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The Program Manager ; Teacher Services at the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) is responsible for five primary areas: 1) Promoting NFTE within schools and supporting a caseload of NFTE teachers and students to implement its entrepreneurship programs with high fidelity; 2) Designing and coordinating NFTE Chicago's teacher training, professional development, and supports 3) Building upon NFTE's evaluation framework and analyzing data to assess the effectiveness of the program and identify opportunities for improvements; 4) Designing program and curricular enhancements to ensure the success of NFTE teachers and students 5) Building and managing relationships with the CPS Department of Professional Learning and other teacher professional development organizations to maximize the supports offered to NFTE teachers.
The Program Manager ; Teacher Services will work with the NFTE Program team to envision and execute initiatives to enhance programmatic opportunities for current students and teachers across Chicago. They will also have the opportunity to learn about various facets of nonprofit management within a collaborative team environment.
- Promote NFTE within schools and support a caseload of NFTE teachers and students to implement its entrepreneurship programs with high fidelity
- Manage and support a caseload of NFTE teachers across multiple schools, tailoring supports to ensure NFTE students achieve the academic and skill-based goals of the program.
- Provide content expertise, pedagogical suggestions, and offer coaching, feedback, and best practices for how to engage and excite students about NFTE's experiential, project-based programming
- Form strong relationships with NFTE's educators, principals and program partners to build successful school partnerships and infuse an entrepreneurial mindset across the culture of NFTE schools
- Coordinate and manage key programming events such wholesale field trips, NFTE Launch (NFTE's Spring Break Camp) and classroom business plan competitions
- Handle logistics such as site visits, volunteer opportunities, field trips and other aspects of program implementation for assigned NFTE teachers and corresponding classes
- Collect and track all program expenses, submit timely expense reimbursement requests, and prepare information for internal and external financial reporting
- Input and analyze data in Salesforce to track program performance and make appropriate adjustments based on data
- Design and coordinate teacher training, professional development, and supports
- Collaborate with NFTE's national office to plan and deliver NFTE Chicago teacher training events including NFTE University, a training for 1st year NFTE teachers, the Teacher Summit, a 2-day retreat for experienced NFTE teachers, 4 full-day professional development sessions throughout the year, and a set of webinars
- Use data to analyze and optimize NFTE Program Team's support model to ensure maximal student impact
- Build tools to ensure clarity of NFTE's expectations of teachers
- Develop strong relationships with NFTE teachers to support their growth in delivering the NFTE program
- Draft weekly communications to support teachers and offer additional resources
- Develop additional curricular materials to address classroom needs during the year
- Build upon NFTE's evaluation framework and analyze data to assess the effectiveness of the program and identify opportunities for improvements
- Analyze and track program implementation and outcomes data in systems such as Salesforce and document qualitative and quantitative program features
- Determine additional methods for assessing programmatic outcomes to measure outcomes of NFTE's programs
- Devise and implement additional strategies for NFTE to use data to drive programmatic improvements
- Design program and curricular enhancements to the NFTE Program
- Using data, identify areas in need of additional supports and scaffolds
- Build the NFTE Program team's ability to effectively support teachers in implementing NFTE's programs
- Identify, collect, and create materials to enhance the NFTE curriculum and supports offered to teachers
- Coordinate and execute other student experiences, such as Spring break and summer business camps
- Collaborate with headquarters and other NFTE program offices to capture and share best practices
- Build and maintain relationships with other teacher professional development entities
- Work with the CPS Office of Professional Learning to ensure NFTE training and supports align with district initiatives
- Collaborate with other teacher professional learning organizations to understand best practices and identify additional training opportunities for NFTE teachers
- Bachelor's degree required. Master's degree in education-related field preferred
- Minimum three – five years teaching experience
- Experience designing trainings and coaching and supporting teachers
- Familiarity with a variety of pedagogical approaches and curriculum planning strategies
- Experience in a business/professional environment outside the classroom preferred
- Demonstrated belief in NFTE's mission and values
- Must be an engaging and dynamic presenter
- Strong passion for improving public schools and for increasing opportunities for students from low-income communities
- Visionary and strategic thinker with the ability to conceptualize, implement, and manage multiple projects in an effective manner
- Analytical ability and comfort using data to make strategic decisions
- Must be able to work independently and collaboratively, think critically, take initiative, and display leadership across multiple stakeholder groups
- Strong organizational and time management skills and detail orientation required
- Comfort representing NFTE to external partners and audiences
- Enjoyment and skill in developing rapport with and influencing young people
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Interest in building internal capacities of a small program office and ability to work in an entrepreneurial environment.


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Angela Kinsey files for divorce
It's over for The Office actress Angela Kinsey and writer Warren Lieberstein.
Citing irreconcilable differences, Kinsey, 39, filed for divorce Thursday from her husband of 10 years in L.A. County Superior Court.
Kinsey, who split with Lieberstein in February 2009, requested joint legal and physical custody of their 2-year-old daughter Isabel Ruby, according to court documents.
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May 8, 2013 —
HONESDALE, PA — The first of a new series of happenings at The Cooperage, "Readings at the Coop: Writers in Conversation," will take place on Saturday, May 11, with three authors reading some of their work. Mason Currey, who grew up in Honesdale, PA, will read from "Daily Rituals: How Artists Work;" Owen King from his novel "Double Feature;" and Domenica Ruta from her New York Times bestselling memoir "With or Without You."
The monthly readings and conversations with writers is curated by Kelly McMasters and Mark Milroy, owners of Moody Road Studios at Maude Alley.
The event begins at 7:30 p.m. preceded by a reception to meet the authors to be held 5:30 to 7:15 p.m. at the Maude Alley Garden, 1023 Main Street.
The Cooperage is located at 1030 Main Street. Donations will be collected at the door. Visit www.thecooperageproject.org [1], or call 570/253-2020.


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The Memphis Years
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Saxophonist and composer George Cartwright developed his reputation for making music both nonchalantly multifarious and elegantly considered while leading Curlew, the superb new music troupe that's included musicians like Davey Williams, Wayne Horvitz, Fred Frith, Samm Bennett and the late Tom Cora during its 20-year history. While its work has clearly been representative of New York's po-mo downtown aesthetic, Cartwright's excellent compositions and inventive arrangements guaranteed that the group never traded in beauty and musicality for hipness and irony. Rock, new music and R&B all collide in Curlew, but Cartwright also has a deep background in free jazz; he studied with musicians like Leo Smith and Anthony Braxton, and he was an active participant in New York's edgy improv scene during the late '70s and early '80s. The Memphis Years, a nod to his recent five-year residence there, finds him exploring that area with undiminished energy and verve.
While pop and R&B elements remain palpable in his writing-most tellingly in the tunes that feature the elliptic lyrics of Canadian poet Paul Haines, the librettist for Carla Bley's Escalator Over the Hill, and the singing of Amy Denio, the same combination that made Curlew's A Beautiful Western Saddle such a success-it's been years since Cartwright has showcased his formidable skills as a freedom-seeking soloist. Even while clinging to the scrappy and soulful groove of something like "Coffee and Pie," he unspools an arresting string of knotty melodic embroidery, high-flying harmonic squeals and exhilarating power, all of it assembled with breathless logic and design. Despite the mediocre recording quality-Chris Parker's piano sounds like a crappy upright model-and a somewhat clunky rhythm section, the leader's tight conception and hooky writing prove wonderfully transcendent.


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The WMHS Foundation is hosting a new "Bring in Summer" event to
benefit the expansion to The WMHS Schwab Family Cancer Center.
Ribbons representing the fight against cancer, and rhinestones celebrating the sparkle of life
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● Place a bid on amazing packages and items in a fabulous Silent Auction.
