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Pesticides move off the target site when they are sprayed, whether inside or outside. When sprayed outside pesticides drift on to nearby property resulting in off target residues. Buffer zones can eliminate exposure from spray drift on to school property. As a result, states require buffer zones around schools. In order to adequately protect against drift, buffer zones should, at a minimum, be established in a 2 mile radius around the schools property. Aerial applications should have a larger buffer zone, at least 3 miles encircling the school. Buffer zones should be in effect at all times of the day. It is especially important for spray restrictions to be in place during commuting times and while students and employees are on school grounds.
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Methyl bromide application, schools within 300 feet, completed 36 hours prior to start of school day.
II. Posting Notification Signs for Indoor Pesticide Applications
States use different approaches in providing school pesticide use information to parents, students and staff. Some forms include the posting of notification signs and/or the distribution of notices directly to the affected population. Posted notification signs warn those in the school when and where pesticides have been or are being applied. This is a vehicle for basic right-to-know if the posting occurs in an area where it is easily seen by parents, students and staff. It is important to post signs for indoor pesticide applications because of the extensive period of time students and school employees spend at school. Signs posted prior to commencement of the pesticide application, not after, are more protective. The prior notification system effectively enables people to take precautionary action. Because of the residues left behind after an application, signs should remain posted for at least 72 hours. It takes time for pesticides to start breaking down and some pesticide residues can least for weeks. Signs should also be posted at all main entrances of the building and the specific area sprayed, on the main bulletin board, and, for more comprehensive notification, in the school newspaper or on the daily announcements. Posted signs should state when and where a pesticide is applied, the name of the pesticide applied and how to get further information, such as a copy of the material safety data sheet (MSDS) and the product(s) label.
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California law requires signs to be posted for 24 hours prior to indoor school pesticide applications and remain for 72 hours.
III. Posting Notification Signs for Outdoor Pesticide Applications
For a wider range of protection, states should require posting pesticide notification signs for outdoor pesticide applications as well. Students who play sports or people continually on the lawns represent a high risk when applications occur on school property. Dermal exposure can occur when a football player gets tackled, a soccer player slides to make a block or a student sits on the grass to eat lunch or watch a game. Inhalation exposure can occur when a player breathes in kicked up dust and dirt and pesticide residues. Even spectators at a game or passersby face inhalation exposure to pesticides that volatilize or vaporize off the treated area.
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California law requires signs to be posted 24 hours prior to outdoor pesticide applications and remain for 72 hours.
IV. Prior Written Notification
Written notification of pesticide use is a good way to make sure that all parents, children and staff are aware and warned of pesticide use in the schools. Limited notification-based registries is a less effective means of notifying people and does not qualify as true right-to-know because of its limited scope. Requiring that individuals place themselves on registries, sometimes only with a doctors letter, afford only those who already know about toxic exposure the opportunity to be informed about pesticide use in the school. Prior notification should be 72 hours in advance to make sure the information has been received, to get further information regarding the pesticide and to make arrangements to avoid the exposure, if necessary. Notification should include the name of the pesticide(s), a summary of the adverse health effects listed on the Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) and label, the day and time, and area of the application and how to obtain a copy of the MSDS and label.
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California law requires schools to establish a parent and staff registry which, provides 72 hour advance written notification of pesticide applications.
V. Prohibitions on Use
Limiting when and what pesticides are applied in and around schools is important to the reduction of pesticide exposure. Pesticides should never be applied when students or employees are in the area or may be in the area within 24 hours of the application. Seven states specifically state restrict the type and timing of pesticides that may be used in a school. In reality, certain types of pesticides, such as carcinogens, endocrine disrupters, reproductive toxins, developmental toxins, neurotoxins, persistent compounds and substances, bioaccumulative compounds and substances, toxicity category 1 acutely toxic pesticides and ground water contaminants should not be used around children.
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No conditional, interim, experimental or new active ingredients/pesticides.
VI. Integrated Pest Management
A good integrated pest management (IPM) program can eliminate the unnecessary application of synthetic, volatile pesticides in schools. The main elements of a good IPM program include: 1) monitoring to establish whether there is a pest problem, 2) identifying the causes of the pest problem, 3) addressing the cause by changing conditions to prevent problems, a summary of the adverse health effects 4) utilizing pest suppression techniques, if necessary, that are based on mechanical and biological controls and 5) only after non-toxic alternatives have been tried and exhausted, use the least toxic pesticide. An IPM policy should include a written policy guide and a prohibited and acceptable materials list. Material that could be considered after using other methods include boric acid and disodium octoborate tetrahydrate, silica gels, diatomaceous earth, insect growth regulators, insect and rodent baits in tamper resistant containers or for crack and crevice placement only, microbe-based insecticides, botanical insecticides (not including synthetic pyrethriods) without toxic synergists, and biological (living) control agents.
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California law recommends schools to adopt an IPM policy. California law has a comprehensive definition of IPM and allows only the least toxic pesticide to be used as a last resort.
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Schools with IPM/Notification Policies:
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Festival of Short Plays: "Plays on Plays" Opens Tonight at Middleburgh
Tonight, the Festival of Short Plays opens at Middleburgh High School's Auditorium, with a second showing on Saturday, November 13, both performances start at 7:00pm The theme of this year's festival is "Plays on Plays". The event has one featured showing of a one-act play entitled, "The Final Dress Rehearsal" a satire of the problematic […] [Read More]
Watervliet's 2010 Drama Club performs Les Misérables
The 2010 Watervliet production for Les Miserables is based upon Victor Hugo's 1862 novel of the same name. The mixture of 7th to 12th grade students brings life to early 19th-century France. Each student threw themself into each character and embraced the intertwining stories of the characters as they struggled for redemption and revolution. The […] [Read More]


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Is Congress Obsolete?
On entering the House of Representatives at Washington one is struck with the vulgar demeanor of that great assembly. The eye frequently does not discover a man of celebrity within its walls. Its members are almost all obscure individuals, whose names present no associations to the mind; they are mostly village lawyers, men in trade, or even persons belonging to the lower classes of society. In a country in which education is very general, it is said that the representatives of the people do not always know how to write correctly.
—Alexis de Tocqueville,
Democracy in America.
It is comforting to know that some things never change, or at least not very much. One can still drop into that sprawling chamber where the people's representatives meet in solemn session and wonder how anything of the slightest importance could possibly happen there. A handful of men in baggy suits can be seen in various postures of repose—a few reading newspapers, another picking his nose, one sound asleep—while from somewhere in a sea of mahogany desks a voice rises in droning tribute to the milk-weed pod or the orthodontist. Even high-school civics teachers know better than to allow their wards to linger in the House gallery on spring vacation trips to the capital. Lest they all turn into cynics, they are hustled off after a few minutes to see the stuffed Indians at the Smithsonian.
But if de Tocqueville was right, we have to remember that the public spectacle of the lower chamber has always been mostly for show and a few laughs. The real business, then as now, goes on behind the scenes, in the committee rooms where the feudal barons of the legislative process dispose of the public business at their private discretion. As Woodrow Wilson wrote during his professorial days: "The House sits not for serious discussion, but to sanction the conclusions of its committees as rapidly as possible." If the ratification ceremony has little drama and even less debate, nobody seems to mind very much. To expect rapier wit and probing cross-questioning on the floor of the House is to ask of that august body a quality which it does not consider to be a virtue. In the rich heritage of custom the House holds dear, there is little room for question-askers or boat-rockers. Was it not, after all, the late Sam Rayburn, venerated by friend and foe alike as the living incarnation of everything that is most honorable in the House, who summed up the creed governing the institution over which he presided for so many years in the immortal words: "To get along, go along"?
