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District Deeds Sunday Reads – September 2, 2018: Getting Rid of Homework; Black Flight to Charters; 9th Grade BARR
Posted by District Deeds in District Deeds SUNDAY READS, Uncategorized
San Diego Unified Board of Education, San Diego Unified School District, San Diego Unified School District Superintendent Cindy Marten, SDUSD Trustee Richard Barrera
Here are some interesting articles we received and discovered this past week…
Some Elementary Schools Are Getting Rid Of Homework — And Experts Say It's OK
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Second grade teacher Brandy Young gained national attention in 2016 when a note she wrote to her class parents was posted on social media.
"There will be no formally assigned homework this year… rather, I ask that you spend your evenings doing things that are proven to correlate with student success," she wrote. "Eat dinner as a family, read together, play outside, and get your child to bed early."
Two years later, Young is teaching second grade at a new school, A.G. Elder Elementary School in Joshua, Texas. She is still not assigning formal homework — though she has tweaked her policy a lot, she told TODAY Parents, since she wrote that note.
The no homework policy has worked great, she said, but it has been a learning process for her. Young found out that some of her students really do want homework, for one thing. She will also send work home with a child who needs more practice on a specific skill from time to time, but when she does, she communicates with the parent and sends an answer key to ensure the practice will be effective.
"I want my students to know that I care about them at every second," she said. "I want parents to trust me and let me into their family. I want open communication lines between us so that I can better understand their children and help them succeed."
For that to be possible, Young said, "Student work, regardless of when and where it's done, should be meaningful, engaging, and relevant. No packets ever. Period." Her second grade students approach learning enthusiastically as a result — even at a Title 1 school where nearly 70 percent of the students are eligible for free or reduced lunch prices.
However, Alfie Kohn, author of "The Homework Myth," told TODAY Parents, "It is important to realize that no research has ever found any advantage to any kind of homework before kids are in high school — and newer studies are questioning whether it's necessary even in high school."
Kohn — who has written 14 books covering parenting and education and lectures on those topics at universities, parenting groups, and corporations — is a well-known critic of homework. He said that though some defend the concept of homework as having non-academic advantages like teaching kids responsibility, work habits, or independence, "To the best of my knowledge, not a shred of evidence supports those claims."
What evidence does show, he said, is the disadvantages of homework, some of which parents are already familiar. "It causes frustration, unhappiness, and family conflict; it often makes children less excited about learning and leaves them with less time to pursue other interests and just enjoy their childhoods," he observed.
He encouraged parents to speak up on behalf of their children. "If your child's teacher never assigns homework, take a moment to thank them for doing what's in your child's best interest — and for acknowledging that families, not schools, ought to decide what happens during family time," he added. "If your child is getting homework, organize a bunch of parents to meet with the teacher and administrators — not to ask, 'Why so much?' but, given that the research says it's all pain and no gain, to ask, 'Why is there any?'"
District Deeds Synopsis:
As a parent of San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) Students we experienced many of the struggles and misgivings described in the article to get our kids to complete homework.
Our kids were a perfect example of what Dr. Kohn described.
My kids both had to catch a bus to their school at 6 am and they didn't arrive back home on the bus until 3:30 pm. If they had after school activities. they didn't arrive until 5:30 pm.
In other words they had been either in transit to and from school or actually in school for 11 ½ hours! They then had to complete homework for up to two hours each night.
That is a 13 ½ hour work day!
In retrospect it is very clear why my kids struggled to complete homework and suffered because of it. We wish we had known more about the actual value and risk of homework.
We believe this article exposes an important issue that ALL of our students suffer from and we should take Dr. Kohn's advice:
…organize a bunch of parents to meet with the teacher and administrators — not to ask, 'Why so much?' but, given that the research says it's all pain and no gain, to ask, 'Why is there any?'
Black Flight: A Public Charter School Movement
There is a movement occurring in this nation, an educational campaign that comprises of students, parents, teachers, school administrators, church leaders, and advocates. Their ultimate goal is school reform, changing America's methodical approach to educating our nation's next generation. Interestingly, African Americans are quickly becoming the leaders of this movement, flocking to free public charter schools across the country. But why are African Americans moving to free public charter schools and away from traditional public neighborhood schools?
Since Brown v Board of Education, the landmark 1954 Supreme Court case that ruled unanimously that the segregation of black and white public school students was unconstitutional, white school administrators to all intent and purposes — fearful of the possibility of African-American teachers gaining control over majority white classrooms and seeking administrative roles — took immediate action after the federal court ruling. A seemingly superior and nationalistic white American approach would grow into a resolve for how to control its future "negro problem."
Another consequence is what happened between the two American political parties during the '60s. For the most part and to all appearances, African Americans encountered a losing situation with both parties. Paradoxically, African Americans have supported the democratic party while the Party continues to rely on powerful teacher unions for campaign funding. Notably, teacher unions continue to be anti-public charter schools, and so without engaging in community-based conversations about the continuous achievement gap that exists between black and white children, black children and the African American cohort become less competitive.
Not enough conversations are being had, regarding how to solve the racial achievement gap problem. For the most part, white scholars have continued to drive this conversation without inviting more black educators, black researches, and black school administrators, who are on the ground, to the decision-making table. American educators are just beginning to understand that black educators and black school administrators should have had the opportunity to sit at the decision making table at the beginning of school integration. But yet we say again and again, "the wheels of justice turn slowly."
There are lots of phony reasons for the decreasing SDUSD enrollment given by SDUSD Board Trustee Richard "Tricky Dick" Barrera. and his hand picked, illegitimate "White Woman Mafia" Elementary School Superintendent Cindy Marten.
The REAL reason there is a huge exodus away from the SDUSD is clearly illustrated in this article.
There is no attempt to support diversity in either leadership or staff by the incompetent Barrera, Marten and their cronies.
Especially negatively impacted by this Barrera/Marten administrative equity disaster are families of color…and they are leaving the SDUSD for charter school alternatives.
Barrera and Marten should be ashamed.
BARR – A Little-Known Program Has Lifted 9th Grade Performance In Virtually Every Type Of School
There's a school improvement model that has gotten consistent results in large schools, small schools, high-performing ones, low-performing ones, those with large achievement gaps, diverse schools, homogenous ones, and schools that are rural, urban and suburban. An impressive track record of hard evidence has made it the only program to earn three levels of competitive grant funding from the federal government since 2010.
But you've probably never heard of it.
The Building Assets, Reducing Risks program, known as BARR, was started by a Minneapolis school counselor in 1999, and remained in relative obscurity for a decade. Since 2010, its creator, Angela Jerabek, has sought research support to test the BARR program in other schools. The BARR mantra – "Same Students. Same Teachers. Better Results." – has led Jerabek to aggressively seek out schools in different regions, with different demographics, to test her theory. So far, it holds up.
At large, diverse Hemet High School in urban southern California, this program helped close the achievement gap between ninth-grade Latino students and their peers within two years.
No matter where a school starts, the BARR model seems to make it better, and it does so without hiring all new teachers, transforming the school curriculum, or spending a lot of money – though it does require a strong commitment in time.
BARR targets students during a make-or-break year: ninth grade. The UChicago Consortium on School Research has found that students who earn at least five credits in ninth grade (enough to go on to 10th grade) and get no more than a one-semester failing grade in a core course are 3.5 times more likely to graduate on time.
BARR does it by prioritizing strong relationships and a focus on student strengths. It forces teachers to track student progress closely and creates a structure for stepping in at the first sign something might be wrong.
"Our system is to catch those coughs before they become pneumonia," said Justin Barbeau, technical assistance director at the BARR Center and a former social studies teacher at St. Louis Park High School. "It's really about giving kids the things they need."
BARR has eight broad strategies, and on their own, they sound like plain old, good schooling: focus on the whole student; prioritize social and emotional learning; provide professional development for teachers, counselors and administrators; create teams of students; give teachers time to talk about the students on their respective teams; engage families; engage administrators; and meet to discuss the highest-risk students.
We really enjoyed reading this article.
It provided numerous examples of how schools and districts with a REAL vision and a strong plan can accomplish amazing things with the neediest Students. The article stresses and intervention strategy with focus and commitment and "giving kids the things they need.
And unfortunately, completely OPPOSITE of the phony SDUSD Vision 2020 propaganda that promises the moon and gives SDUSD Students the shaft.
District Deeds believes we need to apply the BARR principals to the SDUSD Senior Leadership…
Building Assets: Implement a documented hiring diversity project in the SDUSD that includes "more black educators, black researches, and black school administrators"
Reducing Risks: Fire Cindy Marten and her "White Woman Mafia" senior staff and vote out of office all the current Board of Education members
Now for our Quote of the Week:
"And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." – George Orwell
Have a great week!!!


