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Jacob Allison's heart was racing faster than most on AFL Draft night. The Lions Academy product can remember the moment he heard rival club St Kilda make a bid for him.
"A few days out from the draft you're obviously very nervous and anxious as to where you'll end up. Being in the academy you're still not too sure where you'll end up," Allison told lions.com.au.
"If a bid comes in, you're not sure if the Lions will match."
"Pretty badly" was how much he wanted to be in Brisbane, his home, where all his family and friends live.
Luckily, Brisbane matched the Saints' bid and took Allison with Pick No. 55.
"I was so happy when St Kilda
"All you wanted to do was end up at an AFL club, just be playing footy and doing what you love."
The 19-year-old can relate to the stress aspiring players feel ahead of the draft. So much happens in the year leading up to it, with the Combine taking place just weeks before Year 12 exams.
But Allison says, once he was selected, the hard work had only really just begun.
"This year was a big learning curve," Allison said.
Allison, a versatile midfielder played most of his first year in the Lions NEAFL team, before making his debut, alongside Sam Skinner, in Round 18.
"Fages [Senior Coach Chris Fagan] always told me what I had to do to play in the Seniors. I was lucky enough to get that opportunity and then hold my spot," Allison said.
"Playing the last five games of the year was massive for my development."
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Morse Clinic of Dunn
Welcome to Morse Clinic of Dunn! We are an Opioid Treatment Program in Harnett County, NC. Our clinic utilizes Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) to help individuals battling an addiction to heroin or other opiate pain killers. We are a daily dosing clinic and offer either methadone or buprenorphine to address the physical withdrawal symptoms and cravings of opiate addiction. As a part of our program you will also participate in individual and/or group counseling to address the psychological aspects of addiction.
Morse Clinic of Dunn
596 E. Jackson Blvd., Bldg B
North Carolina
We provide the following services to patients in or around Harnett County:
- Daily Dosing of Methadone
- Daily Dosing of Buprenorphine
- Individual Counseling Services
- Group Counseling Services
- Urine Drug Screens
- Referral Services
Our Hours:
Monday - Friday: 5:30 am - 11:00 am
Saturday and Sunday: 7:00 am - 9:00 am
At The Morse Clinics, our goal is to provide high quality care at an affordable rate to patients. Payment is due every Monday.
The cost of the Methadone Maintenance Program is $80 per week, regardless of dose.
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Health Care Professionals
The BC Centre for Vulvar Health offers different programs and services to adult women in British Columbia with chronic and complex vulvar disorders.
May 1 2019 Alert. Clinic Wait Times
Vulvar Disease Clinic : Urgent 4 weeks. Non-urgent 4-6 months.
Vulvar Oncology Clinic: Urgent 4 weeks. Non-urgent 3 months.
Vulvodynia Program: Our wait time for patients accepted into the program is now 10 months. We are NOT accepting new patient referrals for the assessment of women with chronic vulvar pain (vulvodynia) at this time. We are NOT keeping a wait list for these patients. Please refer to an alternate health care provider. We hope to accept new referrals in Fall 2019.
If you would like to be seen at the BC Centre for Vulvar Health,
- Please discuss with your physician (G.P. or specialist), and have them fill out both pages of the updated referral form (pdf).
- Your doctor can then submit by email or fax at 604-875-5807.
- We only accept referrals from B.C. physicians.
Once we receive your referral, your doctor's office will be sent an Acknowledgement fax.
- If the Acknowledgement fax is not received within a couple of days, it means we did not receive the referral. Please fax the referral again.
Once received in full, the referral will be reviewed.
- We will fax the results of the triaging process to your referring doctor.
- To facilitate the triage process, ensure that the correct referral form is filled out in full, and that all consults are sent accordingly.
Wait times: are different for each clinic.
- We try and book all new patient appointments up to 6 months in advance.
- Patient accepted who do not have an appointment will be put on a wait list.
- When estimated wait times for an initial appointment exceed 12 months in a specific clinic, we will temporarily STOP accepting new referrals for this clinic. Please note that alternative health care providers are listed at the bottom of this page.
When a patient's name comes up on the waitlist, we will contact the patient directly to book her appointment. Please indicate on the referral the best way to contact your patient (eg. mobile phone or email). A message will be left for the patient with a specific date and time for the appointment. The patient will need to CONFIRM this appointment within 48 hours by leaving a message on our confirmation line. If we do not hear from the patient the appointment will be given to another patient.
- Multidisciplinary Vulvodynia Program (MVP) – the Clinic Care Coordinator will contact women referred to the MVP by phone prior to their assessment appointment. The Coordinator will review the format and content of the MVP with patients to check that patients are interested and willing to participate in the multidisciplinary care program. If patient choose not to participate we will inform the referring doctors office.
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|Vulvar Oncology Clinic
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For adult women with herpes, recurrent or complex vaginitis, consider a referral to the Infectious Disease Clinic at BC Women's Hospital. http://www.bcwomens.ca/our-services/pregnancy-prenatal-care/complications-in-pregnancy/infectious-diseases-clinic
For young women (<18 years of age) and or girls consider a referral to a Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecologist. In Vancouver, patients can be referred to Dr. Debra Millar, Dr Ellen Giesbrecht, and/or Dr. Nicole Todd. See attached referral form.Paeds-Adolescent Gynaecology Referral 2017-06-15
For adult women with sexual concerns (including sexual pain) consider a referral to the BC Centre for Sexual Medicine. The Centre offers assessment and treatment of: difficulties with sexual interest, arousal and orgasm; experience of pain associated with sexual activities; problems in completing chosen sexual acts such as intercourse. http://psychiatry.vch.ca/bccsm.htm
For women with pelvic pain or deep dyspareunia consider a referral to the Centre for Pelvic Pain and Endometriosis at BC Women's Hospital. The Centre offers an interdisciplinary approach to chronic pelvic pain that includes a combination of pain education workshops, pelvic floor physiotherapy, clinical counselling, medical management and surgery (including advanced excisional laparoscopic surgery). http://www.bcwomens.ca/our-services/gynecology/pelvic-pain-endometriosis/
West Coast Centre for Sex Therapy https://westcoastsextherapy.com apply evidence-based psychological treatments to manage pain, but also to help women and their partners to get back to having a happy and health sex life.
Chronic Pain Resources
Pain BC Pain education for providers and patients (including teens), toolboxes, support forums, coaches, and self management programs.
Pain Improvement A step-by-step self-management pain program with pain education.
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Hillsborough inquests - May 21
The Hillsborough inquests commenced on March 31, 2014 and are the subject of reporting restrictions that have been imposed by the Attorney General's office. Liverpool Football Club is respectful of these restrictions and will therefore only be making available updates from other media channels for the duration of the inquest.
The report below - and the witness testimony contained within it - does not necessarily reflect the views of Liverpool FC. Please be aware that the reports on these pages will contain evidence about the day of the disaster which may be distressing.
To view archive reports from each day of the inquest hearings, click here.
Courtesy of the BBC - May 21
Nottingham Forest fans spat on a group of rescuers ferrying a victim of the Hillsborough disaster towards an ambulance, the inquests have heard.
Former PC Philip Foster told the jury that, as Liverpool fans carried Paul Brady, 21, on a makeshift stretcher, they were targeted by some Forest fans.
Trained first-aider Mr Foster had earlier tried to resuscitate him.
Mr Brady and 95 other fans were fatally injured in a crush at the 1989 FA Cup semi-final in Sheffield.
The refrigeration engineer from Liverpool had travelled to the match with friends Colin Auton, Michael O'Keefe and Joseph McCarthy, the jury heard.
Mr McCarthy also died in the disaster, while Mr Auton and Mr O'Keefe both lost consciousness.
