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Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
"No otherwise qualified individual with a disability in the United States... shall, solely by reason of her or his disability, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance."
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 is a federal civil rights law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in programs and activities that receive Federal financial assistance from the U.S. Department of Education. Section 504 establishes a student's right to full access and participation to education and all school-related activities and require schools provide appropriate services to meet the individual needs of qualified students.
Who Qualifies?
A student is considered "qualified" under Section 504 if the student is between the ages of 3 and 22 years of age and has a disability, which is defined as a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities. Major life activities include caring for one's self, walking, seeing, hearing, speaking, breathing, working, performing manual tasks, and learning. Some examples of impairments that may substantially limit major life activities, even with the help of medication, aids or devices are: attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), asthma, allergies, blindness or visual impairment, deafness or hearing impairment, diabetes, epilepsy, heart disease, and mental illness.
With the passage of the ADA Amendments Act in 2008, Congress expanded the scope of "major life activities" and clarified that a disability determination under the ADA and Section 504 should not demand extensive analysis, which is why the ameliorating effects of mitigating measures (other than ordinary eyeglasses or contact lenses) are no longer considered when making a determination.
In addition to providing required services and program modifications, school districts are also required to have written procedures regarding their administration of services under Section 504. These procedural safeguards include notice of the law and its applicability, an opportunity for students and their parents or guardians to examine relevant records, an impartial hearing with the student's parents or guardians and representation by counsel, and a review procedure. The procedural safeguards used to comply with IDEA are one means of meeting this requirement.
Local school districts are responsible for implementing the provisions of Section 504. However, ultimate responsibility for enforcing the law rests with the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) of the U.S. Department of Education. If you believe that a school or school district has violated this law and your efforts to resolve your complaint at the local level have not been successful, you may file a formal complaint with OCR by contacting the regional office.
U.S. Department of Education
Office for Civil Rights
500 W. Madison Street, Suite 1475
Chicago, Illinois 60661-4544
Telephone: (312) 730-1560
TDD toll-free: (877) 521-2172
Email: email@example.com
You may also call the OCR Hotline at 1-800-421-3481 or file a complaint using the OCR Online Complaint Form. Section 504 may also be enforced through private lawsuits. The Section 504 regulations do not contain a requirement that a person file a complaint with OCR and exhaust his or her administrative remedies before filing a private lawsuit.
Statute Citations:
- Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (29 U.S.C. § 794)
- Implementing Regulations: (34 CFR, Part 104)
State Publications:
- Educational Rights and Responsibilities: Understanding Special Education in Illinois (See Chapter 15)
- School Health Program—Illinois Department of Human Services
- Guidance: Recommended Guidelines for Medication Administration in Schools– Under Revision (expected release by August, 2016)
- Assessment Accommodations for Students with Disabilities: IEP and 504
- Self-Guided Tutorial on Section 504
Note: This tutorial was developed by the Florida Department of Education, Bureau of Exceptional Education and Student Services. The Florida Department of Education has given permission for the ISBE to provide a link to the tutorial on our website. We would like to express our gratitude for allowing us to provide this link. Please note that this tutorial makes references to terminology specific to Florida (i.e. ESE – Exceptional Student Education, FEEA – Florida Educational Equity Act, etc.)
The tutorial includes topics such as: Section 504 Requirements, Procedures for K-12 students, Developing a 504 Plan, Procedural safeguards, Discipline, Comparison of Section 504 and IDEA 2004, Section 504 and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Protection for Postsecondary Students.


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February 7, 2013 - 2:44pm
Pearl River Community College football will be having an open tryout for the 2013 football team.
The non-contact tryouts will be on Saturday, February 9th, 2013. Players should report to the football field house where registration will be at 10:00am, with tryouts beginning at 10:30am in Dobie Holden Stadium. Participants will be responsible for bringing shirts, shorts, tennis shoes, and cleats.
Tryouts are opened to unsigned players that meet National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) eligibility standards.
February 7, 2013 - 3:29pm
POPLARVILLE - More than 150 high school students competed Thursday, Feb. 7, in Skills USA regional competition held at Pearl River Community College.
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Ben Broom, a student at Carl Loftin Career Center in Columbia, works on his residential wiring assignment Feb. 7 during Skills USA high school competition at Pearl River Community College. He placed first and advances to state competition.

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Skip to comments.Over 30 Senate Democrats vote to repeal the medical device tax (Now Carrot for McConnell)
Posted on 10/14/2013 10:30:10 AM PDT by Sybeck1
As I mentioned yesterday, the medical device tax that went into effect last January is just one of the many insidious job-killing measures contained within ObamaCare, but it is an especially terrible one. The 2.3 percent excise tax is meant to raise a handsome $30 billion to pay for ObamaCare over the next decade, except that, added bonus: Its going to stifle innovation and competition in an industry that provides all manner of life-saving medical devices, from MRIs to pacemakers to blood tubes.
And this hasnt just been a Republican refrain, by the way. Thursday night, the Senate voted overwhelmingly to repeal the medical device tax, with more than 30 Democrats joining in:
The vote was largely symbolic, but the 79-20 tally signals strong opposition to the 2.3% tax on device sales that went into effect Jan. 1. Even though the levy is meant to help foot the bill for the signature legislative achievement of President Barack Obamas first term, 33 Democrats as well as independent Sen. Angus King of Maine joined Republican senators in voting to repeal the tax.
The vote came as an amendment to the Senate Democrats fiscal year 2014 budget, a partisan tax-and-spending blueprint that stands no chance of passing the GOP-controlled House. Still, the solid bipartisan support shows growing momentum for repealing the tax, which lawmakers have argued hurts U.S. competitiveness and costs highly paid jobs.
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R., Utah) introduced the measure earlier Thursday with the support of nine Democrats, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island. I do wonder that some of these Democrats couldnt summon these same scruples with the health care overhaul when they were falling over themselves to pass the dang thing in 2010, though. Such a shame.
The vote may have been a symbolic one, but nevertheless, this has got to be kind of uncomfortable for the White House: Congress finally managed to find some bipartisan agreement on something, and its over just how stupid of a funding-mechanism idea this medical device tax was to begin with.
From March, McConnell is agreeing to give the Dems just what they want.
This tax is a killer. A buddy of mine invented a small little coated wire tester used in the motherboard construction. It works on many devices but the medical industry accounted for almost 60% of his sales. Since January, he has sold 1-100th of what he needs to sell to keep the doors open. It is because of this tax.
The White House is probably steaming mad that their will was undone.
Lucy is teeing up the football for Charlie.
This tax is bad but the problem for the medical device industry is much much bigger. It take an average of 13 years to take a new device through the FDA process. Investors want a return after 10.
