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for dr. chip. hi. what would you say is a ideal grownup i could give myself, or who would be ideal to be to stay in happiness? who would fit me? if the one i'm talking to is the one i am inside. i wonder this stuff lol. there's a reason i talk to you. i mean if 2 people are my love that made me happy but we broke it, one is dead and another continue his path in drugs and then go marry someone. i feel like i'm britney spears with exception from the body.
ohhh ye i do think that people get offended by me, if i get out of control, i mostly always do, with exception from a few people.
but if you met your subconscious part, would you like it?
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omg i can't believe i bite on this again. the director on the institution yet again bite me, and then i knew i was right and then i knew he was wrong, but he still tried to intercept me and give me up, and then i figured ok, he's doing something right and i will do anything in my hands to do what i need to come on top of it, i actually did say him against without regrets, but ohh so greatful i feel for feeling down and then get build back up by starting life again.
it's pretty sexist, discussion and then me walking out the door heh, and then home and forgive myself and him, cause he actually said waht is needed to be social:) discussion until someone start living. i mailed him a thanks letter for standing up against me. i think he loves what i'm doing lol. finally someone who yells until i'm well, and then we forgive eachother:P see now that's how life should be, even tho it hurts my head right now, but i'm not so interested in bothering about shouting lol.
update: i am now feeling pain when i don't do much, but actually doing stuff:) and when i wakeu p this morning the headache was like 10 needles in my head, twice, and once someone has a problem i am about to fall apart. my hands broke from knitting and my feet is like really hard. i hope i can manage soften them up a bit heh.
i believe it's when something happens. it's like needles going into my head in 10 different points. dunno why it happens. it's all brain parts of feelings or something? or how can that be right, maybe 10 people feeling?
hi it is a ice headache. 10 points of the brain is activated. i felt someone else drinking some icestuff. hi btw, i need to figure a good strategy for social activity, that makes me able to get things more free and without problems, norway has a thing for getting in violent people and i feel that the goverment is not able to take care of them, or notice what they're doing, and give them right treatment, peple has to agree for treatment and they actually is given apartments to have a place to live, and this without any constructive criticism. police has to start recovering criminals, and get them where they belong, until everything is checked and fixed, i want people to be safe, we should have interest in testing people and get them out of society until tehy're good, and ready for society, and same with me idon't get why i didn't have a checkup any earlier, and people knowing me, should of figured what was wrong much sooner. if they had given me a closer apartment i wouldn't need to stay at my bf nor my parents, but lost confidence doing this and nearly become violent and destructive, even tho they wanted me to get up my integrity, i lost nearly all of it, due to people around me heh. the freedom of people is making them destructive, and people might lose their sense if they don't see what they're doing to themselves or get help with it. people are being controlled and into a wrong category. ofcourse people sicker than me can't control me, even tho i'm on bottom of the society and lost in nothing, due to this i need to make a change that is worthwhile.
ye how norway can be contributors to us all and to the world. you need to combine 4 religions and us and norway and nearly all countries to make it. history rather.) to find out how genes are working, to find out meditating and to find out how to control the states. people shouldn't be peopel's enemy.
well i can learn politics i'm ok. I just need to talk to the institution, people are way more important than economy, and i really should be happy about my life:) being needy is the last thing you should be at 30+ and i have no way of getting a job nor anything in this society. I just live on the state until i get something done. taking criminals in that we can't fix isn't a good idea.
oh i don't wanna. i just wanna do politics until i get things as i want it, and what's best for the democracy, and save families from despair. we need other family values and we need to figure the healing needed to take care of people, so that we can reverse the changes.
i will:) but we cannot help people here, they won't let us. cause you're not good for sick people, i can go workout but i cannot really get there. it's 2 hours on day time it's stupid. i mean people like me need to get rid of this by getting help when its needed, and get jobs and all that that fits them.
we don't really have one, all is in the state's economy and we get apartments to ourselves, with surrounding sick people, and people who lies, abuses, around us. the people here try to use meditation, but on a sick person in the first place how do you think that's gonna be. girls here abuses people and go from place to place to spread negativity. it's not private it's inlogical to put me here, just cause my family don't get a thing i said. we need help and we get it, but only cause I know how to fix myself:) well the leader of this is all good, it's just that the state has made laws that's useless. helping people is not allowed, well i can go make volunteer work with a neighbour he's ok, but got kids and loses them due to how sick he is, and i guess we're both the same, except he has been turned to go with society, and i cannot really make things happen since i feel so much when people are in trouble. sick people should not be heard just told what to do:( they are telling them to be social and that's just not ok, when you manipulate all around you.
for old people it's all 1 people room and the same here, i don' tget why they put us out there just to workout and do nothing else. noone talks about sickness and noone talks about themselves, and we're not allowed to do so either. it's kinda stupid that people got all this locked in their head, when they're not grown ups. darn so headache now.
one is psychic and i'm feeling everyone's pain. one is meditating and listening constantly to videos and one is very rabid.
yes i loe the treatment just not this place with all the sick people it hurts like heck heh. I wish they could swap it around to be a free mental capacity and not a controlled one, and that everyone got their needs covered by the place not the outside, so many people working and none of them in the same room and people are free to walk out the door, and people could be listening instead of making messages to people. they let 2 year old in heads work and we all suppose to fit society.
yes. but where? it's all over the place there is no place who doesn't have nightmares and f**k with my head. i will talk to the place and get them fix it. they ofc had to put me where i cannot just walk out the door and find the people. I have noone really that doesn't got this shit in my head.
it's not locked. i cna do what i want. it's just that i am getting in neighbours into my head. had the window open btw. I might should of just stayed over there and force them to stay home, would be better, how do i get someone listen, i have no rights to do whta i want? even tho i'm free as a bird heh, i have noone stay at and everyone is just as bad.
sleep well. I wnat you good:) heh can't sleep much.


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This Sunday: General Colin Powell (Ret.) speaks out exclusively to Meet the Press to make the case for fellow Vietnam war veteran Chuck Hagel as President Obama's pick for Secretary of Defense. Also, with important decisions looming regarding the United States' role in Afghanistan, the former secretary of state weighs in on where he sees America's place in an increasingly complex world. Plus, he endorsed the president in 2008 and 2012, what would he like to see from the commander-in-chief during a second term?
