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Join us for our 2012-2013 Company Informational Meeting & Auditions!! Meeting – Minis/Petites – Thursday, May 10th 6:45pm – 7:30pm Meeting – Juniors/Teens/Seniors – Thursday, May 10th 7:30pm – 8:30pm Auditions will be held at TDA the weekend of June 7th (Thursday, Friday & Saturday)! More info will be given at the meeting! Company is our highly accredited competitive team. TDA's Company comprises our...
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Welcome to The Dance Authority! Under the new direction of Mindy Murphy you will see lots of new & exciting improvements over the next few months!! From the look of The Dance Authority's logo & website to the totally renovated studio – I hope you are able to feel the positive vibes & have a newly found sense of pride representing TDA!Learn More
To access and print the 2013-2014 Registration packet, click hereLearn More
If you click on the header tabs it will provide you with more info!
Studio Information includes TDA's policies, closing and shoe info.
Academy tab includes all class descriptions.
Company tab includes more info regarding our competition team.Learn More
Click below for more information! :)Learn More
Check at the studio for our list of summer activities this year at TDA! It includes Princess Camps, All-Stars Summer Bootcamp, & our annual summer musical production of Willy Wonka! We are super excited to offer more classes this summer! Hope you are too!
**We will have all forms needed to register up online ASAP! Keep a look-out!
Please visit the Recital Information page found under the Academy tab on our website! Dates have been changed due to Gretna HS renovations starting this summer. Thanks for understanding!!
Enter your creative "TDA Store" names & the winner will win a gift certificate to the newly named store! Turn them in by December 15th!Learn More
The TDA Store is NOW OPEN!! We have a variety of merchandise including: leotards, sports bras, booty shorts, TDA garment bags, hair bows, hip-hop shoes, & more!! Come check it out on the Studio A/B side.Learn More
You will be getting Winter Newsletters this week! It has pertinent information for the TDA Holiday season! All information is available under the Academy tab on our homepage.Learn More
Congratulations to all winners!!
1/2 off Month of Tuition:
Alexa Marshall
Catelynn Rodenbiker
Cindy Kastelic
Niki Frerichs
Josephine McPhaull
20% off Coupon for the TDA Store:
Diana Kaczor
Katarina Rieke
Abby Moore
Jessica Gregor
Arriana Gibilisco
*Come see front desk for more details*Learn More
Hi guys!! Welcome to TDA! Here's to a great new year of dancing!! If you have ANY questions, comments, or concerns feel free to email or call me! I can't tell you enough how excited I am for this year! ? – Mindy
Studio Rules and Policies:
- The curtains will be open for parent viewing the last 10-15 minutes of each class. This is to limit distractions to the dancers & teachers but allow you to see your children dancing and having fun! Please do not place chairs under viewing windows. This is for standing only. Thanks!
- To ensure class times begin promptly, all questions can be addressed at the front desk or you set up a private meeting with your child's teacher.
- No street shoes are allowed on any dance floor at any time. If in Studio C, please place street shoes on the black mat inside the locker room. If on Studio A/B side please place shoes under benches in hallway.
- Company parents and I have put in LOTS of time and hard work to make the studio an enjoyable place to be. Please respect it as you would your own home by picking up after yourselves and keeping it clean. Notify the front desk or any teacher of spills, etc right away.
Payment Information:
- Tuition payment is due by the 10th of each month with a $15 late charged applied after the 14th.
- The credit card system will be up and running by the end of this week. Any payments made this week will NOT incur a late charge.
Online Billing System:
- I will have details about this new system and how to register next week!
- Shoes are NOT in yet. I will have them by next week!
- I am still finalizing the TDA Academy logo. Once completed, I will have t-shirts for all that ordered them! Thanks for your patience as I decide on the final logo!
Dates to Remember:
- Halloween parties will be the week of October 24th. We will be closed on Monday, October 31st for Halloween.
- The recital date is set!! Rehearsals will be on Thursday, June 7th and Friday, June 8th with both Recital shows on Saturday June 9th!! It will be taking place at Gretna High School. More information to come!!


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Craig Smylie joined the JET 24 and FOX 66 staff in August 2007 as the weekend sports anchor and weekday sports reporter.
Tom Atkins joined the JET Pinpoint Weather team of meteorologists in January 1995.
Tom DiVecchio has forecasted Erie weather for over 25 years, 21 of them with WJET/WFXP. He does the weather for Good Morning Erie, Good Day Erie, and Jet24 Action News at Noon.
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Here are a few photo's from The Big Chill this weekend…
Had an amazing time, the highlight being 2manyDJs and the lowlight being Kanye West who was an hour late on stage and then just spent most of the time rambling on about how the media make him out to be an arsehole… I think he's pretty good at doing that all by himself.
2manyDJs despite being an hour late (thanks Kayne!) were as epic as ever..


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Being Sold The Same WaterAugust 15th, 2013 by Alan Yu
This was kind of an interesting story I read today about the company Nestle and how for its bottled water business it literally uses the same water sources that people here would get out of their tap. You can read a bit more abort it here: http://globalnews.ca/news/781364/lax-water-regulations-allows-nestle-free-b-c-water-to-sell/
Interesting report as for the most part it seems like the company is taking advantage of the very lax laws that we have here. It made me wonder too how do people feel in that area where it's almost literally like they are charging themselves one dollar for water that they can get for free? It must be a shocker too for many people as the assumption is bottled water must be healthier in some ways. Like in this case though, it's literally the same thing except it's packaged.
