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To start a benefits "myth busting" thread so that I can link the thickos of Facebook to it(492 Posts)
When they start moaning about how people on benefits can afford diamond shoes and other such items.
I'll start.
1. Housing benefit is mostly paid out to WORKING people. So all of this talk of going out and getting a job and buying their own home if they don't like the bedroom tax is a flawed argument.
limited Yes, I am sure that would make their day. Hopefully the situation will never get that bad.
I also completely agree about the DLA forms, they are soul destroying and designed to try and trick you (lots of the same question, worded differently).
teenage mothers are not personally responsible for the downfall of civilisation
And for each "feckless teenage mother" there's a "feckless teenage father", but he's usually a lot less visible.
Plenty of feckless fathers around who don't pay what they should for their kids, and not necessarily teenage ones.
It's fucking horrendous filling the DLA forms in for a child.
It might as well be called the 'How to feel disloyal to your child and other self-esteem boosters'
Yes, and feckless fathers are a lot less likely to be left literally holding the baby as a badge of their fecklessness
(What is feck anyway, how can one be feckless)
Sorry OP, just spotted the word "benefits" in your title, I've made it more general
Benefits do not afford someone a lavish lifestyle, as the Daily Mail would have you believe.
£53 per week to live on
Housing benefit to cover rent, none left over
Council tax subsidised but still some needs to be paid, so that comes from £53 per week
Food, electric/heating/water bills and general life must be paid for from £53 per week.
Where is this lavish lifestyle coming from?
"So very many people with chronic, disabling medical problems which prevent them leading a full life or holding down a full-time job are being hit by the benefits cap, the bedroom tax, etc."
Yes. This is me. Although I do not get benefits because my husband's salary is too high. Unfortunately, we also have debt we are trying to pay off so his salary is not quite enough. And I earn very little Freelancing because I really can't work fulltime and really need to be able to take a day (or week) off when I need to because I feel so poorly.
Either way, Stealth, we're all fecked.
Technically still valid as a lot of the time this is the reason why Mothers might end up having to claim/claim more in benefits.
It takes 2 and people forget that.
Oh and if you have a spare room, 14% of your £53 is getting paid to the government.
Message withdrawn at poster's request.
There is not a plethora of smaller council accomodation for these fuckers with a spare box room to move in to. If you have a spare room you are fucked both ways: find a smaller property (you won't be able to) or pay up £14 per week (and maybe have no heating)
It's a total joke Marmalade some people are so scared that someone else might have something they haven't.
I posted this the other day on a thread it's another thing that rages me;
I hate hate the new trend of leaving 'letters' on Facebook pages.
Something like;
Ten Downing Street Page
Dear Mr Cameron
I'm just a ex-soldier who lost all his toes, I have a wife and 3 children. I have 3p in savings and a chicken.
I'm a just really old and frail person who worked for a hundred years carrying bricks.
<Insert tale of woe>
If I was an immigrant then I would get a free house and £50,000 a year on arrival.
<Insert more bollocks>
371,000 likes.
Disclaimer Obviously not an attack on actual soldiers or old people
Well, if he has a chicken...
An attack on them would be all right if they had a spare room.
It's a total joke Marmalade some people are so scared that someone else might have something they haven't."
And that is it, isn't it? This is the goverment's weapon in getting us to turn on the poorest people. They are getting something YOU are NOT, even though you are hard-working. Fuck that shit. I would not swap my life of working for the life of a person on benefits.I would not want to be at the mercy of this government. Never in a million years. People living on benefits and depending on the goverrment are to be pitied, not envied.
Ohhh, sweet Jesus, yes, please start a myth busting thread.
Although ... I am totally on your side against the immigrant/benefit bashers, but ...
Illegal immigrants sometimes get access to free services (eg., someone who's overstayed their visa can go to A&E like anyone else). Some illegal immigrants, who're still waiting to hear if they'll be classed as asylum seekers might get some charity support (it's shit, and it's fucking depressing seeing the hoops people have to jump through when they are here because they're in fear of their lives).
I know you know but I posted in the interests of not giving ammunition to those who like to jump up and down.
Some of mine:
- Women are not made of sugar and spice. They do not automatically love pink. It is not the soul of post-modern wit to make out that men 'lol, don't see dirt innit' while claiming 'men are very visual so they need porn to get off'. Only one of those things, at most, can be true, and I think we could all accept they're both - for want of a better word - bollocks.
