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4/24-4/28 Weekly blast
Check the important reminders below for weekly updates and upcoming events.
1. Relay for Life events
As I am sure you know by now, I am very involved in Relay for Life for Team Dolvin. Nearly every family has been affected by cancer and this is a great opportunity to have fun and raise money for American Cancer Society. It is also a competition which Dolvin usually wins. however, at this time, we are in 3rd place and we are about $10,000 from our goal. We need all the help we can get. Here are some upcoming events:
- Luminaria Bag sales- $10 to decorate and dedicate a bag in memory of those who have fought cancer. Going on now until May 10th.
- Kids Night Out- This is always a fun event! It will be May 5th from 4-8 and costs $25.
- Luau Spirit Day- May 11th. Students can donate $1 to wear their favorite Hawaiian shirt for "re-Lei" for Life.
- Relay for Life North Fulton- The actual relay for life event will be May 13th at Webb Bridge Middle School from 4-11PM. I hope to see some of you out there!!
2. 5th grade fun week
The last week of 5th grade is a big milestone for 5th graders. They are finally graduating from elementary school and moving up in the world to middle school. We have fun events every day of that week. Some events require volunteers, while others are just for the students. The events are listed below. The flyer with a donation request (we have to be able to fund each event) will be coming home soon. Volunteer sign ups will come out soon as well. More information on that to come. Parents may NOT attend events unltess they are signed up to volunteer.
Mon., 5/22 9:00-10:00 Yearbook Signing Teachers, Students 1:00-1:45 Class Parties Teachers, Students, Volunteers
Tues., 5/23 8:45-9:30 Breakfast Teacher s, Students, Volunteers
9:30-11:00 Talent Show Teachers, Students
Wed., 5/24 12:00-2:00 Dodgeball Teachers, Students, Volunteers
Thur., 5/25 9:00-11:00 Movie Teachers, Students, Volunteers
11:30-12:15 Pizza Lunch Teachers, Students, Volunteers
1:00-1:45 pm Recognition Ceremony Teachers, Students, Families Welcome
and Slideshow
2-2:10 pm Final Walk Teachers, Students, Families Welcome
3. Upcoming tests in class
Blue Math- We have worked on coordinate planes and functions. Our unit 7 test will be this Friday, April 28.
Yellow Math- We have learned about algebraic expressions. We have learned important vocabulary and how to write expressions from a situation. We will test over Unit 3 this Friday, April 28.
SS- We have learned about the Cold War and Civil Rights. We just started learning about 1970's-present day. We will have our quiz over this until this week. Our test will be next Wednesday, May 3rd.
4/11 Weekly blast
Good afternoon,
I hope everyone had a very restful and fun spring break! I know I did :).
I want to thank all of your for your generous gifts and recognition during staff appreciation week. I truly enjoy teaching each and every one of my students. They are all so unique and bring such great talents to the whole class. I know they are ready for middle school but I don't want to see them go. Thanks again for allowing me to make an impact on their education and life.
Milestones- As I am sure you know, Milestones start this week. Here are a few reminders during this testing window.
Fine arts Night
Fine arts Night is this Thursday night from 5:30-7:30 with a chorus performance at 6. I hope to see you all there! The chorus is doing a Disney Dazzle theme and I could not be more excited!!
Blue Math- We are continuing our work on coordinate planes. We will test over this unit on April 28th. Students already received their study guide and should be reviewing nightly.
Yellow Math- We are starting our 6th grade Unit 3 work this week. This unit focuses on pre-algebra skills. Students will be assessed on important algebra vocabulary and their ability to solve for variables in equations. They will test over this unit on April 28th.
Social Studies- We are continuing our work on Civil Rights/Cold War unit. We will also learn about important events from 1975- present day. These important events include the collapse of communism, the Israeli conflict, war in the Middle East, and 9/11. We will also be learning about the different presidents during the 50's-present day. With this large unit, it is important for students to study nightly. Our test over this unit will be May 3rd.
Weekly Blast
Check back every week for a new post with information about the coming week.
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Skip to 0 minutes and 10 seconds Rates of reactivity can be quite a challenge to teach students as it requires quite a depth of understanding. And some of the techniques used can be quite difficult for students to grasp. So in this video we're going to start looking at different ways of actually teaching some of these approaches.
Skip to 0 minutes and 27 seconds We're going to start off by actually looking at rates of reaction that involve a little bit of temperature change. So we've got some light sticks, which we can use, which are broken and allow a chemical reaction to happen. And in that reaction we get light produced rather than heat. And we can put these into different temperature solutions. So we have some iced water, some water at room temperature, and we've got some water from a kettle which we're going to fill the last beaker. So it's just off the boil, about 80 degrees.
Skip to 0 minutes and 53 seconds As well as being able to use commercial light sticks that are often used for parties or used as distress flares, we can also see some very cheap ones that are available from the shops. And when these are cracked inside, a chemical is released, which mixes to give us some bright background. What we're going to do now is dim the lights and put some of these into different temperature water. OK, so we're going to take our glow sticks and we're not going to crack them. We're going to shake them, which mix the chemicals together. And as you can see, they're glowing about the same.
Skip to 1 minute and 28 seconds And now we're going to put one into our ice cold water, we're going to put one in at room temperature, and one into our really hot water. And then after a few minutes we should be able to see how the brightness changes with the different temperature. We can very quickly see that the temperature is having an effect on the reaction. And that's what most pupils would suggest would happen. They have this experience from primary schools that the higher the temperature that something is, the more you heat it up, the quicker the reaction will happen.
Skip to 1 minute and 57 seconds And what we need to do in science is we need to be able to pull that down to actually at a particle and an atomic level as to why these reactions happen.
Qualitative to quantitative progression
In practical work, we often teach the physical skills of setting up equipment, at the same time as expecting students to take and record measurements, analyse and evaluate. However, students need to be guided from simple experiments and qualitative observations, to those with quantative measurements, where they may use numbers generated for further analysis, including calculations involving molarities.
As students develop their practical skills, they should be able to apply them better particularly if they understand why they are doing something in a certain way. For example, using a burette allows a greater degree of precision (to ±0.05cm3) than a measuring cylinder (at 1cm3 at best). There should be opportunities for students to choose their equipment that suits the measurements they want to take.
This means that we have to provide steps for progression with practical skills, in the same way as we develop subject knowledge. As we looked at in Week 1, it is good if we can move away from just recipe following for students, and rates of reaction is a good way to develop some investigative skills. Consider allowing students a choice over equipment, or ranges taken. If students have grasped the basic techniques, then they could be given different reactions to investigate, with less direct support for more able students.
