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Series 32 celebrates not only 15 years of Be@rbricks, but also the 20th anniversary of Medicom Toy. For the first time each Basic features an anniversary design on the front and the iconic letter on the back!
In May 2001 Medicom Toy released the first Be@rbrick during the World Character Convention in Tokyo. Since then more than 4560 figures have been released.
From 1 in 2006 to a database which now includes 3031 100%, 258 50%, 335 70%, 35 200%, 400% and 187 1000% Be@rbricks. This year 106+ have been released.
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UBS has retained its "sell" on Melbourne-based
Ivanhoe reported its December quarter production results on January 31, which were broadly in-line with UBS's estimates.
Ivanhoe's Osborne site produced 4.3 thousand tonnes of copper at a cash cost of $2.03 a pound.
The broker says with cash margins tight and the outlook for commodity prices tempering, the cost of operations will be the key driver to earnings in 2013.
"While we have always rated the exploration potential of IVA's tenement holding very highly, we maintain our 'sell' on Ivanhoe due to uncertainty around the ownership structure and funding of the company's two key assets, Merlin and Mt Elliott. In our view, the production profile of Osborne is insufficient to warrant investors holding shares in IVA."
UBS estimates earnings per share (EPS) of -0.19¢ in fiscal 2012 and -0.01¢ in fiscal 2013. Ivanhoe achieved EPS of -0.28¢ in fiscal 2011.
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The Associated Press has landed an interview with Tyler Morris, the Texas Rangers fan who tumbled about 30 feet from second-deck stands at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington while trying to catch a foul ball.
Morris, 25, said his face is swollen and his foot is in a brace. He fractured his skull and sprained an ankle in the fall at Tuesday night's game against the Cleveland Indians.
"Physically, I do hurt, but you know what? I'm very thankful I'm progressing and I've gotten a lot of support from so many people," Morris told the AP by phone while a friend drove him home from the hospital.
The foul ball landed about four rows back and bounced toward him. He said he misjudged how close he was to the railing and fell to the ground-level seats. He landed on four people who came away with minor injuries.
"I remember grabbing onto the rail ... and then falling," he said. "The people under me may have taken the impact off. I'm sorry they were hurt, but if it weren't for them, I may not be talking to you right now."
As a firefighter with the Lake Cities Fire Department near Dallas, he said he has responded to emergencies where people had fallen similar distances and had not survived.
"It's terrifying for someone who treats these injuries and knows the usual outcome," Morris said. "My head was hurting so bad and I knew I had been unconscious for a long time."
He called the incident a "100%, total accident that could have happened to anybody" and said he does not blame the Rangers or the ballpark.
"I'm ready to go back," he said.
By Stephen Borelli
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Residents in final bid to change pitch plan
Date published: 19 December 2012
HIGH Crompton Residents' Group has launched a last-ditch plea to planners over an all-weather sports pitch scheme.
The controversial Crompton House School plan will be heard by the council's planning committee tonight.
Members of the residents' group are in favour of the scheme - but not of the intended opening hours, light pollution or 15ft high perimeter fence.
The pitch would be available for hire on weekdays until 10pm and 6pm on weekends and bank holidays.
The school has the financial support of Manchester FA, but funding is conditional on out-of-hours community use.
Roy Butterworth, chairman of the group, said: "We're not against the school revitalising its playing fields. We don't mind the schools playing until about 5pm. But after that there could be up to three matches at once.
"There's no need for a pitch of this scale."
Residents in Rochdale Road, Grampian Way and Crompton Gate claim to be living close enough to the field to suffer noise pollution.
Josie Kershaw, who lives 50 yards away in Crompton Gate, said: "I won't be able to open my curtains or the windows because of the light and noise when I'm trying to relax. I don't mind the children playing on it until about 6pm. It's the out-of-hours use I object to."
The plans have already been unanimously recommended for refusal by Shaw and Crompton parish councillors.
Accept the inevitable - like Crompton Hall AG the plans will go through no matter what eventually. Look at the "stunning" biscuit boxes in Crompton Hall. It is just deplorable that what is refused in one quarter seems to be let through elsewhere!
the people of High Crompton will gain a free facility for many years to come but object because of noise and light pollution. These modern floodlights give out minimal light not directed towards the pitch and if it gets too noisy they could always shut their windows. I hope they don't get this facility as the people if high cromptondon't deserve it, would be sad for the school though.
All I can say is well done Oldham council, sell the residents out once again! Welcome to another run down part of Oldham where the community means nothing?
So Roy Butterworth who commentates on the Latics games is a right NIMBY objecting to the proposed new artificial football pitch at Crompton House School. So much for giving home grown players like Chris Taylor a decent surface to hone their football skills on . So much for keeping youngsters off the street. The NIMBYs in Shaw complain about the closure of the clapped out Local Swimming Pool. Now they don't want a £1m new pitch to be used by the general public. Typical !
Try getting off Netherhouse Estate when there is something is going on at Crompton House School, it`s an absolute Nightmare.
close your windows? what a great answer! and as for local residents using it I'm sure that won't be the case. I am sure the no local people will get the most use out of it though that includes 2 thirds of the children who dont live in the area, oh yeah and they are the ones that your council tax pays towards!!
Crompton house school already causes huge problems to locals as regards parking, so why not extend this problem even more? What do locals matter? So long as they keep paying council tax, what does noise, foul language or the fact that the Parish council is against this matter? Well done Oldham MBC again, just keep living in your cloud-cuckoo land.
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VetUSA: Veterinary Listings for Ohio
Please Note: We at VetWorld are currently working on an all new site with searchable updated information. In the meantime, we are providing access to the old website data for your convince. Please look for an all new searchable list of Veterinarians soon.
*Akron Cat Clinic
Tel: 330-666-4747
Dr. Paula K. LundinM-F
Hours: M-F: 8-6; Sat 9-12
Information: Practice Limited to Felines
Valley Animal Hospital
1830 Merriman Road
Akron, Ohio 44313
Te: 330-836-1971
Fax: 330-864-1562
EMail: None provided
Dr. Larry D. Sands, DVM
Dr. Joanna Manz, VMD
Dr. Brian Gustaevel, DVM
Hours: Mon - Fri: 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM; Sat: 8:30 AM - noon. After hrs call Emergency Clinic 330-665-4996
Information: Small animals, exotics, and pocket pets.Members of AVMA, Ohio VMA, and Summit County VMA
*Veterinary Referral Clinic
Tel: 216-831-6789
Dr. Jim Prueter
Hours: Monday-Friday: 9:00am-6:00pm; Saturday 9:00am-4pm;
Info:Internal Medicine, Neurolopgy, Cardiology, Theriogenology, Radiology, Surgery,
Auburn Veterinary Hospital
*Eastside Dog and Cat Hospital,
Tel: 216-729-0500
Dr. Mark A. Rutman
Hours: Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri: 8:30am-5:00pm; Wed, Sat: 8:30am-12pm;
Info: Medicine-surgery-grooming-boarding-emergencies.
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*Animal Medical & Emergency Hospital
Ohio Holistic Veterinary Service
2527 W. Dublin-Granville Road
Columbus, Ohio 43235
telephone = 614-889-2556
fax = 614-889-8481
EMail Ohio Holistic veterinary Service
Donn W. Griffith DVM, NMD
Danya Linehan DVM, CVA
Hours: By appointment. Please call during normal business hours.
Infomation:We offer second opinions, holistic consultations, homeopathy, acupuncture, veterinary chiropractic, nutritional therapy, physical therapy, and many other nonconventional alternative and complementary therapies. We try to treat your pet as we would our own human bodies. We prefer therapies that have been successfully tested on millions of people for thousands of years. If they are safe for people, we will consider them for your pet. We are a referral center for other veterinarians for these services.
*Grove Veterinary Clinic
Tel: 419-659-2378
Dr. Lynne Sammons
Hours: Mon-Fri: 9am to 5:00pm; Mon & Wed: 6pm-8pm; Sat: 9am-12pm
Info: equine and small animal
*Amanda Animal Hospital
Tel: 740-687-0643
Dr.Ann E. Essman
Hours: Mon, Tues and Thurs: 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Wed & Fri: 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; Sat: 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Information: Equine, Farm and Pet Animals
*Harrod Veterinary Clinic
Tel: 419-648-2901
Dr. Michael J. Skiver
Hours: Mon-Fri: 8:30am to noon & 1:00pm-5:00pm; Sat: variable-call for appointment
Info: Member, AVMA, OVMA, Masters Degree OSU reproductive physiology
East Hilliard Veterinary Services
3993 Brown Park Dr.
Hilliard, OH 43026
Tel: (614) 876-7762
Fax: None Provided
EMail East Hilliard Veterinary Services
Tom Klein, DVM
Sue Klein, DVM
Chris Kabalan, DVM
Hours: Mon, Thu: 8am - 7:30pm; Tue, Wed, Fri: 8am - 5pm; Sat: 8am - 11:30am
Information: Comprehensive Exams, Preventive Medicine, Vaccination, Surgical ,Services, Dentistry, Diagnostic Laboratory Services
In-house Pharmacy, Exotic Pet Care, Radiology, Electrocardiograms, Ultrasonography, Allergy Testing, Glaucoma Testing, Blood Pressure Monitoring, Telemedicine, Hospitalization, Pain Management, Microchip ID Implantation
Cat's All Cat Clinic
Tel: 330-674-7525
Dr. Paula Lundin, DVM
Hours: By Appointment
Information: Feline practice.
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*Fairfield Pet Hospital
1983 East Main St.
Lancaster, Ohio 43130
Tel: 740-653-7977
Fax: 740-653-7985
EMail Fairfield Pet Hospital
Dr Ann Essman
Dr Craig Dunn
Dr Stephanie Corn
Dr Susan Scholl
Hours: Mon & Fri: 8-5:30; Tues & Thurs: 8-7:30; Wed: 8-6:30; Sat: 9-1; Vaccine Clinic Wednesday 5-6:30; After Hour Emergency Care
Information: Fairfield Pet Hospital is a state of the art small animal veterinary hospital providing comprehensive medical and surgical care to their patients. Lancaster's only veterinary hospital accredited by the American Animal Hospital Association. Housecalls, after hour emergency care, deluxe boarding for both dogs and cats and bathing are also available.
*Morris Veterinary Clinic
1381 Sheridan Drive
Lancaster, Ohio 43130
url: http://www.morrisvetclinic.com
Tel: 740.653.4084
Fax: None provided
EMail Morris Veterinary Clinic
Dr. Robert Guinan
Dr. Fred Scott
Dr. John Hartig
Dr. Teresa Hartig
Hours: Mon - Fri: 10am to 7:30pm; Sat: 8:30am to 1:30pm
Informaton: We offer a complete Pet Animal Medical, Surgical, and Dental facility. Including Radiology, ultrasounds, ECG and Laboratory diagnostics. We also board Dogs and Cats.
* Leipsic Veterinary Service, Inc.
Tel: 419-943-2155
Dr. Dale D. Walther
Hours: Mon-Fri: 8:00am to 5:00pm; Emergency Service available.
Info: Mixed practice. Small & Large animals.
*Marietta Veterinary Hospital
Tel: (740) 373-1942
