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No internet facilities. Air con didn't work and it was midsummer. Horrendously hot in our room. The location is right at the lagoon, the kitchen was pretty good and the guy on front desk is friendly though so it's an alright place overall.
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Nice place, friendly staff, Great location!
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I was staying in room 4. Power to the sockets only between 5pm and 9pm or else we could climb up to the socket high above the door which had power all day but this was a serious safety hazard as people could walk in the door and knock you over if you were standing on a chair. Cold shower tried at a range of different times. No working light bulb in main part of dorm. Kitchen facilities practically non existent. No cups, very little cutlery, 3platesand 2 bowls. Only 2 rings available for cooking.
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Very dirty hostel. Theres not enough lockers in the dorm for everybody and most of them dont have doors on them. The staff are very poor. They couldnt even tell me where the greyhound bus stop was. The only response I got to my question was "somebody asked earlier, we think its at the airport". Its actually on the next street over from the hostel only a 5 minute walk away. These guys sell greyhound tickets so its ridiculous that they dont know the simplest of information. Also no hot water
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Just as shiny, but not remotely as nuanced, as the art-hop robo-bop bouillabaisse popping off in neighboring Korea, Japanese pop trio Perfume still strike hard thanks to a monolithic, overblown maximalism. Third album JPN is a neon-blinking wash of clinical synths and utopian melodies — perfectly punk in both the Daft and pop senses — a near-android gush of voices adrift in the ether and AutoTune so clinical that you could eat off of it.
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Yeah, my favourite track is GATE or EXIT which they have totally plagarised from Sleigh BellsRuthymon wrote:Yes, it is.jamesssxD wrote:Park of the Safari by Aira+Saori leaked, it's amazing.
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Oh yeah! Jasmine needs to come back. I love GOLD, it's a great albumjamesssxD wrote:BTW where the hell is Jasmine? I miss her She hasn't released anything since ONLY YOU/Addiction, which were fantastic.
I love these ones, they'd be in my list too, especially MAA and MeisajamesssxD wrote:JASMINE - Gold
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immi - SPIRAL
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Ray was born in Moon Street, South Shields. After leaving school Ray went to cookery school before going to sea with the merchant navy in March 1937. He left the sea in 1953.
Ray was interviewed by Carl Greenwood on 30 November 2005. The interview took place at the Interviewee's living room and lasted 39 minutes and 44 seconds.
The Atlantic convoys and Captain Walker
"And we were made commodore which was in the centre of the convoy"
And we were made commodore which was in the centre of the convoy, not quite at the head of the convoy because the destroyers there was a destroyer, outstanding he was, called HMS Walker. About three days out from Halifax- four days, four days out from Halifax and it was just turning dusk.
We were sitting on the decks when all of a sudden the outside column, the first ship was a tanker carrying grain. It just went boof, flames all over, another one behind us and then all of a sudden the one in front of us on the left, on the port side, just went into flames and as we were going past, the flames went underwater, the ship was in flames at the front. You could see the crew running along the fly deck. Of course a lot of them jumped off the side into the water. You just didnt know what to do.
And then HMS Walker came through them, he couldnt stop for them, they were dead in the water, with the flames. And he went right through the flames and came to the back end of the tanker and he, we could see him as we were moving forward, taking the survivors that he could take off and the other poor guys, dead- had to be. But when we got back to Oban the destroyer used to go, if there were two, one used to go and the other one followed and they went around, making sure there were no mines or anything like that.
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On a warm rainy night in July 1921, the modernist poet William Carlos Williams was walking in lower Manhattan. He was en route to the studio of a fellow modernist artist, Marsden Hartley, on 15th Street, when he heard and then saw a red fire truck emblazoned with a large gold five approach and pass him. The moment made such an impression that he pulled out paper and jotted down these lines:
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As staccato and spontaneous as the poem seems, it conveys a coherent narrative. First we are made aware of the setting, then the sight of the engine. The central line pivots the experience to its sounds. The final phrase returns us to the urban blackness.
