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The Jordan Brothers are a musical group.
The 30-year career of the Jordan Brothers began on Halloween Eve in 1954.
Their career evolved into 42 recordings on 15 different labels. Appearing on Dick Clark's American Bandstand three times, the Jordans were headliners on Clark's 49-day "Caravan of Stars" that toured the United States and Canada. Traveling in one of two 40-seat busses, Frank and Joe Jordan were accompanied by the likes of The Coasters, The Drifters, The Skyliners, Bobby Rydell, La Verne Baker, Paul Anka, Annette Funicello, Jimmy Clanton and several members of the Duane Eddy's Band, including Jim Horn and Jimmy Troxel. The Jordans were featured on Jerry Blavat's WFIL "Discophonic TV Scene" and apperared on East Coast TV programs, especially in the Tri-State area.
The group later recruited brothers Bobby and Lew to round out the quartet. Their recording of "Gimme Some Lovin'" in 1966 was their biggest hit, and charted at No. 1 in Boston, Baltimore and other r&b citadels. Other recordings included "Things I Didn't Say," "Dream Romance" and "We'll Make It." [1]
The group broke up, but on September 17, 1986, at the Art and Ethnic Center in Pottsville at the Schuylkill County Council For the Arts the Jordan Brothers regrouped as the Jordan Brothers Plus One Band to perform live at this one-time event. In October 1986, the Schuylkill County Commissioners proclaimed "Jordan Brothers Month."
The brothers later regrouped, recruiting 21-year-old Johnny Jordan, son of drummer Bob, as the new bass player.
The Jordan Brothers have been presented with an engraved plaque at the Municipal Building in Frackville, Pennsylvania, with text reading:
With a career that spanned from 1954 to 1985 the Frackville Brother's musical adventure evolved into a phenomenal forty-two recordings on fifteen different labels. They appeared with host Dick Clark on "American Bandstand" and were featured on Jerry Blavat's WFIL "Discophonic T.V. Scene." Statewide performances included "The Coal Region's" local dance halls, Willow Lake, Lakeside Ballroom, and The Alley. Some of their greatest hits included "Heart" and "Beach Party". Their biggest hit "Gimme Some Lovin" came in 1966.
In 2010, Frank and Joe Jordan reunited on stage at the Cressona Fire Company, backed by the band Diaspora. The benefit was organized for Debbie Roadcap, granddaughter of Willow Lake owners Tom and Dot Smith.


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It sounds simple: find someone to make a friend with. Yet it was more complex than that, since you have to navigate both national and cultural boundaries. But that only made it so much more enriching and fulfilling—more than I could have ever imagined. Studying abroad, making friendships and spending time with people from South Africa gave me the opportunity to question my own priorities and truly open my mind.
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EDITORIALS By Leonard Henderson |
How do I get my records from CPS?
May 18, 2010
That is a question people ask often.
Having been there myself, the reason I wanted the paperwork they had on me was because I HAD NO IDEA why CPS was hassling me.
In my case, I had a stepson who was in constant trouble. Wherever he wasn't supposed to be, that's where he was, and whatever he wasn't supposed to be doing, that's what he was doing. He was a violent and dangerous kid.
One of the stores finally got a can-full of his klepto tendencies and he was arrested. He ended up in Juvenile. We went to CPS for HELP and VOLUNTARILY signed one of their standard off-the-shelf Service Plans, and the little thug was off to Residential Treatment.
CPS set it up so I had to go pick him up on Fridays so he could spend weekends at home and then take him back on Sunday afternoon. This was a 200 mile round trip twice a week.
Then one day, a "psychiatrist" at the Residential Treatment Center decided to "diagnose" the kid as "depressed" (The hell he was).
Bear in mind that at the time I was running 3 businesses. Seven days a week. Seven am to midnight. The wife was bringing me all my meals at work. So somehow I became the guy who gave this kid a fictitious "Post Traumatic Stress Disorder".
Suddenly the focus of attention was not on the kid's behaviors. Our asking for help turned into an "investigation".
It's about ME.
Nobody would tell me what I did. It's a secret. I was hearing tidbits of what other people who had been "interviewed" had said.
They have the wife and I set up for "counseling" at least one day a week. Wednesdays, as I recall.
So here I was, in the CPS meatgrinder, going to meetings with psychiatrists and "mental illness counselors" for the express reason of "identifying parenting styles that will be more appropriate in parenting Redacted".
The CPS agent also commented that she wanted ALL OUR KIDS to "take classes" on how to get along with Redacted.
One day at a meeting, the CPS agent announced that they were considering "taking custody" of the kid and going after ME for $2700 a month child support. For a stepson whose father never paid a dime child support.
That's when I start wondering what the "he- double toothpicks" is in my file. Whatever it is, it HAS to be untrue, because I had long ago been made aware of CPS expectations of parents (I was an employer, and went to bat for my employees against CPS as early as 1980).
I asked them what the heck I was accused of. They acted mad that I even asked. As if I was supposed to "get it" by osmosis.
And THAT'S WHEN I WANTED TO KNOW WHAT THE HECK WAS IN THE RECORDS, because whatever it was, it was insanely wrong and needed to be rebutted.
I hired a lawyer. They wouldn't tell her what I had
done either. They resisted HER efforts to get the records too.
That's when I learned that before I could SUE THEM, I had to go through the
"Grievance Process".
~By the way~ |
Just like that, after FOUR MONTHS of pure insane HELL from these people, it's all over.
