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Legislators are seeing orange over hunting issueBy PETER HIRSCHFELD
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John Michael Grab, clad in a blaze-orange vest and cap, poses with his first deer in 2010. The question of requiring hunters to wear blaze orange is a political hot potato.MONTPELIER After grappling for more than two decades with the thorny issue of hunting attire, lawmakers this year may punt a longstanding controversy over blaze orange to a 14-person board.
The topic has dogged lawmakers since 1993, when Vermont hunters flocked en masse to the well of the House to decry a bill that would have required them to wear fluorescent orange while in the field.
Most recently, the Vermont Senate in 2009 sought to institute a blaze-orange mandate after an accidental shooting in Granby. But vocal opposition again killed the measure, and Vermont retained its status as one of only 10 states without a blaze-orange requirement.
Now, the Shumlin administration wants to shift authority over the issue away from lawmakers and into the hands of the Fish & Wildlife Board.
Fish & Wildlife Commissioner Patrick Berry told lawmakers last week that the 14 members serving on the panel are ideally suited to evaluate the issue.
This is such a hot issue in the Legislature, Berry said. And the 14 board members are all hunters who are much closer to this issue and who understand it better.
Brian Ames, president of the Fish & Wildlife Board, which is made up of one gubernatorial appointee from each county, said he agrees with Berry.
I do feel that if the conversation is going to take place, it should take place at the board level, where it will be handled by the people who are most affected by it, said Ames, who represents Windham County on the board. Whether or not the board will have any inclination or desire to pick it up, Im not sure.
Ames said that in his view, it is time for Vermont to revisit the blaze orange mandate. Ames said he cant speak for the board, and hasnt polled its members, but that he personally thinks hunters should have to wear blaze orange, at least during firearms season for large game.
To me its a commonsense issue, Ames said, But Vermonters are a very free-spirited lot, and some truly dont appreciate being told what they have to wear while afield.
The blaze-orange measure, which has the support of key lawmakers, is one of several provisions in a wide-ranging hunting and fishing bill that looks to keep wild pigs out of Vermont, boost ice-fishing numbers, expand the amount of huntable acreage in the state, and give terminally ill adults access to moose-hunting permits.
Cautionary tales from neighboring states, Berry said, are prompting new efforts in Vermont to keep feral hogs from gaining a foothold in the Green Mountains. The proposed legislation would ban all importation of wild boar, a provision that would affect the one captive hunting facility that now offers paying clients the opportunity to hunt them.
Theyre incredibly destructive, they bring with them all kinds of viruses and diseases, and they are such tough critters that once theyre out there and able to reproduce, they are really hard to eradicate, Berry said.
Another section of the bill would add another free fishing day to the calendar, this one in winter. Berry said its part of an effort to boost interest in hard water fishing.
It creates an incentive to get folks out there ice fishing, Berry said. We recognize maybe theres a small hit in terms of lost fees, but the hope is that people who wouldnt otherwise try it go out there for a day, have a ball, and then go out and buy a license.
The legislation also aims to find a middle ground in land-posting laws, something Berry said might open up more privately owned acreage to hunting. Under current law, posting is an all-or-nothing proposition that requires landowners to decide whether to give blanket access or impose a blanket prohibition.
Given the opportunity, Berry said, many landowners would choose a by-permission-only standard, something that would give them discretion over whos allowed to hunt and who isnt.
The proposed legislation would create a new tier in land-posting statute, giving residents control over who gets access to their land and who doesnt.
Vermont already sets aside five special moose permits annually for terminally ill children and war veterans. But Berry is asking lawmakers to create two more slots for avid adult hunters near death. Berry said the request comes in response to pleas from lifelong hunters diagnosed with a terminal illness.
For many hunters, winning a moose permit is the equivalent of winning Powerball. And for folks with a life-threatening disease, this is all theyve wanted to do, they havent ever won a permit, and we have absolutely no room to move with regard to existing regulations to do anything about that, Berry said. -
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NACSA is out with the fifth edition of its annual report on the state of charter authorizing.
I love this thing—great data on a critically important part of our field. If you're interested in chartering, school-level accountability, or The Urban School System of the Future, you definitely want to check it out.
Almost a decade ago, NACSA produced the equivalent of industry standards—the stuff a high-quality authorizer ought to do. These relate to assessing charter applications, monitoring school performance, helping grow high-performers, revoking the charters of low-performers, etc.