Mr O'Keefe, a Liverpool season ticket holder, told the jury he spent three days in hospital.
Mr Brady and Mr O'Keefe were pictured inside pen three on the Leppings Lane terraces, at 14:56 BST - four minutes before the game kicked off.
In a statement read to the court, John Bilsborough, another Liverpool fan, recalled that Mr Brady was smiling and appeared "buoyant" and "with a twinkle in his eye" before the disaster unfolded.
The court heard Mr Brady was carried out of the terraces at 15:21 BST.
Dr Colin Flenley and Mr Foster both tried to resuscitate him on the pitch, along with a volunteer medic from the St John Ambulance service.
Mr Foster said that at one point he was "confident" he felt "one or two beats" of a pulse but added that may have been caused by someone else giving Mr Brady heart massage at the same time.
Mr Foster said: "At one point, I'm sure I felt something at the wrist - a pulse - and that's when I decided I couldn't do any more for him and I needed to get some more help.
"We needed airways, we needed lots of things, we needed oxygen. I couldn't do that on a football pitch."
Dr Flenley said Mr Brady showed no "signs of life" during the time he was with him.
At about 15:30 BST, Mr Foster helped a group including Liverpool fans carry Mr Brady on a makeshift stretcher the length of the pitch towards an ambulance.
The former officer said he was sure the group carrying Mr Brady included Liverpool fans because Forest supporters "spat" on them as they reached the other end of the pitch.
George Jacob, a surgeon and medical doctor, was part of a team that tried to resuscitate Mr Brady at Northern General Hospital in Sheffield but he was declared dead at 16:05.
Mr Brady's body was taken back to the stadium that night and Harry Brady, his father, identified his son the following morning.
The inquests, in Warrington, Cheshire, are due to resume at 13:00 BST on Friday.


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Simon has packed a lot into his 13 years – travel, relationships, education, hobbies – the only trouble is it's all digital. Simon is a computer geek … to him, real life is a very inefficient way to get experience. His parents are research scientists who travel the world attending conferences and have parked him with his aunt and uncle in Willow Creek. Simon's interpersonal skills are shaky so he spends a lot of time in his room with his next-generation computer.
Afraid that he will grow an electrode out of his head, Roy and Gaye insist that he get out more, join a club. The only local clubs are the footy club and Pine Hollow Riding School. Simon went online and quickly figured out that twenty or so hefty guys going for the same ball was a fraught situation – and the expression 'injury time' nagged at him. Riding a horse looked much more straightforward, particularly since the search engine led him to a lot of caper westerns.
He has a good heart and would never knowingly cause harm to anybody. He really likes the girls at Pine Hollow because they treat him like one of them – so he feels less like a geek, and eventually comes to prefer their company to his Nintendo DS. He gets on very well with Desi.
He's the go-to man for anyone who needs IT assistance at Pine Hollow, and wants to position the Regnery database on the information superhighway – with amusing results.
Connor Jessup (age 13) lives in Toronto (ON) Canada. Connor is an avid reader and tries to read a few books a week! He loves every aspect of filmmaking – acting, writing scripts, making films, editing, special effects and watching movies – any type of movies. Favourite school subjects include science, history and he has been a "Global Outreach Leader" at his school.
Connor is also an environmentalist and was thrilled to have had the opportunity to visit the Arctic in 2007. Though he did some riding before the series, Connor says: "I have really enjoyed learning more about horses. I am in the process of trying to convince my family to let me buy one."
His one wish for the world: "For people to see beyond their own lives and recognise the good and the bad things about the world."
Favorite Saddle Club horse: Midnight
Simon is a really interesting character. He is one of the only Saddle Club characters that change throughout the series. He starts off in the first ten or so episodes as the computer geek who is scared out of his wits by horses. But, by bonding with Midnight and becoming friends with other members of Pine Hollow, he changes into a more outgoing rider, who has a special connection with his horse. Although, he still manages to keep some of his geekiness in the later episodes.
The Saddle Club™ series stars three heroines, Stevie, Carole and Lisa, who form The Saddle Club™ at the Pine Hollow Stables. Each character has a distinctly different personality but all share an equal love of horses and a strong loyalty to each other.
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[button type="big" color="red"] Q[/button] Me and my boyfriend have been dating for quite a while now. He is 20 and I'm 21. We really cared for each other. He would buy me expensive make-up brushes, he gave me his dvd player and his 999GB external hard drive for my laptop. We would see each other every day and go out and we always had a good time. The last time we hung out which was last Saturday, it was just an ordinary day of being together. We had a good time spending the day together. We talked about what we were going to do for Valentine's day and what he was going to get for me. When he dropped me off at home we kissed and said good bye and told each other to get on steam to play a game before we went to bed. So we played a game on steam like we usually do at night and after we were done we I'm on steam good night and we will see each other the next day. So the next day goes by (Sunday), I went to work then came home and tried to I'm him on steam that I was home but I noticed that he blocked me. I tried calling him and texting him after that but he would not answer so I just thought he was busy and maybe he would call later but he never did. So Monday morning I sent him a text saying why did you block me and why are you ignoring me. He replied twenty minutes later saying, "Don't pretend that you don't know, just leave me alone." I was shocked, I texted back saying I don't understand what you are talking about, please talk to me but he would not talk to me no matter how many texts or calls I made. Well on Tuesday I talked with my friend about it and she made me text him to get at least closure. So I said "I don't understand what it is I am suppose to know, can you please tell me so I can fix it instead of leaving me hanging." He replied "If you're still going to feign ignorance I've lost any last respect I had for you as a person. Please f*** off. I told him I am not being ignorant and he is a jerk for putting the blame on me and acting like I have done something. Clearly I have not because you can not even give me a reason for you doing this out of the blue. So why could he not just say I am not interested in you anymore? Why did he have to take this way and play a big mind game? My friends say probably two to three months he is most likely going to try to contact me again because he left it so one-sided and that he most likely did something and is seeing someone else. I'm just dumbfounded as to why he would be a jerk just out of the blue and not even give me a reason. Most normal people would at least give a reason as to why they are doing this
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This time of year, Israel's thoroughfares are aflutter with festive color: blue and white flags flap in the spring breeze and pennant strings zigzag across streets, heralding the milestone of Israel's 70th Independence Day, celebrated last week.
The day before, Yom Hazikaron, is dedicated to the memory of fallen soldiers and terror victims. The two days are inseparable, for how can you fathom celebrating sovereignty without acknowledging the heavy cost of achieving independence.
Newcomers to Israel experience Yom Ha'atzmaut in new ways, partly because many relate to the yearning so many generations have hoped for and partly because there's less awareness and focus on the day outside of Israel.
With a goal of providing excellent academics and connecting Jewish teens to their roots, Naale Elite Academy, a free high school program for Jewish high school students in Israel, offers its students a unique insight into the significance of both days.
It is a heartwarming measure of Naale's success that both Yom Ha'atzmaut and Yom Hazikaron have a special place in their students' hearts. Rony Amsalem, from San Diego, articulates the contrast beautifully, "The experience of studying in Israel has taught me so much more than just an academic curriculum. This year, as always, there was an emotional ceremony at school, students were invited to share stories of family members who fought to protect Israel. I have never felt so connected to this day until I came to live and study in Israel, it has become one of the most important days to me…"
Naale Elite Academy brings students from around the world to complete high school in Israel on a full scholarship. They arrive as a mixed bunch, with a shared goal: to live and study in Israel, broaden their horizons, connect to their roots and graduate with an international high school diploma and leave with an international social circle.
A key component of the program is integrating the students with the Israeli student base. Naale students develop lifelong friendships with peers they would never have had the chance to meet otherwise.