Going along has always been to the House what economic determinism is to Marxists or predestination to Calvinists: an article of faith and a philosophy of life. Those who vote prudently when the chips are down and don't ask too many questions are drawn into the fold and given the sacraments—assignment to a powerful committee, a new federal highway through their district, speedy action on a private bill for an influential constituent. The few others, who for reasons of temperament or conscience have a hard time going along, find the role of a legislator a mine-field of bad intentions. As Senator Paul Douglas, a pioneer of the lonesome road himself, reminded a would-be rebel: "The legislation you favor will not go through. The dam your constituents want will not be built. The river improvements your constituents want will not be built."
Yet a few malcontents invariably appear in the House who ignore Sam Rayburn's advice. Among the most poignant are the idealists who think that all issues are decided on moral principle and resolved by the logic of debate. In his collection of round-table discussions, The Congressman—His Work As He Sees It,1 one of a number of recent books on the House, Charles Clapp quotes such a disappointed idealist as saying: "I came here thinking this was for real, that this was the only parliament where democratic processes were at work. That is a myth, I find. You can't stand on the floor and inform people; they don't want to listen. If anybody thinks he is going to come down here and legislate he is crazy. When I first arrived and looked around the Capitol, the White House and the Washington Monument, I had a lump in my throat and I felt pretty humble about being part of this great scene. But now all I see is skullduggery and shenanigans."
There speaks a man who thought he was going to the House of Commons and discovered himself in the House of Representatives, an organization whose leaders have no desire to be informed on the floor by their junior fellows, nor any intention of letting them legislate. While newcomers often complain bitterly about the five-minute limitation on debate, they gradually come to realize that it is not so much a tyranny imposed by the leadership as a handy device for dispensing with the irrelevant—that is, a debate that would not make the slightest difference in the way members cast their votes. With the horse-trading all wound up before the bill ever reaches the floor, the only thing a debate could accomplish would be to tell the voters what was being done to them in the name of their best interests. But since the House does not consider the enlightenment of the electorate to be one of its primary functions, most Congressmen are ardent supporters of the five-minute gag on debate. No temple of rhetoric, the House is a cozy, if slightly seedy, Masonic lodge where the boys swap yarns, the young Turks let off a little harmless steam, and the elders of the community watch over the foolproof system they have developed for keeping things nice and tidy.
One of the most remarkable features of this system is a process whereby speeches are presented but never heard, and where debate often comes only after the vote has been taken. This is accomplished by the device known as the Congressional Record, an ingenious publication which offers Congressmen, through their privilege to "revise and extend" remarks, the chance to create the past and go on record ex post facto—to be off pinching heifers in Ogalala during a crucial vote and yet break into print with an impassioned speech that gives every appearance of having been delivered in the heat of debate. The fact that this practice provides a deceptive official record which makes it impossible for the courts to determine legislative intent hardly detracts from its self-evident virtues. How useful it is to be in two places at once, to say one thing on the floor and another for the record, to decide one's position after the issue is settled. And how convenient it is for the image-conscious Congressman to have a publication into which he can insert his own public-relations material, or that of a favored pressure group, and then get it distributed at no expense (except the taxpayers') to the voters of his district by means of his Congressional mailing frank. Thus, without recourse to the tedious and time-consuming method of floor debate, the members of Congress are nevertheless able to fulfill their obligation to instruct the electorate on vital issues of public policy.
To be sure, Congressmen, like everyone else, are subject to persuasion. It is just that the real persuaders are not those who deliver fervent addresses, nor even the President and his various arm-twisting minions, but the handful of venerable figures in the House cat-bird seat: the Speaker, the minority leader, the chairmen of the half-dozen key committees. Theirs are the hands that guide the strange, and sometimes incomprehensible, workings of the House, that hold out rewards and exact punishments, that allow certain bills to be voted upon and consign others to the limbo of the forgotten. These are the men who decide on the assignment of their colleagues to the legislative committees—an act filled with all the darkness and much of the ceremony of the Eleusinian Mysteries. Congressman Bob Wilson, for example, whose political career is mightily helped by a steady flow of defense contracts into his California constituency, told Clapp that he was not exactly sure why he was put on the Armed Services committee, although "one factor of great significance" must have been "that my district has many military installations in it and thus is a logical one to be represented on the committee." Another Congressman, benefiting from Sam Rayburn's dictum that the new Democrats on the Education and Labor committee must first be cleared by the AFL-CIO, found that his assignment was made "when some labor lobbyists came to me and asked whether I would go on if they could get me on. They went ahead and got me on. I neither asked for it nor lifted a finger for it."
As far as the individual Congressman is concerned, the most awesome seat of power in the House has been the Appropriations committee. "For a member of the House to fight this committee," writes Neil MacNeil in his long and perhaps overly loving account of House folklore, Forge of Democracy,2 "even in the cause of the President, was to risk dreadful consequences to his own political well-being, for this committee had power over all the federal spending in every Representative's home district. . . . This power over the political lives of the other Representatives gave the committee almost unlimited influence over government spending. Rarely were the committee's bills ever seriously challenged by the House itself. By the 1960's it was not deemed remarkable that the House adopted appropriations of as much as $40 billion without a single amendment being offered on the House floor or a single voiced dissent." It takes either a very brave or a very foolish man to oppose such monolithic authority.
If the Appropriations committee has the key to the public purse and the Congressman's heart, another House institution, the Rules committee, manages to exercise veto power over legislation without having any substantive authority at all. Theoretically empowered only to decide the order in which bills approved by other committees shall be sent to the floor for consideration, it has in reality established itself as the moral overseer of legislation, deciding not merely when the House shall consider bills but whether it should be allowed to consider them at all. An early chairman of this committee was not speaking through his hat when he said, "In me reposes absolute obstructive powers." Similarly, in 1960 the venerable current chairman, Judge Howard Smith, told two members of his committee who were seeking the release of several key bills: "The only legislation I will agree to consider is the minimum-wage bill. You can tell your liberal friends that they will get that—or nothing. If you try to bring up anything else, I'll adjourn the meeting."
Crafty parliamentarian that he is, Judge Smith has adjourned a good many meetings, with the result that he has usually been able to block the bills he didn't like and speed through the ones he admired—such as the Communist control act that bears his name. It is a favorite pastime among liberals to fulminate against the Judge and curse him for having a black heart. Yet the Rules committee is the House's creation, not his, and it perfectly reflects the political ethos which dominates that institution. Who would vote to remove Judge Smith from the chairmanship of "his" committee—a position which he acquired and maintains by virtue of having been returned to Congress for sixteen consecutive terms—when to do so would be a direct blow to the seniority system from which every Congressman can expect to benefit? Even Sam Rayburn, cunning fox that he was, was unable to pry key administration bills loose from the Rules committee; nor was he able to purge William Colmer from his second-ranking position on it despite the fact that Colmer, a Mississippi Democrat, actively campaigned against Kennedy in the 1960 election.