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Overall, authorizers' scores improved over last year's, and large authorizers (those with 10+ schools) scored better than small ones.
Continuing a long-term trend, authorizers are increasingly picky shoppers—they approve far fewer applications than they did back in the day. The average approval rate is now 33 percent.
But many authorizers are still falling short on the back end of accountability: 34 percent of authorizers lack a clear, established policy to close underperforming schools.
Some of the report's most interesting findings relate to the different types of authorizers (there are six kinds nowadays). The vast majority (more than 90 percent) are local school districts, but they generally authorize few schools apiece; their portfolios combine for only 53 percent of all charters.
Districts score lower than non-district authorizers overall, and their policies are far less friendly to replication than non-district authorizers, meaning they...
In my recent policy brief arguing for a reboot of charter school governance, I said that states need to create the right policy environment to ensure that management companies aren't acting as puppeteers determining all the moves of a charter school and controlling the governing boards that ought to be in charge. When boards are mere rubber stamps, questions about accountability, incentives, and conflicts of interest are sure to follow (look at the calamity that has befallen the American Indian Model charter schools in California to see how an ineffectual and subservient board can crash even the highest flying charter).
But as my colleague Kathryn Mullen Upton pointed out yesterday, there's plenty of blame to go around when problems like this surface. Charter boards that agree to arrangements that effectively make them subordinate to managers and vendors are as much at fault, said Upton, who oversees the Fordham Foundation's charter authorizing operations in Ohio. Moreover, authorizers that grant a charter without even looking at the management agreement bear responsibility, too.
The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools has recommended policies that explicitly assert the independence of the boards that ordinarily hold the charter and ultimately answer to the public. These include performance contracts that not only show how a board will assess a vendor's performance but will terminate the contract if necessary. And there ought to be laws, just as in Florida, that explain how a governing board will maintain an arm's-length...
It may seem absurd that one of California's worst-performing school districts can kill the state's finest charter school network. But that is the reality facing the 650 mostly poor and minority, but very high-achieving students enrolled at the American Indian Model charter schools. The Oakland Unified School District voted 4-3 last month to shut down the network after a state audit reported that a lack of financial controls allowed the charter's former principal and chief executive, Ben Chavis, to improperly enrich himself with millions of dollars of school business.
It is, however, hard to see how the Oakland district could have responded differently. The audit, which was issued in June 2012, concluded that Chavis was able to channel $3.8 million from school accounts to his personal business interests—mostly because the charter's governing board "failed to maintain and exercise its responsibilities, authority, and control."
Indeed, the audit showed that a charismatic and assertive school leader had control over American Indian's governing board instead of the other way around. Auditors found multiple examples of self-dealing and conflicts of interest in transactions that benefitted Chavis' consulting, real estate, and construction enterprises—transactions that often put Chavis in the position as landlord to the schools he led. But there were no evidence that the board approved these dealings or ever put them out for competitive bidding. "The lack of due diligence and internal controls by the governing board has effectively granted [Chavis] and his spouse unrestricted access to the assets of the organization and...
Compromise is rarely considered a political virtue. That's why political analyst Peter Wehner made a distinction between compromise and prudence. "Compromise can't be judged in the abstract," Wehner wrote for Commentary. "It can only be assessed in particular circumstances. It takes wisdom and statesmanship to discern when to hold firm (on fundamental principles) and when to give ground (on tactics and secondary issues)."
The description helps us parse two different outcomes on school choice legislation in two states: Mississippi and Tennessee. In the former, at least one charter school advocate bemoaned the "compromised bill" that went last week to Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant, a bill that finally allows start-up charters in the Magnolia State and an independent state authorizer but also allows better-performing districts to effectively neuter that new state body. In the latter, Tennessee's Republican Governor Bill Haslam decided last week to pull his favored voucher bill before letting any legislative members of his party amend it. Haslam sought a limited voucher program for low-income students in low-performing districts, whereas Republicans lawmakers wanted to enlarge it to serve more families.
No doubt Haslam wants private school choice in the Volunteer State. Last year, he directed education commissioner Kevin Huffman to lead a task force to study how a voucher program would best work and embraced the concept in January when he appeared with Jeb Bush at a forum on education reform. But he never once made room for negotiation; when legislators...