Veronica Birenbaum, from Brazil, relays the sense of pride and relief she felt commemorating and celebrating these days with friends – many of which will soon be donning an IDF uniform themselves. "There's more meaning for me to these days than any other holiday in Israel." She goes on, "this year was especially emotional for me and my friends, besides being Israel's 70th birthday, it's my last year at Naale and although some will be, most of us will not be together again next year. It was exciting to see all of the shows and feel a part of it with them, because in Brazil we can celebrate Yom Ha'atzmaut but it's not like being in Israel!"
Naale students understand the responsibility of being united with these friends for whatever lies ahead. They may graduate and return to their place of birth, or continue on in Israel, but no matter where life takes them, they are irrevocably changed by their high school experience and possess a deeper understanding borne of experience, friendship and learning.


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Done Deal: Chelsea Midfield Target Agrees Terms With Club – Announcement Tomorrow (Not Teixeira)
Chelsea hopes of signing PSG midfielder Marco Verrati has been quashed as it is reported that the Italian would be signing a contract extension tying him down at the Paris club up until 2020 according to Talksport.
Verrati widely regarded as the next "Pirlo" is known for his midfield dexterity and calmness on the ball. The player has been instrumental to the dominance of the Qatari backed club –PSG. The 23 year old has been highly rated by pundits and professionals' alike.
Speaking to Corriere dello, Varratti agent Donato Di Campli, insisted his client is set to renew his current contract.
"It only lacks a few details, but here we are. We must still put everything in black and white, but we have found an agreement. He will stay a long time at Paris Saint-Germain, at least until 2020.
"This is already his fourth contract extension here, and he is now demonstrating that he deserves these revaluations."
Chelsea must look out for another midfielder as their hopes of getting the Italian looks blurred. Pogba could be on the list but a high valuation of the player by Juventus could deter the club from signing the French man.
Cesc Fabregas has been quite under-performing this season and hasn't brought the creative spark he did last season to the field.
Let's watch and see if Verrati could change his mind as anything can happen in football
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On Christmas day, Brett and I woke up with Hercules to open our presents and have some coffee. We were def missing home and our family as we got to skype with many of them but its just not the same. The same group from the night before decided to watch Little Fockers for the afternoon and then meet up at Jonathan and Jaimie Rose's house later in the evening for Christmas dinner. I have to give it up to the ladies for cooking up a feast! Jonathan did a great job on the turkey as well. Just as good or not better than the one he cooked us for Thanksgiving.
Overall we had a fantastic weekend with great friends and lots of food and drinks. Here are some pic's of the weekend.
|Merry Christmas 2010
|Table decoration at Nikopolis Hotel on Christmas Eve
|Group shot with the Winders
|The cousin - Rodrigo
|A Winder tradition - Pre dinner Cigars
|Herc and his ornament look alike
|Christmas Bow
|I think he likes the paper more than the present
|Tree with home made ornaments by Brett
|Stars, moon and a stocking
|My favorite
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once i dreamed that i was trapped in a horror mansion and there was falling floor slabs and i needed to leave the mansion to save part of my family but after i did all the way long and reached the out gate there was a password(wich i didnt knew) i did knew i was dreaming but i just couldnt wake up because i didnt knew the password! but luckily my father woke me up moment later.
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Clean-up Continues after Pipeline Spill
Monday, May 22, 2017 @ 02:05 PM gHale
One month after crude oil leaked from an Inter Pipeline spill in Strathcona County, Alberta, Canada, from the company's Cold Lake pipeline April 21, clean-up crews are continuing their repair efforts.
The crude oil spilled into an unnamed creek located near 17th Street and Baseline Road, which flows into the North Saskatchewan River.
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The initial estimate for the volume released was 141,000 liters (about 37,250 gallons), which almost all has been cleaned up. The spill also ended up stopped before reaching the river.
"It's pretty much all recovered at this point, and clean up and remediation work continues on site. As does the work to repair the actual section of pipe itself," said Breanne Oliver, manager of corporate communications with Inter Pipeline.
Crews and equipment are fully mobilized on-site 24/7, and site remediation is being conducted in compliance with regulatory requirements and company environmental policies and procedures. Air quality, water quality and environmental monitoring are underway.
"Our staff does continue to monitor the incident response and the company's clean-up activities to make sure that all safety and environmental requirements are met during the response from the incident," said Monica Hermary, spokesperson with the Alberta Energy Regulator.
"The clean up will be on-going for quite some time, because there is the removal of soil from site, and replacement and the like," Oliver said. "So, these things do take quite a bit of time to make sure they are done properly. We look to meet or exceed those regulatory requirements in situations like this."
Excluding the segment of pipeline involved in the incident, Inter Pipeline's Cold Lake system remains operational with all crude oil volumes transported to other delivery point locations.
Additionally, at the time the incident occurred, three other companies — including Imperial Oil, Pembina Pipeline and Gibson Energy — shut in and de-pressurized their pipelines until the line responsible for the leak was discovered. All three companies have since continued their operations.
Despite cleanup and remediation being ongoing, the spill did have a cost to local wildlife.
"We are saddened to report that a magpie perished at the site of the release, while a muskrat and a beaver were taken to a rehabilitation center. Unfortunately, the beaver passed away, while the muskrat was successfully rehabilitated and has since been relocated," Inter Pipeline said in a statement.
An investigation into the cause of the spill is currently underway.
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Suffragettes | Women recall their struggle to win the vote
CHANNEL | BBC Television Service
FIRST BROADCAST | 05 February 1955
DURATION | 1 minutes 12 seconds
Old campaigners pose for the cameras beside the statue of Mrs Pankhurst, while Miss March and Lilian Lenton take the opportunity to talk about their battle for suffrage on the 37th anniversary of the granting of votes for women.
Lilian Lenton (pictured) recalls how she reckoned on setting alight two buildings a week during her most active period as a suffragette. Her more colourful escapades included evading the police while posing as an errand boy who was reading a comic and munching an apple and later making an escape to France aboard a private yacht.
Dame Ethel Smyth remembers a window breaking campaign.
Memories of an aerial leafleting campaign.
Risking arrest to campaign for the tax-paying woman's vote.
The achievements of the suffragette leader are recalled by her daughter.
A suffragette and a photographer remember an eventful court case.
A reunion with medals and memories.
A schoolgirl suffragette.
A smashing time in Pall Mall.
Lilian Lenton explains the 'Cat and Mouse' Act.
Memories of a militant suffragette.
Remembering when Emily Davison leapt under the King's horse.
Driving Mrs Pankhurst.
Two eminent peers share their experiences of the suffrage movement.
Two veterans of the suffragette movement talk about the early days of the campaign.
Mrs Pankhurst's chief organiser shares her story.
Joan Bakewell meets a veteran suffragette.
Views of a working-class suffragette.
The story of the last surviving suffragette.
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When the roof in your house commences leaking, you could feel that placing out a number of buckets to collect dripping water is sufficient to avert any hurt taking place. The soiled truth of the matter about leaking roofs is usually that by the time the h2o has landed while in the bucket, the majority of the hurt has currently transpired, and even though a Do it yourself fix may seem appealing in your wallet, that carries its individual threats.
Indications of A Leaking Roof
The rapid indicator of a leaking roof is visible dripping in the ceiling, or the seem of dripping drinking water. The following sign is the formation of h2o stains and drinking water spots. H2o stains normally seem like puddles which might be stained brown, but any signs of discoloration on your ceiling or partitions could be sign of leaking drinking water.
Water stains are often adopted by mold. When you discover mould, you need to immediately discover the resource with the leak. Should you see any lacking roof shingles, that is a indicator that inside the next downpour, you will be virtually sure to expertise a leak.
