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"Dorian made no answer, but passed listlessly in front of his picture and turned towards it. When he saw it he drew back, and his cheeks flushed for a moment with pleasure. A look of joy came into his eyes, as if he had recognized himself for the first time….Yes, there would be a day when his face would be wrinkled and wizen, his eyes dim and colourless, the grace of his figure broken and deformed….The life that was to make his soul would mar his body." –Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
I like to take selfies as much as the next almost-twenty college student with an iPhone and an Instagram – which is to say I like to take selfies a lot. Selfies have become something of a staple in the world of social media, which means they've become something of a staple in the world, because I think it's safe to say that society is getting to a point where the real world and the virtual world overlap almost constantly.
I'll admit that I still have yet to work up the courage to actually post a selfie, likely because of two factors: one, I took about 300 selfies a day back during freshman year of high school when Myspace was still popular and people had whole albums of selfies with song lyrics as captions, which means I'm kind of sick of seeing my face appear repeatedly across a webpage. And two, because to me, behind every selfie lies something rather vain and boastful – a sort of "look at me! Look how beautiful I am today!" (Of course, there are those who post these pictures every day, and that just makes me feel bad. I for one am not that beautiful every single day.)
The challenging thing about selfies is that they're so incredibly varied that it's a little bit uncomfortable to write them all off as vain and selfish. Some selfies are not so much self-indulgent as they are moment-indulgent, by which I mean that they are monuments to good times with fun people. Selfies can preserve memories of exciting experiences and then share these experiences with the world through social media, as Jenna Wortham noted in her New York Times article, "My Selfie, Myself" back in October.
The article also discussed the power of the selfie – a power that allows people to preserve themselves in pictures, to prove that they have a story that deserves to live eternally, even if only in the ones and zeroes in a line of computer code. I don't believe that this desire for immortality is a particularly immoral one. I believe that people should celebrate themselves and their lives, and if that means posting a hundred pictures of their faces to Instagram and Twitter, then so be it.
But there is still something rather unsettling to me about a selfie. Perhaps it is the permanence of it – that once a selfie is posted, it really is out there forever (you can still find pictures of me as a fourteen-year-old with bright blue hair if you really know how to use Google (I encourage you to look it up if you're ever having a bad hair day). But perhaps it is the fact that a little bit of me still feels like selfies are just a little bit too vain.
Maybe I'm the one who is vain. Maybe I only feel this way because when I take a really good selfie (maybe using a sepia filter while looking off into the distance for a truly hipster effect), I feel like a thing of beauty – like a fine object that should be admired and perhaps envied. And even as I think those thoughts, I know that my vanity is dangerous, so I resist the urge to post the selfie and, if I'm feeling particularly strong that day, I delete it from my phone.
There is a reason that vanity, particularly vanity that stems from taking a flattering picture of yourself, is dangerous, and the reason is this: when you see a picture of yourself that looks that beautiful, you can't help but wonder whether you're that beautiful all the time, or if it was just how you looked in that particular lighting using that particular Instagram filter, which happened to highlight your green eyes and turn your hair a slightly redder shade of auburn.
It's sad to think that maybe beauty is only transient, captured in the flash of a smart phone and then gone. It's also sad to think that selfies have become so important that we might forget about our personal value beyond just the way we look on a three-inch screen and that we might truly fear the day we no longer look that beautiful, hoping to God that day hasn't come yet.
Dorian Gray lost his soul because he saw a painting of his beauty and couldn't let it go. Perhaps his vanity was the same as the vanity that haunts me when I take a selfie – that haunts so many of us as we post pictures of ourselves to prove the worth of our lives. The endless wave of selfies isn't aging for us or taking on all our faults so we don't have to, but maybe it's doing something much worse. Maybe it's washing away everything three-dimensional about us, until we are only Instagram filters and pixels, a collection of ones and zeroes in a line of computer code.
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Each season has its fair share of edible guilty pleasures, but fall goodies are by far the sweetest. These days, no one expects you to bake your own apple pie or decorate pumpkin cookies by hand -- who has time for that? Shopping online for baked goods is the new norm!
So go ahead, save yourself the trip to the bakery and order delectable foods and drinks to your front door. From pumpkin pie cheesecake to the pear tart shown above, there are just some things you won't find at your local grocery store.
Over at the new social shopping site The Prowl, we've been collecting lots of fall treats you can order online -- fast and easy! Let's take a look.
Pumpkin Pie Cheesecake. Serving Thanksgiving dessert just got a whole lot easier thanks to Eli's Cheesecake. This pumpkin pie cheesecake ($40) is shipped frozen and simply needs to be thawed before being served.
Apple Crumb Pie. Were you elected to bring dessert to your family potluck this fall? Don't panic; the Grand Traverse Pie Company delivers every type of pie under the sun. We have our eye on the apple crumb pie with caramel and pecans ($24.99).
Pumpkin Caramel Sauce. Just about any dessert mixed with pumpkin flavor is labeled a fall treat, and that's okay by us! Pumpkin caramel sauce ($15.95) from Williams-Sonoma is a tempting ice cream or cheese cake topping.
Pumpkin Beer. McAuslan's fall seasonal pumpkin ale ($44.95) is a once-a-year treat offered by the Microbrewed Beer of the Month Club. Save it for football Sunday as a celebratory drink.
Pumpkin Spice Petit Fours. Intricately shaped and decorated petit fours are the last things we would attempt to make at home. So order them frozen, serve them at your Halloween party, and impress everyone with your online shopping skills!
We bet you're starting to feel hungry, so head over to the Delicious Fall board on The Prowl and check out the rest of the scrumptious fall treats we've discovered online!