Dr. Meredith L. Mills
Hours: Not Provided
Information: Master's of Science 1997; Equine Surgical Residency Completion 1997
Medina :
*Akron Medina Veterinary Hospital
Tel: 330-376-7158
Dr. E. T. Allessio
Hours: Mon: 7:30am-8:00pm; Tues-Fri: 7:30am-5:00pm; Sat: 8:30am-12pm; Sun: 9:00am-12:00pm
Info: Small Animal
Mount Vernon :
*Kokosing Valley Veterinary Hospital
Tel: 614-392-8836
Dr. Larry J. Helzer, BS AGR
Hours: Mon - Fri: 8:30am-5:00pm; Sat: 8am-12pm
Info: Mixed Animal Practice
*Shawnee Animal Clinic
Tel: (740)-353-5758
Dr. Gail Counts-Jock
Hours: Mon,Thurs,Fri: 8:00-6:00; Tues and Wed: 8:00-5:00; Sat: 8:00-1:00; Closed Sundays; Lunch daily 1-2:00
Information: Exotics and Large Animal
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*Broadview Animal and Bird Hospital
Dr. Steven J. Shaw
Hours: Mon., Tues., Fri: 7:45am-800pm; Wed: 7:45am-6:00pm; Thurs: 9:00am-12:00 noon; Sat: 9:00am-1:00pm
Information: Avian medicine Dermatology Exotics (all except reptiles) Pocket
Animal Medical Center
Tel: (513) 746-3934
Dr. F.A. Guenther, DVM
Hours: Mon - Fri: 8AM-8PM; Sat: 8AM-4PM; Closed Sunday
Information: Canines, felines and exotics.
Springboro Veterinary Hospital
75 West Central Ave. (same as RT. 73)
Springboro, Ohio 45066
Tel: 1-937-748-1378
Fax: Not provided
EMail: Not provided
dr1: Gary Gene Beall
Hours: Monday 8a - 7p; Tuesday - Thursday 8a- 6p; Friday 8a -5p; Sat 8a -12noon
Information: Small animal
*Urbana Veterinary Clinic
Tel: 937-653-7326
Dr. Don Sanders
Hours: Mon - Fri: 7:30am-6:00pm; Sat: 7:30am-12pm; 24 hour emergency service.
Info: Mixed Animal Practice
*Ark Veterinary Hospital Inc.
Tel: 330-262-3465
Dr. Roger S Redman
Hours: Mon, Tues, Thurs: 8-7; Wed & Fri: 8-5; Sat: 8-12
Information: Companion animal medicine & surgery
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UIUC faculty members, graduate students, and other library borrowers with extenuating circumstances may authorize another library borrower to charge out Library materials for them. This authorization is usually extended to students who are assisting a faculty member or a graduate student in his or her research, but a spouse, staff member, etc. can be designated as a proxy patron. The length of the authorization is specified for up to one year.
Library materials checked out by proxy will appear on the library account of the library borrower who authorized the proxy. These items will receive the loan period for which the authorizing library borrower is eligible. For example: if a graduate student who is a proxy for a faculty member checks out material for the faculty member, those items will appear on the faculty member's account, and will have the loan period for which the faculty member is eligible.
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Safari is daunting on the iPad if you can't see, but VoiceOver makes life much easier.
This is my third post on using VoiceOver with the iPad. After my initial introduction I took a look at using the iPad's onscreen keyboard with VoiceOver. Today we'll look at using VoiceOver and Safari on the iPad.
Your results will vary when using Safari with VoiceOver, because page layouts can be tricky. If you're trying to read the newspaper, you might find it easier to use a text-only version of the page where available. Another option could be to find a VoiceOver-friendly RSS reader and read the paper that way - stripping away the unnecessary clutter so you can get straight to the story.
If you do want to tackle complicated sites such as newspapers, thankfully Apple has devised a way for VoiceOver to deal with trick page layouts using the Rotor feature. Think of the Rotor as a virtual dial that you can turn to access different VoiceOver features. Place two fingers on the screen and twist them as if you were turning a dial. You'll hear a ticking noise, like turning the dial on a safe. A dial will appear on the screen and VoiceOver will read out the different options as you turn to them. The options available vary depending on which application you're using and what you're doing. Once you've selected an option, you can change its settings with a single-finger flick up or down. This means it's easy to accidentally change settings if you're not familiar with how the Rotor works.
Open Safari and you'll hear a ticking noise while it loads the page, during which it reads the name of the page. VoiceOver will say "webpage loaded" when it's finished. Sometimes it will load and select the title at the top of the page and read it. Other times it will select the first headline on the page and it read it. Sometimes you end up on a random element, which is read aloud. A four-finger swipe upwards will take you to the title of the page at the top of the window - it might be best to get into the habit of doing this every time you open a page, so you're starting from a common reference point. From here a single-finger flick to the right will take you through back, forward, tabs, bookmark and utilities icons. Then you'll hit the URL bar, reload, search box and then your row of bookmark icons.
If you open a pop-up window such as bookmarks, single-finger flicks to the right and left navigate up and down the list. Tap outside the window to get the "Dismiss Popup" message, then double-tap to close it.
Flick across to the URL bar and then double-tap with one finger to edit it. Entering a URL with the keyboard is obviously a hassle, you'll want to work through last week's post about using VoiceOver with the onscreen keyboard or a Bluetooth keyboard. After you've typed your URL, select the Go button and double-tap the screen with a single finger. If you think the auto-complete dropdown list will include your desired URL from a previous visit, type the first few letters, then flick up with four fingers. Now you can flick right with one finger to go down the list of suggested URLs. Find the one you want and double-tap with one finger to open it.
From the title of the page, flick right with four fingers to jump to the start of the webpage. A two-finger flick down will start reading the page. This is fine for basic webpages, but a hassle if you're dealing with complicate pages with a lot of menus at the top. This is where the Rotor comes in handy
The Rotor offers 12 options in Safari by default, but you can go into the Accessibility, VoiceOver, Web Rotor menus to add more or remove a few. The total list of available options is Characters, Words, Headings, Links, Form Controls, Visited Links, Non-Visited Links, Images, Static Text, Zoom, Lines, Tables, Lists, Landmarks, Buttons, Text Fields and In-page Links.
Getting back to Safari, lets say you're looking at the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald. You could set the Rotor to headlines and use a one-finger flick down to read through each headline. If you want to hear the intro to go with a headline, flick right with one finger to read the next text element. Double-tap the screen when you hear a headline you're interested in and it will open that story. Now you can flick down the headlines on the story page until it reads the headline of the article, then flick down with two fingers to start reading the story aloud.
To be honest, the front page of the SMH is a pain because so many elements of the page are considered headlines by VoiceOver. You might find it easier to go to a section page, such as Tech, which has a less complicated layout. You might even want to bookmark your favourite sections, along with the Today's Paper page which lists all the stories. As I said earlier, you might find it easier to deal with the text-only version of the site.
Once you've opened a page with a story on it, the easiest option is often to start at the top in the middle and drag your finger down until VoiceOver reads out the headline. From here a two-finger flick down will start reading the headline and then the body of the story. If you want to read more slowly, set the Rotor to static text. This way it will read one paragraph at a time, with a single-finger flick down jumping to the next paragraph - although it stops when it encounters a link or italics.
With practice you'll learn you to use the different Rotor functions to find different items on different types of pages. For example, Form Controls makes it easy to find the search box on Wikipedia.
I think that's a good introduction to get you started with Safari, although it will obviously take some practice to get the hang of it. If you get lost, remember a four-finger flick up always takes you back to the page title. Next Friday I'm going to wrap up my look at VoiceOver on the iPad by covering how to use iBooks.
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By Brent Snavely, USA TODAY and the Detroit Free Press
UPDATED 5:47 ET with embed fix.
The fear among Chrysler employees that the company will go under is gone, Chrysler and Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne told 60 Minutes Sunday night.
"I remember when I came here, in 2009, there's not a thing worse for a leader than to see fear in people's faces," Marchionne told CBS reporter Steve Kroft. "It's been a long, rocky road; but the fear has gone."
The full CBS interview video (13 minutes) is above, including Marchionne in a beautiful custom Alfa 8C on the huge test track on top of the five-story, 1920s former Fiat Lingotto factory in Turin.
If you'd rather read (people still do that) the interview, the CBS transcript is here.
Kroft interviewed Marchionne at Chrysler HQ in Auburn Hills, Mich., (where he's abandoned the executive suite for an office on a floor of engineers); at Fiat HQ in Turin, Italy; and at Chrysler's Belvidere, Ill., plant when Marchionne announced in February 1,800 new jobs to build the Dodge Dart for the U.S. and for export to 60 countries.
The Belvidere plant was down to 200 workers when Marchionne took over in 2009 -- by the end of summer there will be 4,500, Kroft said.
The 60 Minutes segment recounts how close Chrysler was to collapse in 2009 before Marchionne negotiated a controlling stake for Fiat.
It also took an interesting personal look at the workaholic schedule kept by Marchionne, who flies back and forth between Italy and Auburn Hills and daily manages two automakers in two time zones.
For example, Marchionne can't drive in Italy -- he's required by the government to travel in bullet-proof cars and is always surrounded by state security, according to Kroft. And to manage Fiat, Fiat Industrial and Chrysler, Marchionne carries five phones. Typically, Marchionne in the U.S. goes to bed at 10 p.m. and wakes up 3:30 a.m. so he can discuss business in Italy during the day there.
Kroft also asked about Chrysler's "It's Halftime in America," Super Bowl commercial this year, which was criticized by some Republicans who thought Eastwood was endorsing President Obama and the federal auto bailout.
"I thought that the Republicans' reactions to this was -- was unnecessary and out of place," Marchionne said.
But the larger theme of the 60 Minutes piece was Chrysler's improbable turnaround. In 2011, Chrysler had a $183 million profit -- its first since 2005. Meanwhile, Fiat, which owns 58.5% of Chrysler, is struggling in the European slump and the combined company would have lost money last year without Chrysler's profit.
Marchionne's biggest concern today? "That we're gonna slip on execution, we're gonna get something wrong, big," he said.
"Can you afford that?" Kroft asks.
"One car, yes … twelve months ago, it would have been ... a disaster."
Chris Woodyard is an auto writer for USA TODAY who covers all aspects of motoring. He revels in the exhaust note of a Maserati and the sharp creases of a Cadillac CTS. Chris strives to live a Porsche life on a Scion budget. More about Chris


