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ANNA MARIA ISLAND, Fla. - Finding available parking spots at some area beaches can be a challenge during weekends and holidays and especially during the busy season. Cities on Anna Maria Island are looking for possible solutions to parking problems.
"We have had a tremendous surge of people on the island which have created a variety of issues," explained Holmes Beach Mayor Carmel Monti. He says parking and congestion are two of the primary issues on Anna Maria Island.
"The population of Florida is 19 million people. Do you know how many tourists came here last year? 90 million, so almost a five time increase."
Holmes Beach has never had a plan with to deal with the increasing traffic, and now according to Mayor Monti, city leaders are looking for possible solutions.
One possible solution city leaders are considering would be to require beach users to pay for parking. "At the Beach at Manatee (Avenue) there are four hundred spots there. We have nine rows of parking. Each row might have a solar powered machine that accepts credit cards and cash," explained the mayor.
Bradenton resident Paula Terzigni enjoys coming to the beach even though it can be hard to find a parking spot. "Usually in season you cant find a place so what I end up doing is riding down the road and going on the back roads and then just walking over," said Terzigni.
She tells ABC 7 that even though it can be a hassle to find parking, she is not in favor of paying for beach parking.
"I think we pay taxes and like I said, people come in and spend money for our economy so that would help us out as well, so I wouldn't want to deter any people from coming here."
Resident Donna Pulliam agrees. "I think you would be taking away from what Anna Maria really is and what it is about."
Paid beach parking is only possible solution Holmes Beach city leaders are looking at.
"There is no one answer to it and it is probably going to be many pronged approach," said Mayor Monti. He says Holmes Beach has studying how beach cities like Key West handle parking and congestion.
Mayor Monti also wants to implement a bicycle rental program and increase water taxi routes to the island. He tells ABC 7 they are still studying possible solutions to their congestion and parking problems but the mayor hopes to have a permanent solution in place before the end of his two-year term.


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Driver, passengers flee after car hit by train
A 30-year-old man drove a car into the path of an oncoming train Monday morning on North Ardenwood Drive, leading to a minor crash from which the man initially fled before returning to speak with police, the authorities said.
Neither the man nor his two passengers, who also fled, were injured in the crash, which occurred about 10 a.m. near Choctaw Drive, said Cpl. Don Coppola Jr., a Baton Rouge police spokesman.
The driver of the white Honda Accord "got a little bit scared" and fled because he did not have car insurance, Coppola said. He said they are not releasing the driver's name because the matter involved only a traffic citation.
The CN train wasn't moving fast when it ran into the Honda, leaving the car with minor to moderate damage on its front bumper, Coppola said. The crash did not cause the train to derail from the tracks.
A CN spokesman said the train, which was carrying nonhazardous petrochemicals, was not damaged. The train's two passengers, an engineer and a conductor, were not injured, the spokesman, Jim Feeny, said.
The railroad crossing's red lights, which are attached to large metal poles on both sides of the crossing, were functioning at the time of the crash, Coppola said.
Police cited the driver for failure to yield to a train, hit-and-run driving, no proof of insurance and driving under suspension, Coppola said.
Gas station fire leads to evacuation
A submersible transformer blew Monday afternoon in the parking lot of a Florida Boulevard gas station, causing a brief fire that led to the evacuation of a Chinese restaurant nearby and the brief closure of the road in both directions, said a Baton Rouge Fire Department spokesman.
The flames rose near a Texaco gas station in the 6900 block of Florida Boulevard from what looked like a drain in the ground, where the Entergy transformer was housed below the surface, said Curt Monte, the department spokesman.
Officials briefly evacuated the Shanghai Place restaurant, a Chinese buffet, before determining the scene was safe. Air monitor readings did not show signs of anything hazardous in the air after the fire, Monte said.
The call came in about 3:15 p.m. and the flames were out within minutes, Monte said.
The authorities closed Florida Boulevard in both directions near the gas station before reopening the road once the "all clear" was given, Monte said.
Investigators: House fire intentionally set
Baton Rouge fire investigators determined a Monday morning house blaze just east of Plank Road and north of Choctaw Drive was set intentionally.
Firefighters arrived at the 2700 block of Iroquois Street about 5:20 a.m. to find several small fires burning inside a home, said Curt Monte, a Baton Rouge Fire Department spokesman.
The fire was under control within 10 minutes. A bedroom sustained the brunt of the damage, Monte said.
At least one person lives at the home, but the person wasn't home during the fire. Investigators on Monday were looking for anyone who lived at the home, Monte said.
Fire investigators are still investigating a Sunday morning suspected arson at a home a few blocks northeast of Iroquois Street on Mission Drive. Several small fires also were set intentionally to spark that blaze, Monte said.
Investigators don't have any reason to believe the two arsons are related, although they haven't ruled out the possibility, Monte said.
Fire investigators ask anyone with information about these blazes to call them at (225) 354-1419.
BR woman booked on suspicion of DWI
Authorities arrested at least one woman suspected of driving while intoxicated in East Baton Rouge Parish and booked her into Parish Prison between 2:30 p.m. Sunday and 2:30 p.m. Monday, booking records show.
Shelley Leffel, 33, 14396 Acacia St., Baton Rouge, was booked on first-offense DWI, careless operation and driver's license suspended or revoked.
Compiled from staff reports. To talk to a crime reporter at The Advocate, call (225) 388-0369.

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It's hard to pick a Featured Favorite in December because we see so many great cards at this time of year. But this humorous New Year's card caught our eye, especially because the order came through well before Christmas. Turns out that Stacie, the card's creator, settled on sending New Year's cards while looking for holiday card ideas, because the dress-up lips and mustache were just the touch of vintage silliness she was looking for.
Our Dressed Up for the New Year photo cards offer the option to put a silly mustache or lips on your photos. Stacie said she had never considered New Year's cards when looking for her holiday card ideas before, but loved this concept when she saw it. "We had a really tough year," she explains. "For us, the focus is on next year being much less stressful!" That would also explain her choice of text on the card: "2012 Resolution: Less stress. More silly." Good luck with your resolution, Stacie. We think you're off to a good start!
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Start me up
We have a new "Think Again" column here [1] called "No Dhue Diligence for Bill O'Reilly."
I worry that this economic stimulus will end up as yet another giveaway to the rich. How about this time, forcing the Republicans to do an actual filibuster if they want to filibuster a stimulus package [2] that is aimed by a Democratic Congress at working people? Let the press deal with the fact that they are the roadblock to meaningful reform. Just what the heck Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are doing in allowing the Republicans to sit on virtually everything while they are in the minority -- when the Democrats gave in on almost everything when they were -- no one has been able to explain.
Speaking of stimuli, conservatives like to claim Adam Smith as their patron saint but the man was a liberal through and through. (For extra credit, find him here [3].) Anyway, look at this quote of his I found in Paul Starr's Freedom's Power: The True Force of Liberalism [4] (Basic Books, 2007):
Far from being an apologist for the capitalist class, Smith showed his sympathies for workers throughout The Wealth of Nations. In his chapter on "Profits of Stock," for example, he wrote, "Our merchants and master-manufacturers complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price and thereby lessening the sale of their good ... They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people."
Also this one:
"Servers, labourers, and workmen of different kinds make up the far greater part of every great political society. But what improves the circumstances of the greater part can never be regarded as an inconveniency to the whole. No society can be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed cloath, and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, cloathed, and lodged."
Hell, the guy could have been a speechwriter for John Edwards.
