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Loud-Mouthed Boasters
While showing favoritism to those with power or money was normal for the false teachers Jude opposed, we do not have to be false teachers to commit this same error. How many of us consciously or unconsciously give deference to ...Read More
Enoch Prophesied
All truth finds its origin in God Himself. Therefore, we should not be dismayed that Jude quotes from sources not inspired by God. We can be sure Jude, under the superintendence of the Holy Spirit, was able to sift the ...Read More
Woe to Them
Few of us would overtly rise up against godly churchmen like these men did by preaching false doctrine. Yet how many of us subtly disobey the authority of the elders in our churches by speaking ill of them or grumbling ...Read More
Blasphemous Judgments
Christians today often substitute other authorities for the authority of the Bible. Many in the Pentecostal movement base their doctrines more on visionary experiences than on the Word of God. Even among Reformed believers, there can be a tendency to ...Read More
Unbelief and Destruction
In commenting on verse 5, John Calvin tells us that "after having been called by God, we ought not to glory carelessly in his grace, but on the contrary, to walk watchfully in his fear; for if any trifles thus ...Read More
Once For All Delivered
The faith that was once for all delivered to the saints is assaulted in a variety of ways in our day. Some overtly deny Gospel truth. Some add new revelations from the "spirit" or church tradition to the apostolic testimony. ...Read More
Jude, Brother of James
Take some time to read through the book of Jude today in preparation for this month's study. Consider that Jude, out of humility, does not assert his physical kinship with Jesus but describes himself as a humble servant of the ...Read More
Imitate Good
Whether we are in a position of authority or not, we all must be careful lest we try to place ourselves first. All too often our criticism of other people, especially Christian leaders, arises not from legitimate concerns but instead ...Read More
We Ought to Support
Those who pray and offer financial support to missionaries and other full-time Christian workers are vital to carrying out the Great Commission. When we pray for and give money to Christian service, we play a role as important as that ...Read More
Third John
The Bible does indeed promise health and wealth for God's people, but this promise will not be fully realized until heaven and earth are restored (Rev. 21:1–4). While we do see some of the firstfruits of these physical blessings when ...Read More


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Republican Governor Paul LePage has every right to be angry at Maine journalists for depicting him as a clueless buffoon with the political skills of a rabies-maddened raccoon and the public-relations prowess of day-old bait.
As the governor's loyal followers have repeatedly pointed out, that's only about half-right.
Now the truth can be told. As LePage seems to have suspected for some time, his portrayal in newspaper columns, television newscasts, radio reports, and throughout the blogosphere is being skewed by a nefarious force intent on thwarting the governor's every attempt to restore state government to fiscal sanity, common sense, and fewer messy cabinet resignations.
I know this for a fact, because, until now, I've been a member of that very conspiracy. After an agonizing re-evaluation of my moral standards, I've decided to break this evil cabal's strict code of silence, even though it means putting my reputation, my career, even my life on the line. I'm doing this because both Governor LePage and the public deserve to know the real story.
Also, because my only other choice for a column subject this week was clam-flat management.
Here's my shocking revelation: LePage has been targeted for political extinction by a secret organization called the Media Alliance to Ridicule, Degrade, and Eviscerate Normal Society.
Or, for short, M.A.R.D.E.N.S.
LePage is hardly M.A.R.D.E.N.S.'s only victim. Who do you think is responsible for destroying the groundfishing industry? Who can take credit for rendering the Maine Democratic Party irrelevant? Who's behind the sudden gutting of the Portland Sea Dogs' roster? Who's performing the psycho-ventriloquism act every time GOP state chairman Charlie Webster opens his mouth?
That's right, it's jihad-journalists and their assorted fellow travelers under the direction of the masterminds at M.A.R.D.E.N.S.
Of course, turning LePage into a comic-strip character was lots easier than those other tasks (well, maybe not easier than making Webster look weird). Unlike stubborn fishermen, dedicated donkey-party candidates, and ace pitchers like Stephen Fife, the governor initially seemed willing to cooperate with his media detractors by providing them with daily doses of dopiness. He picked fights for no reason (alleged "kooks" in southern Maine, suggesting the NAACP "kiss my butt," the labor-mural removal). He claimed he could do things no governor has the power to do (void the national health-care law, take control of federal waters off Maine's coast, appoint a commissioner of environmental protection with an illegal conflict of interest). He acted like a bonehead (hired his daughter for an administration job, took a vacation in the middle of a contentious legislative session, said allowing the chemical BPA in children's sippy cups would have no negative impact on the environment except for a few women growing "little beards").
Even though it might appear to the uninitiated that the blame for much of LePage's image problem falls on the governor himself, that's not the case. Each of his missteps has been carefully orchestrated by agents of M.A.R.D.E.N.S., many of whom have infiltrated the highest levels of state government. For instance, former Commissioner of Marine Resources Norm Olsen was one of our senior operatives (code name: Cranky Pants). Ex-Commissioner of Economic and Community Development Philip Congdon spent years under deep cover heading one of our sleeper cells. Departed communications director Dan Demeritt had a chip implanted in his brain that allowed us to control any public statements he made by satellite signals. And among reporters, there's scarcely one who hasn't attended M.A.R.D.E.N.S. covert-operations training camps for intensive indoctrination in such subjects as biased verbs, prejudicial adverbs, and warped conjunctions.
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New Photo-Challenge!
Here's one for you. The topic is, Blue.
What creative or interesting ways can you photograph blue? Maybe it's blue objects, maybe it's feeling blue or seeing blue. All up to you.
To keep it interesting, try to stay away from the more generic things, like blue sky. We'd love to see what exciting and interesting things you guys and gals out there can come up with! Oh, also, please no photo-manipulations (eg. Turning a yellow banana blue...) but regular, old cropping and colour-corrections are fine.
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That was fast!
Let's hope others will follow. Can't be that hard to take a picture of something blue?
Do you have any Smurfs Guido?
Not very imaginative from a Sitepoint advisor but none the less
Here's a better one, view from my lounge early in the morning
What passes as a 'vinyl' record deck nowadays
Incognito in concert
You are just jealous becaust there is no green in SP covers! Here's some green for you!
Absolutely fabulous! Now that's blue!
Oh wow.
Only manipulation here was color correction used in desaturating the skin/white of the eye - the Iris is as it was shot. Hope that isn't too over the top!
Sky isn't blue...
To be sung along to the Platters Hit, "Smoke gets in your eyes"
They asked me how I knewIt was Esso BlueI of course repliedWith lower grades one buysSmoke gets in your eyes.
...for the benefit of those who have never heard the song:)
A little over the top, yeah. Still that's a gorgeous, blue eye!
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I have been wearing an ultrabreeze half suit for a cpl years and it seems to me it gets really heavy when wet. Makes me wonder if there is actually much difference. It is nice to feel a breeze when there is one. I like the roomy hood, though every now and then a bee seems to get through the zipper gap.
Oops, Off Topic comments. Sorry.
I have never seen a Bee Pant. What does it look like? Is that how they sweat? Like dogs.


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trying to find a way of completing a task, a solution to a problem, etc. by asking a wide range of people or organisations if they can help, typically by using the Internet
'It seems that crowdsourcing is fast becoming the "next big thing." Whether you call it "social answers," "help engines" or something else, there's a growing trend of asking those in your network to help you out with advice.'Marketing Pilgrim 20th April 2009
'Crowdsourced YouTube Orchestra Unites at Carnegie Hall … Google liked the pair's idea of crowdsourcing an orchestra via YouTube, so it invited musicians around the world to download sheet music and submit videos of their performances in the hope of being selected.'Wired 15th April 2009
'Obama as Crowdsourcer; Organizing the Country for Change and Accountability …'Tech President 8th February 2009
Whether you're a small business or the President of the United States, it seems that if you need help, opinions or advice, then crowdsourcing might be the answer. Why limit yourself to the resources you already know about, when an even better solution might be waiting to be discovered amongst the millions of users of the World Wide Web?
the perceived benefits of crowdsourcing are obvious – problems can be explored quickly and at comparatively low cost, and businesses can tap a range of talent that may not exist within the confines of a particular organisation
Many of us will be familiar with the established concept of outsourcing, defined in the Macmillan Dictionary as 'an arrangement in which work is done by people from outside your company …'. This definition might fit an instance of crowdsourcing too, but the essential difference is that, whereas outsourcing usually involves a specific, previously known person or organisation (often an expert in a particular field) crowdsourcing refers to a task or problem thrown open to an undefined public (the crowd) – quite literally any Tom, Dick, or Harry who could possibly provide the answer.
