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BA, Evergreen, 1996; MA, LIOS Graduate College of Saybook University, 2012
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Radical Men: Simple Practices for Breaking the Myth of Masculinity and Embodying Your Authentic Self, 2012
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Between mass media, cultural standards, and well-meaning men's leaders, chances are that you are overwhelmed with expectations of what it means to be a man. As a result, many men constantly chase an external ideal that often results in unfulfilling work, addiction, obsession with sex and pornography, depression, unsatisfying relationships, and a sense of meaninglessness, confusion, and feeling lost.
Featuring fifty body-based practices that can be done in the midst of daily life, this book by men's leader, educator, and coach David Franklin presents new possibilities for being a man in today's world. Outlining the tenets of Radical Men, David offers new perspectives that shatter current notions of masculinity. Using both personal stories and examples from his work with clients, he presents practical guidelines to support you in discovering who you are and how to live from your core in order to experience a deep sense of purpose, meaning, and connection in all areas of your life.
Radical Men will help you:
• Break free from traditional and current ideas of what it means to be a man
• Know your purpose: who you are and why you're alive
• Cultivate dynamic, intimate, and fulfilling relationships
• Experience a profound spiritual connection that guides and inspires you to greatness
• Co-create a conscious men's movement in service of the greatest good
This book is not just meant to be read — it is a hands-on manual for a new way of living and creating powerful change on the planet.
Men's coach Michael Taylor, host of A New Conversation With Men radio show and author of the book by the same title, says, "David Franklin has put forth a map for men that can surely support them in discovering who they really are. This is a must-read for any man who is ready to experience his authentic self."
Dave Markowitz, spiritual healer and author of Healing with Source, says, "I've read all the books, taken many workshops, tried to read the minds of women I dated, and still had no clue who or what I was supposed to be. David Franklin's Radical Men came at the perfect time and delivered the perfect message. It was a refreshing read of an old topic that got me excited to continue reading."
Biographical Note
David Franklin, MA, has twenty years of experience teaching, facilitating, and coaching hundreds of people in ritual, workshop, group, and one-on-one settings. As an active participant and leader in the men's movement since the early 90's, an ordained minister, and certified somatic erotic educator, David incorporates his expertise in leadership and organizational development, mindfulness, spiritual development, and natural history from an indigenous perspective to offer simple, down-to-earth practices that can be applied in daily life. In addition to his work as a coach and educator, David is a professional guitarist who has taught and performed for over twenty years. A native New Yorker and bagel and pizza aficionado, he currently lives near Seattle, WA.
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Martina Mariea Schiff was born on July 29, 1966, in the tiny village of Medicine Lodge, Kansas to parents Daryl and Jeanne.
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In 1984, Martina McBride worked in at a Dairy Queen.
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She started singing with her father Daryl's group, "The Schiffters", when she was just seven years old.
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Martina McBride use to sell Garth Brooks tee shirts at his concerts.
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She first played as Garth Brooks' opening act.
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Martina McBride's husband John was a crew member for the legendary Garth Brooks
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The first album that Martina McBride produced on her own is called Timeless.
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On her 1997 album Evolution, the first track is a recording of Martina singing "I'm Little But I'm Loud" at a 4-H convention. The song was recorded by her mother in 1973 when Martina was 7 years old.
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She likes to eat home-cooked foods like meatloaf and mashed potatoes and fried chicken. Martina also enjoys tacos, cheese pizza and cheeseburgers.
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Her favorite soft drink is Pepsi.
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She likes watching CBS' Guiding Light soap opera, as well as "Roseanne" and "Seinfeld".
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Martina McBride was honored to sing the National Anthem at the 2003 basketball NBA All-Star game
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Martina McBride sang background vocals for a Big & Rich song called "Live this Life."
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She created a rock band named the "Penetrators" in 1984.
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Martina McBride leaves the writing of her songs to the professionals. Martina stays true to her talent, which is singing.
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She has twenty top ten singles, including "Wild Angels," "Independence Day," and "A Broken Wing."
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She used vocals from her daughter Emma "cooing" on her song "This Uncivil War."
NASHVILLE, TN - JUNE 16: (L-R) Singer/musician Taylor Swift accepts the Video of the Year award for "Love Story" from singer Martina McBride on stage during the 2009 CMT Music Awards at the Sommet Center on June 16, 2009 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
Martina McBride and husband John have three daughters. The whole family travels together on Martina's tour bus most of the time.
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Martina McBride was named CMA's Female Vocalist of the Year in 1999, 2002, 2003 and 2004.
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Martina McBride has sold over 15 million albums.
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Has anybody ran into a 69 that has required the thick front gasket? Ihave one that takes thick front and stick is on driver side. All if the engine seems to be original.
I know this thread is a little past, but can you re-use the one- piece gasket described above?


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Paperwork Organization: Bills, Financials, Mail & More
If you're like the typical household you are likely buried under paper. Old bills, tax returns, check stubs, receipts, bank statements, notices, magazines, cards – the list goes on and on. It can be hard to decide what's needed to keep, how long to keep it, how to store it, and how to keep it from overflowing again.
January is a great month to get your paperwork organized. Not only because it's the start to a new year and that's always a great time to make new changes, but also because the tax man cometh! You'll need certain documents in order to file your taxes and after this organization you'll be able to lay your hands on what you need at the moment you need it.
Storage Supplies
You'll want to decide which storage methods are best for you but I suggest picking up:
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- A shredder
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Saturday, December 7th
You're invited to join us at a Panther Preview program! Panther Preview is Ferrum College's Open House program. Participants will have the opportunity to talk with Ferrum faculty, staff, and students about student activities, academics, and athletics as well as admissions and financial aid personnel.
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The $25 application fee will be waived for seniors and transfers submitting a completed application while on campus for open house!
Can't make any of this year's Panther Preview dates?
Come to our campus for a personal tour! Visit our Private Tour page to learn more or go to our main Admissions page.
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Activities Fair
Families will have the opportunity to talk with students and staff about Student Activities and Leadership, Career Services, Academic Resources, First Year Experience, Christian Ministries, Community Outreach, Athletics, and our Boone Honors program. Due to team travel schedules all sports may not be represented at Panther Previews. To confirm that a particular coach will be available, please contact that coach directly.
Student and Parent Information Panels
Ferrum's faculty, staff and current students will be available to share information and respond to questions about what it is really like to be a part of the Ferrum College learning community.
Academics Fair and Financial Aid Presentations
Families have the opportunity to meet faculty and explore one or more of Ferrum's 33 diverse academic majors. A financial aid information session will also be available.
Complimentary Lunch
Experience a meal prepared by Ferrum College's very own "Chef Bo" in the dining hall.
Tours of Campus
Current student ambassadors will lead small groups on tours of Ferrum's beautiful campus including residence halls.
Helpful Links
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CIO Government Summit
Acquia is sponsoring this exclusive event, which will focus on:
* Working Smart on a Tight Budget
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Key Acquia team members will be participating to share experiences and participate in this thought-provoking 2-day Summit.
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Moore's Brand Senior Citizen Community Center is located at 501 E. Main and is open from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday. An average of 100 people per day take advantage of the facility, with attendance gradually increasing.
A transportation bus owned and operated by the Moore Council on Aging (MCOA) provides rides for senior citizens from their addresses in the Moore city limits to the Center. This service also serves seniors with transportation to banks, stores, the library, doctor's offices, and other places within the city.
Activities at the Center include cards and dominos, quilting, pool, ceramics, nutritional programs, art lessons, crafts, a congregate meals program through Aging Services Inc., periodic hearing testing, monthly blood pressure and blood sugar screening, visits from legal aid representatives and other pertinent professional groups, and other incidental activities.
