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So I went to San Francisco a couple days ago for a reading/panel and it was great. Many thanks to Stewart, who organizes black-focused book events for the San Francisco Public Library system.
I shared the stage with Jewell Gomez, a Lambda Literary Award winner, who writes fiction with a feminist sci-fi twist, while tackling issues of ethnicity, gender, and class. She was great to share time with. It's always double the fun to have events with more than one writer.
So Jewell does a little science fiction, I did a little science fiction of my own. Let me tell you, I am love love LOVING Octavia Butler's Kindred. Great read! For all of you who told me so... you were right! And if you haven't picked it up, I'm telling you so. For reals...
In other news, I'm still awaiting the exact publication date of my next novel. My guess is summer 2007, and my hope is that it's a July release date... much like we had for Down For Whatever. I'll keep you posted. Like you, writers are in a constant state of waiting.
While I'm excited about writing, I also keep a day job. A very fun day job. And I am taking on more responsibilities that make me happy, nervous, excited, and secure that I can continue to support my writing and university life at the same time. Dual careers. One person. It's possible. I know many writers who have dual careers... they write and they do something else to support their writing. And the one's who step out and write only... I'm super excited for them. Every artist type, hopefully, will have that day when they decide: dual or single career.
Congrats to my writer friend who just got picked up by a literary agent! I'm super happy for you! No names yet.
So that's what's up. Have a great three day weekend!


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2013 Ford Shelby GT500 includes a new carbon fiber driveshaft.
If dieters think they have it hard, consider what Ford Motor is going through. Ford has created a goal of cutting 750 pounds of ugly, dangerous fat out of every car by the end of the decade.
Like any biggest loser, Ford needs some help if it is going to get to its goal. It went right to Dow Chemical, which thinks it can come through with an affordable automotive diet pill of sorts known as carbon fiber.
Ford thinks it is already well on its way to tackling half the equation, finding ways of reducing engine size without crippling horsepower with its EcoBoost engines. The second half involves lighter materials, and that’s where Dow comes in.
“Vehicle weight reduction for our customers through intelligent design with a materials focus has been a priority for Dow Automotive Systems,” said Florian Schattenmann, director of research and development for Dow Automotive Systems. “This partnership with Ford on carbon fiber composites is a logical next step to progress already achieved through the use of lightweight, high-strength polymers and structural bonding technology.”
The goal of the collaboration is to find a way to make cheaper carbon fiber:
Ford says the joint development effort will also leverage work that Dow has already begun with Turkish carbon fiber manufacturer AKSA and the U.S. Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
If the joint development effort is successful, Ford says carbon fiber components may begin appearing on new Ford vehicles in the latter part of this decade as product development teams work toward meeting new fuel-efficiency standards of more than 50 miles per gallon and extending the range of plug-in vehicles.
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- Ph.D., English, 1979. The Graduate School, City
University of New York. Dissertation Title:
Richardson, Romance, and Reverie. Advisor: Prof. Robert
- B.A., Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Dept. Honors
Award in English, 1969. Queens College of the City
University of New York.
- Senior Year of Study Abroad, Chancellor's Scholarship,
1968-69. Leeds University, England.
- Jane Austen and Bath London:
Hambledon and London Ltd. The project has
now changed to a study of Austen's novels
in the context of other women's novels in
her period, especially the gothic, sentimental
and those originally in French. The working
title is Jane Austen: The French
- Apollo's Muse, a program of words and music
presenting the life and poetry of Anne Kingsmill Finch,
Countess of Winchilsea. Commissioned by Musica
Dolce, a baroque ensemble: Linda Brand, Helena Brown,
Donna Dean, Joanna Levine. A shortened version was first performed at Brunel University in February 2001.
- "On Reading Divergent
Fanny Burney d'Arblays", 8:2 (Fall 2002), pp. 13-15
- "Dissecting Texts": An (Invited) Essay Review of Leah Price's
The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel, Neil McCaw, George Eliot and Victorian
Historiography: Imagining the National Past,
and Barbara Tepa Lupack, ed. Nineteenth-Century Women at the Movies: Adapting
Classic Women's Fiction to Film, November 2001 sent to Studies in the Novel. To appear in forthcoming Winter's issue.
- "Per Lettere" A Review-Essay on Per
lettere: La scrittura epistolare femminile tra archivio e
tipografia, secoli XV-XVII, ed. and introd.
Gabriella Zarri, Rome: Viella. 1999. The Sixteenth Century
Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies,
33/2 (2001), 632-636.
- "On First Encountering Fanny Burney d'Arblay,"
Burney Letter, Vol 6 No 2 (Fall 2000), 10
- "A Calendar For Sense and Sensibility,"
Philological Quarterly, 79 (Fall 2000), 233-266.
- "Fanny is Us," Burney Letter, Vol 6 No 1
(Spring 2000), pp. 1&6
- "Jane Austen on Film." A Review-Essay on
Jane Austen Goes to the Movies. Linda V. Troost,
Editor. Issue No. 48 of Topic: A Journal of the
Liberal Arts (Washington and Jefferson College,
November 1997). The East-Central Intelligencer: The
Newsletter of the East-Central/American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies N.S. 12 (Sept. 1998),
"Six Elegiac Poems, Possibly by Anne Cecil de Vere, Countess of Oxford",
the original version of the essay and texts first published in English Literary
Renaissance, 19 (1989), 152-70.
- "Orinda, Rosania, Lucasia
et alia, Towards a New Edition
of the Works of Katherine Philips". This version of an essay
originally published in Philological Quarterly,
66 (1987), 325-354, has been updated to include new information
and apperars with a reprint of Philips's once famous and today almost unknown translation
of a pastoral "Golden Age" poem, "La Solitude" by Antoine Girard
Saint-Amant (1594-1661) as "Solitude."
- with C. Perri, "Allusion Studies: An International
Annotated Bibliography, 1921-77," Style, 13
- Anne Kelley, Catharine Trotter: An early modern writer in the
vanguard of feminism. (Hampshire, England: Ashgate, 2002),
for the Scriblerian. To appear.
- The Anne Finch Wellesley Manuscript Poems A
Critical Edition, Barbara McGovern and Charles H. Hinnant
edd. in The Scriblerian, 33/2 (2001), pp. 203-
- Tom W. N. Parker, Proportional Form
in the Sonnets of the Sidney Circle in The Sixteenth
Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern
Studies, 31/1 (2000), 197-200.
- Moreland Perkins, Reshaping the Sexes
in Sense and Sensibility in The Journal of English
and Germanic Philology, 99:1 (January 2000).
- Alistair Fox, The English
Renaissance Identity and Representation in Elizabethan
England in The Sixteenth Century Journal: The
Journal of Early Modern Studies 29 (1998), 511-14
- Toni Bowers, The Politics of
Motherhood: British Writing and Culture, 1680-1760 in
The East-Central Intelligencer: The Newsletter of the
East-Central/American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies, N.S. 10 (Sept. 1996), 19-21.
- "A Website: Freedom of the Press Belongs
to the Woman Who Owns One". Panel at this
coming autumn's EC/ACECS 2002 meeting:
"Publishing on the Web: Differing Approaches
and Experiences. Theodore E. Braun, Jack Lynch,
Kevin Berland, Andrew Brown.
All available at http://mason.gmu.edu/~emoody/emschol.htm
Available at http://www.JimandEllen.org/montolieu/caroline.show.html:
Lagrimar: The Poems of Vittoria Colonna. A
Dark Voyage: A Literary Biography of Vittoria
Colonna, including portraits of Vittoria Colonna,
Ferrante Francesco d'Avalos, Marchese of Pescara,
Outline of Planned Biography and First Chapter,
"Pawn and Wife".
A Review of Per lettera: La scrittura epistolare
femminile tra archivio e tipografia, secoli XV-XVII,
ed. and introd. Gabriella Zarri.
- "Veronica Gāmbara: A Short Biography,
Translation of her Stanze, and Essay on the Process of
Translation, an Essay on the Misattribution of the Poetry of
Veronica Gāmbara, and Secrete Selve Reverende, Secret Sacred Woods: A
Selection of Poems by
- I On Myself Can Live: A
Study of the Life and Poetry of Anne Kingsmill Finch,
Countess of Winchilsea. Five of a planned eleven
- A Chronology of the
Poems of Ann Finch, with notes, and texts of selected
poems. The Chronology is complete.
- All the as yet unattributed
and unpublished poems
by Anne Finch
Source Texts for Anne Finch's Translations, Adaptations,
- A Narrative of The Life of
Anne and Heneage Finch Told Through Her Poetry and Their Letters, Interspersed with
- A Parallel between 'the Character and Genius' of Anne
Kingsmill Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, and Lady Mary
- Anne Finch as a
Translator: The Development of Her Technique in her Original Poetry through the Practice
of Translation," with a Select Bibliography on Translation Studies
- Extensive and detailed calendars
for all Jane
Austen's novels but Sense and Sensibility,
accompanied by essays and bibliographies,
- An etext of Isabelle de Montolieu's Caroline de
with accompanying notes on the text, source, a contemporary translation,
illustration and working bibliography.
- Lecturer. George Mason University, 4400 University
Drive, Fairfax, Va. 22030. 8/88-present.
- Professorial Lecturer in Literature. American
University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave., N. W., Washington,
D. C.. Telephone: 1-202-885-2971. 8/86-12/91.
- Lecturer. University of Virginia, Northern Regional
Center, 2990 Telestar Court, Falls Church, Va. 22042.
Telephone: 703-876-6924. 8/86-6/88.
- Field Reader. Fund for the Improvement of
Postsecondary Education, U. S. Dept. of Education,
Application Control Center, GSA Building, Rm 3633,
Washington, D. C. 1985-6.
- Graduate Fellow. Queens College, CUNY, 65-30 Kissena
Blvd., Flushing, N. Y. 11367. 9/74-6/78.
- Lecturer. Brooklyn College, CUNY, Bedford Ave. and
Ave. H., Brooklyn, New York. 11210. 9/71-6/74.
- Library Research Assistant. English Dept., Graduate
School, CUNY, 33 West 42nd Street, N.Y., N.Y. 10036.
- Administrative Assistant. John Waddington Ltd.,
Leeds, England. 1/70-6/70.
- Legal Secretary. Federal Aviation Agency, JFK
Airport, New York. 7/63-8/65.
Other Internet Activity
- Together with Judy Geater, listowner of Trollope-l, organizer and
facilitator and a principal contributor to discussions of works by Trollope and other 19th century
writers, e.g., Elizabeth
Gaskell and Margaret
Oliphant and Dickens. See Conversations on the Net
- Together with Joanne Pope, listowner of Eighteenth
Century (Joan Wall, moderator) and Women Writers and
Romance (Penny Richards, moderator). See also Fanny Burney D'Arblay
- Together with Jill Spriggs and June Shaw, formerly organizer and
contributor to conversations on criticism of Austen, minor 18th century
women novelists on Janeites and Austen-l;
- Also frequent contributor to C18-l, Victoria, Ficino, Gaslight,
Litalk-l, Arthurnet (see a group of essays
'on Marie de France described in 1st issue of 1996 Arthuriana
(http://dc.smu.edu/Arthuriana/), and Clary-l.
- Michael Thorn's William Cowper. London:
Greenwich Exchange, 1996
- Kelley Griffith's Writing Essays about Literature:
A Guide and Style Sheet. Fifth Edition. Harcourt
- Michel Faber's The Crimson Petal.
- Letts, John, Chairman of the Trollope Society.
"Interetiquette," Trollopiana: The Journal of the
Trollope Society, 33 (May 1996), 4-6.
- Vivian-Neale, Henry. "Postings from the Internet,"
Trollopiana: The Journal of the Trollope Society,
34 (August 1996), 7-8.
Languages Italian, French, and Latin.
Honors and Awards
CUNY University Fellowship for 1979.
American Association of University Women Fellowship, 1978-9.
Regents Scholarship for Beginning Graduate Study, 1970-1.
Nomination for Wilson Award, 1969.
Chancellor's Scholarship to attend Leeds University, 1968-9.
Departmental Honors Award in English, Queens College, 1969.
The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
The Renaissance Society of America
The Renaissance Text Society
The Trollope Society
The Jane Austen Society of North America
The Burney Society
My dossier includes numbers of letters of recommendation and
observations of my teaching, and is available from the Placement
Office of the Graduate School, CUNY, 365 Fifth Ave.,
N.Y. N. Y. 10016, Telephone 1-212-817-7500.