Qualitative example
As a starter, in the video above we are using some glowsticks. These are chemical reactions that give out light. Inside are two solutions, one is contained inside a glass vial. When this is broken the solutions will mix and react together forming light (fluorescence).
We are putting the glowsticks into water at room temperature, hot water (from a kettle) and ice-cold water. Ask the students to predict what will happen before lowering in the glowsticks. Most will suggest that the hotter the water, the brighter the glowstick.
It is worth asking about "how long they will last" as well. The idea that the coldest one lasts longest and elicit ideas of what is going on (the hotter the water, the quicker the reactants are "used up"). This can lead into discussions about the factors that alter rates of reaction and some of the particle theory behind them: then students can start to explore in more detail how they affect the rate of a reaction.
- Temperature
- Concentration (or pressure of a gas)
- Surface area (of a solid)
- Presence of a catalyst
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'Tis the season for office
Christmas holiday parties. No doubt you have already had yours at work, or are getting ready for one. They all include copious drinking, great food, stolen glances, slurry conversations, "Can ah bum ah cigarette?" and intentional accidental groping.
No bonus this year? It all went into cleaning the carpets at the party after "someone" had too many margaritas.
Karaoke is a big hit at these holiday parties. It brings out the diva in the wallflowers, and the sweat and cringing in all the rest of us. For some reason it also turns the nerdiest guys in the office rock stars. We've all been there, hanging from a rafter, shirtless, singing "Candle In the Wind" on what we will later say was a dare.
This weekend is the big Houston Press office
Christmas holiday party. If anything fun happens, we will let you know. Don't worry about the Rocks Off team, we have some tricks up our sleeves.
Hint: FAYGO.
"Tears In Heaven," Eric Clapton
Hey man, some of us are trying to hit on chicks in other departments, not think about dead kids in heaven. Sing "Cocaine" instead. Ahh yeah!
"Daddy's Hands," Holly Dunn
You shouldn't be at a Christmas party.
"Pussy Control," Prince
As much as you think this will go over, women at parties don't want to think about young prostitutes selling the fun house on the street. But ultimately it's about perseverance, so we're torn.
"Patches," Clarence Carter
Because rich people want to think about poor people at a Christmas party. Good call. We would just be kind of stoked that a karaoke catalog had this in it anyway. Try Carter's "Strokin'" or "Back Door Santa" instead. Trust us.
"Let's Get Retarded," Black Eyed Peas
What kind of Nazi karaoke company did your employer hire?
"Baby Got Back" Sir Mix-A-Lot
Spring Break '92. You really suck. Sit back down, Romeo. She graduated the same week your daughter graduated high school. Ain't gonna happen.
"You Oughta Know," Alanis Morissette
Hey sugar, be a dollface and sing some Katy Perry. Can you get me another drink when you're done?
"With Or Without You," U2
Why? Because you will overdo the Irish accent and sound like a cast member from Angela's Ashes.
"Bodies," Drowning Pool
There's a reason two cops escorted you out of the office the day your previous job fired you.
"Father Figure," George Michael
Especially creepy if the head boss sings this around his female underlings. Women love being kicked down to size at the holidays. Look at Mary, she was just the chick who was carrying Jesus in her belly. You don't see her face on any murals or books or anything.
"I Will Always Love You," Whitney Houston
You may always love her/him, but she/he is too busy hitting on your friend/spouse to care/listen.
Cool, if there are MILF's there...
Vanilla Ice
Irony is a dead scene.
You don't have the balls or the flash, and you will quit before the song is over.
We saw this once. Guy really thought it would make him look sensitive.
Guns 'N Roses
Disclaimer: Only girls should sing GN'R, and they should only sing "Paradise City".
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B.A.P Daehyun, "All Shook Up" Lead role confirmed.."Solidifying position as musical-idol"
Group B.A.P's Daehyun (known as Daehyun) has been chosen as the lead role for the musical "All Shook Up".
Cast as the role of the role of the youth Elvis, who loves blue suede shoes and dreams to be a future superstar, is forewarning his growth as the up-coming growth as a musical-idol.
Daehyun, who has recently acted as Napoleon's younger brother Lucien in the musical "Napoleon", having charmed the audience members despite "Napoleon" having been his first challenge in musicals and shown off his potential as a musical actor, is especially attracting attention.
Musical "All Shook Up" is a pop musical that contains the story of a pre-debut Elvis who rose the rock-and-roll fever all around the world. As a piece drawing the story that had happened as Elvis Presley entered a nameless town, (the musical) is expected to hold a total of 24 of his hit-songs such as "Heartbreak Hotel" and "Love Me Tender".
Like this, the musical "All Shook Up" will raise its curtains on the coming November 24 at Hongik University Daehak-lo Art Center grand theatre with a flashy line up of Son Hoyoung, Wheesung, Heo Youngsaeng, Jinho(of Pentagon), Park Jungah, and others.
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Steve ACKERS (Detroit, MI - fireman) - 1930's ?????
I'm looking for the family of Steve Ackers, whom I'm told was a fireman in Detroit, MI -- not sure when -- maybe the 1930's.He married a lady by the name of Ethel (Cosie) STANLEY who also lived in Detroit and I believe was born in 1902.The couple had three daughters (???) Eileen, Pauline, and Colleen.We believe, after Steve's death, that the mother remarried -- maybe to a ROOT.Relatives believe the family went to Oakland, CA or Los Angeles, CA.
I would dearly love to hear from anyone who has information.We are trying to complete the STANLEY tree and will share information.
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Global Winter Wonderland
Global Winter Wonderland
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Beginning December 8th - January 6th 15% of all tickets purchased will go to United Way to assist victims from the tragic "Camp Fire". USE promo code "HELPPARADISE" when purchasing tickets to help as many of our neighbors as possible.
On December 9th Global Winter Wonderland will be honoring and hosting the brave 1st Responders who put themselves in harms way everyday serving our community. The highlight of the evening will be from Camp Fire survivors Nate Smith and Miykael Goodwin who put their pain for the loss of their town and hope for rebuilding in to lyrics for the song "One of These Days".


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15 minute sessions in which Americans listen across the political divide.