Then: As Washington gears up for the upcoming fight over the debt ceiling and contentious confirmation hearings for the president's cabinet picks, how are both sides positioning themselves politically? What do the president's nominees tell us about his second-term agenda? What, if anything, can get done in Washington? Our roundtable weighs in: Newark's Democratic Mayor Cory Booker, Fmr. Gov. Haley Barbour (R-MS), GOP strategist Mike Murphy, and NBC's Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell.
David Gregory is the moderator of "Meet the Press." Betsy Fischer Martin is the executive producer, Adam Verdugo is the senior producer, Chris Donovan, and Ilana Marcus Drimmer are producers.
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December 5, 2012
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The year of 2012 represents many things to many people.
In the recent weeks it is being hailed as the year that the minority-majority spoke up, a victory for 'Liberal America.' Contrarily, for many of us who are skeptical of the so-called post-racial America, it is the year Black America burned. Ranging from attacks on the non-white vote, the non-too-distant killing of Trayvon Martin – the newest killing of Jordan Davis barely breaking the haze of the latest attacks on Susan Rice – it has become evident that America is still a precarious place for Blacks, despite the universally celebrated victories of the Black elite.
A recent poll by the Associated Press, referenced in the article "Majority of Americans Harbor Prejudice against Blacks" (Ross & Agiesta 2012) is a sobering reality for those who thought Liberal multiculturalism could surmount historically-rooted prejudiced.
As a Black honors student in political science at Wright State University, I am constantly wrestling with the question that has plagued the scholars and activist alike in the Black community, "what is to be done?" Despite the ascension of President Obama, and his recent reelection victory, Black leadership remains awkwardly silent in the face of the growing social tragedies enveloping Black America in the age of Obama. In the article "First Black President Can't Help Blacks Stem Wealth Drop" (Lynch 2012) David Lynch concisely parallels the despair and political indifference of the White House towards the socio-economic situation of black America, a constituency that supported his presidency virtually without preconditions.
In fairness to the Obama Administration, the nature of the political system for Black America is a system where the needs and concerns of Black America are drowned out by voices that are relatively content with the status quo. Nevertheless, the inability for black leadership, and the established socio-political channels, to rise to cries of black suffering perpetuate learned helplessness, defeatism and nihilistic-careerism in the black political establishment. It is evident that a new generation of black youth, radical in vision, yet grounded in possibility, take up the mantle of the black radical tradition that has been lost by former generations.
Phillip Logan is a departmental honors student in Political Science at Wright State University and is an involved student activist; the current political action-chairman of the NAACP-WSU; and, the Editor in Chief of The Activist, an online news-blog of Young Democratic Socialist of America.


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A BIRKENHEAD woman who stole nearly £60,000 while working for Liverpool's Marriott Hotel has been jailed for 14 months.
Alexandra Tinton stole the money from the hotel's petty cash float over a five year period and used her knowledge of the hotel's systems to cover her tracks.
Liverpool Crown Court heard how Tinton had joined the Swallow Hotel as a casual bar worker in 1998 and became a full time financial assistant in 2004 working in a four strong team.
The hotel, on Queen's Square, was taken over by the Marriott Group the following year.
Arthur Gibson, prosecuting, said 37-year-old Tinton was "well liked within the hotel and was in a position of trust" and she "manipulated then petty cash system so she could steal cash without there being any anomalies".
She was caught out after a finance manager from London came to Liverpool to cover for a colleague and noticed "abnormal adjustments" made under Tinton's employee number.
Tinton was given several chances to explain what had happened but went off sick instead and was eventually suspended before resigning for "family reasons".
Mr Gibson said that a full audit found she had stolen £59,022 through 256 fraudulent transactions. When arrested she admitted stealing the cash and spending it on clothes, food shopping and horse riding lessons.
When quizzed she said she had hated working at the hotel, had been "living a lie" for a long time and was sorry for what she had done.
Tinton, a mother-of-one, of Park Road North, Birkenhead, admitted theft and false accounting.
Paul Davison, defending, said she had had a difficult childhood with a lack of cash and wanted her own daughter, now 17, to have better lifestyle than her £10,000 a year salary could afford.
She admitted being greedy but now has nothing to show for it.
She said four holidays she had taken during the period of dishonesty had only partially been paid for out of the stolen money.
Mr Davison said she had since lost a job working in a casino after her employers saw a story about the case in a newspaper and her chances of finding similar work are "virtually nil".
Jailing her Judge Graham Morrow, QC, said, "In the face of mounting evidence you finally admitted what you had done.
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Blaeberry bumblebee bonanza!
My search to see the Blaeberry bumblebee (Bombus monticola) has featured in severeal of my blogs in the past. It started with my (unsuccessful) search in 2012, when I climbed hills that were well-known Blaeberry bee sites. Then I was extremely lucky to find a single male of the species last year, just as the summer came to an end. But this year I've hit the motherload!
Walking the hills in Glen Lyon, Perthshire, I found a conservation area that was fenced off to prevent deer from grazing it. Deer are some of the biggest enemies of wildflowers, especially in places where their numbers are too high because of the lack of natural predators, so this area was much more lush than the surrounding paths, which has been stripped bare in some places.
Through the fence I could see swathes of blooming blaeberry plants, and hear the hum of bumblebees. If I was going to see Blaeberry bumblebee queens anywhere, it was here.
I couldn't believe it when I spotted by first Blaeberry queen, followed by another, and another and another! Literally dozens of bees, feeding busily on the little flowers.
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Overview map for Rampart Range area
Devil's Head Campground resides at the base of Devil's Head Fire Lookout Tower and Devil's Head Trail #611. Rock formations dot the landscape and provide outstanding views of the surrounding area. No dump station, electricity or water hook-ups available.
Peak season is 05/22-09/08 and extended season runs through 09/09-09/21. During peak season, the campground offers full service. Extended season has reduced services such as vault toilets, water, trash, or a host may not be available.
This campground appears on the following maps:
To reach this area, take U.S. Highway 85 south to Sedalia. Turn west on Highway 67 for 10 miles to the junction with Rampart Range Road. Turn south onto Rampart Range Road for 10 miles. Devil's Head Campground will have a signed turn off.