I would be curious if people would still be inclined to purchase that particular brand after reading something like this and if people will now feel ripped off as a result. Would be interesting how the company counteracts all this as well.


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KNOXVILLE — Strong thunderstorms that knocked down trees in the Smoky Mountains foothills have forced the closing of some hiking trails.
Meanwhile, an assessment team from the National Weather Service office in Morristown arrived a midday Friday in the Cosby area to determine whether a tornado touched down.
Preliminary information from the weather service Thursday stated there was a report of a funnel cloud and said winds were clocked at more than 65 mph in a number of East Tennessee communities.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park managers report that several trails in Cosby and Big Creek are closed due to extensive damage from the wind and rain during the storm late Thursday afternoon. Scores of trees were felled and the trails were impassible.
Gabes Mountain Trail and Snake Den Ridge Trail in Cosby, and Baxter Creek Trail and Big Creek in Big Creek were closed and park officials said more trail closures were possible. The Park has also closed "B" Loop of Cosby Campground due to storm damage.
"We are in the process of assessing the condition of all of the trails within the storm affected area," said acting Chief Ranger Steve Kloster. "Hikers and equestrians may want to confirm trail openings by contacting the Park's Backcountry Office or by visiting our website before planning routes through this section of the Park."
Updated trail information can be found online at www.nps.gov/grsm or by calling the park's backcountry office at (865) 436-1297.
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Contest Registration and Essay Submission
Essays are now being accepted for the Civil Rights Today essay contest.
Please have the following on hand:
- an electronic copy of your essay in a Word document or .txt file. Do not submit a PDF.
- essay word count
- the address and telephone number of your high school
- your sponsoring teacher's name, telephone number and email address
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Archive for Category: "Uncategorized"
iDig Video #35: iOgrapher – Total Mobile Filmmaking for $600!
Apple Tech Update Conf: – an amazing new device for your video classroom – iOgrapher. For $600 you can have the most amazing rig: an iPad fitted with a shotgun mike, light source, tripod, and an app for digital video editing and uploading! Also James on the film "Gravity."
Help! Johnny Circled Me in Google Plus
Like many other schools, we have a firm social network policy that prohibits teachers from accepting Facebook friend requests from students. I get it. The notion of teachers and students being Facebook friends makes most people uncomfortable. If one of my students sends me a request, I reject it until he graduates. The notion of teachers and students being Facebook friends makes most people uncomfortable.
The World Theatre Video Project- Join the Global Theatre Ensemble!
Join the World Theatre Video Project- Let's Create a Global Theatre Ensemble. The World Theatre Video Project was developed for Theatre students and teachers from all over the world connect and share their love of Theatre.
iDigVideo #30: WeVideo- The Future of Collaborative Video Creation!
WeVideo is a unique cloud-based collaborative video creation service that enables people all over the world to create and share great look videos. The sky is the limit for what you can do with WeVideo in your classroom! WeVideo's CEO and co-founder Jostein Svendsen joins the podcast to discuss WeVideo and and share some of the amazing ways educators are using WeVideo with their students!
iDig Video Quicktip: Cropping Video in iMovie '11
Here is an easy way to change to look of your videos by cropping in iMovie '11. iDig Video Quicktips is a quick look at some of the great video tips we have mentioned on the show. We also showcase some of our favorite tips and tricks to work with video effortlessly.
iDig Video Quicktip: Changing Video Speeds
Here is a quicklook at how to change the speed of your video in iMovie '11. iDig Video Quicktips is a quick look at some of the great video tips we have mentioned on the show. We also showcase some of our favorite tips and tricks to work with video effortlessly.
iDig Video #27: Writing, Film & "Good Will Hunting"
Phenom writing teacher Jenni Bonaldo joins us to share how she uses films like "Good Will Hunting" to teach creative writing. She has developed some great ideas for teaching dialogue writing to her students and uses films in the process!
5 Reasons Teachers Should Own a Domain Name
You found this blogpost, so you are probably (a) an educator and (b) relatively tech-savvy, so why don't you own your own domain name yet? The world of domain name ownership has changed, so step up your teaching game and buy your own domain name.
Kaplan + TechStars EdTech Accelerator (Online Info Session Tonight April 2nd!)
A lot more education accelerators have been announced recently with the most notable being the partnership between Kaplan and TechStars, the Kaplan EdTech Accelerator, and Pearson Catalyst — not to overlook new efforts in Boston (LearnLaunch, which we covered extensively last month), Brazil, Israel and London. Of note, the Kaplan EdTech Accelerator is accepting applications through an April 14th deadline here and also hosting a livestream information session on their website tonight April 23rd at 7:00pm EST. Their actual accelerator program will accept ten EdTech […]
iDig Video #006 Video Apps and Social Media Policies!!
Don Goble from St. Louis re-joins us for the second part of our podcast on Video in the Classroom. Don is a real pioneer in changing antiquated social media policies that are holding students and teachers back in many school districts. Also an overview of some of the best Video Apps you can use in k-12 classrooms. What video apps are you using? What kind of innovative stuff are you doing with them? Hear how to share your ideas with us! […]
Mobile Reach #5 – Xoom in Schools
Show Host: Scott Meech Co-Hosts: Judi Epcke on Twitter @JEpcke, Tammy Lind @TamL17, Chad Kafka @chadkafka Special guest: Kimberly Bannigan Subscribe to The EdReach Podcasts on iTunes Subscribe to the EdReach Podcast Feed. The complete show notes are now on the EdReach Wiki. Call us on our comment line! If you'd like to leave some feedback you can call us on our very own EdReach Comment line: That's: (443) 93REACH.


