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On Friday, receiver DeSean Jackson officially became a former Eagle. Also on Friday, $250,000 officially became a former amount of cash allegedly stolen from him in January.
Coincidentally or otherwise, police dramatically reduced the estimated haul of cash from Jackson's home in January. Initially, reports indicated thieves had stolen $250,000 in cash, $125,000 in jewelry, and two guns.
According to Michael Newall of the Philadelphia Inquirer, only $20,000 was stolen.
"This was a genuine mistake on our part," police spokesman John Stanford said. "His mother was giving police what she thought was in the home. [T]hey interviewed Jackson, he knows what's in his house, and he said, 'No, that's wrong.' He told them what was missing."
But like so many other things associated with Jackson's final weeks with the Eagles, this one doesn't add up. If only $20,000 was stolen from Jackson, why did he offer (according to Jeff McLane of the Inquirer) a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the perpetrators?
Something doesn't add up. It could be, if the report of the reward was true, that Jackson deliberately lowered the amount stolen from him once he realized that it simply wasn't a good look for him to have so much money in his house — and to then have it stolen.
And if Jackson provided his reduced estimate to police back in January, it doesn't make sense that the reduced estimate remained under wraps until the very day Jackson was cut.All things considered, it's hard not to at least wonder whether the Eagles wanted to keep the notion of Jackson having $250,000 in cash and losing it alive while the team went through the machinations of making Jackson a former member of the team. Then again, nothing stopped Jackson from going public to make it clear that he was robbed of only $20,000.Unless, of course, the truth is that the higher amount was stolen.


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As latino communities face increased pressure and risks from US immigrations and customs, how are latinos of faith organizing to protect the vulnerable while also including white Christians in migrant-led efforts for change?
Yesterday, I got to hear from professor Robert Chao Romero, a Chinese-Latinx American historian and immigration lawyer at UCLA. He's the author of The Chinese in Mexico, 1882-1940 , winner of the Latin American Studies Association's Latina/o Studies Section Book Award. I got to hear Robert speak in Kingston, Rhode Island, at a retreat for university faculty who are Christians.
Robert opens up by talking about latino students who conclude that Christianity is a system of oppression and colonialism without having the chance to learn their own history of faith-inspired activism. As a historian, Robert has led a series of initiatives in LA that foreground latino religious histories of social justice. As one example, Robert tells us about an annual 4th of July Freedom Ride hosted by his church. The Freedom Ride shows people historic sites of injustice in the LA area, asking a local community leader or pastor to tell the story connected to each location. At every spot, the group holds a prayer for healing. Through tours like this, Robert and others in his community are able to keep community history alive and powerful. He's now working on a book that covers 500 years of Christian latino social justice organizing.
Robert also tells us about student-hosted discussions at UCLA about immigration and faith, part of a project called Jesus for Revolutionaries (J4R). Recently, students have organized events that share the voices of undocumented students with the wider community at UCLA. Meeting in one of the Christian fraternities, their first event gathered 80 people to hear from their undocumented peers. For many of the people who pass through, Jesus for Revolutionaries offers a first step of a conversation between their faith, values, and identity, one that often leads to participation in other Christian groups for latino and black students.
J4R focuses on connecting activist students with Christian ministries that offer good bridges between students and underserved communities. In addition to giving students an opportunity to serve, J4R also gives students exposure to churches that have developed genuine collaborations with undocumented communities. Over the years, non-Christians have also led J4R initiatives, accessing resources to support their educational and financial needs. Through J4R, many of these non-Christians have connected and collaborated with Christians for the first time, or the first time in many years. J4R also participates in the annual UCLA immigrant youth empowerment conference. Last year, students held a workshop exploring what the Bible says about immigration, exploring how undocumented youth might think about faith in their own lives and question unwelcoming theological assumptions they hear from others.
In the past seven months, Robert and Erica have participated in the Matthew 25 Movement, a mostly-evangelical (but not limited to evangelical) movement that has come together to support vulnerable groups in the US. The bipartisan movement was convened in November before the election by Alexia Salvatierra, author of Faith Rooted Organizing, to imagine practical ways that the church could support communities affected by the upcoming election. After the election, they held another meeting in Union Church, a Japanese Christian church with a history rooted in the internment of Japanese people during the second world war. When 200 people showed up, the group decided to organize as the Matthew 25 Movement. In the initial gathering, people from Christian organizations including Biola University, Fuller Seminary, Asuza Pacific University, and a mix of other church groups and communities are now working together to defend the vulnerable. The movement takes its name from a passage in the book of Matthew where Jesus tells his followers that those who welcome people who are different from them are ultimately welcoming Jesus.
While the message of Matthew 25 is universal, the movement's work on migrant rights is led by latino churches. Looking at the media create by the Matthew 25 movement after Robert's talk, I was fascinated to see how they created messages and framings that implicitly include and appeal to non-latino Christians.
To participate, Christians and churches take a pledge "to stand with and defend the vulnerable in the name of Jesus." In Southern California, many people in the Matthew 25 Movement have focused on immigration and community policing. When one church asked their community to take the pledge via phone during a church service, immigrants in the community wept to see their neighbors reach for their phones to commit love and support.
How can people get involved in the Matthew 25 movement aside from the pledge? The group has an educational task force that does trainings and seminars in churches, in parallel with groups like the Evangelical Immigration Table who have been working on these issues for years. The advocacy task force works with legislatures. The deportation defense and protection group works with lawyers and churches to help families plan for what to do if they get deported and access the resources they need when it happens. The Matthew 25 movement also matches immigrant and non-immigrant churches to come together in support of specific families that need protection. Even among churches that aren't open to operating as sanctuary churches, they may be willing to offer other kinds of direct support to families, with the guidance of latino-led churches.
To illustrate the need for deportation defense, Robert and his wife Erica Shepler Romero tell us about the story of pastor Noe Nolberto Carias Mayorga, a south LA pastor who came to the US from Guatemala while a teenager. He's now being detained by ICE, while his family (who are US citizens) and his church pray that he won't be deported. The Matthew 25 movement is working to support pastor Noe.
A Japanese-American professor whose family was part of the internment during the second world war asks is there are statistics about the racially-targeted nature of enforcement of immigration laws, much as it was racially motivated in WWII.
Robert answers that the United States has many white Canadian and European undocumented people, and that much of the enforcement of immigration laws is racially disparate. He points to the recent conviction of ex-sheriff Arpaio, who violated a court order requiring him to stop racial profiling.
Another person asks if conservatives and republican Christians are joining the Matthew 25 movement. Robert responds that Pastor Noe's case is starting to get wide attention. High ranking conservatives have started to stand up for him. People with personal relationships to high ranking Republicans and to president Trump have sent letters.


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European companies should be required by law to establish the origin of the minerals they use in their products to put an end to the trade in gold, tin and other minerals mined in conflict zones, a leading expert said on Tuesday. Campaigners have long raised concerns that proceeds from mining many of the minerals used in electronics are used to finance warring parties and prolong conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and elsewhere.
