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Next week education will take center stage as the Senate will convene a committee of the whole. What we hope will emerge is a forthright debate about education, including, the real financial needs of our 888 school districts, as well as the facts about the plan put forth by the Governor's office.
Upon closer inspection of the Governor's plan, it still
falls short of acquiring $1 billion in savings, and does not advance education
This week the Legislative Research Unit of the General Assembly reviewed the constitutionality of the Governor's proposal and concluded that the legislation is inconsistent with the expressed intent of the majority of the delegates at the Constitutional Convention. Meaning that the swapping of one administration for another could result in a constitutional challenge – one that would likely involve dollars that could be best spent on education and also inhibit improvements to our system.
I have attached the LRU review for each of you and ask that you read through it and ponder how much we would see our schools improve, if their administration hangs in the balance of the courts. I suspect that none of us would be any closer to successfully addressing the funding inequity that belies us today.
I continue to meet with legislators and explain to them the process of how education money is appropriated by them, distributed through ISBE and spent at the local level.
In this week's message we have also included a summary of pending education legislation and audio links to testimony from Ursula Ahern, a board member, Community Consolidated School District 46 in Grayslake, as well as the Governor's staff testimony to the House Elementary and Secondary Education Appropriations Committee. It appears that the Committee was left with more questions than answers.
Robert Schiller
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Legislative Update
There continues to be much discussion and
legislative activity concerning the governance of education in
On March 3, I will be appearing before the Senate Committee of the Whole hearing to discuss the Governor's education proposal. For those interested in listening to the debate it can be accessed on the General Assembly web site at http://www.legis.state.il.us/senate/audvid.asp
It will also be a busy week with many substantive bills that will be discussed at the House Elementary and Secondary Education Committee hearing also scheduled for March 3. Some of the bills up for consideration at this hearing are:
The House Elementary and
Secondary Education Appropriations Committee will also be taking
public testimony on the ISBE FY 2005 budget request. For those who are interested in
testifying on the need for more funding for education please feel free to
attend. It is posted for
The ongoing governance and funding debates have overshadowed several substantive bills that concern education that have made it out of committee and continue to advance, including:
would require school districts to perform a fingerprint-based criminal
background check on applicants for employment. The fingerprinting method expands the
results of the background check from just
proposes to make it unlawful for a child sex offender to loiter, or live within,
1,000 feet of a school building.
HB4944 and SB2732 are both bills that call for the State Board to establish a three-year technology immersion pilot project that would provide a wireless laptop computer to each student, teacher, and relevant administrator, in the participating pilot schools.
HB6813 would allow the parents of special education students who prevail in a due process hearing to recover attorney fees and expert witness fees.
SB2115 sets the conditions under which a student may be denied enrollment into school for one semester for failing to meet minimum academic or attendance standards if certain conditions are met. It also requires a district to identify, track, and report on the educational progress and outcomes of re-enrolled students.
SB2135 would create a K-3 class size reduction grant program for schools that are on the early academic warning list or academic watch list.
SB2360 proposes a student achievement improvement grant program to provide 2-year grants to school districts on the academic watch list and other school districts that have the lowest achieving students.
SB2362 would ensure the recent tax amnesty funds received by many school districts will not be included in calculation of available local resources.
SB2769 is designed to ensure that every student takes the Prairie State Achievement Examination prior to receiving a high school diploma.
SB2864 would require a person having custody or control of a child who is below the compulsory school age and who is enrolled in kindergarten in a public school to cause the child to attend.
SB2918 proposes a new graduation incentive program. It increases the compulsory school age to 17 (with exceptions) and creates incentives for school districts to recover dropouts. The proposal also provides possible reimbursement for dropouts who wish to attend vocational training programs offered through the community college system, or approved vocational training programs.
SB3091 would allow a joint agreement made up of school districts, or a regional superintendent of schools on behalf of programs operated by the regional office, to apply for a waiver or modification of mandates.
SB3109 would permit the State Board to establish, by administrative rule, a system to ensure the accurate tracking of transfer students. The system will, at a minimum, require that a student be counted as a dropout in the calculation of a school district's annual student dropout rate unless the school district to which the student transferred sends notification to the school district from which the student transferred.
The new School District Financial Profile Designations will be presented to the Illinois State Board of Education at the March Board meeting. The Designations are based on the Annual Financial Reports (AFRs) from fiscal year 2003 and the revised calculations. Please review your Financial Profile Report through the ISBE Web Application Security System (IWAS) – District Financial Report System. You may also enter comments to be publicly included with your 2004 final report.
Only district superintendents have access to this report but may grant permission to other district personnel to review it through the IWAS System. In the Financial Profile Section there is a link: AFR Profile Score Report. When you click on the link it will bring up the Financial Profile Report. The report is two pages long. The first page is the revised 2003 score (based on the FY02 AFR data) and the second page is the PRELIMINARY 2004 score (based on the FY03 AFR data). Based on your feedback, we have made significant enhancements to the calculation of each indicator, as described in an earlier email this week. For comparison purposes, we have revised the 2003 Profile Score and Designation released last March so that both the previous year and current Profile will be calculated using the exact same formulas.
Although comments on the
2004 score are optional, this is an opportunity for districts to explain
financial circumstances. The data
verification and comments should be completed through your respective IWAS
account by
If you have any questions, please contact Ken Wargo or
Lou Ferratier of the School Business and Support Services Division at
217/785-8779. If you have any
technical questions about IWAS, you can contact our
Very shortly, district superintendents and principals
will receive Test Security and Confidentiality Agreements that must be signed
for the 2004 state assessments. The
ISAT/IMAGE agreements, which will arrive beginning the week of March 8, must be
signed and returned no later than March 29. PSAE agreements will arrive the week of
April 5 for return by April 26.
Security procedures for the assessments are outlined in the ISAT and
IMAGE coordination manuals and in the test-administration manuals for ISAT,
IMAGE, and Day 2 of the
Futuristic Presentation
School administrators and local school board members are
invited to attend a special futuristics presentation with science teachers in
their districts on July 13. The
Illinois Science Teachers Association has invited Dr. Dennis Bushnell, Head
Scientist at the
RFPs Released
Two separate RFPs have been issued under the Stewart B. McKinney Education for Homeless Children and Youth Program—one for regional grants and one for a statewide awareness grant. Both RFPs will provide resources to successful applicants to assure that homeless children and youth are enrolled immediately in school and receive services for which they are eligible under federal and state laws. The statewide awareness program provides homeless-related materials to all school districts and Regional Offices of Education. It is expected that grants will be funded for a three-year period, with grants for years 2 and 3 contingent upon a sufficient appropriation and satisfactory performance of grantees in the preceding grant period.
Both RFP documents may be downloaded at http://www.isbe.net/grants/html/RFP.htm.
If there are any questions on either RFP please contact Rich Dehart at email@example.com
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2011: Protests against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's government erupt throughout Egypt, with tens of thousands of protesters gathering in Cairo and thousands more in cities throughout Egypt. The protests mostly adhere to non-violence, although there are some reports of civilian and police casualties. The protests would spur an even bigger movement over the next few weeks, with a series of street demonstrations, marches, rallies, acts of civil disobedience, riots, labor strikes and violent clashes seen in Cairo, Alexandria, and throughout other cities in the country. Mubarak would eventually step down on Feb. 11, 2011, with elections in June 2012, picking Islamist Mohammed Morsi as Egypt's new president.
