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The 18th Annual Wisconsin WinterFeis
Wisconsin WinterFeis is January 14, 2017
Member of the North American Feis Commission, President: Lori Seeman
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Sponsored by the Cashel Dennehy Parent Booster Club
Welcome To Wisconsin WinterFeis
The 2017 Wisconsin Winterfeis will be held on Saturday, January 14th.
To contact the feis directly please email us at email@example.com.
Stage Schedule
The Stage Schedule is available HERE.
Competitor List
Click HERE for the final competitor list. If you have any questions about this list, please contact QuickFeis directly. This will not be available at the feis so please print out and bring with you or save to your mobile device.
Your entry as listed here is how you registered/what you paid for on QuickFeis.
Day-of changes/entries will be accepted with the $50 day-of fee.
We are very excited to return to The Olympia Hotel and Conference Center at 1350 Royale Mile Road in Oconomowoc, WI. The venue has so much to offer and we are looking forward to a wonderful weekend! Please check out all The Olympia has to offer at their website – www.olympiaresort.com.
The 2017 Syllabus is attached HERE. Registration will open on October 27th via QuickFeis. Make sure to get your entry completed and paid asap. See Syllabus for details on all of the important need-to-know dates for this year's feis.
Important dates to Remember:
- October 27th: Registration Opens on www.quickfeis.com
- January 1st: Registration CLOSED. All existing entries must be paid before this date to avoid late fees.
- January 2nd – January 7th: Changes/additions/payments for competitions already registered for can be made – $25 late fee will be charged.
- January 8th: No more changes/additions/payments – (all unpaid entries/competitions will be dropped) *See Rule 14 re: figures.
- January 13th: 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.: Pre-Registration at the Olympia
- January 14th: 7:00 a.m. Registration Opens, 8:30 a.m. Feis Begins Promptly
- Competitor list, adjudicators and musicians list, vendors and stage schedule will be posted on feis website when available. ABSOLUTELY NO CHANGES/ADDITIONS January 8th – 13th*See Wisconsin Winterfeis Rule #14 for exception regarding figures.*Day of Feis changes/additions will be allowed for a $30 fee.*Day of feis registrations for a $50 fee as well as entry fees.***No day-of new registrations if cap is met, though.
Venue Map
Click HERE for a venue map – this shows the layout of the area being used by the feis.
Important Information
- All Preliminary and Open Championship competitions will begin with soft shoe and will be run youngest to oldest. These competitions will not begin before 9:30 a.m. and will follow after the competition of the First Feis and Beginner 1 competitions.
- First Feis, Figures and Beginner 1 competitions will be held right at the beginning of the day. All Under 11 and younger Beginner 2, Novice and Prizewinner will follow after the completion of First Feis, Figures and Beginner 1. Under 12 and older Beginner 2, Novice and Prizewinner will follow after the completion of Under 11 and younger. Soft shoe will be first for all ages and all levels.
- All competitions at all levels will be danced 2 at a time.
- Pre-registration will be held in the lobby of the hotel Friday evening, January 13th, from 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Saturday morning, registration will open at 7:15 a.m. All stages will begin at 8:30 a.m.
- A 30 minute lunch break will be taken at an appropriate time on each stage.


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The wedding is over, the tropical(ish) mini honeymoon is behind us, and it's barely breaking double digit temps here in Chicago. Talk about a reality check. And as though that wasn't enough, by some freak accident of fate and misery, we had no heat or hot water from Sunday afternoon to Monday at lunch time, which – for someone who likes baking with a gas stove or, you know, generally not dying of exposure – was kind of a bummer.
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I don't quite know how to say this but this tart is one thousand percent worth the credit. It's entirely grain free and sweetened with dates and a tiny bit of maple syrup, but the crust is moist and flaky, the pecans are crunchy and toasted, and the filling can only be described as creamysilkysweetbutnottoosweetmildlycaramelydeeprichperfection. You know what I'm saying.