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September 8, 2015
This is the political panel recorded on August 27th, featuring Bruce Hallsor, a long-time Conservative activist in Victoria, and Sonia Théroux, Campaign Manager for Green Party Victoria candidate, Jo-Ann Roberts.
We had regrets from both our NDP and Liberal guests lined up for today's show, and hope to have them both back for the next one.
New this episode, we broadcast the first 10 minutes or so on Periscope. What a hoot. If you'd like to tune in to our next live Periscope show, download Periscope on your phone or tablet, and follow @JohnPaulandMic. If you follow us on Twitter (also @JohnPaulandMic), you will see a Tweet when we go live. If you really don't want to miss it, though, mark your calendar for September 16th at 9:05am.
We had a great discussion today, around the unique animal that is the South Vancouver Island Green vs. NDP battleground.
Here are a few articles we referenced during the Podcast:
August 3, 2015
In a dangerous social experiment, we brought four different viewpoints from four different Federal political party activists into one room.
Instead of the predicted implosion of the space-time continuum, we actually had a pretty frank and interesting discussion about the upcoming Federal election, and many issues...
- A McKenzie Interchange!
- $1 Billion deficit. Rounding error, or political hay?
- Apparently we are in, or may have been in a recession.
- Did anybody predict the price of oil falling as it did? Fracking revolution or carbon bubble?
- The carbon economy... Cap and trade? Carbon tax? Regulatory standards? Government incentives?
- Childcare? A National plan? Parent choice?
- When's the writ going to drop? How does it matter?
Esteemed guests included...
Riding President, NDP - Victoria
Managing Partner, Crease Harman LLP
Riding President, Liberal Party of Canada - Victoria
Campaign Manager for Jo-Ann Roberts, Green Party of Canada - Victoria
July 22, 2015
In this episode, we welcome to the show Murray Langdon, the General Manager of the award winning Vancouver Island Brewery, the oldest craft brewer on Vancouver Island.
Given Murray's long career in journalism prior to coming aboard with Vancouver Island Brewery, we kick off the conversation with a general talk around the state of media in Canada, and get some great insights from somebody who spent most of a lifetime working in the media industry.
We shift gears into beer. The history of the brewery, the state of the industry, it's connection with "buy local", and the many opportunities that exist around the industry.
We wrap up with a chat about the area where the brewery is located, and the potential land use around that area - "mid-town" (or as John might envision it, "Yaletown").
Media, business and politics - sounds like a pretty well rounded episode for JPM. Enjoy the show!
This episode is not intended as an endorsement of alcohol consumption of any kind. In particular, it is not intended for an audience under age 19. If you drink alcohol, please drink responsibly, don't drive (and drink locally).
June 30, 2015
What's it like trying to be an authentic politician in Canada, with our unforgiving media, and widespread cynicism?
Is Stephen Harper really a fiscal conservative?
What would the Green Party do to improve our economy?
June 18, 2015
In the lead up to the Federal election, we are assembling a political panel to look at the bigger picture, and issues that affect us locally.
We were joined on June 11th by Sonia Théroux, Campaign Manager for Victoria Green Party candidate Jo-Ann Roberts, and Kalen Harris, community advocate and owner of Shatterbox Coffee.
Except for being sidetracked by a fierce debate between Sonia and Paul about a National Daycare Program, most of this episode focuses on the flaws of our current electoral system, not just the systemic institutional ones...the problems with outcomes based on who votes (and who doesn't)...how Members of Parliament vote in Parliament, talking points, the media, and so much more.
It was a raucous, but oh so fun!
May 22, 2015
We recorded live at Social Media Camp. A podcast all about podcasting - past, present and future. (Warning: It's totally unedited.)
Follow along with Social Media Camp on social media, using #SMCamp
The music is "Rollin at 5" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
May 12, 2015
Two great local business leaders go head to head at the Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce Awards this week, and we had both on our show!
Daniela Cubelic is Victoria's "Queen of Tea" and inspirational leader and owner of Silk Road Tea
. She has been a tireless supporter of local community based activities and a blazing entrepreneur in the process of re-inventing the Capital's manufacturing sector.
Dan Dagg is a communications, marketing and design guru leading the creative team at Hot House Marketing
(owner). Dan has been instrumental in shaping Victoria's Economic Development initiatives as Chair of the GVDA
and Executive member of the GVCC
We were lucky to have both Daniela and Dan chat about the business and economic development prospects and solutions for our great Capital City!
May 9, 2015
It's the Social Media Camp podcast cross-over episode. Look for this episode on John, Paul and Mic, and the Social Media Camp podcast. Crazy, huh?
Paul talks to two folks who know a thing or two about politics and social media. One is current journalist, communications consultant, and former communications and campaign manager for British Columbia MLA Mary Polak, Todd Hauptman. The other is communications consultant and former social media coordinator for the British Columbia Liberal Party during the last provincial election, Allie Valiente.
How does social media fit into the context of a modern political campaign? What are the opportunities, and what are the pitfalls? Who should and should not incorporate social media heavily into their campaign strategy.
We discuss this and more in this special episode.
May 6, 2015
Andrew Reeve was a young candidate in the last municipal election in Victoria, finishing a very respectable 13th place in his first ever attempt. He is also currently serving as President of the Victoria Electoral District of the Liberal Party of Canada.
We talk youth in politics, Federal election and leaders, the PEI election, and... um... oh, ya, THE ALBERTA ELECTION.
The banter is larger than life in this COMPLETELY UNEDITED edition of John, Paul and Mic.
Enjoy the show!
April 18, 2015
When we talk about housing policy in Greater Victoria (British Columbia, for all our non-Canadian friends), we usually mean homelessness. Fair enough. We can all agree homelessness is an important issue.
But what are the economic implications of high housing prices, both rental and ownership, for our region's "regular" workers - the middle class, the people that are here, and the smart people our region is trying to attract?
Governments in our region tell you they are addressing the issue. According to housing policy expert Shannon Renault, they really are not, and she explains why in this week's episode.
We begin the first show of the new season (that is, season 2) with the usual banter between Paul and John, and hit on a few topical political issues: the Alberta election, and the reliability of polls therein; the continuing dysfunction in Saanich Municipal politics; predictions for the Federal election; and more!
If you want to skip John and Paul's caffeine-fuelled nonsense, fast forward to about 15 minutes to get to the really good stuff.
Welcome back listeners.
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Planned Parenthood firmly states in a press release that it is "seeking to operate a medical facility consistent with the Aurora zoning code and should be treated no differently than any other properly zoned medical facility," and that the city�s only objection is that it was "not given the opportunity to discriminate based on the fact that Planned Parenthood provides constitutionally protected services such as birth control and abortion to its patients."
Planned Parenthood faces opposition from anti-abortion and religious groups, including the Holy Angels Catholic Church, and the Pro-Life Action League. Pro-Life�s communications director Eric Scheidler, son of Joseph Scheidler, has planned protests and prayer rallies, bringing close to 800 marching protesters to the clinic last weekend.
The new clinic, a $7.5 million, 22,000-square-foot facility is one of Planned Parenthood�s largest, and is set to offer a complete range of reproductive health-care services.
Media Resources: Planned Parenthood Press Release 9/13/07; Chicago Tribune 9/16/07; Time Printout 9/17/07; Chicago Sun-Times 9/18/07
12/18/2014 American Apparel Hired Its First-Ever Woman Chief Executive to Replace Dov Charney - Six months after retail store American Apparel fired its chief executive and founder Dov Charney, the company has hired retail executive Paula Schneider as a replacement.
Schneider, who will become American Apparel's first female chief executive, will take over the position as of January 5.
Charney had led American Apparel since 1998 and became well-known from American Apparel's sexist advertising and from several sexual harassment lawsuits and sexual assault accusations against him by former employees. . . .
12/18/2014 Obama's Judicial Appointments Most Diverse in History - Congress came to a close on Tuesday night with the Senate confirmation of 12 new federal judges and 12 executive appointments - including Vivek Murthy as Surgeon General, Sarah Saldana as head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Tony Blinken as deputy Secretary of State. . . .


