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text: This action film concerns Jim Paradine (Miles O'Keeffe), a stressed-out Miami Beach policeman who goes to the mountains to visit his friend Eli (Frank Fontaine), a local cop. While he's there, Paradine runs into the gang of crooks who murdered his family two years before and left him for dead. Peter Colvey and Jason Cavalier are the homicidal brothers, and Lynne Adams is their lesbian sister. The gang swipes a $2 million payroll from mountain loggers and kills a lot of people (including Eli), only to have the vengeful, crossbow-toting Paradine and local sheriff Mantee (Fred Williamson) come after them. A snowmobile flies off a mountain, a man dangling from a cliff is blown up with a grenade, and the film is packed with enough violence and nudity to satisfy genre fans, despite a somewhat lacklustre leading turn by O'Keeffe (Tarzan, the Ape Man). ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi


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Reality TV's odd couple Corey Feldman and Corey Haim are back, and boy are they not getting along perfectly still. The tagline for the second season of The Two Coreys, which returns Sunday night on A&E is: "Still making their mark on Hollywood…any way they can." Like by being on this show! Which I just made sure to DVR. I also just spent five mildly amusing minutes playing the new "Corey Vs Corey" promotional game, where you pick a Corey and fight the other Corey while serious sound clips from the show play incongruously in the background. Feldman has the power to blow sleepy fairy dust at Haim (super-mean since Haim is a recovering drug addict), and Haim can throw dirty socks at Feldman and fart on him (super-mean because he's a full grown real person). These powers are known in the game as "accomplishments." Seriously. I can't believe nobody has blogged this awesomeness yet!
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PNDE is a social pact and a citizen mandate as a result of an ample participation process which determines the guidelines that have to show the direction of education in the country up to 2016. However, its participatory nature did not smother with its formulation but it rather keeps intact since as part of its implementation all education agents in the country are involved as jointly responsible players. PNDE established concrete tasks for all interest groups related to education within their fields of action. For this reason, execution of PNDE is no exclusive task of the Colombian State but also that of all education agents.


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Capital markets dig insurance more than ever. The feeling isn't entirely mutual. By Matthew Brodsky
Catastrophe bonds have experienced tremendous growth since the hurricanes of 2005, say analysts, but some reinsurance executives are not buying what the capital markets are selling.
Total outstanding risk capital in CAT bonds nearly doubled from 2005 to 2006 to $8.48 billion, according to a Guy Carpenter report.
Sidecars, on the other hand, could be soon phased out as a vehicle for the capital markets to enter the world of reinsurance.
"Sidecars are a short-term solution," said James Matusiak, director at consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers.
That solution was needed after hurricanes Katrina, Wilma and Rita, which explained the $3 billion in sidecar activity after those 2005 storms, said James Brender, associate director at ratings agency Standard & Poor's.
But the environment in the market is no longer conducive.
Meanwhile, CAT bonds, said Matusiak, offer capacity at a price that does not exist in the retrocessional market.
Yet not all insurance executives and observers are enamored with that capacity. "I wonder if they're just creating too much capacity out there," said Andrew Kligerman, managing director at UBS Securities LLC, the U.S.-based broker-dealer arm of the Swiss financial-services company.
Some in the capital markets could be "naïve" about the nature of risk in reinsurance, said Patrick A. Thiele, president and CEO of Partner Re.
As a "risk taker" confident in his company's ability to evaluate risk, Thiele said that Partner Re didn't use capital markets or the traditional retrocessional market.
The executives and analysts spoke at Standard & Poor's Insurance 2007 conference in New York. Other reinsurers there--such as Joseph Brandon, chairman and CEO of General Re Corp., and Nikolaus von Bomhard, CEO of Munich Re--agreed that their companies relied little on retrocessional capital.
As Brandon said to an entertained audience, his company's view is that whoever brings capital into the market is "evil" but whoever returns it is "doing the Lord's work."
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The reason that this scale is so ground-breaking to me is that it gives me something unique to do over the V chord in a blues progression. I never had anything like that before! I was just holding the gas pump of straight pentatonic over the whole darn blues progression without realizing there were other possibilities over the individual chords.
This is a recent discovery for me. I have just begun to digest the shapes, possibilities, and challenges of this new idea. This is really the fun part. I'd like to share the beginning of my digestion process with you. I hope it gets your fingers moving easier and easier with this great sound.
To digest a new scale, I first rememberthat I'm a guitar player. So I get out someneck paper and write down all the possibleshapes all over the neck. It turns out I don'tlike all of them. Some are too hard to play.Some are too hard to visualize. And somelead my fingers to notes that I don't wantto end on. So I discard those for now, andfocus on the remaining three shapes that Ilove. You've already got the one we startedwith, so I'll give you my other two favoritepositions in Fig. 5 and Fig. 6. Remember,these are all the same notes, just in differentpositions on the neck.
1. Play a blues turnaround
2. Follow it with a Super-Hendrix Scale phrase (one-bar in length)
3. End with the I chord (or a note that fits over the I chord.)
Let me give you one more example thatfollows this pattern. This time I'll give youa variation of the chord that we've beenusing. It has a slightly different flavor fromthe Super-Hendrix Chord because it doesn'tcontain a major 3rd (G#) in it. There are avariety of ways that a music theorist mightname this chord, but in practice, it soundslike an inversion of our Super-HendrixChord to me, but not quite as "pointy."For easy reference, let's call the chord in thenext example the Smooth-Hendrix Chord.