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The Partimenti of Giovanni Paisiello: Pedagogy and Practice (Eastman Studies in Music #184) (Hardcover)
By Nicoleta Paraschivescu, Chris Walton (Translator)
Reveals the brilliant musical and pedagogical thinking of the famed eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Neapolitan composer and teacher of royal students.
Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816) was one of the most important composers of opera in the eighteenth century. His operas were performed throughout Europe, and his fame led to appointments as a maestro di cappella and composer at prominent European courts. This book is the first study to address his work as a teacher of composition and what we would today call music theory.
The practice of partimento (figured or unfigured bass lines) was an integral part of the training of musicians at the renowned conservatories in eighteenth-century Naples. By employing these often-unprepossessing partimento bass lines, young musicians learned the techniques of variation, improvisation, and composition while seated at the harpsichord.
Paisiello's Regole per bene accompagnare il Partimento (Rules for Harpsichordists; 1782) survives in both autograph and printed forms. It contains forty-six partimenti that have long been considered the core of his pedagogic oeuvre. However, two recently discovered manuscripts contain a further forty-one unknown partimenti, notated as two- and three-part disposizioni (realizations).
The present study offers numerous insights gleaned from the surviving sources and bolsters our understanding of how to perform the music of Paisiello and his contemporaries: music that has often survived in an incomplete form. These findings are relevant not just for keyboard players but also for singers, instrumentalists, and anyone interested in the inner workings of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century music.
Genres & Styles - Classical
Individual Composer & Musician
Instruction & Study - Theory
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Series: Eastman Studies in Music

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Super Eagles and Leicester City midfielder Wilfred Ndidi have been named in the Team of the Week for Europe's Top Five Leagues.
The best XI from Europe's top five leagues comprises only of players aged 21 and under by Whoscored.
Ndidi made a Premier League high eight tackles in the Foxes 2-0 win vs Watford which gave him a 8.10 rating.


Less than a year after he took power as Egypt's first democratically elected president, Mohammed Morsi was forced out by the army Wednesday night. Follow the day's events as they unfolded on FRANCE 24's live blog.
• The Egyptian army has ousted President Mohammed Morsi and temporarily suspended the constitution.
• Early elections have been promised under the terms of a transition roadmap.
• Egypt's top Muslim and Christian clerics, Ahmed al-Tayeb, Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar, and Coptic Christian Pope Tawadros have backed an army-sponsored roadmap.
• Morsi has urged his supporters to 'peacefully resist the coup'.
• Shortly after the army announcement that Morsi was deposed, massive celebrations broke out in Cairo's Tahrir Square as demonstrators cheered, lit fireworks and threw confetti amid chants of, "The people and the army are one".
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April 17, 2017, Morristown, NJ – Morristown Medical Center and MoleSafe USA are pleased to announce the opening of the Skin Surveillance Program (SSP) at the Carol G. Simon Cancer Center. The opening of MoleSafe's newest location provides the community with access to diagnostic screening for the early detection of skin cancers, including melanoma.
"We recognize the critical importance that preventive care and early detection programs play in the health and wellbeing of our community," says Eric Whitman, MD, medical director, Atlantic Health System Cancer Care. "The opening of MoleSafe's newest location provides the residents of Morristown and surrounding communities access to this novel, high technology skin diagnostic screening for the early detection of skin cancers - primarily melanoma," adds Dr. Whitman, who is also director of the Atlantic Melanoma Center at Morristown Medical Center.
Melanoma is cancer that grows in the cells of the skin that produce melanin — the pigment that gives skin its color. Though there is no definitive cause, overexposure to ultraviolet (UV) rays from the sun or tanning beds drastically increases the risk.
For more information or to schedule a screening with one of our specialists, visit MoleSafe's website or call 1-877-665-3723.