The Indian Creek Campground is part of the Rampart Range Road. In order to protect the resources and provide a safer winter experience, this road is closed to all vehicles wider than 50" annually from December 1 to April 1. Call the district office (303.275.5610) for updated information.
Parking is available for either 2 vehicles or 1 recreational vehicle per campsite. Additional parking is available apart from the campsite.
A fee of $5 will be charged for the third vehicle.
Devil's Head is a Historic Landmark and receives over 10,000 visitors each summer. The trailhead parking is located in the back of the second loop making the parking area appear very crowded on weekends. Not all visitors camp in the campground. Drive into the loops before determining the campground is full.
Two of the recreational things visitors can enjoy in this area are: (1) Devil's Head Mountain and (2) OHV (off highway vehicle) trail riding.
Devil's Head Mountain accentuates the north end of the Rampart Range. From certain viewpoints, a rock out-cropping projects the profile of the devil's head. This portion of the area is most famous for the Devil's Head Lookout. To get to the lookout, you must first hike a 1.4-mile trail, which has a 940' elevation gain. Hiking time is 45-90 minutes, depending on your pace. There are several rest spots with benches and tables along the trail for your comfort. Bring along your own drinking water, as there is none available either along the trail or at the top. When you reach the top of the trail, you will enter a small valley perfect for a nice break and picnic. You will want to take a rest as you have not yet reached the Lookout; you will need to climb the 143 stairs to the top of the rock outcropping. When you reach the tower, you will immediately become aware of the tremendous vantage point it offers. On clear days, mountain peaks over 100 miles away are visible. The tower's location is even more significant because the area to the south and west has a very high frequency of lightning strikes. During a typical summer, the area will experience from 30-50 fires caused by lightning. From the vantage point of the tower, the fire lookout ranger is able to spot these fires very soon after they begin. Fire crews then are rapidly dispatched to contain the fire before it gets out of control. The tower is usually staff mid-May through mid-September.
The Rampart Range Motorized Recreation Area is known for its network of motorcycle and ATV trails providing a unique experience for all levels of riders in riding through a forest setting. To preserve this opportunity, the cooperation of everyone is essential.
When motorcycle and ATV riding in the area keep your vehicle on roads & trails specifically designated for that purpose. The sparse vegetation and loose soil make the area especially vulnerable to damage by people and machines. A set of off trail tracks can easily erode; causing a gully that could alter the beauty and usability of the entire area.
Devil's Head has 21 campsites within 2 loops to accommodate both tents and recreational vehicles up to 30' in length. No electricity or hooks ups available. Water is from a community pump.
Devils Head climbing information.
Devil's Head trailhead is located in the second loop of the campground. The Trail is 1.5 miles one way with an elevation gain of 940 feet. The trail ends at the base of the steps to the top of the tower. There are 143 open backed steps to gain access to the fire lookout area.
NOTE: Although the tower is open to the public, the lookout's main job is to watch for smoke and fire. In the event of heightened fire danger, or in the event of an active fire, the lookout may choose to prohibit entrance into the tower.
Devil's Head trail is just one of many beautiful advantage points to view scenery. The trail ends at the fire lookout tower, which, on a clear day, can provide an unobstructed 360 degree view for miles of the surrounding area.
Other overlook vantage points exist along the Rampart Range Road: Topaz Point is just south of Devil's Head Campground.
Rampart Range has 100 miles worth of trails open to ATVs and motorcycles. Consult the South Platte Ranger District free Motor Vehicle Use Map (MVUM) for specific trails and what type of vehicles they are open to.
As a reminder, only licensed vehicles are allowed in the Devil's Head Campground. ATVs and other off-road vehicles must be transported via trailer to the trailheads. All off-road vehicles must be registered with Colorado State Parks.
The Devil's Head trail has interpretive signs and benches along the trail. Devil's Head Fire Lookout tower is on the National Register of Historic Places and it's use since 1912 as a fire lookout is long documented.
Topaz Point is nearby. Named for the topaz in the area, this is a very popular place for rockhounding and has been sought out by rockhounders for years.
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Crescita della produttività, progresso tecnico e impiego del lavoro nelle imprese manifatturiere italiane: 1996-2006
The article analyses the productivity dynamics of a sample of Italian manufacturing firms in the period 1996-2006. The first part computes Malmquist measures of productivity using non parametric techniques. Our measures show that the low rate of growth in productivity is due to the different models used to adapt to the changes in the competitive environment. Up to 2000, all the firms attempted to improve efficiency, whereas technical progress is absent. After 2000, there is evidence that a group of firms advance the technical frontier, while many firms lag behind and increase the frontier gap. The second part of the article correlates the observed measures of productivity to some characteristics of the employed labor. The hypothesis that productive performances could be put in relation to the two tiers of the labor markets resulting from the reforms adopted at the end of the century is supported. Highly productive firms use a higher share of skilled labor and fewer part-time workers. The reverse is true for less efficient firms. Jel classification:
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Not everyone is convinced that Nicole Kidman captured the essence of Virginia Woolf, writes Adam Nicholson.
Virginia Woolf has been floating around (if it is not too callous to use this expression in the circumstances) in the background to my life for as long as I can remember. She was a friend, and briefly a lover, of my grandmother, Vita Sackville-West, in the 1920s and 1930s. A beautiful photograph of Virginia's long, sad-eyed face still sits at home on Vita's desk.
My father edited six volumes of the Woolf letters in the 1970s, each one prepared over the course of a summer during my teens, when an unbroken string of Woolf scholars would come to lunch, tea, dinner and to stay.
Talk for months on end, as far as I remember it, was of nothing but Woolf this and Woolf that, which triangular love affair was strung out across Bloomsbury Square, an enveloping world of Clive and Lytton and Angelica and Vanessa, The Waves and The Years, Charleston and Rodmell, Quentin and Ralph and Julian and Frances, on and on and on - all of which, for a teenager, as I'm sure you can imagine, pretty soon palled.
Did anyone know how Arsenal did on Saturday? Weren't there any other 20th-century writers? I read nothing but Pound and Joyce and went for walks in the Ligurian Alps.
