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After a disappointing loss in Colorado on Wednesday, the Hawks are looking to get back on track as they host the Nashville Predators on Friday night. Both teams have struggled as they've returned from the Olympic break, but the Predators have won their last two games, scoring four goals in each contest. They roll into Chicago on the last leg of a three-game trip, and while they're currently eight points out of a playoff spot, they're still a threat to the defending Stanley Cup champs.
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for the streusel:1 cup light brown sugar1/3 cup all-purpose flour1/3 cup chopped pecans1 tsp ground cinnamon4 Tbs cold unsalted butter, cut into cubes
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Make the streusel by combining a packed 1 cup of light brown sugar with 1/3 cup all-purpose flour, 1/3 cup chopped pecans, 1 tsp ground cinnamon and 4 Tbs of cubed, cold unsalted butter and use your fingers to completely incorporate the butter.
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Whereupon I departed from Ipswitch with twenty-five souls, eight heavy guns, munitions, supplies, pack-animals, and the Queen's blessing to map the great interior of our new Cape Colony, I, Sir Ramash Cornwall, began this log of my expedition for publication upon my return.
September 4th, 1878: From Spithead, our party made sail for Lisbon, Casablanca, and on down the coast to Cape Town to make our disembarkment. The whole of the journey taking not more than two weeks as our vessel, the HMS Jingo, is a windjammer raising more than one hundred fifty eight separate sails. The captain informed me there is more than fifteen thousand miles of rope on board.
September 18th, 1878: The voyage was mostly uneventful, except one of the ships sailors nearly starting a war with Portugal when he smashed a tankard of grog over a barkeep in Lisbon when he was dissatisfied with the amount of food that came with his 'tapas' meal. Also a mule threw up on deck at one point to the elation of the bored crew.
September 20th, 1878: We have taken into our party a gaggle of local guides, the leader being one Gazelle H. Mumbato. His cousin, Hippopotamus J. Africa is a master hunter amongst his people and he convinced me to bring him on when he demonstrated how to choke a full grown elephant to death. In Cape Town, we were nearly robbed by some street urchins but Lieutenant Wenslydale (in command of our equipment) used his three-fifty-seven revolver to great effect.
September 22nd, 1878: Two days inland from Cape Town and we are making great time. Last night, the Mumbato guides performed a traditional gazelle hunt by building a trap not dissimilar from those used for Siberian tigers sans punji sticks, luring the animals to fall into the trench, then crushing them with a gigantic boulder pushed in from above.
September 24th, 1878: Four days out and game is becoming somewhat scarce. We managed only three rhinoceros, three large soaring birds–one of which was stuck mid flight with a hurled spear by Mumbato to the eruption of the party in cheers and his running about tearing off his robes in celebration–and a single giraffe, bagged using an innovative guillotine-trap. Several pygmies were also crushed when a gigantic boulder we rolled off a cliff to kill an elephant… missed.
October 4th, 1878: This last week we have had both trying and glorious times. We have sent our first dispatch by carrier-baboon to the consulate in Cape Town. Our guides say we are approaching Nairobi-towne but the maps clearly state we are two thousand miles from there. Yesterday we had to defend ourselves from a band of Zulus, which we managed rolling a gigantic boulder down the hill we were camped on, taking out three-fourths of their numbers. The rest fled, one of whom fell into an elephant-pit-boulder-crush trap we set the night before for today's brekfast.
October 12th, 1878: Today as we made our way north across the savanna, we ran into a French expedition. We shot an elephant and hid behind its corpse as they passed, then we hurled elephant scat all over them. They started screaming in Paris-talk but we went and stole their water. Good luck surviving now frogs!
October 23rd, 1878: The plains are devoid of boulders and we have had trouble setting traps. Mumbato is very skilled with the spear, and managed to plunge it through the cranium of a gazelle mid-prance. We still have food enough for weeks.
October 30th, 1878: The men, having drunk their fill tonight, decided to mount and race wildebeest. Two killed, five injured. Private Henry was named champion.
October 31st, 1878: John Williams, the only American in our party, celebrated 'Hallo-ween" today by dressing as a 'Zombye'. He entered the native's fire circle screaming and groaning to give them a playful start as we laughed, but the band, scared out of their wits, armed themselves and killed Williams, calling him 'Zramrapto', their god of black magic.
November 3rd, 1878: The damned Germans have been through here. The jungle is thick with the smell of sauer-kraut and smoked sausage. Tonight we feast on boulder-crushed leopards.
November 8th, 1878: We've reached the Limpopo and will make for the coast. From this point forward, we approach civilization rather than distance ourselves from it. This log will be presented to the Queen, along with spoils including:
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Caroline Cannon is bringing the voice and perspective of her Inupiat community in Point Hope to the battle to keep Arctic waters safe from offshore oil and gas drilling, and successfully halted numerous oil and gas leases in the region.
The Arctic waters off Alaska's north coast boast a wide array of biodiversity including polar bears, whales, fish, and millions of migrating birds. The Inupiat people of this region depend on this Arctic marine life—particularly the bowhead whale—for the survival of their traditional subsistence culture. The 700 Inupiat people of Point Hope, a remote village on the shores of the Chukchi Sea in the Arctic Circle, live sustainably from these marine resources, as their ancestors have done for millennia.