"In conversation, we are often so focused on projecting our opinions and defending our agenda that we fail to hear the voices of others. This tendency is why contemplative dialog and deep listening practices challenge the way we normally engage in conversation. These practices rely on a commitment to self-control and self-awareness, as well as a group-centered rather than self-centered approach." — Center for the Contemplative Mind in Society


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Magnificent modern waterfront estate located on prestigious guard-gated Hibiscus Island. Impeccably designed by renowned architect Ralph Choeff. Situated on a 19,466 SF pie shaped lot boasting 10,503 SF of living space plus 145 WF with unobstructed southwest facing stunning Downtown & cruise ship views. Luxurious amenities include: chef's kitchen, butler's pantry, wet bar, home theater, wine cellar, elevator, 3 car garage, lap pool w/ jacuzzi plus outdoor shower, summer kitchen, beach area w/ firepit, 3 car garage, new seawall & private dock + secluded rooftop w/ kitchen, jacuzzi & outdoor shower.


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How to Work With a Business Partner
Be upfront and make sure you're on the same page, advises Seth Goldman, who co-founded Honest Tea with his business school professor, Barry Nalebuff.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Many people, especially if they haven't been properly brushing and flossing, begin to have problems with their gums as they get older. The thing most commonly referred to as gum disease is a deepening of the sulcus - the v-shaped cavity between the gums and the teeth. This deepening or receding occurs when there is an infection or disease in the gums. Thoroughly brushing twice daily with a soft-bristled toothbrush and properly flossing daily will help to prevent gum disease along with a professional cleaning every 3 - 6 months.
Once gum disease has set in, there are certain procedures a dentist can do to help heal a patient's gums. The first step in our office is a very thorough cleaning. This will clean deep into the gums near the root surface; removing the plaque and tartar, and then smoothing out the tooth surface to remove bacteria. This is often followed by a treatment to kill any bacteria that may still be left. This basic level of treatment is usually sufficient when followed by periodical touch-up treatment.
Occasionally a patient's periodontal disease has reached a level where surgery is necessary. There are a few different surgical procedures the dentist may recommend. If a pocket reduction procedure is needed, the dentist will pull the gum off the tooth or teeth and do a thorough cleaning of that area, and then replace and re-attach the gums to the tooth or teeth. If there are problems with the patient's bone growth in the mouth, regenerative procedures may be used; the dentist will pull the gum from the teeth and then use a technique to encourage bone growth. Crown lengthening is a periodontal treatment where the dentist will move the visible gum line farther from the tip of the tooth to change a "gummy" smile into a more aesthetic smile. If there is a major problem with a patient's gum growth, a tissue graft may be necessary; the doctor will take some soft tissue from the palate or another place on the body, and graft it onto the patient's gums to encourage and stimulate growth and gum health.
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President Emeritus
In more than 13 years as President of Rockland Community College, Cliff L. Wood, EdD, made a substantial impact both on RCC and the Rockland County community. Though Dr. Wood retired on June 30, he remains linked to RCC as the College's first President Emeritus.
The RCC Board of Trustees voted unanimously on May 25 to bestow the honor upon Dr. Wood. "Under Dr. Wood's leadership, RCC has reached out to every corner of Rockland to serve the County's educational, cultural and business needs," said Martin Wortendyke, Chair of the Board of Trustees. "He is widely known as
a leader of vision and integrity, and is clearly deserving of this title."
"Of all the honors I have received, this is the one that means the most to me," Dr. Wood said.
Qualifications for the honor include at least 10 years of service as President of RCC as well as a record of distinguished service to both RCC and the greater community.
Status as a President Emeritus carries several privileges, including the use of the title in community and professional activities. The President Emeritus will also be listed in the RCC catalog and on the website, maintain access to RCC e-mail, and receive invitations to College events and activities.
The current RCC President may request counsel from a President Emeritus, or ask that he or she serve in various volunteer capacities to support the College. The President Emeritus is not under any formal obligation to provide such services.


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Examinations are constructed using an examination blueprint — a widely accepted tool used within professions to design examinations. The blueprint, also referred to as the test specifications, identifies the content areas covered on the examination. For each content area, the blueprint outlines the weighting of the area, the topics, levels of competence, and learning objectives and competencies examined. The blueprint also provides information on the proportion of each question type presented in the examination (for example, multiple-choice, short-answer).
Students should use the examination blueprint to prepare for the examination. The blueprint may not include all topics listed in the course materials; however, students are responsible for acquiring a broad-based knowledge of all topics, including those not listed in the blueprint, since their understanding of these topics will be tested in assignment and self-test questions. The topics not listed in the blueprint will also provide a greater depth of understanding of the course.
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LAWRENCE, Ind. — Lawrence police believe a second car may be involved in the shooting that killed 18-year-old Domanic Jones.
Jones died from a single gunshot wound after being shot near Lawrence Central High School on Wednesday. Police have not arrested anyone in the case.
Police say Jones was driving along 56th Street whenever he crashed and hit a pole. Witnesses say they heard gunshots coming from inside the car.
Jones' sisters have no clue who would want to hurt their big brother.
"He was a good person. He always made time for everybody who he loved. He was so generous and he always put other people before him," said Jones' sister, Khalia Bridgwaters.
At the time of the shooting, there were three other people in the car with him. Police say those individuals were passengers and exited from the vehicle and took off running.
Detectives located the three people, interviewed them, and then let them go.
Originally, witnesses reported the gunshots came from inside the black Chevy that Jones was driving. Now, Lawrence detectives believe the shots fired may have come from someone driving next to Jones.
"We're not prepared to say one way or the other with exactly what happened but anybody who has specific information about this incident, we encourage you to please step forward and contact detectives," said Lawrence Police Deputy Chief Gary Woodruff.
This is the second homicide in Lawrence within six days. Last week, 44-year-old Harold Rodenberger was shot to death in the 8200 block of Harrison Drive.
Police say there are no indications the shootings are connected.
"There are grieving families out there that are asking and demanding for some type of justice or resolution for their loved one. Regardless of their age or anything else," Woodruff said.
Jones' family wants to know why this happened to their brother.
"People are dying for no reason now. For something that could be possibly talked out or completely prevented," said Jones' sister, Alexis Bridgwaters.
Anyone with information on the shooting is urged to call Crime Stoppers at 317-262-TIPS.


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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Digital Air Strike (DAS), an automotive social media and digital engagement company, and Dealertrack Technologies announced they have entered into channel and product agreements to help dealer clients drive lead response and generation opportunities.
Through the referral agreements, the DAS Response Logix Smart Quote lead response and prospect nurturing solution will be easily accessible and integrated into Dealertrack's Dealer.com digital marketing solution and Payment Driver.
DAS joins a premier group of market leaders as part of Dealer.com's Certified Provider Program. To qualify for the program, companies and their products must have proven value, security, efficiency, and return on investment, giving customers added assurance that they are choosing high-quality, complementary software and services.