In 1977, a group of senior citizens incorporated under the name of the Moore Council on Aging (MCOA), and began meeting in a converted dwelling owned by the City of Moore. As the group grew in numbers, they were able to obtain the use of a larger facility owned by a private corporation.
The Council on Aging began a project to raise funds for a new facility. Land was donated to the MCOA for the project, and the MCOA and the City of Moore worked together to meet qualifications for a grant. In 1993, sufficient funds had been raised for the MCOA's portion of the project cost, title of the property was transferred to the City, and construction begun.
On February 22, 1994, the MCOA moved into its new quarters. Under an agreement with the City, the MCOA is the principal user of the facility, which is owned and maintained by the City of Moore.
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We ain't dead! In fact, the Listening Project is on board with another neat Humanities Center project, which we've spent the last few weeks getting off the ground. At the end of the month, on Friday, February 25, the HHC is hosting a conference called "In/Visible: Disability and the Arts." In addition to simply participating in the conference, members of the Listening Project are producing an additional event/experience revolving around access on campus. We've still got a few kinks to work out, so I'll keep this hush-hush/on the DL/etc. for the moment, but just know that if you're itching to get involved, we'd be happy to interview you and there's also a student reading group happening this week and next!
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We are located just 25 minutes West of Bergerac airport and an hour and 15 minutes East of Bordeaux airport. Bergerac airport has a vast array of flights coming in from the UK with "low cost" carriers such as FlyBE and Ryanair. Have a look at our "Flight Routes" page for more information. There are many direct flights to Bordeaux from various European cities including London (Stansted and Gatwick), Amsterdam, Munich, Dublin, Waterford, Stockholm and Basel. We can arrange airport transfers and hire cars for you – just let reception know at the time of booking. All major Hire Car agencies operate from the airports (Avis, Hertz, Europcar). Toulouse, 2 hours' drive away, connects with many more destinations.
Directions by Road
Many guests drive to Château des Vigiers. If you are driving from the UK, we recommend taking the overnight ferry from Portsmouth to St Malo. We're about 6 hours drive south from St Malo – an easy drive mostly on motorway. If you're coming from the Channel Tunnel or Calais, we're 8.5 hours drive away and we'd advise driving via Rouen and Le Mans rather than get stuck in the Paris péripherique!
GPS: N44.79184°, E0.28585° (Destination: Le Vigier)
Directions by Train
Some guests choose to take the super fast TGV train from Paris. It takes 3 hours to Libourne station, on the Bordeaux line, which is only a 50 minute drive from Chateau des Vigiers and we can organise a taxi transfer, though some guests prefer to take the local shuttle train to Ste-Foy-la-Grande (10 minutes from us).
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Hey guys Looking to trade this Limited Edition NT11 for a DM12, post pics here, what it comes with with the correct format for the b/s/t foruums.
or a link in your post to the thread. I am not in a hurry to get rid of this so my rules stand.
Marker: Limited Edition Hurricanes Dye NT11 (1 of 20)
Year: 2011
Condition: 8.5/10 normal wear
Color: purple/blue
Upgrades: none
Shipping: YOU PICK YOU PAY
Known Problems: none
What is Included: case, stock barrel, marker and green back spacer, THAT'S IT don't ask if i have the other parts because i don't.
1) You came to my Thread your shipping first, If your Players Club member of course I follow the rules
2) I don't ship before receiving payment. Under any circumstances this is just stupid.
3) All prices are obo.
4) PayPal only.
5) Only accepting cash if it is in my favor and can get me a LNIB DM12
6) I will only ship to the US.
7) When my item leaves my hands it is in working condition and I will have video proof, If you receive an item of mine that is not working,
I am assuming you messed up yourselfs, as it was in working order when it left my hands.
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Course ChangesMargaret Ernst BMC '11 | May 27, 2010
I was at the helm of thethis semester, so I decided to ease off on courses. I took Latin, creative writing, and an independent study with Dave Dawson at Haverford. My semester visiting Professor Dawson's office with readings in hand was by far one of the best academic experiences I've had in college.
I went in with ambitious goals: to decode ways in which the Reformation and Enlightenment contributed to modernity and American history. Luckily, I had a few other guiding points to narrow things down.
There was a day that haunted me in a class I had taken a year before with Tracey Hucks, Varieties of African American Religious Experience. Among many other powerful moments in her classroom, this particular one was when Professor Hucks read from White Over Black, Winthrop Jordan's paradigm book about the history of race in America. The section was about English perceptions of blackness, not from during the height of the transatlantic slave trade but from before, the time leading to Francis Bacon, Elizabeth I, and pilgrims en route to America.
"Long before they found that some men were black, Englishmen found in the idea of blackness a way of expressing some of their most ingrained values. No other color except white conveyed so much emotional impact. As described by the Oxford English Dictionary, the meaning of black before the sixteenth century included, 'Deeply stained with dirt; soiled, dirty, foul…Indicating disgrace, censure, liability to punishment, etc.'…White and black connoted purity and filthiness, virginity and sin, virtue and baseness, beauty and ugliness, beneficence and evil, God and the devil." (White Over Black, pg. 7)
For English Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, Puritans who founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and planters in the southeast, strong cultural and literary references to blackness were alive and in place so that slave-trading and slave-holding could become institutions protected by legal and political authority. Before the Mayflower, the European mind was already subject to ideas about color that would lead to the proliferation of slavery in the New World, and for religious and scientific stories alike to justify its persistence.
In a class a year later, Blacks and Jews in America, we were talking about how on the National Mall there is an American Indian museum, the nearby Holocaust museum, a tiny African Art museum, but no African American museum. I spoke without knowing exactly what I was going to say, stringing together conclusions I had scrawled in my notebook: "I don't believe that white America would allow an African American museum to be located on the Mall. Letting blacks tell their story of America would overthrow the narrative structures on which America was built and continues to exist."
I remember the room fell silent, and overall, people looked uncomfortable and grim. I felt uncomfortable too. I'm white, after all. I, and my family, have benefited from the exclusion of black Americans from this country's story and economy since our Massachusetts Puritan ancestors to my mother's childhood in Birmingham, Alabama. But as someone who believes very strongly in the power of stories and public education to change politics, and also as someone who has a growing sense of religious faith, I felt it was very important that I face the truth of what I was realizing.
Moments like this have rechartered the course of my academic interests from propositions about reason and free will to the experience of being in America and the world today. Race and inequality is something we live daily, something about our bodies as well as our minds. They are realities that are political, economic, and as I've learned from reading and other liberation theologians, transcendent.
Little did we in the Blacks and Jews class know that there will indeed be an African American museum on the National Mall (or that President Bush was the one who signed it into being). The National Museum of African American History and Culture, the newest Smithsonian museum in Washington, is scheduled to break ground in 2012 and be ready for visitors in 2015. Check out what they're planning.
The museum will play a huge, exciting role in exactly what I feared couldn't happen – a significant change of course in the way we tell the American story – right on the Mall.