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Additional Books and Works of Interest
Books with links are titles that were also nominated for this year's One Book, One Campus. Please check links for summaries of these titles as well as related articles and web sites.
Other Suggested/Nominated Titles for One Book, One Campus:
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
- Happier by Tal Ben-Shahar
- Only Revolutons by Mark Danielewski
- Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Dispatches From the Edge by Anderson Cooper
- The Transcendentalists by Barbara Packer
- Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers by Kwame Appiah
Other Related works (books/videos) about/related to "Revolutions in Thought" or Origin of Species:
Eureka!: Scientific Breakthroughs that Changed the World by Leslie Hovan. New York : J. Wiley, c2002. Call number: Q180.55.D57 H67 2002
Metaphysics and the Origin of Species by Michael Gheselin. Albany : State University of New York Press, c1997. Call number: QH360.5 .G48 1997
The Darwinian Revolution: Science Red in Tooth and Claw by Michael Ruse. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1979. Call number: QH361 .R87
Darwin and his Critics; the Reception of Darwin's Theory of Evolution by the Scientific Community. By David Hull. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1973. Call number: QH365.O8 H84
Charles Darwin: the Years of Controversy; The Origin of Species and its Critics, 1859-1882, by Peter J. Vorzimmer. Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1970. Call number: QH365.O8 V6
Autobiography. by Charles Darwin. New York, Collier Books, 1961. Call number: QH31.D2 A16 1961
Darwin's Revolution in Thought [videorecording]: an Illustrated Lecture for the Classroom. by Stephen Jay Gould. Call number:
Radical Evolution: the Promise and Peril of Enhancing our Minds, our Bodies--and What it Means to be Human. by Joel Garreau. New York : Broadway Books, 2006. Call number: T174.5 .G37 2006
Radical Evolution and Revolutions in Thought [videorecording]. Videorecording of Schurz Library Speaker Series 2/26/09. Call number: T174.5 .R33 2006
Please check IUCAT for titles' availability.
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The second part of Ordinary Time begins after Pentecost. The two Sundays following Pentecost celebrate two solemnities: Trinity Sunday and the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ. Then the semi-continuous reading of the Gospel for that year continues, with one major exception. In Year B, beginning on the Seventeenth Sunday (late July), the reading of Mark is interrupted for four weeks by John's account of the feeding of the five thousand and the "Bread of Life" sermon (John 6). Finally, toward the end of Ordinary Time in each year, the narratives shift our focus to the time-beyond-time: to Jesus' return in glory and to the future coming of the reign of God in its fullness. Ordinary Time—and the liturgical year—ends with the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe.
The Sundays of Ordinary Time are the only Sundays on which the texts proper to the day may be displaced by certain other days in the calendar. These include solemnities and feasts of the Lord, solemnities of the Blessed Virgin Mary and saints, All Souls Day, solemnities proper to a particular place (such as the parish's anniversary of dedication), and, with a bishop's permission and "for the pastoral advantage of the people," by "celebrations that fall during the week and have special appeal to the devotion of the faithful, provided these celebrations take precedence over the Sundays in the table of liturgical days" (Ceremonial of Bishops, 380). At first glance this replacement of the Sunday texts might seem curious because the Ceremonial of Bishops reminds us that "since Sunday is the first holy day of all, the nucleus and foundation of the liturgical year, the bishop should ensure that . . . on the Sundays in Ordinary Time the proper Sunday liturgy is celebrated, even when such Sundays are days to which special themes are assigned." But this clash between special feasts and preservation of the texts proper to Sundays in Ordinary Time suggests three realities deeper than the structure of the liturgical calendar: The Church's assembly for Eucharistic worship on the Lord's Day is the primary value to be preserved and fostered; some aspects of the Christian mystery stand out even in the season that focuses on Sunday, order, and the ordinary; and some cultural communities find certain feasts more important for their understanding and practice of the Gospel than do other ethnic or cultural groups.
(This introduction has been excerpted from Singing the Year of Grace: A Pastoral Music Resource [NPM Publications, 2009].)