Dealertrack's PaymentDriver, which was licensed from Dealertrack by DAS, is a state-of-the art monthly payment calculator for dealerships. The integration makes click-of-the-mouse vehicle pricing immediately available inside Digital Air Strike's Smart Quote — the core product in its Response Logix lead response and prospect nurturing solution.
Dealertrack's PaymentDriver will drop into the Response Logix Smart Quote microsite and automatically display side-by-side lease and finance offers that conveniently factor in OEM, lender and regional rebates and incentives to ensure the consumer is getting the best lease or financing payment available.
"Leveraging Digital Air Strike's Response Logix with our Dealer.com digital marketing and PaymentDriver solutions gives us a uniquely powerful means of targeting and generating quality leads for automotive retailers," said Brian Green, senior director of corporate business development for Dealertrack Technologies. "Our Certified Provider Program assures our clients that the specialized partners we are integrating into our technologies are well-vetted, best-of-class products. We look forward to the added value Digital Air Strike will bring to our overall solution."
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There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it. – Roger Federer
The above-mentioned quote aptly describes the personality of Federer who can rightly be termed as the greatest tennis player of all time. Sublime back-hands, deft volleys, pin-point accuracy for aces; one would run out of adjectives describing his game. He's all class and has cemented his role as the greatest player by winning the 2017 Australian Open at the age of 35 years and 5 months.
See the amazing video of the winning moment below with Federer hitting the winner to register another win over his arch-rival, Rafael Nadal.
Playing tennis at the highest level for around 2 decades is a really challenging task. And add to that, the 18 grand slams wins and you get an athlete who knows how to manage the training, traveling around the world and playing the game like a dream. Any manager or team lead can learn a lot of lessons from the life of Mr. Roger Federer and in this blog, I will try to define 5 of them.
1. Never Fear the Failure
Roger Federer started playing as a professional tennis player in 1998. And won his first Grand Slam title at Wimbledon 2003. In the 5 years in between, he did have some success as a singles player most notably his first tournament win at the 2001 Milan Indore event. But the Grand Slam success eluded him for so long.
Players like Michael Chang and Pete Sampras against he played in his early days won Grand Slams before they turned 20. But he never took this matter as a failure and always tried to do even better.
Roger Federer, eventually, won the 2003 Wimbledon at the age 1 month shy of 22 years. If you are an aspiring manager in any field, you will find Federer's ploy of working hard and never fearing failure as a motivation. A person can lose hope and can be very pessimistic in his approach if he tries too hard to avoid failure. To be successful, you have to give it all that you have with a positive mindset. There is no way you won't achieve success by being fearless in your approach towards a task or project.
2. Turn Challenges into Opportunities
As a professional tennis player, Roger Federer came across many challenges, sometimes acute ones, which threatened his career too. When he withdrew from the US Open in 2016 at the last moment, many termed his decision as a prologue to his retirement with some Tennis pundits ruled out his comeback completely. But he came back and won the 2017 Australian Open in a heroic fashion and beat Rafael Nadal in a five-set thriller.
When you will work alongside the top management of any company, there will be challenges galore. If you want to be a great manager or leader, then you should know the art of turning challenges into opportunities. Never panic after a setback or while facing a difficult scenario. Instead, focus on how to aptly showcase your managing ability according to the situation and approach it as an opportunity to come up with a winning strategy.
3. Focus on your Strength
Roger Federer always focused on his strengths rather than copying a trend or trying to become someone else. Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi were on a roll when Federer started playing professional tennis. Then came serve and volley players like Greg Rusedski and Goran Ivanisevic and made it big.
Several new players adopted this strategy but Federer knew his strength and was sure that he can do well and achieve all the success by playing his natural game. And the rest is history.
As a budding manager or team lead, you will come across situations that will scare the hell out of you. But if you can learn about your strength and then making it count. It can act as the catalyst for your future success. You need to be confident and hide your emotions/viewpoint before chalking up a plan to cope up with an adverse situation. Just remember how Federer performed in tough situations by turning to his strengths and rest assured, you won't taste failure ever again.
4. Work Harder to Achieve Success
Tennis is a very demanding game. The training, being on tour and playing continuously can be really tough if you are not physically fit. Roger Federer has been playing professional tennis for around 19 years now, and apart for brief pauses, he is among the fittest players the game has ever witnessed. So it's natural he plays the game like a maverick and weaves his magic on the tennis courts around the world.
The real world is somewhat different from playing tennis and beating opponents hands down. You need to play smarter, faster and work harder to make sure you are one step ahead of the competition. A manager should always lead from the front. You need to work your way up the success ladder as there is no shortcut in real life too.
5. Be Flexible
There are three different surfaces in tennis in which a professional player has to play to maintain his rankings. These are hard court, clay and grass. Roger Federer proved that he can play like a veteran on the hard court and grass. It was the clay court or rather the French Open which eluded him until 2009. The flexibility to play at all surfaces is the key to becoming a great tennis player. Federer silenced his critics by showing his class on clay court, which was not his forte.
The flexibility approach in the professional life can be highly rewarding for a manager. He has to manage a team and always look for ways to improve teamwork. Flexibility is a key asset of successful managers. It can also be related to being flexible in many operational areas, dealing with different people/clients, etc.
Final Word
Roger Federer is not over yet. And there's no sign he will retire soon. It's a good omen for his diehard fans and for sports lovers worldwide. Managers can learn valuable lessons from his life as a skillful tennis player but also a sports person par excellence. Management is a key part of being involved in any field and that's where Roger Federer has really scored.


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Nyack, NY - The Nyack College baseball team hosted the Post University Eagles in a CACC home doubleheader on Wednesday afternoon. The Eagles got the W in both games with final scores of 7-12 and 2-4. With the loss the Warrors' record drops to 9-11-1 overall and 2-4 in CACC play.
Game one saw the Eagles jump to an early 4-0 lead in the first two innings of the game. Post would add another pair of runs in the top of the 4th before Nyack would get its first run up as well in the bottom of the same inning. Luke Kelly scored for the Warriors with his first homerun of the season. Post added another four runs in the top of 5th, but Nyack answered right away with three runs of their own. Austin Fischer scored off a Gabe Vasquez single. Vasquez then reached homeplate himself after a Kelly fly out. Herman Alvarado scored the last run of the inning after a Carlo Pino single up the middle. The Warriors scored another run in the bottom of the 6th when Vasquez off a Alvarado single with the score 5-10 in favor of the Eagles. Post scored a run each in the top of the 7th and the 8th to make the score 12-5. Nyack pushed for one final effort to get themselves back into the game. Kelly and Vasquez scored after a Anthony Torreullas double. However, the Eagles pitching staff kept the Warriors from inching any closer than that.
