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"The name is very attention getting with the recent death of Prince. The link to the crochet pattern takes me to a different posting on this site where the project is included within a free ebook with 16 other easy crafts. There you can download the entire ebook as a pdf in order to get the pattern."
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Protect your clothes from the perils of messy crafting and cooking with a tie-dyed apron from I Love to Create. Follow these simple instructions for tie dye aprons to make colorful gifts for friends and family who love to craft and create. It's An Apron to Dye For!
- Tulip® One-Step Tie-Dye Kit™ - Luau
- Jerzees® T-shirt –100% cotton – White
- Sewing machine
- Scissors
- Plastic tablecloth
- Thread to match
- Ribbon – ¾" – White
- Pattern
Find this project and many more in our free eBook, How to Make Tie Dye Shirts, Decor, and More: 18 Tie Dye Patterns!
Prewash tee without fabric softener. Do not dry.
Cover work surface with plastic tablecloth.
Lay tee flat on prepared work surface.
Apply dye in a straight line across tee as shown. (Remember dye will gradually bleed up so leave room for white to show through.)
Cover tee with plastic tablecloth and let set for 6-8 hours.
Wash and dry following instructions on tie-dye package.
Follow diagram to cut T-shirt into an apron: Lay shirt flat with back facing up. Cut across shoulders and up the back of the shirt.
Open the shirt and lay it out flat.
Fold the entire shirt in half, with the front of the shirt on the fold.
Cut through both layers from the neck opening, under the arm, and across to the back of the shirt.
Unfold the shirt flat, to reveal the apron.
Lay ribbon on apron running from neck to side to determine length including added length for waist and neck ties.
Cut two equal pieces and sew to both sides of apron to create apron string and ties at neck.
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If you use this idea, and use your husband/brother/dad's favorite sports team colors, this would make an EXCELLENT Father's Day gift idea!! FaveCraftsTieDie
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FaveCraftsTieDye Lovely apron. Great color choices. Great design.
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The Din Nebula, also known as the Gorax King's Heart in reference to an Ewok legend about the Gorax King, was a small nebula near Endor in the Moddell sector of the Outer Rim Territories. Within the nebula was the Din Pulsar.
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Arizona State University defensive tackle Will Sutton was named Friday to the 2013 Walter Camp Player of the Year Watch List.
Sutton, a redshirt senior, was a 2012 consensus All-American and earned Walter Camp Second Team All-American honors for his performance during his junior year. He tallied 63 tackles — including 23.5 for loss — and 13 sacks during the campaign. He was also second in the nation for his 1.92 tackles for loss per game and third nationally with 1.08 sacks per game.
The standout defensive lineman also earned the Pac-12 Pat Tillman Defensive Player of the Year award last season and was the defensive player of the game for the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl, which the Sun Devils won 62-28 over Navy.
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Stone Bridge (Ashburn, Va) defensive tackle Brian Slay (6-2, 280 pounds) kicked off the recruiting year by becoming the first player to commit to NC State for the class of 2009. In the Pack's corner for better than ten months, Slay never wavered and went on to have a tremendous senior season- tallying 72 tackles, six sacks, two interceptions and two blocked punts. He even chipped in 46 yards and two rushing touchdowns on offense as Stone Bridge made it to the state semi-finals.
A frequent visitor to NC State, Slay made his official visit to Raleigh this past weekend and he gave Pack Pride the scoop on his trip in this Q&A.
Brian, talk about how your senior season went.
The season kind of ended horribly. Everyone thought we were going to cakewalk and go ahead and win but we ended up stumbling in the state semi-finals against one of the best teams in the state. We winded up finishing number two in the country but turnovers were the key to that game. We had seven turnovers and the other team only had one.
How about you personally? How did you feel like you performed?
I played well overall. There was a stretch during the year where I could have played better. It was just that we were out so fast because we whipped up on teams so fast that it was hard to get into the rhythm of the game. That might have played a factor later on in the season. But overall, I had a good season. I think I got on two all-state teams.
So with football season over, what are you up to now?
I'm out there playing basketball right now and that's just a way to stay conditioned. So, I'm using that as conditioning and then once basketball is over I'll start lifting and start working out.
You've visited a bunch of times but how did the official visit go this past weekend?
The visit went really well. I enjoyed it. The two days I was there, Mike Glennon was my host and he showed me a good time. He showed me the College Inn and all that and I hung out with the players.
That was pretty much the main reason I went down there was to hang out with the players. I wanted to get that first feel of them and they're a good group. They all seem like one family and I'd like to be a part of that.
As a new player headed to NC State, what were your thoughts on the Pack's turnaround late in the season?
I was enjoying watching it because they were struggling early on in the year. I got a little trash talked to me at school but once they started picking it up, I enjoyed watching and seeing what they could have been earlier in the year but injuries caused it. The biggest one for me was the Wake Forest game. I've got three teammates going there and I heard a lot of talk that week. I just kept quiet and said wait and see what happens.
You were actually the first guy to commit to State. Did the coaches ever bring that up?
No, the coaches didn't bring it up but when I was down there on my visit I was with a lot of other commits and I let them all know that they had followed me.
Have you thought about what you plan to major in once you get to State?
I was planning on doing first year college and the other day I was looking and sports management crossed my mind so it'll either be that or criminology.
Unlike a lot of players who ride the recruiting process out, you decided to commit early and you stuck with it throughout the year. What led you to make your commitment to State so early?
When they first offered me I did my research and looked up and saw they had a down year the year before. I looked at the players and I knew they had good talent so I knew the rise was coming. Plus, they have a great coaching staff which I figured out when I went on that first visit. I really enjoyed the coaching staff. They're straightforward guys and they're not going to tell you a lie. They're going to tell you how it is. I just loved it. On my first visit there I went to the Duke basketball game, which was a good game but State ended up losing and I just liked that atmosphere. I was thinking that if this was the atmosphere for a basketball game during spring break then just imagine what the football games are going to be like.