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Moss signed a $1.8 million deal for the rights to her autobiography after Branson convinced her she should set the record straight on her turbulent 05
British supermodel Kate Moss has decided to set the record straight on her 2005 cocaine scandal and thus decided to write and publish her autobiography, in which she will talk about her cocaine addiction.
Thanks to Virgin mogul Sir Richard Branson who successfully convinced her to finally signed a $1.8 million deal for the rights to her autobiography. "Richard and Kate have agreed to bring out her autobiography. It's a chance for her to put across her side of the story," Branson's spokesperson said.
While details on the autobiography and its release date remain undisclosed, you better keep it here for updated information.


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I'm trying for get this jacket in either gray or green in a size Large. I know this costs an arm and a leg, so I'm prepared to drop some serious cash. If anyone can help me out please contact me. Thank you.


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Geena's "Things You Need To Know" July 28th
July 28th
Comicon was trending all weekend long all over the worlds. Lots of celebs were in town and the streets of downtown were packed!! The first photo of the new Wonder Woman Gal Gadot in costume was revealed at Comic-Con which everyone was talking about. And of course everyone is talking about this video that came out of a woman being run over by a car during the Zombie Walk Saturday night. There are conflicting reports as to what exactly happened but what we do know is that a car was in the midst of all the crowd during the Zombie Walk and was impatient trying to nudge his way through. That's when two men jumped on this guys hood in protest and according to the driver started pounding on the windshield. That's when the driver sped off, unfortunately running over a woman's hand. The video is intense.
What is up with the weather in San Diego right now? It was in the high 80's over the weekend, was extremely muggy, and there were even thunder showers yesterday! It's going to stay in the low 80's today with more storms throughout San Diego. It will be like this through Wednesday where it's going to hit almost 90 on Friday and Saturday then cool back down to the mid 80's. Either way, it's going to be pretty much the same type of weather all week.
The Simpson's meet Family Guy! For years these two popular Fox shows have been at war with one an other including taking cheap shots. However now the two are finally have buried the hatchet, as Family Guy cast makes their way into Springfield to meet the Simpsons! This episode is set to take place Sept 28th entitled "The Simpson's Guy." Check out the this video that came out over the weekend at Comic Con!
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Is there any real difference between the new-rich and the new-cultured, Roger Poole?
Bribery was carried to a preposterous height, and the new-rich bought seats as openly as they bought their horses.
The "new-rich" have no other way of bringing themselves into notice and contempt.
There is a race of the new-rich—of the recently honoured, here, who are French from their shoe-rosettes to their chignons.
Among the highest types of American manhood to-day a large majority are the new-rich men.
The new-rich American no longer commits the blunder of keeping his children innocent.
They knew them slightly as the daughters of a new-rich family who were hangers-on of the fashionable society in Trenton.