Injury Which can be Because of A Roof Leak
The fast danger using a leaking roof, is destruction for the wood and ceiling boards of the attic, in addition to possibly harmful goods saved there. Leaking drinking water can also injury paint and plaster, discoloring them and likely creating bubbling.
Water within the attic can seep into electrical conduit pipes, leading to hurt on your home's electrical procedure, and ceiling mounted lighting fixtures. Uncovered wiring can small within the presence of water, which in turn can lead to a hearth. In spots where leaks are existing, it is strongly recommended to cut off electrical energy to that region.
Ought to the h2o seep in the ceiling boards and wooden, or pool and stand, it makes great scenarios for mildew and mildew to develop. Black mould is definitely the most common style to increase in locations that regularly get damp. Any mold that forms poses a possibility in your well being, and eradicating and replacing mildew affected regions may become pricey.
H2o might cause rafters, wall frames, drywall and ceiling boards may cause these things to swell, deteriorate and weaken, which more than time, might cause this stuff to collapse.
Challenges With Do it yourself Roofing Repairs
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Montreal born, New York based. Alain Macklovitch, better known as A-Trak, is a well-known and respected artist in the music industry today. His name began echoing around the music community when he won the 1997 DMC World DJ Champion at age fifteen. FIFTEEN! He was an EDM prodigy, and he would become a major player in the continuously expanding music scene today.
The DMC World Championship title isn't the only awe-inspiring accomplishment young A-Trak had early in his career. In 2004 he was handpicked by self-proclaimed musical genius Kanye West to be his personal tour DJ. The two have been working closely ever since. A-Trak was popping up all over the place; he was performing alongside the A-List rapper at the Grammys and the VMAs. While Kanye's personality may be questionable, his eye for music is spot on. Check out this song, and don't even tell me you disagree:
A-Trak also launched a record label with partner Nick Catchdubs called Fool's Gold, which has launched the career of popular hip-hop artist Kid Cudi. His name has become recognizable in both hip-hop and EDM. He is known to blend these two genres; best show cased in his albums Dirty South Dance 1 and Dirty South Dance 2.
Always moving forward, A-Trak teamed up Armand Van Helden and together they formed the irresistible Duck Sauce. Their tracks shot straight up the charts, earning a #1 spot on the US Dance Billboard Charts for "Barbara Streisand". As well as the top spot in many different countries across the world. Duck Sauce was an international hit.
Check out some of their songs:
A-Trak is still going full speed, blowing our minds clear out of the water as he goes. In 2013 he nabbed the 7th spot on DJ Times magazine's America's Best DJ competition. His video for "Tuna Melt" (a compilation with Tommy Trash) was also nominated for Best Cinematography at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards.
I don't know about you guys, but I am stoked to have A-Trak coming to Minneapolis! This is a MUST GO show! Get your tickets ASAP! Click here to purchase.


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Daily Recovery Readings
June 14, 2017
Daily Reflection
It is a design for living that works in rough going. ~ ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 15
When I came to A.A., I realized that A.A. worked wonderfully to help keep me sober. But could it work on real life problems, not concerned with drinking? I had my doubts. After being sober for more than two years I got my answer. I lost my job, developed physical problems, my diabetic father lost a leg, and someone I loved left me for another — and all of this happened during a two-week period. Reality crashed in, yet A.A. was there to support, comfort, and strengthen me. The principles I had learned during my early days of sobriety became a mainstay of my life, for not only did I come through, but I never stopped being able to help newcomers. A.A. taught me not to be overwhelmed, but rather to accept and understand my life as it unfolded.
From the book Daily Reflections
Copyright © 1990 by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc.
Big Book Quote
"…I humbly offered myself to God, as I then I understood Him, to do with me as He would. I placed myself unreservedly under His care and direction. I admitted for the first time that of myself I was nothing; that without Him I was lost. I ruthlessly faced my sins and became willing to have my new-found Friend take them away, root and branch."
~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Bill's Story, pg. 13~
Keep It Simple
Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.—unknown
Time always seems to pass too slowly or too quickly for us. .We want the fun times to last longer. We want the boring or painful times to go faster. But times goes at just the right pace. Any faster, and we wouldn't have enough time to learn as we go. Any slower, and we'd lose interest. In our program, we learn to respect the pace of time. We let go, and we let time go at it's own pace. We call this patience.
Prayer for the Day:
Higher Power, thank-you for patience. Help me look forward to the future without rushing. Help me live fully in the here and now. Help me make today a good one by doing Your will.
Action for the Day:
I'll list five ways I can use time to be more healthy—in body, mind and spirit. Which of these five things can I do today?
Daily Horoscope – Cancer
Untangling a problem today won't lead to satisfaction if your solution is anything less than enchanting. This is what Keats meant when he wrote, "Beauty is truth; truth beauty." Nevertheless, you could easily mislead yourself into believing you know where you want to go when you're actually heading somewhere else. Don't wait; it's time to put on the most practical pair of glasses you can find. The most reliable answers are revealed now once you see the world exactly as it is.


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The 2017 Youth Tour Winners are Sarah Teubner and Kylea Basden.
Sarah Teubner, the daughter of Rebekah and the late Mike Teubner of Novice,
is a junior in Homeschool. (Pictured on left)
Kylea Basden, the daughter of John and Patricia Basden of Powderly, is a junior at North Lamar High School.(Pictured on right)
Contestants submitted an essay on the topic, "How will electrical needs be met in the future?"
In June, the three students will join about 120 other students from Texas. Before leaving for Washington, D.C., the students will tour the Texas Capitol and learn about state government in Austin. Then they will fly to Washington for a week of fun and educational events. While there, they will visit their congressional representatives, spend a day on Capitol Hill and tour the Smithsonian Institution and many other popular sites. Selected students from the group will also participate in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.


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Girls Out Loud Episode 14: Self-Driven, Promiscuous Cars with Sensors
In Episode 14, Maya and Cristina get caught up in the wonders of the amazing technological advances being made daily by the smartest folks on earth, including Google and the development and reveal of self-driven cars (140,000 miles already driven, people!) and a world where everything was monitored by extremely sensitive sensors that would be aware of things…way before we could ever be. In addition, Cristina and Maya debate the implications of promiscuous Duke alumna Karen Owens faux-thesis, as well as discuss this weeks Facebook outlining of it's Bing partnership.
Microsoft's Facebook stake: Maybe not so crazy
Karen Owen PowerPoint: Duke University Student's Sex Thesis Poses Question Of Double Standard
How a Physically Aware Internet Will Change the World
*image by Flickr user frogDNA
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Girls Weekend In Wayzata
After checking into The Hotel Landing in downtown Wayzata, it's time for brunch, you have some options!
Benedicts – A modern diner, a two minute walking distance from the hotel, with top notch food and drink for all your brunch needs.
6Smith – While it sits on the opposite end of Lake Street, on a nice day it makes for a beautiful walk along Wayzata Bay.
NineTwentyFive – Don't feel like walking? Grab some brunch at your hotel.
Click to view a full list of restaurants.
Treat yourself to a mid-day mani & pedi or take it a step further and get a facial. There are many places around town, so let us help you choose.
Suite Nails – Located just around the corner from your hotel, Suite Nails offers a welcoming, comfortable and beautiful place to get your nails done.
Wayzata Salon & Day Spa – Relax your body and mind in a quiet and tranquil environment and leave feeling refreshed and rejuvenated after a deep tissue massage.
What would a girls weekend be without a little shopping?! Some of our favorites are spread out along Lake Street, a great way to get in a nice walk. View Full List of Retailers Here.
Schuler Shoes – It's shoe 0'clock somewhere! Go to Colonial Square and check out the famous designer name shoe bargain racks of Schuler Shoes at the back of the store if you want a high quality shoe for a great discounted price.