In my studies with Professor Dawson, one of my primary concerns was to decipher what ideals lay at the heart of the European Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the founding of America. Which ideas actually created, rather than demolished, the categories by which people were and are excluded from the American dream? It's not the kind of thing you can answer in a semester, or in a summer. But I think figuring it out is important. White Americans must be politically and culturally ready for what it means to take black American narratives seriously. White Americans must be ready to come to terms with the assumptions in our own history that permitted slavery, Jim Crow, and that continue to allow for shocking statistics of inequality based on race. History books need to change. The education gap needs to change. We must understand that giving African American history and culture the place (and funding) it deserves is central to understanding ourselves as Americans, because as the founding director of the NMAAHC by this story, by this culture, by this history." And if we change the narrative, it will help change our politics.says, we are all shaped "


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I'm sure it will be a while before we're actually weaned, but I'm starting to see the signs. I can remember just a few months ago that I saw no signs of slowing down. Now is different. Unfortunately, we had to force the issue a little bit with night weaning, because none of us, DS included, were getting enough sleep. A couple weeks ago, we got DH to take him to his bed instead of me nursing him to sleep on the couch or on our bed. It was just getting to be too much - it was taking the entire evening to get him to sleep. He wasn't happy with the new routine at first, but it wasn't long before he settled into bed on his own happily (dad reads him a couple stories then sings to him as he goes to sleep).
But what's really striking is that he's asking less, and less insistently. If I say "no, not right now, maybe in a few minutes", he'll go back to playing, and often forget to ask again a few minutes later. Tonight really struck home - he asked in the car on the way home from daycare, and I said "when we get home you can nurse, we can't nurse in the car". By the time we got home, he'd lost interest, and he didn't ask all evening. So now he's upstairs getting put to bed by daddy, and no tears that he didn't nurse tonight.
Which means that he only nursed once today (his 6am early morning nurse).
Together with me being pregnant, so the milk supply going to be decreasing very soon, I think we're finally on that road. Hard to believe....


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Basil - la albahaca
Basil (la albahaca)
Scientific name: Ocimum basilicum
Description: A tasty herb, grown for the leaves. Often paired with tomatoes, and wonderful for making pesto. Also a good companion plant in the garden with tomatoes for detouring pests.
How to sow: Start seeds in a semellero, when the plants have their first true leaves (1-2 months) transplant them into the garden. Space 10 inches apart with 18 inches between rows. They prefer full sun, well drained soil.
Days to germination: 7-14
Days to harvest: 30 - 60
Care: When plants are at least 5 inches tall pinch off the top set of leave to promote a more bushy plant. When the plants start to flower remove the flower to maintain the sweet flavor. Leaves on a flowering plant are more bitter.
Harveset: When plants are 10 inches tall begin to take leaves as needed. The best time to harvest is early morning after having watered the night before.
Seed Saving: Allow the plant to go to flower. When the flower will turn dry and papery this is the seed head. Cut the seed head off and tie the stems together in a bunch. Hang them upside down in a brown paper bag in a dark dry place. After two weeks or when dry crush the stems and old flower heads. Little black seeds the size of a pin head will fall out. Collect these and store in a dry paper bag until ready to plant.
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From: STATE SUPERINTENDENT
To: Principals
Subject: Weekly Message from State Superintendent Robert Schiller 9/6/02
Good afternoon. Here are today's items:
§ ISBE is looking for a few good men and women
§9/11 website offers ideas, materials
§ State Board's August action, discussion summarized
ISBE is looking for a few good men and women
As I have told you in previous messages, it is my charge from the State Board to make sure ISBE is an agency that, above all else, effectively supports the teaching and learning efforts of local districts. In the next few months, we will be particularly challenged in that task by the state's early retirement initiative. It is possible that as many as 100 of our employees will take advantage of this program, and there is no doubt many key functions of this agency will be affected. I need your help to make sure we make the transition through this critical period as smooth as possible.
To make ISBE more field-centered, I want to hire persons with field experience to fill many of these vacancies. I'm asking you to help spread that word among your networks of colleagues. I'm not trying to steal your employees, but I am suggesting there may be some people who are at a point in their careers at which they might want to seek the different challenges and rewards that come from working in a state education agency.
For example, we know that in the coming months the ERI will require us to fill the top positions in such areas as School Finance, External Assurance, Standards-Aligned Learning and Teaching and Leadership (which supervises teacher certification and professional development.) Openings for many other supervisory positions will be posted soon.
The list of positions to be filled will always be accessible on our web site. I want to make sure field-experienced people are included in our pool of candidates. If you know of persons who might be interested, or if you have other ideas or suggestions about this, please contact me.
Illinois one of nine states to get federal Reading First Grant
I am pleased to announce that
Fifty-four school districts from across the state that have large proportions of low-income students will benefit from this multi-year program designed to raise reading achievement in grades K-3. The dollars can be used for professional development as well as purchasing instructional materials and assessments. The methods and materials used by the schools must be research-based and proven to be effective by the National Reading Panel.
U.S. Education Secretary Rod Paige has already announced Reading First grants
More information is available on a Reading First Illinois Fact Sheet at http://www.ed.gov/PressReleases/09-2002/Illinoisfact.doc.
9/11 website offers ideas, materials
The National Association of Secondary School Principals has identified a useful website to commemorate September 11 in your schools and communities - http://www.familiesandwork.org/911ah/911ashistory.html. It is part of an initiative by the Families and Work Institute and the Bank One Foundation.
State Board's August action, discussion summarized
August 21-22 State Board of Education Meeting -- (For additional information on these topics, see the August "Twenty Minute Packet" and the relevant topic in the Board Archives - http://www.isbe.net/board/Archives/default.htm)
Quick Takes
· Celebrated the "swearing in" of Robert E. Schiller as State Superintendent of Education. Justice Susan Myerscough, Illinois Appellate Court, 4th District, administered the oath of office. This oath is required of all holders of offices created by the Illinois Constitution.
· Adopted a resolution of appreciation for Respicio Vazquez and his service as State Superintendent from February through July 2002.
· Adopted three sets of amendments to agency rules: Student Records, Electronic Transfer of Funds, and Evaluation of Certified School District Employees in Continued Contractual Service.
· Authorized distribution of the draft 2002-2007 State Technology Plan for public comment.
· Authorized redistribution of the questionnaire on middle level certification in order to obtain a larger group of responses.
· Accepted
and approved for distribution the annual report on the
· Approved the two-year bargaining agreement with AFSCME, the agency bargaining unit for support employees.
· Approved the FY03 Chicago Public Schools District 299 Plan for Supplemental General State Aid.
· Received information reports on the following: state achievement results and their policy implications; the status of activities related to the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB); the President's Commission on Excellence in Special Education; agency fiscal and staffing matters; the Governor's action on legislation adopted in the spring 2002 session; and legislative and policy matters before Congress,
· Discussed and agreed with plans for development of the agency FY04 budget and legislative agenda for the spring 2003 session.
Recognized Harry Blackburn, who served as General Counsel during the time Respicio Vazquez served as State
Superintendent, and Tammy Rust, Internal Auditor, who has resigned to take a
position with the
· Recognized Gary Anderson, legal advisor and agency expert on NCLB, the waiver process and compliance matters, who will retire in September. The Superintendent plans to recognize each month those employees who will be retiring.
Meeting Notes and Follow-up
· Recommended criteria for Supplemental Educational Service providers (as required by NCLB) will be presented to the Board for action in September.
· Remaining issues related to the "highly qualified" definition will be presented to the Board in September.
· The Superintendent's Task Force on Assessment and Accountability will be appointed in the near future, with Board action on recommendations planned for December.
· A plan to address achievement issues, with particular attention to actions that can be taken at no cost, will be formalized for Board review.
· The Superintendent plans to reach out to the Education Partners to develop the legislative agenda and address educational issues of common concern. The budget development process will also engage the Education Partners.
· Staff will follow up on issues raised by the Board regarding math achievement, which declines through each successive grade, and writing achievement, which declined significantly this year at the 5th grade level.