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Randall Elementary School has one of the lowest poverty rates and some of the highest test scores in Madison. It also has the most experienced teaching staff in the district.
By contrast, Sandburg Elementary has one of the higher poverty rates and some of the lowest test scores. It also has the least experienced teaching staff.
Across the district, schools with higher concentrations of poverty are more likely to have teachers with less experience, according to a State Journal analysis of Madison School District data.
Experts say that while more experience doesn't guarantee higher quality, teachers often need five to 10 years to reach their peak effectiveness.
"To consistently and disproportionately give the kids who need the most help people who aren't at their best yet just disadvantages them," said Sarah Almy, director of teacher quality for the Education Trust, a Washington, D.C.,-based group that advocates for raising student achievement.
The newspaper's analysis found that of the 10 schools with the lowest poverty rates in 2011-12, the median level of teacher experience was 13 years. Of the 10 schools with the highest poverty rates, the median level of experience was nine years.
The median level of experience at Randall is 19 years. At Sandburg, it's five years.
Superintendent Jane Belmore said she was satisfied with the level of experience in high-poverty schools.
"Ten years of experience is pretty solid," Belmore said, referring to the median experience in the highest poverty schools.
The newspaper used median, or the middle of a series of numbers, for the analysis instead of the average because a small number of highly experienced teachers can artificially inflate the average of a school with several less experienced teachers.
Though some high-poverty schools had higher levels of teacher experience, the opposite was more likely to be true, especially among middle schools, the analysis found.
School District officials weren't sure what might cause the disparity or if it was a random occurrence.
Belmore said it's possible younger teachers are more drawn to the challenge of high-poverty schools and older teachers are more likely to own houses and work close to where they live — away from high-poverty areas.
Madison Teachers Inc. executive director John Matthews said teachers tend to stay at a school if they get along with other staff and the principal.
Making schools desirable
At the national level, research on teacher experience in high-poverty schools has raised questions about whether school districts are marshalling resources to the highest needs schools.
In her recent study of districts that are trying to address the issue, Almy found efforts to make high-poverty schools the most desirable places to work. That means assigning those schools the best principals, offering additional professional development opportunities to teachers in such schools and ensuring teachers have opportunities to collaborate.
Some districts also have tried compensating teachers in higher-poverty schools more, a practice prohibited by Madison's union contract.
Almy's research suggested higher compensation may have some effect in attracting teachers to high-poverty schools, but not enough if teachers aren't satisfied with other aspects of their work environment.
Almy criticized policies "requiring districts to fill vacancies based solely on seniority, or preventing districts from using innovative strategies to recruit top teachers to high-poverty schools."
Madison fills vacant positions based on teacher qualifications, and there aren't many occasions when seniority is used as a tie-breaker, said Heidi Tepp, assistant director of for labor relations. Seniority plays a bigger role when staff numbers in each school are adjusted based on student enrollment. More experienced teachers stay while the least experienced are reassigned.
On Friday, a Dane County judge overturned Act 10, the law that limited collective bargaining for most public workers and allowed many school districts in Wisconsin to eliminate policies requiring the least senior employees be laid off first.
Before the ruling, Matthews said he had concerns seniority would be a key issue in the district's upcoming creation of an employee handbook, which under Act 10 would replace the union contract. If the ruling stands and Madison negotiates a new contract with employees, Matthews said he doesn't expect seniority to be an issue.
"I'm not worried about it now," he said.
Experience declining in Madison
Average teacher experience in Madison declined by nearly a full year — from 13.7 to 12.8 years — last year after a historic rush of teachers retired in the wake of a state law limiting collective bargaining. A decade ago, average experience was 14.1 years.
Average teacher experience in Wisconsin last year was 13.9 years, down from 14.5 years in 2010-11. The national average in 2007-08, the most recently available data, was 13.5 years.
The National Center for Education Statistics does not calculate a median in its report issued every four years.
More experience doesn't automatically mean better quality as there are plenty of examples of highly qualified young teachers and ineffective older teachers, said Nancy Evans, a former Wright Middle School principal who now teaches in the education department at Edgewood College.
"The schools with the highest needs don't always have the teachers with the most experience — those teachers are often taken away from those schools instead of brought in," Evans said. "Students with high needs need the strongest teachers. That doesn't always correlate to teachers who have been in the profession for a long time."
Andrew Statz, the district's chief information officer, said he will be interested in using new measurements of teacher effectiveness and school quality to look at the same question raised by the State Journal analysis. That data is still being developed by the state and won't be available for a few more years.