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- 8 large pitted medjool dates soaked in hot water to soften if necessary
- 2 large eggs
- 2 Tablespoons molasses
- Pinch of salt
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3/4 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/4 cup vegan butter or shortening melted and slightly cooled
- 1 cup large pecan halves
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With the processor running, add the melted butter in a thin stream.
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Anatomy and biomechanics
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• Describe how a fitness facility operates.
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Clientele with special needs
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• Design a programme that promotes risk management and safety.
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• Analyse the most common forms of injuries.
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• Be knowledgeable about the theory of team dynamics.
• Pinpoint the factors which affect team dynamics.
• Review the effectiveness of team dynamics.
Operate a computer
• Describe how a computer is made up and be able to operate it.
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Research project
• Plan a research project.
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- The National Certificate in Fitness is the minimum certification required by both Virgin Active and Planet Fitness gyms locally and will allow you to work as a personal trainer in their facilities
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Courses are available at any time and can be started when it suits you
- CATHSSETA (Culture, Arts, Tourism, Hospitality, Sport Sector, Education and Training Authority) accreditation code: 613/P/000193/2012.
- SAQA ID 23374 level 5.
Once you've been deemed competent in your theoretical and practical components of assessment, you'll be issued REPSSA (Register of Exercise Professionals in South Africa) and Trifocus Fitness Academy certificates.
Course admission requirements: NQF 4, Grade 12/Matric, or Age Exemption
Course credits: 137
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If you aren't able to get to one of our lectured classes, and have access to the Internet, you can complete this course using our online learning platform. Through the videos, questionnaires and forums on your dedicated learning portal you will be able to have the full benefit of our world-class education – when it's convenient for you
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Please note: If you choose this option, all study material is online. No hard copy study material will be sent to you.
We also offer the option of correspondence learning for all our courses. With this option, we will send you all the course material – that you will need – via courier. If you have any questions, our student support team is available – on the other side of the phone – to help.
At various locations throughout South Africa, we hold classes that are led by an instructor who is an expert in the discipline being taught. The benefit of this type of learning is that you have access to the knowledge of an expert in the field who will be able to answer any questions you may have and make the subject come alive for you!
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Two events on Thursday have prompted me to do a little blogging about blogging today. More specifically, to say a word about what I'm doing here.
The first was a glance yesterday at my Facebook page. This is the professional one, where the only business I do is the business of talking about politics and policy (so, sorry, but no cute pictures of my kids or grandkids . . . and no embarrassing photos of me or others, either!).
My eye fell once again on a comment posted by a visitor a month ago, demanding that I declare myself to be "left or right."
The other was a phone call from the local ABC affiliate asking if I would assist with their election night coverage next Tuesday, when voters in Pinellas County will decide who will represent Florida's 13th Congressional District, where the late Congressman C. W. Bill Young had served since 1970.
My "media career" as a "political analyst" has covered a fairly extensive waterfront. I have appeared on the Today Show (from Tampa; I haven't gotten a trip to the Big Apple out of it), all of the major network affiliates in Tampa Bay (including Univision), and various other radio and TV broadcasts, including some international moments. I've been quoted in both the Tampa Tribune and the Tampa Bay Times many more times than I can count, as well as an interesting assortment of other print publications across the country.
That's not necessarily because I'm great . . . it simply may be because I'm qualified and cooperative. I believe that, as a beneficiary of society's investment in higher education, I have a professional duty to make such expertise as I have available when the request is reasonable and can be met without unreasonable costs.
Another reason may be that, to the best of my ability, I approach each interview with a sincere effort to examine the situation from multiple perspectives and not to prosecute any particular political agenda, partisan or otherwise. I presume that's why I have appeared repeatedly on the FOX affiliate as well as the ABC affiliate, and why I am quoted in both of the Bay area's papers, whose editorial preferences are fairly divergent.
I think that's my mission. In an era in which so many sources are avowedly partisan or ideological and make no effort to balance their presentations, there's a need for balanced inquiry. Indeed, if the goal is an informed community of public servants and an informed electorate, that need is desperate. Because neither the right nor the left, neither the Democrats nor the Republicans, neither the business community nor labor . . . none of the "sides" of any divide we might imagine have a monopoly on truth.