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August 24, 2013
The Absolutely Positively Completely Made-Up Show!
Comedy for Kids!
It's playtime! The Second City's performers lace up their sneakers and reach deep into their imaginations to present The Absolutely Positively Completely Made-Up Show! It's an hour of interactive, family-friendly games and laughs. Young audience members are encouraged to shout out ideas and even join the fun on stage!
Perfect for ages 13 and under. Snacks and beverages available within our comfortable theatre.
Approx running time: 60 minutes
The Second City — 51 Mercer St., Toronto (2 blocks north of the CN Tower)
Saturdays at 1:00pm
Until November 12.
Individual Tickets: $12 plus tax
Family 4-Packs: $40 plus tax (available at box office or by phone 416-343-0011 or 1-800-263-4485)
Visit The Second City website for more information.
Rugby World Cup Qualifier Canada vs. USA
Toronto, Ontario, Canada. August 24th, 2013. Canada vs. USA. Head to head in a Rugby World Cup Qualifier! It's going to be a showdown between these two rivals on August 24th as the Canadian Senior Men's Team takes on the USA Men's Eagles at BMO Field. It's sure to be a battle for the ages between these two rivals! Stay tuned for ticketing information! Visit events.rugbycanada.ca for more information.
Venue: BMO Field — Exhibition Place
Selena Gomez
As an artist, Selena has already sold more than 10 million singles in the U.S., along with three RIAA-certified top-ten debuting gold albums, and three #1 Billboard Dance Singles. Her last album, When The Sun Goes Down with Selena Gomez & The Scene was released June 28, 2011 and was certified gold in November of that year. Selena Gomez has sold over one million digital singles in Canada, along with two Platinum-selling albums When The Sun Goes Down in 2011 and A Year Without Rain (in 2010) as well as a debut Gold album (Kiss and Tell in 2009).
For tickets: www.Ticketmaster.ca
Venue: Air Canada Centre — 40 Bay Street
The Great Ontario Salmon Derby
July 6 – August 24, 2013. Sponsored by the Toronto Sun, the 17th Annual Great Ontario Salmon Derby is North America's largest freshwater fishing derby and takes place in the Canadian waters of Lake Ontario attracting participants from Florida, Arizona, Michigan and other US States. They also have participants from England, Germany & Italy on a regular basis. The Derby boasts an average participation of 21,000 people annually over a 50 day period. Fishermen/women compete for various weekly prizes including cash, tackle, rods, reels and for the heaviest salmon caught every week – a 2013 Toyota Matrix! The winner of the overall Derby wins an exciting Grand Prize package including a 2013 Toyota Tacoma TRD Sport, a fishing trip for two and a celebration dinner. The event is climaxed with a Fish-off for the 70 prize winners preceding the Awards Ceremony, September 14, 2013 allowing them to win a further $5,000 in cash prizes.
For more sportshows information, complete tournament rules and to order tickets online, visit www.sportshows.ca.
This Little Piggy
August 24; 6:30 pm Reception; 7 pm Dinner.
As the sun sets over our backyard vineyard, Winery Chef and Gold Medal Plates inner, Frank Dodd, will lead you through progressive 4 course dinner showcasing every part of a pig – nose to tail. Savour Chef Dodd's award-winning plates as you sip on perfectly paired wines selected by our Winemaker Craig McDonald. Take time with fellow guests at the table to appreciate the sounds and smells of harvest in Wine Country in the most picturesque setting at Trius.
Cost: $99 per person plus taxes and gratuities.
Call 1-800-582-8412 ext. 2 or visit www.triuswines.com
Location: Trius Winery at Hillebrand — 1249 Niagara Stone Road, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
Live Jazz
12 Noon Matinee:
3:30pm: LAURA HUBERT BAND
featuring Peter Hill-Piano.
7:00pm: NICK TEEHAN GROUP
led by Nick Teehan-Vocals/Sax.
9:45pm: MORGAN CHILDS:
Kelly Jefferson-Sax, Dave
Restivo-Piano, Jon Maharaj-Bass
& Morgan Childs-Drums.
For more details: www.TheRex.ca
Venue: The Rex Jazz & Blues Bar — 194 Queen Street West
Rugby World Cup Qualifier: Canada vs. USA
Kick-off 4 pm. For as long as there has been sport, there have been rivalries, and Canada has no bigger rival, no matter the sport then the United States of America. Unfortunately for those South of the 49th parallel, Canada holds an unquestionably dominating head-to-head record. Most recently, the two nations went at it in a Pacific Nations Cup match, May 25th in Edmonton. Final score Canada 16 USA 9.
For more details: events.rugbycanada.ca/events_details.php?e=91
Location: BMO Field — Exhibition Place
Toronto's Haunted Walk with Mackenzie House Visit
Saturday, August 24th at 8:00pm, beginning from in front of the Hockey Hall of Fame at 30 Yonge Street. On this special edition of our Toronto's Haunted Walk tour, guests will experience an hour-long edition of our Toronto's Haunted Walk, with ghostly tales and darker history from the Finanical District. The tour will end at Mackenzie House, where the guide will share the story of the haunted home of our first mayor before inviting the guests inside to explore for themselves. The outdoor portion of the tour will be approximately one hour, followed by thirty minutes to explore Mackenzie House. Spaces are limited. Tickets can be purchased online (www.attractionscanada.com/HauntedWalks-Toronto/ShowCalendar.asp) or by calling 416-238-1473.
