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He critiques God in all his forms, from the sex-obsessed tyrant of the Old Testament to the more benign (but still illogical) Celestial Watchmaker favored by some Enlightenment thinkers. He eviscerates the major arguments for religion and demonstrates the supreme improbability of a supreme being. He shows how religion fuels war, foments bigotry, and abuses children, buttressing his points with historical and contemporary evidence. In so doing, he makes a compelling case that belief in God is not just irrational, but potentially deadly.
Dawkins has fashioned an impassioned, rigorous rebuttal to religion, to be embraced by anyone who sputters at the inconsistencies and cruelties that riddle the Bible, bristles at the inanity of "intelligent design", or agonizes over fundamentalism in the Middle East or Middle America.
©2006 Richard Dawkins; (P)2006 Tantor Media, Inc.
"Richard Dawkins is the leading soothsayer of our time....The God Delusion continues his thought-provoking tradition." (J. Craig Venter, decoder of the human genome)
"The God Delusion is smart, compassionate, and true....If this book doesn't change the world, we're all screwed." (Penn & Teller)
"The world needs...passionate rationalists....Richard Dawkins so stands out through the cutting intelligence of The God Delusion." (James D. Watson, co-discoverer of DNA, author of The Double Helix)
"Dangerous Religion"
If you've read much Dawkins, (The Blind Watchmaker, The Selfish Gene, Climbing Mount Improbable, and others) it will come as no surprise to you that he is no fan of religion. What is new in The God Delusion is that the evolutionary biologist goes beyond rational disagreement with those who believe, and argues that religion is dangerous and should be opposed on nearly every front. He recognizes that religion has been an important force in art and literature, but gives it credit for little else in the realm of good.
Dawkins makes no distinction between radical evangelical Christianity, the Taliban and Jihadist Muslims. The worldview of each is equally intolerant of any other belief, and so ultimately equally dangerous.
Dawkins spends about half the book examining historical and philosophical arguments for the existence of God. In doing so, he takes apart the reasoning of many men, noble and ignoble, most of whom are dead. In a historical review such of this, arguing with the dead is unavoidable. Dawkins spends a bit too much time arguing with the more recently dead Stephen Jay Gould, a fellow evolutionary biologist and sometimes nemesis, than is strictly necessary.
One thing that particularly rankles Dawkins is the concept of children being born into a religion. They grow up, typically, thinking that their parents' religion is the one true faith. How lucky for them. Dawkins seethes at calling a four-year-old a Catholic or Muslim child. We do not call them a Democrat or a Republican based on their parents' convictions. They are allowed to make that choice for themselves when they mature. Religion should be a matter of choice, not indoctrination, according to Dawkins. Of all his contentions in this particularly contentious book, this may be the least likely to gain traction.
Because religion in its multitude of forms is so widely practiced, Dawkins assertions will seem radical. They will not, however, seem irrational.
"The end does not justify the means"
I picked this up after seeing the author on the Daily Show - I must admit he was preaching to the choir with me. I like a good debate on religious sociology but even though I agreed with the theory I found this book condescending. Maybe it was just the narrators but everytime they brought up an opposing theory it sounded snide and pompous. I probably also missed the point of the book - because rather than discrediting all other theories I thought they would make a case for their theory. Overall disappointed with the product as I was quite looking forward to the book.
But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it. - J.D. Salinger ^(;,;)^
"A Tone Lifted from Fundamentalists"
I always enjoyed that line between humanist and believer. I remember when I was a Mormon missionary reading C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity. After finishing it, I immediately felt I needed to read Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects. I don't have a real problem with agnostics, atheists, humanists, etc. I think the competitive nature of belief is important. I think religion NEEDS to be able to thrive under scrutiny. It can't be comfortable. It can't be too protected. It needs to offer something if it is going to continue to be relevant. But I just can't get too excited by Dawkins, Harris, and Maher's forms of Atheism. While I like and respect their ability and desire to look at facts, adore skepticism and the scientific method, etc., their tone seems to have been lifted from Fundamentalist Christians.
Perhaps, it is their evangelical nature I am rejecting. But it can't be that exactly. I loved Christopher Hitchens. It wasn't like he was just soft and kind. But he came off more like a drunk rationalist than I pious prig. Perhaps that is my main beef with Dawkins. When he is in positivist mode, he is exciting. I love reading his stuff about evolution and science and the scientific method. I just don't think he is very good and criticism. He seems to smug. Too cocky. To be fair to Dawkins I felt the same way about overly smug members of my own belief system, or Christians who seem more interested in bashing other's beliefs than showing the benefits of their own. Don't smash Buddhists, SHOW me what you have to offer. Don't smash belief, show me what skepticism has to offer.
As far as the narration, the back-and-forth narration between Richard Dawkins and Lalla Ward was a bit distracting. The male/female, twisting narration helixes through the entire book, but I can't quite see the point of it. Perhaps it was just so that Dawkins didn't have to narrate the whole book himself. But why, in the middle of a paragraph, would you switch narrators. It was odd.
I love listening to books when cycling, paddleboarding, etc but I press pause when I need to concentrate. Its safer & I don't lose the plot!
I read this book a few years ago, but I'm a big fan of Richard Dawkins so I decided to 'read' it again. Even though I was familiar with the material, I found it just as compelling, if not more so, the second time around. I'm addicted to Dawkins' crisp logical arguments and his brilliant use of analogies and examples.
I have to admire the courage of a man who doesn't pull any punches in his criticism of religion in general, and especially of religious fundamentalist fanaticism (both Christian and Muslim). I'm sure this has put him in some danger of reprisal from these groups, but he doesn't hold back because he's passionate that religion is a force distorting human thought and behaviour to a massive extent.
He emphasizes that children are indoctrinated with religious beliefs at a vulnerable age, an age when young minds are 'programmed' by natural selection to believe things that adults tell them, especially when those adults are very solemn and emphatic about the message in question. For example, in modern times an adult would be very emphatic and serious when cautioning a child against jumping into the deep end of a swimming pool or crossing a busy street. The child knows when the adult means business, and these messages tend to hit home. This tendency in children to obey and believe adults when in this serious mode would (in our ancestry) have been favoured by natural selection, because those children would be more likely to survive and pass on their genes. But, Dawkins argues, this leaves the way open for a by-product, a 'virus', a meme to hijack the receptive mind of the child. If an idea such as 'god is watching you all the time and will punish you if you sin' is impressed upon the child in this solemn way, then the child will grow up and pass this idea on to his children, and so the religious meme can take hold and a vicious cycle may prevail.
Another of his main points is that the truth, or otherwise, of any religious proposition should be open to question as if it was any other ordinary subject. He doesn't believe that religion should be protected from having to defend its veracity by having a special privileged status as 'sacred'. This is an unfair advantage. It should be fair game for robust debate.