Several years later the poem and the poet inspired yet another colleague, Charles Demuth, to paint his bold abstracted picture "I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold." Both born in 1883, Williams and Demuth had met in 1903 as young men studying in Paris. They remained longtime close friends, despite being very different: the writer a physician and long-married but philandering husband, the painter a homosexual suffering from diabetes. But they shared a love of the visual and verbal, and a commitment to making American art at once modern and national.
Williams was fascinated with modernist art, especially Wassily Kandinsky's turning from traditional representation to improvisation. Williams also pursued painting as an amateur, frequently visiting Alfred Stieglitz's 291 Gallery and An American Place, and he owned a Demuth watercolor himself. For his part, Demuth revisited Paris in 1917 and 1921. Two years after his return he began a sequence of 11 "poster portraits," as he called them, divided between contemporary painters and writers. He dedicated one to "The Great Figure," referring both to the title of his friend's verse and to the poet himself. One of the largest, most complex and certainly most commanding of the group, it is now regarded as a summary icon of early American modernism.
It portrays the new landscape of the city with its mechanics of the automobile and cinema. The Metropolitan Museum of Art
There are a number of pictorial precedents Demuth could have had in mind. From his student years at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts he would have known the symbolic rack pictures from the 1890s by the Philadelphian John F. Peto that make reference to his daughter Helen, local businessmen and President Lincoln. These were trompe l'oeil works, illusionistic depictions of bulletin boards with photographs attached by tape or tacks. Also in the 1920s, Stieglitz had done photographic portraits of the artists in his circle: Arthur Dove, John Marin, Georgia O'Keeffe and Demuth. But Demuth's image displays a density of composition and thematic reverberations all its own. The picture alludes, either directly or obliquely, to five people: most obviously to Williams and Demuth, but also to Hartley at his nearby studio, to their mentor Stieglitz who brought them together at his gallery, and to the subject of Hartley's own previous series of abstract portrait paintings, his lover Karl von Freyburg, who died early in World War I.
Demuth and Hartley also met in Paris, and in 1916-17 shared a studio in Bermuda. Appropriately, "The Figure 5" now hangs near Hartley's first version of "Portrait of a German Officer" (1914) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They share similar vertical formats and color schemes. They deploy cubist fragmentation and layering, and contain numbers and letters. Their basic palettes are red, black, yellow/gold and white. But one crucial element sets Demuth's work apart: its machinelike execution suppressing visible brushwork. This is more than an equivalency to verse or tribute to a colleague; it portrays the new landscape of the 20th-century city with its mechanics of the automobile and cinema. In a 1922 poem Williams described "waves of steel, electricity, triphammers, and motorcars with arms and legs." Demuth binds together experience, personality and environment, physical and spiritual.
While the gold "5" fills the frame, angled black planes behind it signal both the skyscrapers and descending sheets of rain in the dark city. The white planes below indicate the street, sidewalks and storefront windows. The rectangular red blocks with shifting edges form the fire engine atop its horizontal axle. From the center, the concentric fives radiate forward. The smallest in back is bright yellow, the middle one is painted in gold leaf, while the largest is shadowed with tan. The curve of a fourth, darker still, appears in the upper right corner, as the truck now moves into the night. A sliver of gold also appears just above the axle at the left as another flashing detail. Since our view shows more of the buildings on the right, we appear to stand at the left edge of the street, as the truck advances and goes by. The repeated white globes read as headlamps as well as streetlights. They echo the other circles present, notably the gold spheres at the tail of the fives, and in the words "No." at the left and "ART Co." to the right. The latter many believe refers to the Stieglitz Circle. But barely visible at the truck's edge is the tip of a capital T, alternatively reading as "TART Co.," an allusion to prostitutes around the theater district.
Williams's first name appears as if on a billboard above, his middle name in neon lights on a marquee nearby. On the painting's bottom edge appear the initials of artist and writer, co-creators of this imagery. The poet proclaimed the work "the most distinguished American painting that I have seen in years."