L'More Chocolat – is a memorable location! Find the best chocolate in the world (well, for sure in town) right on Lake Street In Wayzata, although you will feel like you are in Europe!
The most joyous hours. After a full day of brunching, pampering, and shopping, it's time for a beverage. There lots of specials around town, including:
McCormicks – This cozy Irish Pub features discounts on rail drink, wine and tap beers. We recommend the flatbread or wings! Happy Hours are 3-6 every day and again from 9:30 – 11 PM on Friday and Saturday.
COV – This coastal american eatery, known for its atmosphere and lakeside patio, features discounts on beverages and popular menu items. Happy Hours are M-F from 3-6 PM & 10-5 PM on Saturdays.
Wayzata Bar & Grill – affectionately known as The Muni, has been the local gathering place since 1947. Stop in during Happy Hour for a giant pretzel and an abundance of free popcorn. Happy Hours are M-F 3-6 PM & M- Sat 9-11 PM.
Click to view a full list of bars & restaurants.
Looking for live music? Check out Birch's on the Lake or Wayzata BrewWorks to see who is playing!
Start your Sunday off right with a little sweat and a doughnut!
Check out these options for Sunday morning classes:
View options for Saturday, personal training sessions or afternoon sessions here.
After working out on a Sunday morning, you deserve a reward! Stop into Woullets Bakery or Bellecour for a doughnut or special pastry!
Rent a paddleboard at Bay Bikes & Boards, and spend your day on the water.
Historic Steamboat Minnehaha – Sail into history on a historic streetcar steamboat!
Public Boat Cruises – Book a Sunday Brunch Cruise with Al & Almas or Paradise Cruises! Both lines feature sightseeing and specialty cruises as well.


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This is important; Mitch Daniels on state of the state
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Gov. Mitch Daniels of Indiana is on fire on school choice; I am reminded of Gov. Robert Orr's education reform:
SCHOOL CHOICE: Daniels proposed a voucher program that would use taxpayer money to help low-income parents send their children to private schools. Daniels and other supporters say it's a matter of fairness that low-income families have the same education options as wealthier families. But opponents say vouchers take money away from cash-strapped public schools and blur the line between church and state. Daniels also proposed a $3,500 scholarship for high school students who graduate a year early that could be used to pay for postsecondary education in Indiana. Some education leaders have questioned how the program might affect high schools and whether high school seniors as young as 16 are mature enough to handle college life.
— CHANGES FOR TEACHERS: Daniels wants merit pay for teachers and wants to use student academic success — as measured by test scores — to help determine how a teacher is performing. Critics of the system question the details of exactly how merit pay would work, but Daniels supports allowing local school districts to come up with their own formulas for rewarding the best teachers as long as student achievement makes up at least half the formula. Daniels also wants to restrict collective bargaining agreements between school boards and teacher unions to focus only on wages and wage-related fringe benefits — not details that don't contribute to student learning. Democrats and union leaders say the collective bargaining rights that have been in place since the 1970s give local districts control to negotiate whatever they feel is important.
Ruth---if you get this, contact me at my email. Mike Gilliatt
More of the same. Will Americans ever get to the heart of why public lower and higher education has never been good? It's because its primary goal since it's inception has been conformity. Take that away and all periphrial issues fall by the wayside. It's why more grad students from Africa and Latin America go to graduate studies in Chica: they don't have to endure idiological coursework.
The State of Education? Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Vouchers. Well, how exactly does giving a parent a voucher for $4K get that parent's child into Park Tudor, for example? Pretty sure their tuition is a wee bit higher than that. Will all charter schools accept the vouchers as "full tuition" payment? Lots of missing information here.
"For profit" colleges. Those have been doing our children so many favors lately, like unmanageable student debt for little return. How would "for profit" chartered schools be any different?
Sixteen year olds going to college? Plenty of overly-indulgent parents seem to be holding their kids out of school until they are 7 yrs old anyway. But, the parents the Governor is touting for vouchers cannot afford that kind of indulgence. Nineteen year old seniors. Still shaking my head over that one.
But, I do remember being a freshman at IU and a friend had a 16 yr old living in his dorm, Dodd's House/Wright Quad. THAT was really tough on the poor kid. Smart as a whip, but lacking in some social maturity thrown into the closest thing to Animal House not bearing Greek letters.
I wish someone would challenge Daniels and call his vouchers proposal what it really is: A way for him to reward his financial supporters who are sending their children to private schools. He can claim he's trying to help low-income parents get a better education for their children but in fact the program can't be offered to one select group without a court challenge from the others. Consequently, the vouchers program would have to be available to everyone ... even the high-income.
Indianapolis is fortunate to have many quality public schools that teach our children necessary academic lessons as well as how to exist in a very diverse society. Say what you will, but the private schools by their nature can't offer the same social lessons.
A former co-worker who chose to homeschool his children was put off that some of his tax money went to fund schools that he didn't use yet was boasting about the government program that allowed him to buy a home. As I pointed out, that was a program I didn't use but as an American, I had a responsibility to pay taxes to help fund it just as he had a responsibility to help fund education. Welcome to America. Personally, I'd prefer my tax dollars fund public education instead of prisons, which is where many of the students are destined to reside if we don't see the need to keep and improve our public schools.
Varan...OMG, I lived in Teter. Wright Hosue always was an Animal House.
Re: Ed "Reform".
Ruthie, I've done some trench time on this one, as you know. Gov. Orr's A-plus program was Texas-based: all hat and no cattle. Bob Orr was a nice guy, he had an intolerable wife, and he never uttered a harsh word. But that does not make him an education reform genius.
When vouchers pay for an entire non-religious education, get back to me. Until then, it's more window-dressing. Mitch holds up his beloved Oaks Academy as a shining example: they're great, but so far from normal that the light from that Normal planet won't reach them for 10 years.
I used to live on W 64th St., aka "Genius Road." Sycamore at one end, Orchard at the other. My kids dealt with Orchard/Sycamore grads at North Central. There are some great kids, but let's just say, overwhelmingly, it was what I witnessed standing on 64th whilst tkaing out my garbae once a week at 7:30 AM: indulgent milquetoast moms in gas-hogging SUVs with 29A or 49 "R" plates. Diversity and real world, wherefore art thou?
Here's an ugly secret, and it negates almost any civic-minded reason to serve on a local school board any more: the state now controls almost all of the money, and they'll soon move to control everything else. PropTax caps are going to smack schools real hard in the next few years. It isn't going to be pretty.
Vouchers? Maybe. But not one dime to any religious-based school.
At last check Orchard, Park Tudor, et al: mid-20s per year inclusive. Per kid.
I lived on Crows Nest, not far from Orchard. And I've had dealings with the "International" School, Brebeuf, Cathedral, even Ladywood/St Agnes (Remember THAT one?).
Rich achiever parents know few bounds. They also often know lots of xenophobia and racism. Remember what happened to the IPS in 1972 that started the exodus to the 'donut' counties..... busing.
Daniels errs mightily here. The Indiana Constitution guarantees a free public education. Watch now how the opt-out is financed. Too bad Judge Dillon is dead.
Part Tudor is not mid-20s, TTH: full freight, incl. books and lunch, around $18,000. Still rather alot, but not as much as you claim. And Hendy, the exodus to the doughnut counties wasn't 1972, it was ten years later when Judge Dillon declared that busing could not cross county lines, hence the Fishers explosion.
I think teachers' unions have done more to hurt public education than any reform proposed by Daniels ever could. The unions have protected the status quo and inept teachers.
Charters have been a good thing; let people have a choice.
The voucher system makes sense to me. Give everyone who chooses to participate a financial piece of the pie, and let each family choose which school is best-suited to his/her kid.
Obviously this is aimed at helping families without means to go to Orchard, etc.
