimed at the self-serve crowd," Silva added.
On the tool site, marketers can upload a Click Type Report with data points, or get answers to questions such as "How many people clicked 'Get Directions' from your mobile search ads?" The calculator offers up the value proposition of mobile for bringing in customers.
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The tool may indeed be aimed at those businesses that want to take a do-it-yourself approach to mobile marketing, but it may not help those that make up a sizable portion of local economies.
"This tool won't particularly help most small businesses," Greg Sterling, principal analyst at Sterling Market Research told the E-Commerce Times. "It's really designed to help professional marketers and agencies understand how to calculate mobile ROI and think more broadly and creatively about the impact of mobile on conversions in a new, multi-screen consumer environment."
"I think of it a little more for Google providing a business case for why mobile is more valuable, rather than a specific tool," said Silva. "Google is using the use case instead of the tools for the lead."
The Full Value of Mobile tries to educate marketers about the potential in mobile ads. "It's some examples of use cases that will get marketers to do things unique to mobile," he said.
An example cited involves a florist who might provide directions or a click-to-call button to reach the store during business hours, but could also direct mobile visitors to a website if they call in the evening after the store has closed.
Case studies and a calculator tool can help businesses that may not have considered mobile marketing think seriously about making an attempt, Dr. Augustine Fou with the Marketing Science Consulting Group told the E-Commerce Times. "Those are really great features that I think are going to significantly help local businesses and small businesses."


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President's Wife Has Found Her Niche in Communityby Wade Coggeshall • January 24, 2007 Share:
For Chris White, her introduction to the Crawfordsville community began almost immediately.
The first week she and her husband Pat, who's set to be inaugurated this weekend as Wabash College's 15th president, were in Crawfordsville, they attended the Montgomery County 4-H Fair. She remembers numerous citizens introducing themselves.
It's only snowballed from there.
"It's amazing how many people I guess I do know already," she said.
A lot of that is her fault. Not content to merely be the wife of a college president or spend days padding around the big, antebellum Elston Homestead mansion they call home, White has joined a number of local civic organizations to provide her input.
She's a member of Crawfordsville Main Street and accepted an invitation to serve on the board of the Christian Nursing Service. She's also now affiliated with the county chapter of the League of Women Voters, an organization she was a member of while living in Iowa.
"We're pretty much ensconced in the community," White said. "The only thing we lack is kids in the school corporations." That's only because their three children have moved on to college.
But it's the health-care world where White offers the most expertise.
As a registered nurse she worked as a staff member at University of Iowa hospitals. After seven years White decided to go to grad school, citing a desire to be on the front end of health care. She earned a master's in community health nursing and shifted her focus to preventing health problems rather than treating them. While Pat spent the past 18 years serving as vice president and dean of faculty at St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, Chris was teaching at Indiana University South Bend's School of Nursing. During the same time she also got certified to be a family nurse practitioner from Valparaiso University, a position she hopes to resume once she's settled here.
"I really enjoyed that part of being a nurse," White said. "It allowed me not only to work in a community, but work individually with patients, to see what their life experiences are and try to put them on a path to wellness and thinking more about how to take care of themselves."
Even with a full-time teaching job, part-time nurse gig and a family, White still found the energy to entrench herself in local issues.
When the Whites moved to St. Joseph County, there were only two sites there where children could be immunized using public health dollars. Research suggests children should be vaccinated by age 2. At that time in St. Joseph County, only 32 percent of children were being vaccinated by then. White banded with other nurses to form a branch of the national organization Every Child By Two. When she left South Bend, there were 14 locations for vaccinations in the county, and rates were up in the 90 percentile.
White also has written grants, one of which was a federal grant for a comprehensive sexuality education program for South Bend schools. It was approved by the Department of Health and Human Services, one of only 20 from more than 700. Officials started the program in middle schools, and brought in high school students to teach some of its components. The students responded well, resulting in a drop in teen pregnancy rates, sexual activity and sexually transmitted diseases there.
"It's good to see the results of those efforts," White said. She's continuing such endeavors in Crawfordsville.
White is already serving on Crawfordsville schools' AIDS/communicable disease task force. She's working with other citizens on a curriculum for AIDS education in schools.
"It's good to have community members there offering input, working with teachers and parents and students," White said. "That's healthy. It shows everybody has a stake, and everybody should be invested in the process."
That's been her philosophy all along. "I'm a community health nurse, which means I think the community is absolutely vital," White said. "As a community health nurse and as a citizen, I feel it's my responsibility to contribute to the overall health of the community. So I'm very engaged, and I will be."
She extends that axiom to the town/gown relationship between Wabash and the surrounding community.
"The health of Wabash is dependent on the health of Crawfordsville, and the health of Crawfordsville is dependent on the health of Wabash," White says. "Maybe it's not a symbiotic relationship, but certainly synergetic because they contribute more to one another's environments."
Coggeshall is a former reporter for the Crawfordsville Journal Review.
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Which State Has the Most Politicians With College Degrees?
How can a state with so many smart people in charge have so many financial problems?
Nearly 90 percent of all legislators in California have a bachelor's degree or higher, the highest percentage of any state legislature in the US. Of course, considering the well-known money issues plaguing the state, maybe it's time voters elect someone who majored in economics.
A total of 89.9 percent of legislators in the Golden State went to college, beating out the 88.6 percent from Virginia, which came in second.
A hair under 75 percent of all legislators around the country received at least a bachelor's degree. If that's true, why did Anthony Weiner do something so dumb?
New Hampshire brought up the rear, with only 53.4 percent of legislators seeking to enlighten their minds at an institute of higher education. To be fair, the results came from self-reported information and accurate figures for that state were tough to come by because New Hampshire has a uniquely large, part-time legislature.
New Jersey, a state that's often the target of many a joke, emerged as the legislature with the most lawmakers holding graduate degrees. Sixty percent of those in the Senate and Assembly can make that claim.