I went to see a few lectures by John Searle a bunch of years ago about the meanings of consciousness, and I recall him talking about deconstructionism and pointing out that that was, on one level, complete crap. No one wants a deconstructionist auto mechanic, he noted, quoting said individual saying something like (excuse my French) "Le problème avec la transmission est seulement dans le texte." I lost my patience with deconstructionism after that. Anyway, if you don't know his work, you might want to read this review essay [5], which argues that "John Searle's loyalty to common sense is both a virtue and a drawback of his views on minds and power," and I suppose that's true.
Have you noticed that, on the rare occasions when Iraq makes it into the headlines these days, it's almost always in the context of a discussion of, or an argument about, just how much "success" the President's surge strategy has had? Thinking about what to make of this, an image from Tom Engelhardt's [6] previous life, from his earliest days as a book editor, came to mind -- from a moment back in the 1970s when he was "doctoring" truly god-awful textbooks. His image then was this:
The little group of us -- rewriter, grade-level reducer, designer -- would be summoned to the publisher's office. There, our brave band of technicians would be ushered into a room in which there would be nothing but a gurney with a corpse on it in a state of advanced decomposition. The publisher's representative would then issue a simple request: Make it look like it can get up and walk away. And the truth was: that corpse of a book would be almost lifelike when we were done with it, but one thing was guaranteed -- it would never actually get up and walk away.
Lately, Engelhardt has been thinking of George W. Bush's Iraq, of his surge "success" story there, in the similar terms -- "Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker are the technicians the President called in to make Iraq look like it could get up and walk away. They have essentially been Iraq's undertakers, and applying their skills, have indeed managed to give that Iraqi corpse the faint glow of life. But here's one guarantee: the President's Iraq will never get up off that table and walk away. It's a corpse, after all."
In his latest post, in the process of considering that Iraqi corpse on the gurney, that society we functionally dismantled and left in a charnel-house state, he also ponders the most recent news and stats out of Iraq -- from casualties to the use of air power -- and spends a little time thinking about the nature of George W. Bush's real surge "success": He bought a year-plus of free time on the American "home front" and, if all continues to go well for him, will succeed in sticking the next president with his war.
Engelhardt's conclusion: "So, here's a simple reality check: The whole discussion of, and argument about, 'success' in Iraq is, in fact, obscene. Given what has already happened to that country -- and will continue to happen as long as the U.S. remains an occupying power there -- the very category of 'success' is an obscenity. If violence actually does stay down there, that may be a modest godsend for Iraqis, but it can hardly be considered a sign of American 'success'... Folks, it's obscene. We're doing victory laps around, and dancing upon, a corpse."
With all the talk of change coming out of the campaigns, can we expect big money to lose its grip on Washington? Bill Moyers interviews New York Times investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize winner David Cay Johnston, who says America's system has been rigged to benefit the super-rich. "There's one party in Washington. It's the party of money. It has different wings and factions. But Washington is the party of money. And the wealthiest people in America, the large corporations in America, are busy milking the government for everything they can get," says Johnston. Also on the program, Moyers talks with Harvey J. Kaye, the Ben & Joyce Rosenberg Professor of Social Change and Development and the founding director of the Center for History and Social Change at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, whose book Thomas Paine and the Promise of America discusses the role of whom he calls "the greatest radical of a radical age." And, Moyers sits down with journalist Craig Unger, contributing editor of Vanity Fair and author of the bestselling House of Bush, House of Saud and, most recently, The Fall of the House of Bush, who offers analysis on President Bush's recent trip to the Middle East.
Almost all of Lincoln Center is being redone at a cost of about a half a gazillion dollars, and Merkin Hall seems to be ready, and is getting off to an interesting start, at least from this point of view with the New York Guitar Festival," in which Jorma Kaukonen, Jim Lauderdale, Laura Cantrell, Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams, and G.E. Smith, among others, are playing concerts for the next few Thursday nights devoted to Hank Williams, Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn and Lefty Frizzell. I'll be there for the first three at least. (Jorma is doing all four. My friend Myra told me the other day that Jorma is also doing a benefit for her friend's synagogue in White Plains, because, well, that's the kind of Jew he is, Mac. Who'd have thunk it?
Pioneers of Television
I see that beginning this month PBS is airing a documentary series called Pioneers of Television. I've been watching the DVD, here [7], featuring nearly 100 stars from the years when television was in its infancy. It combines interviews, shot in present day with high definition, with archival footage. The series is divided into four categories -- sitcoms, late-night, variety, and game shows -- each an hour long. More information is available here [8]. It's not so great, though. It's entirely uncritical and rah-rah and while the footage is interesting, and I learned something, it's not something that I can justify showing to my class, though maybe a high-school teacher could.
Meanwhile, I could justify showing just about anyone the third season of The Odd Couple, still in the running after all these years for the greatest sitcom of all time, and certainly on network television. Season 3 introduces Miriam Welby, Felix's infinitely patient love interest and we get guest appearances by Howard Cosell, Deacon Jones, and that terrific "Let's Make a Deal" episode. "Me? Miss my boss as a horse? I laughed." Read all about it here [9].
Sender's name: Jordan
Hometown: Seattle
As Boehlert said [10] yesterday, "In today's campaign coverage, what journalists think about unfolding events takes precedence over what voters think." He cites "the open contempt many journalists express for Clinton and her campaign," tells us that "the disdain for Clinton has been openly broadcast by journalists" and quotes Dana Milbank from an appearance on Reliable Sources that "the press will savage [Clinton] no matter what."
We have seen what the press can accomplish when it takes sides. All the fabrications about Gore being a serial fibber when almost every word out of Bush's mouth, from "uniter, not a divider" to "humble foreign policy" was not just a lie, but an important one. It may not be fair, but this is why I am supporting Obama. It's more important that we elect a Democrat than which Democrat we elect. There is already something like 49% of the population that will never vote for Hillary. If the MSM is part of that 49%, and according to Boehlert and Milbank it sounds like it is, we can't afford to let them savage another one of our candidates. Obama seems like the kind of guy you can have a beer with, or at least there are no blue dresses in his past, so maybe, just maybe, the MSM will give us a chance this time.


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From: Pat Galovich <>
Subject: SAMPUBCO WILL website
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:47:22 -0700
Can anyone advise how to determine what year any given Will was
created on the "Sambuco" site at http://www.sampubco.com/? I have
clicked on all available links and read and re-read all pages,
however, I am still at a loss as to how to determine the year of the
Will. Am I missing something?
Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you.
Pat, Mission, B.C.
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Sonoma County Sheriff's Deputies To Wear Lapel Cameras
The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors supported the measures at its meeting on Tuesday. The Press Democrat of Santa Rosa reports that they were among a number of proposals approved by the supervisors at the meeting with the goal of restoring trust in the wake of Andy Lopez's shooting.
Lopez was shot and killed by Sonoma County sheriff's deputy Erick Gelhaus on Oct. 22 as the teen walked in his Santa Rosa neighborhood. Gelhaus told investigators he believed the BB gun Lopez was carrying was an assault rifle.
The shooting has led to numerous protests.


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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 15.0469 Wednesday, 18 February 2004
Date: Tuesday, 17 Feb 2004 10:36:54 -0500
Subject: 15.0444 Teeth or Arms? A Titus Question
Comment: Re: SHK 15.0444 Teeth or Arms? A Titus Question
Leaving aside the vexed question of what sort of proofreading went on in
the shop of John Danter, "Armes" in Titus at TLN 1430 ("And Lauinia thou
shalt be imployde in these Armes," [Q1]) is not necessarily an error.
