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I've been at this since last spring and now face a successful colony.
All indications are that the nectar flow is on, new bees are birthing and my hive is booming. I'm planning a thorough inspection tomorrow - Sunday - and I wonder if it's wise to swap the position of my two boxes. I've understood that the queen will move up the hive to lay. If I find her in the top box tomorrow, and there is less or no brood in the bottom, is it right to swap the positions of the boxes?


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Train derails, some cars in river near Superior
SUPERIOR, Mont. - Four train cars are in the river after a Montana Rail Link (MRL) train derailed early Wednesday morning.
MRL spokesperson Lynda Frost said the 23 cars derailed around 4:30 a.m. and four cars ended up in the Clark Fork River about six miles southeast of Superior. Frost said all four cars were empty -- two of them were tanks and the other two had previously been carrying sugar.
Alan and Jane Brockway live across the river from the derailment. They spent Wednesday afternoon out on their property with neighbors watching for crews to clean up the mess.
"When they start fishing the cars out of the with the heavy equipment that will be quite a process," said Alan.
Frost said heavy machinery was brought in from Great Falls to help move the cars out of the river. In the meantime the main MRL line is closed and traffic will be rerouted through Dixon and then to Arlee. Frost said they hope to reopen the line Thursday.
The cause of the derailment is still under investigation.


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Dr. Marilyn Aardema, a 1981 Hope graduate who is now with the Proctor & Gamble Company in Ohio, will present the first Gentile Interdisciplinary Lectureship at Hope College on Friday, Oct. 14, at 4 p.m. in room 102 of VanderWerf Hall in conjunction with the college's Homecoming Weekend.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
Aardema, who is a principal scientist in the Human Safety Department at Proctor & Gamble, will present "Future Challenges in Science: The Need for Interdisciplinary Teams." She will discuss the assessment of new drugs and chemicals for their potential to cause cancer, and among other topics will explore the way in which new technologies make teams representing a variety of disciplines essential to the process.
The Gentile Interdisciplinary Lectureship was established in 2005 by faculty colleagues, former students and friends of Dr. James Gentile. Gentile joined the Hope faculty in 1976 and served as dean for the natural sciences from 1988 to 2005, when he became president of Research Corporation, a private foundation in Tucson, Ariz., that supports basic research in the physical sciences.
Through his leadership, Gentile helped bring national visibility to the college's science programs. As a researcher himself, he has authored or co-authored more than 160 scientific publications, with more than 100 undergraduates participating in his research program. Recognition of his work includes the North American Environmental Mutagen Society Alexander Hollaender Award for excellence in research and education, and election as a fellow of the AAAS.
Aardema, who graduated from Hope with a B.S. in biology, began her active research career in Gentile's lab at the college. She continued with her graduate studies at the University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge, where she was the recipient of a National Institute of Health Predoctoral Fellowship in Genetics. She completed her Ph.D. in genetics in 1985 and began her professional career at The Proctor & Gamble Company that same year.
As a member of the Environmental Mutagen Society she has served in a wide range of leadership positions, while her expertise in genetic toxicology has led to participation in numerous national and international work groups and expert panels. She is an author or co-author of more than 50 publications, and serves on the Editorial Board for the journals "Mutation Research," and "Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis."
VanderWerf Hall is located on the south side of 10th Street between Central and College avenues.


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AT&T Q1 Rev Misses, EPS In Line; Activates 4.8M iPhones
AT&T (T) this afternoon reported Q1 revenue that slightly missed consensus, and profit per share that was in line with analysts' estimates.
Revenue in the three months ended in March slipped 1.5%, to $31.36 billion, yielding EPS of 64 cents.
Analysts had been modeling $31.74 billion and EPS of 64 cents.
AT&T saw wireless revenue growth of 3.4%, year over year, to $16.7 billion, based on post-paid net additions of 296,000, a 58% increase from the prior year's net adds, and sales of 6 million smartphones, and wireless data growth of 21%, the company said, to a total of $5.1 billion. Wireless churn improved from 1.1% in post-paid to 1.04%.
The company added 1.2 million new smartphone subscribers, it said, and smartphones were 88% of its total post-paid phone sales.
AT&T ended the quarter with 107.25 million wireless subscribers, across post-paid, pre-paid, reseller sales and "connected devices," up 3.2%.
Wireline revenue fell 1.8%, year over year, to $14.7 billion, AT&T said. The company said it saw its "best ever" growth in broadband Internet service, with "U-verse" high-speed subscribers rising 232,000, net, for a total of 4.8 million at quarter's end.
More data is available on the quarter in the investor briefing at AT&T's Web site.
AT&T didn't not break out data for Apple (AAPL) iPhone activations, but may do so on its conference call this afternoon.
AT&T shares are down 66 cents, or 1.7%, at $38.34, in late trading.
Update: Sure enough, AT&T announced on its call just now it activated 4.8 million iPhone units during the quarter.


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The Hope College men's soccer team has been honored for academic excellence by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) for the second year in-a-row.
The Hope team maintained a cumulative 3.25 grade point average (GPA). They are among just 67 men's programs in all NCAA divisions to achieve a cumulative 3.0 GPA or higher during the 2001-02 academic year.
Hope is the only MIAA men's team to be honored and the cumulative 3.25 average the 12th best among among all the honorees.
An award will be presented to coach Steven Smith at the association's national convention in Kansas City, Mo. on Thursday, Jan. 16.