When I got home, Mike Glennon is from my area, and he was texting me just saying that he could guarantee that we were going to be on the rise. He was the one that pretty much talked me into it but I really enjoyed that first visit. They say the first impression is the best impression and that's how I felt. I didn't want to be anywhere else."Coach Quote: "I think he's a game-changer on the defensive line. He runs stuff down from the backside, forces fumbles, applies pressure... he's just a big, quick athlete.
"I'm sort of biased because I see him everyday, but I think he has great athleticism for a guy that size and he could be an edge-type player... he can play on the end, but with his physical attributes and ability, he could turn into whatever you're looking for. He will be able to play whatever the coaches want him to play." - Stone Bridge Head Coach Mickey Thompson
Scouting Report: "Lining up at defensive end for Stone Bridge High School, Brian Slay is a high-intensity player who excels at making plays in the opposing team's backfield. He is quick at the point of attack and his size and strength allow him to manhandle offensive linemen on the high school level. He does a great job of shedding blocks and routinely beats the linemen across from him.
"Slay is explosive out of his stance and gets from point A to point B in a hurry. He moves well and is agile given his size but will likely be destined for defensive tackle in college where he could shine. Slay also plays with quite a bit of fire and emotion. As he matures and develops, Slay has the potential to develop into a solid defensive lineman for NC State down the road." - Pack Pride Recruiting Analyst Steve Williams
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Bob Seger's Turn the Page over Metallica's
If we were talking about Phil Collins I'd say cover tunes. His covers were always better than originals.
American Woman
The Guess Who over Lenny Kravitz
I had a conversation with someone over this very topic.
I liked both for different reasons.
Metallica's version captures the annoyance and anger that the person in the song could feel after things keep mounting.
Bob's original captures more of the loneliness and despair...espc with the Sax.
I never thought anyone good would try to cover that one, it actually pissed me off when I first heard Metallica's. then it kind of grew on me.
"Turn the Page" is about the emotional and social ups and downs of a rock musician's life on the road. Seger wrote it in 1972 while touring with Teegarden & Van Winkle. Drummer David Teegarden (of Teegarden & Van Winkle and later the Silver Bullet Band) recalls:
We had been playing somewhere in the Midwest, or the northern reaches, on our way to North or South Dakota. [Guitarist] Mike Bruce was with us. We'd been traveling all night from the Detroit area to make this gig, driving in this blinding snowstorm. It was probably 3 in the morning. Mike decided it was time to get gas. He was slowing down to exit the interstate and spied a truck stop. We all had very long hair back then – it was the hippie era – but Skip, Mike and Bob had all stuffed their hair up in their hats. You had to be careful out on the road like that, because you'd get ostracized. When I walked in, there was this gauntlet of truckers making comments – "Is that a girl or man?" I was seething; those guys were laughing their ***** off, a big funny joke. That next night, after we played our gig – I think it was Mitchell, S.D. – Seger says, "Hey, I've been working on this song for a bit, I've got this new line for it. He played it on acoustic guitar, and there was that line: "Oh, the same old cliches / 'Is that a woman or a man?' " It was "Turn the Page.
My first thought was original of course.
But after thinking about it I usually like the cover tunes better than the originals.
Turn the page
Smooth Criminal
The Crying Game
Nothing Compares to U
Ghost Riders in the Sky
Hard To Handle
Live And Let Die
Hound Dog
Mony Mony
Once Bitten Twice Shy
Smokin' In The Boys Room
It depends on the song.
Jimi's Vodoo Chile is awesome but for me SRV took it to another level
Claptons orginal Layla is a classic but the unplugged version is awesome
Metallica did a lot of cover songs better than the original. Blitzkrieg, Am I Evil, Whiskey in the Jar (which I believe originally was an Irish folk song), Breadfan, etc
Some where equal IMO like Turn the page, Stone Cold Crazy. Metallica is just an extremely talented band.
Usually cover.
For example - VH's version of Oh, Pretty Woman just kills Orbison's IMO.


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Arts Management (MA)
Offered by the Department of Performing Arts, College of Arts and Sciences.
Admission to the Program
In addition to meeting the minimum university requirements for graduate study, applicants must have completed at least nine undergraduate courses in theatre, dance, music, or visual arts, one-third of which must be advanced work or its equivalent. Equivalent training is understood to be four or more years' experience in a professional company or organization. Students applying to the program with this background will be asked for an interview. Two letters of recommendation and Graduate Record Examination (GRE) or Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) scores are required. Provisional admission may be granted and is removed at the completion of 12 credit hours of coursework with a minimum grade point average of 3.00.
Degree Requirements
- 38 credit hours of approved graduate work
- Advancement to candidacy on completing 12 to 18 credit hours with a grade point average of 3.00 or higher, removing any undergraduate deficiencies, and with the written recommendation of the student's faculty advisor
- A four-hour comprehensive examination covering three areas: arts management, and two areas of specialization
- Capstone experience: PERF-794 and 3 credit hours from one of the following: PERF-702, PERF-793, or PERF-797
Course Requirements
Required (21 credit hours)
- PERF-670 Survey of Arts Management (3) (3)
- PERF-671 Marketing the Arts (3) (3)
- PERF-673 Fundamentals of Fund-Raising (3) (3)
- PERF-674 Financial Management in the Arts (3) (3)
- PERF-675 Governance and Leadership (3) (3)
- PERF-676 Applied Arts Management (1) (1)
- PERF-680 Cultural Policy and the Arts (3) (3)
- PERF-798 Seminar in Arts Management (2) (2)
Capstone (5 credit hours)
Note: Students unable to complete the capstone within 5 credit hours will then register for PERF-795 Research and Writing (1).