- It's very hard to 'come here and get citizenship' by marrying an English person. DH still has no recourse to public funds. He has been educated here since he was 7, lived here full time since 18, and he's been married to me since he was 23. He's 26 now.
- Basically 'What SPB said because she is always right', but, I know plenty of women who were teenage mothers and they all seem to be doing very nicely for society, thanks very much, HE and all.
- The meme 'my mum slapped me and it did me no harm' is a pile of offensive shite. Nobody gives a fuck. Some people survive natural disasters, but we don't all pile on insisting that only wusses complain about an earthquake. So, let's accept if you didn't suffer from being smacked, that's nice, and the people who did suffer, maybe they deserve not to be put down with stupid comments like that?
- It is grindingly depressing and horrible to live on minimum wage and the state of a lot of rented housing (inc. private, but I'm sure that's the tiny tip of the iceberg) is utterly shit and shameful for a developed country.
It stuns me how many people do not realize that it is normal for people who rent their homes at the low end of the market to put up with mould - which they can only paint over - growing on walls, cupboards and ceilings and damaging their health. It is normal to put up with being very cold, and it's not that unusual to find that a 'reasonable' time in which to have a boiler repaired turns into weeks with no hot water.
This is not me having a go at the many decent or excellent LL there are, but I do think a lot of people who own their own homes would be shocked to see how slum-like rented properties at the low end of the market are.
Be nice if there were some full time jobs out there in the first place.
I am part time on permanent hours. It is not enough and I want to work full time but there are no jobs, unless I'm prepared to give up my permanent hours for temporary/maternity cover or go via an agency.
There are not loads of jobs out there, and many are zero hour contract jobs anyway.
So stop saying it's easy to get a job, it's not.
Oh god the DLA forms are soul destroying, they want to know the ins and outs of a cat's backside and they want you to word it 2,000 different ways.. DS had a for life award but apparently they've decided to change that so now I'll have to sit and fill it in again in Sept ... Oh joy.
YY usual.
Also, saying people should move to where the jobs are, is all very well if those jobs are permanent and sufficiently high-paid to cover your moving costs/get you a bank loan on the strength of the contract. If they're seasonal minimum wage, oddly enough, people will need to have money before they can afford to go moving across the country.
Seriously ... the number of times I've seen someone claim that if only the workshy people in the North East just moved down to London for the Christmas jobs they'd be minted.
'Foreigners' don't come over here and take our houses. They come here to work, and when they find that work (because they have the necessary skills relevant to the job, not because they're cheap labour, that's what the national minimum wage is for) a lot of them house-share. They don't waltz into the council office and get given keys.
Wrt Housing Benefit, if you are stuck in private rental (given the shortage of social housing, that's quite likely), then not only will you not have any HB spare after paying rent, you are quite likely to be topping it up out of what little money you do have.
My sister gets housing benefit and has had to urgently find somewhere to live.
You would think that she had phoned the estate agents (more than 10) and told them she was coming round to piss on their children at the reaction to the 'Do you accept housing benefit' question.
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POMONA, Calif. -- John Myers is one of the most humble champions in NHRA Winston Drag Racing, so it was a bit surprising to hear the words coming from his mouth a week before the Winston Select Finals.
"It's looking good," Myers said. "Well, it looks like we're going to get it . I know my team is working as hard as they can."
It's hard to blame defending NHRA Winston Pro Stock M otorcycle champion Myers for being confident. Titles aren't won with doubts, especially when the biggest showdown of Myers' career looms ahead.
Myers, from Birmingham, Ala., leads archrival Dave Schultz by just 22 points entering the 32nd annual, $1,416,000 Winston Select Finals, Oct. 24-27 at Pomona Raceway. Schultz must gain three more points in qualifying and advance one round further than Myers to win the championship.
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--Untimely loss: Dave Schultz lost in the first round at the Sears Craftsman Nationals last month at Topeka, Kan., on the Sunoco Suzuki GSXR, his earliest loss since losing in the first round to Steve Johnson in June 1993 at the Oldsmobile Springnationals in Columbus, Ohio.
Schultz entered the event with a 60-point lead over John Myers but left trailing Myers by 22 points. Myers capitalized on Schultz's problems by winning the race.