Andy Rotherham deserves respect as one of the most thoughtful proponents of education reform, as well as an impressive institution-builder. He and I probably agree on 90 percent of the issues, though we have sparred at times over the federal role, the balance between "excellence and equity," and sundry other topics.
My greatest frustration, though, has been his unwillingness to offer full-throated support for school vouchers.
Maybe he's finally ready. In a blog post yesterday, he predicted that if current reform efforts stall, the future will bring a "low-accountability environment coupled with much more choice" and pointed to the Indiana voucher program (recently upheld by that state's Supreme Court and hailed by Michael Gerson in the Washington Post) as a sign of things to come.
What Andy may not fully appreciate is that Indiana's voucher program has accountability in spades. As David Stuit and Sy Doan explain in their recent report for Fordham, School Choice Regulations: Red Tape or Red Herring? , the Hoosier State has an "annual performance-accountability rating system" for participating private schools that is based on the results of state assessments—the same tests that public school pupils take. Indeed, the fact that private schools will soon be held accountable under Common Core standards and assessments has become a major issue in the Hoosier State—because it gives palpitations to the right, not the left! (Other recently enacted private-school-choice programs, including those in Louisiana and Alabama, also include significant testing and accountability requirements.)
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It is, perhaps, no longer news to see yet another 1.5 percent decline in Catholic school enrollment in the United States. However, two separate but related facts make this year's annual statistical report from the National Catholic Educational Association more troubling.
1. Charter enrollment exceeded Catholic school enrollment for the first time this school year (in 2011–12, each sector had about the same number of students). Catholic school enrollment dropped 1.5 percent to 2,001,740 students, while charter school enrollment increased 13 percent to 2,326,542 students. From here on, any graph plotting student numbers in each sector likely will look like a pair of open scissors.
2. A recent report from U.S. Census Bureau researcher Stephanie Ewert shows that private school enrollment is negatively associated with charter school enrollment. This is similar to what economist Richard Buddin found in his report last year for the Cato Institute when he looked at charter and private school enrollment trends from 2000 to 2008. Ewert looks at more recent years and found that states with substantial increases in charter school enrollment experienced substantial decreases in private school enrollment—particularly at Catholic schools.
Vouchers and tax-credit scholarships have surely offset some of those shifting patterns (Buddin noted that 190,000 students left private schools for charter schools between 2000 and 2008, but about that same number got public aid for private schools by the end of that time period). Most of those private-school-choice programs, however, are so limited in scope, their vouchers so limited...
The New York Times published a semi-balanced story today on the growth of the private school–choice movement—and attention is always welcome—but it also helped perpetuate two nagging myths about vouchers and tax-credit scholarships:
1. Reporters Fernanda Santos and Motoko Rich wrote, "Research tracking students in voucher programs has also not shown clear improvements in performance." Not true. As nine scholars and analysts noted in an Education Week essay published last year, results from gold-standard voucher research have consistently shown (among other positive effects) modest academic gains and outsize graduation rates among voucher recipients when compared to their public school–district peers.
2. The story also repeated the fable that vouchers are accompanied by no accountability for academic results. Wrong. Choice advocate Dick Komer of the firm Institute for Justice told the Times that the only real accountability that matters is parental choice. Voucher opponent and union chief Randi Weingarten railed, "There's absolutely no accountability with vouchers." Both are wrong.
In fact, the two newest voucher programs, both of which have captured much attention (Indiana and Lousiana), as well as the proposed initiative in Tennessee, make clear that underperforming private schools won't be welcome in these programs, for these (and many other) choice programs require participating private schools to administer the same assessments as are given in public schools and bar schools from continuing in the program if their assessment results are weak and stay that way.
It turns out that the oldest voucher program United States, the...
When the charter school movement started twenty-plus years ago, charters represented a radical innovation in governance: School districts would no longer enjoy an "exclusive franchise" on local public schools; they would compete with public, independent, autonomous (but accountable) charter schools too.
Much has happened in the charter sector since then—in fact, what began as a community-led, mom-and-pop movement has evolved to include a burgeoning assemblage of charter school networks, as well. But the laws ruling charter school governance remain largely the same. It's time for a reboot in order to address three critical problems.