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● Indulge in upscale food stations with an amazing variety that is bound to please your taste buds.
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Proceeds from the event will benefit an expansion of the WMHS Schwab Family Cancer Center.
Since the opening of the Center in 2009, the number of patients seeking cancer treatment has grown substantially. The current facility layout requires patients to see their physician and have lab work done in the Medical Arts Center building, and then move to the Cancer Center in the main hospital for additional treatment. Although it may not seem like a lengthy distance, for this vulnerable population and their caregivers, it is quite the journey. To improve patient care and satisfaction, and to create a more cohesive, efficient total patient experience, the Medical Oncology Clinic in the Medical Arts Center will be moved to an area adjacent to the Schwab Family Cancer Center. The additions are designed to improve patient comfort, convenience and care.
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By Dejan Kovacevic | Trib Total Media
NEW YORK — Looking ahead to faceoff …
Game 3: Penguins vs. New York Rangers, Stanley Cup playoffs, second round
Series: 1-1
Time: 7:40 p.m.
Site: Madison Square Garden
TV, radio: NBC Sports (national), 105.9 the X
Here's the official live summary.
Here are TribLIVE's Penguins page and our Chipped Ice blog. Rob Rossi, Josh Yohe and I are covering for the Trib, as well as staff photographer Chaz Palla.
Here's a quick clip of a question I just asked Dan Bylsma at his 5:20 p.m. press conference about the Penguins' desired pace:
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The density corrections, in terms of the isospin chemical potential μ1 to the mass of the pions are studied in the framework of the SU (2) low energy effective chiral lagrangian in the two phases: The normal phase |μ1| < m π and the condensed phase |μ1| > m π. The pion decay constant f π(T,μ1) is also analyzed in the first phase. As a function of temperature for μ1 = 0, the mass remains quite stable, starting to grow for very high values of T, confirming previous results. However, there are interesting corrections to the mass when both effects (temperature and chemical potential) are simultaneously present. At zero temperature the π± should condense when μ1 = ±m π. This is not longer valid anymore at finite T. The mass of the π0 acquires also a non trivial dependence on μ1 due to the finite temperature. In the second phase we are able to calculate the thermal and density evolution of masses in the limits where |μ1| ≫ m and where |μ1| ∼ m. We also identified the phase transition curve.
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Rita Ora Joining The Voice
Pop superstar Rita Ora today confirmed that she will join coaches Sir Tom Jones, Will.i.am and Ricky Wilson on the world famous spinning red chairs for the fourth series of The Voice on BBC One.
The coaches will all be heading to Salford in Manchester for the blind auditions next month ahead of a new series, which launches in January 2015.
In less than two years Rita Ora has shot to international stardom with four number one singles in the UK and a multi-million selling debut album. Her movie career also kicks off in 2015, with a featured role in the highly anticipated 'Fifty Shades Of Grey'.
Rita will be joining the team and taking on The Voice. Speaking about her new role as a coach on The Voice, Rita Ora said: "So excited to be part of – and for my team to win – The Voice this series! Let's have some fun will.i.am, Tom and Ricky! I'm really looking forward to the blind auditions – and spinning in my big red chair. EXCITED!!!!"
The fellow coaches who are now in their second series of working together are thrilled with today's announcement of Rita Ora joining them for series four.
Sir Tom Jones said: "I'm really looking forward to coming back to The Voice for season four. Not only do I get to know and work with Rita, I can once again enjoy hearing and seeing the talent that comes from just about every corner of the UK. I respect and admire all those who have the guts and determination to get through each challenge that the show presents, so let's see what happens in 2015!"
will.i.am said: "Season four of The Voice is going to be amazing! (Sir) Tom Jones is our rock, Ricky is awesome and it's our pleasure to welcome the very talented Rita Ora. Rita is sweet, spicy and sassy – she's going to be a great addition to the Coaches team."
Ricky Wilson said: "I enjoyed spending last winter with The Voice, it's definitely fun to be part of a show with a spinning chair. I hope Rita likes it too… I'm sure the audience will love her."
Jermain Jackman Crowned Winner of The Voice
Jermain Jackman was crowned winner of The Voice UK beating Sally Barker, Christina Marie and Jamie Johnson to win a recording deal with Universal Music.
When presenter Marvin Humes announced the result, Jermain, coached by will.i.am, was visibly shocked and overwhelmed.
Jermain Jackman said: "I want to thank Will for everything he has done for me over the course of the last few months, you have been the best coach ever. I want to thank God for all the opportunities that I've had. I want to thank all my family and friends. This is not just an achievement for me but an achievement for every single person round the world, especially in the UK, who has had a dream, worked hard for that dream and achieved that dream. I want you guys to know, work hard for that dream and you will achieve it."
Who's In The Voice Quarter Finals?
The first live show of The Voice UK kicked off in spectacular style as each Coach gave one of their acts a 'fast pass' straight through to next weekend's live semi-finals and saw four acts leave the competition after receiving the lowest votes from the public.
The four artists to leave the competition were Iesher Haughton from Team Will, Rachael O'Connor from Team Kylie, Georgia Harrup from Team Tom and Emily Adams from Team Ricky.
will.i.am said to Iesher, "You came a long way, you were this shy little girl when you first joined the competition and I have seen you grow. Please don't stop singing, please don't stop, you are a bonafide star".
Kylie said to Rachael, "It's sad to lose anyone but Rachael is our little sweetheart, but I'm still with you, don't worry about that, I am still right by your side."
Georgia Harrup said of the experience, "I have come further than I ever imagined – thank you so much I am so glad that Bizzi has gone through, he is amazing. So, Team Tom all the way!"
Emily Adams said of the experience, "The past few months have been incredible – being next to Ricky and working alongside him has been amazing – he has been an incredible mentor."
The semi-finalists are:
Team Will: Jermain Jackman (Fast Pass) and Sophie May Williams
Team Kylie: Jamie Johnson (Fast Pass) and Lee Glasson
Team Tom: Sally Barker (Fast Pass) and Bizzi Dixon
Team Ricky: Christina-Marie Wickens (Fast Pass) and Chris Royal
Simply Red-Faced as Hucknall Rejected By The Beeb
Mick Hucknall has revealed that he tried to launch a talent show on the BBC, but the troubled broadcaster turned it down in favour of The Voice.
The Simply Red singer approached the BBC a year ago with a plan for finding "the next David Bowie, the next Freddie Mercury, the next Lennon and McCartney,�? according to an interview with the Daily Express.
"They rejected it and went for The Voice instead, which to me was another version of the X Factor because it's not about creative artists.�?
Hucknall went on to call for the BBC to "devise a programme to find the next Elton or the next Mick Hucknall.�?
Hucknall's second studio album since leaving Simply Red, American Soul, is out on October 29th.
Applications For The Voice Series 2 Close in 10 Days
It may seem like the Beeb's expensive talent show has only just finished, but The Voice is already looking for people with a "genuinely fantastic voice" to star in 2013's show.
If you think you have what it takes to be the next Tyler, Leanne or Jazz then you have until 28th July to get your application in.
"Whether you're a solo artist or duo, if you think you have what it takes to send those four chairs spinning, we want to hear from you!" read a statement from Be On Screen.
To apply you must be 16 years of age or older on 31st August 2012 and have the right to live and work in the UK. Exactly where the Beeb stand on people with criminal records is unclear, but ITV couldn't care less.
If you fancy your chances then register here..
The 'Fix' Factor And The Voice Branded "Disgraceful"
It's that time of year again, as the X Factor gears up for another year of dream-making and heart-breaking, "cool�? celebrities speak out against the evil popstar-making-machine. This time it's Graham Coxon of Blur with a Cowell-shaped Chip on his shoulder, branding The Voice and X Factor "disgraceful�?.