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Android Ice cream will be a mixture of Honeycomb, Gingerbread and Google TV
Apr 5th
We have entered April and the month of May or should I say the month of Google I/O seems a whole lot closer doesn't it? And as expected Android Ice Cream rumors have started to float. According to PhAndroid and GTVSource, the Gingerbread successor will be a combination of Gingerbread, Honeycomb and wait for it, Google TV.
Google TV official site goes live
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Google has launched the official site for Google TV. The website gives you the chance to know whatever there is to know about Google TV which will definitely help those who missed out the search giant's official announcement for the Apple TV competitor which took place back in May at the yearly Google I/O conference.
Steve Jobs: WWDC won't be a disappointment
May 24th
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The 113-day National Hockey League lockout finally ended this past weekend. It's joyous news for fans, Arena District businesses and their employees, the players and the owners — all of whom took an emotional hit and suffered economic hardship.
Everyone suffered damage in the dispute. But the issues now are resolved for the long term. When the contract is up for negotiation again, hopefully the process will be less rancorous.
There's a lot of who-gets-this and who-gets-that in the fine print of the contract framework, which still has to be put to paper and ratified by the National Hockey League's board of governors and the players. That likely will happen on Wednesday.
But getting there cost everyone something.
Players lost time on the ice doing what they love best.
Fans lost excitement and memories.
And Columbus lost the 2013 All-Star Game, which had been slated for late January at Nationwide Arena. The cancellation cost the city a projected $12 million in revenue.
The Columbus Blue Jackets also lost — nearly half a season. Gone are 39 previously scheduled games, including 15 at Nationwide Arena. Instead, the NHL is hoping to jam in a truncated season of 48 to 50 games.
And, of course, the owners lost revenue.
Fortunately, the new collective-bargaining agreement will spare fans another work stoppage for at least eight years. That should give players and owners time to mend the strife and begin working toward a better negotiating process and a more-constructive partnership.
But, for now, it's good the fighting is over. The bright lights, the sounds of blades on the ice, the whistles and cheers, and the thrills and the camaraderie can return.


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- Nashville Homes of the Stars Tour
- Three-hour sightseeing tour, see homes of stars both past and present
- You'll pass by Historic 2nd Ave., the State Capitol, Fort Nashborough and the Ryman Auditorium
- See the homes of Kid Rock, Taylor Swift and more!
What You Can Expect
You will enjoy a driving tour through the neighborhoods of the elite Country Music artists who call Nashville their home. While on your tour, you will see the homes of Country Music Greats such as Taylor Swift, Ronnie Milsap, Dolly Parton, Martina McBride, Kid Rock, Trisha Yearwood and Lori Ann Crook.
- Taylor Swift
- Toby Keith
- Kid Rock
- Kellie Pickler
- Ronnie Dunn
- Dolly Parton
- Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood
- Dierks Bentley
- Caleb and Jared Followill of the Kings of Leon
- Charles Kelley and Hillary Scott of Lady Antebellum
- Julianne Hough
- Lori Ann Crook of Crook and Chase
- Janis Ian
- Martina McBride
- Jack White
- Ronnie Milsap
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SMALL SCHOOL NOTES: Shiloh Rested, Ready For De Queen
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Tom Glave,
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November 18, 2009
SPRINGDALE A break in routine can sometimes get teams out of their normal habits, but Shiloh Christian was happy to get a bye in last week's first round of the Class 4A state playoffs.
Shiloh (9-1) hosts De Queen (7-4) on Friday in Champions Stadium. Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m.
Shiloh coach Josh Floyd said the Saints used the bye week to focus on cleaning up some of their offensive mistakes and healing up from a 10-week season.
"We were able to just focus on ourselves and work on some areas we've struggled with," said Floyd, whose team opens defense on its 2008 Class 4A state title. "We spent a lot of time watching film and just working on certain things."
Floyd said the Leopards run the option, which is an offense Shiloh has not seen this year.
"It's different," Floyd said. "We're ready, the kids are ready."
Floyd said the off week was also a help for his team mentally as well as physically.
"We needed the break mentally to get refocused," Floyd said. "We didn't practice on Friday and didn't do much on Thursday. We had some guys that were a little banged up, some with ankle sprains that we were able to get treated."
De Queen, which was favored to win the 4A-7 Conference in the preseason, defeated Gosnell 47-0 last week. The Leopards' four losses have come to teams with a combined 40-4 record.
Croasdell's Status Questionable
GRAVETTE — After a 100-yard performance Friday, Gravette senior running back Michael Croasdell will sit out of practice this week as the Lions prepare for the second round of the Class 4A playoffs.
Lions coach Bill Harrelson said Croasdell's status is up in the air because of a sore neck.
"I'm not sure how he's going to be," Harrelson said before practice Tuesday. "He's not practicing this week, just taking it easy this week and learning and hopefully he'll be able to go. But we won't know until Friday."
Croasdell, who has rushed for 1,038 yards this season, ran the ball 24 times as the Lions used a conservative game plan to beat Valley View 12-7. He also starts at cornerback but played just one series during Friday's win.
"We ran him probably more than we should have because we needed him," Harrelson said. "Michael's tough as a boot. He's a tough character and if he's hurting, then he's hurting. He just kept going regardless. We'll see how he is Friday night."
Tigers Improve Passing
PRAIRIE GROVE — Prairie Grove coach Danny Abshier isn't sure what has led to his team's improved passing game over the past two weeks, but he's not complaining.
The Tigers have thrown for a combined 355 yards in back-to-back wins at Gravette and Dumas, a particularly high number considering how much they've struggled passing the football this season.