3 credit hours from the following:
- PERF-702 Master's Portfolio Seminar (1-6) (1-6) (3 credit hours required)
- PERF-793 Directed Research in the Arts (1-6) (1-6) (3 credit hours required)
- PERF-797 Master's Thesis Seminar (1-6) (1-6) (3 credit hours required)
Electives (12 credit hours)
- 3 credit hours in approved arts-related nonmanagerial courses
- 9 credit hours in approved elective courses including business administration, communication, and public administration. Approved elective courses include: Cultural Leadership, The Art of Producing, Performing Arts Management, Curatorial Practice, Museum Management, Museums and Society, Museums and Ethics, Arts Management in Diverse Communities, Arts Enterprise, Grantwriting, Arts Programming, Legal Issues in the Arts, Arts Education, Technology in Fundraising, Technology and Marketing the Arts, International Cultural Management, and International Cultural Policy.


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April's Act
What is life?
Life is Love.
Life...is Madness.
Life is Horrible!
and even more...Life is Hate.
I wish there was a way out of Life.
Life...an insignificant thing.
Yet, these is one,
One that I will commit if I must
It is Sin
but Sin is for the best
I will Sin no more after this one act.
This impetrable act is Suicide.
One clean cut through the skin,
Seeing the blood of Life,
Flowing and flourishing out of my veins.
A rope dangling with the flesh of a corpse riding on it's neck...
No breath,
No Life,
but much to my dismay I cannot do it.
I need to be in more control!
I have to remember...
Life is full of Hate,
Life is full of Madness.
Life is Horrible,
and to my Hatred,
I have to remember.
Life is also Love.


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Twelve Though-Provoking Photographs. And the Stories Behind Them. Photo 1. 1988 Scott Shaw Odessa (TX) American won the Pulitzer for his photograph of the child Jessica McClure being rescued from the well into which she had fallen.
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Twelve Though-Provoking Photographs
And the Stories Behind Them
Photo 1
1988 Scott Shaw Odessa (TX) Americanwon the Pulitzer for his photograph of the child Jessica McClure being rescued from the well into which she had fallen.
Following her rescue on October 16, 1987, surgeons had to
amputate part of McClure's right foot due to loss of circulation
while in the well. She has had 15 surgeries over the years and
has no first-hand memory of being trapped in the well. McClure graduated from Greenwood High School, in May 2004.
Photo 2
Kevin Bryan settles down for the night on the sofa
in his living room, looking into the kitchen
where his father's addict friends sleep on the floor; the
refrigerator and stove have been sold for drug money.
This series of Pulitzer Prize winning photographs depicts the plight of young children with parents addicted to alcohol and drugs.
Photo 3
The Pulitzer Prize winning photo of Mary
Ann Vecchio crying over the body of
Jeffrey Miller, one of the victims of the
Kent State shootings.
Photo 3
Photographs of the dead and wounded at Kent State
amplified sentiment against the United States' invasion
of Cambodia and the Vietnam War in general.
In particular, the camera of this Kent State
photojournalism student captured a fourteen-year-old
runaway, Mary Ann Vecchio, screaming over the
body of the dead student, Jeffrey Miller, who had been
shot in the mouth. The photograph, which won a
Pulitzer Prize, became the most enduring image
of the events, and one of the most enduring images of
the anti-Vietnam War movement.
Photo 4
A haunting photograph, taken after the Oklahoma City bombing shows a one-year-old victim handed to and then cradled by a local fireman.
The image of firefighter Chris Fields holding the
dying infant Baylee Almon won the Pulitzer Prize.
Photo 5
2006: Todd Heisler, Rocky Mountain News
for haunting, behind-the-scenes look at funerals for Colorado Marines who return from Iraq in caskets.
During the arrival of a Marine's casket at Denver International Airport, Major Steve Beck described the scene as one of the most powerful in the process. Passengers in one plane can see Marines removing the casket from another. "See the people in the windows? They sit right there in the plane, watching those Marines. You gotta wonder what's going through their minds, knowing that they're on the plane that brought him home," he said. "They're going to remember being on that plane for the rest of their lives. And they should."
Photo 6
John F. Kennedy, Jr. (often referred to as "John-John") was killed in a fatal plane crash in 1999.
Photo 7
The dramatic photo of a construction worker
rescuing a woman from the Des Moines River.
Photo 7
Mrs. Neely and her husband, Alan Neely, had fallen
into the water after their disabled boat went over a
dam in downtown Des Moines June 30. Alan Neely
drowned, and rescue workers were unable to reach his wife
in the swirling current under the dam. The rolling water
repeatedly sucked Neely under, then pushed her
back to the surface.Oglesbee, who'd been working on a pedestrian bridge over
the dam, chained himself to the end of a crane. The crane
Operator lowered him to the water, where he managed
to pluck Ralph-Neely from the water. Chind, standing on
the opposite riverbank, captured the scene.
Photo 8
2000 Photo Staff of Rocky Mountain News, Denver, CO for its powerful collection of emotional images taken after the student shootings at Columbine High School.
Photo 9
1986 Tom Gralish The Philadelphia Inquirer
For his series of photographs of Philadelphia's homeless.
Photo 10
Rocco Morabito won the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for Spot Photography for this photograph – "The Kiss of Life." Apprentice lineman J.D. Thompson is breathing life into the mouth of another apprentice lineman, Randall G. Champion, who hangs unconscious after receiving a jolt of high voltage. Morabito was driving on West 26th Street in July 1967 on another assignment when he saw Champion dangling from the pole. He called an ambulance and grabbed his camera. Champion recovered.