Then I filed my FOIA/ Privacy Act request for THE PAPERWORK.
Four months later, I received about five pounds of papers. Almost all of them were completely BLACKED OUT (That's what the word Redacted means)
So, for the question and title of this editorial "How do I get my records from CPS?", that's it- File a FOIA/ Privacy Act request.
Somewhere along the line, |
There will never really be answers to your questions, because NONE of this is American Constitutional Due Process.
These goose-stepping lying buckets of pig puke don't see it as any of your business what sort of crap they have put in your records.
However, it appears that for the rest of your life, they WILL tell your potential employer when you are trying to get a job, such as driving a school bus. Unlike a bad credit report, you never get to know what's in it- or rebut it..
be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own."
--Aesop (c. 550 B.C.) legendary Greek fabulist
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and WHEN
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I am not a lawyer and I do not pretend to give legal advice. If you need legal
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I merely relate the things I learned in the past that seemed to work in my own
case or things that others have related to me that worked in their cases. I
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or reward on this side of heaven. Therefore, DO NOT rely on this information
as legal advice. Real Legal advice would come from a real lawyer who hates CPS
and prepares a VIGOROUS DEFENSE against a negative (proving nothing happened)
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European Space Agency picks Plato planet-hunting mission
Plato planet-hunter and star probe
- Design calls for a suite of 34 telescopes to be mounted on a single satellite platform
- Mission should confirm and characterise hundreds of rocky worlds in habitable zones
- Its technology would have the sensitivity also to detect the planets' moons and rings
- Intricate measurements of the host stars (asteroseismology) would yield key information
- To launch from Sinnamary in French Guiana on a Soyuz rocket in 2023/2024
- Plato would be stationed 1.5 million km from Earth on its "nightside"
A telescope to find rocky worlds around other stars has been selected for launch by the European Space Agency's (Esa) Science Policy Committee.
Known as Plato, the mission should launch on a Soyuz rocket in 2024.
The observatory concept was chosen following several years of assessment in competition with other ideas.
It is expected to cost Esa just over 600 million euros, although hardware contributions from member states will take this closer to a billion (£800m).
Astronomers have so far found over 1,000 planets beyond our Solar System, but none as yet has been shown to be truly Earth-like in terms of its size and distance from a Sun similar to our own.
The PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars mission will look to change that.
It will be tuned specifically to seek out rocky worlds orbiting in the "habitable zone" - the region around a star where water can keep a liquid state.
"Plato will be our first attempt to find nearby habitable planets around Sun-like stars that we can actually examine in sufficient detail to look for life," said Dr Don Pollacco, the University of Warwick researcher who leads the Plato Science Consortium.
"Nearly all the small transiting planets discovered so far have been beyond our technology to characterise. Plato will be a game-changer, allowing many Earth-like planets to be detected and confirmed and their atmospheres examined for signs of life.
"Plato planets will allow us to develop and test theories of planet evolution, understanding the type of small planets in the Universe and the real frequency of Earth-like planets," he told BBC News.
Plato is not really one telescope but rather a suite of 34 telescopes mounted on a single satellite.
The intention is for this array to sweep about half the sky, to investigate some of its brightest and nearest stars.
The observatory will monitor these stars for the tell-tale tiny dips in light that occur when planets move across their faces.
An important part of this investigation will be to perform an intricate study of the host stars themselves, using their pulsations to probe their structure and properties.
Such observations, referred to as asteroseismology, would provide key, complementary information for the proper characterisation of the rocky worlds.
The mission will be led by Dr Heike Rauer at DLR, the German space agency.
- Planets beyond our Solar System are often given the term 'exoplanet'
- More than 1,000 have been detected to date using several techniques
- But many of these worlds are large planets believed to resemble Jupiter or Neptune
- Many gas giants have been found to be orbiting very close to their stars
- This has prompted new ideas to describe the formation and evolution of solar systems
The key British hardware contribution will be the camera system that sits behind the telescope suite.
This will incorporate 136 charge-coupled devices (CCDs) produced by the e2v company in Chelmsford, Essex. Just under a metre square and having 2.5 billion pixels, the CCD system will be the biggest ever flown in space.
It seems certain also that the British arm of Airbus Defence and Space (formerly Astrium) will endeavour to lead the construction of the satellite.
Plato should prove to be a good fit with other next-generation astronomical facilities.
These will include the ground-based European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), which will have a primary mirror some 39m in diameter. To be built in Chile, this giant should be operating by 2024, and will have the power to investigate the atmospheres of the Plato's newly discovered planets.
Plato is the third medium-class launch opportunity to be offered under Esa's so-called Cosmic Vision programme, which defines the organisation's space science priorities.
The first two to be selected were Solar Orbiter, a space telescope to study the Sun, to launch in 2017; and Euclid, a telescope to investigate "dark energy", to fly in 2020.
Esa will now refine the final design of Plato and select the industrial prime contractor.
In addition, the agency's national member states must also agree any contributions they wish to make over and above their mandatory commitments.
Once all this is done, the mission will be formally "adopted" - legal-speak for "final go-ahead". This should happen within the next two years.
The unanimous selection of Plato by the SPC on Wednesday will be immensely pleasing to the team behind the Eddington space telescope - an Esa mission to find distant planets and do asteroseismology that was cancelled due to budget woes in the early 2000s.
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Proposition 117 - Video Transcript
MODERATOR RICH DUBEK: Now, a description of Proposition 117 by Secretary Bennett.