To encourage companies to responsibly source minerals they use, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) issued guidance in 2010 for responsible mineral supply chains, however its implementation by firms is voluntary.
"If you make it mandatory that firms tackle the problem then we could get rid of the conflict minerals issue," said Constantin Blome, a professor specialising in conflict minerals and supply chains at Britain's University of Sussex.
"(If the OECD guidance was enforced) I think it would change the situation a lot," Blome told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by telephone from Paris which is hosting a two-day conference on conflict minerals. He said collaboration between firms, data sharing and pressure from the consumers were key to ending the trade in conflict minerals.
In 2010, the United States passed legislation that requires manufacturers to determine whether any tin, tungsten, tantalum or gold in their products came from DRC. The region is known for using the proceeds from mining to fund rebel groups who kill and rape civilians.
To comply with the legislation, manufacturers must conduct a country of origin inquiry, file a public report for investors and carry out due diligence on their supply chains.
"Something of this kind or similar should be mandatory and it's actually not a too big burden for the firms," Blome said.
A report by the University of Sussex, for which Blome was the lead author, said that the average cost of implementing the OECD guidance for 29 European companies analysed in the study was 0.0002 percent of their annual sales.
He said sharing databases of certified suppliers was essential to stopping the trade in conflict minerals but many companies were unwilling to share trade information with others. "You don't want to share (suppliers' list) because that's kind of how you do business so there is no real interest to share it," said Blome.
"The willing companies, and those who understand that this is a material issue, they will do that, but the majority won't (and) would only do that if they are kind of enforced to do so."
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Friday, May 18, 2012
What blogs does a blogger read?
I check in every day [actually several times a day] with four blogs: Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish, Markos Moulitsas' The Daily Kos, Josh Marshall's TPM, and Ariana Huffington's the Huffington Post. Sullivan is an English gay journalist and activist [now an American citizen, I believe] who describes himself as a conservative but is an Obama supporter. His blog is, among other things, a very useful way to keep abreast of what the right is saying. The Daily Kos is a blog located politically on the left wing of the Democratic Party whose focus is on the nitty-gritty of electoral politics. Moulitsas keeps track of every House and Senate race in the nation, and a great many state and local races as well. I learn more about what is happening politically in my corner of North Carolina from him than I can from the local newspaper. He has all the latest details on redistricting struggles in states across the country TPM is a progressive reporting-based rather than opinion-based blog that draws on and thus keeps me in touch with a wide range of national and international reporting, and also does some original reporting itself. The Huffington Post, which is the biggest and glitziest of these blogs, features a good deal of opinion [my son, Tobias, has appeared on it several times] and national and international raportage, along with pop cultural news and all manner of other things. I also check in, from time to time, with Brian Leiter's blog, which is a clearinghouse for news in the academic philosophical world. Leiter is a fulltime distinguished professor of Law at Chicago, and I do not have the foggiest idea how he manages to put as much as he does on his blog while also pursuing a very successful academic career. He must not sleep.
All of these blogs rely heavily on materials originated elsewhere and simply reproduced or linked to. Sullivan is a serious, albeit dissenting, Catholic, so there is a huge amount of material on his blog about faith, spirituality, atheism, prayer, and such like matters. He also has an obsession with beards [he has one] and a rather magpie tendency to pick up and reproduce anything at all interesting on a wide range of topics. All four blogs have staffs of people who write, collect, link, and otherwise produce the flood of material that appears on them. And all four of them have a readership and daily visitorship [if I may put it that way] that is many orders of magnitude greater than the readership of this little blog. On the very rare occasions when one or another of them mentions me, my viewer counter blips up like a blood pressure spike before settling back down.
I even read the NY TIMES online, although I also subscribe to the paper copy [for my wife, and for the crossword puzzle, which does not appear online -- they are not total fools.] Since the new day's copy is posted not long after midnight, I read it when I get up [as I always do] in the middle of the night. I also watch Rachel Maddow online, since her show airs at 9 p.m., which is after my bedtime.
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- Craig said...
For what it is worth, I also find Krugman's blog and Ezra Klein's blog useful. And I check in from time to time with the folks at Crooked Timber.
- May 18, 2012 at 11:47 AM
- Mark Tushnet said...
For what it's worth, the Times crossword puzzle is available online, free to subscribers to the paper edition. You have to register to get it, which means that you also get rather occasional e-mails from the Times. The crossword is posted at 10 PM on the night before the paper edition's date -- and at 6 PM on Saturdays and Sundays. The "second" Sunday puzzle, including the Acrostic, goes up early on Thursday evening.
- May 18, 2012 at 11:50 AM
- Superfluous Man said...
Juan Cole is very good on the Middle East and politics related thereto.
Scott Horton, a Constitutional scholar at Harper's No Comment keeps up with the crimes of the Empire and the problems at the US Justice Department and other government agencies, although the posts can be very disheartening and depressing to think about.
Propublica.org is my favorite investigative journalism site and although they are not a "blog" in the literal sense (they have a few on the site but I can't name them) , they are very good at looking deeply into subjects affecting the world we live in here in America as well as the world outside the US.
James Fallows' blog at The Atlantic magazine is a good blog for discussion of all things China (he recently lived there for several years), aircraft of all kinds, technology and useful time saving and record keeping computer programs and technologies, national security, and boiled frogs, not necessarily in that order.
- May 18, 2012 at 11:59 AM
- Jerry Fresia said...
I would recommend Glenn Greenwald at Salon.com. He writes about civil liberties and a host of issues including American electoral politics. Clearly one of the best. For those of you who like Maddow, I recommend downloading the "miro" player. In addition to Maddow there are endless programming choices which you can download and watch at your convenience.
- May 18, 2012 at 3:16 PM
- Andrew Lionel Blais said...
Seen this?
- May 18, 2012 at 5:30 PM
- NotHobbes said...
A UK blog worth following
- May 19, 2012 at 3:52 AM
- Superfluous Man said...
NotHobbes, thanks for the Monbiot link. He's one tough SOB and lays into those who need laying into as well any writer as I've seen anywhere. Reading him is a delight.
- May 19, 2012 at 3:52 PM
- NotHobbes said...
You're welcome SuperfluousMan.
He does ruffle a few feathers :-)
- May 20, 2012 at 6:02 AM
- High Arka said...
Wow, all the way from Arianna to KOS to Sullivan! How can you handle taking in such extremes of material from either side of the political spectrum?
- May 21, 2012 at 5:10 AM
- Chris said...
No marxists and/or anarchists news outlets...?
- May 21, 2012 at 8:23 AM
- occasionalist said...
While you're at the Atlantic, check out Ta-Nehisi Coates as well. Well-written blog with intelligent comments.
- May 22, 2012 at 9:32 AM
- LFC said...
I almost never read The Daily Dish, The Daily Kos, TPM, the Huff Post, or Krugman. I read Ezra Klein only very occasionally.