· Staff will also examine due process hearings to determine whether there are clusters of issues, particularly in those cases that were withdrawn by parents who could not afford to proceed, that might warrant State Board attention.
Robert Schiller
State Superintendent
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Beer for the community
May 8, 2013 —
"This is a true American project, hot dogs, baseball, old Ford truck and a good American beer. All of our products are made in the USA, we support our community, that's what we will always be about," said Phil Vallone, one of the investors in the Roscoe Beer Company.
With those words, the ribbon was cut signaling the birth of a new brewery in Sullivan County.
Donna Vallone said that the group of investors who own the company has ordered the system needed to brew beer, but it doesn't yet have the necessary permits, which take time to acquire. She said, "Our goal was to get the first recipe out as quickly as possible," and getting all of the approvals would take time. So they contracted with Adirondack Brewing to make the beer, which is then distributed from the Roscoe Beer Company facility. But the investors hope to be brewing their own before long in the former firehouse in which the company is located.
Elaine Fettig, president of the Roscoe Chamber of Commerce, is also an investor. She said of the creation of the brewery, "We all love Roscoe, it seems like something that good small towns are doing now, and we wanted to be part of it."
The logo and related artwork for the company was created by artist Roger Baker, who said he is one of the few sign-painters who still does everything by hand and does not use computers.
Go to www.roscoebeercompany.com for a list of outlets that are selling the first Roscoe beer, which is called Trout Town American Amber Ale.


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As gamers, playing games is our second-most favorite hobby. Our most favorite is, of course, complaining about games.
But here are five much bitched-about things that we might as well retire from the complaint list, because as you'll see, they're not getting fixed. Ever.
5Movie Tie-In Games
Hey, guys, Jim Cameron showed up at E3! And to announce a game, no less! It's the tie-in for his upcoming film Avatar, and he says they're sparing no expense to make sure the game is every bit the revolutionary experience the film will be! Holy shit, finally we've got a top-notch film maker to show gaming how it's fucking done.
Oh, hey, they've released screen shots!
Huh. That... sure is an armored space marine. Shooting a machine gun. Alongside a mech.
You know what? Fuck this. We've been burned too many times. It's our fault for getting all worked up when the trailer for that Terminator: Salvation game hit, thinking it looked like a cooler Gears of War. Then we find out the finished game is so short that it's over in less time than it takes to watch the last two movies, yet still costs the full $60.
"You're the only hope for manki--oh, wait. The war's over. Let's go get some lunch."
They've Been Trying Since...
The first movie-licensed game was pooped onto shelves almost exactly 27 years ago, when Raiders of the Lost Ark for the Atari 2600 emerged in May of 1982. And man, did it ever set the tone.
It had no connection to the film other than that the main character seemed to have some hat-shaped pixels on his head. Raiders was almost impossible to beat thanks to a series of utterly illogical and random puzzles. And if you did beat it, the game seemed to get confused, displaying a victory screen that showed Indy standing on a scissor lift under a levitating ark.
Did we mention this is the same thing you saw if you lost?
Steven Spielberg was so impressed he actually got the same designer working on the infamous ET game later that year. And when we say "infamous" we mean "the game that almost single-handedly killed the game industry."
Why we're losing hope:
As bad as you think these games are, trust us, they're worse. Here's Metacritic's list of all XBox 360 games, listed from best to worst-reviewed. In the top 100 games, you find exactly one movie or TV licensed game: Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena. And it's all the way down at #90.
Now scroll to the veeeery bottom of the list, to the tormented seventh circle of video game Hell. In the bottom 100 shittiest games, you find 16 movie or TV licenses.
So the situation ain't getting any better. And that's insane, because they've seen that a good game can not only make money, but can in fact make more freaking money than the movie. The same year the shitty Indiana Jones game came out, they made an arcade game tie-in for the movie Tron. It out-grossed the film, and it did it one freaking quarter at a time.
The N64 game version of Goldeneye sold 8 million copies. That's around $300 million in revenue, triple what the film grossed in the US.
The secret is dick shots
Will Never Get Fixed Because...
Look at the exceptions for a moment. Goldeneye was one of the best games ever made. The first Godfather game was excellent, and there are rumors that the upcoming Ghostbusters game isn't terrible. So what do all of those games have in common?
Easy: They weren't released alongside the movie.
Goldeneye came out about two years after the film. The others came decades later. Unlike the shit games, these weren't released as tie-in merchandise meant to ride the coattails the film. These games were made knowing they would have to stand on their own. Why not make every game with that mindset? Why put a multi-million dollar game in the same category as this:
That's what happened with the ET game, they only gave the development team six weeks to make it, because in their eyes it was just an interactive ad for the movie. An understandable mistake in 1982. But 27 years later?
It's almost like studios and film makers both have a dismissive, almost spiteful attitude toward games. Even today, when revenues of that industry rival their own. It's almost like they've got a high school "jocks vs nerds" mindset. Why?
Well, we think we have a theory...
4Blowing Shit Up
On the same stage where James Cameron unveiled Avatar, Microsoft unveiled actual gameplay of Modern Warfare 2. The one level they chose to show off takes place on a military air base, full of grounded fighter jets that explode beautifully every time they're hit with a stray round.
Why did they pick that one level? Why did the guys showing off Splinter Cell: Conviction promise "fully destructible" buildings? Because blowing shit up is cool. Simple fact. World War 2 veterans will tell you that there is nothing more ball-quakingly exciting than dropping bombs onto an enemy factory and watching the entire thing erupt in a cloud of smoke, rubble and dismembered Nazis. This is like 90% of why we still have wars.
Gamers, too, love blowing things up, as everyone who has spent half an afternoon parking 30 cop cars next to each other in GTA IV, before taking careful aim with a rocket launcher, will attest to.
But no matter how many megatons of explosives you detonate, the glass windows on the surrounding buildings remain curiously, and irritatingly, intact.
"Fully destructible?" Bullshit. We've been promised that before.
They've Been Trying Since...
Gun Fight, in 1975. You controlled a Stetsoned cowboy and took potshots at a similarly stereotypical cowboy on the other side of the screen. It had these little cacti in the middle of the screen which your bullets could merrily dismember.
Hey, it's Indiana Jones
Why We're Losing Hope:
You ever watch an action-packed trailer for a movie, then buy a ticket only to find out that the only action in the movie was the two minutes you saw in the trailer? (see: Jarhead) Well game makers have started doing that with destructible environments. Games like Black and Killzone 2 gave us jaw-dropping trailers that made it look like you could fuck shit up with every squeeze of the trigger...
And then you buy the game and realize that it rations out specific points you're allowed to destroy, while the amount of damage you do to other scenery is about what a small child could do with a rubber mallet.
They know we want it--that's why they make sure we see it in the preview materials (as Microsoft did up there). But a game that builds destructibility into every surface has joined world peace on the list of mankind's noble yet unattainable dreams.
Will never get fixed because...
When we were 10 and dreamed about how badass the future generations of consoles would be, we all kind of assumed that some day they'd reach a point where the hardware was so mind-bogglingly powerful it could handle anything. A racing game where you can drive across the USA, a shooter where all of the bodies of your enemies stay behind and you can pile them 500-high, buildings where every single brick can be individually separated from its brothers.
It doesn't work that way. As the hardware gets more powerful they always think of other things they'd rather do with it. And of course we're not really asking them to program any possible piece of scenery to destruct, but all of it, at the same time. Because that's what we're going to do; forget about the fucking zombies and just destroy the entire goddamned town with grenades.
