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Danielle Odette at Spin Summit 2012
Danielle Odette of The Spin Summit and Hoop Horizon spins up the flames at Spin Summit 2012. She lives in Golden, Colorado, USA. From this photo set by Don Searle Photography. A Hooping.org Photo of the Day.
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Moving Mandala performed at the first annual Spin Summit in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. The foursome includes Jeny Jones, Emily Boger, Anne Havens and Tracy Knowles. Soundtrack: "Monsoon Malabar" by Bombay Dub Orchestra (on iTunes).
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Kristina Sutcliffe at Spin Summit
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The Spin Summit: Day Five
The final day of the first annual Spin Summit, held all this week high in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, was comparatively simple, yet incredibly rich. Baxter of The Hoop Path, someone renowned for opening these sorts of gatherings, gathered…
The Spin Summit: Day Four
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Decker, the team's leading receiver, was helped off the field and went straight to the locker room.
The second-year receiver hauled in a pass over the middle, but was immediately tackled by Harrison, who went low to bring Decker down on a play first ruled a catch and then overturned on replay.
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WASHINGTONVILLE — At its summer Court of Honor held at St. Mary's Church, Washingtonville Boy Scout Troop 16 recognized Washingtonville High School students Vincent Jacobellis and Matthew Kenny for achieving the rank of Eagle Scout.
To attain Eagle, the Scouts met the rigorous requirements, earned the necessary merit badges, and planned, raised funds for, and completed a service project in their community with the assistance of a volunteer crew.
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As well as the common internationally celebrated holidays such as New Years and Christmas, Ireland has a few special holidays of its own. Some of them stem from the Catholic tradition, while some were implemented to keep up with the rest of Europe and commemorate the working people. Holidays in Ireland provide time to remember, time to celebrate and time to relax.
The Feast of St. Brigid - February 1st: This coincides with the beginning of Celtic spring in Ireland. St. Brigid is known as Ireland's foremost female saint, as well as Mary of the Gaels. As patron saint of cattle and dairy, many farmers asks for her blessing on February 1st. Tradition shows that many Irish bake oatcakes to welcome St. Brigid on her feast day.
St. Patrick's Day - March 17th: After all, St. Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland. What better way to celebrate Ireland's favorite saint than to take a day off work and indulge in a little revelry? St. Patrick's Day was first introduced as an official holiday in Ireland in 1903 under the Bank (Holiday) Act of 1903 which was initiated by Irish MP James O'Hara in UK Parliament.
Easter Weekend: Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday are, of course, the highest of holy days in the Catholic religion. Easter Monday extends the weekend, and all schools remained closed for the week. Without a doubt, this is a busy time for travel in Ireland. Good Friday is not technically a public holiday, but all state schools and most businesses close. The sale of alcohol is also illegal in Ireland on Good Friday.
Labor Day - the first Monday in May: This is a public holiday to commemorate the working people of Ireland. This holiday was penciled in in 1993 and first observed in 1994. Take some time to travel and relax with family and friends.
Bank Holidays - the first Mondays of June and August and the last Monday of October: These are public holidays from work. Take a load off!
All Saint's Day - November 1st: The day following Halloween is recognized by the Catholic church as a holy day of obligation, and celebrates the lives of the saints in heaven. Practicing Catholics are called to attend Mass on this day.
The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception - December 8th: This Catholic holiday recognizes the conception of the Virgin Mary, who was born without stain or original sin. Most Catholic primary schools in the country close in observance.
Christmas -December 25th: Celebrated around the world, Christmas Day is the most solemn of all holidays in Ireland. This day honors the birth of Christ in the Catholic religion. Observance includes festive decorations of lights and trees, attending Mass and family gatherings and meals. And, of course, a visit from Santa Claus is in order for the well-behaved children!
St. Stephen's Day, December 26th: This day is to celebrate the first Christian martyr St. Stephen, who was stoned to death shortly after the Crucifixion. However, the Irish celebrations on this day have little to do with the Saint himself. Historically, this day was also about "Going on the Wren" or "Hunting the Wren" as ancient Celtic mythology remembers the days following Christmas as when the robin, representative of the new year, killed the wren, representative of the old year. The picture here shows a 1950 celebration of the hunting of the wren.