The blogs I read most regularly are Crooked Timber and The Duck of Minerva. I also check in from time to time with some others, including The Monkey Cage, Daniel Drezner, Stephen Walt, Corey Robin, the US Intellectual History blog, The Disorder of Things, The Moor Next Door, Chris Blattman, etc. I used to read David Kaiser's History Unfolding now and then but haven't been there much in the past couple of years.
- June 22, 2012 at 7:09 PM
- LFC said...
p.s. I also check in occasionally with D.P. Trombly's Slouching Toward Columbia. (NB the blog's title is not a reference to Columbia Univ.)
- June 22, 2012 at 7:14 PM


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Simply perfect: Louisville Trinity emerges as nation's top H.S. team
On Aug. 5, three weeks before their season-opener, the Trinity (Ky.) Shamrocks held their annual green-and-white scrimmage. It's the same game played by countless programs nationwide, a glorified practice to gauge incoming talent. It's a way simulate game action, to test new additions to the playbook. In the course of a season, it means next to nothing.
This time, it was telling. Midway through the scrimmage, the defense called a safety blitz. As backup quarterback Blake Boughy prepared to give the ball to his running back, senior Adam Reynolds exploded through the line of scrimmage, snatching the ball out of Boughy's hands. He sprinted 15 yards to the end zone before anyone realized what had happened.
"I've never seen anything like that," said Bob Beatty, Trinity's 12th-year coach. "Everybody just kind of stood with their mouths open."
Over the next five months, the Shamrocks would evoke similar reactions. They went 14-0 to finish as SI.com's top-ranked high school team.
Their dominance was total. En route to a Kentucky Class 6A title -- Trinity's seventh consecutive crown and ninth since Beatty took over in 2000 -- it outscored opponents 697-116, outgaining them 6,397-2,822. It never trailed in the second half, and trailed just 12 minutes the entire year. However improbably, it improved in the playoffs: Trinity won five outings by an average of 50 points -- and set a new state record by putting up 62 in the final against Scott County (Ky.).
That's not a knock on its competition. Trinity foes went a combined 97-56, including two teams -- Indianapolis Central (Ind.) and St. Xavier (Ohio) -- that reached their respective state semifinals (Indianapolis Central won the Indiana Class 4A title).
"We had powerhouses nationally across the board," said quarterback Travis Wright. "Every week was a constant grind for us this year."
It didn't show. Led by the dynamic junior trio of Wright, running back Dalyn Dawkins (the nephew of Broncos cornerback Brian Dawkins) and wide receiver James Quick, the 'Rocks ripped through overmatched defenses in 2011. Wright notched a 70 percent completion percentage, and Dawkins rushed for 1,901 yards and 32 touchdowns. The aptly named Quick, a 6-foot-1, 180-pounder with offers to Alabama, Arkansas and Auburn, among others, reeled in 82 catches for 1,434 yards and 19 scores.
Despite their gaudy stats, Wright -- in typical quarterback fashion -- gave all the credit to his offensive line.
"A couple plays this season, if I wouldn't have had that half a second that I had to get the ball off, who knows what the outcome would've been," he said. "Our offensive line is definitely the reason we were so aggressive."
There was also their training regimen, a plan that would rival many BCS programs. The Shamrocks began weightlifting and speed drills as early as January, upping their commitment as the season wore on. During game weeks, players completed three and a half hours of football-related activities on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, switching between on-field, film room and weightlifting sessions without break.
It didn't impede academics: Not one varsity starter missed time due to grade probation and Joey Shaw, a senior wideout, scored a perfect 36 on his ACT.
"The biggest thing these kids take from us is you have to punch the clock," said Beatty. "That's where you win games, and they understand that."
Finally, there was Beatty's impact, an influence that can't be overlooked. The coach and his staff spent nearly nine hours analyzing film on Saturdays, tirelessly preparing for the upcoming week's matchup. Their strategy was simple: Get the ball in the hands of playmakers, and let natural athletic ability do the rest.
"I'm very adamant that we don't need super complicated game plans," he said. "Let them not have to think. Any time people are thinking too much, it slows them down."
It worked brilliantly. Trinity scored 33 touchdown of 35 yards or longer -- 16 coming in the playoffs.
In fact, the only thing that slowed the Shamrocks this season was a proposed national championship, of which rumors surfaced following their Kentucky triumph on Dec. 2. The Louisville Courier-Journal reported that the athletic department was in contact with New Jersey's Don Bosco Prep, another undefeated (11-0) power ranked among the nation's elite. Talks escalated as high as ESPN, though the game was denied by the Kentucky and New Jersey governing bodies.
That doesn't mean the 'Rocks weren't up for the challenge. Wright -- speaking on behalf of the team -- fully embraced the idea.
"That would've been a great experience for all of us," he said. "I've never really heard of a national championship in high school played like that. I was hoping it would happen."
For good reason. As the chart below demonstrates, Trinity was simply dominant this season.
In a few weeks, the process will begin anew. This season's heroics will fade, and Beatty and Co. will turn their attention to 2012. Following the team banquet on Jan. 15, weightlifting and speed drills resume. With Wright, Dawkins and Quick all returning, expectations will be enormous.
But know this: Around Louisville -- and the nation -- Trinity's 2011 campaign won't soon be forgotten. From the green-and-white scrimmage to the Kentucky Class 6A championship, the Shamrocks proved they're not just any high school team. They're the best.
"A lot of high school teams can put four of five different players on the field," Beatty said. "I felt like we could put 30."


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Date: Thursday, October 2, 2014
Schedule: Round 1 (Heats 1-6)
With minimal surf on offer at Carcavelos beach, event organizers moved competition to the backup site Guincho.
Conditions: 4-to-5-foot surf at Guincho
Round 1
Heat 6: Bianca Buitendag (ZAF) vs. Lakey Peterson (USA) vs. Nikki Van Dijk (AUS)
Lakey Peterson established an early advantage over Bianca Buitendag and Nikki Van Dijk, scoring a 7.00 to top all scores going into the back half of the heat. Van Dijk kept busy while Buitendag remained selective but neither were able to put up significant numbers.
When Van Dijk ultimately found a good coring opportunity late in the heat, Peterson, who had remained relatively quiet, was right behind her. On her last wave, Peterson got into the excellent range and finished with a convincing heat win.
"I haven't had one of the three-man heat wins in a while," Peterson said. "It's nice to have a round to skip and go into another non-elimination round."
Results: Peterson 15.07, Van Dijk 13.10, Buitendag 10.00
Heat 5: Stephanie Gilmore (AUS) vs. Laura Enever (AUS) vs. Paige Hareb (NZL)
The three competitors in Heat 5 all got off to early starts, with the nod in the opening exchange going to Laura Enever. At a critical moment, Enever split a peak with Stephanie Gilmore, who is positioned to claim the World Title this event. The ride garnered both surfers excellent-range scores, but again Enever earned the slight edge, keeping Gilmore in second and forcing Paige Hareb into a combination situation.
Gilmore improved her situation on a forehand ride but her score came in mere decimal points behind the number needed to take the lead. When she faltered on her last-second takeoff, Enever was able to claim the heat.