Anything Goes
ALL ABOARD for this saucy and splendid production of Roundabout Theatre Company's ANYTHING GOES, winner of three 2011 Tony Awards® including Best Musical Revival and Choreography! One of the greatest musicals in theatre history, Cole Porter's first-class musical comedy is sailing to Toronto, starring critically-acclaimed actress Rachel York as Reno Sweeney and directed and choreographed by Tony Award® winner Kathleen Marshall. The New York Times calls it "MUSICAL-COMEDY JOY" and USA TODAY hails it as "GLORIOUS and EXHUBERANT!"
When the S.S. American heads out to sea, etiquette and convention get tossed out the portholes as two unlikely pairs set off on the course to true love…proving that sometimes destiny needs a little help from a crew of singing sailors, an exotic disguise and some good old-fashioned blackmail. Peppering this timeless classic are some of musical theatre's most memorable standards, including "I Get A Kick Out Of You," "You're the Top," and of course, "Anything Goes." Don't miss what the AP exclaims as, "So DELIGHTFUL, So DELICIOUS, So DE-LOVELY!"
For tickets or information: www.mirvish.com
Location: Princess of Wales Theatre — 300 King Street West
TELUS TAIWANfest
Featuring tantalizing cooking demonstrations and musical performances by some of the top acts in Taiwan and much more. This year's theme is "Children of the Ocean."
For more information: www.HarbourfrontCentre.com
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Mr. Mayor I Respectfully Disagree
To cure Peachtree City's voracious appetite for additional tax monies, adding yet another tax intended to belay our huge debt is not the answer. Simply adding another SPLOST is only addressing a symptom of what plagues our city while the actual disease of uncontrolled spending is allowed to continue.
To your credit, many of the issues that could have been addressed by previous Councils are now being acted upon, but using your words; "much is yet to be done." Your determination has led to the privatization of the Tennis Center, and hopefully the same can be done with the Kedron Fieldhouse and perhaps even the Fred. The efforts spearheaded by Doug Sturbaum and Mark Hollums to level the playing field for Peachtree City in attracting economic development has your fingerprints all over it. Accepting responsibility and dispensing credit are traits of your leadership.
In your posting last week you mention a total debt of nearly $20M and an annual payment of $3.5M which leads me to believe that by enacting a SPLOST you wish to address the symptom of spending (debt) while ignoring what it is brought us here. As an example, if as you say, we have expended a million dollars per year needlessly or perhaps erroneously within recreation, why is it that the department head and/or their supervisor are still employed? Please don't use the adage of "they were following directives of previous Councils because even the weakest of Councils realize the value of a million bucks.
As much as I would like to help you, I will not support a SPLOST to bail out a city staff that bears much of the responsibility for this debt and I seriously doubt the majority of my fellow citizens will either. For the nearly three years of this economic downturn, not one of your six figure staffers have had a reduction in pay. How many of your constituents can claim that. Reality is that many have lost their jobs and have resorted to more drastic measures to make ends meet. How many of Peachtree City's Department heads have suffered such a fate?
Reality is that we citizens do not exist to support our city staff, we both know the opposite to be true. You have explained over and over that all the cuts have been made before we will see a reduction in services, and you are correct. If, that is, if we continue to meet the current bloated payroll and continue to grant matching 401K contributions and a retirement program that is fiscally more attractive than most private sector retirement plans.
Another reality is that government officials are the most distrusted of Americans and giving your "staff" this influx of money from SPLOST will only serve to assure them that they take precedence over we ordinary citizens. Maybe this is behind the rancor concerning your pay raise, after all, if it was to be fairly compensated that you wished to achieve perhaps you should have sought the city manager's position since he makes some sixteen times as much annually while you sign his paycheck.
Mr. Mayor, you depart in four or eight years, those on your staff were present when you took office and likely will be in their jobs long after you depart. It matters not to them that the empty buildings along Dividend Drive outnumber those that are filled. It matters not to them that the empty retail spaces continue to grow. What matters to them is the protection that elected officials like yourself provide them for job security with annual performance bonuses for merely doing their jobs.
Your largest expense is payroll, reduce it substantially, and then I'll consider a bail out.
I have written things here similar to your comments above, but about all I said was if you are short X dollars for the coming year cut X dollars out of the budget, do not add a tax or a bunch of stupid fees.
I have stated that head counts must be in those cuts and that we aren't at the place yet where not one single employee of any type, including police and fire protection, can't be cut for their share of avoiding a tax increase at this time.
I'm afraid however that current City leadership is more interested in increasing "services" instead of demanding more output from those who would be left!
There are many desk jockeys now fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, and maybe soon, Iran, due to shortness of grunts and grunt supervisors in those places. We even have gone so far as to really damage the Guard and Reserves. That will now have to be repaired. Many do not know just how many Navy, Coast Guard, Air Force, and others (contract) are now also assisting the Marines and Army due to not adding to the Army.
No reason under strong leadership such things can't be done in PTC budget.
In the latest UPDATE from our city government Mayor Haddix on the one hand says that the SPLOST would have the "primary goal of removing over $6 million dollars in debt" and on the other hand "making it a fixed ongoing source of funding for road, cart path and qualified infrastructure construction needs".
In other words, once we get a SPLOST we can spend it anyway we want if it's written right. What don't you understand Mr. Mayor, we don't want an "ongoing source of funding".
The problem is of course that taxes are the cocaine of the political class, the more they have the more they want to spend. The more they spend the more they want to raise taxes. It reminds me of the Roman saying: "facile largire de alieno" or approximately "it's easier to be generous with other people's money".