2006: Mexican professional wrestler Juana Barraza is arrested while fleeing the murder scene of a 82-year-old woman in Mexico City. She is eventually charged in conjunction with the serial killing of at least 11 elderly women. In 2008, she would be convicted and sentenced to 759 years in jail for the deaths. The authorities and media reports have given various estimates as to the total number of Barraza's victims, with estimated totals ranging from 24 to 49.
2004: The Opportunity rover (MER-B) lands on surface of Mars, three weeks after its twin Spirit (MER-A), also part of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Mission, touched down on the other side of the planet. While Spirit became immobile in 2009 and ceased communications in 2010, Opportunity remains active as of 2015, having vastly exceeded its planned mission duration of roughly 92 days.
1996: Billy Bailey becomes the last person to be hanged in the United States when he is executed in Smyrna, Delaware. Bailey, who was convicted in the 1979 shooting deaths of an elderly farming couple, was only the third person to be hanged in the United States since 1965 and the first hanged in Delaware in 50 years. Although Bailey had been sentenced to hang, because the method of execution in Delaware had been changed to lethal injection, he had the option of choosing that method, but declined. Only the states of Washington and New Hampshire still permit the hanging method of execution as of 2015.
1990: Actress Ava Gardner, best known for her roles in movies such as "The Killers," "Mogambo" (for which she received an Oscar nomination), "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," "The Barefoot Contessa" and "The Night of the Iguana," dies of pneumonia at the age of 67 in London, England.
1981: The 52 Americans held hostage at the former U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran, for 444 days arrive home in the United States when they land at Stewart Air Base in Newburgh, New York. They then were driven to the United States Military Academy, along roads jammed with cheering crowds welcoming them home, where they were reunited with their families. The route they took to West Point is marked today as "Freedom Road."
1981: Singer-songwriter Alicia Keys, whose debut album, 2001's "Songs in A Minor," earned her five Grammys, is born Alicia Augello Cook in the Hell's Kitchen area of Manhattan, New York. Keys is known for songs such as "Fallin'," "If I Ain't Got You," "Unbreakable," "No One" and "Girl on Fire."
1975: Actress Mia Kirshner, best known for her role as Jenny Schecter on the Showtime dramatic series "The L Word" and for her recurring guest role on the TV series "24," is born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
1971: Charles Manson and three female "Family" members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders. All four would be sentenced to death, but their sentences were automatically reduced to life in prison when the California Supreme Court abolished the state's death penalty in February 1972.
1971: Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Ugandan President Milton Obote while Obote is at a summit meeting in Singapore. One week after the coup, Amin would declare himself as the country's president, as well commander-in-chief of the armed forces, army chief of staff, and chief of air staff. He would rule Uganda until being overthrown himself and forced into exile in 1979. Amin's rule was characterized by human rights abuse, political repression, ethnic persecution, extrajudicial killings, nepotism, corruption and gross economic mismanagement. The number of people killed as a result of his regime is estimated by international observers and human rights groups to range from 100,000 to 500,000.
1970: The movie "M*A*S*H," starring Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt and Elliott Gould, and directed by Robert Altman, premieres in theaters. The satirical black comedy based on Richard Hooker's novel "MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors," would become one of the biggest films of the early 1970s and inspire the critically acclaimed television series of the same name, which ran from 1972 to 1983.
1962: Hockey Hall of Fame defenseman Chris Chelios is born in Evergreen Park, Illinois. He played 26 seasons in the NHL, mostly for the Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Blackhawks and Detroit Red Wings, before retiring after seven games with the Atlanta Thrashers in 2010. An 11-time All-Star, he won a Stanley Cup title with Montreal in 1986 and added two more championships with Detroit in 2002 and 2008. He also won a silver medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics (the second of three times he served as captain for Team Canada). He currently holds the record for most games played in the NHL by a defenseman, is fifth overall with 1,651 games played, and is tied with Gordie Howe for most NHL seasons played.
1961: In Washington, D.C., President John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
1961: The Walt Disney animated film "One Hundred and One Dalmatians" premieres in theaters. The movie, the 17th in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, would end up being the 10th highest grossing film of 1961, accruing $6.4 million in distributors' domestic (U.S. and Canada) rentals during its first year of release.
1951: Steve Prefontaine, a middle and long-distance runner who competed in the 1972 Olympics, finishing fourth in the 5,000 meters race, is born in Coos Bay, Oregon. Prefontaine, who once held the American record in the seven distance track events from the 2,000 meters to the 10,000 meters, would die at the age of 24 in May 1975 after flipping his car in a drunken driving accident.
1949: The first Emmy Awards are presented at the Hollywood Athletic Club. The first awards solely honored shows produced and aired locally in the Los Angeles area, but in the 1950s the Emmys expanded into a national event, presenting the awards to shows broadcast nationwide.
1947: Al Capone, the crime boss whose Prohibition-era crime syndicate was dedicated to illegal activities such as smuggling and bootlegging liquor in Chicago from the early 1920s to 1931, dies at the age of 48 in Palm Island, Florida, from cardiac arrest after suffering a stroke. Capone was convicted on federal charges of tax evasion in 1931 and served more than seven years in prison, including a some time in the then-new Alcatraz federal prison. In the final years of his life, Capone suffered mental and physical deterioration due to late-stage neurosyphilis, which he had contracted in his youth, and spent his time at his Florida mansion.
1945: Allied forces triumph after six weeks of fighting in the heavily forested Ardennes Mountains of Belgium in the Battle of the Bulge. The battle was the final major German offensive of World War II, pitting thousands of American, British, Canadian, Belgian and French forces against the Nazis. The German forces initially punched through the Allied lines and got approximately half way to Brussels, creating the "bulge" in the American lines that gave the battle its memorable name, before finally being pushed back.
1943: Film director Tobe Hooper, best known for movies such as "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre," "Salem's Lot" and "Poltergeist," is born in Austin, Texas.
1938: Singer Etta James, known for hits such as "Roll With Me, Henry," "At Last," "Tell Mama," "Something's Got a Hold on Me" and "I'd Rather Go Blind," is born in Los Angeles. She died of leukemia at age 73 on Jan. 20, 2012.
1931: Actor Dean Jones, best known for his light-hearted leading roles in several Walt Disney movies in the 1960s and '70s, including "The Love Bug," "That Darn Cat!" and "Blackbeard's Ghost," is born in Decatur, Alabama. He died of Parkinson's disease at age 84 on Sept. 1, 2015.
1924: The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, France, in the French Alps, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
1918: Baseball broadcaster Ernie Harwell, best known as the "voice" of the Detroit Tigers for 42 years, is born in Washington, Georgia. Harwell was honored by the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981 as the fifth broadcaster to receive its Ford C. Frick Award. He died of bile duct cancer at age 92 on May 4, 2010.
1915: Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
1890: Journalist Nellie Bly completes her record-setting round-the-world journey in 72 days in emulation of Jules Verne's character Phileas Fogg. She left New York City via steamship on Nov. 14, 1889, and arrived back in New Jersey via private train 24,899 miles later.
1882: Writer Virginia Woolf, one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the 20th century, is born Adeline Virginia Stephen in London, England. Some of Woolf's most famous works include the novels "Mrs. Dalloway," "To the Lighthouse" and "Orlando," and the book-length essay "A Room of One's Own."