See OED under the second form of the word as a noun: "II. Elliptical
senses. (Only pl. exc. in 9.) 6. The exercise or employment of arms;
fighting, war, active hostilites. to bid arms (obs.): to offer battle.
to carry arms: to wage war. to appeal to arms: see APPEAL v. 6b. c1374
CHAUCER Anel. & Arc. 1 Fiers god of armes Mars the rede. c1590 MARLOWE
2nd Pt. Tamburl. II. ii, An hundred Kings, by scores, will bid him arms.
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Federal MPs Lawrence MacAulay, left, and Wayne Easter deliver objections to EI changes during a provincial standing committee meeting packed in Souris Wednesday night. At right is standing committee member Paula Biggar.
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Prince Edward Island MPs appear to be divided on federal Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau's controversial pro-choice abortion policy for party candidates.
Malpeque MP Wayne Easter said he was surprised his leader came out with the announcement last week that all candidates who run for the Liberal nomination in the 2015 federal election campaign must support the Liberal party's pro-choice stance.
"I was quite surprised, but that's what happened in a public statement and it is the party policy," Easter said.
"I'm just hopeful that it doesn't narrow the breadth of opinion that is within our party on the various issues, because we do need that wide open discussion as a party on this and many other issues."
Easter is personally pro-choice, but he says he believes the policy would not preclude candidates from running who may personally disagree on the issue.
"It's not my understanding that a person who is pro-life couldn't run for the party, but what they're asking is that they confirm that if the issue was to come to a vote, then they would support that party policy in the House of Commons," Easter said.
In the past, these kinds of votes-of-conscious have not usually been whipped.
In 2012, a motion many believed was a thinly veiled attempt to reopen the abortion debate in Ottawa made it to the House of Commons. Although Prime Minister Stephen Harper has remained firm he is not interested in reopening this debate, he allowed the vote on the motion to be a free one.
Harper voted against it, but several members of his own cabinet minister voted in favour of creating a parliamentary committee to review the Criminal Code's definition of when life begins including Egmont MP and federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea.
Easter said he recognizes these kinds of votes have been free in the past, but future votes on abortion issues will now be whipped within the Liberal caucus because the party voted to adopt a pro-choice stance at its 2012 policy convention.
"Also it is ruled that way by the courts," Easter said.
"Even if the House of Commons was to pass a law going in the other direction, it would be ruled as against the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, so I think it's just confirming the reality out there."
Some Liberal MPs are now finding themselves in an awkward position. While Trudeau did provide a grandfathering-in caveat for elected MPs who are not pro-choice, pro-lifers like Charlottetown MP Sean Casey are still left with a difficult decision.
They must vote with the party, even if they personally disagree with the policy.
"I have openly expressed my personal struggle with this issue in the past, but as in the past, I've decided that my personal views should not come first," Casey said in a statement to The Guardian.
"Parliament has spoken on the matter, as have the courts. Beyond that, my constituents have made their feelings known to me, and the majority do not want this debate re-opened."
Casey said he realizes some may view this as a compromise of his beliefs, but he says those kinds of judgments are "between me and my faith."
"It's important to understand that the overall intention of the policy is to avoid efforts by some MPs who seek, on an ongoing basis, to reopen this very divisive and deeply personal issue, which our Supreme Courts have thoroughly and carefully considered and subsequently ruled on," Casey added.
Repeated attempts to reach Cardigan MP Lawrence MacAulay for comment on this story were left unanswered.
In an emailed statement to The Guardian this week, Shea criticized Trudeau over the policy, stating she is proud to belong to a party "running fair and open nominations."
"After Justin Trudeau's reckless position on marijuana legalization and now rejecting any potential candidates that respect the sanctity of life, I think we all have cause for concerns about his judgment."


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Pretentious Ivy League bastards they are. Born into wealthy families and attending private schools, the closest thing they've had to a hard job was the 10 hours of community service they had to do when they were caught with pot that one time in college. So that's a bit extreme but the resumes of the world's most prominent economists are all very similar. They really get to me sometimes with their recommendations on what is best for the economy, despite never making a meaningful contribution to it.
So with that in mind I put together a list of ten things I hate about economists.
"In Theory" – Economists are the kings of "in theory". Every law or or rule they come up with would work "in theory". The problem is economists study human interaction with money. They are very good at removing the human elements to study economics, but that undermines the whole point of economics. You must study the person as much as the money. In order to be an economist, you have to start your research assuming people are rational. That's no way to start research!
Get Dirty – When was the last time you heard about Ben Bernanke touring a steel plant in Pennsylvania? Paul Krugman's idea of getting dirty is probably having to wash the ink off his fingers after reading his own op-eds in the NY Times. To understand the economy is to be involved with the economy.
Elitist – Like getting dirty, economists are the most elitist group of academics in the world. They role with politicians and sit on or advise the boards of Fortune 500 companies. Safely comfortable in their corduroy jackets behinds the desks at Princeton, Harvard, and Chicago, they're walking billboards for the most pretentious schools in the country. If you went to a public school there is no way you'll ever be an economist. Maybe an economust, which means you must bow to your economist overlords.
The "Schools" – Nothing exudes a bubble of self-importance like a rivalry. Just like the bloods and the crips think any particular action they do actually matters in the world, economists have created the same atmosphere in academia. You've got the Chicago School, Saltwater Schools, Keynesian, Vienna School, blah blah blah. It's created a partisan world not much different than politics where it's impossible to be considered "smart" if you were to support both the efficient market hypothesis and assume investors are irrational. Imagine a pro-choice Republican and you get the idea of the scandal.
Economists Aren't Businessmen – They're PhDs and gather statistics for government and corporations. They don't actually do anything but make estimates based on the best available knowledge. Business created this recession based on the recommendations of economists in the 90s and early 2000s. Spend some time on Wall Street, meet the bankers, work with the brokers. Perhaps once you understand their behavior you may have a better idea of predicting it. This is why you don't see economists running hedge funds.
They Aren't Scientists Either – Economics is an art. The difference between art and science is the ability to test a hypothesis in a controlled environment. Macroeconomists have no way of testing their theories on an entire population. Instead they're left to study the past and attempt to predict the future.
No Responsibility – Since economists can only guess they don't have to admit to ever being wrong. They use terms like "I think…" or "The general consensus is…" to avoid having to be certain about anything. Even the opinionated economists can write off their wrongs by saying "I was going with the best information available at the time". This is why you don't ever hear of economists being fired for stupidity.
The Nobel Prize – The Nobel Prize is given for 3 sciences (chemistry, medicine, & physics), literature, and peace. No economics. Instead there is the "Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel". Its shortened term is the "Nobel Prize in Economics", but it is not. Regardless though when one wins any prize with "Nobel" in it we automatically respect their words as law. Al Gore has the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on greening the world, but you don't want him negotiating peace treaties between rival African tribes. Paul Krugman*, winner of the economics prize in 2008, is a very vocal critic of the banking crisis and subsequent bailout. No problem I suppose, but people are lining up behind him as if he's made wine from water. Krugman won the award for his work in international trade. He is not a banking expert, nor a government policy expert.
Diversity – If you want to be a respected economist, you need to meet two of the three qualifications: White, Jewish, Bearded. Don't get me wrong here, I meet the minimum depending on how recent my last shave was. Hitting all three pretty much guarantees you prestige. The before mentioned Krugman hits the trifecta, 3 out of the last 5 Fed Chairmen were Jewish (Bernanke is even bearded), . One of the "economic prize" winners in 2005 perhaps defines the stereotype. Born in Germany in 1930, fled to US in 1938 to avoid persecution, works at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and is bearded to boot. All categories of academia benefit from having diverse backgrounds, and economics is missing this severely.