Mr. Haddix, you need to find a way to be more effective with the money you have and reduce the scope of our government. If you need to raise property tax to provide services to the people of Peachtree City, then explain it.
I can support a SPLOST if it is written narrowly to pay down our debt, once the debt is paid the SPLOST ends, and no new debt can be taken on while the SPLOST is in force.
Mr. Mayor you have a difficult job, but you ran for it and now you have it. Get on with it.
There are a lot of issues going on in this mix. I hope you plan to come to the Budget Workshops and Town Hall in June.
Then you can get a first hand of where we are and ask any questions you wish to ask.
We have the Survey and want the citizens to understand where we are as much as possible and have their say.
Nothing is in concrete yet as to where this will all end up.
Mayor Haddix, I have been to town hall meetings, quite frankly I don't think they accomplish a whole lot. These are simply podiums for grandstanding politicians and I can't actually see that they change any minds.
Remember the people that turn out for the town meetings usually have a one issue agenda that is on the meeting agenda. They are not there to shape policy.
The only change that comes is at the ballot box when politicians don't act to solve problems.
A survey is a good idea, but only if it is actually used by the council.
I think what we are talking about is a philosophy. Either we can get our house in order or we can't. I am not saying that it can be done without raising taxes; it is likely that taxes will have to be raised. All I am saying is the council needs to be honest about it. If you have to raise our property tax, then explain it; tell us why you need it and how you will spend it. Tell us how you plan to use our money more effectively, give us a clue as to what your going actually to do. Don't tell us that we are understaffed, tell us how you are going to use the staff more effectively.
We are all adults; we can decide if this is what we want out of our government. If not there is always another election.
Simply do the right thing not the thing that you think will get you re-elected. Frankly, no one cares if your re-elected unless you do the right thing. If you're a one term Mayor or council member so be it.
Get on with it and stop positioning for the next election.
Mike, you are a good friend but I sincerely ask you to find out facts first before speaking.
Right off the SPLOST is off the table for at least this year. The AFCG majority said no. That, of course, you could not know since it just happened.
Council controls the Budget, not Staff. Some Councils did not base the Budget on wise money management but politically decisions, such as fighting against the changes that finally happened in Recreation because of their supporters, not the city as a whole.
Council said there will be two nights at the Fred to protect Gold Ticket holders and there were two nights at over a $200,000.00 loss. The Tennis Center would remain under Tourism wasting several hundred thousand a year because some friend or supporters wanted it that way, it remained. The Kedron Pool rates would not change so the taxpayers paid $701,000.00 a year they didn't have to. Tourism needed no changes so none took place. And so on. All because of Council, not Staff.
In the 2007-9 Budgets Staff kept recommending changes. Council didn't approve what was needed to be done and only began to make changes for 2010 due to being an election year with all the past mistakes catching up to them. But even then they didn't do all that was needed.
As for Staff, the job of Assistant City Manager has been gone for about a year now. That is one of those six digit salaries. The head of Public Works, who did not make six digits, is also gone with the assistant doing the job. They all have taken some significant hits in their benefits packages and won't be seeing a raise any time soon. Other have had their job descriptions rewritten with cuts or two jobs merged into one.
As for you making it sound like we have a big list of people pulling down six digits, that simply isn't correct. It is quite small in fact.
Then there is the issue of people with contracts we cannot simply cut any time if we feel like it. That has to be done at contract renewal, none of which is occurring soon.
On the 401(k) and retirement issues, that is already under review and there will be public Workshop in the issue. Nothing hidden on that subject.
As for your constant reference to bloated payroll, you make it sound like our workers are getting rich when they are not. Remember, Staff is few in numbers. Over 200 are not Staff.
We are off to a faster start than any other Council I can remember. But it takes time and I can tell you there is a lot in work and under review. There will be more changes, many of which I believe you will like.
You know me. I don't delay so if something is not getting done immediately it is for good reason.
We really should sit down and talk some time. I sincerely believe you are basing some assumptions on false premises.
I have said about all I want to say on this subject so you have the ball!
Apparently "staff" doesn't influence the Council very much, or so he says.
They seem to be quite loud to me.
They simply don't have what it takes in leadership to cut personnel to the income.
The 'fact' that you and I do not agree upon a SPLOST is a given, one needs only to read your last article. You say Council controls the budget, I say it is formulated by your staff for your approval with or without your input. Either way, the difference is minimal. Without being specific, you say only a small number of staff are earning six figures. Would that be ten percent after bonuses? If so, then it would be twenty-four($2.4M). Payroll is your largest expense, so it bears to reason that an astute manager would at least look there for possible waste.
I would like to sit down with you again, but rereading my article I find no false premise.
Call me and we can set something up.
Let me leave it here that you give Staff more control than they have, there are no bonuses and less than half your number make the salaries you think they do.
As well remember we do not pay WASA or Airport salaries. They are not City employees.
I think I do in one way or another, be they WASA or Airport!
When I stay in a hotel in another city, I pay for their airport also just as our visitors pay for ours!
Who does sign the airport checks? Water checks? Authorities I suppose? Who are Authorities by name?
Does anyone who the City contracts for services have anyone on payroll above five figures?
Here is what I suggest you do: Contract out the City Management totally! That way no one on the City Payroll will make anything. Zero taxes!
If I had such a sorry staff who contribute nothing, I would just fire them!
But the suggestion of what to do with a SPLOST being voted for will never happen.