"I think I'm reading the defenses better. Receivers are catching the ball, getting themselves open," Prairie Grove senior quarterback Chad Austin said. "Things are starting to click."
Abshier said Austin had a difficult time finding his receivers earlier in the season, and when he did, they often had trouble catching the pass. But the senior threw for 189 yards at Dumas, and the passing game has gotten back on track during Prairie Grove's surprising two-game winning streak.
"Is it Chad's game that got stepped up or is it the receivers' game that got stepped up?" Abshier said, leaving the question up for debate. "(Austin) definitely looks better because we've thrown more and we've thrown for more yards (lately) than we had over the regular season."
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Kiss Country Weekend Events
This weekend is packed full of fun times in Kiss Country! From Holiday In Dixie to the Barksdale Airforce Base Airshow we have all the weekend event details right here for you!
We have some rain in the forecast for this afternoon and evening–the rain is bringing some cooler temperatures for Saturday. The current predicted Saturday forecast is a high of 68 degrees and sunny. So take a light jacket with you as you head out tomorrow.
Gonna be nice weather to enjoy the airshow at Barksdale Airforce Base. Gates open at 9 and the show starts at 11. FREE Admission and FREE parking. More details here!
Admission is also FREE to Holiday In Dixie–our celebration of the Louisiana Purchase happening in Festival Plaza, Downtown Shreveport. Head out to Holiday In Dixie for great live music tonight and tomorrow night. Taking the stage at 8:30 Saturday night– Cody Cooke and the Bayou Outlaws! Click here for Holiday In Dixie details!
Saturday night at Sam's Town Casino is John Michael Montgomery, click here for ticket info!
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This week's picks pretty much sum up the year: L.A. boosterism, '70s nostalgia, autobiographical installation art and women artists recognized a few decades late. 5. The Original Paparazzo At MOCA, Weegee is more showman than craftsman. The photographer, who started his career as an aggressive New ... More >>
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We are grateful for support from the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and the World Bank. We thank participants at the CESifo/PEPG Conference on Economic Incentives for their comments, especially John Bishop. Research assistance was provided by Meghan Curtis, Amanda Starc and Sara Adler. We benefited from comments and suggestions from Beth King, Harry Patrinos and Sebastian Martinez.
Are Educational Vouchers Only Redistributive?*
Article first published online: 21 JUL 2010
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2010.02374.x
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Bettinger, E., Kremer, M. and Saavedra, J. E. (2010), Are Educational Vouchers Only Redistributive?. The Economic Journal, 120: F204–F228. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2010.02374.x
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It is unclear if vouchers increase educational productivity or are purely redistributive, benefiting recipients by giving them access to more desirable peers at others' expense. To examine this, we study an educational voucher programme in Colombia which allocated vouchers by lottery. Among voucher applicants to vocational schools, lottery winners were less likely to attend academic secondary schools and thus had peers with less desirable observable characteristics. Despite this, lottery winners had better educational outcomes. In this population, vouchers improved educational outcomes through channels beyond redistribution of desirable peers. We discuss potential channels which may explain the observed effects.


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Although reconciliation of steady-state process data is routinely applied in industrial practice, the theoretical understanding of the problem and its adequate formulation in a dynamic setting is still not mature.
Existing formulation approaches are based on stochastic filters, deterministic observers or mathematical programming techniques.
In this contribution, we suggest a general problem formulation of dynamic data reconciliation based on the theory of ill-posed problems and their regularizations.
It results in a large-scale dynamic optimization problem which requires efficient numerical solution methods in real-time under strict limitations of computational resources.
We explore a novel mathematical framework for the discretization of the dynamic optimization problem and the solution of the discretized nonlinear programming problem based on multiscale approximation.
The framework attempts to integrate signal processing and optimization finally leading to a fully adaptive and highly efficient numerical treatment which always provides the best possible estimate which is attainable in the allotted time period.


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Seniors Sophie Goobic and Amber Welfle received Ohio Athletic Conference Player of the Week honors for women's cross country and volleyball respectively.
Goobic claimed first place in the women's 5k at the Bluffton Invitational on Saturday afternoon. She outpaced the second and third place finishers by 0:50 on her way to a 19:29 finish.
Sophie's first place performance helped guide the Berg's women's team to a second place finish overall. Also, her 19:29 in Bluffton is currently her college personal best.
Welfle helped guide the Student Princes to a 2-1 finish at the Ohio Northern Invitational in Ada, Ohio over the weekend. In three contests agaisnt Theil, St. Mary's and OACfoe Ohio Northern, Amber collected 48 kills, with at least ten kills per game, nine digs and nine total blocks.
For the season, she owns a kill percentage of .421 and is averaging 4.38 kills per set, both team highs.
Sophie and the rest of the men's and women's cross country teams will take a week off before traveling to Grand Rapids, Mich. and the campus of Calvin College to compete in the Calvin Invitational. Running is set to begin at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, September 14.
This coming weekend, Amber and the Heidelberg volleyball team will travel to Cincinnati on Friday, September 6 to compete in the Charlie Wrublewski Tournament hosted by the College of Mount St. Joseph. The Berg will face off against Depauw on Friday evening followed by host Mount St. Joseph and Thomas More on Saturday.


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Bad news for those stuck at work during the first two days of the NCAA tournament. Watching the games might be more difficult than normal.
Your company's IT department could be planning ahead to block, ban or cause the games slow to a crawl. According to this story by Allison Linn, four in 10 IT departments monitor employees who try to watch the games on their computers.
