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What happens when godly people began to fervently pray? Well, in the case of the families that meet together to worship at Winters Park and Autumn Leaves, it is more than they could have ever asked or imagined.
David Moore, pastor of these experienced saints, challenged them to pray for the apartment complex behind their building. They prayed for the people living there to know God and to experience His love. They prayed for a bold vision of how to reach the people living there despite language and cultural barriers. They prayed for a way to be the hands and feet of Jesus.
And God does not disappoint.
Reach Garland was born on a hot day in June when David and Lori Moore, along with several friends, planned to feed lunch to the residents of an apartment complex in Garland. It was a simple plan. They would serve lunch and let the people know that they were Christians. Period. Not from a specific church or from a certain denomination, just Christians.
The apartment complex's manager warmed immediately to the idea and welcomed this group that wanted to make her complex a better place to live. The residents showed up in droves! Children, teenagers, parents and grandparents flocked to free food in a friendly, safe atmosphere.
Since that day, David and Lori with their ever growing number of supporters have continued to lavish love on this apartment complex. They held a trunk or treat for the children at Halloween. They brought in an after school program that teaches children the basics of faith. At Christmas, they brought presents for parents to shop from, free of charge. And all the while, they bring a meal once a month to allow the residents to gather together and experience community. Every single food item and gift has either been donated or sponsored.
The residents are coming to know Jesus, first through free hot dogs or pizza, and then through these people that come.
For the many who have accepted Christ at the apartment complex, their new church home is at Winters Park; worshipping with these sometimes forgotten treasures who prayed them into the kingdom.
David dreams of Reach Garland expanding across our city and the metroplex. He is always looking for ready hands and willing hearts. Would you like to join in?

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We like t- bone steak and its the best with this recipe.This is for a big cook out.But you could 1/2 this recipe .
Blue Ribbon Recipe
- 1/3 c
- black or mixed peppercorns
- 1 tsp
- coriander seeds
- 2 Tbsp
- whole coffee beans
- 1 tsp
- salt
- 6
- 2-inch thick t-bone
- 1 1/2 c
- red wine
- 1/4 c
- steak sauce
- 1/4 c
- soy sause
- 2 clove
- garlic, crushed
- 2 tsp
- paprika
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1Grind pepper, coriander seeds, and coffee beans in a spice grinder or pepper mill; add salt. Press spice mixture onto both sides of steaks, put in large plastic food bags or a glass pan.
3Close bags or cover dish and refrigerate several hours. Turn steak once or twice as it marinates. Remove meat from marinade, pat dry with paper towels. Reserve marinade.
4Cook steaks over medium coals to desired doneness, allowing 7 to 10 minutes per side for rare, 10 to 15 minutes per side for medium. Brush with marinade as they cook. Let steaks set for a few minutes before slicing. (Steaks may be broiled if desired.)
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Most people know that Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876. However, most don't know that many credit Antonio Meucci for also inventing it. The origins of dieselpunk follows a similar pattern. In most dieselpunk literature, Lewis Pollack is credited with coining the term 'dieselpunk' to promote the RPG Children of the Sun in 2002. It turns out this is only half the picture. In a posting on the excellent Facebook page …Continue
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Minutewomen Fall To No. 25 Michigan
Dec. 29, 2002
GAINESVILLE, Fla. - The 25th-ranked University of Michigan (9-2) women's basketball team used an 8-0 run in the game's final 1:04 to hand the University of Massachusetts (8-3) a 64-61 loss in the State Farm Classic consolation game tonight at the Stephen C. O'Connell Center.
The Minutewomen held a 61-56 lead with 1:23 left, but that would be their final points. Michigan's Tabitha Pool drained a three-pointer with 1:04 left cutting the UMass lead to two points. After a UMass turnover, the Wolverines then re-gained the lead with a three-pointer by Niki Reams. Reams then made two free throws to give Michigan a three-point edge with 22 seconds left in regulation. On the other end of the floor, another UMass turnover gave the ball back to Michigan. A UMass foul sent UM's Lauren Andrews to the free throw line for a one-and-one opportunity. She obliged by missing the front end, but the Minutewomen were unable to get off a shot before the clock expired 4.4 seconds later.
Massachusetts led by 14 points (32-18) at the half, but a 12-4 Wolverine run spanning the first 4:51 of the second half cut the UMass lead to six points at 36-30. Michigan continued to chip away for the next several minutes and drew even on a trifecta by Pool at the 6:46 mark. After Michigan took a two-point lead on its next possession, senior Ebony Pegues (Columbus, Ohio) drained a three-pointer regaining the lead for Massachusetts.
UMass controlled play for much of the first half, but were unable to put the Wolverines away. Michigan shot just .229 (8-35) in the first half, while the Minutewomen were .424 (14-33) from the field. UMass sophomore Katie Nelson (Ellicott City, Md.) had 12 points in the first half on 4-of-9 shooting from three-point range, but was held scoreless in the second half.
UMass senior Jen Butler (Brooklyn, N.Y.) finished the game with 18 points and 12 rebounds, but played just seven minutes in the first half as she was in foul trouble. Senior Nekole Smith (Ann Arbor, Mich.) had 12 points and five rebounds as well, while blocking two shots.
Pool led the Wolverines with 17 points and 10 rebounds. Reams finished with 16 points, while Stephanie Gandy had 11.
UMass shot .400 (22-55) from the field for the game. Michigan shot .556 (15-27) in the second half to improve to .317 (23-62) for the game. Both teams pulled down 38 rebounds, but UMass committed 20 turnovers.
Massachusetts returns to the Mullins Center to host Memphis in its final non-conference game on Saturday, Jan. 4, 2003. Tip-off is slated for 2:00 p.m.
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For nearly 25 years, Acoustic Alchemy has pushed the limits of the acoustic guitar's potential by embracing a spectrum of musical styles ranging from straightahead jazz to folk to rock to world music and beyond. Acoustic Alchemy have established themselves as an ever evolving, powerhouse force in contemporary jazz with Grammy nominations and thousands of fans worldwide. The trademark two-guitar attack of Greg Carmichael and Miles Gilderdale makes their music instantly recognizable, and their mellow dynamism has served as the blueprint for Adult Contemporary music.
In the two and a half decades since their earliest recordings, despite a tragic setback in the late 1990s and the inherent challenges of the 21st century music industry, the group has assembled and sustained a vast and loyal following that stretches well beyond their U.K. origins.
The band's story begins with two guitarists, Nick Webb and Simon James, who recorded a self-financed, self-produced album in the mid 1980s entitled Acoustic Alchemy. Shortly after the release, James left the partnership to study flamenco guitar in Spain, leaving Webb to promote the record on his own.
Webb turned to a rock guitarist named Greg Carmichael, whose background complemented his own. Webb had studied jazz at Leeds College of Music, while Carmichael had studied classical at London College of Music and the two assumed the name of Acoustic Alchemy.