And a third point that I like is his identification that when people consider the fact that there either is or is not a god, they perceive the probability to be 50/50, because this is a binary choice. Dawkins explains that the binary choice is not 50/50. His example to illustrate this point is the existence of the Tooth Fairy. The Tooth Fairy either exists or not, and this is also a binary situation, but here we can see that the probability of this existing, or a unicorn or the god Zeus, are much smaller than 50%. We should apply the same reasoning to the existence probability of any God, but it becomes yet more unlikely the more specific and detailed (and farfetched) are the proposed properties of this deity (e.g. he created the world less than 10,000 years ago, he killed everyone in a flood, except for a few humans and animals saved in an ark, he had a son via a virgin birth on earth, the son was crucified and came back to life after being dead 3 days, this god knows all the thoughts of all people at all times and answers prayers, he sends good ones to heaven and bad ones to hell etc. etc.).
Dawkins does sometimes go off at a bit of a tangent with some slightly convoluted and tenuous arguments to support his ideas. For example, when discussing the human psychological need to be consoled by a god ('a god-shaped hole in the brain'), he explains this by alluding to a child's need for an imaginary friend (specifically, 'Binky' in a poem by A.A. Milne). I sort of see what he is getting at, but I think a less sympathetic reader might find this easy to mock and dismiss. It isn't every child that has an imaginary friend, and those that do have them grow out of them, so to my mind this isn't all that strong an argument. Personally, the times when I would like there to be a god are when I'm afraid or grief-stricken; those lonely scary times at 3 a.m. when I think about my own death or that of a loved one. At other times I don't feel the need to believe in god.
Dawkins has been criticised as being too fanatical in his atheist position, so that his opponents can point to him and say that he's just another variety of fundamentalist, just as bad as the religious ones. However, although Dawkins does sometimes stray into very controversial territories, reinforcing the idea that he is an extremist and a 'fundamentalist', I believe that his occasional excesses are just the result of his passion and commitment to a phenomenally worthy cause, which is to help people to use reason, logic and the evidence of their senses to determine the likelihood of the existence of supernatural beings and to decide whether or not they should live their lives according to rules laid down in ancient scriptures.
"A good read but it won't sway your mind."
I've read a couple of Richard Dawkin's works: The Blind Watchmaker and The God Delusion.
First of all, let me praise Mr. Dawkins, and Lalla Ward for a captivating reading of his work. They make a good oratory team, very pleasant listening. I was hoping for a bit more "meat" to chew on in God Delusion but to me, Richard simply sets up straw men then slays them magnificently. Like a skilled surgeon, he seeks out the most tumorous examples of mankind's failures in the name of religion then portrays them as an evil perpetrated by faith in God. I share his disgust for religion as we know it, having been corrupted by corrupt men, but that comparrison is just as useless as blaming a firearm for murdering someone. From a more positive perspective, Christians, especially church leaders and clergy, should read TGD, not so much for what it reveals about atheism but for what it reveals about how religion is perceived by non-believers. It is to their shame the message of The Cross is lost in the cacophony of religious infighting and corruption.
A reasonable counterbalance to TGD is Ravi Zacharias' Can Man Live Without God?, a collection of speeches given by Mr. Zacharias. Ravi sets up his own straw men for battle and does an eloquent job of doing so. Of course, he's coming from the perspective of one who believes in an almighty Creator so he manages to raise questions that Mr. Dawkins didn't seem to think of. Where Dawkins attempts to appeal to logic, Ravi focuses more on the philosophical aspects of the state of mankind. My personal, and totally biased opinion, is that Zacharias gets a head start in the debate simply because he addresses the heart of man, rather than the mere mind of man.
To those who are convinced in their positions, whether it be for or against God, neither of these orators will sway you from your stance. If you're genuinely on the fence, read both books.
E Sanchez
"Pretty Good but..."
The book sometimes is infantile, with performances mocking other points of view.
However silly the opposite argument may be, I expected more than nanananana from a leading biologist.
The content itself is great and there's some amazing logic there, I just wish I could edit out that bullying.
"well worth your time"
i am a christian, and i found this book to be brilliant (with the exception of the section on memes, which i found to be pedantic)... i believe that anyone -- religious or non-religious, young or old -- should read this book... whether you agree with the conclusions Dawkins draws, these are important questions that have bearing on all of humanity, and this is a very well considered, cohesive, and enjoyable treatise on matters of origin and existence... its a bit slow at times, but on the whole i cannot recommend this highly enough...
Old Soldier
"Wow, I can come out of the closet!"
This book was a life-changing experience for me. I always knew I was not a believer, but I never could articulate what I was. I owe a debt of gratitude to Richard Dawkins for his rational, elegant, and passionate dissection of the intellectual fraud we call revealed religion. You could say that Dawkins gave me the courage to come out of the closet and put my HL Mencken quotes up on the wall for all to see.
Perhaps the best thing about this book is the moral outrage it no doubt causes among believers, so many of whom probably haven't read (listened) to it.
Once I started listening to this book, I could not stop until the last word was spoken. This is the only audiobook I've listened to twice.
"Every Word is Perfect"
I am in agreement with many of the reviewers here who really appreciated this book. I just have a few additional comments:
1) The two-narrator format seemed odd to me at first until I realized it was like a two-person play. Then I really enjoyed listening to the narrators play off each other.
2) Richard Dawkins is a superb reader of his own work, which is not something you can say for everyone.
3) This book is NOT a rant, as others have said. We always accuse others of ranting when we cannot answer their arguments.
4) It is not absurd to say that raising a child to be religious is a kind of child abuse. Many people wonder about this, especially those in the particularly guilt-inducing varieties of religion. I've known many folks over the years who wonder what damage they may be doing to their kids.
5) Dawkins makes it clear at the beginning that he does not expect to win over true believers. He is instead giving people permission to be atheists. This is an important distinction and is based on his experience with readers and students over the years. I teach about human evolution and can verify that many people don't even realize they have a choice when it comes to the ways they think and live in the world.
6) Dawkins is right that so many people who are anti-evolution do not understand how it works. He is also right that really understanding evolution is a life-transforming, consciousness-raising experience.
7) This book is very witty and in some parts, downright funny. But it is also compassionate and nurturing in many ways.
Highly recommended!
"The best read if my life"
Intelligent, passionate and honest. Easy to read and east to follow because that's what the message is. The narration reflects all the beauty of the book in the best possible way. Everyone must read this book. It must be taught in school in grade 4.
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- Northern New York Newspapers
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MASSENA Lieutenant Governor Robert J. Duffy came to Massena on Saturday to formally announce a deal that will keep Alcoa at its current location for the next several decades and preserve at least 900 area jobs.