"To get better at anything you have to practice a lot�?, Coxon told The Independent.
"When I'm on my own in my front room with a guitar, there's no one going to say to me, 'That's really great' if I play some old rubbish," he added. "I do believe in doing things right.
"Which is why The X Factor and The Voice are so disgraceful to me.�?
The 90s Britpop band which carried Coxon to fame were recently honoured with an 'Outstanding Contribution to Music�? award at the Brits 2012. Since disbanding to pursue individual projects in 2003, the band members have reunited to perform at several festivals.
The 43-year-old went on to admit that his views may be a touch outdated.
"Perhaps I'm old-fashioned in that sense – that I believe you have to pay your dues. Being a musician is not something you can become overnight. It doesn't just appear."
Despite feeling a tad defensive over the like of Leona Lewis and Jo McElderry, it is difficult to deny that the star-making-machine has had its fair share of besmirching headlines since its inception.
The most recent – which has emerged before the show even comes to air – accuses the Saturday night talent show of fast-tracking better acts through the arduous audition process.
Reports in The Sun suggest that some singers were given a chance to "bypass the huge crowds" at open auditions. A source said: "It makes a mockery of the ordinary people. It's unfair that they queue in the rain for hours and others get invited to cosy auditions. They're encouraging established acts to use the show as a marketing tool."
A spokesperson for The X-Factor attempting (and failing) to defend the show's impeccable reputation pretty much admitted the crowd-fiddling. He/she said: "To ensure we find the best talent we have been exploring all avenues. All contestants are auditioned on merit and everyone has the same number of auditions."
Come on though, that selective process is hardly a far cry from the cut-throat world of showbiz selection and rejection…is that such a bad thing?
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"I'm Ready For The X Factor Axe", Says Louis Walsh
After almost a decade on perhaps the most iconic Saturday night entertainment show of our time, Louis Walsh fears that this year may be his last on The X Factor.
According to reports by The Sun, the Irish music manager and coiner of terrible phrases feels sure that Cowell will eject him from the panel to make room for fresh talent.
Louis said: "I can't believe it is my ninth year on X Factor. But I really don't know if I'll make it to ten.
"If I work hard, I'll get the job. If not, Simon will let me go. It's going to be hard work this year, really hard work. Simon will be cracking the whip.
"He makes the best shows but nobody is safe to stay. If I don't make ten years I'll have a lot on next year anyway."
And by "a lot on", Walsh is referring to an attempt to manage Shane Filan's solo career post Westlife…that should keep him very busy indeed.
Oi Louis – how about a spot on The Voice? Danny is sure to be booted out before long and they will need another token Irish judge.
But there is little chance of Louis joining The Voice as a coach if he finds himself short of work.
"No way. It's not great TV", he told someone else. "It's like Fame Academy all those years ago. The best thing about it is the revolving chairs.
"I hate The Voice", he continued exercising visible restraint. "I think everyone thought The Voice UK would be like the US version, and it's not. It's dull and boring."
If you're reading this lowly internet blog Mr Cowell, we implore you not to deprive us of Louis next year. The world would never have seen such game-changing acts as Jedward or Wagner were it not for his unfailing belief in misguided ambition.
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Alesha Dixon Back With The Beeb
The Judas Iscariot of the BBC aka Alesha Dixon, is set to make a prodigal return to the channel she abandoned last year.
Muddled bible stories aside, this is the news that Dixon will present a BBC dance show for "hip youngsters�? competing to become her next Street Dance Stars.
Reprising her role of talent-hunting queen, Dixon will be scouring the streets for dance talent in the new CBBC series. After a number of trials and dance-related challeneges, the lucky winner will be walking away with "a money-cannot-buy-prize�? – presumably this will exclude Alesha's unswerving loyalty. Feel free to watch some clips from the show here.
Meanwhile, over on ITV, Alesha continues to sound her "blarp�? of doom at unsuspecting dogs and stripping grannies. Last year, Dixon left her place on the Strictly Come Dancing panel to join Simon Cowell and the gang on Britain's Got Talent.
Darcey Bussell has since been announced as her replacement.
After weeks of being downtrodden by the Beeb goliath, The Voice , Saturday's episode of BGT managed to beat its rival show into rating submission, drawing an average of 9.4mn viewers in compared to the BBC's 9.3mn. Whether this had anything to do with Alesha is up for debate. What it almost certainly had something to do with was this grinning organist:
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Britain's Got Talent Snatches Ratings Crown From The Voice
Britain's Got Talent finally managed to get one over on Saturday night rivals, The Voice UK, thanks to some last-minute editing from Simon Cowell.
Apparently some last minute tweaks from the
sex pest light-entertainment genius apparently secured the talent show's triumph over the BBC singing competition with BGT drawing in an average of 9.4mn viewers to The Voice's 9.3mn.
The win may be a marginal one, but it represents ITV1's first straight-forward ratings success against the BBC since both shows launched in competing slots back in March. Such was the ratings rivalry that BGT was forced to move into taking a later position in the schedule and yet was STILL outdone by the Beeb.
An ITV spokesperson said: "BGT is packed with thrills and spills, tears and laughter and we are delighted that it consistently continues to be such a firm favourite with viewers." Nine-year-old Malakai's performance prompted raptuourous applause from the studio audience and an outpouring of public support on Twitter. If you missed it – get the lowdown here.
Meanwhile, The Voice has now moved into the "live rounds�?, where contestants sing for survival from the audience and ultimately rely on the affection of their respective mentors to live on.
This week saw Samuel Buttery (Team Tom) and Sophie Griffith (Team Will) cruelly rebuffed in a tearful results show on Sunday night. Even Tom Jones was seen swallowing VERY hard and attempting to control his quivering upper lip.
Dermot O'Leary, of The X Factor – another of Cowell's brainchildren – has recently questioned the show's supposedly "less harsh�? approach to mentoring: "Everyone who goes on those shows does so to be judged and maybe an even harsher critique is someone not turning around.
Speaking to The Sun newspaper, he added: "The most important thing is to have fun on the shows. And just because auditionees are a bit strange, it doesn't mean they are not good.
"I like the fact we are about the package. I like that we get acts like Johnny Robinson who look ridiculous, but it doesn't mean they can't sing,' he added.
Meanwhile Black Eyed Peas star and Voice mentor, Will.i.am has insisted that both Saturday night shows "need each other�?.
"The rivalry is important," he said. "They need each other… because the music industry needs these shows."
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Sam Buttery and Sophie Griffin Voted Off The Voice
Sam Buttery and Sophie Griffin became the first acts to be voted off The Voice tonight after they were given the boot by their coaches.
Sir Tom Jones decided to save Matt and Sueleen after Holly Willoughby revealed that of the Welsh legend's team, they and Sam received the least votes from the public.
Meanwhile, after a rambling speech, Will.i.am elected to save Joelle rather than young Sophie Griffin. The Black Eyed Peas singer had been accused of spending very little time with his artists this week and reportedly communicated with them only over email from America. It has also been alleged that Joelle was forced to sing a song she had never heard before ('I'm Going Down' by Mary J Blige).
Yet (unsurprisingly) none of Will's acts have complained about his jet-setting, with Tyler telling The Sun.. "He'll be there when we really need him."
"I never really never liked talent shows," explained Will as he gave his verdict. "But this show is special because every single person actually sings really, really good. So I'm proud of being on the show."
"This is the hardest thing because both you guys are amazing talents. Sophie, you're special, you've learned so much," he added. "It took me freakin' ten years to learn what you learnt in two months. I promise you, me and Dante and Apl are going to be there for you whatever you need. But for the show, I'm gonna take Joelle."
