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Q: Redirect multiple links in htaccess I'm having a problem with redirects, we made a new website and the blog from the old website needs to be redirected to the the new blog. Every blogpost needs to be redirected, there are more than 200 of them. So this can't be done for every link
This was the old URL:
example.com/nl/blog/easy-car-shopping

This should be the new URL:
blog.example.com/easy-car-shopping/

So example.com/nl/blog/ should be redirected to blog.example.com/ but so far I fail to get this to work.
Could anyone help me out here?

A: You can create a .htaccess file in the root directory of your example.com site.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

#if not already blog.example.com/
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^blog\.example\.com$ [NC]
#if request is for blog/, go to blog.example.com
RewriteRule ^blog/$ http://blog.example.com [L,NC,R=301]

If you would delete the /nl/ you should include it on the regular expresion.
It should work for you, hope it helps!

A: In the .htaccess file at /nl/blog/.htaccess (assuming /nl/blog is a physical subdirectory), try the following using mod_rewrite:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://blog.example.com/$1/ [R=302,L]

As in your example, this assumes the source URL does not contain a trailing slash. A trailing slash is then appended on the substitution (target URL).
By placing these directives in the subdirectory .htaccess file and not the document root, it avoids unnecessary processing on the main site.
Change the 302 (temporary) redirect to a 301 (permanent) redirect when you are sure it's working OK. 301s are cached hard by the browser so can make testing problematic.

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My Blue Heaven or  Mijn Blauwen Hemel  is a 1990 Dutch drama film directed by Ronald Beer.

Cast
Ruud de Wolff	... 	Paatje
Ivon Pelasula	... 	Brenda Benoit
Koen Wauters	... 	Hans van de Broeck
Bo Bojoh	... 	Maatje
Leen Jongewaard	... 	Vader van de Broeck
Michel Sorbach	... 	Boetie
Angélique Corneille	... 	Bella
Remco Djojosepoetro	... 	Hannies
Victor Reinier	... 	Mickey
Con Meyer	... 	Meyer
Edda Barends	... 	Mw. Van de Broeck
Bert Luppes	... 	Leen
Tatjana Simic	... 	Suzy
Julius Wendrich	... 	Ko
Carola Gijsbers van Wijk	... 	Mrs. Koopmans

External links

1990 films
1990s Dutch-language films
1990 drama films
Dutch drama films
nl:Mijn Blauwen Hemel