Woolf is a writer who inspires a kind of adulation that suspends critical judgement. Her madness and her suicide have pushed her into the realm of sainted geniuses, where she now sits alongside Keats, Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath. It's an exclusive club of beautiful tragic writers, the Sad Lit Academy, where the writing has become secondary to the life of exquisite misery.
The Hours, the new film of Michael Cunningham's novel directed by Stephen Daldry and adapted by David Hare, relies for its effects on the myth of the agonised and finally crucified artist, in much the same way that films about Van Gogh and any of the Romantics have always done.
Nowhere in the Virginia Woolf of The Hours is there any sign of what I know to be the talkative, unforgivingly sharp, intellectual, witty, funny, joking, gossiping, deceitful woman that emerges in her letters. That sometimes malicious, often light-hearted person, endlessly curious about the world and other people, either interrogating them about the details of their lives or behaving suddenly and intimately with great warmth and tenderness towards children - none of that sheer variability of mind, temperament and person is allowed to appear in the film.
Instead, it does something very un-Woolfian: it reduces the multiplicity of the real thing. The nose might have been allowed to grow, but the characterisation turns Woolf into a straight-up literary saint.
Looking beyond that marvellous nose, Kidman's eyes are not focused on the actual but on the dreamily distant, the Keatsian consolations of an easeful death, the world of significance standing outside the daily humdrum of things.
But that romantic distance is precisely not what the central Woolf idea is about. Her entire enterprise was to look for meaning in the here and the now and the actual, in what she describes in one letter as "the question of things happening", not the big romantic "other". This oversimplifying of a complex reality has a name: sentimentality.
Hare said at a London screening last week for the Friends of Charleston (the Bloomsbury Group's country retreat) that this was "not a biopic" and so should not be judged on its historical accuracy.
That is all very well, but the film's selective reality is skewed in one direction. We are only shown an intensely creative, half-mad episode in Woolf's life. The normal is seen not as the substance of her art but its enemy.
Her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, is portrayed by Miranda Richardson as a slightly absurd upper class lady, in order to throw Woolf's own status as the heroic artist into sharper isolation. When Woolf drowns herself, as a woman of almost 60, she is shown no older than the lovely, pure-skinned figure of 20 or 30 years before.
Even the filthy, angry, mud-smeared Sussex Ouse is made into an Arcadian-Elysian sunlit brook, the sort of stream in which a writer would obviously be taken to some kind of Lit Valhalla where Byron would be waiting with a warm towel and a kiss.
For all that, there is one performance here which in its ordinariness stands outside the mythomania. As Virginia Woolf knew, Leonard, her husband, loved and cherished her beyond all reason. He is beautifully played in the film by Stephen Dillane.
"Someone has to die," Virginia is made to say, "in order that the rest of us will value life more." And Leonard's response to that heroic self-dramatisation provides the bedrock above which the whole elaborate circus can pursue its gyrations.
"Virginia," he says, "you have an obligation towards your own sanity." Marvellous words! The most disregarded man in the whole story is, in his prosaic and consistent goodness, its hero.
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An explosion at a large Japanese chemical plant has sparked fears of a global shortage of disposable diapers, a report said on Sunday.
A tank at chemical producer Nippon Shokubai's factory in Himeji city, Hyogo prefecture, exploded on Saturday, killing a firefighter and injuring 35 other emergency service workers who responded to a callout, the fire service said.
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What are the symptoms of vitamin D deficiency?
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"These Skirts Need To Be More Feminist!": Vag Magazine Webisodes Spoof Feminist Mags
Because all patriarchal structures must fall, fashion magazine Gemma is gone! In its place is Vag Magazine, a feminist rag purchased by Fennel, Sylvie, Bethany, Heavy Flo (a roller derby legend), and Reba (a gonzo feminist pop-culture journalist) with the proceeds from the reusable menstrual pads they sell on their Etsy shop. Will Meghan, the sole holdover from Gemma, survive their stern rebukes and wayward logic?
This parody is good, but my favorite "Vag Magazine" skit — Meghan's new co-workers teach her a lesson about "feminist skirts" — is after the jump …
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I rarely swear. I try to avoid demeaning the English language by resorting to such foolishness. Luckily, few things make me angry enough to drop the f-bomb, so it doesn't appear on my pages all that often. This story made me mad enough to put it in the title. I'm that pissed. Hopefully it's a funny, satirical look at all-too human foibles, rather than a rant. If not, fuck it. Seriously, I'm done playing nice with stupid people. Not that I was nice before... --Sir Modusoperandi Boinc! 03:19, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
- It's good stuff. I started an article about this topic taken in a slightly different direction than this one. These abstinence programs are so mind-numblingly stupid, I'm find myself unsatisfied with any ending. Here's how I was going at it- User:Kenvalyi/temp. Not sure if I'll continue it now that you've covered it so well and thoroughly. Again, good stuff. --Kenvalyi 13:21, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
- Some things simply must be satirized.
- I take it that your version started out with a teacher and student sex thing? Interesting twist. --Sir Modusoperandi Boinc! 16:55, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
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"Planned Parenthood is teaching kids to fornicate, teaching people to have adultery, every kind of bestiality, homosexuality, lesbianism -- everything that the Bible condemns."
Apparently if people don't know about sex (or, in the case of the real version of this UnNews story, know only not to have sex...which is the final, idealistic outcome of abstinence-only programs), they won't have it. True story, sadly. Sir Modusoperandi Boinc! 23:18, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
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This is one of those uncomfortable pages that I keep coming back to (the 25ish edits in its history since April are nothing compared to those from its time in my sandbox). As such, my question is the same one that I generally ask when I bring a page here; is it funny satire? Sir Modusoperandi Boinc! 04:48, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
|an above-average number of chuckles
|this is what UnNews is all about: taking a real news story and spinning it until its ridiculousness becomes apparent
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|no problems here. there's a lot of italicized quotes, but an UnNews story "should" have lots of italicized quotes.
|i found the first image to be quite funny, mostly due to the caption. the other two were solid, but nothing spectacular. i personally thought the leading picture of the fourth link to be hilarious..."NO SCREWIN' AROUND" with a perfectly ethnically diverse group of blissful virgins. perhaps you could incorporate that.
|"Just say 'No to cock". hehehe.