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The Evergreen Rodeo turned 50 this year, and it was indeed a golden anniversary.
With a boost from community sponsors and the Evergreen Rodeo Association's board of directors, the rodeo upped the ante considerably for participating cowboys and cowgirls, and it paid off by attracting some of the sport's top performers, particularly in bareback riding.
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Evergreen junior Natalie Holley shot a round of 92 at the opening round of the Class 4A girls golf state tournament May 23 at Pueblo Country Club. The round placed her tied for 31st heading into Day 2 on Tuesday, May 24. Holley finished her second round after press deadline. Coverage of the 4A Jeffco League runner-up at the state tournament will publish in next week's Canyon Courier.
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There is a small order of birds known as goatsuckers. The scientific name is the Caprimulgiformes, which comes from the Latin Caprimulgus, a milker of goats and forma or form.
This name comes from the old belief that these birds, which are often seen in low sweeping flight over meadows, were sucking the milk out of goats. There are not as many species in this order as there are in some other orders such as finches and warblers.
(Reprinted from Aug. 18, 2010)
People often ask me how I happen to see so many more birds and animals than they do.
They often say that they at least drive into downtown Evergreen every day, sometimes more than that, and they don't see half as many things as I do.
(Reprinted from Aug. 13, 2008)
A few weeks ago a lady named Elizabeth phoned to tell me she had seen a lizard in her yard on Old Squaw Pass Road. She was delighted to have this new resident sharing her garden but wondered what kind it was and why she had never seen one before.
The answer to what kind of lizard it is: It probably is an eastern fence lizard, since they are the only species likely to be seen here.
(Reprinted from Aug. 5, 2009)
July has been a great month. Most of the days have been blue and sunny, with cool mornings and warm afternoons with scattered showers. The summers of 1965 and 1969 were much like this, and I had very little need to water to have a bountiful garden. It seemed like we had moved to Camelot.
Fire. Trash. Increased traffic. Illegal parking. Unsafe camping.
These were some of the issues Brook Forest residents and others cited during a meeting to discuss the Maxwell Falls Trail at the Brook Forest Inn on Wednesday evening.
The meeting was hosted by Clean Trails, a nonprofit that organizes cleanups and educational efforts. Richard Solosky, a Clean Trails representative, said the same problems are being seen across the state.
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How long have you been a ranger?
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- 1 (Religion)the Epistleslas EpístolasSt Paul's Epistle to Timothyla epístola de San Pablo a Timoteo
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- The opinions expressed in these evocative epistles were remarkably forthright and revealing.
- Regardless of the content of the epistle, there is still something exciting about receiving an email or a letter from someone close.
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More words related to connotation
noun. implication, hint
noun. meaning, implication
noun. hint, implication
noun. suggestion, whisper
noun. advantage, worth
noun. accepted meaning
noun. meaning
- interpretation
- intimation
- meat
- message
- name of the game
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- nitty-gritty
- nuance
- nuts and bolts
- pith
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PRO BASKETBALL; Oz Eludes Capital Wizards
By MIKE WISE
Published: April 14, 1998
WASHINGTON— In an act of modest but authentic civic propriety, they changed their name from the Bullets to the Wizards. The owner spent $200 million for a modern arena, choosing not to build it in the suburbs, but rather downtown so that a broader commercial life might return. He then spent $105 million to hang onto the team's emerging star.
And all along, the Wizards, playing in an overwhelmingly black city, took pride in having a black general manager and a black coach -- the only current team in the National Basketball Association to have both.
The idea was to win, but there was hope, too, that the Wizards might reconnect with the District of Columbia's adults and children in a way they had not since their championships days of the 1970's.
The team targeted schools like Adams Elementary in the northwest part of the city, where children would get free tickets. Kenneth Williams and Adrian Venzor, 13-year-old volunteers with the school recreation program, were open to the possibilities.
But the imagined deal has gone sour, and the club's informal contract with the city has turned out to be worse than the empty cliche it has often been elsewhere.
The Wizards have seemed to daily deepen their reputation as the league's leading troublemakers. They have been arrested and ordered into alcohol rehabilitation. They have had fistfights among themselves. One player was injured and lost for the season -- while making a movie, not a basket.