Beforehand, Jones had given Sam the boot in a surprise move. "They're both great entertainers," he said. "It's very difficult because they're so different. I can only judge it on last night's performance, and I think I'm going to take Matt and Sueleen."
Meanwhile Ruth Brown and Jaz Ellington have been installed as joint favourites at 5/2 to win with the bookies. Although we're taking that with a pinch of salt, considering that only half the acts have performed so far..


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Using Web Behavior Data to Drive Follow Up Messaging
Learn how to use web analytics and email to send, analyze and target your follow up message and increase conversions.
Stefan Pollard, Director of Email Marketing Best Practices, Lyris
Stefan is responsible for consulting with Lyris' clients on their current email marketing programs, training on industry best practices, and advising on strategy to increase clients' ROI. As editor of EmailLabs award winning newsletter, The Intevation Report, he provides advice to clients and marketers on how to optimize their email programs. Stefan also writes a recurring column for ClickZ focusing on email delivery topics. Prior to joining EmailLabs, Stefan managed the audit process and consulted with clients to improve their email programs and delivery challenges for Habeas, an email trust authority that certifies the practices of legitimate email senders. As an email marketer, he spent several years building and executing email marketing campaigns for E-LOAN and Cybergold.com.
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Dan manages web analytics training and consulting services for ClickTracks users. His team helps clients optimize their pay-per-click, organic search and email marketing programs; and to improve site usability and conversion rates. Prior to joining ClickTracks in 2005, Dan spent eight years developing content management systems for highly successful small businesses.


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Blogger vs. Blogger
So it looks like we'll have another platform war, albeit this time we'll probably be arguing about Linux vs. Windows, Democratic vs. Republican as opposed to vJournal vs. McJournal. Anyway, welcome back to the blogosphere, Mike. (And you're welcome for linking my 11 visitors/day to your site, by the way.)
Watched the debate last night. As our favorite Stanley Hudson would say, "This here is a run-out-the-clock situation. Just like upstairs," and that's what Obama did. It was pretty interesting to watch Hillary try to feel out her best strategy kind of as she went – she came out swinging but pulled back a little bit later on. Another thing I noticed, when Tim Russert asked Obama about the anti-Semintic supporter who "endorsed" Obama, Clinton tried to take that opportunity to make Obama mess up but Obama was able to correct himself in time. (For the record, he was right – it's a free country, whoever wants to support him should be able to support him, he can't stop them.)
I'm getting pretty sick of these endorsements, on that topic. I read today that Senator Sherrod Brown is not going to endorse a candidate. What a huge loss! First of all, anyone know who Sherrod Brown is? If you do, does anyone care who he supports for President? Are we all on pins and needles like, "Whoever Brown endorses is sure to work directly with him every day to make sure what Sherrod Brown wants gets done…this could be huge"?
Maybe for some of you the answer is yes, but for me, I couldn't care less who Sherrod Brown, Oprah Winfrey, Jon Stewart, or Chris Rock wants to be president, and it must be annoying to CNN and Fox News to analyze these meaningless trivialities. That's not to say there aren't meaningful endorsements: Madeleine Albright (Bill Clinton's former secretary of state, supporting Clinton), Ted Kennedy (Senator, supporting Obama), Rudy Giuliani (ex-presidential candidate, supporting McCain) or Chuck Norris (Dr. Awesome, supporting Huckabee… okay, maybe that last one is a little meaningless, but still cool). My point is that I don't care who Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, 50 Cent, Terrell Owens, or Peyton Manning wants to be president.


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New Blog Domain
There was an opportunity recently to secure the newly released top level .blog address. Yes, this did cost money, but more than any other motive, I wanted to secure my name as I am only one of several bloggers with the same name. The older, longer URL still works, of course, but I will be printing a new set of business cards with the shorter, more easy to use one.
The process was pretty easy but there were some odd moments. As soon as I got the email from WordPress that told me I could reserve the name I did so. And then seemed to get reminders for exactly the same name several times over the next few weeks. And even when I was told that no-one else had bid on the name and it was now mine, I did not get the email telling me how – and when – to set it up. I started that process this week and found I also have to pay an annual fee to use it. Having done that I got a set of instructions telling me to reset DNS settings on the server. Which is, of course, WordPress. Oddly enough even though there was a list of instructions for all the other hosting services, there wasn't any link to WordPress. So an email had to be sent to the "happiness engineers". But I still have to refresh connections with Facebook and Google+.
What I have also noticed this week is the complications that seem to have set in with VanCity, which has installed new software – which required them to go off line for a few days – and still doesn't seem to be working very well. I thought computers were supposed to make things easier!
2014 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog.
Here's an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 50,000 times in 2014. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 19 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
Blogs as a tool for political change
"I think a lot of times, elected officials are afraid of bloggers. A blogger combines an elected official's two most scariest things which is a journalist and an engaged citizen."
If only that were true!
I somehow doubt that Streetsblog was actually responsible for getting Times Square closed to traffic. But possibly it helped give Janette Sadik-Kahn some support for what was actually quite a controversial decision. It also helped that its method of implementation was readily reversible if it had not worked.
"The Other Side of the Tracks" is a daily email summary of transit and related news: links to news stories and blog posts about transit and TOD from around the country are collected daily by Jeff Wood, Reconnecting America's New Media Director and Chief Cartographer.
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2013 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.
Here's an excerpt:
Madison Square Garden can seat 20,000 people for a concert. This blog was viewed about 67,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Madison Square Garden, it would take about 3 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
Click here to see the complete report.
Thank you to my readers and those who take the time to comment. While I expect to continue to blog here and on my other blog (which is not about transport or planning and gets many fewer visitors) I do not try to write frequently. I will only post here when I think I have something worth saying, and I am trying to reduce the amount of repetition as I have no wish to bore anyone. There will probably be more on twitter or Facebook.
Please accept my best wishes for 2014. For myself I am keenly looking forward to a month in Italy in the spring.
Blog Post #2000
It is a milestone, and I want to mark it.
The first post appeared in July of 2006 and was about the "C$3 billion road-building plan by the provincial government" as viewed by the Economist and Miro Certenig. That road program – and its consequences – was a theme that would recur frequently, and is still one that bothers me. It is now pretty much complete but as I have no real need any more to drive along #Highway 1 I am not as up to date as I might be on road works. You could always go to drivebc and take a look – at the time of writing it seems they are still working on the Cape Horn Interchange. Of course, I have never been very worried about traffic congestion on that highway – or any other. Absent any tolling mechanism it is pretty much self regulating. It has always been what car dependency does to us and the place we live in that concerned me.
When I look at the list of categories, the range of subjects actually surprised me and I have of course forgotten a lot of what I wrote about. This has been a salutary reminder. Yesterday I was listening to Dave Olson talking at Northern Voice about the value of printed ephemera and other objects in understanding our stories. It was actually quite uncomfortable listening, since I have been in the process of decluttering. Much paper has been recycled, many objects have gone to thrift stores, and quite a lot to the landfill probably. I still have a lot of obsolete media. Tapes and LPs, slides and photographs, far too many books still. But lots of magazines went. And so did a lot of my own stuff. I am not at all sure that anyone will ever want to read my MSc dissertation, and the LSE seems not to have kept a copy. Not accessible from its web page anyway.
Dave Olson debunked the idea that the internet never forgets. There were many things which were once there that are now gone. Lots of dead links. I wonder how long WordPress will continue to maintain my archive. I certainly have no intention of stopping blogging, but I am sure that there will continually be some ebb and flow in volume. I will not establish a schedule for publishing, and I will only publish when I have something that I need to say, or draw attention to. And I am quite positive that there is no way this will ever become a book. Nor would I want it to.