The April 2017 issue of Hammer & Dolly features industry icon Mike Anderson sharing his thoughts on how to "Don't Just Survive – Thrive!", Local Association Participation and What to Do When an Insurer Won't Pay for What You Want OR Need. Another industry icon, Larry Montanez III cuts through the falsehoods and gets to what's real in Diagnosis Myth-Information. Learn how to put efficiency and productivity within reach using SOPs, job descriptions and more with Keith Manich's Building a Production Compliance Model…and much more!


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Als Überschlagsrechnung bezeichnet man das Rechnen mit stark auf- oder abgerundeten Zahlen zur schnellen Überprüfung komplexer Rechnungen.

Bei der Überschlagsrechnung handelt es sich um eine sehr ungenaue Methode, die lediglich dazu dient, Ergebnisse auf ihre Glaubwürdigkeit zu überprüfen oder unbekannte mathematische Größen auf der Basis von bereits bekannten mathematischen Größen schätzungsweise zu ermitteln. Daher sollte man mit dieser Methode sehr vorsichtig arbeiten.

Beispiele von Anwendungen

Währungsumrechnung
Viele Menschen benutzen Überschlagsrechnungen bei Währungsumrechnungen, beispielsweise um einen Preis in Euro mit einer früheren Währung zu vergleichen.

Bei Überschlagsrechnungen mit gerundeten Faktoren (in Deutschland etwa 1:2 statt 1:1,95583, in Österreich 1:14 statt 1:13,7603) treten Rundungsfehler auf, die sich auf den umgerechneten Preis auswirken (wobei meist die wesentlichere Geldentwertung seit der Einführung des Euro einen größeren methodischen Fehler bewirkt).

Rechenschieber
Als man noch mit Rechenschiebern rechnete, musste man die Stellung des Kommas in einer Überschlagsrechnung errechnen, da der Rechenschieber nicht die Größenordnung einer Zahl anzeigt.

Aufheizzeit eines Wasserkessels
Die spezifische Wärmekapazität von Wasser ist 1,16 Wh/(kg K). Für eine grobe Schätzung oder überschlagsmäßige Rechnung genügt der Wert 1 Wh/(kg K). Um einen Wasserkessel mit 100 Liter Wasser (ungefähr 100 kg, abhängig von der Temperatur) um 10 K aufzuheizen, benötigt man überschlagsmäßig gerechnet 1 kWh. Ein 30-kW-Gasbrenner benötigt dafür "rund 2 Minuten", ein 10-kW-Brenner "rund 6 Minuten". Damit erhält man Ergebnisse, die für eine Beurteilung ausreichen. Der mehr oder minder exakte Wert bis auf beispielsweise drei Nachkommastellen genau ist dabei nicht nötig.