To a foreign observer there must have been something pathetic, if not totally mystifying, in the late President's complaint that much of his program would have been approved had the Rules committee allowed his bills to come to a vote in the House. After all, the committee had a two-thirds Democratic majority, was headed by a member of the President's own party, and was supposedly acting as an agent of a Democratic-controlled House. But as James MacGregor Burns has told us in his admirable study, Deadlock of Democracy, there are two Democratic parties, one controlled by some ninety Congressmen elected by two million voters, and another (when the Democrats are in power) headed by the President and making its appeal to sixty million voters. The Congressional Democrats, with Judge Smith as their rock and Adam Smith as their prophet, view themselves as defenders of the Republic against its wild-eyed enemies "downtown" in the White House and the government agencies. And in this crusade they have found natural allies in Republicans like Charles Halleck, the pugnacious minority leader, who sees the Rules committee as a "roadblock to unwise, ill-timed, spendthrift, socialistic measures."
Those critics who are trying to save the House from itself and pump some blood back into its congealed arteries naturally seize upon the Rules committee as the logical place to begin. James Robinson, a young political scientist who has examined the various possibilities for reform in his scholarly study, The House Rules Committee,3 concludes that the most radical solution would also be the most logical: do away with the damned thing altogether and let the majority party leadership determine which committee-approved bills should be considered by the House and in what order. Noting that the Senate sets its agenda by a procedure of unanimous consent agreements, Robinson argues cogently that "if a group of 100 men can agree unanimously on its legislative program, 400 men can surely operate by majority vote." The fact, however, is that both the leadership and the majority of the House seem quite content with the conduct of the Rules committee and have consistently refrained from any serious attempt to discipline it. It is too handy as a graveyard for legislation that the majority does not want, but dares not oppose openly.
But then has not Congress always looked upon the non-passage of bills as a function at least as important as their passage? As Robert Bendiner says in Obstacle Course on Capitol Hill,4 his informative and witty study of the non-legislative process at work: "A United States Congressman has two principal functions: to make laws and to keep laws from being made. . . . Indeed, if that government is best that governs least, then Congress is designed, by rule and tradition, to be one of the most perfect instruments of government ever devised." Following various bills for federal aid to education on their long and tortuous path to extinction, Bendiner delves into the labyrinth of Congressional obstructionism as it has been refined over the years by the best parliamentary minds in the business. The result is a revealing insight into the non-workings of our legislative system, and a fascinating account of how an intelligent minority has been able to impose its will on a disorganized majority.
Considering all the hurdles and pits that Congress has placed in the path of legislation, it is less remarkable that the system performs so badly than that, like the chess-playing dog, it performs so well. One would be hard-pressed to think of any other functioning democracy where the chief executive could not even persuade the legislature to consider, let alone pass, one-fifth of the bills he sent to it. Yet somehow or other the system creaks on, the absolutely vital measures get passed in one form or another, while the controversial ones gather dust until there is sufficient popular demand to force them to a vote—or until the Supreme Court does Congress's work for it. Which is no ground for complacency, but none for hysteria either. Looking back on some of the legislation that has been whooped through the House—such as the perennial wiretap bills, the Smith Act, or the 1950 resolution to cut off Marshall Plan aid to England until the British Parliament ended the partition of Ireland—one might have second thoughts about the desirability of speedy Congressional action.
Perhaps, in any case, it is only the political scientists who take Congress's legislative role seriously. If forced to express an opinion, most Congressmen would probably not place legislating very high on their list of public duties. Faithful servant of the people, the average member of the House takes greater pride in his job of representation. He delights in considering himself a liaison between his constituents and the federal government, serving as a conduit for baffled inquiries about overdue social security checks, veterans' benefits, and draft deferments. The size of the country and the impersonality of the bureaucracy make this function important, although only in the United States is it considered to be the main job of the nation's legislators. While he perpetually grumbles about the time it consumes, the Congressman enjoys playing this role—even to the point of acting as a travel agent for his constituents, reserving hotel rooms for them, and finding them choice seats for the selection of Miss Cherry Blossom. It all gives him a sense of service and it forges ties with the voters that come in handy every second November.
Bendiner, along with a good many other critics of a moribund Congress, believes that this overly tight and narrow relationship between the Representative and his constituents is responsible for the House's failure to educate the public: that is to say, the Congressman doesn't pass the hard truth on to the voters either because he is too busy performing his liaison functions or because he is afraid that they won't re-elect him if he provides unpleasant information. "If," Bendiner writes, "there is any hope of making Congress primarily the nationally deliberative body that it might be and only secondarily the assembly of sectional and provincial representatives that to some extent it must be, the hope lies, I think, in the direction of making its members somewhat freer than they are of local whim and sentiment." To this end he suggests a series of modest, if unlikely, reforms—such as lengthening the term of office and limiting the number of consecutive terms, letting candidates run from whatever district they please regardless of residence, setting up a quasi-judicial agency to relieve Congressmen of the burden of bills for the relief of individual constituents, and reducing the errand-boy role of Congressmen by establishing an office on the Swedish model to serve as an intermediary between citizen and bureaucracy.
Reasonable enough in themselves, these suggested reforms might make Congressmen more independent, but would they also make them wiser—or readier to vote for the legislation so dear to the hearts of the liberals? The answer, I should think, is no. The fearsome old curmudgeons who bottle up medicare, federal aid to education, and home rule for the District of Columbia are not those Congressmen chained to "local whim and sentiment," but precisely the ones who can afford to ignore their constituents because they come from one-party districts and are as firmly entrenched in office as is navy bean soup in the House cafeteria. Of the 435 seats in the House, only 100 at most can be called marginal in any sense of the word, and in recent elections less than one incumbent in ten has been denied another term. John McMillan is not being cowed by the voters of South Carolina when, as chairman of the House District committee, he decides that his fellow representatives shall not be allowed to vote on home rule for the nation's capital, despite the fact that three successive Presidents have asked for it, and the Senate has five times passed bills which would authorize it. Nor does Judge Howard Smith tremble under the judgment of the central Virginia mountaineers and farmers who have kept him in Congress since 1931; he is all-powerful within his realm because he is an absolutely free agent enjoying autocratic authority under the archaic rules that govern the House in the conduct of its own affairs.
A good many liberals imagine that making every Representative as independent as these Southern gentlemen—or their counterparts in the one-party Republican districts of the Middle West—would bring about a flow of progressive legislation. More likely, however, it would slow such legislation up, since it is precisely the Congressmen from marginal districts who are most receptive to the needs of a changing society. The burden these legislators operate under does not come from the narrow prejudices of their district—a civics-class myth it is time we disposed of—but from a procedural system that prevents a numerical majority from imposing its will upon an entrenched minority. To free Representatives from the pressure of their constituents would in no way threaten the power of the oligarchs who have manipulated the rules of the House to their own purposes, and are responsible to no one but themselves. A more effective remedy, therefore, would lie in freeing Congress from its own procedural prison. Not that this would necessarily bring Congress wisdom, but it could at least help it to function once again.