Steel beams are helping different modes of transport to coexist better in Doncaster, where Robin Hood Airport has helped to make air travel to the Yorkshire town become an everyday reality.
Officially known as Doncaster Sheffield Airport, the transport hub is on First Avenue in the town and has been in severe need of a link road to cross the nearby East Coast Mainline rail route.
Now the first two pairs of steel beams have been lifted into place to span the railway, at a weight in excess of 80 tonnes – one more pair is left to install to complete the 42m bridge.
Supporting walls were constructed for the structural steel beams to rest on, and the railway itself will be closed during the final phase of the work.
Steve Gill, managing director of Doncaster Sheffield Airport, said: “It is great to see this transformational project reaching such a major milestone, which brings us ever closer to having the much-needed link road open.
“We have been pleased to hear feedback from our airline partners who are impressed with the ambition and drive behind this new road.”


Punch Powertrain and XPT have signed a joint venture agreement that will establish a new manufacturing plant in Nanjing and will yearly supply hundreds of thousands of electric powertrains for pure EV applications to customers of both partners.
The partners will invest €10 million in a new production facility in Nanjing, where powertrains of both partners will be industrialized. Design and development of current and future products will remain within the parent companies. To start the cooperation, one single-speed electric transmission by Punch Powertrain and one by XPT will be brought in production beginning of 2019.
Punch Powertrain’s EP2 packages a high-output switched reluctance motor, single-speed gearbox, power electronics and controls.
XPT is a global startup, based in China, focused on e-propulsion platforms, including Electric drive systems and energy storage systems. XPT operates under the car manufacturer NIO, supplying primarily to NIO, but also to other OEMs. XPT has full design and development capabilities for electric propulsion systems. In Punch Powertrain it has found an established partner with broad automotive experience for the industrialization of their transmissions.
Punch Powertrain is an independent supplier of powertrains with more than 45 years of experience in development and industrialization. The company has started with CVTs and in recent years expanded its portfolio with DCTs, Hybrid and Electric Powertrains. This JV enables Punch Powertrain to accelerate its electrification rate and to faster scale up its production of electric powertrains.
In the past years Punch Powertrain has successfully been implementing its expansion strategy by expanding its product portfolio and establishing a broader customer base on the global market. According to Punch Powertrain’s business intelligence, the move towards New Energy vehicles will happen faster than generally assumed by the ICE-minded automotive community. The company has been taking steps towards cleaner and electrified drive systems for years; with the mass production of its first electric powertrain, the company sees its strategy materializing.
Earlier this month, Groupe PSA selected Punch Powertrain as the supplier of its next-generation e-DCT electrified transmission systems by 2022. (Earlier post.)


The building that now houses The Rebel Lounge has been a vital piece of Phoenix's punk and metal scene since 1979 — that's 40 years of building a community based on blunt-force, pissed-off music. Then known as the Mason Jar, this small club ushered in a wave of punk and metal bands that not only inspired a whole network of alternative subgenres, but helped forge an entire lifestyle. In 2015, the Mason Jar was taken over by Psyko Steve Presents and renamed The Rebel Lounge. Subsequently, this change in power has only enriched the venue's reputation of being a hub and inherent champion of a scene that reaches far beyond just heavy music. Remember: Punk is a lifestyle. There are few places in the Phoenix area that have established themselves as a heavy-music safe house the way The Rebel Lounge has — and even fewer with such an impressive monthly calendar.


CADILLAC DEVILLE SENSOR PROBLEM
1992 Cadillac Deville • 135,000 miles
I took my 1992 cadillac deville for a test drive because I got my new wheel cylinders yesterday. I bleed them yesterday. I took it out a few moinutes ago and the brakes did fine until I came back the brake pedal kept getting stuck to the floor. I glanced down and why temperature guage came on it was red. I went to shut the car off but I looked at it and it was gone. Iput it in the garage and it was smoking a little. I popped the hood and it was smoking where the master cylinder was. I figured it was where I spilled the brake fluid. I turned the key on the car and the E73 light was on. I keep getting that in my codes and I keep erasing it. What does this code mean and what do I need to do to fix it. Back to the brakes. I looked down at the left rear and fluid was all over the ground not sure what it is until I look at it. I am letting it cool down. Any suggestions for the code. Thanks.
June 21, 2012.
June 21, 2012.
E73 will set if sensor registers large change ie. Engine running hot. Suspect wheel cylinder blew out where shoes adj up to drum?
Yeap The drum was stuck so I took a rubber mallet and beated it off. When the drum came off the wheel cylinder on one of the sides the rubber came off and the cylinder was sticking out so I put it back together and I will try it again. As for the E73 I have been doing alot of research on it and this is what it says it is the Intermittent Coolant Sensor could this be the problem. I will trust you with either decesion and because you are an expert. Thanks.
Yes it maybe temp sensor or wiring but if it got hot would find reason repair clear code and see if it resets
Ok I cleared the code and added some water to the resivore and the radiator. I started it and It sucked it down so I added more and npow it is doing fine. I noticed a leak in the radiator fin. It is leaking out. What can I do for a tempo fix. Thanks.
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Fort Plain Central School District invites parents and guardians to attend an evening forum to discuss how federal stimulus money provided by the American Rescue Plan will be budgeted over the next four fiscal years. The forum will be held on Tuesday, June 15, 2021, at 6 p.m. in the high school auditorium.
Questions for the forums and suggestions for the use of the funds may be submitted online at https://forms.gle/eQGGq7FYuzvFhTAy9.
The American Rescue Plan, through the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER), provides funds to public schools to address the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic upon in-person instruction and learning; students’ social, emotional and mental health needs; school safety; educational technology, academics and enrichment; and early childhood education. School districts across the state are developing plans on how to use these funds to best serve their students.