WordPress.com has been a very good host as well as an easy system to use, and I have no intention of either monetizing the blog or registering my own domain. It really doesn't matter how many plugins there might be, or alternative ways of dealing with comments. I am quite happy with this set up, and I am pleased that there are enough people out there to make it worthwhile continuing.
These are the most recent monthly stats of page views. There are 108 people who follow the blog and 701 on twitter. I have been posting less as I am wary of repeating myself, since the problems never seem to change, nor the responses to them. We do keep on doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome. I use twitter more often as that is a good way to be brief (my blog posts to tend to be of the "long read" format) and provide the necessary link. The mainstream media continues to retreat behind paywalls, but all that means is we get our news elsewhere. Usually more directly and thus unfiltered. I am very heartened by the activities of those who fight government and corporate preferences for secrecy and outright lying.
You are one of the people I am writing for. I started to write this because I felt the need to write, but from the very beginning knew that there would be people who preferred I did not. We have not been bothered by the worst troll lately. Akismet does do a very good job of controlling spam. But it is also true that when I get a post to moderate that is fulsome in its praise for this blog, I know it is spam. Most of you do not comment. There is, however, a stable of regulars who can be relied on to let us know what they think (MB and Redfrog get top honours and ought to start their own blogs, with honorable mentions to Voony and Roger Kemble who have. ) I try not to get too worked up about what commenters write, as they are entitled to their opinions and have mostly been very helpful in providing both perspective and often more information which has improved the quality of the discussion. I do read all the comments. And if I do not reply in the comments, that does not mean I am ignoring them. That will often become apparent in subsequent posts. And I have been surprised by the number of people I have met who say they read the blog but ignore the comments altogether. There are over 800,000 views now, and we will soon reach million, though I doubt very much indeed I will notice.
Because that was the other thing I learned, early on. I do not obsess about my stats. I am not going to get into data mining, and I am not going to adjust what I write in the hopes of broadening my reach. It is a bit like the number of views I get of a picture posted to flickr: or the ones that organization deems "interesting". We know that is determined by an algorithm – but we do not know its parameters or values- and anyway it changes all the time.
It's just nice to know that I am not shouting into a vacuum.
Thank you for reading. Please, don't stop now.
And for those of you who think stats are important, I know this is not, in reality, the two thousandth post as quite a lot were short lived announcements that were deleted.
Northern Voice 2013
This post is being updated to include presentation materials as and when I find them
Last update 17 June at 1pm
The program encourages blogging, there is free WiFi, and there is something I need to say. About transit, and route frequency. To get from Arbutus Village to the Museum of Vancouver, I could take the #16 and walk down Burrard, or walk across to McDonald for the #22. I did not mention the #25 since I was sure that one would come along while I was waiting for the cross walk light, and I was right. In theory an intending passenger has to wait half the headway, on average. In real life, you always just miss the bus. Indeed, as I approached McDonald, a bus whisked around the corner, and left without me. There was at least a shelter and a seat for the wait while I watched other buses pass by.
Eventually I boarded. As the bus proceeded, it caught up to the #2 starting its run from 16th Avenue. And we proceeded as a pair, skip stopping until Cornwall, by which time we had caught up to the #22 in front, and could then move as a convoy. None of this is planned or deliberate, but it always happens, especially when its raining. And should be born in mind whenever you read that Frequent Transit is every 15 minutes.
I have not been impressed with my ability to live blog this event. For starters, you would think, wouldn't you, that the organizers, when choosing a location would put the availability and quality of wifi high on their agenda. One of the organizers told me that they were still trying to fix it on Thursday, and resorted to appeals to those with wifi hotspots on their smart phones to make them available to all to ease the strain. There are actually two different logins for two wifi connections for different parts of the building – and even then the printed password they issued had an error in it. I did not bring my MacBook Pro as it is too heavy, and gets too hot, to use as a real laptop. It needs a desk – and new feet, too. The little rubber ones it came with keep falling off. The tablet is not easy enough to type on either – and I noticed this year there are many more people using old fashioned paper notebooks with actual pens. Like the resurgence of vinyl LPs and film cameras, this is a lot more than a fashion statement. Just like digital watches lost popularity really quickly.
The catering this year seems to have been organized by someone from an earlier era too.
Though there was fresh fruit as an alternate. Lunch was better than in the past since the wraps were pre-made. The line moves faster when people are not practising their roll-your-own burrito skills. But there was still only one line – and it moved slowly as the people at the front always seem more interested in their conversations than letting anyone else get fed. And the after party had free beer and wine. Unsurprisingly no-one seemed to want to eat the standardized squares or fresh fruit – both of which looked more than a little tired by now. There wasn't nearly enough bread and cheese – and people seem to have read the same articles I did about the dangers of salami.
There is not nearly the same amount of energy as at earlier NVs at UBC. For one thing there is no really obvious gathering place outside of the lecture rooms – and people wander off to look at museum exhibits, rather than engaging. There is much less going on as a result – which puts even greater pressure on the organizers.
Too many presenters are wedded to their computerized presentations – most of which add very little value anyway. Some electronic distribution of information to personal screens for those who wanted it would have worked much better and caused much less delay while the inevitable Mac/Windows incompatibility issues were sorted out for the umpteenth time. I hate Prezi even more than light background PowerPoint – but at least it is on the web for all.
Reading over this I realised I am overdoing my grumpy old man act. So I turned to storify to crowdsource coverage. It is much more positive – and I noticed that I tended to pick tweets that had pictures attached – whaddyaknow!
Someone either reads this blog or reads my mind. The breakfast on Saturday offers far more than doughnuts. Though still really heavy on the carbs.
The view out the window is going to be more distracting.
So far these are the only Prezis I have found: from the sessions I attended
"Improving Comments on your Blog" by Travis Smith
Story by Theresa Lalonde (which is a relief as otherwise I would feel required to transcribe my own scribbles)
because they used the tag #nv13
Sean McNulty "Getting Things Syndicated" one the many talks I did not get to because there are three streams most of the time.
John Bielher tweeted "A few people asked for my slidedeck from nv13…warning it's a 144mb PDF: dropbox.com/s/qaqchofg7zph… (I didn't have notes, just photos)".
But then a lot of other people who did not present at this conference use that tag. And there are more than 1000 prezis using the tag "Northern Voice" (without a date)
Thanks to Vancouver Gadgets we now have the link to Darren Barefoot slides "Why we live the quantified life" and also on slideshare with the nv13 hashtag Dave Olson Vancouver: Untold Stories, Anecdotes …
But you do know, don't you that Northern Voice has its own blog? At the present time its content is still mostly is "promote the conference before its happens" mode – but useful summaries of presentations – and presenters – are there.
So it's a nice day and there is a farmers' market down the road apiece. I think I should be there (see next post) and not "blogging the shit" out of the conference.
More people are now adding their photos to flickr these are the ones tagged nv13
Old growth logging vs the carbon tax
There is a Canadian Press story this morning which got covered by the CBC, where it caught my attention.
One year of logging old-growth forests in southwestern British Columbia blows away a year of carbon reductions accomplished by initiatives like the carbon tax.
That's the finding of a Sierra Club report released today, entitled Carbon at Risk: B.C.'s Unprotected Old-growth Rainforest.
That's the top of the CP/CBC story – and you can find the same thing elsewhere. In fact I think you should. For a start, missing from the CBC story is any substantive content that they have added – and, even worse in my opinion but common to most news web sites, there isn't a link to the report. For a better example go to Huffington Post which has the same CP story but at much greater length, and with an interesting back and forth between Rick Jeffery, Coast Forest Products Association president and Sierra Club spokesman Jens Wieting. But also no link to the report.