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Watering your vegetable garden organic
Ninety-five per cent of the plant's structure consists of water. Almost all factory operations involving water, and that is why watering is one of the most important aspects of effective gardening for your organic vegetable garden. Along with the light, carbon dioxide, water helps accelerate the processes necessary for effective care of your plants.
With vegetables, you can't go wrong since this will provide food for animals and humans alike. Also water an additional source apart from rain.
Irrigation system is necessary to provide the required amount of water in your garden. Natural sources of water are rainfall and groundwater systems, is not enough to plant often. Most of the time, required human intervention to ensure that the plants will reach their highest potential. Your watering frequency proportional to the average amount of rainfall occurring in the area of your garden.
Soil type also affects the quality of the plants on water retention. Is usually praised for its clay soil is an excellent stand up, but sometimes goes, in the open sea, where caution is required. Sandy sieves require more aid as it tends to slide out of water is placed on it. Add organic material such as compost mix also helps to improve the ability to hold water.
There are also other external factors affecting the nature of irrigation in your garden. During cold weather, plants easily could drown in water and wilt. On the other hand, requires more aquatic plants when there are excess levels of sunlight or moisture. Wind Movement factors and air can also transfer water from plants. Also, type plant can affect the ability to hold water. You may find more mature plants are more difficult to retain water from the younger counterparts.
When watering plants, make sure that you are able to absorb the soil thoroughly before doing anything else. Another thing to consider is to monitor plants at different times of the day. Typically wilted plants look more at night, but this is normal and will not usually require excessive irrigation. Balance is usually the next day. But if you see plant wilted during the day, it is best to soak them with water to avoid that wilt completely.
Vegetables are often picked up from another area plants longer than their counterparts are watered less. Unless you grow Cactus, you need not to use water sparingly. There are different ways to water your plants: spray controlled manually or automatically, hose or other means. Often, the most famous is the spray from watering tool. Proper scheduling of the frequency of your water sprayers ensure that your plants are watered and will always be in different times of the day.
It is also advisable to maintain the distribution of water in order to ensure that all the plants in your garden organic vegetables for weilkarid. Despite the need for frequent irrigation, also bear in mind that there is also a need to preserve water, so make sure that there is no leakage beyond absolutely need your organic garden.
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Although poverty stayed lower in Page than in the city, it increased by 1999. In that year the proportion of seniors living in poverty reached 7 percent, closer than ever to the citywide rate. But among all ages, the proportion of people in poverty in the neighborhood remained at 3 percent in 1989 and 1999, well below comparable rates citywide.
Between 1980 and 2000, the percentage of all Page families and those with children younger than 18 years old in poverty remained well below the percentage for the City of Minneapolis. In 1979 there were no families living in poverty in Page, but in 1989 the figures rose in the neighborhood and in the city. In 1999, the percentage of families in poverty continued to increase in the neighborhood, but the proportion of those with children declined to zero.
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Queensland's controversial public sector job cuts have helped pay for a $900 million increase in disability funding, allowing the state to join the National Disability Insurance Scheme, Premier Campbell Newman says.
The premier, who said previously the state could not afford to contribute to the scheme, has written to Prime Minister Julia Gillard to outline the plan.
The state already contributes $959 million a year to specialist disability services, less than the national average per capita.
Mr Newman says the $868 million funding injection, to take place incrementally from 2014/15 to 2018/19, will bring the state in line with the national average.
He said the "tough budget decisions", including the axing of 14,000 public servants, have helped pay for the funding boost.
"The necessary fiscal repair measures, including staff reductions and other things that we had to do, means that we can deliver the full-blown NDIS in the way that we're describing today," he told reporters in Brisbane on Wednesday.
Mr Newman said NSW's agreement with the commonwealth, which will see a state contribution of about $3.13 billion (48.6 per cent) in 2018, also gave an indication of what support Canberra was likely to give.
But he said the funding increase was not dependent on what the federal government did.
"There's no caveat here," he said.
Treasurer Tim Nicholls said he would at least expect the commonwealth to match the state's $1.77 billion total funding in 2018/19, but it should ideally contribute $2.2 billion.
"That will meet the needs of people with disabilities throughout Queensland," he said.
But Opposition Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk says the state's commitment won't cut it.
"My understanding is, this is only preliminary advice, that it could fall short in the range of between $200 and $300 million, because there is not the massive injection needed over the next two years," she said.
Cerebral Palsy League CEO Angela Tillmans said the funding boost was a surprise, given news of the state's finances.
"It means that people with disability have hope," she told reporters.
"It means they have hope that they will be able to get a shower every day, they will be able to have three meals a day."
Queensland Council of Unions president John Battams said Mr Newman announced the funding boost to combat bad polling and to justify public sector cuts.
"Can we believe anything this government says about its finances?" he said.
"Because for the past eight months we've had the government saying public sector cuts were necessary because Queensland was broke, and initially he said he couldn't even afford the NDIS."
Despite not yet reaching an agreement with the federal government, Queensland is now the second state behind NSW to commit to funding the NDIS.
A spokeswoman for federal Disability Reform Minister Jenny Macklin says Queensland's plan falls short of the funding needed for a full scheme across the state.
"It's good to see Mr Newman has changed his tune and now realises the importance of investing in people with disability," she said in a statement.
"While today's announcement is a step in the right direction, it's still a long way short of funding for a National Disability Insurance Scheme.
The spokeswoman said Queensland had to match NSW's benchmark, which would have it contribute 48.6 per cent of funding towards the scheme.