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Re: st: gsort issue
Jeph Herrin <email@example.com>
Re: st: gsort issue
Thu, 05 Jul 2007 17:29:11 -0400
Or even,
set missing smallest
Jeph Herrin wrote:
I'm with Fred & Nick. After using Stata exclusively for
over a decade, I still find that my intuition about how
Stata will treat a missing value to come short suprisingly
often, and this is another example of where it doesn't do
what I would think.
I've often wished for a "negative" missing (a la -99)
value, so I could simply:
replace x = -abs(x) if missing(x)
so that in contexts where I would rather treat missing
as the smallest rather than largest value, I could do so
in one stroke instead of trying to trick, eg, -bys y (x)-
into doing what I want.
Nick Cox wrote:
I don't use -gsort- much, as I usually prefer to work out my own
-sort- order without wanting to re-discover
the precise idiosyncratic syntax of -gsort-. (I've got a blind spot on -recode- for the same kind of reason.)
(That's not on a par with B*ll G???d, who can write the equivalent of an -egen- function several times faster than it takes to find out whether that function already exists.)
But -- to the point -- while what Brian says is a fair answer it seems to me to point to a missing option on -gsort-.
-reallydowantmissingfirst- would not be very Stataish as a name, but Fred Wolfe's want and need seemed very reasonable to me.
Nick firstname.lastname@example.com
Brian P. Poi
On Thu Jul 5 06:58:30 2007, Fred Wolfe wrote:
Is there a problem with gsort (Stata 10 and below) or am I
misunderstanding something?
I have a variable called -phdif-. I want the greatest value of that variable to appear in the last observation. There are
missing values,
so I use -gsort- with the -mfirst- option.
. gsort phdif
. l phdif in 1,clean
1. 1
. l phdif in l,clean
169914. .
The problem appears to be that missings are still last even
though I
used the -mfirst- option.
The "mfirst" option of -gsort- applies only to variables sorted in
descending order.
Any suggestions? Is this a problem or am I thinking about this incorrectly?
Stata stores missing values as extremely large numbers, so if a variable is sorted in descending order, missing values should appear first in the list since they are greater than all non-missing values.
-gsort-, however, tries to be helpful when sorting in descending order by putting the missing values at the end of the list, assuming that the user really cares about the large real values of the variable, not the missing values.
The "mfirst" option tells -gsort- to put the missing values first in the list instead of trying to be helpful by putting them at the end of the list.
If you want to get the missing values to appear first when doing an ascending sort, one way to proceed is to create a 0/1 variable equal to 0 if the variable of interest contains missing and 1 otherwise and then sort by the indicator variable and the variable of interest:
. sysuse auto
. generate missrep78 = cond(missing(rep78), 0, 1)
. gsort missrep78 rep78
. list rep78 in 1/7, sep(0)
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I dont know much about the pf9, but my girlfriends dad just bought a p11. He really likes it and my only complaint is the incredibly long and strong trigger pull. Many here recommend kel-tecs, especially for ccw. Have you held/looked at it yet? that will be your best bet in order to tell if you like it or not
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I am busy writing a novel and want to make one of my main characters a beekeeper in South Africa. Ive been reading a lot of books about beekeeping but I am looking for information from real beekeepers.
What bees are most common in the Gauteng area?
How do bees behave during thunderstorms?
If I am a beekeeper on a smallholding is there a specific layout that I would adhere to for the hives? Meaning would the hives be far from the main house or close to it? Would I plant flowers for the bees to ensure a better quality or taste of honey?
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Volume IV
Dear Readers,
This is my last week at the U.S. Department of Education and as The Education Innovator's publisher. In moving from one position to another, it is always good to try to leave something of value behind. This issue of the Innovator features a new product that pulls some of this office's areas of focus together in one place. The new website www.BuildingChoice.org has many tools and resources on public school choice, magnet schools, and charter schools that we hope will be useful to you and others.
Also, the results of The Education Innovator reader survey are in. I would like to thank those of you who completed the survey and provided comments. Overall, the results are positive. Three-fifths of you read the Innovator every week, and the vast majority of you find the content of the features to be useful. Producing a weekly newsletter such as this one in a federal agency is no small task. Thanks to Cynthia Dorfman, Tiffany Taber, Cynthia Cabell, Margarita L. Meléndez, and myriad volunteer editors in our office, we've been able to produce 138 newsletters since our inception, reaching nearly 10,000 readers. Our goal has been to show how innovation fits within the framework of No Child Left Behind in a user-friendly way. It is heartening to see that you seem to enjoy reading our work as much as we have enjoyed producing it. Best wishes to you and yours for a very Happy New Year!
Nina S. Rees
What's inside...
BuildingChoice.org Web-Based Toolkit
What's New
- Secretary Spellings answers questions on "Ask the White House;"
- Secretary Spellings releases statement commemorating 4th anniversary of No Child Left Behind;
- Secretary Spellings describes offerings of Teacher-to-Teacher Initiative;
- USED seeks nominations for 2006 American Stars of Teaching;
- Hurricane Education Recovery Act Immediate Aid to Restart School Operations FAQ's;
- NCES releases report on how schools provide information to parents;
- NCES releases report on teacher professional development;
- Teaching American History grant application deadline extended to February 9;
- Washington Scholarship Fund issues report on DC School Choice Incentive Program;
- Scholastic donates 250,000 books to RIF;
- Maryland approves Voyager Passport K-3 for Reading First;
- Automated "Hallpass" to keep parents connected to their children at school; and
- Haberman Educational Foundation publishes Star Teachers book.
BuildingChoice.org: A Virtual Toolkit for Public School Choice
January has been designated Magnet Schools Month to celebrate one of America's school choices that has become an institution. Now, through the marvel of technology, information about what a magnet school is, how to manage one, and how to evaluate its effectiveness, along with information about other school choice options, such as voluntary public school choice and charter schools, is available on a new OII website: www.BuildingChoice.org. Designed for school administrators and others involved with education management, the site offers an array of tools taken from real life experiences and used by districts and schools which have succeeded in implementing public school choice programs.
Visitors to www.BuildingChoice.org will find 14 districts spotlighted on the site. Some are large urban districts serving over 300,000 students in states such as Arizona, California, Florida, New Hampshire, and Wisconsin, while others are rural and suburban serving about 3,000 students. The website acknowledges that these districts began their programs at varying points, had unique needs, operated under different contexts, and may not have had access to the same resources. It also recognizes the multifaceted purpose of school choice; some districts pursued choice to increase school integration or parental involvement, while others wanted to encourage innovative teaching practices or provide an array of learning environments to cater to children's individual needs. Whatever the reasons for pursuing school choice, the website points out that these objectives align with every district's ultimate goal of improving student achievement.
The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) has underscored the importance of public school choice, ensuring that students who attend Title I schools that are in need of improvement are not denied a high quality education. The law requires that these students have the option to enroll in supplemental educational services or transfer to another, higher performing public school. This idea in the "Communicate With Parents" section of www.BuildingChoice.org, is reinforced by a quote from U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings: "School choice is part of the strategy to give every child an excellent education. It is amazing what can happen when parents get involved. School choice gives you more opportunities to achieve your expectations for your child."
The site organizes five action areas in a general progression from planning through implementation to evaluation and continuous improvement. The action areas include: Create a Vision, Communicate with Parents, Manage Operations, Support Schools, and Evaluate the Program. Each area offers several types of resources including vignettes illustrating promising practices; sample materials such as forms, brochures, and meeting agendas that districts have used; tools such as templates and examples of processes developed specifically for the website; links that direct visitors to other helpful websites, articles, and organizations; and profiles of districts that have implemented school choice.
Visitors to the "Create a Vision" area of www.BuildingChoice.org are welcomed to the webpage with advice from featured districts. These districts stress the importance of starting a choice program with a shared vision based on the needs and interests of the community. They also note that a clearly defined vision can help a district planning team map out the steps for bringing a quality choice program to fruition. Aside from introductory tips, the "Create a Vision" area, like every action area on the BuildingChoice website, is broken down into three subsections. The first, "Take Stock," asks districts to consider what types of data should inform their planning process. The second, "Articulate a Vision," asks districts how they will involve stakeholders in creating a vision for choice. The third subsection, "Develop a Plan," asks districts to map out their programs' goals, objectives, and strategies.
The "Communicate with Parents" area asks districts to think about how they will build awareness of their choice programs, how they will assist parents in making the best decisions for their children, and how they will engage community leaders and businesses in an effort to connect with hard-to-reach parents. This action area includes a vignette from Minneapolis Public Schools (MN) detailing how the district created an "online school choice center" that allows parents to choose a school with the help of a web-based filter that sorts schools on a variety of factors such as curricular, extracurricular, and family support options.
The next action area, "Manage Operations," asks districts to look at their staff roles, anticipated or ongoing student transportation issues, and their application and school assignment processes. This area's sample materials include a job description for the Houston Independent School District's (TX) Magnet Program Manager, an organizational chart for Hillsborough County Schools (FL) that maps out roles and responsibilities for choice across the district, and a link to Miami-Dade County's (FL) Charter School Operation website.
Because district choice programs are only as effective as their individual schools, www.BuildingChoice.org includes an action area called "Support Schools." Here, districts are urged to help teachers implement curricula, streamline transportation systems, and provide necessary professional development to school staff. Districts also are encouraged to look at ways to involve parents in the schools from contracts to volunteer commitments, and to recruit qualified staff and reposition existing staff to fill the needs created by new choice programs.
The final action area, "Evaluate the Program," stresses the importance of using data to guide program improvement. Featured districts note that data is crucial to make sure that choice programs continue to be effective and relevant. The website points out that districts may have to build staff capacity to analyze and use information and to understand where schools are making progress, where they are not, and why. Districts are asked to consider how they will use data to monitor school and district program effectiveness, how they can track stakeholders' satisfaction, and how they can ensure that their evaluations lead to improved programming. This action area includes tools such as a site evaluation template, guidelines for conducting a focus group, and a checklist for creating a community report.