The duo initially worked for Virgin Airlines, recording in-flight music for trans-Atlantic flights, then signed to MCA, where they released their 1987 debut album, Red Dust & Spanish Lace. The album included assistance from percussionist Mario Aragandoa and drummer Bart Smaak, and was the first of many to be produced by German sound engineer Klaus Genuit at Hansa Haus Studios in Bonn.
After two more records on MCA (Neutral Elements in 1988 and Blue Chip in 1989), Acoustic Alchemy moved to GRP, which would be their home for the better part of the 1990s. Reference Point, released in 1990, was nominated for a GRAMMY Award, and marked the beginning of a successful run on GRP that included Back on the Case (1991), The New Edge (1993), Against The Grain (1994) and Arcanum (1996).
Positive Thinking (1998) was to be Acoustic Alchemy's last recording with Webb, who had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at the outset of the project. His condition worsened to the point where he was unable to put in the studio time and appear on any of the tracks. He died in February 1998, and the album was released later that year.
Webb's death left the future of the band in question. At the time, the group consisted of the two acoustic guitarists backed by electric guitar, bass and drums. Gilderdale, who was playing in the electric guitar slot at the time, expanded his technical skills and repertoire on acoustic guitar and stepped forward to take Webb's place alongside Carmichael at the front of the band.
The band moved to EMI's Higher Octave label, where they released a short string of successful albums, beginning with The Beautiful Game (2000), an album that didn't shy away from experimenting with new genres. The Beautiful Game also introduced keyboardist Anthony "Fred" White to the band lineup. The GRAMMY-nominated Aart (2001) is their biggest selling album to date, and includes assistance by saxophonist Jeff Kashiwa. Radio Contact (2003), the band's final release on Higher Octave, is the first in their discography to include a vocal track "Little Laughter," performed by Joe Harrop.
This Way, released on Narada Jazz in 2007, includes collaborations with jazz/funk/soul band Down to the Bone and a guest appearance by trumpeter Rick Braun.
Four years in the making, Roseland is Acoustic Alchemy's newest recording. The album was self-produced in Gilderdale's home studio in York, England (with some post-production in London and Germany), and released on the band's newly formed label, Onside Records.
Through it all, the overriding mission of Acoustic Alchemy has been to reach the broadest possible audience by pushing the potential of instrumental music to embrace a broad spectrum of styles without being limited to any specific genre.
"For a lot of people, instrumental music is just a sound that plays in the background," says Carmichael. "But we put a lot into it not just with this record but with every record we've ever made. I'd like to think that after all these years, we've learned how to take people on a journey. A lot of our fans have said that we do that for them. As long as they keep coming back, and as long as they want to stay on that journey, we'll keep doing what we're doing.


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College Hockey:Buckeyes Rally Past Spartans
OSU Ends Four-Game Losing Streak
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State came from behind to snap a four-game losing streak, beating No. 13 Michigan State, 3-2, at Value City Arena.
Junior Andrew Schembri had two third-period goals and sophomore Tom Fritsche had a goal and an assist as Ohio State (3-5-1, 2-4-1 CCHA) registered its first win since beating Bowling Green Oct. 20.
"We're satisfied with the win," said OSU head coach John Markell. "We needed something positive to happen. We feel we played a good game, not a great game."
The Spartans (5-4-2, 2-4-2 CCHA) saw their losing streak reach three games after dropping a home series against Nebraska-Omaha Nov. 11-12. Tuesday's contest was the sixth for Michigan State in 12 days while the Buckeyes were idle last weekend, a disparity that may have factored into the outcome, said head coach Rick Comley.
"We've played a lot of games in a short stretch and been beaten up doing it, but I thought our kids worked hard and I thought Ohio State's too good a team to lose as much as they've lost.
"They had nine days rest. They didn't get themselves into penalty trouble as they've done in some recent games, so I thought they played up to their capabilities, and I thought we played well enough to win on the road."
While the Buckeyes did limit themselves to five penalties for 10 minutes and the game saw only eight infractions called, power plays for each team did swing the momentum.
Trailing 1-0 early in the second, the Spartans found themselves with three consecutive power plays, capitalizing at 9:50 and scoring again, even-strength, 14 seconds later to take a 2-1 lead.
In the third period, however, MSU's Tim Crowder was given a five-minute penalty for checking OSU's Matt Waddell from behind, and the Bucks scored their first power-play tally in 40 tries to even the score.
"I thought they were both kind of lunging at the puck," said Comley, "but whether it was behind or not, I don't really know. It certainly wasn't much of anything, I didn't really think, but as we've seen this year, that call decides games."
Tom Fritsche opened the scoring for the Buckeyes at 10:52 in the first with help from Sean Collins and Nate Guenin. Cycling the puck in front of the Spartan net, Guenin passed from the far side of the right circle over to Collins at the top of the left circle; MSU goaltender Dominic Vicari dropped low and to the left to block a possible Collins shot, leaving Fritsche and half the Spartan net available. OSU led 1-0 after one.
It was Justin Abdelkader who scored on the second Spartan power play at 9:50 to even the game 1-1, a tic-tac-toe goal from Chris Mueller and Ethan Graham with a little screening help from Crowder.
Then at 10:04, just after the faceoff following Abdelkader's goal, Tyler Howells beat OSU's Tyson Strachan in the left corner to backhand a centering pass to Jim McKenzie, whose own backhanded shot from the slot jumped over the right skate of OSU goaltender Dave Caruso and into the net for the 2-1 Spartan lead.
Crowder's penalty at 2:07 gave the Buckeyes the extra man for five minutes — and Kyle Hood the chance to show how patience can be a virtue. From the top of the slot, Hood pumped to shoot and drew Howells to ice level to block the shot, which never came. Hood threatened to shoot again, and this time Daniel Vukovic dropped to the ice to block yet another faked shot.
With two Spartans committed and prone, Hood fired at Vicari, who made the initial save but gave the rebound to Schembri, camped near the right post, and the Buckeyes tied it at 3:40.
That goal seemed to lift Ohio State for the remainder of the game. Schembri scored the game-winner at 17:16, even strength, crashing the net after receiving Mathieu Beaudoin's feed from the left wing on the fly.
"I think it was a bit of a chess match out there," said Markell. "We were off nine days, and they were off Friday and Saturday … and maybe we had a little bit more jump than they did.
"I thought in the second period, that they kind of took the momentum away from us when we had to kill off three penalties, and they scored one [on the power play]. Certainly in the third, I thought we came out with a little more jump.
"The guys talked about it in the dressing room. It was the exact position we've been in before. We talked ourselves into the way we played previously. Obviously, the five-minute penalty was a bit of a momentum changer. We were very fortunate to get a goal."
Ohio State finished the night 1-for-3 on the power play, MSU 1-for-5. Caruso had 14 saves in his third win of the season; Vicari stopped 32, as the Buckeyes outshot the Spartans 35-16.
Next up for Michigan State is a home-and-home series with Western Michigan, Nov. 18-19. The Buckeyes are home the same nights against Lake Superior State.
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There are unique privacy issues web analytics raise. As an industry, we should do our best to rationalize the privacy concerns, educate all constituencies, and provide comfort to the user.