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--High praise: Just about everyone who watched the Pro Stock Motorcycle final at the Pioneer Electronics Keystone Nationals last month at Reading, Pa., was impressed with Angelle Seeling in her victory over five-time NHRA Winston champion Dave Schultz.
Even Schultz.
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Myers and Schultz have traded the NHRA Winston championship this decade, with Myers winning in 1990, 1992 and 1995 and Schultz in 1991, 1993 and 1994 . But the emergence of outstanding rookies Matt Hines and Angelle Seeling will create quite a crowd near the top of the NHRA Winston standings next season.
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"I don't think it will be just a John and Dave show next year," Myers said. "I think that if these guys and girls get a good start next year, I think it will be fun. But I sure don't want to change the number plate on my bike."
--Sizewise: While many Pro Stock Motorcycle riders must shave weight from their machines to approach the minimum weight of 600 pounds with rider, Angelle Seeling faces a unique problem.
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"It's an advantage in some ways or a disadvantage in others," Seeling said of her weight. "It's a disadvantage because I don't have as much weight as some of these heavier guys.
"Take Rick Ward, for example. He's got a 200-pound body driving his bike. If he veers toward the wall, he just leans a little bit and pulls it back. If I do, and I lean over, the bike just laughs at me and keeps going toward the wall. So I have to use so much more of my body weight and fight it so much more."
But there is one big advantage to Seeling's petite frame.
"I'm so small on the motorcycle that there's no wind resistance," Seeling said. "When I tuck in, I've had fans and the NHRA Safety Safari say the bike comes down track, and there's no one on it."
--Performance prediction: It's almost certain the elapsed-time track record for Pro Stock Motorcycle at Pomona Raceway will fall during this event, John Myers said.
Myers set the record of 7.496 seconds during the 1995 Winston Select Finals.
"The bikes are going a lot quicker than last year," Myers said. "It looks like we're about a tenth quicker. So if the weather permits, I think you can see a high .30, and I'd love to be the guy to do it."
--Schedule: Pro qualifying starts at 1:30 p.m. Oct. 24, one of only two professional qualifying sessions held on a Thursday this season. Qualifying will continue with a session at 1:30 p.m. Oct. 25, and finish with sessions at 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Oct. 26. Final eliminations start at 10:30 a.m. Oct. 27. Sportsman competition starts at 8 a.m. Oct. 24.
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- At the SURF home webpage, click the LOG IN TO SURF button. At the next screen in the MiraCosta College Single Sign-On prompt enter your SURF ID and your Password, then click the Sign On button.
- At the top left click Main Menu > Self Service > Enrollment > My Class Schedule.
- Select the term if applicable, then click continue.
- The class schedule will appear.
- To view your enrolled, dropped, and waitlisted class(es), select the respective checkbox for Show Enrolled Classes, Show Dropped Classes, Show Waitlisted Classes, and click the filter button.
- Click the Printer Friendly Page link to print your class schedule.


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mid-April, the Bulletstorm "Gun Sonata" is now finally available on PC. The meat of the DLC is comprised of three Anarchy mode maps: Sewers of Stygia, Hotel Elysium and Villa. The pack also includes two new Echo mode maps, Crash Site and Guns of Stygia.
Gun Sonata can be purchased for $10.


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The Antoni 'Premiere' ElectralinT low mass solid spruce body electric violin is a classic combination of craftsmanship and contemporary design with comfort contouring for good balance and great ergonomics.Traditional materials and building techniques provide the feel tonality and dynamics associated with an acoustic violin.The heart of the Antoni ElectralinT sound is the discreet bridge mounted vibration sensitive transducer which 'listens' to the bridge and body for a truly natural sound. The hum free preamp voiced for the electric violin is feedback resistance provides extensive tonal control and produces a truly breathtaking natural amplified tone for live work or silent practice.Melding the very best of the old and the new the Antoni ElectralinT is a player's instrument built to perform.Antoni Electric Violin Specifications: Contoured high gloss low mass solid spruce frame and scroll Satin finish maple neck Ebony fingerboard and nut Ebony 'heart-style' pegs with black pin and collar Ebony tailpiece with four silver finish adjustable fine tuners Ebony Guarneri pattern chinrest Selected maple bridge Octagonal Brazilwood bow with white tip nickel silver winding and leather lapped fitted with natural white horse hair Oblong 'nil-gravity' hard foam case with integral cover incorporating large external music pocket double zip closure and double shoulder strap Deep blue plush lined fitted interior and lid with large internal accessory pockets and luxury overlay cloth Rosin cake Onboard violin voiced preamp Professional vibration sensitive transducer pickup Unit senses bridge and body vibrations for a totally natural instrument sound with zero hum Discreet under-bridge transducer mounting Onboard preamp with volume and tone controls Integral 1/4/6.35mm jack socket facilitates amplification connection Silent headphone practice option Stereo lightweight headphones included Instrument to amplifier connecting cable included
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Northwest Olympic Athletes
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Category: Religious News
Air Travel - Profiling App
WASHINGTON (AP) - A Sikh advocacy group has launched a free
mobile phone application that allows travelers to complain
immediately to the government if they feel they've been treated
unfairly by airport screeners.