Over the last few years, there has been an enormous push to open up Arctic waters to unprecedented oil and gas development, posing an enormous threat to the region's biodiversity and the native communities who rely on those resources for their survival. Spill prevention and response capability in this remote corner of the world is virtually unknown. If a spill were to occur in the fall when the seas are freezing over, oil could be left to flow until the following summer when relief wells can be drilled.
Yet numerous leases have been slated for approval in the 2007-2012 federal plan for offshore oil and gas development. Hundreds of scientists have appealed to President Obama to stop drilling in the Arctic until experts can study the proposed oil development's impacts on the region's marine ecosystems and native communities.
Born and raised in the harsh Arctic environment in Point Hope, Caroline Cannon grew up in a tight-knit Inupiat community who do everything together to survive and provide for their families. The village elders teach everyone in the community to care for each other and respect the land and sea that feed and clothe them. Nurtured by these values, Cannon has been an active leader in Point Hope for over 30 years, having served as president of the native village and on the board of Maniilaq Association, a health organization whose clinics provide much-needed medical care in the absence of local hospitals.
She is driven by a hope that the next generation of Inupiat people, including her 26 grandchildren, will have the opportunity to carry on the way of life that she and her ancestors have known.
Caroline Cannon has become the strongest and most consistent voice against the rush to drill in the Arctic seas. She has traveled across Alaska and to Washington, D.C. to attend hundreds of industry meetings and federal summits, representing Point Hope's concerns about what's at stake and sharing her deep traditional knowledge of the Arctic marine environment, including whale migration patterns, walrus habitat and the dynamics of ice floe movements in the region.
She became the face of the Inupiat community in a federal lawsuit challenging the 2007-2012 offshore oil and gas development plan. Her representation of Point Hope as a co-plaintiff in the suit was instrumental in bringing the case to victory when, in 2009, a federal court ruled that the proposed oil and gas leases failed to consider the significant impacts to the region's marine environment. The court's decision stopped all but one of the proposed major leases. The only one to move forward, Lease Sale 193, was allowed to do so because the federal government's actual sale of the lease occurred before the lawsuit began. Cannon and her partners are now challenging that lease in federal court.
Cannon continues to be a force on Capitol Hill, standing up boldly against both industry and government during this election year, amid growing pressure to support domestic energy development and create new jobs. She and her environmental partners are galvanizing public opposition to provisions in the 2012-2017 federal plan that will allow Shell Oil to drill several exploration wells in the Chukchi Sea.
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To continuously promote the country potential, the Department of International Trade Promotion, Ministry of Commerce, has collaborated with government and private sectors in organizing Thailand International Education Expo ( TIEE) annually since 2003. The expo has been recognized as the center stage to display the infinite choice of international education to target audience.
Celebrating its tenth anniversary, the 10th Thailand International Education Expo (TIEE 2013) is taking place at the Royal Paragon Hall, 5th floor of Siam Paragon Shopping Complex in Bangkok, from February 22-24, 2013. This will mark the grandest international education expo of the ASEAN region.
Under the concept, "Live + Learn in Wonderful Thailand", TIEE 2013 features more than 200 international education institutes from around Thailand and from overseas. Being presented under one roof is a wide selection of international education programs -- from pre-school to primary school onto doctoral degree. Also highlighted are popular vocational and short courses such as Thai boxing, Thai cooking, traditional massage, and aviation training, to name a few. In addition, parents and students can enjoy shopping for educational products including computer software, games, educational toys and materials, etc.
TIEE 2013 also offers great opportunities for visitors to make the best education choices through counseling service as well as the availability of in-depth information directly from representatives of those institutes. Furthermore, there will be interactive exhibitions, workshops, seminars and discussions relating to education. On main stage daily, are series of dancing, singing, and orchestra performances by talented international students.
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Silhouette was great
Port Cape Liberty convenient port but my least favorite. It was like waiting is a warehouse.
Boarding delayed several hours due to prior cruise gastro problems requiring a complete sanitizing of ship. Waiting area in terminal not a pleasant experience. Celebrity ill prepared to handle the delay.
The Ship: Silhouette is the newest of the Solstice class. Except for elevator locations which both banks were Mid-ship and therefore inconvenient to the forward and aft cabins, we found all venues to be attractive and well designed.
Cabin was nice, beds comfortable, and decent sized shower stalls. Access to the over the bed storage was a challenge. Flat screen TV had more choices, (including 20 plus free on-demand movies) than most ships we have cruised
The Captain: had to be the funniest most entertaining of any ship we have ever sailed. It is important to mention that he is Greek. He reminded us at least 3 times a day.
Dining: More first 3 days was challenge because all foods had to be served by staff due the health precautions (see above) As such, service was erratic but understandable. In spite of this, food and service in all dining venues was excellent. We chose the select dining option (no set time to eat) and shared tables with different passengers every night. Met some really nice and interesting people. Breakfast and Lunch buffets were among the best ever.
Entertainment: From the lounge acts to the main theater all were top notch.
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Indian Taco
- Total Time:
- 20 min
- Prep:
- 10 min
- Cook:
- 10 min
- Yield:
- 6 servings
- Level:
- Easy
- Seasoned Hamburger:
- 1 pound ground chuck or sirloin
- Taco seasoning
- 1 cup refried beans
- Frybread:
- 3 cups flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 tablespoon powdered milk
- 1 tablespoon lard or margarine
- 1 1/2 cups warm water
- Vegetable oil
- Grated cheese, as an accompaniment
- Chopped tomatoes, as an accompaniment
- Chopped onions, as an accompaniment
- Chopped green chiles, as an accompaniment
- Chopped olives, as an accompaniment
- Salsa, as an accompaniment
- Sour cream, as an accompaniment
Brown the beef in saute pan over medium-high heat. Add taco seasoning, to taste. Add refried beans. Mix well and set aside.