Photo 11
One of the poignant moments featured in the Pulitzer exhibition is that of Babe Ruth's final appearance at Yankee Stadium on June 13, 1948. The legendary ball player had been diagnosed with cancer in 1946. Two years later he walked slowly onto the field after an exhibition game, weakened by illness and using his bat as a cane. His old teammates stood at attention. The crowd in the packed stands went crazy.
Nat Fein of the New York Herald Tribune took several photos, but wasn't satisfied. He walked around to the other side.
"I saw Ruth standing there with his uniform, #3, the number that would be retired, and knew that was the shot." This Pulitzer Prize photograph caught the bittersweet finale of that remarkable career.
Photo 12
The airship Hindenburg explodes as
it comes in for a landing in Lakehurst,
New Jersey, May 6, 1937.


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Chapter Seven
Chapter Seven
When Cynthia had finished with Eva, she almost didn't recognize herself. Her long, honey curls had been chopped off. She now wore a brunette bob, with front bangs, that hung just past her ears. Her eyebrows had been plucked (a painful process indeed) and now resembled smooth arches instead of the thick bushes she'd gotten from her father. The overall effect was that she'd lost her round face; her jaw and cheeks were more prominent and her nose was a sharper feature.
"What do you think hun?" Cynthia stepped back to admire her work.
"I think I don't look at all like myself."
"That's the point, darling. That's the point." Cynthia's voice sounded sad. As though she enjoyed her work, but not the reasons it had to be done. "Oh, lookee; there's Mitchell come to take you back."
Eva spun around in her chair. Mitchell was indeed walking towards her, but once he saw her, he stopped dead in his tracks. He quickly recovered himself. Once he reached them he said, "Great job, Cindy. I almost didn't recognize her. I'll take her off your hands now."
Eva slid out of the chair. Cynthia put her arms around her in a hug. "You be strong now, you hear me? You gotta be a strong girl, okay?" Eva nodded into her shoulder. "Now, I expect you'll be going to meet your family now, right?" She glanced up at Mitchell; he nodded. "Well, go on then." She released Eva and dabbed at her eyes.
Eva followed Mitchell out of the room and asked, "What were the desks for in there?"
"They're for cases that spend longer here. Usually, we allow someone a week to stay and learn their new… life story."
"Oh." Eva paused. "I'm not staying because…?"
"Apparently, you're a special case." He sighed. "And it's especially because of that, that I think you should stay longer. Here," he handed her a manila envelope full of papers. "You'll want to start reading."
Eva's eyes bugged. "All of it?"
Mitchell laughed. "Not necessarily. Some of it I'll tell you. Anyway, we have a long drive ahead of us, so I'm sure you can put a good dent into it."
"Where are we going?"
"You're new Protection family is in Massachusetts."
"That is quite a drive," Eva said. "You'll be taking me?"
"Of course," he said. "Why? You don't like me?" he asked, teasing.
"No," Eva said. "Quite the opposite. You're the only one here I do like. Well, trust at least."
Mitchell laughed again. By this time, they had made it out of the hospital. Mitchell opened the back door to his car and Eva scrambled in. The sky was still mostly dark; only a few beams of light were escaping in the east. Mitchell climbed in the driver's seat and turned around to make sure Eva was fastened in. She was; and she was already asleep.


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Now, the artist's last portrait, which he had yet to complete when he died in July, is to go on display for the first time at London's National Portrait Gallery in February. It will conclude the biggest exhibition of Freud's work in over a decade, featuring more than 200 portraits drawn from collections across the globe. When the artist died in July he was applying the finishing touches to the painting, which depicts his assistant David Dawson and his faithful whippet Eli. Known for spending long periods with his subjects, Freud had been painting the work for four years.
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How to Write a Letter to the Editor and an Opinion Editorial
This advocacy tool outlines suggestions for writing letters to the editor and op-eds and getting them printed, as well as examples of published opinion pieces.
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Writing a letter to the editor or an opinion editorial (op-ed) can be a useful way to share your knowledge about infant-toddler issues with the local community and policymakers. In addition, letters to the editor and op-eds are a way of reaching a much wider audience with your messages about the healthy development of infants and toddlers and how policy can positively impact babies, toddlers and their families.
State legislators and federal lawmakers regularly read the opinion pages of newspapers for clues about issues of concern in their community.
Writing opinion pieces are fairly simple and an effective way for you to Be a Voice for Little Kids in your community! This ZERO TO THREE Policy Network advocacy tool provides you with some suggestions for writing letters to the editor and op-eds and getting them printed. Download the full article for more details about these strategies and a few examples of opinion pieces that were published, so you can get a sense for how to put the strategies into practice.
Letter to the Editor Strategies
Check the newspaper's print guidelines
Most newspapers have a web site. Check the paper's web site or the editorial page of the print version for information about submitting a letter to the editor. Some newspapers have an online submission form which you can use.
Keep it brief and to the point
Letters should be concise – typically newspapers have a word limit of about 250 words (about 3 paragraphs). Editors are less likely to print long letters.
Make your letter timely
Tie the subject of your letter to a recent article, editorial or column. Use that article as a hook for communicating your message. Small-circulation newspapers usually print many of the letters they receive. It is more challenging to get a letter printed in a major metropolitan newspaper, so don't be disappointed if it doesn't get printed.
Localize your letter
Explain how infants and toddlers in your community will be affected. Lend credibility to your letter by noting your professional experiences in the community that prompted you to write on this topic.
Use "levels of thought" as a method for organizing your letter
The FrameWorks Institute, a non-profit communications research organization, "adopts the position… that people reason on the basis of deeply-held moral values…" Those moral values are part of a hierarchical process for how people think about ideas and issues, which they refer to as "levels of thought." You can use levels of thought to structure your letter to the editor. Begin your letter with a big idea or value (level one) that provides a context for understanding the more specific details (levels two and three) of your communication.