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In the EU people are concerned about their online privacy. The EU has set new laws on Privacy. It is important for businesses and organizations to understand how to be compliant with these EU laws and regulations. This white paper is for digital analysts, as well as those outside the professional, to gain a better understanding of the consequences of the issues.
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Kerry/McCain Commercial Privacy Bill of Rights Act of 2011 [PDF]
To establish a regulatory framework for the comprehensive protection of personal data for individuals under the aegis of the Federal Trade Commission, and for other purposes.
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Some made a nice haul of cigarette butts. Some made gravestone inscriptions at the Old City Cemetery more readable. And some made local parks more welcoming.
They all made a difference.
More than 400 community members joined forces Saturday for the annual observance of Make a Difference Day. Billed as the nation's biggest annual community service day, the fourth Saturday in October offered an opportunity to improve public places in Clark County.
The Vancouver-Clark Parks and Recreation Department mobilized volunteers for several efforts, from a Main Street cleanup to environmental restoration projects.
About 420 people took part, said Hailey Heath, a Parks and Recreation Department volunteer coordinator. The biggest effort drew about 250 people for a Burnt Bridge Creek tree-planting project near Leverich Park.
About 60 participated in "The Butts Stop Here." After gathering at Luke Jensen Sports Park in Hazel Dell, they split into teams and swept through 10 city and county parks to pick up cigarette butts and gather litter.
"We had 18 bags of garbage from 10 different parks," said Karen Llewellyn, volunteer program coordinator with Clark County Public Works.
"We got nine pounds of cigarette butts," Llewellyn said.
According to a couple of online resources, nine pounds could represent 20,000 or so cigarettes.
The Uptown Village cleanup featured a salute to community activist Ryan Woods, who died of cancer last year.
"He was a guy who brought people together," Heath said.
A couple of the efforts included ongoing community service projects, but the Make a Difference Day turnout actually did make a difference in getting more work done.
"We accomplished a lot," said Zoe Hall, a Heritage High School senior who started a maintenance project at the Old City Cemetery almost a year ago.
"We had a good turnout, probably 25 instead of the 10 we usually have," Hall said.
And the volunteers brought their own yard equipment, which made another difference.
"The way the cemetery is set up, it's tough for big industrial mowers to go through," Hall said. "A lot of people were weed-eating in between the monuments and mowing with their own mowers.
"A couple of people with leaf blowers blew leaves from the pathway onto the grass," where another volunteer mulched them.
"About 10 people were scrubbing the markers with soft brushes, getting moss off them, making sure they were legible," Hall said. "We also did the necessary garbage pickup. This is one of the more targeted places for people to drink and do drugs. Today we found way more needles than usual. We had so many people that we were able to get that taken care of."
In addition to making a difference, many of the participants were able to make a connection — maybe with people who share an interest in public service, or maybe it was a connection with our common heritage.
The Old City Cemetery is the final resting place of many local pioneers whose names are part of the community, including Esther Short.
And many teens who enjoy summer days along the river at Wintler Park found that name on historic grave markers.
"My peers are recognizing names like the Wintlers," Hall said.


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I've been following (mostly online) the Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Boston protests since nearly the beginning. They got traction and coverage on blogs and Twitter long before the media was covering it - in fact, before the unprovoked pepper spray incidents that made the news, the only place to read about what was happening was online.
The media complained that they weren't cohesive enough and there wasn't news to cover. Well, that has quickly changed and evolved. For starters, there were some very bad decisions from the NYPD - both institutionally, and by some idiot individuals - which put the protests on the map for the media, and solidified the motivation of participants and supporters. What's more, it seems the organic sort of organizing that has sprung up has - and I have to use the word evolved again - to meet the challenges of running a protest, dealing with the media, finding a set of demands to articulate why they are angry and not going to take it any more. OWS has spokespeople and media tents and a strong online presence - all while being relatively leadersless in the traditional sense.
In some ways, my personal cynicism alert flag is up. (Yeah, I know, I'm too young to be truly cynical…) I spent years organizing with the peace movement against the Iraq war, butting my head up against the sheer stubbornness of the Bush administration and, later, Obama's. After all, GitMo is still open, the USA PATRIOT Act was reauthorized and is being used to spy on Americans without due process, we're still in our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan though with some troop drawdown, and Obama even unilaterally bombed, for right or wrong, Libya, without the consent of Congress.
The only satisfaction we got out of our fight was that most of the American public got on our side after a while. But it still reelected Bush and let itself be lied to about Kerry's war record and ability to lead, and we never got a truly different kind of leader to replace him in 2008, either. Obama put Wall St executives in charge of the economy even after it was evident they were full of shit.
But there is something really interesting happening with Occupy[America]. For one thing, it's just average citizens (not diehard liberals or extremely informed people like me) who are protesting. Photo after photo, interview after interview, this is very evident.
There are so many people in this country who have been foreclosed on, laid off, unable to move forward, that a segment of them, with nothing left to lose, are truly taking the fight to the streets. Since they have nothing left to lose - no middle class lifestyle, no prospects - they have a lot to fight for. I always said the worst part about being an anti-war protester is that most of our citizens, even when sympathetic (and the majority was by the time I left that movement) are busy with their lives, making their livings, feeding their families, going to soccer games, and being generally content that things aren't that bad for them, personally. There's nothing wrong with this. It's totally human, and what's more, a legacy of the last century of American progress. We built the middle class. A country with a middle class able to make ends meet is a relatively politically stable country. It's a good thing.
Which is why I think there is something different in the air.
Gradually, we've seen the erosion of the buying power and the salaries of the middle class. For so many decades before, our children did at least a little better than their parents. Then, since the Reagan era, we started to see the slide. We began to only tread water…then occasionally swallowed some. Then we began drowning, but we as a people were the last to see it happen.
Even in the 2008 economic meltdown, we failed to notice our lungs filling with something other than air.
This generation of young people really are the first who truly believe - nay, who know - they are not destined to do better than their parents. Unlike the spoiled kids of my generation (raised largely in the 80s and coming of age in the 90s), they see the coming tide sweeping over them and pulling them under the water before they even get a chance to begin. They are left behind. And they know that if they do nothing, it will only get worse. They have nothing left to lose.
They join every one of their older siblings, parents, grandparents who have lost a house, a job, a future, despite being of the generations born with more promise. For some of us older ones, we've experienced firsthand how it's gonna be going forward if there are no changes. For the rest of us older ones, we are beginning to understand how fragile our position of comfort is. The OccupyWallSt movement presents this to us in bas-relief - the notion that the middle class is under siege and has been for quite some time.
The thing that is different from now from these previous movements is that the situation that has caused these long term problems is not going to be alleviated by last generation's leaders. Obama is cut off at the knees to even patch a pathetic temporary band-aid (the jobs bill) on our economic slide by Republican intransigence. And even Obama's half-measures would probably only prove to elongate the stagnation, not solve the underlying problem. We're now seeing the gap between the wealthy and the rest of us reach the levels seen right before the 1929 crash. Eventually, this was going to get noticed by someone. By everyone.