And neither do I.
I have convictions. I have preferences. And, undoubtedly (and much to my embarrassment, when I encounter them), I have prejudices.
Sometimes, those personal traits are the driving force behind what I write, as they were in the case of the Pasco movie theater shooting and AOL's rationalization for cutting employee retirement benefits.


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We make pets part of the family for many different reasons—fun, companionship, exercise, to teach responsibility. Now add a surprising new benefit for our kids: a strong and positive influence on development that may be as strong as that of siblings.
Kids REALLY see pets as part of the family.
It's a relationship that brings them even more satisfaction than having a brother or sister, new research shows.
They get along better with these furry sibs too.
(Maybe no surprise on that last part.)
The new insights into the positive influence of the child-pet bond come from a long-term study of children's social development at the University of Cambridge. Researchers in the Centre for Family Research there have been following a group of kids since age 2. Now the kids are 12, deep in the preteen drama years, as they pull away from parents into outside attachments. Conveniently, just over three-quarters of the families in the study had pets, similar to the national averages for households with kids in both the U.K. and the U.S.
A tighter bond?
The study, published in the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, reports that:
- Both boys and girls got more satisfaction from their pets than their siblings.
- Both boys and girls say they fight less with their pets than their siblings.
- Dogs seem to bring kids the lowest levels of conflict and the greatest satisfaction and companionship. Just under half the kids in the study had dogs. Just over half had a pet of another species—27 cats, 4 rabbits, 4 guinea pigs, 4 hamsters, 4 fish, 1 chicken, and 2 that were unspecified.
- Girls confided in pets more, and argued with them more, than boys did. Possible reason: Adolescent girls are generally more communicative than boys.
"The fact that pets can't understand or talk back may be a benefit, as it means they're completely non-judgmental." says Matt Cassels, the study's lead author and a PhD candidate in developmental psychiatry.
Unlike unburdening to, say, a journal—which is also nonjudgy and therapeutic—a pet has the added benefit of being empathetic, he notes.
And unlike unburdening to, say, an older brother, Fido isn't going to push you away and call you a doofus.
Why it matters that man's best friend is kids' best friend:
Though there's been a ton of research about the "human-animal bond," surprisingly little has been done on how kids feel about their pets relative to how they feel about other family members, says Cassels. But given how close kids feel to their pets, these insights can provide an important window to kids' social and emotional development, he says.
Other data from the study shows that kids who have a strong relationship with a pet also seem to show more pro-social behaviors—helping, sharing, cooperating—than their peers. The support of pets is especially important to kids in times of adversity such as illness, parental divorce, or grieving.
So maybe all that nagging over filling the water dish is worth it…
Cassels himself had at least a dozen pets while growing up in Canada—"one guinea pig, two hamsters, several fish, one budgie (though short-lived), a rabbit, three dogs, and two ponies," he told me. ("Quite the menagerie, really.") But his work shows that just one is all it takes to help our kids grow up kinder, calmer, and more secure.


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Reading Choices
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Great choice! and you are being cheered by #TeamKing! so it has to be a good sign ;) I loved that book and hope you enjoy it as well!ReplyDelete
I've had people tell me it's a must-read for at least a decade now, but King's a challenge no matter which book you choose. Carrie and Christine left me feeling almost traumatized, so there's no telling how I'll come away from this one!ReplyDelete
I was considering Gerald's Game for this readathon, but the week got busy and I never made it to the bookstore. I read It ages ago, but it definitely made an impression. Happy Reading!ReplyDelete
I've got so many of King's books, and I NEVER read them. This is true for so much of my overall collection, and it needs to change. So many books I've set aside for some vague notion of "someday", and I'm not getting any younger!Delete
Great opening post. Look forward to seeing how you have been doing. Hope it's been fun for you!ReplyDelete
Thanks! Coffee hadn't even had time to cool, let alone kick in, but I had a strong start that's making a comeback now that the final hours are approaching. One of these days, I'll approach the Read-a-thon properly prepared and organized, and on that day I think I'll miss the seat-of-my-pants feeling terribly.Delete


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Fagan sees off spirited Limerick
St Patrick's Athletic 2-0 Limerick
St Patrick's Athletic dominant second-half display helped them claim a comfortable 2-0 win in their FAI Cup last-16 clash at Richmond Park last night.