A big chunk of the industry has already moved off shore. The rest will be there soon.
They agree not to f/u on a bad act. Let's apply this rationale to all of Obamacare, instead of Mt. Tortoise, Weepy and Four-eyes concluding,
"Well, our valued colleagues across the aisle are willing to be reasonable, harrumph, harrumph—we recommend bending over ...".
The medical device tax is exactly what Peter King (RINO-NY) wanted to negotiate on. Not defunding Obamacare. Just negotiate the medical device tax.
It turns out that the democrats don't want it either. The fact is, the democrats have been admitting that the medical device tax was a mistake almost immediately after Obamacare was rammed down our throats.
Peter King was willing to settle for a compromise on something that even the democrats didn't want...and then call that a good day's work.
I am furious over what Peter King expects conservatives to accept as a tough fight and a reasonable compromise...essentially Peter King expects us to accept capitulation disguised as a victory.
Who is "Mt. Tortoise"?
Medical device tax?? Don't stop there!The Truth About the Health Care Bills [A Constitutional lawyer has read the entire bill]
Well, I have done it! I have read the entire text of proposed House Bill 3200: The Affordable Health Care Choices Act of 2009.
I studied it with particular emphasis from my area of expertise, constitutional law. I was frankly concerned that parts of the proposed law that were being discussed might be unconstitutional. What I found was far worse than what I had heard or expected.
To begin with, much of what has been said about the law and its implications is in fact true, despite what the Democrats and the media are saying. The law does provide for rationing of health care, particularly where senior citizens and other classes of citizens are involved, free health care for illegal immigrants, free abortion services, and probably forced participation in abortions by members of the medical profession.
The Bill will also eventually force private insurance companies out of business, and put everyone into a government run system. All decisions about personal health care will ultimately be made by federal bureaucrats, and most of them will not be health care professionals. Hospital admissions, payments to physicians, and allocations of necessary medical devices will be strictly controlled by the government.
However, as scary as all of that is, it just scratches the surface. In fact, I have concluded that this legislation really has no intention of providing affordable health care choices. Instead it is a convenient cover for the most massive transfer of power to the Executive Branch of government that has ever occurred, or even been contemplated. If this law or a similar one is adopted, major portions of the Constitution of the United States will effectively have been destroyed.
The first thing to go will be the masterfully crafted balance of power between the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of the U.S. Government. The Congress will be transferring to the Obama Administration authority in a number of different areas over the lives of the American people, and the businesses they own.
The irony is that the Congress doesn't have any authority to legislate in most of those areas to begin with! I defy anyone to read the text of the U.S. Constitution and find any authority granted to the members of Congress to regulate health care.
This legislation also provides for access, by the appointees of the Obama administration, in direct violation of the specific provisions of the 4th Amendment to the Constitution, of all of your personal healthcare information, your personal financial information, and the information of your employer, physician, and hospital. All of this is a protecting against unreasonable searches and seizures. You can also forget about the right to privacy. That will have been legislated into oblivion regardless of what the 3rd and 4th Amendments may provide.
If you decide not to have healthcare insurance, or if you have private insurance that is not deemed acceptable to the Health Choices Administrator appointed by Obama, there will be a tax imposed on you. It is called a tax instead of a fine because of the intent to avoid application of the due process clause of the 5th Amendment. However , that doesn't work because since there is nothing in the law that allows you to contest or appeal the imposition of the tax, it is definitely depriving someone of property without the due process of law.
So, there are three of those pesky amendments that the far left hate so much, out the original ten in the Bill of Rights, that are effectively nullified by this law. It doesn't stop there though.
The 9th Amendment that provides: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people;
The 10th Amendment states: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are preserved to the States respectively, or to the people. Under the provisions of this piece of Congressional handiwork neither the people nor the states are going to have any rights or powers at all in many areas that once were theirs to control.
I could write many more pages about this legislation, but I think you get the idea. This is not about health care; it is about seizing power and limiting rights. Article 6 of the Constitution requires the members of both houses of Congress to "be bound by oath or affirmation to support the Constitution." If I was a member of Congress I would not be able to vote for this legislation or anything like it, without feeling I was violating that sacred oath or affirmation. If I voted for it anyway, I would hope the American people would hold me accountable.
For those who might doubt the nature of this threat, I suggest they consult the source, the US Constitution, and Bill of Rights. There you can see exactly what we are about to have taken from us.
Michael Connelly
Retired attorney,
Constitutional Law Instructor
Carrollton, Texast stop there.
'Sing Along With Mitch' McConnell.
Perhaps, but where ever they go, they will still need these test parts and as it stands right now, nobody is making products. You and I and aunt Elsie who needs a pacemaker or some other device between now and after they get this issue settled are the ones who'll suffer. My buddy ships worldwide. This just isn't a USA problem.
That repeal has been bought and paid for by the medical device manufacturers. They give their contributions and the Senators vote. I think all politicians should wear sponsor patches like NASCAR drivers. That way you know who they are really working for.
Important—but a side issue. Former Boehner staffers are lobbyists for the industry. This is a strategy to drive a wedge into the Republican House. RATS give up a little revenue—GOP gives up the country.
I'm glad the manufactures are holding Congress' feet to the fire. WTF is wrong with that? You sound like a liberal.
Pretzel logic.
After taking away his dinner, Reid throws McConnell a bone.
Will McConnell slobber all over it???
No, it's pretty straight forward. Take a dime, give me a million.
Why would the Republicans even consider changing this law? This is insane. I heard last week that congress has passed 19 different laws to the ACA. Why? Let this bill stand on its on! The more you tweak it the more it becomes a massive unfunded liability. This law is now over 20K pages and a complete mess. The only deal the Republicans should make on this law is repeal!.
Ah! I thought Mitch was Four-eyes. So, who is Four-eyes?
The Democrats CHOSE to destroy American innovation,
and then went on TO ARM al Qaeda.
Who who who— what are you, an owl? ;^)
Who wears glasses besides Mr. Tortoise.
Here's a hint: Barry has a 'body man.'
Juan McCain has one too.
He's John Boehner's butt-boy.
Obamacare is HR 3590, not HR 3200. That essay seems to be from 2009 and outdated.
McConnell, McStain, Graham, Alexander, Corkerhold etc... will be lapping this up like starving dogs on their own vomit.
worthwhile fundamental research and development often takes years and millions of dollars with uncertainties and risks.
stopping fundamental research and development now dries up the funding pipeline and essentially dismantles the R&D infrastructure that took decades to build. restarting the pipeline may take billions of dollars once knowhow is lost or transferred overseas.
HR3590 has more than 2000 pages but here is a summary, only 49 pages ..