They're Pussies Not to be confused with alternative meanings, to be a pussy is to be weak. And no, I will not register pussynomics.com, I think that might draw the wrong crowd on the web. Like their ability to absolve themselves of all responsibility, economists will also never place bets on their own predictions. They are observers of the market, not players. If you're so sure the banks are still in bad shape then short them (link) and make a ton of money. Put your money where your mouth is or at least put your foot in it.
*I hate that I broke my own rules for this post. I refused to ever talk about Paul Krugman, but since he fits the profile of what I hate about economists so much I just had to do it. I don't hate Krugman for the work he has done in international economics, but I think it's irresponsible for someone to refuse to involve themselves in politics only to continue to make money off their political opinions. He's the Rush Limbaugh of economics.
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The Ingrid Dress
Armour sans Anguish garments are constructed entirely from recycled and reclaimed materials.
British designer Dahlia's black romper is a must have.
Very chic, in a Mideastern kinda way. Liking the gold tassel, and black glass beads. I could imagine this looking smashing with a peasant top, or plain tee, or a black flowy top.
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No one wants to think about home improvement chores in the summer, but with the hope of cooler weather drawing nigh, it's time to start making those 'to-do' lists. The fall Maricopa County Home and Landscape Show comes just in time.
Running Friday, Sept. 27 through Sunday, Sept. 29 at the Arizona State Fairgrounds, this show concentrates on kitchen and bath projects and for the first time ever provides a chance to get a free interior design consultation. Just bring a photo of the room you'd like to remodel or redecorate and you'll come away with ideas from a pro.
There will also be a complimentary gardening class from University of Arizona Master Gardeners, a dog training seminar, and bee keeping tips from AZ Queen Bee.
For more information and tickets go to MCHomeShows.com.


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Yankees fly AL pennant after clipping Angels
By Paul White, USA TODAY
NEW YORK They want to be the "27" Yankees.
Built on solid pitching and nothing more explosive than singles, the New York Yankees' 5-2 victory Sunday against the Los Angeles Angels in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series guaranteed the team's unparalleled 40th World Series appearance and first since 2003.
But that's not enough for a team featuring veterans of four previous World Series plus high-priced free agents. As pitcher CC Sabathia says, "This is what you come here for — a chance to win a championship."
GAME REPORT: Yankees 5, Angels 2
NEW EXPERIENCE: Series a new thrill for Yanks' A-Rod
SCHEDULE: Postseason results, upcoming games
They want title No. 27, to be remembered with teams like the fabled 1927 version featuring Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, the '50s dynasty teams of Joe DiMaggio and then Mickey Mantle and the four-time winners that marked the emergence of current veterans Derek Jeter, Jorge Posada, Andy Pettitte and Mariano Rivera.
They'll get their chance beginning Wednesday in New York against the defending World Series champion Philadelphia Phillies.
"They swing the bat well. They've got a great team," Pettitte, Sunday's winning pitcher, said of the Phillies. "Hey, they're the world champs."
New York turned to Pettitte, baseball's most experienced postseason starting pitcher, to avoid a seventh ALCS game and set itself up to use ace Sabathia in Game 1 vs. the Phillies and Cliff Lee— a matchup of pitchers who were Cleveland Indians teammates as recently as July 2008.
Pettitte allowed seven hits and collected his 16th playoff win to break a tie with John Smoltz for the most ever. Pettitte is 5-2 in 10 starts with the chance to clinch a series, a record for victories in those situations.
Rivera got his first two-inning save in the playoffs since Game 4 of the 2005 AL Division Series against the Angels, but not before Vladimir Guerrero's RBI single in the eighth cut the lead to 3-2 and created drama.
"A lot of guys in this (clubhouse) know what it takes to win a World Series," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. "That's why we're here."
For manager Mike Scioscia and his sloppy Angels, it was their latest playoff failure during a decade of steady regular-season success. Since winning their only championship in 2002, the Angels are yet to return to the World Series despite five AL West titles in the past six years.
"At times we played good baseball. At times we shot ourselves in the foot," Scioscia said.
After rain postponed Game 6 for a day, the clear weather and mild, 58-degree temperature at first pitch was a stark change from the first two games of the series, when the Angels froze up in the raw chill at Yankee Stadium.
Pettitte escaped a jam in the sixth, going to 3-0 on Kendry Morales (FSY) before knocking down a comebacker with runners at second and third to preserve a 3-1 edge. The left-hander pumped his fist, then headed for the dugout.
With one on and one out in the seventh, Pettitte left to a standing ovation and tipped his cap to the sellout crowd of 50,173, the largest at the new ballpark. He earned his 16th postseason win, breaking a tie with John Smoltz (FSY), and his fifth to close out a postseason series — also a major league record.
"We've got a lot of confidence in Andy when he's on the mound. He's been a big-game pitcher for us for 14 years," Jeter said.
Joba Chamberlain (FSY) got two key outs and Girardi went to a well-rested Rivera in the eighth. He gave up a two-out RBI single to Vladimir Guerrero (FSY), making it 3-2, then retired Morales to end the inning.
A diving play by Teixeira at first base helped Rivera avoid further damage.
It was the first earned run allowed at home by the 39-year-old Rivera in a postseason save situation. But the Yankees added two insurance runs in the eighth on a pair of Angels errors and Teixeira's sacrifice fly.
Rivera finished up for his record 37th postseason save, and the Yankees had their elusive pennant.
"You bring him in, you feel like the game's over. He's the best," Pettitte said.
Rodriguez reached base all five times up and drew a bases-loaded walk in the fourth that put New York ahead 3-1. Earlier in the inning, Damon gave the Yankees the lead with a single off 16-game winner Joe Saunders (FSY).
"It started rough this year for me in spring training," Rodriguez said, referring to a tense news conference to admit steroids use from 2001-03 with Texas — and hip surgery that sidelined him until May. "I just felt very happy and very blessed, and all I cared about this year was winning games."
Including their unprecedented collapse against Boston in 2004, the Yankees had lost five straight times with a chance to close out an ALCS — and six in a row with an opportunity to end a playoff series.
But this time, New York got it done with leadership from Jeter, Pettitte, Rivera and Posada, all part of the late 1990s dynasty under manager Joe Torre.
Normally airtight on defense and fundamentals, the Angels made eight errors in the series and several other uncharacteristic mistakes. The miscues continued early in the clincher, when Saunders walked five in 3 1-3 shaky innings and Guerrero was doubled off first base on a shallow fly.
With no Rally Monkey bouncing around the video board in the Bronx, Los Angeles failed to pull off one of its signature comebacks. The Angels trailed in all eight of their playoff victories against New York, including a stirring 7-6 triumph in Game 5 on Thursday night that extended the series.
The Angels eliminated New York with division series wins in 2002 and 2005. They are the 73-63 against the Yankees in the regular season since 1996, when Jeter took over at shortstop and New York began a run of four World Series titles in five years.
Looking to lock up the pennant, the Yankees turned to a familiar source of success in Pettitte. The 37-year-old left-hander delivered, allowing one run in 6 1-3 innings for his second closeout win of these playoffs. He also beat Minnesota to complete a first-round sweep.
Always a picture of poise and focus in October, narrowed eyes peering between his cap and glove as he takes his signs on the mound, Pettitte also owns postseason records with 38 starts and 237 1-3 innings pitched.