For the Frybread: Mix flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, and powdered milk. Add lard or margarine and mix. Add water to make dough soft. Refrigerate until use. Dough will keep several days.
In a heavy skillet, heat 3/4-inch of oil to 375 degrees F.
Pat or roll out dough into about 6 (1/4 to 3/8-inch thick) rounds. Slide into hot oil. Puncture once or twice. Fry until golden brown. Flip the dough over and fry other side to golden brown. Take out and drain on paper towels.
Spoon some meat onto hot bread and top with your choice of the following: cheese, tomatoes, onions, green chiles, olives, salsa, and sour cream.
Recipe courtesy Roberta Kesselring
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Always looking for the best Fry Bread recipe. When we visit or call Indian Casinos we always ask if they have "Indian Tacos"... We stopped at a casino in New Mexico because they had Indian Tacos. We were sitting at a table enjoying our discovery and my wife praised the taco by saying the movie line: "Hey Victor! Your mother makes the best Fry Bread in the whole world!" The Native American employee working the buffet line heard her and gave the next line in the movie! It was great but it tells you what can happen when you have real Indian Fry Bread!
This recipe was good and highly above average. We are still looking for Victor's mother and her recipe. Keep making them, folks. Great food anytime... just ask restaurants if they serve them and perhaps one day they will add them to their menu......
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Yes! Bravo, I agree 100%!! So can we count on you opting your children out this year Bertis? I have one question though, if everything you say here is true....why support the move to a charter system which will create MORE accountability through a bigger emphasis on this inept testing system and reliance on data collection?posted @ Sunday, October 26, 2014 - 09:26
Yep, I agree with Myra on this one. There is a war for the minds of our children going on between the elites who want fascism (Glenn Beck and his Black Robe Regiment, CWA, APP and many other conservative groups pretending to fight so hard against CCSS yet pushing the charter/voucher movement) and the elites who want socialism/Communism (Coleman the one trying to rewrite AP history with a "whitewash" against anything positive in American history or Christianity, Gates the eugenicist). And both are being supported by their respective politicians and mega corporations. You'll notice the thing they have in common is that they both discourage civil disobedience. More convinced everyday I did the right thing pulling my daughter to homeschool.posted @ Sunday, September 28, 2014 - 07:07
This is a very good step in the right direction and after 2 years of expressing my concerns to the board and Lanoue I am very happy to see this! Now if parents would step up to the plate and refuse the tests for their children as I did we could see a real movement in getting rid of outcome based education and useless high stakes testing. Now, all that being said...watch the back door here. Clarke County is going for a "Charter System" (totally different from Charter Schools). A Charter System is a public school taking federal funds but doing its own thing. Sound good? It would be if there goal were really local control. The Clarke County School Board is making decisions based on Board Governance (control) and digital CURRICULUM that makes oversight by parents and concerned citizens difficult if not impossible to stay on top of. They are spending all of our title I funds on one to one technology. If they were truly against this high stakes environment they would not be drawing up a charter petition that will lock us into more state board accountability which relies even heavier on horribly written standardized tests. And what happens if we don't meet the risk in the new HIGHER accountability charter contract held by the state board? That's right, we lose our schools. There is another side to this coin. Be on guard. https://www.facebook.com/groups/CCSDtownhall/posted @ Saturday, September 13, 2014 - 16:47
@bertisdowns: talk is cheap. time to take action. the biggest and quickest weapon we have is for parents to opt their children out and yet Lanoue says we shouldn't do that. He also says he wants less testing mandates and at the same time is pushing us into a higher high stakes testing accountability model through the charter system...so which is it? Either he is for it or against it. Time is running out for our kids and simply "saying" I don't like testing just isn't enough anymore.posted @ Monday, September 8, 2014 - 20:40
[quote][b]myra blackmon[/b] - @The Oracle of the Athens Banner Herald: Those measure--graduation rate, literacy, SAT scores--are what must be included in the goals, along with others. I do not believe this is a "new product line," but a new operating system. I do not believe it will go down in flames, not by a long shot. If we don't like the results, we can elect a different school board. That's where the ultimate accountability lies.
If it goes down in flames, and it will because we are being set up to fail, it will be the teachers and students who lose, not the school board or Dr. Lanoue.posted @ Tuesday, September 2, 2014 - 21:36
[quote][b]myra blackmon[/b] - @jimgeiser3: Jim, We start with a fundamental disagreement. I do not believe our system of education is fundamentally broken. I believe it is simply a reflection of the ills of our society. A new system can't fix that.
Unless it is a charter system, right? Again, you contradict yourself. You say you fundamentally disagree with Jim Geiser and yet here you sit, promoting a charter system.posted @ Tuesday, September 2, 2014 - 21:32
[quote][b]myra blackmon[/b] - @The Oracle of the Athens Banner Herald: The district is in the process of writing those goals. When they are done, I hope there will be a public meeting (or several) to discuss them. I shall certainly write about them. They are part of the charter contract and must be approved by the local school board and the State Department of Education.
There better be a public meeting, actually two, or they will be in violation of the law.