In the HR3590 summary, the words Requires the Secretary (of DHS) appear 98 times and Directs the Secretary appears 64 times. Authorizes the Secretary appears 30 times. The law gives a tremendous amount of power to one individual, Kathleen Sebelius, who serves only at the will of the President and was NOT elected by We, the People. It is Congress who makes the laws, NOT Katleen Sebelius and Not Barack Obama.
The Democrat Congress passed Obamacare and gave the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) free reign to do whatever it damn well pleases. Obamacare is making determinations as to what taxes citizens are required to pay. That too is the Constitutional responsibility given to Congress. Has Congress relinquished its Constitutional responsibility when it passed Obamacare? If so, they better take it back before its too late. This law clearly violates the Constitution separation of powers.
Not seeing a Kenyan problem here. 79 Senate votes to repeal is a super majority meaning that the Kenyan's sniveling veto, if he does it, is OVER RIDEABLE. Surely the House can vote to override. So, c'mon Boner-—lets get to over riding. If Reid won't bring up a vote to over ride then his snake oil road show will be obvious to all.
IT will be hailed a tea party victory when it in fact will give some lobbyists what they want. Nothing for the little man.
This equals =the house was on fire but we saved the chimney.
As much of an effect as a spoonful of water removed from the ocean
Thought I heard (read in an article?) the medical device industry had gone along with the tax in the bill because more people would be needing to buy medical devices now (since ACA adds so many new people to the system).
Guess the medical device industry has changed its mind. I'll have to look for that article or discussion online I saw back in August. Maybe I heard wrong.
Follow the money and stop slinging around the L word.
The medical device industry and the insurance industry could have ensured zerocare never saw the light of day. Instead they assisted in it's "passing". Useful idiots all.
One has to marvel why these folks would push for this Pelosi-pandered pig in a poke.
We're weary and wowed by the world, is why.
Well, evil like this is God's wake up call to us.
so to make us feel like we really done something, we're going to get this medical device tax repeal...big whooping poop.....
"The medical device tax is exactly what Peter King (RINO-NY) wanted to negotiate on. Not defunding Obamacare. Just negotiate the medical device tax.
It turns out that the democrats dont want it either...Peter King was willing to settle for a compromise on something that even the democrats didnt want...and then call that a good days work.
Yep. The guy really is a vile piece of work.
These democrat senators have companies that make medical devices in their states. The republicans just gave them cover. Utah! What the hell is wrong with you?
...the medical device tax that went into effect last January is just one of the many insidious job-killing measures contained within ObamaCare, but it is an especially terrible one... to stifle innovation and competition in an industry that provides all manner of life-saving medical devices, from MRIs to pacemakers to blood tubes... Senate voted overwhelmingly to repeal the medical device tax, with more than 30 Democrats joining in... the 79-20 tally signals strong opposition to the 2.3% tax on device sales that went into effect Jan. 1.
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Police investigating toddler's death as homicide
Spokane Police Major Crimes detectives are investigating the March 31 death of a 18-month-old toddler, which the medical examiner ruled Monday as a homicide.
The toddler, Rylee Castner, died on March 31 at Sacred Heart Medical Center.
According to a search warrant, Castner was taken to the hospital on March 30 after medics were called and found the toddler was bleeding out of the mouth and not responsive. An officer responding to the hospital noticed Castner had bruising under both cheeks that appeared to be finger marks, a bruise on one foot and a large indentation on the left side of the head.
The search warrant added that the paternal father is not involved with the toddler and the mother has a boyfriend who does not live with her but often stays at the home.
Initial reports said the baby had been sick for several days and was taking a prescription antibiotic.
The grandfather is grieving for his grandson's death but angry because he said his daughter's boyfriend of four months did this to Rylee.
He said the boyfriend was left with the toddler on March 30 while the mother took a shower. Later that day the family went to a barbecue and the grandmother first noticed Rylee was lethargic, unresponsive and had blood coming from his mouth.
At that point the family called 9-1-1 for medical care for Rylee. He was taken to Sacred Heart, rushed into surgery but died the next day at the hospital.
On Monday the medical examiner's office ruled his death was a result of a "left subdural hemmorhage and right parietal skull fracture due to blunt force trauma."
The manner of death was ruled a homicide. Police report that witnesses have been interviewed but so far no arrests have been made and they won't say who specifically they're looking at as a person of interest or suspect in the case.
"Here we are looking at another tragic death of a small child that didn't need to happen, and so whatever the circumstances are that we're going to discover through the investigation it's still a tragedy," Spokane police Commander Brad Arleth said.
The tragedy of Rylee Castner's death is something the staff at Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery has seen many times before.
"It's heartbreaking and I think everyone would agree with us that there's just no way around that, it's just devastating, it's unnecessary," Vanessa Behan executive director Amy Knapton said.
Knapton said their nursery is open to any parent, for any reason, whether it be an emergency, or just a needed break to run errands, so that they don't have to leave their child with someone they don't entirely trust.
"What I would say to a mom is it's your precious child, just be very careful whoever you leave them with, with a child care provider, with a grandparent, anybody, you just have to make sure that you trust them," she said.
Police were very tight-lipped about this investigation so that it is not compromised when it does come time to make an arrest.
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Running through painApril 17,2013
The bombs in Boston have struck us in two ways. There is the shock and horror of a new attack, a new day of infamy, a new cause for grief. And yet in confronting this new horror, we encounter an old story in all its tawdriness, smallness and desperation.
New Englanders appreciate the Boston Marathon as a springtime festival of sport and patriotism. It occurs on Patriots Day, a holiday in Massachusetts and Maine marking the Battles of Lexington and Concord in 1775. The Red Sox play at 11:05 a.m. in deference to the Marathon, adding to the holiday atmosphere.
Those participating in the Marathon engage in a grueling physical ordeal for the sake of the challenge, and those who cheer them on celebrate the runners physical prowess. On Monday, in the midst of this happy occasion, someone set off two bombs, and soon all of us were exposed to video and audio depictions of the chaos, blood, grief and fear. Stories filtered out from people who were there, recounting the heroism of bystanders and rescue workers and the anguish of those who suffered losses.
One of the unfortunate effects of an act of terrorism like the Boston attacks is that quickly most of us begin to wonder who would have done it and why. And so quickly we become absorbed in what we imagine to be the thinking of whoever it was who planted those bombs. Soon we find ourselves drifting into the netherworld of paranoia, alienation, anger and desperation, trying to find an answer as we trace the effects back to their likely cause. There is never a satisfactory answer.
Over the years we have become acquainted with a rogues gallery of small and otherwise inconsequential people who have made their splash in the current of history by acts of terrible destruction. We could trace that history all the way back to John Wilkes Booth. There are other names Lee Harvey Oswald, Timothy McVeigh, Jared Loughner, James Holmes, Adam Lanza.