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← Fox News on Trudeau's tyranny
Cops smash window of Mad Max, pepper spray driver →
ALP losing its voter base by deporting foreign criminals
GOVERNMENT SEEKS TO FAST TRACK DEPORTATION OF CRIMINAL BORN OVERSEAS
https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/albanese-needs-to-explain-why-labor-is-blocking-new-deporation-laws/video/14a25b6598686f90aa32387e83e06316?utm_source=SkyNews&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Editorial&utm_content=SN_DAILY_PM_01&net_sub_id=282435451&type=curated&position=2&overallPos=10
The ALP wants to keep them here so they can further rape, rob, bash, and kill Australians — so they are opposing the legislation, this is what you are being asked to vote for — More rapes, violence, bashings, murders, and burn your home to the ground.
This defies any semblance of intelligence or logic — ALP & Green politicians siding with criminals against the people of Australia.
And some fools devoid of intelligence will actually vote for them, then scream when they and their children are victims of these criminals.
Raped, bashed senseless and maimed for life, your home robbed, car stolen, you or your children are so badly injured you can never work again, your raped wife and daughter are pregnant to the home invader — good luck enjoy the result of your vote.
We value and deeply love our family, and our homes, and decent lifestyle — we will vote for L-NP, One Nation, and Independents.
Criminals convicted of specific serious crimes who were born overseas will have their deportations fast tracked, under laws set to be reintroduced to parliament.
Immigration Minister Alex Hawke told Sky News Australia Labor and the Greens have blocked it in the House and Senate.
"Anthony Albanese has led the opposition against these foreign deportation laws.
"He needs to explain why."
Labor Party candidates funded by China:
Kristina Keneally 'unashamed' of CCP connection.
https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/paul-murray/kristina-keneally-unashamed-of-ccp-connection/video/8aad235e47f02cad752b77f7d6c0e980
– from Gil May
Posted on February 16, 2022, in Agenda 2030, ALP, Annastacia Palaszczuk, Anthony Albanese and tagged Criminal deportation laws, Kristina Keneally. Bookmark the permalink. 25 Comments.
Editor, cairnsnews | February 17, 2022 at 12:18 pm
Dina Tarini | February 17, 2022 at 12:16 pm
L-NP you are voting for LNP CAIRNS NEWS???? DONT UNDERSTAND! WTF!!!
rotflmao !!!!
No Virginia, it doesn't sound like a feel good DISTRACTION and motherhood story.
Anybody who thinks this isn't a contrived issue must have a single digit IQ. Both the LNP and the Labour/Greens duopoly want to DESPERATELY AVOID THE REAL ISSUES facing the Australian population at the next election.
If we, as Australians, get snowed and distracted by such sht from the REAL ISSUES facing Australia we deserve every little bit of sht the LNP-Labour/Greens duopoly serve us.
Say NO to the LNP-Labour/Greens abuse of our intelligence and our way of life. Sack the lot of them first chance you get.
IG | February 16, 2022 at 6:43 pm
Thanks D Johnston. I agree that Cairns News does provide a 'meeting point' and we're generally all on the same page, given, as you say, some differences in opinion – and CN is pretty tolerant of that, thank goodness!
But I have no-one I can email directly and have an occasional natter with (particularly in my local area) knowing that we have both made a decision never to get the mRNA vax, come what may.
Anyway, judging by the response (only you old mate!) there doesn't appear to be a lot of interest in this concept of direct communication. Although technically challenged and unable to build a web-site, I have registered an email address:
UnvaxxedEsubsSydney@gmail.com
So, let's see what happens.
Ian G
Hi pcwwp. Here's an idea. Load em all on to ships, sail them way way way out to the middle of the ocean and sink em. Would also be an excellent solution to the ecological food chain threat from shark extinction.
Hi Pat from Vic… That's a good point…I too have noticed this, though it's not a real biggie for me, as mostly it is simply a validation of a comment. On the few occasions when it's not, and someone (NOT you!) is being a total dick, then the culprit and most other readers will get it without that person being named and shamed. I've found that by going through the posts, although time consuming, you can usually join the dots. So quit pickin on poor Editor. Joke!
pcwwp | February 16, 2022 at 5:46 pm
yes agreed – based on the platform we may need to be more informative in our responses..
Yes this is a Word press anomaly we can't fix. Ed
Hi IG. You have the very best support right here on Cairns News!; from the tireless Editor and Team and the many wonderful and insightful readers who contribute. We may not always agree with one another, but that's the whole point. To broaden our perpectives. It would be pretty freakin boring otherwise!
As one who has never ever used Fakebook, or other various vacuous, self-indulgent, stream-of-consciousness platforms, this stimulating and informative site has kept me from going on full tilt.
Over the course of the scamdemic, I too have had to ghost many people who I previously regarded as friends. It has been very revealing. Making me question why I even liked them in the first place lol. But I have also come to realise that they obviously weren't TRUE friends, so although I still wish them well, wherever they're at, I do not mourn their absence from my life.
Pat from Vic | February 16, 2022 at 3:36 pm
This might not be the perfect place to say it – but then again the subject matter is right there in plain view.
When the Editor replies to a reader's comment with another comment, there is no visible linkage or reference to the source comment.
Thus, unless the Editor specifically names for whom the reply is intended (and the Editor rarely does this), then the reader has no clue WTF the Editor is talking about.
Sometimes, the content of the Editor's reply infers the source comment, but otherwise the Editor's replies seem cryptic. I'm betting only a minority of readers are psychic.
Maybe people specifically looking for a reply would be clued into the Editor's response when it happens, but IMO it's an innefficient communication mode when just a single word of identification would so easily clarify the target of the Editor's posts.
Stay strong – they want us to think we are marginalized and helpless – we are neither and they will eventually see.I don't believe any of the bs about 95% poisoned.And those you made that error can now see the mistake..
If only we could deport all the criminal politicians and bureaucrats.
Probably get some help from commentators. Ed
Seems good idea to us. We are going to run another poll too. Ed
Seb | February 16, 2022 at 12:33 pm
Could get interesting.
Are we to assume Labor/Greens are running a protection rachet?
Which criminals are the Liberal Party targeting?
Ones already in prison?
Don't they already send them home?
Like the NZ bikies were?
Given Liberal and lies are synonymous with each other, their actual motives are yet to be discovered.
Are these future 'criminals' who may dig up the guns in their own backyards?
Are these gangs that know how to fight?
Are these present criminals or future to be decided criminals?
We have child rapists (ex and present) alledgedly in Parliament.
I don't think their motive is related to that.
We have yet to be put on Nuremberg trial Medical Professionals who have
alledgedly committed crimes of malfeasence (and one could argue death by injection).
Aka murder.
We have car stealing criminals in North Queensland.
Like who cares? They don't.
Apparently they won't be going anywhere.
We have the threat of Mum and Dad terrorists from all Nations who have made Australia home.
The ones who have lost their jobs, their homes, their livelihoods and their health.
Are they at risk of becoming "criminals"
It will all be in the wording of this Legislation. Bite size by bite size.
Motive will be in there somewhere.
There are still people who listen to ((Sky))?
Sky and 🦊 Fox….
They are MSM.
lindesymonds | February 16, 2022 at 12:33 pm
Nothing says Marxist Leninist State quite like gov't imported populations that get a license to commit crime against the host demographic. The less able to assimilate, respect the laws and make an economic contribution the more preferred.
Let's go down the checklist