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|a spendidly done UnNews. this is definitely funny satire in its prime. i'd support on VFH without as much second thought as...something funny relating to sex-ed...
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Thanks for the review. I did consider trying to integrate that pic you mentioned into the page, but its texty nature would look like a smear at such a small size (even full size it's a blurry mess). Sir Modusoperandi Boinc! 00:17, 20 November 2007 (UTC)


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Chennai, Nov. 12 (ANI): Finance Minister P. Chidambaram on Monday said the Congress-led UPA Government has not taken any view to make the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) a multi-member body.
"All I have seen on all the channels is Mr. Narayanasamy has denied that he made any reference to that part to the Shunglu Committee report. Apparently, he was asked generally what are you doing about the Shunglu Committee report and he said that it is under active consideration, that's what he has said. I have not read the Shunglu Committee report. Therefore, there is no view of the government as such," said Chidambaram.
"I don't know why you are saying that the government has taken a view. If the government is taking a view obviously the Finance Minister will be involved in that. The government has not taken any view on the matter," he added.
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State film awards for 2009 and 17th J.C Daniel award were presented by Chief Minister V.S. Achudanandan at a function held at senate hall on Sunday in Thiruvanathapuram.
Veteran director Sethu Madhavan was given J.C Daniel award. The award includes a cash prize of Rs.one lakh, statuette and a citation. V.S. Achuthanandan exhorted film community to face the issues unitedly and open heart to resolve the issues, which can be settled through dialogue.
Mammootty received the best actor award for the film Paleri Manikyam: Oru Paathira kolapathakathinte katha. Swetha Menon received best actress award and Renjith received best film award for the same film. M.P Sukumaran Nair received second best film award. Best supporting actor award was given to Manoj K. Jayan and Suraj Venjaramoodu received best comedian award.
Roshan Andrews received best entertainment film award for Ividam swargamanu. Baby Niveditha (best child artiste), Sasi Paravur (best story) K.G. Jayan (best cinematographer), Rafeeq Ahmed (best lyricist), Mohan Sithara (best music), Rahulraj (best back ground music), Sarat (best classical music), Sreekar Prasad (best editor), Muthuraj (art director), Natarajan (dress designer), P. Sukumar (best debutant director), Sivan (best children's film), Shobhi Thilakan (best dubbibg artiste) and Ranjith Ambadi and George (Make up man) also received awards in the function.
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Rocker BRET MICHAELS is suing a cruise operator over allegations bosses used "a fraudulent scheme" to get him to reduce his fee for two agreed performances.
The Poison star signed up to play a pair of gigs in November (11) on a luxury liner off the coast of Miami, Florida for a reported $750,000 (£468,000) fee.
After he received an initial payment of $250,000 (£156,000), Michaels alleges the firm began complaining about poor ticket sales in a fraudulent bid to lower his fee.
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I am a six digit number. My digits add up to 31, and all of my digits are distinct, and between 1 to 9 inclusive. All of my digits except one are odd. My second is 6 greater than my third, which is 5 less than my fifth. My last is 1 less than the previous digit, and the fourth is greater than the third. My first is equal to the sum of my fourth and fifth.
HintThe second and third numbers have to be 7 & 1.
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Colorado Oil & Gas Enforcement - Inspections
As shown in the table below, at the end of 2010 Colorado hosted more than 43,000 active wells. That year the COGCC employed 15 inspectors who performed a total of 16,228 inspections.
Assuming that each inspection was conducted at a different well site, approximately 27,000 wells or 63% of Colorado's active oil and gas wells were not inspected in 2010.
Even fewer inspections were conducted in 2011 (12,239), while the number of active wells increased to 46,835, leaving approximately 34,500 (74%) of active wells with little or no oversight.
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Colorado's inspection capacity lags behind other states
Pennsylvania has greatly increased its inspection and enforcement staff in response to its (Marcellus) shale gas boom. Between 2000 and 2010 the number of active wells in Pennsylvania almost doubled from 36,000 to 71,000. In response to the drilling of thousands of shale gas wells, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection recently quadrupled the size of its enforcement staff to 130 employees, 65 of which are inspectors.
- In 2010, each Pennsylvania oil and gas inspector was responsible for, on average, 1,092 active wells.
- In Colorado, with 43,000 active wells just 15 inspectors in 2010, each COGCC inspector was responsible for an average of 2,890 active wells – more than twice the number of their Pennsylvania counterparts.
It is nearly impossible for one inspector to visit, let alone carefully inspect 2,890 well sites a year.
In 2010, each of COGCC's 15 inspectors performed, on average, 1,082 inspections. That number is high compared to oil and gas inspectors in Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York state, each of whom conducted 253, 499 and 154 inspections in 2010, respectively, and implies that COGCC inspectors are not able to spend as much time on each inspection as their counterparts in some other states.
States, such as Pennsylvania, North Dakota and New York recommend that each producing well be inspected at least once per year, and new wells, especially horizontal wells, be inspected multiple times during the drilling and completion process.
Colorado must hire more inspectors
To do an adequate job of inspecting new and active wells, all new wells should be inspected at least three times (e.g., twice during the drilling/completion process, and once after drilling is completed), and each active well in Colorado should be inspected at least once a year. This means that COGCC should perform at least 55,000 inspections in 2012. In 2011, COGCC conducted 12,239 inspections.
Clearly, the COGCC needs to hire more inspectors to keep up with the growing number of new and active wells in Colorado.
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- Earthworks: Enforcement Report - COGCC: Inadequate enforcement means current Colorado oil and gas development is irresponsible. Report
- Earthworks: Colorado Oil & Gas Enforcement. Web page
- Earthworks: Colorado Oil & Gas Enforcement - Inspections. Web page
- Earthworks: Colorado Oil & Gas Enforcement - Enforcement Actions. Web page
- Earthworks: Colorado Oil & Gas Enforcement - Violations. Web page
1 Pennsylvania: 65 inspectors conducted 16,199 inspections, or 249 per inspector. Ohio: 21 inspectors conducted 10,472 inspections, or 499 per inspector. New York: 16 inspectors conducted 2,460 inspections, or 154 per inspector. (Note: Ohio inspection data from Beth Wilson, Public Information officer with Ohio Division of Minerals Resources Management (Email request for data made Sept. 16, 2011. Data received Oct. 4, 2011).