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Johan Santana will throw batting today, and if all goes well, five days after that he could throw in a minor league game.
Manager Jerry Manuel said it means Santana could be on track to pitch the "all important'' Opening Day.
Meanwhile, Luis Castillo is experience tightness in his left hamstring and is day-to-day.
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The early morning sunlight warms the ancient and time-weathered stones of Santa Sabina, "the gem of the Aventine." As one opens the fifth-century carved wooden doors of this basilica that depict scenes of the Old and New Testaments, one is greeted by the sweet and delicate aroma of fresh bay leaves that lay strewn across its vast expanse of toiled floor.
Through opaque windows above 24 fluted columns taken from a nearby temple, light penetrates the darkness and illuminates the nave of the church. The eye is immediately drawn forward to a mosaic depicting Christ the Good Shepherd. One hears the refrain of the Gregorian Chant, "Attende Domine." It is Ash Wednesday in Rome; Lent has begun.
Santa Sabina is the first of 40 station churches in Rome. For nearly 20 centuries, these churches have served as gathering places for Christians. Here the faithful come on pilgrimages to pray at the tombs of the martyrs and saints and to beg their intercession. Twenty-five of these churches were once the homes of Romans who converted to Christianity.
Until the first persecution under Nero (A.D. 54-68), there was probably no secret about these churches. However, when Christians attracted the attention of the civil authorities, a blanket of silence and mystery descended upon them as the faithful went to the churches in secret and did not talk about them for fear of implicating the owners, whose name they bore.
Shouldered by modern buildings in the heart of Rome are a number of churches that lie below street level and may be accessed by flights of steps. They belong, like the Forum, to a world that lived and walked 30 to 40 feet below the pavement of modern Rome. Several of these churches go back to the time of the apostles, but they have been rebuilt so often, and so recently, that only a stray column, a mosaic or a crypt gives a clue to their astonishing antiquity.
These are the titular churches (tituli) of Rome. They existed as meeting places for Christians three centuries before the Basilicas of St. Peter or St. Paul or any other public church existed.
Beneath their naves one can see the foundations of the first-century Roman buildings — ruins that resemble an underground Pompeii, with room after room decorated with frescoes painted in the second and third centuries. Many of the so-called tituli are older than the catacombs and are the most venerable places of worship in the Western world.
The word "station" seems to come from the Latin "statio" (stare): standing together — that is, gathering around the bishop at the altar to celebrate the Eucharist. After the peace of Constantine in A.D. 312, these primitive homes were rebuilt into the great basilicas we see today. While some still enjoy their original design, others have witnessed architectural changes through the ages.
From early on, these stations took on a penitential character, which has suggested the alternative deprivation of "station" from the statio or fortified and sentineled camp of the Roman army. St. Ambrose, in the fourth century, seemed quite sure that the Church had deliberately applied the military term to liturgical assemblies, because Christians were the "militia of Christ" who gathered together for prayerful vigil.
Christians today continue to observe the early custom of visiting these churches in Rome. At the Pontifical North American College (the U.S. seminary in Rome), priests and seminarians have enjoyed the tradition of gathering each morning at 7 a.m. for Mass at each of the station churches.
Their prayers echo the voices of centuries of Christian pilgrims who, like themselves, came to the tombs of the martyrs to honor those saints whose lives bore witness to Christ and whose blood consecrated the Eternal City.
Along with our prayer and penitence during Lent, the observance of the station churches affords us a unique opportunity to make a true pilgrimage of faith.
Msgr. James D. Watkins is pastor of St. Ann's Catholic Church in Washington, D.C., and adjunct professor of philosophy at The Catholic University of America.
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Saturday June 20th
No weddings this weekend, so a bit of time to clear up - it has been terrifically windy in the field so the big blue campanulas and delphiniums have been pointing groundwards and will probably be over before the two weddings next weekend. Larkspur in the tunnel is beginning to bloom so that will probably be the main attraction with smaller campanulas, ammi, veronicas and veronicastrums for the spires. Bouquets this week have included alliums, astrantia, sisyrinchium, love in the mist, palest mauve and deep magenta knautia, sweet peas, cornflowers..... some of them have been very frothy on account of alchemilla which just begs to be used. I can't believe we are still weeding madly, but we have just about got through the annual areas and will then have time to water the rest thoroughly and cover with the mushroom compost which is still blocking the thoroughfare.
My mind has been turning to buttonholes and bouquets the past two or three days as one wedding next weekend requires about 40. The flowers need to be quite strong to make enough of a statement. I hope sweet peas will be flourishing madly for bridesmaid's bouquets next week, they were good for a couple of weeks only in the tunnel which then got a bit hot for them I think, but they're looking good in the top garden - very pale with a purplish rim, very scented, lovely for weddings.
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Thefourth meeting of the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education of the Interim Joint Committee on Education was held on Monday, November 3, 2003, at 10:00 AM, in Room 149 of the Capitol Annex. Representative Mary Lou Marzian, Co-Chair, called the meeting to order, and the secretary called the roll.
Present were:
Members:Senator Jack Westwood, Co-Chair; Representative Mary Lou Marzian, Co-Chair; Senators Gerald Neal and R.J. Palmer II; Representatives Hubert Collins, Bill Farmer, Mary Harper, Tom Riner, Charles Siler, and Kathy Stein.
Guests: Dennis Taulbee, Council on Postsecondary Education; and Terri Jo Reed, University of Kentucky.
LRC Staff: Jonathan Lowe and Rhonda Carter.
A motion was made by Representative Collins and seconded by Representative Stein to approve the minutes of the September 8, 2003 meeting. The motion was approved by voice vote.