I also think Daniels has put his money where his mouth is...he supported Oaks Academy financially long before he was governor.
I know this is all complicated, and I am no expert, by a long shot, but it just seems obvious that inertia is not getting the job done. The best thing we can do as a society is help our kids...at least he's floating new ideas, or relatively new ones.
Well, Ruth, if the Governor really wanted to get rid of inept government employees, he should start with his own hand-picked crew of cronies. Something about people who live in glass houses?
TTT, I didn't live in a dorm, but everyone I knew (as a frosh) who lived in Teter were conscientious and studious (during the week). Maybe I should have tried it? As a frosh, I lived with my great Aunt out past the mall. Then, I lived in an Animal House wanna-be for the other three years. Neither place was conducive to making me any less lazy. Dratted inept schoolteachers.
Unfortunately (for me), I was a lazy student, and my grades ended up showing it fairly clearly. Ah, wasted youth.
@jon, the litigation started in 1970. In 1972, the Non-Partisans for Better Schools slate won. In 73-74, the IPS school board caved to the litigation. Outward migration had already begun, but went hell-bent (people scared of black people) after that.
It was Thurgood Marshall that helped SCOTUS decide that separate but equal education was unconstitutional in 1954. It still is. Vouchers will push that trend. Unless we rise a tide that lifts all boats, we rob many of the chance.
Instead of bolstering public schools, vouchers rob public schools of much needed funds, and in doing so, let them become the catch-basin for (expensive) irregularity. It's a huge rebuke and admission of failure-- that the legislature is unable to deal with the simple funding and administration of quality and acheiving local public schools.
Well Varan, you hit it about right. I was obsessed with grades as an undergrad. Ditto most Teter friends I made. Later, I got wind of the fun I missed. Post-grad work was much more, uh....spirited.
Attaboy on Mitch's cronies. Alas, every governor has them, but Mitch has elevated crony-aid to a new art form. If I see Mitch Roob anywhere near me in the next decade I'll probably get arrested, for what he did to FSSA via IBM. Alphabet soup, spilled hot and nasty all voer poor people. Mitch was warned and did it anyway. Shameful.
Ruthie, I love 'ya more than my luggage, and you're right about inept teachers. The Oaks thing is admriable, but they are unique, and they accept almost no "problem" students.
Inept teachers are the bane of our systems. But here's a thought:
One person alone has the exclusive right to evaluate and dismiss a bad teacher. That's a principal.
The first "reform" program that recognizes that FACT, and stops bullying the teaching profession, gets my vote.
Every single bad teacher in the world, is there because a principal was too effing lazy to do the hard work required to improve or fire that teacher.
I see no hope. There are too few good principals--I cna give you the names of some, if you want to do a profile. The principal reserve bench is thin and under-talented. They get their credentials from programs at our state universities, mostly...taught by has-been Superintendents who excelled at dodging accountability for decades.
Jon--my best friend's son graduated from PT in 07 or 08. He told me last weekend, his son's final year there was just over 20 large with extras included. And I doubt their fees remained static this year.
He specifically remarked that IU was cheaper by a small amount.
Beat that with a stick.
Good education is not cheap. But if you think it's expensive, try ignorance.
Hendy: You're conflating desegregation with the out of Marion County exodus. Two entirely different things. In 1980, Fishers had barely 2000 residents, and in 1990 reached 7,508 (1). Busing out of IPS and into the township schools was in the 1981-2 school year (at least for MSD of Lawrence Twp).
TTT: Then the extras included in Park Tudor for your friend included lots of lacrosse or an expensive class trip. My data came from Park Tudor's website: tuition this year is $16,980 (HS) with another not quite $2k in extras (2). While that's not Culver ($37k boarding, $27k day), it's also not mid-20s.(3)
(1) U.S. Census data from http://www2.indystar.com/articles/6/076710-7396-153.html
(2) http://www.parktudor.org/SiteCollectionDocuments/Admissions/ParkTudor-Tuition-2010-11.pdf
(3) http://www.culver.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1096&Itemid=1386
$16,000 or over $20,000 what's the difference? Either still equates to tuition for a year or longer at many state colleges. And if someone has that kind of money for a K-12 education, they don't need vouchers to lessen the blow.
@Jon, sorry. I was there. Fishers was one burg on the rise, but I watched as my neighborhood at 40th & Arlington emptied out to Carmel, Greenfield, Noblesville, Greenwood, Brownsburg, Danville, Clermont, even Zionsville and Lebanon. Fishers growth data doesn't tell the tale.
Busing eventually started. By then, IPS enrollment had dropped, and the townships scrambled to comply.
What I saw reminded me of Alabama, real Stars and Bars stuff. The suburbs grew in each of the donut counties. IPS schools downsized and shutdown altogether in many areas. A lot of the suburban infrastructure wasn't in place to handle the school growth. Drive out of Marion County in ANY direction, and look at the new schools. Now try and find them in any township in Marion County, save Lawrence and Pike.
It's a ticket to get out of public schools, these vouchers are. It's not fixing the problem, it's putting a knife into the very heart of public education, its funding, its quality, and most importantly: the future of those children. It dilutes when we need to strengthen. It slimes, where we need to build dignity and a strong future for all kids, no matter where they live.
Public education is surely in need of some serious reform. But, gutting it is perhaps more than a wee bit extreme.
Still, what does one expect from a pol like our Governor?
It would be nice if schoolkids weren't treated as political fodder.
I routinely see kids getting off the school bus at 6 or 6:30, sometimes even 7 in the evening. Kids may live on the Northside and wind up going to Tech while the neighbor across the street gets shipped to Perry Meridian and the kid around the corner goes to Broad Ripple. I have a friend whose parents intentionally moved to Speedway for the schools. This person went to Speedway schools K-8 and then they decided she had to go to Arlington. Rather than spending 3 hours a day on a bus she went to a parochial school. All in the interest of making the schools more 'balanced' and 'fair' while refusing to actually define by number what those words mean. Meanwhile the kids are the ones getting used like chess pawns in this ridiculous game of racial whack-a-mole. I understand racial integration and I agree it's a good thing, but you mean to tell me when you're shipping a child halfway across the city you couldn't find somebody who lived a little closer? As if race is the only thing that makes us different. Ugh. No wonder...
Are charter schools better? Maybe. But there is absolutely no way they could be worse than what we have now.
Jason-- you're a white dude, aren't ya?
P.S: white kids get bussed all over the place too.
Jon, I'll stick with my good friend's first-hand account. No fee schedule is accurate for your child until all the enrollment is done, extra fees added, etc. Please don't make assumptions about someone's total educational expenditure. I got it from the checkbook's mouth.
Jason--you're naive. Yes, charters can be worse and some are.
The raw data suggests, that non-traditional-public schools can and do heavily filter their prospective enrollees.
When did you last hear this kind of charter/voucher school advertisement:
"We specialize in MMR, MR, and various medical needs. We want all the deaf and blind students, too. We want only the worst cases in these categories, plus the discipline-challenged kids, too. Oh yeah, don't forget, give us your tired, your poor, your bad-parented youngsters. We can't wait to fill a school with them, so our test scores will plummet. Please don't forget the ESL students, and the kids who wander through our halls for 6-12 weeks and move on. We especially want them."
Public schools MUST open their doors to whomever walks through. One prominent elementary on the northside, Greenbriar, in the heart of one of the best school districts around, depending on the grade, routinely churns 30-40% of its student body in a school year. Try to teach around THAT.
But yeah, charters are great. Only they're naive as hell if you think it's even a small part of the solution.
The fix isn't necessarily money. But it's not in any of the solutions I've heard to date.