Fast establishing itself as a legitimate business tool, the perceived benefits of crowdsourcing are obvious – problems can be explored quickly and at comparatively low cost, and businesses can tap a range of talent that may not exist within the confines of a particular organisation. It's also useful for marketing purposes because the crowd may include potential customers – asking people for their response to a problem may also be a way to glean information about what they want from a product or service.
Crowdsourcing is therefore catching on in a variety of contexts. The popular social networking site Facebook, for example, has enhanced its global popularity by crowdsourcing the translation of its many web pages. The ice cream manufacturer Ben & Jerry's recently launched a "Do the world a flavour" campaign, in an attempt to crowdsource inspiration for new varieties. But examples aren't confined to business and marketing. Popular websites like Aardvark give any person the opportunity to ask the web-browsing public for help or advice on just about anything, from post-natal weight loss to restaurant recommendations. In the political arena, even President Obama has become an advocate of crowdsourcing, using it for example to source campaign funding prior to his election, and more recently to canvas opinion and galvanise constructive ideas from the public in a web-based enterprise catchily described as White House 2.0.
The term crowdsourcing was coined by the US journalist Jeff Howe, in a June 2006 article in Wired magazine. However the concept underlying it – essentially harnessing the collaborative potential afforded by Web 2.0 — has been around somewhat longer.
The word is of course modelled on outsourcing, substituting out for crowd, which refers to the online community, an undefined, non-specific group of web users. Following the pattern of outsource, a transitive verb crowdsource is also regularly used, and there's some evidence for a related agent noun crowdsourcer.
This article was first published on 3rd June 2009.
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text: That would be Indian Not Indian I Spent the past week scouring the interwebs to try and find out about this 26" Roadster. When I found NOTHING I decided that I must have the only one in existence. The bikes that I found that were closest were from India. I decided to give up on what this bike is and where it is from and focus on what it is going to be and where I am going to take it. Here it is when I brought it home. Rod actuated brakes front and rear. The front is the stirrup type. And the rear is a hub/band brake Some of the cool features the bike is giving me include -Cool drop stand -Stainless steel fenders with a cool ornament -Westwood style Ayara rims. The chrome is great under the overspray. -and The sweet full coverage chain guard. I'm talking front and back coverage. The bike has been torn down and is ready to begin the process of cleaning and prepping for paint. My vision as of now includes cleaning and polishing the fenders and rims, painting the chrome parts that are too far gone to save the chrome (unless I can swing a chroming deal) and painting the frame and forks. I am seeing metal flake blue on the frame and forks and satin black on the chrome stuff. And a lot of pinstripping. Either all by one artist or perhaps hitting up our talented stripper members and having several of them attack the parts with their own style.


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Volume V
What's inside...
First Book
What's New
- From the U.S. Department of Education
- From the Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII)
- Arts In Education
- Closing the Achievement Gap
- Education Spending
- Higher Education
- Leadership
- Raising Student Achievement
- Reading
- Teacher Quality and Development
First Book: Giving Children from Low-Income Families the Opportunity to Read and Own Their First New Book
Chester, a cricket from rural Connecticut, takes a ride in a picnic basket and ends up in a Times Square subway station where a little boy named Mario Bellini discovers him. Mario convinces his parents to let him adopt the cricket and give it a home at their newsstand. Chester's adventures capture the attention of the first graders who are listening to the story while seated in a reading circle on a colorful rug in a rural Missouri town. The scene takes place when an after-school program the children attend hosts a book donation event made possible through its affiliation with an organization called First Book.
Not only do these first graders learn about the true meaning of friendship, they also learn about the New York City subway system, which most of them may only know from reading books. Art and music also play powerful roles in The Cricket in Times Square, by children's book author George Selden, and the best part of all - the students get their very own copy of the book after the reading. All children who participate in events such as this with First Book, which are held all over the country, go home with free books. For some of them, the books could be the very first they own.
Providing Reading Resources
First Book is a nonprofit organization with a single mission: to give children from low-income families the opportunity to read and own their first new book. Recognizing the need for a child to have access to reading materials so he or she may become a skilled reader, the nonprofit developed a model to help literacy-serving organizations provide more reading materials to children like the ones in rural Missouri. First Book works with existing literacy organizations such as Head Start centers, libraries, churches, and after-school initiatives to identify schools and students who need books. Then the organization provides the books f ree to programs that are able to pick them up from various warehouse locations across the country. The books also can be shipped for 25 cents each.
First Book's mission is not to instruct children to read. However, by supplying the resources children need to become strong readers, the organization helps to develop and advance reading skills through practice. Like any skill, reading is one that benefits from practicing and listening to others. With research indicating that the number of books in the home is a key variable that correlates significantly with reading scores, First Book sets out to "even the playing field" for low-income and disadvantaged youth throughout the country.
There are 25 to 30 book distributions hosted by the First Book National Book Bank (FBNBB) annually and, many times, recipient organizations host book readings, plan trips, and design curricula based on the books they receive, all before sending the books home with children. Eligible organizations register with FBNBB, and they are notified when a distribution will take place. Books are generously donated by book publishers and can go to a nonprofit organization if it has at least 80 percent of the children served coming from low-income families, a Title I school, or a specially designated government institution. (Institutions serving low-income families fall under this classification.) Over 4,000 such groups have registered and, since 1992, First Book has distributed close to 50 million books to children in over 1,300 communities around the nation.
"Our groups use the books in many different ways," says Kyle Zimmer, president and co-founder of First Book. She explains, "The central model is that we give the books to pre-school and after-school organizations that serve youth from zero to 18 years of age. The recipient groups are able to provide one book per child, per month, for one year on average. They tell the Advisory Boards what they'll use the books for." The Boards are made up of community volunteers, business people, and independent individuals. The members work with First Book to select the books, raise funds to purchase the books for children in literacy programs, recruit more volunteers, and take part in marketing events to raise money and awareness.
Zimmer notes that, often, "If [an organization] is getting books about dinosaurs, [the children] will go on a field trip to look at dinosaurs in a museum, then they learn about types of dinosaurs. Essentially the organization will plan a whole curriculm around dinosaurs. Groups are allowed to get all the kids the same book, or they can customize their order so a really good reader may get a more challenging book."
Helping to Meet Reading Goals
Through the Fund for the Improvement of Education (FIE) Program, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) has supported numerous First Book projects so books could go to disadvantaged children and families. Books were distributed to at-risk children and youth, primarily in rural areas of the country, who participated in tutoring, mentoring, and family literacy programs. FIE grants also helped First Book create, strengthen, and nurture the nearly 275 local First Book Advisory Boards that raise funds and select the most effective programs in their communities as First Book recipients.
The FBNBB also coordinates Book Relief, First Book's initiative to put five million new books back into the Gulf Coast region following the destruction of the 2005 hurricanes. Book Relief started within days of Hurricane Katrina's landfall and, so far, has distributed nearly 4.5 million new books to children, adults, communities, and institutions in the five Gulf Coast states (Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and Florida) most severely impacted by the storms. Publishers have committed millions of brand new books to the effort. In addition, nonprofits, many private companies, and government institutions such as ED and the U.S. Coast Guard have donated warehouse space, enabling First Book to store and distribute books from facilities conveniently located near many of the communities devastated by the storms.