Rundung

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Philadelphia Phillies ICYMI Monday 11/21/16
Brett Krasnov | 11.21.16 | Baseball | No Comments
Welcome to week 2 of our off-season Philadelphia Phillies ICYMI Monday series.
He Likes Us. He Sort of Really Likes Us:
The cliff-hanger from last week resolved itself on Monday when Jeremy Hellickson accepted the Phillies 17.2 M qualifying offer for 2017. Besides being a nice payday for Hellickson, this also makes him ripe for a trade because of the short contract. At the same time he is a good candidate for renegotiation for a longer more term friendly deal down the road, depending on how much Jeremy really does like it here.
He Speaks for Us:
On Thursday Phillies Co-Owner John Middleton, 61, who holds a 48 percent stake in the franchise, was formally approved by team owners as the Phillies' "control person," who is accountable to MLB for the operation of the team and for its compliance with the rules of baseball.
"I'm thrilled with the opportunity," Middleton told MLB.com at the owners' meetings. "It's a privilege and an honor to be asked to be a control person and to have the confidence of my partners, the Bucks, and Major League Baseball and the other owners. I'm looking forward to it. Our fans want us to bring back a championship. We're committed to that. We begin working even harder today than we did yesterday. It's our goal to win a championship."
The rest of the ownership group, Pete, Jim and Sandy Buck, David Montgomery and Pat Gillick own the remaining 52 percent. Middleton has been a limited partner since 1994, and he has served as chairman of the Phillies' advisory board since '98.
They Work For Us:
On Thursday MLB and Commissioner Rob Manfred named the Phillies as the 2016 recipient of the Allan H. Selig Award for Philanthropic Excellence, formerly known as the Commissioner's Award for Philanthropic Excellence, which was created in 2010 to recognize the charitable and philanthropic efforts of MLB clubs..
The Phillies are being recognized for their organization-wide commitment to supporting the fight against ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) through the Phillies Phestival, an annual autograph and auction party which this year raised more than $700,000 to provide much-needed patient care and services for ALS patients in the Philadelphia area and more than $17 million since 1984, when the ALS Association Greater Philadelphia Chapter became the team's primary charity. As part of their recognition, the Phillies will receive a $10,000 grant from MLB Charities to continue their philanthropic efforts.
"To receive this prestigious award is indeed an honor, and one that we dedicate to the patients and families who live with or have succumbed to this awful disease," said Phillies chairman David Montgomery. "The Phillies family is committed to putting an end to ALS. I would like to thank our players, Phillies wives, coaching and front-office staff, day-of-game employees, ownership, sponsors — and especially our fans — who have joined us, and continue to join us, in the fight to end Lou Gehrig's Disease."
"The ALS Association, Greater Philadelphia Chapter, is proud and honored that the Philadelphia Phillies are the recipient of the 2016 Allan H. Selig Award for Philanthropic Excellence," said Ellyn Phillips, president of the ALS Association Greater Philadelphia Chapter. "The Chapter has greatly benefited from the Phillies dedication, compassion, generosity and year-round efforts in the fight against ALS."
Phillies 40 Man Roster:
The rest of the week's news all had to do with the Phillies desire to protect as many players as possible from the rule 5 draft, opening up room on the 40 man roster to do so. They needed to finalize this by Friday at 8 PM. MLB requires teams to add players who signed at age 18 or younger to 40-man rosters within five professional seasons, or those who signed at 19 or older within four seasons, or they will become eligible for other organizations to draft. Clubs pay $50,000 to select a player in the Major League phase of the Rule 5 Draft, slated for Dec. 8. If that player doesn't stay on the 25-man roster for the full season, he must be offered back to his former team for $25,000.
To start the ball rolling on Tuesday the Phillies announced that they released pitcher Matt Harrison. It was unclear at the outset whether they will be on the hook for all of the remaining $15.2 million of his contract ($13.2 million in 2017 with a $2 million buyout to be paid in 2018) or as heard later in the week that they had reached an undisclosed settlement with the insurance company that held the policy on Harrison's contract, which means the Phillies will have some salary relief.
Harrison, who was acquired from Texas as part of the Cole Hamels trade in 2015, never threw a pitch for the Phillies. He had a 4.21 ERA in 135 career major-league games. He was an All-Star in 2012.
They then added Dominican LHP Elniery Garcia. Garcia, 21, was 12-4 with a 2.68 ERA and 91 strikeouts through 117 2/3 innings last season with the High-A Clearwater Threshers. His win total and ERA ranked a respective second (three-way tie) and fourth-best in the Florida State League, spanning 20 games and 19 starts.
On Thursday it was announced that LHP Elvis Araujo was claimed off outright waivers by the Miami Marlins.
The maneuvering came to a head on Friday when they DFA'd RHP's David Buchanan and Jimmy Cordero, and then added 11 more prospects.
This group included RHP's Drew Anderson, Mark Appel, Ben Lively, Ricardo Pinto, Nick Pivetta and Alberto Tirado; LHP Garcia; C Andrew Knapp; IF Jesmuel Valentin; and OFs Dylan Cozens and Nick Williams. Nine of those players rank among the organization's top 30 prospects, according to MLB Pipeline.com: Williams (No. 3), Cozens (No. 6), Appel (No. 10), Knapp (No. 11), Pinto (No. 15), Pivetta (No. 17), Garcia (No. 19), Lively (No. 23) and Tirado (No. 28).
"I think with adding this many young players, and with the average age of the roster being as young as it is [25 years old], I think there's a reasonable expectation that many of these young players are going to spend time in the big leagues this year," Phillies general manager Matt Klentak said in a conference call with reporters. "It might be on Opening Day. It might be in the first week of May, it could be midseason, it could be a September callup. Players are going to be on the roster at various points of the year and we're going to need to call them."
"We still have the ability and go out and make acquisitions to improve our 2017 club," Klentak said. "Obviously the complication now is with our roster at 40, each addition is going to require a corresponding reduction on the roster. It makes some of the future moves a little trickier. But we still feel like we have some areas on the Major League club that we can improve for next year, and we're committed to exploring those options."
"Yeah, I do," said Klentak, asked if he expects to lose a player or two in the Rule 5 Draft. "I think that's an unfortunate byproduct of having a talented system. We know we can't protect everybody and we did our best to protect as many as we could. Eleven is a lot. But we're prepared for the possibility that we might. There's two ways to look at that. One, it's disappointing we might lose players and on the flip side, organizationally, it's an encouraging sign and it shows that our system is continuing to produce good players."
You can peruse this 40 Man Roster and stoke the Hot Stove with your guesses as to who will go and who will stay. We will have more about these players in the weeks to come.
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Though I was born a few blocks from what was to be the NY Worlds Fair/Shea Stadium/Forrest Hills Complex, my parents saved me from being a NY fan by moving to Elkins Park in 1955, when I was 6 months old. I have been living and dying w/ Philly sports teams ever since. Now over 60 , I bring an older, but hopefully not stodgy, spin to this blog. By day I am a mild mannered controller/IT guy for a family business, but by night you will either find me @ CBP at least 17 games a season, and most other nights yelling at my tv as if they can hear me. Though I attend many other local sports, my main love has always been baseball, and my focus here is the Phillies, but I am also part of the team covering the Philadelphia Union.