—Mr. Wilmerding taught in the Art and Archeology Department at Princeton from 1988 to 2007 and is now a member of its American Studies Program.


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The family decides to break out into song and dance...at the mall; Many use this distraction to do some looting.
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Marge removes cheap pasta and jelly from Bart's diet because of insane amounts of sugar, chemical 34; Lisa cannot stop sniffing Snowball 44's tail.
YRYOCC03: "Moe-Catraz"
Moe rents out the basement for a mob torture chamber every Thursday; Homer and Bart take piano lessons, xanax. Bart exceeds, Homer gets arthritis.
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Homer drinks some tainted Duff, gets sick, sober; Marge tries to make amends with her mother, fails, gets slapped. Bart makes fun of grandma's station wagon.
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Mayor Quimby makes a run for the state senate seat, fails for not being corrupt enough; Homer tries to reshape abs, develops hernia.
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Bart wants to give skateboarding an "artist" twist by painting a giant canvas while coming off the half-pipe; Lisa gets dumber for accidently using lead-based paint.
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Antigen-specific Immune Response to Hepatitis B Virus in Utero
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This study aims to gain an understanding of the key components of the immune response to hepatitis B present in cord blood of HBV infected mothers.
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Study Type: | Observational |
Study Design: | Time Perspective: Prospective |
Official Title: | Antigen-specific Immune Response to Hepatitis B Virus in Utero |
Cord Blood of HBsAg+ mothers will be collected at delivery after seeking informed consent. Mononuclear cells (T cells and monocytes) will be isolated.Purified populations of T cells will be stimulated with different mixtures of HBV peptides covering HBV proteins and experiments of ELISPOT or intracellular cytokine staining will be carried out to detect the specificty of the responsive T cell population. In addition, T cells willbe stained with HLA-tetramers specific for different HBV epitopes to directly analyze the frequency and phenotype of HBV-specific CD8+Tcells present in cord blood.
Estimated Enrollment: | 60 |
Study Start Date: | September 2008 |
Estimated Study Completion Date: | July 2011 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date: | August 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Despite the development of an effective preventive HBV vaccine, the spread of HBV virus continue, particularly in Asia, where the majority of HBV infection is acquired at birth by vertical transmission from mother to baby. HBV vertical transmission has been hypothesized to cause immune tolerance to HBV and thus promoting the subsequent HBV chronicity. Such hypothesis has never been tested and nothing is known about HBV-specific adaptive immune response occurring before birth in baby born form HBV chronically infected mothers. This study aims to gain an understanding of the key components of the immune response to hepatitis B present in cord blood of HBV infected mothers. The characterization of the HBV immune response in utero will provide informations about the cause of HBV chronicity in Asian patients in the management of baby born from HBsAg+ mothers.
Ages Eligible for Study: | 21 Years to 45 Years |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Female |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | Yes |
Sampling Method: | Probability Sample |
HBsAg+ mothers are the source of possible in utero infection.Thus, the cord blood collected from these mothers after delivery would provide information about the cause of HBV chronicity in Asian patients and about the management of baby born from HBsAg+ mothers.