Nevertheless, it would be foolish to deny that the Representative is a man subject to intense local pressures—pressures which he cannot ignore without sacrificing his political life. He may find these pressures narrow and ignorant, he may even defy them if he thinks he can, but he dare not cut too many bridges of support or he will soon find himself with nowhere to turn and his career in Washington collapsing under him. This is one of the reasons why Congressmen feel it essential to reply to every letter that comes into their office, no matter how undeserving or unnecessary of response. Those from marginal districts where two-party politics is a reality live under the constant terror of offending a single voter. Only an iconoclast like Stephen Young has the courage to reply to crackpots: "Dear Sir, Some damned fool sent me a stupid letter and signed your name to it." But then Stephen Young is not only a free spirit and a man of exquisite sense, he is also a Senator; and Senators can do things that no Congressman would dream of in his wildest flights of fantasy. Blessed with a six-year term and supported by the assumption that voters have short memories, Senators can even court temporary unpopularity by favoring the needs of the nation over the feelings of their constituents. To be sure, even a Senator has to keep the fences mended at home, and never for a minute can he forget that he is an elected official with his state's interests to represent, but at least he has more leeway than his colleagues in the House of Representatives.
The Representative, unless he is permanently entrenched in office by a one-party constituency, takes a national view of public affairs only at his own peril. As D. W. Brogan, has pointed out: "An American Congressman who, for the best of reasons, offends local pressure groups, or by not talking for Buncombe, wastes his time on mere national issues of the first order, may be out—and out forever. The history of Congress is full of martyrs to the general welfare, but any given Congress is full of men who have had more sense than to prefer the general welfare to the local interest." Thus, Congressmen from marginal districts feel that they must work both sides of the political fence if they are to be re-elected. This is not always as easy as it sounds, particularly where the Congressman feels strongly about social issues. Speaking for a frustrated minority, one liberal told MacNeil of his disappointment when the state legislature failed to redraw his district; "I could have been a statesman if they had cut off a few of those conservatives. Now I'll have to continue going this way and that way, back and forth. I'm a cracker-ass Congressman—and I could have been a statesman." Perhaps he could have been, but he was in the wrong place, for only those who do not have to worry about being re-elected every two years can afford to be Burkeans.
This, of course, is supposed to be one of the virtues of the House: because Representatives are constantly running for re-election, the House, it is said, more accurately reflects the national will than the Senate. But here we come upon a paradox, for is it not often the case that the Congressman trails behind public opinion, faithfully waving the banner of last year's slogan? The gap between that vast amorphous entity known as The Country and the incestuous little world of Washington has not developed—as most Congressmen like to think—mainly because of the electorate's backwardness. It is a result of the isolation and caution of legislators who are so enmeshed in Congressional gamesmanship that they no longer have any clear idea of what the voters are thinking—and in some cases, they have even ceased to care. Instead of legislating, Congress holds hearings; instead of educating the voters, it bemoans their ignorance; instead of offering leadership, it complains that it is not the President; and instead of drafting its own bills, it merely acts as a receptacle for legislation drawn up by the White House and the federal agencies.
Reflecting on the ways of the House, an institution that fills him with alternating mirth and consternation, Murray Kempton writes: "It is argued that the House of Representatives has damaged the country by its persistence in negation. But the real point is that this habit has damaged the House of Representatives more than it has anything else. Negation, long indulged, renders any institution impotent. The House can no longer offer any alternative to Executive discretion on matters truly critical; its attitude has, in fact, turned government into a series of private compacts to do what has to be done without admitting that it is being done. And what should be serious debate ends as only a saber dance. The Congress is content with gestures; it has surrendered to the President what power there is for substantial action."
In the paralysis of its procedures and the negativism of its philosophy, the Senate has been just as irresponsible as the House—and with even less reason, since it cannot fall back on the excuse that a two-year term somehow ties its hands. Together the two chambers form a poignant diptych of Tweedledum and Tweedledee, joined in impotent wedlock by the fetters of their own making. As a result, the role of the Congress in the American system of government has become basically one of obstruction and harassment. It can block administration bills which have overwhelming public support, such as medicare or federal aid to education, but it is unable to offer any constructive alternatives of its own. It can slash the foreign aid bill to ribbons and hamper the conduct of foreign policy by cutting off aid to countries whose leaders it doesn't like, while shunting off the consequences of its irresponsibility to a frustrated Executive branch. It can annoy the administration, of whatever party, by investigations designed more to embarrass public officials than to enlighten the public, and by indiscriminate hacking at the budgets of administrative agencies that incur the displeasure of one of the Congressional oligarchs. It can drive Cabinet officials to distraction by forcing them to make perpetual appearances before its various committees in hearings which often seem designed more to satisfy Congressional vanity than to provide information. In the face of this collapse of legislative responsibility, even Walter Lippmann, a man not given to dramatic generalizations, has found "reason to wonder whether the Congressional system as it now operates is not a grave danger to the Republic."
What is most alarming about the inability of the Congress to legislate is that it may lead to a breakdown of our peculiarly successful, but not necessarily permanent, democratic system. The checks and balances written into the Constitution are the very fibre of American democracy, and if they are disturbed over too long a period, the system itself must suffer. A self-reliant and responsible legislature is, after all, an anomaly in the world, not a commonplace. For all its sense of drama and lofty standards of debate, the French parliament was so totally incapable of coping with its duties and had fallen to such a level of public contempt that its demise was greeted with indifference or delight. The American Congress, too, could become a purely ceremonial body, providing country lawyers with prestigious titles to cap their careers, and offering a source of harmless entertainment for a cynical public.
This is certainly one way of resolving the Congressional impasse, but it is one over which liberals should contain their enthusiasm. It is only relatively recently that liberals have found such virtue in a strong-arm executive and a politically motivated Supreme Court—institutions which were both looked upon with considerable suspicion when they were manned by incumbents of different political hue. We have had reactionary Courts and right-wing Presidents before, and we are likely to have them again. We have also had a Congress—although not recently—which took its responsibilities seriously and which was a "great assembly" of the people rather than a museum of stuffed platitudes. Unless that once "great assembly" is put into working order again, we are likely to find ourselves with something even worse—which is no effective assembly at all.
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that pleases the eye is a frail, fleeting illusion. But that beauty capable of
pleasing the heart can endure endlessly.'
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
Marbelous sweeps table manners aside, to make way for fun. For adults an exceptional piece of furniture, for children a playground: a marble run has been created in the table legs. Consequently, Marbelous adds a new dimension to an existing discipline. Decorative carving is invested with purpose, which reunites the entire family around or under the table. Heart-warming and delightful to behold. Marbelous.
Year 2008
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I look down the street but there are no bulgy cars with rounded wheel wells and no one's wearing trench coats. We're all wearing skirts and sandals. It's a hot summer night, just the end of August when it gets really bad. But there's a breeze and the night shows itself. It wants to be a fall night but it was born a month too early.
I turn from the blinking radio sign as we head a few blocks over to where everyone lives but me. We close our eyes a little bit to feel the breeze. We pass store windows and it hits me – I went to 2 parties that night and knew nearly everyone there. This is what it's like to be someone. To be someone people know. To be known.
I was once in a crowded room and a woman was looking for me. I was standing in front of her and she was asking the person to her right if they had seen me. I kept saying, Wendy, I'm here. I'm right here. She just looked over my head and searched the crowd with her eyes. She walked away.
As we walk on downtown streets in a shadowy breeze, we talk about parents, bizarre family members. Prank callers. Bi-polars. They walk on the sidewalk and I walk in the street. If I get too close, they'll know. I've never ever been anybody in my whole entire life but I am right now. Like looking out a train window and only seeing your reflection, they think I belong. If you lean in, if they lean in, you can see the countryside racing by, the fields, the shanties and shacks. That's the real me.