ED, in fact, has played a major role in Book Relief. Since June 2006, ED and First Book have collaborated to distribute over 1.15 million books. ED has announced the distribution of the books at numerous events across affected Gulf Coast communities and has handled the distribution of the books to sites via its warehouse, the ED Pubs center in Jessup, Maryland.
At a recent ED-sponsored Book Relief event in Chalmette, Louisiana, for example, students got to hear all about the adventures of Clifford, The Big Red Dog, and his owner, Emily Elizabeth. Clifford himself (really a volunteer wearing a big red dog costume) even turned out for the event along with a Washington official, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education Raymond Simon, who read a Clifford story to the assembled school children.
Doris Voitier, a 2007 John F. Kennedy Foundation Profiles in Courage Award winner, also was present at the event. Voitier earned the recognition for her efforts to rebuild the St. Bernard Parish Schools following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. At the Book Relief event, she expressed a truth recognized by educators and supported by the First Book model: "We all know that reading to our children is one of the most important things that parents can do to prepare youngsters for entering school. We can all agree that in grades K through four, we learn to read, and for the rest of our lives, we read to learn." Another significant fact is that parents and children need to have books to read, see the people in their home reading, and have lots of choices for what to read.
Research-Based Response
Part of the commitment of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is that every child, by the year 2014, should be able to read on or above grade level by the end of third grade. Yet, research shows that children from low-income households are less likely to develop the skills needed to become strong readers because their households and classrooms often lack reading resources. A National Center for Education Statistics' (NCES) evaluation of NCLB reading proficiency scores in 2005 found that 36 percent of all fourth graders scored at the "below basic" proficiency level, but 54 percent of fourth graders eligible for the school lunch program, often an indicator of poverty, scored at the "below basic" proficiency level.
One factor contributing to these scores may be that while middle-income parents spend thousands of hours reading one-on-one to their children prior to starting first grade, low-income parents may spend as little as 25 hours. In addition, households of at-risk students often are not filled with the books, magazines, pamphlets, catalogues, and other reading materials that brim in the homes of typical middle class families. When the child of a middle-income parent starts to read, he or she can choose a book from the family library, pick a magazine parents have ordered, or flip through a booklet that belongs to mom, just to look at the pictures. Not so for many children who live in poverty.
First Book President Kyle Zimmer notes, "There are two ways we know the First Book model is effective. First, through anecdotal evidence - we get feedback directly from our Advisory Boards. They tell us about the smiles they see on the faces of children getting their first books." First Book also has evidence from two studies that were conducted, partially through FIE funding. Zimmer asserts, "Over 2,000 children were identified in one survey and 1,400 in another. The studies followed the children for months, doing a pre-screening, a mid-point screening, and then another screening 16 to 18 months later. They observed sets of behavior that indicated an interest in reading. For instance, they watched for whether a child left an activity in order to read or listen to a story. They also watched for whether a child chose books to read over another activity. The so-called 'observed indicators' are really important.In one study, the number of indicators more than doubled [over time], and in the other it increased even more."
Making Books Widely Available
Zimmer is proud of what First Book has achieved, but remains focused on solving the problem of access to books. "Access is a problem we can solve," she says. That is one reason for the development of the "First Book Marketplace." The First Book Marketplace sells high-quality new children's books through an online store to programs serving disadvantaged children at very low prices in order to reach children who never before could gain access to such a wide range of quality books.
"Marketplace came out of the idea that everyone needs to do a little bit. We cannot rely on funding from the top down to help everything. We surveyed our groups and found most either had money in their budgets for books or knew where to get it. So we designed a system to purchase huge quantities of books and offer them for sale to groups at way below market price. The revenue is much less for publishers, and we can't always get all the titles we want, but we've increased the number of groups we serve from 4,000 to 21,000. How amazing is that?"
First Book realizes it cannot achieve its goals alone. The organization takes every opportunity to engage partners from the corporate, government, nonprofit, and campus-based realms. For example, since 2000, First Book has been the signature charity of the U.S. Coast Guard. Agency personnel and families stationed throughout the country support First Book by volunteering on Advisory Boards, hosting book parties for children, and storing and distributing books from U.S. Coast Guard warehouse facilities nationwide.
Corporate involvement is constantly growing as well. Corporations support First Book through "cause-based" marketing campaigns, using private sector strategies for the public good. They hold local events and donation drives that show their commitment to the community.
It seems that First Book always is on the verge of developing another method to get books to children and to celebrate the importance of learning to read. The organization's latest Web site campaign, "What Book Got You Hooked?" will help it celebrate the distribution of its 50 millionth book this summer.
"No matter who you're talking to, the way to bring an instant smile, a wonderful softening, is to ask someone to recall the book that got them hooked on reading," said Zimmer, who recently was named the 2006 Social Entrepreneur of the Year by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. "Every child should have the opportunity to get hooked on reading. We cannot afford to get bigheaded if we're serious about serving the 26 million children in poverty. We are way too far from the finish line, and that keeps us focused."
So, what book got you hooked?
- First Book
- Fund for the Improvement of Education Grant Program
- National Center for Education Statistics
What's New
From the U.S. Department of Education
U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings announced the award of 18 grants totaling $38.2 million under the Teacher Incentive Fund Program that will provide financial incentives to teachers and principals who improve student achievement and close achievement gaps in high-poverty schools. (June 13)
Secretary Spellings released a statement and an op-ed article following the release of the report, PDF, (1.20 MB) Answering the Question that Matters Most: Has Student Achievement Increased Since No Child Left Behind? by the Center on Education Policy, a national, independent advocate for public education and more effective public schools. (June 5)
At the first of five regional higher education summits, Secretary Spellings called on Congress to enact a comprehensive Higher Education Act (HEA) reauthorization bill to improve college access, affordability, and accountability for all Americans. (June 5)
Secretary Spellings announced that ten states have been awarded a total of $284 million to help create new charter schools and increase school choices for parents and their children. The competitive three-year grants are through the Office of Innovation and Improvement's Public Charter Schools Program and support states' efforts to plan, design, implement, and disseminate information about charter schools. (June 5)
With many students and teachers on break, the final Education News Parents Can Use show of the 2006-2007 season focused on summer programs that aim to sustain academic skills and help students avoid the "summer slide." The broadcast showcased award-winning and effective summer learning programs, explored innovative strategies to engage and nurture disadvantaged youth, and profiled library-, community-, and corporate-based initiatives to keep students reading and learning. The archived broadcast can be viewed online. (June 19)
The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) issued the Director's Biennial Report to Congress, covering IES activities and accomplishments in 2005 and 2006. Director Grover (Russ) J. Whitehurst said, "IES has been transformed from an organization under construction to one that is fully formed and operational." (June 8)
The U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) released Mapping 2005 State Proficiency Standards Onto the NAEP Scales, a report that allows educators to " better gauge where states are and how far they have to go to reach grade-level proficiency for all students by 2014," according to a statement by Secretary Spellings. (June 7)
NCES released The Condition of Education 2007, a Congressionally mandated report that provides an annual statistical portrait of education in the United States. The 48 indicators included in the report cover all aspects of education, from student achievement to school environment and from early childhood through postsecondary education. Secretary Spellings made a statement following the release of the report. (May 31)
From the Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII)
Assistant Deputy Secretary Morgan Brown will keynote the 14 th Annual Education Law Conference. The conference will be held at the University of Southern Maine in Portland and will address a broad range of topics including: autism, due process hearings, the achievement gap, NCLB, charters, and school choice. (July 24-26)
The pre-solicitation notice for the Teaching American History program's National History Education Clearinghouse has been posted on the fedbizop.gov site. The link includes a synopsis of the contract as well as the anticipated July 13 th issue date of the RFP in this free and open competition.You can also register with the fedbizops.gov site to receive e-mail notifications. (June 25)
Charter Schools Open Competition: Application information is available for Public Charter Schools CFDA 84.282B Planning Program Design for Implementation and 84.282.C Dissemination Activities.The deadline for transmittal of applications is August 6, 2007 and the deadline for intergovernmental review is September 5, 2007.