Post scored first again in game two in the top of the second. They added another three runs in the top of the 4th to go up 4-0. The Warriors scored their only two runs in the bottom of the 7th. Anthony Torreullas scored off a passed ball and Carlos Pino scored off a Chris Colotti single to right field.
The Warriors will be back tonight when the host the St. Rose Golden Knights in a non-conference match at the Palisades Credit Union Park. First pitch is slated for 6:30pm.


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Engineering company Willbros Group recently reported disappointing earnings – even after Cramer recommended the stock – that sent shares down precipitously. Did Cramer get it wrong? Not likely. This looks a long-term story that's just getting warmed up.
CEO Randy Harl told Cramer on Friday's show that the company suffered from a couple of "legacy projects" that hurt its backlog and ate into earnings last quarter but he said he's even more bullish on the rest of 2008, going as far as to raise estimates after the last report.
Willbros has great earnings visibility, thanks to an infrastructure business that just gets bigger around the world. Harl cited a statistic of roughly $180 billion to be spent in pipeline construction, Willbros' bread and butter, between now and 2012. That is an "awful lot of business" that the company can potentially add to its backlog, he said.
Harl said he is in the process of refocusing business in North America, particularly on gas projects in the U.S. and oil projects in the Alberta province of Canada. As a late-cycle play, Harl reassured investors that the fluctuations in commodity prices don't make much of a difference to Willbros, which deals in contracts so far into the future that current volatility is mostly inconsequential to the bottom line.
The market got this one wrong, Cramer said. One earnings miss does not tell the story of a company on the cusp of profiting from a worldwide infrastructure boom.
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The concentrator on Genesis provided samples of increased fluences of solar wind ions for precise determination of the oxygen isotopic composition. The concentration process caused mass fractionation as a function of the radial target position. This fractionation was measured using Ne released by UV laser ablation and compared with modelled Ne data, obtained from ion-trajectory simulations. Measured data show that the concentrator performed as expected and indicate a radially symmetric concentration process. Measured concentration factors are up to ∼30 at the target centre. The total range of isotopic fractionation along the target radius is 3.8%/amu, with monotonically decreasing ^(20)Ne/^(22)Ne towards the centre, which differs from model predictions. We discuss potential reasons and propose future attempts to overcome these disagreements.
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§ 27. Mr. PIELOU
asked the Secretary of State for War why, on the disbandment of the Corps of Military Accountants, men enlisted on a 21 years' engagement are being discharged with 28 days' leave with pay and the equivalent of seven days' pay for each unexpired year of service?
§ Captain KING
Men of the Corps of Military Accountants serving on a 21 years' engagement are granted a pension, on being discharged on reduction, if they have 14 years' total service and 10 years' qualifying service. Those who have less than 14 years' service receive compensa- 2023 tion on the same lines as men whose engagement is for seven years or 12 years with the colours.
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Does the hon. and gallant Gentleman consider it a breach of contract, in view of the fact that these men were enlisted on a 21 years' engagement?
§ Captain KING
No man signs on in his original engagement for 21 years. Men sign on for seven years with the colours and five with the Reserve, and I would draw my hon. Friend's attention to the fact that the engagement of every soldier on attestation states that it is subject to his services being required for the full term.
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Has the hon. and gallant Gentleman observed the answer given by the Secretary of State for War in the last Government, stating that the amalgamation of the Royal Army Pay Corps and the Corps of Military Accountants would take place on the recommendation of the Lawrence Committee?
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COLLEGE STATION – The TEEX Paramedic Program has been awarded full accreditation by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP), a national accrediting agency for 24 health science professions.
The TEEX program is the only stand-alone, non-college-based Paramedic Program in Texas to receive this national accreditation, said Program Manager Mike Schuler. The 1,033-hour program is approved for CEUs by the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) and the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE). Students may use their VA Education Benefits for the training and apply for college credit through the American Council on Education (ACE).
To become a certified Paramedic in Texas, students must attend an accredited program and pass the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technician (NREMT) Paramedic Skills Examination and Computer Based Test (CBT). While awaiting the full accreditation, graduates of the TEEX program have been eligible to take the NREMT exam thanks to a Letter of Review from CAAHEP. TEEX graduates are currently working for the fire service and other agencies across the state and nation, Schuler said.
Full accreditation also will draw more students to TEEX from other states, and it will be easier for them to attend the TEEX program, he added. Graduates of an accredited program who pass the NREMT Examination can usually apply for reciprocity in other states.
"This is a milestone for us and another confirmation of the quality of our Paramedic Program," Schuler said. The full accreditation has been an intensive process, involving a self-study, peer review and a site visit by the Committee on Accreditation of Educational Programs for the Emergency Medical Services Professions and the CAAHEP's Board of Directors, he added.
In a letter to TEEX Director Gary Sera, CAAHEP President Cameron Harris said: "The commission commends you and your colleagues for your commitment to continuous quality improvement in education, as demonstrated by your participation in program accreditation."
About TEEX
The Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) is an internationally recognized leader in the delivery of emergency response, homeland security and workforce training, as well as exercises, technical assistance, and economic development. TEEX serves more than 169,000 people each year from every U.S. state and territory and 79 countries worldwide. Home to the National Emergency Response and Rescue Training Center, TEEX also sponsors the elite Texas Task Force 1 urban search and rescue team. TEEX makes a difference by providing training, developing practical solutions and saving lives. TEEX is a member of The Texas A&M University System.
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"Some see death as having some greater purpose, but when it is one of your own, it is hard to grasp anything good comes from it."
The peaceful realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its human civilisation faces a fearsome race of invaders: Orc warriors fleeing their dying home to colonise another. As a portal opens to connect the two worlds, one army faces destruction and the other faces extinction. From opposing sides, two heroes are set on a collision course that will decide the fate of their family, their people and their home. So begins a spectacular saga of power and sacrifice in which war has many faces, and everyone fights for something.
Gentle Giant Studios have just announced their first Warcraft statues based on the film. This 13" statue features Anduin Lothar. Lothar will be a major character in the Warcraft film. Lothar is a knight champion of the Kingdom of Azeroth and the supreme commander of the armies of the Alliance of Lordaeron.
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MANG2066 Principles of Audit and Taxation
Module Overview
Auditing and taxation are both essential elements of accounting. An appreciation of the two subjects is important not only for accountants but also for management. Auditing is a crucial element of financial reporting and corporate governance. Taxation implications must be considered during decision making processes.