Representative Marzian briefed the committee on the findings of the draft study of the Kentucky Educational Excellence Scholarship (KEES) program. She noted that the report collected information from a variety of sources including the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority (KHEAA), the Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE), and the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE).
Representative Marzian reviewed key issues discussed in the report regarding access and affordability of college, including: 1) Postsecondary education is becoming less affordable; 2) Families are relying more on loans to pay for college; and 3) Kentucky has increased merit-based and need-based financial aid.
Representative Marzian also noted that the report states that it is estimated the funding from the Kentucky Lottery will be insufficient to fund KEES by $3.3 million in FY 1996. She then described how the report discusses the effect of differences in grading scales on KEES awards, and the results of a Legislative Research Commission (LRC) survey of teachers and guidance counselors regarding the effect of KEES on student and teacher behavior.
Senator Westwood then led the subcommittee in a discussion of the policy options and considerations outlined in the draft KEES report.
Representative Farmer commented on the importance of providing scholarship support to students of modest achievement who wish to attend technical schools.
Representative Collins asked for data on the number of GED recipients versus the number of high school graduates who enter college and are successful. LRC Education staff is checking on this information and will distribute it to committee members.
Representative Siler commented that the percentages of lottery funds allocated to need-based and merit-based student financial aid were arbitrary, and said he feels that need-based aid students should be given priority in funding. He wanted it noted that he does not believe the lottery is the only source of funds that Kentucky needs to use to provide need-based financial aid to students.
Representative Marzian responded by explaining the allocation of lottery money and its uses and then distributed draft language for a bill to allow government programs and services to be mentioned in advertising or promoting the lottery.
Representative Collins asked how much money came from the General Fund to pay for KEES scholarships, and said the general public needs an awareness as to how much is being spent from the general fund for educational issues.
Representative Siler made a motion to give priority to funding the need-based student financial aid program over the merit-based KEES program, in the event that no funds beyond net lottery proceeds are made available for student financial aid and net lottery proceeds are insufficient to meet program needs. The motion was seconded by Representative Stein, and approved by voice vote.
Representative Collins asked what happens to those students who do not need the scholarship money due to other sources of support. He asked, If the money is not needed, does the college get the money, or the student? A representative of the CPE clarified that a student receives KEES awards regardless of support from other sources or a student's ability to pay.
Representative Farmer commented that it would make sense to limit KEES awards in those instances that students are receiving support from other sources.
Representative Stein asked what happens to the additional monies left over after college tuition and fees are covered for need-based financial aid students through the KEES program, and Representative Marzian said it could be used for room and board expenses.
Senator Westwood reminded committee members that Kentucky has been recognized for balancing need-based and merit-based student financial aid.
Dr. Joe McCormick, Executive Director, KHEAA, spoke in support of fully funding the scholarship program without total reliance upon lottery proceeds. He said Kentucky will keep falling short if only lottery proceeds are relied upon to fund KEES.
Representative Marzian discussed Kentucky requiring students to complete federal financial aid forms in order to receive funds. She said Kentucky is one of the few states that does not require students to fill out forms to receive merit-based scholarships. This eliminates one potential barrier to access to financial aid, as some low-income students may not pursue applications for aid, due to the perception that the cost of college is out of reach. Requiring completion of the federal Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form would reinstate the barrier. Representative Marzian said that requiring students to fill out a FAFSA form would assist low-income students in getting access to federal student financial aid, including need-based Pell Grants.
Representative Collins said counseling is needed in the high schools to make students aware that they can attend college, and that monies are available.
Representative Farmer said the FAFSA form was not user-friendly, and that parents are required to complete the forms because of certain tax information that has to be supplied. Therefore, the student does not obtain any money unless the parents take the time to accurately and completely fill out the forms.
Representative Marzian asked what income tax information has to be used, and if it has to be for the current year. Representative Farmer commented that some people cannot get the tax information by the deadline.
Representative Marzian discussed the issue of whether and how to specify in statute the manner in which KEES awards ought to be decreased, in the event cuts are required. CPE currently has the authority, under KRS 164.7879, to promulgate administrative regulations to adjust award amount, subject to the availability of funds. CPE has requested guidance from the General Assembly regarding how cuts should be made: 1) Through cuts to high school students providing longer-term savings or cuts to college students, providing more immediate savings; or 2) By lowering amounts for current achievement levels on GPA and ACT, or raising the standard to receive KEES awards. She said depending on the timing of implementation in relation to budgetary considerations, students already in college, or awards earned by high school students, may be cut.
Senator Westwood said any savings or changes implemented into the KEES scholarship would not begin until the freshman class of next year, and Kentucky would not realize the savings for four years.
Representative Siler said that the determination of award amounts by raising the GPA and ACT scores needed to be eligible to receive KEES awards could ultimately take money away from students with financial need. He feels that the needs test should be the only test required for all students. Representative Marzian said there would need to be statutory language added to include a needs test for KEES.
Senator Westwood commented that some students test well and other students do not. The committee then discussed the effects of differing grading scales in different schools across the state. Representative Marzian said there should be some legislation that reflects fairness to all students across the state.
Representative Riner commented on the GPA score requirements for KEES recipients, and said the bar should be higher. Representative Marzian would like more information on students and their GPA scores, and how they do after enrolling in college. Representative Farmer said many students that meet the 2.5 GPA requirement utilize the KEES money for vocational schools, and they should not be punished by raising the GPA higher. He said students with higher income levels can also afford to take the test more.
Representative Siler commented on the value of pursuing a trade as opposed to a degree.