SECRETARY OF STATE KEN BENNETT: Thank you, Rich.
A "yes" vote on Proposition 117 will set a limit on the annual percentage increase in property values used to determine property taxes to no more than 5 percent above the previous year, and establish a single limited property value as the basis for determining all property taxes on real property, beginning in 2014.
A "no" vote will have the effect of keeping current constitutional law related to calculating property taxes and values.
MODERATOR RICH DUBEK: Thank you, Mr. Secretary.
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MODERATOR RICH DUBEK: And our first speaker on the pro side of 117 is Kevin McCarthy, president of the Arizona Tax Research Association. Mr. McCarthy, you also have two minutes.
MR. KEVIN McCARTHY: The Arizona Tax Research Association is a statewide taxpayer organization that has represented and protected Arizona property taxpayers for 72 years. We are grateful for the bipartisan support that we've received in the Legislature to refer Prop 117 to the ballot.
Arizona is infamous for having one of the most complicated property tax systems in the country. Outside of those who are paid to administer that system or those who profit from its complexity, very few Arizonans understand our complex system.
From predictability to stability to transparency, it fails almost every criteria for judging a tax system. Prop 117 will simplify this system, as well as protect Arizona taxpayers from unlimited tax increases associated with rapid growth in the real estate market. One unique and unnecessary feature of our tax system is that we have two taxable values that even the most sophisticated taxpayers can't understand.
Prop 117 will simplify this system by reducing the taxable values from two to one simply understood value. Another particularly negative feature of our system is it lacks any annual limit in the growth of property values. Prop 117 addresses this problem by putting a 5 percent annual cap on the growth of taxable values.
The lack of any current limit on taxable values unfairly exposes taxpayers to significant tax increases when the real estate market surges. In fact, in the middle part of the last decade, many Arizonans saw significant tax increases when they received a 60 percent increase in their taxable value from the County Assessor in one single year. Prop 117's 5 percent limit will protect taxpayers from those local governments that ride the natural growth in the real estate market to major tax increases. A 5 percent limit on one taxable property is good --
MODERATOR RICH DUBEK: Time is up.
MR. KEVIN McCARTHY: -- policy for Arizona taxpayers, and I strongly support -- encourage your support for Prop 117. Thank you.
MODERATOR RICH DUBEK: Thank you very much.
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Hibernian defender Paul Hanlon admits he is worried about the club's recent form - but not their top-six chances.
The Easter Road outfit have won just two out of their past 11 Scottish Premier League and Scottish Cup matches amid an alarming drop in standard.
That ghastly run has also resulted in a concerning fall from a standpoint in second place, where they looked set to mount a challenge to SPL leaders Celtic, to their current position in fifth, where they now need to fear dropping out of the top half of the table altogether.
Monday night's 3-1 home defeat to St Johnstone leaves them just four points above city rivals Hearts in 10th place and just one better off than a three-team bunch that includes Kilmarnock, Dundee United and Aberdeen in the top-flight's tightly-packed midfield.
Hanlon admits to fears about their form but believes the congested nature of the standings may yet save their hopes of once again reaching loftier heights.
The defender told Press Association Sport: "It's concerning because we are not on a good run of results.
"But on the plus side we are not far away, we're still in the mix, and if we can go on a good run of results like we did at the start of the season, then we can be right back up there again.
"If the league wasn't as tight as it is, the run we're on would have put us right down the bottom end and we'd be out of it.
"But we can take confidence from that fact and if we can pick our game up in the next couple of weeks, we still have a chance of being back up at the top end of the table."
Hanlon and his team-mates were rebuked by boss Pat Fenlon for not performing to their best in the defeat by Steve Lomas' Perth men earlier this week.
But the 23-year-old centre-back insisted it was the players' own self-imposed criticisms which ensured the result was no laughing matter.
Now the former Scotland Under-21 cap insists a few wrongs must be righted when the team face St Mirren in Paisley on Saturday.
He said: "There was a few of the dressing-room jokers who came in and tried to lift the spirits when we came back to training. But it didn't work.
"When the boys came in the place was a bit low. Everyone was disappointed. We let everyone down.
"We'd all have preferred the St Mirren game was the next day so we could try and put it right.
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Bye Bye Brain LyricsArtist: Groovie GhouliesAlbum: Travels With My Amp How long have I been here? Won't you stay? Why are you acting weird? Of course she left the picture, just to rub it in. I can't take this no longer - just put me in the bin. Bye bye brain. So long sanity. Everything went away when she left me. I can't think since this morning. My head is acting strange. It's all one big dull pain: bye bye brain. Am I dumb? Or was it all that rum? My feet are numb! This isn't any fun! She's probably somewhere laughing uncontrollably, and sticking little pins into a voodoo doll of me.
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This is a summary of major requirements from federal and state law for a financial management system and related requirements for the operation of the nonprofit school food service that apply to school food authorities (SFA) participating in School Nutrition Programs (SNPs).
SFAs must maintain a financial management system as required by the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) to document the revenues and expenses of the nonprofit school food service. For school districts, the financial management system is the Uniform Financial Accounting and Reporting Standards (UFARS).
In the agreement to participate in SNP, an SFA agrees to:
Applicable sections of the federal regulations for the National School Lunch Program, 7 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 210 are:
7 CFR § 210.2: Definitions - net cash resources, nonprofit school food service, nonprofit school food service account, and revenue.