First, state laws and authorizer policies often require a full-fledged governing board for every charter school, and these policies make no exception for high-performing charter networks (such as KIPP and Rocketship Education). Thus, replicating at scale is difficult. In fact, only ten states explicitly allow for networks to operate multiple schools under the oversight of one governing board* and three states (Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Iowa) explicitly prohibit the practice.
Second, management organizations—especially for-profits—often control their schools' governing boards, leading to serious questions about accountability and conflicts of interest. The Fordham Institute, both as an education think tank and a charter school authorizer in Ohio, firmly believes that governing boards and...
Ordinarily, states that measure the academic performance of public school students assess students with disabilities no differently than students in general education. But exceptions are made, primarily for children with severe cognitive disabilities. And testing accommodations frequently are part of a student's Individualized Education Plan (such as extending the time it takes to take a test).
Those exceptions partly explain why the Thomas B. Fordham Institute excluded special-education voucher programs from a study of how private schools view the regulations that come with various voucher and tax-credit-scholarship programs. Traditional testing tools aren't always the best measure for students with special needs, but that doesn't mean no accountability measures should follow special-needs students who leave a public school for a private school with a publicly funded voucher.
Virtually no accountability measures, however, exist in most of the nation's special-education voucher programs, including the largest such program in the United States, Florida's McKay Scholarship for Students with Disabilities. And the coalition of schools that oversees the McKay program appears to want to keep it that way—and it's wrong to do so.
The McKay Coalition surveyed its own Florida schools after Fordham published School Choice Regulations: Red Tape or Red Herring, which surveyed private schools in communities served by four prominent voucher programs in Indiana, Ohio, and Wisconsin. The Fordham report found that only 3 percent of non-participating schools cited governmental regulations as the most important reason to opt out. Regulations that restrict student admissions and schools' religious practices are more likely...
The Georgia Senate recently took an incremental step toward responsible and accountable private school choice by unanimously passing a bill that shines more sunlight upon the Peach State's embattled tax-credit-scholarship program. If the House concurs, then parents and taxpayers will have more information about the students and the scholarship groups that participate—a good thing, to be sure.
But Senate Bill 243 doesn't go far enough. Yes, it requires the nonprofit groups that administer the scholarships to disclose the number of students they serve and the amount of tax-credited donations that they receive. Well worth making public—but it reveals nothing about the program's educational value.
Why not also pull back the curtain on student performance? Most of the school-voucher and tax-credit-scholarship programs that exist in other states are designed to show the public at least how they're performing overall in terms of student achievement. For example, private schools participating in the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship administer a standardized test to their scholarship students and report the results to an independent analyst, who then studies the program's effectiveness and reports to the legislature.
For a quartet of reasons, Georgia should at least do something similar.
1. Parents, policymakers, educators, and the taxpaying public deserve to compare the gains that students make in different school environments....


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As the news of Jeff Ireland and the Fins long-awaited divorce broke Tuesday night, and Dolphins Twitter was drenched in pure joy, two things dawned on Dat Roro Kid and I.
1.) Holy fuck! It finally fucking HAPPENED!
2.) Time to close shop on FN.
Yep, after six years of writing, blogging, venting, dick joking, winning awards, pissing off Jets fans, earning adulation, flying two banners, creating nick names, and suffering along with all of you every Sunday, it's time to put a bow on our beloved site and say goodnight.
The Ireland departure just seemed like perfect symmetry for us. Though we never set out to be The Mouthpiece of People Disgruntled Over Jeff Ireland, we somehow became just that. We poured our frustration into comedic posts, some satirical, some just plain silly. And what eventually emerged was us being those guys that flew banners behind airplanes calling for Stephen Ross to fucking shitcan that dipshit already.
But, as our throng of dedicated fans know all too well, FN was way the hell more than that.
When we started this blog in 2007, we had no idea the Dolphins would monumentally shit the bed and would continue to do so for years to come. FN started off as a dick joke blog. A place to talk Dolphins football and shoot the shit.
But it quietly evolved into something more. It became a way station for the angry fan to share in the frustration and laugh in the face of our beloved team's ineptitude.
We began to make noise. And our shit was loud.