1858: "The Wedding March" by Felix Mendelssohn is played at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia. It would soon become a popular wedding recessional as a result.
1787: The largest confrontation of the Shays' Rebellion, outside the Springfield Armory in Massachusetts, results in the killing of four rebels and the wounding of 20 more. The rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers that started in August 1786, was in response to high debt and tax burdens. Named for Daniel Shays, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War and one of the rebel leaders, the uprising would ultimately prove unsuccessful.
1759: Poet Robert Burns, widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, is born in Ayrshire, Scotland. Burns' poem "Auld Lang Syne" has become a New Year's Eve tradition and he is also known for poems such as "A Red, Red Rose," "To a Mouse," "A Man's A Man for A' That," "Scots Wha Hae" and "The Battle of Sherramuir."
1533: King Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn. After failing to give birth to a male heir, Henry would have Boleyn executed on charges of incest and treason in 1536.
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Someone Please Save Buster Olney from Himself
My general distaste for all-things Buster Olney is about as well known as LeBron James is tirelessly pompous.
So after Buster Posey's devastating injury suffered during a home plate collision with Florida Marlin Scott Cousins Thursday night, I shouldn't have been so surprised that Olney would come out with some stupidly fandangled approach to squash any potential collision-based injuries.
Ban home plate collisions? What are you talking about, Buster? It was a freak accident. Ban home plate collisions!?!
Why don't we ban pitching inside too!?!
And we should ban breaking up the double play on a hard slide into second!?!
How about we ban walk-off celebrations and ban beer in the grandstands, JUST FOR FUN!?!
No one likes to see people get hurt. No one. But guess what: it happens. People get hurt playing baseball all the time. Sometimes they get seriously hurt. It sucks. There's no denying it.
But that still doesn't make it okay to go off and make drastic rule changes to the game, just because you and your worldwide leader in smut want blog traffic.
Hate me 'cuz it ain't sugarcoated, just don't hate me 'cuz I'm right.
PS. Things might be different had you not "broken" that story on Ryan Howard for Pujols a while back. You lost all respect from me — and many other knowledgeable baseball folk, I imagine — after that.
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I agree with you, Jeff. It's awful to read about an injury like that, but freak stuff happens. You have to accept that if you decide to be a catcher!
Gotta love how this is getting more press than Santana's incident last season. Sh*t happens. But it's a part of the game. I just hope MLB doesn't turn into the NFL and start fining plays for hits like that. Now THAT would be ridiculous.
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[Source: Extreme Sailing Series] Cardiff Bay saved the best for last for the 11-boat Extreme 40 fleet, where Alinghi, The Wave, Muscat and J.P. Morgan BAR battled it out until the bitter end for the top positions, in one of the closest – and most exciting – three-horse fights seen in the Series, which resulted in a three way collision and three consecutive penalties too boot in the final race. You couldn't have scripted a better final, with the three leaders leaning on each other hard as they tried to gain the upper hand and The Wave, Muscat took advantage of the tussle to sail away with the win at Act 5 presented by Land Rover – and importantly homing in on Alinghi on the overall 2014 Series leaderboard as a relieved McMillan commented: "We're on track this season, there's nothing more we can do that's for sure. The competition is very tight and Alinghi have been really slick this year and have brought in some unbelievable performances. To get one over on them here kind of brings it back down by a point and if we are going to keep pushing them hard, and they do the same to us it's going to go down to the crunch."
That left Ben Ainslie and Morgan Larson in a straight shoot out for second, but the British skipper couldn't break the domination of Switzerland's Alinghi, with Larson snatching it from the grasps of J.P. Morgan BAR. Alinghi's Olympic champion tactician Anna Tunnicliffe talked through the final race: "We were waiting for Leigh to tack and he drove us right into the boats rounding the mark and boats started coming at us head first. We ended up above the mark so we couldn't bear away and at the same time, Ben (Ainslie) was coming round into the side of us and it all turned into a mess. All three boats were tangled on each other. It's very frustrating, but hopefully we can learn from our mistakes, we're still on top which is good – the damage could have been worse. We need to move on to Istanbul and refocus for that event."
Ben Ainslie's J.P. Morgan BAR were on fire and threatening all day, posting a steady stream of consistent results and slowly chipping away at the leading pack to put themselves in the running. Despite just missing out on second place, the team's four-times Olympic champion skipper Ainslie was satisfied with the final position, who this week were joined by local lad, Bleddyn Mon. "It has been a great improvement to see us on the podium and great to challenge with the top teams today. It's a big step forwards and hopefully we can continue this for the rest of the Series. Sailing with Paul Campbell-James was fantastic, he has taught us a lot about these boats and Bleddyn was a great addition, he worked incredibly hard. We are looking forward to sailing with Paul Goodison in Istanbul and as we develop further in the event."
In traditional UK Bank Holiday style, the day started with an onslaught of rain, before the clouds lifted, the breeze picked up and the fleet played out the final races in a beautiful 15 knots of breeze, with lots of ducking and weaving, hitting top speeds of 20 knots. In a programme of eight races on the final day, Red Bull Sailing Team made a late surge with their best results of the week, including a pair of wins on the tight racecourse, to upgrade their overnight position from eighth, to fourth at the close of play. Their double Olympic champion skipper Roman Hagara commented: "We found out how to start well on the racecourse which was key. We had good boat work and were good at approaching the marks; we did almost everything right. We finished the Act in fourth so that's a really good result for us, and looking ahead to Istanbul, we need to start the first day as we finished it here."
A further four points back in fifth place is the Swiss Realteam – and significantly for them, a disappointing 11th place for Emirates Team New Zealand, has seen Jerome Clerc and his Swiss team leapfrog up the Series leaderboard, to third place.
The battle in the bottom half of the leaderboard was just as fierce, with only three points separating eighth placed Gazprom Team Russia to 11th placed Emirates Team New Zealand – and with Act 6, Istanbul less than three weeks away, you can bet that the there will be some stern locker room debriefs, before the teams meet again.
Cardiff has once again delivered an outstanding event, with 90,000 spectators getting front row seats to the action, as part of the Cardiff Harbour Festival. Act 6 Istanbul takes place from the 11-14 September, and with news of a local team entry in the coming days, it will be a packed startline of 12 teams, as the fleet head to the city where East meets West.
Cardiff Harbour Festival hosts Extreme Sailing Series™ Act 5 Cardiff, presented by Land Rover standings after Day 4, 33 races
Position / Team / Points
1st The Wave, Muscat (OMA) Leigh McMillan 210 points.
2nd Alinghi (SUI) Morgan Larson, 205 points.
3rd J.P. Morgan BAR (GBR) Ben Ainslie, 203 points.
4th Red Bull Sailing Team (AUT) Roman Hagara, 186 points.
5th Realteam by Realstone (SUI) Jérôme Clerc, 182 points.
6th Oman Air (OMA) Rob Greenhalgh, Ted Hackney, 175 points.
7th SAP Extreme Sailing Team (DEN) Jes Gram-Hansen, Rasmus Køstner, 174 points.
8th Gazprom Team Russia (RUS) Igor Lisovenko, 154 points.
9th Groupama sailing team (FRA) Franck Cammas, 154 points.
10th GAC Pindar (AUS) Nathan Wilmot, 153 points.
11th Emirates Team New Zealand (NZL) Dean Barker, 151 points.