Even the Tea Party movement, while misguided to the extreme, is an expression of this loss of power by the average person. Why did they catch fire? Despite being such a minority of even the Republican party? Because poor and middle class Republicans too are suffering in this economic climate, this class warfare on us by the super-wealthy. They just aren't right on who to blame for this.
Most of America, on the other hand, already knows what and who is to blame. They already overwhelmingly want to see taxes raised back up on the uberwealthy. They know that Wall St needs taking down a peg or three, and that we need to go back to regulating our economic system so that the playing field becomes level again. They just need the energy to look up from their day to day struggles against the tide, to look up, and see that horizon again.
I don't know where the Occupy movement is going to go. It seems to change and swell bigger by the day, though it could have an upper limit, I suppose. But if this truly is the moment where the American people reach the tipping point, if this is the straw that, finally, after 30 years of straws, breaks the camel's back, then maybe we can make the changes without the economic crash that I have been foreseeing for years. That crash (which will make 2008 look like cakewalk) could still be coming. But if we organize enough in advance, if we can offer an alternative to the American people now, perhaps we will not lose a decade like they did in the Great Depression. After all, we have history to inform us how best to rebuild the American middle class and spread prosperity around to everyone.
So, occupy on! There may not be an immediate result, but it could offer a long term solution. Hats off to the most powerless among us.
I agree with your last line.
"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. "
Thomas Jefferson
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Sept. 16, 2013
IOWA CITY, Iowa -- The University of Iowa football program has 26 former Hawkeyes on NFL rosters. The NFL continued its regular season over the weekend. A number of former Hawkeyes saw action and had success for their respective teams.
Jonathan Babineaux - DL - Atlanta Falcons: Babineaux started but did not record any statistics in the Falcons' 31-24 win over the St. Louis Rams on Sunday. He has started the last 78 games for Atlanta.
Bryan Bulaga - OL - Green Bay Packers: Bulaga has been placed on injured reserve. He is in his fourth season with Green Bay, and has made 33 career starts. Bulaga won a Super Bowl ring during his rookie season with the Packers in 2010.
Scott Chandler - TE - Buffalo Bills: Chandler hauled in three receptions for 10 yards in the Bills' 24-23 win over Carolina on Sunday. Chandler has started 24 of the last 31 games he has competed in for the Bills.
Dallas Clark - TE - Baltimore Ravens: Clark registered one reception for eight yards in the Ravens' 14-6 win over Cleveland on Sunday . The former Iowa All-American and John Mackey Award winner is in his first season with the Baltimore Ravens after spending last year with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Adrian Clayborn - DL - Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Clayborn recorded five tackles (three solo, two assists) and a forced fumble in the Buccaneers' 16-14 loss to the New Orleans Saints on Sunday. He has started all 21 games he has appeared in for the Bucs.
Colin Cole - DL - Carolina Panthers: Cole saw action in Carolina's 24-23 loss to Buffalo on Sunday, recording one tackle. Cole is with Carolina after spending the past two seasons out of the NFL. In his career, Cole has recorded 219 tackles, and four and a half sacks.
Mike Daniels - DL - Green Bay Packers: Daniels recorded two tackles (one solo, one assist) in the Packers' 38-20 win over the Washington Redskins. In his first season in the league last year, Daniels recorded 12 tackles while appearing in 14 games last season.
Bradley Fletcher - DB - Philadelphia Eagles: After spending four years with the Rams, Fletcher is now a member of the Eagles. Fletcher was sidelined with a concussion.
Adam Gettis - OL - Washington Redskins: Gettis, in his second year with the Redskins, did not see action as Washington fell to Green Bay on Sunday.
Charles Godfrey - DB - Carolina Panthers: Godfrey registered one tackle in the Panthers' loss to the Buffalo Bills on Sunday. Godfrey, in his sixth season with Carolina, has made 74 career starts.
Shonn Greene - RB - Tennessee Titans: Greene did not see action, due to injury, in the Titans' 30-24 overtime loss to Houston on Sunday. The former All-American and 2008 Doak Walker Award Winner is in his first season with the Titans after spending the previous four seasons with the New York Jets.
Chad Greenway - LB - Minnesota Vikings: Greenway registered 11 total tackles, eight solo and three assists, in the Vikings' 31-30 loss at Chicago. The former Iowa All-American has started 97 games for the Vikings.
Micah Hyde - CB - Green Bay Packers: Hyde, winner of the 2012 Tatum-Woodson Defensive Back of the Year award, saw action but did not record any statistics in the Packers' win over the Washington Redskins on Sunday.
Karl Klug - DL - Tennessee Titans: Klug recorded one tackle in the Titans' overtime loss to Houston on Sunday. Klug has appeared in all 34 games for Tennessee during his first three seasons, making one start in 2011, and one in 2012. As a rookie in 2011, Klug compiled a team-high seven sacks. The total tied for sixth place in sacks among all NFL rookies, tied for fourth among all NFL defensive tackles, and led all NFL rookie defensive tackles.
Marvin McNutt - WR - Miami Dolphins: In his second year in the league, McNutt is a member of the Dolphins practice squad.
Tony Moeaki - TE - Kansas City Chiefs: Moeaki has been placed on the injured reserve list. Now in his fourth year with the Chiefs, Moeaki has made 29 career starts, registering 80 receptions for 1,009 yards and four touchdowns.
Brandon Myers - TE - New York Giants: Myers tallied six receptions for 74 yards, including a 27 yard reception in the Giants' 41-23 loss to Denver. Myers, in his first year with the Giants after spending four years with Oakland, has 124 career receptions for 1,196 yards and five touchdowns.
Shaun Prater - DB - Philadelphia Eagles: In his second year in the league, Prater did not see action for the Eagles in their 33-30 loss to San Diego on Sunday.
Riley Reiff - OL - Detroit Lions: Reiff made his second start of the season Sunday as the Lions lost to the Arizona Cardinals, 25-21. He has started in 10 career games during his first two seasons in the league. Reiff was Detroit's first round pick in 2012, marking the third-straight season an Iowa player was selected in the first round of the NFL Draft.
Allen Reisner - TE - Jacksonville Jaguars: Reisner caught two passes for 9 yards in the Jaguars' 19-9 loss to the Oakland Raiders on Sunday.
Ricky Stanzi - QB - Jacksonville Jaguars: Did not see action during the 19-9 loss to Oakland.
Matt Tobin - OL - Philadelphia Eagles: In his first year in the league, Tobin did not see action for the Eagles in their loss to San Diego on Sunday.
Julian Vandervelde - OL - Philadelphia Eagles: Vandervelde, in his third season with the Eagles, saw action in Philadelphia's loss to San Diego on Sunday.
Marshal Yanda - OL - Baltimore Ravens: Yanda started for the Ravens in the team's win of the Browns. He has made 74 career starts in seven years for the Ravens, including the last 47 games.
Markus Zusevics - OL - New England Patriots: Zusevics, in his second season with New England, was placed on the injured reserve list.