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18-year-old woman 'grabs five beers from Walmart shelves, downs them and drunkenly gropes paramedic who tries to help her'
- Shellby Conder was arrested by officers at Walmart in the Villages, Florida
- She has been charged with theft, battery on a police officer, and resisting arrest
- Conder allegedly grabbed one of the paramedics by the testicles
Shellby Conder, 18, has been arrested after allegedly downing five beers in the beer aisle of a Walmart store in the Villages, Florida
An 18-year-old woman has been arrested after allegedly downing five beers in the beer aisle of a Walmart store and groping a paramedic who was trying to help her.
Shellby Conder, from Summerfield, Florida, has been charged with petit theft, battery on a police officer and resisting arrest following the incident in the Villages on Tuesday.
The teenager reportedly told the manager at the Walmart store that she was drunk and needed a ride home.
Conder allegedly grabbed one of the paramedics by the testicles as she was being evaluated.
She is also accused of kicking an officer in the leg as she was put in handcuffs, Click Orlando reported.
According to the police report, she told officers while in the patrol car: 'I'm sorry to who I hit.'
Police said that the woman was clearly intoxicated when they arrived at the store.
She reportedly told officers that she 'drank beer from the beer aisle and wanted to go home'.
Conder is being held on a $15,500 bond at Sumter County Jail.
She has been charged with petit theft, battery on a police officer and resisting arrest following the incident on Tuesday. Pictured is the Walmart store in the Villages
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Marcos the Spartan, former pentakosiarch (Leader of five hundred) of the army of Alexander. He joined the army as a young lad full of vim and lust for adventure just after the Battle of Gaugamela.
It was much later, in the camp under the Mountain, that he became known as Lupernikes.
The story goes that he caught some young bloods that had been fomenting some kind of lacklustre rebellion who had, in the certainty of their popularity, thought they would get away with the rape and murder of some female 'entertainers'. The little band had named themselves the Young Wolves and felt a trial by army, which was their right, would mean victory for them.
In true Spartan manner, they were given a laconic response;
"A wolf with no balls is a wolf no longer. Dogs gain no triumph, their master does. There will be no victory for wolves, there will be only me!"
Under Macedonian Law and the Persian law that was filtering into the army, Marcos could have had them killed but he chose to let the punishment fit the crime; making sure none of them would be, at least, capable of rape again.
He was known as Lupernikes, or the victory of wolves from that day onward and it was because of this that he came to Alexander's notice because, overnight, unrest in the impatient army near evaporated.

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Mike Epps and Wife Kyra Announce New Hgtv Series ‘Buying Back the Block’ Mike Epps and his wife Kyra have a new HGTV series premiering in Spring 2023. The show is titled, Buying Back The Block. The couple said they have been fixing houses for the last two summers. Mike has been vocal about the importance of buying the block or buying property in one’s hometown. What is your favorite DIY show to watch? Have you ever been inspired to take a DIY idea from TV and do it yourself? How did it come out?


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A female motorbike driver has sustained serious injuries after crashing into a guardrail on a local overpass early this morning.
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At the scene they found a damaged motorbike. Nearby, they found the injured party, 33-year-old Rommanee Chuanyoo.
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We live in an generation of startups and side-gigs. An technology wherein those who could otherwise have chosen to keep directly to strong jobs lifelong are now plunging headlong into entrepreneurship and freelancing. And going strictly by way of figures, the fashion is right here to live and flourish.
This trend, but encouraging, puts employers underneath the greater pressure of strategic expertise control. Whether to groom and grow in-house expertise or outsource is a question an increasing number of businesses small and huge will quickly want to confront. Strategic expertise management is, consequently, turning into a subject of developing importance to each organisation. And here’s why strategic skills management is gaining significance.
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It goes sans announcing that every enterprise needs diverse skills. Some expertise forms the core of the enterprise even as others increase its operations. Here are the reasons why strategic expertise control is vital. And strong reasons why your organisation need to put money into dealing with this skills.
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Every organization includes a middle team that excludes its founders and traders. Core group participants are folks that possess the vital know-how for your enterprise sphere and make a contribution closer to its growth by means of innovation, bringing newer services to the market and wherein essential, networking with destiny purchasers.
Unless you make investments efficaciously on keeping those center team individuals, they will be susceptible to are seeking greener pastures some other place. This doesn’t always imply they’ll come to be competitors with a new commercial enterprise. Instead, they could favor to paintings as consultants or freelancers. It is widely recognized that gig workers and consultants earn plenty better than regular workplace-going personnel.
- Attracting Fresher Talent
Another vital characteristic of strategic talent management is the manner in which your agency draws a more energizing. Usually, a fresher would be brimming with strength and new ideas seeing that they aren’t encumbered by means of chains of a fixed company strategy. Such more energizing can provide the much needed out-of-the-box answers essential for an business enterprise to grow.
Nowadays, a fresher is not actually a fresher. They might have some revel in, albeit as an intern or at the same time as working as a university scholar. And they could’ve grasped stuff that a number of your veteran team members might have inadvertently unnoticed or not noted since it doesn’t definitely match into their thinking style groomed over years of working with a unmarried company.
Hence, any other important function of strategic talent control is attracting suitable fresher that may add cost and pump sparkling mind into a present line of method.
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Outsourcing positive expertise is imperative in recent times, particularly if your agency is looking at expansion into more recent markets or desires talent that wouldn’t be effortlessly to be had domestically. Venturing into more recent markets is something every enterprise corporation undertakes at some point unless you are a local grocery or ice cream parlour.
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Michael Voltaggio is on fire. Every week he is vying for a win on Top Chef. In episode two, Michael’s Golden Delicious inspired dessert was second best, losing only to his brother. In the most recent episode, he wins the Air Force Challenge, convincingly.
Let’s hope Michael Voltaggio isn’t burning too bright after
a red hot start in the competition.
A few highlights from last week’s Air Force Challenge episode:
- The Quickfire competition challenges the cheftestants to create an “out of this world” potato dish. Guest judge is Mark Peel, who landed his first culinary job peeling vegetables for Wolfgang Puck. The challenge involves potatoes; his last name is peel — get the connection? I didn’t at first, but it’s clever all right.
- Jennifer, who is also on fire, kicks ass and wins the Quickfire (with steamed mussels with lemongrass potato sauce), giving her immunity — and more importantly, total respect in the kitchen.
- The Elimination Challenge has the cheftestants working as a team to prepare a meal for 300 airmen at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. The menu includes hearty classics such as clam chowder, braised pork shoulder and potato salad, and chocolate bread pudding with peanut butter sauce.
- Michael V stands out, making a more contemporary dish of braised pork belly with soy mustard, wrapped in lettuce and served with a peanut garnish.
- Preeti is the chef sent home, because she was inexplicable in her defense of her and Laurine’s hodgepodge, yet unflavorful, pasta salad. I felt bad for Preeti. The dish was as much Laurine’s fault as her own. But someone’s gotta go.
Michael Voltaggio’s pork belly lettuce wrap is on the right.
Ignore Michael Isabella’s greek salad on the left.
For the drink pairing — over the weekend, I made my own version of Michael V’s pork belly lettuce wraps and served the dish with sake, a rice wine from Japan. Whole Foods has a good selection of inexpensive sakes, so Mr. S&C picked us up a 375 ml bottle of Fudo Myoo, for less than $6.00. The Fudo Myoo brand is fairly sweet (hints of banana and anise), and is best served chilled. The chilled sweet beverage is a nice counter balance to the richness (and absolute deliciousness) of the pork belly. Kanpai!
The Top Chef Drink Pairing is a reoccurring feature on the S&C blog, where we recap the previous week’s episode, and pair the winning dish with a cocktail, or other suitable alcoholic beverage.
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There's a lot that we don't know about Apple Silicon powered Macs, but one question that's on the mind of a lot of people is whether this shift will result in cheaper Macs.
It's a logical question. After all, an Apple Silicon Arm chip such as the A12X will surely be cheaper than a chip from Intel, right?
Well, pull up a chair, friend, and let me tell you a thing or two about a little company called Apple.
First up, Apple isn't a name that synonymous with cheap.
Products such as the iPad and iPhone SE are, in the Apple world, considered cheap. But with a starting price of $329 and $399 respectively, neither are cheap.
You can easily find cheaper laptops.
It is highly unlikely that Apple is going to use the switch to its own processors as the time to start race to the bottom. After all, who is it competing against? Itself?
It just doesn't make sense.
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At WWDC 2020, Apple showed off a Mac running an A12X chip. That's a two-year-old chip from a 2018 iPad Pro.
Which brings me to the second point: the iPad Pro isn't a cheap device. Starting at $799 and going all the way up to $1,649 for a full-loaded setup, the iPad Pro isn't cheap.
In fact, the cheapest Mac -- the Mac mini -- also starts at $799.
Also, it's worth bearing in mind that what we've seen so far from Apple are chips that have been retrofitted for use in Macs and that the final chips are likely to be specifically optimized for Mac workflows.
Finally, we don't know how much the chips Apple uses in iPads and iPhones actually cost. Like me, you've probably come across hand-waving and back-of-the-envelope calculations from teardowns, but given what A-series processors are capable of, they're not cheap. Then there's all the R&D work, both on the chips themselves and in getting macOS ready for Arm hardware.
So no, the bad news is that Apple Silicon Macs aren't going to be cheaper. The good news, however, is that I doubt they are going to be more expensive. Apple has very likely timed the transition such that it can offer the benefits of making a shift to Arm without the downside of additional cost.
I also doubt that Apple is going to have a firesale on Intel Macs at any point either. Apple's channel inventory isn't all that big, so it's not like the company is going to have warehouses filled with Intel-powered Macs that no one wants.
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Holy Trinity Parish occupies 7.13 acres off Main Street in Ligonier. The site contains an existing church, school and gymnasium housed in a two-story building which was formerly a railroad roundhouse. The site also contains a former convent building, used for meeting rooms; and a rectory/ parish office building. The project created a new worship space with increased seating capacity, which not only looks more like a church than the existing building, but also gives Holy Trinity a stronger street presence within the community. This was accomplished by addressing the Main Street facade and entrance, as well as by using architectural elements, such as a steeple and a stained glass rose window, which are both religious and contextual within the surrounding traditional buildings.
It was determined that placing the addition in front of the existing building was the most feasible solution since it is more economical in its construction costs, as well as in its utility and maintenance costs. This design also provides better circulation between the new church nave and the social hall and the school. Finally, this alternative provided the best opportunity for efficient use of the spaces already existing in the present building. The former worship area will be converted into support spaces that will be used for meeting areas for Children’s Liturgy of the Word, RCIA and social meetings, all just a few steps away from the new worship space.