Most recently, two players, Chris Webber and Juwan Howard, were named in a criminal complaint by a woman who said they had sexually assaulted her. They have not been charged.
The team, on the verge of being eliminated from the playoffs, was pelted with garbage at its new arena last week. The coach, Bernie Bickerstaff, has said he is exasperated. Wes Unseld, the frustrated general manager, has publicly told the players that they need to examine their consciences.
And the 13-year-old boys at Adams Elementary's after-school program are fed up too.
''I just wish they would've stopped showboating and stuck to the basics,'' said Kenneth Williams, an eighth grader. ''Maybe then they would have made the playoffs.''
Adrian Venzor said: ''Some of them stay out late at parties when they have to go to work the next day. They're always getting into trouble. Maybe they think because they're stars they can't get away with anything.''
Folding his arms in disgust, he added, ''And Chris Webber should stop shooting threes, too.''
With a record of 38-40, Washington is on the brink of elimination from the post-season. In part because of the lure of a new arena, as well as visits by marquee teams like the Chicago Bulls and the Los Angeles Lakers, attendance has remained impressive even in the season's dying days.
But for many fans in the city, the Wizards, rather than an example of rebirth, have been one more expensive failure.
''It's a collective disappointment,'' Bickerstaff said. ''Wes hurts. We hurt. The organization hurts.''
Unseld arguably hurts worst. The former center and anchor to the franchise's 1978 championship team has clearly been humiliated by the bruising mix of bad play and misconduct.
''It has nothing to do with letting me down,'' Unseld said. ''Whether they've let themselves down, that's a different story.''
Butch Beard, the former coach at Howard University in Washington who also once coached the Nets, said that by placing the arena downtown, the Wizards had made it possible for ''the black community to come to games.''
''As for the players holding up their end of the bargain, well, we're talking about 24- and 25-year-old kids making $100 million who haven't grown up yet,'' Beard said.
It used to be different for Washington's basketball team. With Unseld, Elvin Hayes and Bobby Dandridge, the Bullets regularly made the playoffs, and in 1978 they won their lone championship. But since 1979, they have had only one winning season.
The team's owner, Abe Pollin, decided to try to repair the damage. In a city cynically known as the murder capital of the United States, he changed the name from Bullets to the Wizards this season. He signed the checks for a team composed primarily of young, black, potentially charismatic millionaires. Webber and Howard are two of the most glib players in the league, even capable of thoughtfulness and charm.
Pollin, meanwhile, also financed the $200 million MCI Center, which opened last Dec. 2 on his 74th birthday. It enabled the franchise to move out of the suburban building in Landover, Md., that had been an abject physical and marketing disaster for years.
Now he had a technodrome with food courts, luxury boxes and computer games for children.
And it even looked to some as if the league had invested in making the Wizards work. When Howard signed a free-agent contract with the Miami Heat in 1996, the league ruled the Heat had circumvented salary cap rules. Pat Riley, the Heat president and coach, protested and theorized that the league had concluded that Washington's loss of Howard might devastate a large-market team trying to come back.
Clearly, a common belief emerged: forces were at work to help the Wizards and their two young stars prosper.
And on paper they looked imposing -- as a promising, marketable team. No less an evaluator of corporate and athletic upsides than Michael Jordan called them a future force.
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Carlsbad beach reopens after sewage spill
CARLSBAD Carlsbad State Beach has reopened following a sewage spill on Thursday.
Environmental officials on Sunday confirmed the water was safe for recreational use after testing the contaminated area during the past two days.
About 252,000 gallons of sewage from a damaged pipeline reached the storm drain, Encina Wastewater Authority officials said. They don't believe any of the sewage reached the ocean.
Construction has begun to replace the pipeline and is expected to be done by Oct. 18. Avenida Encinas, in front of the treatment plant, will remain closed during construction.
Motorists can access Avenida Encinas to the north and south from Palomar Airport Road and Poinsettia Lane.
The wastewater authority is asking residents of Carlsbad, Encinitas and Vista to reduce their use of indoor water to decrease the amount of sewer water that must be diverted.
Encina Wastewater Authority serves more than 300,000 people in the north-coastal part of the county.