In addition to its action areas, www.BuildingChoice.org includes background information about the school choice movement and its components. It also links to websites that focus on programs, research, and commentary related to increasing parents' public school options. Links to support organizations include the Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO), the Center for Education Reform, the Heritage Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Education, among others. A helpful glossary defines terms such as Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP), concurrent enrollment, charter schools, and unitary status. The website's "Hot Topics" listed appropriately in red, include NCLB, hard-to-reach parents, and funding. Visitors may also use search buttons on the homepage to find specific information on particular topics related to choice.
This website is the most recent product from the Office of Innovation and Improvement. The website includes materials primarily drawn from OII's Innovations in Education guides, each of which contains information about promising practices in education. Four of these guides showcase innovative programs for increasing parents' school choice options and were of particular use in constructing the new website: Creating Strong District Choice Programs, Creating Successful Magnet School Programs, Creating Successful Charter Schools, and Creating Strong Supplemental Educational Services Programs. The website also includes developing practices from projects funded under the federal Voluntary Public School Choice program. A booklet, "An Invitation to BuildingChoice.org," with an overview of the site, is also available free from ED Pubs at www.edpubs.org (order #EU0159P).
- www.BuildingChoice.org
- Innovations in Education Virtual Field Trips - (Public School Choice, Toledo, Ohio and Magnet Schools in Miami-Dade, Florida)
What's New
From the White House
U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings participated in "Ask the White House," an online interactive forum where administration officials answer questions from the public. The Secretary opened by acknowledging the fourth anniversary of No Child Left Behind and talked about the resources available through the Teacher-to-Teacher Initiative. (Jan. 9)
From the U.S. Department of Education
Secretary Spellings released a statement commemorating the signing of the No Child Left Behind Act: She stated, " The results are beginning to come in. They show a revival in mathematics achievement in the early grades, coupled with more reading progress in the past five years among nine-year-olds than in the previous three decades." (Jan. 9)
Secretary Spellings outlined the accomplishments and resources available through the Teacher-to-Teacher Initiative in a press release, saying, "Teachers are responding enthusiastically, and the Department is working hard to meet educators' demands for high-quality training and assistance." She listed the resources available, including summer workshops, roundtables, e-Learning courses, and the American Stars of Teaching project. (Jan. 11)
The U.S. Department of Education is seeking nominations for the 2006 American Stars of Teaching project. The award recognizes exemplary classroom teachers who are successful in using innovative teaching strategies and raising academic achievement for all their students. The deadline for completing nominations is April 15, 2006. The 2005 American Stars of Teaching award winners have been posted online; the list includes three teachers in arts education programs in Idaho, New Hampshire, and Washington State. (Jan. 11)
The U.S. Department of Education has published frequently asked questions (MS Word-46KB) about the Immediate Aid to Restart School Operations program of the Hurricane Education Recovery Act. Under this program, assistance for expenses related to reopening schools is available to local education agencies and private schools. (Jan. 12)
The National Center for Education Statistics has released Parents' Reports of School Practices to Provide Information to Families: 1996 and 2003, which focuses on what schools are doing to provide parents with information and examines their practices in relation to the frequency of parents' involvement at their children's schools. (Jan. 9)
The National Center for Education Statistics has also released Teacher Professional Development in 1999-2000: What Teachers, Principals, and District Staff Report. This report uses data from the 1999-2000 Schools and Staffing Survey to address how professional development for teachers in public and private schools was organized and managed, what kinds of activities were available to teachers, and which ones they participated in. (Jan. 9)
From the Office of Innovation and Improvement
The Teaching American History program grant application deadline has been extended to February 9, 2006, at 4:30 p.m. EST. The e-Grants system will be unavailable from 7:00 p.m. EST on February 2 until 7:00 a.m. EST on February 6, and grantees will not be able to access the site or work online between those times. Please contact email@example.com if you have questions. (Jan. 3)
D.C. School Choice
The Washington Scholarship Fund has issued its first semi-annual report, Changing the Status Quo, about the District of Columbia School Choice Incentive program, which provides federally funded scholarships for K-12 students to attend private schools. The report was supported by a grant from the Annie E. Casey Foundation and chronicles lessons learned from the first year of the program. The Washington Scholarship Fund operates the scholarship program, which is funded by a grant managed by OII in partnership with the D.C. Mayor's Office. This is the first in a series of semi-annual reports that will describe the implementation of the program. (Jan. 12)
Scholastic, the global children's publishing, education, and media company, has honored Reading Is Fundamental's (RIF) 40th anniversary by donating 250,000 new children's books to educationally at-risk students across the country. RIF is the nation's oldest and largest family literacy organization. To date, more than 100,000 of the donated books have been delivered to needy students. (Dec. 13)
The Maryland State Department of Education has approved Voyager Passport K-3 for Reading First. Voyager Passport is a reading intervention program which is used to teach critical skills and strategies that children need to become successful readers, including phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Use in Baltimore City Public Schools showed that in 2004-05, 67-88 percent of the first through fifth grade students who were held back were no longer struggling readers. Voyager Passport is currently being used in over 500 school districts across the country. (Dec. 1)
An automated "Hallpass" has been developed by the partnership of Impact Strategy Group, IBM Global Services, Affinity LLC, and Fargo in conjunction with school districts in Southern California. This student identification card can process and store information from students and school districts and can be accessed by parents. Parents can transfer money to this "smart card" so that students do not have to carry cash to school. Also, parents can access the history of the card to review their child's spending habits in the lunch line or the student store. The software and portal are offered to schools at no cost. Future development of the pass will include being able to view attendance, health, busing, and security information. (Dec. 1)
Dr. Martin Haberman of the Haberman Educational Foundation, Inc., (see Innovator, February 23, 2004) has released the book Star Teachers, which describes what his research has found to be best practices of teachers of at-risk students. The book covers such topics as teacher preparation and recruitment, teaching in urban settings, and the behaviors of star teachers. (2005) (offered for sale)
Innovations in the News
Charter Schools
Isaac Ewell, a Black Alliance for Educational Options' (BAEO) national staff member has the task of taking a $4 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and opening 15 theme-driven, project-based charter schools in low-income, urban black communities. So far, he has opened three schools in three cities: Philadelphia, Oklahoma City, and Milwaukee. To ensure the criteria for excellence are consistent at each of its school sites, BAEO provides shared resources and sponsors professional development for teachers. The hope is for the network of sites to function as a decentralized school system. One of Mr. Ewell's ideas is to replicate the High School for the Recording Arts in St. Paul, Minnesota, as a charter school in Philadelphia, based on his experience operating an independent record label in the late 1990's and the school's approach to using the culture of the community in its curriculum. [More-Philadelphia Weekly] (Jan. 11-17)
Magnet Schools
Curious elementary school students in Washington County (MD) who ask lots of questions have their choice of magnet schools, which offer accelerated learning experiences in technology or the arts for students in grades 2-5. The school system is also considering new magnet schools that would emphasize languages or math. [More-Herald-Mail]
In Broward County (FL), January and February means that thousands of parents search for the right school for their children. That's when magnet schools in the county will hold open houses and market themselves to parents. The almost 50 schools in Broward draw high-achieving students who score well on state exams. [More-Sun-Sentinel] (Jan. 9)
Magnet schools usually focus on a theme of study to attract students with particular interests or talents. When shopping for magnet schools, Broward County Schools offers tips, among them: know your child's interests and learning styles; find out how many students complete the program or drop out; find out how students perform after graduating from the magnet school. [More-Sun-Sentinel] (Jan. 9)
Public School Choice
When students choose a school, must they also choose the extracurricular activities at that school? In Canton (OH), members of the school board are debating the idea of giving Early College students a choice between two high schools' activities. High school-aged students attend the Early College program at the Timken campus of Stark State College of Technology, where they can earn an associate's degree upon graduation; but some students would like to participate in activities at another high school, McKinley. [More-The Repository] (Jan. 10)
The Winston–Salem/Forsyth County (NC) school system is creating more systematic communication with parents about school choice in their area. The school system offers parents a choice of elementary and middle schools and has 12 magnet schools. [More–Journalnow] (Jan. 10)
Raising Student Achievement
South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds recently announced his 2010 Education Initiative, an education plan he hopes to implement over the next several years. The plan seeks gains in high school graduation rates, sets goals for public universities and other postsecondary schools, increases education outcomes for American Indian students, and offers ideas for recruiting and retaining teachers. Of the more than 50 initiatives in the plan, two will require immediate attention from the Legislature. One of these initiatives would make kindergarten mandatory and the other would require students to stay in school until they are 18, which is two more years than the current requirement. [More-Sioux Falls Argus] (Jan. 5)
Teacher Quality
Guilford County Schools (NC) will be hiring over 100,000 new teachers over the next 10 years. The school district wants to make sure that it meets the requirements of No Child Left Behind to employ highly qualified teachers, but it also wants to go a step further. The county is interviewing potential teachers using the Star Teachers attributes developed by Dr. Martin Haberman (see also What's New). These attributes help to predict how successful a person will be in the teaching profession by assessing whether a person is able to work in large, impersonal institutions and to make personal sacrifices of time and energy to meet students' needs, for example. Principals in the county will learn about the Star Teacher interview and online selection tools available to them in training sessions in January. [More-GCS Insider] (Jan. 11)