Fast breeders – all wives on gov't payroll. FGM and weird cultural surgeries all on medicare. Respect their child birthing customs. Eating the placenta OK. Elaborate religious dietary requirements all respected.
Male perps – good to go with sex trafficking, grooming, rape gangs preying on host population.
Police take a knee to their crime gangs and arrest those who have no right to self defense.
dianedraytonbuckland | February 16, 2022 at 12:19 pm
He is not called Anthony Albasleazy for nothing. He's a disgusting useless thug politician who brings absolute shame to the name politician as do so many of these heinous political tyrannical sewer rats
D Johnston | February 16, 2022 at 12:13 pm
Gil May. I'm sorry but that is just an absolute crock of lies and hysteria. MORE psyop brainwashing. MORE propagation of fear, hatred and division. Though glaringly transparent to those of us who think critically and do their own independent research to gain knowledge and TRUTH. I know for a fact, that most of these immigrant 'criminals' came to Australia when children or even in infancy; as young as a few months of age. Others were actually born in Australia but never held residency status for various reasons. Many of their 'crimes' are NOT of a violent nature. It is not only ludicrous but false, to purport that we are beseiged by a seeming plague of rapists and terrorists. If that was true then WHERE the hell have these people been hiding over the decades?? WHY? has this sudden epidemic of heinous 'criminal' behaviour miraculously only arisen in the past 2 years?? These people are deported to a country where they have no family or other ties, where they are treated as pariah's and rejected by the wider community and who are consequently then forced into REAL criminal behaviour/activity in order to survive. A great many are homeless. Many have committed suicide as the only way out. This is fact, NOT conjecture or misinformation.
Some join bikie gangs such as the NZ chapter of the Mongrel Mob, who incidentally, Jacinda Ardern has been giving millions of dollars to over the past couple of years. Now think about WHY?? she has been doing that. For her protection for fear that they too may rise up against her and the tyranny? After all, they still have GUNS. The Australian government has been mass deporting these 'undesirables' for exactly the same reason. For THEIR protection NOT ours.
The entire deportation exercise began just prior to the scamdemic rollout. It is also part of the whole NWO agenda. And as with all the other MFP is designed to further manipulate and brainwash the weak minded.
pcwwp | February 16, 2022 at 12:09 pm
I would like to see a mechanism whereby people can be organized to action on important matters @ the Cairns News Community.
Say we pick one issue ( once a month/6months ) – and get interested people to ring their local member @ their parliamentary office ( or whatever is most effective ) at a nominated time and date.
I have seen this work elsewhere – very powerful. I know it's more work but really just another post.
Capt Baz | February 16, 2022 at 11:59 am
The next one that gets the flick should have Albo and Keneally tucked under his arms.
IG | February 16, 2022 at 11:53 am
BTW does anyone know of a web-site or links where I can contract unvaxed people?
I'm in Sydney (E.Subs) and just about all my friends, acquaintances & relos have taken the jabs; some no longer in communication, such is the stigma of going against the trend.
It's like Isolation Central – I know I'm not alone, it just feels like it.
I'm independent and don't want or need support, or necessarily to meet – just to know there are others out there.
tonyryan43 | February 16, 2022 at 11:45 am
LNP patriotic? I don't think so.
"..Raped, bashed senseless and maimed for life…. or your children are so badly injured you can never work again….your raped wife and daughter are pregnant to the home invader …."
OH NO! It's horrible! What can I do, where will my dear wife & pretty little daughter be safe?
Maybe a job in Parliament House, Canberra?
"….we will vote for L-NP, One Nation, and Independents…"
UAP anyone?
jgbaustralia | February 16, 2022 at 10:47 am
What a load of BS.
1 minute this guy kicks out a tennis player for not taking drugs, now he wants to ban criminals from comming in.
HOW MANY UNCHECKED REFUGEES DID THE MORRISON GOVERNMENT LET INTO AUSTRALIA?
NEVER TRUST LIBERAL, LABOR OR THE GREENS
The citizens of Australia have to take back the country that is in full control of the Globalists. If not we all end up with nothing and then we are "Happy".?. "Yes even China goes hand in hand with the Globalists." Don't you forget this one.

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mtd drug
The drug you take for the purpose of killing a bug is called a mtd. I think this term is confusing because I don't think that what the word mtd actually means. I think it is a compound that is a chemical compound that causes you to feel pleasure when looking at a bug. That is why I call it mtd drug.
Its funny because I read a lot of posts on the internet that seem to be coming from people who are not aware that mtd drug actually exists! I remember when I was a kid reading about the infamous mtd drug which was used in the 90s on a number of movies and TV series. I was amazed because I thought that people who were not aware that it existed were just some weird stoner with a gun.
No there is no meaning in that, it's a drug, not a drug. Its actually a drug because a person who has been on the drug for a long time will become aroused by it. The only way to get an aroused person to understand the drug is to try to change it. This makes the drug very appealing to the senses because it makes you want to feel pleasure.
It's funny, when I was a kid my bedroom was full of all sorts of records and tapes I have from my life. I have a collection of all the music from my childhood, school, and early years. Now it seems like most of my collection is just crap that was collected. As much as I love music, I don't really listen to much of it anymore, unless it's something that I like.
When I was a kid, I used to just go around my room with a tape of my favorite songs. I got so into it that I would actually change the music to my favorite song to hear. I did that in my bedroom for years.
There's a lot of people who collect music from their childhood. My favorite childhood music was probably the music I grew up with, all the songs that I liked on my radio, and records I listened to on my mom's radio. I got so into that stuff that I listened to it over and over and over again. It became my favorite music because it was my favorite music.
I've been listening to music my whole life. I grew up listening to rap music, country music, R&B, pop, and rock. I've also listened to some classical music, and to a lot of other kinds of rock and pop. I've always had a love for music. I've always had a love for music that's based more on emotions, so I love music that has a lot of emotion and a lot of feeling.
In the new trailer, you'll be able to see some of the more controversial videos that you've seen. Some of them are more controversial than others, and I think it's important to keep in mind when making these videos that you're never getting to see the whole thing.
I think the music is important, but I think its important to keep in mind that people have a right to be offended.
As it turns out, death is a big part of the mtd drug. Its a drug that makes you feel, when you shoot a gun, that you are killing something. It also makes you feel like you are killing something. The drug is pretty interesting because it makes it seem like youre making a choice and that youre taking a decision that you are making which can be very hard to remember sometimes.
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As the high school basketball season winds down, Brandon Parrish will retire his Seguin High School jersey in a little under a month. While his...
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He can't go many places lately without getting some sort of congratulatory shout-out, handshake or complimentary hug. But student body president-elect Josh Simpson says he's...
Students don't show at Boschini's town hall meeting about tuition
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TCU alumna opens new business in West 7th District
It's been almost 10 years since Nicole Werneck was a student at TCU, but the purple that lines her new shop downtown shows she has not lost her TCU spirit.
A 2003 graduate of the Neely School of Business, Werneck opened Blow West 7th back in June.