Let me step in here. How many of these contracts for employees are we locked into where these 100k plus employees get paid whether they are let go or not?
The fact that the city mgr. got a brand new contract the same month of the election, but before the new council was seated, tells me we are stuck for at least the next year. How many others were given this "gift" by the outgoing elected officials? Read between the lines here and you might see how this sets up.


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twinLine breaks: twin
Pronunciation: /twɪn /
Definition of twin in English:
1One of two children or animals born at the same birth: experiments were carried out using sets of identical twins the twins were approaching their third birthday I thought you must have a double or be a twin
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- Nearly 10,000 multiple births were recorded last year in the UK, and one in 35 children is now born as a twin, while triplet births have quadrupled in many countries.
- A mother had to be flown to a Norwich hospital to give birth to identical twins because there were not enough incubators at Southend's premature baby unit.
- Now, tell me if you think I am wrong, but, if it wasn't for the fact that Cameron is nearly a decade older, they look like identical twins separated at birth!
(twins)identical twins, non-identical twins, fraternal twins;
monozygotic/monozygous twins, dizygotic/dizygous twins;
1.1A person or thing that is exactly like another: there was a bruise on his cheek, a twin to the one on mine
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- The recently launched Mercedes S-class could be a twin to BMW's 7-series.
- Her shrieking, wailing voice was the whisper of mortality piercing the ears like the banshee's own call, a twin to the driving terror that pierced the mind.
- He could have just been a twin to the smaller man.
exact likeness, mirror image, double, duplicate, carbon copy, replica, (living) image, lookalike, clone;
counterpart, match, pair, fellow, mate, partner;
informal spitting image, spit and image, ringer, dead ringer
1.2 (the Twins) The zodiacal sign or constellation Gemini.
2Something containing or consisting of two matching or corresponding parts, in particular:
2.1A twin-bedded room: the hotel has 54 rooms, of which 4 are twins
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- This price is based on two people sharing a twin / double bedded room on a bed and breakfast basis and dates offered start in May and go through to October.
- My room, a twin, is plainly furnished but very nice.
- With the exception of suites, all two-bedded rooms are twins.
2.2A twin-engined aircraft.
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- It may come as a surprise, but not all twins are high-performance airplanes.
- Here are some critical situations that you should be familiar with and practice regularly to become competent flying twins.
2.3A twinned crystal.
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- Among the twinned crystals, Baveno twins are more common than Manebach.
- The original cordierite crystals were sixling twins that give the pseudomorphs a flower-shaped cross section.
- It occurs as small, white single crystals or twins densely covering matrix.
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1Forming, or being one of, a pair born at one birth: she gave birth to twin boys her twin sister
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- Witnesses say they saw nothing-just a little boy and his twin sister playing at the sand part of the park while many other children ran around, screaming.
- Ailsa looked down at her older twin sisters and the boy who was with them.
- Gavin caught up utterly out of breath and he gave a look of complete gratitude to the twin sisters.
1.1Forming a matching, complementary, or closely connected pair: the twin problems of economic failure and social disintegration
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- As it was, its thick grey walls and twin turrets gave it a look of defensibility, as though it were here despite the quiescent malice of the forest.
- Since independence, the twin forces of economic development and population growth have literally bulldozed their way through the city's greenery.
- Who in the world would we rather have as allies and fellow travellers in pursuing the twin challenges of economic performance and social justice?
closely related, closely linked, closely connected;
corresponding, parallel, complementary;
1.3(Of a bedroom) containing two single beds: we have twin and three-bedded rooms
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- There is a choice of single or twin rooms, and every bedroom is en-suite.
- The attic is converted to offer two more bedrooms, both twin rooms with solid timber floors.
- She will have a twin room for single use as well as breakfast and her evening meal.
1.4(Of a crystal) twinned.
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- Continuing on your tour you see a 70-cm-high giant twin calcite crystal from Siberia that gives off an amber glow in sunlight.
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1Link (a town or district) with another in a different country or cause (two towns or districts) to be linked, for the purposes of friendship and cultural exchange: the Russian city of Kostroma is twinned with Durham
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- Breton culture is Celtic rather than French, and it is interesting to note that many of the villages are twinned with small Irish towns.
- The town is also twinned with the city of Dole in France and Northwitch in England.
- Irish signs have recently been erected on the approaches to the town with the name Muinebheag and informing people, ás Gaeilge, that the town is twinned with Pont-Pean, France.
1.1Link; combine: the company twinned its core business of brewing with that of distilling
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- His best-selling dish twins pepper shrimp with a rum and ginger sauce.
- In habitually using the term 'nation-state' to describe our collective status, we assume these two entities to be indissolubly twinned.
- The two groups were twinned back in 1998 as part of a Co-Operation Ireland initiative.
late Old English twinn 'double', from twi- 'two'; related to Old Norse tvinnr. Current verb senses date from late Middle English.
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- chris farnsworth said...
Paddy will be very proud! This ATC is excellent, and I'm particularly fond of the street lamp, I wonder if lamps in Paris are really like that? How romantic if so. Perhaps just on the Left Bank eh?
By the way, you have inspired me - I bought a book to start a journal today!
see you soon.
Chris xx
ps - where did you get the little bird brad???
- Tuesday, May 26, 2009
- Sue said...
Great use of the blobby paper, I agree with Chris, Paddy will be proud!!
- Tuesday, May 26, 2009
- Sarah Anderson said...