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These newbies are sprinkled through the nine dances in the program. Ruth Whitney and Alan Alberto are soloists in Marius Petipa's Le Carneval de Venise and featured in Viktor Plotnikov's new piece Given, along with newcomer Casey Dolson. Whitney and Alberto execute classic steps with aplomb in Carneval: the spins, the lifts, the pirouettes, the jumps. What makes the extended pas de deux unusual is that four couples shadow the main pair; when Alberto takes his solo, the women frame his moves. When Whitney goes solo, the four men step out with lutes in hand and echo her turns across the stage. She also does some very tricky stepping variations while on point.
From the classical to the contemporary, Whitney and Alberto also succeed with Plotnikov's modern movements, his angular and unusual partnering, his spot-on timing. Dolson also does so; she adds an element of drama to a piece that projects somber moments as well as tender ones, with a baby doll passed among the five dancers, including Vilia Putrius and Mindaugas Bauzys as the older couple.
Back by popular request is Mark Harootian's homage to Regina Spektor, A Spektor of Things, set to three of her songs. The first movement features Festival veteran Jennifer Ricci (in her 22nd season), two newer dancers, Dylan Giles and Vincent Brewer, and two metal poles. Sometimes she is carried between them, stretcher-like; other times, she hangs by a knee and/or an arm, trapeze-like. She reaches toward the audience, desperate for solace; she struts past the pole-carriers, fed-up with their slim support for her sorrow. It's a terrific section.
But so are the other two movements, one a solo by Kirsten Evans, the other a duet with Tegan Rich and Ian Matysiak. Evans is graceful and expressive, even with the awkward, rag doll poses for her character. Rich steals the uptempo tune, her feet flexed when Matsyiak lifts her, eyes wide in surprise, hand-blowing kisses, her partner quite physically trying to push down her enthusiasm.
The most evocative piece was Gianni DiMarco's Casual Encounter, set to Vivaldi. Ricci and Ilya Burov meet each other on a bench and pursue their curiosity through flowing lifts, varied embraces (her body tucked around his middle as they spin), gentle hand gestures, even a pleading moment for the flirtation to last. It's wrenchingly romantic but not overdone.
Three more light-hearted pieces are quite different in style. George Birkadze's Dynamite, set to the electronic music of the Prodigy, is very fast and joyful, with almost jerky movements, legs sharply bent, even in lifts, and arms pointedly angled from elbows. Emily Loscocco stood out among the six dancers, and she returned to play a feisty Kate to Ilya Burov's determined Petruchio in Birkadze's Taming of the Shrew (also set to Vivaldi). The third is Egidijus Domeika's Spring, danced with an ease and lightness by Putrius and Bauzys that makes this neo-classical pas de deux a delight.
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As the summer fades, the back to school frenzy begins! Over the past several years, my 3 kids have accumulated a considerable pile of recycled supplies, including notebooks, binders and even a few folders. Most of these are still in good shape – notebooks missing only a handful of pages, binders with a bent corner or two, and never used folders that are either too babyish now or feature a bygone movie character. Rather than discard them, revamp those items for the coming year. Depending on your child's age, they may need your help with various steps along the way.
Inspiration for this post came from Rock Your School Stuff by Laura Torres (J non-fiction 745.5 T693S) who uses duct tape and other craft materials to turn ho-hum into oh wow! All of these ideas are applicable to covering textbooks or re-facing spiral notebooks, 3 ring binders and even folders.
Don't limit yourself to just duct tape either. We do "old school" book covers at our house – paper grocery bags – and you can then completely cover the paper with duct tape, or just add make stripes or cut out letters/shapes to create a one-of-a-kind design. Taped Up Notebook on page 12 has a great tip for cutting shapes/letters out of duct tape.
1. Cut some manageable lengths of duct tape and stick to parchment or waxed paper.
2. Draw your shapes on the paper side and then cut around and peel off.
3. Magnetic letters are great for tracing – just be careful to place them correctly on the paper so they're not backwards when you flip it over and peel the duct tape!
Younger children might prefer to decorate paper bag covers with stickers or self-adhesive foamies or even stamping. Old maps (image courtesy of Martha Stewart) or heavyweight wrapping paper are other paper options for covers. They can be reinforced around the edges with coordinating duct tape or just clear shipping tape. Not only will your child easily identify their books, notebooks or binders, they'll be great conversation starters those first few days of school. Graffiti Book Covers on page 22 has a nice step-by-step refresher on making paper covers, if you need one, or this video, also from Martha Stewart, provides a great tutorial:
You can certainly go the extra mile and add a pocket (to the front or inside) to hold index cards, a jump drive or a pen/pencil. To do this just cut a lightweight piece of cardboard or heavier cardstock to the size of your pocket, cover it with your duct tape and then attach to front or inside with additional duct tape. Voila!
For those who prefer fabric, an old pair of jeans can be recycled into a denim fabric cover. Pocket Book Cover on page 24 shows you how to incorporate a pocket from those jeans as well.
1. Cut the pant leg off of the jeans and cut along the seam to lay it flat.
2. Place the notebook cover down on the wrong side of the fabric, trace then cut the fabric out and glue to front cover.
3. Cut out a back pocket, including the back side of the fabric.
4. Slip a piece of wax paper in the pocket before applying glue to back side of the pocket and attaching it to your denim cover.
5. Remove waxed paper once the glue has dried.
Another great idea for a jeans pocket is to attach some magnets to the back and hang it in your locker to hold small items. Feel free to decorate the pocket with fabric paints, rhinestones, buttons, ribbons or any items in your craft stash. And don't limit yourself to jeans, an old pair of khakis or even a pocket from a men's dress shirt would also be good choices.
Here's one how-to video that introduces some more advanced creative ideas, from paint to fabric, your teens might want to try: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM9mtM5FyMw
To get your little ones in the mood for school, stop by the Youth Services department and pick up our Getting Ready for School reading list featuring preschool and kindergarten picture books and easy readers. Browse our display of books from this collection in the main aisle as you enter the YS area.
Following is a selection of fiction and non-fiction books for elementary, middle grade and young adult readers:
Junie B.'s Essential Survival Guide to school: (with some help from Grampa Frank Miller) by Barbara Park
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life by James Patterson
Annie's Plan: Taking Charge of Schoolwork & Homework by Jeanne Kraus (J non-fiction 371.30281 K19A)
Confessions of an Angry Girl by Louise Rozett (YA)
SEND by Patty Blount (YA)
Mean Chicks, Cliques, and Dirty Tricks: A Real Girl's Guide to Getting Through the Day with Smarts and Style by Erika V. Shearin Karres, Ed.D. (YA non-fiction 305.2352 K18)
Making Friends: The Art of Social Networking in life and online by Jared Meyer (YA non-fiction158.25 M612M)
The Anxious Test-Taker's Guide to Cracking Any Test by the Staff of The Princeton Review (YA non-fiction 371.26 A637)
Wishing you and your family a great back to school experience and a year full of new friends and experiences!