"§ 20-2-2063.2. Charter systems
(a) The state board shall be authorized to
enter into a charter with a local board to
establish a local school system as a charter system.
(b) A local board seeking to create a charte
r system must submit a petition to the state
board. Prior to submitting such pe
tition, the local board shall:
(1) Adopt a resolution approving
the proposed charter system petition;
(2) Conduct at least two public hearings a
nd provide notice of the hearings in the same
manner as other legal notices
of the local board; and
(3) Send a notice to each pr
incipal within the local school system of the hearings with
instructions that each school
shall distribute the notice to
faculty and instructional staff
members and to the parent or guardian
of each student enrolled in the school."
@dahreese: I don't think you truly understand cut scores. The new cut score this past year for the CRCT was 48%. If you don't know what that means, Peg does a great job explaining it in this video starting about 22 minutes in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzLrYIDQiqY and....here is the spread sheet for the cut scores since 2010: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1fhgLZERq4pYi01S2pWOEt4Z2M/edit https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xIEvLPG_W_nBKVE7g-JMogpzOO-bLAaw... This is the largest decrease yet.posted @ Tuesday, September 2, 2014 - 21:23
Myra, what you say you "want" for our children and what you support continue to contradict each other. You can not say you are for a charter system but against current reforms when a charter system simply drills those bad reforms much much deeper. I am growing weary of your input with no real research to back it up. You sound just like the rest of the reformers...from both parties. And same goes for you Bertis, talk is cheap but when will you stand up for your LOCAL teachers and voice your concerns on a LOCAL level? When will you hold the LOCAL board and Lanoue to the same standards you hold other politicians and public servants? When will you come out of hiding and take a stand LOCALLY by opting out your own child from the tests your claim to be so harmful? Don't act like you care about our neighborhood schools and kids if you aren't willing to actually do something about it. It is highly offensive and I am tired of it.posted @ Tuesday, September 2, 2014 - 21:05
This article is most certainly more of the same "feel good" rhetoric spewed by school reformers. We already have all the community partnerships (ie, WIT, PTA/PTO for each school, Communities in Schools, federation of neighborhoods, tutoring programs, PAB for each school, ELECTED school councils for EACH school, UGA, Athens Tech, and ELECTED school board, just to name a few) we can handle and none of them require us going to a "charter system" to make them work. We do NOT need ANOTHER governing board for each school. What Ms. Blackmon and Dr. Lanuoe fail to mention here is the the "risk" involved is offering up our school district to an UNELECTED form of local governing in exchange for higher accountability in standardized test scores. Who holds the charter? The state of GA. Who appoints the governing council for the charter? The state school board. Who APPOINTS the state school board? The Governor. The new "local" governing boards for each school will only have so called "input", they will not have any authority over the rules of the Charter agreement. Then, what happens if we don't meet the "risks" involved in signing a charter with new higher accountability rules based on student scores on horribly written tests that are based on horribly written standards (which we already KNOW is a joke because the way data is conveniently played around with using things like cut scores and bonus points)? We lose the charter and all the state/federal funding that is being dangled in our faces (not even a promise of more funding btw, just a possibility of maybe a million dollars) to get us to sign the stupid charter in the first place.What happens when the measly little funding being offered up from the state and federal level isn't enough to sustain this new level of computerized testing, massive SLDS data base, and one to one technology? You guessed it, WE ARE BEING SET UP TO FAIL so we can just sign away more ELECTED power for more federal dollars and more unelected state control and federal control. I'm done having Dr. Lanoue and reformers "experiment" on and take "risks" with MY children. Go experiment on your own children and leave mine out of it. Ms. Blackmon out to be ashamed of herself. For someone who claims to be against the high stakes tests that are harmful and abusive to our children and teachers she sure is quick to support policies and people who do what she claims to be against. Also, still waiting for her to publish the research she claims to have done, in her previous article, which leads her to support of Lanoue in moving us to a charter system. Here is the actual GA law that shows just exactly what moving to a charter system means. Read for yourself.