Extreme Sailing Series™ 2014 overall standings
Position / Team / Points
1st Alinghi (SUI) 47 points.
2nd The Wave, Muscat (OMA) 45 points.
3rd Realteam by Realstone (SUI) 34 points.
4th Emirates Team New Zealand (NZL) 33 points.
5th J.P. Morgan BAR (GBR) 25 points.
6th Gazprom Team Russia (RUS) 22 points.
7th Red Bull Sailing Team (AUT) 20 points.
8th SAP Extreme Sailing Team (DEN) 18 points.
9th Oman Air (OMA) 16 points.
10th Groupama sailing team (FRA) 15 points.
11th GAC Pindar (AUS) 5 points.


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On the beautiful University of Texas campus, students had the opportunity to partake in numerous activities ranging from a mock trial of Goldilocks where students had the chance to be the judge, attorneys, or jury members to touching and learning about the heart, brain, lungs, and eye.
This is the second year we have taken a group of students to Explore UT, and we plan to continue this tradition. "I feel it is very important for students to see the benefits of hard work and good grades." said Leslie Garza
In honor of Texas Public School Week, students in grades K-6th traveled back in time and experienced life as a Texas Pioneer. Kylie Bolick, W.E.S. 2nd grade teacher and PTP secretary, did an amazing job organizing the event. Students rotated through numerous activities like milking cows, learning about a cowboy's life and attire, cooking outside with Dutch ovens, washing clothes on wash boards, and many more.
The smiles on the students' faces confirmed the success of our first "Pioneer Day," and set the wheels in motion on how to expand this event and make it an annual tradition. "W.E.S. would like to take this opportunity to thank the following people who helped make this event so special: William Albert, Lacie and Ti Beall, Richard Cantu, Alfred Franke, Jessie Miller and David Mundine. Also, a big thank you to PTP for helping to fund the event and the numerous parent volunteers who helped everything run smoothly," said Garza.
On Monday, March 11, in the Spring Music Concert. K-4th grade Students sang songs that celebrated our rich Texas history and diverse culture. Third grade students wrote the lyrics to one of their songs, and Hannah Friedrichs performed a beautiful solo during the fourth grade performance. "Thank you, Betty Kucera, for organizing such a wonderful concert." replied Garza.


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Watch the difference between the presentation of the Super league GF and the NRL GF.
Enough said.
Down under wins by a country mile.
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Down under wins by a country mile.
Very true, Just watched nearly over 8 hrs of footage, starting with Sunday Roast, Sunday Footy Show, NSW Cup Final, Toyota Cup Final and NRL GF. All on Channel 9, not on pay tv. I love living here and one of the reasons is the love of rugby league. I went to the supermarket on the gold coast this morning and some cashiers and staff were wearing there teams shirts. People are talking about it at work. It's fantastic. On a downside the pre match entertainment was s.hite. Jessica Mauboy miming and some guy ripping off Rolling Stones. Apart from that 1st class viewing


text: My little man seemingly wasn't programmed to breast feed at first. In the hospital all the midwives tried helping him latch on, but he wasn't having any of it. I would try with each feed, but he got very frustrated and wouldn't suck at all, but rather just scream at me. He did have a posterior tongue tie which was snipped when he was 1 week old, but it didn't help matters. He's now 7 weeks old and is being fed formula. For the first few weeks I was expressing 4-5 times a day, but a recent family tragedy threw me off course and I have only been able to manage once a day since. Randomly, my little man latched on two days ago (Wednesday) and actually stayed there with no fussing (his 4am feed) for 50 minutes. Subsequent feeds however he was kicking his legs, pinching my boobs and swaying his head (quite forcefully) from side to side and wouldn't stay on - he was getting so upset that trying to put him on again wasn't an option as he was screaming. I passed him to my mama to feed whilst I did some pumping and found that very little was coming out (I only managed 40ml from both breasts) - given that my little man is consuming 110ml on average of formula, could this be the reason he got so upset? I'd love to breast feed him full time, but with my lack of pumping for the last 4 weeks is it possible to build up my supply again? Do you think this is the issue? Any advice much appreciated! :love


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I'm really glad I found this board because I have lots of questions about breastfeeding my 6 month old daughter and starting solids!!! At her 6 month well check on Wednesday, my Pediatrician told me to go ahead and start her on rice cereal and then I can introduce some fruits and veggies. For some reason I'm very overwhelmed at the idea of starting solids! I just don't know how much, how often, how many different foods at one meal, ect, ect. I know this isn't rocket science and that I should just follow my baby's cues...but it still seems so hard for some reason. Also, my Ped. was pretty vauge about amounts and how many times a day to feed her solids so that left me confused as well. I've fed her rice cereal two days in a row now (only in the morning) and she's eaten 1 tsp of cereal mixed with 2 tsp. breast milk. She always accepts the spoon of cereal but never seems overly hungry for it so I've just given her the tsp. and haven't increased the amount yet. I really want to BF her for a full year and am glad to know that solids at this point aren't critical but I just would like some guidelines as to how much I should be feeding her of cereal, fruit, veggies, ect. and is there a total amount that I shouldn't go past (especially if I'm feeding her different foods at one meal). Is it ok to give cereal, veggie and fruit at one meal or is that too much....see I'm so clueless!! I guess I'm just afraid that if I feed her too many solids, my milk suppy will decrease so I want to avoid that. To add to my confusion, my niece (who's 5 months old) is breastfed and was started on rice cereal at 4 months. She now eats 1/4 cup of cereal mixed with 1/4 cup of BM twice a day! That seems like such a huge amount since I'm only feeding my daughter 1 tsp once a day but it makes me wonder if that's how much she SHOULD be eating...especially since she's a month older. One more question....on this board when you say a baby ate 2 TBS cereal, is that the amount of dry cereal or the total amount after liquid has been added? How much liquid should I be adding at this point?
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Median income in Vermont was stuck in neutral in 2011, according to an analysis of state Tax Department data.
In its annual analysis, The Vermont Economy Newsletter analysis concluded that after adjusting for inflation, median family income fell in 2011 by $130, or 0.2 percent, compared to 2010.
Fifty percent of families earn more than the median and fifty percent earn less.
Median family income has been essentially stagnant for the past four years, said Art Woolf, co-author of the study and editor of The Vermont Economy Newsletter. During the recession real median income fell by nearly five percent and has not recovered.
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The Carnival of Barranquilla, Colombia
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Kid Appeal: Four days of choreographed dance, music, and kaleidoscopic costumes make for one of South America's most eye-popping street festivals.
The Event: Fire-breathers. Floral floats. Masquerade revelers in the guise of monkeys, jaguars, and skeleton spirits. Teams of drummers pounding out entrancing beats. Costumed dancers twirling in a colorful swirl. Glittery face paint and feathery headdresses. Satirical speeches and songs.
The Carnival of Barranquilla is both a raucous pre-Lent party and a multicultural celebration of the indigenous, European, and African roots of Colombia's Caribbean coast. It's also on UNESCO's list of Intangible Cultural Heritage, a special designation for living traditions and practices that help tell the tale of our shared humanity.