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Welcome to the board from Corpus Christi, Tx.
Hello Marly, welcome from northern California!
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Welcome to the board from Southern California!
My newest Grandson, Caleb Austin, was born May 29th. I am now Grandma to 4 precious babies. I am so blessed!!!!


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All Eyes On New Product Adoption, Revenue For DDD, SSYS Q4s: Deutsche
Both 3D Systems (DDD) and Stratasys (SSYS) are reporting earnings in next week and Deutsche Bank analyst Sherri Scribner (who has Buy ratings on both names) writes that the focus will likely be on new product adoption.
She notes that both companies have already given full year guidance for 2014, which means it's not likely that there will be any big surprises from the reports. Therefore, she sees investors focusing on updates about what is "driving increased OpEx spending this year, and if the companies have seen positive uptake of new products announced at EuroMold and CES."
Read her thoughts on each company's upcoming report:
3D Systems: prioritizing top-line growth over near-term profitability: On Feb 5, DDD provided an update to FY-13 expectations, indicating revenue would be $513-$514M, which was in line with past guidance. However the company guided EPS to $0.83-$0.87, which was lower than prior guidance, driven by increased investments in the business to support new product introductions. The company also provided 2014 guidance, of revenue of $680-$720M, and non-GAAP EPS of $0.73-$0.85. EPS guidance was significantly lower than expectations as the company will continue to invest in new products this year in order to drive long-term growth. While the stock was down on the news, shares have since recovered some of the declines, which we believe reflects investors' focus on top-line growth. We remain positive on the company driven by strong revenue growth supported by solid bookings in C4Q-13, and we expect increased investments in new products to begin to bear fruit later this year.
Stratasys: MakerBot driving positive growth, but a drag on EPS: On Jan 14, SSYS released FY-14 expectations, guiding revenue to $660-$680M, and non-GAAP EPS to $2.15-$2.25. EPS guidance was lower than Street expectations, largely driven by a higher-than-expected share count and modestly higher OpEx. The MakerBot acquisition is expected to continue to benefit revenue growth, however stock incentives around the MakerBot agreement will drive share count higher through FY-14 if the company delivers on its growth targets. In addition, SSYS is investing in its business in FY-14, which will drive R&D and SG&A spending higher. We remain positive on these investments as we expect new products and materials to drive further adoption of 3D printing in the market. We also remain positive on the MakerBot acquisition and the company's ability to deliver on its growth targets.
Overall, Scribner writes that she looks to revenue growth as the key metric in ranking success in the 3D space, given that the industry is in its early stages. Later, earnings per share will become the more relevant number, but for now "we believe investments in new products and technologies is more important than delivering on EPS."
She has a $115 price target on 3D Systems and a $160 price target on Stratasys.


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Oporto "Trindade" Romantic Studio
Size38 m²
Floor No.3(with elevator)
- Kitchen
- Smoking allowed
- Elevator in building
- Balcony/terrace
- Internet/WiFi
- Towels
Accommodation summary
|João das Regras, 4000 Porto, Portugal
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|A few hours
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The Studio "Trindade" welcomes you for a minimum stay of 3 days to 1 month touristic or professional. Perfectly situated 100 meters from the main metro station - Trindade and in the center of the city. Given its location, the area is quiet. Find aromantic space with all the serenity and comfort you need after a day filled withsightseeing, shopping or work. The need for a stay easy and enjoyable.
Its exceptional location allows you to move on foot starting to explore the surrounding area: from sights, shops / shopping of St. Catherine Street, the traditional trade, Ferreira Borges market, Avenue of the Allies, emblematic monuments, art galleries, river Douro, Port Wine Cellars and nightlife district.
House rulesPlease let us know about your travel plans and keep us informed as to your expected time of arrival. A simple text updating us of when you are leaving the airport/train station, for example, would be very helpful.
Make yourself at home
No smoking inside the flat. Please use the terrace
Please Respect the neighbours
Please report any breakages
Check in: 14:00
Check out: 11:00 - This is depending on your arrival/departure times and other guests coming or going and also to allow us time to clean the flat.
Cleaning charge covers 3 hours of cleaning.
It would be much appreciated if you could keep the apartment clean and tidy. Many Thanks
|Price for > 2 guests
|26 € per guest/night extra
|Maximum nights
|2 weeks
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Reviews of this property
Paula and Sergio are super nice and helpful, the apartment was clean and is a great vantage point to explore Porto. Also Sergio's tips for daily tours of the city are fantastic, we can absolutely recommend the place.
Paula's flat is amazing, it feels like home straight away. It has everything that you want and it is good quality too. We loved to stay in this place,
Paula is very welcoming host, she explained where to go what to eat and gave us a very useful map with few routes and lots of the local places.
Highly recommended,
Thank you Paula
It´s a really nice flat and it was a verry good stay there, you can walk to the city and have a lot of attractions around there.Paula and her husband was really nice and stand right there if something is.
thanks a lot for stay in your appartement
Laura is friendly, welcoming and particularly available. His studio is very comfortable and ideally placed to visit Porto on foot. I highly recommend this address
Laura est sympathique, accueillante et particulièrement disponible. Son studio est très confortable et idéalement placé pour visiter Porto à pied. Je recommande vivement cette adresse
Nice place to discover the city. Paula is very reliable and friendly. Everything works, bed is firm so if you need a soft bed take precautions. bakery around the corner, open every morning. Electric heating available in the apartment.
Sorry for the delay. We want to convey our full satisfaction with the apartment as well as the exquisite de Paula. Everything was attentions and details with us.
Very cute, clean and with a lot of details the apartment. We felt like in our own home.
The superb location, with the metro station within walking distance and the very near old town.
The truth is that the experience has been to repeat anytime and recommend it to anyone who is interested in visiting Porto.
Beautiful and comfortable city.
Very grateful for everything.
Paula greetings, Sergio and Wimdu.
Perdón por el retraso. Queremos trasmitirles nuestra plena satisfacción por el apartamento así como por el trato exquisito de Paula. Todo fueron atenciones y detalles con nosotras.
El apartamento muy coqueto, limpio y con un montón de detalles. Nos sentimos como en nuestra propia casa.
La situación magnífica, con la estación de metro a un paso y el casco antiguo muy cercano.
La verdad es que la experiencia ha sido para repetir en cualquier momento y recomendarlo a cualquier persona que esté interesada en visitar Oporto.
Bonita y cómoda ciudad.
Muy agradecidas por todo.
Saludos para Paula, Sergio y para Wimdu.
Wonderful care to detail apartment. The hosts are waiting (in our case and for personal reasons before the scheduled time after they agree with them). They gave us a map handy for people who will like us one day stop and even has a basket with pastries and candies !! Internet, cable TV ... and very good area, very close to the center (that if, from the River ready to twins !!. Fully recommended!
Un apartamento Maravilloso cuidado al detalle. Los anfitriones te esperan ( en nuestro caso y por motivos personales antes de la hora prevista tras acordarlo con ellos). nos entregaron un mapa MUY UTIL para gente que va, como nosotros un pare de días y hasta tiene una cestita con bollería y caramelos!!Internet, TV cable...y la zona muy buena , cerquita del centro (eso si, desde el río prepárate para hacer gemelos!!. totalmente recomendable!
A wonderful stay thanks to the warm and welcoming people. The apartment is very functional and well located. We enjoyed the circuit and Sergio plans that we were really helpful. We recommend these hosts!
Un séjour formidable grâce a des gens très accueillants et chaleureux. L appartement est très fonctionnel et bien situé. Nous avons apprécié les circuits et les plans de Sergio qui nous ont été vraiment utiles. On vous recommande ces hôtes !
It was the first time me and my partner used this service Wimdu and have been very happy. Paula and her husband met us at the gate of accommodation and were very quick to arrive. They helped us find places to move for Porto as it was the first time we were in town and they were very helpful. The accommodation is very comfortable, it was very clean and maintained and has the advantage of being centrally located. To be the first time we contacted them we were treated very well, so if we go back to Porto, will not hesitate to get in touch with them again.
Era la primera vez que yo y mi pareja usábamos el servicio de Wimdu y hemos quedado muy contentos. Paula y su marido nos recibieron en el portal del alojamiento y fueron muy rápidos en llegar. Nos ayudaron a encontrar sitios para movernos por Oporto ya que era la primera vez que estábamos en la ciudad y fueron de mucha ayuda. El alojamiento es muy acogedor, estaba todo muy limpio y cuidado y tiene la ventaja de ser céntrico. Para ser la primera vez que contactamos con ellos nos trataron muy bien, por lo que si volvemos a Oporto, no dudaremos en ponernos en contacto con ellos otra vez.
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Feds order reinstatement of Hanford whistleblower
SEATTLE - The U.S. Department of Labor has ordered a Hanford Nuclear Reservation contractor to reinstate a worker who was fired for voicing concerns about nuclear and environmental safety.
The department said Wednesday it ordered Richland-based Washington River Protection Solutions to also pay $220,000 in back wages and other expenses.
The labor department says the contractor violated federal whistleblower provisions. After firing the contractor, the department says the contractor refused to rehire the environmentalist specialists despite adequate qualifications and previous satisfactory performance reviews.
A spokesman for Washington River Protections Solutions was not aware of the department's reinstatement order and couldn't immediately comment.
The labor department did not name the employee, citing whistleblower policy.
Hanford Nuclear Reservation is operated by the U.S. Department of Energy.