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Missile, Air-to-Air, Henschel Hs 298, Control Surface Locks
Dr. Herbert Wagner's missile group at Henschel Aircraft in World War II Germany designed the Hs 298 as a small, experimental, air-to-air missile. A Schmidding solid rocket propelled it for about 25 seconds, and the pilot in the launch aircraft guided it using a joystick and transmitter.
These locks hold the missile's control surfaces in place during shipment and loading of the missile. The Smithsonian presumably obtained them along with the missile when the U.S. Navy transferred the Hs 298 in 1948.
Transferred from the U.S. Navy Bureau of Aeronautics
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- Germany
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Mila Kunis Called Anti-Semitic Slur By Ukrainian Politician
Mila Kunis has been targeted with an anti-Semitic slur by a politician in the actress' native Ukraine.
In a Facebook post, Igor Miroshnichenko reportedly referred to Kunis as a "zhydovka," which translates to "dirty Jewess."
The term, which Miroshnichenko apparently used to imply that Kunis is not a true Ukrainian, has been used as an anti-Jewish epithet in the region for decades.
In response, the Simon Wiesenthal Center has sent a letter to Ukraine's prime minister expressing "outrage and indignation" over the use of "zhydovka," which was "invoked by the Nazis and their collaborators as they rounded up the Jews to murder them at Babi Yar and in the death camps."
"It is a tragedy that even after the Holocaust and the demise of the Soviet Union such hatred and anti-Semitism is still a force in the mainstream of your county," reads the letter, which asks that measures be taken "to defeat the xenophobic forces that threaten your democracy."
Kunis' family moved to the United States when she was seven years old.
She has not commented on the Miroshnichenko situation.
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Conclusion: if Facebook ads in due course will be valued at 10 times what they are currently, doesn't that make them a huge, massive bargain right now?
Facebook's traffic has enormous potential: it offers targeting through the social graph that is available nowhere else. And it is clearly, obviously underpriced. So how come we still see so many publishers, advertisers and even networks that aren't using Facebook?
The response of many will be, lousy click-through rates. But that's not the right answer. Facebook offers so much more than just a possible conversion path with each click. It provides targeting data that allows for further optimization, it provides insight into your customer's social graphs and that then allows for much better targeting of friends-of-fans which will increase CTRs in turn.
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In order for Facebook to reach its potential it needs to attract major brands as advertisers. That means it needs to educate the enormous potential client base, provide positive customer experiences and out of those develop a library of case studies that will persuade reluctant ad agencies.
In addition, it's easy to see that Facebook has some way to go to generate the sheer volume of advertising data that will allow it to optimize pricing across every market niche. And it has an ongoing project to test and develop new ad units and positioning in order to maintain click-through rates.
So Facebook knows it has work to do and it is willing to sell its traffic cheaply while it is building. The bottom line remains: Facebook advertising is cheap by any metric. If you aren't using it, or you feel you have suffered from CTRs that are too low, you may want to think again about how you are calculating its value.


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PARIS -- My problem
with appreciating Balanchine as he should be has often been that
his abstract ballets don't always appeal to me. (This is not a judgment
on the ballets, just a declaration of personal taste, and perhaps
a confession of critical limitations.) I'm not alone in finding
some 'non-narrative' ballets as inscrutable as many find algebra,
notwithstanding that their creators, including Balanchine, intend
they should be as penetrable as music. Sometimes I try to make 'sense'
of these ballets by insisting on finding a narrative. Balanchine
was keenly aware of this tendency by many in his audience, and met
it head on, as I was reminded by reading his notes on "Serenade"
prior to seeing that ballet Wednesday at the Palais Garnier, on
a Paris Opera Ballet program with "Concerto Barocco," "Tchaikovsky
Pas de Deux," and Jerome Robbins's "Afternoon of a Faun."
Here's what Balanchine
had to say about the 1934 "Serenade," writing in "Stories of the
Great Ballets" (Doubleday, 1954), edited by Francis Mason:
"'Serenade was my first
ballet in the United States. Soon after my arrival in America, Lincoln
Kirstein, Edward M.M. Warburg, and I opened the School of American
Ballet in New York. As part of the school curriculum, I started
an evening ballet class in stage technique, to give students some
idea of how dancing on stage differs from classwork. 'Serenade'
evolved from the lessons I gave. "It seemed to me that the best
way to make students aware of stage technique was to give them something
new to dance, something they had never seen before. I chose Tchaikovsky's
'Serenade' to work with. The class contained, the first night, 17
girls and no boys. The problem was, how to arrange this odd number
of girls so that they would look interesting. I placed them on diagonal
lines and decided that the hands should move first to give the girls
"That was how 'Serenade'
began. The next class contained only nine girls; the third, six.
I choreographed to the music with the pupils I happened to have
at a particular time. Boys began to attend the class, and they were
worked into the pattern. One day, when all the girls rushed off
the floor area we were using as a stage, one of the girls fell and
began to cry. I told the pianist to keep on playing and kept this
bit in the dance. Another day, one of the girls was late for class,
so I left that in too.
'Later, when we staged
'Serenade,' everything was revised. The girls who couldn't dance
well were left out of the more difficult parts; I elaborated on
the small accidental bits I had included in class and made the whole
more dramatic, more theatrical, synchronizing it to the music with
additional movement, but always using the little things that ordinarily
might be overlooked.
"I've gone into a little
detail here about 'Serenade' because many people think there is
a concealed story in the ballet. There is not. There are, simply,
dancers in motion to a beautiful piece of music. The only story
is the music's story, a serenade, a dance, if you like, in the light
of the moon."
I think Balanchine's
being a little disingenuous here. Where a narrative is seen in "Serenade,"
it's not wholly the fabrication of an over-active imagination on
the part of the viewer. In fact, that collapse which originated
in the classroom introduces a plot in some form. The fallen dancer
is soon met by a man and a woman, she guiding him vertically downstage
(on the Garnier's raked stage, literally) right with her hands over
his eyes and her body pressed to his. He leaves with the one he
came with and the first dancer is left prostrated, remaining stiffened
when she's lifted up later by three men, who are joined by more
women as she's born off upstage right with her arms raised and back
It's understandable
that the audience might perceive a story in this. The dancers, however,
must interpret the choreography (and its interpretation of the music)
straight, their only inflection musical, not dramatic. (Or at any
rate, certainly not melodramatic.) It's on them that falls the obligation
of fealty to Balanchine's design.
As mentioned in my
review of the Paris Opera Ballet's first program of the
season (and first of three programs featuring Balanchine to commemorate
his upcoming centenary), this company's strength can devolve to
its weakness in interpreting Balanchine's abstract ballets. They
incline to the dramatic, these dancers, giving them unparalleled
(with the possible exception of the Russian companies) potency in
narrative ballets but handicapping them when they should be keeping
their 'acting' in check. Yann Bridard, riveting to watch as the
Degas figure in last season's "Le
Petite Danseuse de Degas" and in Angelin Preljocaj's
can make one wince with his telegraphing in abstract ballets, and
that was the case in Wednesday's "Serenade," when he played the
second man. Painstakingly a zombie-like blank, his interpretation,
combined with Nathalie Rique's Wicked Witch of the West flapping
of her arms behind him as he lets go of the first woman(Agnes Letestu)'s
hand before being led off, injected more drama into the ballet than,
judging by his notes, Balanchine intended.