Representative Marzian discussed adjusting the KEES award scholarship determination process to allow students and parents to know the exact amount of KEES awards prior to the beginning of their first semester in college. She said the KEES awards are based on eight semesters of high school grades, including the spring semester of the senior year. The calendar for submission of final grades and the processing required makes it difficult for students and parents to know the exact amount of their KEES award before school starts. She said this creates difficulties for families who are struggling to budget for college, and using seven semesters instead of eight to calculate the award amount would solve the administrative problem, but remove a motivational incentive for students to maintain effort during the spring semester of their senior year. She said one potential solution, with its own additional administrative problems, would be to calculate the initial KEES award using seven semesters of grades, and calculate an adjusted award for the remaining semesters of eligibility.
Senator Westwood said being a former teacher, he understands the reasoning behind the idea of using seven semesters, and using the eighth semester for an award adjustment.
Representative Marzian discussed eligibility for KEES and providing scholarship funds to support GED recipients to pursue postsecondary education, potentially in a program separate from KEES. She said GED recipients are currently eligible for only the supplemental KEES award based on ACT scores, with a maximum of $500.00. Efforts to improve the level of educational attainment of Kentucky's workforce include the need to create opportunities for people to move beyond the GED, and Kentucky has a large population of undereducated adults over 25 years of age. Representative Marzian noted that the cost of postsecondary education is a barrier for many adults to consider pursuing higher education, and this option would have a significant additional cost.
Representative Marzian referred the members to the letter from Commissioner Gene Wilhoit in their packets. The letter asks the members to consider two suggestions that would support high school students who are ready to take more rigorous coursework resulting in college credit. It discussed dual credit opportunities in the junior and senior years for providing motivation and connection to real-world jobs that these students would not otherwise appreciate. A barrier for many of these students is the college tuition associated with dual credit; because they have not graduated they cannot access KEES and because they are still in high school they are not able to apply for federal financial aid. So students from families who do not have sufficient financial resources to assist are unable to take advantage of these opportunities.
Representative Marzian said the second suggestion in the letter from Commissioner Wilhoit was to consider allowing high school students to access KEES funds to reimburse the cost of AP exams if they score a "3" or higher which qualifies for college credit. The federal funds that paid these fees for poor and minority students in the past are expiring and there is a large population of students who are not able to sit for the exams unless the fee is paid or subsidized. Although many of these students would still struggle to fund the initial cost of the exams, this proposal would greatly assist them.
Representative Marzian asked the members for comments on providing scholarship funds to support GED recipients to pursue postsecondary education, potentially in a program separate from KEES. Representative Siler said he thought it should be highly sought after and it would have value. Senator Westwood said it should be supported up to $500.00. Representative Siler said there could be a money source such as a block grant through KEES.
Representative Marzian suggested that staff do some research on how many GED students there are and get some current data on this subject. She also asked if permitting high school students to use projected KEES awards to pay for the cost of advanced placement exams would reduce the award. Representative Riner said it would be a good thing to use projected KEES monies.
Representative Riner made the motion to permit high school students to use projected KEES awards to pay for dual credit courses. Representative Farmer seconded the motion, and it was approved by voice vote.
The subcommittee discussed the policy option of permitting students to use KEES out-of-state. Representative Riner said it benefits Kentucky to have Harvard students return to Kentucky. He commented on a story of a constituent who was accepted into Harvard, but did not have the money to attend, and said it should have a been a needs-based financial aid situation. Representative Collins said there should be an avenue to get people into the type schools such as Harvard, yet KEES was intended to encourage students to stay in Kentucky for postsecondary education.
Representative Marzian discussed permitting the use of KEES scholarships by students enrolled at institutions offering a degree program of study comprised solely of religious instruction should be implemented in conjunction with the study. She said based on legislative action in the 2003 General Assembly, current law permits KEES funding to be used for pursuit of a degree in theology, divinity, or religious instruction, but only at an institution that offers an associate or baccalaureate degree program of study not comprised solely of sectarian instruction. She also said the current session of the United States Supreme Court will be deciding a case regarding the constitutionally of a similar prohibition.
Regarding the policy option of providing KEES awards based on the Commonwealth Accountability Testing System (CATS) scores, Senator Westwood said the CATS test was only reliable on a school level and not on a student level. He said this would have to be studied further before any action could be taken.
Senator Westwood stated he had a problem with educational scholarships being associated with marketing for the lottery. He is concerned about the message it sends out especially to gambling addicted parents.
Representative Collins said it is up to agencies in Kentucky to tell the people of the Commonwealth where the lottery funds are used in educational programs, and not the lottery corporation.
The subcommittee requested several additional information items. They included: 1) Enrollment, retention rates, and GPA for GED recipients versus high school graduates attending college; 2) Estimates of the cost of permitting students to use KEES to attend out-of-state institutions; 3) KEES funding in relation to other sources of state student aid, including need-based College Access Program (CAP) and Kentucky Tuition Grant program (KTG); 4) Distribution of KEES awards for students who receive scholarship money from other sources; and 5) the number of students and amount of KEES awards that would be affected by increasing the minimum GPA to 3.0 and the minimum ACT score to 18 to receive a KEES award.
The subcommittee asked staff to summarize the recommendations they had approved. They were: 1) Give priority to funding the need-based student financial aid programs over the merit-based KEES program, in the event that no funds beyond net lottery proceeds are made available for student financial aid and net lottery proceeds are insufficient to meet program needs; 2) Use a student's numeric grade score average rather than grade point average to determine annual KEES base amount, beginning with the 9th grade class for the 2005-2006 school year (subject to formal adoption by the subcommittee December 1, 2003); 3) Permit high school students to use projected KEES awards to pay for dual credit courses; and 4) Permit high school students to use projected KEES awards to pay for the cost of taking advanced placement exams.