In fact I actually talked to Jens Wieting myself this morning. First of all I did not even know that there is more than one Sierra Club – but I guessed that Sierra Club Canada was probably the source. Wrong, it's actually the Sierra Club BC. Their web page is actually much more active and has the press release – but that doesn't link to the report either. Jens sent it to me by email, but you can download it from the publications section. Its a six page pdf but worth a look.
I am not at all an expert in this field, but I have some connection to it. I would have had a job at the Forests Ministry had not the BCGEU "bumping" practices snatched it away from me. I did do quite a bit of research before the interview – and he who did the bumping didn't have to – so I have been a bit more aware of the issues since. I have been in BC's old-growth forests – there's small patches on the North Shore, but more impressive are Cathedral Grove and Meare's Island.
The latter was the famous site of the Clayoquot Sound protests. And I was also caught by a carbon offset scam which took my money so it could cut down old growth then plant new trees using the same justification that Rick Jeffery trots out. And which has been pretty much debunked. I do feel that the Sierra Club are a bit more reliable here as their report actually is backed by research and data, with useful links. That really is the point I am trying to make here. When you hear something on the radio or tv these days, they will often say "go to our web site for more information" but mostly it isn't there. But there is Google. We watch tv news now with our tablets at hand. And when you read this
"They don't want us to log," said Jeffery. "That is the raison d'etre of the environmental groups. For them to tell you anything else is an outright lie."
It is a matter of a moment to determine (by going to the report) that what they are calling for is
Increased conservation of the remaining old growth temperate rainforest, phasing out logging of old-growth and transitioning logging fully to second growth is urgent from a climate adaptation and mitigation perspective.
Improved forest management, in particular longer rotation, eliminating waste and selective logging, is equally important to reduce carbon loss. Forestry can be an important sector of the low carbon economy of the future, but not without increased forest conservation and improved forest management.
Perhaps if Jeffery had stuck to what he knows about – what his members are doing or proposing to do – and providing some source material to back that up, he might have some credibility. But by first claiming that he knows what the Sierra Club wants – and then calling them liars for their much more nuanced approach – it is not an end to logging that they are calling for – he discredits himself and his employers. Of course if you are a business you want to maximize your return on investment – that's what business does. But businesses that want to be around for a while, that do not want to be treated as social pariahs and have some understanding of the concept of sustainability, rather than simple greed for short term profits – do better in the long run.
"They're basically telling you that once you cut that old-growth tree, that carbon all gets released into the environment," said Jeffery. "It goes to other uses. It gets recycled. It goes into buildings and it gets stored."
No they're not. What they are actually saying is that clear cutting releases a lot but not all the carbon – and the report uses the rather generous assumption that about a quarter of the carbon is stored. And there is a picture of slash burning to illustrate what actually happens in the woods when they cut the trees down.
There is a also in the CP story as printed by HuffPo some policy issues with quotes from BC Ministers – again something the CBC misses altogether. But rather than get into that, I do think that what is being demonstrated is that the BC carbon tax is an increasingly flimsy pretence at doing something about greenhouse gas emissions, that is more than offset by all the other activities of the present administration. Perhaps it is indeed the right way to do accounting, to log the burning of our exported coal, oil and natural gas against the nations that burn it. But if we weren't subsidizing the extraction processing and transport of these fossil fuels, they would cost a great deal more, would be less attractive and those nations would look to other sources of energy. Renewables would be much more attractive to them.
The whole world would be better off if we left more of the oil, gas and coal in the ground. We would also be much better off if we stopped logging old growth forests (especially by actually being honest about how much carbon is released when they are cut and how poorly second growth compares at carbon sequestration). And when we do cut down the trees, we do a great deal more than simply ship off the raw logs elsewhere.


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Welcome to InsaniquariumGuide.com. This site was created as a tribute to Flying Bear's game Insaniquarium Deluxe. Over the years we've put together a pretty extensive guide to help you out when playing the game. If you would like to discuss the game or need more help than the guide can provide this forum is the right place to come.
We became so successful at helping people with Flying Bear's game that he bought the site. We were pretty excited when that happened, but our involvement didn't stop. His purchase made us the official source of information, and he allows the community to continue to work as before, providing the best help anywhere for his game.
We've also begun a foray into the workings of Plants vs. Zombies. We will delve ever deeper into this wonderful new game by Flying Bear Entertainment, who now works for PopCap Games.
Take a look around. Take your shoes off. Get comfortable and stick around a while. I think you'll like what you find here. A great community of people who love games by Flying Bear and share with one another in a friendly, cozy atmosphere.
This site is now an archive site, and is no longer updated. The forums have also been closed.


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Release Date: Feb 14, 2006.
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Number Of Tracks: 11.
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Science & Technology Planning MeetingJoin fellow Club members with similar interests and brainstorm upcoming Science & Technology programs. All Commonwealth Club members are welcome. We explore visions for the future through science and technology. Discuss current issues and share your insights with fellow Club members to shape and plan programs for the months ahead.MLF: Science & TechnologyLocation: SF Club OfficeTime: 6:15 p.m. Read more »
The Illusion of Building Green: How Our Fight for Environmentally Responsible Building Design Is Falling Short
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The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
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Booker Prize winner The Sense of an Ending follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought about – until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance, one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. Tony Webster thought he'd left all this behind as he built a life for himself, and by now his marriage, family and career have fallen into an amicable divorce and retirement. Read more »
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
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Harvey Rose: How Does an Independent Analyst Survive San Francisco's City Hall?
Harvey M. Rose, Budget and Legislative Analyst, City and County of San Francisco; Founder, Harvey M. Rose Associates, LLC and Former Auditor General State of CaliforniaHighly respected, frequently provocative, always challenging, Rose has survived the drama and intrigues of San Francisco City Hall politics and money for over 38 years as San Francisco's independent budget and legislative analyst. Read more »
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Sugar Addiction: Recovery from the Greatest Dietary Crisis of All Time
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We have recently become aware of the appalling costs, to both adults and children, of our current intake of refined sugars. Sugar addiction, the dynamic that propels this dietary disaster, has been one of Ross' primary areas of focus since 1983. Read more »


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CES 2009: Day two - Simcraft Gaming System
If you're still sitting on your couch to game, you've just officially become lame. Simcraft displayed their Apex SC830 racing simulator that is designed to "blur the line" between gaming and reality. (Or "blur the line" between being rich and quite a bit poorer when you see the price of this thing.) Racers sit in a race-styled car including an actual Recaro driving chair. The entire catch pitches, yaws, and rolls to correspond to on-screen action. At a price of $44,500, this is clearly designed for hard-core gamers who likely will never have a girlfriend or wife. And likely ones that are still living at home glomming off rich parents. Simcraft says they are also looking into providing sims for the military, at least while they've still got some cash to spend.—John Sciacca


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Sandy Creek HS gets 6 award nominations for 'Les Miz'
The Sandy Creek High School Chorus and Drama Production of "Les Miserables School Edition" received six nominations in the 2010 Shuler Hensley Awards for Excellence in High School Musical Theatre.
The Sandy Creek High School Chorus and Drama Departments have produced an annual spring musical for the past 16 years. This is the first time they have entered their production in the Shulers, which is only in its second year, sponsored by the Cobb Energy Centre for the Performing Arts.
The "Les Miz" production received certificates of excellence for Stage Crew and Technical Execution and Supporting Actress – Feleecia Thompson (Fantine).
The six nominations are in the following categories: Best Overall Production, Best Chorus/Ensemble, Musical Director – Millie Turek; Best Lead Actor – Jesse Alexander (Jean Valjean); Best Lead Actress – Stephanie Earle (Eponine); and Best Supporting Actor – Paul Merrill (Javert).