As for Letestu, she
doesn't often lend herself to somberness, even if the music insists
upon it. She fluttered about in the first section, broke concentration
to undo her bun before collapsing, and settled rather than collapsed.
Perhaps I'm contradicting myself and asking for drama, but maybe
and more fairly, I'm disappointed that Letestu wasn't able to meet
the weight of the music and the choreography as an equal.
The corps, however,
redeemed itself for the brittle arms of "Concerto Barocco" (to Bach,
and featuring many of the same dancers) with, not just the opening
gauzy, dreamy frieze but others, as well, as when a group entered
in profile, arms linked, evoking a classical frieze. On Wednesday,
they were: Nathalie Aubin, Isabelle Ciaravola, Emilie Cozette, Veronique
Doisneau, Myriam Kamionka, Virginie Rousseliere, Celine Talon, Alexandra
Cardinale, Aurore Cordelier, Dorothee Gilbert, Vanessa Legassy,
Karine Vilagrassa, Severine Westerman, Laura Hecquet, Julie Martel,
Celine Palacio, and Alice Renavand. The steeds who lifted Letestu
were Vincent Chaillet, Arnaud Dreyfus, Eric Monin, and Samuel Murez.
Laurent Hilaire was the first man, but the flitting Letestu didn't
give him much to respond to. Hilaire was also disappointed in his
main partner for "Concerto Barocco," Laetitia Pujol, who actually
seemed to cut in front of Nolwenn Daniel at her entrance, as if
to say, in the manner of a children's recital, "Me! Me! Look at
me!" Pujol's elevation to etoile last year continues to perplex.
No such doubt hovers
over Aurelie Dupont, a revelation -- and I use that word deliberately
-- every time she dances. On Wednesday, Dupont created anew "Tchaikovsky
Pas de Deux." If abstract ballets can leave me cold, showpiece ballets
like this 1960 one, to an extract of Act III of "Swan Lake," I often
find just annoying. In fact, the prospect of seeing a favorite ballerina
in this 10-minute divertissement can make me cringe. This was my
pre-disposition Wednesday, but I underestimated the transformative
powers of the ballerina in question.
Like the Balanchine
muse Suzanne Farrell, Dupont brings an apparent spontaneity and
organicness to even the most tried of ballets, as if she's dancing
to the music for the first time -- making me feel I'm seeing the
ballet danced for the first time. She places her hand in Manuel
Legris's and meets his eyes as if to say, eagerly, "Ready? Then
let's go!" Each time she comes up to a pirouette, it's as if she's
engaging the music freshly. (And Legris, for his part, meets her
series of pirouettes in his arms with a quick glance to the audience
as if to say, "Look at what she just did!") When she fish-dives
into her partner's arms, she addresses them before as if she doesn't
know how it will end. It's not so much the fearlessness of a Darci
Kistler swooping into Jock Soto's catch and landing with her nose
just inches from the floor, so much as a "Well, here goes nothing!
Alley-oop!" Even checking her landing after a jump is not a sign
of insecurity, but innocent curiosity to see how she did and whether
she hit her spot.
What's revealed is not
a super-human, but a human doing super-human things.
Dupont is a kind of
Harrison Ford of the ballet. Like Ford, she appeals to our empathy
with her vulnerability. And in exposing this vulnerability in an
abstract ballet -- and a showpiece ballet -- she shows me something
new: that vulnerability can be deployed not just to dramatic effect,
but to show an openness and baring of the self and a sense of not
knowing what the results will be as regards her response to the
music. It's a kind of nakedness, in sharp contrast to the calcification,
jadedness, and blase interpretation that can often come from doing
a dance again and again.
Robbins's 1953 "Afternoon
of a Faun" is a dance I've seen again and again, always coming away
with the same interpretation, essentially reflecting narcissism.
Well, according to Robbins, quoted in the Opera program, I was wrong.
"When my dancers regard themselves in the mirror," Robbins insisted
(in my free translation of the French translation), "it's not out
of some kind of narcissism, but to control their gestures as they're
before strangers. For the dancer, the mirror is another eye, the
same as the blank page for the writer. Don't look therefore for
the message. Regard. And if you like it, all the better." In other
words, if regarding the mirror constantly might indicate vanity
for the rest of us, the dancer regards her reflection for the same
reason the painter examines his canvas: She's checking her work.
Bearing Robbins's first
instruction in mind, I couldn't help, narrative-seeker that I am,
discarding his second. Free not to regard Nicolas Le Riche and Eleanora
Abbagnato, in Wednesday's cast, as narcissists, I looked for other
meanings, particularly in their regard of the mirror and each other
after she enters. I discovered that most of the time, they're not
watching themselves, but each other -- as when Le Riche, kneeling,
follows Abbagnato's progress downstage right in the mirror. This
is not a distancing, but just looking at life from a perspective
from which they often examine work. And when they break it to look
directly at each other, the effect is electrifying -- as when she
slowly turns to face him directly, as they both kneel, after catching
his kiss on her cheek in its reflection. But she's caught it directly,
too, as we know by her touching the cheek where he's kissed it before
she slowly turns to look at him, and by her retreat, carriage aloft
and arm outstretched, towards his reflection, as she makes an aching
exit. (This was really the first time it had ached for me.)
The Paris Opera Ballet's
Spectacle de Ballets George Balanchine - Jerome Robbins continues
through December 31, at the Palais Garnier.... Well, that was interesting.
I just checked the City Ballet schedule so that I could tell you
if you could see any of these ballets on that company. It appears
that there's more Robbins on this Paris Opera program than in New
York City Ballet's entire winter season. (Do we really need two
Peter Martins stagings of story ballets? Do we really need one?)
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Trumpet player Charles Tolliver made some big band recordings in the 1970s and played his arrangements with a few European jazz orchestras. In 2003, he revised his Big Band for gigs in New York, and later then made an album for Blue Note. In February, Tolliver's band recreated the charts for Thelonious Monk's 1959 "Town Hall Concert." They now have a new live album out. Jazz critic, Kevin Whitehead says the band is hitting its stride.
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KEVIN WHITEHEAD: Charles Tolliver's Big Band playing the blues and diving headlong into the cheerful exuberance of the big band's birthright. Tolliver came up in the 1960s among musicians who took their cues from John Coltrane's splashy, high-energy modal jazz, where players would stretch out a while on a single chord or scale. Tolliver's Big Band honors those groups.
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WHITEHEAD: Marcus Strickland, stirring the cauldron on tenor saxophone. That's from the Charles Tolliver Big Band's "Emperor March," recorded live last year in New York. Most every big band smacks of urban bustle, trafficking in horn riffs and counter riffs. Tolliver's mass trumpet, saxes and trombones call out to each other like friendly rivals who are on the same side.
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WHITEHEAD: Few musical formations build excitement like a big band when everyone piles on like that. You can hear what these leviathans get from the polyrhythmic energy in Cuban orchestras, even when the material is not officially Latin.