I'll tell you where they did have streetlamps like that ...Llangollen!!! I love that streetlamp too, although had to extend it to get it in proportion with Notre Dame ;)
I'm impressed you bought a journal Chris, well done you. Bird brad was either Hobbycraft or Craft Central at Wyevale, Timperley, it's a big brand name that I will look up for you!
- Tuesday, May 26, 2009
- artylicious said...
Love the card, love the blog, glad I found you! Thanks for featuring so many of our stamps, it's just lovely to see what you do with them after hearing Paddy sing your praises so much!
(yes, it's a genuine Paris street lamp)
- Wednesday, May 27, 2009
- paul.julie1102 said...
You seem to be inspiring us all to start new journals, my friend! Love the work you did on the layering over the alcohol inks. I used to demo the monoprinting techinque with regular old dye reinkers and use stamped acetate layered onto the blobs would be. So much fun!
- Thursday, May 28, 2009
- Muddlepud said...
Lovely blog! I've come here from my own site, where you let a comment. (Thanks!) I had to tell you that I just, I mean JUST, came across the "moodling" quote for the first time in a book I was glancing through for inspiration, and then I found it here on your header. What are the odds? :)
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Beginning as a volunteer in East Lake's Building Stable Lives project, he later served as a loaned executive during the 2009 capital campaign. Now, he is on staff as United Way associate campaign director.
He's looking at United Way's potential global impact. Gibbons is one of 26 United Way staff members in the world selected for United Way's elite Global Resident Fellows Program.
Working with peers from around the world is an easy fit for this 25-year-old, who is fluent in three languages and has taught English in France and Argentina.
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Freaking out about the wrong thingJuly 05,2013I just finished a five-month leave from this column, writing a book with my wife, Sheryl WuDunn, and what struck me while away from the daily fray is a paradox that doesnt seem quite patriotic enough for July Fourth.
But Ill share it anyway: On security issues, we Americans need a rebalancing. We appear willing to bear any burden, pay any price, to confound the kind of terrorists who shout Allahu akbar (God is great) and plant bombs, while unwilling to take the slightest step to curb a different kind of terrorism mundane gun violence in classrooms, cinemas and inner cities that claims 1,200 times as many American lives.
When I began my book leave, it seemed likely that the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut would impel Congress to approve universal background checks for gun purchases. It looked as if we might follow Australia, which responded to a 1996 gun massacre by imposing restrictions that have resulted in not a single mass shooting there since.
Alas, I was naive. Despite 91 percent support from voters polled in late March and early April, Congress rejected background checks. Political momentum to reduce gun killings has now faded until the next such slaughter.
Meanwhile, our national leaders have been in a tizzy over Edward Snowden and his leaks about National Security Agency surveillance of well, just about everything. The public reaction has been a shrug: Most people dont like surveillance, but they seem willing to accept it and much more as the price of suppressing terrorism.
Our response to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and international terrorism has been remarkable, including an intelligence apparatus in which some 1.4 million people (including, until recently, Snowden) hold top secret clearances.
Thats more than twice the population of the District of Columbia. The Washington Post has reported that since 9/11, the United States has built new intelligence complexes equivalent in office space to 22 United States Capitol buildings.
All told, since 9/11, the United States has spent $8 trillion on the military and homeland security, according to the National Priorities Project, a research group that works for budget transparency. Thats nearly $70,000 per American household.
Some of that money probably helped avert other terrorist attacks (although some of it spent in Iraq and Afghanistan may have increased risks). We need a robust military and intelligence network, for these threats are real. An al-Qaida attack is an assault on the political system in a way that an ordinary murder is not. And overseas terrorists do aspire to commit mass murder again, perhaps with chemical, nuclear or biological weapons, and our government is right to work hard to prevent such a cataclysm.
But there are trade-offs, including other ways to protect the public, and our entire focus seems to be on national security rather than on more practical ways of assuring our safety.
The imbalance in our priorities is particularly striking because since 2005, terrorism has taken an average of 23 American lives annually, mostly overseas and the number has been falling.
More Americans die of falling televisions and other appliances than from terrorism. Twice as many Americans die of bee or wasp stings annually. And 15 times as many die by falling off ladders.
Most striking, more than 30,000 people die annually from firearms injuries, including suicides, murders and accidents, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. American children are 13 times as likely to be killed by guns as in other industrialized countries.
Doesnt it seem odd that were willing to spend trillions of dollars, and intercept metadata from just about every phone call in the country, to deal with a threat that, for now, kills but a few Americans annually while were too paralyzed to introduce a rudimentary step like universal background checks to reduce gun violence that kills tens of thousands?
Wasnt what happened at Sandy Hook a variant of terrorism? And isnt what happens in troubled gang-plagued neighborhoods of Chicago just as traumatic for schoolchildren, leaving them suffering a kind of post-traumatic stress disorder?
I dont see any glib solutions here, just a need for a careful balancing of risks and benefits. Id say that in auto safety, we get it about right. We give most adults access to cars, but we regulate them with licenses, insurance requirements and mandatory seat belts. In the case of national security and terrorism, I wonder if we havent overdeployed resources.
In the case of guns, we dont do enough. Baby steps, consistent with the Second Amendment, would include requiring universal background checks, boosting research to understand gun violence and investing in smarter guns. A debit card requires a code to work, a car requires a key and a gun, nothing at all.
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By Peter Barron Stark | March 12th, 2010 | Employee Engagement / Leadership / Leading Change / Most Popular Posts
Handling Problem Employees
Several managers have relayed stories to us about their employees' lack of commitment and support for teamwork. Sometimes the employees are relatively new to the organization. More often than not, the employees they are describing have been with the organization or the department for a long time. Either way, when employees do not display behaviors that promote teamwork, there is a problem and the manager needs to address the issue.