Results: Enever 14.00, Gilmore 13.37, Hareb 8.30
Heat 4: Tyler Wright (AUS) vs. Courtney Conlogue (USA) vs. Alana Blanchard (HAW)
Heat 4 featured a rematch between Roxy Pro finalists Tyler Wright and Courtney Conlogue. The third World Title contender of the day, Wright took off early and opened with a six. Alana Blanchard found her first decent ride at the midway point, but she needed a near-perfect score going into the second half.
Conlogue, who had been holding the highest opening score -- a 6.60 -- forced the first lead change when she combined two powerful vertical hacks to up her second score. Wright answered on her forehand, putting together a variety of fins-free maneuvers for the first nine-point ride of the event. It would give her the lead and a ticket directly into Round 3.
Results: Wright 15.96, Conlogue 12.87, Blanchard 8.70
Heat 3: Sally Fitzgibbons (AUS) vs. Coco Ho (HAW) vs. Teresa Bonvalot (PRT)
Sally Fitzgibbons drew first blood and stayed active. After trading small scores with Coco Ho and wildcard Teresa Bonvalot, Fitzgibbons broke out with a seven-point ride and the event's first excellent score -- an 8.00 -- for technical precision on her backhand. Going into the second half of the heat, both Ho and Bonvalot needed two fresh scores, each.
The Hawaiian and the local wildcard struggled to find a solid backup score as Fitzgibbons's attack continued. The Australian replaced her bottom score with a 7.57 on her 11th wave.
"It's a really nice feeling to start the day with good scores," Fitzgibbons said. "At the moment between the top four it's even stevens and there's a lot of work to be done to stay in this (World No. 1) jersey."
Results Fitzgibbons 15.57, Ho 8.14, Bonvalot 6.67
Heat 2: Carissa Moore (HAW) vs. Dimity Stoyle (AUS) vs. Alessa Quizon (HAW)
Defending event champion Carissa Moore opened up with one deadly maneuver for a 6.17 to establish an early lead over Dimity Stoyle and Alessa Quizon. The rookies got on the board soon enough but couldn't match Moore's powerful closeout move.
On two more single-maneuver waves, Moore had ditched her opener for higher six-pointers and a comfortable lead going into the backend of the heat. She didn't slow down though. Moore kept busy and tallied 11 rides by the end of the heat, more than Quizon and Stoyle combined. Stoyle managed to hold second position due to her five-point opener, but neither she nor Quizon would overtake Moore.
"It's a tricky beachbreak so I wanted to give myself a bunch of opportunities," Moore said.
Results: Moore 13.54, Stoyle 7.50, Quizon 7.40
Heat 1: Malia Manuel (HAW) vs. Johanne Defay (FRA) vs. Pauline Ado (FRA)
In the first 10 minutes, regional knowledge of temperamental beachbreaks was paying off. France's Johanne Defay and Pauline Ado earned the heat's first keeper scores for charging the choppy lefts, but places shuffled constantly as each surfer adjusted to the high tide.
Solid rights started to form, allowing Malia Manuel to open up her forehand attack to improve her scoreline and take the second spot. Defay stuck to the lefts, finding more face to work with for a longer string of clean carves.
Ultimately, Defay's fellow Frenchwoman had the final say. Ado's last wave earned a 7.50 for a powerful, two-maneuver backhand ride, shooting her from third to first.
"It's really tricky and selection was really hard," Ado said. "In that situation it's almost better not to have priority and see the what other girls do. The [7.50] wave felt great and I thought I could get the score. When you don't have priority you have to just go and try."
Results: Ado 13.00, Defay 12.00, Manuel 11.84


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The U.S. Department of Education announced today that 16 applicants — Jersey Shore area districts that applied not among them – have won a competition that will avail them to a total of nearly $400 million in funding.
In the federal Race to the Top-District competition, districts were invited to demonstrate how they could personalize education and provide school leaders and teachers with tools that help them meet students' needs for a shot at the funding.
Neptune Township schools – in a coalition with Belmar, Bradley Beach and Neptune City schools – had an impressive run in the competition, ranking 33rd of 372 applicants, according to Neptune Township schools Superintendent David A. Mooij.
Mooij said the plan would have helped the district prepare for new Kindergarten through 12th grade assessments known as the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC, that are expected to be ready for use in U.S. schools by 2014.
"PARCC, although a small piece of this plan, is a reality we all are facing and preparing for it by establishing a learning laboratory of approximately 5,300 children across these four districts would have had great statewide benefit with little or no cost to local or state taxpayers," Mooij said.
The plan included proposals to personalize learning, create a district data warehouse, employ hand-held technology for students and expand professional development, Mooij said.
He said he expects to continue to explore ways the involved districts could make the reform plan a reality.
"Obviously we are disappointed in not being selected as we did feel the application proposal was worthwhile and would provide our students, and indeed any researchers and observers, a real-world setting for top-notch, technology-based learning," Mooij said. "Notwithstanding, I can say as far as Neptune Township is concerned, and no doubt the other consortia Superintendents would agree, there is a need for this initiative in our districts and we will explore ways to make it happen."
Newark schools also applied but were not selected as grant winners.
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is encouraging districts to continue working to move forward with their proposals.
The Race to the Top grant program, launched in 2009, inspired education reform nationwide, according to the department, leading 45 states and the District of Columbia to pursue higher college- and career-ready standards, data-driven decision making, greater support for teachers and leaders, and turnaround interventions in low-performing schools.
"Race to the Top sparked as much reform in some states that didn't receive funds as in those that did—a trend we want to see continued with the Race to the Top-District competition, where the number of strong district applicants was greater than the funding we had available," Duncan said.
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Proposals included using technology to personalize learning for each student, giving students opportunities to learn beyond the traditional school day and expanding partnerships with community organizations to provide students with targeted social services like crisis intervention, according to the department.
Winning applicants, who will share funds to support their locally developed plans, are:
- Carson City School District, Nevada
- Charleston County School District, South Carolina
- Galt Joint Union School District, California
- Green River Regional Educational Cooperative, Kentucky
- Guilford County Schools, North Carolina
- Harmony Science Academy (Harmony Public Schools), Texas
- IDEA Public Schools, Texas
- Iredell-Statesville Schools, North Carolina
- KIPP DC, Washington, D.C.
- Lindsay Unified School District, California
- Metropolitan School District of Warren Township, Indiana
- Middletown City School District, New York
- New Haven Unified School District, California
- Puget Sound Educational Service District, Washington
- School Board of Miami-Dade County, Florida
- St. Vrain Valley Schools, Colorado
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Rihanna Is Making A Reggae Album?
Rihanna has decided that she is going to record a Reggae Album. It seems that more mainstream pop artists are discovering that there is something extraordinary about this particular genre of music.
Here are two updated articles that I found about Rihanna's new venture.