My grandmother was a sharecropper. To this day she doesn't believe that refrigeration is required for most foods. My dad was in the Army. My mom was a teacher. He became an alcoholic. She became a crack addict. My brother became a race car designer. But I'm just plain. I'm just ten-years-for-a-bachelor. I'm just one-real-job-in-my-whole-life. I've never been anybody.
But that's not entirely true. I was someone, for a moment, like people preaching at a bus stop while they're waiting for the next one to come carry them off. It was a layover. A fluke. A piece of hard candy sucked into thin air. They mistook me.


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Tuesday, March 12, 2013
The course played tough March 4 when Charleston National won the fourth match of the Charleston Area Men's Interclub Golf Association season.
Charleston National came in with plus 4 points at the Pine Forest course to take top honors. The home team came in second with a minus 13 score. Trailing were Coosaw Creek and Crowfield (-22), Legend Oaks (-26), Miler (-34), Wescott (-39), Dunes West (-42), Charleston Municipal (-43), Shadowmoss (-48), Stono Ferry (-51), Rivertowne (-53) and Berkeley (-64).
Individual honors went to Keith Bartlett of Charleston National and Phil Bees of Pine Forest who tied for first with plus 9 scores. Gunnar Jannson of Charleston National, Gerhard Frisch of Pine Forest, Lew Briggs of Coosaw Creek, and Hank Miro of Crowfield all came in at plus 5 to tie for third place.
Full results can be found at chsinterclub.org.
Pine Forest is on top of the point standings with 43.5 points but Coosaw Creek is right behind with 39.5. Trailing are Shadowmoss (35), Crowfield (34), Charleston National (32), Wescott (29.5), Charleston Municipal (29), Rivertowne (27), Dunes West (24.5), Stono Ferry (23), Miler (22), Legend Oaks (19.5) and Berkeley (13.5).
The next match is scheduled for 9 a.m. April 1 at the Miler course.
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School menus
LEE COUNTY — Monday: Corndog nuggets or toasted cheese sandwich, corn, green beans, fresh seasonal fruit; Tuesday: Nachos or turkey and cheese sandwich, tossed salad, green peas, Mandarin oranges; Wednesday: Chicken fajita or hot dog on bun, coleslaw, baked beans, fruit cocktail; Thursday: Pork roast sandwich or hamburger on bun, tater tots, glazed carrots, applesauce; Friday: Pizza or PB&J sandwich, candied yams, steamed broccoli with cheese sauce, baked apples.
GRACE CHRISTIAN — Monday: Chicken tenders, mac and cheese, broccoli, roll, fresh fruit, milk; Tuesday: Meat lasagna, corn, garlic bread, fresh fruit, milk; Wednesday: Pizza, lettuce and tomato salad, fresh fruit, milk; Thursday: Roasted pork loin, mashed potatoes, green beans, roll, fresh fruit, milk; Friday: Hot dog, chili, cole slaw, dill spear, French fries, fresh fruit, ice cream, milk.
LEE CHRISTIAN — Monday: Chicken filet sandwich, chips, tomato, lettuce, fruit; Tuesday: Ham, potato salad, green beans, cranberry sauce; Wednesday: Chicken fajitas, lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, salsa, sour cream, fruit; Thursday: Spaghetti, tossed salad, garlic bread; Friday: Bubba's subs, raw veggies with dip, potato chips, fruit.


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Have they communicated with you at all? Did they charge you yet?
Has anyone heard an update on their order status? I knew I would be waiting but it is frustrating that they do not have a phone number to call for status updates. The preorder link is here http://www.slickguns.com/product/sky...-gas-block-675.
Have they communicated with you at all? Did they charge you yet?
I was charged when placing the order and they have given vague information on when the order will ship which is why I wanted to see if anyone else had received their order yet.
At this point Sky Guns is no longer responding to email. Has anyone else contacted them or know of a phone number that I can reach them with?
I received my upper first... they didn't get their lower shipment in when they expected, and the uppers were delayed because of back-ordered gas rings.
With the delay in lowers, they offered a PSA or Superior lower for a $40 upcharge. I opted for an $80 refund, and they shipped me the LPK and adjustable stock with a check for the refund. I paid $100 for a PSA blemished lower (direct from PSA). I also have some ATI lowers, and that's what I've mated with the upper.
I can't blame Sky-Guns for the madness that they got screwed by... they had their supply lines hijacked by others (I believe them when they say this).
I would do business with Sky-Guns again.


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Minnesota Timberwolves execs
We'd hardly had the chance to absorb news that the University of Minnesota men's basketball team was a hotbed of academic fraud when news came that Minnesota Timberwolves execs had inked an under-the-table deal to retain the services of Joe Smith, salary cap be damned. Thus did our fair state achieve the elite status of World's Most Corrupt Basketball Venue. (In case there is any doubt, as this item goes to press it seems the U women's basketball program has been seeking to bolster our stature.)


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True to its word, Muse played a game of football in St. Louis yesterday. According to fans, only bassist Chris Wolstenholme participated -- although it appeared to have been a lot of fun. Local bartender/promoter/musician Dave De Guire went and snapped a few shots for us. Check out that sweet Muse jersey!
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It is developed for cost-saving pumping of Ti:Al2O3 (titanium:sapphire) amplifiers and oscillators for materials research, spectroscopy and pump-probe dynamics applications.
The Verdi G10 is now the most powerful model in the Verdi G portfolio that uses Coherent's advanced optically pumped semiconductor laser (OPSL) technology, which offers small size, ultra performance, reduced cost of ownership and high durabilit.
The OPSL technology eliminates both thermal lensing and green noise problems that restrict the performance of multi-mode lasers developed by diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) technology. Thus, the Verdi G10 has a low noise level of less than 0.02% rms for a broad frequency spectrum range of 10 Hz to 100 MHz.
The Verdi G10's output power can be evenly modified between 10% and 100% of the optimum value without compromising on beam pointing stability or beam quality, which is less than 2 µrad/°C.
The Verdi G10 laser can be used for carrier-envelope phase-stabilized systems where attaining reduced phase noise is significantly based on utilizing a pump laser with low noise. It is the first non-DPSS laser that can offer adequate power for pumping Coherent RegA series, ultra-repetition rate amplifiers.
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Coastal Pet Safe Cat Adjustable Nylon Breakaway Collar - Red
|The buckle on the Coastal Pet Safe Cat Collar is designed to release when a cat's collar gets caught, allowing it to slip free. This comfortable nylon collar is available in a wide variety of fun colors to suit your cat's distinct personality! Keep your cat safe with the Safe Cat Breakaway Collar. Breaks away to set cat free if caught Snag proof Adjusts 8"-12" to fit neck comfortably The Coastal Pet Safe Cat Breakaway collar is made of no-snag material and is adjustable from 8" to 12" long. Do not use with lead or tie-out.