Pat's opened the scoring through Conan Byrne after his shot took a deflection off Limerick defender Robbie Williams three minutes before half-time.
Their second finally arrived on 77 minutes with Christy Fagan heading home after a dominant second-half display from Liam Buckley's side.
The visitors took the game to their top-flight opponents to begin with.
Limerick had the first real chance of the match after four minutes, but Lee Lynch's shot from outside the Pat's box flew over the crossbar.
The previously undefeated visitors, enjoying a runaway lead at the top of the First Division, certainly did not look of their depth against the Saints, but they failed to take advantage of some good possession before the tide eventually turned.
Pat's had a decent penalty shout on 26 minutes when Jamie McGrath was taken down by Williams. Referee Tom Connolly opted against awarding a spot-kick, but McGrath admirably rose straight to his feet, centring the ball for Fagan, whose shot hit the bar before Limerick cleared it.
The hosts had been slightly sloppy up to this point, but they were gradually wresting control of the game.
The opener came on 42 minutes as Keith Treacy pinged a ball towards Byrne, who worked his way into the box before letting off a shot that took deflection off Williams past keeper Freddy Hall.
Pat's nearly went two up soon afterwards, but Ger O'Brien's curling effort from outside the box in injury-time was punched over by Hall.
Saints again come close to doubling their lead seconds after the break as Fagan's shot was blocked after good work from Ian Bermingham, while Byrne's blast from outside the box was touched over by Hall five minutes later.
It was pretty much all Pat's at this stage, with Fagan and Byrne creating regular openings, while their defence was well marshalled by Seán Hoare.
Mark Timlin tested Hall again after a mazy run on 69 minutes before a long-range shot from Saints sub Graham Kelly tested the keeper.
Hall was helpless to stop the Saints second, however, as Fagan pounced after 77 minutes after Hoare had headed on Timlin's corner towards the striker.
St Patrick's Athletic - B Clarke; G O'Brien (c), D Dennehy, S Hoare, I Bermingham; C Byrne, L Desmond, K Treacy (G Kelly ht), M Timlin (D Markey 90), J McGrath (S Kinsella 86); C Fagan.
Limerick - F Hall; S Kelly, Paudie O'Connor, R Williams, S Tracy (G Coughlan 86), S Kenny (S Russell 63); Paul O'Conor, S Duggan (c) , A Greene; L Lynch; C Mulhall (J O'Flynn 63).
Ref - T Connolly (Dublin)
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Styx - Return to Paradise Trailer (1997)
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A video diary from the "Return to Paradise" tour, which saw the bombastic stadium rockers reunited after thirteen years of solo projects. Filmed on 1996's Autumnal Equinox -- a fittingly mystical date for a group so concerned with nature and magic -- their enthusiastic performance features prog rock staples like "Show Me The Way," "Grand Illusion," and "Come Sail Away."
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RSPO – it's hard to live with it – Business News | The Star Online
RSPO – it's hard to live with it – Business News | The Star Online
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But you cannot do without it
IT is never an easy ride for oil palm growers to be members of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), the world's first palm oil certification body.
Many plantation companies subject themselves to the rigorous RSPO principles and criteria (P&C) process to obtain the voluntary RSPO certification, which validates the oil palm produced as certified sustainable palm oil (CSPO).
In recent years, the CSPO criteria is heavily demanded by importing palm oil nations such as the European countries and the US, and other consumers in the Western countries as well as the NGOs.
Despite complaints that the CSPO offtake is still low and its premium price dipping to about US$25 per tonne versus the non-CSPO oil, the number of individual planters from Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Latin America and Africa are still growing for the coveted RSPO certifications.