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I would not have noticed the message on the screen that told me that.
m0n0wall looks SO powerful compared to what I have been using.
Now to play so I can implement it while the students are gone for
Christmas break!
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Are you an instrumentalist? Do you like playing in an orchestra? Don't miss this opportunity to join the Community-Student Orchestra at The University of Tampa.
Students and community artists with experience in string orchestras or symphony orchestras are invited to participate in The University of Tampa Symphony Orchestra.
Membership in the UT Orchestra is open to any student, regardless of major, classification and experience level. You are NOT required to be a music-major in order to participate.
The Symphony Orchestra presents two concerts each semester. The Symphony Orchestra is a combination of UT students and community members. The Chamber Orchestra is made up of UT students, again, regardless of major. Repertoire includes large instrumentation ranging from overtures to concertos, standard pieces and modern works. Rehearsals for the Symphony Orchestra take place on Wednesdays from 7-9 p.m. The Chamber Orchestra rehearses from 2-4 p.m. on Mondays.
Rehearsals take place in the Ferman Music Center, Room 90 (MD 90). Concerts are typically performed in the Falk Theatre or Plant Hall's Fletcher Lounge.
Auditions and seating placement for the UT Orchestra and the UT Wind Ensemble will take place on Aug. 30 and 31, 2015, from 7-10 p.m. The structure will be a blind audition with like instruments grouped together when possible. The adjudicators will be behind a partition so they cannot see the players. After the players have been ranked, the audition number will be matched to a name.
Strings: Aug. 30, 2015; 2-5 p.m. (Location: MD 90)
Woodwinds: Aug. 30, 2015; 7-10 p.m. (Location: MD 96)
Brass and Percussion: Aug. 31, 2015; 7-10 p.m. (Location: MD 96)
Auditions will consist of a three-octave scale, a short solo of the player's choice and sight reading.
We want you in the UT String and Orchestral Studies area! Incoming students must first apply to UT, send official test scores to the UT Office of Admissions, schedule a campus visit and schedule an audition.


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AUSTIN Winds were gusting and drives were going everywhere, but the Salado girls golf team kept its composure and ended the first day of the Class 2A state golf tournament right where it wanted to be in first.
Leading with a first-round total of 350, six strokes ahead of runner-up Melissa, the Lady Eagles battled 30-mph winds and nerves from their own heightened expectations and put themselves out front Monday at Roy Kizer Golf Course.
"We haven't played our best golf," Salado coach Bobby Peschel said. "You hope that getting today's nerves out of the way, tomorrow we settle down and we get a little bit more into thinking about what we're doing instead of where the ball's going." Salado senior Rachel VanHoozer made up for a rough morning on the front nine. She salvaged her bogey- and double
bogey-filled round with a pair of early birdies on No. 6 and 7 and parred six holes on the back nine to lead the field with a 39 and finish in third-place with a 9-over-par 80.
"When the wind catches every shot, it gets frustrating, but you have to learn to play with it," VanHoozer said. "After nine holes, I shot 41 on the front and I said, 'I've got to start playing through the wind,' and I did that and I came back with a 39. You just have to learn how to deal with it because it's not going to stop."
She dealt with the wind superbly on the difficult par-5 No. 17, reaching the green on her third shot but two-putting for par.
"Today I just decided to play smart and it really turned out to work for me," VanHoozer said.
What worked for VanHoozer went horribly wrong for junior teammate Taylor O'Rear, who hooked her first shot on 17 into the wooded hazard to the left and was forced to take a one-shot penalty drop as she double-bogeyed the hole.
Struggling with her drives all day and failing to make a single putt for birdie, O'Rear nevertheless finished with a respectable 11-over 82 and sits in eighth place despite opening the morning with a triple-bogey and bogeying six other holes Monday.
"I just lost my swing and I couldn't stop getting in trouble, and bogeys kept just rolling over and I couldn't get a putt to fall all day long," O'Rear said.
Helping the Lady Eagles' championship cause were 94s from senior Leah Ray and junior Haley Kemp, as well as a 105 by Meredith Ward, who was making her first trip to state. Salado is seeking its first 2A team championship since 2006, and its fifth girls title.
"We just need to focus, with the wind and everything, it's hard, but we've just got to keep that mental game in there and know that we're playing for a goal and we're not going to be satisfied until we reach it," Ray said.
Putting was an issue for most of the golfers on site, as faster greens resulted in several putts running well past the hole, including at least five from O'Rear.
"When you leave it an inch or so (from the hole) every single time, it just gets frustrating," O'Rear said. "And with the many long putts, it'd be just right at the hole and curve out at the end. It seemed like I couldn't read the breaks right and it just kills you."
With wind speeds expected to be cut in half, the Lady Eagles expect bigger things and even lower scores for the final round today.
"I just think we should come out and play our best, VooHoozer said. "It should be a pretty day and we'll take advantage of it," VanHoozer said.
Lampasas' Gonzales struggles Lampasas sophomore Carmen Gonzales had a rough introduction at the girls Class 4A state golf tournament, finishing the first day with a 22-over-par 94 after she triple-bogeyed three holes and quaduple-bogeyed No. 6 a 352-foot par-4 at the Jimmy Clay Golf Course.
Making her first trip to state, Gonzales parred just seven of the 18 holes and bogeyed another five holes as she finished 13-over on the front nine and 9-over on the back nine.


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I've been taking pictures since I was old enough to press buttons. When I have free time photography is one of the things I enjoy most. Now with technology having progressed so far especially where computers and cameras are concerned it has really become a passion of expression. Ever since the first time I touched Photoshop in 1997 I haven't been the same.
Though many who know me in everyday life find it hard to believe, I originally went to school to be a painter. The whole artschool experience taught me that painting is largely for phonies. I later learned that its not so much so that its for phonies, but rather that its almost entirely irrelevant today. That being said, I'm still a great admirer of art, and the power of painting.
I feel animation, and specifically 3D animation, is one of the most engaging artforms of our generation. Though recently I haven't been devoting as much time to its pursuit as I once did, this remains some of the work that I'm most proud of.
Before Youtube hit the mainstream, there were a group of us at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Video Club who sought to bring the video revolution to the masses through a series of website and bizarre in your face videos.


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Wingate & Finchley were unable move away from relegation trouble on Saturday, losing 1-0 to Bognor Regis Town in controversial circumstances.
Hosts Bognor started the brighter of the two with Doug Tuck volleying their first opportunity wide.
Tommy Tejan-Sie responded for Wingate, volleying narrowly over from Ahmet Rifat's corner.
Both sides continued to trade chances, Bognor's Ollie Pearce seeing a shot deflected wide from the edge of the area before Ola Sogbanmu was denied by the Bognor goalkeeper.
Josh Kennett and Sogbanmu had further chances before the break but could not force an opener.
Wingate kept the pressure up after the break, Leon Fisher, Rifat and Kennet all repelled before the moment of controversy.
Fisher brought the ball under control and progressed into the penalty area before being clearly brought down by the Bognor goalkeeper.
No penalty was given, but two minutes later Wingate saw a spot-kick given against them for handball.
Sam Igoe converted from 12 yards before Rifat and Dan Thompson were both dismissed for handbags.
Speaking after, head coach Dan Nielsen said: "I hate to blame things on referees but it is difficult not to comment on a series of poor decisions including not giving one of the most blatent penalties I have ever seen for their keeper's foul on Fish.
"I felt we were excellent today and well worth three points so it is hard to understand how we ended up with none.
"If the boys can give that level of effort, hard work and belief as well as play with the confidence they showed today in our remaining games, then I'm confident we will get the points we need."
Wingate are at Lewes on Wednesday night.
On Monday Hendon were beaten 2-1 at home by Harrow Borough.
Louis Smith put Hendon ahead after 59 minutes, but the Greens were unable to hold onto their lead once again.
Victor Osobu equalised 16 minutes from time before Stephen Butterworth won it in the 90th minute.
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Or at least I'd like to think I can…
Just wanted to share a Kickstarter project that I launched last week that seeks to disrupt the image sharing universe a little with some WordPress-inspired love.
You can read more on the project page about Pressgram but I'd love to hear your thoughts as well as get any support I can get for it.
I'd like to challenge Instagram with the vibrant community that open source users and WordPress lovers have. Why the heck not.