- For example, The Early Head Start program has made it a priority to provide the best start in life for all its babies and toddlers, so that their children will grow up to be good citizens of the community. The Early Head Start program offers an array of services to pregnant women, infants, toddlers and their families, including home visitation, parent support, early learning and access to medical, mental health and early intervention services. But this community program cannot succeed without adequate federal support for Early Head Start. Reauthorization of Early Head Start is right around the corner. It's time to remind our federal policymakers that babies in Fillmont, Indiana and across the country depend on them.
Be mindful of the tone of your letter
The tone of your letter can either support or overpower the substance of the message you are trying to communicate. Therefore, choosing and controlling tone2 is an important element of your communication.
Write about good news, not just bad
Thank the paper (when appropriate) for its positive and accurate coverage of an infant-toddler issue. Or thank a policymaker for being a champion for infants and toddlers in the state or community.
Include your name, title, address and daytime phone number
Editors like to confirm that the letter was actually written by the person whose name is on it. Also be sure to provide your professional title and affiliation, as it lends credibility to your letter.
Consider other newspapers for publication
Many metropolitan areas have free weekly community newspapers that go to thousands of homes. Many cities also have newspapers for specific ethnic groups. Consider sending your letter to the editors of these other widely-read publications.
Mail a copy of your published letter to your state legislators and members of Congress
Policymakers subscribe to local newspapers in their districts. You can continue to build your relationship with them by sending copies of your letter.
Opinion Editorial Strategies
Focus your message on one key point
Although there may be many elements to the infant-toddler issue you want to address, you will have more success if your editorial is focused and easy to understand.
Keep it short
Typically newspapers will accept op-eds of 500-800 words. Magazines may accept slightly larger pieces, but check the publication's requirements before you submit your column.
Tell the readers upfront why they should care
Give voice to the babies that aren't often heard by telling readers why they should care.
Offer specific recommendations
"An op-ed is not a news story that simply describes a situation; it is your opinion about how to improve matters." Make your call to action something concrete and realistic.
Make your op-ed timely
Editors will be looking for op-ed columns that are compelling and which engage readers in the public debate about a timely issue.
Review the opinion pages
By reading the opinion pages, you can get a sense of what is being covered and what is not being addressed. You can also get an idea of the types of op-eds that the editor publishes.
Examples of Published Letters to the Editor
This letter was published in Newsweek, August 22, 2005.
To the Editor:
Your Aug. 15 cover story, "Your Baby's Brain," did a great job of bringing parents up to date on the latest research on early-childhood development. This information is critical to parents' ability to nurture their child's healthy development. However, the explosion of research in early development over the last decade or so has overwhelmed many parents and created a great deal of anxiety. Parents are getting so many mixed messages about what to do with all this information. Suggestions run the gamut from parents' signing up young children for countless organized, structured learning opportunities to simply trusting their instincts and loving their baby. What parents need is guidance on how to apply all this new knowledge to support their child's development through everyday interactions. It's not about cramming a child's day with classes, or, at the other extreme, simply following parental instincts. The complex process of parenting requires being a careful observer and listener to understand what a child is communicating about her needs, and making thoughtful decisions based on all this information.
Matthew E. Melmed, Executive Director ZERO TO THREE, Washington, D.C.
This letter was published in the New York Times Money & Business section, April 11, 2000.
To the Editor:
Re: "New Dads Feel Work's Pull, Even on Leave" (Personal Business, April 9), which looked at the demands on male executives who take paternity leave:
I am halfway through my paternity leave and am pleased that people like Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain, who has been under pressure to take such time off, are making the issue au courant. During my paid leave, which lasts three months, I have had the joy of watching our daughter grow in a way that one can only with a lot of time. I realize what a priceless gift paternity leave is. I wish that more fathers could experience the delight of taking care of a baby on their own, in an unhurried way that is difficult to do on weekends alone, or shoe-horned around busy workdays.
I never appreciated the demands and rewards of child care until I started doing it solo – and not just for two-hour stretches on a weekend while my wife was running errands. Taking care of our baby is making me a more competent parent who doesn't feel the need to take a back seat to my wife – something that happens by default in practically all families where the mother is the de facto primary caregiver, particularly when it comes to babies.
I hope that more companies will offer paternity leave as a way to retain valuable employees in this robust economy. The results will surely be a boon to dads, moms, children and, yes, employers, who will see a more satisfied and loyal work force.
THOMAS E. SALYERS Takoma Park, MD The writer is communications manager at ZERO TO THREE, a nonprofit organization in Washington that deals with issues of early childhood.
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Other observations of Lozotaeniodes formosana
Looks like it should be masculine...formosanus. iSpot is not recognising it in the feminine!
You are quite right.
The NBN Gateway has it correctly as formosanus, although the Field Guide has it as formosana!
Andy Keay
Whichever is right, it would be worth adding a new ID, so that it gets added to the other sightings (and I'm pretty sure there are some, as I added one, I think!).
Andy you were right!
According to the official rules genus names ending in -odes are generally masculine, EXCEPT when treated otherwise when originally established (See http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted-sites/iczn/code/ part 126.96.36.199) and in this case Obratsov treated Lozotaeniodes as feminine when he established it, giving the type species as L. cupressana (note feminine ending), so Lozotaeniodes formosana is quite correct. The original description of Lozotaeniodes is found here: http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/89708#page/219/mode/1up.
Unfortunately there are many mistakes in published sources for Lepidoptera gender agreements.
This has been thrashed out before, but I still think we should go with what iSpot uses, as then photos of the same species are kept together.
Agreed...it's a cracking little moth!
But the iSpot name is wrong
Surely using the incorrect name now means that when iSpot updates its name list, there will be more observations that will not link correctly in future...