7 CFR § 210.9(b): Agreement provisions regarding financial management.
7 CFR § 210.14: Resource management.
7 CFR § 210.19(a): Additional responsibilities.
An SFA must make its accounting system, including complete documentation of school food service revenues and expenses, available at the time of program administrative reviews and at any time upon request.
Public schools meet financial management standards for documentation of revenues and expenses by their required reporting in UFARS, Fund 02.
Nonpublic schools and residential child care institutions may need to implement procedures so that their financial management system meets program standards.
SFAs must limit net cash resources in the nonprofit school food service account to no more than the SFA's average expenditures for three months.
At the end of each fiscal year, an SFA must compare its net cash resources to its average food service expenditures to determine whether it has any excess funds, that is, whether SFA's net cash resources exceed three months average expenditures for the SFA. If using the Financial Report Form for Nonpublic Schools, this comparison of net cash resources to average expenditures is shown in the Net Cash Resources section of the form.
An SFA with excess funds in the school food service account must notify MDE-Food and Nutrition Service of the amount of excess funds and the plan to reduce excess funds. Allowable expenses that excess funds may be used for include:
SFAs are required to annually compare program and non-program funds to ensure that non-program foods generate sufficient revenues so that prices for non-program foods are not subsidized by revenues from program meals. For details, refer to Minimum Revenue from Nonprogram Foods on the SNP/Financial Management page of the MDE website.
View Minnesota Statutes, section 123B.77 - Accounting, Budgeting and Reporting Requirement
View Minnesota Statutes, section 124D.111 – Lunch Aid; Food Service Accounting
State law requires public schools to attribute food service revenues and expenditures to a school food service fund. Public schools are required to adopt the UFARS system for financial management and reporting.
UFARS requires expenses to be allocated by program, i.e., by lunch, breakfast, milk, a la carte, and any other federal nutrition program that the SFA participates in such as Summer Food Service Program and Child and Adult Care Food Program.
The UFARS Manual is available online. View the UFARS Manual.
Costs that may be charged either to the food service fund or the general fund:
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- Accounting for meals.
- Preparing and serving food.
- Providing kitchen custodial services.
- Other expenses involving the preparing of meals or the kitchen section of the lunchroom.
Costs that must be charged to the general fund:
- Lunchroom supervision.
- Lunchroom custodial services.
- Lunchroom utilities.
- In limited situations, if the food service fund has a surplus for three successive years, lunchroom costs charged to the general fund may be recoded to the food service fund.
- An SFA that participates in the Community Eligibility Provision (the SFA does not need to process Applications for Educational Benefits for the purpose of providing school meal benefits) and continues to process Applications for Educational Benefits must charge those costs to the general fund.
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If a school district has a deficit in the food service fund on June 30 and the deficit is not eliminated during the following year, the deficit must be eliminated (by June 30 of the second year) by a permanent fund transfer from the general fund, unless a plan as described in the next paragraph has been approved by MDE-Food and Nutrition Service.*
An SFA may incur a deficit in the food service fund for up to three years, without any permanent transfer, if:
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A school district with superintendent or fiscal manager costs that are attributable to the food service may charge those costs to the food service fund up to the maximum amount defined below, unless the SFA has a food service director or food service management company.
That portion of superintendent or fiscal manager costs attributable to the food service may be charged to the food service fund at a rate that does not exceed the average food service director wage in Minnesota as documented by the latest wage information available on the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) website. View BLS information on Minnesota wages by occupation code. Scroll down to the row for Occupation Code 11-9051 - Food Service Managers and find the mean hourly wage.
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TheYanks04 wrote:So is Wagner going to get he nod or not?Are we going to see Miley do a Baker or will sanity prevail?
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1. Better soil aeration results from good drainage. This permits deeper and more extensive root development and a more favorable environment for beneficial soil microorganisms and earthworms. 2. Better soil moisture conditions with good drainage permit more operation of tillage, planting, and harvesting equipment. There is less change of destroying soil tilth due to working soil when it is too wet. 3. Longer growing seasons can be achieved with good drainage due to earlier possible planting dates. Planting delays normally result in 1 to 2 percent decrease in yield for each day of delay. Well-drained fields allow you to begin planting 7 to 15 days earlier, and allow you to complete fall tillage programs later in the year. 4. An increased supply of nitrogen can be obtained from the soil where water tables are lowered by a drainage system. This can reduce your nitrogen fertilizer application. 5. Soils warm more quickly in the spring when free water is removed by a drainage system. This reduces the likelihood of planting delays or seeds rotting before germination. 6. Certain toxic substances and disease organisms are removed from the soil due to better drainage and better aeration. 7. Soil erosion can be reduced on a well-drained soil by increasing its capacity to hold rainfall, resulting in less runoff. 8. Deeper root development enables plans to better withstand summer droughts. Roots usually penetrate to within 15 inches of the water table. High water tables in the spring due to poor drainage cause shallow root development and a smaller soil volume from which plants can obtain moisture and nutrients. 9. Valuable livestock water supplies can be obtained by draining hillside seeps and piping the water to stock water tanks. 10. Increased crop yields and improved crop quality result from favorable soil moisture conditions with good drainage. Yield experiments from over 125 drainage experiments produced the following estimated increase in yield attributed to sub-surface drainage: Silage Corn ...24% Grain Corn...34% Soybeans...29% Wheat...76% Barley...72% Oats...53% Sugar Beets...28% Mixed Grain...47% Hay...51% Alfalfa...42% Peas...62% Wheat...76% Beans...57% Sweet Corn...36% 11. Farmers who grew corn on land without a drainage system reported a loss of 442,214,461 bushels from 1979 to 1996. That's a financial loss of $1,381,307,159 - well over a billion dollars. .