I switched from a Canon DSLR to a Sony Mirrorless 18 months ago. And for 18 months I've been waiting patiently for a fast prime lens, an equivalent of 50mm on full frame, designed specifically for APS-C sensor. I never was tempted to get a full frame 35mm monster and attaching it to my very compact Sony A6000.
The only lightweight and quality option I saw was Sony 35mm 1.8 but I wanted something faster than F/1.8.
When Sigma unexpectedly announced 30mm F1.4 lens under the Contemporary line with the price tag of $339 I was very skeptical first. But, when I realized that as a Canon shooter I used Sigma 17-70mm from the Contemporary line for years and loved it I decided to give the new lens a try.
Before leaving for a short trip to California I ordered Sigma 30mm 1.4 with the full intention to return it if I am not completely satisfied with it.
But, the lens surprised me with the compactness and built quality first and after shooting with it for a week I absolutely decided to keep it.
When I came back from week long trip with the new lens I put together a short review. It was actually more an observation than a review after a very limited time of using the lens (Review: Sigma 30mm F1.4 E-Mount Prime Lens).
Today I want to share a very detailed review of Sigma 30mm 1.4 by Davin Lavikka whose reviews and opinions I always trust.
I also have more examples of photos I took with the Sigma 30mm 1.4 in the last month or so.


The Black Isle Brewing Co is an intensely independent organic brewery in the heart of the Scottish Highlands. Their mission is to produce a range of top quality organic beers packaged in recycled materials. The barley and hops used are grown on organic farms, without artificial fertilisers or herbicides. They also have there own well which draws fresh water from 300 meters below the earths surface. At Black Isle Brewery they believe that their beer is the best for both you and the environment. They have won a number of awards from the annual Soil Association Organic food and drink awards - Yellow Hammer 4.0% ABV has won "Best Organic Beer" twice out of the last three years.
ORGANIC LIVE BOTTLE CONDITIONED BEERS - Their Bottled Conditioned beers are naturally fermented for a second time in the bottle, in a similar way to the production of Champagne. This results in a light sediment of yeast in the bottom of the bottle. It is full of Vitamin B and is good for you!
The two pictures you see above are of the old brewery building and the construction of the new building.
The picture to the left is the new and fully completed brewery ! The official opening was on 04/06/11 and a Shindig was held to celebrate. There are also new orders coming into this brewery from as far a-field as Sweden, Finland and Norway.
Black Isle Heather Honey beer is made with honey gathered from the heather covered highland moorlands. It is naturally conditioned and secondary fermented in the bottle in a similar way to the production of Champagne.
Goldeneye is an exceptional golden beer packed with floral hops. Naturally bottle conditioned it is secondary fermented in the bottle in a Similar way to the production of champagne. This beer is made from 4 pure organic ingredients, malted barley, water, hops and yeast. It is full of vitamin B and good for you.
Scotch Ale is a strong full bodied, russet coloured ruby ale; a bitter sweet balance of fruit peel and malt loaf - liquid fruitcake! Naturally bottle conditioned it is secondary fermented in the bottle in a similar way to the production of champagne. This beer is made from 4 pure organic ingredients, malted barley, water, hops and yeast. It is full of vitamin B and good for you.
Winner of Best Beer and Cider Category of Soil Association 2008 Organic Food Awards.
Amber coloured, Red Kite is brewed with best quality malt and Goldings hops to create a satisfying balance of citrus and malt in this deliciously quenching ale.
Highly Commended in Beer and Cider Category of Soil Association 2009 Organic Food Awards.
A semi-cloudy Belgian style wheat beer brewed with orange and coriander. Either pour carefully to leave the yeast in the bottom of the bottle, or swirl the last drop around the base and pour onto the head of the beer. Delicious with a bowl of mussels and some fresh crusty bread.
Brewed with dark roasted malts producing a rich medium dry ruby-black beer.It is excellent with oysters and crab or for lunch with some mature farmhouse cheddar and oatcakes.
Strong, warming winter ale. Caramelised malt and spices - perfect with mince pies!. Bottle conditioned.
A big thank you to the Breweries own web site, www.BlackIsleBrewery.com for most of the information on this page, especially the descriptions and images of their beer.
For further details and a chance to buy some of their excellent beer visit the Breweries own web site.
Andrew Fraser, (Brewer), on the left and David Gladwin, (owner), on the right, celebrating the opening of the new brewery.


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Reverend Dr. Damone B. Jones appointed new Chairman Board of Trustees of Philadelphia Prisons System
February 27, 2015 Category: Local Posted by: Philadelphia Sun Staff
ABOVE PHOTO: Rev. Dr. Damone B. Jones
The Rev. Dr. Damone B. Jones, Senior Pastor at Bible Way Baptist Church in West Philadelphia has been appointed as Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Philadelphia Prison System by Mayor Michael Nutter. The Board of Trustees' primary role is to provide guidance and oversight of operations within the Philadelphia Prison System. This includes measuring and controlling the population of the prison, as well educating and preparing inmates for re-entry into society.
Rev. Jones earned his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science Degrees from Philadelphia Biblical University. He earned a Doctor of Ministry Degree from Palmer Theological Seminary.
Rev. Jones has a passion for helping at-risk youth. It fostered his commitment to serve at the Philadelphia Youth Detention Center as Coordinating Chaplain, as a panelist for the District Attorney's Youth Aid Panel, and as President of the Police Clergy Program in the 19th Police District. Dr. Jones also served his community as a member of the Board of Directors for the Carroll Park Community Council.
In 2001, Mayor John F. Street appointed Rev. Jones to the City of Philadelphia's Board of Ethics and to a Blue Ribbon Commission on Children's Behavioral Health for Philadelphia in 2006. Rev. Jones was appointed by Mayor Nutter to the Advisory Board of the Mayor's Office of Community Services in 2008 and to the again to the Philadelphia Board of Ethics in 2009. In 2010, Mayor Nutter appointed Rev. Jones to the Board of Trustees of the Philadelphia Prison System. In December 2014, then Governor elect Tom Wolfe appointed Rev. Jones to his Transition Team for Corrections in Pennsylvania. Rev. Jones is the successor of Attorney/Philanthropist Steven Madva, who retired as the PPS' Chairman of the Board of Trustees in January, 2015. Mr. Madva served as Chairman since 2008.
Reverend G. Daniel Jones, D. Minister, D.D. senior pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Germantown retires after 31 years of service The SUN chats with Dr. Damone B. Jones, Sr. Pastor of Bible Way Baptist Church Obituary Robert Samuel King, 90, foremost educator, Community College of Phila. Chairman of the Board


Situated in the heart of the Alps at 1,720m above sea level – the Schmiedhofalm Ski Lodge in Austria has recently undergone renovations for the first time in its 46-years in operation.
Karl Wienand, K-array product specialist at Musik Lenz, was responsible for the design, which included six individually controlled zones.
These were updated using four half metre Kobras and a KMT18p sub in the main bar and ten Tornados combined with five KU36 subwoofers throughout the restaurant. Meanwhile, two half metre Pythons and a KMT18p sub were installed in the outside bar and eight Tornados were paired with four KU36 subs in the terrace area and all were driven by KA24 amplifiers.
Several different sources were connected: a music computer, the TV signal and also a connection point for external mp3 players, while bands and performers can connect their system to the house system and vice versa.