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When we first moved into the Fancy House, it was *right next* to a radiation siren. The San Onofre nuclear power plant was only a hop/skip/jump over the hills, but it was in the process of being shut down at the time. But they still tested the siren! Only the one time, though, after that I guess they figured there was no risk with the plant shutting down.
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Lew Wood, 'Today' Veteran, Dies at 84
The journalist covered the Kennedy assassination and the 1960s civil rights movement during his decades-spanning career.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lew Wood, who marched with Martin Luther King, covered John F. Kennedy's assassination and was a news anchor for NBC's Today show during a distinguished broadcast career that began with the dawn of television, has died at age 84.
Wood, who had been in declining health, died of kidney failure Wednesday at a hospice in Riverside County, his daughter Brigitte told The Associated Press.
He was perhaps best known as Today's third news anchor, succeeding Frank Blair in 1975. Although Blair had held the job for 22 years, Wood left after just a year, going into public relations. He stayed in that field until retiring in 2006.
"He always joked that when he left the Today show, it was due to illness and fatigue. They were sick and tired of him," his daughter said with a laugh Thursday.
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With the show's producers deciding to take the program's news report in a different direction, Wood moved on to public relations, training corporate executives how to present themselves to the media and working for the American Legion and other organizations.
Before taking the Today show job, he had anchored the news for WNBC in New York and worked as a correspondent for CBS.
For the latter network he reported on the 1960s Civil Rights movement, accompanying King on one of his marches. He was also in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, as part of the CBS team covering Kennedy's campaign swing through Texas.
Wood had covered a breakfast speech Kennedy made in nearby Fort Worth, and snapped a personal photo of the president greeting well-wishers before Kennedy left for the Dallas motorcade where he would be fatally shot. After his departure, Wood headed to a restaurant for lunch, stopping briefly to check in with fellow correspondent Dan Rather, who was covering the motorcade.
In a remembrance posted on the website reportersnotebook.net, he recalled Rather telling him, "Hold On Lew — don't go away," then quickly coming back on the line to say the president had been shot and he should go to the hospital.
"Which he did," said Rather, who spoke warmly of Wood on Thursday, remembering him as both a fine reporter and collegial colleague.
"He was a workhorse, very steady and reliable, excellent reporter and had good on-camera presence," Rather told the AP.
Wood, who earned a degree in speech and broadcasting from Purdue University, began his career in radio at WDZ-AM in Decatur, Ill., in 1952. He transitioned to TV a year later, joining WSBT Radio and TV in South Bend, Ind., where he worked as both reporter and cameraman and anchored the evening news.
In addition to his daughter, Wood is survived by his wife, Monique; son Robert; two other daughters, Carole Gorenflo and Lara Wood; 10 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
A memorial service is scheduled Aug. 31 at St. Thomas of Canterbury Episcopal Church in Temecula.


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Stevie Nicks To Appear On 'Up All Night' TV Show
The Welsh Witch herself, the one and only Miss Stevie Nicks, will soon be making a guest appearance on the NBC sitcom 'Up All Night.' Nicks will play herself in an upcoming episode of the series, which stars Christina Applegate and Maya Rudolph.
The premise of the Fleetwood Mac and solo star's guest shot is that Ava (Rudoph's character) hosts a talk show and she and Reagan (Applegate) try to get the singing legend to make an appearance on the program.
Rockers and sitcoms go waaay back! From Boyce & Hart on 'I Dream Of Jeannie' to The Seeds on 'The Mothers In Law' all the way up through Elvis Costello on 'Frasier.' Hell, even Motorhead appeared on 'The Young Ones!' Anyone remember The Dickies on 'CPO Sharkey??' This could be a list all it's own!
Ever the busy lady, Stevie also recently announced a summer tour with Rod Stewart. The episode with Nicks will air later this season. 'Up All Night' airs Thursday nights on NBC.