To date, RSPO has certified about 21.90 million tonnes of CSPO which represents 21% of the total world palm oil production.
The RSPO-certified palm oil comes from Indonesia 51%, Malaysia 42%, Papua New Guinea 5% and Brazil and Colombia with 1% each.
Why RSPO?
An industry player tells StarBizWeek that the RSPO strength lies in its multi stakeholder members – from oil palm growers, palm oil processors and traders, retailers, consumer goods manufacturers, banks and investors as well as environmental and social NGOs worldwide.
This is unlike the national-led palm oil certification bodies like the Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) and the Malaysian Sustainable Palm Oil (MSPO), which holds little credence in overseas markets.
"Oil palm grower members only represent about 17% of the RSPO's total members.
"The role of oil palm growers in the RSPO is also fast diminishing. Growers are outnumbered by the increasing number of RSPO retailers and processors that are in the supply chain and also the NGOs which are not in the supply chain.
"For a grower's point of view, I think the Western retailers and food manufacturers and the NGOs are the ones who dictate the hard and fast rules for oil palm growers/exporters who want to gain easier access into their markets," adds the industry player.
He says this resulted in the unprecedented moves by two top Malaysian plantation companies IOI Corp Bhd and Felda Global Ventures Holdings Bhd (FGV) which recently took matters into their own hands to address the loopholes in the stringent RSPO P&Cs issues.
But ironically, both IOI Corp and FGV still wish to remain as an RSPO member, hence indicating the signifiance of RSPO-certificates in their CSPO trading abroad.
For IOI Corp, the temporary suspension by RSPO of its certifications due to alleged non-compliance by its subsidiaries in Indonesia to the RSPO P&Cs bears negative impact on the group's overall CSPO trading in Europe.
The suspension saw top multinational brands such as Unilever, Kellogg's, Colgate-Palmolive, Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, SC Johnson, Yum! Brands and Nestle which are also RSPO members announcing that they would temporarily stop sourcing palm oil from the IOI group.
Maybank Investment Bank says in its recent report: "IOI Corp has established EU customers and MNCs who may not view the suspension favourably even though IOI Corp is also ISCC (International Sustainability and Carbon Certification) certified.
Of IOI Corp's RM11.6bil revenue in 2015, 36% was derived from the EU and 15% from the US, it adds.
To counter the impact, IOI Corp last week announced that it had filed a challenge proceeding with the Justice of Peace (JP) in Zurich where the RSPO is based.
Under Swiss law, an action to challenge the decision of an association must be filed within one month after the decision was made. A conciliatory hearing will be held before the JP, who will act as a mediator between the two parties.
However, IOI states the challenge proceeding is a "separate matter" from its ongoing implementation of the concrete actions as required by the RSPO.
An industry observer said: "The issue here is for IOI to get its RSPO certification suspension lifted. It is not fair for RSPO to suspend its entire certifications when the alleged breach of P&Cs is in Indonesia."
FGV withdrawals
In the case of FGV, the voluntary suspension of its RSPO certificiations for its 58 mills nationwide has taken RSPO by surprise.
"FGV is willing to forego the CSPO premium it has enjoyed so far because it wanted to address the sustainability issues of its palm oil produced by Felda settlers/smallholders," says its new group president and CEO Datuk Zakaria Arshad.
The re-certification will take place in stages over the next three years.
By end of this year, FGV's 15 mills will be re-certified.
To date, about 60% of Felda's 102,100 smallholders have been certified under the RSPO. The CPO production from smallholders account for about 30% of FGV's total CPO production.
An industry source says: "The decision behind could be linked partly to the alleged breach of labour conditions at FGV plantations in the treatment of workers, leading to the suspension of the Pasoh palm oil mill in Negri Sembilan, which was filed under the RSPO complaint case trackers."
It is a smart move by FGV management before the top planter gets reprimanded by the RSPO for alleged breach of RSPO P&Cs, adds the source.
So far, there is no provision in the RSPO constitution that says an RSPO member can voluntarily seek suspension in certification and still remain as a member of the grouping.