The awards show, modeled after Broadway's Tony awards, will be held at the Cobb Energy Centre on April 13 at 7 p.m. The entire cast of 52 SCHS students will perform a number from the show, "One Day More", with a live orchestra during the show. The lead actor and actress will perform in a medley with the other five nominees in their category. Three SCHS seniors, Jesse Alexander, Stephanie Earle, and Brianna Gilliam, who plan to major in music in college, have applied for one of the three $1,000 scholarships to be given away that night. Two cast members, Julianne Slaton and Andre Allen, were chosen from the chorus of the show to perform in the opening and closing production numbers.
The SCHS Chorus and Drama musical production is an extracurricular activity open to all students enrolled in a Fine Arts class at Sandy Creek. Competitive auditions were held in the fall and rehearsals began in January for the March performances. In addition to the 52 SCHS students, the cast included two students from the middle school that feed into SCHS. Justin Duhon, from Bennett's Mill Middle School, and Janina Monk, from Flat Rock Middle School, played the roles of Gavroche and Young Cosette. Seven SCHS students volunteered to work the tireless and often thankless job of stage crew.
Turek, SCHS choral director/fine arts department chair, stated "we are truly blessed to have such an abundance of hard working, dedicated, and talented students who have chosen the fine arts as part of their high school experience."
The musical staff included SCHS drama teacher, Kathy Andersen, who worked the technical aspects of the show – set, lights, and costumes. "Kathy spent hours and hours personally sewing costumes to outfit this large cast! And did it with zero budget," said Turek. Local choreographer, Jonsie Pollock, agreed to try her hand at directing this "non-dance" show with amazing results. Because Mrs. Pollock is not employed at SCHS, she was ineligible for the awards nomination.
Additional staff included Turek's student teacher from the University of West Georgia, John Martin. "Mr. Martin went way beyond the call of his student teacher duties putting in extra hours as a vocal coach and working sound for the production," said Turek. Two SCHS musical alumni, Erin Burnett (2004) and Savannah Turek (2008) returned to high school to volunteer their talents in multiple aspects of the show as stage crew, rehearsal assistants, publicity, and acting coaches.
The annual musical production enjoyed the support of the entire school. Upon entering the lobby, patrons were introduced to the "world of Jean Valjean" by stepping into displays presented by the Advance Placement Literature students. English teacher Rosemary Barnes added the book to the AP class's study list for this year. Stephane Allagnon, French teacher, who teaches the classic French novel by Victor Hugo each year to his advanced French students, provided ushers greeting the patrons in French as they entered the theatre. Allagnon even gave lessons in French cooking as he personally made chocolate croissants for the French bakery concessions served at intermission.
Funding for the musical is provided through the leftover money from ticket sales of the previous production and the profits from the Madrigal dinners presented annually in the fall by chorus and drama.
"Kathy Andersen and I feel strongly that musical theater is an important part of our culture and American musical heritage," said Turek. "The long hours and personal sacrifice are worth it to see what the students are able to accomplish and learn on that stage. The community support and volunteer efforts of the parents help to make our creative dreams come true."


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Linus Unleashes Linux Kernel 2.6.39
Faced with the decision to publish kernel 2.6.39 now or wait until after the upcoming LinuxCon, Linus Torvalds announces the immediate release of the new Linux kernel.
"So it's delayed a few days, and I really was struggling with the decision of whether I wanted to cut a final release at all: it could easily have made more sense to just do an -rc8," Torvalds writes in a Linux Kernel Mailing List post. "However, since I'm going to be at LinuxCon Japan in two weeks, the choice for me ended up whether I should just release, or drag it out *three* more weeks, or have some really messy merge window with a break in between."
Torvalds describes the current release window as "easy," and writes, "-rc2 was calm, -rc3 was _really_ calm, and -rc7 was tiny. And while this has more commits than -rc7 had, I didn't feel like that changed the overall picture much: we really did have much less churn after the merge window closed than we usually do. Which actually makes me pretty happy about the state of 2.6.39."
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I don't know if you tie your own flies or not, but if you do, try this sulphur nymph recipe. Tie some pheasant tail for the tail, then wrap body with sulphur orange goose biot (you can use thread or dubbing to build body thicker you like), tie in pheasant tail to use for thorax shell, then dub thorax with sulphur orange dubbing, tie down ptail for thorax shell, add some legs with ptail (or leave them off). I tie both beadhead and non. Its been a real productive fly for me even without seeing a single sulphur. A tan scud was hot last time I was there too. You can follow the same recipe with blue wing olive colors for winter fishing. That was my best fly last winter. Also micromays, and vinyl mays in olive worked well in the winter. Copper johns are usually productive for me on the soho as well. more so than other tailwaters. one more fly i really like there is a fly i tied up one day and havent named. when you tie it, you'll have to take my word that it works because it looks like nothing a trout would ever eat. its simply peackock herl wrapped up a nymph hook. thats it. When it gets wet, it takes on a pretty neat color and profile.
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Wow thanks for the info. But sadly I dont tie my own but you have given me some ideas. It often amazes me how eager fly fishermen are to help out a fellow fly fisherman. Ive only been fly fishing for about 2 yrs and am a recovering spin fisher. And getting bass fishermen to give up info is like pulling teeth. Again thanks for the help.
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If you thought everything in the Metropole was going to be a guido dream after Angelina made her rather ungraceful exit last week, then think again.
The girls (led by peacemaker Snooki) tried to mend fences -- JWoww says to Sammi, "Something I've never done before in my life...but I am sorry." After an apology like that Sammi should be dying to get a mani/pedi with Jenni.
Vinnie, whose lack of game was becoming a distraction, actually convinces Ramona to hook up with him for some beach time. Then, by a random twist of fate (or by the magic of production), two girls that he met in episodes past called to hang out at the same time. He opted for Ramona.
Snooki gets a visit from Ryder, a gal pal from back home with a drinking problem and an appetite for partying that rivals the Snookster's.
With the house free of the evil Angelina, sweet Vinnie finally hanging with Ramona, Sammi and Ronnie drama non-existent, a fake peace established amongst the girls -- what could go wrong?
Here comes The Situation. MIke's been keeping his crazy bottled up all season and tonight he whips it out in a concentrated, industrial-strength dose. His inability to pick up chicks at Tantra and Klutch lead him to 1) hit on Vinnie's Ramona. 2) try to kiss Snooki. 3) rudely force the entire crew to leave the club because he decided it was time. 4) smack Snooki on the mouth like abuela used to when you cursed. Looks like all the 'roids are starting to kick in.
Foreclosure: Angelina's bed gets evicted from Mike and Pauly D's room.They now have an extra 6 feet in their luxurious room.
Free Willy: The guys make lobster for the family dinner. Snooki tries to keep a lobster as a pet, yet was unaware of what it eats or that it needs to be in salt water and ends up killing it anyway.
Nervous ticks: Sammi rubs her eyebrow, Jennie picks glue off of her fake eyelashes and Snooki plays with her hair during the awkward reconciliation chat.
Intervention, please: Snooki's BFF Ryder is drunk before she even gets to the Metropole.
Cocktails: Where did Snooki and Ryder order the margaritas with the two Corona bottles inside? Put that place on our list...
Quote of the night: "There was a prophesy that one day there would be a pimp of all pimps and his name would be The Situation."
Tell it Ronnie: Sammi is hating on Mike's aggressive behavior at the club ("If I ever met him, I would be like 'no!' "). Ronnie -- "You did meet him, and you hooked up with him." Season 1 will haunt you forever, Sammi.
English as a second language: "Nicole and Ryder don't really talk to each other, they more just grunt" -- Jenni. Ryder completes Snooki.
Revelation: "It's still light out, I thought it was (curse word) dark." That's because you have on your sunglasses inside the suite, Snooks.