Exactly, what we need is more teachers and paras for smaller class sizes. Plain and simple. We can and do foster community without becoming a charter system. It is the same mentality that says we need to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on IB to integrate subjects and create socially conscious, well rounded children. We already have elected School Councils, PAB, PTO/PTA, the neighborhood federation, WIT, Communities in Schools, family engagement specialists, mentor programs and on and on....Do we really need another school level council of parents and community members? Do we really need to trade half of our governing authority for stricter testing accountability measures and more state governance with more strings attached funding? The charter system offers very slight changes and those changes are in governance and accountability which are not in our favor. I'm sure Dr. Lanoue really wants to do what is best but he needs to realize by now that jumping through hoops for measly amounts of strings attached funding never actually puts the money where it needs to go. While the elected board "might" have more flexibility with local funding the state board (and now the new school-level...remember school-level does not mean local...governing boards of the charter) will have control over how and where the state and federal grants are spent. Those grants will be used to specifically to target the new more rigorous (don't you love that word?) accountability measures that will be put in place by the charter contract. If we lose the charter, we lose that money...which there isn't even a guarantee of any additional funding (I just love how they throw around words like "might" and "could" to make things sound so nice). So....we may be stuck with more unfunded mandates. And what if we don't measure up to the new accountability standards outlined in the charter? We lose the charter and then what? Too much risk here imo...too much.posted @ Monday, July 28, 2014 - 09:44
Excellent article. The fact is OBE is meant to make children and teachers conform to the human capital/workforce model or fail. Plain and simple.posted @ Monday, July 28, 2014 - 08:50
The key Myra is, as quoted from your previous piece on the charter issue, "It offers more control over curriculum, spending and approaches to instruction at the school level, it spreads the decision-making among parents, teachers, administrators and community leaders. It shares the current decision-making authority of the superintendent with people at the school level. More local people will be deciding exactly how our tax dollars will be used in our own schools." This is not what you think it is. Just because THEY (the new APPOINTED governing board) will be required to "hear" input does not mean we will have any more "say" in what goes on. This was exactly the issue we had with SB167 and Amendment 1 was it not? That we would be giving up more control for more testing accountability and federal/state strings attached funding? What we will have is and elected board that is just for show and nothing more. There will be a "school-level (which does not mean local btw) governing board" and a " school-level governing council" (which is supposed to be made up of local parents and teachers) in a charter system. I cannot find anywhere where it says this governing council will be elected. The governing board is "responsible for ensuring the contract is implemented and upheld", the council is merely "involved in governance"...and we all know what that means. http://www.gadoe.org/External-Affairs-and-Policy/Charter-Schools/Pages/d... I would love if you could elaborate on your "deeper research" of other charter systems. If you are going to reference your own studies as a reason in newspaper articles to support charters then I feel like you should be able to supply the research to go with it. Plus Dr. Lanoue will not answer my emails but he seems to have no trouble answer yours even though you are not a parent of children in CCSD. I think it would be wise for him to have a community forum on such a huge change. If he truly cared about community input he would do a better job at having open discussions WITH the community. We have not had a community forum since Amendment 1 (which was not even set up by him or the board, it was put on by the PTA) and there have been equally or even bigger changes since that issue. In fact he is legally bound to have 2 community panel discussions on this BEFORE submitting the petition to become a charter system. § 20-2-2063.2 http://archives.gadoe.org/DMGetDocument.aspx/TITLE%2020%20Charter%20Scho... I know of several Madison county parents who have not seen any positive changes from becoming a charter district. In fact they had a much harder time with the opting out of testing than I did here in Clarke. Also it easy to see how bad the charter systems are working for other states like LA and NY.posted @ Monday, July 28, 2014 - 08:15
There is no point in having control over the how if the outcome is predetermined for everyone. Teachers will teach to the test even more and if they don't they will be replaced with technology and TFA...heck they may be replaced anyway cause they cost too much. This is the key "It offers more control over curriculum, spending and approaches to instruction at the school level. It spreads the decision-making among parents, teachers, administrators and community leaders. It shares the current decision-making authority of the superintendent with people at the school level. More local people will be deciding exactly how our tax dollars will be used in our own schools." This is not what you think it is. Just because THEY (the new APPOINTED governing councils) will be required to "hear" input does not mean we will have any more "say" in what goes on. The real question is who appoints the councils and who the appointees will be. What we will have is and elected board that is just for show and nothing more. I don't mean any disrespect but for someone who is so against losing control to legislators you sure are very willing to give control to the Governor and state board (who will be doing the appointing)....who all support the very reforms we are trying to fight. Moving to a charter loosens where we don't need it to and further tightens where it already is strangling us.posted @ Thursday, July 24, 2014 - 11:50
@MyraBlackmon: This charter move is everything you hated and warned about with SB167. It will solidify the bad reforms and unelected governance for good. Please read the stuff I posted here and in the Clarke County facebook group.
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It is all part of the reform plan. http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/06/the-common-core-face-off-hiding-the-tr...posted @ Thursday, July 3, 2014 - 08:37
@Hawaii Five O: Yes, it will strip them of their power, which they didn't have much of anymore anyway. It is happening all over GA. http://www.ed.gov/category/subject/grants
Moving to a charter district is NOT a good idea. "Teachers, parents, and local school boards work with a local governing board and a strict set of accountability standards from the State Board of Education" The local governing Board will be APPOINTED, NOT ELECTED, by the State Board of Education...whom is NOT ELECTED either but APPOINTED by the Governor. Both choices we have for Governor in November here in GA support Common Core and other current educational reforms such as HST, TFA, Career Clusters,TKES, SLDS and on and on. They are using the word "local" as a distraction here but what they are doing completely eliminates any say the "local" school boards, teachers, and parents have in governance. http://ltgov.georgia.gov/charter-systems
This will lead to TFA and technology teaching our children. This is not a good move but it is the plan for all school districts. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1429786443902174/posted @ Friday, June 27, 2014 - 12:54
@electroman: As a mother of 3 children in public schools, someone who grew up in foster care, and a daycare provider and tell you with %100 certainty that you are correct. They have been working for years to create a crisis in education and child care by reducing funding and staff so they can swoop in and privatize it...now they plan to do the same with the foster care system. It is disturbing to say the least. Fran Millar has sponsored and passed a bill to privatize foster care. He also supports the RTTT and CCSS efforts. He is secretary to the Health and Human Services Committee and a member of the Education and Youth and Rules committees. People have no idea what they are up to....posted @ Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - 13:25
Well, Mr. Davis...there are some parents who DO care and have been VERY vocal to the school board, the PAB, the media, the PTO/PTA, the Superintendent, the principals, and the community...to no avail. You can find us here https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=683555288340743 The real problem is those of us who are paying attention and trying to communicate our concerns are being dismissed, NOT the other way around! Perhaps you will do differently? The current board is not very open to parental input...I have been trying to communicate with them for over a year through emails and letters and even went to speak in front of the board in December with NO response until very recently. But what I got was..."we have to do this and that...it is mandated" and then I got this..."Your incendiary rhetoric is inappropriate over and over and is highly unprofessional" ...and even this "you need to understand that your children are privileged and you should just go join a club and channel your energy into something positive" ...mind you the board member who said that has NO idea what kind of background I come from, which I can assure is anything but privileged. So, Mr. Davis...will YOU listen or be just another cog in the GSBA and RTTT wheel?