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WHITEHEAD: There are plenty of good soloists here, including trumpeter Charles Tolliver himself, and saxophonists Bill Saxton and Billy Harper, who's featured on a favorite ballad of Coltrane's, "I Want To Talk About You." But above all, big bands need forceful drummers. This one is Gene Jackson who patches those Latin inflections and lays down a size EEE broad beat.
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WHITEHEAD: Even when horns melt away to let the rhythm trio run, they play like 16 players are still at their backs: Bassist Reggie Workman was in Tolliver's 70s Big Band. Anthony Wonsey is on piano.
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WHITEHEAD: The Golden Age of big bands is long gone. But in truth, most modern bands don't come close to matching swing era orchestras for precision or playing in tune, though they are many worse offenders than this one. Charles Tolliver's album "Emperor March," shows why a few idealists continue to mount these high overhead, lucky if we break even ensembles of a dozen and a half players.
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WHITEHEAD: They're a lot of fun to write for, and to play in, and to listen to.
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GROSS: Kevin Whitehead is currently on leave from teaching at the University of Kansas. And he's a jazz columnist for eMusic.com. He reviewed "Emperor March: Live at the Blue Note" by the Charles Tolliver Big Band.
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A waitress at a New Jersey Holiday Inn received a very generous tip from a couple, who were concerned after learning of her sick dog. CNN reported the story on April 24.
Christina Summitt, 37, is like many women in the work force. She holds down three jobs, including as a chef at the Holiday Inn in Clinton, a Saturday night bartender and as a food prep worker at her hometown deli.
Christina's husband also works full time, and she helps care for three stepchildren.
Last weekend Christina began chatting with a friendly couple before the night got busy. At some point the conversation turned to dogs, at which point Christina told the couple about her dog Tucker, who was at the vet having emergency surgery.
She made this comment on a Facebook: Why Bartenders and Servers Hate People page April 20.
"Last night a couple come in, I get their drinks , they order dinner , we talk and what not. I told them about my sick doggie Tucker."
Tucker, a Great Dane/Black Labrador mix, had ran up a vet bill of $2,700 after swallowing a hard plastic ball. Tucker is her baby, having been adopted in 2011.
Christina's concern for Tucker touched the hearts of the kind couple, who ordered dinner and drinks at the bar. When their meal was over, Christina handed them a ticket with their $80 tab. The man filled out the receipt, leaving Christina a $1,000 tip.
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Tucker is recovering at home after his surgery.
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A report released by President Obama's White House Council of Economic Advisers the Friday prior to the holiday weekend shows that not only has the "stimulus" cost an extraoridanry amount of money, the country is also now losing jobs as a result.
Before anyone claims that the numbers are skewed, please note that the Council of Economic Adviders is a group of three economic advisers to the White House all handpicked by President Obama. Their sole charge is to document the "accomplishments" of the controversial "stimulus" each quarter. On Friday, July 1, the council released its "Seventh Quarterly Report" on the economic impact of the "stimulus." The contents are not good.
Jeffrey Anderson of the Weekly Standard explains: "The council reports that, using "mainstream estimates of economic multipliers for the effects of fiscal stimulus" (which it describes as a "natural way to estimate the effects of" the legislation), the "stimulus" has added or saved just under 2.4 million jobs — whether private or public — at a cost (to date) of $666 billion. That's a cost to taxpayers of $278,000 per job."
Remember, the White House measures not only jobs created - the traditional method for measuring job growth - but also attempts to estimate how many jobs have been saved by the "stimulus." Even including those "saved" jobs, the stimulus still has cost taxpayers $278,000 per job.
Anderson puts the numbers into perspective: In other words, the government could simply have cut a $100,000 check to everyone whose employment was allegedly made possible by the "stimulus," and taxpayers would have come out $427 billion ahead.
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Furthermore, the council reports that, as of two quarters ago, the "stimulus" had added or saved just under 2.7 million jobs — or 288,000 more than it has now. In other words, over the past six months, the economy would have added or saved more jobs without the "stimulus" than it has with it," Anderson writes. "In comparison to how things would otherwise have been, the "stimulus" has been working in reverse over the past six months, causing the economy to shed jobs."
Employment numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that the unemployment rate was 7.3 percent when the "stimulus" shortly before the stimulus was signed into loaw. It has since risen to 9.1 percent. Meanwhile, the national debt at the end of 2008, when Obama was poised to take office, was $9.986 trillion. It's now $14.467 trillion — and counting.
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UP TO 80 jobs at Barnsley College are at risk as part of a major restructure - with affected staff being given just days to decide on their future.
The proposals involving teaching and administration staff across 11 departments were only announced on Monday, with those affected being given until noon Friday to decide whether to apply for voluntary severance.
The restructure is expected to save the college about £600,000 but will have a significant impact on staff because of redundancies and downgrading, a union official has warned.
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It's all very sad - the end of an era for many loyal, long serving staff who have been backed into a corner, with no alternative but to take voluntary severance or have a breakdown with the extra work imposed!
Nice new building, but can't afford to staff it properly?
Let's have a wild guess about what will happen when the new Sixth Form is built on the site of Barnsley Library on Shambles Street...
When is the cut going to come from the top? Fewer jobs to go for bigger savings. Where do they get all their money from to fund all the building changes/ purchases? Sounds like there's lots of foi questions to be asked.
What do you mean 100K at a union meeting last week they revealled this years salary, it was 117K plus a 25 thousand pound pay rise. Not bad 142K for what, young people in Barnsley will have no education at all because all that is left are managers and support workers who are being left to teach. When Booth keeps saying he got Grade 1 outstanding well it was the teachers who have now been served notice that got the Grade 1. People in Barnsley need to get behind the teachers and send him packing back to Geordie land,
lets get behind the teahers take it from me i know how hard they work. They look after us students nothing is ever too much trouble for them, i can go to my teacher any time and she helps me even if it means her having to stay late to do the work she was doing when i needed her help
This College is going to the dogs. Staff are sick and tired of the way this moron is running the College. We are over worked and underpaid. When redundancies were announced last year Colin Booth thought it fit to give himself a pay rise. We love our jobs and the students that we teach, but this is the last straw. How much more can we take? We are backed up against a wall every day and there is so much red tape that is wrapped around us constantly. Does he see what we do on a day to day basis? No. He never comes to the 'Shop Floor', he just sits in his air conditioned office whilst the staff are so upset and unmotivated, and in some cases in tears. Come on, realise what you are doing to us.....
Perhaps the college re-locate to Shambles Street as that place / name would be more befitting to the management and upper echelons at the college.
The college is nothing more than a white elephant sucking money from its most important asset the STAFF!! I should know as I am one of a number of professionally qualified staff who have been part of Barnsley College's aptly named 're-structure' . This as we all know is basically a cost cutting exercise!!! The college is run like a business not an educational institute. It's simple business plan penned together by the unaccountable hierarchy at the college. Get rid of the high paid qualified staff and replace them with low paid unqualified staff thus saving the college thousands. This in turn enables the college to build more facilities (which we don't really need ) The business projection is simple have re structures every 2 years and save money !!!