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As states have begun to take the lead in health care reform activities, several state groups have produced resouces to help educate members of congregations about the issue in their states. Highlighted here are resources from California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Texas and Wisconsin. Additional resources from states can be found in the Perspectives and Resources/Advocacy sections of this website.
CALIFORNIA - In response to California's place in the nation's growing crisis in health insurance coverage, the Los Angeles Council of Religious Leaders created a Health Care Task Force "to study this situation, and, ultimately, to speak about it from the perspective of the region's religious conscience." In 2006 two resources were produced to guide the council's continuing education around this issue.
Additional materials from various sources are posted on the website of the Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry,California (UULMCA). On the website you will find information about Health Access for Californians: Expanding Debate in California's Faith Communities, a collaborative project between the California Council of Churches and the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the University of Southern California. They have published a study guide for use in congregational settings: Being the Good Samaritan: Health access for All Californians.
ILLINOIS - The Faith Caucus of the Campaign for Better Health Care in Illinois produced a Health Care Sabbath manual to help congregations gain a better understanding of the issue. The educational campaign included activities such as a full-page clergy letter in the Springfield paper and a "Sound the Alarm" event in which congregations sounded horns, bells or Shofars 18 times for the 1.8 million uninsured people in Illinois.
MASSACHUSETTS - The Greater Boston Interfaith Organization, affiliated with the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), played a critical role in the successful passage of the Massachusetts legislation. Their recent report "Defining Affordability" is a helpful resource in helping advocates understand what "individual mandates" mean for obtaining health care coverage.
TEXAS - Texas IMPACT is addressing the fact that Texas is "home to a disproportionate share of Americans who have insecure access to health care." Posted on their website is their popular "Do This and You Shall Live" discussion guide and printable fact sheets for use in congregational settings. "Health Care Policy In Your Hands" is under development to help keep activitists informed about the emerging public debate about health care reform.WISCONSIN - Through their Health and Hope Initiative, the Wisconsin Council of Churches produced a study guide, PowerPoint presentations, bulletin inserts, posters and advocacy resources to help members of their member churches more fully understand the health care crisis in Wisconsin and how they could be a part of making change happen. All of the resources are available online.
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Looks like I need to call Coldsteel and see what's going on.
update: no response to email, and they're not answering their phone. No problem, I'll just bandsaw it down the middle and weld it back at the correct width. Considering all the other welding that has to be done it's not that big of a thing.
Next time I need a 1.6mm receiver I'll just bend my own blank. <sigh>


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Wilson and Lacy in the same backfield? Just draft Alabama players!!
Wilson and Lacy in the same backfield? Just draft Alabama players!!
Alabama RBs are very tough to evaluate with that Oline in front of them.
Even if we did draft these lineman we would stick with DD cause he is a veteren...I have a hard time listening to announcers talk about Snee like he is good. He is not very good at all and small for his position. Snee, DD, Beatty, Boothe all in my opinion could use to be replaced. Actually IMO, I think we draft a right tackle first. Not sure why we did not address this concern 1st when Kareem went, really hurt badly this year...Almost as bad as our LBs not run stopping, Webster giving it away like he sold out to the mob, and the waste of toilet tissue we wasted on Fewell whom is not worth a darn. Yep, I am ferious we are not in the playoffs...And all that crap about even if we did we would get hammered makes me laugh hard....Just put the Gmen in the playoffs and folks, you would not see Seattle come into NY and beat us by 10, or get rocked like Minny did in GB
I like Alabama's fire and nasty attitude. They hit you into submission
i like the idea of wilson, andre brown, and bradshaw on 3rd downs/goal line much more to be honest...get the OL beefed up


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I checked my local vendors and they are picked clean. I just saw SG Ammo has nothing - nothing left in stock (no ,223, no 7.62x39, no 7.62x54r, etc.)
Well, those of us who prepped are going to be okay, but those who procrastinated and thought that nothing would change - well here's your wake up call.
The American people voted on November 6th and many of them are gunowners. Yet they voted knowing full well what was at stake and they were comfortable with that. Well now the people are going to get exactly what they voted for and they will get it in spades. I have no sympathy for them.
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Congratulations, Kwasi Enin. You're a 17-year-old Long Island high school student who applied to all eight of the nation's elite Ivy League universities -- and received acceptance letters from all of them!
For this astounding feat, you now get to be pilloried where no good deed goes unpunished, on the Internet.
That's an unfortunate part of the price one pays for being both black and bright in the age of affirmative action.