As for the technology...yes it is a bad idea! Here is the email sent to parents this past week about the roll-out of 1:1..
"Dear CCSD Parents and Guardians,
As you likely know, we are currently preparing to expand our 1:1 initiative next year in grades 3-9, with the opportunity for students to take devices home. Taking this next step in creating digital learning environments for all students is significant, as access will now be constantly available for our students. I have great confidence in both our rollout in the fall, as well as the opportunities this will provide for our students.
I fully understand that an undertaking of this magnitude generates many questions; therefore, I wanted to take this opportunity to provide more information about the plans that have been developed. I hope this information helps create confidence that our planning has been comprehensive and will allow you to focus on instruction and not devices and procedures.
School Support. Each elementary and middle school will have a part-time tech support position High schools will be staffed with students in a career-based learning program to provide support.
Devices. Currently, the district is invested in netbooks, Chromebooks and laptops. These will remain the primary devices for the 2014-15 school year. Additional devices will be available in all schools to allow for loaners while devices are being repaired.
Parent/Guardian Involvement. Including parents/guardians in the process will be crucial, as they will be required to understand the conditions for taking devices home. In addition, required orientation sessions will be held to familiarize parents with digital ethics and literacy. Parents/guardians may choose not to have their child(ren) take a device home, if they can access their work from home using a personal device.
Policy and Regulations. Expectations for parents/guardians and students are currently being drafted, with an anticipated approval by the Board of Education in June. Following this approval, we will provide you with an update.
Repair Process. We are purchasing carrying cases that have room to store the power cord for every device being issued to our students. We believe that this will reduce damage to devices significantly, as students will be required to keep devices in cases at all times. Parents will be responsible for the cost of repairing devices; however, they will have an option to pay an annual non-refundable $25 fee that will cover the cost of repairs. More details on repairs and insurance will be made available after the Board reviews the 1:1 policy in June.
Security. A system will be implemented that will assist in the recovery of lost and/or stolen devices. In addition, all devices will be easily identifiable as Clarke County School District property.
Device Replacement. Parents and students will sign an agreement up front including their responsibility for the cost if the device needs to be replaced (i.e. loss or theft). Parents will have the option of purchasing additional protection insurance for the device.
Internet Filtering. There will be a solution in place that will extend the current internet filtering off site.
Wireless Status in Schools. We are in the process of upgrading our wireless infrastructure throughout the district. Clarke Middle School and Whit Davis Elementary School will be the first schools to receive the new service, which will improve internet capacity as well as connection speed. A schedule for all schools in the district is in progress.
Home Access for Students Without Internet. There is now an option in the Google platform that gives teachers the ability to create an offline folder. This folder would give students the ability to access resources and assignments from home without an internet connection. We believe this solution will address the concerns regarding students and families who do not have access to the internet.
Hopefully, the list above addresses the majority of questions. If you have further questions or input regarding our 1:1 initiative, please contact Djamal Balbed, Director of Instructional Technology, at firstname.lastname@example.com or (706) 546-7721, ext. 18338.
Thank you for all your support of our innovative learning environments! I look forward to expanding our digital learning environments this fall.
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So....If you have anything you want to say about this to the school board...now is the time to speak up...
You have to realize how much this is going to end up costing our district. Say good bye to more parapros, librarians, field trips, textbooks, counselors, among other things and staff...and don't forget to add in the cost of the new SLDS (the grant from RTTT only covered the set up of this massive database. When the grant runs out we are on the hook for it), the new assessments (they are replacing the CRCT with the GMAP next year which aligns with CCSS and adding new assessments for all other subjects not normally covered by the CRCT), and the new evaluation system TKES (which places 60% of teachers evals solely on student test scores).
They are spending over 400k from Title I funds on just the initial purchase of computers/ipads for only 4 schools in the district. Does not even include the software and programs. Spending 32K a year for the new Foothills Charter High School. I can't even imagine how much the Career Academy is costing. Then they are spending over 200k on IB from Title II funds...every year....for as long as we have the program...these costs never go down....but I bet they will go up!
You can validate all of this information by simply watching the recorded board meetings on their youtube channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-V-Un08u1g
I look forward to forwarding you all 80 or so emails as soon as I have your CCSD email and I would be happy to sit down with you anytime and discuss my concerns and hear your opinions on current reforms.