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The ups and downs of June
Leave a comment Posted by Christine Coleman on July 3, 2010
For the Cardinals, June was the best of times: last Tuesday's 8-0 romp over the Diamondbacks when Albert hit two homers, Adam Wainwright's two-hit complete game shutout over the Brewers (also an 8-0 win) and Matt Holliday's resurgence when he was moved to No. 2 in the batting order. June also was the worst of times: that horrendously long loss to the D-Backs on Wednesday when they left 14 men on base, the sweep by the Dodgers in Los Angeles and a season-high four-game losing streak.
But, in the end, the month was perfectly mediocre as the Cards went 13-13. They also basically ended the month where they started in the division race, going from 1 game back on June 1 to a half-game back on June 30. In between, they were in first place for 15 days and even up by as much as 1 ½ games over the Reds June 19-20.
And, unfortunately, overall mediocrity has been the definition of the Cardinals since the end of April. As Bernie Miklasz wrote in his column on July 1: "The Cardinals are 25-27 since May 4, and during this stretch they've scored three runs or fewer 24 times. That includes 18 games of two runs or less. Counting Wednesday's loss, the Cardinals are 0-8 when they've had the chance to sweep a three-game series. In the eight losses, STL hitters have scored three runs or fewer seven times. They've left 60 runners on base. They're batting .214."
On the plus side, mediocre May and June are exactly what the Cardinals had in 2009 as well – they went 25-31 for those two months yet managed to win 91 games and the National League Central. What the 2010 Cardinals need to keep the rollercoaster climbing up is one thing: consistent offense. Of course it doesn't help that David Freese and Ryan Ludwick missed time with injuries (and now will both be on the disabled list in July). But the pitchers are still more than getting their jobs done. Ending June, the Cards' overall team pitching was still second in the Major Leagues behind San Diego. The overall ERA increased to 3.24 (although the Padres' ERA has increased as well) and the Cards' team WHIP was 1.26 (tied for third-best in the Majors). The Big Three starters all still remain in the NL's top 10 in ERA, with Adam Wainwright second in wins and Chris Carpenter tied for fourth. But pitching alone, as we've witnessed too many times, doesn't win games.
Here's a closer look at who did what in June.
Dilip Vishwanat/Getty Images
Biggest surprise
Matt Holliday
Should it be a surprise when a guy finally does what he should have been doing all along? Yet Hunky Holliday finally got going, hitting .302 and slugging .583 for the month, with 6 homers and 16 RBI (the most he's hit of both in a month this season). Hitting second for 10 games was the spark he needed and helped earn him NL Player of the Week honors for June 14-21.
Other surprises
Mitchell Boggs
As noted by Matthew Leach in his blog, "since May 29, Mitchell Boggs has made 13 appearances. In those games, he's pitched 13 2/3 innings, allowing one run on six hits for a 0.66 ERA. He's struck out 10 against five walks and not given up a home run."
Skip Schumaker
Skip just keeps improving offensively, batting .311 for the month with one homer (which I saw in person in Kansas City last Saturday) and 6 RBI.
Colby led the team in both homers with 9 and RBI with 19 for June. Now, if he can just stay consistent too. He also briefly had the longest home run in the Major Leagues this year last Sunday, hitting a 483-foot blast in Kansas City. According to the Fox Sports Midwest broadcast on June 29, Colby held the record for 3 hours and 29 minutes – until Josh Hamilton hit one 485 feet.
Biggest disappointment
Yadier Molina
Yadi did not have a good June, hitting only .183 with 1 homer and 2 RBI. And so far, July is not off to a much better start – he was robbed of what should have been two hits on Thursday with outstanding catches by Jim Edmonds (doesn't Jim remember that he wouldn't have a World Series ring without Yadi?) and Corey Hart, and is hitless for the two games this month.
Other disappointments
Dennys Reyes
That terrific May that earned Reyes last month's biggest surprise certainly didn't carry over. He allowed two earned runs a game in three of his first four appearances of the month and was the losing pitcher on June 1. His ERA for the month was 12.46.
Brendan Ryan
While it was his best hitting month, Brendan still only hit .230 in June. As Matthew Leach wrote on June 27, "With the season six days away from its halfway point, this looks less and less like a slump or two slumps or three slumps, and more like a bad year."
Consistently good
As the leader of the Cardinals Big Three, Carpenter went 3-0 with 2.30 ERA for the month. Interestingly, he was involved in both 1-0 games that the Cardinals played in June. He received no decision on June 8, pitching 7 shutout innings, and was the winner on June 23 against Toronto, where he pitched 8 obviously shutout innings against his former team.
In 11 innings pitched for the month, he struck out 13 and allowed 2 earned runs. He's a reliable presence, and also an entertaining one with his on-the-mound antics.
Ryan Franklin
He had 5 saves for the month, with one rough outing where he was removed and Motte got the save instead. That blip aside, he only allowed one earned run in eight other appearances for the month.
Disturbing trend
The aging of the roster with the additions of Aaron Miles, Randy Winn and Jeff Suppan. (We've discussed this plenty of times!)
Cardinals 8, Brewers 0
Adam Wainwright has his first career complete-game shutout, allowing 2 hits and striking out 8 while throwing only 103 pitches. On offense, it was obviously a night where everything was working: Colby was 2 for 3 with a homer and 2 RBI, Albert and Ludwick each drove in 2, and Holliday and Felipe Lopez each drove in 1.
Worst game
Kansas City 10, Cardinals 3
Just like in May, there were plenty to choose from – including five losses when the Cards could have swept. But I'll pick this one. I was listening on the radio to the Royals broadcast of the game while driving across Iowa. The Cardinals had so many chances in the first two innings, having the bases loaded twice in the first inning and two runners on in the second, yet only managed one run. The Royals announcer even commented on the Cardinals troubles getting things going with runners in scoring position. Add to those troubles Jaime Garcia's worst outing of the year and it's a game to forget – even if both Albert and Colby homered.
Craziest win
Cardinals 6, Diamondbacks 5
Just saying that two pitchers scored runs in the bottom of the 9th – including the winning run – should be enough to earn the title of craziest win. The Diamondbacks literally threw the game away, with errors by Aaron Heilman and Adam LaRoche letting pinch-runner Garcia and pinch-hitter Wainwright score. (Brendan also scored the tying run.)
Let's keep it going …
Pitcher of the month
Same goes for you …
Actually, let's hope for a little more consistency this month from everyone – even though the Cardinals are off to a 1-1 start in July. It also will be interesting to see how many of the Cardinals spend their All-Star break on the "beach" in Anaheim with Albert. Wainwright? Carpenter? Jaime? Yadi? Holliday?
Matt Holliday, Skip Schumaker Brendan Ryan, Chris Carpenter, Colby Rasmus, Dennys Reyes, Matt Holliday, Mitchell Boggs, Skip Schumaker, Yadier Molina
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Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2019 and What That Should Mean to Authors and Publishers
While companies focus on expanding their reach to millions of internet users worldwide and embracing the technology of today and the future, they also need to maintain focus on inclusion. The evolution of consumption patterns and the expansion of media outlets has equated to a discrepancy in consumer focus. Although it is essential to be in line with the technological advancements of the day, it is also necessary for all business, schools and other institutions to be in line with all of their consumers, which is why Global Accessibility Awareness Day was started in the first place.
What Is GAAD?
GAAD was started to embrace and acknowledge the changing and existing efforts of companies and technology making content more accessible to everyone. 2019 marks its eighth year, and it will hopefully spark and foster continued conversation and efforts to make technology and information more inclusive for all.
Accessibility is essential when it comes to technology and information because not everyone responds to the digitization of materials in the same way. There are nearly 1 billion people worldwide who are disabled in some way, which can make it difficult or impossible for them to use technology in typical ways.
How Can Authors and Publishers Help?
As technology progresses, more authors and publishers are looking for ways to make their materials inclusive. For those professionals and presses trying to make their content more accessible, they must consider a variety of factors:
Multiple formats
Content customization
Text-to-speech capabilities
Conversion to braille
Scalability and ease of use
Some professional publishers specialize in accessible publishing, meaning they understand the demand in the market for tech-enabled content and can help authors and businesses adapt their content to be more inclusive. While a seemingly simple task, digitization and disbursement are specialized skills that often require the need for established channels, which these publishers have.
Accessibility is an easy idea in theory, but it requires specific skills and tools. For those authors and presses looking for assistance with Technabled publishing, look no further than Amnet, a proven publishing partner.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessible_publishing.
https://mashable.com/2018/05/17/global-accessibility-awareness-day-explainer/.
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Monitoring Academic Performance
Academic performance among collegiate student-athletes has rarely been under more scrutiny than it is now. Despite NCAA statistics that indicate graduation rates among Division I and Division II student-athletes eclipse those of the general student body at those levels (Division III schools don't track athletes' graduation rates), embarrassing episodes - from a star linebacker's lightweight summer school curriculum to an advisor's role in a paper-writing scam - have garnered the lion's share of headlines in recent years.