Wait I think there's still an unbroken window in the capitol
Hardware will always be a limitation; even when games are running off a sentient cloud network that can render Jurassic Park-quality graphics in a microsecond, they'll still only give us enough destructibility to make the trailer look awesome.


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On this day (March 18) in 1837, Stephen Grover Cleveland was born, the fifth of nine children, into the family of the Rev. Richard and Ann Neal Cleveland in the Presbyterian manse in Caldwell, N.J.
Grover Cleveland (at age 21, he dropped his first name) grew up in a family where strict Calvinistic piety was taught and practiced. Interestingly, in his long and largely distinguished public career, Grover assiduously adhered to the values and virtues of honesty, integrity, high-mindedness and self-reliance learned while growing up in a Christian home.
However, in his private life, he exhibited a youthful exuberance (especially during his 20s and 30s), that resulted, at times, in excessive drinking, obesity (he weighed more than 250 pounds), and the allegation that he fathered a son with a Mrs. Maria Halpin.
In private, Cleveland maintained that he probably was not the father of the child born in September 1874, but publicly he acknowledged paternity and, to his credit, faithfully paid child support. This "dalliance" with Maria Halpin resulted in a popular political slogan used in the presidential election of 1884, one of the nastiest in U.S. history: "Ma, Ma, Where's my Pa, Gone to the White House, Ha, Ha, Ha."
Cleveland remained a bachelor until age 51 when, in the first presidential wedding in the White House, he married the 21-year-old Frances Folsom, with whom he had three daughters and two sons.
Cleveland's formal education consisted of two years at the Fayetteville, N.Y., Academy and two years at the Clinton, N.Y., Liberal Institute. As a graduate of Yale and an ordained Presbyterian pastor, Cleveland's father had hoped that his younger son would follow him into the pastorate. However, upon his father's death, in 1853, the 16-year-old had to forgo any hope of going to college and seminary and go to work to help support his widowed mother and younger siblings. However, as a law clerk and part-time law student, Cleveland learned enough law to pass the bar exam in 1858.
While practicing law in Buffalo, N.Y., Cleveland became involved in politics. His first major elected position was as a "reform" mayor of Buffalo, which was followed by election in 1884 as governor of New York.
As governor of the most populous state, he was in a good position to seek his party's presidential nomination in 1884. Not only did he secure the nomination, but he went on to win the 1884 election.
Altogether, Cleveland was the Democratic Party's nominee in three consecutive presidential elections, of which he was the popular vote winner in all of them. However, because of the "undemocratic" Electoral College, Cleveland won in 1884 over James G. Blaine and in 1892 over Benjamin Harrison, but lost in 1888 to Harrison. His serving two non-consecutive terms is the reason he is now designated as both the 22nd and 24th U.S. president.
As president, Cleveland usually is considered to have been an honest, conscientious, politically conservative defender of the status quo, who governed with quiet dignity and probity. His pro-business, anti-union, anti-free silver conservatism played well during his first presidential term (1884-1888), but during his second term (1892-1896) it was increasingly unpopular as his party and the country were becoming more "reform-minded."
At the 1896 Democratic National Convention, the party repudiated Cleveland and his principled conservatism by nominating for president the "Boy Orator of the Platte," William Jennings Bryan, who had "captured" the convention with his rousing but eloquent "Cross of Gold" speech.
In retirement, Cleveland moved to Princeton, N.J., where he became a lecturer at Princeton and an active member of the university's Board of Trustees. He died at age 71 of heart failure on June 24, 1908, and was widely eulogized as an honest, principled public servant.
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September 19, 2002
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The State Board of Education today forwarded the fall Waiver Report to the General Assembly with 33 requests, including two that the Board recommend be denied and one that would be limited to only two years instead of five.
The 30 waiver requests forwarded to the General Assembly without comment include:
The two requests recommended for denial were:
The Board also voted to send the physical education waiver request from Fisher Community Unit School District 1 to the General Assembly with a recommendation that the request be approved for only two years instead of five. The district requested the five-year waiver in order to excuse its high school band students from physical education classes.
In a presentation to the Board, Fisher Superintendent Terry Milt outlined relatively short-term staffing and program problems that also precipitated the district's need for waiver to avoid being out of compliance with state law. With the additional information, the Board amended its motion to deny the waiver and instead recommended that the General Assembly limit the length of the waiver to two years instead of the five requested.


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The social pull toward so-called normal adult life can sometimes feel more powerful than the drag of a heavy undertow. But when your band is called The End of the Ocean, how could you do anything but tour from coast to coast?
"We're kind of at that weird age level where everyone's trying to get real jobs, and we're like, no, let's go do something we're actually passionate about," keyboardist Tara Yost said.
In The End of the Ocean's case, the passion is post-rock, the epic strain of movie-soundtrack music popularized by the likes of Mogwai, Sigur Ros and Explosions in the Sky.
This Columbus quintet does it well. On record, they present a compact take on instrumental post-rock, getting straight to the bombastic emotional payoff rather than parading through one 12-minute song after another. On stage, they're an all-consuming force to be reckoned with.
They began not with a bang but a whimper. Guitarist Kevin Shannon and bassist Bryan Yost (Tara's husband) started the band as an ambient project about three years ago but soon realized their ideas required more horsepower.
"We definitely needed a full band with a full sound rather than just two guys noodling," Shannon said.
Friday, they'll release their third album, "In Excelsis," with a concert at Carabar. The show kicks off a five-week tour to the West Coast and back, their longest jaunt so far. They're planning a trip up and down the East Coast for this fall.
It's an intense commitment — so intense that the band has had to endure some personnel turnover to assemble a lineup willing to travel so much. The latest addition is guitarist Trish Chisholm, a Detroit resident who rides the Greyhound to get to band practice.
"We're not trying to be irresponsible, but —" Bryan Yost said, before drummer Wes Jackson finished his thought: "We just really want to play music."


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Recent years have witnessed a renewed interest in private-sector investment in agriculture. Some have welcomed this trend as a bearer of new livelihood opportunities in lower and middle-income countries. Others have raised concerns about the possible social impacts, including loss of local rights to land, water and other natural resources; threats to local food security; and, more generally, the risk that large-scale investments may marginalise family farmers. The recent debates about "land grabbing" – whereby investors acquire large areas of land in lower- and middle-income countries – illustrate these trends and positions.
There is great demand for insights on how to structure agricultural investments in ways that leave land and share value with local farmers and communities. And in many parts of the world, there is growing experience with models for structuring agricultural investments other than large-scale land acquisitions.
This publication captures the highlights of the international workshop "Agricultural investment and more inclusive business models", which took place in Maputo in March 2010. At the workshop, farmers' organisations, agribusiness, government and civil society came together to share lessons from practical experience. The publication makes the insights gained from this exchange available to a wider audience.
KEYWORDS: Agriculture, Food, private investments, Investment and Trade, Natural Resource Management
SOURCE: http://pubs.iied.org/pdfs/12567IIED.pdf
The Toolkit offers a practical "how-to" guide for practitioners as they go through the project cycle. It includes step-by-step guidance and recommended tools for all stages of the project cycle, along with links to useful resources and checklists for key project documents. It also includes CBA Project Standards to support high-quality analysis, design, implementation and knowledge management (including monitoring & evaluation).