This factory and this company are so important, not only to the Massena region but also to the entire state, Mr. Duffy said at a presentation outside the Alcoa East plant Saturday afternoon.
They are vital to our economy, they are vital to the region, and this is a win-win for everybody.
Under the deal the guarantees it a continuing supply of low-cost hydroelectric power, Alcoa will invest an initial $42 million in the next five years to modernize its Massena East plant, plus $10 million towards a North Country Economic Development Fund. The contract also calls for Alcoa to preserve a minimum of 900 jobs.
Over the long term, Alcoa is now commiting to a $600 million modernization of its facilities that will keep it operating here for decades, providing the assurance that north country leaders have been anxiously awaiting.
The new contract will, for the first time, have a fixed job commitment. said Judge Eugene L. Nicandri, a Massena resident and trustee of the New York Power Authority.
These minimum job commitments are becoming increasingly common in NYPA contracts, Mr. Nicandri said.
We want some guarantee thats going to make jobs, he said.
In return, NYPA will provide low-cost hydroelectric power to the plant for the next 30 years, with options to extend the contract by an additional decade.
Despite the celebratory tone of the announcement Saturday, there is one more condition that must be satisfied. In order for the agreement to go through, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency must approve Alcoas proposed $245 million remediation plan for the Grasse River to clean up the industrial pollutants the company dumped from the 1950s to the 1970s.
If the EPA turns down the proposal insisting on a stricter, more extensive project that could cost $1.3 billion, Alcoas commitment to the region could be in doubt, many here fear.
But Mr. Duffy said state representatives and Alcoa officials are confident the deal will be approved soon. An official decision is expected in April. Hopefully sooner than later, Mr. Duffy said.
Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y, will be at Alcoa on Monday to discuss the cleanup plan.
Under the agreement with the state, NYPA will provide Alcoa with 480 megawatts of power. This is about 60 percent of the output of St. Lawrence-Franklin D.Roosevelt Power Project, equal to enough electricity to power about 240,000 homes.
We want to be partners with Alcoa, Mr. Duffy said. We want Alcoa to stay here.
Negotiations for the updated contract have been ongoing since 2008, with the deadline for an agreement set for today. Alcoa was one of NYPAs first customers. Their original contract was created in 1955, and it was set to expire at the end of the year.
Michael J. Legault, a pot tender at the plant, took a break from work to watch the announcement with some of his fellow Alcoa employees.
I feel good, he said. Im glad weve got a future here. A lot of people were anxious about it.
Mr. Legaut has worked for Alcoa for seven years, and hopes many more are ahead.
After the presentation the employees filed back inside to continue another days work.
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I have had a revelation and I can only assume the FSM has touched me with his noodly appendage. While sitting down with friends to a few tankards of brown frothy synaptic enhancer and a pasta salad for X-myth lunch I realised the true origin of the season.
Many centuries ago before global warming when the pirate life style was more prevalent there was always the mid-winter lull in boat traffic. With nothing to raid many pirate ships began to gather and raft up around the winter solstice to swap stories, get drunk, fight, tattoo treasure maps on the back of the cabin boys and generally refine the pirate kills for the next season. Although sailing skills were critical to their livelihoods literacy was not all that highly regarded so the charts to find the mass meet were often only marked with an X
A consequence of this banding of pirates was that a temporary flock of ships parrots came into existence and as everyone who has lived with these little flying dinosaurs knows they have scant regard for where their scat may fall! (With the exception of their nests –one of nature's great lessons). This led to a rain of little squishy pellets on the meet or melee depending on your point of view. This was not seen as particularly bad since most of the pirates in the era were not born on the sea but into the rural communities of a much more agrarian age and escaped to sea. So these less technological brigands probably had a better appreciation of natural fertilizers and really bad rum than many of us today. In fact it was certain that a great many saw the pellets as a gift from nature.
Which brings me back to the present. As with any meal at our place we have to share with my free range parrot Russell (a cockatiel named in honour of Russell Crowe as it's an egocentric girl with the same IQ as most Hollywood celebrities). She is a fiend for pasta and gets a little bowl to herself. After which she will fly to her perch and proceed to clean and preen for hours with special attention to her claws. Assiduously working up and down each toe and claw, leaving a pristine and sanitary appendage.
Now for the REVELATION. Hundreds of years ago before the upstart johnny-come-lately x-tian churches co-opted and distorted the event for their own mercenary and fiscal ends there was a great party called X-MASS celebrated at the WINTER SOLSTICE during which some quite SANITARY CLAWS flew above distributing GIFTS to all!!!


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Final Programme
Call for Applications: Higher Education Experts from Southeast Europe/Western Balkans at 5th International Barcelona Conference on Higher Education
Great opportunity to assist at the GUNI Conference! (...)
Participants at the GUNI Conference will have the chance to attend, at no cost, the Green Events Training Seminar!
5th International Barcelona Conference on Higher Education
Higher Education's Commitment to Sustainability: from Understanding to Action
|Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
23 - 25 November 2010
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STATE OF UTAH, in the interest of
TOSSING, Milenko DOB: 08AUG08 Case No. 1014168
A child under 18 years of age Judge: Scott N. Johansen
Biological Father of Milenko Tossing
Carbon County, State of Utah
A proceeding concerning the above-named child is pending in this
Court, and adjudication may be made involving YOUR PARENTAL RIGHTS TO
THE ABOVE-NAMED CHILD. You are hereby summoned to appear before this
Court in Carbon County, Utah, located at 149 EAST 100 NORTH, PRICE,
UTAH 84501, on November 24, 2010, at 1:45 p.m. You have the right to
be represented by counsel in these proceedings.
If you fail to appear in person at the Hearing, your parental rights
to the child may be permanently terminated by the Court without
further notice to you.
DATED this 23rd day of September, 2010
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The easiest and quickest way to traverse the crowded city is on the subway, which serves all the main areas of interest. Station signs are written in English as well as Korean, and most lines have English announcements too. Subways are extremely crowded during the morning and evening rush hours, but are generally safe, though plagued with hawkers and beggars. Tickets are bought from vending machines or at ticket windows. Buses are frequent and cover the whole city, but tend to be very crowded. Tickets can be bought on boarding, or debit tickets can be purchased. Taxis are readily available. Regular taxis (white or silver) charge KRW 1,600 as an initial fee and have a complex system of metering thereafter. Black luxury taxis, called Mobeom taxis, are superior both in condition and service.
Electrical current is 110 or 220 volts, 60Hz. Most hotels operate on 220 volts. Two-pin round plugs are standard.