Arts in Education
Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is sponsoring the "Thinking Through Art Symposium," a conference for museum and classroom educators focusing on critical thinking skills and the visual arts. Space is limited, and there is a registration, fee. A grantee of OII's Model Development and Dissemination Grants program, the museum has developed a "Thinking Through Art Toolkit," which features a case study of its 2003-2006 research project. (July 16-17)
Laurie M. Tisch, who launched the nonprofit Center for Arts Education (CAE) in New York City in 1996, is one of the "2007 Daring Dozen," education activists recognized by Edutopia. Under Tisch's leadership as board chairman of CAE since its founding, nearly $40 million has provided an estimated 450,000 New York City students with learning experiences in the arts. (June 2007)
Closing the Achievement Gap
Limited English proficient fourth and eighth grade students in Texas may be falling behind their English-speaking peers in mathematics and reading, according to a Pew Hispanic Center analysis PDF, (1.49 MB). (June 6)
Education Spending
The Census Bureau reports that the U.S. spent an average of $8,701 per pupil to educate its children in 2005, with some states paying more than twice as much per student as others. New York topped the list spending $ 14,119 per student. One of the lowest spending states was Utah at $5,257 per student. (May 24)
Higher Education
The MetLife Foundation and Jobs for the Future (JFF) are inviting community colleges across the nation to apply for the 2008 MetLife Community College Excellence Award . The award will honor two community colleges for their commitment to helping low-income students, first-generation college-goers, and adults enter and succeed in postsecondary education. Each honoree will receive a $30,000 award and national recognition. Completed applications must be submitted online by August 31, 2007. (June 28)
A new survey, Squeeze Play: How Parents and the Public Look at Higher Education Today, has been prepared by Public Agenda for the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education in collaboration with "Making Opportunity Affordable," an initiative of Lumina Foundation for Education. Among the key findings, the survey reveals that 50 percent of Americans surveyed say that a college education is necessary for success in the workplace, but 58 percent say that college prices are rising faster than other expenses. (May 31)
According to a new study of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Chicano Studies Research Center, only 10 percent of the Hispanics enrolled in a community college in 2002-2003 successfully transferred to a four-year college. The findings highlighted the need for improved support programs including "bridge" programs and alliances among community colleges and four-year institutions. (May 25)
The Education Commission of the States (ECS) announced PDF, (23.3 KB), the appointment of Roger Sampson, Alaska Commissioner of Education and Early Development, as its new president. (June 11)
Wanted: educators with proven track records of success; outstanding senior executives from education, business, government, the military, and nonprofit organizations; and dynamic entrepreneurs. The Broad Center for the Management of School Systems is now accepting resumes for application consideration for the 2008 Broad Superintendents Academy. The application deadline is Sept. 16, 2007. Please e-mail email@example.com or call (310) 954-5080 with questions. (June 2007)
Raising Student Achievement
Diplomas Count, a new report from Education Week, draws on two national databases to examine the distribution of jobs nationally and within each state, and the relationship between education and pay levels. The report also includes analysis by the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center regarding graduation rates nationwide, finding that an estimated 1.23 million students, or about 30 percent of the class of 2007, will fail to graduate with their peers. (June 12)
Evan M. O'Dorney, a 13-year-old from Danville, California, has won the 2007 Scripps National Spelling Bee. The Scripps National Spelling Bee is the nation's largest and longest-running educational promotion. The E.W. Scripps Company administers the competition. (June 1)
Southern states, and Arkansas in particular, are leading the country in student participation in Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate programs, according to a report PDF, (89 KB), from the Southern Regional Education Board. The report indicates that in 2006, 26 percent of graduating seniors in the board's member states took at least one AP exam. (June 2007)
Core academic courses in U.S. high schools often lack the rigor they need to adequately prepare students for college-level work, according to a new report, Rigor at Risk, from ACT, Inc. The report suggests that even students who take the recommended college preparatory curriculum in high school are often not well prepared to handle college material. (May 15)
The Urban Education Exchange (UEE) and Weekly Reader Publishing are collaborating PDF, (27.9 KB), on a set of curriculum resources for grades two through six. "Reading Passages", uses articles from Weekly Reader publications and questions based on UEE's Concepts of Comprehension© framework to respond to the need for non-fiction, grade-level passages that expand students' world knowledge and reinforce reading skills. Weekly Reader will publish the Concepts of Comprehension© resource book with the first 500 passages in January. (Apr. 30)
Teacher Quality and Development
The National Center for Education Information (NCEI), which specializes in survey research and data analysis, has released Alternative Teacher Certification: A State-by-State Analysis for 2007. The 353-page analysis reveals that about 59,000 teachers earned certification through alternative routes in 2005-2006, up from 50,000 the year before and 39,000 in 2003-2004. The report can be purchased online. (June 2007)
The 2007 U.S. Innovative Teachers Forum, sponsored by Microsoft, will reward learning teams that incorporate elements of 21st century learning in their classrooms. Supported by the National Staff Development Council and the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, the forum will bring together exemplary K-12 learning teams and provide them with the opportunity to share expertise and engage collaboratively with their peers. The deadline to apply is July 11. (Apr. 26)
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KIPP leaders are taking a close look at student attrition amid arguments from critics that the loss of students at some of their schools is alarmingly high, with some said to be losing 50 percent over three years. Yet "in certain KIPP schools, in fact, attrition appears very low." The question of attrition is seen as central to criticisms of KIPP as only serving the most motivated families. [More-Education Week] (June 13) (paid subscription required)
Martin Luther King, Jr. Charter School for Science and Technology is the first school in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward to reopen since Hurricane Katrina. This step is important to rebuilding the community, but there are many more schools to reopen. [More-New Orleans Times-Picayune] (June 12)
Since the New Orleans public schools had to rebuild from the ground up, state authorities allowed a wide range of charter schools to emerge. The city currently is in the middle of "the largest scale test case in the nation for charter schools, and so far school reformers are cautiously optimistic." [More-Wall Street Journal] (June 9) (subscription required)
Maryland Schools Superintendent Nancy Grasmick announced that the state is slated to receive an $18.2 million federal grant for charter schools. Maryland is one of the 10 states to receive grants from OII's Public Charter Schools Program, announced by Secretary Spellings on June 5. Most of the grant money will help groups wanting to open new charter schools after the fall of 2008. About $900,000 of the three-year grant also could be used to provide training to the state's existing charter schools. [More-Baltimore Sun] (June 9) (paid subscription for archive)
A consortium of nonprofit groups released the Parents' Guide to Public Schools in New Orleans, giving essential information that families need to choose and gain admission to the schools of their choice. The guide details the multi-tiered structure of the system, in which both the state-run Recovery District and the Orleans Parish School Board operate traditional public schools and oversee charter schools. In addition, the Algiers Charter School Association next year will run a system of nine charter schools on the West Bank. [More-New Orleans Times-Picayune] (June 7)
Sixty-one percent of charter school students in New York City who took the state's reading assessments met state standards, compared to 51 percent of students citywide. Charter school performance in the city appears to be improving more rapidly than other public schools. [More-New York Sun] (May 29)
Early Childhood
During a three-day summit in Cleveland called "In Our Own Backyards: Local Initiatives That Change Young Children's Lives," pre-school educators from across the country agreed to support a national call to focus on formal education for children from birth to age five. That means more state and federal money and more cooperation between public and private agencies. [More-Cleveland Plain Dealer] (June 10)
Exactly when children are old enough to begin kindergarten is becoming a matter of debate as states are trying to embrace the advantages of "redshirting." The term, borrowed from sports, describes students who are held out for a year by their parents so that they will be older, or larger, or more mature, and thus better prepared to handle the increased pressures of kindergarten today. [More-New York Times] (June 3) (subscription required)
Raising Student Achievement