Rih-gae: Rihanna is officially working on a reggae album. In a Vogue profile promoting Savage X Fenty and Ocean's 8, Rihanna gave details about Anti's follow-up. "With her next record — her ninth — Rihanna is moving the needle on her creative output all over again: She plans to make a reggae album," Vogue reports. "Though it's too soon to name a full list of collaborators, one early influence may be Supa Dups, the Jamaican-born record producer who has worked with such dancehall greats as Beenie Man, Sean Paul, and Elephant Man."
Speaking about her love of Bob Marley, Rihanna says: "I'm gonna sound like a real tourist when I tell you my top Bob songs; 'Three Little Birds,' 'No Woman, No Cry,' and 'Redemption Song.' Last month Rihanna assured fans that new music was coming.
Each week we look far and wide for some of the latest stories affecting reggae, reggae culture, and the future of the genre.
"Jamaica to UK, the Reggae Revolution" themes IRD's 2018 Celebration of 50 Years of Reggae & Synergy With England.
Reggae music lovers turn up for Freedom Jam
Harmony and healing: Trevor Hall taps into medicinal power of music
Reggae News Found ~ June 16, 2018
Here are a number of important Reggae News Updates that I found online.
Nigeria's reggae icon, Ras Kimono is dead.
Gospel reggae artist inspired by Dad
This Father's Day will probably feel a little different for Raymond "Whopper Benz" Symonds. The gospel reggae artist lost his father, Raymond Symonds Sr, in April.
6 African artists who are big Reggae
As the saying goes, music (good music of course) is food for the soul. Reggae music is arguably one of the most popular music genres in the world. Originating from the Caribbean island of Jamaica in the 1960s, the genre became massively popular thanks to legendary singer and songwriter Bob Marley.
African reggae musicians are also paying their deuce in the industry. While at it, they also proudly flaunt their motherland anywhere they find themselves. To celebrate their legacies and immense contributions, Face2Face Africa highlights these 6 African reggae artists who are known internationally.
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FETUS: 'Atlas Shrugged'? IIIIIIIII don't knooooowwww, guuuuuys….Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
There's word going around about an 'Atlas Shrugged' movie adaption. I'm incredulous.
Charlize Theron has been meeting with Lionsgate and some producers about starring as the main broad, thus giving the project some buzz. Ummmm, ok. I started to read this book many years ago, but didn't finish. I imagine I wasn't the only one whose little college freshman brain was kind of blown away by 'The Fountainhead' and wanted to keep living in Ayn Rand's intriguing philoso-land (goooooo capitalism!), so then moved on to the bigger sister 'Atlas Shrugged.'
Except, while 'The Fountainhead' was the beautiful, intriguing, mysterious and fleeting one, 'Atlas' was of the same family, twins even, but fat. And boring. 'Fountainhead' was about architecture… 'Atlas' – railroads. Railroads are not sexy. I officially gave up on the novel after Dagny and whatever dude are searching around and they get all excited about finding a magnificent … engine.
Hey, maybe it gets better, so what, I'm a quitter….
Ryan Reynolds would play Atlas, obv…
I'd probably watch whatever gets put out, but I really think that they (movie whomevers) should make a new 'Fountainhead.' It's been done, sure, but that was a looooong time ago. How long ago?
Don't you think this could use a refresher?
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Why did Neanderthals look different to us?
New research reveals pattern of facial bone growth of ancient species.
The Neanderthals' protruding face and the flatter faces of modern humans make a clear difference between the two species. A research team from the Natural History Museum, New York University and other institutions today reveals how the development of facial bone structure creates this intriguing difference.
Published in Nature today, their paper explains that after birth there is a gradual increase in the layering of bone deposits in the face for both species. While in Neanderthals bone deposits continue through teenage years, in modern humans this is counterbalanced by bone removal, resulting in a flatter face.
The protruding face, or midfacial prognathism, of Neanderthals partly reflects the continuous process of bone deposition. The research team focussed on the upper jaw bones of a young Neanderthal specimen in the Museum collections that was found in 1926 in deposits near Devil's Tower, below the North face of the Rock of Gibraltar. The specimen is one of few remains discovered of Neanderthal children and it has aided researchers in filling in gaps on what drives the growth of the Neanderthal face.
The Museum's Professor Chris Stringer said: "The Devil's Tower child died close to 5 years of age and this difference in facial growth from modern humans was already apparent by then. This research shows how fossils found 90 years ago can still provide crucial information on human evolution through new investigative techniques."
Specimens of Australopithecus and early Homo demonstrate similar patterns of facial bone growth to Neanderthals and their ancestors. The facial growth plan of modern humans is therefore distinctive, and the next research aim is to establish when and where this first appeared. The postnatal growth of modern human facial bones, which show extensive areas of bone removal, helps create a flatter face.
Co-author Rodrigo S. Lacruz, of New York University said: "Our study shows that the faces of Neanderthals and modern humans differed in key developmental processes allowing us to understand how some Neanderthal traits came about. In a sense, the Neanderthals are not a developmental oddity, we are."
Neanderthals and their possible ancestors, the 400,000-year-old hominins from Sima de los Huesos (Atapuerca) in Spain, exhibit similar bone growth patterns, albeit with some small differences. Yet they resemble each other far more closely than they resemble modern humans. The Sima de los Huesos hominins as well as the Gibraltar Neanderthal and other Neanderthals found in France were used in this comparative study.
The Devil's Tower young Neanderthal specimen that informed this research will go on display in the Museum's upcoming Human Evolution gallery, open from 18 December 2015.
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A Potted History Of The Steel Pan
Now that it feels as though summer is finally here, with a brilliantly hot May Bank Holiday only just behind us, there's no better music to accompany the sunshine than the intriguing and unique sound than a steel pan band.
No doubt you've come across the interesting range of notes of steel drums before, but have you ever stopped to think about just where this musical style originated from? The instrument itself is a 55-gallon oil drum that has been hammered in such a way as to produce certain tones, with the drum capable of playing any kind of music whatsoever.
Back in the 1800s, when Trinidad was a sugar plantation society, slaves were brought to the region by colonists from central and west Africa to work on the plantations, bringing their music with them. Drumming and singing were commonplace, a big feature in all religious ceremonies and other celebrations, as well as a method of communication.
But eventually the colonists became concerned that the drumming was being used as a way of organising riots and uprisings, so all drum parades were banned towards the end of the century. After this, bamboo sticks were used to beat out rhythms, with groups of musicians later known as tamboo bamboo bands – although these too were banned in the 1930s because rival bands would often clash and fight in the streets.
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Yona Verwer is a Dutch-born, New York based multimedia artist whose works explore personal and collective identity, history, tikkun olam, and kabbalah.
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She has been published in 4 languages, including the New York Times by WilliamZimmer, The New Yorker by Boris Fishman, Art Criticism by Matthew Baigell, Ars Judaica, The Huffington Post, NRC Handelsblad, The Daily News, The Forward, The Jewish Week, and Sh'ma Journal. Verwer is [also] featured in Ori Soltes' Tradition and Transformation: Three Millennia of Jewish Art and Architecture.
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She exhibited, curated in galleries and museums nationally and internationally, and in addition produced over 30 exhibitions and 40 art events globally.