The official currency is the South Korean Won (KRW). Currency can be exchanged at most banks and at casinos. Most merchants in the cities accept major credit cards, but Koreans traditionally prefer cash. ATMs at banks are usually accessible only during banking hours, and instructions on the machines are generally only in Korean. Most public ATMs at convenience stores and subway stations are available 24 hours. US Dollars are an accepted form of foreign currency and can be used in the areas in and around the American military bases in South Korea.
The international dialling code for South Korea is +82. Telecommunications are well developed and internet cafes are widely available. Although mobile telephones are widely used by locals, there is no GSM network and some foreign phones will not work in South Korea, even when on international roaming. It's possible to hire a local mobile phone.
Emergencies: 112 (Police); 119 (Ambulance)
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Seoul is classed as having a humid continental/subtropical transitional climate with four distinct seasons. Temperature differences between the hottest part of summer and the depths of winter are extreme. Summer brings hot, humid weather with temperatures soaring as high as 95°F (35°C) on occasion; in winter temperatures drop as low as 7°F (-13°C). The most pleasant seasons in the city are spring and autumn, when blue skies and comfortable temperatures are a sure bet. The city experiences heavy rainfall, but most of it falls in the summer monsoon period between June and September.
An express railway connection operates between Seoul station, Gimpo Airport (which handles domestic flights) and Incheon International. Visitors can transfer to the city along the Airport Expressway by public or courtesy bus from the airport Transportation Centre. The journey takes about an hour and a half. Tickets and information can be obtained from the Bus Ticketing Office at Exits 4 and 9 (indoors) and Exits 4, 6, 7, 8, 11, 13, and 9C (outdoors). There is also a ferry service from Incheon port to Yeongjong-do.
AJ Rentacar and KT Kumho Rent-A-Car operate from kiosks at airport arrivals.
To catch a taxi into Seoul, exit Arrivals via Gates 4 through 8, cross the street, and make your way to the taxi stands located at platforms 4D to 7C. The taxi ride to Seoul central will cost between KRW 43,000 and KRW 100,000 during the day, and take around one hour. Road tolls and surcharges may be added to the fare. Drivers seldom speak English so write down your destination in Korean on a piece of paper.
The two terminals are connected by moving walkways and inter-terminal shuttles.
This well-equipped airport has bureaux de change and banks, a large variety of restaurants and other eateries, numerous duty-free shops and a basement supermarket. There is a mobile phone rental outlet and internet kiosks, pharmacies, saunas, hair salons, a post office and luggage storage facilities.
There is short and long-term parking located within walking distance of the main terminal. Short-term parking rates start at KRW 1,200 for the first 30 minutes, to a daily maximum of KRW 14,000, but prices vary according to parking lot. Long-term parking, connected to the terminal building via shuttle, is charged at KRW 8,000 per day.
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10 U.S. Code § 1095a - Medical care: members held as captives and their dependents
(a) Under regulations prescribed by the President, the Secretary concerned shall pay (by advancement or reimbursement) any person who is a former captive, and any dependent of that person or of a person who is in a captive status, for health care and other expenses related to such care, to the extent that such care—
(b) In the case of any person who is eligible for medical care under section 1074 or 1076 of this title, such regulations shall require that, whenever practicable, such care be provided in a facility of the uniformed services.
Source(Added Pub. L. 99–399, title VIII, § 806(c)(1),Aug. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 886, § 1095; renumbered § 1095a,Pub. L. 100–26, § 7(e)(2),Apr. 21, 1987, 101 Stat. 281; amended Pub. L. 100–526, title I, § 106(b)(1),Oct. 24, 1988, 102 Stat. 2625.)
1988—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 100–526substituted "The terms 'captive status' " for " 'Captive status' " in par. (1), and "The term 'dependent' " for " 'Dependent' " in par. (2).
Effective Date; Regulations
Pub. L. 99–399, title VIII, § 806(c)(3),Aug. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 886, provided that:
"(A) Section 1095 [now 1095a] of title 10, United States Code, as added by paragraph (1), shall apply with respect to any person whose captive status begins after January 21, 1981.
"(B) The President shall prescribe specific regulations regarding the carrying out of such section with respect to persons whose captive status begins during the period beginning on January 21, 1981, and ending on the effective date of that section [Aug. 27, 1986]."
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The Autumn and Winter Lake District Film and Photography competition came to a close on the 28th February 2011. The competition received over 500 high quality and unique video and photo entries. They were submitted by contributors of varied abilities, making it such a difficult task for Simon Berry, the Chairman and Managing Director of English Lakes to judge. We were looking for films and photography that best portrayed aspects of the Lake District, with this competition focusing on autumn and winter.
The winning film was submitted by Andrew Mason. It is a short video showing a family holiday at Rawfell in the Langdale valley. The video is cleverly edited together similar to a film trailer and really caught the judge's eye.
The winning photo was submitted by Graeme Nicholson. It features a sheep standing by a tree looking out at the surrounding Lake District scenery. Simon Berry commented "with so many great pictures to choose from this was a really hard decision; however I just loved this shot. The sheep is almost saying: I live in the most glorious corner of England, why not come and visit me?"
Both winners of the Autumn and Winter Film and Photography competition have won a two night break at their choice of English Lakes luxury property, inclusive of dinner on the first night.
Simon Berry says: "When we created this competition we wanted to create a site that would help show off some of the fantastic views and attractions around the Lake District. Many people already make short films and take photos of their visit to the Lakes and this site serves as a showcase to show what they've been doing, as well as giving potential visitors the chance to see what's on offer." All entries submitted will be showcased on our site for all to see.
As a result of the success of our previous competitions, once again we will be inviting photography entries for a Spring and Summer 2011 competition. Further details on the new competition will be published shortly.


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My personal experience has always been with web applications and lots of "back-end stuff" but recently I've been poking around for some personal projects to widen my knowledge.
An obvious thing to look at as I'm in the .net world is WPF but now I read this:
And from the same guy's blog (he is a former Silverlight Product Manager):
WPF has no investment, it's kept together by a skeleton crew and its evangelism / community efforts have little to no funding attached to it. It's dead, the question now is how is the corpse going to be buried and no amount of cheer leading will change that outcome in the near future.
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Very interesting conversation going on here! I truly do believe that with the right training a student could become a champion in a very short amount of time (compared to what the general dancing society considers as an amount of time). It is the same with music, the first time you learn a piece of music or the first time you play it even the mistakes that you play through this first introduction to the work stick with you, and will always show themselves in any type of pressure situation whether that be a performance or whatever. So DSV, how do we, who are not privy to this exclusive master teacher information make it to the finals of the British open? this is the career path i would like to take, a competitor at this sort of level that is, and would love to know these secrets...