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- Pregnant women with HBsAg+
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Principal Investigator: Yap Seng Chong, MBBS |
Principal Investigator: | Yap Seng Chong, MBBS | National University Hospital, Singapore |
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Responsible Party: | Chong Yap Seng, Associate Professor, National University Hos[ota; |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00845403 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: | DSRB D/08/376 |
Study First Received: | February 16, 2009 |
Last Updated: | September 18, 2009 |
Health Authority: | Singapore: Health Sciences Authority |
Keywords provided by National University Hospital, Singapore:
Hepatitis B carrier |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Hepatitis Hepatitis A Hepatitis B Liver Diseases Digestive System Diseases Hepatitis, Viral, Human |
Virus Diseases Enterovirus Infections Picornaviridae Infections RNA Virus Infections Hepadnaviridae Infections DNA Virus Infections |
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On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 07:16:03PM -0500, Robert G. Brown wrote: ... > > Dunno. Perhaps it is (from man 5 crontab, emphasis added): > > ...and when AT LEAST one of the two day fields (day of month, OR day of > week) match... Yep - someone else just pointed this out to me in private mail: I somehow managed to read the man-page 10 times without seeing the following: Note: The day of a command's execution can be specified by two fields -- day of month, and day of week. If both fields are restricted (ie, aren't *), the command will be run when either field matches the current time. For exam ple, ``30 4 1,15 * 5'' would cause a command to be run at 4:30 am on the 1st and 15th of each month, plus every Friday. Duh ! > This seems like it would run every friday, right, since it matches day > of week 5, regardless of whether or not it matches your day of month > range. It would need an "and" operator to do what you want. <rant> Yep. The same "and" operator which is present between all other fields, *except* for the last one.... I wonder what the logic behind this last special rule would be... </rant> On second thought, I guess I should consider such peculiarities "charming" rather than annoying - hey, if it was easy, it wouldn't be fun. ;) > > In the face of it not working (and I don't see any simple cron recipe > that will do what you want) there are simple and obvious solutions. > Instead of running either job A or job B, run a simple script that runs > every Friday, looks at the date, and then runs A or B. Yep - that looks like it will be the way to go. > > Making cron work at this level of detail may be possible. May not. > Either way, I know how /bin/sh (or perl) and date and so forth work and > they add negligible overhead to this kind of chore. There are always > lots of ways to do things. Pick the easiest. Yup, time to script... Thanks a lot, -- ................................................................ : jakob at unthought.net : And I see the elder races, : :.........................: putrid forms of man : : Jakob Østergaard : See him rise and claim the earth, : : OZ9ABN : his downfall is at hand. : :.........................:............{Konkhra}...............:
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The truth is, officers and directors are legally required to maximize shareholder VALUE, not shareholder profit. That is or can be a very different proposition. "Value" is what the company defines it as. Profit is only part of the value equation, but there is no legal, ethical or moral requirement that it is the only definition of value. So if the highest value of a company is to serve the common good and be profitable (which we at Dean's Beans, among others, have proven is possible for almost twenty years), then when shareholders invest in that company, they will know what they are getting into. There is no shortage of investors looking to put their money where their greater values are, as proven by the billions consciously placed in socially responsible investments in the last decade.
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Here's your rundown of the Olympics events you need to watch today. (All times Eastern)
Three Canadians will look for a medal in the Men's Marathon as Reid Coolsaet, Eric Gillis and Dylan Wykes will compete at 6 am.
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That sells all those cars automation reported record earnings this morning and today did you see this the stock hit another all time high.
So what does that tell you about the auto recovery joining us now from Fort Lauderdale.
Live AutoNation chairman and CEO Mike Jackson great to have you -- on the program thanks -- joining us.
There is always a pleasure.
All right look I look at these numbers domestic new car sales up 17% US imports up 44%.
New vehicle sales looking so unbelievably impressive.
Premium luxury up 16%.
At a time when the economy at least when you listen to a lot of people not just here but another business networks in the -- want to saying.
Ever -- shutting their wallets what are you seeing with the granular data here that indicates that people are ready to spend at least -- cars.
Well Liz is no question the US economy has a very tepid fragile recovery.
I it's not growing fast enough to deal with the jobless situation there's a lot of pain out there.
But automotive is a bright spots -- in the economic recovery and we had some fundamental drivers that are very powerful first.
Either in the crash of -- wait no -- I'm in autos we had a -- -- sales fell.
Fell from a seventeen million selling rate down to ten -- -- sales came practically to a standstill that pushed up the average age of cars in America.
Are you ready for this -- eleven.
Year except at some consumers -- did do something if they still wanna get the work they got up by a newer car or a new car.
So they come in -- CS and we have exciting new products from the manufacturer.
What dramatically improved fuel efficiency without having to trade -- size and speed that's very different than the past and finally we have great financing available.
Because guess what during the crash everybody kept -- for the car payments all the banks -- -- into automotive and those three factors combined.
The really drive -- automotive recovery I suppose they -- -- their car payments but -- their house payments so that's certainly good news.