From players nicknames hitting the mainstream, to Roger's middle finger at the Jets flag (which is everywhere on the Internet now), we made noise. We started campaigns like Suck For Luck, because we knew that motherfucker was going to be a stud (and he is) and we knew that losing a few meaningless games to draft him was way more important than arbitrary fandom. Yet, at every turn, anything weird or different or out of the norm was met with scorn and disgust by those who didn't understand.
We became the face of the "bad fan," because we dared not be so fucking myopic.
And we made our mark. Love us, or hate us. We planted the fucking flag of discontent deep into the ground. And on that flag were balls. Giant fucking balls.
(We're also taking credit for introducing the world to Louis CK. That dude was a virtual nobody when we started posting his bits every Sundays. Look at him now!)
We became the go-to website for discontented fans who were tired of mediocrity. Sure, we said FUCK a lot. Yes, we pissed off mainstream media people and other Fins fan sites. But we gave no fucks for this. No apologies.We held nothing back. We gave our hearts and souls to the team we loved, and we fed off the rabid thirst of our loyal readers who felt exactly the same way.
A community was born here, and it eventually spilled over onto Twitter. People that have no idea what FN is tweet meows at Brian Hartline. That started here!
Our heroes are McCartney, Lennon, Bill Hicks, Louis CK, David Foster Wallace, Hunter S. Thompson, and the original Not Ready For Prime Time Players cast. We mashed those influences together and made dick joke stew out of it all.
And you came along for the ride.
But we weren't just about jokes and tits. We know our shit too. The players we called for Miami to draft — and inevitably were not — have pretty much all flourished wherever else they were drafted. Our game previews, while stuffed with ass jokes and boobie pics, were filled with real football analysis.
We wanted to make it OK to be intelligent and the class clown at the same time. This is football. It's supposed to be fun!
I owe pretty much everything I am to FN.
My friendship with Roger was born out of a desire to work with him. Here was a kindred spirit, a guy who got me, a guy who had the same twisted humor as me, and a guy who loved the same music as I did, the same books, the same films, the same TV shows. We're friends and brothers for life. And FN gave me that.
FN also opened doors for me professionally. The New Times found me here, and I've worked for them ever since. I've also written for other outlets, such as Deadspin, Bleacher Report, CBS Sports, and others, thanks to this site giving me the voice and the place to experiment with my craft.
Shit, FN is even where I met my girlfriend. I met her here! She started as a reader of mine! This gives so much hope to all bloggers currently living and writing in their mother's basements, doesn't it?
Mostly though, FN gave me you, dear reader. No one asked you to keep coming here on a daily basis to read our goofy shit. But you did. You actually found us entertaining. You sent us fan mail. That shit was bananas!
And Roger and I are always perplexed and blown away anytime we meet one of you in person. The outpouring of gratitude you show us, the expression of thanks for being your mouthpiece, like we're the fucking Beatles of Dolphins Blogs.
And it was an honor being your mouthpiece, Nation.
An absolute honor.
But, alas. All things must pass.
We seemed to hit our peak with the first banner, and then the second.
We brought down the ire of the so-called experts. Omar Kelly, Ben Volin, Kim Bokamper, and others like them. We even got shit from The Phinsider. They all thought we were just dopey fans doing dopey shit. They either never bothered to read between the lines, or they just hated us because we put a dent in their readership.
But what our critics even now never understood was what we — all of us — have always been about an expression of dissatisfaction.
No one here actually believes Ross fired Ireland because of our banners. THAT WAS NEVER THE FUCKING POINT, YOU FUCKING DILDOS.
The point was to make some fucking noise. To rattle the cages. To be rabble rousers and trouble makers. To be the voice to the voice-less. People were pissed off at Ireland and at Ross for keeping him around for so long. The banners were a symbol — nothing more. A symbol of our discontent.
It was loud, it was brash, it was foolish, it was tacky, it was bold. It was fucking hilarious. And it got people's attention. It got people talking. It got written up on Jeff Ireland's Wikipedia page (we're all forever linked with that shitheel).
While other news outlets and fan blogs and high-minded fans were busy bending over to blind loyalty to the Dolphins, taking a paddling to the ass from Jeff Ireland and asking for more, we were the crazy frat house next door with the booze, and the parties, and the pot smoke, and the tomfoolery.
We were fucking Delta House to their Omegas.
And that was the Goddamn point. We made noise and we made it count.
Fuck you with a frozen chicken if you don't understand that.
And that, dear friends, has been the whole point of this here blog.