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|Coastal Pet's Sassy Cat Safety Collar with Bell is made from unique snag-proof nylon web. It features continuous "lock-weave" holes that are 100% adjustable. This collar is made to expand if the collar becomes caught on something to allow your pet to slip out. The collar also features a bell to help you locate your pet. Expands up to 10" Long. Made from unique snag-proof nylon web Continuous "lock-weave" holes 100% adjustable


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With the last festival of the year currently in full swing on the Isle of Wight, this week's Most Loved post is a combination of practical all weather gear, with a nod to musical and architectural history. First issued to soldiers during Vietnam, the M-65 Field Coat was a key element of the uniform that kept the troops dry and warm on the battlefield. Now, like aviator shades and leather jackets, camouflage and khaki, pea jackets and sailor sweaters, the sturdy functionality of the field coat has been embraced by designers and style icons alike; customarily found both on catwalks – Tommy Hilfiger A/W12 featured a suede version – and amid the muddy chaos of festival campsites.
But this week's most loved product is not just a wise recommendation in the face of the inevitability of a wet and cold autumn. Military style came into its own in the 1970s, with the mod music scene making it a key part of their aesthetic. Heading the sartorial charge were Joy Division, whose lead singer Ian Curtis was often seen hunkering down in functional green parkas. Following Curtis's death, the remaining members of the band reincarnated as New Order, a band whose riotous, rollercoaster career is the stuff of legend spanning. Despite 30 years of highs and lows, drugs, breakdowns, seemingly insoluble differences, tomorrow sees them take the headlining slot at Bestival. This provides an off kilter connection to the Lover of the week, Dazed Group Publishing Manager Liam Kelly, whose father, the legendary designer Ben Kelly, cut his teeth creating the iconic interior of Manchester's world famous nightclub The Haçienda, whose upkeep was mostly funded by New Order sales.
Here we speak to Kelly about his plans for the end of summer, the importance of combining style with substance and his taste for airborne field sports.
Why did you choose to love this coat?
Style and substance is a rare commodity.
Where would you wear it?
Everywhere – it's combat ready.
What is your favourite field activity?
If you could own anything, what would it be?
Right now, a VW Transporter – sports version with full mods. Probably something different tomorrow – life would be boring if I couldn't keep changing my mind.
How are you marking the end of summer?
An illegal party somewhere.
What was the last thing you bought?
It was my birthday recently. A skateboard, a Fred Perry Harrington from the Laurel Wreath collection and a pair of Nike Air Force 1 basketball boots.
What is your favourite online shop?
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Are you disappointed to find you didn't get a promotion you rightly deserved? No doubt, the prospect of losing an expected promotion is disheartening and humiliating for a lot of people. While your being dejected over not being promoted is natural and understandable, you should nevertheless spare a thought about the factors that kept you from getting that promotion. Instead of pinning blame on your boss—or your circumstances— you should take a stock of your own failures and weaknesses and try to improve them in the future. As the famous author of The Blame Game puts it, "It's possible to reframe these setbacks as disappointment rather than devastation,"
Here Ben simply emphasizes that failing to get a promotion can be a blessing in disguise: it gives you the opportunity to learn from your past mistakes and not to repeat them in the future. A little bit of introspection is in order.
Here are the pointers that would help you get the promotion you deserve.
1. Be persistent
Firstly, do not handle the issue petulantly, impulsively or emotionally. Understand feelings of disappointment and anger are likely to happen but do not wallow in the feelings. Instead of suppressing, try to feel the emotions that come up. You may feel some relief.
2. Gather others' perspectives
Once you've had a chance to calm down, find out why it happened. If possible, talk with the decision maker. Make sure you just listen and don't get defensive. Remember there are always reasons, even if they aren't justified or valid. Take this as an opportunity to learn about yourself and your place in the company.
3. Act instead of complain
Complaining will only make the decision maker defensive and angry. It might further justify their decision not to promote you. Try to solicit their help by saying something like, "How can we work together to make sure I get promoted in the future, and then act upon their advice. If you are told that you lack certain skills or expertise in your subject, hone them through training or a lateral job move. If you are considered slow to act or overly controlling, work on changing that perception.
4. Draw up the experience
Use the experience of not getting promotion this time to your own advantage by learning and improving your shortcomings. Keep them in perspective and try to see it from a different angle. Perhaps there were good reasons you didn't get the job and you now have the impetus to work on improving your skills and gathering new experiences. Maybe you were complacent and this is an incentive to start focusing more.
5. Keep your network active
After suffering a setback like this, expand your network so as to explore new avenues and opportunities. Send out resumes in search for prospective job positions. Keeping your network open and active will help you find the next opportunity better suited to you.


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I used to watch this but not anymore. One of the reasons was because of Randy Jackson and SIMON FREAKING COWELL leaving. Another reason is the contestants themselves. Here's what I mean.
In the auditions, most of them that don't make it to Hollywood curse out the judges. Like seriously? That's just immature. Some even just sound cocky before their audition saying they're gonna win when they won't.
Then it's said that this show is rigged. Now I haven't watched this season, but I'm just now hearing that a guy named nick has lied to the judges and he still won. Well if the votes are fixed I'm not surprised, or America had become stupid. Hell, CHRIS DAUGHTRY didn't win that season he was on (I think it was 7 or 8).
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Aaron Doran and Graeme Shinnie fired the hosts into a two-goal lead before
Darren Barr halved the deficit 14 minutes from time.
Regarding the vacant seat at Easter Road, from where Pat Fenlon departed on Friday, Butcher said: "All I would say is that it's just speculation as far as I'm concerned
"We don't know how good this club could be, where it could go, or what's at the end for us.
"At this moment in time, I'm staying here - that's it."
Following the victory at the Caledonian Stadium, Butcher added: "In the end it was a great win for us because we were put under a bit of pressure in the second half.
"Kilmarnock switched their system round and made it difficult for us. However, the boys saw it out very comfortably."
However, Kilmarnock boss Allan Johnston says his team performed well after the break.
He stressed: "With the conditions in the first half it was difficult, but Inverness were probably the better team.
"However, I felt that we were by far the better team in the second half.
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ODP Tryouts to be held this month.
Bring cup back to New York for first time since 1959
Massapequa Arsenal are NATIONAL CHAMPIONS! On Saturday, July 25 the boys brought back the McGuire Cup to Eastern New York.
U10 (8 v 8), U11 (8 v 8) and U12 registration closes August 19, 2015. All other divisions registration is open and closes Feb. 12, 2016 for Spring play.
Congratulations to these Regional Champs!
Honored at the East Hudson Youth Soccer League's Dinner of Champions
Sweep the ENY Champions Cup
Win the ENY Premier League Championship
Click here for Arch Capital Group Cup champion profiles
The ENY Premier League finals are this weekend on June 20, 2015!
A very special day with the LIJSL TOPSoccer Program
Deadline July 8th, 2015!
By Randy Vogt, Director of Public Relations, Eastern New York Youth Soccer Association
June 19, 2014-Tenacity and very important contributions by two girls named Megan were the difference as the Valley Stream Vipers defeated the South Huntington Strikers, 1-0, in a battle between two Long Island Junior Soccer League (LIJSL) teams. The final for the Eastern New York Youth Soccer Association's (ENYYSA) Girls-Under-15 Arch Capital Group Cup championship was played on June 7 at the Peter Collins Soccer Park in Plainview, Long Island.
Valley Stream's Megan Harvey scored the only goal of the game and keeper Megan Adams had the shutout.
"Tenacity was the difference in the final as we teach the players that their fate is in their hands," said Valley Stream coach Deidre Harvey. "It is not merely about one team verses another. When we play our game, we will prevail: take charge, go to the ball, win it and stay calm in the box."