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Another escapee from our Character Animation Course has just secured a position in the games industry. Congratulations to Pedro Cabeleira who began an internship this week at Ninja Theory in Cambridge, working on Cinematics for one of their new games.
CWJobs Speaks To Escape Studios About Becoming A VFX Artist
A few weeks back, CWJobs spoke to our Recruitment Manager, Garreth Gaydon about the best way of getting a job in the VFX industry when you're first starting out. The feature which you can read in full here discusses the high demand for jobs in the VFX industry and the kinds of first jobs that will enable you to get your foot in the door and make it as a VFX artist. It's a tricky industry to enter because it is both highly creative yet technically very demanding which requires a serious amount of skill and creative ability.
Games Course Escapee Holly Pickering Gets Job At Travellers Tales
We have got some good news to share today about one of our Games Course escapees. Holly Pickering - who finished our Games Art Course a little while back - will be joining Adam Esat (another escapee) at Travellers Tales working on AAA titles as a Character Modeller.
Do Universities Need To Teach Basic Job Skills?
An announcement by Edge, the education charity, caught my eye this week. It said that universities should now be required to teach employment skills as part of degree courses. According to its latest study, employers now believe too many graduates are unfit for the workplace.
Are You Satisfied with Your Job?
It's such a great feeling when you attend a packed out event and the people pouring in turn out to be our former students. And that's exactly what happened a couple nights ago. I attended a PFTrack event organised by our Technology Team, and it was a storming success. The room was packed with over 50 people – all craning their necks to get a better view of the speaker.
Lots of the attendees at the event were escapees who we didn't just train but placed in their current jobs. It was great to catch up with Jacob Flint who studied our VFX Course last year and so refreshing to hear that he's just as excited about working at The Mill today, as he was when we first placed him there. That's a pretty rare thing these days.
Job satisfaction is massively important, and if you are not entirely happy with what you are doing, then I would encourage you to 'shop around' and find out what's out there. Doing so doesn't have to be that taxing either. If you follow us on twitter or use our RSS feed you'll be first to hear about new jobs, daily. Because we work with nearly all of the major names in the industry, most of the jobs that are out there come through us.
So, if you're stuck in a rut, or just fancy a change, we might just have the right thing for you.
Back On The Road
The Escape University Tour starts up again this month after a short break for Easter. Last week, I was in Ipswich to speaking with students at the School of Arts and Humanities at University Campus Suffolk.
Character Animation Escapee Tracey Chung Secures Job at Ragdoll Productions
If you've ever dreamt of becoming an animator, Tracey's story should help you realise that your dream might be easier to attain than you think.
Employment Opportunities in VFX and 3D Sectors to Rise in India
In recent years we've seen massive leaps forward in entertainment technology. 3D TV is all the rage and the release of the Nintendo 3DS has given us our first, glasses-free, 3D console. But what does this advance in entertainment technology mean for the Visual Effects industry? According to the latest statistics, the industry in India is set to grow at 18.5% a year - in short, it's a great time to be working in VFX and 3D in the Indian subcontinent.
Professional VFX & Compositing Freelancers Are in High Demand
Are you looking for a job in the CG Industry? Here at Escape Studios Recruitment, we've never been busier. It's a great time for the UK Post-Production industry and we have been inundated with requests for professional artists.
UK has been NUKED!
We have been totally amazed over the past couple of months over the number of companies that are looking for NUKE ops at all levels.
Coming Up: Live Twitter Q&A with The Mill's Steve Venning
Want to get an insider's view on all things VFX? If the answer's yes, then our next Twitter advice session is right up your street.
Find Out About New Job Opportunities via Twitter
As most of you know, the UK Visual Effects' industry appears to be in a very healthy position at the moment. Many of the large post houses in Soho are in the middle of long term projects and most studios are commenting on the lack of available freelancers. As a result, the Recruitment team here at Escape has never been busier!
Escape Studios in a Live Q& A at the Guardian
The chances are, if you're reading this blog, you've got more than a passing interest in the film industry. Alright, specifically the VFX part, but still, you're keen to know as much as you can about the industry, and possibly how you can break into it (hopefully with our help…).
Escapee Ricardo Viana Gives us the Low Down on our Online Mentored Course
Want to know what it's like to do one of our Mentored courses? Well we caught up with Escapee Ricardo Viana to find out how he got on – all the way from sunny Portugal.
Miss the Recruitment Webinar? Watch it online now
Don't worry if you missed the Recruitment Webinar that ran before Christmas, as we've recorded it for you to watch on our website.
Escape supplies Freelancers for Partizan Lab Project
After yet another busy month here on the Recruitment team I decided to get out, visit the front line and find out how some of our freelancers are getting on. Partizan Labs are currently in the middle of producing a series of CG commercials for the Carphone Warehouse and are using Escape to supply the majority of their freelancers for the project. I caught up with Henry Scholfield to get an inside scoop on the project and how using freelancers works for them.


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Chevella: YSR Congress honourary president Y.S. Vijayamma reiterated on Saturday that the YSR family will never go back on its promise of bringing the welfare state back to people.
"YSR family stands by its word of bringing back the welfare state for you. After coming to power under the leadership of Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, YSR Congress Party will reintroduce all the welfares schemes once implemented by YSR to usher in the welfare state again," she told people at a Rachchabanda programme at Chevella as part of her 1-day tour of the RR district.