KEYWORDS: Toolkit, adaptation, Climate Change, community based
SOURCE: http://www.careclimatechange.org/tk/cba/en/
The Toolkit provides practical assistance for adapting design, implementation, monitoring & evaluation to the challenges posed by climate change. Its step-by-step structure helps users design climate-resilient interventions with sustainable impacts. The Toolkit also includes simple checklists to ensure that activities don't inadvertently increase people's vulnerability to climate change. It provides guidelines and recommended tools for all stages of the project cycle, as well as practical examples. Water resource management and agricultural projects are specifically highlighted, as they were prioritised for field testing by beta-versions of the Toolkit.
KEYWORDS: Toolkit, Climate Change, sustainable development, guidelines
SOURCE: http://www.careclimatechange.org/tk/integration/en/
The toolkit is a step-by-step guide on how to develop adaptation initiatives in developing countries. The guide helps to understand how to differentiate between a climate change "adaptation" and a traditional development initiative, and what key elements must be considered when developing and designing an adaptation initiative. It sets out the fundamental components of the design process, the approach to building stakeholder consensus, and key tools and methodologies.
The toolkit is breaking grounds being one of the first hands-on guides assisting developing countries to move to low emission climate resilience growth paths while mobilizing financial resources to scale-up good practices with sufficient speed and where most needed.
KEYWORDS: Toolkit, Adaptation, Climate Change, UNDP, developing countries
SOURCE: http://www.adaptationlearning.net/sites/default/files/17750_CC_un_toolbox.pdf
Funding a response to climate change after Kyoto will require another look at both burden sharing and funding mechanisms. After reviewing the risks of cap-and-trade with carbon offsets and the advantages of a harmonized carbon tax, a method is proposed to utilize a harmonized carbon tax to finance a global climate fund. A common carbon tax rate is assessed across all nations and collected internally for internal investments in climate change. Financing for the global climate fund is generated from transferring a percentage of the collected carbon tax based on historical responsibility for carbon emissions and national wealth. Collected revenue is disbursed for climate aid based on a set of national climate need factors for adaptation, preserving strategic carbon sinks, low-carbon infrastructures and population management. In the interest of distributive justice, nations themselves determine the need factors of each other. Unlike cap-and-trade, this method does not explicitly require emissions caps. Formulas are presented for collection and disbursement, which require parameters for a globally harmonized carbon tax rate, a climate fund contribution rate, a national wealth threshold for fund contributions and need factors for each nation. Published economic and emissions data are used with the formulas to demonstrate an example of how the financing can work. This presents an equitable way to address climate needs across all nations on both a global and regional level.
KEYWORDS: climate change, global warming, climate fund, carbon tax, cap-and-trade, climate finance, Kyoto protocol
SOURCE: http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/27121/1/MPRA_paper_27121.pdf
FCPF is a global partnership of 37 forested developing countries, 14 donor countries and organizations, and civil society, indigenous peoples, private sector, and international organization observers. FCPF is working to pilot REDD-plus: reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries (UNFCCC, Decision 4/CP15). FCPF's Readiness Mechanism assists countries in moving from a planning stage to a phase of REDD-plus Readiness preparation. Its Carbon Fund intends to pilot generation and payment for emission reductions from REDD-plus countries, and is expected to become operational in 2011. Eighteen 'REDD countries' have submitted formal or draft REDD-plus Readiness Preparation Proposals (R-PPs) for consideration by its governing body, the Participants Committee. These R-PPs provide a wealth of experience from which the international community is learning about REDD-plus. The FCPF also is serving as a key platform in bringing together its wide range of partners to discuss opportunities and challenges to implementing REDD-plus in their respective countries, in a neutral space outside of climate negotiations.
KEYWORDS: REDD+, FCPF, WB, Climate Change, financing
SOURCE: http://www.forestcarbonpartnership.org/fcp/sites/forestcarbonpartnership.org/files/Documents/PDF/Oct2010/FCPF%20Harvesting%20Knowledge%20Nov%2019%202010-revised.pdf
Alongside increasing awareness of the manifestations of climate change and the growing momentum of the debate, the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) is starting to emerge and to shed light on potentially innovative approaches to respond, prepare for, and adapt
to climate change impacts. Sources in the field started to explore the linkages between the information society and sustainable
development in the late 1990s, shifting their focus in the early 2000s from broader global environmental issues to CO2 emissions and mitigation, thus addressing more specifically the role of ICTs in climate change. However, these explorations on the role of ICTs – in the reduction of
emissions through smart grids, dematerialization or intelligent transport systems and buildings, among others – have focused mainly on addressing the priorities of developed countries in regards to climate change.
Despite the prevalence of the mitigation lens among available sources, a growing body of literature indicates the emergence of research in the areas of adaptation and climate change strategies, acknowledging the priorities of developing contexts and the potential of ICTs. Experiences from
vulnerable communities in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean point to the use of applications such as mobile phones, the Internet and community radio as part of climate change responses, including the strengthening of local livelihoods, natural resources management and
training, access to relevant information and networking opportunities, and awareness raising, among others.
However, this constitutes a very new field of enquiry where much remains to be explored. Developing country priorities and perspectives need to become a central part of the debate, if the potential of these technologies is to contribute to more holistic, inclusive responses to the challenges posed by the changing climate.
KEYWORDS: Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), Climate Change, adaptation
SOURCE: http://www.niccd.org/ScopingStudy.pdf
The first decade of the 21st century has brought harbingers of a troubled future for global food security. The food-price spike of 2008 led to food riots and political change in several countries. In 2010, the excessive heat and drought in Russia that led to wildfires and a grain embargo, as well as the
unprecedented floods in Pakistan, signal more trouble ahead. A world
population approaching 9 billion by 2050 and higher incomes in hitherto
poor countries will lead to increased food demand, which means significant
challenges to sustainable agricultural production.
To these already daunting challenges, climate change adds more. Because
food production is critically dependent on local temperatures and precipitation, any change outside the range of current conditions requires
farmers to adapt their practices. The IFPRI study from which this brief is
drawn, Food Security, Farming, and Climate Change to 2050, suggests that
while the adaptations might be beneficial for a few famers, for most farmers
they will pose major challenges to productivity and more difficulties in
managing risk. This brief highlights results from the study on possible
development and climate change scenarios between now and 2050 and on
what these scenarios mean for food security.
KEYWORDS: Food security, Climate Change, IFPRI, Farming
SOURCE: http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/publications/ib66.pdf
A shared vision?
In the Bali Action Plan, adopted at the 2007 UNFCCC
talks in Indonesia, countries agreed to develop a shared
vision of the long-term cooperative action needed to
implement the convention effectively up to and beyond
2012, when the first commitment period of the Kyoto
Protocol ends.
The vision is meant to include a long-term global goal
for emission reductions that takes into account the
principle of 'common but differentiated responsibilities'
— whereby everyone shares the common goal of
effectively dealing with climate change, but with
differing degrees of responsibilities for causing it — as
well as the different socioeconomic conditions and
technological and financial capacity for action that exists
within each country.
This long-term goal addresses mitigation for all parties
to the convention, including the United States and large
emerging emitters such as China and India that do not
have binding commitments under the Kyoto Protocol.
We must mitigate and adapt to climate change. On this,the international community is agreed. But exactly how to do that is still up for debate. There were high hopes that last year's UN climate talks in Copenhagen would deliver a legally binding agreement for action on climate change. But the outcome — the Copenhagen Accord — was instead a political 'statement of intent' that fell significantly short of expectations. Now, after a year of interim meetings and several negotiating texts, parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate
Change (UNFCCC) are gathering in Cancun, Mexico, to try again. Their success will largely depend on settling disputes — particularly between the developed and developing world — about six key issues: shared vision; adaptation; climate finance; technology transfer; reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation; and post-2012 emissions reduction targets.