"Of course, we are always a work in progress, yet these key concepts have gotten us this far," Coach Harvey added.
South Huntington received the Howard Rubenstein Sportsmanship Award as selected by game officials. Now retired and living in Ohio, the remarkable namesake of this award was seemingly involved in every facet of New York soccer for decades and is a member of the Halls of Fame of Eastern New York, the US Amateur Soccer Association and the Long Island Junior Soccer League.
Eastern New York would like to thank our sponsor, Arch Capital Group, which writes insurance and reinsurance on a worldwide basis through operations in the United States, Bermuda, Canada and Europe, with a focus on specialty lines.
"This cup competition is a great event in that it gives young people an opportunity to experience high levels of competition. And you don't have to be the best team in the state to win a championship with the Arch Capital Group Cup," said Brian Hughes, Senior Vice President and Chief Actuary of Arch Capital.
With 123,843 youth soccer players––68,587 boys and 55,256 girls––and more than 25,000 volunteers, the non-profit Eastern New York Youth Soccer Association (ENYYSA) stretches from Montauk Point, Long Island to the Canadian border. Members are affiliated with 12 leagues throughout the association, which covers the entire state of New York east of Route 81. Eastern New York exists to promote and enhance the game of soccer for children and teenagers between the ages of 5 and 19 years old, and to encourage the healthy development of youth players, coaches, referees and administrators. All levels of soccer are offered––from intramural, travel team and premier players as well as Special Children. No child who wants to play soccer is turned away. Eastern New York is a proud member of the United States Soccer Federation and United States Youth Soccer Association. For more information, please log on to http://www.enysoccer.com/, which receives nearly 300,000 hits annually from the growing soccer community.
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Koffee, maybe you should understand the law for motor cycle driving before you post a stupid comment.
We don't need to blame him for everything, we need to put the blame on the people who keep voting him in.
They must not have understood his flaws before, but hope you soon see that he is not for the people, he is for Philadelphia and himself.
AS long as he is in office, we will not have a budget signed on time and we will continue to pay for his party life.


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"Space Oddity" kicked in shortly after 9 p.m. and a camera showed U2 entering from some tunnel in order of reverse celebrity, with Bono taking up the rear and flashing a peace sign into the camera at his screaming worshipers. The World's Biggest Live Band took its place in the ring, greeted by 10,000 cell phone cameras, and burst into "Even Better Than The Real Thing" -- a spectacular song by almost any measure. Click here to continue reading Kiernan Maletsky's review of the U2 360 Tour at Bush Stadium Photos by Jason Stoff.


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|The PGA of America Partnering with Sticks For Kids Program
|The Sticks for Kids program is centered on the philosophy that every child, regardless of socioeconomic status, should have the opportunity to play golf. The club loan service is being tested at courses with prominent junior programs.
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. – The PGA of America has joined forces with Sticks for Kids, an outreach program funded by the Golf Course Builders Association of America (GCBAA) Foundation, to provide specialized instruction and free use of junior clubs at participating facilities throughout the country.
The Sticks for Kids program is centered on the philosophy that every child, regardless of socioeconomic status, should have the opportunity to play golf. Courses that participate in the program receive 10 sets of youth clubs that are available for use at no charge throughout the year. The PGA of America has recommended courses throughout the country to partner the program with The PGA Sports Academy powered by UnitedHealthcare, which recently won the 2012 Golf Digest Junior Golf Development Award.
The relationship between the two youth endeavors will provide young golfers with free equipment and award-winning instruction to help them to learn the game, all without having to make a large financial investment.
"We are excited to join forces with Sticks for Kids on this important mission to expand the opportunities in the game of golf for youth of all backgrounds," said PGA of America President Allen Wronowski. "The cost of loving our game can be considerable for individuals or families, and the Sticks for Kids program is a great way to share the game with children at little or no cost to them or their parents. It's important that The PGA of America support any program that makes clubs more accessible, and this program does exactly that."
In addition to pairing the Sticks for Kids program with The PGA Sports Academy, The PGA of America is also utilizing its PGA Professionals to implement and monitor the use of the free junior clubs in order to provide valuable feedback to the GCBAA about growing the Sticks for Kids program in future years.
Since its inception in 1997, 560 Sticks for Kids grants have been awarded to golf courses, park and recreation communities, and various youth serving organizations. The program emphasizes the rules of golf, etiquette, discipline, integrity, safety and environmental stewardship in addition to the opportunity for outdoor physical activity. The Program currently has 450 sites impacting the lives of over 63,000 children in all 50 states and 17 international military bases.
For more information, or to find a local course participating in Sticks for Kids, visit SticksforKids.org or PlayGolfAmerica.com.
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It was a big night on the boys basketball floor for both De Pere schools.West De Pere completed a season sweep of Seymour to clinch at least a share of the Bay Conference title, while the De Pere Redbirds defeated Sheboygan North to lock up the FRCC crown.
Local 5's Leslie Spoon has highlights.
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Press Release
New Enhancements Offer Increased Capacity, Convenience and Sleek, Stylish Design
NEW YORK --- December 14, 2005 --- Dedicated to providing consumers with premium and sleek home appliances in a variety of categories, LG Electronics, a leading global consumer products manufacturer, today showcased one of its recent technological advancements in its full-suite of microwave oven offerings. The product was on display today at the company's 2006 preview event in New York City.
"We are firmly committed to the development of stylish and innovative microwave oven offerings that help consumers maximize space without sacrificing key features," said Teddy Hwang, President of Digital Appliances for LG Electronics, U.S.A. "Consumers demand both design and functionality, which is why our next-generation microwave ovens offer convenient, space-saving designs coupled with advanced technologies to truly differentiate our product offering."
Over-the-Range Advancements
As part of its mission to redefine consumer expectations, LG refines its line of over-the-range microwave ovens, delivering a premium product to discerning consumers. Key design features such as contoured handles and stainless steel finishes that wrap around the sides of the microwave create a "polished" look in the kitchen.
New models include:
- Model LMVM2055ST: Offers a 2.0 cubic foot capacity, along with LG's Glide 'n CookTM system ' a unique sliding tray that maximizes cooking space and promotes even cooking. The product also incorporates an easy-to-reach MonitorTM look control panel placed at the bottom of the unit. It features 1100 watts of power, 300 CFM and a melt/soften function for various cooking needs. Models include two halogen cook top lights and WideView windows for easier viewing. (Available now at a manufacturer's suggested retail price of $499)
Other OTR models not on display at today's event, include:
-Model LMV2053 : Offers a 2.0 cubic foot capacity, along with 1100 watts of power, a melt/soften function for various cooking needs and Sensor Cook technology, which senses moisture levels to determine when cooking is finished, and automatically turns the oven off. Models include two halogen cook top lights and WideView windows. (Available Q1 2006, at a manufacturer's suggested retail price ranging from $299 to $349)
- Model LMVH1750ST : Features a 1.7 cubic foot capacity, along with 950 watts of power for the microwave and 1500 for the convection oven, providing consumers with the convenience of having a second oven. A stainless steel cavity and Sensor Cook technology help deliver a more evenly cooked dish. Models also include two halogen cook top lights and WideView windows. (Available now, at a manufacturer's suggested retail price of $599)
- Model LMV1630 : which offers a 1.6 cubic foot capacity along with 1000 watts of power and an option to activate the turntable, meeting various cooking needs. Models also include two halogen cook top lights and WideView windows. (Available Q1 2006, at a manufacturer's suggested retail price ranging from $199 to $249)
Small Wonders: Combination Microwave Oven Advancements
Ideal for small kitchens, apartments and work places, LG's Combination Microwave/Toaster and Microwave/Coffeemaker products help free up valuable counter space and save consumers time with their multi-functionality capabilities.