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Quote from: elisedance on May 28, 2010, 04:33:02 AM
You aren't suggeting are you that as long as you are told the right principle two people could walk into a studio as 'one-walkers' and walk out as elegant partnerdancers? I simply don't buy it. DSV has described the many hours she spent training and it seems that you do likewise. We've learned that there are tremendous ways to make that time much more effective - but you do still have to spend the time on the floor to become a dancer.
Perhaps you could give some specific examples? Of couples that went from being unable to dance to competing and winning in, say, weeks?
Elise, the only reason I have to put in as much work as I do is for two big reasons: I'm still fighting what I think ballroom dancing is supposed to be and I'm fighting all my bad muscle memory. I've learned that "muscle memory" is actually a bad thing 'cause then you're dependent on your muscles to be in the exact same condition day after day. To me, walking or riding a bike is not muscle memory. It's just an automatic action. Never mind how sore I am or how sick I am, I can do it just fine letting my body use all my muscles in perfect co-ordination without my interference. The reason I don't think it's muscle memory is because my body is able to change it up day after day no matter how I'm feeling that day or which muscles are out of commission. However, I digress.
I think the learning curve is quite relative to the person, except that the only folks I've personally had trouble with "fixing" are the ones that have had prior ballroom experience. When I volunteer at the local college ballroom clubs and show them how to do a bronze routine, I can quite confidently say that I would be afraid to be on the competition floor with them. Sure, I can look better with them during the lesson. However, as far as consistency goes, they can do what I taught them to do 10 out of 10 times. I can do it maybe 5 out of 10 times and that's if my body feels perfect. I always tell my coach how scary it is that college kids who've never danced in their lives walk away from their first group class (not even a private) doing a better feather step/natural turn/etc. than I still consistently can.
I remember before I started ballroom lessons watching Pino dancing (as my mom loved watching ballroom competitions). I watched him and decided "there's nothing to this! He's just walking!". I never once cared about how he was "leading" Alessandra or any of his techinque. Then I went to my first ballroom class and was shocked at all the technique they filled my mind with to where I couldn't do anything anywhere near what Pino was doing. Fast forward 7 years. During my coach's last visit, I scheduled a few one-on-one private lessons with her. I tried desperately to dance my routine with her but I couldn't even get past the prep step with her in any of my dances. Finally I gave up and told her this story about what I thought Pino did before I had any training whatsoever. I held my coach and demonstrated to her what I thought ballroom dancing was when I first saw it. I was expecting disaster. Quite the contrary, I danced my whole first long line of Foxtrot with her and she followed my routine perfectly. I stopped after my first long line because I was blown away by how good we danced together. So now, I'm trying to get back to what I "knew" about ballroom dancing that first day I walked in through the door, 'cause 7 years of information only robbed me of my abilities. Sure, I know "steps", but that's a long time to learn steps.
I actually have a very nice story. There's a couple my coach and I helped out on two occasions early this year. They were social dancers for 2 years and now wanting to compete. They live in a city where the only reputed coaches come in about once or twice a year to give lessons for two or three days, maximum. My partner and I were there in their city volunteering one weekend. We volunteered to do a showcase for them to raise funds for their local dance chapter. They heard about that and asked us to take a look at their dancing. I helped them out one of the days I was there. They were shocked at how different my information was but they loved it. They took it all in. I remember telling my coach how much they improved within a few hours. My partner was there helping them out also, and she too, to this day, is shocked at how quickly they absorbed the information. They improved to where I would be afraid to be on the floor with them. Then a few months later they drove 5 hours to come take lessons with my coach on one weekend. They didn't take any lessons in between. So that's about two days of lessons within two months. No other lessons. After that, early this month they competed in a big competition. They danced bronze and silver. Their first competition ever. He said they had to dance 23 heats for both as it was a very big competition. They didn't have any silver routines, so they just danced bronze routines the whole time. They won both, bronze and silver. They knew bronze steps as they had social danced. However, when we gave them the new information, they absorbed it immediately without any fight. Winning bronze and silver at a major competition tells me that they're quite safely gold level. Also the fact that they were able to dance 23 heats in a row and still win their finals tells me they're definitely doing what my coach taught them to do. I asked them if they were tired afterwards and they said, thanks to my coach, they still had some pep left in their step and that's probably what helped them pull away from the pack in the final. They got mostly straight "1"s from the judges.
So time is really irrelevant. I don't know even today if I could dance 23 heats and maintain my level of performance even if it was just bronze and silver 'cause I'm still fighting all my bad muscle memory and bad information. If I were to compete against that couple they would've beaten me.
Last Edit: May 28, 2010, 11:14:20 AM by Some guy
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Re: The (new) Quantal Shift topic
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May 28, 2010, 04:13:32 PM »
your stories, SG!
have been reflecting much on my own dance (and dance-less) journey, how the dance-less aspect correlates directly with dance-related improvement, what lies ahead for me, and such...and there is an odd immediacy to my thoughts because i just refurbished my practice shoes and am intending on having my first on-a-studio-floor practice tomorrow to work on both latin & body-school-related movement exercises. it is a strange juxtaposition against the lack of prospective dance training on my apparent immediate horizon.
and i'm reflecting that the point where i left off training & competition was a high point for me, the manifestation of a "quantal shift" that was just the very beginning of experiencing the kind of ease & freedom i desired to find. so that has been the "vibration", if you will, that i was left resonating upon leaving formal dance training for... what i've been working on & toward since.
in that time, i have worked on life lessons that eliminate the fear of falling. i've worked on my physicality, to bring more life, energy, and information flowing more freely through my body. and i've very profoundly "lost myself to find myself".
all of these things together have resulted in a big personal shift in that i can feel my spiritual life force inhabiting my body SO differently than before, without the fear of falling, with so much more connectivity, and with the kind of personal emptiness that eliminates the layer between self and something greater than self.
and so, on the eve of my planned new stepping out to practice with a very different view & feel of things (understand, it has been roughly a year and a half since my last private lesson)... i'm thinking that i actually have a gift here... the benefit of having taken such a long break has minimized that muscle memory, which could make it easier to absorb some new things with ease!
thanks for highlighting that point, SG. it's an encourageing one. i'm also remembering the last time i dance standard, one each of the dances over two subsequent socials with my former instructor... and how much better it all felt at that time. another encouraging piece i'm remembering at this time.
and one last thought... i studied classical piano from childhood, but there were two separate instances in my life where i had to sell my piano in order to help get out of a financial hole, and both of those times i was so passionately involved in study and training. so i would go for long stretches, many years, without access to a piano and without playing. and yet, each time it came back to me, after an initial period of technical training i was very quickly always a much better musician, as if i'd been practicing all that time! i realized that there is something that can happen to the creative spirit that can evolve one's artistry or understanding or creative freedom and allow that to come through more naturally, and that it is a thing which occurs independent of the actual form itself.
isn't that cool? i'm excited to see how that correlates with latin & standard in my own life...