It doesn't really matter. Daniels is around for two more years, tops. Bennett is a joke. Our legislature has maybe a dozen folks who really get it. Every governor that tries to fiddle around the edges, gets exactly that done--the edges.
Sorry for the doom and gloom. The charter folks just get on my lalst damned nerve sometimes. So myopic.
So what are parents supposed to do (especially if you live in IPS?) Are we supposed to sacrifice the children's education and their future by taking a principled stand? Intellectually I get it. I support public education (and attended a public high school where the majority of the graduates attended college). But, when it comes down to your own child - do we sacrifice him/her for the sake of principle? What if your child isn't smart enough (or there aren't available spots) to attend Sidner? What if you are the loser of the CFI (or others) magnet lottery. Then what are your choices? There are many I know who would send their children to public schools if they had the confidence that their children would thrive and prosper. You can talk all you want, especially when you are having a theoretical discussion but the decision becomes much more difficult and it is stressful when you are trying to decide what to do about your child's education. IPS of yesterday (and its famous Shortridge graduates) is not the IPS of today.
Rebecca hits the crux of the problem. We're devaluing public schools, diluting them, and creating educational classification by voucher joy.
Wasn't it Lincoln that said we were all born equal? Some are more equal than others.
The IPS and other underperforming districts may never recover from this, or if they do, it might take generations. In the meantime, children suffer. Bad politics.
My previous comments didn't take a position regarding vouchers. I write as a parent. I live in IPS but my children do not go to an IPS school. I refuse to throw them under the bus for the sake of argument. They are real; I have an obligation as a parent to do what I think is best for them educationally. And, that meant not sending them to IPS. They are smart enough for Sidner but no spots available. We didn't get in a magnet school via the lottery. What was left was untenable. I say blow up IPS and create a county wide district that the powers that be failed to do so when unigov was created.
Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if the main thrust behind charter schools was just another way for a certain segment of society to wring more money from the public sector under the guise of "improvements".
There does need to be a paradigm shift in public education, but finding a slier way for some politician and his/her cronies to profit more from it, isn't it.
Rebecca, you voted with your wallet and your minivan. Off to a private school.
I moved into a good school district when my first child was 3. We knew she'd need special services, so we moved to Washington Township. They were and still are leader sin that category, and many others.
The cost was higher--we had to settle on a smaller hosue at first.
I guess most good parents do whatever we havhe to. The trouble is, too many of the parents left at IPS are one parent homes, grandparents raising kids, and/or poverty.
They're trapped.
My daughter befriended one of the IPS salutatorians at IU a few years ago. She helped her through some tough science courses. My daughter's completely unscientific experience was: the number-two in that high school was not a great student.
Just sayin'.
I have a friend who teaches at a charter school on the Eastside. The way it turned out over half of their students are kids who got kicked out of IPS. Nobody (well, at least I'm not) is saying charter schools are going to solve the world's problems.
A great school isn't going to turn around a really bad kid or a really bad family. All people want is the ability to have a choice/chance. Not everybody will take it, and that will be THEIR choice. At the very least my children shouldn't be forced into some kind of mandatory latch-key program where they get home from school 2 hours after I get home from work. I don't think it's too much to ask for children to not have an itinerary of bus transfers, have class next to people they've never met, in a place where they've never been.
I like your perspective Rebecca.
All you posters keep talking about high school. The vouchers (if they come to pass) will have a larger impact on the private elementary schools where the costs for the year are tremendously less. $3,500 a year will come very close to paying for a students elementary education. If they decide to pay for religious based schools it may be a boost for the inner city religious (if they allow it to used for them) schools. My problem with charter schools is they are set up on more experimental name the theme (science, technology, sports and earth science)mythology. Charter schools don't address some of the main problems in the rural areas and they do not take into account for troubled or academically challenged students.
Guy, I don't know where you're doing your math, but a year at Orchard, Sycamore, and PT, is five times that. I think Heritage Christian, another good school, is about 10 large. I could be wrong on that one.
And on the northside, those are the "go-to" elementaries with cache for the 29-plate sect. And the 49-R folks, too. And some 49-D folks, as well.
I love my kids, but not that much. More than I paid for my first two cars.
public money for faith-based schools is not constitutional, nor should it be.
if you want your child to be taught "creation science," don't ask me to subsidize it. want to send your kid to an all-white, ultra-conservative protestant school? fine. spend your own money to raise kids who won't function well in a diverse setting as adults. want to send your kid to catholic school? don't be my guest, be your own. want your kid to be educated the islamic fundamentalist way? no madrassas on my dime, thankyouverymuch. want your kid to study torah as well as science. luckily for you, the hebrew academy has scholarships funded by the faithful.
want to live where religious schools are subsidized by the state? try northern ireland, where it's worked out so beautifully.
As a former Spanish teacher who has taught at IPS, Lawrence and finished with a startup charter school, and who now enjoys working and teaching part time in Costa Rica, it seems that most of the comments trot out the usual suspects. While some of Gov Daniels proposals get at the heart of the matter. I believe based upon my last comment that it still doesn't correct the inherent weakness in public education: conformity.
I've have discovered that many of the great advances in most fields are accomplished by college dropouts.
Ruth, I take issue with the unions being detrimental. The union reps at both IPS schools were master teachers, and didn't back inept teachers. IPS has bounced good teachers out when they fell out of favor (to the improvement of other school systems) They saved my career when I was accused of shoving a student (they forced IPS to review the videotape). They are the only protection for inept administrators.
Lawrence received the first wave of IPS black flight from IPS in the late 90's when 0 down housing was built. It was fun to watch others struggle with it (they hired alot of IPS teachers, who were bemused at the struggles of the vets in Lawrence.) They've had more parental involvement there, and have been innovative in dealing with the, "discipline-challenged", ie; knuckleheads. I still enjoy subbing there when I'm back in the States for awhile.
The societal chaos created by the baby boom generation did not happen overnight. It will not be resolved anytime soon.
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TTT: Parishioner rate for St Thomas Aquinas is $3910. (1)
St Richard's is $13,510 (2)
Heritage runs six-and-a-half to nine and change, depending on grade level. (3)
(1) http://www.staindy.org/school/section.php?page=3-22 But brown bag lunches.
(2) http://www.strichardsschool.org/tuitionFees.shtml All included; add a thousand a year for aftercare to 4.30. I write the check, so my first-hand experience trumps all, according to your logic. Your friend's tuition bill included a trip to Costa Rica (like these middle-schoolers: http://www.parktudor.org/pages/news.aspx?newsid=531). I'm not counting extras, he was.
(3) http://www.heritagechristian.net/UserFiles/1278/file/10-11_Tuition_Rates_and_Fees_3.15.pdf
Ahhhhh.the genteel "parishoner rate" Most folks I know aren't parishoners.
And so it goes.
I'll throw in a wrinkle or two. Our tax dollars are already paying for many faith-based initiatives, not that I agree with it but people seem to have a bit of moral fluidity on the subject oftentimes.
I've always held the belief (pardon the pun) that a secular course in religion would do well at the high school level. It would probably have to be an AP class, complete with waivers from the parents just to be on the safe side. Done correctly it would piss off all the far-wingers, indicating that it's maintaining some objectivity. Religious Studies has been taught at the college level in public schools for decades, IU has one of the best in the country.
I've always been curious how you can teach world civilization or history class without bringing up religion as well.
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Arcing shots...
Whats your take on it? I have played in the woods 99% of the time for the past two years so it hasn't been an issue.
Yesterday outside of Toledo we were playing against a team we hadn't before in a far more open area. Basically a tall grass field (maybe 300 yards by 600 yards) with a pair of tiny "hills" (dirt piles made by a backhoe years ago). On the outskirts and within the field were multiple defensive positions (ad hoc cover made from old plywood crates).