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30. Anthony Castro – Right-Handed Pitcher
Castro is the epitome of a projectable pitching prospect with a long, lean frame and plenty of room for growth. He already reaches the low-90s with his fastball and many scouts believe there could be more in the tank down the line. He is still just 18-years old and will be looking to comes stateside in 2014, but he has one of the more intriguing profiles in the Tigers system.
29. Franklin Navarro – Catcher
Navarro made a lot of noise by hitting .315 in the VSL last year and performing well in the Fall Instructional League. The Tigers quickly brought him stateside and while he has struggled in the early going this summer, Navarro projects well both offensively and defensively.
28. Edgar De La Rosa – Right-Handed Pitcher
The 2012 season saw De La Rosa fulfill much of the potential the Tigers had seen in him over the years as he ran his fastball into the upper-90s at times and showed improved feel for his changeup. The massive De La Rosa still struggles with his control and his breaking ball, and the numbers haven't been there in full-season ball, but his overall ceiling is impossible to ignore, whether that ceiling comes in the rotation or the bullpen.
27. Bryan Holaday – Catcher
Holaday has already reached the big leagues in his long term role as a backup catcher and he should continue to get chances at the highest level. Though he is sporting improved numbers at the plate, his swing is still very mechanical and he is unlikely to hit at the big league level, keeping his ceiling in the backup realm.
26. Jose Valdez – Right-Handed Pitcher
One of the Tigers breakout prospects through the first half of the season, Valdez has enjoyed a bump in fastball velocity, now sitting in the mid-90s and touching 98 mph with regularity. He is throwing more strikes than ever but still needs to improve his work around the zone. Valdez's slider still needs work as well, but he suddenly looks like a potential setup reliever if he can continue to progress.
25. Kyle Ryan – Left-Handed Pitcher
After two years in the Midwest League, Ryan is finally getting a taste of High-A and through 17 starts he has managed a 3.18 ERA and less than a hit per inning. Ryan's stuff has not progressed as many hoped when he was drafted but he has developed a strong feel for his craft that enables him to work through lineups multiple times. He projects as a number four starter at his best and could reach the upper levels of the minor leagues next season.
24. Devon Travis – Second Baseman
All Travis has done since signing with the Tigers last summer is hit, and hit a lot. He forced a promotion to High-A earlier this month after hitting .352 in 77 games at Low-A and he is quickly earning a reputation as a leader and legitimate prospect. He is a quality defender at second base and while he will have to continue hitting at a high clip, he has a chance to reach the big leagues as a solid regular.
23. Joe Jimenez – Right-Handed Pitcher
The Tigers inked Jimenez as a non-drafted free agent out of Puerto Rico last month, signing him for less than $100,000 after his originally high bonus demands forced him to fall in the draft. Jimenez has a big, physical frame with room for muscle and the potential to eat innings. His fastball and breaking ball both project well and there are scouts that believe Jimenez could be a workhorse mid-rotation starter down the line.
22. Tyler Collins – Outfielder
Long considered a potential fixture in the Tigers outfield by fans, Collins has always come up a little short of that projection in scouting circles. He has potential with the bat but his defense and arm are poor and his bat isn't strong enough to carry him with a bad defensive profile. He lacks the feel for the game necessary to make offensive adjustments against advanced pitching and his ceiling is that of a bench bat.
21. Endrys Briceno – Right-Handed Pitcher To read the rest of the 2013 Midseason Top 50, follow the links below:
A breakout prospect for the Tigers in 2012, Briceno still doesn't blow people away with his numbers but he shows flashes of brilliance from a scouting perspective. Tall and extremely thin, Briceno has room for strength and could improve physically, but he already pumps his fastball at 92-93 mph and touches 96 at times. He has good feel for his changeup and strong command projection, but must find a successful breaking ball and fulfill his command projection to reach his ceiling as a number three starter.
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The buzz surrounding the announcement that Kanye West and Kim Kardashian are expecting a child together has seemed to overshadow that West put on a dazzling show in Atlantic City yesterday evening as well. In particular, he delivered a 10-minute spoken word-esque freestyle combining his signature wit with fearless bravado – all crafted over an acoustic backing track of "Clique." The result is something of a rallying cry that serves as a foundation for what drives West both as an artist and as an entertainer.
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I always change after I've slept with someone. It's a subtle metamorphosis, but one I can count on—after sex, I feel emotionally attached. Even if the sex was boring, or painful, or just plain eh, afterward I always start to picture myself in a relationship with the person—sitting on the couch watching a movie, walking the dog we'll no doubt adopt, sometimes even walking down the aisle. As such, casual sex is just something I've never considered. How exactly does one detach their feelings for one night of sexual fervor?
Thus, you could imagine my surprise when Jack offered to be my "pal with privileges."
Jack was painfully attractive—a funny, 6-foot-3 Jewish filmmaker and food snob I went on a few dates with after Edward and I broke up. He offered this: Let's see each other, go out on dates, have great sex, but not have anything "serious." He even invited me to go to Costa Rica with him. I just had to be OK with the fact that he would be seeing other woman on the side.
"Why would I want to do that?" I asked quizzically. "Just because you coughed up a couple of bucks for wine and risotto you think now I'm supposed to sleep with you all willy-nilly? How many other chicks are you sleeping with?"
"Listen, I'm not looking for a girlfriend and as of right now I'm only sleeping with you," he insisted. "But I might be with someone else soon. Honestly, I'm just looking to have fun. We have a good time together. Why ruin it?"
I looked at him perplexed as I considered his proposal, and did a quick pros and cons list in my head. He was right on one thing—we did have amazing chemistry.
I decided to go for it. And at first it was all pros. The sex was fantastic, and it was not making me act like I usually did. I had no longing for him, in any capacity. When we were together, he gave me what I needed. He made me laugh; he made me tingle. And he was not bothering me every day like a boyfriend usually did, which was pleasant, because I was extremely busy between working and going to school full-time.
Our arrangement worked for a month and a half. I was having casual sex and had not even noticed it.
Until one night when we were at dinner. I groaned as I pushed my half eaten panna cotta around my plate. In all of my mopey loneliness I had managed to pick up a hump toy who took me to expensive restaurants. I was officially a hypocrite. I thought of all the times I had scolded my friends for not giving themselves time to heal after heartbreak. The earth had not even settled on the grave of my last love and I was already finding a warm body to avoid being alone with my hurt. As much as I tried to ignore it, I missed Edward—racist parents or not. It was only a matter of time before my laissez-faire tryst caught up with me.
"I can't do that or this anymore," I said with a slight smile. "We have fun, but eventually I might want more, and then what?"
Jack eyed me as if calling my bluff.
"I understand, lease with the option to own," he said. "It's not like I'm precluding anything if it were to get serious. But I can't handle you being the only one. It's too much pressure. We obviously enjoy each other's company."
Jack reached over the table and caressed my face. God, he smelled good. I leaned back and reached for my Merlot and took a huge gulp. I looked away, trying not to make eye contact. I felt myself pondering a negotiation. My body was defiantly responding to everything this man did. Yet, now that I was snapped back in to reality, I could hear my heart quietly aching again.
I sighed as I gathered my purse and said goodbye. I understood how easy it was to fall in the arms of the next guy. Taking time to heal is a whole new challenge.


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OAKLAND - Angels catcher Chris Iannetta followed his normal game-day routine Tuesday.
"I grabbed some lunch, came to the yard, bike ride and checked to see if I'm in the lineup," he said.
Hard to imagine that after catching all 19 innings of a six-hour, 32-minute 10-8 loss in Oakland that was the longest in franchise history that he'd even bother to check.
"If I was in there I was going to be ready to play," he insisted. "That's my job. That's what I do."
Iannetta wasn't going to do that on Tuesday night.
"If we had put it to Chris, he would have probably wanted to take a chance and come out there and play today, but I think after last night it's good to get him a breather," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "There's no doubt Chris feels it today."
Just about everybody from coaches and players to hot dog vendors and ushers, were feeling it after Monday night's baseball ultra-marathon - a game in which the two teams combined to use 40 players and 16 pitchers (eight on each team). Eight Angels pitchers combined to throw 297 pitches (the two teams combined for a 597-pitch count).
The fatigue factor permeated both dugouts.
"A lot of guys threw a lot of fastballs by a lot of guys that it normally doesn't get by," Iannetta said. "There's a fatigue factor if you play a game that's six hours or however long it was."
The game was especially draining because the Angels blew a 7-2 lead going into the eighth, and 7-6 lead in the ninth and an 8-7 lead in the 15 th as they lost for the sixth time in eight games. The loss dropped the underachieving Angels to 9-16, matching a franchise record for the worst 25-game start (they've done it five times, most recently in 1994).
"It was a really tough one, no sugar-coating it," first baseman Mark Trumbo said. "It would have almost been easier to just get our butts kicked than go down like that."
Another tough loss
If the exhaustion and frustration of Monday's game weren't enough, the Angels also lost a pivotal player when center fielder Peter Bourjos pulled a hamstring in the 11 th inning. Bourjos was immediately placed on the 15-day disabled list.
Bourjos is batting .313 (26 for 83) with a .370 on-base percentage. He had a 10-game hitting streak snapped in Monday's game.
Bourjos will undergo medical tests later this week. Scioscia said there was no timetable for his return.
"It's huge," Trumbo said. "We have a lot of guys who can fill in, but he's an absolute grinder and that's what you need right now. You need guys who can leave it all on the field, and he brings the exact attitude that we need.
"It can't be overstated how important he is to what we do."
Aybar activated
The Angels activated shortstop Erick Aybar, who has been on the disabled list since April 9 with a heel injury. Aybar was the Angels' leadoff hitter in Tuesday's game.
"Erick's a special defender, and also with the energy he brings to our lineup he was missed, no doubt about it," Scioscia said.
The Angels sent pitcher Michael Roth to Double-A Arkansas and promoted outfielder Scott Cousins from Triple-A Salt Lake (Utah). ... Albert Pujols homered twice in Monday's game, moving him into a three-way tie for 17 th on the all-time list for multi-homer games (46) with Mickey Mantle and Harmon Killebrew.