Staged largely on the city's streets over the four days before Ash Wednesday, the annual event is one of the world's largest carnivals. Spectators, standing on the sidewalks or seated on grandstands, watch the festival's coordinated series of events, beginning with Saturday's Battle of Flowers, which features the carnival queen, floats, and exotically costumed dance troupes; Sunday's Grand Parade of more traditional cumbia and garabato dancers; Monday's Fantasy Parade of flamboyant revelers; and Tuesday's symbolic funeral of Joselito Carnaval, the personification of the festival, who dies from too much fun.
Giant's Causeway, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
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Kid Appeal: Ancient volcanic forces forged this spectacular coastal playground. It's the perfect place to scramble across a mythical landscape.
The Site: Northern Ireland's Giant's Causeway is a volcanic formation of nearly 40,000 mostly hexagonal columns, forged 60 million years ago when molten lava cooled quickly in the ocean water and contracted into crystallized basalt pillars, some more than 35 feet tall.
This geological marvel is interpreted in legend as having been the handiwork of mythical warrior Fionn MacCumhaill (Finn McCool, in English), who conjured his heroic strength and built a bridge across the Irish Sea to attack foes in the Scottish Hebrides.
From the 18th century onward, this land bridge emerged as a popular destination for tourists attracted by the honeycomb-like promontory. The Giant's Causeway was also immortalized in rock music. The formation appears on the cover of Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy, a 1973 album that concluded fittingly with a song called "The Ocean."
Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia
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Kid Appeal: Song, dance, high drama, and "Kids at the House" programs turn this architectural icon into one of Australia's top family attractions.
The Site: Shakespeare wrote that all the world's a stage, but the architecturally revolutionary Sydney Opera House is a stage for all the world. Situated near the heart of the city's famed harbor, this structure of vaulted, interlocking concrete "shells" looms large as both a celebrated performing arts center and an iconic urban sculpture.
Conceived by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, the center debuted in 1973 and is today one of the planet's busiest live arts venues, with more than 1,750 performances a year, attracting millions of visitors.
Built on a platform surrounded on three sides by Sydney Harbor, the Opera House symbolizes the artful merging of form, function, and geography. During the day, the building's scale-like ceramic tiles glint in the sunlight; at night, the space glows like Neptune's underwater castle.
Wayang Puppet Theater, Java and Bali, Indonesia
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Kid Appeal: A flickering candle and capable storyteller are all these Indonesian shadow puppets need to take on enchanted forms and mystical powers.
The Event: Shadows come to life in the artful hands of an Indonesian dalang (master puppeteer), an expert storyteller who animates flat leather puppets behind a backlit screen to create dazzling dramatizations of secular and religious tales. Pictured here are shadow puppets at the Laras Puppet Theater in Java.
Hundreds of years before the advent of moving images, these wayang kulit scenes—accompanied by ethereal gamelan music, played on xylophones, gendér (bronze xylophones), drums, gongs, bamboo flutes, and strings—brought colorful myths, morality tales, Indian and Persian epics, political commentary, and social satire to center stage in the royal courts and rural areas of Java and Bali.
While elaborately decorated and dressed three-dimensional wooden puppets are also part of a dalang's repertoire, it's the mystical movements of shadow puppets that light up the night. Travelers to Bali can seek out traditional performances of wayang kulit and watch as timeless tales take shadowy form in Indonesia's iconic expression of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Colosseum and Roman Forum, Rome, Italy
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Kid Appeal: To the lions! Long before there was a Super Bowl, there was an imperial stadium where gladiators and beasts fought for the pleasure of one of history's most powerful empires.
The Site: The Roman Empire's largest amphitheater set the stage for simulated sea battles and safari hunts and very real chariot races, executions, and gladiatorial death matches. Initiated under Emperor Vespasian and completed in A.D. 80 under the rule of his son, Emperor Titus, the Flavian Amphitheater stands today as a marvel of engineering and a symbol of the gory glory of ancient Rome.
Kid-friendly tours of the Colosseum trace the Eternal City's history, from the fabled founding of Rome by Romulus and Remus in 753 B.C. to the emergence of the Republic, Empire, and Christian capital of Vatican City.
Though the World Heritage site includes the Forum, Pantheon, mausoleums, columns, and papal structures, it's the immense stadium in the middle of Rome that most colorfully captures the modern imagination. Built to accommodate an estimated 50,000 spectators, the Colosseum was a freestanding elliptical theater originally covered in white travertine limestone. Beneath the arena's sand-covered wooden floor is a now visible subterranean maze of tunnels and cages where gladiators and beasts—rhinos, elephants, lions, tigers, crocodiles, and other ferocious fauna—were contained before contests.
Sian Ka'an, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Photograph by Pete Oxford, Minden Pictures/Corbis
Kid Appeal: It's a jungle in the Yucatán Peninsula's mangrove-covered playground of aquatic action and mysterious Maya ruins.
The Site: Turquoise waters, emerald mangroves, and ivory limestone bedrock are the chromatic components of the largest protected area in the Mexican Caribbean.
Sian Ka'an, which means "Where the Sky Is Born" in Mayan, is a fantastically flat biosphere reserve on the eastern coast of the Yucatán Peninsula. But what this wetlands region lacks in dramatic topography, it makes up for in biodiversity, beauty, and a range of kid-friendly activities.
Extending from tropical forests and marshes to coral reefs along the coast, the reserve counts sea turtles, crocodiles, jaguars, spider monkeys, manatees, spiny lobsters, nurse sharks, and flamingos as resident fauna. The 1.3 million acres of Sian Ka'an form a lush ecosystem that supports farmers and fishermen, biologists, anthropologists (some 23 Maya archaeological sites dot the landscape), and tour operators.
Families can rent beachside tent cabins and book kayaking, fly-fishing, cenote snorkeling, and canal tour excursions within the reserve. Kids can let their inner tomb raider run wild at Muyil (or Chunyaxché), a pre-Hispanic settlement featuring a steep walled pyramid built nearly a thousand years ago. "El Castillo," as the castle is known, towers today over the fringe of Maya Mexico's conservation crown jewel.
Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
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Kid Appeal: Camp out under African skies, where the world's most spectacular animal migration crosses this vast protected region of northern Tanzania.
The Site: Zebras, gazelles, and wildebeest (above)—along with the carnivores that track them—are the stars of Serengeti National Park, forming the world's largest community of migrating ungulates and its greatest concentration of large predators.
Along with its companion Ngorongoro Conservation Area, this 8,000-square-mile contiguous protected region is home base for safari-goers on the prowl for impalas, dik-diks, Cape buffalo, lions, hyenas, elephants, rhinos, jackals, and other beasts. While grazing herds are constantly on the go in these rolling grasslands and acacia-dotted woodlands, the annual May-June migration from the central plains to permanent waterholes in the park's western end is the moment camera-toting visitors wait for.
Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada
Photograph by Camille Moirenc, Hemis/Alamy
Kid Appeal: Grab your magnifying glass and hiking boots and head to one of the world's best dinosaur fossil sites, a Cretaceous marvel southeast of Calgary.
The Site: Leptoceratops, Lambeosaurus, Euoplocephalus, oh my! The Age of Reptiles lives on in the geologically fascinating badlands of Alberta, where Dinosaur Provincial Park gives budding paleontologists a chance to explore landscapes where experts have discovered more than 35 species of dinosaur.
During the Cretaceous period, which ended 65 million years ago, this region looked strikingly different from the arid steppes capped by hoodoos (towers of eroded stone) that visitors see today. Back then, a subtropical climate sustained dense forests, swampy marshes, flowing rivers, and an inland sea, creating ideal habitats for dozens of species of reptiles, fishes, amphibians, mammals, and plants. Many of the skeletons and fossils these organisms left behind are starring attractions in natural history museums around the world.