I don't want to discourage anyone from using the correct name.
Fair enough
Yes, that makes sense. Blame Martin Harvey, he suggested using the names iSpot currently uses! ;)
Perhaps the management would like to make a decision.......?
Andy Keay
Don't blame Martin Harvey
The current look up list was compiled using the best available data at the time and I'm sure Martin is working hard to get an update so it's not a matter of blaming anyone.
Also I think it would be hard for Martin to categorically advise people not to use the officially correct ICZN names.
The problem of linking records will hopefully go away in future if iSpot adopts a more sophisticated way of handling names like the NBN which recognises junior synonyms and common misspellings and links then automatically to the correct name.
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In January, the FTSE 100 index fell by 8.9 per cent but Blackrock's UK Absolute Alpha fund rose by 1.1 per cent. In the six months to December, the stock market fell more than 2 per cent but Blackrock's fund returned 5.7 per cent. Small wonder, then, that this is more or less the only fund that investors are interested in buying at the moment: while others are seeing mass redemptions as the market continues to crumple, Absolute Alpha is the best-selling fund in December and January and has taken in more than £450m since it was launched nearly two years ago.
Small wonder, too, that other fund managers should be eyeing Blackrock's success and planning to launch their own absolute return funds. Standard Life, Cazenove and Premier Asset Management are among those that are believed to already be preparing funds for launch - and the longer nervous investors shun conventional funds, the more attractive these absolute return funds will become to firms desperate to keep their assets under management intact.
Absolute return certainly sounds like an easy sell to investors. Conventional, so-called 'long-only' funds will generally aim to beat a particular benchmark, such as the FT All Share index. Leaving aside the troublesome fact that far too few of them actually succeed in doing this, beating the index does not necessarily mean making money for investors: falling by 10 per cent when the market has fallen by 15 per cent would be deemed a success by the fund manager, although the investor would probably not share that view.
Absolute return funds, by contrast, aim to make money for their investors rather than beating some notional benchmark. That may mean - as Mark Lyttleton, who manages Blackstone's UK Alpha fund, admits - that it could do less well than conventional funds in good years but should protect investors' assets when times are hard. With most experts expecting this year to be as difficult as the last, that is especially appealing.
But deciding to launch an Absolute Alpha clone is not the same as actually achieving it: even more so than with conventionally managed funds, the skill of the manager is paramount. Indeed, according to statistics from Trustnet, 13 of the 32 absolute return funds available lost money last year. One of them - Credit Suisse's Target Return, which says it aims to achieve a positive return in excess of Libor, the interest rate at which banks lend to each other - has actually lost 2.7 per cent over the last three years while the market, even after the recent falls, has risen by 20 per cent. The trouble is that the kind of skills that absolute return investing requires - such as hedging risk and shorting stocks that are expected to fall - can be hard to find. Even the mighty Fidelity admits that the most successful conventional fund managers may struggle to succeed in shorting.
Lyttleton himself does not promise to make money every year but hopes to come out ahead over a three-year period. The requirements sound simple enough: 'Not everyone has the ability and the desire to go long and short of shares. And you have got to have all your risk controls around the portfolio in place to ensure that you do not lose too much money. You also have to define exactly what you will do and how you will do it and ensure you uphold those principles.'
Darius McDermott, managing director of Chelsea Financial Services, thinks a good absolute return fund should be a central part of an investor's portfolio: 'You should not necessarily have all your money in them but, particularly in new vehicles like pensions Sipps, I view this type of fund as core.'
Brian Dennehy, managing director of Dennehy Weller, also believes they are a key weapon in investors' armouries. But he cautions: 'With these sort of funds, I am more confident with those which have a big name company behind them, like Blackrock or JP Morgan.' He is keen on Lyttleton's fund and on the JP Morgan Cautious Total Return fund, which returned 6.9 per cent last year.
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The battle lines for what could be the biggest battle in financial services since Equitable Life's savers fought for compensation have finally been drawn. Clare Spottiswoode, who is acting as policyholder advocate on behalf of Norwich Union's with-profits savers, has submitted her response to the insurer's proposals for splitting its £2.6bn of 'orphan assets' between its policyholders and its shareholders. That means the real fight - over which policyholders stand to benefit and by how much, and over how many of them should simply ignore the offer - can finally commence.
It has taken a long time: Spottiswoode was formally appointed 16 months ago but had been standing by for months before that. It is also taking a lot of paper: her response runs to 90 pages, including all the supporting documentation. But it is likely that it will still be some weeks, and possibly months, before policyholders find out exactly what they are being offered.
It would be astonishing if the two sides found themselves in complete agreement immediately. Spottiswoode has already voiced concerns over regulatory guidelines that mean a substantial portion of the funds could go to shareholders, rather than policyholders. And she is likely to have advised that many - and perhaps a majority of - policyholders would be better off rejecting the deal. But Norwich Union is unlikely to go ahead unless a clear majority is deemed to benefit - and that could mean closer to 80 per cent than 50 per cent. Heated discussions on assumptions regarding everything from future investment returns to the amount the fund contributes to the costs of finding new business can be expected.
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{image-pm mamnokjh2222_19052008.jpg news.oneindia.in}Bhopal, May 19: Joining issue with Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, his Madhya Pradesh counterpart Shivraj Singh Chouhan has also urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to immediately convene a meeting of the Chief Ministers to discuss the security concerns arising from the recent serial bomb blasts in Jaipur.
In a letter to the Prime Minister, Mr Chouhan criticised the Congress-led UPA government for taking a 'retrograde step' by repealing the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) without making adequate provisions to deal with terrorism, leaving the states to defend themselves against this menace with archaic and inadequate laws.
''Consequently, the recent terrorist attack in Jaipur also would have to be tried only under the present ordinary laws'', the Chief Minister lamented.