There were 201 rising seniors selected as the inaugural class of D.C. Achievers, a yearlong college-readiness program administered by the D.C. College Success Foundation and made possible by a $112 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The D.C. program is linked to the College Success Foundation, which began in 2000 in Washington State and has helped more than 4,440 low-income and minority Washington students attend college. [More-Washington Post] (June 14) (subscription required)
Providence, Rhode Island Superintendent Donnie Evans said in his "State of the Providence Schools" address that the district's student achievement is not acceptable. He announced new initiatives called "Realizing the Dream," which calls for improving student achievement, creating safe and caring schools, improving public trust, and making sure that school programs are cost effective. [More-Providence Journal] (June 13)
The relationship between Rhode Island School of Design and a nearby urban high school is a community partnership that works. The school has aligned school-wide expectations and goals to a vision of a high-performing arts school. The result is that the formerly struggling high school is showing signs of improvement. [More-Christian Science Monitor] (June 1)
Teacher Quality
The Business-Higher Education Forum released a report recommending policies to address "a projected shortfall of more than 280,000 mathematics and science teachers across the country by 2015." The group seeks to "double the number of graduates in science, mathematics, engineering and technology fields during the next 10 years," and it argues that "the quality of mathematics and science teachers is the most influential variable in determining the success of a student in those subjects." [More-Washington Post] (June 12) (subscription required)
A Nebraska science teacher recently received the nation's highest honor for teaching mathematics or science. After 37 years in the classroom, Exeter-Milligan educator Julia Polak received the 2006 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. [More-York News-Times] (June 12)
Even though Chicago schools are attracting better-qualified teachers, many leave the job within five years, according to a study of Illinois teacher turnover rates. According to Leaving Schools or Leaving the Profession: Setting Illinois' Record Straight on New Teacher Attrition, from the Illinois Education Research Council, anywhere from 74 to 79 percent of teachers are gone after five years. [More-Chicago Sun-Times] (June 7)
Since 1994, many Wisconsin teachers have found their way into the classroom through Troops to Teachers, a U.S. Department of Defense-sponsored program that, among other things, offers up to $10,000 to get service members, both active and retired, to serve as teachers in the nation's neediest schools. [More-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel] (June 6)
In Maryland, under a new Baltimore County schools program, students are awarded college scholarships from the county school system to help pursue degrees in education. In exchange, the students agree to come back to teach in some of the neediest schools in the area's largest school system. [More-Baltimore Sun] (June 3) (paid subscription for archive)
Two technology trends that have been taking place separately in K-12 and higher-education institutions across the country are now beginning to come together: (1) the proliferation of wireless networks, and (2) the convergence of voice, video, and data on a single network infrastructure. [More-eSchool News] (June 4)
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Teacher's Wisdom: "The biggest defeat in life is bitterness."
Pioneering Practitioner: When she began studying yoga in the mid-1970s, she believes New York City only had three yoga studios.
Earliest Role Model: "For dignity and constancy of purpose, my father."
Advice to Her 15-year Old Self: "Learn things that support your health and well-being and the well-being of others… And keep breathing."
Nevine Michaan was born in Egypt in 1954 and moved to New Rochelle, N.Y., at the age of three. She began studying meditation and yoga after college, and soon began training in New York City under the auspices of renowned yoga guru Alan Bateman.
Michaan began taking on her own students after relocating to the New York City suburbs in 1980. She founded the Katonah Yoga Center in Katonah, New York in 1991, before moving to operation to nearby Bedford in 2005. In 1999, she produced "Yoga for Women," an instructional tape directed toward women of all ages.
"I really decided to do it because so much of the yoga that was coming out was part of a youth movement," she says. "I saw a lot of women who were going towards menopause and struggling and didn't have technique. The classical yoga had so much more [to offer them.]"
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Developer: Namco Ltd.
Release Date: March 2005
Platform: PSP handheld system
Genre: Racing
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I have to make 65 aprons to take to the Ukraine, elderly ministry. Does anyone have any suggestions to help the process go smoother and where to get cheaper fabric.
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
I have to make 65 aprons to take to the Ukraine, elderly ministry. Does anyone have any suggestions to help the process go smoother and where to get cheaper fabric.
Goodwill stores sells fabric that people have donated and prices are cheap. Even taking the clothing and cutting it up can make aprons as well. Good Luck to you. You are a fabulous person to be so thoughtful
Gods Blessings
Happy Quilting
I am 1/4 Ukranian and am intrigued. Is this an American Church Ministry ? Or are they going to the Ukraine ? My aunts used to send boxes to family over there but then postage got so high, they couldn't afford it anymore. I go to yard sales and people are so generous with fabic. 65 doesn't sound like many. Recruit friends. Put notes on belletin borads. People have fabric at home they would love to share. Even old linens. We all have too much stuff.
"Each of us can only do the best we can for as many as we can and that will never be good enough for those of us who care!"
I remember our first project in home-ec (late 60's here) was an apron.
We hemmed a square on 3 sides, then folded over the top a little wider and stitched it down for a sleeve. We then had those plastic waist hoops made for that reason and just slid our little apron onto the plastic.
Our second project used a little bigger square, we folded up the bottom to about 4-5 inches below the waist band, stitched down it in three places for nice deep pockets and then stitched ties to the top two edges. Easy Peasy, and both work with every fabric you can think of.
What I'm wondering ByThePiece, is if even the elderly in the Ukraine still use enough aprons to make it worth the time and shipping.
I'll bet they would snap up a yard of fabric though...
Have you checked with Wal-Mart.
The elderly in the Ukraine definitely use aprons, they wear them all day. I make quilts for the Ukraine (70 last year)
and to do this is such a blessing to them and to me. They are very thankful for what they receive and it does
not matter what kind of fabric or what design it is.
I sent you an private message. Bless you.
Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost but now am found, was blind, but now I see. [John Newton (1725-1807)]
I am half Ukranian on my mother's side.
When it seems like the world is falling to pieces remember that the pieces are falling into place. We are nearing closer to the End Times.
God started a ministry for me five years ago. I have a heart for the elderly and felt led to go to the Ukraine to minister to them. We had a family from the Ukraine visit our church and that is how I found out about it. We go to Borslav every year now for five years. This year will be my sixth year. I visit the elderly in their homes and deliver food and some needed supplies. I have come to love these people like family. They have blessed my life. We are going back in June of 2013. Another lady at my church felt led to start a women's ministry and this will be our third year to bring Bible studies, and a womens' retreat for the ladies. All age groups attend young and old, and we have seen God working in their lives tremendously. I get so excited when I talk about this. Are you from around Borslav or Tustevettes. I am sure my spelling is all wrong. Please let me know where your home town is.


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April 3, 1970
Macon, GA US
Macon Coliseum
Includes: We're Gonna Groove, Dazed and Confused, Heartbreaker, Bring It On Home, White Summer / Black Mountainside, Since I've Been Loving You, Organ solo / Thank You, What Is and What Should Never Be, Moby Dick, How Many More Times, Whole Lotta Love.
Robert Plant contributes to the middle jam mele of Whole Lotta Love on JPJ's Hammon organ.
Press Review: Zeppelin Concert – Macon Crowd Goes Wild
England's Led Zeppelin washed its hands in muddy water Friday night as the citizens of Redding's birthplace eloquently expressed their appreciation.
The group played with brilliance and endurance which far surpassed the performance it gave at last summer's Atlanta Pop Festival. This was largely due to the Macon crowd's enthusiasm, from which Led Zeppelin seemed to draw its own enthusiasm, even on this, its fifth North American tour.
As Page bowed his way noisily through Dazed & Confused, I feared that we were in for an evening of psychedelic delights in the tradition of Iron Butterbird.
Things came better though as the group introduced a song from its upcoming album, Led Zeppelin III, which is to be released incidentally sometime during the summer.
As Plant introduced it, bassist John Paul Jones took his station at the Hammond organ and along with Page, played the best stuff that has been done in Macon since the cops ran Duane Allman out.
Bonham shone on Moby Dick (always have gone for that song) and by the time Page and Jones returned to the stage to finish it, the crowd was going mad.
I never have gone for drum solos but Bonham really was outstanding. Anyway, what with Plant's harp playing, by the end of Bring it On Home, the crowd was in hysterics and pushing the cops into the front of the stage.