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Re: The (new) Quantal Shift topic
Reply #78 on:
June 04, 2010, 07:00:44 PM »
hit the practice floor today after a *very* long hiatus, during which practicing of sorts has been only done in my home. it's a very different thing to have access to a large wooden dance floor, surrounded by the space, mirrors, and music that contribute to the feel of serious practice. it has been no later than december 2008 since i last practiced on such a floor.
super-validating practice, too. whatever intuitively guided path i have followed during that time,
it has borne fruit
, and i am just so delighted! it's not the same body, from the inside out, that i had the last that i trained in a studio, and my spirit is indeed not inhabiting this body the same way, either. everything has changed, a
"quantal shift" during that time.
what a relief, because i have had no map to follow in what i've been working at, what i've been attempting to do, only just my intuition & instincts. it really did deliver me where i wished to go. that's a powerful statement, and it gives me comfort and re-inspires me.
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Re: The (new) Quantal Shift topic
Reply #79 on:
June 04, 2010, 08:19:13 PM »
way to go Sam...
So, whatcha going to do about a partner?
(speaking of - didn't he make the 3rd round in Blackpool today?)
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June 04, 2010, 10:19:00 PM »
Looks like top 67 in the pro category, top 49 in RS. Am impressed, considering they coped with a serious injury that kept them out of the circuit for a year or so. Good for them.
As for self...I'm no longer holding the space for returning to comping. My life has to change significantly for that to occur. I'm not chasing or pursuing that right now...serendipity will have to find me.
But I can't eliminate my passion and my joy for what goes into becoming a fine 10-dancer, so...progress marches on.
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Re: The (new) Quantal Shift topic
Reply #81 on:
June 05, 2010, 04:06:12 AM »
Maybe you could do a bit of social just to keep moving. Obviously not what you aspire but its SOOO much cheaper - and you have to get exercise anyway...
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Re: The (new) Quantal Shift topic
Reply #82 on:
June 05, 2010, 08:28:17 AM »
i do plan on checking out the local scene, yep!
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June 05, 2010, 09:18:41 AM »
My rule of thumb is DO SOMETHING!
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June 05, 2010, 09:49:44 AM »
yep... do what you can do. there are so many ways to invest in progress...
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June 10, 2010, 04:29:06 PM »
OK, so danced with another one of the other Body School dancers in my city yesterday (I can count on one hand the number of us in our city). Had quite an awesome experience. We've both been trying to get consistent with weightless dancing just like that other lady I danced with and posted about before.
The two of us danced together yesterday and were amazed at the amount of movement we achieved. I thought I would be used to it now but I was still blown away by how much movement there was with a feeling of total weightlessness. Unable to fathom how much we moved with so little effort, we each tried to dance by ourselves to see if we could cover the same distance individually. We couldn't! We were able to achieve more movement across the floor than any one of us could by ourselves and with little to no effort to boot. It was sort of like we connected and then floated off to the other end of the floor. I just can't get used to that feeling 'cause my logical brain goes haywire trying to comprehend how it's possible.
She was also able to "do" the lady's jobs without really doing anything. She is able to free up her body to allow herself to do the lady's jobs with minimal conscious awareness on her part. Quite amazing. After a while, I tried to actively be a "bad" dancer and try to make her look bad. She wanted me to try it because her goal is to look good no matter who she dances with. I tried everything to mess up her look and movement but it was quite impossible. She was able to sell anything I threw at her without ever compromising her other jobs or appearance on the floor, all without any conscious awareness of it.
The other thing we were able to do is to slow down time. We danced a quickstep and it felt slower than the Waltz or the Foxtrot. We were both in disbelief. The music was either on tempo or faster, but each time we danced it, we felt like it was slower than the foxtrot. It was quite shocking to both of us. I've heard that dancers are able to slow down the music in their heads, but I thought it was just a little bit. I didn't realize that you could almost grind the quickstep to a halt. It was quite amazing for us both to be suspended in time like that. Not only were we able to slow it down so much, we were also able to cover more floor than we ever had or ever dreamed we could. All with basics only. Didn't even throw in any locks. The fanciest thing we did was a spin turn at the corners. Dancing is beginning to defy all logic, laws of physics and gravity. That's twice so far I've been able to do it.
My goal is to be able to re create that experience enough times in order for that to become my new "average" performance. However, it seems like I can only do that with other Body School dancers. I wonder if it's possible to be able to feel like that no matter who I'm dancing with, Body School or not?!
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June 10, 2010, 04:54:45 PM »
That sounds just *so* wonderful, SG! I don't doubt any of it. And I'm happy that you have a couple dancers in your neck of the woods who have that kinds of awareness or training. What a delight it must be.
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Quote from: Some guy on June 10, 2010, 04:29:06 PM
Dancing is beginning to defy all logic, laws of physics and gravity.
What logic, laws of physics and gravity?
Quote from: Some guy on June 10, 2010, 04:29:06 PM
However, it seems like I can only do that with other Body School dancers. I wonder if it's possible to be able to feel like that no matter who I'm dancing with, Body School or not?!
Don't worry you will get to a point where you can do it with anything and everyone no matter who and what they are.
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Not really sure if we are body schooling entirely or not - but our waltz seems to have become very effortless of late. the difference for me has been not just rise and fall but gradual acceleration and decelleration during the action. It feels more and more like riding that bicycle up and down the little hills...
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Have realized over the last week or so the importance of 'less is more' the less i concentrate on trying to do everything right while i dance, the more i start doing the correct technique, the more i'm able to dance, and most importantly the more i enjoy myself. After this week i have decided that there are two things i should keep an eye on while i dance, but the rest i should allow to just occur naturally, these being: posture, and working less, and after tonight's practice class where i danced the best i have with my partner practically since we started it seems to be working. This change in though, or to put it more precisely less of thought, is a real breakthrough
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Tessa Rousselle caught this red grouper 65 miles off Naples.
Alexis Dwyer, of Marco Island, and Casey Erickson teamed up to land this 18-inch large mouth bass at Pine Point Lodge in Northern Minnesota.
Bill Pearson speared a lionfish while on a family fishing trip in Key Largo.
Nick Pearson and Eric Poeltl each speared hog fish over 20 inches long while on a family fishing trip in Key Largo.
Robbie Sommer caught this nice snook on a fly while fishing the Lopez River.
W.T. Pearson speared a 16 1/2-inch lionfish while on a family fishing trip in Key Largo.
Justin Von Eschen and Dennis Mercer, of Naples, came home with eight groupers and a mahi after fishing offshore of Naples.
Tyler landed these 24-inch grouper off of Naples.