Scientists keep busy here, excavating bone beds with the hope of identifying surprising finds. Although visitors are not permitted to dig or surface-collect in this fragile environment, the park offers a full schedule of kid-friendly fossil safaris, guided activities, displays of dinosaur skeletons, and interpretive exhibitions. Families can camp out under the stars and dream of the days when Tyrannosauridae ("tyrant lizards") and Troodontidae (birdlike dinosaurs) inhabited this once fern-filled region.
Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii
Photograph by Steve and Donna O'Meara, National Geographic
Kid Appeal: Turn on the heat with a visit to two of the world's most active volcanoes.
The Site: According to Hawaiian mythology, the Halema'uma'u caldera of Kilauea was the fiery home of Pele, the goddess of fire, lightning, wind, and volcanoes. This simmering cauldron atop one of the five shield volcanoes that form the Big Island of Hawaii has inspired ritual and reverence for generations.
Along with Mauna Loa, the world's most massive mountain—its summit rises to about 56,000 feet above the depressed sea floor, making it more than 27,000 feet higher than Mount Everest—these active and accessible fire-breathers make up one of the best places for observing the churning geological forces that shape our planet.
The park, which covers some 333,000 acres, is a hotbed of family-friendly activity, from ranger-led hikes, interpretive centers, and viewing platforms near active flows to the 11-mile Crater Rim Drive, a gobsmacking car tour of Kilauea with stops at steam vents, sulfur banks, lava tubes, tropical rain forests, arid landscapes, and high volcanic vistas.
Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia, Turkey
Photograph by Flip Franssen, Hollandse Hoogte/Redux
Kid Appeal: The Stone Age rocks on in Anatolia, where young geologists can explore time-weathered volcanic landscapes in a culturally rich province.
The Story: It's a destination fit for every modern stone-age family. Central Turkey's Göreme Valley is an arid region of eroded volcanic stone that takes fantastic forms, ranging from tall spires and sharp cones to totem pole-like hoodoos, topped with caps of hard rock. Often called fairy chimneys, these whimsical wonders can rise dozens of feet over the chalky soil of an area inhabited long before the fourth century B.C.
Some of the most striking sights within the Cappadocia Plateau are villages carved into the volcanic tuff, rock-hewn churches, and cave homes deep within the sediment. The town of Göreme, in a region first settled during Roman times, emerged as a center of monastic activity in the fourth century when Christian communities created underground communities and subterranean sanctuaries with frescoes that visitors can see today. The Göreme Open Air Museum is pocked with caves and studded with fairy chimneys. Valley hikes, hot air balloon rides, and guided tours hit the high points of this low-lying region. And when night falls, families can check into cave hotels and sleep in stony silence.
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Thanks so much for all the responses. A little bit from each of you equals a lot of good support for me.
I am taking all of this in and gradual is best. And after reading the article Mommal posted on international average of weaning, it reinforces that I don't want to do anything before Norah is ready.
I am trying the "ask nicely" bit and she either doesn't understand or is not willing at this point. She is so crazy. She'll be repeating, "Mursh, mursh, mursh...while tugging on my shirt and if I don't say or do anything she grabs my face and makes eye contact and says what I'm supposed to say, "okay, okay, okay!" What am I going to do with this little Pepper!?
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Catherine Berwick's Parsnip & maple syrup cake
Nutrition and extra info
- Unfilled sponges can be frozen
- kcal697
- fat41g
- saturates22g
- carbs79g
- sugars52g
- fibre3g
- protein8g
- salt1.12g
- 175g butter, plus extra for greasing
Butter is made when lactic-acid producing bacteria are added to cream and churned to make an…
- 250g demerara sugar
- 100ml maple syrup
- 3 large eggs
The ultimate convenience food, eggs are powerhouses of nutrition, packed with protein and a…
- 250g self-raising flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
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Baking powder is a raising agent that is commonly used in cake-making. It is made from an alkali…
- 2 tsp mixed spice
- 250g parsnips, peeled and grated
The fact that the parsnip is a member of the carrot family comes as no surprise - it looks just…
- 1 medium eating apple, peeled, cored and grated
Grown in temperate regions, apples are one of the most widely cultivated tree fruits. There are…
- 50g pecans, roughly chopped
Related to the walnut, pecans are native to America, and grow enclosed in a glossy, browny-red…
- zest and juice 1 small orange
One of the best-known citrus fruits, oranges aren't necessarily orange - some varieties are…
- icing sugar, to serve
For the filling
- 250g tub mascarpone
- 3-4 tbsp maple syrup
Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Grease 2 x 20cm sandwich tins and line the bases with baking parchment. Melt butter, sugar and maple syrup in a pan over gentle heat, then cool slightly. Whisk the eggs into this mixture, then stir in the flour, baking powder and mixed spice, followed by the grated parsnip, apple, chopped pecans, orange zest and juice. Divide between the tins, then bake for 25-30 mins until the tops spring back when pressed lightly.
Cool the cakes slightly in the tins before turning out onto wire racks to cool completely. Just before serving, mix together the mascarpone and maple syrup. Spread over one cake and sandwich with the other. Dust with icing sugar just before serving.
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I've lost count of the amount of times I've made this cake now - easily in double figures - and it comes out a treat every time. I've never had anyone who didn't love it, which is why I keep making it! It sometimes requires an extra 5-10 minutes than stated, but otherwise follow it to the recipe and it'll come out a treat. It's now my boyfriends favourite cake ever (much to his mother's dismay). The mascarpone filling is spot on - don't be tempted to swap it for buttercream as it brings a slightly more savoury taste to the cake which otherwise would be too sweet, just make sure you use a full fat version and don't mix it too much or it will go too runny to spread. Believe the positive comments - if it's gone wrong it's not the recipe's fault...
Made this cake for a Contact The Elderly afternoon tea. All the guests loved it. I did not have quite enough maple syrup but that made no difference. Very easy to make. If I make any changes next time I make this it would be to try a different filling, though I had no trouble with the filling bring to runny.
This is a really moist and delicious cake. I always change the frosting to try out different things. A fudge butter icing in the middle with orange cream cheese frosting on top was lovely but might be a bit rich for some. And don't bother grating anything. I stick it all in small batches in my mini chopper, it's so quick and easy and it doesn't even matter if it goes a bit mushy. Just makes the cake even more moist. It's a dense cake but that's how I like my cake! None of this light and fluffy sponge nonsense!
Absolutely delicious cake, five stars out of five for texture and flavour. I made this for the Reddit "52weeksofcooking" challenge for "Unexpected combinations".
It's far superior to carrot cake: silkier, lighter, better texture, no "carroty" flavour or stringiness. Mine was moist and also denser than a regular sponge, but I wouldn't say it was "leaden heavy", it was actually quite light.
Sadly or happily, depending on your view, you really can't taste the parsnips in this (so great for a "hidden vegetables" dish for fussy eaters).
As many others have mentioned the marscapone while delicious is far too runny, even without the maple syrup. I used less syrup, added a heap of icing sugar and it was still too runny. Cream cheese sounds like a wiser bet.