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tv Headline News RT October 20, 2013 9:00am-9:30am EDT
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hunger strike of the gone ton away put bay prison continues he gains a rare access to the infamous u.s. military for sentencing. the latest news on the week's top stories this is the weekly on all she was me. thanks for joining us. american lawmakers gave the entire world a scare this week as their bickering over a new budget drove the country to the brink of default at the last minute deal is only a temporary reprieve was not an issue is expected to rise in washington and they are coming months as any so now ever ports. global market eyes were wide open while washington was shut waiting and bracing for impact. to
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i think there would be more calls for sort of trying to reduce dependency in america in the same way as america has been trying to reduce dependency on the middle east for its oil ironically the shutdown didn't save money it cost the u.s. some twenty four billion dollars and credibility worldwide whether it's coming from the world bank whether the i.m.f. whether the leading bankers of the world or from china with now which is the americanized asian this was really is. following a series of spectacles that has downgraded america's image worldwide to levels i've never seen the gentleman from say the scare was just a way to come in and save the day after the last minute up on the table this is the creation of a crisis atmosphere wall street and you know the one percent or corporate sponsors all of them they're not going to allow the meltdown of the international economy
well they soar for me and millions of others congress now has some more time to come up with a long term budget solution before a new deadline comes rolling on the hill they will also have to deal with damage control both at home and abroad all while trying to solve a debt problem in just three months something they couldn't do in the years leading up to this shutdown reporting from washington and he's now a party. the democrats and republicans have been blaming the on each other for weeks with president obama having the last one that probably nothing is done more damage to america's credibility in the world are standing with other countries than the spectacle that we've seen these past several weeks. the president stressed he said about brinkmanship crosses the while to lose confidence in america and condemned what he called a self-inflicted crisis congress said two words visit the problem of the debt
ceiling in just a few months and my hope mto president of the investment advisory found for new strategies believes america's debt will eventually eats up all its eggs. the united states cannot afford to even pay its seventeen trillion dollars in debt that's seventeen trillion everybody says it's one hundred seven percent of g.d.p. well that's true john and seven percent of g.d.p. but who really cares about the percentage of g.d.p. it's a percentage of the debt as a percentage of the revenues it's seven hundred percent seven hundred percent of our revenue and is growing that the deficits are growing at thirty percent of our revenue every year added to the debt deficit we have already so it's unsustainable which is going to happen eventually as we have a currency and bond market collapse and it's not going out twenty years in two thousand and sixteen we'll probably be spending forty percent of all of our revenue just to service our debt that's where the interest payments will equal the
government buildings and nice campus ok amanda at taco sachs is a buy a few or a small bonded by a rose called consing drive to turn is a fountain as much for this ac denouncing the bunch it for next year which paves the way for more painful austerity is going to horse that for us. at some point during this mass protest rally which has been taking place throughout the last two days really in central role a group of young radical protestors started throwing eggs at the finance ministry and also throwing bottles of sticks and the so-called thunder flashes or paper bombs as they're called here at the police who are providing security at the protest rally as a result several policemen were injured and we understand that arrests have also been made these rallies have been going on for the past two days now and they are aims to protest against austerity measures and the heavy economic problems which
italy is only going through according to different figures from fifty thousand to seventy thousand people took part in this event they are protesting against high taxes extremely high youth unemployment and also one of the other sort of points of this protest was against plans to build a high speed train line between italy and france since they say that it's going to be its construction is going to be harmful both to the environment and is going to be a threat to the health of the locals living in that area it really is going through the worst recession since the second world war huge unemployment is standing at just over forty percent and really the latest poll just caused by the release of the the latest state budget which critics say doesn't do the solve any problems. this is don't see still ahead for you in the progress i made kidnappings of foreign
journalists trying to send syria. deep into rebel held territory and speak staff free syrian army brigades. japanese authorities are racing to dispel the latest radiation scare sponsored by a freshly crippled. fukushima for so that city the power plants operate as a storage tank has split highly contaminated water into a well from waves may have already seeped into the ocean the country's prime minister visited a nearby port and age locally caught fish in a bid to reassure the public but as. reports for she was troubles and proving so easily to contain two and a half years to admit the painful truth needs help. we are wide open to receive the most advanced knowledge from overseas to contain the problem my country needs are
knowledge and expertise the past few months have been marked by growing problems at fukushima several workers have been exposed to radiation the levels of which are reportedly at their highest since the accident in two thousand and eleven and on top of that there is the issue of leakage this is the reactor inside it is the reactor core the actual nuclear part of the plant this is water which is used to call the nuclear course or doesn't burst in flames that water obviously has to go somewhere so it goes into a special container where eradicated water is stored and then filtered this is the ocean and the problem with the fukushima is that there is a leak so from there you read it water is flowing into the pacific ocean sadly russia has a lot of experience well for when it comes to wiping up remnants of the nuclear catastrophe it has had its own death the last in a quarter of a century. when other perfect pitch should be treated just like chernobyl has a record that must be retired and put in
a sarcophagus but the problem with is that they can't decide whether they want to close its doors to keep it going closing the plant doesn't seem to be an option for tepco the company operating the facility which many in japan blame for the failure to handle the fukushima crisis in fact tepco is pushing towards reopening its because she was lucky facility the world's largest nuclear power station it was shut down in two thousand and seven following reports of radioactive leak after a powerful earthquake but the power giant seems undeterred by the prospect of having to malfunctioning nuclear power station on its hands maybe hoping an international effort would solve both problems at the same time in a college go r.t. . problems began when the earthquake and tsunami ruptured its cooling systems in march twentieth eleven call. multiple meltdowns it took a whole year for japan's government to admit they need clear disaster was caused by
the improper handling of the situation the plans operate at tepco admit has the crisis could have been avoided if only it had done its job better well than two years after disaster struck a leak was discovered as a storage time for contaminated water and one tepco finally admits as the spill it's revealed that up to three hundred tons of radioactive water was flowing into the ocean every day nuclear power expert on old gunderson says this site is a serious health risk you know that this leech had something called strong chimney ninety in it and should ninety is bone cheaper and it causes leukemia in huge quantities so now in the pacific ocean it merely it gets diluted in an even bigger pond of water but it's truly frightening that we're releasing structure ninety into the pacific ocean. and who also lost an old gunderson or
could have happened at fukushima with another ass quake were to strike and he says some of the radioactive material that is barely contained and another natural disaster could set off a manmade catastrophe. they have a thousand tanks and they're all held together with plastic almost like you put on the swimming pool so if there's a moderate earthquake the plastic pipes will fail and all that material will run across the ground surface into the ocean and the facilities themselves the four reactors that are most damaged are you know they had serious explosions internally so you wouldn't take an earthquake as big as the one they had. two and a half years ago potentially really do a lot of serious damage there. and you can tell website for more updates and analysis on the figures show my prices we've been closely following events since the initial disaster struck extensive reports opinions and eyewitness accounts all that's online. and coming out day
twenty twenty two football world cup in qatar put slave labor on the medias res at the have a first term to count all of the working conditions in the gulf states after this break. according to the. numbers we have more than two thousand political prisoners i'm behind right now of course if you look at the system what the bahamian government is trying to do is they're trying to label many. all of these prisoners as terrorists.
right. were struck. and i think the jury. on our reporters like. you will train their week and i'll say welcome back in syria a suicide bombing a tsunami checkpoint has claimed the lives of at least thirty people in the central city of hama states media reported a truck loaded with explosives around the post and detonated the damage was an intensified turn kept parks nearby the court alight the country's been looks in
a tangle wall between their government and the fragmented rebel groups are his very few notional made it into one opposition stronghold we know that the tell all your brother next to the syrian lebanese border is just eighty kilometers from the capital damascus but it is like a state within a state that has its own security forces police and even the army can see it symbols all new authorities here everywhere graffiti or three stars that means free syrian army is controlling this area a syrian military cannot enter you have root is the center of a large mountainous area in western syria known as kalam in two thousand and eleven local residents were among the first to support the n.t. assad campaign it seems been cut off from damascus and run by the rebels. i cover my head as all women he do because we are told this is an area under islamic law.
we have civil and local councils we have shariah law tribunals and normal courts we have motifs and lawyers the kerio justice we run the town by ourselves the army can enter and even if they try we are ready to resist and defend our land my judge calls these his land but in fact born in kuwait and having spent two years traveling the middle east and the gulf he only came here months before serious protests began. to resist to the end we have a plan and we have forces to make it happen sure this is who he's talking about the self-styled free syrian army but these fighters don't work with other militants function instead as an autonomy as armed brigade. they live in abandoned houses sleeping pray together and claim fighting bashar al assad is their only goal twice a week they hear an islamic lecture from a young man who everybody calls the shaikh he's taken part in the hellish pilgrimage to mecca and started the qur'an in saudi arabia all that is on the
street every monday and thursday we discuss the revolution the latest military developments as well as our daily routine we discuss what's prescribed or forbidden by islam i ask them whether the judge had the law and then qaeda affiliated radical islamic groups openly operating in syria like no no no no no we have no relation with the nusra we say. the newser is linked to the outside they follow al qaida and for decisions they revert to their army or even our here al-qaeda leader we have normal relations with them next we are supposed to meet with people from a list but when our armed guys learn of this they do all they can to stop us the groups controlling the area are not only fighting assad they compete with each other even for me to. attention being among journalists is seen as something prestigious a school did and i told the film from the car but it one point twists talked by
a group of gunman apparently from a hostile brigade they ask about who we are later our guards told us the men were kidnappers from rema billing at least nineteen forty journeys to held hostage in syria right now and the price and then lives varies. these areas supposedly run by opposition fighters is in fact in the hands of an large number of separate brigades armed groups or just lone rebels with different ideologies and the only food and weaponry and these are locals who pay the bills just as christians have to pay so-called duty this is our input into society we go to church and pay if muslims do also we pay for internal security brigades for relief aid and courts for the situation in your brood is critical a shortage of food in everything we are besieged. trapped in their own