And there is the name of Osama bin Laden. The experience of Sept. 11, 2001, is still fresh in many ways. We remember people emerging from clouds of smoke, faces twisted in fear and grief. The scene was repeated on a different scale on Monday in Boston.
And since this has become an old story, we have learned some lessons; the words of President Obama reflected one of them. In his statement Tuesday he said: So if you want to know who we are, what America is, how we respond to evil thats it. Selflessly. Compassionately. Unafraid.
Unafraid is a word we ought to keep in mind. Attacks like that in Boston naturally create fear, anxiety, anger. But we have been here before. Being unafraid means we will not allow our fear and our anger to undo us. The authorities will press ahead with their investigation, and the victims and onlookers will experience their losses. But in the face of that awful experience, it is possible to carry on with our heads high, without panic or reckless action.
There is much to learn about what happened in Boston in fact, there is everything to learn. Was it part of a foreign conspiracy, like Sept. 11, or was it a plot hatched in the perfervid brain of a homegrown zealot?
Terrorist acts of this sort are called cowardly because the killer stands at a distance, out of danger, to attack innocent, vulnerable people. That is cowardly. It is courageous to act in the face of cowardly acts with strength and restraint, force and reason, vigilance, compassion and devotion to friends, neighbors and country.
As marathon runners know, it is possible to run through pain. We need to keep on running, confronting anew that old story, which, we fear, will be told again and again through the years whenever the goodness of humanity stands vulnerable to harm, which is always.MORE IN EditorialsProtesters converged on a bank in Montpelier early this week to show their solidarity with the... Full StoryPhil Scott will take office next month after winning with a margin of 51.11 percent to 43. Full StoryIdeologues and partisans work from the outcome backward. Full Story
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Cs00500 - Property (apartment, house or villa) for buy or rent
Quinta - North of Portugal
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Wonderful baroque manor house integrated in an agricultural estate, located in the Protected Landscape of Azibo, in the North of Portugal, with an harsch and impressive landscape.
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This year marks 100 years of the film industry in Hawaii. Despite the departure of the recent ABC show "Last Resort," industry officials say it has been very lucrative for Hawaii.
For that to continue, industry officials say the state needs to extend the film tax credits and step up and improve its facilities.
KITV4 News toured the Hawaii Film Studio at Diamond Head, the only state-owned-and-operated film studio in the country.
The studio is quiet now, but "Hawaii Five-O" will be soon moving in to find a mix of new and old.
The old "Five-O" cottages were taken over by termites. The old "Five-O" warehouse has space, but no air conditioning or soundproofing.
Nearby, a keawe tree was literally held up by a metal pole.
"This is our infamous sound stage, which is so critically important to the state," said Hawaii State Film Commissioner Donne Dawson.
The sound stage came online about two decades ago. Once the doors are closed, the outside world is shut out and magic is made -- that is, until the air conditioning breaks down.
"You've got to have a contained area to shoot. You've got to have something where air conditioning doesn't break down on you every other week," said Dawson.
Production companies manage to make it work, piping in air. They have also added to the facility, providing what the state could not.
It's Dawson's hope the state will step up and fund the necessary repairs.
"The state needs to show that it's going to carry more of its share in terms of that," said Dawson.
That includes extending the ACT 88 tax credits that are set to expire in 2015.
"The choices out there are many and we don't have a corner on the beauty market here in Hawaii," said Dawson.
The state film office has been the victim of economics. Just three years ago, the budget for the Diamond Head studio was less than $20,000.
That is slowly changing and budgets are increasing.
Dawson believes the studio needs at least $10 million in repairs. Less than $2 million was budgeted for this fiscal year.


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If Costco ruled corporate America we'd be richer—and happier
- 5:53 pm Monday, October 21st, 2013 by Dian Vujovich
You know that I'm a fan of Costco. Wish I had purchased the stock years ago, but didn't even though I shop there too many times a week to not see first-hand how popular the place is. While Costco's stock price is one thing, what's more impressive is the most excellent how-to example this company can provide to all of corporate America.
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Four more years of decline
Great nations and proud empires have always collapsed from within before they were conquered from without.
President Obama's re-election mirrors the self-indulgent, greedy and envious nation we are rapidly becoming.
Pollsters Michael Barone and Dick Morris got it horribly wrong. Both predicted a 300 electoral-vote win for Romney. It was President Obama who reached that mark.
The central message coming out of the election seems to be that we are no longer the America of our Founders, or even the America that existed during World War II, which produced our "greatest generation."
Instead, the election validates the enormous cultural shift that has been taking place since the '60s when a countercultural bomb was dropped on society, producing moral fallout that continues to this day.
I am a child of the "greatest generation." My parents believed I should learn to take care of myself. They would have been too embarrassed to ask for help, if they needed it. If they did, they would turn to family first, or to a friend or neighbor. There were fewer social programs then, so people mostly did without, living only on what they truly needed. It said something about your character if you refused to strive toward self-sufficiency.
In 2012, nothing appears to embarrass us. Snooki. Honey Boo Boo. Reality TV wives. Look at what is paraded before us as normal. Oppose the new normal and it's you who are the anomaly.
Young people are taught in public schools, at major universities, on television and in movies, that every life choice is acceptable and every tenet open to interpretation. In politics, some proclaim it is right to oppose the successful and envy the rich to the point where they must be denigrated and penalized for their success with higher taxes. No one has to be personally responsible. No education; no motivation; no life plan? No problem. The government will take care of you.
One thing Romney might have done better is to have featured more people who had overcome government dependence by embracing the values he was promoting. Example trumps philosophy and success should trump victimhood. Inspiration follows perspiration. But in our "entitlement" age even that might have been impossible to overcome.
Other signs of cultural decay are accepted with little notice. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 40 percent of babies born in America are born to unmarried women. Shrug. Abortion clinics continue to operate. Yawn.
There is no longer any cultural corrective because we have abandoned the concept of objective truth. Nothing is right or wrong, because that suggests a standard by which right and wrong might be defined. Personal choice is the new "standard," which is no standard at all. One might as well develop individual weights and measures.
Politicians bid for votes, making promises they can't keep to voters who will believe anything, as long as it appeals to greed, envy and their sense of entitlement. This undermines our culture. This fuels our massive debt, weakening our economic power and America's standing in the world.
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#120295 - 01/16/04 09:44 PM trustifarians
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trustifarians: rich young people without jobs
Saw this in an editorial today, saod to be a local Vermont coinage (eta?). I kinda like it. Anybody else heard this one before?