Tyler landed this 25-inch red grouper of Naples.
Eighteen-year-old Kacie Moore landed this 8-foot tiger shark after an hour fight while fishing off Goodland. Kacie made the catch using a 30-pound test line and a Bonita Head for bait.
Ryan McGovern caught this 6-pound bass while fishing on a lake in San Carlos Park using a rubber worm as bait.
Scott Barham caught this cobia 14 miles off of Marco Island on August 4.
Trey Heiser caught and released four rooster fish in Quepos, Costa Rica.
Donne Moore caught this 23-inch grouper offshore while fishing with Captain Ronnie Moore.
Trey Heiser caught and released this snook at Gordon's Pass.
Twelve-year-old Troy Lindey, of Pittsburgh, caught this snook on a greenback at Lovers' Key.
Fourteen-year-old Cory Suther made this catch offshore of Naples on the opening day of gag grouper season.
Robbie Sommer and Jon Harris watching a hammerhead eat the tarpon they just lost.
Robbie Sommer caught this snook using shrimp.
Mike Moore, of Ohio, caught this 39-inch snook five miles off Marco Island using a 15-pound test line and live pinfish as bait.
W.T. Pearson, Eric Poeltl, Robbie Randolph and Nick Pearson with a few of the many fish they speared while on a family fishing trip in Key Largo.


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Sam and Gayle Marrelli, of Spring Glen, are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary on July 15. They were married in Castle Gate in 1960. They have five children: Belinda (Gary) Oliver, of Spring Glen, Brenda (Frank) Peczuh, of Price, Sam (Dana) of Carbonville, Brandon (Sarah) of Spring Glen and Nicole (Eric) Gammons of Santaquin. Sam and Gayle have 16 grandchildren.
A family gathering is planned in Provo to celebrate the occasion and honor the couple.


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Welcome to Kaleidoscope's #24 (Spring/Summer 2015). It's going to be a hot season for the art world this year, with the Venice Biennale opening its doors in May and major art fairs calling our presence back and forth between continents. Nonetheless, preparing this edition, we are also hoping it will keep readers company—and fresh!—during their much-awaited holiday break.
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By Jessica Bakeman, Albany Bureau
ALBANY - Gov. Andrew Cuomo touted a 3 percent school aid increase in his budget proposal Tuesday, but not every district gets a bump under his plan -- in fact, nearly a quarter of districts would get less than they did this year.
Increase or not, superintendents said they will wrestle with deficits and be forced to cut teachers and academic programs if Cuomo's budget is adopted.
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Some school leaders are waiting to determine whether they'll be eligible for the $203 million in fiscal stabilization funds and $75 million in competitive grants for full-day pre-kindergarten and other initiatives, which Cuomo included in addition to about $20.8 billion in direct aid.
In Erie County, Sweet Home Central School District would see a 2.8% decrease in state aid for 2013-2014.
Clarence Central School District would also see a 2.5% decrease in state aid for 2013-2014.
East Aurora would see a 4% decrease in state aid, as well as Iroquois Central School District, who would see a 3.8% decrease in funding.
"The year-to-year costs in education just to tread water are more than the amount of money in the proposed budget," said Billy Easton, executive director of the labor-backed advocacy group Alliance for Quality Education. "If we actually want to improve the schools -- that's not even addressed here."
Cuomo argued during his budget presentation that the proposed increase is "notable and significant," given that the state will struggle with a $1.3 billion deficit.
He said he's raised education funding 8.6 percent over two years.
"That is double the rate of inflation," he said. "That is four or five times the increase in home values during the same period of time, and it's during a period of time where student enrollment has gone down.
"Ideally, we would always like to fund everything with all the money in the world, but we live in the real," he continued.
Under Cuomo's plan, 159 districts would get fewer state aid dollars than they did this year, which is about 22 percent of the state's roughly 700 districts, according to New York State United Teachers, a statewide union.
Mark Sansouci, assistant superintendent for business at Penfield schools near Rochester, said the district is "constantly in the mode" of cutting where possible and eliminating positions vacated by leaving or retiring personnel.
Penfield would get a proposed 5.1 percent decrease, a figure that includes building aid, which is state funding for capital improvements. The district would get about $21.8 million, down about $1.2 million from this year.
Monroe County averaged a 4 percent increase in the proposal.
Penfield's cuts are partly explained by one-time money the district received this year for a building project and to convert its half-day pre-K to full-day classes, Sansouci said. The actual cut, about $100,000, he considers "flat."
"We really thought we'd see some small share of the 3 percent increase, and it doesn't look like we're getting much of that, so that was a little surprising," Sansouci said.
Even districts that are receiving small or relatively significant increases warn that the proposed aid is not enough.
New Paltz Superintendent Maria Rice said teachers' retirement costs alone at the Ulster County district are growing by about $900,000, so the $333,500 increase won't come close.
The district would get about $12.4 million, a 2.8 percent increase from last year, when including building aid. The county's average is 2 percent.
Based on the aid, Rice projects the district will have to cut between $800,000 and $1 million to balance the budget, which is "luckily" less than last year's gap, she said.
The district cut its pre-K program and increased class sizes this year. Next year, she said she'll debate whether to cut Advanced Placement courses or eliminate an elementary foreign language program which she said has been successful.
"We just wanted to start to be able to maintain the educational programs that we have, instead of constantly cutting those programs," she said.
Laval Wilson, Poughkeepsie schools superintendent, said he considers the cuts schools have endured throughout Cuomo's efforts to close state budget gaps as "taxes."
"The district is really being taxed to help support the state government," he said. "I think that's a shame that we have to foot the bill. The young people in this district have lost considerable support."
In the past three years, Poughkeepsie has eliminated 113 instructional positions, closed an elementary school, converted full-day pre-K to half-day, reduced music and art offerings and cut an alternative program for disruptive secondary students, he said.
The district will face a more than $3 million gap next year under Cuomo's plan, Wilson said.
The district would get about $55.5 million including building aid, about a $1.9 million or 3.5 percent increase. Dutchess County's average is a 2 percent increase.
"I understand the whole issue of fiscal responsibility and social progress," Wilson said, referring to Cuomo's priorities, "but the social progress for us means that the education programs we have tried to support have been cut back and reduced."
Rochester schools would face a $50 million deficit under the plan, but Superintendent Bolgen Vargas said a pension-financing plan Cuomo presented in his budget could help shrink the gap.
The "Big Five" school district in Monroe County would get about $481.2 million, including building aid, which is a 5.2 percent increase from this year.
The pension stabilization option would give local governments and school districts a lower, more predictable employer contribution rate over a period of 25 years or more, rather than high bills now and presumably lower ones later.
Vargas said he was considering enrolling in the plan, which would result in significant short-term savings, cutting next year's deficit to around $35 million.