He pointed out that the BJP government had prepared the Madhya Pradesh Atankvadi Evam Uchhedak Gatividhiyan Tatha Sangathit Apradh Niyantran Vidheyak, 2007 to deal effectively with terrorism, organised crime and disruptive activities and had submitted the bill for prior approval of the Union Government in December, 2007.
''However, inspite of reminders, the required approval was still awaited, while MCOCA and other anti-terror laws were in existence in states like Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh. This appears to highlight the attitude of the Central Government to consider the proposals of non-UPA states on different considerations and not in the wider national interest'', Mr Chouhan alleged.
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''Unless we strengthen our criminal justice system adequately to handle terrorism, organised crime and other internal security challenges, we would not be able to meet them and bequeath to future generations a safe, secure and peaceful country'', the BJP leader said.
The Chief Minister also expressed the view that terrorist attacks in Jaipur city would further highlight the need for more serious, purposeful and concerted efforts by the Centre for fighting terrorism and it would take all possible and concrete steps to prevent such incidents in future.
On Mr Narendra Modi's suggestion, after Jaipur blasts, that the Centre should convene a meeting of the Chief Ministers to discuss the issue of terrorism, the Prime Minister had said ''Several such meetings had already been held. A meeting of Chief Ministers of states affected by naxalite was convened recently''.
However, Dr Manmohan Singh said, he would have no hesitation on his part to convene another such meeting if the situation so demanded.
Dr Singh appealed to political parties not to politicise issues such as terrorism. ''All parties, the Congress, the BJP, all of us have an obligation not to politicise such issues'', he added.


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Shoeburyness : A History Paperback
by Judith Williams
Situated in the far south-east corner of Essex at the mouth of the Thames Estuary, the town of Shoeburyness boasts a long and fascinating history.
Indeed, the area was home to some of the earliest settlers in England and excavations have proved it to be one of the richest sources of archaeology in Essex.
For centuries, the area was divided into the two independent parishes of North Shoebury and South Shoebury, the Ness itself but a sandy promontory.
Both parishes developed as humble farming communities.
The authorities, aware of their strategic location for defence, guarded not only against enemy invasion but also that scourge of the Treasury, smugglers.
Its noteworthy residents include the Revds Arthur Dent, Luke Imber and Thomas Archer.
Farmer Christopher Parsons is remembered for his scientific notes on Shoebury's flora and Philip Benton is the father of local history in the Rochford Hundred.
The opening of Shoebury Garrison for the testing of artillery in 1849 marked a turning point in Shoeburyness' history, stimulating the rapid growth of South Shoebury.
Conversely, North Shoebury retained its rural character, in which farming traditions and country pursuits ruled daily life. The 19th-century brick-making industry flourished in both parishes.
It was not until 1933, when Southend Borough swallowed both North and South Shoebury, that the parishes were united as Shoeburyness.
This meticulously researched book gives new insight into the history of the area.
Using information from maps, historical notes, wills, diaries and census returns, the author paints a vivid picture of what life was like for residents of Shoeburyness through the ages, and how they shaped the town.
In these well illustrated pages, current residents will find much to make them proud.
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 144 pages, 162 illustrations
- Publisher: The History Press Ltd
- Publication Date: 01/01/2001
- Category: Local history
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Speaking of frogs - this is what a red eyed tree frog looks like with its eyes closed. They actually have three eyelids. The third is called the nictitating membrane, and it allows the frog to protect their eye from danger and to keep it moist while still allowing some visibility.This membrane is found in many different groups of animals, but most of them it simply looks like an opaque membrane. The tree frog's is a bit more striking!
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|WTCM-FM: Traverse City, Michigan
WBCM: Boyne City, Michigan
|Broadcast area
|WTCM-FM: Traverse City, Michigan
WBCM: Petoskey, Michigan
|TCM, Today's Country Music
|WTCM-FM: 103.5 MHz
WBCM: 93.5 MHz
|First air date
|WTCM-FM: December 13, 1965
WBCM: 1978 (as WCLX)
|WTCM-FM: 100,000 watts
WBCM: 14,000 watts
|WTCM-FM: 302 meters
WBCM: 283 meters
|Facility ID
|Callsign meaning
|WTCM-FM: Traverse City, Michigan
WBCM: Boyne City, Michigan
|Former callsigns
|WTCM-FM: none
|Michigan Radio Network
|Midwestern Broadcasting Company
|Sister stations
WTCM-FM consists of two radio stations: WTCM-FM 103.5 in Traverse City, Michigan and simulcast WBCM 93.5 FM in Boyne City, Michigan. The two stations carry a country music format and are owned by Midwestern Broadcasting. Today, WTCM-FM/WBCM is on or near the top of the Arbitron ratings [1]. WTCM-FM's 100,000 watt signal can be heard south toward Grand Rapids at times. During the summer its signal wafts southeast into southern lower Michigan,(heard in the Tri-Cities mixing with WMUZ-FM in Detroit). This is a good 150 miles from its originating city, Traverse City.
In 1939, WTCM founder Les Biederman and several of his friends - engineer Bill Kiker and Drew McClay among others - wanted to start a radio station, but in an undeveloped radio market. They decided that Traverse City, Michigan was a city destined for growth and had no local radio station, so they moved to the city and built the 250-watt transmitter that would be Traverse City's first radio station. WTCM initially broadcast from a small studio at the base of the tower. The WTCM control console was hand built by Biederman and Kiker, and served the station until its replacement around 1980.
When WTCM signed on in 1940, it was a local channel station at 1370 kc. briefly before moving to 1400 kc. The station was licensed to broadcast 24 hours at 250 watts, but only broadcast from 6 AM to 11 PM. WTCM was an NBC affiliate and like most radio stations at the time, aired block programming - some local shows, network shows, music programs, etc.