#120296 - 01/16/04 09:52 PM Re: trustifarians
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yes, famous writer that I am, it is one of mine.
actually, I can't say that I haven't heard this, but whether it's Vermont invention, who can really say?
it's a good word, nonetheless. very fitting._________________________
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#120297 - 01/17/04 08:12 AM Re: trustifarians
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Seems a long stretch for Rastifarian to trustifarian.
#120298 - 01/17/04 08:56 AM Re: jeezum crow, mon
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actually, dread locks and reggae are not uncommon here, Bill, and I would guess that some of them at least, are the (self)unemployed wealthy._________________________
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#120299 - 01/17/04 10:57 AM Re: ?
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Loc: Wichita, Kansas
That reminds me, growing up in Birmingham, we had something similar. Wealthy kids in tie-dyes, dreadlocks, you get the picture. I can't remember what we called them??? That was the late eighties. Oooops, just made me remember how old I'm getting.
#120300 - 01/17/04 11:53 AM Re: ?
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Loc: lower upstate New York
I agree with Dr Bill that from Rastifarian to Trustifarian is a loooong stretch! But whatchagunnado about new slang? ... In my yeut they were called "trust-fund babies."
Hi, dwavle! Which Birmingham, UK or Alabama?
#120301 - 01/17/04 12:06 PM Re: ?
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I don't see the stretch at all. my image(perhaps incorrectly) of Rastafarians is of very mellow, maybe doped out, not doing a whole lot(at least on the outside). Trustifarian, which shares syllabification and a similar consonant scheme also are, in my view, people who because of their wealth, don't do too much. they might ski, and spend money, but tend to seem doped out, and their contributions to those around them are pretty little.
I'm not sure if I explained that at all well, but there you go. seems an apt coinage to me._________________________
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#120302 - 01/17/04 05:07 PM daddy's going to be very cross
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Loc: manchester uk
Trustafarian is so old round here (NW/UK) it can hardly even be considered slang. We Mancs use it to describe the wealthy crusties that hang around squat parties taking more drugs than can possibly be any fun and alternating between telling oh so amusing stories about their servants and earnestly banging on about how money is the root of all evil. They are generally the loudest dirtiest girl at the party that somehow can always afford a taxi home.
#120303 - 01/17/04 05:14 PM Re: ?
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Loc: Wichita, Kansas
Alabama - I'm a southern girl at heart but live in Kansas now.
#120304 - 01/18/04 02:21 PM Re: ?
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I don't see the stretch at all. my image(perhaps incorrectly) of Rastafarians is of very mellow, maybe doped out, not doing a whole lot
You lot in Vermont do lead sheltered lives, then!
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There may have been challenges addressed in the DVAA show (which is on exhibit through March 16) but I don't believe any of them stem from gender bias at this point. Phyllis Bilick, Miriam Hernàndez, Ellen Kantro, Jessica Kinney, Hisako Kobayashi, Marjorie Morrow, Tiffanie Morrow, Lisa Strier, Ellen Wilkinson and Mary Grace Yanashot represent a wide spectrum of artistic interpretation and Pinciotti said that he was "struck by these artists' critical eye as well as their Spartan and fearless approach to their work." What struck me was not only the individuality of the women's work, but also how their processes varied, along with the mediums employed. Kantro's mixed media panels incorporate fabric, copper, wood veneers and cork, and although each is designed to hang vertically, she informed me that she "always creates them horizontally" and doesn't see them as the art observer does "until they are hung in the gallery." I found this aspect of the work fascinating, and although Kantro did explain that her panels are often so large that it's difficult to see the sum of their parts before completion, she smiled and shrugged when I suggested that she stand back from time to time.


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Part I
What Online Learning Offers For Those Seeking Advanced Content
You're a high school administrator who has been debating how to better prepare your students for college, and you've been wondering about the possibility of adding some new, higher-level courses. To inform your decision, you and your staff have conducted a thorough appraisal of the current curriculum, including students' access to existing courses and their interest in courses not currently available. You've looked, for example, to see if students have access to all the courses required for admission to the state university system. You've looked at schedules and sequencing to see whether students have multiple opportunities to take advanced courses beyond the baseline university requirements. You've asked your high school counselors and teachers whether they know students who could be performing at higher levels if they were challenged with more rigorous content. You've surveyed students and their parents to find out what additional courses students need or want. You've done all this and more, and what you've learned will help guide your next steps.
For example, if there appears to be great demand for physics or for advanced science courses in general, you may decide to commit your available funding to hiring another highly qualified teacher in that area or sending one or two of your current teachers to receive training to teach advanced courses. If neither of those options is realistic, you may instead seek to establish an arrangement with a local institution of higher education (IHE) to offer the course(s) in some sort of a partnership with your school. Or you may look for another relatively nearby school that is offering the courses you lack, to see if you can arrange for some of your students to take those classes, either by you busing them to the school or by connecting them through videoconferencing, a different form of distance learning.
But what if you cannot locate a school already offering the course or do not have an IHE in your area? What if, in addition to having 20 students who all want to study advanced physics, there are another 10 who want to study 10 different advanced courses?
What if your review suggests that you're already providing a sufficient array of advanced courses but don't have enough sections to accommodate all interested students and, thus, some students are closed out each semester? What if you find that scheduling conflicts are keeping many students from taking desired courses? What if students who have asked for advanced courses also express interest in learning more about the kinds of information technology they are likely to encounter in the world of work?
That's a lot to think about. But for each such question, online learning can offer an answer.
With online learning, districts and schools are not limited to providing only those advanced courses popular enough to ensure full course enrollments (perhaps AP physics or Spanish IV, for example) and, therefore, to warrant committing or training a teacher. With online learning, the individual high school student who wants to study genetics or Arabic can do so. And if a school's AP history teacher can only accommodate 35 of the 45 students who want to take the class, online learning means that the other 10 students do not have to wait another semester or another year to take the course. They can study online.
With online learning, districts and schools can offer important scheduling flexibility to the many students who might need it, whether it's the girl who is trying to fit in extra credits in order to graduate early or the boy who would like to take an additional course but cannot fit it in during the regular school day and needs to leave immediately after his last class to take care of his younger brothers while his parents are at work. Traditional classroom-based courses and those offered through videoconferencing rely on synchronous interaction between students and teacher, requiring all students to show up at a time that is convenient to the school or teacher. In contrast, most online learning programs offer some degree of asynchronous interaction in their courses, which allows students to "attend class" at their convenience, either during or outside the regular school day.
For any student who seeks advanced course work, studying online does more than just offer the sought-after content. It also offers an opportunity to use and become comfortable with the kinds of information technology that are fast becoming an integral element of so many livingwage jobs. For students from low socioeconomic backgrounds who are less likely to have access to adequate technology—or help with using it— in their homes, the opportunity to study online using school equipment is especially important.