Team members do not have to like teamwork. They do not even have to believe that the formation of the team was a good idea. But team members are supposed to do everything that they can, in their particular job, to make the team successful. That is their job.
Recently, we came across an analogy from Price Pritchard, a Dallas-based consultant, which makes a lot of sense. Imagine how long a football player would last if he said something like this, "That sounds like a mighty stupid play to me. The coach is stupid. Why should I help run it? I am not gonna run and block on a play like this one. I am gonna wander over to the sidelines, get me a few sips of Gatorade, take a breather, and watch these other dummies try to score. I'll go back in when they are running a play I like. They never told me when they signed me up they'd be running this play."
This sounds absurd, but it is difficult to move a team forward when we have several players moving to the sidelines because they don't like the manager's, or the team's, call. Players like this make it tough to run a business. We encourage managers and supervisors to take a stand and address employees who exhibit behaviors that do not support teamwork.
Using these six tips will help managers and supervisors make a difference in building a high performing team.
Pay close attention. Praise and recognize those members who exhibit positive behaviors that promote teamwork. We also encourage you to coach and counsel team members who exhibit behaviors that undermine teamwork. We do not see teamwork as an option. Managers desperately need each person's support. Managers and supervisors need people to get on the team and support the team's decisions.
Face reality! Many managers and supervisors, when they see behaviors that undermine teamwork, make the decision to manage by "hope-and-hint." When they see negative behaviors undermining teamwork, they hope it will not happen again. When hope fails, they get tougher and drop a hint. Managing by "hope-and-hint" does not work. Sit down with employees and explain that one part of the employees' job functions is supporting the team. Demand commitment! If and when they are not supporting the team, they are not doing their job to the best of their ability.
Recognize there may be casualties. When organizations change, there are going to be some people who refuse to change and support the team. As a manager, you need to recognize that this is all right and may be a positive thing. Some people will feel so dedicated to the way we used to do things around here, that they will move from one department to another, or entirely quit the organization. Do not let their resistance to change undermine your commitment to teamwork.
Recruit new team members. New team members may help in building stronger teamwork among all team members. One reason new team members may be helpful in building stronger teamwork is they have no vested interest in guarding the past or old way of doing things. They find it beneficial to be focused on the future.
Re-recruit the cream of the crop. If the team does become dysfunctional with team members exhibiting behaviors undermining teamwork, it is important to go to your "stars," the team members who do support your concepts or programs, and tell them two things. First, tell them how much you value their contributions and the gifts they bring to the team. Second, tell them you need their help in building stronger teamwork among some of the other players. Why do this? Because when the team is under stress, the problem employees never leave. It is your stars who go because they do not like the stress or stigma attached to working on a team that is dysfunctional… and a team where the manager does nothing about dysfunctional employees.
Show your passion. Indicate that you value strong teamwork with a sense of urgency. There is ample research that demonstrates that a slow change process is not anywhere near as successful as a rapid change process. If teamwork is needed, it needs to start today. Waiting for others to get mentally prepared or decide to be a team player wastes time and increases the chances of your proposed change not being fully implemented. Change, and change today!
When team members refuse to do many of the same skills we were taught in kindergarten, remember these six points. They will make a difference in helping you get your team back on track and focused on common goals.
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On Hatteberg's People, his name is Berry Harris. He's a blues' player. Been so all his life.
"It's just a part of my life, like therapy you know."
Wichitian Berry Harris has been playing the blues for over 70 years.
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He's one of the old-time blues players. He's been on the 'circuit' for years…played everywhere.
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The failure of some tiny startup company named Color that 99.9% of developers and the public don't even know is certainly not the biggest tech failure of 2012. Vastly bigger are the continuing failures of Microsoft, Nokia, and RIM. These are/were among the biggest tech companies in the world for years. Two of these three could go bankrupt or be sold in pieces in 2013 due to their 2012 failures. And Microsoft's performance leaves no doubt, they are in a state of serious decline. Microsoft, Nokia, and RIM are the biggest tech failures of 2012.
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I get your perspective. However, as I replied to you (I believe) on my site, here's my thought process. I don't necessarily think we can call Microsoft and Nokia the biggest failures of 2012. First, Microsoft is still doing well financially and some of its divisions are doing extremely well. When it comes Windows 8 -- I did cover all the news relating to that and its poor sales (including the Surface RT), you may also want check out my post titled Microsoft's Month from Hell. However, being that Windows 8 came out at the end of October, it's tough to call it a failure at this point in time -- it could very well turn out to be successful in the long-run. As for Nokia, are they in a bad spot? Sure, but their Nokia Lumia phones look promising and were apparently selling pretty decently last I checked (I have covered of that too). I wouldn't say they are the biggest failure of 2012 either. In terms of RIM, again similarly to Nokia, they are in a bad spot -- in fact, probably a worst spot than Nokia. However, I'm not going to say they were biggest failure of 2012 when they have their new OS coming out in 2013 that they believe will help them turn it around. If anything, I'd hold off on counting RIM out (and calling them the biggest tech failure) until 2013 is over. So yeah, it definitely goes to Color and the circus that went along with the company. For a company that was supposed to be as big a deal as Google, and in the end didn't have any major impact on the industry, is just another reason why they were the biggest failure of 2012. The companies you're highlighting really could be proponents for 2013's biggest tech failures (potentially), but for 2012? I don't think so.


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