The next subcommittee meeting will be December 1, 2003, at 10:00 a.m. in Room 149. Senator Westwood asked members for any thoughts or ideas for the meeting to be given to him by November 21, 2003.
With no further business before the committee, the meeting adjourned at 11:30 a.m.


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But something happens to break winter's spell. Spring. And spring brings sunshine, and with sunshine comes hope.
"Kay is dead and gone," said little Gerda.
"I don't believe it," said the sunshine.
"He is dead and gone," she said to the swallows.
"We don't believe it," said the swallows, and at last little Gerda did not believe it either.
How promising must have been the return of the sunshine in the old world, especially in the far northern regions. After the winter solstice, the days lengthened, promising an end to the hard, bleak winter.
So Gerda goes to the river, the place where Kai is supposed to have drowned, and throws her little red shoes into it in hopes that the river will return Kai.
Red is the color of blood, of sacrifice. Gerda offers up nothing less when she throws her shoes, "her most cherished possessions," into the river in exchange for Kai.
Thinking she has not thrown her shoes far enough, Gerda climbs into a boat and drifts away through spring into summer.
Here, another season spirit like the Snow Queen is encountered: "the old woman was learned in magic art, but she was not a bad witch, she only cast spells over people for a little amusement, and she wanted to keep Gerda." Like her winter sister, the summer witch appears to act as a force of nature, not out of maliciousness. She would keep the child Gerda in the drowsy forgetfulness of eternal summer.
The cherries that bring on Gerda's forgetfulness juxtapose with the fruit of the tree of knowledge in the biblical Paradise. But Gerda is not to be tempted with a natural Eden when she has the supernatural gift of love and true friendship.
|Eleanor Vere Boyle
So the old witch causes Gerda to forget Kai and banishes the roses--those symbols of eternity and friendship that would remind Gerda of her love for Kai--but forgets to hide the roses painted on her hat. "This is the consequence of being absent-minded." Gerda remembers, and when her tears fall, the roses are released from underground. She asks them,
"Do you think [Kay] is dead and gone?"
"He is not dead," said the roses. "For we have been down underground, you know, and all the dead people are there, but Kay is not among them."
Like the sparrows and the sunshine, the roses speak the truth.
But they also speak to resurrection. Gerda's suffering, her tears, have brought them out of the ground. Like angelic messengers, they announce that the one she seeks is not dead but living. "Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here" (Luke 24:5-6).
Then she goes to ask the other flowers if they have seen little Kai. But the flowers, as are so many others we encounter in life, are concerned only with themselves and their own dreams and stories. So little Gerda escapes out of the garden into the wide world, where it is no longer summer but autumn.


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Hatters' win not in the Cards
Despite forcing three second-half turnovers and holding the newly-crowned FCIAC champions to only one touchdown, the Hatters fell 7-0 to Greenwich Thursday at Danbury High.
"We told them this week to play as if this was their state championship," said Danbury head coach Rick Davis . "We had our chances. They are a great football team but out kids came to play and showed the effort that a coach would want."
Greenwich, number one in the Class LL poll, entered the game averaging 37 points a game, including last week's 43-27 victory over Bridgeport Central for the FCIAC championship.
"We practiced hard all week for their offense," Danbury linebacker
That pride was evident in the second half. The Hatters' defense held the Cardinals to 55 total yards and did everything possible to help the offense with field position.
Late in the third quarter an interception by Greg Sabo gave the Hatters the ball at the Greenwich 40-yard line. But three plays later a Hatter interception gave the ball right back.
Showing that pride and desire, the Hatters' defense got the ball right back in two plays. Linebacker Jose Canales stepped in front of a Ian Barto pass, grabbed an interception, and returned the ball down to the Cardinals' 13-yard line.
Two runs to the right by PJ Prunty brought the ball down to the six-yard line. On third down, Prunty got the call again, but the Cardinal defense stuffed the junior for a one-yard loss.
"We felt that we could run to that side," said Davis. "They had a little scheme. They are very good and big on the defense line."
On fourth down Greenwich linebacker Tyler Cabrera sacked Danbury quarterback Jim Tatarzyci . The sack, one of three for Cabrera, ended the Hatters best chance of the day.
"They brought pressure all day," Tatarzycki said. "We could not throw in the second half."
Danbury's only other scoring chance came in the first quarter on the Hatters second possession. During the drive, a third-down conversion pass from Tatarzycki to
Four plays later, Danny Holt rolled off a 6-yard run for a fourth down conversion that put the ball at the 8-yard line.
However, as was the case all day, the Hatters' offense could do no more.
A failed run and an incomplete pass left third and goal. Tatarzycki would once again have an open Mourning, but this time the two could not connect.
The incompletion forced Davis to call on the special teams and kicker Paul Cortese . The junior's 27-yard attempt sailed wide right as the 12-play, 44-yard drive and all momentum were wasted.
"We thought we would get down there again," said Davis. "It was fourth and long. If it was fourth and short, maybe we go for it."
Ironically it was Greenwich that would capitalize on fourth down during the next drive and provided the game's only score.
Behind a running attack that utilizes four different runners - Cameron Jones , Colin Jones , Tom Brown and Kevin Chao - the Cardinals brought the ball out to midfield. A short pass on a lengthy third down and 17 momentarily failed to keep the drive going.