Thus, while online learning is certainly not the only way to supplement the curriculum with advanced courses, it offers a practical and flexible way to enrich a district's or school's academic program and to offer advanced courses to greater numbers of students, with the added benefit of helping students develop key technology-related skills.


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The HOT Hot Stove
Right now, dear readers, you are probably experiencing the same agonizing symptoms of baseball withdrawal that Al and I are. We are here to remind you that we know: it hurts. It will continue to hurt… until pitchers and catchers report. If your symptoms gain in severity, do not hesitate to contact your primary caretaker (for those of you who can afford health care, that'd be your doctor; for those of you who cannot, try calling your congressman. I'm sure that will work).
Football and hockey can only carry us so far (not very, especially if you're a jaded Bears fan, or in Mr. Krause's case: a lowly win-deprived Lions fan), so we are left to rely on the offseason baseball hot stove for our daily fixins.
We like our hot stove like we like our coffee: hot.
And INTENSE:
(Mr. Levin is doing just fine. His skin graph surgeries were successful — well, most of them anyway.)
Hate me 'cuz I tricked you into processing that painful imagery, just don't hate me 'cuz I'm right.
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The D-Backs are more interesting now than they've been for the last two months, i. e. since they clinched last place.
xcicix — You must be proud! Ha!
Prince — The lowest of the lows….
he needs to try decaf… Allen could find comfort somewhere with a Browns fan….
Outside the Phillies Looking In
Or, Allen IS a Browns fan… secretly, of course. Anything's possible…


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This B list mostly movie actor has dated some really famous A list actresses
. He also says that he is afraid of getting his hair wet so it is a huge production when he actually washes his hair which he only does every few weeks.
Ryan Phillippe?
He seems like a big ol bundle of Neurosis…
Violet, it must be somebody with straight hair. If I wash my curls more than once a week, I look like…a brown bush. 😀ReplyCancel
Keanu! He seems to get all the stinky actor guessesReplyCancel
He's afraid to wash his hair because…
1. He's afraid he'll wash the color out.
2. Afraid it will fall out
3. Stinky hair weeds out the starfuckers
4. Hair products are too expensive and there's no better oil than your own
5. His hair is unruley(sp?) i.e. curly, kinky, frizzy,etc…
6. He wants to look like Andy Garcia
Someone with hair plugs….other than good old Bradley…who else has them?ReplyCancel
Johnny depp does have gross looking hair, don't think he's a b though,,,,ReplyCancel
Who is JT…?ReplyCancel
Ah,,that fits,,,thanks,,ReplyCancel
Put on a fedora dude!ReplyCancel
Def. someone with the Mattel hair…ie plugs.ReplyCancel
Justin Long?
Jesse Eisenberg?
i think hair problems i think of jude law but not sure what a list actresses he datedReplyCancel
Jared Leto. Explains the Jesus look.ReplyCancel
I don't think this is Owen. He's really only dated one A List Actress – Kate Hudson.
Leto has had Cameron and Scarjo.ReplyCancel
Is Jude Law down to a B list? If so, I'll go with him. He had some great hair transplants or something done. Maybe he likes to baby it now.ReplyCancel
Def DON'T don't think it's Leto. He goes with grunge look but he's usually clean and is hair is on tight. ( as in "real")
Like Owen Wilson guess cuz his hair is looking more n more "frail".
What about the obvious, the other JT = Travolta? I guess the tall is he's more of a tupe guy tho ?? IDK
? Alright, alright, alright? = major hair issuesReplyCancel
Somebody with plugs. Does Jude have plugs?ReplyCancel
Dry shampoo. I recommend Batiste.ReplyCancel
Just to throw it out there, I know a young man with autism/aspergers and he hates to have his head wet.ReplyCancel
For some reason I thought Owen Wilson likes to surf??ReplyCancel
Seven – Plain ol' cornstarch works really well. So does baby powder, but a lot of folks think talc is bad for you.
At one point, I experimented with making my own dry shampoo, bought all these different flours and powders, herbs, and essential oils. There was one I really liked, but I got lazy and just grab cornstarch now.ReplyCancel
"She asks me why, I'm just a hairy guy
I'm hairy noon and night, hair that's a fright
I'm hairy high and low, don't ask me why, don't know
It's not for lack of bread, like the Greatful Dead, darlin'
Give me a head with hair, long beautiful hair
Shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen
Give me down to there, hair, shoulder length or longer
Here baby, there, momma, everywhere, daddy, daddy
Hair, flow it, show it
Long as God can grow, my hair
Let it fly in the breeze and get caught in the trees
Give a home to the fleas, in my hair
A home for fleas, a hive for the buzzing bees
A nest for birds, there ain't no words
For the beauty, splendor, the wonder of my hair
Flow it, show it
Long as God can grow, my hair
I want long, straight, curly, fuzzy, snaggy, shaggy, ratty, matty
Oily, greasy, fleecy, shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen
Knotted, polka dotted, twisted, beaded, braided
Powered, flowered and confettied
Bangled, tangled, spangled and spahettied
Oh say, can you see my eyes if you can
Then my hair's too short
Down with here, down to there
Down till there, down to where it's stuck by itself
They'll be ga-ga at the go-go, when they see me in my toga
My toga made of blond, brilliantined, biblical hair
My hair like Jesus wore it, Hallelujah I adore it
Hallelujah Mary loved her son, why don't my mother love me?
Hair, flow it, show it
Long as God can grow
My hair, flow it, show it
Long as God can grow
My hair, flow it, show it
Long as God can grow
My hair"
I have 2 half siblings and two first cousins who hated getting their hair wet. My siblings' mother had to let them lay in a chair outside of the tub to wash their hair.
My dad threw water in our faces every bath to make sure my brother and I didn't have this issue.


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Big Lots large tabletop torch
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Big Lots small tabletop torch
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Big Lots Recalls Tabletop Torches Due to Fire and Burn Hazards
Once lit, the glass citronella table torches can flare up and emit burning lamp oil onto consumers and property, posing fire and burn hazards.
Big Lots toll-free at (866) 244-5687 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, or visit the firm's website at www.biglots.com and click on "Recalls" at the bottom for more information.
About 30,000
This recall involves large and small round tabletop torches that have a wick and burn liquid citronella fuel. The large torches have a steel fuel container covered in multi-colored glass in a mosaic pattern. The large torch measures about 10 inches in diameter, 5 inches high, and weighs about 2 ½ pounds. The small torches have multi-colored glass fuel container with a metal and wire stand. They measure about 5 inches in diameter, 5½ inches high and weigh about one pound. "Table Top Torch distributed by Big Lots, Inc." and item #DC12-21111 (large torch) or Item #DC10-20160 (small torch) is printed on a yellow label on the bottom of the large torch and on a hang tag on the small torch.