Pettitte was pitching at home for the Yankees in the postseason for the first time since their last World Series game, a 2-0 loss to Josh Beckett and the Florida Marlins in 2003.
This one was a different story.
"They beat us fair and square," Angels outfielder Torii Hunter (FSY) said. "It's just frustrating right now."
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Department of Hispanic Studies Newsletter
Inside this Issue
Editor's Note: ¡Hola! This newsletter aims to keep students and alumni up to date of our activities and achievements. We encourage you to contact us with any news that you would like to share. Please email us at email@example.com or visit us at www.iwu.edu/hispanic, don't forget to list what year you graduated! A special thank you to my student assistant, Melissa Ramirez ('14), for helping me put this year's newsletter. Christina Isabelli
Editor's Note Current Student Activities o Internships o Teaching Spanish From Our Alums Faculty Accomplishments Past events John Wesley Powell Research Conference Hispanic Studies during the Year Pictures Luis Leal Fund
Save the Date! Fall 2013 Events Social Justice Café
Tucci Colloquium
Annual HS Dinner
September 16, 4p Davidson Room "Which Way is Home"
September 26, 4pm Beckman Auditorium Speaker: Kate Regan "Trekking with Quixote in the 21st Century"
September 26, 5pm Theme: "Muslim Traditions in Spanish Culture"
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Current Student Activities Hispanic Studies majors and minors across a variety of academic disciplines applied their studies in academic internships.
Internships • Nathan Douglas ('14) has been awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Student Research Assistant to work on a seventeenth century cooking manual with Prof. Nadeau. • Kate Scott ('13) has helped solve the mystery of a collection of arrowheads found in a basement at Illinois Wesleyan. Also during the summer, Scott worked at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage as a Campus and Community Intern. • Alejandro Mancera ('15) and Melissa Ramírez ('14) completed their participation in the 2012 Summer Enrichment Program. Mancera completed his internship with Dr. Perera in the Physics department while Ramírez completed her internship with Heartland HeadStart.
Teaching Spanish Many Hispanic Studies students have chosen to practice and share the Spanish language and culture through teaching and tutoring opportunities. • Danielle Jauregui ('13) has been accepted to the CIEE program in Spain where she will assist in the teaching of English as a second language to students in either primary or secondary school. • Elizabeth Exo ('13) has been hired to work as a kindergarten bilingual teacher in Chicago. • Hillary Anderson ('13) has been accepted to teach in Memphis as a member of the 2013 Teach for America Corps. • Kylene Wolfe ('13) has accepted a Spanish teaching position at Bloomington High School.
• Sylvia Rysin ('13) created a guide for counseling undocumented high school teens. Teachers and counselors can better understand the issues faced by many undocumented children thanks to the resource guide created by Rusin. • Christine Gawron ('14) from Chicago received $4,000 to study with SIT in Bolivia on their Multiculturalism, Globalization, and Social Change program. • Gisel Lopez ('15) from Northlake, IL and Callie Phipps ('15) from Steger, Il, both nursing majors, received $4,500 to study in Spain as part of the IWU
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From our Alums • Erin Howes ('12) is currently working as an AmeriCorps volunteer working with Haitians in Florida. • Ben Nelson ('99) was promoted to Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina –Beaufort. ¡En hora buena Ben! • Rachel Miller ('09) recently married, will enter the graduate Teaching Program at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She has also accepted a position as teacher's assistant in a dual language elementary school. • Hillary Sellers ('09) moved to Houston to live with her fiancé and is now working at a hospital doing rehabilitation with patients who have difficulties speaking/swallowing following an accident. • Dominique Forte Byrnes ('05) is an elementary school teacher with a Spanish endorsement. • Erin Bradley ('10) is a project coordinator in Chicago with the Digital Learning Research Project. She co-authored a study, "Teens, Digital Media, and the Chicago Public Library."
• Emmy Grace ('11) has been admitted to the Natural Resources and Sustainable Development graduate program at American University. She will pursue an MA in International Affairs and also in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development at University for Peace in Costa Rica. • Kari Grace ('11) will begin the City and Regional Planning graduate program at UNCChapel Hill where she will pursue an MA. • Christina Verherst ('09) will pursue an MA in Spanish Literature at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. • Rachel Slough ('07) has been admitted to the Marriage and Family Therapy graduate program at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. • Sandra Gonzalez ('10) will begin working with Teach for America this year in Chicago! • Rachel Halfpap ('08) and Erin Cox ('08) got married at the Evelyn Chapel last August! Congratulations to you both!! • Rich Kurtzman ('98) onsite director of the IWU Spain Program is a new father to baby Jack. ¡Felicidades Rich! • Rachel Dziallo Stalcup ('01) is a new mother to baby Loraine Grace. • Colin Schofield ('12) presented his research Etnología del éxito académico: los tres lados at the XII Simposio Internacional de Comunicación Social in Cuba.
"As a Hispanic Studies major, what I learned in the classroom became more meaningful and valuable because I was able to bring some of that learning to life during my study abroad experience. Not only that, but being bilingual allows me to communicate across cultures and will give me an advantage over others in the job market."
Above picture from Crystal Ball career event- from the left: Alexis Manning ('04), Matt Brown ('04), Katy Hinshaw ('12), Scott Simons ('07), Jackie Morrison ('11) Kari Grace ('11)
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Faculty Accomplishments
Professor Nadeau
This year Carolyn Nadeau published three articles: • "Transformation and Transgression at the Banquet Scene in La Celestina." Objects of Culture in Imperial Spain. Ed. Frederick de Armas and Mary Barnard. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 90 (2013): 153-65. • "Moscatel morisco: The role of Wine in the Formation of Morisco Identity," Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 90 (2013): 153-65. • "What Else Happened in the Early Modern Kitchen? Reading Celestina's Kitchen through the Manual de mugeres." Comida y bebida en la lengua espñola, cultura y literaturas hispanicas Ed. Andjelka Pejovic, Vladimir Karanovic, Mirjana Sekulic, Kragujevac, Serbia: FILUM, 2012: 289303. • Also, in early May Prof. Nadeau presented "Transatlantic Exchanges: The Rise of the Spanish Restaurant in the United States" at the McLean Museum of History.
Professor Courtad
Jim Courtad published "Nota preliminary". Adagio con fugas y ciertos afectos: Mis mejores cuentos. Lourdes Vázquez. Editorial Verbum, 2013.
Professor Valverde César Valverde recently published two articles: • "Modelos masculinos y violencia en Sanctuary y Crónica de una muerte anunciada." Káñina: Revista de Artes y Letras de la Universidad de Costa Rica 35.2 (2011): 89100. • "Sacrificio, violencia y nación en Lituma en los Andes." Cuaderno Internacional de Estudios Humanísticos y Literatura 17 (2012):
Professor Isabelli Christina Isabelli published 3 co-authored manuscripts in 2012: • with Rachel Slough ('09) "Acquisition of the nongeneric definite article by Spanish learners of English as a Foreign Language." Onomázein, volume 25, pp. 95-105. • with Donna Hartweg, Marylyn McEwen, & Rosie Piper. "Being physically active: Perceptions of recent Mexican immigrant women on the Arizona-Mexico border." Hispanic Health Care International, 10(3), 127136. • with Yuling Pan & Steven Lubkemann (2012). "Observing census enumeration of non-Englishspeaking households in 2010 Census: Spanish report." Research and Methodology Directorate, Center for Survey Measurement Research Report Series (Survey Methodology #2012-06). U.S. Census Bureau.