KEYWORDS: Policy brief, Climate Change, Cancun negotiations
SOURCE: http://pubs.iied.org/pdfs/17089IIED.pdf
The most concrete commitment to come out of the international climate
negotiations in Copenhagen was US$30 billion dollars in 'fast-start climate
finance' to developing countries, with balanced support for both mitigation
and adaptation. Fast-start adaptation finance, in particular, is crucial for poor countries facing rapid climate change. But so far, pledges for adaptation from developed countries have been inadequate and unclear. This briefing outlines ways for the Cancun negotiations to address five crucial issues for adaptation finance: (1) the amount and type of funding being offered, (2) the definition of adaptation, (3) global oversight and accounting, (4) a clear baseline and transparent spending and (5) the channel for delivering funds.
KEYWORDS: Policy brief, Fast-start, Climate Change, adaptation funding, Copenhagen
SOURCE: http://pubs.iied.org/pdfs/17088IIED.pdf
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BSC offers Eighteen Courses Via Distance Learning
Bluefield State College is utilizing distance learning to deliver instruction in 18 courses this semester. BSC significantly augmented its distance learning capabilities with the opening of the June Oblinger Shott Center for Extended Learning during the 1996-97 academic year. The courses provide instruction for students at the College's campuses in Bluefield, Lewisburg, and/or Beckley.
As a "Going The Distance" site, BSC is currently capable of delivering instruction for an associate degree (general education) through distance learning.
During the Fall 1997 semester, Bluefield State will offer 12 interactive video courses, six instructional television courses, and two courses by SATNET.
Plans for the immediate future call for conducting distance learning workshops to train faculty and professional staff in the design and delivery of distance learning courses. The institution's goal is to strengthen its distance learning infrastructure by installing a new interactive video classroom at its Beckley (Harper Industrial Park) campus. BSC will also upgrade our Greenbrier Community College Center electronic classroom to full production capability. BSC is awaiting news on the status of grants that seek funding assistance for installing electronic classrooms in Welch and in Pocahontas County.


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The Lori E. Talsky Center for Human Rights of Women and Children was founded in 2012 due to the funding and inspiration of Lori E. Talsky, '96, and her husband, Alan S. Zekelman.
The Talsky Center's mission is to educate MSU College of Law students, as well as the broader community, about international human rights law and international humanitarian law. The Center aims to promote an understanding of the important civilizing role that this body of law so often plays in a world fraught with transgressions against human dignity and well-being. The Center promotes human rights for all people, with a focus on women and children—generally the most vulnerable and, therefore, most easily victimized members of society.
The Talsky Center offers a diverse program of activities to serve MSU Law students and contribute to strengthening advocacy for human rights. For example, the Center funds externships for MSU Law students at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, which is located at The Hague in The Netherlands, and at other courts and institutions devoted to upholding these rights.
Each academic year, the Talsky Center sponsors a variety of speakers at the Law College to share their expertise in international human rights or humanitarian law, or their knowledge of one of the ongoing crises engendered by violations of such law. The Center also organizes annual symposia on a wide range of important human rights law issues.
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Janice R. WilliamsApril 28,2013
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GRANVILLE, N.Y. Janice R. Williams, 87, a former resident of Danby, Vt., and Florence, Vt., passed away peacefully on Wednesday, April 24, at her residence in Granville, after a long illness. Her loving children were by her side.
Born on September 22, 1925, in West Rupert, Vt., she was the daughter of Theodore H. and Mary (Braymer) Hay. She received her primary education in West Rupert, Vt., and graduated from Salem, N.Y., High School in 1943. She married Merle E. Williams on November 22, 1946, in Rupert, Vt. Mr. Williams predeceased her on October 2, 1989, and now they are reunited.
Her home and family were her primary interests. She enjoyed decorating her home for every season and holiday, and took great pride in the accomplishments of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. In her younger years she enjoyed going dancing, taking long car rides in the country with her family, crocheting and reading. Later in life she loved to watch the birds and wildlife out her window. She also enjoyed her flower gardens and her pond and mountain views. She once remarked that she felt as if she was on vacation every day at home.
She is survived by a daughter, Claudia Williams of Granville; three sons, George Williams and Jeffrey Williams, both of Manchester Center, Vt., and Jack Williams of Granville, N.Y.; four grandchildren, Jeffrey Williams, Jr. and his wife Buffy, Blair, Sierra, and Miranda Williams; three great-grandchildren; her brother, Douglas Hay and his wife Beverly of Sandgate, Vt.; and several nieces, nephews, and cousins. In addition to her husband, her sister, Winifred Baker, also predeceased her.
At Mrs. Williams request there will be no calling hours. A private service and interment will be held at 12 pm on May 12, 2013, at the Scottsville Cemetery in Danby, Vt.
Memorial contributions may be made to Washington County Hospice, 415 Lower Main St., Hudson Falls, N.Y. 12839.
Arrangements are under the direction of the Robert M. King Funeral Home, 23 Church Street, Granville, NY 12832.MORE IN ObituariesCharles T. Baker
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Curbing greenhouse gasDecember 28,2013
Readers of The Times Argus recently learned that Vermont has fallen well short of its first major goal in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The news came in a report from the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources and states that greenhouse gas emissions are now about where they were in 1990, despite legislation passed in 2006 and efforts to curb carbon pollution.
Deb Markowitz, head of the ANR, stated, We will need to redouble our efforts if we are to achieve the (GHG) emission reduction goals we have set She adds that nearly half of Vermont GHG emissions come from the transportation sector. To address the shortfall, Ms. Markowitz offers that vehicle emissions will be reduced as vehicles powered by electricity grow in popularity and as more electricity comes from renewable sources.
Other important factors that will contribute to curbing GHG include using less heating fuel and warmer winters. We will defer on the question of how exactly the ANR will address the latter. However, the other factors, namely vehicle traffic and heating fuel and their role in the GHG equation, invite comment.
We view the first, the transportation sector, as posing some intractable obstacles as it relates to Vermont achieving our GHG goals. Is it really likely as the ANR hopes that the typical Vermonter will buy an electric car the present ranges of which are 40 to 70 miles on average depending on make and model, weather, speed and terrain? When and if battery capacity and technology improve, will a critical mass of Vermonters be able to afford electric cars and the supercharging capacity we will need in our garages and offices? And what about light trucks so important and so common in our state? What about family-sized vehicles, utility vehicles, heavy trucks for business and industry, and heavy equipment? What about logging trucks and equipment so essential to our state? And farm vehicles? We would offer that as economic development progresses, Vermonts transport sector might go in the exact opposite direction of what are now mainly smaller electric passenger vehicles.
Even in an unlikely electric car future, where will the electricity come from? We submit that some sources are renewable but others that have masqueraded as renewable and sustainable are not. Wind, solar, hydro, geothermal and tidal energy are renewable. But wood biomass is one that is not. In planning Vermonts energy future we need to be precise about what is renewable and what is not if this term is being held out as the holy grail.
As for renewability, the length of time that it takes for hardwoods to return to Vermont forests calls into question the very term renewable as it applies to whole tree harvesting and at the rate required for two and perhaps even a third biomass plant. Most important with regard to biomass, however, is the fact that biomass undermines the state effort to curb GHG because wood biomass produces as much carbon and GHG pollution as do coal-fired plants.
If the ANR is sincere about curbing greenhouse gas, it needs to make good on its promise. It can do so by taking a clear and explicit position in opposition to the proposal to build a biomass electric power plant in North Springfield.