Big Lots has received 20 reports of liquid fuel erupting from the torches with high flames, including two serious injuries with second and third degree burns and seven with minor burns. One of the serious burn injuries involved burns to the legs and abdomen and a second victim received burns all over the body while attempting to extinguish the flames. All of the incidents involved property damage.
Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled torches and return them to any Big Lots store for a full refund.
Big Lots stores nationwide from March 2013 through June 2013 for between $8 and $20.
Big Lots, of Columbus, Ohio
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Don Moravec '69 frequently relies upon the principles forged in a 31-year career as an educator in his current role as North Central's head women's tennis coach.
"Coaching is educating, but in a different setting," he says. "They both involve having knowledge of a subject and being able to demonstrate it to others. They both require repetition, and they both require good fundamentals, whether it's taking general math before algebra or having the proper grip on a racket before you serve."
Moravec believes that competition is important in both education and athletics. "In the classroom, you're competing for grades, and in athletics it's winning or losing a contest. They both involve lifelong learning activities. They say winning and losing aren't important, but it's part of life—you're preparing to compete in the real world."
Moravec's approach has led to unprecedented success for the women's tennis program. In the midst of his sixth year as the Cardinals' head coach, Moravec's teams have posted a record of 58-42-2 in dual matches and placed third at the 2009 College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) Championships, the highest conference finish in the program's history.
A former football player and wrestler for the Cardinals and a past coach of football, wrestling and girls' badminton at Downers Grove North High School, Moravec has a vast amount of athletic experience in other venues that translates onto the tennis court. The players appreciate both the knowledge and dedication of Moravec, along with assistant Ron Jakes, to the women's tennis program.
"The coaches have taught me to remain 100 percent focused on myself and my own match—those who stay concentrated are those who are successful," says Cory Schillerstrom '12, a three-time all-CCIW honoree. "Our coaches do so much for us, they always say that they just want to 'boost the program.' They have such big hearts. They have truly taught me how beautiful it is to be a selfless and generous person."


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AZTECS QUOTES: "I don't know who got the most valuable player, but I'll tell you who I thought was the most valuable player: their punter. Field position made it tough on the offense. We hung in there for a long time until we turned the ball over, and that kinda broke the gate open. It was more of a field position, turnover game." -- San Diego State coach Rocky Long.
Turnovers key BYU's win in Poinsettia Bowl
Cougars overpower San Diego State 23-6
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This is a call to action, which is a buzz term that people in offices use that means "get off your ass." For the sake of the horror film industry as a whole, something needs to be done. Horror, as a genre, is suffering through what film enthusiasts might call "shittiness." There is a lot of shittiness in horror movies because a lot of horror filmmakers insist on repeating the same thing over and over again. Well written, well acted and unique horror is hard to come by, and that's sad. But it's not incurable. There are time-honored concepts and tropes all through horror that can still be played with and made into something awesome -- we don't need to see the same Japanese horror movie 15 times in a row. I write screenplays that feature none of this crap, so it can be done! Please buy my screenplay. Or just don't make these movies. Whatevs.
4Vengeful Spirits
There's no law that says you need to spend eternity in everlasting peace, but why are all dead people such large-scale cock floggers?
Every movie featuring a haunting implicitly admits to life after death, which is a pretty big deal. And then 95 percent of those that exist in the PG-13 shock/scare oeuvre go on to piss all over the idea that you'll live on past death by suggesting that you're going to be a dick literally forever, slamming people's doors and appearing in mirrors or down halls when no one who isn't a film audience can see you anyway. Look at Paranormal Activity, The Ring, The Woman in Black, Insidious and countless others. Now of course the key element for it to be a horror movie is something horrible, but why are they such insufferable assholes? Is the horror that ghosts suck? They just suck and will always suck?
This thing is hooked directly into my own farts.
It's not enough anymore in a ghost story that you died horribly and your spirit is unsettled, like in The Sixth Sense -- you just need the magic of Haley Joel Osment to settle your hash, and then you and Patrick Swayze can move toward the light. Oh no. Now someone spends 80 minutes figuring out that, in life, you were forced to stress-test dildos until your hands chafed raw and so they have to burn down the old abandoned dildo factory so that you can rest in peace. Then they spend the final 10 minutes dealing with the fact that the dildo factory was actually holding you safely away from the good people of Dildonia and now you're going to go slaughter innocents en masse because you're just a prick. Up yours, ghost.
Vengeance is a fine motivator to do something awful in a horror movie, especially if you're no longer bound by the shackles of mortality. But damn, doesn't vengeance have a point? Getting revenge on everyone everywhere is just arrogant and douchey. Plus, when you're done, and everyone is a ghost, who do you think won't be hanging out with anyone ever? You, you dirty douche ghost. You'll have eternity to be pissy with no outlet because all the other ghosts will hate you for killing them.
What Can We Do?
I don't want to come out and say have your ghost not be a dickhead, but maybe give it some dimension. The problem with too many movie villains is they're flat evil. Who the hell is just evil for the sake of evil? Not even Tom Cruise is like that. Give them some depth, a reason to be pissy and a reason that they may want to hold back that pissy attitude sometimes. And maybe your twist ending should not be the same twist ending in every single other movie that was made this decade, maybe try that.
3Giant Things
To this day I love giant things. Show me something that's bigger than it should be and I will applaud. Shoes, a burger, boobs, I'm there. So the entire genre of giant monster movies was tailor-made for me and I still enjoy them a lot. I own Godzilla movies on DVD and I'm OK with that. I saw Night of the Lepus, a terrible movie about giant killer bunnies, and I sort of enjoyed that, too. It's really bad, though.
Though rarely as successful these days as ghost stories or slasher movies, monster still do alright. Mimic was about giant roaches, Sharktopus was about a, you know, sharktopus. There's Tremors, Anaconda, Cloverfield and gobs of others based around something that's mildly intimidating at normal size but much worse when it's truck sized. Right now, picture something that you don't want coming at your face, like a strange penis, and now imagine it's large enough to burrow through stone. Wow, that's intimidating.
Look how much topus I wield!
The reason anyone ever liked giant monster movies is because anything on its own has the potential to be frightening, except for bunnies, but when it reaches an ungainly size, we don't know what to do anymore. Everything in our world is geared toward shit staying the way it is. In fact, right now, if you happen to wear shoes bigger than about a size 14, you have some small realization of how awful giant things are to the rest of the world. We're just not equipped to handle stuff like that. Now if you make a bunch of giant things and, because they're giant, we just assume they have a taste for man flesh, well that's just horrifying. The problem is that's also sort of the end of the movie. There are giant bunnies/cod/Swedes and they want to eat people or stomp our cities to the ground and we have to fight them with the military or maybe J.Lo and most of our friends will get eaten before 90 minutes is up.