Turns out the "boss button" won't help you.
Those surveyed departments say it's not because they hate basketball. They hate unproductive employees. From the story:
According to the Modis survey, four in 10 respondents said streaming content from the annual basketball tournament has had some impact on the company's network, such as slowing or even shutting it down.
Most IT professionals surveyed said they block streaming content to make sure everyone can do their regular work without network disruptions. But the majority also said they do so to keep people from getting too distracted at work.
Better head to BW3. Or just pony up the $4 to watch it on your phone.
You also can follow me on Twitter @MikeMillerNBC.
- southpaw2k - Mar 13, 2012 at 10:21 AM
There was an email sent out last week warning employees in my office about watching the games online from our desks at work. Management will supposedly crack down hard on anyone who is following scores of games or watching them live online. They also will "unofficially" be unhappy with employees just calling out of work either of the first two days of the tournament, unless the time off has been pre-approved (I always take off work for the first two days of the tournament to watch the games with my buddy at his house).


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Dear Friends,
Welcome to Colorado State University and the 2009/2010 academic year at the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. Welcome to our returning students, as well as to our new students, faculty members and staff. The future is bright with possibilities and we look forward to providing you with an outstanding educational experience, and exceptional opportunities for personal and professional growth and development.
This fall, the College welcomes 138 students into the Professional Veterinary Medical Program, as well as six students into the MBA/DVM combined program, three students into the MSPH/DVM combined program, one student into the DVM/PhD program, and seven students into VetPrep. As of Aug. 18, the College has 141 confirmed new students and 28 transfer students for CVMBS undergraduate programs in the Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences; Department of Biomedical Sciences; and Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology. The College also has 107 newly admitted students to its non-PVM graduate programs. Three students began the VetStart program and the Food Animal Veterinary Career Incentive Program has five students enrolled.
If you have been gone from campus during the summer, we have news to share both from the University and the College. This summer, the University's Board of Governors approved the appointment of Dr. Tony Frank as President of Colorado State University, and Joe Blake as Chancellor of the Colorado State University System. We are still waiting for an announcement regarding the appointment of a permanent provost, but expect that to come early in the fall semester.
The College is especially proud to see Dr. Frank at the helm of the University as he began his career in the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and is now providing steady and stable leadership to the University, especially in a time of budgetary challenges. We look forward to making great strides as a College and University under the guidance of Dr. Frank.
In other news, this summer saw the long-awaited completion of the Diagnostic Medicine Center at the South Campus. We are celebrating the building's opening with a formal ribbon cutting and open house on Friday, Sept. 11, at 11:30 a.m. All are invited to attend and get a look at this incredible facility, from its state-of-the-art laboratories to its innovative use of art in public spaces. We hope you'll join us for the ceremony followed by building tours and refreshments.
Another construction project that is making progress is the new parking garage at the intersection of Prospect Road and Centre Ave. While we may still see some congestion and rerouting from the construction, we hope that traffic will be able to flow through the area uninterrupted in short order. Parking will be available in the garage starting in spring semester with the facility being fully completed in late 2010. The garage does require an A permit, but there is no additional charge to park inside.
I look forward to a productive and rewarding year, and also look forward to seeing each of you on campus.
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It was a night dominated by parents sullenly crossing their arms, teachers rolling their eyes and a defensive schools chancellor who swore the mayor is paying attention to residents' concerns.
That, more than anything else, garnered loud scoffs from audience members at a forum organized by Community Education Council 26 at MS 74 in Bayside on Feb. 16.
It was, essentially, two hours characterized by the miscommunication and mistrust that seems to have defined so many of the meetings about education in the city for years.
"The mayor has been extremely supportive of teachers," Chancellor Dennis Walcott said, receiving several boos and loud snorts from the audience. "Under this mayor, we've gotten a 43 percent increase in teachers' base salaries."
CEC 26 President Jeannette Segal said her organization, made up of parent volunteers who serve as an advisory council to the city, wanted the meeting to bring Walcott into an area she calls "almost the forgotten district."
"We want him to see you have partners here, but you need to help us too," Segal said.
There weren't many people saying they were Walcott's partners, but they did plead with him to do something on a variety of issues, from replacing the principal at Martin Van Buren High School in Queens Village to changing the city's emphasis on testing and its policy of closing large high schools and replacing them with smaller institutions.
"Things aren't working out at Martin Van Buren High School," said Dino Sferrazza, who has taught at Cardozo High School in Bayside for 17 years. "I'd hate to see that school fail when we can see it needs help and support."
State Sen. Tony Avella (D-Bayside), parents and students held a rally last week calling on the city to oust Van Buren Principal Marilyn Shevell, saying the school has experienced a severe drop in test scores and morale under her leadership.
Sferrazza said other area high schools, including Cardozo, Francis Lewis and Bayside, are "bursting at the seams" in part because students do not want to attend Van Buren.
"In the last five years, I've seen our registered numbers go up and our dollars go down," he said. "Families do not want to send their children to Martin Van Buren."
Walcott promised that he and other Department of Education officials are aware of the situation there.
"We need to work closely with Van Buren to raise the external image so they can attract students," said Walcott, who added he would not address complaints about the principal at the meeting.
A number of parents said they are concerned the DOE is allowing Van Buren to fail so the city could close it.
"I did not say 'phase out' in conjunction with Van Buren," Walcott said, using the term the DOE employs for closing a school over a number of years.
Walcott also said there are "a lot of good programs at Van Buren," something refuted at last week's meeting by the school's Parent Teacher Association president, Helen Young.