The North Springfield plant, by the developers own facts and figures, will produce 448,000 tons of greenhouse gas each year, for 50 years that the plant is projected to operate. Four hundred and forty-eight thousand tons of GHG amounts to the GHG produced by 91,000 cars on Vermonts roadways. And the above pollution does not include the emissions from the harvesting equipment, the tractor-trailer transport vehicles and processing the wood. Will the harvesting equipment, transport trucks, processing equipment and yard vehicles at the proposed plant consist of electric vehicles?
The ANR is the steward of our natural resources. It cannot, in good faith, on one hand profess concern for curbing greenhouse gas and advocate for clean vehicles and renewable energy, while at the same time turning a blind eye to archaic wood biomass electricity power and the ill-conceived development of a wood biomass plant in North Springfield.
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Tool borrowing lands man under arrest
BARRE A Worcester man is accused of going into another mans house and taking tools when he wasnt home.
Joey R. Ewen, 36, pleaded not guilty to felony unlawful trespass of an occupied residence Wednesday in Chittenden County criminal court. If convicted, he faces a maximum of three years in prison and a $2,000 fine.
According to the Vermont State Police affidavit, Craig Cane, of Worcester, called state police Tuesday to say that two of his power tools were missing. Cane told state police that Ewen had taken a Sawzall and a Rotozip tool from Canes home and had left a note saying, Crig I needed to barrow your sawall and Rotor Joey Bring Back ASAP.
When state police arrived at Canes home on Elmore Road, Cane showed state police the note and the empty case that had contained the tools. Cane told state police that he leaves his front door unlocked and has never had to lock it in his entire life.
Cane told state police that he had bought the tools from Ewen for $250. He said he could not pay for the tools all at once and had set up a payment plan with Ewen. Cane told state police he still owed $35 for the tools and tried to pay Ewen the remaining money Sept. 13 but that Ewen failed to meet him.
State police said Ewen told them he had gone into Canes home and taken the tools. Ewen told state police he did not think he did anything wrong because Cane still owed him money for the tools and he and Cane were buddies, according to the affidavit.
Ewen went back to Canes home, followed by state police, gave the tools back to Cane and was arrested.
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Second I'd like to ask, regardless of success, do you not see similarities?
JR coming off the bench regardless? Not being able to adjust without a PG? Small ball line-ups? Constantly switching on defense producing mismatches against our own team? I even see the same dumb ol' PG give to a wing player- run towards him- and get the ball back sh*t. Corny. How about the three point chucking with disregard?
The inability to hold down the paint? The force feeding of Novak who is by far one of the worse defensive players I've seen. I think its a tragedy a backyard shooter can make millions in this league without being able to play D? Do you know how many tall backyard shooters I know? WOW! And I'm not hating just reminding you and coach... what happened to accountability?
And really this thread is about inconsistencies. Is leading the league in threes attempted an example of a defensive team? Or how about being in the bottom ten in rebounds? Is that defense? Is that what coach preached?
And finally I'd like to ask you... when was the last time you saw a team struggle in the manner we do on defense? Not because the players have no skill, because they are constantly either switching or out of position.
I enjoy coach and I support him but I can be objective and spot his areas that need improvement. As you say he's light years apart and as so I have raised my expectations. It's not unreasonable to expect coach to know who his best players are, game plan and play them. If I wanted someone to ignore their talent I would have kept MDA.
Is it unreasonable to hold coach to his word and pedigree? Didn't coach say he would design an offense to feature our two stars? You see that?
Didn't coach say he would preach defense? So why the small line up with two defensive liability players when a viable big is sitting right there producing in the most efficient manner possible?
Let's not jump to conclusions. After all, coach is the fastest to 50 wins.. it would be a shame to fall before the finish line. Even worse to be a top seed and not make it to round two. Step up your expectations. You can't call yourself a defensive coach and are unable to lock a player down. Tell me, when was the last time we locked a (as in ONE) player down? Not he's cold. We purposefully game planned to lock him down...?
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My little one is 13mths old. He is on the little side, 10th percentile. He has reflux and a dairy allergy (it has been a rough year). ANy who, he is such a busy guy that he just can't be bothered with nursing most of the day. I worry about him not getting enough, especially since he is small. Is there a rule of thumb on how often they should nurse? He just recently started sleeping a little better (thank you GOD) so I can't count on night nursing as much. he typically will nurse off and on in the morning from 6-9, eat breakfast, nurse again, nurse around nap and after. His evening nursings are the worst (once at dinner then at bed). Once everyone is home in the evening he is too busy. He will nurse to sleep and wakes at least once. So he gets at least 5, not counting middle of the night. however I don't think he gets much right before bed as my supply is always very low then.
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sadly my frozen throne won't install i think i had a Naruto map
Played a ton of WC2 and WC3, but sadly both copies belong to my brother, who now lives a pretty large distance from me.
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Yet, some Texas school officials are relieved with the passage of a couple of pieces of legislation that have been signed into law by Gov. Rick Perry – including the "Merry Christmas bill."
House Bill 308, which some have described as a "distraction" and "political issue," would allow all faiths to exchange holiday greetings and display religious scenes and symbols on school property.
School districts can set up decorations like Nativity scenes, Christmas trees and menorahs on school property, as long as they are not proselytizing, and staffs and students can offer each other seasonal greetings like "Merry Christmas" and "Happy Hanukkah."
The bill's author said it was intended to help protect school districts from lawsuits and help restore some sanity to "political correctness run amuck."
More importantly, Gov. Perry also signed HB 5, which will overhaul high school graduation requirements and reduce the stakes of standardized testing on high school students. The new law will lower the number of end-of-course exams they must pass to graduate from 15 to five.
Approved unanimously by both the Texas House and Senate, the law is designed to give more flexibility to students who want to focus on career and technical training, not just college-prep courses.
And that's as it should be. It seems that many school administrators and teachers have been sweating the announcement of the latest round of State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (or STAAR) test results with mixed results.
Statewide, the students fared the best on science assessments and continued to struggle with writing, according to results released June 10 by the Texas Education Agency. Only 52.7 percent passed English II writing.
Commissioner of Education Michael L. Williams said, "Our students and teachers are still adjusting to the new expectations, but it is clear we must improve instruction to meet 21st century demands."
However, 15 end-of-course exams to graduate? No wonder some have referred to this as the Death STAAR.
Local superintendents would have preferred another bill which would have lowered the testing requirements also for elementary and middle school students. Maybe next session.
Until then, they can say "Merry Christmas," and give thanks that some have realized not every student needs to take calculus. Getting a college degree is not essential for all Texas students.


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The legacy of one of television's most beloved and acclaimed series continues with 4 full-length Murder, She Wrote movies. Oscar®-nominee Angela Lansbury triumphantly returns as mystery writer Jessica Fletcher, the iconic role for which she received 12 Primetime Emmy® Award nominations. In South by Southwest, a chance meeting on a train embroils Jessica with foreign spies and stolen government secrets. Then, a getaway to Los Angeles becomes deadly when she tries to solve the murder of a former Soviet KGB officer in A Story to Die For. Jessica travels to Virginia-and into her own family history-in The Last Free Man, where she discovers that she inherited her sleuthing skills from a relative who worked to abolish slavery. And finally, it's off to the Emerald Island in The Celtic Riddle, where Jessica tries to claim an inheritance but faces opposition from a potential killer who's trying to do anything to get the fortune. Featuring a stellar roster of guest stars, the Murder, She Wrote Movie Collection has fans following the clues and solving the capers yet again!
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Sound like Ricky learned his lesson about wrecking his GF. Was a funny segment last night on "After The Lap".
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