But looking well and we look -- just look at first list on that point look at look at the state of Florida.
You know is -- you stop making your house payment it's like hit the lottery can live for free for two or three years I I think he's what he's got life in her car payment work.
-- can't work if they've already figured it out we're coming to get the car in sixty to ninety days.
What's shocking is the unemployment rate as it correlates to the car sales of new car sales -- with California.
Mean these are two of the states that are the most hard hit.
Which -- -- believe that we strong car sales but let me now get quickly to what is the breaking news today and that is higher oil.
Mike we're watching the situation very closely in Syria where -- saw this.
Is running apparently according to reports away from Damascus because the fighting has gotten so severe three of his top lieutenants were killed yesterday.
We're looking at higher oil and real tension at what level.
And I know you know the level because you are one of the smarter guys on energy at what level.
Will oil hit that we'll start to put a dent and hurt you or I guess SUV -- light truck sales which is it.
98 is that a hundred dollars a barrel.
Well let's make it -- any consumer and number and I think that freak out number.
And is now around five dollars a gallon we saw gasoline in the first quarter run up almost four dollars a gallon.
And -- we plowed right through that contrary to what happened in no way so every time we have one of these spikes.
These these set point adjusts.
And I I think it's now in the high -- if not five dollars a gallon before consumers freak out.
And the industry is much better for shared.
Today that we were in 084.
Run up in gasoline prices.
And it's interesting that the technology that -- carrying the day is not hybrids it's not electric fish traditional technologies.
That have made tremendous advances whether it's a transmission that -- now has eight or nine speeds on internal combustion engine which has been downsize.
But gets a performance back with Turbo charging and direct injection so we have out.
Winning solution for the.
-- today I just wanna ask you because you know a large portion of your stock's float is being shorted.
And and I guess the question becomes it's about 21% of the flipping -- we topped analyst Mike and they say look.
The PE ratios a little rich around twenty for trailing fifty for forward.
But but more importantly the share repurchasing plan.
Thirteen point seven million shares a hundred.
What was a 137 billion shares and then and then you're looking at and in the aggregate purchase price of about a 126 million.
It is -- trick that's gonna fail to work at a certain point because the stock is now down today although hitting an all time -- Not -- in the stocks will go up and down the I view it this way.
-- first I'm very happy to have long term.
Investors in the company.
ES elementary Lampard -- and I -- been together.
Twelve years now only owns 55% of the company might Michael -- investing for Bill Gates in I've now been together for a decade.
Owns 15% of the company insiders own 73%.
Of the company.
Long term shareholders own.
90% of the company and we've.
Bought back in.
Our share -- went from 530 million down today to around -- 125 million.
At an average price of sixteen.
For stock is now trading at forty so I think our strategy has created.
Tremendous shareholder value but it's something we we view every day depending upon.
The valuations of acquisitions.
That is the price of the stock.
Capital allocation first dose of the existing business -- -- opportunistically.
Look at -- acquisitions and share repurchase and I think we've handled that.
Pretty well over the years and I know some of our viewers are are in that same company -- shareholders so thank you for speaking with us Mike good to see you.
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Hart-Miller Island is a 1,100-acre island located in Baltimore County on the Chesapeake Bay near the mouth of Middle River. It is accessible only by personal boat. The western shore of the island offers safe mooring, wading and access to a 3,000-foot sandy beach. Hart-Miller Island State Park also includes Hawk Cove and Pleasure Island, which also provide recreational opportunities and camping.
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TOPEKA – Kansas State Board of Education members expressed frustration during their monthly meeting March 13 in Topeka over a recent decision by the U.S. Department of Education (USDOE) not to grant in full requests from three Kansas school districts for waivers from some of the assessment requirements in the federal No Child Left Behind legislation.