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[LMB] OT: I need help finding the title of a particular classic SFstory
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"Matthew George" <matt.msg at gmail.com> wrote:
>I once found a particular short story that I'd been searching for, kept
>careful note of its title and author... and now I find that I've misplaced
>There was a trope used in various works (novels to short fiction) by
>different authors around the mid '60s to early '70s: people were isolated
>from mainstream society, began experimenting with free love and drugs, and
>ultimately gained superhuman intelligence and powers. It was this big
>thing for a while. The story I'm looking for is the first, the one that
>marked the beginning of the trend.
Perhaps the trend goes back further.
Wilmar Shiras wrote on a related theme in 1948.
Theodore Sturgeon wrote on a related theme in 1950 and again in 1953.
John D. Macdonald wrote on a related theme in the late 1940s.
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Clean eating is the best described as removing all processed, artificial foods from your diet and focusing on healthy, whole, unprocessed foods. Your body is from nature, bring it back to nature and reap the rewards of eating clean, like living a longer, healthier life, have great glowing skin and hair, fast weight loss and healthy weight maintenance.
Serve 4 ounces broiled flounder or sole with 2 sliced plum tomatoes sprinkled with 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese, broiled until just golden. Eat with 1 cup cooked couscous and 1 cup steamed broccoli. Enjoy 1 fat-free pudding cup for dessert.
The Paleo diet is working amazingly for me. I have been on it for just under 3weeks and lost 13kgs or 28lbs. I feel fantastic, I have been very strict though, and stuck to only the wholesome foods. 3 weeks ago I weighed in at 152kgs/335lbs, now i’m down to 139kgs/306lbs. Paleo is changing my life. Infact I don’t think I am doing the Paleo diet anymore… I am simply a Paleo!
At the end of the study, both groups experienced increased insulin sensitivity, but the effects were stronger in the paleo group. Notably, only in the paleo group did those who were most insulin resistant experience increased insulin sensitivity (25).
Then I started freaking out about the rules. I went to a concert and had a decision to make: eat at 5:30pm, which would break my wait-five-hours-in-between-meals-rule, or wait to eat after the concert at 10pm, which would then break the don’t-eat-after-9pm-rule.
The company claims most South Beach Diet followers will lose 8 to 13 pounds in two weeks and 1 to 2 pounds each week after that. Experts concluded such drastic weight loss is reasonable on this low-carb, high-protein plan, which unfolds in three progressively less restrictive phases. According to one panelist, “It offers the possibility of kick-starting a new diet by providing quick weight loss, which is very motivating.” On the other hand, it’s rule-heavy and may be too restrictive for some people to follow in the long term.
This diet is not too far off the normal for me, especially after fasting during our Orthodox lent for 46 days. I am following the plan to support my friend who needs and wants to lose weight. She lives alone and does not cook, so I made the soup. I was totally surprised how great it tastes! I thought it would be so bland, but it’s delicious. I know it wouldn’t be as tasty substituting vegetable broth for the beef broth, but what do you think of its implication diet plan-wise?
The “Ultimate Paleo Weight Loss Plan” I just outlined might seem super complex to you if you are new to paleo! There are so many things to remember! But it just seems that way on the surface. Focusing on fresh fruit and vegetables, wild-caught and grass-fed animal products, and healthy fats like olive and coconut oil will take you a long way towards greater health and weight loss.
Fruit and veg are low in calories and fat, and high in fibre – three essential ingredients for successful weight loss. They also contain plenty of vitamins and minerals. Read up on getting your 5 A DAY.
If you’re out and ordering a sub, get the six-inch sandwich. Buy a small popcorn, a small salad, a small hamburger. Again, studies find we tend to eat what’s in front of us, even though we’d feel just as full on less. Try these portion-control tricks when you’re dishing your own food.
There is some scientific legitimacy to today’s lower-carb diets: Large amounts of simple carbohydrates from white flour and added sugar can wreak havoc on your blood sugar and lead to weight gain. While avoiding sugar, white rice, and white flour, however, you should eat plenty of whole-grain breads and brown rice. One Harvard study of 74,000 women found that those who ate more than two daily servings of whole grains were 49 percent less likely to be overweight than those who ate the white stuff. Plus, whole grains can even make you smarter.
The dish below is a modified version of Bi Bim Bab (Pi Bim Bab). You can see the Korean style by putting “Bi Bim Bab” into the search enging and click “image”. It is one of the healthiest dishes in the world, and almost nobody who eats right in S. Korea is overweigth! I added some of my favorite vegetables because it is hard to find theirs in the USA.
Tag the high-fat/high-calorie foods that are typically your favorites (our top five: cookies, candy, ice cream, potato chips, and fries) and gradually downshift. “If you’re eating six of these foods a week, try to go down to five,” says Dr. Lutes. Each week, drop another until you’re at no more than one or two; at the same time, add in a good-for-you choices like baby carrots, sautéed broccoli, oranges, and other fresh fruits and veggies.
Americans are conditioned to keep eating until they’re stuffed, but residents of Okinawa eat until they’re 80% full. They even have a name for this naturally slimming habit: hara hachi bu. We can adopt this healthy habit by dishing out 20% less food, according to researcher Brian Wansink, PhD. His studies show most people don’t miss it.
Our body weight is determined by the amount of energy that we take in as food and the amount of energy we expend in the activities of our day. Energy is measured in calories. Metabolism is the sum of all chemical processes within the body that sustain life. Your basal metabolic rate is the number of calories (amount of energy) you need for your body to carry out necessary functions. If your weight remains constant, this is likely a sign that you are taking in the same amount of calories that you burn daily. If you’re slowly gaining weight over time, it is likely that your caloric intake is greater than the number of calories you burn through your daily activities.
I’m finding the longer I go without sugar, the more I dislike it. Today, I caved and bought a Costa Black Forest Hot Chocolate. I’ve been good and not had one this year, when for the past few years I have been obsessed with them and had one almost every day. After one sip I felt ill, so I threw the entire thing and walked away with a big smile on my face.
I have never been super overweight, but I have been carrying around an extra 10 lbs the last couple of years (I’m in my early 40s). Then this past summer I had a mastectomy and was a little depressed, and out of work for 8 weeks. I put on more weight and was very discouraged that my pants didn’t fit anymore. I tried a counting calorie diet with no results. I enjoy healthy foods and decided to try Paleo. After the first day, I went through my kitchen and got rid of non-Paleo foods and clarified my own butter. It’s been one week and I’m down 6 lbs! I was feeling run down on day 4, but I understand this is my body adjusting to the carb loss and every day I’m getting better. I love that I can eat a small, nutritious meal and I feel full, not bloated, and I do not get hungry two hours later. Before this diet, I only ate fish for meat, and I’m finding it hard to get more protein, so I think I may introduce chicken back in, but right now the thought of it grosses me out (It’s been 15 years since I ate it) so I’ll have to give it time. Also, I was a big wine drinker and decided I didn’t not want to give that up. I used to be able to drink a bottle and feel fine. Now though, I have two glasses and feel it. I will be most likely weaning off my “wine every evening” habit.
Hi Chis, I just turned 13. I know about this diet because my dad lost 45 lbs from it and I stay on low-carbs because of “sugar reasons”…eat proteins such as all the: steaks, eggs, chicken, salads, veggies, pork grinds (kind of like chips), cheese sticks, hot dogs (pork) you want! Then always count the carbs and calories on your food item. Remember, NO SUGAR! Many say to eat fruits…..don’t! Also, make sure you drink water, crystal light, diet soda and teas (or anything else you find that is diet). When you want a little something sweet to….let’s say coffee….add Splenda and less milk.