Kenanga Research says in its report that the withdrawal of FGV's mill certificates could also lead to loss of high-end business, particularly in Europe and the US.
"Similar to IOI Corp's recent suspension resulting in a loss of business from several MNC clients, we think the same could be in store for FGV, although the earnings impact should be less severe given its smaller revenue base from Europe and the US (7%) compared to IOI Corp (51%)," it says.


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Go further inside the twisted mind of Norman Bates with a peek behind the upcoming shower curtain. BATES MOTEL is scheduled to return for a second season in March 2014. While you wait with baited breath for Season Two to begin, here are two videos to keep you on the line. So don your best mommy wig, grab the kitchen knife, and enjoy the ride…
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Dallas (Texas) South Oak Cliff wide receiver Lendy Holmes is still finishing up classes before hitting camps.
"I still have a full week of classes before I am done with this school year," the 6-foot-2, 180-pound Holmes said. "After that is done, then I can work on getting to some of the camps."
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The class schedule has already kept Holmes from making one camp he had hoped to get to.
"I wanted to go to Texas' one-day camp on Sunday. But, I had some things I had to be doing here for school that kept me from going. But, I'll get to some others later in the month."
Two already on Holmes' calendar are Oklahoma and Texas A&M.
"I'm looking forward to going to see those places and take in their camps. Those are two I want to learn a little more about."
Those two were among the many schools to call Holmes during the May calling period.
"Oklahoma, Texas A&M, Texas, Tulsa, Colorado, Kansas State and Arizona are the ones that are coming to mind right now. There were many others too, but those are the ones I can think of."
Holmes is beginning to work on a top five school list, and hopes to take some looks this summer in hopes of trimming his list down.
"I'd like to possibly take some unofficial trips to places this summer. It will all depend how things fall and how much time I have. But, I really would like to get to some campuses this summer."
Holmes plays both ways for South Oak Cliff and doesn't have a preference in college.
"Either way is fine for me. Some schools talk to me as an athlete while others say as a receiver. I just want to play. If I had to pick one, I'd probably say receiver, but it doesn't matter."


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Three poems from our Kentucky Music Issue.
A Kentucky Music Issue web-exclusive liner note.
Jim Ford's lone album is a twenty-eight minute, mystical celebration of the kid that got away—a hazy, bourbon-and-cocaine-fueled-funk-&-soul-honky-tonk cousin to Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run.
The Old Regulars sing loud. "You can't whisper it, it needs to have zip," one told me. Another: "If you can't shout down here, what are you gonna do when you get to Heaven?" There is an orderliness to their singing, a formal quality—it has the shape and thrust of liturgy. But it is also indisputably wild.
When I was growing up here in the 1980s, the larger world told us we had nothing to be proud of. As Eastern Kentuckians, we knew better. We had our people, our work ethic, and our land. And we had our internationally known musicians: Loretta Lynn, Tom T. Hall, Jean Ritchie, Patty Loveless, Dwight Yoakam, many others. In our little corner of Southeastern Kentucky, we had the Phipps Family—lesser known but still a great source of pride for us.
"Most blacks don't like country music," Steve Taylor told the AP in 1986 for a story headlined COWBOY STEVE PLAYS RECORDS FOR NO AUDIENCE, "but I've been country all my life."
A few seconds in, there came this sound. It filled the song and then it filled the room I was listening in. What was that? Like a fiercely shaken box of tacks. Like wind rattling dry leaves on a tree. But not either of those. Comparisons couldn't capture it.
A girl was singing in one of the houses we passed. The sound rose up on the wind and out of the brownstone and out of the window down to us on the air. This girl behind that fluttering window curtain was an odd bird whose song I craved. I walked slow and deliberate to try and catch every note. I wanted to tell Glory to hush. This moment felt important to me, like I had just discovered some world for the first time, but Glory kept talking and kept walking. Knowing that I'd miss the end of that song, that I'd never know how it ended, made me want to cry.