So we were playing attack and defend and as the attackers we decided to split up an encircle so as to split the defenders fire coming from the "hill".
Anyway I moved from cover (the day was windy and shots were going wild) to a spot where I could get some better shots.
The defenders see me and start spraying up at an angle and are trying to walk their shots at me. BBs are coming down within ten or twenty feet all around me. They didn't hit me and we won that particular game.
But arcing shots struck me as kinda cheesy. Something a paintballer would do. And as I former paintballer of ten years I had seen it enough.
So whats your take on it? Is it legal? Illegal? Cheesy? Valid?
Last edited by The Mad Bomber; 08-19-2007 at 02:20 PM. Reason: sentence structure
Edit: now that I think of it. I change what I said earlier. A little bit of an arc is okay, but if they are shooting at something like a 75 degree angle I wouldn't like that.
Last edited by British; 08-19-2007 at 02:25 PM.
its legit, and sometimes necessary. have to remember we're shooting little plastic bb's, I'm still amazed they go 200ft accurately. some people don't have the the range required to hit you and have to arc them. also someone may be new and not know how to adjust/ use a hop-up or maybe their hop-up took a crap mid game. or they lubed the mag well just before the game and the hop-up if still a little slick.
i know what you're saying though and understand it but you have to realize that with airsoft their are a dozen reasons why someone would arc (or lob) their shots instead of adjusting their hop-up for them to go straight.
sometimes you have to adjust for wind and elevation in order to get a good shot off. i have seen a really good airsoft sniper have to point their gun nearly 30 degrees away from the target to get that shot, and they hit that target. i see nothing wrong with having to arch the BB. but if your talking artillery style arching, that may get a bit cheap, and i would be a little upset if i were hit on the top of the head from an arty BB!
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My opinion is arcing is fine enough. Like many points mentioned above. But only to a certain extent.
If it's to the point that you're using your gun like a mortar, firing in a severe arc in an effort to hit an enemy behind cover, that's not really realistic, and really should not be allowed. We're trying to simulate the fire of rifles, not mortars.
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But at the point mentioned by spetsnaz, you would severely sacrifice accuracy. I don't feel I will ever see a strong argument against it. To disallow arcing, it would be the same as not allowing football qbs to lob the ball (hail mary is a brilliant example) and an outfielder to not be able to bomb into home. There is a sacrifice with distance and that is consistency and accuracy, making arcing ok.
Gravity effects everything at the same rate, bullets simply go faster and therefore travel more distance before they hit the ground.
But on the subject of arcing, I do not think that arcing to hit someone behind cover is good. I have seen and heard of someone changing their hop-up so the BB arcs WAY down, and hitting someone behind cover.
But a little arcing to have better range is OK in my book.
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Last edited by Trauma; 08-19-2007 at 07:26 PM.
I hate arced shots. They simply show the limitations of airsoft ballistics that were never meant to be exposed. One of the best aspects of airsoft tactics is the power of initiative: a huge part of winning the game is a matter of who sees/shoots first. And when you find yourself in a situation where you must arc shots (which probably won't hit the other guy anyway) much of that need for initiative on either side's part is lost. This is an especially disappointing end to a good game: to comb through the woods in a tactically sound way then end it by meeting the enemy in a wide open space where you can wave at the enemy and experience the awkard, boring outer edge of the airsoft universe.
In my opinion, a good airsoft field is even a field where making arced shots are the least possible.
Heres my arching story:
I was at sprinfield at OP110, playing an escort game. We were on a path advancing towards the enemy. A guy next to me with an M4 and a Hicap was shooting like crazy at nothing. So I asked him whatsup. He said look.
He had his hop up tuned perfectly, the shots were going straight out and falling down right behind a bush. Those guys arent calling any of their hits! He exclaimed.
Thats downright wrong and completely against the milsim priciples that we base our game on.
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Unless you're using an m203, I say arching (on purpose) is bull.
I think we might be talking about two different kinds of arching.
One is where a player angles up his barrel in order to get better range. I think this is OK. Not ideal, but it is not unfair. Both teams can angle barrels.
The other is what Hkrazy said, where a player changes hop-up so the BB drops down right behind some form of cover. This is wrong, as it give one side an unfair advantage.
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For any of you who know anything about real steel sniping, you must compensate for many factors, which all add up to arcing. I say it's fine, but when you are artying your shots it is just unrealistic. If you want to get someone behind cover, flank them.
I agree. Shooting for better range, yes. Dropping over cover, no.
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It just come's down to calling your hit's. It dose'nt matter what the wind did to it or how much luck pushed it into you if it hit's your out. Just part of the game thats all. I've been taken out by some really chessy shot's, You know the ones where there is no way in hell they could have got me(as i put my red hat on) kind of shot.
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I think that the issue here isn't not calling hits, but is more along the lines of whether or not you feel that it is sportsmanlike to lob your shots over obstacles that you normally can't see through, better yet that you don't don't have a line of sight/fire through.
This is assuming that people call their hits as they should >
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I have a thought. In the real world, would a rifleman be able to hit a target behind a dirt mound by shooting over it and hoping the rounds stop above his target, make a 90 degree turn downwards and resume its previous velocity? I think that defies the law of physics. I say if you can see the target, but he's a little farther than your firing distance, its ok to lob, but only a little farther (no 30-75 degree angles). If you can't see 'em, but you know they're out there it's called flanking their position, or wait for him to pop part of his body out and shoot it. (following the rules though)
Do i think its sportmanship to lob your bbs?
For better range: yes (but to an extent)
To hit targets behind cover you can't see: No
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What i was saying is if it hit's you it counts. It's part of the up's and down's of airsoft. Like when a paintball bounches of without breaking. If you think a rule change will stop it your crazy, that would be almost imposible to prove or inforce.
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There are obviously differences between real life, and a recreational activity like airsoft.
Milsim, where you wear a semi-accurate loadout and use semi-accurate tactics to defeat your oponnent is great fun, but airsoft in it's recreational role is not training, and doesn't need to be 100% authentic to the point where you can't try to at least try to lob your shots a bit simply because it doesn't look like something you'd see a super high speed uber delta guy do. I don't see what's wrong with arcing, even if it's extreme. It probably won't work if you try it, you'll make a great target of yourself, and if it does somehow work, then that's hilarious and should be laughed and joked about.
Keep in mind that airsoft is a game, and that the way we use it is recreational, and I at the very least am trying to have fun. If I want to adjust my hop up to get my shots going where I want them to or aim high to lob BBs onto someone, good on me. As long as I'm not cheating or doing something unsafe or defying strict event rules I don't really care what it is, even if it's not entirely "realistic".
And if someone hasn't already, I just know someone is going to whine and moan about how unfair playing and lobbing shots comes from paintball, and how they wish paintball never existed and things like that. Seriously, find another scapegoat for airsoft's problems.
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Three people (living or dead) I'd invite to dinner: I would invite my father-in-law and my Grandpa, who have both passed away, and my husband. I would then give my spot at dinner to my Mom. I know my husband would do anything to have one more night to spend with his Dad and same for my Mom with her Dad.
You'd be surprised to learn that: I danced from the time that I was two years old until I was 18 years old. I also taught dance to young kids for about 4 years. I have a collection of spoons that I have acquired from the several places that I have traveled. And the most surprising fact, I can wiggle my ears!
The thing that I like most about working for Kent County is: Being able to come to work every day not knowing what's in store. Every day in our office is an adventure and you never know what's around the corner! You have to be ready to jump and make changes at any moment!
Please join us in congratulating both Brandy Johnson and Ann Kaiser for earning Kent County's Employee Recognition for Quality Service Award.
If you know a Kent County employee who is deserving of this award, please complete a nomination form at www.accesskent.com/qualityservice or on the Kent County intranet.