Launched at midnight by The Sikh Coalition, the FlyRights app
had fielded two complaints by 10 a.m. EDT Monday.
The first complaint came from a woman who said she felt
mistreated after she disclosed to a screener that she was carrying
breast milk. A man who is Sikh filed the second complaint, saying
he was subjected to extra security even though he had not set off
any alarms.
The app, available for iPhone and Android phones, was conceived
in response to complaints from Sikhs in the U.S, who say they're
often subjected to additional inspection. Singh said some are made
to remove their turbans, which Sikhs wear for religious reasons.


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With some fiddling, I was able to make this into a sleeveless dress. I'm not going to pretend that it came out exactly as intended, but nevertheless I had a great deal of luck and everything went smoothly with no ripping back at any time. The pattern is written out very clearly, but I had to make a big drawing and write out all of the stitch counts for a few rows to figure out how it was working. Once I figured out the mitered construction, it was fairly easy to extend it in order to make a full dress. There are some major quirks with the finished project (all having to do with me and not the pattern), but I'm very happy with it now that it's a new color!
I had to neaten all the edges at the top with crab stitch, since one armhole was knit with the stitches facing up, and the other was knit with the stitches facing sideways. One armhole also came out larger than the other, so I had to crochet a little to make it less obvious- an inelegant solution, but it works, more or less.
From looking at the pictures of other people's FOs, it seems that the placement of the swirl in my dress is slightly higher. While this was totally unintentional on my part, I think that it ultimately helped with the shaping of the dress. The bottom of the swirl falls at my waist, and the lower portion of the mitered construction flares out, resulting in a finished product with (unintentional, but thank goodness) waist shaping.
Also, I have a curse when it comes to buying yarn in colors I can't stand. For some reason, I always find yarns that look fine in the skein but awful knit into a fabric. The original pale salmon color was too sickly-fleshy to me (the bottom pic is the original!). I've dyed my dress brown using 2 packages of Dylon in Dark Brown (the dress is exactly 1 lb). The nylon only partially absorbed the color and looks like a lovely thread of copper running through. It even made some of the quirks of the dress seem less obvious :-).
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Well the good news is we have a deep bench that's ready to help out.
Oh wait.
I think he'll be fine...
i keep waiting for that hit-by-pitch,steal second, go to third on a ground-out,balk in a run offense to show up but so far not yet.
A Dodger better be catching a fastball with his face in the bottom half of the inning.
You can't be too careful with concussions if that's what he has.
Looks bad on Billingsley to hit a guy in the head on the first pitch after he has two hits. I know you want to keep him from diving out, especially with the hits going to right, but you can't elevate the ball in that scenario.
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About Coronado
Coronado is has become one of the most popular getaway destinations in the San Diego area due to its great architecture, wide range of restaurants, and miles upon miles of sandy white beaches. Pick up some stylish clothes at the trendy boutiques along Orange Avenue, or enjoy the nightlife at the bars with beautiful bay views on Strand Way.
While you're in Coronado, be sure to also make time for some of these must-see attractions and destinations:
- Spreckel's Building: This historic building hosts the many productions put on throughout the year by the Lamb's Players Theater, one of the largest professional theater companies in all of California.
- Silver Strand Bikeway: Running just over eight miles long, this bike path starts at Coronado and ends at Imperial Beach, providing fantastic views along the way.
- Silver Strand State Beach: In addition to being a great spot for surfing and swimming, this is also one of the few beaches in the area with ample options for fishing.
- Ferry Landing Marketplace: This popular local shopping area offers boutique stores, art galleries and great restaurants.