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08.25 Global warming is melting the Greenland Ice Sheet, fast
08.25 High birth rates and poverty undermine a generation of African children – report
08.25 Nigeria cannot overcome its gathering humanitarian crisis alone
08.25 Delhi schools offer safe space for children to speak up about sexual abuse
08.25 Liberian nurses learn to spot danger signs in babies as healthcare gets shot in arm
08.25 Climate change is thawing deadly diseases. Maybe now we'll address it?
08.24 Air pollution threat hidden as research 'presumes people are at home': study
08.24 Politics is killing mothers in Texas
08.24 Zika damage to brain goes well beyond microcephaly, research shows
08.23 Can New York City Waterproof Its Subway?
08.23 Report Shows Whopping $8.8 Trillion Climate Tab Being Left for Next Generation
08.22 Historical documents reveal Arctic sea ice is disappearing at record speed
08.22 Iraqi children pay high health cost of war-induced air pollution, study finds
08.21 The Link Between Health Spending and Life Expectancy: The US is an Outlier [the U.S. is the only 'advanced country' with for-profit healthcare without price controls...]
08.21 'Paradise Lost': How To Help Our Oceans Before It's Too Late
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08.25 Could urban farming provide a much-needed oasis in the Tulsa food desert?
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08.24 Ties to Clinton Foundation are a knotty problem for Hillary's campaign [more bad judgement]
08.23 As She Rakes in the Cash, Clinton Fundraisers Still Shrouded in Secrecy
08.23 The Clintons' ethics test: Government watchdogs weigh in on the Clinton Foundation's latest maneuvers
08.23 One Answer to School Attendance: Washing Machines
08.23 Twenty Years Since Welfare 'Reform'
08.23 Clinton's Transition Team: A Corporate Presidency Foretold [the 'assumed' proviso should be said and promised: "...if it helps the public...]
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08.23 UK in denial over Saudi arms sales being used in Yemen, claims Oxfam [US too...]
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08.21 The death of neoliberalism and the crisis in western politics
08.21 Trump and Clinton's free trade retreat: a pivotal moment for the world's economic future
08.25 Italy in shock after Amatrice earthquake: 'This used to be my home'
08.25 US warns Europe over plan to demand billions in unpaid taxes from Apple
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08.24 Turkish troops enter Syria in major operation against Isis
08.23 Congress Must Take Action to Block Weapon Sales to Saudi Arabia
08.22 Israel planning new Squatter settlement near Bethlehem to 'cut Palestine's West Bank in two'
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We Can Make Every Public School Great—if We Choose To Do So
The powers that be don't really want small class sizes and good facilities for all students; if they did, we would have them.
I worked as an art teacher in New York City public schools (both elementary and high school levels) for a bit over 25 years. During that entire time I worked with teachers of varying skills. There were some who were great teachers, some average, some mediocre and a tiny fraction who were awful. Some were great with discipline and, even with a large class of more than 30 students, the kids would focus, work and learn. Some of them weren't always necessarily that great with content, while other teachers knew their content well, but wern't good with discipline and worked better with smaller groups of kids.
I was never good at well-controlled discipline—my classes were what I would call "controlled chaos," busy workshops (being studio art classes). Occasionally some kid would step out of that control and cause trouble, but generally good work was done. It was extremely difficult, though, to give attention to students who wanted individual help on their projects, and I would spend the class period running around the room never getting to everyone who wanted assistance.
Handling 34 teenagers or younger (170 students per semester in high schools) is very difficult for a long career—you leave the school at the end of the day feeling wiped out. There is no one who can be what you call a "superman" for very long—I often spent 10 to 12 hours a day at the school (often with no extra pay, but just because I wanted to), and it worked for me because I'm a bachelor, but if you are a mother or father, you have another part of your life that needs attending.
Many of these so-called great 'charter programs' work because they pick their students and do not deal with the kids who have serious learning problems or horrid distractions and obstacles in their family, home and/or community lives. They also hire teachers who are expected to put in endless unpaid extra hours with students and in meetings beyond the school day. The so-called education experts like Mayor Michael Bloomberg like data, but the data do not show that charters are better at educating students than the ordinary public schools. In fact, data show that public schools are improving in areas such as mathematics, and that they generally do as well or better than the charter schools, even the best ones.