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Nice and Cozy Room Offered in Amsterdam
Size30 m²
Floor No.1(with elevator)
- Internet/WiFi
- Towels
- Parking available
- Breakfast
- Elevator in building
Accommodation summary
|Maassluisstraat, 1062GR Amsterdam, Netherlands
|Property type
|Private room
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|Acceptance rate
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|A few hours
|Calendar updated
|3 days ago
1) I rent one room and not the entire apartment, I need to live in the same apartment by law
2) The bathroom is shared.
3) There is no use of kitchen
The room is provided with mini fridge, microwaves and water boiler.
High speed WiFi connection available included in the price. Use of laptop for guests only included in the price.
There is a parking area downstairs and the price is 14 euros per day. Night and sunday it is free.
An extra room with two single beds is also available in case the room with double bed is booked or you prefere two separate beds.
The accommodation is located in the Amsterdam Nieuw-West, which is a relatively newer neighbourhood in the West of Amsterdam, built in the 20th century, mainly to accommodate the high numbers of immigrants that were coming to the Netherlands.
Nowadays, the neighbourhood is particularly inhabited by young families with children.
In the area there are three parks: Vondelpark, Sloterpark and Rembrantpark, which are great for recreational activities.
The place is located close to the RAI Exhibition and Congress Centre, only 3 stops by metroThe area is relatively close to the Museum Quarter and the party area (Leidseplein).
A bike service is also provided. There are 2 bikes available and the cost is 10 euros per bike per day. A deposit of 50 euros per bike is required.
I am regularly subscribed at the Chamber of Commerce.
You can also experience a real good home made italian espresso and some italian cookies and for breakfast FRESH HOME MADE PIES AND CAKES, a real "delicacy".
Thanks Gianni
House rules
1) The use of the kitchen is restricted exclusively to the microwaves and fridge.
2) There is no smoking or use of any kind of drug allowed .
3) The common spaces must be kept clean and tidy otherwise 15 euro per day will be charged as cleaning costs
5) Polite and proper behaviour is expected especially during the evening and night hours
6) The guests will be considere liable for any kind of damages cause to the property
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Reviews of this property
My granddaughter and I stayed for three nights at Giannis place. His apartment is close to a tram station (three min) and we were quickly in the center.
Our room and the whole apartment was very clean and nice. Gianni is really friendly and helpful, he offered us a every morning a breakfast and even tried to satisfy my vegan needs.
I can recommend Giannis place!!
It was a great stay! Very clean rooms and a friendly and helpful host. I would recommend this to anyone coming to Amsterdam!
Hi! It was a very good stay! Nice and clean rooms and bath, good connection to the city center and a very helpfull host! Thanks Gianni!
Great stay at Gianni's: simple but filling breakfast, nice facilities, availability to use the fridge and the microwave. A bit out of city centre but it is easily reachable by pubic transport.
Thank you Gianni for our stay in Amsterdam, the flat was very quiet and clean and the breakfast was really nice. Only little minus is that the flat is a bit far from the city center but I guess it's a question of compromise in Amsterdam as it is one of the cheapest option. Thank you again Gianni!!!
Really great place to stay! The apartments are very nice and clean, located in quiet area and well connected to the city center. Gianni is very kind and helpful :) It was a real pleasure to sleep on such a comfortable bed, and on the morning enjoy a delicious cup of coffee !
Gianni was very friendly, almost did not see it but the room was good, breakfast is private and very complete.
Gianni fue muy amable, casi no lo vimos, pero la habitacion estaba buena, privada y el desayuno es muy completo.
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An establishment located in plazas and sometimes traditional malls. Mr.Kohl "pioneered" a method where the registers are at the front like a grocery store but since then this technique has ineffective because current management believes that having only one worker on the registers is sufficient. Because of their lack of insight this leads to a constant "barrage of backup to mens!", "backup to womans!", "There is no line at jewelry!",etc over the intercom.Most of the time even despite the lack of workers at the register the reason for the hold up at the register is because of the employees who participate in long drawn out conversations with customers about the great "deals" they have. The main reason for the delays at the register, however; is due to the company's credit policy. Each Manager is bred and trained into credit "whores" where their main existence is to bully and pester customers into signing up for credit cards where they charge a fee of 20% if your late on your payment.$100, you pay $120. If the customer says no they don't want a credit card in the manual an employee supposed to say, "Are you sure you have an opportunity to save up to 12 times a year" and if that doesn't work in a desperation move an employee is then supposed to ask if they would like to sign up for an email account. Kohls prides itself in a yes we can! policy i.e. if you bring a shirt to the register and say its 20 bucks but on the register it says the actual price is 30 they are supposed to give it to you for 20. Actually because the people working at the registers believe they have some divine duty to not give anyone a deal add to the increased barrage of people on the intercom by calling for employees to see if that is the actual price. Continuing their credit whore policy it is common for a manager to go on the intercom and plea for customers to sign up for a credit card and describing the "benefits", these can last up to 3 minutes. Even though the sounds emitting over the intercom can sound like nails on a chalkboard some would argue that its a better then the atrocious music that plays such favorites as "All in this Together" - Ben LeeOne day on an 8 hour shift this song played a total of three times inducing nausea.Kohls attempts to justify their credit whoring by saying that it benefits everyone including employees because each employee receives a meager stock option after a year of employment and it will help increase that value;however, most employees don't even survive their 90 day training period let alone a year. An employee also only receives an increase of 50 cents to their paycheck for each credit card whored. The job pays bad especially in comparison to other similar retail establishments in the same class some even offer commission. Every Kohls is always understaffedgranted a lot of employees quit this shortage leads to a lack of customer service and a pigpen of a store. To add salt to the wound every week their is a customer service report card and the common complaint is lack of available associates, The managers then manipulate this statistic by putting the blame on employees saying they are not wearing their name badge or they don't smile and say hi to each customer. Kohl's does however offer cheap merchandise albeit at the expense of its employees so it is a good place to find a deal.That being said as an employee the workplace at Kohl's left me with a pessimistic outlook on life and since my termination from the company i feel like a changed individual.Oftentimes work experience will help you become a better worker but Kohls has managed to put me in a worse position then before i started.
Franklin: "Ayy brahhhh why'd yous get fired from Kohls?"
Leonard: " Cuz, i got caught spitting game at a girl for twenty minutes on the camera but I dont really care because i hated that place."
Franklin: " Damn,...that bad huh"
Leonard: "The job has probably shortened my life expectancy..."
Leonard: " Cuz, i got caught spitting game at a girl for twenty minutes on the camera but I dont really care because i hated that place."
Franklin: " Damn,...that bad huh"
Leonard: "The job has probably shortened my life expectancy..."
by disABALa April 13, 2008
the hottest guy ever in the whole entire world, he is a mad laxer and you just wanna do him every time you look at him
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kohls is a department store that resembles a cross between a typical clothes store but with a layout similar to the mall. Kohls starting salaries are higher then 6.50, usually in the 7 dollar range. kohls is kinda like a walmart of clothes and similar accessories, minus the bullying. Kohls is notorious for its good customer service, low prices (compared to equivalent clothes at the local mall), and various sales. They are obsessed with customers getting kohls charge cards..
wow i got these basketball shorts for $10! At the mall they were $40!. I think im gonna get a kohls charge!
Yea kolhs is da bomb
Yea kolhs is da bomb
by ~~PiX~~ August 04, 2006
A giant soul sucking chain of department stores, which started out as a grocery store and is now an incredibly profitable business. They pride themselves on low prices and great customer service. The so called sale prices aren't sales, they r items that hav been marked up and then down 2 create a fake sale, the clearence is the only good deal, with xxxl sizes and damaged merchandise. The managment are power hungry uneducated fools that sit on their asses all day and complain that nothing gets done. Customers who shop there r fat white trash hicks that let their inbred kids run around the store destroying everything, while they try on hoochie mama outfits. Employees r underpaid slaves that hav 2 listen 2 customers bitch and complain that they didn't get the 75 cents off they were promised in their imaginations. Kohls is the place wher dreams go 2 die.
Brother:"after were done having sex, wanna pack up the 12 kids and head to kohls?"
Sister:"yea, I don't hav a job or a life I mite as well go try on clothes that don't fit"
Sister:"yea, I don't hav a job or a life I mite as well go try on clothes that don't fit"
by chachaddict April 20, 2009
An unwanted change of plans, often associated with a screw up or mistake.
Also a chain of department stores.
Also a chain of department stores.
by scairns November 17, 2008
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The vengeful act of crapping on a lover's chest while they sleep.Buy the plush
in that basketball game I was out of hope out of energy and my will was gone then my Kohl came from nowhere and I stole the ball and dunked it home.
by KC longrod May 20, 2008
1) a self-deprecating narcissist who offends anyone who stands around long enough to see him open his mouth.
2) That dude you suspect is banging your girl-friend/wife; he is.
2) That dude you suspect is banging your girl-friend/wife; he is.
God, I never thought I would ever get to be Kohl's friend.
You: What's up with you and Kohl? Are you cheating on me with him?
Your girl friend: No, nothing is going on.
Me: Yes, I am railing your girl so hard. Check out her fuck legs.
You: What's up with you and Kohl? Are you cheating on me with him?
Your girl friend: No, nothing is going on.
Me: Yes, I am railing your girl so hard. Check out her fuck legs.
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This is my first time make mead and i have a ? about bottleing. I use to make beer a few years back and have a few dozen grolsh bottels laying around and was wondering if i can use them for bottleing my mead ?
grolsh bottels have the porcelain stoper with a rubber gasket,


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"Hey, wanna buy some bran new gears for your truck?"
"LOL ok, here's $115"
"Now I want $140 for used gears out of my 2WD truck"
"Oh snap! I just got wenzeled!"
"LOL ok, here's $115"
"Now I want $140 for used gears out of my 2WD truck"
"Oh snap! I just got wenzeled!"
by Urban Dictionary November 12, 2005
past tense of verb "wenzel" or adverb; to financially defraud someone on the Internet and then use Social-Economic position to bully and threaten them; arrogant thievery.
I gave the guy $115, he cashed my check, he misrepresented the goods, didn't send them and called me an asshat! Hey, bro, you just got wenzeled! Or I just wenzeled the dude for $115.
by Paul F. Dobson November 13, 2005
The act of being screwed on a fraudulent internet sale.
by anthony pipkin November 12, 2005
To defraud fellow 'wheelers via the internet. First brought to worldwide view and now continued by mudboggin101 aka mudbogger101. In the case of mudbogger101, flipping vehicles while defrauding the facts of vehicle ownership, vehicle repairs, and holding property that does not belong to him.
mudbogger101 Wenzeled Shawn out of his tags while attempting to flip a CJ and advertise a false year, maintenance, and repair history.
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Here is an ideal guide to the practice of Chan Buddhism by a great modern teacher. Part One presents Master Sheng Yen's lively, anecdotal account of the history and main principles of the Chan tradition, along with his careful instructions for meditation. Part Two consists of 180 of his gemlike aphorisms and sayings that serve as inspirations to spiritual practice. The book will appeal to beginners as well as experienced students.
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text: Okay, so I bought the GM hitch package for my Silverado and I have a question. On the instructions, it basically just says to remove the bumper plug and replace it with the included Wiring Receptacle. But it doesn't say how. I've tried turning it to the left and right and I can get about a quarter turn. I am presuming the black cover next to the license plate is where it goes. So how in the world does the old one come out? Thanks for your help!