Vijayamma's spirited response follows her listening to the multiplicity of problems narrated by the locals earlier. The interaction programme, attended by the locals including women, the aged, daily labourers and students, witnessed the echo of plethora of complaints on lack of drinking water facilities, inflated power bills, non-arrival of pensions and the absence of Arogya Sri scheme.
The locals told her that they were not happy with the Re.1 a kg rice scheme as the prices of vegetables have gone up multifold. "The hiked rates of vegetables are only adding to our power bills burden," the locals told her.
Farmers who met Vijayamma complained that they were not given ration cards, but were getting inflated power bills.
Vijayamma specially listened to the woes of a poor girl whose parents have reportedly committed suicide because of harassment by a person.
"I have lodged complaint with the police but nothing happened," the girl revealed to her, accompanied by her little brother. When Vijayamma sought an explanation from a police officer who was present there, the officer promised her that they would speed up the investigation on the girl's complaint.


text: Despite Sandusky scandal, Penn State draws $208.7 million in donationsBy Stephanie Gallman, CNNUpdated 8:49 PM ET, Mon July 9, 2012In the wake of the Jerry Sandusky scandal, Penn State University students play frisbee on campus in November.Story highlights"Penn State never really lost the support of its alumni," says a school spokesmanDuring the fiscal year, donations totaled $208.7 millionThat's the second-highest annual amount in school historyIn a year marred with controversy and national notoriety, Penn State University alumni and boosters finally have something to smile about.In fiscal year 2011-2012, the school earned $208.7 million in donations -- the second-highest annual amount in school history -- according to a release from the Development and Alumni Relations division. Penn State spokesman David LeTorre said the donations "send a loud and distinct message," in what has been a particularly challenging time for the school. "Despite the things that have happened with Jerry Sandusky, Penn State never really lost the support of its alumni," La Torre said.Muralist replaces Sandusky imageJust WatchedDavis: Sandusky does not reflect PSUreplayMore Videos ...Davis: Sandusky does not reflect PSU 01:30PLAY VIDEOThe school was thrust into the national spotlight with accusations against former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, who was convicted last month on 45 of 48 counts related to sexual abuse of boys. The scandal's fallout included the firings of legendary football coach Joe Paterno and university President Graham Spanier."So many alumni were ready to contribute this year," La Torre said, "which is proof enough our family our alumni family is there when we need them." A total of 191,712 supporters donated 323,271 gifts that have put the school ahead of schedule to reach its $2 billion fundraising goal by June 2014 for its "For the Future: The Campaign for Penn State Students" campaign. Since the effort began in January of 2007, $1.6 billion has been raised. "Fundraising is always challenging," La Torre said. But, he said, those seeking donations didn't go about it any differently even in light of the highly publicized scandal and an economic downturn. Painful chapter closes with Sandusky conviction "We knew people were going to ask questions and want answers," he said. "The philosophy of Penn State has been to listen and give answers to the best of our ability." La Torre said anyone donating to the university has a right to specify what the money goes for. More from usObama: We need to respect policeGOP leaders skip Selma MarchWhy did Harrison Ford's plane crash?Powered by Livefyre


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NEW YORK, March 18, 2014 / — Some call it "the other March madness." It's nail-biting season now through April as college acceptance / rejection and financial aid letters land in family mailboxes.
According to The Princeton Review's 2014 "College Hopes & Worries Survey" – the Company's 11th annual poll of college applicants and parents – concerns about paying for college run deep and stress about applications is higher than ever. This year, 89% of survey respondents said financial aid will be "Very Necessary" to pay for college, and within that cohort 65% said "Extremely Necessary." Seventy percent reported stress levels as "High" or "Very High."
Nonetheless, 100% of the respondents believe college will be worth it and 51% see a "Potentially better job / higher income" as the key benefit of the diploma.
The college that applicants and parents most named as their "Dream College" – the school they wish they (or their child) could attend were cost and acceptance not issues – was Stanford. Harvard was the 2nd most named.
The Princeton Review, one of the nation's best known education services companies, has conducted this survey since 2003. Findings for the 2014 survey are based on responses from 14,150 people: 71% (10,116) teens applying to colleges and 29% (4,034) parents of applicants. Respondents hailed from all 50 states and DC, plus several countries abroad. The 15-question survey ran in The Princeton Review book, The Best 378 Colleges: 2014 Edition (Random House, August 2013), and was accessible on www.PrincetonReview.com from August 2013 through February 19, 2014.
Top 10 "Dream Colleges"
Answering the survey's only fill-in-the-blank question, "What 'dream college' do you wish you or your child could attend if acceptance or cost weren't issues?," respondents wrote in names of more than 500 institutions.
The colleges students most named as their "dream college" were:
1) Stanford University 2) Harvard College 3) Columbia University 4) New York University 5) Massachusetts Institute of Technology 6) Princeton University 7) University of California – Los Angeles 8) Yale University 9) University of Michigan – Ann Arbor 10) University of California – Berkeley
The colleges parents most named as their "dream college" for their children were:
1) Stanford University 2) Harvard College 3) Princeton University 4) Massachusetts Institute of Technology 5) University of Michigan – Ann Arbor 6) University of Notre Dame 7) Duke University 8) New York University 9) Yale University 10) Vanderbilt University
In students' and parents' responses to questions with multiple answer choices, findings show these perspectives among respondents overall:
· Applications are stressssssss-ful. 97% reported having application stress: 70% gauged their stress levels as "High" or "Very High." Students reported higher stress levels than parents.