With the crowd peaking, Jones started How Many More Times and we all wondered. The cops had given up and Page's guitar was so loud you couldn't hear anything else.
Plant pulled his "gun" bit superbly and the boogie went on and on. When they had finished, the crowd hadn't and was screaming louder than ever. They reciprocated with a massive rendition of Whole Lotta Love, with Plant on organ.
Georgia has never seen the like.
(S.Fair , Staff Writer / April 1970)
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You might not think one of the wetter spots in the islands would rank so high on a dream-wedding list, but in the case of Princeville, looks trump weather. Perched on the cliffs of Kauai's North Shore, the St. Regis offers world-class views of Hanalei Bay and the Bali Hai of 1958's South Pacific. Add spot-on service and nobody's going to mind a little morning drizzle.
Where it is -Several airlines offer nonstop service to Kauai from the mainland; once at Lihue Airport, you'll drive about 45 minutes to Princeville. There's a nearby market for picnics and provisions.
Meet the staff - Doubling as sales manager for the resort, Wendy Fisher has been coordinating destination weddings for a dozen years. She places emphasis on weaving local traditions into the day, from a slack-key guitar music to hula performances.
The looks department -While no boutique hotel (the 11 floors were built into a sea cliff), its towering glass windows help the St. Regis feel at home in its surroundings. A total renovation in 2009 erased the resort's original Dynasty-era glitz and left a more organic design. And because construction here has been carefully controlled, the only thing blocking your view of the breakers might be a surfer toting his board.
Party spaces -If the weather's fine, you can exchange vows cliffside at Hanalei Terrace, beside the infinity pool at the Bay Terrace, or at Kamani Cove, a beachfront lawn with mountain and waterfall views that doubles as a reception spot. Glass-paneled suites, terraced spaces, and ballrooms come into play if nature doesn't cooperate. And should you want a luau, there's a mai tai with your name on it at the poolside gazebo.
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Here in Massachusetts, meanwhile, Congressman Stephen Lynch has a primary challenge of his own from a guy named Phil Dunkelbarger, who dreams of playing Lamont to Lynch's Lieberman. As the Westwood resident tells it, Lynch, too, is guilty of betraying his fellow Democrats: among other things, he backed the Iraq war, even after most Democrats expressed misgivings, and favored government intervention in the Terry Schiavo case. This makes Lynch a de facto ally of the president, Dunkelbarger claims — and given the restiveness of the national electorate, which has people talking about major Republican setbacks in this fall's midterm elections, it also makes him vulnerable at the ballot box.
"Let's be candid about it — conditions in this country have gone south in the last five years," Dunkelbarger argues. "That we could go downhill so fast is mind-boggling, and it's because so many Democrats were complicit. And Steve Lynch has got to be held accountable for that complicity, because he's basically been carrying water for the administration for five years. He can be taken out. And he needs to be taken out."
Strong words, those — even if they're debatable (more on that later) — and portents of a bitter fight to come. There's just one problem: with the primary election two months away, it's not clear that anyone is actually heeding Dunkelbarger's call to the ramparts.
Told you so
Long-shot candidates who lack buzz tend to blame the media, and Dunkelbarger is no exception. It's a sweltering June afternoon, and I've just met the candidate at the Readville commuter-rail stop in Hyde Park to watch him on the stump. When I note, at the outset, that people don't seem to be talking about his race, Dunkelbarger bristles. "We gathered five thousand signatures," he answers. "We've been all over the place. The media's been ignoring us."
However, he also says — and here, too, Dunkelbarger hews to the standard long-shot script — that things are looking up. The press is starting to notice, Dunkelbarger insists; what's more, his aggressive retail politicking is having an impact. "I've been doing trains since the beginning of February, and I've seen the same person at three different locations," he recounts. "They're starting to recognize me when they see me, so I know we're starting to get some traction."
This blend of resentment and overweening optimism seems all too typical, and I'm ready to dismiss Dunkelbarger as just another quixotic lefty. But then the challenger shifts into his critique of Lynch, and it turns out that as a polemicist, he's surprisingly effective.
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Wow, Google has really outdone itself with today's doodle. We've had plenty of great ones before featuring great writers, artist, scientists and, er, snowflakes, but this one features some of the best interactivity I can remember in a while. Today would have been the 78th birthday of Robert Moog, and the doodle honors him with a fully playable version of his famous synthesizer, complete with lots of knobs to twiddle and tweak the sounds just like the real thing.
You can play the keyboard using the number and/or QWERTY keys on your actual keyboard and use the cursor arrows to move between and adjust the Mixer, Oscillators, Filters and Envelope to make all sorts of crazy squelchy synth sounds. The Moog website has a quick start guide on how to play it. And there's more – that funny looking thing to the right of the Moog is a "Tape Recorder" (look it up on Wikipedia) and if you hit the red button you can record a short section of your masterpiece, then play it back and record another three tracks and also share your song on Google+ or grab a link to it. Continue Reading "Google Doodle Honors the Father of the Modern Synthesizer – Bob Moog" »


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Ok, so I have a laying worker hive (again) this time due to Lord only knows what as I was in hospital have an elbow reconstruction over the period when the queen would have to have disappeared. (I know at about the time I went into hospital they were raising a new queen, but.....)
So yesterday was my first day back into this hive in over a month and I find no queen and only drone brood as you'd expect of a laying worker hive.
I took a frame of brood (with capped QC x4) from a recent swarm prevention split and donated it to this hive, but I noticed that this morning that region of the hive is only at 86F vs the more normal 93F. So my worry is that the capped brood is too cold to be ok. Am I right?
This brings up something I've been wondering about, I can buy capped queen cells from a local breeder which are delivered by mail, so how are they kept at 93F? or is it once capped temp is not so critical anymore?
Thanks for any and all help.


text: While eating breakfast this morning I was looking thru craigslist. I found a add for hives for sale. After looking at the add and contacting the seller. I find out he is moving and needs to sell the hives. He had the State Inspector out two weeks ago to check the health of all the hives and had certificate for it. 2 of the hive are 3 mediums with lots of stores left and high bee numbers. The other hive was 1 deep and 4 mediums. Top 2 meds were seting above a queen excluder and both full of capped honey. Again this hive full of bees and stores below excluder. Needless to say the wife and kids loaded in the truck and took a little road trip. Here is some pictures of the hives and a frame of honey I pulled out and took a picture of


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Well, I don't know about you, but I'm running on fumes even today after three days (OK, two days and three nights) of the Monterey Jazz Festival.
Hate to sound like a broken record (remember those?) or a scratched CD, but this year's festival was one of the best yet. Do I say that every year? I tend to judge this festival not on who I know or recognize, but who I don't.
Sure, we know the big names such as Tony Bennett, Trombone Shorty, Pat Metheny and Esperanza Spalding and expect a lot from them — and they usually deliver (as they did this year).
But I'm intrigued by the ones I've never heard of, the ones whose names I can't pronounce (Armenian pianist Tigran Hamasyan, anyone?), the ones that sound like a weird plate of food (Austin's Mingo Fishtrap, which one of my friends kept calling Mango Fishwrap), the ones who are playing their first jazz fest (Christian Scott and Ben Williams come to mind).
In the process, I have discovered a wealth of new talent I had not been aware of previously, including the ones I just mentioned, plus Melody Gardot, Jamire Williams, Mads Tolling, Meklit Hadero, Aram Shelton, Jose James, Gordon Goodwin, Pedrito Martinez, Gregoire Maret and even soul/jazz singer Gregory Porter, whom I had heard of and listened to, but had never seen live. He was a revelation, an inspiration and one of my favorite artists of the entire weekend.
Bennett was masterful and in great voice during his 90-minute, 20-song set; Shorty electrified; Esperanza spiritualized and Robert Randolph kicked some major tail, especially during his Garden Stage set following his main arena debut.