Delusions of grandeur: Mike -- "I'm the leader of this group. I'm the daddy of this house. I say what goes and if I say we're leaving, we're leaving." If you're the daddy, Mike, then we are going to call DCF.
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If ''The Famous Chicken'' is in the Amarillo National Bank Dilla Villa, two things are guaranteed to happen.
A massive crowd will attend and the Amarillo Dillas will win.
The Dillas clinched a berth in the United League Baseball playoffs Tuesday night behind the pitching of Taylor Allen, beating Rio Grande Valley, 6-4, in front of 7,092 fans crammed into the stadium to watch the most famous mascot in baseball history perform.
The Dillas are 4-0 the last four years with "The Famous Chicken'' in attendance.
The win lifted Amarillo to 42-31 with six games remaining. Amarillo is guaranteed no worse than a third place finish in the final standings.
However, Amarillo has its sights on earning the No. 1 seed because Tuesday it secured its 12th win oits last 13 games at home and moved to within 2½ games of first place San Angelo.
San Angelo lost, 6-5, to Edinburg on Tuesday night.
Taylor improved to 5-3 in going eight innings, allowing five hits, two earned runs and striking out seven.
The Dillas handed Taylor a 5-0 lead through four innings and were led at the plate with a pair of RBIs by Carlos Figueroa and Andrew Wong. Dillas leadoff Keanon Simon and outfielder Terrence McClain each contributed three hits and scored a pair of runs.
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- Global wine glut is over
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- Oversupply in the global wine market has been so chronic over the past few years that at times it has seemed like a permanent industry characteristic.
- Global inventories of commercial wine are at their lowest point in over a decade.
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Rabobank has published a new report on trends and outlook for the global wine market, saying that the global supply and demand balance is improving and that stocks will tighten in the short-term.
In the report, Rabobank's Food & Agribusiness Research and Advisory group looks at key issues affecting the international wine sector in the last quarter and in the period ahead:
• Global supplies are nearing demand equilibrium
• Stocks to become tighter in the short-term
• Diminishing pressure for wineries to participate in less profitable markets or price segments
• Strategic sourcing is gaining importance
• Shift in negotiating leverage in favor of wine companies which control supply
Stephen Rannekleiv, wine industry analyst at Rabobank and an author of the report, says, "Overall, total global wine production and inventories appear set to decline in 2012. Increasing output in the U.S. will be more than offset by the decline in production in the Southern Hemisphere, with the exception of Chile and South Africa, as well as the significant drop in output from Europe."
Rabobank's wine report says that oversupply in the global wine market has been so chronic over the past few years that at times it has seemed like a permanent industry characteristic.
From 2004 through 2010, the wine industry battled with excess supply, driven first by a series of large global harvests starting in 2004, and then by declining consumption during the global recession that started in 2008.
Since then, wine grape production has declined dramatically and consumption has begun to recover, driven by demand from the US, China and other emerging markets that has compensated for the declines in the traditional major European markets.
The latest research, Rabobank suggests, shows that global inventories of commercial wine are at their lowest point in over a decade, and stronger grape and bulk wine pricing in many markets suggest that the industry is much closer to balance.
Europe is likely to have a significantly reduced harvest, which will further tighten supplies but may also allow the market to eliminate unsustainable sales.
This shift towards a more balanced−and potentially tight−supply position is changing the dynamics of the global wine industry. Many wine companies have recently begun to implement strategies in the UK to sacrifice volumes in order to recover margins.
This decision was driven in part by the fact that wine companies no longer had any margins left to sacrifice, but the tighter supply situation has since eliminated much of the unsustainable competition that had been undercutting pricing. This is allowing wine companies to focus on more sustainable brand development.


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Robert Douglas Norris of Forestburgh, NY and a lifetime resident of the area died Thursday, August 8, 2014 at home. He was 66.
He was born March 15, 1948 in Liberty, NY, the son of the late Paul Edgar and the late Louie Constance Mearns Norris.
Prior to his retirement Robert was the controller for Schmidts Wholesale, Inc., Monticello, NY. Previously he was the Village of Monticello Treasurer from 1986 to 1988 and Manager from 1988 to 1992.
He was the current President of the Board of the Ethebert B. Crawford Public Library, a member of the Foundation for the Catskill Regional Medical Center, past treasurer of the Board for the Catskill Regional Medical Center and a past Chairman of the Finance and Budget Committee for Catskill Regional Medical Center. He was the current President of The Rural Sullivan County Housing Opportunities, Inc., the past Chairman of the Administrative Council and the Financial Secretary for the United Methodist Church of Monticello, where he has served his beloved church for over 25 years. He was the recipient of the 2006 Pride of Sullivan Award for the Town of Forestburgh and past Chairman for the United Way of Sullivan County. He was the past President of the Federation for the Homeless of Sullivan County. He was a past President of the Monticello Action Committee and a past member of the U.S. Postal Advisory Committee. He was a past Board Member for CACHE (Community Action Committee to Help the Economy) and past President of the American Heart Association Sullivan County Chapter. He was the past Treasurer for the Monticello Chamber of Commerce and a past member of the American Institute of Banking.
Surviving are: his sister, Carol P. Furchak of Rock Hill; niece, Jennifer Shamah and her husband Al and their children Sarah and David of Rock Hill, NY; nephew, Jason Furchak and his wife January and their children Jorja and Jenna of Clinton, ME; also many cousins and his church family.
He was predeceased by his brother-in-law, Edward J. Furchak, Jr., on December 29, 2009.
Visitation was held Sunday, August 10, 2014 and funeral services on Monday, August 11, 2014 at the United Methodist Church of Monticello, 445 Broadway, Monticello, NY with Rev. Melvin Boone and the Rev. John Thomason, with burial at Rock Ridge Cemetery, Monticello, NY.
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- Entrepreneurship research and practice: a call to action for psychology
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- Entrepreneurship is a major source of employment, economic growth, and innovation, promoting product and service quality, competition, and economic flexibility. It is also a mechanism by which many people enter the society's economic and social mainstream, aiding culture formation, population integration, and social mobility. This article aims to illuminate research opportunities for psychologists by exposing gaps in the entrepreneurship literature and describing how these gaps can be filled. A 'call to action' is issued to psychologists to develop theory and undertake empirical research focusing on five key topic areas: the personality characteristics of entrepreneurs, the psychopathology of entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial cognition, entrepreneurship education, and international entrepreneurship. Methodological issues are discussed and recommendations provided. It is shown that psychologists can help identify the factors that influence new venture creation and success and inform the construction of public policy to facilitate entrepreneurship.
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- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Business and Enterprise. Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship
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- American Psychologist, Vol. 62, no. 6 (Sep 2007), pp. 575-589
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- 2007
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- Cognition; Economic growth; Education; Entrepreneurship; Innovation; Psychopatholoy; Venture creation
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Being nice for Monday….
"I suspect the reason why so many leave the ministry or find themselves in such compromised positions in the ministry is due to the unrelieved boredom of facing a lifetime of being `nice' ". Hauerwas
I read this on an e group I am part of a few weeks back. It stimulated quite a debate; are we ordained too 'nice'? Does the attempt to maintain a 'nice' facade put too much pressure on us?
I would have to say 'yes': it does…and the struggle is to become more real and more human. Still it is something that afflicts us all: I remember someone saying years ago that most Christians are far nicer than God is…
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Several distinct varieties of the Armenian language can be distinguished: Old Armenian (Grabar), Middle Armenian (Miǰin hayerên), and Modern Armenian, or Ašxarhabar ( Ashkharhabar). Modern Armenian embraces two written varieties—Western Armenian (Arewmtahayerên) and Eastern Armenian (Arewelahayerên)—and many dialects are spoken. About 50 dialects were...