What happens to the Dolphins from here on out is, as it has always been, in the hands of the football fates.
As for us, we just want to say we love you. And thank you.
Carry on, dear friends.
The dream is over….
-The Dude
Hey Jeff… Buhhhh Bye
Beat the Patriots…
Can we get a win this week?
Fuck the Pats.
And Brady.
Now something we all can enjoy.
Just because…
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Fire Jeff Ireland Banner Part Two: Electric Boogaloo
Too much embarassment. Too much stupidity. Too much humiliation.
We're gonna make our voices heard AGAIN. Will it work this time? Probably not. But it will be funny to laugh at them all over again. Fuck it!
Click here for a link to the donation site and give what you can.
Go Dolphins
Safety FTW!
What a way to win the game baby….
"Man, talk about a team win," Wake said on the NFL Network's postgame show. "We had a short week, [lost] the last couple games, it was really tough. Everybody had to dig down deep."
Joe Philbin Addresses the Media
Allow me to address some of the issues we're having in a more realistic way that doesn't involve me blowing billows of smoke up your asses:
- Tyson Clabo is a worthless piece of shit at RT and I'm going to do nothing about that. He's fine because I say so.
- Ryan Tannehill will continue to play until his face gets mauled by a wild boar that has run loose in the stadium or UNTIL I FUCKING SAY SO
- Cameron Wake is FUCKING FINE and, like, didn't you see him running around out there yesterday? HE'S FINE, YOU GUYS. HE'S TOTALLY OKAY.
- I passed the ball on that final, calamitous drive because I'm the coach and Mike Sherman is the offensive coordinator and WE DON'T GIVE A FUUUUUCK. YOLO. FOMO. ALL THAT SHIT. You say we should have run the ball given the limited success we had and played our chances with our supposedly AWESOME defense against a 3rd string fucking nobody quarterback pinned back up against his own goal line? YOU'RE CRAZY
- Daniel Thomas is a gifted running back the likes we haven't seen since Earl Campbell in his fucking hey-day. Also, he has video of me blowing a horse in Horse Country Kendall last year. It was a dark time for me. I was drunk.
- Mr Ross pays me to do the best job I can getting this team prepared every Sunday. That being said, I will gladly take all of that VERY STUPID GARGOYLE'S money for as long as I can dupe him. Idiots.
- Wait til you see what I have planned for next Sunday against the Pats! You ever seen a quarterback try and throw every pass from behind the back??? OOOOOH HOOOOO HOOOOEEEEYY!
Any more questions? Good. I gotta go get those damn kids and scare them out of the abandoned amusement park now!


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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Pay it Forward!
I was lucky enough to come across Hillary's offer to pay it forward and accepted. And now I need to find three people to accept my offer.
If you would like to receive a handmade gift from me, and are willing to make and send a handmade gift along to three of your blog readers, please let me know in my comments. Once you accept, you will receive something from me within 365 days. In turn, you will have 365 days to fulfill your end of the bargain.
Pretty neat, no?
[PS. I would especially appreciate any comments that make me smile today. I got a speeding ticket on my way into the office today. Boo.)
ETA: Thanks to all for your interest in my Pay it Forward ... unfortunately, I've already gotten three people to play so the sign-up is closed. But you should check out their sites, because now THEY'LL be looking for 3 people each!:
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Oh my goodness!!! I would love to recieve one of the amazing things you make!!! I have seen this before around the blog world, and was pretty intimidated by it...but 365 days to make 3 gifts...shouldn't be a hard thing to do! I want in....
Sorry about your ticket...hope your day goes better!!!
www.thematthewsfam.blogspot.comI found your blog about a month ago -- and you have inspired me to start quilting again (I began knitting about 7 years ago and totally forgot I even owned a sewing machine in the excitement of it!) Now, thanks to seeing all the beautiful work you do, I have 2 quilts in progress, and have purchased enough fabric to make 6 more - I am serious! You have really lit a fire in me to sew and make quilts ... even though I am nervous to try machine quilting. I see what you have made, and the lovely quilts you have received through swaps, and really want to sew again!
I would be thrilled to receive something from you -- and would love to make things for 3 others (a year is a good time frame to slip in 3 extra projects), and I like the concept of random acts of kindness.
My email is tom daht heather at n s daht sympatico daht caHi John!