· Toughest factor? Tests. 35% of respondents (the plurality) chose the answer, "Taking the SAT, ACT or APs," when asked which aspect of the application was toughest. That has been the answer most selected by respondents overall for seven of the past 10 years.
· Biggest worry? Debt. 35% (the plurality) said their biggest worry was "Level of debt to pay for the degree" while 34% chose the answer, "Will get into first-choice college, but won't have sufficient funds/aid to attend." In 2009, the answer most selected was "Won't get in to first-choice college."
· College cost estimate? $50,000+ 86% estimated their degree to cost "More than $50,000." Within that cohort, 42% said "More than $100,000."
· Main benefit of college? Jobs. 51% said the biggest benefit of earning a degree was a "Potentially better job / income" while 24% most valued the "Education" and 25% said "Exposure to new ideas."
· Distance from home of "ideal" college? Parents and their children differ. 52% of parents chose "Less than 250 miles": 63% of students chose answers in ranges from 250 to 1,000 miles.
Other findings report on: how many colleges respondents were applying to, impact of economy on their college decisions, and how important a college's "green" commitment is. The Princeton Review also asked respondents their advice for 2014 applicants. The most repeated exhortation: "Start early." A survey report plus a sampler of respondents' advice is at www.princetonreview.com/college-hopes-worries.aspx.
The Princeton Review today also released its newest book: If the U Fits: Expert Advice on Finding the Right College and Getting Accepted (Random House / Princeton Review, $14.99) by Kevin McMullin, Founder of Collegewise, and Rob Franek, SVP-Publisher, The Princeton Review. The Company is also known for its annual college rankings (www.princetonreview.com/college-rankings.aspx) it reports in August in The Best 378 Colleges and its lists in The Best Value Colleges, published in February.
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"Dream Colleges" of Students and of Parents -- Alpha by State / City / College / Rank-List
CALIFORNIA Berkeley / University of California-Berkeley - #10 Students' "Dream College" Los Angeles / University of California-Los Angeles - #7 Students' "Dream College" Palo Alto / Stanford University - #1 Parents' "Dream College"; #1 Students' "Dream College"
CONNECTICUT New Haven / Yale University - #8 Students' "Dream College"; #9 Parents' "Dream College"
INDIANA South Bend / University of Notre Dame - #6 Parents' "Dream College"
MASSACHUSETTS Cambridge / Harvard College - #2 Students' "Dream College", #2 Parents' "Dream College" Cambridge / Massachusetts Institute of Technology - #5 Students' "Dream College"; #4 Parents' "Dream College"
MICHIGAN Ann Arbor / University of Michigan – #9 Students' "Dream College"; #5 Parents' "Dream College"
NEW JERSEY Princeton / Princeton University - #6 Students' "Dream College"; #3 Parents' "Dream College"
NEW YORK New York / Columbia University - #3 Students' "Dream College" New York / New York University - #4 Students' "Dream College"; #8 Parents' "Dream College"
NORTH CAROLINA Durham / Duke University - #7 Parents' "Dream College"
TENNESSEE Nashville / Vanderbilt University - #10 Parents' "Dream College"


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Jack Laugher produced the best result of his senior career as he narrowly missed a maiden Diving World Series medal in London.
The 19-year-old became the first British springboard diver to pass 500 points as he was tipped out of a podium place in a field boasting world champion He Chong and Olympic gold medallist Illya Zakharov.
Laugher posted a career-best 517.60, highlighted by a score of over 100 for his penultimate dive, a forward four-and-a-half somersaults with tuck.
That pushed him into third place and while he could not hold on, the City of Leeds diver was left beaming afterwards.
"That was absolutely brilliant," he told reporters.
"I've never gone over 500 - nobody from Britain has ever gone over 500 on three-metre so to have that achievement is absolutely incredible.
"I had some absolutely incredible dives today - I went over 100 for the first time ever which is another PB for myself and had a massive score on my reverse three and a half as well so it's been a brilliant experience."
Laugher's performance was made even sweeter as he returned to the London Aquatics Centre pool where he had endured a nightmare Olympics Games.
The Yorkshireman failed to progress past the first round at London 2012, despite hopes of reaching the final, bombing out without registering a score for his final round.
Laugher's performance continued Great Britain's impressive showing after two medals on the opening day.
Former European platform synchro champions Sarah Barrow and Tonia Couch claimed silver off the tower while Hannah Starling and Becky Gallantree won springboard synchro bronze in their first major competition together.
The duo were, however, unable to advance past the first round in the individual springboard on Saturday.
Tom Daley will highlight Great Britain's medal hopes on Sunday, as he renews his battle with Olympic champion David Boudia from America.


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Shutterbug or Shudder Bug?
But have you ever seen them frying flies over a kitchen stove?
You will when you take a look at an Oklahoma photographer's work.
An interesting article in The Daily Mail Online from the UK plainly shows what Scott Cromwell did with praying mantids. He created scenes of the insects doing such things as not only frying flies on a stove, but taking the baby (mantis) for a stroll, soaking in a bathtub (a claw bathtub at that!) and reading the Daily Mantis news while answering nature's call.
Cromwell, a 40-year-old television repairman, said he buys assorted species of praying mantids online and he purchases many of the miniature props (miniature dollhouse props) on eBay.