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Kathy Toelkes, Director of Communications, 785-296-4876 TOPEKA – Kansas State Board of Education members expressed frustration during their monthly meeting March 13 in Topeka over a recent decision by the U.S. Department of Education (USDOE) not to grant in full requests from three Kansas school districts for waivers from some of the assessment requirements in the federal No Child Left Behind legislation. The Board voted to provide a letter of support to accompany a request to appeal the USDOE's decision. The waiver requests were submitted by the McPherson School District, USD 418; Kansas City Kansas Public Schools, USD 500; and the Clifton-Clyde School District, USD 224. The McPherson District sought an extension of the waiver it was granted on a pilot basis for the 2010-2011 school year. That waiver allowed the district to use the ACT EXPLORE exam in place of state assessments for accountability purposes in grades 6-8, and the ACT exam in high school. The Kansas City Kansas and Clifton-Clyde school districts made similar requests, except each of those school districts also asked to be able to use the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) exam for grades 3-7 in Kansas City Kansas Public Schools and in grades 3-5 in Clifton-Clyde. The decision from the USDOE, received by the Kansas State Department of Education on March 9, grants the districts' requests to use the ACT exam for accountability at the high school level, and to use the ACT EXPLORE at the eighth grade. However, it did not approve the use of the EXPLORE exam for grades 6 and 7, nor the use of the MAP exam. Board members expressed frustration with what they viewed as the intrusion of the federal government into decisions that they believe belong at the state and local level. While many members voiced their support for simply allowing the school districts to pursue their proposed accountability plans despite the USDOE decision, the majority did not want to risk the loss of federal Title I funding for those schools should they be found not to be in compliance with USDOE requirements. The Board voted to take a more diplomatic approach to the matter by strongly voicing its support for appeals of the decision being sought by the three districts, and ensuring that all members of the State's congressional delegation, the Governor and all members of the State Legislature were aware of the situation. Board members also voted to extend the testing window for state assessments by two weeks should the appeals to the USDOE be denied. The testing window is scheduled to close April 20, which would provide little time for the Kansas City Kansas school district to test all of its students in grades 3-7. If extended, the testing window would close May 4. In other business, State Board members received an update on data related to instances of seclusion used with students with disabilities during the 2010-11 school year. Dr. Ann Matthews, chair of the Special Education Advisory Council (SEAC), addressed a report being circulated by the National Disability Rights Network that profiles instances when children were harmed during instances of seclusion or restraint at schools around the country. Matthews reminded Board members that the Emergency Safety Interventions Guidelines adopted by the Board in June 2011 address all of the situations highlighted in that report. The Kansas guidelines stipulate that seclusion and restraint be used only in an emergency or safety situation or within the context of the Individual Education Plan (IEP) process, which means the specific instances that might warrant seclusion or restraint, and how that will occur, have been agreed to by parents and others involved in the IEP process. Colleen Riley, director of the Special Education Services team at KSDE, shared with Board members that the changes made to the state's guidelines last June were improvements from the 2007 version of the guidelines, however there is still room to make additional improvements to the guidelines. In reference to legislation being considered at the state level that would put the guidelines into law, Riley shared her opinion that the best way to arrive at improvements was through a process that sought recommendations from the Board and also relied on input and recommendations from SEAC. Board members voted earlier in the meeting to inform the Senate Education Committee that the State Board would be taking under consideration concerns that surfaced during discussion of the legislation related to seclusion and restraint and would be asking SEAC to make recommendations on the sufficiency of the current guidelines and whether they should be become regulations. The Board plans to make that determination at their meeting in April. In other action, the Board voted to support legislation before the Senate and the House that requires school districts to provide support for students from their district who attend the Kansas State School for the Blind and the Kansas State School for the Deaf. The support would be in the form of funds for the paraprofessionals needed to work with those students. Board members also voted not to support legislation in the House that would require a course in personal financial literacy for graduation from Kansas high schools. The State Board already requires that personal financial literacy be offered, but it can be integrated into instruction in other courses and is not a graduation requirement, although some districts do require it for graduation. A number of Board members