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@golfdaddy: yes, I was thinking the exact same thing.posted @ Thursday, May 29, 2014 - 10:47
@As I See It: Actually he does have a plan. What's typical is people (from BOTH parties) not taking the time to research candidates, relying on the media for their biased tidbits of info, and voting on party lines just because they always have. Anyone with common sense would understand that you can't state your entire plan to boost the economy in a 30 or 60 second answer. Instead of automatically discounting what a candidate says in a limited format, you should actually take the time to look deeper. Go to his website and check out his plan. Watch all of his videos on youtube. Look at his record in Dalton. Then.....if you still disagree with his ideas come back and make an educated comment as to why you think his plan won't work.posted @ Sunday, May 18, 2014 - 09:18
@drdonna: Not much yet, unfortunately. Dr. Lanoue is drinking the Common Core koolaide all day long. But it is a small victory for the opposition. We have much more work to do. Most of the legislators, particularly Millar, are trying to jerk us around. Sen Ligon is currently the only legislator up there who is truly fighting to help us get local control of our schools and get rid of these horrible standards. Join us here to get more info on the fight. https://www.facebook.com/groups/505453512861887/606745899399314/?notif_t... https://www.facebook.com/groups/683555288340743/posted @ Friday, February 21, 2014 - 23:30
@marshalld: Actually, the legislature was bypassed as well as the general public with the adoption of Common Core. Two signatures signed us on to Common Core...former Gov. Sonny Purdue and former State Superintendent Kathy Cox. And if you think it is just the Tea Party opposing it...I suggest you dig deeper in your research of the opposition.posted @ Friday, February 21, 2014 - 23:24
This 5 part series sums up perfectly what is happening in public education. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coRNJluF2O4posted @ Tuesday, January 14, 2014 - 21:06
Summary: I'm not saying it's lonely to be a movie critic, but we often find ourselves seated alone in an empty theatre when we're watching new stuff. I know people who say they won't go see anything unless they have at least one other person to go with, but I've always enjoyed having the place to myself. I'm not saying it's lonely to be a movie critic, but we often find ourselves seated alone in an empty theatre when we're watching new stuff. I know people who say they won't go see anything unless they have at least one other person to go with, but I've always enjoyed having the place to myself. read more
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Intel Wants to Be the Chip for All Reasons
Intel Wants to Be the Chip for All Reasons
During its 43 years in business, Intel, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based processor maker, has built an international reputation based on making high-quality x86-type processors for uses that generally involve personal computers, enterprise servers, storage arrays and other familiar IT machines.
Now, as the proliferation of various types of other connected devices explodes into all corners of the globe and spreads over all income levels, more chips-and more powerful variations thereof-are going to be needed to carry these ever-increasing data loads and deliver them in a timely fashion. This includes thousands of devices that are not known for being in Intel's marketing sweet spot.
For example, Intel is just beginning to supply chips for tablets and phones-by far the world's fastest-selling IT items. When addressing Intel's investors earlier this year, CEO Paul Otellini said: "There's been so much written about tablets that I don't know where to start, except to say we're on track.
"We're tracking 35 designs on multiple operating systems. Some are shipping now with Windows. We're demonstrating some Android devices now. The tablet race is nowhere near finished. No one really knows the size of this market, but it's real clear that everyone's putting energy into it."
Otellini also said that, thanks to a well-ballyhooed partnership with Nokia that blew up in February 2011, Intel won't be powering smartphones until sometime in 2012. He stated: "We have freed up those [Nokia] resources and turned that design into a form factor/reference design. We're shopping that now to a number of manufacturers ... and we've had good success. You'll see the first Intel-based phones [using new Medfield chips] in the market the first part of next year. ... In hindsight, Nokia was the wrong partner to have picked."
Need for Performance
On the other side of this is the insatiable need for more and better high-performance computing. The power, bandwidth and storage numbers get mind-boggling in the supercomputing sector, with large enterprises, scientific labs, government agencies and other sectors clamoring for more and more processing power.
The demand never slows down. Intel, however, isn't fazed by all this demand.
The company wants to power all these to-come connections with new-generation, multi-integrated core (MIC) chips at every level: processors that will run all types of automated and human-driven devices from the creation of content to routers, to modems, to data centers, through processing and, finally, to storage. We're talking about all types of creational and networking devices, including sensors, videocams, scientific instruments-the whole gamut of IT.
Where there once were specialized chips doing random kinds of jobs, Intel plans to go there with its mainstream products. Its Xeon-class MIC processors, called the Intel Knights, are the frontline products in this initiative.
Kirk Skaugen, a 19-year Intel veteran (left)who has been whispered about as a possible future CEO, is the point man for a great deal of this future planning. His title is vice president of Intel's Architecture Group and general manager of the Data Center Group. This takes in quite a chunk of the company, including servers, storage, networking, switching, routing, telecom infrastructure and embedded systems.
"About two years ago, we combined wired and networking, servers and storage, which had all been three divisions," Skaugen told eWEEK. "The piece that hadn't been integrated was switching and routing, as well as communications infrastructure for the telcos. The same similarities of moving to standard Xeon hardware that happened in servers are happening in storage, as well as in the control plane of switching and routing."
In the future, the integration of new Xeon processors will replace all the old chips. That's also happening in communications infrastructure. "So, there are many similarities of old RISC processors that are moving over to Xeon for the economies, performance and everything that we've put together," Skaugen said. Incremental to that, Intel also added the burgeoning embedded processor business, he added.
"We have three pillars for [selling chips into] the cloud in our 2015 vision: the federated cloud, the automated cloud and the client-aware cloud," he said. "When we're going to connect 15 billion devices to the Internet by 2015 and Ericsson is saying 50 billion devices by 2020, it's important for us to know that whole connection."
What Intel means by client awareness, Skaugen said, "is that when you detect a device at the end of a service, our belief is that you want to optimize the end-user experience, but you also want to optimize the cost of the service and the infrastructure it takes to deliver that service.