The person who need to reduce his pay packet is Mr Booth . One of the highest paid college principles in the country…
This restructure is disgusting. Maybe someone should look into the new deputy principals role! Got the job without any formal interview and paid £100k pa! How many trips has he made to china in past 12 months at a cost to college.
The University Campus is also going downhill. I am about to go into my final year at UCB, the first year was fantastic hardly an issues and problems were sorted quickly, this past year where college has taken over has been horrendous. We have had several meetings with college staff to try and sort issues but it has been made quite clear that we no longer count. As a University student I pay for my course and the quality for money has definitely dropped. I wouldn't recommend the University to anyone at the moment unless they are desperate and I think many other students feel the same. College need to re-think their priorities and start looking after their students in all the campuses.
Are you kidding me? Not all staff are rude. How are you say staff are collecting money for nothing?! Are you aware of the kind of students some staff actually have to teach? Trust me if new staff are brought in it won't be the same quality. Not all departments are rude and unapproachable...
Yes, because all departments are the same.....You can't generalise all staff! You have no idea what is going on. No idea at all. What BC needs is people actually backing the hard working and hard suffering staff, not people like you who seem to be saying all departments are the same. Shame on you.
How can you say the staff at Barnsley College are rude, its the staff that made Barnsley College outstanding not Colin Booth, staff are stressed, over worked and underpaid going without lunch breaks and working past there normal hours that's what the kind of staff we have at Barnsley College!!
I find it interesting the only people backing the college is the Staff, shame on them, they are only interested in their jobs and getting paid. Like the other parent who has comment, my son is there and finding the same rude Members of staff and them not being interest and it is ALL departments. A clear out of staff IS needed and start again. The Person is Charge is only as good as the people who are below and they are very poor.
I cannot believe these staff member who think they are the colleges biggest assets. The college biggest asset are the student and these are being let down by the staff big time. I had 3 children go there in September, they have all quit, due to the staff not being interested in them. The lesson at best were poor, if you complained the staff did not care and so they have transferred to other colleges and are coming on in leaps and bounds. Like the other parents have said the problem lie fair and square with the staff. Either clear the staff out or close the college.
the teachers at college are really good I wouldn't want to change anting about them they do a fantastic job teaching all the students
As some people are saying only the staff are backing the college;
I'm a student at the college, and in my third year. Yeah, SOME of the staff don't care, but you can't tar all with the same brush, I've never felt like I've got as much help on a course as the H
Wow. Have you not noticed that the staff are NOT backing the College. We are NOT defending the College, we are defending people who seem to think ALL departments are the same. How can you possibly say ALL departments are the same? Are you aware how many departments and teachers there actually are? You simply cannot tar all the departments and the teachers with the same brush. I go above and beyond for my students (like any teacher should do). I don't really know why you have decided to launch a hate campaign against ALL the teachers in the College. Ridiculous!!
* Should read: Defending ourselves against people...
Maybe the "hate campaign" as you call it, is because parent are sick of bad education in Barnsley and teachers only interested in themself. Even the BC Student, who tried to defend the teachers failed , as the last line says 1 or 2 teacher are useless, come on there are more then that. Parent want change, lets have it and clean out the rubbish.
As an employee of the college, I'm shocked by some correspondents' attitudes. I can say that teachers in the further education sector are underpaid, overworked and demoralised by comments such as some of those made earlier in this thread. The people who have complained about the quality of teaching should ask themselves, objectively, whether or not their children are the model pupils they think they are. I dare say that if they saw some of the behaviour we have to manage, they would change their opinions.
It's also worth noting that at one time in Barnsley, any mention of job losses would cause uproar and a jump to the workers' defence - remember the miners' stirke, anyone? Who's job will it be next? It could be yours...
Finally, I tend to agree with the views expressed by some contributors. Management are greedy, inept and not deserving of the loyalty and hard work demonstrated by their workforce. They should be ashamed that they have handled this matter so unprofessionally.
In reply to the people berating teaching staff at Barnsley College-MOST teachers care deeply about the students, and work hard to ensure that they acheive their full potential! Unlike the axe wielding, blood sucking vampires, who sit in their Ivory Towers at Old Mill Lane Site and masquerade as the Senior Management Team! They return to their home Towns at weekends and play with their expensive cars, bought with the extortionate wage rises they award themselves! Shame on them, they are inhuman and cold blooded maggots, feeding off the carcases of the people they have slaughtered! Yes Mr Booth, you are the biggest maggot of all.
Perhaps people looking to blame the staff at the college or the management, should look at the huge funding cuts FE has faced over the last three years with more in sight. This government has protected the schools budget but this just means that FE has had to endure horrendous funding cuts, when most of the time is spent trying to repair the damage done by schools. All colleges are the same at the moment and unfortunately it's austerity to blame not the staff or even the college.
I don't work at this college but at another one near by . PARENTS please listen to me. If the staff go they will be replaced by untrained teachers who are willing to accept lower pay who don't have the qualifications, experience and care the teachers who are there. Technical trainers are taking over as they are cheaper. I have teenagers who will be going into FE soon and it scares me to death to think who will be teaching them. Maybe the teachers at BC are rude and grumpy as they feel overwhelmed, stressed, unappreciated and are worried about the forthcoming changes. Believe me you have NO idea what goes in in colleges and the red tape that has to be adhered to and constant cuts. It's the government you should be annoyed with not the staff who are probably doing the best they can in the circumstances ! Stick by them not against them !
Absolutely disgusted at how College has advertised the jobs in the Chronicle BEFORE they have let staff know if their Voluntary Severance applications have been accepted. What a kick in the teeth; but why am I not surprised? Management has turned into a set of robots with absolutely no empathy for it's long serving and (up till now) loyal staff. Do they not care that some staff involved have worked here half their lives? Shame on you!
I think anon it is all to easy to lay blame on the government and bypass the college altogether. Yes there are cuts to funding for fe and yes that will have an impact at the college. However the level of impact on teaching is where concern will lie, and that decision comes from the oversubscribed and ever expanding management team that sits within the college. Someone has to realise that barnsley college is not a city college, it doesnt have a vast populus as its catchment area and numbers of students wanting to go to the college are dropping. However it still acts like a city college and in fact has a management team bigger than a lot of the larger student number colleges. How is that justified? You get less funding because you are a smaller college, yet you pay for a much larger management team? Have senior salaries been frozen? Did the management team take a rise this year amidst the cuts? Yes its lovely to have a huge management team... Not if you cant afford it though eh? Ultimately young people are willing to travel further, and i should know i work with them.... Places like wakefield college, sheffield college, dearne valley college, rcat, askham bryan....... Ok they may not be the best colleges in the land, but people buy into them. Less and less people are buying inti Barnsley College the brand and more and more are seeing it as top heavy, over spenders, monopolisers and bullies. Annoyingly there is an air of arrogance around the fact they they are the main provider of fe in the borough, and as such there will be the perception that th will continualy get new students because where else would they go?