expressed concerns over requiring schools to offer an additional course, without providing additional funding; others thought the decision was one best left to local school districts. Board member Walt Chappell voted against the motion to oppose the legislation, indicating that in his opinion the addition of the course as a graduation requirement did not have to cost the districts additional funds and that a graduation requirement would ensure students left high school with appropriate personal financial literacy skills. Also in March, Board members heard from local schools and districts about the use of Multi-Tier System of Supports (MTSS), and about the unique learning needs of middle school students. They also received an update on work toward developing a comprehensive professional learning system in Kansas. In other matters, the Board received an update on the progress of developing the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Kansas is one of 26 lead states working with Achieve, an education reform non-profit organization, to develop the science standards. Matt Krehbiel, education program consultant for science at KSDE, shared with Board members that the first public draft of the standards was expected in April, and he urged Board members and anyone who wanted to provide feedback on the public draft to first review the Framework for K-12 Science Education, which is the document that provides direction and guidance to the standards writing committee. A link to a free download of the Framework can be found on the science page on the KSDE website. Marcel Harmon, a scientist and engineer with a high-performance building firm in Overland Park who serves as a member of the Kansas review committee for the NGSS, shared with Board members his perceptions of the writing and review process. Harmon told the Board that as a representative from business and industry, he is excited about the NGSS process. He said those in the science and engineering fields have been troubled by the performance of U.S. students in science and technology subjects as compared to their counterparts in other countries, and by the lack of interest American students appear to have in science fields. He is encouraged by the effort to strengthen standards in science for U.S. students and by the process being used to develop the standards. The next State Board of Education meeting is scheduled for April 17 in Topeka and April 18 when the Board will visit the Kansas State School for the Deaf and the Kansas State School for the Blind.


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Is your wallet a little thinner these days?
More than likely, the state of Illinois is to blame.
About the same time the Illinois Legislature jacked up income taxes 67 percent two years ago, the federal government gave us a temporary break on how much we pay into Social Security.
That cut inadvertently softened the wallop of the state tax increase, but the relief from Washington expired at the beginning of this year.
Now we get to experience the state tax increase in all of its glory. Bureaucrats in Springfield are sucking away one extra week of our pay.
And to what end?
The state is still broke. The pension system is floundering. Government employee unions hunger for more dollars remains as voracious as ever.
Illinois revenues have never been higher in the Land of Lincolns 190-year history.
But our politicians are still crying poor.
Why? Because they are still spending money faster than they are taking it in.
Rather than curbing the spending, theyre laying the groundwork for another tax hike.
Advocates are calling it progressive tax reform.
Never mind that that the Illinois Constitution prohibits a graduated income tax rate; proponents are prepared to change the constitution.
Just last week, state Rep. Naomi Jakobsson, D-Champaign, introduced a proposed constitutional amendment to do just that.
The underlying reason for the proposed switch is a desire for the state to collect more money.
Youll hear some malarkey that a progressive income tax only will make the rich pay more.
To see just how wrong that thinking is, just look to our neighbor to the west Iowa. Over in the Tall Corn State, the top income tax rate is 8.98 percent. And the people who paid that rate in 2012 earned $66,105 or more.
Does anybody think that a family living on $66,000 is rich?
And yes, Im aware that the Illinois Legislature could choose a different income level than Iowa to start taxing at the top rate. But the fact of the matter is that 31 of the 34 the states that have a progressive structure tax $50,000 at a higher marginal rate than Illinois will in 2015.
The question remains: why increase taxes at all when state revenues are at an all-time high?
I dont support a progressive tax because we already have enough money coming in, said Rep. David Harris, R-Arlington Heights. We need to look at spending and the place to start is pensions.
Year after year, decade after decade, the Illinois Legislature has refused to institute comprehensive pension reform. Each year we keep dumping more money into our failing pension systems.
Next year, for example, the state will allocate $6.8 billion toward pensions almost $1 billion more than this year.
The state continues to pay its bills months late.
And even as spending increases, core government services are being cut. Our governor and Legislature seem unable to set priorities or make tough decisions.
Why give them more money?
Illinois problem is that it is spending too much.
And every working Illinoisan is feeling the pinch because of it.