- Coronado Museum of History and Art: Learn more about the history and architecture of the town and go on one of the walking tours that highlight the historic buildings in the area.
- Hotel del Coronado: Admire the brightly colored Victorian style exterior of this hotel, recognized as a National Historic Landmark.
Anytime is a great time to visit because there is always something going on in Coronado. Sample food and wine from over 25 upscale local restaurants, all in the name of raising money for local charities during Taste of Hope in August, join the thousands of race enthusiasts who travel here for the motor sports extravaganza known as the Chrysler Classic Speed Festival in September, or visit the over 170 booths filled with local arts and crafts during the Annual Artisan's Alley Craft Fair in December.
Whether you want a sprawling condo that's steps from the beach, or a cozy villa with all the creature comforts of home, there's a vacation rental available in Coronado that has everything you are looking for in a vacation home.
Southern California is full of charming towns and big cities to enjoy, and Coronado serves as a great base for day trips to explore them all. If you have some extra time to explore, the beautiful beaches of Malibu, the upscale coastal community of La Jolla, and the big city of Los Angeles can all be reached from Coronado within two hours by car.


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Learning Portfolios
What exactly is a learning portfolio?
A learning portfolio is a collection of student work samples (e.g., a three-ring binder, Evernote, or web site) and some form of reflection by the student upon that work. As part of what some call "authentic" assessment (Sunstein, 2000), portfolios can give more robust evidence of student learning than can, say, a multiple-choice test. Recently, many have discovered that Canvas can be an efficient way for students and instructors to organize and exchange portfolio information, thereby limiting the back-and-forth exchange of clunky objects like three-ring binders and enabling collaboration portfolios (Liu, 2007).
Requiring students reflect upon their work is essential to put them in the mindframe for an honest back-and-forth discussion about their work.
Product portfolios vs. Process portfolios
Product portfolios are used for end-of-term evaluation with students choosing to showcase the best versions of the work samples required. After a class is finished, these can be used to show future employers the students' specific capabilities and experiences in the subject, a feature which is particularly appealing to professional schools (e.g., business, journalism, architecture and education).
Process portfolios document a student's growth across the semester, and are often required to be turned in to the teacher several times during a semester, with the teacher reviewing the updated contents and returning them to the student. The process portfolio can become a place where the teacher has a private, written "conversation " with the student about their work and its progress, which can be a satisfying experience for both teachers and students. In their research, Rickards and Guilbal (2009) identified three continua along which students reflections upon their work unfold as a course elapses:
- From concrete and narrow to complex and interpretive
- From demonstrating an outcome to probing the meaning of an ability
- From exploring their personal narrative in a field of study to seeing their future self in a wider context such as a professional and citizen
Extra dimensions of learning enabled by portfolios
Fink (2003) developed a Taxonomy of Significant Learning Experiences, built upon the three main components of instructional design: learning goals, teaching and learning activities, and feedback and assessment methods. Each of these components is comprised of several elements, fair descriptions of which would be beyond the scope of this brief introduction. Important here is Fink's emphasis on the power of the learning portfolio to "integrate and promote all three of the main components of instructional design" (p.118).
Portfolios collect many assignments and reflections that accrue around a student-chosen theme.
Five virtues of portfolios and five warnings about them
Schulman (1998, pp.34-35) identified five virtues of portfolios and five dangers. First, the virtues:
- Portfolios are not snapshot assessment - Because they require content of many kinds and usually reflection upon it, portfolios can capture deep learning across time. (Also described by Coleman, Rogers, and King, 2002)
- Portfolios reconnect process and product - They allow for a valuable integration of the course experience.
- Portfolios "institutionalize norms of collaboration, reflection, and discussion" - Conversations about the ongoing portfolio assignment can help students connect more meaningfully with the teacher, the content and one another.
- Portfolios can serve as a "portable residency" - Being able to show what a student has done can be much more effective than the student trying to tell someone the same thing.
- Portfolios put responsibility on the learner - By deciding what exactly to include in their portfolio (within assigned requirements), each student must by necessity take ownership of the learning experience the portfolio documents.
However, Schulman also identified five dangers of portfolios which lead to the following warnings:
- Beware "lamination" - When the focus of the portfolio becomes a slick, glossy, advertisement for one's self, the learning process suffers.
- Consider the amount of work for the teacher - Because they are individualized, evaluating a portfolio from each student can take a great deal of time.