The NCAA's graduation-rate figures, spawned by a formula that has drawn its own share of scrutiny, nonetheless reveal an unsettling trend: graduation rates among Division I football and men's and women's basketball scholarship recipients are at their lowest level in seven years.
Released last fall, the NCAA graduation-rate report attempts to show what percentage of scholarship student-athletes earned degrees from any given NCAA member institution within six years of enrolling at that school. The formula, in a statistical sense, penalizes institutions from which a scholarship student-athlete transfers to another school, even if the athlete ultimately earns a degree.
"One of the things that's clear is that we are going to have to have some definition of progress rather than graduation," says Kenneth Shaw, chair of the NCAA Division I Working Group to Study Basketball Issues. "More than half of the students in higher education transfer at one point or another to another school. We'll have to have a definition of 'good standing' that in effect shows that whenever you left, for whatever reason, you were on a trajectory to graduate."
For now, the working group has proposed rewarding basketball programs that graduate at least 75 percent of their athletes with an extra scholarship (to go with the 13 currently allowed by the NCAA). Programs that fail to graduate a minimum of 35 percent of their players would be stripped of a scholarship.
Shaw says tougher standards would be in order if graduation rates no longer serve as the measuring stick. "If you redefine it from 'graduation rate' to 'in good standing,' you probably ought to be raising your reward percentage to 90 percent, and you ought to be raising your penalty percentage to 50 or 60 percent."
According to the NCAA report, the University of Dayton and the University of New Hampshire both reached an average graduation rate of 95 percent for all scholarship athletes who enrolled from 1989 to 1992 - tops in Division I.
At Dayton, where football is not a scholarship sport, all freshman student-athletes are assigned eight or more hours of study hall each week for at least one semester, depending on the athlete's grade-point average and test scores. An academic center is open 76 hours a week and provides computer access to 20 student-athletes at a time. During high-traffic evening hours, student-athletes are directed to a campus library's sixth floor, which is reserved for their use. Three paid student workers make sure that the student-athletes check in and out and stay on task while there.
Don Ross, Dayton's assistant director of athletics for compliance and academic services, then adjusts the number of study-hall hours for each freshman student-athlete based on midterm grade reports issued by the university. Fall athletes who have demonstrated the ability to handle the burden of travel and the occasional missed class while still earning a 3.0 GPA or better are exempted from required study hall during second semester. "If they can handle all of that, then I know they're going to graduate," Ross says. "We get midterm grades second semester, too. If their grades have dropped down, we pull them right back in."
Though New Hampshire imposes no study hall requirements, officials there also regard the first year on campus as critical. Athletes meet with advisors in specific colleges to identify an academic major and begin scheduling corresponding core courses. "That gets them on a track to graduate right there," says Joanne Moldari, academic support services coordinator within UNH's athletic department. Moldari then educates the advisors as to the practice demands on each student-athlete so that class schedules are selected to facilitate attendance.
In addition, an academic advisory committee - including Moldari, the athletic director and senior associate athletic director, as well as deans, associate deans and advisors from all five colleges within the university - meets monthly to keep athletics and academics personnel updated on policies relevant to the academic success of student-athletes.
Bucknell University, the only school to rank among the top 10 Division I institutions in each of four graduation-rate categories (all sports, football, men's basketball and women's basketball), supplies its first-year student-athletes with a 22-page handbook that includes a calendar and weekly time budget. According to Rose Ewan, Bucknell's associate director of athletics, student-athletes are instructed to transfer a semester's worth of important dates from course syllabi to the calendar. They are then shown how to budget time. "We'll take someone's schedule, put it up on the blackboard and say, 'This is the number of hours you have in class. You give three hours per class for homework, and you put in your two hours of practice time. Look at how much time you have. There's just not too much time left in the day,' " Ewan says. "That sort of opens up their eyes."
Further enlightenment results from Bucknell's sideline program, in which select faculty are invited to observe practices and games from field level. "That gives our faculty an appreciation for what our athletes are going through," Ewan says, adding that she feels student-athletes become less reluctant to seek academic help from an instructor who has shown an interest in athletics through the sideline program.
Many schools have taken a more businesslike approach toward ensuring academic success. At Ohio State University, which ranked last in the Big Ten Conference with an average graduation rate of 55 percent for all scholarship athletes who entered school from 1989 to 1992, contracts signed last fall by football coach John Cooper and men's basketball coach Jim O'Brien are tailored to spark an academic turnaround. Cooper will collect $20,000 if 50 percent of his players graduate within six years, $50,000 if 60 percent graduate, and $100,000 if 70 percent graduate. An additional clause, which rewards Cooper for GPA improvement exhibited by players from autumn to spring, raises the annual bonus ceiling to $175,000. "He's always had some academic incentives, but these are different and stronger," says Andy Geiger, Ohio State's director of athletics.
O'Brien gets an extra $35,000 annually if at least 60 percent of his players receive degrees. And though academic performance incentives have yet to be included in the contracts of other OSU head coaches, Geiger says it's possible he will "spread the concept."
Geiger's department has also taken a lead role in funding the construction of Ohio State's $9 million Younkin Success Center, the third floor of which houses a student-athlete academic support staff of 12, as well as computer labs, tutoring rooms and large study areas available exclusively to student-athletes.
Shaw says recommendations of the Division I Working Group to Study Basketball Issues, if adopted, would not likely take effect before the fall of 2001. Meanwhile, schools continue to seek other ways to make the grade, or to tweak the monitoring process.
"There's no simple formula," says Dan Cashel, senior assistant athletic director at Division II Drury University, which posted a respectable graduation rate of 81 percent for all of its student-athletes who entered school in 1992-93, according to the NCAA. However, Cashel subscribes to his own set of numbers. "For our own little study, we just decided not to worry about transfers, just whether they finished their college eligibility here," he says. "If they did, whether they played one year or four years, did they graduate?"
By that standard, more than 90 percent of Drury's scholarship and non-scholarship athletes have, and the numbers are even more impressive for the school's spotlight program - men's basketball. Cashel has found that 69 out of 70 athletes listed as seniors on Panther men's basketball rosters over the past 20 years earned their college degrees from Drury.
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Frances is an NDIA Registered provider of Early Childhood Supports. Her primary service is the transdisciplinary intervention, Early Start Denver Model therapy. ESDM is based on the science of how children with Autism learn and is a naturalistic developmental behavioural intervention (NDBI).
Frances completed her Early Start Denver Model Certification in June 2017 from the University of California Davis MIND Institute with KU Children's Services Autism Specific Learning & Care Centre.
She graduated from Newcastle University Bachelor Occupational Therapy in 2002 and has worked in Health, Private and Disability services in both clinical and managerial positions the past 15 years. Her longest serving position has been as Senior Occupational Therapist at Family & Community Services for 7 years where she was responsible for delivery of services, clinical supervision and specialist managerial supports. She has worked independently in the private sector contracting to a number of organisations and companies. She is registered as an OT with AHPRA and participates in ongoing professional development.
Frances is currently collaborating to follow her passion. Developing sensitive & responsive relationships with children and pioneering local socially inclusive, empirically supported, family friendly early intervention services. She is keen to collaborate with like minded community members & professionals.
What is Making waves at ripples partnership?
ESDM is suitable for toddlers & preschoolers 1 - 6 years old with a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder or Global Developmental Delay. ESDM develops a child's infrastructure for social learning. Teaching skills through play and routine activities. Occupational Therapists / Certified Early Start Denver Model Therapists, Sarah Kelly - SPOTS & Frances Dolan OT deliver ESDM at Ripples. Our therapy room is open to non- enrolled and enrolled children.
The team collaborates closely as providers of early childhood intervention and care. This innovative model has created a welcoming centre with a relationship-based, developmental / behavioural approach to children's services. There is a supportive culture of inclusion and learning at our service. Our project is evolving & would love to hear from you!
As a child's ability to learn socially improves, opportunities for daily learning increase from peers and caregivers in natural routines. Children receiving intervention will have clear evidence of their quarterly progress graphed.