But it's often the little things, the small details, some not even musical, that leave a lasting impression: New Orleans trumpeter Scott standing backstage with a big smile while listening to Porter, the way Bennett used his hands to punctuate or emphasize a lyric, the way drummer Gavin Salmon (a Carmel kid playing with Hamasyan) would lean back in his drumstool and, arms outstretched, would play his cymbals as if conducting an orchestra, bassist Christian McBride's white plastic Croc-like sandals that he said were "Dawgs," at the Hyatt after-party Sunday night, and pianist Benny Green sitting in with the house band at the same after-party, with veteran guitarist Peter Bernstein and festival all-star drummer Lewis Nash.
Those are the things you won't find in the festival program, but are part and parcel of the whole involving and soul-satisfying experience of this jazz festival, which at 55 years is the longest continuously running jazz festival in the world. Is there any question why that is? I think not. Can't wait until the next one.
And speaking of the Hyatt, the center of post-festival festivities Friday, Saturday and Sunday late nights, the jazz continues this weekend with several of the players serving as the house band, including Barry Manilow guitarist Mike Lent, bassist Pete Lips, drummer David Morwood (ringleader of the Hyatt jazz sessions), and special guest, saxophonist Gary Meek.
They'll be celebrating the release of the CD "Falling in Love in Monterey," as the San Antonio Avenue South Project, all locally produced and arranged.
So if you're not all jazzed out, go Friday and Saturday from 7-10 p.m. Several guests are expected to drop by and sit in with the band.
Of course, it's not all jazz out there, there are a number of shows to keep you occupied and satisfied. Here's a brief list:
· The Money Band plays its second to last show at the Baja Cantina's popular Thursday night cars and barbecue event.
· Former Scones bandmates Ike Marr & Martin Shears play a house concert at Cannery Row Brewing Co. on Saturday night. Includes signed CD, happy hour prices. See Best Bets for details.
· Singer, songwriter, guitarist and accordionist Jay Burris retruns to the London Bridge Pub on Saturday night. Check jayabu.com to see what Jay's been up to.
· Monterey blues band Rollin' and Tumblin' plays a benefit for the Pacific Grove Art Center Saturday night from 7-9 p.m.
· Soul-rock duo Dani Paige and Jesse DeCarlo play Saturday night at Plaza LInda in Carmel Valley. Look for their CD release party Oct. 12 at Carbone's.
· Gospel great Edwin Hawkins performs at a free concert Sunday at Cypress Community Church (Highway 68 at Corral de Tierra Road).
· Teen rockers Mozzo Kush open the Reel Rock Tour 7 screenings of climbing films Saturday night at 7 at the Henry Miller Memorial Library in Big Sur.
· And the library has a slew of great shows coming up including Rufus Wainwright on Friday night; British folksinger Laura Marling Sunday night; Alanis Morrisette on Tuesday night and Texas troubadour Steve Earle on Wednesday night. All the details at henrymiller.org.
That's about it for this week. Time for some sleep...GO!
Grammy Award-winning Americana singer-songwriter and guitarist Dave Alvin & The Guilty Ones play Saturday night at Moe's Alley in Santa Cruz. 9 p.m. show, doors open at 8 p.m., $22 advance, $25 door. Opener Jay Lingo.


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One can often differentiate between New Yorkers and tourists — or "out-of-towners" — based on the trajectory of their gazes; visitors, no doubt dazzled by the soaring skyline, walk around with their eyes fixed on the tops of the skyscrapers. Natives, meanwhile, navigate their way through the obstacle course of slow foot-traffic with their eyes on the sidewalk. But even those whose field of vision is fixed to their feet are unlikely to give the bric-a-brac littering the sidewalks more than a cursory glance.
That's why Irving Penn's photographic series depicting gum caked to the pavement and discarded matches and cigarettes offers such a unique perspective on urban life.
The 36 photos in the series "Underfoot" (1999–2001), which are on view at the Art Institute of Chicago as part of "Irving Penn: Underfoot," portray larger-than-life litter. Matches resemble two-by-fours, and gum reads, at times, as faces, skulls or brains. Most of the "faces" are centered on the page, but some have more exciting compositions.
Some "portraits" appear to smirk; one seems to stick out its tongue; another winks. One could even double as a profile view of a pig, while others look like scarier versions of Krang from "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles."
But the series (which is accessible on the Art Institute's website) is not only about the "positive" space of the gum, the matches and the cigarette butts, but also the "negative" space of the pavement. Penn has so abstracted his forms that the Manhattan streets — which he documented sitting on a stool and extending his medium-format Hasselblad camera nearly to the pavement — are unrecognizable and appear more magical, like night skies with stars. The contrast in the photos, all of which are black and white, is so stark that some of the images resemble crime scene sets from "Dexter," with what almost looks to be "blood" gushing from human organs.
A museum guard watching over the exhibit was asked if the ghostly images got scary after too long. "No, Sir," he said, noting that he and his colleagues rotate rooms every 30 minutes. "It's strange, but it's [just] gum."
Born in 1917 in Plainfield, N.J., to Jewish parents, Penn started photographing for Vogue in 1943. When Penn died, in 2009, his obituaries hailed him as a renowned fashion and celebrity photographer, but although they shared part of his biography — that his father was a watchmaker and his mother a nurse, for example — they didn't mention his faith. The Guardian, The Independent and The Times, all of them British papers, didn't mention that he was Jewish, though when his brother, director Arthur Penn, died the following year, all three mentioned that he was. Perhaps Arthur Penn earned the Jewish accolade for his direction of the play "Golda," about Golda Meir, although that play's failure led to a messy correction to his New York Times obituary. Encyclopedia Britannica doesn't even mention that Irving Penn was Jewish.
The closest thing to an affirmative discussion of Penn's religious identity in the press comes from a February 6, 2010, article in The Times of London by fellow Vogue photographer David Bailey, who claims to have been the only photographer permitted to use Penn's studio. "He was modest, not pompous, and he had that dry New York Jewish humour," Bailey writes.
A dry New York Jewish sense of humor might have been at play when Penn set his lens at an angle that ignored clouds, buildings and pedestrians, and focused instead on the discarded trash. The decision to pursue traces or shadows of human figures evokes works of many other artists, including Picasso's near obsession with acrobats and circus performers who were not performing. Just as Picasso was fascinated by what happened during the set-up and cleanup before and after the circus performance, Penn found beauty (and menacing suggestions of a darker nature) in human traces.
Evidently, Penn's close-ups of ground-level human trails made an impression on one viewer. Outside the gallery, someone had trudged through a recent Chicago snow dusting. But the footprints, which had been carefully choreographed, offered a more optimistic (and more environmentally sound) perspective than the litter that caught the photographer's eye: They formed the shape of a heart.
Menachem Wecker, who is based in Chicago, blogs on faith and art topics at blog.chron.com/iconia and chicagonow.com/chicago-theology-art/.
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My brother and I are flying into NYC for the giants game and we are foolishly renting a car. With that said, i was thinking of getting to the stadium early to avoid as much traffic as possible. Was hoping we could join our fellow GMEN for some tailgating. If you are one that believe the more the merrier, please drop me a line.
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Discussion in 'Pistons and NBA' started by mikhail1973, Aug 17, 2007.
There is a difference, that is why the suspensions were of different length.
That is not what I meant. If the refs did gamble than league has no alternative but to let them go. That is if they stick to their principles and rules.
SI.com - Writers - Marty Burns: Did old-boy network help Donaghy? - Thursday August 23, 2007 1:16PM
Is that what their published rule is? That if the refs gamble on anything, they are terminated? No warning system or anything? If that is the case, then I agree with you.
That is what I read in several sources online that refs are prohibited from gambling and the termination will result if...
There also seems like there are a lot of bball players from Compton. From a population of 93,000, there are 4 current NBA players (Prince, Afflalo, Chandler, and B. Davis). Since only 1 in every 909,090 Americans is currently in the NBA, then that means that Compton has produce 39 times the expected number of players. Seems fishy.