country where more than two years of deadly conflict has only seen fractions and goals increasingly divergent parties morea for national reports from fragmented syrian rebel held territories. syria on the rebel grip on our city. on our c dot com we've got i reports that the reason edward snowden manage to get hold of highly sensitive classified data is because the n.s.a. failed to install and to leak software he's fought workplace find out how the spying agency overlooked its how wide facility online. and also is this one for drunk vehicle would like if machines couldn't draw at to pull this video from a highway in china may give you an idea the eye opening footage is scoring thousands of hits online and you too can check it out at the in motion section on our website. good german reporters claim they were
arrested in after filming the working conditions of migrants building a bit building by news of the twenty twenty two world cup labor unions have been a ringing the alarm award they call modern day slavery and the gulf state for years but it is the pristine super bowl events that spurred the issue firmly in the spotlight. this report. do we know to organize. detour trended to fifth vote is kind. of the initial celebration of christie should be overshadowed by ford workers claims of maltreatment not getting paid and either that not being allowed to leave the country the international trade union confederation claims that about four thousand migrants could die before a football is kicked in twenty twenty two the worker becomes the property of the employer they are not allowed to leave the country they're not even allowed to
leave trying to a job and if the employer agrees this means that the workers have no real power no real voice to. fix up very very bad working and living conditions designer balloonists knows this all too well a french football player who arrived in qatar in two thousand and seven he says he hadn't been paid for more than two years he filed a lawsuit to claim unpaid wages and says his club then we fused to give him an exit visa unless he dropped the case. when i went to the tribunals i never imagined that i wouldn't be able to leave the country i didn't think they would block me my wife is depressed and she can't work i thought of going on hunger strike but my lawyers told me not to they already hurts me and hunger strike would only hurt my wife and kids enough is enough. beluga says high profile story isn't the first either
if qatar goes and change its ways i have the courage to say that in two thousand and twenty two we will have the world cup with the world cup of slavery chairman of qatar's national human rights committee responded to allegations there is no slavery or forced labor in qatar there have been some problems only to the fact that there are forty four thousand businesses in the country but i can assure you that the authorities are constantly making efforts to resolve the problems. lewis in the meantime continues to hope his problems will soon be resolved i have to stop playing football they ended my career mentally i don't see myself playing it and then i'll have to see what to do with my life. r.t. . you know as for several detainees at guantanamo bay have filed a fresh appeal to put an end to their painful source feeding of hunger strikers of the facility one hundred full of captives are still refusing through the time being strapped into train as i said daily by the u.s. military
a mass hunger strike began in february but has since subsided to less than two dozen protesters against indefinite detention he has now gained rare access to the prison and his this in a series of reports by and has to say you know. after a few months of people work to get cleared to visit the base the trip to get mobile . from the big apple to fort lauderdale in florida and from there short hour and a half flight one largely kept under wraps with no indications of it on departure boards. the minute we land were greeted by escorts who stay with us every step of our trip the special guantanamo joint task force media team. one of them sergeant rebecca wood far from the stereotypical face you might imagine working at a place like this controversial military base as we soon learned the first of many surprises this is a really big break for me in my career from a military resume the people i work with every day they they share the same idea
like they're all very proud to be here she joined the u.s. military a decade ago with no money for college a twenty eight one ton a most her second deployment you've heard about it like several movies but you don't really it's just a place that people forget about like they don't ever think about it getting to the main part of the beast is the slow pace trip we have to wait for a ferry to take us across the big and are taken to visit a beach first one of a handful of scenic locations you wouldn't really expect here were that it's a logical area and now it's about a very right one side of the area where. the rebirth of the main part of the people and the tension over there. that's had it given its reputation guantanamo isn't quite what we anticipated as we approach the meeting area it's interesting to note that to be unsuspecting this place looks just like another tropical island with crack america would never think that this is
a place policy but a native state or yes that's the lodging area where taken to is like any typical hotel with palm trees and a marina right out the window first impressions this can't be the place that has been casting a long shadow in america's human rights image for over a decade where torture allegations hunger strikes and force feeding have been making headlines i remember when i moved here i thought i would just see like people in orange jumpsuits and fences everywhere but i mean the families all stay on one side and the rest kind of happens on another the other side as where total of seven hundred seventy nine detainees of america's war on terror have been kept since two thousand and two a total of one hundred sixty four now remaining at a whopping eight hundred thousand taxpayer dollars per detainee per year even though more than half of them have been cleared for release but we are in a remote location that factors into the cost it cost what it cost to do it right what doing it right i mean to those running america's most infamous detention
facility and what lays beyond the picture perfect scenery all the realities of guantanamo in our reports to follow just as you're going to r.t. guantanamo bay cuba. and. we're not psyched to have active camps have lost on a mountain where patients are horsemen in the outer amounts of their strike never turned the world's attention to the places that some gulag of our times. the olympic flame continues its epic journey across russia on very to sultry where whole eliminates the winter games in february from hearn to hearns the torch has already gone through hundreds of towns in russia travelling by as space and it boarded an icebreaker ship to go around the north pole with a spat flame kept aboard just in case the arctic adventure is just one of the steps along the way the flame will go to the bottom of russia's huge lake by calm and at
least the summit of europe's highest mountain albury's eventually breaking the rat hole of almost ever told me. they investigate why don't they waltz all spells in history big fix just ahead. switzerland will soon vote if they should start giving out thousands of dollars in cash to every adult citizen in the country you heard me right there's a grassroots campaign that is trying to get the government to give out to every adult says a two thousand five hundred swiss francs approximately two thousand eight hundred dollars per month the motivation for the project is that many in switzerland fear
that the financial crisis has caused wealth inequality to skyrocket you know i'm not an expert at swiss culture so maybe people there are different but if they gave out thousands of free dollars per month anywhere i've lived you would see the majority of people going into early retirement and not working at all it's sort of like how they tell people not to feed the bears at parks because then the bears lose their instincts and will go hunt because getting a sandwich thrown at them is a lot easier i mean why go to the effort of all doing when the sandwich just magically appears handouts often creates laws. according to reuters some people are proposing a much better law for switzerland limiting executive pay to being twelve times higher than that of the lowest paid employee although this plan isn't making headlines it seems like a much better idea because it doesn't to motivate people to be productive and yet it would create almost utopia like levels of wealth equality also if the boss a salary is tied to the employees that a lot of people be getting raises very soon this one to twelve pay ratio is much better than the free swiss francs and it gets my seal of approval but that's just
my opinion. the story ends in iran. british geologists discovered iran was sitting on an emotional boil and they decided they would take in they formed the persian oil company and made a deal with the iranian monarchy. guaranteed in cell phone.
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Gastronomy is an important part of Comoros cultural wealth and the cuisine is as diverse as the people themselves. The delightful mixture of flavors from various traditions and cultures such as French, Arabic, African, Indian, and Malagasy is what describes best Comorian cuisine. The Arabic side of their foods stands out in their sauces and spicy foods. Porridge or stew is also featured in the country's cuisine. Locally grown spices such as nutmeg, cloves, coriander, cinnamon, cardamom, and vanilla are used to season the local foods. The country's cuisine has a unique element that draws curiosity and it is also an important tool used in the development and promotion of the country's culture and tourism.
Fish for sale, SourceThe country has a constant supply of fresh seafood such as fish, shrimp, crab, lobster and so on and dried varieties as well. This makes fish very common in Comoros and it is served in every meal especially in stews. It is mostly served with the country's staple foods such as meat and rice. Other local specialties include barbequed goat meat, langouste a la vanille (lobster cooked in vanilla sauce), plantain, cassava, couscous, and other types of meat kebabs. During functions, the ceremonial foods are made of beef and goat meat and these are normally served with curdled milk, white rice, and colossal cakes as well.
As mentioned earlier, porridge is a part of Comorian cuisine. It is one of the country's staple food especially that prepared from cassava. This porridge is most of the time garnished with dried fruits. Fresh fruits such as pawpaw, bananas, pineapples, avocados, oranges, tomatoes, and limes are in plenty on the islands. Some of these fruits and other exotic ingredients, for instance, maize, peppers, and chilies are normally used in the preparation of any food. The jackfruit is one of the locals' favorite – this is a large and long green snack that is locally available and it tastes like lychee.
There are also a variety of stews preparing using the different types of Indian vegetables and ingredients. Some of these foods include lentil soups, chapattis, curries, and as assortment of pickles.
Other specialties in Comoros include Pilaou – a very spicy dish made of rice and meat ; mkatra foutra – fried unleavened bread prepared with coconut water; mataba – these are cassava leaves; ladu – these are ground rice balls which are spiced and sweetened; ntrovi ya nazi – this is steamed or fried fish accompanied with coconut stew and cooking bananas; roti ya houma pampa; achard aux legumes – this is a lightly pickled vegetable salad; M'tsolola – green plantains and fish cooked in coconut milk; and ambrevades au curry – this is a pigeon pea curry seasoned with cardamom.
As a country, Comoros does not any fancy establishments for dining. There are, however, small restaurants where one can satisfy his or her cravings. The staple food in most of these restaurants is seafood. There are also numerous cafés where one can get plenty of delicious snacks. Most of these cafés are located at the Volo Volo Market, and in regions near the Vendreri Mosque in Gobadjou district. In the city of Moroni there are numerous bungalows along the coastline and they are well known for their mshakiki or meat kebabs which are normally served with side dishes such as breadfruit, bananas, and cassava.
To enjoy quality Indian food in Comoros, one can visit the Chez Babou Restaurant in Oasis District in Moroni. Another place worth trying is Café de la Paix in Ambassadeur District also in Moroni. The best place to eat the country's favorite dish, langouste á la vanilla, is Le Restaurant des Arcades, also located in Ambassadeur District, Moroni. This restaurant is known for the best lobster in the country and it also has a very friendly atmosphere. The restaurant also prepares other skewered meats and local favorites.
If you are passionate about food and love cooking, below are a few Comorian recipes that you could try out.
Pour some cooking oil in a frying pan and fry the chicken pieces until they turn golden brown then set them aside. The next step is to fry the onions, ginger, chilies, and garlic in the pan. Fry them until the onions soften then add cloves and cardamom and fry for a few more minutes. Mix the chicken pieces now then add tomatoes and let it cook for a few minutes. Mix the plain yoghurt with the saffron and cumin powder and pour it over the chicken mixture. Use black pepper and salt to season then cover the pan using a lid and let it simmer for an hour. If the mixture dries up to quickly, add some water, but not a lot. After that, the chicken is ready and it can be served with rice that has been garnished with the roasted sliced almonds.
Cayenne pepper, salt and black pepper to taste.
Pour a little oil in a frying pan and fry the meat and fish until golden brown. In a different cooking pot, add the bananas, and then add the meat and fish. At this point, you will also add the tomatoes and onions then pour the coconut milk. Bring the mixture to a simmer. Season well with salt, cayenne pepper and black pepper to taste, cover and let it simmer for 1 hour. You can add some water if the mixture becomes to dry. Serve with white rice.