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In addition she is doing interactive, collaborative works incorporating Augmented Reality. These works consist of digital painting collage and acrylic paint on canvas, with Augmented Reality. Using an iPad or smart-phone, the viewer triggers videos embedded in the artwork, embarking on a discovery process that leads the viewer closer to experiencing the themes of the work.
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2018 Echoes: European Anti-Semitism Then and Now, Y.U. Museum – Education Showcase,New York, NY. Collaborative exhibit with Katarzyna Kozera; sounds by Alon Nechushtan and Dan Schwarz; video by Francesca Giovanetti.
2016 ARt, ARchitecture & AR, Art Kibbutz, Governors Island, NY. 2-Person exhibit with Cynthia Beth Rubin.
2016 Meditations on Place, Koslowe Gallery, Mamaroneck, NY, curated by Amy Levine-Kennedy. 2-Person exhibit with Cynthia Beth Rubin.
2015 Hidden Links: Exploring Jewish Identity, The Temple, Denver, CO, curated by the Mizel Museum, Denver.
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Urim & Tumim, 2012 Center for Jewish Arts & Literacy, New York, NY.
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Invisible Jew, at the Detour Gallery, Red Bank, 2018, Jerusalem Between Heaven and Earth, at the Derfner Museum, 2018, and the Jerusalem Biennale 2017;
New York / New Work: Contemporary Art From NYC at the Jerusalem Biennale 2015, and at the Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod; All Together Different at the Educational Alliance, NYC;
It's a Thin Line: The Eruv and Jewish Community in New York and Beyond at the Yeshiva University Museum, NYC, 2012-13; The Dura Europos Project, 2011, Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art; 4000 Year Road Trip: Gathering Sparks, 2012-16, Mizel Museum, Denver, CO; Transcending History: Moving Beyond the Legacy of Slavery and Holocaust, 2010, Reginald Lewis Museum of African-American Art, Sacred Voices, 2014, Canton Museum of Art; and Silent Witnesses: Synagogues Transformed, Rebuilt or Abandoned, 2012, the Holocaust Memorial Center, Metro Detroit.
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Now, I already knew, courtesy of mrs coffee philosopher, that Sizzler is a pretty fancy place in Thailand.
Yes, that Sizzler. The steakhouse chain that, in America, is completely indistinguishable from every other steakhouse chain is, in Thailand, a pretty cool place to go.
I will say this: their salad bar is pretty awesome.
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...you will be sadly missed by many. A tragic loss to the community. So cruelly taken away...
So, today, 28 February 2013, the Ilkeston Family Practice and GP Walk In Centre no longer exists.
And who would have thought it would have happened? We certainly didn't - because it shouldn't have.
After the news broke in the media on 27 November, it then took a further seven days before NHS Derbyshire sent a letter to patients affected. They even back-dated the letter, to try and make it look like they hadn't forgotten us, but emails gained through the Freedom of Information Act proved that the letter was incorrectly dated. It was apparent at this point, that this was a very badly managed project. If they were prepared to lie about the date of a letter, what else were they trying to hide?
When news broke, it caused a lot of anger within the town of Ilkeston and beyond. This was a vital service, and for it to be taken away in less than 12 weeks time, without any prior communication or consultation was unacceptable.
A campaign team quickly formed, and the battle began. We launched a website, a facebook account, a twitter account and a petition - so everyone could have a voice, and share their views - something which NHS Derbyshire chose to ignore.
Two public meetings were held by NHS Derbyshire, to which more than 200 people attended (despite one being in an evening a week before Christmas and the other with only six days notice). The meetings could only be described as shambolic. Residents from Ilkeston and beyond, young and old, gathered to raise their concerns, share their views and demand answers to their questions, whilst giving possible solutions to the issue. They got nothing. The representatives from NHS Derbyshire caused confusion, gave out inaccurate information, and failed to present any credible argument for the closure.
So, what are their 'published' reasons for the closure? There are three that they have regurgitated and spun over the past three months:
- the Centre was a duplication of service. NO - this is not an acceptable justification. The centre WAS the only service outside of Nottingham and Derby to provide access to a GP 12-hours a days, seven days a week, 365 days a year - and without an appointment. 84 hours of access to a GP per week. All other surgeries within Ilkeston offer less than 40 hours access per week.
- the Centre was under-utilised. NO - the 'targets' that were generated for the Centre were produced at a national level, when walk in centres were first established, and are based on no scientific reasoning. In addition, some local GPs had been very critical about the opening of the Centre as they saw it as a threat to their business. As a result of this, it was agreed that the Centre would not force patients to register, but still have full access to the care offered. The Centre played a big part in supporting access to patient care to other surgeries across the Erewash region. In addition, no advertising was carried out, in order to work in harmony with GP surgeries.
- the Centre was 'financially unviable' - NO - we now live in an age where we measure the price of everything and the value of nothing. Not everyone has access to a car in Ilkeston. Not everyone can afford to pay £40 for a taxi journey to and from the Walk In Centre in Nottingham or Derby. This Centre saved lives. This centre is NOT financially unviable. It is a cheaper alternative to A&E departments, it is a cheaper alternative to Out of Hours Doctor. It is a cheaper alternative to an ambulance journey. Enough said.
In less than 12 weeks, more than 5,000 people signed a petition against the closure, more than 1,500 people joined the campaign on Facebook, 300 people followed us on twitter, there was media coverage every week - even Ilkeston-born TV star Robert Lindsay got behind the campaign to say no. Hundreds of letters were sent by frustrated patients to NHS management, to our MP, to the media... the list goes on.
And guess what they did? Yes, that's right. Nothing. They ignored their patients. They refused to clarify any issues. They tried to pretend we didn't exist. And remind me... who pays their wages?
So today, our much loved Centre, which has saved many people's lives, and improved the quality of healthcare provision to Erewash residents over the last four years no longer exists. And do you know what else no longer exists? Our trust and faith in NHS management...


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It's time for an inquiry into the contents of religious instruction in Qld schools
It's time for an inquiry into the contents of # religious instruction in # Qld schools
The horrifying religious instruction classes planned for Qld schools – Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Brisbane Times 20 April 2016.
Following publication of this article, Youthworks has withdrawn the class on David and Goliath, as per Buzzfeed: This Christian School Program Was Teaching "Beheading Lessons".
The immediate withdrawal of the program highlights how obviously inappropriate it is. It also raises a red flag – how many other lessons are similarly barbaric, age inappropriate or overtly evangelical?
The Qld Department of Education and Training has advised "Principals can suspend program delivery until any issues are resolved".
According to the Daily Mail Australia, A Department of Education and Training spokesman said:
'If parents of participating students have concerns with the content or delivery of religious instructions (RI), they are encouraged to raise this with their school principal.
'RI programs are provided by a religious denomination or society (known as a faith group), not the Department of Education and Training,' the spokesperson said.
'RI is only to be provided to students from Year 1 in state primary, secondary and special schools whose parents have nominated the faith group on enrolment, or to students whose parents have given written permission for their child to attend.