Clea Duvall first effort behind the camera has paid off in spades.
The character actress’s directorial debut, "The Intervention," has been sold for "just north of $2 million" at Sundance to Paramount Home Media. The film is also competing in the festival’s U.S. drama section.
Duvall also wrote and co-stars in this homage to "The Big Chill," which finds a married pair discovering that their weekend getaway with three other couples is actually an intervention for their relationship.
PHM is planning a day-and-date VOD release in partnership with a third party to handle the theatrical rollout.


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We would like to replace the ping image with the Venus logo. This is the design we use on our stationary and business cards but I need basically the same image in a black and gold color to match our website. We also want to keep the words "The Art of Dentistry"
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Small town hair salon with a friendly and cozy vibe.
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The country at the crossroads of Eastern Europe and Western Asia has opened its borders for travelers!
After lots of uncertainty we are excited to see that Georgia is open for international travel and we are ready if you are ready!
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Create your own image of this untouched country and take part in a one-of-a-kind inspirational 7-day driving adventure through condensed areas via mountains and gravel roads, rocky driveways and real offroad tracks. Navigate through dense forests and rivers and don’t forget to watch out for the rather wild traffic and unpredictable wildlife. Be amazed by this relatively small but mighty country where it takes just hours from the fierce Caucasus mountains to its beautiful Black Sea coastline of Batumi.
As always all Beyond Adventure Style, discover Georgia at your own pace following our Classic-Rally Style driving concept while enjoying the stunning surroundings and connecting with nature. The route will take you to the highest habited area in Europe – over 2000m in altitude. Highways don’t exist here, and the wild will add to the excitement of your adventure. Your final destination is a vibrant city Tbilisi – the new metropole to be in and currently the most exciting city according to Forbes. A cultural melting pot for centuries with its multi-layered hub and creative spirit with irresistible energy.
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These words appeared in Small Great Things, a novel by Jodi Picoult:
We all do it, you know. distract ourselves from noticing how time’s passing. We throw ourselves into our jobs. We focus on keeping the blight off our tomato plants. We fill up our gas tanks and top off our Metro cards and do the grocery shopping so that the weeks look the same on the surface. And then one day, you turn around, and your baby is a man. One day, you look in the mirror, and see gray hair. One day, you realize there is less of your life left than what you’ve already lived. And you think, How did this happen so fast? It was only yesterday when I was having my first legal drink, when I was diapering him, when I was young.
When this realization hits, you start doing the math. How much time do I have left? How much can I fit into that small space?
Some of us let this realization guide us, I guess. We book trips to Tibet, we learn how to sculpt, we skydive. We try to pretend it’s not almost over.
But some of us just fill up our gas tanks and top off our Metro cards and do the grocery shopping, because if you only see the path that’s right ahead of you, you don’t obsess over when the cliff might drop off.
Some of us never learn.
And some of us learn earlier than others.
As I reflected on those words from the novel, I am reminded again.
We are born, and then a second later we are old.
This is life, how it’s supposed to be, created in a knowledge that far surpasses the most brilliant minds that ever walked the planet.
And we live like we live because we were designed to do so.
But life has a way of pulling you up short with the events that surprise and often shock.
Those words will glide right past most who read them. They are still young. They have all the time in the world. Their lives have just begun.
Life has a way of catching up with your dreams. It has a way of lulling you into thinking what is now will always be.
Why do I think those years left to live, will somehow slow down instead of whizzing by just like the previous ones?
The challenge is to balance the way we live, always thinking that tomorrow will somehow be different if we just keep doing the same things; with seizing the day as if there are so few left to live.
What would you do if you believed that your days are numbered and the number is fewer than you thought?
Make it count?
It’s not about you.
There is a higher purpose than the obvious set before us.
You are leaving a legacy.
What will it be?