One of the simple yet more difficult things about starting a new year is that you have to get used to writing '2019' instead of '2018'. I have had to correct myself already countless times and the year has just started. Writing '2018' has become a habit that has been formed all year long and changing that habit will take a good deal of effort to break and begin to write the correct year.
I have developed my own habits of leading worship and ministry for the last decade in New Jersey, and it will take me a great deal of effort of to learn our way of doing things, but until then I will be sure to look foolish from time to time.
Our lives are full of habits, lots of little things we do each day without much thought or concern because we have just learned to do them over time and with great repetition. Each of these things started as awkward activities but over time we have just become used to doing them, and now it would be more awkward to not do it.
For how many of us is daily reading of God's Word truly a habit? At times, regrettably it's not my habit. All of us would probably agree that it is good to read God's Word, but for some reason, be it sinful negligence or simple laziness, we don't. It is awkward at first, or we don't know where to start or how to do it.
But here is some encouragement, research shows that it takes between 18 and 66 days to form a new habit. Also, most of us really want to be regular in prayer and in God's Word. Finally, the Spirit of God wants to be with you there as well - and through it he brings great gifts of peace, comfort, and assurance of his forgiveness.
Join me for the next 66 days (that's until March 6, which is Ash Wednesday) to build a new habit of daily prayer and devotion. We have a great blessing here at Timothy to have a multitude of opportunities for group Bible studies, Sunday morning, Wednesday mornings, and two on Thursday mornings. Join us making God's Word a habit worth keeping.