'Parents can change their preference for their child to participate in RI or other instruction at any time by notifying the school in writing. Principals can suspend program delivery until any issues are resolved.'
This creates a new and impractical onus on each school principal to review religious instruction content. If this content is available for one hour per week, in all Queensland schools, then DET should be monitoring it. It's part of our school education system.
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fucked effd the fuck eff up. I'm really not happy about that. Not one bit. Still, gotta salute them Complex cats for respecting the God's opinions when it comes to matters of fresh. This past Memorial Day weekend, Kanye West dropped the first single off his upcoming Good A$$ Job album. You already heard how crazy that 'Power' joint is. In the second in Complex's hottest new Consensus series, in which "the Internets' top tastemakers" react to leaks, Yeezy's new heatrock gets dissected by your's truly, along with:
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That's a heavy line-up, and I'm honestly honored to be amongst the above-listed bloggerati. Personally, I love 'Power', and it's looking like Mr. West will dominate 4Q 2010. It's interesting to read what my peers are thinking.
Whats The Consensus? The Internets' Top Tastemakers React To Kanye West's "Power" Leak


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Digital Hi-Fi power amplifier for music-lovers who desire to hear the pure sound essence of musical instruments.
Equipped to output the input signal directly as line level, and is intended for constructing various installation systems such as using multiple amps / speakers at the same time, or adding a powered woofer. It is also possible to output the signal to another power amplifier that drives a passive woofer, by turning on the built-in low pass filter circuit.


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Lisley Anco, a senior at Washington-Lee High School, looks down at the greasy pepperoni pizza and hash browns sitting on her lunch tray with disdain, before pushing them aside.
Though the school cafeteria offers an assortment of yogurts, fruits and salads, the other seven students at Anco's table are also eating pizza. Several of them consume nothing else for lunch.
"I don't like this food," Anco said. "It's pretty unhealthy. I wish we had more entrée choices, like pastas."
In the cafeteria line, four students in a row purchase only a slice of pizza, much to the chagrin of Rosa Rivero, the cashier.
"It's always pizza, pizza, pizza," Rivero said. "At least today we aren't serving french fries."
In an effort to stem rising obesity rates among adolescents, school systems across the country are taking a second look at what they offer students for lunch. Arlington school officials are beginning to re-evaluate the nutritional value of school dishes and are searching for new ways to induce students to make healthier choices.
In September, the School Board voted to ban sodas and sports drinks in student vending machines and replace them with nutritional alternatives, such as water, reduced fat milk and fruit juices. Several years ago, the number of days per week that french fries were served was reduced from five to three.
Now some parents and School Board members are pushing for stricter regulations on what students can consume in cafeterias. But others in the community caution against further interference in the school menu, and argue that more time and money should be spent educating parents and students on the importance of a healthy diet and regular exercise.
Earlier this month the School Board gave its approval for the creation of a School Food Services Advisory Committee, composed of 20 school staff members, parents and students. The group will review existing policies and make recommendations to Superintendent Robert Smith on ways to improve student access to more nutritional foods and beverages.
The committee is also scheduled to develop a public awareness campaign to promote better eating and exercise habits among students, and will review the financial implications of any changes to the school menu.
"The committee is charged with looking at the foods served in the school system, but this will be done in the context of promoting healthier eating habits," said Alvin Crawley, assistant superintendent for student services. "Part of this work is to do more nutritional education with the students, so they can make better decisions about what foods to eat."
The committee will meet four times a year and is expected to have its first full report by late fall, school officials said. Applications are still being accepted for the parent and student positions.
DURING THE DEBATE over vending machines, many parents expressed a desire for school officials to go further in improving the nutritional quality of what is being offered for school meals.
"Parents came out of the woodwork and said 'we're glad you're doing something about the vending machines, but what about the school lunches,'" said School Board member Mary Hynes. "The best thing we could do was to establish a group, take their energy and ideas and work with the system."
Some have suggested that the school system further curtail how often fattening foods are offered.
"I want them to get rid of fries and pizza, or at least to reduce the number of times it is served each week," said Anne Reynolds, president of the County Council of PTAs. "The school has a role to play in providing the kinds of nutrition-rich foods students need."
Arlington schools "can do a lot better to make sure healthy food is available," School Board member Ed Fendley said. Because students who eat nourishing foods tend to perform better in the classroom, it is imperative that the school system works to ensure they eat breakfast and avoid fatty foods, Fendley added.
Others in the community believe the School Board should be wary of changing the school menu, which meets USDA standards.
Instead of controlling what students eat for lunch, Arlington schools should invest more time and money in health education classes, School Board member Frank Wilson said. Wilson was the sole member of the School Board to vote against barring sodas from student vending machines.
"We have to teach kids as early as possible about what is a healthy diet, and then give them the opportunity to make their own decision," Wilson said. "We can't spoon feed kids and expect them to make the right decisions."
Any education campaign must extend to parents, because those are the people who have the true power to change eating habits, Wilson added.
MOST STUDENTS interviewed in the Washington-Lee cafeteria expressed doubt that changes in school lunches would have any lasting impact on students' diets. Seniors are allowed to go off campus for lunch, and almost 30 percent of students do not participate in the Arlington food services program.
"Realistically, if kids want to eat fries, they will just go to McDonald's after school," said William Cullin, a junior. "Many already do."
Sophomore Antoine Williams, who was eating only a single slice of pizza for lunch, said he knows that pizza isn't good for him, but bought the dish "because I like it." Williams said he only eats pizza once a week and does not believe the School Board should have the authority to stop him from purchasing it on the day he chooses.
Hynes said she is exploring ways to give students more information on the food offered each day, and would like to introduce more fresh fruits and vegetables. In the Washington-Lee cafeteria there is a large poster that gives the fat and caloric content of each entrée item.
She is also interested in providing snacks either before classes begin or toward the end of the day to boost students' attention and achievement.
In a time of declining student enrollment and a smaller budget, school officials will have to balance the costs of introducing new food options. But Hynes is convinced that the extra money would pay large dividends.
"Our kids live in a fast-food environment, where they eat pizza and microwave food when they get home," she said. "It's our challenge to help them understand that they need to eat better."


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Kevin Skelton has a multifaceted career as a performer, director, choreographer, teacher, and scholar. Equally at home on the concert and operatic stage, Kevin specializes in seventeenth-century music, the Bach Evangelist roles, and experimental music theatre. Kevin has performed with some of the world's finest early music ensembles including Collegium Vocale Gent, L'Arpeggiata, and Concerto Palatino and in numerous theatres and festivals throughout the world including Teatro La Fenice, La Monnaie, Aix-en-Provence, Opéra Royal de Versailles, and the early music festivals in Boston and Utrecht.
In recent years Kevin has begun a new initiative exploring the possibilities of integrating classical singing and contemporary dance. His unique facility combining voice and movement has been showcased in productions of the Netherlands Reisopera, Veenfabriek, Zilbersee, Opera Atelier, Sasha Waltz & Guests, the Dutch breakdance company ISH and the Japanese theatre company SPAC. Kevin has produced numerous videos and live performances under the auspices of his own company ātmā having performed at the Operadagen Rotterdam, Theater aan het Vrijthof in Maastricht, and Festival Les Nuits de Septembre (Festival de Wallonie). Kevin is currently exploring new performing practices applicable to the training, creation, direction, and performance of integrative music theatre.