¿Qué es... ¿Qué pasa? Interested in following what's happening in the department throughout the year? Then subscribe to our blog ¿Qué pasa? (http://blogs.iwu.edu/hispanic-studies/). Click on the link "log in" in the lower left-hand column and you will be notified anytime we have a new posting about things happening in and out of the classroom.
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Sharla Brown-Ajayi
Cecilia Sánchez
Sharla Brown-Ajayi is the new office coordinator for MCLL and Hispanic Studies. Stop by her office in Buck's Language Resource Center to say hello. Welcome to IWU Sharla!
Adjunct faculty member Cecilia Sanchez presented in the McLean County Museum of History "Genres in Latin American Music." She discussed music from the countries of Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina and performed selections from these countries using representative instruments.
Arturo García Osorio Adjunct faculty member Arturo García Osorio discussed the Day of the Dead rituals practiced in Mexico in contrast with celebrations of Halloween in the United States in an article published in the New York Times.
Arturo García
Above picture from Prof. Tari Renner's mayoral winfrom the left: Prof. Nadeau, Kai Ajayi, Prof. Renner, unknown and Chad Sanders.
Institute of Peace From Workshop
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Past Events
April 12-13, 2013, "John and Erma Stutzman Peace Fellows" program organized a workshop of peace. Three Hispanic Studies students presented: Alex Monzón ('13) "Forced Migration and Accumulation by Dispossession: A Suggested Model for Understanding Mexican Immigration," Nora Peterson ('14) "Snapped Into Focus: Addressing the Challenges Faced by Undocumented Mexican Immigrants in the United States," and Sylvia Rusin ('13) "Addressing the Elephant in the Room: Understanding the Daily Life of Undocumented High School Youth."
La 10a cena anual de la herencia hispana In October 2012, the Hispanic Studies Department organized a diner to celebrate poetry. For dinner, Chilean food was served and guests enjoyed Chilean poetry. Two students David Dimas ('14) and Nathan Douglas ('14) read "Oda a la cebolla" y "Oda al caldillo de congrio" while professor Mike Theune and poet Virginia Bell read each version in English. Also, Cecilia Sánchez performed two songs by Violeta Parra "La jardinera" y "Gracias a la vida."
El prof. Thuene y David Dimas ('14) recitan el poema "Oda a la cebolla"
La poeta Virginia Bell y Nathan Douglas ('14) recitan el poema "Oda al caldillo de congrio"
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Poetry reading by Virginia Bell Not long before the Hispanic Studies Banquet, Virginia Bell, author of the book From the Belly, visited an English class (Introduction to Poetry) as well as the Spanish course Introduction to Spanish Literature. She read some of her most inspired writings such as Cabeza de Vaca.
¡Aún queda tiempo para ver la exposición sobre México! There is still time to attend ¡Fiesta! A Celebration of Mexican Popular Arts in the McLean County Museum of History. The exhibit is filled with wonderful pieces of art and artifacts from district regions of México. According to he McLean History Museum website there are over 150 pieced of art made by the people of México, including ceramics, textiles, paper mache lacquerware, basketry, carved wood, leather glass, and more from every region of the country. The exhibit will run until Aug 30, 2014.
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Sigma Delta Pi initiates - 2012-13
back from left: Prof. Nadeau, Chelsea Werries, Kathryn Robinette, Lauren Vorel, Svenja Schroeder, Julie Mangoff, Dana Marlin, Alex Bradford, Jenn Carrillo (honorary member), Sylvia Rusin Front: Sarah Yount, Hillary Anderson, Monica Huback, Nora Peterson, Erica Vrkljan, Kate Scott, Emma Florio, Shelby Kottemann, Callie Ault, Aubrey Hayes A big congratulations to IWU's Sigma Delta Pi chapter for receiving a Chapter Project Grant Award for the 2012-13 academic year. Illinois Wesleyan along with Furman University, Illinois State and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee were selected for this honor.
Sylvia Rusin ('13) – shown here at far right, was one of four inaugural presenters at Sigma Delta Pi's "Best Practices" session at the annual AATSP (American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese) Conference in San Antonio, Texas. 8
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John Wesley Powell Undergraduate Research Conference 2013 Please join us in congratulating our majors and minors who presented their research project on Saturday April 21st at the John Wesley Powell Undergraduate Research Conference. Presentations ranged from oral presentation sessions and poster sessions. As you can imagine, these students worked really had on their projects all year. ¡FELICIDADES!
Sylvia Rusin ('13)
Scott Meyers ('13)
Jenny Boll ('14) y Hannah Smith ('14)
Alejandro Monzón ('13)
Liz Exo ('13) 9
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Nina Butler ('13)
Rosie Egan ('13)
Kylene Wolfe ('13) Sarah Berk ('13)
Collen Leonard ('14)
Hannah Smith ('14) 10
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Hispanic Studies during the Year
La clase de "Medical Spanish and Cultural Competency for Health Care", hizo una excursión al dpto. de salud pública del condado McLean.
Grupo de estudiantes en Barcelona 2013
SALSA presenta su evento anual Barrio Fiesta! Every year the Spanish and Latino Student Association celebrates Hispanic/Latino heritage and culture through song, dance and food by representing countries such as Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, and more. 11
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Olivia Semeria ('13)
Ivy Craig ('14)
"I think that my Hispanic Studies major sets me apart because I am now equipped to work with so many more people and on so many more issues because of my understanding of the Spanish language and culture. In today's global society, you can't deny the value of that."
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Congratulations Class of 2013 Hispanic Studies Majors/Minors
Luis Leal Fund
Prof. Mauricio Parra has established the Luis Leal fund that funds IWU students' research in Hispanic Studies at IWU and abroad. The financial support of this fund comes directly from the sales of Mitos y leyendas de México, a collection of 20 popular legends recreated by the author, Luis Leal, and edited by Prof. Parra. The book, which includes original illustrations by acclaimed Mexican painter Álvaro Ángeles Suma, has been published in a bilingual edition. All proceeds will be used to fund the scholarship. Order a book (or two!) and be part of the supporting future students' research. To receive a copy, please fill out this form. For more information visit http://www.iwu.edu/hispanic/luis-leal/
ORDER & PAYMENT Mitos y Leyendas de México
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*Donations do not include Shipping and Handling fees. Please include $2.50 for the first book and $1.25 for each additional book. SHIP TO First Name Last Name Maiden Institution Name Home Address Zip City State Code Home Work Phone Phone Cell Phone E-mail Address Make checks payable to Illinois Wesleyan University - Luis Leal Fund Send this completed form and your payment to Luis Leal Fund * Hispanic Studies Department * Illinois Wesleyan University P.O. Box 2900 * Bloomington * IL * 61702-2900
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Inspectah Deck says 'F— Joe Budden' On Stage, Budden Responds
At the Washington, DC stop on the Rock the Bells tour yesterday, an irate Inspectah Deck took the stage and dissed Joe Budden immediately after a performance by Budden's group Slaughterhouse, which also features Royce, Joell Ortiz and Crooked I.
According to reports, Deck said "F— Joe Budden!" while Budden and crew were backstage. Rumors immediately began to circulate saying Wu-Tang rushed Budden on stage, and that Budden and Raekwon fought, both of which proved to be untrue.
Budden was quick to clear up the situation in a post-show video blog. "I'm not gonna beat anybody up," Budden began. "That that was my initial reaction to hearing that he did that dumb s— on stage, which lets me know how much of a f—–' coward he is."