"We don't see those programs that you talked about," Young said.
A number of teachers told Walcott they are frustrated with the city's emphasis on standardized tests and said that focus on data, combined with overcrowded classrooms, has made teaching a career that is no longer desirable.
According to statistics from the United Federation of Teachers, of the 7,882 teachers hired for the 2002-03 school year, 49.9 percent had quit within seven years. About 11 percent of teachers hired between 2002 and 2009 quit by the end of their first year, and nearly a quarter quit by the end of their second year.
About 42 percent of those hired in the same time period left within five years.
Attrition of new teachers was highest in upper Manhattan and the South Bronx. It was lowest in Staten Island, followed by districts 25 and 26 in Queens.
Referring to a gym and health program implemented by the city in 2005, physical education teacher Kevin Revell said, "Fitnessgram is so time consuming that most of the fourth- and fifth-graders spend their time doing test prep while others are doing meaningful physical activity."
Revell added that the "strong emphasis on collecting data" has "gutted physical education."
Walcott bypassed Revell's criticism of the testing, saying he has "never heard any negative feedback about Fitnessgram."
"I'm a big believer in Fitnessgram," Walcott said. "With obesity in our schools, I'm a big proponent of it."
Sue Kimmel, a graduate of Martin Van Buren and retired teacher who spent more than 30 years in the public school system, said the overcrowding seems especially problematic.
"Some classes have 30, 32 children in them," she said. "You cannot tell me one teacher can persevere and do everything without the help of someone else in that classroom."
Susan Kahan, a teacher in District 26, said she has "never been quite as frightened about our school system" as now because she's worried about the city's plan to soon integrate many of the system's special education students into general education classes. Kahan said she's worried not because of the idea of integration, but because she believes the city will not allocate the needed staff or resources to help general education teachers to accommodate the influx of students who often need more attention.
"I believe it will be a success," Walcott said. "Integrating our students is an ideal goal."
Assemblyman David Weprin (D-Little Neck) criticized the city for closing large high schools, such as Jamaica High School, his alma mater, saying students from the shuttered institutions then flow into other already-crowded area schools.
"We have Cardozo, and it's probably one of the most overcrowded high schools in the city," Weprin said.
Walcott defended the city's policy, saying "by closing poor performing schools and putting in higher performing schools, we feel it gives parents more options to choose from."
He added that the opening of Maspeth High School next year will help to alleviate overcrowding.
"Maspeth will be a popular school, Queens Metropolitan will be a popular school as it grows," Walcott said. "I'm not at the point where I say, 'We'll cap these schools like Cardozo and Francis Lewis.'"


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I don't know exactly why, but I've always held onto a very playful part of myself. During the worst times of my life, when that playful part of me was buried, I was not right at all. In fact, when I met The Brad, soon after turning 30, I was the oldest I've ever been. I had just come through years of painful, personal challenge and I was raw as a badly skinned knee.
I will never forget sitting at my kitchen table with The Brad right after we very first met, the both of us laughing so hard about one silly thing after another. It felt like years since I had been my naturally goofy self and it was instantly apparent that he shared my sense of humor. He sat across the table from me, somehow seeing my true essence beneath the layers of confusion and pain, and I began to grow younger. A few days later, Brad walked to my book case, pulled all the self-help books off the shelves and told me: you don't need these anymore.
I don't know if there is such a thing, but I'm not going to be a "normal" 40-year-old. I just somehow doubt there are many 40-year-old wives who chant things such as: "Na na na na na you are poo- poo head." to their husband on a somewhat regular basis. Sometimes when The Brad comes downstairs from his office for a second cup of coffee and a cookie, if I'm even just slightly irritated with him for anything at all, I'll wait for him to put the cookie down on a plate and then hide it when his back is turned. If he doesn't have a cookie, I'll hide the cup of coffee, the iPhone, etc...Then I'll leave the room. Soon enough I can hear him laughing while swearing and saying with slight disbelief: I married a 4-year-old.
Yep. It's what keeps me young. The antics. I was like this before I had children and I'll hopefully be like this when my children have children. Anyone who knows me well can tell you that this is true about me and that I'm also serious and introspective. I'm a four-year-old with a big happy heart, a slightly tough edge here and there, and the occasional mild existential crisis.
If you want a visual, think small. The Brad often looks at me, shakes his head and says, "I married a legal midget!" (I don't know what he means by legal. I wasn't aware that extremely short people were otherwise against the law.) Anyway, it's true that I barely pass the 5 ' mark. (I'm more than 1 ft. shorter and about half the weight of my husband.)
So. The legal midget is hitting 40 this week. And I don't get what the big deal is. If we're lucky, it happens to all of us. I'm just a babe, as far as I'm concerned. Toddling along in an amazingly beautiful and, yes, often mysterious world.
I look out the window and see the trees and birds hanging out in the gentle end of last nights windstorm. Nature simply does not look confused or let down at all. So why should I ever be ?
Last night, after a long day, after a long week, in the middle of a busy month, Brad and I watched our funny little three year old rock out to Christmas Carols as if she were listening to Def Leppard. Brad was still working and just paused in the kitchen for a quick dinner. As he got up to leave, he looked at me, the 5-year-old on my lap, the Christmas tree and the rocking three-year-old and said: This is sure worth all the work. Exactly.
This is awesome and I am so blessed. Thank you universe for giving me this wonderful life. I'd promise to get younger every year, but since I'm only 4, I think I'd better stop here.