I would only probably make this cake again on request or if I had a glut of parships, because it was a faff to grate them (plus the apple) and I don't make carrot cake anyway. I agree with hvd201 that those with weak wrists should avoid it. You could try using an electric chopper perhaps, but the texture probably wouldn't be as silky and light and fine.
Absolutely gorgeous cake! Took this to work as "mystery ingredient" cake as I thought people might be put off, and everyone loved it. I would say that it took an extra 10 mins to bake as others have said, and I'd also say that parsnips are a LOT harder to grate than carrots! Well worth it though. The icing is delicious and I'd have happily eaten spoonfuls on it's own lol.
Made this for some friends, and they were all intrigued to know what was in it - definitely a hit.
I didn't have maple syrup, so just used golden syrup, which worked fine, and actually, mostly you just taste the spices in the finished cake. I wonder therefore, given the amount of spices in the cake, whether these mask the flavour of the maple syrup?
I used cream cheese, butter and icing sugar for the filling, as I didn't have mascarpone, and that worked fine.
Will be making again next time I have lots of parsnips to finish off.
This cake is nice but I can't help but think that life is too short to grate parsnips for a cake.
If you plan on grating by hand then don't attempt this recipe if you have weak wrists or tire easily as I found it took a surprisingly long time and amount of energy to grate the parsnips.
I needed to bake it for longer than stated, an extra ten minutes or so.
I only had 17cms sandwich tins so I filled them half way (as you would for the 20cms tins) and used the remaining mix in muffin cases. I baked the cakes and muffins separately to avoid them sinking and having to open the oven door.
I baked it in an AGA by placing a cold shelf on the second from bottom shelf and then the rack on the bottom of the AGA and the cake tins directly on the rack.
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Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
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The United Nations Millennium Development Goals are 8 goals that all 189 UN Member States have agreed to try to achieve by the year 2015. The United Nations Millennium Declaration, signed in September 2000 commits world leaders to combat poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and discrimination against women. The MDGs are derived from this Declaration, and all have specific targets and indicators. The Millennium Development Goals are now transitioning into 17 Sustainable Development Goals, to be completed by 2030.
General information
MDGs in WHO regions
Technical information
- Post-2015 UN development agenda
- MDG 1: eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
- MDG 3: promote gender equality and empower women
- MDG 4: reduce child mortality
- MDG 5: improve maternal health
- MDG 6: combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
- MDG 7: ensure environmental sustainability
- MDG 8: develop a global partnership for development
- Accelerating progress towards the health-related Millennium Development Goals
World Health Statistics 2010
Special section on Millennium Development Goals
- Addressing violence against women and achieving the Millennium Development Goals


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The Cincinnati Reds will return to Goodyear, Arizona in February for the Spring Training season.
The Reds train in a state-of-the art Player Development Complex and share Goodyear Ballpark with the Cleveland Indians each spring training season. Goodyear Ballpark features 8,000 stadium seats, 1500 berm seats, six suites, and a 500-seat party deck.
Be sure to come watch a morning workout at the Player Development Complex and then catch a game at the Goodyear Ballpark!
Goodyear Ballpark Seating Chart »
A wide variety of food and beverages can be found at the food stops and portables at Goodyear Ballpark. In addition to classic ballpark fare such as hot dogs, peanuts and beer, we also feature foods such as hot and mild sausages, cheesesteaks and more.


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¼ c. granulated sugar
½ stick (¼ cup) unsalted butter, melted and cooled
For Pie
1 15-ounce can pure pumpkin
1 c. (packed) dark brown sugar
3 large eggs, lightly beaten, at room temperature
1 ¼ c. heavy whipping cream
2 tbsp. dark rum
2 tbsp. finely chopped crystallized ginger
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1 tsp. grated orange peel
¼ tsp. ground nutmeg
¼ tsp. salt
Preheat oven to 350° Fahrenheit.
To make crust, combine gingersnaps, pecans and sugar in a food processor, grind. Add butter, blending until combined well.
Press mixture onto bottom and up side of a 9-inch (1 quart) glass pie plate. Bake crust in middle of oven 13 to 15 minutes, or until crisp and golden around edge, and cool on rack.
Meanwhile, whisk pumpkin and brown sugar in medium bowl to blend. Add all remaining ingredients and whisk until blended. Pour filling into baked crust.
Bake pie until filling is set in center, about one hour. Transfer pie to rack; cool 30 minutes. Can be made one day ahead. Cover and keep chilled. If desired when serving, top each slice with additional whipped cream and sprinkle with additional crystallized ginger.
Note: Evaporated skim milk may be used in place of heavy cream, in the same amount.
Makes one 9-inch pie. Serves eight.


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High up on your list of must have warm-weather shoes will be the "Jackie" wedge. This exquisite espadrille has a classic peep toe design featuring a logo-detailed bow. The crocheted lace upper creates flirty feminine fun. Pair with a bright bikini and flowing wrap skirt for heavenly strolls down the beach but don't be afraid to also pair with a fitted pencil skirt for charming work day chic.
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The Day We Forgot Our Anniversary
How Small Changes Saved Our RomanceBy Louisa Kamps for ELLE
On our anniversary last October, finally in bed after a marathon day, I gave my husband, T., a card—the one my mother had just sent cheering on our union, hurriedly revised by me in red pencil to read as if it were intended just for him. As if I'd actually had the time and foresight to buy a pretty card myself and fill it with observations on the magnificence of our marriage seven years in. Ha!
We both chuckled at my little joke, arf-arf-ing at how anniversary celebrations had slipped completely off our list of priorities. (He'd not gotten me anything either.) Afterward, though, I couldn't stop thinking about it—about our rueful laugh followed by a chaste kiss. How far the mighty had fallen! The year before we married, T. and I coupled up so hard and fast—with so much tender mind-melding, such feverish grappling, sheesh—that if you'd told me we'd be blanking on our anniversary not 10 years in and cackling about it like two callous sitcom characters, I would've thought you were high as a kite.
Don't get me wrong. Mostly our marriage was chugging along fine. T. and I were splitting kid management without much rancor, we could still bust up laughing together (with and without bitter irony), and on our best days, we were sweet and awesome. But I also couldn't help noticing more bickering—usually over stuff as stupid as, yes, spilled milk and whose turn it was to wipe it up—and, in its wake, creeping alienation. It made me sad to detect this pattern taking shape: one of us snapping, then retreating to separate corners to regroup (me phoning friends to bitch and gab, him mooning over guitars on eBay). And seeing more acquaintances divorce every year, I figured we'd be smart to break the mold before it got too set.
Couples therapy seemed daunting for the time, cost and headache of dragging T. to weekly sessions (he's therapy averse, as more men than women tend to be). But when I proposed small fixes—things we could do around the edges to decrease friction and increase affection—he was down with the program. Luckily, it didn't take long to locate a number of simple yet powerful steps almost any couple can take to get their relationship rolling in a more positive direction. ...Read More
If it were just me cruising Amazon, then I would have clicked past Steven Stosny and Patricia Love's How to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking About It—a preposterous title to my loquacious female self. But after T. heard about the book from one of his friends (a family physician, no less) who said it had demystified his own marriage, I ordered a copy. Stosny, a Maryland-based psychologist who developed a program used to treat anger in prison inmates, roots a key conflict-causing difference between women and men in evolutionary biology. The male social animal, he says, is innately sensitive to abrupt changes in stimulation and, sensing approaching danger, prepares to fight or flee. You've no doubt heard that before, but the twist Stosny adds is the gut-punch of shame in the jungle of modern marriage. When females signal that they're feeling anxious or fearful—by directly complaining about their partners or merely chronicling the bumps and stresses of the day—men immediately try to figure out how to protect or soothe them. And when they can't? The typical guy feels ashamed of his own inadequacy, Stosny says, and masks it with low-grade aggression (criticizing or otherwise behaving contemptuously toward his wife) or by withdrawing (tuning her out to avoid what feels like an assault on his manliness).