They soon outgrew the tiny studio and moved to the Anderson Building in the 100 block of downtown Traverse City in the mid =-1940s. Long-time Midwestern employees Kenn Haven and Merlin Dumbrille began working there in the 1940s.
Because WTCM had a limited reach, Biederman wanted to start other small stations aimed exclusively towards the towns they broadcast in. After fighting in World War II, Biederman started WATT 1240 Cadillac, Michigan in 1945, WATZ 1450 Alpena, Michigan in 1946, WMBN 1340 Petoskey, Michigan in 1947 and WATC 900 Gaylord, Michigan in 1950, all collectively known as the Paul Bunyan Network. All but WATC are still on the air today, but Midwestern still owns only WTCM and WATZ.
1950s and 1960s[edit]
In 1954, Biederman signed on NBC WPBN-TV 7 in Traverse City, just months after the Traverse City market got its first TV station, Sparton's CBS/ABC/DuMont WWTV 13 in Cadillac, now known as 9 & 10. In 1959, WPBN increased its reach to WTOM 4 in Cheboygan, bringing NBC shows to the eastern upper peninsula.
Big changes came to WTCM and the rest of the Paul Bunyan Network in the 1960s as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) allowed local channel stations to increase their daytime power to 1,000 watts. All of the local channel stations complied, and boosted their power.
In 1964, long time WTCM air staffer Merlin Dumbrille started hosting the popular "Farm and Orchard Time" program, a WTCM staple since 1941. He retired as host of the show on October 30, 2009.
WTCM became contemporary (as "14-T") in 1975 under the supervision of long-time Traverse City broadcaster Jerry Meyer, and saw major changes in the airstaff, including morning show host Kenn Haven moving to news. In 1977 former WCCW afternoon host Lin McNett ("Michael O'Shea") became WTCM's program director and morning personality.
The Top 40 format was initially successful, but the 1977 format change of WJML, and the 1980 entry of WKHQ, both from north of Traverse City but with strong regional signals into the market, caused the predictable result, and listeners gravitated over a period of a couple years to the stereo FM contemporary format signals. WTCM became simulcast to the FM signal not long afterward.
WTCM-FM became a country station in the early 1970s, at the urging of WTCM salesman Leon Purchase, a local country musician, who was convinced that a country format would work in rural northern Michigan.
Les traditionally came to the WTCM studio (almost nightly) after the conclusion of the TV 7&4 newscast and recorded an editorial on topics of the day, and these editorials and his strong sense of local stewardship culminated (among other things) into a local college (Northwestern Michigan College) and other more abstract realities including the city power plant converting from coal to wood as a source of fuel.[citation needed]
In the late 1970s, Les also began plans to increase the power of both WTCM AM and FM. In 1978, Les started turning over more of his duties to his son, Ross Biederman. Because of FCC restrictions and WTCM's growth plans, several properties were sold, including the Petoskey and Cadillac stations (to MacDonald Broadcasting, founded by long-time Biederman broadcast pal Kenneth MacDonald) and the Gaylord station was sold to William Barr, but fell silent several owners later in the early 2000s due to financial troubles.
In 1980, Les Biederman traded WPBN-TV to US Tobacco for stock, and became its largest individual shareholder.
In 1982, after years of planning, engineering and FCC permitting, a major change was made to WTCM, which had since started simulcasting with WTCM-FM. The station was moved to its current position at 580 and boosted power to 2,500 watts daytime. The 1400 frequency was donated to a local church, who made the station Traverse City's first religious station, WLJN (We Lift Jesus' Name). WLJN broadcast from the original WTCM studio on Morgan Hill ("Radio Hill" to the locals), at the base of the 1400 kHz tower.
In the late 1980s, WTCM (and other AMs) were struggling. Although he has Democratic leanings, Ross Biederman decided to start airing Rush Limbaugh's program because he thought it would help ratings, and made the station full-time news/talk.[citation needed]
1990s - present[edit]
With FCC restrictions lessening, it created opportunities for the younger Biederman to rebuild the Paul Bunyan Network. In the 1990s, he purchased or erected several stations in other northern markets, and designed them to rebroadcast his Traverse City signals.
First, WTCM-FM added a rebroadcaster in WBCM 93.5 FM Boyne City. The 93.5 frequency began broadcasting in 1978 and originally programmed a standalone country format as WCLX (with the calls standing for nearby Charlevoix). (The WBCM calls were used for years at an AM station in Bay City, Michigan, now WMAX.) Later, WKJF 1370 Cadillac eventually simulcasted WCCW. WKJF has since been donated to the same ministry that received the original 1400 signal, Good News Media (which changed the calls to WLJW in March 2004 and has since used it to simulcast WLJN). Also, in the 1990s, Biederman purchased WCCW (AM) 1310 (then standards from ABC's "Stardust" network, now sports from ESPN Radio) and FM 107.5 (oldies), which had been WTCM's primary local competitor in the "early days" after being founded by a former Midwestern employee, John Anderson, in 1960.
Recently, WTCM boosted its power once again, this time to a full 50 kW daytime, allowing its directional signal to penetrate Canada. They, however, only broadcast with 1,100 watts overnight. Because AM transmits mostly through groundwave signals, and Northern Michigan's terrain is mostly sand, transmission is difficult.
The station started broadcasting from its new home, Biederman's Radio Centre building in downtown Traverse City in 2002. The building also houses his other properties, WCCW-AM-FM (along with recent sign-on WCZW-FM 107.9 Charlevoix, which simulcasts WCCW-FM "Oldies 107-5") and Top 40 WJZQ 92.9 FM (Z93).
External links[edit]
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WTCM
- Radio-Locator information on WTCM
- Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WTCM
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WBCM
- Radio-Locator information on WBCM
- Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WBCM