If you would like to help me celebrate my birthday, I am asking that readers donate to this wonderful cause: The Elephants Umbrella Fund, a non-profit created and run by a passionate woman in her 90's (who still goes to visit the elephants in Asia she has saved). In brief, this org. buys ill-treated Asian elephants one at a time from their abusive owners (who use the elephants for logging or tourism). The elephants that are saved are always in need of great care and often on the brink of death. They are brought to a sanctuary where they can get medical care and peacefully live out the rest of their lives. As you know, in situations like these, any dollar amount helps. And as you know, I'm a big time elephant lover. This is how I feel about elephants:
As for me, I will be taking the rest of the week off to enjoy my family and the holidays (and finish those darn knitted gifts!) I send you so much love and joy this Holiday Season! Thanks for reading. See you sometime next week.
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Written by Barb JA
(10/4/2009 12:08 p.m.)
in consequence of the missive, Puppyism, penned by Barbara
I was thinking maybe fop or dandy. I looked up puppyism and it is as you say conceit from Webster's 1913 1. Extreme meanness, affectation, conceit, or impudence. I looked up dandy because I was was curious and found from the 1828 Webster's this funny definition.
I'm guessing a fop or dandy is mostly concerned with their outward appearance, while a coxcomb or puppy is all that and more. Elinor in ch. 36 has these thoughts right at their introduction.
I think it is funny too, how he thinks he's so superior that he advises all the people around him. I think it's a similarity that Mr. Knightley sees in Frank Churchill: practised politician, who is to read every body's character.
Look at this quote by Pope from Webster's 1913 dictionary for coxcomb:
So much for Robert Ferrar's education. :-) Anyway, Robert is free with his advice.
"My dear Lady Elliott, do not be uneasy. The dining parlour will admit eighteen couple with ease; card-tables may be placed in the drawing-room;.... blah, blah blah Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition. I loved Kate Lyle's description of a puppy running around for belly rubs. :-) |
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A U.S. congressman barred from visiting Afghanistan over the weekend minced no words when characterizing the incident.
Afghan president Hamid Karzai is a "corrupt prima donna," House Foreign Affairs Committee member Dana Rohrabacher of California said in an interview Wednesday on CNN's "The Situation Room."
Rohrabacher was en route to Kabul with five other members of Congress to meet with representatives of the Northern Alliance when the U.S. secretaries of Defense and State intervened.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called to say "that she'd been through a lot of mini-crises there in Afghanistan with the burning of the Qurans and the soldiers urinating on these dead bodies and one of them going crazy and killing civilians," Rohrabacher told CNN's Wolf Blitzer.
"She just felt that another mini-crisis which might erupt," he continued, "because Karzai hated me so much that he would create a crisis and she just thought it would be disruptive to our ability to get her job done."
But Clinton is charged with executing diplomacy, and Rohrabacher is not.
"I thought she was asking me in a respectful way, but she was having to deal with this corrupt prima donna who heads that country," he said.
As chairman of the House Foreign Affairs' Oversight and Investigation Subcommittee, Rohrabacher said he suspects his examination of how U.S. funds have been spent in the war-torn country was a factor in Karzai's discomfort.
More than 1,800 U.S. service members have died in the country, according to the Department of Defense and the U.S. Central Command. The United States has nearly 90,000 troops serving in the country and spends more than $2 billion on efforts there every week.
Rohrabacher's scrutiny of the country's government was the reason for his visit.
"Members of Congress should be over there to see if the dynamics are such that we're not just wasting people's lives and money, and there are changes that need to happen for us to be able to succeed," he said.
The U.S. State Department confirmed that Clinton and Rohrabacher spoke, and that both Clinton and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta requested Rohrabacher not continue with the delegation.
"We were advised, as Congressman Rohrabacher made clear, that the sovereign government didn't think this visit was timely. So it was in that context that he made his decision after our advice," Victoria Nuland, a State Department spokeswoman, told reporters.
The congressman said he encouraged his colleagues to continue on the trip, as "we had leaders of the northern alliance, opposition members and political leaders in that country who wanted to talk to American congressmen to make sure that we were not going to leave the Taliban in charge of Afghanistan."
Republic Rep. Louis Gohmert of Texas, who led the delegation to Afghanistan, invited Rohrabacher after another lawmaker dropped out of the trip.
It is not the first time Rohrabacher has earned the ire of a leader.
In June 2011, Rohrabacher led a congressional delegation to Baghdad that was ordered out of the country by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki after the California congressman said Iraq should consider repaying the United States for what it spent since 2003.


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The Feather River Jubilee is underway to celebrate the Fourth of July. The fun-filled weekend will include a carnival on Bradley Street in Quincy near Quincy Drug Store, a Jubilee Ball Saturday night, fireworks, a parade, a band concert, talent show and baseball games.
The Queen Contest of the 4th annual Silver Buckle Rodeo in Taylorsville is underway with four local ladies in the running: Dee Dee Eades and Jeffri Williams, both of Taylorsville, Edwina Spellmeyer of Greenville and Linda Lee Sharp of Quincy.
Some 900 attended the grand opening of the new Quincy branch of Wells Fargo Bank last Saturday.
Statues of Paul Bunyan and his blue ox, Babe will be erected at the town's community center this weekend amid a host of weekend festivities planned in Westwood. The one-time mill town is celebrating it's 75th anniversary. The statue is 22 feet high, 4 feet thick with a shoulder span of 7 feet. The anniversary committee commissioned the statue with Burlwood Carvers located in Monterey and Arcata.