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Saint George and the Dragons
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"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender to the dragons."
~ Winston Churchill on the dragons
Georgia is a country to the east of the Black Sea in the southern Caucasus region. A recent breakaway republic from the Soviet Union, it shares borders with Russia and Matrioshka in the north and Turkey, Armenia, and Azerbaijan in the south. Its capital is Atlanta, home to the complete population of American Indian Braves.
The patron saint of Georgia is Saint George. Saint George who lived in the 3rd and 4th centuries was the first to successfully battle the dragons that constantly plague Georgia and Georgians.
Since then, there have been many generations of dragon drivers in Georgia valiantly battling the dragons. The Dragon Wars continue.
In recent years, the Dragon Wars have been both a burden and a benefit to Georgians. Now that dragons are rare in China (and only appear there mostly on family crests), Georgia exports dragon meat to China. An aphrodisiac and vitamin E supplement, it is Georgia's most lucrative export.
Throughout the centuries, most of Georgia's dragon drivers have chosen to remain in Georgia, selflessly foregoing fame and fortune abroad. However, one overly-ambitious dragon driver, Joseph Stalin, was banned from the Dragon Drivers' Trade Association for misconduct and was thus forced to go abroad in search of dragons. The general consensus amongst dragon drivers at the time of his departure was that, as a child, he had not eaten enough dragon heart or had been forced to listen to recitations of Vogon poetry. More has been written about him; see Joseph Stalin.
The dragon spent eternity in prison, and he was released in 2012.


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The National Library of Wales, National Museums and Galleries of Wales and Welsh Arts Council could become part of the assembly government as it shakes up the quangos.
But Peter Finch of arts group Welsh Academy said change would be damaging.
The Aberystwyth-based National Library has also said it will oppose change to its status.
The museums and the library believe there are potential legal obstacles, with concerns over their access to lottery funding as they could lose their charitable status.
Library officials have warned Culture Minister Alun Pugh any attempts to bring it under governmental control would threaten its effectiveness.
They also said the library's charitable status could be eroded or destroyed by any change.
The concerns were made in a submission sent to Mr Pugh and seen by BBC Wales.
According to the library, change would be costly, time-consuming, and could affect the professionalism of its staff. It also warned that any move would probably need parliamentary legislation.
The library, set up by Royal Charter in 1907, has the right to receive a free copy of every book published in the United Kingdom.
It has thousands of manuscripts and archives, pictures and photographs, maps, sound recordings and moving images, available for consultation.
A number of cultural bodies are worried about the situation.
"The library is a statutory body, an organisation with a good record of looking after our literary and archival treasures," said the chair of the Welsh Academy, author Harri Pritchard Jones.
"The assembly does not have a track record.
"But more importantly, I am against totalitarianism where the government takes care of things they know nothing about.


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- Tour for 1 adult (age 12 and above) for $449 (rrp. $649)
- Tour for 1 child (age 11 and below) for $339 (rrp. $539)
Oct 10 / 17 / 24 / 31, 2016
- Tour for 1 adult (age 12 and above) for $399 (rrp. $599)
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The experience
Traverse through the southeastern Guangdong province of Huidong, and taste the local speciality and seafood dishes of the local Hakka community. Be immersed in Lingnan culture with promenades past retail outlets, ancient temples, and local landmarks along Tianhougong Lingnan Folk Culture Commercial Street. Visit the locally-dubbed "Hawaii of the East" as you step on the white sands of Xunliao Bay, before partaking on a bounty from the depths for your day's lunch. Then, prepare well wishes for the evening as you take part in the lantern ritual which comes with a firework merry-making. On the next day, head towards Jin Jia Zhuang, an all-grain health food supplier endorsed by Taiwanese silver screen sta,r Kenny Ho. After a short tour of the facility, browse through the store and pick up a variety of healthy snacks and drinks for the ride back Hong Kong.
Day 1
- Pick up at Lo Wu (8am) or Shenzhen Bay (9am)
- Depart to Huizhou Xunliao Bay
- Tianhougong Lingnan Folk Culture Commercial Street
- Huizhou Xunliao Bay
- Lantern and firework activities (10 fireworks and 1 lantern per person)
- Meals:
- Lunch: Xunliao seafood feast
- Dinner: Hotel dinner buffet
Day 2
- 11am: Check out of hotel and depart to Huizhou
- Fengzhuyuan
- Jin Jia Zhuang
- Dismissal at Lo Wu and Shenzhen Bay
- Meals:
- Breakfast: Hotel breakfast buffet
- Dinner: Dongjiang's salted baked chicken feast
- Stay at Haishang Bay Resort


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Type of Document Master's Thesis Author Woods, Kristi Yvonne Author's Email Address email@example.com URN etd-02202003-125752 Title Nymphaea odorata (Water-lily, Nymphaeaceae): Analyses of molecular and morphological studies Degree Master of Science Department Biology Advisory Committee
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Date of Defense 2003-02-06 Availability restricted AbstractMolecular and morphologic studies were used to determine the evolution, classification and differentiation of Nymphaea odorata. Molecular analyses of the nuclear internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region, the chloroplast trnL-F region, and inter-simple sequence repeat (ISSR) markers determined the variation present between and within two species of Nymphaea. The ITS region resulted in a phylogeny depicting strong separation between species (N. mexicana and N. odorata) and some separation between N. odorata's subspecies. The ITS region contained polymorphisms, which upon SAHN clustering and principle coordinate (PCOA) and minimum spanning tree (MST) analyses produced groups similar to the clades in the ITS phylogeny. Sixteen accessions were chosen for trnL-F analysis, where a subspecies-specific molecular marker was found. In most accessions the marker confirmed the original subspecies classification. Molecular analyses using ISSRs characterized among population variation in N. odorata and N. mexicana using five primers. ISSR markers among populations were highly variable within a species and were used in UPGMA, PCOA and MST analysis, which resulted in separation between the subspecies.
Both univariate and multivariate analyses were performed on quantitative and qualitative morphological characters. An analysis of variance resulted in six morphological characteristics that were statistically significant (P< 0.05), the majority being leaf blade characteristics. Multivariate statistics of principle component analysis and discriminate analysis resulted in groups for each subspecies, both emphasized the importance of quantitative leaf blade characteristics. Overall, both morphology and molecular characteristics supported the classification of subspecies for ssp. odorata and ssp. tuberosa, due a lack of strong segregation of characteristics.
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Whether or not she considered herself a feminist, Katherine Anne Porter led a highly unconventional life, subverted gender norms and constraints at every turn, and created strong, fully-developed fictional female characters with many of the same capacities. In both life and work, she re-wrote the traditionally-ascribed female script. In this sense she is part of a sisterhood of women, often silenced in the margins of masculinist his/story, who led extraordinary lives against the grain of a standard female fiction that has long distorted or buried what we know about women, their accomplishments, and their real experiences.
Given a start in life and a historical/cultural context that together stacked all the odds against it, Porter challenged many of the strictures Carolyn Heilbrun addresses in Writing a Womans Life. If were to avoid the traditional masculinist suppression of true female experience in writing a womans life, its important to voice the aspects of Porters experience that made her life as a woman and as an artist so unique. As Heilbrun has suggested, a biographical silence, or shrouding in distortion, has plagued the writing of womens lives particularly around subjects that conflict with conventional gender norms. Subjects such as the struggle for predecessors and models to look to, friendship between women, marriage, sexuality, anger, power, and aging have been manipulated, if not completely silenced, in the telling of womens lives -- thereby undercutting the reality of those lives and denying their integrity.
One of the interesting things about Katherine Anne Porter is that, although her professed philosophies about gender politics shifted markedly and sometimes irregularly throughout the course of her long life (and for a variety of reasons, as Givners biography suggests), she was profoundly aware of her own difference from the so-called norm, of the fact that she was living and working quite consciously from a subversive script. Telling her life while paying little conscious attention to the elements of it that undercut the traditional female script would leave even this first stage of whats to be a work in progress too much un-done.
In the world of her art, Porter never flinched from quite literally writing the new and more empowering script of female experience. In discussing Porters earliest short stories, for example, Joan Givner has documented what she describes as a current of marked, and probably unconscious, feminist bias, centered around female characters who represent the antithesis of passivity and ineffectuality (143). These stories set the tone for the works to come, including Maria Concepcion, The Cracked Looking-Glass, and The Jilting of Granny Weatherall. As Givner also argues, Porters distaste for the saintly heroine formed the very foundation of her artistic sensibility and her ethic: The people who really need to be watched are the so-called innocents who stand by and allow others to perpetrate evil . . . She came eventually to see passive, virtuous people as guilty of promoting evil even when they do not consciously do so (135). Whether conscious or not, this philosophy in direct reaction to the loathed saintly heroine icon of traditional, masculinist narratives reveals the deep-seated dangers of sentimentalizing, dominating, and disenfranchising women producing a class of passive individuals robbed of full humanity, equality, and moral responsibility, whose very passivity perpetuates a cycle of power abuse and decay. Porter believed wholeheartedly in the full humanity and the full capacity of her sex, and she created female characters who reflected as much.
As an artist, Porters life also deflates the myth of womans isolation from other women a myth that erases the frequent and supportive connections historically between many women of great accomplishment. Throughout her life, Porter developed and treasured friendships, working relationships and supportive connections to other female writers and publishers, including, among others, Eudora Welty, Flannery OConnor, Barbara Harrison Wescott, Cyrilly Abels, Caroline Gordon, and Edith Sitwell. She felt a kinship to and great admiration for Virginia Woolf, though they never met.
Related to the myth of womans isolation from other women is the myth of the marriage plot. Here too, Porter rejected a script that did not work for her or reflect her reality. She married and divorced four times. She had passionate love affairs, sometimes with men significantly younger than herself, and she enjoyed the fullness of those experiences, sometimes writing quite comfortably and frankly about her sexuality. At the same time, the power and agency that she claimed when she literally renamed herself, transforming Callie Porter into Katherine Anne, she too claimed when she walked away from unsuitable matches that did not foster the life of her mind or did not work over time despite the extreme unconventionality and potential stigma of such choices. When she was unable to reinvent with her lovers a more productive and nurturing model of marriage than that which conventionality modeled for her, she chose the equally stigmatized and wrongly-maligned path of independence and single life -- which, while it sometimes brought frustration and loneliness, also allowed her great freedom and the flexibility to follow her artistic goals. As she wrote of marriage and her experience,
Her choices were not always easy, and they sometimes brought her great personal pain but they were her choices, and they were conscious. In her romantic disruptions we should locate not so much Porters failure as the traditional masculinist narrative, obsessed with the marriage measuring stick in assessing womens lives, would write it but rather her strength, self-awareness, self-honesty, and in fact, her bravery.
Finally, Porters life explodes the myth of female aging. As Heilbrun has observed,
Porter lived a long, full, and highly productive existence, truly beginning her artistic work only after the age of 30 and accomplishing many of her greatest achievements in the second half of her 90 years. She published her bestseller at age 72, and won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer in her mid-70s as well. She wrote, negotiated book deals, made appearances, traveled, corresponded, and spent valuable time with family and dear friends, almost up until her death. Power and old age were truly compatible for her, because she envisioned it and made it so, because she willfully and persistently disrupted and re-wrote the narrative models of female reality set before her. If, as Heilbrun argues, women come to writing simultaneously with self-creation, and if for many women this act may unfold later in life than in the male tradition, then we can more fully appreciate the interconnections between Porters life as a woman, and her life as a writer.
Works Cited
Autobiographical/Biographical notes, Series II, Reel 65, Box 1, Papers of Katherine Anne Porter, Special Collections, University of Maryland, College Park.