However, a Hatter roughing the passer penalty gave the Cardinals a first down and new life.
Seven plays later, the Cardinals faced a fourth down and seven from the Hatter 15-yard line. Barto eluded the primary Danbury pass rush, but quickly ran out of time. An off balance pass toward the end zone appeared well covered until fullback Glen Fox came down with the ball on the goal line for the game's only touchdown.
"We had that chance and then they score on a fourth down 15-yard prayer," said Tatarzycki. "The defense played well the whole game and the offense tried. We should have beaten them."
Greenwich (11-0) 0 7 0 0 - 7
Danbury (6-4) 0 0 0 0 - 0
1st Quarter
2nd Quarter
G - Glenn Fox 15 pass (Brandon SanAntonio kick),
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4th Quarter
Individual Statistics
PASSING: Greenwich: Ian Barto 9-12-82 2 INT, TD. Danbury: Jim Tatarzycki
6-15-23 2 INT; Glen Mourning 0-2-0 INT.
RUSHING: Greenwich: Torri Brown 10-56, Cameron Jones 18-33, Kevin Chao
5-15, Colin Jones 6-9. Danbury:, Danny Holt 10-25, PJ Prunty 8-14, Glen
Mourning 1-8, Ramael Barton 2-8, Jim Tatarzycki 5-5.
PASSING: Greenwich: Cameron Jones 4-40, Glenn Fox 1-15, Brandon San
Antonio 1-5, Torri Brown 1-2, Nicholas Lore 1-2, Kevin Chao 2-(-7),
Danbury:Glen Mourning 3-39, Jeff Jordan 1-30, PJ Prunty 2-4.


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NORTH DARTMOUTH, Mass. -- The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth volleyball team fell to Johnson and Wales University in three sets on Wednesday evening at the Tripp Athletic Center.
UMass Dartmouth was shutout in consecutive sets 25-19, 25-19 and 25-18. The Corsairs dropped to 7-18 on the year, while Johnson and Wales improved to 9-18.
Standouts for UMass Dartmouth were senior Tahirah Gibson (Norwood, Mass.) and sophomore Brianna Perry (New Bedford, Mass.) who each had six kills. Freshman Christina Spinazola (Medway, Mass.) dished out a game-high 16 assists, while sophomore Carina Filosa (Milford, Mass.) and Perry contributed 12 digs a piece.
The Wildcat defensive front proved to be very strong as the team compiled a total of 14 blocks. Leading the attack was junior Carey Kirk (Purcellville, Va.) who recorded a game-high eight blocks (two solo). Aiding Kirk was senior Megan Bollerman (Mahwah, N.J.) with four total blocks and sophomore Marissa Bunnewith (Millbury, Mass.) with two blocks. On the offensive side of the ball, junior Alyssa Drapeau (Biddeford, Maine) recorded a game-high seven kills and senior Ashley Rey (Miami, Fla.) registered six kills. Senior Kasey Higgins distributed a team-high 13 assists.


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In his editorial, Mr. Wheeler recounts his own personal experience at the helm of an early Internet startup named NABU which failed to compete with the rapid growth of AOL, even though it was able to provide much better connectivity, simply because they playing field was already far from level. Now as cable companies and big bandwidth consortiums apply lobbying pressure to the people whose votes will be counted less than 3 weeks from today – it is imperative that the voice of end users everywhere be heard on this crucial issue.
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The idea of net neutrality has been a lynch-pin of the entire Internet since its inception and any move to create 'express lanes' or 'slow lanes' for data traffic would have a profound impact on competition, consumer prices and the kind of content available online… not only for your web browsing experiences but potentially for the ways data is used and priced in the lives of future generations as well.


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I know it's been over a year since the Sandy Hook Elementary shootings, but just in case anyone was wondering: It is still 100 percent wrong to make insensitive, trivializing remarks about it. Take this shameful idiocy: New York Post columnist Fredric Dicker called the Newtown tragedy a "little convenient massacre." WHAT THE WHAT? Yes. He said those words out loud, on the radio, in a conversation about New York state's gun legislation.
Oh sure, he apologized. Dicker's apology shows he still doesn't get what was so horrible about his choice of words. But let's at least get his first statement in context.
Dicker was discussing New York State Governor Cuomo's SAFE Act gun-control legislation with conservative satirist Randy Credico on WGDJ Talk AM 1300. He said:
That was his anti-gun legislation, which he had promised not to do, but then he had a little convenient massacre that went on in Newtown, Conn., and all of a sudden there was an opportunity for him.
Right. So everyone's jaw drops at that point. Even if you hate restrictive gun laws, you have to agree -- calling the massacre of children "convenient" is as barbaric as it gets. What is wrong with this man? It's almost like he resents the tragedy for getting in the way of his pro-gun agenda. What he's really saying is that the slaying of these children was inconvenient for him. I mean, the term psychopath comes to mind.
In response New Yorkers Against Gun Violence demanded that Dicker apologize to the Sandy Hook families. So Dicker did the predictable. He gave one of those bullshit defending-your-life non-apology apologies:
This group clearly doesn't understand, or doesn't want to understand, my point, which is a sarcastic reference to the governor latching on to an horrendous out-of-state mass killing to advance a political agenda that had nothing to do with the problem of gun-related crime in New York.
I wasn't minimizing the horror at all, just the opposite. I used the word 'massacre' intentionally because it refers, by definition, to a horrendous large-scale killing, which of course the Newtown horror was.
No, Dicker. You were minimizing the horror of it all. Just because he knows the definition of massacre doesn't mean he has the judgment to treat the subject with any amount of sensitivity or common sense -- clearly he doesn't.