Right on the heels of a controversial pay raise, Plumas County Administrator Robert Conan announced his intention to resign effective the end of the year. With the raise, he makes almost $9,000 a month.
Note: items included in the weekly Remember When column are taken from our bound newspaper archives and represent writing styles of that particular period. The spelling and grammar are not edited, so the copy is presented as it actually appeared in the original newspaper.
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While I was sitting here waiting for the big yellow Twinkie (as Jenny says) to arrive at my house (yes, I realize I still have 5 days…), I discovered a slide show program that works with Flickr. I'll just leave you with the slides for viewing right now as I'm in one of those moods where if I just let my fingers do the typing, all that would come out would be venting and complaining. These are photos that show some of the fun things we did while in Michigan.
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Vacation Post #1: Guess that WaterPosted by: Tamara in vacation, tags: lakes, vacation, waterfallsHere is a fun game for you while I recover from 10 days of vacation and a 10-year-old birthday party (of which the sleepover part is currently occurring). We saw a lot of water on our voyage. I'm going to list them here in the order that we came to them, please feel free to guess in my comments if you know any or all. (Not a contest so please feel free to help each other out and ask for clues if you need them.) (eta 8/27: answers posted in comments) 1.) 36 miles long and 618 feet deep at the deepest point… 2.) Waterfall between Goat Island and Luna Island… 3.) The view from our hotel room on the 15th floor of the Marriott… 4.) This was a drive-by shot… 5.) This one we had to get off the highway and hunt for a good view… 6.) Waves just as high as the ocean, but warm with no jellyfish… and another view of #6 from a distance… 7.) This one we saw on our way home; we had to go a bit off the beaten path to find a good view… Good luck and have fun guessing!
Leaving, but not on a Jet Plane…Posted by: Tamara in children, reading, tags: twilight, vacationWe are going to be on last-chance-for-summer vacation for a while and when get back, this one is turning 10. Yes, not only did we both hit 4-0 this year, but our youngest child is also a decade old. No wonder we are falling apart left and right. Literally. Just as we are about to leave for our longest driving vacation ever, IHA had a lower back incident. I bet you are wondering where we are going on vacation. I may have alluded to this trip previously. This is no mystery trip, but a long planned journey to Michigan to visit Crops-a-lot and her family. On the way, we are stopping in Geneva, NY at the top of a finger lake (Seneca Lake?) and in Niagara Falls. I am so organized that I already have our calendar up on the fridge for the week we get back (and believe me, it is a busy one!). We have all our summer appointments done. We have been to the doctor, the dentist, the orthdontist, and the candlestick maker. We have been to tell the king that the sky is falling. We have figured out how to get K's "blue card" from the nurse to the field hockey coach without us being around on the proper days. We have have spent oodles of money on school supplies. We have even bought new sneakers. We are so ready! The only hitch is that our main driver (and usually our only driver) is not up to par. It will work though, right? We will just take one hour at a time and eventually we will get there. Breaking Dawn. What did you think? Are you done? Did you love it? Hate it? Have no idea what I'm talking about? As the fourth book in the Twilight series, I would have to say that if you were playing "which of these things is not like the other," it would be the one that stands out as a bit different. It does follow the typical Stephanie Meyer trend of a lot of build up (that goes on and on and on) to get to an action (though not quite as much as The Host). I did enjoy much of this book, but what I am enjoying most about Breaking Dawn is watching Agent K as she reads it. She is loving it. She is just so excited over every little thing and dying to find out what happens next. Since at almost 14, she is a lot closer to the intended age of the target audience, I would say the book is a winner. I can't wait until she gets to the end and we can talk about it all. Well, I better continue on my packing way and tie up any loose ends I shall encounter. Hope you all enjoy your mid-August. "See" you when I get back!
Back Again, Gone AgainPosted by: Tamara in life, nature, tags: film festival, hummingbirds, vacation, VermontWe are back from our quick little VT weekend trip. We didn't do much, but trying to narrow down what to say about it is becoming difficult! I guess that even though we didn't really go anywhere, we did a lot of stuff just staying in. On Friday, I read Speak (which is the kind of book that once you start, you have to read through to the finish) and I photographed hummingbirds. LFG has millions of hummingbirds. They are really tricky to photograph and after a million attempts, this is the only one I have that is really in focus. I wanted to photograph the males as they are more striking with their red chests, but they are not as plentiful and very tricky. I mentioned to LFG that there seemed to be a harem quality to her hummingbird population and she said that there are typically 3 females to 1 male. This photo has 3 hummingbirds in one frame, but not really much focus going on. The girls all slept in a tent on the deck which was really nice and cozy! The last night it rained, so they moved the tent indoors. On Sunday morning we ate breakfast at the Dam Diner. Agent B had a field day with that one – "Dam Diner!" she said. (OK, so we all did, not just her….) The wait was pretty long but the toast, bacon, coffee, and hash browns rocked! We had our annual Family Film Festival on Saturday night (ok, so my storyline is a bit out of order…). This year's theme was "Good for the environment, good for you, and good for our family." We had some really good entries this year. Agent J worked hard editing her videos all last week. She even went back into the archives and pulled out some really funny footage. LFG and I made our first video ever. We did a cooking show called Cooking Veganacula with Sparkle and Sunshine where we demonstrated how as vampires we must refrain from eating meat and how vegan food can be oh-so-lovely. It was a lot of fun to make, though I think we cracked each other up more than our audience. (Well, except for IHA, I think he really appreciated it.) Agent K made a music video to the song Stop and Stare. Agent B made some exercise infomercials. J