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- the systems approach to auditing;
- the role of internal audit;
- the principles of personal and business taxation;
- the main features of the operation of selected UK taxes.
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- apply different audit procedures to a variety of scenarios;
- prepare simple computations for major UK taxes (e.g. income tax, corporation tax, national insurance and capital gains tax);
- compare aspects of the UK tax system with possible alternative systems;
- demonstrate what you have learned both by application to numerical data and in written form.
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- demonstrate numeracy and problem solving skills;
- communicate ideas in a written format;
- communicate ideas and arguments orally and through formal presentations.
Audit • Nature of audit • Appointment • Planning, risk and materiality • Systems approach • Internal audit Taxation • Principles of tax system design: desirable characteristics; tax bases, unit and rates. Direct and indirect taxes. • Personal taxation: taxation as it effects individuals. The main features of the UK personal taxation system. • Taxation of business profits and companies: the problems of taxing business and corporate profits; the main features of the taxation of business profits in the UK; the main features of the UK system or corporation tax; issues in taxation of small businesses.
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
The module will commence with the study of audit. The first six weeks will include a mix of lectures, classes and practical sessions using audit simulation software. The second part of the module will cover taxation. There will be one lecture and one class per week. Selected exercises will be used to provide formative feedback to students. Additional exercises and reading will be set for private study.
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Millichamp, A. & Taylor, J. (2012). Auditing.
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This week we have the 2nd part of Peter's interview of Ed O'Malley, CEO of Kansas Leadership Center, our website of the week is actually an O'Reilly webinar on Murderboarding, Pam's research report is about the difference between urgency and importance in leadership communications and some great podsafe music by Howard Jones.
Leadership News
- How fast and far leaders can fall
- Galleon insider trading scandal – top IBM executive/ceo condidate and McKinsey star implicated.
- Moffat Viewed as 'Classic IBM Executive' (WSJ 10/19/09)
- McKinsey Star Snared in Galleon Trading Case (WSJ 10/20/09)
- Bernard Kerik Is Sent to Jail (NY Times 10/20/09)
- Galleon insider trading scandal – top IBM executive/ceo condidate and McKinsey star implicated.
WL Website of the Week
- O'Reilly Webcast: MurderBoarding: It's not about the ideas you keep, but the ones you kill
- Thursday, October 22, 2009 – 10am PT, San Francisco | 6pm – London | 1pm – New York | Fri, Oct 23th at 3am – Sydney | Fri, Oct 23th at 2am – Tokyo | Fri, Oct 23th at 1am – Beijing | 10:30pm – Mumbai
- Presenter: Nilofer Merchant
Pam's Research Finding of the Week
- Crossed Wires: Flaws In Airline Repairs Abroad by Daniel Zwerdling for NPR (Oct. 20, 2009)
- How Smart Leaders Talk About Time by Luca Baiguini for Harvard Business blogs (Oct. 12, 2009)
- Beware the Siren's Song – Maintain self-control by avoiding temptation based on the Research of Loran Nordgren, Joop van der Pligt And Frenk van Harreveld – Kellog Insight Focus on Research
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- Twitter @eomalley and @theklc
- Kansas Leadership Center on Facebook
- KLS Facilitator Field Guide (PDF)
- Reading:
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- The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It by Joshua Cooper Ramo
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni
- Leader Lunch:
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- President Theodore Roosevelt
- civil rights activists
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- Leave a comment on Weekly Leader
- email email@example.com – record an audio comment and save it to an MP3 file of 5 mb or less
- Twitter – @weeklyleader, @pamfr, @petermello, @mvittone and @edbrenegar
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It has been the craziest week here!
The craziness started on Monday when Olivia got in the car sobbing because she claimed it had been the most horrible day of her life, horror which included cutting her finger on a box cutter (a paper cut that she swore she needed stitches for) and a dramatic front seat reenactment of how she fell down the stairs (three stairs, running an errand during class time & no one saw).
((but if a tree falls in a forest....))
Lord have mercy!
The rest of the week was pretty much the same.
Someone missing a shoe, a broken dish, a murdered chicken, I forgot to turn the crock pot on to cook a meal, the dog ate a brand new loaf of bread right off the counter...just classic Crazytowne USA!
I told her if she did not shake off this bad luck hex I was going to put her out on the side of the road & drive away...
Since it's finally over, I thought I would put together a random ramblings post of thoughts that has nothing to do with politics OR the NFL (because frankly my dear...). I sure do hope your week has not been as crazy as mine!
We have had a horrible time the our dogs, Blue & Marty getting after our chickens in the past few weeks. Blue is a lab & Marty is a lab chow mix, (so they can't help it if they are genetically wired to slaughter birds). Somehow one or two chickens will escape every time we feed them and the next thing I know our front yard looks like someone shredded a feather pillow all over the place.
It's so, so horrible and depressing, those poor babies!
However, we have WAY too many roosters (a problem that P Daddy says he will remedy out on the grill) and I have actually been a little bit relieved because a couple of them had (note, past tense) turned mean (& when I say mean, I am referring to a visit to the coop that included me using a plastic rake to defend myself just to feed the ungrateful monsters)...needless to say, I did not cry at their funeral.
BUT only a happier note, we FINALLY got our hens separated from those rascals (8 roosters is about 8 roosters too many, FYI) and the girls are laying some eggs!!!!
I honestly thought I'd never see the day!!
It's the coolest thing I think we have ever done out here & I wish we'd gotten some hens a long time ago, they are sweethearts!
I finally finished up on Evan's bathroom (and also painted Owen's bedroom with the leftover paint). I'm working on a post to share about it because it turned into a good old fashioned "Design on a Dime" type event & I did the entire spiff up for under $130!
I'll be sharing that next week after I get some pictures.
If you follow Crafty Southern Mama on Facebook, then you are well aware that POLDARK returns on PBS Masterpiece this Sunday!!! (because I may have only shared 65 posts about it)
You've still got time to binge watch the first two seasons on Amazon Prime!!
Go on & get caught up so your family can enjoy teasing you about Poldark every chance they get. My family lives for it! 😉
Have you ever heard of The Little Free Pantry Project?
Well, I am in the process of starting one in my town!
It's a small weather proof box or cabinet filled with non perishable food, diapers, hygiene products, etc that is unlocked and available for anyone in need. The idea is to be a blessing to others, take what you need, leave what you can.
Anyone can visit, anyone can donate.