In the video, which you can view here and below, Budden made sure to clear up the rumors about his brawling with Rae, saying "There was no scuffle, there was no fight. I didn't even talk to Raekwon. I just went looking for n——."
Budden claims that his groupmates and the tour organizers forced him to hold back from doing anything further than "look" for Deck. "Never in my solo career could a n—– just on stage and just say f— Joe Budden and it be ok. It took a lot for me to leave that rock the bells venue without finding him," Joe said.
The beef stems from an incident a while back, when Budden said he considered himself a better rapper than Method Man in an interview with Vibe. Although Budden and Raekwon appeared to have hugged it out, Deck jumped in the ring last week with a diss to Budden called "House N—-"
Though Budden originally claimed he was letting the diss go out of respect for the Wu, in his video after the Rock the Bells incident he claimed to be working on a response, and hinted at having considered using the Wu's 'Triumph' instrumental to rock over.


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Interactive Math Lesson – Dividing Decimals (PowerPoint)
Download my Math Interactive Whiteboard Lessons and flash games here: iwb-resources.blogspot.com Lesson Title Dividing Decimals File: Interactive Math PowerPoint presentation Grade: 6 Things to Do in Dividing a Decimal by a Whole Number 1. Place the decimal point in the quotient directly above the decimal point in the dividend. 2. Divide as you normally would (DMSBR) Divide Multiply Subtract Bring down Repeat or Remainder Dividing a Decimal by a Decimal 1. Move the decimal point in the divisor to the right, until you get to the end of the digits. 2. Count how many places you moved that decimal. 3. Move the decimal point in the dividend the same number of places to the right that you moved the decimal point in the divisor.
Categories: Powerpoint Lessons Tags: decimals, divide, Dividing Decimals, how to, interactive math, interactive resources, iwb, Lessons, Math Lesson, mathematics, maths, number, powerpoint, smartboard, Teach, teacher, Whiteboard
Thanksgiving Dinner Math Word Problems Powerpoint
This is a Thanksgiving Math Powerpoint Lesson that involves students using multiplication and addiiton to solve word problems involving food that is bought at the store for a Thanksgiving dinner. This also involves using money and decimals. For more information about thie activity, please see www.uniqueteachingresources.com
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Fractions, Decimals, and Percents Math Lesson
Join Mr. F and Biff as they explain the differences and similarities between fractions, decimals, and percents. You will also find the more educational videos, KeyNote and PowerPoint lessons, resources and helpful articles at PrincipalsList.com. Please stop by and check out the resources available to you. Enjoy!
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Backtracking is part of the game's makeup, but thanks to the gradual introduction of new toys to play with, it's usually a pleasure. The map of Underland is a jigsaw that you can manipulate and reconstruct at will, creating shortcuts between faraway levels. You find new pieces at a gradual pace, and for me, wrapping my head around the subverted, distorted reality of the gameworld was Alice in Wonderland's most challenging and inventive concept.
There are plenty of lovely DS-control-based moments - blowing away stacks of cards, or boats with playing-card sails across rivers. Walking and jumping work well, assuming you remember to point the cursor exactly where you want to go, and Alice only occasionally has attacks of stupidity and fails to follow you. You activate character powers by holding down any button and tapping the screen.
But Alice in Wonderland asks rather a lot of touch controls alone. Basic combat is needlessly fiddly, involving a confusing combination of frantic tapping and precise swipes. From time to time, the Red Queen sends her knights to try to capture Alice; they appear from a vortex, sending Alice running away screaming. You attack by tapping, but sometimes you're required to roll or block with accurate timing, and it can all be a bit of a muddle.
Boss fights are much better, as they're usual more puzzles than straight combat. They look fantastic, too - the character design and animation standards are strikingly high. The Cheshire cat runs and leaps with grace, giant dogs lumber menacingly, McTwisp runs with a spring in his step, the Mad Hatter ambles distractedly and Alice always follows along with an appropriate expression of wonder.
Alice in Wonderland is rarely actually challenging. Even if one of the Red Knights does get the better of you, you simply get up on your feet again after a few seconds. Health pickups are in absurdly bountiful supply, bursting from every enemy and patch of grass in the Underland. Save points crop up every few minutes. The enemies wandering around are superfluous, as there's never even a remote danger that they'll prove fatal.
It all serves reminder that Alice in Wonderland is designed with children in mind, which of course isn't necessarily a bad thing. Kids will appreciate the game's warped, cartoony look, cleverness and sense of humour more than its difficulty concessions.
Alice in Wonderland is surreal, dreamlike, well-crafted and very beautiful. It's always an unexpected pleasure to find a game that both understands and respects its licence, but more than that, it understands its audience - it's child-friendly without being patronising, and endlessly creative in its puzzle design. A few control quirks and repetitive combat hardly dull its appeal.
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This TV Theme Song Medley Is About to Totally Freak You Out (VIDEO)
Have a deep and abiding love for TV theme songs, but your busy schedule doesn't allow you to catch all of them in their entirety when they're on the boob tube? Don't worry, this dude (yes, dude—singular) has you covered. Or at least he has a bunch of TV theme songs covered.
Behold, Swedish musical sensation Fredrik Larsson performing a guitar-and-keyboard duet of 22 television themes—including those for The Simpsons, That '70s Show, Malcolm in the Middle and The Office—in just under seven minutes. And no, that's not Fredrik's twin brother Tedrik jamming along with him—just the somewhat disconcerting effect of a split screen at work as Larsson, uh, plays with himself. Because, really; twins playing a TV-theme medley would jut be silly.
Click the vid below and prepare to be amazed—or at least thoroughly entertained—for the next 6:58.


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Editor's note: Young Writers Project, a Vermont nonprofit dedicated to helping students write well, will be sharing several exceptional pieces of best student work each week at VTDigger.org for special display over the weekend. We hope you appreciate the young writers' viewpoints, imagination and experiences. Please let us know what you think.
Sophia Cannizzaro
a home-schooled eighth-grader from West Glover
Everything in my brain
Connects to you
Everything I say
Reminds me of you
Everything I write
Is about you
Everything I do
Is for you
At first
You were a small part of me
But now
Now, your words have replaced mine
Your feelings have replaced mine
Your spirit has replaced mine
I am a caged bird
With no wings
To struggle with
I'm all mixed up with you
Twisted and tangled
Bent and broken
Wired to you
Like a bonzai tree
Grafted to you
Like an apple tree
I'm not sure I can get myself
Away from you
Without destroying something
I don't know if I should treat this
Or let it run its course
I could lessen the symptoms
But it wouldn't fix
The problem underneath
If that's even what it is
Is loving you a problem?
Are you bad for me?
Am I going to dissolve into you?
Are you terminal?
About YWP
YWP publishes about 1,000 students' work each year here, in 19 newspapers across Vermont and in parts of New Hampshire and on Vermont Public Radio. It runs an online teen writing community, youngwritersproject.org, which has only one rule: be respectful. It works with teachers in 63 schools who use YWP's unique, free digital classroom platform and provides many with ongoing professional development mentoring and other teacher training. And it is developing NxN, a writing center at its Burlington headquarters. For more, go to youngwritersproject.org or ywpschools.net.
If you are a youth or you know a youth who is passionate about something and works hard at it, be it building models or flying or playing the drums or climbing cliffs, please contact Geoffrey Gevalt at [email protected] and tell him something about the youth and how to get in touch with her or him.