The article, showcasing several of his photographs, has drawn widespread reactions, from "amazing creatures" (mantids) to "horrid man" (Cromwell).
A true shutterbug? Or shudder bug? Or someone expressing creativity and innovation?
Most of us who photograph insects never pass on an opportunity to capture images of a praying mantis in its natural habitat. They are amazing. They pounce quickly. They show no fear. They stare at you as if you're their next meal.
Still, I'd rather see a praying mantis in nature's dew than in a bubble bath.
Camouflaged praying mantis having lunch. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
What's That Bug?
If you don't know what it is, don't kill it.
That insect in your garden could very well be a beneficial insect.
If you operate on the "shoot-first-ask-questions later" or "the only good bug is a dead bug," no telling how many insects--and generations--you'll be destroying.
Butterfly expert Art Shapiro, professor of evolution and ecology at UC Davis, tells this story that's worth remembering.
"Last week I was walking across Capitol Park in Sacramento when I observed a smartly dressed young woman in her 20s stomp a praying mantis and grind it into the sidewalk. She exclaimed to her phenotypically similar friend: 'Did you ever see such an ugly, icky bug?'"
And, many years ago, Shapiro encountered a man in College Park, Davis, in the act of stomping a Tiger Swallowtail.
Shapiro asked him why he was doing this.
The man replied: "This is the bug that has the big green caterpillar that eats my tomato plants!"
When Shapiro told him it wasn't, the man told him to check his information, and that "I'm right and you're wrong."
There is indeed a lot of misinformation and misidentification out there.
Tabatha Yang of the Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis relates the story about an avid gardener who absolutely loved ladybugs (aka lady beetles) because of their voracious appetites for aphids. But when our avid gardener came across "some weird black and orange bugs," she promptly killed them.
Little did she know that she was killing immature ladybugs.
Then there's the story about a UC Master Gardener who encountered a "green-eyed golden bumblebee-like" insect that frightened her because it buzzed so loudly around her flower beds. So, she killed it. Turns out it was a pollinator, a male Valley carpenter bee, also known as a "teddy bear."
And, can you imagine what goes through people's minds when they meet up with a Jerusalem cricket in the mud after a rain? Whoa! Bug-o-mania!
Here's where the Bohart Museum, 1124 Academic Surge on California Drive, UC Davis campus, can help. If you live in California and see an insect and wonder if it's beneficial insect or a pest--or just want to know what it is--take a photo of it and email it to the Bohart. Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum (home of more than seven million specimens) and professor of entomology at UC Davis, identifies insects in between research, teaching, administering the Bohart Museum, and other duties. Her email address: email@example.com.
In fact, if you go to the UC Davis Department of Entomology home page and scroll down to the bottom you'll see:
"Do you have an insect question? Ask It Here!"
Maybe, just maybe, this will save a few praying mantids, ladybugs, Valley carpenter bees and Jerusalem crickets.
Praying mantis with remnants of a meal. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This is an immature ladybug (aka lady beetle). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This male Valley carpenter bee is a pollinator, not a pest. The female Valley carpenter bee is solid black. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Jerusalem cricket is often mistaken for a pest. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Shall We Prey?
The California Buckeye (Junonia coenia), with its bold eyespots and white bars, is an easily recognizable butterfly.
The problem: getting close enough for a photo and then patiently waiting for it to open its wings. At the first indication of danger, it flutters away.
The eyespots are supposed to scare away predators, but they certainly don't scare away a praying mantis.
Kristen Kolb, master gardener extraordinaire who helps tend the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility on Bee Biology Road, University of California, Davis, recently spotted a ripped-apart Buckeye in the sedum.
We suspect a praying mantis grabbed it and feasted on the head, thorax and abdomen, leaving behind the wings.
The wings with the bold eyespots.
Buckeye spreads it wings on an African daisy. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Shattered Buckeye, probably the work of a praying mantis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The predator? Could have been this praying mantis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Up Close and Personal with Praying Mantis
The last time we encountered a praying mantis it was waiting for prey on a plant by the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at UC Davis.
Then we saw two more that day in front of the Laidlaw facility. They jumped on us while we were watching the first one.
Surely we didn't look like prey!
Staff research associate/beekeeper Elizabeth Frost tends the garden in front and notices many of the stealthy little critters. They're perfectly camouflaged and ready to pounce.
The egg cases she earlier saw have hatched. One little, two little, three little mantids....
And probably many more.
They stay because the area is a good source of food--honey bees, sweat bees, butterflies, hover flies...
Those praying mantids grab unsuspecting--and sometimes quite slow--prey in their spiked forelegs and it's off with the head. Fast food it is. Fast food in the slow food movement....
Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen of the UC Davis Department of Entomology peers at a praying mantis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Praying mantis climbs on the back of Extension apiculturist Eric Mussen. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Stalking a Praying Mantis
Well, hello there!
A praying mantis, perfectly camouflaged in bushes outside the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at the University of California, Davis, was searching for prey when we spotted it. Front legs upraised in a "praying position," head twisting, eyes turning, it waited motionlessly for lunch.
Also called a mantid (order Mantodea), the praying mantis is a favorite of insect photographers. A close-up of the mouth and the "spiky" forelegs (used for grasping prey) make you really appreciate what this insect can do and make you glad you're not another insect.
This one (below) was immature. Tomorrow we'll show you shots of it landing on a human being.
Praying mantis exploring its surroundings at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at UC Davis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Acrobatic praying mantis in action. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The last thing the prey of a praying mantis sees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)