Longtime reader, first time poster. I am a brand spanking new quilter, inspired by you and several other talented quilting bloggers. So much so that I've started my OWN blog, and can't wait to start posting some projects (first ever quilt is in mid-bind as we speak!)
I would love to be considered for the pay it forward challenge; I love the idea of a cosmic chain of beautiful, handmade things! Thanks for the quilt-along (I see log cabins in my sleep now!)Hm, don't know if you're choosing the 3 first people for the PIF, but anyway I'd love to join.
Love the things you make, and your tutorials are great!
Speeding tickets happen (as parking tickets, which seem to be my forté), the only thing you can do is to pay them and then pretend it never happened!You are in NC, right? My son goes to college down there and got a speeding ticket. He went and talked to the prosecutor (don't know if that's what they call it in NC but that's what they call it in NJ) and got it reduced significantly - so don't just pay it! He got it down to no points - he may have had to do a one day safe driving course or something, not sure. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteI just finished a PIF on my blog last month. It was so. Stinking. Fun! Enjoy! (Oh, and if any of the other eight people who commented before I did don't want to play, please count me in!)
Boo about the bad day. Yesterday was eventful for me, too: two flat tires, two diaper leaks, and one sore baby who fell of the bed. Somehow the day was wonderful. I chalk it up to good friends who came to my rescue. I hope you have some good friends in your neck of the woods.I would love to pay it forward!! I would gladly pay your speeding ticket if you can/will remove the "Spider-Man" spider webs that my 4yr old son sprayed onto the kitchen ceiling. They have dried and become one w/ the ceiling! I'm trying to decide if I want to repaint the ceiling or tell people that it's the newest decorative accent for kitchens!!
ReplyDeleteA friend of mine just dropped off one of her beautiful watercolors as a donation for a charity auction--and ended up paying $74 for a speeding ticket on the way home! Unfortunately, she can't write the ticket off her taxes! Maybe this won't make you smile, but know you're not alone. Sometimes our "enthusiasm" gets the better of us (or maybe enthusiasm is really just a lead foot :)
I think you have 3 for the PIF, but if someone else is looking for their 3, I'm game!
email@example.com it forward...what a lovely idea. Isn't it nice to see how many comments you received in such a short time!:) I couldn't have done it even if I was first because I don't have a blog!:) No worries...I am just extremely happy and grateful for all you have taught me this month in the Wonky world! I can't believe all the different possibilities there are once you know how to do these and I learned the wonky star!! I have finished one wonky for our couch and have one top done for my daughter and one cut out for my son and then there are the 25 squares I have made that are posted on the ORBC site....all because of you and Dana and Amy....so John....no worries about the speeding ticket!:)
ReplyDeleteHi John, sorry to hear about the ticket.
Give the ticket to your boss and have him pay it! After all, its his/her fault for making you work today right? If that don't work, offer the judge/cop a quilt, that might get you outta the ticket. Congrats on the PIF. I participated in one and got to send a gift to the UK.. I guess you could say that my craftiness is global!!!okay...go here:
please pretend that i, the twilight dork, did NOT show this to you.
my hubby laughed his butt off when i showed it to him!!!
hope it cheers you up!!!
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Ross looks to continue surge in finale against Cubs
Jackson seeks reversal of fortune as Chicago goes for series victory
With the Padres well back in the National League West and third baseman Chase Headley shipped to New York, the Padres are in need of a spark.
Tyson Ross can provide one. The All-Star right-hander will get the ball opposite righty Edwin Jackson in the rubber match of the three-game set on Thursday night at Wrigley Field.
This will be Ross' first start since being named San Diego's 2014 "Heart and Hustle Award" winner by the Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association. The honor, voted on by former players, is given to athletes -- one from each club -- "who demonstrate a passion for the game of baseball and best embody the values, spirit and tradition of the game," according to a release.
Ross has never started against the Cubs -- throwing two scoreless innings of relief in 2010 -- but if his breakout 2014 campaign is any indication, good things await. His ERA (2.70) is good for seventh in the NL, while his WHIP (1.17) ranks 12th.
July has treated Ross particularly well. In four starts, all at least six innings, Ross has allowed three earned runs in 29 innings (0.93 ERA) while striking out 30 against four walks. That stretch includes a shutout of the Reds on July 2 and seven scoreless innings against the Mets on Saturday.