2 At minimum, in 2012 Colorado should be able to perform: [3 inspections x 2,700 new wells in 2012 (assumed to be similar to wells spud in 2011 and 2010)] + 46,800 inspections of active wells (the number of active wells at beginning of 2012) = 8,100 + 46,800 = 54,900 inspections.
3 If COGCC inspectors continue to perform approximately 1,000 inspections per year (as they did in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010), then COGCC would need 55 inspectors to keep to this schedule. There are currently 15 inspectors. If each COGCC inspector conducted fewer inspections per year (i.e., spent more time on inspections like their counterparts in PA, NY and OH), e.g., 500 inspections per year, then approximately 110 inspectors would be needed to do the work. That is more than seven times the current inspection staff.
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"He left you overnight again?" Though she phrased it like a question, her voice vibrated with worry and anger; she'd heard the answer before. Her mother sat across the table and her lips quivered as her head nodded. In that unsteady line of her mother's lips, she read reluctance, embarrassment, and fear.
Again, her father had left her mother to wait inside the car while he went into a casino and didn't come back until morning. Her mother couldn't leave, grab a cab and go home, because her father controlled the money. And despite a parking lot attendant telling her mother that it simply wasn't safe to be out there all night, her mother was scared, terrified, of what he would do if she was gone when he finally got back – even going into the casino to use the bathroom wasn't an option because he would start screaming if he saw.
"Mom," she felt the words tumble from her mouth in a rush, expecting an argument. "You need to leave him. Once could be an accident; twice is deliberate! You need to leave him soon."
But the argument didn't last long; even though her parents had been married for over 50 years, the financial and emotional abuse her father had put her mother through had gone on for too long. This was the last straw for both mother and daughter.
After some researching, she discovered that she needed to help her mother set up a legal separation document to end the continuing control he had over her mother's life. She'd been told that she could get her mother legal help for free, but once she started looking all she got was the run-around.
"Oh no, we don't do that, try this number instead." The same words were repeated back to her over and over until she finally set the phone down and ran exhausted fingers through her hair. Her head dropped as she realized this couldn't go on forever. If she wanted to get her mother the proper help quickly, she needed to find a lawyer, even if it cost them money.
Unfortunately, that wasn't easy either. Not only were they pressed for time, but their location in a rural community made finding a lawyer within any reasonable distance extremely difficult. She worried about her mother's health as the stress was more visible each day in the shaking of hands and quivering of lips.
Finally, she found a lawyer just over an hour away. It took some convincing, some hand holding, and more than a few tears, but in the end her mother agreed to go see the lawyer. While actually having legal support initially released much of her mother's stress, the cost of it all replaced it. Because her mother never worked and her father had always controlled the money, her mother had no income. Not only were the lawyer's fees a necessary expense but her mother also had to find the money to pay for travel.
Somehow, they made it work. Her mother is now legally separated and the quiver is gone from her lips. But she wants her mother's story shared so people can understand how access to legal services – access to justice – is an issue, especially in small Alberta communities. Her mother was lucky in the end, but what if it had taken so long to access legal services that the abuse turned physical? What if the mother didn't have a supportive daughter? What if the mother had lived farther away from that lawyer and couldn't afford the gas to get to him? Not everyone is eligible for pro bono service. Would her mother have received legal protection? Where would their family be today?
Written by Melissa St. Dennis (based on a true story from Alberta)
ARDN is seeking stories about legal services in rural communities. If you've had experience with legal services or have had trouble accessing legal services in rural Alberta and would like to share your story, please contact Melissa. We want these stories to help inform our Regional and Rural Access to Justice project as well as the Joint Action Forum for the Alberta Government's civil and family justice system that our Executive Director was invited to participate in by the Minister of Justice. These stories can have a real impact if we have the voice to share them.


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Committee on Administration, Buildings & Grounds
William H. Payne II, Chair
John Charles Thomas, Vice Chair
Warren W. Buck III
James A. Hixon
Anne Leigh Kerr
Karen Kennedy Schultz
DeRonda M. Short
Christopher J. Abelt, faculty representative
Samuel E. Jones, Senior Vice President
(Design Review Board – Will Payne, John Charles Thomas)
The Committee on Administration, Buildings and Grounds considers and makes recommendations on all matters relating to the buildings and grounds of William & Mary, including the naming of buildings; the administrative operations of the University, including human resources policy in regard to classified employees, university employees and other non-instructional faculty members; information technology; procurement; and any other matters referred to it by the Rector or the President particularly regarding authority granted under The Restructured Higher Education Financial and Administrative Operations Act. The Rector may appoint a faculty member, as detailed in Section V.B.5., to the position of non-voting faculty committee representative. The Senior Vice President for Finance and Administration staffs the Committee.


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Hi, Its been about 2 months since I broke up. In the initial few days I could not sleep and was not eating and all but now I am much better and don't have those kind of problems anymore. However I still sometimes feel very sad and depressed, especially on the weekends and when I am alone and have nothing much to do. I still think about her a lot. So many things remind me about her. I really want to put this all in my past and move on but it seems so impossible at this time. I constantly worry that I will never love anyoneelse like that again. And that I would never be able to forget her. Please can you give me some advice to help me move on with life and stop obsessing about what was never meant to happen. I am afraid that I am letting myself dwell in the past for too long and I know that this could ruin my future relationship.
Hi, I'd like to help you with your question.
It sounds like what you are experiencing is very normal. It takes a while to get over a relationship that you cared about. Give yourself time.
There are some things you can do to help yourself. Here are some suggestions:
Remove any reminders of your ex. Photos, letters or anything she gave you. Put it in a box and move it somewhere else that is difficult to get to, like an attic.
Spend lots of time with family and friends. Get out of your house on weekends and make plans to be with others. See a movie, eat out, participate in any activity that helps you stay active and away from home.
Go on a trip, either short or long. A change of scenery and new experiences helps you create good memories that do not have your ex in them. It gives you something to think about and smile about that does not remind you of her.