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Luau Information
The Hawaii Alive Luau Dinner & Show is held every Monday evening at the world-class Kauai Marriott Resort and Beach Club, located at 3610 Rice St., Lihue, HI 96766.
The Hawaii Alive Luau offers TWO CHOICES-
Option A: Show Only 7:30pm.
Enjoy an exciting evening with one of Hawaii's top dance company's. Meet the Punua family of entertainers, in an upbeat and fun filled event complete with live music, drums, dancers and fire! Held Outdoors at the Niihau Court (next to the Koi fishpond), amidst tiki torches & palm trees. Valet parking is Free, & the entrance to the luau show opens at 7:30pm.
Option B: Dinner & Show 5:30pm.
Arrive at the hotel at about 5:15pm. Valet Parking is Free. Check in at the lobby concierge to pick up your pre-paid dinner tickets. You will be seated and served poolside at Kukui's Restaurant for your pre-show dinner. You will be able to enjoy a quiet and relaxing dinner as you are served a plated Hawaiian Dinner, which includes the following-
Adult Menu : Kalua pork, huli huli chicken, lomi salmon, coconut glazed sweet potato and steamed white rice, haupia with sliced fruits. "Vegetarian" option also available upon request at time of reservation. Choice of one beverage: Mai Tai, glass of house wine, draft beer or soda.
Keiki (child) menu(ages 2-12) (Infants under 2=Free)
Choice of:
- Grilled cheese sandwich
- Cheeseburger
- Chicken tenders
- Margarita pizza
- Choice of side: french fries or veggie sticks
- Choice of beverage: milk, juice or soda
- Dessert: Hawaiian pineapple & watermelon
After dinner, many of our guest enjoy snapping their own family photos at the white sandy Kalapaki Beach, which featured John Wayne in the movie Donovan's Reef, or watch surfers and beachgoers unwinding as the evening begins!
Then make your way to the secluded Niihau Court, next to the Koi fish pond, for the amazing Hawaii Alive Luau Show! Doors open at 7:30pm. Show concludes at 9:00pm.
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Message from the Associate Dean
Our faculty teach graduate students and do substantial research within the Kate Gleason College of Engineering and in several other colleges here at RIT. Some of our research is focused on the fundamentals of engineering principles, while other research focuses on engineering applications and some on the technology that supports those applications – the magic behind the TECH!
That magic is nano-science and engineering or microsystems engineering. We offer and PhD in microsystems engineering – the only one of its kind in the world. The broad application areas of research are Transportation, Energy, Communications, and Healthcare. This constitutes our PhD in engineering.
Within these broad areas, faculty and graduate students are conducting research in a variety of focus areas and industries such as:
- advanced materials
- computer vision
- embedded systems and control
- high performance computing
- operations
- photonics
- semiconductor processing
- supply chain and logistics
- sustainability as it applies to all of the broad areas mentioned above
Graduate students may also take advantage of the AMPrint Center where our faculty are involved in cutting-dege research in additive manufacturing adn 3D Printing. The following pages provide more details about research and specific faculty to contact for various areas investigation with links as appropriate. Here is a video that describes the program in detail too.
Information on our graduate programs can be found in these pages too with helpful links to program sites.
Dr. Edward Hensel, P.E.
Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, KGCOE
Ph.D. in Engineering Director


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With David's passing, it has given us pause to look back at our company throughout the years. David Morgan began as Austral Enterprises in 1962. Many items that found their way into the catalog began as unique items that David and Dorothy found in Wales. (David spent much time there over the years and could speak Welsh. He was a staunch advocate for Welsh independence.)
The photos below were taken from a catalog in 1980. The models are usually family and friends. Enjoy this blast from the past.
Welsh Fisherman's Smock
Hickory Shirt (not the same maker of our current Hickory Shirt.)
Medical Sheepskin
The Slouch (we still carry the Slouch, and nothing has changed on this Classic.)
And nothing has changed on caring for your Akubra!


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From: "Ellis R. Brockman" <>
Subject: [CALLAHAN-L] Dennis Callaghan of Allegheny co., VA
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 18:29:02 -0700
>Dennis CALLAGHAN was the keeper of the famous stage stop, Callaghan's
Tavern, in Allegheny co., VA. This location is now known as Callaghan, VA.
He was born in Ireland about 1750; married Margaret ATKINSON at
Fredericksburg, VA on 22 Dec 1786 and he died about 1820 in Allegheny co.,
VA. The children of this family:
>1. Julia, married a Mr. YATES
>2. John "Jack," born 14 Nov 1787, married Maria Holliday PULLIAM
>3. Charles, born 15 Mar 1789, married Nancy Agnes PERSINGER
>4. Thomas, born 27 Sep 1790, married Elizabeth Jane CAMPBELL..they moved
to Boone co., MO.
>5. Dennis, Jr., born 14 Jul 1792, married Sarah E. JEWELL..they moved to
Boone co., MO and later to Benton co., AR.
>6. Sebastion "Beston," born 7 Mar 1794, married first, Cynthia STEPHENSON,
m2 Hannah Sharp/DORCHESTER, m3 Jane S. DANIELS. He also ended up in
Benton co., AR near his brother, Dennis.
>7. Eleanor, born 12 Nov 1795, married George SHIRKEY.
>8. William, born 4 Jul 1797, married Asenath THOMAS. They moved to Marion
co., MO. One of his ancestors wrote the book called "The Callaghan Mail."
>9. Oliver, born 17 Jun 1799, married Elvira W. WILEY. He was the first
Clerk of the Court in Allegheny co., VA and later he moved to Botetourt
co., VA where he published the Fincastle Democrat.
>10. Mary, born 5 May 1801, married Israel JONES.
>11. Jefferson, born 10 Jan 1803, died young.
>12. Julia (II), born 10 Jul 1804, married Isaac STEELE.
>13. Margaret, born 4 Jul 1806, died young.
>I will be most pleased to correspond with others who are interested in this
>Ellis ()
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Bonnie D. Huval, originally from Texas, has worked as an engineer in oilfield services and at the Johnson Space Center as well as a consultant helping companies with dispatch, transaction, and automation systems. From 1983 to 1986, she served as the director of the National Organization for Women (NOW) South Central region and greatly improved the financial situation of the nonprofit organization. Now living in England, Huval's other business interests include real estate and property management. She is the author of business books including Make Sure You Get Paid-And Other Business Basics (2004); Get Paid! : As Much As You Deserve, and On Time (2009); and Nobody Mentioned That! : Essays for Small Business, USA-UK (2009). Additionally, Huval gives presentations and produces materials to help small businesses be more successful.
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Correspondence, classified files, financial records, chapter records, convention information, speeches, books, manuals, addresses, directories, mailing lists, memos, mail receipts, bumper stickers, posters, notes, notebooks, newspapers, newsletters, minutes, reports, studies, news clippings, photographs, artifacts, and transparencies comprise the Bonnie D. Huval Papers, 1977-1992. Huval's classified files pertain to the National Organization for Women (NOW), the NOW South Central region, and Texas NOW, including national board meetings and other NOW sessions, the 1987 NOW Convention in Philadelphia, NOW elections, and membership. The materials document NOW board activities and include organizational records such as the NOW policy manual, and relate to Huval's activities with Texas NOW and as the NOW South Central Regional director along with some personal activities. Additionally, the papers concern feminism and women's issues in general. Other topics documented in the collection are human rights for women, the physically challenged, and minority groups, including specific issues such as pornography, reproductive rights, sexual harassment, and political matters such as state legislation, voter registration, and presidential campaigns.
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