Interviews with Dwight—at least mine—always occurred on Dwight Time and largely in Dwight Space. About two hours before that first phone interview, Dwight called to apologize and say his day was crazy. Could we reschedule? I said sure, we set a time a few days later, and then he proceeded to talk for at least another hour.


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Internships for Long Beach students have been increased by 50 percent in the past year, an announcement that will proudly be addressed at Mayor Robert Garcia's second State of the City on Wednesday, January 13. The city is now ahead of schedule for meeting the mayor's goal of doubling internships in his first term, a commitment that came with the city's partnership in the Long Beach College Promise, the Office of Mayor Robert Garcia announced Thursday.
"Education is the most important investment we can make to boost economic development, and I'm extremely proud that we've been able to extend so many new internship opportunities to our young people so quickly," stated Mayor Garcia. "We could not have done it without our great partners at LBUSD, LBCC, and CSULB as well as the Pacific Gateway Workforce Investment Network, Long Beach CALL, and our partners in the business community, including Molina Healthcare. I'm very thankful for all of their hard work and leadership."
When Garcia took office, internship opportunities numbered about 1,500, according to the release. Since then, more than 750 new internships have been created for high school and community college students. The mayor will discuss the 800 additional preschool seats throughout Long Beach, made in the last year by LBUSD. He will also address new targets to be set by partnering with LBUSD alongside private providers.
Wednesday's address will be the first Long Beach State of the City translated into other languages, according to the release. Speakers of Tagalog, Khmer and Spanish who attend the event will have the option to use free headsets to hear a real-time translation of the mayor's speech. An American Sign Language interpreter will also be in attendance to translate for members of the audience who are hearing impaired.
Funding for these translation services comes out of the Language Access Program that was included in the Mayor's budget. The State of the City speech begins at 6:00PM on Wednesday at the Terrace Theatre, with a pre-event including music and food trucks starting at 5:00PM.


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Our first assignment involved listening to the words of two different people, but I want to dedicate a full post to the article and speech by Gardner Campbell. Ironically, I ended up agreeing with most of his points, but I still disagreed with his main argument – the most important point.
Actually, when I read the article he wrote ("A Personal Cyberinfrastructure"), I felt like I disagreed with pretty much all of it. Campbell's argument, if I read correctly, is basically that all University courses should be like the ds106 class that I'm writing this for, with each student getting their own web domain, online identity, etc. It's not that I think this is a bad idea, I just don't see what good it would do. True, it would teach students the kind of digital skills that would come greatly in handy later in life, but that's exactly what I'm taking this class for. Asking all classes to do the same would be kind of like a math teacher asking every class of every subject to include statistical analysis, or a science teacher asking all classes to have labs. Some skills have applications that reach to a variety of subjects, but that doesn't mean they must be taught outside of their respective classes.
Campbell's argument goes beyond that, though: he insists that the current setup, wherein students use Learning Management Systems (LMSs) like Blackboard.com is not only an inferior option, but actually detrimental; according to him, they discourage "the freedom to explore and create" among students. I find this argument outright ridiculous. They're not discouraging anything, merely making things simpler for students, who still are totally free to learn about online tools and such on their own time, or whenever the need arises. It's no different for bemoaning the invention of calculators for making math simpler, and thus removing the need to practice doing it by hand. It's a fallacy as old as humanity itself. I couldn't help but think of the printing press, which was considered heresy when it was invented because writing things by hand was just the right way of doing things. You can't blame those monks, really – they'd spent their entire lives painstakingly writing each book one by one, and now this Gutenberg guy comes along and makes pretty much anyone able to print thousands of copies at once. They must've felt cheated. No doubt that when the wheel was invented, some cavemen thought of it as a cheap way to avoid exercise. The difference in Campbell's case is that the technologies being dealt with are so new, he can frame it as wanting to take a step forward and further integrate classwork with the Internet, even though in reality it's going backward and making things unnecessarily complicated.