Well, let's hope the anti-Pistons refs are goners then. Remember the guys that we couldn't win against in the playoffs a couple years ago? See ya.
Great analogy.........we all know there is a difference but stu and crew never listen to anyone but their precious rule book. I am so eager to see how little stern will get out of this mess.
Brilliant. Post of the day.
What are you guys talking about? They didn't punish players in the same way for punching other players as they did for leaving the bench area. The rule is meant to keep players from entering the fray and escalating the problem. They are not being hyper technical with the enforcement... that is what the rule was meant to prevent- guys leaving the bench during a fight. As far as the refs and the gambling. They should punish them exactly how the rule says that they will. And Donaghy resigned, right? So the NBA didn't even punish him. If you want the NBA to hold the blackjack playing refs to the same standard, then you are out of luck, because they didn't do a thing.
Stern's position on the suspensions were that everyone knew the rules, and they had to enforce them, even if the intent to escalate a fight was not necessarily there. Stern was adamant that every player knows not to leave the bench to escalate an altercation. Mikhail's point is that if there is a rule, that prohibits the refs from all but betting on horses, and they have violated it, then Stern, by his own standard, would appear to be compelled to mete out justice, based upon the fact that the refs "knew the rules". It was ludicrous when Stern suspended Amare and Boris, and it will be ludicrous this time around. But it's David Stern's world and we are just living in it.
Why was Amare's suspension ludicrous? It is a similar rule to the one in the NFL where you can't take your helmet off on the field. Why didn't the other Suns players get off the bench when the fight broke out? Was it because they didn't give a crap about their teammates? I agree that the refs should be punished, but certainly not fired. And just a dose of reality here, what a prick Donaghy is. He's ratting out other refs for going to the casino after he gets caught ruining the reputation of all NBA refs? Maybe he should tell on them for cheating on their wives while they were on the road too.
The ounce of credibility that stern and his troops have will be gone if a ref was proven to be in violation of their contract (which prohibits gambling other than horse racing in the summer) and they were not fired immediately. It does not matter how many refs that are involved. Using inexperienced refs would probably hurt, but what other alternatives could be employed.
I would be curious to see the clause in the contract. Also, I'm wondering if any NBA refs have been warned/ fined behind closed doors for violated this provision, or other ones in the contract. In other words, has there been a precedent for more lenient penalties than termination. As much as I would like to see the entire refereeing system revamped, I think it would be a shame for a man's career to end because he engaged in recreational gambling that was not tied to the NBA.
Oh geez Tay, don't cry for the refs on this one. They have a contract, it's a well paid, high profile position, with the opportunity to earn more on the side by conducting summer basketball camps and giving hot tips to bookies. All Stern asks is that they abstain from playing/participating in games of chance for profit or loss. They're welcome to indulge their competitive side by placing Gentleman's bets on the golf course or playing marbles. Don't you have some restrictions on your outside of work behavior that could be or lead to a conflict of interest with your profession? As far as I am concerned, playing Uno for nickels is the gateway to a serious gambling addiction. One day, you're screaming Uno and baptizing yourself with pocket change, the next day you're at a street corner phone booth, calling Louis The Hammer to place a $50k bet on the Atlanta Hawks.
If it's the rule then I don't see it being shameful. They knew what they were getting into. If the rules say NO gambling I think the refs understand what that means..they just didn't listen.
Ain't that the truth? It's a slippery slope once you get started. My Grandma used to have a "friendly" wager on her scrabble games ...two years later we found her in a smoke filled church basement with 12 bingo cards in front of her and a cigarette hanging from her lips.
If they were betting on dice, then that is not a conflict of interest, just a conflict of contract. Like when a guy Rothleisberger gets caught violating his motorcyle clause. Even though they could have, the Steelers didn't fire him. Did the Steelers lose all credibility following their decision to not enforce the terms of contract? Violating terms of a contract results in a default. When there is a default, then it gives the other party the option to take remedies... if they want to. A counter example to the big Ben crash is the Jay Williams incident. The default under the contract for motorcycle riding allowed them to quit paying him. If he would have still been able to perform, then they would have let it slide.
I guess the problem is that I haven't seen the rule that says that if a referee is in violation of any aspect of the contract that it must result in termination. If it says it, then I'm with you. Show me.
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I have a weak hive in that it swarmed about a month ago. I now notice what appears to be pollen on the entrance board. There are 15 to 20 spots of what appear to be pollen. I have never seen this before. Any ideas would be helpful.
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Recent poster sales may put credit cards at risk
By John Kaulfus
Executive Director, Office of Student Activities and University Center
(Jan. 30, 2007)--Last week, the University Center at the UTSA 1604 Campus hosted a poster sale conducted by the company Beyond the Wall. University Center officials were notified Jan. 29 that merchant copies of credit card receipts for Thursday and Friday, Jan. 25-26, were stolen from the company.
Today's headlines
- La Prensa Foundation is newest member of UTSA Lone Star Society
- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
- UTSA begins new way-finding sign installation this summer at Main Campus
- USA Today: UTSA long jumper Tyler Williamson rescues three-year-old boy
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Although credit card numbers are on the receipts, the account numbers alone cannot be used for purchases. Each card should be secure and purchases should be declined if a user does not possess either the credit card or, in the case of a phone or Internet order, the three-digit security code on the back of the card in the signature box.
For those who made credit card purchases at the poster sale, there are additional steps to ensure unauthorized purchases are declined:
- Call the credit card company to request a replacement card with a new account number and cancellation of the account in question.
- Ask the credit card company to decline orders requesting shipment to addresses other than the card billing address.
For more information, contact Max Feldman, Director IT, Beyond The Wall, 1903 West Main St., Stroudsburg, PA 18360-1029, (570) 426-2003, fax (570) 476-5383, firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Next, the CRP (Conservation Reserve Program) will pay out, in 2008, an average of $4131 per farm, not quite $50 per acre nationwide. There aren't exactly huge profits in CRP for a farmer or corporation when corn, wheat, soybeans, and most other crops are selling at record prices (such as $5/bushel corn). In fact, most of the talk here in AG-land is how farming is pulling land out of the CRP program due to the high grain prices being paid.
The FSA typically requires 10-15 year CRP contracts, so "playing the market" is pretty tough - nothing is taken out of production for 15 years unless the land is pretty poor to begin with.News Releases
Hell down here in the Ocala National Forest. The main crop is Marijuana.
Gotta be careful where ya walk around out there.
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A week has passed since the Tohoku-Pacific Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami struck, which has been a disaster of unprecedented proportions for Japan.
The BGA is not organising a specific fund for people to donate to the relief operations. However, we are pleased to direct you to the one organised by the Japanese Ambassador. Donations to this fund will be forwarded to the Japanese Red Cross Society.
In addition we are aware that the admission fee for the beginners class being held at Nippon Club Igo Kai tomorrow (19th March) is being donated through the British Red Cross (not the Japanese Red Cross), in order to take advantage of the UK Government's Gift Aid scheme. Donating in this way adds 25% to a donation for a UK tax payer - but you do need to fill in the appropriate HMRC form. (Higher rate tax payers can reclaim additional tax on such donations.)
Our thoughts and sympathy are with the Japanese people at this time and we hope for a speedy recovery.


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F.E.A.R. 3 (I refuse to write it the other way) manages to surprise me by being the first game to do exactly that. It takes itself way too seriously, won't scare anyone beyond the monster-closet-BOO tactics you've come to expect, and acts as a platform on which players can laugh and enjoy together, despite the stupidly simple gameplay.
If you've been paying attention to the F.E.A.R. plot this long, you're a stronger gamer than I, and may actually understand what's going on in F.E.A.R. 3. The protagonist starts out in jail, but he's freed by... his brother, or something. And then there's Alma.... F.E.A.R. 3 does nothing to explain what's happened up to this point or what's happening over the course of the game's campaign. The narrative is so convoluted and confusing that it becomes a non-issue, if just to prevent your brain from imploding. Luckily, you'll be left with nothing but pure gameplay, which is more than fun enough all on its own.