Remember that it is rare to not find another relationship. Most people who have been in a decent relationship already have an increased chance of finding someone again. But to insure that you do, get out there and start dating again. Make it known to people in your life that you are looking again. Go places where there are others you can meet. Join a group that interests you. It increases the chance you will find someone who has similar interests.
Here are some resources to help you:
Getting Past Your Breakup: How to Turn a Devastating Loss into the Best Thing That Ever Happened to You by Susan J. Elliott
How to Heal a Broken Heart in 30 Days: A Day-by-Day Guide to Saying Good-bye and Getting On With Your Life by Howard Bronson and Mike Riley
You can find these books on Amazon.com or your local library may have them as well.
Allow time to heal. Do not expect yourself to get over the relationship too soon. It took time to build the relationship, it takes time to get over it. Be good to yourself in the meanwhile.
I hope this has helped you,Kate


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Ebola, one of the world's most fatal diseases, has surfaced in Africa's most populous country.
Nigerian health officials have announced nine confirmed cases and two deaths in the country from the Ebola outbreak that is sweeping West Africa - including a nurse and a man from Liberia whom the nurse had been caring for.
The man, Patrick Sawyer, a naturalised US citizen, had flown to Nigeria in late July and died soon after. He had infected at least seven other people, including the nurse, who died on August 5, officials said.
By Friday, President Goodluck Jonathan had declared a state of emergency, officially adding Nigeria, home to more than 160 million people, to the list of nations struggling to control one of the largest public-health emergencies in recent history: more than 900 people have died.
The story of Sawyer, who was reportedly aware that he was sick when he left Liberia, demonstrates just how difficult containing the disease will be in the modern age of rapid travel and growing urbanisation. Nigeria is Africa's largest economy and is deeply connected to the outside world, a fact that could potentially magnify the consequences if the outbreak is not contained.
"Rapid epidemic transmission has been with us a long time, but my guess is that it's accelerating, with the number of people on the move and intensity of air travel, global trade, and the numbers of displaced people we have globally," said Jeffrey Sachs, an economist and the director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University.
Climate change, population growth and more displaced populations means that people are pushing into previously uninhabited places, creating new vulnerabilities and bringing humans into closer contact with animal populations, where many of the diseases have begun, he said.
At the same time, globalisation means that people are mixing more, trading more and handling more farm animals in industrial settings - all of which facilitate the emergence and spread of infectious diseases.
"This ought to force a reflection," Mr Sachs said, adding that establishing a basic global network of community health workers across the developing world was an urgent priority.
Health officials emphasised that Nigeria still had only a few Ebola cases - nine as of Friday, with two deaths - and that its government had mobilised substantial forces to try to stop the spread of the disease.
David Daigle, a spokesman for the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention's effort in Nigeria, said the ministers of health and information were on hand on Friday for the opening of an emergency operation centre in Lagos, a sign that the government was treating the situation seriously.
"The Nigerians understand the magnitude of the problem here," said Dr Frank Mahoney, an epidemiologist who has been leading the CDC's Ebola response in Lagos.
Still, international health officials are undertaking a substantial effort in Nigeria, he said, motivated by what might happen if the disease, which had been confined to remote forests and villages in decades past, starts to spread in one of Africa's most densely populated countries.
"We are very worried about this," Dr Mahoney said, pointing out that Nigeria's healthcare system could easily become overwhelmed. "Lagos is such a huge city with such a mobile population."
Lagos, a city of nearly 20 million, the most populous in Nigeria, is also home to a large contingent of religious healers, such as Temitope Balogun Joshua, a popular Christian minister and televangelist known as T.B. Joshua. Health experts are concerned sick people will flock to Lagos to seek his advice.
Dr Mahoney said health experts were reaching out to such leaders, and Mr Jonathan called on churches and religious leaders to halt large gatherings that could encourage the spread of the disease.
Almost all of the suspected Ebola cases involve people who had direct contact with Sawyer - either in the airport where he was helped into a car or in the hospital where he was treated, the First Consultant Medical Centre.
Newspapers in Liberia and Nigeria were brimming with accounts of the strange tale of Sawyer's sickness, which began in Liberia, where the disease is exploding.
According to a report in The National Chronicle, a Liberian newspaper, Sawyer's sister, who died of Ebola in early July, had come to a hospital bleeding, but when doctors and nurses tried to put her in isolation, Sawyer refused to allow it, demanding that she be given a private ward. He undressed her, put her into a wheelchair and offered the hospital workers cash, the paper said.
And in an account in The New Dawn, a Liberian newspaper, which cited footage from a security camera in the airport in Monrovia, Sawyer was behaving strangely as he waited for his flight out of Liberia, sitting alone, avoiding physical contact with people - including an immigration agent who tried to shake his hand - and even lying flat on his stomach on the floor of a corridor of the airport.
The episode prompted the president of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, to publicly apologise to Nigeria about Sawyer, who she said had sneaked out of Liberia, where he was being tracked as a potential Ebola case, according to The Daily Independent, a Nigerian newspaper.
The number of suspected cases has continued to tick up slowly. Nigeria's state oil company announced on Friday that it had closed its clinic in Lagos after a patient suspected of having Ebola was admitted there. The patient had visited the First Consultant Medical Centre, which has since been closed.
In a strange twist, a doctors' strike in Nigeria may have saved lives by reducing the number of medical workers who came into contact with Sawyer.
"It would have been a disaster," said Saheed Babajide, a doctor and the secretary of the Lagos State chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association. "At the time, nobody was prepared for it."
In all, about 70 people are believed to have had contact with Sawyer, Nigerian health officials said. Dr Mahoney said that teams of people were working to call those people and to try to persuade them to stay at home and watch for symptoms, such as a rising temperature.
Just as concerning was what would happen if the disease began to spread inside the healthcare system, Dr Mahoney said.
"The healthcare system in Nigeria would have a really difficult time responding to a community-wide outbreak," he said.