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Sharing News & Events from NH State Senate from District 10
February Newsletter
The NH Senate is taking its end of February break this week—no hearings or session. This puts us ¼ of the way to the legislative finish line. Much has been accomplished with much more to come as each chamber determines by the beginning of April what legislation will be moved forward to the other chamber.
This past week the full Senate passed to the Finance Committee my bill on assuring State appropriations commit to supporting Special Education funding. For years the State has reduced special ed reimbursements to school districts, sending only the amount appropriated in the State budget rather than the 80 percent of the district special education catastrophic aid that is required in the statute. Every special education budget in New Hampshire experienced a shortfall, totaling $3.1 million statewide. Additionally, in some school districts Medicaid reimbursements for special education expenses, such as speech and audiology services, are diverted by cities into their accounts, leaving special education budgets further unbalanced. The bill assures all future reimbursements go directly to school districts. The Governor includes this in his budget, due to be released on March 1.
When we come back to Senate session on March 7, several of my bills will be up for votes. The Career Readiness Drive to 65 (SB 276), relative to career readiness credentials for high school students,has a 5-0 recommendation from the Education Committee. Drive to 65 builds on the 65 by 25 goal to have 65% of New Hampshire's workforce possessing a post-secondary credential by 2025, a mission embraced by the Community College System of New Hampshire, NH Coalition for Business and Education, and the NH Department of Business and Economic Affairs. It is a systematic and holistic approach through high school years, whereby a career aspiration assessment in 9th grade facilitates course mapping towards a student's career aspiration. The program would extend concurrent enrollment opportunities to 10th through 12th grade so students earn both high school and community college credit in approved courses. Upon completion of a school-district approved workforce ready program, high schoolers would earn upon graduation a career-ready credential as well. Employers save training costs and have lower turnover rates. Students enter the workforce with experience, and it accelerates their time to a next degree or credential. Career-ready credentials have been approved in other states.
Another bill of local and statewide interest (SB 185) establishes a rail trail advisory committee to assist the Department of Transportation in updating the state rail trails plan, the first update since 2005. Chuck Redfern, as the NH President of the Rail-Trail Coalition, asked me to sponsor and lead the bill. After passing through the Senate unanimously, the Senate Finance Committee unanimously recommended a General Fund appropriation of $200,000 to the Department of Transportation in the next fiscal year to complete the study. The legislature will be able to measure the return on this investment in the State's ability to garner new funding for rail trails, increased municipal/town funding for trails, shared maintenance agreements, and economic development and tourism along the trails. Final Senate vote is on March 7.
Many in Cheshire County expressed concern about the Governor's proposal for Learn Everywhere, proposed for rules by Commissioner Edelblut. Learn Everywhereauthorizes the NH Board of Education to approve non-profit and for-profit organizations and individuals offering learning that local school district must accept towards graduation credit. These rules implement 2018 SB 435, for alternative credit, but seem to go way beyond legislative intent. I proposed SB 140 to clarify legislative intent. After testimony, the Senate Education and Workforce Development Committee amended the bill to simply state, "Each local school board shall determine whether to grant academic credit for alternative, extended learning, and work-based programs." Senate vote will occur on March 7.
Also up for vote on March 7 is a therapeutic marijuanabill (SB 88) I sponsored that eliminates the 90-day waiting period from prescription to issuance of ID cards, which means people won't be as dependent on opioids. On another note, progress is being made on opening a therapeutic marijuana dispensary in Keene.
Several bills of local interest that I introduced are scheduled for hearings in the next couple of weeks
Allowing Alternative Treatment Centers (therapeutic marijuana clinics, SB 145) to become for-profit. Commerce Comm. @ 2 pm, State House 100
Telemedicine expansion (SB 258) to cover primary care physicians, home patient monitoring, and store and forward technology. Health and Human Services Comm. @ 2:15, LOB 101
School Nurses Certification Requirements (SB 137) Education Comm. @ 9:45, LOB 103
Board of Mental Health accelerating reciprocity licensure (SB 80), EDA Comm., Legislative Office Bldg. 101 @ 9:50
Democratic Opportunity Agenda bills moving to the House include: family medical leave, workforce training, improved Medicaid reimbursements, healthcare workforce entry strategies, reducing caseloads for child neglect and abuse case workers, and creation of the Graduate Retention Incentive Partnership (NH GRIP, SB12). All of these actions represent progress on top statewide concerns.
I hope you'll keep in touch on matters of interest to you and on which you'd like to testify. Nothing is more effective than putting a Cheshire County voice to an issue of local importance.
Jay Kahn
January Newsletter
The 2019 New Hampshire legislative session begins this week. Since swearing in December 5, Senators have been honing legislation for introduction; committees are convened and will begin consideration of bills this week and next. The pace will be quick. To see what is under consideration in Senate committee or to look up a bill, go to http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/senate/default.aspxor in the House http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/house/default.aspx.
This session I'm sponsoring 24 bills and co-sponsoring 60 more. Your testimony on these would be most helpful. Sponsored bills attracting the most attention are:
· Career Readiness Drive to 65 – coordinated pathways from high school to careers and college
· Graduate Retention Incentive Partnership (GRIP) – a coordinated system of retaining NH 2- and 4-year college graduates and employing them in NH
· Telemedicine – expanding covered services to primary care and in-home care, store and forward patient information, and recognizing costs of originating sites
· Special Education Funding – ensuring the state meets its statutory obligation to reimburse extraordinary school district costs
· Therapeutic Marijuana – eliminating 90-day wait time after physician has prescribed use
· Study violence against school personnel to provide guidance to school districts – violence is an unspoken reality of student emotional and behavioral disorders
· Election-day holiday - adding biennial statewide primaries and presidential primary to state recognized holidays; addresses area concerns about schools being open when they are town polling places. General election day is already a holiday
· Mental health workforce shortages – accelerating license review and privileged communications, and advancing technology that facilitates wrap-around services
Senate Education and Workforce Committee
I am chairing the Senate Education and Workforce Committee. We'll hear 25 Senate bills over the next 8 weeks. The House Education Committee will hear at least 60 bills. The Concord Monitor ran three editorials last week on the Governor's and Commissioner Edelblut's proposals for Learn Everywhere and Career Academies, including the one I wrote with Rep. Myler that appeared in the Keene Sentinel. I added a consolidated PDF of all 3 at the end of this newsletter.
I am also serving on the Senate Finance Committee. With a state surplus predicted because of under-estimation of revenue, there is an opportunity to address some high priorities such as priming the workforce, fixing mental healthcare gaps, and addressing child neglect and abuse. You'll see more about these possibilities over the next few weeks.
Town Meetings Continue
I'm determined to keep in touch with Town Select Boards. This month I visited Harrisville, Swanzey, and Chesterfield. I continue to meet with the Monadnock Healthcare Workforce Group (convened by Cathy Gray, Cedarcrest) and the Monadnock Broadband Group (convened by Tim Murphy, SWRPC). Look for more news on Chesterfield implementing a municipal broadband access proposal, unveiled by Jon McKeon and Brad Roscoe this week, the first use of the SB 170 initiative I sponsored last year, which allows towns to contribute to local broadband access. With the Healthcare Group, we're working on a number of ways the legislature can accelerate licensure of nurses and mental healthcare staff.
This next month includes town deliberative sessions. There's lots of interest in school funding (see the education editorials below). I'm following through on your concerns about school funding dependence on property taxes, downshifting of costs to local districts, and the need for property tax relief.
Concord Monitor attachment below
1/18/2019 Sen. Jay Kahn and Rep. Mel Myler: Sununu proposals won't help public education, taxpayers
https://www.concordmonitor.com/NH-education-opportunities-abound-22686198 1/3
Opinion > Columns (/Opinion/Columns/)
Sen. Jay Kahn and Rep. Mel Myler:
Sununu proposals won't help public
education, taxpayers
By JAY KAHN and MEL MYLER
For the Monitor
It's time to hit the pause button on Gov. Chris Sununu's "Learn Everywhere" and "Career
Academies" proposals announced last week. These proposals seem to pull funding away from
public schools and stand in contrast to what voters feel is the biggest issue facing N.H. public
schools: a lack of state funding and the dependence on property tax revenues.
Unfortunately, the governor brushed over this priority to focus on two programs that likely
draw funds away from public schools.
The "Learn Everywhere" proposal was unveiled at a recent State Board of Education meeting
by Commissioner Frank Edelblut. The first paragraph defines Learn Everywhere's scope: "shall
apply to any for-pro􀃒t or non-pro􀃒t entity or individual that o􀃗ers an educational program that
meets minimum standards for approval to grant credit leading to graduation." Because the
"Learn Everywhere" programs will be approved by the State Board of Education, not local
school boards, this seems like a backdoor apparatus to limit local control for these alternative
pathways.
We have locally elected school boards that approve curriculum based on community needs.
We need to let them do their jobs, not create more state hierarchies and bureaucracies to
divert public dollars that could otherwise be used to support local public schools.
Most educators and legislators agree there should be flexibility in meeting minimum school
competencies for graduation. That's why alternative pathways, extended learning
opportunities and apprenticeships are already authorized in state statutes – and are defined at
the local level. One should be suspect of the desire to use parallel approval processes at the
State Board of Education that undermine local control and ultimately lead to state
endorsement of for-profit and private-school education.
The "Career Academies" proposal is based on a charter school program in Rochester with
Spaulding High School and a large employer, Albany Safran, that hasn't yet graduated a
student. It is in fact a certificate degree program within a four-year high school curriculum. It's
been turned into a charter school model, one that receives more state funding per student
than a public school student. The Governor stated we can do this without legislative
consideration. We believe that would be a mistake. Questions abound: How many academies?
Why are they needed? Will local school boards have input? Who pays the bill? Are we adding
administrative costs?
The structure for career academies already exists through concurrent enrollment in the
community college system approved courses offered to public high school juniors and seniors.
Currently, there are 28 career-technical education centers across the state serving students in
all 80 public high schools with courses that accelerate certificate and community college
associate degree completion.
A legislative initiative, "Career Readiness Drive to 65," will be considered this session and is
designed to enhance, not replace, current structures. This initiative is based on goals
articulated by N.H. business and education leaders over the past three years – to ensure 65