It's something that I have wanted to do for over a year now, but just have not been able to make it happen. Last month I started talking about it to P Daddy & he surprised me by saying he wanted one set up outside his office!!!!!!
I was so happy, I almost cried!
I'm going to be sharing a post about it soon so you can find out more. We have been busy getting a pantry ready (because his office is nice and I want this to also look nice siting outside). I will begin stocking it next month and am hoping to have it open for anyone in need by the third week in October.
I'm so excited!!
I'll keep you posted! 💗
Oh, I bought this lipstick at the grocery store the other day...
I was reading somewhere that an orange hue will make blue eyes stand out, so I decided to test the theory with Loreal Paris Color Riche 410, Volcanic (bought mine at Publix). I do always try to use safe, organic type makeup products but, (I am bad sometimes).
Of course I do not have a photo of myself wearing it...
but I DO love it!
Olivia said it was too bright on me (which could mean that I look like a clown or she's just not used to that color), but I think it is a fun break from my normal safe, boring color.
If you have blue eyes or if you love an orange hue, give this one a try!
Well, there are other things to tell...school football ended for Evan, we had a field trip, he tried out for the school soccer team (allow me to mention that he's never played soccer, the bar of expectations is very low here), getting things ready to list on ebay, pondering over revisiting and reopening my Little Precious Boutique, finishing up a bible study, trying to get us back into a church routine (because you know when your kid says "can we got to church tomorrow", that's really Jesus calling you), trying to make myself go to the gym (getting there is 3/4 of the battle), trying to avoid drama & politics on social media, I need to wash my hair...
I could go on & on!
But I must hop up.
I will be back soon to share a quick post featuring the Zno book that I ordered with Owen's senior year pictures in it (I LOVE it) and another post with details on my boy's bathroom makeover.
I'm so glad that you stopped by to visit the blog today.
I hope this post finds you happy, healthy and not a bit crazy like me! 😉
Have a fabulous fall Friday, friends!
Just a Few Random Ramblings from Craztowne...Friday, September 29, 2017
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The mission of the Mockler Center for Faith & Ethics in the Workplace is to explore and promote biblical Christian ethics, values, and insights for today's workplaces — and to bring helpful insights and experiences from workplace laity to the church and its leadership. Through its programs and resources the Mockler Center is a bridge between Sunday and Monday, serving both seminary and university, academy and marketplace, church and workplace. Our programs and resources assist both workplace laity and their pastors.
At the Mockler Center we value work of all types and in all fields, whether compensated financially or volunteer, whether for-profit or non-profit, whether in large-scale corporations or sole proprietor businesses. We are interested in church and community-based entrepreneurship of new endeavors … and in salting and lighting older, established businesses. We care about individual workers and their callings and careers… about organizations and companies.. and about the larger economy. We want to heed the warnings of the apostles and prophets about workplace temptation and sin — but still more we want to light a candle with creative, redemptive positive ideas and not be content with "cursing the darkness."
The Mockler Center pursues its mission and purpose primarily by means of two initiatives:
Dr. Ken Barnes is Mockler-Phillips Professor of Workplace Theology & Business Ethics and Director of the Mockler Center for Faith & Ethics in the Workplace at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton and Boston, Massachusetts. Prior to embarking on a career in the academy, Ken spent more than twenty-five years as a senior international executive for several multi-billion dollar companies doing business on six continents. In addition to his corporate work, Ken has also worked with SME's (Small and Medium-Size Enterprises) and start-ups and continues to serve as a company director and mentor to young executives.
Dr. Barnes holds a B.A. in Political Science and Theatre from the State University of New York, an M.A.T.S. from Gordon-Conwell, an M.Div. from New Brunswick Theological Seminary, M.Phil. from Kings College, University of London in Church History and Doctrine, and D.Min. from Reformed Theological Seminary in Chaplaincy and Apologetics.
He was also named a Fellow in the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA). The Society was founded in 1754, and was granted a Royal Charter in 1847. It obtained the right to use the term Royal in its name by King Edward VII in 1908. Charles Dickens, Adam Smith, Benjamin Franklin, Karl Marx, William Hogarth, John Diefenbaker, Stephen Hawking and Tim Berners-Lee are some of the notable past and present Fellows.
Dr. Barnes' main areas of research and teaching are: The Intersections of Theology and Economics / Faith and Work; Christian Apologetics; Old Testament Hermeneutics; Reformed Theology; Reformation History; and Philosophy of Religion (especially the so-called "problem of evil" and the "ontological argument for the existence of God"). He has published numerous papers in the U.S., U.K. and Australia. His publication Spirituality and Business Ethics: Religious Perspectives on Business, Routledge Companion to Business Ethics, is due out this spring. Two forthcoming books include: God and Mammon: Wealth, Virtue and the Redemption of Post-Modern Capitalism, and Light From the Dreaming Spires: Reflections on Ministry to Gen Y.
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I'm doing this really interesting thing with a Catholic lady writer friend, where we are consecrating our creativity to Mary over a period of 30 days. We offer our "fiat" to God, to use us and our writing to speak His word into the world.
So naturally today is day 1 and I wake up with anger. Sitting heavy like a stone in my stomach while drinking my coffee and reading the Gospel (my mostly daily morning routine) — and I am angry. Not the petty, sinful anger of my temper flaring at my children's misdeeds or my husband leaving his clothes on the floor (again). No, not that anger which has no place in a holy life and which I am constantly, constantly trying to root out of my soul.
Rather, the fire in my belly this morning as I sit with my God is the fire of women burned. The anger I feel fills me with a desire to reach back through time and space and tell that serpent to go back to the hell he came from, to grab Adam and scream "wake the hell up", and to hug Eve and tell her everything will be alright. To go back to the gates of Eden and stop those fools before they fuck the whole thing up. Only I can't do that, so I pick up the book instead.
I reflect on the words of the new Eve — our Great Mother Mary.
And Mary[a] said,
"My soul magnifies the Lord,
47 and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,
48 for he has looked with favor on the lowliness of his servant.
Surely, from now on all generations will call me blessed;
49 for the Mighty One has done great things for me,
and holy is his name.
50 His mercy is for those who fear him
from generation to generation.
51 He has shown strength with his arm;
he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts.
52 He has brought down the powerful from their thrones,
and lifted up the lowly;
53 he has filled the hungry with good things,
and sent the rich away empty.
54 He has helped his servant Israel,
in remembrance of his mercy,
55 according to the promise he made to our ancestors,
to Abraham and to his descendants forever."