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CONMEBOL Will Stage 2016 Copa America In U.S. To Commemorate 100th Anniversary
Published October 26, 2012
A COUP FOR U.S.: In N.Y., Grant Wahl opined that the tournament would be "the biggest" men's football tournament on U.S. soil since the 1994 World Cup. The event "would be fantastic, selling out 80,000-seat stadiums, drawing nine-figure global TV audiences and bringing together a constellation of stars" that would potentially include Argentina's Lionel Messi, Brazil's Neymar and Colombia's Radamel Falcao. It would also make for a "glorious summer" of football, with Euro 2016 taking place in June and the special Copa América in July. However, Wahl also opined that CONMEBOL "jumped the gun" on the announcement. Discussions between the three big organizations (CONMEBOL, CONCACAF, U.S. Soccer) involved in the potential tournament have taken place, but "there remain some issues" that have yet to be settled:
- Would FIFA approve such an event? This is key as clubs are only required to release their players to national teams if the event is listed on the official FIFA calendar. So far FIFA has made no announcement.
- Would the football federations of the countries involved send their best squads to the event? There is "little point in staging this tournament if all nations don't bring their top teams."
- U.S. Soccer has yet to sign off on staging the event, a "somewhat important fact if you're being publicized as the host."
- How would the economic agreements function? CONMEBOL and CONCACAF have yet to sign anything on how revenues from the tournament would be split.
Even with those concerns, Wahl expects that the 2016 Copa América on U.S. soil will take place as there is "too much upside" for football in "this part of the world for it not to happen" (SI, 10/25).


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Published: February 25 2013 - 3:00AM
HEART'S coaching staff refused to discuss the debut of Lucas Neill, the player John Aloisi thought he had secured before Sydney FC's 11th-hour bid to sign the Socceroos' skipper.
Aloisi pointedly said after the match that it was not his style to talk about opposition players. Heart assistant coach Hayden Foxe, a former Socceroo teammate, appeared to ignore Neill as he approached him before leaving the pitch after completing his first A-League game.
Heart fans were no less forgiving. It would have been expecting a lot for them to extend the hand of friendship to Neill when he strolled out on to the AAMI Park pitch in the Sky Blue of Sydney.
Not that Neill, a veteran of hundreds of hostile encounters in the English Premiership and the Turkish Super League, would have expected anything else.
Whatever the reasons behind his decision to spurn Heart's advances and sign for Sydney, he knew he would be on the receiving end of insults and catcalls from the crowd.
He also knew the venom was unlikely to be anything like the bile he might have experienced playing for Galatasaray in the Istanbul derbies, or for West Ham in the London clashes with the likes of Tottenham, Arsenal and Chelsea. And it wasn't. Of course, his every touch of the ball was booed. A desultory chant of ''you are a wanker'' greeted his early involvements. That was all.
Anyway, after their side raced to a 3-0 lead inside 55 minutes, the Heart fans might have been wondering why they were bothered that the Socceroos captain had rejected them.
If Neill was brought in to shore up Sydney's rearguard - Frank Farina's side had conceded 14 goals in its past eight games - it didn't appear to be working, at least not immediately.
Not that it was especially Neill's fault. Establishing a central defensive pairing is never easy, and even if you are a top player, as the rising 35-year-old has been throughout his career, it will take time for him to develop a partnership with his centre-back partner, Tiago Calvano.
Neill looked calm and assured when on the ball and he produced a tremendous penalty area tackle late in the second half to deny Matt Thompson. But it's hard to see him remembering his A-League debut with special fondness.
Farina, Neill's new coach, said he was pleased with his new acquisition's contribution.
''It was OK for his first game - it was a bit of a baptism of fire for him and I was relatively pleased. We as a team have to improve with five games to go,'' he said.
This story was found at: http://www.theage.com.au/sport/a-league/foxe-snubs-neill-after-debut-clash-20130224-2ezif.html


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Houchin Community Blood Center Begins To Move To New Location
Workers with the Houchin Community Blood Bank are getting ready for a big move they say will start this weekend and last for the next several weeks.
The center was closed Saturday and all donors were asked to come in early this week to help keep inventory up while staff members packed.
There are a lot of memories Randy Greenlee is leaving behind.
"It's a sad moment, but an exciting moment," he said.
Greenlee has spent the last 27 years working for Houchin Community Blood Bank.
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By Christopher Officer
What started off as 26 viable candidates soon dwindled down to one as the Watertown-Mayer School Board appointed Katie Thompson as the new Primary School Dean of Students during its meeting on Monday, March 17.
Thompson, who was one of eight internal employees interviewed, was the language arts teacher for Watertown Middle School before being named Dean of Students. Thompson expressed enthusiasm about her new promotion, but admitted she will miss the position she is leaving behind.
"I am excited to make the move," Thompson said. "Although I will really miss the staff and students in the middle school, I am looking forward to joining such a positive learning environment."
After completing both her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Bethel University in St. Paul, Thompson obtained her Principal License from Hamline University in St. Paul and has been teaching for the past 10 years — an occupation Thompson doesn't plan on relinquishing anytime soon.
"I have always loved teaching, it is my passion," Thompson said. "I have so much fun working with students and staff. I'm excited about being a part of these kids' very first school experience — making them as positive and meaningful as possible."
In other matters, price changes regarding school athletics are subject to change in the near future — but it is still unclear where the changes will occur.
It has been suggested from members of the board that admission prices to Watertown-Mayer school athletic events be lowered. The board had agreed to raise the price of passes back in 2009-10 in order to increase revenue at the gate. The current issue is if prices were to decrease at the gate, how would the lost revenue be made up.
This paradox has spawned other ideas to reduce pricing in areas aside from the admissions gate. Activities Director Mary Haugen suggested that the students most popular opinion (when asked how to help the school athletic program) was to lower the participation fee that is associated with playing organized school sports. No concrete decision has been made and further discussion on the matter will continue.
Spring may be around the corner, but our record-setting winter still is hindering high school seniors. Three full days this school year have been canceled due to inclement weather, leaving seniors short of the mandatory amount of hours needed to graduate.
To rectify the situation, the board will eliminate two upcoming, previously determined "short days." Instead of being released at 1 p.m., seniors will forfeit the shortened days of April 17 and May 9 and will carry on their regularly scheduled school hours. The expulsion of the shortened days will still leave seniors behind the required hours to graduate.
Starting an adequate amount of school days 15 minutes early was also an option to be explored. The board will continue discussing solutions on a later date.
The next Watertown-Mayer School Board meeting will be held at 7 p.m. on Monday, April 28 at Watertown City Hall.