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Vehicle Hits Student Near School
HAPPY VALLEY, Calif. - Canyon Road in Happy Valley is partially blocked after a vehicle hit a student near North Valley School and Victor Youth Services l in Shasta County.
The collision was reported around 9:40 a.m. Tuesday on Canyon Road near China Gulch Road, south of Redding.
A KRCR News Channel 7 crew at the scene said a couple driving a white Oldsmobile struck the student.
Happy Valley Fire Department and the CHP responded to the scene. The victim was taken to the trauma unit at Mercy Medical Center. The CHP confirmed the victim is a student at the school but the name of the student was not released.
A CHP officer on the scene said the student suffered a fractured leg, it's unknown at this time if he suffered any head injuries.
According to witnesses on the scene the student was running along the side of the road and ran in front of the car for unknown reasons.
Traffic was reduced to one lane.
Check back for updates.


text: At the 5 star Hotel Adler Wellness & Sport Resort International luxury meets charming South Tyrolean comfort. Culinary delights, a wine cellar, cocktail bar and fireplace in lounge; wellness & beauty spa all await your arrival. For skiers the best connection is from the ADLER's ski room directly to the slopes of the Sella Ronda. The hotel has its own ski shuttle adding extra convenience for its guests.


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Are there any bee keepers in the South East using the 4.9mm foundation as a means of mite control, and what success is achieved?
Are there any bee keepers in the South East using the 4.9mm foundation as a means of mite control, and what success is achieved?
Are there any bee keepers in the South East using the 4.9mm foundation as a means of mite control, and what success is achieved?
Not that I am aware of at this time. Those whom are using 4.9 are in the beginning stages. Join biobee group and ask the 4.9ers to see if any are in the south east? But I would guess most would be starting this spring.
thank you Clay - tried to order 4.9 mm foundation yesterday and was discouraged from trying it. People kept telling me it was solely for the purpose of raising drones, and would not do anything toward mite control here in N.W. Fla.
4.9 is NOT for drone raising. As a matter of fact only 10% drones are allowed on anyone frame. Could they be confusing this with drone foundation that is found on the same page in the catalog?
I've ordered 4.9mm for this spring, to start some new hives on. My nuc suppler told me that he would start the nucs on 4.9mm if I gave him the foundation. If you want to know his # let me know.
I want to forewarn you. Regressing bees to 4.9 is a tough process. The best I could do last season was to get bees to 5.0 (some 4.95). One will most likely have to shake the bees down onto new foundation again as they can only go down about .2mm at a time. So if you start on 5.2 cell sizing they will most likely go down to 5.0. It will take two seasons for certain using duragilt at 5.4 sizing. There is a definite window bees will draw the smaller cells. Early spring to just before the honey flow. Once the honey flow starts many colonies won't draw the proper cell size as they make a honey storage size. Some colonies will however draw proper combs by adding 1 or 2 frames of foundation between brood combs. Repeat cycle. One should work poorly draw combs to the out side of the brood nest and up to be culled later. The best should be worked to the center where brood rearing takes place. With all that said bees should be started as early as bees will draw comb in the spring. Keep a metric ruler handy as you will need to measure often. You will need a good supply of foundation (twice as much as you normally need). Save all wax combs and see if dadant will work it into more foundation. If they won't, I may mill foundation for people next year( small quantities) depending how this season goes with regressions. As for starting nucs on 4.9 can't say how it works yet! Will test on two overwintered nucs this spring.
Are there any bee keepers in the South East using the 4.9mm foundation as a means of mite control, and what success is achieved?
Yes, quite a few. We were down there in 1997 for the Alambama State Assoc 100 anniversary meeting and while there taught a workshop on making 4.9mm foundation to several who attended the meeting. There are people now owning their own mills in Greenville Ala, Mobile, Ala. Also beekeepers from the panhandle of Fla attended the meeting.
Right now Bolling Bee (Bill Gafford) of Greenville sells package bees from colonies on 4.9mm foundation.
People to call who can tell you more in the Southeast Would be: JIm Smith (Mobile) at 1-251-675-9129, Bill Gafford (Greenville) at 1-334-382-6878, Doc Bullard (has Fla State Assoc discussion group at Yahoo) can also help you talk to people knowing about 4.9 in Florida.
Also, while at this here, do not confuse 4.9mm foundation with drone comb, as they are two different products and both used quite differently.
Though they can be used together, 4.9mm foundation can be used by itself with culling of drone cells to no more than 10% on any one frame.
Drone comb foundation cannot be used by itself and must be used with other foundations. Also it is labor intensive.
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I have started a new job. After completing a short but rather tough course of study, I will be embarking on my new career tomorrow. I'll be driving, over the road, and not have easy access to the internet. I have not been able to get a lap top as yet, and until I can afford one, I will be putting my blogging activities on hold.
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Not a big deal -- Mara will leave that decision up to JR and the FO. I don't mind Osi coming back either, for the right price. But if he does, I'd still aspire to draft a DE this year anyway.
He probably won't be back. But everyone on here talking about what Osi wants is purely speculating and starting rumors that they can't back up. Please provide some links people!
No one knows the exact number Osi is looking for, but from his past rumblings it's logical to think he wants far more than he's worth and what the Giants are willing to pay.
It was just 2 years ago that he was complaining about the ridiculous deal the Panthers gave Charles Johnson....
Osi as inflated self opinion...and he wants out of NY. He wants to be a FA so let him. Let's see what he can get. There are a few teams that will overpay for him.....as long as it's not the Giants I don't care.
People get too sentimental over players. Our D-line was a punch line last season.
Let him chase the money, beware that Giants players who have left get a big payday but do not fare well. In a couple of years they are either out of the NFL or hopping from team to team with even less playing time. Boss, Manningham and Jacobs.
Osi and Tuck didn't show up this year. The rest of the team just quit when it look like they were running away with the Div. Why? The Giants could beat any team in the playoffs. They had it made, just make the playoffs. I expect the same this season, start strong and then go into a coma.
I don't know. Osi was better than Tuck down the road, but there's no sense in keeping both of them anymore so I would let Osi walk and look elsewhere,


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Monica, hope you're not getting sick! Especially with company coming. But at least the taxes are done. Yeah!!! The owls are TOOO CUTE!
Gladys, beautiful blocks. Glad to see you back, I was just thinking of you yesterday before you posted.
Katybob, thanks. I followed thatblogspsot.com for the most part but find myself basting a little more these days to keep pieces in place before they're sewn down. If I put my machine on the longest stitch and put in about 4 stitches it doesn't take too long to remove after I'm done but helps so much while I'm working on it.


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Arsenal are 9/14 with GunnersGaming to get back to winning ways against Reading on Monday night.
Arsenal were victorious last time out in the league, beating West Brom 2-0 at Emirates Stadium, and travel to Madejski Stadium in the knowledge that they have won their last 10 games against the Royals in all competitions.
Reading have won just one of their last 10 Premier League games at Madejski Stadium, losing their last five in succession.
Theo Walcott scored a hat-trick the last time the teams met, and is 13/2 with GunnersGaming to score the opener, and 2/1 to net at any time - provided he recovers from a calf injury in time to play a part.
Otherwise, Lukas Podolski can be backed at 11/2 in the first goalscorer market.
Reading have managed just one clean sheet in the league all season, the lowest tally of all Premier League sides, so over 2.5 goals at 7/12 also looks well worth considering.
Finally, the last two Premier League meetings between the pair have resulted in 4-0 and 3-1 wins for Arsenal, and those scorelines can be backed at 21/1 and 21/2 respectively.
*Odds correct at time of writing. Terms and conditions apply.
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