Vargas said he was hopeful, too, that Rochester would score grant funds for Cuomo's reform initiatives -- full-day pre-K, extended school days or years, community schools and early-college high schools. The superintendent said these areas are where Rochester is already spending money, so the grant monies would help pay for some of what they're already doing.
"That is excellent for Rochester," he said. "I am very happy that the budget that the governor is proposing represents some of our priorities."
Kimberly Bucci, assistant superintendent for business and finance at Rye Neck schools in Westchester County, said the district will need to close a $540,000 deficit.
The proposed budget is slated to get a 10 percent increase, including building aid -- about $1.6 million. She said she expects less, though, as the schools' transportation needs had changed and the current numbers were inflated.
"The board will be wrestling with a combination of: Is it possible to increase revenues in other areas and look at reserve funds? They will also be looking at, are there cuts in the budget that we can make?," she said. "Everything is the on the table -- personnel or maintenance items -- before they look at piercing the (property-tax) cap."
Administrators at Ithaca schools were not available for comment. The district would receive $25.8 million, including building aid -- about a $717,000 or 2.9 percent increase. Tompkins County averaged a 4 percent increase.
Binghamton schools, which would get a 13.2 percent increase including building aid, declined to comment on the numbers before having more time to review them. The district would get $58.6 million, about $6.9 million more than last year.
Some districts said the aid picture was better than they'd anticipated.
Whitney Point schools in Broome County are slated for an 8 percent jump from last year. Broome County's average is a 5 percent increase.
The high-needs district in the Southern Tier would get about $22.7 million, including building aid, which is about a $1.7 million increase.
Superintendent Patricia Follette said the proposed increase won't solve all the districts' problems, though. It has cut positions and tapped reserve funds in recent years, and costs continue to grow.
"We do look like we are one of the higher districts at this point, which we are cautiously appreciative of," Follette said.
Bob Lowry, deputy director of the state Council of School Superintendents, said he was pleasantly surprised, as well. He expected Cuomo to take money for the competitive grants out of the school aid pot.
The fact that the governor allocated a $611 million increase in aid plus the $203 million for stabilization and $75 million for reform initiatives is encouraging, he said.
"What the governor proposed is more positive than I anticipated, but I also know that it doesn't do enough to help a great many districts," he said.
He said the Legislature often funds education at a higher level than what the governor proposes. By including the additional education funds that are not budgeted as direct aid, Cuomo gives lawmakers the opportunity to move money around within education rather than add to the overall state budget, Lowry said.
Similarly, last year, the Legislature moved $200 million Cuomo had proposed for competitive performance grants to the school aid formula. The governor offered $50 million in grants instead.
"I think it's a way for the governor to have some control over the total amount of state spending," he said.
Richard Iannuzzi, NYSUT president, said he appreciates Cuomo's push for full-day pre-K, more instructional time and community schools.
"The governor has started us moving down a road that recognizes some important things that need to be done in education," Iannuzzi said, "but they're going to be difficult to achieve without the resources."
The Journal News database specialist Tim Henderson contributed to this report.


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By JESSE E. NEEDLESPrice
Many families have a tradition or two that they hand down to their children. For instance living here in Carbon County my family always buys a BLM or forest service tree permit just after Thanksgiving and we go out as a family to get our Christmas tree. Another tradition of ours was to go to the Helper park on the Saturday before Easter and be able to have the kids go on an Easter egg hunt. We did this every year, without fail.
Now I have to explain that I grew up, not only in Helper, but also right across the street from the park. Every year I would watch where the Helper Lions Club would hide the eggs when I was a child. Then I would run over to the park and join the other children waiting with anticipation for it to begin. Then I would run over to the park and join the other children waiting with anticipation for it to begin. My sister now lives in the same house that we grew up in. She too has had the tradition in her family of taking her children to the Easter egg hunt. Now we both have grandchildren that have chased for Easter eggs in that same park that we as kids chased for them.
This year my oldest son and his family came down for Easter. His four children wanted to go to the Easter egg hunt and we found out that it was not being held this year. What a shame!
The grandkids were certainly disappointed. I heard last year they probably weren't going to be able to hold the Easter egg hunt again. In talking to the men who have coordinated and put it on for so many years. I found out that many of them took part of their own money to buy the eggs and dye. What a service they have so generously rendered us personally, and as a community.
I want to tell them how much we appreciate them for the many years of service that they provided for the community. Always waiting for the last child to get into line before the countdown to tell them to go. They didn't want any "one" child who was arriving, not be able to participate. And never was any child left without any egg in his or her basket. Always supplying that highly desired "prize" egg, (which I never was able to lay claim to; but a couple of my children did).
To the many men of the Helper Lions Club, men that I have known personally, they have provided many years of joy to the children of Helper and Carbon County.


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Clean Cities is helping to reduce petroleum use and protect air quality in America�s national parks through the deployment of alternative fuels and advanced vehicles.
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In 2010, the U.S. Department of Energy signed a five-year agreement with the National Park Service to provide up to $5 million annually for transportation projects. Individual parks will pair up with nearby Clean Cities coalitions to develop and implement the projects.
Several national parks are already working with Clean Cities coalitions. Great Smoky Mountains National Park is using biodiesel to power more than 50 vehicles and pieces of equipment, and more than a dozen hybrid electric vehicles and neighborhood electric vehicles in the park�s fleet help improve air quality and raise awareness among visitors. Zion National Park is working with Utah Clean Cities to expand Zion�s use of alternative fuels, implement idle-reduction strategies, bring hybrid electric vehicles into the fleet, and promote shuttle bus use by visitors
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Pro-gay groups have turned to a popular children's television show to push their agenda further: Sesame Street. Following New York state's legalization of same-sex marriage, some "progressive" (formerly called "liberal") groups are feeling emboldened and have now advocated Sesame Street to push the envelope further. Change.org is asking Sesame Street to find a way for Bert and Ernie to "tastefully" tie the knot. Change.org, an advocate of "social change," has posted a petition on its website for the creators of Sesame Street to hold a same-sex marriage for Bert and Ernie in a "tasteful way." The petition reads:
In this horrific age of LGBT kids taking their own lives, they need to know that they ARE BEAUTIFUL and their lives are worth living. Aside from those that are committing suicide, the bullies that facilitate these tragedies need to learn that homophobia is NOT okay. They need to know that acceptance of their fellow human beings would indeed plant a seed of peace that will reverberate throughout the world. We are not asking that Sesame Street do anything crude or disrespectful by allowing Bert & Ernie to marry. It can be done in a tasteful way. Let us teach tolerance of those that are different. Let Sesame Street and PBS Kids be a big part in saving many worthy lives.
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