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The Ferrari Yearbook 2002 retraces the events of an action-packed year.
The official Scuderia Ferrari publication includes all the sporting, product and company events that took place during 2002. Over 200 large pages of glossy paper focus on coverage of Formula 1, Corse Clienti owner races, car launches and all kinds of company activities, including high-definition photographs, reports and editorials to record every last detail of the Scuderia Ferrari world.
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My favorite part of the book was when John decided to buy rocket sandles because there were not any red sneakers. That reminds me of when I got new sandles. I think it is smart of John to change his mind about the sneakers because there weren't any more sneakers. If the shoes I wanted were gone, I would look around for another pair.
I recommend this book to kids who like shoes because John thought the red sneakers would cool off his feet and give him super speed. I think that boys and girls will like this book if they agree that shoes can help you go fast. The rocket sandles that he picked were nice and fast, too. My shoes I wear for gym class make me go fast!


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An acquaintance recently remarked that she doesn't "do" social media.
It was the way she said it that gave me pause. It was in the same tone as someone who would say they don't "do" drugs.
As a journalist, I cut my teeth on the famous Marshall McLuhan phrase, "The medium is the message." What McLuhan meant was that the way content is delivered is actually more powerful at affecting our state of mind than the content itself. This phrase seems more applicable now than ever.
Hence, Facebook has built up a reputation. It connects us, but it also sucks our time, leads to oversharing, and makes our information and images wildly available across the Web. Twitter and Instagram have their own messages, delivered in 140 characters or through images and video. By next week, there will certainly be a new medium carrying yet another message.
Is all this bad? Is the message worth sharing, or should we all opt out of these social-sharing sites?
For every light there is a shadow, and the shadow on social media seems to loom large. Whether it's Facebook, Instagram, SnapChat or Twitter, there is something about a feed that sucks us in, enticing us to check and recheck for the latest updates. For instance, just before typing this sentence, I checked my Instagram feed on my phone, just to make sure I hadn't missed the latest photos.
As Shauan Nequist writes in Relevant magazine, "Everyone's life looks better on the Internet than it does in real life. The Internet is partial truths — we get to decide what people see and what they don't." Social media offer us a form of escape — I can look at a friend's bathroom redo instead of cleaning my own. I can read the latest tweets from my favorite authors instead of ever tackling that book idea in my own head. And because I'm doing something, I still feel more productive than I would sitting on the couch watching game shows. The medium is still the message.
The irony is that social media, again like an illicit drug, often leave us feeling depressed, yet we keep returning. There is a restless sense that the lives of our 550 "friends" are far more exciting, that they've never looked at an unswept floor or a snot-nosed child, that around every corner of their lives is another Instagram-worthy moment of exceptional color and beauty. In the New York Times, Sarah Nicole Prickett writes about Instagram envy: "Belongings being so easily conflated with belonging, Instagram induces a longing to be on a scene, the scene, the next one, a better one."
Spend too long with social media and there is the sense that everyone else's lives are roaring by on a glorious train of life while we sit on our unmade bed, scrolling through our feed.
Perhaps it's this guilt, along with the time suck, that induces us to take a break, or give up social media all together. With every new, emerging technology, we have to learn to school ourselves and decide which ones to embrace. Trying to keep up with all social media can leave us feeling fractured and unproductive, completely tuned out from the world in front of us. I've seen enough parents scrolling through their phones (and I've been there, too) to know that this isn't just a teen/young adult problem. Can we enjoy a moment of our lives without letting it become a status update? Can we let something go undocumented, trusting that our brains and spirits make their own powerful, internal memories?
Yet to ignore these mediums, or quit altogether, can also diminish the power they have in allowing us to connect and change lives. Even with warts, social media allow us to share important moments, from a new baby to the loss of a parent. That community support, though only digital, can still be a powerful one. So is the sharing of ideas and beauty in a broader, global space. Obviously, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints finds these mediums compelling enough that it's urged our missionaries to use Facebook and other social media sites to spread the gospel.
There have always been places and spaces that threaten our time and attention. Perhaps they weren't in our back pockets, but the desire to escape from life and find an alternate reality is as old as Adam. So is the desire to compare and to covet.
If we view social media as a place where we actively participate, on a moderate basis, in sharing light, joy, truth and beauty, then ultimately we help to craft the message. That in turn creates a powerful medium.
Tiffany Gee Lewis lives in St. Paul, Minn., and is the mother of four boys. She blogs at thetiffanywindow.wordpress.com. Her email is [email protected]