Every process of growth and development on the vegetative and animate levels, each change, consists of two steps: the action itself and the outcome, which is predetermined and simply revealed to us.
A bullet hits a piece of glass, and the glass breaks. We think that the cause of this event is the firing of the gun, and the outcome is a broken glass. However, this is not so. Everything is planned ahead of time, the results of our actions already exist and they precisely bring into effect the causes, which we see.
When politicians all over the world scream, wave their arms around, and try to do something, this means that the events, which have existed in the spiritual for a long time, need to materialize in the physical world. This is why particular material objects are used.
Meanwhile, it seems to us that politicians actually determine these events. However, this is an illusion – a game, a puppet show of sorts. During the breaks, at which time the scenery changes, man is pushed to rise above all this and to realize the Upper governance, which has been producing the show for humanity throughout all its history.
We need to rise from one step to the next, until the complete correction. All of these steps were prepared for us long ago, since everything was determined from the moment that the world was created. All that's left for us to do is make an effort. All that's being asked of us is to try to reveal, to feel, and imagine our next state. To the extent that we wish to imagine our future state independently, we grow and advance toward it, like an infant who wishes to become fully grown. This is the difference between the animal and the human levels. With his desire and effort, a person draws his more advanced state closer.


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Underwater Proposals and Birthday Surprises are possible to arrange without extra charges.
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Andrew recently completed his master's in Journalism at Emerson College in Boston. When he's not writing over here, he is also writing for the Game Changer Sports Network and helping with a documentary team that is working within the Cape Verdean community in Providence, Rhode Island. He also likes FIFA.


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Our Pole Vault Coach, Nick Tyson, is widely regarded as one of the BEST young coaches in the USA. He's coached THREE NJ Meet of Champions winners, as well as several high school All-Americans & a 3-time Division-1 All American! Additional Staff Vault Coaches are Craig Hunter, a 3-Time All American Vaulter at UConn. Craig is the Vault Coach at The College of New Jersey and is training for the 2020 Olympics. Craig is the School Record Holder at UConn, with a PR of 17'11"! Finally, Dan Ingrum is a former Vaulter at Stockton University and is the Head Track & Field and Jumps Coach at Absegami High School.
Our High Jump Coach is Mike Pascuzzo, a 16 year World-Class & Professional High Jumper who competed in 3 USA Olympic Trials and was a 4-Time USA National Team Member with a PR of 7'5 1/4". Mike has coached approximately 195 State Champions from 13 states. Mike's athletes have competed in State, National & International Championships, including the Olympics! A Great new addition to our High Jump Staff is 2016 Olympian, Priscilla Frederick! She is a PanAm Games Silver Medalist and National Record Holder for Antigua & Barbuda. Priscilla is the Head Track & Field and Jumps Coach at Paul VI High School and has a PR of 6'3 1/4".
Time is short, as we start our sessions December 2, so to register, visit our website ASAP to print out the Entry Form and view our Winter 2018/2019 schedule!
To Register: E-mail Mike Pascuzzo at MPScooze@aol.com for available dates/times.


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Thanks to Annie at Basic Joy, I discovered this year in review blog challenge. I think it sounds delightful so I'm throwing my hat into the ring. Or at least my blog, since I have hat issues.
I wish I had a fabulous far away getaway to reflect upon as 2009 draws to a close but, this year, I do not. Late in 2008 we took a trip to DC so I could run (okay, run/walk) in the Marine Corps Marathon, then a month later we went to visit The Mouse for Christmas.
2009 has been our recovery year.
It was a year of stay-cays and short road trips. My favorites, well honestly my only(s), were when my bestest girlfriends and I loaded up for an idyllic small town weekend and then when we took a mini-vacay to San Antonio as a family.
I hope we are recovered because there is so much of the country and the world that I want to see starting in 2010 with San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, Maine, St. Edward's Island, and fingers crossed, New York. And we can't forget Europe.
What a great idea for a blog challenge, and a great way to remember the traveling one has done throughout the year. Technically your Disney trip was within the year right? Your girlfriend trip was so quaint and fun and your San Antonio trip was great as well. I think you did more traveling than you think you did.
Our Disney trip was mid-Dec. last year but the warm mouse glow carried into the new year year at little bit.
Cool. My grad school research focus was the 0-3 population like Annie's and I have attended many a great conference put on by BU's school of social work over the years! I'm also adjunct at a local school of social work. Who would have known?! Is she a friend of yours? I saw this Best Of 2009 idea on Lelly's blog and decided to try.
Natasha: I don't know Annie personally, but have enjoyed reading her blog for a while now. Small world though, huh?
I think the Best of 2009 challenge sounds like fun--hope I'll stick with it!