In New York City, charters like Geoffrey Canada's Harlem Children's Zone and Moskowitz's Harlem Success Academies are fairly successful, but they do not have large classes; and while they are non-profit, they get huge amounts of money from corporate donors, and their leaders are paid very very well—so much so that they are in a sense 'getting the profits'.
The Harlem Children's Zone claims to deal with systemic problems in a student's home life and community, such as poverty, lack of health care, and so on. Some of its students have been kicked out ("counseled out") when they do not meet expectations. You can't do that in a typical public school unless the student commits a crime, and even then it depends on the severity and repetition of extremely bad behaviors.
Corporate people bankroll many of these charters—showing there can be lots of money to be gained by privatizing the education system. The charters can be fine as laboratories for trying new methods of teaching, but their teachers should have the same employment situation as teachers in the regular public schools. There is no reason that they should not be allowed union representation, for example, and enjoy the health care, retirement benefits and due process that come with that representation.
In fact, the goal of school reform should be to ensure that every single school in the country deserves and gets the same funding, resources, facilities, and services for all children. All schools should be good schools in a good world. There should be no schools that get better facilities, resources and teachers just because they have wealthy donors or parents who can pay for insanely expensive tuitions.
The aim of politicians and people like Bloomberg, unfortunately, is to get rid of the teachers' unions and put out to pasture the older experienced teachers who earn more, thereby reducing expenses of public schools. Unions help to protect teachers from administrators who are unfair or incompetent. Often these administrators are former teachers who barely taught and worked hard to get out of the classroom as soon as possible. They usually are not the most highly skilled or knowledgeable teachers, as the title 'principal' or 'master 'implies.
When Bloomberg spoke "ex cathedra" of being able to fire 50% of New York City's public school teachers and have 70 students in a room, he and his ilk are trying to save money, but on the backs of both the teachers and the students. In my opinion, the politicians and corporate donors to school reform on the whole really don't care whether all the students are well educated or not; otherwise they would fight for every school to have the same quality of facilities, resources, varieties of course selections from all of the humanities, arts and sciences and class sizes that the elite private schools have for the children very wealthy.
Would they, for example, tolerate large classes for their children? Every single teacher I know will tell you small class size is on the top of their wish list for a better education system. Imagine an English or history teacher grading 34 papers or exams, every few days or weeks? Imagine the silly NYC public school art teacher (if there is still one left in the school) giving attention to 34 individuals, all at work on projects? Now imagine the qualitative difference in private or upper middle class suburban schools with 10, 15 or 20 kids per class. Upper middle class neighborhoods get schools with excellent facilities and small classes. Private schools for the wealthy get small classes and good facilities. The powers that be don't really want that for everyone; if they did, we would have them.
Teacher tenure does not prevent a school from getting rid of a bad teacher, it just provides due process, which we all deserve.
Finally, if there are so many impressive amazing superman teachers in the mill, ready to take over the classrooms of America from the old-fashioned run-of-the-mill teachers, where are they? There aren't enough of them. Most of us teachers are average to very good in most of our skill sets, and most take their job seriously. I have met teachers who should not be in the classroom, but they are the exception and they remained in the schools because some incompetent administrators didn't do their job in the first several years before the teacher received certification. The administrators just let them continue. Most burnt-out bad teachers started out that way, I believe. Teacher tenure does not prevent a school from getting rid of a bad teacher, it just provides due process, which we all deserve.
It takes years of practice to master any skill. I certainly became a better teacher over the years, and made many mistakes along the way. I've taught many lessons that I was not satisfied with in my time. The fact is, though, that my last decade, and especially the last five years or so of teaching, were my very best. New teachers have one thing going for them, lots of energy and idealism, but their skills are not those of a seasoned teacher. Over half of new teachers are gone within the first five years in the classroom (often by their own choice), so it's clear that energy and idealism do not last long.
I apologize if any of this essay was repetitious or sounded like I was whining. In all honesty, teaching was the best job I ever had. I loved working with the students, and I feel quite proud of the work I did. Those who attack teachers and their unions really aren't helping to improve schools, but instead are demoralizing the teachers who are working hard to do right by their students.
Paul Wortman describes himself as a "proud, albeit indignant, retired teacher and teachers unionist."
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