I sit with this and imagine myself in the scene, witnessing this exchange between Mary and Elizabeth. The veil flying, the fire in Mary's eyes as she proclaims God's word, her fist upraised proclaiming — "He has scattered the proud, He has brought down the powerful from their thrones and lifted up the lowly;"
I think about what happens when women get angry – really angry. You see, we're not really allowed to be mad about the things that matter, about the things that God is angry over. Yet unless one is sleep-walking through life, it's hard to not feel anger in the face of the injustices girls and women experience worldwide.
When I come to my God in prayer, sit with the proclamation of his blessed Mother, and what fills me is fire – I know that some anger is holy and I best not ignore it when it comes. Anger at injustice is no sin — in fact it's our calling. The only good response to injustice and the suffering in its wake is anger that pushes one to act. To end the injustice, to ease the suffering of exploitation, to speak for the voiceless. This is the anger of a God flipping tables and of His Mother singing in praise of a God who casts down the powerful.
Yet, when speaking from this place of righteous anger, women are often met with dismissal, ridicule, or defensiveness.
Don't get your panties in a twist.
Lighten up. Get a sense of humor. It was just a joke.
What, are you part of the angry vagina squad?
Why can't you just tone it down a bit?
It's so depressing when you talk about all that suffering.
Not all men do those things — just focus on the good ones.
Well, I'm a woman and none of that has ever happened to me.
To be a woman, a Catholic and to want to speak freely about not fitting into tiny boxes is dangerous. To be a woman and speak authentically about having female flesh is dangerous. To be a woman and want to not speak or write about your body, to write in more traditionally male spaces is dangerous. To be a woman is often dangerous. Lifting up the voices of voiceless women and invisible people within our communities, our church and the world is dangerous. Calling out the powerful from a place of unequal power is dangerous.
Yet that is exactly what God did when he put skin on, and he invites us all to do the same. It's not safe, it may open me to ridicule, but it's the only thing that will satisfy the fire in my belly.


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True Thanksgiving
By: Rick Boxx
November 26, 2015
With the approach of Thanksgiving, our speaker challenged each man attending my men's group to share a blessing God had given them. Some had relationships restored, others were thankful for supportive families, while some were literally given the gift of life. Each told an important story.
For me, the minutes we spent in discussion resulted in a greater thankfulness to God and I realized many others had far greater challenges in life.
Psalm 95:1-2 teaches, "Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song."
If you desire to draw closer to God, and to those in your workplace, try asking co-workers, "What blessing has God given you this year?"
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Controversial Economics Class Dropped From Tucson High Schools
A controversial economics course has been cut from the high school curriculum in Tucson public schools after board members discovered teachers were using a textbook that hadn't been properly vetted.
The one-year course course, now in its second year, will still count toward graduation for students who are currently enrolled in it and for those who have already completed it. These students can also still earn dual credit at the University of Arizona.
Somehow the course slid under the board's radar and into four Tucson high schools. The course's primary textbook, Ethics, Economy, and Entrepreneurship, has raised eyebrows for its supposed connection to the University of Arizona's Center for the Philosophy of Freedom, or Freedom Center, which was established in 2008 by one of the text's authors, Dave Schmidtz, and which was funded to the tune of $1.8 million by conservative billionaire Charles Koch.
Schmidtz, a philosophy professor at the University of Arizona, said the book is not connected with the Freedom Center. In an email he said that the text and the course are a product of many units on campus, including the departments of philosophy, marketing, and PPEL (philosophy, politics, economics, and law), and the McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship, which guides students in launching new business ventures.
"I have raised money from the Charles Koch Foundation but not for the course," Schmidtz wrote. (The Charles Koch Foundation has aimed to develop high school programs that would "impart Koch's radical free-market ideology to teenagers." Mark Walsh describes their efforts in this Education Week blog.)
It was the John Templeton Foundation that contributed a $2.9 million grant for the course. The John Templeton Foundation was created in 1987 by the billionaire whose name it bears, and gives more than $70 million annually, mostly to scholars and universities, for research into the relation between religion and science.
The aim of the University of Arizona grant, according to the Templeton Foundation's website, is to "foster research and produce curricular resources that will empower teachers (at the high school and college levels) to help students come to a deeper understanding of the nature of success and the virtues that are required to secure it in our distinctly American context." In the end, the goal is to make the course reach 25,000 Tucson high school students by 2025.
"Students need to know that government has an important role to play, but the role is specific," reads a quote by Schmidtz on the website. "In a free society, metaphorically and literally, choosing destinations for citizens is the sole responsibility of individual citizens themselves. More-expansive roles for government tend to invite tyranny that treats citizens as pawns to be moved around by rulers rather than by hopes and dreams of their own."
University of Arizona professor of history and government David Gibbs isn't convinced the course has no connection to the Freedom Center, which he described as operating with little transparency. Gibbs said the center has about 24 donors, most of whom are unnamed.
As for the textbook that Schmidtz co-authored, Gibbs called it a skewed interpretation of economics. "This is a far right-wing version of economics that would be more appropriately classified as indoctrination than teaching," he told Education Week. "[The authors] leave out or distort systematically topics that do not fit their ideology. To present this to college students would be deeply troubling but, even worse, to high school students who I think lack the context to properly interpret this indoctrination."
Gibbs said the authors bypass discussion of the problems of inherited wealth concentration, currently a major topic in mainstream economics, as well as historical instances of successful government regulation. He also said the authors offer the career of entrepreneur as a wonderful and exciting opportunity, but "make no mention of the fact that most entrepreneurs lose their shirts."
Mario Villarreal-Diaz, formerly of the Freedom Center but now an associate economics professor at the University of Arizona, defended the course at a recent school board meeting, arguing that it serves as a source of empowerment for students and teaches them what it means to be an ethical business person. "If a perspective is assumed in the course, we believe that it is one of the most noble ones: that you can pursue your dreams without hurting others and that you can do for others to make others better off is the ethical way to live your life to advance your own well-being and to build a peaceful and prosperous society," he said.
But he also admitted the course's entry into schools was flawed, saying that he looked forward to "following due process" so the course could become a legitimate academic offering.
Board member Rachael Sedgwick signaled that she was open to having that discussion. She pointed out that the controversy was more about the textbook than the class itself.
"Now that we have a lot more information about the course and what goes on in the classroom, I'm much more willing to have a more robust conversation about it," she said.
Board member Adelita Grijalva, however, said she still wanted to know how the books got into so many classrooms and why there was no record of the purchases.
"My concern is if any other textbooks got into our classrooms, who purchased those, and how did they get there? Because that's a major problem," she said.
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