"I didn't have my best slider," Ross said after that start against New York. "But I had a pretty good sinker tonight with a lot of good downward action."
Jackson (5.61 ERA, 1.56 WHIP), meanwhile, will try to reverse his fortunes as well as those of the Cubs. Jackson has struggled most of the season, but especially since the Cubs sent Jeff Samardzija and Jason Hammel to Oakland, increasing his importance in the rotation. He owns a 9.60 ERA (16 runs in 15 innings) since the Cubs-A's blockbuster.
"There's a lot of baseball left," Jackson said after his last start, a three-run, 5 1/3-inning effort against the D-backs. "It's about how you finish. You finish up strong, the first half will be kind of forgotten. You just live in the present."
Jackson owns a career 6.94 ERA and 1.83 WHIP in 11 games (nine starts) against San Diego.
Padres: Solarte makes quick impression
It's been quite the six months for Yangervis Solarte -- from Yankees non-roster invite to spring revelation to key piece in the Chase Headley trade -- and on Wednesday, he added another chapter.
He tripled to right field in his first at-bat as a Padre, then scored on Carlos Quentin's ensuing single. The 27-year-old rookie started at second base and scored a second run later in the game.
"He's a pretty dependable player in all areas," San Diego manager Bud Black said before the game. "The scouting report is that he's got good hands, he's a good defender, he swings the bat with some authority from both sides of the plate. The word I get is that he's a pretty steady, polished baseball player. I think that will suit us fine. We'll need him to do some things at the top of the order, get on base and swing the bat like he did in New York."
Prior to the trade, Solarte hit .254/.337/.381 with six homers and 31 RBIs for the Yankees.
Cubs: Epstein says 'our work lies ahead of us'
The Cubs' loaded farm system is a harbinger of success, they hope, but right now it doesn't mean very much. Cubs president of baseball operations Theo Epstein said as much during a media session Wednesday afternoon.
"We're in last place. Almost by definition, our work lies ahead of us, it's not behind us," Epstein said. "What do we have to do? We have everything to do. We have to continue to build the organization, we have to continue to improve the Major League team. That generation, they're going to break in at some point, and the process of adjusting to the big leagues starts."
Much has been made of Starlin Castro's future with the organization following the acquisition of shortstop prospect Addison Russell from the A's, but Epstein said Castro -- as well as Anthony Rizzo -- are key pieces of the foundation.
"At best, what we've done is put ourselves in a position to make a lot of interesting decisions going forward and hopefully have two of the most important currencies in the game in young players and available payroll dollars and go make some hay," Epstein said. "We're not there yet. We haven't accomplished anything yet. We're in last place, so all of work remains ahead."
Worth noting
• The Padres recalled outfielder Jeff Francoeur before Wednesday's game to replace Cameron Maybin, who was suspended 25 games after twice testing positive for Amphetamine. It is Francoeur's first time back in the Majors since last August with the Giants.
• Thursday's contest will be the rubber game for the season series. After splitting a four-game set in May, the Cubs and Padres have also split the first two this week. Chicago has not taken the season series from the Padres since 2008.
Tim Healey is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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- $400.00
Students will learn the fundamentals of long-form improvisation including: agreement, active listening, playing characters, playing truthfully and to the top of your intelligence and group mind.
Understanding the fundamentals will be achieved through exercises and scene work in class, seeing improv shows at UCB Theatre and reading the UCB Comedy Improvisation Manual.
Students are required to see at least 2 improvised shows at UCB Theatre before the end of the course.
Course meets for 8 sessions, each 3 hours long.
Students will take part in a class performance, generally held at UCB Theatre.
Class Size: 16 Students
Important! Improv 101 students enrolling after February 3, 2014:
Improv 101 students are required to acquire the Upright Citizens Brigade Comedy Improvisation Manual by class #2. The Manual can be purchased for non-refundable $25 at UCB Theatre, UCB Training Center NY, UCBstore.com or Amazon.com.
Laura Grey, Teacher
At UCB she performs on Harold Night with (most recently) Salmon Diane and Grammer. In her spare time she procrastinates from all adult tasks by writing videos with the sketch duo Klepper and Grey. Laura has a degree in drama and creative writing from Northwestern University. She likes stuff, in general.
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