Giant monsters only have so many options in movies, and that's depressing because there's potential for more, there really is. It's just you don't see it so often.
What Can We Do?
Give that giant monster a job. A purpose in life. And have your protagonist respond logically. If all the bunnies on earth were as big as Buicks tomorrow, how would we reasonably adapt to that? Really big fences? Breed a race of even bigger dogs? Abandon faith and start worshiping a bloodthirsty rabbit god? There's a rich tapestry of potential ideas here. It's all fine and good to have one town in the middle of nowhere be swarmed by giant naked mole rats, but what if all the naked mole rats were huge and they started migrating into LA and Moscow, and maybe not even to eat us, but to destroy our crops and make giant babies that burrow into our homes and sleep there? That's a large-scale problem that we'd need to deal with. Make that movie, someone.


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One of the Genre Electronica guys popped by my office yesterday and gave me another preview track for you to check out! He told me everyone is working hard to get this album ready for you! I personally can't wait! I love good music and have a real hard time sitting and doing work if I don't have something playing in my ear. On top of loving good music, if I know the artist, it makes it that much better for me! I hope once this album is released you will all support the talented artists and purchase the album. On a side note, I have some inside information for you, if you end up buying the physical copy of the album, I know the guy who is doing the album art and I know that its going to look awesome! So, if you are like me and enjoy displaying your albums, this will definitely be a great addition to your shelf.
Ok, I have rambled long enough, onto the next preview, this one is called Bad Advice by Jase Fase.
The first preview was called Switch Up and it was by Francesco Grieco.
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Good spirits
redwhite+bluezz remains Pasadena's premier jazz supper club in new Playhouse District location
By Erica Wayne 04/25/2013
When redwhite+bluezz first came to Pasadena in 2007, it moved into the space on the northeast corner of Raymond Avenue and Green Street in Old Pasadena that one would swear was haunted or cursed. No fewer than six prior restaurants (Stella's, Funnies, Harry's, Fleur de Vin, Cafe des Arts and Spencer's) died slow, painful deaths on the premises. Actually, in Funnies' case, it was a mercifully quick suicide. But, in any case, it seemed spirits of the departed hovered, harboring ill-will and dooming any successor to the same fate.
Undaunted by this threat from predecessors' phantasmagorical hands, the rw+b ghost-busters set up shop equipped with a formidable array of weapons. Unlike earlier inhabitants, rw+b was multi-dimensional — and all of those dimensions were good. Result: The whole was even better than the sum of its excellent parts, and the restaurant prospered, exorcising any malevolent spirits.
Success obviously emboldened rw+b's new owners, since they recently pulled up stakes and moved to yet another, more spacious but equally cursed locale: The site adjacent to the Pasadena Playhouse, at 37 S. El Molino Ave.
Over the past few years, the restaurants occupying that lovely, airy space — good ones like Playhouse Bar and Grille and Elements Kitchen, as well as bad ones, like the Middle Eastern establishment whose name, happily, escapes me — rose and fell almost as frequently as the curtain on the plays next door. But rw+b was unafraid and opened there, using the same tools it used in the last exorcism: Fine jazz, good food and excellent wine and spirits.
It's a wonderful place to spend an escapist evening (or Sunday brunch), listening to cool hot music and enjoying cool hot food as well. And it's also a great venue for early dining before heading for the theater next door. Conforming to the Playhouse's schedule, it's open for dinner every night except Monday.
As the promise of warm weather nears, you can chill at the new rw+b with eponymous reds, whites and blues. The last is a lineup of fine jazz performers who play six evenings a week (plus Sunday brunch). The first two are part of a great selection of close to 80 vintages, including a trio of "tasting flights" (three-wine samplers), which can be paired with similar "flights" of cheese and charcuterie. You don't have to upgrade to get these perks at rw+b. And, unlike airlines, they never lose your luggage.
Some non-flight items at rw+b seem deceptively simple. There's the spicy western barbecue burger (eight ounces of Wagyu beef) with aged white cheddar cheese, bacon, crispy onions, house-made barbecue sauce, brioche bun and a side of sweet potato fries for $16. Other dishes, such as Jidori free-range pan-seared chicken breast with roasted Yukon gold potatoes, seasonal vegetables and Godiva white chocolate beurre blanc ($21), would do a Wolfgang Puck menu proud.
Late last month, my husband and I took in the Playhouse hit "An Evening with Janis Joplin" and tried out the new rw+b venue. Since jazz starts early (6:30 p.m.), we were able to enjoy an hour of music with dinner before heading next door. My mate ordered country short ribs, braised and boneless, set atop a bed of mashed potatoes and decorated with glazed carrots and crispy onions ($20). I splurged on a generous filet of Loch Duart salmon with chimichurri and crispy potatoes diced with sweet, slightly spicy piquillo peppers ($25).
To start, we shared a salad of orange carpaccio with red onion, avocado, watercress, red wine gastrique, extra virgin olive oil and fleur de sel ($9), our only disappointment. Unlike other bounteous salads delivered to neighboring tables(spinach with strawberries, spiced walnuts, goat cheese, bacon and balsamic/brown sugar vinaigrette and creamy garlic Caesar), ours consisted of a diminutive array of orange and avocado slices, a smattering of diced onion, a few tendrils of watercress and nary a drop of dressing.
However, when our super solicitous server stopped by to ask how we liked the salad, and the hot, yeasty rolls served with it, we expressed our dissatisfaction, told him we were suffering a bad case of salad envy and were instantly assured we would not be charged, which made it all right. So did the dessert we had time to share, a rich chocolate soufflé ($9) paired with Fosselman's vanilla ice cream set on a bed of sliced almonds and a small pot of salted caramel sauce.
The only thing I really miss on the revamped rw+b menu is their mac 'n cheese, one of those creations that sang to me in my dreams — golden brown triangles, crisp outside, molten inside, crunchy, buttery and peppery. In a word, magnificent!
Oh, and the garlic fries, another minor addiction of ours at the Raymond and Green location. I'm hoping both will reappear as rw+b settles into its new location.
Despite the numerous ghosts that haunted the new El Molino site, there's very little chance of another unhappy spirit joining those already on the premises. After more than five years in Pasadena, redwhite+bluezz has so maintained the high quality of its food, drink, service and entertainment that anyone with ill will would have to show a lot more strength than they did in life to truncate the success of this amazing venture.
37 S. El Molino Ave.,
(626) 792-4441
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