Those were my thoughts after reading the essay. So imagine my surprise when, in his speech ("No Digital Facelifts"), he uses the same Gutenberg example that popped in my mind… in his favor. Actually, I warmed up to his argument a lot more thanks to his speech, even if in the end I still didn't agree with it. I especially sympathized with his reference to LittleBigPlanet custom levels, and use of one of my favorite sayings, Sturgeon's Law: "90% of everything is crap". I completely agree with Campbell that the more potential innovators there are, the greater that other 10% will be. That's why I began agreeing with his idea of a more personalized, customizable online experience… for teachers. Students are a different matter.
I also agreed with Campbell when he quoted Clay Shirky in calling the newspaper industry's move online a "digital facelift". However, comparing that to University classes is comparing apples to oranges. With newspapers, the very existence of the Internet itself is a subversion of the authority they once held; it allows information to be distributed by almost anyone, not just those few who control the media outlets. The newspaper industry is doomed to die out, and journalism is bound to undergo a revolution, no matter what the newspaper companies do.
The same can't be said of education at all. In a University class, the Professor makes the rules. The Internet can't, and won't, change this. Students can't innovate the experience because they have no control over it. Sure, they can help each other, and there are more online tools by students, for students than I can even begin to list. I understand the argument to give professors more freedom in how they craft their class using the web (although sadly, too many professors are too uninterested in the web as of right now for it to matter much), but students aren't going to craft the class even if given the tools to do so.
Again, I may have interpreted Campbell's words wrong – he does use some jargon I'm not really familiar with. But it seems to me like he has a lot of good ideas, which he then interpreted in the wrong way. All of this brings me to my most important point: what kind of a first name is "Gardner", anyway?


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Just because living in a small space is prohibitive to things like 60″ LCD screens, walk-in closets, and side-by-side washer and dryer units, does not mean it is implausible nor irresponsible to have a proper first aid kit.


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Cabinet updated on Police and Crime Commissioner Elections
12:01am 15th May 2012
City of York Council's Cabinet will receive a report next week, which outlines details for an elected Police and Crime Commissioner for York and North Yorkshire.
At a meeting on May 15th Cabinet will discuss the changes in legislation (the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011), that will be in force later this year and will see police authorities replaced with directly elected Police and Crime Commissioners.
The Commissioner, who will be elected in November, will decide on policing strategy, the force budget and will appoint the chief constable. The Commissioner will have a remit to ensure community safety, to prevent crime and tackle drugs but will not have day-to-day control over operational policing.
Each police force area will also have a Police and Crime Panel which hold the Commissioner to account on behalf of the community this will be made up of local councillors and also be in place from November.
Elections for Commissioner take place on 15 November 2012. The council is taking a lead role for the Police Authority area, with City of York Council's Chief Executive Kersten England the designated Police Area Returning Officer for North Yorkshire and York. The area has an electorate of around 600,000 with 730 polling stations and approximately 90,000 postal voters.
Cllr Sandy Fraser, Cabinet Member for Crime and Community Safety, said:
"Throughout these forthcoming changes we are committed to ensuring the focus on partnership working and delivering community safety across the city is retained.
"I am also asking the council to look at how we increase the general public's awareness of these imminent elections given the limited information so far given to the issue by the Government and the intention to limit information about the nominated candidates to online information only."


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Kansas City based Mat Shoare's newest track "In Good Time" meanders slowly, beginning with sweetly sad "ooos" sung over distinctly Ennio Morricone tinged instrumentation. By the time the lead vocals kick in, the noir feel is already well established. With lyrics like "I've just been sitting, wondering where all the time has gone," it's a wonder that this track hasn't already been picked to soundtrack a dark hero's nightly pensive walks.
The video capitalizes on the track's incredibly cinematic feel, cutting quickly between vintage and current footage of a man wandering around his own town. Of the visual Shoare says: "This video was put together by Shae Mermis in Kansas City. We compiled some found footage that we thought fit the vibe for the song and also shot some cool footage of our own that mirrors the album artwork and also links up in a cool way with out found footage. The song is supposed to be kind of dreamy and foggy…so we went there with the video too."
Check out the video above and be sure to check out his new release Right as Rain on May 5th.


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