and B made a series that was really funny. They went around and asked us our favorite things in the morning and then came back in the afternoon and asked exactly the same questions again to see how much our answers changed (we were under the impression that they had lost their footage). Mine were very consistent, but IHA – he really changed things up. They concluded that he doesn't really know what he likes. IHA had another winning entry (last year's was a music video edited to the song Summer of 69) – It was called Little Surfer Girl and it used Beach Boys songs in conjunction with footage from our Nantasket trip. LFB and Agent J threw together a last minute entry which featured talking llamas and fancy editing. I'll have to check with IHA and see if we can get a couple short clips to put in our blogs… I have bucket loads of pictures, but I just want to highlight this one with LFG and Agent J as I think it came out rather nice… Moving onward, it seems like we are barely going to have time to get ourselves pulled back together from this trip before we have to start preparing for our next trip. This one is going to involve quite a bit of driving and we will be gone longer than we have ever been gone before. Next week we are going to Michigan to visit Crops-a-lot and her family via Niagara Falls. We are going to take 3 days getting to MI and 2 days coming home. We are going to have to stock up on our books on tape, that is for sure! Now, I have a couple of questions for parents (or anyone who has opinions) about a couple of "pop-culture" type things that are really "in" right now with the early tween/teen crowd. I was just wondering what the thoughts are out there about The Clique Books and The Secret Life of the American Teenager. Both of these are just driving me nuts. Maybe I can just hope that my children (only Agent K is allowed to watch The Secret Life) will see them for what they are and just move on… At least that is what we did! We went to Nantasket Beach to be more precise. It is in Hull, Massachuesetts which is south of Boston and north of Cape Cod. I think that Cherylz had the "best-est guess" with the South Shores. So, on a completely unrelated note, we upgraded to Wordpress 2.6 last night and, apparently, I have lost all my categories. They are there but invisible. I think the fix for that is very time consuming, so I may remain "category-less" for a while. It happened because I was so far behind in my upgrades that we should have upgraded to 2.3 and then 2.6 but we didn't read about that until after it was too late. There is some info in the Ravelry groups that tells how to fix the problem. I swear, I'm just going to skip the whole general internet thing and just look things up on Ravelry. Knitters know everything! Anyway, please just excuse any strangeness in my blog for a while. I think I may be changing themes soon. As soon as I find a new one that I like that is. I'd like to go for a plainer, less busy look. I love the 3 columns but it just looks so crowded to me. I'm thinking of Cutline 2 column because it is easy to change the header photo, but it is missing a couple elements that I really like. (Btw, IHA uses Cutline 3 column just in case you want to see it in a real life blog.) If anyone has any favorite, easily customizable Wordpress themes to recommend, I would love to hear from you! We're back! And once again I'm low on time before I have to leave for work. I guess it is the typical Monday morning thing. I'm having a hard time drumming up the motivation to get myself to go. Does that ever happen to you? So, would you like some clues before the big Mystery Vacation Reveal? Clue 1: There were waves. There were even surfers riding the waves. I'm assuming with the presence of surfers, I can actually upgrade my claim and say that there were indeed big waves. Clue 2: There was a carousel. This was a rescued carousel from an old-time amusement park torn down to make way for condos. (Carousels remind me of high school freshman English class. You too?) Clue 3: This is the view from our hotel room balcony. There was beach, pavement, and lots of eating establishments. Clue 4: There were boogie-boarding lessons. Oh yeah, and the air was HOT and the water was like ICE! Clue 5: Huge difference from low tide to high tide. At high tide the remaining beach area was very tiny and compact, but at low tide, it felt like it took minutes to walk down to meet the water. This was a huge beach and even walking along the beach, we never reached either end. Clue 6: The girls stayed in the water so long that I read an entire book in 2 days — The Society of S, in case you are wondering, and it was excellent; a cross between Twilight and Special Topics in Calamity Physics. Clue 7: We rode a ferry and saw this skyline. I actually still feel like I'm riding on the ferry and that was yesterday morning. (Does this ever happen to you?) I wish this darn computer would stop swaying back and forth. OK, that is all the clues I have time for right now. It took about 4 hours to get there. It could have been shorter but as IHA's usually very efficient and helpful navigator did not know where we were going, we had some rotary issue problems. (Oh wait, that could be Clue 8: Lots of rotaries!) OK, I'm off to get ready for work, but please feel free to go ahead and guess. I think it is only LFG who knows where we went… |
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Regular with good breakfast, very nice staff and comfortable and quiet room. But, location is not so good. It's a 10 minutes ride (by car) from the center. It is not a good option if you don't have a car. However, this is the only issue identified. All the others were good.
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VIDEO: Bus Driver Keeps His Head As Light Pole Smashes Through Windshield
Originally published on Wed March 27, 2013 11:38 am
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Mao Zhihao is lucky to be alive, and his passengers are lucky he reacted quickly.
As this surveillance video shows, Mao was nearly skewered Monday when the bus he was driving in the eastern Chinese province of Zheijang came upon an accident scene where a light pole had been knocked over and was sticking out into traffic.
The pole smashed through the windshield. But Mao was able to duck in time. He was then able to bring the bus to a stop, crawl out from under the pole and help his passengers get to safety.
SkyNews says he's being hailed as a hero. Mao reportedly suffered a ruptured spleen. "I was pinned down by the lamppost and put the bus into gear instinctively," he said from his hospital bed.
We've posted before about scary things flying through windshields. Check out this post from April 2011: "Scariest Car Crash Ever Caught On Video."