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Starting in 2011, the bilingual tabloid was published by the LCRC as El Nuevo Tennessean. Five of the articles also appeared as installments in Jonesborough Herald and Tribune on Aug.23, Sept.6, Sept. 20, Oct.4 and Oct.18.
Since 2000, the Language and Culture Resource Center (formerly the Department of Foreign Language), in cooperation with the Communication Department and the Department of Literature and Language, has published twelve annual editions of El Nuevo Tennessean, a bilingual newspaper, with local and regional newspapers (see below for a history of those publications).
Students in participating classes are responsible for interacting directly with community to seek out stories and articles, conduct interviews, and translate for the paper, which is then published as a supplement to local newspapers. The purpose of the project is two-fold: First, to inform the Spanish speaking community about the services, and resources available to them in the area. Secondly, to inform the resident population about the culture and contributions of the Hispanic population.
The bilingual newspaper project provides an opportunity for students from various fields of study to enhance their communication ability and research skills. It has been a great resource for partnerships between the university and the community, and many other programs have been developed in association with El Nuevo Tennessean, including the development of Applied Spanish Minor academic program, which institutionalized community outreach.
ETSU students, Bristol Herald Courier partner for latest issue of El Nuevo
( ETSU Accent Vol. 58, No. 14, page 6)
On May 19, the Bristol Herald Courier published El Nuevo Bristol Herald Courier, the culmination of an annual project involving ETSU Spanish and journalism students.
The project was inaugurated over 10 years ago as the dream of Dr. Jack Mooney of the Department of Communication, and this eleventh edition is a tribute to Mooney, who recently retired.
This year's edition addresses many issues of interest to local readers and the area's Hispanic community.
Max Hrenda, an ETSU 2009 fall graduate, wrote about attitudes toward the terms Hispanic and Latino. Students who came to this country to play sports discussed the rewards of being an athlete with reporter Jennifer White, another fall graduate.
ETSU May graduate Eileen Rush explored the stories of two women who survived domestic
violence. Senior Kimberly Foli examined the DREAM Act, a proposed law that would open
educational opportunities to immigrant children, while her classmate Amanda Marsh
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Another senior, Jessica Harbin, explored the slow economy and its effects on people who wire money to relatives in their home countries.
The Bristol Herald Courier distributed the paper to its subscribers and copies may also be available from the Department of Communication and the Language and Culture Resource Center (LCRC) at ETSU. El Nuevo can also be viewed online at http://etsujournalist.com.
In past years, other newspaper partners have included Kingsport Times-News, Erwin
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The newspaper project provides a meaningful service-learning experience in cultural
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Spanish students did interpreting and translating, while journalism students handled reporting, photography, writing and layout. Diego Soriano, who recently graduated from ETSU with a masters degree in public administration, served as Spanish editor.
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Gut feeling, intuition, instinct, call it what you will. Add a few phone calls and, if at all possible, face-to-face meetings. On such fragile foundations is the trust between a publisher and author built.
But Australian publishers employ little in the way of systematic checks to ensure the "facts" you read are anything more than a figment of an author's imagination.
In fact, publishing houses admit that if an author is determined to mislead them there is a good chance, as appears to be the case with Jordanian author Norma Khouri, that they will get into print before they are discovered.
But despite all the publicity generated by this episode, publishers and literary agents, the go-betweens who usually introduce authors to publishers, do not think it will harm the publishing industry or even short-term sales of Khouri's book Forbidden Love, published here by Random House Australia.
Random House says it will give a refund to customers returning Forbidden Love to retailers but anecdotal evidence indicates the controversy may actually have boosted sales.
That Khouri was believed for so long appears to come down to the fact that she passed at least two key tests on the publishers' checklist. First, her book came from a previously reliable source, New York agent Christy Fletcher, who had an established non-fiction record with Carlisle and Company; second, Khouri was not only willing to meet people openly, but was a star, convincing Random House and just about everybody else while on the publicity circuit.
While Random House has been the focus of attention over the past week, many in the industry say too few questions are being asked about Khouri's primary agent. What checks did Fletcher carry out and what should she have been asking? Shona Martyn, publishing director of Australia's second-largest publishing house Harper Collins, said the agent's role was vital to the industry "for the simple reason that we don't have the capacity to assess the hundreds of unsolicited manuscripts that come through".
But as agents become a publisher's main source of material, they are also expected to perform a primary screening role, establishing the author's bona fides, said Michael Duffy, publisher at Duffy and Snellgrove. "I would say the primary responsibility is now falling back on the agent and I think the publishers just have to trust agents," he said.
Sydney-based literary agent Lyn Tranter said it was "not unfair" to expect agents to carry out checks but there were limitations. "What are we all going to do? Publishers and agents, are we all going to hire private detectives?" she asked.
According to Andrew Wilkins, publisher of industry journal Australian Bookseller And Publisher Magazine, once a book was with the publisher it would typically be vetted twice. "It will receive some level of attention, which is to do with the structure of the book, which is normally a publisher or a senior editor; and then it will be passed to a junior editor or editor for copy editing," he said.
During the editing process, the author would be expected to produce supporting material such as letters, documents and photographs, but there was no guarantee editors would have any expertise in the book's subject matter. Is this how apparently shocking errors in Khouri's description of Jordan, such as that it is bordered by Lebanon, Egypt and Kuwait, made it into print?
"I would have expected that an editor doing a primary edit would have, as a matter of course, got out a map of Jordan," Martyn said.
Wilkins is similarly perplexed. "I know it's quite common practice in Australia if they have any doubts about the factual nature of something of which they know very little to actually get an expert reader," he said.
Random House is not talking, but it is generally recognised that it was a relative latecomer to Forbidden Love. By the time it was sponsoring Khouri's application for a temporary residency visa, her story was already widely accepted as true and had been snapped up by publishers around the world.
As Wilkins said: "Once you've convinced yourself the person is who they are, it's very hard for it to suddenly unravel."
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3. Tony Baldry (Banbury) (Con): If he will make a statement on funding for local colleges. [169206]
The Minister for Lifelong Learning, Further and Higher Education (Alan Johnson):
In November 2002, we announced an extra £1.2 billion of investment in
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further education colleges over the three years to 200506. That record investment means that total funding for further education is set to rise by 19 per cent. in real terms when compared with 200203. That is the largest ever investment in further education to support a radical and ambitious reform strategy that links funding to college performance.
Tony Baldry : People often think that Banbury is a very prosperous town, but in at least two wards. more than half the adults have no further or higher education qualifications. Given the Minister's answer, I do not understand why the Association of Colleges has expressed concern that colleges have had to dip into their reserves to the tune of £62 million for skills and vocational training this year, because they have received only some £20 million from the Department. How is it that every Member has heard concerns from local college principals and the Association of Colleges that they have been short-changed on money for skills and vocational training?
Alan Johnson: I am also puzzled by those remarks by the AOC. We meet that organisation regularly and it is appreciative of the additional investment, althoughlike any lobby groupit continues to seek more funding. Perhaps some of the problems have been with how the allocation of funding reaches the colleges through the learning and skills councils. The new chief executive, Mark Haysom, is aware of some of those problems, but I am willing to investigate specific problems in the hon. Gentleman's constituency to see whether I can do anything to help.
Linda Perham (Ilford, North) (Lab): My local collegeRedbridge college, of which I am an external governoris very pleased with the extra investment from the Government, but it is having problems obtaining the payment in full of £250,000 of funding from last year. It received 30 per cent. in April, having been promised 60 per cent. in March, and it has been promised the rest by the end of May. Will my right hon. Friend investigate the delay in that funding?
Alan Johnson: I certainly will investigate the point raised by my hon. Friend, which might relate to the point that I made to the hon. Member for Banbury (Tony Baldry). To put the issue in context again, we have increased funding for teaching and learning in FE colleges by 17 per cent. and funded a 60 per cent. real increase in capital spending in colleges. Almost anyone one speaks to in the FE sector will agree that, with 4 million students and a further 2 million reached in the workplace, it has been somewhat undervalued in the past. The sector would like the increased funding to continue, but it appreciates that funding for FE colleges has turned a significant corner.
Mr. Mark Simmonds (Boston and Skegness)
(Con): One of the interesting things about the answers that the Minister gave to both the previous questions on this topic is the disparity between his view and what is actually happening. It is clear that one of the essential roles ofand an apparent Government priority forthe FE sector and local colleges is the provision of basic skills and level 2 courses. Why then are the Government
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enabling cuts to take place in the FE sector, just as adults needing help are being turned away from literacy and numeracy classes[Interruption.]
Mr. Speaker: Order. The hon. Member for Bexhill and Battle (Gregory Barker) seems very annoyed that I have not called him. It is my right to decide whom to call, and he must not stare at me as if he has been deeply hurt by my decision. That is the last thing that he should do.
Mr. Simmonds: Basic skills provision is also being axed. As I am sure the Minister would agree, such courses are essential for people who are trying to escape socio-economic deprivation. Will he assure the House that the threatened cuts in places of more than 70,000 that the Association of Colleges predicts this year will not materialise? Will he assure us that he will endeavour to deliver basic skills to all who need them?
Alan Johnson: I was in the hon. Gentleman's constituency at a very exciting and well attended initiative. He received many plaudits, and I am pleased that he did. His local college was extremely appreciative of the extra funding provided.
I think that we are talking about two different things. The Association of Colleges is concerned that, in the next financial year when the level 2 entitlement kicks in, we will not be able to meet every claim for every piece of further education training in the country in the way that we did last year. Last year, every bid made to the Learning and Skills Council was accepted. The reason for the concern is that we have to have priorities and the 4 million adults who do not even have a basic level 2 qualification must be our priority. That is why we are going to give them financial help and an adult learning grant to meet that priority. If that we means that we cannot meet every single claim, we will have to accept that in the interests of meeting that priority. Nevertheless, literary and numeracy are what the issue is all about. We will strive, as always, to ensure that all the claims are met.
Mr. Dennis Skinner (Bolsover) (Lab): Socialism is the language of priorities.
Alan Johnson: As my hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) suggests, new Labour is the language of priorities.
Lawrie Quinn (Scarborough and Whitby) (Lab): I congratulate my right hon. Friend on his answer to the initial question. On Monday, I spent the morning at Scarborough sixth-form college and saw at first hand the excellent work that is being done. However, the college stands alone and it competes with many sixth forms in the surrounding local education authority area. Students and staff alike asserted to me that there was a gap in terms of the money that was being spent in the college. May I tempt my right hon. Friend to make the short trip from Hull to Scarborough to see the excellent work that the college is doing and perhaps persuade him that we need to give greater consideration to the inequalities between LEA sixth forms and stand-alone sixth forms such as at Scarborough sixth-form college?
Alan Johnson:
I will gladly make the short trip to Scarborough to see my hon. Friend. We are aware of
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those issues and, in this funding round, the funding gap between sixth forms and further education colleges has closed considerably. It is always a delight to see him, particularly in his delightful constituency.
4. Miss Anne McIntosh (Vale of York) (Con): What guidance he provides to schools on maintaining appropriate relations between pupils and staff. [169207]
The Minister for Children (Margaret Hodge): We have worked with the teachers unions and with the National Employers Organisation of School Teachers to produce a document entitled "Joint NEOST/Teacher Union Guidance on Preventing Abuse of Trust for Teachers, Education Staff and Volunteers". We have also funded further work to produce further advice entitled "Developing Safe Working Practices for the Protection of Children and Staff in Educational Settings".
Miss McIntosh : Is the right hon. Lady aware of the number of disturbing cases that I have raised with the Secretary of State about bullying between pupils and inappropriate relationships between staff and pupils in certain schools that are in or serve the Vale of York? Has the guidance to which she refers been published and, if schools have similar guidance, is it not appropriate for parents to have sight of it?
Margaret Hodge: It is certainly appropriate for parents to have sight of it. The hon. Lady raised the issue of bullying between pupils and I hope that she appreciates the concentrated work that wein particular, the Under-Secretary of State for Education and Skills, my hon. Friend the Member for Bury, South (Mr. Lewis)have been doing to try to tackle the problem and to create zero tolerance for bullying in our schools. If she wishes to raise further issues with us in relation to bullying between pupils and teachers, I would warmly welcome further consideration of those issues so that we can take any further action that she would deem appropriate.
Mr. Bob Blizzard (Waveney) (Lab): Is it not essential that the relationship between pupils and staff involves good order and discipline in the classroom? Because good discipline and learning can be disrupted by a small number of highly disruptive pupils, is it not essential that we have good provision of pupil referral units throughout the country for children of all ages? Will she undertake an audit of pupil referral unit provision and take action to fill the gaps? At the moment, there appears to be a bit of a postcode lottery and, surely, we do not want postcode disruption in our schools.
Margaret Hodge:
I agree entirely with my hon. Friend's comments about the importance of good order in the classroom so that effective teaching and learning can take place. How that is developed is down to each local authority and the schools within it. The use made of pupil referral units must be decided locally. There are good pupil referral units around the country. I visited a project yesterday in Oxford that is run by a voluntary organisation called Parent-School Links, which takes sound action to improve the behaviour of children in
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schools and to tackle the behaviour between children and parents and between children and teachers. Such small initiatives, run by valuable voluntary organisations, should be spread across the country. That is the key to improving behaviour in the classroom.
Sir Patrick Cormack (South Staffordshire) (Con): Taking on the valid point made by the hon. Member for Waveney (Mr. Blizzard), is not the real problem the fact that there are no longer proper sanctions in schools and that, when teachers try to exercise reasonable discipline, they are frequently pursued by litigious parents who have a perverted idea of human rights?
Margaret Hodge: I do not agree. We have strengthened the power of head teachers to apply appropriate sanctions in schools. The hon. Gentleman would probably agree that we live in more litigious times and people exercise their rights, rightly or wrongly, in all sorts of situations. I do not agree with his premise that we have weakened the power of heads. We have gone in quite the opposite direction.
Mr. Tim Collins (Westmorland and Lonsdale) (Con): Does the Minister agree that, with reference to appropriate relations between pupils and staff, the overwhelming majority of teachers get it right 100 per cent. of the time, and they deserve both our thanks and a presumption of trust? Will she confirm that more than 80 per cent. of teachers who are accused of having behaved inappropriately are subsequently entirely cleared and vindicated? Will she therefore accept that now is the time to act on the NASUWT campaign for legislation to preserve teacher anonymity up until the point of a conviction? Will she undertake to accept the offer from the Opposition to speed the passage of such legislation through both Houses of Parliament, or will it take the election of a Conservative Government to give teachers that essential protection?
Margaret Hodge: I am not sure that there is a single child or parent with an interest in the education service who would welcome the transfer of power to the Tory party. Its record in government on education was abysmal and our record in government has been second to none, with increased investment, rising standards and a massive extension of opportunity. On the specific issues raised by the hon. Gentleman, we believe there must be a conversation with the NASUWT and my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State is engaged in those discussions. We will look further at the issues that the union has legitimately raised and take the action that we deem appropriate.
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