When I ask T. if he ever feels ashamed in our relationship, he shrugs—which I take as a no, though Stosny points out that many powerful emotions operate beneath conscious awareness. But I feel a gonglike ring of familiarity when he describes how women—when missing the closeness that is for them an evolutionary imperative—ratchet up the nervous chatter and angry asides. If we had a dollar for every night I've stood in our dining room, prattling on about sundry worries, while T. sat at the table bathed in the blue light of his laptop, effectively worlds away, prompting me to accuse him of not listening and him to accuse me of bulldoggishly worrying problems beyond reason, then we'd be rich.
In this common marital feedback loop, a woman like me rarely gets what she's after: "You're trying to get him to reassure you that he's not a total jerk, but all he's hearing is that he's a total jerk," Stosny says. But with practice, he adds, couples can break out of the "fear-shame dynamic." Learning to recognize it when it occurs takes away much of its sting and makes it easier to short-circuit. ("We train our clients to say, 'Hey! We got triggered! It's not you doing this to me, it's not me doing this to you—it's a primal emotional mechanism!'")
An even simpler way to avoid the fear-shame sinkhole is to build a bulwark against it. "The one thing that regulates fear and shame," making men and women feel better simultaneously, "is physical connection," Stosny says. To help couples share more empathy-building basic touch (less fraught than sex, which—patience, dear reader—we'll get to), Stosny prescribes six six-second hugs per day, with additional signals of affection (even a quick locking of eyes) sent both ways four times a day: when waking in the morning, before leaving home, upon returning at night and before going to sleep. Research has shown that positive emotions tend to "lead one into another," Stosny explains, "like a stream that extends throughout the day."
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The weekend after Thanksgiving we begin to get into the holiday swing of things. I like to hang wreaths and lights and go to one of the local tree farms and select our Christmas tree. There's nothing quite like the real deal–-a pine-smelling, sap-sticky, beautiful-in-its-imperfections Christmas tree.
If you're seeking a Currier & Ives experience complete with snow-blanketed countryside, horse-drawn sleighs and hot cocoa, look no further – the North Shore is the land of the Christmas tree farm. So, pack a camera, pack an old blanket for the car roof, and head to one-of-the-many local tree farms north of Boston, where you can choose a freshly pre-cut tree, or go for the truly authentic experience of walking through the forest, selecting and sawing your very own Christmas tree.
Below find a great list of locations, plus some tips for fool-proofing your trip:
- It's imperative that you call prior to travel–check the farm of your destination tree cutting hours, tree availability and for local weather conditions if necessary.
- Some farms limit the amount of trees they sell in a season, and shut down without any web site updates, so don't travel to the farm if you can't reach them by telephone.
- Wear appropriate clothing and footwear and bring a saw & rope/bungee cord to tie down your tree.
- Bring a camera.
- Many farms are gracious enough to allow family pets on leashes - call ahead to confirm.
- When cutting your own tree, cut as close to the ground as possible (you can always trim excess stump later.) Place your tree in warm water as soon as it arrives home. Then, cut an additional 1/4" off the stump before placing the tree in a stand. Be sure your tree stump is always submerged in water, or you'll have dried pine needles everywhere!
- If you have your heart set on a particular variety of tree, call ahead to find out what type the farm grows.
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By Argen Duncan: Freedom New Mexico
One new Eastern New Mexico University graduate is standing on a foundation of math and getting ready to leap into linguistics.
"I'm excited," said Allison Sanderson, who is from Edgewood.
Sanderson said she is sad to be leaving the people she met in Portales, but is excited about what will happen in the future.
Having finished her work on a bachelor's of science in math, she is one of the 322 candidates for ENMU's spring graduation. Commencement is scheduled for 10 a.m. today in the Greyhound Arena, with a reception to follow in the south gym.
State Sen. Gay Kernan, R-Hobbs, a member of the Senate Education Committee, is set to be the keynote speaker.
ENMU President Steven Gamble said graduation is always a great day.
"The students are happy, their families are happy, and to tell you the truth, the university is happy," he said.
Gamble said people involved in commencement celebrate achievements students have made for their lives and careers.
"I think each graduate has his or her own story," Gamble said, adding that it's these stories that make the class stand out.
Some students have worked through school with families or part-time jobs to pay the bills, he said. It may have taken them more than the traditional four years to finish their degrees, but now they have, Gamble said.
Sanderson completed her degree requirements in four years while holding a job, tutoring others in math, serving as a residential assistant in the university dorms and participating in the Baptist Student Union.
Now she plans to return to Edgewood for a time, work for a year and then study linguistics at the graduate level. Sanderson said she wants to work with Wycliffe Bible Translators.


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The Refugio Community Cemetery would like to take this opportunity to thank the following people and local businesses for their donations to our silent auction during our Juneteenth Celebration.
The auction was a success thanks to your generosity. Beyond the Glo (Sierra Mascorro), Betty Jones, Jane Briscoe, Linda Madkins, Deborah's Beauty Shop (Debbie Hosey), Majorie Shaw, Frank Hosey, Greenhouse Cleaners (Ken and Debra Moore), Dairy Queen (Elvira Borjas), Stripes (Mario Hernandez), By Grace Christian Shop (Melanie Wright), Benito Sanchez, O'Reily Auto Parts (Thomas Carranza), Parker Lumber (Monte Wright), Village Pharmacy (Virginia Pierce) and Nona's Flower Box (Mary Rushing). Thanks again and may God Bless each of you.


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Looks like we found our shooting guard.
Bryant was asked which current player hed most like to team up with and he chose Anthony. I would actually like to play with Melo, Bryant said.
Championships are won on the inside and Im always thinking about winning the title. I would love to play with Melo because I would know that I have an inside presence. Thats really been the biggest strength with our Lakers team. We have a lot of guys who can play in the post, and thats how you win championships.
I can post, Lamar [Odom] can post, Ron [Artest] can post, Pau [Gasol] can post and Andrew [Bynum] can post. Teams are usually lucky if they have one guy that can control the block. But yeah, I would love to play with Melo.
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Looks like we found our shooting guard.
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He wasnt talking offense when Boston-defense dominated the
league....plus the Lakers only showed Melo one week of rumors
interest throughout months of the chaos-Melo-trade.
Bryant comment only makes me think of the $100 I lost on
Pau Gasol no-defense effort (playing just like Melo) vs the
Mavs in the postseason.
I think its odd he didn't say Dwight Howard......
maybe he didn't want a repeat of Shaq
Melo and Kobe are extremely close, like lebron and Wade close, both played together on the olympic team , Kobe can sniff Phil Jackson around the corner of Madision Square Garden, and Mike Brown will not be enough to satisfy Kobe's lust for the triangle offense.
I Can actually see phil and kobe reuniting in NY
Jerome Jordan
The thing I love the most about our team, is we don't ever seem afraid