"Where do you determine that client awareness?" he asked. "Does it happen at the bottom of a base station? Does it happen at the edge of the data center in a switch? Does it happen in the server? We now have a play across the data center to the device."
This all fits into Intel's automation pillar because the company already knows what kind of graphics are on the end of a client. "We can automate what type of server you can move a service to in the data center," he said.
Intel chips are being used in a solid 70 percent of the storage controller market, and that number is moving closer to 80 percent, according to Skaugen. "That's commensurate with where we're at in servers," he said. "And our business with the top 10 networking companies is up 60 percent in the last 18 months. We've ported literally hundreds of applications from Sparc to IA [Intel architecture] over the last five years in the telecom industry. All of that new business is basically Xeon.
"I think the telecommunications industry now has the confidence that Xeon is a mission-critical architecture and can move some of their internal workloads, not just the packaged apps. We're seeing a pretty big windfall of SPARC and Power conversion coming over to Xeon and, to certain extent, Itanium."
A Tall Order
So Skaugen and Intel in general have a lot of things to juggle, as far as supplying all sectors of IT-related businesses with processors that work and can last a long time. It's definitely a tall order. But can Intel live up to this lofty goal?
"Sun [Microsystems] used to be dominant in the financial services sector and telcos for a long time, but they're been washed out of most of that business in the last few years," Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT and a longtime Intel expert, told eWEEK. "There is continued momentum there [for Intel]. And when you look at the cloud services world-meaning Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft with Azure-they're all running x86. There's very little of non-x86 in all those operations.
"Intel's in a sweet spot in that it's also pushing Unix into a smaller and smaller niche in a lot of markets. At the same time, they're considered the cutting-edge tech for this wave of cloud computing that everybody's been talking about and predicting for years."
What Intel really has in mind is being the microprocessor inside literally every part of the data center, King said. "That's the long view," he added. "And they're working very hard to make that happen."


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Ruth, I hope you had fun with your friends. Definitely need to catch up with them after a couple weeks! Good work catching up on laundry and groceries. Have a safe, warm, crafty and bookish weekend! :)
Angie, my boys have been disappointed lately because the snow is melting more than falling. Meanwhile, I look forward to warmer temps for the yardwork that needs to happen each spring. ;) I think I should plan to have one small knitting project and then a larger one on the go at the same time - that sounds like a great strategy that could work for me. :) Hope your Friday is productive and fun!
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Slow start to the day so far, but that can be a very good thing. :) I actually seem to be less peppy in the morning than I used to be and have to adjust my routine to accommodate easing into the day!
After Tim was off to school, I got my Bible study done while I had my morning tea. I'm trying to cut back to one caffeinated tea, then herbal or water. Less caffeine might have something to do with being slower in the morning. ;)
After Ben's done with snacktime, I'm hoping I can get him out of the house without too much complaint and walk to the post office before doubling back for playgroup at the school. (I'll bring my knitting with me, hee hee.) While I love to be a homebody, I need to work on enough social time for Ben to get him ready for that aspect of going to school full-time in another year.
Then after lunch, I'll tackle dishes, laundry and bathroom cleaning. I have ground beef already cooked since there was too much in the package for yesterday's meatloaf, so I'm going to turn that into sloppy joes (with tortillas rather than buns).
Tonight I'm putting the boys to bed 40-45 mins early to go along with my time-change adjustment strategy. I haven't done the same for myself, but if I'm tired, I'll just go to bed early as I did last week. Since Hubby will likely be out with friends (Friday being his night out while mine is Tuesday) I'll likely do some audio editing with music playing in the background.
Now that I wrote you all a novel ;) I better get the kiddo ready and remember where my sunglasses are in case the sunshine stays for our walk! Have a wonderful Friday!
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Hi ladies. Sorry I didn't read everything. I actually slept in until 7:30 today, so I am running way behind this morning. I need to finsih up, feed furbabies, feed human babies and self, get some house work done, then go visit a few inlaws later today. Tonight I plan on getting the kids bathed and into bed a bit early to try to help with the loss of an hour.
Tomorrow I am hoping to take the kids outside after church. It is supposed to get into the 50's! If enough snow melts, (and I can scoop the doggy poopies beforehand) they will have a fun time outside. :)
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Good Morning...I slept in until 7:30 too...felt so good!!! Want to go to my folks today and put more pictures up on the walls....also if the rain holds off go for a walk...
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Simple life rule: never trust a guy in a Tunic, particularly considering that this tunic is made for women.
Hurley made the Women's Wilson Tunic Tank Top 100-percent frump-free so you can enjoy the rad, plaid freedom of a long flowy tank without looking like a sack of potatoes. This button-up tunic has pintuck detailing and a smooth cotton fit so you can comfortably spend your night dancing barefoot around a beach-side bonfire until its time to drag yourself into work. Blowing glass at your grandma's head shop is pretty good work.
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Very cute and comfortable but I dont like the pockets too much they bulge out a bit making you look a little wide
Other than that it fits nicely and I wear a tank or tee underneath.
Incredibly cute :]
This long, tunic-length top is SUPER cute and comfortable. The overall fit of the shirt is flattering and feminine. The two deep pockets on either side make this top over-the-top-cute; and, for me, the only down side to this top is that the neck line is SUPER LOW; which, unfortunately, makes it so that I HAVE TO layer another tank underneath. Who wants to do that on a hot day??