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|Leskiw, Myron, 1909- .
|Papers (1946-1958) of Myron Leskiw (1909- ) include correspondence, newspaper clippings, leaflets, and brochures. Personal correspondence largely pertains to the Ukrainian American community and its fight against communism, and to Ukrainian community activities. Also included are reports, newsletters and other materials of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America.
|2 linear in.
|In English and Ukrainian.
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A political activist and technical inspector, Myron Leskiw (1909- ) was born in Pidtarkiv, Ukraine. After coming to the United States, he studied at Newark College of Engineering and at Rutgers University. He worked for Western Electric Co. (Kearny, N.J.), and served during World War II in the United States Army. Leskiw served as an officer in organizations such as the Ukrainian National Association and the Republican Heritage Groups Federation of the State of New Jersey. He was active in political campaigns from 1948-1972. He was also a founder and board member of "The Heritage Review" newspaper.
The Leskiw, Myron collection is available for public research.
The Leskiw, Myron collection is the physical property of the Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota.
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The Leskiw, Myron Papers, Ukrainian American Collection, Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota
|Ukrainian American newspapers.
|Ethnic press.
|Ukrainian Americans--Political activity.
|Anti-Communist movements--United States--Correspondence, reminiscences, etc.
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Oh gurl. Samantha Brick is a lady – a nice looking lady – who went on a tear in the Daily Mail (of course) yesterday about how her beauty makes men do absurdly nice things like offer her free champagne and flowers. Sounds like a great life! (*looks at my own empty champagne glasses and vase, sighs*) But alas, there is a twist to this story. According to Samantha, being a "tall, slim, blonde" babe means there are "downsides to being pretty — the main one being that other women hate me for no other reason than my lovely looks." Surely you see where this is going, person who understands how the Internet works?
Yes, it turns out there's also a downside to writing an article about your beauty alongside no less than seven photos of yourself – the Internet will go berserk on your ass. 4761 comments later and the general consensus of readers seems to be along the lines of, "You're so vain, you probably think this comment is about you. Which it is. Because you're vain and also not that pretty." Or, as Maryann from New Zealand says: "OMG is this woman for real? Who does she think she is.I know and have seen much more attractive women then her.Her ego is huge.Get over yourself love.You are not going to win Miss World anytime soon!" Samantha's also trending on Twitter because that's how the world works these days, and the hashtag #samanthabrickfacts is churning out jokes about her vanity that we don't quite get due to the use of British slang like "mingers." (It means "ugly person." Of course!)
And while Samantha certainly has a valid message, which we think is "jealousy is lame" and "let's just be nice to each other, humans," she's really taught us something deeper: never under-estimate the power of anonymous-ish commenters on the web to call you out on your bulls**t.
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Adademy Award nominees Bill Murray and Laura Linney star in this engaging and romantic look at one of the most pivotal meetings in history. As Great Britain faces an imminent war with Germany, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt (Murray) and his wife, Eleanor (Olivia Williams), invite the King and Queen of England for a weekend at their home in upstate New York.
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|March/April 2011 Issue
| VMUG Unveils Regional User Conference Schedule
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We're only a few days into 2013, but NeNe Leakes has plenty to smile about. Amidst rumors that NeNe was engaged to her former ex-husband, Gregg, The Real Housewives of Atlanta star was spotted smiling from ear to ear as she entered NBC studios in New York City on Jan. 3.
And as it turns out, NeNe had every reason to smile! On Late Night With Jimmy Fallon just hours after this pic was taken, NeNe confirmed that she did (once again) get engaged to her boo, Gregg.
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An Open Letter from Kody Burke
May 23, 2014
RALEIGH - Following the end of a historic career with the NC State women's basketball program and a selection in the third round of the 2014 WNBA Draft by the Washington Mystics, Kody Burke wrote the following letter to the Wolfpack fans who have so passionately supported her and the women's basketball program throughout the course of her career.
Burke had an incredible career for the Wolfpack, one which will remain in State's record books for some time. She finished her senior season ranked second in program history in appearances (132) and blocks (197), ninth in program history in career rebounds (832), and 11th in program history in career points scored (1,588).
Academically, the native of Northridge, Calif., was also very strong. Burke was a three-time CoSIDA Academic All-American and in 2014 became just the third Wolfpack women's basketball player in program history to earn first team honors. She was also a four-time member of the All-ACC Academic Team and was the 2014 Atlantic Coast Conference Kay Yow Scholar Athlete of the Year.
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To my friends and loved ones who have asked or questioned my next step:
In April 2014, I was drafted into the WNBA by the Washington Mystics. I was very excited about the opportunity, as it seemed like a dream come true. After spending a week and a half in D.C. participating in training camp and playing two preseason WNBA games, I was released by the team. Being cut from the WNBA definitely hurt me as my dreams of playing in the WNBA were shattered, but I knew God had a plan for me.
After being released from the team, I contacted PNC Bank, who had offered me a position with the company prior to the draft, and informed them of my WNBA status. They informed me that the offer was still on the table, but I would have to be fully committed to the company if I were to accept the offer. I was faced with a difficult decision: to pursue professional basketball overseas or accept the job offer from PNC Bank. Both career options had plenty to offer. Overseas basketball offered the opportunity to experience a foreign country, immerse myself in the culture, and mature as an adult and basketball player in the hopes of someday earning a spot in the WNBA. The job offer from PNC offered an excellent training program in a field that aligned with my major, great income, and is located in Raleigh, N.C.; a city where I have met wonderful people, matured greatly, and have grown to love.
I have reflected and prayed about my next career move for quite some time, and have to decided to accept the job offer from PNC Bank. Not only will I be in Raleigh, N.C., which I am happy to say is where my heart is, I will be around people I love and those who genuinely care about me. In addition, the stability this job offers me along with excellent training will help me grown in the financial services industry and ultimately help me achieve my long-term career goal in working in the sports business. NC State University has done an excellent job in providing the proper education for me to excel in the financial services industry, and I am excited to represent the university in a prestigious program in one of the best companies for which to work, PNC Bank.
I will greatly miss playing the sport, but I have been through many ups and downs playing this game at the club, AAU, high school, and collegiate levels. I have been through so much in each and every team I have played with, and I want to enjoy a fresh new start. I want people to see the real Kody Burke outside of basketball. Do not get me wrong, basketball has done some great favors in my life, but the sport does not define me. I am much more than a basketball player, and I want all to know what I have to offer outside the sport. Retiring from playing the game will allow me to develop and retain relationships with people I deeply care about. I do hope, however, that my status as a former basketball player and Division I student athlete will serve as an outlet for me to reach out to the community and give back.
By opening up to others, I have learned to be content with my decision. I thank everyone for the support they have shown me throughout my collegiate career. I am excited to embark on a new journey in a location I love and am surrounded by people I love and who love me back. When one door closes, another one opens. Thank you all for everything!
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