percent of our workforce has a post-secondary, value added credential by 2025. High School
Career Readiness credentials would be offered in advanced manufacturing, information
technologies, trades apprenticeship programs, nurse assistants and more.
Drive to 65 envisions a holistic approach, whereby in ninth grade, career aspiration
assessment would occur so that the high school/community college/advanced placement
course mapping could occur prior to 10th grade. Concurrent enrollment access would be
expanded to 10th through 12th grades. Additional transcripting capability would verify that
students earned a career readiness credential.
The program is designed to accelerate pathways into the workforce, reducing employer costs
and risks, and accelerating entry to post-secondary education, reducing the student's cost and
time to a college degree. The program will be guided by the state's Advisory Council on Career
and Technical Education.
The process by which we improve education in our state is critically important. It's not trying to
grab a headline or reinvent the wheel. We're committed to doing the hard work, to work within
our existing educational structures to meet local needs – not by creating redundant structures.
The governor's aversion to recurring funding support for public schools is ignoring the voters'
top issue – property tax relief. One-time grant funding to public schools offered the last two
years isn't a sustainable approach to help property owners or balance school funding
inequities. We must make sure the state is meeting its commitments as we consider new
There is time over the next six months for the Governor and commissioner to work with the
Legislature and educators to do the best we can for N.H. students, employers and taxpayers.
The public should expect this from their elected and appointed officials.
(Sen. Jay Kahn, a Keene Democrat, is chairman of the Senate Education and Workforce
Development Committee. Rep. Mel Myler, a Contoocook Democrat, is chairman of the House
Education Committee.)
Opinion > Editorials (/Opinion/Editorials/)
Editorial: Edelblut's diagnosis of what
ails N.H. education is way off
If education were a patient brought into the emergency room by first responders, and N.H.
Department of Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut was the chief of surgery, we fear that
with just a glance at the patient he would order a pedicure, a prostate exam and a haircut.
Edelblut, in his recent column (https://www.concordmonitor.com/Education-innovation-is-the-
NH-way-22765978) rebutting criticism of new alternative education programs backed by
himself and Gov. Chris Sununu (Monitor Opinion, Jan. 15), completely ignored the very real and
grave problem afflicting public education in much of New Hampshire.
To return to the patient metaphor, public education is emaciated for want of state funding and
at risk of being bled by continued attempts at privatization.
Edelblut, a home-schooling fan and fervent proponent of alternatives to public schools, points
to "a growing disparity in student performance." He rightly notes that the performance gap
between students from economically advantaged and disadvantaged homes continues to
increase despite the high overall national ranking of the state's public schools.
His diagnosis? Public school education is failing to meet the needs of too many children. His
prescription: expand opportunities, both public and private, for kids to learn outside of school
to keep school from getting in the way of their education.
Programs touted by Edelblut and the governor include LearnEverywhereNH and the N.H.
Career Academy. Both programs have value and both will likely bene􀃒t some small portion
of students for whom traditional schools, which are evolving constantly, are not a good 􀃒t. But
they and their kin won't cure what ails public education in New Hampshire, which, though of
better quality than what's offered in most states, is far behind what it should be in a global
In a 2017 worldwide test of the science, math and reading abilities of 15 year olds, the United
States placed 24th, 24th and 49th, respectively, behind nations like Latvia, Macao and Vietnam.
What Edelblut doesn't mention is that in New Hampshire many children from disadvantaged
homes live in disadvantaged school districts, and the gap between schools in property-rich and
property-poor towns has been getting worse, not better, with some schools spending twice as
1/18/2019 Editorial: Edelblut's diagnosis of what ails N.H. education is way off
https://www.concordmonitor.com/The-real-challenges-for-public-education-22819785 2/2
much per pupil as others. Schools in places like Pittsfield, Franklin, Claremont and Allenstown
cannot attract or keep experienced teachers, who can earn far better pay in well-o􀃗 school
districts.
With state building aid suspended and taxpayers already struggling to remain in their homes,
such communities can't build new, modern schools and provide the amenities other school
districts offer.
In fact, most struggle to provide the basics.
The gap is also growing in the tax rate property owners in rich and poor communities pay to
support public education. Disparities in educational opportunity and tax fairness were at the
heart of the Claremont school funding lawsuits. The state Supreme Court found financing
public education to be a state, not a local, responsibility.
New Hampshire needs a governor and an education commissioner who accept that reality, not
gloss over it by creating programs that help the few at the expense of the many
Two weeks before the General Election with Congress, Governor, State Legislatures and County Offices on the ballot. Democrats on the ballot are tested public servants that work for people not special interests. We support public education, community based health and mental health services, environmental sustainability, economic development and property tax relief. We win on the issues, now we need to win at the ballot box. Turnout is all important.
I'm proud to have earned endorsements from:
Planned Parenthood Northern New England Sierra Club-NH
National Educators Association – NH American Federation of Teachers-NH
State Employees International Union – NH National Association of Social Workers-NH
Professional Fire Fighters – NH
These organizations can help get out the vote and make the difference in close elections.
Town Select Board Leaders
I've made a priority of getting to Town Select Boards, engaging in discussions on state and local issues, and opening two-way communications that helped during the legislative process. I also attended School Board Deliberative Sessions and visited nearly every school in the district. This attention to bridging local and state government has helped earn me the support of many local leaders:
Kendall Lane, Mayor of Keene
Peggy Pschirrer, Walpole, Select Board Chair
Bill Hutwelker, Swanzey, Selectman
Mike Darcy, Hinsdale, Select Board Chair
Ben Kilanski, Winchester, Select Board Chair
Ray Britton, Gilsum, Select Board Chair
James Rousmaniere, Roxbury, Select Board Chair
There are two more opportunities to meet Democratic state legislature and county office candidates.
October 30 – Harrisville-Nelson Candidate Forum, Nelson Town Hall, 6:45 pm
November 4 – Swanzey Democrats, Whitcomb Hall, Swanzey, 2:30 to 4:30 pm
Women's Empowerment Rally
This coming Saturday, October 27th, there's an exciting opportunity to hear women leaders including Annie Kuster, Molly Kelly and Debora Pignatelli, at the KSC Redfern Arts Center, from 1 to 3. Let me know if you can help staff a Kahn for Senate table.
Superior Court Judge Brown of Hillsborough County granted an injunction against new Voter Registration requirements in SB 3, that new voter affidavit requirements in SB 3 constitute potentially burdensome and discriminatory barriers. SB 3 has 10 pages of affidavit declarations that new registrants need to review and initial, as opposed to the current 1 ½ page affidavit. Expert testimony stated that the new affidavit reads "at least as difficult as a Harvard Law Review." The WMUR story can be found here…
The Democratic Coordinated Campaign Office has done a great job finding likely Democratic voters in Cheshire County. Now they need us to help Get Out the Vote (GOTV). Please offer your time and talent to help in these final 2 weeks.
Thank you for your support and encouragement.
School Vouchers are a bad idea for New Hampshire…
August 2018 News
What a busy time as a state senator; lots of roles are all competing for time:
• Hosting and being there for other candidates (Kelly and Kuster this past week)
• Campaigning for reelection (visiting worksites, schools, canvassing and sign drop offs, arranging house parties and community visits),
• Constituent advocacy – celebrating community accomplishments, ribbon cuttings, replying to constituent concerns, meetings with State department commissioners
• Working on future legislation and state grants
• Working on the reconsideration of Governor vetoes
• Keeping up on reading
Veto Session and Constituent Hours
The legislature's reconsideration of Governor vetoes occurs on September 13 th . Three high profile bills that I co-sponsored are among those coming up for a veto override: SB365, requiring distribution companies to purchase electricity from NH wood burning and "waste-to-energy" power plants; SB446, raising net metering limits for solar, wind, and hydroelectric renewable energy sources from 1 to 5 megawatts; and SB593, repealing the death penalty. In order to hear from constituents on these and other issues, I'm hosting constituent hours on Thursday, September 6, from 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm on the second floor of the Old County Courthouse in Citizens Hall. You can park at the County Building. Please attend and share your opinions on these issues.
Organizing for Fall Elections
Kahn Interns at Walpole Town Green after a day of canvassing.
Town Democrats have organized meetings in Gilsum, Alstead, Hinsdale, and Marlborough. House parties are planned in Keene and Nelson. Town visits are on-going: this past week in Roxbury, North Walpole, and Harrisville; Labor Day week in Keene, Winchester, Hinsdale, and Harrisville; the following week in Sullivan; and then the primary election and veto session. Hinsdale Dems are hosting state legislators seeking reelection on Sept. 9 at 2 pm in the Millstream Community Center. Please attend if you can. This summer I've benefitted from nine Kahn-terns, interns from surrounding high schools that are working for my reelection. They are terrific symbols of a next generation of concerned students willing to work to change the world. They are my ground team. Primary elections are September 11 th . I'm recruiting supporters to hold signs at polls. Let me know if you can spare an hour or two.
Opioid Use Disorders Funding
Last week 30 area mental healthcare leaders convened to mobilize for future State requests for proposals (RFP) to award federal funds to reduce opioid use disorders. The proposals will build off a hub and spoke model, with medical centers being at the hub of regional 24/7 response teams. Spokes include residential and community based services. The Department of Health and Human Services will release RFPs in early October. Now that legislation is being implemented, I am trying to conclude the work on Mental Health and Social Services Interoperability Committee that I chair. I've been named to a new legislative study committee on telemedicine. Recently, I hosted the region's therapeutic marijuana licensee in Keene to begin discussions on a satellite dispensary locally.
Workforce preparation is one of my highest priorities. We build our workforce from the earliest years of childhood development. Symonds School in Keene is often cited as a strong example for our region, and I'll be joining their principal, Richard Cate, and kindergarten classes later this month. This past week I talked with our Fall Mountain district superintendent, Lori Landry, about pre-school and elementary school innovations they've implemented. This next week I'll be discussing internships and career-ready credentials with KSC and the new Cheshire Career Center Director, Michael Burnett.
Senate Resolutions
is on the floor of Len-Tex Wall-covering Manufacturing in North Walpole with Don and Charlie Lennon, owners of Len-Tex.
I worked with a variety of community organizations to prepare Senate Resolutions that help honor significant accomplishments of people and organizations in the region. Recent examples are Community Kitchen rededication, MOCO new location, Winchester Learning Center expansion, MAPS relocation, and the Hinsdale Elementary School addition. In less than two years, I've prepared and delivered 27 resolutions.
Election seasons take a long time and take a lot out of candidates. I want to reassure you how much your help and support motivates me to be a better candidate and a better Senator.