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Croatian Elections Again Overshadowed by Scandal
Controversy is swirling as Croatia prepares to go to the polls on July 5th. Anti-abortion comments made during a live television debate have provoked a furious backlash among women and pro-choice advocates, amid allegations that the Church is interfering in the electoral process. Meanwhile, there’s been a worrying uptick in anti-Serb hate speech, fueling ethnic tensions.
Unfortunately, such distasteful incidents are par for the course when it comes to Croatian politics. Virtually every election since the former Yugoslav country gained independence in 1991 has been marred by corruption and controversy, with the most recent incarnations no exception. Despite its accession to the EU, Croatia is still mired in a miasma of its own inner machinations. Unless whoever triumphs this Sunday can effect genuine change in its political, economic, and judiciary systems, Croatia’s future ballots will continue to be determined by the scandale du jour rather than the important issues facing the country.
Bigotry and intolerance
With polling day fast approaching, a TV debate caused a furor in Croatia when Gordan Jandroković (of the incumbent HDZ party) and Miroslav Škoro (of the far-right Homeland Movement party) put aside their political differences to agree that abortion should be discouraged in all circumstances, including rape. Their remarks followed those made by independent candidate Nino Raspudić, who argued that the children of those raped during the Bosnian War of 1992-95 have nevertheless “managed to realize themselves as happy people.”
The rhetoric has drawn sharp criticism and a stinging response from prominent activists and political figures across Croatia. Hundreds of women immediately took to social media to show their displeasure via photographs of them giving the middle finger, with ex-President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović and deputy mayor of Osijek Žana Gamoš leading the charge. The conservative views expressed by the politicians do not seem to reflect those of Croatian society, either, with 81% of those surveyed saying they believed in a woman’s right to choose. Meanwhile, critics have identified the fingerprints of the Church on the subject and have warned that politics must remain secular.
The anti-abortion affair is, unfortunately, not the only scandal tarnishing the upcoming elections, either. A spate of xenophobic incidents, including an obscene, anti-Serb banner held by football hooligans and a worrying increase in reports of police brutality towards asylum seekers, means that ethnic issues are threatening to overrun the electoral campaign. The Serb question is a particularly thorny one for current Prime Minister Andrej Plenković, who must tread a careful line in his condemnatory remarks of the incidents for fear of losing his slim majority to far-right populism. Although ethnic Serbs represent a mere 4% of the population and hold just three of the parliament’s 151 seats, their struggles could yet play a pivotal role in Sunday’s contest.
Sadly, such polemics are nothing new for Croatian politics. Lagging in the polls ahead of the 2015 parliamentary elections, the then-ruling Social Democrats (SDP) pushed through a law which forced domestic banks to convert loans that had previously been taken out in Swiss francs (CHF) into euros. The move, which the following government called “populist,” saddled Croatia’s banks, most of whom are subsidiaries of financial institutions in other EU countries, with a €1 billion bill.
The European Commission warned Zagreb that the law disproportionately hurt local lenders, the European Central Bank took aim at the fact that the law was applied with retroactive effect, and the IMF advised that such measures should be avoided as they adversely affect investor confidence, but Croatia’s government refused to back down.
The fallout from the episode continues today, as a case makes its way through the Croatian judiciary which could yet again sacrifice Croatia’s financial sector at the altar of populism. If courts rule that all loans initially denominated in CHF are null and void and that borrowers are entitled to compensation, Croatian banks could be on the hook for another €2.6 billion—a difficult sum to swallow as they are trying to build up capital buffers in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.
The snap elections which came the year after the misguided loan conversion were, themselves, tainted by a diplomatic brouhaha over leaked recordings and alleged voter fraud on a widespread scale. Firstly, former Prime Minister (and now president) Zoran Milanović was secretly taped dubbing neighbors Bosnia and Herzegovina “a failed state” and the Serbian government “miserable.” His remarks provoked an international outcry, strained already fraught Serbo-Croatian relations, and made the election a retrospection on festering old wounds rather than an optimistic outlook towards the future.
What’s more, independent research revealed that as many as 300,000 of the names on the 2016 ballot were non-existent voters, casting aspersions over the result of the election. Shockingly, that still represented a significant improvement from the 2011 campaign, when as many as one million –almost 20% of the electorate – were found to be fake. As many as 70 out of Croatia’s 151 parliament seats may have been influenced by the error, throwing a pall over the assembly’s legitimacy.
Decisive action urgently needed
With such an insalubrious track record, it’s unsurprising that this week’s elections look set for a similar fate. With rampant division and populism and Croatia sinking to its lowest corruption rating in five years according to Transparency International, the EU’s youngest member state has a lot of growing up to do.
Whoever emerges triumphant on Sunday, their first and largest charge will be to take to task those within the political system who are resistant to real change. The recent re-conviction of ex-Premier Ivo Sanader is an encouraging sign, but a similarly uncompromising attitude to stamping out corruption wherever it surfaces must be employed across the board. Only once the broken system upon which Croatian politics are built has been pieced back together, can the country begin addressing the internal discord and healing decades-old scars, depriving populists of fodder for their hate campaigns and allowing this Balkan nation to achieve its full potential.


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Pencils, HB or whatever you’re comfortable with
Charcoal Pencil, General Brand, hard & medium
Sketch pad - 9 x 12 (nothing smaller)
Synthetic Round Brush #4 (listed again under ‘Brushes’)
Multi-media paper or Watercolor paper - 11 x 14 is large enough
Feel free to bring your own favorites as long as the sizes are covered. I use mostly Filberts. If you prefer Flats that’s fine. Whatever
you are comfortable with. You will only need a handful of brushes. Don’t be surprised if I only use 3 brushes. Err on the side of
LARGE with a couple of smalls. Don’t feel compelled to buy a ton of brushes. If you need to buy a few make it the Eclipse Longer
Filbert (mostly 8 & 10), Series 66 Sable #6, and a nice soft brush (Size 10 or so) as recommended. I have a Brush Pack listed with
Rosemary & Co.
Eclipse (Synthetic), Long Filberts, Sizes 4, 6, 8, 10
Eclipse are the backbone of my work.
Evergreen (Synthetic) Round, #4 (need this for DAY ONE)
Masters (Natural Hair-soft) Series 278 Long Filberts, #6, 8, 10, 12 (12 is a luxury brush – not necessary for this workshop)
I use the Masters Choice for the top layers of the fur
Series 66 sable (Natural Hair), Cat’s Tongue #6 & #8 (used for the eyes)
Please make sure you bring Synthetic AND Natural hair. We will definitely need a big soft Natural hair brush no matter what. It will
be used to either soften edges, knock down passages or for the top layer of fur.
If you have a synthietic soft mop brush that works too and is inexpensive.
(I have an old Loew’s Cornell 1” #270 Maxine’s Mop I use from Michael’s).
For limited palette studies please have:
Ivory Black (R), Terra Rosa (W/N), Yellow Ochre Light or Pale(W/N),
Titanium White (R or similar)
If you bring nothing else, bring these.
Here’s what’s on my full palette today:
Transparent Oxide Yellow, Transparent Oxide Red, Transparent Oxide Brown,
Ultramarine Blue Deep, Cobalt Blue Lt, Viridian, Cadmium Orange,
Cadmium Yellow Deep, Titanium White
Yellow Ochre Light or Pale, Terra Rosa, Cadmium Red, Cadmium Yellow Light
Alizarin Permanent, Venetian Red (can be substituted for Terra Rosa W/N)
This is even more important than paints or brushes!
I regularly use RayMar Panels, C15DP or C13DP
For an affordable support for studies I recommend:
Centurion Oil Primed Linen Panel (OP DLX) or Pads (available @ Jerry’s).
Ampersand Gessoed Panels are another lower cost option.
If you have panels or canvas at home with anything but a super smooth texture you can use W/N Oil Paint Primer or Gamblin Oil
Ground to create a nice surface. Very inexpensive and easy! I encourage you to either use the panels suggested or utilize the
ground/primer so that you will totally benefit from this workshop. Sometimes you only need to add one coat to the surface.
Two (2) 8 x 10 oil primed panel for exercises
Two(2) 11 x 14(minimum size)* Oil Primed Panels, larger if you want
*Please no smaller sizes for the portrait section of the Workshop! We need enough surface for freedom.
Also, if you are feeling ambitious pack an extra panel.
I will provide a variety of photos to choose from but please bring whatever you would like to work on. Personal pet photos or
commission work. Whatever you are excited about. We also will have live models if you choose to do that. You might want to
Plein Air Box
Palette, glass or Plexiglas(good for travel)
Rubbing Alcohol to clean palette
Glass Scraper to clean palette
Container for Gamsol
Viva Paper Towels
IPad and/or camera recommended in case you want photo of our models or to use for reference photos. An iPad holder is available
through Amazon. Useful but not necessary.

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You can share your app with as much social media and run it through Social Media and you can advertise your apps on social media,
The social media platforms where apps tend to get the most attention are:
You can use a sponsor to get your app up and running. This is a very popular trend. You can also download your app via a large sponsor through YouTube on Sponsor Or, on the others’ websites, through your app’s link sponsor; people can download your app more and more
You can also download your apps via email marketing For this you will need a good email database and If you do not choose a good and new email database then your hard work is worthless.
You can select the list of the following email databases named below.
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