On the opera stage Kevin recently performed in Monteverdi's Orfeo at the Bergen International Festival, The Play of Daniel with the Toronto Consort, Caldara's Dafne at Teatro La Fenice, Purcell's Fairy Queen at the Hokutopia International Music Festival in Japan, Charpentier's La descente d'Orphée aux Enfers in Poland, and Charpentier's Medée with Opera Atelier in Toronto and Versailles. This year Kevin performs Monteverdi's Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Toronto and Tokyo, and a new creation at the Greek National Opera.
Upcoming and recent concert appearances include the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Nieuwe Philharmonie Utrecht, Zefiro Torna, Weser Renaissance Bremen, Utrecht and Timisoara Early Music Festivals, the Toronto Consort, Early Music Vancouver and several projects with BachPlus, Margaretha Consort, and the Nederlandse Bachvereniging in Belgium and the Netherlands.
The recipient of numerous awards and scholarships, including grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council, Kevin has completed graduate programmes in voice, conducting, musicology, and choreography having studied at the University of Toronto, Indiana University, Oxford University, and the contemporary dance school PARTS. In 2013 Kevin published his first book: Settle the Score: performer's analysis for the classical singer.


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The Thing of the Deep – Aurora Glade
- Character: The Thing of the Deep of Aurora Glade
- Submitted by: Durman Kargeroth
- Head – Bought form TP
- Shoulders – crafted by Tailors
- Chest – from Twilight Arbor
- Hands – bought for Honor, Karma or crafted
- Legs – cultural armor T1
- Feet – cultural armor T1
- Back – laurel merchant or achievement Southsun Stalwart
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Found this cool Karka helm, so I used it as base for my creation. I also tried different karka armor and I can say there's not much of it for light classes (or others (didn't check)). So I found these tentacles and BOOM. A beautiful butterfly from the deapths of sorrow. Initial based on headcrab as Karka would climb on innocent bystanding Sylvari and *bam* corrupt the Sylvaro making her into it's vessel.
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Do you remember Republican Oklahoma state Rep. Sally Kern? Back in 2011, she self-published book, The Stoning of Sally Kern: The Liberal Attack on Christian Conservatism. Yes, it means what you think it means: she ranks herself amongst the great martyrs of history. Why? Because she said some truly reprehensible things about homosexuality and people responded about as you'd expect: they were offended.
Well, you know what it means when you're offended by the hate-filled rhetoric of the Religious Right: You're persecuting them.
Here's how it started: In March 2008 she told a small gathering that the gay "agenda" is a bigger threat to our country than terrorists. Her speech was recorded and released to the public and then the fun started, resulting in her self-pitying, self-published book. Fast forward to September 2011, and we find her talking to Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality to whom she reiterats her claim, saying,
It's more dangerous, and yes I think that it's also more dangerous because it will tear down the moral fiber of this nation. We were founded as a nation upon the principles of religion and morality, if we take those out from under our society we will lose what has made us a great nation, we will no longer be a virtuous people, which we see happening already. And without virtue this nation will not survive.
Appearing recently on a radio program, In the Market, Kern again stood by that claim complained about being made out to be an idiot for making that claim so that she'll "be intimidated and not speak out anymore." This is where most sane people might shrug and say, "Welllllllll…"
But the oft-stoned Kern felt the need to justify her words to host Janet Parhsall, because, well, maybe we just didn't understand:
I was using what I used as a teacher, you know when you're teaching high school students you try to find something they can relate to, to share a concept with, so they can grasp the concept better. So everybody understands terrorism destroys people's lives, it destroys property. All I meant was, all I was saying was the homosexual agenda is destroying people's lives. More people have died from AIDS than have died from a terrorist attack here in America. It's destroying the moral fiber of our nation, that's all I meant.
No, it still sounds idiotic. Sorry.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that the best way to avoid being taken as an idiot is to avoid saying idiotic things. Just sayin'.
But then it turns out that when we are stoning Sally Kern, we are really stoning God himself:
"\It just broke my heart because so often what they were doing, they weren't just stoning me, they were stoning and desecrating the God that I love.
Oh, so now God needs Rep. Sally Kern to defend him? I am going to out on a limb here again and suggest that a God who need a mere mortal to protect him isn't much of a God.
Oh Sally…
There was just so much hate, they accuse me of being hateful, and I never once said anything hateful. Such hate expressed against the Lord and against his word and then the way they, I mean these people, I believe these people, I believe scripture teaches this, they're deceived and to me the real hate is from those people who say, 'you're born this way and you can't change, deal with it.
Of course, except that the people who say "You're born this way" aren't saying "deal with it." They're saying, "Celebrate it." There is a difference. Can't expect Kern to admit that because that would demand that Kern be honest, and we can't have that, can we?
Oh, and the denials of hate? Let's take a trip down memory lane and revisit what she said back in 2008 to what she thought at the time would be a room of 50 people:
No, that's not hateful at all, is it, Sally? Having listened to Kern's hate-filled scree, read what she had to say in her book about the "hateful" attacks on her:
As I sat reading the e-mails, each one hit me like a sharp stone, breaking my heart and filling my eyes with tears. I had never experienced such hate or seen such vulgarity in my life. The hurt seemed to cut right into my soul. It was not just that I was being hurt, but that the truth of God's Word was being stoned and desecrated.
So here is how it works in the warped mind of Sally Kern: comparing gays to terrorists is not hateful, but calling her an idiot for saying it IS hateful? Really? Being called a terrorist is a worse insult than being called an idiot, isn't it? And not just terrorists, but people who are destroying "virtue" and the civilization itself.
And if we disagree with you, we are stoning God?
You're an idiot, Sally. That's not hateful. It's just the truth.
Hrafnkell Haraldsson, a social liberal with leanings toward centrist politics has degrees in history and philosophy. His interests include, besides history and philosophy, human rights issues, freedom of choice, religion, and the precarious dichotomy of freedom of speech and intolerance. He brings a slightly different perspective to his writing, being that he is neither a follower of an Abrahamic faith nor an atheist but a polytheist, a modern-day Heathen who follows the customs and traditions of his Norse ancestors. He maintains his own blog, A Heathen's Day, which deals with Heathen and Pagan matters, and Mos Maiorum Foundation www.mosmaiorum.org, dedicated to ethnic religion. He has also contributed to NewsJunkiePost, GodsOwnParty and Pagan+Politics.


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I have a 2011 VW GTI with Bluetooth phone and audio capabilities. I've had 3 separate Android phones running BeyondPod Pro (Org Moto Droid, Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 4) and on all three, whenever my phone connects to my car, BeyondPod launches itself in the notification bar and remains open until I manually close it. Is this an intended feature? Can it be disabled?
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