- Avoid trivialization - Requiring every scrap of student work be included in a portfolio can detract from the material that does deserve reflective attention.
- Stay loose to avoid "perversion" - Rubrics can be very helpful for communicating expectations to students and evaluating a portfolios multi-dimensional content. However, if the rubrics become too exacting, they can "end up objectifying what's in a portfolio to the point where the portfolio will be nothing but a very, very cumbersome multiple choice test" (p.35).
- Consider the chance for misrepresentation - In product portfolios, the emphasis of showing the best of the best of a student's work might lead to a collection of materials that do not accurately reflect the students' level of day to day ability.
Teaching with portfolios
When a class uses portfolio assessment, students are told at the beginning of the semester what kinds of things to collect, in their portfolio and what to expect for evaluation of the portfolio. Some teachers let students pick a theme for the learning they are going to document with the portfolio, and many who teach inquiry classes use portfolio assessment because of the personalized nature of the portfolio. These teachers sometimes require students to fill out a learning contract to specify the details of their inquiry, and portfolios almost always contain some form of reflection assignment.
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Walter Eickhoff (1861-24 July 1924) was a cabinet maker and local politician in the Bethnal Green area.[1]
The son of William Eickhoff, cabinet maker and chairman of the Tower Hamlets Floricultural Society, Walter became a poor law guardian and for many years was chairman of the Bethnal Green Board of Guardians.[1] He was appointed to the Immigration Board of London, formed in 1906 to decide on right of refugees arriving via the Thames to remain in the country.[2] [3]
He became a member of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, serving for three years as chairman of the board's Infectious Hospitals Committee before becoming chairman of the board itself in 1922. He died suddenly while visiting the Hackney Homes, a MAB institution, at Brentwood, Essex, in July 1924, aged 63.[1]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Death of Mr Walter Eickhoff". The Times: p. 16. 25 July 1924.
- ↑ Members of Alien Immigration Board for London. Hansard.
- ↑ Settlement in the East End.


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About The River Academy
The River Academy was established in 1998 to serve parents by providing a rigorous Christ-centered education, steeped in Western Culture*, preparing their children to view every area of life and learning in the light of God's Word, to be fruitful, and ever increasing in the knowledge of God.
We currently meet at the Wenatchee Valley Baptist Church located at 650 Crawford Street in Wenatchee, and offer instruction for grades Preschool to 12.
The River Academy is a member of the Association of Classical and Christian Schools - (ACCS). The ACCS was started in 1993 by Logos School in Moscow, Idaho and has grown to include more than 130 schools worldwide.
*Western Culture refers to that culture affected historically by the influence of Christianity.


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Hangout Festival 2012
February 10, 2012 by staff
Hangout Festival 2012, This morning, promoters of the Deep South's biggest seaside music festival — Hangout Music Fest — announced its 2012 lineup. The, shall we say, diverse host of artists set to appear at the third installment of the right-on-beach hangout — which goes does down May 18-20 in Gulf Shores, Ala. — includes Jack White, Wilco, The Flaming Lips (performing Dark Side of the Moon), Gogol Bordello, Dr. Dog, Dawes, Yelawolf, The Alabama Shakes, Futurebirds and M. Ward, those being the names us cool kids give a flying eff about.
Steve Winwood, Mavis Staples, Randy Newman will head up the festival's Social Security-eligible contingent of supports. Cage the Elephant, Coheed & Cambria, Chris Cornell, Flogging Molly and Switchfoot will bring the RAWK. Paul Oakenfold and Skrillex will bring the beats. String Cheese Incident, Dispatch, STS9, Gary Clark Jr., G. Love and Special Sauce, Michael Franti and Spearhead and Julian Marley will bring the jams. … And (sigh) Dave Matthews Band headlines. Wouldn't it pretty trippy if a giant wave, you know, crashed into Dave on his command?
Roll tide.
Sounds like a pretty good frat party, amirite? Actually, I'm not right. There's no such thing as a good frat party. But it does sound like a damn fine beach party, potentially. So if you're lookin' to get crazy in Alabama come May, click on over to the festival's official site to purchase tickets and further peruse the lineup.
And if you're looking for more hints as to artists you can expect to see named on the still-unannounced Bonnaroo 2012 lineup, perhaps Hangout Festival's marquee provides some good food for prognosticative fodder. Last year the Bonnaroo and Hangout lineups overlapped by a dozen or so artists.
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