I feel like in his original statement, Dicker is placing the Newtown shootings on the same level as the recently passed gun legislation. If anything, the shootings are maybe even less horrific than the gun legislation. I just don't think he gets it. The shootings are much bigger, emotionally and morally, than any set of laws or principles or political agendas. These are people's children we're talking about. How could he lose sight of that?
Do you think there is any possible way of justifying Dicker's statement?
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I have lived in Arizona for most of my life so that's where I consider myself from.
Tell us your latest news.
I'm working on the third, and final novel, in the Surviving series. This one focuses on Danny and Samantha's relationship as we watch it develop.
When and why did you begin writing?
I've always loved to write and have started so many books that I never finished I couldn't even count them. With this book I loved where it was going and wanted to see where the end took me.
When did you first consider yourself a writer?
Not until I saw my book for sale on Amazon….but even now I'm hesitant to label myself as a writer. It's all still so new to me.
What inspired you to write your first book?
As weird as this sounds, I couldn't find anything to read one day so I decided to write what I wanted to read.
Do you have a specific writing style?
My writing style is very organic…I don't plot out what I want to see happen, I just let it come and then edit and re-edit until it makes sense and sounds the way it sounds in my head.
How did you come up with the title of your first novel?
From one of my favorite passages in the book:
"So what did you and your brother do when you left?" Trace's quietly asked question brings me back from my memories.
"We survived. We did what we had to do for as long as we had to do it and we survived."
Do you see writing as a career?
I see writing as a pleasure and something that I can do in addition to my career and family. A career is something you have to work at; writing is something I love to do.
What was the hardest part of writing your books?
The editing. It is so difficult to look at the manuscript you write with a critical eye and delete stuff that you thought was wonderful only to see it as unnecessary information that doesn't progress the plot of the story
What are you working on now?
I just finished a contemporary young adult novel which I'm considering self-publishing. I've been researching the pros and cons and it seems beneficial to self-publish as long as you put in the effort of perfecting the manuscript first. I'm also finishing the final book in the Surviving series and I've started another adult romance novel that I'm very excited about.
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The brass bands play and feet start to pound
Pattern: Montague Bulky Lace Vest by Melissa LaBarre (Rav link)
Yarn: Berroco Sundae (50% acrylic, 50% wool), colorway Stilton
Needles: U.S. 15 and 11 Harmony wood Options 36″ circular needles (knit flat)
Right up to the start of this summer's Ravellenic Games, I was working on administration, setup, answering questions, working out processes. Three days before the opening ceremonies I finally decided to try to use some stash from 2009, and luckily one of the few super-bulky patterns that appeals to me is in a book I own. I swatched with 13s and 15s, and the 15s (the ballband recommendation) gave me a gauge that worked out well for the plan of knitting the smallest size numbers in order to get the medium size. When the opening ceremonies began, I was ready to cast on.
There were only nine days before I was due to leave on vacation, and there was no way I was taking a huge bulky-weight sweater project with me to Montgomery Bell State Park, and when we got back there were only going to be two days left in the competition. I needed to take full advantage of the large needles and huge gauge in order to get it done, or nearly done, before leaving.
The back went fast. I didn't knit on it every night, but it still grew quickly. Each narrow front side took only a few hours. With a couple of days before our trip, I decided I need to try seaming it up, even though ideally one would block the pieces to measurements beforehand; there was no time to wait for them to dry, and if I came back with seaming still left to do, I didn't think I could be confident of getting the bottom band and the large front bands done by the time the flame was extinguished. So I seamed. The magic of mattress stitch amazed me yet again; I had been careful to knit the back and fronts to exactly the same row counts. Now only the bands remained.
WHen we left for Tennessee, all the knitting was done. I had even woven in the ends. When we returned, I soaked the super-bulky fibers, squeezed as much water out as I could, and laid the vest out carefully to the measurements of the medium size. It was wet. Damp. Really damp. THere were about 36 hours before the closing ceremonies, and the Ravellenic Games. I could count it finished, but I really wanted to wear it for photographs before then. I got out an electric fan to try to dry it faster. When Sunday morning rolled around and the front of the vest was dry to the touch, I knew I was going to make it.
Noel took these pictures at about 11:30 on August 12, six hours before the deadline. This is the first sweater medal I've won in the Games-Formerly-Known-As. No sleeves, bulky yarn, sure — but it's a complete garment in seventeen days with five days off in the middle. And look — isn't it beautiful? Nothing done at such short notice with materials on hand and so quickly has any right to turn out so well.
I can't wait for fall. It may be glory earned as much through dumb luck as through skill, but it's Ravellenic glory, and it's mine to wear.
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August 15, 2012 at 1:48 pm
Lovely post, beautiful garment, and so nice to "meet" you after all your hard work in the organizing!
December 6, 2012 at 3:27 pm
[…] had this project in reserve in the Ravellenics in case I got done with my Montague Vest early and needed a quick extra medal opportunity. The longing I felt to turn to it when the vest […]


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Even better EMR
Physicians who prefer dictation over typing for medical transcription can now have a way to reduce the time they spend documenting patient data without sacrificing the benefits of the EMR. Physicians can dictate encounters, procedures, notes, profiles and more. Tell SmartScribes what you want on your screen and they'll deliver it.
Nightingale knows your priority is patient care. That is why we have always offered services that focus on making your work easier, not more complicated. Thousands of practitioners use Nightingale's Electronic Medical Records (EMR) and Practice management system to handle their scheduling, billing, visits, and medical records. Contact us now for easy access of medical records.
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